Heartworm Heroes
Welcome to the first episode! We talk about what heartworms are and the importance of using monthly prevention. Laugh with us as we dive into reviews on products like dewormers. Listen until the end for the AI generated song called Heartworm Hero, created using Suno.com if you want the MP3 of the song at no charge email us! nessieandkat@petliferadio.com
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Transcript:
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Kat: Let's talk about pets.
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Kat: It's a podcast.
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Kat: We talk about pets.
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Kat: We got stuff to talk about, and reviews, and products, and things, and...
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Kat: We talk about it here.
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Kat: And I am Kat.
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Nessie: Ooh, I'm Nessie.
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Kat: And that's Nessie.
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Kat: And we're your hosts, so let's dive right in.
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Kat: This one is about intestinal parasite.
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Nessie: For starters, I gotta get through to that.
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Kat: You're fine, Ness.
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Kat: Not all of us are prepared.
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Nessie: And start with a review for Nature's Miracle.
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Nessie: It is a stain and odor remover, everyday mess enzymatic formula, 24 ounces, and Renan C.
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Nessie: Aldo.
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Kat: He of all you and these names...
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Kat: I can feel you're just coming up with it on the spot.
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Nessie: Yeah, as you're like, we love it.
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Nessie: He left a five-star review, verified purchase for this item.
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Nessie: He's very excited about it.
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Nessie: And I want to share with you why he's so excited.
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Nessie: The best stain remover for pet and laundry is the title.
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Nessie: You're not ready for this.
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Nessie: I'm so not ready.
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Kat: It's warm, Renie.
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Nessie: I have always used it with pet accidents, but used it when I was out of laundry spot cleaner with much better results.
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Nessie: I was sick and threw up, in parentheses, red sauce.
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Nessie: Yeah.
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Nessie: On the carpet, the white expensive fabric blinds, the lampshade, parentheses, emotions.
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Nessie: Two days later, I cleaned everything as if it was new.
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Nessie: Used it in the wash on my shirt, pajamas, towel.
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Nessie: They all looked perfect.
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Nessie: Kind of odd, gross situation, but impressive results.
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Kat: How did it get on the blinds?
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Nessie: Do you like the exorcism spray vomit across the whole living room?
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Nessie: This man said the lampshade on the blinds, his pajamas, the towel, like it was on everything.
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Kat: Was he just profusely projectile-vomiting red sauce?
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Nessie: And then he cleaned it up two days later?
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Kat: It can be like that sometimes though.
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Kat: Like when you're sick and you have to clean up.
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Kat: I get it.
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Kat: But like, yeah, two days of red sauce sitting and it got it out.
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Kat: That's what's up.
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Nessie: That's impressive.
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Kat: That's what's up.
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Nessie: Not only does it work on your pet accidents, but your lampshades.
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Kat: And red sauce.
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Nessie: Yeah.
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Kat: Wow.
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Kat: That was a good one.
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Kat: That was a good one.
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Kat: I wasn't ready, right?
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Nessie: I tried to tell you.
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Nessie: I wasn't.
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Nessie: Ronanzi Aldo just, I might have changed his name already, but he really, he had a time.
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Kat: He got it.
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Nessie: But Nature's miracle was to the rescue.
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Kat: I'm glad he needed a miracle for that.
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Kat: He did.
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Kat: That sounded traumatic.
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Kat: All right.
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Kat: You're walking your dog outside.
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Kat: They do what dogs do.
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Kat: They squat.
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Kat: They poop.
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Kat: And then you glance at it because we all be looking at it, right?
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Kat: You can't say you don't.
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Kat: Yeah, I do.
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Nessie: I don't check it all the time because I have other things to do, but like sometimes I'm like, Yeah, you good today?
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Kat: Yeah, you good?
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Kat: And then you see worms.
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Kat: Oh my God.
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Kat: Wriggling.
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Kat: Doing what?
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Kat: Worms too?
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Nessie: Yeah.
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Nessie: Oh no.
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Nessie: I'm terrified.
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Kat: Gross.
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Kat: Yeah, gross.
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Kat: Gross.
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Nessie: Gross.
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Kat: Um, so we're going to talk about butt worms today and how awful they are.
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Kat: What do we do?
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Kat: And should we panic?
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Nessie: I want to panic.
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Kat: Don't panic.
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Kat: Okay, deep breaths.
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Nessie: And I'm about to push this panic button right here.
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Kat: Don't, don't eject right now.
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Kat: We're in this.
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Nessie: Okay, thank.
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Nessie: I'm going to hold my composure for a moment, but do know, like, I could push it.
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Kat: You could.
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Kat: You could panic, but we're not going to panic.
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Kat: Yeah, we're going to take a deep breath and we're going to learn about butt worms.
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Kat: Learn about them butt worms.
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Nessie: Oh my goodness.
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Nessie: Okay, we can do this.
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Kat: So intestinal parasites are very common in animals, especially puppies and puppies, puppy, puppies, but things that aren't on prevention.
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Kat: Prevented.
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Nessie: Episode 3, it's prevention again.
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Kat: Prevention.
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Nessie: Oh my God.
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Kat: There are several types of intestinal parasites and we're going to talk about them.
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Kat: There's hookworms, there's whipworms.
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Kat: Gross.
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Kat: There's roundworms, takeworms, coccidia, and giardia.
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Nessie: Girl, that wits.
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Kat: What's your last worms and more like protozoan?
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Kat: But we'll get there.
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Kat: Okay.
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Kat: So what are they?
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Kat: They live in the intestinal tract of your pets.
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Kat: Very common in puppies, like I said.
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Kat: You need microscopic evaluation to diagnose eggs in the feces.
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Nessie: I like all of this.
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Nessie: Yeah.
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Kat: So, you know, if you're seeing wormy boys, butt worms, work with your vet, work with, you know, that's something you should do.
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Kat: Hey, by the way, blast seat, a word.
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Nessie: With my very own two eyeballs.
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Kat: Let's talk about roundworms, baby.
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Kat: You can talk about all the things.
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Kat: That one is great.
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Kat: In front of them.
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Kat: You're doing great today.
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Kat: Um, roundworms.
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Kat: Toxicara canine.
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Kat: Penis name.
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Nessie: Okay, they weren't sound like a villain.
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Kat: So poppies, very common for puppies, for sure.
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Kat: They can actually get this from their mother through the placenta in the womb.
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Nessie: Okay.
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Kat: They can also get it while nursing.
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Kat: But larva is also ingested by, more commonly, licking surfaces contaminated with infected feces or eating the feces because dogs do be doing that.
