Our Resident 'Hot Vet' Explains That Spreading Canine Respiratory Illness

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Episode Transcript

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All right, Sally's Never Wanted musicStation one at two point seven Kiss FM.
What is going on with this mysteryrespiratory illness making dogs across the country
sick? I'm going to bring indoctor Evan Anton here, doctor Evan Anton,
who works out a thousand oaks atthe Valley Vet Hospital. There,

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doctor Evan, thanks for coming on. Yeah, thanks for having me.
We were talking about you earlier becauseyou won the title hottest vet on Instagram
a few years ago. Is that? What do you get for that?
I haven't gotten anything yet, butI guess it's been good for business.
Maybe. Yeah, all the animalsrecognize you. Hot's the hot vat Yeah,
they feel at ease, do so. But to get serious here for

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a second, doctor Evan, what'sgoing on? Do we know any more
about the respiratory illness that dogs arecatching? And what are the symptoms,
What are the signs? What arethe things we need to be aware of
and look out for. Yeah,we don't know exactly what it is.
We don't know if it's actually anew novel virus or if it's just something
we just don't have a diagnostic yetfor where we can't identify exactly what it

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is. I mean, these kindof outbreaks happen every so often. We
you know, we had a fluoutbreak just a few years ago, and
and so on. So yeah,symptoms, look for upper respiratory clinical signs.
So a lot of times these guyswith this new, you know,
unknown whatever virus, they're having coughingissues that can last weeks even two months.
And then if you see nasal discharge, ocular discharge, some of these

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guys get lethargic. They might stopeating, and just like any upper respiratory
complex, that can potentially progress toa pneumonia, and that usually indicates a
bacterial component. If it is justsaying in the upper respiratory tract, then
usually you know, supportive care iskind of the way to go, just
like you know when people get aviral cold or upper respiratory cold, same
kind of thing. But some ofour immune compromised animals and our older animals,

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or if they have co comorbidities oryou know, other diseases, they
are some of these guys are gettingpretty sick. And it can't even be
fatal in some of these dogs.But behind umidity, okay, so it
can be scary, it can befatal it's dangerous for the dogs. What
about sneezing. I didn't notice Georgiasneezing a little bit. Is that anything

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to think about if I didn't mentionthat, Yeah, that would fit along
with our upper respiratory clinical sign.Ok. Yeah, and can we catch
it as far as we know?No, all right, Well, it's
just seemingly in the news, thisbig mystery. But you're saying it's not
such a strange thing. I mean, outbreaks happened, so in terms of

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that being you know what a thinghappening. Yeah, that's not like a
crazy new thing the news, definitely. I mean, we're just we're seeing
more cases than usual, like alot of places and are having more and
more cases of it in general,like you know, play Colorado, we're
seeing some of the West, certainlyin the Pacific Northwest, some of New
England, in other parts of thecountry, they're seeing more respiratory cases than

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normal this time of year. Sothere's some kind of outbreak of something.
We just don't know exactly what itis. For most healthy dogs, it
should be self limiting. It shouldn'tbe you know, it shouldn't advance to
anything too severe. The only thingthat's kind of different is that it does
last a bit longer than our othera lot of our other upper respiratory infections.
So doctor Evan, we would takemedicine, we would eat soup.

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Like what do we do for ourdogs if they've got this respiratory illness?
I mean, if we need todo a cop suppressant, sometimes we will,
but honestly, just rest and supportivecare, meaning just keeping them comfortable,
keeping them warm, just your typicalstuff. If you think, you
know, if a person thinks theirdog is showing clinical signs, you know,
consult your local that at least givethem a call and keep them separate
from other dogs. I mean,now might be a time to be a

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little bit more reserved if you're consideringdoing you know, big social events with
other dogs like dog parks, areboarding or what have you. All right,
well, thank you for the insight. We appreciate you coming on with
this. Doctor Evan Anton out thereat the valley that hospital on Thousand Oaks
and you can follow him and youshould probably look at him. He's worth
seeing. Yeah, at doctor dotEvan Anton on Instagram. He is worth

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seeing. Right, It's so niceto match a face with the voice.
I agree. Wait, doctor Evan, I have a one question for you.
My daughter put a kitten on herlist for Santa, and someone told
me that it's better to have twokittens than one. Is that true because

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then they play with each other.Is there a possibility that Santa might bring
two kittens? I actually do highlyrecommend that. I mean, listen,
I'm biased. I've become a crazycat lady this year. I adopted two
more kittens, and I adopted together, totaling five cats in my house.
So maybe I'm not the right personto talk to, But I do think
they're phenomenal pets, and I definitelyrecommend getting two at a time. They

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do interact with each other, Theygroom each other, they play with each
other like cats. A lot oftimes they seem like there's people think they're
solitary, but most cats actually dolike having friends. They do like having
a buddy. They like having somebodyelse to play with and cuddle with.
Don't you you have a cat,a lizard, a snake, and a
bunch of exotic fish? Right?Yeah? Five cats? Now, a
couple of fish, a lizard,a snake, and a tortoise. What

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well you you practice what you preach. Thank you doctor having take good care.
I appreciate you coming on indeed,thank you guys very much. Yeah,
interesting too, So better get theSanta. We'll see what's coming back
because I am so ill. Jingerballtickets