August 7, 2024 • 40 mins
Morgan White Jr. for NightSide:
As we enjoy the hot summer weather, it’s important to remember that our pets don’t always have the same cooling options as we do. Morgan talked with Mariel McCann Landolfi, President, Director, and Licensed Wildlife Rehabilitator at Hare of the Dog, about ways to keep your pets cool this summer!
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As we enjoy the hot summer weather, it’s important to remember that our pets don’t always have the same cooling options as we do. Morgan talked with Mariel McCann Landolfi, President, Director, and Licensed Wildlife Rehabilitator at Hare of the Dog, about ways to keep your pets cool this summer!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's Night Side with Dan Ray. I'm WBZ Koston's Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Our number two away here at BZ. My name Morgan W. Junior,
filling in for Dan Ray. Dan will be back. I'm
expecting on the twelfth of August next Monday. I'm here
tonight until midnight tomorrow and Friday as well, eight to midnight.
And I want to tell you that my next guest
(00:27):
is the president and director of Licensed Wildlife Rehabilitator at
Hair of the Dog and Hair is spelled Hare and
that's in Massachusetts. And remember, the heat is dangerous to
injured wildlife and domestic pets. Dehydration happens quickly, and you
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have to kind of watch out, not just for your pets,
but depending on where you live, there may be squirrels
or raccoons or rabbit apossums in your immediate neighborhood, in
your yard. You've got to pay attention to make sure
that they two are healthy. Believe it or not, squirrels
can fall out of trees. And if you don't believe me,
(01:12):
my guest, Mariel McCann can speak to that. Marielle, Welcome
to BESY and good evening to you.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Thank you so much, good evening to you too.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Now, how is it that a squirrel can fall out
of a tree?
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Now, generally there's two ways that I usually see, maybe three.
Two ways that I usually see are if their babies
and their mama isn't around anymore, whether you know it's
a hawk or you know different ways. Then when they
get hungry enough, then they'll start looking for food and
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they find a way down. And we always say the
bravest one comes down first, so they'll climb down in
hopes to find food somehow, even with their little eyes closed.
And so then they'll be crawling around the ground looking
for someone, sometimes with some facial injuries, that sort of thing.
And then they'll find their local rehabber like myself or
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there's a bunch of us listed on mass dot gov.
Find a rehabber and you can find one close to you,
and then we can give you great advice on whether
they need help or not. In that situation, one hundred percent,
it needs help, Okay.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
And now I'm going to say people, you've heard this.
I know listening to BZ during the day, the newscasts
repeatedly tell you about not just animals, but our kids
don't leave pets and kids in the hot car while
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you run to buy bread and milk from the store.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Don't do that, Oh absolutely so in ten minutes on
a seventy five degree day, in ten minutes, your car
goes up to ninety degree. So you know, if you
have an English bulldog or a French schees are so
popular now. Any of those short nosed dogs, they have
a hard time recovering, so anytime left in there then
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it's really dangerous, very quickly for them. You know, there's
stats obviously, if it's a ninety five degree day, ten minutes,
it's one hundred and fourteen in your car. So we
are thankful that Massachusetts did make the law that now
we can we do something about it. So if you
see a pet that isn't a car and you're worried
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about it, there are rules and steps to take to
save that dog or cat. Sometimes that happens as well,
but reaching out to your local police station or animal
control officer and trying to find the owner, and if
you can't, then you can't and that owner is out
a new window replacement costs and up to one hundred
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and fifty dollars fine be because pets are important to
the state of Massachusett.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
I'm going to make our conversation personal. This is Mriol
and Morgan. No go back one. It's about Joseph. I
know that Joseph. I know Joseph loved you, and you
love Joseph, but.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
I certainly did.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Joseph never wrapped his tail around your neck, did he.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Well, you can only be so special, you know.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Right, Joseph would consistently if I'm in bed, he would
come into the bedroom and wrap his tail almost completely
around my neck.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Yeah, he was pretty pretty close to perfect.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
And I know Nancy told you the story about the
flesh off. I'm not going to tell the story again
on the air, but next time you speak to Nancy Hafer,
retell that story to you. No, I'm going to ask
people if you want to call him six one, seven, two, five, four,
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ten thirty or eight eight, eight, nine to nine, ten thirty.
And Mariel, we hit thirty eight states with our signal
and also parts of Canada, so you've got a wide
audience if you want to call it. Maybe some go ahead.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
There may be some wildlife. I'm not familiar, not familiar
with rehab wives in some of those other states. Right,
I have advice for our ones in Massachusetts.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Okay, And if you were calling from an area that
does have wildlife raccoons, possums, rabbits, mariell can speak to
quick care. But always if you can let a professional know.
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What's that eight hundred? You didn't mention an eight hundred number,
but you did mention a number that allows you, an
everyday citizen to get in touch with professionals. What is
that information?
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Well on Massachusetts. So Massachusetts is the mass dot gov,
so every state will have their own wildlife listing and
mass dot gov. Find a Rehabber is the fastest and
easiest way to find a local rehab rehab center near you,
and it will give you phone numbers and how to
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contact and what animals they take care of, and everyone
can give you advice on whether an animal even needs help.
We never want to we never want to take in
a baby that it's mama's looking for it. So calling
an educated rehabber is the way.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
To go for that.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Okay. I've got to break coming up in about a minute,
and I'm going to ask you to touch on these
two subjects. Rabies are obviously something that people need to
be aware of and ticks. Tell a lot of people
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don't know what a tick looks like, and they don't
know where to look for a tick on their dog
a cat. I remember when I was a kid, I
used to spend summers in a community called Plimpton. We
had family down there and they had a big old
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dog and my aunt Margaret, every now and then would
have to pull ticks off this dog because the dog
ran into the brush consistently chasing whatever. And a lot
of people may have never had to do that. So
I want to talk about rabies and ticks and again, people,
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if you want to call in Mario mccanna's hair and
she can help you with the care and proper treat
meant of your kitty, your puppy, your iguana, whatever you
may have. Six one, seven, two, five, four, ten thirty
eight eight, eight, nine to nine, ten thirty and the
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show's night side. The time is nine point fifteen and
the temperature is sixty six degrees.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Now back to Dan ray Li from the Window World
night Side Studios on w b Z, the news radio.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Dan is off. I am here Morgan right, Junior, and
I'm speaking with the president and Director of Licensed Wildlife rehibator.
I was doing so well until I got to that
word rehabilitator at hair Hare of the Dog in Massachusetts.
Her name is Mariol mckainn, and Mariol before the break,
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I want to know about ticks and I wanted to
know about rabi's. Which one do we tackle first?
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Well? I deal with both relatively routinely at this point. Now,
raccoons are the majority of what I rehab They're my favorite.
I say that about a lot of species, but they're
my favorite. So both ticks and rabies is something that
raccoons deal with routinely. Kick Why is that?
