America's First Doggie Drive-Thru - Microchips and Misconceptions - Stealing Drugs From Pets - The Animal Radio® Show

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Mmmmmm.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
Celebrating the connection with our pets. This is Animal Radio
featuring your dream team veterinarian doctor Debbie White and groomer
Joey Vallani. And here are your hosts, Hallie Brums and
Judy Francis.

Speaker 1 (00:14):
Doctor Debbie, your Joey Vaalani. Joey answering your grooming questions,
Doctor Debbie with your vet medical questions. And I believe
Ladybug again for the new year, is taking calls again,
So this is nice. She's taken a few weeks off.
I noticed she hadn't been hogging the phones. But if
your dog wants to talk to Ladybug, she's ready. She
is ready to answer any questions about humans. She knows

(00:34):
a lot about humans.

Speaker 3 (00:36):
And wait a minute, No, no, not going there.

Speaker 1 (00:40):
Okay, human behavior, Laurie, what are you working on for
this hour.

Speaker 4 (00:43):
Well, there was a story that we talked about last
year about an alligator. I mean he was a rescue alligator,
our pet alligator. Yeah, that is mom rescued and he
was taken away from his home because different reasons. But
now the case has been resolved and we're gonna update
you on that and we'll give you a little history

(01:04):
on how this alligator has become like a clothing wearing
ATV PET I saw this HIV writing PET, I should say.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
They're dressing this alligator up in clothing and human clothing
or what appears to be human clothing. I'm sure it's
been tailored for an alligator.

Speaker 5 (01:21):
A little bit.

Speaker 6 (01:21):
He's got a broadcast.

Speaker 1 (01:23):
Can you imagine taking the shirt and can you adjust
this for my alligator?

Speaker 3 (01:26):
Yeah, shorten the arms length.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
So the alligators making news and we'll find out what
it is and just a couple of minutes right here
on Animal Radio this hour, we're also going to find
out about the drive through restaurant for dogs and dogs
only called Baine Invader's Doggy Drive Through in eastern Pennsylvania,
where they serve only doggy food. You drive through just
like a normal fast food restaurant, except you can't order

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a double double for you because they only serve the dogs.
And this is good. If you're one of those people
that does that already, you'd go through the drive through
with your dog in the back and then they're like
sticking their head out out the window to the cash
register because they smell all that good food they need.
End up buying them some of this horrible, horrible food
that you shouldn't be eating and then feeding it to them.
No more, right.

Speaker 6 (02:09):
We call it the magic window.

Speaker 3 (02:11):
Yeah, the window.

Speaker 7 (02:12):
You pull it there and.

Speaker 1 (02:13):
Food comes out. Let's go to the phones for your calls,
and let's go to Blair. Hey, Blair, how are you.

Speaker 8 (02:21):
Hey, I'm good. I'm actually in Camden, Maine right.

Speaker 1 (02:23):
Now, Camden, Maine.

Speaker 9 (02:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:26):
Is it cold?

Speaker 8 (02:27):
Oh? Hey, it's not just cold. It is freezing when
you go outside, just right now. And I actually, when
I went outside to tell you the truth, sir, I
went outside, I saw a dog with the lady and
I asked the lady, is your dog freezing right now?
Is your dog cold? And she said, yeah, my dog's cold,
but he's fine. But you know, I'm gonna bring my

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dog Murphy to this cold weather, freezing cold weather, but
he'll be fine. He might get a little cold, might
get a chill, but a dog's got to get used
to it, right.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
Sure, while you could dress him up, put a coat
on him. Yeah, that's what I put a.

Speaker 8 (03:04):
Coat on him. You're right.

Speaker 10 (03:05):
Yeah, if your cold, chances are your dog's cold.

Speaker 1 (03:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (03:08):
And some dogs don't tolerate cold as well as other breeds.
So for instance, the short haired breaths, little chihuahuas, some
of small terriers, they don't have a thick hair coat,
so they really will get cold much faster and will
not survive outside very well at all.

Speaker 3 (03:23):
So you don't want to leave them out very long.

Speaker 11 (03:25):
Get him in, get them out, do their potty, and
let them stay close to the fire and cuddled up
on the couch.

Speaker 1 (03:31):
So what's going on with your dog?

Speaker 8 (03:32):
My dog right now is actually had a like a
babysitter kind of place. We boarded them, So my dog's
over there right now, so nothing's going on with him.
But the question was when I was at home, is
if you have a chip in your dog, like I
put a chip. If I put a chip in my
dog and my dog was running away and we couldn't
get to him, we couldn't find him, and he ran

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away into the canyon, how would I end up being
able to get him or find them with the chip?
So I have to like, is there any way to
get the in the chip? Is there any way to
locate him? Okay?

Speaker 1 (04:08):
Quite free?

Speaker 11 (04:10):
Yeah, that's a great question, Blair, and I think a
lot of people have mystiqun assumptions about microchips. There are
great things, and they can save lives and help get
pets back to the pet owners, but there's some things
they are not to this time. Right now, there is
not yet a microchip on the market that has a say,
a GPS tracking ability. There was some talk of it

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about a year or two ago that there was a
company in the works, but there's really not a chip
that's implanted under the skin that you can use to
track your pets. Now, there are collars and some other
types of chips you can affix to the collar that
will allow you to use GPS tracking, and I use
those for my dogs when I'm up in kind of
some of the remote areas, so that should they get

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spooked or run away, that I'll be able to track them.

Speaker 3 (04:59):
But your ship is not going to allow you to
do that.

Speaker 11 (05:01):
It will help if you know the dog is runs away,
is picked up by somebody and goes to either a veterinarian,
a shelter or another animal care facility that has a
microchip scanner where they detect that microship.

Speaker 1 (05:13):
So it's only used for identification, is what you're.

Speaker 6 (05:15):
Saying it is.

Speaker 3 (05:17):
So it's a passive technology. It's not active.

