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It just helps the show out a lot. Today is a fun episode. It's a different episode. I'm

talking to a man by the name of Matt Ryan. He goes by the Instagram name Duck Dog Vet and over

the past, well, it had been a couple weeks ago now. We had a rare cold spell come across the southeast.

It's all temps and freezing like we don't normally see down here and it arose a lot of questions

and potential issues towards folks that like to take their dog out duck hunting, like someone

like myself and someone like several people that listen to this show. And so I reached out to

Matt because he put out a very interesting post and we kind of dove into the subject a little bit

deeper, talked about that and then just talked about general, I guess the way to describe it is

like we talked about some things that every Duck Dog owner should know, but somehow every

Duck Dog owner doesn't know. Like I learned some things on this podcast. I thought I was pretty

knowledgeable, I guess, on the subject of Duck Dogs, but he taught me some things that I needed to

add. Dogs are so much fun, but it's important that we keep them safe. And so anyhow, it was a very

interesting conversation. We're going to get right into it and thanks for listening to the show.

Matt Ryan, thanks for coming on the show. I know being a guy that likes to duck on and a person

that is a veterinarian, you're probably more than busy this time of year with that big,

direct statement. For the most part, our clinic's not only real heavy on the Duck Dog side of

things. We have a ton of filter element test clientele that comes through. So we're hot and heavy

with it all points of the year there at that there at the clinic. So, but let's just animal clinic

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