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is Doctor Map Callahan. Doctor Madea they
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are. We have more sourdough to pay
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The Week? Yeah, I'm I Romney
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Ipswich the Animal Hospital on route
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one in Ipswich. Round the line
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and my number is nine seventy.
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Nine. For eight Eight one, eight nine. Nine.
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Seven Eight Nine for Eight Eight One Eight
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Mind Okay, we're gonna take your calls. We
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already have a lot of calls up there,
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but will take your calls throughout the. Entire.
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Hour If you have a question
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about the your path I give
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Hundred Forty Two Forty two where
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question to watch how we at Six
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One Seven to One Three Ten
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sixty six Yesterday I just mentioned in
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passing on the air that Roscoe
3:28
my year and a half old
3:30
pod. Is a beautiful
3:32
dogs a talented does. He's extremely
3:34
talented and he really really love
3:37
sour dough bread and I a
3:39
toast. I get some nice fresh
3:41
stuff from a public stay there
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they haven't all of our big
3:46
supermarkets now and it's made an
3:48
in house and it's really delicious.
3:50
Yeah, and I toasted and I
3:53
slather it with butter or you'll
3:55
have a piece. One. Piece
3:57
in the morning and Roscoe throws him the
3:59
else. but. Me to. Get
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out and get to the sourdough bread. Roscoe
4:04
know how. He
4:07
does and so I mentioned that and
4:09
apparently a doctor. Matt was listening and
4:11
he called up and said he wanted
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to work correctly. A detailed how many
4:15
What a bad, what a bad daddy
4:17
dog daddy eye out for Moscow to
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why is it? Why is it bad
4:21
to give him a couple across of
4:24
sourdough bread and it's multi grain by
4:26
the way around. Vague on it. must
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be good guy better and better and
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sees as positively health food, especially slathered
4:32
with butter. Vm.
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Your. What.what? Our dogs you know was a
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what are they Physiologically they are called
4:39
facultative carnivores which means they're mainly meat
4:42
eaters. the can eat other still like
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us on i like means always are
4:46
mad slathered with lot of same foods
4:48
as as yeah but the same foods
4:50
that are relatively unhealthy for us are
4:52
relatively unhealthy for them so I sort
4:54
of as treats. I generally rank them
4:56
i call red light trade center like
4:58
treats are sort of a dog biscuits
5:00
type of trades cause they're This is
5:02
no health benefits to it. Ah a
5:04
more neutral treat would be. Meat and
5:06
mean two dogs actually are mediators. So when
5:08
you said sausage adding it to work a
5:10
vital in you're right that no one teaser
5:13
dog you know a giant hunk of sausage.
5:15
They give their dark a piece of sausage
5:17
race or in my dogs case we use
5:19
chicken jerky because she likes chicken or so.
5:21
what am I gonna sell and then that
5:23
truly healthy treats other truly healthy healthy stuff
5:26
for us. So you I had a climb
5:28
in this morning that said to her dog
5:30
was green beans I go You know things
5:32
you're never gonna hear from your cardiologists, your
5:34
or your vet. Marion. As I see by the
5:36
record here, the are eating a too many green beans.
5:39
You know it just healthy that you're healthy for having
5:41
me them. That's. Why
5:43
I tend to gravitate towards those sort of
5:45
treats. Or at least meet treats for the
5:47
finicky, more finicky dogs and relatively few pure
5:49
carbs rates? because our to getting tons of
5:51
carbs and their regular doctor. You.
5:54
Lived in the south. Died. Lived in
5:56
the submarine over that was yours. You know what they like get
5:58
you know what they do in the. out. They
6:01
put green beans and then they put,
6:03
they throw pork belly in there.
