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from K ToJ studios in Hollywood to get back to
my home studio to do our morning Saturday morning shows.
So anyway, it was a fun segment. Love going KTLA.
Anytime there's anything animal related, they usually will call me.
So it's fun. It's like when I do Inside Edition,
and I do a lot of these shows. It's also
KCBS here in La. You know, it's interesting how when
you start working with a producer, even if it's from
a different realm, a different station, a different network, whatever,
they don't leave the industry right. What they do is
if whatever happens, they go to another station. So when
the subject of pets comes up, they'll often say, oh,
you know it's so and so I used to work
with doctor Jeff. So basically it's great because it is
just it keeps going. And I have you've never used
any PR. I found it just usually the PR firms
will get to me from the job that I do
and then they keep calling me. So anyway, it's a
lot of fun. So love doing Katla. They are really
really into pets. The weather person who's there, her name
is Casey Montoya, has a fix and Fidos Rescue and
she is an absolute gem and a dog lover. So
it's a great contact and it's a great friend to
have because she loves having the pet segments and I
love doing the pet segments, so it works out great. Anyway,
if you had a chance to see it, that's great.
But if you didn't, and probably many of you don't
have KTLA five because it's a local lay station, then
I am going to go over a little bit of
what we discussed. So anyway, if you have any questions,
So hot stuff, how is it chilling? Maybe a little
early advencement, you got it, but I'd be curious to know.
I mean, it's got all the natural ingredients that are
known to have some chill effect. Scott Valerian passion, flower, camameal,
but latonin, a trip to fan So let me know
it'll be great today if I have fireworks sensitive dog destructions,
ay too today? Can he? Yes? You give too. Oh,
you definitely can give to it once especially, that's one
good thing. But when you get into these natural supplements,
there's really no downside to giving more of it because
none of these things there, they'd have to eat a
bushel to be toxic, and so I'm not worried about that.
So yes, go ahead, AJB, how are you so in
lieu of questions, If you have any questions, ask away.
In the meantime, let me just go through some of
the things we talked about. So my life of Corgy saw.
Oh good you saw. I'm on KTLA, So this might
be some repeat stuff, but I think it's good stuff
to know and interesting. I already got a few texts
from my clients say oh I saw on KTLA this morning.
So I got to be pretty early because I got
my dogs. I got five of them, feed my four
cats that's nine right there at mouth to feed, and
then take them for a walk. And then I got
to dress up nicer to be on the show. I
actually wear a sports shirt and net a tie. I
know it's it's very innusual for me, but it's a
lot of fun. I love going in there. Soort of
the thing we talked about the issue was summertime heat
and some of the things that we have so they
First of all, someone sent me an article I thought
was fascinating, and I'm trying to figure out why. I
would love your input to see if you can come
up with some reasons. I'll share mine. Forty five percent
of dogs and forty percent of cats vanish at some
point during summer months, compared to only seven to eight
of all the fantasy animals during winter months. Why is
it what is going on during this summer that is
so much more conducive to pets, So I hurt my thoughts.
First of all, summertime kids are home. If you have
young kids that are not responsible or as responsible if
we'd like them to be, they leave doors open, they
leave a window open, and that's how animal's going to escape. Also,
going into the backyard, they forget to close the gate,
so the dogs take an opportunity. The catch take an
opportunity now to take off. Also, it is more conducive
because of the temperature. It's warmer, it's nicer, it's's freezing
cold outside. Then I want to run away, so they
just want to stay in that nice, warm house. But
during the summer when it's warm outside too, I think
they get out, So I think that that could be
one of the reasons. And another we thought, we talked
about it. We're going to go more through the questions.
I have a couple of questions here, and that is decent.
Don't with hiking because we want to get out there.
We want to do more, have more fun with our
pets during the summer, take advantage of the better weather.
So therefore, it's really it's important to know the des
and domes. You don't want to hike in the middle
of the day. You want to do it early in
the morning, later in the evening. And even with that,
you still have to read your dogs. The problem is
dogs are so loyal to us. As long as we
keep going, they're gonna keep going to the point of
exhaustion and heat stroke can be deadly. So read them.
Watch their panting, touch their gums, and they very dry.
