184. Why Your Pet Has No Legal Rights: The Shocking Truth About Pet Health & Liability

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Welcome back pet parent.
I cannot believe I finally we've

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been talking about this forever.
I feel like having today's guest

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on, she is, first of all, I read
her bio having already known her

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and I was like, wait 30 years of
experience.

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You definitely do not look like
if you have 30 years of

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experience in the pet industry.
But Carrie Hyde is my guest

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today.
And if you're not familiar with

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her, you probably have seen the
spa SPAW all over social media.

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She has so much incredible
information that she puts out.

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She is empowering pet parents
with knowledge and tools to

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create long term effective
health plans for their furry

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companion.
She is your pet's coach.

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Is it life coach?
Yes, pet life coach.

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Because that how that even
started was a client said you're

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my pet's life coach.
And then it just stuck and it's

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been.
That way.

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Well, I mean, and that's kind of
true.

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That's kind of true how it all
works out.

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And you're also a certified pet
nutritionist.

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It started with the spa.
Well, it probably didn't start

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there, but you've had the spa
for a while.

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You're in Orange County.
I like, I'm so jealous.

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I haven't seen it.
One day maybe I'll get to see

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it.
But welcome, Carrie to the pet

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parenting reset.
Thank you so much for being here

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with us.
Yes, you're welcome.

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So thank you so much for being
here with us.

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I would love to hear just a
little bit of your back story

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and how you got so involved, why
you are so passionate.

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Everybody has that story of why
they are so passionate about

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helping pets and their people.
I think that the hard part is

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when I look at the vast number
of people like you that have

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become so passionate about what
we do.

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And like you say, we all have
our stories, but the sad part

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is, is those stories are usually
because of something tragic that

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happened.
It's what really drives us.

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And that's what's really sad to
me is that almost everybody that

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I talked to that is as equally
as passionate as you are, as I

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am, is the rest of our crew is.
It's usually a sad story.

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And so I am no different than
that.

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I was a vet tech for 12 years
and I was very inundated in the

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veterinary world.
And I, I, like you mentioned,

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I've been doing this for a very
long time.

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So when I first started in
working with animals, flea and

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tick stuff wasn't even on the
market yet.

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That's how old I am.
That's how old I am.

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And not that I like to correct
people, but it's actually 40

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years that I have experienced.
So I just didn't want anybody to

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Fact Check that and go flea and
tick stuff's been on the market

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for 35 years and make me look
like I don't know what I'm

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talking about.
But when I first came on, you

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know, in this veterinary world,
we didn't have anything.

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We had to give dogs and cats
flea flea baths and we bathed

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them in something very toxic
with pyrethrins in it.

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And so we had to be really
careful because animals will get

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really sick right after a flea
dip.

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And so then this flea and tick
stuff came on the market and it

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was called Advantage.
It's still on the market to this

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day.
Advantage was the first one.

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And then you got Frontline that
did flea and tick.

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And it was the miracle to us
because we no longer had to

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bathe them in this this toxic
pyrethrin stuff, right?

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Of course, now we realize that
the stuff we're drenching them

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with is equally, if not worse
toxicity because at least with

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the bathing with the pyrethrins,
we were rinsing it off.

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And so it wasn't something that
just stayed in the blood system

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and left waiting for something
to bite it.

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And so unfortunately, you know,
I used it and I believed in it

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and I sold it.
And I have so many regrets to

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that to this day.
And my own dog died from using

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it.
And that was a, a wake up call

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for me.
She was constantly having

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seizures and we couldn't figure
it out.

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And back then, nobody knew, you
know what?

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And I was so young and so naive
and I just kept putting it on

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her.
And, and because of my my

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connections through the
veterinary world, she had her

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charts taken all the way up to
UC Davis to try to figure out

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what these were causing these
seizures.

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So when I tell you this dog had
seen several vets, I don't mean

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one or two.
Her chart had been either she or

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her chart had been seen by at
least 50, 19 to 20 veterinarians

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and not one veterinarian said,
are you giving her anything

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medication wise or putting any
kind of anything?

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It was never brought up.
And so after Tootsie died, it

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was kind of a wake up call for
me to start looking into things.

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And right around then I decided
that this may not be the path

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that I want to be on.
And I kind of think I was

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already leaning that way because
I had noticed with the patients

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that were coming in, it was, it
was constant, like an ear

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infection was always treated the
same way.

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And then the ear infection would
come back and then they would be

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back in six weeks and they would
have another ear infection.

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And then we would give them
something else and another

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steroid and another this and
another that.

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And you know, as I was getting
older, 12 years of that, I was

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like, oh, here comes Daisy to
Copper with their ear infection.

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And we just kept going and going
and then her prescription diets

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and it was the same.
It was so even though I was too

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young to really understand the
toxicity of it, it was boring

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also because nothing changed.
And at the time, I was in school

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and my plan was to become a
veterinarian.

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And so I was in college and that
was my goal.

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And I got on the speech and
debate team and just to get

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through college.
And then I became really in love

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with that and I started coaching
debate at Mount San Antonio

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College for a little bit.
And I changed my whole career

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path to becoming what's called a
DOF, which is the director of

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forensics, which is debate.
But in order to pay for school,

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I decided to leave the
veterinary field and open a

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little grooming shop and learn
how to groom dogs.

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And so that's what I did it.
I became, I really fell in love

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with the, the freedom to learn
on my own, to help my clients on

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their own and really take their
pets under my wing and my

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watchful eye.
And I knew I was going to see

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them more than their vets.
And so I had a little ear there,

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you know, even though most of
the time, as I know, you know,

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people constantly would say to
me, well, you're not a vet.

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My vet said this.
And so I don't ever play

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veterinarian.
But I don't think just because

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somebody's not a veterinarian
that their voice isn't important

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and that their life experiences
and the things that they've gone

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through isn't important.
And so I just, I had to fight

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that for a long time less now,
which is really good, less now.

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I think people finally realize,
Oh, she might know something,

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you know, so that's helpful.
And then gaining, you know, you

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then you start to gain the
respect of veterinarians when

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they start seeing, oh, she might
be on to something.

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And skin is my favorite thing.
And so I deal with a lot of

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yeast and ear infections and
skin problems.

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But but some of the stuff that
is going on has led me into

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being more of and we can talk
about this has led me to be more

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of an advocate for change
because I can talk and talk and

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we can all talk and we can all
say this and we can all tell try

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to educate pet parents as we go.
And not that that's not

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necessary, but if we don't have
real legislation and change, it

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keeps going.
And so that's.

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Where we are, we are
interestingly, I, I was talking

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to somebody recently and I don't
even remember who I was talking

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to, but I was like, yeah, you
know, I'm so excited for the

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possibilities of fixing our food
system and, you know, getting

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big pharma in check at least.
And as excited as I am for all

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of that, I'm also kind of
dreading the idea that pet

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industry may actually get worse
if it's not being addressed at

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the same time.
Like if we are solely focusing

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on the human part.
And, you know, these companies,

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they still want to make their
profit that they're making.

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So what are they going to do?
They're probably going to still

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be making all the same junk
they're making now and put in

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the pet products because they
can get away with it.

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Right.
So like, it's, it's definitely

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bigger than me, but on my mind a
lot for sure.

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Yeah.
Yeah.

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So, yeah.
But one of the other things that

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I thought of when you were
talking earlier about how it's

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always something so tragic.
Sadly, I feel like it is that

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kind of leads us down these
roads.

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I saw something on Instagram the
other day and gosh, it was so

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true.
And it, it, it just basically

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said how interesting it is that
people go from like it was

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talking about humans, of course,
but people go from, you know, an

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allopathic world into a holistic
world all the time.

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And you never see anybody go the
other way, right?

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Like it's just, it doesn't
happen.

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Like we can have an appreciation
for the miracles of science and

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medicine and use it as needed
for emergency, but like it just

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doesn't go the other way.
And I think that's something so

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many people miss, like they're,
they have tunnel vision and not

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seeing that big picture of like
so many people are moving away

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from the sick care system and,
you know, into caring for

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themselves in a more holistic
way, in a more natural way.

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And I think that's that's
happening with pets as well,

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which is amazing.
Well, I think too sometimes

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people don't even realize that
they are ready are using

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holistic, holistic things like I
love to use the example of

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Willow bark because that's how
aspirin is made.

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So you're already doing it.
You just don't really understand

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it as much because the
pharmaceutical companies have

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managed to kind of trick us into
calling it Bayer aspirin instead

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of Willow bark, which is how it
all started.

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And that's how Bayer got their
start.

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So and Willow bark is from from
the Willow tree.

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And so it's something that we
already kind of naturally did

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way back, you know, the Indians
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So, but to your point about
people don't go back, I will say

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this, this is just my personal
journey.

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I went so far down the rabbit
hole of holistic stuff because

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of the death of my dog.
And I was angry.

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I was so angry at the
pharmaceutical companies that

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there was a thank God it was a
brief time because I think it

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can be very dangerous to get too
far away from.

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I don't want to call it away
from reality because I don't

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want, but I got I was so anti
everything.

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I was like starting to find
myself in this situation where I

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was like, no, if it's a drug,
I'm not like a can't.

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And so I had to pull myself back
a little, a little bit like like

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I just had to be.
And I'll give you this example.

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I don't know, you know, I hate
to call people out, but this one

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was so bad.
But I don't go in Facebook

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groups really much anymore
because it was too stressful for

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me.
But there was this Facebook

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group for a while and the, the,
the person, and I hope I'm not

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gonna whatever, whatever, I'm
just gonna do it.

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He was suggesting that you give
animals for everything rutabaga.

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So like if they got hit by a car
and they had a broken leg, they

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needed to eat rutabaga.
If they had seizures, they

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needed rutabaga.
If they had a heart problem,

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they needed rutabaga.
Like every answer was rutabaga.

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And I was like, you see?
This.

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Is dangerous information because
we can get too far.

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So I think so long as people
really, you know, learn from the

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the stuff that's out there and
heed the warnings of just going

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straight to the pharmaceutical.
To your point, people aren't

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going to try something natural
and then go, Oh my God, that

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killed my dog.
I have to go back to using this.

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That's that's never going to
happen.

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Yeah, when you think of
homeopathy, how safe homeopathy

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is, like it's so safe.
So yeah, yeah, it's just scary.

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Well, and it's funny you bring
up Facebook groups because I had

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decided at the beginning of the
year that I was like, OK, I

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think I'm just going to be done
with Facebook because it's such

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an, for me, it's just been such
a negative experience lately.

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Yeah.
And I'm like, I just need to

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remove this from my life.
And I was kind of like checking

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it maybe once a week or so.
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about this Facebook group that
was literally telling people,

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like, if your dog has cancer,
you need to feed them nothing

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but fruit.
I'm like, what?

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And that was it for me.
I was like, I'm done.

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I'm out.
It was too stressful for me.

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I would lose sleep at night
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like, give an answer and then
whoever left the question would

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never respond to me.
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them for three days.
I'm like, I hope that dog is OK.

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And I'm not getting responses.
And I'm like, Oh my God, no,

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don't do that, you know?
And so I finally, I still go on

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Facebook, but I have my Facebook
page and I just post up there

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and anybody who's there, but I
don't go in the groups anymore

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because even my husband was
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I need.
Yeah, it's it's hard.

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So, OK, knowing that you went
way far in One Direction and you

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had to kind of pull yourself
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interested to learn about how
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So tell me a bit about that.
I was by accident, sort of like

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kind of, you know, because I, I
was in school full time.

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I had a plan of what I was going
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I think God had a bigger plan
for me and it was always there.

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I just was trying to deter from
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I don't know why, but I don't
know, you know, have you heard

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you know who Doctor Jean Dodds
is right.

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OK.
So when I was in college, I had

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to do this the speech and I
wanted to do it on the need for

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dog blood.
And Doctor Jean Dodds runs a

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place called Hemopet where they
do all of the blood for blood

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donations.
And so I it was always there.

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There was always this push for
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community.
And so when I was doing that

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speech back in college, I found
her first time I ever heard of

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her.
It was before I was super

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holistic.
I made a phone call to her.

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She answered the phone and I was
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I was like 24.
I speak with doctor, this is she

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and I was like, like, didn't
know what to do right.

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And so I ended up speaking to
her for a long time.

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So it's really interesting when
I think like how I set up the

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spa was not with the intent to
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It was an intent to be a
director of forensics and pay

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for college.
So it was kind of like this

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little tiny.
I subleased it from my

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father-in-law.
That's Nellie Olsen, and if you

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guys ever watch, if you ever
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Prairie, look up who Nellie
Olsen is, and she is that

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character.
So I'll just tell you.

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Cat behind you.
Prairie next name.

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Is Nellie Olsen, and she's named
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So look up Nellie Olsen from the
Little House on the Prairie,

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which was my favorite show when
I was a little bit anyway, so I

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subleased a little place from my
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He had this big building in a
industrial park and I subleased

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it from him.
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I actually had an answering
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This is before any of this stuff
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Yelp like you had no so the
answering machine said, hi, my

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name is Carrie and I'm a full
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And if you'd like to schedule an
appointment with me to get your

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dog groom, leave me a message
and I'll call you when I'm off

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of school, you know, and people
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And so I had this little room
and I remember this lady brought

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in her dog and then she was late
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And I was like, now what am I
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Because I don't have all the
cages like most places had

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because I just had this little
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So I put her little dog on the
floor and he ran around with me.

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And then another lady came in
and then I put the two of them

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together.
Both clients said it was OK and

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they played.
And I'm like, why are we doing

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grooming in cages and stuff?
Why can't we let them be free

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run and they're happier?
And so that really that moment

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sparked my belief, my journey of
a holistic energy type grooming

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store, like like I didn't want
it to be the typical stick them

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in a cage, hurry them up.
And so watching that happen and

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watching those two dogs enjoy
the experience from a different

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level was another journey,
beginning of a journey for me.

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And so I became the first doggy
daycare in Orange County.

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They didn't even exist.
That's how old I am.

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There was no thing like doggy
daycare did not exist.

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And so it became really like
people were like, Oh my gosh, my

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dog.
It used to be that dogs would go

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to the grooming shop and they
would do it where they would

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drop them off from 8:00 to 10:00
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So if you if that groomer was
going to do 15 to 20 dogs that

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day, all 15 to 20 of them, that
would get dropped off between

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8:00 and 10:00.
Some places still do it this

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way.
I wouldn't advise it, but so all

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dogs would get dropped off from
8:00 to 10:00 and then they

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would get all stuck in the
cages.

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And then after the groomer was
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she would go to the first dog
and then she would bathe him and

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then she would take him and put
him back in the kennel, put a

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cage dryer on him.
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line.
And so your dog that got there

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at 8:00 may not even start to
get groomed until 1:00 in the

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afternoon.
And all the dogs would be cage

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dried.
So they would all sit there all

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day long with each other barking
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And so that was kind of, I was
like, why do we do it that way?

