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So I'm actually here joining you on the east side

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of the continent. I should have said of the United States.

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I am here in New York. I literally was called

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in on Thursday evening to do a segment on Fox

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and Friends. So if you happen to have been watching

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Fox and Friends this morning, you would have caught me

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with the crew. We had the hosts, we had Anna

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and Tucker and Michael, and we were doing a segment

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which you know, for weeks I've been talking about getting

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back into the subject matter of when to worry about

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your dogs or cats when they are presenting with certain problems.

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And we talked about the itchub skin problems, and we

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talked about the vomiting, and I promised that we're going

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to get to the next problem that's very, very common,

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and I want to help you determine when is it

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something you have to really worry about rush to the doctor.

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When is it something you can kind of wait and see.

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How do they come on? And that is the limping

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dog or cat. Well, we're still going to get to it,

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or we're not going to get to it today because

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my segment this morning was really cool. You know around

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the corner, like tomorrow is Labor Day, and one of

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the things that we often see around holidays, any kind

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of those holidays, whether it's Fourth of July, whether it's

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Memorial Day, whether it's Labor Day, any of those days

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that you're going to have friends and family over, you're

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going to have the barbecues. I mean, there are a

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lot of things that can happen to your dogs or cats.

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I mean, certainly I the owner of five dogs, but

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two labradors and a labradoodle. Clearly, for any of you

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out there that have labradors or labordoodles, know that the

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first and foremost in their minds is what can I

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eat when I get a hold of What can I

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find out of the garbage? What can I steal off

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the countertop or the grill. So the dietary indiscretion problems,

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the pancreat titus and things like that are very very

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common on these days. But another problem that we have

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to deal with is people coming over gates being left open,

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doors being left open, and that is the bolting dog

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or cat. These are the dogs or cats that given

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the opportunity to escape and run out of the house.

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They will and it's happened to all of us. It's

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happened to me. So what we were talking about this

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morning on Fox and Friends was the high tech options

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when it comes to identifying and finding your pets and

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hopefully preventing the pet loss in the first place. So

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we started with microchipping. Microchipping is a must. There are

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a number of great companies out there. I'll tell you

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one that I really like. It's new. I've always been

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a fan of Home Again. Home Again is a great system.

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They also have a pet recovery system that you can

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subscribe for like fourteen and fifteen dollars a year. It's nothing,

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and they will actually help you in the case of

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an event of a loss. They will contact the local hospitals,

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the local shelters, they will help bring out their team

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to help hang posters. I mean, it's really a great system.

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Another one I was introduced to at one of the

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Veterinaright trade shows in last year is called Save This

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Life Pet Microchip. Now, first of all, one of the

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things you need to do about microchipping, and it's something

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that you may even speak to your veterinarian about because

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it may require another microchip, and that is the United

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States has finally, note we are the last country to

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make this switch. And this switch is what we call

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the universal or ISO microchip. And instead of being like

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the AVID chip, which is just nine numbers, it says

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AVIID and then three sets of three numbers, or the

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standard microchips like the ASPCA microchip. Like the Home again,

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which always has been a ten digit alpha numeric, the

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ISO system is fifteen digits all numeric. There are no letters.

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It's all numbers, typically starting with nine here in the US,

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but it could be anything, and it's a series of

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fifteen numerics. So now, since these frequencies of the chip

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are different, many of the older scanners that are not

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known as universal scanners may not be able to read

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the newer chips, and the new chips can't be read.

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So likewise, if your dog ends up in Europe with

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an old chip, they will not pick the chip up

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because those scanners in Europe are all the new frequency

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and therefore they can't read the old one hundred and

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twenty five Megahurst chip. So it's very important to speak

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to your veterinarian if there's not using if they're not

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using or if you plan on traveling, you may need

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to re chip your pet with the newer ISO standard

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or get ready for this. You may need to bring

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one of the old scanners with you. Trust me, it's

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a lot less expensive and a lot easier just to

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get a new chip, the one that I liked. As

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I mentioned the new one. Save this Life works as follows.

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When you chip your dog with their chip, you are

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athally get a tag with the microchip number on it,

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or you can also send them your current chip and

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they will make a tag specifically with your current tips

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so you do not have to rechip your dog if

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you choose not to, especially if you already have an isochip.

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They will just use the existing number and it takes

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about four to six weeks. They'll send you a tag.

