March 29, 2026

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

#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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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. 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?

00:15:32.559 --> 00:15:37.679
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.

00:17:18.880 --> 00:17:22.400
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.

00:17:57.359 --> 00:18:02.799
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.

00:18:06.079 --> 00:18:06.480
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.

00:18:36.079 --> 00:18:40.079
Now, are those, you know how they have the flea and tick collars that we were just goofing on?

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Are those dangerous?

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Or do I remember reading something about you?

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Probably did.

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So there's counterfeit ones that you should not ever use.

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You always want name brands.

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So, like if you buy them off like Amazon or from Walmart or any kind of store, you should not use those.

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They typically are harmful to your dog.

00:18:58.960 --> 00:18:59.200
Really?

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Even on Amazon?

00:19:00.400 --> 00:19:00.640
Yes.

00:19:00.960 --> 00:19:03.839
Well, I know Amazon has all kinds of you always have to watch out.

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You think they're name brands and they're they're legit, and they're actually a a third-party seller.

00:19:08.960 --> 00:19:09.119
Right.

00:19:09.279 --> 00:19:14.640
Yeah, I've seen many cases where they come in having a first-time seizure with no A seizure?

00:19:14.799 --> 00:19:18.559
Yeah, sometimes it causes because it's just harmful chemicals that they put on and sell.

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Holy cow.

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Yeah, yeah, that's not what I was thinking.

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I thought you were using the name brand.

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Hey, the uh Sparky's got a little rash here and all, but he's full-blown.

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Sometimes seizures happen quite often.

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Holy cow.

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Yeah.

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Or there's like tick spray too.

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I wouldn't trust those either.

00:19:32.079 --> 00:19:35.039
Yeah, I don't know about spraying tick spray all over your dog.

00:19:35.359 --> 00:19:38.000
Yeah, because then they lick it and then sometimes they do?

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Like people have people spray?

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I don't like the smell of it.

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Axe spray or whatever, body spray like that.

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Come here.

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Come here, Sparky.

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Hold still.

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And then they lick it and it's all over.

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Well, obviously.

00:19:50.799 --> 00:19:53.920
It'd be like picking them up and doing uh a flea dunk on them.

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You stick them in the water.

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That's so stupid.

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Um but yeah, just prevention.

00:20:00.880 --> 00:20:04.640
There's Lyme uh vaccines that you should get for your dog too.

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I don't Wilma doesn't have a collar, right?

00:20:06.720 --> 00:20:06.960
Obviously.

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No, she takes the monthly pill.

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So if you do that, then you don't need a collar.

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Not necessarily.

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Unless if she was a farm dog and always in the grass.

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Oh, she's she looks like a farm dog.

00:20:18.160 --> 00:20:19.599
She looks like she ate a farm.

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She looks like a hedgehog.

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I think Wilma needs to lose a few pounds.

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And that is not fat shaming, that is concern for Wilma.

00:20:26.880 --> 00:20:27.759
Exactly.

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Uh we used to have a wiener dog and now we have a sausage dog.

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Literally.

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With squirrel feet.

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Because her feet, you ever look at her feet?

00:20:38.559 --> 00:20:39.599
You ever look at Wilma's feet?

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Sometimes.

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Oh my, they look just like a squirrel foot.

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And why are they why are her feet outwards?

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Like they they're not straight.

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Her feet are.

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If you look at those tracks, if you're an animal tracker in the snow or the mud, I don't know if I would pick that out and be like, there's something wrong with this squirrel.

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Look at the way these feet go.

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Yeah, that is true.

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She is a dochin.

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God.

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Oh, and you know what else you talk a lot about?

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I don't know how many cases you get, but you talk a lot about quills in dogs.

00:21:14.079 --> 00:21:14.400
Yes.

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Every weekend.

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They can be like a nuisance where they're just on the outer.

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You ever see oh well, you do.

00:21:20.799 --> 00:21:27.359
I've seen the photos like they're just covered in the outside of the lips with those little javelin looking things.

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Yeah, and they look like they hurt.

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They do.

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They do.

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Do you have to give pain meds to the dogs?

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Yeah, we put them out.

00:21:32.799 --> 00:21:34.799
We put them out, but well, we sedate them.

00:21:35.119 --> 00:21:35.759
Yeah, that's yeah.

00:21:36.559 --> 00:21:37.200
Yeah, we put them out.

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There's nothing we could do.

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We do sedation and pain control for them.

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Obviously.

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So I would imagine, yes, okay, so that that's just painful.

00:21:45.119 --> 00:21:51.759
And I think, I don't know, somewhere I read don't they have like um it's almost like a fish hook where it goes in, but it kind of stays.

00:21:51.920 --> 00:21:53.599
It's like got like a barb in those, or no?

00:21:53.839 --> 00:21:55.359
Yeah, they're barbed on the front of them.

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On the front of the quill?

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Yes.

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So do you think the dogs are actually Are they just biting at them or trying to eat them?

00:22:02.319 --> 00:22:03.599
Or what are they doing when they do that?

00:22:03.680 --> 00:22:05.839
Obviously they have to bite them to get the quills and I get them.

00:22:06.079 --> 00:22:08.240
Well, sometimes the porcupine shoots the quills.

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Really?

00:22:08.960 --> 00:22:09.680
I think so.

