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Speaker 3: Hey there, and welcome to pet Peeves on Pet Life Radio.
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Speaker 3: nothing but joy. Dogs, play fetch, get along with the
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Speaker 3: Welcome back to pet Peeves on pet Life Radio and
Speaker 3: please help me. Welcome doctor Marty Becker, his latest book,
Speaker 3: Your Cat, The Owner's Manual, was published in May of
Speaker 3: this year, twenty twelve, and it's best selling companion Your Dog,
Speaker 3: the Owner's Manual is now out in paperback. In fact,
Speaker 3: Marty has written more than twenty books in all, and
Speaker 3: he's been a contributor to Parade Magazine, Readers, Digest, and
Speaker 3: ARP dot com. Welcome to the show, Doctor Becker.
Speaker 4: You know what, my friend jaf Amy, we could almost
Speaker 4: fill a bookshelf. You've done more than I've done between
Speaker 4: as we can put one show for about anybody, any
Speaker 4: pet owners library, couldn't.
Speaker 3: We Well, I think so, and a couple of them
Speaker 3: we did together, which was great fun with the chicken
Speaker 3: soup books.
Speaker 4: I love your books too, and you know, we're both
Speaker 4: like minded. We love people in the prevention and I
Speaker 4: think that's one of the good things about this tour
Speaker 4: is that it's you know, sure it's been it's sponsored
Speaker 4: corporately to have great products, you know, away and adaptable.
Speaker 4: But the American College of Veterinary Behavior, so that is
Speaker 4: not easy to get and I think a lot of
Speaker 4: times people don't realize there's over one hundred board certified
Speaker 4: veterinary tennis in the United States. There's only about fifty
Speaker 4: give or take a few. Might be a few more
Speaker 4: than that now veterinary behaviorists. But you know people like
Speaker 4: myself that you know, I don't just play a veteranor
Speaker 4: on TV. I'm a practice in veterinarian and I'm a
Speaker 4: right newspaper column and do media as you do. And
Speaker 4: I have a great interest in behavior. My daughter's a trainer.
Speaker 4: But we lean on these veterinary behaviors definitely ourselves when
Speaker 4: we have trouble with cases or need you know, some
Speaker 4: specialized expertise.
Speaker 3: It is out there right, And I wanted to ask
Speaker 3: you also because I always ask all of my guests
Speaker 3: before we start anything else, is tell us about your
Speaker 3: pets first, what pits? Share your heart and maybe your pillow.
Speaker 4: Well, well, your your intro was so right on, and
Speaker 4: I think sometimes people think America's veterinarian. Wow, I'd love
Speaker 4: to just have a you know, surveillance camera there and
Speaker 4: just everything works at his house and in reality, I'll
Speaker 4: give you the skinny first of all, all of our
Speaker 4: pet all of our animals even are thin. Our horses,
Speaker 4: our dogs, our cats, they're all with their ideal body weight.
Speaker 4: That I can say with all honesty, and it's not
Speaker 4: easy when you get everything from barncats to you know,
Speaker 4: laptop bull mix. But that's a priority for us to
Speaker 4: keep everything thin. So it's a matter of how much
Speaker 4: you feed, how you feed, what you feed. You know,
Speaker 4: we do portion control. We use food puzzles and very
Speaker 4: careful there for the most part. Everybody's got really good
Speaker 4: dental care before the tour on your cat the owner's manual.
Speaker 4: My wife does daily oil care and our dogs and
Speaker 4: has their entire lifetime, and that means she brushes their
Speaker 4: teeth every day once a week's uses an oral sealant.
Speaker 4: She gives dfle treats, so you know, she does the
Speaker 4: whole thing. The CET toothpaste and then the enzymemenpregnated ct us.
Speaker 4: Before this last tour, I never did anything for the cats.
Speaker 4: I mean they were they'd never seen a toothbrush, they
Speaker 4: never were going to never see one. And we discovered
Speaker 4: some enzymeenpregnated chowes for cats et oral hygiene choose and
Speaker 4: the cats. I had cats on there that you know.
Speaker 4: Amy eve been doing the media a long time too,
Speaker 4: and a lot of times, just like kids and pets,
Speaker 4: they want to see their kids and they're on TV right.
Speaker 4: So these producers or these directors would say, Okay, you're
Speaker 4: coming to this city on this tour, and I'm going
Speaker 4: to bring Sparky and oh she's just so easy going.
Speaker 4: She did the love Bug. And then we get ready
Speaker 4: to do the segment and I see the carrier over
Speaker 4: there's just rumbling, sounds like a bowing cecient in there.
