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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Celebrating the connection with our pets. This is Animal Radio
featuring your dream team veterinarian doctor Debbie White, doc trainer
Alan Cable, rumor Joey Vellani, communicator Joy Turner. And here
are your hosts, Tale Rooms and Judy Francis.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
And on today's show, doctor Marty Becker, vetary correspondent Exttard
and they're talking about saving money on vetinary care without
shortchanging your pet. That's all on today's show. Stacy working
hard in the newsroom. What do you got going on? Girlfriend?

Speaker 3 (00:29):
Well, coming up, a man rescues his dog from a
sinking yacht and then he rescued his wife. We at
least now his wife knows where his priorities are. I'll
give you all the details coming up on Animal Radio News.

Speaker 4 (00:43):
Oh boy, you don't want to know that I caught
this huge, enormous bug outside of my office recently. Really
it was enormous, like I'm talking, it was probably about
a four inch kind of cock croachy, cockroachy beatly thing.

(01:03):
And I pointed it out to someone because I was
carrying Boss at the time, and I said, hey, hey,
can you there's a bug out there? Can there's a
book out there, can you get it? And they were like,
what do you want to do? You want to step
and I said no, catch it in a container please,
and they were like huh.

Speaker 5 (01:17):
I was like, yes, did you did you look it up?

Speaker 6 (01:20):
Do you know what it is? Did you find out
what it was?

Speaker 7 (01:23):
You know what?

Speaker 4 (01:23):
I handed it off to one of my staff members
because she's equally into bugs, and so she I think
she was gonna take it and look at it. I
never did quite find out, but it was enormous and
it wasn't like a typical kind of cockroachy bug, so
very cool.

Speaker 6 (01:38):
I don't know what it was.

Speaker 8 (01:39):
I don't know how you got somebody to actually get
it and put it again.

Speaker 4 (01:42):
She wouldn't she she thought I wanted to be mulled.
And I was like, here, take boss, and I like
handed her boss and I grabbed the container and scooped
him up.

Speaker 9 (01:49):
And just wonder if there's even a single woman on
match dot Com that in her profile it says I'm
into bugs.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
Well, if doctor Debbie was on match dot com, that
would be her thing in bugs and smells got all
kinds of weird smells. Let's go to Terry. Hey, Terry,
how are you doing.

Speaker 10 (02:11):
Oh you want me to lie to you or tell
you the truth? I want both, no one or the other,
no gray area.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
Okay, Well tell us the truth.

Speaker 10 (02:18):
Well, I'm sitting in a traffic jam in Tuscalose, Alabama
right now.

Speaker 2 (02:21):
Oh my gosh, my prayers are going out to you, buddy.

Speaker 11 (02:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (02:24):
I've been in it for over an hour, and Tuscaloosa
is not that big of a town of being a
traffic jam for over an hour?

Speaker 2 (02:29):
Yeah, what are you hauling?

Speaker 11 (02:30):
Uh? What have I got to?

Speaker 12 (02:31):
Oh?

Speaker 10 (02:31):
I got the caps for uh liquid tide?

Speaker 2 (02:34):
Liquid caps for tide.

Speaker 10 (02:36):
Interesting, I guess the plastic plastic judge the liquid tide
goes in.

Speaker 2 (02:40):
You never think about this, You must call all kinds
of weird stuff. Do you travel with a dog?

Speaker 10 (02:45):
No? No, I love my dogs too much to put
him in a truck. I don't believe they belong on
a truck. There are those who carry him, but I
don't have ankle tighters either. I've got big dogs.

Speaker 2 (02:53):
Oh okay, I understand that. So do you have problems
with your dog at home? I got alan cable right here.

Speaker 10 (02:58):
Yeah, I've got them.

Speaker 6 (03:00):
Are you doing, buddy?

Speaker 10 (03:02):
I'm hanging in there, it's been a fiasco and coming
out since the first year. I was on vacation for
two weeks and I didn't get to listen to you guys.

Speaker 6 (03:09):
So what's the problem, buddy?

Speaker 10 (03:11):
Okay, I kind of you kind of started to answer
my question after I called in. You had the lady
calling in with the two poodles. I got two German
shepherds females. I bought his pups. They were paper trained
when I got them, and we continue that at the house,
and after a while we took them off paper. These
dogs are crowding seven eight years old. I'm not sure.
Every now and then one or the other of them

(03:32):
will go in the house at night. They're on a
routine during the day. The wife gets up at six
point thirty seven o'clock in the morning, she goes to work,
dro out you know that time. She comes home at
noon from twelve to one. They're out at that time.
She's back home by five. But sometimes during the night
they will go in the living room and one or
the other them we'll go on the carpet. It's easy
to tell which one did it, because I've got one.

(03:54):
It's stationary pooper and Peter and the other one is
a walk in Peeter and Pooper. So it's so.

Speaker 6 (03:58):
Let me ask you this.

Speaker 9 (04:00):
So I have some questions for you. That spot where
the dog goes, is it the same spot every time?

Speaker 10 (04:06):
Sometimes it's in the same area. But what I have
told her to do is to sprinkle vinegar there because
I hauled livestock for years and I'm like you, I
know you don't clean with ammonia.

Speaker 9 (04:16):
You know, you know what you gotta do, though, buddy,
you got to, okay, a couple of things.

Speaker 6 (04:20):
Do you take their water away? Take their water away
when you go to bed.

Speaker 9 (04:23):
That's that's number one, because some dogs can hold it
all night and some dogs can't. And the first thing
is to make sure always that there's not a veterinary problem,
medical problem, because sometimes dogs pee because they have a
you know, they have a kidney problem or an infection,
just like a person, and they can't tell you. So
the first thing you got to do is make sure
there's nothing medically wrong. And once you eliminate that, take

(04:44):
to take a water away at night, and then confine
them to a space. So get a kiddy gate or
whatever it is if you want to keep them in
the laundry room, or you want to keep them in
the kitchen, confine them to that space. The third thing
is to get yourself an enzyme cleaner. You can get
that at the pet store and clean that area of
the rug real good so that the scent is not there.
Because once a dog goes in a certain spot, you

(05:06):
know he'll continue to go back to that spot to
go because he doesn't realize he went. He just knows
that a dog is there and urine is there, so
he's gonna mark that that spot. But the best thing
to do is to confine the dog to a to
an area so you don't have to worry about the
dog peeing in your house. And if she or he
does go, it's in that confined area. And dogs don't

(05:26):
like to go where they sleep, so they only go
when they have to go. So again, first step, go
to the vet, make sure everything's okay. Second step, take
her water away at night before you go to bed.
That way she won't drink and get her bladder full
and have to have the urge to go. And the
third step is to confine the dogs to a space
so that you have control over where they are.

Speaker 10 (05:46):
It's not a not an easy task because I've got
six dogs in a house.

Speaker 13 (05:51):
Oh my.

Speaker 11 (05:53):
Vehicle.

Speaker 6 (05:54):
Wow, Holy cow, buddy, that's a ken. That's a lot
of dogs you got there, My man?

Speaker 11 (06:00):
WHOA Well, I.

Speaker 10 (06:02):
Do something you don't agree with too. I sleep with
my dogs when I'm home.

Speaker 11 (06:05):
So oh no, I don't.

Speaker 6 (06:06):
I didn't say it.

Speaker 9 (06:07):
See, I don't want people to get the wrong idea
about that, like me and how we always talk about that.
I hate the term expert. I will never tell you
what to do. I just don't do it, that's all.
I just don't do it.

Speaker 2 (06:18):
And my dogs deep I've done it since.

Speaker 10 (06:20):
I've been a kid. I remember having a puff as
a kid, and my mom, you know it, used to
sleep with me too. But anyway, my dogs are rotten.
They probably don't better than most people.

Speaker 9 (06:29):
Whatever works for you, you know, whatever works for you.
But that's the easiest way you can confine those two dogs.

Speaker 6 (06:34):
It's easy.

Speaker 9 (06:35):
You know, people have lots of excuses for why they
can't do things.

Speaker 6 (06:38):
You know, which dog is peeing.

Speaker 9 (06:40):
Can find that dog to the kitchen or to the
lawnery room with a doggie gate, or put the dog
in a crate at night.

Speaker 6 (06:45):
That way you don't have to worry about.

Speaker 9 (06:46):
It, because you can't teach a dog not to pee
in the house if you're not there.

Speaker 6 (06:50):
And that's the that's the biggest problem.

Speaker 10 (06:52):
And see the thing is she didn't get to go
home yesterday at launch and they were locked up for
eight dollars and neither of them to win. I mean,
it's not an ongoing thing, is just periodically every once
in a while thing. You never do it when I'm
home because I let them out more frequent if I
get up in the middle of night to go bathroom myself.

Speaker 9 (07:08):
You know, when you're home, are you home for long
stretches of time, because that's another thing.

Speaker 6 (07:12):
Dogs will start peeing in the house.

Speaker 9 (07:14):
When things change, like if you move, if anything changes,
they get some dogs are sensitive to that. So if
you're home for two weeks and you're gone for two weeks,
you know, the dog might freak out a little bit
because there's nobody in charge, and then they pee in
the house. There's all kinds of little things that can
make it. Dogs start peeing in the house, but it's
easy to stop it. And the easiest way is the

(07:34):
way I told you. Just confine the dog to.

