Hanging Out with Dr. Gina Calvo
Nessie interviews Dr. Gina Calvo, a veterinarian who received her degree from the University of Tennessee. Dr. Calvo talks about the importance of the client-relationship aspect of veterinary medicine. In this interview, Dr. Calvo, talks about her passion for honeybees and shares her experiences in the field including some of the wildlife she has encountered in her work. We also react to some bizarre reviews from dog parks and animal sanctuaries on Google. Stay tuned for the AI generated song about hanging out with Dr. Gina! Our socials: Email us at letstalk@petliferadio.com, find us on social media facebook.com/PodcastLetsTalkAboutPets Instagram Talk_Pets_With_Us
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BIO:
Veterinary general practice with an interest in ultrasound, physical rehabilitation/weight management, nutrition, dentistry, and reptile/amphibian medicine
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Announcer: This is Pet Life Radio.
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Announcer: Let's talk pets.
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Nessie: Hey, pet friends, it's Nessie here.
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Nessie: We have a little treat for you.
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Nessie: I have Dr.
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Nessie: Calvo here with us today.
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Nessie: She received her Bachelors of Science at the University of Tennessee, Martin, and went to University of Tennessee to obtain a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine.
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Nessie: She is born and bred in Tennessee, in Hendersonville, and is now residing in Cheatham.
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Nessie: I'm happy to have her here.
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Nessie: How are you doing today?
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Dr. Gina Calvo: I'm doing fine, how about you?
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Nessie: I'm doing good.
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Nessie: I thought today we might talk about something you're passionate about, which is the client relationship of veterinary medicine.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: Yeah.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: And it's something that has definitely evolved over the last decade of being out of vet school.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: It's one of those things that you don't think about.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: Well, most vet students don't think about when they go in, they just think about the animal aspect.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: But you really do have to pay attention to the other part of that bond, which is the clients themselves.
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Nessie: Is that what got you into animal medicine in the first place?
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Dr. Gina Calvo: I just always wanted to be in this field ever since probably about second grade.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: So it's just been a lifelong thing for me.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: I will say the bond as far as the human aspect of it has grown significantly since I've had my son.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: He'll be three in March.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: It's definitely evolved a lot since he's been born.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: A lot more in tune with behavior and people's feelings and things like that.
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Nessie: So when did you get started in the field?
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Nessie: Did you start in Kendall?
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Dr. Gina Calvo: No, I was definitely a Kendall girl to start out.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: I started, I want to say I was about, I was still in high school, I believe, as a Kendall girl, and I started to become an assistant when I was in undergrad, and then it just went from there.
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Nessie: I'm a vet tech.
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Nessie: I decided that that was kind of where my expertise would end, and I would let more sophisticated folks become the veterinarian.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: Well, we need those people.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: I mean, I'm only as good of a vet as I could be if I have that staff that's helping me out.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: So we definitely need a lot more assistants, technicians, at this point, I think, at this point in time that we need veterinarians.
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Nessie: What is your favorite relationship story that you want to share today?
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Dr. Gina Calvo: I had a lot, but I guess I'll just throw a couple out because we could talk all day about this.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: It's kind of similar to how you and I met.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: So Instagram, one day I was just kind of perusing Instagram and I happened to love the band Dashboard Confessional.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: I mean, they're one of my all time favorites.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: And I noticed that their tour manager was actually moving to Hendersonville, which is where I am from.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: So I was like, you know, I'll message him.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: And if he doesn't respond, I don't care.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: It's just gonna, I'm just gonna throw it out there that I'm from there and I might be able to hook him up with a vet if he needs somebody in that area.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: So we got to talking and his name is Jack Funk.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: I just call him Funk.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: I told him, I was like, look, I've got a couple of places you could potentially bring your dog in that area because I'm from there.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: And he was like, well, why don't I just come to you?
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Dr. Gina Calvo: I'm about 45 minutes away.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: That's a long drive.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: I mean, we just, we met on Instagram.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: And then next thing you know, he's in my office in person and I'm taking care of his dog.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: And she was an amazing dog.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: She unfortunately passed away from cancer.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: I'm going to say it's about a year or so.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: It may have been a little bit longer than that now.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: That was a very tough day for both of us.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: Because as you get to know these people, you get to know their pets.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: I mean, they become part of your life.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: And then all of a sudden, you've got that pet that's sick and she's more than a pet at this point.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: I mean, I was very thankful that we were able to do it on a day that I wasn't working.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: So I wouldn't have had to, you know how it is, you go in one room, you euthanize a pet, and then you come out and then you got to go see a kitten.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: It's like a big roller coaster for sure.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: I was able to do it on a day where nobody was there.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: So he was able to bring her up and my husband was with me too.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: The lead singer's wife was with him for his support.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: And then we just peacefully let her go.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: I think it was a Saturday or Sunday afternoon.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: Just having that experience made me realize that you really do have to care about the person that that animal is attached to.
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Nessie: Yeah.
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Nessie: I think it makes the vet care easier too.
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Nessie: I think the client is going to be more compliant if you have a better relationship with them because they're going to maybe put more stock into what you say over Dr.
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Nessie: Google.
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Nessie: If they can trust.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: Yeah, 100 percent.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: Yeah, it's nice to have those relationships with clients that, I don't get my number out a lot.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: A handful of clients that do have it, and it does make the situation easier to be able to just explain to them, even if it's after hours, little things, and it makes them feel better about everything.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: I don't recommend doing that for every client, but you will probably as you get further down the road in this profession, you'll probably have a few that will have your number be able to kind of personally chat with you after hours.
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Nessie: I have made a couple of those friends now.
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Nessie: I call them friends just because they are people that I would see outside of the professional setting just because we hit it off so well.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: Yeah, yeah.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: You definitely have that where you're like, Hey, this person is pretty cool.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: I could see myself hanging out with them.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: There's a few of those.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: And then there's those times where I refuse to go to local stores around here unless I've got a hat on and some sunglasses so that nobody sees me.
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Nessie: Doctors at my hospital, they have their scrubs covered so that you can't see their name.
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Nessie: They have their hats on.
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Nessie: They still get noticed sometimes.
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Nessie: They're pretty popular around here, but they try.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: Yeah.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: You just want to go in, get your groceries and get out.
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Nessie: Even as a vet tech, if people find out you work with animals, they're like, oh yeah, so my dog has this thing on his toe.
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Nessie: What do you think of that?
