February 5, 2025 • 49 mins
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• Discussion on surgical decisions for pets
• The humor in post-surgery antics
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
Hello pet enthusiasts .
My name is Jason Zakowski.
I'm the dog dad of Bunsen,Beaker and Bernoulli the science
dogs of social media.
My co-hostest with the mostestis Hi there, I'm Chris Zakowski.
I am the dog mom to bunsen,beaker and bernoulli and the cat
mom to ginger every week onsaturday evening, we bring
(00:34):
together the community thatfollows us on social media, all
right.
So if you've never been to petchat before, if you have, chris
and I usually share some of thetop stories of the weeks with
the animals and then we get tocommunity sharing and we answer
questions.
So if you're watching live onInstagram, if you're watching
live on Instagram, we'll get tosome of your questions right
(00:56):
away and if you're waiting tospeak, we'll get you up after
that point.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Do you want to start with the story?
Speaker 3 (01:11):
from this week.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Chris, or do you want me to?
So on Sunday was a veryexciting day.
It was awesome because we hadplanned a visit with Marla and I
had said, hey, so let's therewind button.
I had given her a call and wetalked for over an hour, um, and
I said, hey, we can drive upand can you think of anywhere
that we could go?
That would be great.
And then we were talking andthen I happened to mention that
we were at the school and she'slike, oh, you know what that's
(01:33):
like a good indoor place,because you can't count on the
weather.
And I was like, oh, yeah, okay,but then her making the journey
down to us and I didn't want toput her out or anything but
journey down to us, and I didn'twant to put her out or anything
.
But she said, no, that's noproblem, it'll be great to get
out of the house and it was sogood.
So she arrived with Pistol'sdad and we've never met him.
(01:55):
We got a chance to meet him andthank him for all the that, all
that he did to to support Marlawhen you know when we lost Kuno
and all the support that he andPistol have been doing with
Chesney since.
So it's just awesome.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Okay, you go ahead.
Yeah, yeah, billy was veryexcited to see Chesney.
He was barking a bit, not thebest manners, but once we were
walking them around then theygot to see each other right away
.
And man did these two dogs seeeach other right away.
And man did do these two dogslove each other.
They played the whole time.
Chesney is so fast and tiredBernoulli right out.
(02:33):
You can see he's now on thefloor.
If you're watching live.
I've got some pictures up thereand then you of course, got a
cuddle with both of them, whichwas very cute, and chesney's big
, but she looks small next tobernoulli because bernoulli is
so big yeah, it was amazing.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Now I'm not gonna lie like bernoulli had has aged out
of waggles and his puppy playedeight and so he hasn't been
hanging around with other dogsexcept for our dogs.
And when Beaker just hungaround with me and Bunsen during
COVID she became resourceprotective and I thought, oh man
, I don't want the same thing tohappen with Bernoulli.
(03:15):
So I said to Marla I said I ama little nervous, Like we're
going to go into kind of a largespace area.
And I said, and it's set uplike with desks everywhere.
She's like, oh, this is perfect, Because then there's space
between them.
And then, if we need to go backa bit and do a back and forth,
I said, oh, that's awesome.
But I still was nervous untiluntil it was a successful meet
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and greet, because especiallyBernoulli was doing some barking
and Marla was worried thatChesney would be doing some
barking.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Chesney was so well behaved.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
So well behaved.
But she has been barking atother dogs when Marla's been
going out and about, and it wasa new behavior, because Kuno's
not there is.
What Marla attributed to oh, itwas so good they they got out
out, they were playing, theywere play bowing.
And it just reminded me of whatevery everyone at waggle said
(04:09):
about bernoulli is that he canmatch the dog's energy.
If he's playing with a littleterrier, he matches their energy
and if they're like a tiny dog,then he bows down to them and
plays on their level like alittle bella.
There's little bella, she'slike a maltese cross.
He plays so well with her andthen.
But he also plays rottweilerand he plays german shepherd and
(04:30):
he plays doodle, and so he justmatches their energy.
And one thing I'm very gratefulfor is that he did not at all
try and mount chesney.
Yeah there was none.
Of that was good Cause the nextday he was going for his
vasectomy.
But I was just like, wow, wow,please don't do that.
(04:51):
And he didn't.
He's such a good boy and theyplayed so well.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Yeah, he has.
He's not really doing that,which is good.
And, of course, after I postedabout Bernoulli's procedure,
especially on Instagram, I didthese carousel cards and people
had a lot of questions.
I don't have all the answersbecause I'm not a vet, but that
when to neuter your dog is apersonal decision with your
(05:15):
family.
Yes, you should wait, okay.
No, you should do whatever yourvet recommends.
And our vet is on up to datewith some of the stuff.
I've been reading the newresearch that you shouldn't
neuter big dogs until they'retwo.
But that can sometimes be a bigproblem for some families.
If the dog has a lot of liketestosterone issues, they can be
(05:39):
get aggressive, they can bequite humpy, they can can start
urinating everywhere.
So some families want to waitthat long but they can't because
the bond with the animal bondwith your dog is being damaged
because of their behavior.
And we've just been lucky withBernoulli.
He has none of that.
He doesn't show any of thatreally at all.
So we're going to ride it outand I think he's back at Waggles
(06:03):
next week.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
We can book him in next week, right, not this week
not this week but the next week,just only because he does have
to heal, yeah, but the healingtime is less.
Now, hello, both beaker andbunsen are so good in their
cones, there's no issues, and infact.
(06:24):
So bernoulli comes home with acone and I'm like, oh, this is
good, he's gonna be fine.
Was I wrong?
Was I wrong?
He like split it and it waslike destroyed and you left for
work.
You're like bye, I'm going towork and I'm looking at
Bernoulli and he's, and the coneis all smushed and broken, and
(06:44):
I'm I said oh no, so I ducttaped it together, duct taped it
, and then I came home for lunchbecause I couldn't handle it.
I'm like he's gonna, he's gonnachew that duct tape.
It's not gonna be good.
You know what?
I was right, he chewed thatduct tape.
And so I thought, okay, I'mgonna go get bunsen's cone now.
How long have we had bunsen'scone?
(07:06):
since he was, since he wasneutered like at one yeah, so
he's seven and a half, so we'vehad that six and a half years
yeah yeah, and it's in pristinecondition not anymore, not
anymore.
So Bernoulli has destroyed.
It's still workable if we, ifwe, watch him, but no, it's not
(07:30):
good.
Yeah, and so now I was going tobuy another cone today, but we
do have his surgesuit and hehasn't worn his surgesuit all
day today because we're home andwe can watch him.
Yeah, and just surgery suit allday today because we're home
and we can watch him.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Yeah, and hopefully it's healing.
Yeah, he's not licking.
I haven't seen him lick at alltoday without with his cone or
surgery suit off.
But when we're not watching him, either he's in a surgery suit
or he's in the duct tape cone,but he comes through like a
wrecking ball, like he justsmashes through with that cone.
You gotta watch out.
It really hurts.
It hurts your back, your legsyeah, oh yeah.
(08:07):
And then today he demonstratedhow he goes with his cone like a
lampshade over ginger yeah,it's the easiest way to lick
them all the cat is to trap herin the lampshade yeah, and I
have a little bit of that onvideo oh, you do.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
That's funny, I do yeah, just a split second of it,
because he was doing it.
And then I got the camera andthen Beaker is like what are you
doing?
And she was like the conepolice.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
We have some good comments about the onesies are a
great option.
There's the donut cone, sothat's something we might want
to look into.
I'm always leery about thedonut cone because the burners
are so strong they could maybesquish it down, but something we
can look at for sure.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
I think we tried it with Bunsen and it didn't go
good.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
He didn't like it.
He couldn't sleep in it.
Yeah, he couldn't lay his headflat.
Yeah, so we stopped.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Where is it then?
Speaker 1 (08:59):
I don't know, somewhere We've lost it.
That was years ago.
I know, lost the time.
Lost the time.
Friday Bunsen had hisappointment and we talked about
that, I think, on last Pet Chatand he's been.
They did a bunch of likeneurological testing with him
and they think his tippy tappingis not arthritis related.
(09:23):
He's got a lot of painsomewhere in his neck or his
spine so it's either some kindof slip disc, they think, or
something a little bit moreserious like something
neurological.
So he has a.
We've got him booked in to seea neurologist because they said
the next step is to do an MRI ora CAT scan.
(09:44):
But MRI or CAT scans look fordifferent things and because
they're not experts, they saidyou could go to the specialist
and the specialist wouldprobably be able to make a
better call and then maybe beable to diagnose it faster than
they could, even with an MRI ora CAT scan.
But Red Deer doesn't have anMRI for dogs, right?
Speaker 2 (10:06):
No, they don't.
And so our option is to go downto Calgary and have them have a
look at him and they'll decideon the spot whether it's a CAT
scan or an MRI because theycould potentially look for more
of the prototype cysts.
But if you think about it, inhumans, if you lose a lot of
(10:29):
weight quickly, it's hard onyour body and Bunsen in his
chest, like in his cavity, therehe potentially had like his
heart was, the cyst was attachedto his aorta and his liver.
That's 10 pounds overnight thathe lost and I don't know.
I think it's all connected,like I know.
(10:49):
I keep saying that I do.
I keep saying that if you arewhat you eat from your head to
your feet and if you eat aprototype cyst, then it grows
inside you, it might be pushingon your spine and I know he was
cleared for activity yeah andthe activity that we do with him
.
In september, what we were doingor in october was like just
(11:11):
normal dog activity.
It's not like we had himclimbing mountains again.
But I just hope that if youthink about humans, which are
different than dogs, but if youthink of, like a breast
reduction and the back, all thatweight and I don't know I'm
speaking at a turn because Ihave no idea but it's like all
of a sudden gone overnight andit impacts like how you walk and
(11:34):
how everything's once and mightbe going through that or it
could be something morenefarious.
But we will have to wait andsee.
Yeah, I'm always wonderingabout before it was the
prototype cyst.
I was wondering if it was likea porcupine quill that went in
and is wreaking havoc on some ofhis musculature.
But I don't know.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
I don't know and he we don't know, and so we're just
gonna go, uh, check it out yeah, so he's, and he's booked in
very soon, so it's not likewe're waiting any very long at
all.
So like it's coming up likethis week and then we'll have
we'll probably have betteranswers, um, for good or for bad
, about what's going on withbunsen.
Well, you felt, and I did too,that he was maybe a little bit
(12:18):
more tippy tappy this week afterplateauing, or even getting
better, so we'll just have tokeep an eye on it.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
She did say maybe to stop doing the therapy.
So we never startedrehabilitation therapy.
But I was massaging hisshoulders a little bit when I
was petting him and likemassaging by his hips, but I
don't want to cause more damage.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Yeah, that's what the vet said she's like.
