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00:00:02.879 --> 00:00:07.839 i wanted to share with you a piece of legislation we've been working on for 
00:00:06.319 --> 00:00:12.480 about a year um the background story about a year 
00:00:10.400 --> 00:00:16.320 year and a half ago there's a knock on my door at home 
00:00:14.240 --> 00:00:20.960 and it's one of my neighbors um he's actually a professor over at arizona 
00:00:18.640 --> 00:00:26.320 state university and and he has almost tears running down his face 
00:00:23.039 --> 00:00:31.119 his beautiful beautiful dog had died the night before and then just 
00:00:29.359 --> 00:00:37.200 suffered horribly turns out the dog had reached into his 
00:00:33.680 --> 00:00:41.680 wife's purse and ate the gum it turns out there's this thing called 
00:00:38.640 --> 00:00:45.440 sugar alcohol many of us if you look at your pack of 
00:00:43.120 --> 00:00:49.760 sugar-free candy you'll see something called xylitol 
00:00:47.360 --> 00:00:53.760 turns out it kills your dog it shuts down the liver and it's a horrible death 
00:00:52.239 --> 00:00:58.719 for the poor animal so we've been working and trying to move 
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through congress a simple simple piece of legislation we call paws off 
00:01:01.359 --> 00:01:08.320 it just says gum um things that use these sugar 
00:01:05.680 --> 00:01:13.360 alcohols the xylitols have to be properly labeled so you know the damage 
00:01:11.439 --> 00:01:17.040 the danger it is to your pets 
00:01:15.119 --> 00:01:19.040 so if it's something you like and care about 
00:01:18.159 --> 00:01:21.520 please help us 
00:01:20.080 --> 00:01:26.479 if you're not in our congressional district reach out tell your member of 
00:01:23.920 --> 00:01:31.360 congress that this is just humane it's moral and it's actually fair that you 
00:01:28.880 --> 00:01:35.240 have the information on the danger these things are to your pets