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Nessie: Seen it?
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Kat: I've seen it.
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Kat: I'm pretty, I'm seeing horrendous.
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Kat: The eggs hatch and then penetrate the intestinal wall.
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Kat: They migrate through the liver, reach the lungs via the bloodstream.
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Kat: And then they cough them up.
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Kat: They swallow them.
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Kat: And then they mature into adults in the swan test.
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Kat: Oh, that's it.
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Kat: They sink in for wreck.
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Kat: And then puppies are very prone to it because they don't have very good immune system and things like that.
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Kat: Symptoms, lack of growth, a potbelly appearance, diarrhea, diarrhea, diarrhea, and a loss of condition, things like that.
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Nessie: They happen to have diarrhea.
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Nessie: Nature's miracle, from what I'm to understand, is got you.
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Nessie: Even two days later, got you, yeah.
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Kat: The bad thing about a lot of these intestinal parasites is that you can get them from your dog.
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Kat: So you have to be very cautious when you're cleaning up poop and things like that.
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Kat: Wash your hands.
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Kat: Don't eat it.
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Nessie: Don't eat it.
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Kat: Don't eat poop.
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Nessie: Sight them nails right as soon as you clean up a duke.
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Nessie: Oh yeah, so does that make it a zoonotic disease?
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Kat: Does that make it a zoonotic disease?
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Nessie: Which basically is just, it can be transferred between species, person to dog, dog to person, along with other species as well.
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Kat: So don't go out there licking poop, y'all.
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Nessie: Don't you be one of those.
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Nessie: I have a review for a product on Amazon.
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Nessie: It is a candle that says, light me when the dog farts.
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Kat: Oh, it's so cute.
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Nessie: This is also a five star review.
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Nessie: It is verified by Llama.
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Kat: Llama?
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Nessie: Llama left this review.
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Kat: Sounders.
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Nessie: Okay.
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Nessie: It's called It's a Candle, which is impressive, very descriptive.
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Kat: We're there.
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Nessie: When I ordered this item, I was under the impression that it could be used to light dog farts.
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Nessie: Admittedly, this raised some concern on my part.
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Nessie: What with tails and furry butts?
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Nessie: But I was intrigued.
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Nessie: It turns out, it's actually just a scented candle that you can use to overcome or mask noxious odors.
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Nessie: I have had a gaseous dog in the past, but none of the current pack has cursed with excessive flatulence.
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Nessie: So in order to test this product, I had to resort to human trials.
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Nessie: Oh, if you know what I mean, and I think you do.
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Nessie: The candle emits a pleasant lavender scent.
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Nessie: It has a wick.
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Nessie: You can light it.
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Nessie: It's a candle.
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Nessie: What more can I say?
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Kat: There is no way that's a real thing.
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Kat: I mean, I see it.
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Kat: Would she put that candle after her dog's butt hole?
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Kat: It was like, light it, but I don't know.
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Kat: You got it.
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Kat: I don't know.
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Kat: I don't know.
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Nessie: But I think it was right.
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Nessie: It was not lit by dog farts.
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Nessie: So I think that that was a fail.
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Nessie: And so when it didn't work, she resorted to human trials.
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Kat: She was farting on that candle.
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Nessie: She was like, she was like, Benny, am I over the wick?
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Nessie: Give me the mirror.
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Kat: And I was like, Mangler, you were happening.
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Kat: You gotta shut them blinds, girls.
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Kat: Make sure you clean out the pasta sauce.
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Kat: Shut the wick wide.
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Nessie: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Nessie: Okay, the pasta sauce off your blinds and shut them before you test the wick.
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Kat: She was squeezing one out on that wick.
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Nessie: I think the words she used to describe is like, I haven't heard them in a long time, like noxious odors, gaseous dogs, excessive flatulence.
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Nessie: Like this person is well-educated, and she just wanted you to know, she went through the trials of this candle, and it does what candles do, for the most part, but you cannot light it with your dog fart.
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Kat: All right, learned a thing.
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Nessie: Thank you, Lama.
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Kat: She can't shoot flames and light the candle, but you will smell lavender.
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Kat: I like it.
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Kat: So while we're talking about butts, hookworms.
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Kat: Hookworms.
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Kat: They are past enough feces of infected animals like most of them are.
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Kat: They can be ingested from eating infected feces or licking surfaces just like the other one, but it can penetrate the skin of your pet and migrate from the blood to the lungs.
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Kat: Migrate to the small intestine after being coughed up and swallowed like the previous.
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Kat: Gross.
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Kat: So the fact that you could step on it and go in your pet's feet, like your skin.
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Nessie: I'm following you.
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Nessie: I'm following you.
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Nessie: I'm not excited about this.
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Kat: Hookworms, they like to suck blood and things, so they can cause anemia, especially in young puppies.
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Kat: They leave open wounds behind when they migrate from place to place, so that can cause like bloody diarrhea, like dark tar-like feces, weight loss, loss of appetite.
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Kat: It can even make it to where puppies, if it goes on long enough, will need like blood transfusions and severe cases, and it can be fatal.
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Kat: So, you know, prevention!
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Nessie: Prevention!
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Nessie: Crazy how many things can be prevented with just one small monthly thing.
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Kat: Hookworms can be less than 0.5 inches long, and small in diameter, they're hard to see with the naked eye, so they're definite.
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Kat: They're small.
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Nessie: They're not a subworm.
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Kat: No, like you'd probably see a wild...
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Kat: a woundworm.
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Kat: A woundworm?
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Kat: A roundworm in the feces, and like you'd see tapeworms and stuff.
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Kat: But the hookworm is very small, so...
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Kat: Whippy worms!
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Nessie: Okay, okay, okay.
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Kat: They live in the cecum and the colon, which is the large intestine.
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Kat: Eggs are ingested and they move from the small intestine where the larvae live to the large intestines where adults live.
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Kat: In light infections, sometimes animals can have no symptoms.
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Kat: But with large amounts of whippy worms, they can have diarrhea, weight loss, serious infections, anemia, hematochesia, which is bloody diarrhea, can occur.
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Kat: Whipworms pass microscopic eggs in the stool, and the eggs are resistant to drying and heat, so they can remain alive in the environment for up to five years.
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Nessie: Oh, God.
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Kat: Wow.
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Nessie: That's a long time.
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Kat: That's a long time.
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Nessie: They're like as indestructible as plenies.
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Kat: Yeah.
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Kat: You can get whipworms from your pet as well.
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Kat: So, like I said, don't eat poo.
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Nessie: Interesting that you say that because not to eat poo.
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Nessie: Yes.
