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Ep. 23: Property Mullet
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Join Kel, Dr. G, and Dr. M as we spill the kibble on your submitted vet and animal stories. In this episode we talk about the love of terriers, what really helps sell your house, and which cat carrier is superior. This episode is for entertainment purposes only, please talk to your vet before following any advice heard on this show.
Interested in sharing your own clinic stories? Email us at spill@spillthekibble.com
TW- dog death, decay, creamtion
"Happy Boy Theme" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Common (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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Introduction & Listener Invitation
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nor listening to Spill the Kibble, the podcast where I read your submitted stories and have real veterinarians react to them. If you are interested in sharing your clinic story, email us at spill at spill the kibble.com.
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Please note that this show is not suitable for all listeners. Listener discretion is advised. And with that, let's go to the show.
Meet the Hosts & Spoiler Tease
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Welcome to Spill the Kibble. I'm Kel. I'm Dr. Quinn. And I'm Dr. M. And we're here to tell your clinic stories. But first, how are you both doing today?
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I'm hopped up on cake and I'm ready to rock. I'm reeling over Traders finale, but we're not talking about we cannot. We're not talking about it. We don't want to spoil anything, but we all know. And if you want to be cool, you should listen to that, our podcast, and then watch the episode.
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Dr. M lets know that Rob is going to be narrating on Quinn. Yeah. And if you don't know what that is, Google's free. Go nuts. Guess what? Dr. G doesn't know either.
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Yeah. Well, i know now. i Now I know. So I've, because Google's free. You've been educated.
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ah Dr.
Game: 'Dated or Crate It'
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G, I think that you had ah Dated or Crate It for us. Dated or Crate coming in hot. Y'all ready? We need like a little song for Dated or Crate It, I feel. if This is going to turn into a ah ah frequent thing. Dated or Crate It.
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I'm a happy, snitty dog and show myself gaily with an air of self-confidence. I'm alert and exhibit interest in my surroundings. I also exhibit less aggressiveness than is sometimes encouraged in other Terriers. My major fault?
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Timid or overly aggressive dogs. That's my bio. I'm dating it. They don't like timid or aggressive? I don't know. Just because my major fault...
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Timber or overly aggressive dogs. don't know they're saying that's what I'm not into or if that's my major fault that I am that. ah Although it already says I'm less aggressive than other Terriers.
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Yeah. I'm dating it. That's all I know. i disagree. Is it a Yorkie? No. Okay, I wasn't sure. think because I truly believe in the alphabet mafia and you said it's gaily,
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We're going to go with date it. I thought you organize you were going to launch a dog breed that you thought it was. And you were like, what's the most gay dog breed I can think of that loves the city? Would you just want for date it? I never presume to guess who's the gayest dog.
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This, now it's spelled, gaily spelled G-A-I-L-Y. And I'm not sure that's either version. um i think they mean a happy Yes. I think so, too. so But both of y'all both y all are dating?
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We're dating? Oh, yeah. I'm dating that dog. I'm crating. It's a soft-coated Wheaton Terrier. Aw. I stand by it. I'm dating it. You're dating it.
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Sure. I kind of like Terriers. God loves a Terrier, I believe, as they say. Oh, you're right. Okay. You got to. It's been a rough month. We could just play the Terrier that entire album.
Quirky Superstitions & Property Resale
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Yeah, God loves Terrier, God loves Catherine O'Hara. all right All right, I'll date the week. that You don't have to it's okay. can just be for us.
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I'll take it to prom, but I'm not paying for anything. Once I take his glasses off, you're going to be your mind's gonna be blown. You just haven't seen its potential yet. yeah When it descends those suburban house stairs with its glasses off and the red dress on you're going to just going to be so elated. You're go to win that bet.
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Listen, I think it was in love with you the whole time. It didn't even mean to get in the bet with me and my varsity friends. You just go start a band. I think you guys need to headline Battle the Bands.