Speaker 4: Oh God help me. So we'd spray a little the
Speaker 4: way in there and on set eight out of ten
Speaker 4: times they could give them that dental chew and they
Speaker 4: would they get eat it on camera. May a bleeve
Speaker 4: out of me. So now we do daily oral care.
Speaker 4: So here's the good part. Then, daily oral care for
Speaker 4: dogs and cats. I'll tell you what we do wrong.
Speaker 4: First of all, without all of all, the dogs look
Speaker 4: at the mouth, which you're not supposed to do. So
Speaker 4: we let them give us kisses like a teen nine
Speaker 4: tonsil swap, even though we've seen them excavate to fight.
Speaker 3: Gopher out of the ground and drink out of the toilet.
Speaker 4: Drink out of toilet and come out of the crowd
Speaker 4: with the green grin. Yeah. As far as the behavior,
Speaker 4: it's you know, we're supposed to be places they can't
Speaker 4: get on like our new leather couch, and sure enough,
Speaker 4: you know, once a day they're up on the couch
Speaker 4: whether they're not supposed to be. There's one bed in
Speaker 4: the guests bedroom that's got an heirloom quilt on it.
Speaker 4: They're not supposed to go in there searing up. They
Speaker 4: sneak in there, and we've got The worst thing is
Speaker 4: when somebody we live in a remote part of North Idaho,
Speaker 4: and if the doorbell rings or somebody comes in ups
Speaker 4: that X. I call it the sixteen pound doorbells because
Speaker 4: those two dogs come alive then and then about with
Speaker 4: about a three minute warning before they arrive. And so
Speaker 4: you know, I gave up trying to do the thing
Speaker 4: where they bark to alert us and then they go
Speaker 4: sit by the door. Idea, I'm doing an interview ago,
Speaker 4: they're going to sixteen pound doorbells and yes, so really great.
Speaker 4: I mean they sleep in bed with us. You know,
Speaker 4: we have a battle of the fur, just like everybody
Speaker 4: else does. But the two important things that you've heard
Speaker 4: me talk over the years and write about are their
Speaker 4: ideal body weight and we do do daily world care.
Speaker 4: And because of that, they're going to live thirty percent longer.
Speaker 3: Yeah, my juvenile delinquent five year old German shepherd is
Speaker 3: ideal body weight. The fourteen year old cat is as well.
Speaker 3: I wish I had the ideal body weight that they do.
Speaker 3: That's the problem there. And Mary, I wanted to ask
Speaker 3: you also as a veterinarian, because a lot of people,
Speaker 3: I think don't really get this. Can you actually separate
Speaker 3: health from behavior? I don't think you can, now, you know.
Speaker 4: And I'm just as soon as you say that, I'm thinking, Okay,
Speaker 4: exam examiner Becker, what do you do? I was just
Speaker 4: at a large veterinary of conference of Central Veterinary Conference
Speaker 4: in Kansas City, and I talked about creating a fear
Speaker 4: free practice. And a friend of ours, doctor Karen Overall,
Speaker 4: the board certified veterinary Behaviors, I love her. I listened
Speaker 4: to her over two years ago and she made this comment,
Speaker 4: Fear is the worst thing a social species can experience,
Speaker 4: and it causes permanent enmage to the brain. And in
Speaker 4: that instant I saw five hundred pounds of human holding
Speaker 4: down a seven to ten pound cat. And that has
Speaker 4: happened inside many a veterinary hospital. And it happened inside
Speaker 4: many a laundry room at a home to people trying
Speaker 4: to give catin bill and so I saw the obligation,
Speaker 4: saw the opportunity to change things. And now what you
Speaker 4: can do is we wanted to where it's not only
Speaker 4: not the worst thing that happened this year, it's probably
Speaker 4: one of the better things that happened this month. Is
Speaker 4: becomes of the vet. It's a combination of the carriers,
Speaker 4: fun furniture, it's a combination of using pheromones feel the
Speaker 4: way for the cats, adaptable for the dogs and the carriers.
Speaker 4: When they come in, it smells like a It's almost
Speaker 4: like a bong at a college party that's in the room.
Speaker 4: You walk in and then you smell something. You know
Speaker 4: what I want it to This is not humans don't
Speaker 4: smell it, but just the dogs and cats. Like all area,
Speaker 4: we do weight management as in Wai. So the cat,
Speaker 4: you're immediately taken to a room. We actually tell the
Speaker 4: owners there and you're going to actively do nothing for
Speaker 4: ten minutes. That sounds like a paradise, which you're going to.
Speaker 4: We're going to have you. We know it's about that
Speaker 4: long for the cat. You can press. Here's when I
Speaker 4: add to some stuff about creating a fear free visit.
