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UNLEASHED with Dr. Matt the Vet | 7.26.24 - The Howie Carr Show Hour 4
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(laughing) - Rum swabs, hacks, and moon bats beware, it's. (upbeat music) Howie Car. - We just told you in the police bought our facts Friday about the woman who was arrested in Indiana trying to bring drugs into the prison where she worked as a guard in her frozen lasagna, bringing cocaine into the prison. And Officer Mark said he was just looking at the PR news wire and Hunter Biden has announced his new business, post White House. He's going to go into the frozen lasagna business. (laughing) Sure, it's just a coincidence. (laughing) - All right, thank you, Officer Mark, for passing that on to us. We don't have the PR news wire on our computer here. 844-500-4242, 844-500-4242. Joining us now here, as he does every Friday, the last Friday of every month is Dr. Matt Callahan. He's the veterinarian of the Howie Car Show and he's here to answer all of your questions about your pets and problems they have or questions you have about what to do with them. So now is the time to get on board at 844-500-4242, 844-500-4242. If you have any questions about your dog or your cat or any other pets that you have. And you can also, if you haven't got time or you don't want to stay, stay on the line to wait, you can text your question, text Howie to 617-213-1066. And you can get your question in that way and I'll read it to Dr. Matt. Dr. Matt, thank you for being with us here again on the Howie Car Show. - My privilege. - And where can people go if they need your services during the week? - Yeah, I run the Ipswich Animal Hospital on old route one on the Raleigh Ipswich line. And so the Ipswich Animal Hospital's number is 978-948. 978-948-8189. - 978-948-8189. - Yeah, I always write it down so I don't give out my cell phone number. - No, I just write it down too. I just wrote it down right now. Just like I have the number, I've recited a million times but it's right there in front of me. Just in case. - Only one slip up. - Yeah, I know. Don't want to go all biting on you, you know? So I wanted to just start off. There was an interesting story in the globe today of all places about a Boston attorney who rescued a pup from St. Lucia. Now he's suing to challenge a ban on dogs entering the United States. He is spearheading a legal battle challenging a new federal regulation that will ban all dogs from entering the United States before they are six months old. A move this lawyer, his name is Aaron Katz, says will devastate animal rescue efforts in the Caribbean and prevent Americans from adopting strays who capture their hearts when they're down on the beach. - Did you know about this? - I didn't. I mean, we work with a number of shelters that take animals in from all the Caribbean islands, all the Bahamas, Jamaica, Puerto Rico. It's amazing how similar those dogs are genetically. Some dog was spreading his seat about 400 years ago, I think, and he's still in virtually every dog. But yeah, we see a lot of dogs from the island. So I don't know why there was something that's great. - Yeah, why was it? - I know it doesn't seem like if things were working smoothly. - Yeah, maybe there's a fear of rabies or something like that, but I don't understand why they'll six months ago. - I thought you used to have to, maybe you still do have to quarantine a dog when you bring it into the country. - Right, I mean, every country has different quarantine laws and they have different quarantine laws based on where they're coming from. So if there's rabies on a certain island on our own, several islands, maybe they'd just say we need to quarantine them for a period of time. And that makes them more than six months at that point. I don't know. I haven't read the article, but we see, I've never had any problems with dogs from the islands other than they are severely parasitized. They are really have a ton of parasites and we have to be careful not to deparasitize them too quickly, or they start to get sick from not having, instead of having 10,000 live parasites, they have 10,000 dead parasites. - It seems interesting that the Biden administration is interesting in tightening the borders on puppies. - Puppies, yeah. - But not on the illegal aliens. - Yeah, well, there's been a crisis, you know, and too many beagles crossing the border, yes. - Well, Dr. Fauci can handle any problem with beagles, as we know. All right, so we're ready to take calls and again, you can add 844-542-42 and you can also text us, text Howie to 617-213-1066, if you want to leave a question on our text slide. 