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Bad Bibb Summer
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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 Pride month, bad bibb summer, and the peril's of circle animals. 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-feces, drugs, substance effected pets
"Happy Boy Theme" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Common (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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Introduction to 'Spill the Kibble'
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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 spillthekibble.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.
Pride Month Reflections and Plans
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Welcome to Spill the Kibble. I'm Kel.
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I am Dr. G. And I'm Dr. M. And we're here to tell your clinic or animal story. But first, how are you both doing? Happy Pride Month. Happy Pride Month to everyone.
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Happy Pride Month to you, upon you. And to you. So are either of you thinking about going to a pride parade or doing any events?
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I would love to. i haven't been to the Insert Big City Here Pride Parade in a very long time. And the last time that I went, I got sunscreen in my eyes and I missed some of the best floats. I had to go into like a rogue Panera and beg them for the bathroom to rinse it out. So I think it's time for a redemption. i would love to go to Insert Big City Here with you. Okay. um The last time I went to that one, I was in it. That's right. With my roller derby team.
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We skated. um i did that for many years. That was so cool. And I love seeing the girls on their skates. It's always really fun. I've been to some of the more local smaller ones around here, but...
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I'd be down for that, too. Maybe we should plan it.
Candle-Making Adventures
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Big time crowds and and insert big city here. So if there's some local ones we can support, maybe it would be better to insert small town here and ah support local. We can go to insert hometown.
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Okay. I think that's a big one. Let's do it. It's a plan. It's a date. You can't come. Do a half date at two small towns? Oh, I... i I'm going go to Miami. I got one in school here. You could come. It's just too far Insert medium town here. That's where I will be.
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ah One of my old hospitals, yeah, they had a they had a float every year. I didn't insert another big city name. and It was a blast. That's so fun. It's still one of my favorite. One of my favorite tie-dye hospital-branded t-shirts. They are covered in holes. I've had it for so long.
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That's amazing. I love it. um And that, man, i do miss I do miss a lot of things about being in a clinic regularly. You know, on the road by myself so often, I miss a lot of that camaraderie and I miss all of my queer colleagues.
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um I think there's something wonderful and beautiful about veterinary medicine that draws people from absolutely everywhere with big hearts and loves of animals and ah When I grew up, I did not know a lot of queer people at all. And then i got my first job in animals and hell yeah. I got a crash course in the world is a lot bigger than used to think it was. And it's great. And I love them all and I miss working with them.
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And I will be going to insert town here pride. Celebrate, honor, love and cherish all of them. It's a date. i
Living in the Present and Reflecting on 'Lore'
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think we should.
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And guess what? You two are invited. Get out of the plane. We're there. We're there. We're there. I was really just trying to neg you into inviting us. Yeah. I want to come say hi.
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ah You should have done that long. ago I know. We really should take a trip out to go see Dr. g We should. Long weekend. It'd be a great.
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Record together. i would love to record together. Mm-hmm. In the same room. Did everybody have a good Memorial Day weekend? I don't remember, didn't do anything. I don't think I did anything. I just don't remember. And I thought that it was bad. I just think I was busy and it was raining. And my folks might have been in town.
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My phone died right before we started recording. And I can't access my calendar. So I don't know what my life used to look like other than today. And maybe tomorrow. You just live for today, present. live in the... Yeah. It's yesterday, tomorrow. No, thank you.
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yeah What's going on now? What's about to happen?
Vet Health Checks at the Circus
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That's the focus. Absolutely. It's very zen of you. If I can talk about it, it's so far in the past already. And that's all it is.
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under Understand of all. Instead of that's the past, that's lore. That's lore at that point. Ooh, I like lore. Your backstory. And my lore keeper is my Google Calendar, which is inaccessible to me right now.
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The tome. Yeah. I think I played Topgolf. Does that help? That's something, absolutely. That sounds like something to involve you on the other end. Yeah, I think so. crushed in a non-sporty way did two crafts I've never done before over Momoro de Aged, which is always exciting. The first one... Is that why you're holding a paintbrush right now? it involve that that paintbrush that you've been brandishing at us? Obviously, no one can see it, but she's just been whipping around a paintbrush at us. It's i just so threatening.
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I just like having a prop. It helps me stay focused. It's my, it's actually my speaking stick and you guys need to respect it. Yeah. It's better than your normal speaking cleaver that you bring to recording. So yeah i know you're, you're safer now too.
