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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Celebrating the connection with our pets. This is Animal Radio
featuring your dream team veterinarian doctor Debbie White, dog trainer
Alan Cable, groomer, Joey Vellani, communicator Joy Turner, and here
are your hosts, Halle Abrams and Judy Francis.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
Hi, doctor, I'll.

Speaker 3 (00:18):
Just talk to his clone.

Speaker 4 (00:19):
Who's his clone?

Speaker 3 (00:20):
How he is?

Speaker 2 (00:21):
Don't you remember I was cloning myself way back?

Speaker 3 (00:23):
Yeah, this clone has now grown.

Speaker 4 (00:26):
My god, I thought it was a piece of meat
and a Petri dish so far.

Speaker 3 (00:30):
No, No, they love each other now they talk.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
Oh, we don't love each other. Yes, that's just silly.

Speaker 3 (00:37):
I heard it. I heard it with my own ears.

Speaker 4 (00:39):
I have a visual of like an inflatable hell doll,
and I'm getting creeped out here.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
Well, you know, you know, you, of all people, should
be able to get this because you're a doctor. And
they cloned Dolly the sheep, which seemed pretty complex back
in the day. Then they did that dog when it
did the cat the cat just recently, so I figured
it couldn't be that hard, right, We put this in
a little little DNA in the Petri dish, and as
he noticed battery over the past few weeks, there's been

(01:05):
what we I think you referred to as a fungus
or was it Joey referred to as a fungus, And
then of course I came in and the dish was empty.
But I've worked it out as Alan can at test.

Speaker 5 (01:15):
Yes, some very complex chemical experiments of produce the howl clone.

Speaker 3 (01:19):
How one we call him?

Speaker 2 (01:21):
There might be more than one. I don't know yet.
Animal Radio. Hey, hell yeah, it's me Hell number two.

Speaker 6 (01:26):
Yeah, listen on your way up the station.

Speaker 2 (01:29):
Can you pick up some laundry detergent? Okay, but you
gotta pay me back, Okay.

Speaker 6 (01:33):
Okay, I'll talk to you later, Okay, bye, bye.

Speaker 2 (01:36):
Bye, there you go.

Speaker 5 (01:37):
How many are there?

Speaker 2 (01:38):
It's really worked it out.

Speaker 3 (01:42):
To do this fall from Stephen King.

Speaker 5 (01:45):
It's hel or is it?

Speaker 2 (01:48):
We're gonna do some calls.

Speaker 5 (01:51):
You'd have to be afraid normally that one of the
howl clones, would you know, get jealous and want to
take over Animal Radio.

Speaker 3 (01:57):
But you know you don't have to worry about that
with this show.

Speaker 2 (01:59):
No, you certainly don't have to worry about that. Let's
do this call for doctor Debbie. We haven't talked to
the listeners in a long time.

Speaker 5 (02:07):
Like someday we'll have a whole shelter filled with hal
clones and we'll have to try to get people to
adopt them, give them a good home.

Speaker 4 (02:13):
I'm getting really creeped out here seeing Hel's walking right, Hi,
can I help you?

Speaker 2 (02:20):
Next week we have Beth O or Beth Ostrotsky or
Beth Stern, however you want to look at her. She's
on this show. Doesn't really seem to excite anybody around
here in the studio.

Speaker 3 (02:31):
Well, this's cloning thing.

Speaker 5 (02:32):
I mean, it's just very exciting. It opens up whole
new avenues. Like you know, last week, I was trying
to get doctor Debbie excited and you told me that
Genitalia is her big thing. So you know they'll maybe
one day there'll be a Genitalia clone cloning kid?

Speaker 3 (02:44):
Where you know?

Speaker 4 (02:45):
Are we talking Genitalia today? Because I can't prepare it.

Speaker 5 (02:48):
I did too.

Speaker 3 (02:49):
I am told, what do you got, girl? What do
you got? Because I got something wonderful.

Speaker 4 (02:53):
I don't know are we disclosing that it's Genitalia talk
on Animal Radio?

Speaker 3 (02:59):
You can't prepared? So what does that mean? What does
that mean?

Speaker 7 (03:01):
Okay? All right?

Speaker 4 (03:02):
Well no, because I told you I got probably stuff
that's gonna top anything you can come up in that realm,
because it's real. And I see it here. Hermaphrodites really seen, Yeah,
seen little girl dogs with little penises. Wow, it's really
kind of crazy interesting And you know, I like wacky
and weird. So and then you know, we've even you know,

(03:23):
spade dogs and uh found testicles.

Speaker 2 (03:27):
So I want to go back to the hermaphrodite. Do
you spay or newter that animal?

Speaker 4 (03:31):
Yeah, well, well it depends because some of them will
not develop fully, but the ones that they're generally females
that just have a little extra hormone going on. So
that this particular one she was actually we were spaying
her and we actually found what looked like to be
a testicle on one side as well. And sure enough,
when we look down at her little vaginal parts, there

(03:52):
was a kind of a herr clatorus was actually developed
more and it actually looked like little penis.

Speaker 2 (03:58):
Wow.

Speaker 5 (03:59):
So can a dog like that get itself pregnant?

Speaker 2 (04:03):
No?

Speaker 4 (04:03):
No, okay, we'll have that sex talk off air.

Speaker 2 (04:08):
Alan hashtag Alan's sex talk.

Speaker 3 (04:12):
I'm just wondering. I mean, you know, there was a
lot of silence.

Speaker 5 (04:14):
There was like three seconds of silence there while doctor
de W pondered that.

Speaker 8 (04:18):
She was just trying to be nice to you, Alan,
if she didn't want to make you look like a fa.

Speaker 4 (04:22):
But there are some really interesting things that happen in
Mother nature really does. So that you got what you got?

Speaker 2 (04:28):
Alan?

Speaker 3 (04:29):
What do I got?

Speaker 9 (04:30):
Well?

Speaker 3 (04:30):
It's the very rare and unique.

Speaker 5 (04:33):
It is called the Genitalia Borneo worm, and it is
actually the reason why they call it that is it
actually resembles just it looks like Genitalia and it has
eyes in it, and that's what it is. It's just
a huge Genitalia with eyes. That's what it is.

Speaker 3 (04:49):
And you find it in Borneo. Borneo is the country
you find that in.

Speaker 2 (04:53):
And is that on humans or animals? We're talking humans here.

Speaker 5 (04:56):
No, No, it's the Genitalia Borneo worm, bigst us. It's
a three inches long and four inches high.

Speaker 4 (05:04):
I think that this is the story is lacking a
visual and I'm not very excited without a visual.

Speaker 5 (05:11):
So you got to look that up. You got to
look that up on the internets.

Speaker 2 (05:15):
Can we try the whole Betho thing again? Okay, next week,
beth O Beth Ostrowski. Is it Ostrowski a best stern?
She's going to be on the show.

Speaker 4 (05:24):
She's a big animal lover.

Speaker 2 (05:25):
You see. There you go, that is the way to
respond to something like that. That is, we're very excited
because she is, of course a big animal lover.

Speaker 7 (05:34):
She is.

Speaker 10 (05:35):
She loves her animals.

Speaker 2 (05:36):
She loves her animals. Yes, Stacy, what are you got
going on?

Speaker 11 (05:39):
Well, there was a very scary break in in Australia
at a thrift store. The whole place was ransacked. And
wait till I tell you who ransacked it. I've got
all the details coming up on Animal Radio News.

Speaker 2 (05:53):
I'm just you know, I'm hoping that it wasn't me
that ransacked it, because that's the kind of stuff that
I'm finding out. Meanwhile, the phones, all the phones are ringing.
White Hot for doctor Debbie, for dog trainer, Allan Cable,
dog Father, Joey Velani, Animal Communicator, Joey Turner, Animal Radio. Hell, yeah,
it's Hall you're clone.

Speaker 5 (06:08):
No.

Speaker 2 (06:09):
I told you to stop calling me. You're getting me
in trouble with my program director. She says, the cloning
bits are outdated yesterday's news. Where do we keep the
peanut butter, you're not listening to me. Why don't you
ever listen to me? Come on, are you listening? Yes,
I'm listening. Okay. What do you think it's like to
be your clone?

Speaker 6 (06:23):
It's no friggin day at the beach.

Speaker 2 (06:25):
I mean, come on, I'm being harassed by creditors all day.
Not that bad. That chick's coming up to me kissing me.
Where did you meet these women?

Speaker 1 (06:32):
Hell?

Speaker 2 (06:33):
Why do you keep calling me at work? Leave me alone?

Speaker 5 (06:35):
Don't clude?

Speaker 6 (06:36):
Your life sucks?

Speaker 2 (06:37):
Do you mind if we continue this conversation when I
get home later.

Speaker 3 (06:40):
I suppose talk to you later. Okay, loser?

Speaker 10 (06:44):
Yeah, one was.

Speaker 2 (06:45):
That I'm afraid to go to this one. Hi? Anita, Hi,
how are you?

Speaker 12 (06:49):
I'm good?

Speaker 2 (06:50):
How are you a little freaked out? Frankly? Okay, I'm
glad to hear you on this side of the phone.
Where are you calling from today?

Speaker 12 (06:56):
I'm going from Long Beach and what's going on?