If it's some kind of slippeddisc or a degenerative thing,
you need to know what it isbefore you start rehab so you
don't cause the dog discomfort.
Yeah, yeah, today it isfrigidly cold.
(13:02):
I took him out today by himselffor what?
Five minutes.
It was about minus 31, probablycolder with the wind, and he
was just diving into the snowand doing bunts and stuff.
So that was really good to see.
Oh, I should take the Kahootbanner down.
I'll put up the Bark and Beyondone.
Okay, and no real update onBeaker.
Beaker's still just being agood girl.
(13:26):
Somebody asked why we don'thave a Beaker and why we don't
have a Beaker and Bunsen Cam,and that's because I don't know.
We don't have a way for them tostay in one spot like Bernoulli
, and I don't know if our housecould handle four things at once
, four different, or internet.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Yeah, or internet.
I don't know if we could handlefour things at once Four
different.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Our internet, yeah, our internet.
I don't know if we could handlefour internets at once.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Yeah, I don't think we have any more burner phones.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
We have one.
We could set up one more, theactual burner On your actual
burner phone.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
No, because I have to be on Twitter on this phone.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Oh that's right, Okay yeah.
Maybe on this phone.
Oh that's right, Okay yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Maybe on my iPad.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Yeah, we're out of a bill.
Yeah, but you'd have to have astand for it, anyways.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Well, give the people what they want, Jason.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
If it works today, I can take this and just go
upstairs and show everybodyBunsen and Beaker they're
probably just sleeping, allright.
Hey, I'm all out of stories,chris, do you have anything?
Should we go to communitysharing and answering questions?
Speaker 2 (14:31):
I was going to talk about the do clause.
Oh yeah, go ahead.
And that was to do withBernoulli.
Yeah, this is very funny, butnot funny.
I thought the vet clinic openedat seven, that we could do our
drop off at 7am.
That was wrong.
I have a workout at 730.
And I was like huh, here I am,seven o'clock has come and went,
(14:52):
the lights are dark, there's nolights on.
710 has come and gone, 715 hascome and gone, and I have a
workout at seven 30.
And so then I looked on Googleand Google told me that they
open at seven 30.
And so I texted Jason.
I said fun fact, they open atseven 30.
(15:14):
And here I am early and they'renot open.
And Jason said I can't come inand spell you off, because by
the time he got there it wouldhave already been 7 30 anyway.
So I texted my trainer and Isaid I'm gonna be late, so sorry
, but anyway.
So now I'm in there and I'mdropping off for newly and he
weighs like as much as bunsen,yeah, and he's like such a good
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boy.
And then she said okay, we'redoing this.
I'm like, yep, do blood work,sure, do all this other stuff
great.
And then she said would youlike to remove his do clause?
And I said I don't know I needto text jason and I texted you
(15:58):
and she's yeah, we do recommendit because, like they get caught
on anything, they can getinfected.
Da, da, da, da da.
And then I'm like uh, and thenyou had texted back and said no,
that you actually like them,that you play with his dewclaws
I love his little dewclaws andyou're like they're a part of
him, and so I said we're nottaking them off, we're gonna
(16:19):
leave his dewclaws.
If they become a problem then wecan revisit that later.
It didn't have to get done thatday, which is probably good,
because he would then need acone for longer and it would
just been a gong show with himand his cone because he'd be
like young, young, young eatinghis feet anyway.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
That was that story I'm trying to keep bernoulli on
the bernoulli cam, but he'smoving around yeah, weird, he's
a dog yeah he's not and my newphone is so heavy it it easily
falls out of the stand clamp, soit fell on the floor.
Sorry, everybody oh, that'sgood yeah, so I'm glad we didn't
(17:01):
remove his dewclaws.
I don't know, I don't thinkthey're going to be that big of
a problem.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
You said, Bunsen still has his but I can't see
Bunsen's.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
I don't think they took away his dewclaws.
I just remember when Bernoulliwas a little puppy they were
just like this little nub thingthat he would grab with his paws
, and I didn't want them to beremoved.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
So yeah, Okay, want them to be removed.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
So, yeah, okay, should we go to community
sharing?
Yes, absolutely okay.
Uh, I think jamie is up.
Jamie is good to go, so we'lllet we'll go.
We'll go to jamie, who'sspeaking on twitter good morning
everyone.
Speaker 5 (17:44):
It's half past 11 11 on Sunday, the 2nd of February
in the future?
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Yes, in the future, and I hear it's warm there.
Speaker 5 (17:55):
No, it's not.
It's not here, sorry.
It has been raining every dayfor the last week.
We've had probably half a metreby now in the last two days of
rain, so more than 500 metresYou're not washed away Because I
live on top of a hill Okay,that's the word to me.
(18:20):
That's it.
And really strong wind gusts.
So it's not a cyclone, but itmay as well be.
It's just taking longer aboutit, and really strong wind gusts
.
So it's not a cyclone, but itmay as well be, it's just taking
longer about it.
We're really good here becausewe're on top of a hill, but
areas in town like they'reevacuating people at the moment
and they're saying that somehouses second-story houses will
(18:45):
get flooded.
That's how much water there isin town at the moment.
Yes, we're nice and dry outhere and the dogs are just going
stir-crazy because they'reinside.
But I put a video in the chatof Rosie and Tennessee dogs
(19:05):
having their post-breakfast playand Tennessee's amazing.
Her back legs are so strong.
She just like levitates ontothe couch, she stands beside it
and then she's on top of it.
She didn't jump at all, she'sjust whee onto the couch.
It's like a snow day here.
(19:25):
It's a rain day and the schoolsare closed tomorrow and I'd say
I won't be going to worktomorrow because it's also very
wet.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
I'm glad you haven't washed away yet.
Speaker 5 (19:42):
No, and things like potholes opening up in the road.
And the one I saw yesterday, Ihaven't put my run yet today.
The one I saw yesterday, Ihaven't got my run yet today.
The one I saw yesterday wasthree meters in diameter and
half a meter deep.
You don't want to drive, that'sit.
You don't want to drive yourcar into that one because you'd
lose it.
But we've got at least anotherday of this train.
(20:07):
That's where we are and it'snot hot.
It's about 20 degrees, whichfor us in February is pretty
cold.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
So I'm actually back in bed with the blanket on.
Could you, if you don't mind,where again in Australia are you
?
I forget?
No, that's all right.
Where again in Australia areyou?
I forget?
Speaker 5 (20:31):
No, that's all right.
So we live in Townsville.
So when you look at Australia,the pointy bit on the right-hand
side, we're like on the coast,but sort of at the bottom of the
pointy bit.
The Gulf of Carpentaria is thescoop beside the pointy bit Very
technical terms here and was inabout the same line just below
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the bottom of the Gulf ofCarpentaria.
And if anybody looks at theradar, I can actually I'll put a
picture of the radar up.
At the moment it's piddlingdown over most of North
Queensland.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Okay, Chris will throw that up in the nest.
I think she's already got it.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Yeah, I've got some of the posts that you've done.
Speaker 5 (21:20):
Yeah, so I'll put up the radar, the rain radar, so
you can see how widespread it is, because it's covering a fair
amount of the coast at themoment.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
And for people who aren't on Twitter, when we say
the Nest, there's this place.
You can put tweets.
That's up above on the audio.
You'll just have to pretend youcan see it.
If you're watching on live, Imight share the screen with my
Twitter so people can see it ina second here.
Speaker 5 (21:57):
So with the radar picture the reds and yellows are
more heavy rain, so some areashave had more than 700 mils of
rain in the last 24 hours.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Holy man, that's a lot of rain.
Speaker 5 (22:14):
It is a lot of rain and the scary thing for people
in town is the spaces that aregetting flooded now are the same
ones that flooded really badlysix years ago.
What Exactly six years ago?
(22:35):
What exactly six years ago?
And yeah, people were out oftheir homes for months and
months because of so much damageoh man, I hope that.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
I hope that doesn't happen.
That's always the worst whenthere thing yeah, that's us, the
dogs are good.
Speaker 5 (22:54):
I hope the chooks are good, because the chooks are
stuck down there in their yardin the rain.
They do have roofs, but yeah,it's just, it'll just be sloppy
and horrible for them.
But thank you and everyone,take care and good luck for
Sexton Early.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Right now he is licking the wall and licking the
wall.
I might have to do somethingelse here, chris, we'll go to
thanks Jamie.
We'll go to Dr Tracy and thento Rich aka Baden.
Hi, dr Tracy.
Speaker 4 (23:29):
Hi hi everybody.
Good Rich, aka Baden, Hi DrTracy, hi Hi everybody.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Good to hear you, good to hear from you.
Speaker 4 (23:35):
Oh, yeah, I haven't talked in a long time.
Nothing's happened.
I have three dogs.
They're all large dogs and Ilive in the woods so we have air
tags on each dog so that ifthey happen to get out we can
find them more easily, becausewe have bears and bobcats and
(23:56):
coyotes and things like that.
Yeah, and so we have one of ourdogs is a treeing walker
coonhound, and if anyone has acoonhound they're just crazy,
absolutely crazy dogs, and shereally loved getting out of the
(24:20):
yard and it's a big yard.
We have over half an acre forthem to run in and play in, and
they chase squirrels andchipmunks, and so the app was
really the Apple AirTag wasreally handy to find where she
was when she'd get out.
And then one day she lost hercollar and we looked all over
the yard and couldn't find it.
So we thought, oh, probably acrow took it or something.
(24:42):
And so I used the Find my appon my phone and it said it was
600 feet away.
So I went 600 feet to a treeand it said it was 600 feet away
.
So I went 600 feet to a treeand it said it was in the tree,
and it was.
It is a hollow tree, and so wethought, oh, it's inside the
(25:03):
tree.
And I got a flashlight,couldn't find it anywhere, felt
in there and no matter how manytimes I tried, the app kept
saying that's where the AirTagwas.
So that was about eight or ninemonths ago.
Today my husband was in hisworkshop, which is a detached
(25:23):
garage about 50 feet from thehouse about 50 feet from the
house, and he moved some lumberand there was her collar with
the AirTag on it on the floorbetween two pieces of wood.
So she must have gotten herhead caught, chased a mouse or a
chipmunk or something andpulled her collar off.
(25:48):
And so it's been there all thistime.
But the app for the AirTag saidit was 600 feet away.
So if you have AirTags for youranimals, they're not always
completely accurate.
Now it says she's right herewith me, both her new AirTag and
her old AirTag.
(26:09):
So both Trudy 1 and Trudy 2 arehere with me, even though
there's only one, trudy.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
Oh, there they are.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Yeah, I was distracted newly for a second
there, jason's put them.