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Sure. And then you'll probably win, or at least least you'll learn something along the way. and I don't have to date it. I can just create it. Or we'll find out hacky sack is performance art. The best medicine. Oh, and performance art.
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Yes. yeah Yeah, hacky sack can heal all wounds. Well, we knew that. Yeah. like hea can heal your wounds and go out of the cheer We're all just, you know, it's string theory. We're all connected. Me, you, this microphone, cats. It's just just a million little slack lines keeping all of us in tow. I love that. I would like to request possibly one of your dated or credits we do a cat.
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Absolutely. i won't tell you which is a cat, though. Okay, great. I'm gonna keep my species my species non-specific. Honestly, you can you can do any species. One episode, you just pull up a dating app and you're just reading people's profiles. You're like, how about Brad?
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i'm well I'm already planning for when I drop humans in and y'all say, create it. And we realize that. I stand by it. You two already found the perfect people for you. So you don't even need- you're gonna do celebrity men, there's a lot of them I'd create. Yeah. I mean, anyone on Quinn.
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Well, we could get into stories unless you have something else. I love a story. I'm hopped up on cake and I'm ready for stories. Really got at that cake. What kind of cake is this? German chocolate. Get into it.
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oh My favorite. It's a cake from the grocery store. Ah, yes, I love that grocery store. I love grocery store. I love generic groceries. Insert local grocery store that's slightly higher end than the other ones here. ah The girls got it for me at work, and a lot of them had never had it before, so I got to introduce people to it, and their minds were blown. So we got some new German chocolate stands in the Higgity House.
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But I am hopped up on cake and ready for stories. The wound has been debrided. The manuka honey has been slathered. And the Robert Jones has been modified.
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It's time to spill the kibble. Hey, bring it out, bring it out.
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So I found these on the Bark Web.
Odd Aftercare Inquiry at 4 a.m.
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Love a Bark Web. Cake-based storage, I hope? No. Huh. Interesting. Don't worry, I'll still guess it. Okay, so the first story begins.
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This is from an overnight shift that still pops into my head sometimes. It's around 4 a.m., one of those slow, quiet nights where I'm just sweeping the lobby to stay awake.
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This guy walks in, calm, polite, not frantic at all, and asks about aftercare options for his deceased dog. Totally standard conversation for an ah ER clinic, and I go over cremation options, private versus communal, earned the usual.
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What are your thoughts right now of a man coming in at 4 a.m. asking about I suspect it passed away at home and they are trying to do something with the body before everyone else at home wakes up.
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oh So you think he because it doesn't say he came in with the dog. huh Don't you think this could have been a phone call? It could be in the vehicle.
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Oh, that's true. ah No, I honestly, i wouldn't even be really small. it could be in his pocket. Oh, I wouldn't even think twice about this conversation. I'd be like, yeah, no, of course, let's go. Like, I wouldn't even question it.
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That's how I know it's going to get. and Should I continue? Yes, please. Yes, please. The man nods along and then says, that all sounds good.
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I can have her dug out of the garden by tomorrow morning. Oh. My brain just stalled. What do you think about that?
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Okay, so it's 4 a.m.? m Yes. ah Yep. They are buying a house in a different time zone. The deal came in. oh at midnight, someone closed. Now they know they need to move. They just buried this pet yesterday, and now they realize I can't have it there. Like, we got to do it. We got to take it with us. Okay.
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That's a possibility. I thought maybe they panicked and buried it and then they were a late night Googling and realized that in some places that's a illegal. oh Oh, yeah. And now they have to come up with clan B because they just done broke the law and our brothers in blue are going to show up and bust you.
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Neighbor saw them digging the plot, saw them do it and said, you're not allowed to. You were calling the cops on you. And they said, i don't what talking about. Go to bed. And then they scrambled over. No. Did the neighbors think they were burying a human body? Maybe. Definitely. Back boy.
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Finally. All right. Well, let's continue. I asked the man to clarify because surely I misunderstood. That's when he tells me his dog had passed away two years No.