Speaker 10 (07:36):
A space yeah, because I handle them firm. I mean
I'm not relaxed with them. I mean they mind better
than most kids.

Speaker 14 (07:42):
Actually, well, I can.

Speaker 6 (07:44):
Tell Terry you're tough. I'm scared of you. Now. Hey, hey, Terry,
tell me to do something. Man, I want to see
if I react. Tell me to sit now. I'm laying down,
scratching my belly. Scratch.

Speaker 5 (07:58):
Keep those legs closed.

Speaker 2 (08:00):
Think I think Alan just peed on the floor.

Speaker 10 (08:03):
Anyway, yeah, he y.

Speaker 6 (08:07):
Gosh, you have to confine myself.

Speaker 15 (08:08):
Now, how came if something changes in the house, the
dogs pee?

Speaker 6 (08:13):
I mean, what is what is that significant to you?

Speaker 9 (08:15):
Know, Joey, That's a good question. Dogs manifest stress in
different ways. Each dog is different. Every dog has a
unique personality. Some dogs are unfazed by anything, and some
dogs are very sensitive to routine and structure. So that
if you're home every day, or you know, if you
decide to move, you know, you can't prepare your dog.
You can prepare your kids. You can say, hey kids,

(08:35):
we're moving, but your dogs.

Speaker 6 (08:38):
Yes, it's a.

Speaker 15 (08:39):
Stress Okay, that's that's that's what I That's that's what
I was.

Speaker 9 (08:42):
It's an anxiety stress thing. It's an anxious stress thing,
and they they will manifest that. Some dogs will choose,
some dogs will pee, some dogs will start jumping on you. Uh,
they'll start doing something that they didn't previously, do you know,
because they're nervous and stressed out.

Speaker 10 (08:56):
Well, I don't see that a problem with my dogs, because,
like I said, my wife and I a real laid
back and relax and calm, and the dogs are the
same light.

Speaker 9 (09:03):
Well, Terry, you're a joy to talk to. I wish
you many years of happiness, success and love. And you're
obviously a great dog person, So thank you so.

Speaker 6 (09:10):
Much for that.

Speaker 9 (09:11):
Oh yeah, God, I had an argument with a guy
at a bar last night.

Speaker 6 (09:14):
What was that about pit bulls?

Speaker 2 (09:16):
Pit bulls? Okay, I can see you at the bar,
pulling yourself up to the bar and talking pit bull But.

Speaker 6 (09:23):
Then he got all crazy and logical. I mean, it
was ridiculous. People. When people drink, they get nuts.

Speaker 9 (09:27):
It turned into a conversation about, you know, kids should
have to pay to ride their bikes on the street.
And that's that's when I got up and walked out,
because he told me that he paid for all the
sidewalks in America, and I said, well, I'm a taxpayer,
and he goes, no, no, I put those sidewalks in and
I go okay, I gotta go now.

Speaker 6 (09:42):
And on the way out I could hear him going.
It's just like the pit bull thing. That's what it's like.
People and nuts. I'm telling you people, they are, they
really are.

Speaker 2 (09:52):
That's it's all these bars that Here's another story, another
bar story. This comes out of walki Shah, Wisconsin. Is
it Waukesha?

Speaker 6 (10:00):
Waukesha.

Speaker 2 (10:01):
A forty one year old waukeshaw man was charged last
week with allegedly arguing loudly on behalf of one of
the America's lesser known freedoms, the right for a man
to love a goat.

Speaker 8 (10:14):
That's one of the What about the goat?

Speaker 6 (10:18):
Does the goat?

Speaker 11 (10:18):
You know?

Speaker 6 (10:19):
Did he? Does the goat love him back? I mean,
how do we know this? We don't Joyce Joy? Are
you there? Joy?

Speaker 13 (10:26):
Here's the goat.

Speaker 4 (10:27):
I'm just smiling.

Speaker 6 (10:28):
Does the goat love this guy? I need to know this.

Speaker 7 (10:31):
The goat gave man gave me this look like, are
you completely out of your mind?

Speaker 15 (10:39):
The goat said to me, it's not bad.

Speaker 13 (10:43):
Well.

Speaker 2 (10:43):
The story is Sean Keith Orris. He was charged in
June thirteenth with carrying a concealed weapon and disorderly conduct
inside a bar.

Speaker 13 (10:50):
What bar was it?

Speaker 2 (10:51):
Waukeshaw's Montecito Ris Daurante Lounge. And he was asking strangers
outside the bar, do you think it's right to love
a goat? An issue that praps demands attention. After a
half dozen beers or a couple of shots, get this,
he called the police on himself. He called the police,
and he complained that he was battered and bloodied while
he was asking strangers this question. Police came out and

(11:13):
of course arrested him.

Speaker 6 (11:14):
He was pattered and bloody as he asked people this question.

Speaker 2 (11:17):
He's uh. He faces up to a year in prison
and eleven thousand dollars in fines. You know, he says,
after the first altercation with the bartender, he actually went
back home, showered and came back with a five inch
long pocket knife. He went home and showered before he.

Speaker 15 (11:34):
Thought he showed the goat.

Speaker 2 (11:36):
Of course, good for the goat. Of course.

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Speaker 2 (13:17):
Let's go to Julie. Hey, Julie, how are you doing?

Speaker 11 (13:19):
Oh?

Speaker 10 (13:20):
Wow?

Speaker 12 (13:20):
Thanks? How are you too?

Speaker 2 (13:21):
Very fine?

Speaker 4 (13:22):
Great?

Speaker 2 (13:23):
What's going on?

Speaker 12 (13:24):
Have a question for doctor Debbie?

Speaker 4 (13:26):
Okay, alrighty, what you got?

Speaker 18 (13:27):
Okay?

Speaker 12 (13:28):
So I have a male boxer. He is four and
a half years old, and just a little bit of
background on him, he was my stand a ry crypt burkid.
Oh yeah, okay. So when so we took him into
having neutered and they basically opened him up and couldn't
find anything. So whether or not there's something in there

(13:50):
or not, I don't know if this could have anything
to do with his issues today okay today, Actually last
night he ran over to his bed and promptly urinated
on it, which he has never done, and he looked alarmed.
When he went outside, he was dribbling and it took

(14:12):
him a long time. And then just about two weeks ago,
I started noticing that he was he was running across
the room and kind of like crouching down and turning
around and checking out his kind of back end sort of,
and he did that over and over again. So all

(14:32):
of those things are making me wonder what the heck's
going on.

Speaker 4 (14:37):
Oh yeah, now does he have any difficulty going poop? Yep,
that's going on it Okay.

Speaker 12 (14:42):
Appetite's great. Everything is that he's concerned about something and
this urination last night on his bed was so out of.

Speaker 4 (14:50):
A character for him. Okay, oh yeah, well definitely. And
I will say that for those that don't know what
a cryptor it is, it's basically a male dog that
their testicles don't develop and drop into the normal location,
and this grow to them so they kind of hang
out in different areas. So for some dogs, they just
might be in the flank area, kind of in the
groin where they're just kind of sitting there under the skin.

(15:13):
And there's other dogs that the testicle never actually makes
its descent from the abdomen and that's where they actually
start off when they're you know, little fetuses. The testicles
start off in the abdomen and gradually work their way
down to the scrotll area. So for some dogs, it
can be a challenge in finding these suckers. If they're
in the balley. So for me, I have only once

(15:35):
in practice found a mail dog I have not been
able to locate a testicle on, so typically I tend
to be very skeptical that there aren't testicles there. It
may just be more a factor that we just can't
find them or track them down. And the ones where
I've had the biggest challenges are there's a testicle located
in what we call the inguinal ring, so not quite

(15:56):
into the abdomen, not quite into the soft tissues or
the scrotal area, just kind of hangs out in there.
And as the pet gets older, that testicle might develop
some more, but they don't tend to get it quite
as normal or sized as we might expect.

Speaker 5 (16:10):
So for me, I.

Speaker 12 (16:11):
Still have the hormones though, and he's so absolutely, I
mean because he's kind of aggressive with other.

Speaker 4 (16:16):
Male Absolutely, And on that part of the issue, the
crypto orchid. If I have a dog that I'm not
certain maybe they've been neutered elsewhere, or we're having symptoms
and we weren't sure we could find that testicle when
they were younger. There are different types of hormone tests
that we can do, checking their testosterone levels sometimes we'll
do a kind of a challenge test after we give

(16:36):
a hormone and we'll take several samples. But I would
say that would be definitely important. We need to know
if your boy still has some hormones and some testicle somewhere,
because the male hormones testosterone causes some swelling and enlargement
in the prostate gland. So even if he's not breeding,
we still have male hormone effects in those situations, So

(16:58):
we need to check that out. And we can do
a rectal exam, so I can get my little white
glove out and we can check his rectum and see
what that prostate feels like. If it's really really big,
we probably have some male hormones we're going to need
to go look in after So I definitely would recommend
you to see the veterinarian and see if we can
figure out if this boy does have testicles somewhere that

(17:19):
we need to address. But we still have this immediate
problem of him having the difficulty urinating and the obvious discomfort,
so I would get a urine sample. I would certainly
check him, check his prostate and see what we need
to do. So X rays may be in line, getting
a urine sample and deciding if we need to figure
out where his boy parts are if he has them.

Speaker 12 (17:40):
How I guess that that would get to your sample.

