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Ever wondered what it's like to face your biggest fears head-on, like alligators and gigantic bugs? This week, we kick things off with some light-hearted banter about our recent experiences—Donna's busy week with report cards and my sun-soaked trip to Florida—and how contrasting climates bring out contrasting critters. Prepare to laugh as we share our amusing yet terrifying stories about alligators and the eerie nocturnal exhibit at the Henry Doorly Zoo. Together, we discover how our reactions to fear can be influenced by the presence of others, making our tales even more relatable and entertaining.
Our excitement peaks as we dive into the Pet Parade feature on our website, allowing listeners to showcase their beloved pets. We tackle a listener's question on integrating a stray cat into their home and provide practical tips to keep your new feline friend indoors without dreaded bath-time battles. Remembering Cesar Millan’s guest appearance on our show, we delight in his respectful portrayal on South Park—a nostalgic nod that pet lovers and fans alike will appreciate.
Finally, we shift focus to our quirky cats and their unique behaviors. I recount a funny yet sad story about Ratio, my cat who's terrified of his jingly bell collar, and offer advice on using bells for multiple cats. We’re amazed by Pika, another cat who fetches objects on command and responds to specific gestures, sharing tips on training pets to follow pointing gestures. We wrap up our entertaining episode with amusing anecdotes about our pets, encouraging listeners to check out some cool pet gear and to spread the love for their furry friends. Join us for a fun and heartwarming episode that's sure to brighten your day!
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
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So here we go Having a littlebit of fun.
It's Animal Talk.
Donna, how have you been thisweek?
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Oh fine yeah, Busy yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
I had report cards due, so I don't know my brain is
dried.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Yeah, well, you know, I'm still on florida living, so
it's a little hard to come homeand then have this weather, oh
yeah, when I'm sitting in, youknow.
I get off the plane and I'm in90, you know 95 or something
degree weather going to thebeach.
And then I come home and it's50 what did?
Speaker 1 (01:41):
what did the comedian say last night?
Uh yeah, I'll take the crummyweather in the Midwest over the
hurricanes.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Yeah, well see, yeah, why do you live in?
Speaker 1 (01:50):
the Midwest.
It's so gloomy and gray.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
But our bugs are also normal size.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
But we don't have a hurricane.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
And that's the other thing.
Our bugs are normal size.
Because I saw some of thebiggest bugs I have ever seen in
my life while I was down there,you bugs I have ever seen in my
life.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
While I was down there, you're like you need to
pay for rent, dude.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
I'm not kidding, they were huge and ugly and I don't
like bugs.
That and you know I'm paranoiddriving from the airport to the
hotel that I was staying in andI'm driving through pretty much
swampland and I'm paranoid thatan alligator is going to come
out at any moment and like beyou, be, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Somehow in my way, See, the alligators scare me too
.
I'm terrified of an alligator.
I'm fascinated because there'sthis in Florida down the one
highway they call AlligatorAlley and it's like a highway,
like any four-lane medianhighway, and there's swamps in
the middle and on the sides.
Yeah, that's kind of where Iwas driving, but there's this
(02:47):
little offshoot from thealligator that they call that
alligator alley.
There's this little offshootand seriously it's like a dirt
road you know, and it goes forseveral miles.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
I would not be able to be in the car by myself.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
It runs parallel with the highway, but you're just
driving through and there's, Imean, and every two feet there's
another gator.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
I would be sitting in somebody's lap at that moment
because I would be so freakedout.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Our assistant producers, Joanne and Rich, who
help us with equine questions.
We were down there together andwe were in the convertible, so
we had the top down on theconvertible.
I would have asked to be put inthe trunk at that point, oh my
God, it was so cool, I mean, andthey scare me too.
(03:34):
You can see I'm cringing anddoubling over there, but it's
just Couldn't do it, I couldn'tdo it.
Well, it's like, you see,they're small ones, right.
It's like you see this, they'resmall ones, right, you know.
It's like two feet long, youknow, with the head to nose.
I mean tail to nose.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Yeah, but they could still take off a foot.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Right.
But you go out there and youlook and you're like oh, look at
the little baby gay, isn't hecute, you know.
And then you drive up a littlebit and there's one that's a
little bigger and you're likeokay, and not seen him.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Well, when I was at the Henry Doorly Zoo, they have
this.
I'm just an accident waiting tohappen really yeah, they have
this basement thing forcreatures of the night.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Uh-huh.
And you're walking.
Are they showing the Phantom ofthe Opera down there?
Speaker 2 (04:25):
No, I was expecting like bats and you know some of
the nocturnal critters.
And all of a sudden I'm in themiddle of a swamp and there's
alligators everywhere and Ican't turn around and go back.
I have to keep moving forwardand I am terrified.
I've got no one to hang on tobecause I'm there by myself and
(04:45):
I was so terrified.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
I was clinging on to it.
Ma'am, are you alright?
I will be.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
See, the thing too is with me, as long as somebody
else is panicking.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
I don't have to.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
And there were two little girls behind me that were
screaming every few seconds.
So, I was like, okay, as longas they're making all the noise
and I stay ahead of them, I'mokay so I was able.
They look like the wimps well,no, they, they're the ones that
are drawing attention tothemselves they become dinner
right oh I'm safe I thought youwere just talking.
(05:18):
The embarrassment factor ofpeople seeing you well, no,
because it's all dark, youcouldn't see anything I did I
did stop at one point and try totake a picture, because one of
the things that that I try to dois is I try to conquer my fears
and so I try to to deal withsituations like that right and
and traveling by myself reallyhelps me deal with situations
like that that I'm actuallyscared of.
(05:39):
So that was I.
I made myself stop and take apicture of the alligators that
were down there, and just sothat you know I'm shaking the
whole time and the picturedidn't come out.
But you know I tried but it is.
It's like.
Did it help you get over your?
Speaker 1 (05:54):
fear.
No, okay, excellent, no.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Like I said, if I would have been in that car, I
either would have been insomebody's lap or asked to be in
the trunk.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
So that I didn't have to deal with it.
It's the large insects thatfreak me out, yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
I'm not big on that either.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
We're going to help you with your pet and we want to
know what is your animal phobia.
That's what we want to knowtoday.
What is your animal phobia?
Me, it's the big bugs.
It's the big, scary, nasty bugs, and they're frightening to me.
So what scares you the most andwhat do you do about it?
How do you conquer that fear?
You know me, it's like I can'tcall you know, go kill the bug
(06:35):
for me.
Kirby's not going to do it.
You know, if it's a spider, hemight bat it around and then eat
it.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Oh, Alonia Soda, she's the bug killer in the
house.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Yeah, but the big bugs freak me out a little bit.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Oh then there's some big, big, big bugs in Florida,
not as bad as Texas, I mean,when I was in Texas, Don't mess
with Texas.
No, everything's big in Texas.
Seriously, when you go to arestaurant, you get food that'll
feed six people just on yourplate.
Don't mess with texas.
They're, they're.
Everything is big down there,and the bugs are no exception
(07:08):
when I is it.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Is it technically messing with texas?
