July 31, 2024 • 40 mins
In this episode of In The Vet’s Office, Bobby Bones joins Dr. Josie and her co-host Shannon Ella as they dive into the Case of the Week – a burly, tattooed man that came into the vet clinic with a very small dog that had music playing…from its stomach! Instead of taking calls this episode, Bobby asks Dr. Josie his questions including asking about the worst bite she’s ever gotten in practice. Spoiler alert – it was from a camel! Bobby and Dr. Josie talk about the money pit that is bulldog ownership (we still love you, Stanley!) and why they have so many health problems. Bobby recalls his childhood dog getting sent to live on a ‘farm’ after biting someone and only learning very recently what really happened to the dog. Bobby also shares about his special bond with his dog Dusty that passed away several years ago after battling cancer. Dr. Josie and Shannon wrap up the episode with PAW & ORDER, the segment where Dr. Josie details things she’d never do with her own pets. This week she stresses the dangers of giving your pets over the counter allergy medications with the “D” ingredient aka decongestant which is life threatening.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Your finger is gonna really stink. Don't smell your finger. Yeah,
you're listening to in the Vets Office with Doctor Josie Horshak.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Hi.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Everyone, welcome to in the Vets Office. I am your host,
Doctor Josie, and as always I am joined with the
lovely miss Shannon Ella. Hello. Hello, And this week is
a big week because we have a really special guest
joining us for today's episode. You may know him as
being the king of country music radio. I know him
as one of my favorite people and my friend. Today
(00:41):
we have mister Bobby Bones in the Vets Office.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Am I supposed to talk? Yeah? I am. I know
if I was like a, he'll be joining us.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
No, we're having you like the whole first half of
this episode. Oh, hi, Hello, here he is.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Yeah, she has her dog here, and that's what she said,
don't smell your finger, just for everybody out there. Yeah.
So she also Josie said, bring Stanley, and I said,
I definitely wouldn't mind bringing Stanley. But I've done things
with Stanley before and it's bad audio because all you
hear is the whole time snorting. Right. He would have
(01:14):
loved to have come. He would have thought it had
been awesome, but he just would have lost interest, which
is okay, bulldogs do that. But he snores so loud,
even not sleeping. He like awakes snores, so he would
have loved to have been here. But this is an
audio and a video show and it would have been
bad for business.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
So but thanks for having me. I'll let you guys
do your things.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Bull Dogs are just not the best when it comes
to any sort of microphone. My friend Gie I brought
in with me, like when I first started radio to
a morning show and they were like, bring.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Your pet to work, and I was like, oh, okay, great.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
And I had to like hide her in the corner
because the whole morning show is just her snorting.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Yeah. Yeah, I can't guarantee Biggie won't start snoring during this,
but so far, so good. He did try and bite
Bobby once. Already.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
I was about to say, here's the thing with Biggie,
we're now It's like when you get in a fight
with somebody when you first meet him, but then your
best friends after I respect, I was some with his
ear and big. He tried to buy me and I
didn't move. I left my finger right there and I said, well,
then buy it in big dog, you want to go,
let's go. And then he was like no, no, like
my hand. Yeah, so now we're buds.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Yeah, it's two legends coming together.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
How old?
Speaker 1 (02:11):
But he's he's a russ Us. We don't know, probably
seven if I had to guess, looks like he's fourteen.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
But I have a question about dog age. And I
know this isn't me interviewing you, but I'll get back
to it. So what do we do? What do you
guys do first? I don't want to get out of
the way. So you're gonna do something without me first,
or something with me.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
You're gonna join us for this?
Speaker 3 (02:28):
You're good? Yeah, it's all you.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
These are always on editing this, guys.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
No, there's no editing. This is what's beautiful about it.
If this is mayhem, I just need to know because
I tend to take control.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Right, I'm going to lead this and then I'll let
you know when you can ask question.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
That's all I need.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Got it, my pleasure? Okay. So how we typically start
this podcast is we like to go dialve into a
case of the week and we're always interesting, Yeah, talk
about what goes on behind the closed doors and the
trenches of the vet clinic. And for this particular case
of the week, I had an owner come in. He
is probably like, I don't know, two fifty tat it up.
(03:05):
He's like the rock mixed with vin Diesel. And he
brings his little Boston terrier in.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Hilarious, Big guys, the small dog's hilarious.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
I love it. And the little Boston terrier has been
throwing up. We take an X ray tale as old
as time. There's something in there. I go into the
owner and I say, you know, I think he's eating
an air pod, but I don't know for sure. I
never know for sure until I go in and take
it out. But I'm highly suspicious this is what it is.
And he doesn't say anything, and he looks down on
his phone and come to find out, he's pulling up Spotify,
(03:33):
and all of a sudden, I hear, do, oh my god, yeah,
put your ear up to it.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Do you have to put the other the other AirPod
next to it?
Speaker 1 (03:45):
It works?
Speaker 3 (03:46):
It was that's gray.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Fuck dumps the bluetooth. We have Miley Cyrus bumping through
his intestines.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
That's the funniest story I've ever heard about a dogmazing.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Yeah, And so anyways, go in take it out. The
air pod still works. This is not an Apple ad people,
but those things are dirty. This is like the Stanley
hud for like the on fire thing. Exactly. You gotta
go get some arapods.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
You don't have to cut you're going through like throat.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
No, this one was in his intestine, so we had
to do surgery.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
And are you kind of guessing? I know you see
the X ray, but how do you know the precise
spot to go or you know the area and then
you just find it within the area.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
You know you got to go into the abdomen no
matter what. So then once you're in there, you use
your hands to go all the way through the GI
track to figure out where it is.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
I can't believe it played music. That's played music and
so swallows it won't.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Pass and a big dog it might pass. In this
little guy, no way, I would have been painful.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Stanley had swallowed us squeak, and he was feeling terrible.
I remember we called you at like midnight. We're like
the bulldog's dying. But I heard him we open and
that's the only reason we knew he had swallowed a squeak.
Then we found a toy where it was gone, and
he felt terrible, would be like and so I went
and sat with him for like six hours, and they
said it's in him right, And I remember sending you
(04:59):
the x rays and they were like they they had to.
They went into his throat first and they couldn't get
it out to scope it out. Yeah, they were like,
sometimes we can. We can find it that way because
it was the emergency room. It is emergency clinic. And
I made friends at night too, because all of us
are there with the same trauma, like our dogs are.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Oh, you're trauma bonded, Yeah, for sure, And.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
So they were like, we have to keep them overnight
because we have to go in and get it. Stanley's
had multiple like double figure surgeries, and they freaking got
the squeaker out.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
So they opened him up.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
They had I think they went to throw in his buttthole.
Can you go on both ways?
Speaker 1 (05:32):
I suppose you could. Typically we just go through the throat.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
He went. It's hilarious but awful, and he wasn't gonna die,
so that was good. But that the fact that it
played music with bluetooth, I mean it still had charge
in it.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
I know, I'm telling you.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Of that product with like horses, and a lot of
people were saying that it was like a scam and
that there's no way because I saw him like two
days ago.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Absolutely, I am scared to tell you. I wish I
would have. I didn't. I was so taken aback and like,
for sure a least if this guy's going to play music,
it's going to be like run DMC like some and
it was Miley Cyrus. I'm like the whole situation too.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Yes, I didn't appreciate that much of it. I just
couldn't believe it played inside, just the.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Whole situation.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
In the door. It was amazing Stanley want in his
bowl just way stomach plays music.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Let's not do that.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
How funny would that be? Okay, sorry, go ahead.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
It was amazing that he looked up at me dead
pan and goes, well, I now know it's an AirPod,
And I was like, okay, that is a great diagnostic tool.
How long you know it was missing?
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Is the dog out? When you have to go get it?
You have to cut it two weeks?
Speaker 1 (06:33):
How long is a dog like a cone? Two weeks postop?
But like out under in a season. It's like a
two hour procedure.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Yeah, I guess I'm not there for that part, but
the cone I'm there for.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Yeah, that's the worst con.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
And I know each other very well. Sometimes I just
want to wear the cone just so he can experience
how annoying it is when someone has the cone on.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
I run into him a few times with the cone
on it, Like, just sucks getting stuck indoors a story.
That's a good story.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Yeah, great case of the week. And Shannon, you want
to lead us into our next part.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Yeah, so this one we're going to do a little
differently this week because there's the three of us here.
So normally this is the point in the show where
we get some questions from some of our listeners and
we're gonna actually hand the controls over to you, Bobby,
and see if you have any questions.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Over a couple because out of Boston Terrier or when
I was a kid and it's my first dog that
was mine like that I loved and it slept on
my chest every night, and I remember it wasn't aggressive generally,
but it was that Bossy was so a rat. It
was just everywhere all the time that every once in
(07:35):
a while it would bite something, and every great once
in a while on that side of every once in
a while it was a human. Wasn't trying to buite
human that it would just bite random things, and sometimes
it be a human, right, And so what it happened
was and like bit the mailman or something like ninth
bite of the day was a human the mailman. So
(07:55):
I love the dog and I had bites on my
chest because the dog would sleep on my chest and
it would have nightmares and wake up and go bite me.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
What was his name, Bradley, Bradley, Bradley the Boston.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Loved again, loved him, just had a whole therapy session
about why I love dogs so much. It's because I
couldn't connect with humans. So I found a safety in dogs.
And Bradley would bite me. I have stop scars. But
he but the mailman and the mailmaiin was gonna press charges.
Now my stepdad had to we don't want to get sued.
(08:30):
But he had a friend that he worked with that
had a bunch of dogs on his property, big farm,
so he took an and let Bradley live over there.
And now I was I just didn't want to see Bradley.
Wouldn't let me go see Bradley because I wn'd be sad.
I told my wife the story, say by the boy
wasn't terrier. I loved him so much. My stepdad put
him out and he went to a farm with the
guy that. She was like, you never saw him, You
never went to the farm and saw No. No, this
(08:52):
is too sad for me. She goes, I don't think
that the farm was real. And I said, what this
is like a year ago? No? I said, what do
you mean the arms not real? I started to get
mad at her. She goes, I think because it bit somebody.
Bradley's now was not alive. After that, my mind's blown.
I'm like, there's no way. So I called Arkansas Keith,
(09:13):
my step former step bed. Oh no, I get him
on the phone through the speaker and I go, hey, man, Bradley,
I didn't lead him to it, So what happened? He goes, Oh,
it bit the mailman. I shot him. Oh Bradly, Oh no,
I went.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
What.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Now?
Speaker 1 (09:30):
And this is why you're in therapy in Arkansas? Oh?