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i appreciate it. You know, you like to chop off those dog legs. Listen, sometimes it's just, it's a vice. Um, no, I did candle making a fancy candle making shop where I got to like sniff all the different scents and put it together and like blend them. Mm-hmm.
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I did get shamed, though, at the candle place, unfortunately. You know what? Candle people can be very snooty. Did you pick bad smells or did you make a ugly candle?
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I think bad smells are um a personal opinion more so than an overall rule outright because if they created the scents and put them on all the walls, why wouldn't they want people to make candles out of them?
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It's not my fault that you gave me 40 different scents and I picked one that you said really and I said yeah and then I got some eye rolls, okay?
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um First, I did three scents. The first one's very normal, I would argue. Lemon verbena. Love it. Great choice. Nice. Perfect. Fresh, very summer.
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Next, basil. We're getting a little kitchen-y with it. We're just giving a little bit more earthiness to the mix. you and We're still in my herb garden. I get it. I've been here. Bunny, you mentioned garden. Uh-oh. Because the final scent that I was thrilled by is called bib lettuce.
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And I think it smells great, but everyone else thinks it smells exactly like lettuce. Okay, well, yeah, that's what you're going for. What's wrong with lettuce? It's not what I was going for, though. I was going for, like, freshly rained on garden vibes. And now if it's just Caesar salad candle, then that's not fun for anyone.
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Were they all mixed together? The three I mixed together. Verbena and basil have to drown out lettuce. I put a lot of lettuce in it. Why'd you go so hard on the lettuce? I liked it.
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I liked it until people started shaming me for my lettuce choice. Sometimes you just gotta lean into the things that make you own nasty self and just add more lettuce.
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I did, and I reclaimed it because then at the end, they surprised us by having us name our candles, and I named mine bad Bib Summer.
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That's incredible. That's what it smells like. So at listeners, you're all my bad bibs, and I hope you have a great summer full of salad and good sense. That's all I want for everyone.
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Yes. Yes. Let us be bab. Bib bab. Bibbidi boppidi boo bab bib summer. Let us be bib. Let us be basil.
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Let us be basil.
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center claim I bet it smells great. i'll I'll bring it to you. I'll bet it smells not bad. My husband doesn't like it. I'm gonna... yeah What does he like, though?
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He has a sensitive schnoz. It's not his fault. I think any strong scent is a little... That's what I mean. I don't think he'd like any candle. True. ah No, I'll bring it over. Maybe you'll love it. Maybe you'll be um invigorated with the bad bib energy.
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o I would like that. okay Our doors are always open. All love is love. And we wish you a happy Pride Month.
Challenges with Circus Animals
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It's time to spill the kibble.
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Spill it. Spill it. Okay. I have two stories. Ooh. Yes, please. um And they are from the book All My Patients Have Tales by Dr. Jeff Wells, who is the author that has the vet tech named Jenny, who's our hero.
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Jenny. Jenny. um i think I'm going, yeah, the first story here has Jenny in it. Thank you, Dr. Wells, for giving us our dose of Jenny. Yep.
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court mandated dose of jenny okay so the first story begins okay a few years ago a small town vet clinic got a call from a traveling circus that had rolled into town for the week that's thrilling The circus needed health certificates and blood work done before they could cross into Canada.
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And somehow the senior vet magically remembered he had farm calls all day and dumped the entire circus assignment on the younger vet and his assistant, Jenny.
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I never thought about international circus travel before this moment just now. That's bananas. So it's going to sound silly, but ah how do you guys feel about working with circus animals?
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has it Have you ever worked with any animals that what could be considered in the circus? or ah ah Mixed feelings. Love the animals. Don't love the job they've been given.
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But is it makes it all the more reason for us to help them out. That's true. Make sure they're healthy. Make sure they're being taken care of. Yeah. That's very, very true. Because you know what? If they all come back pristine, actually, this is going to be a hot take.
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If they all come back incredibly healthy and loved, could our perceptions be wrong? They could be. They're traveling. There's plenty people that work with the animals and they're obsessed with them and take really, really, really good care of them. Let's just say that not every single person is Tiger King.
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Yeah. Yeah. Let's say...
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A fair point. And we're we've moved on beyond Barnum and Bayway, so I'm pretty sure standards and practices have gotten um a lot stricter and there's probably a lot more um enforcement on honestly don't know how many traveling circuses there are anymore. i don't either. the mean, with the internet, it's tough. With animals? don't think. animals?