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Dr. Gina Calvo: I don't know.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: Go see your vet.
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Nessie: You'd rather see a vet about that.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: Yeah.
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Nessie: Before I was a vet tech, I was a groomer.
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Nessie: And you would have people that would come in and be like, hey, do you think I should see a vet about this?
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Nessie: I'm like, if you're concerned, you should.
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Nessie: I am not a vet.
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Nessie: I'm a groomer.
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Nessie: We have the weird occasions where people come in and be like, can I get my dog neutered while he's here?
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Nessie: No.
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Nessie: We can give him a real nice haircut.
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Nessie: Yeah.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: We do have a grooming side in our clinic and our poor groomers, they'll get those questions all the time.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: And thankfully, they're like, well, if you just go down that door right there, you can go ask the veterinarian.
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Nessie: Yeah.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: I can't imagine being a groomer and being on a stand-alone and being like, yeah, I can't help you with this.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: I'm sorry.
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Nessie: Groomers are important in that way because a lot of times they might find the things before the owners do because they have their hands all over the dog.
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Nessie: And they'd be like, hey, there was this weird thing that wasn't there last time.
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Nessie: You should probably go get it looked at.
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Nessie: But we weren't attached to a vet, so all we could do is make those suggestions.
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Nessie: There was one time I was dealing with a cocker that had real bad cocker ears.
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Nessie: I liked to shave the entire underside of the ear.
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Nessie: And so he was like having an odor and I went to lift the ears to shave them and they were black.
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Nessie: And so I called the owner and I was like, hey, I'm going to need you to come get Roscoe.
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Nessie: We'll call him Roscoe and take him to a vet.
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Nessie: His ears are very bad and I don't feel comfortable moving forward with a groom today.
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Nessie: And he's like, oh, that's just the WD-40 I put in there.
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Nessie: He's got an ear infection, lord.
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Nessie: So I am not a doctor or anything, but I feel like WD-40 in the ears does not fix ear infections.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: No, I mean, I like my WD-40, but definitely not on body parts for sure.
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Nessie: I couldn't imagine the veterinarian's face when they showed up and they're like, what is this?
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Nessie: Oh, just the WD-40.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: I'm surprised we haven't got one of those yet out in this.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: We're out in the, kind of out in the booties.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: It's starting to build up now, but we've seen some things and most of the time around here, it's, oh, we got that blue spray from Tractor Supply.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: You know what blue, the blue spray I'm talking about or the purple spray?
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Nessie: You obviously know what the purple spray is.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: Yeah.
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Nessie: One time we had a woman who wanted a refill of a medication, but she couldn't remember what it was called.
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Nessie: So she drew it, and she drew a little blue pill.
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Nessie: And we were like, that looks like a blue pill.
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Nessie: I don't know, I can't tell you what that blue pill is, but it's definitely a blue pill.
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Nessie: Especially because different manufacturers may make the pill looking different.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: Yes.
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Nessie: It could have been this, but also that's not what they look like in our pharmacy right now.
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Nessie: So I don't know what your blue pill was.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: That sounds fun.
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Nessie: I would like to share a review with you if you're ready.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: Okay.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: Here it comes.
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Nessie: It is for a dog park in Australia.
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Nessie: It's called the Cabana Off-Leash Dog Area.
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Nessie: And it is a one-star review from, we're going to call him Ryan.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: Okay.
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Nessie: Ryan said, very confusing.
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Nessie: I wanted to go to the Botanical Gardens, but I ended up at the dog park.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: Ryan, I think you need to do your Google search a little bit better than what you did, buddy.
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Nessie: How did you get from a botanical garden to the dog park?
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Dr. Gina Calvo: I don't even know.
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Nessie: Did Siri do that to you?
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Nessie: Does she have it out for you, maybe?
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Dr. Gina Calvo: I feel like, yeah, he may have just been listening a little bit too heavy on the AI.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: I have no idea.
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Nessie: I think while he was at the dog park, he saw some plants and things, so that could count, right?
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Nessie: You could go look at a nice bush.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: I mean, it is Australia, depends on what part of Australia, I guess.
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Nessie: My favorite are these dog parks, because they just get wild.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: Well, you said you're in Florida?
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Dr. Gina Calvo: Well, I think it's more botanical that way than...
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Nessie: It's real sandy here.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: Real sandy?
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Nessie: Because we're near the beach.
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Nessie: I have another one for you.
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Nessie: This is for a dog park in Alaska.
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Nessie: It is a one star from Joelisa.
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Nessie: Joelisa put together, I make up a lot of names.
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Nessie: She said, we used to take our dog here at least twice a week and walk the trail.
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Nessie: After a large dark, why can't I say large dog?
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Dr. Gina Calvo: I don't know.
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Nessie: At a large dog was attacked and drug into the water by a beaver and killed, we have stopped coming to this park completely.
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Nessie: It's just not worth it.
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Nessie: The unchecked beavers and moose, the thin ice in the winter, it's just a dangerous spot to take your pup.
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Nessie: Sadly, we switched parks.
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Nessie: It's not worth the risk anymore.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: How big was that beaver?
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Dr. Gina Calvo: If it was a large dog?
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Nessie: I don't know.
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Nessie: He drugged him into the water and everything.
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Nessie: I don't know how big that beaver was.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: What was that dog doing to get that beaver as angry as it did to take that dog into the water and drown it?
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Nessie: Also, it says the ice is real thin and stuff in the winter.
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Nessie: Why are you walking on the water?
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Nessie: Should you not be on the pathway?
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Nessie: Maybe the beaver is mad that you're in the water.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: I wouldn't have been walking out that way anyway if you got moose involved.
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Nessie: Oh yeah.
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Nessie: The moose can be scarier than the beavers, but apparently they've adapted to be like, oh, you want to walk your dog here?
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Nessie: I could take them.
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Nessie: As far as I know, beavers don't eat meat, so I don't know what he wanted him for.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: No idea.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: I don't think I'd want to go swimming in that water.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: Sorry, Carrie, you're on your own.
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Nessie: What kind of dog is Carrie?
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Dr. Gina Calvo: She's a Heinz 57.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: She's a super mutt.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: We did the Embark test on her, and I don't know how many breeds came back.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: I think like 40 percent of it was super mutt.
00:14:05.911 --> 00:14:08.231
Dr. Gina Calvo: So okay, my dog's a mutt.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: Thank you for telling me the obvious.
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Nessie: Good job DNA test.