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Now we're cooking with gas. What the His dog passed away two years ago and he just bought a new house and they have to move. That's right. If we have to move, it can't stay. Yeah. It'll haunt a new family and there's a no haunting clause in the sale deal.
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Yeah. It comes standard nowadays. That's wild. Two years later. um oh what a state we're going to be in. I don't want to know what that looks like.
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I don't, I don't, I think let resting dogs lie. i don't think I'm, I don't think I'm encouraging that business. Oh, do you think that's where it comes from? Probably. yeah for I think it started here. From this exact situation.
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it does bring up such a specific bird. This is a story from a hundred years ago. What were you going to say? um It's just a great noun. Exume. Exume. It is. This is my daughter Exume.
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It reminds me of an episode of Bones, but
Cultural References & Aftercare Humor
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for dogs. Bones for dogs. Not as unlikely as you'd think. Shall we continue? He buried the dog in the backyard, but now he's moving. hey It is a seller's market. You nailed it. And he didn't want to leave her behind. That's so sweetie.
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is. oh yeah. i said well No, yeah, totally. It's really sweet. that he In a It's fine, you know. i continues. He'd like to have her exhumed.
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So so he can have her cremated and he can take the ashes with him. Totally. I don't know if there's a emotional statute of limitations on how long that can go. i think decomposition wise, you might be getting a little bit of rough territory there. he But I guess it depends what it's in.
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Okay, not to be a total Bravo head, but there is this show called Southern Charm. And Miss Pat, who is the old lady in the show, is kind of the matriarch who, she chastises everyone, but wants to hear all the hot goss. She lives in this huge mansion. She has a butler.
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She also has a pet cemetery of every single dog and animal she's ever had buried in this garden. sure And I was like, I don't know how the resale value is going to be.
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ah Except some of her dogs are very famous for being on TV, was going to say, if anything, you know, once once you're a celebrity, that's that's cash money. that's Now that's a feature. This is Miss Pat's pet grave. Run our tickets to the locals, you know? Get your picture taken in Pat's pet graveyard.
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So in an episode recently, one of the dogs died and she had an entire ah bagpipe. She had a bagpipe player at the funeral. That's very sweet. Mm-hmm.
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No, I'm a quarter Scottish, but I am worried that all of her other pets are not going to love bagpipes playing. Oh, the living ones? Or the spirits of the dead ones?
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the the Those who remain. Yeah, okay. She hasn't replaced this one yet. She's a one at a time. Oh, so she's... she's a what She's a one dog at a time lady. Yeah, she's not a Liza Vanderpump. So she is dog. One at a time. Good for her.
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So it's it's all bagpipes all the time until if a new dog arrives. Sickness for every dog. Maybe that dog was Scottish. i don't know. I don't remember the breed. Anyway, I can finish the story. Okay. right Okay.
Pet Exhumation Advice & Humor
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So the storyteller goes on. On one hand, this was kind of sweet. He clearly loved his dog and didn't want to just move on without her. On the other hand, it was absolutely not.
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I had to gently explain that we would not be able to cremate a dog that had been buried for two years and that for his own safety, he should not be digging up and handling decomposed remains.
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There are health risks, not to mention the condition things would likely be in. He seemed disappointed, but understanding. And I went back to sweeping the lobby at 4.15 a.m., trying to process the fact that it was too early to deal with this.
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I didn't even think about health risks. I'm not convinced. i'm not convinced either. I think i we're not helpless. Two years. Probably not many. i mean, depends on your gag reflex. But other than that, I don't think you're finding you're not getting anything good and infectious in that. Put on gloves.
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Your dr adam is going to look at likely pentobarbital is not not going to be an issue at this point. Yeah. Would there be noxious gas? ah Not enough to matter.
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ah big's the animal, you know? but i just wouldn't want to see my pet that way. Yeah, most people generally don't bury them in like an airtight situation either. Is there a health risk?
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Oh, no. I was just looking. um Small animals can decompose within a few months, whereas like large animals could take two to five years. It depends on the size, to be fair.