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Oh, okay. You mean like a traveling circus, an animal you? That animals. Sure. Strongmen, fat boys. Mm hmm. All of them.
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I've seen the 90s cartoon gargoyles. I know some stuff. I saw it on it it was on a streaming platform. I thought about watching it pretty recently. I wonder if it holds up. Everybody get in the comments. Well, they're doing they're they're doing a remake or they're doing like ah a reboot of it.
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Really? Yeah. So it must must must be worth something. I heard they're doing a reboot of Animorphs. I don't know if we talked about that pretty recently. Oh, Read a lot Animorphs. Did you both? I was going to say, did you guys read those? I've been in Scholastic Book Fair ah many times. Oh, yeah.
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An elite ah Scholastic Book Fair member. Meanwhile, I was reading Nancy Drew and the Boxcar Children. Mm-hmm. I had my Hardy Boys hardcover.
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Thanks, Scholastic Book Fair. There's that summer you became obsessed with the book Rebecca. there So there's that that. I had to read it for school. Yeah, but you like really liked it.
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Did you read it? No. Then you'll never understand how good it is. i have no context for the book Rebecca. The book is called Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier. Look up. She not have to look that up.
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It's a mystery thriller. oh there yeah i probably would love it. For children or adults? oh I ran out in high school, so young adult? Okay. Okay. Should we get back to the story? Yeah. I guess. Sorry, Jenny is waiting for us. My bad Jenny. Who's Rebecca? Give me Jenny. to continue on, at first they were thrilled, but once they got there, the excitement lasted about three minutes.
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No one greeted them. Every circus worker acted like they were the IRS agents in arriving for an audit. Oh no.
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part the problem. Eventually they found the guy in charge of the animals. A giant Fabio looking circus manager named, what do you think it was named? Fabio.
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ah Lars. Bruce. You're both close. Big Mike. Hans. Lars was so close to Hans. Lars was close. That was incredibly good. And I was thinking of that camp counselor from heavyweights.
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Oh, yeah. Food gets honey on his chest. Anyway, keep going. ah The circus manager named Hans, who looked personally offended by their existence, he basically told them to hurry up and stop wasting his time.
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Oh, no, I don't like this anymore. No, but what if it's our fault because we've been mean in the past and judge you and
The Tiger Incident at the Circus
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now they are just being on the defense on the offense. that's so If I know anything from every single show that ever has like a mystery show or murder crime show has a circus episode. You always have to go undercover to get anything out of these people.
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True. Anyway, the family out there. Yeah, it's true. We all read a water for elephants. Scythe and Sparrow? and ah Oh, no.
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But you're close. I didn't read that one. The one where that she's the circus performer. Okay, I'm going to continue. yeah Okay, sounds good.
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We all, at least each one of us has to take us way off course. That was funny. I know. Okay, so suddenly this vet, who had absolutely never practiced any of this in school, is standing behind a full-grown elephant trying to figure out where on earth you draw blood from the huge animal.
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What would you guys do in this situation? Like where would you think you draw blood from? Because if this book was written, i would just straight Google. i would mind my sources.
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We're very spoiled. That is true. Yeah, I don't know. I'm thinking ah neck or tail. Those are both great options. How big of a needle do you need to get? This is gonna take us way off course. That's so far down the rabbit hole. But I knew you both would be like, intriguing. It's a puzzle. have many ideas. i think probably i'm thinking probably tail, like a cow.
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It could be a good vessel on the ear. You don't need much. Get in the comments, elephant vets. Where are we getting blood? How should we do it safely?
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ah do have the answer. have one answer. And I'd love to hear it. um So one handler finally points to a vein near the elephant's back leg while laughing at the vet.
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But that seemed to be the correct approach. And the vet and Jenny made their way down the row of giant animals. When they finally got all the blood samples packed away safely, Jenny and the vet breathed a sigh of relief.
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Now, what animal do you think they had to go to next? Horses? Close. Poodles? No. Oh, further from, that's further from horse. Close to horse, far from poodle.
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Llama, alpaca, donkey, giraffe. Zebra. Close, close. Zebra would be good. What's the gazelle? What's the one where the butt is striped and the front's not? Or is it opposite?
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Think more of something you can ride. Oh, copy? Yeah, I was thinking of copy. Something you can ride. Camel. Camel. Camel.
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Good job. So then came camel tuberculosis testing. Sure. Which involved injecting all four of them with test material.
