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as we have now moved our show asked the Best
with Doctor Jeff to Sunday mornings. We wanted you to
get get more information. We want to hear from you,
and we figured, you know what, it's very tough to
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people are at work. So to thank you for Mark Winter,
our wonderful producer, for so graciously giving me this great
time slot. And I am now with you every Sunday
morning at nine am Pacific time. I hear them in
the West Coast and that makes it noon back in
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you know, one of the things that I wanted to
talk we mentioned that last week. For any of you
in the Los Angeles area, we have a great event.
It is sponsored by KVP, which is the Kong Veterinary
Products and it's called More Than a Cone and it's
sponsored by Kong and Best Friends Animal Society, and it's
an art auction and launch party. It's really really cool.
What they did is they commissioned about thirty kind of
high power influential artists to in a sense, reimagine the cone.
They are painting these Elizabethan collers, you know, the lamb
shade collars that we have to send our pets home
when they have either a post surgery or when they
have their neud or they have a really bad skin
problem and we need to keep them away from licking,
because just telling them don't lick, obviously is not going
to help, as we know from any of us who
have dogs and have tried it. Just saying rover cut
it out is not going to work. So we have
these great cones that a lot of people don't like,
and they've been remastered in different ways. You got the
inner tube cone, you got the soft cone or the
comfy cone, all fantastic. But what KVP wants to do
was take that cone and just make it look like
a piece of art. So a big party. It's June
twenty first. It's going to be downtown La at La
Plaza del Cultura. It's going to be at seven pm.
That's Saturday evening, June twenty first, and it's going to
be really really cool. So if you want information, you
can just go on to a simple website more than
a Cone, that's all one word, more than a Cone
dot com and get information about the fantastic benefit art
auction on June twenty first. And again Isai mentioned, we
are here for you. We're doing it. We switched over
to Sunday mornings because when I had my local show
on KBC Talk Radio, we used to get so many calls.
So I know that people I think are more apt
to listen, to be nearer a computer to listen in
on our show. And we know there's so many pet
lovers out there, so I think that this is going
to be good for us to reach more of you.
But we need people that aren't shy. And remember this,
you could be keeping anonymous if you want. Nobody knows
what we want to hear from you. I also want
to you know, just I was listening to Tody Anderson
just before our show started, and I really have to
chime in there because number of things, if you weren't
tuned in at the time, discussion was aggressive dogs and
the need of some people, many of you who love
to adopt, and trust me, we are all for adoption,
are wanting to adopt these known, very aggressive dogs. And
I have my issues, and my issues are that, fortunately
there aren't a lot of them. And I'm talking the
dog and not just bit ones. I'm talking the dog
that's already been through training, has had a number of consultations,
worked with a number of trainers, be animal behaviorists, veterinary behaviorists,
and there is still something in this particular dog that
you cannot trust. Now. When I was five, the second
of four kids, and my dad had this great idea
and I say that faceesiously, to bring home an intact
eleven month old male Doberman pincher, had just been on
the show circuit, had never been around kids. Now, mind you.
You know, I was at the time in a household
with boxers, and boxers are just great dogs for kids,
and these, I mean, we could be all over these dogs. Well,
genius Jeffrey here was coming in from the cold outside
living in New York at the time. You know, I again,
I was only five, so I really couldn't verbalize what
was happened, nor did I even remember vividly. But I
can tell you that I obviously stepped on this dog
while it was sleeping, and out of reflex, jumped up
and literally literally grabbed me by the face. And these
just say plastic surgery later, I still didn't scare me.
By this point. Interestingly, I had already wanted to be
a veterinarian, so that didn't scare me one bit. However,
it was a lot to go through it as a kid,
and I had, you know, bandits up and all the
stitches in my face, and I still have a couple
of scars that fortunately had an amazing plastic surgeon, because
unless I point them out, most people can't even tell.
But we did not have the heart obviously to put
this dog to sleep. Fortunately, our neighbors down the street
owned this dog's sister and we were able to send
the dog to their home to finally live. They had
older kids that were already married and out of the house.
It was just a couple. The dog turned not to
be a great dog, but it was just the wrong
dog for household with four wild, young kids. But there
are dogs out there, and I've had to put dogs
to sleep before because of aggression. I will say this.