Speaker 2 (09:25):
I'm sorry for interrecting, but why is that a common
malady that we find within not just raccoons, but rabbit, squirrels,
et cetera. Why do they seemingly have a great proliferation
of that disease.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Well, there's different levels of risk for different species, and
rabies and bats. Raccoons and bats are up at the
top that we see in Massachusetts. So it's certainly something
that I'm aware of. I'm not afraid of, but I'm
aware of the reason that I'm we take it so
seriously because it does transmit to humans and it is
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one hundred percent. I say one hundred percent. There has
been some cases of people you know surviving through, but
they're never the same. But you know, once you get symptoms,
you can't fix it. So every single raccoon that is
rehabbed and released from hair of the dog is fully
vaccinated against rabies as well as other live other diseases
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as well. But rabies is you know, something that it's
caused by, uh, It's spread through the animal biting another animal.
So any fighting, any communication you know, these social animals
is more apt to spread more rapidly. I feel as if,
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you know, without the actual data to the end of
the year, it feels like I'm seeing it a little
bit more this year than I have others. I don't
know why, but you know, I've known of a couple
other rehab as well that have dealt with it more
this year than they have others. I am very thankful
to the USDA and mass Doc GOV for helping to
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support and do testing and epidemiology for helping to educate
us through whether an animal is at risk or not
and what signs they're showing and what we should do
if we are if you know, if we're worried about that.
I think, yeah, ticks. So we're lucky now. You know,
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when you were a kid in visiting Limpton, which is
close to me here in Pembroke, right, you know, we
didn't have the same medications and preventatives that we do
now we're I'm very thankful of all the different options
that veterinarians have for for ticks and fleas that it
is so much better than it used to be. But
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ticks are so much more common now too, so we're
kind of it's a double edged sort physical removal of ticks,
finding them in those spots behind the ears, in the ears,
on the belly where there's less spur, you know, seeing
those you can always send pictures to your vet. I
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can't tell you how many times a client has tried
to pick a nipple off for a day and a
half and then find out that it wasn't a tick, right,
So you know that sort of education, having a relationship
with your veterinarian is really important and showing what you know.
They can educate you on the different pros and cons
of flea preventions and tick preventions that works for you, you know,
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it depends on what you're most worried about.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Wire ticks so common among deer. I mean you even
hear the phrase deer ticks, that's how common.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
It's a type of Yeah, it's a type of tick,
and they it's a social animal thing as well. They're
always walking through you know, they're going through the grasses
and they're covered. It's hey, it's better than the ticks
with moose up north of us. You know, they have
it worse than us. I always hear. So you know,
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what we have to do is make sure that the
wild stays wild. And you know, we're encroaching on all
of their land. They don't have anywhere to go, so
they're in your yards and spreading stuff. But really, the
majority of wildlife that I get in, whether they're injured
or orphaned, they have some sort of ecdo parasite, so
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just a parasite that lives on the outside of them,
and fleas and ticks. The animals are covered in them,
so it's not just here, they're they're all getting them.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
You mentioned people have sent in photos and other communicates
to you. What is your website? So if somebody listening
right now has a question and they want to get
in touch with you, how do they do it.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Yeah, we're hair offthdog dot org and and as you
said that, it's hair h A R E. And so
they can send in questions. There there's a section where
you can you know, you can donate, you can contact me,
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there's things to purchase if you know you want to
help support. Everything goes directly to the rehab and the
care of the animals, and or texting me at seven
seven four two seven seven zero seven five five. Pictures
are always a huge help I can that way, I
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can see you know, sometimes I can tell that an
animal needs to be rehabbed immediately based off the picture.
I don't even need the story in the background. And
that can be hugely helpful. Or I can help you
find the resource that can help you.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Okay, why is it in this day and age listening
right now? Thirty eight states worth of people and parts
of Canada. Tomorrow somebody's going to put little Peppy a
little fife in the cage in the back seat and
wind up the windows. What does it take to get
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across the people? Don't do that? Leave the dog at
home for goodness sake?
Speaker 3 (15:31):
Yeah, I don't know. We want to bring our pets everywhere.
They're family. I totally get that, but there's a lot
of our animals we are breeding to be very cute
in that cuteness. Those all those breakycephalic I say, the
short note dogs, the bulldogs, they cannot recover. So you know,
German shepherds are longer nosed dogs can recover a little
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bit better. But they don't want to be in your car.
Are They don't want to be tied out outside your
car that it just leaves them at home. Go run
your errands and then bring them inside. Keep them inside,
take your walks in the morning or the evening when
it gets a little bit cooler, and that can be
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really helpful as well. Some people tell me that their dogs,
like if they don't get their run, if they don't
get their jog, if they're not outside playing, then they're
so anxious use use their brain more than their body
on days that it's riskier for them. Teach them a
new trick. Using that brain will also settle that anxiety
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to when they can't be out and use in exercising
because you don't want to. You know, if they start
doing that frantic panting, that over drooling, labored breathing, big,
wide chested stance. You're going to have to bring them
to the er, so it's not worth the risk.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
I remember as a kid, and I couldn't tell if
it was Channel four, five or seven, but one of
the weather people had a story on in the middle
of summer. The pavement was so hot you could fry
an egg, and they cracked open an egg right on
a downtown sidewalk. If it's that hot to fry an egg,
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imagine if you are walking barefoot, as your dogs have to,
their paws are not meant to absorb that type of heat.
Talk to the listeners about what you can do to
protect your pet's feet from walking on hot pavement.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
So the general rule of thumb is if you can
put the backside of your hand down on pavement and
it's comfortable, then they'll be okay. But if you hold
it down there for five ten seconds and it's burning,
I mean, that's their paws burning. And so we see
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lots of burns, and you know, cares of those popads
because of heat. They do sell plenty of shoes, they sell,
there's tons of products for that, but really keeping them
off of pavement walking, you know, like I said, walking
in the morning or the evening is really helpful. And
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you know they have go on grass. Go on grass.
It's more fun anyway, you know you.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Can, yes, but some people necessarily don't have that option.
Let's say you live in the core of the city.
There's not necessarily you might have to walk I half
a block to get to the park area with his grass.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
Yeah, then I would go with the shoes. So they
do sell dog shoes. Some are better than others, and
that you just want to make sure that they're good
rubber sold bottom ones that stay on nicely, and then
just making sure that when you get home and they're
not wearing them anymore, that their feet are knife and dry,
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and you know it didn't gather too much moisture in
between the toes or anything like that.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
All right, As you know, I am a cat owner,
so I want to talk more now about cats. And
I don't know why people put a cat on a leash,
because that's just not natural for them. But when we
come back from the break, let's talk about cats or
anything you want to talk about out there where I've
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already got a call from Weymouth six one, seven, two, five, four,
ten thirty or eight eight, eight, nine to nine, ten thirty.
This is Nightside. My name is Morgan, Morgan White Junior,
and I've got Mario McCann with me, and we're talking
about your pets. Time and temperature nine thirty sixty six degrees.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
You're on the Night Side with Dan Ray on w
B Boston's.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Yes, you've got night Side and Dan is not here.
I'm Morgan, my guest Mariel McCann and tell you what
Mariel before we go to the question I put to
you before we took the break. Let's take a phone
call because she's been holding for five minutes. Linda and Weymouth,
thank you for calling in. Welcome to Night's Side.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
Hi, greetings, enjoy the show you. I have neither a
cat nor a dog, but I'm a dog can't lover.
