dr. kim hammond is here with sonic the hedgehog. >> he is supersonic. >> very active. >> and pretty. i have something to show you. turkey dinner for thanksgiving. thanksgiving day dinner -- these are available everywhere. >> turkey in a can. >> behavior, behavior, behavior. i would get them in there and let them house trained. you have done all the blood work. get them house trained. there is a new product that is absolutely outstanding. it causes them to dislodge. talked year veteran. about it. -- talk to your veterinarian about it. deer ticks are dangerous. there is a lot of deer and hunters. >> tell me about hedgehogs. >> they are fast. [laughter] >> are they at low maintenance? >> except if you are on tv. they are fine little animals, sweet, and prickly. if you have exotic pets, they need to get examined. every pet has certain requirements. >> e-mail your questions to petquestions@wbaltv.com. nbc takes a look every friday with its supernatural thriller "grimm." it is a whole new world of crime fighting. turning me are two of the show's stars, david giuntoli and russell hornsby. >

dr. kim hammond. look at your little friend here. >> this is leonardo, a little red -- it is a beautiful little turtle. these are great. in the olden days, we all used to have these things. we have learned a lot about turtles. they actually can eat proper foods, and if you feed them correctly and understand about their behavior, they can live a really happy life. this is a cool turtle. it has a lot of personality. >> let's answer questions while you do that "my yorkshire terrier mix everything, -- lakeicks everything. how can i discourage it?" >> that is really a cd. there really are doggy prozacs. give the medicine and also train him. and i think i have to hold him. question two -- "we found a kitten to to three months old who has been living outside, very underweight, but when i feed him milk, he cannot keep anything down. i'm worried about getting protein in him. could i use lactate milk or something else?" >> i would advise you to get some veterinary help there could be a virus involved. there's p

dr. hammond answers your pet questions when we come back. first a look at events going on around town this weekend. >> what a little fluff bucket. we will get to dr. kim hammond and your pet questions. but with winter here, some of us saw snow. millions of pet owners probably think they no longer have to worry about fleas and ticks. that's not necessarily true. chris clackum has more. >> writers at kipplinger.com recently said you set aside $75 a year just for expenses routine stuff. >> the aspca says you should plan on spending $2,000 at some point in your pet's lifetime. >> one way to avoid some of those expenses is not fall for the story that fleas and ticks die off when the thermometer dips during fall and winter. >> people let their guard down and say we're going to stop the products. >> dr. wayne says fleas can take up refuge inside. >> they can continue to infect dogs and cats year round. >> most people scale down rather than ramp it up. ramp it up means treating your pet with flea and tick killers at least once a month every month. >> you place it behind the shoulders at the base of the neck, and then that product spreads over the body. >> adv

dr. kim hammond is here to answer your pet questions. >> you can e-mail pet questions to www.wbaltv.com. >> in this morning's consumer alert, veterans have protected our country. yet they sometimes become the targets of scam artists. why are veterans in particular targets? >> first of all, you know so much about them. you know their pay day, you know their pay scale. you have so much information. so scam artists are able to target them. second, it is because traditionally, or at least in the past, the military got married younger. they were deployed and left behind young spouses who may not know about a lot of -- or haven't had a lot of experience, so it makes them easy prey. i'm going to start with a scam that started thursday, and this is a take-off on the spin on the grandparent scam where you call and say to the grandparents, i need you to wire money to help me. well, there was the same scam on thursday. the grand -- saying the grandson was deployed, on leave in bacelona, got aarrested for fishing. this scam artist knew they had a grandson in the military. >> that's scary and specifi

dr. kim hammond. >> i want to talk to you about the flu vaccine.brought that to the public's attention three years agoo here at wbal. it is around us. it is in delaware and virginia and new york and pennsylvania. it is not in maryland. i want to tell you something about it. i heard that woman saying she doesn't think her dog needs it. not true. it is about preventing disease. a little shot prevents the disease. treating disease often fails. 5% of the dogs that get the canine flu, 5% are going to die. if that's your dog, you are going to regret it. a little shot it important. which dog needs a flu vaccine? dogs that go to dog parks, dogs that board, dogs that broom -- groom. if you live on the 15th floor and your dog never sees another dog, you don't need it. why a new topical medicine kills the ticks and makes the dead ticks drop off. where can i get it. >> lowell, there is such confusion about which flea and tick products to get. i made a list. i will make this available to people. if you contact me at the animal hospital, we will mail this to you