dr. hammond is here to answer your question. >> i love french bulldogs. i actually treat a lot, and a good french bulldog is a good dog. they say about this size. they are not a simple dog. they are a little bit exotic, but you fall in love with them. >> you do. you cannot help but to fall in love. "my cat has been diagnosed with inflammatory bowel disease, and the bet recommends diagnostic treatment. is it safe for my cat." >> the first part is make sure that the diagnosis is accurate. if your vet just as you're a cat has chronic diarrhea it is not accurate. you have to get a biopsy. the treatment will be a lifelong treatment, and it will be a modicum of things. antibiotic is one of them, but i would get a biopsy. >> our four-year-old golden retriever barks at anything and everything she sees or hears and causes quite a distance. is there anything we can do to decrease the barking? >> i would love to have that dog in my house just to keep the deer away. there are a lot of things you can do. what i use mechanically is a device i got which was a little sho

dr. kim hammond is here to answer your pet questions. you can e-mail then ed petque >> it is not a cut 16th trick is 50 degrees. debt collection -- it is a multi billion dollar industry, and consumers have complained they have become far too aggressive. >> their nightmare began when a landscaper did a lousy job and would not come back to fix it. before long, they heard from a debt collector, claiming they owed almost $15,000, much more than the project was supposed to cost care >> we did not allow the debt collector money care >> data became -- the calls became aggressive, even threatening to follow the couple. >> we will get an idea of who you guys are associated with. >> i was pretty scared to find out how far they would go. >> i felt threatened. >> they fought back, still in the debt collector. the case is pending. the federal trade commission says complaints in the last three years have jumped from 91,000 in 2007, to 120,000 last year. >> more collectors are engaging in more aggressive tactics. in some cases, they get consumers to pa

dr. kim hammond is here. questions to wbaltv.com. ♪ [ monkey cheeps ] [ male announcer ] a bath becomes even more pleasurable when you know that your water is being heated in an environmentally- conscious way while saving you hundreds of dollars on your water-heating energy bill. the geospring water heater from ge with advanced hybrid technology. heating the water in your home any other way is just going to seem primitive. [ monkey cheeps ] ♪ >> october is national domestic violence awareness month. coming up later this week, a very important symposium. taylor will be part of that. she is a clinical instructor at the university of maryland school of social work. thanks for coming in. >> thanks for having us. >> why are you having the symposium sf >> i think that what's going on is we are seeing across the state a dramatic increase in the number of children who are involved in what we loosely call domestic violence. violence really involving one partner battering another partner. kids are witnessing it. resear

dr. kim hammond ensco answers to your pet questions. >> and new laws are about to kick in.kitchen for the ultimate tailgate party. >> we have some mild temperatures in the seven-day forecast. forecast. public safety is a governor's most important job. that's why governor martin o'malley has instituted new dna and fingerprinting technology that's reducing violent crime... new, stronger domestic violence and abuse legislation... and o'malley passed new laws to better track and convict sexual predators, with even longer prison sentences. as a father of four, i know there's always more that we must do to protect our children and make maryland an even safer place to raise our families. [captioning made possible by constellation energy group] captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> live, local, latebreaking -- this is wbal-11 news saturday morning, in hd. >> i am lisa robinson. >> i am debra winger. let's look outside with meteorologist tony pann. >> we had some frost for the first time this season the close to baltimore. in the suburbs, especially, w

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