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Speaker 1: You were listening to Petlifradio dot com.

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Speaker 2: Good morning or good afternoon, whatever the case may be.

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I am your host for the next thirty minutes here

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on pet Life Radio, doctor Jeff Werber here on Ask

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the Vets with Doctor Jeff, and that is Ask the Vets.

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So I want you to call and ask as you

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can hear from my voice. It still hasn't recovered fully,

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so I don't want to talk to how boring to

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listen to me for thirty minutes, So I want to

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hear from you. We can talk about a bunch of stuff.

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I have an agenda. I always have an agenda, but

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I want to hear from you. We can talk about anything.

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So it's very easy. All you need to do is

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pick up the phone called eight seven seven three eight

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five eight eight A two once again eight seven seven

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can send me a quick email which will be forwarded

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to me live as we speak to Dr Jeff. That's

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doctor Jeff at Petlife radio dot com. So for those

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of you that we're listening. For the last several several weeks,

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we've been talking about the different organs and mostly the

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endocrine system. And first we covered a lot of symptoms,

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symptoms that for example, what to do with diarrhea, what

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to was vomiting, et cetera. Then we went to our

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different endocrine disease endocrines or hormone diseases. We talked about thyroid,

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both hypothyroid and the dog, and hyperthyroid and the cat.

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We talked about Cushing's disease and Addison's disease. That is

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an over secretion of the adrenal gland or the pituitary

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gland signaling the adrenal gland in the case of cushions,

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or an under secretion as in the case of Addison's disease.

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We went on to diabetes. We talked about the different

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types of diabetes. We have type one or juvenile onset

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diabetes in people, and that is the type of diabetes

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that dogs get, but they can get it really at

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any age or type two diabetes, which is the diabetes

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that we see in cats, and that's the equivalent of

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our adult onset diabetes. That has a lot to do,

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sadly with what and how we feed our cats. If

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you had any questions about all of those conditions diseases

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over the last several weeks, go ahead and send me

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an email to DRGF at Petlife Radio dot com. Hopefully

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I can clear things up for you. And as always,

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when you get the courage the guts to pick up

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the phone or to log in and send me a question.

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talk about safe toys just at the very end because

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of a problem I'm working on. It's the story I'm

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working on right now with NBC News on the fact

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that Petco has just pulled it's jerky Chinese jerkey treats

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and raw high treats, anything made in China off the shelves,

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and the story has it, rumor has it that pet

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Smart is soon to follow and by March, there will

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be no Chinese products like the jerky treats or anything

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edible on the shelves. So I think that's a bold move.

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I applaud them. I certainly would like to ask them

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what took them so long, But the fact that they're

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finally doing it, I think is great because there are

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a lot, a lot of safety concerns with these products.

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My recommendation right now, just as a footnote, is if

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you are thinking of buying any jerky treats or rawhide products,

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anything it's edible or chewable, raw head products for your

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pats for your dogs, make sure they're made or in

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the USA, or they could be made abroad, but belong

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to a company that is a name brand US company

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and you'll be safe. And so that means even products

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that are made and there's some maid in South America,

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some maide in Australia, New Zealand. I'm not saying they're bad,

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but we just don't know enough about it, and the

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regulations are the strictest here in the States. So I

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mean we can work both ways. As we know, you know,

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try to get a drug pass to FDA. It's being

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used in Europe to major success and we're still in

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the testing process. So I meanwhile, patients in Europe are

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already doing great and recovering from whatever major disease they had,

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and we're still in the FDA process. But it also

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helps us the other way around to make sure that

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there is actual safety and that's what I find with

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the FDA, with the EPA, Vine Run Protection Agency, with

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the USDA, United spar and Agriculture, these are all organizations

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that really seem to watch out for us and our pets.

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So I think right now to stay with US products

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is the best way to go. So once again, get

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a hold of me, call in, let's talk about anything

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you want. I do have As I said, my agenda

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and what I wanted to now talk about as we're

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going through the different organ systems. We talked about the GI,

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the gas to intestinal tract. The next thing I want

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to talk about which I see a lot of issues

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with and that is eyes. And we do see a

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lot of eye conditions in our pets. As many of

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you might know, there are actually, in keeping with it,

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very many organ and body parts and disciplines within veterinary medicine.