I will say that with the very legal minded people
out there today, you really have to ask yourself is
it worth And I'm talking the moral ethical issues of
trying to send out a dog, especially if you already
have or have had incidents with this dog for adoption
in the first place. Are you going to be okay
knowing that this dog might end up in a home
with children or older people, and you know, morally, I
think it's a problem. I think that as a responsible
pet owner pet parent, you've gone through all the motions,
You've worked as best you can with this dog, and
this dog proves to be not the right dog. Remember this.
There are thousands, and I mean thousands of amazing dogs
at your local shelters that you could go out today
Sunday and adopt that have zero issues, accept a huge heart,
and want a forever home. Do you really need to
take on that challenge of adopting a dog that you
know to be aggressive? Where if that dog should, Heaven forbid,
get out, as Teote was saying, and have any issues
bite somebody you decides being legally responsible, it is, you know,
morally and ethically, it's going to be a tough one,
especially if that dog naimes somebody. So think long and
hard about that, because I believe the advice you were
getting there was excellent advice, so real quickly. I want
to read this email and again give us a call.
Don't be bashful eight seven seven three eight five eight
eight A two. This email came to me this week
from Anya, and here's the mail. It goes. My dog
this morning was constantly swallowing and licking his lips. I
thought he may throw up, but didn't eat and drinks
just fine. After a while, it's slowed down a little
to where he was acting normal. Then once in a
while he'll have a few heart swallows, then back to normal.
Any advice what I should do well. You know, there's
a really tough question to answer without more information, And
this is where instead of being a monologue answer, I
prefer it more as a dialogue. So this is the
kind of call if you have any behavior or weird
scenarios with your pets, don't be embarrassed calling in that way.
We can talk a little bit, but without being able
to ask you questions. I will say this. When dogs
lick their lips and they do some swallowing, that does
often mean nausea. Now it could be also just something
stuck in the back of the throat and really having
a tough time swallowing. Sometimes dogs will eat something that
doesn't quickly go down into the esophagus through the cardi. Now,
the cardia is the portion of the stomach where the
esophagus meets the stomach. So if there's any type of
reflux condition, inflammation at the distal portion of the esophagus
just as it enters the stomach and ingesta, meaning that
which was just chewed and swallowed is just sitting there.
It just didn't quite make it into the stomach. Yet
this dog has this feeling of increased salivation. Swallowing, hard
licking lips trying to push whatever it is down into
the stomach. And the reason why it stopped is probably
it worked and it finally went into the stomach, and
then some harts followers later on. So what I would
recommend doing is this, make sure you don't have a
dog that is just a chowhound. I mean, I have
five dogs at home. I have my two labs, my labradoodle,
my two Frenchies. And I have to tell you that
my two Labradors they finish the bowl faster than I
can set it in front of them. By the time
I'm leaning down to set it onto the ground, they're
already into it. So what I did was I got
them what's called a no gulp bowl. It's a bowl
that sort of compartmentalizes the food and they cannot just
attack it. It forces them to slow down, take smaller bites,
eat more slowly, and hopefully not have these kinds of problems.
So think about that. If you have a dog it's
a true chowhound, get some sort of bull that will
slow them down a little bit. I think that's really important.
And then you might need to soften and moisten the
food first. And if you're giving treats. And this is
a very very important thing. Regardless of the treat, whether
it's going to be a raw high type treat, a
treat like the Greenies type of treat, whatever those are,
make sure that you match the correct size of treat
of toy to your dog's abilities. The problems that we've
seen are more because of the mismatch of size of
treat to size of dog than actually the consistency of
whatever the treat was, So that is very very important
to know and be very careful that you don't make
that mismatch. I think that would help a lot, So Anya,
give that a try. Slow the food down, maybe pre
moisten smaller meals, and see if that helps the problem.
If not, then it might be time to give us
a call and we could talk a little bit more
about it, or of course see your veterinarian. Then maybe
something else going on. Anyway, we have a caller on
the line.
Speaker 3: Hello, is this doctor Jess?
Speaker 2: Yes? How are you?
Speaker 4: Hi?
Speaker 3: How are you? My name is Diane. I'm calling about
I mean this is going to sound like a weird question,
but do you know how a dog gets soft tissue sarcoma?
Speaker 2: Well, they get it yeah, well, I mean, the general
theory of cancer is that we're all born with the
cancer cell. The question is what's going to turn that on.
For example, I'm sure you've heard many stories before a
person who smoked, never smoked a cigarette in their life,
but ends up with lung cancer. Conversely, someone who's been
smoking into their nineties and never gets lung cancer. So
that means the first person had a cancer gene for
lung cancer, and it wasn't their cigarette smoke, but it
could have been you know, cigarette smoke, you know, somewhere
else that actually turned on that cancer gene. All right, okay.
