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later on just, you know, it’s been told – I’m in my mid-forties already I no like exact but I was
<br />always told, you know, make sure – especially pork – cook your pork good. This is from way back
<br />when. This is, you know, before I was born and my Mom always said, cook the pork good. And
<br />my Grandma always said, cook the pork good, so, as long as you guys do your due diligence as,
<br />you know, taking care of your game meat, your resource, it can’t be, I mean, it is a big deal but it
<br />also can be \[unclear\] as long as you take care of yourself and take care of the meat – as far as
<br />your, you know, your pals, your brothers, you know, your sisters, your dogs – that’s basically
<br />what I’m saying, you know your kids, I gonna call ‘em kids, um, there’s not too much that we can
<br />do to help protect them – if you see any signs just take ‘em into the vet as soon as you can. I’ve
<br />been hunting for over 20 years now – over twenty years – and luckily I haven’t seen anything
<br />bad with diseases with my dogs and I hunted all over the lower Puna area and upper Puna, I’ve
<br />been out to Ka’u couple times, Kona once, so I been around this Island hunting and like I said,
<br />luckily I haven’t encountered any bad diseases with my dogs, I mean, they, as far as the pigs
<br />they got gored up pretty well, you know, but as far as just diseases – I’m not saying that it’s not
<br />out there – it is out there – Kim called me to come and assist her very recently at one of my
<br />friend’s properties to go and dispatch a pig and they tested it and it was positive for brucellosis –
<br />so it is out there, one of my hunting friends – he was hunting down in the Nanawale Forest
<br />Reserve – lower Puna – and him and his dogs came up with pseudo rabies. So, it’s not – I not
<br />saying it’s not out there – just protect yourself very well, um, try and protect your animals very
<br />well – that’s all I can say, as long as, you know, just protect yourself with your PPE and take care
<br />of your meat.
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<br />KK: I guess the one point too that came up when I was – that, that research – things that you can do
<br />to decrease the chances of infection. Number one thing too, is wash your dogs.
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<br />AA: Yeah.
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<br />KK: As, as – if you carry water on your truck – especially wash around the eyes, rinse their mouths
<br />out if they were the grabbers – get any blood off of them cause dilutions – the solution of the
<br />pollution – the less contact time – you can hopefully, reduce your dogs’ becoming infected. Just
<br />washing your dogs – something as simple as that – wash the mouth – get the blood off.
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<br />AG: I’ve lost two dogs with leptospirosis.
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<br />KK: Lepto?
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<br />AG: Um-hum.
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<br />KK: Oh my God.
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<br />AG: From having \[unclear\] mac nut tree.
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<br />KK: And then have all the water and then animals come and go shi…
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<br />AG: It’s the rats running around.
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<br />KK: Oh, the rats are bad about that, yeah….
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