844-542-42. Tammy, you're next with Howie Carr and Dr. Matt. Go ahead, Tammy. - Hi, Dr. Matt. - Hi, Tim. - I was calling, I wasn't saying hello because you are my dog's vet and I have had my dog's view for many years and you're amazing. - Thank you. - Trixie loves you and Scott loves you when he was around. - Well, I like it, not all pets like me, but I do, I do prefer-- - Gunner did like you very much. - Gunner tolerated me, we had some nice car rides together. - Rosco, Rosco though, I think likes you more. - Yeah, Rosco. - It's easier to get along with it, Gunner. - Yeah. - Trixie's doing good, she's a little bit of licking, going on, just when she tingles a little bit. - Yeah, yeah, that's not that uncommon. - It's a little tough. - Yeah, yeah. - Okay, thank you, Tammy and thanks for your endorsement of Dr. Matt. Dr. Matt is a, I recommend him highly too. He's done a great job with Gunner. I asked the mailroom manager to bring in Rosco and she said no, she didn't want to do it. - She didn't want the distraction. - Yeah, no, she didn't. Rita, you're next with Howie Carr and Dr. Matt, go ahead Rita. - Oh, hi Dr. Matt, hi Howie. - Hi. - I'm just calling about, hi. I'm just calling about my cat Vinny, who's 14 and a half years old. And twice this year, well actually December, last year, he got really, really sick. You know, he's an indoor outdoor cat and they almost put him down, but he's got, they put him on, they said he had a real bed and he was very, very badly a knee mech. - Yeah. - And he had some kind of parasite, whatever. So they put him on, but they couldn't really identify exactly what it was, obviously. Prud in his... - Yeah, Prud in some, yeah Prud in some, right. You got it. - And then obviously the syringe of ducts is cyclene. - Okay. - The ducts are cyclene. And so in December, he did that and he recovered. Unbelievably so, they couldn't even believe it. And so he was really well from like February till now and he got sick again. And so I brought him in. He was, he went down to like 10 pounds. Normally he's like, I think 14, well he was 14 pounds. Then he went down to 12 pounds now, 10 pounds. And they said, well he was, he's very a knee mech. So they gave him the same treatment and he seems to be responding. It's only been like a week, but it's impossible that you can get better and then... - Yeah, I mean, it's definitely possible. It's also possible. So they're sort of covering two bases here. And I think that makes sense though. I'm in favor of this. They're putting him on doc's is cyclene probably 'cause they're fearful that he has a red cell parasite called Bartonella. And cats can definitely get that and they can get it more than once. There are also cats that get immune mediated red cell disease or immune mediated hemolytic anemia. And so that's why they're putting Vinnie on the prednisolone in the thoughts that it might be an immune reaction. So the problem with recurrent immune diseases, there might be something underlying that in a 14 year old cat. You get fearful that it's something like cancer or something like that. - Yeah, I was gonna say 14 is way up there, right? - It's not crazy high, but it's definitely, it's high enough that they're gonna get all the geriatric cat diseases and cancers of geriatric cat disease. - Good luck, Rita. Debbie, you're next with Howie Carr and Dr. Matt. Go ahead, Debbie. - Hi, I was just wondering if it's possible that there's something that happens to puppies. My son just got a little corgi by reputable breeder and he's had it, it's 10 weeks old. He's had it 13 days in this past weekend. The joints could swollen, the face is swollen. It's lethargic and it's been at past every day. - Well? - $1,000 a day, we don't know what to do. - Yeah, gee, if there's something that happens, maybe vaccines. - I don't, I certainly can't speak to what the dog has, although dogs can get juvenile joint diseases, you know, that, and I don't, it doesn't sound like this is the case, but because they would have picked that up pretty quickly. So I think we're thinking probably further out, so possibly a genetic disease or something like that. - How about a tick? - Yeah, you know, dogs actually have weird reactions to tick diseases. They can even get paralyzed from tick diseases, but usually one of the first things that vets do, and there's only, you know, 75 vets at Tufts, you know, probably I'll try to figure this one out, but, you know, ticks can cause all the tick diseases, Ehrlichia, Anoplasma, Lyme, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, and they also can get paralyzed from ticks too. So there's lots of, lots of diseases from ticks. - So the follow-up question is what do you recommend to protect dogs from ticks, especially in the summer when they're out there, and the ticks are around? - So with regards to the corgi, I think you're just gonna have to let Tufts let it play out. I mean, they really are a bright group of people, and if anyone's gonna figure it out, they probably will. But with regards to flea and tick prevention, I do really recommend everyone stay on everyone's pets that go outside, stay on flea and tick prevention, and they are our topical ones, frontline and advancex, and the descendants of frontline and advancex, 'cause there's no patents on those anymore, so they make knock-off ones. The oral ones, Simparica, Cradillio, Nexgard, Prefecto, they're all very good, I actually like them all. For adult dogs, Soresto collar is very good. But in the case of like Rosco, if the grandkids are hugging Rosco and stuff like that, then I really recommend the orals for those dogs, because-- - The orals that they take. - Yeah, because then the kids can't get exposed to the flea and tick preventive. Now, the flea and tick companies all swear that it doesn't come off them, which it may be right, I don't know, but I'm not taking that chance. - That's it, thank you. Thanks for that good advice. Thanks, Debbie, good luck. 844-542-42, if you have a question about your pet for a doctor matter, you can text how eight to 617-213-1066, we'll take some text questions when we come back, as well as questions from callers. 