And likewise, conversely, the person who smoked their whole life
and never got it probably because they just didn't have
that cancer gene. They were lucky enough not to be
born with it, so therefore there was no gene to
turn on. So when you get soft tissue sarcomas, no
one exactly knows why. Sometimes there are certain carcinogens which
have been known, for example, tobacco, which have been known
to turn on some of these genes. But you can
have two animals littermates exactly, twins coming in the same
sack actually, and one can get it, and one can't
because the one that did. Obviously they both have the gene,
but something turned on that gene that caused the soft
fishues charcoma.
Speaker 3: Where is the sarcoma, Well, it wasn't her back leg,
and her back leg blew up like huge, uh huh.
Speaker 2: They did a biopsy with sarcoma. Did they amputate the leg?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, and the oka they said the only thing
that they could you know, the only thing we could
do is either ampute and the prognosis is very very poor.
So right, but my concern is that she had an
injury back there. Could that have core?
Speaker 2: Absolutely. In fact, I give you something interesting. There are
dogs that for example, if a dog breaks a leg
and has a plate, put the plate on. Now these
are sterile, non reactive stainless steel or titanium, and yet
there are some cases where later on a dog can
actually develop bone cancer. So yeah, so it's one of
those things that we Therefore, depending on the age of
the dog at the time they've gotten the plate, if
it's a young dog, we'd like to take that plate
out two years later, a year and a half later,
because we don't want the continued cycling and that is
the electromagnetic force that takes place between the plate, the
screws and the bone and that cycling. Al she had
a torn acl so so that's I mean, it's a
possibility that there was something, maybe something in the implant,
whether it was done as a TPLO or whether it
was done with the lateral future, but something could have
continually irritated that tissue, all right, And that's the thing.
Chronic chronic chronic irritation can induce a sarcoma growth. So
it's a possibility that maybe something in there had done
that as well. And again I don't know what susuer
material was used. I don't know what type of brace
was used, what type of clamp was used? Was okay,
so no, I'm not familiar with the Pololo PRR.
Speaker 3: Yeah she had that and said they've been using it,
which is great success and fine, but and she retore it.
She jumps off the deck and.
Speaker 2: Golden did she ever have? Well? Also just say, you know, goldens,
it's not uncommon for them to develop Sarcoma's in fact
one of the yes, in fact, one of the dog
one of the breeds that we see amangio sarcoma in
a lot, which is a splenic tumor. Is the golden Okay,
so it's very possible.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well someone said if there's trauma somewhere that it
could be.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, yes, it is very possible. Absolutely, it's a phenomenal question. Okay,
all right, Dan, thanks for the call.
Speaker 3: All right, thank you.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry about your dog, but uh, you know, goldens
or as I said, it's one of the breeds that
we do see a lot of a lot of cancer.
We know the cancer dog that everybody knows about as
the boxer, but no even even goldens can cooma, bone cancer,
splenic cancer. Unfortunately, we see more than we'd like.
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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us here on pet Life Radio Assets with doctor Jeff So.
One of the things that I wanted to talk about
in I often like to bring in things I practice
full time. I am in the office five days a week.
This is my thirtieth year. I went to UC Davis.
I graduated in nineteen eighty four. One of those kids that,
as many of my classmates, and I think many veterinarians
out there, whose childhood dream was to be a veterinarian.
As a matter of fact, it was funny. I was
at dinner last night and I'm talking to a physician
and we were on the subject of how easy it
was to get certain medications in Mexico. He also obviously
practices here in southern California, and how difficult and expensive
some of these same medications are here in the US
because of FDA and all the regulations, et cetera, et cetera.
And I brought in some examples that I used to
send some of my employees down to Tijuana to get
certain medications we just couldn't get here. And by then
just I used two examples. One was flagile and one
was clintemycin. And so he says, well, you're either going
to be He didn't know I was a veterinarian. He said,
you're either gi or respiratory. And I said, no, no,
Actually my patients are four legged, and they licked me
in the face. In fact, I get more tongue than
anybody I know, and he started laughing. He goes, oh
my god, He goes, that was my childhood dream to
be a vet. And I kind of laughed, and I said,
you know, it's so funny because a medical doctor appreciates
how difficult it is to get into veterinary school, to
go through the process, to have to know so much
about so many different animals and so many different species.
