January 2, 2026 • 31 mins
Dianna Scotto spent 25 years as a New York City police sergeant. She loved that career. But she also loves dogs. Join us in this special Oh Behave show episode with host Arden Moore as Dianna shares how she came to operate Scoopy Doo's in Delray Beach, Florida now with her son, Kyle. Yep. she traded her badge for a bakery! Their bakery features prime rib ice cream, carob brownie dog cake and other healthy and doggy delicious delights! Dianna also shares tips on being a successful foster mom for dogs in need of adoption. She has fostered 55 dogs in the past 15 years!
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Speaker 3 (00:48):
Welcome to the Old Behave Show on Pet Life Radio.
I'm your host, Arden Moore. Now our special guest today
spent twenty five years with the New York City Police Department. Yep,
she had a badge and she loved that job, but
she has always loved animals. Today she traded her badge
(01:10):
for a bakery. Yeah, she is thoroughly enjoying her second
career as an accomplished bakery owner catering to dogs and horses. Ah,
she is here to help us dish up healthy treats
for our dogs. So please welcome to our show from
Scoopy Doues in Delray Beach, Florida. Diana Scotto, Welcome, Welcome, Diana.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
Hi, thank you for having me on and I appreciate
it all right.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
For those of you because you can go to my
YouTube channel later on. She has in her hands. Who
do you have in your arms?
Speaker 4 (01:46):
For those folks, this is part of my five. So
this is cash Money.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
What a great name, cash Money. You are priceless.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
He's beautiful, he's a Chulini. He's about fifteen years old.
He's my boy.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
All right, hey, folks, we're going to dive into how
do you go from being a New York City police
sergeant to running a very successful bakery in South Florida.
After we take this quick break. But you all know
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Speaker 3 (03:27):
Welcome back to the old Behave show on pet Life Radio.
I'm your host, Ardenmore. I am so jazzed to have
on our show. Diana Scatto, she and her son Kyle operate.
Tell us the full official name of your bakery and
Delray Beach, Florida.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
Sure, it's called scoofy Doos and we're a dog bakery
ice cream shop. We also do grooming and we are
a small mom and pop pet retail shop. So we
have our biggest, biggest straw as our homemade ice cream. Obviously,
me and my son make homemade ice cream. Well, the ingredients,
it's lactose free, gelatin, salt, and either pumpkin organic blueberries.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
I do any there is one flavor that I know
would be very canine friendly, and that's something I would
want tell us about, the Prime Rib ice cream.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
What.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
So, we have these funny names for things, right, so
prime Rib is one of them. So it's just lactose
free milk, gelatin salt, and beef bone brop. It's just
a fun name. People come in, they're like, oh my god,
it's prime Rib, and then you tell.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Them what it is.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
I'm like, oh, that's so cool. And then for like
the holidays, we'll do like bunny tracks or Rudolph's Special
and pumpkin pie latte. So we do stuff like that
for the holidays.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
You have cheese flavored ice cream too, right.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
We do?
Speaker 3 (04:44):
We do?
Speaker 4 (04:45):
We have, Yeah, we have cheese flavored. We have bacon.
We have birthday cake breacon bacon.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
That's what my dogs say. So we got to roll
back this reel. I mean, you must have you know,
been a police officer for twenty five years and New
York City pardon the pun, wasn't the cake walk? Yeah?
But what led you to that career?
Speaker 4 (05:07):
So my family is my dad did forty years in
NYP day, my brother's twenty, thank you. My kid's father
did twenty five. I did twenty five, and then both
of my boys actually were on. My oldest son is
still on as well as being in the Air Force,
and my youngest son was on for a short period
of time and then he decided to move down to Florida.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
You're n whypd blue, aren't you really?
Speaker 4 (05:31):
Yeah? And my sister is a lawyer, so they always
say we're blue bloods, you know.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Oh that's do you sit around the table on Sunday nights? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (05:39):
Right, Unfortunately we're all over the place. But it's just
I grew up with it for my dad, and I
don't know, I just I fell into it.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
What did you enjoy most about being a sergeant?
Speaker 4 (05:52):
Honestly, it's we always say, it's not the circus, it's
the clowns on p days. So it's the truth is
and then when you retire, like you don't miss the circus,
and miss the clowns. It's just it's such a brother
in sisterhood. It's just it's a connection like unless you
The only way I can probably relate it if somebody's
been in the military, Like, there's that connection there, and
(06:14):
then when you leave, you're always looking for that connection,
but you're never going to find it because it's a
very unique job.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
So I love it.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
My dad always told me, love what you do. And
you never work a day in your life, and you know,
and I can honestly say I never worked a day
in nyp day and I'm definitely not working now.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
So so you go trade your badge for a bakery,
I mean, and you go to South Florida. Yeah, what
was the why not a one in the Big Apple?
What was it that drew you down to South Florida
and Palm Beach County.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
I mean, New York is changing. I feel like it
wasn't the New York that like that I grew up
in Stantna and it wasn't the Statin Island that I
grew up in. And honestly, my bones are getting tired.
I really did want to I didn't want to really
deal with this. No oh, in the cold anymore.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
I got Youah.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
Yeah, So my husband was looking around and we were
actually looking we're going to move into Key West, and
then we realized it's I love Key West. It's absolutely beautiful,
but you're very constricted in Key West, Like you have
to get really off the island to do other things.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
It's quite a drive on that bridge even to get
to Miami. Isn't it two or three hours.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
From thereass out three hour? It depends on the traffic.
Could do in two and a half. You could from here.
It takes almost four hours. We're in Delray Beach. So
I just wanted more. I just wanted more options in
Key West. And then we started looking in Delray and
we we spent three weeks in Delray, not on vacation,
like we lived the light in Delray.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Oh weeks.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
Yeah, So rented an airbnb. It's not like we went
out every night. We just said, let's see if we
can live here. We enjoy being in Delray, and by
the end of the third week we bought something. It
was the day before we left. We ended up buying
condo down here with just the both of us just
fell in love with it. We're like, it's just it's
a different way of New York. It's beautiful, but it's
(08:02):
a different way of life. And flower It's just it's quieter,
it's cleaner, it's it's easy for us.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
It's for us for us. Yeah, and no to shovel.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
Yeah, we're at that point our life where we we
don't want to pondy in Manhattan anymore.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Well, I was a newspaper reporter down there South Florida,
the Fort Lauderdale Sun Sentinel, but I was in Palm
Beach County. I actually had lived in uh Lantana and
Lake Worth and worked in Delray Beach when the office
was off of I ninety five for nine years. So
I totally understand Diana for South Florida and Delray Beach.
