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Any health related information on the following show provides general
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information only. Content presented on any show by any host
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or guests should not be substituted for a doctor's advice.
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Always consult your physician before beginning any new diet, exercise,
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or treatment program. And then now it's time for Pet
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Health Cafe, where your Pet has a Voice.
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And here's your host, Bill the Pet Health Guru, and
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welcome to Pet Health Cafe to show where your pets
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a voice. This is Bill, your Pet Health Guru, along
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with my special guest host doctor and Michael dem How
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are we doing, Doc.
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We're doing really well. Bill. How about yourself?
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Good?
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Good?
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Busy week again? They actually are all busy weeks. I
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mean that, I don't know whether it's that we're having
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an impact and and people are starting to finally wake
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up about you know, real health and uh nutrition and
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you know, doing things more holistically and homeopathically, or you know,
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they're just all going crazy. But we're seeing an influx
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of people that that want good stuff and want health
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instead of medicine. And you know, the cry out there
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is like what can we do ourselves? What can we
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do this natural? What can we do that's not medicine,
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and I'm sure you're starting to run into that with
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more and more pet owners as well.
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Absolutely, yes, yeah, it's it.
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It's uh, you know, it's it's an amazing type thing
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that that this is going on. I know, we've got
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a really exciting topic again tonight. You know, not that
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we've ever mentioned spader neuter or sureization or anything like
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that in the past, but I wanted to take a
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little bit different look at it tonight than what we
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have because there's been a bunch of new stuff coming out.
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I don't even know if you're from if you've seen
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some of the things coming out or not. But in
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one one of the so called celebrity vets published something
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and this was basically the headline, don't know if we
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can read that or not. Well, let's see, don't strutalize
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your dog without knowing this, and it starts to talk
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about not doing conventional spe and newter. Now I didn't
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know there was such a thing, did you, except yeah, yeah,
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except that we've been pushing it for how long? Absolutely
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a long time. It's been a long long time. And
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you know, I mean I've had people come in, I've
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had other people in the veterinarian trade comment like we're
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not taught how to do anything, but which is really
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a shame. I mean, you know, you know, you know,
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I can't get into why the Whyser house because I mean,
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we know, you know, the state boards and you know,
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the powers that be are looking at the bottom line primarily.
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And you know this is you know conventional spain neuters
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or money makers, aren't they?
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Yeah, read and butter practices along with you know, yearly
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vaccines and you know the fleet ticking hartware medications, the
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prescription diets. All those things are the cornerstone of preventive
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traditional medicine, of course, and space and neuters are being recommended,
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you know, for forever as long as I was, I've
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been a bit of Mariana even before.
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Yeah. Now, one of the interesting things, and we'll get
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into the story. I got a lot of information that
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through out there. But one of the questions that happened
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to pop in my mind when I was preparing for
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this is, you know, one of the challenges you and
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I both face is with the new dog owner or
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the animal that's just been adopted, that sort of saying
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the new and with a perspective pet guardians have no
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saying over this. It's done automatically into rescues, isn't it.
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you know, often at six eight weeks of age, they're
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being spade or neutered, and of course given all those
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other chemicals, drugs, shots, and you know, tremendous stress on
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the developing immune system.
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You know, right at a time when you know you
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want to be as aware.
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Of holistic health as possible, and you know a lot
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of times these interventions, including the removal of the sex hormones,
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can lead to all sorts of chronic issues down the road.
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them on a species of appropriate diet.
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I mean the groundwork has been set up by that
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healthcare model, which you know, I always tell people is
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a is a wonderful You know, their their hearts are
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in the right place. And these rescue shelter organizations, you know,
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they want to get animals adopted out. You know, there's
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a lot of you know, homeless animals that are out
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there and you know, so their hearts are in the
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right place, but it's more of a herd health mentality
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and in other words, it's not really looking at the
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health of the individual animal. And so when you look
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at these early space and neuters, you know, it's really
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causing a lot of problems you know, down the road.
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Well, I mean, I know that you've you've done some
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work with with various rescues, and that's RESINI in the past.
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And one of the questions IP up to them in
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mind is when it comes to the income that you
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know a rescue has to have, and you know it's
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not really by law, but it's just highly suggested, if
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you will, that they have a veteran, regular veterinarian it's
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on staff for on call, or that they have a
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great relationship with. And so isn't that the spay and
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neuter part of that where then those rescue veterinarians make
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probably the bulk of their.
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Money, absolutely sure. You know, the spay neuter is the
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cornerstone a surgical procedure that certainly, uh again, the bread
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and butter of those type of operations, you know. So yeah, yeah,
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I agree, And you.
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Know, I mean my view and I've gotten kind of
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beat up because I did this a few years back.
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I actually did interviews with about half a dozen or
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more rescues in an event I was at, and I said,
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isn't the job really of a rescue to take an
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animal from a bad place and just make sure that
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it's healthy, that it's doing well, and move it to
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a good place, and not be involved in all this secondary, secondary,
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so called health issues, which in many cases there is
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no health issue to start with. You know, an animal's
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got fleas. I mean, you do a flea bath, you
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do you can do a dip, you can do a
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number of different things when fleas are gone. You shouldn't
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be in the business of medicating, should you.