Speaker 4 (26:27):
Jason, just put it up and both beaker and bunsen are
there oh yeah he's gonna knockover the camera with his cone
guaranteed oh dear, oh dear.
Have you ever tried one ofthose big inflatable collars?
Speaker 1 (26:46):
we, we should.
We should probably try it withum bernoulli, but I seem to
should probably try it withBernoulli, but I seem to
remember we tried it with Bunsenand he didn't like it.
So yeah.
Speaker 4 (26:54):
Yeah, sometimes they work and sometimes they don't.
That's all Just wanted to tellyou.
Be careful if you have an airtag on your dog.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Chris will have to fill me in Tracy.
I was running up and downorganizing the dogs, but I so
appreciate you coming to shareyour story.
Speaker 4 (27:13):
Thanks, bye-bye.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Bye.
Speaker 4 (27:15):
Bye.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
What's Beaker doing?
Beaker's very curious about thecamera, oh.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
How do you have it so that they're there?
How did you block it?
Speaker 1 (27:28):
off, I've squished them into the entranceway and
there I've put the camera wherethere's lots of bright light,
and I guess that's just whatthey're doing right now, so
people get to see but how didyou squish them there?
Speaker 2 (27:39):
where is the bench?
Speaker 1 (27:40):
yeah, the where's the bench?
I've just the bench is there.
I hope I don't thinkbernoulli's gonna get into
anything because he can't.
There he is so, so he's justgoing to wander around.
It is what it is.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
So Jason went to brush his teeth and in the time
that Jason went to brush histeeth, bernoulli destroyed a
little bag that I had and it islike from Easter time, like that
shredded paper that you use,like in your Easter baskets.
And so I had a plastic bag ofshredded paper and Jason wasn't
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watching Bernoulli he's.
I went to brush my teeth and Isaid that's when Bernoulli is
going to get into things.
You have to watch himconsistently and constantly
because he's not as good asBeaker and Bernoulli are, or
Beaker and Bunsen were, aspuppies Like.
He's into everything.
Oh, toilet paper, oh yeah, thiscrazy shredded paper, yes,
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please.
And so then you said to me, yousaid to me how come there was
this paper in our room.
And I said, I countered thatwith how come you weren't
watching Bernoulli like a hawk.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
I was brushing my teeth.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
Yeah, I said you have to take him into the bathroom
with you.
Oh that's what I do Constantsupervision.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
Yeah, people on live said they saw Ginger slink
underneath the gate, so that'sfunny.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
Yeah, she came down here oh she did Okay, there we
go.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
They're all going to lay down together.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
She's, she came down here.
Oh, she did Okay.
There we go, they're all goingto lay down together.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
Yay, all right, that's a fun development We'll
go to.
Who's next, rich?
Speaker 4 (29:16):
Yeah, on.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
Twitter yeah, rich, hey, congratulations rich on the
second place on Kahoot.
Well done, thank you.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
And Baden's birthday, yeah, and.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Baden's birthday, 10th birthday.
Baden had a birthday.
I saw that?
Speaker 3 (29:29):
Yep, yeah, he turned 10.
It's a little chilly here, Notas chilly as you guys.
We're only at minus 12, I thinkit was.
Ooh, that's shorts weather.
Yes, I'm not wearing shortsbecause I'm old and cranky and
I'd love to know how my Scotsancestors wore kilts in such
cold weather, but that's a wholeother thing.
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So, yes, he was 10 years oldand we were out for a walk today
and he's acting like he's 10months old and absolutely an
idiot.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
It's great, I love it .
That's so good to have an olderdog that's still got a spring
in their step.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
We had about—I've got to love Canada.
I do temperatures in Celsiusand I do snow in inches.
I do temperatures in Celsiusand I do snow in inches.
Yeah, we had about three inchesof snow down, so we were moving
it off the driveway and we hadhim outside with us and he was
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doing zoomies in circles.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
Aw, Aw, that's cute.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
I love that.
Yeah, yeah.
No, he lives up to his nicknameas the chocolate goofball, but
he's absolutely exhausted now.
Another thing that was reallycool is our grand.
It's actually a cat toy, butanyway he grabbed it and he let
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my granddaughter grab Holt ofthe other end of it.
It's just a little stuffed toyand he was ever so gently
playing tug of war and she wasactually leading him around the
house by it.
He was just happily comingalong behind her.
It's really cool to see.
It's just he's so good with her.
It's amazing how good he iswith her.
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That's awesome.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
And oh, that's better .
You zoomed in on the bernoullicam.
Yeah, yeah, I got rid of chrisand I.
Some people on instagram wereuh, I think it's smushed on
instagram because it shows itland, uh, portrait, and where I
have it in landscape, because Itried it that one time and
everybody who were who'swatching on a computer hated it,
so I went back, but anywaysyeah, the.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
the other thing is and this is for all our canadian
friends is that tim hortons andI believe it's still going on
tomorrow is they're sellingspecial olympic donuts and all
proceeds from the donuts go tosupport special Olympics in your
area.
And, and as many of yourregular listeners will know, my
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daughter is a special Olympian.
She has medals coming out, theyin yang.
Okay, maybe that's not, maybethat's not suitable for a family
time, but she's got lots ofmedals.
It's a really great, reallygreat organization and, if you
can find it and the donuts areactually pretty good too
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probably 10 million calories,but it's so frigging cold across
most of Canada you need allthose calories to stay warm.
Actually, I just put a pictureof her and one of her teammates
and our local staff sergeantwith the RCMP.
They were up at our localTimmy's.
They're making donut.
They actually made some of thedonuts and they were talking.
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We were talking to people aboutspecial Olympics and all that
sort of thing, and I normallydon't try to take over your
sponsors, but what Tim Hortonsdoes is just, I think, so
important for the community.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
I love that We'll have to pick up some doughnuts.
Yeah, I love that too.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
I tried to get one the other day and I said, hi,
and I was getting coffee, and Isaid I'd like, because they had
it advertised, they had thedoughnut there and I'm like, can
I please have a Special Olympicdoughnut?
And they're like, no, itdoesn't start until the 31st.
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And I said, oh, why do you haveit advertised?
And but then it was fine, Ijust went away with my coffee
and then I'm like I'll come back.
That's how they get you.
They advertise it, you want it,and then they don't have it and
then you have to come back yeah, oh, for sure, for sure.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
They're marketers, right, they know how to get
people in yeah, I love the smile.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
The smile cookies is always big because, of course,
chris and I are teachers.
Yeah, yeah, so we always tryand get some smile cookies.
They're actually really yummy,they're delicious.
They're a problem, actually,because you can pack back two or
three of those and you don'teven know what's happened.
We'll make sure we get at leastone of those donuts tomorrow or
the next day.
Speaker 3 (33:54):
Yeah, I think it ends tomorrow.
Oh, ok, all right, yep, soyou'll have to emerge into the
cold weather and and go get one.
And just a question, if I may,if I'm not taking up too much
time what is that?
I know the obvious differencesbetween neutering and
bernoullectomy.
Oh, it's just been so much funwith that.
(34:18):
You guys have done really welland I'll be good, and I won't
tell the story that I put onTwitter.
I don't know if you read it ornot, but it's what happened to
me.
Dig through my timeline, you'llfind it okay.
And but behavior wise, how doeswhat's the difference?
What difference does theneutering versus vasectomy make?
(34:39):
Or am I asking the wrong person?
Speaker 1 (34:41):
no.
So the research shows verylittle.
So the vasectomy is like for adog that isn't potentially
having all of those maletestosterone behaviors, and it
allow it in some places.
It allows the dog to go wherethey're not normally allowed to
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go if they're not quote-unquoteneutered.
So it's like an in-between.
If you full-on neuter your dogand remove the testicles,
they're not going to have thattestosterone, so you're going to
have some behavior changespotentially, whereas with a
vasectomy the sperm doesn't getout.
Speaker 3 (35:26):
I'm familiar with a vasectomy.
Trust me.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
Yeah, but just to make a long story short,
generally there's no change intheir behavior from an intact to
a vasectomy, but anecdotallysome people see a little bit
less testosterone issues.
That's just anecdotally.
Speaker 5 (35:45):
Jamie, you got your hand up, that's just anecdotally
, jamie, you got your hand up,rich, when we had our dog
vasectomized 40 years ago.
His behavior didn't change atall.
His litter sister was stillintact.
She came into season.
His behavior didn't change atall and he still did everything
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that a boy dog does with a girldog.
Yeah, for two weeks nonstop,until they were both lying on
the floor exhausted.
It's funny, because he wasnagging for like the first three
days.
He's nagging at her going comeon, and she's going to go away.
And then for a week in themiddle they're both at the same
level of enthusiasm.
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And then for like the threedays after that, she's nagging
at him going come on, and he'sgoing.
Speaker 3 (36:35):
oh my goodness jamie has a word for it.
Speaker 2 (36:45):
What was it getting going hammer?
What did you say Going out athammer?
And?
Speaker 5 (36:50):
tongs.
Speaker 2 (36:52):
Hammer and tongs, yeah, going at it.
Speaker 3 (36:54):
Hammer and tongs, yeah, oh yeah.
I don't mean to insult ourAustralian cousins, but that's a
very English expression.
I heard it from my parents allthe time.
Speaker 5 (37:07):
Absolutely.
Canada and Australia.
We are both the colonies.
Speaker 3 (37:13):
Yeah, you ended up with better climate but nastier
critters.
Speaker 5 (37:18):
Oh, they're not nasty .
Speaker 3 (37:22):
Everything in Australia is trying to kill you.
Speaker 5 (37:25):
Yes, it is.
I did put a picture of a localcrocodile in the chat too.
Yeah, and he's a big boy, thatone.
Speaker 3 (37:34):
Actually, I almost ended up in Australia.
When my mum and dad came overfrom the UK, one of his options
was to do his national servicewith the Australian Navy, but
they didn't need any doctors atthe time, so we ended up here.
Speaker 5 (37:46):
Oh, okay, there you go.
It would have been nice, butyou've ended up there instead.
Speaker 3 (37:52):
Yeah, I have no complaint.
You have better neighbors, ooh.
Speaker 2 (38:02):
Ouch town.
Speaker 3 (38:04):
Sorry, I'll behave now.
Speaker 2 (38:07):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (38:09):
Thanks, rich.
I appreciate you sharing yourstory and I'm so glad that
Baden's still going strong at 10.
That's awesome, veryheartwarming, love it.
We have some people in the chatsaying Jamie's story makes me
laugh.
Sounds like the canine versionof Bridgerton.
I don't know much aboutBridgertonerton, chris.
Have you, do you know anythingabout bridgerton?
Speaker 2 (38:31):
no, just that, it's very popular I think it's
scandalous.
There's some scandals thathappen in bridgerton, so it
would be right up my alleybecause of the gossip, and I
like all the drama you do.
