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Welcome to Animal Posse, the podcast dedicated to the
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:people and rescues making a
difference in the lives of animals.
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:Today I am talking with Lisa of Pet
Wants Metairie . Before we get started,
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:I want to share a quick reminder.,
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:Lisa, is speaking from her
personal journey with her own pets.
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:She's not a veterinarian and
nothing here should replace
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:professional veterinary care.
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:If something ever feels off with your
pet, your vet is always the first stop.
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:Welcome to the show, Lisa.
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:Thank you for coming on to
talk about pet nutrition.
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:Lisa: Thank you for having me.
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:Dixie: Tell us what was going on
with your pet's health that made you
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:feel that something wasn't adding
up and that caused you to go more
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:into investigating pet nutrition?
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:Lisa: My dog had a mass
removed in December of:
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:And come to find out they did blood
work, of course, before the surgery.
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:They didn't tell me they had
she had abnormal blood work.
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:And by February 5th of the following
year,:
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:And I'm like, how come you guys
didn't tell me this in November?
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:It aggressively attacked her body.
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:I found that out from holistic type vet.
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:Her name is Dr.
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:Adria Sagera, and she told me she,
she looked all the blood work.
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:She spent an hour with my dog,
and my dog is my soulmate.
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:Let tell you, it took
everything inside of me.
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:Not to, lose my, mind.
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:Every time I think about this,
I still cry about my dog because
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:she was like the coolest dog ever.
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:She was like a human, and
she was my best friend.
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:And so when I come to find out that
part of the reason that she got sick
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:is because of the food I was feeding
her, I didn't know any better.
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:And I'm still kinda just guilt
around with me, and it hurts.
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:It hurts.
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:So when she passed away
that fall in April.
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:And I was determined to find out
what I did wrong and swear that I
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:never did it to another dog again.
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:So I turned around and started
to learn about pet nutrition and,
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:part of it was was through doing
the franchising with Pet Wants
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:Pet Wants is a company that is very
strict about nutrition and freshness
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:of the food, and I like that.
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:So I was laid off from my job last year
and he gave me a severance package.
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:The severance package.
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:Allowed me to buy into the
franchise and I'm so glad I did.
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:I see a lot of promise in the future.
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:I've only been in business for two months,
but I've already helped a few dogs and
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:it makes me feel really good inside.
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:So I finally met the dog the
other day and I was crying.
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:I was just like, oh my
God, I love this dog.
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:I'm not a vet, I don't know , everything
but I do have a team behind me.
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:And if I don't know a nutrition
question, I can ask them and find out
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:the answer to the nutrition question.
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:A lot of it has has to do with pet
nutrition when we feed our dogs,
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:even the treats matters, everything.
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:And so that's what got me into this
business and I'm doing it all in the
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:memory of my dog, Darby and Michelle,
because she was my angel and I know she's
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:probably proud of me for doing this.
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:She was only eight and a half
years old when she passed away and
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:that just another thing to hurt.
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:She was too young to die.
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:And , I don't wanna see more
dogs go through that, or
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:more owners go through that.
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:If there's something I can do to help,
I wanna help, and so that's why I
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:got into this, and I'm so glad I did.
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:I'm so glad I did, I'm only been in
business two and a half months, but we're
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:growing, and , I'm gonna work hard to
make it grow into a successful business.
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:I'm gonna work hard to do whatever
I can, and right now we're just
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:a e-commerce type business.
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:Ill do mobile deliveries but I am
currently looking for storefront.
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:I'm hoping to get on Metiaire Road or
Airline Highway around that area to
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:find a store, a storefront, and make it
better and make bigger and better, and.
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:As many dogs as I possibly can.
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:That's what this is all about.
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:Dixie: Yeah, I can understand that too,
because I actually lost my cat to cancer.
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:It was very sudden.
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:The vet believes that mine had a
heart tumor and , it was crazy because
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:he's what I considered my soul cat.
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:So I know what you say.
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:Yeah.
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:When you say you have a soul
dog, this was my soul cat.
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:Yeah.
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:It was just crazy because he was
actually so healthy up until the time.
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:Yeah.
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:I noticed he was breathing funny.
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:And that's what kind of set me off.
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:And I noticed it started
with him breathing funny.
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:Even when we first took him in
and got his blood work done.
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:His blood work came back perfect.
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:And it, so it just, it happened so
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:Lisa: quick.
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:Dixie: Yeah.
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:It does, it happened so quick.
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:Yeah.,
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:For us, it was two and a half weeks.
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:When he first got sick, and I'm saying
when he first got sick, because really,
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:at the time he had no problems except he
was having a little bit of , a strange
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:way of breathing, is how I'm gonna put it.
