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Ep. 12: No Thanks, I'm Full
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Join Kel, Dr. G, and Dr. M as we spill the kibble on your submitted vet stories. In this episode we talk about Cthulhu, kebobs, and mystery white powders. 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 spillthekibble@gmail.com.
TW-cysts/zits, Surgery, illegal drugs
"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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You're 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 dot 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: Kel, Dr. G, and Dr. M
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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 stories. But first, how are you both doing with your crazy weekends back to back? I i came out the other end with some c crud. I'm not going to lie. If I sound a little congesty on on the the ones and twos, ah I don't know anything about editing and sounds. turn But if i if I sound a little congested, it's because I definitely got the um combination conference and Call of Cthulhu crud.
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um Not to be mistaken with what's what's the combination like KFC? a Double stack. There you go. no The combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell. Yeah, that also. oh Yeah, that might be on me. I just got over a little bit of a head cold. I'm calling today the end of it. And I did go and find Dr. M ah to play a weird gothic horror game in a castle right after Orlando.
Conference Tales and Listener Interactions
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So I did maybe bring the conference crud and or it could have been anybody. It could have been any of those castle people. But listen, enough about you. I didn't get to see Travolta because I was right in that I was wrong in that they were there Saturday morning before I showed up. So anyone who got to gubo please let us know.
00:01:51
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How is Mr. Travolta? How much do they love animals? And what else did you get from the keynote presentation? Yeah. For anyone else. yes We want to hear your about back and watch it? Is there virtual?
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That's such a good idea. probably is. will look into it. Not right now, though. yeah and we We have an opportunity to react to the Truvolta recording live, though.
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Okay. Do we have the rights? We'll have it on. Okay. It's going to be like a Grizzly Man situation where you don't get to hear or see the audio or the presentation, but you'll listen to us reacting. And you're going to know that...
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Well, that was a really sad documentary, but beautifully done. We're in a Herzog knocking out of the park again. yeah But I digress. Everyone who talked to me there. Thank you. i was walking around the expo hall. There were decals. There were jokes. There was coffee. um It was a blast. So everyone who talked to me out there and online. Thank you. It was a lot of fun getting to meet you guys. And um I hope ah I hope you appreciate yourselves as much as I do.
00:02:53
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Yeah, I hope you're listening. Welcome. Welcome in. Are they saying that in German? Are they saying like, willkommen, or are the people telling me, welcome in, parentheses, to this store, close parentheses.
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ah Welcome in to the store, I believe. Yeah. Where did that start? I'm not sure. It feels bad on the tongue. I'm not enjoying it coming out of my mouth. Yeah, it feels bad on this American tongue. Yeah, I hate it. can't stand it.
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I would much rather a boisterous Arashima-shen think we're used to like a welcome to. Welcome to my house party. Yeah, anything like that. yeah Welcome to Miami. Yeah.
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yami vi viham in miami yeah no i don't It's not as good to me.
Exploring Veterinary Dermatology
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It's not as i like you I like that you skated right over the like, oh, I went to the conference and also played like a horror game in a castle. But anyway, back to the conference and trouble. Right, oh my gosh, I completely yeah forgot. We did meet an incredible little Chihuahua named Nacho. That's true. shot Shout out to Nacho. Nacho cheese.
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Basically. Yeah. I hope you, ah we, we all wish you the best of luck in your diagnostic journey. What? but not me Nacho was going to Mexico to get.
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oh yes. He is going to Mexico for a neurology workup. He's got a silly little walk. And so we're going to we're going to get to the bottom of him. Is he a wobbly nacho? He's a little bit of a wobbly nacho. He's a little bit of a... He's an exaggerated nacho. Hypermetric. He's leaning tower of nacho. The cheese is getting a little slippy-slidy. The leaning tower of cheese? Yeah. um There's this lawyer on TikTok named like Reb, and she just got a cat, and he's like a wobbly kitten.