Speaker 11 (05:20):
You can't you know, stand there and with your computer
or your phone track your dog. And part of the
reason is is at this time the technology isn't available
in the size of a.

Speaker 3 (05:29):
Little grain of rice.

Speaker 11 (05:31):
There needs to be an actually something that generates the
electricity or the energy to do that, and then also
kind of the unit in the antenna and all that.
So right now technology is not there. Maybe someday we
will have that, and that would be super a fine
thing as long as it's safe.

Speaker 3 (05:46):
And I think that's the other thing.

Speaker 11 (05:47):
Is a lot of people worry about implanting something that
generates heat or has some kind of moving part that
that could pose more of a health risk, and I
think we just have to look at that closely when
we get the technology.

Speaker 1 (05:59):
So you could get one of those collars, those GPS
collars that they wear on the outside, and that probably
would help you identify where the dog is at.

Speaker 8 (06:08):
You know, if I lost my Cocker Spaniel, I would
be not too thrilled right now because I would need
them in Camden, Maine or wherever I moved to out
in the freezing cold right now, because I would love
him to be with me because I would not be happy.
Anybody would not be happy to lose their dog. Actually
want to come up with something to have their dog back?

Speaker 11 (06:30):
Yeah, yeah, absolutely, And I think you know this is
not just a one, one trick answer.

Speaker 3 (06:36):
So we need to use multiple different techniques.

Speaker 11 (06:39):
So we use a collar with a tag, we use
a microchip, and then you know, for my dogs, I
have three gigs. I have a microchip, I have a tag,
and I have a GPS tracking collar on them. So
those are the things that I use. So hopefully you
know you can use those same things and also you know,
close supervision, you know, making sure we do what we

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can as pet on not till our pets to roam
and to be under constant owners supervision.

Speaker 8 (07:05):
Keep them on a leash would be the best.

Speaker 12 (07:07):
You know.

Speaker 8 (07:08):
I feel a lot of people by my house do
not keep their pets on a leash. You gotta keep
those pets on Alise, you gotta try to keep them
on a leash. People do not do that enough. They
don't keep their pets on a lease, and that'll probably
get loose.

Speaker 11 (07:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (07:22):
Well, you sound like a great pet guardian and that
you're obviously checking into this to make sure you don't
lose it. Check out on Google. You can just google
GPS pet collars or dog collars and you can find
out a lot more about that. Blair, stay warm and
thank you so much for calling today. Hi, don Hi,
what's up?

Speaker 12 (07:39):
What's up?

Speaker 13 (07:40):
I have a question, okay for right here? I have
a cat, well, I have two cats. I have an
older cat that's about fourteen years old, and I have
a cat that's about a year almost a year and
a half. Hold, And this cat was a throwaway. She
came to me about four weeks old, a little too early.
And she was also the runt of little Letter. I

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don't know if that has anything to do with anything,
but she refuses to have her claws clipped without what
I would consider abuse the animal. Okay, I mean I
literally have to like grab her and put her between
my legs and squeeze her little paws, and I don't.

Speaker 14 (08:17):
Want to do it.

Speaker 13 (08:18):
It hurts me more than it hurts her.

Speaker 11 (08:21):
Okay, all right, So it's not going well, and I'm
assuming you're wanting to find out the way to do this,
the trick, right.

Speaker 13 (08:28):
The trick, Okay, The easy way is she doesn't howl
like the devil.

Speaker 11 (08:33):
Okay, the first thing that I'm going to say is
that she's a cat, not a dog.

Speaker 3 (08:38):
So we have to approach cats a bit.

Speaker 11 (08:40):
Differently when we want to train them to accept some
something that they might find unpleasant.

Speaker 3 (08:45):
So you really need tom all little bits.

Speaker 11 (08:47):
Try not to try to overpower her physically, because that
never goes over well with cats in the veterinary world.
It always ends up in a no world situation. So
you come at it and in the cat's eyes, go slowly,
and I would say some soft restraint is helpful and just.

Speaker 13 (09:04):
My last resort. I mean I tried from a very
young kit and I tried of just approaching her, you
know what, you're sleeping and doing a little bit, and
she would just rip pull her hands away without any
you know.

Speaker 15 (09:18):
With the slightest nippers near.

Speaker 11 (09:21):
Her okay, And that's where that's where we need to
focus our attention. Before you even pull those clippers out,
we need to use paw therapy.

Speaker 3 (09:30):
So basically that is what your job is.

Speaker 11 (09:32):
You may need to take her to the veterinarian to
get the nails trimmed, her to the groomer, but at
this time your job is to make her like you
touching her feet, and that should be the only thing
you try to do, so trimming her nails is not
going to be on the close horizon. Then that's going
to mean getting some of her favorite treats. That's going
to mean getting.

Speaker 3 (09:49):
What she likes. Does she like to be brushed, does
she like chin rubs?

Speaker 11 (09:52):
Those are the things you want to do at the
time that you touch her feet or even approach them.
Do not go further than that step until she he
finds that somewhat okay. If you try to push it
and start restraining her and holding those feet and squeeze
in the nail, she's not gonna go for it. Eventually,
we hope to get to that point and make that
more more pleasant for her when you do get to
that point. My number one tips for actually trimming the

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nails and cats or that a lot of people don't
hold the nail still enough, so you need to hold
your thumb and forefinger on the actual base of the nail,
squeeze so that clock comes out and you cut quickly
and sharply. With a nice sharp set of toenail trimmers
your preference. I usually like the little scissor handle versus
the guillotine ones. I would not advise using the vibrating

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trimmers for this kidye, because it does not sound like
that would be anything she'd even entertain. And some people
will even use just large human tonial nippers. If the
kitties have real small or narrow nails, that might even
be an option, But that maybe weeks or months down
the road for you, So remember, don't push it, and
you really want to make this a pleasant experience. Reward

(10:56):
her with those little baby steps along the way. So
to wish with you there, John, I know it's hardening.
Cats are not dogs, so let's not treat them like one.

