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Speaker 2: Well, welcome, welcome, and especially to our new Sunday morning listeners,

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as we have now moved our show asked the Best

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with Doctor Jeff to Sunday mornings. We wanted you to

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get get more information. We want to hear from you,

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and we figured, you know what, it's very tough to

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get somebody on a Thursday afternoon, middle of the day,

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people are at work. So to thank you for Mark Winter,

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our wonderful producer, for so graciously giving me this great

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time slot. And I am now with you every Sunday

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morning at nine am Pacific time. I hear them in

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the West Coast and that makes it noon back in

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the East. And I am your host, Doctor Jeff Werber,

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and I am here for you, and that is to

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answer any questions you have. Are I think the only

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live call in show on pet Life Radio, and therefore

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we want you to take advantage of me, because that's

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why I'm here. I'm here to answer your questions, to

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help you with your pet problems. If I don't have

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the answer, I will get it for you. And we're

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to make it even more attractive for you to give

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And we just got an email this week and I'm

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waiting for another one. I know it came in. And

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as a perfect example of how easy it is to

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get a hold of us. Speaking of how easy it is,

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very simple, dial this number, write it down if you

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don't have it eight seven seven three eight five eight

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eight five eight eight A two. You can also contact

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That's Dr Jeff at Petlife Radio dot com. And right

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Very easy to get on and type in a question.

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We will answer your question. We will have you say

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you have you stand the line so we can get

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and a free pro Sense product. And also want to

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thank my mass retailers like the Walmarts and targets out

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there who are carrying my line to pro Sense pet products. So,

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you know, one of the things that I wanted to

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talk we mentioned that last week. For any of you

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in the Los Angeles area, we have a great event.

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It is sponsored by KVP, which is the Kong Veterinary

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Products and it's called More Than a Cone and it's

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sponsored by Kong and Best Friends Animal Society, and it's

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an art auction and launch party. It's really really cool.

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What they did is they commissioned about thirty kind of

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high power influential artists to in a sense, reimagine the cone.

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They are painting these Elizabethan collers, you know, the lamb

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shade collars that we have to send our pets home

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when they have either a post surgery or when they

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have their neud or they have a really bad skin

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problem and we need to keep them away from licking,

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because just telling them don't lick, obviously is not going

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to help, as we know from any of us who

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have dogs and have tried it. Just saying rover cut

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it out is not going to work. So we have

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these great cones that a lot of people don't like,

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and they've been remastered in different ways. You got the

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inner tube cone, you got the soft cone or the

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comfy cone, all fantastic. But what KVP wants to do

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was take that cone and just make it look like

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a piece of art. So a big party. It's June

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twenty first. It's going to be downtown La at La

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Plaza del Cultura. It's going to be at seven pm.

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be really really cool. So if you want information, you

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can just go on to a simple website more than

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a Cone, that's all one word, more than a Cone

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dot com and get information about the fantastic benefit art

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auction on June twenty first. And again Isai mentioned, we

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are here for you. We're doing it. We switched over

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to Sunday mornings because when I had my local show

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on KBC Talk Radio, we used to get so many calls.

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So I know that people I think are more apt

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to listen, to be nearer a computer to listen in

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on our show. And we know there's so many pet

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lovers out there, so I think that this is going

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to be good for us to reach more of you.

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you could be keeping anonymous if you want. Nobody knows

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what we want to hear from you. I also want

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to you know, just I was listening to Tody Anderson

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just before our show started, and I really have to

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chime in there because number of things, if you weren't

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tuned in at the time, discussion was aggressive dogs and

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the need of some people, many of you who love

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to adopt, and trust me, we are all for adoption,

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are wanting to adopt these known, very aggressive dogs. And

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I have my issues, and my issues are that, fortunately

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there aren't a lot of them. And I'm talking the

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dog and not just bit ones. I'm talking the dog

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that's already been through training, has had a number of consultations,

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worked with a number of trainers, be animal behaviorists, veterinary behaviorists,

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and there is still something in this particular dog that

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you cannot trust. Now. When I was five, the second

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of four kids, and my dad had this great idea

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and I say that faceesiously, to bring home an intact

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eleven month old male Doberman pincher, had just been on

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the show circuit, had never been around kids. Now, mind you.

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with boxers, and boxers are just great dogs for kids,

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and these, I mean, we could be all over these dogs. Well,

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genius Jeffrey here was coming in from the cold outside

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living in New York at the time. You know, I again,

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I was only five, so I really couldn't verbalize what

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was happened, nor did I even remember vividly. But I

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can tell you that I obviously stepped on this dog

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while it was sleeping, and out of reflex, jumped up

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and literally literally grabbed me by the face. And these

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just say plastic surgery later, I still didn't scare me.

