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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 guest 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. Then now it's time for Pet Health Cafe,
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where your Pet has a Voice. And here's your host,
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Bill the Pet Health Guru.
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And welcome to Pet Health Cafe to show where your
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Pet's voice. This is Bill Pet Health Guru, and they've
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got another exciting show for you tonight. First off, I
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want you to pitch your share button share with all
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you this every week. We need to get these algorithms
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out because these are life saving events that we are
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trying to create. And of course like it and subscribe
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And as I said, we've programmed, we've actually planned another
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really great show with a special guest, a regular on
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this show.
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I want to welcome doctor Michael dimm.
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Our favorite holistic homeopathic veterinarian, one of the few that
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we can actually recommend, you know, with the with the
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type of things that we do.
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How are you doing, Doc, I'm doing very well, Bill,
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Thank you.
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Yes, I mean we need you know, it's really a
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shame that there aren't more in your industry that we
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can at least, you know, work with and uh, you know,
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help people get in the right path. I had some
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new I had several new clients in today, and it's
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like it just sounded nothing about what they told the
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client made any sense as far as diagnosis a treatment plan.
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One of them the treatment plan was, of course euthanasia,
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which I find amazing, you know. And of course when
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she was doing her research and saw you know, raw
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dias and mentioned it to this vet, oh my god,
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it was like the sky opened up.
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It's just I don't understand how they cannot get it well.
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The BACKLA getting stronger and stronger against raw diets, the
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you know, the conventional of that community, the commercial pet
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food industry, they're all getting more and more leary of
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raw diets and they're upping their campaign against it as
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you know. So it's just I mean, younger vets too,
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white out of schools.
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Yeah, I mean, hoping argument was, oh my god, the
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salmonell and E coli. It's like, yeah, your dog licks
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their butt and kisses you and you're okay with that, right.
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Right, exactly. And it's amazing that all these decades built
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that you've been recommending raw diets, going back into the eighties.
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It's just amazing that they that's still the conventional community
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just is just as a blind eye to it and
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just you know, as like I said, up the negative
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campaign against it.
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Yeah, I mean, and seeing you know programs out there
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now on the podcasts about only a board certified nutritional
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veterinary can put together anything.
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Right, you know, it's it's ridiculous.
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And that's a new discipline that wasn't around ten years ago.
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No, I get you. I mean I went to a
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Continuing Education meeting last year and I sat in on
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one of it. I think I shared it with you.
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I sat in on one of the nutritional lectures by
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a nutritionist and she was putting down raw dives because
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they weren't properly computer generated in many cases, you know,
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so they're looking at it from the computer angle, which
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I'm sure you could comment, sure, well, yeah.
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I mean they want complete in balance, but there's no
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such thing. The body's dynamics, it's always changing, so how
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can you put together. That's why the rotational diet and
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the rotational care, whether it's herbs, botanicals, homeopathy, whatever, you
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have to keep adjusting to what's going on in a
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body of any given day, week, month, moment.
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Right. Absolutely, And then you have these I'm sure the
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clients that came in with the animal with being euthanized.
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I mean, you know a lot of these quote unquote
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integrative or quote unquote holistic vets really or not. They're
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usually using drugs and antibiotics and offering commercial pet foods
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sold in their waiting rooms and still injecting, you know,
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repetitively year after year or every few years. And you know,
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it's really hard. I mean, some of my colleagues that
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own freestanding buildings, which I don't. I practice out of
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my home and I do telemedicine, you know, they I
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guess they're watching their butt because they are monitored by
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the licensing boards and that kind of thing, and they're
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still pushing mandatory injections every three years. So you know,
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it's a shame. You know, just so much ill health
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from all that.
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Yeah, it's interesting. I had a client called me last night.
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They're pet had passed away and they're getting another puppy.
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are these stupid I shouldn't say it that way, these
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designer dogs multi poos and palma poos and whatever they
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happen to be.
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I had a trainer on a wild Back a couple
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of shows ago, and we were talking about trainability of service,
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moods and things like that. When you get in the
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mixed breed dogs, you have no reliability as to what
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the temperament of that or the personality that dog is
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gonna be. Is it mom or dad or is it
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two generations back? We have no idea, right, and so
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you've got that unpredictability not only in that temperament and
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that personality, but also in that health whole you know,
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holistic thing, because we got to look at the whole body,
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you know, if we you know, and we've talked about
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this many time in the show. You know, when you
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start smushing in the face because you want a short breathe,
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you know, a short nosed dog, You're gonna have breathing
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problems no matter how you look at it, you know,
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and it's like nobody weighs these things into the equation
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for looking.
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At the health.
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is too It's like, oh, it's like a little cutie.
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I just want this.
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Little couch dog, you know.
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So okay, that's nice, But you know, you have to
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look at what it's bread with, what the personality of
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both sides are.
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You know, you take a I want to I want
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to guard a dog.
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Okay, so I'm gonna buy a Melonois cross that needs
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to be exercised fourteen hours a day and I live
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in a one bedroom apartment and I work twenty four
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to seven.
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Yeah, you know, yeah, all too often that's part of
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the problem.