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And she named him Dewey, but spelled D-U-I. That's fantastic. Oh, dang. That is nice. And I was like, that's perfect for a lawyer. ah got a wobbly a wobbly cat named Dewey.
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It's absolutely perfect. And I know for a fact, every time that cat ah would come into my clinic, my staff would forget that it's Dewey. And they'd be like, D, why? Every time, even if he's been there multiple times, I'd be like, who the heck is this?
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That's okay. You get to, and well, when he comes in wobbly, you're like, I get, I get the name. Yeah, you're picking it up. You're picking up what she's putting down. Absolutely. Wrapping it up about conferences, had the pleasure of being in the audience for a fantastic dermatology panel. um There were four great minds up there talking, joking, having an absolute ball. Love to see it. But in there from the DermVet podcast was Dr. Ashley Bourgeois. And ah yeah, we had a great conversation after. They have dope sneakers and a lot of good jokes. So check them out. You're going learn ah a lot in a little bit of time. And it comes out weekly. So thank you.
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And God knows we see a lot of dermatology here in vet meds. So much skin, guys. There's never a better thing to invest your time in and refreshing and learning new things about derm. It can only help you.
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i tell you, that's the number one reason I didn't want to become a human doctor if I if I had the option to do that. Skin stuff? Skin. of People, we are covered in it. It's disgusting. you want to know what? My second career option was human dermatology. And I want to specialize in like teens and preteens and acne. Yeah.
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See, you're helping people from the outside in and that's great. Dr. M wanted to be a pimple popper. i did. But I felt like especially for like young ones, because I just feel like that's tough for kiddos. And I feel like I could be like a very warm presence to help them with their skin issues. Yeah.
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And tell them not to pick. Yeah. Oh, well, became a vet instead.
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There's some timeline where you are a dermatologist. Probably. And that's great. I love that for me. um Love the dermatology that I get to do in vet med too, though. And in a lot of instances, I do get to pick and pop pimples. And it doesn't leave visible scars because they got fur.
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We get to pop the best pimples, abscesses. We do. It's so fun. You think people just don't let it get that far? Some people do, of course. But... The ones that I see, it's usually smaller little guys and they're super gratifying, but like, man, just a big old garden hose of an abscess pop.
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It's been a while since I've had a really nasty one. I've had some cysts that I've gone to town on. Yeah, sometimes. Sometimes they're real bad Sometimes. It's not the worst smelling no stuff, though. We're getting back into smell smell talk. about always Always. Always. It always comes back to the the five senses, boys and girls.
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But no, um haven't had ah haven't had a solid one in a while. The most like messy thing that I poke are probably ear hematomas. Sure. These days get a lot of those. Oh yeah. Fun fact, if your dog ever wakes up and their um ear is really swollen, it feels like there's a fluidy little like pillow going on inside of there, take to the vet. Because sometimes they'll break little blood vessels in um their ear and there's not a lot of space there. So it just kind of fills up and it can be quite painful.
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And it scars really silly if you don't treat it. if you know It's not the end of the world, it's not an emergency, but it will scar kind of silly. So... For all you human wrestlers out there, this is the dog version of cauliflower
Tales of Unusual Surgeries and Emergencies
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ear.
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Yeah. Oh. Is that what's happening? Yeah. They're breaking little capillaries, and it's just bleeding underneath. Bleeds in the body. The body eventually, you know, you can get drained, but sometimes it fills back up. But eventually your body's going to kind of reclaim that blood. But...
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As you've broken the gap between your plates of cartilage in the ear and the skin, when it heals back down, scars, it can it can take on different different shapes. Like a little iceberg lettuce leaf. Yeah, like a little iceberg lettuce leaf. Kind of. Some of them are like real wrinkly-skrinkly. like a Boston butter leaf, personally. Well, they're not as wrinkly-skrinkly and hard. Yeah, they're floppy. It's a good floppy lettuce. You gotta get that crisp wrinkle to give it the analogy.
