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big news around town and around all of your towns.

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What's going on now? And I've gotten a number of

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interviews in the last oh I'd say several days, and

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that is the cold weather. It is freezing and so

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cold that I heard that in Minnesota. Anyone living in Minnesota,

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you must give us a call here live at area

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code eight seven seven three eight five eight eight eight

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two once again that number to reach us to join

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us and talk about how cold it is is eight

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seven seven three eight five eight eight a two fifty

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below zero. Do you realize that you can't be outside

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more than three or four minutes in weather at fifty

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below zero? I heard Chicago with windchill is at nineteen

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or twenty below zero. New York is five below zero.

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I mean it is insane, and which makes it more

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insane those of us in other parts of the country,

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like sunny southern California where it's seventy five degrees. It's

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hard to even imagine what's going on. And not only

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in your minds as pet parents, but in your pets.

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Can you imagine your dog who you go to work

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and you put him outside in the backyard and he's

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chilling all day, having some fun, running around chasing his ball,

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maybe up two or three dogs or more like I do,

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and they're just having a blast. And now they're cooped

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up inside because they go outside in weather like that,

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and there is no way. I don't care what precautions

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you can take unless you build for them a covered,

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completely heated, spacious doghouse. It's going to be a tough one.

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Can you imagine how fast if you put a bowl

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of water outside for your pet, and of course they

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need their water. How long does it neat to stay

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outside before that bowl of water becomes a block of ice.

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So these are things that you have to be concerned about.

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And I just I mean, god, I was on with

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the APD Associated Press yesterday doing a whole interview on

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what do we do, how do we change our lifestyle?

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What happens to the all of a sudden sedentary lifestyle

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that we enforce on our dogs because they cannot be

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outside in this kind of weather. I mean, I don't

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even know if sled dogs can handle this. I mean,

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yeah they can. They got their natural coat, They are

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moving and they're working. You know, you're right outside and

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you're working. It's certainly not as cold, and even in

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regular freezing weather, you can pass a jogger and you

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know they're wearing their their leggings and stuff and their sweatshirt.

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But what's keeping them going is the fact that their

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body temperature is remaining elevated because of the work that

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they're doing. But if you can't sit out in a

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lounge chair and do nothing and expect to stay warm,

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and that's kind of the biggest problem, The biggest issue

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that these pets are having and these pet owners are having.

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So go ahead and you can either drop me an

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email live here at doctor Jeff Dr Jeff at petlifradio

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dot com, or don't be shy, don't be bashful. You

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can join us right here on the show and just

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go on to website pet Life Radio and you can

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just click to join the conversation. Right now. I'm the

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only speaker here. I don't like that. I want to

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see more of you, and of course give us a

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call live at eight seven seven three eight five eight

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eight eight two, and let's talk about a where you're

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calling from, how cold it is, what's changing in your

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pets' lifestyle, and even how willing are they to want

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to go outside. You know, it's interesting. I've had one

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of my clients who now lives in one of the

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cold to climates, believe it or not, in Tennessee. And

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Tennessee is not typically known to have these sub freezing temperatures.

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But it's nine degrees outside of Tennessee now, I mean,

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and I think it was. They live in Knoxville. So

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when you think about places like Knoxville, places like Nashville

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where you would not expect to see snow and it's

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nine degrees. So that dog that typically loved to couldn't

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wait to go outside in the morning, is now looking

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at the door, open door, going hello, I'm not going

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out there. You go out there. I'm staying inside the

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warmhouse and just see what's going on. And let's I

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do want to talk about for a second, because it

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it's important that we need to think about as these

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cold winters are upon us, and obviously exercise time is

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going to be decreased. What happens with the dogs over

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the course of the winter season now that they are

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getting I don't know, thirty forty fifty percent less exercise,

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less movement, less calorie burning than during the spring and summer.

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How do you make up for that lost time? What

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are some of the suggestions? And I think that I

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want to hear what you're doing, and I will give

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you some of my suggestions to help cope and end

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up not having some obese dog. Come March or April,

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when the sun starts coming out, the weather's warming up,

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and you want to get out there springtime, and you

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have a dog that just can't exercise the way they

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used to because they have those extra pounds they put

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on during the winter. So first of all comes some precautions.

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I know we've talked about this before, and I have

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to mention it because you know, when we talked about

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it earlier, it was sort of and for many of

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you it was yeah, yeah, but it doesn't get that cold.

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Well guess what it just did. It is that cold.

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So small dogs, small dogs who have relatively larger body

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surface areas per pound of body weight, they need to

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wear sweaters. They need to wear booties. They need to

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keep their feet protected and protected from the environment, the ice,

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the salt on the roads, etc. They need some sort

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of shelter from the wind, even on those quick little walks.