Speaker 4 (17:44):
Yes, you certainly can. And that's a great question because
a lot of folks say, ooh, gonna go to the
urine from a dog at home, chase him around or
hur around with a cup, and you can do that,
although in the veterinary setting, we prefer to get that sterily.
In the clinic sid so either we'll try to buy
a catheter or a method called a sister synisis. And

(18:04):
the reason is because you know, we really can't wipe clean.
You know, when you go to the doctors, they say,
wipe yourself clean before you give us that free catch.
Dogs don't do that, and we really don't try to
do that for them before we catch a sample. So yeah,
they'll want to get that that cleans in you can't
the bathroom with a cup where you can, but don Yeah,

(18:25):
there'll be just a lot of other crud in there.
So yeah, we don't want the hair.

Speaker 12 (18:29):
And okay, so I shouldn't bother.

Speaker 18 (18:31):
I should just let the vent do.

Speaker 12 (18:32):
Its catheter ways.

Speaker 4 (18:33):
I sure would. Yeah, and this is something I would definitely.
You know, sometimes we get callers where I'll be like, ah,
you know when you can it sounds like a good idea.
You need to get your baby over to the veterinarian
because this could certainly be a big problem and a concern.

Speaker 12 (18:47):
Can this wait until for two days Monday? Or do
you think this is emergency?

Speaker 4 (18:52):
If he's straight and I'm going to tell you that,
you know, it sounds like he's uncomfortable, And I never
would recommend an obvious pet that's obviously in discomfort to wait.
I think it's really important that you at least ascertain
how severe you're dealing with the problem, and then you
can make your timeline from there from what your veterinarian
tells you.

Speaker 12 (19:10):
All Right, all right, doctor Debbie, thank you so much
for your guide. O.

Speaker 4 (19:13):
Hey, well, good luck with that. I hope everything turns.

Speaker 12 (19:15):
Out okay, thank you.

Speaker 6 (19:18):
Did you ever find that testicle there, Doctor Debbie?

Speaker 4 (19:21):
That one dog know, but I've gotten certainly I think,
more talented at testicular findings.

Speaker 6 (19:30):
Never found that. I had to keep you up a
bunch of nice that had to bug you.

Speaker 4 (19:34):
It does in most cases. There's something there, so you know,
It's just a matter of kind of hunting and finding
the right evidence. There sounds like you're making fun of me,
and you think I don't notice that.

Speaker 9 (19:44):
Doctor Debbie and the lost testicle. It sounds like a
Nancy Drew book right there. Write that for teens.

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There's a song, isn't there? There's a song somewhere in
this crazy well Limberg Field in San Diego's installed what

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could be called the country's first airport pooch potties. Officials
include four fancy pet relief stations. It's all part of
their billion dollar expansion. The seventy five foot square spaces
have fake grass and a fire hydrant a along with
deoda risers, a hand washing station, and complimentary baggies for cleanup.
So if you can't get a stall in the airport,

(22:07):
you can always use one of the there's more, you know,
there's more amenities outside than there probably are inside. The
space compiles with the TSA requirement that airports have pet
relief areas. The only drawback is that travelers who use
him have to leave the terminals and then go through
a second security check to get back in. Well, if
you ever suspected that your husband secretly loves your dog

(22:29):
more than you, it's pretty rare that you get definitive
proof like this. Graham Annley and his wife Cheryl. They're
from South Africa. They were on a sailing trip all
the way to Madagascar, well, just the two of them
and their nine year old Jack Russell terrier Rosie, for
about three months. They were sailing near the coast on
the east side of South Africa. They hit rough water,
their yacht capsize, and as Graham swam to shore, he

(22:51):
decided to get the dog before he got his wife.
Well after he got Rosy safely on dry land, then
he swam back to get his wife, a rescue helicopter
picked him up. All three ended up okay, although the
boat was ruined. Graham hasn't said why he grabbed Rosie
before his wife, although we're probably thinking it's because terriers
aren't great swimmers and his wife probably was much better.

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But still, you know she's gonna hold this over him forever.
I'm Stacy Cohen. Get more animal breaking news at animal
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The quick Reads got a lot of tips about behavior
identifying medical problems and what you need to prepare force.

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We link to it from animal radio dot com. Come
and we're going to Darlene.

Speaker 13 (24:02):
Hi.

Speaker 2 (24:03):
Darlene Hi, How are you doing today? Where are you?
I'm actually in Buckey, Arizona, Bucka, Arizona. And do you travel?
Are you traveling right now?

Speaker 14 (24:13):
Yeah?

Speaker 12 (24:13):
I'm a truck driver.

Speaker 2 (24:14):
Okay, do you have your dog with you?

Speaker 11 (24:16):
Yes?

Speaker 7 (24:16):
I do?

Speaker 2 (24:17):
How is your dog? I have the doctor here. I
hope everything's okay.

Speaker 12 (24:20):
Yeah, it's just about thirteen halfs. He just put diagnosed
about two months ago, was second stage charge and these
they put him on temoral half a pill every day,
which made him look like he's swallowed a basketball. So
I cut down to a quarter of a pill every day,
and since I've found these herbs online, I've cut down

(24:42):
to a quarter pill every other day. So we're working
on that weight issue to try to make him a
little more comfortable. The herbs I got to give him
need to be like in a wet food, So I'm
trying to transition him from a dry food to a
dog to a wet food. And he's been on the
same food as whole life, so I'm really nervous about
changing the food, but I wanted to know like the

(25:04):
best wet food. Imagine he's probably going to ban these
for the rest.

Speaker 10 (25:07):
Of his life.

Speaker 4 (25:08):
Well, I'm a little confused, honestly, because temoral pee is
actually a steroid, right, and that it's not typically part
of how we treat heart to see, so what reason
what does he put on that?

Speaker 12 (25:21):
The cost the wet cough for coughing?

Speaker 4 (25:23):
Okay, so more of a bronchitis type thing then, okay,
And that is a typical problem we can see when
a patient's on long term steroids, is that we can
get some weight gain and increased appetite associated with that,
which can be a vicious cycle because the fatter you get,
the harder it is to breathe, and the more you cost.
So that is a real big challenge there, and depending
on I don't know all the details of his you know,

(25:45):
bronchitis and his coughing problem, but there's also some other
things that we can look at doing for a pet
with a chronic cough. If it's not heart related and
we're not looking at using diuretics or vasodilators because of
congestive heart failure, then we might be looking at things
like a broncho dilator or a cough suppressed and see
if we can avoid the steroids and definitely order to
minimize him as much as possible, because that could definitely

(26:06):
could be a vicious cycle there.

Speaker 12 (26:07):
These herbs are really good, and I just wanted to
take him off the semeral all together.

Speaker 18 (26:11):
To get rid of the steroids.

Speaker 12 (26:13):
And I just wanted I didn't know what kind of
dogs is because like I said, he's always been on
dry dogs and I wanted to and these have to
go in a wet well.

Speaker 4 (26:20):
You know, that's a very difficult thing to say what
is the best canned dog food out there or best
wet dog food out there? And I think you have
to look at what is most palatable and look at
his overall health conditions. Say, if he's having weight issues
and we're gaining weight, we do need to watch the
calorie counts, and sometimes we can very easily overestimate the
amount of food that a pet might need. And if

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they're already weight prone and we're trying to watch that weight,
it's very easy sometimes. So you have to be a
bit cautious. Now, if you're afraid of actually switching over
to a canned food. I have some clients that because
of food allergies or just a very fussy pet, we
can use the same dry food and you can add
how make it mushy, you can pulverize it, you can

(27:03):
do some different things within the same based diet. If
that's something that we don't want to rock the boat,
so that's a possibility. I don't know a whole lot
about Chinese herbs, I will be honest, so I don't
know if they have to be in a canned food
form or if you're talking just in a moist food structure.
That to me, I don't understand that. I don't know that.
I can't tell you that, but I will tell you. You know,

(27:24):
there's some other great foods out there. We do have
one through animal radio called Stella in Showies, which it
comes in a dry form, but you can actually hydrate it,
and that might be one thing you can look at
as well. Okay, well, interesting, sounds like you've got a
lot of different things going on there. And thirteen and
a half years old, that is awesome. I have to
commend you.

Speaker 11 (27:43):
I have a pair.

Speaker 14 (27:44):
I have a pair.

Speaker 12 (27:45):
They're thirteen and a half and I've had them since
five weeks old, and they've been on the same down
food and they've been exercised regularly with this one has
thorough X rays and everything and there, Like I said,
they're in really good shape. Other than this, can you
tell me what life expects?

Speaker 11 (27:59):
Well, see, you.

Speaker 4 (28:01):
Know what, I was actually going to share that with you,
because the oldest dog that I've ever treated in my
veterinary practice was a twenty four year old miniature poodle
and it was the oldest dog. And I swear to goodness,
I actually said, come on, now, you must have adopted
this dog. You don't know when this dog, but it
really was. And it wasn't up until the very last

(28:22):
couple of years of that dog's life that we started
to have some proms. I did a dental cleaning on
the dog when he was twenty. So it just goes
to tell you, you know, age isn't always a number
that we have to be fearful of. It's really the
whole health itself.

Speaker 12 (28:35):
I started to get a little nervous when we hit
thirteen marks, so that makes it still better.

Speaker 4 (28:40):
Yeah, But vigilance pays off, so you know, stay on
top of things, preventive Caures. Great, so best wishes, what said, Darlene,
and your baby's there.

