July 15, 2025 • 9 mins
After hearing about Valerie the dachshund - who survived on Kangaroo Island for months - we asked to hear about your WUSS of a dog/cat!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
And Amanda gem Nation.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Let me tell you the story about Valerie, a little
miniature dash hoound. Do you say duck soundle dashoun?
Speaker 1 (00:07):
I like using the German duck sound.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
It's halfway between both. A little mini Saucy called Valerie.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
The cutest dog in the world, so damn cute.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
This dog is a year old. This story has made
it even to the Washington Post. But it happened on
in Kangaroo Island. So a couple, Georgia and Joshua, were
camping on Kangaroo Island and they left their little miniature
dash hound, Valerie, in a playpen with toys. It's cute,
isn't it, Because they were camping, so they left it.
Valerie was occupied, had little toys and things.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
These are the times that we live.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Well.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
They went off to go fishing at a beach nearby.
When they came back, they found that Valerie had ripped
the pen open and had escaped. This is a year old,
tiny little miniature dashound, weighing about three and a half kilos.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
So they searched.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Everywhere, but they said it was like looking for a
needle in a haystack. So they joined a Facebook group.
They checked surveillance cameras, got help from local wildlife rescue
groups at all of that. They stayed for another couple
of days, but they had to return home and on
the faery, Georgia has said, on the ferry on the
way home, I just sobbed and sobbed. Six to eight
months later, rescuers received calls from Kangaroo Island from the
(01:17):
locals saying there's a dog wearing a pink collar wandering
around the island right. An unbelievable development, they said, given
that miniature dash hounds are not known for their survivors,
not very robust, as they've said here, of all the dogs,
this would be the last one I would think would survive.
But they do have a good sense of smell. That's
probably what's helped her in terms of finding food.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Yeah, but I thought what we could do.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
In the tribal drum, tell us about your pet and
why there's no way in the world your.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Woosy pet, my woosy dog would never survive.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
That your woosy dog, how woosy are they tell us
why they would never survive in the wid.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Yeah, I look at the part time dog that we had.
That thing needs ice cream. In a cone.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
Yeah, it gets made ice cream in a cone.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Ye yah, pappuccinos, the whole thing. And how would this
dog survive in the wild? Yeah, well that's the thing.
You see them in prams, you see all that kind
of stuff. How would they survive? My woosy dog? Davids
joined us.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Hello, David very well, tell us about your dog that's
so woosy it would not survive in the wild.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
Well, well, one, we manature our lawn and everything, and
it's I don't know who survives in that because he
looks at me when you want to go to the
toil and says, you picked me out to do him
a number one, the number two because the grass might.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Be wet, is your What sort of dog have you got?
Speaker 5 (02:36):
We're supposed to be a miniature that you and his
name is Tank.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Oh how cute.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
So even on the mown lawn, he would not survive
on his own.
Speaker 6 (02:48):
He's dead.
Speaker 5 (02:49):
He's got a great spending money on hundreds of all
on and he wants to come in autbit and it's
got to be a doner. It's got to be wrapped up.
I don't know what I'm working for for his luxury life.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Yeah, and you'd have to lift him on and off
the bed. He couldn't get up there on.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
His own.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
Exactly. So if I'm rested, I'm going to pick him
up and get up out of my wrist to pick up,
put him on our bid.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
And let me get David, this was not your peak
for this particular dog, for.
Speaker 6 (03:10):
Tank, Actually it sort of was.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Yes, I think I can.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
Go for a dash, And I'm worried about the vet
bills though, with the hip displays and all that stuff.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Well, you know you love him so much. They're so cute. Thanks, David.
Tell us about your woosy pet.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Hi.
Speaker 7 (03:29):
So my husband had this cat and we would give
it dry food, but it would only eat if the
dry food was topped up like a mountain shape, so
it couldn't be flat flash against the bowl. It had
to be this high mountain. So this was so silly.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
How did that come about? How weird?
Speaker 7 (03:51):
Well I think what happened was, so we will top
up the bowl and then top it up, top it
up to the point where it would just start eating,
and it got used to it topped up to that
high point. They would only eat like that, so there
was enough food to last days. In the dry food,
but we would only eat unless we chopped it up
(04:12):
to a certain height.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Because it looks appealing. You've got to try and your food.
So imagine that cat in the wild. I'm not touching that.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
You look at road runner when in the coyote you
always make a little pyramid of bird seed and then
road and then the coyote would have the anvil fall
on him instead of the chances.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Thanks Josephine Ashley. Tell us about your wissy pet.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Hi.