Speaker 4: And then you turn the carrier away from pointing towards
Speaker 4: the wall, the little food trail, a little catnip to
Speaker 4: encourage it to come out. You know, I could go
Speaker 4: on and on, but if what you want to do
Speaker 4: by that, if that cat comes in in a more
Speaker 4: fear free way, then the results that you get are
Speaker 4: going to be more accurate as the veterinarian. So now
Speaker 4: I'm going to know that's a more authentic heart rate,
Speaker 4: that's a more authentic temperature. And you know, now the
Speaker 4: cat's not so jazzed up that it buzzing with adrenaline,
Speaker 4: and it no longer expresses any pain when you move
Speaker 4: the right shoulder. So it's better all the way around.
Speaker 4: And I happen. You know, this is America's veteran and talking.
Speaker 4: I am exceedingly good in the examer Once I leave
Speaker 4: the exam room, not so good. There's others thousands of
Speaker 4: others that are better at me, at internal medicine, surgery
Speaker 4: and everything. But I'm a detective in that exam room,
Speaker 4: and I know I got to look at obvious problems
Speaker 4: to potential problems, and I'm going to dig, dig for
Speaker 4: these behavior problems and find out, you know, there any
Speaker 4: behaviors that you'd like to prove upon, and we know
Speaker 4: the common ones that they're facing.
Speaker 3: What are the common ones?
Speaker 4: Well, for cats, you know, it's not using the litter box,
Speaker 4: it's destructive client, it's inner cat aggression. And you see said,
Speaker 4: I mean, I wish I could maybe I'm have a
Speaker 4: tape of this or go online and listen to this
Speaker 4: because your intro was perfect about those kind of things.
Speaker 3: This will be online so you I'll send you the
Speaker 3: u URL and you can use it however you want.
Speaker 4: Oh, it's perfect, you know. And what we do is
Speaker 4: these there's so much that happens when we're away that's
Speaker 4: perfectly normal in the cat world. You know, there's one
Speaker 4: cat in the human world. We teach every know. I
Speaker 4: got a two and a half year old granddaughter with
Speaker 4: on this trip. We tell her, you know, you know,
Speaker 4: one person, one vote, you're as poorting as everybody else
Speaker 4: in the cat world. It's not one cat, one vote.
Speaker 4: There's always a benevolent dictator. That's what you hope for. Anyway,
Speaker 4: it's a benevolent dictator, not a not an abusive dictator.
Speaker 4: But what would it be like if every time I
Speaker 4: wanted to go to the bathroom.
Speaker 3: I thought I was going to get beat up exactly.
Speaker 4: And then these ones that you know, just I met
Speaker 4: somebody on the tour that she couldn't figure out why
Speaker 4: her cat was doing as destructive behavior. And then she
Speaker 4: finally set up kind of some kind of events thing.
Speaker 4: A neighborhood cat would come up to her window and
Speaker 4: back up key on the picture window while the inside
Speaker 4: cat was watching. So her solutions. You probably never heard
Speaker 4: this one, Amy, I'd never heard it. She took lasting
Speaker 4: forks like you'd have at a picnic, and took gorilla
Speaker 4: duct tape and duct tape the whole row of forks
Speaker 4: on the outbus cat couldn't back up the window.
Speaker 3: That's wonderful.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I you ever heard of that one?
Speaker 3: Never heard that one before. That's great.
Speaker 4: Oh just where well first he said it works pretty well.
Speaker 4: It helps.
Speaker 3: Yeah, those cats can be determined long distancing yes, yes, well,
Speaker 3: and for dogs, you know, here in North Texas this
Speaker 3: is the first week of school, so you have the
Speaker 3: kids are gone, the dogs are maybe there's some separation
Speaker 3: behaviors going on there.
Speaker 4: You know. I was in Kansas City that inventory commence
Speaker 4: this week walking down on the beautiful plaza down there,
Speaker 4: and here come two Great Danes, big great danes, one
Speaker 4: hundred and fifty pounds Great danes, nice and thin though
Speaker 4: I like that, and a little chihaha Bella. She was
Speaker 4: five pounds, so two hundred and fifty pound dogs, one
Speaker 4: five pound dog and the one dog. The dog had
Speaker 4: terrible skin problems, and I was telling her, she goes,
Speaker 4: you know, it's just a lot. It can kind of
Speaker 4: you get sun countable. Sometimes it'll cut of mouth bite,
Speaker 4: and so here's a perfect example. I was talking to
Speaker 4: her about environmental allergies and skin issues and all kinds
Speaker 4: of issues of pain that could cause the dog to
Speaker 4: bite and to have that impression. It was just in
Speaker 4: such severe discomfort and pain. So I talked about getting that,
Speaker 4: and then we also talked about the fact that the
Speaker 4: dog is very bonded to her when she leaves it.
