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So I always have something to talk about. And it's
interesting because actually we just have someone joining us from Utah.
So three dogs in there anal glands need expressing. Why
does somebody ah, okay, so great question. So anal glands.
First of all, I have taught many people how to
express their pet's ana glants. How many of those people
do you think actually do it? None? I would say none,
very few.
Speaker 2: Why.
Speaker 1: First of all, if you've ever gotten squirted in the
face or somewhere on your body with that anal secretion,
and it's gonna possibly happen if you try to do
it yourself, is something you're going to say, I'm never
doing this again. I wish I could say that. So
it has a lot to do with the food that
you're feeding, and there's no wine or reason as to
what food. The idea is that at the end of
a bowel movement, if you really want to get up
close and personal with your dog, I don't recommend it,
then you can see the very end they give a
little squeeze that constricts the anal sphincter all the way,
and with that squeeze, it's supposed to release whatever a
secretion is within that anal gland. Now you'll see, you know,
anatomically the anal glands. Said, if you look at the
anus as a clock face, they're like at four thirty
at seven thirty. So it's something that the way most
people and even groomers do it, which is not the
best way, but it's it's okay, is a squeeze of
both around. You have to feel both analvangs. If you
gently feel at that area, you can kind of feel
a little bit of a bult, a little bit of
a swelling. Those probably the anal glands. You could squeeze
them against each other. Don't ever stand behind the dog
while you're doing this. By the way, you get to
the side and then that stuff will come out. You
can usually recommended using a piece of paper, towel or
something just to eliminate that spray. I've seen where it
sprays literally across a room and it's the worst smell.
It's like a skunk smell. It's a very metallic. It's
just really gross. So that's why I don't recommend people
doing this at home. But I to say, don't try
this at home, folks. You will chances are get squirted
at some point or have a tough time doing it now,
even when groomers do it, it's not as effective. Why
because the technique that actually is better, but one that
I'm definitely not recommending this one is hopefully you just
put a glove on. I put a glove on, and
people tease me all the time. I do a lot
of things that close. I said, yeah, there's something amazing.
It's called soap and water, and that's usually seems to help.
But for this one, because the smell is horrendous, you
put a glove on and you go. Now, instead of
trying to do both squeezing both clams against each other,
you do one at a time. So you take your
index finger which is now in the anus and the
thumb around it, and you squeeze, and then you go
to the other side. And some people are really good
at going at dish and then you're going backhand. I'm
not going to say it's a good to get to
that back camp. Addition, you got to move over a
little bit to behind the dog. Ah ah, not good,
not for me. So anyway, if you want to be
taught how to do it, ask your veterinarian or one
of your vet nurses and they can easily walk you
through it. It's not that difficult. It's just that it's
pretty pretty gross. I love Stephanie, so anyway, again I
have shown people how to do it. For those of
you who just joined, we're talking about an anal glands
and how come they fill up and what is it?
So back to the diet, some foods. If the anal
secretion sits there for too long, or it has a
little anal plug and isn't allowed to be expressed, then
it sits there a lot of the fluid resorbs, which
is typical almost any bodily fluid, and then what's left
is its secretion, and now it gets really hard. Once
it gets really hard, it's not going to easily come through.
So then what happens is as it because it can't
express by yourself when a dog defecates, then what happens
is it gets more and more and more, and then
you get really bad anal problems and then ultimately, if
it's still not expressed, then you turn out getting an
anal abscess. Anal abscesses are a major relief for the dog,
trust me, they feel so much better. But the self,
it comes out, it appears a hole in the skin
right above the glant at that level, and it is
really and it's ugly. You gotta we have to nessitize.
We have to put a drain in. You don't want
to get anal abscess. And there are certain dogs or
dogs that have problems, consistent persistent problems with anal gland
filling up, expressed impaction. Sometimes they're surgery. Believe it or not.
That we can actually remove the anal plant itself. It's
kind of like removing a scum's clan. So it can
be done. It just needs to be done by someone
who is very, very experienced. Why because she's got to
be very careful not disrupt disphinct or muscles around the
anus or else that dog won't be able to do
that squish anymore and control their feces and that could
be a disaster. So you can do it. Make sure
your veterinarian knows how and what he or she is doing,
or referred to a veterinary surgeon. But it's good, all right, anyway,
any other questions, I've got a lot of people joining on.
My sister said, okay, next question, all right, b So
give me give me something to talk about. All right,
while you're thinking, are you getting the courage to ask
me something? Two things I wanted to talk about. I
saw pet a puppy, really cute little puppy a week
and a half ago, and I'm looking at the papers
and it said the dog was thirteen weeks old. There's
no way this dog was thirteen weeks old. So I
asked to see the papers. And you know what they
did in the vaccines, and they gave one set of vaccines.
