Speaker 1: This pet Life Radio. Let's talk pets and here we are.
We are live both on Instagram line and on pet
Life Radio. Here for you. Sorry everybody for the change
in time. But I literally literally just landed about twenty
five minutes ago. So I was in Chicago, great town,
by the way. Everyone was warning about it and say
if it was, it was. It was fine. It was
totally fine. I was talking to one of the uber drivers.
He said, you know, there are spots like in the
south Side that could be a little tough. You know,
you wouldn't want to walk alone by yourself at night
in some of these feet. But in downtown where it's
like so bustling, it was so great there. And the
weather was amazing. Boy, it was much much. I thought
it was yesterday. Woke up to thunder lightning, pouring, pouring rain,
and literally that was like at six thirty in the morning.
By nine o'clock the sun was shining. It was crazy.
It zoomed through so fast and I was actually really surprised.
And then at night it was like, you know, it's
shorts weather. I mean, it's it's really crazy. So anyway,
it was, it was good. It was a smaller meeting
that I'm used to. Hey, deb but anyway to get
ahold of me questions? I hope you have lots of questions.
There things we can talk about. First of all here
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you any questions. You may have. One thing that I
got from this show, this trade show, it's not as
grand as I you know. I go to VMX. That's
the one in Orlando every January. There are over twenty
thousand people there. It's crazy. A month later in Vegas
in the Western Veteran Conference there's about nineteen, also twenty five.
They always battle who's got the most. The thing is
that one in Orlando. It gets more international because it's
it's on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean. It's
not that terrible to come to Florida, but I mean
to come all the way then to Nevada, it's a
little tougher so anyway, but really, really those are busy.
This one was a little bit more kind of well,
it was a lot smaller, so it was more easily engaging,
like when you want to engage these people to come
out of the booth. And also because it is a
American Animal Hospital Association hospitals. When I had my own hospital,
I was AH. It's called AHA American Animal do you
get it. Anyway, only about twenty percent of animal hospitals
in the country qualify to be AH certified. So when
you look at that way and it's rigorous, it really is.
I remember every three years we had to go through.
I mean it's soup to not say they check everything.
It's almost like a remember good housekeeping deal of approval.
That's kind of what AHA was. If you were an
AHA hospital, that means you met standards that are even
higher than your state better Medical Association boards. So it
was it was like something you can put a feather
in your cap. Yeah, I'm in AHA hospital, so you
can still be an AH member, but I'm obviously the
hospital that now is a small clinic and it's not
it's not AHA, And I don't know if I want
to be too AH again. But anyway, deb question about
ten milligram zyrtec. Okay, to use. Here's the thing, this
is my philosophy, my theory. But I've seen it again
and again and again. So first of all, is histamine
a major player in the canine allergy? And the answer
to that, you know how, I'm asking no so to
give an anti histamine against a cellular mediator that's not
involved in the allergy. It's why you're doing it. Maybe
some say maybe ten percent is histamine related. It's really
not a big player, now we know. Now, that's why
we use apple quil inside a point, it's interluken thirty
one is the equivalent of our histamine. That's what sets
up the whole bad reaction. Now, I often recommend benadru
and chlotroimaton chlorofin aimine. Why I just told you that
histamine is not a big problem. You know why. It's
because this setative effect. It does chill them out a
little bit. So it makes them a little more comfortable.
They're not as willing and eager and gone crazy because
they're just a little more chill. Now you look at
clariton and zytec, which are the non drowsy. Now, now
what you can't even you can't get any benefit from
them except maybe maybe the ten percent in any individual
dog that is histamine effected. It's stamine related. So my recommendation,
if you're gonna use an anihistamine, and I'm not against it,
make sure it's good old fashioned typhonygamine, benadrill or chlorophonaramine,
which is the chloimaton. Those are drowsy. You want the
drowsy if you're gonna use it at all. Seven month
old pop only has one drop testicle. We talk to
the said that we can just remove the one and no. Wrong, wrong, wrong.
