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Speaker 2: This is doctor Jeff Werber here on Askdabat to the

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And you can also send us an email. As a

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matter of fact, we're going to start the show with

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an email and I'm going to put my little readers

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on here and this is coming now seeing this. Dave

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from Duluth actually, oh God, sends his question in back,

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oh many moons ago show nineteen and we were able

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to hopefully we did help him out, and he writes us,

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unfortunately his dog did have some severe liver cancer and

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passed on. And we're sorry to hear that, Dave. But

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here's Dave's email, and I have to tell you I

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love reading things like this, doctor Jeff, love your show

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and can listen only through podcasts. Should be longer, yes, Dave,

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I agree, but there is so much great programming here

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on Pet Life Radio. I don't think any of us

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get more than that wonderful thirty minutes. But Dave goes

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on to ask if some of the more common overlook

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problems dogs may have, what are some of the symptoms

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the owners should look for, and.

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Speaker 3: Perhaps what we should do.

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Speaker 2: He talks about his two year old Australian cattle dog

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terrier mix rescue named is Zeta, who tested positive for

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lime disease. That's policies not to treat unless symptoms show,

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than antibiotics for thirty days as necessary. Then has given

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me things to watch for it like your advice, etc. Now,

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one of the things that we have to talk about, well,

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first of all, let's handle this twofold, and that is,

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let's first talk about how do you know? How can

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sometimes you tell whether or not your pet is having

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a problem. And this is really challenging, and the reason

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for that is that many of our pets, when you

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think about the evolution, if you will, and I think

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we've covered this before in some of our programs, but

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it's very important to note is that by nature, animals

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aren't complainers. And I think this goes back to a

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time that if they did complain, if they were to

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show signs of weakness, outward signs of weakness, then they

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would in essence be a sitting duck for predator. So

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they have almost learned through development that since no one's

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going to come and coddle them anyway, what's the point,

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Let's just move on. And sometimes we call it being stoic.

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I mean I had one of my labradors. In fact,

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my first labrador was a garbage can hound and on

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a number of times he presented with severe pancreatitis. And

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dogs with pancreatitis have some pretty typical symptoms that we

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look for, and at one point, good Old four was

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presenting with what I considered to be the typical signs

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of pancreatitis. He was vomiting, he didn't want to eat,

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I know, he'd gotten into the garbage, and I was

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palpitating his abdomen and I got nothing.

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Speaker 3: No pain now either. It was because it was me.

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Speaker 2: And of course he's not going to complain or bite

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his master. But I mean, it just goes to show

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that from a classic standpoint of the condition, the pain

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that these dogs have, he wasn't showing me any how

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many times if any of you were out there that

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our listeners have been pet lovers for a long time,

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fake back twenty five years, how many dogs or cats

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went home from a spay or neuter procedure with pain mets.

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sense and feel pain, and as we know, the sensation

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of pain sends up a cascade of events that ultimately

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is not good for their body. For the immune system,

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stress is really not good. So what happens is that

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dogs going home from any kind of procedure are going

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home with plenty of pain mets, anti inflammatories, things like that.

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Speaker 3: So we are learning more and more and more.

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Speaker 2: So I think what it boils down to is because

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our pets are often not going to help us come

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to diagnosis or at least understand or recognize that there's

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a problem, we need to really pay close attention to

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our pets practically on a daily basis, so we know

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what and how they act and respond that same way,

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even though not exhibiting any signs of a real problem.

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know that something is different. It's time to explore now

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if you want to give it a couple of days

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because there's nothing major and they're still eating fine, But

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don't wait too long if things don't resolve, because there's

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a good possibility that something is going on and they're

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just not letting us in on it. So let's now

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go specifically to Dave's case with zeta and lime disease. Now,

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lime disease, as many of you know, is a tick

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transmitted infection.

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Speaker 3: Borellia borg or ferry.

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Speaker 2: And Barrellia is transmitted through the bite of an infected tick.

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ixodes tick. Now we find out that it can be

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carried by number of different ticks, and though it is

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still more prevalent in the Northeast, Thus lime coming because

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the first case is diagnosed in Lime, Connecticut, but it

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is now anywhere where there is a large tick population,

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lime disease can follow. And what specifically in a case

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like this answered Dave's question when a dog is exposed

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to lime disease and if you're even if you are

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measuring antigen but typically we measure antibody that the body

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is responding. So if the dog is not showing any

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clinical signs, not every dog who's bitten by a tick

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that's carrying lime disease is actually going to ultimately present

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with clinical lime disease. Because our bodies, the dog's body

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may be able to depend on the strength of the infection,

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can probably or possibly take care of it. Same thing

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with parvo. You know, the old argument is a puppy

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acting totally fine, test positive for parvo, are you going

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to treat it well? Probably not, because it could be

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that the parvo is just passing through the system, if

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you will, But the body's own immune system is doing

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a bang up job taking care of the infection. However,

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if that dog starts to present with clinical disease, of

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course we're going to treat it. Likewise, we're going to

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treat them for if a dog is presenting with clinical disease,

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and even if his test is negative.