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Alice.

00:22:11.680 --> 00:22:12.880
Oh, we have to ask Al.

00:22:14.000 --> 00:22:15.119
What do you mean they shoot them?

00:22:15.279 --> 00:22:17.359
I'm pretty sure when they're scared, they shoot the porcupine.

00:22:17.759 --> 00:22:18.640
You know, I always heard that.

00:22:18.799 --> 00:22:20.240
I didn't know if that was a big myth.

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Like they, you know how they shiver?

00:22:21.839 --> 00:22:22.480
I'm doing it right now.

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Yeah, I don't know if you could.

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You can't see me.

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He looks like he's having a seizure.

00:22:26.799 --> 00:22:28.480
You can't see me, but I'm trying to.

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If I had quills, I think that's how I would shoot them.

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So I don't know if they actually shoot them out.

00:22:34.160 --> 00:22:37.119
Like if they get close and they go bing, bang, bang, bang, bang, and they're on the outside.

00:22:38.400 --> 00:22:39.839
Most of the dogs bite them because they're on the side.

00:22:40.000 --> 00:22:44.799
So how do they get like 500 of those on the outside of their that's what I was actually trying to ask you.

00:22:44.880 --> 00:22:49.920
Like if they're trying to bite them, you would think they would all be on the inside and the tongues and in the throat.

00:22:50.319 --> 00:22:56.079
So those are the dogs that are biting, but what about the ones that come and they just like we always say they just give it a kiss?

00:22:56.160 --> 00:22:57.680
Like they just little boop it.

00:22:58.000 --> 00:22:58.400
What?

00:22:58.559 --> 00:22:58.960
Yeah.

00:22:59.279 --> 00:23:01.599
Like just like they just put their snap to it.

00:23:01.839 --> 00:23:04.319
Oh, I wish you guys could see what she's doing.

00:23:04.559 --> 00:23:06.640
Like a turkey neck out.

00:23:07.039 --> 00:23:08.079
I see what you're saying.

00:23:08.240 --> 00:23:10.240
Let me ask uh, let's get Alice in here.

00:23:10.400 --> 00:23:13.440
Uh, because I don't know, maybe that's true, maybe it's not.

00:23:13.519 --> 00:23:14.799
I I have always heard that.

00:23:14.960 --> 00:23:18.880
Hey, Alice, we have a question for you if you're available.

00:23:19.279 --> 00:23:19.839
Of course.

00:23:19.920 --> 00:23:20.880
I'm here and ready.

00:23:20.960 --> 00:23:21.680
What's your question?

00:23:21.839 --> 00:23:23.440
I'd love to help out however I can.

00:23:23.759 --> 00:23:24.079
Awesome.

00:23:24.240 --> 00:23:30.319
So we are talking about dogs and quills that get stuck in their lips, their snout, and whatnot.

00:23:30.400 --> 00:23:36.079
And the question came up do porcupines shoot their quills like if a dog's getting close?

00:23:36.240 --> 00:23:37.759
How does that work with a porcupine?

00:23:38.160 --> 00:23:39.119
That's a great question.

00:23:39.359 --> 00:23:41.839
No, porcupines don't actually shoot their quills.

00:23:42.000 --> 00:23:46.720
The quills are just really loosely attached, so when a dog bumps into them, the quills come out and get stuck.

00:23:46.960 --> 00:23:49.599
That's why it's so important to keep an eye on your dog after a close encounter.

00:23:50.079 --> 00:23:50.640
Okay, thank you.

00:23:50.880 --> 00:23:56.240
Because my vet tech of a daughter is trying to tell me that they shoot them like arrows.

00:23:56.559 --> 00:23:58.000
So here comes Sparky.

00:23:58.319 --> 00:23:58.880
Look out.

00:23:59.039 --> 00:24:00.400
So that's not the case.

00:24:00.799 --> 00:24:01.279
Exactly.

00:24:01.359 --> 00:24:03.839
Yeah, I know it sounds like that, but it's not how it works.

00:24:04.079 --> 00:24:06.640
The quills just attach when something brushes up against them.

00:24:06.880 --> 00:24:10.559
So keep a close eye on Sparky, and if you get the quills, definitely get it checked out.

00:24:10.799 --> 00:24:11.440
My bad.

00:24:11.680 --> 00:24:12.000
Thanks.

00:24:12.400 --> 00:24:13.519
They'll retire.

00:24:15.119 --> 00:24:16.240
Oh my god.

00:24:17.519 --> 00:24:20.319
We're gonna have to have people fact check everything we say.

00:24:21.200 --> 00:24:22.880
Hey, a disclaimer, we are not.

00:24:24.640 --> 00:24:25.599
They shot them.

00:24:25.920 --> 00:24:26.880
Like bow and arrows.

00:24:27.119 --> 00:24:29.039
I was thinking, how does that work?

00:24:29.440 --> 00:24:32.160
Oh, they just boop them and they just arrow shoot them.

00:24:32.240 --> 00:24:32.559
What?

00:24:32.720 --> 00:24:34.319
We think we know what we're talking about.

00:24:34.559 --> 00:24:37.680
Oh, and then you said, uh, hey, guess what I dealt with today?

00:24:37.759 --> 00:24:38.319
What's that?

