1 00:00:02,240 --> 00:00:23,519 Speaker 1: This is pet Life Radio. Let's talk pets, and we 2 00:00:23,559 --> 00:00:24,160 are live. 3 00:00:24,280 --> 00:00:26,920 Speaker 2: We are welcome, Welcome. You're here live with doctor Jeff Werberg, 4 00:00:27,120 --> 00:00:28,960 host for the next thirty minutes here on pet Life 5 00:00:29,039 --> 00:00:32,240 Radio and Instagram. Live here for you, here for your pets. 6 00:00:32,280 --> 00:00:34,840 Any questions you have now is it time to ask? Cope? 7 00:00:34,840 --> 00:00:37,359 Everbody had a great week. I had a I don't 8 00:00:37,359 --> 00:00:39,399 know why. It was a really really busy week for me, 9 00:00:39,759 --> 00:00:42,359 like crazy busy. So you know that's a good thing. 10 00:00:42,880 --> 00:00:46,799 Good morning, I'm waving everybody. So anyway, you're not even 11 00:00:46,920 --> 00:00:49,119 a hold of me, Hello there, Steph. Yes, I was 12 00:00:49,119 --> 00:00:51,479 thinking it was a crazy week. If you have questions, 13 00:00:51,640 --> 00:00:53,679 now is the easy time to ask. You can always 14 00:00:53,679 --> 00:00:56,439 reach me here to sign well, if you're here on Instagram, 15 00:00:56,560 --> 00:00:59,200 but all you have to do is just start typing away. 16 00:00:59,640 --> 00:01:02,159 And if you're if you're on pet Life Radio, if 17 00:01:02,200 --> 00:01:05,319 you're if you're listening tradition probably here already. Good stop. 18 00:01:05,359 --> 00:01:07,120 You can always reach me on my phone if you'd 19 00:01:07,200 --> 00:01:09,680 like eight seven seven three eight five eight eight eight 20 00:01:09,680 --> 00:01:13,000 two once again eight seven seven three eight five eight 21 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:15,280 eight eight two and just want to hear and just 22 00:01:15,319 --> 00:01:17,959 talk about anything you want to talk about. As I said, 23 00:01:18,280 --> 00:01:20,799 crazy week. I don't know what it was, but you know, 24 00:01:20,640 --> 00:01:22,760 I feel badly really because I have a lot of 25 00:01:22,760 --> 00:01:26,079 people that come in and unfortunately I have this disease 26 00:01:26,120 --> 00:01:28,840 called I can't say no disease. So when people call them, 27 00:01:28,920 --> 00:01:30,519 they call, they have to come in or they walk 28 00:01:30,519 --> 00:01:32,120 in the door. Get a lot of walk ins. My 29 00:01:32,319 --> 00:01:35,439 rule of thumb is if someone's already in the office, 30 00:01:36,040 --> 00:01:38,359 I am not going to send them away. Now. They 31 00:01:38,359 --> 00:01:40,319 may have to wait to walk in. Sometoms I can do. 32 00:01:40,359 --> 00:01:42,640 It's called a drop off. We'll convince them to drop 33 00:01:42,680 --> 00:01:44,560 the pet off. We'll take a look at my in 34 00:01:44,599 --> 00:01:47,000 between my appointments or just before I get into surgery. 35 00:01:47,120 --> 00:01:49,760 Then they could pick up later. But no one's ever 36 00:01:49,840 --> 00:01:52,200 walked in the door and I said sorry, we can't 37 00:01:52,200 --> 00:01:54,920 see you today. That has never happened to me in 38 00:01:54,920 --> 00:01:57,599 my forty years. I don't I don't expect it to 39 00:01:57,640 --> 00:02:01,040 happen in my next whatever it is, left, Oh, any 40 00:02:01,120 --> 00:02:02,599 questions you may have, now is the time. So that 41 00:02:02,840 --> 00:02:04,439 one thing I wanted. I wanted to talk a few 42 00:02:04,439 --> 00:02:06,560 things I want to talk about. Number one is I 43 00:02:06,640 --> 00:02:08,360 was going to talk about this last week we got 44 00:02:08,479 --> 00:02:10,400 I mean, look, I love what we get sidetracked. I 45 00:02:10,400 --> 00:02:12,199 love when people come up with things. And we could 46 00:02:12,199 --> 00:02:14,759 sit and talk for quite a while. So that's great. 47 00:02:15,039 --> 00:02:18,360 And although Dad, that you're doing. But I talking about emergencies. 48 00:02:18,360 --> 00:02:21,560 What constitutes an emergency and you know so many things 49 00:02:21,680 --> 00:02:23,919 that when something's off, and I'll give you some of 50 00:02:23,919 --> 00:02:28,000 the common ones. Blood in the stool, oh my god, Okay, vomiting, 51 00:02:28,360 --> 00:02:31,400 that's a biggie and right away for someone who sees 52 00:02:31,400 --> 00:02:33,520 blood in the school, even blood in the urine, it's 53 00:02:33,520 --> 00:02:36,639 a freak out. So of course they call their hospital. 54 00:02:36,960 --> 00:02:38,879 And if it's the weekend or in the evening, it's 55 00:02:38,919 --> 00:02:41,879 an emergency. A message goes out saying, hi, thanks for calling, 56 00:02:41,919 --> 00:02:43,879 we're closed. Go to emergencies. What do you do? Of 57 00:02:43,879 --> 00:02:46,000 course you're get in the car and too, go to emergency. 58 00:02:46,199 --> 00:02:48,439 Let me tell you something I've learned over the years, 59 00:02:48,840 --> 00:02:52,960 just from our air vet our telemedicine platform, that ninety five, 60 00:02:53,039 --> 00:02:58,759 maybe even higher percent of emergencies aren't and having someone 61 00:02:58,759 --> 00:03:00,479 to talk to, having something to help, what we call 62 00:03:00,560 --> 00:03:04,199 the treis go into a case deciding really what's going on, 63 00:03:04,639 --> 00:03:07,280 and when it's on video, it's even better. I've gotten 64 00:03:07,319 --> 00:03:11,479 some cases about a vomiting dog and we do FaceTime 65 00:03:11,599 --> 00:03:14,439 on the app, and this dog is running around, can't 66 00:03:14,479 --> 00:03:17,159 wait for a text meal, thank water, running over with 67 00:03:17,199 --> 00:03:19,879 the ball of the frisbee to play. Care that there 68 00:03:19,960 --> 00:03:22,080 was blood in that vomits or they vomited in the 69 00:03:22,080 --> 00:03:24,560 first place, because this dog is not sick. So I'm 70 00:03:24,560 --> 00:03:27,280 going to ask the basic questions, what did he get into? 71 00:03:27,479 --> 00:03:29,000 What really was the issue? We're going to get in 72 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:30,599 to that. My next thing, I'm going to talk to 73 00:03:30,639 --> 00:03:33,000 you about a really really big case. I just had 74 00:03:33,199 --> 00:03:36,039 pornfodogs to have vitamins I make I cold only need. 75 00:03:36,120 --> 00:03:39,439 I was okay. So here is I thought. How you doing? 76 00:03:40,120 --> 00:03:43,639 Here's my thought about vitamins. So I take vitamins, I 77 00:03:43,719 --> 00:03:46,719 take supplements. I take an NYD plus, I take Coke ten. 78 00:03:46,800 --> 00:03:49,800 I take lucosamin K and DROIT and MSM and a multi. 