Is Your Pet Coughing or Sneezing?

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1:00 This is Bill the Pet Health Guru, along with my special guest host, doctor Michael Damn. How are we doing, Doc, Well, I'm doing well, Bill, Just trying to stay dry. Yeah. Yeah. The rain just came through it out here and they said it was heading up to you, so I waved it goodbye. You know today several inches probably, Oh it was where it was just kind of a light rain down here. Um, so it's you know, you know, it could be sunny on one street, drizzling on another, and downpouring on the third street. Yeah. Absolutely, that happens all the time. Um. It keeps things interesting for us, doesn't it. Yeah. I mean, you know, some of the animals, you know, sense the electromagnetic changes in the atmosphere and of course, like we've talked about with the thunder um, Yeah, it could be challenging for some animal guardians. Yeah, it really can be.

1:59 And of course this time of year, we go through it almost on a daily basis, don't we. I know, I don't think. I mean, I don't remember in the past few weeks a day where we didn't really have some sort of storms of rain. You know. Sure, Yeah, it's kind of crazy. Well, so for a topic tonight, I've been I don't know. I'm sure you'll you'll be able to give your perspective on this, but we're seeing and I guess over an audio to you. Let I guess it was the end of last week. What's with all the dogs and catch with the coffee and sneezing and you know, the respiratory issues. What's going on? Well, I think you know what you've talked about, you know your perspective. You know, certainly it has to do with a lot of the irritants in the air and toxins, both in the air and in the environment. You know, certainly irritants and especially when the when the weather is so stagged and you know, and there's so much humidity and again stagnant air. Sometimes I think that leads to a lot of you know, a lot of symptoms, respiratory symptoms and our animals. Yeah, and of course, you know kennors, I mean, most of them seem to go into full panic mode, don't they. Yeah. Yeah. And then of course this time of year, you know, people are traveling, so they're often boarding their animals and kennels and unfortunately, you know a lot of these even holistic clients are forced to vaccinate their animals and you know, just you

3:34 know, to get into these places, and that leads to a weakening of the immune system, and then you get the stress and the crowding and the and the you know, the new environment, and then you have animals breaking down with upper respiratories and kennel cough very very common again this time of year especially, Yeah. And you know, you know some of the other things too, is in some of these kennels and that sort of thing, the noise levels and you know, the change of staff and personnel and missing mommy and daddy I think, and the air quality. You know, if you ever go into these facilities, just you know, the circulation of air is often very inadequate. You know, they're often warm against stagnant air environments without appropriate circulation, and you know, it leads to stress. And uh, you know, we see these animals breaking down with these respiratory ailments. And you know, at this time of year, animals are being vaccinated too, so more than they are maybe at other times a year because people have to quote unquote boarding them or kennel them. And again that's going to lead to you know, weak immune systems, and you throw the stress in and there we go. So I think, you know, it's all these factors that you talk about. It's environmental allergens and irritants and toxins and the air and uh, you know, the airway is a defense mechanism, is an important part of the immune system of our animals. And so it's right, yeah,

5:05 yeah, and no, it's interesting the air movement and everything else, because it was one of the main things that I had learned one of the college, you know, even with fire animals and you know, dealing with barns and things of that nature. And going back, this is going back almost fifty years ago. We were doing a store, you know, because back then pet chops curried all kinds of livestock, you know, everything from exotics to dogs and cats and birds and stuff like that. And they were doing a new build out for us and Total contractor. We needed ventilation in the you know, in it our enclosed glass room where basically we keep almost all the livestock except for the fish. And so they okay, no problem, and I walk in and they're putting in a basically a bathroom fan in the wall. I said, no, we need air flow, right, a real air flow, you know. And of course our houses are the same way too in the summertime, aren't they. I mean, we don't have necessarily good, good air circulation in our homes. No, no, not at all, And of course that's going to lead to you know, the temperatures are so hot outside and the air conditionings are on, and you know, often people aren't changing their filters on the air conditioning, and you know, all that particulate matter in the air just is a tremendous stress on our animals and again leads to all sorts of respiratory symptoms, like you said,

