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Speaker 1: You were listening to Petlifradio dot com.

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Speaker 2: Well, hello to everybody, and good morning or good afternoon,

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as the case maybe morning here in southern California.

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Speaker 3: It's just about a minute or.

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Speaker 2: Two after nine o'clock and we are here. You're here

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with doctor Jeff Werber on Ask the Vets with doctor

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Jeff here on pet Life Radio, the only live call

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in radio.

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Speaker 3: Show here in pet Life Radio.

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Speaker 2: And that means we're live, and that means you need

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to call in eight seven seven three eight five eight

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eight A two with any questions you may have about

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your pets. We have been doing a host series of

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illnesses that have ranged anywhere from leave it alone and

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watch it to oh my god, this is really important,

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get to see a veterinarian.

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Speaker 3: Right away.

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Speaker 2: We were doing a lot of the gastrointestinal problems. We

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went on to the joints, and we're in the middle

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of knees, stifle joints, and we're going to continue that. However,

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today we are very fortunate to have a special guest

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and I've been teasing about her coming up over the

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last couple of weeks, and that's doctor Heather Lendser. She

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is out there in the east with many of you

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in the East at afternoon coming out of New Jersey,

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and she is live with us, and we're gonna probably

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change our course a little bit, but we still want

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to hear from you. And that's again eight seven seven

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have some extra giveaways as a matter of fact, for

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our callers or anyone who joins in on the conversation

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here on pet Life Radios.

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Speaker 3: Ask the Vats with doctor Jeff very.

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Speaker 2: Easy to do. Just click on the icon Ask the Vats.

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There's a big, huge box that says join the conversation,

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join in the conversation, and you can join the three

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of us here at pet Life Radio. We have some

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technical difficulties as it is the fact that we are

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I'm here in Los Angeles, the Heather's back east in

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New Jersey, so we are trying to connect her to

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join us here and the phone just caught off. She's

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gonna call back in to join us here in the conversation.

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And in the meantime, speaking of sponsors, I want to

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Speaker 3: So all you have to do is give us a

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call here.

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Speaker 2: At eight seven seven three eight five eight eight A

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two and we'll get these products out to you.

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Speaker 3: But we want to hear from you.

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Speaker 2: You know, doing the series that we have been, we've

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gotten some pretty good emails and you know, one of

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the things we were talking about was some of the

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options for surgery when it comes to the patella. Now,

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just as a reminder, we spoke to Petella. We talked

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about the patell aluxation. Then we went to the cruciate ligament. Now,

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the cruciate is an essential ligament when it comes to

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our pets, and the reason for that is is that

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when you look at a dog who is in at

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rest just standing, every single joint from the hip to

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the knee to the hawk or heel are all bent.

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Now in a person, the only bend when we're standing

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straight is the heel. It's a ninety degree goes from

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the tibio chargeal joint and that's called the hawk the heel,

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and that goes straight.

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Speaker 3: So the important there.

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Speaker 2: Is that because of every single bend in all the joints,

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that need for the ligament is essential now in people.

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What a lot of people are opting to do is

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not fix their cruised ligaments unless they're an athlete, unless

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they're doing something like every day. In fact, I play

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in a basketball league and one of the guys I

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play with has a torn cruciate, and he only to

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play ball, he puts on that brace. It's like an

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external cruciat, so it provides the same support, the same stability,

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and he only needs it when he plays, so he

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only puts it on when he plays ball. Otherwise he

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gets around fine, he can walk without it. It's only

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with the running and the pivoting and the stop and

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go and playing basketball where he needs that ligament intact.

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So therefore he uses an external brace. You can't do

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that for dogs. It's very challenging to fit them, to

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get them to get it to stay on, to get

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the dog to leave it alone. You might find some

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out there, but they're rather tough. So when it comes

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to repair, there are two techniques that we often use

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to repair these joints, the one and one of the

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old standbys.

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Speaker 3: Let's take a back step for a second.

