⚡MINI: Have You Been Profiled By Max's Dog Rating System??

Max Burford sits at the dog park and judges dog owners for how well they have trained their furry best frinds!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:10):
I heard podcasts here more Mix one or two point
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app Mix one or two point three HAWLEYA Max in
the morning. Let's talk dogs. I can't be the only
one who does this. Do you go to the dog
park and do you judge the other dog owners for
how their dog behaves?

Speaker 2 (00:29):
I don't, but I feel judged by other dog owners, really,
and that's why I don't go to my dog park anymore.

Speaker 1 (00:34):
Really, the judge you want, aren't you hit me? I'm
the judge you on. I want to go through a
little grading system that I have in my head for
when I meet other dogs. Can we just set the scene? Though?
Your dog is so smart.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
You've put in so much effort to make him very clever, right.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
So we wanted him to be a therapy dog that
could work dental practice.

Speaker 2 (00:52):
So already you're going into a dog park with a
very clever dog.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
Either way, there are four categories to judge other dog
owners by how well your dog plays with my dog,
which I think is fair enough.

Speaker 2 (01:02):
Yeah, well they play.

Speaker 1 (01:04):
How well your dog listens to you? Yeah, and I
get it. Sometimes he calls tough, so you judge them.
If you don't feel like they've adequately trained their dog,
you'll judge them. Well, how much your dog listens to
is almost not even training. It's just you've got to
have this connection with your dog or else. What's to say,
he's not going to run off and you're not going
to be able to stop him.

Speaker 2 (01:22):
That is also quite common.

Speaker 1 (01:24):
Yeah. Good. I hope that I have a really.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
Good connection with my dog, But I don't think they
will always come back to me. If I'm calling them
and they're having with.

Speaker 1 (01:31):
Their dogs, you love them more than they love you.
Point three, Category number three, you're not scared of me.
If my dog likes your dog. Oh yeah, yeah, I
do that too, because dogs can. Dogs are a great
judge of character. Yeah. Point number four is if my
dog likes you, which is the same point if dogs
are such a great judge of character. If my dog
goes up to you, Hailey Pierson in the dog park

(01:53):
and doesn't like you, there's something.

Speaker 2 (01:55):
Wrong with immediately. Certainly, I trust the dog more than
I trust the human.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
It's the same where people come into our house and
the ones that he really barks up, I'm like, have
you been here before? Like teasing over the fence or something.
What did you do when you go to a dog part?

Speaker 2 (02:09):
Do you stand in the corner and look and judge
other people? God?

Speaker 1 (02:14):
No? Do you want to talk to people? So that's
this is my next point. Variables. Okay, there are variables
that add a sub track points to your score. Obviously,
if you don't pick up your dog poot, you're a
bad variable. Number two environmental factors. So if there are
heaps of dogs around, heaps of people around, kids with balls,
I get it. Everyone's distracted. No one's at their best.
My dog's not at its best. I'm looking at something else.

(02:35):
You're looking at something else. None of us do well.

Speaker 2 (02:37):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (02:37):
The third one is the quality of conversation between the
dog owners, which I feel like you both have to
be on the same page. You can tell instantly if
someone wants to chat or not. And if either of
you wants to chat, great. Sometimes silence is absolute golden
as long as you're watching yours, I'm watching mine. But
if you both want to chat, you've got to start
talking about the dog. And that's how it starts. I'm

(02:58):
okay if it finishes with just talking about the dog.
See when I go to my dog part. My husband
is the full chatter. He will just go and chat.

Speaker 2 (03:06):
He knows every single name of the dog, of the owners, everything,
And I just like to go the dog part, play
with my dog, and just chill like it's my downtime.
So I'm the rude one that probably sits in the
side and doesn't want to talk to people, whereas he
is just like, shut up, you're not neighborhood watch. He's
talk to people all the time.

Speaker 1 (03:23):
So, Haley, knowing all of this, should we have a
dog meeting for you?

Speaker 2 (03:26):
And I will never And that's the reason why I
haven't in the last year. I've never met up with
you with our dogs because you would judge me so much.
My dogs are so lovable and I think it would
break our friendship.

Speaker 1 (03:37):
You're already defending them.

Speaker 2 (03:38):
Yeah, I would hate you for it.

Speaker 1 (03:40):
Grable but very untrained. No, they are so trained to
love us.