6:40 from nasal congestion to coughing and hacking. And you know, and I had a patient this past week who's been who developed acute respiratory distress that unfortunately needed to go in I think it was a mutual client of ours, and unfortunately you had to go into the local conventional vent for even oxygen there because it was under such tremendous stress. And you know, I was trying to counsel her and and and you had, you know, implemented an herbal program and I was trying to counsel her homeopathically, but it just it became overwhelming, and in this particular case, the animal needed you know, some oxygen and you know that was that severe. Yeah, yeah, that's that's that's that's amazing. UM. You know that that that happens, and it's um it's it's an interesting just an interstring part to this that I found out this week because I was I was dealing with UM a client that's also in the air conditioning business, and I've had some challenges. Everybody's been having challenges here in South Florida because the temperature is so hot, and you know, the average air conditioner, even the bigger units, are are only designed to basically drop down a temperature between twenty and thirty degrees and when you're hitting temperatures of a undred. You know, it's you know, you're gonna be your house and your areas are going to go to be in you know, in many cases in the high seventies, you know, depending on the age of the

8:11 machine and that sort of thing. So it's it's not not that great. But one of the little secrets this guy's been around is actually third generation in the business. And he says one of the things that he tricks that he learned, um, a lot of these new filters for your AC units. Uh, you know, they're all anti you know, anti germ, anti bacterial. They're trying to figure you know, trying to filter down to a micron and there it's the filtering material is so dense that it actually reduces down your air flow by as much as fifty percent. And it's like, you know, just get to you know, get the cheap old ones because they hold up. You know, you're gonna get more circulation. Your AC is not going to work as hard, um, so you're gonna you and your pets are going to be more comfortable. Um. And of course you know, talking to me about that, it's like, yeah, if you've got a strong immune system, it's not going to make any difference, is it.

9:09 No, not at all. But a lot of these animals are so challenged, you know, just through their lifestyle of course, and that leads to you know, these symptoms that we're saying, especially this time, yeah, um, you know, and doing some prep for this, you know, it was looking you know, to some of the overviews on respiratory problems, that sort of thing. And of course, I think the biggest thing um that we in that I encounter because I'm not usually doing an exam on an animal, but is that they come in and they get this piece of paper that they're waving around from the veterinarian and you know, um, first off, how many different respiratory diseases do they have today? Yeah, I mean both dogs ending for cats. Yeah, it's astronomical, and it's growing by leaps and bounds as they more try to fine tune the pathogens that are involved. And you know, to me, that's all, you know, Garble, it doesn't change how we manage them holistically. But like you said, it's a it's an increasing laundry list of various bacterion viruses that they're discovering or they're finding out causes problems, and they focus on those elements of the problem, and of course you and I are focusing on the animal side of the issue, trying to build up the immune system, strengthen the vitality, lower the susceptibility to you know, so that they don't get sick. Yeah,

10:41 um, you know what you know. So, so the average client was into the animal hospital, um with the dog with a cough? What is it? What is a normal What would be a normal work up in an allopathic setting? Well, um, depending upon the results of an exam. Usually it depends if the animal has a history of frequenting you know, these boarding facilities and dogie hotels. They'll often just diagnose presumptively, you know, kennel cough complex and they might put them on antibiotics and costs suppressence, you know, to a condition that is basically self limiting in about a week to ten days. Animals are going to get better from these upper respiratory issues that they have, irrespective of what treatment is given. And so my colleagues are often giving strong antibiotics when they're not even needed or and it's a misuse of antibiotics and can lead to all sorts of resistance, which becomes a problem.

11:43 So you know, that's the first thing that they do when you have an animal that has uh, you know, let's say a hacking cough or a goose hong type cough and these little toy breeds um. You know, that's that's one angle. And as I mentioned, you know, frequently on the show, it's often these vaccinated animals that are you know, getting kennel cough vaccines up their nose or orally down their throat, where you know, you're getting a bombardment of the immune system with all sorts of you know, bacterial components and other aguments in the vaccine. And I tell you built these animals, it's not just those particular animals. Sometimes it's not an acute cough.