Speaker 2 (28:47):
Let's go to Sandy. Hey, Sandy, how you doing?

Speaker 21 (28:50):
Oh Hi, I'm doing?

Speaker 2 (28:51):
Okay, what's going on? I have Joy right here for you.

Speaker 21 (28:54):
Yes, I am a kiddy and she's she'll be seventeen
on the twentieth of August. And she's had a few problems,
and she has curry and myopae which has her hard
mom at stage three, and she's on the edge of
kidney disease, and but she hasn't had the cat to

(29:15):
have the sub continuous fluid yet we're still having Keess
understicker view and a Vietnin and she's she's gone through
the doctor said that she had gone through some blindness
and she's always had bad hearing. And I would just
like to ask Joy to talk to her and and
I'd like to know how how she feels that she's

(29:36):
doing and if she's aware of this, and I want
to know how much I love her.

Speaker 7 (29:41):
Okay, I'd be happy to do that for you, Sandy,
And tell me what your kiddy's name is.

Speaker 21 (29:45):
Her name is Danny.

Speaker 7 (29:46):
Okay, okay, Oh Annie feels like really really gentle little kitty.
She also wants you to understand that she does know
things you're going on with her body, but it's not
a huge deal for her. She's in some discomfort. It's
a little bit disconcerting sometimes for her, the way her
body does things, but it's not anything monumental that she's

(30:09):
really unhappy or upset about. She knows that you are
upset by it, but she's not. She's just much more
accepting that her body is doing things and there's not
really anything she can do about it. So she would
like it if you would be not so upset. She
thinks that would be very nice if you could just
be kind of accepting if things are just the way

(30:31):
they are and there's not really a whole lot to
do about it. She doesn't feel like she's in a
lot of pain or any of that stuff. She's just
sort of like many animals will do. She's making the
best out of the situation exactly the way it is,
and she wants you to know she so completely knows
how much you love her. She totally understands you. Every
time you say anything like that to her.

Speaker 21 (30:53):
That's sure comforting, you know. If she bothered by herds,
is this I don't understand how how much her blindness is.
She seems to see light and see movement.

Speaker 7 (31:08):
She says she does see more or less. She can
tell she sees enough that she knows where she is,
so that isn't again a huge issue to her, although
she also wants you to know that they see a
little bit differently than just with their eyes, and what
she's trying to explain to you is they also see
things energetically, so they see energy shapes and energy forms,

(31:30):
which also helps her know where she is and helps
her understand what's going on around her. And she says
the not seeing as well as she had that was
one of those things that was very disconcerting to her
at first, but she thinks she's getting used to it now,
so she thinks she'll be Okay.

Speaker 21 (31:47):
What's the way it is light for her at night?
Over night?

Speaker 7 (31:50):
It is good for her. She does appreciate that.

Speaker 2 (31:53):
Okay, okay, okay, thank you for your call today.

Speaker 22 (32:01):
I would love to go on vacation, but I don't
want to leave our Charlie behind.

Speaker 2 (32:05):
I agree.

Speaker 23 (32:06):
I heard that the magazine Fido Friendly lists places where
you can stay with your pet. They also offer reviews
so you have an idea about pet policy to include
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Speaker 19 (32:17):
That's dare I say, awesome, what are we waiting for?

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Charlie agrees, when do we leave?

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Speaker 13 (32:45):
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Speaker 2 (32:47):
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Fame?

Speaker 12 (32:53):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (32:54):
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My grandma?

Speaker 18 (33:00):
Why was she saying? I don't know?

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Speaker 18 (33:12):
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Speaker 4 (33:16):
Positive for what kind of worms?

Speaker 12 (33:20):
Was that?

Speaker 4 (33:22):
Hookworms? Okay?

Speaker 18 (33:24):
Yeah? And on it took one go from and I'll
get another one in two weeks. In between, I was
wondering what I can do in the meantime and then
clean up after them right away going on outside.

Speaker 4 (33:46):
Mm hmm, yeah, Well, with hookworms, it's definitely a parasite
that can infect dogs and cats, So certainly if they're
in the same environment, that would be a concern, and
for dog, they will be passing those eggs in the stool.
So the biggest area we really need to focus on
as far as for decontamination is going to be prompt

(34:08):
pickup of the feces on a daily basis or several
times a day. There's a certain there's different life stages
that the hookworm parasite will go through until it becomes
effective in a larval stage, so kind of a microscopic
worm stage, and that worm stage is where it can
be infected to pets and even people. So you want

(34:31):
to make sure we don't allow the stool to stay
around for long periods of time so we don't get
into that situation. And if you're cleaning solid surfaces like
tile flooring, we can use the lot bleach as a
way to help disinfect the area and to kind of
help dry out things as well, but it's hard to
you know, how to kill cookworms on grass or vegetation.

(34:54):
That's going to be a little challenging unless you're going
to add something else in there. So as far as
for people, I do recommend, if we have hookworms in
the environment, not to be walking around barefooted, because that's
one way that people can acquire these. If they go
to beaches or they're out walking around in parks and
a dog comes along and poops and has hookworms, those

(35:15):
eggs will develop into larvae and you can actually acquire
them that way and get a type of a dermatitis
from that. So it would be wise to have your
kitty checked as well, and wouldn't hurt to do a
regular deworming protocol as well.

Speaker 18 (35:28):
For that, I don't give them another pill for another
two weeks. Anything else I can do in the meantime
give them anything that might I don't know.

Speaker 4 (35:39):
Anything else that will help them clear the infection. So well,
the frequency for hookworms, we do need to stick to
that two week deworming cycle. And the biggest problem is
because hookworms do have this ability to hide in the body.
So what happens is when those eggs develop when they
acquire those in their intestine. They go through a larval

(35:59):
stage inside the pet's body, in the tissues of the body.
So even though we might kill those parasites that are
in the gut, those little larvae are actually swimming around
in the pet's tissues, so they hang out in the
tissues until later. And that's why we have to do
these regular dewarmings every two weeks. So I don't see
any reason to give any other medications other than that

(36:20):
every two week timing. Beyond that, you know, I do
have sometimes where I'll advocate doing probiotics if I have
pets that have parasites that are hard to kick. That's
just something that's good because the gut is one of
the major immune organs in the body, so probiotics can
help the general immune system, so that wouldn't be a
bad idea. But outside of that, I don't really I

(36:42):
don't really think there's going to be anything else that
we're going to be able to do to really help
them clear these faster, other than being really diligent and
make sure we're not repopulating with more parasites in the environment.

Speaker 18 (36:53):
Clean plain claim and wait.

Speaker 4 (36:58):
Clean be diligent with your timing of your parasite treatments.
Consider a probiotic and then stay faithful with those regular
stool checks to make sure we're staying cleared of this.
Some folks, we will once we get through hookworms. One
interesting strategy is many heartworm preventatives can actually be used
to help prevent those reoccurrences. So Interceptor is one that

(37:21):
if I have hard to clear hookworms, we may put
the pet on that on a once a month as
their choice for our heartworm preventative, which also helps to
keep those hookworms from coming back. So you can check
into that too.

Speaker 18 (37:33):
Probatics I get them from the desk I get from
that help we're going to get.

Speaker 4 (37:39):
I'm I'm a fan of working with your veteran veterinarian
for probiotic selection. There are several good ones that that
we study within the veterinarian world, so you might want
to check with your veterinarian. Not to say you can't
use some from a human pet store, but you know,
I prefer to stay with those lines and those cultures
that are looked at within the pet world. So there's

(38:00):
Sun by Iams Purina. There's oodles of from a mount there.

Speaker 2 (38:04):
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Speaker 3 (38:21):
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this would be so fun. I could get such a
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Speaker 2 (38:43):
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Speaker 6 (38:49):
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Speaker 2 (38:52):
I just want to have more tomatoes throwing at me.

Speaker 6 (38:54):
Kyle's horny.

Speaker 5 (38:55):
I guess so, I said, your sizzling hot that.

Speaker 2 (38:59):
Makes me horny?

Speaker 6 (39:00):
Well, you got sex on the vibe.

Speaker 2 (39:02):
Come on, I mean every weekend we're we're here in
this studio with this hot woman, and you can't mention it.
Is that what you're saying. I know you're thinking it.

Speaker 9 (39:12):
I'm just starting to I'm just trying to start trouble.
That's all I live for.

Speaker 4 (39:15):
That you're both troublemakers. That's all I have to say. Yeah,
I'm offended and violated that you're making sexual comments, and
then I'm offended that you're not.

Speaker 6 (39:27):
That should be a Saturday Night live bit right there.

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Speaker 2 (40:57):
Per little Kitty here in studio today. I it might
have been something in the donuts, maybe a little too
much sugar.

Speaker 13 (41:04):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (41:04):
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Speaker 15 (41:06):
Well?

Speaker 3 (41:06):
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who was traveling with his pet turtle actually tried to
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coming up on Animal Radio News.

Speaker 2 (41:21):
I stick around us for that.

Speaker 9 (41:22):
Yeah, well, I just got a wonder you know what
thought process went into that.

Speaker 6 (41:25):
I mean, when he's thinking up his disguise.

Speaker 2 (41:28):
You know, we welcome back doctor Marty Becker, veterinary correspondent
here on Animal Radio and I have a big question
for you, and I hope I don't go off track
of what you want to talk about today, Doc, But
there's a lot of new technologies that are available for
our pets in the veterinary world. It's more than there
were ten or fifteen years ago. I can't afford this

(41:48):
stuff anymore. Is there a way to do all the
procedures that need to be done without second in the bank?