844-542-42, Dr. Matt, what's your phone number? Again, if people want to-- - Yeah, my phone number at the Ipswich Animal Hospital is 978-948-8189. I'm Howie Carr. - The Holly Carr Show returns after this. (dramatic music) - He's Howie Carr, and he's back. 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None of the guys you saw on the silver screen are on your TV set are coming through there again. 844-542-42. Dr. Matt, what's your phone number if people wanna get your services during the week? - People can call me at 978-948-8189. - All right, 617, question for Dr. Matt. Obviously, I'm a bit big pharma weary given the past few years. Is Brevecto a safe medicine to give for ticks? I've read some stuff online that's concerning, thanks. - Yeah, I think, now that I've been through sort of years of listening to the, you know, thousands of dogs die because of ex-medication, I do sort of, I lean on some of the resources I have sort of inside the industry. Most veterinarians belong to one of these, you know, veterinary, I belong to something called Vin Veterinary Information Network. And when I have a question about these things, I go to them and say, hey, other veterinarians that use this product have you been seeing problems with this product? - Because it's like Reddit for vets? - Yeah, and it's sort of an insight so we can, you know, bellyache or, you know, have questions about cases or questions about medications in the case of Brevecto. I guess I would say that there have been very few problems. And I think it's a safe drug, it's a drug I use in my pets. It is a neurotoxin for fleas and ticks. Most dogs can get rid of the toxin because it can't cross that blood brain barrier that people talk about in fleas and ticks, thankfully, don't have blood brain barriers. So, but in some dogs, there have been some cases of dogs developing seizure problems with it. Again, very few. There have been some dogs with seizures where the seizures get worse. So it's not recommended for dogs with suspected seizure problems. That being said, I use it in my dog, so I guess I like it. - Okay, John, you're next with Howie Carr and Dr. Mathevet. Go ahead, John. - Hello, Howie. How are you? - Good. - And thank you for taking my call and hi, Dr. Matt. - Hi, John. - Hey, okay, this is an upbeat question. No medical concerns here. I'm gonna ask you to be a cat psychologist. - Oh, good. - Why? (laughs) Why this are three-year-old Tabby, female, by the way. Okay, which I understand is rare. Like to put her, take her paw, pull her food out of the bowl. - Yeah. - And dump it on the floor and eat it off the floor. - Yeah, there's definitely cats that do that. I think it's more of, it's like my dog turns around 53 times before she lies on her dog bed. You know, she's definitely flattening the grass, don't you think? I mean, at least that's what I think. And it's just her method prior to lying down. So your cat has a particular and peculiar method of feeding. It's definitely not unheard of. It's actually, I guess I would say it's moderately common. And it's not a problem. Oh yeah, and it's definitely not a problem unless it's a problem for you. - The answer, John, is it's a cat. - That's what you have to follow. - Right, yeah. I think the problem is, if you really truly understand your cat, you have to pay the price by going insane. So you can't have those two things at the same time. So, but what I generally recommend for those cats is to get a big cookie sheet, put the cat's food in the middle of the cookie sheet. Most times they'll pull it off their bowl or off their plate onto the cookie sheet and then eat it that way. - Thanks for the call, John. 978. My Chihuahua hates everyone, but still allow Dr. Matt to hold her. He clearly has a good heart. - Yes. - Another endorsement for Dr. Matt. All right, we'll take some more calls. We come back. We don't have enough time to give time to the next call. So again, give us your phone number, Dr. Matt. - My phone number at the Ipswich Animal Hospital is 978-948-8189. - Okay, the reason I wanted Rosco to come in here tonight is 'cause I've been trying to keep him on a strict diet. - And you feel like you're successful? - No, no, but I figured at least maybe you wouldn't say anything, you know. I was hoping you wouldn't just say anything, but we'll wait 'til next month. But I have another month to try to get him down to fighting Trev. - Excellent. - We'll be right back, I'm Howie Carr. (dramatic music) - Looking to give a mom in your life the gift of peace and quiet this Mother's Day? Maybe you can't help Mom run away from all her responsibilities, but at least you can help her tune them out with a brand new pair of Raycon earbuds. Raycon's everyday earbuds are the perfect way to tune out all the noise around you and tune in to something great. 