Speaker 6 (04:38):
So my husband brought me this big, bad looking German shepherd.
You know how sometimes they look a bit scary. Big
she is the most busiest dog I've ever met. Don't
know how they're police dogs as puppies. She's scared of
the cockroach. Is she scared of the wind? She's scared
of her own shadow. Not only do I have to
(04:58):
protect her from the cockery, just we're going to protect
my husband because he's a wolf's too. But this dog
is just the biggest sauk.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
I can't I would not survive in the wild. German shepherd,
You're right, there's a wind blowing. I'm scared, you know,
like the Nazis used those.
Speaker 6 (05:16):
Things in the war Yeah, definitely not a war dog,
this time under the cover.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Dog hiding in the bunker.
Speaker 7 (05:26):
Brondie has joined us.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Tell us about your woozy pet, Bronti.
Speaker 6 (05:30):
So Stitch gets a handle with her to her grandma's
house every morning.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
What do you mean?
Speaker 6 (05:37):
So we call herma and that's my mom and she
just for some reason won't stay home on her own,
So she gets dropped off.
Speaker 8 (05:45):
At my mom's for work every morning and picked up.
Speaker 6 (05:47):
Every afternoon.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Babysat someone.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
So how would Stitch go in the wild on Kangaroo Island, Bronti.
Speaker 9 (05:58):
Not well, I'd presume, oh god, that's I wouldn't even progest.
Speaker 6 (06:02):
Her, so she would not go outside, goes outside to way,
comes back in.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
That's right, a rod for your own back. Thank you
for that.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Andedda's joined us, Hirott, tell us about your pet.
Speaker 10 (06:18):
Hi, guys, I've got a six year old rescue dog.
She's a box across daffy, so she's a big girl.
She won't drink water out of her dog volts. It
has to be filtered water from our fridge in a.
Speaker 8 (06:32):
Cup o.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Her on Kangaroo Island.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Yeah, not a chip, still sparkling, not drinking from the street.
Speaker 10 (06:44):
Such a press.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Sue has joined us, So tell us about your woozy pet.
Speaker 6 (06:50):
Hi, my dog Gatsky he's gone now. But he was
a Labrador and he was a failed border force dog.
But he was not at all tough.
Speaker 9 (07:00):
And if we were at home, maybe having an argument
and anybody was swearing, he would get so upset he
would just leave the room. Do we just get up
and leave the room. He couldn't swear in front of
him at all.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
And this was a border force dog.
Speaker 8 (07:16):
Yes, he was a failed one.
Speaker 9 (07:17):
We'd cover his ears when we said that. But he
was such a.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Excuse.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
I didn't ask to be born. So thank you, Sue.
Sonya has joined us, Sonya, tell us about your dog.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
I've got a jack Russell. His name Snoopy, and he
cannot have dog food. He's got to have lamb, and
he's got to have cheese on top. He will not
eat anything without cheese on top. Wow, he's got to
be with us twenty four to seven a day.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
Yes, so you make the lamb chops and then is
it melted cheese or just a cheese slice on top?
Speaker 3 (07:52):
No, it's it's greater cheese.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Great you great? It yourself, or from a packet from
a packer.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
It's got to be packer. I can't go it myself
because it's uneven.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
He doesn't like that.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Oh he's very fussy.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Bloody dog's eating better than me. Imagine him on Kangaroo Island.
Have nice cheese, and thank you son sonya Eleanor has
joined us as well.
Speaker 8 (08:15):
Oh it's our boots. We had to get a pram
for him because he heard his pool, you know, because
we've got two other dogs. And I used to walk
him around in his pram around the park and any
time he saw somebody lift his little poor up just
to get sympathy, and he would come up to him,
go you poor, poor, poor Paul. Look he used his
(08:40):
poor for sympathy.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
So you hold the poor out right so they would
come boots.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
So that dog doing that in the wild, a lot
of animals would not have a lot of sympathies a
show of weakness like that, they'd.
Speaker 8 (08:50):
Because yeah, absolutely, it was fretty and everyone loved all
the attention. And then he waits by the prayer to get.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
In look and be a points and show off.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
Remember the time when you saw someone with a dog
in a prayer and you go, that's mental.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Now you see it all the time.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
You have dogs like being high up, they like the height,
but often people want to give their dogs fresh air,
and the dogs are too old to walk around, and
sometimes people are just.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Their pets. Thank you for Thank you ellenor
And Amanda gem Nation.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Let me tell you the story about Valerie, a little
miniature dash hoound. Do you say duck soundle dashoun?
