August 7, 2024 • 29 mins
My dog is fearful of anything in the air, planes, birds, a person stepping over. Why?
Dave gives a shot at the Fact or Fiction
Do rats make good pets? What would be a good name for a pet rat?
Do dogs need sweaters outside?
What would be a good dog for an apartment?
My cat sleeps a lot, like a lot, a lot. How much sleep is too much for a cat?
Kurt in Omaha listening on KFAB. Our 2 year old miniature schnauzer get cranky when we give attention to other dogs or kids. We are having a baby, is this going to be a problem?
5 signs your pet might be on drugs.
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Why do poodle have such odd cuts?Curious about whether dogs really need sweaters or if your pet rat should be named Templeton? We've got you covered! On this episode of Animal Talk, we kick things off with our popular "Fact or Fiction" segment, where you'll get the chance to test your animal knowledge and win a fabulous prize. From fascinating trivia about lawn-mowing sheep to the incredible properties of sea otter fur, you'll be amazed by what you learn about the animal kingdom.
Ever wondered why your older dog is suddenly terrified of things in the air, like planes and birds? Bessie, one of our dedicated listeners, brought this heartfelt concern to our attention, and we explore possible explanations like past trauma or even cataracts. Tune in for practical advice on helping your furry friend regain confidence through obedience training and positive activities. Our insights aim to make both you and your pet more at ease.
The fun doesn't stop there. We share personal anecdotes and useful tips on keeping rats as pets, and debate whether it's necessary to bundle up your dog for winter. For those living in apartments, we weigh the pros and cons of having a dog versus a cat. Wrapping up, we tackle the complexities of preparing a potentially aggressive miniature schnauzer for a new baby, offering essential desensitization techniques and stressing the importance of professional guidance. Join us for an episode brimming with humor, heartfelt advice, and invaluable insights for all pet enthusiasts.
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Talk Great Googly moogly.
That's right.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Facts, facts facts yeah, Fact or fiction.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Facts, facts, facts yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
You decide hey, Donna Brad's going to tell us all
about this.
Well, we're going to read threefacts.
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If you're the first one to callin and tell us on air which of
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All right.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Ladies, first All right.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Fact, number one Fact number one Staley Farms from
upstate New York offers to bringin a herd of sheep to your home
for quote unquote mowing thelawn, counting till napping or
for petting at parties Allrighty.
Fact number two Peter Sellers'taxidermy dog, mr Popo, or
(02:05):
possibly Mr Poo Poo, sold onlinein England for $4,000 in 2003.
All right, and our third factis the sea otter's fur is the
finest and densest of any animal, with an estimated 650,000
hairs per square inch.
Wow, that's a lot.
That is one serious hair clubfor man donor right there.
Imagine if Mr Popo had hairlike that, what he would have
(02:25):
gone for.
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Two of those facts are false.
One is absolutely true.
You guess the true fact and youwin a fantabulous prize for you
and your pet.
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Oh, there you go.
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Do we have one over there, brad?
Sure do.
A good way to start.
It would be dear Animal Talk.
You've got mail.
(03:16):
My older dog gets scared ofanything in the air planes,
birds or even someone steppingover him.
Why is that?
That's signed Bessie.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Well, it could.
Could be simply and this isalways a guess, you know just
based on animal behavior he wasabused in his previous home.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
No, that's always.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
I know, I know every dog was abused, no, and you know
.
And you ask them how, what,what age did they get them?
Eight weeks, yeah, no, yeah,they don't remember anything
like that.
No, usually it comes from itbeing a startling action,
something overhead, something wecan't control, and it's almost
as if we're being attacked.
And instead of going into fightmode, this dog is going into
(03:52):
flight mode.
So there's two different ways.
An animal will respond whenbeing pushed in that manner.
So if somebody steps over them,you're startling the dog.
That's a fearful thing to do.
It's also a dominant thing todo.
Anything flying overhead a bird.
It sounds like you've got apretty sensitive dog, and the
best way to deal with asensitive dog is to work through
(04:13):
basic obedience and try tobuild up their confidence, try
to help them be a dog.
The human response to a dog thatacts this way is to go oh, baby
, it's okay and start givingthem love and affection, and
basically you're praising themfor this bad behavior and
telling them yes, pleasecontinue to act frightened.
I'm going to keep giving youthis praise and this reward for
it.
So the hardest thing is goingto be getting the people to back
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off when the dog starts to actthat way.
Just keep moving.
Keep going about what you'redoing.
Don't make a scene over this.
Let the dog it'll become anon-event at that point and
don't back up the behavior.
Once the dog does somethingthat is good, like getting them
playing ball, you're changingwhat their mind is focusing on.
Instead of allowing them tostay in that moment of fear,
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you're doing something fun.
You're playing with them orgiving them a favorite treat,
and you're redirecting them intosomething that's more
appropriate for them to be doing.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Another reason could be that we're starting to get
cataracts or starting not beingable to see better and so
shadows is what they pick up, sosomething underneath them they
can't see.
But when the light gets blockedout they tend to respond more
dramatically to that and that's.
There's not a whole lot you'regoing to do about that.
People don't get cataractsurgery for their critters very
often.
But but yeah, you just need totry not to scare the scare the
dog too much.
Try to let them know you're onyour way.
(05:24):
But again, just likethunderstorms, dogs tend to be
more reactive to thunderstormsas they get older, it seems like
, because it's probably the onlything they hear.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
Right, it's the only thing that they can hear and
feel.
In the air the pressure doeschange, which helps kind of them
realize that's going on.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
So, yeah, as we get.
If you just like people as theyget older, people tend to be
more afraid of things as theyget older, and the same thing
with critters Just becauseyou're not as easily aware of
what's going on around you, youget more nervous about it.
So that would be my guess.
We have that fact or fictionhanging out there and we have
Dave that wants to take a shotat it.
And are we going to?
(06:00):
Let me see here?
Yep, we're going to get to Davein just one minute.
Ready, let me see here, Yep,we're going to get to Dave in
just one minute, ready toexercise.
He's been stretching, yeah,stretching.