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Speaker 3: We're still going to treat it because we're not.

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Speaker 2: Treating tests necessarily, we're treating clinical disease. Now, if we're

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in an area where lime disease is very aggressive and

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we see a lot and a dog test positive, would

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it hurt to put them on a prophylactic antibody antibiotic,

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say doxy cycling for a twenty day course, a three

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week course, And the answer is no, as long as

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you follow through. So what my recommendation is, Again, I'm

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not as familiar in the line problem into luth Minnesota. However,

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if it's something where the veterinarian there, who probably has

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a lot more experience because we don't see a whole

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lot of lime disease in southern California, feels that they

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wanted to wait and watch the dog monitor for a

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bit and just see if the dog is continuing to

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behave totally normally. What I would then do and maybe

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in about a week or two, take another lime test.

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If it's then negative, then possibly we're fine. It all

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depends on how long the antibody load specific to a

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lime disease is going to stay in the system. But

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if you want it to get a little more aggressive,

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Dave and do the prophilactic course of antibotics for three

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Speaker 3: Not a bad idea either.

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Speaker 2: And so the key here in answer to the first

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part of Dave's question is how do we know. Let's

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talk about some very common diseases, common problems. Let's say

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the number two, three, four that we see on a

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Speaker 3: I'd say, this.

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Speaker 2: Time of year, number one problem, we're going to see

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a skin disease. We see a lot of skin allergies,

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and so typical presentation is you're going to see a

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dog that's scratching. When we inhale pollens and we have

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pollen allergies, we typically exhibit symptoms of respiratory problems, running, nose, sneezing, coughing,

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et cetera. Dogs and cats, however, typically scratch. So the

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manifestation of atopic meaning inhaled diseases in dogs and cats

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is via scratching and skin problems also contact irritants lying

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down on a grass. So if you see a dog

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that typically is starting to scratch more aggressively looking at

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the skin, the hair is falling out very dry. Even

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if they're not scratching, when petting them, you feel little

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scams or sores. These are indications that your dog is

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having some degree of skin problems, skin allergy potentially with

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secondary skin infection. And even if they're not acting that miserably,

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you should still have them checked out by your veterinarian. Normally,

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probably number one, not spring, summer, but always is going

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to be GI gas to intestinal issues. And that's because

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our pets love to eat what they want to eat,

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not necessarily what we want them to eat, and they

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often get a hold of things that we don't want

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them to get a hold of. They pick things up

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off the ground, they get a hold of some issues,

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some concerns. If you have kids, small kids that are

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eating and leaving droppings around of food, they're getting a

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hold of those. Some of the foods that we are

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now known to be somewhat toxic, somewhat dangerous, notably raisins

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and grapes, maybe a little too much chocolate.

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Speaker 3: How about xylotol. Xylotol is the ingredient in a lot.

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Speaker 2: Of sugarless gums, mince, and candies. That is clearly fine

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with us because we eat all the time, but can

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be deadly to a dog and a cat, especially dogs,

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they will get xylodog poisoning, which causes severe kidney disease.

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So when a dog is off of food, and I

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don't mean just for a meal, I mean if they're

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acting okay, but they're just not eating what they typically

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want to eat, and this goes on for more than

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two or three days, then you need to start exploring.

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be just a gastro enteritis. It could be believed or

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not an oral problem. How often have I seen a

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dog that is just adr ain't doing right off food,

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just not as animated about eating as it usually is,

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and we find a terrible gum infection or a cut

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inside the mouth, or something lodged in between two teeth,

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so we need to get it out. So inspecting the

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mouth is also very important, And not only that.

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Speaker 3: How about ears?

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Speaker 2: You've heard of TMJA temperament diberal joint. So when you

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have a mandibular joint problem, you know that every time

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you too, you feel it up in your ears. So

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I've had animals with severe ear infections that are seemingly

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not that eager to eat. Now, it could be just

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because they feel like hell because of the infection of

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the ear infection, but likewise, it could be also by

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the mere fact that they're having a TMG condition because

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of some pain in that area because of a severe

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ear infection as well. So GI gastrointestinal is another thing

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we commonly see that you need to be observant about,

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and you need to really know how much your dog's

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typical or cats typically eat, how fast, how readily they eat,

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and understand and recognize when they are not eating with

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that same vigor. So it does our quickly, Boy does

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Speaker 3: Dave, I agree, not enough time.

