on the show because we're talking today with dave a senior pets and my two friends over here are definitely senior pets i don't know their true age dave because i rescued them and i've had abby for eleven years and tucker for ten but they're probably in that range of levon the thirteen right about in there yes and their senior pets are special pretty much we started in inventing mary medicine well and for pet owners you want to take a look at your pets getting in that geriatric that's not as accurate as everyone thinks for a couple years or they're in their puppy stage and then they're young adult and then they're middle age except but the fact is most of the pets are in that senior to getting senior age because they don't stay puppies but for you know a year you know it's sometimes the owners are kind of glad to get out of the public and they're looking for a little quieter time yes you know there isn't anything cuter than sitting on the floor and having a bunch of puppies around but it is it's it's very you know time consuming with puppies you have the training and if you've given that time to your puppy it makes to relationships so much better throughout their life and this is why today's topic of senior pet care is so important i have to tell the audience dave i met dave at super zoo where lecture every year super zoo invited repeatedly to lecture there i really enjoy doing that and i met dave there and it was so fascinating to hear him speak about senior pets because i never think of my daughter's seizures you know even though i see them getting gray and  forth they're always little puppies to me and i think my grandmother used to say here it's say to my dad well you should be doing that you should be doing that that's a gram he's an adult she's always a little boy to me you know but dogs change as they get older and they do develop these senior moments and i've seen your difficulties and dave has a company called new tricks and he produces a product to help the memory function right rate the biggest sr issue for our senior pets this is majority of our pets will have some type of a cognitive issue what they call senior moments doggie dimentia there's a lot of things on this difficulty is a lot of the symptoms present almost like well they're just old some people think their dog has gone deaf when in fact that's quite rare for dogs going deaf or suddenly they'll have accidents in the house and the pet owner would think well they're old they can't hold it anymore it's amazing that the majority of research for humans is done with canines because they present the disease exactly like people do and so when you find products in techniques that can help a senior pet cognitively most likely they will help us also so we're very interested in this in on the sad side because these symptoms aren't recognized as something that the pet owner can greet you and there's a lot of things that dogs have done normally but now they've they've stopped doing that and in fact the change is so subtle that over the course of a year or two pet owners suddenly you know they don't realize that they've quit that activity another major one in this is really interesting is that they will wake up a couple times during the night be panting and of course they wake the pet owner up and they go oh you know they're old they can't hold it they must need to go to the ba so they let the dog out and the dogs outside thinking what am i doing out here what it actually is it's the mirror of the human also timers son down syndrome and so their sleep cycle has changed and so now you have and this is this is actual cases where you've had senior people with senior pets now the senior people are sleep deprived because they're waking up three or four times or night and it's very difficult for them and  they've gone in and seen the veterinarian and nothing seems to work being disoriented disoriented another sign being disorientated classic is stuck in corners that we're just going to bring that up and and we actually had one of our pets do that when i was a kid and we had a big family so when our dog was just happy as could be would get into a corner and couldn't get out and she'd be waking her tail happy as could be but she could not navigate out that quarter and we got to what's going on and i'll just turn around she'll be fine and you would you turn around and she'd go oh good it's an interesting phenomena but it's classic cognitive symptoms for  for your pets now cats cats they present a little different because a lot of people say oh my cat you know sleeps all the time well frankly even young cats sleep all the time so that's not as big of an indicator but a lot of times that you'll see is the cat will stand off balanced they kind of look you can just sense it that they're not in balance and cats love to be in balance the other thing is they've quit bathing themselves so their coat will get oily and again it's not a condition of old age you will not catch them bathing themselves anymore and then the other one that is very annoying is the night time vocalisation you know it's eleven twelve at night your cat is gone down stairs and next you know it's going but really like yeah and the first couple times it happens you're like holy cow what you got in there and dogs will begin to bark no reason whatsoever right she's like ok you're nuts and so people tend to live with it right right well they don't understand that this is an actual medical condition and this is where new tricks has been such a blessing to so many  pet owners you know think about it you've lived with really one of your best friends for years and you know dogs are pets one of the reasons