6:05
Well, and you give a dog some pork bellies
6:07
and some green beans in about two minutes, the
6:10
green beans are still going to be there and
6:12
the pork bellies are going to be gone. I
6:15
had a grandfather who was, his dog
6:17
was getting too fat and so I
6:19
said, does he eat broccoli? He goes,
6:21
yeah, he loves broccoli. So I said, feed him broccoli as
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a treat. And then about
6:26
six months later, the dog was heavier and I went to
6:28
his house and he was cooking the dog broccoli in
6:30
heavy cream. Yeah, I go,
6:33
yeah, you got me. You win. You
6:35
know, whatever you want. Anyway,
6:38
I lost the game at that point. But
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so it's, so it's not, so it's not
6:42
terrible to give him a cup, a little
6:44
bit of crust. No, no, not, not occasionally
6:46
is if it's not, you know, I give
6:48
my dog half a slice of sourdough every
6:51
day. That's a bit much, but
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I got crust every once in a while. Absolutely not. You
6:55
know, a treat is what it is. It's a treat. And
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as long as you understand that that's not part of his
7:00
regular diet and it is just a treat every once in
7:02
a while, then you're fine. But
7:04
we'll, I scuttlebutt on the street is Roscoe will
7:06
be in town here next week. And
7:08
he's going to be getting on the scale at some point. The
7:11
mail room manager and I have
7:13
plotted his weigh-in. My
7:19
daughter, Charlotte's in town. She's a very, she's a
7:21
critic of my stewardship. My culinary
7:25
stewardship. I'm
7:28
not saying there's going to be, you know, we're
7:30
going to be ganging up on you, but we'll
7:32
see what his weight is. But, okay. All right.
7:34
Roscoe, you're on a diet. No
7:36
meatloaf tonight when we get home. What's wrong
7:38
with meatloaf? We need a Roscoe weight chart
7:40
for the website. All right. Will do. All
7:45
right. Okay. We're going to take some calls here at 844-542-4282. 844-542-4242 with
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us is Dr. Matt. Give us the phone number
7:55
one more time before we go to our first
7:57
call about a pug. My number at the Ipswich
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Inn, Lahama. is 978-948-8189. All right. Wally, you're next
8:01
with Howie Carr and Dr. Matt. Go ahead, Wally.
8:11
Good afternoon, Howie and Dr. Matt.
8:13
Yeah, I've had several pugs over
8:15
the year and they love to
8:17
eat. All
8:20
dogs love to eat, Wally. Some
8:23
more than others. True, true. Well,
8:25
you mentioned your daughter and it's just
8:27
like my daughter's always giving me grief
8:29
about slipping my pug and yawing once
8:31
in a while and I
8:34
just can't help myself. Well,
8:36
anyway, it's the parents,
8:41
you know, I gotta blame myself. I can't
8:43
help it. They have those eyes.
8:45
They look at you. I know. I was going
8:47
to say that those big brown eyes. But
8:50
you know, Dr. Matt, I mean, it's like, but
8:53
I take Roscoe out for a lot of walks.
8:55
I'm sure Wally does too. I mean, if
8:57
you take the dog out for walks or
8:59
you just let him run free if you got a fence
9:01
tent backyard, I mean, that's going to take care of a
9:04
lot of the calories, isn't it? I'm
9:06
definitely pro exercise. So everything I'm about
9:08
to say is going to make me
9:10
think I'm not pro exercise. I'm absolutely
9:12
pro exercise. And if there's a
9:14
dog that you can exercise weight off of or
9:17
exercise for weight loss, it might be
9:19
a Frenchie or a pug or an English
9:21
bulldog because they're just not very efficient
9:23
exercisers. Although I think a lot
9:25
of pugs are pretty good athletes. If
9:27
you look at the big studies on on
9:29
weight and health and exercise and food,
9:31
exercise doesn't play a huge role in
9:33
their health. It's really it's weight that
9:36
plays a huge role in their health.
9:38
And I mean, don't you keep don't don't don't
9:40
you take the weight? Can't you take the weight
9:42
off the way you take it off? I mean,
9:45
humans, I mean, I know it's made basically food
9:47
for us too. But you can't take weight off
9:49
with exercise. You can but the amount of exercise
9:51
you have to do with a dog is enormous. I
9:54
had a client that came in with his lab, and he said,
9:56
Well, I walk her for an hour today and I go, Okay,
9:58
how about four hours? And he said, No. And
10:01
so that's the amount that you have to exercise
10:03
a Labrador for weight loss, four to five hours.
10:06
People aren't going to do that. I'm not going to do it. No.
10:11
So really, go enjoy your exercise with
10:13
them. I'm not saying it's bad. It's
10:16
good for the dog. It's good for you. But
10:18
you do control weight with food. 95% of its
10:20
food. Wally, how
10:22
much does your pug weigh? Uh-oh. Well,
10:25
my pug is eight months old and
10:27
he's, I think he's big for a
10:29
pug. He weighs 18 pounds
10:32
right now, the last time he was at
10:34
the vet. So, you know, and
10:36
when we first got him, I was worried
10:38
because he didn't like to eat as much
10:41
of the first pug. But he seems his
10:43
appetite seems to be better. Oh, thank God.