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I really can't. - No, and dogs have lived with humans for the last 25 or 30,000 years 'cause they were eating people food, right? - Right. - You know, they were working in they were working and connected with humans. - Conjunction, thank you. And because they probably guarded early tribes of humans and that was a great payoff for the people, and they probably ate human scraps. - Right. - Of what people wanted to-- - They were, you know, in the early days, they were just hanging around 'cause they knew that the chrome magnets or whoever had taken out a woolly mammoth. And so they just looked at 'em and they threw 'em a bone. - They're bone, right. - And the guys said, the dog said, "I think I'm gonna stick around this place." - Absolutely, yeah. - And the ones that liked it stayed, yeah, exactly. And the ones that wanted to stay wild stayed wild. - Yeah, they became wolves and coyotes and Tasmanian tigers. All right, eight, four, four, 542, 42. Maria says, "Dr. Matt, I think the kitty bowl food issue "is some kitties don't like their whiskers "hitting the edges of their bowls. "I've rescued cats for about 15 years. "I went crazy a long time ago." That's what Maria says. - Well, I don't know that that's particularly wrong, that they have really sensitive nerves right at the base of their whiskers. And so, yeah, if they may have some hypers, these are hypersensitivity about their whiskers. - Eight, four, four, 500, 42, 42, eight, four, four, 500, 42, 42. I have three dogs, says nine, one, nine. All their medications and preventive medications come from our veterinarian. We never buy anything from the big pet stores. Is that necessary, though? Is it really? I mean, I know it helps you, but your business. - Yeah, I mean, I think what happens is, for veterinarians, they do have to make a profit. And they make a small profit on virtually everything we do, services and inventory that we sell. When people buy online or buy from 1-800 pet meds while I'm certainly not against it, it means that the veterinarian doesn't make that small amount of profit. So, it means they're gonna make it somewhere else. So, they're gonna charge more for services and stuff like that. So, it's always a change. I mean, veterinarians used to make a huge amount of money through spays and neuters, but now lots of dogs go through spay and neuter clinics. And so, we don't get that. So, but we make money doing other things. - Question for Dr. Matt, let's see here. My 12-year-old Maltese Sophie has chronic skin issues. She's on a topica and cyto point. She suffers from frequent ear infections. Now, she's licking and licking everything, it seems. Is it related to her issues or is this licking something else? - Right. I mean, obviously, I haven't examined your dog and I don't know. If your dog is on atopica, which is a pretty heavy-duty medication and cyto point, which is a drug I actually like quite a bit, but if you're not seeing real improvement or real change in your dog's skin, it might be the right time to go ahead and seek out a veterinary dermatologist. There's plenty of them around. They usually are very common-sensical and they do, and they can sort of spot an issue that a regular veterinarian may not see. - All right, 844-542-42, Dr. Matt, what's your phone number if people need your services during the week? My number is 978-948-8189. - Lorraine, you're next with Dr. Matt in how we are. Go ahead, Lorraine. - Oh, it's Maureen. - Oh, Maureen, sorry, sorry. - That's okay. I have a question about my dog's dental health. - Yep. - He's a loving your own lab. There's more to the shop ones that are running, the K9, they're kind of flattening out. - Yeah, sure. - You know, would we know if that's bothering him? I mean, it's a street hide. He hasn't complained about anything. - Right, yeah, labradors aren't tough as nails. They really are. - Yeah, I'm funny as trying to fry ice. We give them my drops three times a day. - Yeah. - He doesn't complain about that. - Right. - So, yeah, so teeth wear is one where you're gonna get a whole lot of different opinions and I'm gonna be a little bit old school on this one. I see labradors that wear their teeth really almost down to the gum and it's not really that bad unless they expose their pulp cavity and then those dogs probably should either get a root canal and a cap or get the tooth removed. I don't-- - Root canal for a dog? That sounds really expensive. - Yeah, well, oh yeah, yes it is. Everything is expensive, but yeah, root canals are very expensive, but let's take guard dogs like I used to work for the, see the MCI Gardener dogs, prison dogs and they all had implants. They had titanium implants in their canines because they're regular canines. - That sounds like a violation of the 8th amendment. - Who will an unusual punishment? - And when that dog would show his teeth, the rooms, the exam rooms suddenly got very strong. - I remember the old days with the