That is terrible advice, terrible advice. Why we're more of
course for the breeding aspect and some of the behavior asks. Well,
first of all, if you leave the testicle in the abdomen, okay,
you're going to get all the behavior issues that you're
trying to avoid by neutering. But more importantly, when a
testicle is sitting in the scrotum, it is exposed to
ambient temperature roughly seventy five eighty degrees maybe during the
summer in a hot place Chicago today ninety degrees, but no,
it is much warmer than body temperature. Body temperature is
up over one hundred and it's one hundred and two
and one hundred and three up to one hundred and four. Right,
So the testicle that remains in the abdomen, that is
exposed to higher temperatures, that's what's going to cause more
likelihood a cancer of that testicle. So the reason why
if you're going to leave a testicle, leave the one
of the scrotum, all right, they can still breed what
they shouldn't because it's transmitted. And that's another If you
leave that testicle in the abdomen, they're still males, they
can still they're gonna have to stop going. They're gonna
make sperm, they get all those things, and they're gonna
pass that trait on potentially to their male offspring. It's
a lose, it's a no win, no win, no whin.
So you do not want to leave that testicle. I
think that is the breeder's answer to have you not
worried that it's okay, you're still gonna be all male.
If that's the case, white good a in the first place,
and if you only really wanted to keep a dog intact,
you would still go after the one in the abdomen
because that's the one that's at risk of cancer. So
I don't know who this breeder is, but this is
not not good advice at all, and we should definitely
do And you know, the truth is that the surgery
is not that complicated. I mean, yeah, sometimes it is.
I've gone in there sometimes and I finally found it.
Searchs and searchs and search. It was like because of
the anomaly, because of it's where it's coming from and
how poorly was developed. It was the size of like
a kidney bean. So yeah, but most of them, you
go in parapropucial right along the side of the prepuce
and you open up and it's usually sitting right there.
It's not that hard to find. So now also there's
a better argument, which I still disagree with, that if
it's in the flank. In others they got through the
anginal ring, it's sitting in the flank, you can actually
palpit it under the skin. So it made out almost
all the way just a little short of the scrotum.
Then now it's not as exposed to the same hot
body temper. It's still warmer than what's in the scrotum
because scirrel tissue, as you know, is very thin, but
it's still one could argue, if you really wanted to
argue with me, that if you're going to leave one in,
at least it's out of the body, then that would
be more likely to be okay. But I still would
not recommend it. Get your pets neutered, especially if they
are a monorchid or a crypt orchid, which means both
testicles haven't descended. Boy, what a way to get me
started on a nice Sunday morning as soon as possible.
It doesn't have to be like tomorrow, but you want
to do it in the next month or so. Yeah,
I mean, you're going to get it out anyway, but
you have to say, why did you want to newt
her anyway? For whatever reason you wanted to new her.
That's the same thing with this testicle. Whether it's because
of behavior, whether it's because you didn't want them to breed,
whether it's because aggression with other dought, whatever it is,
but you still want to get it out, all right? Roberto, Hello,
how are you so we can do it? Blake anytime? Anytime? Well,
you see, Blake, even though you're not working with us anymore,
Blake was a volunteer, so she's great, but now you're
still learning from me, which is good. Okay, So zero
tech we talked about, So let's talk about a few
other things. Unless you and you have questions, just pop
in and I'll be happy to answer your questions. But
one of the big things that we're seeing now AI
in practice, and I mean I is you know, I
use scribble VET and AI scribble Basically it records our exams.
It puts it into what's called the soap format. It
is so versatile. It can do so many different things
and I absolutely love it. It site takes gives you research
papers if you want to access them based on a
particular differential that you put. You click on it and
it works for something called life learn and it's great.
And you can do the surgeon a write up, you
do radiographic reading, you can do this format a dictation
on reviewing lab work. You can do soap format. The
three different kinds of soap format. There's a classic, there's
one that I like, which is a little bit shorter,
and then there's the specialists have their own soap format.
I mean it's really really Oh dentistry, it does the
whole dental chart, which is great. Then It also generates
a report card at the end of the visit for
the parent. It also sends an email if you want
to the parent records from another hospital. It's great. You
can basically put them all in the file. It's scansome
and you just you copy the PDF and it summarizes
them so you don't go have to go through all
the nonsense. It'll take up fifty pages of notes from
another hospital and turn it into five pages. I mean,
it's amazing. So anyway, that's a good use of AI.