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So the body might not even be there anymore, depending on the size. How much stuff you got to get through. Yeah. Now, if it's a 100-pound Great Dane, depends on how much meat them worms got to be chewing through to get to the sweet nougat-y center.
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oh ah Would you turn them away? No, I wouldn't. Me neither. I think just as long as they promise to bring it in and like a see some sort of a sealed vessel.
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and But then you have to look. What if it was a person? What if they brought in a half decomperson? And you're like, I'm not going to look. hey You'd have to look. No, I'd look. I'm not going to look. I'm busy sweeping the floors. I've scanned microchips of like squashed hit by car cats for people before that were looking for their pet. They bought like like a fully flattened, yeah a flat critter cartoon critter and been like, is this my cat? And I'm like, I'll scan it.
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Could be possible health risks. One of them is we don't know if this dog was euthanized. Like medication remains in the tissue? No. Don't eat it.
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Don't eat it and rub it all over your mucous membranes. You'll be fine. Wear gloves. Don't be a freak about it. Just dig up your dog and bring it to me. We'll have to look it up. But after two years, I feel like anything that's still in their system medication-wise has already just been inert. Yeah.
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It could be contaminated with groundwater and shallow burials may attract scavengers, creating sanitation issues. Yeah. I guess don't wear gloves and don't have a cut in your hand. Yeah, don't lick it. That's my motto for everything in life. Yeah.
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Well, I wouldn't turn them away. would help. That's story number one. i would I wouldn't go and dig it up myself, but I wouldn't shame them if they brought it to me. i would just handle it.
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Yeah. get your Get yourself a vet who will cremate your two-year-old pet. Sorry, to your two-year dead pet. Mm-hmm. They're here for you. ah i maybe Maybe you need to take that in consideration.
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You know? Is this my forever home or am I going to move eventually? Totally. Maybe we should cremate this pet now. Yeah. i talked to I just talked to someone about it the other day. You can bury the cremains.
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Yes, you can. Absolutely, you can. So then you can dig it back up. All intact in a box. hu No groundwater. Take it on to your next house. Dig up the dead pet. Put in the upside down.
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ah Was it Mary statue to sell your house? think so. Cal, it sounded like you were about to do a little song and dance of like, dig up your dead pet. Bring it to us now. We'll take care of it. Dig up your dead pet. What's the
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No, I fell back on Catholic superstition. I assume I know who the Mary is we're talking about, but what is this upside down Mary statue? It's a superstition. about Like, if you can't sell your house, if you bury an upside down Mary statue in your yard, it'll sell. It's either an upside down Mary. Mary the patron saint of resale value? or She would be a modern day, i feel like.
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But you have to dig her up and take her to your new house. i feel like it but charity che help me sell though I feel like it's either an upside down Mary in the backyard or an upside down pineapple in the front yard. But one way or another, you're going to get some interest in that house.
00:17:57
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make your poison. that's That's the property mullet right there. Exactly. The property moment.
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Well, i have another story. Perfect. Play it on All right, all right, all right. Let's go. This one this one doesn't deal with depth. Something new for us. i thought I would end in a lighter note. All right, i'll take a back I'll take a back seat on this.
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Okay, the story begins.
Kitten Stuck in Drawer Adventure
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Years ago, a client brought in a brand new adorable kitten. Love where this is starting. As I finished up chatting with the owners, my tech opened one of those big built-in cabinet drawers in our exam room to grab supplies.
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Before I could even process what was happening, this tiny gremlin launched himself off the table and landed perfectly inside the open drawer. Oh, yeah. What do you guys think happened next? Call back in the back.
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It's...
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what sorry, I'm sorry, sorry, I'm
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But it found something back there, um I think. maybe? It's not going to be as easy as take it off the track and and go. like found something. A portal to another dimension where cats are king?