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Seems stupid.
And so it grew from there.

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And then I started, I had a
client that, you know, I

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learned.
So they learned a lot from me,

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but I have learned so much.
I had this client who had these

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two papillons.
Now remember, I'm coming from

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the vet world and even though
I'm trying to be more holistic

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because my dog now has died, I
am still indoctrinated about a

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lot of stuff.
And one of those things was

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food.
I'm still, even though I don't

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like the medicines and stuff
like that, I'm like anti.

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But I'm still believing that
Hills is the end all end.

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All right, right.
So I have this client come to me

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and she has a little papi on.
She had two of them and they had

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the best coats I have ever seen
on dogs and they were older dogs

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and they were energetic and they
had all the stuff.

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And I'm sure from the man above
made me say this to her.

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I said what do you feed them?
Which was weird because I never

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asked that questions back then.
So I said what do you feed them?

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And she said she must have been,
she was probably 75 at the time.

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And she says, dear, if I told
you you'd be mad, Do you ever

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forget her saying that to me,
dear, if I told you, you'd be so

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mad.
And I said, no, I'm, I'm going

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to be mad.
Tell me.

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And she says, I'm warning you.
And I go, what are you?

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Tell me Jesus.
Like pedigree, like this is my

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mindset.
I'm like, is it pedigree?

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Is it, I'm, is it, I'm thinking
of all these foods.

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And she goes, well, I go to the
store and I get them these

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little chicken drumlets and I
give it to them.

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And I said, do you cook it?
And she says, oh, no, I give it

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to them raw.
And I was like, this crazy ass

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lady is going to kill these
dogs.

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Like I'm hurts.
And I'm like, you're nuts,

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right?
And so I was nice to her, of

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course.
And I was like, oh, OK, you

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know.
And then after she left, I kind

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of went behind on my closed door
and I was like, that's insane.

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That's never going to happen.
But it sat with me because those

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dogs were so healthy.
I'm not kidding.

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Like it was noticeable.
Their, their teeth, their hair,

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their eye, everything was
noticeable.

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And so I had a golden retriever
at the time and that sat with me

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for a a while.
And then like she came in again

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and I'm like, well, they're
still alive.

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She hasn't killed them yet, you
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And so I remember going to the
store and I bought my dog Joy.

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She was a golden retriever at
chicken leg, like a, you know,

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and I brought, I remember I
brought him home and I took it

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out of the thing and I, I
remember giving it to her and

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literally thinking she's going
to die and it's going to be my

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fault.
Like I'm going to kill my dog

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right now.
But there was something that

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made me do it and I gave it to
her.

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And I think even she was like,
mom, Are you sure about this?

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What are you doing?
Because I gave her the chicken

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bone, the, the whole chicken
thing.

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And she held it in her mouth for
the longest time and just stared

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at me.
And I was like, well, just go do

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it.
If we're going to do it, do it.

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It's like one of us has to make
the decision here.

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Go outside and eat your chicken.
So she did, she went outside,

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she ate the whole thing.
And for two days I was like,

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please don't die.
Please don't die, please don't

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die.
That's how indoctrinated I was.

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Like I was deep in it.
She didn't die.

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And Joy ended up living to be 17
years old and she died in her

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sleep.
And she, from that day forward,

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I, and of course, I went through
the phases right, of half kibble

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because I need all the complete
imbalance, right?

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So I did the half kibble.
So I went through all of the

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things.
And so then with that, the spa

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started to bring in gin.
And of course, I, I went through

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the path there of the better
kibble.

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We no longer sell kibble at all.
And so it grew from there.

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It grew from being this little
tiny sublease place.

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Now it's 9000 square feet and
it's free run.

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We don't, we have very little
cages there.

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Everything is open, even at
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There's 24 hour staff there.
So when we do boarding, we only

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board for little dogs.
So our little guys, we do, I

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call it slumber party boarding
because we put, maybe we also

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only take small numbers because
what people don't realize about

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boarding is that when you take
150 dogs and you put them under

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the same roof, their energy that
is created through that much

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nervousness is unmanageable.
You can not manage it.

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And most places will put them
all away in cages and then they

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leave for the night.
And then what's going to happen

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is there's going to be a lot of
barking and a lot of stress and

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a lot of problems.
So nobody leaves for the night.

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And for us, we separate and we
take minimal dogs.

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So our Max and this is like
holiday time.

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And then I always bring an extra
staff is 30 dogs.

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So we'll take 30 dogs.
I have sometimes on occasion

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done 35, but that's it.
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And so it's, it stays nice and
calm.

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Because to be a holistic, people
always ask me, what's a holistic

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grooming shop?
Do you just use holistic

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shampoos?
And I'm like, you have to

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understand what the word
holistic means because that's

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the problem with anybody who's
trying to work with holistic

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stuff is they don't understand
that the, the stress on your

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body is almost worse than taking
a pharmaceutical drug, right?

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Like, like I like if I had a
choice between taking Advil

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every day or being stressed to
the Max every day, I'd probably

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choose the Advil and not stress
because stress is such a huge

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thing.
And so that's how the spa and

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that's how we still run it to
this day.

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And of course we use good
shampoos and all of that other

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holistic stuff that people would
think.

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We don't require portatella
vaccines.

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We don't you will never see flea
and tick stuff sold anywhere

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near my place.
And I always have to apologize

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to people when they ask me what
do I think about it because I

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always tell them the truth.
They say, listen, I'm coming

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from a place of a animal that
died from it.

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So I recognize I'm a little, you
know, but but that's how it's

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exactly how this all started and
that's how we run it still to

444
00:23:01,440 --> 00:23:04,120
this day I'm.
So glad you brought up the idea

445
00:23:04,120 --> 00:23:07,680
of stress and that people don't
like they.

446
00:23:08,040 --> 00:23:10,720
We can throw around this word
holistic a lot, but a lot of

447
00:23:10,720 --> 00:23:14,040
people don't actually understand
what that means.

448
00:23:14,040 --> 00:23:19,400
And I would love for you to tell
me what holistic means to you.

449
00:23:20,080 --> 00:23:23,400
It's such a hard thing to like
to, to divine it slowly.

450
00:23:23,400 --> 00:23:27,320
Yeah.
But I think holistic, to be

451
00:23:27,320 --> 00:23:31,640
holistic minded means you're
always looking at the effect of

452
00:23:31,720 --> 00:23:37,080
every step that you make.
So when people treat something

453
00:23:37,080 --> 00:23:40,920
like, like, I don't know, like
diarrhea, OK.

454
00:23:40,920 --> 00:23:44,000
So if I treat diarrhea with
something like metronidazole,

455
00:23:44,200 --> 00:23:48,920
I'm treating that without
thinking about the effects that

456
00:23:48,960 --> 00:23:51,240
mitronidazole could do in the
long term.

457
00:23:51,880 --> 00:23:56,880
That's not a holistic mindset.
Holistically, I have to think in

458
00:23:56,880 --> 00:24:00,360
terms of everything I do, which
means stress, right?

459
00:24:00,360 --> 00:24:03,360
So if I'm putting my house under
stress, if I'm doing this, every

460
00:24:03,360 --> 00:24:07,360
step that I make, I have to
think the effects that has in

461
00:24:07,360 --> 00:24:09,680
the long term.
To me, that's thinking

462
00:24:09,680 --> 00:24:13,280
holistically about the whole of
everything, not just the moment,

463
00:24:13,280 --> 00:24:15,680
not just hurry up and get it
done and hurry up and fix this.

464
00:24:15,680 --> 00:24:18,240
Because we all, we live in such,
I mean, look at us Instagram,

465
00:24:18,240 --> 00:24:20,960
Instagram, Instagram as we all
want everything so fast, so

466
00:24:20,960 --> 00:24:23,000
quick.
None of us have any patience.

467
00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:25,840
And so we want that same kind of
treatment for our animals.

468
00:24:25,840 --> 00:24:27,320
We want everything to happen
quickly.

469
00:24:27,320 --> 00:24:30,400
Skin is a really good example.
People want to bring their dogs

470
00:24:30,400 --> 00:24:33,640
to me and I do micro bubbles and
we do ozones and we do all sorts

471
00:24:33,640 --> 00:24:35,640
of stuff and they want that one
and done, hurry up.

472
00:24:35,640 --> 00:24:38,240
It should be better by tomorrow.
But what they don't realize is

473
00:24:38,240 --> 00:24:40,560
skin cells take 21 days to
regenerate.

474
00:24:40,800 --> 00:24:43,120
And a dog's skin layers are
three layers.

475
00:24:43,120 --> 00:24:44,920
Their epidermis has three layers
on it.

476
00:24:45,080 --> 00:24:49,000
So you're talking about 21 days
to shed the first bad layer, 21

477
00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:52,480
days for the second bad layer,
21 days for the third bad layer

478
00:24:52,480 --> 00:24:54,600
before you're going to get all
new skin.

479
00:24:55,400 --> 00:24:57,520
So you always have to be
thinking about how long

480
00:24:57,520 --> 00:25:00,200
something can take.
Be patient because when you're

481
00:25:00,760 --> 00:25:03,280
not patient, then you're
stressed, which means the body

482
00:25:03,280 --> 00:25:05,440
won't heal.
And so everything has to be

483
00:25:05,440 --> 00:25:07,960
holistic minded.
I guess in a nutshell is

484
00:25:07,960 --> 00:25:11,920
thinking about everything you do
and the effect that it will have

485
00:25:11,920 --> 00:25:14,960
on the body and then weighing
the option, weighing it.

486
00:25:14,960 --> 00:25:17,080
We were, I was just talking
about the client today we're

487
00:25:17,080 --> 00:25:18,440
talking about heartworm
medication.

488
00:25:18,720 --> 00:25:21,960
And she says, you taught me the
most valuable lesson was to

489
00:25:21,960 --> 00:25:25,040
think about weighing the risks
versus the reward.

490
00:25:25,560 --> 00:25:28,240
And she says, and it talked.
Now wherever you are in the

491
00:25:28,240 --> 00:25:30,000
country, things are different.
So I never talked.

492
00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:31,720
And, you know, I'm just
generally speaking.

493
00:25:32,240 --> 00:25:35,480
And she said I realized that my
dog wasn't at risk of heartworm

494
00:25:35,480 --> 00:25:37,600
at all.
And the risk of taking the

495
00:25:37,600 --> 00:25:39,880
heartworm medication all the
time was, was, and she was, and

496
00:25:39,880 --> 00:25:44,040
I never was thinking that I was
only being taught about what

497
00:25:44,040 --> 00:25:45,120
would happen if he got
heartworm.

498
00:25:45,120 --> 00:25:47,680
He could die.
And so I just, and so now I

499
00:25:47,960 --> 00:25:51,560
weigh everything risk versus
reward and, and do that kind of

500
00:25:51,560 --> 00:25:53,200
thing.
So, and that's when you'll find

501
00:25:53,200 --> 00:25:55,880
yourself thinking holistically
is when you're starting to think

502
00:25:55,880 --> 00:25:58,760
about if I give him this, what
will happen to the body.

503
00:26:00,200 --> 00:26:04,600
So, but it is the whole thing.
It is a whole thing, not just,

504
00:26:04,920 --> 00:26:07,480
you know, oh, I give him, this
is one of the things I don't

505
00:26:07,480 --> 00:26:09,680
like about whole.
We call him foalistic

506
00:26:09,680 --> 00:26:13,720
veterinarians where they say
they're holistic, but then the

507
00:26:13,720 --> 00:26:17,800
only thing at all in their shop
that is holistic is the milk

508
00:26:17,800 --> 00:26:20,400
Thistle.
So everything else is flea and

509
00:26:20,400 --> 00:26:24,960
tick medication and massive
vaccines and poor diets and all

510
00:26:24,960 --> 00:26:26,720
of this stuff.
But then they carry milk

511
00:26:26,720 --> 00:26:28,880
thistles.
So then they consider themselves

512
00:26:28,880 --> 00:26:31,680
holistic.
That is not that's holistic.

513
00:26:33,440 --> 00:26:37,200
Yeah, I I see the same thing a
lot with veterinarians who

514
00:26:37,200 --> 00:26:40,960
learned acupuncture and like
they added acupuncture on to

515
00:26:40,960 --> 00:26:43,040
their services and now they're
holistic.

516
00:26:43,280 --> 00:26:46,120
But then they're still doing the
flea and tick and the heartworm

517
00:26:46,120 --> 00:26:50,320
and the over vaccinations and
the this is the wonderful bag of

518
00:26:50,840 --> 00:26:52,880
wall of bagged food behind
right.

519
00:26:52,880 --> 00:26:56,480
Like I'm like, no, no.
Puncture is a very good example.

520
00:26:56,480 --> 00:26:58,160
It's exactly acupuncture is a
big one.

521
00:26:58,360 --> 00:27:00,920
They add acupuncture and then
it.

522
00:27:01,320 --> 00:27:04,000
I always use the example of
like, if you want to lose

523
00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:08,960
weight, you cannot eat the
hamburger on the treadmill and

524
00:27:08,960 --> 00:27:11,800
expect to get the results that
you want.

525
00:27:12,200 --> 00:27:16,120
You cannot give flea and tick
medication and milk Thistle

526
00:27:16,560 --> 00:27:19,640
right to get rid of the toxins
and get the results that you

527
00:27:19,640 --> 00:27:20,760
want.
You just can't.

528
00:27:20,880 --> 00:27:23,240
It's all of it.
Yeah.

529
00:27:23,720 --> 00:27:25,720
Yeah, acupuncture is a big one.
I see that all the time.

530
00:27:26,280 --> 00:27:33,160
Yeah, well, yeah, when I moved a
few years ago, I don't even, I

531
00:27:33,160 --> 00:27:37,680
can't, I can't even, I probably
called 6080 veterinary offices.

532
00:27:37,680 --> 00:27:40,280
I was going further and further
and further out away from me.

533
00:27:40,640 --> 00:27:46,080
And it was, I mean, just about
everybody I called was like

534
00:27:46,200 --> 00:27:51,800
that, advertised as holistic or
even, you know, integrative,

535
00:27:51,800 --> 00:27:55,800
which I'm fine with.
It's like that was the only

536
00:27:55,800 --> 00:27:58,000
thing was, Oh yeah, I can do
acupuncture.

537
00:27:59,200 --> 00:28:02,120
OK, I can give you acupuncture,
but you won't need it if you eat

538
00:28:02,120 --> 00:28:04,800
this prescription food.
Yeah, right.

539
00:28:05,160 --> 00:28:07,480
Crazy.
But you know, sometimes I, I've

540
00:28:07,480 --> 00:28:11,920
had to teach my clients to stop
looking for the holistic vet

541
00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:16,560
because what was happening is I
would tell people like they

542
00:28:16,560 --> 00:28:17,880
would say, well, how do you know
if they're holistic?