Speaker 1 (38:43):
You love the drama, llama, that's true.
Uh, okay, so I've gone throughthe chat.
I think I've answered all ofthe questions.
I'm just gonna take thebernoulli cam off solo, so we're
back on chris okay, jamie hasher hand up oh again.
Speaker 5 (39:07):
Sorry, I've got the chatters.
Today somebody commented aboutbanuli and his cone taking about
the same amount of time asbananas ripening.
We did the grocery shoppingthis week and we bought two
bunches of bananas and whateverother vegetables and fruit that
we needed, and we bring all thebags inside and we usually have
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the dogs downstairs so theydon't help with putting all the
shopping away and then they getlet back.
Yes, they got let back inside,and then the next day I'm
looking for some bananas.
I could not find the bananasanywhere and my husband sends me
a message at work saying whereare the bananas?
And I said I don't know.
Are they here, here, here, here?
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And we couldn't find them.
Anyway.
We searched for two or threedays and then on Friday I walked
around the yard and I foundwhat was left of the bananas and
it was just the banana peelsand the little sticky stumps
beside a big sweet potato thatthey obviously didn't like, but
two bunches of bananas gotdogged and obviously didn't like
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, but two bunches of bananas gotdogged.
We didn't get any sorry aboutthe bananas, that's like my kind
of like my blueberries exactlylike your blueberries river is
obsessed with bananas.
He loves them.
Speaker 3 (40:27):
He loves them to bits so yes, banana dogs if you
recall, we had a blueberryincident in our house too.
I saw that, and then, also.
Speaker 1 (40:42):
We Rate Dogs had a.
We actually follow this littleburner on Instagram, Chris.
His name's Duncan the LittleBurner.
So one of the latest posts ofwe Rate Dogs was they were
giving this little guy ablueberry and he liked it and
the little puppy barked foranother blueberry.
So we got tagged a milliontimes and, of course, because
everybody loves the blueberrystory and that's what our
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account is associated with whenthere's blueberries yeah, little
duncan was eating a cherrytoday I know he's very cute um I
didn't want to say but aren'tcherries not good for dogs?
I didn't think so uh, theyprobably shouldn't have currants
, yeah, so I don't know, was ita?
Speaker 2 (41:20):
cherry.
Yeah, I thought it was likepitted things that aren't good.
Speaker 1 (41:27):
Yeah, I just Googled it quick.
No, they can eat.
Speaker 5 (41:31):
Cherries are fine you just have to remove the pits.
Speaker 1 (41:33):
Yeah, I think it's other things that they can't eat
.
Speaker 2 (41:38):
Dates, yeah, currant.
Speaker 3 (41:41):
Raisins, grapes.
Speaker 1 (41:43):
Yeah, it's raisins, garlic and the grapes.
Yeah, onions are not great fordogs.
Speaker 2 (41:50):
And aloe vera.
The aloe vera plant Not good.
Speaker 1 (41:54):
Yeah, so cherries are good.
All right, we're at the top ofthe hour.
I think we should wrap up.
Speaker 2 (42:02):
Sure.
I'm just looking here, there'sno other speakers or speaker
requests.
Speaker 1 (42:09):
No.
Speaker 2 (42:10):
Look at the goodest boy, the set up.
Bunsen's the goodest boy.
And then Bernoulli is justthere with his cone on, and
Beaker is just there too.
Speaker 1 (42:19):
Yeah, bunsen's a good boy, always a good boy.
Speaker 2 (42:22):
Always so good, look at him.
Speaker 1 (42:23):
Yeah, he's so cute, beaker moves around a lot.
Speaker 2 (42:30):
I watch them on the Furbo.
I creep them all day.
I creep our dogs all day.
I should be teaching, but I amteaching and on my breaks I
creep the dogs.
Speaker 1 (42:41):
We have that new Eye of Sauron camera, which I hate
because it follows you aroundwith its AI.
I hate it.
It's like super creepy.
Speaker 2 (42:49):
No, you love it.
Speaker 1 (42:52):
Because I don't know if it's AI or you're watching me
silently somewhere.
Because you do that sometimesyou make the little eye follow
me around the house.
No, no, somewhere.
Because you do that sometimesyou make the little eye follow
me around the house.
(43:12):
No, all right.
Should we do uh draw for barkand beyond?
Yes, okay, so if you'rewatching live, uh, drop a
comment so we know that you'rehere.
Um, drop a comment so we knowyou're here.
If you're watching live, uh, wedon't know.
You're just just a number.
Like I've got numbers fromstream yard and they have to hop
back to the Instagram livething.
I don't know who's here.
Drop a comment so you can bepart of the draw.
Speaker 2 (43:30):
But 37 are here on X.
Speaker 1 (43:32):
Yeah, that's right.
Yeah, it's like over a thousandon stream yard, so it's just.
That's just.
People have come in and come upgone.
We don't have a thousand people.
Speaker 2 (43:42):
I don't think congruently but it's very
exciting to see Bunsen be.
Speaker 1 (43:47):
Yeah, I don't know.
Maybe we should try that nextweek without having Bernoulli
down here.
Look at Bunsen.
Maybe, he's a good boy.
Speaker 2 (43:55):
Yeah, can they hear us?
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (44:05):
Your phone?
Yeah, can they hear us?
I don't know your phone.
I think maybe let's see bunsengood boy.
No, bernoulli's just barking atrandom things, okay, uh, so
we're waiting for people to putin some 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8,
9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16.
(44:28):
And how many people on Twitter?
Chris?
Speaker 2 (44:31):
36 now, but do 34 because I apparently can't win.
Speaker 1 (44:36):
Okay, no, you cannot win 36,.
50.
Oof.
Random number 50.
Okay, so if we're over 34,somebody wins, not on twitter.
Nine okay, I did roll a nine.
That's the number nine wins.
Oh, for transparency, I shouldshare my screen just so people
(44:59):
can see.
So I just use random numbers,random number nine.
There we go, okay.
So nine on Twitter is one, two,three, four, five, six, seven,
eight, nine.
That's Steve.
Steve Mansberger,congratulations.
Speaker 2 (45:14):
Okay, steve has won three times.
Speaker 1 (45:17):
Has he?
I rolled the nine.
That's what it is.
Speaker 2 (45:20):
I'm pretty sure he donates it back.
But, maybe not this time, soI'm not sure.
Speaker 1 (45:25):
I rolled the nine.
I don't want to speak for Steve.
He is the ninth person in thelist.
That's just how it goes,congratulations.
Speaker 2 (45:37):
Steve's come up to speak.
Hi, Steve.
Speaker 1 (45:39):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (45:42):
Hi Steve, oh Hi yeah.
Why don't you either roll againor we can do something like
have Barkin Beyond, donate it toa shelter, or something like
that.
Speaker 1 (45:53):
You know what let's do that.
Are you okay with that, Steve?
Let's have Barkin Beyond.
Do a donation.
That is perfectly fine with mesomebody.
Some dog owner will reallyappreciate that.
Our cat owner, steve, thanksfor being very generous with
your prize no problem and you'realso so fast at the kahoot in
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the chat.
Speaker 2 (46:14):
I don't even know how you do it so quickly.
You're like chesney and you'relike fast deference and I'm like
how is he, how is steve doingthis so quickly?
Speaker 3 (46:26):
that apparently the only time that I can type fast,
especially on my phone it'sawesome, is ginger with you,
chris she was.
Speaker 2 (46:38):
I'll go look for her quick okay.
Speaker 1 (46:40):
Just people are asking if they could see Ginger
real quick before we shut down.
All right, we got some nicecomments for Steve for donating
his prize.
That's awesome.
All right, I don't know whatBernoulli's barking about.
He's barking, he's justrandomly barking, shut up.
(47:00):
She's looking back at him.
What are you doing?
So, as we wrap up today, just acouple news items.
Normally we talk about some ofour upcoming products or things
that we're really excited aboutand, not to be too much of a
downer to end with a downer, butChris and I have decided to put
all of our new productsindefinitely on hold.
(47:22):
We don't know what's happeningwith the tariffs, which are very
unfortunate and extremelyfrustrating for our country.
So that's just our little twocents there, but it is
definitely put everything thatwe do on hold for the
foreseeable future.
So I just thought, if you'relike wondering about the stuff
that we're doing, that is thatstopped and chris has ginger, so
(47:45):
that's good, like a fun thingwith my sad news.
Uh, there's too muchuncertainty for us to move
forward with any of our stuff.
So just a heads up there ifyou're wondering hey, then they
talked about a thing and yeah,we did, but we'll just have to
wait and see.
It might be a couple monthsbefore we can give anybody
(48:08):
information about that.
Okay, all right, chris, thanksfor showing ginger.
That was really cute.
I'm sure people were reallyhappy.
Speaker 2 (48:17):
She was so comfortable on the futon.
I felt really badly aboutpicking her up.
She was like I'm like peoplewere really happy.
She was so comfortable on thefuton.
I felt really badly aboutpicking her up.
She was like I'm like hi,ginger, and she meowed and she
laid on her back and then.
I scooped her, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (48:31):
All right Time to wrap up.
Speaker 2 (48:34):
Did you say hi to Indra?
Speaker 1 (48:36):
Oh no, hi Indra.
So Indra's listening.
Indra's our partner with Stuffon Spaces.
Indra runs really good showsoccasionally on positivity.
Check out her stuff If you'relooking for something positive
to follow.
Indra's a good follow.
Good to see you.
Speaker 2 (48:52):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (48:53):
Yeah, hopefully it warms up a bit.
We're in a bit of a deep freezeand sadly Bunsen is on low
activity and Bernoulli ishealing, so we haven't been able
to go out in the snow.
I saw the drifts are calling.
I look out the canyon or thecoulee that we live on top of
and I just so want to go explorethose drifts with the dogs.
(49:14):
But maybe tomorrow We'll see.
Speaker 2 (49:18):
Bernoulli needs two weeks, I know he needs two weeks
.
Speaker 1 (49:20):
I know he needs two weeks.
Speaker 2 (49:21):
I know I am like the fun sponge when it comes to
pushing the dogs to do things.
I'm like no, and you're like,oh, it's fine.
And I'm like no, I just say no,I wouldn't take Bunsen, I would
take Beaker and Bernoulli.
Speaker 1 (49:33):
They'd be fine.
Just Beaker.
Maybe I'll just take Beaker inher snow pants, that'll be cute.
Yeah, that'd be cute.
Yeah, I've gone on walks withher by myself before.
It's cute having thatone-on-one time with Beaker,
because she's a bit of themiddle child and she's so good.
I don't think she gets enoughcredit sometimes.
(49:53):
No, all right, we'll seeeverybody next week.
Hello pet enthusiasts .
My name is Jason Zakowski.