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Speaker 1 (13:40):
It's Animal Radio. And we always like starting off the
new year with brand new radio stations radio affiliates from
across the country. We welcome Kate z w y and
Sheridan Wyoming and Billiings Montana. Thank you for joining. And
by the way, to my left, I have doctor Debbie.
To my right, Joey Vallani in the newsroom. Over there,

(14:03):
Laurie Brooks, Judy Francis answering your phone calls and kind
of she's like an air traffic director. She air traffic
controller is what she does.

Speaker 6 (14:12):
We ceased to exist without Judy.

Speaker 1 (14:14):
Yes, that is so true.

Speaker 10 (14:15):
If they could just see me waving my hands and
doing others, like cuts and all those things in my hands.

Speaker 3 (14:20):
Nobody can see me, like enough cutting.

Speaker 1 (14:22):
Cut it frequently she'll swing her finger around and tell
me to wrap it up and hurry up, wrap it
up as she is doing. Right now, you can ask
your questions from the free Animal Radio app for iPhone
and Android. Now that we brought everyone up to date here,
we'll go back to the phones in just a couple
of seconds. Laurie, what are you working on over there
in the newsroom for this hour?

Speaker 4 (14:42):
Well, you know, all eyes are on Washington, DC as
we are in the new year.

Speaker 6 (14:46):
And are we going to have a presidential pet?

Speaker 4 (14:50):
Apparently there has been an offer made, and we'll tell
you what that presidential.

Speaker 6 (14:56):
Pet might be.

Speaker 1 (14:56):
Okay, I sort of feel sorry for that pet.

Speaker 4 (15:02):
Yeah, we're supposed to be a non partisan pet representative.

Speaker 1 (15:05):
How I don't believe I expressed any partisanship there.

Speaker 6 (15:08):
I just uh, but I distinctly got some left or
right vibes there.

Speaker 1 (15:16):
Okay, we'll find out more about that in just a
couple of minutes. Joey, what are you working on?

Speaker 21 (15:21):
Well, it's the new year, so we're going to talk
about quarterly reports what you need to do to your
pets to get them ready and get them healthy and
looking good.

Speaker 1 (15:29):
Well, that's on the way in just a few minutes.
Let's go to the phones for your calls right now.
Let's see, let's head to John. Hey, John, how are
you doing?

Speaker 22 (15:36):
Hi?

Speaker 12 (15:36):
Hi, this is Jump.

Speaker 1 (15:38):
Where are you calling from? John?

Speaker 12 (15:40):
And I love California on town south of So what
do you got going on?

Speaker 22 (15:46):
Oh?

Speaker 12 (15:46):
I got a little puppy six months old and it's
just at your poodle and she's sweet as can be.
We're worried about freeing our ice cream. I don't know
anything about that sort of thing.

Speaker 11 (15:54):
Okay, you're you're worried about it? Is she currently eating
ice cream?

Speaker 12 (15:57):
We feared your doubt once in a while.

Speaker 11 (16:00):
Okay, So you're looking to ask me for permission to give.

Speaker 3 (16:04):
Your dog ice cream? Is that right?

Speaker 14 (16:08):
Well?

Speaker 3 (16:08):
It depends.

Speaker 11 (16:09):
There are certainly dogs that have very sensitive stomachs, and
varying from their regular diet can upset their system. The
interesting thing that people need to recognize is that dogs
and cats, a good majority of them are actually lactose
and tolerant. So that's something to think about when we
start offering them different dairy products that that can cause

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some dietary upset and it may not be a life
threatening illness, but you know, we might talk about excess gas,
soft stools, maybe some vomiting. As a child, I can
tell you my dog, he definitely dined on cleaning the
ice cream bowl with regular occurrence. So a little bit
probably is not going to be a big deal. But
in general, there's a lot of fat in ice cream

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and calories that we really just don't need to do.
So I'm not going to give you that clearance to
say it's okay to give ice cream.

Speaker 3 (17:00):
It would just be something I would try to discourage.

Speaker 12 (17:03):
That's interesting. The local young man and the pet start
suggested I put some peanut buttery in what dogs wold
and freeze it and then give them that.

Speaker 11 (17:12):
Well, that can be kind of a fun treat, but
I would say rather than put it in the food.
Frozen peanut butter can be very useful when we're trying
to get dogs to be occupied chew on toys, So
you can take a little bit of peanut butter, stick
it inside a kong or another kind of chewing toy
and keep them occupied. I don't want to just give
dogs food that really, it's it's pretty ungratifying. I mean, yes,

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they like to eat it and it's yummy, but it
doesn't really occupy their mind or their chewing instincts. So
I like the frozen peanut butter and a toy. I
don't like throwing in the bowl. That's just it's not
letting a dog be a dog.

Speaker 12 (17:47):
One last, we'll do best questions. I just said this
dangerous to feed dog grapes.

Speaker 11 (17:52):
Grape Yes, that's actually true. Grapes and raisins have the
potential to cause kidney failure in dogs. And it's very true.
And that's another thing where people will say I've done
it before and my dog is perfectly fine. It's something
they were looking at. They don't know really what the
toxic principle is, but it can happen. So do not

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feed grapes or raisins to your dogs.

Speaker 12 (18:16):
Thank you, Debby. And what about chocolate chocolate?

Speaker 11 (18:18):
Oh, that's another one. Chocolate's a no no, and small
amounts aren't likely to be toxic, but you can certainly
get a taste. They'll develop a taste for chocolate. And
my own dear labrador had ingested several pounds of chocolate
items and had.

Speaker 3 (18:32):
The world's worst chocolate toxicity. He had heard.

Speaker 11 (18:34):
Arrhythmias, vomiting. It was a really bad state. So it
can be toxic and large amounts, so I don't.

Speaker 3 (18:41):
Like to do it at all.

Speaker 12 (18:43):
Okay, we don't do that. We just figure vanilla, little
scoop of vanilla, tiny little tablespooneful.