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There are also board certified veterinary ophthalmologists. So these are

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veterinarians that have gone through their four years of veterinary

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school and then they do an internship often and then

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they do a residency. It's roughly three years in just ophthalmology,

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and they become specialists in eyes. And you can imagine

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that if we didn't have a lot of eye issues

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to deal with and a lot of eye problems, we

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wouldn't need specialists in eyes. But because there are many

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problems that we have to contend with, it is a

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very very interesting specialty. I happen to like eyes. I

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think it's good because it incorporates a lot of medicine.

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It incorporates really really cool surgery, and if you like

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very fine detailed surgery eyes, it's a great subspecialty. I

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often joke that had I had the time or the

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inclination way back when I graduated to do a residency,

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ophthalmology was one of my top choices. I think eyes

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are great. So anyway, when we have, you know, certain

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conditions and a lot of diseases we're going to cover

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are very similar to both people antipets. We have our

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fair share of congenital diseases. These are diseases that animals

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are born with. They may have a genetic predisposition, or

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they may not. Sometimes it could be just a defect

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all right. Congenital just means present at birth or during development,

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and there may not always be a high potential for

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genetic transmission. Sometimes we have diseases that you look at

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the parents. If you know it's a recessive contrait, and

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then both parents would have to have it and pass

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it to their offspring. If it's a dominant trait, then

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it could be just one parent having it and passing it.

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So these are some of the conditions that we know

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we would have to contend with when we see eye

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diseases early on in puppies or kittens. I mean, I'll

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give you one perfect example. Collie dogs often could have

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a condition called micropthalmia, and that means that their eyes

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and their eye sockets are very small. So the palpebral fissures,

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which are the eye opening where the eyelids are are

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also very small, and the actual globe the eyeball is

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much smaller than normal. So you see that in a

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little puppy. Obviously that's a congenital defect, something that they

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were affected them in development that they're born with the

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problem and not necessarily a high You know, some of these,

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as I said, don't have a high hereditary predispositions. But

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this condition would be why because we see it in

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a certain breed. So when you start seeing conditions that

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are common to a specific breed, then you have to

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start thinking, well, there's got to be some sort of

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hereditary component. And so you can have diseases that are

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hereditary end congenital or just congenital or just hereditary. You

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can have a hereditary disease that's not going to present

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until the dog is six seven years old. So there

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are a lot of conditions. Also, as we talked about

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when we were discussing diabetes, if you were paying attention,

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if you're awake, then what happens with many cases of diabetes.

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We see a high tendency hyperpensity of cataracts. So diabetic

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dogs often are going to present with cataracts. So that

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is in an eye condition that we call it an

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ocular manifestation of a disease. So it's not necessarily an

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eye disease, but the eyes are often linked and affected

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to other common conditions. So here's another one that if

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any of you have had the following breeds. And again

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when you talk about breed predisposition, that means that there's

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probably some sort of congenital link. Cocker spaniels number one,

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by the way, bulldogs, English bulldogs, especially losses and sheetsoos.

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I don't know if I should give you the answer

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or just to test if you are paying attention, to

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give us a call here at eight seven seven three

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eight five eight eight eight two and see if you

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know what condition we usually see in young dogs of

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this type. It is a surgical fix and we see it.

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There's the hint. Mostly that can happen in any dog,

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but we're going to see it in cockers, bulldogs, losses

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and sheets and even sometimes Rottweiler's, maybe even Sharpay's. But

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it's very very common in those breeds. And I said,

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it's very fixable. So I'm going to put that on

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a hold for just a minute and see who's got

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the courage. Either send me a quick note here to

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doctor Jeffitt pet Life Radio, join in on the conversation,

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or just give us a call. And it's a condition

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that I will tell you. Another thing is another hint.

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It shows up out of the blue. I mean it can. Literally,

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you can go out to dinner, come home a couple

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hours later, and your dog's got it. And it's something

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that most people panic when they see. And the truth

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of the matter is it is not an emergency. So God,

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I can't even give you more hints than that. So

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I want to hear from you to see if you're

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paying attention. And remember, not only when we talk about it,

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but we will also the caller or whoever joins in

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is going to get a free pro sense product and

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a contoy. So next up, we have a condition that

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is probably one of the more painful conditions of eyes.

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It typically happens in older dogs, and it is called glaucoma,

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and glaucoma is an increased pressure within the eye itself. Now,

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certainly you can imagine that a complicating factor of glaucoma

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could often be a lens luxation. But it's very painful,

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and these dogs will typically present, they'll come in and

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what you're gonna notice is, first of all, a lot

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of squinting. We call that blephro spasm, very red eyes.