79 00:03:50,240 --> 00:03:54,919 Now I feel great. And I don't know how much 80 00:03:54,960 --> 00:03:57,680 of this is because of the things I do. Is 81 00:03:57,719 --> 00:03:59,919 it because I try to eat well, because I try 82 00:03:59,919 --> 00:04:02,400 to stay on the lean side instead of the heavy side. 83 00:04:02,680 --> 00:04:05,400 But I feel really good and I look at, you know, 84 00:04:05,439 --> 00:04:08,120 other people in my age. I'm seventy and I I'm 85 00:04:08,199 --> 00:04:10,520 thinking you know, what are they doing wrong? Or what 86 00:04:10,560 --> 00:04:13,639 am I doing right? Or guess what it could be? 87 00:04:13,759 --> 00:04:17,000 Just geez. I mean, my sister's on here. She doesn't 88 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:19,720 look her age. So my brother we just had, I 89 00:04:19,800 --> 00:04:22,319 just saw two weeks ago. He doesn't look his age. 90 00:04:22,360 --> 00:04:25,000 We're all, I mean between my oldest sister and me 91 00:04:25,199 --> 00:04:28,160 five years apart, complying me and my oldest sister two years, 92 00:04:28,160 --> 00:04:29,879 my little sister two years, and my little sister or 93 00:04:29,920 --> 00:04:31,839 my little brother, they're one year apart. My mom had 94 00:04:31,879 --> 00:04:34,279 four kids in five years. Wow, I thought she was 95 00:04:34,319 --> 00:04:37,000 twenty five. She had four kids, So it's kind of crazy. 96 00:04:37,120 --> 00:04:39,160 My feeling is this Are they gonna hurt? Is this 97 00:04:39,199 --> 00:04:42,360 something gonna hurt? No? Now, most food's on the market, 98 00:04:42,600 --> 00:04:45,279 especially those that are what we call af GO certified, 99 00:04:45,560 --> 00:04:47,519 that if you look at a label, they all should 100 00:04:47,600 --> 00:04:50,959 say that our ingredients or our formulas meet or ex 101 00:04:50,959 --> 00:04:54,720 seed those standards as established by AFGO. Okay, so that's 102 00:04:54,759 --> 00:04:58,519 the Association of American Feed Control Officials. If the food 103 00:04:58,560 --> 00:05:01,160 is AFCO certified, it should be batter balanced enough. Now 104 00:05:01,680 --> 00:05:03,680 it hurt to give them ALTI or if you're giving 105 00:05:03,720 --> 00:05:06,319 less commercial diets and you're making your own you're adding 106 00:05:06,319 --> 00:05:09,240 your own foods, then give them multi absolutely. Let's say 107 00:05:09,240 --> 00:05:11,120 I'll come a downside. You know. The only time to 108 00:05:11,160 --> 00:05:12,800 get too much there are go you know, we know 109 00:05:12,839 --> 00:05:15,399 they're water cyble and fat side of vitamins. The water 110 00:05:15,480 --> 00:05:18,120 siables are the bees and the seas that are A, D, 111 00:05:18,240 --> 00:05:21,920 E and K and so yes. Could you overdose on 112 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:25,079 vitamin A and cause the pop yes, vitamin D yes? 113 00:05:25,439 --> 00:05:28,439 But it would be really really difficult. So if you 114 00:05:28,480 --> 00:05:32,040 want to give some supplements at home, that's probably fine. 115 00:05:32,240 --> 00:05:33,959 Now as far as the other things that we are 116 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:36,800 hearing a lot about, for example, for older dogs, the 117 00:05:36,920 --> 00:05:40,639 NAD for older dogs also that might have arthritis or 118 00:05:40,720 --> 00:05:43,680 joint problems to do the glucosamine and conjoin. And my 119 00:05:43,800 --> 00:05:46,360 feeling is you can't overdo it. It'd be really hard 120 00:05:46,360 --> 00:05:48,680 to overdo it just to a basic amount, you know, 121 00:05:48,680 --> 00:05:51,519 follow the instructions on the label, and I think it's 122 00:05:51,519 --> 00:05:53,839 okay to give supplements. So that's my take on that. 123 00:05:53,920 --> 00:05:56,360 I know I missed another question. Friends all with very 124 00:05:56,399 --> 00:05:58,120 soft stool for about five days, they put them on 125 00:05:58,199 --> 00:05:59,800 a half scrambled eggs and rice out. We got to 126 00:05:59,800 --> 00:06:02,720 talk otherwise normal that self, it's burned down and eating fire. 127 00:06:02,720 --> 00:06:06,079 Oh yeah, yeah, okay, So here's my thought. By the way, 128 00:06:06,399 --> 00:06:09,399 that's a great question because so many times when it 129 00:06:09,399 --> 00:06:13,199 comes to diarrhea, everybody'd run to rice. Well, it turns 130 00:06:13,240 --> 00:06:17,120 out they're intestinal diarrhea. That could be small intestinal and 131 00:06:17,160 --> 00:06:20,360 then large intestinal, large bowels, small bowel diarrhea. Now I 132 00:06:20,480 --> 00:06:23,240 find and this is how I learned, and it's still 133 00:06:23,240 --> 00:06:25,920 working for me. Now. When you have small intestinal diarrhea, 134 00:06:25,920 --> 00:06:29,519 for example, parvovirus animals coming back from parvo, it knocked 135 00:06:29,560 --> 00:06:32,360 a crap out of the intestine. And yes, we were 136 00:06:32,360 --> 00:06:35,560 putting them oncottageaeson rice or chicken and rice. And I 137 00:06:35,680 --> 00:06:39,120 still use rice, but most of the diarrheas. Oh, by 138 00:06:39,120 --> 00:06:42,920 the way, small intestinal diarrhea is usually associated with a 139 00:06:42,959 --> 00:06:45,519 dog that doesn't feel good, so they're not eating well, 140 00:06:45,800 --> 00:06:50,120 they're lethargic, they may be tender abdomen, so they're off. 141 00:06:50,439 --> 00:06:52,240 And that's one way I can tell whether it's small 142 00:06:52,319 --> 00:06:55,800 bowel or large bowels diarrhea. Dogs with large intestine diarrhea 143 00:06:56,040 --> 00:06:58,720 all we also call that colitis information of the colon. 144 00:06:59,240 --> 00:07:01,000 They can have muca in the stool, They can even 145 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:03,199 have blood in the stool. And they can have mushy, 146 00:07:03,519 --> 00:07:06,360 kind of soft served kind of diarrhea. Don't get that 147 00:07:06,399 --> 00:07:08,160 image in your mind, by the way, but I want 148 00:07:08,160 --> 00:07:09,639 to stick to this self river and out think about 149 00:07:09,879 --> 00:07:12,920 oh my dog has that. So anyway, these are the 150 00:07:12,920 --> 00:07:16,199 ones that are still acting fine. Is running can't wait 151 00:07:16,240 --> 00:07:19,160 for its next meal. There's a big difference. So those 152 00:07:19,279 --> 00:07:22,279 I don't like rice for those I want added fiber. 