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a veterinarian, so that didn't scare me one bit. However,

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it was a lot to go through it as a kid,

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and I had, you know, bandits up and all the

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stitches in my face, and I still have a couple

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of scars that fortunately had an amazing plastic surgeon, because

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unless I point them out, most people can't even tell.

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this dog to sleep. Fortunately, our neighbors down the street

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owned this dog's sister and we were able to send

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the dog to their home to finally live. They had

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older kids that were already married and out of the house.

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be a great dog, but it was just the wrong

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dog for household with four wild, young kids. But there

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are dogs out there, and I've had to put dogs

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to sleep before because of aggression. I will say this.

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out there today, you really have to ask yourself is

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it worth And I'm talking the moral ethical issues of

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trying to send out a dog, especially if you already

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have or have had incidents with this dog for adoption

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in the first place. Are you going to be okay

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knowing that this dog might end up in a home

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with children or older people, and you know, morally, I

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think it's a problem. I think that as a responsible

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pet owner pet parent, you've gone through all the motions,

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this dog proves to be not the right dog. Remember this.

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at your local shelters that you could go out today

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Sunday and adopt that have zero issues, accept a huge heart,

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and want a forever home. Do you really need to

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take on that challenge of adopting a dog that you

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know to be aggressive? Where if that dog should, Heaven forbid,

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get out, as Teote was saying, and have any issues

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bite somebody you decides being legally responsible, it is, you know,

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morally and ethically, it's going to be a tough one,

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especially if that dog naimes somebody. So think long and

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hard about that, because I believe the advice you were

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getting there was excellent advice, so real quickly. I want

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to read this email and again give us a call.

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Don't be bashful eight seven seven three eight five eight

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eight A two. This email came to me this week

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from Anya, and here's the mail. It goes. My dog

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this morning was constantly swallowing and licking his lips. I

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thought he may throw up, but didn't eat and drinks

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just fine. After a while, it's slowed down a little

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to where he was acting normal. Then once in a

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while he'll have a few heart swallows, then back to normal.

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Any advice what I should do well. You know, there's

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a really tough question to answer without more information, And

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this is where instead of being a monologue answer, I

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prefer it more as a dialogue. So this is the

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kind of call if you have any behavior or weird

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scenarios with your pets, don't be embarrassed calling in that way.

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We can talk a little bit, but without being able

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to ask you questions. I will say this. When dogs

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lick their lips and they do some swallowing, that does

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often mean nausea. Now it could be also just something

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stuck in the back of the throat and really having

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a tough time swallowing. Sometimes dogs will eat something that

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doesn't quickly go down into the esophagus through the cardi. Now,

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the cardia is the portion of the stomach where the

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esophagus meets the stomach. So if there's any type of

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reflux condition, inflammation at the distal portion of the esophagus

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just as it enters the stomach and ingesta, meaning that

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which was just chewed and swallowed is just sitting there.

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this dog has this feeling of increased salivation. Swallowing, hard

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licking lips trying to push whatever it is down into

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the stomach. And the reason why it stopped is probably

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it worked and it finally went into the stomach, and

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then some harts followers later on. So what I would

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recommend doing is this, make sure you don't have a

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dog that is just a chowhound. I mean, I have

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five dogs at home. I have my two labs, my labradoodle,

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my two Frenchies. And I have to tell you that

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my two Labradors they finish the bowl faster than I

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can set it in front of them. By the time

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already into it. So what I did was I got

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them what's called a no gulp bowl. It's a bowl

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that sort of compartmentalizes the food and they cannot just

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attack it. It forces them to slow down, take smaller bites,

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eat more slowly, and hopefully not have these kinds of problems.

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a true chowhound, get some sort of bull that will

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slow them down a little bit. I think that's really important.

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food first. And if you're giving treats. And this is

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a very very important thing. Regardless of the treat, whether

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it's going to be a raw high type treat, a

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treat like the Greenies type of treat, whatever those are,

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make sure that you match the correct size of treat

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of toy to your dog's abilities. The problems that we've

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seen are more because of the mismatch of size of

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treat to size of dog than actually the consistency of

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whatever the treat was, So that is very very important

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to know and be very careful that you don't make

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that mismatch. I think that would help a lot, So Anya,

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give that a try. Slow the food down, maybe pre

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moisten smaller meals, and see if that helps the problem.

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a call and we could talk a little bit more

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about it, or of course see your veterinarian. Then maybe

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something else going on. Anyway, we have a caller on

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Speaker 3: Hello, is this doctor Jess?

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Speaker 2: Yes? How are you?

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Speaker 4: Hi?

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Speaker 3: How are you? My name is Diane. I'm calling about

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I mean this is going to sound like a weird question,

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but do you know how a dog gets soft tissue sarcoma?

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Speaker 2: Well, they get it yeah, well, I mean, the general

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theory of cancer is that we're all born with the

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cancer cell. The question is what's going to turn that on.