This dog at this point had to be maybe eight weeks.
I said, how long have we had a dog? She goes, oh,
two weeks? Well, first of all, So here's what got
me thinking. And I've seen this before, and this is
a warning for all of you. In many, many, if
not approaching most states, it is now illegal to have
pets in a pet shop, all right, new puppies or kittens.
Why because they know that historically these have been coming
from puppy mills, and they're trying to actually stop out
the puppy mills because the puppies that are coming from
these places are really of poor quality, they are not
cared for well, et cetera. So when I saw this
from a breeder, now, legitimate readers are fine. So first
thing I said, I ride away knew you can't ship
a puppy cross States unless it's at least eight weeks.
So they automatically they want to get rid of them,
these puppy mills. So they work with what they call
a They used to be called a puppy broker, a
middle person, all right, But now what's happening is that
broker is now a breeder. So they are getting these
dogs from mills somewhere in the Midwest or wherever. All right.
They're shipping them way too early, and then they're selling
them as is if there whose they were the brear?
So simple question I asked, which is a very appropriate question,
it is, so if it's a breeder, Okay, what would
you expect to see at that home when you go
pick up your puppy? At least mom? Right, and maybe
some winnermates tell this, Oh, no, it's a last sware.
But where's mom? Oh she's we sold her to BSBS. Okay,
they don't have mom, they don't have dad. Now sometimes
the mail comes in from another like a show dog,
so the males they get to bounce around. I can
buy not having a mail there, But how do you
not have on an eight weeks supposedly eight week go
puppy and you're taking away from mom and you don't
have mom there? It was too fishy, nothing was right,
And I told her, can I see the pair of work?
And it came from somewhere in South Carolina, I don't
know somewhere. I said, No, you were had. Unfortunately this
puppy was in good shape. But just what I'm saying
is be really really careful. All right if you want
to get a bread dog. Okay, they should have exactly
thank you for this. Come from ARROWTCI dot com to
help me on that one. But anyway, yes, breeders should
always have right infu mommy. When I mean back in
the day when we got our first dog and my
sister Bethany remembers this one. His name was Thor. He
had a sheets a mile long of all the champions
in his breed line. It was unbelievable. That should be
available and when it's not, or they can't even show you, mom,
then that's a big red flag. And then another question
to ask, you know, I really like to follow up
on the health, So can you give me the name
of your veterinarian. Oh well, well we didn't. No, no, no.
If you have a well bred puppy and you have,
we're working with a real legitimate breeder. So I see,
So that's Victoria backward. That's great, So thank you Victoria.
You are correct. So if you are, you know, dealing
with a legitimate breeder, then they are going to have
a veterinarian. Not only they'll have a veteran. They won't
have to look up the number. They will know just
like hopefully my client's no my number, They just know it.
They know the name and number immediately. Why there's legitimate
breeders need a veterinarian. So when you don't get any
anyone who does not show a dog and breed a
female two or three times at most, they're either backyard breeders,
a puppy mall because a breeder makes you felt application
and they have a legitimate doctor testing. Thank you, thank you, Luise.
And this is true. So I just want you to beware.
You gotta be careful out there, okay if you don't
want I mean, of course, my first choice and I
got five of these adoption adoption or rehome things like that.
Shelters rescues. You hear that, LA. Now they're looking at
cutting funding on some of our top shelters East Valley,
West LA and Downey. And I mean, first of all,
they're already in miserable shape. They need help. Now they're
going to shut them down. So what's gonna happen? There
were six LA city shelters, okay, so now there are
six down to three. So what's gonna happen. All the
dogs are in there are going to be now going
into the already overcrowded other three. What happens in shelters,
especially city shelters, when there's overcrowding. Who loses? Do we
lose in a way? We lose because we don't get
to choose. But no, the puppies lose because now they
put them to sleep. So I don't agendol logic. If anything,
they should be putting more money into them, helping them,
cleaning them up and become even more adoptable. You know,
when I think of and here another comment for Eloise,
I got. Two of my rescues are from Eloise. Say,
you know, Vicky's great, but I'm not against the true breeder.
I don't want to see breaths disappear. No legitimate reader
meet you in a parking lot, which is so true.
So you really have to and you know again from
some hot stuff, adopt adopt. Yes, all of us I
think could agree. My dogs are so adorable and not
one was a bread dog, so you know what you
can get fantastic. And I just saw a dog the
other day that is looks like a one hundred percent
pure Australian Shepherd. I mean it was. It looked like
it came out of Australian Shepherd you know cover of
the Australian Shepherd book, right, And I said, oh my god,
this dog is better word to get it the shelter.