Speaker 13 (06:59):
Hi?

Speaker 12 (07:00):
A little terrier. She's actually a mixed she's a rescue
and she's about two years old. And from the moment
I got her, she itched and itched a niche and
she's white in color. I don't know if she's allergic
or I do give her a half a pill of

(07:21):
Child's allergy relief, And I'm just wondering, is there a
way I can identify what she might be allergic to,
or is there something I can do to help her
with to relieve that itching.

Speaker 4 (07:33):
Let me ask you, does she have any kind of
sores on her skin, any redness, hair loss?

Speaker 12 (07:39):
She's got very pink skin, but I don't see anything.
I use a flee control, but I can tell it's
really sensitive, Like she'll get on the grass and she'll
rub herself or rub on her back, and I can
tell she's just trying to itch.

Speaker 4 (07:56):
You said you're from Long Beach, so you're in California.
Only need to address the flea situation, and there's a
lot of ways we address fleas, so it isn't always
just putting a topical on once a month and you're
done and over with. It really depends on the incidence
of fleas and as well as a flea allergy dermatitis,
because fleas by themselves, that's one part of the problem.

(08:17):
But there are pets that have a really hyper sensitive
response to the saliva of the flea, and those that do,
they can have just a single bite and just go bzonk.
They can be really bothered by it. So you know,
if you have not been to a veterinarian and it
does not sound like you have, that's going to be
my first recommendation. So the first thing that I would
do if I had your baby in front of me

(08:38):
is really look around the skin. We look for evidence
of parasites. Sometimes that may be secondary type changes. We
may see a little bit of what we call excoriations
or just little abrasions that can be occurring. They're also
are skin mites, which are microscopic that we have to
check for by doing a little test called a skin scraping.
We upbraid the skin look at it under the microscope.

(09:00):
Pets that have that kind of might or what we
call mange, can be horribly itchy, and if we try
anti itch meds, we're not going to do a darn
thing for your dog if we don't identify that. So
I think that that visit will be well worth at
least kind of giving you some guidelines on what therapies
might be the way to go. And if I can
roll out there's no mites, then you know, we might
talk about allergies and definitely in a white colored dog.

(09:22):
I'll tell you allergies are really common, so malteses, a
West Highland terriers, white boxers, pit bulls. They tend to
have a lot of issues with skin allergies, and some
of those may be triggered by seasonal allergens, pollens, grasses, weeds,
things like that, environmental things wool, human bander, dog dander,

(09:46):
cat dander, and then sometimes it's actually foods that they're
sensitive to, and so there can be an overlap of
all these allergies. So it's really kind of complex to
just say what do you think they're allergic to, because
we have to eliminate some of these things. So your
veterinearian can do some skin testing for allergies, and those
are kind of how we figure out what a pet's
allergic to in their environment and in the world around them. Now,

(10:09):
you can do some simple things at home and until
you can get to that office. I would certainly say
an antihistamine, and hopefully that's what you're using. And ana
histamine can be helpful, and it's usually only helpful for
pets with mild allergy or itch problems. So if that
hasn't seemed to have done it to Most things like
benadryl can be given every eight to twelve hours, so
if it's not done that frequently, that might be one

(10:31):
thing to look at. The other is colloidal oatmeal. A
products shampoos colloidal oatmeal. It works kind of like people
when they have chicken pox and you soak it into
a veno bath that helps to soothe the skin temporarily.
So dog products can also have this ingredient. And it's
a good general thing to try before you know, you
can get to that veterinaria office.

Speaker 12 (10:52):
That sounds really good. I thank you for that broad spectro.

Speaker 2 (10:55):
Thank you for your quality advis or.

Speaker 14 (11:00):
Cats, horse or you animals are people too.

Speaker 15 (11:06):
In efforts to stop the deer over population in New Jersey,
Mars County, researchers plan to try a new kind of
birth control for deer. The deer will be injected with
a hormone releasing drug that should make them sterile for
three to five years. If successful, the drug could be
used around the state to curb a white tail deer
population that presents a frequent road hazard to drivers.

Speaker 4 (11:28):
Some tips for.

Speaker 15 (11:28):
Avoiding a deer are learning to recognize high risk situations,
noticing deer crossing signs, and being careful while driving past
wooded areas near lakes or streams. Deers are social animals,
so if you see one, look out for others. They
usually roam at night or early in the morning, looking
out for your safety and the safety of our dear friends.

(11:50):
I'm brit Savage for Animal Radio.

Speaker 14 (11:54):
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Speaker 1 (13:01):
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Speaker 2 (13:09):
You didn't get another dog if.

Speaker 5 (13:11):
I could find I mean, you know some of the
mixes that I love. You just gotta sort of bump
into him. You gotta be lucky like an Airdale Shepherd.
I mean, have you ever seen one of those? It
was the coolest dog ever. Man. He was smart, and
he was fast, and he just had a great temperament.

Speaker 3 (13:25):
He was an awesome dog.

Speaker 2 (13:27):
You know, you should get yourself a clone instead.

Speaker 5 (13:33):
I will go to the Aisle seven at Walmart. I
believe sells them cloning.

Speaker 2 (13:37):
Get hi, Tracy, how are you doing?

Speaker 5 (13:39):
I thank you.

Speaker 17 (13:40):
I love your radio program. I listened to it every
chance I can get me too.

Speaker 2 (13:45):
Thank you very much for listening. What's going on with you?

Speaker 17 (13:47):
I have a fifteen year old gift. He's almost fifteen,
and I look at it as I'm picking. It's doggie
hospice care right now. He diagnosed an X ray. Show
that he had hit this play show and that I
was born. He would be he'll feel it when he
gets older.

Speaker 18 (14:01):
And now we were at.

Speaker 17 (14:02):
That stage where his legs started crossing the other leg
and he was still walking on his own, but then
he kind of slipped and had a bad fall. And
now it's a point where he can't stand for more
than five minutes before he's down again. So he needs
to be guided by a rear harness or even.

Speaker 18 (14:18):
His thick tail.

Speaker 17 (14:19):
He's pretty much he's not in continent, but he still
needs to sometimes he loses his bowel movement, but not
all the time. And we've taken to different specialists and
cold laser therapies help, but it would get worse again,
it gets I'm at a point where when do I
call it quits? And does he qualify for hip replacement?

(14:40):
As one vet ortegic surgeon said, And I remember listening
to your show and there was another lady who had
a similar issue, but she had a small dog. I
think it was in that case. But my friends would
tell me, you know, it's time to put him down.
But he's got a lot of energy, Like when you
hold onto him, his tail runs through your harness.

Speaker 4 (14:54):
He takes off, you know, and Tracy, the hard thing
is that you may have hip displasi present, but I
don't know, I think you've got something else going on
along with that. The main reason is that hip display.
It definitely can cause stiffness, trouble getting up and down.
But especially in German shepherds, when we have that kind
of crossing over of the back legs, there's a couple

(15:16):
other processes that we look at and those are usually
involved the spine. So German shepherds can also get some
lumbo sacral disease, so disease along that very last part
of the spine where the kind of the pelvis and
the tail and all that connect, and problems in that
area of the spine can cause nerve dysfunction to the
back legs and it can cause them to kind of

(15:36):
be wobbly or lose their sense of where their toes
are in the world. The other big problem that is
very common in German shepherds is degenerative myelopathy and kind
of dragging the tops of the back legs or crossing over,
being uncoordinated in the back end. Both of those conditions
really kind of come to the forefront when we're thinking

(15:56):
about a German shepherd having mobility problems. So Art's right,
this is one thing. Hip display is one thing, but
you know, it sounds like we've got more of a
neurologic dysfunction that's going on here. And for that, golly,
fifteen years old, you've got a phenomenal lifespan that you've
enjoyed with your baby. So I would be hard pressed

(16:17):
to talk about doing orthopedic surgery on this fella.

Speaker 17 (16:20):
And like they're just said, he said he aged, doesn't matter,
but I said, well he was. You reminded me the
one that did give him some kind of new tests
showed that he was. He had DM. Okay, get it
of mylopathy, but they said they need to do another
X ray to prove it and I have to sedate
him and I don't want to subain him.

Speaker 4 (16:40):
Yeah, and it just so the listeners can of Degenerative
myelopathy is a problem that occurs very much so in
German shepherds. We also see it in Corgies a lot.
And it's a problem where the spine loses some of
its covering and so what happens is with time they
lose the function of their back legs and it connect
to even progress up to the front legs, so it

(17:02):
doesn't really hurt them, but it just they don't know
where things are and they'll drag their legs cross over.
They can get source on the top of their legs.
And there is a DNA test for at least one
of the main genes involved with degenera of myopathy, So
if that was done it basically, you know, if that
came up negative, that's wonderful, but doesn't mean he couldn't

(17:22):
have the general of myopathy and you'd have to do
other types of testing and those are generally done under
general anesthesia, MRIs CT scans, milograms, things like that to
try to prove or disprove the other causes like the
spinal problems in some of the other issues that can
go on. So if you're not really prepared to that,
you know, because that's a big work up on a

(17:43):
fifteen year old dog, and I say a German shepherd
to live a lot longer than fifteen is you know
we're counting the days there, So I really couldn't advocate. Yeah,
I really couldn't advocate doing something quite so aggressive and am.