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Nessie: because I have this review for a dog park called Fort Wolf Dog Park, which is in Fort Worth, Texas.
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Nessie: It's a two-star review by austin.
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Nessie: Okay.
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Kat: My roommate's name.
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Nessie: And it's a two-star review.
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Nessie: austin says, make the owners eat their dog poo or just pick it up.
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Nessie: If the idiot's not bringing food, it would be nicer.
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Kat: Not bringing food?
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Kat: Why would you bring food to a dog park?
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Nessie: I don't know, but apparently people do.
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Nessie: I mean, maybe they want to catch a quick lunch while they're watching their dog play.
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Nessie: But I think it attracts all the dogs.
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Nessie: And I guess if you're like, if your dog is doing a duke, right?
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Nessie: And you're not picking it up, austin here thinks that either you pick it up or you have to eat it, and then you'll have hook worms.
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Kat: Yeah, hook worms, whip worms, and round worms.
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Nessie: Yeah, so austin, actually, that is probably illegal, and you can't make them eat it.
00:14:02.880 --> 00:14:07.080
Nessie: But I feel your pain because that's how diseases is spread.
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Kat: Yeah.
00:14:07.480 --> 00:14:10.020
Kat: You're walking, you feel squish under your foot.
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Nessie: Oh, no, not the squish.
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Kat: Yeah.
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Kat: And then you have to do the walk of shame where you like drag your foot on the grass.
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Nessie: We hate it.
00:14:17.420 --> 00:14:18.080
Nessie: We do hate that.
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Kat: Pack up your poop.
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Kat: Bring poopy bags.
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Kat: They're not expensive.
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Nessie: They're not.
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Nessie: I have tons of them at home.
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Nessie: Not that I think that that matters in this way.
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Kat: You need some.
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Kat: We got tons.
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Kat: In my case, I have to bring a Walmart bag because I got a Great Dane, but it's fine.
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Kat: Read another one.
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Kat: Okay.
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Nessie: This is Fort Willow Creek Paw Park in Saginaw, Texas.
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Nessie: If that's not how you say it, my bad, y'all, I don't get out much.
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Kat: Someone in Saginaw is going to be like, it's Saginaw.
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Nessie: I'm sorry.
00:14:55.880 --> 00:14:56.900
Nessie: I'm not from there.
00:14:56.900 --> 00:14:58.900
Nessie: I don't know your native ways.
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Nessie: And this is from Lenora, and she left us a three-star review, and it said, can be beautiful in all caps, but you can definitely lose a kid in the grass, and the ant mounds are everywhere, too.
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Kat: Where's Jimmy?
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Nessie: I feel like maybe, I feel like she has some experience, and she's lost a kid in the grass.
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Kat: She's like, where is he?
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Kat: I see the dog.
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Kat: I don't see Jimmy.
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Nessie: What had happened was the ant mounds got to Jimmy.
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Nessie: You know what I mean?
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Kat: Oh no, is Jimmy there?
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Nessie: Oh no.
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Kat: What happened to Jimmy?
00:15:44.140 --> 00:15:50.540
Nessie: The ant mounds or the poisonous spiders are like, dragging your foot along.
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Kat: It's a whole thing.
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Kat: Well, Charlotte's Web is getting it.
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Nessie: Charlotte's Web had set it up for the red ants all along.
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Kat: Oh man.
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Nessie: I think that it's funny that she thinks the park has so much potential.
00:16:02.720 --> 00:16:06.140
Nessie: The problem is that she lost Jimmy in the grass.
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Kat: I love how she lost Jimmy first and not the dog.
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Kat: She's like, I know where the dog is.
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Kat: Where's my kid?
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Kat: Hey, he's having the time of his life counting ants.
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Nessie: No, don't be careful.
00:16:21.900 --> 00:16:23.420
Nessie: The red ants bite back.
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Kat: They do.
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Kat: They do.
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Kat: All right.
00:16:26.540 --> 00:16:27.840
Kat: Tapeworms.
00:16:28.780 --> 00:16:31.760
Kat: Transferred from infected fleas.
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Kat: Tapeworms are very common that can affect dogs and cats.
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Kat: They're long, flat, and segmented, and the segments have eggs inside of them.
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Kat: They can look like grains of rice.
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Kat: They're spread through infected dog's feces like the other ones, but they can be seen in the stool and the fur around the dog's anus, or in their bedding because they look like little rice boys.
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Kat: Fleas and rodents ingest the tapeworm eggs found in the environment, and then they hatch into a larvae and live inside of them.
00:17:03.680 --> 00:17:12.220
Kat: And then after a dog ingests a flea or a rodent carrying the tapeworm larvae, adult tapeworms develop and live in the small intestines.
00:17:12.220 --> 00:17:17.880
Kat: They attach to the linings of the dog's gut, and they feed off the nutrients and suck the white force.
00:17:17.880 --> 00:17:18.360
Kat: I'm just kidding.
00:17:21.160 --> 00:17:23.080
Kat: Energy vampires and human.
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Kat: So the segments periodically break off in the intestine, and they pass through the dog's faeces, which is where they become visible to owners.
00:17:30.700 --> 00:17:36.180
Kat: So your dog will scoot or drag their butt to relieve the itchiness.
00:17:36.180 --> 00:17:39.700
Kat: You can see the segments, like I said, that look like little grains of rice.
00:17:39.700 --> 00:17:41.780
Kat: And then that is terrible.
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Kat: So, prevent us!
00:17:44.540 --> 00:17:49.380
Kat: But also, you can treat it with Proziquantil, which is a de-warming medication.
00:17:49.380 --> 00:17:51.760
Kat: But of course, consult your veterinarian.
00:17:51.800 --> 00:17:54.160
Kat: You can prescribe something to get rid of them.
00:17:54.160 --> 00:17:55.840
Kat: Flee control is important.
00:17:55.880 --> 00:17:59.540
Kat: Routine flea prevention, collars, topicals, oral shoes.
00:17:59.540 --> 00:18:03.280
Kat: Treat the environment, home, yard, all of that stuff.
00:18:03.280 --> 00:18:10.620
Kat: And then, typically, you can keep them on a monthly de-warmer, which can be combined with heartworm prevention.
00:18:10.620 --> 00:18:19.840
Kat: So just make sure to pay attention to what is in your heartworm flea, all that stuff, because a lot of them cover intestinal parasites, too.
00:18:19.840 --> 00:18:26.640
Nessie: So this isn't necessarily a review, but it is in the same vein as our tapeworms that we're talking about.