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:I noticed it in his stomach.
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:He was doing a belly breathing.
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:So I , got him to my vet.
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:My vet said, let's get
some blood work done.
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:And when we went and we got the blood
work done, and I hate to say this,
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:but I was hoping it was pneumonia
or something like that, yeah.
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:And when we got the blood work done, his
blood work didn't really show anything,
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:but then we got the x-rays and we saw
the, that he had a pleural effusion, so
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:they had to drain the fluid off of his
lungs or was actually not on his lungs.
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:It was like around his heart.
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:And
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:oh, I'm so sorry.
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:Yeah.
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:And we had to take that fluid, we had
to send that fluid off to see what the
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:results would come back, and unfortunately
when we did get the results back, Aw.
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:He so sorry was, it was so fast
that he was so bad by the time
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:we got those results back anyway.
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:There wasn't much that
we could do, and yeah.
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:And it was just, and you know what?
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:Your
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:Lisa: pets will suffer.
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:Dixie: Yeah.
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:Going through all,
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:you
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:Lisa: don't want that to happen,
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:Dixie: It is funny because
it was like, he was fine.
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:I noticed the breathing, we got
the fluid removed, we got the
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:x-rays, all that kind of stuff.
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:And it was just crazy.
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:, It really was the progression of
it from going from a completely
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:healthy animal and it, right?
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:Yes.
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:Yeah.
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:Lisa: And you know what, once
you hit stage four, stage
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:five it's not even worth it.
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:There's really nothing you can do.
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:You can make the dog suffer,
or the cat suffer and it's
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:gonna cost you a lot of money.
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:And it's to a point where it's too late.
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:It's a losing battle, when
you get to that point.
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:So I'm just urging people, I'm
trying to spread the word, trying
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:to, get the word out there.
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:Just please feed your
animals because it matters.
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:It really does.
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:It would make such a
difference in the world.
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:We gotta understand that
we are their whole life.
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:We are their whole life, right?
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:We are there for them from the day
they born to the day they pass away.
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:They're only here for part of our lives
and we gotta make the best of that.
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:And I want my dogs to be
here as long as they can.
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:I have two other dogs now and I'm feeding
them pet wants food and pet wants treats
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:And that's all I feed 'em.
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:And let me tell you, it made
a difference in their coat.
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:It made a difference in their shedding.
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:They don't shed as much.
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:'cause one of 'em, the husky,
and believe me, the hair shedding
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:just went to a minimal amount,
of course they said a little bit.
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:He's double coated, but yeah,
pet wants just taught me so much
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:and I really appreciated that.
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:And I hope to spread the word
and the store, I'm gonna have
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:grooming and all this stuff.
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:I wanna keep on spreading the word.
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:So that's the thing I wanted to
share too, because like Darby, after
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:she had that mass removed from her.
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:I still didn't know my dog had cancer yet.
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:I didn't know until three months later.
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:By that time, it was way too late.
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:It was way too late.
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:It just broke my heart.
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:Dixie: Yeah.
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:And I know with like cats,
they hide their illnesses so
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:well, and I'm sure dogs do too.
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:Yes.
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:And it's shocking.
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:I'm still in shock over it now I
will say my vet, did everything
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:she could and I do appreciate that.
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:But it's just such a shock when
that happens to you that fast.
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:, It's just so unexpected,
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:Lisa: and yeah, and just, it to
me, by surprise, I wasn't expecting
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:that she was only eight and a half.
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:She, one of the signs that you could look
for is behavior changes, like not eating
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:becoming like lethargic . That's some of
the things that people could look for.
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:That's a warning sign.
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:Please, by all means,
get your dogs to the vet.
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:And if you're going to put
'em through the chemo fine.
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:But once they get to stage four or
stage five, it's probably not worth it.
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:It's probably not you don't want
your dogs suffer going through all
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:that stuff, and the hardest thing
to do was to let my soul dog go and
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:I was there with it till the end.
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:I went there when they actually did it.
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:And believe me, it crush me,
Dixie, it crushed me bad, but.
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:I knew that it was time.
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:She let me know that it was
time and I knew, and all I could
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:do is tell her to hold her and
say, Darby, this isn't goodbye.
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:This is just see you later.
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:I'm gonna see you again.
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:Just stuff like that.
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:But that dog was my absolute soul dog
and for to happen to her, I've had a
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:bunch of other dogs pass away and I
had through throughout my childhood all
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:the way up to, I'm 60 years old now,
so I've had dogs all my life, but that
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:dog, I cannot explain the connection.
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:It was something with me and that dog.
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:We had a special bond and to lose her.