T.P.F, the Tactical Patrol Force and Boston. Those dogs were mean, but I don't think they had titanium teeth. - Yeah, so they always made sure that it wasn't the regular dental color, which of course you can match. They wanted to make the dogs have titanium teeth because they looked a little bit more, you know. - Titanium teeth, I never heard of that. - Well, almost all implants are titanium, yeah, because it doesn't corrode. So, but in the case of this-- - So I get the secret service dogs, where they all have tight-- - Well, because when they go through training, they grab onto those big gloves and those big padded arms and they pull, and lots of them pull so hard, they loosen their teeth. - So in order to, so you put a titanium thread in their skull and then you screw in a titanium tooth. Yeah, so that can, it's pretty impressive, I must say. - I wonder if Chloe had titanium teeth. - But in force, she was rehomed in Vermont. - Yes, right, in the case of your dog though, worn teeth, I do trust my instincts on it if there's no swelling, and if you can touch the tooth and if the dog's still chewing stuff, I usually do very little. But you can always have your veterinarian take a look at it or you can go see a veterinary dentist. Veterinary dentists are gonna be prone towards being a little more aggressive with therapy. - Thanks for the call, Lorraine, 512. I really prefer the Simparica oral flea and tick meds for long-haired dogs because the squirt kinds never seem to reach his skin otherwise. - Right, I mean, so there's lots of different ways you can do it. There's the, I mean, I really don't recommend any sprays anymore just because it's been replaced by better stuff. But there are topical ones, they do disperse relatively well, but if you really do want, you know, coverage from the tip of their nose to the tip of their tail, the oral products really are quite good. - Yeah, and like you say, if you got young kids, that's definitely the way to go. - Right, yeah, well, for me it is. That's what I recommend if I actually just had a client in this afternoon, it was a new puppy and she said my six-year-old is hugging the dog like for hours a day. I said use the oral stuff, I wouldn't trust, it's not that they may not come off, but I don't trust that they won't come off. - Right. - So callers and the oral, you know, what it used to be called spot-ons, but at Vantix and Frontline in their descendants, I'm just fearful that they're gonna come off even in small amounts. And we're all exposed to stuff we shouldn't be exposed to. It only happens like every day, right? So I just wanna cut down on one thing that people are exposed to. - Right, plus it's something you think about. Now everyone that's got a flea collar on their dog is thinking about this, just listening to us. And maybe, I'm sorry, I don't mean to scare anybody, but-- - Well, I like flea collars, but we had a client bring their three labradors in, and literally as they walked in the door, one dog is holding onto the other dog's collar. The collar's just not a good idea in that case. - Right. - It's just, it's gonna get chewed off. - Yeah. Michael, you're next with Howie Carr and Dr. Mathevet. Go ahead, Michael. - Hey, thanks for taking my call. So my question for Dr. Mathevet is, we have a nine-year-old great Dane named Sadie. I've noticed there's like a raised line on her ear that she can feel physically. I have no idea what this could be, but it's like a straight-up raised line on her ear. - Like it does it go on the edge of her ear or does it go through the middle of her ear? - Well, it's in the middle, but it's going horizontal. It's not up and down. - Oh, okay. Yeah, so I don't know if it could be something like a little suture material. Did she have her earscropped or did she not have her earscropped? - No, she's got the big floppy great Dane. - Oh, cool, nice. That's really great. So yeah, I definitely think you, I can't think of any tumors or cancers like that, but it could be the migration of some parasite or something like that in there. She's having a reaction to it, but I absolutely would have your vet take a look at it. You know, nine-year-old great Danes are rare, so you want to keep them around. - I know. - Just getting a bath for the dog every once in a while. Like Roscoe goes to the daycare center. Does that help with keeping the parasites off of them or is it just the smell for human purpose? - No, I think, like dog soaps, dog grooming soaps are really meant to just lift dirt off them. The old flea and tick shampoos, there used to be tons of those, but that was back in the day when we used flea sprays and flea powders and flea shampoos. For those of you that weren't around for those, you're lucky. But they were very short-acting. So flea shampoos, the biggest problem is they only lasted a couple of days and you need to re-shampoo them again. But the newer shampoos are, I mean, companies have spent literally millions of dollars to develop these new dogs shampoos and they are very gentle with dogs and they're very safe and the old adage I used to call them old wives tales but now I respect old wives too much. But the story