12:24 It becomes chronic, and especially these little breeds where they're getting these vaccines, and so even though they might be treated with antibiotics and cought suppressants, they're coming in later with chronic coughs or new diagnoses. And so you know, that's the acute infectious kind of situation. And then we get other animals that present with let's say shortness of breath coughing that I might have a heart murmur, and those particular animals are going to be usually having you know, possibly X rays to look at the lungs on the size of the heart, and depending upon what the findings are that determine the allopathic workup. You know, some of those animals then are getting strong cost suppressants or again antibiotics, always drugs to dilate the airways. And then of course we have the series of heart medications if heart disease is diagnosed, and so that kind of is and then you get the allergy quote unquote animals with the you know, the nasal discharge and the eye discharges and the sneezing, and even though again most of those conditions aren't bacterial, again, my colleagues just don't know what else to do with them. And again the antibiotics come out, even though they're not indicated most of the time. I know, it's it's but I mean, in most most of my experience, most of the time, you know, there isn't a very specific type of test that most veterinarians are doing,

13:54 is there? No? No? I mean, you know, we learned our meetings to do um nasal swabs and cultures and all of that, but you know, by the time those tests come back, the animals already either better or you know, onto other things. So yeah, that's what I was gonna say. You do a swab and you know, you have to culture it out. It's what three to five days normally, and in many of these cases it's gone. But in many of these cases too, the yellopathics are going ahead and giving one of these um you know, internasal vaccines, you know, with the actual um you know pathogens right there. Um, that's why they cough. I mean, I you know, the kennel call vaccine. I mean I don't believe in any of them. Um, you know, the vaccines are as a group, but um, the kennel caught vaccine, like you said, goes up the nose, you know.

14:54 I find it causes you know, the disease and a lot of these animals, and again it can become chronic and some of these, especially toy breeds. Yeah, it's it's it's interesting because you know, I look back in I guess it's been god probably fifteen twenty years ago or so. And you know, veterinarian you know, animal clinics used to do a lot more boarding than they do now unless it's set up as a separate facility. But you know, you hit the holiday weekends and that sort of thing. You know that I was getting orders for you know, I need an extra twenty crates and they were stacking him, you know, four high, five high in the exam rooms because it was a good cash cow for them, and the owners will be coming in. And of course the first thing that you know, if you had your you know, bordetella vaccine, oh my god.

15:43 No, well okay, now you and I know that it's not going to give me, give any protection for several several days, if not weeks, if it's going to give any protection at all. And so they said, well, we'll just take care of it. And of course, you know, it gets attacked on the bill right away, and of course they do it. And you know, people are away for a week, ten days, two weeks, and they come back and they're handed a bill for boarding and here's the veterinary bill for treating kennel costs right that they actually give to them, right, and you know, now build these boarding facilities. You know, which makes them more susceptible to the respiratory issues is now they're requiring other vaccines other than board to tello. They're requiring leptospirosis, which is a real rarity, and the influenza vaccine. And so these animals are coming into the allopathic clinic getting bombarded, not dressed with boarda tella, but with all these other vaccines. And it's the combination or as Pat Jordan calls them, the wombo combos right weak in the immune system and lead to you know, all sorts of trouble. Yeah, yeah, And like you said, you start combining that sometimes changes in diet and you know the rest of being away all of that, and you've literally got animals crashing, don't you Yeah, yeah, I mean, and again in the kennel environment, it's not just the respiratory symptoms, it's you know, also we see you know, tremendous

17:15 diarrhea and digestive symptoms um you know, and other organ system issues. So it's a very stressful environment. And when we have stress, we have weakened immune systems. And then we have you know, these quote unquote infecist organisms being injected and being snorted up the nose. And there's no reason why we had no wonder why we have you know, outbreaks and sick animals when people pick them up, right, And of course, you know, the other thing that contributes to that, especially in these facilities is what are they using for cleaning, disaffecting, deodorizing. You know, I'm sure that they're not using you know, mother nature, you know, and you know most you know, so many of these facilities too, there's no access to the outside.