Speaker 11 (18:48):
Yeah, and there's so many, you know, fun kind of
healthy dog treats out there that can be flavored like chocolate.

Speaker 3 (18:55):
But they really don't contain chocolate.

Speaker 11 (18:56):
So if you feel the urge to give something like that,
you can always reach to the to the pet start
to find something.

Speaker 14 (19:01):
Thank you, Debby.

Speaker 1 (19:02):
I remember the the peanut butter that wasn't really peanut
butter as dog peanut butter. Dog butter is what they
call it from dog for dog, which.

Speaker 10 (19:09):
Is much better formulated and healthier for dogs.

Speaker 1 (19:12):
Good for them, So you might check that out. We
have a list over at the website at animal radio
dot com. Foods you should not feed your dog, which includes,
of course, scrapes and reasons. Thank you for listening, John.
I appreciate your call today.

Speaker 12 (19:24):
Thank you. I enjoyed it very much.

Speaker 19 (19:26):
Thank you very much.

Speaker 3 (19:27):
Can I feed a pistachio?

Speaker 1 (19:28):
That's what about caviar? Javy?

Speaker 3 (19:29):
What's is that good?

Speaker 18 (19:30):
Said?

Speaker 1 (19:30):
Okay?

Speaker 3 (19:31):
I feed them shrimp?

Speaker 1 (19:32):
Do I take the little legs off? What do I do?

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Hi, this is Judas Chapman from Young and the Restless
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I'm asking everyone out there to please spay and neuter
your pets.

Speaker 23 (20:56):
This is an Animal Radio news update.

Speaker 4 (21:00):
I'm Laurie Brooks, philanthropist wants to do something to make
the Trump White House a little bit more like those
of the past. She wants Donald Trump to have a
presidential pet.

Speaker 6 (21:13):
Now we've talked about.

Speaker 4 (21:13):
This before, but this is a specific offer. You see,
every president in the last one hundred and fifty years
has had pets in the White House.

Speaker 6 (21:21):
I mean we have seen dogs, cats.

Speaker 4 (21:23):
Parrots, sheep, horses, bear cubs, even a pigmy hippo.

Speaker 6 (21:28):
And an alligator living in the White House.

Speaker 4 (21:30):
By the way, it was John Quincy Adams who let
an alligator live in a White House bathroom.

Speaker 1 (21:36):
That was just what I was.

Speaker 6 (21:36):
President Obama, though.

Speaker 4 (21:38):
We talked about this, didn't have any pets when he
was elected, but then that changed when they got Bo,
who was a gift from the late Senator Ted Kennedy
and then later Sonny, and both of them are Portuguese
water dogs.

Speaker 6 (21:51):
How did you say something.

Speaker 1 (21:52):
Oh no, I didn't. I was just amazed at the
alligator in the White House.

Speaker 6 (21:58):
Here's what's going on with this.

Speaker 4 (21:59):
There was a a recent gala down at mar A
Lago which raised money to benefit the American Humane Association,
and it was hosted by the very wealthy Lois Pope.
If you don't know who Lois Pope is, she is
a philanthropist and also happens to be the widow of
the guy who founded the National Inquirer. So she announced

(22:22):
at this ball that they were giving patent a two
and a half month old Golden retriever kind of poodle
mixed puppy to the Trumps, and that she had left
them with a certificate for the pup, who, by the way,
is the descendant of military service dogs and named after
General George Patten, who is a favorite of Trump's now

(22:43):
Pope made the announcement, saying, from President Washington, of course
she has a much.

Speaker 6 (22:47):
More elegant voice than I do.

Speaker 4 (22:49):
The White House has always been home to our four
legged friends, she went on, and we look forward to
Patten upholding this long standing American tradition to have a
first dog in the world White House. Well, Pope said
that the President elect was actually given a certificate that
officially presented the dog to him. But sadly, we haven't
officially heard that the Trump family will be adopting patent,

(23:12):
but we will keep you posted on this, oh.

Speaker 14 (23:18):
Well.

Speaker 4 (23:18):
Following months of negotiations with state officials in Florida, a
woman named Mary Thorn has been given a permit that
is now going to allow her to keep her pet alligator.
Rambo is his name, and Rambo, she says, is fully
house trained and not a normal gaior. You see, last
month she was told that she was going to have
to find another home for Rambo.

Speaker 6 (23:39):
We told you about this story.

Speaker 4 (23:41):
Because state officials had said that he had grown much
too large to remain on her property in Lakeland, Florida,
and around that town he's known for sporting you know,
fun outfits and you know cute clothes and writing an ATV.
Since Thorn adopted Rambo, that was more than ten years ago,
he's now over feet long, and there's been a change

(24:03):
in the law down there that has added a permit
stipulation that requires gators who are that big or larger
to live on property where they have at least two
and a half acres of open space, which Thorn didn't
have so little background here. Before Rambo was rescued by
this woman, he had lived in a crowded tank in
a dark closet with four other alligators, and it was

(24:26):
those living conditions that made him ultra sensitive to light,
in fact, all of them, and they were kind of
skittish around other animals as well. So then Mary Thorn
rescues these gaiters, all five of them, and brings them home.
She tried leaving them outside to become normal alligators, but
they couldn't handle the sun and they weren't the healthiest,
and they began to die, and Rambo was the only

(24:49):
one of those five that survived. So now Rambo is
dressed in clothing and you might think that's silly, but
it's actually to protect him from the sun. And his mother,
her human mother mostly keeps him indoors, but the State
Wildlife Commission has changed their mind. They have ended up
issuing her a personal pet license, which allows her to

(25:10):
keep Rambo, but it does not allow him to be
out in public for classes or even charity events like
he used to do.

Speaker 1 (25:17):
Well. He dresses up and you mentioned this, and there's
a lot of great pictures online of this alligator that
is dressed in clothing that I can't imagine how mom
puts the clothing on, doesn't get a limb taken off.

