Aug. 25, 2026

Pet Owners Beware!

Pet Owners Beware!

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Hey, you're loved on too. It's such a compliment on

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W4CY for you.

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This is the Pet Health Guru segment, so pets are allowed.

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It is where pets have a voice. Forget the humans.

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Pets have a better voice anyway.

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That's right. You want to make sure that they're heard.

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That's right. So anyway, to just, uh, finish off while

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saying everybody again, reach out to me, pipe man, radio

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and all socials. Check out the interviews from bands warp

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tour from this weekend. Tell me which interview I swapped

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shirts with another band.

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Okay.

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And the, and the shirt, it's a record label shirt,

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stomp record. So gotta make sure to check it out. And, uh,

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I'm not going to tell you to ban. You got

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to tell me to ban so you can win. Your choice. Rock,

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La Homer, Aftershock, and the Pipe Man Radio Tour. Now

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we're going to switch gears a little bit. And we're

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going to talk about pets. Because pets are cooler than

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humans for the most part. But you pet owners, you

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need to beware. The health group, they need to beware.

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There are so many dangers out there for our pets

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that we think we're doing the right thing with. And

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that's where the danger lies. We've got medical professionals that

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have no clue about foods, diets.

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I think your dog is translating for you. I think

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your dog is translating for you in the background. Because

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as you're talking, it's like the sign language people at concerts.

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Yes, exactly.

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That's what she does. She's telling me what to say,

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what kind of challenges that she doesn't have to succumb

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to when most of her contemporaries are being bombarded every day.

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So tell us about some of those things that maybe

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people don't even realize are a danger.

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Well, I mean, you know, first off, let's look at chemicals.

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You know, yard chemicals, household chemicals, you know, sprays, deodorants, perfumes, makeup.

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You know, women all the time with their makeup and

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the dogs licking their face. What did they just ingest?

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You know, this is the.

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Kind of thing that nobody thinks about because all this

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stuff is invisible.

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EMS, the same thing. Chemtrails. Nobody looks up at the sky.

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Nobody cares about that stuff.

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But yet, you know, our animals, you know, they're hearing

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is what a hundred times, a thousand times more sensitive

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than ours as is their nose. And we're bombarding those

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senses on those dogs. And then we wonder why they're

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acting screwy and bad behaviors and all of that. It's just,

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they're fighting it 24 seven.

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Yeah.

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You know, there was, if we throw in the nutrition

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part of it, you know, the bad food, which I

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was telling somebody.

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Over the weekend.

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You know, doctors, veterinarians, they don't study, very few study

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any kind of nutrition. And nutrition isn't food. Nutrition is

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the scientific formulas behind it. Production, how it's handled, how

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it's processed is much more important than the actual vitamin

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content of something. Because if it's not in a usable form,

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it's no good for us anyway, or our dogs and cats.

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So I have a question real quick before we go

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on to the rest of it. I'm speaking for Juan.

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I'm his translator right now. And basically, does that also

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hold true for his guppy that like the toxic things

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that fish get exposed to if you have fish in

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the house?

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Absolutely, because water is absorbing the gas around it as well.

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So if you're using essential oils, different cleaners in your house,

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that sort of thing, that's being absorbed into the water.

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And it can have a nasty effect on the inhabitants

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of that fish tank as well.

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One of the things about nature.

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Though, and living things, we do have a certain amount

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of adaptivity that we can adapt and and fight off

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some of this stuff but in the long run it

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still gets us all.

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So the question is then okay so a lot of

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humans that use essential oils they say it's for good

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health is it really for good health and is it

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good health for our pets.

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To be honest most of them are not because they're

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highly processed i mean i know some they claim you

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know the companies that make this stuff claim that they're

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safe for animals are safe for use on people but

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the actual studies show the opposite it's um you know

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it's basically it It's like everything else around us. It's

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all superficial. It's cosmetic, if you will. It's cosmetic in

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the fact that it's a good, clean smell. Does it

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have some therapeutic effects? Some might. Some might not. They're

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going to be minimal at best. You know, when we

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look at pharmaceuticals as a whole, you know, on the

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medical side, all of them came from essentially plant-based at

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some point in time. And the first step from that

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was the essential oils. So we're taking and trying to

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duplicate and magnify something in an essential oil that's normally

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found in nature. And for what reason?

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Make money. Something different.

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Yeah.

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So what are your suggestions for pet owners so they

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don't have to be so beware or worried?

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Well, you know, we did a whole program on the

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Pet Health Cafe again on the holistic way. And number

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one is making sure that the environment is clean as possible.

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You know, you doing your part of doing the investigation,

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reading labels, that sort of thing, not only food, but

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cleaning products. You know, just because a company says they're

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a clean, you know, green, eco-friendly company doesn't really mean that.

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It just means that that might be less dangerous than,

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you know, the next guy. That's all it really is.

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So you start out that way and then you don't panic.

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You know, most of the what we call diseases and

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health issues and challenges that we have are not diseases.