We're going to get to Dave injust a minute and your call
Factor fiction hanging out there, where we have three facts, two
more false, one of them true,and you get the true fact and
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you can win a fabulous prize foryou and or your pet.
And we have Dave in Omaha.
Dave, welcome to Animal Talk.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Thanks, I waited obediently.
I was wondering if I'd get atreat for that.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
We'll give you some praise.
Good job, dave.
Good Dave.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Yeah, we're going to run through these three facts
again really quick and recapthose for you.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
Okay, fact number one Staley Farms from upstate New
York offers to bring a herd ofsheep to your home for
quote-unquote mowing the lawn,counting till napping, or for
petting at parties.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
And fact number two Peter Sellers' taxidermy dog, Mr
Popo, sold online in Englandfor $4,000 in 2003.
And our third fact is the seaotter's fur is the finest and
densest of any animal, with anestimated 650,000 hairs per
square inch.
(07:16):
Which one of these facts istrue, Dave?
Speaker 3 (07:19):
I believe it's number three.
The sea otter does not dependon blubber and body fat like
most other marine mammals.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
It depends on that fine hair.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Hold your calls, america, we have a winner.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
That is correct, sir.
Great Good job, Dave.
Dave, what kind of pets do youhave?
Speaker 3 (07:40):
I have a rat terrier dog.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
Oh, that's energy, all packed in one little pack.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
That's right, all right, well, we'll either get
you something cool for your dogor something for you and send it
out.
Thanks for the call.
Have a great evening.
And Brad, we got a couple overthere.
Sure, do Dear Animal Talk.
Where is it?
Hold that, thought Dear.
You've got mail.
I've always wanted to have arat as a pet, but my friends say
that I'm crazy.
(08:09):
Do you think rats are good pets?
Should I learn anything aboutthem beforehand, or are they
pretty easy to take care of?
What do you think?
And if you have a suggestion,what's a good name for a rat?
This is Sign Walter.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
Rats do make good pets, but I would absolutely
recommend on reading as much aspossible about them before you
bring them into your home,simply because you can never
have too much information aboutthe pet you own and the more
information you have, the betterand longer they're going to
live.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Yeah, for instance, let's say you want to house your
rat in an aquarium with yourpet snake.
No, Probably not a good idea.
Not a good idea, right.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
But having good information.
That's always the way to go.
But rats make great pets.
I had them many, many, manyyears ago and I got very
attached to all of them.
They were wonderful, and mine,let's see going down the list of
good rat names.
Let's see I had one namedWendell, one named Wally.
I stuck with the W's for awhile.
There's any really name?
(09:05):
Think of the.
What's the secretive name?
What was that rat's name,jonathan?
Speaker 1 (09:12):
wasn't it.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
I don't know no no, jonathan was the mouse.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Quaker.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
You've never seen the Secret of NIMH.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
I've never no.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
Oh, it's a great movie, but there's rat names in
there.
There's also.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Templeton, templeton, templeton.
Yeah, from Charlotte's Web,templeton, the Rat, from
Charlotte's Web.
Oh, I don't remember him asplayed by Paul Lynde in the
movie.
Was it really?
Speaker 4 (09:39):
Yeah, I remember his voice being in there, but I
didn't remember it was a rat.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Well, there you go.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
So there's a couple names for you, all right.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Yeah so we have another email sitting there,
Brad.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
I got distracted by something I apologize.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
All right, go ahead by something.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
I apologize.
All right, go ahead.
What do we got there, dearAnimal Talk.
Do dogs need to wear sweaterswhen they go outside?
My grandma's shih tzu alwayshas a sweater on whenever she
leaves the house, as does myaunt's dachshund, but my mom
puts a shirt on my chow that shebought at the Goodwill store.
Do dogs need to wear clothing?
(10:15):
I don't think so, but mom saysthat if they want to stay warm,
they do no, and this is signed.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
Bill, no, okay, no, they don't need to wear sweaters
.
That's what they have fur for.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Yeah, Even the dead of winter, the really really,
really cold one.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
Just let their hair grow a little bit longer.
Don't get them trimmed so closein the wintertime and it'll be
all right.
But no, they don't need to dothat.
They can regulate their bodytemperature.
I mean, look at whippets andItalian greyhounds.
They have almost no hair coatand they still somehow manage to
survive in Michigan.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Chinese crested's, maybe a little bit, but then and
then again.
There's sometimes when peopledress their dogs up, it's not
necessarily for warmth, it'sjust for show, and if you know,
and again, unless you're, likedressing your dogs up like
various characters on theStarship.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
Enterprise it's probably not going to be that
bad a thing.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
What's your opinion, jay?
What do you think aboutdressing dogs up?
It's a little degrading, butwhen you get into the little toy
breeds, you know it's like wellyou know how much pride do they
have left anyway?
Oh, that was a little harsh Iapologize to all the chihuahuas
I just offended yeah okay, I'mmean, what can I do and do?
(11:35):
We had the email earlier aboutNaming a pet.
You gotta pick a proper name.
Sometimes you get a name foryour dog and it'll come back to
haunt you.
Or your pet or whatever it is.
Really it can come back Tohaunt you.
Be a little ironic In thefuture.
Sometimes you gotta be reallycautious when you're selecting
(11:55):
Names for your pet.
Here's the top five unfortunatecelebrity pet names that have
come back Billy Joel, hisbulldog named Rex.
Oh yeah yeah, angelina Jolie'srabbit was named Mort.
That really wasn't thinkingahead on her part.
(12:15):
Karl Rove, he had a parrotcalled George.
I don't know if that was aprank gift somebody gave him or
what.
Bill Clinton, he had a pointer.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
His name was Randy.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
You didn't need a name, you just needed a pointer.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Funny there.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Roy Horn of Siegfried and Roy Roy's tiger.
His name was Claude.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
That was unfortunate.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Unfortunate celebrity pet names is what those are
Tiger on, Roy and Brad.
We take the emails from ourwebsite.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Sure do.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
And we help people out electronically when they
need that help, and we do thatthroughout the week, and then we
get to those on the weekend aswell.
You got another one loiteringover there, sure do Dear Animal,
talk what you got.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
You've got mail, baby , yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Is it okay to have a dog in an apartment?
