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"Sometimes it can even be just some really bad allergies that cause the pet that degree of discomfort with the ear. So I'd say let's sign up for a good ear exam and see what we need to get going inside that ear canal. Okay. Thanks, Dora. We appreciate your call today. Thank you so much. And let's take a call for Joey vellani. We have BJ on the phone, hey, BJ. BJ. Well, I love you on dogs one O one. I love it. I just love you because it's so cool. Thank you. I have a Boston terrorist. And get dirty ears. Between his bathing and so I went and bought some ear wash. I want to deep clean his ears, but how do I do that? Because my groomer says that these ears are dirty. Well, there's a couple of ways you could do it. Let me ask you, what kind of ear cleanse do you have? Do you know the name by any chance? Royal treatment? Royal treatment. Okay, okay. It's one that I haven't heard of. If I see it and read the ingredients, possibly. Because you want to be careful, a lot of these are clean as you should just use on a cotton swab and wipe out the ear. But if you go to your veterinarian, you can get something called ode cleanse, which works real good. Now let's just say that you can't get to the veterinarian and you just want to do something in between what you could do is get yourself a container of witches. They usually come in like 16 ounces, I believe, the one that you get in a regular drug store. Some tea tree oil, and you're going to add, and when I say tea tree oil, it's essential oil. You don't want to get a blend of anything. Tea tree oil. It would kill any fungus or bacteria. And you're going to put 20 drops of that teach tree oil right into that witch hazel. What you'll do is you'll take a dropper and just put two to three drops in each ear. Massage the base of the ear. Okay, let them shake his head, wipe it out with a cotton swab, and now they're going to work wonderfully, actually. It's something that I use in a grooming salon all the time. And that shit I'm taking care of. That should take care of your problems and keep the earth clean. Do they have an odor? No, no. Because I'm always kissing you on the nose and snuggling. I've never smelled. And I know there's hear my. Well, it does not necessarily ear mites, but it could be a start of infection, so that's good that you don't smell anything, but you know what this will keep as you squeaky clean. So there you go. That's the luck with your dog. I Boston terriers are one of my favorites. Birthday's so cute. Okay, it's time for us to get on out of here. Thank you so much for joining and calling in. Remember if you need your fix during the week, head on over to animal radio dot com or download the animal radio app for iPhone and Android and we'll catch you next week right here for more animal radio. Have a good one. Bye bye. Bye. Bye and wolf from my pack. Keywords.
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"Yeah, we got new digs. The red barn studios, and I like it. I like the new deco of it. What I like about it is it's the lights are dimmer in here. It's very, very nice. And along with it, we have two brand new affiliates to the animal radio network. We welcome W GPD and winter garden, Florida, which sounds really nice, as well as K ABC in Los Angeles. If this is your first time listening to animal radio, to my left is Judy, Judy Francis, and she is screening your calls. Hi there. Get back to screen. Okay, okay. I'm answering the phone. Straight and center, we have doctor Debbie. She's our veterinarian answering your vet medical questions. You got it. And in the newsroom, in her own little cubby space. She doesn't like sharing our germs. It's a miss Laurie Brooks, our news director. I am a germaphobe, but you often hear snoring and that's diesel. A bulldog. And scurrying into the studio is dog father Joey vellani. Everybody's favorite groomer. Late night last night. No, it was woke up late today and raced here to the studio. So you know how traffic is? We love to hear from you. Especially if you're over the top with your animals, we all are here. You're looking at our wallets on our phones, all the pictures. We won't find a picture of our spouses or partners. You'll just find pictures of our dogs and cats and iguanas in flamingos, just like you, ask your questions from the free animal radio app for iPhone and Android. It's a free download. So go get that puppy right now. Hey, Scott. Hey, how's it going? Good, how you doing today? Not too bad in yourself. Very good. What's up in your world? Not too bad. We have two miniature dash sounds. One 9 pounds and one 15. And one of them, the bigger one, we got from a shelter. And she is really bad teeth. Like they didn't take care of it at all when we, before we got her. And we're wondering if there's anything that can be done, we still brush your teeth and stuff, but I didn't know if there was anything that like get the teeth backs normal. Looks like they're got really bad teeth right now. Okay, yeah. Dachshunds, I'll say right off of the bat, docs and sometimes can really have exaggerated periodontal problems compared to some other breeds, especially little dogs. So if you have a little dog, we really want to jump on dental care very early on. And in your situation there, Scott, you know, if you've adopted and she's kind of not had dental care up till now, we're going to have to start from scratch. And I think the first thing that we need to do is really see about getting a professional dental cleaning. And that's very important because to try to brush teeth on a dog that has advanced dental disease, it's a painful process. So you want to start fresh with healthy teeth. So see your veterinarian get a cleaning polishing scheduled. And see if there's any problem teeth in there that need to come out of there. In many cases, we need to deal with those problems. If we can actually get on a good preventative care regimen at home. But you're definitely right to be worried because, you know, we know that dental disease is a big problem, and we know it causes a lot of other health manifestations in the body. And in fact, by the age of three years, 85% of all dogs and cats will have some degree of periodontal disease. So it's really a very startling thing. And if you're not making efforts now, it is time. So once you get your dog's teeth cleaned, there are some important things that you can do at home. But again, this is secondary after you get those teeth taken care of at the vet office. And brushing teeth by far is the best thing if you do it three times a week, you're going to have some benefit. Once every 6 weeks when you go to the groomers, isn't going to do it. So you want to make sure you use a joggy toothpaste and really start slowly to get your pet used to that brushing sensation. But even if that's not something that your dog will take to, there's some other products out there, oral rinses that you can apply to the gum line. There is additives you add to the water that can actually help prevent plaque accumulation on the teeth. And then of course when most people know about the treats and the different dental diets out there and actually some of them are actually proven to have a benefit. And there is an organization called the veterinary oral health council and there's actually a seal of approval that they give to the very common gentle treats and die. So some of those things may be another avenue that we can use. And again, once that mouth is clean and we've got a good healthy starting point to get things started. Well, thanks a lot for your help. You're listening to animal radio, call the Dream Team now with the free animal radio app for iPhone and Android. Alan cable, here's your real dogs doing amazing things watch. You wouldn't think he's ten years old just by the way he acts. Tucker gets into a lot of trouble. Known in the family to be the food burglar. And because of that, an amazing secret that was hiding in Tucker's belly is about to be revealed to the world. After I turn around, the popsicle is gone. Tucker 8, it's sticking all. You know, smacking his jaws. But you know what dogs often, what goes in comes right back out. Sticking on everything came out. Two days later, something else came out. And I look in the paper towel and here is my wedding ring. I kid you not. My wedding ring. Her ring went missing 5 years ago. I was devastated. The bed thanks to popsicle stick may have dislodged the ring. Friends have said, I want a dog that throws up diamonds like who doesn't, right? So I have my wedding ring back and Tucker is my hero. Hero, that dog's a jewel thief. And I don't even care. This is. Animal radio, baby. Got an old car, you can donate it and save a life. The united breast cancer foundation needs your help. They want to keep saving lives by offering women free or low cost breast screening exams and donating your old car or truck running or not helps pay for them. Plus, you get a charitable tax deduction. Call now for a free pickup. 802 four 5 O 8 two three 802 four 5 O 8 two three. That's 800. Two, four, 5, zero, 8, 23. This is an animal radio news update. I'm Lori Brooks. Police in Boston are said to be elated over a proposed legislation there. That would allow emergency medical text to treat police dogs who were injured in the line of duty as the chief there says we owe it to an animal we are pulling into service to do the best we can for them. Right now, Massachusetts law penalizes EMTs if they assist in animal in an emergency, this proposal prioritizes humans were acquiring medical attention before law enforcement dogs receive care. But the EMTs would no longer be penalized for helping an official canine. They can't just help any dog. It also allows licensed veterinarians to provide written guidelines or consultations with those EMTs who are providing emergency care to police dogs. The proposal comes after a police dog named Nero, was hospitalized for a week. This was back in April after he was shot in the face and Nero's human partner was killed. While trying to serve a warrant, but now Nero has since recovered and he continues to live with his slain officer's family. Meanwhile, while we're talking about police dogs, amid all of the legal haze that has arisen since voters around the country have approved recreational marijuana. 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"joey vellani" Discussed on Animal Radio
"Them home with me again, ever since Thanksgiving, he does not want to be covered. And when I cover him, he goes down to the bottom of his cage and he does like what I call crying and he cares his paper apart. It's all shred, and in the morning when I uncover him, he's up on his perch, but he jumps down to the bottom of the cage, climbs down there, and starts the crying thing all over again. Okay. And you see the only bird in the house or do you have others? No, he's the only bird and right now it's just him and I. Okay. So for non bird owners and the practice of covering a bird at night is a couple reasons. The number one reason we cover birds at night is to quiet them down. We want them to have about 12 hours of sleep time per night. So that helps eliminate noise. Keeps the light down so that they can settle in and sleep at night. It isn't required for a bird to sleep. What we have to make sure is that those other factors are eliminated so that there's not excess light, there's not excess noise so that they can sleep comfortably. So we can completely adapt to him if we wanted to. And ensure that he's not covered at night. And if he's comfortable with that and he sleeps soundly, then I would just let things be. I turn my heater off at night and the house gets colder, and he seems to catch colds when he doesn't get covered. He shouldn't, it doesn't get that cold. It gets down to maybe 65°. Yeah, I mean, that's kind of the lower end of the comfort zone of a parrot. But that doesn't sound like that should be a problem. Does he settle in if you leave him uncovered? Yes. Okay. Well, I mean, depending on your temperature situation and your concerns, because we certainly don't want him to become stressed by the cold. So and we have to remember birds don't catch colds from cold weather. They catch it from bodily stress in that allows these colds to take hold. So what we would talk about doing maybe is you might look into getting heating elements like a ceramic heater. And you can look at some of the different bird supply websites, but they use this a lot for birds that are housed outside. People who have EV areas are breeding birds just to help keep their temperatures up in cold temperatures. So the reason you can't use that in the home. But if you use that, my cautions with any kind of heaters with birds are only to really purchase birds specific heaters because you don't want to use little space heaters. There's actually been shown information that shows that a lot of these space heaters we use for humans actually have the same component that's in Teflon that's toxic to birds so that can actually cause sudden death in birds if they're exposed to this Teflon that's overheating. But that's more for like the human little space heaters that you'd be worried about. But if you look for actually bird heaters they can either affix to the cage or the nearby area and they're ceramic. So there's no light so they can still sleep. We don't disrupt their sleep patterns, but it helps to keep kind of a warm zone in the area for them. And that might help reassure you if you can't cover them for the warming benefits, but still give them a little extra warmth support there. Okay. And the other thing he picked up another bad habit up there. Uh oh, what? Oh my goodness, those birds over there. They must have been a bunch of thugs, huh? I think so. He doesn't like cell phones now. Why the cage and you're just holding myself phone? He'll even attack me. Really? He'll leave speak marks on me. And I was like, I don't know what's going on with him. Yeah, well, obviously there were some association with the cell phone or something resembling that. So the challenge is that it seems unreasonable to us when a bird responds this way to an inanimate object. But they're prey animals. So their instincts are to be fearful of anything that's suspicious that's new or that just outright frightens you at time. And certainly a cell phone can make noise that could become startling to a bird depending on what the ring tone is set at. Or what they hear or the proximity to them, say, even while he's sleeping. So who knows what happened and I don't know that, you know, you could figure that out at this point, but at this cell phones at this point, you would have to counter condition him to accepting the cell phone in his visual field. So that is done by working towards his current belief is that when he sees a cell phone, he freaks out. So he's afraid of that. And so either responds aggressively or fearfully depending on if he can fly away, get away or if it's right in his immediate area. So the goal is to try to pair that with something positive and something favorable and change his association from that of being a frightened and wanting to flee to saying, okay, this is a good thing. And the concepts. The same as we have a dog that's afraid of a carrier. And we wanted to get you to the carrier. We throw treats in there, or we lavish them with love. And the same thing for your bird is what we're going to try to do. And this would be something at a very low level. We don't want to force birds. Because they really don't respond well to any kind of force or any kind of discipline when it comes to their fear. And fearful behaviors. But finding what is his motivator. He loves affection. It could be a smile. It could be cooing at him. It could be a scratch on the head. It could be a favorite treat item. But having just that sight of the cell phone within his sight. And then working up to building a positive experiences with exposure, limited time, not leaving it out and don't try to flood him with that. But just little bits at time and rewarding him for that and then getting that item out of the way. So it's not on his mind at that point. And you can see if that kind of helps with conditioning him to accept that in the future. But yeah, he might have maybe they played like some crazy rock music at a phone or a bird. I've had birds that board with us that sometimes mimic cell phones. And it can really freak you out. And it could be something as simple as that is another bird in the area had some vocal repertoire that included cell phones and it kind of spooked him. Okay. So I hope that can help you