Saying don't mess with texas?
Speaker 2 (07:13):
probably, okay, probably but they they had.
Um, I walked into my hotel roomand I checked my hotel room out
to make sure there were no bugs, because if there's bugs, I'm
not sleeping there right right,and so I checked everything out
and it was fine, and then I leftto do the seminar and I came
back later that night because wewere we were gone all all day
doing the seminar and then wentout to dinner and then came back
to the room.
(07:33):
Somebody moved in somebody movedinto the toilet, oh and so I
would not donna doesn't get togo for a weekend I, I would go.
They had a public restroom inthe lobby that I was using
because I couldn't flush thattoilet enough.
I was not going to use it.
There was just not going tohappen.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
You are just chock full of phobias.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Yes, I am 800?
Speaker 1 (07:55):
I really am.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
But see, you guys think I'm all strong and brave
and everything, and I'm reallynot.
That's an excellent facade youhave going there.
All right we were ranting andraving about our field, phobias.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
We were ranting.
Donna's afraid of gators.
Mm-hmm, crocs too, or just?
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Oh, yeah, yeah, Because actually my coworker
Blair, she knows somebody whowas eaten by a crocodile in
Africa.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
So, by proxy, are you somewhat frightened of Elton
John as well?
Of course rock.
Well, no, that I have otherissues with elm jones.
Okay, no, it's not because ofthe song.
It's the hair it's gone, it'sback.
It's the glasses he's a muppet,he's not real.
No, I'm with you on that one nogators crocs he's got like a
(08:36):
bazillion god children.
He's like every celebrity'sgodfather and because he can buy
them like everything yeah, andhe does, and that's that, and
that's what he said.
He said when he, when he passesaway, he's, he, he's worth,
like you know, several, severalof billions of dollars he's
gonna divide it up among all hisgod kids.
But he's seriously, he's gotlike 20 or something ridiculous
like that anyway, we digressedinto elton john.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Here I just I was.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
I was fascinated by that on the tv the other day.
But bugs phobias, I'm scared ofElton John and big bugs,
because they look like EltonJohn when they wear glasses.
No, I don't know, but I'mafraid of big bugs.
Donna's afraid of gators andpretty much everything else
except dogs and cats Things withfur you're okay with.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
And birds.
I'm okay with birds.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Oh, okay, for the most part.
I'm not a big fan of macaws.
My friend jenny birds.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Any bird feathers freak her out it's, it's the
ones that could take a fingeroff.
Those are the ones I'm scaredof yeah but other than that, you
know, I don't have a problemfinches yeah, forget about it
well, no most I eat finches forbreakfast most wildlife, I don't
have a problem with it's justthe ones that could eat me Right
right, right.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
And if bears weren't mean, you would probably love to
just go up and hug them andcuddle them.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Black bears.
I don't like grizzlies.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
You said they look stupid, they do and I know
that's so mean, but they justlook stupid.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Alright, I have to take a moment and apologize To
all the grizzly bears listening.
You guys don't really lookstupid.
Okay, they do, they do.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
They do.
I can't help it.
They just look like there's no.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
You've got to walk to your car by yourself tonight
because the grizzly's comingafter me.
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(10:34):
show off your critter and it'skind of like yay for my, you
know our pets are up there.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Yeah, my sister's cat is up there, and my nephew sent
me an email because he was allexcited that his cat was up
there and he's like oh, it's mykitty.
He was all happy.
He's like how did they get thatpicture?
How did he get that picture?
I'm like Jamie snuck into yourhouse and took a picture of your
cat.
And he kind of sat there and helooked at me for a minute.
Or your aunt gave it to himyeah and he's like no, I really
(11:01):
don't think that happened.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Good, you know I have a question.
We get back to you 24, 48 hoursand we like to get to a few on
the weekend as well.
So we have one right here andDonna is laughing hysterically
at Brad's cartoons.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
That's good and that's very apropos.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Yeah, because they probably.
Yeah, all right, and I have anemail right here, dear Animal
Talk.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
A chain letter.
I touched it.
I touched it, ah no.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
No All right.
Hey, I bought a stray cat intomy house.
I just love him.
However, he doesn't want tostay in the house.
I'm guessing he's about a yearold.
He never leaves, he just likesbeing outside.
We're moving to a new place,but it's only a few hundred
yards away.
What can we do to keep him inthe house so he doesn't leave us
by getting confused and goingto the wrong house our old one?
(11:55):
Also, should we have himdeclawed, seeing as he likes to
be outside so much?
He's very good with ourthree-year-old.
He's never even scratched thekid and even with the kid
abusing him the way he does, thechild just loves the cat.
I listen every week, but I'lltry to listen and please help.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Well, basically the best way to keep a cat in would
be to set up the door so thatit's an unappealing place to be.
Easiest way to do that.
Cats really hate to have thingsstuck to their feet.
So if you took a double-sidedsticky tape on newspaper, put
that in front of the door andthen when the kitty, when the
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kitty goes to the, to the door,he's going to step on it and
then he's going to go running,because then the paper chases
them.
They don't like it.
You could use water.
I I hate to use water, becausesome people really do need to
bathe the cat right from time totime, and if you make water an
unpleasant thing, then bath timebecomes unpleasant as well
right so it's best if if you tryto do something that just keeps
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them away from the door ingeneral, and that I find that
the double-sided sticky tapewith the newspaper seems to work
the best, because they reallydon't like that.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
And it's really actually quite comical if you
set up the video camera andwatch them.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Or if you have lint rollers, peel off a couple of
the lint rollers and place them.
Yeah, I did that with myyoungest one to keep her away
from the garbage.
So I emptied out the trash canthat I have in the living room
and I emptied that out and I putthose on the bottom and she
normally would dive into it.
So, she dove into it, ended upgetting stuck to the bottom and
then tried to run away and theywere following her.
(13:35):
So she hasn't gone back to thattrash can since she's not
liking it.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
No longer a playground.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Nope, nope.
So tape works wonders?
It really does, and it's justyou know, as they're learning.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Amusing for you, absolutely.
And we'll talk radiocom Also onour website links to our
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You can hear previousrenditions and editions of the
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There's a cool links page.
We had Cesar Millan the dogwhisperer from the National
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check the cool links page andsee what week he was on and you
(14:12):
can download the Cesar Millaninterview.
He's so cool, it was so funnywe had him on.
And then the very next week hewas on South Park.
Yes, I'm like how trendy are we?
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Yeah, we started it, wow.
Well, you know, and that was mything, the whole South Park
thing.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
I said that the guys did that just for me because I'm
a fan that was so funny it was,and they were very respectful
too, which I really didappreciate.
I don't think it was him.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
No, it was making fun of one of the characters, but
they were very respectful.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
No, I don't think it was actually Caesar from the
Voice?
Speaker 2 (14:42):
No, no, he was promoting it on his site.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
They had him down.
It was so good.
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We have one right here, dearAnimal Talk.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
What's your email this morning, Mulder?
Speaker 1 (16:16):
I don't know why.
Alright, now I missed it.
Where'd it go?
Come back to me.
Okay, a month ago I adopted acat.