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:Just broke my soul, and I know
there's a lot of people out
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:there that have soul dogs too.
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:And soul cats, okay?
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:And I just wanna do whatever I can to
try and help and let them live a little
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:longer, healthier, happier lives.
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:That's what this is all about.
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:That's why I'm doing this.
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:It makes me feel good knowing
that I'm doing something positive
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:to try and help people out.
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:, , Especially when it's a beautiful
day outside and we're gonna make
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:deliveries of people's homes.
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:I'm having a good time.
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:I turn my radio on.
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:I'm dancing in a my truck,
driving to people's homes
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:and that's a good time to me.
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:It makes me feel good knowing
that I'm doing something positive
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:to try and help people out.
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:And I tell 'em all the time.
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:You got any questions, anything
going on with your dog or
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:your cat, please let me know.
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:If I don't know the answer,
I will get the answer.
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:We will find out, . You know what I mean?
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:So many people just don't even
know if they lick at their paws, if
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:they're, scratching on the ground.
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:If they have rashes on their
belly, we need to pay attention
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:to those warning signs,
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:Dixie: You said that you took
your dog to a holistic vet.
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:Lisa: Yes.
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:Yes.
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:So
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:Dixie: What did she do that.
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:Opened your eyes to all of this?
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:Lisa: She's actually the
one that discovered it.
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:I brought all my records to her.
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:Okay.
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:'cause I was just set up with, I
don't wanna mention the vet's name,
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:but I was set up with that vet.
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:Okay.
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:Didn't even bother to tell me that my
dog had cancer until it was too late.
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:How do you go from December,
you saw in February?
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:She, February 5th.
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:She stage five.
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:It didn't understand that, so I
was a little aggravated, so I got
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:all my vet, my records for her.
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:Went to Dr.
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:Sagrera and I couldn't get Darby to
eat, so we put her on raw frozen food.
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:And let me tell you, that's the
only way I can get Darby to eat.
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:Dr.
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:Sagrera spent about an hour with
my dog, which I found phenomenal.
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:I thought it was like way cool.
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:What vet's gonna do that, right?
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:She's reading all her records.
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:She spent the time
where she's petting her.
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:She's loving on her.
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:She's honey, I wish somebody
got my hands on it sooner, and
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:all you could do is just cry.
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:There's no FDA regulations
on dog food out there.
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:There really aren't.
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:But everything we sell at.
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:pet wants is AAAFCO approved.
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:AAAFCO was like the fda for
dog and cat food production.
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:But they don't have power like FDA.
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:They can't just come in there
and shut you down because you
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:have byproducts in your food.
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:PET WANTS doesn't put it in byproducts.
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:No gluten, no soy, no wheat, no sugars.
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:None of that stuff is in our foods.
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:And let tell you, it's got
a good wholesome flavor.
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:So somebody didn't believe me
a couple weeks ago at an event.
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:And they didn't believe
it was natural stuff..
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:I was giving someone on his treats
to the dog dogs that came to my tent.
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:I said, you don't believe it's natural.
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:I put it in my mouth and ate it.
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:It's natural stuff.
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:It's not gonna hurt you or your
dog, which I'm not gonna go
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:around and eat dog biscuits.
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:But I just wanted to prove point
because, if it wasn't natural for
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:my dog I wouldn't give it to my dog
or I could give it to myself, is
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:the point he was trying to make.
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:So Dr.
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:Sagrera really was.
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:The eye opening person for me because
she really made me understand what I was
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:doing and I didn't realize is that it was,
partially my fault and it broke my heart.
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:I still carried this guilt around and
I know it really wasn't my fault 'cause
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:I was naive and didn't know any better.
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:But it still hurts.
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:It still hurts, and I wish I could
have done something to save my baby.
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:I just couldn't.
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:I know that I don't wanna do
this with the dogs I have now.
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:I want them to be happy and I want
them to be, living a normal life.
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:And I want 'em to live a long life
and spend more time with me, 'cause
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:hey, ain't like coming home from a
hard day at work or whatever, and come
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:home, snuggle up with a big old dog.
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:I got two big dogs.
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:I love my big dogs.
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:I'm not gonna lie.
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:Something about coming
home with that big dog.
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:At the end of the day.
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:I just, like it.
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:They are my babies though.
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:And so I'm gonna do what I
gotta do to take care of 'em.
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:And I know a lot of people like me
who feel the same way about their
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:cats or the dogs, what have you.
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:. I'm here to try and help as many
dogs as I can, and for being open two
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:months I've helped three dogs already.
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:It makes me warm in my heart.