some, but yeah, the big thing is patients, patients, patients, and just not forcing it with birds and it sounds like you've got a great relationship with him and most people know what makes their birds tick. It's just a matter of kind of forgetting how people think and thinking like a bird. Yeah. So plug in your bird brain. Okay. Well, thank you very much. Thanks for your call lid that we appreciate you listening to animal radio, reach out to the Dream Team and ask your questions of doctor Debbie or Joey vellani and directly from the free animal radio app for iPhone and Android. It gives me great pleasure to bring you Joey vellani the dog father. How are you doing? I'm doing okay. I have no complaints at all, but I'll tell you what, one of our listeners had a little bit of a complaint about trying to fix that. What she wants to know is she's upset because every time that she has a pet groomed in a professional song, she wants to know, how come they can get my dog to look so much better. Well, I got a couple of answers that better than the professionals could do it. But you know, she can't get it to look that way and she can't understand why. But I'm gonna give her some tips to get it real close. Number one is first thing you gotta recognize is you don't have the proper equipment or most people don't. You're not gonna have the high velocity dryers and the special types of tools that you would need to do it. So this is what you're gonna do. If you got a short haired dog all along here, dog. You have to do an ideal brushing before. You bathe the pet. Now what this is going to do is going to loosen everything up. Okay, so it's going to loosen up all of that dead hair that's stuck in there. Now most professional pet careers don't do it because they get a high velocity dryer, so when they dry it, it actually helps pull that out. But when you don't do that at home, if you don't have that equipment, what happens is that hair gets trapped in there. So when it dries, it's really hard now to come out or it's overwhelming because you have so much hair and so much coat that's coming out. The other thing is that you find in all the knots and tangles and by brushing and calming you're also stimulating the skin a little bit. It's almost as if you are exfoliating. And most bottles, it says two baths, two bad steps, nonsense. They even told the pet is clean, and so you actually have no more running off to your pet. And that sounds unusual, but you'd be surprised at how many people say, well, I followed the instruction I gave my pet two bands where your dog is still dirty. You can't still dirty. And use a product that's made for pecs. Now a little trick here. Buy yourself a silicone based spray made for pets. You use it sparingly. You spray that on while the dog is wet. Let your pet now air dry. A good 80% of the way. And now you're gonna take your brush into calm when they're just damned and you're gonna brush through and you're gonna spray a little more silicone spray on it. Have the short hair dog, you can use a rubber curry brush if it's a long haired dog, you're gonna use your metal slicker brush. That's the brush that you see in the shelves in the storm, you're confused, as the person who works in the store. And then when your dog is just about a 100% dry, one more brush and calm and you want to know something, you're gonna look at it and say, wow, I did a damn good job there. Almost as good as my grandma. You're listening to animal radio, call the Dream Team now with the free animal radio app for iPhone and Android. Hey, this is John salley, and you are listening to animal radio. Go vegan, how would you like to save money on nearly all your prescription drugs? We've set up a special toll free number for the Rx outreach program. They're a nonprofit company whose mission it is to make prescription drugs more affordable to the masses. They don't take insurance. And in many cases, your prescriptions are even cheaper than your co pays. 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"806 8 9 O one four three 806 8 9 O one four three 806 8 9 O one four three. That's 806 8 9 zero one 43. Celebrating the connection with our pets. This is animal radio, featuring veterinarian doctor Debbie white, groomer Joey vellani, news director Laurie Brooks, and now here are your hosts. How Abrams and Judy Francis I've already broke my new year's resolutions. Already how I even dare. Every year. See, I never break mine. Well, no, I do make one. Do you? Yes. What is it? Not to make one. Ah, that's smart. That's why she's in charge. Yeah. There's somebody here with the brain. On the show did a Brian barzak. He is the snake man. He has about 30,000 snakes under his roof. That would be scary for me, but I can't imagine being nightmare. Yes. Let me guess. He's single. Lots of ladies like snacks. Really? Yeah, really. I'll have to introduce you to a few of them. They have the cobras tattooed on their back. I'm telling you, it's a big, if you're one of these ladies, I want to hear from you right now. You like snakes, you like guys with snakes. Yeah, I don't think there's much of a calling for that website. The guys with snakes dating website. Before we go back to the phone, Stacy, what are you working on? The world has lost a fat cat. A real fat one. Unfortunately, I'll tell you, it was a celebrity. He actually had a treadmill. I'll give you all the details coming up on animal radio news. I don't know, so many cats come into mind when I think about that. I don't know. It wasn't that cat. We just spoke to recently, was it? We spoke to a cat? The big fat cat? I don't know. Hey, Kevin. Hi. How you doing? How are you doing great? I'm doing great. What's going on in your world? I have a rescue lean burger. You don't know what they are. They're a 170 year old breed. Wow. That was the first song that they know that was designed for looks. He's supposed to look like a lion, but they're pigs. He's full of growing 150 pound dog. And when he wants to make noise in the car, and he is to write really good in the van when we first brought him. And now it seems like he doesn't like being in zam unless we're playing Rubber Soul or whatever from The Beatles. And he'll start singing our howling and whining and crying and trying to get up front to us. And we're wondering how we could calm that down. Well, when did the dogs start not liking being in the van? What would you say? Can you remember that day? And we brought him home with the two female lean burgers from Cheyenne Wyoming and then sometimes after that a couple of weeks after that, he started wanting to move up to us. Well, so the dog is in the van and every time you go somewhere, the dog just wants to come up front with you. Yeah, basically. And then okay, and I have some questions. The dog wants to come up with you and then what do you do? Well, we used to holler at him to go back, but then we realized that's not working. And so we've started playing reversal from The Beatles. And so he stays in the back when the song is on, but he house. He'll calm down for a little while. You'll calm down a little while then 'cause he's distracted. So you're distracting him with the music is what you're doing. So what basically what you have to do is, I don't know when it happened, but the dog has got some sort of bad association with being in the back of the van wants to be close to you wants to be close to the pack. So you have to let the dog know that it's okay to be back there and make it a pleasurable experience. And the way to do that is over time. Everything takes time in the dog world. Nothing happens overnight. And the best motivation for a dog, of course, is pleasure. And pleasure means treats and affection. So what I would start doing is I would start taking the dog in the van when it's not going anywhere. You're just sitting in the driveway and you're going to take the dog in the van and you're going to give the dog affection in the van and also feed the dog treats in the van, and then after about a week or two of doing that, maybe once a day for about 15, 20 minutes, just hanging out in the back of the van. You're going to move to the front of the van and let the dog stay in the back. And every time the dog comes near you, you have to ignore the dog. And then you have to just sit there. Just sit there. And when the dog decides to on his own walk far away from you gets bored being next to you or trying to get close to you, that's when you say, good dog, down stay if you taught the dog to go down, stay and feed the dog a treat. Your next move is to start the van and let the dog run in the driveway while you sit in the front seat and you give the dog a treat for staying in the correct position in the back of the van where the dog belongs. And the dog will learn that that's a nice spot that that's a pleasurable spot that good things happen there. And then you can try taking a short ride and you're gonna go for a ride to a place where the dog's gonna have fun. That's another key. So if there's a dog park or a place your dog loves to go or maybe the dog loves to go on walks, the first trip you're gonna make after you do all this is to a place where that dog is gonna have a great time being with you or with other dogs. So the dog will associate the van and being in the back with nothing but pleasure. And that's how you change behaviors where dogs are anxious or where dogs, they just are not happy where they are, they're miserable or they're scared. You have to create a positive connection in the dog's brain, a happy connection, a good connection, a good association. Alan, I wanted to chime in for a second, 'cause as a veterinarian, I have seen dogs that become very phobic about car travel. And a lot of times when we're talking about a van, it can be that they're unsecured. So having a dog flopping around in the back of a van or an SUV where they're losing their footing, they're slipping, they're injuring themselves. It can be very frightening. Are you suggesting a crate or something like that? Either a crate or a dog seat belt or somewhere where that dog feels secure, even a crates are good. Crates are a great idea. That's a great point. And, you know, in my experience with dogs in cars, most dogs are smart enough to figure out, you know, that if they don't lay down, they're gonna get, they're gonna get tossed around and you're right. Especially in the beginning when they're small, that can create a really scary, negative association. So a crate is a great idea until your dog starts to associate the band with, hey, I'm going someplace fun, and hey, this is a great thing because good things happen here. A crate is a great idea. He's very much into being up in there because see, we live in a motor coach and so we do travel around a little bit, but what I do is I use the back end to have their channel. I have two dogs and they're very quick to get in there and I can leave the back door open and they don't leave that channel. I didn't know you were in a motor home. And it sounds like your dog has a little bit. You know, without being there, I don't know. But your dog probably has a little bit of separation anxiety being as though he's not comfortable being away from you. So if he's comfortable in the crate, that's your solution. That's a great solution. And what you do is every ten, 15 minutes you visit the dog, you know, while he's in the crate while you're riding around in that thing. And you give the dog a treat and a little bit of affection. Unless he's making noise, then you ignore him. But a motor home is a different thing than a van. I was picturing a van with seats in my head. I have a van, and I use it as a kennel when we need to have more space to be able to get things done like clean the house or whatever. I open up the van, tell them to jump in and he jumps and I have really good voice control over them that and I've been listening to you guys for the last year or so. And I picked up on a lot of things. I could walk down the street now without ever leasing him because he'll stay with me. Okay, because of you guys learning what I need to do and how I need to control him. So I thought yes, because that's the only area that he messes up
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"Every day will try to make the world a little bit better for people for animals and for the environment. How would you like to save money on nearly all your prescription drugs? We've set up a special toll free number for the Rx outreach program. They're a nonprofit company whose mission it is to make prescription drugs more affordable to the masses. They don't take insurance. And in many cases, your prescriptions are even cheaper than your co pays. They carry thousands of different prescription drugs. So whatever you're taking, there's a good chance they have it. No coupons are required, and this is not a discount card. It is pure savings on your prescription drugs. They specialize in generic meds for any chronic health needs you have. Call with your prescription and find out for free. How little you can pay for your prescription drugs. Remember, we don't take insurance, so call right now. 806 8 9 O one four three 806 8 9 O one four three 806 8 9 O one four three. That's 806 8 9 zero one 43. This is animal radio. And speaking of never scooping dirty litter again, ladies and gentlemen, the dogfather, Joey vellani, how you doing? You know, I knew you were gonna, I don't know why I just knew you would have something to say. I always have fun with it. It didn't let me down. So I got a message from a miss Laurie Craig. She says that her dog is going in for surgery, and apparently it must be like routine with this dog goes in and gets lumps removed and it comes home. She said, normally she gets the dog bathe before it goes in and apparently he's a stinky dog. He stinks usually right after he gets a bath anyway. And some dogs just do. And she actually missed a grooming appointment before the surgery, so she said, now the dog is going in dirty, and I'm just gonna come home snakey, you know, what can she do because she can't wash the dog 'cause he's gonna have stitches in. You know what? It's a real easy quick fix. I mean, as long as the dog isn't disgustingly dirty and has been out in the mud, it's actually pretty easy. It's stuff that you're gonna have in your house and I'm gonna modify it a little bit because I'm gonna make it a little bit easier. Just a quarter cup of white vinegar and a cup of distilled water distilled water always works a little bit better, especially when you're dealing with a dog that has an injury just it just works better. No minerals, nothing that's gonna build up and nothing like that. And spray the pet, but still stay away from the stitches. And work it in really good. You can either use your hands or you can use a brush and then just towel dry the air and go to air dry. Now, I always talk about a carrier solution to remove what's left behind and usually a powder. But because there are stitches and usually when the veterinarians do a surgically surgical clip on your dog to get it right down to the skin and remove the hair. They don't do it as good as a groomer and a lot of times, you know, irritation will develop. And sometimes the powder could actually irritate it as well. So don't use anything. Just work that in a brush it out. With the white vinegar is going to do. You know, it's funny because as most people know, I also have a line of cleaning products for pets and the chemists that actually who made it said, you know, he goes actually the best thing to remove your own smell and dog smell is on white vinegar. He goes, it actually works better than anything that we could develop. But it just doesn't last real long once you mix it with water. So then they have to add chemicals to it. So this is an easy way, you know, don't store too long or the last about two weeks. And then I want the stitches to get out, then you can go have your pet groom, but in the meantime, you'll have a dog that actually smells good. And the vinegar smell goes away. So it's not going to smell like a salad. So were you just actually giving us advice, how to avoid buying your own product line? Was that what I just heard? No, not at all, because this is for cleaning your dog. My product line does a lot of other things besides that. So now you can go out there and buy Joey voting pet products if you'd like to, but you know, listen, I give the animal radio people a bonus, okay? The easier way to do it. They don't have to go out and purchase anything because they probably have it in the house. You throw them a bone, Joey. I throw them a bones, give them a dog a bone.
