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So I'm actually here joining you on the east side
of the continent. I should have said of the United States.
I am here in New York. I literally was called
in on Thursday evening to do a segment on Fox
and Friends. So if you happen to have been watching
Fox and Friends this morning, you would have caught me
with the crew. We had the hosts, we had Anna
and Tucker and Michael, and we were doing a segment
which you know, for weeks I've been talking about getting
back into the subject matter of when to worry about
your dogs or cats when they are presenting with certain problems.
And we talked about the itchub skin problems, and we
talked about the vomiting, and I promised that we're going
to get to the next problem that's very, very common,
and I want to help you determine when is it
something you have to really worry about rush to the doctor.
When is it something you can kind of wait and see.
How do they come on? And that is the limping
dog or cat. Well, we're still going to get to it,
or we're not going to get to it today because
my segment this morning was really cool. You know around
the corner, like tomorrow is Labor Day, and one of
the things that we often see around holidays, any kind
of those holidays, whether it's Fourth of July, whether it's
Memorial Day, whether it's Labor Day, any of those days
that you're going to have friends and family over, you're
going to have the barbecues. I mean, there are a
lot of things that can happen to your dogs or cats.
I mean, certainly I the owner of five dogs, but
two labradors and a labradoodle. Clearly, for any of you
out there that have labradors or labordoodles, know that the
first and foremost in their minds is what can I
eat when I get a hold of What can I
find out of the garbage? What can I steal off
the countertop or the grill. So the dietary indiscretion problems,
the pancreat titus and things like that are very very
common on these days. But another problem that we have
to deal with is people coming over gates being left open,
doors being left open, and that is the bolting dog
or cat. These are the dogs or cats that given
the opportunity to escape and run out of the house.
They will and it's happened to all of us. It's
happened to me. So what we were talking about this
morning on Fox and Friends was the high tech options
when it comes to identifying and finding your pets and
hopefully preventing the pet loss in the first place. So
we started with microchipping. Microchipping is a must. There are
a number of great companies out there. I'll tell you
one that I really like. It's new. I've always been
a fan of Home Again. Home Again is a great system.
They also have a pet recovery system that you can
subscribe for like fourteen and fifteen dollars a year. It's nothing,
and they will actually help you in the case of
an event of a loss. They will contact the local hospitals,
the local shelters, they will help bring out their team
to help hang posters. I mean, it's really a great system.
Another one I was introduced to at one of the
Veterinaright trade shows in last year is called Save This
Life Pet Microchip. Now, first of all, one of the
things you need to do about microchipping, and it's something
that you may even speak to your veterinarian about because
it may require another microchip, and that is the United
States has finally, note we are the last country to
make this switch. And this switch is what we call
the universal or ISO microchip. And instead of being like
the AVID chip, which is just nine numbers, it says
AVIID and then three sets of three numbers, or the
standard microchips like the ASPCA microchip. Like the Home again,
which always has been a ten digit alpha numeric, the
ISO system is fifteen digits all numeric. There are no letters.
It's all numbers, typically starting with nine here in the US,
but it could be anything, and it's a series of
fifteen numerics. So now, since these frequencies of the chip
are different, many of the older scanners that are not
known as universal scanners may not be able to read
the newer chips, and the new chips can't be read.
So likewise, if your dog ends up in Europe with
an old chip, they will not pick the chip up
because those scanners in Europe are all the new frequency
and therefore they can't read the old one hundred and
twenty five Megahurst chip. So it's very important to speak
to your veterinarian if there's not using if they're not
using or if you plan on traveling, you may need
to re chip your pet with the newer ISO standard
or get ready for this. You may need to bring
one of the old scanners with you. Trust me, it's
a lot less expensive and a lot easier just to
get a new chip, the one that I liked. As
I mentioned the new one. Save this Life works as follows.
When you chip your dog with their chip, you are
athally get a tag with the microchip number on it,
or you can also send them your current chip and
they will make a tag specifically with your current tips
so you do not have to rechip your dog if
you choose not to, especially if you already have an isochip.
They will just use the existing number and it takes
about four to six weeks. They'll send you a tag.