153 00:07:22,519 --> 00:07:24,720 It's like you think of as counterintuitive. Wait, but you 154 00:07:24,800 --> 00:07:27,519 take fiber because it want of soft in the stool. Yeah, 155 00:07:27,839 --> 00:07:29,879 but so if you give too much fiber, then yes, 156 00:07:30,040 --> 00:07:32,519 the soft stool will continue. But if you give just enough, 157 00:07:32,560 --> 00:07:36,279 it's enough fiber. It sort of coats the ingesta as 158 00:07:36,279 --> 00:07:39,160 it's passing through the colon. The colon's job is to 159 00:07:39,240 --> 00:07:42,319 resorb the last amount of fluid, but it can if 160 00:07:42,319 --> 00:07:44,360 it's all inflame. So the whole idea is you want 161 00:07:44,399 --> 00:07:47,000 to reduce and decrease the inflammation in the colon so 162 00:07:47,040 --> 00:07:49,680 you can start doing what it's supposed to do. Then 163 00:07:50,120 --> 00:07:52,040 the bleeding and the mucus, you see, that's because the 164 00:07:52,079 --> 00:07:54,680 lining of the colon is being dragged off. It's like 165 00:07:54,800 --> 00:07:58,040 scraping off. So therefore that's why you're seeing red blood. 166 00:07:58,120 --> 00:08:00,839 Now the difference if if there's bleeding small intestine or 167 00:08:00,879 --> 00:08:03,279 in the stomach, by the time it comes out, then 168 00:08:03,279 --> 00:08:06,720 we have what's called melano or melina venergon potato potato, 169 00:08:07,120 --> 00:08:09,839 and that is the bleeding that by the time it 170 00:08:09,839 --> 00:08:12,040 gets out to the other end, it's sort of like digested, 171 00:08:12,079 --> 00:08:16,639 it turns black. That's black tari stool. When there's frank 172 00:08:16,680 --> 00:08:19,480 blood or red blood that's coming from the colon, it 173 00:08:19,519 --> 00:08:22,120 looks bad, but it's not as bad, so I don't 174 00:08:22,120 --> 00:08:24,360 worry about it. You know, if you've see molina or melana, 175 00:08:24,639 --> 00:08:27,399 then you're looking at some stomach. You can gastic ulceration, 176 00:08:27,800 --> 00:08:29,199 you can have a problem, you can have a growth, 177 00:08:29,399 --> 00:08:32,080 some sort of tumor in the in the small intestine. 178 00:08:32,159 --> 00:08:34,919 You can have really severe intestinal disease and a small 179 00:08:34,919 --> 00:08:39,039 intestine that causes bleeding. Then that's more serious. But the 180 00:08:39,080 --> 00:08:42,080 red blood that you might see from a colitis, it 181 00:08:42,080 --> 00:08:44,320 looks bad, but it's not a serious And the mucus 182 00:08:44,360 --> 00:08:46,200 on top of that, so then you know you're dealing 183 00:08:46,200 --> 00:08:49,039 with large intestinal diarrheis. So talk to your veterinarian. There's 184 00:08:49,080 --> 00:08:52,240 also I use often in addition, sometimes if it's just 185 00:08:52,440 --> 00:08:55,759 a colitis inflammation from something that was eaten or ingested. 186 00:08:55,840 --> 00:08:58,679 Right then it oftentimes gets better within four or five 187 00:08:58,720 --> 00:09:00,519 days on its own. But I like to add a 188 00:09:00,519 --> 00:09:03,120 little fiber, and if it's really bad, I'll put them 189 00:09:03,120 --> 00:09:05,279 on some flat metroniti as all, which is a great 190 00:09:05,320 --> 00:09:09,200 ant about it. For large bowel diarrhea, it's gotta be 191 00:09:09,240 --> 00:09:11,840 careful with that too, because too much flagil is not good. 192 00:09:11,879 --> 00:09:13,879 I'll usually give it once for a seven to ten 193 00:09:13,960 --> 00:09:16,159 day course. I may repeat it once, but after that 194 00:09:16,200 --> 00:09:19,200 you gotta take a break. So anyway, then if it 195 00:09:19,240 --> 00:09:22,159 spread out five days back to this case, the scrambled 196 00:09:22,159 --> 00:09:25,240 egg is fine, but instead of rice, use either silium 197 00:09:25,320 --> 00:09:29,879 powder or canned pumpkin, or cooked oatmeal or cooked sweet potato, 198 00:09:29,919 --> 00:09:34,919 cooked yams. Just added digestible, edible fibers that will probably 199 00:09:34,960 --> 00:09:37,960 help soothe the colon as it's going through, and then 200 00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:40,759 it'll have a dance to heal. All right, boy, that 201 00:09:40,840 --> 00:09:43,440 was a mouthful, so thank you, thank you so much. 202 00:09:43,480 --> 00:09:46,039 Look great, I feel great. A lot of waving. Let 203 00:09:46,080 --> 00:09:48,799 me wave, wave, wave the worker. When your tech abed 204 00:09:48,799 --> 00:09:50,840 gave us the sillium to add on the food. When 205 00:09:50,919 --> 00:09:53,000 Riley got the ruds. Yes, yeah, it worked and the 206 00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:54,759 cilium is great by the way. In fact, I was 207 00:09:54,759 --> 00:09:57,799 at a talk in January the VMX and it was 208 00:09:57,799 --> 00:10:00,120 a GI talk. I obviously I'd like to go or 209 00:10:00,360 --> 00:10:03,840 see things is first of all, you never can stop learning. Secondly, 210 00:10:04,200 --> 00:10:06,279 I like to go to talks that either interests me 211 00:10:06,320 --> 00:10:07,879 a lot, So I do a lot of behavior. I 212 00:10:07,879 --> 00:10:10,840 do a lot of frenzy Boas talks, that's the raachiocephalic 213 00:10:11,080 --> 00:10:14,519 obstructive barroid disease talks or syndrome talks. Then I do 214 00:10:14,840 --> 00:10:18,399 obviously skin GI. I like an ophthalmology. I love I stuff. 215 00:10:18,600 --> 00:10:21,600 Could kidney levels read poorly on a cat if they're 216 00:10:21,600 --> 00:10:25,320 not feeling well or is it automatically kidney KD kidney 217 00:10:25,320 --> 00:10:29,519 disease eight year old male, Well, it depends. If it 218 00:10:29,600 --> 00:10:33,759 is the bun that's high, but the normal creatinin the 219 00:10:33,840 --> 00:10:37,600 normal phosphorus, then I'm thinking it could be dehydration status. 220 00:10:38,120 --> 00:10:41,120 It could be something that was eaten because the bun 221 00:10:41,200 --> 00:10:44,720 so bun blood urine nitrogen when that's elevated by itself, 222 00:10:45,080 --> 00:10:48,480 but creat and the phosphorus are normal, then I'm thinking 223 00:10:48,679 --> 00:10:51,799 it could be other. Now, if you have the kidney values. 