I don't oh, I mean AI and radiography. Oh my god.
There are radiology companies now that will use AI to
read films and then the board certified radiologists will just
review them and you can opt for that. Obviously, if
you use the radiologist, that's going to cost more money
to the doctor, which means more money for you, and
you can opt for just the AI. And they feel
that it's really so accurate in many ways, and it
is in many ways. Secondly, you can also eye disease.
It can recognize things I mean gate analysis. I mean,
this is unbelievable. Now. Is it can replace a veterinarian?
Absolutely not. You still need those eyes. You need to
see what's in front of you. You need to feel.
You can't have a conversation, a really fast conversation individually.
Now you can ask chatch apt all sorts of things
and it'll answer you, but you can't ask a specific
thing about a pet that chatch Ept doesn't know who
it is, and that has never seen. So there's no
fear in my book. I've never seen an AI do
with surgery, draw blood, put a cathlin. So you know,
unless you want to get to the point where WEIMO
is of complete robotics, then we may be in some trouble.
But if that happens, trust me, it ain't gonna be
in the next five or ten years. And that's all
I got left in me, So I don't think I
have to worry about that. But you know, you never know.
I mean, if you have a drive alongside of WAYMO,
it's fascinating and it's really scary. It's got like a
brain of its own. I'm just shocked and amazed. But
it's so cool. Yeah, Marking, he won't stop. Now, that's
a thing, blake. If you leave that test to go in,
he's still a male. He's still gonna Mark, it makes
no sense. I would like to get a hold of
your No, there's the same thing I get when these
breeders who have you know, I think sometimes breeders, when
they become breeders, they think they just got a DVM degree,
and their vaccine schedules are so outdated, and not only updated,
it's dangerous because they're having starting these these vaccines too early,
interfering with mom's passive immunity, and you're leaving a dog
with no protection. And they're too young at six weeks
or five weeks, they're too young to make their own antibodies.
Their own immune systems aren't developed enough, so you're you're
leaving them as sitting ducks. It's nuts. So remember what
I was so insensed. I mean, I was shocked that
these people are getting this advice and breeders. So I
called this breer and I said, I was very nice,
very nice, and I said, hi, my n exact Roy,
just so one of your pups, Oh my god, what
a beautiful dog. And one day I noticed is that
you were you started the vaccines in five weeks. There's
a lot of new data out now about vaccine schedules
and when you should start and what are the ramifications
of starting too early? And I explained them to her
very nicely, and instead of saying, which I would have expected, oh,
thank you so much. That's so good to know, it
was listen here, Sonny. I've been doing this for forty years.
I think I know what I'm doing right now, and
I'm saying, Okay, that's what I'm dealing with. That's what
I'm dealing with. Someone who thinks they know everything. As
we always know, you need to know what you know.
That's important. It's more important to know what you don't know.
But what gets you to trouble is, man, you don't
know what you don't know. I e. You think you
know it. And here's a perfect example of that. So,
Todd are you doing? Come on, I'm loving I'm saying
hi to all these wonderful people. Well, it's an arthritis injection.
It's called adequine. And adequine is oh another one of
the docs talked about adequine and it's really great. It
is the original polysulfated glycos amino glycans. It's like a glucosamine.
Speaker 2: It is.
Speaker 1: It's glucosamine, but it's much more effective. So it came
from the horse world where they used to inject horses
into articularly inside the joint. And for people and dogs,
not every general practitioner knows can do that called the
joint tap and make sure they're in the joint doing
without hurting anything, without damaging cartilage. So it was left
up to the orthopods. Now we have learned that you
can use adequin intramuscularly and it does the same thing,
travels through the bloodscreen of fatic system, it hits the
joint and it does the joint. It helps rebuild cartilage,
it helps minimize some of the inflammation. I mean, it's great.
Here's what this guy said though, So normally when we
do it, we start with the first month, it's twice
a week for a month. After that you do just
once a month, almost like a boost. And what doctor
Campbell was saying, Courtney Campbell, who's great, love him. He
said that the half life is only seventy two hours,
three days, which is why you do it twice a
week when you're using it. And he said that where
did this once a month come from? It came from
the manufacturer, he thinks, because he wanted to make it
more attractive for both the veterinarian to want to use
and the client to have the veterinarian use it. You
gotta okay, but he says, if you're going to use it,
he says, in his opinion, his opinion, you really need
to do it twice a week like all the time,
and then it gets really really expensive. Now, I've had
many of my clients that have gone to this once
a month kind of a booster, and they do fine.