00:24:38.400 --> 00:24:39.039
How was your day?

00:24:39.200 --> 00:24:41.519
Oh, I had to make a dog throw up a pair of underwear.

00:24:41.680 --> 00:24:42.559
Oh, that is true.

00:24:42.880 --> 00:24:43.119
What?

00:24:45.200 --> 00:24:45.599
Yeah.

00:24:45.839 --> 00:24:46.880
So what is the danger?

00:24:47.039 --> 00:24:49.359
Obviously, the danger is that is an obstruction, right?

00:24:49.440 --> 00:24:50.640
If that gets in the intestines.

00:24:50.799 --> 00:24:50.960
Yeah.

00:24:51.119 --> 00:24:54.480
So what do you give to, is it like, you know how when somebody has to go to the hospital?

00:24:54.559 --> 00:25:00.640
Well, at least in my career, you bring somebody that ingested pills or something, they give them charcoal to throw up.

00:25:00.720 --> 00:25:01.519
But what do you give?

00:25:01.680 --> 00:25:03.519
Actually, I might know the answer to this.

00:25:03.599 --> 00:25:10.640
I might I might just talk to myself in this podcast because one time Wilma decided to eat an onion or part of an onion.

00:25:10.960 --> 00:25:12.559
So your mother went full panic.

00:25:12.720 --> 00:25:22.160
First of all, I'm like, why in the hell do you have an onion just randomly out that Wilma, who's about a foot and a half tall with her squirrel feet, how could she possibly get an onion?

00:25:22.319 --> 00:25:26.319
And she said, Well, I saw on TikTok that you can take odors out.

00:25:26.480 --> 00:25:31.839
So she put that up, and sure enough, Wilma tracked it down and ate a few bites out of that.

00:25:31.920 --> 00:25:34.319
But you had you were working, right?

00:25:34.480 --> 00:25:35.279
I think I was in school.

00:25:35.440 --> 00:25:37.119
Oh, yeah, you were in school even better.

00:25:37.359 --> 00:25:43.119
So you didn't say be careful of the quills, you said uh peroxide or something, right?

00:25:43.279 --> 00:25:43.759
Yep, yes.

00:25:43.920 --> 00:25:49.279
Peroxide can make dogs throw up like on a short notice, or if you need it to happen like really fast.

00:25:49.440 --> 00:25:52.400
There's downsides of peroxide causing stomach ulcers.

00:25:52.640 --> 00:25:58.880
Oh, but then you have to weigh the if if the onion, I didn't realize onions are very poisonous to dogs, right?

00:25:59.119 --> 00:25:59.200
Yeah.

00:25:59.359 --> 00:26:00.480
Well, Wilma seemed to love it.

00:26:00.640 --> 00:26:02.160
And it was a raw onion.

00:26:02.400 --> 00:26:04.160
She picks up ham sandwiches on our walks.

00:26:04.480 --> 00:26:04.640
I know.

00:26:04.799 --> 00:26:06.559
Your mother ham sandwich.

00:26:06.880 --> 00:26:10.160
Your mother came home and she was so mad at Wilma the other day.

00:26:10.480 --> 00:26:22.480
I had just gotten home from work and she said, Well, I was out walking Wilma and I just got in a huge struggle with her, almost like I had her in half a headlock, and I'm thinking, what did that look like on the side of the road?

00:26:22.640 --> 00:26:23.279
I said, Why?

00:26:23.359 --> 00:26:23.839
What happened?

00:26:24.000 --> 00:26:32.240
Well, she decided to pick up a discarded old hamburger and was gnawing on that, and she clinched her teeth.

00:26:32.720 --> 00:26:34.480
She wasn't gonna let it go for nothing.

00:26:34.799 --> 00:26:36.079
So now I envision this.

00:26:36.160 --> 00:26:44.319
Can you imagine you're driving home from work and you see a woman down on one knee with a little wiener dog and a headlock, and they both have their teeth thritted?

00:26:44.640 --> 00:26:47.279
Because your mother, when she gets mad, she grits her teeth.

00:26:47.519 --> 00:26:52.319
But she's got a hold of Wilma, and Wilma's not letting go of the hamburger.

00:26:52.559 --> 00:26:54.160
I can totally see that too.

00:26:54.799 --> 00:26:57.519
After she was so mad, I said, Well, did you get the hamburger out of her?

00:26:57.920 --> 00:26:59.119
No, she ate it.

00:26:59.440 --> 00:27:00.319
Gross, Wilma.

00:27:00.559 --> 00:27:01.359
She will eat anything.

00:27:01.519 --> 00:27:01.920
She will.

00:27:02.160 --> 00:27:04.079
That dog will literally eat anything.

00:27:04.240 --> 00:27:07.200
We one day we had her out, and uh, I see her chewing.

00:27:07.759 --> 00:27:08.960
You know, she's given one of these.

00:27:09.039 --> 00:27:10.000
I'm like, what do you have?

00:27:10.160 --> 00:27:12.079
Pick her up, you know, and I and she does.

00:27:12.319 --> 00:27:13.680
She clickes those cheeks.

00:27:14.079 --> 00:27:14.720
Like, let me see.

00:27:15.279 --> 00:27:16.000
We got the thing going.

00:27:16.079 --> 00:27:17.279
I know exactly what your mother's talking about.