You see what I mean. You can get great, great
dogs and a lot of the rest of it. And
they're also, of course breed rescues, so you can go
to as well to see where that much of breed
rescues from Ivy Blue Eye, La County is not staffing
in their shelters forty hours due to the labor union strike.
Once that member all right, for over three hundred dogs.
That's county, not city. But still any other questions or comments,
love your comments. A lot of other people see this
because it's really it's terrible for the dogs. Already it's
tough enough, but to cut down the amount of shelters
in half, that means doubling the dogs in the available
shelters that are still in operation. What's going to happen
to these dogs? You know what's going to happen to them?
So anyway, so you know the goal here, Let's shut
down illegitimate, the puppy mill breaders. They are not doing
any service to anybody. You want to breed, do your homework.
There are many really legitimate, good breeders out there. You know. Again,
for the more popular dogs, they are more of them. Yes,
is it more expensive, Yes it's gonna be, but you're
gonna get a better quality dog. Or for saving lives
and putting a big smile on your face, go to
a shelter, go to a rescue. There are really really
great dogs out there. All right, we're gonna break. When
we come back. I want to talk. OHD, my dog's
in Nikita. He was a rescue as not a breed
you see every day, but he was a straight you see,
and that's true. You recommend her believe in CB. All right,
we'll get to fourth of July coming up. I may
I do that one next week, but I want to
talk about summertime, warm weather and get you sort of accommodated,
some tips to you so you know how to protect
your pets during hot weather. Don't away, you're coming back
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We're just starting to talk about summertime and that the
increased heat coming across the country. What we're going to see.
I would have known it yesterday was pouring rain yesterday
here in La. But it's a nice day today. So okay.
The important thing is most of us sit around a
little bit more during the winter. Okay, put it on
those extra few winter pounds, and guess what, Because of that,
it happens to dogs as well. So we want to
get them back in shape. We want to get them exercising.
You're going to see longer days, it's really nice. It's great,
let's go, let's do it. You know, you get into
the south from the southeast with the humidity. Even up
in the northeast, it's it's hot all day and night.
So it's like, what do you do and what does
it mean if your dog is in pain and an
axe Fine a day later, we'll talk about that. So
one of our visitors here is at veterinary school at
Midwestern University and in Arizona. I'll give me a thumbs up,
let me know how things are going. So yes, no
dogs should be outside alone, drove fourth of July. So anyway, well,
we're gonna putting things two things together here. You're gonna
get me crazy. So all right, firstly, so you want
to slowly get back into the grind. Okay, so you
don't want to do it all of a sudden, Well
I have it. It's like me, I had screwed up
my knee, so I played basketball Tuesday nights, and I
gotta tell you I was in shape last Tuesday. It
took me I got fifteen to twenty minutes to start
to get move it again, and my shot came back.
You'll lose it if you don't use it, and that's
kind of what happened. So that's what happens to our dogs.
So first of all, when you want to get back
onto the exercise regimen, you want to do it gradually. Okay. Now, Also,
as it gets hotter and warmer, you gotta remember a
few things. Number one, most of our dogs, especially dogs
that run with us, hype with us whatever. They love it, okay,
So they love us and they will keep up with
us regardless. So if they haven't done it all winter
and now you're running them out again, you gotta go
slow because they're going to keep up with you and
they are going to overheat. Also, you want to make
sure you do it early in the morning and later
in the evening. You don't want to do it midday.
That is basically a potential disaster, all right, they say
it's a recipe for disaster. And if you're hiking and
your somebody far away, that's even worse because then you're
not going to be able to provide help right away.
So when you exercise them, make sure you have water
available at all times, make sure you stop frequently, for
rest in the shade, okay, and read your dog, read
the panting, Read the dryness of the mouth, read the
tongue color. I mean, these are things you have to
get used to seeing and you don't want to run them,
exercise them midday. Other thing gotta be careful their feet.
You know what, on a hot day, I want you
to take a walk on black asphalt barefoot. See how
it feels. Okay, you'll see it's not good. It hurts.
Same thing with dogs. And then when they're running on it,
or running on an aggressive payment like surface like a
gravel or even pavement or cement like what's on sidewalks,
it can actually upbraid there, especially the beginning because by
not running it all during the middle of the winter,
their feet kind of soften up a little bit. You
gotta get them back to callous, get them a little thicker,
and were heavy duty so they can handle that. So again,
these are things that you need to do to slowly
get them back into the exercise routine and keep it safe.