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Nessie: I have a couple of lab mixes, and they're being surprisingly good right now.
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Nessie: Not even like a walk in to see what I'm doing type deal, which is very rare, especially when I'm doing things that don't involve them.
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Nessie: So we're just going to let that keep going.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: Well, I don't know if you saw my story earlier.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: My little tree frog, he's actually like right behind me.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: He's gone off.
00:14:33.071 --> 00:14:35.791
Dr. Gina Calvo: He's croaked like two or three times today, and he's old.
00:14:35.791 --> 00:14:37.231
Dr. Gina Calvo: He's like 17 years old.
00:14:37.231 --> 00:14:38.931
Dr. Gina Calvo: So I saw the little van.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: I don't know what his problem.
00:14:39.711 --> 00:14:41.231
Dr. Gina Calvo: I guess it's because we're having nice weather.
00:14:41.631 --> 00:14:45.351
Dr. Gina Calvo: It went from like 90s to low 70s.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: So I guess he's like, oh, it's spring again.
00:14:47.191 --> 00:14:51.791
Dr. Gina Calvo: His croak is not, you know, you know the nice tree frogs you guys probably have in Florida.
00:14:51.791 --> 00:14:53.611
Dr. Gina Calvo: This is not a nice croak.
00:14:53.611 --> 00:14:55.591
Dr. Gina Calvo: It sounds like a dying squeaky shoe.
00:14:55.591 --> 00:14:58.491
Dr. Gina Calvo: Like that's all I can explain.
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Nessie: How many animals do you have?
00:14:59.911 --> 00:15:01.631
Dr. Gina Calvo: I've got the dog.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: I've got a cat.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: I've got the frog and then two lizards.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: One's a green iguana that is actually from your neck of the woods that somebody brought up here.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: And the other one is a euromastix gary.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: So he's a little spiny tailed lizard.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: Okay.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: How many times do you guys get somebody asking for a bordetella vaccination, but they call it something else?
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Dr. Gina Calvo: Okay.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: We've had, we've had portobello, the morningella, or when they're like, can we have that temper vaccine?
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Dr. Gina Calvo: What are you talking about?
00:15:31.131 --> 00:15:33.071
Dr. Gina Calvo: You know, the temper vaccine that calms them down.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: I'm like, you mean distemper?
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Dr. Gina Calvo: That's a, that's a vaccine.
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Nessie: I also heard, well, my dog doesn't have a temper problem, so why do we need that?
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Dr. Gina Calvo: Oh yeah.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: And it's like, no, no, that's not what it's for.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: Sympiricotrigo?
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Nessie: Do you hear?
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Dr. Gina Calvo: We do, but I don't know if we've had, I don't know if we've had anybody say it differently, but they've thought that it was something else completely.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: And we were like, no, this is for parasites, not for seizures.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: So, yeah.
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Nessie: We get the Sympatico.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: Sympatico, that's a pretty good one.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: Sympatico.
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Nessie: Yeah, that one happens a lot.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: That's all about that communication.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: I think that's our number one problem in our field is if you don't have good communication, you're not going to have a good relationship with your client.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: That's definitely a big thing that I've evolved over the 10 years being out of vet school.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: Just try to be a little bit more on par with which client I'm talking to, whether they're a doctor themselves, or if they are just out of high school, you kind of have to tone it to whatever conversation you need to have it.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: We are lucky in that we are, I wouldn't say small town, but I guess we're more of a close knit community.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: I do have a lot of people in this area that I'm pretty close to now after meeting them and being their vet for the last 10 years.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: I've got an owner, he's got two bull mastiffs, or he had Odea unfortunately just passed away from cancer as well.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: But Mayza, she's a funny girl too.
00:17:07.731 --> 00:17:15.291
Dr. Gina Calvo: She's got a lot of issues, but bull mastiffs unfortunately, they're a breed that it's a mastiff and a bulldog make a bull mastiff.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: You know those two breeds, yeah, they've got problems.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: But poor little girl had a couple of bumps pop up recently, so I was able to remove them and we're still waiting on results.
00:17:27.011 --> 00:17:30.111
Dr. Gina Calvo: But dad, of course, he's all worried and he gives me a text yesterday.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: He's like, are they back in?
00:17:31.451 --> 00:17:36.031
Dr. Gina Calvo: I'm able to look into the portal and screen capped it and it still said pending.
00:17:36.031 --> 00:17:37.371
Dr. Gina Calvo: I was like, it's pending.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: You got a whole choices.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: As soon as I know, you will know too.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: He lives off a big river that runs through middle Tennessee.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: It's called Cumberland River.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: And pre baby, I used to actually swim that river.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: We have no YMCA in this area or any public pool.
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Nessie: Do you not have gators?
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Dr. Gina Calvo: No, we don't have.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: Not yet.
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Nessie: We don't have gators yet.
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Nessie: Listen to the Florida girl.
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Nessie: You're getting in river water and stuff.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: No, it's not really that safe anyway to begin with.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: I mean, I don't know how many dead bodies are pulled out of that river each year.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: But oh my God, I used to be an endurance swimmer.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: I really want to keep fit, keep shape, but there's no pool.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: And I mean, the closest pools are 30, 45 minutes away, which I mean, after work, if you're wanting to work out, you don't want to drive 35 to 40 minutes to go work out.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: And then I have to drive all the way back.
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Nessie: Yeah.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: He lives off that river and he let me swim that slip.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: And I remember he was walking Odie.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: Odie was 165 pound bullmastiff.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: He was a tank.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: That's not a small dog.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: Yeah, big boy.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: I just see him on the edge of the river and he sees me.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: And all of a sudden he starts walking towards the river.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: His owner's like, Odie, you can't swim, stop.
00:18:49.011 --> 00:18:50.691
Dr. Gina Calvo: But he's just walking.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: I'm just thinking, I'm going to have to save this 165 pound dog from dragging me.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: But he's so funny.
00:18:58.011 --> 00:19:00.331
Dr. Gina Calvo: I mean, he was just bullmastiff.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: Their bread, at least the last time I looked this up, their bread to, if they find an intruder, they're supposed to sit on them.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: That's the whole reason why they're as big as they are.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: And they're supposed to sit and make sure that person stays there until their owner comes.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: Well, Odie, as soon as he would see you, he would come and sit on you.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: That's 165 pounds of sitting on your, I don't know how many times he almost broke my toes from sitting on me.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: I was like, oh, it's nice to see you too, Odie.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: He's just, he was so big and he didn't know he was that big.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: He definitely made me have to like think outside the box with certain situations because I had to do a couple of surgeries on him too.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: Our table is not, well, it did eventually hold him.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: I will say that.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: Trying to get him onto that table, we have a hydraulic lift table.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: We would like to induce him for the procedure on that table, and then wheel that table into the surgery suite, and then get him onto the surgery table.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: Unfortunately, his allergies were really bad.
