From Loss to Purpose: Lisa’s Journey Into Pet Nutrition

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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: 2021

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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,: 2022

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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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You gotta talk to 'em to find out

exactly what's going on with the dog.

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If you don't, if you don't put

your heart into it, you know you

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gotta do that because you gotta

find out if it's actually working.

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And that's what I do.

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I've learned so much in the last

couple years about pet nutrition,

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that I just wanna help as much as I

can, and I'm not here for the money.

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It's to help people.

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That's what it's for.

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Believe me, I've only been in business

two months, so I'm not killing it yet, but

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yeah, I'd like to get the point where I'm

actually making some money, but it's okay.

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I'm just loving what I'm doing.

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It makes me feel good and warm inside.

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It's a beautiful feeling.

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Now we're seeing these things and

we're taking the responsibility to

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help stay outta that because they

don't know any better than dogs.

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But we get to teach 'em.

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And that's what, that's why I'm trying

to keep an eye on her and stay on

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top of her because I do not want her

to only live eight and a half years.

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So when I adopted Darby, Darby picked

me at the rescue it was the westbank

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SPCA and she came running out.

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She just jumped in my lap and I just

fell over with her and she picked me and

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I said, oh, this is my dog right here.

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So I brought her home and everything

and that's when we made a little bond.

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But let me tell you something.

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She was only a year and a half

old then, and then she only

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stayed with me seven years.

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And I'm like, oh my God, , she was the

only part of my life for seven years.

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That's so difficult to swallow.

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It's a hard pill to swallow.

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But I know that I gave her a good life

when she was here, and I know I gave

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her tons of love, but I just still

carry that guilt in inside of me.

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. I'm just trying to help people care.

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I care.

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I care.

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I'm gonna help every dog I possibly can.

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Every dog, every cat.

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I keep saying dog, but cats too.

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I love cats too, but

I just don't have 'em.

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'cause they got dogs, and I don't

know how good Kobe would do cats,

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he's a little on the frisky side.

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And they need our love.

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They need our attention, they

need our guidance for sure.

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They're like kids.

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You gotta guide him in

the right direction.

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Dixie: I definitely, like I said,

know where you're coming from.

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'cause I just dealt with that myself

and I almost feel guilty in a way

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that like, I should have noticed

something sooner, even though but you

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Lisa: didn't know.

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Dixie: You didn't know.

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Again and honestly, like I don't think I

really could have caught it any sooner,

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it's just these little telltale things.

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It's just one of those things, right?

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When you think something is off with your

pet, don't hesitate and go get it checked

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out, even if it's something stupid,

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Lisa: right?

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Yeah, and there are vets out

there that are pretty reasonable,

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none of every vet's gonna charge

you normally just for a visit.

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Dr.

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Kelly only charges $65 per visit.

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That's a beautiful thing.

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That's cheap.

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$65 for a visit.

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Come on, man.

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You can't beat that.

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But staying on top of their

health is part of our job too.

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If I can help tell people what to

do, if I can help them, show them,

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teach them, whatever, if I can do

that, there'll be a lot more dogs

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out here for a lot longer time, and

I just the other day I found a dog.

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I almost got hit by a car

right here on River Road.

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So I stopped, I pulled over, as

soon as I opened my door, he jumped

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in my truck like, oh my gosh.

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So I was like, okay, we gotta try

and find this guy's owner, because

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I could tell he wasn't malnourished.

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I could tell somebody had

him wasn't neutered either.

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And I was like, oh man.

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So they probably breed this dog.

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'cause he was a staff, he,

it's like the staff too.

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And he was a blue staffer on top of that.

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I just don't want dogs to end

up getting in trouble and I

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don't want them, I just don't.

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I just don't, there's so

many dogs need to be rescued.

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That's my thing, right?

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So I got on Facebook and went on

all these different sites to try

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and find out who this dog belong to.

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No answer.

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No answer.

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So I went to the vet.

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So Dr.

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Kelly said, can you tell

me if this dog chip?

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Of course he wasn't.

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So on the way back to my house, I

went back through the neighborhood

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and I saw some neighbors

outside and right where he was.

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Where I've actually picked him up

at and one neighbor said, oh, I

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know exactly where that dog lives.

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I know the dog very well.

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So she took me over there and we

went and brought the dog back to

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his house, which is a good thing.

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That dog was lucky.

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He was close to be by an 18

wheeler, not just a truck.

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He didn't seem wheel, and he

wasn't maybe a 15, 20 pound dog.

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He's still a puppy.

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I'm like, my goodness, yeah,

I just felt compelled to do

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something with that to help.

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Yeah, it's just me.

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It's my animal love and heart,

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Dixie: Before we end the call, , what

role do you hope pet wants metairie

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plays in the local pet community?

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. Lisa: I hope we're educators, hope

that we are not just educators, but

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maybe motivators to help people to

understand pet, nutrition, because,

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nobody else is gonna tell you.

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Nobody else is gonna tell you.

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They Walmarts and stuff,

they're selling the food.

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I'm sure they don't know, I don't sell

hide and stuff like that, those things

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can flip the stomach and make 'em sick,

so it's just, I wanna be an educator and

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a motivator and just an assistant, if

you will to help people, to help the dogs

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live healthier, happier, longer lives.

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That's my motto,

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Dixie: Good luck on your new endeavor,

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Lisa: thank you so much.

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I appreciate you having me.

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This is how we gonna spread the way.

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Thank you.

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I appreciate it.

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Dixie: Thanks again to our guest,

Lisa from Pet Wants Metairie.

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. I just wanna mention too, if

something feels off with your

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pet, always start with a Vet.

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Visit your fur, babies Health comes first.

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And just a quick note, everything

shared here reflects our guest

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personal experiences and opinions

and are not a substitute for

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professional veterinary care.

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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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: 00:22:25

We just added this to our

website, animalposse.com,

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scroll down, look for the support tab.

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Our membership program is going to

help us directly support animals

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in need, whether that be through

vaccinations, food or spay neuter efforts.