18:07 You know, sunshine is probably one of the best disinfectants that in the in the universe. Absolutely, yeah. Yeah. So so you've got this whole batch of stuff going on. And of course we you know, we've we've covered a lot here on primarily our canine um companions, but cat facilities can be a lot tougher on the fee line. We got a minute and a half here before the break, so I don't want to get in too heavily into it. But um, again, how many different respiratory problems do cats have? Oh? Yeah, it's it's uh, they've got all these respiratory disease complex and again, most of these cats are being vaccinated with organisms that are already probably in their bodies or for example, a lot of these cats or have hidden herpes virus in their bodies. You know, and when they and they're being vaccinated for feline herpes, they're in being injected with organisms that a lot of these animals already have in their bodies and are what we call latent or dormant. And so when that happens, you have these kitties break down with you know, tremendous upper respiratory issues, eye hulsers again, nasal discharge, congestion, and those can be very difficult. Those can be very difficult to get rid of in our kiddies. And again, what we do is we in conventional medicine, we go to antibiotics and antihistamines and decongestuts

19:40 that don't really address the underlying cause. Yeah, it's it's it's just really amazing that you know, to try to save an animal you have to basically break down their body. It's this doesn't make any sense, and you know, you know, well we can get into a lot more of that read for this quick break. We all want our pets to be as healthy as possible, and my paleopets is the answer. Let us help relieve your pet of ear infections, allergies, scratching and itching, diabetes, joint problems, cancer, or other elements by providing our naturally raised, raw, cooked or frozen Biocomplete natural diet entrees that are custom formulated to be species specific and USDA approved. For more information, visit my paleopet dot com or called nine to five four nine seven one two five zero zero. I'm picking up fabrations.

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22:18 And that's the defense strategies of the body. You know, the mucus, the cilia, which are the lining hair like part of hair like substances along the airways. You know, you get an excessive production of mucus from that those cells lining the airways, and it becomes problematic. Yeah, it's obviously going to it's going to restrict, you know, some of the airflow and things like that. But the sneezing and coughing, that's basically the animal trying to get rid of that, isn't it. Yeah, it's the way the body is trying to do it. And you know, allopaths come in and are attempting to dry those discharges up excessively and suppress that response, and so in my experience, that just drives the disease in deeper to the body, and so we often see this cycle where animals start with upper respiratory sneezing and maybe some mild coughing. When they're suppressed. Then we get into you immune diseases lower down in the airways. Just like children when they're treating for respiratory infections with antibiotics and for ear infections, a lot of those children end up with asthma, you know, which is a more serious condition down lower in the airways. And we see the same thing in our animals. You know, we see cats that get these vaccines and that are suppressed, and the next thing you know, you have a wheezing asthmatic cat. So you know, basically they're not you know, the approach is not that you're using something

23:48 to clean out the mucus itself, but suppressing the production of it, which that those toxins are going to go much much deeper into the body, aren't they. Yeah, yeah, that's what happens. And then you get again deeper immune disease, as I said, at the level of the bronchi or the alveoli, which are the little little cells down deep in the airways. And you know, lung pathology is a lot more serious than upper respiratory issues. And so yeah, we have to be real careful not to suppress that mucus to an excessive degree. You want to generally clean it out and use medications to help the body. I'm sorry about that. And you know, the excessive use of these drugs really you know, causes all sorts of complications.

24:41 Bill, Well, you know another part of that that I you know, I've realized for a long time is so many medications are actually infect Almost all medication have got high toxic you know characteristics, and that would actually normally cause the body to make more mucus throughout, wouldn't it. Yeah, yeah, absolutely, That's why we you know, I know, when we get into therapeutics, you know, we want to look at other alternatives to these same class of drugs that just really just you know, weaken those defense strategies of the body and lead to more problems. Absolutely. Yeah. Um.

25:26 And of course you know when we started looking at this too, when we started off, you know at the end of the last segment about about the kiddies to the cats, the feline population, Um, there are a lot more difficult to treat because number one, they're you know they're basically I'll get carnivores, and you know we've been feeding a bunch of junkie food that's addictive. How do you how do you get medications into them on a regular basis that are actually gonna work? Yeah, I mean, I'll be honest with you. Build a drug that's really taken off in the allopathic world, is which a lot of cat owners probably are familiar with when they go to the local vet and if it's guy a kiddy's diagnosed with a quote unquote infectious diseases, the long acting antibiotic Convenient, which a single shot last for two weeks, and actually the residues of that drug last for sixty five days in the animal, sixty five days. And that drug is not even effective against the bacteria overgrowth that might be occurring in the upper respiratory tract or the lungs.