00:18:26.640 --> 00:18:34.640
Nessie: So I found a Reddit thread, and it is, do tapeworms make good pets?
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Kat: Absolutely.
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Nessie: And actually, an anonymous user responded, and yes, and they gave some reasons why, which I feel like is fair to share at the moment, because for number one, it says they're easy to care for.
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Nessie: You just need to make some space for them in your intestine.
00:18:54.600 --> 00:18:57.880
Nessie: And that's, I mean, honestly, that worked.
00:18:57.880 --> 00:18:59.320
Nessie: They are good company.
00:18:59.320 --> 00:19:03.160
Nessie: They're with you no matter where you go once they settle down, okay?
00:19:03.160 --> 00:19:04.560
Kat: Low maintenance.
00:19:04.560 --> 00:19:11.120
Nessie: They do recommend that you keep them away from their natural predators, which is your local doctor.
00:19:11.120 --> 00:19:14.760
Nessie: They will try and take your friend tapeworm away from you.
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Kat: Yeah.
00:19:15.780 --> 00:19:18.600
Nessie: They also say they are adorable.
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Nessie: They have a lovable face.
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Nessie: If you have an electron microscope.
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Kat: Oh, that is not adorable.
00:19:26.940 --> 00:19:27.200
Nessie: Yeah.
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Kat: That is nightmarish.
00:19:31.340 --> 00:19:32.940
Nessie: They are cheap.
00:19:33.000 --> 00:19:39.600
Nessie: So, a dog, they estimate can cost $300 to buy.
00:19:39.600 --> 00:19:45.240
Nessie: A tapeworm costs as much money as a slab of uncooked meat.
00:19:45.240 --> 00:19:46.000
Kat: Oh, no.
00:19:47.600 --> 00:19:52.840
Nessie: And the packaging is edible and nutritious.
00:19:52.840 --> 00:20:01.140
Nessie: So, they come in the form of uncooked meat, which provides you with protein boost and cuts the cost of your energy bill.
00:20:01.140 --> 00:20:02.720
Kat: They'll lose weight.
00:20:02.780 --> 00:20:03.820
Nessie: Yeah.
00:20:03.820 --> 00:20:10.060
Nessie: So, those are the reasons that this anonymous person gave on Reddit why you should have a tapeworm as a pet.
00:20:10.060 --> 00:20:12.920
Nessie: I don't think it's for me.
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Kat: I don't think it's for me either.
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Kat: I feel like maybe we could just eat some veg too.
00:20:18.580 --> 00:20:19.920
Nessie: Like a good veggie.
00:20:19.920 --> 00:20:21.400
Kat: just get a dog or something.
00:20:21.400 --> 00:20:22.800
Nessie: Right.
00:20:22.800 --> 00:20:25.820
Nessie: He said it wasn't cost effective in his life.
00:20:25.820 --> 00:20:30.460
Nessie: So, I mean, honestly, to eat their own, but I'm probably not going to get a tapeworm pet.
00:20:30.460 --> 00:20:32.200
Kat: No, I'm good.
00:20:32.200 --> 00:20:36.020
Kat: And now that I know what they look like, we're all negative.
00:20:36.020 --> 00:20:36.580
Nessie: Yeah.
00:20:36.580 --> 00:20:39.120
Kat: I might put that on our ice look page.
00:20:39.120 --> 00:20:39.620
Nessie: Yeah.
00:20:39.620 --> 00:20:42.480
Nessie: That thing will probably haunt me in my dream.
00:20:42.480 --> 00:20:42.780
Kat: Yeah.
00:20:42.780 --> 00:20:44.200
Kat: No, don't get a pet tapeworm.
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Nessie: If you guys are interested to see the electron microscope picture of a tapeworm face, we will put it on our Facebook.
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Kat: Yeah.
00:20:54.140 --> 00:20:55.120
Kat: Take a gander.
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Kat: It's terrifying.
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Nessie: How do they find our Facebook?
00:20:58.720 --> 00:21:02.420
Kat: Let's talk about pets on facebook.com.
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Nessie: Cool, cool, cool.
00:21:03.040 --> 00:21:03.820
Kat: That's it.
00:21:03.820 --> 00:21:06.220
Kat: That's how you find that's the whole thing.
00:21:06.220 --> 00:21:07.420
Kat: All right.
00:21:07.420 --> 00:21:11.440
Kat: The next one I'm going to talk about is less a worm and more protozoan.
00:21:11.440 --> 00:21:13.200
Kat: It's called coccidia.
00:21:14.280 --> 00:21:17.960
Kat: It can cause GI signs in dogs and cats.
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Kat: Many species of coccidia infect the intestinal tracts of your pets, but they are most specific, so they only want the dog or the cat, and it's rarely passed to humans because it's like specific to the host, like the different kinds.
00:21:35.500 --> 00:21:39.400
Kat: So these tiny celled parasites live in the wall of the intestine.
00:21:40.160 --> 00:21:51.000
Kat: They're very common in puppies, but they can infect adult dogs as well as cats, but it can cause diarrhea that's watery or bloody, or as mucus, weight loss, dehydration.
00:21:51.000 --> 00:22:03.460
Kat: Some signs of severe coccidia in puppies and dogs includes not eating, vomiting, depression, and it can even cause death and the severe cases.
00:22:03.460 --> 00:22:15.100
Kat: However, some dogs with coccidia can be asymptomatic and not show any signs of being infected, but they can still shed the egg in their feces and infect other dogs or puppies.
00:22:15.100 --> 00:22:24.940
Kat: So it's important that your dog has a fecal exam at their annual veterinary visits, a fecal float, to check and make sure that we don't have worries.
00:22:26.100 --> 00:22:45.580
Kat: They can get coccidia by ingesting the immature coccidia from contaminated environments such as soil or feces that contains it, but young puppies are most likely to become infected when they're exposed to contaminated dog feces due to their underdeveloped immune system.
00:22:45.580 --> 00:22:51.320
Kat: So that's why it's important for puppies to have multiple fecal exams throughout their puppy visits with their veterinarian.
00:22:52.200 --> 00:23:04.900
Kat: And even stressful situations like traveling or moving to a new home or environment, immunosuppression or like chronic diseases can make puppies more susceptible to coccidia.
00:23:04.900 --> 00:23:16.580
Kat: Dogs cannot pass coccidia to cats even if the cat's exposed to the feces because they are host specific and cats have their own coccidia that they like to get.
00:23:17.260 --> 00:23:24.560
Kat: The disease is self-limiting and during most animals' lives, they don't show like illness.