Speaker 3 (09:33):
He didn't pay money for a vet if an animal? Yeah,
it sucked. That sucks to have it happen, but that's
what you do in the country. Yeah, And I was like, well,
he didn't go to some guy's farm, he goes You
believed that. And my wife is trying so hard not
to laugh hysterically because she knows I'm dealing with trauma
of my door just now being told at forty my
dog's dead from twenty five years ago. And also how
(09:56):
stupid I wasn't there really was a farmer although animals
went to.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Play, right, we all believe that at some point.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Not at some point. I don't two years ago. Yeah, yeah,
and so I was like, what, but I remember he
would just bite. So my question after telling that story,
because it made me think about the biting part, do
you get bit randomly? And what's the kind of dog
that you know it doesn't have to be an aggressive dog.
Is there a type of dog that kind of bites
the most because they're just nuts.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
I don't want to stereotype dogs, but there are some
When we see the breed coming in, we're like, oh,
we should be extra careful. I have a German shepherd,
but German shepherd's up there, Rottweilers are up there.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Is that because they're bigger, so they're bite This is
always in my theory about big dogs. Yea, we think
they bite more because but when they do bite, it
lasts longer and it's more hard.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Exactly, It's not that they bite more until comes in.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
I'm like, you're a mosquito that the ain't making the
news if it bites somebody.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Exactly, German shepherd is gonna rip your face off. So
it's a little bit different.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
You think it's they don't bite more, but when they
do bite, it's more of a situation because of how
severe it could be.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Yeah, I'd say that's probably right for sure. And I
mean also they're bread to protect, so they kind of
have that like stereotype of being a little bit more aggressive,
which may or may not be true. So yeah, I
think they've just gotten labeled that.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Way out of pit bulls. A great dog I ever had,
only if you listened to this, but you just have
too many surgeries. We're still getting there. But I had
him for thirteen years.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
He's going to jump into him.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
He was the Yeah, he was the best dog ever.
And people would like be scared for a second, Yeah
you got a pit bull? Yeah, And then you're.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Just then it was over the biggest baby.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
So do you get bitten? What's the worst you've been bitten?
Speaker 1 (11:28):
I've only ever been bit on the job twice. The
first time was by a camel in bet.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
School, a camel, like an actual.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
An actual camel.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
We were taking care of it and it reached around
and it bit my shoulder. And every bite I've ever
seen in my entire life, you guys, does not compare
to this camel bite. You have scars. It took a
big old chunk of skin out and it hurts funny
so bad. Is that normal for in vet school that
you're dealing with camel?
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Yeah, they have camel.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Yeah, you kind of deal with anything that comes. And
this is the University of Cairo. Uh no, this is
at a highest state university and they have camel. Yeah,
like farmers would have a random camel, or like we
took care of a lot of deer, like random things.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Did you worry about with deer? Did you worry about
like lime disease? Yeah, because since you were.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Around really absolutely that.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
Would be scared because just living in the country or
now just being in the wood, you worry about it.
Just as existing with a tick.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
But if you're with deer, yeah, they are the host.
They carry those ticks around and those are the ticks
that spread lime disease. So definitely top three.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Bites Number one a camel, number one.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
A cammebl was expecting that. I've only ever been bit
one other time, and it was a dog waking up
from anesthesia. I'm in that school again, so still a rookie.
This dog's waking up, he's got his breathing tube in
and he looks at me, like wakes up out of nowhere.
I look at him, and he goes and bites down
on his tube.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
I did that during my colosk, the same thing, except
the tubes.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Hope, oh man, this is why I love you. And
so he spits out the one half and heals the other,
the other piece of tubes going down into his tree. Yeah,
And so I being the dummy, I'm like, I'm going
to save his life, and I stick my whole hand
in his mouth to grab the tube, and he just
goes and bit down on my entire hand because he
(13:11):
was probably scared that yeah, so afraid and like waking
up from anesthesia and it's just their natural reaction.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Yeah, I find and you're educated on this. I just
lived around different animals and living in the woods, even
with snakes, and I'll tell folks that don't know wild
animals at all, and animals really only going to attack
or buy you if he's hurt, he's scared, or he's hungry,
per that's it. It's not like these animals wolves are
walking around going I'm bored. I show would like to
(13:39):
attack a human. Yeah, they don't have anything to do
with us.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
No, ninety nine percent of the time, it's fear. Yeah,
they're scared and they're trying to defend themselves hornered.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Or yeah, if they're or they're injured, and the fear
then comes from I'm now trapped, maybe incapacitated or trapped
and I've got to protect my Yeah. And so they
can't believe, like on the radio show, that snakes aren't
just evil, and I'm like, no, no, no, I love
they're not evil, lot of good for the world. Yeah,
but you only hear the bad stories because a snake
will feel threatened and that's why or hungry, and that's
(14:06):
why I will attack. But I can't believe you've only
been bet.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Twice, only twice. The only other thing that's happened to
me is I had a cat jump across the room.
I'm talking to the owner. He's all the way on
the other side of the room. The exam table's out.
He leaps onto the exam table, looks me in the eyes,
and goes and then slaps me across the face.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Would claws out.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
He was declased, Oh, thank goodness, well god, I would
that thrasher mark across my face.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
Okay, one other question I get, I have two is
that okay, I brought to sure. The second question is
what's the weirdest animal that's been brought in other than
the camel? Well, that was at school. You were you
were given to the camel more than the camel was
given to you. But like if professional work is it's
someone ever bring in like a bullfrog as a pet or.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
They'll usually call me beforehand. I'm like, listen, if it's
a reptile or bird, like I got to send you elsewhere.
But we'll do like a chinchilla or what a sugar glider.
I've done a sugar bider. It's like a little monkey
bat type thing like zebras and stuff. Because of your horse. No,
I haven't done suprahs. I did a tiger in fat school.
I got a dental, got a tooth.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Was that cool?
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Super cool and terrifizing and terrifying.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
They're just so you just like you ever done a dragon?
Speaker 1 (15:12):
They're so big? Oh my god, dragons and unicorns favorite?
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Okay, cool? Those are the questions I had. I know
I'm not the usually have questions from listeners, but I
just am fascinated with and I get irritated to people
who classify dogs it's the same as humans, right. We go, well,
you're this kind of person, you're this race, you're this ethnicity,
you're this dog, you're the short this is about you exactly.
Same thing with dog and big dogs or dogs that
(15:39):
like my pit bull that I had, or a German shepherd.
They go, well, I've just seen the headlines of these
certain stories, and I feel like every dog is and
it's just not true.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
It's not true, and it's starge. It's kind of prejudiced.
To be honest, this little Chuahua is more likely to
bite you than a bag. He's a Chiuala mix, long hair,
he's from the streets. We're not really sure.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
I felt that's why it likes me.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
No, yea, yea yeah. Big dog's a big dog.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
All right.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Well, we're going to take a short little break and
hear from some of our sponsors, and then we will
be back in the.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Vet's office with our special guests, Bobby Bums. All right, Bobby.
So it's no secret you're a dog, Oliver. You talk
about them all the time on your show. You do
a lot of work with wags and walks here in Nashville.
You've written a whole children's book about Stanley. Did your
(16:27):
love of dogs? I know you talked a little bit
about Bradley, but that this come like straight out of
the womb? Is this something that you developed being around Bradley?
Speaker 3 (16:34):
Like, that's a good question. There were dogs around, but
I don't think we ever lived in a place long
enough to actually have a dog, because we moved around
a lot when I was a kid. I don't know
where my affection for us for dogs came from, except
for I think it was just the first thing that
I felt safety and having an attachment with where it
wouldn't leave me unless I neglected it, meaning left the
(16:56):
door open, didn't So I love that freaking dog. I
love Bradley so much. They slept with on the couch
with me every night on my chest until they went
to the farm. And when I moved to Austin because
I lived in Arket, so I moved to Austin and
there was a puppy meal that was raided and so
they had all these pit bull type dogs, small pit bull, right,
(17:17):
and so I did the story and one got one
from the puppy mill. I was talking about on the air.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
Is this Dusty?
Speaker 3 (17:23):
It is?
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Okay? So I was going to say, I filmed this
podcast in the iHeart Studio. I work with a lot
of your coworkers, and I keep hearing this name and
I never got the pleasure of meeting him. So tell
me about Dusty.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Uh he died not on a farm.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Okay, Yeah, I love that.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Yeah he was. I was twenty two or twenty three again,
and we were doing a story on the show in
Texas about a puppy mill and they had like thirty
dogs and I didn't have a dog, and I was
I was like, I like, I have a dog, and
so I just went and got one of the dogs
and that was it. Came to the studio. I sent
somebody from the show to go pick him up and
came right to the studio and for thirteen years, like
(17:59):
everywhere I went that a dog was allowed, he went, yeah.
And you know, I was never in a serious relationship.
I lived in a place where I didn't have any
family there. But you know, the dog was the consistency
in my life, and they sleep in the bed with me.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
I mean, I would argue that those I think there's
a lot of people out there that can relate in
your twenties, your young twenties, that dog that you find
that like kind of grows up with you like that
bond is kind of undescribable.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
Loved him and it was I would practice this will
maybe feel seem lame or whatever, but I had never
told anybody that I'd loved them before. I mean I
wasn't said in my family, never set it to anybody,
but I'd practice on him. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
It probably wasn't even practice, No.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
It definitely wasn't, but I would practice saying it with
my mouth because he didn't english a least I think
he did, unless he's tricking me. But he was awesome.
And then when he got older, he was here with
me for a couple of years and I couldn't tour
with him because he was getting old. So then I
I the bus company got me a bus that was
dog friendly, like yeah, like I had a place for
(19:03):
a dog because it gets and so I toured with
with a dog bus. That's amazing, and he went everywhere.
The forward to my second book, Fail Until You Don't,
I dedicate the book to him, and I'm like, hey,
I tell you this, but your dog you don't know English,
but I's you know. That dog was that meaningful to
me because it kind of revealed a lot to me
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about me because I was actually able to have these
certain feelings that I didn't know that we're in there.
And then he got cancer, and he got cancer like
three times, so he had it, caught it good, had
it again, caught it good. And then the third time
that he got it, like thirteen or fourteen, way to
put him down and it sucked.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
But did you know, were you like, I know my
dog better than anyone. I know it's time or did
I just know he was sick?
Speaker 3 (19:48):
Yeah, but we'd already beaten it. I also knew he
was old. And that was my question about years, because
he was thirteen and that the myth or the reality
of the seven years equals one. How true is that?