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By the way, I did see I did see one
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of your clients today in my in my home, A
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nice couple with a bijon and a labradoodle. Spoke very highly,
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very healthy dog just for a checkup, you know, no
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no pushing of anything, no no meds, would needing, no drugs,
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just some herbal blends that you had them on and
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you know, doing great, no problems.
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You know, And people can't believe how fast that turns
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them around. I mean that's the whole thing. So anyway, tonight,
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we want to talk a little bit because it's the
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middle of summer about parasites and you know even you know,
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not only the ecdo parasites that flees and ticks, but
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also you know, the horrible heartworm pandemic that we're experiencing.
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Yet I haven't seen any numbers that are exceptional, have you.
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No? No, I mean when I was in the clinics,
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I mean the heartworm positive dogs I saw were ones
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that were either from high stress situations shelters, rescues, or
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animals that were eating processed dry kibble or on pleesticides
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and flea and thick and and injections yearly or more
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every few years. Those are the animals I see, the
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heart ones, and not the animals that are raised what
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we're fleacing here. So I don't see in fact, when
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people ask me about your heart were on parasite plan, well,
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is that the same as Heartguard or the other preventives are.
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So it's not going to kill you down?
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Is it really safe for my dog? Is he going
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to be protected? I mean, I just.
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Yeah, I know, you know, yeah.
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I mean that formula has been on the market now
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for probably eighteen and it's in the compounded way now,
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probably for fifteen years prior to that, we were just
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using the individual components in it and getting the same result.
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Well, what about the pounding it together?
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Was the fact that you can't always get things like
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that wallet hull or cost the book because they're crops
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and you know, there's only a certain amount that's processed
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every year, and when's gone, it's gone, right, you know,
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you getta wait for another year another nervist to do.
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Well. The other thing about heartworm bill is it's it's
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very difficult to transmit. You know, there's a lot of
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things that have to be perfectly right lined up, certain
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biology and certain stages of the parasite and certain you
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know ways that has to travel in the dog, and
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the different stages which I won't go into, but you know,
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the various larval stages, and it's very difficult to transmit heartworm,
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very very different.
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Well, the other thing is there's only one species of
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mosquitos that carries it, and you would actually have to
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be bit multiple times by multiple mosquitoes because you still
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have to have male and female heartworms, wouldn't you have,
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and that have to migrate through the bloodstream the whole
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body defense system to get to the heart and that
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it's not like, oh my god, they arrived and we're
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just going to tear apart the heart so that you die.
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I mean, let's face it, parasites need living environments to survive.
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They try not to break down the body, I mean
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more than they have to. They're survivalists too, exactly.
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But heartworm is not a risk to most animals that are,
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especially ones being reared in the way that you're you know,
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obviously educating people.
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Yeah, we have, yeah, I mean most of them are
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the ones that we use to treat in the clinic
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and I treat in a store.
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These dogs that are actually heartwarm positive are usually coming
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from you know, either very rural areas and or you know,
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places like the Islands where dogs are typically chained out
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in a doghouse, you know, twenty four to seven or
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at least most of the day. And of course the
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mosquitos congregate in these doghouses because it's cool.
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They won't they actually like it in the shade.
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And you know, if it's it's only when the dogs
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go into these environments that it's loaded with squiva. Tell
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people all the time, open up your garden shed if
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you haven't, or your storage shit, okay, if there's any moisture.
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In there, that place is loaded with mosquito. There's none
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of out around your pool, but they're all in your
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in your shed, right, you know.
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Well, it's like any any infectious disease, Bill, It's it's
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the terrain theory of disease. I mean animals that are
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raised in the environment you described poor nutrition, ie, stress, crowding,
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poor hygiene. That's where you see the parasites and the
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infectious in those high stress environments because it increases the
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susceptibility of the animal. It's just not seen in your
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typical South Florida raised you know animal that's again on Yeah.
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It's you know, and delivering in a condo on Miami Beach,
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I mean, come on, or you know in West pom Uh.
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the other side of that too, these these environments typically
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are very high maintenance, and these animals are being exposed
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to chemical concentrations well above what even the normal suburban
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house would have because there they have to keep the
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lawns perfect, they have to keep the insect population down
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for the for the people that live there, and you know, they're.
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Just spraying, spraying, spraying, dusting all the time.
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And you know, these animals now have a very very
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low immune system. Fleas and ticks, heartworms do not like
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strong immune dogs.
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They have to be immune.
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Suppressed exactly or just Yeah, that's why I tell people
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all the time. You'll have a single animal household, a
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single household with multiple animals, and you'll see one or
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two animals be fleaar tick magnets, and the other animals
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don't get any And so it's always a susceptibility to
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a weaker animal or a weaker life force that is
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more energetically or economically.
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You know, it's interesting and you know, I mean we've
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been doing this for so long, but in the last
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I would say, the last six months year, the energy
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part of it, which of course that's what homeopathy really
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works on and what really herbals and food works on.
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we have to bring it in. We actually had a
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dog in on Saturday and obviously, in my opinion, was poisoned.
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And it wasn't an acute poisoning. It was you know,
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chronic poisoning and a dog couldn't even stand up. And