Speaker 4: It's actually gone through a window twice, oh gosh, the
Speaker 4: window to get her. And we talked about you know,
Speaker 4: separation anxiety being a real, you know, a real situation,
Speaker 4: and we have a dog at home and has separation anxiety.
Speaker 4: She's a little and I'll come back to these danes
Speaker 4: in a second. But her name is Cora and she's
Speaker 4: a Umpei carrier because she's Pomeranian Sharpay and Karen terrier,
Speaker 4: one of those weird Kinane cloud come from a life
Speaker 4: of being in an age two years at somebody's house.
Speaker 4: First year she was in the house, second year outside
Speaker 4: in the cage for two years. Third year was adopted
Speaker 4: by you know, taking to PetSmart, and then we adopted her.
Speaker 4: But she had a shoe fetish man. She would not
Speaker 4: go in a cage. She had a you know, we
Speaker 4: call her shoe boxer, a Melta Barcos because she worked
Speaker 4: our shoes over like crazy soul Amelda Barcos. We started
Speaker 4: her on Reconcile, which is doggye prozac. It's it's in
Speaker 4: a form that's really flavorable. You know, flox a teen
Speaker 4: or generic prozac is extremely bitter. But did a bond modification,
Speaker 4: which you've done with pet where you desensitize them and
Speaker 4: no more drama in coming and going and take the
Speaker 4: keys and rattle them and put them away and he
Speaker 4: goes car up off, do all the things. But she's
Speaker 4: ninety five percent better with separation anxiety because of the
Speaker 4: bond modification. Now as she goes into her cage, you know,
Speaker 4: we throw trees in there from time to time. We
Speaker 4: splits it liberally with the pheromones. So she's got the
Speaker 4: adaptyl in there and feels like she's back with little
Speaker 4: Mama and does really well. But this little great Dame,
Speaker 4: I was telling her, you know, one of the world's
Speaker 4: top better behaviors. Doctor Wayne Hunhausen's probably a mile from
Speaker 4: where she lives. Wow, didn't know that there's help there.
Speaker 4: And I said, you know what, with some chemical crutches
Speaker 4: and some training in working with you know, this can
Speaker 4: be a lot better, a lot better not just for
Speaker 4: for the dog, but for you. This family of building
Speaker 4: they can't leave. And so there's a perfect example right
Speaker 4: there where you said you can't separate behavior and metas
Speaker 4: they go hand and hand, you first out a look.
Speaker 4: Does this pet is it uriname because it's eur ain
Speaker 4: infection or urinamme because it has anxiety? Or does it
Speaker 4: have both? Or is it nothing with the pet? Everything
Speaker 4: to do with the owner of miss reading signals and
Speaker 4: confusing this path.
Speaker 3: That's fascinating and we're going to have to take a
Speaker 3: break here. But we're going to continue our conversation with
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Speaker 3: We're back again and speaking with doctor Marty Becker about
Speaker 3: the Keep the Love Alive behavior Express Tour, sponsored by
Speaker 3: Siva Animal Health and the American College of Veterinary Behaviorists.
Speaker 3: Doctor Becker is lectured at every single VET school in
Speaker 3: the United States, and he's been named Companion Animal Veterinary
Speaker 3: of the Year by the Delta Society and by the AVM.
Speaker 3: A he practices, he says, when he schedule a house
Speaker 3: at two veterinary hospitals in North Idaho, because as you
Speaker 3: can tell, he loves ve medicine, he loves pets, and
Speaker 3: he loves the people who care for him. Marty, I
Speaker 3: wanted to ask you, is everything we've talked about before,
Speaker 3: This is why you became involved in the Keep the
Speaker 3: Love Alive behavior Express Tour and tell us what does
Speaker 3: the l O VEE acronym stand for?
Speaker 4: Well, love is leaning on veterinary expertise perfect and we
Speaker 4: know you know, I don't need to regurgitate the statistics,
Speaker 4: but you just know that most pets are they don't
Speaker 4: meet a faith that's old age, or they don't meet
Speaker 4: a faith that's medical or an accident, it's because of
Speaker 4: behavioral problems. And I can tell you I've been a
Speaker 4: veteran for over thirty years and I have never, not
Speaker 4: once still had an owner come in and say, you
Speaker 4: know what, we had an incredible dog and cat. We
Speaker 4: were a lousy owners, so you know, Sata, we're going
Speaker 4: to get rid of it. Never it's always something well,
Speaker 4: you know, we had the dog from hell, you know,
Speaker 4: the cat and the crazy cat, and we try, we
Speaker 4: just couldn't do it.