The same day she got spayedafter 24 hours I let her out of
the carrying case and she ranunder the couch.
After two weeks my boyfriendflipped over the couches looking
for her.
He tried to pet her.
She hissed at him and ran.
(16:37):
She ran next to the radiator.
He tried to touch her again.
She peed and pooped all overthe floor.
I came home, tried to clean itup and she hissed and finally
ran back onto the couch and onlycomes out at night to eat or
use the litter box.
I don't know what to do.
Is this normal?
Will she ever come back out?
Help me, allie.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Not necessarily.
I mean, you've got the classicfraidy cat.
This is something that we don'tknow, what type of life if she
was exposed to people?
Yeah, well, it's only eightmonths right and with the feral
cat which it sounds like we havehere dealing with a feral cat.
You have to work with them, verysmall.
What I would recommend isgiving the cat a room, right, um
(17:17):
, don't let them have whole runof the house.
Give them one room, and I'veworked with feral cats and this
is the best way to do it.
Give them one room where theirfood, their water feel safe.
You can enter the room and justsit away from them.
Don't keep coming at them.
The more you come at them andtry to force yourself on them
the more they're going toretreat from you and they go
into that fight or flight modeand if they can't get away,
(17:39):
somebody's going to get hurt.
What?
Speaker 1 (17:41):
if you were to withhold food for 24 hours or
something and go in there with acan make a suit out of cat food
?
Yep, would it come to you,would it?
Speaker 2 (17:51):
come to you, then there's a good chance that they
will um through food.
Most things are possible.
Some people have used cat foodshirt yeah, that may not work
out so well in the long run, um,but the idea is the same if you
, if you put them in a roomwhere they feel safe and secure.
It's a quiet room.
It's not a room that has a lotof noise.
It's not next to the laundryroom, it's nothing like that.
(18:11):
And this kitty has a nice bedset up for them a cat bed,
anything like that.
It can look out the window, butit has access to food, water
and litter box.
Take away that food, like yousaid, for 24 hours, and then
come in with a really nice, veryodiferous can of cat food.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
You'll be king.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Start off with just offering her small amounts and
giving it to her very slowly andgradually.
Let the cat come to you.
The more you try to approachthe cat and keep forcing
yourself on this cat, the moreyou're going to stress this cat
out.
When you have a cat that'sferal and has not learned to
trust humans, you have to workvery, very, very slowly with
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them, and this is going to takea long time.
She may decide that you're okaybut, nobody else is, so there is
that possibility as well.
I've worked with enough feralcats to have seen that happen.
They'll bond, they'll finallygo.
Okay, I trust you, but anybodyelse comes in this room, I'm out
of here.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Right, right right.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
So give this kitty a place that they feel safe and
comfortable in.
The reason we're going underthe couch is because that's
where we feel safe andcomfortable.
We can back ourselves up to thewall and we can see in every
direction.
We know where the enemy iscoming from If you give them a
room where they start to feelcomfortable first in that room
and then gradually startintroducing them.
Once they learn to trust you,then gradually bring them out
and about into the house.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Okay, it's a slow process.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
It's a very slow process.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
I got really lucky with Kirby.
He's a very you know.
Most people you run intothat'll have cats.
Oh, my cat is so unique andit's so different.
He's like a dog and he's likeso friendly.
I find that a lot of peoplehave cats like that because cats
are actually more social than alot of people give them credit
for Right right you have manyscaredy cats, but I think the
(19:53):
number of social cats probablyactually outweigh the scaredy
cats?
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Yeah, they have to be .
I mean, if this kitten wasbrought into the rescue group or
the Humane Society, whereverthey got this kitty from, she
said she adopted it.
But if this kitty was fourmonths or older when it first
got brought into the system,into the rescue or the shelter.
We have had four months of nohuman contact.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Right.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
We have had four months of our mother, also a
feral cat, teaching us to runfrom humans.
So this is a very strange thingfor this cat.
You know, we're big monsters,we're big predators coming at
them, so they're going to stressout over it.
This is just something thatthey're going to do, so you have
to take it slow and always letthe cat approach you.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Don't force yourself on the cat.
There you go, and that's theone thing.
It works with women too.
Yeah, you're forcing yourselfon them.
They don't.
They run away from you, theypush, they go, go away.
You have to be aloof, figuringthat out slow.
And we wanted to know what youranimal phobia was.
Donna's afraid of gators.
Me, the big, big bugs freak meout.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
So okay, what's your phobia?
Praying mantis bug you.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Yeah, a little bit actually walking stick they're
very benign.
No, those the walking sticks,they're like I can flick.
Those praying mantis, though,are menacing, because I think
they've been put into too manymovies.
I was waiting for it to blow up.
You know, have some nuclearaccident in my backyard and the
thing be 20 feet tall and oh,they're good bugs well okay, if
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well.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Yeah, see, that is the downside there.
You know, the female in thatbug isn't very nice to the male
of that bug.
But they're cool bugs.
They're just neat to look at.
They're very gentle too.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Uh-huh.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
And I just had to ask because they're you know I mean
a gator.
There's nothing gentle about agator.
So I had to ask there, likelightning bugs do they bother
you, the, the little lady, ladyup bugs, lightning bugs.
Um no, no, it's like I said bigbugs, big bugs.
It's like the, the big hairyspiders, cockroaches and
centipedes, okay, scorpions yeah, yeah that's the only thing I'm
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kind of worried about going tophoenix is being around.
You know, in a desert situation, there's, there's, going to be,
there's going to be yeah.
So I need to get a nice thickpair of hiking boots to protect
me.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
The Chuck Taylors just won't be enough protection
for you.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
No, no, no, a little thin.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Kirby just came down.
He joined my cat.
His Kirby just came down,jumped on my lap.
He's joining the show and he'sgot his little bell.
We've got a person with anemail question we're going to
get to in just a minute that hasa question about the cat and
the bell and belling your cat.
When I buy them at the store,I've just always been in the
habit of buying the same collar.
He'll go through it every twoyears.
He'll break it because it's gotthe break-free collar.
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It has an elastic that'll breakfree if it gets caught on
something and eventually it justwears out and breaks.
But we have an email questionabout a cat and a bell and it's
actually kind of funny.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
We're going to get that email question.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Right after this and your calls, we're going to try
this again, dear Animal Talk.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Have you checked your email this morning, Mulder?
Speaker 1 (23:02):
There you go.
I like that one.
I have this stupid cat story.
Cats are usually fairly smart.
I have a cat named Ratio, gothim a new collar and put it on
him.
It's red, reflective flashesand it has a loud jingly bell on
it.
The cat hates his bell on hiscollar.
He always has.
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The louder they are, the worseit is.
He runs around like a maniactrying to get away from the
jingling.
He acts as if it's another catchasing him.
It's kind of hilarious and kindof sad.
Um, he's, he's afraid of hisown collar.
He hides, thinking it's anothercat, but then he moves, it
jingles and he runs away andtries to hide someplace else.
Um, is there any way to trainhim to enjoy the bell on his
(23:48):
collar?