And I listened to your radio and i've stationed and
I've heard in the morning the mosquitoes are out. Yet
I just heard from her the ticks are not out
in the morning. Can you help me flip the coin better?
Speaker 3 (20:47):
Yeah, so that's not the morning and evening advice. That's
for the heat itself ticks her out all day. It
really feels like every day. Now, even in the winter time,
we're getting some breakthroughs. Anytime it gets above I think
thirty surrey thirty six degrees, we start seeing ticks wake
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up and start looking for a meal. So they're a
risk regardless the morning and evening. That's for temperature and
more shade at those times too, So it's for those safeties.
You're going to want to use your tick prevention year
round regardless. And mosquitoes as well, because as we know,
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they can carry the heartworm disease.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
Okay, yeah, because maybe I misheard it or missed one
of the words on it, but thank you for clarifying.
So morning and eating are okay odd times. But check
check your animals anyways.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
Yeah, absolutely, yeah, absolutely, especially.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
I know what if you have an outdoor dog. But
then I mean you've got a doggie door in your
kitchen and the dog comes and goes on their own
into the backyard. If you have a backyard bushes and
trees and shrubs, you may have tick issues.
Speaker 5 (22:13):
Check the check the animal always, every day, every day,
even if you have indoor pets only and you're coming
in and out, you're out in the garden and you
come inside.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
Sometimes we'll bring them in and then they'll stay on
the pets.
Speaker 4 (22:31):
So that's yeah, I get nervous. Excuse me, I get
nervous just walking around on the grass.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Right, yeah, I understand all but you know you don't
want to stay indoors all the time. Go out and
have fun, but you know, be aware of your rests.
Absolutely all right, Linda, thank you for the call.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Hope we've helped.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
Thanks for clarifying. Thank you, bye, thank you.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
All right. I asked this question before the people that
attach a leash to a cat. It's you and I
both know it takes a lot to train a cat too.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
No, when they're little, No, when baby someone love it.
I have no problem with that. I don't minding a
baby carriage or a dog and a baby carriage. Oh yeah, no,
I've learned. I've learned to love it. Absolutely all right.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
I'm wrong, but I just think you're not wrong. I
just think that some felines, I mean, you see the
well you used to see the lion tamers and the
circus or the old Sikh Freed and Roy and Vegas
shows they're dealing with Yeah, yeah, you're dealing with four
hundred pounds tigers and lions and whatnot. I think that
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felines resist training when it comes to that sort of thing.
I could be wrong.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
Yeah, you might be. You might be on this one.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
Okay, All right now I'm gonna shift right in mid sentence.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
Let's talk about got you trained great?
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Has me trained great? Has me trained? Believe me? Let's
let's talk about food. You see these commercials on TV
telling us that food X, type of food X is
better than type of food? Why coming from you? What
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are the better foods for our pets? Deal with dogs
first and then cats?
Speaker 3 (24:38):
Well, this can be wildly controversial, and I am fine
with whatever people want to do as long as they're
doing it right. So if you're gonna cook it home, great,
work with your vet, Work with a vet that will
do that. Work with a system like balance it dot com,
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something that will help you to make sure that you're
doing it balanced and correctly. You know, if you're doing
raw food, make sure that it's food that's made to
be raw. You can't just go to the grocery store
and pick up any food that is supposed to be
cooked fully and then feed it to your animal. It's
dangerous for you and the animal. For more of the
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processed kibbles and things like that. I personally, I think
that you know, switching every so often is good for them.
Doing that slowly, although that can be very controversial. Some
can have some GI issues and some problems with that.
So you know, you have to find out from your vet,
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whoever your trusted person is, who is in line with
you on what kind of food you want to be
feeding a dog. And if you're already feeding something and
everything is wonderful, great stick with that. Want to commercial
change your mind or anything like that unless your vet
tells you.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
There are these commercials that tell you this is food
meant to be stored in the refrigerator. And I remember
when I was young and I have a dog, cannil
rationing out the can was good enough. But nowadays that's
just not the way to look at what you should
give to your dog.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
Yeah, I mean, there really is pros and cons. So,
you know, the canned food has less of hydration. But sometimes,
you know, we talk about different additives and what the
process was to get it canned and get it shelf stable,
and you know, when look dry stuff with the additives
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are that sort of thing for you know, I personally
I home cook for my three dogs, but I don't
for my two cats because it's too much to do
properly for cats for me at the point.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Oh, the cats are calling you all kinds of name
under their breath. Yeah, the dogs get cooked food. What
do we get?
Speaker 3 (27:08):
The cats will get some, but they it's hard to
balance the cat's diet without getting kind of gross. So
we do us personally. We do the majority of gently
cooked whole foods, but it is prepackaged. It is a
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company that makes it for cats and then the dogs.
We home cooks for the dogs because we have nothing
better to do. I guess I'm not sure.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Okay, all right. I remember the old days when everything
was from Purina and then all of a sudden gravy
train came around, which, because it was an activity, you
put the gravy train nuggets for like for bitter term
in your feeding bowl and add water and now it's
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supposed to be a gravy type of treat for your doggie.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
Yeah, you might be aging yourself. I think I remember
those commercials.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
I am aging.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
I am aging myself. Yes, And I'm going to.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
Tell you I remember the burgers. There are little burgers. Yeah,
I grew up.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
Well, I remember that. You used to have to break
them apart.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
Yeah. Yeah, she loved those. She loved those. She lived
a long time. But it's different. Things are different now.
We're breeding dogs differently. They're more sensitive than they used
to be. There's you know we're we're doing. We're doing
a lot of breeding. I'm going to I rescue English bulldogs.
So we have a lot of problems we're up against.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
I'm going to tell you a quick story. Then they
have to take a break. I used to own this
is in the eighties. Brother and sister German shepherds. He
was bigger than she. He was easier for me to train.
I had them. I had bought books and videotape on
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how to train German shepherds, both to voice commands and
to hand gestures. You live in the city. You want
your dog to understand commands instantly. When it came defeeding them,
I tried each of them with their own bowl. She
would eat all of his and then half of hers,
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leaving him half.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
She sounds smart, and then.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
I figured, okay, I'll work this out. I just had
one bowl. She would eat first, eat half of what
I put in the bowl, leaving him half. He knew
not to go near the bowl until she had finished
what she was going to consume. That was the system,
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the way they had worked it out as brother and sister.
She was in charge.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
It sounds like an excellent partnership.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
Yet and still he was the alpha dog when we
went out, and he would be first to obey a
command of stay, go, let's move. And in the house
she was in charge.
Speaker 3 (30:26):
Yeah, yeah, yes, don't don't you see that routinely? That
makes perfect sense to me.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
Well, it took a while for them to train me
to that level of behavior. Anyway, let me take my
final break. Anyone else might want to do what Linda did.
You want to call in and speak to Marion McCann,
who is here to help us understand better ways to
treat our pets, especially during the summer. Six one, seven, two, five, four,
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ten thirty eight, eight, nine to nine, ten thirty. This
is night Side. I am Morgan. You should know who
you are. Time and temperature nine forty five sixty six degrees.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Nightside Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
Dan is not here. He'll be back on Monday. I'm Morgan.