543
00:28:17,880 --> 00:28:21,600
And I'm like, well, one of the
first signs to me to a holistic

544
00:28:21,600 --> 00:28:26,040
veterinarian is when you first
walk in their office, let's look

545
00:28:26,320 --> 00:28:30,440
at what food they're selling.
So if you walk in and the sign

546
00:28:30,440 --> 00:28:32,440
out front says holistic, but
when you walk in, you see

547
00:28:32,440 --> 00:28:34,760
processed food, overly processed
food.

548
00:28:35,760 --> 00:28:38,080
Now you'd better.
You need to use your brain.

549
00:28:38,080 --> 00:28:39,680
Now, That doesn't mean you can't
stay.

550
00:28:39,680 --> 00:28:42,360
It just means you can't shut
your brain off, which is the

551
00:28:42,360 --> 00:28:45,480
problem is a lot of vets or pet
parents walk into a vet hospital

552
00:28:45,520 --> 00:28:48,240
shut their brain off and
especially if they want a

553
00:28:48,240 --> 00:28:50,360
holistic vet and it said a
holistic vet, they think

554
00:28:50,360 --> 00:28:53,440
everything must be holistic.
So I tell people I used to send

555
00:28:53,440 --> 00:28:56,560
he's no, he actually his company
got bought out by VCA.

556
00:28:56,720 --> 00:28:59,400
What a surprise.
He was not holistic at all.

557
00:28:59,400 --> 00:29:02,640
His name was Doctor Andrew and
he wasn't even in the ballpark

558
00:29:02,640 --> 00:29:04,760
of holistic.
And if you asked him, he would

559
00:29:04,760 --> 00:29:06,320
be like, I don't know anything
about that crap.

560
00:29:06,360 --> 00:29:10,040
Like he was very in your face
about he doesn't know anything

561
00:29:10,040 --> 00:29:13,800
holistically, but I would just
teach my clients.

562
00:29:13,800 --> 00:29:16,920
He was great at diagnostics.
He was honest.

563
00:29:17,160 --> 00:29:21,760
He was willing to not make fun
of you, kick you out, say your

564
00:29:21,760 --> 00:29:23,480
dog was going to die, like any
of that stuff.

565
00:29:23,880 --> 00:29:27,080
I started sending all my clients
to him because I would rather

566
00:29:27,080 --> 00:29:30,720
have my clients go to him and
keep their brain working and

567
00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:33,560
asking questions, then walk in
and shut their brain down to the

568
00:29:33,560 --> 00:29:35,280
holistic vet that does
acupuncture.

569
00:29:35,400 --> 00:29:38,200
Because then before you know it
they're feeding crappy food and

570
00:29:38,200 --> 00:29:40,320
well, the whole you, the
holistic vet said.

571
00:29:40,720 --> 00:29:43,760
So I actually would send a lot
of people to a conventional

572
00:29:43,760 --> 00:29:48,160
veterinarian that was just open
to letting people communicate.

573
00:29:48,520 --> 00:29:52,040
So, and that's why we're
educating people as much as I

574
00:29:52,040 --> 00:29:54,640
can so that they can.
And you and all these people

575
00:29:54,640 --> 00:29:57,720
that are just so amazing that
we're out there and talking to

576
00:29:57,720 --> 00:30:00,640
people and trying to help them
so they know how to communicate

577
00:30:00,640 --> 00:30:03,480
better.
Because you're not going to find

578
00:30:03,480 --> 00:30:05,240
the perfect holistic bet.
You're just not.

579
00:30:06,200 --> 00:30:12,960
Yeah, I appreciate that outlook
so very much because it is to

580
00:30:12,960 --> 00:30:16,800
me, it's so much about educating
pet parents because if they

581
00:30:16,800 --> 00:30:18,880
don't know what they don't know,
I mean, I was there.

582
00:30:19,080 --> 00:30:20,680
Yeah, you don't.
Just like you were.

583
00:30:20,680 --> 00:30:23,240
I mean, I didn't work in a
veterinarian's office, but I

584
00:30:23,240 --> 00:30:26,360
might as well have Like I
literally would go.

585
00:30:26,360 --> 00:30:29,240
I had so many animals I would
walk when I lived in Virginia

586
00:30:29,240 --> 00:30:31,640
Beach, I would go, I would walk
into the vet clinic.

587
00:30:32,120 --> 00:30:35,720
Everybody knew me.
And it was like I spent my whole

588
00:30:35,720 --> 00:30:39,600
paycheck there.
All the time I had all of my

589
00:30:39,600 --> 00:30:42,720
cats were on a different
prescription food that the vet

590
00:30:42,720 --> 00:30:45,600
said, you know what I mean?
Like that's, I thought I was

591
00:30:45,600 --> 00:30:48,640
doing the right thing.
And so I, I have a lot of

592
00:30:48,720 --> 00:30:52,360
empathy for people because I
like, I'm sure you do as well

593
00:30:52,360 --> 00:30:55,440
because I was there.
I was, I was that person that

594
00:30:55,440 --> 00:30:57,800
was like, I'm doing everything
my vet says.

595
00:30:58,000 --> 00:31:01,720
To the.
And I thought that was the best

596
00:31:01,720 --> 00:31:04,200
thing in the world to do for my
animal.

597
00:31:04,400 --> 00:31:07,440
And it's most people, even
though like we're inundated

598
00:31:07,440 --> 00:31:11,080
because we're in this this field
and group and what we're doing.

599
00:31:11,120 --> 00:31:14,240
But when you look outside of
that, you realize how very

600
00:31:14,240 --> 00:31:17,320
little people know.
Like when I was doing a lot of

601
00:31:17,320 --> 00:31:20,880
Facebook groups and stuff and I
was an admin for one and stuff,

602
00:31:21,160 --> 00:31:25,400
I was surprised every day a new
pet parent would be like, I

603
00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:28,440
didn't know that.
And I'm like, wow, we haven't

604
00:31:28,440 --> 00:31:33,320
even scratched the surface.
We are not making any moves.

605
00:31:33,480 --> 00:31:35,120
Like I'm like, I'm we're just
spinning our wheels.

606
00:31:35,200 --> 00:31:37,360
But now I think there's a like,
there's a lot of us.

607
00:31:37,360 --> 00:31:40,960
And now that there is more
access to, you know, the

608
00:31:41,120 --> 00:31:43,120
Instagrams and stuff.
So maybe it'll go a little

609
00:31:43,120 --> 00:31:44,880
faster.
But yeah, you got to think back

610
00:31:44,880 --> 00:31:47,560
when I, you know, when I say
that first chicken bone to joy,

611
00:31:48,440 --> 00:31:53,200
there was none of this like, I
had to really listen to this old

612
00:31:53,200 --> 00:31:56,000
lady.
Like I had to like take a leap

613
00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:58,280
of faith and listen to some
crazy old lady.

614
00:31:59,240 --> 00:32:02,920
It just turned out to be just
such an amazing person and, and

615
00:32:02,920 --> 00:32:04,680
we grew to be friends and, and
stuff.

616
00:32:04,680 --> 00:32:09,040
So but it's so hard.
You have to be willing to learn

617
00:32:09,040 --> 00:32:11,560
this stuff so that you can
communicate to your

618
00:32:11,560 --> 00:32:15,000
veterinarians and stop looking
for that perfect bet.

619
00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:19,840
Just learn it, do it yourself
and and have that vet that is

620
00:32:19,840 --> 00:32:23,360
willing to talk to you and
that's your better option I

621
00:32:23,360 --> 00:32:25,720
think.
Yeah, I agree.

622
00:32:25,720 --> 00:32:30,560
So obviously you're very
passionate and you do want to

623
00:32:30,560 --> 00:32:34,520
educate people.
And so a number of years ago, I

624
00:32:34,520 --> 00:32:38,360
know you started doing an event
which has recently changed a

625
00:32:38,360 --> 00:32:40,800
little bit.
But I would love for you to kind

626
00:32:40,800 --> 00:32:44,280
of go back and tell me a little
bit about why, what happened,

627
00:32:44,280 --> 00:32:49,800
what it what, what made you go
all out and put in so much time

628
00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:54,920
and energy and money into
starting Thriving pets Well.

629
00:32:55,840 --> 00:33:01,160
So, well, it's crazy.
For one, the podcast was what

630
00:33:01,320 --> 00:33:03,880
had me do that.
And and I've always had this,

631
00:33:03,920 --> 00:33:07,040
like I told you, when I decided
to change my degree from

632
00:33:07,040 --> 00:33:10,920
veterinary medicine to being a
DO F1 thing about me is I love

633
00:33:10,920 --> 00:33:13,960
to teach.
So it didn't seem so crazy to go

634
00:33:13,960 --> 00:33:17,200
from veterinary medicine into
being a debate coach.

635
00:33:17,240 --> 00:33:21,440
And I loved teaching.
So when COVID hit, right before

636
00:33:21,440 --> 00:33:25,080
COVID hit, I started this
podcast and it was called this

637
00:33:25,080 --> 00:33:28,600
podcast and I would talk on the
podcast and everything was

638
00:33:28,600 --> 00:33:32,680
great, but something was always
missing with me and I had to sit

639
00:33:32,680 --> 00:33:35,920
with myself holistically and go,
what is it that you don't like

640
00:33:35,920 --> 00:33:37,760
about the podcast because you're
teaching people?

641
00:33:38,080 --> 00:33:40,280
And it was real clear.
I mean, it was so clear to me.

642
00:33:40,280 --> 00:33:44,600
It's because I don't have that
in person connections with

643
00:33:44,600 --> 00:33:49,560
people that I crave and love.
And so I started thinking, you

644
00:33:49,560 --> 00:33:55,320
know what we need to have now in
2000 in don't quote me on us,

645
00:33:55,320 --> 00:33:58,480
but like maybe 8-9.
No, it would have been later

646
00:33:58,480 --> 00:34:01,960
than that.
Twelve, 2012, I went to the Dogs

647
00:34:01,960 --> 00:34:06,920
Naturally Expo in Chicago.
It was a 2 day, three day, four

648
00:34:06,920 --> 00:34:08,159
day event.
I don't remember.

649
00:34:08,920 --> 00:34:13,520
And that was when I met Julianne
Lee and Julianne Lee from Adored

650
00:34:13,520 --> 00:34:19,840
Beast gave a talk about the gut
microbiome and she used the

651
00:34:19,840 --> 00:34:22,320
example of the wolves in
Yellowstone, which is also

652
00:34:22,320 --> 00:34:25,360
another huge passion of mine.
I've spent time down in wolf

653
00:34:25,360 --> 00:34:28,719
dens with wolves and with wolf
excerpts and learning about what

654
00:34:28,719 --> 00:34:31,719
wolves eat because I want to see
the difference if there is one.

655
00:34:31,960 --> 00:34:35,320
And so Julianne does this speech
and I mean, I'm in tears.

656
00:34:35,360 --> 00:34:38,040
I am listening to her.
I mean, if she was selling

657
00:34:38,040 --> 00:34:40,960
kool-aid, I was going to drink
it, even though what she's

658
00:34:40,960 --> 00:34:44,880
selling is so dead on.
So after that, Julianne Lee said

659
00:34:44,880 --> 00:34:48,960
to me, I went up to Julianne Lee
after and I she said, how do I

660
00:34:48,960 --> 00:34:53,000
get you to come speak?
Everybody needs to hear you was

661
00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:55,800
kind of my thought like this is
the woman we should all be

662
00:34:55,800 --> 00:34:58,360
listening to.
She's such an amazing, beautiful

663
00:34:58,360 --> 00:35:02,400
soul and Speaker And so she said
to me, and this is I'm going to

664
00:35:02,400 --> 00:35:07,360
say this with the most love I
can for her because I don't want

665
00:35:07,360 --> 00:35:09,960
anybody to think that it was a
bad thing what she said.

666
00:35:10,520 --> 00:35:13,200
But Julianne lives in Canada and
she lives clear on the other

667
00:35:13,200 --> 00:35:15,160
side of Canada.
Like I'm on the West Coast.

668
00:35:15,160 --> 00:35:16,520
She's on the East Coast of
Canada.

669
00:35:16,520 --> 00:35:19,160
It's far.
And so I said to Julianne, and

670
00:35:19,160 --> 00:35:20,840
she probably thought I was nuts.
I said hi.

671
00:35:21,080 --> 00:35:24,640
I said, I would really like to
have you come speak to a lot of

672
00:35:24,640 --> 00:35:26,320
my clients.
I have a grooming shop, which to

673
00:35:26,320 --> 00:35:28,200
her was probably like, oh, this
little groomer once said,

674
00:35:28,200 --> 00:35:30,160
whatever.
She didn't treat me like that.

675
00:35:30,160 --> 00:35:33,760
But I said, what would it take
to get you to come speak in

676
00:35:33,760 --> 00:35:35,960
California?
And she says, well, you'd First

677
00:35:35,960 --> 00:35:40,280
off, you'd have to have at least
150 people for me to come out.

678
00:35:40,480 --> 00:35:44,800
And I remember going, oh, OK,
I'm walking away going forget

679
00:35:44,800 --> 00:35:47,160
150 people.
Like that's insane.

680
00:35:47,160 --> 00:35:50,240
But it sat with me and sat with
me for years.

681
00:35:50,240 --> 00:35:53,200
And then I did the podcast.
And then the podcast wasn't

682
00:35:53,200 --> 00:35:58,040
quite fulfilling my something
for me, like it's a very selfish

683
00:35:58,040 --> 00:36:00,520
thing.
I really wanted that in person

684
00:36:00,520 --> 00:36:02,640
connection with people.
And then Julianne and then

685
00:36:02,640 --> 00:36:04,800
finally I just said to myself,
I'm going to do this.

686
00:36:04,800 --> 00:36:06,920
I don't know how I'm going to do
it, but I'm a figure the shit

687
00:36:06,920 --> 00:36:08,720
out.
And so I guess I could skip

688
00:36:08,720 --> 00:36:11,840
blame Julianne Lee.
Like I just wanted her to come

689
00:36:11,840 --> 00:36:15,200
speak to all of these clients
that I've gathered over the

690
00:36:15,200 --> 00:36:17,120
years.
And I knew they needed to hear

691
00:36:17,120 --> 00:36:19,120
her.
I knew they needed to listen to

692
00:36:19,120 --> 00:36:21,440
someone other than me talking
about because all the vets in my

693
00:36:21,440 --> 00:36:26,280
area were, you know, folistic.
And so I was spinning my wheels

694
00:36:26,280 --> 00:36:29,960
here and the podcast wasn't
quite doing it for me.

695
00:36:29,960 --> 00:36:32,920
And, and so I called Julianne
and they said I'm going to do

696
00:36:32,920 --> 00:36:34,880
it.
I swear I'll get 150 people

697
00:36:34,880 --> 00:36:35,640
there.
I'll do it.

