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Welcome back everyone to the Doggy Diva Show. As a
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pet parent, I love late summers. The days are longer,
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the weather's a little cooler, and it's a little more
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comfortable for spending time outdoors with our pups. We may
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be taking them for longer walks in the neighborhood or
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enjoying some parks, walking trails, or maybe some other outdoor activities.
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It's wonderful to be spending more time outdoors with our dogs,
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but we also need to take precautionary steps to help
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protect our pups from encounters with wildlife. And back with
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us today is calling great. Thank you so much for
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coming on to share some of this. I consider it
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to be very important information with our listeners.
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Hello, thanks for having me. Yes, thanks for having me
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as a guest, and I'm looking forward to talking about
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this subject. It's an important one.
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Well, you know, and we have to keep in mind
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that as we're enjoying the outdoors, we have to learn
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how to navigate the great outdoors safely with our pups.
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So I know you spend I do mostly neighborhood rocks
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and occasional park but it's mostly just neighborhoods. I know
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that you do a lot with your dogs, and you
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have a lot of parks and walking trails, and your
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dogs are really good on them. Can you just share
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some of the things that you're doing late summer to
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enjoy these longer days and cooler evenings.
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Yes, absolutely, we love this time of year, so the
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pups and I often go. We have some wonderful parks
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here in our town. We go to the park, we
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go for walks in our neighborhood. We have sidewalks in
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our neighborhood and pretty quiet streets, which is nice. And
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I'm able to take them in the evening after work.
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I finish up work at about four four thirty and
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I'm able to take them out pretty much as late
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as about seven o'clock, which is nice. It's it's light
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out later and it's it's really nice and cool, definitely
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my favorite part of the day. So it's more relaxing too.
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On the weekends, we go out on the trails to
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our local dog friendly beaches early in the morning before
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it gets warm. And we love to take classes too.
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It's kind of nice. It gives us more options to
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do our outdoor classes as well.
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And what you're doing all this and I know you
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do and your pups love it. I've seen your videos.
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Can you share some like helpful tips with pet parents
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for keeping our pups safe if they encounter while life,
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let's say, in a park, on a trail you know wherever.
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Yeah, it really is, even though most of the time
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it's not an issue. It's always important to be vigilant,
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so things that I do is first, if you're walking
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your dogs, especially in the early morning or at dusk
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in the early evening, make sure to have them on
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a shorter leash, so non retractable leash, ideally six feet
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or less. Sometimes I walk mine on four foot leash,
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but I would say six feet at the most, just
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to be able to keep them close by. Also, be
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aware and alert and cautious when walking your dogs in
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or near wooded areas where wildlife may be and are
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difficult to see. Even in our neighborhood where most of
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the vegetation is well trimmed and well cared for, I've
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seen coyotes in bushes really close to the street, so
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you can never be too careful. So, because the coyotes
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especially are common in our area, I walk as safe
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a distance as possible from the wooded edge of a trail,
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at least in the middle of a trail if we
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go out into the woods or out at the park
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with the trails. Also when I'm walking in our neighborhood,
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I do the same. So even though we usually see
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coyotes at dawn and dusk, I've seen them all times
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of day, even in the middle of the street all
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times at day, so you just have to be super
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vigilant all the time. Also prevent dogs from having any
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interaction with wildlife, even if they seem like they're playing,
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because wildlife behavior can become dangerous without warning and really fast,
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depending on the time of year, the time of day,
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or other conditions that will cause them to possibly get
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aggressive towards you or your dog. When at home, be
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sure to have outdoor lights and turn them on before
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you take your dogs out in the evening. If you
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have a wooded backyard or one with dark spots, especially
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with lots of growth, go out checking around your yard
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with the flashlight and making noise before you take your
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pups out to help scare off any wildlife that may
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be in your yard, averting potential encounters. Even better, if
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you don't have a fenced yard or your fenced yard
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has dark areas, even with the lights on, I would
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recommend taking your pups out on a leash in the yard.
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It only takes a few seconds for predators to act,
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and especially if they know your habits, you know certain
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times a day that you're out there with you dogs.
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They could be hiding. You know, they're very good at hiding,
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so just be careful and probably would be best to
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have them on a leash if you can. Also, don't
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leave food outside. So if you feed your dogs outdoors
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or give them treats in the yard, remove uneaten food bowls, treats,
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anything to eat to help deter wildlife from coming into
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your yard. And most important, if your dog has any
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kind of contact with wildlife that is concerning to you,
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contact your veterinarian. It's really important.
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Those are really good tips. You know.
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In Florida, it's really it's encouraged that we not walk
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our dogs near like lakes, along the edge of lakes, ponds,
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rivers because we have alligators. They're often in the water.
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They're not visible, especially like at dusk or dawn. They
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may just look like a log or you know, a
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piece of wood floating in the water. It's advice when
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you're out early in the morning or in the evening
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to make sure that your dogs are on like a
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non retractable.
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I have like four to.
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Six feet a leash depending on the size of the
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dog I'm taken out, and I also have them in
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harnesses because two of them, I can pick up one
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of them, I can't, and my harness has a handle
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on it so that I could just grab her. We've
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never had an encounter. And when we first moved down
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here many many years ago, we lived in Florida, it
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was recommended because we had dogs and we walked our dogs,
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and at the time we lived closer to a river.