I am here and my guest Mario McCann is with
me until the top of the hour. Bradley J. Will
be here next hour for you legendary fans of BC
and WBC in history. Bradley J. Will be here shortly
(31:39):
after ten o'clock and Mario, we have a call from
the Catskills upstate New York. So Margie and the Catskills,
thanks for taking the time to call. Welcome to night Side.
Speaker 6 (31:52):
Thank you. My first question will be I imagine Massachusetts
has a DEC agency.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
What is the EC.
Speaker 6 (32:04):
It's an agency in New York State, the Department of
Environmental Conservation. Okay, is there one in Massachusetts?
Speaker 2 (32:13):
Mario?
Speaker 3 (32:14):
Well, I'm under the Department of Fish and Wildlife, so
that's who we get all of our rules and support from,
as well as RAM, which is the Wildlife Rehovers of
Massachusetts Association of Massachusetts. So that's who I am generally under.
Speaker 6 (32:33):
Well, I'm glad there's not a DEC in your area.
Their publicity is if you have a wounded animal, you
see an injured dear people in New York State call
the DEC. Those of us that have been around fifty
years or more like myself. That's the last agency of
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the government you want to call. Their number one goal
is to get as the animal. So it's just unbelievable.
If they show up at your house, that's the end
of the animal. So we find that working with our
local police department, if there's a problem, they know the
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local animals, they will try everything to preserve the animal's life.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
Okay, So in Massachusetts, we do have the Department of
Environmental Protection, so we do have environmental officers and our
everyone that I've come in contact with has been wonderful.
They'll only you know, they only euthanize if it's in
the best interest of the animal. Deer that you mentioned,
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there's lots more rules for deer because they are so
much more dangerous with like one on one with people,
so rehabbing them. The instances that we find that they're
rehabible deer are much lower than there are other species.
But our EPO, so our Environmental Protection officers are really
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wonderful in Massachusetts thankfully. So you know, I'm glad that
we don't deal with the same problems, and you found
a way around it to find trusted officials near you
to help with that. But I've heard wonderful things out
of the New York Wildlife rehabber is also though you
guys have a great network too.
Speaker 6 (34:26):
You know it's great we have. Thirty years ago was
the first time I saw a deer on my property.
I have only two acres, but at borders a far
not deer, but bear, and I haven't seen a bear
in thirty years.
Speaker 3 (34:41):
Now.
Speaker 6 (34:42):
There's bears all over town anytime the day. Do you
have bears up there?
Speaker 2 (34:48):
I love that Massachusetts have plenty of bear.
Speaker 6 (34:51):
I love it. I love it.
Speaker 3 (34:53):
Black bear we actually did for the first Yeah, black bear.
We had them for the first time last year on
the property. And I just in love, just in love.
But we you know my you know, my family took
me to Maine all my childhood. It really is one
of my favorites. Maybe someday they'll be down here enough
that I can rehab, you know, get special permission to
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rehab some black bear. That would be a dream.
Speaker 6 (35:17):
MARGIN tell you one little story before I let you go.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
Margie, hold on, hold on, now, let you tell you
a story. You live in the cat Skills, right, I
know that the Catskills as a resort area has changed
drastically over the past thirty forty years. Did you or
do you live near the property that was called Grossingers.
Speaker 6 (35:40):
Oh, that's a see, the cats skills are very different.
I'm in Woodstock, which is very rural. Sixty nine percent
of our town is Floris. But I all everyone knows
Grossingers and all the resorts, and it's really funny. They're
all ethnic. So you have the Jewish cat skills and
the Irish at skills, and to this day there still
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is that going to the cat skills. But you know
what did in all those resorts when airplane trips came in.
Before that, there was railroads and cars, and people came
to the cat skills once they could fly off someplace.
That's what killed it.
Speaker 2 (36:21):
Well, I used to play groceringers. I played grocerers on
three different occasions.
Speaker 6 (36:28):
What a beautiful place it was.
Speaker 2 (36:31):
And this is a real fast story. Then I'll let
you tell the story you started. My then wife and
my son, who was two years old. I brought them
with me on one of my trips up there, and
my son couldn't walk as of yet, and he was
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crawling around all the rooms. Obviously wild wall carpet and
his favorite toy was up on the bed and he
was on the floor. The first time he ever took
a step was at Grossingers. He got up, walked over
to the bed, reached for his toy, got his toy,
went back to play on the floor. True story. Now,
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MAR'TI tell you a story.
Speaker 6 (37:15):
Okay, it's very brief. The last bear, well, no, not
the last one, because they're all over. But I'm very
fortunate on this one. For some reason, I didn't open
my door in the morning. I decided to look out
the window before I opened the door, and I look
out and there are three of the cutest small black
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bear cubs sitting down in my driveway. And I thought,
thank god, I hadn't open the door, and I'm just
watching them. They're sitting there, very attentive, looking into my carport,
and I figure, what's going on? In my carport? I
had empty bins, these huge bins, well they came flying
(37:59):
out through the air and gte were empty, and the
three little cubs were taking it all in as education.
And then the huge mama, she must have been two
three hundred pounds, she came out disgusted. There was nothing
in the bins, and she gathered them up and then
I really worry because they'd have no road since whatsoever.
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You know, I was so lucky to see them all
cross the road. But that's my beer cub tail. Thank
you so much, Morgan, Margie, thank you for taking the
time to call.
Speaker 2 (38:34):
Don't be such a stranger. Good night. Now that goes
Margie and Mario. One more time. I want you to
tell people your title, how they can get in touch
with you, either electronically or your phone number, and any
of the details you want to share with my audience.
So I'll give you a full minute.
Speaker 3 (38:55):
Sure. So, hair offodog dot org is our website. We
are on Instagram and Facebook as well, and that's where
we usually post most of our updates and you know
what animals we're getting in and what procedures we're doing.
Sometimes in the busy season it gets quieter because I
either have to take care of animals or post on Facebook,
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you know, one or the other. And then that's also
where you can donate a list of supplies, Amazon, wish lists,
Venmo and PayPal however you'd like to help. We also
connect with other rehabers in the state of Massachusetts. We
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couldn't do it without other rehabers. We're always looking for
more rehabbers, so by all means, please email me at
Hair ofthe Doog Farm at gmail dot com. And especially
if you're interested in becoming a rehaber. If you have
any medical background or animal background, it's a plus, but
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it's not necessary. But there's always a need for more
of us.
Speaker 2 (40:03):
And here and hair is spelled like the rabbit h
A r.
Speaker 3 (40:07):
E h A r e. Yeah, people don't. I'm surprised
that people that don't know the saying of hair of
the dog take a hair of the dog that bit you, right,
and the old hangover cure, but so we called it
hair of the dog, you know, to keep you from
being hungover. And so that's our joy is doing this.
Speaker 2 (40:29):
Mariol Thank you very much, and I'm going to have
you on again in the fall to talk about separate
issues of fall and winter for your pets. You take
care and I've really enjoyed this.