698
00:36:35,640 --> 00:36:37,760
I'll do it.
And so that was scary.

699
00:36:38,040 --> 00:36:40,840
I'm telling you, I was scared
out of my mind.

700
00:36:40,920 --> 00:36:44,840
But now I needed more speakers.
So then I called Doctor Judy

701
00:36:44,840 --> 00:36:48,480
Morgan, and she hadn't been out
on the road speaking in a very

702
00:36:48,480 --> 00:36:52,040
long time because COVID.
And we were the first speaking

703
00:36:52,040 --> 00:36:55,440
engagement for almost everybody
because everybody was afraid to

704
00:36:55,440 --> 00:36:58,800
come out because we were still
kind of in the early stages of

705
00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:02,520
coming out of COVID.
And so I remember Doctor Morgan

706
00:37:02,520 --> 00:37:06,680
saying, I don't know.
And then we had a hard time

707
00:37:06,680 --> 00:37:08,240
getting people in there because
of COVID.

708
00:37:08,240 --> 00:37:10,520
People were still kind of on
edge.

709
00:37:10,640 --> 00:37:14,800
And so, but we did it the one
day event and we had I think 5

710
00:37:14,800 --> 00:37:16,560
speakers and they were just
amazing.

711
00:37:16,560 --> 00:37:18,920
And thank God they were all
available because nobody had

712
00:37:18,920 --> 00:37:20,960
been doing anything.
And so we did it.

713
00:37:20,960 --> 00:37:24,400
It was rough.
It was so scary and it was so

714
00:37:24,400 --> 00:37:26,640
rough.
And yes, a lot of money that was

715
00:37:26,720 --> 00:37:28,920
that was put into it.
But we don't talk about that

716
00:37:28,920 --> 00:37:31,160
with my husband.
That's one thing I don't do.

717
00:37:31,280 --> 00:37:32,800
I ever tell him.
He still do.

718
00:37:32,800 --> 00:37:34,600
The state doesn't know.
And then that's so funny.

719
00:37:35,520 --> 00:37:37,920
I'll never tell him.
He asks me all the time.

720
00:37:37,920 --> 00:37:39,880
Like when it gets brought up,
I'm like, I told you, I'm never

721
00:37:39,880 --> 00:37:41,840
telling you.
I just never going to tell you.

722
00:37:42,520 --> 00:37:45,560
And then I decided to do a 2
day.

723
00:37:45,560 --> 00:37:48,800
I was like, this was so
fabulous.

724
00:37:48,800 --> 00:37:52,560
Let's do a 2 day, right?
And so we did a 2 day event, but

725
00:37:52,560 --> 00:37:56,120
I learned a lot from that.
And which is why the third one,

726
00:37:56,120 --> 00:37:57,360
like you said, is much
different.

727
00:37:58,400 --> 00:38:02,720
The reason why is because it's,
there's, there's, there's two

728
00:38:02,720 --> 00:38:06,000
different types of people that
we're talking to, right?

729
00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:08,840
So there's and both are equally
important.

730
00:38:08,840 --> 00:38:13,760
I can't stress that enough.
So there is a convention that

731
00:38:13,960 --> 00:38:17,560
can be built around educating
people like you and I, where we

732
00:38:17,560 --> 00:38:21,280
go and we can sit and I, I could
listen to Doctor Judy Morgan

733
00:38:21,280 --> 00:38:25,760
speak for hours, like, and hours
and hours and hours.

734
00:38:25,760 --> 00:38:28,960
And I would like, yeah, like I
can listen to Julianne.

735
00:38:28,960 --> 00:38:31,960
I can listen to all of them.
I can listen to Rita Hogan.

736
00:38:31,960 --> 00:38:33,200
I can listen to all of them for
a long time.

737
00:38:34,320 --> 00:38:39,880
But what I was noticing in those
rooms was that the average pet

738
00:38:39,880 --> 00:38:43,200
parent who I managed to get
there, which, you know, they

739
00:38:43,200 --> 00:38:45,680
were like, I'm going to go
listen to lectures all day.

740
00:38:45,760 --> 00:38:48,560
And I thought, oh, but once they
hear these guys speak, they're

741
00:38:48,560 --> 00:38:52,120
going to be in it, you know.
But when I looked around the

742
00:38:52,120 --> 00:38:54,840
room, I would notice them.
It was too much.

743
00:38:54,880 --> 00:38:57,920
It was, it was a little too.
And even though they're great

744
00:38:57,920 --> 00:39:00,320
speakers and it's not like
anybody was speaking over their

745
00:39:00,320 --> 00:39:03,320
head.
It's just for them, they're not

746
00:39:03,320 --> 00:39:06,080
going to use that information
back into their daily lives for

747
00:39:06,080 --> 00:39:08,360
their careers like you and I
have decided to do.

748
00:39:08,360 --> 00:39:11,600
So I think it was a little much.
So I went back to my forensics

749
00:39:11,600 --> 00:39:16,200
days, back to my debating days
and my competitive days.

750
00:39:16,200 --> 00:39:20,000
And, and I got a hold of my old
speech coach and we used to do

751
00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:23,600
these educational theater pieces
that are called Readers Theater

752
00:39:23,600 --> 00:39:26,640
and they were very competitive
and but they are designed to

753
00:39:26,640 --> 00:39:30,880
teach through theater.
And so, and if you had been to

754
00:39:30,880 --> 00:39:34,760
the second one, the second
driving Pet Expo that I did, I

755
00:39:34,760 --> 00:39:37,480
got Jay and Adrian, the two
crazy cat ladies, and I got

756
00:39:37,480 --> 00:39:41,400
Doctor Katie Woodley to do these
little skits for me.

757
00:39:41,720 --> 00:39:44,840
And they were skits that would
teach people how to communicate

758
00:39:44,840 --> 00:39:47,960
to their veterinarians.
And so when you found yourself

759
00:39:48,160 --> 00:39:50,640
with the veterinarian who is
saying raw dye, it's going to

760
00:39:50,640 --> 00:39:53,320
kill your dog, like your dog's
going to die.

761
00:39:54,000 --> 00:39:57,400
Jay and Adrian played the role
of the pet parents and Doctor

762
00:39:57,400 --> 00:40:00,080
Woodley paid the role of the
both the convent corps.

763
00:40:00,080 --> 00:40:03,480
Doctor Woodley, it was so hard
for her to play the role of a

764
00:40:03,480 --> 00:40:05,560
conventional vet.
Like when we would do the

765
00:40:05,560 --> 00:40:07,800
practices, I had to keep telling
her, no, right now you're the

766
00:40:07,800 --> 00:40:10,400
conventional vet.
And she's like, oh, yeah, that's

767
00:40:10,400 --> 00:40:12,280
right.
It's going to kill your dog.

768
00:40:12,280 --> 00:40:15,040
Salmonella.
She would try to play that role.

769
00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:19,120
And so we did these skits.
But what nobody knew is that

770
00:40:19,120 --> 00:40:25,000
those skits were my planting.
An idea to see if what I wanted

771
00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:26,840
to do in the big was going to
work.

772
00:40:27,200 --> 00:40:31,520
Would people be responsive to
theater for education instead of

773
00:40:31,520 --> 00:40:34,360
lecture?
And so Jay and Adrian and Doctor

774
00:40:34,360 --> 00:40:37,000
Woodley did those.
I think they did four, maybe

775
00:40:37,080 --> 00:40:38,720
five.
I think they did 5 skits

776
00:40:38,720 --> 00:40:43,160
throughout that weekend.
I got the most feedback from pet

777
00:40:43,160 --> 00:40:46,520
parents.
I still to this day have pet

778
00:40:46,520 --> 00:40:49,600
parents tell me, Oh, my God,
Carrie, I was at the vet and

779
00:40:49,600 --> 00:40:52,080
remember that skit that the
girls did, They always call them

780
00:40:52,080 --> 00:40:55,440
the girls, those ladies or those
girls did the one about the

781
00:40:55,640 --> 00:41:00,200
making sure that if your dog, if
your cat has blood in the urine,

782
00:41:00,200 --> 00:41:03,520
that you get a sample and before
you put the antibiotic.

783
00:41:03,520 --> 00:41:05,760
And I'm like, yeah.
And then they'll be like my cat.

784
00:41:05,840 --> 00:41:07,760
I took my cat in and I made him
get a thing.

785
00:41:07,760 --> 00:41:09,760
And it turns out it's not a
bladder infection.

786
00:41:09,760 --> 00:41:11,360
It's cystitis, like you guys
said.

787
00:41:11,360 --> 00:41:12,760
And so I didn't get the
antibiotic.

788
00:41:12,880 --> 00:41:14,480
And it was all because of their
skits.

789
00:41:14,480 --> 00:41:17,200
So once I started getting the
feedback on those skits, I was

790
00:41:17,200 --> 00:41:23,160
like, Yep, this is what we need.
Pet parents need theater, more

791
00:41:23,840 --> 00:41:28,640
entertainment to learn and so I
reached out to my my friends and

792
00:41:28,720 --> 00:41:32,080
one of my friends is a
award-winning writer and

793
00:41:32,080 --> 00:41:35,840
director and his name is Mark
Obanesi and Liesl Reinhardt.

794
00:41:35,840 --> 00:41:39,320
Both are just fabulous writers.
And I told him all of the

795
00:41:39,320 --> 00:41:42,400
problems.
And then for months I would send

796
00:41:42,400 --> 00:41:44,960
them literature and I would send
them true stories.

797
00:41:44,960 --> 00:41:47,600
That's the thing about Dog Eat
Dog, which is what came out of

798
00:41:47,600 --> 00:41:49,200
that was a play called Dog Eat
Dog.

799
00:41:49,280 --> 00:41:52,680
And I would send them stories
that were factual stories.

800
00:41:52,680 --> 00:41:55,840
And I said, I want everything to
be true stories.

801
00:41:55,840 --> 00:41:58,120
All of the facts need to be in
there, everything.

802
00:41:58,120 --> 00:42:01,400
And so we hammered at that for
for a long time.

803
00:42:01,400 --> 00:42:05,080
And then I called Jay and Adrian
and I said, I have this crazy

804
00:42:05,080 --> 00:42:07,840
idea.
Will you let me in the short

805
00:42:08,040 --> 00:42:12,640
version, beginning stages, let
me put it out in front of pet

806
00:42:12,880 --> 00:42:16,200
people like yourself and people
who kind of know the industry,

807
00:42:16,200 --> 00:42:18,240
They jumped at it, which was
really crazy.

808
00:42:18,240 --> 00:42:23,080
And they let me do it in Vegas.
And so now it's, we want to take

809
00:42:23,080 --> 00:42:25,160
it on the road.
We, we really think that people

810
00:42:25,160 --> 00:42:27,640
can learn that way.
But it has, it has really grown.

811
00:42:27,640 --> 00:42:32,640
It has two ideas. 2 main focuses
for me are one, and probably I

812
00:42:32,640 --> 00:42:35,840
don't want to say most
important, but what I think is

813
00:42:35,840 --> 00:42:40,280
the most reality, I have to be
realistic with myself of what

814
00:42:40,280 --> 00:42:42,800
changes I can make.
Realistically speaking.

815
00:42:42,800 --> 00:42:45,920
I know that this play will be
the most incredible way to

816
00:42:46,000 --> 00:42:50,000
educate pet parents and just
bring awareness to the problems.

817
00:42:50,040 --> 00:42:53,440
So I know that will happen in
the long term and maybe a little

818
00:42:53,440 --> 00:42:56,480
unrealistic of me, but a big
hope of mine before I die is

819
00:42:56,480 --> 00:42:59,600
that we change the laws that
pets are considered property.

820
00:42:59,960 --> 00:43:02,520
Because in the big grand scheme
of things, I think that's the

821
00:43:02,520 --> 00:43:05,920
whole problem with all of the
stuff we fight, is that our pets

822
00:43:05,920 --> 00:43:08,600
are still considered property.
And so hopefully we can raise

823
00:43:08,600 --> 00:43:10,480
some money and get that law
changed.

824
00:43:10,480 --> 00:43:14,240
But right now, the Thriving Pet
Expo will always have dog eat

825
00:43:14,240 --> 00:43:18,480
dog the play at our Expo less
lecture.

826
00:43:18,480 --> 00:43:22,000
This Expo that we're having
right now is we have one lecture

827
00:43:22,080 --> 00:43:25,000
by Doctor Deborah Volgaris, who
nobody knows who she is.

828
00:43:25,000 --> 00:43:26,760
I'm kind of going to be
introducing her.

829
00:43:26,760 --> 00:43:29,280
She's amazing.
Then Doctor Rob Silver is

830
00:43:29,280 --> 00:43:31,680
actually just going to be
sharing some stories because his

831
00:43:31,680 --> 00:43:33,760
story follows the story of
Doctor Quigley.

832
00:43:34,320 --> 00:43:37,320
If you remember Doctor Quigley
in the play, Doctor Silver's

833
00:43:37,320 --> 00:43:39,160
story is very similar to Doctor
Quigley.

834
00:43:39,160 --> 00:43:41,120
So he's going to kind of share
his story after that.

835
00:43:41,200 --> 00:43:43,240
And then the other thing about
the Thriving Pet Expo that I

836
00:43:43,240 --> 00:43:46,440
wanted to do differently, that's
really important to me is that

837
00:43:47,160 --> 00:43:51,240
because for years and years and
years and years, I would hear

838
00:43:51,560 --> 00:43:54,200
you're not a vet, you don't know
what you're talking about.

839
00:43:55,160 --> 00:43:58,600
It was really important to me.
It still is and always will be,

840
00:43:58,600 --> 00:44:01,960
is that the people like
yourself, for example, that are

841
00:44:01,960 --> 00:44:07,680
inundated every single day and
passionate and care and are

842
00:44:07,680 --> 00:44:11,840
putting the time and the energy
and frankly the money and the

843
00:44:11,840 --> 00:44:14,480
resources and staying away from
their families.

844
00:44:14,480 --> 00:44:18,040
It's important to me that people
realize that you guys are out

845
00:44:18,040 --> 00:44:20,640
there.
And so at the Thriving Pet Expo,

846
00:44:21,120 --> 00:44:24,600
I wanted to have these pet
experts have a voice as well.

847
00:44:24,600 --> 00:44:28,680
I didn't want the Expo to be all
about the, the, the

848
00:44:28,680 --> 00:44:32,000
veterinarians who I think are
important too, but we have to

849
00:44:32,000 --> 00:44:33,960
rely on each other.
And so I really wanted to

850
00:44:33,960 --> 00:44:38,600
highlight pet experts who have a
voice.

851
00:44:38,640 --> 00:44:41,480
And it's an important voice and
it's one that I want to help

852
00:44:42,000 --> 00:44:43,800
build.
And you look at some, you look

853
00:44:43,800 --> 00:44:48,000
at people like Jay and Adrian
and they, they had to fight to

854
00:44:48,000 --> 00:44:51,360
get where they are.
And we all have.