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It was make sure that you do not take your
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dogs out one So we had so many things coming
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at us, and somebody recommended we go to this local
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It's like a preserve for animals, and they teach you
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about the gators, they teach you about iguanas, they teach
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you about snakes, and it's all about what to look for,
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what colors of the snakes. You know, there's just so
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much and how to avoid any kind of encounter, or
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if there is an encounter, what to do. So I
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always tell people that I meet when they first moved
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down here, go over there. You're going to take the class.
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It'll be well worth it. So's yeah, No, it really
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helped us a lot, because you know, we moved from
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up north, so what you have up north we were
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coming from New York is different than what you have
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down here, and of course you see.
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It and you're going, WHOA.
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You mentioned the importance of bringing our dogs to the
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vet if there's like a negative interaction with wildlife. Can
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you share maybe some precautionary measures we should discuss with
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our vets, including vaccines.
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Yes, absolutely, so, certainly discuss with your veterinarian vaccinations that
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are important for your pet to have in your geographic
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area and the areas that you travel to. Some vaccines
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require annual boosters, other require group boosters every three years
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in different regions have different you know, there is commonality
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across the United States on recommended vaccinations, but in different
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areas there are kind of nuances for what your pet
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should be vaccinated for, so be sure to check with
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your veterinarian some of the more prevalent and common vaccinations
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that we see and that are very important. Of course,
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Rabies is required by law in most areas and highly
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effective at preventing rabies transmission when your dogs encounter wild animals,
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including raccoons, skunk, or foxes. Rabies is a fatal disease
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that attacks the central nervous system through saliva of an
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infected animal, usually from bites. So that's a really important one,
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also required by law in most areas. Another is leptosporosis.
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It's recommended for dogs who can catch it by swimming
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or drinking contaminated water from lakes or puddles where wildlife
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have urinated. Leptosporrosis is a serious bacterial disease that damages
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the dogs liver and kidneys and then also canine distemper
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helps protect your dog against highly contagious viruses. They're often fatal.
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It can be spread by a wildlife and affects the
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gastro intestinal, respiratory, and nervous system of dogs. So again,
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speak with your veterinarian see what's important. I know some
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people where I live do not vaccinate for leptos borosis.
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I do. We do have outbreaks from time to time,
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so it's not super common, but it is something that
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some of us will vaccinate for. But talk to them
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about the you know, the risks and the benefits, and
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just make sure that what you're doing is right for
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you and your pet.
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That's so true, and you're right it could be regional
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where you're living for lepto I had no idea about
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the vaccine until we moved down here and we were taught.
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You know, we first met with our veterinarian that we
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were going to be going to.
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They asked if we had it and what. So you
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need to meet with your veterinarian.
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Because there are things that are regional to where you live,
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or like you said, maybe where you're vacationing, or you
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may you know, if you're spending like down here, we
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have people who are here maybe you know, three or
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four months and then back up north for the rest
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of the year. So make sure you get with your
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veterinarian to check what your dog needs in cat for
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the specific areas on which you live. So that is
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great information. Thank you, and you know what I think
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what we're going to do right now, So let's take
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a quick break and when we return, Colleen will share
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a few specific members of wildlife that could impact your
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dog's safety outdoors.
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So we'll be back in just a few minutes. Molly,
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Welcome back to everyone.
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We're here with Colleen Gray and she's going to share
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some specific members of wildlife that could impact your dogs
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and your safety outdoors when you're out for those walks
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or out walking those trails, or maybe even in a park.
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So Colin, can you share a few? I mean, there's
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so many of them, but can you share a few
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specific animals that we maybe should be more aware of?
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And I know that your pups have encountered a few,
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so can you just share that?
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Yes, yeah, And throughout the years, we have definitely encountered
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a few. Certainly coyotes that I that I had mentioned
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before are very prevalent where I live, and they're prevalent
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in a lot of areas in the US. We've been
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fortunate to have not had any tragic outcomes of coyotes,
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but we are very, very vigilant in our neighborhood and
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we have a lot of really responsible pet owners in
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our neighborhood. Two of our neighbors right across the street
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from where I live have lost, they are very small
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dogs in coyote encounters in their yards over the past
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couple of years. It's always been at night, and even
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though the dog was actually standing right in front of
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the owner. For one of the dogs that was lost,
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the coyote came up that had dug a hole under
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the fence and was able to get a hold of
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their little dogs. So again that kind of goes back
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to if you have dark spots in your yard, it's
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a good idea to have them on a leash, but
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just be super super careful and vigilant with the coyotes
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if you do see them. I see them out on
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walks from time to time. I learned to not run
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away from them. So instead, secure your dogs. So pick
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them up if you can, and make a lot of noise,
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get really large. Feel like you need to get really
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big and really noisy, and typically if the coyote is alone,
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they'll usually move on. They'll just leave. But if you run,
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that's not a great strategy. So just you know, secure
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your dog and just become very noisy and very big,
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and typically they'll leave, and then Skunks are certainly an
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issue in a lot of areas. So skunks are nocturnal
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and our most active at dawn and dusk. A detern
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to keep them out of your yards is to be
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sure you do not leave your dog's food out, food
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food bowls, treat anything in the yards. Any kind of
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unsecured garbage containers could potentially attract the skunks. They can
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sometimes be found hiding under porches or elevated sheds. If
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you encounter a skunk, usually give a warning before they
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encounter your dogs. They may stomp their feet, hiss, raise
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their tail before spraying. If your dog gets sprayed, is
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important to act quickly. First check your dog's eyes because
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spraying them could cause irritation and possibly temporary blindness, So
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gently flush your dog's eyes with cool water or a
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saline solution. Kind Of counterintuitively, don't get your dog wet immediately.