00:23:24.560 --> 00:23:35.120
Kat: But if it's like really like bad and severe, they can have like diarrhea and dehydration and things like that that can occur.
00:23:35.120 --> 00:23:42.960
Kat: So it's important to get rid of infections because they can have nasty poo and does not do well.
00:23:44.060 --> 00:23:52.560
Kat: So ask your vet if your dog has coccidia, what medication they need to be put on.
00:23:52.560 --> 00:23:59.220
Kat: So nasty poo, nasty poo, pasty feces is very descriptive.
00:23:59.220 --> 00:24:00.840
Nessie: excuse me, what happened?
00:24:00.840 --> 00:24:04.740
Nessie: Pasty feces, like light color.
00:24:05.460 --> 00:24:07.160
Kat: I like a paste.
00:24:08.600 --> 00:24:10.580
Nessie: So we're talking consistent being here.
00:24:10.580 --> 00:24:11.760
Nessie: Cool, cool, cool, cool, cool.
00:24:11.760 --> 00:24:17.900
Nessie: The same dog park, Willow Creek Paw Park, in once again, Saginaw, Texas.
00:24:17.900 --> 00:24:19.020
Kat: Saginaw.
00:24:19.020 --> 00:24:30.940
Nessie: This one is from Randy, and Randy left three stars, and he said, it's a nice park, great for jogging, not so good for disc golf though.
00:24:32.540 --> 00:24:50.120
Nessie: So Randy, just real quick, are you going to the Paw Park, Willow Creek Paw Park, to jog and play disc golf through the mounds of apparently tall grass that you lose children in, ants and feces?
00:24:50.120 --> 00:24:53.760
Kat: Is there a disc golf corp, disc golf corp?
00:24:53.760 --> 00:24:55.220
Nessie: I'm not, I think so.
00:24:55.220 --> 00:24:56.360
Kat: Is there one there?
00:24:56.360 --> 00:25:07.560
Nessie: So like, it doesn't, it doesn't say, I mean, it's honestly just a big open dog park, and he thinks that this should be where he plays disc golf with Chad.
00:25:07.560 --> 00:25:16.120
Kat: I do feel like the dog park's not the best place for disc golf, because squishing under your feet and maybe the spike.
00:25:16.120 --> 00:25:19.940
Nessie: And you might find, you might find Jimmy in the tall grass, like you might run Jimmy.
00:25:19.940 --> 00:25:24.800
Nessie: I don't know, he just, he's down there counting the ants, and you done tripped over Jimmy.
00:25:25.360 --> 00:25:27.820
Kat: Or you throw your frisbee and you can hear a thump.
00:25:29.860 --> 00:25:30.960
Kat: It's like, there's Jimmy.
00:25:30.960 --> 00:25:33.320
Nessie: Oh no, give me a good frisbee, I'm gonna find Jimmy.
00:25:33.820 --> 00:25:35.580
Nessie: Ha ha ha ha ha.
00:25:35.580 --> 00:25:36.480
Kat: Bulk.
00:25:36.480 --> 00:25:37.740
Nessie: There's Jimmy.
00:25:37.980 --> 00:25:39.660
Nessie: I'm in the recon mission.
00:25:39.660 --> 00:25:41.880
Kat: Oh, um, poor Jimmy.
00:25:41.880 --> 00:25:43.700
Kat: He's done got bitten by spiders.
00:25:43.860 --> 00:25:51.220
Nessie: I really want to visit this dog park, because I found another three-star review for the same Darmark.
00:25:51.220 --> 00:25:52.960
Nessie: And this one, if...
00:25:55.980 --> 00:25:59.140
Kat: Why would you want, after all these reviews, why would you want to go to the...
00:25:59.140 --> 00:26:00.740
Nessie: because you're about to see.
00:26:00.740 --> 00:26:02.760
Nessie: This one is John Jacob, okay?
00:26:04.240 --> 00:26:05.720
Nessie: Right, is what I was thinking.
00:26:05.720 --> 00:26:10.500
Nessie: And it's three stars, and it says, Lady in the Shoe Department is not friendly at all.
00:26:11.640 --> 00:26:14.060
Nessie: Why capitals, all, not friendly at all?
00:26:14.060 --> 00:26:17.280
Nessie: Like, the Lady in the Shoe Department, this dog park was just not healthy.
00:26:17.280 --> 00:26:18.560
Kat: And the Shoe Department?
00:26:18.560 --> 00:26:19.540
Nessie: Yeah, yeah.
00:26:19.540 --> 00:26:33.280
Nessie: So while you're there to play your disc golf, and jogging, and chase Jimmy in the tall grass, oh, you may, you may go visit the Shoe Department, but be warned, the Lady there is not friendly.
00:26:33.280 --> 00:26:34.540
Kat: I'm so confused.
00:26:34.540 --> 00:26:35.940
Nessie: This dog park is wild.
00:26:37.280 --> 00:26:38.800
Kat: Why does it have a shoe department?
00:26:38.800 --> 00:26:40.720
Nessie: because it also has a disc golf course.
00:26:40.720 --> 00:26:42.360
Kat: I thought, no.
00:26:42.360 --> 00:26:46.220
Kat: Do you rent shoes for, do you have special shoes for disc golf?
00:26:46.220 --> 00:26:48.840
Kat: I'm so confused.
00:26:48.840 --> 00:26:51.060
Kat: This dog park is sounding wild.
00:26:51.060 --> 00:26:51.600
Nessie: Yes.
00:26:51.620 --> 00:26:54.480
Kat: I, spiders, tall grass, Jimmy's gone.
00:26:54.480 --> 00:26:56.020
Nessie: The Shoe's, yeah.
00:26:56.020 --> 00:26:58.500
Nessie: I am ready to visit this dog park 100%.
00:26:59.240 --> 00:27:03.400
Kat: You know, you better wear a long jacket for the ants and the spiders.
00:27:04.340 --> 00:27:06.660
Nessie: Grab your flashlight.
00:27:06.660 --> 00:27:15.900
Nessie: Maybe the shoe department is where you buy your big, tall, like, boots, so that they don't get in your, in your shoes.
00:27:15.900 --> 00:27:16.580
Kat: Yeah.
00:27:16.580 --> 00:27:19.240
Nessie: But apparently, I don't, I don't know.
00:27:19.240 --> 00:27:20.880
Nessie: Like, girl, why are you so mad?
00:27:20.880 --> 00:27:24.000
Nessie: Is it because you work in the shoe department at the dog park?
00:27:24.000 --> 00:27:26.200
Kat: So when you said, I said, watch under your foot.
00:27:26.280 --> 00:27:27.880
Kat: They're like, oh, I made new shoes.