10:45
Yeah. That was a close one. Wally,
10:50
the doctor's giving you the needle.
10:54
Oh my God. 18 pounds at eight
10:56
months is pretty, pretty hefty, I
10:58
think. Yeah. Well, I mean, every dog is
11:01
different. So 18 might be normal for one dog and not
11:03
normal for another. So. Well,
11:05
I just like, you know, again, he's,
11:07
he's, you know, that, uh, I
11:10
had a different question, but, uh, again, this
11:12
is an issue for pugs. They get heavy
11:14
and, you know, you can't walk them when
11:16
it's too hot out either. Absolutely not. Then
11:19
you won't have to worry about having a
11:21
pug. Yeah. If you walk them when it's
11:23
too hot. So, so
11:25
yeah, you control their diet, feed them the right
11:27
stuff and they will, you know,
11:30
the frustrating thing is, is if you look at
11:32
the big studies and there's been two of them,
11:34
University of Pennsylvania had the biggest one. And
11:36
what they said was, is dogs are really in two
11:38
groups. We think they're in much more, many more groups,
11:40
but they're really in two groups, ideal
11:42
weight and overweight and overweight dogs don't live as
11:44
long and they're not as healthy. And
11:46
that's why I harp on it. If it gave them,
11:49
you know, two months longer life
11:51
and they were just as healthy, I wouldn't
11:53
bother with it, but the numbers are really
11:55
pretty stunning and pretty unambiguous. They're
11:58
like humans again. Much
12:00
like humans, yes. Right. All right, thank
12:02
you, Wally. 844-542-42 with us. It'll
12:06
take calls all hour. Is
12:09
Dr. Matt the vet? And again, what's your number
12:11
and where can people reach you? Dr. Matt. People
12:13
can reach me at the Ipswich Animal Hospital and
12:15
my number is 978-948-8189. All
12:20
right, great. We'll be right back. 844-542-42. And
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right. 844, 500, 42,
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42. Someone says Wally's
14:08
pug is big boned,
14:10
doctor. Yes. Yeah,
14:12
true. I'm sure. Yes,
14:15
we've heard that one before. We've all been there before.
14:19
Husky. Dr.
14:21
Matt, this is 508. The cats
14:23
miss people. My son just came home from
14:25
four months abroad and the cat seems indifferent.
14:28
Typical cat thing, I suppose. I
14:30
think she's right. It is typical cat. Cats
14:33
tend to be more location anchored
14:36
than person anchored.
14:39
When I moved a mile away, my cat
14:41
kept running way back to my old
14:44
house. But
14:46
I did have a client just this week
14:49
whose cat was so upset it developed a
14:51
bunch of behavior abnormalities because when they went on
14:53
vacation for a week. So I
14:55
think that cat was more like a dog, more people,
14:58
people attached rather than location attached.
15:01
When we go on vacation and come home, our cat has
15:03
an attitude with us. Yeah, right. To
15:05
get angry. How dare you? Yeah, exactly. But
15:08
you know, in dogs and cats, I'm really surprised they don't
15:10
have more separation issues because they don't know whether you're going
15:12
to Cumberland Farms or you're going to
15:14
Guam or you're flying to Mars. You know, that
15:16
you're never coming home. They
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have to have some sort of intuition about that you
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pit bull grabs owner's jugular malzmann to death
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in New York City apartment. This is a
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Cops responded just after 3 a.m. to a
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Longwood. The dog latched onto the
15:44
man's jugular and he was gushing blood. Two
15:47
officers opened fire striking the dog
15:49
multiple times. Wow. They
15:51
found a half-eaten piece of sourdough toast.
15:53
Yes, it was slathered with butter. Barely
15:59
the 41-year-old. year old. Jim,
16:05
you're next with Hawi Carr and Dr.
16:07
Matt. Go ahead, Jim. Hi,
16:10
Hawi and Dr. Matt. Thank you for taking my
16:12
call. My questions are, can a Maine Coon cat
16:14
live to be 20 years old? How long do
16:16
most Maine Coon cats live? I
16:18
don't think there's a, you know,
16:20
necessarily a breed specific age
16:23
range. Lots of cats can live
16:25
to 20. Siamese cats seem
16:27
to be overrepresented in that group.