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Speaker 2: We are here a halfway point, so I'm going to

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Speaker 2: You are here with doctor Jeff Werber of the host

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ask the best up here in Pet Life Radio, and

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we were just talking about some subtle things that you

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need to learn to recognize within your pets, because they

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are not always going to tell us when they are

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feeling rotten, when things are just not right. And of course,

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the earlier we can make a diagnosis, the earlier we

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can get to the root of a problem, the better

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chances we're going to have of treating that problem. So

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we already talked about skin issues, very very prevalent this

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time of year. We talked about the gastrointestinal issues, some

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of the concerns we have, and now I want to

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talk about another organ system where actually it's a couple

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linked together, and that is the neuromuscular skeletal system, and

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that is the involving joints, bones, muscles, obviously the nerves

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that feed these muscles, and another area where a lot

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of animals present with problems. My dog went out to

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the park yesterday, ran around like crazy and now he's limping.

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Speaker 3: What is it? Well, boy, it could be a lot

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of things.

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Speaker 2: So we have to obviously evaluate some of the clues

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that we have. And when I have a dog coming

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in with limping, history is very important. The physical exam

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is very important because what we're going to do really

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is determined by how this all happened and what is

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going on right now, say for example, with a dog

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standing in front of me in my examination room. So

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when we have acute onsets, I mean sudden onsets of

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a lameness, limping, weakness problem, that typically is going to

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mean an injury. You don't wake up one morning with

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bone cancer. You don't wake up one morning right with

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a severe muscular disease, neuromuscular disease. Most of those conditions

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are coming on as we call an insidious onset, a

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slow progressive onset. It could be a rapid progression as well,

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but it's an onset. It's a progressive disease. Things that

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your dog was perfect yesterday or this morning and that

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was limp by evening, something happened. And it could be

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as simple as stepping on something. Check the pads, check

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in between the feet. Could be a foxtail that was migrating.

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It could be a soft tissue injury, a soft tissue strain.

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It could be a minor one to a major one

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that's gonna need surgery, like a cruciate ligament. Okay, So

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these are all things that we have to look at,

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and therefore that history is so important. But what I

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typically recommend if you have a dog that all of

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a sudden or a cat, even cats less so to

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present with musclear skeleton problems to choose you the dog

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is to first of all, can they bear weight on

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the limit?

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Speaker 3: Question?

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Speaker 2: Are they completely down? I mean, here's a serious one

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that can happen. Suddenly you have a docs and do

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you have a frenchy a French bulldog and they jump

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off the bed. You might hear a scream, and now

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they are literally practically paralyzed in their back legs. They

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don't seem to be able to stand up. Now you're

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talking about an emergency situation, one that you don't want

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to wait a day or two. Try the nonstroidl antine flammer,

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Try little aspirin, Try a little as script in. Okay,

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and see how we do. Because when we have an

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acute onset of paresis or paralysis like that, now we're

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talking about a possibility of a surgical disease. And the

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faster you get in the better. So these are all

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clues that are important. So if it's just a matter

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of dogs hop in gimping on three legs, and you

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check the feet, you check them between the toes. Nothing obvious,

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and you want to give it a day or so, okay,

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you want to call your doc and maybe try a

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little anti inflammatory. The only ones that I recommend over

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the counter really is going to be an aspirin or

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an a scriptin, and a script in is aspirin with

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an ant acid. The tylenols, the ibuprofens, you know, the advils,

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things like that. I don't necessarily recommend them for dogs.

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Speaker 2: Never, while we're on the subject of the acetamenafen, it

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will kill a ca Never never, never give a cedumnifen

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to a cat. If you drop one on the floor

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and you have cats around the house, find it. Because

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the one case, interestingly I've had in the last few

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years was a friend who calls me in the morning

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and his cat is really just having a tough time.

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And this cat's tongue is blue. And we're not talking

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about a chow chow dog, We're talking about a cat.

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And the cat's lungs were totally clear, breathing totally normally

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and yet blue tongue and really just gasping. And my

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first thought, Wow, it wasn't my first, but obviously I

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was thinking about some sort of pulmonary problem. Was we

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got into the possibility of a tile and all toxicity.

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I asked him, is there any possibility? He goes, oh

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my god, I go what He got home the night before.

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It was late and he had a headache. So he

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gets his tile and all. It's a ceed of minifin

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and he puts a couple in his hand ready to

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take them. One drops, He looks under the bed a

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little bit, he looks under his nightstand, can't find it.