I'm the dog dad of Bunsen,Beaker and Bernoulli the science
dogs of social media.
My co-hostest with the mostestis Hi there, I'm Chris Zakowski.
I am the dog mom to bunsen,beaker and bernoulli and the cat
mom to ginger every week onsaturday evening, we bring
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together the community thatfollows us on social media, all
right.
So if you've never been to petchat before, if you have, chris
and I usually share some of thetop stories of the weeks with
the animals and then we get tocommunity sharing and we answer
questions.
So if you're watching live onInstagram, if you're watching
live on Instagram, we'll get tosome of your questions right
(00:56):
away and if you're waiting tospeak, we'll get you up after
that point.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Do you want to start with the story?
Speaker 3 (01:11):
from this week.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Chris, or do you want me to?
So on Sunday was a veryexciting day.
It was awesome because we hadplanned a visit with Marla and I
had said, hey, so let's therewind button.
I had given her a call and wetalked for over an hour, um, and
I said, hey, we can drive upand can you think of anywhere
that we could go?
That would be great.
And then we were talking andthen I happened to mention that
we were at the school and she'slike, oh, you know what that's
(01:33):
like a good indoor place,because you can't count on the
weather.
And I was like, oh, yeah, okay,but then her making the journey
down to us and I didn't want toput her out or anything but
journey down to us, and I didn'twant to put her out or anything
.
But she said, no, that's noproblem, it'll be great to get
out of the house and it was sogood.
So she arrived with Pistol'sdad and we've never met him.
(01:55):
We got a chance to meet him andthank him for all the that, all
that he did to to support Marlawhen you know when we lost Kuno
and all the support that he andPistol have been doing with
Chesney since.
So it's just awesome.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Okay, you go ahead.
Yeah, yeah, billy was veryexcited to see Chesney.
He was barking a bit, not thebest manners, but once we were
walking them around then theygot to see each other right away
.
And man did these two dogs seeeach other right away.
And man did do these two dogslove each other.
They played the whole time.
Chesney is so fast and tiredBernoulli right out.
(02:33):
You can see he's now on thefloor.
If you're watching live.
I've got some pictures up thereand then you of course, got a
cuddle with both of them, whichwas very cute, and chesney's big
, but she looks small next tobernoulli because bernoulli is
so big yeah, it was amazing.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Now I'm not gonna lie like bernoulli had has aged out
of waggles and his puppy playedeight and so he hasn't been
hanging around with other dogsexcept for our dogs.
And when Beaker just hungaround with me and Bunsen during
COVID she became resourceprotective and I thought, oh man
, I don't want the same thing tohappen with Bernoulli.
(03:15):
So I said to Marla I said I ama little nervous, Like we're
going to go into kind of a largespace area.
And I said, and it's set uplike with desks everywhere.
She's like, oh, this is perfect, Because then there's space
between them.
And then, if we need to go backa bit and do a back and forth,
I said, oh, that's awesome.
But I still was nervous untiluntil it was a successful meet
(03:39):
and greet, because especiallyBernoulli was doing some barking
and Marla was worried thatChesney would be doing some
barking.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Chesney was so well behaved.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
So well behaved.
But she has been barking atother dogs when Marla's been
going out and about, and it wasa new behavior, because Kuno's
not there is.
What Marla attributed to oh, itwas so good they they got out
out, they were playing, theywere play bowing.
And it just reminded me of whatevery everyone at waggle said
(04:09):
about bernoulli is that he canmatch the dog's energy.
If he's playing with a littleterrier, he matches their energy
and if they're like a tiny dog,then he bows down to them and
plays on their level like alittle bella.
There's little bella, she'slike a maltese cross.
He plays so well with her andthen.
But he also plays rottweilerand he plays german shepherd and
(04:30):
he plays doodle, and so he justmatches their energy.
And one thing I'm very gratefulfor is that he did not at all
try and mount chesney.
Yeah there was none.
Of that was good Cause the nextday he was going for his
vasectomy.
But I was just like, wow, wow,please don't do that.
(04:51):
And he didn't.
He's such a good boy and theyplayed so well.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Yeah, he has.
He's not really doing that,which is good.
And, of course, after I postedabout Bernoulli's procedure,
especially on Instagram, I didthese carousel cards and people
had a lot of questions.
I don't have all the answersbecause I'm not a vet, but that
when to neuter your dog is apersonal decision with your
(05:15):
family.
Yes, you should wait, okay.
No, you should do whatever yourvet recommends.
And our vet is on up to datewith some of the stuff.
I've been reading the newresearch that you shouldn't
neuter big dogs until they'retwo.
But that can sometimes be a bigproblem for some families.
If the dog has a lot of liketestosterone issues, they can be
(05:39):
get aggressive, they can bequite humpy, they can can start
urinating everywhere.
So some families want to waitthat long but they can't because
the bond with the animal bondwith your dog is being damaged
because of their behavior.
And we've just been lucky withBernoulli.
He has none of that.
He doesn't show any of thatreally at all.
So we're going to ride it outand I think he's back at Waggles
(06:03):
next week.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
We can book him in next week, right, not this week
not this week but the next week,just only because he does have
to heal, yeah, but the healingtime is less.
Now, hello, both beaker andbunsen are so good in their
cones, there's no issues, and infact.
(06:24):
So bernoulli comes home with acone and I'm like, oh, this is
good, he's gonna be fine.
Was I wrong?
Was I wrong?
He like split it and it waslike destroyed and you left for
work.
You're like bye, I'm going towork and I'm looking at
Bernoulli and he's, and the coneis all smushed and broken, and
(06:44):
I'm I said oh no, so I ducttaped it together, duct taped it
, and then I came home for lunchbecause I couldn't handle it.
I'm like he's gonna, he's gonnachew that duct tape.
It's not gonna be good.
You know what?
I was right, he chewed thatduct tape.
And so I thought, okay, I'mgonna go get bunsen's cone now.
How long have we had bunsen'scone?
(07:06):
since he was, since he wasneutered like at one yeah, so
he's seven and a half, so we'vehad that six and a half years
yeah yeah, and it's in pristinecondition not anymore, not
anymore.
So Bernoulli has destroyed.
It's still workable if we, ifwe, watch him, but no, it's not
(07:30):
good.
Yeah, and so now I was going tobuy another cone today, but we
do have his surgesuit and hehasn't worn his surgesuit all
day today because we're home andwe can watch him.
Yeah, and just surgery suit allday today because we're home
and we can watch him.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Yeah, and hopefully it's healing.
Yeah, he's not licking.
I haven't seen him lick at alltoday without with his cone or
surgery suit off.
But when we're not watching him, either he's in a surgery suit
or he's in the duct tape cone,but he comes through like a
wrecking ball, like he justsmashes through with that cone.
You gotta watch out.
It really hurts.
It hurts your back, your legsyeah, oh yeah.
(08:07):
And then today he demonstratedhow he goes with his cone like a
lampshade over ginger yeah,it's the easiest way to lick
them all the cat is to trap herin the lampshade yeah, and I
have a little bit of that onvideo oh, you do.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
That's funny, I do yeah, just a split second of it,
because he was doing it.
And then I got the camera andthen Beaker is like what are you
doing?
And she was like the conepolice.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
We have some good comments about the onesies are a
great option.
There's the donut cone, sothat's something we might want
to look into.
I'm always leery about thedonut cone because the burners
are so strong they could maybesquish it down, but something we
can look at for sure.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
I think we tried it with Bunsen and it didn't go
good.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
He didn't like it.
He couldn't sleep in it.
Yeah, he couldn't lay his headflat.
Yeah, so we stopped.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Where is it then?
Speaker 1 (08:59):
I don't know, somewhere We've lost it.
That was years ago.
I know, lost the time.
Lost the time.
Friday Bunsen had hisappointment and we talked about
that, I think, on last Pet Chatand he's been.
They did a bunch of likeneurological testing with him
and they think his tippy tappingis not arthritis related.
(09:23):
He's got a lot of painsomewhere in his neck or his
spine so it's either some kindof slip disc, they think, or
something a little bit moreserious like something
neurological.
So he has a.
We've got him booked in to seea neurologist because they said
the next step is to do an MRI ora CAT scan.
(09:44):
But MRI or CAT scans look fordifferent things and because
they're not experts, they saidyou could go to the specialist
and the specialist wouldprobably be able to make a
better call and then maybe beable to diagnose it faster than
they could, even with an MRI ora CAT scan.
But Red Deer doesn't have anMRI for dogs, right?
Speaker 2 (10:06):
No, they don't.
And so our option is to go downto Calgary and have them have a
look at him and they'll decideon the spot whether it's a CAT
scan or an MRI because theycould potentially look for more
of the prototype cysts.
But if you think about it, inhumans, if you lose a lot of
(10:29):
weight quickly, it's hard onyour body and Bunsen in his
chest, like in his cavity, therehe potentially had like his
heart was, the cyst was attachedto his aorta and his liver.
That's 10 pounds overnight thathe lost and I don't know.
I think it's all connected,like I know.
(10:49):
I keep saying that I do.
I keep saying that if you arewhat you eat from your head to
your feet and if you eat aprototype cyst, then it grows
inside you, it might be pushingon your spine and I know he was
cleared for activity yeah andthe activity that we do with him
.
In september, what we were doingor in october was like just
(11:11):
normal dog activity.
It's not like we had himclimbing mountains again.
But I just hope that if youthink about humans, which are
different than dogs, but if youthink of, like a breast
reduction and the back, all thatweight and I don't know I'm
speaking at a turn because Ihave no idea but it's like all
of a sudden gone overnight andit impacts like how you walk and
(11:34):
how everything's once and mightbe going through that or it
could be something morenefarious.
But we will have to wait andsee.
Yeah, I'm always wonderingabout before it was the
prototype cyst.
I was wondering if it was likea porcupine quill that went in
and is wreaking havoc on some ofhis musculature.
But I don't know.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
I don't know and he we don't know, and so we're just
gonna go, uh, check it out yeah, so he's, and he's booked in
very soon, so it's not likewe're waiting any very long at
all.
So like it's coming up likethis week and then we'll have
we'll probably have betteranswers, um, for good or for bad
, about what's going on withbunsen.
Well, you felt, and I did too,that he was maybe a little bit
(12:18):
more tippy tappy this week afterplateauing, or even getting
better, so we'll just have tokeep an eye on it.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
She did say maybe to stop doing the therapy.
So we never startedrehabilitation therapy.
But I was massaging hisshoulders a little bit when I
was petting him and likemassaging by his hips, but I
don't want to cause more damage.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Yeah, that's what the vet said she's like.
If it's some kind of slippeddisc or a degenerative thing,
you need to know what it isbefore you start rehab so you
don't cause the dog discomfort.