00:27:17.359 --> 00:27:17.759
I got her.

00:27:17.920 --> 00:27:18.720
Let me see what you got.

00:27:18.880 --> 00:27:21.839
It was a huge piece of discarded bubble gum.

00:27:21.920 --> 00:27:23.440
Yeah, oh, she loves gum.

00:27:23.599 --> 00:27:24.559
That is disgusting.

00:27:24.799 --> 00:27:28.400
She put that's her daily thing to pick it up on walks, and she chews it like a human.

00:27:28.640 --> 00:27:29.039
She does.

00:27:29.119 --> 00:27:32.480
And it's not like you know how some dogs just grab it like and it's gone?

00:27:32.559 --> 00:27:33.359
Not Wilma.

00:27:33.519 --> 00:27:34.240
Not with gum.

00:27:34.400 --> 00:27:35.759
She's gonna savor that for a while.

00:27:35.920 --> 00:27:37.440
If she could blow a bubble, she would.

00:27:37.680 --> 00:27:38.559
But she would too.

00:27:39.599 --> 00:27:40.079
She hasn't yet.

00:27:40.319 --> 00:27:41.599
I'm telling you with this dog.

00:27:42.160 --> 00:27:44.640
Anyway, needless to say, she didn't get sick from this.

00:27:44.720 --> 00:27:46.000
I don't know how old this hamburger was.

00:27:47.039 --> 00:27:52.400
Then I think, who in the hell is walking along the street and just throws, like, hey, this is a hamburger.

00:27:52.480 --> 00:27:53.920
I'm just gonna throw the rest out in the ground.

00:27:54.079 --> 00:27:55.119
Who has a hamburger to throw out?

00:27:55.279 --> 00:27:56.079
It doesn't make any sense.

00:27:56.480 --> 00:27:57.599
I just always finish my hamburgers.

00:27:57.839 --> 00:28:01.200
And then sure enough, I don't know, but she always finds this stuff.

00:28:01.440 --> 00:28:02.160
She always does.

00:28:02.319 --> 00:28:04.240
There was one time there, where were we?

00:28:04.400 --> 00:28:05.920
She had half a chicken.

00:28:06.160 --> 00:28:09.599
Not like a live chicken, like it was a barbecue chicken thing.

00:28:09.759 --> 00:28:13.359
But who the hell is throwing out half of a chicken just randomly?

00:28:13.759 --> 00:28:14.960
And then she did a certain time.

00:28:17.920 --> 00:28:20.319
Like the battles we've had, let go of the chicken.

00:28:21.119 --> 00:28:22.240
Not let go of the chicken.

00:28:22.799 --> 00:28:23.839
She's she's bad with that.

00:28:24.000 --> 00:28:27.440
And you're thinking, you know, you think of you don't want your dog eating chicken bones and everything.

00:28:27.519 --> 00:28:28.559
There was no, she won.

00:28:28.720 --> 00:28:29.279
She always won.

00:28:29.519 --> 00:28:31.920
No, there's there's no winning on with Wilma Matt.

00:28:32.160 --> 00:28:35.279
She would rather pass out, but she's not gonna unclinch her teeth.

00:28:35.759 --> 00:28:36.559
True.

00:28:37.039 --> 00:28:38.480
You know what else I wanted to ask you?

00:28:38.559 --> 00:28:41.279
Did you like the photo I sent you of your cat recently?

00:28:41.599 --> 00:28:44.480
Yes, I always get when I'm at work pictures of my cat.

00:28:44.720 --> 00:28:46.720
Speaking of, okay, we talk about Wilma.

00:28:47.119 --> 00:28:48.640
Let's talk about Stella for a minute.

00:28:48.880 --> 00:28:52.079
How many other cats have you ever seen when she's sleeping?

00:28:52.319 --> 00:28:53.200
I should back up.

00:28:53.359 --> 00:29:00.079
I happen to look over and your your little cat is on the end of the couch, and she's up by the, you know, the cushion portion.

00:29:00.240 --> 00:29:02.400
Not the cushion you sit on, but on the end of the couch.

00:29:02.640 --> 00:29:03.440
Like the armrest?

00:29:03.599 --> 00:29:03.839
Yeah.

00:29:03.920 --> 00:29:07.599
And she's got her back leg kicked out like a kickstand on a bicycle.

00:29:07.839 --> 00:29:10.880
She's sound asleep, and her foot is out.

00:29:11.200 --> 00:29:12.960
Like that can't be comfortable.

00:29:13.279 --> 00:29:14.880
She sleeps in some weird positions.

00:29:15.119 --> 00:29:18.079
She well, I understand you know she always rolls upside down.

00:29:18.240 --> 00:29:18.960
She does go upside down.

00:29:19.200 --> 00:29:22.000
Speaking of that, have you ever seen Wilma passed out sleeping?

00:29:22.400 --> 00:29:30.319
You ever drive by and you see like a woodchuck that's been on the side of the road that's dead, and it is the like the paws are all stiff and they're straight out?

00:29:30.400 --> 00:29:30.559
Yeah.

00:29:30.799 --> 00:29:32.000
That's how that dog sleeps.

00:29:32.720 --> 00:29:33.759
She does sleep like that.