And remember another thing. In areas where it gets really
hot like Arizona, Okay, that pavement that reintains its heat
for hours even after the sun goes down. So a
good idea if you're in areas like that, or even
here wherever it's hot, you can get little booties and
you put the booties on and the dogs protect their
feet both from the heat and also from the abrasive
action of the surface that they're running on. And remember
also when you're gonna put the booties on, there are
like all like leather or that rubber stuff, which is fine.
They don't breathe. Well, you do not want to keep
them on your dog's feet all day. It's only for
the exercising, okay. The ones that breathe are the ones
that may be knitted on top all right, or have
a mesh on top, but the bottom is the rubber
pad protectors. You can also get these little adhesive strips
that go on the pad. I think one is called
paw protectors. I don't look it up, paw protectors. If
you stick them on the feet, they'd hear. Okay. They
can stay on. Oftentimes after a couple of days, I'll
fall off on themselves anyway by themselves. But they're also effective,
and they're not getting in between the toes. They're not
you know, changing things around, so you know it's good. Now,
what about water? When you dogs need water, they get
really really thirsty. You gotta be careful because yes, you
can actually get water intoxication if you give too much water. Okay,
some of it will obviously urinate out, but it also
can believe or not cause some brain swelling. So it's
very very important. And then when you look at ocean water,
and right now we have a comment from Roland, and
that is Roland is saying what at ocean water around La.
So first of all, you have the algae, that's very important.
We have a lot of dolphins that are dying and
sea lions, whales. You get really careful. Blue green algae
is potentially toxic. But we also ocean water. Ocean water
is salt, has a lot of salt content, so when
you ingest a lot of salt, it retains the fluid.
When it gets into the blood stream and the brain, okay,
it causes brain swelling. So these are all things, simple
things you just got to be aware of. If you
have a dog that loves being in the ocean, be
really careful. If you love a dog that also the sand,
your plant fetch in the sand. Okay, they pick up
that ball or that frisbee. I want to know what
dog before they put in their mouth, they wipe off
the sand out. So what happens is they ingest it.
And ultimately, if they get too much in any one time,
it doesn't mean one fight or one shoe. It means
one afternoon they can get what's called sand impaction, and
that is often a surgical disease too. Elkanan says he's
got his bubby crocs. They have little holes in them.
So Adam, hello, Adam's here, Adam number one veterinarian to
the best. So Adam hope all's well, if you have
any thing you want to add, Adam chime in. This
is a great time. So you got to be careful
with too much drinking water, ocean water, which is said
very salty, sand impaction, so all these things, this is
all possibilities. When it comes to hot weather. We're out
with their dogs, we're running them, we're hiking them, we're
having a blast, okay, but there are potential hazards that
you need to be aware of and prevent them. I've
seen dogs in one hundred and seven temperature and some
of these dogs don't make it because we've got to
be really careful. Are how we cool them down and
even that is a sign of itself. And by the way,
things have changed dramatic from the time I started practicing
forty years ago to now how we work with them,
huge changes. So now that there's specialties in emergency medicine
and critical care, we are learning so much more about
things like this. So it's very important. Morning I have
a spoonful of organic coconut oil my dog and just
having some two how much can see? Any oils are
in small amounts are fine. There's no nothing toxic about
a coconut oil. But it's all about volume because dogs
are very sensitive to pancreatitis and one of the things
that induces pancreatitis is too much fat. So it depending
on the size. Oh you want to give a little
half fatispooon mixed in with the food, that's fine, But
any oils and that's why a lot of foods that
are too fatty often cause pancreatitis. And things that we
give our dogs thinking that it's oh, it's good. Come
on to a little piece of ticket. Yeah, that little
piece of ticket with skin. However it's a little fatty,
or if it's you know, dark meat, turkey, too fatty, beef,
too fatty, bone marrow potentially too fatty, So that's your
Wes's why you really want to be careful. Should we
keep them out of the la ocean right now? Yes,
I would keep them out of the ocean la water.
That would be that's important. Now we have a few
minutes to talk about fourth of July and we'll talk
more about it as far as what to do when
fourth July hits to keep your dog safe. But I'm
going to do a quick little blurb on how to
potentially change your dog's behavior about fireworks. Now, as of
anything else, a lot could be harmful, but a little
teeny bit is okay. So what I recommend is you
can download on the internet. They have sound effects. I
mean you can get thunder lightning, you get Fourth of
Delight fireworks, you can get construction trucks. There's so many
things that you can get online. So what I recommend
doing is we have your dog with you, and you
put this on really really like barely low volume, so
low you probably don't hear it, but the dogs will
because they're hearing is so much better and they pick
up different frequencies than we do, and you just run,
you know, maybe fifteen seconds of fireworks. Then you call
your dog over, you go, it's a good book. You
give a little treat at them, I'll go em et cetera. Okay,
And you do that and maybe a day two lays later,
increase the volume just a little okay, and there you know,
hopefully there's no reaction. So now you're rewarding the no reaction,
and you make a big deal about the reward. Then
you crank it up a little bit more and you
get to the point where this could take two or
three weeks, four weeks even, which is why actually it
was a good point to bring this up. Now you
can start to desensitize your dog to the fireworks. Now
my dogs have zero zero react five dogs, not a one.