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So get that little dog sweater going. Larger dogs they

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probably don't need the sweater as much, unless they have

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really really short coats, unless they have poor skin condition. Remember,

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in order for skin to work the way it's supposed

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to work and the way it does work, it's like

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a thermos. It keeps you cool and protects you from

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the eat, and it keeps you warm and protects you

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from the cold. Just like if you put ice coffee

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in the thermost, it's gonna stay cold. If you put

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hot coffee in thermist, it's gonna stay hot. So it's

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that same insulation type behavior that our skin and coat

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provide for our dogs. But it's got to be a

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healthy skin and it's got to be a healthy coat.

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It's it's not gonna work up to par. So they

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can certainly handle some of the harsh cold weather, but

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as far as the feet, they still have. Unless they've

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been used to running around on hot pavement and their

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pads are well calloused, then you're gonna have to do

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something to help protect those feet. And the booties work

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great and also protect from the ice and that which

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whatever municipalities are putting down on the ground on the

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sidewalks to help melt the snow that can also serve

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as an irritant for the feet. But how do you

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keep your pets safe if they have to be outside?

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What are the precautions? What do you need to do?

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So let's start with an average dog, large dog that

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typically needs to be outside. You live in an apartment,

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you can't keep inside. My recommendation is to, especially in

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temperatures like this, keep them indoors, take them to a

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doggy daycare, a facility where they're going to be indoors,

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they're going to be safe. They get to play with

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other dogs, they get to exercise, they get to do

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their agility core, they get to run and do their

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jumping and ball playing and whatever happens at these facilities,

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they usually love them. It's kind of like being a

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day camp. Do you remember those days back when you

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were little and your parents want to get rid of you, You

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know the feeling. So what you do is you send

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your kids to day camp during the summer. Well, it's

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the same thing. Let your dogs stay in day camp.

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cannot leave them in a warm home setting. They must

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have shelter from the cold. That means, if it's windy,

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you have to provide them a true doghouse, something actually

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with walls, or you need to set up a barricade

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somewhere where they can go behind, you know, large sheets

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of plywood propped up some two by fours, covered with

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some blankets and give them the nice warm bed. They

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have to be able to escape from the wind, chill,

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and preferably something that is warm. You know, you can

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get a space heater if you have one of those

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overhead like you know, you go into a restaurant and

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you choose to sit outside. Now obviously not in Minneapolis

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at this time of year, but you've been there. And

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you can get those space heaters. You can either mount

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them on the ceiling or you get the ones that

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are on a large stand. You can find them even

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in Costco. So you want to have an area where

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they are protected from the cold. They have a space heater,

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and you can also get water dishes for your dogs

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that have a heating element within, or you can get

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these water bowls that are kind of like a hollow

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water bowl with anti freeze that is impregnated within the

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actual water bowl. So when you fill the empty bowl portion,

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it is surrounded not just by metal or stainless steel,

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but inside is liquid anti freeze and it's totally protected

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the dogs handking hold of it because it's within the steel,

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the stainless steel, and that too will help and help

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prevent the water from freezing over. And that's really really

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important because of course our pets need water when they're

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outdoor during the day, so blankets, space heater, shelter from

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the wind, something to keep the water from freezing over.

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And then you have a prayer, a chance of keeping

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your dogs protected and still be outside if that is

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absolutely essential. One of the things I like. I really

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like the idea of either keeping them indoors, you know,

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it's a treat for them sometimes, or I think it's great.

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The doggy daycare facilities. I took my dogs. It was

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a place that opened up here in LA and it

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is not just for doggy daycare. It's actually it's a

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whole exercise area and have like an agility course. And

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one of my dogs, one of my friend's bulldogs, certainly

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not the breed that one would expect to thrive and

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love running around doing all these obstacles in the agility

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obstacle course. And this dog had the best time. He

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was such a champ and he needed very little prodding

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and very little help. We just got him started. And

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he was going up these thin planks and walking across

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like a little thin platform about four or five inches wide,

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going down, jumping through hoops. I mean, he was having

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the time of his life. I mean everybody said, oh

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my god, how often do you coming? And I said, he's

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never been here before. This was it. So your dogs

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didn't have a really, really terrific time doing that as well. Anyway,

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once again, it's that time. It's our midway point in

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our show. I would love to hear from you. What

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are you doing to help protect your pets from this

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icy cold weather reaches here at eight seven seven three

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eight five eight eight eight two. Send me a quick

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email to doctor Jeff at Petlife Radio dot com and

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Speaker 2: You are here live with doctor Jeff Werber. That's me,

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host of Asked Doctor Jeff here on pet Life Radio.