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Crisp. We could talk about cabbage all day. I could talk about cabbage all day. but We got stories. Ooh, please hit me with some stories. Hit me Story. Wait, what? What? What are we doing here?
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um So, the abscess has been lanced. The pocket has been flushed. And oh, shit, we didn't grab anything for culture. Time to school the gible.
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So we have two stories from Dr. P. The craziest surgery I've ever done happened just a few years out of school back when I still had that dangerous mix of confidence and terror.
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hmm. And it was a dangerous mix. Did you do anything crazy like early on where you're like, yeah, like I read the book. I can probably do that. The terror was too strong. Really? i thought ups i did liver biopsies and I was like, how bad can it be?
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Bleed like a a dickens. i i Well, am right out of school, I went into my rotating internship and then I stayed on there and they had specialists up the wazoo. And so i was um I was remiss to do anything too far above my pay grade that early on.
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I was in a little baby middle of nowhere hospital where nobody could afford anything. So your girl was biopsying livers. I cut off an arm. I did an FU surgery. I did FHO and I was terrified and crying the whole time.
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Sorry, what had an arm? Oh yeah. would you amput Which of your patients have arms? Okay. A four limb genius. oh Okay. I was going crazy. I was right off. i was off the reservation. I was taking out human arms.
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Listen, it was small. You don't know what i did. could pay me enough. yeah I had student loans. I still do. give out of me. So the story continues. Late one afternoon, my boss approves a transfer from the ER to our clinic for surgery. The case, a dog who had eaten a wooden skewer like a full kebab skewer six months prior.
00:11:17
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Six months is crazy. That's too long. That's not an emergency. Well, we don't know. Where is it? where Where has it been stopped or where has it started emerging?
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Good question. Should we continue? Yes. Somehow this thing had been inside her for six months and now she developed a red swollen area on her side.
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Clocked up. Oh, okay. Yep. I honestly can't remember whether the skewer showed up on an x-ray or if the yeah ER r doctor was just worried from the history alone, but either way, it was enough to send her to surgery.
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Fair enough. Explore that spot. So I started an abdominal exploratory and then my boss leaves for the day. Just clocks out. Suddenly it's me and another young doctor looking at at each other like, cool, cool, cool, cool. I guess we're doing this.
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Fair enough. Has that happened to you too? I remember I was working on a remote vacation island as a technician and there were two brand new interns were in charge and it was an enterotomy and they were absolutely doing it out of Fawcum, holding the book for them to read in the OR.
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It went great. ah But yes, it was it was scary being the technician on the side of that. And they were probably more scared than I was. Yeah, as somebody was always there. i was just reading out of a book and doing wackadoodle shit when I was in that small practice.
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they They never left me, but I was just kind of like, ah and rocking and rolling. I've had someone take out a like a video chat, sterilely hold a video chat over an incision for me to get a specialist on the other end.
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Ain't nothing wrong with that. Fascinating. Listen, pathology. It's just good as they're there. Yeah, exactly. see. You can phone a friend. You can phone a friend. If it works on how to be a millionaire, it works for us. Yes. Well, that means you can only do it once, though.
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Well, we're on how to never end up as a millionaire. How to never not end up, maybe yet, as a millionaire. Probably never, ever going to be a millionaire. That's us. So phone as many friends as you want, guys. Just phone them.
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Okay. So Dr. P goes on. Once I'm in the abdomen, I find the skewer lodged in the body wall, very close to poking its way out of the dog. And the other end, because of course, was lodged right next to the root of the mesentery.
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<unk> oh What is the what's the mesentery? Because I have no idea what that mystery is a bundle of vessels and fat that connect your basically kind of go all along your intestines colon.
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It has a lot of vessels in there. It's little spooky scary to be cut around in that zone. Yeah. But it was fine. Well, we know it was an emergency. We didn't we didn't hear if it was clinical, but it was clear to be transferred to what I imagine is a GP for surgery. So, near the mesentery, not engaging any vessels right now so far until we find out what happens next. Could have been worse. Could have skewered right through one. We're doing okay so far. year're thirty Well, okay, I have a question.
