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Speaker 2: Well, hello everybody, and thanks for joining us again once

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again here at Ask the Vets with doctor Jeff here

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on Let's Talk Pets on pet Life Radio, where.

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Head You can reach us one of two ways. Either

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next week on our show. We're here every Thursday one

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find conveniently at your local retailers. So before we get

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to the phones and questions, we get emails to the

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show once again. You can drop me an email at

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doctor Jeff at Petlifradio dot com. And this is spring.

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We're getting ready for summer in June. And this is

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the time that everybody seems to get reinterested in their homes,

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their lawns. They want to beautify their they're fertilizing, and

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you know, I love to share stories while you guys

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are getting the courage to call in at eight seven

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me an email at doctor Jeff at Petlife Radio dot com.

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Dr Jeff Life Radio dot com. And so we had

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this really cute little dog come in and was it

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looked like he had injured his eye. His eye was

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literally just blotchy red. Whether he fell or accidentally one

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of the kids was playing and he got kicked in

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the face, who knows, but that's kind of what it

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Speaker 3: So we started treating the eye.

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Speaker 2: Fortunately, we did an eye stain that was negative, which

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means there was no corneal damage and it didn't look

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that bad, and that the dog was acting really fine otherwise,

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so we figured it was a simple eye problem. One

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thing the owner noticed and mentioned is that she thought

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that her dog, as a squeaky little female, was having

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trouble urinating and when he urinate, she urinated it seemed

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a little bloody. Well, we had squeaking in the hospital

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overnight and treating the eye, checking her out, everything seemed fine,

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and when she urinated for us, sure enough she had

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some blood in the urine. Well, of course we want

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to do an ultrasound and get some urine collection. We're

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hopefully heed to catch a urine sample to send it

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off to your analysis. Does she have bladderstone? Does she

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have a really bad bladder infection? And what we noticed

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on the belly was what we call bruising echamosis. And

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then we took a better another look at her eye

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and the other eye started to have this red appearance,

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and looking at her gums, which not only started to

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look a little pale, but started to show what we

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call petitiation, kind of like little red polka dots. So

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now we're thinking something else is going on here. We

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did a quick blood test and her PCV packed cell

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volume was getting a little low. Still in it it

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was okay, but it was a little low, and her

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platelets were normal. And I'm looking at this poor dog

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and I'm thinking, hmm, we have bleeding going on, we

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have bruising, we have partitiation and a dropping pack cell volume,

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and I'm thinking, well, we have oh with normal platelets.

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And I'm thinking, you know what, we have a rat

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poisoned dog. And I said to my associate, you need

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to call the owner right now and ask her is

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there any way, shape or form that we ended up

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having rat poison put down on the lawn by the gardener.

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And sure enough, as was the case, we had a

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problem and they had put down rat poison. And this

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is a real problem. So we obviously started treating from

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a injury to a severe, potentially life threatening toxin, given

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the fact that this is a small dog. Now, one

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point thing I need to point out that when we

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have a dog who ingests rat poison, it's not only

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them ingesting the rat poison directly, but if you have

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a dog, a little terrier or a dog who's a ratter,

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who is known to want to chase and go after

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possums and rats and mice and other rodents, if they

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would happen to catch a rodent, that itself was killed

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because of the rat poison. Then they have enough rat

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poison in their system that if a dog eats or

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munches on such a mouse or rat or rodent, then

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they too can become toxic from the rat poison. So

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it's really really dangerous. So sure enough. In fact, right now,

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this little Squeaky is doing great. We did a blood

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transfusion and getting the blood right now. The pack cell volume, oh,

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just so you know how fast it can drop. The

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that's the percent of cells when you draw blood. The

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percent of the blood is cells versus the percent that

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is fluid or serum should be around thirty seven to

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average is going to be cells and the rest is

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going to be serum. Twenty five is where Squeaky was

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yesterday and today Squeaky was thirteen. That's like incompatible with life.