why they are so special it is they love us unconditionally no matter what that's absolutely the truth so you can be not very attractive have extremely bad body order and poor as can be and you come to your dog and what do they do they sit there and go hey i was going to have you know and you are the best thing in the world and we really value this relationship and so is so sad when these cognitive issues come up a lot of pet owners have have spent time with their veterinarian looking at other medical issues well what's not really consider when that happens is the owner becomes very frustrated right and begins the effect the quality of life of the owner as well as the quality of life of the pet and that's really nord it's not addressed and so if you can if there are measures that you can take to prevent that or to improve that and reduce the sometimes of dementia why not do it yes and today that's some of the things that we're going to talk about is preventative measures that that are that are fun things you can do with your pet and then of course i want to share with you how new tricks works and how and kind of basis all on if any of these symptoms we've talked about we have a poster here that shows the classic symptoms you know let's say your dog is or cat is inappropriate it definitely talk to your veterinarian and go there it could be in the you kidney infection and that is now taking care of but oh some of the dementia signs are still there and so for years actually the diagnosis for cognitive dysfunction syndrome was one of  the limitation and so the dog is otherwise healthy nothing else is physically wrong with the dog it must be a cognitive issue where now they know that they are looking more and wanted to be event every so i growing up as a kid we worked at my father's practice since we were eight years old every day after school summers included and it was kind interesting where that's how i thought a lot of kids lives were like but so we were around animals since i can remember and then  you know had had enjoyed my work and but i wanted to think about practicing medicine the magic of veterinary medicine and what i saw my father was how do you diagnose a problem when you can't ask the patient where does it hurt what are the symptoms on and it just seemed to me like almost sure like holmes like and it is absolutely it is and th that i did not want to grow up to be a chemist or biologist but they required you to get phenomenally good and but i was focused and i was focused on getting into better school and when  to get good grades and i discovered that you know i wasn't the the very best student i could be but more importantly i wasn't being as good as a dad yeah and you know when you're doing heavy sciences in undergrad there's a lot of work and veterinary school is like that on steroids and so you know you really i mean i had to study in undergrad and in medical school  the difference between that and the human medical school is you know the humans they have just the human male female inventor medicine you have everything else and you study the difference between the dog in the cat the horse  the cow and you know on and on and on and the little things like you know an buffered aspin might be ok a couple times for a dog it'll definitely kill a cat so you need to have a lot more absolute in depth knowledge  types of things and so what i decided was i would be home picking my son up and reading him stories and then of course you fall asleep and then you wake up in a terror about two or three in the  dynamic for the for animals because even though he didn't finish his degree for the reasons he stated he still self involved in the wellness of animals and he formulated these products  cats when when when i left that school they like me enough they actually recruited me to work there as a first academic affairs coordinator and my primary duties was i was in charge of the fourth year  curriculum and that's where the students are in the teaching hospital and that had led my career into working with that in ariens and their staff in the practices with all types of different products that can help them practice medicine and my whole career really has been what i want my dad to have and so there have been products that have come out new  devices that have come out that that i've been really fortunate to be in to my father and say you know what do you think about this for the most part my intuition had been right up there been a couple times where there are really nifty veterinarian and what my dad shared with me was that he could very well scan but he could not diagnose we needed telemedicine for a radiologist to really take a look at what this scanning meant so he gave me an insight to how that that that would be could be useful in the practice as long as they had the availability of the specialist to really do the did your focus on cognitive issues develop and for you to come up with this product well i was a vice president of a generic pharmaceutical company in animal health and commuted back and forth to to madison my my wife has been a human medical research scientist at the university for many years and so we base our self out of madison wisconsin and one of my good friends and practice we were talking on the nothing i could do and she was only ten years old but she had pretty much every symptom and it was making life very difficult for him and his family and so a week later i'm listening to the radio and they had a fellow that founded a company called quincy bio science or makers a privilege and it's this product right here and privilege and is the human version of new tricks and he was talking about