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Speaker 2: There are types of surgeries that use a lateral fixation,

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if you will. And this is where we just try

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to approximate the joint itself in such a way that

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it provides the care.

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Speaker 3: And the support. But it's done artificially.

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Speaker 2: Typically, there have been techniques over the years using some

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part of the patella ligament, using called a fascial strip,

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using a part of the muscle fascia and the upper

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thigh and using it going through the joint and sewing

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it up, and that's provide stability of late there's some

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fantastic artificial type of materials that are non reactive and

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extremely extremely strong that can provide that support. So now

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what's happening is where the surgeries are being done is

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called a lateral stabilization, where a little hole is drilled

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in the tibul crest and we wrap around, we go

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through the joint, wrap around for support on the back

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what's called the fabella, which is a little teeny bone

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at the back of the femur, and that provides a

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great natural spot to hold the suture in place.

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Speaker 3: And we then will go ahead.

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Speaker 2: And tie this suture extremely tight, sense it down, and

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that acts in essence as a cruciate ligament. The only

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difference is it's on the outside of the joint instead

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of inside the joint, and it works very very well.

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There are two other techniques, and by the way, that

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works great for small dogs for sure. As a matter

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of fact, to this day though, it's you know, it's

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a fairly simple procedure for anyone who's done enough of them,

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and that is our technique of choice for a medium

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to small dogs and dogs that aren't that active. Even

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a big dog was not that active. The lateral imprecation suits,

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the lateral stabilization, suture, whatever you want to call it,

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acts just great.

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 2: The other technique that we have is one of two

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newer surgeries. They are a bit different, so we are

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going to hear. In essence, what we do is we

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reshape the entire architecture of the joint and this is

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done via some bone cutting, so it's rather an extensive surgery.

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And what it does it changes the angulation. It changes

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the support surfaces within the joint to where the actual

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ligament itself is not even needed. And so instead of

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trying to approximate the original strength and the location of

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that ligament, which is almost impossible, what these ingenious surgeons

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have done is coming up with a technique to where

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the ligament, which is almost impossible to repair anyway, is obsolete.

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and the other one is called the TTA, which is

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a tibial tubrosity advancement procedure. Both have their pros and cons.

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They both take a lot of surgical skill, usually done

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by board certified surgeons or general veterinarians, but have an

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inclination towards surgery and have learned how to do the surgery,

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have taken the necessary courses, have purchased the equipment necessary

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to make the proper cuts in the bone, And depending

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on who you talk to, some like the TTA better,

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some like the TPLO better. The surgeon that we work

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with still likes the TPLO better. Regardless, they are both amazing,

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amazing procedures. So this is something you need to discuss

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with your veterinarian. I would say that as a general

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rule of thumb, and of course, there are going to

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be surgeons out there that are going to disagree. In fact,

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and after ten years of doing TPLOs and twenty some

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odd years of doing one of the lateral implications, she

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found no difference in the result. So she's gone back

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to the lateral stabilization only because it's so much easier

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and there's much less bone cutting, it's easier on the pet,

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and she is thrilled with it and does fantastic. We

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do have a caller on the line, so hello, caller, Hi, Jess.

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Speaker 4: Yes it's Heather.

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Speaker 3: Hello Heather, so are you.

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Speaker 2: I'm doing great, So I'm glad you're here because I

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was just finishing up my conversation on knees. We were

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going through a series of the last several weeks of

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conditions that our dogs get that are Some of them

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are like minor, you know, for example, a vomiting dog.

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something bad last night too, I have major pancreat titus.

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And I'm trying to do some guidelines as to when

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we need to rush to see her doctor, when we

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can get a little history and say, you know something,

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why don't you try this for a day or two

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as long as everything else is fine, and go from there.

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So we then went through the joints, the limping dogs,

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and we talked about all the limping problems from puppyhood

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to adulthood, how hip dysplasia on X ray and an

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acute onset of limping, probably not the hypdysplasia, teaching our

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listeners to talk to the varanaras about looking for something else.