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i don't understand where this skewer is because it says body wall and then the mess is hearing. Yeah. like So, okay, here we are walking dead. Y'all, they're all their spaghetti on the inside.
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One end of the skewer is just nestled in the big spaghettis. And then the other part is just poking, like poking their tummy from the inside out. Okay, okay. So like like the back door of the abs.
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right and And then there' the stomach coat. Gotcha, gotcha, gotcha, gotcha. My abs
Managing Pets' Dangerous Eating Habits
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have a secret entrance too, yeah. Okay, so she goes on. The skewer needed to be cut, but wooden skewers are apparently built to survive the apocalypse.
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Speak of zombies. Or six months and a dog. It was way too tough for normal scissors, and we obviously couldn't just sterilize a wire cutter and go to town. What tools would you guys use? Giggly wire, if I had it.
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That would make sawdust. Yeah, I'd put lap sponges. What's that? yeah Oh, no. Yeah, you have fun with that one. Giggly wire. oh helllic Hell, I'm so sorry because there's only one use for it and it's... Giggly wire is usually used in orthopedics to like saw through bone.
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So it's kind of like a like fine toothed little like saw wire essentially that you can like eat or beat or to cut bones in half. You know, like when you're removing arms. Yeah, you meat-mart meat-mart through arms, skewers, and trees. It's the same thing.
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Yeah, um but you could all you could totally just pat all around that with some wet lap sponges and then flush afterwards. It'd be fine. I have yet to meet something that I don't know the brand, but y'all know which ones I'm talking about. Those orange bright orange handled dog nail trimmers.
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I could get through that skewer. You gonna sterilize that? It's in the abdomen. No, i'm not gonna be get jurors I'm not gonna use the one on the i'm not gonna use on the floor. Use rangers. They'll be so mad at you.
00:16:29
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I'm the dentist. It's GP. Be mad at yourself. I won't be. They're sterile. That's a problem for tomorrow, Doctor. ah Rogers are a dental tool that helped to like crack off tartar and grip things, but I think they could totally snap a stick, I'm just saying.
00:16:44
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I guess you need to take a skewer and try all your different tools so if this ever happens, you would know what tool to use to cut the skewer. Dr. P sounds like a real straight shooter, but I'm gonna call bullshit.
00:16:56
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i can i can get through I can get through a skewer. I got some in the closet right now. I use them for arts and crafts. Put it in a dog's body for six months and then try to cut it. It will be even softer. Or solidify. Oh, you think it petrifies them there? Yeah, maybe a little. Maybe.
00:17:12
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Could be. Well, let's find out. Let's see what happens. Find out. So there's this tense, very quiet period where my colleague and I are figuring out and how not to catastrophically ruin this dog's insides.
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Eventually, between the two of us, we managed to cut the skewer and very carefully remove it from the body wall and the root of the mesentery. Miraculously, there were no perforated intestines and no damage to any other organs.
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That is miraculous. ah Do you feel like this like playing um operation, maybe like as a child would have helped in this situation, like being really good at operation to get this skewer out safely? ah Yeah, you've got water on the knee.
00:17:58
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You've got butterflies in your stomach and you've got skewers in the root of your mesentery. Yeah. That was always the hardest one. Everybody knows. um i do think that game makes you anxious and a lot of anxious people um end up in vet meds. So in that regard, yes. Yes, I believe Dr. M was very afraid of that game. As was I. but didn't love the buzz. That and Perfection really messed with me as a child.
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Hey, Smarties, you ever tried taking the batteries out? No. didn't. was really good at Operation. Listen, i just sat in the corner with my Teddy Ruxpin. The real ones know. And I kept his batteries in at all times.
00:18:41
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um To close out, the dog recovered completely and I gained a lifelong fear of wooden skewers, late day surgeries, and the phrase, this should be pretty straightforward.