(08:37):
But did you know you were going to do a
bakery or what was the game plan when you said
I'm done with being a police sergeant. Were you somebody
at home that would bake things for your pets or
where did this come from?
Speaker 2 (08:48):
So?
Speaker 4 (08:48):
I always had a passion for animals, I mean just
always when when I was younger. You know, my girlfriends
sort have these little they have these strollers and they'd
be putting babies in the strollers, and I'd have stuffed
dogs like I never babysat right, didn't want anything to
do with babies.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
You're into four leggers.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
Yeah, show me a dog or a cat or I
would take care of them. Growing out, my dad always
I mean, he brought home, he brought home a cat,
gave everybody ringworms. He bought home rabbits, and they multiplied.
He brought home gurbils when we ended up with sixty
five gurbils. I mean, you know, We've always had animals
in a house. I grew up with dogs, shepherds. I
(09:28):
grew up with shepherds. I had two beautiful shepherd's, buck
and Snow. And then and then I just continued to
keep dogs. And now I've multiplied.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
I have fun. Well, yeah, you and they're all rescues.
Can you do the lineup? Well, that sounds really good
to ask a cop. Can you do the lineup? The
canine lineup? Rattle off their names?
Speaker 4 (09:48):
Okay, So you have Tito, who's eleven, and he was
adopted last year. He was a foster.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Foul No, No, foster's success was the success. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
Then we have Sassafra, which we call her Saxy and Sassy.
Sassy is fourteen. Then we have cash Money who's over
here and he's fourteen. We adopted Tito just when he
was ten. And then we have LJ who we adopted
when she was two and she's fifteen. And when we
(10:20):
have a Phosphus foster named Babe. She's going to be
with us forever. And she is eighteen and she's pretty
much blind. She's mostly deaf. She's incontinent, so she runs
around with a diaper. But she was an overbred mama
and then they just she was in awarding situation, so
we took her. We've had her for about nine months.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
What is it about chihuaha mixes? You went from German
shepherds to Chihuahwa's.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
That's quite a transition, I know, right, I feel like
I feel like it could have more of them. So
if I had five shepherds, is it.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Like potato chips? Yeah, you can have more of them.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
Right, there's if anybody knows the breed. If you know
the breed, you should always know the breed that you're
getting involved in.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Right.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
They tend to be very yappy. I mean, there's just
it's just loud in my house, and you know, people like, oh,
it doesn't bother you, and I'm like, honestly, I.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Don't even hear it anymore. You grew up in New
York and you were a police officer. You're not even
hearing anymore.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
But so it's funny because my sister had a chihua
and Nat Charles Fitzgerald, and she annexed us. She asked
us to watch him for ten days when she went
on vacation. This is how the whole chihuaha thing came around.
And we watched him and we realized that I never
liked just sa you know, I never like chuas.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
I was like, oh, there's a lot of chio. Well
they do was born.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
They're tiny and they look like little rats. Right when
we watched him for ten days and me and my
husband like literally, so of what choas? And I'm like, oh,
I never thought about getting a chuaha.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
I'm like, she get one.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
And literally like go Lada. Yeah. We were looking at
the rescue Pet find her and we found one on
and I'm like, oh, well, we'll just go take a
look at her.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Well, yeah, famous last words. I think it's funny that
at chiua whose name is Charles, what Charles Fitzgerald. So
the name was longer than the body of the chihuahua
ended up changing you, making you do a one eighty.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
Now, ye I never thought a cho Honestly, I'm telling you,
in a hundred years, if you ever told me I
would have a Choa, I'm like, I'm a shopperd girl.
You know, before that, we had a we had a
chow mix. Before that, we had we even had a
poppy on which was which was Rascal, but a chia.
I was like, I'm getting a never going to get
(12:33):
at chiu? Yeah, well, never said never, Oself, That's right.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
And never say never to your second pivot of careers,
and and that is to operate a dog bakery that's
in a new place, Delray Beach. Folks, you go to
South Florida for a vacation or you live there. I
really hope that you do get a chance to stop
into Scooby Doos in Delray Beach. But we're gonna find
(12:57):
out how she did that, and she's gonna unleave some
yummy holiday tips and tricks to keep our dogs happy
with full bellies and safe after we take this break.
So you know, the drill, sit, stay, We'll be right back.
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Speaker 3 (14:14):
Here's Harden, Welcome back to the old Behave show on
pet Life Radio. I'm your host, Arden Moore. I am
having a great time with our special guest. She is
Diana Scotto. She and her son Kyle operate Scoopy Dues.
That's with the p in Delray Beach. And I found
out about her because I actually write a pet column
(14:35):
every month in the Coastal Star, which goes up and
down Palm Beach County Coastal Cities, and I thought, I
gotta have this gal on my show. So you know
what is healthy and you know what is not healthy.
So sometimes people can get in a little trouble and
our pets can get sick. So what are some foods
or drinks that are absolutely doggy? No nos, okay, So
(14:57):
definitely anything with chocolate.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
Right, So you know that dogs can have a carib
but they cannot have chocolate. So charcolet is highly toxic
to them. Grapes are toxic, believe it. Or in an avocado,
a dog can have a little bit of avocado, but
it's not really recommended.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
Yeah, it causes digestive upset. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
Yeah, and depending on the size of the dog, it
can beat toxic very quickly to the dog. So you
want to keep them away from anything that spicy. So
if you're making chicken like chicken, you're like, oh, I
want to give my dog some chicken. Make sure there's
no spices on it, right. They eat salt, They don't
need pepper garlic powder as a concentrated garlic, so you
have to be careful of it.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
So you can rinse off a little piece of chicken, right.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
Yeah, I know, but you know it's still in It's.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
Still in there, it's still in there.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
You're going to give them, Just give them a piece,
you know, make them separately, boil a piece of chicken
or put it, put.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
It on a good idea and then do it.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
If you know that they're definitely going to give them some,
they should stay away from any type of sauces. Right,
it's so like reds like, don't give them, don't give
them a piece of as on your red sauce and it.
You know, so anything like anything like that. What about
good old pumpkin pie? Tell us the good in the
bag kind of punkin to give our dogs? So the
(16:12):
answer is no, because pumpkin pie has all types of
different spices in the and if you're not making it,
you don't know what's in it, so it's gone, and
then the crust can be full of different oils or butters.