00:29:34.000 --> 00:29:36.319
There's no way that that dog can be comfortable.

00:29:37.039 --> 00:29:41.599
It's we look at her and I'm like, you better, you better get a pulse on her.

00:29:42.000 --> 00:29:43.119
Stella, same thing.

00:29:43.519 --> 00:29:43.839
You know what?

00:29:43.920 --> 00:29:46.240
I'll put that photo on the website if you want to pull it out.

00:29:46.400 --> 00:29:46.960
Yeah, we should do that.

00:29:47.119 --> 00:29:49.039
Because it's like it's a kickstand rear leg.

00:29:49.200 --> 00:29:52.559
Like one of the what do you go down in the summer or the Christmas time to see?

00:29:52.799 --> 00:29:54.000
Where they dance and they kick their legs.

00:29:54.960 --> 00:29:55.920
Yeah, the Rockefellers?

00:29:57.359 --> 00:29:59.039
They own the building, right?

00:29:59.440 --> 00:29:59.759
What?

00:29:59.920 --> 00:30:00.559
The Rockets.

00:30:00.720 --> 00:30:02.079
The Rocket, what are they?

00:30:02.720 --> 00:30:03.759
Oh my God.

00:30:05.599 --> 00:30:06.960
Alice, I hope you're talking about the street.

00:30:08.559 --> 00:30:09.759
What's the Rockefellers?

00:30:10.000 --> 00:30:10.960
I don't think there is.

00:30:11.039 --> 00:30:12.000
It's like the Flintstone.

00:30:12.480 --> 00:30:12.640
There is.

00:30:13.039 --> 00:30:14.559
Hey, Alice, got another question.

00:30:14.880 --> 00:30:15.200
Of course.

00:30:15.279 --> 00:30:15.759
I'm ready.

00:30:15.839 --> 00:30:16.720
What's your next question?

00:30:16.799 --> 00:30:18.079
Let me know and I'll walk you through it.

00:30:18.240 --> 00:30:19.119
She's all serious now.

00:30:19.200 --> 00:30:20.079
Okay, thank you, Alice.

00:30:20.799 --> 00:30:20.960
Yeah.

00:30:21.119 --> 00:30:23.920
What is the Christmas show down in New York City?

00:30:24.079 --> 00:30:24.799
The Rockets?

00:30:24.960 --> 00:30:26.000
What are those people called?

00:30:26.240 --> 00:30:26.799
Ah, yes.

00:30:26.880 --> 00:30:28.240
You're thinking of the Radio City Rocket.

00:30:28.480 --> 00:30:30.480
Their Christmas Spectacular in New York is super famous.

00:30:32.079 --> 00:30:33.440
Can you ask you what the Rockefeller is?

00:30:33.759 --> 00:30:35.200
Alice, what are the Rockefellers?

00:30:35.279 --> 00:30:36.160
What is that?

00:30:37.039 --> 00:30:39.440
Yeah, the Rockefellers are this really well-known family.

00:30:39.680 --> 00:30:39.839
Yeah.

00:30:40.000 --> 00:30:41.119
Yeah, they have the building, right?

00:30:41.200 --> 00:30:42.880
Isn't it the Rockefeller Center?

00:30:43.119 --> 00:30:43.440
Oh.

00:30:44.160 --> 00:30:44.720
Exactly.

00:30:44.960 --> 00:30:47.920
Rockefeller Center is that iconic complex in New York.

00:30:48.079 --> 00:30:50.400
It's where the tree lighting happens and the Rockheads perform their.

00:30:51.599 --> 00:30:52.720
They performed that was close.

00:30:52.960 --> 00:30:53.519
Thanks, Alice.

00:30:53.680 --> 00:30:54.960
Yeah, you were close.

00:30:55.359 --> 00:30:58.640
Oh, if there's any uh porcupines down there, you gotta be careful.

00:30:59.200 --> 00:31:00.480
Shooting them like arrows.

00:31:00.720 --> 00:31:02.799
Anyway, we are off the rails already.

00:31:03.039 --> 00:31:04.640
We are back and we're off the rails.

00:31:04.799 --> 00:31:05.440
And you know what?

00:31:05.519 --> 00:31:06.319
I almost forgot.

00:31:06.400 --> 00:31:07.680
I got a new toy, right?

00:31:07.839 --> 00:31:08.400
Oh, yes.

00:31:08.799 --> 00:31:10.079
And you've been getting some presents.

00:31:10.319 --> 00:31:10.720
I have.

00:31:10.880 --> 00:31:12.319
So I got a 3D printer, right?

00:31:12.480 --> 00:31:13.519
It's like Endless Christmas.

00:31:13.680 --> 00:31:13.920
It is.

00:31:14.079 --> 00:31:17.039
I don't know how to use it, but I know that I can print cat things.

00:31:17.200 --> 00:31:17.359
Yeah.

00:31:17.680 --> 00:31:18.960
So you've gotten a few cat things.

00:31:19.200 --> 00:31:19.759
Yeah, sure do.

00:31:19.920 --> 00:31:25.680
Hey, you actually asked for a 3D print of a cat that hangs on your computer screen or something.

00:31:25.839 --> 00:31:27.359
Yeah, it's like on top of my monitor.

00:31:27.519 --> 00:31:32.400
So I looked it up, figured out how to print it, and it came out and it's half, it's half a cat.