Speaker 3: It's never their fault that or we're moving, or that
Speaker 3: suddenly the kids, after twelve years are allergic.
Speaker 4: Right, and you know, the one thing for you as
Speaker 4: a trainer, my daughter as a trainer, And this is
Speaker 4: the same formebody starts a weight loss program or anything else.
Speaker 4: Five percent of the people complete things as directed. Most
Speaker 4: people don't do everything that you need to do get
Speaker 4: over the behavior problem. So I want to be part
Speaker 4: of something where it shines a light on the villains
Speaker 4: of the veterinary profession to help and whether it's helped
Speaker 4: directly through prescriptions or through you know, behavior training, or
Speaker 4: passing somebody off to somebody in the area that is
Speaker 4: really knowledgeable. And I always got frustrated there was a
Speaker 4: certain individual out there on TV that had this gift,
Speaker 4: that one person has this gift to bend the minds
Speaker 4: and the will of dogs, and when in reality, you know,
Speaker 4: there's ten thousand people across the United States that are
Speaker 4: trained and certified that have the ability to help people
Speaker 4: with offers with their dogs and cats and working in
Speaker 4: conjunction with their veterinarians.
Speaker 3: So and I think that's really key is as you
Speaker 3: said earlier, there are only a handful realistically of veterinary
Speaker 3: behaviors in the world. So you may not have doctor
Speaker 3: wayn Hunhausen in your backyard or you know doctor Karen
Speaker 3: Overall or somebody that you can consult with, but your
Speaker 3: home veterinarian may have the expertise directly themselves or be
Speaker 3: able to refer to. You know, I get veterinary referrals
Speaker 3: all the time, but I always tell my clients when
Speaker 3: was the last time your cat or your dog saw
Speaker 3: the veterinarian. Tell me that your veterinarian has said your
Speaker 3: pet is healthy first and or is not healthy first,
Speaker 3: and we can work together to try to solve some
Speaker 3: of these issues.
Speaker 4: I had a cat the other day that came in
Speaker 4: because it was biting, and they thought I practiced of
Speaker 4: that last and last Tuesday, and this cat came in
Speaker 4: because it's been biting, and they were, you know, think
Speaker 4: about giving the cat up. Actually, probably we're going to
Speaker 4: give the cat up. And when I did them, you know,
Speaker 4: I started to you know, we did all the things
Speaker 4: for free. You know, they had they had to feel
Speaker 4: away and the cakim in calm. Really the feel away
Speaker 4: really helped in there and it come out on us.
Speaker 4: So at the times they come in there, you know,
Speaker 4: it was pretty relaxed. And this is something interesting on
Speaker 4: fear free. Rather than going tip of the nose to
Speaker 4: the tip of the tail, we do the opposite with cats. Yeah,
Speaker 4: so you know, cats are both a prey and a predator,
Speaker 4: and when they're in the prey mode, usually when something's
Speaker 4: around their head, they're not ready to get killed. So
Speaker 4: something's going to bite them on the back of the neck.
Speaker 4: So another thing, we don't give injections around the back
Speaker 4: of the neck anymore, either like two faint teeth or
Speaker 4: one faint teeth come in there to kill them. But
Speaker 4: so everything's going good. Everything's going good. Everything's going good.
Speaker 4: And I don't know a pain flair. You know, if
Speaker 4: I know a pain flarea, like it's the right front shoulder,
Speaker 4: I'm going to look at that last by design and
Speaker 4: tell them. You know, I'm not ignoring it, but I'm
Speaker 4: going to wait and I get a more authentic exam
Speaker 4: before we get to that area. But I got up
Speaker 4: around the lip on the right side, and this cat
Speaker 4: literally went into orbit, and I told the owner this
Speaker 4: really causing. I don't want to cause any of this
Speaker 4: unnecessary pain or discomfort. So we're going to continue this
Speaker 4: under sedation. And then this cat had an effective tooth
Speaker 4: and you know, we go back, you know, to the
Speaker 4: times of the wild West when you deal all things.
Speaker 4: But the tooth was killing me. And they'll say, here's
Speaker 4: like a hangmail, here's like a toothache, you know. And
Speaker 4: so you know, we did a dental X ray and
Speaker 4: sure enough, this whole jaws used and there's these reservetive
Speaker 4: leasions and that's why the cat was angry. And we
Speaker 4: literally this cat under deep anesthesia. When we pull those
Speaker 4: teeth made sounds, that's how deep the pain was. And
Speaker 4: I just was talking to the staff members.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 4: He went home the next day and the cat was
Speaker 4: so he was a per machine, you know, back because
Speaker 4: the pain was relieved and both from getting the teeth
Speaker 4: out of them and being sent them on some medication.