Speaker 17 (17:57):
Pediba days give them under sedation and have them do
X rays on full hip them back.

Speaker 5 (18:04):
No.

Speaker 4 (18:04):
X rays are a different thing. But if we're talking
about doing milograms, CT scans, MRIs, those are usually processes
that take hours to get a lot of those types
of things done. But if there haven't been X ray
since two thousand and six, yeah, I would welcome that
and they might really to knock them out fully. But yeah,
prove or disprove that we have something in the spine.

(18:24):
But you mentioned a couple other therapies things that you
can do, so even if you're not looking at doing
surgery in this older fella, some of the physical therapy
we know with degenerative mile apathy, dogs that have really
intense physical therapy fare better and they live longer with
better quality life than dogs that even just get little
bits of physical therapy or that get none. And the

(18:46):
numbers are really staggering. I think the intensive physical therapy
dogs lived about two hundred and fifty five days with
the disease, when those with no therapy lived about fifty five,
so less than two months. So really, if you have
a physical rehab facility in your area, that would be
one of the best things you can do. Cold therapy

(19:06):
you mentioned can be helpful for some dogs, but really
a lot of it's maintaining that existing muscle mass. Keeping
those joints moving is really so important at this point.

Speaker 17 (19:17):
So he should be in a pool.

Speaker 4 (19:19):
Swimming or water treadmill so you know, if he may
not have a lot of strength. And I don't know
what is you know, physical condition is, but sometimes it's
starting really slow with a water treadmill. But there's other
exercises in physical therapy that can be done. Those are,
you know, similar to what we do with people where
we have physioballs or balance boards things like that. It's
not something that I would say, hey, just go try

(19:40):
this on your own, so I would really recommend you know,
a licensed physical therapist for this, but.

Speaker 19 (19:45):
It can help.

Speaker 4 (19:46):
I hope that helps Tracy. That a lot of information there.
So my best wish is to you with your baby.
This is doctor Debbie with Animal Radio.

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Speaker 21 (20:44):
This is an animal radio news update.

Speaker 11 (20:48):
I'm Stacy Cohen for Animal Radio.

Speaker 5 (20:50):
Well.

Speaker 11 (20:51):
A fresh chickenfoot may not be the first thing that
most people reach for when they're looking for a snack,
but even less people would choose a forty six year
old chicken foot to satisfy their hunger. According to the
Daily Telegraph, police in China sees twenty two tons of
expired meat from a Vietnamese smuggling group back in May.
Investigators say they found chemically treated chicken feet ready for

(21:14):
this dating back to nineteen sixty seven. Oh, they had
expiration dates on them, as well as rancid tripe and
throat that was supposedly on its way to the Chinese
food market.

Speaker 10 (21:24):
All right, let's back up here. Who eats throat?

Speaker 2 (21:27):
What is throat?

Speaker 11 (21:27):
I mean, I've heard of tongue, and that's gross enough
as it is, But what is throat?

Speaker 7 (21:33):
I don't know.

Speaker 11 (21:33):
I guess it is when you buy that whole chicken
and there is that throat in there. I didn't think
people really cook that. I had no clue. I guess
maybe you know, a little sauce on it probably tastes good.
But anything dating back maybe to nineteen nineteen sixty four
to nineteen seventy, I think I probably would need it.
I'd pass on it, But then again, you know, everything's

(21:56):
good stuffed inside in eggroll. Dogs in Henley, England are
being blamed for the lack of baskets on the town's
lamp posts. According to the Henley Standard. The council's officials
have banned hanging heavy decorations on the cast iron ornate
posts because of structural damage caused by dog urine resting
at the base of the lamp posts has caused some
of them to break. But while Henley's County Councilor David

(22:19):
Nemo says the lamp posts are popular stops for dogs
out on a walk, he notes that there isn't any
evidence proving that the pups are the only problem road salt, floodwater,
drunk people. They are also possible causes for corrosion. An
American Airlines flight attendant from New York taking legal action
to clear her name after being accused of, ready for
this one, hiding rats in her underwear and then sneaking

(22:41):
them onto the plane. The New York Post says that
Luan Gambatista has filed a lawsuits seeking unspecified damages, claiming
the accusations have left her with debilitating anxiety and created
other issues that made it nearly impossible for her to
show up for work. Her problems began last year when
one of her workers allegedly noticed an unusual bulge in

(23:03):
her pocket hmmm and other claims to have caught her
trying to sneak the rodents food during a flight. No
rats wherever found by her, but her passport was flagged
because of the accusations, and she's been subjected to stops
and searches every time she goes through customs. American Airline
says they will respond to the claims in court.

Speaker 2 (23:25):
Is that a rat in your pocket?

Speaker 11 (23:26):
Or you're just happy to assue me? I know that
was too easy, right, Well, who the heck is going
to stuff a rat in their pocket? That's insane. I'm
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Speaker 1 (23:45):
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Speaker 2 (23:52):
Hey Ray, how you doing?

Speaker 22 (23:54):
Hey good? I'm about you guys. Call you guys doing today?

Speaker 2 (23:56):
Oh splendid? I got joy right here? What's going on?

Speaker 16 (23:58):
Hey?

Speaker 4 (23:58):
Joy?

Speaker 22 (23:59):
No, A dog passed away a couple of years ago.
She little chihuahua. Her name was Missy. And uh, you know,
I've heard you guys last week, and my wife and
I were just kind of wondering if she uh, you know,
I kind of gone back and forth, you know, if
she was having a lot of multiple feizures, and uh,
we just you know, so eventually, you know, we had

(24:19):
to you know, he's at that point it's more about
keeping her life for us or for her, you know,
and you know, quality of life. And but you know,
we always think about it from time to time. And
we recently about a year ago, we uh, we purchased
another Chihuahua for our oldest one, and this will be
our third one. And she just she gives She reminds

(24:40):
me a lot of the other one. You know, she
has the same characteristic kind of the same. You know,
she keeps her tongue out a little bit. You know,
she had a little longer tongue than most dogs, so
it kind of hangs out a little bit. But yeah,
if I just wonder if she ever thinks about us
or anything.

Speaker 19 (24:56):
Well, it's very funny because when she comes in to me,
first of all, she's bouncy. She's just so exuberant. And
when you mentioned about the other dog having a lot
of the same characteristics, her response was, ha, it's the
same soul. Oh really, she knew that that body just
really really had to go away because it was such

(25:17):
a problem for her. Right, She's very grateful, very happy,
very appreciative that you took care of that for her
so that she didn't have to suffer that misery anymore
because she hated those seizures. So she's with you. This
body is apparently quite a bit more well than the
other body. She is so totally delighted, first of all
to be back with you, she says. Second of all,

(25:39):
she's very delighted that you recognize her. And she says
she plans on having a better life this time with
a body that works better for her.

Speaker 22 (25:48):
Okay, she's very happy, and she wants.

Speaker 19 (25:50):
To know if you're really very happy and jumping up
and down like her.

Speaker 10 (25:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 22 (25:55):
Well, you know, it's just, you know, it's I don't know,
I've always been kind of skeptical, but you know, she's
carried the same characteristics in some of the mannerisms, and
you know, it's kind of like, well, she's kind of a.

Speaker 2 (26:08):
What what was that was that?

Speaker 22 (26:09):
Your wife? I'm actually at a high school reunion okay,
twenty fifth high school reunion, So I kind of stepped
away for a second to talk to you, guys. Okay,
that's how important it was. Give me to do good
talk to you. Well, thank you, guys. I appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (26:27):
Well, thank you for calling Ray. We appreciate it.

Speaker 23 (26:38):
Benny Pend the party Animal coming back at you. Last installment,
I tackled the cat people.

Speaker 3 (26:43):
I'm gonna do it again.

Speaker 23 (26:45):
I was at a friend's house the other night, just
moved in, uh with a new girl, and we're sitting there,
were sitting at the kitchen table, having a couple of beers,
having a good time.

Speaker 3 (26:53):
Of a sender.

Speaker 23 (26:54):
Her cat just hops up on the table. It's just
allowed to just walk across this table. I've heard of
this before. I've heard of certain cat owners who are like,
you know, the cat can do whatever it wants. It's
allowed to walk right across the counter and step right
over your sandwich. For God's sake. I know she would
have French kissed the cat if the cat came up

(27:14):
to her and was so inclined to slip that sandpaper
tongue into her owner's mouth. But you know, I'm just
sitting at the table, and it's like, do you wipe
it down afterwards? You know, if you guys throw a
bag of chips here, is this cat going to be
allowed to like walk right by me and plug right
into the bag and have as much food as it wants.
The workers part is this girl's got a kid. The

(27:36):
kid came walking into the room and she said, don't
come in here tracking your mud off of the sneakers.

Speaker 2 (27:42):
Now, let me get this right.

Speaker 23 (27:44):
This animal that has just been pleasuring itself and doing
who knows what else around the house and down in
the basement and in the wall and wherever can walk
across the area where you eat your breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
But your son can't walk into the kitchen with he
shoes on. What is going on with cat owners? Imagine

(28:04):
if the dog jumped up on the table like that
and walked across the table like that, what would the
absolute pandemonium? But this is yet another cat owner who
has decided she runs the house. They think it's fine.
She's a diva. That's what she would say that night.
She's a diva. I won't be back to that house
for a bite to eat. I don't know, maybe I'm wrong.
I'm Finny Penn Party. Animal Animal Radio.