The tag says google this number. What they do is
when they register the number, each number gets its own
Google account and it's free. I think it's a twenty
dollars registration fee and then it's forever. So you google
that number. And so that's how I'm walking around. I
see a dog, a loose dog, and I look at
his tag, his collar, and sure enough, he's got a
tip that says Google's numbers. So I take out my
phone and I google that number, and all of a sudden,
I'm going to get a Google Map that's going to
come up, and that is going to alert the folks
over it save this life. They have a twenty four
to seven hotline. They in turn will then call the
registered owner of that chip. And not only will I
get a phone call, I'll get an alert and Google
Map will come up on my phone as well, and
the finder and the pet parent are going to have
a Google Map conversing basically with each other. And on
the map you'll see A and B, so you will know,
as the pet owner the pet parent exactly where your
pet is. And then you can call on the phone
and talk to the guy or a girl find whoever
found your dog. Hey, wait a second, I see where
you are. You're six blocks away. I'll be there in
three minutes, so whatever the case may be. So it's
really cool in essence, uses your phones as the GPS
locator and you could talk to each other, and that's
how you recover your pet. Now understand a few things.
Number one, it obviously requires someone to find your pet
and scan it. It's not a GPS, but it is
an implantable chip that needs no recharging and nobody can
tamper with it. So it's a great way. I think
it's a second alternative. There is no one that's good
for everything. Every one of them has their ups and down,
so I recommend you're going to sort of combine two
of them. Anyway. Let me give you a scary statistic.
This is according to the SPCA, that fourteen percent of dogs,
of the millions of dogs across the country, fourteen percent
of all these dogs have been lost. And of those
lost pats, So that's in the millions. When you talk
about fourteen percent of you know, one hundred and somemond
thirty million dogs and cats. That's a huge number. And
only ten to thirty percent, depending on region, depending on
the type of animal, the age of the animal, whether
or not you know what type of idea they had,
if they had any idea at all, only ten to
thirty percent have been reunited with their owners. So that's
a scary statistic. So if nothing else should motivate you
to get your button gear, get to your veterinarian, get
to the shelter, and at the very least get a microchip.
Here's some other really cool high tech things. It's an app.
It's called Finding Rover. It gets downloaded for free, and
it's a facial recognition app. So what you do is basically,
you take a picture of your dog, you know, try
to get him that perfect still shot where he's just
sitting there and just smiling for the camera, and you
send it into Fighting Rover. You register, and then they
will keep that face on file. When the dog is found,
you'll get a tag that says, you know, take a
picture and send it into finding rover dot com. Then
what happens is they will match the facial features and
then if there's a match, they will contact you and say, hey,
we have your dog. So anyway, that's really really cool.
It's called facial recognition Finding Rover. You know. Also another
good thing to have is the invisible fence concept is
really a good idea. Basically, it has a unit that's
a transmitter and has a receiver on the collar and
dogs wear it and the collar and as they get
close to the one hundred and some on foot boundary
it's a circumference. Then they will get a little chirp
and they soon learn what that shirt means, because says
they get even closer to that edge of the boundary,
then they'll get a little kind of a I don't know,
it's not a shock, it's like a little it's a
little buzz that's delivered by some the little collar that
they wear that's got these two little electrodes. I felt
that it's not a shock. It's more of an annoyance.
But you just know it that yep, someone's trying to
get my attention. And you can put little flags up
around the perimeter. So that's cool. And so this will,
if anything, prevent your dog from getting out, especially if
you have a large property and it's not completely all
fenced in. Next up, what do we talk about? Oh,
next up, we talked about the collars. They're actually clip
on to the collars that provide activity monitoring and GPS,
and they're really really cool as well. So what we're
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we were a start from the beginning. I was here
in New York and I was invited to come on
once again. I do some segments for Fox and Friends,
and they wanted to do a segment with Labor Day
just literally around the corner tomorrow. Noticing that word from
the ASPCA in the main deciety of New York and
that there are a lot of pets that seem to
get lost run away during these holiday days. Stays that
there are people coming over, the barbecues, you're going, the
guests are coming, maybe just maybe a little bit too
much drinking beer, who knows, but anyway, these a lot
of pets get away and it just adds to the
huge number of millions and millions of lost pets every year,
and sadly, only ten to thirty percent are recovered. As
a matter of fact, when it comes to cats more
so than dogs, a cat that ends up in a
shelter has only about a ten percent chance of either
being reunited with its family or rehomed into another family.