You have to be really careful. So pumpkin is wonderful
for your dog, It's absolutely wonderful for your dog. But
if you're gonna buy it and a can, make sure
(16:34):
it doesn't say pumpkin pie mixed because they not has
all the stuff in it.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Yeah. Yeah, just plain old pumpkin. Just say pumpkin.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
That's it. And if you want to make them a
pumpkin pie, right, so, you can take a can of pumpkin.
You can take an egg. You could take a little
bit of I always use organic when I cook my dog,
but you don't have to. But oats has tendency of
a glycaice it in because of the way that they're sprayed.
And you can do a little oats. You put it
in a blind spray a little like a cupcake pan. Yeah,
(17:03):
and pour it in the cupcake pan, bake it for
about forty minutes a three fifty eight, pop it out
and you will have a little Now they can have
the pumpkin pie.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
When you there, you go. I like that.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
Well.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Also, I know you were talking about this like anything
seasoned meat or fat or skin or gravy that could
also cause pancreatitis. And I'm betting Diana, you don't really
want to spend the holidays or have our listeners spend
the holidays at the er vet, right, yeah.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
I mean pancreat titus a dog usually has. I mean,
a chicken skin isn't going to cause pancreat titus. But
if a dog has pancrea titus, they have to be
very careful with their fat and tank, right, So high protein,
lower fat. So yeah, again, when you give them a
prepared food, like if you're not making it, but like
a punkoye, you don't actually know what oils are in
there and what fats are in there. So especially with
(17:54):
a dog of pancrey tights, you have to be like,
don't give them a sweet potato pie, right, Yeah, if
you want to give them something, give them a sweet
potato you can do a piece of sweet potato.
Speaker 5 (18:04):
That.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
This way, they're still getting that like the holiday feel
if you will, you know what I mean, But they
you're not. You have to be very careful. Chaos in
general are very sensitive stomachs. So my guys, if they
eat anything even a little bit off, there's no sleeping
in the house that night. Everybody's throwing off.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
I'm glad this podcast doesn't smell of podcasts because we
would be like Doggie.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
Yeah, it gets bad, especially with the five of them.
It's like it's a You're like, it was not worth it.
It really, it wasn't worth it for the five seconds
that they swallow that beat, you know.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
So so you walk into Scoopy Doos and can you
bring a well mannered dog with you?
Speaker 4 (18:43):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Sure?
Speaker 4 (18:43):
So the song now Doris says dogs welcome, people tolerated,
So which is so true. Yeah, it's so true.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
What's your what's your thoughts? When? What do you if
you could put yourself in the mind of a dog
making the first trip the Scoopy Doos?
Speaker 4 (18:57):
What role? What do you think?
Speaker 3 (18:58):
That dog is seen hearing and definitely smelling. Oh my god,
they're like this is the best place ever. Oh my god.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
So you know, when you come in, we have it
smells like bakery items from the cookies right as soon
as they walk in. So in the shop when you
first walk in the shop, when you walk into the
left we have a wall of one ingredient freeze dry treats,
which we highly recommend from a company Cold Northwest. So
we're very careful about what we bring into the shop.
There's nothing in my shop that I wouldn't give my dogs. Okay,
(19:30):
that's a good testament. Yeah, there's nothing. There's absolutely nothing
in my shop there. I'd be like, okay, I'm not
giving not to them. So we have something for everybody.
So if your dog has pancreatitis, we have treats for them.
If your dog is a diabetic, we have treats for them.
We pride ourselves on being like the mom and pop
shop where your doll comes in and I'm like, oh,
there's Jacob, there's Jacks.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
Oh nice.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
I mean, I don't know the customers' names, but I
do know their pets names.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
Is there a couple of dogs that are regulars who
want to do or shout out to? And what kind
of dogs they are? You know that you build a
friendship with.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
Oh, it's got to be Benny. Who's the beagle dog
from China. Yeah, he was a big old dog from
China in China meet Yeah, because he was supposed to
be Oh, he was supposed to be served from China,
like the beagle. Oh he's quite he's got quite the personality.
So let me just say he's had a very rough life. Right.
(20:24):
If you pet him under his chin, he tends to
bite you. But I know that, so I don't pet him.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
Under his chin.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
He can be a little bit not friendly, but but
he's very sweet.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
He's a grump because he has a reason to be
grump because of his past. But yeah, I said, he's
being given something to eat from you. And do you
have another dog that maybe doesn't bite you.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
No, there's Barkley, who's his brother who lives with him,
who's super sweet and he's a rescue. And then we
have one of our favorite dogs that come and his
name is Maverick and he's an oh oh my god.
His mom, Sarah owns a place in Delray called The Lab,
which is a fitness and social club, and she just
got another female puppy. So, I mean, he's super sweet.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
Maverick.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
He's like one hundred and sixty pounds of mush.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
He's wow.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
What does Maverick enjoy at Scoopy douce Ah the ice cream? Now,
it's there's whatever he is as soon as he comes
and he just sits there and he just like, let's
see and he's like all right, let's go, Nila.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
So you're operating a bakery business with your with your
son Kyle. Is there any tips you can give people
that are entrepreneurs on the lessons you've learned on operating
a dog bakery, don't do it now. I'm like it.
I like kidding, that's funny. I said it before.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
You have to love what you do, right right anybody,
I'll tell you, any small business, any entrepreneur will tell
you you really have to have a passion for it.
You really do, and you have to. There are days
where I sit there and I'm like, this was the
worst idea. Who would have I mean, a dog ice
cream bakery? Like what the heck are we thinking? Like yeah,
what are you thinking? Especially during the summer when it's
(22:02):
so slow, and like this is this was a terrible idea.
And then you come into season in October and then
you'll and then you see all the people coming in
and they come back and you're like, this was the
best idea ever. Like everybody should do this.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
That's something I do so just to know.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
In any business, you have those high highs where you're
like this was such a great idea, and then other
times you sit to you and like this was not
a good idea, but it is a weave and just
stick with it, you know. Listen again, I absolutely love
what I do. I mean the dogs will walk into
my shop and I always say, if your dog is happy,
you're happy, right.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
That's exactly right. Yeah, even if you're in a bad mood.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
And then you come in and you see dog's tails way,
and we give out a ton of samples. So when
the dogs come in, we give them ice cream samples
to see those people like if my dog likes the
ice cream and I'm like, oh, we give out samples
and like he can have a sample, and I'm like,
very good.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
That's good. That's a good business tip too. Let your
clients build loyalty by letting their dogs sample.