Speaker 1 (28:30):
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Speaker 4 (28:38):
This is doctor Dibbie and I do believe we have
Jeff here. Hi, Jeff, Hi, how you doing super how's
your day going?

Speaker 24 (28:45):
My cat has a peing problem. And when we take
him to the vet, they say that he has crystals
in his urethra and about one pan about once a year,
we have to take him in and they gave him
this food to eat, but he refuses to eat it.
And I was wondering if you had any advice.

Speaker 4 (29:02):
Okay, absolutely, Now when he's having these problems, is he
actually getting fully blocked where he can't pass urine or
is it he's having frequent urination and pain discomfort things
like that.

Speaker 24 (29:13):
It did happen once where he couldn't pass urine and
we had to bring him in And yeah, he has
pain and struggles to pea sometimes.

Speaker 4 (29:20):
Okay, very common problem in mail cats. And definitely part
of the problem is they have a tendency for different
types of crystals in their urine. So the veterinarian's recommendation
for diet can truly play a huge role in preventing
future occurrences. Does a little good If he doesn't like
the food any won't eat it. Do you recall the
brand or the name of the food that you're using,

(29:43):
CD something, okay, CD, and you know there are a
lot of other brands. So if it's a palatability problem,
where you know he's not really interested in the food.
I talk to your veterinarian. I use one by Royal
Canaan for the crystal problem that's called so I love
it really good for cats. They seem to like it
pretty well. But there's other brands out there as well,

(30:04):
so that might be one way to attack it. For
a lot of cats that have these chronic problems with
problems going to the bathroom and crystals and the discomfort
with that, I will always keep them on a glucosamine supplement.
And people are saying, wait a minute, we're not talking
to arthritis here. We're talking kind of a similar effect,
and glucosamine in cats has a kind of a protective

(30:27):
effect on the inside of their bladder, so it actually
is kind of like a natural anti inflammatory. So on
a long term basis, any cat in my clinic that
has this type of problem, we keep them on glucosamine
supplements long term. So that would be one thing that
I would also see about adding into your regimen there.
And the hard thing is when we're really battling acute

(30:48):
crisis of managing those problems, we want to make sure
we fully treat the infection, get that under control with
antibiotics and then see if we can get them past
that and work on the preventative strategies. Try the other
brands out there. And another big thing I'll mention for
cats that have chronic infections or what we call fus
feline eurologic syndrome, we'll add in a lot of moisture

(31:12):
to their food, so canned food is very helpful, or
even watering down the diet so that they have a
little extra moisture and that kind of helps flesh out
the bladder.

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Speaker 5 (32:52):
I was going to tell you guys a quick story.
This is an insane story, it's funnier. It was nineteen
eighty eight Super Bowl Sunday. I was invited to an
Italian guy's house in Chicago. I had an Airdale shepherd
brought him over there and I said, Cody, go downstay
and he's.

Speaker 3 (33:04):
Got the dog with the spots on it. What the
heck are they called?

Speaker 5 (33:08):
Again? Dalmat Dalmat's got a Dalmatian and some sort of
mix and they're just lunatics.

Speaker 3 (33:12):
They're running around all over the place.

Speaker 5 (33:14):
And one of them, the Dalmatian, jumps on the table,
grabs the ham and runs off with it, and the
wife is chasing the dog.

Speaker 3 (33:19):
And so I'm sitting there and.

Speaker 5 (33:21):
A guy comes up to me goes, how the heck
do you get your dog to sit there like that?

Speaker 3 (33:25):
How do you do that?

Speaker 5 (33:26):
And I go, well, what's your what's your biggest problem?
What would you like your dog to stop doing? Give
me one thing? And we're sitting at the table and
he says, I'd like my dog to stop begging. And
as he's saying this to me, he's feeding his dog. Unconsciously,
he's just feeding his dog from the table, the one
that stole the ham. And I said, buddy, you gotta
lock here. This is at a time where crates were

(33:46):
thought to be cruel. I say, you got to get
a crate. You gotta lock them up first of all
when you eat. He goes, I can't do that. That's
so mean, And I go No, what's mean is what
you're doing now, Because don't you get mad sometimes when
your dog begs and he goes, oh yeah, I get
real mad and I wap him on the nose with
a newspaper and it does no good, And I go,
you mean to tell me that's not mean. Your dog

(34:06):
doesn't even know why you're wapping him on the nose
because you're feeding him sometimes and sometimes you're not. He
can't make the distinction. He doesn't understand what you're doing.
That's why he's nuts.

Speaker 7 (34:17):
Do you know what It would have been a funnier
story if you would have said ten minutes later they
asked me if I wanted a piece of ham.

Speaker 5 (34:23):
No, that dog took the ham. I don't know where
it went, but they never found it. He ran outside,
he went into the garage through his doggy door, and
the ham was never seen again. And I don't think
he hate it. I think he buried it out there
somewhere for later.

Speaker 2 (34:36):
Let's take another call for doctor Debbie. We have Tony
on the phone. Welcome to the show. Tony, Hi, what's
going on?

Speaker 27 (34:42):
I'm calling because my daughter had originally two docs and
then she had a litter of five that went on
to have and she kept him. Then she went and
had another litter of five, so she had a total
of twelve. Only gave went away because she doesn't have
the heart to do any of them away.

Speaker 4 (35:06):
Why she doesn't have the hurt to give them away?

Speaker 27 (35:09):
Okay, she loves sen dearly and I don't know. She
said that when she was younger, I had given away
her dog and she was very heartbokened, so she couldn't.

Speaker 2 (35:22):
So let me get this straight. You have eleven dogs
or her daughter? Your daughter has eleven dogs?

Speaker 4 (35:27):
Ye, oh my goodness. So the first thing I would
say is the benefits of spain and neutering.

Speaker 5 (35:33):
Here.

Speaker 4 (35:34):
I cannot stress enough that we need to intervene and
to get some help for her household, because there is
no reason to have repeated breedings just for the experience
or because she loves dogs. You know, we have to make.

Speaker 27 (35:49):
Sure she did want that to happen.

Speaker 4 (35:53):
Well, it's gonna happen, and dogs do that. They will
reproduce when given the option and the opportunity. It is
our job, as they're human caretakers, to make sure that
doesn't happen. So we need to take those steps so
whether you have to walk her in to a veterinary
office and help get her that help that she needs
in making that connection and to make that determination. You know, Now,

(36:15):
some people might be able to keep eleven dogs and
to care for them appropriately, but my general feeling is
that that is too many dogs for one household unless
you have support. Now, octomom and you know, all those
people have multiple bursts can attest that you need help
to take care of that many beings, whether they're human
or animal. So that would be my concern. So, yeah,

(36:36):
we need to.

Speaker 27 (36:37):
Does you know she has, but I'm still totally against it,
and I can't seem to you know, talk her into
given any away in the meantime, not to mention the cost,
and you know, I tell her Selfish sures in any
way that you could give enough attention or those dogs

(36:58):
either you know, amongst many other things. But would you
say or the male should be all neutered.

Speaker 4 (37:06):
Or absolutely that is the Probably the easiest place to
start is to get those boys taken care of. Now, well,
I mean that's usually an easier fix, if you will,
for many households, So that would be one thing to do. Now,
the thing that I think we need to really talk
about is that you've mentioned that you know, these dogs

(37:26):
may not be getting the care that they need. Now,
dogs are social creatures and they really do thrive on
interactions with people, and it is pretty difficult, if not impossible,
for one person to provide that level of closeness and
that social bonding that a dog needs to be really
you know, happy and to thrive in their environment. So

(37:47):
that would be one big selling point that I would
say for her. But I will be honest with you,
I think we need to get some help for your
daughter in the human healthcare field because this has honed
to me of a possible hoarding situation and the situationing
that veterinary and human healthcare person to help her out

(38:08):
and to see because as if I were face to
face with her, you know, we could say, Okay, why
isn't your dog's bad or neutered? Let's go through this.
What are their risks? What are the risks of having
eleven dogs in the house, not alone, fights, infectious disease,
parasite control, all of these things, social situations, just due
to overcrowding. All of these things play a role, whether
we want to look at them and recognize them why

(38:29):
or not they will be there right.

Speaker 27 (38:32):
Parasites is something I also read that you know the
owners the humans, can you know contract them from their heads? Wow?

Speaker 4 (38:42):
Absolutely, I don't know.

Speaker 27 (38:44):
How prevalent that is with your take on.

Speaker 4 (38:46):
That, Yeah, absolutely, it is is totally possible. So, and
that's why there's communities that have animal ordinances. There are
regulations so you don't have twenty five forty dogs because
it's hard to meet their needs and it can be
a human healthcare risk. So yeah, I mean, I think

(39:07):
we really need to not worry about hurting her feelings.
We really need to worry about getting those pets out
of there and then hopefully getting the help that she
needs to recognize this behavior and hopefully turn that around.

Speaker 6 (39:17):
There.