And does it ever change from like seven to six
to five? Like what's or is it the dog size?
Speaker 1 (20:05):
That's a great question. I mean I would say roughly,
I think it's fairly accurate. And then it's not like science.
It just kind of helps us understand as humans to
like like anthropomises, anthropomorphizes your pet, And of course little
dogs live a lot longer than big dogs typically like humans.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Yeah really, yeah, exactly, your heart, your heart has got
to keep pumping, right, so you don't see seven foot
three guys be eighty one exactly.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
It's the exactly exact same.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
Yeah, so he was if he was thirteen. You know,
seven times ten is seventy plus twenty one ninety a
ninety one year old for your dogs.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
That's exactly. And it just kind of helps you conceptualize
it a little bit better.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
I think I was really sad, but it was the
one thing that I was really sad about that I
was actually just very happy that I was that sad
because it meant that much. Yeah, and like that was
the thing that showed me something could suck. But the
value of it was way more than what sucked. So
my net gain was extremely positive. But I think having
him allowed me to understand that I could actually get
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better at certain things as a human. He was the greatest.
He was the greatest, and he was also a dick,
but it was But that's that's what friends are.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
They just came out, they just did a study. They said,
grumpy dogs are highly intelligent, like usually the smartest dog.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
Stanley's freaking got He's a MIT grad then for sure.
Because but is the unfair thing about bulldogs. There's a
lot of unfair things. They're bread. I would never recommend
anybody to get a bulldog. I have a bulldog. I
love him so much. But if you're listening and you're
on the fence about getting a bull dog, don't get
a bulldog.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
So would you not get another one? Then no, Okay, nope,
I think that's fair.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
I got I have Stanley. He's great, right, But even
he's had and he's had an abnormal amount of surgeries
for even a bulldog. But he's had thirteen or something.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
You like, I know because I've worked with him. But
what are you talking here?
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Multiple eyes, yeah, two acls, multiple eyes, His nose, yep, nose,
the palette, the cuts wiener, he had like a growth
on saither him or me one of us had got
that cut off. He had like a butthole issue. He
got the this this swallow, the squeaky Yeah, and they
had to cut so that counts of the shirt.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
Both of his eyes have also done the weird bulldog
eyelid thing.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Yep, were they rolling?
Speaker 3 (22:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (22:08):
What is that called? Oh the cherry eye, cherry eye.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Cherry eye, the little gland in the bright red gland
in the middle.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
Wow, all of that happened. And some of them aren't
as bad as others. But he was always in the
cone after every one of them.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
M hmm.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
Freaking dude lives and he feels most comfortable in a cone. Well,
and Nelson used to live on his bus because he
even when he was home, because it still does a lot,
because he felt more comfortable on his bus because he
was on his bus so much. Right, Like, sometimes I'll
look over and Stanly went and put the cone on
just because he feels so comfortable. Wearing the cone is
his comforts. But the question, I would not get a
bulldog again. I don't want aybody get a bulldog, and
it sucks they have to be bred that way because
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it's just a bunch of inbreeding. Yeah, and they can't breath.
They can't breathe when they're born, right.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
So I was telling Shannon beforehand that in vet school,
they make you on your first one of our first lectures,
you sit down, you plug your nose, the hand you
a straw, and you breathe through the straw. And that's
like how a smashta is smushed face dog breathes.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
What would you say about bulldogs to people if they're
going but they look so.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Cute, I would say you need to have a big
old wink account ready to take care of this.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
I didn't have a lot of money. We couldn't have
no way. We've probably spent eighty thousand dollars on just.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
He's keeping the Nashville veterinary community on.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
Just medical, on bulldog medical. Yeah. But I was gonna
say it is face. What sucks about the bulldogs mostly
is they always look like they're unhappy, even if they're not,
because their face is made like.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
That have RBF.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
It sucks.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
It does suck.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
Because I'm always like, bro, you are all right? You
look like you're cranky. But then I realized, no, his
face is built like that.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
Yeah he's good.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
Yeah, so he is awesome. He has a personality. We
have obviously, Ella, who we adopted. We found her. She
was extremely aggressive, and the I guess what I want
to know too, is what we got her.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
She was Wait before we.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
Go to l R, I'm gonna lose my train to think, Hey,
we'll come back, but I'm gonna lose it and then
I'll forget it forever. But I want to ask about
aggressive dogs. Okay, to make a note, make a note,
boom go.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Mental note done. The one thing I want to touch
on about Stanley that I find that owners always shocked
by is that they have acls just like we do,
and they can tear them just like we can. And
the really devastating part is that when you find out
they tear the one, they're like ninety percent likely to
tear the other.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
You said that, you said the other one's gone, the
other one's probably gonna go too. Yeah, but I'm like
a ready, it's like, well, you got a strategically pick
when you're gonna have that surgery. Yes, because he tore
one and partially tore the other. Yes, so we had
to figure out.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Which one to do first.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
Yep. And then yeah, it's a it's a nightmare.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
It's a nightmare.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
I'm sure for him it's a nightmare too. But at
least he gets to be on pills. Right.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
But the postop process, people don't realize it months. It's
twelve weeks minimum, which is three months of like very
strict activity restriction. And actually, I have a really funny
memory of Stanley. He's probably like three weeks postop. You're
having a Christmas party. We're in your living room, and
we had you guys had shut him into like his
own little private room so he's not out and about
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because he needs to be activity restricted. And somehow that
bulldog gets out of that room and comes full speed
rolling through the party.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
Yeah, kool aid man, kool aid man.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
And I'm like, as an animal, and I'm like Stanley,
as yes's veterinarian, I'm like.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
No, please don't. Yeah, he has a lot of he
still has a lot of energy for a bulldog to
be almost four. He has a lot of energy. But
then he goes away and he has no energy. But
he's still really he looks great. For four and he
lost five pounds. Yeah, dude, you saying, hey, he needs
lose five pounce. So I you know, he's been losing weight.
(25:30):
And I told my wife I was proud of him.
I'm like, I'm so proud of me. Lost five pounds.
It's hard. She shows what did he do? We just fed
him less, and I was like, that's a great.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
Point nine times out of ten as the owner. But
you know what we can we can give him some
small ones.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
Yeah, that's a great point. I really was like proud.
I thought I was the biggest loser. I'm like, you
work so hard. And then I was like I just edulazed.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
Yeah exactly.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
And even I didn't really feed him sometimes i'd still
like feed him more than I sure.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Maybe he's like a little more active. He's putting in
some minutes running around the mound. I'll give him credit,
but no, yeah, okay, well either way, he looks really great.
So good job to you and good job to him.
Thank you. Okay, back to let's talk about her anxiety
and her you know what you want to dasking about
aggressive animals.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
We got her and she was extremely she was a
puppy and I think she was younger than what they
told us, even what they thought, because you, like you said,
when it's a rescue, you're just kind of guessing. And
we got her, and I think she was probably a
little too young to be just living the free life
she was on the street. So they put her in
their backyard for a little bit and Wagon walks me, like,
we have this dog here. We go over and she's
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just like bite central, not even teething, bite, scared.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Bite yeah, Like I'm fearful.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
Are these large ten alien creatures humans us? Yeah, and
just fight in her and Stanley. She'd bite Stanley and
then Stanley'd be like, I don't eedly bet any more,
so he'd be like, wow, back at her right. We
took her to an aggression specialist and the trainer aggression
trainer said, uh, she'll never be normal, Like.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
I'm always so surprised when I hear that, because when
you I know her now, she's so sweet and loving
and loves humans.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
And we were like, white she goes, you cannot put
She'll grow and she'll be way bigger than your bulldog
and she'll kill your bulldog. We were just like, what
credit to Caitlin, because I didn't have a chance to
have an opinion. She's like, we're not We're not doing
that right, We're gonna and so we did. We just
we were very consistent with her, and.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
I think that says everything. And really it's like the
environment and the owners and old dogs can learn new tricks.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
Oh there's awesome. Yeah. The problem that we have now
is that we have a yard. We let her run
in all the time, but she doesn't come in the
house and eat much. And we finally figured out, well
Kaitlyn did that. She goes and kills animals and eats
them and that's why she's never hungry in the house.
She's wild. She brings them to the house sometimes like
so proud I brought you a treat. I rarely eat it.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Yeah, but sometimes when the zombie apocalypse comes, you're gonna
be glad you have.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
Ler saving them. But yeah, and she's healthy as could be. Yeah,
she was amazing, Like Stanley King Stanley all the perfect food.
Ella goes out, eats squirrels and squirrel poop and comes
back and it's just rocking.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
It's the street MutS. I'm telling you, they live forever. Okay, last,
but not least and I know for myself. But in
the safety of your own home, is there anything that
you do where people aren't watching you that you like?
(28:13):
People will do weird things, like they sing to their pets,
they'll narrate their voices. Do you have like a voice
that you do for Stanley? Anything unusual that we would
not know.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
I think what happens at my house a lot. First
thing that I do when I go home is I'm like,
where are my friends? And that wherever they are they're
two different places. They both come right to me because
they know it's it's where am my friends? Yeah, we
do friendship time. Love that as soon as I get home.
I love them so much, both of them.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
And are you like on the ground with them?
Speaker 3 (28:38):
Sometimes it depends on Kaitlyn's home or not. Okay, so
we're both. I'm very allergic to dog here. Yes, she's
allergic to dog here too.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
So is my husband. So I understand.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
And I'm doing allergy shots three times a week. Yep,
just for the dogs. They have no idea why. I
just need to learn English for five minutes so they
know what I'm doing to freaking make sure that they
can stay alive. Thought, So are we do that, then
that's not that weird. But I do. Where are my
friends and they come? But where I get in trouble
with my wife? And part of this is because you
and the headache you've created in the house. Okay. I
was like, they need to be created at night or
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then to be in their own space. And I'm like,
they're let them live free in the house. Let them do.
But then Stanley, if they're protectors, they bark if they
see something out the windows, and I'm like, I don't
want them to be in a room, and She's like,
they need to have structure and understand. And I'll sneak
out of them all the night and let them out
and let them just live. I just don't. I get
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so sad if they feel like they're being.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Trapped, like you don't want them to feel punished.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
So that's the weird thing that I do, is I
will sneak out if I've put them up and let
them out in the middle of the night.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
I like tiptoe around the house at many times.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
Yeah, because I have to get up at three thirty
four anyway, so she's asleep. The only time they get
me in trouble is if they see something, they start barking.
At two in the morning, you're busting. I'll hop out
of bed. There are two things that get me out
of bed. That or if I hear a dog vomit.