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They're basically symptoms of an event that's going on. And

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when I say an event, it's usually a short-term, you know,

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like a 24-hour flu. You know, you could take medications

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for it, but guess what? It's still going to be

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24 hours no matter what you do. And actually, you've

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lowered the ability, the, you know, immune properties of your

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body by taking those medications and actually can prolong that

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24-hour flu to 48, 72, 96 hours. and have other

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side effects along with it, like the diarrhea and vomiting

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and everything else.

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That drugs cause.

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So, Vaughn, what questions do you have for the pet

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health guru about this subject that we're talking about?

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Well, is there anything I have to be aware of

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with the guppies? I mean, that's the only thing that

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really matters to me. Hashtag guppies, not puppies.

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That's right. So there is one thing I have noticed.

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There's one thing I have noticed when I first started

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the hobby, because this is technically like a hobby, the

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aquarium business. I used to get all the chemicals for

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the water to treat the water, to make sure that

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like all the pH levels were safe and everything. I

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switched from that because it was killing them like slowly.

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Like every time I would add chemicals, I would see

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like a couple of them like turn out there like

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a day or two later. I switched from that to

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just using beneficial bacteria and letting the tank cycle and

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adding more natural elements like grass, moss, you know, driftwood

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and all these other things that can contribute to the

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pH and everything else. And they've been thriving ever since.

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It's interesting, you know, you mentioned that when I started

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my career, that was one of the areas that I

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was very proficient at and helped develop a lot of

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the systems. Prior to that, we had a little box

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with a little bit of polyester foam in it and

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some charcoal.

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That was the whole filtration system.

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And then, of course, we got into the biological filters

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with the undergravels and things of that nature, working in

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conjunction with multistage external filters. And that was a whole

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game changer right there. Everything changed. The water chemistry remained

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fairly neutral. You know, we didn't have to use a

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lot of chemicals. And then, of course, modern times, we

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decided to go back to all chemicals. And, you know,

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that's what creates a lot of the problems.

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But if you look at, like, man-made lakes even, right? Like,

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we don't maintain those. And there's still... fish thriving in

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there even though we don't put chemicals to clean the

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water so like why would we be doing that to

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our pets you know in the aquarium hobby yeah.

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Yeah i mean if you look you know i mean

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uh you have here in south florida we have problems

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quite often with you know Massive algae blooms and that

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sort of thing that kill off literally thousands and thousands

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of fish.

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And what's the cause of it? Fertilizer from, you.

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Know, sugar plantations and that sort of thing where they're over-fertilized, over-sprayed, over-treated.

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And that works its way down through the ecosystem into

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the water and, you know, in nature that we're battling it.

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I mean, just even building Tamiami Trail across Florida.

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Changed the whole ecology of the Everglades.

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Because now we had a dam keeping the water going

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from where it's supposed to go. And of course, they

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built a whole series of canals and that sort of thing.

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They dump all that wastewater into the estuaries.

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So, Pet Health Guru, how can people reach out to

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you for... more info on my Paleo Pet, Pet Health Cafe,

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and basically everything that you do.

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Well, of course, start out with, and this is actually

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your best starting point, is to go on to the

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Pet Health Cafe on YouTube, Spotify, any of the major

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things on these stations here, and start learning about.

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What we teach.

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And then, of course, taking that as a guide, go

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over to MyPaleoPet, see the products that we have, MyPaleoPet.com,

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come into the store for a consultation or a phone consultation.

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Those are both available through the website.

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I'm in store at least four days a week, so

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you can always come in and have a personal conversation

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with me, always willing to help. And we actually will

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evaluate where your animal is health-wise in a way that

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The medical community doesn't even think about. It's not about

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adding more chemicals. It's about adding pure products, pure natural

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products that will help the body heal itself. Because medicines

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don't heal anything. The body has to heal itself, has

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to fix itself. It's a regenerative machine. And we just can,

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you know, we have to give it the right tools

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and get out of the way, let it do its job.

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Is there any other final words you want to give

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our people out there that they need to be aware

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of and any other, you know, healthy advice for them,

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for their pets?

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Well, like you said, the first thing is, is these

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are a lot of these health issues and challenges or

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events don't panic, you know, because that's the worst thing

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you can do is, you know, when you get hysterical,

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you go to the ER and they load up with

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drugs and everything else. And in many cases, that ailment

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would have been gone in 24 hours. I mean, emergency

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care is one thing, you know, if there's a serious

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accident or injury. But as far as these little things,

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you know, use common sense. I know that's a very,

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very foreign term today, but we innately know what we're

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supposed to do. We just ignore it and think of

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what the so-called experts tell you.

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All righty. Well, As usual, you're a wealth of information.

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You are a pet health guru. And everybody make sure

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to check out my Paleo Pet. Check out Pet Health Cafe.

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World of information. World of help. And you can even

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order products no matter where you are. And Bill will

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take care of it for you. And everybody make sure.

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Check out my interviews from Vans Warped Tour Montreal. And

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the one that. and talks about me trading shirts during

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the interview and let me know what band it is

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and you'll have a chance to win tickets to Rock,

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Oklahoma or Aftershock. Your choice. Thanks for listening. Thanks for

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being here on Positively Pipe Man and stay tuned. We'll

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have more going on this week. So keep watch for

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the Pipe Man. Thanks for listening to the Adventurous Pipe

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Roll it, Juan.

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