Please help.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Probably not With this type.
This is why we usuallyrecommend the double-sided
sticky tape and things like that, because it annoys the cat.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
Right.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Some cats don't mind to have things like that, but
some cats are more susceptibleto not liking noises and sounds
and different things like that.
And you know if it's not beenthere since kittenhood and then
all of a sudden it's there, it'sa new thing.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
I tried that once with one of my, that's Kirby's
little jingly bell there, that'smy cat's little jingly bell.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
He didn't look too happy that you were messing with
him.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
I was shaking his head to make it jingle no I
wasn't.
I wasn't, I wasn't make itjingle.
No, I moved the microphone down.
I was moving around, it was not.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Yeah, he would see he's look at those ears.
He's not happy with you rightnow, almost because his head is
against the table all right I'mjust abusing him, no, but really
I mean there's, there's, reallyI can't see for a house cat any
good reason, and don't takeoffense to that, but really
what's the sense of the bell?
Speaker 1 (24:47):
I don't know, it just comes on the collar.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Right, I never bothered with the bells because
you know well, I probably shouldput a bell on my youngest one,
because then everybody wouldknow when she's about to attack.
Yeah, so if you have multiplecats, that works out just fine,
but if this cat is having thatharsh of a reaction to it, just
get rid of it yeah Just get ridof it.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Yeah, just get rid of it, okay.
What about your kitty?
Speaker 2 (25:09):
okay, the um smart cat pika prize cat box right,
right right right, she adoresthis toy uh-huh and all of the
little balls that come inside ofit.
She will find a way to get themout.
Well, I've taught her how toput the balls back in okay, so
that she can keep playing wellnow she.
That is so cute she loads it upwith anything she can find,
puts it it in there, you batchit up.
(25:29):
Yeah, I gave her a straw to playwith and she will put the straw
in the Pika Cat thing.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
the box Pika Prize.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
Yeah, thank you I always have a hard time with
that, but she'll put it in thereand then she'll take it out.
Well, her newest thing that westarted working on this week she
fetches.
Oh, fetches, oh no yes, shewill bring me all of those balls
when she gets them out.
Um, that's the way I get herout of her crazy thing.
But yeah, she'll and and sheresponds.
I'm trying to teach her torespond to an actual command to
it.
So when I tell her but she, shewill fetch she actually she is
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so willing to learn things Iwant to see and like I can
direct her if I point atsomething, she'll jump up to
wherever I've pointed so I wantto see if I can get her to do if
you, when you mean you point,does your finger have to be near
the object?
yeah, like right now I have tolike.
If I wanted her in the chair, Iwould point at the chair, but
I'd have to be myself nearby thechair because again I go back
to the phobias.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Uh, they were talking about earlier, you're kind of
afraid of crocodiles, I'm afraidof bugs, larger bugs, and, and
kirby eats spiders and ifthere's a spider up on the wall
I'll point at it.
Go, go, Kirby, get the spider.
And he'll look at my hand.
I'm like no, follow the finger.
Dogs will get that sometimes no, not always.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
I'm still working on that with my beagle, because
I'll throw the ball and shewon't see me throw the ball, so
I'll start pointing.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
She looks at your hand.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
Yeah, she looks at my hand and so we're working on it
.
So then I'll actually keep myfinger out and I'll keep
pointing as we're walking overthere, and then I'll actually
point to the ball, so that shelearns to follow.
This is the direction.
So she's starting to get thatidea down now.
I'll point and she'll look andthen she'll start running over
there and eventually she'll comeacross the ball.
But that's the same thing.
(27:09):
If you want him to get thespider, have him focus on your
finger and then lead him towhere you want him to go,
because the spider is going tobe the payoff.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
That's the reward for him.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
It's like ooh, something to chase, Exactly so
he's going to have that payoff,so you don't even really have to
reward him.
You're rewarding.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
rewarding him just by showing him where it is and
leading him to it, and thenhe'll be like yay so yeah, so
what your little kitty you'repointing and to teach her how to
fetch of like, go fetch thatand and you're teaching oh, she
brought me a lint roller uh-huhyeah, tape yesterday wow yeah,
it was crumpled up and it wasone of the um, one of the ones
that she apparently had tuckedaway somewhere that I didn't
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know about and she brought thatto me to throw last night and
I'm like no, this goes into thegarbage.
This is garbage.
Honey, you can have the ball.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
So we were throwing the ball for her and so she's
learning and I want to try toteach her as many things as
possible.
So if you see a little bluekitty with orange, she's a blue
tortie.
If you see it on Petstar, thatwould be my baby.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
So, I'm working on it , I'm working on it.
At least a stupid pet trick,absolutely, if not Petstar
itself.
Yes.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
I would like to have her.
I want to teach her to walk atightrope.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
I love seeing the trained cats.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
When little domestic cats can do tricks, I think it's
the most amazing thing, becausecats are a little more
challenging to train, but Quinnis very outgoing, so I'm going
to take it to my advantage andsee how many things I can train
her to do.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
Excellent.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Oh no, yes, I always like to have a little fun along
the way, I'm not that much of adiva or that music would have
been changed by now.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
It's time for the Bad Animal J of the week.
Who's bad?
The bad animal joke of the week.
This is a participatory one.
Oh, okay, all right.
Bad animal joke of the week.
If you'd like to submit a badanimal joke, you send it to
jamie atTalkRadiocom.
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Jamie at AnimalTalkRadiocom.
The bad animal joke of the weekDonna.
Ask me if I'm a tiger, jamie,are you a tiger?
Yep, okay.
Ask me if I'm a kitten.
Are you a kitten?
No, I just told you I'm a tiger.
That's the bad animal joke ofthe week.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
Oh, boy, that's pretty bad.
You can lead people.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
Christina, age 10 in Pennsylvania, sent your bad
animal joke in and we'll subjecteverybody else to it.
Who's bad?
That's right.
Bad, bad, bad, bad animal jokes.
I love the bad animal jokes.
I do that.
I'll play them for my kids.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
Do you really?
Speaker 1 (29:59):
Yeah, Because I get the show.
I have access to the onlinething and you could have access
to the online show on ourpodcast.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
Oh, so you actually play portions of the show for
them.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
Yeah, I'll play it for my kids.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
I'll fire journalism.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
So yeah and uh, so I'll fire up the bad animal joke
for him one because I did itfor one young lady because she
was having a really bad day andI had just happened to have the
thing open and so I played itfor her and she laughed.
I'm like I should do this foreverybody, so I subject so you
only subject them to the badanimal joke.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
You don't actually share the good stuff.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
No, that is the good stuff.
I like it a lot.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
I'm just teasing.
I know.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
So what I can't take my whole 90-minute block and
play my show for them?
Speaker 2 (30:47):
Brilliant.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
I should.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
Teaching would be easy then wouldn't it yeah.
This is how you do it.
There you go Sit back andlisten, go leave the room, read
a book, make a couple phonecalls Sorry no see You've been
in my room.
No, that's what most teachersdo.
I wish I could All right.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
Well, you know, sadly we.
But, join us again next week.
Can I have more fun?