16:29
So I
16:31
would say probably 50% of
16:33
the 20 plus year old cats I've ever seen are
16:35
Siamese. But there's no reason why
16:37
a Maine Coon cat can, cannot live to
16:40
be 20 or past 20. None at all.
16:44
Thanks for the call, Jim. And Dr. Matt, what's your
16:46
phone number if people want to get, get in touch
16:48
with you? They can call me at 978-948-8189. Marcy, you're
16:50
next with Hawi Carr and Dr. Matt. Go ahead, Marcy.
16:59
Oh, hi, Hawi and Dr. Matt. I have a question.
17:02
I have a three
17:04
year old healer lab mix.
17:07
And three times in these past
17:09
three years, she's had a strange
17:12
behavior of licking and licking the
17:14
carpet, the entire carpet. And then
17:16
kind of retching and gagging and
17:18
going out and eating grass and
17:20
looking utterly miserable.
17:23
And the last, the last time this happened, I
17:27
looked at her for a walk, I figured
17:29
she'd feel better. And I tried to
17:31
put her harness on and it wouldn't,
17:33
it was too tight. She was, and
17:35
she was tight as a drum. So
17:37
I called the local vet and
17:40
talked to the vet assistant and I said, I
17:42
think maybe she has bloat. And
17:44
the vet's assistant said, no, if she had bloat,
17:47
she'd be dead. Well,
17:49
she's got a point. I mean, if she had
17:51
true gastric dilatation
17:53
and volvulus, Then,
17:55
you know, that is fatal, if not
17:57
treated. So The fact that we're still.
18:00
Talking about it probably means that
18:02
she didn't completely hat have a
18:04
twist, which is what of Ariella
18:06
says. it's sort of a three
18:08
dimensional twisting have the stomach, but
18:10
certainly they can have you know
18:12
sort of on. Gastric. Dilatation
18:14
with gas and stuff like that. and
18:16
and I can it the what I
18:18
was gonna say when you're starting to
18:21
describe the symptoms as your dog is
18:23
nauseous, so am I don't I absolutely
18:25
positively Word I have you target of
18:27
that if she is exhibiting these if
18:29
the dog is exhibiting these signs because
18:32
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Nine. Is eating
19:34
grass bad for dogs Don't think is
19:36
inherently bad unless you treat your grass
19:38
and then it's bad. But if you'd
19:41
I'm my dogs always gone out and
19:43
months some little grass is not a
19:45
problem, it's why are they eating grass
19:47
Sometimes if your dog is like though
19:50
last I'm color as a dog is
19:52
suddenly eating a ton of grass in
19:54
there clearly sec they're doing it for
19:56
a reason. me on the trainer fix
19:58
a problem. With. The
20:00
very bad at by the way grass
20:03
is a very bad solution him most
20:05
problems. So. Yeah, but dogs
20:07
that is why. need a little better grass I'd
20:09
And you know, I used to call my a
20:11
Golden Retrievers the Guernsey cows because they've gone the
20:13
front yard much on grass or ten matter how
20:15
big the attic. When we were kids with, they
20:17
told us that eating grass was really bad, that
20:20
shoot was assigned, dogs were sick, but that's not.
20:22
No, no, not necessarily to now. Absolutely not. Yeah,
20:24
some. Dogs are sick. But those dogs or
20:27
otherwise sec. Someone wants to
20:29
know thought peanut butter is okay. For thoughts:
20:31
I'm I'd don't think it's inherently bad. so
20:33
I mean it is. Well it depends on
20:35
the sugar content. The fat content I'm is.
20:38
I don't think it's inherently bad. I use
20:40
that ally with my dogs. I put it
20:42
in the kong and put it the freezer
20:44
so they can have some in a chilling
20:47
to him in league. Give me a break
20:49
for a few minutes. So me as long
20:51
rosa peanut butter real yeah isn't as long
20:53
as it's not over done. It seems to
20:55
be fine. like you know, like sourdough. Small
20:58
amounts. Some. So. What
21:00
you're saying is the all what the
21:02
ancient Greeks used to say. Everything in
21:04
moderation for me says is that is
21:06
that are in science and it really
21:08
is interesting. So many chemicals that you
21:10
consider bad for you actually are healthier
21:12
and small amounts. Is is
21:15
Ah let's see here I Jonathan
21:17
your next with how we car
21:19
and Doctor Mack go ahead Jonathan.