00:20:00.011 --> 00:20:06.731
Dr. Gina Calvo: He would get sinusitis and he had asthma, but he's a 165-pound bulmastiff.
00:20:06.731 --> 00:20:09.971
Dr. Gina Calvo: How do you treat that with an inhaler?
00:20:11.231 --> 00:20:15.531
Dr. Gina Calvo: The AeroDog, the little spacer, it's for the flow vent inhaler.
00:20:15.531 --> 00:20:18.051
Dr. Gina Calvo: But anyway, there's a spacer that goes on.
00:20:18.051 --> 00:20:20.191
Dr. Gina Calvo: It's an inhaler that humans use.
00:20:20.191 --> 00:20:24.191
Dr. Gina Calvo: You can't just squirt that into a dog's mouth and expect them to inhale it.
00:20:24.191 --> 00:20:33.631
Dr. Gina Calvo: So there's a spacer you put on it, and then that dog, you put the nose in that spacer, and then they breathe for a few breaths, and then they have their medicine.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: Well, Odie is 165 pounds, and his head's about one and a half times my size.
00:20:37.851 --> 00:20:43.091
Dr. Gina Calvo: Dad had to rig up his own spacer for the inhaler.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: I like thinking outside the box on certain things like that.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: And I guess that's why if I had my way, I probably would have gone into zoo med or wildlife med, because there's a lot of things out there that we can treat, but we have to think about it for a second before we can get a plan together.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: Having that relationship with his owner let me do a lot of things in my career that had helped me learn and be able to give that experience to future pets that are big boys, big girls, because I was able to learn on these guys.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: It's nice having that ability to know how to handle giant breed dogs.
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Nessie: When we do our surgeries and stuff on Great Danes, we actually, depending on what position the dog has to be in, we get the wheel in our second table from the back end, and we have to do a slant on them.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: Yeah, we definitely have to plan ahead, because if you're in the middle of something and you're like, oh no, we got to position them this way, how are we going to do this?
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Dr. Gina Calvo: We have a similar situation where our dental table is, it's only so big.
00:21:50.731 --> 00:21:58.191
Dr. Gina Calvo: So the Danes, we end up having to basically put our hydraulic lift table perpendicular to the dental table.
00:21:58.191 --> 00:22:02.831
Dr. Gina Calvo: We have their head on the dental table, but the rest of their body is on the hydraulic table.
00:22:02.831 --> 00:22:04.131
Dr. Gina Calvo: That same situation.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: I get that.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: It's funny.
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Nessie: Actually, speaking of the zoology and things, I saw a meme recently that I thought was very fitting for me.
00:22:12.871 --> 00:22:14.811
Nessie: And it was a picture of a mountain lion.
00:22:14.811 --> 00:22:20.251
Nessie: It says, if I have ever been eaten by a mountain lion, just know my last words were, here kitty kitty.
00:22:20.251 --> 00:22:21.471
Nessie: Yeah, that's pretty accurate.
00:22:21.471 --> 00:22:23.511
Nessie: Like, I kind of want to pet him.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: Oh, that's my son right now.
00:22:25.891 --> 00:22:27.691
Dr. Gina Calvo: And I'm trying to like teach him.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: It's like, look, man, not every animal wants to be pet.
00:22:31.591 --> 00:22:33.371
Dr. Gina Calvo: You're going to get bit.
00:22:33.371 --> 00:22:34.411
Dr. Gina Calvo: So far he has not.
00:22:34.411 --> 00:22:34.951
Dr. Gina Calvo: The only time he's...
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Dr. Gina Calvo: There's no fear.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: No, there's no fear.
00:22:36.951 --> 00:22:46.131
Dr. Gina Calvo: He's finally gotten a little bit of a, more of a healthy respect for the iguana because he tried to feed them through the outdoor one.
00:22:46.131 --> 00:22:47.771
Dr. Gina Calvo: The outdoor one is an aviary.
00:22:47.771 --> 00:22:51.071
Dr. Gina Calvo: So it's got like the little slats he can put his fingers through.
00:22:51.071 --> 00:22:53.631
Dr. Gina Calvo: And he made that mistake of putting his little finger through.
00:22:53.631 --> 00:22:56.311
Dr. Gina Calvo: And of course my iguana thinks it's a carrot or something.
00:22:57.251 --> 00:23:02.011
Dr. Gina Calvo: Thankfully, when he bit down, he didn't stay bit down, he released it.
00:23:02.011 --> 00:23:03.451
Nessie: Like, this is definitely not food.
00:23:03.451 --> 00:23:07.831
Dr. Gina Calvo: Of course, again, he starts bawling and his dad has to rep his salad.
00:23:07.831 --> 00:23:10.191
Dr. Gina Calvo: He didn't lose his finger, so, you know.
00:23:10.191 --> 00:23:12.411
Nessie: And he's not scared of the iguana now?
00:23:12.411 --> 00:23:16.511
Dr. Gina Calvo: No, he's still, well, he'll know, like, when he needs to move his hand away.
00:23:16.511 --> 00:23:18.071
Dr. Gina Calvo: At least we got that going for him.
00:23:18.071 --> 00:23:21.751
Dr. Gina Calvo: He's gotten, he tried to pet a bumblebee, got stung by a bumblebee.
00:23:22.731 --> 00:23:26.311
Dr. Gina Calvo: Yeah, still tries to interact with bumblebees.
00:23:26.311 --> 00:23:29.891
Nessie: I don't think that I would see a bumblebee and think I want to touch it.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: I just can't.
00:23:30.431 --> 00:23:30.911
Nessie: He will.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: He just goes up and he'll try to pet anything.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: I don't know what he'll end up doing in life, but it's probably going to be something animal related.
00:23:38.251 --> 00:23:39.691
Dr. Gina Calvo: Or it'll be his side gig.
00:23:39.691 --> 00:23:42.791
Nessie: Well, whatever it is, he's going to do great.
00:23:42.791 --> 00:23:44.371
Nessie: He has great role models.