855
00:44:51,400 --> 00:44:54,120
And I just don't think we should
have to fight so hard to be

856
00:44:54,120 --> 00:44:56,640
considered valuable information
that's coming from us.

857
00:44:56,640 --> 00:45:00,200
I just, it bothers me that it
takes that long for somebody to

858
00:45:00,200 --> 00:45:02,360
listen to us without that
veterinarian degree.

859
00:45:03,520 --> 00:45:06,160
So that's now driving Pet Expo.
Sorry, I could go on for.

860
00:45:07,000 --> 00:45:10,960
No, no, I love it.
I, I, I'm very excited about it

861
00:45:10,960 --> 00:45:13,920
because it is one of the things,
and I think that's something

862
00:45:13,920 --> 00:45:16,800
that social media has taught us,
You know, there's good and bad,

863
00:45:16,920 --> 00:45:22,560
right, with, with social media,
but it has taught us that people

864
00:45:22,560 --> 00:45:29,000
really do value entertainment
and that if you can blend a

865
00:45:29,000 --> 00:45:33,600
message, like a really important
message in entertainment, that

866
00:45:33,600 --> 00:45:37,040
you can get that message out to
a lot more people.

867
00:45:37,160 --> 00:45:41,240
You know, I mean, it makes me
think of, you know, Hollywood

868
00:45:41,240 --> 00:45:46,000
and, and our, you know, movies
and TV shows and how like they,

869
00:45:46,160 --> 00:45:48,280
and I think we've been seeing
this in the past couple of

870
00:45:48,280 --> 00:45:53,200
years, how much they control the
narrative and because it's

871
00:45:53,200 --> 00:45:55,960
entertainment.
And so I love that idea.

872
00:45:55,960 --> 00:46:00,360
And I did, I did get to see the
part of the play that you had,

873
00:46:00,720 --> 00:46:04,440
you know, Jay and Adrian allowed
you to, to put on in Vegas last

874
00:46:04,440 --> 00:46:07,160
year.
And it was so emotional.

875
00:46:07,160 --> 00:46:09,800
I'm, I'm an overly emotional
person.

876
00:46:09,800 --> 00:46:13,200
Like literally, I don't know how
many times a day I stop myself

877
00:46:13,200 --> 00:46:16,120
from crying.
But it, it's, it's emotional.

878
00:46:16,120 --> 00:46:19,400
And I, but that's what it takes,
I think, to get through to

879
00:46:19,400 --> 00:46:23,680
people who, as we were talking
about earlier, maybe haven't

880
00:46:23,680 --> 00:46:29,160
been through that trauma yet,
because the, the whole goal in

881
00:46:29,160 --> 00:46:34,160
all of this is prevention is
being proactive.

882
00:46:34,160 --> 00:46:37,720
And so once you get to that
point of your pet has gone

883
00:46:37,720 --> 00:46:41,120
through some sort of trauma, you
always have that regret, right?

884
00:46:41,120 --> 00:46:46,520
So being able to get to people
in a way where they didn't

885
00:46:46,520 --> 00:46:49,280
necessarily have to go through
the trauma, their pet didn't

886
00:46:49,280 --> 00:46:52,840
have to go through the trauma,
but they still felt the emotion

887
00:46:52,840 --> 00:46:55,880
that sparked that interest and
change.

888
00:46:55,880 --> 00:46:58,560
That's pretty incredible to me,
so.

889
00:46:58,560 --> 00:47:04,200
We we felt really bad after the
Vegas showing because there was

890
00:47:04,200 --> 00:47:07,360
still some writing going on for
that play and some things that

891
00:47:07,360 --> 00:47:10,200
we were working on.
We did have to condense it down.

892
00:47:10,240 --> 00:47:13,360
And so we had to really make
these tough decisions like, what

893
00:47:13,360 --> 00:47:15,680
do we keep right now?
What do we not keep right?

894
00:47:15,760 --> 00:47:18,080
What are we going to do to keep
this as short as we can?

895
00:47:18,080 --> 00:47:21,560
And so when it was over, said
Marco, who's one of the writers.

896
00:47:21,560 --> 00:47:25,920
And I said, OK, when we do this
and we need to get the comedy

897
00:47:25,920 --> 00:47:29,800
back, like people are bawling
like this was not the intent.

898
00:47:29,880 --> 00:47:31,680
But there is also some really
heavy.

899
00:47:31,680 --> 00:47:35,640
So back in my my speech and
debate years, one of the things

900
00:47:35,640 --> 00:47:38,640
I learned, I did a lot of
persuasive speaking and I

901
00:47:38,640 --> 00:47:42,600
competed heavily for years.
I competed like I was such a

902
00:47:42,880 --> 00:47:44,800
competitive person, like I
whatever.

903
00:47:44,880 --> 00:47:49,720
But one of the things I learned
very early on is that when you

904
00:47:49,720 --> 00:47:53,440
can have two emotions that are
so different, right?

905
00:47:53,440 --> 00:47:57,680
So you have laughter and you
have emotional crying when you

906
00:47:57,680 --> 00:48:00,480
put those two things in a short
window.

907
00:48:00,480 --> 00:48:03,280
So if you can make someone laugh
and then make them cry and then

908
00:48:03,280 --> 00:48:08,080
make them laugh, there's they,
they bring down all of their,

909
00:48:08,080 --> 00:48:10,760
everything changes in there in
that moment, right?

910
00:48:10,760 --> 00:48:13,720
And so they're well open because
they've already broke down all

911
00:48:13,720 --> 00:48:15,240
their walls.
You've broke down their walls

912
00:48:15,240 --> 00:48:17,960
because people don't want to
laugh in front of people too

913
00:48:17,960 --> 00:48:20,840
much and they don't want to cry.
But if they're laughing and

914
00:48:20,840 --> 00:48:24,240
crying in public, then they're
going to be open to the idea of

915
00:48:24,240 --> 00:48:27,240
change.
And so that's what that play is

916
00:48:27,240 --> 00:48:31,280
designed to do is to inspire you
to make change.

917
00:48:31,520 --> 00:48:34,400
Where that change lies is
individual for everybody,

918
00:48:34,400 --> 00:48:38,160
because I don't know where
people need to know to change in

919
00:48:38,160 --> 00:48:41,280
what they do.
But that is what that play is

920
00:48:41,280 --> 00:48:42,960
about.
And it's all true stories, which

921
00:48:42,960 --> 00:48:46,920
makes it really, really hard.
It touches on some very, very

922
00:48:46,920 --> 00:48:51,560
tough subjects like veterinary
suicide and the takeover.

923
00:48:51,560 --> 00:48:55,240
It's called dog eat dog.
So the main thing and people

924
00:48:55,240 --> 00:48:58,080
don't realize like sometimes
people are like, So what?

925
00:48:58,080 --> 00:49:00,720
Corporations are taking over a
little whatever, as long as I

926
00:49:00,720 --> 00:49:03,280
can still bring my pet.
But what they don't really

927
00:49:03,280 --> 00:49:06,120
realize is that when
corporations started taking over

928
00:49:06,120 --> 00:49:10,480
small mom and pop veterinary
hospitals, they drove the prices

929
00:49:10,480 --> 00:49:14,400
up for everybody because they
started increasing the prices.

930
00:49:14,400 --> 00:49:16,840
And then drug companies were
like, wow, their, their profit

931
00:49:16,840 --> 00:49:19,160
margin is huge.
We can increase our prices.

932
00:49:19,240 --> 00:49:23,120
And so now that small mom and
pet pop vet has to buy that drug

933
00:49:23,120 --> 00:49:26,680
for a higher price also.
And meanwhile, that money from

934
00:49:26,680 --> 00:49:30,000
that corporation is going to,
yes, the veterinarian, the vet

935
00:49:30,000 --> 00:49:32,480
tech, the receptionist, the
kennel attendant and maybe the

936
00:49:32,480 --> 00:49:35,360
groomer is getting some of it,
but some of that money is also

937
00:49:35,360 --> 00:49:39,120
going to the CEO who's got
private jets, which then is why

938
00:49:39,120 --> 00:49:42,600
the prices got driven up.
And so when I talk about the

939
00:49:42,600 --> 00:49:46,760
importance of really
understanding how you personally

940
00:49:46,760 --> 00:49:49,720
are affected by the, by the
corporations taking over these

941
00:49:49,720 --> 00:49:53,360
small veterinary hospitals, I
mean it in so many ways that you

942
00:49:53,360 --> 00:49:56,000
don't see and you don't realize
are happening.

943
00:49:56,040 --> 00:49:59,720
And it's crazy to me.
Like I just, we just added a

944
00:49:59,720 --> 00:50:03,320
veterinarian into the spa, which
I'm so proud of and have wanted

945
00:50:03,320 --> 00:50:06,160
to do that for so long.
And, and so we just brought in a

946
00:50:06,160 --> 00:50:08,120
vet.
And so it's been so many years

947
00:50:08,120 --> 00:50:12,720
since I worked at the vet field.
I had no idea the cost cost of

948
00:50:12,720 --> 00:50:15,600
these medications at this point.
And I so I'm going through

949
00:50:15,600 --> 00:50:18,480
because we're trying to be low
cost, low cost holistic

950
00:50:18,480 --> 00:50:20,960
veterinary medicine is what I'm
trying to do because I want it

951
00:50:20,960 --> 00:50:23,560
to be available to more people.
But I'm looking at this and I'm

952
00:50:23,560 --> 00:50:28,320
like, even if I never even
marked this up a penny, my God,

953
00:50:28,560 --> 00:50:30,160
right?
Like this is so expensive.

954
00:50:30,280 --> 00:50:33,960
And I do blame the big
corporations for driving those

955
00:50:33,960 --> 00:50:36,240
costs up.
And so right now I'm at the

956
00:50:36,240 --> 00:50:39,360
point where I tell people, if
you can avoid going to a

957
00:50:39,360 --> 00:50:44,200
corporation, please support your
small little independent

958
00:50:44,720 --> 00:50:49,240
veterinarian hospitals because
it's, and it's not just that.

959
00:50:49,280 --> 00:50:52,800
Like if you remember following
the story of the veterinarian,

960
00:50:52,800 --> 00:50:55,880
her name's Doctor Amelia, she
commits suicide.

961
00:50:55,880 --> 00:50:58,800
That's a true story as a
absolute true story.

962
00:51:00,120 --> 00:51:02,000
She committed suicide.
She was working for a big

963
00:51:02,000 --> 00:51:05,880
corporation and they were
forcing her to do things that

964
00:51:05,880 --> 00:51:09,120
were profit driven and not for
the love of animals.

965
00:51:09,120 --> 00:51:13,000
In overtime, the the compassion
overload just kind of took her

966
00:51:13,000 --> 00:51:15,240
over.
And I'm sure I'm not going to

967
00:51:15,240 --> 00:51:18,840
blame it all on that because
obviously there's probably was

968
00:51:18,840 --> 00:51:22,840
other things going on, but that
certainly was a driving force

969
00:51:22,840 --> 00:51:26,720
according to her mom, is that it
was a driving sitting behind her

970
00:51:26,720 --> 00:51:29,040
suicide.
And so when you look at that,

971
00:51:29,280 --> 00:51:32,200
it's not just about, oh, the big
mean corporation and they're

972
00:51:32,200 --> 00:51:34,520
making all the money.
It's about the people, It's

973
00:51:34,520 --> 00:51:37,720
about the, the vets and the vet
tax that work there.

974
00:51:37,720 --> 00:51:40,240
It's about the panel Lieutenant.
It's about the pet owner.

975
00:51:40,240 --> 00:51:42,840
And ultimately it's about the
pet and the care that they're

976
00:51:42,840 --> 00:51:45,240
getting.
And so so it's a it's a, it's,

977
00:51:45,240 --> 00:51:48,280
it's hard because we have to
tackle those really hard, hard

978
00:51:48,280 --> 00:51:51,080
things.
So how do you make that be also

979
00:51:51,080 --> 00:51:53,560
funny and entertaining and light
hearted?

980
00:51:53,920 --> 00:51:55,200
It's really hard.
It makes me think like

981
00:51:55,200 --> 00:51:57,760
Schindler's List, right?
That's all true stuff.

982
00:51:57,760 --> 00:52:00,120
I don't think they could really
add some comedy in there.

983
00:52:00,120 --> 00:52:02,960
It's really difficult.
So but we managed to do it.

984
00:52:02,960 --> 00:52:05,480
The writers are that's the good
thing when you're dealing with

985
00:52:05,480 --> 00:52:10,680
animals like the driving pet
Expo has live animals in it and

986
00:52:10,680 --> 00:52:12,000
those are things you didn't get
to see.

987
00:52:12,000 --> 00:52:14,040
And so and has some live
animals.

988
00:52:14,040 --> 00:52:16,200
And of course that can always
bring some fun and humor,

989
00:52:16,200 --> 00:52:18,520
especially because live animals
get to do whatever they want.

990
00:52:18,520 --> 00:52:20,880
So every, every play will be
different.

991
00:52:20,880 --> 00:52:23,680
Every time you see dog eat dog
will be different because who

992
00:52:23,680 --> 00:52:25,760
knows what the animals decide to
do.

993
00:52:25,800 --> 00:52:27,280
It's live, you don't get to
choose.

994
00:52:27,280 --> 00:52:29,440
So we'll have and it's it's
really interactive.

995
00:52:29,440 --> 00:52:32,360
So the audience gets to engage
in it, which you didn't get to

996
00:52:32,360 --> 00:52:35,360
see that part of it, but there's
parts where the audience is

997
00:52:35,360 --> 00:52:39,280
really involved in deciding
where things go, like because

998
00:52:39,320 --> 00:52:42,960
we're talking a lot about
changing the laws and making it

999
00:52:42,960 --> 00:52:45,040
so that pets aren't considered
property anymore.

1000
00:52:45,080 --> 00:52:47,680
We have a court case which you
didn't see this part of it, but

1001
00:52:47,680 --> 00:52:50,240
it's a true court case.
I was actually the one of the

1002
00:52:50,240 --> 00:52:53,560
expert witnesses in this case
and it was about a cat who died

1003
00:52:53,560 --> 00:52:57,360
in a mobile grooming van.
And in court, open court, the

1004
00:52:57,360 --> 00:53:01,560
owner of the mobile grooming ban
stated that he didn't have to

1005
00:53:01,560 --> 00:53:04,160
pay anything because she found
the cat two years ago.

1006
00:53:04,160 --> 00:53:08,400
And he quoted the law, which he
was correct.

1007
00:53:08,400 --> 00:53:10,560
Like, I can't, like I would
never do that.

1008
00:53:10,560 --> 00:53:12,040
Like I don't think I could ever
say that.

