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Speaker 1: What is going on with this mystery respiratory illness making

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Speaker 1: dogs across the country sick? I'm going to bring in

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Speaker 1: doctor Evan Anton here, doctor Evan Anton, who works out

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Speaker 1: a thousand oaks at the Valley Vet Hospital. There, doctor Evan,

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Speaker 1: thanks for coming on.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks for having me.

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Speaker 1: We were talking about you earlier because you won the

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Speaker 1: title hottest vet on Instagram a few years ago. Is

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Speaker 1: that What do you get for that?

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Speaker 2: I haven't gotten anything yet, but I guess it's been

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Speaker 2: good for business maybe.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, all the animals recognize you. Hot's the hot back.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they feel at.

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Speaker 1: Ease, do so. But to get serious here for a second,

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Speaker 1: doctor Evan, what's going on? Do we know any more

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Speaker 1: about the respiratory illness that dogs are catching? And what

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Speaker 1: are the symptoms? What are the signs? What are the

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Speaker 1: things we need to be aware of a look out for.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we don't know exactly what it is. We don't

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Speaker 2: know if it's actually a new novel virus or if

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Speaker 2: it's just something we just don't have a diagnostic yet

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Speaker 2: for where we can't identify exactly what it is. I mean,

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Speaker 2: these kind of outbreaks happen every so often. We you know,

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Speaker 2: we had a flu outbreak just a few years ago,

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Speaker 2: and and so on. So yeah, symptoms, look for upper

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Speaker 2: respiratory clinical signs. So a lot of times these guys

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Speaker 2: with this new, you know, unknown whatever virus, they're having

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Speaker 2: coughing issues that can last weeks even two months. And

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Speaker 2: then if you see nasal discharge, ocular discharge. Uh, some

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Speaker 2: of these guys get lethargic, they might stop eating, and

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Speaker 2: just like any upper respiratory complex, it can potentially progress

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Speaker 2: to a pneumonia and that usually indicates a bacterial component.

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Speaker 2: If it is just saying in the upper respiratory tract,

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Speaker 2: then usually you know, supportive care is kind of the

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Speaker 2: way to go, just like you know when people get

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Speaker 2: a viral cold or upper respiratory cold, same kind of thing.

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Speaker 2: But some of our immune compromise animals and our older animals,

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Speaker 2: or if they have co comorbidities or you know, other diseases,

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Speaker 2: they are some of these guys are getting pretty sick

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Speaker 2: and it can't even be fatal. And some of these

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Speaker 2: dogs but behind morbidity.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so it can be scary, it can be fatal.

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Speaker 1: It's dangerous for the dogs. What about sneezing? I didn't

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Speaker 1: notice Georgia's sneezing a little bit.

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Speaker 2: Is that sorry? If I did mention that, yeah, that

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Speaker 2: would fit along with our upper respiratory clinical signs.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and can we catch it as far as we

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Speaker 1: know now? All right, Well, it's just seemingly in the news,

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Speaker 1: this big mystery. But you're saying it's not such a

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Speaker 1: strange thing.

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Speaker 2: I mean, outbreaks happened, so in terms of that being

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Speaker 2: you know what a thing happening. Yeah, that's not like

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Speaker 2: a crazy new thing the news, definitely. I mean, we're

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Speaker 2: just we're seeing more cases than usual, like a lot

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Speaker 2: of places, and are having more and more cases of

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Speaker 2: it in general, like you know, play Colorado, we're seeing

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Speaker 2: some of the West, certainly in the Pacific Northwest, some

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Speaker 2: in New England, in other parts of the country, they're

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Speaker 2: seeing more respiratory cases than normal this time of year.

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Speaker 2: So there's some kind of outbreak of something. We just

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Speaker 2: don't know exactly what it is. For most healthy dogs

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Speaker 2: should be self limiting. It shouldn't be you know, it

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Speaker 2: shouldn't advance to anything too severe. The only thing that's

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Speaker 2: kind of different is that it does last a bit

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Speaker 2: longer than our other A lot of our other other

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Speaker 2: upper respiratory infections.

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Speaker 1: So doctor Evan, we would take medicine, we would eat soup.

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Speaker 1: Like what do we do for our dogs if they've

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Speaker 1: got this respiratory illness?

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Speaker 2: I mean, if we need to do a cop suppressant,

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Speaker 2: sometimes we will, but honestly, just rest and supportive care,

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Speaker 2: meaning just keeping them comfortable, keeping them warm, just your

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Speaker 2: typical stuff. If you think, you know, if a person

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Speaker 2: thinks their dog is showing clinical signs, you know, consult

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Speaker 2: your local that at least give him a call and

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Speaker 2: keep them separate from other dogs. I mean, now might

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Speaker 2: be a time to be a little bit more reserved

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Speaker 2: if you're considering doing you know, big social events with

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Speaker 2: other dogs like dog parks, are boarding or what have you.

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Speaker 1: All right, well, thank you for the insight. We appreciate

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Speaker 1: you coming on with this. Doctor Evan Anton out there

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Speaker 1: at the valley that hospital on Thousand Oaks, and you

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Speaker 1: can follow him, and you should probably look at him.

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Speaker 1: He's worth seeing. Yeah, at doctor dot Evanton on Instagram

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Speaker 1: is where seeing right, It's.

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Speaker 2: So nice to match the face with the voice.

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Speaker 3: I agree. Wait, doctor Evan, I have a one question

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Speaker 3: for you. My daughter put a kitten on her list

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Speaker 3: for Santa, and someone told me that it's better to

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Speaker 3: have two kittens than one. Is that true because then

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Speaker 3: they play with each other. Is there a possibility that

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Speaker 3: Santa might bring two kittens?

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Speaker 2: I actually do highly recommend that. I mean, I listen,

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Speaker 2: I'm biased. I've become a crazy cat lady. This year

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Speaker 2: I adopted two more kittens, and I adopted together, totaling

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Speaker 2: five cats in my house. So maybe I'm not the

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Speaker 2: right person to talk to, But I do think they're

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Speaker 2: phenomenal pets, and I definitely recommend getting two at a time.

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Speaker 2: They do interact with each other, They groom each other,

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Speaker 2: they play with each other like cats. A lot of

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Speaker 2: times they seem like there's people think they're solitary, but

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Speaker 2: most cats actually do like having friends. They do like

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Speaker 2: having a buddy. They like having somebody else to play

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Speaker 2: with and cuddle with.

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Speaker 1: Don't you you have a cat, a lizard, of snake,

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Speaker 1: and a bunch of exotic fish?

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Speaker 3: Right?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Five cats? Now a couple of dishes, a lizard,

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Speaker 2: a snake, and a tortoise.

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Speaker 1: Wow, Well you you practice what you preach. Thank you

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Speaker 1: doctor having take good care. I appreciate you coming on.

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Speaker 2: Indeed, thank you guys very much

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Speaker 1: Yeah, interesting, so better get the Santa