Dr. Kathleen McJunkin

And then increase that risk of mammary cancer.

And boy, talk about tough decisions on that, you know, regarding that because

how they get mammary cancer and, and that is really tough to, yes, you can do surgeries and stuff, but it, it's, it's more likely at least with the knees, you can repair them, you know, what we'd have to discuss if they did went ahead and spayed the

by six months before they had their first heat, you know, have to be very careful keeping their weight down, exercising, walking.

Of course, the best thing to keep things straight, avoid that fetch.

Fetch, yes, that's a great, fun thing to do and good exercises, except for the fact that they would...

Stop suddenly and turn to catch the dog and and there it is.

The ligament is torn, which you can with rest and stuff.

If it's minimal, you can get it to heal on its own.

I did have some dogs that, you know, they wanted to wait and see and and such and and they would do fine.

We try to put them on omega-3 fatty acids to help the joints and such too.

That is one of the things the surgeons did like.

So like when my daughter-in-law, she had to give up a lot because she tore her an ACL.

I thought she said it was somewhere between two and four times from playing soccer.

And she told me really hurts when it happens, but then it's more of a functional thing after that.

And stuff.

Well, that's, that's true that.

Yeah.

And they can, you know, usually, um, they can get back into using it.

So it's a lot of care, you know, um, what I would usually do if I saw a dog that suspicious, maybe had a mild thing where they stopped using like a little bit and then, um,