00:31:32.640 --> 00:31:34.640
But you can only see the one side of a cat.

00:31:34.720 --> 00:31:36.559
But why wouldn't they print the other side of the cat?

00:31:36.720 --> 00:31:42.960
So it can hang off the It has one paw and it's laying down and it came out and it was like it was all rough.

00:31:43.039 --> 00:31:43.839
We had to kind of, you know.

00:31:44.160 --> 00:31:44.640
Trap it up.

00:31:44.880 --> 00:31:46.319
Yeah, we had to trim some stuff off.

00:31:46.400 --> 00:31:48.640
But one cool thing that came out I left for you.

00:31:48.720 --> 00:31:50.960
Uh it was a tree of life cat.

00:31:51.759 --> 00:31:58.000
So it looks like a uh a tree that had grown up, but it is in the shape of a cat face, right?

00:31:58.079 --> 00:31:58.319
Yeah.

00:31:58.960 --> 00:31:59.839
It looks just like Stella.

00:32:00.000 --> 00:32:00.640
It does look like Stella.

00:32:01.359 --> 00:32:02.000
That's why I printed it.

00:32:02.079 --> 00:32:02.960
But that actually is pretty cool.

00:32:03.119 --> 00:32:03.680
Yeah, that is pretty good.

00:32:03.839 --> 00:32:04.960
That's just a random fact that came out.

00:32:05.839 --> 00:32:06.160
You do?

00:32:06.240 --> 00:32:06.400
Yeah.

00:32:06.720 --> 00:32:08.240
I I couldn't tell.

00:32:08.640 --> 00:32:12.319
Um that that's just something random that I printed out, and I thought, well, that's pretty cool.

00:32:12.559 --> 00:32:15.920
And and speaking of random, that's just a random thing we just threw in there.

00:32:16.000 --> 00:32:18.000
But I thought about wait till Christmas comes.

00:32:18.319 --> 00:32:19.680
I'm gonna get my own printer.

00:32:19.839 --> 00:32:21.599
No, you're gonna get some cat toys.

00:32:21.839 --> 00:32:22.799
Or the rockheads.

00:32:23.039 --> 00:32:25.119
With the uh Rockefeller cats.

00:32:26.400 --> 00:32:28.559
Maybe a porcupine in there too.

00:32:29.839 --> 00:32:30.160
Yeah.

00:32:32.240 --> 00:32:33.200
Oh my god.

00:32:33.519 --> 00:32:34.880
We're off the rails here.

00:32:34.960 --> 00:32:36.240
Let's see what we got.

00:32:43.599 --> 00:32:44.400
Oh my god.

00:32:44.480 --> 00:32:46.079
You know, I don't know if I played this for you.

00:32:46.240 --> 00:32:53.279
You know when you're scrolling, you know how you can tell when you're scrolling on social media too long and when your algorithm starts playing things like this.

00:32:53.519 --> 00:32:54.880
So let me set the stage for you.

00:32:55.039 --> 00:33:00.960
Scrolling through, I don't know how this is in my algorithm, but it's a it's a video of a German shepherd.

00:33:01.039 --> 00:33:12.240
Now, obviously, with the way social media is, it could be just the way the dog's laying around, but they're indicating like the dog's near the end of its life, and it adds this, I don't know, this narrative to it.

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Here, I'll play it for you.

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I'll play it for everybody.

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Your brain literally rewires itself differently when you lose a dog versus a human.

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Yeah.

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MRI scans show that losing a dog triggers brain activity identical to losing a child.

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You see this?

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But with one horrifying, it creates deeper neural pathways.

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This is my algorithm.

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Why?

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Because dogs access a part of your brain reserved for absolutely unconditional connections.

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Humans never activate this region fully, ever.

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Here's what the research found.

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Human relationships activate 147 neural pathways.

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Dog bonds activate 302 neural pathways, plus one pathway humans cannot create.

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Unconditional acceptance.

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The darkest findings.

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Dogs release oxytocin, love hormone, in your brain at five times the rate humans do.

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When they're gone, you literally experience love withdrawal.

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People who've lost both say the same thing.

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I could breathe again after humans left.

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My dog took my ability to breathe with them.

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What is with this music?

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I was just gonna say the music is killer.

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That's when uh you're scrolling through, and of course, it's probably AI, right?

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This dog's probably perfectly fine.

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Probably.

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And they're filming it like it's sad, and he's laying there with his tongue out, he looks cute, but then if you think he's gonna be put down.

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In the sad music, in the Titanic music, uh, that's when you say, that's enough internet for today.

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Moving right along.

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Yeah, I knew that was uh that was enough for that day.

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But I don't know why my algorithm is filled up with that because I don't just sit there and watch those all day.

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It's weird how some things just randomly popped up.

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Well, since we're completely off the rails, let's try to rein it back in with a little bit of two and two.

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And you've picked out some of these, I can only imagine what these are.

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This week we'll start with a good story out of Massachusetts.

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Hey, you got me a good one.

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After that last video, I'm very glad that you did.

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Crews spent two hours rescuing a yellow lab from a 12-foot sinkhole that opened up in a dog's backyard.

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Crews in Falmouth, Massachusetts rescued a yellow lab named Tessie after the pet fell into a 12-foot sinkhole that opened up in her backyard.