that you can only bathe your dog so frequently has gone out the window. You can bathe your dog every day now and all you'll have is a soggy angry dog. - That's why I let them do it out there. - Absolutely, let them be the bad guys. I think that's half my pay is willingness to be the bad guy. - 844, 542, 428, 444, 542, 442, my daughter, 401, my daughter's big orange tabby lies on his side and drinks water, dipping his paw in the water and licking the paw. - That's a life of luxury, folks. - Does that live it up? - You ever heard of that? - Yeah, a lot of cats will do it that way. You know, use their paws for a lot of different things and we obviously had the collar whose cat was feeding itself with its paws and we have cats that will only eat if they scoop it up with their paw. So cats that drink that way, I guess I'm not shocked. - 919, our dogs get their teeth cleaned once a year that cost of $800 times three. That seems really high. - Yeah, that veterinarian's driving a nicer car than me. (laughing) - Is it paying for their new maserati? - Is it really necessary to get a dog's teeth cleaned? - For me, absolutely no, but it depends on the dogs too. I mean, I one time told a client who had a miniature poodle that their dog needed a dental and the owner said you did it six months ago and I did. That I literally needed another one, but it's pretty rare for dogs to need them more than once a year and I would say the average is probably once every two or three years and if you do any sort of care at home, then probably never. - And, but it's also for the breath too. I mean, dogs, or isn't it? - Yeah, or is it just the teeth are getting robbed? - Well, the teeth can actually rot. So dogs typically don't get tooth decay but they can get periodontal disease and they can get infections that go up their tooth roots or they can get osteoporosis and lose their teeth that way. So there's lots of things that can happen to their teeth that require dentistry. So I'm not disputing the need for dentistry. Definitely we do dentals literally every week and are my practice. But I've never heard of a dog's getting yearly dentals at $800 a pop. I mean, I'm impressed, I mean that. - That's it, that guy's from North Carolina. - I'm making a huge mistake. - That guy's from North Carolina. You might want to move down to the research triangle. All right, we'll take one more call here. We got to do it, meet the experts. We come back, John, you're next with Howie Carr and Dr. Mathevet. Go ahead, John. - Yeah, we have an eight month old Anatolian Shepherd's office, she's a female and she's already 92 pounds. - Yeah, good lord. - What was your question? - How big? - Oh, Anatolians are a fairly diverse group genetically so you can't really put your hand on it but I would say anywhere from 100 to 130. - That is a pretty big. - And they don't come when they're called, okay? Anatolian shepherds do not come when called so don't try it. Keep them on leash. - Really? - They're literally bred not to come when they're called. So they're shepherding dogs. They're supposed to stay out there with the sheep. They don't want Chuck and Bob calling them over while Fred goes and steals the sheep. So they will just look at you if you call them, like they don't get it. - I never heard Anatolian Shepherd. - Yeah, they're from Turkey. - Right, and they are really beautiful, wonderful dogs but they are guard dogs and they are shepherding dogs and they are serious about their business. - All right, 844-542-42. So Dr. Matt, give us a, we gotta take a break early today or you're gonna be done early 'cause we need to do meet the experts but give us your phone number again and where people can find you. - People can find me at the Ipswich Animal Hospital on Route 1 on the Ipswich Rally Line and my number is 978-948-8189. - All right, thank you very much Dr. Matt. We appreciate it. And oh, I forgot to even ask you about the Turkey attacks damages Boston woman's car. Did you see that story? - I did not. But I live up with the turkeys. - This was in Brighton in Boston. - How dare you? - It wrecked, I mean, it just demolished her car. It was all, it was turkeyed. It looked like someone had heed the car but it was a turkey that had done it. - Yeah, it must've been pretty mad. - Turkey. - There was a, there was a daily mail story that said, wild black bear gets into car. I'm like, did you have to write wild? Yeah, black bear, yeah, wild, I got it. - God, it's, she put it on the social media and it's gotten millions of seven million views. All right, thank you Dr. Matt. We'll be right back, I'm highway car. - Highway car, we'll be right back. (dramatic music) - The emperor of hate, how he car, is back. (upbeat music) - We have an all new episode of Meet the Experts available now following the CrowdStrike problems this week and now the cyber attack on France's transit system. I spoke with Brandon Erickson from ReadyWise about the importance of being prepared for the unexpected. Here's a preview. - You don't have to believe in Armageddon who wanna have a food supply. Look what happened with CrowdStrike. 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