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As my point always is, if you took those same

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X rays three weeks earlier when the dog wasn't limping,

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the X rays would have looked exactly the same or

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as the hips were concern so, and then we went

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just moved down to the knees and just finishing up

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on the different surgical procedures for cruciate ligament repair. And

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I'm so glad you're on the phone because I was

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promoting you over the last couple of weeks. And as

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soon as we take our break, because it's time for

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that halfway break, we're going to come back and we're

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going to talk about some fall allergies and you're going

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to give us some insight and some good products I

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understand to help us deal with our pet allergies in

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the fall. So hang tight on the phone and we'll

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be right back, and don't go away. You'll join us

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in just a few minutes back here with doctor Jeff.

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Here on ask the vats with doctor Jeff. You're on

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Here on pet Life Radio, I'm your host doctor Jef Weber,

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and I think we finally connected with our special guest,

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doctor Heather Lenzra.

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Speaker 3: Heather you there, I am, I am fantastic.

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Speaker 2: So Heather has joined us before, and we're thrilled to

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have her back on TV. I know Fox and Friends

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and a million other things that you've done. In fact,

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I just had the opportunity to go back and do

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a Fox and Friends a couple of weeks ago.

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Speaker 4: They just love dogs there, don't to promote our healthy pets.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely tuckercrls since Grady's a big, big pet lover pet enthusiast.

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Speaker 3: So no, it's great. It's fun doing that show.

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Speaker 2: So anyway, we wanted to talk, I was pitching well,

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first of all, there was another segment, so we're gonna have.

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Speaker 3: To come back on I think anytime.

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Speaker 2: Was it your five pet peeves or something you wanted

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to talk about before this, But we're gonna talk about you,

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I know, I know, So that's good. And by then

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we're gonna have all this audio video thing worked out

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so where we get to.

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Speaker 3: All see each other. But anyway, fall allergies. We know

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we're here now.

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Speaker 2: You wouldn't know here literally yesterday here in la it

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was ninety eight degrees and today it's going to be already.

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Here at nine twenty something in the morning, it's already ninety.

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So I don't know anything about fall. I don't know

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if I'm ever going to see fall. All I'm doing

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is I have a snowboard trip plan for Utah in

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the middle of December, so I sure hope we get

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snow at least in Utah coming up, but nothing close

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here in La.

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Speaker 4: Well, it is fall and lots of other parts of

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the country. And I'm looking out my window in New

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Jersey and I have orange leaves and brown leaves, and

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I have an itchy dog right in my midst right now.

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So this is getting home for me for sure. So

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a lot of people think that summer is the time

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for peak allergies because we have a lot of moisture

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in the air, Our dogs are getting wet, they're rolling around,

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they're getting dirty. But finding falls a really busy time too.

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And there's a couple of important I guess characteristics to

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think of when it comes to allergies in the summertime.

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Pets are allergic to what's blooming outside and floating in

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the breeze, like dust and pallen and trees, and you

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need to think of something like hay fever in the fall. Though,

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our dogs who don't live in the beautiful weather that

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you live, they're starting to get cooped up inside and

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so now they have household allergens like house dust, dander

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and mold that are really they're breathing in more often

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because now the windows are closed, the doors are closed,

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and they're hanging out inside.

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Speaker 2: You know, well people don't realize also, Heather, is that

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you know talk about indoor allergens when you look at

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the list like from the companies that do the testing

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for us, they're for wool and feathers and k pok

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and you're ready for this cat dander. So yes, folks,

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you can actually have a dog that's allergic to your cats.

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Speaker 3: So to keep in.

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Speaker 4: Mind exactly so, a good thing to think about as

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you start to close up your home fall is to

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decrease the amount of allergens in your home by using

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a HEPA filter in your either in your furnace filter

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or be sure that your vacuum has a HEPA filter

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as well, because HEPA filters do a great job of

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decreasing the amount of particles that are floating around in

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the breeze in your own home. But although a lot

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of people think that because they're inhaling these allergies, that

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the allergens are going to show up in their respiratory tract.