Speaker 1 (00:07):
I like using the German duck sound.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
It's halfway between both. A little mini Saucy called Valerie.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
The cutest dog in the world, so damn cute.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
This dog is a year old. This story has made
it even to the Washington Post. But it happened on
in Kangaroo Island. So a couple, Georgia and Joshua, were
camping on Kangaroo Island and they left their little miniature
dash hound, Valerie, in a playpen with toys. It's cute,
isn't it, Because they were camping, so they left it.
Valerie was occupied, had little toys and things.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
These are the times that we live.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Well.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
They went off to go fishing at a beach nearby.
When they came back, they found that Valerie had ripped
the pen open and had escaped. This is a year old,
tiny little miniature dashound, weighing about three and a half kilos.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
So they searched.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Everywhere, but they said it was like looking for a
needle in a haystack. So they joined a Facebook group.
They checked surveillance cameras, got help from local wildlife rescue
groups at all of that. They stayed for another couple
of days, but they had to return home and on
the faery, Georgia has said, on the ferry on the
way home, I just sobbed and sobbed. Six to eight
months later, rescuers received calls from Kangaroo Island from the
(01:17):
locals saying there's a dog wearing a pink collar wandering
around the island right. An unbelievable development, they said, given
that miniature dash hounds are not known for their survivors,
not very robust, as they've said here, of all the dogs,
this would be the last one I would think would survive.
But they do have a good sense of smell. That's
probably what's helped her in terms of finding food.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Yeah, but I thought what we could do.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
In the tribal drum, tell us about your pet and
why there's no way in the world your.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Woosy pet, my woosy dog would never survive.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
That your woosy dog, how woosy are they tell us
why they would never survive in the wid.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Yeah, I look at the part time dog that we had.
That thing needs ice cream. In a cone.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
Yeah, it gets made ice cream in a cone.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Ye yah, pappuccinos, the whole thing. And how would this
dog survive in the wild? Yeah, well that's the thing.
You see them in prams, you see all that kind
of stuff. How would they survive? My woosy dog? Davids
joined us.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Hello, David very well, tell us about your dog that's
so woosy it would not survive in the wild.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
Well, well, one, we manature our lawn and everything, and
it's I don't know who survives in that because he
looks at me when you want to go to the
toil and says, you picked me out to do him
a number one, the number two because the grass might.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Be wet, is your What sort of dog have you got?
Speaker 5 (02:36):
We're supposed to be a miniature that you and his
name is Tank.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Oh how cute.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
So even on the mown lawn, he would not survive
on his own.
Speaker 6 (02:48):
He's dead.
Speaker 5 (02:49):
He's got a great spending money on hundreds of all
on and he wants to come in autbit and it's
got to be a doner. It's got to be wrapped up.
I don't know what I'm working for for his luxury life.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Yeah, and you'd have to lift him on and off
the bed. He couldn't get up there on.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
His own.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
Exactly. So if I'm rested, I'm going to pick him
up and get up out of my wrist to pick up,
put him on our bid.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
And let me get David, this was not your peak
for this particular dog, for.
Speaker 6 (03:10):
Tank, Actually it sort of was.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Yes, I think I can.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
Go for a dash, And I'm worried about the vet
bills though, with the hip displays and all that stuff.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Well, you know you love him so much. They're so cute. Thanks, David.
Tell us about your woosy pet.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Hi.
Speaker 7 (03:29):
So my husband had this cat and we would give
it dry food, but it would only eat if the
dry food was topped up like a mountain shape, so
it couldn't be flat flash against the bowl. It had
to be this high mountain. So this was so silly.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
How did that come about? How weird?
Speaker 7 (03:51):
Well I think what happened was, so we will top
up the bowl and then top it up, top it
up to the point where it would just start eating,
and it got used to it topped up to that
high point. They would only eat like that, so there
was enough food to last days. In the dry food,
but we would only eat unless we chopped it up
(04:12):
to a certain height.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Because it looks appealing. You've got to try and your food.
So imagine that cat in the wild. I'm not touching that.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
You look at road runner when in the coyote you
always make a little pyramid of bird seed and then
road and then the coyote would have the anvil fall
on him instead of the chances.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Thanks Josephine Ashley. Tell us about your wissy pet.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Hi.
