🐶 EXCLUSIVE CHAT: Dr Chris Brown

Our good friend Dr. Chris Brown joins Jonesy & Amanda for a chat!

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
New Jersey and Amanda gam Nation.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Chris Brown is Australia's favorite vet TV host, a very
close friend of ours, and he's always caring for animals
and quite sincerely, Chris, I've walked with you through King's
Cross in the middle of the night and you will
have you will answer every single person's request about their pets.
You were very sincerely an animal guy. So you did

(00:25):
a pet census recently, the truly important pet censors to
find out about the role that pets actually play in
the lives of Australians. And hello and welcome.

Speaker 1 (00:33):
Thanks.

Speaker 3 (00:33):
Yeah, I think our pets probably aren't really included in
our lives as much as they as they could be,
and probably get a bit of a rough rough go
considering we have over thirty million pets in Australia.

Speaker 1 (00:43):
But when you say, when you.

Speaker 3 (00:44):
Travel to North America or Europe, they're a lot more included.
You'll see them in cafes, on planes, you'll see them
in hotels. It's easy to get rentals with pets there.
It's just a bit harder than it should be here.
So the census was all about learning more about pets.
Pets are never and it included in our human sensus,
really and there's never been a single question about pets

(01:04):
yet you know, they're supposedly our best friends. So it
was about trying to learn more about them to I guess,
to help them out a bit more, and all the
while that we get some pretty interesting findings out of
the census about the role they the quirky little role
they played our lives.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
Well, we just did in our pub test before. They've
released crocs matching crocs for you and your dog. And
I think you've said before that dogs don't like things
on their feet, But what role does dress ups play?
Did you ask that question?

Speaker 3 (01:33):
Not specifically, but we asked, you know, whether where the
pets sleep in your bed? Fifty eight percent people share
a bed with their pet, and other eighteen percent of
people the pet is in the bedroom. So that's pretty significant.
But the thing about dressing up your pet, you've got
to be really, really careful. They get really sensitive about
haircuts and clothing if you laugh at them, and there's

(01:56):
scientific studies that show that if you laugh at a
pet's haircut, they'll go through a period of almost mourning
or grief or extreme stress and anxiety because of the
fact that they know you're laughing at them.

Speaker 4 (02:09):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (02:09):
I've had dogs brought into the vet hospital where they're
not eating and the only identifiable cause is the fact
that you laughed. The owners laughed at that dog's haircut,
and they just went off their food.

Speaker 5 (02:22):
It's like having your wife. You just got to you know,
the missile comes into the house with a haircut.

Speaker 2 (02:29):
Laugh and don't laugh when your wife comes in with
the cone of shame around him.

Speaker 3 (02:32):
Net to be fair, Jonesy, you did Booker into the
grooming cell, which was unfair.

Speaker 1 (02:37):
They do everything.

Speaker 2 (02:39):
So what are some of the more surprising things that
you've discovered.

Speaker 3 (02:42):
Yeah, I think probably that when asked whether who do
you go to for emotional sport? Do you go to
your pet or do you go to your human partner?
Seventy seven people go to their pet when they're having
a tough time. So that's that's pretty to be honest.

Speaker 2 (03:02):
Not if I damning or refreshing, you're.

Speaker 3 (03:04):
Refreshing, do you look at it does show that the
lack of judgment that we get from it from our pets.
They feel a certain role in our lives. They certainly
make us feel a bit complete, you know, And and that,
that's that's enlightening. Seventy six percent of people support pets
being on planes on domestic flights in the cabin with

(03:25):
It happen to be.

Speaker 2 (03:26):
The small ones you put under the front though, don't they?

Speaker 1 (03:28):
Yeah, they do of a certain certain size there.

Speaker 5 (03:31):
Well, what are you going to take on a jet
staff flight. You'll have to take the smallest chiuara in
the world, like a miniature chihuahua.

Speaker 1 (03:37):
Pay a small fee for a chiu hour. Yeah, it's
so that. That's certainly one.

Speaker 3 (03:41):
Only about thirty percent of people feel like there are
enough exercise areas, yeah, for pets in their local All.

Speaker 2 (03:47):
Those areas are getting closed down, aren't they. That's how
it feels dogs and dogs can't be off the lead anywhere.

Speaker 5 (03:51):
Also, snake people are they weird?

Speaker 1 (03:53):
As they're actually in the studio right now waiting for
each I.

Speaker 5 (03:57):
Just always fine, And I'm not slagging snake people because
I don't want to. But unless you're in Motley Crue
or you're a little bit of a weirdo, you've got
a snake.

Speaker 1 (04:06):
They are hard.

Speaker 3 (04:07):
There are harder animal than average to emotionally bond with.
I think speaking of emotionally bonding. What do you reckon
how many? What percentage of people do you think kiss
their pets on the lips, just kiss them, but actually.

Speaker 1 (04:19):
Like lip to lip, tongue to tongue.

Speaker 2 (04:21):
No, I'd say seven percent.

Speaker 1 (04:25):
Thirty three No, is that bad for us?

Speaker 3 (04:27):
It's actually this is an interesting one. So people often
worry about where that tongue has been. Yes, quite often your.

Speaker 2 (04:35):
Pets worry about where your tongue has been in.

Speaker 3 (04:38):
Their private areas, usually in the minutes before they give
us a lick. So typically they have their bugs and
we have ours, so their bacteria can't infect us and
vice versa. So it is very hard to get sick
from what your pet licks you with.

Speaker 5 (04:54):
Sounds like you're one of these thirty three.

Speaker 4 (04:56):
Percent weird kiss Buzz on the lips, Buzz sleep on
the bed.

Speaker 3 (05:01):
No, but cricket does. If Buzz slept in the bed,
I wouldn't be there, wouldn't be rude.

Speaker 5 (05:05):
What about when there's things are getting hot and heavy in.

Speaker 2 (05:08):
The room, do you put the dog outside the door?

Speaker 3 (05:10):
I think you've got to, yeah, because you can't have
a watch in this judgments, we've got very judgy eyes.

Speaker 1 (05:17):
You have that side eye look what are you are
you doing?

Speaker 4 (05:21):
The dog might be looking at you. He's thinking I'm
next someone getting hurt. This is a slice of the life.
Doctor christ is always good to talk to you.

Speaker 5 (05:33):
Head to drool dot pet to see the census results
and check out the range of vet made treats and washing.

Speaker 2 (05:40):
I've got all of them. Can I sound? I know
you don't want to say this stuff about yourself. Those
those treats are amazing. The washers, the anti allergy stuff
for dog.

Speaker 1 (05:49):
What's a wash?

Speaker 4 (05:50):
Is it like a face washer or.

Speaker 1 (05:51):
A wash wash, like a whole body wash.

Speaker 3 (05:53):
And at this time of year, every pet is licking
their feet with that sound.

Speaker 5 (05:57):
Which is the worst sound, so.

Speaker 3 (05:59):
You can't you can't block it out. So these these
washes and creams help with that, don't You.

Speaker 2 (06:04):
Also have like a like a wash that you can
sort of spray on them so you don't have to
douse the whole dog.

Speaker 1 (06:09):
No time to wash, spray. I actually have brought some in.

Speaker 2 (06:13):
For me. No time to watch.

Speaker 1 (06:19):
I'm not the one, Chris. It's always great, always, always