Speaker 4 (22:59):
Yeah, we've had a ton of samples. We give a
ton of ice cream samples. We give treat samples for
the holidays, Like for Easter we did little Easter eggs
full of treats, just a way of saying thank you
for our customers that came in. For Halloween, we do
doggy trig or treating they come and again everything is free.
It's just a way of saying thank you.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
What do you do for Christmas? What's a Christmas good tree?
That scoopy Doo's.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
So we do we do. We always do a holiday
photoshoot every year. We do a holiday phot We had
seventy five dogs last year for Christmas, and we had
fifty five for costume contest, which was wow. We have
a bunch of like bakery items for Christmas, which is
really cool. We'll have like like Santa cookies and Happy
Holidays and we holidays holidays. You know, I ate Santa's cookies.
(23:47):
I'm on the naughty list, you know, stuff flying that.
And then we'll make a flavored ice cream, probably like
a reindeer poop or reindeer tracks or something ice cream,
and again we give out samples. It's it's a lot
of for the holidays. Just a lot of from the
store is decorated right now for Halloween, and then we'll
decorate it up for Christmas. A lot of Christmas tree
in there, and it's a lot of It's really is
(24:10):
a lot of fun. Yeah, it's a really a lot
of fun.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
Well, the other part that we want to address is,
I know you were pushing baby strollers with stuffed animals
instead of dolls, but you really are a major advocate
of fostering and rescuing. And I recently adopted Nova, who
was from a no kill East Lake pet orphanage here
(24:36):
and she every day, I'm telling you, Diana, every day
with our two other dogs and two cats, you can
see her feeling safer. So two days ago I put
it on Facebook because Nova finally slept on the couch
by herself and not next to me or my spouse
or any other pet. She felt finally safe enough to
(24:57):
sleep on a couch. Can you share what joy you
get from being a foster and by getting shelter animals,
and how they do need a little time to acclimate,
don't they.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
Yeah, So there's something called three three three when you adopt,
or even when you foster. So it takes three days,
for three days for a dog to settle in. And
when I mean subtle in is I don't mean to
get into a routine. I need for the first three
days the dog should not go out of the house.
They should be in a safe, comfortable environment and leave
them alone.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
Right.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
You want to hug them, you want to tell them
it's okay, buddy, you're here, I got you. That's not
what they need. What they need to do is decompress.
They need to be away from If you have a
pack of your own, they need to be away from
that path. They need to be in a comfortable, quiet
environment and they need to decompress. They will let you know,
especially if the dog has been abused. They will let
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you know when they're ready to be hugged or kissed
or anything. As much as you want to just grab
them and make them safe, they will feel safe. So
that's the three days, and then it takes three weeks
for them to get comfortable, which means they realize they're
in a little bit of a routine and we like, Okay,
well maybe this is my further home, but I'm not
really sure. You give them all and then you'll start
(26:12):
seeing their personalities come out, and they may start doing
things We're like, hey, dude, you never did that before.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
You were before?
Speaker 4 (26:20):
Yeah, you're a little ango before you ling all.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
Over the place, you know.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
And then it takes three months for them to actually
realize that this is it their home. There.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
I love that you explain it just like that. That
is perfect. Yeah. Yes, we're doing that with Miss Nova.
And she has six toes on each back leg, so
we call her Nova six toes. We did the DNA. Honestly, gosh,
she has over twenty breeds in her. But she does
have some Chihuaha in there, so she'll say hi to
your teams anytime. Hey, how do people find out more
(26:50):
about your bakery? Because if they're in the area, please
want them to stop by tell us about that.
Speaker 4 (26:55):
Well, first of all, thank you for adopting, because if
you don't adopt, we can't see any So I always
tell people thank you for adopting and not chopping it.
It means a lot. The only way that we can
continue rescuing. I've been rescuing for fifteen years. Baby is
my fifty fifth She's my fifty fifth foster.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
Yo.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
Women, that's about wow.
Speaker 4 (27:16):
Yeah, and listen, I'm gonna tell you every foster is
your best foster ever, like, oh my god, this is
the best dog ever. If we can, we lose more
forsters after the first foster because people are like, oh
my god, this is the best dog. I said, I know,
it's the best dog.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
I understand, but.
Speaker 4 (27:32):
Don't keep the dog. I promise you. Your next force
is going to be the best foster ever. I promise you.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
And you know I like that.
Speaker 4 (27:40):
Yeah, we lost love forsters hefter the first walk because
they can't let the dog go. And oh my, I
get it. I am it's hard. I get it. I understand.
It's the most One of the most selfless things that
you can do is to you know, people say, how
do you give the dog? Way go, I don't give
the dog. I would never give the dog away. We
find the dog a forever home.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (28:00):
So yeah, I go off on a tangent when I
talk about no, no, you're good.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
All right, So stairs to your bakery now, yeah, okay, Hey,
I got my GPS already, let's go.
Speaker 4 (28:07):
Okay, so you we're on Atlantic Avenue in downtown Delray Beach.
We're in the heart of Atlantic Avenue. If you don't
anything about Delray there's a there's a nice little area
down there in Atlantic that runs from A one A
to Swinton Avenue. There's all kinds of shops and restaurants.
It's really cute. And we are downtown on Atlantic five
oh seven East Atlantic between fifth and six.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
And what's your website? Because you can order things, can't you? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (28:31):
So yeah, So website is Scoopy Doues Delray be And
that is all social media also, so you can follow
as you can see the events that we have going
on the same thing on Facebook. You could follow us
there are you can come to go to our website.
You can take a look. We don't have a lot
of stuff on our website just because we're always changing, right,
We're always bringing different bakery items into different things into
(28:53):
the shop. We like to support local as much as
we can, so we try to bring in local, local businesses,
so local treat or you know, stuff like that. Yeah,
so that's how you can. You can check out the shop.
We have a really cool biscuit section, and the biscuit
section is a pay by the pound, so you can, Yeah,
you can go in and grab it.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
I might be ordering something for Kona, Emma and now Nova,
so you might be getting an order from Dallas, Texas.