Speaker 5 (39:18):
Good luck with that.

Speaker 2 (39:19):
We appreciate your call today and wish you all the
best of luck. It's a tough situation you have to
deal with there. I know you're going to do the
right thing.

Speaker 27 (39:25):
Yes, I really thank you for your house and I'm
going to try to resolve this hopefully let us know
how it goes.

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This is Animal Radio, featuring your dream team veterinarian doctor
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Speaker 4 (40:32):
Hey, did you see my post on Facebook about the
things I pulled out of a dog's ear?

Speaker 5 (40:37):
No?

Speaker 2 (40:38):
No, what have you years?

Speaker 4 (40:41):
Oh my gosh. You know, there's all sorts of stuff
that can get in the ear, you know, But the
one this poor little dog, it was a little docs
in and she had one ear that we pulled out
foxtails from her ear.

Speaker 2 (40:53):
That hurts.

Speaker 4 (40:54):
No, everyone knows a foxtails. It was a little seed
parts off of plants and grasses.

Speaker 5 (40:58):
The other side.

Speaker 2 (40:59):
Wait, wait, let me let me dance. Can I guess?

Speaker 4 (41:03):
Okay, go ahead?

Speaker 7 (41:04):
A thong?

Speaker 4 (41:05):
No, there's no thong in a Docsin's ear. I think
how small it is? Yeah, okay, do you know?

Speaker 5 (41:10):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (41:11):
For what was in the dogs other? The other?

Speaker 4 (41:14):
Can you pay attention? Can you pay attention to this?

Speaker 3 (41:17):
Listening?

Speaker 5 (41:18):
I'm trying to imagine how it gets how something could
get in a dog's ear.

Speaker 10 (41:22):
I know I can't.

Speaker 4 (41:22):
Okay that all right? So the other ear, now, come on,
this is really cool. You're gonna think this is neat? Okay,
other ear? We pulled out an insect.

Speaker 7 (41:33):
Do you believe?

Speaker 4 (41:34):
At first I thought it was a cricket, But I
do believe upon examination of the pieces and parts, it
was a cockroach.

Speaker 5 (41:40):
Oh doesn't that scare you?

Speaker 16 (41:42):
Guys?

Speaker 5 (41:43):
I mean, you know, your ears are just like they're
just like open. There's no door. Any bug could crawl
in your head while you're sleeping. That that's freaking Now.

Speaker 4 (41:53):
I'm gonna have to put cotton in my ears at night.

Speaker 3 (41:55):
Yeah. I wear ear plugs for that reason.

Speaker 2 (41:58):
Is that the reason?

Speaker 3 (41:59):
Yeah? I don't want nothing crawling in my head.

Speaker 4 (42:03):
Too late, they're trying to Well, did.

Speaker 5 (42:07):
You see the story?

Speaker 7 (42:08):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (42:09):
Last year I was reading a story.

Speaker 5 (42:10):
About a woman whose head was itching and she went
to the doctor and and you know, she swore there
was something in her scalp, and the doctor thought she
was nuts, and then he saw it move. And she
had been some country where the worms they burrow into
your scalp, but they live in your head.

Speaker 3 (42:24):
This is the one.

Speaker 5 (42:26):
Yeah, the genitilia borneo WORL.

Speaker 2 (42:28):
Yeah, that's what I got right here under your Thanks
for ruining my big story. I had one big story today.
There you go, you ruin it.

Speaker 5 (42:35):
That's the doctor Debbie coming out with her testicle juggling
video next month.

Speaker 2 (42:39):
I know.

Speaker 10 (42:39):
Yeah, sure, this is very cool.

Speaker 2 (42:41):
Oh no, this is a different story. This isn't a
really different story. You've ruined my story here. I haven't
seen this story yet, but this is good. If you
live in New York City, you know there's a lot
of bugs.

Speaker 8 (42:51):
Yeah, I think it out of cockroaches and stuff that
you could have tested.

Speaker 2 (42:54):
That lived there before.

Speaker 3 (42:56):
Right, Yes, there are there are a lot of there's
like there's like eight million rats each person did you.

Speaker 2 (43:01):
Ever have to bug bomb your house or your apartment
use those little foggers.

Speaker 3 (43:05):
No, we don't do that.

Speaker 5 (43:06):
You don't do that because that kills you too.

Speaker 2 (43:09):
We're just supposed to leave the house when you do this.

Speaker 5 (43:12):
Yes, Oh that's the problem.

Speaker 2 (43:14):
Yeah, that's the problem. This last Wednesday, woman in Chinatown
found herself under attacked from these little creepy, creepy crawlers.
They don't really say what kind of bugs. So she
decided she'd get twenty foggers, not one, but twenty fogs
for her little New and you know how small New
York apartments are, yes, size of a closet. And apparently
the twenty foggers did not work, and so she went

(43:39):
and got another twenty foggers.

Speaker 8 (43:40):
The very next day she set off another twenty that's
forty foggers in two days.

Speaker 3 (43:45):
That's thinking right there.

Speaker 2 (43:47):
Yeah, the second time around, they did get rid of
the bugs, but only from an explosion. Apparently the fogger
set off the pilot light in the stove and boom kaboom.

Speaker 5 (43:56):
Bing just like that, Oh got rid of the neighbor
took the whole building, collapsed, part of it.

Speaker 2 (44:03):
Thanks for that story there, Judy. That really cheered me up.

Speaker 3 (44:06):
That's like, did you guys ever see the old cartoon?
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (44:09):
I think it's like Elmer Fudd or you know, and
he's sitting there and there's a fly in his house,
and the whole cartoon is about him trying to get
rid of the fly, and at the end of the cartoon,
his whole house is destroyed.

Speaker 2 (44:17):
Talking about old Elmer Fudd episodes here on Animal Radio. Hey,
let's go to Ron. Hey, Ron, how are you doing?

Speaker 4 (44:24):
Okay?

Speaker 14 (44:25):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (44:25):
Yeah, good?

Speaker 2 (44:26):
What's up in your world?

Speaker 9 (44:27):
My wife and I have a fourteen or he might
be fifteen pounds now, toy poodle that is supposed to
be ten. He's got leg problems. He got the doctor
is vets that that something about his knee pop out
a joint or something like that. He said that he's
only a year old, and the vet said from six

(44:49):
months ago. He just doesn't even look like the same
dog on the X rays. So wow, is that common?

Speaker 14 (44:59):
And to.

Speaker 4 (45:01):
Well, if it is what I'm thinking, did they describe
where the kneecap pops out of joint or did they
say a ligament was damaged?

Speaker 9 (45:09):
I believe my wife said something about a kneecap popping
out in joint.

Speaker 4 (45:15):
Okay, so if it's a kneecamp popping out, absolutely yeah,
that would be very very common in a toy poodle
and actually any small little toy breed of dog. It
is a congenital problem that just real prone to these guys.
And with it, it's basically where the groove that the
kneecap sits in in the knee, and some dogs it's

(45:36):
just too shallow, so the kneecap kind of slides out
of position when they're walking or even just hanging out,
and it becomes painful. They can't put weight on it
because if you're can't use your quadriceps muscle, your kneecap
has to be in place, so when it can't bend it,
it's painful. And they'll carry the leg. Do you see
some dogs that they'll just skip, so they'll run along

(45:58):
in the yard, and he may see them playing and
all of a sudden they pick up the leg for
a couple of steps, and then all of a sudden
the leaks back down. That's an early symptom that your
pet may have a kneecap problem.

Speaker 5 (46:10):
I have.

Speaker 4 (46:11):
I've had dogs have surgery as young as six months
of age for this. And actually one of my reception
is her her own little puppy just recently recovered from
having this done on both knees because it was really
so severe. So if your vet is seeing, you know,
an appreciable change on either X rays or on the
physical exam, and if that's also accompanied with her showing

(46:33):
symptoms of either limping, discomfort or kind of a crouched
gait or even like a bull legged appearance, a combination
of those things would be you know, we need to
do something, and in surgery may be the best thing
for the pet that's having, you know, all of those.

Speaker 5 (46:46):
Symptoms going on.

Speaker 9 (46:47):
At once, I was wondering he did give him a
prescription sort of a plain till I was wondering about
the white, how much that would contribute it to it?
He is over white? And what what can wait do?
I mean? The vet says that really in the wild,
they they'll eat. They can't hold him more than they
won't eat for another couple of days. Want deprive him,

(47:09):
But yeah, how would we I don't know how to
go about that way? Name and we're in it. We're
truck drivers, so he really in my opinion, Now my
wife says I'm wrong, but in my opinion, he doesn't
get enough exercise that he should. But they say in
the foodle book that if he's a house dog, they

(47:29):
get enough exercise running around the house.

Speaker 4 (47:32):
Well yeah, I mean that's typical. But now if we're
sharing more of our food with our pets and they're
not expending a lot of calories, and they're just a
little couch potatoes, you know, hanging out with us, traveling
with us, you know, something's got to give here. So
for me, I don't always focus on an absolute number
on weight. I like that strategy. It works for me.