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And although we share a lot of the same allergens

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as our pets, our allergies manifest themselves very differently. We're

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sneezing and coughing, we have watery eyes, and it doesn't

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happen as often in pets that that's what it looks like. Instead,

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it shows up in their skin. And so now instead

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of sneezing and runny eyes, pets will get itchy and

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enflame skin. And as they start itching and itching, now

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their skin can start getting infected, especially in the areas

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where they're the most itchy, so the top of their paws,

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the base of their tail, and their belly. And it

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drives the pets crazy, and it drives the owner's crazy.

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They're woken up in the middle of the night by

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licking and scratching, and even there's a smell that can

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be associated with these dogs. There's a couple of things

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you can help do to try to decrease this incredible,

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itchy and smelly mess of a dog that you have

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in your house.

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Speaker 2: When you see skin infection, everybody, you have to really

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you have to find okay, most likely remember doctor Jeff

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and doctor Heather said, it's not primary, it's secondary to something,

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and that's something very often.

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Speaker 4: Is allergy exactly. And so these red, raw, itchy dogs

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really do need to have their skin soothed by using

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a medicated shampoo. And you want to pick one that

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moisturizes the skin and that treats skin infections and also

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takes the smell away. And there's a ton of them

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on the market. I've just found one that I've been

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using I love, and it's called Splash Plus shampoo, and

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it's formulated by veterinary dermatologists. There's such thing as I'm

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sure you've told your listeners that there are vedinarians that

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are specialized in dermatology and a group of them came

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together to create this Splash Plus shampoo and it does

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all of those things it treats. But the one that

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doctor Jeff and I would be most excited about is

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it treats bacterial and yeast skin infections topically. So by

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putting the shampoo on the dog. So now you don't

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have to use pills and oral antibiotics or anti fungal

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pills to treat a lot of these skin infections. And

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that's incredibly helpful, Heather.

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Speaker 2: This is something because most of the shampoos that Heather

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we're just talking about, and she is right, there are

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a number out there that we as veterinarians would recommend

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for our patients, but there typically are only found at

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the veterinani hospital. There are very few over the counterproducts

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out there that satisfy all of those needs. So is

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the splash Plus. That's something that is available elsewhere only

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at the VET.

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Speaker 4: It is available to vet, but you can and also,

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like so many other things, you can get on Amazon,

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believe it or not, just stick splash plus and the

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little search thing and you can find it on Amazon.

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They also have a website called vetsplash dot com and

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you can pick it up there vetsplash dot com. And

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I'm sure you've talked about this, doctor Jeff, but when

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you're using any kind of medicated shampoo, you want to

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make sure that that pet stays lathered up for about

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five to ten minutes so that the shampoo doesn't just

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clean the fur, but it cleans the skin as well.

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You also then want to rinse it off using cooler water,

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not ice cold, but not hot either, because you don't

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want to inflame and reden the skin. I'd be happy

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to give some Splash plus away to any of the

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callers that we get today, and it would be a

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great thing to use in the fall as we start

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to have these itchy, smelly dogs with their skin issues

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flaring up.

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Speaker 2: You know, it's interesting, there's a statistic that probably the

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number one reason certainly in the summer that a dog

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is going to be brought into a veterinarian's office are

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going to be skin related allories, you know. And it's

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also anything you said, how and it's true how our

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pets manifest allergies so much differently than we do ours.

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A respiratory and I went through when I was a kid,

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I had hay fever, and believe it or not, I

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tested positive to dogs, cats, horses, sheeps, goats, and cows.

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So you can imagine, you can imagine how much fun

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I was having in veterinary school.

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Speaker 3: But I seem to outgrown all of them.

