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Life Radio. So anyway, it's you know, I'm sure you've
heard the expression that bad things happen in threes. Well, unfortunately, yeah,
this week was the case of that. If you're a call,
we talked about a week and a half, two weeks
ago about Lola. Lola was that Australian shepherd that had
that humongous splenic mass that of course turned out to
be a splinic tumor. Unfortunately, the dog is doing great,
she's totally healed from her surgery. Then, unfortunately, it's kind
of one of those things with a splinic tumor that
came back, as we call hamen sarcoma that the heart
of that is now removed. That was the bad spleen.
But we're just waiting. Even though right now the liver
looked good and the intestants look good and the lungs
look good. Unfortunately, we know that splinic hamangeo sarcoma's do
spread and it's just a matter of time. Unfortunately, I
can't predict when I always joke when people ask me,
you know when or how this is going to happen,
and when should I prepare, and I tell them, well,
the truth is, my crystal ball is in the shop,
so it's it's your guesses as good as mine. But
usually these things will happen within a short of two
three months, and one of the longest I've ever had
was twelve months after surgery, which was unbelievable. Since it
was an old dog. It almost didn't affect her overall
life well anyway, as that Murphy's Law would have it.
Two more cases came in, not only this week, this
same day, the exact same day, two splenic tumors, well
splinic masses, i should say. One unfortunately was a tumor
and already had spread to the liver. The liver masses
were not, so we completed the surgery, We removed the spleen,
we sewed him up, and he is home with Mom
and dad right now, and as I told them, enjoy
every minute of every day, because once these splenic legions
start to open up, they start to rupture, and they
start to bleed, there's not a lot that can be done.
So that's my Buddy Buckley, and Buckley is just a great,
magnificent American bulldog. Those of you who don't know, American
bulldogs are the big ones. People mistake them for mastiff
sometimes for like a They almost look like a pit
bull mastiff boxer type cross. Very very large dogs, big heads,
but sweet as can be the bulldog personality. So you've
got the Frenchies, which the little guys. Then you got
the English which are pretty big themselves. I've said some
English bulls that you know, pushing the scales at over
seventy pounds. And then you got the American bulls which
easily can tip the scales at over one hundred. And
then same day a Queensland Red Healer, it's the official
name is an Australian cattle dog comes in the office,
evidence of a little bloated belly. We put the ultrasound
probe on, We pull some blood, take an X ray,
see the ultrasound. Sure enough, splenic mass, same surgery. But
this one was interesting. This one was in worse shape
going into surgery. But the mass itself was literally the
spleen was disintegrating in our hands as we're removing it.
So there was much more blood and discharge through the procedure.
The dog was sicker going into than Buckley was. But
I think the prognosis of this one's going to be
better because when we see that, we often get a
diagnosis of a splenic hematoma or a splenic homangioma, and
both of those are benign problems. Meaning now that we
took the spleen out and if it does come back
either homangioma or hematoma, she is cured. One hundred percent cured,
and that is fantastic. So anyway, early on in the show,
when we were just kind of setting up this is great,
by the way, because this means that people are listening.
You are listening, you are getting up the courage to
ask questions. And we got a call from Nelson. I'm
just going to prep you because we picked up the
call in the middle of fact, I think we can
have you listen to some of this call. But Nelson
called about his puppy, female pitbull four months old and
already chewing and biting and of course adopting a new
pit bull. And we're so thrilled that Nelson went out
and adopted at pitbull. He was concerned and of course
I don't blame him. And I think with social media
and the media in general, you start talking pitbull and
everybody says, oh my god, oh my god. You know
this poor dog is can take him to shelter and
put him to sleep. And I said right away, I said,
you know, if this were almost any other breed at
four months old exhibiting these same signs, he would not
think twice. But unfortunately, because of the bad press that
pitbulls get, he is so concerned. So we talked about
the biting problem, the chewing problem, and I think I've
mentioned this before that biting is a normal, natural, essential
puppy behavior. Puppies play all the time, they play bite
all the time. They learn some bite in ambition, they
learn how hard they have to. So anyway, you know what,
why don't we kind of have you listened in on
the call and you can get all the good information
because we had a very very detailed conversation, me and
Nelson about his puppy. Come on, listen it if you
had two little mats playing and in play, in play
not being mean one iota in play, puppy a bites
puppy bee a little too hard. Okay, what would puppy
Bee's first response be yelp, yeah exactly, and that's what
you're gonna do. You're going to get You are going
to give a scream like and most likely, most likely
your pup will back off. This is actually how they
learned from a very early early age what we call
bite inhibition, and that is how soft or how hard
I can or going to get away with biting before
my playmate objects. Okay, now, now that doesn't work, and
you try that a few times, and you can have
to do things you can do like what you do
with kids, give her time out, you put her side,
say you know, honey, you're not playing fair. I'm putting
you over here. Now, if puppy A is now playing
with mom and bites Mom a little too hard, what's
Mom's reactionally going to be?
