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Speaker 3: I'm a good week. I actually last Thursday to go
to Chicago, and I love that. It's a breakdown.
Speaker 2: AVMA, the American Veteran Medical Association meetings, is one that
changes cities every year, and it just so happens that
the AVMA is based in Schanberg, Illinois, which is the
suburb I think that. You know, I do know Chicago
very well. I think this AHAs suburb about northwest of Chicago.
But what a great town. The weather it was amazing.
It was so gorgeous and hot, Oh my god, it's
muggy during the day. And and they have a great
set of restaurants. A talent of Chicago is just great
and plenty of plates to eat. The convention hall was fantastic.
It was a great meeting, a great conference. Some you know,
new things, you know, we see a lot of things
and new procedures, new drugs.
Speaker 3: Oh my god.
Speaker 2: I don't know if we talked about the new drug
in coming out by one of the big companies. It
is Zoetis, and Zoetis is a company that is the
offshoot on the veterinary division, the animal division of Animal Health,
so Pfizer Animal Health, which division of obviously the big
monster Pfizer is now called Zoetis, and they are coming
on with a great product which I'm going to share
with you in a minute. But we have a caller
online with us. I want to get callers first. I'm
going to come back and talk about this new fantastic
product from Zoetas.
Speaker 3: Hello caller, Hi, Hi.
Speaker 4: I'm calling because my name is Richard. I'm calling. I've
got thank you. I'm calling because I've got a puppy
who's about nine months old. Uh huh, and he's a
cross between a shitsu and a terrier. Okay, so he's
about twenty twenty five pounds, right, and he's very healthy.
But whenever we leave him, he tends to get pretty
bad diarrhea, which I think is result of stress.
Speaker 3: Absolutely.
Speaker 4: So the question is is there either a medicine we
can give him to reduce the stress or help his diarrhea,
or should we change his diet when we're going to
be away.
Speaker 2: Well, here's the thing, you know, first of all, that
is puppies they get very excited, nervous, and this is
what happens.
Speaker 3: They get stressful.
Speaker 2: So I would recommend I don't think it's a matter
of changing diet, because sometimes that and of itself can
cause more problems even when you're not going away, so
that might backfire on you. One of the things I
would like to see you do is to start minimizing
the stress.
Speaker 3: How do you do that?
Speaker 2: Well, what he's experiencing is probably under the realm of
what we call separation anxiety. He is getting so worked up,
probably even before you leave, based on some of the
clues that you are giving as you're preparing to leave,
that by the time you leave, his world is caving
in on him and he just having a tough time
handling it.
Speaker 3: So a couple of things you need to do.
Speaker 2: First of all, you need to start minimizing the cues
that you're giving when you're starting to leave, meaning you know,
if you're you know you're getting your keys and you're
getting your bag and whatever it is. Do that even
before you leave, and maybe put it outside the front
door or a back door wherever it is. However you
leave several minutes before you actually go. Another thing is
is you I'm sure as a nine month old puppy,
you're doing a lot of playing with him, and there
are certain toys that he is recognizing as toys that
you play with him as opposed to some toys that
if you're not currently using. You want to try to
find that he in a sense can play with by himself.
And that's also very important because we need to start
eliminating the reminders of you. So when you're starting to
leave and you're preparing to go, anything that you see
around the house.
Speaker 3: That is typically a toy that you play with him, you.
Speaker 2: Want to start putting away and get him started on
one of his Okay, buddy, here's your toys that you
play with by yourself. These are toys that might be
deliver some sort of treat by themselves. There are so
many inter toys that will actually self reward, self reinforce
as they play, and you want to start using that.
And also, for about a half tif before you leave,
start minimizing the direct contact you have with the puppy.
I mean, don't be mean and don't ignore him, but
just don't be as you know, friendly and as warm
and cuddly. He has to start learning about independence. Another
thing you can do is there is some pheromone sprays
that are very effective that can sort of calm him down.
There are also some natural calming supplements that have things
like camameal and passion flower and valerian rout So those
are some nice things that are very safe, very effective
that you can use as well as the for example,
the adaptic which is made by Siva formerly DAP dog
appeasing pheromone, and you can use that and spray that
in his area again before you leave. It sort of
will settle.
Speaker 3: Him down a little bit.