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ah Shall we find out? I'm going to say a desiccated mouse or ah o or a cake portal. like This kitten found treasures. He was just alerting them to treasure trove. yeah He's a little dragon. Yeah, there's treasure troves in the cake dimension. Yeah.
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A two-year-old exhumed body back behind the drawers. And so the client, when they were told they wouldn't cremate it, the client just left it back there. Like, can I just, I ain't going to stop in an exam room for a second. Just shove it in the back behind everything. rude. So rude.
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All right, well, we will continue. And this kitten somehow vaulted over the back edge, not out of the drawer, over the back of the drawer into the cabinet base. Oh, okay. As they do.
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There is as it turns out, a mysterious void behind those drawers, a tiny, inaccessible space clearly designed for dust and now kitten. Yeah, that's that's Ziploc limbo in my home.
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So it seems as though this is not in a cabinet where you can open up the, you know, some doors. Right. it No, it is now between, betwixt the wall and the cabinet. It happens. We're going to need some treats.
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Yeah, I was going to say, what would you two try to do to lure the kitten Yeah, I've got like little feather toys with bells. I've got stinky treats. I got crunchy treats. I would definitely be throwing out all the stops.
00:21:17
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I can't decide if this is better or worse than cat in the Ceiling. I think it's better. That's the other one that happens. Cat behind drawer, cat in the ceiling. Is it cat in the ceiling? Because it's like a drop ceiling.
00:21:29
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I'm looking for the blueprints. Yeah. And then you got, I like, I don't know about you guys. I'm not built to like crawl around up there and look up there. That's not a space that's built for me. And so I don't know how to get the cat out.
00:21:40
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Prayers. He lives there now. It's the clinic cat now. You send up a dog. Yeah. That's true. Oh, it's like a woman who ate the fly. Yeah, that's.
00:21:52
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There was a cat who climbed in the ceiling. This reminds me of that meme ceiling cat. Meme ceiling. This is about ceiling. a Yeah. ah My reference is the and only kid, which is a Passover song that I used to love to sing. Oh, go ahead. Now's your chance.
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Oh, I couldn't possibly. I'm not going to do the only kid. But there was a kid and then, not a kid, like a baby goat.
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ah Sure. a kid. then you knew the cat. But then you came to the cat, the cat bit the kids, and you got to do the dog. The dog chases the cat. Yeah. And it's kind of like it goes all the way up to 10 with an angel of death, and then it rocks its way back down.
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I mean, it sounds thrilling. in next week. doesn't sound thrilling. I'm not doing it. I'm not doing it any service. Sign up for the Patreon. The angel of death was from the other story we just did. Not this one. Right.
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And then, wait, I can do this. And then came the angel of death, blessed be he, who slew the butcher that killed the ox, that drank the water, that quenched the fire, that burned the stick, that beat the dog, that bit the cat, that ate the kid my father brought for two, Zusa, an only kid, an only kid. And then like a lady and a spider, that's what? The American version?
00:23:06
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at maybe there wasn't a lady who swallowed a fly i don't know why she swallowed a fly perhaps she'll die why oh why and they made her eat a cat to get it out she ate other stuff first well first she ate a spider and then she ate a bird and then she ate a cat then she ate a dog And I don't remember what else.
00:23:27
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Was tiger, a lion or something? don't Gluttony is all I'm hearing. Sometimes I sometimes you I'm hearing you. Sometimes you it's a sunken cause. You got to get out while you're ahead. Yeah, you ate a fly, but now you have i'm sorry, but also a fly and a spider. Good protein. Everything else.
00:23:41
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Do you really need all that? Snake. Wait, did you say snake? She did not. no Okay. Well, there should have been a snake in there, too. I think spider. No, fly. Then spider. Then frog. Bird. Then snake. Bird. Bird.
00:23:56
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You can't rewrite it. It's her story. Even bigger bird. this is what she ate. you can't just make up new stuff. This was her journey. Okay, fine. So we're getting this. We're putting flies inside of this cabinet. Please continue. Honestly, it could work. Yeah. It could work. Get some killer bees on the track.