224 00:10:51,799 --> 00:10:54,039 Where the bun is high and the creatinine is high, 225 00:10:54,440 --> 00:10:56,559 it still could be what we call pre renal, depending 226 00:10:56,600 --> 00:10:59,360 on how high. If it's very high, most likely it 227 00:10:59,440 --> 00:11:02,840 is renal disease. If it's sus minimally high, it could 228 00:11:02,840 --> 00:11:06,720 be what we call pre renal azotemia. Azotemia are those 229 00:11:06,799 --> 00:11:08,840 levels that are elevated. Then that could be because of 230 00:11:08,919 --> 00:11:13,360 other things like dehydration status, like something diet, like something 231 00:11:13,399 --> 00:11:16,399 that was minimally I hate to use word toxic, but irritative, 232 00:11:16,960 --> 00:11:20,519 and it elevated those kidney enzymes. So it's not for 233 00:11:20,639 --> 00:11:23,360 sure that it's bad. Now if it's a cat at 234 00:11:23,399 --> 00:11:26,480 eight year old, and we know that that eight year 235 00:11:26,519 --> 00:11:28,240 old cats are, I mean that's the start toe a 236 00:11:28,279 --> 00:11:30,840 little older. We know the kidney disease is the number 237 00:11:30,840 --> 00:11:34,200 one killer of older cats. Could it be the early 238 00:11:34,240 --> 00:11:36,879 signs and the answer, of course, So what I would 239 00:11:36,879 --> 00:11:39,279 do is if the cat's doing well, eating well, I 240 00:11:39,279 --> 00:11:41,399 would start on a kidney diet, and there are a 241 00:11:41,440 --> 00:11:44,639 number of good ones out there. Of course, a full 242 00:11:44,679 --> 00:11:46,240 panel eight years of age, I would have done a 243 00:11:46,240 --> 00:11:48,399 full panel anyway, So a full panel to make sure 244 00:11:48,440 --> 00:11:52,320 everything else is fine and monitor the cat. Cat continues 245 00:11:52,360 --> 00:11:55,080 to do well, it's eating well, it's urinating, and he's 246 00:11:55,080 --> 00:11:57,960 not a renal diet. I would recheck in about maybe 247 00:11:58,039 --> 00:12:00,240 four to six to eight weeks and see if things 248 00:12:00,279 --> 00:12:03,200 are coming down. Okay, I hope that helps last I 249 00:12:03,200 --> 00:12:05,679 just stop the rice and add pumpkin. Yes, good idea 250 00:12:05,720 --> 00:12:06,799 on that creatine? 251 00:12:06,840 --> 00:12:06,960 Speaker 1: Is this? 252 00:12:07,159 --> 00:12:10,200 Speaker 2: Ah? Okay? So if it is high creatinine, I am 253 00:12:10,240 --> 00:12:15,159 more concerned. Absolutely, and I think again kidney diet following 254 00:12:15,240 --> 00:12:18,919 up plenty of fluids, either make sure the cat's drinking well, 255 00:12:19,120 --> 00:12:22,360 or you might even have your veterinarians show you or 256 00:12:22,360 --> 00:12:24,720 your technician and a veteran nurse show you how to 257 00:12:24,720 --> 00:12:27,879 give subcutaneous fluids in a home, because that's very important. 258 00:12:27,919 --> 00:12:32,639 Also because if we see the increased fluids helping bring 259 00:12:32,679 --> 00:12:35,919 those values down, then that's a good sign. Ah. Right, 260 00:12:36,120 --> 00:12:39,559 bladder stones lab showed that my dog has structural bladders. 261 00:12:39,600 --> 00:12:41,759 I think that would be struvite and my dog I've 262 00:12:41,759 --> 00:12:44,120 been feeding in single protein of allergies. Should I change 263 00:12:44,159 --> 00:12:46,360 his diet? Well, oh my god, the answer is yes. 264 00:12:46,559 --> 00:12:49,279 And this brings me to the other things I wanted 265 00:12:49,279 --> 00:12:53,440 to talk about today. I've had three systotomies. Two in 266 00:12:53,519 --> 00:12:55,360 a dog, one in a cat in the last two 267 00:12:55,440 --> 00:12:58,320 or three weeks, and the first one, I'll have to 268 00:12:58,320 --> 00:13:00,679 say this. You know, it's funny. I get follow up 269 00:13:00,759 --> 00:13:05,120 like this, and it just justifies what I do and 270 00:13:05,159 --> 00:13:07,440 why I do it, and why I am having so 271 00:13:07,519 --> 00:13:10,159 much fun, and I really get such satisfaction out of 272 00:13:10,159 --> 00:13:13,960 doing it. So dog named Santo blocked twice. We were 273 00:13:14,000 --> 00:13:17,080 able to reduce the blockage. We were to unblock the dog. 274 00:13:17,120 --> 00:13:19,799 It's a dog, and you can see X rays clearly. 275 00:13:19,840 --> 00:13:22,000 Some stones they're kind of small, some of more, but 276 00:13:22,080 --> 00:13:24,679 one was getting lodged in the arethra and we're hoping 277 00:13:24,759 --> 00:13:27,440 that maybe a kidney diet could help. So we unblocked 278 00:13:27,440 --> 00:13:29,480 the dog, and sure enough, within two days he's back again. 279 00:13:29,519 --> 00:13:32,600 All right, it's a surgical disease. We go in do 280 00:13:32,720 --> 00:13:37,600 surgery because he was blocked and his bladder was when 281 00:13:37,600 --> 00:13:40,279 I first of all extended. It was so irritated, it 282 00:13:40,360 --> 00:13:43,279 was bloody. It was terrible. I hate doing bladder surgeries 283 00:13:43,399 --> 00:13:46,080 on dogs like that and such bad shape anyway, but 284 00:13:46,159 --> 00:13:48,799 we had to. So we go in, We do the surgery, 285 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:51,480 you know, we unblock, and we got I got stones 286 00:13:51,480 --> 00:13:54,200 out of there. It was crazy. So the bladder up, 287 00:13:54,240 --> 00:13:56,519 I do a double clothes on the on the bladder 288 00:13:56,519 --> 00:13:59,960 wall itself, and then we close the abdomen, close the skin. 289 00:14:00,720 --> 00:14:03,679 And so this morning he did great, took the stitches out. 290 00:14:03,720 --> 00:14:06,120 He was doing great. So it's been about three weeks now, 291 00:14:06,519 --> 00:14:08,559 and I turned my phone this morning and there it 292 00:14:08,639 --> 00:14:12,600 is a video of then with Santo running around the backyard. 