He said, you jump quick.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
To make sure ultimate alarm clock.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
Crazy. Yes, but that's probably the weird thing that I
do is free them from prison.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
Okay like that.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
Yeah, I break them out. But my wife Kaitlyn doesn't
like that.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Caitlin's the warden.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
Well, you're the one that told her that they had
to be liked. You said they needed to have stroug
unless she lied.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
I mean, I'm always gonna take Caaitlin's side show. I
think it's good to give structure. Yes, I don't know
that they need to be created.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
Every single created have their own little room.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Okay, well, hey, if that is what's good for her.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
For I never had a bedroom, even a bedroom growing up.
These dogs have their own rooms.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
Yeah they do. It's beautiful. They also have their own skyway.
I mean they're living the dreams.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
Oh yeah, the skyway.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
The Skyway's epic. Can we just touch on that really fast?
Speaker 3 (30:31):
Yeah? And Kaylen never had a dog growing up. Yeah, Ever,
and so for her. She was like, I'm not really gonna.
I don't know about dogs, not that she didn't like them,
she just never had one.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
Right, it's a culture shock.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
Yeah, and then you're like all of them. Yeah, but
we built. We couldn't get our dogs into the yard
and not have access to the pool. We didn't want
Stanley drowning. I've had to save them, not at this house,
but I was with them and he found the pool.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
A real concern.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
Bulldogs are just bowling balls, yes, and had to jump
in and save them. And so I was like, LA's okay,
she can swim, right, even if we don't know she
can swim. I know she can swim.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
She's a survivor.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
Stanley cannot. So there was nowhere to put them. So
we built with plywood, basically the Vegas Skybridge that comes.
We cut a hole in our garage. Yeah, like literally
cut a hole, built a platform, and they it goes
across the walkway. It's probably forty to fifty feet long,
(31:24):
eight feet high, and it goes into a side yard.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
It's the Vegas Skybridge for the listeners. If you think
he's exaggerating, like I'm here to delliy is not this.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
Is so up it and it was so rednecks. And
now we painted at the color of the house. It's
gotten there, but it was straight mountain pine, Arkansas.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
For yeah, it was. It wasn't something.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
I know.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
You've got like little traction on it so they can grit,
can get up and down.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
Yeah, and I watch I had five minutes, and people
like I wish I could talk to my dog and
know what they said. If we had five minutes, we
could understand each other. Wouldn't let them talk. I would
just tell them how good they have it. And I
built them freaking traction and it's skybridge and they need
to appreciate that.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
Crap mic drop.
Speaker 3 (31:56):
Yeah, and then it's like five minutes is up. Don't
care what they have to say as long as they
know what I was saying. Yep. But I love them.
I love and you're the best. And I know it's
got to be weird. I feel like we're friends because
I feel like we're real life friends, because there are
levels of friends. There's friends, there's buddies, and then there's acquaintances.
There's people you just know, and I feel like we're
real life friends. But when we first were like in
(32:17):
that middle area. I was like, I don't want a
text her. I knew you, Yeah, but you're a vet.
I'm sure people that you don't even know that well
that just have your number hit you up and go
look at this picture. It's his dog, okay, And that's
gotta be so annoying.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
You know, it is definitely one of the more annoying
things I'll get. Like this. Two days ago, I had
a guy I went to kindergarten with. I'm thirty three
since three decades ago, sends me up picture of his
dog's butthole, being like, what do you think this is?
I'm like, I Jackie Anderson. Sorry I just put you
on blast, but like, I haven't talked to you in
thirty years. I have no idea what's going on with
your dog's but hole? Like take it to the vet. So, yeah,
(32:51):
it can be annoying, but you know you probably get
the same thing.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
Yeah, in different ways. And I also understand that you'd
be like I want to help you, but of course
one first of all, I don't even know this number,
Like I don't know who. Yeah, it's like you have
to give them a new phone. Who dis And then
it's also like I'm so far away. I don't have
the history of your dog. Yeah, yeah, at least with mine,
like you know the dog exactly. I still feel guilty.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
Oh no, we're when we're real life friends.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
You can know. But I sing you my buttole on
accident and I was.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
Like, well, remember that, that was crazy.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
Yeah. It was an accent though, Yeah, and I made
to send it to your husband. But still whatever. You're
doing a great job of this podcast. I'm so proud
that we could get it to this point. And you're
so good at what you do, and you're so good
at what you do here too, which has been crazy
to watch. I'm annoyed because I didn't get that good
until years and you're alreadily good and that sucks so well.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
I don't know about that, but thank you for having me.
I love doing this. Your team is amazing and I
loved having you go on today.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
Yeah, she's she's okay. I love you guys, and she's
wearing some some Jordan's Low's Panda's some dunks. We went
to her h wife, Josie, doctor Josie whatever she called you,
doctor Josie, doctor Josie and her husband. We all we
were in New York together for a couple of days,
and her husband was like, I got to get some
of my tops, and that to me is awesome because
(34:11):
I love shoes.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
Yeah, he wears the same thing every single day, black shirt,
black pants and like these like weird little black shoes.
Speaker 3 (34:20):
But now as you wear his, oh it's awesome.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
He hasn't taken him off. That's like that's want to
be cool like Bobby and get cool shoes. I'm like,
I'm sure he'll take you.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
It's such a it's such a like a money pit. Yeah,
and you can never actually have them all, but it's
so it's so much fun. And anyway, thank you for
doing this podcast. And now look he's asleep.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
We have a board him.
Speaker 3 (34:38):
You got to board him. I don't know how you
end your show, so do you. I don't know if
you do like give your guest five hundred dollars or something,
but I'll let Yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
So, Bobby, thanks for coming on today. I want to
present you with this check for one point five million
dollars for Stanley's medical fund.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
Thank you. We're almost even. Then.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
Yeah, there you go, but no things are coming on
and hopefully you'll be back next season.
Speaker 3 (34:58):
Oh yeah, hopefully I reknew it for season. We'll see.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
Stay tuned everyone.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
All right, Well, that was so much fun having Bobby
Bones as our guest today on in the VETS Office.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
Always a good time, always a good time. I love time.
I love all of his takes on everything. But it's
fun to get him out of his element because I
feel like it's always artists and music and fun to
listen to him talk about something he's really passionate about.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
Yeah, and I mean if you follow Bobby on socials,
you know that his pets are huge part of his life.
So it's cool to get to hear him kind of
dive into that side of dad life.
Speaker 3 (35:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
Yeah, dad life or dad life, Yeah for sure.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
All right, Well, I'm excited to get to this part
of the show because this is always a fun time.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
So we are heading into Paw and Order. Yes, we
are here, we go, all right, Paw and Order for
this week. First on the docket, I would never give
my pet an anahistamine without chatting with my veterinarian first.
That includes Benadryl, clariton zertech and the real reason behind
(35:57):
it is we just want to make sure we never
get zertech D, clariton D anything with that D ingredient
in it, right, allegrity, Yes, okay, that's a decongestent and
one tablet can kill a dog. Yeah, well I did
not know that. Yeah a lot of times. Yeah, I
feel like you don't really.
Speaker 2 (36:14):
Vet did not specify because we had a frenchy and
she was always having allergies. Just to give her, you know,
whatever allergy medication you would take cut in half and
give her one, yes, but they did not specify.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
That is super duper important. I mean, zirtech at the
right dose is safe, yeah, and clarit to not the
right dose is safe. But anything with D on it
run the other direction.
Speaker 2 (36:36):
And is that like just in case of like bad
allergic reaction emergency or would you recommend, like if your
dog has like signs of like other sneezing and scratching,
take them into the vet and maybe there's a different option.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
Yes. So there's other medications that are prescription coming out
of the vet clinic, right, that are more tailored to
dogs and cats that are going to be way more
effective I think than just your over the counter anahistamines.
But you know, if they are having like a vaccine
reaction a mild one, and you've already spoken to your veterinarian.
Then instances like those, it's it is okay to give
(37:10):
an anahistamine at home. You just want to be one
hundred percent sure that it's the right one and the
right dose. Very important, Okay, good to know. Next is
I would never ever take my smushed face dog. The
fancy term for that is breaky cephalic to a patio
or on a long walk when it's hot outside, So
anything like higher than really like seventy eight degrees is
(37:32):
really might cutoff. When you're getting up into the eighties,
that's when it's like the danger zone. And the reason
being is we see so much heat stroke here in Nashville,
and so dogs they don't sweat like we do. They
regulate their body temperatures through their paws and through panting,
and so when their paws are on the hot ground,
there's only so much panting they can do. So I
(37:54):
mean it can be really, really really dangerous in the summertime. Yeah,
and they're panting does not quite do the job like
a upherds would exactly, like, please help me. Yeah, and
I had to break a cyphalics is that how you
say yeah, dog? And like we both did horseshows life
and stuff like that, and so I lived in Kentucky.
We used to take her to horseshoes all the time
and she literally traveled with like a cooling mat and
(38:16):
her own personal fan because I was like, everyone thought
I was so bougie, but I'm like, I can't have
her overheat. It is hot in Kentucky. That's not bougie.
That is break acephalic owner. Yes, status, like that is
the way it should be. Gold standard. I love it. Yeah,
get your little smush faced dogs a little fan and
a little cooling mat and they will love you forever.
And the shade and water. Yeah all that too. In
(38:38):
that school they made us one time, one of our
first lectures ever, they handed us all straw and they said,
plug your nose and breathe like sick the straw in
your mouth and breathe through the straw. That's how a
break acephalic like gets oxygen. Really, yeah, I was like, wow,
this is a whole new way for me to think
about it. Man, I did not realize it.
Speaker 2 (38:57):
They're so dang cute though, Yeah, I mean the amount
that they snort. You can just tell there's not a
lot of airflow happening in the nostrils, a lot of
flapping in the wind back there. All right, what's next
on pond order?
Speaker 1 (39:07):
Next, and last, but not least, is I would never
not microchip my pets. I hear a lot of owners say, well,
I don't really want a microchip, they're not really a
flight risk. And I'm sitting here right now with a
fat shuahuah in my lap like he's not going anywhere.
He would rather die than leave his mom. But sorry, biggie,
I didn't mean to body shame you. You're perfect just the
(39:28):
way you are perfect. But you never know, like things
can happen. And then there's a newer thing going on
where designer dogs like Doodles or purebreads like Golden Retrievers
are getting taken out of people's yards and then being
resold on Craigslist.
Speaker 3 (39:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (39:44):
So it happened.