Yeah, yeah, today it isfrigidly cold.
(13:02):
I took him out today by himselffor what?
Five minutes.
It was about minus 31, probablycolder with the wind, and he
was just diving into the snowand doing bunts and stuff.
So that was really good to see.
Oh, I should take the Kahootbanner down.
I'll put up the Bark and Beyondone.
Okay, and no real update onBeaker.
Beaker's still just being agood girl.
(13:26):
Somebody asked why we don'thave a Beaker and why we don't
have a Beaker and Bunsen Cam,and that's because I don't know.
We don't have a way for them tostay in one spot like Bernoulli
, and I don't know if our housecould handle four things at once
, four different, or internet.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Yeah, or internet.
I don't know if we could handlefour things at once Four
different.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Our internet, yeah, our internet.
I don't know if we could handlefour internets at once.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Yeah, I don't think we have any more burner phones.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
We have one.
We could set up one more, theactual burner On your actual
burner phone.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
No, because I have to be on Twitter on this phone.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Oh that's right, Okay yeah.
Maybe on this phone.
Oh that's right, Okay yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Maybe on my iPad.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Yeah, we're out of a bill.
Yeah, but you'd have to have astand for it, anyways.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Well, give the people what they want, Jason.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
If it works today, I can take this and just go
upstairs and show everybodyBunsen and Beaker they're
probably just sleeping, allright.
Hey, I'm all out of stories,chris, do you have anything?
Should we go to communitysharing and answering questions?
Speaker 2 (14:31):
I was going to talk about the do clause.
Oh yeah, go ahead.
And that was to do withBernoulli.
Yeah, this is very funny, butnot funny.
I thought the vet clinic openedat seven, that we could do our
drop off at 7am.
That was wrong.
I have a workout at 730.
And I was like huh, here I am,seven o'clock has come and went,
(14:52):
the lights are dark, there's nolights on.
710 has come and gone, 715 hascome and gone, and I have a
workout at seven 30.
And so then I looked on Googleand Google told me that they
open at seven 30.
And so I texted Jason.
I said fun fact, they open atseven 30.
(15:14):
And here I am early and they'renot open.
And Jason said I can't come inand spell you off, because by
the time he got there it wouldhave already been 7 30 anyway.
So I texted my trainer and Isaid I'm gonna be late, so sorry
, but anyway.
So now I'm in there and I'mdropping off for newly and he
weighs like as much as bunsen,yeah, and he's like such a good
(15:37):
boy.
And then she said okay, we'redoing this.
I'm like, yep, do blood work,sure, do all this other stuff
great.
And then she said would youlike to remove his do clause?
And I said I don't know I needto text jason and I texted you
(15:58):
and she's yeah, we do recommendit because, like they get caught
on anything, they can getinfected.
Da, da, da, da da.
And then I'm like uh, and thenyou had texted back and said no,
that you actually like them,that you play with his dewclaws
I love his little dewclaws andyou're like they're a part of
him, and so I said we're nottaking them off, we're gonna
(16:19):
leave his dewclaws.
If they become a problem then wecan revisit that later.
It didn't have to get done thatday, which is probably good,
because he would then need acone for longer and it would
just been a gong show with himand his cone because he'd be
like young, young, young eatinghis feet anyway.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
That was that story I'm trying to keep bernoulli on
the bernoulli cam, but he'smoving around yeah, weird, he's
a dog yeah he's not and my newphone is so heavy it it easily
falls out of the stand clamp, soit fell on the floor.
Sorry, everybody oh, that'sgood yeah, so I'm glad we didn't
(17:01):
remove his dewclaws.
I don't know, I don't thinkthey're going to be that big of
a problem.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
You said, Bunsen still has his but I can't see
Bunsen's.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
I don't think they took away his dewclaws.
I just remember when Bernoulliwas a little puppy they were
just like this little nub thingthat he would grab with his paws
, and I didn't want them to beremoved.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
So yeah, Okay, want them to be removed.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
So, yeah, okay, should we go to community
sharing?
Yes, absolutely okay.
Uh, I think jamie is up.
Jamie is good to go, so we'lllet we'll go.
We'll go to jamie, who'sspeaking on twitter good morning
everyone.
Speaker 5 (17:44):
It's half past 11 11 on Sunday, the 2nd of February
in the future?
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Yes, in the future, and I hear it's warm there.
Speaker 5 (17:55):
No, it's not.
It's not here, sorry.
It has been raining every dayfor the last week.
We've had probably half a metreby now in the last two days of
rain, so more than 500 metresYou're not washed away Because I
live on top of a hill Okay,that's the word to me.
(18:20):
That's it.
And really strong wind gusts.
So it's not a cyclone, but itmay as well be.
It's just taking longer aboutit, and really strong wind gusts
.
So it's not a cyclone, but itmay as well be, it's just taking
longer about it.
We're really good here becausewe're on top of a hill, but
areas in town like they'reevacuating people at the moment
and they're saying that somehouses second-story houses will
(18:45):
get flooded.
That's how much water there isin town at the moment.
Yes, we're nice and dry outhere and the dogs are just going
stir-crazy because they'reinside.
But I put a video in the chatof Rosie and Tennessee dogs
(19:05):
having their post-breakfast playand Tennessee's amazing.
Her back legs are so strong.
She just like levitates ontothe couch, she stands beside it
and then she's on top of it.
She didn't jump at all, she'sjust whee onto the couch.
It's like a snow day here.
(19:25):
It's a rain day and the schoolsare closed tomorrow and I'd say
I won't be going to worktomorrow because it's also very
wet.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
I'm glad you haven't washed away yet.
Speaker 5 (19:42):
No, and things like potholes opening up in the road.
And the one I saw yesterday, Ihaven't put my run yet today.
The one I saw yesterday, Ihaven't got my run yet today.
The one I saw yesterday wasthree meters in diameter and
half a meter deep.
You don't want to drive, that'sit.
You don't want to drive yourcar into that one because you'd
lose it.
But we've got at least anotherday of this train.
(20:07):
That's where we are and it'snot hot.
It's about 20 degrees, whichfor us in February is pretty
cold.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
So I'm actually back in bed with the blanket on.
Could you, if you don't mind,where again in Australia are you
?
I forget?
No, that's all right.
Where again in Australia areyou?
I forget?
Speaker 5 (20:31):
No, that's all right.
So we live in Townsville.
So when you look at Australia,the pointy bit on the right-hand
side, we're like on the coast,but sort of at the bottom of the
pointy bit.
The Gulf of Carpentaria is thescoop beside the pointy bit Very
technical terms here and was inabout the same line just below
(20:55):
the bottom of the Gulf ofCarpentaria.
And if anybody looks at theradar, I can actually I'll put a
picture of the radar up.
At the moment it's piddlingdown over most of North
Queensland.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Okay, Chris will throw that up in the nest.
I think she's already got it.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Yeah, I've got some of the posts that you've done.
Speaker 5 (21:20):
Yeah, so I'll put up the radar, the rain radar, so
you can see how widespread it is, because it's covering a fair
amount of the coast at themoment.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
And for people who aren't on Twitter, when we say
the Nest, there's this place.
You can put tweets.
That's up above on the audio.
You'll just have to pretend youcan see it.
If you're watching on live, Imight share the screen with my
Twitter so people can see it ina second here.
Speaker 5 (21:57):
So with the radar picture the reds and yellows are
more heavy rain, so some areashave had more than 700 mils of
rain in the last 24 hours.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Holy man, that's a lot of rain.
Speaker 5 (22:14):
It is a lot of rain and the scary thing for people
in town is the spaces that aregetting flooded now are the same
ones that flooded really badlysix years ago.
What Exactly six years ago?
(22:35):
What exactly six years ago?
And yeah, people were out oftheir homes for months and
months because of so much damageoh man, I hope that.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
I hope that doesn't happen.
That's always the worst whenthere thing yeah, that's us, the
dogs are good.
Speaker 5 (22:54):
I hope the chooks are good, because the chooks are
stuck down there in their yardin the rain.
They do have roofs, but yeah,it's just, it'll just be sloppy
and horrible for them.
But thank you and everyone,take care and good luck for
Sexton Early.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Right now he is licking the wall and licking the
wall.
I might have to do somethingelse here, chris, we'll go to
thanks Jamie.
We'll go to Dr Tracy and thento Rich aka Baden.
Hi, dr Tracy.
Speaker 4 (23:29):
Hi hi everybody.
Good Rich, aka Baden, Hi DrTracy, hi Hi everybody.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Good to hear you, good to hear from you.
Speaker 4 (23:35):
Oh, yeah, I haven't talked in a long time.
Nothing's happened.
I have three dogs.
They're all large dogs and Ilive in the woods so we have air
tags on each dog so that ifthey happen to get out we can
find them more easily, becausewe have bears and bobcats and
(23:56):
coyotes and things like that.
Yeah, and so we have one of ourdogs is a treeing walker
coonhound, and if anyone has acoonhound they're just crazy,
absolutely crazy dogs, and shereally loved getting out of the
(24:20):
yard and it's a big yard.
We have over half an acre forthem to run in and play in, and
they chase squirrels andchipmunks, and so the app was
really the Apple AirTag wasreally handy to find where she
was when she'd get out.
And then one day she lost hercollar and we looked all over
the yard and couldn't find it.
So we thought, oh, probably acrow took it or something.
(24:42):
And so I used the Find my appon my phone and it said it was
600 feet away.
So I went 600 feet to a treeand it said it was 600 feet away
.
So I went 600 feet to a treeand it said it was in the tree,
and it was.
It is a hollow tree, and so wethought, oh, it's inside the
(25:03):
tree.
And I got a flashlight,couldn't find it anywhere, felt
in there and no matter how manytimes I tried, the app kept
saying that's where the AirTagwas.
So that was about eight or ninemonths ago.
Today my husband was in hisworkshop, which is a detached
(25:23):
garage about 50 feet from thehouse about 50 feet from the
house, and he moved some lumberand there was her collar with
the AirTag on it on the floorbetween two pieces of wood.
So she must have gotten herhead caught, chased a mouse or a
chipmunk or something andpulled her collar off.
(25:48):
And so it's been there all thistime.
But the app for the AirTag saidit was 600 feet away.
So if you have AirTags for youranimals, they're not always
completely accurate.
Now it says she's right herewith me, both her new AirTag and
her old AirTag.
(26:09):
So both Trudy 1 and Trudy 2 arehere with me, even though
there's only one, trudy.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
Oh, there they are.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Yeah, I was distracted newly for a second
there, jason's put them.
Speaker 4 (26:27):
Jason, just put it up and both beaker and bunsen are
there oh yeah he's gonna knockover the camera with his cone
guaranteed oh dear, oh dear.
Have you ever tried one ofthose big inflatable collars?