26:32 But yet, you know, like you said, cats are hard to get medications. In my colleagues, you know, the advancements in allopathic medicine come up with drugs like this, and that drug has caused all sorts of other chronic issues and some animals from organ failure to seizures and all because they're trying to find you a clever way of getting a drug into these animals. Yeah, I mean, that's really really amazing. And I know, you know, we we you know, we have challenges obviously with even with herbals and botanicals and things like that, and you probably do with with homeopathic remedies the same way. But I learned a few secrets along the way, and you know, my fifty plus years in this industry that cats have a unique defense system, if you will, that makes it actually a lot easier to get some of these things into them. And basically, you know, one of the things I use for especially respiratory things that's going to soothe the throat, help break down some of the mucus is a natural antibiotic is raw honey, and I find it if I mix it with liquor sh root it's even more effective. Or seamoss. Seamoss is another good one. Irish moss is what we usually use. But you know, who wants to take and put some honey on their finger and stick it in the mouth in the mouth of a cat um Very difficult, it really is. You know, hopefully you end

28:04 up keeping your finger um and for a while I work with wildlife, and we were working with a lot of big cats, and it's like, how do you do this? Well, if you mix these things in, and you probably can do the same thing with some of your homeopathic remedies. But I think the herbs and I mix it in with the honey, and then I smear it on their foot, and of course can't. There's one of their unique defense mechanisms. They don't want any they don't want to be dirty, you know, so they lick it all off, so they just ingested the whole thing. Yeah, it's a clever way. I really like that. You know, with homeopathic remedies, you often have clients dissolve the pellets and a little bit of water and kind of use a syringe to get it in because it doesn't have any taste or flavor. So it's right, it's a little less challenging. And with remedies, all the remedies have to do is contact the gums or the lip or the mucosa area of the oral cavity, and it's dosed immediately on contact. And you know, I'm sure some of the audience might not be familiar with it, but homeopathic remedies don't have to circulate through the bloodstream and go to the various organs. They're actually effective on contact because it's an energetic influence on the animal. So it's a little bit different. Yeah, And I mean you get some of the same same effects with you know, obviously some of the rubles and extural things since they're and you're related. I just sat comment up up there that ask about catnip um. It's you know, adding catnip can help out a lot. First

29:40 of all, cat most people don't realize, is a digestive aid. It actually helps settle this, you know, the whole digestive track. So you're going to get better absorption of nutrients, which is going to increase the overall health, isn't it. Yeah, catton NEPs are wonderful, you know, like you said, you know comp and the only thing with catnip and homeopathic remedies is, you know, because it's got such a strong odor and effect on their sometimes on their nervous system a little bit makes them more a little more goofy. It can affectopathic remedies. And so when we use homeopathy, one particular one particular nutrient that we are plant that we trying to avoid this cat nip unfortunately in those cas you know, but as I'm sure in the herbal world, it certainly plays a strong role in helping. Yeah. Well one of the other things too, I mean, because they're asking about a catnip and just get the kind of a side note there, Um, cat nip u is also anti parasite. Is actually a parasite repellent. Um.

30:48 That's why cats like the role and it nets the thing because they know that that helps keep them flee free and parasite free on the ectope parasites and for i know decades now, um and dealing in rescues and that kind of situations of course, you know, Um, especially on Farrell's you'll get kittens, you know, as as young as a day two days, three days old. They are just loaded with with fleas and you can't use any conventional product on them. But cat nip tea is actually safe enough to use on these day old kittens. Um, you know, yeah, it's one of the it's I mean, it's just it's properties of such that that's exactly what it does. And of course, when when we look at the whole men family as well, Um, tradition you know, um in in folk medicine and uh that sort of thing. You know, you see life stuck, and you see wild animals that will find a patch of peppermint or spearmint or any of the men family and then they're rolling it and really see those those natural oils and you know they're you know, they're they're a lot healthier, you know, how to medicate themselves. Interesting. Yeah, well we talk about that all the time. When animals, you know, go for the herbs and then when they don't need them anymore, they stop ingesting them, so

32:19 they know what's best for their bodies and they gravitate towards you know, those herbs that are healing at the right time, at the appropriate time. It's a very past topic. Yeah, I mean, um, compared to what we look at in allopathic medicine. Uh, these dogs and cats should have you know, triple PhD shouldn't. Yeah, that's a good way to put it, absolutely, you know. And and it's interesting when we look at these these different herbs and botanicals especially UM. I heard I was talking with somebody and they were talking about, um, how the Native Americans uh, in their medicine and extra thing and other cultures as well, that no matter where you go on the face of the earth, there is something that is going to um do exactly the same thing, get rid of the same symptoms, get rid of the same diseases, the same parasites. And it's been it's distributed throughout the whole globe. And that's you know, that's by design.