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No?
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I agree, I mean I think one of the biggest
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impetuses is, of course to get all these things done
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from a conventional model of medicine, because so makes them
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more attractive to be adopted or rescued out is okay,
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they've had their spay and neuter, they've been given all
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the shots, they've been started on. You know, these combination
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flee ticking, hardware and medications which are either oral or topical.
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Big carrot for people to see, Oh I don't have
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to do any of these things. I don't have to
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incur after I adopt, I don't have to incur all
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these expenses because it's been taken care of her ready,
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The interesting thing is, though, and I did a thing
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on economics that don't previous show uneconomics of why does
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our animals cost so much? Essentially, those those things that
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the rest you did for the welfare of the animal itself,
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they didn't have to do any of it, did they?
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You know, And wouldn't it make you know, I know
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a lot of that A lot of the animals, a lot,
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especially a lot of dogs, not so much with kittens
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and cats, but primarily with dogs. A large portion of
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the dogs that are ending up in these shelters and
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in these rescues are there because the owners cannot afford
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the medical care because they haven't budgeted for starting out
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with a diet obviously, or the actual care itself. And
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all of a sudden you get slapped with a thousand,
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two thousand dollars that bill, and you know, I can't
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afford it. I can't afford to keep this going on,
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and they want me on this all these you know,
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all these drugs and remedies and preventatives and protocols, you know,
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for the rest of their life. I just can't afford
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a thousand, two thousand and three thousand dollars a year
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extra above and beyond the cost of food, right, and
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you know, they end up giving them up. And you know,
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these unfortunately, these animals, you know, deserve a better chance,
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if you will, exactly. But again to focus in on
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the spay and neuter part of it, as you mentioned
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in the beginning, that this has been a major cornerstone
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and of course the rescue business and in the veterinary
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practices since before you even started. And yet I guess
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as a question, has this really made that much bigger
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of an impact on a number of animals that are
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in the shell through because I'm seeing numbers that they're
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increasing every month every year. You know, they never seem
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to decrease, and yet we're trying to control the population
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to it. Did something seemed wrong there?
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Yeah? I agree, It just seems like a never ending battle.
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seem to be increasing, you know, and you know, there's
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all these efforts made to rescue animals in you know,
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poor countries or regions devastated by.
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Storms or hurricanes, and you know.
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of more and more, you know, rescue animals that need homes.
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their their goals.
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And their purpose is you know, is very noble.
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Although I will be honest with you and you probably
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can comment on it too, you know, getting involved with
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some of these rescues over the years, there's a lot
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of politics and reed and ego that goes into them,
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and uh it's not always uh you know, so while
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they're on the surface their mission is very noble, sometimes
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there's you know, like you know, a lot of aspects
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of our lives, you know, ego and control issues come
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in and you know, so I've definitely seen that in
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the in the rescue world as well.
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start to rescue and that sort of thing. Basically they're
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creating a job for themselves and instead of paid employees,
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they're you know, they're using volunteers. And how much of
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you know again, when I look at it, if the
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bulk of the money is going to the veterinarian for
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these bay and neuters and all these drugs and and
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you know that ejection type thing, what's the benefit of
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the animal?
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Yeah, yeah, exactly Like I said, it's just a it's
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it's done for there really is. And you know a
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lot of health benefit. We're putting animals through all these
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stresses at the same time. But you know, I'm sure
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we'll get into you know, the health related aspects of
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spaying and neutering.
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But you know, they again it's it's they want to
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control a pet population.
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You know, they want to That's the old adage of
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the you know, the ASPCA, you know, the the late
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Bob Barker used to say, at the end of the
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price is right, don't forget to get your pet spade
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or neutered, kind of like a battle cry of people
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in that, you know, in that realm of of work
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or attention.
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It's it's not really what's right for that individual animal.
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just to.
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Throw it in there with the vaccines, you know, the
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animals come in there and instead of doing let's say,
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which are now available, like rapid tighter tests, which can
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show that these animals have immunity if either natural exposure
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or prior vaccinations, that they'll they just go ahead and
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give them shots instead of checking their tighter levels. And
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so you know, that's something else that's very disturbing in
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shelter rescue medicine right now.
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of course, you know, I want to talk a little
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bit as we move along into some of the unconventional
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ways that you can control overpopulation and the serialization and
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that sort of thing. But what does article claiming this?
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This came out of a twenty twenty three study, so
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this is up to date stuff, not the old Center
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for Veterinarian Medicine comments that I used to give all
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the time that you know, it cuts their lifespan in half.
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It's but it's a first of a kind study involving
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over six thousand dog owners that reveal that spade and
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neutered dogs develop more health and behavioral problem than intec
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dogs and dogs that are underwent alternative serialization processes. You know,
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you and I have discussed that at great lengths and
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now here it is there is you know, at least