Speaker 1 (26:46):
we, we should.
We should probably try it withum bernoulli, but I seem to
should probably try it withBernoulli, but I seem to
remember we tried it with Bunsenand he didn't like it.
So yeah.
Speaker 4 (26:54):
Yeah, sometimes they work and sometimes they don't.
That's all Just wanted to tellyou.
Be careful if you have an airtag on your dog.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Chris will have to fill me in Tracy.
I was running up and downorganizing the dogs, but I so
appreciate you coming to shareyour story.
Speaker 4 (27:13):
Thanks, bye-bye.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Bye.
Speaker 4 (27:15):
Bye.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
What's Beaker doing?
Beaker's very curious about thecamera, oh.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
How do you have it so that they're there?
How did you block it?
Speaker 1 (27:28):
off, I've squished them into the entranceway and
there I've put the camera wherethere's lots of bright light,
and I guess that's just whatthey're doing right now, so
people get to see but how didyou squish them there?
Speaker 2 (27:39):
where is the bench?
Speaker 1 (27:40):
yeah, the where's the bench?
I've just the bench is there.
I hope I don't thinkbernoulli's gonna get into
anything because he can't.
There he is so, so he's justgoing to wander around.
It is what it is.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
So Jason went to brush his teeth and in the time
that Jason went to brush histeeth, bernoulli destroyed a
little bag that I had and it islike from Easter time, like that
shredded paper that you use,like in your Easter baskets.
And so I had a plastic bag ofshredded paper and Jason wasn't
(28:13):
watching Bernoulli he's.
I went to brush my teeth and Isaid that's when Bernoulli is
going to get into things.
You have to watch himconsistently and constantly
because he's not as good asBeaker and Bernoulli are, or
Beaker and Bunsen were, aspuppies Like.
He's into everything.
Oh, toilet paper, oh yeah, thiscrazy shredded paper, yes,
(28:35):
please.
And so then you said to me, yousaid to me how come there was
this paper in our room.
And I said, I countered thatwith how come you weren't
watching Bernoulli like a hawk.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
I was brushing my teeth.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
Yeah, I said you have to take him into the bathroom
with you.
Oh that's what I do Constantsupervision.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
Yeah, people on live said they saw Ginger slink
underneath the gate, so that'sfunny.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
Yeah, she came down here oh she did Okay, there we
go.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
They're all going to lay down together.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
She's, she came down here.
Oh, she did Okay.
There we go, they're all goingto lay down together.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
Yay, all right, that's a fun development We'll
go to.
Who's next, rich?
Speaker 4 (29:16):
Yeah, on.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
Twitter yeah, rich, hey, congratulations rich on the
second place on Kahoot.
Well done, thank you.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
And Baden's birthday, yeah, and.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Baden's birthday, 10th birthday.
Baden had a birthday.
I saw that?
Speaker 3 (29:29):
Yep, yeah, he turned 10.
It's a little chilly here, Notas chilly as you guys.
We're only at minus 12, I thinkit was.
Ooh, that's shorts weather.
Yes, I'm not wearing shortsbecause I'm old and cranky and
I'd love to know how my Scotsancestors wore kilts in such
cold weather, but that's a wholeother thing.
(29:50):
So, yes, he was 10 years oldand we were out for a walk today
and he's acting like he's 10months old and absolutely an
idiot.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
It's great, I love it .
That's so good to have an olderdog that's still got a spring
in their step.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
We had about—I've got to love Canada.
I do temperatures in Celsiusand I do snow in inches.
I do temperatures in Celsiusand I do snow in inches.
Yeah, we had about three inchesof snow down, so we were moving
it off the driveway and we hadhim outside with us and he was
(30:22):
doing zoomies in circles.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
Aw, Aw, that's cute.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
I love that.
Yeah, yeah.
No, he lives up to his nicknameas the chocolate goofball, but
he's absolutely exhausted now.
Another thing that was reallycool is our grand.
It's actually a cat toy, butanyway he grabbed it and he let
(30:46):
my granddaughter grab Holt ofthe other end of it.
It's just a little stuffed toyand he was ever so gently
playing tug of war and she wasactually leading him around the
house by it.
He was just happily comingalong behind her.
It's really cool to see.
It's just he's so good with her.
It's amazing how good he iswith her.
(31:07):
That's awesome.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
And oh, that's better .
You zoomed in on the bernoullicam.
Yeah, yeah, I got rid of chrisand I.
Some people on instagram wereuh, I think it's smushed on
instagram because it shows itland, uh, portrait, and where I
have it in landscape, because Itried it that one time and
everybody who were who'swatching on a computer hated it,
so I went back, but anywaysyeah, the.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
the other thing is and this is for all our canadian
friends is that tim hortons andI believe it's still going on
tomorrow is they're sellingspecial olympic donuts and all
proceeds from the donuts go tosupport special Olympics in your
area.
And, and as many of yourregular listeners will know, my
(31:54):
daughter is a special Olympian.
She has medals coming out, theyin yang.
Okay, maybe that's not, maybethat's not suitable for a family
time, but she's got lots ofmedals.
It's a really great, reallygreat organization and, if you
can find it and the donuts areactually pretty good too
(32:14):
probably 10 million calories,but it's so frigging cold across
most of Canada you need allthose calories to stay warm.
Actually, I just put a pictureof her and one of her teammates
and our local staff sergeantwith the RCMP.
They were up at our localTimmy's.
They're making donut.
They actually made some of thedonuts and they were talking.
(32:36):
We were talking to people aboutspecial Olympics and all that
sort of thing, and I normallydon't try to take over your
sponsors, but what Tim Hortonsdoes is just, I think, so
important for the community.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
I love that We'll have to pick up some doughnuts.
Yeah, I love that too.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
I tried to get one the other day and I said, hi,
and I was getting coffee, and Isaid I'd like, because they had
it advertised, they had thedoughnut there and I'm like, can
I please have a Special Olympicdoughnut?
And they're like, no, itdoesn't start until the 31st.
(33:14):
And I said, oh, why do you haveit advertised?
And but then it was fine, Ijust went away with my coffee
and then I'm like I'll come back.
That's how they get you.
They advertise it, you want it,and then they don't have it and
then you have to come back yeah, oh, for sure, for sure.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
They're marketers, right, they know how to get
people in yeah, I love the smile.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
The smile cookies is always big because, of course,
chris and I are teachers.
Yeah, yeah, so we always tryand get some smile cookies.
They're actually really yummy,they're delicious.
They're a problem, actually,because you can pack back two or
three of those and you don'teven know what's happened.
We'll make sure we get at leastone of those donuts tomorrow or
the next day.
Speaker 3 (33:54):
Yeah, I think it ends tomorrow.
Oh, ok, all right, yep, soyou'll have to emerge into the
cold weather and and go get one.
And just a question, if I may,if I'm not taking up too much
time what is that?
I know the obvious differencesbetween neutering and
bernoullectomy.
Oh, it's just been so much funwith that.
(34:18):
You guys have done really welland I'll be good, and I won't
tell the story that I put onTwitter.
I don't know if you read it ornot, but it's what happened to
me.
Dig through my timeline, you'llfind it okay.
And but behavior wise, how doeswhat's the difference?
What difference does theneutering versus vasectomy make?
(34:39):
Or am I asking the wrong person?
Speaker 1 (34:41):
no.
So the research shows verylittle.
So the vasectomy is like for adog that isn't potentially
having all of those maletestosterone behaviors, and it
allow it in some places.
It allows the dog to go wherethey're not normally allowed to
(35:02):
go if they're not quote-unquoteneutered.
So it's like an in-between.
If you full-on neuter your dogand remove the testicles,
they're not going to have thattestosterone, so you're going to
have some behavior changespotentially, whereas with a
vasectomy the sperm doesn't getout.
Speaker 3 (35:26):
I'm familiar with a vasectomy.
Trust me.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
Yeah, but just to make a long story short,
generally there's no change intheir behavior from an intact to
a vasectomy, but anecdotallysome people see a little bit
less testosterone issues.
That's just anecdotally.
Speaker 5 (35:45):
Jamie, you got your hand up, that's just anecdotally
, jamie, you got your hand up,rich, when we had our dog
vasectomized 40 years ago.
His behavior didn't change atall.
His litter sister was stillintact.
She came into season.
His behavior didn't change atall and he still did everything
(36:07):
that a boy dog does with a girldog.
Yeah, for two weeks nonstop,until they were both lying on
the floor exhausted.
It's funny, because he wasnagging for like the first three
days.
He's nagging at her going comeon, and she's going to go away.
And then for a week in themiddle they're both at the same
level of enthusiasm.
(36:27):
And then for like the threedays after that, she's nagging
at him going come on, and he'sgoing.
Speaker 3 (36:35):
oh my goodness jamie has a word for it.
Speaker 2 (36:45):
What was it getting going hammer?
What did you say Going out athammer?
And?
Speaker 5 (36:50):
tongs.
Speaker 2 (36:52):
Hammer and tongs, yeah, going at it.
Speaker 3 (36:54):
Hammer and tongs, yeah, oh yeah.
I don't mean to insult ourAustralian cousins, but that's a
very English expression.
I heard it from my parents allthe time.
Speaker 5 (37:07):
Absolutely.
Canada and Australia.
We are both the colonies.
Speaker 3 (37:13):
Yeah, you ended up with better climate but nastier
critters.
Speaker 5 (37:18):
Oh, they're not nasty .
Speaker 3 (37:22):
Everything in Australia is trying to kill you.
Speaker 5 (37:25):
Yes, it is.
I did put a picture of a localcrocodile in the chat too.
Yeah, and he's a big boy, thatone.
Speaker 3 (37:34):
Actually, I almost ended up in Australia.
When my mum and dad came overfrom the UK, one of his options
was to do his national servicewith the Australian Navy, but
they didn't need any doctors atthe time, so we ended up here.
Speaker 5 (37:46):
Oh, okay, there you go.
It would have been nice, butyou've ended up there instead.
Speaker 3 (37:52):
Yeah, I have no complaint.
You have better neighbors, ooh.
Speaker 2 (38:02):
Ouch town.
Speaker 3 (38:04):
Sorry, I'll behave now.
Speaker 2 (38:07):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (38:09):
Thanks, rich.
I appreciate you sharing yourstory and I'm so glad that
Baden's still going strong at 10.
That's awesome, veryheartwarming, love it.
We have some people in the chatsaying Jamie's story makes me
laugh.
Sounds like the canine versionof Bridgerton.
I don't know much aboutBridgertonerton, chris.
Have you, do you know anythingabout bridgerton?
Speaker 2 (38:31):
no, just that, it's very popular I think it's
scandalous.
There's some scandals thathappen in bridgerton, so it
would be right up my alleybecause of the gossip, and I
like all the drama you do.