Speaker 3 (40:40):
Thank you, Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 2 (40:43):
Bye bye, Mario. All right, everybody, Bradley Jy. Next hour
time nine point fifty eight, temperature sixty six degrees
It's Night Side with Dan Ray. I'm WBZ Koston's Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Our number two away here at BZ. My name Morgan W. Junior,
filling in for Dan Ray. Dan will be back. I'm
expecting on the twelfth of August next Monday. I'm here
tonight until midnight tomorrow and Friday as well, eight to midnight.
And I want to tell you that my next guest
(00:27):
is the president and director of Licensed Wildlife Rehabilitator at
Hair of the Dog and Hair is spelled Hare and
that's in Massachusetts. And remember, the heat is dangerous to
injured wildlife and domestic pets. Dehydration happens quickly, and you
(00:49):
have to kind of watch out, not just for your pets,
but depending on where you live, there may be squirrels
or raccoons or rabbit apossums in your immediate neighborhood, in
your yard. You've got to pay attention to make sure
that they two are healthy. Believe it or not, squirrels
can fall out of trees. And if you don't believe me,
(01:12):
my guest, Mariel McCann can speak to that. Marielle, Welcome
to BESY and good evening to you.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Thank you so much, good evening to you too.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Now, how is it that a squirrel can fall out
of a tree?
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Now, generally there's two ways that I usually see, maybe three.
Two ways that I usually see are if their babies
and their mama isn't around anymore, whether you know it's
a hawk or you know different ways. Then when they
get hungry enough, then they'll start looking for food and
(01:48):
they find a way down. And we always say the
bravest one comes down first, so they'll climb down in
hopes to find food somehow, even with their little eyes closed.
And so then they'll be crawling around the ground looking
for someone, sometimes with some facial injuries, that sort of thing.
And then they'll find their local rehabber like myself or
(02:12):
there's a bunch of us listed on mass dot gov.
Find a rehabber and you can find one close to you,
and then we can give you great advice on whether
they need help or not. In that situation, one hundred percent,
it needs help, Okay.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
And now I'm going to say people, you've heard this.
I know listening to BZ during the day, the newscasts
repeatedly tell you about not just animals, but our kids
don't leave pets and kids in the hot car while
(02:46):
you run to buy bread and milk from the store.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Don't do that, Oh absolutely so in ten minutes on
a seventy five degree day, in ten minutes, your car
goes up to ninety degree. So you know, if you
have an English bulldog or a French schees are so
popular now. Any of those short nosed dogs, they have
a hard time recovering, so anytime left in there then
(03:13):
it's really dangerous, very quickly for them. You know, there's
stats obviously, if it's a ninety five degree day, ten minutes,
it's one hundred and fourteen in your car. So we
are thankful that Massachusetts did make the law that now
we can we do something about it. So if you
see a pet that isn't a car and you're worried
(03:34):
about it, there are rules and steps to take to
save that dog or cat. Sometimes that happens as well,
but reaching out to your local police station or animal
control officer and trying to find the owner, and if
you can't, then you can't and that owner is out
a new window replacement costs and up to one hundred
(03:54):
and fifty dollars fine be because pets are important to
the state of Massachusett.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
I'm going to make our conversation personal. This is Mriol
and Morgan. No go back one. It's about Joseph. I
know that Joseph. I know Joseph loved you, and you
love Joseph, but.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
I certainly did.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Joseph never wrapped his tail around your neck, did he.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Well, you can only be so special, you know.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Right, Joseph would consistently if I'm in bed, he would
come into the bedroom and wrap his tail almost completely
around my neck.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Yeah, he was pretty pretty close to perfect.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
And I know Nancy told you the story about the
flesh off. I'm not going to tell the story again
on the air, but next time you speak to Nancy Hafer,
retell that story to you. No, I'm going to ask
people if you want to call him six one, seven, two, five, four,
(05:07):
ten thirty or eight eight, eight, nine to nine, ten thirty.
And Mariel, we hit thirty eight states with our signal
and also parts of Canada, so you've got a wide
audience if you want to call it. Maybe some go ahead.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
There may be some wildlife. I'm not familiar, not familiar
with rehab wives in some of those other states. Right,
I have advice for our ones in Massachusetts.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Okay, And if you were calling from an area that
does have wildlife raccoons, possums, rabbits, mariell can speak to
quick care. But always if you can let a professional know.
(05:54):
What's that eight hundred? You didn't mention an eight hundred number,
but you did mention a number that allows you, an
everyday citizen to get in touch with professionals. What is
that information?
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Well on Massachusetts. So Massachusetts is the mass dot gov,
so every state will have their own wildlife listing and
mass dot gov. Find a Rehabber is the fastest and
easiest way to find a local rehab rehab center near you,
and it will give you phone numbers and how to
(06:28):
contact and what animals they take care of, and everyone
can give you advice on whether an animal even needs help.
We never want to we never want to take in
a baby that it's mama's looking for it. So calling
an educated rehabber is the way.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
To go for that.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Okay. I've got to break coming up in about a minute,
and I'm going to ask you to touch on these
two subjects. Rabies are obviously something that people need to
be aware of and ticks. Tell a lot of people
(07:08):
don't know what a tick looks like, and they don't
know where to look for a tick on their dog
a cat. I remember when I was a kid, I
used to spend summers in a community called Plimpton. We
had family down there and they had a big old
(07:30):
dog and my aunt Margaret, every now and then would
have to pull ticks off this dog because the dog
ran into the brush consistently chasing whatever. And a lot
of people may have never had to do that. So
I want to talk about rabies and ticks and again, people,
(07:52):
if you want to call in Mario mccanna's hair and
she can help you with the care and proper treat
meant of your kitty, your puppy, your iguana, whatever you
may have. Six one, seven, two, five, four, ten thirty
eight eight, eight, nine to nine, ten thirty and the
(08:13):
show's night side. The time is nine point fifteen and
the temperature is sixty six degrees.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Now back to Dan ray Li from the Window World
night Side Studios on w b Z, the news radio.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Dan is off. I am here Morgan right, Junior, and
I'm speaking with the president and Director of Licensed Wildlife rehibator.
I was doing so well until I got to that
word rehabilitator at hair Hare of the Dog in Massachusetts.
Her name is Mariol mckainn, and Mariol before the break,
(08:52):
I want to know about ticks and I wanted to
know about rabi's. Which one do we tackle first?
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Well? I deal with both relatively routinely at this point. Now,
raccoons are the majority of what I rehab They're my favorite.
I say that about a lot of species, but they're
my favorite. So both ticks and rabies is something that
raccoons deal with routinely. Kick Why is that?
Speaker 2 (09:25):
I'm sorry for interrecting, but why is that a common
malady that we find within not just raccoons, but rabbit, squirrels,
et cetera. Why do they seemingly have a great proliferation
of that disease.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Well, there's different levels of risk for different species, and
rabies and bats. Raccoons and bats are up at the
top that we see in Massachusetts. So it's certainly something
that I'm aware of. I'm not afraid of, but I'm
aware of the reason that I'm we take it so
seriously because it does transmit to humans and it is
(10:06):
one hundred percent. I say one hundred percent. There has
been some cases of people you know surviving through, but
they're never the same. But you know, once you get symptoms,
you can't fix it. So every single raccoon that is
rehabbed and released from hair of the dog is fully
vaccinated against rabies as well as other live other diseases
(10:27):
as well. But rabies is you know, something that it's
caused by, uh, It's spread through the animal biting another animal.