1009
00:53:12,040 --> 00:53:15,120
But he quoted the law and he
said, according to the law, you

1010
00:53:15,120 --> 00:53:16,840
know, this cat is considered
property.

1011
00:53:16,840 --> 00:53:19,400
She found him two years ago.
So I don't owe anything.

1012
00:53:19,400 --> 00:53:23,520
And he won on that basis.
And so we put in a Judge Judy

1013
00:53:23,520 --> 00:53:26,240
case and that's all true.
And so, and that's kind of

1014
00:53:26,240 --> 00:53:28,760
interesting.
And even though it's intense,

1015
00:53:28,760 --> 00:53:31,800
it's also kind of fun because
music and all sorts of stuff

1016
00:53:31,800 --> 00:53:33,880
that goes in it.
So, so ultimately we need to

1017
00:53:33,880 --> 00:53:35,720
change that law.
It has to change.

1018
00:53:36,920 --> 00:53:40,880
Well, and I want to be aware of
your time because I appreciate

1019
00:53:40,880 --> 00:53:43,880
it so much.
But I'm glad you brought up the

1020
00:53:43,880 --> 00:53:46,040
property thing again because I
did want to touch on it.

1021
00:53:46,040 --> 00:53:53,000
I recently did a real that where
I was talking about informed

1022
00:53:53,000 --> 00:54:00,520
consent and how I personally
feel that while it's horrendous

1023
00:54:00,520 --> 00:54:03,880
and human medicine, it's even
worse than veterinary medicine.

1024
00:54:04,320 --> 00:54:08,160
And I think part of that is
because the veterinarians,

1025
00:54:08,160 --> 00:54:12,160
generally speaking, most
veterinarians go into their

1026
00:54:12,160 --> 00:54:14,240
field because they actually care
about animals, right?

1027
00:54:14,240 --> 00:54:17,080
So they're not, they're not
intentionally trying to harm

1028
00:54:17,080 --> 00:54:19,760
anyone's animal.
There's so many factors that

1029
00:54:19,760 --> 00:54:22,600
I've talked about so many times
on many podcasts.

1030
00:54:22,600 --> 00:54:27,040
But you know, I don't unless I'm
getting a prescription for any,

1031
00:54:27,040 --> 00:54:29,840
which I rarely do anymore.
But I mean, unless I'm getting a

1032
00:54:29,840 --> 00:54:33,400
prescription from a pharmacy,
compounding pharmacy, wherever,

1033
00:54:33,400 --> 00:54:36,560
if I'm getting something from my
veterinarian, I don't get the

1034
00:54:36,560 --> 00:54:40,000
package inserts right.
I don't know anything about this

1035
00:54:40,000 --> 00:54:42,920
medication unless I look it up
online myself.

1036
00:54:42,920 --> 00:54:47,360
And that in itself at least a
human is getting a packet, the

1037
00:54:47,360 --> 00:54:49,520
package insert with whatever
drug they're getting.

1038
00:54:49,520 --> 00:54:53,840
And so I, I, I feel very
strongly, especially in the

1039
00:54:53,840 --> 00:54:58,840
pharmaceutical part, part of it,
that there is no, I mean hardly

1040
00:54:58,840 --> 00:55:02,280
any informed consent on drugs
that we're giving our pets.

1041
00:55:02,280 --> 00:55:07,280
And as you said, there's so many
more things that these laws,

1042
00:55:08,160 --> 00:55:12,120
they just don't give people any.
I've brought.

1043
00:55:12,200 --> 00:55:14,800
Them to walk on.
I've brought that up with vets

1044
00:55:14,800 --> 00:55:17,960
in the past where I've said, you
know, why are like, if I go,

1045
00:55:17,960 --> 00:55:21,560
like to your point, if I go to
the, if I go to Walgreens and

1046
00:55:21,560 --> 00:55:25,920
get prescription for something,
I get a bag and in my bag has

1047
00:55:25,920 --> 00:55:28,960
the insert and I get all the
information about this drug that

1048
00:55:28,960 --> 00:55:30,880
I'm taking.
So I can go home and I can open

1049
00:55:30,880 --> 00:55:32,920
it up and I can look at it and
then I can make a decision

1050
00:55:32,920 --> 00:55:34,680
whether I want to actually give
this drug or not.

1051
00:55:35,040 --> 00:55:40,560
Granted, I could Google it too,
but why don't our animals get

1052
00:55:40,560 --> 00:55:42,320
that?
And I have actually had

1053
00:55:42,320 --> 00:55:45,200
veterinarians respond back to me
with, well, we don't want to

1054
00:55:45,200 --> 00:55:48,640
freak people out.
And I'm like, you've got to be

1055
00:55:48,640 --> 00:55:51,160
kidding me.
You've got to be kidding me.

1056
00:55:51,560 --> 00:55:54,360
But here's the other problem.
Drug companies only give the

1057
00:55:54,360 --> 00:56:00,200
vets one insert.
So when when we get like the vet

1058
00:56:00,200 --> 00:56:01,920
that I just hired is very
holistic.

1059
00:56:01,960 --> 00:56:05,360
And there's a drug that I do
like to use called temeral pee.

1060
00:56:05,440 --> 00:56:08,360
And we use it for extreme cases
of allergies when we're

1061
00:56:08,360 --> 00:56:10,920
transitioning them onto better
foods and trying to work with

1062
00:56:10,920 --> 00:56:12,520
them.
But in if we have a dog that's

1063
00:56:12,520 --> 00:56:15,880
self mutilating and it's just
back to the point about stress,

1064
00:56:15,880 --> 00:56:17,480
right?
This dog's under so much stress

1065
00:56:17,480 --> 00:56:19,800
because he's so uncomfortable.
I can't feel the body.

1066
00:56:19,800 --> 00:56:21,160
So I need to bring the stress
down.

1067
00:56:21,560 --> 00:56:24,680
So Temporal P we, you know, had
to buy a whole big bottle of it

1068
00:56:24,680 --> 00:56:28,880
and it came with one insert.
The vet finds some value in

1069
00:56:29,040 --> 00:56:31,800
copying that, which we are
making sure that everybody is

1070
00:56:31,800 --> 00:56:33,040
going to be getting these
inserts.

1071
00:56:33,040 --> 00:56:35,880
That's just, you know, they have
to take that extra step to

1072
00:56:35,880 --> 00:56:39,000
understand the importance of
doing that and pet parents need

1073
00:56:39,000 --> 00:56:43,280
to ask for it, you know, because
I recently had a veterinarian

1074
00:56:43,280 --> 00:56:46,600
tell me that my dog had
arthritis, which she doesn't and

1075
00:56:46,760 --> 00:56:48,720
didn't and had no symptoms of
arthritis.

1076
00:56:48,720 --> 00:56:50,400
So I still don't know why she
said he had arthritis.

1077
00:56:50,520 --> 00:56:53,920
She was a new vet in town.
To be fair, I might have been a

1078
00:56:53,920 --> 00:56:56,440
little not totally truthful with
her.

1079
00:56:56,440 --> 00:56:58,680
She has a new vet in town and I
wanted to check her out.

1080
00:56:58,680 --> 00:57:02,000
So I brought my dog in to do
like a senior Wellness thing or

1081
00:57:02,000 --> 00:57:04,320
whatever, you know, and there
wasn't anything wrong with him.

1082
00:57:04,320 --> 00:57:05,600
I just said, oh, I want to make
appointment.

1083
00:57:05,600 --> 00:57:07,720
So I went over there and she did
her exam and she's like, oh, he

1084
00:57:07,720 --> 00:57:11,840
has arthritis and she wanted me
to take a drug for his arthritis

1085
00:57:11,840 --> 00:57:13,920
that he'd have to go back and
get these shots and whatever.

1086
00:57:14,440 --> 00:57:17,720
And I said to her, are there any
side effects to this?

1087
00:57:17,720 --> 00:57:20,440
And her response was all drugs
have side effects.

1088
00:57:20,760 --> 00:57:23,920
I said no, I agree, but is there
anything I should be aware of or

1089
00:57:23,920 --> 00:57:27,440
things I would look for?
And she says, you know, I'm not

1090
00:57:27,440 --> 00:57:29,480
really, I haven't really
experienced any side effects,

1091
00:57:29,480 --> 00:57:33,040
but they all have some which was
code for I have no freaking

1092
00:57:33,040 --> 00:57:34,560
idea.
The drug Rep came in and told me

1093
00:57:34,560 --> 00:57:36,560
this is great.
And I saw it and so here it is.

1094
00:57:37,200 --> 00:57:40,360
So I of course went home.
I didn't get, you know, I

1095
00:57:40,360 --> 00:57:43,520
didn't, but I just went home
because I had never heard of it.

1096
00:57:43,520 --> 00:57:45,040
And to this day I can't remember
the name of it.

1097
00:57:45,040 --> 00:57:47,640
And I Googled it.
One of the side effects was

1098
00:57:47,640 --> 00:57:50,600
death.
Like I kid you not like death.

1099
00:57:50,680 --> 00:57:54,800
And I was like, as a
veterinarian, I would think that

1100
00:57:54,800 --> 00:57:58,440
would be an important one to
kind of especially my dog had no

1101
00:57:58,440 --> 00:58:00,480
symptoms of arthritis.
He still doesn't.

1102
00:58:00,480 --> 00:58:02,680
And this was like 3 years ago.
So I don't know where she was

1103
00:58:02,680 --> 00:58:04,120
coming off with this arthritis
thing.

1104
00:58:04,120 --> 00:58:07,840
But but yeah, it's why we aren't
having full disclosures.

1105
00:58:07,840 --> 00:58:10,240
And, you know, I think we've
just gotten in these really bad

1106
00:58:10,240 --> 00:58:12,160
habits of hurry up and get
people out.

1107
00:58:12,160 --> 00:58:15,640
And pet parents have so much
power.

1108
00:58:16,040 --> 00:58:18,280
And I try to tell my clients
that all the time.

1109
00:58:18,280 --> 00:58:22,560
Like the power that you have is
unbelievable, but you're you're

1110
00:58:22,560 --> 00:58:25,600
giving it away.
You're not asking questions,

1111
00:58:25,600 --> 00:58:28,160
you're turning your brain off.
You're walking away and you

1112
00:58:28,160 --> 00:58:31,680
don't respond until sometimes
till it's too late and you're

1113
00:58:31,680 --> 00:58:35,040
like, well, why didn't you tell
me about that add at the vet

1114
00:58:35,400 --> 00:58:38,560
because the vet didn't tell you.
But you should also be mad at

1115
00:58:38,560 --> 00:58:41,000
yourself for not asking.
You have to take some

1116
00:58:41,000 --> 00:58:43,840
responsibility.
It cannot be all the vets fault.

1117
00:58:43,960 --> 00:58:47,720
It has to, but, and before where
we went live, I mentioned

1118
00:58:47,720 --> 00:58:50,720
Librella to you.
And Librella right now is what

1119
00:58:50,720 --> 00:58:53,320
I'm going to be using as an
example of why it's so important

1120
00:58:53,320 --> 00:58:55,440
that we change the laws about
pets being property.

1121
00:58:55,440 --> 00:59:01,360
Because there's no recourse for
pharmaceutical companies to

1122
00:59:01,360 --> 00:59:04,760
invest in more testing on the
drugs that they put out there.

1123
00:59:04,760 --> 00:59:08,400
Because if they put a drug out
there and your dog dies from it,

1124
00:59:09,520 --> 00:59:11,360
what are they going to pay?
I mean, it depends on what you

1125
00:59:11,360 --> 00:59:13,560
paid for your dog.
You might get the cost of your

1126
00:59:13,560 --> 00:59:16,680
dog back.
So if you and now people are

1127
00:59:16,680 --> 00:59:20,040
getting their dogs from rescues.
So let's say you paid $700.00

1128
00:59:20,040 --> 00:59:21,800
for your dog from a rescue.
Some of them are getting up

1129
00:59:21,800 --> 00:59:23,760
there because it is expensive to
run rescues.

1130
00:59:24,040 --> 00:59:26,040
But let's say you paid $700.00
for your dog.

1131
00:59:26,400 --> 00:59:28,560
So you're going to get $700.00
back.

1132
00:59:28,560 --> 00:59:32,360
Maybe if you can prove it.
But if pets weren't considered

1133
00:59:32,360 --> 00:59:36,080
property, then drug companies
would have more skin in the

1134
00:59:36,080 --> 00:59:38,680
game, which means they would do
more testing, which means our

1135
00:59:38,680 --> 00:59:41,720
drugs that were put out for our
dogs would be safer.

1136
00:59:42,240 --> 00:59:44,320
And the same with pet food
manufacturing companies.

1137
00:59:44,520 --> 00:59:48,040
And the same with veterinary
hospitals who don't hire enough

1138
00:59:48,040 --> 00:59:50,040
staff.
You know, there's lots of vets

1139
00:59:50,040 --> 00:59:52,120
out there who don't hire enough
staff.

1140
00:59:52,120 --> 00:59:55,600
And animals are being left, you
know, on anesthesia machines.

1141
00:59:55,600 --> 00:59:57,720
And so I don't want to freak
people out, but I've worked in

1142
00:59:57,720 --> 01:00:00,120
the vet field for a long.
And so we don't hire enough

1143
01:00:00,120 --> 01:00:02,480
staff because there's no
liability.

1144
01:00:02,840 --> 01:00:05,720
And so we have to get a voice
for these pets.

1145
01:00:05,760 --> 01:00:08,720
Whether that will ever happen,
I'll be real honest with you,

1146
01:00:08,720 --> 01:00:11,480
it's doubtful.
And the reason why is because if

1147
01:00:11,480 --> 01:00:15,960
the pet pharmaceutical companies
get wind that some idiot like me

1148
01:00:15,960 --> 01:00:19,680
is trying to do something like
this, they'll probably kill me,

1149
01:00:19,720 --> 01:00:22,880
probably end up dead in my
backyard somewhere because I am

1150
01:00:22,880 --> 01:00:24,720
trying to take away some of
their money, right?

1151
01:00:24,720 --> 01:00:27,880
They don't want to put more
money into testing and doing all

1152
01:00:27,880 --> 01:00:29,600
of the stuff.
So it's scary.

1153
01:00:29,600 --> 01:00:31,640
But along the way, I will
educate some people.

1154
01:00:31,640 --> 01:00:34,920
So we're going to keep going and
talking about it, and pet

1155
01:00:34,920 --> 01:00:37,760
parents need to keep talking
about it and knowing that those

1156
01:00:37,760 --> 01:00:40,160
those safeguards are not in
place for your pets.

1157
01:00:40,160 --> 01:00:43,760
So you have to be their voice.
It's so true.

1158
01:00:43,760 --> 01:00:47,320
I mean, I've talked about this
on my podcast before, so I'm

1159
01:00:47,320 --> 01:00:50,480
comfortable sharing it again.
But my cat, the number of years

1160
01:00:50,480 --> 01:00:55,160
ago he was being operated on and
they had to they brought brought

1161
01:00:55,160 --> 01:00:58,560
in a specialty surgeon, a
traveling specialty surgeon.