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It's gonna be well, I should. It just usually happens

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more in one eye first than both at the same time,

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though it could be bilateral, of course, but often we're

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gonna see glaucoma in only one eye and at least

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to start, and you're gonna see a very red eye,

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a lot of squinting, and because the pain is so

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dramatic that these dogs are gonna be really, as we say,

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ad r ain't doing right. They are gonna be hiding,

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they're not gonna want to play, they may not want

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to eat, and you're gonna look at them and you're

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gonna see this big, bulging red eye. If you have

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one of these dogs, like my French bulldogs that are

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that we call breakycephalic breeds with the very prominent eyes

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they call them bug eyes, you're gonna just see a

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huge eye and a lot of pain. So when we

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see what we call conjuncti itis, we see injected sclera.

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That's where the white part of the eye is very

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red and raw. That could be doue with a lot

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of things that could be due to just a conjunctive bis.

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It could be due to an allergy, and dogs can

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have an allergy to something. They could be bitten by

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something around the face, they rub it their eyes. The

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eyes get very red, they get very inflamed, and that's

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also extremely possible. But I will tell this is what

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I often tell people that when it comes to an

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eye problem in your pet, you do not want to

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mess around when it comes to an eye problem. These

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are something that and we've talked about this. I've talked

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about limping. For example, a dog comes up lame suddenly,

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but they're still walking, they're still wait bearing, they're the

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favoring a little bit. Is that reason to rush to

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the veterinarian. No, it's not. But with eyes, if you

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start seeing an ocular anomaly, an ocular abnormality, you want

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to take your pet into the veterinarian asap because these

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conditions can make a difference really between sight and losing sight,

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between keeping the eye or having the eye removed. So

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the faster that we jump on this, you're the veterinarian

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that if needed a referral made to the veterinarialphthalmologists in

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by the way, I left. In the first fifteen minutes

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a question about a common eye condition that looks worse

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than it is. It's usually surgical happens. Typically number one

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breed to see this in is cocker spaniel. However we

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also see it in English bulldogs, We see it in

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losses and sheetsu's, we can see it rot wilers and sharpays.

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but increased prevalence in those. And so waiting here for

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an answer, I know someone's got to know someone. I

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can't imagine anyone here listening on pet Life Radio that

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has not had a dog at some point in the

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life that had this condition. So don't be bashful, don't

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dot com Ascibes's with doctor Jeff and type in your

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answer and we could talk about it. So before the

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break we were talking about another one of the more

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painful eye diseases that we see. It's called glaucoma. Glaucoma

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is an increased pressure actually within the eyeball itself. It's

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almost like the eyeball wants to burst. And if any

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of you have ever had any kind of pain in

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the eye itself or just something in the eye, you

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know how uncomfortable it is. So you can imagine when

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the eye is just ready to burst. So you could

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see a bulging, large eye. You could see a sclare

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of which is the white part of the eye is

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all ejected, it's all red. The dog is squinting the

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I mean, it's painful. And what we do is we

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do a test called tenometry. Teenometry is a pressure test

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a number of different ways to do it. There are

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two devices that are commonly used years and years ago.

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I laugh. I still kept one just because it's an antique,

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and boy was it a pain to use. It was

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called a Shiatz tenometer. And basically you're putting the head

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dog's head up in the air and you're putting this

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device on it with little weights and it measures how

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depressed these weights have to be a little like a

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pendulum slides back and forth. I mean, oh my god,

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this poor dog having to sit through that is crazy. Now,

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many of us use a Tono pen, probably one of

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the more common devices. I mean, it doesn't hurt at all.

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it reads out the pressure. It's a godsend. And then

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way more expensive, And what it does it takes a

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little shoot, like a little piece of air that shoots

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out of this device, and then it measures the indentation

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of the cornea when this puff of air is shot

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at the cornea. Clearly, the more indentation, the softer the eye.

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the gold standard. Now. However, for most general practitioners it

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might be a little on the expensive side. But the

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tonal pen works amazingly well and it's great and very accurate.

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tonal pen and then sent the dog to the ophthalmologist

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and the ohomologist says, oh, no, these pressures are fine,

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eye pressure somewhere, you know, at least eight to ten.

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could talk about later called uvi iitis. But you just

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approach fifteen to eighteen, you're getting to the part where

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you don't want to go above twenty for sure. We

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call twenty to twenty five millimeters of mercury the gray zone.