So any fighting, any communication you know, these social animals
is more apt to spread more rapidly. I feel as if,
(10:48):
you know, without the actual data to the end of
the year, it feels like I'm seeing it a little
bit more this year than I have others. I don't
know why, but you know, I've known of a couple
other rehab as well that have dealt with it more
this year than they have others. I am very thankful
to the USDA and mass Doc GOV for helping to
(11:10):
support and do testing and epidemiology for helping to educate
us through whether an animal is at risk or not
and what signs they're showing and what we should do
if we are if you know, if we're worried about that.
I think, yeah, ticks. So we're lucky now. You know,
(11:34):
when you were a kid in visiting Limpton, which is
close to me here in Pembroke, right, you know, we
didn't have the same medications and preventatives that we do
now we're I'm very thankful of all the different options
that veterinarians have for for ticks and fleas that it
is so much better than it used to be. But
(11:55):
ticks are so much more common now too, so we're
kind of it's a double edged sort physical removal of ticks,
finding them in those spots behind the ears, in the ears,
on the belly where there's less spur, you know, seeing
those you can always send pictures to your vet. I
(12:18):
can't tell you how many times a client has tried
to pick a nipple off for a day and a
half and then find out that it wasn't a tick, right,
So you know that sort of education, having a relationship
with your veterinarian is really important and showing what you know.
They can educate you on the different pros and cons
of flea preventions and tick preventions that works for you, you know,
(12:43):
it depends on what you're most worried about.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Wire ticks so common among deer. I mean you even
hear the phrase deer ticks, that's how common.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
It's a type of Yeah, it's a type of tick,
and they it's a social animal thing as well. They're
always walking through you know, they're going through the grasses
and they're covered. It's hey, it's better than the ticks
with moose up north of us. You know, they have
it worse than us. I always hear. So you know,
(13:15):
what we have to do is make sure that the
wild stays wild. And you know, we're encroaching on all
of their land. They don't have anywhere to go, so
they're in your yards and spreading stuff. But really, the
majority of wildlife that I get in, whether they're injured
or orphaned, they have some sort of ecdo parasite, so
(13:37):
just a parasite that lives on the outside of them,
and fleas and ticks. The animals are covered in them,
so it's not just here, they're they're all getting them.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
You mentioned people have sent in photos and other communicates
to you. What is your website? So if somebody listening
right now has a question and they want to get
in touch with you, how do they do it.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Yeah, we're hair offthdog dot org and and as you
said that, it's hair h A R E. And so
they can send in questions. There there's a section where
you can you know, you can donate, you can contact me,
(14:24):
there's things to purchase if you know you want to
help support. Everything goes directly to the rehab and the
care of the animals, and or texting me at seven
seven four two seven seven zero seven five five. Pictures
are always a huge help I can that way, I
(14:47):
can see you know, sometimes I can tell that an
animal needs to be rehabbed immediately based off the picture.
I don't even need the story in the background. And
that can be hugely helpful. Or I can help you
find the resource that can help you.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Okay, why is it in this day and age listening
right now? Thirty eight states worth of people and parts
of Canada. Tomorrow somebody's going to put little Peppy a
little fife in the cage in the back seat and
wind up the windows. What does it take to get
(15:25):
across the people? Don't do that? Leave the dog at
home for goodness sake?
Speaker 3 (15:31):
Yeah, I don't know. We want to bring our pets everywhere.
They're family. I totally get that, but there's a lot
of our animals we are breeding to be very cute
in that cuteness. Those all those breakycephalic I say, the
short note dogs, the bulldogs, they cannot recover. So you know,
German shepherds are longer nosed dogs can recover a little
(15:56):
bit better. But they don't want to be in your car.
Are They don't want to be tied out outside your
car that it just leaves them at home. Go run
your errands and then bring them inside. Keep them inside,
take your walks in the morning or the evening when
it gets a little bit cooler, and that can be
(16:17):
really helpful as well. Some people tell me that their dogs,
like if they don't get their run, if they don't
get their jog, if they're not outside playing, then they're
so anxious use use their brain more than their body
on days that it's riskier for them. Teach them a
new trick. Using that brain will also settle that anxiety
(16:38):
to when they can't be out and use in exercising
because you don't want to. You know, if they start
doing that frantic panting, that over drooling, labored breathing, big,
wide chested stance. You're going to have to bring them
to the er, so it's not worth the risk.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
I remember as a kid, and I couldn't tell if
it was Channel four, five or seven, but one of
the weather people had a story on in the middle
of summer. The pavement was so hot you could fry
an egg, and they cracked open an egg right on
a downtown sidewalk. If it's that hot to fry an egg,
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imagine if you are walking barefoot, as your dogs have to,
their paws are not meant to absorb that type of heat.
Talk to the listeners about what you can do to
protect your pet's feet from walking on hot pavement.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
So the general rule of thumb is if you can
put the backside of your hand down on pavement and
it's comfortable, then they'll be okay. But if you hold
it down there for five ten seconds and it's burning,
I mean, that's their paws burning. And so we see
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lots of burns, and you know, cares of those popads
because of heat. They do sell plenty of shoes, they sell,
there's tons of products for that, but really keeping them
off of pavement walking, you know, like I said, walking
in the morning or the evening is really helpful. And
(18:22):
you know they have go on grass. Go on grass.
It's more fun anyway, you know you.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Can, yes, but some people necessarily don't have that option.
Let's say you live in the core of the city.
There's not necessarily you might have to walk I half
a block to get to the park area with his grass.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
Yeah, then I would go with the shoes. So they
do sell dog shoes. Some are better than others, and
that you just want to make sure that they're good
rubber sold bottom ones that stay on nicely, and then
just making sure that when you get home and they're
not wearing them anymore, that their feet are knife and dry,
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and you know it didn't gather too much moisture in
between the toes or anything like that.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
All right, As you know, I am a cat owner,
so I want to talk more now about cats. And
I don't know why people put a cat on a leash,
because that's just not natural for them. But when we
come back from the break, let's talk about cats or
anything you want to talk about out there where I've
(19:33):
already got a call from Weymouth six one, seven, two, five, four,
ten thirty or eight eight, eight, nine to nine, ten thirty.
This is Nightside. My name is Morgan, Morgan White Junior,
and I've got Mario McCann with me, and we're talking
about your pets. Time and temperature nine thirty sixty six degrees.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
You're on the Night Side with Dan Ray on w
B Boston's.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Yes, you've got night Side and Dan is not here.
I'm Morgan, my guest Mariel McCann and tell you what
Mariel before we go to the question I put to
you before we took the break. Let's take a phone
call because she's been holding for five minutes. Linda and Weymouth,
thank you for calling in. Welcome to Night's Side.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
Hi, greetings, enjoy the show you. I have neither a
cat nor a dog, but I'm a dog can't lover.
And I listened to your radio and i've stationed and
I've heard in the morning the mosquitoes are out. Yet
I just heard from her the ticks are not out
in the morning. Can you help me flip the coin better?