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And that luckily resulted in only one direct hit of camel spit to the face. Woof. a They considered it progress. ah After that, they checked the horses, which felt comfortable because finally an animal they actually understood.
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But then they got to the, what do you guys think was the last thing they had to deal with? Tiger. No, lion. Lion. Bear.
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Poodle. It was the big cats. Fair enough. Five African lions. And how many tigers do you think they had to look at?
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Seven. Four. You're off. 21 tigers. You don't need you don't need that many you need that many for anything. What? that's ah Now I am being judgy because that's you're over-tigered. There it is. And you're the reason that they have their arms crossed.
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that's it I know, but that's too many tigers. We knew you were going to say 30 big cats was too many. 30 big cats don't want to travel you're know in a parade to another country. and Yeah, I have a seven and a half pound cat that doesn't want to travel 20 minutes. Right? That's what I'm thinking. Anyway, sorry, go ahead. Tons of tigers.
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So all the big cats are lined up in cages except for one tiger sitting by itself way off in the corner like the world's angriest timeout. Cigarette break, yeah.
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Guarding all these majestic beasts was a terrifying older woman who glared at the vet and Jenny while smoking a small, thin, brown cigarette.
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He called them. Carol. She warned them in a thick European accent. Don't get too close. You'll upset them and they have a long reach. That's fantastic.
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There's something about an elderly, crotchety European woman just chugging down cigarettes giving ominous warnings that I lived for.
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It's a great plot device. I know. So they realize at this moment why the senior vet passed the book and sent them instead. So the vet starts cautiously peeking into the cages Pretending he's calm while Jenny, our hero, suddenly he becomes very interested in starting the paperwork from a safe distance.
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Mm-hmm. Of course. Smart. Most of the cats were surprisingly relaxed until he got to the isolated tiger. The cigar lady starts yelling something at him in another language.
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But too late. The tiger launches itself at the cage door like it's starring in Jurassic Park. We've all been there. Massive roar, paws swiping through the bars.
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The vet jumps backwards so hard he crashes into the other cages and sets off an entire tiger section like a feline prison riot. Stop.
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That's insane. I'm bugging. Tell me it's okay. and Do you feel like you've had this happen with just cats in ah in the kennel where you where one goes off and they all go off?
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Usually, usually ah I feel like ah it's less of a trait chain reaction. They're already already a little nervous when they arrive. Dogs dogs are more of a chain reaction. Yeah.
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Cats have already made their decision about what they're going to do today. can convince them to change their mind, but they come in with a plan. wo
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But I have had to close a door and that is when most of them get confident and start screaming and swatting at me. Yeah, it's that last it's that's last zip of zip of the carrier where they decide to throw bows.
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Exactly, which I can't blame them. Now, I see that the vet had to do like testing on the camels, get blood from the elephants, but like I guess with the tigers and the lions, like you really can't do anything with them not being sedated.
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So like, how do you or trained like in theory, if they were like trained to stay still and like eat a piece of meat while you draw blood through like ah a hidey hole, I've seen that. But yeah, I don't know what's required for ah international travel for that type of animal.
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I mean, either. I feel like with production, like tuberculosis or brucellosis, testing those things are not uncommon. yeah um But for, I mean, cats and dogs, it's make sure your vaccines are good. Do a health exam. Get them a fecal.
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Done a ton to it past that. Yeah. I don't know. I sat for the ah the USDA accreditation like our last week of fourth year and then never followed up on it. I have zero interest in being able to do that.
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Oh, they're the worst. I do them all the time. Yeah, I'm sorry. It's okay. I hate it oh You don't have to do the paperwork, right? Oh, no. I do all the paperwork and now it's all digital. Oh. Which is good because I'm very good at making typos when I'm writing things by hand.
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um It's a lot easier to fix when it's digital, but it's all digitalized and like over the internet now instead of like hard paper copies. like how you said you're good at making typos. I am good at making typos.
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and I am mad at not making typos. I'll make the same typo over and over again as a treat. Well, let me just finish this out. right So at this point, every survival instinct has kicked in simultaneously.
Jack Russell Terriers vs. Porcupine
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Meanwhile, the tiger lady is absolutely dying laughing. The next morning, the senior vet suddenly volunteered to personally deliver the paperwork to the circus because apparently watching someone almost get eaten by a tiger was funny enough that he finally felt bad.
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Every survival instinct except the one when you recoil from one cage to throw your bear back against 30 other tigers. know.