Speaker 2 (39:45):
Around the corner from us once, and it was a
French bulldog, and we have a French bulldog. And I
was like, honey, do not let her outside because she
was not microchip? Well but not yet now I know,
now I've learned. But yeah, you can never be too careful.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
Oh it's inexpensive, It's easy to do, it takes two seconds,
and it could be all the difference between getting your
pet reunited with you. So I'm all all in on microchipping.
Go microchip your dogs if you have not yet. Yes, well,
thank you. All right, that's good to know, and don't
forget that.
Speaker 2 (40:16):
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Speaker 1 (40:20):
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Your finger is gonna really stink. Don't smell your finger. Yeah,
you're listening to in the Vets Office with Doctor Josie Horshak.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Hi.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Everyone, welcome to in the Vets Office. I am your host,
Doctor Josie, and as always I am joined with the
lovely miss Shannon Ella. Hello. Hello, And this week is
a big week because we have a really special guest
joining us for today's episode. You may know him as
being the king of country music radio. I know him
as one of my favorite people and my friend. Today
(00:41):
we have mister Bobby Bones in the Vets Office.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Am I supposed to talk? Yeah? I am. I know
if I was like a, he'll be joining us.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
No, we're having you like the whole first half of
this episode. Oh, hi, Hello, here he is.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Yeah, she has her dog here, and that's what she said,
don't smell your finger, just for everybody out there. Yeah.
So she also Josie said, bring Stanley, and I said,
I definitely wouldn't mind bringing Stanley. But I've done things
with Stanley before and it's bad audio because all you
hear is the whole time snorting. Right. He would have
(01:14):
loved to have come. He would have thought it had
been awesome, but he just would have lost interest, which
is okay, bulldogs do that. But he snores so loud,
even not sleeping. He like awakes snores, so he would
have loved to have been here. But this is an
audio and a video show and it would have been
bad for business.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
So but thanks for having me. I'll let you guys
do your things.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Bull Dogs are just not the best when it comes
to any sort of microphone. My friend Gie I brought
in with me, like when I first started radio to
a morning show and they were like, bring.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Your pet to work, and I was like, oh, okay, great.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
And I had to like hide her in the corner
because the whole morning show is just her snorting.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Yeah. Yeah, I can't guarantee Biggie won't start snoring during this,
but so far, so good. He did try and bite
Bobby once. Already.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
I was about to say, here's the thing with Biggie,
we're now It's like when you get in a fight
with somebody when you first meet him, but then your
best friends after I respect, I was some with his
ear and big. He tried to buy me and I
didn't move. I left my finger right there and I said, well,
then buy it in big dog, you want to go,
let's go. And then he was like no, no, like
my hand. Yeah, so now we're buds.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Yeah, it's two legends coming together.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
How old?
Speaker 1 (02:11):
But he's he's a russ Us. We don't know, probably
seven if I had to guess, looks like he's fourteen.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
But I have a question about dog age. And I
know this isn't me interviewing you, but I'll get back
to it. So what do we do? What do you
guys do first? I don't want to get out of
the way. So you're gonna do something without me first,
or something with me.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
You're gonna join us for this?
Speaker 3 (02:28):
You're good? Yeah, it's all you.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
These are always on editing this, guys.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
No, there's no editing. This is what's beautiful about it.
If this is mayhem, I just need to know because
I tend to take control.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Right, I'm going to lead this and then I'll let
you know when you can ask question.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
That's all I need.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Got it, my pleasure? Okay. So how we typically start
this podcast is we like to go dialve into a
case of the week and we're always interesting, Yeah, talk
about what goes on behind the closed doors and the
trenches of the vet clinic. And for this particular case
of the week, I had an owner come in. He
is probably like, I don't know, two fifty tat it up.
(03:05):
He's like the rock mixed with vin Diesel. And he
brings his little Boston terrier in.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Hilarious, Big guys, the small dog's hilarious.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
I love it. And the little Boston terrier has been
throwing up. We take an X ray tale as old
as time. There's something in there. I go into the
owner and I say, you know, I think he's eating
an air pod, but I don't know for sure. I
never know for sure until I go in and take
it out. But I'm highly suspicious this is what it is.
And he doesn't say anything, and he looks down on
his phone and come to find out, he's pulling up Spotify,
(03:33):
and all of a sudden, I hear, do, oh my god, yeah,
put your ear up to it.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Do you have to put the other the other AirPod
next to it?
Speaker 1 (03:45):
It works?
Speaker 3 (03:46):
It was that's gray.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Fuck dumps the bluetooth. We have Miley Cyrus bumping through
his intestines.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
That's the funniest story I've ever heard about a dogmazing.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Yeah, And so anyways, go in take it out. The
air pod still works. This is not an Apple ad people,
but those things are dirty. This is like the Stanley
hud for like the on fire thing. Exactly. You gotta
go get some arapods.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
You don't have to cut you're going through like throat.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
No, this one was in his intestine, so we had
to do surgery.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
And are you kind of guessing? I know you see
the X ray, but how do you know the precise
spot to go or you know the area and then
you just find it within the area.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
You know you got to go into the abdomen no
matter what. So then once you're in there, you use
your hands to go all the way through the GI
track to figure out where it is.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
I can't believe it played music. That's played music and
so swallows it won't.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Pass and a big dog it might pass. In this
little guy, no way, I would have been painful.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Stanley had swallowed us squeak, and he was feeling terrible.
I remember we called you at like midnight. We're like
the bulldog's dying. But I heard him we open and
that's the only reason we knew he had swallowed a squeak.
Then we found a toy where it was gone, and
he felt terrible, would be like and so I went
and sat with him for like six hours, and they
said it's in him right, And I remember sending you
(04:59):
the x rays and they were like they they had to.
They went into his throat first and they couldn't get
it out to scope it out. Yeah, they were like,
sometimes we can. We can find it that way because
it was the emergency room. It is emergency clinic. And
I made friends at night too, because all of us
are there with the same trauma, like our dogs are.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Oh, you're trauma bonded, Yeah, for sure, And.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
So they were like, we have to keep them overnight
because we have to go in and get it. Stanley's
had multiple like double figure surgeries, and they freaking got
the squeaker out.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
So they opened him up.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
They had I think they went to throw in his buttthole.
Can you go on both ways?
Speaker 1 (05:32):
I suppose you could. Typically we just go through the throat.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
He went. It's hilarious but awful, and he wasn't gonna die,
so that was good. But that the fact that it
played music with bluetooth, I mean it still had charge
in it.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
I know, I'm telling you.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Of that product with like horses, and a lot of
people were saying that it was like a scam and
that there's no way because I saw him like two
days ago.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Absolutely, I am scared to tell you. I wish I
would have. I didn't. I was so taken aback and like,
for sure a least if this guy's going to play music,
it's going to be like run DMC like some and
it was Miley Cyrus. I'm like the whole situation too.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Yes, I didn't appreciate that much of it. I just
couldn't believe it played inside, just the.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Whole situation.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
In the door. It was amazing Stanley want in his
bowl just way stomach plays music.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Let's not do that.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
How funny would that be? Okay, sorry, go ahead.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
It was amazing that he looked up at me dead
pan and goes, well, I now know it's an AirPod,
And I was like, okay, that is a great diagnostic tool.
How long you know it was missing?
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Is the dog out? When you have to go get it?
You have to cut it two weeks?
Speaker 1 (06:33):
How long is a dog like a cone? Two weeks postop?
But like out under in a season. It's like a
two hour procedure.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Yeah, I guess I'm not there for that part, but
the cone I'm there for.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Yeah, that's the worst con.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
And I know each other very well. Sometimes I just
want to wear the cone just so he can experience
how annoying it is when someone has the cone on.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
I run into him a few times with the cone
on it, Like, just sucks getting stuck indoors a story.
That's a good story.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Yeah, great case of the week. And Shannon, you want
to lead us into our next part.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Yeah, so this one we're going to do a little
differently this week because there's the three of us here.
So normally this is the point in the show where
we get some questions from some of our listeners and
we're gonna actually hand the controls over to you, Bobby,
and see if you have any questions.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Over a couple because out of Boston Terrier or when
I was a kid and it's my first dog that
was mine like that I loved and it slept on
my chest every night, and I remember it wasn't aggressive generally,
but it was that Bossy was so a rat. It
was just everywhere all the time that every once in
(07:35):
a while it would bite something, and every great once
in a while on that side of every once in
a while it was a human. Wasn't trying to buite
human that it would just bite random things, and sometimes
it be a human, right, And so what it happened
was and like bit the mailman or something like ninth
bite of the day was a human the mailman. So
(07:55):
I love the dog and I had bites on my
chest because the dog would sleep on my chest and
it would have nightmares and wake up and go bite me.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
What was his name, Bradley, Bradley, Bradley the Boston.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Loved again, loved him, just had a whole therapy session
about why I love dogs so much. It's because I
couldn't connect with humans. So I found a safety in dogs.
And Bradley would bite me. I have stop scars. But
he but the mailman and the mailmaiin was gonna press charges.
Now my stepdad had to we don't want to get sued.
(08:30):
But he had a friend that he worked with that
had a bunch of dogs on his property, big farm,
so he took an and let Bradley live over there.
And now I was I just didn't want to see Bradley.
Wouldn't let me go see Bradley because I wn'd be sad.
I told my wife the story, say by the boy
wasn't terrier. I loved him so much. My stepdad put
him out and he went to a farm with the
guy that. She was like, you never saw him, You
never went to the farm and saw No. No, this
(08:52):
is too sad for me. She goes, I don't think
that the farm was real. And I said, what this
is like a year ago? No? I said, what do
you mean the arms not real? I started to get
mad at her. She goes, I think because it bit somebody.
Bradley's now was not alive. After that, my mind's blown.
I'm like, there's no way. So I called Arkansas Keith,
(09:13):
my step former step bed. Oh no, I get him
on the phone through the speaker and I go, hey, man, Bradley,
I didn't lead him to it, So what happened? He goes, Oh,
it bit the mailman. I shot him. Oh Bradly, Oh no,
I went.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
What.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Now?
Speaker 1 (09:30):
And this is why you're in therapy in Arkansas? Oh?
Speaker 3 (09:33):
He didn't pay money for a vet if an animal? Yeah,
it sucked. That sucks to have it happen, but that's
what you do in the country. Yeah, And I was like, well,
he didn't go to some guy's farm, he goes You
believed that. And my wife is trying so hard not
to laugh hysterically because she knows I'm dealing with trauma
of my door just now being told at forty my
dog's dead from twenty five years ago. And also how
(09:56):
stupid I wasn't there really was a farmer although animals
went to.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Play, right, we all believe that at some point.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Not at some point. I don't two years ago. Yeah, yeah,
and so I was like, what, but I remember he
would just bite. So my question after telling that story,
because it made me think about the biting part, do
you get bit randomly? And what's the kind of dog
that you know it doesn't have to be an aggressive dog.