00:27:27.880 --> 00:27:30.140
Nessie: But actually, that might be a good racket.
00:27:30.140 --> 00:27:36.740
Nessie: Anyone trying to do a portable business venture, sell shoes at a dog park for folks who step in the do.
00:27:36.740 --> 00:27:38.860
Kat: The lawn scrubbing didn't work.
00:27:38.860 --> 00:27:40.080
Kat: Made new shoes.
00:27:40.080 --> 00:27:41.500
Nessie: Cool dog park.
00:27:43.160 --> 00:27:45.740
Kat: You might get roundworms there, but...
00:27:45.740 --> 00:27:47.560
Nessie: Right, right, right, right, right.
00:27:47.560 --> 00:27:49.540
Kat: Giardia.
00:27:49.540 --> 00:27:56.460
Kat: It's an intestinal infection in humans and animals caused by a microscopic protozoan.
00:27:56.460 --> 00:27:57.700
Kat: It's not a worm.
00:27:57.700 --> 00:28:04.800
Kat: It's more of a one-celled parasitic species, but it's spread from infected feces.
00:28:04.800 --> 00:28:08.000
Kat: But it can sometimes be present without clinical signs.
00:28:08.000 --> 00:28:13.720
Kat: But when it does have clinical signs, it can cause, again, diarrhea, weight loss, vomiting.
00:28:13.720 --> 00:28:16.440
Kat: It can be spread from animals to people.
00:28:16.440 --> 00:28:23.040
Kat: It can be transmitted by eating or sniffing the cysts from contaminated ground or by drinking contaminated water.
00:28:23.920 --> 00:28:31.680
Kat: They attach themselves to the intestinal wall, and the damage causes acute, sudden onset of foul-smelling diarrhea.
00:28:31.680 --> 00:28:33.080
Nessie: Oh my god.
00:28:34.400 --> 00:28:35.320
Nessie: I'm not down to that.
00:28:35.320 --> 00:28:36.880
Nessie: Get my nature's miracle out.
00:28:36.880 --> 00:28:37.460
Kat: Yeah.
00:28:37.460 --> 00:28:42.740
Kat: They can have weight loss, chronic, intermittent diarrhea, fatty stool.
00:28:42.740 --> 00:28:45.180
Kat: It can range from soft to watery.
00:28:45.180 --> 00:28:47.960
Kat: It can occasionally contain blood.
00:28:48.300 --> 00:28:49.480
Kat: The script of words.
00:28:49.480 --> 00:28:49.900
Nessie: Yeah.
00:28:49.900 --> 00:28:50.820
Kat: Very bad.
00:28:50.820 --> 00:28:51.460
Nessie: Very un-
00:28:51.460 --> 00:28:56.220
Nessie: It can obviously also maybe be the time to light your lavender-scented dog fart candle.
00:28:56.220 --> 00:28:56.540
Kat: Yeah.
00:28:56.540 --> 00:29:01.240
Kat: If your dog is about to blow out, you have to have like that shoot out flames.
00:29:01.240 --> 00:29:02.540
Nessie: Bloody yenis.
00:29:02.580 --> 00:29:03.720
Nessie: I think.
00:29:03.720 --> 00:29:06.160
Nessie: It's time for that dog fart candle.
00:29:06.160 --> 00:29:11.820
Kat: If sufficient numbers are present, clinical signs of damage to the intestinal wall will develop.
00:29:11.820 --> 00:29:18.300
Kat: It is very common in densely populated environments, such as kennels and pet stores, animal shelters.
00:29:18.300 --> 00:29:24.840
Kat: It's very hard to diagnose on a fecal float, so most vets send feces to a laboratory for analysis.
00:29:24.840 --> 00:29:26.580
Kat: Ask your vet for treatment.
00:29:26.580 --> 00:29:30.240
Kat: Prevent your dog from drinking from unknown water sources.
00:29:30.240 --> 00:29:32.080
Kat: Keep the environment clean.
00:29:32.080 --> 00:29:38.260
Kat: Monitor a dog for, you know, if your dog's having diarrhea, mink or that, you know, okay, yeah.
00:29:38.260 --> 00:29:49.220
Kat: Fecal flotation is how veterinarians and veterinary medicine test to diagnose internal parasites, intestinal parasites.
00:29:49.220 --> 00:29:51.840
Kat: It can detect eggs and things like that.
00:29:51.840 --> 00:29:58.100
Kat: So we primarily use a sugar or salt solution, such as zinc sulfate or sodium nitrate.
00:29:58.100 --> 00:30:03.440
Kat: They provide the proper specific gravity so that the parasite eggs float to the top.
00:30:04.060 --> 00:30:09.960
Kat: The debris stays at the bottom, and then you can put it on a microscope and see the different kinds of eggs.
00:30:09.960 --> 00:30:16.340
Kat: But like I said, it's hard to diagnose Giardia on a fecal float.
00:30:16.340 --> 00:30:19.640
Kat: So just, they're probably gonna send it off to the lab.
00:30:19.640 --> 00:30:24.500
Kat: So we make a poop soup, and we look at it under a microscope.
00:30:24.500 --> 00:30:28.920
Nessie: You know, something about a poop soup is really good.
00:30:28.920 --> 00:30:31.920
Nessie: So it's getting me excited about work, you know?
00:30:32.140 --> 00:30:33.520
Kat: Yeah, you like poop soup.
00:30:33.800 --> 00:30:34.760
Nessie: I do enjoy that a lot.
00:30:35.080 --> 00:30:37.300
Nessie: And I can get down with that.
00:30:37.300 --> 00:30:39.400
Kat: It's pretty crusty.
00:30:39.400 --> 00:30:42.820
Kat: It gets stinky in the back when I come, but it's necessary.
00:30:42.820 --> 00:30:44.360
Kat: Poop's very important.
00:30:45.640 --> 00:30:48.140
Nessie: It's a great diagnostic tool.
00:30:48.140 --> 00:30:53.620
Kat: Back to what I said at the beginning of this episode, prevention is key.
00:30:53.620 --> 00:30:55.340
Kat: Put your dogs on prevention.
00:30:55.340 --> 00:30:59.280
Nessie: I know you feel like we're obsessed with it, but I have a good reason.
00:30:59.280 --> 00:31:00.040
Kat: It's important.
00:31:00.480 --> 00:31:05.100
Kat: It's important because a lot of them prevent intestinal parasites, and then you're good.
00:31:05.100 --> 00:31:13.160
Nessie: Of course, get with your veterinarian, pick the right one for your situation, all that fun stuff, but just do something.