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It's oftentimes our reaction to wash the smell out right away,
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but water can reactivate sulfur based oils and can actually
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worsen the smell. Keep your dog outdoors and contact your
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veterinarian for further advice. Though the smell is usually non toxic.
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The oils it excretes can cause GI upset and possibly
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blood cell damage, so keep that in mind. Also, stunks
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carry rabies, so a bite or a scratch requires veterans
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care if they have an encounter. Look for signs in
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your pet of lethargy, drooling, pail gums, and vomiting. As
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far as snakes go, I know this is an issue
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for many of us across the US. To prevent kind
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of an issue with the snake so that you can
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see them, keep your yards mode clear of brush and
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wood piles, minimizing the hiding spots for snakes to occupy.
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If you live in an area that may attract snakes,
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you may want to learn about the snakes that are
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in your area, recognizing venomous species. If you're going to
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be walking your dog near high risk areas that may
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have snakes, protect your dogs by keeping them on a
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non retractable shorter leash and prevent them from sniffing around
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deep grass, rocks or brush. Where I live here in
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San Diego, we have rattle snakes and they're quite common.
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When we're out on the trails. They blend into the
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dirt and the leaves, so I'm always on the lookout
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for them, and I listen for them that telltale rattle.
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It is true, you can hear them, and it's kind
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of a warning when they when they start to rattle,
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just back away and don't get any closer. So if
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you see them or hear them, just make sure to
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go in the other direction. We found that we see
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rattlesnakes most often when it's warm out. They typically like
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to sun themselves on driveways and streets and in your
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backyard or out on the trail. But we were always careful,
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so even if it's not super warm out, you have
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to be vigilant when we do see them, as I
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had mentioned, and we quickly move away with the dogs
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so they don't have an opportunity to interact again. Kind
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of secure your dog, pick them up if you can,
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or just get them out of the way because the
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rattlesnakes can coil and strike pretty quickly. If you think
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your dog has been bitten, immediately because time is super important,
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check their legs, face and for these symptoms. So you
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want to look for two distinct puncture marks with swelling,
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redness or bruising at the side of the bite. Excessive panting,
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vocalizing and drooling, vomiting and or diarrhea, lethargy, weakness, or
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if your dog collapses, So those are certainly kind of
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crisis situations. It's important that you contact your veterinarian immediately,
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So like maybe today, make sure you know where your
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local emergency veterinarian is located. And then if possible, if
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you do have an encounter with wildlife like a snake
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or a skunk or any other dangerous wildlife and you
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need to get to your veteran, your emergency veterinarian, you'll
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know where they are and then also ideally call them
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when you're on your way. There have been times that
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we've had situations, emergency situations with our dogs, and fortunately
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we have a few really good emergency veterinarians in my area.
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They're all about the same distance from my home. And
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if you call ahead and you have, you know, a
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few to choose from, they will tell you if there's
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a weight time, so I'm sure they would, you know,
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rush your dog in as quickly as they can, but
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if you have an option to get to an emergency
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room that has less of the weight, that's ideal. So
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just kind of keep that in mind. It is a
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stressful experience. It's best that your dog stay as calm
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and as still as possible to slow down the spread
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of venom. If your dog is bitten by a poisonous
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snake in case of facial swelling, safely remove their collar
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and or harness, and if it is safe, take a
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photo of the snake with your phone or try to
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keep it in mind as much as you can a
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description of the snake to help your vet identify it
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in whether it could be venomous. So those are things
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to kind of think about in the dance because we're
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in the moment. I don't know about you, but sometimes
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it takes me a little bit to think clearly. But
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knowing these things in a dance, it can kind of
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help us prepare and have that checklist if it happens.
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That's great information. And yes, sadly, I have been in
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that situation, and I'm gonna talk about that in a
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second because I think we have something that's kind of
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specific down here. But I wanted to just also say,
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because you know, we talked about coyotes and different things,
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we have coyotes here and both you and I have
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double fenced our yards, and we have lights and we
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have motion detector lights, so that we have removed almost
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all of our shrubbery so that nothing can get into it.
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Because we did have a few visitors here that we
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didn't want, so now we can see them when they
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come to visit or when they try to visit, and
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usually with the light, the motion detector light comes on.
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It's a huge spotlight that shines into between the two fences.
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So it's something that we have as a deterrent. But
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we have wild animals, but we also have some invasive amphibians,
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and one in particular that we had an encounter with
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is called the buffo frog. It's also known as the
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cane or marine toad. And they're most active during like warm,
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rainy weather at night. So we keep our dogs on
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shorter leashes at dawn or at dusk because they're big
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and they tend to want to chase them, so we
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do not let them go near them. They can get
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up to like nine inches oh yeah, and they're very attractive.
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They're brown and wardy, and.
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They got like this yellowish beige belly and their head
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is flat smooth.
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They have a flat.
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Smooth head and the poisonous clians are located behind their eyes.
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Their eyes are angled in a strange position on their head.