what the science they did with regard to protection of brain cells memory issues all kinds of things yes the origination of this active ingredient a pole acorn came from a glowing jellyfish in the puget sound and in fact the importance to human neurology  discovery of this calcium binding protein it won the nobel prize in chemistry in two thousand and eight so if anybody googles out there they can google the jelly fish story nobel prize chemistry two thousand and eight they'll see the genesis of this and what the interesting thing about it is these scientists saw this glowing jellyfish in the sea and they thought to themselves what's making a glow and in fact we could use this as a biomarker because in science a lot of times you'll use when you want to trac things going through the body you know use radioactive isotopes they're very very small you can attach them to things and you can measure the radioactivity the downside is it's radioactivity and people have vis of that they do and to use that at the university level or any research lab you know you have to go through significant training so these scientists are thinking wouldn't this be really cool we could use this glowing thing it's  bioluminescence a natural occurring light we can measure light how does it work with that led to that discovery it was a simple calcium binding protein within the nervous system and through about the last fifty years were the research on this every single mammal are dogs or cats horses you and i we have these proteins in our brain cells so what do you mean by calcium binding so the best way i like to think about it is you know when they had the gator a commercials and they say you know when you're sweating you're losing all your electrolytes blah blah blah if you drink the gator radio be able to replenish all these the like relates calcium is is is part of what correct the it's interesting what will happen is in the cells and would talk the nervous system cells because they're different than the other calcium areas of the body like you know sometimes they'll want people to take calcium supplements this will not have a negative effect on it in the nervous system itself and this particular one it acts more like a buffer ok so imagine i've got i've got this full of calcium but i only need half of this what these binding proteins will do is come in here and just attach to these things and so they don't actually they're not active anymore so there's a they don't have any real effect and so the amount of calcium in there is balance because too much calcium is detrimental yes in the one of the early breakthroughs is with people that have a stroke the part of the process of having a stroke unfortunately is these proteins are no longer activated nor are they available to the brain you get a lot of calcium in the cells and very quick cellular death during a stroke and then big inflammation process happen and the cells die and then we know what happens when that was on that is one of the very first experiments a human company did and they have a journal article out it with regard to a pill for corn and its  have seen the effects and i've seen when i've not taken it and i have a very strong memory to begin with but i see a sharpness when i'm on provision and i'm not endorsing it i'm just telling that i take it and i'm very excited to use this on my dogs now and you know as i say they're in there about about ten eleven twelve years old and you start to see if the few little things you know and  mean she's want to be closer to me now she was always close but she seems to want to like the closer and i see that as part of the aging process and part of some of the things that you're talking about right and i'm very excited to use the tricks product here and we've had by the way on full disclosure since i've developed new tricks i came to this company by the way to use  active ingredient in our dogs and we have some phenomenal research published but in every journal research published the science we did proving new tricks has benefits in our  to help them cognitively frankly it's going to help people cognitively do this too it's a it's a it's a win win situation for all of us and that full disclosure come i don't want to tell you i also take provision every day on a personal note this is anecdotal my father when he got into his eighty's my father scary bright now i had to really work migrates my dad did not things i mean the guy is just phenomenally bright and we has a family i had mentioned earlier we have a big family we were all know to seen a decline in some of the cognitive he would forget where he put some of the most important things that he never forgot about before and the list goes on and on he actually this is a ten milligram prodigy and my father started on the twenty's then went to the forty's which is only your doctors have the forty's and three four months ish it was like he's in his early seventy's again and you know for a lot of the audience that might not seem young but actually when you're in the eight can you overdose on you know safety data and this is presented at the society of toxicology meeting we did for solace in times the dose for ninety days with no adverse events zero point zero adverse events reported it is very safe it's critical what happens with this protein is it's the body uses it as needed and the remainder safe i'm very excited to see what the benefits they had their first first pill today well this is a additive immediately and abby is pretty particular what she consumed so i was real pleased to see that so i think in abby saw that she would not have her teeth because she kept on looking at me as