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For example, I'm sure you've heard many stories before a

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person who smoked, never smoked a cigarette in their life,

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but ends up with lung cancer. Conversely, someone who's been

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smoking into their nineties and never gets lung cancer. So

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that means the first person had a cancer gene for

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lung cancer, and it wasn't their cigarette smoke, but it

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could have been you know, cigarette smoke, you know, somewhere

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else that actually turned on that cancer gene. All right, okay.

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and never got it probably because they just didn't have

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that cancer gene. They were lucky enough not to be

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born with it, so therefore there was no gene to

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turn on. So when you get soft tissue sarcomas, no

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one exactly knows why. Sometimes there are certain carcinogens which

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to turn on some of these genes. But you can

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have two animals littermates exactly, twins coming in the same

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sack actually, and one can get it, and one can't

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because the one that did. Obviously they both have the gene,

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but something turned on that gene that caused the soft

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fishues charcoma.

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and her back leg blew up like huge, uh huh.

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Speaker 2: They did a biopsy with sarcoma. Did they amputate the leg?

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that they could you know, the only thing we could

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do is either ampute and the prognosis is very very poor.

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injury back there. Could that have core?

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Speaker 2: Absolutely. In fact, I give you something interesting. There are

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dogs that for example, if a dog breaks a leg

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and has a plate, put the plate on. Now these

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are sterile, non reactive stainless steel or titanium, and yet

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there are some cases where later on a dog can

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actually develop bone cancer. So yeah, so it's one of

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those things that we Therefore, depending on the age of

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the dog at the time they've gotten the plate, if

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it's a young dog, we'd like to take that plate

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because we don't want the continued cycling and that is

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the electromagnetic force that takes place between the plate, the

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screws and the bone and that cycling. Al she had

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a torn acl so so that's I mean, it's a

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possibility that there was something, maybe something in the implant,

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whether it was done as a TPLO or whether it

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was done with the lateral future, but something could have

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continually irritated that tissue, all right, And that's the thing.

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it's a possibility that maybe something in there had done

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that as well. And again I don't know what susuer

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material was used. I don't know what type of brace

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was used, what type of clamp was used? Was okay,

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so no, I'm not familiar with the Pololo PRR.

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Speaker 3: Yeah she had that and said they've been using it,

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which is great success and fine, but and she retore it.

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She jumps off the deck and.

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Speaker 2: Golden did she ever have? Well? Also just say, you know, goldens,

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it's not uncommon for them to develop Sarcoma's in fact

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one of the yes, in fact, one of the dog

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one of the breeds that we see amangio sarcoma in

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a lot, which is a splenic tumor. Is the golden Okay,

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so it's very possible.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well someone said if there's trauma somewhere that it

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, yes, it is very possible. Absolutely, it's a phenomenal question. Okay,

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all right, Dan, thanks for the call.

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Speaker 3: All right, thank you.

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Speaker 2: I'm sorry about your dog, but uh, you know, goldens

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or as I said, it's one of the breeds that

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we do see a lot of a lot of cancer.

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the boxer, but no even even goldens can cooma, bone cancer,

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splenic cancer. Unfortunately, we see more than we'd like.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, all right, thank you, thank you.

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You know, before the break we were just discussing a

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lot of things about the aggressive dogs. We also read

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our listeners, Zanmarcink from Melbourne, Australia. That's how cool it

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not just you know, across the country, and we're not national.

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We are worldwide. And he says, doctor Jeff just wanted

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to say I enjoy listening to your program at pet

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Life Radio. Best regards from Melbourne. He says, I'm about

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We'll be happy to send you out something. So we're

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back saying and I really do thank you for listening

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see how easy it is to get a hold of

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us here on pet Life Radio Assets with doctor Jeff So.

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One of the things that I wanted to talk about

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in I often like to bring in things I practice

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full time. I am in the office five days a week.

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This is my thirtieth year. I went to UC Davis.

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I graduated in nineteen eighty four. One of those kids that,

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as many of my classmates, and I think many veterinarians

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out there, whose childhood dream was to be a veterinarian.

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As a matter of fact, it was funny. I was

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at dinner last night and I'm talking to a physician

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and we were on the subject of how easy it

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was to get certain medications in Mexico. He also obviously

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practices here in southern California, and how difficult and expensive

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some of these same medications are here in the US

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because of FDA and all the regulations, et cetera, et cetera.

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And I brought in some examples that I used to

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send some of my employees down to Tijuana to get

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certain medications we just couldn't get here. And by then

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just I used two examples. One was flagile and one

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was clintemycin. And so he says, well, you're either going

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to be He didn't know I was a veterinarian. He said,

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you're either gi or respiratory. And I said, no, no,

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Actually my patients are four legged, and they licked me

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in the face. In fact, I get more tongue than

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anybody I know, and he started laughing. He goes, oh

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my god, He goes, that was my childhood dream to

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be a vet. And I kind of laughed, and I said,

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you know, it's so funny because a medical doctor appreciates

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how difficult it is to get into veterinary school, to

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go through the process, to have to know so much

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about so many different animals and so many different species.