Speaker 3: Momise absolutely, just.
Speaker 2: Exactly. Mom is going to give that little puppy a
growl that this puppy has probably only heard before when
it was a little teeny puppy with mom. And you
give a good deep and I go, ah, like you're
a kid, you know, mimicking a lion roar, and you
look them straight in the eye. You look her straight
in the eye and you give that deep guttural growl
and you're holding you're holding her jowls. So if you're
forcing her to look you in the eye and you
give that deep growl and hold that freeze for a second,
and what you're probably going to see is because she
can't move her head because you got her by the
jowels and she's you're forcing her to face you, she'll
turn away from you with her eyes. And that's how
you know you've successfully got her. Now, when a puppy
gets yelled at and they feel afraid and they they
feel awful because they were just reprimanded, what they want
now more than anything from mom is effects. Yeah. So
after you have that uncomfortable freeze, you're staring her down,
she's looking away from you. Kind of wait about a
minute or two and then you can give her that Okay,
be a good girl now, et cetera.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, okay, you get to that that you're saying.
Speaker 4: I am doing and good.
Speaker 1: It makes me feel good because these are the things
that I'm doing already, but I just didn't know if
I'm actually going about it the right way.
Speaker 2: Yeah, now it is right now. One thing before we
get onto chewing, puppy chewing, let's finish one thing. Do not, ever,
even though the inclination might be there, and even though
the fear might be there because you're, you know, raising
a puppy pitbull, do not smack the dog because you
will end up with more problems later on from that
than from the other behaviors we talk. They don't know
what a smack is. Mom has never raised a paw
unless you're dealing with a boxer in play, and what
the puppy across the face or on the head. So
that's how we start sort of developing problems in dogs
where they we call being headshy, so that you know
they right away they see a hand raised and they
or they see you know, i've seen dogs. Oh yeah,
I've seen dogs. They're in my exam room and I
have some papers on my desk on the exam table,
and I picked the papers up to move them to
another side so I can have a more room space
for the dog. And I see the dog cower. So
what does that tell me? That tells me that somewhere
along the line, this poor dog was actually smacked with
probably a rolled up newspaper, rolled up magazine.
Speaker 5: Okay, and can tell you something I've heard from other
dog owners that destin way, the chastise your dogs by.
Speaker 2: Newspaper totally inappropriate. You should never ever hit your dog.
It's only going to backfire. It's only going to back Now,
let's talk chewing. Chewing is also a normal, naturally central behavior.
So what you need to do is never say no.
No is the most overused word when we're training our
puppies because most of the behaviors more I know, no, no,
that's a problem. Most of these behaviors. If you really
evaluate the behavior their normal natural behaviors. We just have
to direct them to an appropriate object or, in the
case of bathroom mistakes, to an appropriate location. But you
can't say no to a dog who's got a pee, right,
You can't say no to a puppy he wants to chew.
So what you do is you clap your hands, give
a whistle, just divert their attention, come go over to
them kind of comfortably, casually remove the inappropriate object out
of their way, and immediately give them their appropriate chew toy.
You put it in their mouth that you have to
and say, oh my god, you're such a good girl,
and give her a pat on the head and a
little kiss, and so she'll start learning because dogs learn,
as children do, from positive reward. We want that positive reinforcement.
And you give them the object they're supposed to be
chewing on, and they chew on it. They get a praise,
they get a pat on the head, they get a kiss,
they get a little dog treat, and life is grand.
And then what they're gonna do is they're gonna start
looking more for those obts. And now that you know
that she is going to behave like a puppy, you
need to puppy proof your home. And that is everything
that you see that is even remotely possible that she
can get a hold of that you don't want her
to remove it right or remove her Okay, okay, you
got it, Yes, sir, I got it, all right, Nelson,
give those things a try, and they want you to
call us back in a couple of weeks and give
us an update, let us know how she's doing.
Speaker 3: I certainly shall thank you so much.
Speaker 2: You're very welcome.
Speaker 6: You take care all right, have a good one.
Speaker 2: Thanks bye bye. So as you can tell you know,
this is a normal problem that Nelson was having. I
don't want people to freak out because they have those dogs,
whether it's the pit bull or the Akita, or the
Goberman or the Rottweiler or the German shepherd dog. I mean, understand,
these are puppies. There are certain innate behaviors that we
see in our puppies, and you know, the vast majority
of these, the vast majority of these will do just fine.