(47:52):
I don't want to talk about numbers of my stuff
on the scale. So what we talk about is body
condition score. So I would basically, you know, if I
had your doggy in front of me, i'd have my
hands on the sides on the up and down from
the top to the bottom on the abdomen, and we
really ought to feel little rib lines. If we're not
feeling that we've got a little extra fatty padding in there,

(48:13):
you know we may have a situation where some weight
loss may help. It's not going to stop what's going
on in these knees, but it may take some of
that stress off your dog's knees, make it a little
easier to get around, But the weight doesn't directly cause
the development of this problem. So I would work on
keeping your baby as lean as we could. So if
that means you gotta watch what you're feeding, you know,

(48:36):
exercise is something we would want to do.

Speaker 9 (48:38):
Go Ahead's better than I.

Speaker 4 (48:46):
So you're coming clean.

Speaker 22 (48:47):
I like that.

Speaker 9 (48:50):
Uh, he said that there's joint supplements. She's got to
be She said that like a for people, do they have?

Speaker 2 (48:58):
Sure?

Speaker 4 (48:59):
Yeah, So for the the milder cases of a Pateller problem,
I would use a joint supplement in using that daily.
And then you know, if you're using pain medicine, there's
different classes we can use. For a pet that has
a mild symptom of it, you know, we might not
need to give him pain medicine. But if if she's
more severely affected, you know, giving her some pain medicine,
keeping her activity quiet for some time, and then really

(49:21):
you know, I would have to defer to your vet
as far as you know, if they're saying that, you know,
she really needs surgery. You know, all the good diets
and joint supplements in the world aren't going to change that.
So I think that's something that you really got to
kind of follow the direction of what your your veticee
in there. But I'm going to tell you to put
that steak away and let this let's let this dog
eat some dog.

Speaker 9 (49:40):
Food here, Ron, Hey, well, well he's way past he
used to when we first got him at eight weeks
he loved that that what did they call it? I
forget the name of it, but it was top love
stuff and he just cries do it and loved it
the faces. But it's our fault. Really. He hasn't trained
us very well as parents.

Speaker 4 (50:00):
Uh, you know, he's done a very good job training
any other. But yeah, so I would say, yeah, Ron,
keep him on a joint supplement, get him lean down
for you, and if he's actively limping, you know, let's
really talk about, you know, if we need to pursue
surgery here or not.

Speaker 28 (50:17):
He mentioned that?

Speaker 9 (50:18):
Is that mentioned that? But he doesn't say, as how
does the surgery usually work out for him?

Speaker 4 (50:24):
If I did go through that, for most dogs, if
we do it when they're young, before they get a
lot of arthritis changes, they do wonderfully. It keeps them moving,
you know, it really gives them the best function of
that leg before they get a lot of muscle atrophy
muscle muscle loss. So it's the best thing to catch
him young. If we think they're going to need the surgery,
it could be done at any point later. But he

(50:46):
just you know, we'll have less benefits if arthritis sets in.
But it you know, certainly, it's it's got its place.
And I usually there's grades of Fateller problems, so a
lower grade dog doesn't need surgery, but on the scale
one to four, four being the worst, one being the
most mild, I usually would recommend surgery for a pet
with a grade three or four. So you might ask

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you to clarify that and see if where he fits
into the scheme.

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Speaker 2 (53:24):
Let's hit the phones up first. It's all about you.
We have Susan on the phone for Allen. Hey, Susan,
how you doing.

Speaker 29 (53:30):
I'm doing fine, Thank you. I'm hoping that you can
help me out here. Okay, I've got an eleven year
old toy poodle Mail who suddenly has become not broken,
and I'm not sure what's going on.

Speaker 27 (53:46):
We have had.

Speaker 29 (53:47):
A serious problem with fleas this summer and I've been
you know, flea dipping them or bathing them and taking
care of that trying to get that under control, and
it seems like for the last couple of months, at
least once a week he misses and pee's or pooh's
on the on the hardwood floor, and I don't know

(54:10):
what to.

Speaker 2 (54:10):
Do about it.

Speaker 3 (54:12):
Can I ask you a question? Do you have another
dog too?

Speaker 29 (54:16):
Yeah, I've got another toy poodles, female and she's a
little older than the male.

Speaker 5 (54:22):
And how long have how long have they lived together?
Their whole lives or is it a recent thing?

Speaker 29 (54:27):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, their whole lives.

Speaker 3 (54:30):
Well, the first thing you should do good. I'm sorry, sweetie.

Speaker 29 (54:33):
I was going to say, I've got two boxers that
are outside dogs, but you know, the poodles are the
in house.

Speaker 10 (54:42):
So the boxers have they always been around to are
they new?

Speaker 29 (54:46):
They're probably three years old?

Speaker 3 (54:48):
But I mean have you had them for a long time?

Speaker 29 (54:50):
Just three years?

Speaker 3 (54:52):
Okay?

Speaker 5 (54:53):
The first thing you should do is take the little fella,
take them to the vet because a lot of times
when dogs start peeing in the house, it could be
a medical problem. They get urinary tract infections just like people.
They get kidney stones and bladder stones when they get
a little older.

Speaker 3 (55:08):
You have to rule.

Speaker 5 (55:09):
Out a medical condition before you can do anything else.
Because you know your dog's eleven years old, there could
be something medically going on, so you want to take
your dog to the vet and make sure that is
not what's going on. And then the second reason why
dogs do this a lot of times, a change in
the environment will cause dogs to start going in the
house again. That's why I asked you if you got
a new dog, because that would cause it. Sometimes even

(55:31):
new dogs moving into the neighborhood will cause something like
that anxiety. And sometimes, believe it or not, dogs just
like people, when they get a little older, they develop
sometimes a form of Ballzheimer's and they actually forget So
if none of these, if none of these is the problem,
you just start over, just like you did when your
dog was a puppy.

Speaker 3 (55:50):
You clean the area up real good.

Speaker 5 (55:52):
Don't use ammonia because ammonia draws dogs back because their
urine has pneumonia. So clean it up with a good
product you get at the pet store that eliminates the
so he doesn't return to the scene of the crime.
And then you have a regular schedule you can find
the dog when you're not able to give him attention.
And then you have a regular schedule. So whenever you
wake up, you take the dog out. After meals, you

(56:12):
take the dog out. As soon as you return home
from someplace, you take the dog out, and you go
out with your dog on a leash. You have a treat,
and as soon as your dog starts to go to
the bathroom, as soon as that dog is done, you
say good dog and give the dog a treat. The
most important thing is regular schedule and structure and keeping
everything the same. It's just like going back to square one.

Speaker 3 (56:34):
With a puppy.

Speaker 5 (56:35):
And if you do this, your dog will snap out
of it pretty quickly. As long as there's no medical condition.

Speaker 29 (56:41):
Okay, well, I'll certainly take those steps to eliminate the
problem if I can. And I think the first step
is to get them checked up and make sure that
there's no medical problem, right.

Speaker 3 (56:55):
And then absolutely absolutely.

Speaker 29 (56:57):
I appreciate it greatly. Thank you very much.

Speaker 2 (57:00):
Thanks for your call, Susan. Let's hit the phones with Cheryl. Hey, Cheryl,
how are you doing.

Speaker 18 (57:05):
I'm good?

Speaker 2 (57:06):
How are you good? What's going on in your world?

Speaker 18 (57:09):
Well? I have a five year old mixed breed down
is part shepherd and she is having issues with bladderstones.
About four months ago we had one removed and.

Speaker 25 (57:22):
She has a nutther.

Speaker 4 (57:24):
Okay, did you have the stone analyzed? Do we know
what it was made out of?

Speaker 25 (57:29):
No, we did not do that one.

Speaker 18 (57:31):
We will own this one. I still have that stone.

Speaker 5 (57:34):
Actually, Oh well, excellent.

Speaker 4 (57:36):
You take that to your veterinarian and send that out.
The reason is because it's so important that we know
what these stones are made of. Some stones we can
prevent with diet. Some breeds are kind of predisposed to
a certain variety of stones. There's kelcium based stone, phosphorus,
silica urate, Oh my gosh, there's so many. In German shepherds,

(57:59):
I would first think of a silica based stone. It's
one that this type of breed is just prone to.
And so that's where that test is going to be
so important to have that analyzed. If it is, it
can be a very challenging stone to prevent. But some
steps that we'll do are to move to diets that
are very low in vegetable matter. Silica is very rich

(58:23):
in things like different types of cornholes, rice, whole soybeans,
anything basically that kind of grows out of the ground.
Even potatoes can have silica, So for pets that have
this particular type of stone, we'll go to more of
a no grain diet. But the big thing is if
anything is reoccurring, we got to make some steps and
do some dietary changes to try to help out. And

(58:45):
then the other things going along with that, any type
of bladderstone. The ways we can help a pet to
expel those crystals and the microscopic forms of those stones
is to make sure they're producing lots and lots of urine.
And the way we do that is we encourage them
to drink, but you know, you can't always force it down,
but we can add things like a little bit of

(59:05):
salt to the food and that increases their thirst and
that'll increase the urine output. The other thing would be
just a simple way to do that is canned foods
have a higher moisture content. So whatever diet your veterinarian
say is going to be the appropriate one for your baby,
the can varieties are definitely going to be the better
way to go to just try to create lots of urine,

(59:26):
and that way we help to kind of basically flush
the system naturally and try to get those crystals out
before they build up into a stone. But there's a
lot of other things that we have to look at.
So really the first thing I'd say is get that
stone tested and then find out if we've got infection
going on, because there's some stones that will be triggered
by a low grade infection in the bladder and we've

(59:47):
just got to get more info to better tackle this
for the future.