Speaker 4 (25:29):
But but you know, she said that they had, you know,
when they had the all five of the gators, that
after four of the others died and Rambo was the
only one left, She's like, you know, something's got to
change in this situation. So she you know, kept him inside.
They just started cuddling him and treating him like a baby.
He's totally adapted and is a pet a housekeeper.

Speaker 3 (25:51):
Isn't it Isn't it weird that it won't.

Speaker 1 (25:53):
To depth back to the light? Yeah that is weird.

Speaker 4 (25:56):
Yeah, yeah, because they have really thick skin. But I
don't know, I only know what people tell me.

Speaker 1 (26:02):
Joey, Well, you know.

Speaker 21 (26:03):
What at first, I at first, I was going to say,
it's it's crazy, and you know, it reminded me of
that that that chimpanzee that that woman had as a
patent said it was perfectly fine.

Speaker 1 (26:12):
But yeah, no, I guess I guess I look like
any other pet lover. I feel sorry for that that
it was abused and how to go through this. Yeah. Right,
Gators are pretty popular in Florida. I mean they can
be on your lawn. They could show up on your life.
You live in Tampa or Sarasota, any of those areas there,
they will show up on your lawn. So it's interesting
that she had to get that licensed.

Speaker 10 (26:33):
Yeah, listen, there's just so many questions we have. I
think I'm gonna try to get her on the show.

Speaker 1 (26:37):
So many questions, so little time.

Speaker 3 (26:39):
I'm going to try to get her.

Speaker 1 (26:40):
Thank you so much.

Speaker 4 (26:41):
I wouldn't have done the story if it hadn't involved
the cloth wildlife officials.

Speaker 1 (26:45):
Oh I thought it was.

Speaker 6 (26:50):
I am kind of fond of animals and clothing.

Speaker 3 (26:53):
Yeah, me too.

Speaker 6 (26:54):
Here's another one of those stories.

Speaker 4 (26:55):
As a matter of fact, guys, Polly, the rescue goat
suffers from anxiety, which a lot of people do, but
Polly deals with it by wearing a duck suit, which
is really pajamas, a kind of costume that makes her
feel secure.

Speaker 6 (27:13):
Row he wants a duck cost hearing about a goat?

Speaker 4 (27:20):
Okay, After Little Polly was rescued by Goats of Anarchy,
it's a new Jersey based rescue organization that they care
for neurologically challenged baby goats. They had Polly seen by
I guess a pet psychiatrist, and she was diagnosed with
mental anxiety. So Polly was you know, comforted at that

(27:41):
time when she had all this anxiety and feeling so nervous.
They swaddled her like it would a baby in a blanket,
and her caregiver figured, hey, you know, maybe a costume
would do the same thing, or pajamas is what it
actually is, And that's when she started treating Polly's anxiety
attacks by zipping her up in this cozy little duck
a jama suit, and she has received you know, like

(28:03):
Joey was talking about some online criticism from viewers thinking
that the suit would cause more anxiety rather than cure it.
But they insist that Paulie is really a special case
with special needs and she's doing really well and you
can follow her and all of her happy adventures. I
got to tell you she's adorable and in that duck suit,
there's nothing cuter. Well, she was on the Instagram and

(28:26):
Twitter pages of the Goats of Anarchy.

Speaker 22 (28:30):
I'm going to play psychiatrists here because I think I
did that.

Speaker 1 (28:34):
I well, I think I am. It's probably like a
thunder jacket thundershirt.

Speaker 21 (28:40):
Yes, and where where where you know it's it's it's
that that that that security, you know, tight safety blanket.

Speaker 1 (28:46):
I bet you, I bet it works the same way. Oh,
I have an idea. I'm thinking of the thundershirt. It's
just such a drab looking thing. Now we should make
the duck thunder.

Speaker 7 (28:57):
The Animal Radio thunder duck and tie anxiety goat outfit.

Speaker 1 (29:02):
There you go, trade bark that.

Speaker 6 (29:03):
I love you guys. I'm Lourbrooks. By the way, get
more breaking.

Speaker 4 (29:07):
Animal news anytime at animal radio dot com.

Speaker 1 (29:10):
And Laurie looks great in clothes too, she really does.

Speaker 6 (29:14):
This has been an.

Speaker 23 (29:15):
Animal radio news update. Get more at animal radio dot com.

Speaker 1 (29:19):
Better put on your duck suit, lori plack wlack wlack.

Speaker 6 (29:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 24 (29:26):
Hey, it's allent cable today we're going to talk about
dog behaviors, the most common ones that people have to
deal with. Number one, barking. Most dogs bark, that's just
a fact of life. But if your dog is barking
all the time, before you can correct it, you gotta
find out what's causing it. There's a lot of different reasons.
Sometimes your dog is bored, or he's anxious. Sometimes he's
barking at other dogs or warning someone to stay away,

(29:48):
and sometimes he's just playing or excited. Once you figure
out why your dog barks, you can start to deal
with it. I'll tell you one thing. A happy dog
is a tired dog. Make sure your dog gets plenty
of exercise. Don't pay attention to your dog when your
dog's barking. Don't pet them, hug them, give them treats,
feed them any of that stuff, because that encourages your
dog to keep barking. That says, hey, I'm doing a
good thing here. Yelling at your dog doesn't work either,

(30:10):
because again you're giving your dog attention and that may
make them bark even more. What you want to do is,
when your dog is barking, give your dog a quick correction.
You can clap, say the word quiet, very sternly quiet,
or have a collar and a leisha on and just
give them a little jolt, a little snap of the wrist.
And while you're doing this again, use the word quiet.
As soon as your dog starts being quiet, you say

(30:30):
good dog. Even give your dog a treat. In general,
you want to give your dog affection and reward when
your dog is calm and quiet, that encourages your dog
to be mellow. You want to reward your dog for
behaving the way you want, and ignore and correct your
dog when your dog's behaving the way you don't want
them to. Don't rile your dog up, though, oh good dog,
a dog and pet them like crazy. You just want
to say good dog and v mellow yourself. Here's another

(30:53):
dog behavior people have to deal with chewing. That's a
natural behavior for dogs. But you want to teach your
dog what to chew, or else your dog will rip
your house apart. Most common reasons dogs chew things is
because they get bored, or they get anxious. They have anxiety,
they're curious because that's how dogs learn about the world,
or they're a puppy in their teething. So you got
to be there and As soon as your dog makes

(31:13):
a move to chew the wrong thing like your favorite chew,
you give him a quick correction with the word no,
and then stick something in his mouth he's allowed to chew.
Then when he choose it, you say, good dog. You
know it's a lot like training a husband.