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Speaker 2: The best thing I did, I don't know whether it

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was just you know, because a lot of the human

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analogists will say that a lot of adolescents will outgrow

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their allergies and kids when they reach that, you know,

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at some point.

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Speaker 3: But the thing that I did, and.

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Speaker 2: I swear by it, it probably has no scientific basis.

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But I got a cat, and I was a wreck

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for probably six months. Now I have eight cats and

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they don't bother me one bit.

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Speaker 4: Well, I think there's been some neat studies with kids

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that grow up with pets or less allergies or yeah,

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less for less.

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Speaker 2: Less asthma, less allergies, and less egsm. I think it's

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it's it's amazing, And that's a whole lot of topic

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we're going to talk about at some point everybody. Is

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the benefit Are the benefit to us of sharing your

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homes with pets? It's unbelievable in moms out there, you

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used to listen because there's a lot of studies out

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there that kids do better in school, they score higher

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on their IQ tests. I said, instead of getting that tutor,

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get a dog. But anyway, but I will say that

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another we talked about this recently, is that food You

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think when we eat something that we're sensitive to. Our

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symptoms are typically intestinal, gastrointestinal well dogs, and around fifteen

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to twenty percent of allergies and dogs are food related.

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That's a big number, guys, and again manifest through the skin,

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so the dogs, the poor skin is getting the brunt

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of all of these different allergens. So having a product

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that can just soothe the skin, it doesn't make a

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difference what the source of that allergy was, whether it

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was inhaled allergy called atopy, whether it was a flea allergy,

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whether it is a food allergy. Having something like this

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splash plus sounds like it's a great idea.

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Speaker 4: And you brought up and it is, and again it's

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working incredible. Well, but you've brought up you just touched

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on something about flea allergies. And although food allergies, so

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food allergies are common, flea allergies are the number one

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allergen out there. So one of the reasons that fall

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allergies start to we start to get more itchy dogs

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in the fall is people stop using flea preventative in

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the fall because they just think fleas are a summer

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problem and they're not. So if your dog is itching

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scratching or licking. Be sure that you're using veterinary recommended

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flea preventative at the recommended interval, and there's different products

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recommend you using it at different you know, three weeks,

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four weeks, six weeks, whatever it is. Just be sure

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to read the label on that. And the last thing

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to do to help your dog's itchy skin or your

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cats is to consider adding some omega three fatty acids

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to supplements to their diet. These omega three essential fatty

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acids can help decrease inflammation in the skin and joints,

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which I'm sure you've talked about, can even help with

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some cancers. And some great sources of that can be

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flaxseed oil, krill oil, and fish oil, with the fish

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and krill being more highly thought of as being more

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effective than the flax seed oil. But that's a great

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way to just add that to your pet's diet to

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help decrease the inflammation in the skin.

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Speaker 3: And also just talk to.

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Speaker 2: Your veterinarian because there are a lot of great commercial

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products out there in combination and some that actually are

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geared for helping the not only the skin, but also

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the joints. As doctor Heather just mentioned, so you know,

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when it comes to the skin problems, make sure don't

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tie to do this all by yourself. At least have

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a conversation with your veterinarian and as I said, get

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your pet on the right things. And there's some also

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new medications out there to help with canine allergy. Unfortunately,

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I don't want to tease you too much, as the

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veterinary profession has been teased, and that is because it

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was very underestimated what the need for this particular medication

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is going to be. So many of us, I would

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say most of us are still waiting for our every

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three month ration of this drug. And I'm so hesitant

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to start using it on some of my patients because

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I know that when they finish their dose and they

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come back or more and they will, I'm not going

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to have it.

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Speaker 3: So unfortunately we have to wait.