293 00:14:12,720 --> 00:14:15,279 And I got this, which is just it was. And 294 00:14:15,320 --> 00:14:17,960 I wrote back, I wrote, so cute, and she writes, 295 00:14:18,360 --> 00:14:22,200 you kept Santo alive. I am indebted and grateful and 296 00:14:22,480 --> 00:14:25,159 when I get things like that, it just makes my day. 297 00:14:25,480 --> 00:14:27,639 Those are the cases. Now. Look, I would always say 298 00:14:27,639 --> 00:14:31,759 this again no ego here, that probably most of our 299 00:14:31,840 --> 00:14:35,080 cases get well in spite of us. I say this 300 00:14:35,120 --> 00:14:37,720 to veterinarians, not because of us. In other words, all 301 00:14:37,759 --> 00:14:40,240 we do is give that a little extra hand, give 302 00:14:40,279 --> 00:14:43,200 that support. The body's amazing. The body is going to 303 00:14:43,240 --> 00:14:45,399 take care of itself. But every now and again we 304 00:14:45,480 --> 00:14:48,919 get these cases where I can actually say, these hands 305 00:14:49,559 --> 00:14:53,639 actually save this pet's life. And when that happens, it's 306 00:14:53,679 --> 00:14:56,320 the best feeling ever. And I really know that this 307 00:14:56,399 --> 00:14:58,519 is the profession I chosen, and I don't know it 308 00:14:58,600 --> 00:15:00,919 was calling and why you do it? Hey, anyway, another 309 00:15:00,960 --> 00:15:04,320 story going back to the eating all that crap, all right, 310 00:15:04,519 --> 00:15:06,759 and we call it Pika and I have another story 311 00:15:06,799 --> 00:15:08,480 for you, and we're gonna do it when we come back. 312 00:15:08,519 --> 00:15:10,919 So don't go wait, it's a good one. We'll see 313 00:15:10,919 --> 00:15:13,960 you back here after these short messages from our sponsors 314 00:15:14,000 --> 00:15:15,679 and Petlife Radio take it away. 315 00:15:15,720 --> 00:15:21,240 Speaker 3: Mark. Oh, sure, it's all fun and games until someone 316 00:15:21,320 --> 00:15:22,399 ends up in a cone. 317 00:15:22,879 --> 00:15:26,240 Speaker 1: That's right. We are animals. Deal with it at Life Radio. 318 00:15:26,799 --> 00:15:35,120 Let's talk pets. Let's talk pats. Let's pets radio, Headline radio. 319 00:15:35,279 --> 00:15:47,039 Speaker 3: At life radio dot com. 320 00:15:47,120 --> 00:15:49,919 Speaker 2: Okay, we're back here live on pet Life Radio as 321 00:15:49,960 --> 00:15:52,799 well as Instagram, and so I want to talk about Piku. 322 00:15:53,080 --> 00:15:56,799 Pi cut is the eating of innatimate objects. Dogs that 323 00:15:56,879 --> 00:15:59,279 get into garbage like it's one thing where it all 324 00:15:59,279 --> 00:16:02,840 gets into the garbage, eats food or leftovers or bone. It's 325 00:16:02,879 --> 00:16:06,360 one thing when they eat like everything. So one of 326 00:16:06,360 --> 00:16:09,240 my friends actually brings up a good point about sillium, 327 00:16:09,240 --> 00:16:11,320 which I love. By the way, I like getting pure 328 00:16:11,639 --> 00:16:15,679 sillium husk powder because, as it's written here, and she's 329 00:16:15,759 --> 00:16:17,840 right that some of the ones you find in your 330 00:16:17,840 --> 00:16:21,600 pantry might contain artificial sweeteners. We know about zylotl, so 331 00:16:22,039 --> 00:16:24,399 read the ingredients. If you could use cilium powder, which 332 00:16:24,480 --> 00:16:29,200 I love, you want to use pure unadulterated sillium husk powder, 333 00:16:29,279 --> 00:16:31,759 all right. Anyway back to Pika. So one of my 334 00:16:31,759 --> 00:16:35,000 friend's dog comes in and I'm known this friend forever, 335 00:16:35,720 --> 00:16:38,679 and I also I'm known the dog his dog's forever. 336 00:16:38,879 --> 00:16:42,399 And this dog is a nine year old doodle and 337 00:16:42,919 --> 00:16:45,759 the sweetest dog, but has been losing weight, eating well, 338 00:16:46,080 --> 00:16:49,639 no vomiting, and this is the key, no vomiting. And 339 00:16:50,240 --> 00:16:53,279 he's truly what we call adr ain't doing right. So 340 00:16:53,679 --> 00:16:56,159 of course I do an X rays in a blood test, 341 00:16:56,399 --> 00:16:59,279 blood and urine came back totally fine. So now I'm 342 00:16:59,320 --> 00:17:02,200 really scratching what is going on? And I see something 343 00:17:02,200 --> 00:17:04,440 in his stomach was it was like maybe the size 344 00:17:04,480 --> 00:17:06,960 of a large beef ballered egg in the corner of 345 00:17:06,960 --> 00:17:08,799 the stomach, and I'm thinking, why is this a mass? 346 00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:11,160 And he's not vomiting, No, he's not vomiting. God, this 347 00:17:11,240 --> 00:17:15,000 is It's really weird. So we follow up a couple 348 00:17:15,039 --> 00:17:18,200 of days and he's still there eating. He's still eating, 349 00:17:18,240 --> 00:17:20,720 that's and not vomiting, which is this is a mind blow. 350 00:17:21,240 --> 00:17:23,839 So I have my friend doctor Sam Covetti, who's a 351 00:17:23,839 --> 00:17:27,640 board tratified internist to a master of ultrasound, and I 352 00:17:27,680 --> 00:17:30,400 do abominal ultra sounds, but more cursory. I have to 353 00:17:30,440 --> 00:17:32,920 look for big things. But when it comes to looking 354 00:17:33,000 --> 00:17:35,640 at the thickness of an intestinal wall or the lining 355 00:17:35,640 --> 00:17:38,279 of a wall, et cetera, then I want Sam to 356 00:17:38,279 --> 00:17:40,119 come in and do it. So he does, and he 357 00:17:40,200 --> 00:17:43,319 confirms that by now, by the way, this mass is 358 00:17:43,440 --> 00:17:46,920 twice bizart and the density is such that it's some 359 00:17:47,039 --> 00:17:49,400 parts are thick, some parts of thin. With confidence he 360 00:17:49,440 --> 00:17:51,640 has never led me astray. He says, this is not 361 00:17:51,680 --> 00:17:54,079 a mass, this is ingested. This is something in the 362 00:17:54,119 --> 00:17:57,920 stomach that needs to come out. So okay, on his recommendation, 363 00:17:58,559 --> 00:18:01,519 we set up for a surgery to do what's called 364 00:18:01,559 --> 00:18:04,559 the gastronomy, and they will also run the bowel. And 365 00:18:05,079 --> 00:18:09,640 so we open the dog up and pull the stomach out. 366 00:18:09,680 --> 00:18:11,720 We do what's packed the stomach. We don't want anything 367 00:18:11,799 --> 00:18:14,599 leaking back into the abdom and even though after about 368 00:18:14,599 --> 00:18:17,440 our surgery, after any kind of intestinal surgery, we flushed 369 00:18:17,480 --> 00:18:20,119 about a flush and flush and suck out this and flush, 370 00:18:20,160 --> 00:18:22,079 And we want to make sure we do a good 371 00:18:22,200 --> 00:18:26,440 job because there's an expression that dilution, all right is 372 00:18:26,480 --> 00:18:29,839 the answer when you have pollution. So if there's anything 373 00:18:29,839 --> 00:18:34,039 in there that could be causing severe abdominal problems, all right, 374 00:18:34,359 --> 00:18:36,480 then we want to make sure we flush it out. 375 00:18:36,559 --> 00:18:39,640 So flushing and flushing to dilute it out is the 376 00:18:39,680 --> 00:18:42,119 answer to polluting. So let me tell where stuff we 377 00:18:42,200 --> 00:18:46,480 pulled out. First of all, paper, plastic, plenty of grass 378 00:18:46,480 --> 00:18:49,240 and weeds, a label from like a short or something. 