March 29, 2026

#4: We're Back: House Fire Rescue, Fake Tick Collars, and Porcupine Arrows

We're back! After a short break, Dad and the Vet Tech return for Episode 4 - and Stella made sure the comeback was anything but calm. From nearly unplugging the studio to refusing to move, she set the tone perfectly for everything that followed. In this episode we catch up with Alice, dive into some real clinic cases including a cat rescued from a house fire that arrived covered in soot and went straight into an oxygen chamber, and share one of the most heartbreaking stories we've told yet. ...

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In this episode we catch up with Alice, dive into some real clinic cases including a cat rescued from a house fire that arrived covered in soot and went straight into an oxygen chamber, and share one of the most heartbreaking stories we've told yet. a cat sitter who held a photo of the owners up to their cat during its final moments so it wouldn't be alone.

We also talk about the giant white cat that followed the Vet Tech and her sister the entire length of the street on a walk, tick season arriving way too early and the very real danger of counterfeit flea and tick collars causing seizures in dogs. We debate whether porcupines actually shoot their quills.

And then there's Wilma, our wiener dog that eats everything, raw onions , a discarded hamburger she refused to surrender even under protest, and a long piece of sidewalk bubble gum she chewed like she had nowhere to be. She has never lost one of these battles.

We close out with the 2 and 2 — two good animal stories from the news and two not so good , because the world isn't all sunshine and rainbows and neither is this podcast.

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Hey, hey, we are back.

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Are you ready to dive in?

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Let's go.

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And believe it or not, we are back.

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The Dad and the Vet Tech Podcast.

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This is episode four.

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I'm the Dad, and she is the Vet Tech.

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Hi.

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Hi.

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Well, I must say it has happened.

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They warned it could happen.

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They said to be prepared for it.

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And sure enough, here we are.

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We had a lapse.

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Come on, man.

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Yep, with no episodes.

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No episodes.

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Well, let's be honest.

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We traveled, we visited with family, and then the next thing you know, we blinked, and here we are.

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Yep.

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Our schedules didn't match up for a bit.

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We couldn't get new episodes out, but we are officially back in the saddle, so to speak, and we're ready to kickstart this thing back up.

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Sure are.

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So as we're recording right now, Stella happens to be right in the middle of everything.

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She's eyeballing and touching everything.

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So, Miss Stella, could you kindly move over?

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Nope, don't touch that.

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She's on this.

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Stella.

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What?

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Hold on a second.

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Get her over here.

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Oh, this cat.

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Alright, what is she doing exactly?

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Do you know?

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I'm not sure.

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She's having a party, apparently.

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You know what?

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I think we're gonna leave this right the episode, too, because this is start.

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What is this?

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She's gonna unplug something.

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It is pure chaos here in the studio, but have no fear, we are here.

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If you're new here, it is not always this chaotic, but welcome and thank you for stopping by.

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And if you've been here before, hello to you also.

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Sincere apologies for the laps in the new episodes.

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That's something that we're working with to match our schedules to get studio time, but we're glad that you came back.

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On today's show, we'll catch you up.

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We'll talk about what's been going on, we'll check in with Alice and see what she's been up to.

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And as always, we'll cover the two and two, which is two good animal stories in the news and two not so good animal stories.

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Two good, two not so good.

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We try to keep it real because let's be honest, the world is not all sunshine and rainbows.

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So, what do you want to do?

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You want to dive right in or you want to check on Alice?

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Let's check on Alice first.

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Let's let's check on Alice and see if she found another family.

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Hey, Alice, it's dad in the vet tech.

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We're back at it, and we're just checking to see if you are still there.

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Oh, hey, yes, I'm here.

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I miss you too.

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I was literally just sitting on the beach pretending to be a sand sculptor, but waiting for you.

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What's up?

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I'm so ready to catch up.

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That's awesome.

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So we missed you as well, and I'm glad you're sitting on the beach.

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I wish I was on the beach.

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I wish I was on the beach too.