21:22
I ali and. Am.
21:26
I. Have a sense. Is.
21:29
Two and a half years old. We
21:31
had him neutered. We live on Cape Cod. Eme
21:34
that I'm just wondering. What?
21:37
Should We. Be.
21:39
Looking out for as far as any health
21:41
issues that he may as. well
21:44
i think said am i think obviously
21:46
neutering a dog arm is as he
21:48
has to their life of in his
21:50
every study suggests that on during does
21:53
help them so i'm a fan of
21:55
that i'm as i say as we
21:57
talked about with pods all dogs were
22:00
upper airway, air management
22:02
problems, keeping them thin
22:05
and keeping them fit are two really good
22:07
things. Keeping them cool too
22:09
in the summer. Well yeah, absolutely. So now
22:11
we're coming in the summer and pugs
22:13
and Frenchies and English Bulldogs and Boston
22:15
Terriers just don't manage the
22:18
heat as well because dogs use air exchange
22:20
to control their temps.
22:23
So you always want to be, with every dog,
22:25
you want to be very careful about heat management
22:27
but with Frenchies you want to be extra careful.
22:31
I don't, you know, Frenchies can
22:34
live very healthily late into life so
22:37
it's not that they have to have more
22:39
problems but they do tend to have airway
22:41
problems. Skin problems are pretty common with them
22:44
too so I'd watch out for
22:46
those. And on
22:48
Cape Cod you don't have to worry about
22:50
an urban problem with French Bulldogs which is
22:52
them being dognapped. Yes,
22:55
I don't think Hyannis is the Frenchy kidnapping
22:58
capital. No, unlike LA
23:00
with Lady Gaga, it's happened in a lot
23:02
of DC too I guess. Yeah. Alright,
23:06
let's see. Mark you're next with Howie
23:08
Carr and Dr. Matt. Go ahead Mark.
23:12
Hey guys, thanks a lot for taking my call. So
23:16
I got one quick question is I have a
23:19
six month old blue healer and a
23:21
ten year old Chelsea. Yeah.
23:25
And at what
23:27
point can I start feeding him the
23:29
same food? I feed him Purina Pro,
23:31
puppy Purina Pro, adult and
23:34
right now I'm feeding him Purina Pro puppy for
23:36
both because well it's like 30, 35 bucks
23:38
right? So I'm trying to
23:40
think is there, is, and I thought the
23:42
adult dog could get more nutrients out of the
23:44
puppy suit. Am I wrong? You
23:46
can be wrong. Puppy
23:48
food was initially Puppy Child by Purina
23:51
and they didn't do a whole lot of
23:53
research on it and then it became
23:55
so wildly popular that they started to do
23:57
some research on it. Well,
24:01
the PR was a little bit ahead of the science
24:03
on that one, but that was the early 70s, so
24:05
about 50 years ago. But
24:08
I think that puppy
24:10
food, especially large re-puppy food, is actually
24:12
lower in nutrition than some adult foods.
