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Speaker 2: Well, welcome to everybody. You are here with doctor Jeff
Warber and we are on the show on pet Life Radio,
Ask the Vets with doctor Jeff and I am your host.
And so it's been a good week. I'm actually leaving
in a few short hours from now heading to the
Central Banarite Conference in Kansas City, m O. And it's actually,
you know, one of those conference is that I remember
starting at I mean going to this conference when it
had just begun. I mean it's not as old as
I am, as far as the number of years practicing,
and it was just a small conference in one small
exhibit hall, small section of the conference center called Bartle
Hall in the Kansas City. And now it is just
it's huge, it's blossomed, and it could be the third biggest.
I mean, it's obviously we have the big ones in
North American Vening Conference January and Orlando. We have the
Western Veterinary Conference every February in Las Vegas. And Central
Venitory Conference I act, Central Veteran Conference exploded into three conferences.
We have CVC, the main one which is I'm heading
to today. There is CBC East which is typically in
Baltimore or DC, and CVC West, which is in San Diego.
So it's amazing how his conference has grown. And I
am on the board of Veteran Economics. Veternany Economics is
probably the number one Terney publication, and it's an Advanced
Star publication. Advanced Star is a fairly large company which
puts out a lot of medical journals and many things
other than medical as well, and they also run the
Central Veterinary Conference, so it's sort of like a BLI
to be there often speak there as well. It's a
great conference. And I've been in Kansas City during the winter,
not fun. However, during the summer it's just great. It's
a great town, a lot going on downtown, the plaza.
They've really just done a lot to build this city up,
and it's a it's a good time.
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Speaker 2: I first of all, I want to hear from you.
That's why we're here. We've you know, got some calls.
Last week. We talked to Nelson, his little four month
old pit bull. He promises to get back to us
to let us how he's doing. But you want to
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from Dave Olin in Duluth. Dave from Duluth, we thank
you so much for sending us some information. He loves
our show, which is great because I love giving good information.
I love helping people with their pets. If I can
make life easier for either you or for your pet,
or better yet, for both, then I've succeeded. I'm a
happy camper. So my dog Amber eleven and a half
year old Jack Russell Corgy mix. That's got to be
a little interesting. Could you discuss general issues most dogs
display as they age and best general practice to help them.
You know, good old Amber has been sleeping a little
bit more over time, seems to move from spot to
spot than lays down, doesn't want to stand for long
periods of time. She is also a weight which is good,
but less exercise, so that might be a concern. I believe,
as does my vet, that some shoulder and hip stiffness
may be manifesting. Recently, he began to give Amber some desequine,
which is a glucosamine conjoint and supplement with MSM for
joint support. That's a great idea, and she's He's not
a big fan of her current dog food. He's tried
a few different foods. He also seems to he put
her on some of our pro sens senior adult vitamin
hesitatingly because she never eats any kind of pillar tablet.
But guess what, as he writes here, I've heard you
mentioned on your show, so I bought it. She has
never eaten a tablet formed before. However, I surprise she
actually liked. And he goes on to say thanks, So
Dave cannot listen to the show live, and he would
like to discuss some of these issues. Maybe not only
to help Dave, but tell those of you to have
pets that are either in those senior years already or
approaching the senior years. Just what to expect, what to
look out for, and what might we do about them?
And so I'm going to go ahead and answer those again,
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So what you've already seen and you're starting to notice
kind of what we see. Yes, even the small dogs
will slow down a little bit. Don't think that every
dog you know have to be a large beat to
suffer problems with arthritis, because there are different forms of arthritis.
And no, yes we think of hip displasia. Yes you're
going to think of a large breed. However, there's also
elbow displasia. There's also problems with the spine we call spondylosis.
Many dogs suffer from what we call lumbo sacral disease.
That's an instability to last lumbar vertebrate L seven meets
up with the first sacral vertebrae called S one, and
that's why we call it LS disease lumbo sacral and
as the few nerve roots that are left are exiting
the spinal canal at L seven, S one. If there's
too much motion, too much movement, then there could be
nerve pinching, nerve infringement, if you will, and this is
what causes that pain. So these dogs are hesitant to
want to jump, they're hesitant to go upstairs. They're hesitant
to go into the car. They don't want to go
into the bed anymore. They don't want to jump onto
the couch much less problem getting off, but not going up.
Anything that takes your body position and kind of elongates
it to extend those areas seems to cause the problem.
So the weight loss as dogs get older, even though
they are exercising less. You know, typically is if a
young adult dog exercises less and you don't modify the diet,
they're going to gain weight. Then we run into the
problem with obesity because the more they gain, the harder
and the less they really want to do. The less
they do, the more they gain. It's a negative, viscious cycle.