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Tessie's owner, David Velisig, told CBS News that he knew something was wrong when Tessie didn't come back inside after playing with the family's other dog named Taco.

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Taco's cute.

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Taco went over by the fence and he was barking, Belisig said.

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Say that fast.

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Belisig said, I went over and looked down and there were leaves and a little hole, and at the bottom of the hole was Tessie.

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It was like twelve feet deep.

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Twelve feet.

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That's not little.

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Sir, that is not a little hole.

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Belisig immediately called 911, fearing that he could get trapped in the hole himself if he tried to rescue Tessie.

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Emergency responders said he did the right thing.

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As it took rescue personnel more than two hours to remove the dog from the small sinkhole safely.

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Twelve feet?

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That's deep.

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That's not a small sinkhole.

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No.

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Once the crews had stabilized the surface around the sinkhole, they were determined that the risk of the hole collapsing was too great for firefighters to enter and try to rescue Tessie.

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The Barnstable County Technical Rescue Team was called in to assist, and thanks to a ladder truck, Tessie was able to get back home and with her family.

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They lowered some sort of harness type thing that they got under her, Velesig said.

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It took a long time.

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They pulled her up in the harness, and that's when she came out of the hole.

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Belisig said he's incredibly grateful for everyone who helped that 11-year-old lab.

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Once Tessie was brought to safety, she was given some well-earned pepperoni.

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While Cruz worked to fill the hole, which was later determined to be caused by hidden water drainage.

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You know your Graham had a Tessie.

00:37:32.719 --> 00:37:33.199
Yes, she did.

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Tessie, remember Tessie?

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Yes, I do.

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She was a good looking dog.

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She was cute.

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She really was.

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I remember your Graham had Tessie and Snoop Dogg.

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Not Snoop Dog like we're thinking.

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Snoop Dogg the rapper.

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It was Snoop.

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They called her Snoop.

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Snoopy.

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Yeah, just a little that was a cute dog too.

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That's going back a little ways, though.

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Uh I used to say that that was a crooked dog because in her later years, Snoop would walk kind of crooked.

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Sideways.

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Yeah, like almost like a horseshoe.

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But she would go forward.

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A horseshoe?

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Like a centipede.

00:38:01.920 --> 00:38:04.719
No, not like a centipede, but like sideways.

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Like her, you know how in dogs and their their hips aren't working just right.

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And it was just a little tiny dog, but it would walk like a like a horseshoe.

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Like it would it would be better by walking forward, like a bent frame.

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Poor Snoop.

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That was a good dog, though, too.

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I like Snoop.

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Let's hit the next one.

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We're a little out of control here.

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So this you did this next one.

00:38:24.960 --> 00:38:26.639
Yeah, you're you're gonna be mad at it.

00:38:26.880 --> 00:38:27.920
Oh, here we go.

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I just read the headline, and yeah, we'll see where this one goes.

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Austin Police Department in Texas makes an arrest in a viral animal abuse case.

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Talk about not sunshine and rainbows.

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No.

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John Kashek, aged 35, was arrested and charged with cruelty to animals, a third-degree felony, according to the Austin Police Department.

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A video which was posted on the internet shows a man repeatedly shoving a dog with patio furniture and striking him with a belt and a towel.

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Come on.

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I know.

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Really?

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So sad.

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The dog named Boone is a male blue lacy.

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I don't know what that is.

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It's like a hunting dog.

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A hunting dog?

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Like a kind of looks like a pit bull, but a little thinner.

00:39:08.639 --> 00:39:08.880
Oh.

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Well, no matter what he looks like, none of nobody deserves it.

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No animal deserves this.

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He's really cute, if you look him up.

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And is estimated to be eight years old, according to Austin Animal Services.

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The case was investigated by APD's Animal Cruelty Unit and Austin Animal Services Animal Protection Team.

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Say that fast.

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APD officials said evidence and witness testimonials from concerned community members were instrumental in establishing probable cause.

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Boone is being taken care of at Austin Animal Services Shelter in East Austin.

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He will be eligible for adoption once the case concludes, pending the judge's order.

00:39:45.360 --> 00:39:45.920
You know what?

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That guy's going to jail.

00:39:52.960 --> 00:39:55.360
You know, I just I've never been able to understand these people.

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Going to jail.

00:39:57.280 --> 00:39:58.000
Going to jail.

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I've never understood these people that just they think it's okay just to abuse an animal like openly like that.

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And like when the animal looked at you, I can't, I just can't imagine.

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And now I'm looking.

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That is a that's a cute dog.

00:40:08.960 --> 00:40:10.000
And that look at this guy.

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I know.

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Punk.

00:40:11.280 --> 00:40:12.639
I can't stand people like that.

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You're right.

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I don't like that one.

00:40:14.559 --> 00:40:16.639
Well, let's see if this next one's any better.

00:40:17.039 --> 00:40:18.800
And I don't think it's gonna be.

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The Ididerod sled dog races.

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I've never liked these.

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Me either.

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We would always learn about them in school, and I was never.

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And you know, they're very, very popular.

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And if you ever look at those dogs when they're towing those sleds and they're just yipping and barking, and their feet are they have the booties on their feet because they get frostbitten, they look absolutely miserable.