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We uh we're just getting back to things.

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So we may have some questions for you, and we'll throw it back to you here at some point to get your expert opinions on things.

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And I'm glad to hear your voice, and I'm glad that you're back.

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Yeah, I'm so happy to be back.

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I can't wait to dive in.

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Just let me know what you need, and I'll be ready with some solid takes, whether it's tech tips or just beach vibes.

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Awesome.

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We'll talk to you soon, Alice.

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Thanks.

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Boy, she's happy.

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Yeah, I wish I was on the beach.

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She didn't even quiz us on, like, hey, where are you guys been?

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I know.

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She just living like a big thing.

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I was gonna tell her, hey, Alice, things happen, you know.

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And we could hit Stella's button here and just say, listen, we're still feeling the beach vibes, Alice.

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Joke's on us, she has this song play on the beach.

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No doubt about it.

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Especially by her little all fun loving voice there.

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Yeah.

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Hey, let's get this thing off of here.

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So you've been busy a little bit.

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Super busy.

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Uh, we both have, which is why we had a lapse in episodes.

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Right.

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Anyway, let's talk about a couple of the cases that we were talking about in the last few weeks.

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You had a house fire kitty cat.

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Yes.

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You know, I've been to my fair share of house fires, and I'm telling you, when they're fully involved and there's chaos and you don't know if people are in there, you don't know if pets are in there.

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Those are terrifying to be honest with you.

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Yeah.

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And you think about it, if a lot of the animals, once they're scared like that, they'll go and hide and hunker down.

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Especially cats.

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Especially cats, right.

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You think about it.

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Uh, but anyway, they were able to get this particular cat out of the house, right?

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Yeah, they actually rescued the cat out of the house and it was we had snow on the ground and they was on fire, so they put it on the snow.

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Wow.

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To hose it down, and then the emergency services picked it up and lights and sirensed it to a clinic, our clinic.

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What kind of shape was the cat in when it arrived to you?

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Honestly, it wasn't the worst that I've ever seen.

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Was he covered with soot?

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Yeah.

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He was he burned?

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Yeah, uh, just a little bit on his ears and his around his eyes.

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His other skin was honestly good.

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So you think about how hot a house fire can actually get, even if you're not, you know, currently on fire, like your fur's not on fire, but those gases and all the smoke and and the extreme heat, there it's just it's suffocating.

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And I just think about that.

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But for them, what whatever the firefighters got the cat out, they drag him out, throw him in the snow, and he's doing good, right?

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Right, yeah, he's doing a lot better.

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He did lose his ears, uh, they just fall off just from being burned.

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Oh, that's typically common in house fire animals.

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But he's doing well, he's with his owners, and he's super happy now.

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That's awesome.

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What do you do?

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You make sure they have pain meds and all of that stuff.

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Yep.

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When he came in on presentation, we placed an Ivy catheter and gave pain medications right away.

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So in house fires, when people are burnt or their skin, they have, you know, second, third degree burns.

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Obviously, I'm not a firefighter, but I've been part of these rescues with law enforcement.

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Get them to the hospital, they get them kind of stable, make sure that you know they're breathing okay and all of that stuff.

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A lot of times they'll have them with a medical helicopter fly to a burn center that are specifically, you know, they treat burns like that.

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Is there anything like that for for animals or is it all like no, I think it's all within one.

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Not that I know of at least.

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Um most of the animals unfortunately don't make it like that.

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Yeah.

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So another another big concern is if you're in a house fire and you're breathing those heated gases, what that actually does to your lungs, to the airway.

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It takes for animals to know that they have trauma in their lungs, it takes a little bit to see the side effects from the inhalation.

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Okay.

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Yeah, it's not good at all.

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And I remember, I don't know, one of the cases that I had, I remember having those classic lines underneath your nose of soot that go all the way down.

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And I remember them putting, I don't know, they put this mystified oxygen.

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Is that a thing?

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That is a thing.

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We have we actually put this cat in particular on presentation into the oxygen chamber.