33:24 I'm sorry that it has to be by design. Yeah, yeah, good point. You know, homeopathy, we've got wonderful remedies for upper respiratory diseases and kennel cough remedy called spongy a toasta, another one called Joe Sarah wonderful remedies for acute kennel cough hep ourself as another one bryonia, And that, of course, the selection of these remedies is based upon how the individual symptoms of the patient are manifesting. So we could, you know, whether the cough is worse at night or worse or better from drinking water or getting up, or worse with excitement, and then those individual characteristics determine which remedy, you know, we choose, and often, you know, with the homeopathic remedies, it's amazing how quickly these respiratory symptoms resolve. It's amazing.

34:22 Yeah. Um yeah, I'm just looking up a couple of things here, but um, there's a lot of things on the internet too, as far as um that cats are susceptible to more fungal type upper respiratory problems, right right, Yeah, it just you know what you know, maybe you know there's obviously they're closer to the ground, and you know, you get the you know, a lot of fungus and molds and stuff like mold toxicity in the home, right, animals a tremendously affected by and cats, like you said, being closer to the to the floor, and you know, having smaller bodies are much more susceptible to the toxic effects of fun guide exactly.

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38:07 It is another way to use it. And of course cat let's face it, they like the cat nip absolutely, yeah, yeah, they really love it. They roll in it, like I said, and they get a little goofy. I Mean, the only rare side effect I've seen with too much cat inip is in sensitive animals that can stimulate them so much. Is rarely you can see a seizure. But for the most part, it's it's very very safe. Right. Well, yeah, but again, it's just like everything else that we talk about. You want to make sure that you're getting good, clean, organic, you know, raised cat nip, you know, because some of the stuff that's out there. Um, I mean I've seen products on the market that are labeled catnip that have so little cat nip. You know, Yeah, my cat didn't like it. It's like, yeah, because it's not cat neip, right right. And you know there's so many like you're going through so many herbs, and there's you know, our lick and simple things like lemon, lemon juice water, I mean, anti natural products that we can turn to that instead of these strong drugs that really assist the body in overcoming these quote unquote pathogens. Yeah. Well, you know the other thing that I think we should touch on here, you know, while we're doing while we're in here, is when your pet does come down with one of these respiratory issues and you know you you ended up at the emergency rumor the allopathic fat netswort of thing, and you've got the drugs in the body. It's vital to start take that step back first

39:42 off and look at you know, the nutritional plan that you're on. Is your animal getting the highest level of nutrition that they can to build up that immune system. And then secondly, once a drug goes in, we have to do something. You and I have to do something to try to remove all those toxins, don't we Yeah, yeah, we absolutely do. And again in homeopathy, you know the number one detox remedy that we have that we use often in those type of cases is nux vomica. Yeah, always comes in. Everybody thinks that's just for vomiting because of the name. It's probably the most prescribed homeopathic remedy bill for so many different conditions, but one of its primary uses is the over medicated, over drugged animal that's hypersensitive.

40:32 And it's amazing the results you can see with nux vomica across all of these different clinical conditions, which shows how much role the drugs and the medications play in the symptoms of these animals. I'll never forget I had a case many years ago that slightly off the topic for a second case many years ago, where the animal came to me. The client came to me with a record that was as thick as almost the whole book. It was a two year old little poodle that had gone to pen and was being treated for all sorts of different systemic issues with every medication known to man. And the client was new to homeopathy. And I look at the record, I'm like, oh my god, look at all these drugs and medicines and and toxic effects.