Always do so, join us.
We appreciate you being with us, and John Beck at the GCN
thanks for all the coordinatingyou do for us throughout the
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We appreciate that and alwaysvisit our website,
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on the weekend as well.
Donna, you have a fantasticweek and everybody have an
exotic week.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
And kiss you out.
Thing for me.
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So here we go Having a littlebit of fun.
It's Animal Talk.
Donna, how have you been thisweek?
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Oh fine yeah, Busy yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
I had report cards due, so I don't know my brain is
dried.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Yeah, well, you know, I'm still on florida living, so
it's a little hard to come homeand then have this weather, oh
yeah, when I'm sitting in, youknow.
I get off the plane and I'm in90, you know 95 or something
degree weather going to thebeach.
And then I come home and it's50 what did?
Speaker 1 (01:41):
what did the comedian say last night?
Uh yeah, I'll take the crummyweather in the Midwest over the
hurricanes.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Yeah, well see, yeah, why do you live in?
Speaker 1 (01:50):
the Midwest.
It's so gloomy and gray.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
But our bugs are also normal size.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
But we don't have a hurricane.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
And that's the other thing.
Our bugs are normal size.
Because I saw some of thebiggest bugs I have ever seen in
my life while I was down there,you bugs I have ever seen in my
life.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
While I was down there, you're like you need to
pay for rent, dude.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
I'm not kidding, they were huge and ugly and I don't
like bugs.
That and you know I'm paranoiddriving from the airport to the
hotel that I was staying in andI'm driving through pretty much
swampland and I'm paranoid thatan alligator is going to come
out at any moment and like beyou, be, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Somehow in my way, See, the alligators scare me too
.
I'm terrified of an alligator.
I'm fascinated because there'sthis in Florida down the one
highway they call AlligatorAlley and it's like a highway,
like any four-lane medianhighway, and there's swamps in
the middle and on the sides.
Yeah, that's kind of where Iwas driving, but there's this
(02:47):
little offshoot from thealligator that they call that
alligator alley.
There's this little offshootand seriously it's like a dirt
road you know, and it goes forseveral miles.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
I would not be able to be in the car by myself.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
It runs parallel with the highway, but you're just
driving through and there's, Imean, and every two feet there's
another gator.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
I would be sitting in somebody's lap at that moment
because I would be so freakedout.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Our assistant producers, Joanne and Rich, who
help us with equine questions.
We were down there together andwe were in the convertible, so
we had the top down on theconvertible.
I would have asked to be put inthe trunk at that point, oh my
God, it was so cool, I mean, andthey scare me too.
(03:34):
You can see I'm cringing anddoubling over there, but it's
just Couldn't do it, I couldn'tdo it.
Well, it's like, you see,they're small ones, right.
It's like you see this, they'resmall ones, right, you know.
It's like two feet long, youknow, with the head to nose.
I mean tail to nose.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Yeah, but they could still take off a foot.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Right.
But you go out there and youlook and you're like oh, look at
the little baby gay, isn't hecute, you know.
And then you drive up a littlebit and there's one that's a
little bigger and you're likeokay, and not seen him.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Well, when I was at the Henry Doorly Zoo, they have
this.
I'm just an accident waiting tohappen really yeah, they have
this basement thing forcreatures of the night.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Uh-huh.
And you're walking.
Are they showing the Phantom ofthe Opera down there?
Speaker 2 (04:25):
No, I was expecting like bats and you know some of
the nocturnal critters.
And all of a sudden I'm in themiddle of a swamp and there's
alligators everywhere and Ican't turn around and go back.
I have to keep moving forwardand I am terrified.
I've got no one to hang on tobecause I'm there by myself and
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I was so terrified.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
I was clinging on to it.
Ma'am, are you alright?
I will be.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
See, the thing too is with me, as long as somebody
else is panicking.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
I don't have to.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
And there were two little girls behind me that were
screaming every few seconds.
So, I was like, okay, as longas they're making all the noise
and I stay ahead of them, I'mokay so I was able.
They look like the wimps well,no, they, they're the ones that
are drawing attention tothemselves they become dinner
right oh I'm safe I thought youwere just talking.
(05:18):
The embarrassment factor ofpeople seeing you well, no,
because it's all dark, youcouldn't see anything I did I
did stop at one point and try totake a picture, because one of
the things that that I try to dois is I try to conquer my fears
and so I try to to deal withsituations like that right and
and traveling by myself reallyhelps me deal with situations
like that that I'm actuallyscared of.
(05:39):
So that was I.
I made myself stop and take apicture of the alligators that
were down there, and just sothat you know I'm shaking the
whole time and the picturedidn't come out.
But you know I tried but it is.
It's like.
Did it help you get over your?
Speaker 1 (05:54):
fear.
No, okay, excellent, no.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Like I said, if I would have been in that car, I
either would have been insomebody's lap or asked to be in
the trunk.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
So that I didn't have to deal with it.
It's the large insects thatfreak me out, yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
I'm not big on that either.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
We're going to help you with your pet and we want to
know what is your animal phobia.
That's what we want to knowtoday.
What is your animal phobia?
Me, it's the big bugs.
It's the big, scary, nasty bugs, and they're frightening to me.
So what scares you the most andwhat do you do about it?
How do you conquer that fear?
You know me, it's like I can'tcall you know, go kill the bug
(06:35):
for me.
Kirby's not going to do it.
You know, if it's a spider, hemight bat it around and then eat
it.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Oh, Alonia Soda, she's the bug killer in the
house.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Yeah, but the big bugs freak me out a little bit.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Oh then there's some big, big, big bugs in Florida,
not as bad as Texas, I mean,when I was in Texas, Don't mess
with Texas.
No, everything's big in Texas.
Seriously, when you go to arestaurant, you get food that'll
feed six people just on yourplate.
Don't mess with texas.
They're, they're.
Everything is big down there,and the bugs are no exception
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when I is it.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Is it technically messing with texas?
Saying don't mess with texas?
Speaker 2 (07:13):
probably, okay, probably but they they had.
Um, I walked into my hotel roomand I checked my hotel room out
to make sure there were no bugs, because if there's bugs, I'm
not sleeping there right right,and so I checked everything out
and it was fine, and then I leftto do the seminar and I came
back later that night because wewere we were gone all all day
doing the seminar and then wentout to dinner and then came back
to the room.
(07:33):
Somebody moved in somebody movedinto the toilet, oh and so I
would not donna doesn't get togo for a weekend I, I would go.
They had a public restroom inthe lobby that I was using
because I couldn't flush thattoilet enough.
I was not going to use it.
There was just not going tohappen.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
You are just chock full of phobias.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Yes, I am 800?
Speaker 1 (07:55):
I really am.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
But see, you guys think I'm all strong and brave
and everything, and I'm reallynot.
That's an excellent facade youhave going there.
All right we were ranting andraving about our field, phobias.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
We were ranting.
Donna's afraid of gators.
Mm-hmm, crocs too, or just?
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Oh, yeah, yeah, Because actually my coworker
Blair, she knows somebody whowas eaten by a crocodile in
Africa.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
So, by proxy, are you somewhat frightened of Elton
John as well?