Speaker 2: Another thing you can start doing is start practicing with him,
and that is have him do all this stuff, leave
the house as if you're going away like you normally do,
but I want you to wait, wait about two minutes
or three minutes, and then come back in. And when
you come back in, don't go nuts when you see him. Typically,
when you're gone all day and you finally come home,
what do you do? What's your puppy's name? Okay, boo?
Speaker 3: Oh my god, what are you doing?
Speaker 2: Good?
Speaker 3: Oh, you did the good boy right.
Speaker 2: So meanwhile he is looking so forward to that that
that's one of the reasons why he's getting so anxious
when you're gone. So when you come home, when you
have a dog, that separates anxiety kind of walk in
like who the heck are You just kind of ignore
him for a few minutes, and when you do start
giving you some attention, do it more subtly, and then
you start increasing and reward him for being so good.
And then you do the same thing and you leave
for five minutes and then for fifteen minutes. And the
whole idea is he'll never know when you're coming home,
but he knows you're coming home, and when you come home,
you're gonna come in. You're gonna give them a nice
pat on the head. You're not gonna go crazy. You'll
give him a food reward for being so good, behaving
so well. And that's how they learn to a n
miss you so much and not go so crazy looking
forward to your return. But they become it becomes part
of routine, and we need to make his boo you
know you're being gone. His routine is he gets to
play with himself by himself. When he comes home, he
knows he's gonna get a little treat. But you don't
want to make it like that. You're such hot stuff
that he's gonna miss you really appreciate it, all right,
So try that stuff.
Speaker 3: Go one at a time, Go slow.
Speaker 2: The calling powders and formulas you can find make sure
they're natural. And I said the adaptic spray or collar
is also a great a caller by a DAP that
might help chill his personality out a little bit.
Speaker 4: All right, that's wonderful.
Speaker 2: And Richard, thanks for calling. And if you want to
call back to a pet Life radio and ask for Mark,
you'll give them all your information, will send you out
something will probably send out a nice puppy vitamin for
for Boo much all right, thanks thanks for calling. Okay,
so anyway, we want to thank Richard for calling. He's
gonna we're gonna ship him out a bottle of my
pro Sense puppy vitamins that we can make sure bo
grows up to be a nice, strong, healthy pub Anyway,
So here at the trade show, there's you know, lots
of new things. We're talking about the new company Zoetis.
And one of the things you notice, especially when you're
living in a warm climate, and pretty much this time
of year, everywhere is a warm climate, and we see
a lot of allergic disease when it's moist like Chicago
because the humidity and most places in the southeast, Southwest
and northeast the base. It's really really dry this time
of year, is like in the deserts like Nevada. So
we see a lot of skin problems. We see a
lot of fleas, and we see a lot of allergic
skin disease pollens, molds, weeds, grasses, et cetera. Well, we
have never really had a direct method of treating pet
allergy because we never had the equivalent of the histamine
identified in dogs. By that, I mean when we have
in people. When there areselves that respond to the allergic stimuli,
they release a substance called histamine. It is histamine the
transmitter that is causing all It's a mediator of the
inflammatory sponse. It's causing all the problems that we start
feeling from the running eyes, running nose, the itchy neck, whatever. Well,
there is no histamine doesn't play a huge role in
the canine allergy. So the mediators that did were not blockable,
and therefore we would have to rely on a broad
spectrum type of anti inflammatory, anti itch iminosuppressions to treat
severe canine allergy. Steroids was one, Cyclosporine is another. Well,
the folks at Zotis have identified a cellular mediator responsible
for the canine inflammatory slash allergic response and a drug
to block it. So now we will have the equivalent
of an antihistamine for dogs and the drug is going
to be released. They've already passed FDA. They're looking for
a first quarter release and that's going to be great,
and that's kind of one of the things that we've
learned about. There's also some new fleet products out there.
One that's relatively new by Murk hasn't really hit the
market yet. It's trying called Actaville. Done very tested very
well in the labs. I will say that one of
the labs I spoke to, Comfortison Trifectus have done very well.
Vector has done very well. So there are some really
really good products out there. I also met somebody that
had a fantastic product that I really liked a lot.
And it is a microchip and more importantly a microchip registry.