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The tag says google this number. What they do is

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when they register the number, each number gets its own

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Google account and it's free. I think it's a twenty

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dollars registration fee and then it's forever. So you google

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that number. And so that's how I'm walking around. I

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see a dog, a loose dog, and I look at

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his tag, his collar, and sure enough, he's got a

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tip that says Google's numbers. So I take out my

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phone and I google that number, and all of a sudden,

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I'm going to get a Google Map that's going to

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come up, and that is going to alert the folks

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over it save this life. They have a twenty four

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to seven hotline. They in turn will then call the

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registered owner of that chip. And not only will I

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get a phone call, I'll get an alert and Google

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the finder and the pet parent are going to have

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a Google Map conversing basically with each other. And on

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the map you'll see A and B, so you will know,

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as the pet owner the pet parent exactly where your

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pet is. And then you can call on the phone

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and talk to the guy or a girl find whoever

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found your dog. Hey, wait a second, I see where

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you are. You're six blocks away. I'll be there in

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three minutes, so whatever the case may be. So it's

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really cool in essence, uses your phones as the GPS

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locator and you could talk to each other, and that's

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how you recover your pet. Now understand a few things.

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Number one, it obviously requires someone to find your pet

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and scan it. It's not a GPS, but it is

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an implantable chip that needs no recharging and nobody can

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tamper with it. So it's a great way. I think

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it's a second alternative. There is no one that's good

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for everything. Every one of them has their ups and down,

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so I recommend you're going to sort of combine two

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of them. Anyway. Let me give you a scary statistic.

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This is according to the SPCA, that fourteen percent of dogs,

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of the millions of dogs across the country, fourteen percent

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of all these dogs have been lost. And of those

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lost pats, So that's in the millions. When you talk

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about fourteen percent of you know, one hundred and somemond

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thirty million dogs and cats. That's a huge number. And

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only ten to thirty percent, depending on region, depending on

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the type of animal, the age of the animal, whether

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or not you know what type of idea they had,

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if they had any idea at all, only ten to

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thirty percent have been reunited with their owners. So that's

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a scary statistic. So if nothing else should motivate you

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to get your button gear, get to your veterinarian, get

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to the shelter, and at the very least get a microchip.

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Here's some other really cool high tech things. It's an app.

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It's called Finding Rover. It gets downloaded for free, and

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it's a facial recognition app. So what you do is basically,

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you take a picture of your dog, you know, try

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to get him that perfect still shot where he's just

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sitting there and just smiling for the camera, and you

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send it into Fighting Rover. You register, and then they

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will keep that face on file. When the dog is found,

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you'll get a tag that says, you know, take a

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picture and send it into finding rover dot com. Then

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what happens is they will match the facial features and

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then if there's a match, they will contact you and say, hey,

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we have your dog. So anyway, that's really really cool.

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It's called facial recognition Finding Rover. You know. Also another

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good thing to have is the invisible fence concept is

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really a good idea. Basically, it has a unit that's

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a transmitter and has a receiver on the collar and

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dogs wear it and the collar and as they get

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close to the one hundred and some on foot boundary

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it's a circumference. Then they will get a little chirp

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and they soon learn what that shirt means, because says

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they get even closer to that edge of the boundary,

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then they'll get a little kind of a I don't know,

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it's not a shock, it's like a little it's a

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little buzz that's delivered by some the little collar that

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they wear that's got these two little electrodes. I felt

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that it's not a shock. It's more of an annoyance.

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But you just know it that yep, someone's trying to

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get my attention. And you can put little flags up

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around the perimeter. So that's cool. And so this will,

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if anything, prevent your dog from getting out, especially if

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you have a large property and it's not completely all

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fenced in. Next up, what do we talk about? Oh,

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next up, we talked about the collars. They're actually clip

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on to the collars that provide activity monitoring and GPS,

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and they're really really cool as well. So what we're

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gonna do now is take our quick break, a word

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few more things that I thought were really really cool.