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Speaker 1 (32:21):
Do you have an office cat.

Speaker 3 (32:23):
No, I don't know. I actually don't think. I don't
believe in them.

Speaker 11 (32:28):
For me, I don't like it because a lot of
times some cats will be ticked off by the sight
of other cats. So I don't want my patients being
pissed off before I see them. And uh, you know,
I want my cats to come in the door as
calm as possible without having other feline influences along the way.

Speaker 6 (32:46):
I imagine it's hard enough with having dogs and cats, and.

Speaker 11 (32:49):
I have some clients that are allergic, so they have
to go into the dog only rooms, and if they're
in a room with a cat, you know, they can
have really bad problems, starting to respiratory problems, scratching.

Speaker 3 (32:59):
And so it's you know, it has its place, but
not for me.

Speaker 1 (33:03):
I think you're the only vet that doesn't have a
house office cat. Maybe I love it when I walk
into a store and there's like an office cat or
a store cat. Just makes you feel at home and
welcome it.

Speaker 6 (33:15):
I go right to it.

Speaker 1 (33:16):
I think the ideas of the cat cafes that they
have in Japan just I love that idea. You grab
a couple.

Speaker 6 (33:22):
I think in La too, I think they're here in
the States.

Speaker 1 (33:26):
In New York, there's a lot of places where you
go and there's a shopcat, And in fact, there's a
book called Shopcats of New York. And we welcome tomorrow
Arcelanian to the show. Hi Tomorrow, How are you, Hi?

Speaker 25 (33:38):
I'm doing well.

Speaker 1 (33:39):
How is everyone awesome? Tell us about the book Shopcats.
You've you've spent a lot of time, I assume photographing animals,
cats in particular, all around the New York area.

Speaker 25 (33:49):
Yes, well, actually I teamed up with a young up
and coming Instagram photographer for the photography. The book was
my concept and the stories in it are my stories,
my writing because I started with a blog called I
Have Cats, Single in the City with Cats about seven
or eight years ago, and had I had an agent

(34:09):
approached me, and I didn't have an idea for a book,
and so I came up with this idea purely based
on the fact that in my own neighborhood I have
two shop cats. One is a wine store cat named Jack,
who's actually chapter number one in this book. I didn't
pick that he read chapter number one, but he was.
And then another one called Kitty at my Plate Studio

(34:31):
and my friends and just other people because I was
a cat blogger, what I would share with me different
stores that they had found in the area that had cats,
and so, you know, I started to look to see
if such a book existed. And while there were articles
about them and some older books that referred to them
as working cats, which we can get into if you like,

(34:51):
but the ones I found weren't very much working.

Speaker 15 (34:55):
Well.

Speaker 1 (34:55):
A lot of them have titles, don't They mostly queen
and king. I saw one in the book that was
a customer therapist and another one that was an assistant buyer.

Speaker 25 (35:06):
Yes, they also like had social media, you know, they
have actual Twitter handles or whatnot. Yet absolutely, and and honestly,
they don't seem to be the best mousers in the world.
I was told quite a few stories of you know,
they'll alert us to a mouse, you know, or watch
a mouse scurry past. But that's why I didn't like
the word working cat, and I think it just didn't
represent the cats that I met very well. They were

(35:29):
sort of more mascots or you know, in charge or
but they definitely didn't seem to be working.

Speaker 1 (35:37):
There was the bookstore cat that did a little bit
of work. Can you tell the listeners about that?

Speaker 25 (35:43):
So there were are you speaking of Tiny, perhaps the
one who almost killed a live chicken?

Speaker 1 (35:49):
Yeah, that one looks well.

Speaker 21 (35:52):
Yeah, he does work.

Speaker 25 (35:54):
He works in his own way. He is a bit
of a hunters. He has a wild side to him
and has been featured in a lot of different publications
and magazines and whatnot. And it's funny because apparently people
will come in with their dogs and they'll say, don't worry,
my dog likes cats, and they're like, be careful, our
cat does not like dogs. And if you start to
see him lurking around, he's stalking you and your dog.

(36:16):
But there wasn't one episode apparently that they have story
time in the bookstore and they didn't realize that this
person that was telling a story was going to have
a little surprise at the end of the story. And
apparently this person had a cloak on this whole time
and whipped out a live chicken from under his cloak,

(36:37):
and of course the kids were thrilled, and so it
was Tiny and apparently he like totally was like coming
in for the kill and the chicken was whisked away
like just like in the jiff of in the nick
of time or else these kids may have needed a
little count post traumatic stress counseling.

Speaker 1 (36:53):
You know, oh, whoops, What do you say people walk
into a store they see a cat? What do you
think the impression is?

Speaker 25 (37:01):
Honestly, I think except for you know, recently there was
a big outburst on the internet, right somebody complained about
a cat and a bodega, and then the world came
out against her and it was unmashable and everything. I think,
except for maybe a few people like that, I think
people really think like, wow, the person. I think it
gives just a little more dimensionality. It makes you think

(37:25):
about the manager and the people there as being more
loving and caring. Now, whether or not it's all true,
I don't know. But you know, sometimes the people I met,
I felt that they were very warm, and they were
very you know, they loved their animals. So I think
it just gives a nice warm feeling to the place,
to the business. It makes you want to frequent it

(37:45):
versus perhaps another one that doesn't have a store cat,
and it makes you realize perhaps they appreciate these little
sentient beings and it just makes the place cozier. And
I don't know it, imbus. I think a lot of
traits upon the store and the management, whether or not
they're there.