Speaker 4: But you know, instead of being putting a shelter for
Speaker 4: no known reason. Now the cat's back moment.
Speaker 3: Well, and all the time I got aging cats or
Speaker 3: cats that have been diagnosed with hyperthyroidism and they're being
Speaker 3: medically managed, but maybe still they're having trouble eating properly,
Speaker 3: or old kiddies with arthritis that suddenly they can't manage
Speaker 3: to get their legs in and out of the box,
Speaker 3: and so they're missing the box. So there's all kinds
Speaker 3: of things that are hidden issues that you really need
Speaker 3: to kind of drill down with your veterinarian to figure
Speaker 3: out what's going on there that gives people like me
Speaker 3: or like your daughter clues. Well, how can we manage it?
Speaker 3: Now we know what's at the root of it, how
Speaker 3: can we manage it?
Speaker 4: You know, it's funny these things about older cats. It's
Speaker 4: so many things that happen as they get older. With
Speaker 4: like you mentioned, I thought they physically can't get up
Speaker 4: now the litter box, and they don't groom themselves as well,
Speaker 4: and there can be behavioral changes, and there's all sorts
Speaker 4: of new things out now that are really helpful. These
Speaker 4: pheromones really help.
Speaker 3: I love the pheromones. I recommend the feel Away all
Speaker 3: the time. The comfort zone with DAP, I think they're
Speaker 3: calling it the adaptyl.
Speaker 4: Now is is the veterinary version. It's stronger. Okay, Actually
Speaker 4: that's the guy. I was at the American College of
Speaker 4: Entity Behaviors and met the gentleman that created those products,
Speaker 4: and I learned some stuff like that.
Speaker 3: Doctor Peg. Yeah, yeah, I've interviewed him. He's wonderful.
Speaker 4: Like the dog, the dog appiecing fermone of the adaptable.
Speaker 4: There's actually a line of the basis lens that goes
Speaker 4: right down the midline of that female between the nipple.
Speaker 4: I assumed it was going to be around the nipples.
Speaker 4: That's right down the midline, and these the basis glands
Speaker 4: agapezing fharmwone. It gets the strongest about three days after birth,
Speaker 4: when you see all these little images of those little
Speaker 4: dogs all lined up, the little puppies all lined up
Speaker 4: like litter pigs.
Speaker 3: You know what it looks like right at the milk bar.
Speaker 4: At the milk bar, that's the best way I said,
Speaker 4: they're just having a good old time. Well, that's because
Speaker 4: of this pheromone that keeps them comfortable there and non agitated,
Speaker 4: so they drink. And the crazy thing is that works
Speaker 4: throughout a dog's natural life, don't excuse me. And so
Speaker 4: you know, a spray of that stuff, there is something
Speaker 4: in the room is just like Mama's around and it
Speaker 4: really really really helps.
Speaker 3: It helps with thunderstorm phobias. I mean all kinds of
Speaker 3: different sea you're inducing stimuli can really help kind of
Speaker 3: take the edge off.
Speaker 4: And you know, one of the things we do is.
Speaker 4: We often stack stack the treatments like the ferm Ones
Speaker 4: is one of the first things that go to because
Speaker 4: it works and they and it's easy.
Speaker 3: It's something that owners can do, easy to do.
Speaker 4: And then you know, sometimes we'll stack things and do
Speaker 4: do the thundershirt. We'll use it unsented dryer sheet and
Speaker 4: rub it on the trunk of their body lightly to
Speaker 4: reduce the static electricity. And then there's some very good
Speaker 4: veninary drugs ranging from reconcile to Xanax generic Xanak. We
Speaker 4: have one dog going back to the other canine cocktail
Speaker 4: at sixteen pound door bells. The other one is Kyote.
Speaker 4: He's for kuah Wah. He's pomerating Chihuahua and Yorky and
Speaker 4: well he has the worst noise phobias and the only
Speaker 4: thing that will work for him. If it's understorms, or
Speaker 4: it's for the July or start a hunting season. Not
Speaker 4: where we live, the only thing that will work is
Speaker 4: xenac Man. It just works. If there's understorms in the forecast,
Speaker 4: we give it to him. And if something all of
Speaker 4: a sudden there's a crazy shotter out of the blue
Speaker 4: kind of bolt of lighting and the thunder hit. We
Speaker 4: put him on xanex and it worked about twenty minutes.
Speaker 4: But it's amazing. If he doesn't have it, he just
Speaker 4: trembles and salivates and yawns, and it's like it's sad
Speaker 4: to watch. But on xanix, just happy Camper and those things.