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:It makes me feel so good to do that,
and that's why I got into this business,
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:Dixie: how is it that you
came to find pet wants?
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:Was this a recommendation by your vet
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:. ? Lisa: No, , she didn't recommend it to me.
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:I hadn't seen her in quite a while
actually, but I need to go see her.
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:I wanna get blood work constantly on
my dogs, like at least once a year
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:just to make sure everything's okay.
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:But I found out about it.
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:Actually thru another friend of mine.
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:I was looking for a franchisees because
I wanted to work for myself and.
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:Honestly, I was thinking of a UPS
store or something like that, but
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:there's, so many of 'em, so I'm like,
Lisa, why don't you do your passion?
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:I have two passions, my music and my pets.
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:Okay, i'm not gonna make money in music.
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:So I said let's look
for something pet wise.
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:So all of a sudden I found PET wants on,
and I heard about it through a friend and
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:I looked it up and it looked promising.
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:And I liked the fact
that everything is fresh.
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:They never mass produced anything.
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:It's not even made until I'll order it.
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:Okay.
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:Which is amazing to me.
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:It's not sitting in
distribution center for a year.
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:Lose nutrition the whole time.
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:They have shelf lights on everything.
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:You can't just let 'em sit
in a distribution center.
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:For a year two and expect 'em
to still be good and nutritious.
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:So we take pride in delivering
fresh food to our customers.
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:It's fresh.
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:It's not maybe a couple weeks old
when it gets to, to your dog's bowl.
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:That's, to me, that's a beautiful thing.
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:That's the way it should be, and they
cook everything slow and low like a roast.
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:So you jam packing those
nutrients in there.
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:There's no byproducts, , no soy, no wheat,
no gluten, none of that stuff is in there.
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:That's harmful to a dog.
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:And so that's what they take pride in
and that's what I'm taking pride in,
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:so I went to my warehouse early today.
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:I got a delivery coming tomorrow for
some food that, that I order a lot.
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:Two weeks ago, something like that.
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:Like I said, they don't make it
until I order it and they're coming
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:tomorrow and bring, so I went to the my
warehouse to rotate my product, and I
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:put little stickers on it when it gets
here, because I do not want to give
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:anybody anything old , when I'm selling
you food, it's gonna be fresh food.
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:When I bring it to you, it's
gonna be fresh, if I could
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:bring it to you, now i would.
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:But so that's with the kibble and we
have freeze dried product as well.
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:Freeze dried food as well.
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:And then I have a whole line of
bones and chews and treats and
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:biscuits and those kind of things.
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:I even have some supplements for dogs to
help them calm down we make some small
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:products like heal Sav and a Paw Wax.
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:We actually make those.
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:It's all made natural ingredients
because there's nothing made
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:that's harmful to an animal.
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:If I'm gonna sit there and eat a biscuit
in front of somebody , I believe in what
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:I'm selling, and I really do believe
in this company and their products,
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:it's pretty amazing what they're doing.
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:When I first started talking to him
last year, last April, I started
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:talking to the development director,
and I was thinking about it, right?
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:She told me they had 159 stores.
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:They're almost at 170 now, and
that was less than a year ago.
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:So they're growing leaps and
bounds, and how long have you
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:Dixie: been feeding this food?
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:Lisa: Like I said, I just started,
when I found out about pet wants is
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:when I started feeding my dogs that
before I was feeding them good foods.
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:Okay.
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:They're a little bit more expensive
than they require subscriptions.
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:Okay.
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:I got enough subscriptions going on.
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:I really didn't wanna
get into all that stuff.
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:You should, wanna give them a quality
product for what they're paying.
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:And those subscriptions get
a little bit outta hand.
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:, I'm not knocking on those products.
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:They really are good foods.
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:I read the ingredients on
'em and they are good food.
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:But that's getting locked
up in a subscription.
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:You don't have to do that, with pet wants.
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:You don't have to, and I'm
always getting special Right now.
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:I got 5% off on my website till Saturday.
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:And at the end of the day.
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:That midnight or 5% off
everything on my entire site.
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:I'm always putting something on
special because I believe in doing
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:it, I'm just trying to like, get it
out there, get the word out there and
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:get people to, to try the product.
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:Believe me, everybody's tried it.
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:I've heard nothing but good stuff.
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:Nothing but good stuff.
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:Nobody's ever said anything
bad about the product.
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:I even check on 'em like a week later.
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:Hey man
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:how's fido liking?
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:Lisa: The salmon, none of
those might like the salmon.
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:I got other products I can
sell, like I can sell lamb or
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:we have some grain-free foods.
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:Now, that doesn't mean that
the other products have grain.
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:All that means is that it's
lower on the glycemic index.