379 00:18:49,599 --> 00:18:53,039 How about a receipt from some market. I mean, this 380 00:18:53,119 --> 00:18:55,799 dog has such terrible pike, and I think when the 381 00:18:55,839 --> 00:18:59,000 scared feeling badly, it's like a lot of dogs run 382 00:18:59,000 --> 00:19:02,119 out in the grass. His answer was to go out 383 00:19:02,200 --> 00:19:05,680 eat everything. So it was unbelievable. I have a bag. 384 00:19:05,839 --> 00:19:08,319 I took a picture of it. Everything we pulled out 385 00:19:08,319 --> 00:19:11,039 of his stomach was unreal. The good news is that 386 00:19:11,119 --> 00:19:14,599 after we removed everything, checked the stomach, closed them up, 387 00:19:14,920 --> 00:19:16,839 closed the stomach. I closed stomachs like I do the 388 00:19:16,880 --> 00:19:19,640 bladder in two layers, and then we ran the belly. 389 00:19:19,720 --> 00:19:21,920 That means we went through the entire intestine all the 390 00:19:21,960 --> 00:19:23,680 way to the you know, to what we call the 391 00:19:23,799 --> 00:19:26,920 Celioski colon junction was these to the colon. Usually, if 392 00:19:26,920 --> 00:19:29,119 something's in the colon, you leave it alone. It's gonna 393 00:19:29,119 --> 00:19:34,039 come out anyway. And that was clean. So postop dogs 394 00:19:34,079 --> 00:19:37,640 doing great. We sampled some of the intestines and you know, 395 00:19:37,680 --> 00:19:39,720 but it's amazing when you have a dog. And here's 396 00:19:39,720 --> 00:19:41,960 a take home lesson. If you have one such dog 397 00:19:42,200 --> 00:19:45,440 that cannot keep his mouth away, especially on walks, you 398 00:19:45,559 --> 00:19:49,440 need to get yourselves a really good basket muzzle. This 399 00:19:49,519 --> 00:19:51,240 is a muzzle. It's not a muzzle like that. You 400 00:19:51,240 --> 00:19:52,920 have a now aggressive dog that you're gonna worry it 401 00:19:52,960 --> 00:19:55,519 like get bitten. A basket muscle. They can they can 402 00:19:55,599 --> 00:19:58,279 drink all right, it's it can breathe, they can pant. 403 00:19:58,599 --> 00:20:02,039 It's like a big basket that fits right over the 404 00:20:02,079 --> 00:20:05,880 muzzle and it attach it behind the neck and this 405 00:20:05,920 --> 00:20:09,039 way they can smell things, they can drink water, but 406 00:20:09,200 --> 00:20:11,680 they can't eat things. They can't get it through the 407 00:20:11,680 --> 00:20:14,480 little slits in the basket. And that's what you need 408 00:20:14,519 --> 00:20:17,000 to do, because I don't know if a dog like 409 00:20:17,039 --> 00:20:21,039 this could even withstand another surgery like this. This was 410 00:20:21,079 --> 00:20:24,000 a major surgery on an older, fairly good sized dog. 411 00:20:24,480 --> 00:20:27,440 So it's really really important to when you get a chance, 412 00:20:27,480 --> 00:20:29,880 when you have these dogs you want to go ahead 413 00:20:29,960 --> 00:20:31,599 and you want to get a basket muscle, do not 414 00:20:31,920 --> 00:20:35,079 let it happen twice. Another example of this, I just 415 00:20:35,160 --> 00:20:39,960 mentioned earlier that I had to do a surgery on 416 00:20:39,960 --> 00:20:41,920 one of my cats. One of the three sostotomies I 417 00:20:41,920 --> 00:20:44,079 did was a cat, but I didn't mention it. I'm 418 00:20:44,079 --> 00:20:46,799 gonna mention now that the cat had the same surgery 419 00:20:46,799 --> 00:20:50,400 a year ago. A year ago March. Now it's April 420 00:20:50,400 --> 00:20:53,880 of the next year and he's got another need for sostotomy. Yeah, 421 00:20:53,920 --> 00:20:56,000 there's a lot for a cat to take, for any 422 00:20:56,079 --> 00:20:58,920 animal to take. So of course, after the first one, 423 00:20:58,960 --> 00:21:01,880 we evaluated the stone and it came back struvite Knox slate, 424 00:21:01,880 --> 00:21:04,720 which is the most common. So we mentioned there are 425 00:21:04,720 --> 00:21:06,480 a couple of diets you should put this cat on 426 00:21:06,960 --> 00:21:10,000 that will help prevent the formation of new stones. Came 427 00:21:10,039 --> 00:21:14,880 back in July and follow up, ua, etc. I asked it, so, 428 00:21:14,920 --> 00:21:16,880 by the way, how's the cat doing on the diet? 429 00:21:17,200 --> 00:21:19,279 And she goes, oh, we haven't started that, diety, I 430 00:21:19,279 --> 00:21:22,119 don't think of myself, are you crazy? You didn't you 431 00:21:22,279 --> 00:21:25,359 got to start this diet. Sure enough, this cat was 432 00:21:25,400 --> 00:21:29,400 back in April and a second surgery. And believe me, 433 00:21:29,680 --> 00:21:31,920 after a surgery like this, these animals get well a 434 00:21:31,920 --> 00:21:34,839 lot of called adhesions, so the anatomy is not exactly 435 00:21:34,880 --> 00:21:36,839 the same as it was. Now you're trying to get 436 00:21:36,880 --> 00:21:38,559 to the surface of the bladder where you want to open, 437 00:21:38,880 --> 00:21:42,279 and you have to remove tissue and to sort of 438 00:21:42,279 --> 00:21:45,240 dissect it away to be able to get access to 439 00:21:45,279 --> 00:21:47,440 where you really want to make your decision in the bladder, 440 00:21:48,279 --> 00:21:50,799 and with all these adhesions, it's kind of tough to do. 441 00:21:51,240 --> 00:21:54,440 So anyway, listen to your veterinarion, Larry, how you doing. 442 00:21:54,680 --> 00:21:57,160 By the way, I have one of our visitors with 443 00:21:57,240 --> 00:22:00,160 me today, my friend doctor Larry, and he actually on 444 00:22:00,240 --> 00:22:03,559 his we did surgery on his brother's dog, a little 445 00:22:03,559 --> 00:22:06,519 Shelty and here. Now Larry's a doctor, he's a physician, 446 00:22:06,519 --> 00:22:09,839 he's ob Joann, but does something really specialized. But he 447 00:22:09,880 --> 00:22:11,640 asked if he can scrub in with me and help 448 00:22:11,640 --> 00:22:13,880 me in surgery, and he did. I think it's the 449 00:22:13,920 --> 00:22:16,960 first time they ever had an MD scrubbing with me. 450 00:22:17,200 --> 00:22:19,720 He helped me with all my surgeries and it was 451 00:22:19,759 --> 00:22:22,240 great because they are really well trained, I gotta tell you. 452 00:22:22,519 --> 00:22:24,880 So it was great, and the dog's doing amazing, which 453 00:22:24,920 --> 00:22:28,440 is even better. So anyway, prevention is the key. We 454 00:22:28,480 --> 00:22:31,480 always say the best way to treat a condition is 455 00:22:31,519 --> 00:22:34,000 to prevent it. So when you have these animals and 456 00:22:34,039 --> 00:22:36,680 you know they've already shown to you that they have 457 00:22:36,799 --> 00:22:40,400 certain behaviors, stop them before they really start causing a problem. 