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"joey vellani" Discussed on Animal Radio
"It's animal radio. Hopefully you're having a wonderful holiday. Maybe you're already off from work. We're not, as you can tell. Today, last year I was Santa here at animal radio. And let me tell you, I do not make a good Santa. If you could only see Joey vellani today who's the perfect Santa, you make a much better Santa today and his bag looks pretty full compared to mine last year. So Ho Ho Ho. In fact, what are you going to be yapping about today? You know what? I want to talk about the use of only of course this is a hot topic right now. The use of these kennel dryers that they put dogs and cats in the grooming salons. And really to talk about their use and are they safe are they not safe? That's good jazz. Those things freak me out. I'll tell you that right now. It's like, I feel like I'm putting them in an oven or something like that. Or dehydrator. You know what? We'll talk about you might be you could be doing one or the other. Okay, that's on the way in just a few minutes right here on animal radio. Could you please pass me the eggnog? Thank you. That's enough, how? Well, I've only had two glasses so far. We're also about ten minutes away from a check. As a way for the check of a news. Somewhere in there. We're going to be talking about CBD. It is so confusing. And I am just a little slow on the uptake on this because it is so confusing to me. So we're going to tell you some of the things that the experts will tell us, some of the precautions that you need to take. And things to look out for if you're going to go ahead and buy CBD, even though it's not scientifically perfect right now. I mean, it might be, but the research is just not there yet. I totally get it. If you're going to do it. Yes. Yeah, if you're going to do it, then we'll tell you things that you need to look for. And some other very important tips with it. We have gotten so many packages this last week of CBD samples. And there is so many CBDs out there that it's and you don't know which one is good or has been if there's stuff in it or what it is, but there are so many companies that are trying to pitch this stuff right now. There is a way to wade through all of those products if you will. Some of these key little things that you can look for, even ask for. We'll tell you what they are. Really? Yeah. The stuff that just came in today is pet hair detangler made with hemp oil, and then we have the fur babies hemp oil to relax anxious dogs. And then I have that. What is that? Helps soar dogs, sore. Or was that like a spray a hotspots? Yeah, underdog, pain spray with hemp oil. Oh, strange stuff. Okay. Yeah, you spray it directly. On the animal. Wow. Now, I have a question. Yes. Is hemp oil and CBD? Well, the same. Ah, you were asking the absolute wrong person on that. I don't know. I'd like to, I'd like to find that out. I was watching something on the news the other night that said, you know, how humans need to look at all of this hemp CBD stuff. And they made it sound totally different from what I read today. So it is very confusing. It is confusing. Okay, so the letter that came with this stuff here, this hemp oil says, thank you for your on air review of our CBD. So I'm going to assume right there that the CBDs and the hemp oil are one of the same. Okay. But you know, I am a wealth of misinformation just in case anybody taking me seriously. Anyway, so we're going to do a quick check in the news in about ten minutes. We'll talk a little bit about CBDs. Don't forget you can get your fix of animal radio anytime you want with the animal radio app for iPhone and Android. Download it now, why don't you? Is made possible by fear free happy homes, helping your pets live their happiest, healthiest, fullest lives at home at the vet everywhere in between, visit them now and fear free, happy homes dot com. And thanks for your free for underwriting animal radio. You're listening to animal radio, call the Dream Team now with the free animal radio app for iPhone and Android. Channel cable can you smell that? Your dog can. Happy holidays, Merry Christmas, happy new year. I want to take this time to say thanks. I really enjoy being on animal radio. I'm not perfect. I don't have all the answers, but what I do have is a deep passion and desire to help you understand your dog and give you the tools you need to give your dog a happy fulfilling life. Most of its common sense and understanding that dogs are just a little bit different than we are. I think that's what makes them so magical. I mean, think about it. They live totally in the moment. They don't think about the future of the past. It's all about what's happening now. Dogs don't hold grudges. They're not greedy, and a dog will never break your heart. They want to please you, they just need to know how. And if I can help you get to the answer, it brings me the greatest joy and satisfaction. You know, sometimes we love our dogs so much, we love them too much. And we treat them like there are children. And sometimes when we do that, they get a little confused. Like you or I would be if we went to another country where we didn't know the customs and the language. The difference between our dogs and us is that we're capable of learning the customs and the language. Your dog can never learn English he can never learn what it's like to be a human, but we can learn to act and think like a dog. And that's probably the greatest thing you can do. To ensure that your dog has a long, happy, healthy, stress free life. If you're listening right now and you've got a dog that, well, it's just out of control. Always excited. Always hipped up. Almost like they're Starbucks in his water dish. I'm gonna give you two simple things you can do to mellow your dog out right now and you will see results pretty quickly. Number one, pay no attention to your dog when you come home. Just pay no attention to him. Until he mellows out, then tell him good dog and give him a pet. Give him a treat too if you want. And number two, take your dog out for a 30 minute walk or a run or a bike ride or play fetch with him every single day. You tire him out every day, get that energy out. You're gonna notice he starts to mellow out. And when he does, that's when you pet him. That's when you say good dog. Hi, I'm Dan Aykroyd, have the happiest of holidays. This is Heather Locklear wishing you all the merriest Christmas. Hey, this is Sean Hayes on animal radio. Remember to spay and neuter your pets. How would you like to save money on nearly all your prescription drugs? We've set up a special toll free number for the Rx outreach program. 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"joey vellani" Discussed on Animal Radio
"Celebrating the connection with our pets. This is animal radio, featuring your Dream Team, veterinarian doctor Debbie white, and groomer joy vellani, and here are your hosts Hal Abrams and Judy Francis. See Judy has booked another humdinger of a show today, doctor Marty Becker will be back. If you travel with your pets and we all travel with our pets. Sure, we do. There are certain things you should bring with you every time you travel. And he's going to have that list in just a few minutes. He's got three things. Three things. You must have. I can't even imagine what they are. I don't know. I'm going to stick around for that. Also, on a much more dim note, we all have to deal with pet loss. Unfortunately, these beautiful creatures don't live as long as we do. Well, unless you're like a cockatoo like gurney, who will live forever. Yeah. Yes, she will. When we deal with pet loss, oftentimes, you get a little embarrassed to tell people because you're afraid they'll think you're crazy that you're so emotionally attached to your pet and roll their eyes. Give you that look. And especially when it's your work, you know, they don't understand that you want to take a couple of days off just to mourn or grieve over a pet loss. I'm so glad we're going to cover this. I worked at a radio station one time that I had two days off after a dog drowned and it was tragic. And I was called into the office after I returned to work and said, it's a dog. Yeah. Yeah. Well, that's too bad. You know what? Those people need to be taken outside and you don't take care of a joy, you know. You just tell Joey. It'll go over and I'll break some knuckles. But here's the thing for all of us. It's like a family member. And it can be actually more disturbing than a family member. This animal's giving you unconditional love. So we'll be talking to a lady who's, she's a pet lost counselor. She's going to be talking about the new thing and companies allowing to take a few days a week off for pet evening. For pet bereavement. Bereavement leave, which is a great trend. And that's on the way right here on animal radio. Also, I have some flea facts. I went cruising over Wikipedia. And I got to tell you, these fleas, they're pretty clever little creatures. And yes they are. Very resilient. I'll tell you all about them coming up in just a few minutes. Joey, what are you talking about today? Well, we're going to talk about the tap water and how it could affect your pet's coat. Tap water. Do you clean your dog and tap water, Judy, or do you use the purified water? No, I just use tap water wherever I'm at. Should we be worried about that, Joey? Are you going to tell us we shouldn't be using tap water? Listen, it's not something you really have to be worried about, but it can actually change the pet's color and the way the coat feels. So stay tuned. Okay. Laurie Brooks, what are you working on over there in the newsroom? I am so excited about this one story. I'm going to tell you about it is great. Great, great. The best news for military dogs. It's been a huge social media campaign, and I know a lot of you have probably signed petitions and things for it. So we'll tell you the good news for military dogs on the way. Oh, I don't think I've seen you this excited in a while. It's good news. Let's go to the phones right now for your calls for doctor Debbie or dog father Joey vellani directly from the animal radio app for iPhone and Android. It's a free download thanks to those folks over at doctors fosters and Smith. And what do you say we yap with Jesse? Hey Jesse, how are you doing? I don't know. How are you? Good, where are you calling from? California? Well, the LA area. Well, now you say you're just okay. What can we do to make it excellent? No, I recently moved in with the roommate who has the puppy. And he doesn't pay attention to the puppy at all. And like since I've moved in here in October, I've got him to stay and use the doggy door, hoping that he'd be able to run around while leaving them at least. But because he's not like being trained or even spent time with by the owner, the puppy just doesn't grasp the concept of where the P outside, that kind of thing. And I have a dog on my own and a cat and my dog doesn't want to hang out with him. I'll try to walk the puppy like once a day. Just to get him out of his kennel area. And that's the thing is just it's really hard to watch because he's just a puppy. I need how old how many months? 6 months old. Okay. Okay. Like I told my roommate like being the same time, set him on the skies in the pay attention to him. And he just because he was a pretty computer that he was like all day. Seriously. So yeah, yeah. Well, and this is unfortunately so true that you get what you put into a dog. And when we don't train them, when we don't give them structure and a solid schedule, we can expect them to be a well behaved canine good citizen. So you're totally right in all your concerns. If this dog is not getting the handling and the training that he needs. I guess the hard thing is, I have some free conversations with your roommate. Because he is the actual pet owner, he is the one that is ultimately responsible. So I don't know if this is a pup that you would want to take in and say, hey, you know, if you're not interested in taking care of them, you know, I can assume ownership. Is that something you'd consider? Lightly touched on the subject and it kind of got the sense of and so I don't understand it because he doesn't like if he would spend one hour of the day with the dog I'd be stoked. I don't know if she'd be willing to give the pop up to me. Yeah. Is he just a roommate or is he a boyfriend, just a curious? Because. I think I have more control. That's what I was saying. Yeah. Well, I mean, I think ultimately he has to be the one to make decisions. Now if it's something where you can't assume ownership or don't want to. Maybe even offering to be more involved with the dog's training. Whether that's on a volunteer basis or say, hey, for so much, I'll train them. And I'll get them to a point where he's going to be a super puppy. But to take an active role, I think it's wonderful that you are concerned, but I think you just have to find the right way to breach the subject. And only you know your roommate and how well or how badly that could go over. But I think you got to have that conversation and see if you can find something in the middle there. I mean, there's some other things that we can look at doing. But even if you or someone can get some structure in this dog's life, getting the potty training down, just good skills as far as so we don't have a destructive puppy that wants to chew things around the house. You know, there's some other things we can look at doing. I love the interactive dog toys and puzzles as a way to help keep a dog interested and busy. But for a board, I don't want to say neglected puppy. But for one that is really socially under stimulated, those kind of toys don't make up for the lack of structure. But those are some things you can try to help keep the little guy occupied
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"joey vellani" Discussed on Animal Radio