00:23:44.371 --> 00:23:54.291
Nessie: I have another review here for us, for a native wildlife refuge wetlands and raccoon sanctuary in Vintonville, Arkansas.
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Nessie: Have you ever been to Arkansas?
00:23:55.651 --> 00:24:00.031
Dr. Gina Calvo: No, I wouldn't think of that as like a wetland raccoon sanctuary.
00:24:00.311 --> 00:24:02.631
Nessie: I don't know much about the place myself.
00:24:02.631 --> 00:24:07.331
Nessie: This is from Kiana, and it's a one-star review.
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Nessie: Kiana said, after reading the reviews, my husband and I decided to take the kids and have a Taco Bell picnic.
00:24:14.411 --> 00:24:15.771
Nessie: Everything was great.
00:24:15.771 --> 00:24:23.031
Nessie: The animals were so friendly, until a giant raccoon ran at our group and attacked my son.
00:24:23.031 --> 00:24:26.951
Nessie: He is on his way to the emergency room by ambulance right now.
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Nessie: One star.
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Nessie: Do not recommend.
00:24:29.651 --> 00:24:33.451
Nessie: She posted a picture of her son from the ambulance.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: What in the world?
00:24:34.671 --> 00:24:37.311
Dr. Gina Calvo: Her son, I'm thinking like, you know, small child.
00:24:37.311 --> 00:24:38.551
Dr. Gina Calvo: That is not a small child.
00:24:38.551 --> 00:24:40.971
Dr. Gina Calvo: That is almost an adult grown man.
00:24:40.971 --> 00:24:49.771
Nessie: It looks like he could have defended himself against a raccoon, but it looks like also, I can send you pictures so you could have a better look, but like it busted him in both his eyes.
00:24:49.771 --> 00:24:51.011
Dr. Gina Calvo: Oh my God.
00:24:51.011 --> 00:24:54.551
Nessie: And she in the ambulance, she's like, you know what I need to do?
00:24:54.551 --> 00:24:57.071
Nessie: I need to leave a review about this.
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Nessie: The raccoons at the raccoon park came after our food.
00:25:00.631 --> 00:25:01.811
Nessie: And then my son.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: Well, who has a Taco Bell picnic?
00:25:05.151 --> 00:25:07.511
Dr. Gina Calvo: I don't even, I mean, taco, sure, they're hand food.
00:25:07.511 --> 00:25:11.411
Dr. Gina Calvo: So, I mean, that'd be pretty easy, but I don't know.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: I don't think of that as a particular picnic food.
00:25:14.571 --> 00:25:14.971
Nessie: Right.
00:25:14.971 --> 00:25:16.711
Nessie: You know what's a good idea?
00:25:16.711 --> 00:25:19.231
Nessie: A picnic at the raccoon sanctuary.
00:25:19.231 --> 00:25:24.471
Dr. Gina Calvo: Let's bring some Taco Bell, which, you know, is going to entice those suckers over here.
00:25:24.471 --> 00:25:29.691
Nessie: And the fact that it was the big one that came out, like the little ones were kind of scared about, but he was like, oh, I can take them.
00:25:29.691 --> 00:25:30.911
Nessie: I'm going to get a taco.
00:25:30.911 --> 00:25:31.151
Nessie: Yeah.
00:25:31.151 --> 00:25:36.771
Nessie: It came out, I could only assume, gave him a good two piece there to the face.
00:25:36.831 --> 00:25:43.131
Nessie: Got his taco, took off, and mom is like, oh, this is going on your review.
00:25:43.131 --> 00:25:47.451
Dr. Gina Calvo: Right now, right now before I forget, we're going to type this out in the ambulance.
00:25:47.451 --> 00:25:51.151
Nessie: She asked him if she could post his picture on Google review.
00:25:51.151 --> 00:25:56.391
Dr. Gina Calvo: I don't know, that face that he had doesn't look like he was very happy about her having the camera at his face.
00:25:56.391 --> 00:26:00.671
Nessie: His friends are going to see that and be like, hey, remember that one time you got beat up by a raccoon?
00:26:00.671 --> 00:26:02.511
Dr. Gina Calvo: He's never going to live that down.
00:26:02.571 --> 00:26:04.051
Nessie: No, thanks mom.
00:26:04.051 --> 00:26:06.831
Nessie: And I'm sure he had to get rabies vaccine after that.
00:26:06.831 --> 00:26:07.771
Dr. Gina Calvo: Oh, I'm sure.
00:26:07.771 --> 00:26:10.011
Dr. Gina Calvo: And that poor raccoon, who knows?
00:26:10.011 --> 00:26:13.591
Nessie: What if you can't tell which one it was, right?
00:26:13.591 --> 00:26:14.831
Dr. Gina Calvo: Oh, I don't know.
00:26:14.831 --> 00:26:16.711
Dr. Gina Calvo: But also this is a sanctuary.
00:26:16.711 --> 00:26:19.991
Dr. Gina Calvo: Like how were they able to have a picnic in a sanctuary?
00:26:19.991 --> 00:26:27.331
Dr. Gina Calvo: Did they ask permission or did they just kind of pull up on the side of the road and be like, hey guys, let's go into the sanctuary and just plop down a blanket?
00:26:27.331 --> 00:26:29.171
Nessie: I'm starting to probably get that.
00:26:29.171 --> 00:26:36.911
Nessie: It didn't sound all the way above board because especially they're not going to be like, this is a great place to bring food in your family.
00:26:36.911 --> 00:26:45.131
Nessie: No, it's like a good place for you to come and observe the animals from a respectful distance and learn about nature and don't put your fingers in their face.
00:26:45.131 --> 00:26:46.231
Nessie: That kind of deal.
00:26:46.231 --> 00:26:48.071
Dr. Gina Calvo: Don't offer them doggo bells.
00:26:48.071 --> 00:26:51.791
Nessie: You're like, let's hit up the drive-thru and get to the sanctuary.
00:26:51.791 --> 00:26:53.131
Nessie: Oh man.
00:26:53.191 --> 00:26:57.471
Nessie: Another one for a Daphne Alabama dog park.
00:26:57.471 --> 00:27:00.391
Nessie: Real original name called Daphne Dog Park.
00:27:00.391 --> 00:27:03.051
Nessie: This one is from Elaine.
00:27:03.051 --> 00:27:08.031
Nessie: Elaine left a one-star review and said, bring your bolt cutters.
00:27:08.031 --> 00:27:14.391
Nessie: The saddest part is that my dog was so interested in going, but it was chained shut.