looking that he was doing that because like come on buddy every is pretty sharp actually but you know tucker just like ok he expects it but but every every goes looking for anyway we're going to be taking a break here dave and we'll continue talking about the tricks and one question before the break how long have you citizen dogs i guess we call him senior citizens so our senior pets and i was about to ask you before the break dave is the same for a different part of beach for the cats and versus the dogs the formula basically the active ingredient is a point corn in it's five milligrams in each one of them so the difference in this is we have this in a sprinkle and it's specifically formulated that cats really love and we did it in a salmon flavored and now we have it in the new chicken player and we switched to this where it had a hundred percent acceptability in cats and people know cats are fussy so we really want them to originally even before i had this out on the market people do use the human product provision and they would basically would take if it was a small dog they would take the capsule and sprinkle half of it on the food and then their capsule that's right and you're getting those so i know you have the studies and the research behind this and its effectiveness what are people saying about the product because we call that anecdotal but  i've got to tell you that i go by that mostly because people see results and they they talk about it and you can count on those results that you get from their experience you know i just want to show you the  this as a is a very important cover page for the journal of better behavior it's a veterinary peer review journal and we had our research published in this in february of two thousand and fifteen and  the writing the editing and going through the process to get a period viewed medical journal article is very difficult and they tend not to do it on supplements and so we're very proud that we had that and it was because of the solid research that so many doctors were willing to give this a try but the biggest thing has been the stories as you mentioned i have  so many people reach out specifically veterinary technicians and veterinarians they've reached out to us at new tricks emailed called excedrin basically because they're busy in their career saving lives and  you know it's a long day for for them to reach out and say this is made such a difference in my own dog or my client's pet has been on real some of the fun ones were  she was an emergency room veterinarian in memphis tennessee she's practicing out in colorado now but addie called me up and again i grew up knowing a lot of doctors and working at my dad's practice and as a kid so i know a lot of veterinarians he calls up and said i'd like to call to apologize and i said dr i don't even know you what do you what's going on and she said you know i got to tell you the story of my own dog wally wally had every symptom of cognitive dysfunction syndrome i mean it was i in fact i was so frustrated i thought the end was near for for my my best friend and so one  friends in practice because she was an emergency room doc and in so one of her friends in a regular daily practice had had talked her and said have you tried new tricks and she said oh yeah right it's a supplement right and she said yes she said well if it's a supplement it must not be that good actually she used more crude language and that that she shared but she said i don't trust it and her friend in practice said oh well then abby your alternative is euthanasia and i went ok i'll try it i'll try it and she goes on with their story and said after three days most of the symptoms had a they were gone she said there's no way this is this is just it's coincidence there's absolutely no way this is going to work so she took wally off of new tricks the symptoms came back to put wally back on new tricks and they within a week all the symptoms had gone he stopped soiling in the house he wasn't pacing his sleep pattern is a big one and if it is and what we saw and i've heard literally from hundreds and hundreds  of people in that inner medicine described the same thing expression with the sleep pattern on day seven like clockwork sleeping through the night and we know this from both the veterinarians and the clients and in the pet owners is that because they're sleeping through the night the dogs and will wake you up and it's like a big huge relief and the quality of your life is influenced by the quality of their life there's no question about it you know there's another picture if i a oh i didn't bring it but anyways this is a sixteen year old eighty five pound coupon called hank and hanks through the pet owner sent me a picture of hank on a sixteen with with a top hat on and a big happy birthday card just thinking oh said new tricks because she really she got her old dog back and the interesting thing about this picture was it was a big red marks  hanks snout when you look closely it was obvious those were lipstick kisses look then i got to love them again yeah and so you know this is this  is this is what i do you know this is just an added benefit and you know i would do what i do regardless of people who are to contact so that the nice thing about this this is not only a corrective measure to preventative measure yes it and that's that's a hard one for the science if i were it would be really a long term scientific study like in dentistry you can say that if you don't brush your teeth you're probably going to have problems you know ignore your teeth your teeth will go away my brother says that all the time and so you know we know brushing in those