Is there a type of dog that kind of bites
the most because they're just nuts.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
I don't want to stereotype dogs, but there are some
When we see the breed coming in, we're like, oh,
we should be extra careful. I have a German shepherd,
but German shepherd's up there, Rottweilers are up there.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Is that because they're bigger, so they're bite This is
always in my theory about big dogs. Yea, we think
they bite more because but when they do bite, it
lasts longer and it's more hard.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Exactly, It's not that they bite more until comes in.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
I'm like, you're a mosquito that the ain't making the
news if it bites somebody.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Exactly, German shepherd is gonna rip your face off. So
it's a little bit different.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
You think it's they don't bite more, but when they
do bite, it's more of a situation because of how
severe it could be.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Yeah, I'd say that's probably right for sure. And I
mean also they're bread to protect, so they kind of
have that like stereotype of being a little bit more aggressive,
which may or may not be true. So yeah, I
think they've just gotten labeled that.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Way out of pit bulls. A great dog I ever had,
only if you listened to this, but you just have
too many surgeries. We're still getting there. But I had
him for thirteen years.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
He's going to jump into him.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
He was the Yeah, he was the best dog ever.
And people would like be scared for a second, Yeah
you got a pit bull? Yeah, And then you're.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Just then it was over the biggest baby.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
So do you get bitten? What's the worst you've been bitten?
Speaker 1 (11:28):
I've only ever been bit on the job twice. The
first time was by a camel in bet.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
School, a camel, like an actual.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
An actual camel.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
We were taking care of it and it reached around
and it bit my shoulder. And every bite I've ever
seen in my entire life, you guys, does not compare
to this camel bite. You have scars. It took a
big old chunk of skin out and it hurts funny
so bad. Is that normal for in vet school that
you're dealing with camel?
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Yeah, they have camel.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Yeah, you kind of deal with anything that comes. And
this is the University of Cairo. Uh no, this is
at a highest state university and they have camel. Yeah,
like farmers would have a random camel, or like we
took care of a lot of deer, like random things.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Did you worry about with deer? Did you worry about
like lime disease? Yeah, because since you were.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Around really absolutely that.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
Would be scared because just living in the country or
now just being in the wood, you worry about it.
Just as existing with a tick.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
But if you're with deer, yeah, they are the host.
They carry those ticks around and those are the ticks
that spread lime disease. So definitely top three.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Bites Number one a camel, number one.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
A cammebl was expecting that. I've only ever been bit
one other time, and it was a dog waking up
from anesthesia. I'm in that school again, so still a rookie.
This dog's waking up, he's got his breathing tube in
and he looks at me, like wakes up out of nowhere.
I look at him, and he goes and bites down
on his tube.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
I did that during my colosk, the same thing, except
the tubes.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Hope, oh man, this is why I love you. And
so he spits out the one half and heals the other,
the other piece of tubes going down into his tree. Yeah,
And so I being the dummy, I'm like, I'm going
to save his life, and I stick my whole hand
in his mouth to grab the tube, and he just
goes and bit down on my entire hand because he
(13:11):
was probably scared that yeah, so afraid and like waking
up from anesthesia and it's just their natural reaction.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Yeah, I find and you're educated on this. I just
lived around different animals and living in the woods, even
with snakes, and I'll tell folks that don't know wild
animals at all, and animals really only going to attack
or buy you if he's hurt, he's scared, or he's hungry,
per that's it. It's not like these animals wolves are
walking around going I'm bored. I show would like to
(13:39):
attack a human. Yeah, they don't have anything to do
with us.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
No, ninety nine percent of the time, it's fear. Yeah,
they're scared and they're trying to defend themselves hornered.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Or yeah, if they're or they're injured, and the fear
then comes from I'm now trapped, maybe incapacitated or trapped
and I've got to protect my Yeah. And so they
can't believe, like on the radio show, that snakes aren't
just evil, and I'm like, no, no, no, I love
they're not evil, lot of good for the world. Yeah,
but you only hear the bad stories because a snake
will feel threatened and that's why or hungry, and that's
(14:06):
why I will attack. But I can't believe you've only
been bet.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Twice, only twice. The only other thing that's happened to
me is I had a cat jump across the room.
I'm talking to the owner. He's all the way on
the other side of the room. The exam table's out.
He leaps onto the exam table, looks me in the eyes,
and goes and then slaps me across the face.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Would claws out.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
He was declased, Oh, thank goodness, well god, I would
that thrasher mark across my face.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
Okay, one other question I get, I have two is
that okay, I brought to sure. The second question is
what's the weirdest animal that's been brought in other than
the camel? Well, that was at school. You were you
were given to the camel more than the camel was
given to you. But like if professional work is it's
someone ever bring in like a bullfrog as a pet or.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
They'll usually call me beforehand. I'm like, listen, if it's
a reptile or bird, like I got to send you elsewhere.
But we'll do like a chinchilla or what a sugar glider.
I've done a sugar bider. It's like a little monkey
bat type thing like zebras and stuff. Because of your horse. No,
I haven't done suprahs. I did a tiger in fat school.
I got a dental, got a tooth.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Was that cool?
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Super cool and terrifizing and terrifying.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
They're just so you just like you ever done a dragon?
Speaker 1 (15:12):
They're so big? Oh my god, dragons and unicorns favorite?
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Okay, cool? Those are the questions I had. I know
I'm not the usually have questions from listeners, but I
just am fascinated with and I get irritated to people
who classify dogs it's the same as humans, right. We go, well,
you're this kind of person, you're this race, you're this ethnicity,
you're this dog, you're the short this is about you exactly.
Same thing with dog and big dogs or dogs that
(15:39):
like my pit bull that I had, or a German shepherd.
They go, well, I've just seen the headlines of these
certain stories, and I feel like every dog is and
it's just not true.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
It's not true, and it's starge. It's kind of prejudiced.
To be honest, this little Chuahua is more likely to
bite you than a bag. He's a Chiuala mix, long hair,
he's from the streets. We're not really sure.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
I felt that's why it likes me.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
No, yea, yea yeah. Big dog's a big dog.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
All right.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Well, we're going to take a short little break and
hear from some of our sponsors, and then we will
be back in the.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Vet's office with our special guests, Bobby Bums. All right, Bobby.
So it's no secret you're a dog, Oliver. You talk
about them all the time on your show. You do
a lot of work with wags and walks here in Nashville.
You've written a whole children's book about Stanley. Did your
(16:27):
love of dogs? I know you talked a little bit
about Bradley, but that this come like straight out of
the womb? Is this something that you developed being around Bradley?
Speaker 3 (16:34):
Like, that's a good question. There were dogs around, but
I don't think we ever lived in a place long
enough to actually have a dog, because we moved around
a lot when I was a kid. I don't know
where my affection for us for dogs came from, except
for I think it was just the first thing that
I felt safety and having an attachment with where it
wouldn't leave me unless I neglected it, meaning left the
(16:56):
door open, didn't So I love that freaking dog. I
love Bradley so much. They slept with on the couch
with me every night on my chest until they went
to the farm. And when I moved to Austin because
I lived in Arket, so I moved to Austin and
there was a puppy meal that was raided and so
they had all these pit bull type dogs, small pit bull, right,
(17:17):
and so I did the story and one got one
from the puppy mill. I was talking about on the air.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
Is this Dusty?
Speaker 3 (17:23):
It is?
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Okay? So I was going to say, I filmed this
podcast in the iHeart Studio. I work with a lot
of your coworkers, and I keep hearing this name and
I never got the pleasure of meeting him. So tell
me about Dusty.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Uh he died not on a farm.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Okay, Yeah, I love that.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Yeah he was. I was twenty two or twenty three again,
and we were doing a story on the show in
Texas about a puppy mill and they had like thirty
dogs and I didn't have a dog, and I was
I was like, I like, I have a dog, and
so I just went and got one of the dogs
and that was it. Came to the studio. I sent
somebody from the show to go pick him up and
came right to the studio and for thirteen years, like
(17:59):
everywhere I went that a dog was allowed, he went, yeah.
And you know, I was never in a serious relationship.
I lived in a place where I didn't have any
family there. But you know, the dog was the consistency
in my life, and they sleep in the bed with me.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
I mean, I would argue that those I think there's
a lot of people out there that can relate in
your twenties, your young twenties, that dog that you find
that like kind of grows up with you like that
bond is kind of undescribable.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
Loved him and it was I would practice this will
maybe feel seem lame or whatever, but I had never
told anybody that I'd loved them before. I mean I
wasn't said in my family, never set it to anybody,
but I'd practice on him. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
It probably wasn't even practice, No.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
It definitely wasn't, but I would practice saying it with
my mouth because he didn't english a least I think
he did, unless he's tricking me. But he was awesome.
And then when he got older, he was here with
me for a couple of years and I couldn't tour
with him because he was getting old. So then I
I the bus company got me a bus that was
dog friendly, like yeah, like I had a place for
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a dog because it gets and so I toured with
with a dog bus. That's amazing, and he went everywhere.
The forward to my second book, Fail Until You Don't,
I dedicate the book to him, and I'm like, hey,
I tell you this, but your dog you don't know English,
but I's you know. That dog was that meaningful to
me because it kind of revealed a lot to me
(19:24):
about me because I was actually able to have these
certain feelings that I didn't know that we're in there.
And then he got cancer, and he got cancer like
three times, so he had it, caught it good, had
it again, caught it good. And then the third time
that he got it, like thirteen or fourteen, way to
put him down and it sucked.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
But did you know, were you like, I know my
dog better than anyone. I know it's time or did
I just know he was sick?
Speaker 3 (19:48):
Yeah, but we'd already beaten it. I also knew he
was old. And that was my question about years, because
he was thirteen and that the myth or the reality
of the seven years equals one. How true is that?
And does it ever change from like seven to six
to five? Like what's or is it the dog size?
Speaker 1 (20:05):
That's a great question. I mean I would say roughly,
I think it's fairly accurate. And then it's not like science.