Speaker 4 (29:20):
How's that. We're always sending out bakery boxes. People like,
can you send out a birthday box? I'm like, we
put a birthday box together, you put a little card
in and we send out birthday cads. We do shipping,
so yeah, well we'll hook you up.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
Don't you'll be getting an order? Hey, everybody, at this time,
I want to give a pause up to our special guest,
Diana Scatto of Scoopy Doos in Delray Beach. She is
a bona fide, great healthy baker for dogs. Her heart
beats dogs, she loves helping fostering fifty five and fifteen years.
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Welcome to the Old Behave Show on Pet Life Radio.
I'm your host, Arden Moore. Now our special guest today
spent twenty five years with the New York City Police Department. Yep,
she had a badge and she loved that job, but
she has always loved animals. Today she traded her badge
(01:10):
for a bakery. Yeah, she is thoroughly enjoying her second
career as an accomplished bakery owner catering to dogs and horses. Ah,
she is here to help us dish up healthy treats
for our dogs. So please welcome to our show from
Scoopy Doues in Delray Beach, Florida. Diana Scotto, Welcome, Welcome, Diana.
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Hi, thank you for having me on and I appreciate
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He's my boy.
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sergeant to running a very successful bakery in South Florida.
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Speaker 3 (03:27):
Welcome back to the old Behave show on pet Life Radio.
I'm your host, Ardenmore. I am so jazzed to have
on our show. Diana Scatto, she and her son Kyle operate.
Tell us the full official name of your bakery and
Delray Beach, Florida.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
Sure, it's called scoofy Doos and we're a dog bakery
ice cream shop. We also do grooming and we are
a small mom and pop pet retail shop. So we
have our biggest, biggest straw as our homemade ice cream. Obviously,
me and my son make homemade ice cream. Well, the ingredients,
it's lactose free, gelatin, salt, and either pumpkin organic blueberries.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
I do any there is one flavor that I know
would be very canine friendly, and that's something I would
want tell us about, the Prime Rib ice cream.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
What.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
So, we have these funny names for things, right, so
prime Rib is one of them. So it's just lactose
free milk, gelatin salt, and beef bone brop. It's just
a fun name. People come in, they're like, oh my god,
it's prime Rib, and then you tell.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Them what it is.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
I'm like, oh, that's so cool. And then for like
the holidays, we'll do like bunny tracks or Rudolph's Special
and pumpkin pie latte. So we do stuff like that
for the holidays.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
You have cheese flavored ice cream too, right.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
We do?
Speaker 3 (04:44):
We do?
Speaker 4 (04:45):
We have, Yeah, we have cheese flavored. We have bacon.
We have birthday cake breacon bacon.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
That's what my dogs say. So we got to roll
back this reel. I mean, you must have you know,
been a police officer for twenty five years and New
York City pardon the pun, wasn't the cake walk? Yeah?
But what led you to that career?
Speaker 4 (05:07):
So my family is my dad did forty years in
NYP day, my brother's twenty, thank you. My kid's father
did twenty five. I did twenty five, and then both
of my boys actually were on. My oldest son is
still on as well as being in the Air Force,
and my youngest son was on for a short period
of time and then he decided to move down to Florida.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
You're n whypd blue, aren't you really?
Speaker 4 (05:31):
Yeah? And my sister is a lawyer, so they always
say we're blue bloods, you know.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Oh that's do you sit around the table on Sunday nights? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (05:39):
Right, Unfortunately we're all over the place. But it's just
I grew up with it for my dad, and I
don't know, I just I fell into it.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
What did you enjoy most about being a sergeant?
Speaker 4 (05:52):
Honestly, it's we always say, it's not the circus, it's
the clowns on p days. So it's the truth is
and then when you retire, like you don't miss the circus,
and miss the clowns. It's just it's such a brother
in sisterhood. It's just it's a connection like unless you
The only way I can probably relate it if somebody's
been in the military, Like, there's that connection there, and
(06:14):
then when you leave, you're always looking for that connection,
but you're never going to find it because it's a
very unique job.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
So I love it.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
My dad always told me, love what you do. And
you never work a day in your life, and you know,
and I can honestly say I never worked a day
in nyp day and I'm definitely not working now.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
So so you go trade your badge for a bakery,
I mean, and you go to South Florida. Yeah, what
was the why not a one in the Big Apple?
What was it that drew you down to South Florida
and Palm Beach County.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
I mean, New York is changing. I feel like it
wasn't the New York that like that I grew up
in Stantna and it wasn't the Statin Island that I
grew up in. And honestly, my bones are getting tired.
I really did want to I didn't want to really
deal with this. No oh, in the cold anymore.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
I got Youah.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
Yeah, So my husband was looking around and we were
actually looking we're going to move into Key West, and
then we realized it's I love Key West. It's absolutely beautiful,
but you're very constricted in Key West, Like you have
to get really off the island to do other things.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
It's quite a drive on that bridge even to get
to Miami. Isn't it two or three hours.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
From thereass out three hour? It depends on the traffic.
Could do in two and a half. You could from here.
It takes almost four hours. We're in Delray Beach. So
I just wanted more. I just wanted more options in
Key West. And then we started looking in Delray and
we we spent three weeks in Delray, not on vacation,
like we lived the light in Delray.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Oh weeks.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
Yeah, So rented an airbnb. It's not like we went
out every night. We just said, let's see if we
can live here. We enjoy being in Delray, and by
the end of the third week we bought something. It
was the day before we left. We ended up buying
condo down here with just the both of us just
fell in love with it. We're like, it's just it's
a different way of New York. It's beautiful, but it's
(08:02):
a different way of life. And flower It's just it's quieter,
it's cleaner, it's it's easy for us.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
It's for us for us. Yeah, and no to shovel.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
Yeah, we're at that point our life where we we
don't want to pondy in Manhattan anymore.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Well, I was a newspaper reporter down there South Florida,
the Fort Lauderdale Sun Sentinel, but I was in Palm
Beach County. I actually had lived in uh Lantana and
Lake Worth and worked in Delray Beach when the office
was off of I ninety five for nine years. So
I totally understand Diana for South Florida and Delray Beach.
(08:37):
But did you know you were going to do a
bakery or what was the game plan when you said
I'm done with being a police sergeant. Were you somebody
at home that would bake things for your pets or
where did this come from?
Speaker 2 (08:48):
So?