24:15
And the goal with those foods is to get
24:17
the dog to grow slowly and
24:20
slowly, really synchronously so their joints grow
24:22
in sync with one another. In one
24:24
part of the joint doesn't grow faster
24:27
or slower than another part. So it's
24:29
deliberate. Yes. But they don't
24:31
announce that, do they? No, they do not. But
24:33
if you look at the angel memorial studies
24:36
in the early 90s, what they suggested is
24:38
that diet adult dog food was the best
24:40
puppy food. And so
24:45
the use of puppy foods is really, the
24:48
studies really show it only works until about
24:50
six months, and then it doesn't work after
24:52
that, even though I see
24:55
from the puppy food manufacturers that they want you
24:57
to feed your dog puppy food until they're about
24:59
53 years old. So
25:02
it's amazing how the science
25:04
gets twisted. So you can keep your dogs
25:06
on puppy food. There's no real harm in
25:09
puppy food. The nutrients are actually pretty similar,
25:11
sometimes actually even a little bit less. Or
25:14
you can switch them both to adult food, and that's
25:16
perfectly OK. At this point, they can both eat
25:18
the same food after six months. They
25:20
could before, too. You know, I hear
25:22
people talking more, and maybe it's about Bidenomics,
25:25
about how they have much of a price
25:27
of dog food. And that food in
25:29
general has gone up. Yeah, it's going to weigh
25:31
in. Is there any way, I know
25:34
you probably don't want to mention
25:36
specific brands, but is there any
25:38
way to see which are the
25:40
most overpriced types? Well, yeah. You
25:43
know, here's the frustrating thing. I tell clients
25:45
this 50 times a day. I believe there's
25:47
better foods than others, right? I use the
25:49
word believe because there's not a ton of
25:52
science behind what I just said. And
25:54
you'll never see on a bag of dog food makes your
25:56
dog healthier. So if
25:58
I could have an ideal way to eat, I'd be able to
26:00
eat. dog on a C plus dog food rather than an overweight
26:02
dog on an A plus dog food, I would take it. Because
26:06
I think food does impact health, but only
26:08
if you have a dog
26:10
that's otherwise healthy from weight. I
26:12
mean, I think that's the biggest thing. But
26:15
are there any websites that... There
26:17
was one called reviews.com that had sort
26:19
of a review process that I thought
26:22
made sense. They rated
26:24
dog foods based on
26:26
the source of the protein as either
26:29
the United States, Argentina or Australia. And
26:32
I thought that made sense. And they hadn't had
26:34
a recall in so many months or so many
26:36
years. I thought that made sense. And
26:38
that the manufacturer on the bag is the
26:40
manufacturer on the food, of the food. So
26:43
people can pick on Purina all day long. I
26:45
take my shots at Purina too. But I know
26:47
if there's a problem with Purina food, I know
26:49
who to call. Purina.
26:53
Some of these other foods, you go, hey, wait a second.
26:56
There's no such thing as this brand
26:58
of dog foods. Is it possible that
27:01
like some of these many generic brands
27:03
are made by the people
27:05
who you don't want
27:07
to support just because you're tired of buying
27:10
from them? I mean, is Purina making some
27:12
of these brands that you buy? I'll be
27:14
honest. I don't know. But you always check
27:16
with all those foods. It's like the Kirkland
27:18
food. Yeah, that's what I mean. But
27:22
generally, I think
27:25
generally, I trust Kirkland products because
27:27
I found them to be pretty good. So I would
27:29
be surprised if they made a lousy dog food and
27:31
everything else was good. Limerick
27:34
Guy says, is it OK for cats to eat
27:36
grass? Yeah, totally OK. Yeah, as
27:38
long as they're not barfing it up on your beds,
27:40
Brad. It's
27:43
so annoying that I need a prescription
27:46
to order flea and tech pills. Simperica.
27:48
Simperica, yeah. Simperica, for my dog online,
27:50
makes it a lot harder to shop
27:53
around for the best deal each time.
27:56
Yeah. And You know, there's
27:58
sort of two views about. that is if
28:00
there's a problem. it's usually best to go
28:02
three about marrying that Marion's as a business
28:04
thing. Monica keep that business as much as
28:06
possible because they have to pay your health
28:08
insurance for their employees and have to rent
28:10
a building and have to buy equipment. So
28:12
they're trying to make a little bit of
28:15
a profit everywhere so but but but most
28:17
that near and certainly we do when we
28:19
get a prescription from one eight hundred pet
28:21
mansour Chile for some park we to sign
28:23
it and send it back. and if you
28:25
want to buy it from that from them
28:27
online, Go! Had mine online. So
28:31
he's gonna find the right vast I guess the
28:33
yeah, me either. I think most of the mark
28:35
that way. maybe not all zone, but I and
28:37
it's usually pretty straightforward. I don't think we've ever
28:39
had anyone complain that they can't get a prescription.
28:42
I am online. Paula
28:44
your next web site How we car and
28:46
doctor match. Go ahead Power! Hi
28:50
jolly! I just wanted
28:52
to ask you as Etti and it's
28:55
a big boy hundred and English cream
28:57
retriever and am I switched him to
28:59
families. Dogs are yup, you don't have
29:01
to climb and it's not going on
29:04
the sun. but I mean you know
29:06
what I mean if it's not feasible
29:08
for you to planet. But so. Boy
29:12
Sticks. Yeah, I get odorless boy
29:14
sticks a day. Okay for him
29:16
to have least twice a week.