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And what happens is when they feel threatened, they secrete
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like this milky toxin. And because if your dog licks
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it or you know, hopefully they will not consume it,
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but I mean if it's a bigger dog. I know
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of people who have had these situations, and it's extremely
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dangerous because if your dog bites or in jests or
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even licks it, it secretes that milky toxin and so neurotoxin,
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and sometimes your dog can die within minutes. So the
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warning signs of the toad poisoning is they'll be pawing
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at their face, they all drool, they start frothing, their
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gums will turn red, they start vocalizing, staggering, they may vomit.
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They'll start to have seizures, mush, little tremors, convulsions. And
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we had one dog who had this problem that actually
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encountered it and we contacted our vet immediately. And so
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if you suspect that your dog has had an encounter
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with a boof of frog, have to act really quickly
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and separate the dog from the toad. If it's still there,
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blush your dog's mouth to remove that sticky toxin, but
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don't like hose it. Our immediate thing is to just
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get it out of there, but like get a damp
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wash cloth and thoroughly wipe out their gums and their
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tongue to try and remove it, because if you force
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water into their mouths, you could push it further down.
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You want to get it out of there.
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And again, as I said, the most important thing is
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contact your veterinarian immediately since they're going to require medical care,
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especially if they begin to seizure or they may have
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cardiac issues from it.
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So you just never know.
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You know, we do have the wildlife, and we have
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and we have other things besides the bouffo frog, but
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I think that benada they're pretty bald.
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They come out and hang right on in your yard.
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So sometimes when we go out in the evening, what
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we what we do every night is we go both
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out with our flashlights to make sure that there's no frogs, snakes.
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You know, there's nothing around here, and we have our
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meadillos and you know they'll come through because we're kind
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of like on a it's like a nature like there's
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we're surrounded by trees outside of our yard. We've taken
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almost everything down in our yard and we've protected the
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yard what we can control the best that we can. Yeah,
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so we go out and survey just to make sure
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that there's nothing out there, and then we let them out,
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and we let them out. We don't let everyone out
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at once because we have to monitor where they go
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in the yard. Even though we can see everything, and
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even though we have the two fences, you never know
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what's going to jump or you never know what's going
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to come under it.
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So that's my wildlife story.
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Is there any species of wildlife that you have in
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your area that you have to be kind of visualant about?
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Absolutely? So, of course the coyotes, but we also have bobcats,
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mountain winterons, raccoons, and skunks in our area. It's really interesting.
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We don't have a game camera here at our house
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that we have neighbors that do you know the cameras that,
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oh yeah, And it is fascinating what creatures come out
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at night. And you know, we live in a neighborhood.
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It's not I wouldn't say it's rural. It's kind of
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semi rural, but you know, it's pretty densely populated, and
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we still have that kind of wildlife here, so it's
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it's it's pretty amazing. They're out there.
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Where there's a will, there's a way, and you know,
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I help that with all the advice, and I have
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to thank you for sharing all that that great advice
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that you shared, you know, to help keep our pets
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safe so that when we take them out we can
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enjoy it, they can enjoy it. But you know, as
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pet parents, we have to have our heads on a swivel.
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So we hope that we help the pet parents out
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there who with their dogs they can if they encounter
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or any forms of wildlife. Remember, if you think your
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dog may have had an encounter or an interaction with wildlife,
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contact your veterinarian or your emergency veterinarian hospital immediately. And
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I know that both Colleen and I we keep our
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veterinarians and the emergency veterinarian hospitals contacts in our phones
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because these interactions take place outdoors. So you can always
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run in and get the magnet that's on your refrigerator,
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so keep it in your phone and hopefully your dogs
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will never have a negative encounter with wildlife. But speaking
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from experience, it's always best to be prepared and have
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your contacts available wherever you may be. And as I said,
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being a pet parent, you have to have our heads
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on a swivel. So, Colleen, I want to thank you
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so much for sharing such helpful advice for pet parents
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navigating the great outdoors safely with their pups. And as
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a part of our Massolivs Plot Forward initiative, we will
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be making a donation to the Frosted Faces Foundation in
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your name. And I know that this is a very
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very special organization. They're amazing, and I know they're very
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near and dear to your hearts. Can you please share
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with the listeners a little bit about them?
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I would absolutely love to.
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So.
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The Frosted Faces Foundation it's a five oh one C
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three here in San Diego County. They're based in Ramona.
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It's a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing and supporting senior
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pets and the families who love them. So they were
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founded in twenty fourteen by a couple and the organization
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began with fostering senior dogs who were being overlooked at
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the shelters. As the need for senior pet support quickly
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outpaced their personal capacity. They establish the Frosted Faces Foundation
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to engage a broader network work of compassionate families and partners.
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Since then, they've supported hundreds of families and evolved to
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meet the increasingly complex needs of senior pets in our
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community through innovative programs that rescue, rehabilitate, and rehome aging
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animals alongside safety net services veterinary care. They actually have
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their own that clinic now at the oh Wow. And
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then also through education, they're building a future wherever every
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senior pet is seen, supported and deeply loved. They are
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a wonderful organization. They do beautiful and important work, and
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if you'd like to learn more about them, you can
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check them out at Frosted Faces Foundation dot org.
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Well, I know that you speak very highly of them,
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and that you have friends that have adopted from them,
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and there are wonderful organizations so and I love my seniors.