They're outside even together, when we're all outside there with us,
they could care less. And I know a lot of
dogs really freak out. Same thing with thuburn lightning. Why dog, Well,
we don't get a lot of th under lightning here
in La but we do, and when we do, they
could care less. I think it's because we're so noisy
at home. They're used to that. It's just more noise.
But anyway, so the goal here is to reward the
non reaction, and you can crank that volume. You get
to the point where the volume is pretty loud and
they're just running to you for their treat. They want
to hug, they want to kiss that, they want their treat.
So it's a different approach. But anytime you're gonna do
desensitization and counter conditioning, not just desensitize them to the
lad to, but counter condition them instead of being afraid
of it. Don't come and get their treat and get
their bug. This is great. Bag noise is coming. I'm
going to dad, I'm going to mom. I'm gonna get
my treat. So it's a very very effective way to
slowly get your dogs to sort of acclimate to the
loud sound. And by the way, this works with thunder
and lightning too. In fact, I'm sure you know dogs
can actually sense parametric pressure changes. And I'm sure I
get so many calls during rainy season, people saying, my
dog's acting really weird, hiding into the bed, shivering and shaking. Now,
I heard on the news the night before, two nights
before that, we're expecting a big rainstorm. Well what happens.
Parametric pressure drops. Okay, the rain comes and what's often
associated with rainstorms, under enlightening, thunder especially, So they already
talk about desensitizing. Now they're the opposite. They're sensitized because
they now make the association when that change in barometric
pressure hits. A day or two later comes that loud
sound that they're afraid of, so they start shivering and
shaking and hiding under the bed, just at the beginning,
like two days early, three days earlier. So anyway, and yeah,
that's right. Remember to a dog, food is a paycheck
and this is alois. By the way, Ricky's a phenomenal trainer.
So when you want to desensitize, you want to treat.
You want to make it fun. And also one of
the things the opposite that somebody of us do. It's
it's really funny when you're mad at your dog. Okay,
I always tell people if you have a negative command,
like I know, quit whatever it is. You don't use
their name, why because you've trained them as puppies. Tell
when they hear their name to come to you, so
you can give them lots dogs and kisses. But if
they associate their name with a negative, so now when
you call them, they're going oh what I do. What
I do? I think on the other way, so and
it's so hard, it's so natural. I do all the
Tommy cut it out. Well, I have to learn to do.
Just cut it out. Stop whatever it is. Because you
want them to respond favorably to their name. You want
them to come when you call their name, and you
make it a positive attention. So you don't want to
associated with something negative. So that's a little tidbit to
keep you keep your thought process going. Anyway, is your
quest to be on Live, Lauren? If that is that real,
give me a thumbs up and we'll have you come
on Live. A lot of times people hit that button
and they don't really need to hit that button. But otherwise,
you know, I mean, I'm so easy. Get to hold up. Anyway,
that's all we have time today. I'm celebrating going to
my oldest no, my second oldest grandson is turning six
and we're having a party from my kids are throwing
a big party for him. And that tids. So any
dog was inland Empire, say that's a good thing. Some
hot stuff, Vicky. I hope you see that. Maybe you
can give you some recommendations. Looking for a dog trainer
of the Inland Empire, either Samity, you know, Highlands, Redlands area,
et cetera. I will talk to Eloise. Vicky's here on
the show with us, and I'll try to get a recommendation.
All right, anyway, if you need me during the week,
you don't have to wait till Sunday especially have a problem.
If you have a problem that's real, just get a
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The messages come to me. I will be happy to answer.
ELOI is going to do some research for the trainer
in that area. Thank you. Yes, we'll message you. Elouise
Vicky's working on it. Okay. I think that's it, So again.
See you next week. We'll talk a little bit more
as we had closer with the fourth July. We'll talk
about the dogs that didn't acclimate. You've tried this and
it didn't work, and they are literally miserable, trying to escape,
becoming aggressive, becoming destructive, so we'll talk about it as well.
And other than that, guess about Keith. Thanks for joining me.
We'll see you guys next Sunday. During the week if
you need me, you know you can a week. Have
a great week, everybody.
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