29:19
Yeah, you know what I always like is wearing. What
29:22
is a bullied? yes I do. I have watching. It
29:24
was okay. I think I know when it as I
29:26
think I know what it. as you say the word
29:28
a few times you'll figure out what it is. Just
29:31
a matter of repeating and a couple a time.
29:34
Like a cousin to Rocky Mountain oysters exactly. I
29:38
feel like a fool for even African. The
29:40
okay, as I said, dogs are our faculty.
29:42
the carnivores in it's a meat product and
29:44
so in inherently I don't have a problem
29:46
of it as long as the dogs weight
29:48
is doing okay. Lots of times when you
29:50
switch a dog onto a fresher food. they
29:52
do naturally lose weight because there are a
29:54
little more satiated and they're getting a little
29:56
bit less carbohydrate in their food so i'm
29:58
anti car behind in dog food for the
30:00
most part. I don't want it to be
30:02
zero, but I think in dry dog food
30:04
quite often carbohydrate content is higher than it
30:06
should be. Guner
30:09
loved farmer's dog by the way. Yeah.
30:11
Dr. Matt, I think you remember that.
30:13
Yeah. Yeah.
30:16
Thanks for the call, Paula. Did
30:18
he love sourdough too? I'm just checking. You
30:21
know what, I switched over to
30:23
sourdough. From a carbohydrate from a
30:25
bread perspective, sourdough is actually better
30:27
than you know like regular bread.
30:30
Sourdough is really good. It beats, I
30:32
rather have one that Thomas's English muffins
30:35
actually. There you go. Yeah. But it's
30:37
a you know it's fairly new thing
30:39
for me. 844-542-42. Debbie, you're next with
30:42
Haway Cara, Dr. Matt. Go ahead, Debbie.
30:45
Hi, thank you for taking my call.
30:47
I just have a quick question. I
30:50
just walked, my corgi was 12
30:52
years old and he had
30:54
cancer and
30:56
in the area where you know he would
30:58
be neutered and I was told when he
31:01
got neutered that that would help him later
31:03
on and he wouldn't
31:05
have that problem. So now my new
31:07
corgi, I can't convince
31:09
myself to get him neutered. Yeah.
31:12
What is the reason? Well,
31:15
neutering dogs, neutering
31:18
male dogs will
31:20
certainly prevent testicular cancer and
31:23
if he had cancer in that area, it
31:25
doesn't mean he had cancer of
31:27
his testicles because he didn't have testicles. So certainly
31:30
we see less prostatic disease, less
31:34
testicle cancer and dogs
31:36
just live a little, just live longer
31:38
when they're neutered. So the
31:40
biggest reason is dogs live longer. It's not
31:42
a guarantee. I mean, my parents' bat dog
31:44
lived to be 15 and my skinny golden
31:47
retriever died at six of liver cancer. So
31:49
I mean, there's nothing to guarantee in life,
31:51
but it's not a reason not to neuter
31:53
the dog. It's just a reason to believe
31:55
that things statistically are better, but with your
31:58
individual dog, it may not be better. Thanks
32:02
for the call, Debbie. 844-542-42. We'll take a few final
32:04
calls when we come back. And
32:08
again, you can text me at the
32:10
question for Dr. Matt at 617-213-1066. Text
32:15
Howie to that number, 617-213-1066. What's
32:19
your phone number again, Dr. Matt, if people
32:21
need your services during the week? People can
32:23
call me at 978-948-8189. Okay,
32:28
we'll be right back. I'm Howie Carr. The
32:31
Howie Carr Show. You're
32:48
listening to the Howie Carr
32:50
Show. 844-542-42.
32:55
I'll be off Monday,
32:58
heading back to Massachusetts
33:00
with a mail-room
33:03
manager in Roscoe. The
33:05
sourdough eating pug, sitting
33:08
in the middle. Is there
33:10
anything I need to prepare for
33:12
Roscoe's first plane trip? He
33:15
sits pretty quietly, right? Yes.
33:19
Yeah, then I don't think so. There
33:21
are some dogs that are, you know, we
33:23
recommend either some herbal sedation or actual sedation.