Just stop often. Make sure you have plenty of water
with you, Bring a canteen, bring a water thing and
a jug of water. And then when you stop in
the shade, do it frequently. Give them some water, let
them drink. The goal is being with your pet, not
racing through your day with your pet because they will
try to keep up with you to the point of exhaustion,
and then in the middle of the day you just
don't want to do it all. And one of the
things we talked about with that hiking is more probably
a greater increase possibility of beastings snake bites if you
are hiking areas where the snakes. If you do, make
sure that your dog has the rattlesnake vaccine. Understand that
rattlesnake vaccine is not going to prevent air reaction. It's
going to slow things down. It's going to buy you time.
So if you do frequently places, you need to know
very importantly where the closest emergency or urgent care facility
is that has the snake venin, the anti venoin for rattlesnakes.
That is a really really important know their number, don't
even know, just know where they are. Make sure they're
open at the times that you're going to be hiking.
You pick up your dog, do what you can if
you have to walk, is it's big, very slow, don't panic,
don't let them run, and get to that facility as
soon as you can as far as best things. Look
for their stayer. Most commonplaces dogs ever get stump their
feet because they usually step on the beat or their
muzzle somewhere either around the mouth or in the mouth.
You look for something that looks like a little black comma.
A trick is taking a little a credit card and
brush the area around and in the lips, because the
licks are usually pink. Evert them the upper, the lower,
the cheeks and see if you can find a little
it looks like a little black comma. If you can
remove that, that's the first line of defense. And then
always have some benetrul with you. Talk to your veninaria,
maybe some pregnicezwe Again, if your dog frequently gets stung
or bitten, you want to have it with you. So
let's see that we had a question. She have a
good friend of mine has a border Collie with a meningitis,
probably I think a female. She is in Michigan and
working with vets. So it all depends on the source
and the reason for the meningitis. How old is the dog,
Is it bacterial, does it seem fungal? Is it just inflammatory?
So if they can find out the cause, I mean,
this might be where a CSF tap might help cerebro
spinal fluid tap to evaluate the spinal fluid and see
if they can pick up anything there. Maybe an MRI
might be an answer, looking for some sort of swelling,
looking for a mass. So there are a number of
reasons to have meningitis. It all depends on the age
of the animal and overall health, and then the treatment
is specific to the meningitis. Now, of course, any kind
of brain lesion is not a good thing to have,
most likely serious. So what I recommend working with veninaria
probably also either a very veterinarian neurologists or at least
at interness. This might be beyond the scope of most GPS.
I would probably you know, if we diagnosis are made,
I would refer and keep in the hands of the
neurologists for sure. So keep me posted on that my
Bengal keeps doing weird thing that she has food stuck
in her mouth or filling up and chewing some ah,
so worries me about this. This could be either a
very bad tooth, a loose tooth, or something stuck in
the mouth, or you should definitely take to the veterinarian
because sometimes if they have a string foreign body, and
it's wrapped around the base of the tongue, so it's there.
It really bothers them, especially when they eat and they
move their tongue around and vomiting. Is because the other
end of that string is probably in the stomach or somewhere.
And because part of the string, the front part of
it is wrapped around the tongue, it can't move, so
it's always there. So what I would do in a
case like that is a thorough oral inspection, okay, then
also an X ray or an ultrasound to see if
there is the intestines okay, are sort of almost like
a spiral together, all right, And because the string won't
let everything open up, so you have a clumping of
bowel because of a foreign body. So i'd have that
to and that could explain the spinning up. And maybe
there's that stomach acid coming up is why they're licking
like crazy. So definitely do not ignore it. It should
be evaluated. And also something as simple as a bad tooth,
if there's a loose tooth or it's kind of broken
and there's a piece that's in there that's stuck, that's
exactly what a dog or cat will do. It's like
they want to get it out, but they can't because
it's still attached. So that's what I would check, any
of those many things. Yeah, it's very sick and not
to mege yes, eight year old. Well again, that's exactly
kind of what's going on with these dogs. It's not
a good diagnosis, all right, So whatever is going on,
ununderstand that you're sort of against the eight ball. But
if you can determine the cause, and if the cause
is inflammatory steroids, if it is infectious, you know culture
and the correct antibotic. But sometimes you don't always get
the answer. So anyway, twelve and a half ye old
female Yorky, one of my nipples was read and flamed.
Now it's the lump size of a marble beside it. Okay,
So that either can be what's called mestitis, an infection
of that plan and if gently and I mean gently,
if it can be squeezed and you see like a
purulent exitate coming out of the nipple, that's what you have.