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And we are a call in show, and I think

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one of the only live call in shows here on

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want to hear from you eight seven seven three eight

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five eight eight eight two. If you're really bashful, which

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I doubt it. I know you're not that bashful, and

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you want to send us an email or just join

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ahead and do so here on pet Life Radio. You

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can also send me a quick email too, Doctor Jeff.

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That's Dr Jeff at petlife radio dot com. So before

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the break, we were talking about this insanely unseasonably freezing

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weather in many parts of the country, places like you know,

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along the entire Northeast and the Midwest. It's insane Minnesota

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with wind till down to fifty below zero, Chicago, twenty

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below zero Tennessee. Who would think that Tennessee is going

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to be nine degrees I mean, that is crazy and

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unfortunately for you in those places, Fortunately for me here

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in La in southern California, we're still getting unseasably warm weather.

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Go figure. But we were talking about the real dangers.

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This is not just textbook danger. This is real dangers

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of keeping our pets outside in these ice cold, these

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freezing conditions. And it is really bad. When we are

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told that a person, if in for example, Minneapolis, cannot

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walk outside for more than three or four minutes because

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of frostbite, you can imagine what it's like for our pets.

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to make the best of it if they can. So

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if you really really must keep your dogs outside, take

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the precautions we talked about shelter from the wind, warmth,

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overhead heaters, floor heaters, some way to keep the water

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from freezing, either heated bowls or bulls that have an

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a freeze in their shells. There are certainly things to do.

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if somebody's going to be home with them, or you

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could take them to these doggy daycare facilities that have

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lots of things that they can do to keep them occupied.

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But one of the things that we know that dogs

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especially are not going to get as much of during

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this time of year than compared to warmer seasons, and

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that is exercise. So what happens, what happens to any

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of us, and the same thing happens to our dogs.

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If we are accustomed to eating a certain amount of

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calories each day and we're maintaining our weight because we

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are doing a certain amount of exercise each day or

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each every other day, or every week, whatever the case

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may be, and all of a sudden we stop doing

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the exercise, right we hurt ourselves on the tennis court,

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the basketball court, whatever it may be, and all of

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a sudden, we just can't play with the same schedule

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that we were. What happens if we are now getting

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less exercise that we cannot make up and we don't

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make adjustments in our diet. I think the answer is

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very clear, and that is we are going to pack

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on those extra pounds. Well, it's no different for our pets.

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When we have dogs, especially, they have a certain exercise

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routine and they are not able to manage that routine

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this time of year, and we don't make adjustments in

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their diet, it is going to spell trouble, weight gain trouble,

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and with that comes all the essentials, all the issues

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that come along with the added pounds, most of which

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are along many things, but much of which is going

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to be the joint and locomotive issues. So now picture this.

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You're fast forward a second. So they're putting on the weight.

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They're older dog, middle aged dog. The stress on their

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joints now is heightened because of the weight gain, and

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all of a sudden, you are anxiously awaiting for April

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springtime and it comes and what now? What you want

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to get your dog out there exercising And he's saying,

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I can't run that much anymore. My joints are hurting

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because I put on the weight. My body's hurting because

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I put on the weight. I can't do what I

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used to do last spring. And whose fault is that?

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be working harder for yourselves, to work your pets harder

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so they can just do their basic exercise routines to

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get back in shape. So it's very very important to

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plan ahead for this inevitable complication of winter and start

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cutting back on their food very very Simply work it

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out with your veterinarian how much exercise is being done.

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to talk to your vet about it. You can go

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online and check it out. It's called the Whistle and

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it is a device that is attached to a collar

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that can not only measure movement and activity, but it

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can sense signals. You can actually link it to your

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phone and you can check your phone during the day

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to see what is Rover doing right now? Is he

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sitting in that corner or is he actually running around

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moving having fun? So you know it's so funny when

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clients come into me and I say, now, what about

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during the day, just you're dog getting Oh god, during

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the day, he's outside, he's running around, he's playing, And

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then we look at the whistle and we find out

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he was sitting in a corner for four or five

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straight hours, hardly moving around. Just because they're outside doesn't

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mean they're playing and running and taking advantage of the

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fact that they're outside. It's like having the dog runs

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at a hospital or a boarding facility and you start thinking, oh, well,

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he's in a big run. It's got to be one

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pretty big run for the dog to actually run. That's

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like doing you know, laps in a lap pool that's

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only ten feet long. It's not going to happen. It's

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certainly not going to happen effectively. So what you really

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need to do is know how much exercise your dogs

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are getting, and there we know getting much less exercise

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in this weather. So start cutting back on the food.