"Do you do kwanza shopping? I don't even know if you do quanta shopping or not. But I know that most of us are out looking for stuff for our animals because most of us, most of us actually buy presents for our animals and even get them cards. Sure. And some people think that's ridiculous. And if you do think that's ridiculous, go ahead and change the channel right now because you'll think this whole show is pretty ridiculous. How many of us actually send cards from our animals to others? From our oh, all the time. I do. I don't even, I don't even sign my name anymore. It comes to the wisdom from the animals. Yeah, you just put a little footprint at the bottom? Yeah, I guess I signed in names. You know? Oh my. We are over the edge here about our animals at animal radio. And today we have a great guest. Who's also over the age of about his animals, Bill berloni. He has that reality series on discovery. I forget the name of it. Wags to wags to riches. Yes. And he's a trainer. He wanted to be an actor, but he ended up being a trainer for animals on stage and screen and you've definitely seen the animals that he's trained in something that you've seen, whether it be a movie or on TV. He just had an NBC special. And actually takes shelter dogs and turns him into Broadway stars. That's what's really cool. Yes. That is cool. These are animals that otherwise have no home and really could be on the death list. And he turns them into working actors, and then they all get to retire on his ranch. None of the animals, I believe he has like 30 animals on his ranch, which includes horses and llamas and ducks. Oh my God. We'll have to ask him about that. In just a few minutes. Of course, we're taking your calls toll free to talk to doctor Debbie or dog father Joey vellani. And in just a few minutes, miss Laurie Brooks will give us the latest news. What do you got going? Well, I'm being distracted by my dog. Sorry about that. We had to take our animals to work, and I know. Yeah. We were just talking about, you know, buying presents for our animals and in coming up. We're going to tell you about a group that said, do not buy animals for presents. Just the opposite. But you will be shocked at who is now saying which group is saying it's okay to buy animals as gifts. Oh. Changing their teeth. Okay. That's interesting. I always thought that she didn't want to get animals as gifts because that's a lifelong gift. The fruitcake, you can actually throw away, but you can't throw away an animal. No, no, you can't. Okay, you don't throw it away. You just pass it on to somebody else. How you register? You feed it to the animal. My burger. Gurney loves fruitcake. Pie Teresa, how are you doing? I'm good. Thank you. What's going on with your pet? Well, I have a three year old yorkie, he is a regular size, not a toy size. When we got him three years ago, it was in the middle of winter and we got pretty used to puppy pads for him to relieve himself. And now, even if he's outside for a quite a length of time, he will hold everything until he's back inside and does his business on the puffy pad. I've moved to a new house where I have some carpet near the front entrance of the house, and that's where he was chosen spot even on the puppy pad happens to be. And I would really, you know, if he happens to miss, then I have a carpet to take care of, plus, I would kind of like to give his if I could transition him to outside or at least away from the front door as his go to spot. In and I'm looking for I guess the best way to approach that since he had his own life for three years. Absolutely. And some would say that this is the downside to potty pads that if it's the long-term plan it could work out fine. But if you do want to transition, sometimes it gets a little confusing for these guys because we're switching between total and different methods. It's also not uncommon for dogs that are trained to potty pads to kind of have accidents on carpets, square areas of fabric, things like that, because in essence, they visually kind of look and somewhat feel like what the potty pad is all about. So that's not at all unusual. I think the good thing is that he's doing this by the door. So many folks take a soil potty pad with them. And this is taking him out on a leash and taking him out to the potty area when you think he's going to need to go. And give him his potty command. And we pair that pottying where we want with a verbal command. Now, you can start that in the home if you are with him when he's going potty on the pads and start using a potty word. Go to the bathroom. Go potty. Whatever it might be and then praising him when he's doing it on the pad as you're saying that. Then that helps to transition where you're going outside and doing it. And it does take a lot of work as far as to get them transitioned into that. But really finding that opportunity where you can praise him in reward him. And he really ought to be monitored any time that you're trying to get him to eliminate. So if he's left to his own devices, he's not going to understand that. So it's almost like you have to go back to square one with him being a young pup so that you can catch that opportunity to praise him when he's going outside. And then, you know, go crazy and give him a treat, positive reward after he's done the goods outside. Some dogs do find that we find that they may mark or may urinate or defecate more if there's another animal using the area. And I find this a lot with my little guy. He may not use the backyard, but boy he will certainly go wherever there's other animals as a way of urine marking or a fecal marking. So that's another thing. So if you have a family member who has another dog, bring them over, have them potty in the area that you want that to happen and that will help to give them a kind of a scent trigger to that spot. Hopefully that helps you Theresa. Yes. Especially the getting the other animal spent where I want them to go, that should not be a problem with a couple family members or neighbors that I'm sure will help me out. Yeah, yeah. Have a pee party. Thanks for your call today. Well, this portion of animal radio is underwritten by fear free, happy homes. Don't forget you can get your fix of animal radio any time you want with the animal radio app for iPhone and Android. Download it. Now, it's made possible by fear free, happy homes. Helping your pets live their happiest, healthiest, fullest lives at home at the vet, and everywhere in between visit the mid fear free, happy homes dot com. And thanks for your free for underwriting animal radio. Hi, Sharon. Welcome to the show. Hi, how are you? Very good. I understand you want to talk to The Good Doctor. Yes, please. I'm right here ready for you. What can we do for you, Sharon? Okay. I guess it's kind of,
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"joey vellani" Discussed on Animal Radio
"Let's take one for doctor Debbie. We have Matt. Welcome to the show Matt. Thanks, how are you all today? Good. Doctor Debbie, I got a question for you about my 5 and a half year old golden doodle. Alrighty. Well, he had TPLO surgery about 6 weeks ago. And I was wondering how soon is too soon to let him go to the groomer and get himself cleaned up he's kind of getting to be a stinky little fella. So I'm going to have to explain for how to be a loser. I knew that question was coming. Cheap yellow surgery is done for dogs that have a ruptured cruciate ligament, which is one of the major ligaments in the knee. So just like a football player that blows out their knee taking that churn and making that catch dogs jumping off a couch or catching a frisbee can blow out the knee the same way. So your doggie ruptured that now how's he getting along post surgery at this time? You know, the next day he actually walked out of the vet underneath his own power and he's been doing great the hardest thing is keeping him calm. He wants to jump on everything and. That's the hardest part of it. He amazingly is doing well. He did rip out all his stitches after 7 days, but his maple should say. I'm not surprised. Does he have he may have what we term goofy retriever syndrome? I'm sorry, I've coined that because I have one myself. He's a goofy retriever. Yeah, prone to just trouble. So, yeah. Are you having difficulty keeping him from doing things at this point now, huh? Yeah, we really are. We do get taken our half of our bed and put it downstairs as to keep them off the stairs. And stuff like that. But now we are walking him up the stairs on the lead. We've never had to harness his back, but we are having a hard time keeping him down, like when he sees other dogs out the window, he wants to run around the living room. Kind of hard to slow him down. And when he wants to go real fast, he just lifts the leg up and then hops around on three. It's kind of hysterical, but he takes the slow leg out from underneath him, and then he can really move. Yes. Yeah. Well, with a dog that recovers from a cheap yellow surgery, normally the healing time we're looking at about two to three months out. And about 8 weeks after the surgery is when ideally we ought to get an x-ray to see how the bone is healing because there is a plate involved with that. And we want to make sure that there's good healing callous of that bone there. That might make some difference in whether or not we want to give you a kind of free rein to get into some of the grooming activities. I'd have to say, because he has goofy retriever syndrome, we might push that back as far as we can for your typical standard type grooming. That means that there are some dogs that I have to get some kind of grooming done, whether they're just stinky, dirty from being post surgery or what have you. If we do have to get him to a groomer or do a home bathing, there are some precautions that I would do. And when is to use a nonstick mat in the bathing tub. Because that's very important. We don't want slipping in losing his footing in any way. And jumping in and out of a tub is a horrible thing for a dog after this type of surgery. So if possible, we'd try to either do this. I've even bathed some dogs in our dog runs at the office. We don't have to worry about the up and down. And that helps to make us feel better about that whole experience. And then know your dog and know your groomer. If it seems like it's something that they can pull off without risk of injury, then it may be okay. But for a lot of these really silly exuberant retrievers, I would push off the true grooming until we're cleared by the doctor that everything's healed. Okay. No, that sounds good. You know, I can deal with most of it. It's just this face is getting kind of crusty and I wasn't sure how to handle that. Getting all. My dogs, they love a good hot rag on their face. And I call it the doggy spa. So they come and get the hot warm towels. And I put on their face and they push and shove and push their way up, they get their ears clean and get the doggy spot. So even something as simple as that may make him feel good. And just like us, you got to look good to feel good. And consequently, doctor Debbie, this is the one I called you on about two and a half months ago that I wanted to get a second opinion on him. I thought it was a bad diagnosis and it did turn out that it was. You were right. I did. I did go get that second opinion and I'm glad it's awesome. Great to hear you the best doctor around. Come here, give me a. Here. Judy is just running the studio with another question. This is from Sammy. This is also for blade. Wow. A lot is getting all the questions. I have a 7 year old min pin pin in a 6 year old doby. Dobie, what is that? Oh doberman, okay. 6 year old doberman, I'm a month away from having my first baby, and I was wondering, what is the best way to introduce my new baby to the family? Well, the best way to introduce the baby to the new family. You need to, before you bring the baby, you need to bring babies diapers. And let the dog sniff it. And another cute way would be to record the baby's cry. In the hospital and bring it in and play them play and let them sniff both. The next best way would be when you come home with the new baby, simultaneously give your puppies and both of them and dog and pop in new set of toys. One you will distract them with that instead of them jumping all over a view. And number two to create positive perception with this new baby arrival. Of course, best advice would be training the party and older dog prior to bringing the baby because that's what really sharp increase decrease in problems in this connotation. Every pad comes with a unique set of hopes and dreams. And one common wish, a happy, healthy life, start with early and regular visits to your veterinarian for vaccinations and disease protection. Regular exams help diagnose treat and prevent serious health problems. See that your new pet grows up healthy and happy. Call your veterinarian today. Admit it. You love your dog, and he is part of the family. So, when choosing your next vacation, don't forget fido, with just a little planning the entire family can enjoy a road trip. To find the best vacation spot, four spot, subscribe to fido friendly. The travel and lifestyle magazine for you and your dog, where each issue includes hotel and destination reviews where both you and fido are welcome. Go online to phyto friendly dot com. And find out what all the barking is about. Celebrating the connection with our pets. This is animal radio, featuring your Dream Team, veterinarian doctor Debbie white, and groomer joy vellani, and here are your hosts Hal Abrams and Judy Francis, and your Dream Team, Ernie rodina answering your horse questions, animal communicator joy, Turner bridge in that gap. Dog father Joey vellani telling you how to groom
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"joey vellani" Discussed on Animal Radio