458 00:22:40,559 --> 00:22:42,759 And that's the best solution. All right, What else I 459 00:22:42,799 --> 00:22:45,240 want to talk about? So we talk about the emergencies. 460 00:22:45,279 --> 00:22:47,400 Oh so just talk to somebody if you know. Look, 461 00:22:47,400 --> 00:22:49,319 our platform we say we think is the best, but 462 00:22:49,720 --> 00:22:52,599 any platform, and you can have access to a veterinarian 463 00:22:52,759 --> 00:22:54,519 and there are number of them out there. Before you 464 00:22:54,640 --> 00:22:57,759 rush to emergency, get that second opinion, it's got to 465 00:22:57,759 --> 00:22:59,960 be a live video chat. A picture's worth a thousand word, 466 00:23:00,079 --> 00:23:02,079 it's a live video's worth one hundred thousand words. And 467 00:23:02,160 --> 00:23:04,920 I've had so many cases where I've made a decision 468 00:23:05,240 --> 00:23:08,519 just based on a video chat and I'm ninety nine 469 00:23:08,559 --> 00:23:11,400 percent times right. But with most of these platforms, they 470 00:23:11,440 --> 00:23:12,839 always give you an option to follow up in a 471 00:23:12,920 --> 00:23:15,319 day or two, so you can always change things if 472 00:23:15,319 --> 00:23:17,880 the animal is not getting better. I think that is 473 00:23:18,039 --> 00:23:20,519 pretty much. I mean, see if there any other questions 474 00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:24,559 that people have tuaha mixes fourteen years old, as eyes 475 00:23:24,559 --> 00:23:26,160 are starting to get cloudy, what should I do to 476 00:23:26,200 --> 00:23:29,519 prevent the eyes to get worse? Well, first of all, 477 00:23:29,920 --> 00:23:34,160 a wonderful question. What typically what we see when these 478 00:23:34,200 --> 00:23:36,359 eyes get cloudy. Now again it should be seen by 479 00:23:36,400 --> 00:23:39,319 your veterinarian just to make sure. But typically what it 480 00:23:39,359 --> 00:23:43,160 is is called lenticular or nuclear sclerosis. That is a 481 00:23:43,200 --> 00:23:47,440 scarring of the lens capsule. Now, when the problem is 482 00:23:47,440 --> 00:23:50,759 in the lens itself, that's usually a cataract and it 483 00:23:50,799 --> 00:23:53,599 gets all murky. If this is more of a haze, 484 00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:58,400 it's more uniform. Whereas cataracts can have blotchy areas and 485 00:23:59,279 --> 00:24:02,440 it usually does it affect vision. At least they can 486 00:24:02,519 --> 00:24:05,319 see a lot. They still have plr people that light reflects, 487 00:24:05,559 --> 00:24:08,880 they still can see. Sometimes in lower light it started 488 00:24:08,920 --> 00:24:13,880 maybe getting blurred by Technically it is a precautiactus condition. 489 00:24:13,960 --> 00:24:17,200 Why it's involving a lens. But in order for this 490 00:24:17,799 --> 00:24:21,480 just the sclerosis to cause blindness, the dog will probably 491 00:24:21,519 --> 00:24:23,440 have to lift to about twenty or thirty. Obviously it's 492 00:24:23,480 --> 00:24:25,759 not going to happen in most cases and probably any case. 493 00:24:26,160 --> 00:24:29,079 So as it progresses, and it may it may cause 494 00:24:29,119 --> 00:24:33,359 some vision impairment, but it usually doesn't cause blindness in 495 00:24:33,559 --> 00:24:36,640 most cases. So what can you do about it? N 496 00:24:36,799 --> 00:24:39,559 A nothing. I mean, there's some drops out there that 497 00:24:39,680 --> 00:24:42,640 claim I have not spoken to a veteran aphthalmologist yet 498 00:24:42,720 --> 00:24:45,440 whose confirmed that there's anything that we can do about it, 499 00:24:45,599 --> 00:24:48,200 because it's just part of the aging process and it 500 00:24:48,359 --> 00:24:51,960 just happens. And again, just don't worry about it. But 501 00:24:52,480 --> 00:24:54,920 again I would have your eyes checked, your doctor, your 502 00:24:54,960 --> 00:24:58,079 veterinarian can do. It's called the ocular fundic exam, looking 503 00:24:58,200 --> 00:25:01,359 through the lens the back of the checking the optic disc, 504 00:25:01,680 --> 00:25:05,880 checking the vessels, checking the retina itself, looking for retinal separation, 505 00:25:06,279 --> 00:25:08,960 other things that can cause the diseased eye. If all 506 00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:13,000 that is normal, and it's just basically blenticulous carosis, and 507 00:25:13,039 --> 00:25:15,400 I just said, very very common. We see it in 508 00:25:15,440 --> 00:25:17,559 a lot of dogs. I think we're good. I think 509 00:25:17,599 --> 00:25:20,359 I got everybody down here, and I want to make 510 00:25:20,359 --> 00:25:23,839 sure I did not omit any great questions or hells. 511 00:25:23,880 --> 00:25:27,720 I appreciate all the visitors. So okay, if there's nothing else, 512 00:25:27,920 --> 00:25:30,960 we run a minute over. I know that our good 513 00:25:30,960 --> 00:25:33,920 buddy here Mark who runs our Pet Life radio. Real quickly, 514 00:25:34,039 --> 00:25:36,039 my Yorki pu ming will be seven tomorrow. Any tips 515 00:25:36,079 --> 00:25:40,440 on keeping them healthy after birthday? Ming? Yes, just psychon people, exercise, 516 00:25:40,680 --> 00:25:44,359 good diet, okay, keep them mentally acute, mentally sharp, so 517 00:25:44,480 --> 00:25:47,079 always you know, playing with them. There are some puzzles. 