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You might cut back fifteen percent, twenty percent. Work it

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out with your veterinarian. Obviously, if you're going to start

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cutting back, you want to do it slowly. You don't

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want to do it all at once. You don't want

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them to look at you and say, Dad, what are

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you joking? Mom? Come on, that was appetizer, where's my dinner?

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that they can't tell. You can also look into maybe

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getting a low calorie food so they get to eat

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this volume of food that they've been eating, but they

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are getting less calories in that volume. So that's you know,

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of course, very very important. And I don't know if

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you guys had a chance to listen to Doctor Bernadine

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Cruz and the show just before this, but one of

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the guests, the veterinarian, was talking about rehab centers and

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again these are phenomenal centers where you can take advantage

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of and they do obviously medical rehab, but you know,

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things indoor type exercising. A lot of them. The rehab

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centers here actually have water treadmills, so you can, because

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again space is somewhat limited, they can be inside the water.

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they're working on their joints, and they're doing it with

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the buoyancy of being in the water and also the

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water resistance. And you know, fifteen minutes spent in that

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is much more effective than say fifteen minutes on just

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a regular treadmill, or maybe even fifteen minutes at the

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dog park. So that's another option for you. But you

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really need to plan ahead to make any type of

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adjustments in what you're going to do to keep those

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unwanted pounds off your pets during this crazy weather where

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you cannot get out and exercise with the same schedule

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that you've been exercising. So once again we're here. You're

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here with doctor Jeff Werber, your host of Askabets with

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Doctor Jeff here on Pet Life Radio eight seven seven

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three eight five eight eight eight two. And remember, if

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we get you to the point of not being so

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bashful and call a question in, or if you want,

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you can go ahead and send me an email or

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just type your question in here live online. I'm sitting here,

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I'm watching the screen. We will send out a free

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pro sense product for your pet, be it a multivitamin beat,

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a dog toothpaste, toothbrush kit, or one of our glucosamine

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conjoint joint formulas, hairball remedy for your cat, a calming

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formula calming remedy. There are lots of things that we

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can send you, lots of things you may need for

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your pet. It will give you a great chance to

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try some of our wonderful products that we make for

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the Pro Sense line of pet products available at your

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local Walmart, Walgreens target our mass market stores. Once again,

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our goal was simply to bring you veterinary quality products

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at a mass market pricing level so everybody can enjoy

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helping their pets look and feel the best they can

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possibly be. So you know what you can. Even as

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we're getting towards the end of our hour or half hour,

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I would like to you to send me just an

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email to doctor Jeffykpetlife Radio dot com. They all get

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voted to me and let me know how your pets

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have been holding up during this unseasonably ice cold weather.

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So I am off next Friday morning. I'm here doing

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the show of course on Thursday. That's one o'clock pm

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Pacific time, four o'clock pm Eastern time. But we are

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heading off to the North American Veterinary Conference. This is

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the time of year, the beginning of the year where

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we get all of our conferences, so we have NAVC

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that's Orlando. Every January and that is quite a show,

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and it always boasts to be the largest of all

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the veterinary shows every year. And then in February we

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get to the Western Veterinary Conference that's in Las Vegas,

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and interestingly, they boast to be the largest veterinari conference

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of the year. So it's sort of like, you know,

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I know when the college rankings come out every year

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and there are apparently twenty five or thirty schools in

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the top ten, the whole idea being that everybody is

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claiming that they are the best. Anyway, arguably, they are

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both extremely popular, huge conferences. The question is do you

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want to escape the insanely cold and get down to

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Orlando during January or have fun in the city that

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never sleeps in Las Vegas every February. But they're great conferences.

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And what I'll do is when I come back, we

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will have lots of new gadgets, new things, new treatments

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to talk about. And that's why I love going to

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these trade shows. And then we get to go to

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the Global Pet Expo and pet Life Radio will be

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there as well, and that is marched back in Orlando,

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and this is the big trade show where all of

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the pet products. The manufacturers come to to show what's new,

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what's exciting, what new services that people can look into,

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the products you can buy to help take the best

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care possible of your wonderful pets at home. So our

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time is up. It is just pushing one point thirty.

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I will be back next Thursday to chat with you.

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Hopefully you will be much less shy, much less bashful,

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but we'll have some things to talk about. I want

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your questions. Give us a call once again here at

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pet Life Radio at eight seven seven three eight five

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eight eight eight two. I'm doctor Jeff Werber, and we'll

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see you next week.

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