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My house is full of your doggies, so we have
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we love our seniors. So I want to thank you
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again Colleen for sharing all the great information about us
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being able to go out and navigate the outdoors safely
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with our pups, with Wildlife. So I want to thank
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you so much and I want to thank all the
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listeners and you have a great Deepa week everyone.
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Bye bye, Talk.
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To the paw.
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Welcome back everyone to the Doggy Diva Show. As a
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pet parent, I love late summers. The days are longer,
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the weather's a little cooler, and it's a little more
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comfortable for spending time outdoors with our pups. We may
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be taking them for longer walks in the neighborhood or
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enjoying some parks, walking trails, or maybe some other outdoor activities.
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It's wonderful to be spending more time outdoors with our dogs,
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but we also need to take precautionary steps to help
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protect our pups from encounters with wildlife. And back with
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us today is calling great. Thank you so much for
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coming on to share some of this. I consider it
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to be very important information with our listeners.
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Hello, thanks for having me. Yes, thanks for having me
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as a guest, and I'm looking forward to talking about
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this subject. It's an important one.
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Well, you know, and we have to keep in mind
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that as we're enjoying the outdoors, we have to learn
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how to navigate the great outdoors safely with our pups.
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and occasional park but it's mostly just neighborhoods. I know
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that you do a lot with your dogs, and you
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have a lot of parks and walking trails, and your
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dogs are really good on them. Can you just share
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some of the things that you're doing late summer to
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enjoy these longer days and cooler evenings.
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pups and I often go. We have some wonderful parks
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here in our town. We go to the park, we
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go for walks in our neighborhood. We have sidewalks in
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our neighborhood and pretty quiet streets, which is nice. And
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I'm able to take them in the evening after work.
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as about seven o'clock, which is nice. It's it's light
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out later and it's it's really nice and cool, definitely
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my favorite part of the day. So it's more relaxing too.
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our local dog friendly beaches early in the morning before
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it gets warm. And we love to take classes too.
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do and your pups love it. I've seen your videos.
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for keeping our pups safe if they encounter while life,
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let's say, in a park, on a trail you know wherever.
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it's not an issue. It's always important to be vigilant,
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but I would say six feet at the most, just
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to be able to keep them close by. Also, be
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aware and alert and cautious when walking your dogs in
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or near wooded areas where wildlife may be and are
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difficult to see. Even in our neighborhood where most of
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the vegetation is well trimmed and well cared for, I've
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seen coyotes in bushes really close to the street, so
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you can never be too careful. So, because the coyotes
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especially are common in our area, I walk as safe
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a distance as possible from the wooded edge of a trail,
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at least in the middle of a trail if we
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go out into the woods or out at the park
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with the trails. Also when I'm walking in our neighborhood,
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coyotes at dawn and dusk, I've seen them all times
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of day, even in the middle of the street all
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times at day, so you just have to be super
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vigilant all the time. Also prevent dogs from having any
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interaction with wildlife, even if they seem like they're playing,
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depending on the time of year, the time of day,
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or other conditions that will cause them to possibly get
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aggressive towards you or your dog. When at home, be
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sure to have outdoor lights and turn them on before
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you take your dogs out in the evening. If you
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have a wooded backyard or one with dark spots, especially
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with lots of growth, go out checking around your yard
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with the flashlight and making noise before you take your
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pups out to help scare off any wildlife that may
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be in your yard, averting potential encounters. Even better, if
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you don't have a fenced yard or your fenced yard
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has dark areas, even with the lights on, I would
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recommend taking your pups out on a leash in the yard.
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It only takes a few seconds for predators to act,
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times a day that you're out there with you dogs.
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have them on a leash if you can. Also, don't
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leave food outside. So if you feed your dogs outdoors
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or give them treats in the yard, remove uneaten food bowls, treats,
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anything to eat to help deter wildlife from coming into
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your yard. And most important, if your dog has any
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kind of contact with wildlife that is concerning to you,
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contact your veterinarian. It's really important.
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Those are really good tips. You know.
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In Florida, it's really it's encouraged that we not walk
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our dogs near like lakes, along the edge of lakes, ponds,
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rivers because we have alligators. They're often in the water.
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They're not visible, especially like at dusk or dawn. They
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may just look like a log or you know, a
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piece of wood floating in the water. It's advice when
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you're out early in the morning or in the evening
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to make sure that your dogs are on like a
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non retractable.
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I have like four to.
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Six feet a leash depending on the size of the
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dog I'm taken out, and I also have them in
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harnesses because two of them, I can pick up one
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of them, I can't, and my harness has a handle
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on it so that I could just grab her. We've
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never had an encounter. And when we first moved down
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here many many years ago, we lived in Florida, it
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was recommended because we had dogs and we walked our dogs,
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and at the time we lived closer to a river.
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dogs out one So we had so many things coming
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at us, and somebody recommended we go to this local
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It's like a preserve for animals, and they teach you
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about the gators, they teach you about iguanas, they teach
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you about snakes, and it's all about what to look for,
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what colors of the snakes. You know, there's just so
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much and how to avoid any kind of encounter, or
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if there is an encounter, what to do. So I
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always tell people that I meet when they first moved
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down here, go over there. You're going to take the class.
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It'll be well worth it. So's yeah, No, it really
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helped us a lot, because you know, we moved from
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up north, so what you have up north we were
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coming from New York is different than what you have
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down here, and of course you see.