I would need a quiet dog that'seasy to care for.
I live by myself and I really,really love dogs, but I don't
want to get one that's going tobe unhappy in my home.
Do you have any suggestions ofwhat breed I should look at?
And this is signed Carl.
All right, Carl, I would saythe number one breed of dog.
(13:34):
If you're going to live in anapartment, I would say, look at
one breed of dog.
If you're going to live in anapartment, I would say, look at
a cat.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
I was just going to say that Feline.
That would probably be the wayto go.
Cats are more self-sufficientand usually quiet.
They may have their crazy boutshere and there, where they may
run mad dash through playingwith something.
But even a cat being loudunless it's like an unfixed cat
and it's out howling cats beingloud, unless it's like an
unfixed cat and it's out howling.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
You know cats being loud is different than a dog
being loud.
You know a cat.
It may not carry through thewall, whereas the dogs will.
I'm sure if we could callpolice departments, I'm sure
that there's been very fewpolicemen called out to the
scene because a neighbor's catwas keeping the neighbors up all
night.
So it's again, they're not asbig an issue and they're easy to
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care for.
But if you're gonna, if youabsolutely positively have to
have a dog and it's got to bethere overnight, it's got to be
there overnight.
I would buy again a good, a goodapartment.
Dog is like a pug, wouldn't yousay.
I mean, this is that they workout nicely and you can you can
actually you don't necessarilyyou can actually litter train
the dogs.
Now there's products made justfor dogs, for them to be
housebroken, so it's something.
(14:42):
I think we have links to it onour website again where you can
find out about that sort ofthing.
So check out our website.
But yeah, you can train a dogto be completely in the house so
you don't have to take him forwalks to go to the bathroom,
which is one of the realdownsides of having a dog in the
apartment.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Yeah, well, yeah, if you don't have the uh, a
convenient apartment yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Well, if you don't have your, you know, up on the
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I always like doing that.
Do your animal talk?
All right?
Subspace signal.
Okay, there we go.
My cat likes to sleep a lot.
It seems like he sleeps about16 hours a day.
My wife is worried that he'svery sick.
I don't think so.
I was wondering how much docats usually sleep?
Speaker 4 (16:05):
And this is signed Bill 23 and a half hours out of
24?
.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Yeah.
Kind of the same as, likepandas, they're just always
asleep.
But having a cat, how long?
How much does Kirby sleep?
He naps out.
He'll be.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
He's probably sleeping right now.
Yeah, I mean he sleeps like allnight with me.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
So there's the six hours.
We should note that Kirby isyour cat.
Yes, okay, and then he'll sleepthe six, eight hours at night
with me, and then he'll getanother good eight hours in
during the day at least.
So, yeah, yeah, he's a good uh8 16 hours a day.
Cats cats are good loungers, socats, because they expend so
much energy hunting that theythat in the wild hunting the
(16:52):
food dish well, but in the wildthey sleep a lot to save their
energy for hunting.
It's just that, uh, we'veeliminated that hunting portion
of their life, so all that leftthem with is the sleeping.
So cats tend to sleep a lot.
Actually, there's been studiesshown that cats who sleep a lot
are more stressed than cats thathave something to do.
Cats are supposed to be hunting, and so that's why they always
recommend a laser pointer.
So cats actually have somethingto do, because if you don't get
(17:14):
to live out what you were madeto do, you get really stressed
out.
So a laser pointer or a bird atthe end of a string, something
like that, gives them somethingto do and makes them feel like
they're living out there,fulfilling their destiny.
Kirby loves the bird.
It's, uh, I have that cat toy,it's a like just a stick and
then a like, a line and the twofeathers at the end and uh, it's
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his favorite toy.
He loves the interactive toysand don the busy the pika prize
box you have, quinn loves it,quinn absolutely loves it.
What is that?
Can't get enough.
It's a big box.
It's probably two inches tall.
About the size of a pizza boxBasically the size of a pizza
box.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
A large pizza box and it's got holes in it.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Yeah, made out of plywood, basically A nice sanded
finish and like a big block ofSwiss cheese.
There's all kinds of holesabout the size of ping pong
balls and it comes with threeballs that are relatively ping
pong ball size and your cat likesticks his arm in all the
little holes.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
To try to get everything out, which my cat
does.
And then she'll put them backin.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
It's not interactive enough for my cat Kirby.
You know, my cat Kirby, youhave to be playing with him.
If you just like give him amouse or you know a toy mouse,
he'll hit it once or twice andthen that's it, his peak of
prize.
He'll like stick his paw inthere and hit it and then you
know he wouldn't he wouldn'ttouch it again.
It's got to be something thatI'm playing with him, like the
laser pointer to keep him going,or the bird the bird on the end
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of the string.
It's got to be something that'sinteractive and the person
something that seems alive.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
On its own.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
He just doesn't go after the inanimate things,
making his own game.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
Oh, Quinn does that all the time.
I've actually trained her toput things back into the Pika
Prize and she also fetches, sowe interact by playing fetch as
well.
She's still young, so we'reworking on teaching her more.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
I saw a videotape this week.
Someone attached a laserpointer to a dog's collar, so it
was in front of the dog thewhole time and the dog was just
running around the yard chasingthis little spot, oh no.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
And you know it was going to be busy for days.
My dog Frog would just lovethat.
Love it.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
All right.
Your calls are next.
Kurt in Omaha.
What's going on with you andyour dog, sir?
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Yeah, I got a question for you.
What's up for you?
I've got a two-year-old male aminiature schnauzer, and in
August we're going to have ababy and he gets somewhat
aggressive when we pick upeither other dogs or when we
pick up younger kids.
I mean he doesn't bite him oranything, he doesn't really go
at him, but he barks and becomesagitated with us.
(19:39):
So I was just wondering whatyour guys' thoughts were on that
.
Speaker 4 (19:43):
You said that he gets this way when you pick them up,
like physically pick them up.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Yeah, otherwise he's great with them.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
Okay, what you can try doing, and if it doesn't
work, then I would say you needto get him to a behaviorist and
possibly find somewhere else forthis dog to live.