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He figures, no big deal. He pops another one and

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takes his two. Well, guess who found the one that

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fell on the floor.

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Speaker 3: His cat, And we are.

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Speaker 2: Talking a very very serious emergency. Fortunately we were able

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to pull this cat through, but I would not recommend

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it because it's very, very deadly and only when you're

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awfully lucky can you pull one through. So anyway, be

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careful about things like that when you're dealing with limping.

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But so back to the limping. If this continues, if

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they can't put their weight down and others if they

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will walk. Maybe they're favoring it, but they will walk.

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Chances are, and again I learned long time ago never

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to say never, but chances are there's no broken bone, well,

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a broken major bone. I've seen dogs with a broken

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metatarsal or metacarpal bone, which are there's little skinny bones

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at the top part of the feet that if you

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have one broken, they still can be bare weight because

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the other three are working just totally fine. So that's

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a possibility that Usually if they can bear weight, we're

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dealing more with a soft tissue strain or an injury

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a pull, a ligament, a tendon, a muscle, things like that.

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If they are totally non weight bearing and very painful

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to the touch, then it could be a fracture. And

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typically also the higher this is really cool, the higher

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a pad, especially going to be a dog holds his

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leg up if he is not putting it down, the

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more likely the problem is lower in the leg, meaning

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the hok or the foot, The knee, and the hip

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are usually fine. Conversely, if they seem to be kind

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of like not wanting to bear weight, but the leg

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they don't lift it very high, it's kind of like

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I almost like dragging down, then more likely the injury is

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going to be the hip or the stifle the knee,

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because when they can lift it really high up and

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hold it up, that kind of tells you the hip

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is good and the knee is good. When they can't

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it drags, it often means that that is where the

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problem is. Sometimes when there is a foot foot foot problem,

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if you touch the pads, touch to to the bottom

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of the foot, you will.

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Speaker 3: Get a reaction, and this is.

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Speaker 2: Where you're gonna look for the splinter, the stinger from

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the bee, the glass.

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Speaker 3: Especially if there's bleeding.

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Speaker 2: And always check in between the toes, because one thing

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we see this time of year are the plant ons

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the foxtails as we call them, that will migrate, and

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one of the places like they love to migrate is

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in the feet, in between the toes, so they are

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also we have a clue. When any of these problems

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last more than like two days, you really should make

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an appointment to see your vet, even though everything else

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is perfect, and it might just be a soft tissue

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and the treatment might be some veterinary non story of

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al antin inflammatories, some rest, some icing, et cetera. But

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don't wait too long because if it is something worse,

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or it is a soft tissue tear like the accruciate ligament,

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these are something that we want to be a bit

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more aggressive. And you know, there are a lot of

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really effective modalities treatment modalities now that we can use

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that can provide some relief in addition to the nonstroidals

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and the anti inflammatories such as lasers, such as acupuncture.

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That you don't want to wait too long because you

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might be able to make your pedal a lot more

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comfortable if you jump on it more readily. Now, real quick,

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I just wanted to mention one more thing. We talked

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about the allergies. We are seeing a ton this time

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of year, and the manifestations are usually skin related, usually itching.

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And what's so interesting, especially with a dog, are the

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key allergens that we see this time of year are going.

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Speaker 3: To be fleas.

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Speaker 2: We call that FAD flea allergic dermatitis pollens which are inhaled.

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It can also inhale molds. Dogs are allergic to molds

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and then things that they can ingest. Interestingly, you can

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have a dog that's allergic to food and you think, well,

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when you eat something and you're allergic to it, right,

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it's a gas to intestinal signs. You sometimes do get

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swollen around the face. Same thing with dogs, and a

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lot of times we can tell from the location of

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where the dog is scratching or the cat is, and

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then we'll get to that when we talk more about cats,

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that it often can give us a clue as to

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what the allergon is and what I wanted to do

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next week. So stay tuned because it's a huge problem

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this time of year. Is we are going to talk

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about canine and feline allergies, allergic skin disease, secondary infection.

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We're going to talk about how to diagnose and how

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to treat, and some of the great things we have

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on the market right now to help with these pets

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that are miserable, especially this time of year. And it's

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going to last through typically because of the pollens, it's

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going to be with us through probably September, maybe even

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in some places early October. So we want to take

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care of that right earlier the better by helping our

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pets stay a lot more comfortable this time of year,

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and especially when it comes to treating those just those

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nuisance fleas. So anyway, Thanks for joining me here on

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Ask the Best with Doctor Jeff here in pet Life Radio.

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If you have any want to send me an email,

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I will also send you out a product and then

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we'll reach your e live on air next week. You

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