It's just normal behavior and what we need as we
train our puppies, we try to teach them to behave well.
It's a function of socializing them properly. It's a matter
of being consistent with your messages. It's a matter of
being consistent with your correction and learning how to correct properly,
and that most of the things that you are just dying.
That reflex of yours is to scream out, puppy, no,
there are not nos. There are some nose out there,
but most of the things that you're going to have
to deal with on a day to day basis, on
a regular basis, are behaviors that are essential. They're natural,
they're normal. Unfortunately, because we have a crazy puppy, they're
just a little bit misdirected. We need to direct them
again to the appropriate object in the case of chewing,
to how to bite properly, how to learn bite inhibition
in the case of biting, and learn what it's like
to have a timeout and not to get to you. Remember,
puppies are social. They want you more than anything. So
when they start exhibiting behaviors that separates, That creates a
separation because you put them away, you put them back
in their creator, you put them back in their platepend
they're going to stink themselves. I don't want to do
that one again. And conversely, when you praise them for
the appropriate behavior, when they come over to you and
they let you pet and they play, and they'll they
might mouth you a little bit, but they don't ever
bite down. Or that you happen to walk in the
room and they're chewing on their appropriate to toy, don't
ignore that behavior. That behavior deserves a major praise. You
run up to them, good boy, Oh you're such a
good boy and your toy and give them a treat
and give them a hug. And that's how we create
this amazing bond not only between us and our pets,
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as we're sitting here, we're already started August. Which it's
amazing how sometimes some parts of the year go so
slowly and summertime goes so fast. I was actually driving
to work this morning and it's crazy, but the Los
Angeles City schools actually are back at school this week.
And to already see here it is the middle of August.
Back in my day, we didn't start until usually after
Labor Day, always after Labor Day, and sometimes even later
in September, September fifteen, September nineteenth. They're starting a full
month ahead. I think you're going to start getting out
full month ahead. In fact, I was used to envy
when I was in college. I went to University California
at Berkeley, and back then it still is, most of
the ucs are on the quarter system. Now, the quarter
system ONLI semester system. When you're in semester, you have
two fifteen week semesters, and you could also have an
option of a summer semester, but the quarter is three
ten week quarters, so you still got the thirty weeks.
What a drag. But I mean with the quarter system,
I don't think after the first week you're going to
have a midterm or finals every single week. It seems like,
and oh my god, it is so disappointing. And also
because the way the vacation setups were set up, we
wouldn't get out of school until like June fifteenth or eighteenth.
Even when I graduated VET school and I was at
University of California Davis on the quarter system. I remember
our graduation was like June nineteenth, how crazy. And all
my friends that were going to schools on the semester system,
they were getting out by Memorial Day, by the end
of May, they were already out of school, done with finals,
done with everything. That wasn't fair. Now, truly they did
start a little before we did, but even still, but
I'm curious to know how your summers are going. I
want to know if you had any problem with overheating,
if you had any problem or seeing anyone driving a
car and leaving a dog or a pet parked in
the car. We want to know about. We want to
talk about sort of still some summer issues in many places.
I know for a fact that it stays very hot
through September. So just because September twenty first is the
beginning of quote unquote the you know, autumn season, fall season,
doesn't mean we need to start easing up on some
of the restrictions. And my dogs are still out there
and enjoining the hot weather. And even we've had actually
unseasonably cooler weather here, and we've been through a string
of several days where it's been Oh so you know
in the you know your people are going to complain
or what's he complaining about? That werber But they were
in like the mid eighties going up to the high eighties.
But remember here in California, at least in LA at night,
because we're close to the ocean, it really we get
that cool ocean breeze and it kills out a little bit.
I mean there's some people I'm not one of them,
but there are a lot of people that at night
we'll start wearing a sweater here in LA. To me,
I still like the cool breeze, but we want to
hear how things have been going for you and uh
and what we can do. And as we're getting closer,
we're hitting fall. I mean, it's around the corner. I
just got a call from a TV s in New
York that wants me to come out in October. So
we're kind of throwing some ideas around and I realized,
oh my god, October. You know, we just finished talking
about summer tips and things we can do to help
our pets during the summer. And by October we got
to start thinking of holidays. We got to start thinking
about Halloween, and Thanksgiving and Christmas, New Year and Hanukah
and all these holidays were potentially problems for our pets,
and what we need to do to keep our pets
safe during the holidays, what we need to do to
start preparing for winter, as I call winter rizing your pets.