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and we're doing now we're treating with vitamin K. But

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the point is here, you need to be very careful

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everybody that your gardeners know that you have pets, and

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before they put down snail bait, rat poison, any chemicals

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on your lawn, or any type of rodenticide or insecticide

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around your premises. Then you need to know that it's

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so important to let them tell you that they're going

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to do it so you can keep your pets safely indoors.

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So we have a caller callers on Now Hi, you're

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with Live with Doctor jeff On ask the vats with

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Doctor Jeffer.

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Speaker 3: And who's this?

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Speaker 1: Hi?

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Speaker 4: Hi, doctor Jeff, how are you?

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Speaker 3: Who is hi? Shelly? And what can I do for you?

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Speaker 4: Well, this is my question. I can't figure this out.

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I have a small dog and he's grown up with

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this rather large cat. And I know that cats have certain,

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you know, things that they do. Like if you pickle

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them by their tail, they raise their butt up. I

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don't know why they do that, but they do that.

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I thought does the same thing. Why is that all right?

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Speaker 3: So it's a boy dog, yes, right, because he's a male.

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Speaker 2: So, first of all, cats do it, and usually more

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so if you think you're I would imagine your spade.

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Speaker 3: Is it a spade female or a male? Your cat?

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Speaker 2: Well, first of all, they enjoy it, and when you

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start rubbing their back ends. In fact, one way when

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you have a female cat, and this is before she's spade,

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and you rub their butt end during that special time

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of season, oh my god, they're going to be throwing

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up their butt in the air. They're going to be

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moving the tail to the side and basically saying to

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the male, come and get me. Female dogs that are

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in season will do the same thing when other dogs

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do it, or cats do it, especially males. They love

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the feeling. They love to get scratched in the butt

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end and they will just it's almost like an endearing behavior.

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me more.

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Speaker 3: I love that.

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Speaker 2: And when they are doing that, that's one thing you

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should do is keep it up now. Just sometimes animals

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that have skin problems will sort of they'll twist and

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turn and they'll arch their back when you hit that spot.

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lifting their legs scraw. Then you know you have a

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dog or a cat that might be having some sign

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of allergy, some skin problem, and that might need to

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be addressed by your veterinarian. But if they are everything

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else is fine. They're not scratching. Otherwise you're not seeing

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dry skin, you're not seeing any scams or irritation or sores.

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butt up in the air. That's just making them feel good.

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So congratulations, you are doing what it is to make

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them feel good. And that's nothing wrong with that.

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Speaker 1: Now I know that.

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Speaker 4: Why does the dog do that? Or is the same

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thing the cat and learned it.

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Speaker 2: It's a possibility. But a lot of times if my

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dog's too they'll leave you more so than not. When

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my dogs will do when you hit the spot, they

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will arch their back and just almost get this expression

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of oh my god, that feels so good.

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Speaker 3: They like it.

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Speaker 2: And again I would just the only rule out is

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a skin issue. But if there's no skin issue, and

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then and especially it's a male. If it was a

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female and she would often exhibit other side of being

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have been some ovarian tissue left behind, and a certain

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times of the season she will exhibit that behavior.

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Speaker 3: Scratch your butt. She throws that butt up in the air.

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Speaker 2: But in a mail obviously that's extremely unlikely, so therefore,

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or I would say insofar as impossible, so I would say,

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he just likes it. He thinks it feels good and

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as long as it's no sweat off your back. If

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you know what he feels good and he loves it,

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then keep doing it.

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Speaker 4: Great. Thank you so much.

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Speaker 3: You're very welcome. Thanks for listening.

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Speaker 2: And tell your friends that if they have any pets

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and they want to get some free advice here on

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pet Life Radio, to give us a call, just like

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you did. Eight seven seven three eight five eight eight

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hope you are as I am enjoying our gorgeous weather.

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Speaker 4: Oh certainly am.

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Speaker 2: Thank you good, Thank you, Shelly, nice talking, Thanks for

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calling it so so. You see, Shelley just called everybody.