Old dogs, however, seem to have a problem with cless atrophy.
They're losing weight, they're looking kind of drawn. If you
pit them over their spine, their spine becomes very very prominent,
very palpable, and generally might have their stummas, muscles start
to give way. They might even have a hot bellied appearance.
Happens that old people do, so that is not uncommon
to see this type of weight loss. Certainly, when I
see too much weight loss, I start worrying about certain diseases.
There are certain diseases that are obviously much more common
in older pets that cause what we call kackxia. Cackexia
is a wasting condition. It's a wasting disease where the
clor cake is there, but a lot of the calories
are going to feed the disease. What are some of
the cakeetic diseases that we see. Well, first of all,
heart disease is a big one. Dogs with an advancing
heart disease, much of the energy goes to feed that
disease because the heart's working harder, is not pumping as efficiently.
Obviously is a key organ of the body. It needs
that nourishment, It needs that nutrition, so we will see
cakexic dogs. Another one, and this is a big one, unfortunately, cancer.
The energy that is used to feed that cancer and
that's just grows so rapidly, is basically energy that is
being robbed from the rep so we call it cancer, cockexia,
and lastly, really any kind of major organ shaper disease,
be a kidney disease, pancreatic disease also cause coketski. But
I would say the too is common for dogs is
going to be the cancer and the heart disease. Now
kiss on the other hand, have one whether we add
to the list, and there's a very strong likelihood that
any of you listening today have a cat or know
someone who's had a cat that has had this problem.
And the problem is hyper thyroidism. Whereas dog typically with
thyroid disease hypo thyroid, low thyroid, if anything, of have
a tendency gain weight. Cats, on the other hand, are
hyper thyroid, and hyper thyroid cats are going to eat
and lose weight. So that's very very important to make
sure that if you have a cat that is starting
to lose and it's an older cat, you make an
appointment right away to see your bet and to check out.
So as far as what to do, you know, the
most thing you do as pet startage is to get
them to your veterinarian at least once, preferably twice a year.
I'd say one ear is luck to the like maybe
six or seven years day once they hit that senior status,
maybe big dog seven, small dog, eight hat, maybe eighty
pieces twice a year, and part of those can include
the laboratory work. The reason why that's so important is
that we often will not see change because I've found
that dogs and cats tend not to show signs of
mild minor disease until it's too late, so they hide it. Well,
I'm sure they had something to do with the ancestry
in the wild that come on. Really about it. If
you're traveling in a pack, there are a couple of
stragglers there because they're kind of a little sore and
they don't want to get up and move because they
have their minor arthritis, they have their spondulosis, they got
that impending kidney problem, so they're kind of lagging a
little bit behind. They become a sitting duck for the predators.
So that is the problem. They are sitting ducks for predators.
And therefore I think that in a sense, pet evolved
a certain degree of stoic behavior where they're not going
to let us know where they're just in that subtle pain.
They're not let us know if they have that clegi problem,
to this lab work, take some spot films, maybe do
an ultrasound to the abdomen. The way we can help
you better is by that problems really before they become
a big problem. But not that doctor wants to rob
a big bill. It's that we can do something that
can help you help you a pet. And let's face say,
we know you all want to do that. So there
are some things that we can do. Things. You know,
the animals starts showing signs of skeletal problems, be it bondolosis,
be it displaysre be it arthritis, and they are slowing down.
There are a lot of things, things that aren't very expensive,
things that are that are very helpful in things that
are that don't even require drugs, that are more natural
supplements like gougcosamine, like amber on the dascinqline. The excellent
product is glucosamine controy MSM products with the vitamin C
s RAC. Theyre work very well to help control for
the symptoms of arthritis some of the pain affiliated associated
with arthritis. There's also acupuncture, there's las cold laser therapy.
All these things are very very very effective and they
will not break the bank, and they don't involve hard drugs.
