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Speaker 1: You will recall just last week we caught up with

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Speaker 1: well with the Pause Community, the Pause Darwin Community Vet

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Speaker 1: to speak about Bear, a dog which appeared to have

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Speaker 1: been injured by either a machete or knife wound. We

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Speaker 1: spoke to Vet Sarah van der Stelt at the time

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Speaker 1: about the extensive work that she'd done to save Bear. Unfortunately,

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Speaker 1: it does sound as though he hasn't made it. From

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Speaker 1: what I can I can gather, Sarah. Vet Sarah van

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Speaker 1: der Stelt joins me on the line right now. Good morning, Sarah,

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Speaker 1: Good morning Katie.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's been it's been a rough week for Bear

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Speaker 2: and for the VET staff and his owners. A few

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Speaker 2: ups and downs in his case. He initially seemed to

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Speaker 2: be doing well after the first surgery, so he went

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Speaker 2: back with his with his people for a while. When

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Speaker 2: he came back to have his drain removed, there's quite

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Speaker 2: a lot of infection and more more dead tissue, which

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Speaker 2: wasn't completely unexpected, so we admitted him to hospital. He

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Speaker 2: had a second surgery to remove all the all the

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Speaker 2: dead tissue and he seemed to be doing well after that.

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Speaker 2: We were going to keep him in hospital, keep him

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Speaker 2: on the ivy antibiotics, make sure that he's got all

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Speaker 2: all the all the things he needed. Then Friday, his

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Speaker 2: wound just started pouring out blood, so we ran some

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Speaker 2: blood tests and turns out he had a he has

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Speaker 2: a blood parasite called the canis alchiosis, which means that

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Speaker 2: their blood can't can't clot properly. So he gave him

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Speaker 2: a blood transfusion h and batterday he was again looking brighter.

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Speaker 2: He was a fighter right till the end. But unfortunately

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Speaker 2: Monday night he finally comes and I think the I

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Speaker 2: think the alichiosis was the final final straw, because his

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Speaker 2: wounds were actually by that stage looking clean and healing.

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Speaker 1: Oh how incredibly heartbreaking, Sarah, for you guys, for all

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Speaker 1: of you at PAULS. Darwin Community VET, I know that

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Speaker 1: you uh, you know, you live and breeze your jobs

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Speaker 1: there and you absolutely love all of you know, all

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Speaker 1: of your animals. And Bear was such a fighter. I mean,

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Speaker 1: the wounds that he'd come in with were astronomical.

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Speaker 2: You know, and he yeah, I think if it hadn't

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Speaker 2: been to the alchos, he would have he should have

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Speaker 2: pulled through. But still, yes, they were they were terrible wounds.

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Speaker 2: So Yeah, just for people to be aware that alchos

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Speaker 2: is still out there. It's spread by picks. Pick prevention

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Speaker 2: is really important, Sarah.

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Speaker 1: Has there been any updates, you know, from the family

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Speaker 1: in terms of how he got those wounds to begin

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Speaker 1: with or anything, not.

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Speaker 2: To my knowledge. And when they came into to pick

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Speaker 2: him up, they came to pick his body up to

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Speaker 2: marry him in his favorite spot in the bush. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: they weren't in any state. They were just devastated.

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Speaker 1: Oh, how heartbreaking and how heartbreaking for all of you.

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Speaker 1: Like I said, I know that you work in you know,

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Speaker 1: it's I know it's work, but I know that you

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Speaker 1: guys absolutely live what you do and and love what

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Speaker 1: you do. And it's so tough.

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Speaker 2: It was late for my thirteen year old birthday, his bloodstrein.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Oh, Sarah, I'm so sorry to you guys and

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Speaker 1: to his whole family, and you know, it's devastating what

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Speaker 1: had happened to him. And I know that everything was

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Speaker 1: done to try to save him, but absolutely devastating what

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Speaker 1: had happened to him. We you know, we were inundated

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Speaker 1: with you know, with people sort of sharing that story

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Speaker 1: online and sharing their concerns for Bear. After we'd spoken

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Speaker 1: to you last week as well.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the response really was phenomenal to bear, and it

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Speaker 2: was because we were able to share it on Facebook.

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Speaker 2: Most cases, unfortunately, they're not a nice lad. We see

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Speaker 2: a lot of a lot of terrible, sad, sad stories,

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Speaker 2: but due to confidentiality, we can't we can't share that. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: it was just because we were able to share his

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Speaker 2: story that you get a glimpse into into what goes

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Speaker 1: It's terrible to help with. Oh and I you know,

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Speaker 1: I absolutely love animals. I absolutely love dogs. You know,

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Speaker 1: I've got a I've got a pause dog that I

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Speaker 1: got from you guys, Maggie who's very naughty and runs

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Speaker 1: away often. But that's another story. But I just cannot

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Speaker 1: understand how people mistreat animals. To me, it's the most

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Speaker 1: it's just absolutely disgusting, deplorable behavior. So the work that

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Speaker 1: you guys do to look after animals is amazing.

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Speaker 2: Thanks, Thanks Katie. And yeah, yeah, appreciate all the support

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Speaker 2: from you guys as well.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I appreciate you giving us an update today, Sarah.

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Speaker 1: I know that's incredibly hard, and I appreciate it because

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Speaker 1: I think that the community definitely needs to know, so

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Speaker 1: thank you for speaking with me this morning. Yeah, no worry,

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Thanks very much.