It just kind of helps us understand as humans to
like like anthropomises, anthropomorphizes your pet, And of course little
dogs live a lot longer than big dogs typically like humans.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Yeah really, yeah, exactly, your heart, your heart has got
to keep pumping, right, so you don't see seven foot
three guys be eighty one exactly.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
It's the exactly exact same.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
Yeah, so he was if he was thirteen. You know,
seven times ten is seventy plus twenty one ninety a
ninety one year old for your dogs.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
That's exactly. And it just kind of helps you conceptualize
it a little bit better.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
I think I was really sad, but it was the
one thing that I was really sad about that I
was actually just very happy that I was that sad
because it meant that much. Yeah, and like that was
the thing that showed me something could suck. But the
value of it was way more than what sucked. So
my net gain was extremely positive. But I think having
him allowed me to understand that I could actually get
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better at certain things as a human. He was the greatest.
He was the greatest, and he was also a dick,
but it was But that's that's what friends are.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
They just came out, they just did a study. They said,
grumpy dogs are highly intelligent, like usually the smartest dog.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
Stanley's freaking got He's a MIT grad then for sure.
Because but is the unfair thing about bulldogs. There's a
lot of unfair things. They're bread. I would never recommend
anybody to get a bulldog. I have a bulldog. I
love him so much. But if you're listening and you're
on the fence about getting a bull dog, don't get
a bulldog.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
So would you not get another one? Then no, Okay, nope,
I think that's fair.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
I got I have Stanley. He's great, right, But even
he's had and he's had an abnormal amount of surgeries
for even a bulldog. But he's had thirteen or something.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
You like, I know because I've worked with him. But
what are you talking here?
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Multiple eyes, yeah, two acls, multiple eyes, His nose, yep, nose,
the palette, the cuts wiener, he had like a growth
on saither him or me one of us had got
that cut off. He had like a butthole issue. He
got the this this swallow, the squeaky Yeah, and they
had to cut so that counts of the shirt.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
Both of his eyes have also done the weird bulldog
eyelid thing.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Yep, were they rolling?
Speaker 3 (22:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (22:08):
What is that called? Oh the cherry eye, cherry eye.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Cherry eye, the little gland in the bright red gland
in the middle.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
Wow, all of that happened. And some of them aren't
as bad as others. But he was always in the
cone after every one of them.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
M hmm.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
Freaking dude lives and he feels most comfortable in a cone. Well,
and Nelson used to live on his bus because he
even when he was home, because it still does a lot,
because he felt more comfortable on his bus because he
was on his bus so much. Right, Like, sometimes I'll
look over and Stanly went and put the cone on
just because he feels so comfortable. Wearing the cone is
his comforts. But the question, I would not get a
bulldog again. I don't want aybody get a bulldog, and
it sucks they have to be bred that way because
(22:42):
it's just a bunch of inbreeding. Yeah, and they can't breath.
They can't breathe when they're born, right.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
So I was telling Shannon beforehand that in vet school,
they make you on your first one of our first lectures,
you sit down, you plug your nose, the hand you
a straw, and you breathe through the straw. And that's
like how a smashta is smushed face dog breathes.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
What would you say about bulldogs to people if they're
going but they look so.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Cute, I would say you need to have a big
old wink account ready to take care of this.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
I didn't have a lot of money. We couldn't have
no way. We've probably spent eighty thousand dollars on just.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
He's keeping the Nashville veterinary community on.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
Just medical, on bulldog medical. Yeah. But I was gonna
say it is face. What sucks about the bulldogs mostly
is they always look like they're unhappy, even if they're not,
because their face is made like.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
That have RBF.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
It sucks.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
It does suck.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
Because I'm always like, bro, you are all right? You
look like you're cranky. But then I realized, no, his
face is built like that.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
Yeah he's good.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
Yeah, so he is awesome. He has a personality. We
have obviously, Ella, who we adopted. We found her. She
was extremely aggressive, and the I guess what I want
to know too, is what we got her.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
She was Wait before we.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
Go to l R, I'm gonna lose my train to think, Hey,
we'll come back, but I'm gonna lose it and then
I'll forget it forever. But I want to ask about
aggressive dogs. Okay, to make a note, make a note,
boom go.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Mental note done. The one thing I want to touch
on about Stanley that I find that owners always shocked
by is that they have acls just like we do,
and they can tear them just like we can. And
the really devastating part is that when you find out
they tear the one, they're like ninety percent likely to
tear the other.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
You said that, you said the other one's gone, the
other one's probably gonna go too. Yeah, but I'm like
a ready, it's like, well, you got a strategically pick
when you're gonna have that surgery. Yes, because he tore
one and partially tore the other. Yes, so we had
to figure out.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Which one to do first.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
Yep. And then yeah, it's a it's a nightmare.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
It's a nightmare.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
I'm sure for him it's a nightmare too. But at
least he gets to be on pills. Right.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
But the postop process, people don't realize it months. It's
twelve weeks minimum, which is three months of like very
strict activity restriction. And actually, I have a really funny
memory of Stanley. He's probably like three weeks postop. You're
having a Christmas party. We're in your living room, and
we had you guys had shut him into like his
own little private room so he's not out and about
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because he needs to be activity restricted. And somehow that
bulldog gets out of that room and comes full speed
rolling through the party.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
Yeah, kool aid man, kool aid man.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
And I'm like, as an animal, and I'm like Stanley,
as yes's veterinarian, I'm like.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
No, please don't. Yeah, he has a lot of he
still has a lot of energy for a bulldog to
be almost four. He has a lot of energy. But
then he goes away and he has no energy. But
he's still really he looks great. For four and he
lost five pounds. Yeah, dude, you saying, hey, he needs
lose five pounce. So I you know, he's been losing weight.
(25:30):
And I told my wife I was proud of him.
I'm like, I'm so proud of me. Lost five pounds.
It's hard. She shows what did he do? We just fed
him less, and I was like, that's a great.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
Point nine times out of ten as the owner. But
you know what we can we can give him some
small ones.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
Yeah, that's a great point. I really was like proud.
I thought I was the biggest loser. I'm like, you
work so hard. And then I was like I just edulazed.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
Yeah exactly.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
And even I didn't really feed him sometimes i'd still
like feed him more than I sure.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Maybe he's like a little more active. He's putting in
some minutes running around the mound. I'll give him credit,
but no, yeah, okay, well either way, he looks really great.
So good job to you and good job to him.
Thank you. Okay, back to let's talk about her anxiety
and her you know what you want to dasking about
aggressive animals.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
We got her and she was extremely she was a
puppy and I think she was younger than what they
told us, even what they thought, because you, like you said,
when it's a rescue, you're just kind of guessing. And
we got her, and I think she was probably a
little too young to be just living the free life
she was on the street. So they put her in
their backyard for a little bit and Wagon walks me, like,
we have this dog here. We go over and she's
(26:24):
just like bite central, not even teething, bite, scared.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Bite yeah, Like I'm fearful.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
Are these large ten alien creatures humans us? Yeah, and
just fight in her and Stanley. She'd bite Stanley and
then Stanley'd be like, I don't eedly bet any more,
so he'd be like, wow, back at her right. We
took her to an aggression specialist and the trainer aggression
trainer said, uh, she'll never be normal, Like.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
I'm always so surprised when I hear that, because when
you I know her now, she's so sweet and loving
and loves humans.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
And we were like, white she goes, you cannot put
She'll grow and she'll be way bigger than your bulldog
and she'll kill your bulldog. We were just like, what
credit to Caitlin, because I didn't have a chance to
have an opinion. She's like, we're not We're not doing
that right, We're gonna and so we did. We just
we were very consistent with her, and.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
I think that says everything. And really it's like the
environment and the owners and old dogs can learn new tricks.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
Oh there's awesome. Yeah. The problem that we have now
is that we have a yard. We let her run
in all the time, but she doesn't come in the
house and eat much. And we finally figured out, well
Kaitlyn did that. She goes and kills animals and eats
them and that's why she's never hungry in the house.
She's wild. She brings them to the house sometimes like
so proud I brought you a treat. I rarely eat it.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Yeah, but sometimes when the zombie apocalypse comes, you're gonna
be glad you have.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
Ler saving them. But yeah, and she's healthy as could be. Yeah,
she was amazing, Like Stanley King Stanley all the perfect food.
Ella goes out, eats squirrels and squirrel poop and comes
back and it's just rocking.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
It's the street MutS. I'm telling you, they live forever. Okay, last,
but not least and I know for myself. But in
the safety of your own home, is there anything that
you do where people aren't watching you that you like?
(28:13):
People will do weird things, like they sing to their pets,
they'll narrate their voices. Do you have like a voice
that you do for Stanley? Anything unusual that we would
not know.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
I think what happens at my house a lot. First
thing that I do when I go home is I'm like,
where are my friends? And that wherever they are they're
two different places. They both come right to me because
they know it's it's where am my friends? Yeah, we
do friendship time. Love that as soon as I get home.
I love them so much, both of them.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
And are you like on the ground with them?
Speaker 3 (28:38):
Sometimes it depends on Kaitlyn's home or not. Okay, so
we're both. I'm very allergic to dog here. Yes, she's
allergic to dog here too.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
So is my husband. So I understand.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
And I'm doing allergy shots three times a week. Yep,
just for the dogs. They have no idea why. I
just need to learn English for five minutes so they
know what I'm doing to freaking make sure that they
can stay alive. Thought, So are we do that, then
that's not that weird. But I do. Where are my
friends and they come? But where I get in trouble
with my wife? And part of this is because you
and the headache you've created in the house. Okay. I
was like, they need to be created at night or
(29:07):
then to be in their own space. And I'm like,
they're let them live free in the house. Let them do.
But then Stanley, if they're protectors, they bark if they
see something out the windows, and I'm like, I don't
want them to be in a room, and She's like,
they need to have structure and understand. And I'll sneak
out of them all the night and let them out
and let them just live. I just don't. I get
(29:27):
so sad if they feel like they're being.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Trapped, like you don't want them to feel punished.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
So that's the weird thing that I do, is I
will sneak out if I've put them up and let
them out in the middle of the night.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
I like tiptoe around the house at many times.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
Yeah, because I have to get up at three thirty
four anyway, so she's asleep. The only time they get
me in trouble is if they see something, they start barking.
At two in the morning, you're busting. I'll hop out
of bed. There are two things that get me out
of bed. That or if I hear a dog vomit.
He said, you jump quick.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
To make sure ultimate alarm clock.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
Crazy. Yes, but that's probably the weird thing that I
do is free them from prison.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
Okay like that.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
Yeah, I break them out. But my wife Kaitlyn doesn't
like that.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Caitlin's the warden.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
Well, you're the one that told her that they had
to be liked. You said they needed to have stroug
unless she lied.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
I mean, I'm always gonna take Caaitlin's side show. I
think it's good to give structure. Yes, I don't know
that they need to be created.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
Every single created have their own little room.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Okay, well, hey, if that is what's good for her.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
For I never had a bedroom, even a bedroom growing up.