00:31:13.160 --> 00:31:16.740
Nessie: The pros really outweigh the cons.
00:31:16.740 --> 00:31:23.280
Nessie: We're three episodes in, and literally, I'm so excited that prevention exists.
00:31:23.280 --> 00:31:25.680
Kat: Prevention is important.
00:31:27.060 --> 00:31:28.500
Kat: It's all okay.
00:31:28.500 --> 00:31:32.620
Kat: Everyone's like, this lady just needs to stop saying that P word.
00:31:32.620 --> 00:31:33.800
Kat: Yeah, also.
00:31:33.800 --> 00:31:36.120
Nessie: Okay, I have two things.
00:31:36.120 --> 00:31:43.760
Nessie: I have a review, but I also have a, if a worm had a dating profile.
00:31:43.760 --> 00:31:49.580
Nessie: So this is Cherry Palmer Memorial Dog Park, and it is in Birmingham, Alabama.
00:31:49.580 --> 00:31:52.000
Nessie: It is two stars by Radish.
00:31:52.480 --> 00:31:53.040
Nessie: Radish?
00:31:53.060 --> 00:31:55.920
Nessie: Okay, Radish, tell us about your time at the park, right?
00:31:57.040 --> 00:31:59.120
Nessie: The park is run down.
00:31:59.120 --> 00:32:04.900
Nessie: I witnessed the people, the mow the grass, destroyed the dog toys, the gates, and the benches.
00:32:04.900 --> 00:32:08.740
Nessie: The man on the mower has just burst through the gates.
00:32:08.740 --> 00:32:11.720
Nessie: Two of them are broke, and the dogs can get out.
00:32:11.720 --> 00:32:14.360
Nessie: He throws the benches and some are cracked.
00:32:14.360 --> 00:32:17.640
Nessie: Same with the dog toys, they no longer work.
00:32:17.640 --> 00:32:20.120
Kat: Yeah, it sounds like he hates his job.
00:32:20.160 --> 00:32:21.740
Nessie: So, here we go.
00:32:21.740 --> 00:32:27.920
Nessie: We have Jimmy at this other dog park getting lost in the grass, and then here at Cherry Palmer in Alabama.
00:32:27.920 --> 00:32:28.940
Kat: Alabama?
00:32:28.940 --> 00:32:32.920
Nessie: They're like, hey, we got this guy, he cuts our grass.
00:32:32.920 --> 00:32:43.760
Nessie: But he is probably the whole, like, he's throwing benches and running over the dog toys, crashing his lawnmower through the gate, just breaking the gate down.
00:32:43.760 --> 00:32:44.700
Kat: He hates his job.
00:32:44.700 --> 00:32:48.080
Kat: He's like, I'm tired of all this dog poop on one grass.
00:32:48.080 --> 00:32:49.420
Nessie: He doesn't want to be there.
00:32:49.760 --> 00:32:57.120
Nessie: He sounds like he's just getting out some frustration in these people's dog park, and she's witnessed it with her own eyes.
00:32:57.120 --> 00:32:59.920
Kat: Be careful, probably through your dog.
00:32:59.920 --> 00:33:04.760
Nessie: Don't be there in his way, because he's not stopping for anything, not even a closed gate.
00:33:04.840 --> 00:33:06.020
Kat: Oh, man.
00:33:06.020 --> 00:33:10.300
Kat: I could imagine just watching this man mowing the grass.
00:33:10.300 --> 00:33:11.620
Kat: He's like, ah!
00:33:11.840 --> 00:33:13.360
Nessie: It grows open.
00:33:13.360 --> 00:33:14.960
Nessie: What are these benches made out of?
00:33:15.800 --> 00:33:16.680
Kat: Aren't they?
00:33:16.680 --> 00:33:17.860
Nessie: They're like a concrete bit.
00:33:17.860 --> 00:33:18.720
Nessie: They couldn't be.
00:33:18.720 --> 00:33:20.320
Nessie: They got to be like those little plastic ones.
00:33:20.320 --> 00:33:24.100
Nessie: If he's just picking up and like chucking it across the dog park.
00:33:24.100 --> 00:33:27.040
Kat: Well, why aren't they connected to the ground is what I don't understand.
00:33:27.040 --> 00:33:30.760
Nessie: They must not be worried about people jacking them.
00:33:30.760 --> 00:33:31.980
Kat: I'ma take this.
00:33:32.640 --> 00:33:33.700
Nessie: I'm a nice bitch.
00:33:33.720 --> 00:33:35.340
Kat: It was a nice boulder.
00:33:35.520 --> 00:33:37.600
Kat: I like that boulder.
00:33:37.600 --> 00:33:40.660
Nessie: It'll go real nice in my aura.
00:33:40.660 --> 00:33:43.960
Nessie: So they're not worried about that, but this guy thinks they're in his way.
00:33:44.260 --> 00:33:45.480
Nessie: So it's going.
00:33:45.480 --> 00:33:51.320
Nessie: Like, don't be in his way when this guy's chudu benches and dog toys is going to throw Jimmy.
00:33:51.340 --> 00:33:53.960
Nessie: Jimmy better not be in the grass this day.
00:33:55.640 --> 00:33:56.380
Kat: Poor Jimmy.
00:33:56.380 --> 00:33:57.540
Kat: He's been through a lot.
00:33:57.540 --> 00:33:58.240
Nessie: Yeah.
00:33:58.240 --> 00:33:58.560
Nessie: Yeah.
00:33:58.560 --> 00:33:59.580
Nessie: I'm sorry, guy.
00:33:59.580 --> 00:34:00.760
Nessie: I'm sorry, Jimmy.
00:34:00.760 --> 00:34:06.140
Nessie: One more thing that I found, and it is common myth.
00:34:06.140 --> 00:34:12.520
Nessie: We should start with, if I don't see any worms in this stool, it means my dog don't have worms.
00:34:12.980 --> 00:34:14.100
Kat: True or false?
00:34:14.100 --> 00:34:14.920
Kat: False.
00:34:14.920 --> 00:34:15.400
Nessie: Okay.
00:34:15.400 --> 00:34:20.380
Nessie: That's why we're doing the Fecal Float Party.
00:34:20.380 --> 00:34:23.660
Nessie: I had to verify, because I just was a little bit...
00:34:23.660 --> 00:34:28.300
Kat: They're microscopic sometimes, like the eggs and stuff are.
00:34:28.300 --> 00:34:34.740
Kat: You're not always going to see worms in the feces, so, you know, fecal floats are very important.