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we were a start from the beginning. I was here

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in New York and I was invited to come on

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once again. I do some segments for Fox and Friends,

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and they wanted to do a segment with Labor Day

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just literally around the corner tomorrow. Noticing that word from

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the ASPCA in the main deciety of New York and

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that there are a lot of pets that seem to

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get lost run away during these holiday days. Stays that

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there are people coming over, the barbecues, you're going, the

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guests are coming, maybe just maybe a little bit too

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much drinking beer, who knows, but anyway, these a lot

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of pets get away and it just adds to the

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huge number of millions and millions of lost pets every year,

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and sadly, only ten to thirty percent are recovered. As

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a matter of fact, when it comes to cats more

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so than dogs, a cat that ends up in a

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shelter has only about a ten percent chance of either

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being reunited with its family or rehomed into another family.

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Now you know what that means. If only ten percent

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find their way out, you can only imagine what happens

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to the other ninety percent. So having at the very

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least a microchip, a tamper proof form of identification that

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in of itself is an insurance policy because shelters will

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not put animals to sleep that are microchipped. And also

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for those of you that have done the correct thing

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and have gotten your pets microchips, it's so important to

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make sure that you, if required, that you at least

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reregister once a year. For many microchips, it's free. For others,

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depending on what other services they offer, it might be

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a ten or fifteen bucks a year. It's nothing for

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your pets safety, your pet's life, So I highly encourage

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speak to your veterinarians and make sure at the very

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least your pets or microchip. Of course, external ID is

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a necessity as well. We did talk about the Save

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This Life microchip which can team up via Google and

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Google Maps and the Finder and you and sort of

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acts as a GPS locator. We talked about invisible fencing,

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and now we're going to talk about some of the

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newer technologies and those are the GPS locators. There's a

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product out there that well, first of it's the Garvent product,

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which is very expensive but very very good, that runs

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about close to four hundred bucks. But the tag Tagg

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product costs about one hundred bucks, and it is a

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little clip on device that sits on the dog's collar

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and literally sends out a GPS signals. So at any

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time during the day you can actually see you'll get

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an alert if the dog darts. You can actually set

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up what's called the geo fence. So what the geo

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fence does is you can set boundaries where if your

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dog goes outside of that GPS boundary, then you're gonna

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get an alert on your phone. So clearly you might

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just make your boundary your yard and if the dog

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is outside of that yard, you'll get an alert and

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you can actually track them. You can monitor that. So

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it's a GPS tracking system. Obviously the problem with GPS

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systems in general is how strong the signal is and

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how you have to continually recharge. It does come with

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a recharge or rechargeable battery, so in the evening, when

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you're home with your pets, you can just unclip it

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from the collar and stick in the charging unit. The

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other one that I like, it's currently more of an

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activity monitor, but you can set parameters as well, and

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you can also link in to someone. In fact, I

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gotta tell a funny story that is the Whistle, and

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the Whistle is also by next summer we'll have the

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Whistle GPS as well. Now because it doesn't currently work

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the GPS, there's no monthly fee. Obviously the tag and

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the garbing product have to have monthly fees, but this

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is no monthly fee, and it works through Wi Fi

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and Bluetooth, and it is continually linked to your phone,

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so I get alerts every hour about how my dogs

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are doing. Are they sitting around doing nothing? So the

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beauty is, I know I can picture the spikes in

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my dog's activity when maybe someone's outside playing ball, when

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they're in the pool swimming, when they're running around whatever,

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but I also know when rest time is. So the

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nice thing when you could check in to see what

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your dog's activity is like, and if you all of

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a sudden, see, wait a second, he's never running around

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at this time, there's a good chance he maybe out. Also,

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there's the funny story one of my clients whose dog

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had a whistle and the dog walker wasn't aware of

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this feature. But you can link in via bluetooth to

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another person's phone and find out what's going on. So

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they were paying this dog walker to actually walk and

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exercise the dog. So my client went onto her phone

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to see, let's see what Rover's doing now, and it

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was just flatlining. He was just chilling. So she goes,

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waity a second, I'm paying this dog walker to walk

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and run with my dog at the park and there

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is no activity right now, bustead. So it's really a

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cool device. Also, so it's a little more proactive for

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you to track your dog as far as dog getting

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lost and running around freely when it's not supposed to. However,

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it's one of those devices that there is no monthly

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fee and it's relatively inexpensive. It's a no brainer, and

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it's really cool also just to be able to tell you,

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a veterinarian, how much exercise your dog is getting during

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the day, especially in cases of obesity. It's nice to

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know what the activity is going on. So I also

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like the Whistle product and again that starting next year

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is going to have GPS as well. Another product that

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I thought was really cool. It's called a pet Hub

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and it's a little medallion, a little teeny collar, very

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lightweight that they can wear on their collars as well,

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and on the back is one of those boxes, you know,

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those QR code boxes, and it literally shows when you

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click on it with your phone if you have that app,

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and everyone should have that app, the QR Reader, all

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the pets information comes up, you get a phone number

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to call, and as soon as that code is read,

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you know that kind of funny looking black and white

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box with all the checkerboard kind of thing. As soon

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as that's red, the folks over at pet Hub will

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get an alert, so they will then contact the owner

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on record and say, by the way, I don't know

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if your dog is lost or not. I don't know

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if you were playing with the collar the tag, but

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someone just scanned it. So then you can check it.