The first thing that I'll haveyou try just to see if the dog
can handle it.
Dog to live the first thingthat I'll have you try just to
see if the dog can handle it isto have the dog see you holding
(20:10):
a doll, a baby doll that'sswaddled, and get them used to
the the act of seeing you guyswith the swaddled baby doll and
handing it back and forthbetween the two of you.
And also record baby sounds,lots of different baby sounds.
Usually Discovery Channel orLearning Channel.
One of them always hassomething on where you can hear
babies screaming.
(20:30):
So record a bunch of that.
Play that all over the place,because these are sounds that
the dog is going to hear oncethe baby arrives.
That could start that agitation.
So we need to start to see howis he going to react to it.
If he still becomes agitatedand you're not acknowledging him
while he's doing it.
You're just going to go aboutyour business and you're just
holding something.
If he continues to becomeagitated by it, at that point
(20:55):
you are going to stop whatyou're doing and you're going to
go and see a behaviorist andhave this dog's behavior
evaluated where they can see it,correct it in the moment it's
doing these behaviors and findout can we work with this?
And also they'll be able totell you not just can we work
with this, but what are yougoing to be up against while
working with this, and is thissomething that you potentially
want to expose your new baby to?
Speaker 1 (21:18):
Okay.
So yeah, it's a difficultpriority to set, but it's a hard
choice to make.
But you know you don't want toset anybody up to make a mistake
.
You know I mean it is an animalstill and you know they can
make mistakes.
So you want to make sureabsolutely positive that you
know your child's going to besafe.
(21:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Yeah, I mean overall, when he's perfectly fine.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Maybe this exercise of desensitization I'm not even
going to try to say it again,but will help you and help
alleviate that and get him usedto it, getting him used to
hearing these noises, thesehandlings like I said, picking
up and swaddling a doll and thenmaybe finding one of those
dolls that actually talks thereally creepy ones and using
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that as well, because that'ssomething that it'll mimic.
Speaker 4 (22:15):
You're doing something.
They've got ones that cry anddo all kinds of crazy stuff.
Using that instead of using areal baby or a real child.
Using the doll to see how isthis dog going to react.
And if he continues to becomeagitated and still does not seem
to calm down and you've beendoing this for seven days and
he's not making any progress atthat point you need to get in
and have him actually checkedout.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Okay, All right, Kurt , Thanks for the call.
Good luck.
Pet behavior it's always aproblem.
They are like kids, really.
Some can be spoiled.
Problem children.
Well, what happens?
Speaker 4 (22:49):
is.
We don't always recognize.
Most humans don't recognize that, while we think it's kind of
cute but maybe a little bitannoying in puppyhood but then
we allow this behavior tocontinue and continue and
continue that this leads intomuch worse behavior as they age.
So I always tell my students ifit's not cute if you can see
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your dog as an adult doing thissame behavior in five years and
you don't think it's cute, don'tencourage it now at eight weeks
, because that leads to a wholeworld of trouble.
And Schnauzers, on the whole,tend to be a high-strung dog.
They really do as a breed.
They're a dog that needs a lotof physical activity.
They need to have something todo and work out that energy that
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they've got.
So if this dog is possibly notgetting enough exercise, that he
needs upping, the exercise mayhelp him quite a bit as well.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
I've seen the little challenge between children and
dogs with parents reach a levelwhere I'm sure they were going
to get divorced in the roombecause they were just hating
each other.
Because again, in this case itwas the dad that's the one I'm
thinking of.
But the dad was saying this dogmade a pass at fighting the
child and the child just steppedon the dog and the dog almost
(24:03):
bit the child.
But the mom was saying it's notthe dog's fault.
But they were so livid witheach other that they were
deciding it's not the dog'sfault.
But what if the dog had donedamage?
I don't want anything doingdamage, it's just a tough
situation.
There's no right answer in mostcircumstances.
It's just the question oferring on the side of safety is
what most people choose, but itreally is difficult for everyone
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involved and that's why you'vegot to start working at a young
age to make sure you never getto that position and see this is
the thing the two dogs that Ihave.
Speaker 4 (24:31):
I don't have kids and who knows if, during these
dogs' lifetimes, if I will havekids.
But I've been preparing themsince the day they came into my
house to deal with the stupidthings that kids do to dogs.
And I know that sounds reallyrude to a lot of parents out
there, but kids do stupid thingsto dogs.
It's a fact.
I remember being a kid.
Kids will walk by and sticktheir finger in their ear, grab
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toys out of their mouth, pick upa leg.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
They'll do these things and if your dog isn't
prepared to deal with it, yourdog is not going to react well
to it, and we were just talkingabout how pets are like children
and they make mistakes, and soyou've got to do everything you
possibly can to guide them andshape their behavior and lead
them down the right path.
I mean, you know, unlike kids,they get into things they
shouldn't get into.
You know drugs, for instance.
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You know you don't want yourpet doing drugs.
You want to put a stop to thatright away and and there's some
of their signs to know if yourpet's been- doing drugs?
Speaker 4 (25:26):
oh no, really yeah there are animal talk.
Home of the graceful segue notif you keep pointing it out.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
There's like there's five sure signs that your pet's
been doing some drugs oh no, um,you hear your pet say polly
want a cracker and a big bag ofDoritos and a box of fruity pe
Pebbles, a microwave burrito,ooh and a jelly donut.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
Oh jeez, oh yeah, you know your pet's doing drugs.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
if he's saying that, you know he's doing drugs when
you ask him who's a good boy andhe sits there and ponders it
for hours.
If your pet ever says somethinglike wow, have you ever looked
at your paw man?
Speaker 4 (26:09):
I mean like ever really looked at your paw oh my.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Okay, and a sign for sure that your pet's been doing
drugs.
He's so freaked out by thebubbling treasure chest he
hasn't come out of the castle inlike six days.
Yeah, that's right, you knowhe's doing drugs the number one
reason you know your dog's beendoing drugs is Rusty's not only
stopped chasing his tail, nowhe's accusing it of following
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him home.
You know the drug is kind of ondrugs at that point.
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You've got to take care of yourcritters.