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It's pretty iconic. ah I, yeah, I think I'd relish the opportunity to get in there, but I would need to do some research in advance. That would not be a same day situation.
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no I also kind of feel like this is um a bigger job than a team of two. You'd take that. Well, up until 30 tigers. Yeah. No, it was five African lions and 21 tigers. It's almost 30 big cats. 26 big cats. Greater than 20 anythings. yeah Start becoming a more than two people situation. Yeah, probably.
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um Well, and Jenny just did paperwork. So it was really just the best. Sometimes. That's the hardest part. are No one knows if you fudged your physical exam. I guess you can call for help.
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If they needed did it. Jenny could have called for a help. i need and I need another pen. ha ha ha ha. Um, yeah, we had someone who in my last hospital, our practice manager was the one who is the guru with our, uh, you know, travel certificates, health certificates, all that good stuff. Place before that, one of the head techs was also in charge of it. I, you got the worst version, dude. I'm sorry.
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i know you have to do them and you're the one who has to do the paperworky part. I know. Sometimes I convince people to work with a third party company that's all just like retired paralegals who just like love looking at details and staying up to date on the latest policies and understanding them. And that's the best gift anyone could ever give me.
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Wow. Way better than a lettuce-scented candle. Let's not get crazy.
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I know you're going the next one of Paltrow. mo Well, I have a second story. It doesn't involve the circus. Okay. It's kind of a circus of its own.
00:26:23
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A circus of another, ah you know. Same book. Same book by Dr. Wells. A woman from a remote mountain town calls the emergency vet clinic in absolute panic.
00:26:36
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because all three of her Jack Russell Terriers have gotten into something. Which, if you know Jack Russell's, is already terrifying. Those dogs operate like caffeinated bounty hunters in tiny bodies.
00:26:51
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I mean, yeah. What do you think these Jack Russell's got into? Chocolate? Medicaid? It's not downstream. You know what? I'm going to say Fox Glove.
00:27:06
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You know what, I hope it's not. Well, this is ah this is probably a lighthearted story, so I'm willing to bet it's not gopher bait. Sorry, what'd you? Gopher bait? Oh boy. What's gopher bait?
00:27:17
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Well, listen, if you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball. If it'll kill a gopher, it'll probably kill something slightly larger than a gopher. So it's it's just poison that is meant for mammals, on unlike a lot of the, you know.
00:27:32
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Oh, that got him. That's good, Mark. It's not good. okay
00:27:41
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Is it like a rat? Oh, it's just poison. It's just poison. So like rat poison and like mouse poison, still not great, but usually that's a very small amount. If you're going to try to take out a gopher, you're you're putting out more.
00:27:53
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So it's It's not that. shot So be safe for sure. Digitalis foxglove or they found the carcass of some other wild animal.
00:28:04
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What about, um what's the, is it Bufo toads? what are the Bufo toads? Yeah, that's... that's What are the toads? Yeah, Bufo toads, that's going to be down, that's more like a... Not a mountain situation. Not a mountain, yeah. Got it, got it, got it. When I worked in Fort Lauderdale, there were weekly Bufo toad toxicosis. That was a fun emergency. Blast.
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Okay, well... I nailed it. No. You did. well ah Neither of you got it right. Kel, let's put her finish.
00:28:43
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um on ah Underwear. Oh, you still had more guesses? No, I didn't. i He put me on the spot then I panicked and said underwear. I'm good. i'm ready I'm ready for you to tell us what it was.
00:28:55
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Okay. So she rushes them in and somehow every single dog is strutting around proudly with porcupine quills sticking out of their noses like they just came back from battle.
00:29:08
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yeah Not crying or cowering, just marching into the clinic like, you should see the other guy. ah We should have guessed that. We were close with bufo toads. We just had it was a different animal. Oh, I said carcass a wild animal. Are they known to go after other animals? we know?
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Yeah, we have to assume it was a live porcupine. um They will very quickly defend themselves. They usually get rushed up to and then they release their quills. It's a great, great strategy.
00:29:37
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In my personal experience, usually um they wrap themselves up in a blanket full of holes and then get covered in ice. But that's... Riding passenger. Yeah, that's just my personal experience. Six six pound bag apple ice.
00:29:55
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Well, the owner is mortified, but the dogs are acting like they deserve medals. One by one, they hop onto the exam table, practically refusing sedation. Each one stood like a statue on the exam table, too macho to show pain until it finally sat sedated.