Or very likely at twelve years old, it could be
a memory tumor. And understand that when we say that
early spain neuter, that's usually before the second heat. Not
usually it's god being for the second heat can help
prevent future memory tumors. It doesn't mean completely, but most
of us, if there are dogs were spade after the
second heat, there's no risk reduction of memory cancer. So
therefore it easily could be a memory tumor and therefore
very important to have it checked out if the dog
is otherwise fine. If it's a Yorkie and it's twelve
and a half, I would think that this dog also
needs to have his teeth, her teeth clean, okay, So
what I would do is make sure she's fine, full
blood test and then if necessary, if the teeth needed,
or just to get rid of his tumor, anesthetizer of course,
being very very cautious based on the age, but twelve
and a half for Yorkie is not ancient. It's old,
but not ancient, and if a bloods are fine, I
would have no hesitation to anesthetize clean the teeth, knowing
YORKI is probably could have its teeth cleaned, her teeth
cleaned and remove that memory tumor. One thing you do
I would do also as part of my pre surgical
physical because of her age and because of a memory tumor.
I would also do a chest X ray because it's
very important to know at this time. If she already
has evidence of a metatine disease, that means leasers in
the chest. That might change your mind completely, because the
prognosist now becomes from just guarded to very poor. So
if the lungs are clear, I would one hundred percent
proceed with the surgery and the dentistry, which most likely
would be helpful. All right, so let's tinue. Then we'll
go ahead and talk about some of the other heat issues.
So we talked about sung by Bees now also another
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Speaker 2: So I'm just for you, just cheering back in after
the commercials on pet Life Radio that the Yorkid we
talked about with the memory cancer, so what we think
is a tumor, turns out that she had an emergency
has directed me a few years ago. She's twelve and
a half now. A few years ago makes her nine
to nine and a half, so that means she was
not Spade. So this is a perfect example, is the commercial.
Why if you haven't an animal that's a non breeding animal,
you have no intent to reading her, you should probably
have her fixed. And if it's you have the option
if you have the animal before as a puppy or
a kitten, Spade before their second of cats different because
cats have they're seasonally polyestrous, it's really hard to gauge it.
I would spay a cat any when when once all
their teeth are in it's safe to spay, then we
want to wait till that a year. That's okay. But
with dogs, their first heat, depending on what textbook they read,
is around seven months of age. Could be eight nine.
Large breeds of things, go have their first heat till eleven.
Their second heat is going to be seven months later. Again,
textbook is seven months first, fourteen months second. Once they
have that first heat, wait till they're closer to year
of age, and then spay before that second heat. And
for large breeds, I'd wait until close to the second heat,
I like them to wait probably at least a year,
if not a year and a half if you can.
If they had a late first heat, then go ahead
and wait seven full months, wait six months, and then spay.
But that uterine infection was pyometra. Guess what you could
prevent piometra by spay, and if spay before that second heat,
you can eighty ninety percent chance of preventing memory cancer
as well. So it's a win win win, and you
don't have to worry about anything. Not to mention spain
a very sick cat to do that piometra surgery right
is at risk. It's a risk. Whereas you spay a
healthy year old dog or cat, then it's it's a
lot better. So that sort of solidifies my hunch that
this was an intact female. What remedies recommended for rugs
who get over diarrhein ina stole in the backside, butthole,
ah well, nicely put a backside hole, all right, you
could use like a decadent, but if you could give
anything like that. Sometimes the reason why you still sore
is because they're licking or rubbing. Now, it's hard to
prevent the rubbing, but you can prevent licking by putting
a cone on. So if you rub something on like
a decatine, like a diperrass powder or a little neosporn,
something with a little lighto caine in it so it
dumbs it a little bit, then you can. Also you
want to keep it covered so she doesn't lick it
right off, So that's sort of what I would recommend,
but also adding a little fiber to the diet. Sillium
powder is very well tolerated. Canned pumpkin, cooked oat meal,
cook sweet potato, cooked yams, whatever, small amounts. If it's
too much, they'll get really soft stool. Again, just a
small amount heaving on the size of the dog, anywhere
from an eighth of a teaspoon up to maybe one teaspoon.
If it's a giant breed, maybe two teaspoons. But that
will help, believe it or not, that will help keep
the stool normal, but maybe a little softer and easier
for the dog to defecate so it won't continue to
irritate that area. My eight year old cat had a
platter information from anxiety. Urinary food is regular food for
the rest of his light. So the answer is yes,
if they're doing well on the diet and you have
a good mix, and the good mix is working keeping
her balanced, then you can feed that of his for
the rest of his life. Not a problem. Now, there
are certain foods that will say only to be used
short term, the st diet, for example, the stone is diet.