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It and you're going, WHOA.
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You mentioned the importance of bringing our dogs to the
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vet if there's like a negative interaction with wildlife. Can
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you share maybe some precautionary measures we should discuss with
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our vets, including vaccines.
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Yes, absolutely, so, certainly discuss with your veterinarian vaccinations that
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are important for your pet to have in your geographic
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area and the areas that you travel to. Some vaccines
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require annual boosters, other require group boosters every three years
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in different regions have different you know, there is commonality
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across the United States on recommended vaccinations, but in different
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areas there are kind of nuances for what your pet
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should be vaccinated for, so be sure to check with
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your veterinarian some of the more prevalent and common vaccinations
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that we see and that are very important. Of course,
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Rabies is required by law in most areas and highly
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effective at preventing rabies transmission when your dogs encounter wild animals,
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including raccoons, skunk, or foxes. Rabies is a fatal disease
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that attacks the central nervous system through saliva of an
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infected animal, usually from bites. So that's a really important one,
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also required by law in most areas. Another is leptosporosis.
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It's recommended for dogs who can catch it by swimming
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or drinking contaminated water from lakes or puddles where wildlife
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have urinated. Leptosporrosis is a serious bacterial disease that damages
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the dogs liver and kidneys and then also canine distemper
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helps protect your dog against highly contagious viruses. They're often fatal.
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It can be spread by a wildlife and affects the
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gastro intestinal, respiratory, and nervous system of dogs. So again,
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speak with your veterinarian see what's important. I know some
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people where I live do not vaccinate for leptos borosis.
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I do. We do have outbreaks from time to time,
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so it's not super common, but it is something that
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some of us will vaccinate for. But talk to them
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about the you know, the risks and the benefits, and
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just make sure that what you're doing is right for
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you and your pet.
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That's so true, and you're right it could be regional
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where you're living for lepto I had no idea about
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the vaccine until we moved down here and we were taught.
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You know, we first met with our veterinarian that we
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were going to be going to.
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They asked if we had it and what. So you
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need to meet with your veterinarian.
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Because there are things that are regional to where you live,
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or like you said, maybe where you're vacationing, or you
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may you know, if you're spending like down here, we
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have people who are here maybe you know, three or
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four months and then back up north for the rest
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of the year. So make sure you get with your
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veterinarian to check what your dog needs in cat for
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the specific areas on which you live. So that is
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great information. Thank you, and you know what I think
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what we're going to do right now, So let's take
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a quick break and when we return, Colleen will share
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a few specific members of wildlife that could impact your
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dog's safety outdoors.
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Welcome back to everyone.
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We're here with Colleen Gray and she's going to share
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some specific members of wildlife that could impact your dogs
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and your safety outdoors when you're out for those walks
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or out walking those trails, or maybe even in a park.
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So Colin, can you share a few? I mean, there's
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so many of them, but can you share a few
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specific animals that we maybe should be more aware of?
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And I know that your pups have encountered a few,
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so can you just share that?
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Yes, yeah, And throughout the years, we have definitely encountered
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a few. Certainly coyotes that I that I had mentioned
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before are very prevalent where I live, and they're prevalent
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in a lot of areas in the US. We've been
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fortunate to have not had any tragic outcomes of coyotes,
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but we are very, very vigilant in our neighborhood and
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we have a lot of really responsible pet owners in
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our neighborhood. Two of our neighbors right across the street
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from where I live have lost, they are very small
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dogs in coyote encounters in their yards over the past
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couple of years. It's always been at night, and even
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though the dog was actually standing right in front of
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the owner. For one of the dogs that was lost,
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the coyote came up that had dug a hole under
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the fence and was able to get a hold of
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their little dogs. So again that kind of goes back
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to if you have dark spots in your yard, it's
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a good idea to have them on a leash, but
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just be super super careful and vigilant with the coyotes
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if you do see them. I see them out on
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walks from time to time. I learned to not run
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away from them. So instead, secure your dogs. So pick
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them up if you can, and make a lot of noise,
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get really large. Feel like you need to get really
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big and really noisy, and typically if the coyote is alone,
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they'll usually move on. They'll just leave. But if you run,
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that's not a great strategy. So just you know, secure
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your dog and just become very noisy and very big,
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and typically they'll leave, and then Skunks are certainly an
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issue in a lot of areas. So skunks are nocturnal
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and our most active at dawn and dusk. A detern
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to keep them out of your yards is to be
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sure you do not leave your dog's food out, food
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food bowls, treat anything in the yards. Any kind of
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unsecured garbage containers could potentially attract the skunks. They can
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sometimes be found hiding under porches or elevated sheds. If
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you encounter a skunk, usually give a warning before they
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encounter your dogs. They may stomp their feet, hiss, raise
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their tail before spraying. If your dog gets sprayed, is
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important to act quickly. First check your dog's eyes because
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spraying them could cause irritation and possibly temporary blindness, So
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gently flush your dog's eyes with cool water or a
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saline solution. Kind Of counterintuitively, don't get your dog wet immediately.
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It's oftentimes our reaction to wash the smell out right away,
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but water can reactivate sulfur based oils and can actually
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worsen the smell. Keep your dog outdoors and contact your
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veterinarian for further advice. Though the smell is usually non toxic.