Now you know what that means. If only ten percent
find their way out, you can only imagine what happens
to the other ninety percent. So having at the very
least a microchip, a tamper proof form of identification that
in of itself is an insurance policy because shelters will
not put animals to sleep that are microchipped. And also
for those of you that have done the correct thing
and have gotten your pets microchips, it's so important to
make sure that you, if required, that you at least
reregister once a year. For many microchips, it's free. For others,
depending on what other services they offer, it might be
a ten or fifteen bucks a year. It's nothing for
your pets safety, your pet's life, So I highly encourage
speak to your veterinarians and make sure at the very
least your pets or microchip. Of course, external ID is
a necessity as well. We did talk about the Save
This Life microchip which can team up via Google and
Google Maps and the Finder and you and sort of
acts as a GPS locator. We talked about invisible fencing,
and now we're going to talk about some of the
newer technologies and those are the GPS locators. There's a
product out there that well, first of it's the Garvent product,
which is very expensive but very very good, that runs
about close to four hundred bucks. But the tag Tagg
product costs about one hundred bucks, and it is a
little clip on device that sits on the dog's collar
and literally sends out a GPS signals. So at any
time during the day you can actually see you'll get
an alert if the dog darts. You can actually set
up what's called the geo fence. So what the geo
fence does is you can set boundaries where if your
dog goes outside of that GPS boundary, then you're gonna
get an alert on your phone. So clearly you might
just make your boundary your yard and if the dog
is outside of that yard, you'll get an alert and
you can actually track them. You can monitor that. So
it's a GPS tracking system. Obviously the problem with GPS
systems in general is how strong the signal is and
how you have to continually recharge. It does come with
a recharge or rechargeable battery, so in the evening, when
you're home with your pets, you can just unclip it
from the collar and stick in the charging unit. The
other one that I like, it's currently more of an
activity monitor, but you can set parameters as well, and
you can also link in to someone. In fact, I
gotta tell a funny story that is the Whistle, and
the Whistle is also by next summer we'll have the
Whistle GPS as well. Now because it doesn't currently work
the GPS, there's no monthly fee. Obviously the tag and
the garbing product have to have monthly fees, but this
is no monthly fee, and it works through Wi Fi
and Bluetooth, and it is continually linked to your phone,
so I get alerts every hour about how my dogs
are doing. Are they sitting around doing nothing? So the
beauty is, I know I can picture the spikes in
my dog's activity when maybe someone's outside playing ball, when
they're in the pool swimming, when they're running around whatever,
but I also know when rest time is. So the
nice thing when you could check in to see what
your dog's activity is like, and if you all of
a sudden, see, wait a second, he's never running around
at this time, there's a good chance he maybe out. Also,
there's the funny story one of my clients whose dog
had a whistle and the dog walker wasn't aware of
this feature. But you can link in via bluetooth to
another person's phone and find out what's going on. So
they were paying this dog walker to actually walk and
exercise the dog. So my client went onto her phone
to see, let's see what Rover's doing now, and it
was just flatlining. He was just chilling. So she goes,
waity a second, I'm paying this dog walker to walk
and run with my dog at the park and there
is no activity right now, bustead. So it's really a
cool device. Also, so it's a little more proactive for
you to track your dog as far as dog getting
lost and running around freely when it's not supposed to. However,
it's one of those devices that there is no monthly
fee and it's relatively inexpensive. It's a no brainer, and
it's really cool also just to be able to tell you,
a veterinarian, how much exercise your dog is getting during
the day, especially in cases of obesity. It's nice to
know what the activity is going on. So I also
like the Whistle product and again that starting next year
is going to have GPS as well. Another product that
I thought was really cool. It's called a pet Hub
and it's a little medallion, a little teeny collar, very
lightweight that they can wear on their collars as well,
and on the back is one of those boxes, you know,
those QR code boxes, and it literally shows when you
click on it with your phone if you have that app,
and everyone should have that app, the QR Reader, all
the pets information comes up, you get a phone number
to call, and as soon as that code is read,
you know that kind of funny looking black and white
box with all the checkerboard kind of thing. As soon
as that's red, the folks over at pet Hub will
get an alert, so they will then contact the owner
on record and say, by the way, I don't know
if your dog is lost or not. I don't know
if you were playing with the collar the tag, but
someone just scanned it. So then you can check it.