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Okay.

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Um, which is just a cage that is 40% oxygen.

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Is it mystified?

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It's not mystified.

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We could probably make it uh mystified, but he, like I said, wasn't wasn't too terrible.

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I will say that that mystified uh that actually felt good when when you're breathing that oxygen and it's mystified and you've you've had all of that junk, you know, inhaled.

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That actually felt pretty good at the time.

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But yeah, house fires are they can be absolutely terrifying, especially like I said, when you're looking at a house and it's completely on fire, and you know that your pets or your loved ones are inside, and you will literally there have been so many pet owners and and regular people trying to save other people that run back inside and they don't come back out.

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Right, exactly.

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In this case, were there any other animals that were in the house that didn't make it out or did?

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I think there was another cat that unfortunately did not make it out of the house.

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Oh um, but other than like all the people had made it out and they were all safe.

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Well, that's good.

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Yeah, obviously people first and very, very close second, your animals, but at least this kid he made it out very lucky.

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And he's doing really well, so I mean that's good news.

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It's it's terrible that the house fire they they lost their house.

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Right, which is terrible.

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Yeah, so there was that I remember you talking about that.

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Oh, hey, let's talk about a little phone call I got the just the other night.

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I know where this is going.

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Yeah, so do I.

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So the phone rings.

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You already know this story, the audience does not.

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So my phone rings.

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The last I knew, you, your sister, and your mom, I had a work phone call I took, and you guys went and took Wilma for a walk.

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Yep.

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And if you don't, the people that are first listening, if you don't know Wilma, if you scroll back a couple episodes, we talk a lot about who Wilma is and how we got her, little wiener dog.

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So you guys are out walking Wilma, the last I know.

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So my phone goes off and it's FaceTime.

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Like, this is weird.

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Uh, hopefully nothing's wrong.

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So I answer it, and I don't see your face.

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I don't see your sister's face.

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Nope.

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I see a cat.

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A white cat.

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A ginormous white cat.

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He was so cute.

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And he can barely walk.

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Well, I say he now, I didn't know that.

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Yeah, that's true.

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It looked this cat had a couple sores, you told me, by its ear, and it's following you guys or trying to.

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It's actually waddling.

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Yeah.

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It can't walk.

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We thought it was pregnant.

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And you're asking me what you should do.

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What?

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So your mother was like, see ya, I'm out of here.

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Leave the cat alone.

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What's that?

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Like, hell no.

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Nope.

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She kept walking, she's gone.

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So it's you and your sister and me on FaceTime, like I'm gonna be able to do something.

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So, long story short, finish what actually happened.

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Or what you were thinking.

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You thought you were gonna bring that thing home.

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I did.

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I thought I was gonna pick it up and walk home with it and have another one.

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What exactly would Stella do with this ginormous cat that can't walk?

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Yeah, I would say so.

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But she wouldn't mind afterwards.

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Um, this cat we were walking, and we had saw it laying in a driveway, so we went to pet it.

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And then my sister and I were like, okay, like time's up, and we started walking away and it kept following us.

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And so when a cat follows you, you can't really just run away.

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So we kept saying, like, oh, it maybe it lives here and it it has boundaries.

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It did not have boundaries.

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We walked about the whole entire street and it was still following us.

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Yeah.

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That's when we took it.

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Well, listen, you could literally walk at a snail's pace and get away from this cat was trying to waddle.

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So, anyway, obviously, I don't know.

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The the whole those commercials with the shelter that they show you and these sad dogs and these sad cats.

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I get off the phone with you.

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I'm like, I don't know, check with the neighbors, figure it out.

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No, do not bring this cat here.

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We can't have this cat.

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And and if it is pregnant, what are we gonna do with kittens?

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Yeah.

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So, long story short, you call back and you said, Hey, uh, guess what?

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We we found the cat sitter.

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Yeah, it was a cat sitter that came out.

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She was like, Is he not walking well?

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And we were like, he's just following us.

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We didn't know if he had a home or not.