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Speaker 4: And as you said, though it's a great Even though

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that is a wonderful medication and we're looking forward to

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having it, we're readily available. Making sure that our clients

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are at least covering the basis of flea preventative and

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having a moisturizing stampoo like Slash plus around will may

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be able to hold their pet at bay while we're

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waiting for some great pills and other medications to become

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more available.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, and one of the point I want to make

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also is that you know, when we have these highly

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allergic dogs and there's so many possibilities. One of the

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things that we've talked about that often we have a clue. Obviously,

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the dogs didn't read the book, so they don't know,

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but there is often a clue as to what the

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offending allergen might be based on the parts of the

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body that seem to be the most affected. And so

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when we have this dog, and also we know is

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we've just talked about the food allergies, that it's unlikely

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obviously not impossible when you have an allergic person. And

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I just rattled off is zillion analogies that I used

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to have that it's unlikely dog is just allergic to

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one thing. In fact, when we do these allergy testing,

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we find out they're allergic to a lot of things.

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So therefore, when you suspect food allergy. But there's so

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much overlap with atopy, which is the inhaled allergies and

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food allergies that to spend the money on the testing

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or doing the what we call elimination diets, which are

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so challenging most people fail. It's not the pet that fails,

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it's the people that fail that I say, you know what,

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why don't we Look, we're already here approaching fall. We're

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going to get rid of our fleas, We're going to

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get rid of a lot of the pollens, as doctor

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Heather just mentioned. So therefore, let's see what happens to

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the allergy during the fall and winter. If it seems

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to get dramatically improved just by the change of season,

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then most likely it's not food because if it were

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the food or or something in the house, it's going

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to keep going. Then you know, ah, we need to

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do some more research and homework. So I say, don't

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start that elimination diet so close to fall, because let's

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wait it out.

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Speaker 3: Let's wait a us you put up with it.

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Speaker 2: This long, Let's wait another month, see what happens, and

506
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if it starts getting better, you could probably eliminate a

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food allergy or household allergen off your list if they

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get so much better during the fall and winter. If

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they don't, then you want to not only keep it

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on this. Now you have to start searching, and that's

511
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going to either be a food elimination trial if you

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think food, or if you think some sort of household allergen,

513
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and there are many, then we have to think of

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allergy testing as well. So, Heather, because of our technical

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difficulties and the fact that our time is up, I'm

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hoping that very soon, next couple of weeks, we can

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have you back on and get those callers give out

518
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some samples of SPLASH plus, which I know you would

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like to do as I would too. I would like

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to get one such sample well, and I have five

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dogs to go with my eight cat, so certainly it will.

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Speaker 3: Be used.

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Speaker 2: And then also one of the subjects that I want

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to touch based on I'm going to first of all,

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entertain any questions you may have on any of the

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joints we talked about and the conditions the diseases that

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we talked about. And then I want to get into

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something that we see frequently, and again I'm not going

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to say it's relatively new anymore, but it was relatively

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new when I started practicing thirty years ago, and that

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is hyperthyroidism in cats and how difficult it sometimes could

532
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be to diagnose, but the treatment options are fantastic. And

533
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one of the biggest problems I see with clients and

534
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their old cats, and this is typically an old cat disease,

535
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is that they fear treatment based on the cat's age.

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And I just run to remind everybody that age is

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not a disease, so if we have an otherwise healthy animal.

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And the reason that this is so near and dear

539
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is today I get to pick up my sixteen year

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old cat from treatment, just having had the radioactive iodine treatment. Yeah,

541
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and he is just doing amazingly well. And I just

542
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got a call from the doctor who does the radioactive

543
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iodine and so I get to pick him up today.

544
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He's been there for four days, so I'm ready to

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see him. But we're going to talk about hyperthyroidism, the condition,

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the symptoms, and how it can unfortunately mask some other diseases.

547
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And of course we're going to have doctor Heather back

548
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very soon. Heather, you and I off air will coordinate

549
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schedules and have you come back really soon.

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Speaker 3: All right, excellent, all.

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Speaker 2: Right, everybody, So thanks for joining us here and ask

552
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the best with doctor Jeff. You're on pet Life Radio

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Speaker 3: We will be here next week. Have a great week here.

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