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24 LOUISVILLE MAGAZINE 11.17 THE BIT SHIFT Holistic Vet By Dylon Jones Crystal treatments. For your dog. It's about 20 minutes until Dr. Sabra Saint Germain's next appointment in her veterinary office in the back of the Barkstown Road pet supply store on Frankfort Av- enue, and she's sitting at a desk, looking through her glasses at a laptop screen, her long, curly gray hair pulled back, one coil of bangs a lighter color, not quite as white as her lab coat. Half the room looks like incense could be burning — blankets over tables, Oriental rugs — the other side more clinical, with a height-adjust- able metal exam table attached to the wall. Beside Saint Germain, a young wom- an perches on a tiny, tasseled stool, bal- ancing on her knees a keyboard attached to the laptop. "OK, this dog has metastasized nasal carcinoma," Saint Germain says. "And they did say that they're seeing a couple spots in her lungs now." The assistant types at the keyboard as Saint Germain lists the dog's medications, some of which, like Piroxicam, sound strange, the way all medicines do. But some sound odder. Like "mushroom defense." "There's mushrooms that are thought to have enhancing properties," Saint Germain says. "Briar rose? I don't know what that does. Briar rose. Do you?" she asks the room. The dog's on cannabidiol, a cannabis derivative. "A lot of clients start that on their own; I'm not allowed to talk about it," Saint Germain says. And then there's the ozone. Which the dog's owner has been putting up its butt like