Speaker 18 (59:51):
Okay, thank you.

Speaker 4 (59:53):
Okay, Well, good luck with that, Cheryl, and give your
baby a pat on the head.

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I'm Stacey Cohen four Animal Radio. I'm not sure why
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It seems pretty obvious that you shouldn't be kissing a lion,
and that's the lesson for Canadian teenage she was mauled
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Fagan says she's lucky to be alive. She'll be out
of the hospital in about a week.

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A bald eagle that flew the coop on the fourth
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the bird escaped while it's exhibited. The city zoo is
being worked on. Several tips have been called in as
to the bald eagles whereabouts, but so far the bird,
on loan from the US Fish and Wildlife Service is
still being sought. We you hate to be on the

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Call.

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All right, we're here to pick up the bird.

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Where we've decided to take the bird back put it
in another zoo. The eagle sleeping. Now he can't come
to the phone. We'll pack his bags and give you
a call when he's ready to leave. Oh that's a
scary thing. But what I did hear about that bird
is that they thought the bird couldn't fly. They were
taking care of that bird because they thought the bones
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out the door. Dog owners are in the majority in
the US. According to the latest American Pets Poll, fifty
two percent prefer pups as a pet. Well, just twenty
one percent would rather have a cat, but few people
believe in the stereotypical crazy cat lady or man. Just
twenty three percent than cat owners are weirder than dog
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less convention and animal companions, just over a quarter would
choose a tiger if they were to have an exotic pet.
To put it at the top of the list of
survey options. Drafts take second place, with nods from about
twenty percent. I'd much rather have a draft than a tiger.
Tiger will kill you. Eighteen percent would have a pet dinosaur. Oh,

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that's pretty hard to come by. He probably pay a
lot to get a pet dinosaur. Sixteen percent would welcome
an elephant into their family, and polar bears are popular
among fourteen percent of people, but just six percent think
an alligator would make a really good pet. I'm Stacy Cohen.
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Speaker 1 (01:03:36):
You're listening to Animal Radio ladies and gentlemen.

Speaker 2 (01:03:40):
The dog Father Joey Bealani.

Speaker 7 (01:03:41):
I want to talk about prescription shampoos here because I'm
noticing more and more people coming in and they bring
in their own products that are prescribed by the vetnarians.
The problem what it doesn't tell you if you're actually
reading most of these people. They don't read the bottle.
The bottle basically says that you need to do this
a number of times, so it needs to be done

(01:04:02):
maybe once, twice, three, four or five times a week.
And they bring it to me and they want it
to work once every six weeks. The first thing you
want to do is make sure you know how often
it needs to be applied to the pet. Secondly, and
this is the most important. These products are made and
they're most of the time they're soap free, so basically

(01:04:23):
they're not good cleaning products. They're more to solve a
problem than to clean your pet. And what you have
to make sure is that you're starting with something that's
cleaned first before you're using this. It is not going
to hurt your pet. If you take a good regular
pet shampoo, use that first, and then use this product second.

(01:04:46):
And what that's going to do. It's going to clean
the skin, it's gonna get the order dirt and oil away,
and it's going to make the second product, which is
the medicated product, work a hell of a lot better.
And then usually they have to stay on. I would
just you know, read the instructions and let them stay on.
When you don't do this. What ends up happening is
is the product just sits on top of the dirt
and oil because it can't penetrate, it can't get down,

(01:05:07):
it can't really do what it's made to do. So really,
all you're doing is not only wasting your time and money,
but you're not solving the problem that the product was
prescribed for.

Speaker 8 (01:05:18):
See I would have just repre medicated shampoo on without
doing anything else first.

Speaker 7 (01:05:22):
Well, they don't. You know, it's funny because it doesn't
tell you. They don't. They don't tell you that, and
you notice some big difference just in a couple of
days when you do it that way. You need to
start on something clean, got it?

Speaker 5 (01:05:33):
Oh, joe you're more of a what's that doctor you
go to and you got a skin problem? What do
they call those guys?

Speaker 4 (01:05:37):
Dermatologists?

Speaker 2 (01:05:38):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:05:39):
Yeah, you're like a dermatologist, Joey. You really are.

Speaker 7 (01:05:41):
I think most rumors are.

Speaker 5 (01:05:43):
You're amazing because you know, my wife, she used to
have oily skin, and she would wash her face like
ninety times a day and she would get even more
oily skin. And you're right, you know, you got to
put oil on to get rid of oil. You'd never
think that that would be the case, but that's exactly true.

Speaker 7 (01:05:56):
Do you know where The first time I learned that
was some are dry cleaner, a dry cleaner that I
knew to remove the stain the oil stain in my
shirt had used oil to take it out, and it
just made common sense. And then just talking to some
veterinarians I found out it was just basically the same
idea with your pet's coat. So there it goes unbelievable.

Speaker 5 (01:06:16):
Unbelievable the way you learn things, Joy, It's just amazing
how much you know in your.

Speaker 7 (01:06:21):
Head just by going to the dry clean as you
see that.

Speaker 2 (01:06:23):
And we go to Ronnie, Hey, Ronnie, how are you doing?

Speaker 28 (01:06:26):
I'm doing great?

Speaker 2 (01:06:26):
You good? What's up?

Speaker 28 (01:06:28):
I'm wondering if if me clipping my bird's wings, my
son Conyer, would that jeopardize our relationship if I did
it myself.

Speaker 7 (01:06:36):
Well, Ronnie, let me ask you a quick question. Did
you ever clip wings before? I mean, do you know
how to do it?

Speaker 28 (01:06:42):
No? No, I haven't not At this time, I was
just considering, you know, learning the fuel.

Speaker 7 (01:06:47):
It's not it's it's not hard. The first thing is
can you handle your bird? There's your bird bite if
you handle it, if in more in more of a
rough manner than just patting her.

Speaker 28 (01:06:58):
He doesn't like to be took I'm just on okay
once in a while. I don't know whether that's the
rat thing to do or not, but I'm sis on
it once in a while. But he would rather just
be looked at and maybe sit on my finger or
you know, on my shoulder or something like that and
not be touched.

Speaker 7 (01:07:12):
Well, the first thing, and the most important thing is
it just if you're going to do, is just get
a good towel or good handler's glove that they're not
going to cause I'm sure you know bird bites do hurt.
Is it going to affect your relationship?

Speaker 22 (01:07:25):
You know what?

Speaker 7 (01:07:26):
It's like this, It's like it's like my I go
back to my childhood. My mom used to give us
a good old every now and then whip them would
a wooden spoon when we were bad. Okay, at the
end of the day, we still loved her, Okay, I
mean we respected her. But no, it's it's it's not
going to it's it's really not. They they basically say
that most birds have the mind of a three year

(01:07:47):
old child. I cut my bird's wings all the time.
I mean, she's used to it. She lets me do it,
and and I never have any problems at all with it.
The only thing, though, you know what your bird they
reject after a while. If there's certain scissors that you use.
Once they get to know that these are the scissors
that you're gonna be using to clip her wings, you know,

(01:08:09):
may she may put it up a little bit of
a fuss at that point in time, but when it's done,
it's done. The most important thing is is that I
would say, because I can explain it to you over
the air, but it's really it's more of a visual thing.
Get yourself a good book or go online and get
a good visual how to clip the wings. It's not
real hard, but you got to watch the blood feathers,
and you have to make sure that you don't take

(01:08:31):
off too much. And when out seeing your bird, I
really can't tell you because your bird has to have
the proper balance. Still, what you don't want to do
is cut it too much that they can't fly a
little bit. They need to be able to fly a
little bit so if they fall off something high, they're
not going to damage that anything, will break anything. But
now I wouldn't worry about the relationship.

Speaker 2 (01:08:49):
I got a question here because I'm the lead idiot here,
and why do you clip the bird's wings? What is
that about?

Speaker 7 (01:08:56):
Well, I'm gonna tell you after having my birth to
thirty plus years, okay, and stop clipping her wings because
you know what, she would go on my shoulders, she
would run outside, she would run back in the day
before we were flying to super Zoo, my bird decided
that she's gonna fly out the door and go up
in the sixty foot tree wow, and go hang out

(01:09:17):
up top. So that's why you do it. We got
her out. I mean, we coerced it down. But you
do it because you know what, they're birds, and eventually
they're going to want to, you know.

Speaker 2 (01:09:27):
Fly, keep them away more.

Speaker 7 (01:09:31):
Yes, exactly, So I'm keeping them flying away and hurting
themselves too. You last thing you want to do if
you let your bird out. You don't want your bird
flying around the house because they're going to hit into windows,
they're going to hit into furniture, and everyone's going to
get hurt. But what you don't want to do is
you don't want to make them so unmobile. That they
can't at least get out of danger. So if they
are falling, you want to be able to that they

(01:09:52):
could flap their wings and at least have a gentle
landing like it's you know, crash, bang, broken breastbone.

Speaker 2 (01:09:57):
How do you tell which one her blood wings? Call
it blood feathers blood.