If it wasn't you was somebody else, which means chances
are your dog is not where you think it is.
So it's also a great way to utilize this technology
to help a find your pets if they're lost. Check
on them during the day, to make sure they're doing
what they're supposed to be doing, and to check that
they are where they are supposed to be, and you know,
again find them if they're lost. And I would, as
I said, I would always recommend more than just a
typical ID tag. I think a microchip is a must.
Under any circumstance. Tags fall off. Tags can be removed,
the microchip cannot. I mean it can be through surgery.
But it's unlikely anyone's going to want to steal a
dog and cut into and try to find the microchip
unless they're in cahoots with the veterinarian someone has an
X ray machine and some surgical skills, So I don't
think that's going to happen. So I think a microchip
is one of the safest things you can have. And
then as far as the ancillary products, some sort of
GPS or activity monitor, some way that with your phone
you can log in and just kind of check where
your animal is, what he's doing, is he doing what
he's supposed to be doing, is he with who he's
supposed to be with. These are all the things you
can check with some of these really cool devices. And
as I said, this is for all the time. However,
when it comes to the holiday times with Labor Day tomorrow,
this is when we really should be paying really close
attention to our pets to make sure they're safe. And
you know, look, as they mentioned in the first part
of the show, dogs love to eat. Many dogs love
our food. Be really careful. I mean, it's not the
end of the world to give them something really good
to eat, but make sure if it's going to be meat,
that you cut away the fat. Make sure you stay
away from any fatty foods, things like like avocado. This
sauce is that you're going to grill the meat on
the barbecue sauces, things like that are not good for pets.
If you are going to give them grilled chicken, remove
the skin and just give them pure chicken meat. You
know they'll love it. But you want to be careful
because we don't want to create a problem with a
gastintestinal upset. We don't want to create a problem with pankretitis.
And these are all things that can happen when our
dogs seem to eat more than we want them to,
especially if you have breeds that are big enough to
help themselves to the kitchen counters and other than that.
As I said, next week, we are going to hopefully
get back on track. I will be back in Los
Angeles live with you next Sunday, and we're going to
start talking once again about some of the problems that
dogs can present with and just kind of help you
sift through what of those problems are serious. When should
you call your veteran right away? When might you be
able to kind of do some kind of easy things
at home, whether it's a matter of just rest, maybe
some benadryl, like an antihistamine, maybe it's a single aspin
or scripting, no title, no advil, no you know, ibuprofen,
any stuff like that. Motrin, those our off limits for
dogs and cats. Talent will kill a cat, so absolutely not.
Always check with your veterinarian if you are thinking about
using any human product for your pet. Many of them
are safe. The doses may be different, sometimes higher, sometimes
way lower. There's different sensitivity, but the safe thing would
be to always check with your veterinarian and if you
are making killer, what I know always recommend to my
clients is put together a toolkit. A medicine kid would
just say you could take an old toolbox and all
the things that you might need for your pet bandage materials.
It's almost like making a good homemade first aid kit.
And in it you can have things that you probably
have around the house anyway that are safe to use
for pets, but you need to know when to use
them and how to use them. So that's not a
bad idea. When you get some time, talk to your
veterinarian or one of the technicians at the hospital. So anyway,
our time is up. Once again. This thirty minutes goes
really fast. I hope you got some good information today
on pet id preranding lost pets and making sure that
you have a very safe, enjoyable labor day Tomorrow on Monday,
and we will back here next Sunday, same time, same channel,
nine am back in the West, twelve noon here in
the East, and we'll see it again next week.
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