These dogs have their own rooms.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
Yeah they do. It's beautiful. They also have their own skyway.
I mean they're living the dreams.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
Oh yeah, the skyway.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
The Skyway's epic. Can we just touch on that really fast?
Speaker 3 (30:31):
Yeah? And Kaylen never had a dog growing up. Yeah, Ever,
and so for her. She was like, I'm not really gonna.
I don't know about dogs, not that she didn't like them,
she just never had one.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
Right, it's a culture shock.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
Yeah, and then you're like all of them. Yeah, but
we built. We couldn't get our dogs into the yard
and not have access to the pool. We didn't want
Stanley drowning. I've had to save them, not at this house,
but I was with them and he found the pool.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
A real concern.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
Bulldogs are just bowling balls, yes, and had to jump
in and save them. And so I was like, LA's okay,
she can swim, right, even if we don't know she
can swim. I know she can swim.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
She's a survivor.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
Stanley cannot. So there was nowhere to put them. So
we built with plywood, basically the Vegas Skybridge that comes.
We cut a hole in our garage. Yeah, like literally
cut a hole, built a platform, and they it goes
across the walkway. It's probably forty to fifty feet long,
(31:24):
eight feet high, and it goes into a side yard.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
It's the Vegas Skybridge for the listeners. If you think
he's exaggerating, like I'm here to delliy is not this.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
Is so up it and it was so rednecks. And
now we painted at the color of the house. It's
gotten there, but it was straight mountain pine, Arkansas.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
For yeah, it was. It wasn't something.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
I know.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
You've got like little traction on it so they can grit,
can get up and down.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
Yeah, and I watch I had five minutes, and people
like I wish I could talk to my dog and
know what they said. If we had five minutes, we
could understand each other. Wouldn't let them talk. I would
just tell them how good they have it. And I
built them freaking traction and it's skybridge and they need
to appreciate that.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
Crap mic drop.
Speaker 3 (31:56):
Yeah, and then it's like five minutes is up. Don't
care what they have to say as long as they
know what I was saying. Yep. But I love them.
I love and you're the best. And I know it's
got to be weird. I feel like we're friends because
I feel like we're real life friends, because there are
levels of friends. There's friends, there's buddies, and then there's acquaintances.
There's people you just know, and I feel like we're
real life friends. But when we first were like in
(32:17):
that middle area. I was like, I don't want a
text her. I knew you, Yeah, but you're a vet.
I'm sure people that you don't even know that well
that just have your number hit you up and go
look at this picture. It's his dog, okay, And that's
gotta be so annoying.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
You know, it is definitely one of the more annoying
things I'll get. Like this. Two days ago, I had
a guy I went to kindergarten with. I'm thirty three
since three decades ago, sends me up picture of his
dog's butthole, being like, what do you think this is?
I'm like, I Jackie Anderson. Sorry I just put you
on blast, but like, I haven't talked to you in
thirty years. I have no idea what's going on with
your dog's but hole? Like take it to the vet. So, yeah,
(32:51):
it can be annoying, but you know you probably get
the same thing.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
Yeah, in different ways. And I also understand that you'd
be like I want to help you, but of course
one first of all, I don't even know this number,
Like I don't know who. Yeah, it's like you have
to give them a new phone. Who dis And then
it's also like I'm so far away. I don't have
the history of your dog. Yeah, yeah, at least with mine,
like you know the dog exactly. I still feel guilty.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
Oh no, we're when we're real life friends.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
You can know. But I sing you my buttole on
accident and I was.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
Like, well, remember that, that was crazy.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
Yeah. It was an accent though, Yeah, and I made
to send it to your husband. But still whatever. You're
doing a great job of this podcast. I'm so proud
that we could get it to this point. And you're
so good at what you do, and you're so good
at what you do here too, which has been crazy
to watch. I'm annoyed because I didn't get that good
until years and you're alreadily good and that sucks so well.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
I don't know about that, but thank you for having me.
I love doing this. Your team is amazing and I
loved having you go on today.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
Yeah, she's she's okay. I love you guys, and she's
wearing some some Jordan's Low's Panda's some dunks. We went
to her h wife, Josie, doctor Josie whatever she called you,
doctor Josie, doctor Josie and her husband. We all we
were in New York together for a couple of days,
and her husband was like, I got to get some
of my tops, and that to me is awesome because
(34:11):
I love shoes.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
Yeah, he wears the same thing every single day, black shirt,
black pants and like these like weird little black shoes.
Speaker 3 (34:20):
But now as you wear his, oh it's awesome.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
He hasn't taken him off. That's like that's want to
be cool like Bobby and get cool shoes. I'm like,
I'm sure he'll take you.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
It's such a it's such a like a money pit. Yeah,
and you can never actually have them all, but it's
so it's so much fun. And anyway, thank you for
doing this podcast. And now look he's asleep.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
We have a board him.
Speaker 3 (34:38):
You got to board him. I don't know how you
end your show, so do you. I don't know if
you do like give your guest five hundred dollars or something,
but I'll let Yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
So, Bobby, thanks for coming on today. I want to
present you with this check for one point five million
dollars for Stanley's medical fund.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
Thank you. We're almost even. Then.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
Yeah, there you go, but no things are coming on
and hopefully you'll be back next season.
Speaker 3 (34:58):
Oh yeah, hopefully I reknew it for season. We'll see.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
Stay tuned everyone.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
All right, Well, that was so much fun having Bobby
Bones as our guest today on in the VETS Office.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
Always a good time, always a good time. I love time.
I love all of his takes on everything. But it's
fun to get him out of his element because I
feel like it's always artists and music and fun to
listen to him talk about something he's really passionate about.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
Yeah, and I mean if you follow Bobby on socials,
you know that his pets are huge part of his life.
So it's cool to get to hear him kind of
dive into that side of dad life.
Speaker 3 (35:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
Yeah, dad life or dad life, Yeah for sure.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
All right, Well, I'm excited to get to this part
of the show because this is always a fun time.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
So we are heading into Paw and Order. Yes, we
are here, we go, all right, Paw and Order for
this week. First on the docket, I would never give
my pet an anahistamine without chatting with my veterinarian first.
That includes Benadryl, clariton zertech and the real reason behind
(35:57):
it is we just want to make sure we never
get zertech D, clariton D anything with that D ingredient
in it, right, allegrity, Yes, okay, that's a decongestent and
one tablet can kill a dog. Yeah, well I did
not know that. Yeah a lot of times. Yeah, I
feel like you don't really.
Speaker 2 (36:14):
Vet did not specify because we had a frenchy and
she was always having allergies. Just to give her, you know,
whatever allergy medication you would take cut in half and
give her one, yes, but they did not specify.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
That is super duper important. I mean, zirtech at the
right dose is safe, yeah, and clarit to not the
right dose is safe. But anything with D on it
run the other direction.
Speaker 2 (36:36):
And is that like just in case of like bad
allergic reaction emergency or would you recommend, like if your
dog has like signs of like other sneezing and scratching,
take them into the vet and maybe there's a different option.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
Yes. So there's other medications that are prescription coming out
of the vet clinic, right, that are more tailored to
dogs and cats that are going to be way more
effective I think than just your over the counter anahistamines.
But you know, if they are having like a vaccine
reaction a mild one, and you've already spoken to your veterinarian.
Then instances like those, it's it is okay to give
(37:10):
an anahistamine at home. You just want to be one
hundred percent sure that it's the right one and the
right dose. Very important, Okay, good to know. Next is
I would never ever take my smushed face dog. The
fancy term for that is breaky cephalic to a patio
or on a long walk when it's hot outside, So
anything like higher than really like seventy eight degrees is
(37:32):
really might cutoff. When you're getting up into the eighties,
that's when it's like the danger zone. And the reason
being is we see so much heat stroke here in Nashville,
and so dogs they don't sweat like we do. They
regulate their body temperatures through their paws and through panting,
and so when their paws are on the hot ground,
there's only so much panting they can do. So I
(37:54):
mean it can be really, really really dangerous in the summertime. Yeah,
and they're panting does not quite do the job like
a upherds would exactly, like, please help me. Yeah, and
I had to break a cyphalics is that how you
say yeah, dog? And like we both did horseshows life
and stuff like that, and so I lived in Kentucky.
We used to take her to horseshoes all the time
and she literally traveled with like a cooling mat and
(38:16):
her own personal fan because I was like, everyone thought
I was so bougie, but I'm like, I can't have
her overheat. It is hot in Kentucky. That's not bougie.
That is break acephalic owner. Yes, status, like that is
the way it should be. Gold standard. I love it. Yeah,
get your little smush faced dogs a little fan and
a little cooling mat and they will love you forever.
And the shade and water. Yeah all that too. In
(38:38):
that school they made us one time, one of our
first lectures ever, they handed us all straw and they said,
plug your nose and breathe like sick the straw in
your mouth and breathe through the straw. That's how a
break acephalic like gets oxygen. Really, yeah, I was like, wow,
this is a whole new way for me to think
about it. Man, I did not realize it.
Speaker 2 (38:57):
They're so dang cute though, Yeah, I mean the amount
that they snort. You can just tell there's not a
lot of airflow happening in the nostrils, a lot of
flapping in the wind back there. All right, what's next
on pond order?
Speaker 1 (39:07):
Next, and last, but not least, is I would never
not microchip my pets. I hear a lot of owners say, well,
I don't really want a microchip, they're not really a
flight risk. And I'm sitting here right now with a
fat shuahuah in my lap like he's not going anywhere.
He would rather die than leave his mom. But sorry, biggie,
I didn't mean to body shame you. You're perfect just the
(39:28):
way you are perfect. But you never know, like things
can happen. And then there's a newer thing going on
where designer dogs like Doodles or purebreads like Golden Retrievers
are getting taken out of people's yards and then being
resold on Craigslist.
Speaker 3 (39:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (39:44):
So it happened.
Speaker 2 (39:45):
Around the corner from us once, and it was a
French bulldog, and we have a French bulldog. And I
was like, honey, do not let her outside because she
was not microchip? Well but not yet now I know,
now I've learned. But yeah, you can never be too careful.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
Oh it's inexpensive, It's easy to do, it takes two seconds,
and it could be all the difference between getting your
pet reunited with you. So I'm all all in on microchipping.
Go microchip your dogs if you have not yet. Yes, well,
thank you. All right, that's good to know, and don't
forget that.
Speaker 2 (40:16):
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Speaker 1 (40:20):
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