00:18:52
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Oh yeah, don't jinx it. Don't jinx yourself, people, it's real. Classic turn of phrase, you know? wolfof It's like this tooth should come out easy. won't actually. It'll be the hardest tooth you've ever had to take out in your life.
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Every tip will fracture and shatter in your hands. huh That reminds me of another story that I had back in the day when I was a technician. I was getting trained in anesthesia so that I could work in the dentistry department before I went off to vet school. And so it was an evening slash in the middle of the night. Got called in for an emergency surgery because of a dog that ate a shish kebab skewer.
00:19:31
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Oh, boy. Classic. Identified it on radiographs. All working on it. The surgeon's called in. We are anesthetized. We're on our back. We are shaved, prepped, ready to go.
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We're all hooked up, keeping an eye on things. Surgeon walks by, heading to go ah scrub in. They're walking by, take a quick glance, stop in their tracks, double take, stare at this dog's butthole.
00:19:54
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They walk away. They go to the wall, grab some regular gloves, not scrubbed in yet. March their way over to this dog's pooper and very gently grasp something at the tip of its anus and pull out an entire shish kebab skewer, complete with one piece of meat still on it. Not poop, absolutely a piece of meat that was fully lodged on it.
00:20:18
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Pops that thing out, looks completely intact. Says, wake it up. ah Fastest emergency surgery I was ever a part of. You know that surgeon felt like a badass, that story.
00:20:29
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Yeah. Yeah. It's some bar to this day. Yeah. It also makes me wonder, like, did you really swallow that shish kebab? That dog sit on that shish kebab. Oh, no. this sit The sit kebab.
00:20:41
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The sit kebab? Because why was that meat so rare? Or how'd you season that? What'd you do? Right? Maybe that's who's got burnt. I don't know. But six months versus this guy who moved it along in a day. Yeah, you're right. yeah it is It is a cautionary tale that sometimes you could get lucky and your dog's first or 100th sock might make its way through or its first or last
Handling Sensitive Situations with Pets
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shish kebab skewer. But number one, prevention.
00:21:08
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Throw your trash. Lock it up. You guys know the drill. Everybody loves a cookout, but you've got to put them corn cobs and those shish kebabs with meat. You gotta. Any drippings onto coal. gotta. Get rid it before you release the dog into the backyard. You gotta. On that same, ah this is a different place, but on that same remote vacation island that I lived on and worked as a tech, We had a bull terrier, ah my practice manager, head said That's the target dog. That's the target dog. Yes, please. That our other good friend, Dr. F, has. yeah um
00:21:40
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But a bull terrier, Malky, lived nearby and would come over for our cookouts because I had a house right next to the hospital. And boy, Malky would go underneath the charcoal grill trying to lap up whatever a drip and head So many little embers fall on his sweet little dumb, dumb head. and just like He just had tons of little little like ember scars and mitching missing hair from the top his head, but it never once fazed this guy. No, he said it's worth it. Anything for the drippings. That weird ouchy meat tastes so good. I love it. I've seen a video compilation of people trying to, they like pretend to drop something, but it's the medication for the dog and then the dog goes to it. Totally. Eats it like, and they're like, no, don't.
00:22:27
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So I guess the positive is if you've got a dog that'll just steal anything, you may be able to use that. If were never able to teach your dog drop it or leave it, then you can use this to your advantage.
00:22:37
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I think sometimes i need to be gaslit into like taking vitamins in my medication. if somebody could find a way to trick me, that would really help me a lot. You like chunky peanut butter? I do. I got something for you. It's just covered in pills.
00:22:56
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ah Well, Dr. P sent another story. oh thank goodness. So we can do the other one. Yes, please. All right, the story begins. i had a dog come in that was not acting right.
00:23:08
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Just off in a way that makes your gut sink. The owner thought that the dog might have gotten into something, so we induced vomiting. Out comes a baggie.