Speaker 4 (08:48):
I always had a passion for animals, I mean just
always when when I was younger. You know, my girlfriends
sort have these little they have these strollers and they'd
be putting babies in the strollers, and I'd have stuffed
dogs like I never babysat right, didn't want anything to
do with babies.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
You're into four leggers.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
Yeah, show me a dog or a cat or I
would take care of them. Growing out, my dad always
I mean, he brought home, he brought home a cat,
gave everybody ringworms. He bought home rabbits, and they multiplied.
He brought home gurbils when we ended up with sixty
five gurbils. I mean, you know, We've always had animals
in a house. I grew up with dogs, shepherds. I
(09:28):
grew up with shepherds. I had two beautiful shepherd's, buck
and Snow. And then and then I just continued to
keep dogs. And now I've multiplied.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
I have fun. Well, yeah, you and they're all rescues.
Can you do the lineup? Well, that sounds really good
to ask a cop. Can you do the lineup? The
canine lineup? Rattle off their names?
Speaker 4 (09:48):
Okay, So you have Tito, who's eleven, and he was
adopted last year. He was a foster.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Foul No, No, foster's success was the success. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
Then we have Sassafra, which we call her Saxy and Sassy.
Sassy is fourteen. Then we have cash Money who's over
here and he's fourteen. We adopted Tito just when he
was ten. And then we have LJ who we adopted
when she was two and she's fifteen. And when we
(10:20):
have a Phosphus foster named Babe. She's going to be
with us forever. And she is eighteen and she's pretty
much blind. She's mostly deaf. She's incontinent, so she runs
around with a diaper. But she was an overbred mama
and then they just she was in awarding situation, so
we took her. We've had her for about nine months.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
What is it about chihuaha mixes? You went from German
shepherds to Chihuahwa's.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
That's quite a transition, I know, right, I feel like
I feel like it could have more of them. So
if I had five shepherds, is it.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Like potato chips? Yeah, you can have more of them.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
Right, there's if anybody knows the breed. If you know
the breed, you should always know the breed that you're
getting involved in.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Right.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
They tend to be very yappy. I mean, there's just
it's just loud in my house, and you know, people like, oh,
it doesn't bother you, and I'm like, honestly, I.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Don't even hear it anymore. You grew up in New
York and you were a police officer. You're not even
hearing anymore.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
But so it's funny because my sister had a chihua
and Nat Charles Fitzgerald, and she annexed us. She asked
us to watch him for ten days when she went
on vacation. This is how the whole chihuaha thing came around.
And we watched him and we realized that I never
liked just sa you know, I never like chuas.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
I was like, oh, there's a lot of chio. Well
they do was born.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
They're tiny and they look like little rats. Right when
we watched him for ten days and me and my
husband like literally, so of what choas? And I'm like, oh,
I never thought about getting a chuaha.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
I'm like, she get one.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
And literally like go Lada. Yeah. We were looking at
the rescue Pet find her and we found one on
and I'm like, oh, well, we'll just go take a
look at her.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Well, yeah, famous last words. I think it's funny that
at chiua whose name is Charles, what Charles Fitzgerald. So
the name was longer than the body of the chihuahua
ended up changing you, making you do a one eighty.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
Now, ye I never thought a cho Honestly, I'm telling you,
in a hundred years, if you ever told me I
would have a Choa, I'm like, I'm a shopperd girl.
You know, before that, we had a we had a
chow mix. Before that, we had we even had a
poppy on which was which was Rascal, but a chia.
I was like, I'm getting a never going to get
(12:33):
at chiu? Yeah, well, never said never, Oself, That's right.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
And never say never to your second pivot of careers,
and and that is to operate a dog bakery that's
in a new place, Delray Beach. Folks, you go to
South Florida for a vacation or you live there. I
really hope that you do get a chance to stop
into Scooby Doos in Delray Beach. But we're gonna find
(12:57):
out how she did that, and she's gonna unleave some
yummy holiday tips and tricks to keep our dogs happy
with full bellies and safe after we take this break.
So you know, the drill, sit, stay, We'll be right back.
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Time.
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Here's Harden, Welcome back to the old Behave show on
pet Life Radio. I'm your host, Arden Moore. I am
having a great time with our special guest. She is
Diana Scotto. She and her son Kyle operate Scoopy Dues.
That's with the p in Delray Beach. And I found
out about her because I actually write a pet column
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gotta have this gal on my show. So you know
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So sometimes people can get in a little trouble and
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definitely anything with chocolate.
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Right, So you know that dogs can have a carib
but they cannot have chocolate. So charcolet is highly toxic
to them. Grapes are toxic, believe it. Or in an avocado,
a dog can have a little bit of avocado, but
it's not really recommended.
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Yeah, it causes digestive upset. Yeah.
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Yeah, and depending on the size of the dog, it
can beat toxic very quickly to the dog. So you
want to keep them away from anything that spicy. So
if you're making chicken like chicken, you're like, oh, I
want to give my dog some chicken. Make sure there's
no spices on it, right. They eat salt, They don't
need pepper garlic powder as a concentrated garlic, so you
have to be careful of it.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
So you can rinse off a little piece of chicken, right.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
Yeah, I know, but you know it's still in It's.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
Still in there, it's still in there.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
You're going to give them, Just give them a piece,
you know, make them separately, boil a piece of chicken
or put it, put.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
It on a good idea and then do it.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
If you know that they're definitely going to give them some,
they should stay away from any type of sauces. Right,
it's so like reds like, don't give them, don't give
them a piece of as on your red sauce and it.
You know, so anything like anything like that. What about
good old pumpkin pie? Tell us the good in the
bag kind of punkin to give our dogs? So the
(16:12):
answer is no, because pumpkin pie has all types of
different spices in the and if you're not making it,
you don't know what's in it, so it's gone, and
then the crust can be full of different oils or butters.
You have to be really careful. So pumpkin is wonderful
for your dog, It's absolutely wonderful for your dog. But
if you're gonna buy it and a can, make sure
(16:34):
it doesn't say pumpkin pie mixed because they not has
all the stuff in it.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Yeah. Yeah, just plain old pumpkin. Just say pumpkin.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
That's it. And if you want to make them a
pumpkin pie, right, so, you can take a can of pumpkin.
You can take an egg. You could take a little
bit of I always use organic when I cook my dog,
but you don't have to. But oats has tendency of
a glycaice it in because of the way that they're sprayed.