"Celebrating the connection with our pets. This is animal radio, featuring your Dream Team, veterinarian doctor Debbie white, and groomer joy vellani, and here are your hosts Hal Abrams and Judy Francis. And welcome if you have questions about your pets, medical health. We have doctor Debbie here to answer those questions. And grooming questions for Joey vellani the dog father also here. And if you just want to call and say hi, check in. Tell us how things are going for you. We'd love to hear from you. From the free animal radio app for iPhone and Android download that puppy now. And I can tell you so many reasons to download it. There was another recall this week. It's a food recall, not a big brand, but if it's a brand that you feed your animals, it means a lot to you. Whenever there's a recall and you have the animal radio app, a notification goes out and tells you what's wrong, who's recalling the food. Pretty cool. It is. Another reason to download the free animal radio app as well as asking your questions from the app. On today's show, if you ever watched mad TV or king of queens or really it dozens of other programs where Nicole Sullivan was acting. She's funny. She's very funny. She's a little blond gal from the dog walker. She was a dog walker on king of queens. How appropriate? She's gonna be joining us today and she's doing an event with the kitty bungalow, the charm school for wayward cats. Yes, we've had them on before. Yeah, we have and they have some really original ideas for raising money for the cats. Also, the creator of petfinder dot com, which may I say is probably the biggest and most well-known adoption site on the Internet. Yes, it is. Betsy Saul, she will be joining us. We're going to talk to her in just a few minutes. A Lori, what do you got going on? Well, we usually think about visible fences in that kind of a containment system for pets for dogs, right? But now they've done a study using an invisible fence with cats. Okay, I didn't know cats could be trained anything. So I'd love to. You never know. That's on the way. Let's go to the phones for your calls first. Hey Russ, how are you doing? I'm doing pretty well. Thank you. Where are you calling from today? I'm calling from a suburb of New Orleans. Right outside New Orleans and a place that I just moved to about 7 or 8 months ago. I saw my home in New Orleans and I moved into an apartment complex where my sister sister lived, and they had many cats here. And someone was feeding these cats from about a half a block away because it's against the rules of the apartment managers. They have cats in the apartments. And the owner found out about it and they really mad and they're trying and they threatened to evict people anyone who helped feed or give the cats one or anything. Wow. They have a number of kittens about two months old. I was wondering if you can tell me, will the kittens, I think the older ones will, but will the kittens find another food source before they die? Hard to say. I mean, that's really taking away suddenly a food source to an assisted colony like that. That can create a hardship for them. So the big concern would be is that add undue stress to their health plane and does that mean they're going to be more likely to be succumbed to infectious disease or parasites or what have you if they're really struggling or they don't have that food source that they become accustomed to. So yeah, that's rough. I would certainly hope someone else in the nearby area could take over for them. And the thing I would encourage you to do is at least in most communities when we have trap and release programs in the areas. Like in the Las Vegas area where I'm at, you actually can register colonies. And that basically means not that you take responsibility for every cat. But it basically just means, okay, we know we have a population of cats in this area, and you register with them, usually through organizations of related to the shelter systems. And that can also, that can be a benefit because if you can't participate in this, you can maybe find someone in the nearby area who can take care of this colony. And that may even mean that can help bring in financial resources because at least in my area, when you register a cat colony, then that brings them into the opportunities to get the trapping, where they get spade and neutered, and they get vaccinations. And then they get released. So if we get these kitties, if they're not already in a program like that, then you might find someone else who can take that role. And then ensure that they're not getting the cut off and resources that they've come to count on at this point. Just animal community thing, is there a name they go by? I've never heard of that before. Yeah, I would just kind of Google in your area as far as cat colony registration. With your locale and in our area, it's done by the county, I believe. On the county basis. But it really depends on how your animal sheltering system is broken down if it's by a citywide basis or counting. But I called the SPCA and that the 5 days, the one nearest me, euphanes, the cats. And I can't go for that. But we're not looking for that. Yeah, and that's not what these kitties need. As feral cats, the adults are likely not going to be adaptable in the true sense of the word. The kittens might and certainly getting them into one of these systems, then they can have an opportunity to get socialized and used to being around people on that basis. But the adults, we wouldn't, you know, if you took them to a shelter, their behavior would be that of a feral cat. And yeah, they will probably be euthanized. Unless they're kind of in this kind of situation where we have a trap and release. Step further, if I can just ask you one more thing. Sure. I'm being threatened to be evicted if I help the cats anymore. If I can't find any other source of helping them, what are the chances of these younger kittens? So about two months old, they're not that young. What are the chances of them finding another food source? Is it less not too likely at all? Because I'm willing to take the gamble of helping them, I'm going to have to get a lawyer to defend me on this issue because these kids feel like the years. And I've talked to apartment administration people and they said because the landlord allow these cats to stay, there's been a year. She can not really evict anyone for helping them on the property. But if I do help them, I want to be prepared to help them only because they're still out of the way. So what are the chances of these younger kittens of finding another food source? If I can't find any other place like you're referring to. Yeah, you know, that's hard to answer. I honestly can't say it really depends on the neighbors in the area. And if they start hanging around, somebody else's house is someone else going to feed them or they can be limited. They only go a few days without water in two weeks without food and nobody around here and they still hanging around my apartment. And I'm just thinking the worst that they're starting. I've been giving them still water. But I'm afraid to keep feeding them because they won't leave my well, they won't go somewhere else. But I've been given them water, but it seems to me they're not getting fed. And every day that goes by their lives are in danger. So to ensure the situation. I guess what you're saying, the older they are, the greater the possibility of them finding another place to go. Am I correct? Yeah, well, I think just kind of having the adult cats there to kind of lead the way. Because they were going to follow their lead. And don't forget that feral cats also, they hunt. So if they're learning those skills from the other adult cats. Now, as a resident or in someone in that neighborhood, I would far rather see feral cat colonies fed than saying, okay, let's just let them fend for themselves, get into garbage, and kill off all the local birds. I would rather say, as a landlord, this is going to be a better solution to this problem. And if we could get a local animal health authority in, maybe that will help to control the population because once you spend neuter these
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"Dog trader Alan cable? Dogfather Joey vellani and animal communicator joy Turner. This is, is this show really 6 66? I know. Wow, this is our 666th show. What's going to happen? Isn't it? Yeah. That's appropriate, isn't it? Listen, that was one of my favorite songs growing up, Iron Maiden. So iron man, I'll tell you, we were both rockers weren't we? Yes, we were. Joey, what do you got? Coming up today. I'm gonna tell you how to get rid of your stinky bird, okay? So if your birds think I'll tell you. By the way, if you haven't seen Joey's bird and I'm talking about his cockatoo. It is a cockatoo, right? It's a cockatoo. Okay, it's over at the Facebook page. He's jamming out. Probably to some Iron Maiden. Yeah, maybe I made. I thought when you said get rid of your bird, I thought you were talking about taking a contract though. That's the money's right. We could arrange that too. Come to me sooner. You bird wouldn't be alive this very day. And ladybug is looking up at us like we're all crazy here. Yeah, she knows we're all crazy. It's so nice to be able to take our pets to work. They actually say that it reduces stress. Where is that study that I just found? That's a bunch of crap, and I'm going to tell you why. Why? Because I used to bring my dogs to the school. When I had the Nash academy. And my dogs were the most unruly and would balk and want to get out there and my stress level would go up by a hundred times because my dogs were so unruly in a crate. They knew they owned the place, so it wasn't until it didn't bring the stress level down at all. Okay, so the boss shouldn't bring the dog to work. Check the study out. They did this over 17 years and they sampled saliva of employees that took their dogs or cats to work and they found that the cortisol levels, which is a hormone that indicates stress level was reduced in those that brought their animals to work. It would have burned the hole in the floor. That's almost acid was visited. On the big show today, really, Judy, no celebs. Okay. It is show 6 66. I'll tell you that right now. I have a I have a good feeling about that actually. I couldn't get any slips. Come on, 6, 6. They didn't want to come on show 6 66. No. I understand that completely. However, we will be talking to the new lawyers that have assembled around Lennox's law, which is, is that the name of their firm, Linux's law? No, that's the name of the dog that was put down because it had an appearance similar to a pit bull. Yeah. Oh man. Was that the dog in England? Yes. Yes. That's a bunch of crap. Let me tell you. That's so sad. That is so sad. Okay, that's on the way here. Also, we'll be talking to Pacific pets transports. What's that, Judy? They transport animals all over the nation all over the world. Anything from hippos and giraffes to dogs and cats and snakes and how exciting. Awesome, man. Now my mother in law has a way to go. I'm saying. Stacy, what do you personally? Have you ever eaten something and you bite into it and then somebody says, oh, that isn't exactly what you thought it was. I don't know, maybe you need a warmer or something one time or who knows what you may have eaten, but some prisoners, they really got it. They were given pet food and didn't know it. In America? Yeah. Right here in America. Yeah. You'd be surprised what happens here in America and our prison system. Anyway, at least didn't happen in the shower. I'll tell you more about it coming up on. Let's hit the phones. Hi, Susan. Welcome to the show. Hi, thank you for taking my call. Where are you calling from today? Monrovia, California. Beautiful Los Angeles is it hot today? No, it's wonderful weather, it was a nice break. It's just the right time of year, I'll tell you. Listen, I understand you have something going on with your animal, dog cat, dog. I have a dog. Okay. What's going on? You know what? I'll tell you right now. It shows 6, 6, 6 for us. So nothing's coming right out of my mouth today. Your little possessor. What's going on with your dog? Okay, well, she's a 9 year old, about 80 pound Rhodesian ridgeback mix. And she had eaten about 20 green bell tomatoes. And resulting in seizures. Oh my. Tomatoes can cause seizures? I did not know that. Yes, now. Where she at now? Is she in a veterinary clinic? No, it happened end of July. We noticed her first seizure and so and then we noticed another one, we ended up taking her to the emergency clinic at night. And they said it was probably that from solanine, which is in the green tomatoes. Brought her back home, went to see the doctor. She's on phenobarbital right now. And then it wasn't quite controlling all of them. So she was placed on valium. Okay. Yeah, no, I'd have to say, without having re ingestions, I'll back up here. Solanine and the concern with green tomatoes. Raw potatoes even in all the greens that are involved with the tomato plant, the potato plant contain toxins. That can cause all sorts of things. Sometimes it'll cause vomiting diarrhea, sometimes it'll be a matter of causing really severe depression and heart arrhythmias, some cases, it'll cause kidney failure or seizures. So it has different effects. It would be a bit unusual to have a sustained, ongoing seizure problem as a result of this toxicity back in July. If she were re ingesting and having the opportunity to get into more, I might be able to make a case that that's in some way related to things at this point. So I'm not sure. I would say it would be unlikely that that's still going on from there. Is the phenobarbital seeming to control things or you're just touching it up with the valium to help out. Yeah, just like you said, the valium to help out. They're not grand mal seizures. They're kind of a milder ones. And drooling. And is she having a possible re exposure? Is she getting into these things again? Oh no, not at all. Definitely closed off that area. I didn't even know about this problem with green tomatoes, so actually I had given her some because I thought she liked them. Oh no. I feel terrible about that. But you know, I read somewhere that they're fat, soluble. This toxin, not water soluble, so that's why I thought, oh, it's going to take longer for it to get out of the body. Yeah, and I have never heard of pet having this delayed of a seizure type response with that. So no, I can't say that that's very likely. Now, there are some other good anticonvulsants we can add. And the tough thing with valium is it's just so short term. It doesn't really give us preventative seizure protection. So if phenobarbital isn't doing it well enough, a lot of times there's other ones like potassium bromide that we can add in as a secondary anti seizure medicine to help get better control. And that might be something to look at for your kid to see if that kind of helps control. Because even if a seizure isn't a grandma's seizure where they're falling over and drooling and losing control of their bodily functions, it's still not good. So we would want to try our best to try to help control that a bit more thoroughly. I might see about looking into that. And definitely, like I said, you can assure there's nothing else that she's getting into as far as any other toxins or any problems with that. Right. Okay, well, thank you very much. He's one of those dogs that eats everything. One of those most dogs. Well, ridgebacks are. They're very inquisitive. And I'll tell you, with my labradors, anything goes when it comes to them. If it has the inkling of an odor of food that's been sitting next to it, that product is going to be eaten. So yeah. Well, my best wish is to use Susan. And I hope you get some control of those seizures, but polypharmacy is what we call when we add in these secondary seizure medications. I would definitely advocate that. Thanks for your call, Susan. Now, this is for only green tomatoes because I know taco night is the big night for ladybug the studio stunt dog. She loves to eat the tomatoes and we free feed her tomatoes. Is