The argument there is when you repair the cartilage by
doing it twice a week week for a month. Now,
it doesn't ruin overnight. It's going to take a while,
so as long as you reboost it once a month,
then they feel that is good enough. So I'll have
a little chat with my friend Courtney. But that was
that's what I've heard about REGENTSA. Are you talking about
the new apple quio medication or is that the Maybe
that's the shot that they're talking about, because regents are regenerative.
If that's the case, helinette. If that's the case, I
want to look do some more homework on that. There's Librella,
which is a new pain medicine. We could talk about
that in a minute. There is adequate that to sort
of getting a rebirth. I'm not familiar with the REGENTSA
and understand that as a busy doc. Where do I
get a lot of my knowledge? Of course when I
go to these padehos, but from the drug reps. And
when I don't know about something, I'm blaming the drug
rep of that company not coming to see us, because
they should be priming us and prepping us on these
new meds. So that's important. I know there's a new
medication for like I said, dex domatur that you can
use for like a mild in office simple procedure like
going after like exploring a wound that you might have
a fox sail. We used to use dex domatoddin and
then reverse it with antecedent. But there are some issues
with that one called dex domatur because because it really
suppresses the heart rate, this new one doesn't. So I'm
gonna look into that. Let's see what natural men or
will we give a first time flying to la ah boy,
so you know anything like I have my chill, it's
valerian root, passion, flower cavmeal, melatonin, but not every dog
does well with that. But I would recommend is if
they have time, try it first, and that's natural. All
natural stuff. Also el trip to fan. Also all the
things that we know are calming. And the other thing
you can do is maybe it's not really natural, but
it's not a drug drug. Let's go back to benadrul.
You could try that anyway. Don't go away. We have
more questions to answer, and yes, Carol as you could
do better at it. It's not going to be one
hundred percent effective, but it's going to ease up some
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Speaker 1: We are back here live on cut life Radio. We're
just talking about using Klaba box. I love it. The
liquid I like a little better. But the liquid, you know,
it's really meant seven days for one cc twice a day.
It only has four fifteen ccs in it, so it
gets expensive. Pills are cheaper, but you got to do cutting,
and they're really not meant to be cut. And if
you do cut them, you got to reseal the extra
piece or put them in a blue container. That's that's
light sensitive?
Speaker 2: Is that?
Speaker 1: I mean that's gonna protect you from the light. They
are light sensitive? All right? New tablet? Oh, it's the
new tablet. What's it for? Is it for for joints?
I have to look it up. It's a chondroit and alternative. Okay, ah,
that's good. So that is something that I will have.
Do you know who makes it? MO to what manufacturer?
That's I gotta yell at some but I want to
look into more. Look, I'm not married to glucosamine. I
think there could be expensive. My flex is much more
reasonable than some of the daccine products out there, but
it's I'd like to look into it, all right. So
here's a good question. Do I do or recommend what
I recommend non Naniseason dentals. If a dog seats have
very mild yellowing so it's not really caked in, here's
what I do. I look at the gums. If the
gums are good and it's a young dog who doesn't
have a lot of tartar built up, and it's a
good dog, and I can maybe get by with justin
maybe dextmatotdine or so or this new drug, then absolutely.
It's when you have really bad dental disease and pario
donal disease that you need to get under the gums,
then I highly recommend. I can't require anything for your dog.
You have to make that choice, but I highly advise
an I Seesa dentals. Now for those it's getting expensive,
and I'm not as crazy as some of these other places.
I'm getting quote for a basic dental of fifteen hundred
two thousand dollars. It's crazy, but I would do maybe
every other So if you want, if you if you're
really good, I'll tell you the best solution. Start brushing
your dog's teeth on a regular basis, at least every
other day, if not every day, and you won't need
these dentals every six months or four months. And you know,
I'm just telling you it will make a big difference.