Speaker 6 (04:38):
So my husband brought me this big, bad looking German shepherd.
You know how sometimes they look a bit scary. Big
she is the most busiest dog I've ever met. Don't
know how they're police dogs as puppies. She's scared of
the cockroach. Is she scared of the wind? She's scared
of her own shadow. Not only do I have to
(04:58):
protect her from the cockery, just we're going to protect
my husband because he's a wolf's too. But this dog
is just the biggest sauk.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
I can't I would not survive in the wild. German shepherd,
You're right, there's a wind blowing. I'm scared, you know,
like the Nazis used those.
Speaker 6 (05:16):
Things in the war Yeah, definitely not a war dog,
this time under the cover.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Dog hiding in the bunker.
Speaker 7 (05:26):
Brondie has joined us.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Tell us about your woozy pet, Bronti.
Speaker 6 (05:30):
So Stitch gets a handle with her to her grandma's
house every morning.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
What do you mean?
Speaker 6 (05:37):
So we call herma and that's my mom and she
just for some reason won't stay home on her own,
So she gets dropped off.
Speaker 8 (05:45):
At my mom's for work every morning and picked up.
Speaker 6 (05:47):
Every afternoon.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Babysat someone.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
So how would Stitch go in the wild on Kangaroo Island, Bronti.
Speaker 9 (05:58):
Not well, I'd presume, oh god, that's I wouldn't even progest.
Speaker 6 (06:02):
Her, so she would not go outside, goes outside to way,
comes back in.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
That's right, a rod for your own back. Thank you
for that.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Andedda's joined us, Hirott, tell us about your pet.
Speaker 10 (06:18):
Hi, guys, I've got a six year old rescue dog.
She's a box across daffy, so she's a big girl.
She won't drink water out of her dog volts. It
has to be filtered water from our fridge in a.
Speaker 8 (06:32):
Cup o.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Her on Kangaroo Island.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Yeah, not a chip, still sparkling, not drinking from the street.
Speaker 10 (06:44):
Such a press.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Sue has joined us, So tell us about your woozy pet.
Speaker 6 (06:50):
Hi, my dog Gatsky he's gone now. But he was
a Labrador and he was a failed border force dog.
But he was not at all tough.
Speaker 9 (07:00):
And if we were at home, maybe having an argument
and anybody was swearing, he would get so upset he
would just leave the room. Do we just get up
and leave the room. He couldn't swear in front of
him at all.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
And this was a border force dog.
Speaker 8 (07:16):
Yes, he was a failed one.
Speaker 9 (07:17):
We'd cover his ears when we said that. But he
was such a.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Excuse.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
I didn't ask to be born. So thank you, Sue.
Sonya has joined us, Sonya, tell us about your dog.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
I've got a jack Russell. His name Snoopy, and he
cannot have dog food. He's got to have lamb, and
he's got to have cheese on top. He will not
eat anything without cheese on top. Wow, he's got to
be with us twenty four to seven a day.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
Yes, so you make the lamb chops and then is
it melted cheese or just a cheese slice on top?
Speaker 3 (07:52):
No, it's it's greater cheese.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Great you great? It yourself, or from a packet from
a packer.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
It's got to be packer. I can't go it myself
because it's uneven.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
He doesn't like that.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Oh he's very fussy.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Bloody dog's eating better than me. Imagine him on Kangaroo Island.
Have nice cheese, and thank you son sonya Eleanor has
joined us as well.
Speaker 8 (08:15):
Oh it's our boots. We had to get a pram
for him because he heard his pool, you know, because
we've got two other dogs. And I used to walk
him around in his pram around the park and any
time he saw somebody lift his little poor up just
to get sympathy, and he would come up to him,
go you poor, poor, poor Paul. Look he used his
(08:40):
poor for sympathy.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
So you hold the poor out right so they would
come boots.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
So that dog doing that in the wild, a lot
of animals would not have a lot of sympathies a
show of weakness like that, they'd.
Speaker 8 (08:50):
Because yeah, absolutely, it was fretty and everyone loved all
the attention. And then he waits by the prayer to get.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
In look and be a points and show off.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
Remember the time when you saw someone with a dog
in a prayer and you go, that's mental.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Now you see it all the time.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
You have dogs like being high up, they like the height,
but often people want to give their dogs fresh air,
and the dogs are too old to walk around, and
sometimes people are just.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Their pets. Thank you for Thank you ellenor
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