00:27:14.391 --> 00:27:18.351
Nessie: I wish I could give it zero stars or negative stars.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: It was closed.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: Like she went after hours or was it closed permanently?
00:27:23.571 --> 00:27:28.511
Nessie: No, they have their regular park hours posted on Google here.
00:27:28.511 --> 00:27:32.471
Nessie: I'm guessing either she came before it was opened or afterwards.
00:27:32.471 --> 00:27:33.731
Nessie: So they had it chained shut.
00:27:33.731 --> 00:27:35.991
Nessie: I also think that's illegal.
00:27:35.991 --> 00:27:37.211
Dr. Gina Calvo: Just a smidge.
00:27:37.211 --> 00:27:38.171
Dr. Gina Calvo: Just a wee tad.
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Nessie: Who's out here giving bad advice on Google?
00:27:40.711 --> 00:27:46.151
Nessie: If you want to go to the dog park, bring your bolt cutters, make sure you have your ski mask on.
00:27:46.671 --> 00:27:49.951
Dr. Gina Calvo: So your dog can enjoy about 30 minutes of run around time.
00:27:49.951 --> 00:27:52.931
Nessie: Do not worry about putting your dog on a leash, because that's fine.
00:27:52.931 --> 00:27:53.691
Nessie: Yeah.
00:27:53.691 --> 00:27:55.211
Nessie: Just let him run wild.
00:27:55.211 --> 00:27:57.311
Nessie: That's what's happening over in Daphne.
00:27:57.311 --> 00:27:58.171
Dr. Gina Calvo: Fun times.
00:27:58.171 --> 00:28:04.131
Dr. Gina Calvo: I guess I could talk a little bit about the wildlife I've had to deal with the last couple of months.
00:28:04.131 --> 00:28:05.811
Nessie: That sounds exciting, though.
00:28:05.811 --> 00:28:10.751
Dr. Gina Calvo: It's exciting, but it also is a little unnerving because it's like, okay, I got this animal now.
00:28:10.751 --> 00:28:19.371
Dr. Gina Calvo: I hope the Walden's Puddle, which is one of our local facilities that take them in, and I'm like, I hope they got room for them because I don't know what I'm going to do with it.
00:28:19.371 --> 00:28:19.831
Nessie: Yeah.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: Thankfully, I am able to rig up temporarily enclosures at home until they're able to get them in, which is usually less than 24 hours.
00:28:29.551 --> 00:28:30.371
Nessie: Oh, wow.
00:28:30.371 --> 00:28:44.111
Dr. Gina Calvo: The one that I had the most fun time with was we had, at the end of the day, and two fishermen had found a woodpecker that was tangled up in fishing line and still had a hook through its wing.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: We had to get the hook out and untangle everything and then just assess them.
00:28:49.951 --> 00:28:55.851
Dr. Gina Calvo: And it was already close time by then for me to be able to transfer to Walden's.
00:28:55.851 --> 00:29:08.111
Dr. Gina Calvo: So just texted my husband, make sure our son is outside when I get home, because I need to rig up an enclosure to put this woodpecker in, and I don't need him to know where the woodpecker is.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: I happen to have, it's a dog crate, it's pretty big.
00:29:11.871 --> 00:29:14.211
Dr. Gina Calvo: And then I had, oh, what are they called?
00:29:14.211 --> 00:29:18.971
Dr. Gina Calvo: It's like a all weather cover for our truck, because we don't have it in the garage.
00:29:18.971 --> 00:29:26.291
Dr. Gina Calvo: And I just kind of used it to coat around the wire, so that he had that he wasn't able to see.
00:29:26.291 --> 00:29:29.071
Dr. Gina Calvo: So it made it a little bit easier for him to calm down.
00:29:29.071 --> 00:29:33.191
Dr. Gina Calvo: That woodpecker pecked through the cover.
00:29:33.191 --> 00:29:36.411
Dr. Gina Calvo: He didn't escape, but there are holes all in that cover now.
00:29:36.411 --> 00:29:38.491
Dr. Gina Calvo: So it's not waterproof or anything.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: I should have known.
00:29:39.391 --> 00:29:42.711
Dr. Gina Calvo: I mean, y'all can peck through just about anything.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: They got pretty hard head.
00:29:43.971 --> 00:29:49.051
Dr. Gina Calvo: Thankfully, he did really well in that little makeshift enclosure that I was able to transfer him.
00:29:49.051 --> 00:29:53.171
Nessie: You had some anesthesia to get the hook out of his wing.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: Thankfully, no.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: He was pretty...
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Dr. Gina Calvo: Usually when they're in shock, they don't move a lot.
00:29:59.391 --> 00:30:02.371
Dr. Gina Calvo: I covered his eyes just to keep him calm.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: And then I had one of my assistants hold him.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: Basically, what we do is we just get some bolt cutters and you cut the hook.
00:30:08.051 --> 00:30:11.391
Dr. Gina Calvo: So it just slides out instead of like trying to get that hook part out.
00:30:11.391 --> 00:30:12.491
Nessie: With the barb and stuff.
00:30:12.491 --> 00:30:13.291
Nessie: Yeah.
00:30:13.291 --> 00:30:14.951
Dr. Gina Calvo: We didn't have to do any anesthesia.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: I would have been able to if I needed to, but usually when they're in shock like that, you don't want to try to put them under because I can just make their poor little body not be able to survive that ordeal.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: Oh, I was driving into work.
00:30:26.951 --> 00:30:33.211
Dr. Gina Calvo: I just parked and witnessed somebody hit a deer right outside my clinic.
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Nessie: You guys have wilderness around you, huh?
00:30:36.391 --> 00:30:37.511
Dr. Gina Calvo: Yeah.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: And it's getting worse because we're considered close to Nashville.
00:30:42.251 --> 00:30:47.951
Dr. Gina Calvo: And so it's starting to get where we're having a lot of homes being built in this area.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: So it's displacing the wildlife.
00:30:50.451 --> 00:30:56.791
Dr. Gina Calvo: We're getting a lot more hit by cars or orphans that good Samaritans bring in.
00:30:56.791 --> 00:30:58.911
Dr. Gina Calvo: We'll see how bad it gets when they start.
00:30:59.351 --> 00:31:03.731
Dr. Gina Calvo: They're eventually going to start extending the main highway that goes past our clinic.
00:31:03.731 --> 00:31:07.051
Dr. Gina Calvo: So we'll see how many displaced wildlife we get when that happens.