Of course rock.
Well, no, that I have otherissues with elm jones.
Okay, no, it's not because ofthe song.
It's the hair it's gone, it'sback.
It's the glasses he's a muppet,he's not real.
No, I'm with you on that one nogators crocs he's got like a
(08:36):
bazillion god children.
He's like every celebrity'sgodfather and because he can buy
them like everything yeah, andhe does, and that's that, and
that's what he said.
He said when he, when he passesaway, he's, he, he's worth,
like you know, several, severalof billions of dollars he's
gonna divide it up among all hisgod kids.
But he's seriously, he's gotlike 20 or something ridiculous
like that anyway, we digressedinto elton john.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Here I just I was.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
I was fascinated by that on the tv the other day.
But bugs phobias, I'm scared ofElton John and big bugs,
because they look like EltonJohn when they wear glasses.
No, I don't know, but I'mafraid of big bugs.
Donna's afraid of gators andpretty much everything else
except dogs and cats Things withfur you're okay with.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
And birds.
I'm okay with birds.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Oh, okay, for the most part.
I'm not a big fan of macaws.
My friend jenny birds.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Any bird feathers freak her out it's, it's the
ones that could take a fingeroff.
Those are the ones I'm scaredof yeah but other than that, you
know, I don't have a problemfinches yeah, forget about it
well, no most I eat finches forbreakfast most wildlife, I don't
have a problem with it's justthe ones that could eat me Right
right, right.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
And if bears weren't mean, you would probably love to
just go up and hug them andcuddle them.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Black bears.
I don't like grizzlies.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
You said they look stupid, they do and I know
that's so mean, but they justlook stupid.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Alright, I have to take a moment and apologize To
all the grizzly bears listening.
You guys don't really lookstupid.
Okay, they do, they do.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
They do.
I can't help it.
They just look like there's no.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
You've got to walk to your car by yourself tonight
because the grizzly's comingafter me.
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Yeah, my sister's cat is up there, and my nephew sent
me an email because he was allexcited that his cat was up
there and he's like oh, it's mykitty.
He was all happy.
He's like how did they get thatpicture?
How did he get that picture?
I'm like Jamie snuck into yourhouse and took a picture of your
cat.
And he kind of sat there and helooked at me for a minute.
Or your aunt gave it to himyeah and he's like no, I really
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don't think that happened.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Good, you know I have a question.
We get back to you 24, 48 hoursand we like to get to a few on
the weekend as well.
So we have one right here andDonna is laughing hysterically
at Brad's cartoons.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
That's good and that's very apropos.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Yeah, because they probably.
Yeah, all right, and I have anemail right here, dear Animal
Talk.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
A chain letter.
I touched it.
I touched it, ah no.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
No All right.
Hey, I bought a stray cat intomy house.
I just love him.
However, he doesn't want tostay in the house.
I'm guessing he's about a yearold.
He never leaves, he just likesbeing outside.
We're moving to a new place,but it's only a few hundred
yards away.
What can we do to keep him inthe house so he doesn't leave us
by getting confused and goingto the wrong house our old one?
(11:55):
Also, should we have himdeclawed, seeing as he likes to
be outside so much?
He's very good with ourthree-year-old.
He's never even scratched thekid and even with the kid
abusing him the way he does, thechild just loves the cat.
I listen every week, but I'lltry to listen and please help.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Well, basically the best way to keep a cat in would
be to set up the door so thatit's an unappealing place to be.
Easiest way to do that.
Cats really hate to have thingsstuck to their feet.
So if you took a double-sidedsticky tape on newspaper, put
that in front of the door andthen when the kitty, when the
(12:40):
kitty goes to the, to the door,he's going to step on it and
then he's going to go running,because then the paper chases
them.
They don't like it.
You could use water.
I I hate to use water, becausesome people really do need to
bathe the cat right from time totime, and if you make water an
unpleasant thing, then bath timebecomes unpleasant as well
right so it's best if if you tryto do something that just keeps
(13:01):
them away from the door ingeneral, and that I find that
the double-sided sticky tapewith the newspaper seems to work
the best, because they reallydon't like that.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
And it's really actually quite comical if you
set up the video camera andwatch them.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Or if you have lint rollers, peel off a couple of
the lint rollers and place them.
Yeah, I did that with myyoungest one to keep her away
from the garbage.
So I emptied out the trash canthat I have in the living room
and I emptied that out and I putthose on the bottom and she
normally would dive into it.
So, she dove into it, ended upgetting stuck to the bottom and
then tried to run away and theywere following her.
(13:35):
So she hasn't gone back to thattrash can since she's not
liking it.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
No longer a playground.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Nope, nope.
So tape works wonders?
It really does, and it's justyou know, as they're learning.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Amusing for you, absolutely.
And we'll talk radiocom Also onour website links to our
podcast.
You can hear previousrenditions and editions of the
show.
There's a cool links page.
We had Cesar Millan the dogwhisperer from the National
Geographic channel on a coupleweeks back and you can just
check the cool links page andsee what week he was on and you
(14:12):
can download the Cesar Millaninterview.
He's so cool, it was so funnywe had him on.
And then the very next week hewas on South Park.
Yes, I'm like how trendy are we?
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Yeah, we started it, wow.
Well, you know, and that was mything, the whole South Park
thing.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
I said that the guys did that just for me because I'm
a fan that was so funny it was,and they were very respectful
too, which I really didappreciate.
I don't think it was him.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
No, it was making fun of one of the characters, but
they were very respectful.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
No, I don't think it was actually Caesar from the
Voice?
Speaker 2 (14:42):
No, no, he was promoting it on his site.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
They had him down.
It was so good.
All right, your calls are next.
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couple weeks back and you canget the previous copies of the
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You can go to our site,animaltalkradiocom, and get the
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particular week.
Last week we had Brie Larsonfrom the new movie Hoot yeah
what was that?
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How was that movie?
My students that went to see itsaid it was really good.
(15:53):
It was very family friendly, avery decent movie with a nice
little eco message in it.
You know I mean it's not gonewith the wind or anything, but
it was a good movie.
So it was a good family movie.
It's at animaltalkradiocom andwe will help you with your pet.
We have one right here, dearAnimal Talk.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
What's your email this morning, Mulder?
Speaker 1 (16:16):
I don't know why.
Alright, now I missed it.
Where'd it go?
Come back to me.
Okay, a month ago I adopted acat.
The same day she got spayedafter 24 hours I let her out of
the carrying case and she ranunder the couch.
After two weeks my boyfriendflipped over the couches looking
for her.
He tried to pet her.
She hissed at him and ran.
(16:37):
She ran next to the radiator.
He tried to touch her again.
She peed and pooped all overthe floor.
I came home, tried to clean itup and she hissed and finally
ran back onto the couch and onlycomes out at night to eat or
use the litter box.
I don't know what to do.
Is this normal?
Will she ever come back out?
Help me, allie.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Not necessarily.
I mean, you've got the classicfraidy cat.
This is something that we don'tknow, what type of life if she
was exposed to people?