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Alright, helping you with your pet, that's what we do
, what you got there in front ofyou, brad.
Oh, I have an email, a merciful, merciful email rolled in
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I mean really, and it's asigned extra, that is an
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.
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It's actually to help them with the swimming.
They're actually a huntingbreed and that was believed to
keep those joints warm whilethey were retrieving the ducks
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Wow.
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And it also makes them feel pretty, especially
when you put the little bows in.
Oh, I'm glad we resolved thatAll right.
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Facts, facts facts yeah, Fact or fiction.
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Facts, facts, facts yeah.
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You decide hey, Donna Brad's going to tell us all
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One of those facts is true.
If you're the first one to callin and tell us on air which of
those facts is true, you win afabulous prize.
All right.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Ladies, first All right.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Fact, number one Fact number one Staley Farms from
upstate New York offers to bringin a herd of sheep to your home
for quote unquote mowing thelawn, counting till napping or
for petting at parties Allrighty.
Fact number two Peter Sellers'taxidermy dog, mr Popo, or
(02:05):
possibly Mr Poo Poo, sold onlinein England for $4,000 in 2003.
All right, and our third factis the sea otter's fur is the
finest and densest of any animal, with an estimated 650,000
hairs per square inch.
Wow, that's a lot.
That is one serious hair clubfor man donor right there.
Imagine if Mr Popo had hairlike that, what he would have
(02:25):
gone for.
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Two of those facts are false.
One is absolutely true.
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Very fashionable coming into those spring months
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I was wearing one yesterday.
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Oh, there you go.
It was yellow and orange.
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It's AnimalTalkRadiocom.
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people are like that Really justtalk to a couple friends, no
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questions to questions atanimaltalkradiocom.
Do we have one over there, brad?
Sure do.
A good way to start.
It would be dear Animal Talk.
You've got mail.
(03:16):
My older dog gets scared ofanything in the air planes,
birds or even someone steppingover him.
Why is that?
That's signed Bessie.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Well, it could.
Could be simply and this isalways a guess, you know just
based on animal behavior he wasabused in his previous home.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
No, that's always.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
I know, I know every dog was abused, no, and you know
.
And you ask them how, what,what age did they get them?
Eight weeks, yeah, no, yeah,they don't remember anything
like that.
No, usually it comes from itbeing a startling action,
something overhead, something wecan't control, and it's almost
as if we're being attacked.
And instead of going into fightmode, this dog is going into
(03:52):
flight mode.
So there's two different ways.
An animal will respond whenbeing pushed in that manner.
So if somebody steps over them,you're startling the dog.
That's a fearful thing to do.
It's also a dominant thing todo.
Anything flying overhead a bird.
It sounds like you've got apretty sensitive dog, and the
best way to deal with asensitive dog is to work through
(04:13):
basic obedience and try tobuild up their confidence, try
to help them be a dog.
The human response to a dog thatacts this way is to go oh, baby
, it's okay and start givingthem love and affection, and
basically you're praising themfor this bad behavior and
telling them yes, pleasecontinue to act frightened.
I'm going to keep giving youthis praise and this reward for
it.
So the hardest thing is goingto be getting the people to back
(04:33):
off when the dog starts to actthat way.
Just keep moving.
Keep going about what you'redoing.
Don't make a scene over this.
Let the dog it'll become anon-event at that point and
don't back up the behavior.
Once the dog does somethingthat is good, like getting them
playing ball, you're changingwhat their mind is focusing on.
Instead of allowing them tostay in that moment of fear,
(04:54):
you're doing something fun.
You're playing with them orgiving them a favorite treat,
and you're redirecting them intosomething that's more
appropriate for them to be doing.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Another reason could be that we're starting to get
cataracts or starting not beingable to see better and so
shadows is what they pick up, sosomething underneath them they
can't see.
But when the light gets blockedout they tend to respond more
dramatically to that and that's.
There's not a whole lot you'regoing to do about that.
People don't get cataractsurgery for their critters very
often.
But but yeah, you just need totry not to scare the scare the
dog too much.
Try to let them know you're onyour way.
(05:24):
But again, just likethunderstorms, dogs tend to be
more reactive to thunderstormsas they get older, it seems like
, because it's probably the onlything they hear.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
Right, it's the only thing that they can hear and
feel.
In the air the pressure doeschange, which helps kind of them
realize that's going on.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
So, yeah, as we get.
If you just like people as theyget older, people tend to be
more afraid of things as theyget older, and the same thing
with critters Just becauseyou're not as easily aware of
what's going on around you, youget more nervous about it.
So that would be my guess.
We have that fact or fictionhanging out there and we have
Dave that wants to take a shotat it.
And are we going to?
(06:00):
Let me see here?
Yep, we're going to get to Davein just one minute.
Ready, let me see here, Yep,we're going to get to Dave in
just one minute, ready toexercise.
He's been stretching, yeah,stretching.
We're going to get to Dave injust a minute and your call
Factor fiction hanging out there, where we have three facts, two
more false, one of them true,and you get the true fact and
(06:22):
you can win a fabulous prize foryou and or your pet.
And we have Dave in Omaha.
Dave, welcome to Animal Talk.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Thanks, I waited obediently.
I was wondering if I'd get atreat for that.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
We'll give you some praise.
Good job, dave.
Good Dave.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Yeah, we're going to run through these three facts
again really quick and recapthose for you.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
Okay, fact number one Staley Farms from upstate New
York offers to bring a herd ofsheep to your home for
quote-unquote mowing the lawn,counting till napping, or for
petting at parties.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
And fact number two Peter Sellers' taxidermy dog, Mr
Popo, sold online in Englandfor $4,000 in 2003.
And our third fact is the seaotter's fur is the finest and
densest of any animal, with anestimated 650,000 hairs per
square inch.
(07:16):
Which one of these facts istrue, Dave?
Speaker 3 (07:19):
I believe it's number three.
The sea otter does not dependon blubber and body fat like
most other marine mammals.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
It depends on that fine hair.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Hold your calls, america, we have a winner.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
That is correct, sir.
Great Good job, Dave.
Dave, what kind of pets do youhave?