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That mean, that's how easy it is. Pick up the

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phone or send me an email to doctor Jeffdrjeff at

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petlife radio dot com. So, having talked about this story

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with Squeaky and the rat poison, I brought along with

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me a list of common household poisons that everybody really

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should know about. We touched on the pesticides. So when

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you have any kind of exterminator company that comes to

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your house on a regular basis, make sure that they

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know that you have pets. And a lot of times,

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be really very careful when you buy things like you

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buy the ant spray, or you buy the roach spray,

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or whatever it is that you're gonna buy the flea spray.

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Understand even the garden pesticides and weed killers, make sure

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they are kept out of your pet's reach because they

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could be deadly. Other things anti freeze. Now, any older

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anti freeze, believe it or not, has appropylee gly called

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which have a very sweet taste. Actually, the rules have

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been changed more recently and interestingly by a young girl

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I think at the time she was eleven, when her

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dog was poisoned by licking the antifreeze dripping from underneath

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a car radiator, and I think the dog passed away.

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And she was so shocked that anybody could make a

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manufacture a deadly chemical that had a sweet taste and

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it does. It did, so she started petitions and lobby

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that ultimately ultimately became law that the manufacturers of antifreeze

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had to add bitters into their formulation so it would

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be objectionable to dogs and cats, but anything that's old

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on the market it is very deadly, so you want

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to be careful. Certain household and garden plants can be dangerous. Aconite,

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azalea's belladonna, buckeye, foxgloves, hyacinth ivy, many lilies, night shade,

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tulips are all potentially toxic and the symptoms can range

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anywhere from vomiting and diary rhea. Oral irritation meaning irritation

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around the mouth or swelling around the mouth and throat,

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increased drooling, excessive thirst, increased heart rate. Many of our drugs,

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as you know, come from chemicals, so and many of

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our poisons come from natural chemicals. A lot of our

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flea products, the pyriethns, actually come from carysanthemum. Some of

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our heart medications come from plants as well, so you

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have to be very careful because some of these not

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only sometimes harmless sometimes even helpful plants when they are

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in large quantity, can be very very toxic, so keep

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Speaker 2: Well, welcome back to Ask the Bets with doctor Jeff

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here on Petlife Radio dot com. And we are talking pets,

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and we're talking about some toxins and household poisons that

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we need to be aware of as I'm treating a

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little squeaky for rat poison. But we have a caller,

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So Hello, who's on the line.

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Speaker 6: Hi?

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Speaker 3: Hi? Who's this?

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Speaker 8: Oh?

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Speaker 3: Hello there? How are you?

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Speaker 4: I think? How are you?

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Speaker 3: I'm doing well? What can I do for you? I's

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a question, sure for John?

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Speaker 4: Is it great to give them vegetables like carrots and

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like procylate?

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Speaker 2: Great question? And the answer is yes, But it all

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depends on the vegetable. We're gonna remember one thing. First

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of all, carrots are great. Fruit like apples are great,

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but no skin broccoli is great as you get to

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really leafy vegetables. However, things like beans, things like lettuce,

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celery dogs don't have the same type of cellulase that

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we have that is used in the digestive process to

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break down these leafy vegetables, so they're not harmless at all.

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But they also are not digestible, so if they're chopped

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up into very small pieces, they're fine. But you might

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notice that you're going to see these small piece is

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coming out in the dog's stool. Whereas if they eat

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like large pieces of lettuce or celery, they might throw

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them up, not because they're poisonous, not because they're dangerous,

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but they have no way of really breaking them down.

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But other vegetables like potato, like green peas, like carrots

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you mentioned, broccoli, cauliflower, things that don't need that type

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of salaes to break them down, are actually really good.

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Speaker 3: In fact, I recommend using.

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Speaker 2: Carrots as little dog treats or little pieces of cut

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up apple as little dog treats, because they do very well.