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Oh, and I said, Don't don't call me with stranded animals.

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Uh, that's just terrible.

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And I'm looking at this cat.

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So did she say what the heck?

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Why did it have like a sore by its ear?

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She didn't say anything about that.

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Perfectly white cat.

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It's got red sore by its ear, and it is huge.

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He was chunky.

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Chunky?

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He can't even like his legs, he couldn't even move.

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He's waddling.

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He'd take a few steps and sit.

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That's why I thought he was gonna have to be carried.

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He looked, I don't know how you'd pick him up.

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He's bigger than Wilma.

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It was big.

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Oh my god.

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But the cat said her tuck uh like picked him up and took him into her home, so I didn't have to bring it home.

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Yeah, thankfully.

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And and your mom got home way before you guys, and I'm like, do you know where the girls are?

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Yeah, they're over there with some big cat.

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And she just walked away.

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She walked away from you guys with Wilma.

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Yeah, she did.

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She was like, leave the cat alone.

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We're like, we can't, it's following us.

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And then we didn't see her until we were back home.

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To the cat's defense, it did look very friendly, but man, he could hardly walk.

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He was so cute.

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I really did think it was a great big huge pregnant cat.

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And she was or he was waddling, so it led I thought he was pregnant.

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You know what other story you told me about, or we talked about, and I've been thinking about how sad that was uh since you told me.

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It's the dog sitter while the the owners were on vacation, and the dog sitter that had an emergency or something and brought it in and held the picture up.

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You mean the cat?

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No, you said a dog, right?

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It's a cat.

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It was a cat.

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Oh, it was a cat?

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But same scenario?

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Yeah.

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Okay, so it was a cat.

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I thought it was a dog.

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This whole time I thought it was a dog.

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Like these poor owners went on vacation and something happened to the dog, and the dog sitter brought it, and it had to be euthanized, and they pulled out a picture of the owners, but it's a cat?

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It's it was a cat the whole time, but that's the same story.

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It's still just as sad though.

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Oh my.

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Yeah, uh, yeah.

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Where did she get the photo to bring in?

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I think she was cat sitting at their house.

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Right, but what would make you think to bring a photo of I think she went back when we were doing all the diagnostics?

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I think she went back to grab it.

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That is heart wrenching.

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That was that was one of the that was heart wrenching.

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Oh, I how could it not be?

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I I was trying to tell him I brought like little snacks for before he went and I They said that and I was like, I'm okay.

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Here's the snacks.

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Oh my yeah, it was so that it was beyond being able to be saved.

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It had to be euthanized, right?

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And so and they had just left for vacation too.

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Oh, so she goes and gets a photo of the owners, and while it's being euthanized, she holds a photo of the owners up to the cat to see.

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Oh my god.

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To close its eyes too, she told me.

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Listen, there are some stories you can tell me any story you want.

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That is heartbreaking.

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That is awful.

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On both sides of it.

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Uh-huh.

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Well, wait, three sides, maybe four sides.

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On the poor cat sitter, on the cats for the poor cat, the owners, and you guys.

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Yeah.

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That one was a rough one.

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Oh my god.

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I think that was the beginning of my shift too.

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So you know, I sit here and I think, you know, we talk about Czar, our German Shepherd.

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If we were on vacation and we were far away and something happened, and we had a dog sitter that had to do that same exact scenario.

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I almost, if I could not be there, 100% be there, I would almost want her to FaceTime so I could like Zar could hear our voice or something.

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And I I'm not saying there's anything wrong with a photo.

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It's just heart-wrenching no matter what.

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Yeah.

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That's terrible.

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So can you just imagine you're going on vacation, everything is taken care of, you have somebody to watch your house, you have somebody to watch your beloved cat.

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You know, you're there, you're arrived, you're ready just to relax, and you get a phone call from the cat sitter.

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Not at all.

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Hey, something's wrong, and then it turns out to be very wrong.

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They have to not only make the decision to have the cat put down.

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Over the phone.