00:30:12
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sin Was that pretty common for this breed? Just to be like, eh, they're want to show their things.
00:30:24
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Yeah, I would say it's like 50-50 split, some stoic, some little baby. Well, they ah there were three of them, so they had to look better. They had to look good in front of the other two. That's fair. i think I think if they got quills in their face, that's one thing. If they got quills on a cephalic vein, they wouldn't let you touch it.
00:30:41
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Yeah, there you go. Okay, so each quill was removed one one by one with a quick tug, but it took a long time to get every last one between the three now sleepy terriers.
00:30:54
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Eventually, they're patched up, sent home with antibiotics, and before the owner could get them out the door, they were alert and harassing the clinic cats on the way out. Case closed. Learn your lesson, guys. Come on.
00:31:05
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Said never, and we'd do it again. Until three hours later. What? oh The phone rings again.
00:31:18
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Same owner, but this time she's not panicked. She's frustrated. Through gritted teeth, she says, they finished him off this time. I'm coming back.
00:31:29
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Idiots. Oh my goodness. An hour later, she storms into the clinic carrying all three dogs under her arms like footballs. Now their faces are completely covered in quills.
00:31:43
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Apparently the terriers had gone back outside, tracked down the same porcupine, and decided round one had gone too well for him. Oh my goodness.
00:31:54
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That's insane. The determination. do you feel like that's you expect that with them though? Yeah, to a degree. Yeah.
00:32:04
Speaker
Wow. There's certain breeds that wouldn't go anywhere near that thing ever again. But no, that sounds pretty accurate for a Jack Russell. Especially three of them in a pack. That's crazy. Okay. So this time the vet has to fully anesthetize them because there are so many quills. And they look like tiny angry hedgehogs on their face.
00:32:23
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The owner stares at the bill afterward, then looks down at her groggy dogs and goes, so how exactly do you plan on paying for this? Fair enough.
00:32:34
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The dogs respond by smiling, tongues out, absolutely thrilled with themselves. Already dreaming about committing another crime the second they wake up. That is hilarious. They're just going to dine and dash.
00:32:46
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I heard later that the Terriers spent the next two weeks grounded in the garage. Not going to take another chance. That is so funny. Three hours later, antifreeze.
00:32:59
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um ah Oh, no. Thank goodness it wasn't that. No. That is a hefty bill, though. I i could completely understand her frustration to have to do it twice in one day. Would you give them little discount for round two? Probably. prop wow i would because I would just make it an addendum on their soap.
00:33:18
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Yeah. Yeah, I think that's where you're going to get the most version discount from me is that I have to less paperwork. So because it was the same calendar day, i get to throw an addendum on there. And the same issue. Repeat procedure. Yeah.
00:33:30
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Yeah, although this time it was anesthesia, so it was probably a little bit more involved. Ah, true. It's not like, you can you can kind of be like, I'm sedation, but have to fully hook him up to isoflurine. You probably need to charge something.
Owner's Frustration with Repeated Vet Visits
00:33:42
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Oh, gosh. I did have a dog who was like 120 pounds and had ah an infection that required it to have Clavimox, which is an expensive antibiotic to begin with, especially if you're that big.
00:33:56
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Owner picked it up. It was the chewable kind. She tossed it underneath the car ah seat. The dog got in the back, ate the entire bag of all of the Clavimox. Right after she picked it up, she had to turn around. We had to puke the whole thing and then refill the Clavimox. Was it not in the little metal?
00:34:17
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It swallowed foil and everything. It chewed the foil and swallowed everything. yeah so No, it was. It chewed through the foil to get to it, but that yeah that was pretty rough. I felt really bad. They do the darndest things.
00:34:30
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Guys, you got to know your own pets. like I don't know. i i get a lot of flack for, I think, seeing the worst in things and imagining imagining the way things could go wrong. But hey.
00:34:45
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I got to say, her calling the second time and being not panicked but frustrated just sounds like somebody who it's like oh sure three toddlers you have to wrangle. And you're like, I thought they would have learned their lesson. But here we are again.
00:34:58
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That was the exact story with this owner. She was like, well, here we are. yeah Let's fix it, I guess. Unpredictable. Unpredictable.
00:35:09
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These wild and crazy animals. Aye, aye, aye. I mean, guys, I think we just spilled the gible. Call me once, shame on you. Call me twice, I'm bringing them in.
00:35:23
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