518 00:25:47,119 --> 00:25:48,559 There are things you can do for a dog to 519 00:25:48,640 --> 00:25:52,400 keep them, keep their mind as active as their bodies, 520 00:25:52,960 --> 00:25:55,039 and that is the best thing you can do. And 521 00:25:55,119 --> 00:25:57,680 I understand that well. First of all, for Yorkie Pooh, 522 00:25:57,720 --> 00:26:01,759 seven is not no. I consider small breeds getting to 523 00:26:01,759 --> 00:26:04,640 be seniors at eight. That's when I would say as 524 00:26:04,680 --> 00:26:08,039 a routine doing annual blood neurine tests just to keep 525 00:26:08,079 --> 00:26:10,519 an eye on them. For a large breed it's seven 526 00:26:11,039 --> 00:26:14,319 and this assuming everything else is fine. So that's it. 527 00:26:14,400 --> 00:26:17,200 Keep them lean because I tell you it really it 528 00:26:17,319 --> 00:26:20,880 parallels people that obesity is a number one nutritional disease 529 00:26:20,880 --> 00:26:25,480 affecting pets. And when they are obese, what happens they 530 00:26:25,559 --> 00:26:28,559 can't do as much. So when they can't do as much, 531 00:26:28,559 --> 00:26:30,839 what happens they gain more weight. The more weight they gain, 532 00:26:30,880 --> 00:26:32,599 the less they do. The let's do the more they gain, 533 00:26:32,799 --> 00:26:35,759 so we have to be very, very very aggressive with 534 00:26:36,079 --> 00:26:40,640 their diet. They're feeding them modifying foods, modifying amounts based 535 00:26:40,680 --> 00:26:43,839 on their activity levels, and this is really what needs 536 00:26:43,920 --> 00:26:46,119 to be done, so keep an eye on that and 537 00:26:46,160 --> 00:26:49,599 also again nutritional supplements. If it work, that's great as 538 00:26:49,599 --> 00:26:52,039 they get older. I love leap ears is one, but 539 00:26:52,359 --> 00:26:54,640 there are so many things talk to veterinarian that could 540 00:26:54,640 --> 00:26:57,680 help my thoughts on the food Fresh pack. These are 541 00:26:58,079 --> 00:27:01,920 really good foods, just food for dogugs Fresh Pet. Are 542 00:27:01,920 --> 00:27:03,880 they the best, Well, there's no such thing as the best. 543 00:27:03,880 --> 00:27:06,960 We've talked about that ad nauseum. But are they good yes, 544 00:27:06,960 --> 00:27:10,000 They're balanced, yes, so if they like it. They're costly, 545 00:27:10,359 --> 00:27:12,359 So if you don't mind the higher price and your 546 00:27:12,359 --> 00:27:16,079 dog doesn't have any particular specific disease or condition that 547 00:27:16,200 --> 00:27:19,400 might limit their ability to have this food, then go 548 00:27:19,480 --> 00:27:22,440 for it. Most importantly, as we know we've talked about 549 00:27:22,480 --> 00:27:25,200 this before. Number one, they have to like it. Number 550 00:27:25,200 --> 00:27:28,559 two they have to have nice firm stools. Number three, 551 00:27:28,799 --> 00:27:32,079 lots of energy, a nice shiny coat. So if all 552 00:27:32,119 --> 00:27:34,920 of those are happening with the Fresh Pet and you 553 00:27:34,920 --> 00:27:37,279 don't mind getting it or have they said to you. However, 554 00:27:37,319 --> 00:27:40,400 it's simple, then applesaci stick with it. If it ain't broke, 555 00:27:40,440 --> 00:27:42,839 don't fix it. So don't change foods just because somebody 556 00:27:42,839 --> 00:27:45,119 else says, oh god, does my dog does great? And freshman. 557 00:27:45,119 --> 00:27:46,680 If your dog is doing great and what he here's 558 00:27:46,720 --> 00:27:50,400 he's eating, then don't change. And if you want to 559 00:27:50,519 --> 00:27:54,240 change for whatever reason, then it's important to do it 560 00:27:54,319 --> 00:27:57,400 gradually because you can go from great food AD to 561 00:27:57,480 --> 00:28:00,200 great food BE. And if you do it abroptly, they're 562 00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:02,400 always going to have some gi upset, whether it's levomiting 563 00:28:02,680 --> 00:28:05,680 diarrhea mostly diarrhem, and you're gonna say it is, oh God, 564 00:28:05,759 --> 00:28:08,759 I switched that food and got diarrhem. It's not good. No, 565 00:28:08,880 --> 00:28:12,039 it may be fine, but you want to make your adjustments. 566 00:28:12,039 --> 00:28:14,920 It's got to be a slow transition from food A 567 00:28:15,039 --> 00:28:17,880 to food BE over about a seven day period. You know, 568 00:28:17,880 --> 00:28:20,000 a little bit each day you're decreasing the food A, 569 00:28:20,359 --> 00:28:22,880 and while you increase the food BEE, until you're back 570 00:28:22,880 --> 00:28:25,799 you're one hundred percent food BE. If that doesn't work, 571 00:28:25,839 --> 00:28:27,480 but he doesn't do well once he's on it one 572 00:28:27,519 --> 00:28:30,160 hundred percent, then you know it may me not be 573 00:28:30,240 --> 00:28:31,720 the right food for him, but it could be the 574 00:28:31,759 --> 00:28:34,400 right pood for somebody else. All right, anyway, there you 575 00:28:34,440 --> 00:28:36,319 have it. Thanks for joining me here on Pet Life 576 00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:39,039 Radio and ask the be's the doctor, Jeff And I 577 00:28:39,039 --> 00:28:40,279 don't know if I'm the best, but I would like 578 00:28:40,319 --> 00:28:43,400 to think I'm one of the better. How's that for 579 00:28:44,079 --> 00:28:46,319 being right in the middle there. So anyway, we'll see 580 00:28:46,319 --> 00:28:48,240 you next week during the week. If you have anything 581 00:28:48,240 --> 00:28:49,759 you want to talk about, please reach out to me. 582 00:28:50,119 --> 00:28:52,920 I get great subject matter to talk because of you. 583 00:28:53,559 --> 00:28:55,400 So if there's something that's going on with your pet, 584 00:28:55,640 --> 00:28:57,000 trust me. If it's going on with your pet and 585 00:28:57,039 --> 00:28:59,759 it's a concern, I guarantee it's happening to some other 586 00:28:59,759 --> 00:29:01,759 pets as well. Please, by the way, if you are 587 00:29:01,799 --> 00:29:04,720 friends that are not following me and want to learn 588 00:29:04,839 --> 00:29:06,799 some new things and better take care of their pets. 589 00:29:07,200 --> 00:29:11,000 And I'm very easy on Instagram verbs underscore TVM and 590 00:29:11,039 --> 00:29:13,400 that way they can They're gonna notice every Sunday morning 591 00:29:13,640 --> 00:29:15,519 at our show and they can hop on the show 592 00:29:15,799 --> 00:29:19,440 and ask questions. All right, very very good and mayor 593 00:29:19,880 --> 00:29:22,480 I see it hop it in the middle, Karen, Hi, 594 00:29:22,559 --> 00:29:25,359 how are you all right? So? Oh, it's it's a 595 00:29:25,400 --> 00:29:29,000 Mayor's birthday. Alf I get oh whish is hatter birthday? Mayor? 596 00:29:29,480 --> 00:29:32,480 That's important? All right, All good. We'll see you guys 597 00:29:32,480 --> 00:29:35,480 next week, Same bad time, same bad tattle here on Instagram, 598 00:29:35,599 --> 00:29:39,279 Live and ask the best of doctor Jeff here on Brady. 599 00:29:39,519 --> 00:29:40,079 Speaker 1: Have a good week. 600 00:29:41,279 --> 00:29:45,839 Speaker 3: Let's talk pets every week on demand only on petlight 601 00:29:46,000 --> 00:30:00,759 radio dot com.