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And it's so funny because when I was in vet

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school or you know, you meet people out in this

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you know, out and about. They see doctor in front

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of your name, and they oh, what kind of doctor

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are you? And I said, you know what your specialty.

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I said, well, I'm actually a veterinarian. Oh. And it

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used to be like, oh, what do you mean. Oh,

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I mean to many people, they think like, being a

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veterinarian is going through an AA degree, you know, a

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two year degree at a junior college. It's like, but

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medical doctors, many of whom actually wanted to be veterinarians themselves,

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know how tough it is to become a veterinarian. And

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what's so interesting is I and I will say this,

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and it's honest, a gout truth. In your life, you

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will meet many a physician that actually wanted it to

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be a veterinarian, but you will rarely meet a veterinarian

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that actually wanted to be a doctor, a physician, and

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couldn't get into a med school so they became a veterinarian.

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And it's funny, I have we used to joke when

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I was at school, used to call the mds rd's

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real doctors because people would just joke asay, oh, you're

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not a real doctor. And so it's so funny. I

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actually have a license plate rim it says real doctors

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treat more than one species. So you know, it's funny.

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The respect that we get more so are from the

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medical doctors because they know they know how tough it is.

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that were prevets along with me back in the day.

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This is back in the seventies that are now happy,

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but they are MD's and they never made it to

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bed school. So anyway, one of the things that you know,

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in case we saw we talked about a lot, and

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that is the notion of reconstructive surgery. And you know

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we call it plastic surgery. And how different the theme,

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the reasons are in veterinary medicine to do and yes,

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in fact, we do plenty of plastic surgery. But our goal,

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our reason for performing these procedures is not to make

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the pet look good. It's not an issue with aesthetics,

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but it's an issue with function. We always recall this

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the battle between form and function, and often when people

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visit the plastic surgeon, they are trying to achieve form,

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often at the risk of function. They're willing to have

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a feel weird or affect their ability to function well

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in order to achieve a different or what they might

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call a better form. For many of us have seen

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it on the outside we say, what were you thinking?

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But still they are going to go after the form.

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In veterinary medicine, our focus is function. It's doing the

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eyelid surgery, not to get rid of the bags so

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they look better, but to get rid of the bags

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so we don't have the eyelids rolling inward in the

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case of an entropion and continually irritating the eyeball causing

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these wicked, painful infections. When we have skin folds and

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we do what we call skin fold reductions, it's not

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because again we want to make the dog look better,

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but deep inside those folds we're often getting severe bacterial

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infections that need to be treated, so we are doing

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the reduction in order to help this dog and not

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have such severe infection. And for example, with the canine

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nose job, we have something called stenotic naries. We see

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it often a number of breeds, notably the breaking cephalic breeds.

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Actually one of my two Frenchies did have with the surgery,

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and it's to repair e stenoticneries where the nostrils are

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so narrow they can barely breathe through their nose, so

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we have to open up those nostrils, and as a

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matter of fact, a lot of these dogs also have

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something called an elongated soft palate, and any of you

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that have them know how much that they snore, and

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that's because of the elongated soft palate. Also something that

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we need to fix, need to repair. So just to

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know when when we talk about plastic surgery, it's something

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that's very common. We have a number of indications to

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do it. Ninety nine point nine percent. Let's put another one,

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even orthodontics. We are at now the veteror identists are

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putting braces on dogs. But again it's not to give

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them that million dollar smile, because they're not smiling for

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the camera. But what it's for is to allow them

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the ability to close their mouths properly, to help what

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we call the maleclusion, the poor bite, and make it

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easier for them to eat and eat properly. So again

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another reason why we do these procedures, these quote unquote

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aesthetic procedures, But again it's because we want to help

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them live a healthier, easier life. I'd like to hear

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from you and tell me because one of the things

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we're going to talk about next week, I'm going to

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give you a warning now, so I want to hear

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from you. Let's hear your opinions. Is, have we, as

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a group of animal lovers and breeders, those of you

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that breed out there, have we created this monster in

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the way, and how we've bred some of these animals,

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these dogs and cats to actually present with these problems.

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And case in point, let's talk about the Persian Himalayan cat.

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Let's talk about some of these break thesephalic breeds, like

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the Pugs, like the Boston Terriers, like the Sheetshos, like

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the Pekinese, like the Griffons. What have we done? What

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have we bred into these dogs to actually give them

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a lot of the problems that later on we need

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to fix surgically. So that'll give you some food for

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thought as you give us a call. Listen to us

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