Speaker 3 (07:40):
I have a rat terrier dog.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
Oh, that's energy, all packed in one little pack.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
That's right, all right, well, we'll either get
you something cool for your dogor something for you and send it
out.
Thanks for the call.
Have a great evening.
And Brad, we got a couple overthere.
Sure, do Dear Animal Talk.
Where is it?
Hold that, thought Dear.
You've got mail.
I've always wanted to have arat as a pet, but my friends say
that I'm crazy.
(08:09):
Do you think rats are good pets?
Should I learn anything aboutthem beforehand, or are they
pretty easy to take care of?
What do you think?
And if you have a suggestion,what's a good name for a rat?
This is Sign Walter.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
Rats do make good pets, but I would absolutely
recommend on reading as much aspossible about them before you
bring them into your home,simply because you can never
have too much information aboutthe pet you own and the more
information you have, the betterand longer they're going to
live.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Yeah, for instance, let's say you want to house your
rat in an aquarium with yourpet snake.
No, Probably not a good idea.
Not a good idea, right.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
But having good information.
That's always the way to go.
But rats make great pets.
I had them many, many, manyyears ago and I got very
attached to all of them.
They were wonderful, and mine,let's see going down the list of
good rat names.
Let's see I had one namedWendell, one named Wally.
I stuck with the W's for awhile.
There's any really name?
(09:05):
Think of the.
What's the secretive name?
What was that rat's name,jonathan?
Speaker 1 (09:12):
wasn't it.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
I don't know no no, jonathan was the mouse.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Quaker.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
You've never seen the Secret of NIMH.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
I've never no.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
Oh, it's a great movie, but there's rat names in
there.
There's also.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Templeton, templeton, templeton.
Yeah, from Charlotte's Web,templeton, the Rat, from
Charlotte's Web.
Oh, I don't remember him asplayed by Paul Lynde in the
movie.
Was it really?
Speaker 4 (09:39):
Yeah, I remember his voice being in there, but I
didn't remember it was a rat.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Well, there you go.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
So there's a couple names for you, all right.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Yeah so we have another email sitting there,
Brad.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
I got distracted by something I apologize.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
All right, go ahead by something.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
I apologize.
All right, go ahead.
What do we got there, dearAnimal Talk.
Do dogs need to wear sweaterswhen they go outside?
My grandma's shih tzu alwayshas a sweater on whenever she
leaves the house, as does myaunt's dachshund, but my mom
puts a shirt on my chow that shebought at the Goodwill store.
Do dogs need to wear clothing?
(10:15):
I don't think so, but mom saysthat if they want to stay warm,
they do no, and this is signed.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
Bill, no, okay, no, they don't need to wear sweaters
.
That's what they have fur for.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Yeah, Even the dead of winter, the really really,
really cold one.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
Just let their hair grow a little bit longer.
Don't get them trimmed so closein the wintertime and it'll be
all right.
But no, they don't need to dothat.
They can regulate their bodytemperature.
I mean, look at whippets andItalian greyhounds.
They have almost no hair coatand they still somehow manage to
survive in Michigan.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Chinese crested's, maybe a little bit, but then and
then again.
There's sometimes when peopledress their dogs up, it's not
necessarily for warmth, it'sjust for show, and if you know,
and again, unless you're, likedressing your dogs up like
various characters on theStarship.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
Enterprise it's probably not going to be that
bad a thing.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
What's your opinion, jay?
What do you think aboutdressing dogs up?
It's a little degrading, butwhen you get into the little toy
breeds, you know it's like wellyou know how much pride do they
have left anyway?
Oh, that was a little harsh Iapologize to all the chihuahuas
I just offended yeah okay, I'mmean, what can I do and do?
(11:35):
We had the email earlier aboutNaming a pet.
You gotta pick a proper name.
Sometimes you get a name foryour dog and it'll come back to
haunt you.
Or your pet or whatever it is.
Really it can come back Tohaunt you.
Be a little ironic In thefuture.
Sometimes you gotta be reallycautious when you're selecting
(11:55):
Names for your pet.
Here's the top five unfortunatecelebrity pet names that have
come back Billy Joel, hisbulldog named Rex.
Oh yeah yeah, angelina Jolie'srabbit was named Mort.
That really wasn't thinkingahead on her part.
(12:15):
Karl Rove, he had a parrotcalled George.
I don't know if that was aprank gift somebody gave him or
what.
Bill Clinton, he had a pointer.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
His name was Randy.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
You didn't need a name, you just needed a pointer.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Funny there.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Roy Horn of Siegfried and Roy Roy's tiger.
His name was Claude.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
That was unfortunate.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Unfortunate celebrity pet names is what those are
Tiger on, Roy and Brad.
We take the emails from ourwebsite.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Sure do.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
And we help people out electronically when they
need that help, and we do thatthroughout the week, and then we
get to those on the weekend aswell.
You got another one loiteringover there, sure do Dear Animal,
talk what you got.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
You've got mail, baby , yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Is it okay to have a dog in an apartment?
I would need a quiet dog that'seasy to care for.
I live by myself and I really,really love dogs, but I don't
want to get one that's going tobe unhappy in my home.
Do you have any suggestions ofwhat breed I should look at?
And this is signed Carl.
All right, Carl, I would saythe number one breed of dog.
(13:34):
If you're going to live in anapartment, I would say, look at
one breed of dog.
If you're going to live in anapartment, I would say, look at
a cat.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
I was just going to say that Feline.
That would probably be the wayto go.
Cats are more self-sufficientand usually quiet.
They may have their crazy boutshere and there, where they may
run mad dash through playingwith something.
But even a cat being loudunless it's like an unfixed cat
and it's out howling cats beingloud, unless it's like an
unfixed cat and it's out howling.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
You know cats being loud is different than a dog
being loud.
You know a cat.
It may not carry through thewall, whereas the dogs will.
I'm sure if we could callpolice departments, I'm sure
that there's been very fewpolicemen called out to the
scene because a neighbor's catwas keeping the neighbors up all
night.
So it's again, they're not asbig an issue and they're easy to
(14:22):
care for.