00:24:13
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hu All right, so the story continues. We tried everything first. Treats, baby talk, shaking food containers, nothing.
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Total silence, just the faint sound of claws shifting in the darkness like he'd signed Elise. At some point, I realized this was escalating. We had a full exam schedule. I had a trap kitten in my cabinetry and we needed to figure out a solution.
00:24:43
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We were minutes away from performing exploratory surgery on a cabinet when one of my techs grabbed a wand toy. Yep. Again, hero techs. First thing I thought of. They're just like us. They're heroes. You either tell me a kitten's going to resist a wand.
00:25:00
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They won't. this is working This is working like a fishing pole. Yeah. Okay. Okay. The tech lay on the floor, stuck the toy into the void, and started flicking it around.
00:25:12
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And like a bat out of hell, the kitten shot out straight into her arms. Aww. That kitten is now 11. He still comes to our clinic, and he struts in like he owns the place. The staff adore him.
00:25:26
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He's basically a celebrity. But now we watch our drawers whenever a kitten is in the exam room. Watch your drawers. Look out. Here it comes. Watch your drawers.
00:25:38
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Everybody gird your loins. Watch your drawers. This has been Kel's audition for Quinn.com. Oh, God, no. Nobody wants to hear my voice. Uh, that's, uh, I, I do think that's better than cat in the ceiling. I'll take cat in the cabinet, cabinet cat, any old time.
00:25:56
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Kitten in the cabinet? I'll take a kitten cabinet. It kind of sounds nice. That's a fun, like, jack-in-the-box. It is. I'm spoiled. I... I'm like mirror blocks. I'm jogging distance from the fire department. And if you think for one second, my girls wouldn't have called a hunky firefighter to come help bust that kitten out. I'd be like, I'm moving on. i got vaccines at two o'clock. This is all you guys flirt.
00:26:20
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Get that cat out. Okay. Seriously. Hunky firefighter to bust that kitten out. This has been Dr. M's audition for red.com. See, now that would be a Quinn book. it You two gotta lock it down. We're trying, man. We're trying.
00:26:36
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and What is the craziest cat stuck in a stuck in something at your clinic story that you guys have?
Cat Stuck Stories & Challenges
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Anything come to mind?
00:26:47
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Or a situation where you're like, oh no, this cat... He ain't gonna come out. And I got other clients to see. Yeah, cabinets are pretty classic. um Up on like a shelf behind some glass jars that have Q-tips, cotton-tip applicators, that kind of thing.
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Sorry. Brand drop.
00:27:11
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Oh, the minute you minute you pick up a cat, it's just legs all escape. Yeah, like they get those behind you you. You have to extricate them without knocking over all of the glass. I've had them up in cabinets like behind your pharmacy, so inventory. And if they shovel, they're gonna knock all that out of the way.
00:27:29
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what is happening? I don't know that I've ever lost a cat anywhere. Kel, have you ever been in a hospital situation where there is a feline that is uncontained?
00:27:42
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People panic or do they yell? Loose cat. Oh, sorry. I didn't know. You asked her. Yeah. Yeah, the answer is the answer is loose cat. That was me saying that. cat. I'm Kel. Loose cat. Loose cat. It's me.
00:27:59
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Yeah. I don't know. i guess any flighty cat, I get them into an isolated room and close that door before I even get them out of their container. I'm not taking any chances.
00:28:10
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As a cat owner, i I wait till the last minute to even release them from their their crate. That I bring them in. We also appreciate that. There's certain people that have to be reminded because their cats do look to the ceiling and suggest that maybe they'll fly up there. And it's like, hey, there's demand on your report card. You're not allowed to wander about the room without a professional watching you.
00:28:30
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If they're a flight risk. Yeah. In general, I try to open up their cage door, open up their yeah open up their carrier and let them wander out during the history and while they're waiting for me to get in there. But yes, if they've if they've looked to the sky. i wait until all parties are in the room.