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used to use grapes and feed grapes indiscriminately, we have

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now learned that there are some dogs that have a

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very bizarre, idiosyncratic reaction to the grape skins and some

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of the prosontietins in the grape skins, and therefore causing

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severe kidney damage. And therefore we wreck command to eliminate grapes,

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even as treats, or even if you knew your dog

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has been fine in the past. Let's not take chances

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because we just don't know enough about it, so to

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be safe, we're now recommending no raisins, no grapes for

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our dogs. Now, I'm glad you call because and talked

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about vegetables, because one of the vegetables on my list

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of potential dangers are onions and garlic. And it seems

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that raw onions and raw garlic can be toxic to

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dogs because they have something in their cells it's called

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thiosulfate that actually can cause a rupture, a breakdown of

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red blood cells, ultimately causing anemia. And for example, a

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lot of baby foods. You know, veterinary hospitals love to

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feed dogs and mostly puppies and kittens that are recuperating

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from disease that aren't really eating much hard food and

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sometimes don't even like their puppy or kitten food. We

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love to feed them baby food. In fact, I should

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have brought stock in some of the baby food company.

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had onion powder in their food and it was potentially

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causing problems. They really, it's so funny they took it out,

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not because of the potential danger.

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Speaker 3: To the babies.

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Speaker 2: They took it out because they found that veteran hospitals

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were using their food galore to feed puppies and kittens

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and it was dangerous. So they now have removed onion

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powder from their food. So we felt pretty good about

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that actually, because I can't imagine that we want our

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little babies to be eating onion powder anyway. So onion

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and garlic is a no no. As of course I

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did mention the raisin and grapes. And let me give

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you one more, one more vegetable that is interesting because

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it's definitely a volume related problem, and that's avocado. And

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you know, it's funny when we started talking about avocados,

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you know, being a poisonous It's actually a fruit, not

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a vegetable because it does grow on trees. But everybody

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considers it off at a vegetable.

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Speaker 3: But it's a fruit.

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Speaker 2: But if you have high amounts of avocado, it actually

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can cause some heart muscle issues, It could damage the lungs,

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it can cause some difficulty breathing. Also, there's a high

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fat content around avocados and therefore, in too high a

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dose can cause pancretitis. Now what's interesting is there is

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a food on the market I'm sure, you've all heard

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it called aviderm and people say, wait a second, doc,

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you're telling us that avocados potentially you're toxic, and there's

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a food on the market that's got avocados in it.

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And it's because it's all you know, the small amount

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could be good, a normal amount is okay. You get

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to an excessive amount, it could be poisonous. Take two

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aspen you could be fine. Take ten aspen you can

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kill yourself. So, you know, we just understand that a

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lot of these things have an upper level. We call

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it an LD fifty, and sadly it's not something you

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really want to promote, but for FDA approval and a

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lot of these medications have to know what the LD

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fifty is, and that is the dose at which fifty

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percent of the animals tested are going to die or

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get very sick. So that's the dose. Obviously, we don't

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want to ever approach that dose that's called the LD fifty,

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so we need to be careful. Avocado's low amount, small

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amount actually can have a beneficial effect because of the fats,

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because of the omega threes, because it's great for skin

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and coat, But be very very careful. My recommendation would

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be to not feed your pets avocado.

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Speaker 3: Anyway. I hope that helped. Any other food questions you

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want to ask. While I have you on the line,

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I do, I do.

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Speaker 4: Have another food question.

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Speaker 5: Go ahead, I make green salad with roman.

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Speaker 4: Let us my dogs go crazy. I have I do

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pet rescue, so I've rescued a few dogs. I have

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labradors and I have a pit bull mixed which mix

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with and they go crazy when I'm cutting up romain lettuce?

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Is that safe for them to eat?

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Speaker 3: All right?

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Speaker 2: So I'll give you this question. I'll ask you a question.

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I'm going to answer your question with a question. First

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of all, do they like it? You answered yes? Does

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that ever make them vomit? Obviously no, or else you

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wouldn't be doing it anymore.

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Speaker 3: Correct.

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Speaker 2: So there's your answer. And I say this to people,

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you know all the time. People often ask me because

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they go to a pet store and they want to

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buy a particular food, or they're talking to these you know.