1162
01:00:58,640 --> 01:01:03,360
My vet didn't know how to do the
surgery and he, he died like he

1163
01:01:03,360 --> 01:01:06,000
was blue.
He was dead because she was

1164
01:01:06,000 --> 01:01:09,680
doing the surgery by herself.
Nobody else was there watching

1165
01:01:09,680 --> 01:01:12,560
my cat.
And they brought him back and we

1166
01:01:12,560 --> 01:01:14,720
went through a lot of
rehabilitation.

1167
01:01:14,720 --> 01:01:18,320
He had, you know, brain swelling
and seizures and it took, it

1168
01:01:18,320 --> 01:01:21,560
took him a month before he
finally started to.

1169
01:01:21,560 --> 01:01:23,760
Broke up a little bit there.
Again, it was a lot.

1170
01:01:23,840 --> 01:01:28,880
Trying to connect it.
Was a lot, but that to to your

1171
01:01:28,880 --> 01:01:33,840
point, like somebody should have
been there like no, no surgeon

1172
01:01:33,840 --> 01:01:36,920
should ever do a surgery alone.
You broke up.

1173
01:01:36,920 --> 01:01:39,920
I didn't hear that.
Oh, I said no surgeon should

1174
01:01:39,920 --> 01:01:43,160
ever do a surgery alone.
No, no, yeah.

1175
01:01:43,440 --> 01:01:46,040
He used to be involved in an
organization called Joey's

1176
01:01:46,040 --> 01:01:50,200
Legacy, and for a small period
of time, I was on the board and

1177
01:01:50,200 --> 01:01:54,920
Joey's Legacy was really trying
to bring light to veterinary

1178
01:01:54,920 --> 01:01:57,400
malpractice.
And it was really interesting

1179
01:01:57,400 --> 01:01:59,800
because the calls we got the
most, I don't know if it's the

1180
01:01:59,800 --> 01:02:02,360
same way now, but the calls that
we got the most back then were

1181
01:02:02,360 --> 01:02:05,440
on dogs dying under anesthesia
while getting their teeth

1182
01:02:05,440 --> 01:02:08,640
cleaned.
So Scott asked me one time, he's

1183
01:02:08,640 --> 01:02:10,880
like, what?
Like I get more calls about

1184
01:02:10,880 --> 01:02:14,040
these dogs under anesthesia for
their teeth cleaning than any

1185
01:02:14,040 --> 01:02:16,800
other things.
And he's like, why do you think

1186
01:02:16,800 --> 01:02:19,960
that is?
And I said, well, because a lot

1187
01:02:19,960 --> 01:02:25,000
of times the veterinarians,
anesthesia is not more harmful

1188
01:02:25,000 --> 01:02:26,840
for your dog, for dental
cleaning than it is for

1189
01:02:26,840 --> 01:02:28,160
anything.
And to be honest with you,

1190
01:02:28,160 --> 01:02:32,640
anesthesia is not that bad.
It's not this big scary thing

1191
01:02:32,640 --> 01:02:36,120
that everybody's afraid of.
What's scary is who's monitoring

1192
01:02:36,120 --> 01:02:40,320
it and is someone monitoring it.
So if someone's monitoring it

1193
01:02:40,320 --> 01:02:43,840
and doing the right thing,
anesthesia is pretty safe,

1194
01:02:44,080 --> 01:02:45,160
right?
Like if you have the right

1195
01:02:45,160 --> 01:02:46,960
people and stuff.
So a lot of times people are

1196
01:02:46,960 --> 01:02:51,040
nervous, but when dogs are going
in to get their dental work done

1197
01:02:51,200 --> 01:02:54,240
and they're just having a teeth
cleaning, a lot of times

1198
01:02:54,240 --> 01:02:59,400
veterinarians will leave the vet
tech alone in the room.

1199
01:02:59,640 --> 01:03:02,320
And I know this for a fact
because I've worked for so many

1200
01:03:02,320 --> 01:03:06,320
vets and I was the teeth
cleaning girl and I'm not proud

1201
01:03:06,320 --> 01:03:08,520
of it, but I was young.
I didn't think I was doing

1202
01:03:08,520 --> 01:03:11,120
anything wrong.
And so I would be left in the

1203
01:03:11,120 --> 01:03:15,400
rooms to monitor the heart rate,
monitor the anesthesia, do the

1204
01:03:15,400 --> 01:03:18,120
dental cleaning, right.
Make sure the dog's not, you

1205
01:03:18,120 --> 01:03:20,760
know, choking on the water when
you're in there doing it.

1206
01:03:20,800 --> 01:03:23,560
I am really, really lucky.
I never lost a dog.

1207
01:03:24,120 --> 01:03:26,840
And I do 100% think that's just
pure luck.

1208
01:03:27,040 --> 01:03:29,920
It's just pure luck.
But I that is why I told Scott,

1209
01:03:29,920 --> 01:03:32,040
I said, because I would bet you
money I don't know.

1210
01:03:32,080 --> 01:03:35,200
You'll never be able to prove it
and it'll never get written up

1211
01:03:35,200 --> 01:03:38,120
somewhere that they left the
girl in there by herself.

1212
01:03:38,120 --> 01:03:39,160
That's not what's going to
happen.

1213
01:03:39,160 --> 01:03:42,200
They're going to say the dog
died from anesthesia and the

1214
01:03:42,200 --> 01:03:45,040
story, and they're not going to
say it was from poor monitoring

1215
01:03:45,040 --> 01:03:48,400
or nobody monitoring.
And that again, is because pets

1216
01:03:48,400 --> 01:03:50,120
are property and there's very
little liability.

1217
01:03:50,160 --> 01:03:55,440
So why hire a registered vet
tech and an anesthesiologist to

1218
01:03:55,440 --> 01:03:57,880
be making sure that they're
under anesthesia safely?

1219
01:03:58,800 --> 01:04:00,800
Why?
Because if that dog dies, fine,

1220
01:04:00,800 --> 01:04:04,640
I'll pay you your $750.
You know, a lot has to happen.

1221
01:04:04,640 --> 01:04:08,520
I know Florida is working on
some stuff where because people

1222
01:04:08,520 --> 01:04:10,360
will say to me, I had a
veterinarian say to me one time,

1223
01:04:10,640 --> 01:04:12,440
Oh my God, Carrie, you own a
business.

1224
01:04:12,440 --> 01:04:15,720
And you know that if you make
that law, people are going to

1225
01:04:15,720 --> 01:04:18,840
sue you for everything.
And my response to her was,

1226
01:04:18,840 --> 01:04:20,120
you're right.
I agree.

1227
01:04:20,120 --> 01:04:23,800
We live in a very litigious
country and people sue for

1228
01:04:23,800 --> 01:04:26,000
everything.
I have already been sued like

1229
01:04:26,000 --> 01:04:28,200
three times.
I've never lost, never lost.

1230
01:04:28,320 --> 01:04:32,520
But I said have to have faith.
The laws still have to be there

1231
01:04:32,520 --> 01:04:35,440
in place for these animals.
So I would have to have faith

1232
01:04:35,720 --> 01:04:40,200
that the judicious system would
recognize a frivolous law.

1233
01:04:40,480 --> 01:04:44,480
I have to, because otherwise the
other way is not right in my

1234
01:04:44,480 --> 01:04:46,480
heart.
Animals need to be protected by

1235
01:04:46,480 --> 01:04:50,240
this, the loss.
And if somebody sue somebody

1236
01:04:50,240 --> 01:04:54,000
because they think that the
groomer or the vet or whoever is

1237
01:04:54,080 --> 01:04:57,640
wrong, I'm hoping that the
judicial and going through it as

1238
01:04:57,640 --> 01:05:01,320
I have, I had a woman accused me
of killing her dog and I've had

1239
01:05:01,480 --> 01:05:05,040
all sorts of crazy stuff go on.
And every single time the court

1240
01:05:05,040 --> 01:05:07,240
was like, this is insane.
Get the hell out of here.

1241
01:05:07,240 --> 01:05:09,320
I think the courts do know what
they're doing.

1242
01:05:09,320 --> 01:05:12,040
And I'm sure there's those one
cases, but those laws, we can't

1243
01:05:12,040 --> 01:05:13,680
just not have the laws to
protect them.

1244
01:05:14,560 --> 01:05:17,920
We need it.
Yeah, I think we definitely

1245
01:05:17,920 --> 01:05:23,360
definitely pander too much to
the minority, especially lately.

1246
01:05:23,360 --> 01:05:26,080
But I I just, I want to thank
you again.

1247
01:05:26,080 --> 01:05:30,640
And you mentioned that doggy dog
is the plan is to take it on the

1248
01:05:30,640 --> 01:05:33,840
road.
So where can people one where

1249
01:05:33,840 --> 01:05:37,720
can people follow you follow the
spa because you do put out some

1250
01:05:37,720 --> 01:05:41,520
really amazing content.
And then where can people learn

1251
01:05:41,520 --> 01:05:46,400
more about the play and see, you
know, follow it and see if it's

1252
01:05:46,400 --> 01:05:47,800
going to be coming anywhere near
them?

1253
01:05:48,160 --> 01:05:50,600
So keep up.
So two things about that.

1254
01:05:50,600 --> 01:05:54,040
One, we are looking for hosts
for dog eat dog.

1255
01:05:54,480 --> 01:05:58,120
So what we're at right now is
looking for people that want to

1256
01:05:58,120 --> 01:06:00,720
host it.
So let's say that you want it to

1257
01:06:00,720 --> 01:06:04,360
come to your town and you happen
to be a dog food store or just

1258
01:06:04,520 --> 01:06:07,840
someone who just loves dogs or
whatever it is.

1259
01:06:08,240 --> 01:06:11,280
You can actually call contact us
and we can work out something

1260
01:06:11,280 --> 01:06:13,400
where we would bring the play to
you.

1261
01:06:13,640 --> 01:06:16,640
And then you just host it maybe
like around your clients.

1262
01:06:16,640 --> 01:06:19,760
Like I'm basically the spa's
hosting it right now intestine

1263
01:06:19,760 --> 01:06:21,880
and then we're going to be
taking it to Palm Springs and we

1264
01:06:21,880 --> 01:06:23,760
have a pet store that's hosting
it there.

1265
01:06:24,000 --> 01:06:27,120
What's great about dog eat Dog
is it only uses 3 actors and it

1266
01:06:27,120 --> 01:06:29,840
doesn't need, as you noticed, it
doesn't need a huge stage

1267
01:06:29,840 --> 01:06:32,200
production.
So everything is very internal

1268
01:06:32,200 --> 01:06:35,160
and very holistic and very so it
doesn't need a lot.

1269
01:06:35,240 --> 01:06:38,080
And so that's the first thing is
that we're looking for hosts at

1270
01:06:38,080 --> 01:06:39,800
the at this point, it's so early
on in the stage.

1271
01:06:39,800 --> 01:06:42,880
So anybody that wanted to host
it could contact me and we can

1272
01:06:43,240 --> 01:06:47,160
talk about bringing it to your
town, Italy, if you want to just

1273
01:06:47,160 --> 01:06:52,000
you would follow us on Dog eat
dog, the play.com and then

1274
01:06:52,000 --> 01:06:54,080
there'll be information that's
going up there.

1275
01:06:54,080 --> 01:06:56,000
So we're in the very early
stages right now.

1276
01:06:56,000 --> 01:06:58,440
We're trying to get it out there
and get some word of mouth and

1277
01:06:58,440 --> 01:07:01,280
understand people what we're
doing because we will be

1278
01:07:01,280 --> 01:07:03,920
starting to raise money.
So each event that we go to.

1279
01:07:03,920 --> 01:07:06,000
So we're trying to keep the
tickets like to nothing.

1280
01:07:06,640 --> 01:07:07,720
People were shocked when we did
it.

1281
01:07:07,720 --> 01:07:09,880
This time it's 25 bucks, It was
$25.

1282
01:07:11,000 --> 01:07:15,080
And then what we want to do is
once people see the play and

1283
01:07:15,080 --> 01:07:18,640
they realize the effect this can
have, we're hoping that they

1284
01:07:18,640 --> 01:07:22,200
will donate so that the play can
go to the next place.

1285
01:07:22,440 --> 01:07:25,000
So let's say we do this, you
know, we're going to do this one

1286
01:07:25,000 --> 01:07:27,640
in a couple weeks and people
will donate it.

1287
01:07:27,640 --> 01:07:32,120
Maybe we raise $5000.
That $5000 will go to the host

1288
01:07:32,840 --> 01:07:35,680
of the next place.
They might have to put in

1289
01:07:35,680 --> 01:07:38,640
wherever if they have to get a
venue, but that money would go

1290
01:07:38,640 --> 01:07:41,080
to move that to the next thing
so that we can build these

1291
01:07:41,080 --> 01:07:42,400
stronger and stronger
communities.

1292
01:07:43,240 --> 01:07:45,760
So we'll see how that goes, but
the best way to find out more

1293
01:07:45,760 --> 01:07:49,320
information would be go to
dogeatdogtheeplay.com.

1294
01:07:50,360 --> 01:07:54,680
You can follow me on Facebook,
Instagram, the Spa Dogs or just

1295
01:07:54,680 --> 01:07:56,840
the spa.
I'm so bad at that stuff.

1296
01:07:56,960 --> 01:08:01,840
It's just THESPAW on Facebook
and then our Instagram is the

1297
01:08:01,840 --> 01:08:03,800
spa dogs and that's pretty much
it.

1298
01:08:03,880 --> 01:08:06,520
You can you can always call the
spa, talk to me.

1299
01:08:06,520 --> 01:08:08,800
I'm always there.
I'm always at the spa.

1300
01:08:09,160 --> 01:08:10,600
So people call me there
sometimes.

1301
01:08:10,600 --> 01:08:14,320
I try to help people as much as
I can, but I would say your best

1302
01:08:14,320 --> 01:08:17,120
bet is to get out there and
really try to get to some of

1303
01:08:17,120 --> 01:08:19,640
these live events and talk.
I think that's the problem with,

1304
01:08:20,000 --> 01:08:23,200
you know, COVID made everybody
kind of go into their homes and

1305
01:08:23,200 --> 01:08:25,520
then they're trying to educate
themselves through Facebook

1306
01:08:25,520 --> 01:08:27,920
groups because it's more
comfortable to be behind our

1307
01:08:27,920 --> 01:08:30,080
computer.
But the problem is, is that

1308
01:08:30,080 --> 01:08:32,840
every case is different.
And so you might read this case

1309
01:08:32,840 --> 01:08:35,279
and then you think that that
sounds like your dog, but when

1310
01:08:35,279 --> 01:08:38,399
you're in person with somebody
and talking to somebody, you

1311
01:08:38,399 --> 01:08:40,560
have a little bit more time.
And then that person would be

1312
01:08:40,560 --> 01:08:42,399
like, well, yeah, but that
wouldn't work for your dog

1313
01:08:42,399 --> 01:08:45,279
because XY and Z.
So I would really encourage

1314
01:08:45,279 --> 01:08:48,760
people to get out more and start
talking to people like Jessica.