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The oils it excretes can cause GI upset and possibly
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blood cell damage, so keep that in mind. Also, stunks
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carry rabies, so a bite or a scratch requires veterans
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care if they have an encounter. Look for signs in
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your pet of lethargy, drooling, pail gums, and vomiting. As
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far as snakes go, I know this is an issue
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for many of us across the US. To prevent kind
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of an issue with the snake so that you can
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see them, keep your yards mode clear of brush and
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wood piles, minimizing the hiding spots for snakes to occupy.
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If you live in an area that may attract snakes,
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you may want to learn about the snakes that are
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in your area, recognizing venomous species. If you're going to
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be walking your dog near high risk areas that may
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have snakes, protect your dogs by keeping them on a
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non retractable shorter leash and prevent them from sniffing around
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deep grass, rocks or brush. Where I live here in
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San Diego, we have rattle snakes and they're quite common.
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When we're out on the trails. They blend into the
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dirt and the leaves, so I'm always on the lookout
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for them, and I listen for them that telltale rattle.
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It is true, you can hear them, and it's kind
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of a warning when they when they start to rattle,
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just back away and don't get any closer. So if
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you see them or hear them, just make sure to
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go in the other direction. We found that we see
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rattlesnakes most often when it's warm out. They typically like
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to sun themselves on driveways and streets and in your
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backyard or out on the trail. But we were always careful,
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so even if it's not super warm out, you have
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to be vigilant when we do see them, as I
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had mentioned, and we quickly move away with the dogs
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so they don't have an opportunity to interact again. Kind
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of secure your dog, pick them up if you can,
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or just get them out of the way because the
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rattlesnakes can coil and strike pretty quickly. If you think
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your dog has been bitten, immediately because time is super important,
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check their legs, face and for these symptoms. So you
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want to look for two distinct puncture marks with swelling,
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redness or bruising at the side of the bite. Excessive panting,
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vocalizing and drooling, vomiting and or diarrhea, lethargy, weakness, or
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if your dog collapses, So those are certainly kind of
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crisis situations. It's important that you contact your veterinarian immediately,
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So like maybe today, make sure you know where your
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local emergency veterinarian is located. And then if possible, if
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you do have an encounter with wildlife like a snake
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or a skunk or any other dangerous wildlife and you
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need to get to your veteran, your emergency veterinarian, you'll
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know where they are and then also ideally call them
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when you're on your way. There have been times that
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we've had situations, emergency situations with our dogs, and fortunately
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we have a few really good emergency veterinarians in my area.
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They're all about the same distance from my home. And
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if you call ahead and you have, you know, a
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few to choose from, they will tell you if there's
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a weight time, so I'm sure they would, you know,
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rush your dog in as quickly as they can, but
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if you have an option to get to an emergency
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room that has less of the weight, that's ideal. So
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just kind of keep that in mind. It is a
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stressful experience. It's best that your dog stay as calm
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and as still as possible to slow down the spread
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of venom. If your dog is bitten by a poisonous
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snake in case of facial swelling, safely remove their collar
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and or harness, and if it is safe, take a
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photo of the snake with your phone or try to
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keep it in mind as much as you can a
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description of the snake to help your vet identify it
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in whether it could be venomous. So those are things
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to kind of think about in the dance because we're
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in the moment. I don't know about you, but sometimes
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it takes me a little bit to think clearly. But
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knowing these things in a dance, it can kind of
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help us prepare and have that checklist if it happens.
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That's great information. And yes, sadly, I have been in
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that situation, and I'm gonna talk about that in a
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second because I think we have something that's kind of
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specific down here. But I wanted to just also say,
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because you know, we talked about coyotes and different things,
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we have coyotes here and both you and I have
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double fenced our yards, and we have lights and we
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have motion detector lights, so that we have removed almost
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all of our shrubbery so that nothing can get into it.
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Because we did have a few visitors here that we
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didn't want, so now we can see them when they
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come to visit or when they try to visit, and
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usually with the light, the motion detector light comes on.
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It's a huge spotlight that shines into between the two fences.
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So it's something that we have as a deterrent. But
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we have wild animals, but we also have some invasive amphibians,
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and one in particular that we had an encounter with
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is called the buffo frog. It's also known as the
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cane or marine toad. And they're most active during like warm,
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rainy weather at night. So we keep our dogs on
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shorter leashes at dawn or at dusk because they're big
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and they tend to want to chase them, so we
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do not let them go near them. They can get
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up to like nine inches oh yeah, and they're very attractive.
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They're brown and wardy, and.
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They got like this yellowish beige belly and their head
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is flat smooth.
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They have a flat.
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Smooth head and the poisonous clians are located behind their eyes.
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Their eyes are angled in a strange position on their head.
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And what happens is when they feel threatened, they secrete
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like this milky toxin. And because if your dog licks
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it or you know, hopefully they will not consume it,
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but I mean if it's a bigger dog. I know
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of people who have had these situations, and it's extremely
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dangerous because if your dog bites or in jests or
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even licks it, it secretes that milky toxin and so neurotoxin,
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and sometimes your dog can die within minutes. So the
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warning signs of the toad poisoning is they'll be pawing
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at their face, they all drool, they start frothing, their
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gums will turn red, they start vocalizing, staggering, they may vomit.