Speaker 1 (38:43):
You love the drama, llama, that's true.
Uh, okay, so I've gone throughthe chat.
I think I've answered all ofthe questions.
I'm just gonna take thebernoulli cam off solo, so we're
back on chris okay, jamie hasher hand up oh again.
Speaker 5 (39:07):
Sorry, I've got the chatters.
Today somebody commented aboutbanuli and his cone taking about
the same amount of time asbananas ripening.
We did the grocery shoppingthis week and we bought two
bunches of bananas and whateverother vegetables and fruit that
we needed, and we bring all thebags inside and we usually have
(39:27):
the dogs downstairs so theydon't help with putting all the
shopping away and then they getlet back.
Yes, they got let back inside,and then the next day I'm
looking for some bananas.
I could not find the bananasanywhere and my husband sends me
a message at work saying whereare the bananas?
And I said I don't know.
Are they here, here, here, here?
(39:48):
And we couldn't find them.
Anyway.
We searched for two or threedays and then on Friday I walked
around the yard and I foundwhat was left of the bananas and
it was just the banana peelsand the little sticky stumps
beside a big sweet potato thatthey obviously didn't like, but
two bunches of bananas gotdogged and obviously didn't like
(40:10):
, but two bunches of bananas gotdogged.
We didn't get any sorry aboutthe bananas, that's like my kind
of like my blueberries exactlylike your blueberries river is
obsessed with bananas.
He loves them.
Speaker 3 (40:27):
He loves them to bits so yes, banana dogs if you
recall, we had a blueberryincident in our house too.
I saw that, and then, also.
Speaker 1 (40:42):
We Rate Dogs had a.
We actually follow this littleburner on Instagram, Chris.
His name's Duncan the LittleBurner.
So one of the latest posts ofwe Rate Dogs was they were
giving this little guy ablueberry and he liked it and
the little puppy barked foranother blueberry.
So we got tagged a milliontimes and, of course, because
everybody loves the blueberrystory and that's what our
(41:03):
account is associated with whenthere's blueberries yeah, little
duncan was eating a cherrytoday I know he's very cute um I
didn't want to say but aren'tcherries not good for dogs?
I didn't think so uh, theyprobably shouldn't have currants
, yeah, so I don't know, was ita?
Speaker 2 (41:20):
cherry.
Yeah, I thought it was likepitted things that aren't good.
Speaker 1 (41:27):
Yeah, I just Googled it quick.
No, they can eat.
Speaker 5 (41:31):
Cherries are fine you just have to remove the pits.
Speaker 1 (41:33):
Yeah, I think it's other things that they can't eat
.
Speaker 2 (41:38):
Dates, yeah, currant.
Speaker 3 (41:41):
Raisins, grapes.
Speaker 1 (41:43):
Yeah, it's raisins, garlic and the grapes.
Yeah, onions are not great fordogs.
Speaker 2 (41:50):
And aloe vera.
The aloe vera plant Not good.
Speaker 1 (41:54):
Yeah, so cherries are good.
All right, we're at the top ofthe hour.
I think we should wrap up.
Speaker 2 (42:02):
Sure.
I'm just looking here, there'sno other speakers or speaker
requests.
Speaker 1 (42:09):
No.
Speaker 2 (42:10):
Look at the goodest boy, the set up.
Bunsen's the goodest boy.
And then Bernoulli is justthere with his cone on, and
Beaker is just there too.
Speaker 1 (42:19):
Yeah, bunsen's a good boy, always a good boy.
Speaker 2 (42:22):
Always so good, look at him.
Speaker 1 (42:23):
Yeah, he's so cute, beaker moves around a lot.
Speaker 2 (42:30):
I watch them on the Furbo.
I creep them all day.
I creep our dogs all day.
I should be teaching, but I amteaching and on my breaks I
creep the dogs.
Speaker 1 (42:41):
We have that new Eye of Sauron camera, which I hate
because it follows you aroundwith its AI.
I hate it.
It's like super creepy.
Speaker 2 (42:49):
No, you love it.
Speaker 1 (42:52):
Because I don't know if it's AI or you're watching me
silently somewhere.
Because you do that sometimesyou make the little eye follow
me around the house.
No, no, somewhere.
Because you do that sometimesyou make the little eye follow
me around the house.
(43:12):
No, all right.
Should we do uh draw for barkand beyond?
Yes, okay, so if you'rewatching live, uh, drop a
comment so we know that you'rehere.
Um, drop a comment so we knowyou're here.
If you're watching live, uh, wedon't know.
You're just just a number.
Like I've got numbers fromstream yard and they have to hop
back to the Instagram livething.
I don't know who's here.
Drop a comment so you can bepart of the draw.
Speaker 2 (43:30):
But 37 are here on X.
Speaker 1 (43:32):
Yeah, that's right.
Yeah, it's like over a thousandon stream yard, so it's just.
That's just.
People have come in and come upgone.
We don't have a thousand people.
Speaker 2 (43:42):
I don't think congruently but it's very
exciting to see Bunsen be.
Speaker 1 (43:47):
Yeah, I don't know.
Maybe we should try that nextweek without having Bernoulli
down here.
Look at Bunsen.
Maybe, he's a good boy.
Speaker 2 (43:55):
Yeah, can they hear us?
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (44:05):
Your phone?
Yeah, can they hear us?
I don't know your phone.
I think maybe let's see bunsengood boy.
No, bernoulli's just barking atrandom things, okay, uh, so
we're waiting for people to putin some 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8,
9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16.
(44:28):
And how many people on Twitter?
Chris?
Speaker 2 (44:31):
36 now, but do 34 because I apparently can't win.
Speaker 1 (44:36):
Okay, no, you cannot win 36,.
50.
Oof.
Random number 50.
Okay, so if we're over 34,somebody wins, not on twitter.
Nine okay, I did roll a nine.
That's the number nine wins.
Oh, for transparency, I shouldshare my screen just so people
(44:59):
can see.
So I just use random numbers,random number nine.
There we go, okay.
So nine on Twitter is one, two,three, four, five, six, seven,
eight, nine.
That's Steve.
Steve Mansberger,congratulations.
Speaker 2 (45:14):
Okay, steve has won three times.
Speaker 1 (45:17):
Has he?
I rolled the nine.
That's what it is.
Speaker 2 (45:20):
I'm pretty sure he donates it back.
But, maybe not this time, soI'm not sure.
Speaker 1 (45:25):
I rolled the nine.
I don't want to speak for Steve.
He is the ninth person in thelist.
That's just how it goes,congratulations.
Speaker 2 (45:37):
Steve's come up to speak.
Hi, Steve.
Speaker 1 (45:39):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (45:42):
Hi Steve, oh Hi yeah.
Why don't you either roll againor we can do something like
have Barkin Beyond, donate it toa shelter, or something like
that.
Speaker 1 (45:53):
You know what let's do that.
Are you okay with that, Steve?
Let's have Barkin Beyond.
Do a donation.
That is perfectly fine with mesomebody.
Some dog owner will reallyappreciate that.
Our cat owner, steve, thanksfor being very generous with
your prize no problem and you'realso so fast at the kahoot in
(46:14):
the chat.
Speaker 2 (46:14):
I don't even know how you do it so quickly.
You're like chesney and you'relike fast deference and I'm like
how is he, how is steve doingthis so quickly?
Speaker 3 (46:26):
that apparently the only time that I can type fast,
especially on my phone it'sawesome, is ginger with you,
chris she was.
Speaker 2 (46:38):
I'll go look for her quick okay.
Speaker 1 (46:40):
Just people are asking if they could see Ginger
real quick before we shut down.
All right, we got some nicecomments for Steve for donating
his prize.
That's awesome.
All right, I don't know whatBernoulli's barking about.
He's barking, he's justrandomly barking, shut up.
(47:00):
She's looking back at him.
What are you doing?
So, as we wrap up today, just acouple news items.
Normally we talk about some ofour upcoming products or things
that we're really excited aboutand, not to be too much of a
downer to end with a downer, butChris and I have decided to put
all of our new productsindefinitely on hold.
(47:22):
We don't know what's happeningwith the tariffs, which are very
unfortunate and extremelyfrustrating for our country.
So that's just our little twocents there, but it is
definitely put everything thatwe do on hold for the
foreseeable future.
So I just thought, if you'relike wondering about the stuff
that we're doing, that is thatstopped and chris has ginger, so
(47:45):
that's good, like a fun thingwith my sad news.
Uh, there's too muchuncertainty for us to move
forward with any of our stuff.
So just a heads up there ifyou're wondering hey, then they
talked about a thing and yeah,we did, but we'll just have to
wait and see.
It might be a couple monthsbefore we can give anybody
(48:08):
information about that.
Okay, all right, chris, thanksfor showing ginger.
That was really cute.
I'm sure people were reallyhappy.
Speaker 2 (48:17):
She was so comfortable on the futon.
I felt really badly aboutpicking her up.
She was like I'm like peoplewere really happy.
She was so comfortable on thefuton.
I felt really badly aboutpicking her up.
She was like I'm like hi,ginger, and she meowed and she
laid on her back and then.
I scooped her, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (48:31):
All right Time to wrap up.
Speaker 2 (48:34):
Did you say hi to Indra?
Speaker 1 (48:36):
Oh no, hi Indra.
So Indra's listening.
Indra's our partner with Stuffon Spaces.
Indra runs really good showsoccasionally on positivity.
Check out her stuff If you'relooking for something positive
to follow.
Indra's a good follow.
Good to see you.
Speaker 2 (48:52):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (48:53):
Yeah, hopefully it warms up a bit.
We're in a bit of a deep freezeand sadly Bunsen is on low
activity and Bernoulli ishealing, so we haven't been able
to go out in the snow.
I saw the drifts are calling.
I look out the canyon or thecoulee that we live on top of
and I just so want to go explorethose drifts with the dogs.
(49:14):
But maybe tomorrow We'll see.
Speaker 2 (49:18):
Bernoulli needs two weeks, I know he needs two weeks
.
Speaker 1 (49:20):
I know he needs two weeks.
Speaker 2 (49:21):
I know I am like the fun sponge when it comes to
pushing the dogs to do things.
I'm like no, and you're like,oh, it's fine.
And I'm like no, I just say no,I wouldn't take Bunsen, I would
take Beaker and Bernoulli.
Speaker 1 (49:33):
They'd be fine.
Just Beaker.
Maybe I'll just take Beaker inher snow pants, that'll be cute.
Yeah, that'd be cute.
Yeah, I've gone on walks withher by myself before.
It's cute having thatone-on-one time with Beaker,
because she's a bit of themiddle child and she's so good.
I don't think she gets enoughcredit sometimes.
(49:53):
No, all right, we'll seeeverybody next week.
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