1315
01:08:48,760 --> 01:08:51,319
Jessica goes to all sorts of
events, so I would find out

1316
01:08:51,319 --> 01:08:53,720
where she's going to be and go
pick her brain a little bit.

1317
01:08:54,160 --> 01:08:55,680
You're so sweet.
You're so sweet.

1318
01:08:55,720 --> 01:08:59,479
Well, I'm trying.
Like just get out there and

1319
01:08:59,479 --> 01:09:03,240
start, you know, just get off of
your computers and I think

1320
01:09:03,240 --> 01:09:05,359
that's you're going to be your
best bet so.

1321
01:09:06,240 --> 01:09:11,399
Yeah, I, I appreciate that
sentiment so much because I do,

1322
01:09:11,399 --> 01:09:14,240
I, I know I have people come to
me all the time and they're

1323
01:09:14,240 --> 01:09:18,000
like, I just want a recipe or I,
you know, I just want my dog is

1324
01:09:18,000 --> 01:09:19,439
itchy.
I just need new recipe.

1325
01:09:19,439 --> 01:09:21,279
Like know what to do.
I'm like, Oh my gosh.

1326
01:09:21,720 --> 01:09:25,399
Like there's, there's so, so
much more we need to do.

1327
01:09:25,399 --> 01:09:30,399
There's so much more digging and
then, you know, we, we start to

1328
01:09:30,399 --> 01:09:33,800
like unravel week after week and
I'm like, see, like there's so

1329
01:09:33,800 --> 01:09:36,439
much and and they're, they're
always amazed.

1330
01:09:36,720 --> 01:09:39,439
They're like, I never, ever,
ever would have thought.

1331
01:09:39,439 --> 01:09:41,880
And I'm like, I know, but you
just got to get in there.

1332
01:09:41,880 --> 01:09:45,240
And every dog is different and
cats too.

1333
01:09:45,240 --> 01:09:47,960
And though I do work with a lot
more dogs, but it is, it's

1334
01:09:47,960 --> 01:09:50,640
amazing.
It's it really is amazing how

1335
01:09:50,640 --> 01:09:54,520
different even like on the
surface they sound like it's

1336
01:09:54,520 --> 01:09:56,880
going to be the same, same old,
same old case.

1337
01:09:56,880 --> 01:10:01,440
And no, well, never as you'll.
Find out like this took me a

1338
01:10:01,440 --> 01:10:05,880
long time. 1 of probably my best
lessons was I have to understand

1339
01:10:05,880 --> 01:10:10,280
the pet parent more than I have
to understand the dog because I

1340
01:10:10,280 --> 01:10:13,800
can look at this dog as if I'm
caring for him and I know

1341
01:10:13,800 --> 01:10:17,400
exactly what to do.
But if I don't merge what I

1342
01:10:17,400 --> 01:10:20,400
think this client is, I hate to
use the word willing, but

1343
01:10:20,400 --> 01:10:22,840
sometimes it is willing.
What they can afford, what

1344
01:10:22,840 --> 01:10:25,800
they're willing to do, what
their lifestyle is, what's

1345
01:10:25,800 --> 01:10:28,320
realistic, what's available to
them.

1346
01:10:28,400 --> 01:10:30,000
You know, because sometimes
people are in parts of the

1347
01:10:30,000 --> 01:10:32,360
country, I don't do
consultations anymore over the

1348
01:10:32,360 --> 01:10:35,080
phone, but I used to where
people will call me from New

1349
01:10:35,080 --> 01:10:38,120
York and or little towns and
they're like, I don't have a

1350
01:10:38,120 --> 01:10:41,560
place like that for 400 feet,
400, whatever.

1351
01:10:41,560 --> 01:10:43,160
I don't know, I'm bad at what
miles.

1352
01:10:43,160 --> 01:10:46,360
And I'm like, oh shit, you know.
So I had to start realizing that

1353
01:10:46,640 --> 01:10:50,240
what I really needed to know
more about was the person that

1354
01:10:50,240 --> 01:10:52,960
I'm dealing with.
The animal was instinct to me.

1355
01:10:52,960 --> 01:10:55,440
That's easy for me.
Like that's so easy for me.

1356
01:10:55,440 --> 01:10:57,400
Give me a dog, let it live in my
house, I'll fix it.

1357
01:10:58,400 --> 01:11:02,400
But I really had to dive into
that person's personality.

1358
01:11:02,600 --> 01:11:05,880
And this is going to sound
shitty, but a lesson to all of

1359
01:11:05,880 --> 01:11:08,720
you that if you're going to have
Jessica help you don't lie to

1360
01:11:08,720 --> 01:11:10,920
us.
Like don't, my gosh, right?

1361
01:11:10,920 --> 01:11:14,120
Don't lie.
Like it's so hard.

1362
01:11:14,120 --> 01:11:17,280
But they think that like, so
they would say stuff like, well,

1363
01:11:17,280 --> 01:11:19,120
no, I'm doing it, I'm doing it,
I'm doing it.

1364
01:11:19,120 --> 01:11:21,240
And then in my head I'm like,
there's no way because this

1365
01:11:21,240 --> 01:11:24,800
doesn't make sense because I
know this would work if you were

1366
01:11:24,800 --> 01:11:27,160
doing everything.
So I appreciate when people go

1367
01:11:27,160 --> 01:11:31,080
look, Carrie, these are my, I
know you told me I was supposed

1368
01:11:31,080 --> 01:11:32,560
to do it every day, but I
haven't done it for like 2

1369
01:11:32,560 --> 01:11:34,280
months.
I'm like, thank you.

1370
01:11:34,320 --> 01:11:37,840
Because all you're doing by
telling me all the stuff you

1371
01:11:37,840 --> 01:11:41,200
think I want to hear is making
it take longer for us to get to

1372
01:11:41,200 --> 01:11:44,720
the point.
And then I'm in a whirlwind.

1373
01:11:44,720 --> 01:11:47,080
And then and then there's been
times where I'm like, I don't

1374
01:11:47,080 --> 01:11:48,320
know what I'm doing.
I'm an idiot.

1375
01:11:48,320 --> 01:11:51,320
I shouldn't be doing this.
And really, it was just because

1376
01:11:51,320 --> 01:11:55,080
I was realizing that the pet
parents were uncomfortable and I

1377
01:11:55,080 --> 01:11:58,280
had to make it a safer space for
them to be able to say, yeah, I

1378
01:11:58,280 --> 01:12:00,200
didn't do it.
Like, it's OK.

1379
01:12:00,360 --> 01:12:03,160
Like, you think I don't have bad
weeks or bad months or bad years

1380
01:12:03,160 --> 01:12:05,600
or whatever.
And all shit hit the fan and my

1381
01:12:05,600 --> 01:12:08,720
dog took second, second place in
my life for a while.

1382
01:12:08,720 --> 01:12:12,840
Like, it's OK, but talk about
it.

1383
01:12:13,120 --> 01:12:16,320
It's OK that if you're working
with a nutritionist or a vet or

1384
01:12:16,320 --> 01:12:18,400
whoever you're working with,
come clean.

1385
01:12:18,840 --> 01:12:22,160
Set it out on the table.
We're all human, you know, and

1386
01:12:22,160 --> 01:12:26,200
we all have lives and shit
happens in our lives and it's OK

1387
01:12:26,640 --> 01:12:30,080
to have let the dog go.
I think people think, Oh my God,

1388
01:12:30,080 --> 01:12:31,520
they're a certified pet
nutritionist.

1389
01:12:31,520 --> 01:12:35,120
They must spend every waking
minute, you know, exploring

1390
01:12:35,120 --> 01:12:37,480
their dog's health.
And that's all we do.

1391
01:12:37,480 --> 01:12:39,080
And we have no life outside of
that.

1392
01:12:39,080 --> 01:12:41,320
And they they don't want,
they're embarrassed if they say

1393
01:12:41,320 --> 01:12:44,880
they I went skiing last weekend
and I forgot to give him this or

1394
01:12:44,880 --> 01:12:46,280
whatever, you know what I mean?
Yeah.

1395
01:12:46,520 --> 01:12:49,240
So I always give people
permission because otherwise you

1396
01:12:49,240 --> 01:12:51,840
can't help them.
And so I would say to all of

1397
01:12:51,840 --> 01:12:55,480
your listeners, I know Jessica's
giving you guys permission, so.

1398
01:12:56,360 --> 01:12:59,280
Yeah, do it.
My gosh, yes, please, please

1399
01:12:59,280 --> 01:13:00,880
tell me the truth.
I don't care what the truth is.

1400
01:13:00,960 --> 01:13:07,000
Well, and that is, I think part
of a true holistic approach is

1401
01:13:07,000 --> 01:13:10,280
taking the pet parent into
consideration because that's the

1402
01:13:10,280 --> 01:13:12,520
biggest part of that pet's life.
Yeah.

1403
01:13:12,920 --> 01:13:14,120
Yeah.
Is that pet parent?

1404
01:13:14,160 --> 01:13:15,640
Yeah.
And if they're not going to do

1405
01:13:15,640 --> 01:13:19,800
it, I just had a client come in.
I only do consultations in if

1406
01:13:20,440 --> 01:13:23,280
it's turned into this.
If you catch me in the front and

1407
01:13:23,280 --> 01:13:26,080
you have a question and you say,
hey, Carrie, hang on a second, I

1408
01:13:26,080 --> 01:13:27,920
have a question, then you get a
consultation.

1409
01:13:27,920 --> 01:13:29,840
I don't charge for it.
So we'll just talk.

1410
01:13:29,840 --> 01:13:31,920
What do you want to know?
I saw a lady come in today and

1411
01:13:31,920 --> 01:13:33,440
she caught me.
I was going up to the front to

1412
01:13:33,440 --> 01:13:36,040
give the girls a chart and this
really good client.

1413
01:13:36,040 --> 01:13:38,680
Oh my God, I caught you.
Like they all know they that's

1414
01:13:38,680 --> 01:13:40,040
me.
And I'm like, what's going on?

1415
01:13:40,040 --> 01:13:42,440
She goes, I got a new puppy and
I don't know what to feed.

1416
01:13:42,440 --> 01:13:43,480
What do you think I should feed?
I go.

1417
01:13:43,480 --> 01:13:46,200
Well, first before we talk about
food, be realistic with

1418
01:13:46,200 --> 01:13:47,400
yourself.
What's your lifestyle?

1419
01:13:47,400 --> 01:13:48,800
Do you want to take stuff out of
the freezer?

1420
01:13:48,800 --> 01:13:51,560
Do you want something that is
like a por insert?

1421
01:13:51,560 --> 01:13:53,440
Are you wanting to cook your own
food?

1422
01:13:53,440 --> 01:13:55,120
Are you a person that's in the
kitchen all the time?

1423
01:13:55,120 --> 01:13:56,760
Because I'm not.
You're not going to find my butt

1424
01:13:56,760 --> 01:13:59,040
in the kitchen making any like
that's not happening.

1425
01:13:59,520 --> 01:14:01,800
So tell me what you want.
And she's like, and then the

1426
01:14:01,800 --> 01:14:03,960
husband goes, we're not taking
it out of the fridge.

1427
01:14:03,960 --> 01:14:05,880
No matter what she tells you,
she's not doing that.

1428
01:14:05,960 --> 01:14:08,760
So we came up with a plan for
her based on her lifestyle.

1429
01:14:08,760 --> 01:14:11,600
I didn't ask her any questions
about the dog at all at that

1430
01:14:11,600 --> 01:14:12,800
point.
And so then we came up with a

1431
01:14:12,800 --> 01:14:15,200
plan.
What happened is if people are

1432
01:14:15,200 --> 01:14:17,840
unrealistic with themselves and
their nutritionist is

1433
01:14:17,840 --> 01:14:20,880
unrealistic with that is they
get frustrated and then they

1434
01:14:20,880 --> 01:14:23,560
start feeding Pedigree.
I shouldn't throw Pedigree under

1435
01:14:23,560 --> 01:14:25,440
the ground, but that is what
will happen.

1436
01:14:25,960 --> 01:14:29,960
They will try to live up to your
expectations or my expectations

1437
01:14:29,960 --> 01:14:32,200
that they believe we have, even
though we don't have those.

1438
01:14:32,360 --> 01:14:35,080
And when they can't do it,
they're like, you know what, I'm

1439
01:14:35,080 --> 01:14:36,920
just not going to say anything
and I'm going to buy this bag of

1440
01:14:36,920 --> 01:14:39,760
kibble and they're pouring
kibble into their bowl and.

1441
01:14:39,920 --> 01:14:42,880
And that's what happens.
And that's not our goal, you

1442
01:14:42,880 --> 01:14:44,440
know, as somebody that cares.
Yeah.

1443
01:14:44,920 --> 01:14:47,640
Anyway, like I said, we could go
on and on and on and on and on.

1444
01:14:48,200 --> 01:14:50,800
I know, I can't even believe
it's already been.

1445
01:14:51,480 --> 01:14:54,160
We're at an hour 21.
And it's so late for you.

1446
01:14:54,160 --> 01:14:56,640
Yeah, yeah, I actually have to
go back to work too, so.

1447
01:14:57,840 --> 01:14:59,120
My gracious.
All right.

1448
01:14:59,120 --> 01:15:01,360
Well, Carrie, thank you so much
for being here.

1449
01:15:01,560 --> 01:15:05,040
I'm really excited to see where
this goes and hopefully I'll get

1450
01:15:05,040 --> 01:15:08,960
to see you later on this year.
And in person, because you're

1451
01:15:08,960 --> 01:15:10,960
just such a bright light.
And I appreciate you so much.

1452
01:15:10,960 --> 01:15:14,120
And thank you for being here to
talk to to all my listeners.

1453
01:15:14,160 --> 01:15:16,280
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Thank you so much for having me

1454
01:15:16,280 --> 01:15:17,880
and trusting me with your
listeners.

1455
01:15:17,880 --> 01:15:20,480
And anytime, anytime.
And if you want me to come out

1456
01:15:20,480 --> 01:15:22,960
to Texas, find me a host.
We'll bring the play out.

1457
01:15:22,960 --> 01:15:24,360
There.
Yeah, absolutely.

1458
01:15:24,360 --> 01:15:26,680
All right, guys, y'all have a
great rest of your week.

1459
01:15:26,680 --> 01:15:28,000
Thank you so much for being here
with us.

1460
01:15:28,000 --> 01:15:31,040
And give your pets some extra
love from me and Carrie today.