41:14 And all I did was give them remedy nux vomica and all the symptoms went away. Just amazing, showing how much symptoms are due to the drugs. Yeah, yeah, it's exactly right. You know. It's it's our job as pet parents too, you know, do the best job we can, and that means digging in deep and learning about diet, learning about behavior, you know, getting as much history you can. And I know, with all the push for you know, rescue and stuff like that, it's it's tough for us to get any kind of real histories, except you know, the real recent stuff, especially on a rescue, isn't it. Yeah, Yeah, the rescue those animals are getting a lot of those animals are coming from you know, you know, homes that you don't really have the histories, or they're coming from rescue operations, from animals rescued from storms, and so you know, it's very little history to go on. Yeah, I mean, you know, we did a show several weeks ago on the challenges of rescue and that's the thing. And you know, I encourage everybody, you know, as we always do in the show, is to like it, to share it, and to subscribe and go back and look at some of the archives shows that we've had. I mean, we've had some we've had some amazing guests. We've gotten some really really deep discussions with you know, different approaches and things like that. So, I mean, you and

42:45 I are always looking for, you know, the alternative things, not looking for Okay, what new drug did the drug salesmen bring into me today? Right? Right? And that's uh. And that's an never expanding arsenal of medications and drugs. You know, it's that are coming out by the by the month, by the you know, it's just to keep up with them. It's so difficult. Yeah, you know, it's funny because even when we started the h my paleopad. Of course, before that us to pet delhi U, doctor Diane, my old partner, and I used to joke around because whatever disease was featured in the veterinary journals that month, and it's it's amazing too that they all seem to have the same the same approach for something brand new that's all of a sudden, you know, almost a pandemic, isn't it. So we were joking around it it's the Disease of the Month club. Yeah, yeah, I'll tell you one disease I wanted to mention earlier that you know I see as a homeopath, Well, we see in a lot of these animals is the quote unquote reverse sneeze syndrome, and where the animals have like their throat is just like constricted and there's a and there's a backwards weeze that or clients are often very disturbed by. Often it'll typically go away in a short period of time. But the number one cause of that from a homeopathic perspective is the rabies vaccine. So another you know,

44:21 again stress are on the body because actually animals in the wild that are affected by rabies vaccine actually have throat spasms. And when we inject the organism, the viral organism rabies into our patients, we see chronic effects of that vaccine. We see symptoms in the animal that are exactly like that occur in the in the rabid animal. And so these throat spasms that are occur in so many, especially the toy breeds, are often a chronic effect of rabies vaccine and can be treated with homeopathic remedies. And it's a very frustrating symptom clients often deal with. I wanted to mention that earlier. Yeah, well it is an interesting uh you know, in one of our chats here, um, at what age do cats start to like the cat map? I think they're born that way, do you, Contector dam I agree. I mean I rarely see a cat who won't take to it, that's for sure.

45:20 Yeah. And if if there's gonna be any time limit, it's probably gonna be somewheys around you know, two or three weeks when they actually start eating real food, even if it's the real food that mom regurgitated, right right, good point, Yeah, you know, so, uh, you know, because they're digestive track is is you know, you know pretty much fully you know, starting to develop. You got the good bacteria and that sort of thing we also have to and and actually that you know, being that it's kind of you know, it has those anti parasitic properties. Um, that would be a natural wormer, wouldn't it. Yeah, yeah, sure, it's it's a great I'm glad you're bringing it up because it's so versatile from what we're discussing and its uses. Yeah, now we were down to about the last minute here, So doctor damn, how can you How can we reach you? Well, they can go to my website, which is doctor M dot com. That's spelled out d octo r dym dot com and that has more information on my on my practice, my email contact.

46:23 And I just recently posted a wonderful show I did four years ago with Dell Bigtree. I don't know if right knows who he is on you know, a great show on homeopathic treatment of an animal and holistic perspectives on health and chronic disease. So it's a great video. I encourage the audience to watch. Yeah, and of course you know, we again we want you to you know, come and visit our you know, the show. Uh, refer your friends to some of our past shows. Um, I had a call last night from Arizona, somebody that had taken the you know, the medical procedure for also she could visit her family and ended up she bought a bunch of herbs from us who wanted to know how to take them, and unfortunately her family believed in that way and she's lost several family members because of it. So you know you can reach me. Of course, you have my paleo pat or through the Pet Health Guru. And you know it looks like another hour fill doctor dim. Yeah, it's amazing how the hour ago is. We certainly don't have a shortage of aspects of topics that we talk about each week. No, so again, everybody, thank you for listening, thank you for watching, Like, share and subscribe, and we'll be back in another week. Good night. How healthy is your pet? Does

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