And you can do a little oats. You put it
in a blind spray a little like a cupcake pan. Yeah,
(17:03):
and pour it in the cupcake pan, bake it for
about forty minutes a three fifty eight, pop it out
and you will have a little Now they can have
the pumpkin pie.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
When you there, you go. I like that.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
Well.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Also, I know you were talking about this like anything
seasoned meat or fat or skin or gravy that could
also cause pancreatitis. And I'm betting Diana, you don't really
want to spend the holidays or have our listeners spend
the holidays at the er vet, right, yeah.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
I mean pancreat titus a dog usually has. I mean,
a chicken skin isn't going to cause pancreat titus. But
if a dog has pancrea titus, they have to be
very careful with their fat and tank, right, So high protein,
lower fat. So yeah, again, when you give them a
prepared food, like if you're not making it, but like
a punkoye, you don't actually know what oils are in
there and what fats are in there. So especially with
(17:54):
a dog of pancrey tights, you have to be like,
don't give them a sweet potato pie, right, Yeah, if
you want to give them something, give them a sweet
potato you can do a piece of sweet potato.
Speaker 5 (18:04):
That.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
This way, they're still getting that like the holiday feel
if you will, you know what I mean, But they
you're not. You have to be very careful. Chaos in
general are very sensitive stomachs. So my guys, if they
eat anything even a little bit off, there's no sleeping
in the house that night. Everybody's throwing off.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
I'm glad this podcast doesn't smell of podcasts because we
would be like Doggie.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
Yeah, it gets bad, especially with the five of them.
It's like it's a You're like, it was not worth it.
It really, it wasn't worth it for the five seconds
that they swallow that beat, you know.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
So so you walk into Scoopy Doos and can you
bring a well mannered dog with you?
Speaker 4 (18:43):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Sure?
Speaker 4 (18:43):
So the song now Doris says dogs welcome, people tolerated,
So which is so true. Yeah, it's so true.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
What's your what's your thoughts? When? What do you if
you could put yourself in the mind of a dog
making the first trip the Scoopy Doos?
Speaker 4 (18:57):
What role? What do you think?
Speaker 3 (18:58):
That dog is seen hearing and definitely smelling. Oh my god,
they're like this is the best place ever. Oh my god.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
So you know, when you come in, we have it
smells like bakery items from the cookies right as soon
as they walk in. So in the shop when you
first walk in the shop, when you walk into the
left we have a wall of one ingredient freeze dry treats,
which we highly recommend from a company Cold Northwest. So
we're very careful about what we bring into the shop.
There's nothing in my shop that I wouldn't give my dogs. Okay,
(19:30):
that's a good testament. Yeah, there's nothing. There's absolutely nothing
in my shop there. I'd be like, okay, I'm not
giving not to them. So we have something for everybody.
So if your dog has pancreatitis, we have treats for them.
If your dog is a diabetic, we have treats for them.
We pride ourselves on being like the mom and pop
shop where your doll comes in and I'm like, oh,
there's Jacob, there's Jacks.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
Oh nice.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
I mean, I don't know the customers' names, but I
do know their pets names.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
Is there a couple of dogs that are regulars who
want to do or shout out to? And what kind
of dogs they are? You know that you build a
friendship with.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
Oh, it's got to be Benny. Who's the beagle dog
from China. Yeah, he was a big old dog from
China in China meet Yeah, because he was supposed to
be Oh, he was supposed to be served from China,
like the beagle. Oh he's quite he's got quite the personality.
So let me just say he's had a very rough life. Right.
(20:24):
If you pet him under his chin, he tends to
bite you. But I know that, so I don't pet him.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
Under his chin.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
He can be a little bit not friendly, but but
he's very sweet.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
He's a grump because he has a reason to be
grump because of his past. But yeah, I said, he's
being given something to eat from you. And do you
have another dog that maybe doesn't bite you.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
No, there's Barkley, who's his brother who lives with him,
who's super sweet and he's a rescue. And then we
have one of our favorite dogs that come and his
name is Maverick and he's an oh oh my god.
His mom, Sarah owns a place in Delray called The Lab,
which is a fitness and social club, and she just
got another female puppy. So, I mean, he's super sweet.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
Maverick.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
He's like one hundred and sixty pounds of mush.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
He's wow.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
What does Maverick enjoy at Scoopy douce Ah the ice cream? Now,
it's there's whatever he is as soon as he comes
and he just sits there and he just like, let's
see and he's like all right, let's go, Nila.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
So you're operating a bakery business with your with your
son Kyle. Is there any tips you can give people
that are entrepreneurs on the lessons you've learned on operating
a dog bakery, don't do it now. I'm like it.
I like kidding, that's funny. I said it before.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
You have to love what you do, right right anybody,
I'll tell you, any small business, any entrepreneur will tell
you you really have to have a passion for it.
You really do, and you have to. There are days
where I sit there and I'm like, this was the
worst idea. Who would have I mean, a dog ice
cream bakery? Like what the heck are we thinking? Like yeah,
what are you thinking? Especially during the summer when it's
(22:02):
so slow, and like this is this was a terrible idea.
And then you come into season in October and then
you'll and then you see all the people coming in
and they come back and you're like, this was the
best idea ever. Like everybody should do this.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
That's something I do so just to know.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
In any business, you have those high highs where you're
like this was such a great idea, and then other
times you sit to you and like this was not
a good idea, but it is a weave and just
stick with it, you know. Listen again, I absolutely love
what I do. I mean the dogs will walk into
my shop and I always say, if your dog is happy,
you're happy, right.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
That's exactly right. Yeah, even if you're in a bad mood.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
And then you come in and you see dog's tails way,
and we give out a ton of samples. So when
the dogs come in, we give them ice cream samples
to see those people like if my dog likes the
ice cream and I'm like, oh, we give out samples
and like he can have a sample, and I'm like,
very good.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
That's good. That's a good business tip too. Let your
clients build loyalty by letting their dogs sample.
Speaker 4 (22:59):
Yeah, we've had a ton of samples. We give a
ton of ice cream samples. We give treat samples for
the holidays, Like for Easter we did little Easter eggs
full of treats, just a way of saying thank you
for our customers that came in. For Halloween, we do
doggy trig or treating they come and again everything is free.
It's just a way of saying thank you.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
What do you do for Christmas? What's a Christmas good tree?
That scoopy Doo's.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
So we do we do. We always do a holiday
photoshoot every year. We do a holiday phot We had
seventy five dogs last year for Christmas, and we had
fifty five for costume contest, which was wow. We have
a bunch of like bakery items for Christmas, which is
really cool. We'll have like like Santa cookies and Happy
Holidays and we holidays holidays. You know, I ate Santa's cookies.