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Then you think, geez, I hope it's a good photo.

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I hope the cat recognizes me.

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Like a photo from 20 years ago, and the cat wasn't even.

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I'm trying to make it funny, and it's not funny no matter what I say.

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That's terrible.

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Yeah.

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Next topic, that is horrible.

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My God.

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Jesus.

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Yeah.

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Anyway, you've had some other routine stuff that's coming up, right?

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Spring is coming along here, uh, at least where we live.

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And guess what?

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They're already talking about.

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And I don't know if this is countrywide or whatever, it's just, you know, located where we live.

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The damn ticks are out already.

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Yep.

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Like the snow is still melting and the ticks are out.

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I feel like they never even left.

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I I can't stand ticks.

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And I saw I read something recently where they had tested a certain percentage which was very high, where all the ticks were testing, and they either had Lyme disease and this and that and the other.

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What do you do at the clinic?

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Do people bring them in when they're loaded with ticks?

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Sometimes if there's an extreme amount of ticks that they have, but that's usually if they've been missing for a few days.

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Usually they bring them in about a couple weeks later after they had gotten bit by a tick for symptoms of a tick-borne disease, such as anaplasmosis, Lyme disease, or Ehrlichia.

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So they're already embedded when they bring them in?

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They've probably already fallen off when they bring them in.

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Dude, I'm not laughing about that.

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I remember one time we went somewhere and your sister, when we got home, came out and said, Oh my god, I've got a tick.

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And she had a tick on her hairline by her forehead that was partially embedded.

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And of course you start freaking out.

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Right.

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Right?

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And they say, If the head's embedded, don't break this in half.

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And back then, I mean, now they make them you know better than me, but we have a tool remover for ticks, and it has like a V.

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Yep.

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I don't know.

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Uh our other dogs used to have them, and I always had a hell of a time getting those out.

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Now I fully believe there are two types of tick people.

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Ones are like, I get them all the time, get over here.

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That's no big deal.

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But there's a big bubble in a bullseye.

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That's no big deal.

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Yep.

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And then there's tick people like me, like, holy crap, I'm panicking, I gotta get this out of here because I don't know how long it takes to transfer whatever disease they have.

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Right.

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And we had a full-blown operation table going with your sister for one that was half embedded in her forehead.

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So we've got her laid out, and uh, you know, just like the typical you put a towel over every part of her except that area.

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You got a big spotlight on her.

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Of course, she's freaking out, and your mother's holding her down.

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And we got we ended up getting that out, and it was not embedded.

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I don't remember if it was broken half or whatever, and then they just tell you to watch for a fever, watch for I know they don't do that.

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Dogs, but yeah, yeah, but and people, your daughter, so to speak.

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But yeah, there are definitely people that freak out about ticks.

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Now I've had I was on a call one time, we were out in the woods looking for somebody, and they said, Hey, just check yourself for ticks because they're all over the place, and there's appleseed.

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Pretty sure it was appleseed ticks, and sure enough, I had some crawling on my pants.

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And I know that the deer ticks are the apparently the most dangerous, at least in our area.

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But I don't want any of those things on me.

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They're tiny, you can barely see them.

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Yeah, and these things had like a red back or whatever.

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I just brushed myself like completely off, and and then you you worry that they get up under your pants and into your legs, and just yeah, they're disgusting.

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I can't stand them.

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So, anyway, what advice do you have for getting ready for tick season for animals, anyway?

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Not your sister.

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We can get her a hopefully a tick collar.

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Yeah, right.

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I was just gonna say how fashionable that would be for her.

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No way.

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Like a choker.

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Yeah, I like your new choker chain there.

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It's looking great.

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Any ticks on you?

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They all fall up.

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Um, like prevention-wise is the most you can do.

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Is that a shot?

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What do we give Wilma?

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A monthly pill.

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Oh, okay.

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Is there a preference of one to the other, or is just whatever the pet owner decides?

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Whatever the pet owner decides, and sometimes it's uh price.

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