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They'll start to have seizures, mush, little tremors, convulsions. And
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we had one dog who had this problem that actually
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encountered it and we contacted our vet immediately. And so
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if you suspect that your dog has had an encounter
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with a boof of frog, have to act really quickly
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and separate the dog from the toad. If it's still there,
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blush your dog's mouth to remove that sticky toxin, but
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don't like hose it. Our immediate thing is to just
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get it out of there, but like get a damp
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wash cloth and thoroughly wipe out their gums and their
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tongue to try and remove it, because if you force
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water into their mouths, you could push it further down.
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You want to get it out of there.
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And again, as I said, the most important thing is
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contact your veterinarian immediately since they're going to require medical care,
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especially if they begin to seizure or they may have
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cardiac issues from it.
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So you just never know.
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You know, we do have the wildlife, and we have
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and we have other things besides the bouffo frog, but
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I think that benada they're pretty bald.
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They come out and hang right on in your yard.
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So sometimes when we go out in the evening, what
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we what we do every night is we go both
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out with our flashlights to make sure that there's no frogs, snakes.
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You know, there's nothing around here, and we have our
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meadillos and you know they'll come through because we're kind
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of like on a it's like a nature like there's
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we're surrounded by trees outside of our yard. We've taken
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almost everything down in our yard and we've protected the
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yard what we can control the best that we can. Yeah,
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so we go out and survey just to make sure
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that there's nothing out there, and then we let them out,
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and we let them out. We don't let everyone out
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at once because we have to monitor where they go
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in the yard. Even though we can see everything, and
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even though we have the two fences, you never know
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what's going to jump or you never know what's going
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to come under it.
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So that's my wildlife story.
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Is there any species of wildlife that you have in
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your area that you have to be kind of visualant about?
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Absolutely? So, of course the coyotes, but we also have bobcats,
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mountain winterons, raccoons, and skunks in our area. It's really interesting.
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We don't have a game camera here at our house
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that we have neighbors that do you know the cameras that,
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oh yeah, And it is fascinating what creatures come out
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at night. And you know, we live in a neighborhood.
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It's not I wouldn't say it's rural. It's kind of
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semi rural, but you know, it's pretty densely populated, and
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we still have that kind of wildlife here, so it's
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it's it's pretty amazing. They're out there.
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Where there's a will, there's a way, and you know,
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I help that with all the advice, and I have
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to thank you for sharing all that that great advice
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that you shared, you know, to help keep our pets
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safe so that when we take them out we can
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enjoy it, they can enjoy it. But you know, as
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pet parents, we have to have our heads on a swivel.
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So we hope that we help the pet parents out
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there who with their dogs they can if they encounter
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or any forms of wildlife. Remember, if you think your
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dog may have had an encounter or an interaction with wildlife,
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contact your veterinarian or your emergency veterinarian hospital immediately. And
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I know that both Colleen and I we keep our
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veterinarians and the emergency veterinarian hospitals contacts in our phones
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because these interactions take place outdoors. So you can always
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run in and get the magnet that's on your refrigerator,
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so keep it in your phone and hopefully your dogs
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will never have a negative encounter with wildlife. But speaking
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from experience, it's always best to be prepared and have
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your contacts available wherever you may be. And as I said,
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being a pet parent, you have to have our heads
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on a swivel. So, Colleen, I want to thank you
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so much for sharing such helpful advice for pet parents
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navigating the great outdoors safely with their pups. And as
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a part of our Massolivs Plot Forward initiative, we will
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be making a donation to the Frosted Faces Foundation in
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your name. And I know that this is a very
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very special organization. They're amazing, and I know they're very
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near and dear to your hearts. Can you please share
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with the listeners a little bit about them?
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I would absolutely love to.
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So.
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The Frosted Faces Foundation it's a five oh one C
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three here in San Diego County. They're based in Ramona.
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It's a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing and supporting senior
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pets and the families who love them. So they were
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founded in twenty fourteen by a couple and the organization
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began with fostering senior dogs who were being overlooked at
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the shelters. As the need for senior pet support quickly
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outpaced their personal capacity. They establish the Frosted Faces Foundation
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to engage a broader network work of compassionate families and partners.
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Since then, they've supported hundreds of families and evolved to
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meet the increasingly complex needs of senior pets in our
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community through innovative programs that rescue, rehabilitate, and rehome aging
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animals alongside safety net services veterinary care. They actually have
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their own that clinic now at the oh Wow. And
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then also through education, they're building a future wherever every
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senior pet is seen, supported and deeply loved. They are
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a wonderful organization. They do beautiful and important work, and
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if you'd like to learn more about them, you can
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check them out at Frosted Faces Foundation dot org.
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Well, I know that you speak very highly of them,
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and that you have friends that have adopted from them,
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and there are wonderful organizations so and I love my seniors.
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My house is full of your doggies, so we have
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we love our seniors. So I want to thank you
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again Colleen for sharing all the great information about us
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being able to go out and navigate the outdoors safely
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with our pups, with Wildlife. So I want to thank
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you so much and I want to thank all the
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listeners and you have a great Deepa week everyone.
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Bye bye, Talk.
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To the paw.
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also as our Doggie Divas always say, please love your
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pets because they love you unconditionally. And please please remember
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to adopt foster, Spae, neoter and Microchip and as always,
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please have a great Diva week. Everyone.
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Thank you for joining us for this episode of The
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Doggy Diva Show. To find out more about Susan, Marie
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Tell your fellow pet parents about it. We look forward
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