Speaker 10 (38:03):
I'm always drawn if I go into a store and
see a cat, I am just drawn to it, and
that makes me want to frequent the store more often.

Speaker 6 (38:10):
It instantly puts you at ease. It does. It's very relaxing.

Speaker 25 (38:14):
Some people mentioned that it was also a nice way
to start a conversation. Yeah, the city, especially where that's
not always easy.

Speaker 1 (38:21):
It looks like a great fun book for any cat lover.
It's called Shopcats of New York. How many cats are
featured in it?

Speaker 25 (38:27):
We have any thirty eight shops, but forty cats.

Speaker 1 (38:31):
I have ten copies to give away right now to
the book called Shopcats of New York. We'll put all
the information over at Animal radio dot com tomorrow. Thank
you so much for joining us today.

Speaker 25 (38:40):
Thank you so much for your time. And you know
we're in reprint, so you have first edition copies.

Speaker 1 (38:43):
I think, really it's doing that well.

Speaker 25 (38:46):
We're in reprint so and it was offline until today.
We're back in stock. So it's a it's a hot commodity.

Speaker 1 (38:53):
Beautiful coffee table book. It really really is. Thank you
for joining us. We're going to head back to the
phones toll free for your calls for doctor Day. Be
enjoy Vallani next right here on Animal Radio, call.

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Eight, celebrating the connection with our pets. This is Animal Radio,
featuring your dream team veterinarian doctor Debbie White and groomer
Joey Vellani. And here are your hosts, Al Abrams and
Judy Francis.

Speaker 1 (40:26):
At this hour we're going to talk about that new
drive through for dogs only. In fact, we'll have one
of the owners on the show in just a few minutes.
Right here on Animal Radio, we'll be taking your calls first,
if you're dieting, like we're all. We're all dieting right now,
aren't we.

Speaker 3 (40:43):
This is it's ridiculous, the amount of sweets and just.

Speaker 1 (40:46):
Carves and muff You try to stay away from it,
but everybody brings it into the office.

Speaker 10 (40:51):
I know.

Speaker 6 (40:51):
It's just so tempting.

Speaker 1 (40:53):
And then you have to, you know, you have to
eat some of their home to big goods in front
of them so they'll see. So I've literally put on
ten pounds. My cat actually looking pretty good, my dog
also looking pretty good. Hopefully your New Year's resolutions if
it was to well, first of all, if you made
it a new Year's resolution, come on, haven't you learned
you don't keep those things anyway. But if it is

(41:13):
losing weight and your dog joining you with that, we'll
be talking about that just a few minutes right here
on Animal Radio, Laurie, what are you working on over
there in the busy Animal Radio newsroom?

Speaker 4 (41:24):
We have been busy, so I'm gonna kind of slack
on this one and just tell you. I'm going to
tell you about my favorite story of last year.

Speaker 6 (41:34):
My favorite story.

Speaker 4 (41:34):
I think it's the funniest story and it's also it's
kind of an interactive story where you can take part
in it too. You can be visually stimulated by this
thing I'm going to tell you.

Speaker 1 (41:45):
I like, maybe that went too far. No yet, Let's
hit the phones. Are you ready, doctor Debbie.

Speaker 3 (41:53):
I'm ready. Let's go to it.

Speaker 1 (41:55):
Let's go to Tina. Hey, Tina, how are you?

Speaker 9 (41:59):
How are you good?

Speaker 1 (42:00):
Where are you today?

Speaker 9 (42:01):
Am Pennsylvania, Lamsdale, Pennsylvania.

Speaker 1 (42:04):
Okay, so that's the east side of Pennsylvania, right correct.

Speaker 9 (42:08):
Do you have a dog Philadelphia?

Speaker 1 (42:10):
Okay? Do you have a dog?

Speaker 9 (42:12):
Yes, I have a little Maltie. He's almost six years old.
And the problem I'm having with him right now is
his breath is absolutely horrible doggy breath before but it's
really really bad, and I don't know what's going.

Speaker 3 (42:28):
On, okay, And has he been to the veterinarian recently.

Speaker 11 (42:32):
And no, I haven't, okay, Because the number one thing
when we pick up bad breath and a dog is
dental disease or more specifically known as periodontal disease, and
a lot of times that's that first tell sign that
we may pick up. And we know that by the
age of two to three years of age, almost eighty
percent of dogs and cats are going to have some degree.

Speaker 3 (42:55):
Of periodonal disease.

Speaker 11 (42:56):
So that's where if he's not had or she he
if he's not had regular dental exams or even dental cleanings,
then that would be my number one thought of where
that odor comes from, and that would be something that
you know, hopefully we can address, do some dental cleaning
and evaluate whether we've got any bigger.

Speaker 3 (43:16):
Issues where we've got any tooth loss or bone.

Speaker 11 (43:19):
Issues in the mouth. That's really the first thing. The
other things that we look at that cause.

Speaker 3 (43:24):
Bad breath you don't want because they're bigger problems.

Speaker 11 (43:28):
In general, they tend to be things like kidney disease, diabetes,
respiratory infections, cancers, you know, all sorts of other stuff.

Speaker 3 (43:37):
So really it would behoove you.

Speaker 11 (43:38):
To, you know, see the vet say hey, you know,
can you check my dog out? Do you think we
might have a mouth problem that we need to address?
And sometimes a veterinarians like myself, we can look at
the mouth and give you a pretty good idea, Yeah,
we're going to have something.

Speaker 3 (43:49):
We need to address.

Speaker 11 (43:51):
Sometimes we can't, and there are some veterinarians that we'll
use a product called Aura strip, which is a kind
of a quick in the exam room strip that you
can kind of wait on the gums and see if
it tests positive.