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can't even imagine how painful that would be. And there

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are many, many different treatments. Some medical therapies work, some

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topical eye medications seem to help. Often surgery is required

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to try to open up that drainage angle, go between

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the back portion of the eye and the front portion

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of the eye, and get things moving. Sometimes actually a

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drain is put in to keep the eye pressures down,

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which has to be done surgically, typically by an ophthalmologist.

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we have to remove the eye. And we feel worse

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about eye removal because of our own feelings. The truth

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of the matter is I have seen and treated hundreds

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of one eyed dogs and they are just as happy

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as the two eye dogs. They lose obviously some visual field,

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but they compensate and they do amazingly well, I mean,

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and as a matter of fact, I have seen many

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blind dogs that still are pretty happy. And you know

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what comes to vision. We're talking about eyes. Let's talk

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about vision for a second. Of all the senses, the

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main senses taste and smell and hearing, I'd say for

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most dogs, vision is their worst. The way the eye,

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the retin is set up. First of all, there are

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different neurons our receptors in the eye, and they're called

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rods and cones. And rods basically are for eight take

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in the light, so they're responsible for us. For example,

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our nighttime vision really isn't as good as not as sharp.

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Yet dogs actually see better than we do at night,

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and that's because they have a higher proportion of rods

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to cones. Cones, on the other hand, help with detail

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and color, so that's why we see better color than dogs.

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see color as acutely as we do because they have

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much fewer cones than rods. Now what's interesting is, and

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this is how I always I mention this because of acuity,

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because of the ability to differential differentiate sharp demarcations of color.

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Because dogs don't have as many cones, they don't see

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it as well. So here's an example. If you show

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a dog and you can measure and hook them up

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to some sort of electronic electrophysiologic devices, and they're measuring

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brain activity, and you see pin stripes. So let's say,

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for example, a classic beautiful navy blue pinstripe suit with

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very faint like light gray or off white lines. Okay,

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if a dog or to be looking at that, because

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of their much fewer cones, they may not see the

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pin stripes. They'll just see a solid color. But here's

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the cool thing. If one of those stripes should happen

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to move, oh my god, that dog is right on it.

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So because of their ability to really see so much

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more light, they can detect movement much more easily, which

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means that they were perfectly made for hunting, so they

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don't see. For example, you know, we are perfect vision

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is like twenty twenty. Dogs are more like twenty eighty,

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which means that what we can see clearly at eighty feet,

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a dog needs to see at twenty feet in order

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to see it as clearly. So they don't have that sharpness,

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that finness. But man can they detect light. They can

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see way better than we do at night. Obviously, that's

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great for hunting. They can detect movement much better than

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we likewise, you know, that's ideal for hunting. So it

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just seems to be what they're made. Another thing that

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we have that well, I should say, we don't have that.

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Dogs and cats do. And you'll get this right away.

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It's called a tepedum. A tepedum is a very reflective

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portion of the retina, which is the membrane in the

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back of the eye that has all of the sensory connections.

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So when we have, for example, we'll talk about a

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retinal separation in the future, we lose that type of

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visual acuity and sometimes vision altogether. So what we see

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with the tapedum. If you've ever been driving at night

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and you are approaching that animal looking right at you

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and the headlights hit them, and you see that almost

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looks freaky, that reflection, that's the tapedum. When we take

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pictures and the camera hits our eye in a certain way,

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what do we see from us from people? You see

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the red spots, that's just because the blood vessels in

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the back of the eye. But with animals, you see

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a reflective to pedum, especially in cats, and that makes

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a huge difference. So I'm going to leave you hanging.

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I want you to contact me this week to doctor

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Jeff at Petlife Radio dot com. I want the answer

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to my question about that disease condition we see usually

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in young dogs, Cocker spaniels, Cheetu's, lots of English bulldogs,

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Rottweiler's sharpays. It's surgical, very fixable, not a panic situation.

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I cannot give you too many ends. I can't give

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you more than that, and let's see who gives me

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the right answer. Other than that, we will be here

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next week. I'll be live from the North American Veteran

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Conference in Orlando. My colleague, doctor Danny mcfetdie will be

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joining me live once again. We'll talk about a bunch

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of stuff. If you have any questions or anything you

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want to talk about, just send them to me, Doctor Jeff.

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Dr Jeff here at pet Life Radio once again, thanks

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to pro Sense, thanks to Kong, and we will be

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coming to live next week from North American Veteran Conference

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