Speaker 13 (41:54):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (41:54):
Sure? Changing my pet really.

Speaker 25 (41:55):
Well, you might be surprised to know that I have
pet insurance for my own pets, really, which is really
shocking to people. But if you have, and you know,
I would be considered upper income America's veterinarian, why would
I have pet insurance? And the reason is, let's say
you do a kidney transplant for a cat. You're looking
at thirty thousand dollars. Really, you're looking at holy moly. Yeah,

(42:18):
and people you know, they have a waiting list at
PEN to do transplants and some of these things you
can get into for you know, complicated withopedic surgeries and stuff.
You can be up in the ten and fifteen thousand
dollar range for you know, if you go down to
the Animal Cancer Center down in Colorado State to the
veterinary school, you could easily have something that's ten or
twenty thousand dollars.

Speaker 13 (42:39):
But let's go a real world here.

Speaker 25 (42:41):
I just had a discussion with somebody a couple of
days ago that had an older dog that was arthritich.

Speaker 13 (42:48):
It's twelve year old golden.

Speaker 25 (42:49):
And I went through the whole list of stuff she
was using, just supplements, and I had to tell her
they're not going to do any harm. But the clinical
studies show that glucosamine and chondrot and sulfate just don't work.

Speaker 13 (43:00):
There's many veninarians that believe they work.

Speaker 25 (43:02):
There's many pedalers that's where they work, but the studies
don't show that they work. So I went through a
list of stuff she could do, and she could start
out with, you know, one of these nonstroidal anti inflammatory
drugs like rimadale, add some trama doll there's an adequine,
you know what the use for racehorses, which is a
supplement that gets he gets into the joint itself. And
then we talked about going to class four laser therapy

(43:24):
all the way down to stem cell therapy. And you
have to make you have to make a judgment thinking, Okay,
I know better than anybody else my relationship with them, Pat,
I also know what my financial situation is. And I
hate to see people go off the deep end when
they're chasing a cure that's not going to happen. This
is a twelve year old dog and it's near the

(43:45):
last chapter probably or second to the last chapter of
its life. Do you really want to go out and
go into debt and spend five thousand dollars for stem
cell therapy? And you know what, if you're the type
of person who that's your child, that's your family member,
go for it. Nobody's going to criticize somebody for taking
to vacation or buying a new car or something like that.
So you know, I always look at people only they

(44:07):
know what their relationship was like with their pet and
what they're willing to invest in it and win.

Speaker 2 (44:11):
But is the insurance company going to spend that kind
of money, Aren't they going to opt for the most
inexpensive route.

Speaker 13 (44:16):
No, they'll cover it.

Speaker 25 (44:17):
They'll cover Yeah, if you go, if you go to specialists,
they'll cover that. That artificial hip joint, they'll cover that. Chemotherapy,
all the way. And I'm going to tell you it's
always buy or beware too some of these. You know,
it's kind of like casualty insurance. It's not like human
health insurance. It's more like what you'd have on your
home or your car. But there's many variables on how

(44:39):
they pay and what pay schedule they pay.

Speaker 13 (44:41):
So just do your homework.

Speaker 25 (44:43):
Go on the websites that compare pet insurance, and I
will tell you I had one that was a clear
choice for me, But I'd want people to beware that
they're not all the same.

Speaker 2 (44:52):
What difference is subtle differences are there.

Speaker 25 (44:55):
Mainly as one is how fast they pay and what
they pay. You know, I want one that's that's liberal.
It might cost a little more, but it's not going
to be any house. When it comes time to pay,
they're going to pay very quickly, and they're going to
pay the full amount less of deductible. That's the main thing.
Some of these they're a lower rate. You think, well,
that seems like a better deal, but they just don't
pay as much.

Speaker 13 (45:14):
And because really what you're looking for.

Speaker 25 (45:16):
You have this pet that's a family member, and when
it comes time when that pet is really sick or injured,
you want to be able to return a portion of
what it gave you. And that's when you want to
be able to say, thank gosh, I got pet insurance
because you know whatever, do whatever you want to recommend, doc.
And it's really great pleasure to be able to say,
let's do it, versus thinking, oh gosh, I can't afford it,
or you know, kind I put on this credit card

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or kind of borrow from this person.

Speaker 13 (45:39):
When you can just say, let's do it, that's a
great feeling.

Speaker 2 (45:42):
Alan do you have pet insurance?

Speaker 6 (45:44):
No?

Speaker 9 (45:44):
I do not have pet insurance for the reasons that,
let me ask you this, aren't there limits to doctor Becker?
I mean like caps on what they'll give you yearly
or even for life.

Speaker 25 (45:54):
There are some that have caps, yes, and there's some
that preclude pre existing conditions. So that's why I think
there's two or three out there that I could recommend.
I don't want to recommend it on air necessarily, but
I think there was a survey recently about seven percent
of veterinarians had pet insurance on their own pets, which
might be shocking people.

Speaker 2 (46:12):
Wow, can you give.

Speaker 9 (46:13):
Us an idea of what the monthly rate is, like, like,
what do you pay a month?

Speaker 25 (46:17):
Well, we have four dogs, so it's about one hundred
bucks a month. And you know what I look at
I consider it just like that car insurance payment. You know,
I WinCE every time I pay the darn thing, or
you know that comes twice a year or once a
year the homeowners comes, and you think, oh gosh, it's
a lot. But you know what, I look at it
just like any other thing that I am willing to
pay that per month to and that when something happens

(46:38):
that I can say yes. And also that this pet
can get the expertise of going to a veninary school
or a specialty hospital. And and you know, I saw
something the other day that is somewhere in California there
was some case where somebody didn't do a ten thousand
dollars procedure. So somebody said they were abusing their pet
because they couldn't do it. Well, that's just nonsense. I mean,
not everybody has the resources.

Speaker 13 (46:58):
To do things.

Speaker 25 (46:59):
If you want to give your pet everything you can,
I kind of calling it, you know, saving money without
short changing your pets. Keep your pet added near its
ideal body weight. That is, like this person yesterday. If
this old golden retriever hadn't weighed one hundred and twenty
three pounds, it wouldn't.

Speaker 13 (47:15):
Have the super joint demage it has.

Speaker 25 (47:17):
And then also bathe these pets weekly. We were talking today.
My daughter has two pugs and since she has been
religious about bathing her pets weekly, not a.

Speaker 13 (47:26):
Single skin problem.

Speaker 25 (47:27):
Where before us it was constantly staff infections and yeast
infections and fungal infections, and they were chewing themselves up.
So bathe your pets weekly, and then make sure you
stay on a parasite control product year round. We were
just over at the Oregon coast. Here's all these poral
pets that come from northern Idaho and places where there's
no fleas, and they go over there and these I

(47:48):
can see these fleas in the sand going it's a virgin,
it's a They just pile drive this thing and it's like,
oh God, where do I buy?

Speaker 8 (47:56):
Oh?

Speaker 13 (47:56):
Got nowhere to itch?

Speaker 25 (47:58):
You know, So make sure year round parasite control products
because that just doesn't protect the pet, but the human
family member.

Speaker 13 (48:05):
And then daily oral care.

Speaker 25 (48:07):
You're not going to brush your pets teeth in less
than one tenth of one percent DOE. But find something
that is clinically proven to reduce plaque and tartar. And
you know I mentioned this before. Greenies are clinically proven
to reduce plaq and tartar. They have the veterinariy oral
healthcare steal of approval. They're just expensive and they go fast.

(48:27):
There's a product called cet Hextra Choose that's made by
a company called Verbach, and they have this patented way
to bind chlorhexadine to rawhide and a dog will work
and chew and chew and chew and chew, so it
has this prolonged contact with the teeth. If you were
to give one of those even three days a week,
you'll probably delay into the pets senior years the first

(48:47):
time you have to have your pets teeth clean.

Speaker 9 (48:49):
Doctor Becker, could you you know when we get can
we put all this on the website? I mean even
the insurance that you recommend. And I was going to
ask you, what is a good yearly parasite control product?

Speaker 6 (48:59):
What is a good product? You know?

Speaker 25 (49:00):
This is one of the things I like people to
do to ask their veterinarian. Ask their veterinarian, what do
you use on your own pets? That tells you a lot.
And I I tell people to ask them what kind
of food you feed, what kind of parasite control product
you use? I happen to use a product called Revolution,
which is a Zoetis product. You used to be called
Pfizer Animal Health. Now it's called Zoetis. But there's there's

(49:22):
several goods out there. Advantics is a very good one,
a Revolution is a good one. UH frontline. Plus. You
want you want stuff that not only kills uh fleas
and ticks, but also repels mosquitos, because you want to
if a mosquito bites that carries heartroom disease, and even
a single mosquito bite this is this is you know
a little bit exaggerated, just a little bit, but a

(49:44):
single mosquito bite can cause heartwroom and kill your dog.
So if they repel before they bite, they don't have
a chance to transmit disease. And it's the same thing
for ticks. If ticks can't bite, they can't transmit the disease.
So you want something that not only kills, but has
a repellency. Fact, so this pet kind of has this
invisible hedge protection or bubble that follows it around.

Speaker 4 (50:04):
Yeah, preventative.