But if you're gonna, if youabsolutely positively have to
have a dog and it's got to bethere overnight, it's got to be
there overnight.
I would buy again a good, a goodapartment.
Dog is like a pug, wouldn't yousay.
I mean, this is that they workout nicely and you can you can
actually you don't necessarilyyou can actually litter train
the dogs.
Now there's products made justfor dogs, for them to be
housebroken, so it's something.
(14:42):
I think we have links to it onour website again where you can
find out about that sort ofthing.
So check out our website.
But yeah, you can train a dogto be completely in the house so
you don't have to take him forwalks to go to the bathroom,
which is one of the realdownsides of having a dog in the
apartment.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Yeah, well, yeah, if you don't have the uh, a
convenient apartment yeah.
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I always like doing that.
Do your animal talk?
All right?
Subspace signal.
Okay, there we go.
My cat likes to sleep a lot.
It seems like he sleeps about16 hours a day.
My wife is worried that he'svery sick.
I don't think so.
I was wondering how much docats usually sleep?
Speaker 4 (16:05):
And this is signed Bill 23 and a half hours out of
24?
.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Yeah.
Kind of the same as, likepandas, they're just always
asleep.
But having a cat, how long?
How much does Kirby sleep?
He naps out.
He'll be.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
He's probably sleeping right now.
Yeah, I mean he sleeps like allnight with me.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
So there's the six hours.
We should note that Kirby isyour cat.
Yes, okay, and then he'll sleepthe six, eight hours at night
with me, and then he'll getanother good eight hours in
during the day at least.
So, yeah, yeah, he's a good uh8 16 hours a day.
Cats cats are good loungers, socats, because they expend so
much energy hunting that theythat in the wild hunting the
(16:52):
food dish well, but in the wildthey sleep a lot to save their
energy for hunting.
It's just that, uh, we'veeliminated that hunting portion
of their life, so all that leftthem with is the sleeping.
So cats tend to sleep a lot.
Actually, there's been studiesshown that cats who sleep a lot
are more stressed than cats thathave something to do.
Cats are supposed to be hunting, and so that's why they always
recommend a laser pointer.
So cats actually have somethingto do, because if you don't get
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to live out what you were madeto do, you get really stressed
out.
So a laser pointer or a bird atthe end of a string, something
like that, gives them somethingto do and makes them feel like
they're living out there,fulfilling their destiny.
Kirby loves the bird.
It's, uh, I have that cat toy,it's a like just a stick and
then a like, a line and the twofeathers at the end and uh, it's
(17:34):
his favorite toy.
He loves the interactive toysand don the busy the pika prize
box you have, quinn loves it,quinn absolutely loves it.
What is that?
Can't get enough.
It's a big box.
It's probably two inches tall.
About the size of a pizza boxBasically the size of a pizza
box.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
A large pizza box and it's got holes in it.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Yeah, made out of plywood, basically A nice sanded
finish and like a big block ofSwiss cheese.
There's all kinds of holesabout the size of ping pong
balls and it comes with threeballs that are relatively ping
pong ball size and your cat likesticks his arm in all the
little holes.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
To try to get everything out, which my cat
does.
And then she'll put them backin.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
It's not interactive enough for my cat Kirby.
You know, my cat Kirby, youhave to be playing with him.
If you just like give him amouse or you know a toy mouse,
he'll hit it once or twice andthen that's it, his peak of
prize.
He'll like stick his paw inthere and hit it and then you
know he wouldn't he wouldn'ttouch it again.
It's got to be something thatI'm playing with him, like the
laser pointer to keep him going,or the bird the bird on the end
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of the string.
It's got to be something that'sinteractive and the person
something that seems alive.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
On its own.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
He just doesn't go after the inanimate things,
making his own game.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
Oh, Quinn does that all the time.
I've actually trained her toput things back into the Pika
Prize and she also fetches, sowe interact by playing fetch as
well.
She's still young, so we'reworking on teaching her more.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
I saw a videotape this week.
Someone attached a laserpointer to a dog's collar, so it
was in front of the dog thewhole time and the dog was just
running around the yard chasingthis little spot, oh no.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
And you know it was going to be busy for days.
My dog Frog would just lovethat.
Love it.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
All right.
Your calls are next.
Kurt in Omaha.
What's going on with you andyour dog, sir?
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Yeah, I got a question for you.
What's up for you?
I've got a two-year-old male aminiature schnauzer, and in
August we're going to have ababy and he gets somewhat
aggressive when we pick upeither other dogs or when we
pick up younger kids.
I mean he doesn't bite him oranything, he doesn't really go
at him, but he barks and becomesagitated with us.
(19:39):
So I was just wondering whatyour guys' thoughts were on that
.
Speaker 4 (19:43):
You said that he gets this way when you pick them up,
like physically pick them up.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Yeah, otherwise he's great with them.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
Okay, what you can try doing, and if it doesn't
work, then I would say you needto get him to a behaviorist and
possibly find somewhere else forthis dog to live.
The first thing that I'll haveyou try just to see if the dog
can handle it.
Dog to live the first thingthat I'll have you try just to
see if the dog can handle it isto have the dog see you holding
(20:10):
a doll, a baby doll that'sswaddled, and get them used to
the the act of seeing you guyswith the swaddled baby doll and
handing it back and forthbetween the two of you.
And also record baby sounds,lots of different baby sounds.
Usually Discovery Channel orLearning Channel.
One of them always hassomething on where you can hear
babies screaming.
(20:30):
So record a bunch of that.
Play that all over the place,because these are sounds that
the dog is going to hear oncethe baby arrives.
That could start that agitation.
So we need to start to see howis he going to react to it.
If he still becomes agitatedand you're not acknowledging him
while he's doing it.
You're just going to go aboutyour business and you're just
holding something.
If he continues to becomeagitated by it, at that point
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you are going to stop whatyou're doing and you're going to
go and see a behaviorist andhave this dog's behavior
evaluated where they can see it,correct it in the moment it's
doing these behaviors and findout can we work with this?
And also they'll be able totell you not just can we work
with this, but what are yougoing to be up against while
working with this, and is thissomething that you potentially
want to expose your new baby to?
