🐶 Can Your Dog Be A JERK Sometimes?

We love 'em, but admit it - dogs can be jerks sometimes!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
And Amanda jam I love my dog desperately, as you know,
little minig little mini dog. I saw a story last
week because Minnie is a sheep dog, she's a Border Collie.
I saw an interesting story on the ABC. They're talking
about how much money sheep dogs and cattle dogs save
the Australian economy. It is quite extraordinary. So a sheep

(00:21):
dog or a cattle dog may cost you not minded,
but if it's a full working dog on a farm,
fully bred for its job, can cost you about thirteen
thousand dollars. But A and Z research said that there's
a significant return on that investment for farmers and for
the entire economy. Sheep dogs have a three billion dollar
impact on the Australian economy. And that's everything from savings

(00:45):
in labor to benefits for a country town, to cheaper
meat and wool prices for all of US pet food,
veterinary services, all across the board. They are a huge
investment give the sheep dog. And as I was watching
that story, I looked over at my dog lying on
the couch on her back, all four legs in the air,
with a tongue hanging out, and I thought, yeah, right,

(01:08):
we're living the dream. I saw a story yesterday and
this was tired of an International Dog Day. This woman
says she's got a rescue dog, and she said he's
become a very dramatic jerk. It was her description, and
you know, here's what she said. He's so, he's our
giant hypochondriac, is.

Speaker 2 (01:24):
Very dramatic about the slightest pain.

Speaker 3 (01:26):
He had one incident where he got the tiniest little
cut on his paw and was so upset. We thought
that he was really badly injured and rushed him to
the emergency room and the vet first couldn't find the cut,
and I asked her to check again, and she found
what she described as a paper cut. More recently, was
walking on the Greenway with a friend and he just

(01:47):
stopped and was shaking and looking at his paw and
freaking out.

Speaker 2 (01:51):
And I tried to give a little bit of time because.

Speaker 3 (01:52):
I now realized that he's dramatic, but it just wasn't stopping.
So I took him to the emergency room and the
vet found what she described as a mosquito by.

Speaker 2 (02:02):
So again he got a cone and got some peat
beds for that. He was found as a street. I
don't know how he made it on the streets. I
love it.

Speaker 1 (02:11):
Once again, he got a cone and some meds.

Speaker 2 (02:14):
I want that dog's life shorten. The travel drum would
be for this what do we call it?

Speaker 1 (02:19):
My dog doesn't deserve a day.

Speaker 2 (02:24):
I don't know how he needed on the streets.

Speaker 1 (02:26):
International Dog Day. Not every dog deserves a day. Dob
and your dog, your jerk of a dog.

Speaker 3 (02:34):
Sarah is with us.

Speaker 1 (02:35):
Hello, Sarah, tell us about your dog.

Speaker 4 (02:37):
Hi, Jonesy and Amanda, I too have a working dog
in the city. He's a cattle dog. He's the first
one into the fray in the dog park, and he's
rounding up the poodle crosses. And without fail, he needs
a wipe down when he gets home because he's so
filthy and yet first line of rain, a couple of drops.
He will not go out back and walk on the

(02:59):
wet grass us and do what we all right? He slight,
He stands there, he stares at it until he's totally busting,
and then he'll tiptoe down the yard, quickly do his
business and race back inside. And without fail, he has
trodden in something and trapes it all through the house.
He's such a princess.

Speaker 1 (03:19):
Have you seen that footage of the dogs that work
in Scotland in the Muda in England and rounding up
cattle and ship and the worst conditions and they work
through all that. And here's your dog and mine don't
want to go out in the rain.

Speaker 4 (03:33):
Yeah hilarious, Yeah, thank.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
You, Sarah. Katrina's joined us.

Speaker 1 (03:38):
Katrina, is your dog a bit of a jerk?

Speaker 4 (03:41):
Yeah, just a little He likes to eat his poo.

Speaker 1 (03:44):
Oh does they go against every instinct you'd think.

Speaker 2 (03:47):
You'd think so.

Speaker 4 (03:48):
But he comes out of the bathroom. We see him
looking his lips and we're like, oh, it's gone into.

Speaker 2 (03:54):
The bathroom and goes into the bathroom.

Speaker 1 (03:57):
You know, he goes in the bathroom as well, so
he's like he does a pooh in the bathroom then
eats it.

Speaker 2 (04:03):
Yeah, it's it's an economy.

Speaker 1 (04:07):
On one hand, he's civilized. On the other hand, the
other hand, not very I don't know, Katrina, this dog
is is a little bit possional, bit mank That's.

Speaker 2 (04:16):
What's his name. His name is Sebastian.

Speaker 4 (04:22):
He's only Seastian, named after Johann Sebastian bar Oh.

Speaker 1 (04:26):
He was a regular pooh eater, terrible breath, I remember