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I think I made this point on the show before.

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And some young kid comes over to you and asks

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you what are you feeding? You tell them they go,

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oh my god, you don't want to feed that oh

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they make that with all these fillers and all these

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additives and unique to switch to this and I say this,

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I say, first of all, ask yourself, does your dog

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like what you're feeding them? And then the answer is

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yes it does. He have a lot of energy?

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Speaker 3: Yes? Is his coat nice and shiny? Yes?

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Speaker 2: Does he have normal stools? And you say yes? So

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why change?

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Speaker 3: Right?

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Speaker 2: You answered yes to all the right question. Yeah, when

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you have something nice that they like, they're doing fine

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on it. They have a nice coat, they have energy.

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Don't change because some young high schooler at a pet

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shop told you that what you're feeding isn't good, because

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obviously for your dog it's just fine. And I think

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you run in to more questions. All right, So thanks

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for calling. Good, thank you for calling. And if you

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have any other questions, you know how to reach me.

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Speaker 3: Every Thursday. We're here.

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Speaker 7: Thank you.

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Speaker 4: I have a great guy.

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Speaker 3: Thanks you too.

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Speaker 2: So real quick, I want to, I guess, get back

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because we are running out of time soon. So other lists,

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other items household items on my list, alcohol, believe it

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or not. Even though I used to have a labrador

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that used to come when I was in Berkeley, I

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had a lab with me. That was Thor And when

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I used to go to parties, of course he was

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my sidekick. He'd follow me around everywhere, and I would

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watch this dog drink beer, and once he actually he

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liked it, he liked beer, and once he actually seemed

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like he got tipsy from drinking beer. I know better

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now because even a small amount of beer can cause intoxication.

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But the alcohol poisoning is not just from alcoholic beverages,

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but also things that can ferment. For example, rawb red

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dough fermented yeast. All right, So if you have some

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fermented yeast of dough, it can cause alcohol poisoning. But

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also it can inside the belly, can cause bloat because

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what happens is as the yeast ferments decide the end

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product is gas, really of gas, and that could cause

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intestinal rupture. So dogs can vomit, diarrhea, become disoriented. I mean,

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of course they'd have to drink or eat a substantial amount,

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but I'd be really careful if if you're a breadmaker

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and you got you know, you want to sit and

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let the dough rise, you put a towel over it

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or something, and it's in a bowl. Make sure you

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keep your dog away from it because if they ingest it,

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that could be very dangerous. And lastly on the list,

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you know we covered grape, raisin, grapes, the pesticides, the

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household and weed killers, avocado, and our last call, but

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another very very dangerous ingredient that's in many sugarless products

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like sugarless gum is xylotol and you can find it

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in many products that you can take, and dogs like

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it because it is sweet. It's an artificial sweetener and

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it's in sugarless candy, it's in sugarless gum, and it

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definitely is a potential deadly toxin to dogs, and it

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does because it causes their own blood sugar to drop rapidly,

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and symptoms include fatigue, staggering, a regular heart breathing issues, seizures, coma,

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and even death. And dogs are again it's sweet. So

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if you have that pack of sugarless gum, make sure

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you keep it away from your dogs. And if you

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find if you get home and you see the gum

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wrappers around and you suspect even possibly that your dog

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got a hold of sugar list candy or sugarless gum,

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you want to get him in the car and immediately

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immediately head for your veterinarian.

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Speaker 3: That could be a lifesaver.

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Speaker 2: So anyway, I want to thank our callers, those two

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that had the courage to give us a call ask

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the questions online. I'll be here next week on Thursday

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at one o'clock Pacific time four o'clock Eastern time. You

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can send me questions during the week to doctor Jeff

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at petlife radio dot com. That's Dr Jeff petlife Radio

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dot com, or reach us at eight seven seven three

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eighty five eight eight eight two. Thanks again to pro

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Sense Walmart, and we'll see you next week.

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Speaker 3: I'm doctor Jeff Win.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk bets every week on demand only on petlit

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radio dot com.