Speaker 1 (21:18):
Okay.
So yeah, it's a difficultpriority to set, but it's a hard
choice to make.
But you know you don't want toset anybody up to make a mistake
.
You know I mean it is an animalstill and you know they can
make mistakes.
So you want to make sureabsolutely positive that you
know your child's going to besafe.
(21:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Yeah, I mean overall, when he's perfectly fine.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Maybe this exercise of desensitization I'm not even
going to try to say it again,but will help you and help
alleviate that and get him usedto it, getting him used to
hearing these noises, thesehandlings like I said, picking
up and swaddling a doll and thenmaybe finding one of those
dolls that actually talks thereally creepy ones and using
(22:12):
that as well, because that'ssomething that it'll mimic.
Speaker 4 (22:15):
You're doing something.
They've got ones that cry anddo all kinds of crazy stuff.
Using that instead of using areal baby or a real child.
Using the doll to see how isthis dog going to react.
And if he continues to becomeagitated and still does not seem
to calm down and you've beendoing this for seven days and
he's not making any progress atthat point you need to get in
and have him actually checkedout.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Okay, All right, Kurt , Thanks for the call.
Good luck.
Pet behavior it's always aproblem.
They are like kids, really.
Some can be spoiled.
Problem children.
Well, what happens?
Speaker 4 (22:49):
is.
We don't always recognize.
Most humans don't recognize that, while we think it's kind of
cute but maybe a little bitannoying in puppyhood but then
we allow this behavior tocontinue and continue and
continue that this leads intomuch worse behavior as they age.
So I always tell my students ifit's not cute if you can see
(23:09):
your dog as an adult doing thissame behavior in five years and
you don't think it's cute, don'tencourage it now at eight weeks
, because that leads to a wholeworld of trouble.
And Schnauzers, on the whole,tend to be a high-strung dog.
They really do as a breed.
They're a dog that needs a lotof physical activity.
They need to have something todo and work out that energy that
(23:31):
they've got.
So if this dog is possibly notgetting enough exercise, that he
needs upping, the exercise mayhelp him quite a bit as well.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
I've seen the little challenge between children and
dogs with parents reach a levelwhere I'm sure they were going
to get divorced in the roombecause they were just hating
each other.
Because again, in this case itwas the dad that's the one I'm
thinking of.
But the dad was saying this dogmade a pass at fighting the
child and the child just steppedon the dog and the dog almost
(24:03):
bit the child.
But the mom was saying it's notthe dog's fault.
But they were so livid witheach other that they were
deciding it's not the dog'sfault.
But what if the dog had donedamage?
I don't want anything doingdamage, it's just a tough
situation.
There's no right answer in mostcircumstances.
It's just the question oferring on the side of safety is
what most people choose, but itreally is difficult for everyone
(24:25):
involved and that's why you'vegot to start working at a young
age to make sure you never getto that position and see this is
the thing the two dogs that Ihave.
Speaker 4 (24:31):
I don't have kids and who knows if, during these
dogs' lifetimes, if I will havekids.
But I've been preparing themsince the day they came into my
house to deal with the stupidthings that kids do to dogs.
And I know that sounds reallyrude to a lot of parents out
there, but kids do stupid thingsto dogs.
It's a fact.
I remember being a kid.
Kids will walk by and sticktheir finger in their ear, grab
(24:54):
toys out of their mouth, pick upa leg.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
They'll do these things and if your dog isn't
prepared to deal with it, yourdog is not going to react well
to it, and we were just talkingabout how pets are like children
and they make mistakes, and soyou've got to do everything you
possibly can to guide them andshape their behavior and lead
them down the right path.
I mean, you know, unlike kids,they get into things they
shouldn't get into.
You know drugs, for instance.
(25:17):
You know you don't want yourpet doing drugs.
You want to put a stop to thatright away and and there's some
of their signs to know if yourpet's been- doing drugs?
Speaker 4 (25:26):
oh no, really yeah there are animal talk.
Home of the graceful segue notif you keep pointing it out.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
There's like there's five sure signs that your pet's
been doing some drugs oh no, um,you hear your pet say polly
want a cracker and a big bag ofDoritos and a box of fruity pe
Pebbles, a microwave burrito,ooh and a jelly donut.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
Oh jeez, oh yeah, you know your pet's doing drugs.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
if he's saying that, you know he's doing drugs when
you ask him who's a good boy andhe sits there and ponders it
for hours.
If your pet ever says somethinglike wow, have you ever looked
at your paw man?
Speaker 4 (26:09):
I mean like ever really looked at your paw oh my.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Okay, and a sign for sure that your pet's been doing
drugs.
He's so freaked out by thebubbling treasure chest he
hasn't come out of the castle inlike six days.
Yeah, that's right, you knowhe's doing drugs the number one
reason you know your dog's beendoing drugs is Rusty's not only
stopped chasing his tail, nowhe's accusing it of following
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him home.
You know the drug is kind of ondrugs at that point.
Alright, you've got to watchout.
You've got to take care of yourcritters.
When they make bad choices, yougotta help them make that's
right, that's right, you canstop all this with a simple
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Speaker 2 (27:08):
Oh, we gotta create that.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Alright, helping you with your pet, that's what we do
, what you got there in front ofyou, brad.
Oh, I have an email, a merciful, merciful email rolled in
Alright what do we got?
Dear Animal Talk, there's somemail here for you.
Why do they cut poodles thatway?
I mean really, and it's asigned extra, that is an
excellent question.
(27:32):
I mean because you get the showpoodles and it's like oh my God
.
Speaker 4 (27:37):
It's actually to help them with the swimming.
They're actually a huntingbreed and that was believed to
keep those joints warm whilethey were retrieving the ducks
in the water.
Wow.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
And it also makes them feel pretty, especially
when you put the little bows in.
Oh, I'm glad we resolved thatAll right.
Well, thanks so much for beingwith us and bringing us along on
your Sunday afternoon.
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Speaker 4 (28:06):
Day.
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Speaker 1 (28:11):
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Speaker 3 (29:06):
Have fun storming the castle.
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Think it'll work.
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