Speaker 3 (20:47):
Yeah, so that's not the morning and evening advice. That's
for the heat itself ticks her out all day. It
really feels like every day. Now, even in the winter time,
we're getting some breakthroughs. Anytime it gets above I think
thirty surrey thirty six degrees, we start seeing ticks wake
(21:07):
up and start looking for a meal. So they're a
risk regardless the morning and evening. That's for temperature and
more shade at those times too, So it's for those safeties.
You're going to want to use your tick prevention year
round regardless. And mosquitoes as well, because as we know,
(21:29):
they can carry the heartworm disease.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
Okay, yeah, because maybe I misheard it or missed one
of the words on it, but thank you for clarifying.
So morning and eating are okay odd times. But check
check your animals anyways.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
Yeah, absolutely, yeah, absolutely, especially.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
I know what if you have an outdoor dog. But
then I mean you've got a doggie door in your
kitchen and the dog comes and goes on their own
into the backyard. If you have a backyard bushes and
trees and shrubs, you may have tick issues.
Speaker 5 (22:13):
Check the check the animal always, every day, every day,
even if you have indoor pets only and you're coming
in and out, you're out in the garden and you
come inside.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
Sometimes we'll bring them in and then they'll stay on
the pets.
Speaker 4 (22:31):
So that's yeah, I get nervous. Excuse me, I get
nervous just walking around on the grass.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Right, yeah, I understand all but you know you don't
want to stay indoors all the time. Go out and
have fun, but you know, be aware of your rests.
Absolutely all right, Linda, thank you for the call.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Hope we've helped.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
Thanks for clarifying. Thank you, bye, thank you.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
All right. I asked this question before the people that
attach a leash to a cat. It's you and I
both know it takes a lot to train a cat too.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
No, when they're little, No, when baby someone love it.
I have no problem with that. I don't minding a
baby carriage or a dog and a baby carriage. Oh yeah, no,
I've learned. I've learned to love it. Absolutely all right.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
I'm wrong, but I just think you're not wrong. I
just think that some felines, I mean, you see the
well you used to see the lion tamers and the
circus or the old Sikh Freed and Roy and Vegas
shows they're dealing with Yeah, yeah, you're dealing with four
hundred pounds tigers and lions and whatnot. I think that
(23:50):
felines resist training when it comes to that sort of thing.
I could be wrong.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
Yeah, you might be. You might be on this one.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
Okay, All right now I'm gonna shift right in mid sentence.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
Let's talk about got you trained great?
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Has me trained great? Has me trained? Believe me? Let's
let's talk about food. You see these commercials on TV
telling us that food X, type of food X is
better than type of food? Why coming from you? What
(24:31):
are the better foods for our pets? Deal with dogs
first and then cats?
Speaker 3 (24:38):
Well, this can be wildly controversial, and I am fine
with whatever people want to do as long as they're
doing it right. So if you're gonna cook it home, great,
work with your vet, Work with a vet that will
do that. Work with a system like balance it dot com,
(25:00):
something that will help you to make sure that you're
doing it balanced and correctly. You know, if you're doing
raw food, make sure that it's food that's made to
be raw. You can't just go to the grocery store
and pick up any food that is supposed to be
cooked fully and then feed it to your animal. It's
dangerous for you and the animal. For more of the
(25:22):
processed kibbles and things like that. I personally, I think
that you know, switching every so often is good for them.
Doing that slowly, although that can be very controversial. Some
can have some GI issues and some problems with that.
So you know, you have to find out from your vet,
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whoever your trusted person is, who is in line with
you on what kind of food you want to be
feeding a dog. And if you're already feeding something and
everything is wonderful, great stick with that. Want to commercial
change your mind or anything like that unless your vet
tells you.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
There are these commercials that tell you this is food
meant to be stored in the refrigerator. And I remember
when I was young and I have a dog, cannil
rationing out the can was good enough. But nowadays that's
just not the way to look at what you should
give to your dog.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
Yeah, I mean, there really is pros and cons. So,
you know, the canned food has less of hydration. But sometimes,
you know, we talk about different additives and what the
process was to get it canned and get it shelf stable,
and you know, when look dry stuff with the additives
(26:47):
are that sort of thing for you know, I personally
I home cook for my three dogs, but I don't
for my two cats because it's too much to do
properly for cats for me at the point.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Oh, the cats are calling you all kinds of name
under their breath. Yeah, the dogs get cooked food. What
do we get?
Speaker 3 (27:08):
The cats will get some, but they it's hard to
balance the cat's diet without getting kind of gross. So
we do us personally. We do the majority of gently
cooked whole foods, but it is prepackaged. It is a
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company that makes it for cats and then the dogs.
We home cooks for the dogs because we have nothing
better to do. I guess I'm not sure.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Okay, all right. I remember the old days when everything
was from Purina and then all of a sudden gravy
train came around, which, because it was an activity, you
put the gravy train nuggets for like for bitter term
in your feeding bowl and add water and now it's
(28:02):
supposed to be a gravy type of treat for your doggie.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
Yeah, you might be aging yourself. I think I remember
those commercials.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
I am aging.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
I am aging myself. Yes, And I'm going to.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
Tell you I remember the burgers. There are little burgers. Yeah,
I grew up.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
Well, I remember that. You used to have to break
them apart.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
Yeah. Yeah, she loved those. She loved those. She lived
a long time. But it's different. Things are different now.
We're breeding dogs differently. They're more sensitive than they used
to be. There's you know we're we're doing. We're doing
a lot of breeding. I'm going to I rescue English bulldogs.
So we have a lot of problems we're up against.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
I'm going to tell you a quick story. Then they
have to take a break. I used to own this
is in the eighties. Brother and sister German shepherds. He
was bigger than she. He was easier for me to train.
I had them. I had bought books and videotape on
(29:05):
how to train German shepherds, both to voice commands and
to hand gestures. You live in the city. You want
your dog to understand commands instantly. When it came defeeding them,
I tried each of them with their own bowl. She
would eat all of his and then half of hers,
(29:31):
leaving him half.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
She sounds smart, and then.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
I figured, okay, I'll work this out. I just had
one bowl. She would eat first, eat half of what
I put in the bowl, leaving him half. He knew
not to go near the bowl until she had finished
what she was going to consume. That was the system,
(29:58):
the way they had worked it out as brother and sister.
She was in charge.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
It sounds like an excellent partnership.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
Yet and still he was the alpha dog when we
went out, and he would be first to obey a
command of stay, go, let's move. And in the house
she was in charge.
Speaker 3 (30:26):
Yeah, yeah, yes, don't don't you see that routinely? That
makes perfect sense to me.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
Well, it took a while for them to train me
to that level of behavior. Anyway, let me take my
final break. Anyone else might want to do what Linda did.
You want to call in and speak to Marion McCann,
who is here to help us understand better ways to
treat our pets, especially during the summer. Six one, seven, two, five, four,
(30:53):
ten thirty eight, eight, nine to nine, ten thirty. This
is night Side. I am Morgan. You should know who
you are. Time and temperature nine forty five sixty six degrees.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Nightside Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
Dan is not here. He'll be back on Monday. I'm Morgan.