00:23:19
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What do you think is in the baggie? Cocaine. Lunch meat or old batteries. Gotta go with a favorite. Ghosts? ah
00:23:31
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Aliens. Silica gel packets. ah Spare Ikea parts to your cooking, hiking dresser. Buttons.
00:23:44
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A 50-s full of buttons. ah You are cur... Well, we don't know. It says... All of it. It was all of it. Sorry, thanks. um It was baggie with fine white powder in it.
00:23:58
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you Mmm. Silica jaw. Just kidding. That fine Colombian silica. but It could be cocaine. It could be splendour Baking powder? who knows?
00:24:13
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It could be so many things. Yeah, sometimes you gotta stop at your neighbor's house for a dime bag of baking powder. Yeah, exactly. yeah, yeah. Yeah, everybody knows that. Everyone was really into making sourdough bread for like a time, so. Totally. Maybe somebody was, you know.
00:24:29
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All right. Sure. Let's see. ah Yeah, let's see. The owner genuinely had no idea what it Classic. mentioned that they lived with other people. i want to know how many people.
00:24:41
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How many people? Did those people do drugs? Is it just your family? Are these people being polite or are they being real? Yeah. So now I'm standing there with a very sick dog, sky high blood pressure, and a mystery substance I did not order with my shift. Wait, whose blood pressure was high?
00:24:59
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Good question. I'm standing there. with a very sick dog, sky high blood pressure, maybe nervous? See if it's cocaine, I think it's the patient has a high blood pressure. If it's not, then I think it's then i think it's Dr. P. Dr. P, are you okay? You gotta check that out. yeah your pharmacy, do the squeezy. Yeah, do the squeezy. We've all done it You got this kid?
00:25:23
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You like to do that as a kid when you were stuck at the pharmacy for too long? Just use the squeezy? Cocaine? Yeah. Yeah. Get off my case, mom. All I wanted to know was what it could be so I could treat the dog appropriately.
00:25:37
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We're not narcs. We just need to know what narcotics your dog might have gotten. So you're going send the guiltiest looking person in the lobby across the street to the pharmacy to get a drug kit.
00:25:49
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okay Okay, go. ah Oh, that's interesting. That's not how this went. Okay. oh Since I am absolutely not qualified to identify random white powders, I called the cops to diagnose it.
00:26:06
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To dispose of it. Sorry.
00:26:09
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What's your diagnosis, DEA? The cops should dispose of it I read that really wrong. That's so funny. Okay. They were less than thrilled that I wouldn't give them the client's name because, again, my concern was the dog not launching a side career narcotics investigation. Totally. Amen.
00:26:30
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I mean, i just want to say she's not iced tea.
00:26:35
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That is my favorite thing about iced tea in SVU. When he's always like, when I was working narcotics, he always brings it up in like every episode. Well, he didn't know. He used to work in narcotics.
00:26:49
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Recognize, you know? Yeah. Yeah. And so the next day, my poor receptionist called to check on the dog. And the owner's husband completely exploded on her, yelling about how I had asked what the substance was and accused them of using drugs, which I did not do.
00:27:12
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That does not sound like Dr. P at all. Yeah. Not the Dr. P that I think I know. No. A telltale heart. Someone's conscience getting heavy and Kevin-y.
00:27:25
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I guess when this owner said they lived with other people, husband? like be Maybe. That's a people. Usual safe bet. Yeah. Husband, child, parent.
00:27:37
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Yeah. Partner, parent. Partner, parent, child. Yeah, maybe. right So I wasn't there the day the receptionist called, so she had to take the heat for the situation that already involved cops and mystery powder.
00:27:53
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The dog actually did fairly okay with supportive care, which was the only good part of this whole saga. Have you guys ever dealt with drugs? Mystery drugs? taking drugs Yeah. yeah Yeah.