(23:47):
I'm on the naughty list, you know, stuff flying that.
And then we'll make a flavored ice cream, probably like
a reindeer poop or reindeer tracks or something ice cream,
and again we give out samples. It's it's a lot
of for the holidays. Just a lot of from the
store is decorated right now for Halloween, and then we'll
decorate it up for Christmas. A lot of Christmas tree
in there, and it's a lot of It's really is
(24:10):
a lot of fun. Yeah, it's a really a lot
of fun.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
Well, the other part that we want to address is,
I know you were pushing baby strollers with stuffed animals
instead of dolls, but you really are a major advocate
of fostering and rescuing. And I recently adopted Nova, who
was from a no kill East Lake pet orphanage here
(24:36):
and she every day, I'm telling you, Diana, every day
with our two other dogs and two cats, you can
see her feeling safer. So two days ago I put
it on Facebook because Nova finally slept on the couch
by herself and not next to me or my spouse
or any other pet. She felt finally safe enough to
(24:57):
sleep on a couch. Can you share what joy you
get from being a foster and by getting shelter animals,
and how they do need a little time to acclimate,
don't they.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
Yeah, So there's something called three three three when you adopt,
or even when you foster. So it takes three days,
for three days for a dog to settle in. And
when I mean subtle in is I don't mean to
get into a routine. I need for the first three
days the dog should not go out of the house.
They should be in a safe, comfortable environment and leave
them alone.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
Right.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
You want to hug them, you want to tell them
it's okay, buddy, you're here, I got you. That's not
what they need. What they need to do is decompress.
They need to be away from If you have a
pack of your own, they need to be away from
that path. They need to be in a comfortable, quiet
environment and they need to decompress. They will let you know,
especially if the dog has been abused. They will let
(25:50):
you know when they're ready to be hugged or kissed
or anything. As much as you want to just grab
them and make them safe, they will feel safe. So
that's the three days, and then it takes three weeks
for them to get comfortable, which means they realize they're
in a little bit of a routine and we like, Okay,
well maybe this is my further home, but I'm not
really sure. You give them all and then you'll start
(26:12):
seeing their personalities come out, and they may start doing
things We're like, hey, dude, you never did that before.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
You were before?
Speaker 4 (26:20):
Yeah, you're a little ango before you ling all.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
Over the place, you know.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
And then it takes three months for them to actually
realize that this is it their home. There.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
I love that you explain it just like that. That
is perfect. Yeah. Yes, we're doing that with Miss Nova.
And she has six toes on each back leg, so
we call her Nova six toes. We did the DNA. Honestly, gosh,
she has over twenty breeds in her. But she does
have some Chihuaha in there, so she'll say hi to
your teams anytime. Hey, how do people find out more
(26:50):
about your bakery? Because if they're in the area, please
want them to stop by tell us about that.
Speaker 4 (26:55):
Well, first of all, thank you for adopting, because if
you don't adopt, we can't see any So I always
tell people thank you for adopting and not chopping it.
It means a lot. The only way that we can
continue rescuing. I've been rescuing for fifteen years. Baby is
my fifty fifth She's my fifty fifth foster.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
Yo.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
Women, that's about wow.
Speaker 4 (27:16):
Yeah, and listen, I'm gonna tell you every foster is
your best foster ever, like, oh my god, this is
the best dog ever. If we can, we lose more
forsters after the first foster because people are like, oh
my god, this is the best dog. I said, I know,
it's the best dog.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
I understand, but.
Speaker 4 (27:32):
Don't keep the dog. I promise you. Your next force
is going to be the best foster ever. I promise you.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
And you know I like that.
Speaker 4 (27:40):
Yeah, we lost love forsters hefter the first walk because
they can't let the dog go. And oh my, I
get it. I am it's hard. I get it. I understand.
It's the most One of the most selfless things that
you can do is to you know, people say, how
do you give the dog? Way go, I don't give
the dog. I would never give the dog away. We
find the dog a forever home.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (28:00):
So yeah, I go off on a tangent when I
talk about no, no, you're good.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
All right, So stairs to your bakery now, yeah, okay, Hey,
I got my GPS already, let's go.
Speaker 4 (28:07):
Okay, so you we're on Atlantic Avenue in downtown Delray Beach.
We're in the heart of Atlantic Avenue. If you don't
anything about Delray there's a there's a nice little area
down there in Atlantic that runs from A one A
to Swinton Avenue. There's all kinds of shops and restaurants.
It's really cute. And we are downtown on Atlantic five
oh seven East Atlantic between fifth and six.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
And what's your website? Because you can order things, can't you? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (28:31):
So yeah, So website is Scoopy Doues Delray be And
that is all social media also, so you can follow
as you can see the events that we have going
on the same thing on Facebook. You could follow us
there are you can come to go to our website.
You can take a look. We don't have a lot
of stuff on our website just because we're always changing, right,
We're always bringing different bakery items into different things into
(28:53):
the shop. We like to support local as much as
we can, so we try to bring in local, local businesses,
so local treat or you know, stuff like that. Yeah,
so that's how you can. You can check out the shop.
We have a really cool biscuit section, and the biscuit
section is a pay by the pound, so you can, Yeah,
you can go in and grab it.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
I might be ordering something for Kona, Emma and now Nova,
so you might be getting an order from Dallas, Texas.
Speaker 4 (29:20):
How's that. We're always sending out bakery boxes. People like,
can you send out a birthday box? I'm like, we
put a birthday box together, you put a little card
in and we send out birthday cads. We do shipping,
so yeah, well we'll hook you up.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
Don't you'll be getting an order? Hey, everybody, at this time,
I want to give a pause up to our special guest,
Diana Scatto of Scoopy Doos in Delray Beach. She is
a bona fide, great healthy baker for dogs. Her heart
beats dogs, she loves helping fostering fifty five and fifteen years.
That's a commendable and I also at this time want
(29:54):
to give a shout out to my producer, Mark Winter.
He is the executive producer of Pet Life Radio. This
is the largest radio network for pets on the PLOYNT
and humbly you are listening to the longest running weekly
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you keep tuning in and tell your pet pals. Finally,
my passion is helping keep pets safe. I'm a master
instructor in Pet First State and CPR Pet First AD
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