It's the only thing of all these things out there
and the additives and whatever and the food, the best
way to keep your dog's teeth in check is via
brushing them. We can talk more about that anytime. So yeah,
so yeah, the chill is great for that. I would
do that. So I have to look and see if
I have chilled at my office to buy now, he
says Sharon, she will brushing teeth. Well, you know what,
next time you're in, I will show you my trick.
It works ninety five percent of the time. You might
be it might be one of the five, but it works.
I'm like almost almost one hundred percent now right. So
you have four dogs right now brushing their teeth. Well,
you know you do do it every other day, and
do two at a time, so Monday will be two Tuesday,
or the other two Wednesday. The first two to Thursday
and on. That might be a solution for you. How
sushi doing lays cam. Okay, yeah, see as soon as
Sharon absolutely all right, So we talked about AI. Back
to AI, so that seems a hot area. We're seeing
a lot of it. And then now we're also seeing
I mentioned about the medication that we use for mild sedation.
We're seeing a lot. Hey JB. We're seeing a lot
of I would say copycash, that's the wrong term. A
lot of companies out there that are seeing in need
and sometimes it's hard. So Philbro not familiar with them.
Maybe that's why. It's a glucosamine twenty milligrams. It's a
nine romel domin diabetes and seeing some results in flexibility.
That's good. I'll look into it. It's not one of
the key I would say key common pharmaceuticals that we
use in veteran medicine, but that doesn't mean anything. It
could be fine aluis small dog or lars what h
So they be neuter for spall. Okay, now now we're
getting to a little bit more philosophical discussions for spaye.
If it's a small breed and you want to get
the most protection from memory cancer, still doing it as
soon as you're adult teeth are in. It's six months,
six and a half months before the first heat, is okay. However,
I am more of an advocate because of other problems
we're seeing in dogs that were spade before they even
out of heat, such as you're nearine continence as to
get older, and there may be a correlation or not,
but statistically that's what many of us see. I'd let
her have one heat. Now, do we want to have
a second heat? No? Do we want to be bred
on that first heat?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: So the reason for that is the memory cancer prevention.
It is very very high. If you've spade it before
the first heat. It does drop a little bit if
you let it have one heat, but get them spade
before the second heat. If they have a second heat,
whether it's a second heat or fifth or tenth heat,
it's not going to make a difference. So it's not
like a gradual scale, you know, a little bit less
little risk. It's like ninety eight percent to eighty eight,
ninety percent to zero percent. So the max max is
one heat, but you spayed them before the second heat,
do not let them have that second heat? Now? Wow.
Jbjanis Xena is seventeen years old. That is unbelievable. That
is so cool. Wow, I've never had one that old.
You will, many of you know. My black lab made
it to sixteen and a half, which is kind of
like seventeen for small breed. But seventeen, well, happy birthday
to Zena Piani's that's great. That's great. So now as
far as gootering, there are a lot of sex related
maturation that I like to see, more so in the
larger giant breeds. So with a small breed, I'll do
it as soon as there you can. As soon as
their adult teeth in, you can do it. I may
you know, ten months, twelve months, that's fine. The large
breeds I kind of liked eighteen months, and the giant
breeds I kind of like two years. Now that's just me. Now,
if someone for some reason wanted to get their giant
breed done it at a year and a half, that's
probably okay. But I want, you know, the thing with
the big dogs, they mature more slowly, but they age
more quickly, So I want to get that full maturation
before I knewed her. So we're talking about the giant breeds.
You know that, you know what they are. I just
for example, how a dog go in this week? Kind
of corsos the Newfoundlands Brazilian mastiffs called Brazilian feelies. Oh,
let's see new fees. And there's a breed that I
actually saw today one of my neighbors had and it's
a Perinian mastiff. So these are all giant, giant breeds,
Great Danes, Irish wolfhounds, large breeds, and the labradors, the shepherds.
You know a lot of the hunting dogs et cea
that I will do my year and a half. So
but again, something you just you got to talk to
your vet see what they say. I'm sure you know,
line up five different veteran arerans, you're gonna have ten
different opinions. It's just the nature of the beast. So
pardon the pun. All right. We have a four year
old Siberian with dormant Faelvi. When we first got to
our vet, she said it was mac two years to live.