Speaker 4: Those are inexpensive, really inexpensive, But working with your veterinarian
Speaker 4: you can solve some of these things that people just think,
Speaker 4: Oh God, the worst thing. He's got to put up
Speaker 4: with it. And it's something if you had your young
Speaker 4: child that was having these same kind of things, you'd
Speaker 4: be seeking help at highest levels of trying to prevent it.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, And in fact, my little fourteen year old kat
Speaker 3: saren her wellness check this past March. I believe it
Speaker 3: was for the first time we used the Kitty thundershirt
Speaker 3: and it was marvelous. It was marvelous. She's one of
Speaker 3: those where you have about a thirty second window for
Speaker 3: the veterinarian to actually get his hands on her. She
Speaker 3: had the most wonderful exam experience, and in the past
Speaker 3: she's had her blood work all of that type of
Speaker 3: thing were skewed results because she was so upset, so angry,
Speaker 3: so fearful. This time not a problem, and we got
Speaker 3: the exam taken care of, figured out that she is
Speaker 3: in very early renal insufficiency. So she's on a therapeutic
Speaker 3: diet and is doing marvelous.
Speaker 4: Isn't that great for the You know, Amy, we've known
Speaker 4: each other so long. We know where the dogs are buried,
Speaker 4: so to speak. Yes, you know, we've known each other
Speaker 4: long time, and it's great to learn. You know what
Speaker 4: you just described there. A few years ago, I'd see
Speaker 4: thundershirts advertised in the in flight magazine. I think this
Speaker 4: is dumb, I know, yeah, and that doesn't how the
Speaker 4: heck can this work? But it does? And like I
Speaker 4: was telling these five hundred people that were at my
Speaker 4: fear Free lecture, there's a product called Clytonosis for cat. Yes, yes,
Speaker 4: I used this on this tour. And I remember that
Speaker 4: I described that box. It was like mounting around well
Speaker 4: to feel a way helped. And then the people wanted
Speaker 4: me to show how to give a pill, how to
Speaker 4: pill a cat on live TV, on a cat that's
Speaker 4: never been in a studio ever met And I'm telling you,
Speaker 4: between feel away, the pheromone and clipnosis, I never failed
Speaker 4: to just open that. And this cleptonosis is for the listeners.
Speaker 4: It's like if it's on the back of their neck,
Speaker 4: right where mama grabs a cat a little kitten to
Speaker 4: pull it around, to carry it from nest to nest,
Speaker 4: and it just clips on there. It doesn't hurt. In fact,
Speaker 4: before I use it on a cat, I always put
Speaker 4: it on myself, and then I have the owner put
Speaker 4: it on their own arm before I put it on,
Speaker 4: so they can see that it's not going to hurt
Speaker 4: and clip that's hang on. I'd open the cat's mouth,
Speaker 4: I'd give it a pill, I'd close it up, and
Speaker 4: then I'd tell you about the end of the segment.
Speaker 4: The phones would be lighting up on the internet. You know,
Speaker 4: what is that thing? Where can I buy it?
Speaker 3: Where can you get it?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 3: And that leads to the question where can people find
Speaker 3: the feel away and the adaptaile, of course is from
Speaker 3: the veterinarian, but comfort zone with DAP, where can they
Speaker 3: find these?
Speaker 4: You get them through your veterinarian and a lot of
Speaker 4: times if you have a progressive veterinary practice, they're already
Speaker 4: using it there, so a lot of times you don't know.
Speaker 4: You can't smell it, but it's in there, and so
Speaker 4: these are available from your venoms. You can also ask
Speaker 4: your veternin if you want to purchase them online. There's
Speaker 4: a lot of new programs now like that street dot
Speaker 4: com where you can purchase a really competitive prices, but
Speaker 4: your local veterinarian still is in the loop, so all
Speaker 4: the purchases go into the medical records. You don't feel like,
Speaker 4: oh gosh, I love my VET, but I don't want
Speaker 4: to pay it. It's probably too much, so I'm gonna
Speaker 4: sneak around by this, but I hope they don't find out.
Speaker 4: Now you can go through vet street dot com with
Speaker 4: your veterinarian and there it's still a really competitive price,
Speaker 4: but your veterinarian E or C is in the loop
Speaker 4: and it's in the medical record.
Speaker 3: That's actually how I get the flea and the HeartWare
Speaker 3: medication for my dog and cat is through vett Street,
Speaker 3: and as Marty says, all the records are there and
Speaker 3: you oftentimes you get it more quickly because you know,
Speaker 3: my local veterinarian can't stalk the world and have everything
Speaker 3: there all the time. So it's really a very convenient
Speaker 3: way to do it.