Speaker 2 (50:05):
Yeah, you don't want these bugs to even take one
little bite of your animal.

Speaker 25 (50:09):
And you know there's some new oral products out too,
trifecus and conford Us for people that what it does,
they swallow, but then the product ends up just under
the skin, so it doesn't stay throughout their tissue. It
migrates from inside out and ends up just on the tissue.
And for people who have pets that bathe quite a bit,
or if they have children or other pets around, it's
some people think that's a safer way, but just talk

(50:30):
to your local veterinary and ask them what they're using,
Explain your pets lifestyle, and you know, when it comes
down to saving money too, there's lots of places you
can buy prescriptions online, and what I would ask you
to do, ask your venor, and if it's one that
your budget is stretched, ask your venor and if they
can do any better about the price, and most veterinarians
will match the online prices. And the good thing about

(50:51):
that is all those things end up in your pets
medical record. And when it's Saturday evening about eight o'clock
and you want to call your pets veterinary, you want
a relationship where you've been in there before, where they
know you, and not that they wouldn't take the call.
But I'm telling you there's just like in any business,
there's a hierarchy. And we wrote a little section in

(51:11):
Your Dog the Owner's Mental and Your Cat the Owner's
Manual about how do you become a veterinarian's favorite client.
And one of the things you do is you listen
to recommendations, you refer other people, you're on time for appointments,
and also you bring cookies or don't bring it out
of the holidays, bring it in this time of year,

(51:32):
in the afternoon on a busy day.

Speaker 2 (51:34):
Doctor Marty Becker, veterinary correspondent, Extraordinary.

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at a mother cat named Satin who adopted a six
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The puppy, now named Charlie, nurses right next to a
litter of black and gray kittens. The kittens snuggle up
to him like he's one of them. Charlie's dog mom
was found on the side of the road. She gave
birth to two puppies. One was still born, and she
rejected the other. A local vet explained that it wasn't
that unusual for cats and dogs to bond in those situations.

(52:20):
Rottweilers usually grow to be around one hundred pounds, so
as Charlie grows, volunteers are hoping that dog owners will
volunteer their puppies to be Charlie's playmates. But for now,
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Speaker 13 (53:17):
Here's Howl and Judy.

Speaker 11 (53:19):
Hey Jeff, how are you doing just fine?

Speaker 2 (53:22):
Where are you calling from?

Speaker 11 (53:24):
I live in Boneville, Georgia.

Speaker 2 (53:26):
Boneville?

Speaker 13 (53:27):
Is that really the name?

Speaker 2 (53:28):
Boneville?

Speaker 15 (53:28):
Yeah?

Speaker 11 (53:29):
Yeah, I found out a couple of weeks ago our
hotel burn down there. It hasn't been inhabited since the
nineteen thirties. Totally found out it was. They built it
in eighteen forty five. Whoa some guys named Bones came
there in nineteen eighteen forty and built a mill below
the I built a gam and made a mill pond
and made a mill and it became a boom in place.

Speaker 2 (53:52):
That's the name Boneville.

Speaker 11 (53:53):
Yeah, because his name was John Bones. Feel ns and
beautiful slept two. About five years ago we had a postop.

Speaker 2 (54:00):
Well, I'm going to dedicate today's show to Boneville, if
that's okay with everybody? Okay, Bones and Bones, doctor Debbie,
and I believe this call might be for you from Boneville.

Speaker 4 (54:09):
Okay, so what do you got going on?

Speaker 11 (54:11):
I got these really handsome shoalas. I got a male.
He looks just like the Beverly Hills male in that movie.
He's handsome, he's got all the markings and he's pedigree.
And I got a female. I brought in a puppy
and she's grown now and I can't get them to
the meat. Well, she gets very violent. She has mood

(54:35):
swings like I've never seen otherwise, she's you know what,
she gets her moods. Things are so bad. I actually
rewrote a Disney song about her.

Speaker 13 (54:50):
Oh yeah, can we hear?

Speaker 11 (54:51):
In fact, I just added to it. Well, don't you
want to know what I want to do to the
dog to make her meat? First of all, I either
want to do both of them.

Speaker 2 (55:00):
Well either either either way? Yeah, I'm game.

Speaker 11 (55:03):
Okay, what do you want to know? You want to
know what my plan is to make us happen? Yes,
they want to hear me?

Speaker 4 (55:10):
Tell me what your your plan or what you think
the solution to this problem is.

Speaker 11 (55:15):
Okay, he's been humping on stuff like toys and all
that and just not ejaculating, not you know exte getting interaction.
But he humps on this stuff. And he has this
one pillow that he humps on all the time. We
call it this woman, And I was thinking about ripping
it open and wrapping it around her and taking some
baby uh diaper pins and wrapping it around her. Maybe

(55:38):
that might do two things that might make him more
attractive to her, and it might keep her from turning
around and trying to bite them.

Speaker 4 (55:45):
Well, you know that it isn't a foreign concept, and
actually do this with collection of semen for large animals,
large breed animals. They do have kind of like a
fake horse that they will collect from and the animal
will mount that. So it's a possibility, yeah, kind of
like a true So the concept is there. Now. The

(56:09):
thing that I will tell you is that there are situations,
especially when dogs are they grow up in the same
household that the female may never accept and she will
never stand for a breeding, even if she's going through estris,
and even if she is certainly horny as craziness. Part
of that is because of doggy dominance, and there are

(56:29):
some females that just do not accept. I guess the
stature that the male in that household is worthy of
meeting with her. She may be more dominant aggressive. There
may be other things going on with that fella that
may not allow him to do the deed. So there
could be a lot going on here that we may

(56:51):
not really quite understand. So I generally, if we have
two dogs in the same household, the things aren't going well.
I don't get my hopes too much because in many cases,
for established breeders, they will actually take the female to
the male's household and allow the female to breed. In
that situation, it kind of, you know, it's kind of
like gone his own turf, you know, you're less nervous,

(57:12):
all that kind of stuff. So you can't do that
because your dogs are in the same household. Maybe we
can send him to Kimpton Hotels for a nice little
gimaway or somethings like that we can consider.

Speaker 11 (57:23):
Yes, I might have to do that because you know,
I want I want a son named Bam Bam. His
name is bam By. Her name is Feline like to
Dear from Disney. Yeah, yeah, I want, I want, I
want to. I want to, I want him to move on.
I want I want another generation.

Speaker 4 (57:40):
Sure, Well, you know, Jeff, I got to tell you,
I understand the motivation to want to have one of
his own. But here in Las Vegas, fifty almost, I'm
not quite fifty percent, but half of the shelter is
truly made up of a predominance of chihuahuas and pitbulls.
And we have no shortage of chihuahuas in this world.

(58:02):
So as much as he may be beautiful, you can
go to just about any shelter and find a beautiful
young male and save a life. And I would really
advocate that you consider that.

Speaker 11 (58:13):
I've seen a lot of them, but they're all neutered
in spade. But then again, you know, we're probably gonna
end up getting him nutered before too long, because this
is gonna be too wild. He got whippers of wine
and sheep growls and yeah.

Speaker 2 (58:25):
Can I hear the song? I'd like to hear the song.

Speaker 11 (58:28):
Yeah, okay, here it goes, Here goes Kralla Lean. She
can be mean, Corala for Lean. She's kiny and lean.
She's got teeth and she knows how.

Speaker 20 (58:41):
To use them.

Speaker 11 (58:42):
Watch your fingers, you might lose them, Corrella fa Leen,
you never seen a sneaky, conniving, biting machine, she warns
you in there's time to go out. She's growling at
you from underneath the couch. I ended it there with Corella, Corella.

(59:03):
I have more verses to go, but that's when I
got so far.

Speaker 2 (59:06):
Wow.

Speaker 11 (59:06):
Wow, that's good. Got a lot of time, so you know,
I can make up stuff like this.

Speaker 2 (59:14):
Yeah, you're you're very talented. I might say America's got
talent worthy.

Speaker 4 (59:18):
Maybe he's starting a new segment on animal Radio. You know,
maybe we need to have a you know, musical component.

Speaker 2 (59:25):
Yes, I like this.

Speaker 6 (59:26):
That's a good idea.

Speaker 11 (59:27):
Rock and roll songs, Disney songs and add them to
your dogs personality. What may I just say? If it
doesn't happen this time, how I just get him fixed
and cat to go hunt a number one Doug because
those those dogs are suffering. It's hard to break away
from a Chila once you ever had one.

Speaker 2 (59:48):
Yeah, once you go to Chia, it's hard to go
back to anything else. Really, Jeff, thank you so much
for your call today. You know what you've cheered me
up is what you've got too.

Speaker 11 (59:59):
I hope I goods y'all. Well, I got to run
another versus or tool of sweat that's not bad for
untiring the wheel.

Speaker 2 (01:00:06):
Yeah, if you write anymore, let me know, give us
a call, let us know about it.

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All right, we appreciate.

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Well, there you go.

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This is an animal radio news update.