00:28:06
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Yeah. We have. Um... Never. Well, as far as I know, never other than weed, never never anything other than prescription medications. wow Yeah, I might have had one cocaine situation. i can't remember. Again, that was back in like my very podunk. Here's something you should know about me.
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Not a big druggie, not super well versed, didn't didn't misbehave at all as a child and even like dabble. um I was an RA in college and the DEA came to like teach us how to recognize drugs and they had to put me in a science lab and like burn some weed with a Bunsen burner so I knew what it sm smelled like because I didn't even know um to be able to clock it in the dorm rooms. They literally were like, all right, idiots, come in here and we'll burn some weed for you.
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That's so fun. So fun.
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I also would be so in the woods with any sort of dime bag of mystery powder. I would be like, I have no idea of, That reminds me of a story from undergrad. I was at college. I was at a friend's party and their roommate um was walking around and they said, oh, someone's smoking Egyptian cigarettes. And they're like, what the heck is that? They're like, oh, in the other room, like someone's smoking Egyptian cigarettes. And someone went over, someone who probably had official RA training, definitely not me, and said, ah dude, that's weed. And like, no, that's Egyptian cigarettes. My parents used to smoke them all the time.
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That's amazing. And we had to let them know that they need to recalibrate their childhood because that ain't a thing. That is, I'm calling it that from now on though. I'd be like, anybody smell Egyptian cigarettes or is that just me? You know what, I really need some Egyptian cigarettes right now. That would take the edge off. Such like,
00:29:52
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That's all you do. I mean, it's it's the Easter Bunny, it's Santa Claus, it's Egyptian cigarettes. Yeah. I have a story about, ah it's very short, but I was at a house party and there were people in the kitchen just making lines of cocaine. And somebody offered was like, here you go, do you want some? And I said, oh, no, thank you, I'm full.
00:30:16
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You had a cold. You had conference crud and you couldn't possibly fit anything else up there. Oh, no, we've already had so much cocaine already tonight. I couldn't possibly take one more snort. I've been over served.
00:30:29
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And that was the first time anyone asked me. Never seen it since. But I definitely like nerded my way out of that situation. I mean, it correct if they were in the right headspace, that's a pretty baller move.
00:30:41
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It was all a group of people that all and knew each other really well. so But did they know you really well? Yes. And they offered you... Egyptian cigarettes? No. The devil's confection? Egyptian baking powder? Leave this poor country alone. Sorry, you're right. I apologize, YouTube. It's not you.
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My bad. It's just the story. um So, with this baggie, it There were a lot of people in the house. It doesn't have to have come from them. um I've lived and worked in cities, and boy, pets find the darndest things on the streets. That's true. They can snatch it on a most commonly, I'm going to say, um pizza crust, chicken bones, and... Heroin. Maybe cigarettes? And yeah, black sugar heroin. Uh-huh.
00:31:31
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ah rap so Yeah, those are the most common. No, yeah, I would always do that to you. Like when I suspected there was a drug issue, I'd be like, you know, maybe somebody threw it over the fence if they thought they were being watched and they were just trying to like get it off their person really quickly. That was usually like a pretty good out where people are like, oh, yeah, maybe that could have happened. Then maybe, maybe, maybe that was where the weed came from. And I was like, perfect. Let's go with that story. Let's get to treatment.
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And I will say in any lectures, correct me if I'm wrong, but from my experience working in cities and the sticks, um rat poison, usually going to be more like suburban or country, somewhere with like an actual garage or shed. In cities, it's usually more of like the rat bait stations that dogs really can't get into.
00:32:15
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I like where your head's at there. Yeah. Chicken. It's chicken wings. Discarded chicken wings, pizza crusts, and bags of cocaine. Yeah, but but classic. Oh boy. Oh Well, I don't know about you guys, but full. We're done. Ah, city living. We we ingested too much spilled kibble and we are completely full. There's no more room for anymore. Completely stopped. Thank you, Dr. P for some great stories.
00:32:45
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We just spilled the kibble. No thanks, I'm full.
00:32:51
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