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"joey vellani" Discussed on Animal Radio
"Some of the synovial fluid, the cushioning. Lubricant, yeah, you'll hear about it on your show. Yeah, it's actually in a liquid formula. And these type of products can help in a natural way to help relieve inflammation, pain, and to restore the joint to a better situation. Now, there are some joints that need more help than that. So we might need to pull out other medicines, nonsteroidal pain relievers, sometimes narcotic like medicines like tramadol can be very helpful for dogs. With minimal side effects for long-term use, if those hips are really, really bad. We exercise if she likes a running on the treadmill, believe it or not, about 20 to 30 minutes a day, maybe a mile, mile and a half mile. Okay. And that's great if she's got that interest and she wants to do that and she has the drive. The thing we have to watch is that there's probably pain associated with that. So if you're noticing her having discomfort during the day, I take a little easy with that exercise, so we can get a good diagnosis, nowhere we're at with things. But definitely a dog with arthritis. And that's a great point you bring up. We don't want a dog with arthritis to sit around the house. That's the worst thing we can do. I'll tell you, I was away. On vacation, enjoying a few mites in Hawaii. And we had a dog sitter. Watching our dogs, I have a 13 year old Labrador. She goes out walking with us about four to 5 days a week for an hour in the morning. And she's arthritic, we're treating it. But I'll tell you what being cooped up in a house for two weeks. We came back and she had lost a lot of function. She was stiff. She was and she did not have the stamina she did just three weeks prior. So it is really important to keep up that exercise, but also to make sure we're not pushing her too far in control that pain is best for you. And you can keep her off concrete, right? Doctor W, keep on grass soft surfaces. That'll help a little won't it. If you can, just like people. If you're a jogger, it's better to draw on either dirt or grass than on those solid concrete surfaces. Let's say, for somebody that has a dog, let's just hit dysplasia in the, what they have to do is end up having surgery on the dog. How successful is the surgery upon a keen eye like that? You know, it's going to depend greatly on what type of approach and what kind of surgery they can do. Now for young dogs, like you mentioned, her pup. If we can intervene before arthritis sets in, when they have a nice kind of clear hip joint where they don't have that arthritic build up, but they have poorly fitting hips, dogs that have that surgery called a TPO, have excellent success, but that we have to intervene generally before a year to year and a half. So for an older pet, we're either going to talk either hip replacement or what we call an ephemeral head ostectomy. And it will depend a lot on what your pet's x-rays look like and overall health. And it sounds like you love her dearly. So I would definitely pick up that telephone and get your vet on the line and get that baby in there and get her checked out, okay? And enjoy your day on the boat. We appreciate you calling in. You're listening to animal radio, call the Dream Team now with the free animal radio app for iPhone and Android. Fido friendly magazine presents the 14th annual cross country pet adoption tour. Get your licks on route 66, along with media sponsor, animal radio, the tour travels down America's favorite highway, stopping its shelters along the way to support adoption events with the help of companion sponsor xymox, the tours helped place over 16,000 pets into new forever homes in the first 13 years. Cat food sponsor cat it, grooming sponsor, hands on gloves. Hotel sponsor kimpton, campground sponsor KOA and advocate sponsor bark worthies are also part of the fun at each event, companion sponsors Tito's vodka for dog people. Brutus bone broth, earth bath, and Zulu tails go along for the ride as we bring our giant spinning wheel full of prizes to raise money for each shelter. Log on to fido friendly dot com to find out where the tour may stop near you, and come out for a safe and fun way to support animal adoption, and who knows. You might just find your new fur ever friend. You're listening to animal radio, call the Dream Team now with the free animal radio app for iPhone and Android. Toll free to doctor Debbie, dog trainer Allen cable, dog father Joey vellani, animal communicator Joey Turner and Wendy diamond, and I believe we're going to line four where we have Donna for joy. Hi, Donna. How are you? I'm fine. How are you? Good, what's going on? Well, I have two chance to 12 and a half year old named Gracie, who was a 40 and I have chassis who is about a year old now and she's a calico from animal control. And she sort of pastors my older cat because she really wants to play with her. And I want to ask her if I get a like maybe a four month old kitten to be her buddy and wrestle with her and give her her play outlets. Well, she leaves my 12 year old kitty Gracie alone. Well, and I have to tell you, both kitties, Donna, are with me and Jesse is so excited to jump in there and say she's not tormenting Gracie, she's trying to get her to be more active because she believes when she's more active, she's going to be healthier. She's going to be happier. It's going to be life will be more fun for her, so she thinks she's really doing her a great great favor. So one of the things I would suggest you do with Jesse is compliment her on why she's trying to play with Gracie and let her know how much you appreciate the thought. And then we can talk to her about things like we really appreciate that honey and do you know Gracie sees this entirely differently and she tells me no and I'm saying, well, I think that would be probably obvious by Gracie's behavior that we think it would be more appropriate to play with someone that wants to play and let Gracie do what she's wanting to do, which is to be more quiet. So Jesse just said to me, okay, so what's the options? And I'm saying you can get another kitty that would be your playmate. And she just gave me the funniest little look Donna. She says to me, then maybe I can teach her to help me with Gracie. Oh no. I'm afraid they would gang up on Gracie. And both of them would start chasing her around. Well, that's going to be a thing that you would need to actually supervise their my dear, just let them know lovingly because they are trying to do Gracie a favor. So it's not like they're being mean to her or wanting to do something bad to her. So what you can do with that, and by the way, she does want someone to play with, so getting her another kitty would be a good thing in her thought. And I would just keep talking to her about the two that want to play need to play. You need to leave Gracie alone. And give them timeouts if they chase Gracie. Just take them, put them both in like a bathroom or somewhere that isn't their normal place that they're going to go and hang out, but someplace where they're going to be comfortable. And of
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"joey vellani" Discussed on Animal Radio
"What can I do for this kind of hair coat? And not make it real obvious, but just kind of neaten them up a little bit, 'cause he is scruffy. Well, how the first thing, the first thing I should really tell doctor dad was that she should bring the dog to me. And I would take care of it for her. But you know, I got a problem with this, but because it's you, I'm going to say it because this is given away. It's one of my biggest secrets, because this is a problem. No, this is, this is a problem for a lot of people. And a lot of people come in with this because they want to keep the natural scruffy look because when you get a dog that looks like boss, you know what, that's the personality. And that's a big part of it. So when you start cutting and clipping that dog, you take away some of the personality. Like you would, with me, if you've shaved my head, you take away my personality. Take my gel and my hair away, you definitely took my personality. So what they have and you got to get the original one is that there's a tool out called a coat king. And it's put out by an old old grooming company called Mars. They're one of the best grooming tool supplies probably in the world in my opinion. And you got to make sure that you go for the original one because it's rather imitations that don't work. Now what it is, it looks like a rake, but it's more curved over. The teeth on it are very sharp. So what they do is as you break it through the dog's coat, it actually will trim it down. It'll cut it down, and you can control by how many times you go over the area, you can control how much coat that you're going to remove. Now what it's going to do is the area where you have the longer hair, you're going to go over it a little bit more. The area where you have the shorter hair, you're going to go over less and you'll never, ever in a million years be able to tell that the dog has gotten a haircut where it looks like it's, you know, trim bundle. It's going to keep this scruffy look, but it's going to maintain it and bring it down. And it's also going to help healthy coat grow back in because that's basically part of it. It's also D sheds while a trims away the hair that you don't want. So remember that it's a Mars code king. MARS. You know, Joey, I would definitely have you take care of me, but if it comes back looking too professional, you know, he's going to know something. So I try to do this on the slide. There you go. There you go. Stacey, in the newsroom. Well, it's the end of summer and I don't know. Have you gone to the pool yet? Do you know what it's like when you're just a little extra heavy and you're in the pool and you have to get up the steps. It can be taught, right? Well, imagine if you're a hippo and you're trying to get up the steps. This hippo fell into a pool and he couldn't get up the steps. He didn't have a bikini on, by the way, so. We're leaving that part out of it. Oh, it's a sad story. I'll tell you about it coming up. On animal radio news. She always delivers the sad stories with a smile. We do that here at animal radio. You're listening to animal radio, call the Dream Team now with the free animal radio app for iPhone and Android, how'd you like to eliminate your expensive cable Bill forever or get new satellite Internet where cable can't go? Well, now you can have affordable satellite Internet service for a few dollars a day. All you need is a mini satellite installed and you can have unlimited Internet connections wirelessly in your home or office and no cable boxes means unlimited connections and no clutter. You can surf the Internet or stream any of your favorite television services with no cable. And the best part is, satellite Internet service costs only a few dollars a day for your entire home. Yes, fast Internet to surf or stream television for a few bucks a day. Call now for free details and learn how to drop your expensive cable Bill. 806 9 6 two 8 7 one 806 9 6 two 8 7 one 806 9 6 two 8 7 one that's 806 9 6 28 71. You're listening to animal radio, call the Dream Team now with the free animal radio app for iPhone and Android. Okay, let's hit the phones. Doctor Debbie entering your vet medical questions. Dog trainer Alan cable is out today. He's on vacation. What's with that? Yeah. He had this day off. He told us when he started. When he started he was pre arranged. Were you ready? Okay, so you'll be answering the dog questions today and I can say that you're much prettier than he is. Oh, thank you. Joey vellani with your grooming questions and animal communicator joy Turner with your animal communication issues. And we head to Sandra. How are you doing today? How are you? I'm good. Thank you. What's going on? Just two days ago, a mama cat and her three kittens. And wonderful. It's been a real experience. My question is, they're doing well. We trapped them. They were staying neutered deeply in everything is going pretty good. And the mama cat we took her into. We've known her since she was born. So we just couldn't catch her before. And then this time we did with her babies. We want to know if it's jumped up on a bookshelf that we have is about 6 feet tall, a built in bookshelf. And she's been there all night and day. Is she too feral? I mean, she comes to us I can touch her when she's eating, but I think she's probably just frightened. We had him in the traps. The kittens are doing fine. I'm rubbing them and petting them and everything. But she's up there and she's doesn't like she wants to come down yet. Okay, is this the first time she's been in your home? Yes. She's been free. So yeah, I mean, she may be in a little bit of just sensory overload. Because environment why is it can be very freaky for cats that are used to the big outdoors to be enclosed spaces, especially with some of the household sounds that we may not even be aware of. Those kind of things can be very frightening for a cat that's not really acclimated to that. So the big thing for that is I guess a little bit of her comfort. We need to give her an escape hatch so that she can get out of there safely. And then to really decide from there, if she can be comfortably maintained indoors or not. Because not every feral cat can adapt easily to being indoors. It just can be too stressful for them. So some things I would recommend you do, one is I would go to your nearest pet store or veterinary office and get a plugin of a pheromone, which are the cats sent hormones. They have calming effects, and that can help to ease her a little bit, and kind of a natural way. Put that in the room where she's at, also, make sure we have ample food, put some really stinky, I like to put the fish flavored foods out and put that down in an area that she doesn't have to commit to coming all the way down to the floor to the door or where the activity is. And then also provide some other opportunities for her to hide. So she's kind of feel safe. She's got visual security. She says, hi, she can get. And that's what cats like. They like to feel like they can wash their surroundings and not feel anything come from above to threaten them. So give her some other opportunities, either cat trees or even you can just get some cardboard boxes and put that up on some furniture, drape a towel over it. Give her somewhere where she can hide inside and hopefully get into a little bit more manageable area. And give her lots of room because it can definitely be very scary when we try to kind of jump on them and catch them in to turn them into a lamp cat right away. She may not be that. But if you give her those visual securities that may help her feel more comfortable in her