Speaker 19 (01:10:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (01:10:02):
What you'll do is if you hold if you hold
the bird's wings out, and what you'll do is you'll
look on the casing of the feather itself. Now that's
that it almost looks like a like a plastic tube
that runs down the middle of the feather where everything
branches off of. If it's clear, that means it's the
the blood feather has receded. Because all feathers are blood feathers,
all main feathers are until they mature, unimmature. What happens

(01:10:26):
is it recedes, it'll be clear. If it's red, that
means it's actually blood. Inside of that. It's almost like
a quick on a nail. And it's a pain in
the neck when you cut it because you actually got
to now pull it out of the wing itself and
then you go to apply some type of you know,
septic and with a bird you know, it's it's a
little bit difficult. Birds are so complex that definitely can

(01:10:48):
be but I love them.

Speaker 28 (01:10:49):
I was wondering if I might be able to ask
one other question trees, do you have any suggestion for treats?
Vend doesn't seem to lack anything, but it's just but
it's regular food.

Speaker 7 (01:10:56):
Are you feeding fruits and vegetables or even nutral berries?

Speaker 28 (01:11:01):
No, just the you know, food from the store. But
and I can't tell you the brand, but you know
it's supposed to be, you know, the top brand. They're
at a pitch anyway, I'll.

Speaker 7 (01:11:10):
Tell you what. Unfortunately, seed isn't the greatest thing. I mean,
don't forget with birds. And I got a big lesson
in birds from a veterinarian, so especially on nutrition. The
big thing is this is they were fruit eaters and
they were vegetation eats. And what we did is we've
taken them and we've domesticated and we made them seed eaters. Now,

(01:11:31):
the problem with that in most cases is they don't
get all the nutrition that they should. So if your
bird is just eating seed, you definitely want to see
if you can get them on some fruits and vegetables.

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Dogs or Cats Course or EU Animal People to des
Moines Resident Clarence Fenton was recently charged with driving under
the influence of drugs his dog's drugs.

Speaker 15 (01:13:01):
He's still not exactly sure what happened. Authorities say the
fena barbitoal that was in his bloodstream when he crashed
into a utility pole with his car had been prescribed
by a vet. Forty seven year old Fenton said he
took what he thought where the doctor prescribed antidepressants when
police reports show his car hit the pole. His blood
work showed that Fenton had actually taken seizure control pills

(01:13:25):
prescribed for.

Speaker 4 (01:13:26):
His dog, Saturn.

Speaker 15 (01:13:27):
Tammy Noble of the Poison Control Center said the story
is more common than you'd think. She said, They've had
three cases this year. People often take their pet's heartworm medication. Oh,
this would be a good time to remind you to
read the labels of any medication you're taking. I'm Pritty
Savage for Animal Radio.

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Speaker 2 (01:14:04):
Hi, Tenny, how are you doing?

Speaker 19 (01:14:06):
Hi?

Speaker 32 (01:14:07):
I'm doing fine?

Speaker 18 (01:14:08):
Are you?

Speaker 7 (01:14:09):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:14:10):
Splendid? Where you must be like calling from the south.

Speaker 5 (01:14:12):
Somewhere you can tell huh, I love it.

Speaker 2 (01:14:17):
If you've been listening for any time at all, you
know I love those Southern accents.

Speaker 32 (01:14:22):
Well I do have one, I guess, but I.

Speaker 2 (01:14:24):
Know you called to talk to Alan, our dog trainer.

Speaker 32 (01:14:27):
Uh huh.

Speaker 2 (01:14:27):
You like Southern accents, Alan, don't you.

Speaker 3 (01:14:30):
I love Southern accents. I love Southern women.

Speaker 5 (01:14:32):
I love everything about the South, especially where it is
in the South.

Speaker 12 (01:14:36):
There you go.

Speaker 4 (01:14:37):
Can't beat it.

Speaker 2 (01:14:38):
So what's happening with your dog?

Speaker 27 (01:14:40):
Actually?

Speaker 2 (01:14:40):
I have two.

Speaker 32 (01:14:42):
My oldest one is four and a half and it's
a mini Snauger and we have in the last year
a little over. We have gotten a Chihuahua. We need
our meet from the pan and we kind of rescued it.
But he is a barker, and the barking is I

(01:15:04):
know in his nature. With the we need to I
mean with the Hua, they do tend to.

Speaker 18 (01:15:08):
Bark a lot.

Speaker 32 (01:15:09):
But we have trained them both to stay in the
yard and they have recently decided the yard across this
highway and they're bothering a little boy next door over there. Angel,
our oldest one has She loves to be petted and
this little boy pets her, and I think Tucker, the

(01:15:32):
other one, is trying to protect her, but he barks
at the little boy and I'm trying to break him
from that. I can't seem to do it. I don't
really know if there's something maybe you could do to help.

Speaker 5 (01:15:44):
Yes, so the dogs run out of the yard across
the street.

Speaker 3 (01:15:48):
Is that what they do?

Speaker 32 (01:15:49):
Yes, okay, I'm trying to keep them in the yard
if they don't seem to want to listen.

Speaker 5 (01:15:54):
Well, the easy way to get the dogs to stay
in the yard, of course, you could get one of
those least things that screws into the ground and they've
got like ony feet of rope or leash and they
can't go across the street if you can't be there
to correct them. The easiest way for dogs to be
taught not to do something, or that something is inappropriate
and you don't like the behavior is that you have
to be there to make the corrections. You have to

(01:16:16):
be there to stop the behavior. And you know, the
one dog is not trying to protect the other dog.
That's not why she's barking at the child and getting
all crazy and cranked up. She's just trying to be
she's afraid, and she's probably more likely trying to make
the child afraid and trying to be in charge. You know,
she's acting trying to be the boss, is what it is,

(01:16:36):
and the child doesn't know what to do, so she's
getting her way. And the more they bark, the more
you feed into it, the more you yell stop, stop, stop,
the worse it's always going to be because dogs don't
know you're yelling stop, stop, stop. They just know you're
reacting to it. They actually think you're joining in. They
actually think you're a dog and you're joining in with
the same behavior. They don't know that you want them
to stop barking because you're yelling. And the only way

(01:16:59):
to teach dogs not to do something is to make
firm corrections when they're doing it. And the way you
make a firm correction is either with a jolt of
a leash or where you poke them in the neck
and redirect their energy and their attention, or you just
go hey and you poke them in the neck. You've
got to let them know that no, you can't do this.
This is not what I want. This is not the
behavior I want. And as soon as they stop doing

(01:17:21):
it and they calm down, that's when you praise them
and you say, oh, good dog, So that lets them know, yeah,
he likes this or she likes this behavior, she doesn't
like that behavior. So if you want to teach your
dog not to bark of the child, you actually have
to be there while it's happening. Make the correction instantly,
and that's critical. It's got to happen instantly within a second,

(01:17:42):
or the dog doesn't understand what's wrong, what you're correcting
them for. Does that make any sense to you, Yeah,
do little exercises where you walk your dog across the
street on a leash. As soon as your dog starts
to bark at the child, turn the opposite direction and
walk away quickly. Your dog's going to get jolted in
the neck by the leaf. Don't say anything, just do that.
Then turn around again. Start walking towards the child with

(01:18:05):
your dog on a leash at your side. As soon
as your dog starts to go kookie or you can
see your dog shifting into that kookie state of mind,
turn around and walk the other way very briskly. Your
dog's gonna get a correction, and your dog is gonna
figure out that every time she barks at this child,
she's gonna get a major correction. And that's a real
simple way to teach your dog not to bark. Now,

(01:18:27):
it's gonna take time. You're gonna have to do it
for a long time consistently. Your dog will every now
and then slip back into that bad behavior, so you've
got to be there to make the corrections.

Speaker 3 (01:18:36):
Does that make sense?

Speaker 32 (01:18:37):
Yes, I appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (01:18:39):
Okay, take care of yourself.

Speaker 5 (01:18:41):
We appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (01:18:43):
Okay, there you go.

Speaker 3 (01:18:44):
I hope that hep.

Speaker 2 (01:18:45):
That's all we have time for today. Thanks for joining us.
Remember to check us out. You haven't got more show
on that.

Speaker 5 (01:18:50):
I refuse to leave though, No, I'm not ready, not.

Speaker 10 (01:18:54):
Ready, and you can stay. I'm going.

Speaker 2 (01:18:56):
I'm going home. I'm gonna get out of that beautiful
weather there. I encourage you to download the Animal Radio
app if you will, and you can ask your questions
right from the app or listen to past shows. We'll
see youre right here next week for more Animal Radio
on this fine station.

Speaker 8 (01:19:08):
Bye bye, No, let's let's go home.

Speaker 2 (01:19:12):
He who's this?

Speaker 14 (01:19:14):
It's me?

Speaker 5 (01:19:14):
Hell?

Speaker 2 (01:19:15):
What do you want?

Speaker 14 (01:19:15):
Listen?

Speaker 2 (01:19:16):
I'm really sick and tired of being cloned. Okay, it
was an accident, okay, or something I have no control
over it.

Speaker 6 (01:19:22):
Leave me alone.

Speaker 5 (01:19:36):
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