Yeah, well, it's only eightmonths right and with the feral
cat which it sounds like we havehere dealing with a feral cat.
You have to work with them, verysmall.
What I would recommend isgiving the cat a room, right, um
(17:17):
, don't let them have whole runof the house.
Give them one room, and I'veworked with feral cats and this
is the best way to do it.
Give them one room where theirfood, their water feel safe.
You can enter the room and justsit away from them.
Don't keep coming at them.
The more you come at them andtry to force yourself on them
the more they're going toretreat from you and they go
into that fight or flight modeand if they can't get away,
(17:39):
somebody's going to get hurt.
What?
Speaker 1 (17:41):
if you were to withhold food for 24 hours or
something and go in there with acan make a suit out of cat food
?
Yep, would it come to you,would it?
Speaker 2 (17:51):
come to you, then there's a good chance that they
will um through food.
Most things are possible.
Some people have used cat foodshirt yeah, that may not work
out so well in the long run, um,but the idea is the same if you
, if you put them in a roomwhere they feel safe and secure.
It's a quiet room.
It's not a room that has a lotof noise.
It's not next to the laundryroom, it's nothing like that.
(18:11):
And this kitty has a nice bedset up for them a cat bed,
anything like that.
It can look out the window, butit has access to food, water
and litter box.
Take away that food, like yousaid, for 24 hours, and then
come in with a really nice, veryodiferous can of cat food.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
You'll be king.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Start off with just offering her small amounts and
giving it to her very slowly andgradually.
Let the cat come to you.
The more you try to approachthe cat and keep forcing
yourself on this cat, the moreyou're going to stress this cat
out.
When you have a cat that'sferal and has not learned to
trust humans, you have to workvery, very, very slowly with
(18:50):
them, and this is going to takea long time.
She may decide that you're okaybut, nobody else is, so there is
that possibility as well.
I've worked with enough feralcats to have seen that happen.
They'll bond, they'll finallygo.
Okay, I trust you, but anybodyelse comes in this room, I'm out
of here.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Right, right right.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
So give this kitty a place that they feel safe and
comfortable in.
The reason we're going underthe couch is because that's
where we feel safe andcomfortable.
We can back ourselves up to thewall and we can see in every
direction.
We know where the enemy iscoming from If you give them a
room where they start to feelcomfortable first in that room
and then gradually startintroducing them.
Once they learn to trust you,then gradually bring them out
and about into the house.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Okay, it's a slow process.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
It's a very slow process.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
I got really lucky with Kirby.
He's a very you know.
Most people you run intothat'll have cats.
Oh, my cat is so unique andit's so different.
He's like a dog and he's likeso friendly.
I find that a lot of peoplehave cats like that because cats
are actually more social than alot of people give them credit
for Right right you have manyscaredy cats, but I think the
(19:53):
number of social cats probablyactually outweigh the scaredy
cats?
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Yeah, they have to be .
I mean, if this kitten wasbrought into the rescue group or
the Humane Society, whereverthey got this kitty from, she
said she adopted it.
But if this kitty was fourmonths or older when it first
got brought into the system,into the rescue or the shelter.
We have had four months of nohuman contact.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Right.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
We have had four months of our mother, also a
feral cat, teaching us to runfrom humans.
So this is a very strange thingfor this cat.
You know, we're big monsters,we're big predators coming at
them, so they're going to stressout over it.
This is just something thatthey're going to do, so you have
to take it slow and always letthe cat approach you.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Don't force yourself on the cat.
There you go, and that's theone thing.
It works with women too.
Yeah, you're forcing yourselfon them.
They don't.
They run away from you, theypush, they go, go away.
You have to be aloof, figuringthat out slow.
And we wanted to know what youranimal phobia was.
Donna's afraid of gators.
Me, the big, big bugs freak meout.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
So okay, what's your phobia?
Praying mantis bug you.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Yeah, a little bit actually walking stick they're
very benign.
No, those the walking sticks,they're like I can flick.
Those praying mantis, though,are menacing, because I think
they've been put into too manymovies.
I was waiting for it to blow up.
You know, have some nuclearaccident in my backyard and the
thing be 20 feet tall and oh,they're good bugs well okay, if
(21:26):
well.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Yeah, see, that is the downside there.
You know, the female in thatbug isn't very nice to the male
of that bug.
But they're cool bugs.
They're just neat to look at.
They're very gentle too.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Uh-huh.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
And I just had to ask because they're you know I mean
a gator.
There's nothing gentle about agator.
So I had to ask there, likelightning bugs do they bother
you, the, the little lady, ladyup bugs, lightning bugs.
Um no, no, it's like I said bigbugs, big bugs.
It's like the, the big hairyspiders, cockroaches and
centipedes, okay, scorpions yeah, yeah that's the only thing I'm
(21:59):
kind of worried about going tophoenix is being around.
You know, in a desert situation, there's, there's, going to be,
there's going to be yeah.
So I need to get a nice thickpair of hiking boots to protect
me.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
The Chuck Taylors just won't be enough protection
for you.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
No, no, no, a little thin.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Kirby just came down.
He joined my cat.
His Kirby just came down,jumped on my lap.
He's joining the show and he'sgot his little bell.
We've got a person with anemail question we're going to
get to in just a minute that hasa question about the cat and
the bell and belling your cat.
When I buy them at the store,I've just always been in the
habit of buying the same collar.
He'll go through it every twoyears.
He'll break it because it's gotthe break-free collar.
(22:42):
It has an elastic that'll breakfree if it gets caught on
something and eventually it justwears out and breaks.
But we have an email questionabout a cat and a bell and it's
actually kind of funny.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
We're going to get that email question.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Right after this and your calls, we're going to try
this again, dear Animal Talk.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Have you checked your email this morning, Mulder?
Speaker 1 (23:02):
There you go.
I like that one.
I have this stupid cat story.
Cats are usually fairly smart.
I have a cat named Ratio, gothim a new collar and put it on
him.
It's red, reflective flashesand it has a loud jingly bell on
it.
The cat hates his bell on hiscollar.
He always has.
(23:24):
The louder they are, the worseit is.
He runs around like a maniactrying to get away from the
jingling.
He acts as if it's another catchasing him.
It's kind of hilarious and kindof sad.
Um, he's, he's afraid of hisown collar.
He hides, thinking it's anothercat, but then he moves, it
jingles and he runs away andtries to hide someplace else.
Um, is there any way to trainhim to enjoy the bell on his
(23:48):
collar?
Please help.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Probably not With this type.
This is why we usuallyrecommend the double-sided
sticky tape and things like that, because it annoys the cat.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
Right.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Some cats don't mind to have things like that, but
some cats are more susceptibleto not liking noises and sounds
and different things like that.
And you know if it's not beenthere since kittenhood and then
all of a sudden it's there, it'sa new thing.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
I tried that once with one of my, that's Kirby's
little jingly bell there, that'smy cat's little jingly bell.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
He didn't look too happy that you were messing with
him.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
I was shaking his head to make it jingle no I
wasn't.
I wasn't, I wasn't make itjingle.