Speaker 4: I'll tell you one thing about veteran's far we close.
Speaker 4: Do you know when I say our prayers every day
Speaker 4: is always the three p's. I pray that my actions
Speaker 4: today and you know, with this interview helped people in
Speaker 4: the profession, and what a noble profession. There's only a
Speaker 4: little over sixty thousand of us, so we wouldn't even
Speaker 4: fill one of the college stadiums in Texas. And there's
Speaker 4: not very many of us. And it's really typically something
Speaker 4: that starts at an early age where you want to
Speaker 4: be a veterinarian or you want to work in a
Speaker 4: veterinary hospital, and it's really a labor of love. It
Speaker 4: is not financially lucrative for the average veterinarian, and it's amazing.
Speaker 4: I'll ask a large conference, as I did last week,
Speaker 4: how many of you have never missed a day of
Speaker 4: work in a career, and some of these careers are forty, fifty,
Speaker 4: sixty years and the sea of hands goes up people
Speaker 4: that have never missed a day of work because they
Speaker 4: love what they do and they love the pet that
Speaker 4: they work with, and they're underutilized. Most cat owners now
Speaker 4: say that the probably going to the veterinarian is stressful
Speaker 4: and three out of four of them say they don't
Speaker 4: want to take the cat to the veterinarian unless it's sick. Well,
Speaker 4: we know cats hide their illness, so on they take
Speaker 4: a cat to the metwin. You know what, Thick, A
Speaker 4: lot of these things are not going to be treatable
Speaker 4: though you just talked about that wellness of them. That's
Speaker 4: when you catch things early on before others unnecessary pain,
Speaker 4: expense or worse. And there's so many things we can
Speaker 4: do to prevent problems from beginning with keeping their IDENTI
Speaker 4: body weight, daily oral care, you know, robust parasite control
Speaker 4: programs and those things are going to save you money
Speaker 4: without sort of changing the path.
Speaker 3: Right, and we want our cats and our dogs to
Speaker 3: live all the lives that they've been given, and that
Speaker 3: just blesses us with more furry love.
Speaker 4: Well, I wrote the Healing Power Pad and we're going
Speaker 4: to do an update. The book came out exactly during
Speaker 4: nine to eleven, and Amy with your twenty four or
Speaker 4: five books, whatever you do. You know how sometimes it's
Speaker 4: a bad timing issue.
Speaker 3: I had the same situation. My Cutting Edge Pet Care
Speaker 3: book came out at the same time.
Speaker 4: Yeah, this is award winning book. That didn't do very
Speaker 4: well ridden with a former New York type reporter and
Speaker 4: but we know, we know it don't make us feel
Speaker 4: good that they're actually good for us. And the one
Speaker 4: thing that needs to be updated, so much of this
Speaker 4: stuff with how dogs help with increasing serum cholesterol and
Speaker 4: increasing survivability a heart attack, sniffing out cancer proven children's
Speaker 4: like these scores. But now you know a lot more
Speaker 4: about cats. And I think the one the University of
Speaker 4: Minnesota is Stroke Research Center that shows if you have
Speaker 4: a cat, you're forty percent less likely to have a
Speaker 4: heart attacker stroke, a cardiovaster incidant in your life. You know,
Speaker 4: this little granddaughter of mine two and a half, she's
Speaker 4: been you know, day one with two pugs, Willie Bruce
Speaker 4: and a cat, Nemo, and she's going to have less
Speaker 4: allergies asthma and exita her entire life. And that newest
Speaker 4: study that just came out probably a couple of months ago,
Speaker 4: your air problems, if you are doctor visits, if you
Speaker 4: are missed days of school, then they're actually going to
Speaker 4: live longer. So what a gift you could give my
Speaker 4: granddaughter or any child from at an early age. Is
Speaker 4: this really a gift of a better life through sharing
Speaker 4: your life with a pet. So think of this pet
Speaker 4: not as an animal like I did when I was
Speaker 4: a young boy on the family farm. Not even a pet,
Speaker 4: not even a family member. This is a life support system,
Speaker 4: cleverly disguised as a four legged family member, and one
Speaker 4: that you never come home and find a suitcases packed.
Speaker 4: You never come from the cat on the counter. I'm
Speaker 4: out of here. I found somebody else. It is so predictable,
Speaker 4: so needed in these topsy turvy times when you can
Speaker 4: lose your job, you could lose your four on one k,
Speaker 4: you could lose your home. You'll never live the unconditional
Speaker 4: love of them.
Speaker 3: I think that is the perfect note to close on.
Speaker 3: We are out of time, but I would like to
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