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:There's different ways of doing the
food without making it dangerous, but
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:it costs more because, that's what
the grain free foods cost a little
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:bit more, but they're not putting by
products in there to make it, to fill it.
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:They're not putting fillers,
so that's what matters.
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:That would be the best thing
for an overweight dog too.
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:Dixie: Have you talked to your
vet about this particular food
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:since you've been using it?
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:Or have you gotten any feedback from any
of your customers who use it with their,
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:what their vets
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:Lisa: have said.
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:yeah.
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:The customers are loving it.
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:My, I told my vet about it and she
loved it, and I didn't see Dr Sagrera
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:yet, but I have two vets that go too.
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:The other one's Dr.
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:Kelly over at Healthy Paws.
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:She's a great vet as well.
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:And I go over there too.
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:I got an appointment with with Dr.
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:Kelly was two weeks ago.
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:I brought him brought both of em in Kobe.
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:I couldn't get his ear
infection cleaned up.
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:. Those dogs have like
different ears from us.
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:You really could keep their ears clean.
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:Unfortunately, he's got a big crop job,
so I have to keep his ears really clean.
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:So when I went to go see Dr.
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:Kelly, I told her about it
and she was all about it.
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:She was all for it.
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:I told her, I said, look,
this is what's in the food.
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:She's man, this sounds
like really good stuff.
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:I said, it is, but she also sells her
own food at, her veterinary shop, and
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:I'm not gonna, try and advertise with,
her selling her own product, , and Dr.
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:Sagrera does also, she's got
a store in the front, just
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:got, a lot of healthy stuff.
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:. But I just asked for their approval and
everybody that I've talked to, whether
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:it's a customer and I talk them a week
or two later and say, Hey man, how so
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:and so liking the product, they love it.
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:They love it.
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:Every dog has loved it.
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:Okay?
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:Not every dog loved the salmon because
some dogs , don't like fishy stuff, but
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:every dog's loved the product, period.
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:So if they don't like the salmon, I
put 'em on the lamb, and guess what?
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:They love the lamb.
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:So you gotta problem solved, and
that's what you know, you gotta work
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:with people and you gotta communicate.
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exactly what's going on with the dog.
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your heart into it, you know you
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find out if it's actually working.
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couple years about pet nutrition,
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can, and I'm not here for the money.
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two months, so I'm not killing it yet, but
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actually making some money, but it's okay.
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:Now we're seeing these things and
we're taking the responsibility to
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don't know any better than dogs.
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to keep an eye on her and stay on
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to only live eight and a half years.
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me at the rescue it was the westbank
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fell over with her and she picked me and
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and that's when we made a little bond.
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old then, and then she only
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only part of my life for seven years.
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when she was here, and I know I gave
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carry that guilt in inside of me.
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I just don't have 'em.
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know how good Kobe would do cats,
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need our guidance for sure.
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the right direction.
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:Dixie: I definitely, like I said,
know where you're coming from.
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and I almost feel guilty in a way
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something sooner, even though but you
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:Dixie: You didn't know.
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really could have caught it any sooner,
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pet, don't hesitate and go get it checked
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there that are pretty reasonable,
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you normally just for a visit.
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health is part of our job too.
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do, if I can help them, show them,
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that, there'll be a lot more dogs
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I just the other day I found a dog.
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right here on River Road.
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soon as I opened my door, he jumped
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and find this guy's owner, because
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him wasn't neutered either.
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it's like the staff too.
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up getting in trouble and I
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many dogs need to be rescued.
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all these different sites to try
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me if this dog chip?
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went back through the neighborhood
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outside and right where he was.
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at and one neighbor said, oh, I
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went and brought the dog back to
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wheeler, not just a truck.
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wasn't maybe a 15, 20 pound dog.
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I just felt compelled to do
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:Dixie: Before we end the call, , what
role do you hope pet wants metairie
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that we are not just educators, but
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understand pet, nutrition, because,
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:They Walmarts and stuff,
they're selling the food.
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hide and stuff like that, those things
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so it's just, I wanna be an educator and
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you will to help people, to help the dogs
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:Dixie: Good luck on your new endeavor,
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:Lisa: thank you so much.
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:Dixie: Thanks again to our guest,
Lisa from Pet Wants Metairie.
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something feels off with your
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:Visit your fur, babies Health comes first.
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shared here reflects our guest
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and are not a substitute for
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:I wanna thank everybody for
listening and supporting us.
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:If you wanna take that an extra
step, consider becoming a member.
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:We just added this to our
website, animalposse.com,
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:Our membership program is going to
help us directly support animals
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vaccinations, food or spay neuter efforts.