And it's so funny because when I was in vet
school or you know, you meet people out in this
you know, out and about. They see doctor in front
of your name, and they oh, what kind of doctor
are you? And I said, you know what your specialty.
I said, well, I'm actually a veterinarian. Oh. And it
used to be like, oh, what do you mean. Oh,
I mean to many people, they think like, being a
veterinarian is going through an AA degree, you know, a
two year degree at a junior college. It's like, but
medical doctors, many of whom actually wanted to be veterinarians themselves,
know how tough it is to become a veterinarian. And
what's so interesting is I and I will say this,
and it's honest, a gout truth. In your life, you
will meet many a physician that actually wanted it to
be a veterinarian, but you will rarely meet a veterinarian
that actually wanted to be a doctor, a physician, and
couldn't get into a med school so they became a veterinarian.
And it's funny, I have we used to joke when
I was at school, used to call the mds rd's
real doctors because people would just joke asay, oh, you're
not a real doctor. And so it's so funny. I
actually have a license plate rim it says real doctors
treat more than one species. So you know, it's funny.
The respect that we get more so are from the
medical doctors because they know they know how tough it is.
And I'm still friendly with a number of pre vets
that were prevets along with me back in the day.
This is back in the seventies that are now happy,
but they are MD's and they never made it to
bed school. So anyway, one of the things that you know,
in case we saw we talked about a lot, and
that is the notion of reconstructive surgery. And you know
we call it plastic surgery. And how different the theme,
the reasons are in veterinary medicine to do and yes,
in fact, we do plenty of plastic surgery. But our goal,
our reason for performing these procedures is not to make
the pet look good. It's not an issue with aesthetics,
but it's an issue with function. We always recall this
the battle between form and function, and often when people
visit the plastic surgeon, they are trying to achieve form,
often at the risk of function. They're willing to have
a feel weird or affect their ability to function well
in order to achieve a different or what they might
call a better form. For many of us have seen
it on the outside we say, what were you thinking?
But still they are going to go after the form.
In veterinary medicine, our focus is function. It's doing the
eyelid surgery, not to get rid of the bags so
they look better, but to get rid of the bags
so we don't have the eyelids rolling inward in the
case of an entropion and continually irritating the eyeball causing
these wicked, painful infections. When we have skin folds and
we do what we call skin fold reductions, it's not
because again we want to make the dog look better,
but deep inside those folds we're often getting severe bacterial
infections that need to be treated, so we are doing
the reduction in order to help this dog and not
have such severe infection. And for example, with the canine
nose job, we have something called stenotic naries. We see
it often a number of breeds, notably the breaking cephalic breeds.
Actually one of my two Frenchies did have with the surgery,
and it's to repair e stenoticneries where the nostrils are
so narrow they can barely breathe through their nose, so
we have to open up those nostrils, and as a
matter of fact, a lot of these dogs also have
something called an elongated soft palate, and any of you
that have them know how much that they snore, and
that's because of the elongated soft palate. Also something that
we need to fix, need to repair. So just to
know when when we talk about plastic surgery, it's something
that's very common. We have a number of indications to
do it. Ninety nine point nine percent. Let's put another one,
even orthodontics. We are at now the veteror identists are
putting braces on dogs. But again it's not to give
them that million dollar smile, because they're not smiling for
the camera. But what it's for is to allow them
the ability to close their mouths properly, to help what
we call the maleclusion, the poor bite, and make it
easier for them to eat and eat properly. So again
another reason why we do these procedures, these quote unquote
aesthetic procedures, But again it's because we want to help
them live a healthier, easier life. I'd like to hear
from you and tell me because one of the things
we're going to talk about next week, I'm going to
give you a warning now, so I want to hear
from you. Let's hear your opinions. Is, have we, as
a group of animal lovers and breeders, those of you
that breed out there, have we created this monster in
the way, and how we've bred some of these animals,
these dogs and cats to actually present with these problems.
And case in point, let's talk about the Persian Himalayan cat.
Let's talk about some of these break thesephalic breeds, like
the Pugs, like the Boston Terriers, like the Sheetshos, like
the Pekinese, like the Griffons. What have we done? What
have we bred into these dogs to actually give them
a lot of the problems that later on we need
to fix surgically. So that'll give you some food for
thought as you give us a call. Listen to us
next week at noon Eastern time nine am Pacific time
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