What can we expect? They said it was a dee okay,
so if it was FeLV, then that is tough. I
would say that we see that with f Iv FIV,
we were over worried at the beginning. I've had many
cats live on what we should do. I don't know
if it's done since is well. First of all, as
the old expression goes, don't argue with success. So if
things are going well, sit back and relax and enjoy.
Was she ever retested as an adult after that terrible
diagnosis was made? Because that's what I would do. Sometimes
we take these cats very young in testine that will
have been exposed, so their test can show positive, but
their own immune system beats the virus, which is what
we're looking at. In almost every viral case. There's no
drugs we can always use. Sometimes that are new antiviral
drugs that we're seeing more and more of. But I mean,
look look just four four one five two four what
that's done for FIP. I mean, it's literally killing the virus.
It's amazing. But if we can prime the body to
beat its own virus, that's the answer. So sometimes with
these dogs, they weren't mature enough at the first test,
and that's why I often wait until at least four months,
maybe sometimes five or six months to do the test
because I want to make sure and an even if
it comes back positive and the cat's very healthy, I'll
do another one in two or three months, just to
make sure. So t an easy test to run, not expensive,
could be done in house. So that's what I'd recommend,
all right. Would I get cataract surgery for my dog? Yes,
as a short answer, but under conditions. First of all,
it depends on the age of the dog, how long
the dog's been with the cataracts. Are they truly causing
stress and anxiety in the dog, or if there was
a slow, slow progression of disease, then they're usually pretty good.
They know where everything is, they pick up the sense. Remember,
dogs' eyes are the worst. Their taste is amazing, hearing
is amazing. In their nose, it's unbelievable. So as far
as a sense a century feature the eyes, could they
do without? Yes, I see many many blind dogs now.
Having said that, if I have a dog with bilateral cataracts, oh,
I should preface. If the only one, I would say
hold off. The osthalmologists want to always do both at
the same time, And all they did is one high
And my feeling is if you do one and it
seems to work, great, and if it doesn't work, you
can always do the other one. There is obviously it's
going to be less expensive to do both the same
time because you have an extended anesthesia, but it's not
a full anesesia second time around. In my mind, it
would be worth it. But if you are ready and
want to do both, just so you know, they can
do both, but still only one is going to take.
One's gonna work. Now. Also, what they're doing when it
comes to cataract surgery and dogs, they are implanting a lens,
so they're taking out the cataractus lens implanting a new lens.
And interestingly, some of these dogs therefore, because remember dog
lenses were not that great, so now they're getting a
lens that's better. So they can see better with that
implanted lens than they ever could before the cataract surgery
or before the even developed. So I mean there's something
to it. I would speak to a federal phomologist, get
you know, all the good news, the bad news, all
the down and dirty and then and the costs involved,
and then make a decision. Oh, Nala, Nala's great. Oh
my god, Blake, thanks for asking. Nala did that. That
was a very large pit bull that had American pit
bull across. I think it was anyway, had a terrible
pio and the piem ruptured. It was like it was
such a mess. We but drains. We flushed the abdomen
a zillion times. We always say dilution is the solution
to pollution. So when you have a septic abdomen and
you want to flush it and flush it, try to
get all that bacteria out. Anyway, she did great, Thanks
for asking. She still doesn't love us very much, but
she did amazingly well. Life with the coreysa hello, Hello.
She's been retested twice and it's been dormant ever since.
We haven't retested since she was two. She's four. Now,
you know, Look, you can do one more test. But
let's put this way, because she's doing well. Is the
result of that test going to change anything. If it
comes back negative, you'll be happier, but it's not gonna
change her. Life's just still limited as long as you
want it to. If a test comes back positive still
but she's been dormant and acting fine, then nothing you
do anyway. So I'm a firm believer when you are
thinking about taking a test of any kind unless you
have this burning desire to know the answer. But it's
just you know, you can take it as long as
you know that if you're not gonna change. That's why
I'm kind of against, not against. I don't push people
into brain MRIs because if there's something going on that
you've narrowed it down and it seems like it's coming
from the brain and you do an MRI, what's she
gonna show you? Ah, they supposed to illusion. Now what
are you gonna do. If you're gonna do radiation, if
you would consider some sort of surgical procedure, if it's
even surgical, then yes, do the test. But if you
said no, I'm not gonna spend thousands of dollars on radiation,
I'm not gonna do a brain sort whatever it is,
then unless you have a burn design to no, don't.