And the reasons why more importantly is because a lot
of you, I'm sure and rightly so, already have your
pets microchip, so you don't have to go run out
and get another chip. You can register with this registry,
but if you haven't, if you don't have a microchip.
You definitely want to look into into this company. They're
just launching now, don't even have the name of it yet,
but it's really really a great product. Here's here's how
it works. When you register, you're going to get an
aluminum tag means it's a tag that's going to last,
and it's going to have a number, the microchip number
on it and a phone number, and it's going to
say Google this number.
Speaker 3: So when you go on to.
Speaker 2: Your Google on your phone, you're smart phone, you know,
the box comes up. In that box that says Google.
All you have to do is put in the tag number.
That's going to immediately bring up a page and you're
going to write in your contact info. I'll mind you
you're the finder. And if you want to put a message, Hi,
I found.
Speaker 3: Your dog, he's adorable whatever.
Speaker 2: As soon as you hit send, the owner of the
dog is going to get an instant alert to their
phone and it's going to say, Hi, my name is
John and I have your dog. And then a map,
a Google map is going to pop up immediately with
your phone on. It knows your location and the guy
or girl, the woman that found your dog. It's going
to have his or her location, and you're going to
have one of those Google maps with point you know,
an ACE and a B and you can see exactly
where the person is standing that spot with your dog
or pet or cat whatever.
Speaker 3: And then the.
Speaker 2: Camera, you know, the satellite picture comes up and you
can actually see their house. You'll have to see them
standing there hopefully holding your pet. How cool is that?
And I mean you think something like this is super expensive,
it's not registrations like twenty bucks, a one time fee,
no annual fee. So I think this is fantastic technology
and keep tuning in.
Speaker 3: We'll talk about it.
Speaker 2: If you want to send me some questions about its specifics,
I'll get you the name. I think veterinarians are just
learning about it now, as did I, so I don't
even have it yet. I don't have the registration forms.
I told the guy to send them out to me
so I can start reregistering my current patients that have
micro tips. And that's a lot onto this and it
doesn't preclude you if you're registered with one of the
other companies like twenty four hour or home Again or Avid,
makes no difference. You can register to both. And it's
just a great way to actually put you in direct
contact with the person that finds your pet, whether it's
a shelter, whether it's another veterinan hospital, or whether it's
a good Samaritan individual who was walking along and saw
your dog running around looking frightened and wants to do
something for your poor little guy.
Speaker 3: So I think it's a great idea. The things we learn.
Speaker 2: Of course, diets, we're learning so much more about foods.
One of the speakers I heard was just having us
use a bit more caution if we insist on cooking
our own pets food, not to say that it can't
be done, but just warning us that you really should
work with a veteran nutritionist, just to make sure you're
adding all the correct supplements in the right amounts, as
far as the vitamins in the minerals, the essential amino acids.
You know, these are things that do separate us from
our pets, and actually separate dogs from cats. So there
are certain things if you're going to have a home
cooked diet for a cat, you need to make sure
your cat gets enough touring because with touring deficiency that
can lead to certain types of heart disease called cardiomyopathy,
and I mean you're not going to go to a
health food stores. Oh I want to buy some tourine,
and if you do, you're not going to know how
much to add. So it's one of those things where
it's very, very very important to work with a pro
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it's important. Anyway, we are approaching our midway point in
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doctor Jeff at Petlife Radio dot com. So we were
talking about the AVMA, the American Veterinan Medical Association meeting.
It's one of the big of you know, maybe five
meetings a year that many many vets go to. They're
the national meetings. So we have every January is the
North American Veterinaric Conference and that's in Orlando. Next month
in February, you have the Western Veterinari Conference at every
year in Las Vegas. Then in every March is AHA,
the American Animal Hospital Association, and that, like the AVMA,
which is usually every July, is the one that changes
cities every year and they try to, you know, just
that way everybody gets a chance to have a chance
hosting one of the big meetings. And then next month
at the end of the month, I think it's August
twenty third, off to Kansas City for Central Veteranight Conference
and the CVC. It's one of these growing, growing conference.