It will say you don't want to use it forever.
But if it's the regular urinary care kind of food
and it's working and the cat's doing fine, then yes,
he can be on that for the rest of his life.
All right, So let's go over some of the other
things we talked about on my show this morning. Keep
an eye out for more good questions. Oh, so, when
it cools down in the evening, you got to remember
one thing that the asphalt, especially black top asphalt, retains
heat for sometimes hours. So you want to know that
if you're going to walk your dogs in eating, which
is good, either stay on regular cement like sidewalk, grass,
gravel if my gravel is kind of harder than their
feet anyway. But if you're going to walk on asphalt,
you still might want to think about some sort of
paw protection. And that could be either he's a paths
that go right attached to the paw, or it could
be little booties with the rubber bottoms. If you're going
to use booties, don't keep them on longer than just
for the walk. If the booty is that rubber material
and the whole booty is rubber, and then you kind
of seal it on top with the vel grope, that
does not allow feet to sweat, and that's not good.
So they sweat, but all the moisture stays in there,
and it's a problem. It's not evaporated. So if you're
going to do those booties and leave them on a
longer term, let's say have a dog, it's outside, it's hot,
they get the kind that have the bottom all right,
but the top is either a mesh or a knitted material,
and that way at least their feet can breathe. Or
you just get the pats with badge. The feet are
wide open, so that's good. Getting a summer cut, ah,
that's a good one. So should you or shouldn't you
shave your dogs down for the summer. The answer is no.
And here's why. That coat keeps the heat in when
it needs to be in and keeps it cool when
they didn't need to be cool. It keeps the so
it protects the dogs from the heat, and it regulates
their temperature in the winter. It keeps sating dogs protected
from the cold, and it regulates your temperature. As long
as the coat is healthy. Now, if it's very matted,
or if it's an unhealthy coat, the skin is bad,
then yes you gotta do something. But healthy coat is protection. Now,
if you want to shave, don't shave. Do it what
we call a summer cut. They still have the hair,
still going to be protective. And interestingly, some dogs, if
I see white dogs with really paint skin, if you
shave them, then their skin is more exposed to the sun.
And yes, they could actually get sunburn. In fact, there
is a probably see in we call colleenos discord lupus.
It's like a sun induced type of cancer or sort
of inflammation from sun and needs to be treated. And
for these dogs, well that's why we recommend using sun block.
If you have animals, dogs, cats that like to chill
in the sun and they like to be on their back,
and you notice the englinal area doesn't have a lot
of hair, want to get some sort of spray sunscreen,
anything like a fifty or sixty and spray it on.
Don't let them lick right away, and that'll provide some
protection against sunburn. Dogs and cats can get sunburn. If
you look at cats, they get it, can get a cancer, scream,
a cell carcinoma on the ear tips because the ear
tips and the temporal regions and cats don't have a
lot of hair protection sun protection. So therefore, again it
is something that does happen. We need to be aware
of it and do what we can to prevent it.
My cat is a bladder flammations nalue you're moving to
another home. Well, what you say, bladder inflammation from anxiety.
If it's truly that, then try some anti anxiety medication.
You can do trazodone. You can put them on abuse bar,
you can put them on Ellaville and keep them relaxed.
You can do something more natural, like a supplement that
has any of the natural camomeal, passion flower, valerian root, melatonin,
el trip to fan, anything that we know kind of
keep some calm. You can try that as well. Sometimes
if it's really bad and you want the medication anti anxieties,
like as they said, trazodone, doucepar phloxetine, amatryptolene, which is leviil.
So speak your veterinarian, and that should be a big
solution to the problem. Okay, all right, so let's do
some more. Okay, what about the beach. What about the beach.
That's also a scary one. The beach itself. First of all,
as you know, anyone who's run across the sand on
a hot day, man, that sand is hot. If it's
hot for you barefoot, it's hot for your pets. So
keep that in mind. So again, let's go back to
the booties, the late night hot asphalt booties. You want
to get some sort of foot paw protection in the sand. Now,
if it's not that hot, if you can walk across comfortably,
chances are choaking your dogs. And sometimes it's just amount
of getting down to the water area. But what about
ocean water and what about sand? Are there other hazards
And interestingly, yes there are. One thing is called sand impaction.
So you're doing you're throwing tennis ball, you're throwing a frisbee.