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Nessie: Right.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: We had a lady come in with her troop of children and a little baby possum that I had to feed for less than 24 hours.
00:31:19.131 --> 00:31:22.531
Dr. Gina Calvo: Thankfully, it was big enough that I wouldn't have to feed it.
00:31:22.531 --> 00:31:32.591
Dr. Gina Calvo: It's like, okay, I need to go find an extended little kitten nipple and appropriate milk solution for it and make sure it's dehydrated.
00:31:32.591 --> 00:31:34.271
Nessie: What do you find in milk solution?
00:31:34.271 --> 00:31:37.771
Dr. Gina Calvo: They can actually have the, it's not KMR, it's the puppy version.
00:31:37.771 --> 00:31:40.071
Dr. Gina Calvo: I was able to find that.
00:31:40.071 --> 00:31:42.551
Dr. Gina Calvo: We have a tractor supply like right next door to the clinic.
00:31:42.551 --> 00:31:44.711
Dr. Gina Calvo: I just went in and I was like, I need this and this.
00:31:44.711 --> 00:31:45.951
Dr. Gina Calvo: And they're like, okay.
00:31:45.951 --> 00:31:49.111
Dr. Gina Calvo: As soon as I asked for it, they're like, do you have that baby possum?
00:31:49.111 --> 00:31:50.791
Dr. Gina Calvo: And I was like, what, is she coming here first?
00:31:50.791 --> 00:31:53.211
Dr. Gina Calvo: And they're like, yeah, we told her to go next door.
00:31:53.211 --> 00:31:55.471
Dr. Gina Calvo: That's the kind of a community we have is, oh, yeah.
00:31:56.391 --> 00:31:57.411
Dr. Gina Calvo: We know everybody.
00:31:57.411 --> 00:31:59.671
Dr. Gina Calvo: I was able to get that possum over to Walden.
00:31:59.671 --> 00:32:02.471
Dr. Gina Calvo: Then my sister called me.
00:32:02.471 --> 00:32:05.311
Dr. Gina Calvo: She's at the convent in Nashville.
00:32:05.311 --> 00:32:14.251
Dr. Gina Calvo: And the convent has a lot of birds of prey in the area, I guess, because they have a lot of pigeons and things like that, that the birds of prey go after.
00:32:14.251 --> 00:32:18.311
Dr. Gina Calvo: Well, a young Cooper's hawk ran into the side of their brick building.
00:32:18.311 --> 00:32:21.911
Dr. Gina Calvo: So she calls me, it was on my day off.
00:32:21.911 --> 00:32:26.091
Dr. Gina Calvo: And she's like, can you please come down here and get this hawk?
00:32:26.091 --> 00:32:27.351
Dr. Gina Calvo: Well, I'm like, okay, sure.
00:32:27.351 --> 00:32:29.831
Dr. Gina Calvo: Let me go and grab this hawk for you.
00:32:29.831 --> 00:32:33.931
Dr. Gina Calvo: Just grab the first hawk that I've found and brought to Walden's Fuddle.
00:32:33.931 --> 00:32:37.331
Dr. Gina Calvo: I've had to deal with a couple of birds of prey that I've sent their way.
00:32:37.331 --> 00:32:40.091
Nessie: Did you have to do an improvements on the hawk before you?
00:32:40.091 --> 00:32:42.151
Dr. Gina Calvo: The hawk, I just did an assessment.
00:32:42.431 --> 00:32:47.691
Dr. Gina Calvo: I'm sure that he probably, unfortunately, got humanely euthanized because he couldn't use his back legs.
00:32:47.691 --> 00:32:49.611
Dr. Gina Calvo: That usually indicates a spinal trauma.
00:32:49.611 --> 00:32:54.831
Dr. Gina Calvo: But if you can get the swelling down quickly, sometimes they can regain function.
00:32:54.831 --> 00:32:56.311
Dr. Gina Calvo: The only thing I did was assess them.
00:32:56.311 --> 00:32:59.811
Dr. Gina Calvo: I gave them some subcutaneous fluids just to kind of help with the shock.
00:32:59.811 --> 00:33:03.691
Dr. Gina Calvo: And Walden got back to me pretty quick about that one.
00:33:03.691 --> 00:33:08.071
Dr. Gina Calvo: I was able to get to him transferred in less than two hours.
00:33:08.071 --> 00:33:10.951
Dr. Gina Calvo: I think they had five that day alone that came in.
00:33:10.951 --> 00:33:12.671
Nessie: Wow, they're really bad at flying.
00:33:12.671 --> 00:33:14.851
Nessie: They're just running in all kinds of...
00:33:14.851 --> 00:33:20.931
Dr. Gina Calvo: It's the young ones usually, and they'll walk on to their prey, and then they don't think about where they are.
00:33:20.931 --> 00:33:22.131
Dr. Gina Calvo: They're just going after that.
00:33:22.491 --> 00:33:27.151
Nessie: And so many of our buildings are in their way of catching their dinner.
00:33:27.151 --> 00:33:28.291
Dr. Gina Calvo: Yeah, yeah.
00:33:28.291 --> 00:33:31.751
Dr. Gina Calvo: Deer, Cooper's hawk, woodpecker, possum.
00:33:31.751 --> 00:33:33.751
Dr. Gina Calvo: I think that's everything this summer.
00:33:33.751 --> 00:33:36.171
Nessie: We don't get very many wildlife.
00:33:36.171 --> 00:33:41.431
Nessie: We had one of these exotic pet type places that sells the more exotic pets.
00:33:41.431 --> 00:33:43.871
Nessie: We had vaccinated some raccoons for them once.
00:33:43.871 --> 00:33:46.351
Nessie: That was kind of fun to see the baby raccoons.
00:33:46.351 --> 00:33:51.831
Nessie: I would like to see more large animals or exotics though, because I think they would be fun and exciting.
00:33:52.171 --> 00:33:59.291
Nessie: Actually, what I'm going to do with my externship in semester four is some large animal externship, and I'm very excited about that.
00:33:59.291 --> 00:34:01.371
Dr. Gina Calvo: I originally wanted to do mixed animal.
00:34:01.371 --> 00:34:07.931
Dr. Gina Calvo: Unfortunately, there is not much in this area, and it was very competitive.
00:34:07.931 --> 00:34:15.231
Dr. Gina Calvo: But also, after the first 10 months out of that school, I was doing on-call emergency.