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"joey vellani" Discussed on Animal Radio
"One 806 9 6 two 8 7 one 806 9 6 two 8 7 one that's 806 9 6 28 71. Celebrating our connection with our pants. This is animal radio. Here are your hosts. Al Abrams and Judy Francis. Look at my friend in for doctor Debbie Doc halligan. Dog trader Allen keble, dog father Joey vellani, animal communicator joy Turner and Wendy diamond all at your Beck and call. And if you download the animal radio app, you can ask us your questions right from the animal radio app for your smartphone, your iPhone or your Android. How convenient. So many ways to reach out. I like that. I ask myself questions. Do you? Joey and Joey, do you answer them? Of course, of course. Okay. Yeah, what's the point? Don't. Listen, and just a few minutes we have Deborah Wilson coming up from mad TV. Actually, she hates it when you say that because she's done so much since man. Yeah, she's been off that show for a long long time. I think 2009 is when it went off the air. I thought it was longer than she was there until 2009. And of course she played Oprah Winfrey and Whitney Houston on the show there. Remember her. She was actually one of the most established characters on that show that she spent the most time on that show. Did she really? And she loves the animals and we'll be talking to her in just a couple of minutes and Stacy working hard in the news room. What's up? People come up with all kinds of squirrelly excuses when they're pulled over by the cops. This guy had a squirrelly excuse only it was a real squirrel that was caught in his shirt that was caused him to swerve. There was a little alcohol involved too. He did have a squirrel with him. I'll tell you about it. Coming up on animal radio news. Oh, I'm going to stick around for that. Yes. Good thing it was in his shirt, not his pants. Your pants could be a problem. Nuts, remember that. Joey put up a better bang, that's pretty good. Doc halligan in today for doctor Debbie. This is your second week Doc. In Hawaii, Hawaii, enjoying a beautiful vacation. You having fun? This is your second week now. You're probably working out all the kinks and everything. What happened? I'm having a blast out. Just love this. Joey, I know you had a question for Doc. You don't have to call through on the one 800 lines. You can ask her. Really? Oh, I'm so excited. Hi, Doc. I have golden retriever girl Amira had some major abdominal surgery. And the second part of this is that I also babysit some puppies across the street from me. And their one dog picked up kennel cough from the day care that he goes to. And the surgeon at the hospital that operated on a mirror is saying that that can be viable in the air for four to 6 weeks, so I should stay away from that place for four to 6 weeks or I could bring it home to her on my clothing and the people that own the puppy have said that their doctor has said two weeks. So of course I am way over protective of my and I would say I'm an expert being a shelter vet on kennel coffin, border child complex. But technically, what happens is the dogs, they have the virus, right? And they're coughing, and they're shedding it while they're coughing. But then once they stop coughing, some dogs can be shedding the virus for up to four weeks. And you wouldn't know it. This is once the clinical signs have stopped. That's why it is so hard to get rid of in the kennel. Because you have dogs that aren't coughing anymore, but they're still shedding it. So to be safe, I would say four weeks. Excellent, thank you so much. We have Susan on the phone for Allen. Hey, Susan, how are you doing? I'm doing fine. Thank you. I'm hoping that you can help me out here. Okay. I've got an 11 year old toy poodle male who suddenly has become not broken. And I'm not sure what's going on. We have had a serious problem with fleas. This summer and I've been fleet dipping them or bathing them taken care of that trying to get that under control and it seems like for the last couple of months, at least once a week, this is and these are foods on the hardwood floor. And I don't know what to do about it. Can I ask you a question? Do you have another dog too? Yeah, I've got to another toy poodles, female. And she's a little older than the male. How long have they lived together? Their whole lives or is it a recent? Their whole life. I've got two boxers that are outside dogs, but the poodles are in-house. So the boxers have they always been around too, or they knew. Just three years. Okay. The first thing you should do is take the little fella, take them to the vet because a lot of times when dogs start peeing in the house, it could be a medical problem. They get urinary tract infections just like people. They get kidney stones and bladder stones when they get a little older. So you have to rule out a medical condition before you can do anything else, because your dog's 11 years old, there could be something medically going on. So you want to take your dog to the vet and make sure that is not what's going on. And then the second reason why dogs do this, a lot of times the change in the environment will cause dogs to start going in the house again. That's why I asked you if you got a new dog, because that would cause it. Sometimes even new dogs moving into the neighborhood will cause something like that. Anxiety. Sometimes, believe it or not, dogs just like people when they get a little older, they develop sometimes a form of Alzheimer's and they actually forget. If none of these, if none of these is the problem, you just start over just like you did when your dog was a puppy. You clean the area up real good, don't use ammonia because ammonia draws dogs back because their urine has pneumonia. So clean it up with a good product. You get at the pet store that eliminates the sense. So he doesn't return to the scene of the crime. And then you have a regular schedule, you can find the dog when you're not able to give him attention and then you have a regular schedule. So whenever you wake up, you take the dog out after meals, you take the dog out. As soon as your return home from someplace, you take the dog out and you go out with your dog on a leash, you have a treat and as soon as your dog starts to go to the bathroom as soon as that dog is done, you say good dog and give the dog a treat. The most important thing is regular schedule and structure and keeping everything the same. It's just like going back to square one with a puppy. And if you do this, your dog will snap out of it pretty quickly. As long as there's no medical condition. Okay. I appreciate it greatly. Thank you very much. Thanks for your call, Susan. Stacy working hard in the newsroom. What's going on? All right, here's one that you can talk about with your Friends. Would you let your kids go to a pool party where they were going to be swimming with alligators, but it's safe. They taped their mouths shut. Think about it. I'll tell you all the details coming up on animal radio news. Don't they do that to Joey when people are around them? Beth, hi, Beth. Welcome to the show. Hi. I understand you have dog issues. Well, yes. It seems like now I've only had this dog a couple days, but I recently adopted a ten month old mini Aussie from the local rescue group and I also have a four year old Aussie female. And he is very aggressive around her with anything. If she picks up a toy, runs over and takes it away from her. And they get into scuffles over this. And I've had to break up a few altercations. How do you break it up, Beth? What do you do? I just yell at them. Stop. I don't let it escalate to the point where they're just absolutely tearing each other apart. You said that the dog, the one dog you've had for years and the other one you just brought home. You've had for ten months. And the other one you just brought home? The ten month old, I've only had a couple of days. The four year old I've had since she was young. Okay, so now the four year old, how well trained is that dog? I mean, if you told that dog to go down stay, would she do it?
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"joey vellani" Discussed on Animal Radio
"You're listening to animal radio, call the Dream Team now with the free animal radio app for iPhone and Android. Hey, Lois. Hi, how are you today? Good. Welcome to the show. Thank you. Mom, you just found us? Yeah. Where have you been? I missed you. I was going. Where is she? She's going to call in someday. Lois, I want you to meet doctor Debbie. Hey there. She's our veterinarian. She'll answer your vet medical questions. And along with Joey vellani, and they can not, well, Joey is like a groomer. You might have seen him on animal planet. You watch animal planet at all? No, I don't. Okay, so then you haven't seen him. So he's brand new to you. So what do you have going on, Lois? I have two motifs. One, I was someone gave her to me, so please take my baby. I just can't handle her. Well, I took her and she has this problem where she licks her feet. She looks and she likes me up at night. She likes. She's got my other Nazis looking. I went to the vet. They gave her time to get in trouble. That works when it goes off. It's back again. Then I went back to the vet and I gave her some steroids, which I didn't like, but we tried it and didn't have any, you know, I bought some expensive tubes that were supposed to make her not lick a Felix. You can hold her and love on her. And as you're doing it, she likes. So you said the other dog is now doing this behavior as well. The other dog is now doing it. Yes, ma'am. And that's what I have to do. Okay, on the foot area, do you see any areas where there's lost hair or there's sores or red spots? No, but you don't agree with these to go once a month and they have that real long hair before I had room and cut it all off. They gave they gave both of them a poodle puppy feet cut. And their tail. And they just looked so like, for instance, would this all them out just poke them a little like another dog with and go so I. And it worked, but I'm not always there to do that. Well, you know, the number one thing that causes dogs to lick their feet is allergies. The whole category of allergies in some form, whether they're inhalant allergies or food related allergies. And if we saw some improvement with benadryl, you know, maybe it's an allergy kind of playing role. But you said that prednisone, the steroid nothing happened with that, and nothing got better. Ben and drill slowed it down because it wore off. They started licking. And I don't want you to. Yeah, and if a pet isn't responding with an itching or a licking behavior, when we're giving a steroid to me, it says, let's stop our direction because generally that works pretty nicely for most types of allergies. It doesn't work super for food related allergies. So my number one thing I'd say is in that category is I get these kids on a hypoallergenic diet, something that's prescribed by your veterinarian preferably so they can guide you through those steps and find something stick with that for about four to 6 weeks and see if the foot lickin decreases. If not, we may try another diet. But that's one thing that we can try from the source and try more directly to control some of this itching. The other things to think about when I have a dog that's itching and licking and I have multiple dogs in the house all doing the same behavior. I got to think about something infectious. And you know, not to scare you or freak you out, but there are some types of infections that dogs can have that can mimic normal things like allergies that we kind of blame for just about every skin condition out there. And it's natural. We just want to say, oh, we just got allergies. That's why it looks at hole in his side or chooses feed or always has sores on his valley. That's a common thing. But we can see microscopic parasites or mites that can be present in sometimes just select areas of a pet's body. It doesn't always have to be generalized like fleas or ticks. The other thing is we can run into fungal infections, kind of like ringworm. It's in the foot area is not uncommon to either mites or fungal infections. So that for me would be, I love CSI. I love kind of getting to the nitty Gritty of finding out why these things happen and not just trying to throw medicine at animals that we don't really need to. So my recommendation would be, have your vet take a couple samples, have them check for a mites, have them check for a ringworm by a test method. And try to rule that out as a possibility. But many pets I will actually go on forward. If we've got multiple doggies in the house, I'll treat them for mites for a couple months and see if we're seeing any improvement in that foot looking and chewing. Because honestly, I can't tell you how many pets that I've seen come in year after year. Oh, I need medicine for the allergies. And then one time I finally get my samples and I finally get to do some tests and I say, wow, how do you feel about your dog? You have in mites and their feet or in their back all this time and we've been using the wrong approach. So definitely, I'd say that would be one important step for you there. And there are some doggies. It can be a behavioral problem. So almost like an OCD issue. Before I blame that as a possible thing for your babies, you know, I'd want to make sure we check out these medical things. And see if we can try some other remedies because yeah, there's a lot more we can do for your babies there. And a little Maltese is, I bet their little feet are probably kind of stained red or even brown if they're licking them off. White dogs typically, this Brown stating, it almost looks like rust on their fur. It's from a pigment that is found in dog saliva and in their tears. So it's not blood necessarily, things like that. But yeah, that very kind of red brown staining is just a sign. It's a veterinary sign we look around if I see that, I usually can tell. Ah, your baby's been licking, huh? So I hope that's not too much info to throw at you there, Lois, but we can do some things. And give