So we have a lot to look forward to in
the coming weeks ahead as we start talking about these
things and preparing accordingly. So, but it's something that we
definitely want to hear from you. You know, one of
the things that I'm hearing a lot about and I
don't know if we had a chance to talk about
it on the show yet, but there have been two
pieces on the news lately because you know, it's funny
how people gets it to kick out of things like this,
And the subject matter is plastic surgery for pets. And
you know, of course, when a vet who works in
the Hollywood starts talking about plastic surgery, I can hear
your listeners going, oh, really, like, come on, plastic surgery
for a dog. But understand a few things. Yes, we
do a lot of plastic or cosmetic surgery, but understand
I don't like to use the word cosmetic because you
have that notion of you know, the Beverly Hills housewife
who visits the plastic surgeon more than her kid's school.
But we like to call it reconstructive surgery because when
you know, when you're dealing with plastics, there's always a battle,
especially in human medicine, between what we call form and function.
Form is how you look, and function is how well
you work. All right, how many times when you were
in think about in high school days and you saw
someone that had the bandage over their nose. They clearly
had a nose job, right, and what do they tell you? Everybody?
Everybody hands down. They're gonna say, oh, no, no, I had
a deviated septum and I couldn't breathe. So it was
just to fix the devated septum and to take about
four inches of hook off your nose too, But we
don't count that it was just the DVA accept them,
all right. Or people that get their eyelids done and
they complain, well, the upper eelid was so droopy. But
we know that when it comes to humans and plastic surgery,
most are doing it for form, even at the expense
of function. They are willing to give up and sacrifice
function so they can look differently, look better, whatever. And
I'm sure if you've seen some of these people walking
around in these TV shows, better is. I use that
term very loosely because in my book they look horrendous.
But with animals, we're doing it purely for function and
certain problems like skinfold piodermas, which are infections deep within
skin folds, entropion, or ectropion where it's your eyelid problems
ectropeon for example, a bloodhound where the eyelids are so
droopy that the content type is completely exposed and prone
to infection. Or in the case of a chou Chow
or Sharpei or rottweiler, the eyelids are actually rolling inward.
We call it en tropion, and the eyelids rubbing against
the eyeball and the hair from the lids are rubbing
along the eyeball, causing major pain, major infection, major irritation.
We need to fix that. We see in certain dogs
that we talked about earlier about the English bulldog English
bulldog with their cleft palate and their split lips. We
need to fix those. So there are dogs that are
extremely overweight and might even have skin sagging and rubbing
on the ground. We need to fix these. So our
concept when it comes to doing surgery plastic surgery for
animals is we need to repair these defects because these
defects are causing problems. It's not so they're going to
look better. I mean, look, let's face it. You fix
the dog's eyes, and the dogs are always eyes and
running and drooping inward and there's discharge. You fix it,
then of course you're going to end up seeing a
better looking dog if you will, But that's not a motivation.
And another reason. Another thing we do often is dentistry.
And again with dentistry, we are doing some orthodontic procedures.
We are straightening teeth. I shouldn't say we because usually
this is done by veterinary dentists. But implants and braces
are being used in dogs not because they're smiling for
the camera, not because they have that big interview or
that audition. It's but it's because they can't chew well.
They can't eat well, the teeth are getting in the way,
they can't close their mouths properly, and we need to
fix these dogs so they can lead a normal life.
And that again is the reason why we take this
so seriously and do so much plastic surgery. So I
did a piece. It's actually on YouTube and it's called
the Hollywood's Pampered Pets, and you can probably YouTube and
stick to a search. But we did a very, very
kind of tongue in cheek kind of thing, but it
was really cute about doing plastic surgery and pets. And
again I think we may have mentioned I don't know
if those of you, many of you had a chance
to catch that article on the Hollywood Reporter. You can
go to Hollywoodreporter dot com and just search Jeff Weber
or doctor Jeff Weber, and you can see a little
bit of some piece that we did on celebrity pets
and that was pretty cool. And there's a picture or
they have me with one of my celebrity clients, Judy Greer,
And it was a nice article. It was a nice article,
not too obnoxious. I try, we try not to be
too obnoxious. So anyway, it's been very quiet, guys. I
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to doctor Jeff at pet Life radio dot com. Why
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love to see what your pets look like. We can
post them on the website here at pet Life Radio,
and it would be really cute. So we can sort
of get to know you better and get to know
your pets better and see what's making you tick. I
know what makes me tick because I have eleven pets
at home, and I mean, they are really really cute.
And if you go on to if you go to
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shot of all five of my dogs and they look amazing.
It's almost like they were posing for the camera. So
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