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If it wasn't you was somebody else, which means chances

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are your dog is not where you think it is.

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to help a find your pets if they're lost. Check

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on them during the day, to make sure they're doing

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what they're supposed to be doing, and to check that

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they are where they are supposed to be, and you know,

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again find them if they're lost. And I would, as

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I said, I would always recommend more than just a

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typical ID tag. I think a microchip is a must.

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Under any circumstance. Tags fall off. Tags can be removed,

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the microchip cannot. I mean it can be through surgery.

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But it's unlikely anyone's going to want to steal a

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dog and cut into and try to find the microchip

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unless they're in cahoots with the veterinarian someone has an

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X ray machine and some surgical skills, So I don't

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think that's going to happen. So I think a microchip

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is one of the safest things you can have. And

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then as far as the ancillary products, some sort of

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GPS or activity monitor, some way that with your phone

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you can log in and just kind of check where

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your animal is, what he's doing, is he doing what

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he's supposed to be doing, is he with who he's

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supposed to be with. These are all the things you

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can check with some of these really cool devices. And

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as I said, this is for all the time. However,

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when it comes to the holiday times with Labor Day tomorrow,

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this is when we really should be paying really close

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attention to our pets to make sure they're safe. And

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you know, look, as they mentioned in the first part

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of the show, dogs love to eat. Many dogs love

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our food. Be really careful. I mean, it's not the

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end of the world to give them something really good

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to eat, but make sure if it's going to be meat,

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that you cut away the fat. Make sure you stay

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away from any fatty foods, things like like avocado. This

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sauce is that you're going to grill the meat on

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the barbecue sauces, things like that are not good for pets.

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If you are going to give them grilled chicken, remove

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the skin and just give them pure chicken meat. You

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know they'll love it. But you want to be careful

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because we don't want to create a problem with a

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gastintestinal upset. We don't want to create a problem with pankretitis.

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And these are all things that can happen when our

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dogs seem to eat more than we want them to,

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especially if you have breeds that are big enough to

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help themselves to the kitchen counters and other than that.

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As I said, next week, we are going to hopefully

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get back on track. I will be back in Los

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Angeles live with you next Sunday, and we're going to

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start talking once again about some of the problems that

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dogs can present with and just kind of help you

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sift through what of those problems are serious. When should

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you call your veteran right away? When might you be

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able to kind of do some kind of easy things

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at home, whether it's a matter of just rest, maybe

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some benadryl, like an antihistamine, maybe it's a single aspin

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or scripting, no title, no advil, no you know, ibuprofen,

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any stuff like that. Motrin, those our off limits for

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dogs and cats. Talent will kill a cat, so absolutely not.

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Always check with your veterinarian if you are thinking about

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using any human product for your pet. Many of them

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are safe. The doses may be different, sometimes higher, sometimes

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way lower. There's different sensitivity, but the safe thing would

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be to always check with your veterinarian and if you

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are making killer, what I know always recommend to my

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clients is put together a toolkit. A medicine kid would

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just say you could take an old toolbox and all

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the things that you might need for your pet bandage materials.

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And in it you can have things that you probably

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have around the house anyway that are safe to use

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for pets, but you need to know when to use

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them and how to use them. So that's not a

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bad idea. When you get some time, talk to your

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veterinarian or one of the technicians at the hospital. So anyway,

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our time is up. Once again. This thirty minutes goes

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really fast. I hope you got some good information today

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on pet id preranding lost pets and making sure that

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you have a very safe, enjoyable labor day Tomorrow on Monday,

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and we will back here next Sunday, same time, same channel,

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nine am back in the West, twelve noon here in

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the East, and we'll see it again next week.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk pets every week on demand only on Petlive

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radio dot com,