Don't waste your money on the test. All right, Next
up van their pumps. Hi, guys, we're just talking back
to this weekend. Something going blind, you know, if well,
if it's a cataract, it already is blind. But yes,
if that's what your goal is, then of course, talk
to the ophthalmologists, get the one eye, two eyes, whatever,
and proceed. If the dog was miserable because of it,
proceed if the dog was getting long and like the
old joke, just don't change around the furniture. But if
they are manipulating or getting through everything, they're happy, they're
going on their walks. Then most of the times, unless
they're a diabetic cataract, we see them when they're they
get a character as a very old dog. So you
got to keep that in mind as well. See your
dog's eyes. Well, it depends. Drops for what if there's
some sort of conjunctive itis, if there's discharge, yes, they're drops.
Are there drops to help slow down cataract formation? Someone
told me there is something to go out there. I
can look into it, but that's that's a question for
another show. All right. Recommend to large dogs. They don't
get that flip belly. Okay, so you're looking at GDV
a gastric dileitation of volvulus, which causes that big bloat.
It is potentially deadly if you don't get to it
soon enough on a routine basis. God, if it's been
in the family line, then I would during a spay
one hundred percent offer it. That's the best time to
do it because you already have the abdomen opened. It's
an extending the decision cranial just a little bit. You
tack the right side of the stomach to the right
body wall and that will keep it locked so it
can't flip. That A no brainer, a neuter, especially now
that we're doing laser neuters, we're doing them in with
in the scrotum. It's a whole nother surgery and it
makes it more expensive. Is it wrong? Absolutely not. However,
I will tell you and I don't do it, but
some of the facilities now can do it with the laparoscope.
So they could do a laparoscopic tacking of the stomach
to the body wall, which is expensive, but it is
much less on the body as far as the train
on the body. You're not doing a full abdominal incision.
You're not digging in there, you're moving stuff out of
the way. And so if money was no object, or
you it was within a budget you can handle, and
you wanted to do it, I would recommend laproscopic. That's
a really good question. You know what, let me you know. Blake,
my cousin, is a retired cat vet. He was one
of the first veterinarians in the country to go all
feline at the time people thought he was nuts and
now it's not common. But there are dozens about hundreds
of feline only practitioners across the country. Let me call them.
That would be a great question to ask, and then
I'll get back to you. Nor for senior dog's eyes
become a bit lighter, Okay, Yes, that we're talking about.
That's a normal age change called lenticular or nuclear sclerosis.
It's a scarring of the lens capsule. The lens get capsuled,
it's a little thicker, it reflects. Therefore light not all
the light penetrates through, so we see that lightest blue
hayes when you look at the pupil. That's normal. So yeah,
I'm not worried. In order for that in normal cases,
I mean, there are exceptions to every rule, as you know,
but in normal cases, my tagline is in order for
that process to completely obstruct vision, to form a cataract,
it's a precataractus condition. By definition, it's evolving the lens,
but it's not the inside lens, it's the lens capital.
But anyway, the dog we have to live to about
thirty five or forty, so obviously that's not gonna happen,
so we don't usually worry about it. I would not
recommend any kind of surgery if the only problem. And
these dogs don't get blind, but you might notice in
low lights they might have some vision impairment, but they're
basically Okay. Remember when you come in half at night,
they're not looking at you, they're smelling you. Okay. I
think I waived everybody, and you guys are been great today.
Thanks for coming on an hour later. I do appreciate it.
Thank you pet Life Radio. Thank you Mark for hanging
out there with me and go let me go overboard.
And next Sunday we will be here, Yes, same same time,
same channel here on bet Life Radio and Instagram Live.
Thank you so much for being a part of the
show today. And oh, oh my god, what's that. I'll
have to think about that, Blake. We'll talk about it
next week. I wrote my most rewarding case that reminded
me of why I want to remember that. I mean,
we can talk about it. I'll tell you what next week. Okay,
very good, see you guys next week. Have a wonderful week.
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