Speaker 3 (01:01:27):
I'm Stacey Cohen for Animal Radio. Well, it turns out
even chimpanzees have a hard time turning down junk food.
More proof that they're just like humans. According to the
Belfast Telegraph, officials at England's tyre Cross Zoo were able
to lure a group of wandering chimps out of a
secure service area in the morning using ice cream and
fizzy drinks. Zookeepers say the public was never in danger

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during the incident, but safety procedures forced them to close
the zoo down anyway. However, less than a couple hours later,
the chimps were back in their normal enclosure. The zoo
statement says the animals are all fine, although they were
a little hopped up after having some ice cream and
soda for breakfast. A Chinese man's going to be traveling
without his pet turtle after supposedly trying to trick the
airport's security into thinking the reptile was a Kentucky fried

(01:02:13):
chicken sandwich tastes like chicken, According to the South China
Morning Posts. The man was going through security in the
morning when the X ray operator noticed an odd protrusion
sticking out of the sandwich in his bag.

Speaker 4 (01:02:26):
Good thing he didn't have it in his pants.

Speaker 3 (01:02:28):
The security team eventually uncovered the turtle and lectured the
owner on why he wasn't allowed to smuggle his four
legged front on the plane. He explained, I was only
trying to bring my beloved turtle along for the trip,
you know those photo ops. Ultimately, though, the guy agreed
to keep the little friend at home while he was away.
Animal rights advocates are fearing that the Clark County Commission

(01:02:48):
is going to be making a change in their horse
roping rules that's going to actually hurt horses. Stacy and
Newman with Nevada Political Action for Horses says tripping horses
is very dangerous.

Speaker 4 (01:02:59):
Is it's brutal, It's bloody.

Speaker 7 (01:03:02):
When these horses go down head first, they can snap
their necks, they can break their legs.

Speaker 4 (01:03:06):
Often they just die.

Speaker 3 (01:03:08):
Newman fought to get the legislature to ban horse tripping
in activity where someone tries to throw a rope around
a horse's hind legs and then make them fall. State
lawmakers made horse tripping illegal. It's also illegal in Clark County. However,
County commissioners may change their Horse Roping Ordinance to reduce
restrictions on activities involving horses and ropes. Newman says any

(01:03:30):
activity involving a rope and a horse is risky, and
she's asking commissioners to ban several upcoming events with horse attractions.
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources have said that they've
been getting threats after the death of a baby deer
named Giggles. The deer was killed last month after a
raid at a Kenosha County animal shelter. The DNR said

(01:03:52):
the white tailed deer was being kept illegally and that
the shelter had failed to comply with its requests and
it left them no other choice.

Speaker 4 (01:04:00):
Hmm.

Speaker 3 (01:04:01):
Many people don't agree that there was no other choice.
The story sparked national outrage and even a Facebook page
called Justice for Giggles. I'm Stacy Cohen. Get more animal
breaking news at animal radio dot com.

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Hi Mike, how you doing?

Speaker 14 (01:04:43):
I'm doing fantastic. How about yourself?

Speaker 2 (01:04:45):
Oh splitting Adams? Where are you calling from today?

Speaker 14 (01:04:49):
Calling from New Mexico?

Speaker 2 (01:04:51):
What's going on with you?

Speaker 14 (01:04:52):
Well, I'll drive a truck, and you know, I see
all these shread drivers out here with dogs on the
road with them, and I was wanting to get your guys,
maybe possible better educated opinions about what you guys think
about that. Is it good for the dog to be
in the truck and on the road is it not?
And if it is, what's the best breed do you
guys think for the for the truck?

Speaker 9 (01:05:14):
That's a good question, Mike, Mike, do you why do
you want a dog? Is it because you're a dog
lover or because you see all the other guys doing
it you want to do it too?

Speaker 14 (01:05:22):
No, No, I've grown up around dogs on my life.
I love them. You know, my mom she owns a
grooming shop in New Mexico, has for fifteen years, you know,
just been raised around dogs all my life and just
you know, I'm out here on my own and just
be kind of cool to have a buddy with me.

Speaker 13 (01:05:37):
I guess absolutely.

Speaker 9 (01:05:39):
Now, do you want a puppy or do you want
to get a dog that's already an adult?

Speaker 14 (01:05:44):
Well, again, you know, I'm not sure. I mean I've
always you know, my family, when we've gotten a dog,
it's always been from a puppy. That way, they grow
up and you train them and they're they're with you,
and I'm just that's just kind of how we've always
done it. So, I mean, the puppy would be great,
but I guess it'd be really hard to man. The
hard to house break and going down the road, you
can't properly do that. I would think driving all.

Speaker 6 (01:06:06):
The time, actually you can as long as you got
the time.

Speaker 9 (01:06:09):
I mean, the best part about having a dog with
you when you're in the truck is, you know, dogs
are pack animals. You're the pack leader, and the dog
always gets to be with the pack leader, which is
awesome for the dog. And I'm surprised more truckers don't
have dogs. That's exciting for a dog, and it's exciting
for you too. And the only thing you have to
worry about is that with a puppy. You got to
stop every two three hours to let a puppy go

(01:06:30):
to the bathroom because they have to go frequently.

Speaker 5 (01:06:32):
But once the dog grows up, you don't have to
do that.

Speaker 9 (01:06:35):
Now, if you can pull over every two three hours
and take the dog for a potty break, it's gonna
be real easy to potty train that dog, very simple.
He'll never have a chance to need to go without
you already addressing the issue, so he will get trained
very quickly to understand that you're gonna stop every couple
hours and let him go to the bathroom. As far
as a calm dog, a dog that can sit still

(01:06:56):
for a long period of time, you know, believe it
or not, greyhounds are awesome dogs. They're very cool and mellow.
They don't need a lot of exercise. Basket hounds are
like that. But if you want a dog that's like
a lab, or you want a bigger dog, or any dog,
the trick is to observe the puppies. If you can
find somebody who's got a litter of puppies and just
watch them, you're gonna see which ones are rambunctious and

(01:07:18):
goofy and crazy and energetic. And there's always a couple
that like to lay around a lot, and believe it
or not, when they get older, that pretty much transfers.

Speaker 5 (01:07:25):
They don't change.

Speaker 9 (01:07:27):
If a dog is mellow as a puppy, he's gonna
be mellow as an adult. And if he's a crazy lunatic,
I want to play lots of energy dog when he
gets bigger, he's gonna be the same up until he's
about four or five years old, and then I'll start
to mellow out a little bit. So it's all in
the observation of you finding puppies and watching them for
a couple of hours, and you'll be able to see
which ones are mellowed out.

Speaker 14 (01:07:48):
I had an old English full dog on the truck
with me years and years ago, and I just, you know,
I let her go because it didn't I wasn't really
sure if you know, she was happy or not. But
I will say, as far as mellow and relaxed, that
was the dog to have, because she didn't want to
do much other than just lay around on the bed
or in the seat or on the floor.

Speaker 9 (01:08:07):
Why weren't you sure she was happy? She was probably
ecstatically happy just being around you, buddy, well.

Speaker 14 (01:08:14):
I was a lot younger at the time too, and
I probably had no business back then having a dog
with me. I didn't have the time or the maturity
for it. But you know, I'm thirty two years old now.
That was probably almost ten years ago, and I'm just
we'll think about a little bit and think I could
handle it better.

Speaker 9 (01:08:31):
Yeah, you have more wisdom in your calmer, But think
about this before you go.

Speaker 5 (01:08:35):
A lot of people buy dogs. They go to work
all day.

Speaker 9 (01:08:37):
The dog is left alone nine ten hours a day,
locked up in an apartment, which is fairer you having
the dog in your cab, making stops every now and
then playing with the dog. You know, you got to
play with your dog at least a half hour a day.
But the dog is going to be with you around people,
seeing all kinds of different things, experiencing different smells. But
most of all, you're together as a pack, and that's

(01:08:58):
what dogs crave.

Speaker 5 (01:09:00):
If a dog had his way, you would never leave.

Speaker 9 (01:09:02):
They live in families and packs, and the packs are
always together.

Speaker 14 (01:09:06):
Sure, Now, one quick question before I let you go.
Your best advice. Now, one thing I'm gonna have grown
up around my folks who've had dogs, o their lives.
But as far as the track goes, maybe it's a
little different. What is your best suggestion on say the
dog does have an accident. I mean, I know some
people use newspapers, some people run the dog's face and

(01:09:27):
I think that's in the humanis all get out because
I wouldn't want my face rubbed in anything like that.
But do you have a suggestion or a recommendation as
to how to handle an accident.

Speaker 9 (01:09:37):
Or yes, if the accident is happening right in front
of your eyes, you make a quick correction. And a
correction is just a strong word like no, and give
the dog a little poke, or if the dog is
a puppy, say no. And if you can, if you're
pulled over, pick the dog up and put them outside immediately.

Speaker 5 (01:09:53):
But the trick is if the dog.

Speaker 9 (01:09:55):
If a dog has gone and had an accident, if
more than thirty seconds goes by, forget it it. Just
clean it up, make believe it never happened, because the
dog doesn't even remember that he or she did it.
And the other thing is to praise your dog. Whenever
your dog goes to the bathroom outside, say good dog,
good dog. And when you catch your dog going to
the bathroom inside you go bad dog, No, no, and

(01:10:17):
they learn real quick. But but your dog's not going
to have an accident, except if it's a puppy and
maybe at night if you're sleeping, if you forget.

Speaker 6 (01:10:26):
But when a.

Speaker 9 (01:10:27):
Dog is a puppy, if you take the dog out
every three four hours, by the time the dog is five, six,
seven months old, that dog is going to be potty trained.
You're not gonna have to worry about accidents. And the
other thing to remember is if your dog is house
trained and your dog does have an accident or starts
having accidents, take your dog.