I am here and my guest Mario McCann is with
me until the top of the hour. Bradley J. Will
be here next hour for you legendary fans of BC
and WBC in history. Bradley J. Will be here shortly
(31:39):
after ten o'clock and Mario, we have a call from
the Catskills upstate New York. So Margie and the Catskills,
thanks for taking the time to call. Welcome to night Side.
Speaker 6 (31:52):
Thank you. My first question will be I imagine Massachusetts
has a DEC agency.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
What is the EC.
Speaker 6 (32:04):
It's an agency in New York State, the Department of
Environmental Conservation. Okay, is there one in Massachusetts?
Speaker 2 (32:13):
Mario?
Speaker 3 (32:14):
Well, I'm under the Department of Fish and Wildlife, so
that's who we get all of our rules and support from,
as well as RAM, which is the Wildlife Rehovers of
Massachusetts Association of Massachusetts. So that's who I am generally under.
Speaker 6 (32:33):
Well, I'm glad there's not a DEC in your area.
Their publicity is if you have a wounded animal, you
see an injured dear people in New York State call
the DEC. Those of us that have been around fifty
years or more like myself. That's the last agency of
(32:55):
the government you want to call. Their number one goal
is to get as the animal. So it's just unbelievable.
If they show up at your house, that's the end
of the animal. So we find that working with our
local police department, if there's a problem, they know the
(33:15):
local animals, they will try everything to preserve the animal's life.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
Okay, So in Massachusetts, we do have the Department of
Environmental Protection, so we do have environmental officers and our
everyone that I've come in contact with has been wonderful.
They'll only you know, they only euthanize if it's in
the best interest of the animal. Deer that you mentioned,
(33:42):
there's lots more rules for deer because they are so
much more dangerous with like one on one with people,
so rehabbing them. The instances that we find that they're
rehabible deer are much lower than there are other species.
But our EPO, so our Environmental Protection officers are really
(34:06):
wonderful in Massachusetts thankfully. So you know, I'm glad that
we don't deal with the same problems, and you found
a way around it to find trusted officials near you
to help with that. But I've heard wonderful things out
of the New York Wildlife rehabber is also though you
guys have a great network too.
Speaker 6 (34:26):
You know it's great we have. Thirty years ago was
the first time I saw a deer on my property.
I have only two acres, but at borders a far
not deer, but bear, and I haven't seen a bear
in thirty years.
Speaker 3 (34:41):
Now.
Speaker 6 (34:42):
There's bears all over town anytime the day. Do you
have bears up there?
Speaker 2 (34:48):
I love that Massachusetts have plenty of bear.
Speaker 6 (34:51):
I love it. I love it.
Speaker 3 (34:53):
Black bear we actually did for the first Yeah, black bear.
We had them for the first time last year on
the property. And I just in love, just in love.
But we you know my you know, my family took
me to Maine all my childhood. It really is one
of my favorites. Maybe someday they'll be down here enough
that I can rehab, you know, get special permission to
(35:14):
rehab some black bear. That would be a dream.
Speaker 6 (35:17):
MARGIN tell you one little story before I let you go.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
Margie, hold on, hold on, now, let you tell you
a story. You live in the cat Skills, right, I
know that the Catskills as a resort area has changed
drastically over the past thirty forty years. Did you or
do you live near the property that was called Grossingers.
Speaker 6 (35:40):
Oh, that's a see, the cats skills are very different.
I'm in Woodstock, which is very rural. Sixty nine percent
of our town is Floris. But I all everyone knows
Grossingers and all the resorts, and it's really funny. They're
all ethnic. So you have the Jewish cat skills and
the Irish at skills, and to this day there still
(36:04):
is that going to the cat skills. But you know
what did in all those resorts when airplane trips came in.
Before that, there was railroads and cars, and people came
to the cat skills once they could fly off someplace.
That's what killed it.
Speaker 2 (36:21):
Well, I used to play groceringers. I played grocerers on
three different occasions.
Speaker 6 (36:28):
What a beautiful place it was.
Speaker 2 (36:31):
And this is a real fast story. Then I'll let
you tell the story you started. My then wife and
my son, who was two years old. I brought them
with me on one of my trips up there, and
my son couldn't walk as of yet, and he was
(36:52):
crawling around all the rooms. Obviously wild wall carpet and
his favorite toy was up on the bed and he
was on the floor. The first time he ever took
a step was at Grossingers. He got up, walked over
to the bed, reached for his toy, got his toy,
went back to play on the floor. True story. Now,
(37:14):
MAR'TI tell you a story.
Speaker 6 (37:15):
Okay, it's very brief. The last bear, well, no, not
the last one, because they're all over. But I'm very
fortunate on this one. For some reason, I didn't open
my door in the morning. I decided to look out
the window before I opened the door, and I look
out and there are three of the cutest small black
(37:37):
bear cubs sitting down in my driveway. And I thought,
thank god, I hadn't open the door, and I'm just
watching them. They're sitting there, very attentive, looking into my carport,
and I figure, what's going on? In my carport? I
had empty bins, these huge bins, well they came flying
(37:59):
out through the air and gte were empty, and the
three little cubs were taking it all in as education.
And then the huge mama, she must have been two
three hundred pounds, she came out disgusted. There was nothing
in the bins, and she gathered them up and then
I really worry because they'd have no road since whatsoever.
(38:23):
You know, I was so lucky to see them all
cross the road. But that's my beer cub tail. Thank
you so much, Morgan, Margie, thank you for taking the
time to call.
Speaker 2 (38:34):
Don't be such a stranger. Good night. Now that goes
Margie and Mario. One more time. I want you to
tell people your title, how they can get in touch
with you, either electronically or your phone number, and any
of the details you want to share with my audience.
So I'll give you a full minute.
Speaker 3 (38:55):
Sure. So, hair offodog dot org is our website. We
are on Instagram and Facebook as well, and that's where
we usually post most of our updates and you know
what animals we're getting in and what procedures we're doing.
Sometimes in the busy season it gets quieter because I
either have to take care of animals or post on Facebook,
(39:16):
you know, one or the other. And then that's also
where you can donate a list of supplies, Amazon, wish lists,
Venmo and PayPal however you'd like to help. We also
connect with other rehabers in the state of Massachusetts. We
(39:37):
couldn't do it without other rehabers. We're always looking for
more rehabbers, so by all means, please email me at
Hair ofthe Doog Farm at gmail dot com. And especially
if you're interested in becoming a rehaber. If you have
any medical background or animal background, it's a plus, but
(39:58):
it's not necessary. But there's always a need for more
of us.
Speaker 2 (40:03):
And here and hair is spelled like the rabbit h
A r.
Speaker 3 (40:07):
E h A r e. Yeah, people don't. I'm surprised
that people that don't know the saying of hair of
the dog take a hair of the dog that bit you, right,
and the old hangover cure, but so we called it
hair of the dog, you know, to keep you from
being hungover. And so that's our joy is doing this.
Speaker 2 (40:29):
Mariol Thank you very much, and I'm going to have
you on again in the fall to talk about separate
issues of fall and winter for your pets. You take
care and I've really enjoyed this.
Speaker 3 (40:40):
Thank you, Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 2 (40:43):
Bye bye, Mario. All right, everybody, Bradley Jy. Next hour
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