things are preventative i can tell you that so many pet owners that have had their past pets have dementia use new tricks as a preventative i do on my own pet yeah but you go ahead dave was going to say there are so many things we can do with our pets in senior care that are connected with the cognitive issues i brought some some interesting things here and i was just about to bring that up you also for the camera so the camera can say it pro bios is a company and this is the most recognized probiotic product in the world it's a danish company and they actually  nervous system is very much connected with our brains and so with what we thought we could do is we thought we could make a functional probiotic a functional treat addiction to that so what  stronger and stronger and it's really fueled by the human side where you'll have you know some of your film stars promoting certain types of yogurts and then now you see advertisements with some of the big so extremely important because everything that we consume everything your dog eat produces that bacteria calm right now we drink coffee we reduce the bacteria count they drink water they reduce the bacteria count water doesn't even so especially coronated tap water corn it afforded floor for a dated water so it's so important on a daily basis to replenish that bacteria in the benefit where well here in the united states we like proof you know it's like we're all from missouri or something you know show me and so what the scientists have been able to do and the doctor's is to actually show these benefits where there is that solid science connection of the enhancement of the immune system just as you said they are now working with the proper probiotics stace in your stomach as it relates to other things like autism  mood behavior changes this is something that in our senior pets you know if you've got a grumpy old grandpa maybe you should give him some probiotics so it is that will really almost like a tea bag type of thing yeah and they'll just basically take that and sprinkle it it's a nice one dose and so pro bias has come out through that's plus here in the united states  intelligence is we're recognizing that interconnectedness of the brain nervous system and how healthy gut enhanced is cognitive and frankly if you have a healthier brain and a healthier gut it makes all systems absolutely and so you get that strengthening of the immune system as well as your digestive system absolutely so a veterinarian they don't have it on the shelf they can get it within a day they can order it in it's easily available online at new tricks dot com and of course w w w new tricks dot com there's a button there and the the interesting thing we've done that new tricks is that we've dedicated ourselves every single purchase helps support senior wellness so in september and october every single bottle that is sold on the new tricks website we donate to old friends senior dog sanctuary yes old friends senior dog sanctuary their sanctuary that they right now have over fifty dogs in residence it's a really great place and they have about sixty five dogs that they sponsor in adoption and so and foster care and and so they are not for profit and so they they just do great work so coming up in november and december every single bottle that of new tricks is sold through our website  we will help support the great mazel dot org gray spelled g r e y and great muzzle dot org is a not for profit organization founded out of north carolina and they're all about senior pets senior pet wellness and everything about our senior pets and they do some great work they have people on their advisory board like dr julie  makes a really cool product for senior pets it's a little rubber piece that goes on clips on to their nails so they don't slip dr busby said a pack of the they and i'm going to talk about them a little bit later we're going to try him on tucker ok talk about  is a specialist in that area nutrition so he knows all about the benefits of a probiotic or certain type of food if your day dog has a cat has a medical issue that requires a different type of diet and the list goes on and on with this organization it's really wealth great cause so what is this that you're not getting back this is one of my favorite i just love this remember i told you i look for products that i just want my dad to have in the practice and this is called noodles thank you noodles is the premium dental treat we've had other dental treats in the molded they tended to stay in the gut for a long time eventually causing very severe medical problems and sometimes requiring surgery to take these out and so when i  was introduced to canoe tools i said you know this is a great one it's made just like pasta so it's extruded and like pasta it's easily digested but this shape of this it's patented and this shape will allow the dog even though it's nice and soft the dog's teeth will go in there and you get that abrasion effect of cleaning and because of again it's moving in softer the dog choose about three times longer than all the other dental chews now veterinary dentist yes and in bed there medicine we have all board certified specialties and dentistry is included  area dentist recommend now that a dent you have a dental chew that you can actually you know indent with your fingernail and this does that my favorite though is that if it is ingested in pieces or whole you're going to have this mushy  two hours and digested in the cup more so all i can noodles is great and again they're available in pet stores and veterinarians can get these if they don't have them right now in practice the veterinarian will have them in