No, I moved the microphone down.
I was moving around, it was not.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Yeah, he would see he's look at those ears.
He's not happy with you rightnow, almost because his head is
against the table all right I'mjust abusing him, no, but really
I mean there's, there's, reallyI can't see for a house cat any
good reason, and don't takeoffense to that, but really
what's the sense of the bell?
Speaker 1 (24:47):
I don't know, it just comes on the collar.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Right, I never bothered with the bells because
you know well, I probably shouldput a bell on my youngest one,
because then everybody wouldknow when she's about to attack.
Yeah, so if you have multiplecats, that works out just fine,
but if this cat is having thatharsh of a reaction to it, just
get rid of it yeah Just get ridof it.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Yeah, just get rid of it, okay.
What about your kitty?
Speaker 2 (25:09):
okay, the um smart cat pika prize cat box right,
right right right, she adoresthis toy uh-huh and all of the
little balls that come inside ofit.
She will find a way to get themout.
Well, I've taught her how toput the balls back in okay, so
that she can keep playing wellnow she.
That is so cute she loads it upwith anything she can find,
puts it it in there, you batchit up.
(25:29):
Yeah, I gave her a straw to playwith and she will put the straw
in the Pika Cat thing.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
the box Pika Prize.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
Yeah, thank you I always have a hard time with
that, but she'll put it in thereand then she'll take it out.
Well, her newest thing that westarted working on this week she
fetches.
Oh, fetches, oh no yes, shewill bring me all of those balls
when she gets them out.
Um, that's the way I get herout of her crazy thing.
But yeah, she'll and and sheresponds.
I'm trying to teach her torespond to an actual command to
it.
So when I tell her but she, shewill fetch she actually she is
(26:00):
so willing to learn things Iwant to see and like I can
direct her if I point atsomething, she'll jump up to
wherever I've pointed so I wantto see if I can get her to do if
you, when you mean you point,does your finger have to be near
the object?
yeah, like right now I have tolike.
If I wanted her in the chair, Iwould point at the chair, but
I'd have to be myself nearby thechair because again I go back
to the phobias.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Uh, they were talking about earlier, you're kind of
afraid of crocodiles, I'm afraidof bugs, larger bugs, and, and
kirby eats spiders and ifthere's a spider up on the wall
I'll point at it.
Go, go, Kirby, get the spider.
And he'll look at my hand.
I'm like no, follow the finger.
Dogs will get that sometimes no, not always.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
I'm still working on that with my beagle, because
I'll throw the ball and shewon't see me throw the ball, so
I'll start pointing.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
She looks at your hand.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
Yeah, she looks at my hand and so we're working on it
.
So then I'll actually keep myfinger out and I'll keep
pointing as we're walking overthere, and then I'll actually
point to the ball, so that shelearns to follow.
This is the direction.
So she's starting to get thatidea down now.
I'll point and she'll look andthen she'll start running over
there and eventually she'll comeacross the ball.
But that's the same thing.
(27:09):
If you want him to get thespider, have him focus on your
finger and then lead him towhere you want him to go,
because the spider is going tobe the payoff.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
That's the reward for him.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
It's like ooh, something to chase, Exactly so
he's going to have that payoff,so you don't even really have to
reward him.
You're rewarding.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
rewarding him just by showing him where it is and
leading him to it, and thenhe'll be like yay so yeah, so
what your little kitty you'repointing and to teach her how to
fetch of like, go fetch thatand and you're teaching oh, she
brought me a lint roller uh-huhyeah, tape yesterday wow yeah,
it was crumpled up and it wasone of the um, one of the ones
that she apparently had tuckedaway somewhere that I didn't
(27:44):
know about and she brought thatto me to throw last night and
I'm like no, this goes into thegarbage.
This is garbage.
Honey, you can have the ball.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
So we were throwing the ball for her and so she's
learning and I want to try toteach her as many things as
possible.
So if you see a little bluekitty with orange, she's a blue
tortie.
If you see it on Petstar, thatwould be my baby.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
So, I'm working on it , I'm working on it.
At least a stupid pet trick,absolutely, if not Petstar
itself.
Yes.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
I would like to have her.
I want to teach her to walk atightrope.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
I love seeing the trained cats.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
When little domestic cats can do tricks, I think it's
the most amazing thing, becausecats are a little more
challenging to train, but Quinnis very outgoing, so I'm going
to take it to my advantage andsee how many things I can train
her to do.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
Excellent.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Oh no, yes, I always like to have a little fun along
the way, I'm not that much of adiva or that music would have
been changed by now.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
It's time for the Bad Animal J of the week.
Who's bad?
The bad animal joke of the week.
This is a participatory one.
Oh, okay, all right.
Bad animal joke of the week.
If you'd like to submit a badanimal joke, you send it to
jamie atTalkRadiocom.
(29:08):
Jamie at AnimalTalkRadiocom.
The bad animal joke of the weekDonna.
Ask me if I'm a tiger, jamie,are you a tiger?
Yep, okay.
Ask me if I'm a kitten.
Are you a kitten?
No, I just told you I'm a tiger.
That's the bad animal joke ofthe week.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
Oh, boy, that's pretty bad.
You can lead people.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
Christina, age 10 in Pennsylvania, sent your bad
animal joke in and we'll subjecteverybody else to it.
Who's bad?
That's right.
Bad, bad, bad, bad animal jokes.
I love the bad animal jokes.
I do that.
I'll play them for my kids.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
Do you really?
Speaker 1 (29:59):
Yeah, Because I get the show.
I have access to the onlinething and you could have access
to the online show on ourpodcast.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
Oh, so you actually play portions of the show for
them.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
Yeah, I'll play it for my kids.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
I'll fire journalism.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
So yeah and uh, so I'll fire up the bad animal joke
for him one because I did itfor one young lady because she
was having a really bad day andI had just happened to have the
thing open and so I played itfor her and she laughed.
I'm like I should do this foreverybody, so I subject so you
only subject them to the badanimal joke.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
You don't actually share the good stuff.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
No, that is the good stuff.
I like it a lot.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
I'm just teasing.
I know.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
So what I can't take my whole 90-minute block and
play my show for them?
Speaker 2 (30:47):
Brilliant.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
I should.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
Teaching would be easy then wouldn't it yeah.
This is how you do it.
There you go Sit back andlisten, go leave the room, read
a book, make a couple phonecalls Sorry no see You've been
in my room.
No, that's what most teachersdo.
I wish I could All right.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
Well, you know, sadly we.
But, join us again next week.
Can I have more fun?
Always do so, join us.
We appreciate you being with us, and John Beck at the GCN
thanks for all the coordinatingyou do for us throughout the
week and on the weekends.
We appreciate that and alwaysvisit our website,
(31:23):
animaltalkradiocom, to send youremails if something comes up
during the week and we get backto you and try to answer those
on the weekend as well.
Donna, you have a fantasticweek and everybody have an
exotic week.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
And kiss you out.
Thing for me.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Thanks for being with us for another episode of
Animal Talk.
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Have fun storming the castle.
Think it'll work.
It would take a while.
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