00:28:49
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Part of the exam are all in the room and the doors are closed. Then I'm like, then we can release the beast. Know your pets. Know what they need. Know your pets. Know best. what's ah What's your favorite carrier situation? what's What's your favorite and least favorite carrier situation you're trying to extract a calf from the carrier?
00:29:07
Speaker
Because I love a classic plastic box clicky clacky or a full unzip situation. I want maximum access. Some of these newfound ones where it's like teeny little flaps and they're like too big or even some of the like go-go gadget extendo astronaut backpacks where all you have backpack globe or like weird lawn tunnel of like none of this is working for me. I need it to fully flatten or the ri the full convertible roof to come off. I'm a really big fan of the, it's specific, it is the Sport Pet Travel Master.
00:29:45
Speaker
Not sponsored. It is the one that's kind of a, true it's kind of, it's kind of like a triangle shape. I know the one you're talking about. Collapsible. It has a big old door. Yeah. But also you can just open the whole thing um and there's, there's no hiding.
00:29:59
Speaker
It's not loud. They have space. It's rigid um and it's super collapsible. I keep mine on top of my dryer in a closet. ah Other ones, it's got to have a top, got to have an opening on top.
00:30:13
Speaker
Mm-hmm. And I prefer, don't even know to describe them. They are the little, I don't know, half dollar size. um Yeah. Turny button things.
00:30:25
Speaker
Turny button things. Yeah, rather than the clicky-clacky or the screws. Oh, the screws. Those rusted screws with the... I know. which of the Threads gone. um Zip ties in their place. There's always one missing.
00:30:40
Speaker
The screws get you every time you spend a full five minutes unscrewing and re-screwing the convertible on top of that car. With the thumb screws? Yeah. It's tough stuff. Yeah, those things rust. Then you get a couple, right? Oh, the zip tie. Yeah. A couple that are zip tied, you can open it like a clamshell, but that's the only thing they got going on. And then you get the ones where you're missing some of the screws.
00:31:03
Speaker
Yeah. Are you missing the, then you get aside, which is the most structurally important screw to not miss out on? Yep. This is this is a PSA for cat owners who are listening. Please, please consider how accessible your cat is when they're in their carrier.
Best Cat Carriers for Vet Visits
00:31:22
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Do your bed a favor. If you want to be the most popular cat owner, bring treats and bring a cat that is accessible from their box. Yeah. you That's clutch. You heard it here from first, folks. Maybe preload it with some feline facial pheromones. I love that. Maybe cover it up to shade it from the elements. Man, I could talk about carriers all day I had a well, we don't have Alder.
00:31:47
Speaker
I'm just going to say one more. i had a lovely gentleman that every single time brought his cat in a very tall, thin cardboard box that I think had like a TV in it at one point.
00:31:58
Speaker
And it was the same box every time. he would just plop her in this box and it was like person-sized height box. That works. How do you feel about that? You got to get creative. It was very creative. We do have some very funny pictures of bringing her to the back in her box being like, she's here You look like you're moving in, but there's just a cat inside the box. It reminds me of those, like the boxes you get when you like adopt a cat. Yes, but so much taller and thinner.
00:32:28
Speaker
Yeah. Have you ever seen there like there's TikToks of this cat cafe unboxing their cats? No. And it's just rows and rows of those cardboard boxes. And they're just opening them like, oh, look, a pretty girl. And they say their names. That sounds fun.
00:32:50
Speaker
And honestly, I could sit there and watch that. I'm like, unboxing cats? Yes, please. like a LaBooBoo video, but it's better, honestly. But just cats. Yeah, so much better. And the names are great.
00:33:04
Speaker
And I was like, they must adopt out pretty well because they are constantly getting more cats to unbox. new inventory at all times. Yeah. That's so funny. Well, anyway, I think we did. i think we did it, you guys. I think that we just spilled the kibble.
00:33:19
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Catch these sisters on Quinn.com. yeah
00:33:28
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Don't do it. Don't catch
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00:33:30
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00:33:42
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