33:25
But I don't think Roscoe needs it. Does
33:28
he get in a seat? Yes, he
33:30
does. He's got a little, we bought
33:32
one of these little carriers and he's
33:35
going to have the middle seat. That's
33:37
the only way to fly. Jim Pack. It's
33:42
not exactly a private jet, Taylor,
33:44
you know? It
33:47
is for Roscoe. Yeah.
33:49
603, Dr. Matt, my elderly chocolate lab
33:51
drags her butt on the ground every
33:54
time she goes outside. What makes a
33:56
dog do this? Usually full anal glands
33:58
or that they're itchy. and this
34:00
is allergy time so it could be
34:02
allergy or it could be fully anal
34:04
glands. Yeah it doesn't need
34:06
to be, it doesn't matter if it's elderly or
34:09
young, right? No. I
34:12
mean he can have something worse in his anal
34:14
glands because he's older so I mean he could
34:16
potentially have an infection or he could potentially have
34:18
cancer but those are relatively infrequent and if you
34:20
bring him to your vet, your vet should be
34:22
able to fix that problem. Okay
34:25
and Dr. Matt, if people need to
34:27
bring their dog or cat to you,
34:29
what's the phone number they should use?
34:31
They can call me if their dog
34:33
is rubbing their butt on the ground.
34:36
They can call me at 978-948-8189. Robert,
34:41
you're next with Howie Carr and Dr. Matt.
34:43
Go ahead Robert. Hello
34:46
Mr. Carr. Do you remember a couple
34:48
of years ago you and Grace were doing
34:50
a remote at JB Auto in North Wainmas?
34:53
Yes. And we fed my 17 year
34:55
old pug dog beef
34:58
jerky karaoke flavor and
35:02
then after you took a flight
35:04
at 6 p.m. Taylor was still
35:06
pissed about it and
35:09
was talking about it at Dr. Matt. Throwing
35:13
you under the bus. I
35:15
just had to remind you of that. Frank
35:18
is gone now. He made it
35:20
to 18. Not bad. Nothing
35:22
to complain about. Same as Gooner. Yeah.
35:25
That's good lifespan for a pug. It
35:27
is. Or any dog really actually.
35:29
Yes. You got
35:31
a replacement pug Robert? Not
35:34
yet. I'm not ready. Yeah I know what
35:36
you mean. I've got to fence my yard
35:38
in because I couldn't keep up with a
35:40
puppy now. Yeah. No,
35:44
you've got to be prepared. I was ready though
35:46
for Roscoe to come. 5
35:49
5 1 2 says Roscoe needs a weed gummy.
35:51
Laughing. I don't think I don't think Roscoe needs
35:53
a weed gummy. Do you? No, I
35:56
do not think Roscoe needs a weed gummy. Nor
36:01
does anyone else's dog. I'm not a
36:03
current partaker of weed in any form
36:05
but in the distant,
36:08
distant past I never found
36:10
that weed improved my anxiety.
36:12
Not an amplified anxiety. Yeah,
36:15
bourbon gummy. Yeah. We
36:17
have a scotch gummy for her. All
36:19
right. We got two calls left. Can you stick
36:22
around for the last call after we leave here?
36:24
Absolutely. Okay. Hold on, Bob, because we'll get you
36:26
to you in just a moment if
36:28
we don't get you on the air. Annie,
36:30
you're next with Howie Carr and Dr. Matt. Go
36:33
ahead, Annie. Hi.
36:35
I'm on the case and I have a
36:37
nine-year-old test peak day retriever who lately has
36:40
been sneezing a lot. Yep.
36:43
Could that be allergy? Absolutely. Should I be
36:45
worried? Yeah. So... So, yeah,
36:47
how... Annie's nine years old. It's
36:50
a little late to start with allergy but
36:52
it certainly could be allergy. I saw a dog
36:54
today. There was ten and I really was pretty
36:56
convinced that it was his first season of allergy.
37:00
But dogs can exhibit allergy as
37:02
hay fever, which is infrequent, or
37:05
as eczema, which is the most frequent. But
37:07
also, especially hunting dogs, can be... they're
37:09
sniffing all the time so they can sniff up stuff.
37:11
They can get foreign bodies in their nose and in
37:13
their sinuses. So have that checked. Okay.
37:16
Annie, thank you. Bob, hang on. Dr. Matt, give
37:18
us your phone number one last time. Okay.
37:24
I'll see everybody Tuesday. Back
37:26
in Boston. I'm Howie
37:29
Carr.
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