00:40:38.639 --> 00:40:40.800
Like these dogs are not enjoying this.

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No, there's no way.

00:40:42.079 --> 00:40:46.559
And I see people like they they use the excuse, like, these dogs are loving it, they're getting the exercise.

00:40:46.719 --> 00:40:49.920
Well, you're you're dragging them over miles and miles and miles.

00:40:50.079 --> 00:40:50.400
Right.

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The 2026 Ididerod sled dog race has drawn sharp criticism again after a four-year-old dog named Charlie died.

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Um after being forced to run more than 800 miles through grueling conditions.

00:41:05.199 --> 00:41:05.760
That's crazy.

00:41:06.000 --> 00:41:12.400
More than 70 dogs were removed from the race, and multiple dogs on one mushers' team developed pneumonia.

00:41:12.559 --> 00:41:12.960
Oh gosh.

00:41:13.199 --> 00:41:18.559
Other mushers acknowledged viruses were circulating among teams, still being pushed down the trail.

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The leading cause of death for dogs in the race is aspiration pneumonia from inhaling their own vomit.

00:41:25.679 --> 00:41:26.000
Come on.

00:41:26.400 --> 00:41:27.840
They can't even come on with this.

00:41:28.480 --> 00:41:35.840
Also, reports of a Norwegian billionaire reportedly paid at least$300,000 to participate, and you'll never guess.

00:41:36.079 --> 00:41:36.320
Wow.

00:41:36.480 --> 00:41:38.320
He was the first across the finish line.

00:41:38.480 --> 00:41:42.000
You know, if you watch the them coming down to the finish line.

00:41:43.119 --> 00:41:44.000
Look at these dogs.

00:41:44.159 --> 00:41:45.679
These dogs do not look happy.

00:41:46.079 --> 00:41:46.639
No, they don't.

00:41:46.800 --> 00:41:48.159
Right, and you've got the mushroom.

00:41:48.239 --> 00:41:49.599
This looks like a female mushroom.

00:41:49.840 --> 00:41:50.639
I think it's a female.

00:41:51.119 --> 00:41:52.639
Slapping high fives to the crowd.

00:41:52.880 --> 00:41:54.000
Oh, she almost fell off there.

00:41:54.239 --> 00:41:55.599
Too bad she didn't fall off.

00:41:55.920 --> 00:41:57.280
Those dogs look miserable to me.

00:41:57.679 --> 00:41:58.960
I just like what do you do?

00:41:59.119 --> 00:42:02.239
The dog dies and you just keep going, keeps letting the race.

00:42:02.400 --> 00:42:03.440
It doesn't make sense to me.

00:42:03.519 --> 00:42:04.800
I I I mean, I understand.

00:42:04.880 --> 00:42:05.440
It's very popular.

00:42:05.519 --> 00:42:07.360
I think, what is that, in Alaska or wherever they hold it?

00:42:07.599 --> 00:42:11.280
And huskies love to run and like love the winter, but still 800 miles.

00:42:11.519 --> 00:42:16.639
I think all dogs love to run to an extent, but 800 miles in brutal conditions is crazy.

00:42:16.800 --> 00:42:17.599
I don't you're right.

00:42:17.679 --> 00:42:19.119
I don't like that story either.

00:42:19.760 --> 00:42:21.039
Let's try the last one here.

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In Morro Bay, California, a good Samaritan spotted a two-week-old sea otter pup alone on the beach.

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Since pups are rarely separated from their mothers at this age, it was clear that something was wrong.

00:42:33.119 --> 00:42:40.000
The bystander called the Marine Mammal Center's hotline, triggering a coordinated response with trained wildlife professionals.

00:42:40.159 --> 00:42:44.559
Rescuers ultimately reunited the pup, later named Caterpillar.

00:42:44.880 --> 00:42:45.519
That's so cute.

00:42:45.760 --> 00:42:50.480
With his mother using a recording of a baby otter's cries to lure her back.

00:42:50.719 --> 00:42:51.440
That's so cute.

00:42:51.760 --> 00:42:58.639
Wildlife officials called the outcome a meaningful boost to the long-term health of the southern sea otter population.

00:42:58.800 --> 00:43:00.239
Now that's that's a much better story.

00:43:00.480 --> 00:43:00.880
Yeah, that is.

00:43:02.400 --> 00:43:05.280
The idiot smacking his dog with sea otters are so cute.

00:43:05.440 --> 00:43:07.519
Well, we have a little sea otter named Wilma.

00:43:07.760 --> 00:43:08.559
She looks just like her.

00:43:08.880 --> 00:43:13.679
And I'm again, I'm not fat-shaming poor Wilm, but she's our sausage dog at this point.

00:43:14.719 --> 00:43:15.360
Well, what do you think?

00:43:15.519 --> 00:43:21.039
I think that will do it for episode four of Dad and the Vet Tech Podcast.

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Our next episode will drop next Sunday at 9 a.m.

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Eastern.

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We will be there.

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We will be there.

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Check us out at dadandhevettech.com and follow us on social media to stay in the loop.

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Guys, thanks for listening.

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And until next time, give your pet some hugs from us.

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Until next time, treats, trust, and tailwaps.

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There it is.

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I like it.

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Shift over, scrubs off.

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See you next Sunday.