I think it's now in operation. I think they're celebrating
their twenty fifth anniversary. I remember, I mean when I
started practicing thirty years ago that there was no CVC,
and I've watched it growing. I mean I speak there
a lot. It is actually sponsored and hosted by Advanced
Star Communications. ADVANCEDAR also puts out Veteran Economics magazine, the
number one red magazine, and I happen to be on
the board of Veteran Economics, so I often, you know,
attend a meeting at the CVC, and I often speak
at the CVC, which is the central, the main one,
which is Kansas City every August or they also have
one in the East and usually in Baltimore, and one
in the West in San Diego.
Speaker 3: But I have just watched these these trade shows grow
and grow and grow.
Speaker 2: The North American Veterinary Conference has to actually has two
exhibit halls because it's it's so massive that they've gone
from one hotel to two hotels. Well, and they have
conferences to talks at both of the hotels. That's how
huge these conferences are getting. And you know, the biggest
thing is that when you learn, and this was a
point that was just driven into us back when we
were in veterinary school. And it's a frightening fact that
every five years half of what was accepted as gospel
is now obsolete. That means when you are I pull
out old notes and I still have amapak rat, so
I still have old textbooks from when I was in school,
these textbooks that were published in the mid and late seventies,
and I open them now and it is so funny.
I mean they're talking medications, drugs, procedures that we don't
ever do anymore. So that's why when you've been out
of school, it is not only critical, but you know,
it's essential and mandatory that we get these continuing education
seminars that we go to them because without it, when
you think of every five years, half of what was
accepted as the you know, major fact major gospel is obsolete,
then you can imagine. So when you're out thirty years,
that's six five year periods. Okay, so five years half
and another five years, another half of that year down
to a quarter. Then you're down to an eighth and
the sixteenth. I mean, basically everything is new. And it's
funny because whenever I have new associates, young associates just
having graduated, done their internships, and you know, they'll laugh
at some of the things that we still talk about
because they look at some of these older books that
we have because I have been here in the hospital,
we have a library, they're worth something.
Speaker 3: I think they're worth.
Speaker 2: Saving, just because it's amazing when you see how things
have changed over the years. But when you go to
these conferences, you go to these trade shows, that's what's
so great about them because it's a fantastic way to
learn from most of these speakers at the university level,
experts in their fields. And instead of sitting in a
classroom again because obviously we can't go back to school,
we are getting from these conferences, and I go to
a lot of them, four or five a year, just
the information that is going to keep us current, and
it's so interesting that I will have. I'll get a
referral from a person and I'm looking at the the record,
so I'm talking him on the phone and they will
tell me that the doctor used some drug and I
will say, I betcha that this doctor was like sixty five,
and they go, he was pretty old, And I said,
because I.
Speaker 3: Don't know of anybody using that drug anymore.
Speaker 2: So that's one of the reasons why when I first
went to my into business, I joined my ex boss
and we worked together when I was a technician for
a number of years. And it wasn't until I got
out of school and learning things relatively new back then,
this is in the early eighties that I realized that
relatively some of the stuff that he was doing was
a bit antiquated. And it wasn't until he went to
a trade show and one of the things I afforded
him was the possibility ability to go leave the office
for a couple of days.
Speaker 3: That's the thing.
Speaker 2: We're all workaholics, so we love being in our hospitals
to actually go to a trade tour to get some
what we call ce continuing education. And he came back
and he said, boy, he says, I learned one thing. Well,
I learned a lot of things, he says, but one
thing I learned is how much my new associate knows.
And so that's why so important. And I just value
the information that I glean from my young associates because
it's a great way to learn. I always joke I'm
going to continue to hire new associates so that way
I'm always getting continue education just by being at work
every day. So these meetings are great and I said,
learned a lot is the new products coming out. You
should certainly check with your veterinarians. Meds, medications, drugs, behavior,
It's always a hot topic. Rehab is a hot topic.
It's also really great to see how many of your
traditional veterinarian are accepting some of the new modalities like acupuncture,
like chiropractic, like true physical therapy, like herbs, things that.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: Some of the old timers never except the us to
laugh and call it voodoo, and now we're seeing the major,
major benefits and health advantages to these products. So anyway,
I want to thank Richard or caller. Hopefully Boo grows
up to be a nice, healthy pupp who survives survives
a separation anxiety, and we're gonna get out some puppy
vitamins for those of you who almost had the courage
and guts to call but didn't. I'm gonna almost thank you,
but not quite yet. But really I'm here next week.
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