00:34:34.740 --> 00:34:41.280
Kat: Like I said, sometimes they can be asymptomatic for certain types of these worms, so it's important to check the feces every year.
00:34:42.000 --> 00:34:45.880
Kat: Make sure that we don't have any lingering parasites.
00:34:45.880 --> 00:34:51.840
Nessie: And really quick, I just want to go over this dating profile that I came across in Cosmos.
00:34:51.840 --> 00:34:52.880
Kat: For tapeworm.
00:34:52.880 --> 00:34:53.900
Nessie: For...
00:34:53.900 --> 00:34:56.640
Nessie: Actually, this one is for Topsoplasma gondii.
00:34:56.640 --> 00:34:57.240
Kat: I don't know.
00:34:57.240 --> 00:34:58.280
Nessie: Okay?
00:34:58.280 --> 00:35:00.520
Nessie: just see if you want to swipe right on them, okay?
00:35:00.520 --> 00:35:01.480
Kat: Absolutely.
00:35:01.480 --> 00:35:03.000
Nessie: Do you love Kat?
00:35:03.000 --> 00:35:03.500
Nessie: So do I.
00:35:04.400 --> 00:35:06.280
Nessie: They're my favorite animal.
00:35:06.280 --> 00:35:16.620
Nessie: Although I can weasel my way into a vertebrate animal if that I want to, including weasels, that's not one of the reasons why I'm called the most successful parasite on earth.
00:35:16.620 --> 00:35:24.060
Nessie: I'm the clever parasite that has learned to manipulate the brains of rodents so that they become fearless morons around felines.
00:35:24.060 --> 00:35:29.460
Nessie: Normally, mice and rats scurry away from the scent of a cat, but not when I'm in their head.
00:35:29.460 --> 00:35:30.620
Nessie: What turns me on?
00:35:31.320 --> 00:35:34.640
Nessie: Long romantic walks through the hollows of the cat's innards.
00:35:35.760 --> 00:35:43.420
Nessie: I love to groove under the moist sheets of their intestinal epithelium to the musical stylings of Kat Stevens.
00:35:43.420 --> 00:35:49.140
Nessie: If we have kids, I promise to be a good parent and read Calvin and Hobbes to them all night long.
00:35:49.140 --> 00:35:56.540
Nessie: I'll be sure to kiss them goodbye before sending them out in the world to contaminate litter boxes, sand boxes, gardens, and yards.
00:35:57.480 --> 00:36:04.760
Nessie: Before long, our progeny will be inhaled or ingested by unsuspected animals.
00:36:04.760 --> 00:36:09.840
Nessie: When I get into something that is not a cat, I get bored rather quickly and go to sleep.
00:36:09.840 --> 00:36:16.920
Nessie: You can call me Bradyzoite when I'm napping.
00:36:16.920 --> 00:36:20.440
Nessie: Life in my intermediate host isn't all that bad.
00:36:20.440 --> 00:36:23.540
Nessie: I can pick pretty much whatever cell type I want and make it a room.
00:36:24.300 --> 00:36:29.280
Nessie: The neurons in the brain are ideal because the pesky immune system tends to leave the organ alone.
00:36:29.280 --> 00:36:31.220
Nessie: I get plenty of peace and quiet.
00:36:31.220 --> 00:36:36.260
Nessie: I chill and wait for the animal to get eaten, hopefully by a cat so I can get my groove on again.
00:36:36.260 --> 00:36:44.300
Nessie: Like I said before, if I landed in a rodent, I know how to scramble their tiny brains to increase their chances of getting eaten by a hairball, coffin feline.
00:36:44.300 --> 00:36:46.100
Kat: That is her, right?
00:36:48.040 --> 00:36:49.200
Nessie: That's so annoying.
00:36:49.200 --> 00:36:50.240
Kat: I would swipe right.
00:36:50.240 --> 00:36:50.980
Nessie: If you eat.
00:36:51.180 --> 00:36:52.260
Nessie: Yeah, yes.
00:36:52.260 --> 00:36:53.700
Nessie: Swipe right on that guy.
00:36:53.700 --> 00:36:56.540
Nessie: He sounds like he'd be a good dad, you know?
00:36:56.540 --> 00:37:00.600
Kat: I apparently have an affinity for infectious parasites.
00:37:00.600 --> 00:37:01.320
Nessie: Yeah.
00:37:01.320 --> 00:37:03.400
Kat: Like Nessie wiggled her way into my heart.
00:37:03.400 --> 00:37:04.880
Kat: My track record.
00:37:04.880 --> 00:37:06.160
Nessie: Right.
00:37:06.160 --> 00:37:08.320
Nessie: It's been pretty good.
00:37:08.320 --> 00:37:11.180
Nessie: I feel like real promising.
00:37:11.180 --> 00:37:18.680
Nessie: But anyway, if you're looking for a good dad, Toxoplasma gondii sounds like the one where you're going right.
00:37:18.680 --> 00:37:19.720
Kat: I would swipe right.
00:37:19.720 --> 00:37:20.860
Kat: A thousand percent.
00:37:20.860 --> 00:37:23.620
Kat: Well, that was that episode.
00:37:23.620 --> 00:37:27.460
Kat: That was a lot about diarrhea and poop, and we love that.
00:37:27.460 --> 00:37:28.660
Kat: Butt worms.
00:37:28.660 --> 00:37:31.860
Kat: We got a super cool song, so stay for that.
00:37:31.860 --> 00:37:34.080
Kat: But we do have social media handles.
00:37:34.080 --> 00:37:36.560
Kat: Like I said, we have Facebook now.
00:37:36.560 --> 00:37:39.300
Kat: Let's talk about pets as our Facebook handle.
00:37:39.300 --> 00:37:43.420
Kat: And then TalkPetsWithUs at gmail.com is our email.
00:37:43.900 --> 00:37:50.940
Kat: So if you have questions or you just want to talk peonies, shoot us a snail mail.
00:37:50.940 --> 00:37:51.940
Nessie: A snail mail?
00:37:51.940 --> 00:37:53.460
Nessie: Do you know what a snail mail is?
00:37:53.460 --> 00:37:56.520
Nessie: That's the kind that you send with, like, a stamp.
00:37:56.520 --> 00:38:00.060
Kat: Oh, well, don't do that.
00:38:00.260 --> 00:38:02.900
Kat: We're not going to answer that.
00:38:02.900 --> 00:38:04.040
Kat: Well, that's it for today.
00:38:04.040 --> 00:38:06.080
Kat: Thanks for joining us.
00:38:06.080 --> 00:38:07.740
Kat: We will see you guys later.
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