As that frisbees hits the dirt, hits the sand, the
tennis ball rolls. Before they grate in their mouth, it's
covered in sand. Once they have the saliva on it,
so now it's wet, and the wet even a hold
lot of more sand and they put in their mouths
and they inadvertently are eating ingesting a lot of this sand. Now,
if it's a little sand, probably is okay. It's going
to pass and you'll see it on the other end.
But if they get a clump at a time, or
it sits there and they keep chasing after that ball
and you're not giving water fresh water, always being fresh
water with you to let it help pass, then it's
going to clump up in the stomach or somewhere in
the intestine and it can cause a sand impaction, which
is a blockage. That's a problem. So you want to
make sure that you give them plenty of water, let
them take a breather, don't let them run ingest too
much sand at once. Secondly, ocean water, ocean water, as
you know, is very salty. When they take in a
lot of salt, the salt in the water and gets
absorbed into the blood stream. Now it sort of holds
the water so the water can't escape. It keeps the
water in, so they're drinking more, but the salt content
is not letting the water release the intestine. It is staying.
So they can get some diarrhea, but they get clinically dehydrated.
Then if the salt content in the blood gets too
high and it goes into the brain, then it can
cause brain swelling. So it's not like if your dog
likes to drink water and is swimming in the ocean
inadvertently they're going to take in salt water. They're just
going to So therefore it need to be smart. You
need to limit how much swimming in the ocean they do.
You need to have plenty of fresh water with them
to drown out the effect of the salt water. For example,
my pool is a salted pool and it's called the salivation,
and that is fine. That's fine, it's it's very low content.
But ocean water is much higher and we know because
I'm sure you've tasted ocean water before, so you want
to be very very careful. Next up, what about flee
and tick medication That people ask me, when should I
start fleet medication? I say two months ago forty in gum,
so you've got to have the flee medication. Usually I
tell people to start in April. And now some parts
of the country it is you in the south, it's
you in our area. Here in LA. It needn't be
year round. It is often recommended because of ticks takes
to be year round. But we don't see a lot
of ticks, but fleas for sure, So I say start
I go April, May, June, July, August, September, and maybe
by October, October, November, December, January, February. You probably can
do without it, but from April through the end of
September you definitely want to have flea protection. I would
recommend the ice socks, azolines. You know, those are ones
I like the best. The ones. The over the counter
flea products that you can still get even at costco
at drug stores is not going to be effective. I'm
not going to mention drug names product names. I will, however,
mention the active ingredient fipronil and imitecloakprid are no longer
very effective. They might be a little effective. They're very safe,
no need to worry about it. But they've been on
the market for almost twenty probably twenty years, and you
don't have to give an insect twenty years with the
way they breed and multiply to develop resistance. So you know,
these same companies, had they been up to date and
change formulations and done research and not rested on their
heralds and kept the exact same formulation, maybe they still
be good products. But they're the same so imitecloaprid. I
used to love them, they worked so well, but right
now they are not effective. You need to look for
the isoxazolenes. You need a prescription from your veterinarian. And
you can still get them, like I know that Costco,
for example, has a lot of pet products. So many
pharmacies will still have pet products. And quite frankly, now
you can get them on the line. You can get
them on one in one hundred, pet Magic can get
them on Best First Choice. You can get them on chewy,
So talk to your veterinarian, call in the prescription and
you can actually pick up these medications. They are effective
and I say safe with a in quotes. There are
some dogs we don't know which ones we can't predict,
that may have a bad reaction. Usually the dogs that
have this reaction and which is could be a seizure
reaction are dogs that already had some evidence or history
of seizures and it might predispose them to more. If
one of the oxoxs Azeleines does it, you could go
to one of the others, all right, So talk to
your veterinarian. And there are some other older products that
still are effective that are available. I still need prescriptions,
so talk to your veterinarian about those as well. And
I think that is it. Let me just check if
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listening to my voice messages. I even stay on my
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get back to you. I'd be a day or two late,
but I will get back to you. But I think
that's the you know, you know, I love talking pets
and during the week, if you want to text me
a question about your pet that you think would be
useful to talk about on my next show next Sunday,
please do and we will We'll go from there. And
I think I don't know, bark, is it Father's Day
today or is that next week next week? Or today
of next week? Okay, all right, so anyway I thought
it was too early. So anyway, I wish Father's including
myself after five day. All right, very good, see you
next week all and a brand you can always get
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