00:34:15.231 --> 00:34:18.651
Dr. Gina Calvo: And my husband was like, your next job, you are not doing that.
00:34:18.651 --> 00:34:24.271
Dr. Gina Calvo: Most mixed animal, you're on call, because you have to help with calving season, things like that.
00:34:24.511 --> 00:34:29.051
Dr. Gina Calvo: I do like being in general practice because I get variety still.
00:34:29.051 --> 00:34:34.391
Dr. Gina Calvo: It's not, like if I specialized, I'd be working with the same thing every day.
00:34:34.391 --> 00:34:42.431
Dr. Gina Calvo: I mean, as much as the cool things they get to do, I wouldn't be able to be an ophthalmologist because I'd be tired of looking at eyeballs all day.
00:34:42.431 --> 00:34:46.751
Nessie: I work part-time at an eye specialty clinic.
00:34:46.751 --> 00:34:52.251
Nessie: I like that we see the different cases there, but then I can always go home to my general practice.
00:34:52.251 --> 00:34:53.311
Dr. Gina Calvo: Yeah, for sure.
00:34:53.311 --> 00:34:59.171
Nessie: It also helps when I'm in the general practice, be like, oh, actually, I'm a little bit familiar with this.
00:34:59.171 --> 00:35:04.551
Nessie: I get kind of help because they don't deal with a lot of eye issues.
00:35:04.551 --> 00:35:06.411
Dr. Gina Calvo: Well, there's something new.
00:35:06.411 --> 00:35:07.391
Dr. Gina Calvo: Well, it's newer.
00:35:07.391 --> 00:35:11.131
Dr. Gina Calvo: It's less than 10 years old that I've actually been looking into.
00:35:11.131 --> 00:35:13.591
Dr. Gina Calvo: It's actually honeybee medicine.
00:35:13.591 --> 00:35:18.711
Dr. Gina Calvo: In 2017, there was a rule that incorporated honeybee.
00:35:18.851 --> 00:35:19.831
Dr. Gina Calvo: I think it's just honeybees.
00:35:19.831 --> 00:35:21.931
Dr. Gina Calvo: I don't know if it's bumblebees as well.
00:35:21.931 --> 00:35:28.871
Dr. Gina Calvo: I'm pretty sure it's just honeybees, that they are considered livestock now because they provide honey, which is used in a lot of our food sources.
00:35:28.871 --> 00:35:38.251
Dr. Gina Calvo: So we as veterinarians now have to play the role of being good stewards for antibiotics for them.
00:35:38.251 --> 00:35:42.571
Dr. Gina Calvo: Because there are certain diseases that are treated with, like oxytetracycline.
00:35:43.671 --> 00:35:46.571
Dr. Gina Calvo: I think lincomycin is another one.
00:35:46.571 --> 00:35:47.651
Dr. Gina Calvo: And there's a third one.
00:35:47.651 --> 00:35:49.551
Nessie: How do you give an antibiotic to a bee?
00:35:49.551 --> 00:35:53.951
Dr. Gina Calvo: It's usually dispensed in like a food form, like chickens.
00:35:53.951 --> 00:35:58.451
Dr. Gina Calvo: Chickens that are fed the little medicated pellets along those lines.
00:35:58.451 --> 00:36:07.471
Dr. Gina Calvo: They can make it into like a patty that they eat, or sometimes it's a powder form that they can dust the hive in.
00:36:07.471 --> 00:36:09.431
Dr. Gina Calvo: Or I think it's like a sugar solution.
00:36:09.811 --> 00:36:12.971
Dr. Gina Calvo: That's one thing in the conference was, it was a couple weeks ago.
00:36:12.971 --> 00:36:17.031
Dr. Gina Calvo: I just finished up with it because I did the on-demand, because it was online.
00:36:17.031 --> 00:36:22.111
Dr. Gina Calvo: It was very interesting to learn certain medical aspects of honeybees.
00:36:22.111 --> 00:36:24.471
Nessie: You're going to start treating some honeybees then?
00:36:24.471 --> 00:36:26.771
Dr. Gina Calvo: Well, I mean, I'll be available.
00:36:26.771 --> 00:36:30.051
Dr. Gina Calvo: The beekeepers will be most of the hands-on.
00:36:30.051 --> 00:36:33.631
Dr. Gina Calvo: I mean, you're going to make them go and inspect hives and things like that.
00:36:33.631 --> 00:36:37.791
Dr. Gina Calvo: I'm trying to educate myself because I don't know how many vets are interested in honeybees.
00:36:39.171 --> 00:36:40.451
Nessie: I'm scared of bugs.
00:36:40.451 --> 00:36:45.351
Nessie: I like honeybees and I like what you're doing over there, but I don't want to be near you.
00:36:45.351 --> 00:36:52.131
Dr. Gina Calvo: These guys, most of the time, unless you are physically making them angry, they're pretty docile.
00:36:52.131 --> 00:37:07.471
Dr. Gina Calvo: I was lucky that one of the beekeepers here in the county, he's actually the president of the Beekeeping Association here, let me come out and look at some of his hives just to get my hands on because I can't have hives right now.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: I live in a subdivision, I have less than an acre of land and I have a two-year-old.
00:37:11.631 --> 00:37:14.251
Dr. Gina Calvo: He will definitely make those bees angry.
00:37:14.251 --> 00:37:22.371
Dr. Gina Calvo: It's nice to have that community where they're like, you can come look at my hives, you can play and see what's normal, what's not normal.
00:37:22.371 --> 00:37:29.271
Dr. Gina Calvo: Hopefully, if anybody ever has any problems in the future, I'll be able to help with prescriptions and things that they may need.
00:37:29.271 --> 00:37:30.511
Dr. Gina Calvo: That's great.
00:37:31.491 --> 00:37:33.791
Nessie: If you guys have any additional questions for Dr.
00:37:33.791 --> 00:37:41.451
Nessie: Calvo regarding the honey bees, you can reach out to us here at TalkPetsWithUs and gmail.com.
00:37:41.451 --> 00:37:43.391
Nessie: I will get your information over to her.
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Nessie: Do you have anything else for us?
00:37:45.411 --> 00:37:48.191
Dr. Gina Calvo: No, I think what you guys are doing is it sounds fun.
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Dr. Gina Calvo: Hopefully, you'll find some awesome reviews to use later down the road.
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Nessie: If you find any, send them to me.
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Nessie: I'm always happy to add them.
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