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"joey vellani" Discussed on Animal Radio
"A second for your calls for doctor Debbie and dog father Joey vellani. Don't forget you can also ask your questions from the free animal radio app for iPhone and Android. But I want to visit with Malay Rodriguez. If you haven't been listening to the last few weeks, the big buzz about town is that you can clone your animals. And you can also genetically preserve them. If you're not ready to clone, you could genetically preserve their DNA in their cells for future use. And we're getting lots of calls about that. Malay and Rodriguez she has the client service manager advising pets, and she's joining us. You must get calls all the time about this, huh? I do. It's really amazing. A pet parents will typically call us because they have a special pet that's like no other pet they've ever had. They've formed a special bond with this pet and they can't imagine living without it. And so they'd like to continue that bond with the potential clone. You see, I'm thinking about that right now. I have a cat that is in his last years of his life. And I'm thinking, boy, it would be nice to do that. I'm not sure if I can go through the whole process yet, but I know that I could genetically preserve it so that when I decide to do it, I can do it down the road. That's right. What are the most frequently asked questions you usually hear from pet owners? Well, I'll tell you that the number one most frequently asked question is, can I clone a pet that's passed away? Is it too late? And so the answer is, yes, under certain circumstances. Now, of course, the best chances of a successful genetic preservation is when a biopsy is done while the pedestal live. That's really the best time to do it. But if the pet has passed away in a pet parent is considering the possibility of maybe cloning someday, then the most important thing the pet owner and the veterinarian need to know is that the pet should be refrigerated. It's not frozen. Freezing will damage the tissues. So I hate to get calls when people tell me that the body has been frozen because usually in that situation there's nothing we can do. So refrigerate the body is really the key here. Biopsies should be taken by the veterinarian as soon as possible after the pet has passed. And they need to be received by our lab at Vita and pets within 5 days. Now, we have emergency instructions on our website. So if passes away and the pet parent doesn't know what to do, they can go to our website, click on the emergency tab and their step by step instructions that are very simple that they can provide those to their veterinarian. And that informs the veterinarian of what to do, how to take a biopsy sample and how to ship those Staples to us in an emergency situation like this. If someone wants to talk to you in person, can they call you? Absolutely. I'd love to give them a call. If they've got questions, any sort of question they have, I'm happy to talk to them and answer any question. They can contact me directly by calling our main number that's 888-876-6104 or they can visit our website. Again, it via gen pets dot com. Mullane Rodrigo sees the client services manager at voyage and pets. Thanks so much. We'll talk to you again soon. Great. Thank you. Bye bye. Hey, Jeff. How are you doing? I'm still good at it. How are you? Very good. What can we do for you? Yeah, we have a older chat about 17 years old has cataracts and now I can see like he can't hear too well. It's anything just as far as blood live is a life out like that or is that operation for cataracts? Affordable or did you say he's 17 years of age? Yeah, he's about 17, 16. 8 years old, but he's free spry. That's a phenomenal lifespan for a kid he'd be at 17. So kudos to you. For cataracts and cats, there can be some confusion because cataracts aren't as common in cats as we see them in dogs. They can, especially over the age of 12 or 13, they can get what we call lenticular sclerosis, which is kind of a white change in the lens of the eye. It doesn't, it's not really a true cataract. So it might just be important to make sure we get that properly diagnosed and have a vet look at those to see if in fact it is cataracts. I guess my next thing would be is in my eyes, I don't think it's gonna matter because I think in a 17 year old cat, the last thing I do is consider cataract surgery. 7 year old ten year old, you know, we might talk about things like that. But with cats cataracts in the true sense of the form, it's usually as a result of some other problem going on in the eyes. So we tend to look for causes of problems called uveitis, infections, and so forth and trauma to the eye. So my hope and my best guess is going to be that your kitty has this more of this aging change in the eye, which isn't really a true cataract. And if that's the case, we don't do anything. We just make sure we make accommodations, sometimes dark dark areas could be a little hard for them to be. Every once in a while, but he doesn't hurt himself so. He's doing okay. Yeah, yeah. And there are some in dogs. We can see cataracts with things like diabetes. In cats, occasionally we can. So if you haven't had a regular visit or blood work, that might be something just to make sure because that kind of condition absolutely we're going to want to treat and the cataracts are kind of just tagging along for the ride on those situations. Okay. Thank you very much. Take care Jen. All right. Well, that was a whole bunch of radio jammed into a small amount of time. If you need your fix, head on over to animal radio dot com or even download the animal radio app for iPhone and Android. And do not forget if you have a Yorkshire terrier, a shih tzu a pug or a mini schnauzer, check out doctor Debbie's books how to be your dog's best friend. These are Kindle books, so you can read them on your Kindle device and they're over at Amazon.com. And we have links to it as well as everything you've put on today's show over at animal radio dot com. Have yourself a great week. Bye bye. See you next week..
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"joey vellani" Discussed on Animal Radio
"Will tell us exactly what our animals are saying. And as far as my cats, I'm not sure that I want to know what they're saying, but nonetheless, it would be nice to talk to the doll. Have a conversation with a dog. He'll tell us all about that coming up before the end of the show today. We're taking your calls, if you want to talk to doctor Debbie or Joey vellani. And doctor Debbie, I got to say, you stink today. How? I know. Hey, I have an excuse. I have an excuse. We're dealing with what kind of I call sewer work around here. What do you mean? Sewer work. Dealing with butt stuff going on. Really? So I have the cat patient who has what we call megacolon. And it's basically a condition in cats where they have pooping and they get constipated and they get constipated to a point where the colon gets greatly distended to three times its normal capacity. And that actually can cause damage to the colon and kind of sets the cycle where they can't poop at all. So this kitty, I mean, I'm telling you, this looks like this is like a 120 pound person. The amount of feces that was inside of it on an x-ray. So we tried some medication, fluids, things didn't work. So the sewer work as I call it is basically where we manually empty the colon with enemas and they're under anesthesia and we basically break that up. With a lot of work, just kind of getting stuff out of the backside. So my odor is not my fault. Okay. The good news is the kitty will be able to poop comfortably and that also, this kid also couldn't urinate because the colon was so huge it was blocking the bladder off. So he couldn't empty his bladder. So a lot of tough work in the ICU that's been going on for the last couple of days. But hopefully after this procedure, he'll be able to poop again, get him on some good medications and get him comfortable and keep the keep the poop rolling, if you will. How old is he? He's about a 7, 8 year old cat. He was kind of a rescue. So we're kind of guessing there about. And he had been on some medications to help try to manage his stools because he'd gone through about it this many years ago. And we thought that everything was going swell. But things have changed. He's older, and definitely has some other issues going on. But one thing that I always like to point out to cat owners is if your cat doesn't poop at least once a day, that is a problem. So yeah, cats as they get older and they naturally contend towards constipation and they can be like dehydrated without us knowing it, even if we think they're drinking enough. So this can occur. So if your cat doesn't poop every day, it's something to ask your veterinarian about. And usually we can just put our hand on a belly like his and I can feel the poo just kind of all backed up, but in his case, the x-ray tells the whole story. But now what food helped that over dry kibble? You know, it can help only in the sense that there's more moisture in canned food, but it does it once we get to the point he's at, there's nothing that helps. It's just the colon is the part of the body that takes fluid away. So if your body's kind of if you need a little extra hydration in your body and you're not taking in more, the colon will pull fluid out of its contents and it goes into your bloodstream. But then that means that the stool gets drier and harder and it becomes like concrete or even clay. And it's just physically can't move out without the best of enemas and sometimes getting down and dirty like this. Now what about a cat that poops 15 times in 24 hours? That's a different situation. But you know what? The interesting thing is cats can be constipated and still pass poop, and a lot of times I have cat owners just always poop in fine, but a little kibble falls out or they'll pass some diarrhea. And there's still a lot of stool in, but they're passing liquid around it. So they still can actually have a build up in that way. You don't really recognize it. You have a glamorous job, but I'm sure you're here a hero to that cat that is finally poop and pee. And as we say, it all comes out good in the end. It's a little poop joke there, just in case. And lucky to have a good owner. So we're going to go to the phones and you can ask your questions of doctor Debbie in just a couple of seconds here. Which one, Judy? I go to line one. And we go to rogelio, calling from Los Angeles. Is that correct? That's correct. How are you doing? What's going on today? I'm doing great, sir. Thanks for asking. Yes, actually I have a question about my dog. Her name is princess. Okay. All the time, she's looking my hands and then every time I go to sleep, she always do that. I don't know why she do that. She's licking your hands and was there something else she was looking to, I didn't catch all of my hair. Your hair. Okay. And sometimes she's pretty upset and I don't know why I work graveyard. So like every time she gets tried to sleep with me all day and she is scared of a little kid. And also she cares about people because she was mistreated before in terms of her have her. She's been very happy, but it's only with us me and my wife. She's happy with you, but anything else kind of gives her nervous frightened. Every time I take her out, she's always coming inside. She don't want to go outside. So if she goes outside or is around, say, noises or children or cars, what does she do? She tried to run away from people and she tried to hide behind me like right away. She tried to make for a place to hide right away. Okay. Well, this may be two separate things where they could actually be kind of connected. So there are many dogs that have what we call excessive licking. Sometimes dogs may look excessively when they have digestive problems of various sorts. And then there's kind of the whole behavioral triggers for that. And it can actually be a self soothing behavior. So it helps to kind of calm some dogs in some ways. So that's a possibility. It's a way of showing faction as a dog. They groom each other. They lick each other. So licking of human that they endear can be a sign of affection in that way, too. But if it's potentially something related to anxiety, I could kind of make that case from what everything else you're describing, because a dog that's really anxious in a lot of certain situations, anything new. People, sounds, movements, children, other animals. It can be hard on the phone to determine exactly what potential triggers your pet has and what the cause is. But I kind of lump this into a generalized anxiety category until I know otherwise. And that just basically means that a lot of things make your pet anxious and that she has behaviors that are not calm, productive behaviors when she's faced with those things. So the trick is, yeah, if there were experiences, she's had before, that's kind of set the tone. So you can't take away whatever's happened to her, and you're never going to change that. But how we move forward is really the important thing. And for a dog that has this kind of anxiety, there's a couple of key things that we really want to do. One is we definitely need to provide a lot of structure in her world. And that basically means we are going to set her up to succeed. And we're going to set her up to situations that are not going to be overly stimulating for her. So if right now, she gets freaked out going on a walk or going to the park because kids are there. There's noises. We don't want to put her in that situation. Because we need to set up a good pattern where she has positive experiences where she feels calm, safe, and she knows it's a predictable environment. The worst thing you can do is take a dog with this kind of fearful behavior and say, we're just going to make her get used to it. And take her out into those situations and just flood her system. So that would be the wrong thing to do. So the best thing would be if you do take her up for walks, I take her out when children or other people are really not out there. So I know of some folks in my neighborhood that walk their reactive dogs before sun up before people are out. And they keep a distance away from those triggers, whatever they may be. And just to not get your pet too close to those things that get her worked up and nervous. But the other things that we.