practice very soon well obviously i've never seen a really pick one of these up in force or anything like it so that's interesting they do come in different sizes this is extra large i actually have the t well we had just a couple other things i want to medicare regard to senior care besides products and you know i i absolutely love the products that we've shared with you today but there's some other things you can do  interaction with it with your senior pets one of the challenges we had done on our blog new tricks and we've got a lot of great senior care information as those great muzzle we challenge people to teach their dog one more new trick and a lot of people again a lot of people believe you cannot teach an old dog new tricks but there are some fun things you can do and what this does is suddenly year old dog they figure out oh you are doing  this were interacting a different way or even if you do a training trick technique with them to sit better again or to do something they really get involved with this and what this does it stimulates their brain it's get some more  active and involved with you one of the other interesting aspects of new tricks is people say my dog just call me or is this anti anxiety well right now and in the testing of it it actually isn't we don't classify it as an anti anxiety or calming it's had that effect because we believe that as the dog cognitively gets stronger and feeling better about their surroundings and where they're less anxious this product here is called through a dog's ear and for those old enough to remember c d s but this is a c v and it's i'm sure available p three etc this is music it's classical music developed by two people the classical pianist lisa spector and her research associate who's a professor up in the northwest joshua leeds this music when played calms the pets down they have fifteen years worth of great science with audiology understanding the tones that are pets here and that make them kong we had a hot streak in wisconsin a couple years ago where it was just miserable to go outside and my dogs and my cats were in and they were just you know maybe it was my perception but they were i could tell they were fit to be tied and so i thought you know what can i do and so i put this music on and next to know within a couple minutes there in the living room by the speakers laying down like they're chilling out there relaxing and this music i've had several other people use this on their dogs that are kind of anxious expression when they leave them alone they'll put this music on and they'll just keep it going throughout the day and it really helps with that separation anxiety type issues where the find of this is available i think the easiest way to get this is like an amazon just through ear then another interesting this is a book written by denise flack now denise is dear to my heart it's called the autumn and winter of your pet and it's specifically about senior pet wellness and things you can do and first aid issues with with senior pets etc but i'm new tricks you'll see that there's that dog right there that's mr rico it just so and i just looked and went that's my dog and i reached out and found this picture and then i found a nice fleck turned out she was in her career a producer for c b s television in los angeles and her sideline was first aid for pets and she developed expertise and then further went on with certification except her up when she retired she became the trainer for your first responders for pet rescue and first aid like if they are come out of a burning house or a car crash or any of these things she trained law enforcement and firefighters how to administer first aid for  pets and she's written a couple books but this is a great book with information on our senior pets and just talking about those golden years and so you know she gives  information on signs that you know to look for to say ok they are senior now and what should i be looking for and then actually she gives a shout out for why it is important for people to  adopting a senior pet and i tell you you know having a senior pet adopted is really a neat thing to do because once you give a senior pet a home to their already trained three they just you know the the the level of intelligence and appreciation for them is like none other and for some of our audience and this is a real thing some some people you know have are old enough where they they want to live their pets and sometimes if you're if you're eighty years old and you want to new pet a senior pet like a senior person that's plus has these products on the websites as well they don't that's plusses actually they all have the new tricks to separate the canoe tools says canoe tools usa dot com that'll tell you by the information has the manufacturers some of the top dairy products in the world but what if you want to know about that's plus as a company they can get information on the web on their website as you do as well on a new chicks dot com know you'll like new tricks i've got a couple fun short videos listen a minute long that really informative and if you want to you can see our research on the web site to us and i think i'm going to have to confiscate another one of these for for tucker here because he was seemed to be wanting to take it from abbey so we're going to see what he does with one of the little beggars your yeah i don't think i need a whole bag that's probably a ten year supply for these anyway dave my pleasure having on helping pets they help the owners so much information and it's so important to take care in a special way your senior pet just as we take care of our senior adults and people