Speaker 5 (01:10:44):
To the vet immediately.

Speaker 9 (01:10:45):
Make sure there's not a medical problem, because that that
happens sometimes.

Speaker 14 (01:10:49):
Well, terrific, Thank you so much for taking my call.
And that was incredible advice.

Speaker 2 (01:10:55):
And you're awesome.

Speaker 14 (01:10:56):
How much you guys said. I think I'll go ahead
and look into it.

Speaker 2 (01:11:00):
I think you should do it.

Speaker 5 (01:11:02):
Hey, Mike, what are you hauling before you go? What
are you hauling?

Speaker 11 (01:11:06):
Oh?

Speaker 14 (01:11:06):
We haul everything right now. I've got beef and I'm
headed to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and we all furniture and alcohol,
beery and just whatever fits in my trailer.

Speaker 9 (01:11:18):
Hey, if you come out this way, can we load
my mother in law and your truck in the middle
of the night.

Speaker 5 (01:11:22):
That sure would help me out.

Speaker 14 (01:11:26):
Anything, buddy, anything?

Speaker 17 (01:11:28):
Fix?

Speaker 2 (01:11:28):
Sure, he called Mike. We appreciate it. I didn't know.
I think most truckers have dogs. It seems like a
lot of them do. I mean we hear from them
all morning long. If you don't, you know why not?
I mean you're on the road all day long. Little company,
they get to get out see the world.

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Speaker 13 (01:12:48):
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Speaker 2 (01:12:49):
Baby, does we all vow for the Godfather, ladies and gentlemen,
the Godfather? See I called the Godfather. I meant to
call him the dog Father.

Speaker 6 (01:12:56):
You can call them the godfather too.

Speaker 2 (01:12:58):
Sorry, either way, work, you don't works?

Speaker 6 (01:13:00):
You know, where's his music? What happened to his music?

Speaker 17 (01:13:03):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:13:04):
I know, I kind of missed the old music.

Speaker 15 (01:13:06):
Yeah wait, maybe we should go back to the old music.
You know, me too, because that's not the real sopranos.
And you guys got some kind of like cheap Sopranos
theme there.

Speaker 2 (01:13:13):
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cut great.

Speaker 15 (01:13:19):
So you know, we always talk about skin and coat
and everything, and all hygiene has to do with beauty
and grooming. So I want to talk about teeth a
little bit today because a lot of people with their
pets teeth, they seem to neglect the teeth. I'm gonna
say a good percentage of the dog more than fifty percent.
I don't know exactly what it is, but more than
fifty percent of the pets that come in have some

(01:13:41):
sort of tooth problems or decay after probably the age
of like five or six years old, where you start
to see the tartar build up and you're gonna notice
it because of course your pet's breath is definitely going
to come out and sting you. Okay, when you when
when your pet goes to kissues, so you'll know right
away when you smell it. But there's a couple of

(01:14:03):
things I want to say. Number One, if you're grooming,
is doing if your groomer is doing cleaning, and I'm
not talking about like using enzymatic drops or something like that,
but I'm talking about tooth scaling, run run real fast
and don't turn around. Okay, that's something the veterinarian should
be doing. Your pet groomers should not be doing that,
and in most states is even banned from anyone but

(01:14:25):
a veterinarian to do it. Basically, what you want to
do is, if the decay is heavy, go to your veterinarian,
have it scrape. Okay, have any extractions that need to
be done.

Speaker 6 (01:14:37):
And you know what I mean.

Speaker 15 (01:14:38):
I know a lot of people as soon as they
hear extractions, they get nervous. But that's you know, if
it's that bad and needs to come out, it's really
just poisoning your dog system because what that's doing is
that bacteria is in the mouth and it's making your
pet unhealthy and sick and not feeling all that well.
So get that out and we start overclean. Now, one
thing you have to remember, people get dentistries with their

(01:14:59):
pets and then they don't do do anything. And a
dog that has any type of peridontal disease, it's gonna
come back very very quickly. Within four to six months,
they could be at the point almost where they were
when they were cleaned at first. So there's stuff that
you have to do at home. You can go to
the veterinarian and they sell chlorohexadine wipes okay, which you'll
keep the teeth the teeth clean. Otherwise you can go

(01:15:21):
to your local most your pet superstares will sell them
and like enzymaticum, tooth cleaning gels, sprays, toothbrushes, and a
lot of people don't like to brush their dog's teeth
because you know, the dogs don't let them. But the
additives that you put in water or the spray of
the gel is very very easy. All you have to
do is get in your pet's mouth. They'll swish it

(01:15:42):
around themselves, so just get it in there. And they
work really, really well, and some pets they'll even take
their teeth from real dirty to very clean in a
few months. But my suggestion would still be go to
your vetinarian, have them cleaned, and then your groomer can
can can do the maintenance on it and make sure
that you know that that the teeth is staying clean

(01:16:02):
with an end does amatic cleaner, and they have all
different types, not only just the Deli one, but they
have ones that are a little bit strong and any
professional can use and keep you guys on track. But
it's really important, you know. I mean, it's like going
out with a girl that has great hair and skin
and then she smiles and she's missing teeth and they're
brown and she has bad breath.

Speaker 2 (01:16:21):
We got Ladybug to brush your teeth. The only problem
was getting her to spit afterwards is always hard.

Speaker 14 (01:16:28):
You know what.

Speaker 8 (01:16:28):
I wonder if it's like you know, sometimes you don't
really know when you personally have bad breath, if it's
on you, And I wonder if my dog, Ladybug.

Speaker 4 (01:16:36):
She doesn't have bad breath, and.

Speaker 8 (01:16:38):
I wonder it's just because I'm so close to her,
and I don't smell it.

Speaker 15 (01:16:41):
You know, No, you'll smell it.

Speaker 4 (01:16:43):
You'll believe me. Her breath is really good.

Speaker 15 (01:16:45):
Ladybug's teeth are in good shape.

Speaker 2 (01:16:48):
They are, Yeah, they are bad.

Speaker 14 (01:16:50):
I know.

Speaker 8 (01:16:50):
I walk a lot of dogs in the neighborhood, and
I run into a lot of stray dogs and I've
been down to pet them and they come up to
me and it's like, oh, my gosh.

Speaker 9 (01:16:57):
Do you think there's a correlation between wet food as
opposed to kibble and and that kind of thing?

Speaker 15 (01:17:03):
You know what's so funny. Dot Gum Halligan actually was
just talking to me about this, and about a year ago,
there was a study that she went to and they
are showing that there is absolutely, positively no signs that
dry dog food will keep your pet's teeth any cleaner
than canned food. Okay, so the old the old thinking

(01:17:25):
that you know that the dry dog food is going to,
you know, help scrape away the tartar and all. What
she's saying is this saying that that's are now saying
that is not true. The studies that have been being
done now are showing that there isn't any difference. And
they said it's hereditary. Either dogs have nice clean teeth
or they don't. And you know, I mean dogs that
that you don't have have a genetic problem with their

(01:17:46):
teeth and gums.

Speaker 6 (01:17:47):
It's gonna happen no matter what.

Speaker 8 (01:17:48):
And it's also more prevalent on smaller dogs because of
the space between their teeth and their depth into their
jawbone is a lot different than big dogs.

Speaker 6 (01:17:56):
Professor Joey, I have another question. My hand is up
my hand.

Speaker 9 (01:18:00):
What about those products that they sell, you know, that
supposedly clean your dog's teeth those choose Do those do
any good?

Speaker 6 (01:18:06):
You know? To choose themselves.

Speaker 15 (01:18:07):
I'm gonna be very honest with you, I because if
I said, if I said they don't, do they do,
I'd be lying I don't know. But I have used
the gels, I've used the sprays, I have used the
water additives and all of them. I've had some sort
of decent results with as long as you keep up
with it. And that's the biggest problem is keeping up
with it. You got to make sure that you know
you're doing it. Every single day, and that was that

(01:18:29):
was my problem. We weren't, but when we were, we
noticed a big difference.

Speaker 8 (01:18:34):
You know, I think chewbones make a big difference too,
because Lady Buggy, they're not raw hide. I won't give
her raw hide, but she has these compressed shoebones that
she choose on, and just the fact that she's gnawing
on them is keeping her teeth clean.

Speaker 6 (01:18:45):
Yeah, that's what I thought. Yeah, that's what I That's
what I was getting at. That's that's that was my
point right there.

Speaker 8 (01:18:50):
Yes, they do help.

Speaker 2 (01:18:51):
Did you got to start with clean teeth? You can't
expect any of these additives to clean messy teeth.

Speaker 6 (01:18:56):
Professor Joey, Yes, yes, sir, what about coffee animals?

Speaker 15 (01:19:00):
Go ahead, Alan, if you want to try it, you
can let me let me know. You could do the study.

Speaker 13 (01:19:03):
How's that.

Speaker 2 (01:19:04):
I'm going to pass, but I'll take that jelly donut
over there if no one's going to happen. That's all
we have time for today. Thanks for joining us. Be
sure to download the Animal Radio app for iPhone and Android.
It's a free download, and visit us over at animal
radio dot com. Check out doctor Debbie's books, especially if
you have a Shitsu or a uh Yorkie or a
Pug Schauser. It's like an owner's manual for your dogs,

(01:19:28):
all written by our very illustrious doctor Debbie Here. We'll
see you next week for more Animal Radio right here
on this fine station.

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