Of course, it dogs get worse. There are some medications
as well, we call the classic non steroidal anti inflammactory
somebody you can discuss with the veterinarian. But there are
some things that can be done, many things that can
be done. We can't help you unless we know the
problem is there. So skin problems a lot of times
because of problems changes in nutrition and changes in required
vitamins as animals age. That's why, for example, on the
pro sense line, we have different vitamins for puppy, different
vitamins for adults, and again for seniors because we need
to make changes with what they need, and a lot
of senior pets are having trouble with skin. They need
the additional Omega three fatty acids, Omega six fatty acids, antioxidants,
brain food, if you will. We need to enhance their
immune system. So again, a lot of things that we
can do now as they're just approaching these early signs
that can help us tremendously later on as they get
even older. So skin issues, we talked about some great
supplements out there, not expensive. The joint locomotive problems behavior dementisia, CDs,
cognitive dysfunction syndrome, and humans you might all have Alzheimer's,
but it's true that dogs can have Alzheimer's and also
and this kind of makes it a little bit challenging
for us. The tern arean a lot of them will
also potentially have problems with anxiety. As they're starting to
lose it, they they lose their wits about them and
so they're being left alone probably before now they're loan
for even as much as an hour, and they start
become being destructive. So we'll be right back here on
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and lifts, of course, so are our wonderful pets. But
many of us with Asian pets, it's so interesting, we
have a tough time realizing or really admitting that they
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eight eight eight two. We were talking before our break
about how to first of all, recognize changes in dogs
and cats at the age, what to expect so we
don't get these surprises. Don't be like surprises, right, Oh,
surprises are good, but when it comes to pet's health,
you don't want basd surprises. So what can you expect?
And most importantly is what can we do about them?
And are there some things that we can possibly avoid? So,
you know, we were talking about importance of that senior
physical and again I think it's all about expectation that
when something changes and something that may not be great,
but you are expecting it, then you can deal with
it a little bit more easily then if you're not
expecting it, you have no idea that it was going
to happen, and all of a sudden it happens and
you start to panic and you run to corvet, you
run to the emergency clinic, when in reality, it was
just something that happens. It changes. Sometimes clients complain, They'll
tell me that their dogs will go into a corner,
look into the corner and sit there and stare just
stare at the corner. These are all sides of dementia.
And another problem we have, and it becomes a medical
treatment problem, and I'll get to in a minute, is
that the other problem that we often see often related
to the dementia is that is anxiety, where these animals,
being left alone, being in situations that they used to
tolerate beautifully, are now becoming very anxious. And with that
anxiety comes destructive behavior, comes self mutilation. They'll start licking
or biting themselves for no apparent reason, not because an allergy.
It's almost because of border because they forget where they
are and what they're supposed to be doing. And it
is a real problem. And what makes it even more
of a problem is that some of the medications that
you would want to use for pure dementia, like Celeglin
debranael the brand trade name is Anapril, well, those drugs
may be contra indicated to use, along with some of
the antidepressants, the meinamox oxidase inhibitors, the tricyclic andiepressants, so
things like prozac which is fluoxetine, and things like chlonipamine
abuse bar You may not want to use along with
your anti dementia medications. So you kind of have to
work it out with your veterinarian and see which medications
you can use together, which ones are recommended that we
don't use at the same time, and which is more
likely to be able to solve our current problem. But
behavior the brain, if you will, conditions that we see
in older pets really starts to become very real as
they get older, you know, And the hard part is
it leads to a nursing issue more than anything. It's
not like they're in pain. It's that they might lose
their house breaking prowess because they now just don't care
or they forgot you can't yell at them. So now
you're going back to square one where you have to
confine them. You have to maybe get those little doggy diapers,
you know, like it depends for dogs. I mean, we
got to start thinking along those lines as these things
happen to our senior pets. So you know, it's not
always an easy thing to contend with, an easy thing
to deal with, but it's something that we you know,
we owe it to them. We're obliged. We have that
I think innate obligation to our four legged friends as
they get older, because let's face it, they've taken and
do take such good care of us. And when you
think about what not so old pets do for their
much more senior owners, it's amazing. So when we have
to do a little extra for them, I think they
will deserve it. So anyway, I want to thank Dave
and Duluth for sending us the email. We're going to
contact you, Dave and get your own dress. We're going
to send you out some more senior vitamins for Amber.
Obviously she likes them. Maybe we'll have you try our
senior glucosamine, our advanced form the glucosamine product as well,
the same great taste, so we know that she likes
the taste of our own tablets are Tuba wafers. So
that's great. And Dave, wasn't that hard was it? To
send us an emails? Send me a text. You can
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help us help you with our pets. So, as I said,
I'm off soon to hit the perfect center of the country.
It's amazing if you if you look at a map
and you see Kansas right smack dam in the center,
that's kind of where I'm heading. And the nice hot,
muggy weather. They have a really great place. I don't
know if any of you've been to Kansas City, but
it used to be there were two like areas you know,
go to good restaurants to there's some fun bars that
won't called the Plaza. Now the Plaza is the I
like to call it the rodeo drive of Kansas City.
It's got the nice restaurants, it's got the nice shops,
it's got the jewelry stores, accept some nice fine hotels,
and it's a great place to walk around. It's several blocks,
you know, square blocks, and it's just it's a great
place to go. Once again, as we start to sign off,
I'm gonna be in downtown fun Kansas City Central Veterana Conference.
We will back with you, hopefully with better internet connection
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