Speaker 3 (44:02):
And if it tests positive, then.

Speaker 11 (44:03):
It gives us maybe one more little oof that says, oh, yes,
let's go ahead and move into a dentistry. But I
would say that if you haven't been, you know, practicing
regular dental care at home and seeing your veterinarian every couple,
you know, every twelve months for a dental cleaning, then
that's going.

Speaker 3 (44:18):
To be my big thing.

Speaker 9 (44:20):
Okay, Yeah, he's never had a dental cleaning before, and
I've tried brushing his teeth, but he doesn't go for it,
you know, I mean it's not his thing for sure.

Speaker 11 (44:29):
Yeah, you know, it takes a lot of work. Some
of the little dogs can be really tricky. And I'll
tell you my little boss, he was a year and
a half and we had to pull I think he
pulled four teeth when he was a year and a
half of age, partly due to crowding and partly due
to bad teeth. So these little dogs, they really do
move along much faster with tooth related problems than say

(44:50):
a large breed dog. So I would say, yeah, definitely,
that would be something if you can't do home care,
you know, it's less than ideal, But there's a lot
you can do just by you know, scheduling regular cleanings,
and there's some good shoes and things that we can
use after we've got that good clean mouth to try
to prevent that build up from happening quite so quickly.

Speaker 9 (45:10):
How about those treats that they have out there, like
I don't know, the green treats or something they say
are good for the hygiene, you know, dental hygiene or something.
Are they recommended or Yeah?

Speaker 11 (45:23):
For what I usually recommend to my clients is if
you look on any of those products. What we're looking
for is a seal of approval, and it's the Veterinary
Oral Health Council, and it's a council of a veninary
dentists that actually have tested these products and looked at
the sea.

Speaker 3 (45:37):
Does this make some kind of measurable difference.

Speaker 11 (45:39):
It's not going to be as good as brushing the
teeth or having them professionally clean, but it can have
some measurable difference. So look for that seal on those
type of edible items or otherwise, if you buy a
product like ca't your veterinarian, you know, obviously they're going
to stock something that's through a veterinary.

Speaker 3 (45:54):
Distributor, right, right, Yeah, what I just I try not to.

Speaker 11 (45:58):
Have people look at treats and shoe as a replacement
for dental care because it's kind of like me saying
I'm gonna chew popcorn tonight because I don't feel like
brushing my teeth.

Speaker 3 (46:06):
You don't do the same thing.

Speaker 11 (46:08):
You know, I might get a little bit of some
abrasion effect, but it's not really apples and apples, It's.

Speaker 9 (46:14):
Right, right, It's not the thing that will mend at all.
He really needs dental care, probably, I.

Speaker 3 (46:22):
Would say, very suspicious, very suspicious.

Speaker 11 (46:24):
Let me know and see what happens, and hopefully he
gets a clean bill of health. But you know, they
just need a good cleaning because you know, that's a
bacteria that yeah, and those bacteria in the mouth, they
definitely can you know, spread to the other organs.

Speaker 3 (46:37):
Can he the liver and the heart. So okay, yeah,
I would definitely look into it.

Speaker 9 (46:41):
Okay, sounds great, Well, thank you. I appreciate your health.

Speaker 1 (46:44):
Hey, thanks for calling Tina. In just a couple of
minutes in your neck of the woods, we're going to
talk to somebody who just opened up a doggy drive
through in eastern Pennsylvania. It's a and they only serve
dog food. They don't serve human food. They want you
to drive on through with your dogs.

Speaker 6 (46:58):
It's human food, isn't it?

Speaker 1 (46:59):
Is it? It's it's not human food.

Speaker 6 (47:02):
It's human food for dog. Yeah, but they won't serve
you're right, yeah.

Speaker 1 (47:07):
Yeah, So that's coming up in just a couple of minutes.
We'll find out about it.

Speaker 9 (47:10):
Okay, Okay, thank you so much.

Speaker 1 (47:13):
Thanks for calling to reach out to your dream team.
It is actually kind of a mix. They have a
partnership with fresh pet which is dog food, and then
they also serve fruit, human grade fruit on top of
some of these bulls. Here you'll find out about it
just a couple of seconds here right on animal radio.

Speaker 6 (47:28):
I'm such a watch job.

Speaker 1 (47:29):
No, you were right though, you're not a watch up.
If you're a wag job, then what am I a
cat job? I caring?

Speaker 5 (47:36):
Here?

Speaker 1 (47:36):
Are you?

Speaker 15 (47:37):
I'm fine?

Speaker 22 (47:37):
Her?

Speaker 1 (47:37):
Are you very good? I got doctor Debbie standing right here.
How can she help you?

Speaker 22 (47:42):
Well?

Speaker 15 (47:42):
I have a fourteen and a half year old cat.
He was a feral kitten and I've raised him. He's
a great pet. But I've had problems with his ears,
probably for the last seven years, and it doesn't seem
like we can get anything under control. And I'm not
sure if he hasn't been misdiagnosed.

Speaker 3 (48:03):
Okay, well, what has he been diagnosed with so far?

Speaker 15 (48:06):
Well, it's started out with ear mites, and the treatments
were fairly successful depending on what they were. It seemed
like a shot control them better than the ear drops.
But in the last several years he's developed He's always congested.

(48:27):
He has a thick congestion in his nose. It varies
from a white, thick mucus to yellow to sometimes bloody.
And the last time I had him at the vet,
she thought maybe it was a malformation of his nose
or a tumor. But he always has this black, crusty

(48:50):
stuff in his ear.

Speaker 3 (48:52):
M Okay, And I mean, is that that evil?

Speaker 11 (48:55):
I mean, this is where I like to look into
the radio. Here are they able to actually see in
your kiddy's ear canal ors? There's just a lot of
gunk in there that they can't really get a good look.

Speaker 15 (49:04):
There's a lot of gunk in there, and I've been used.
I think the last drops I got were mighty clear,
and then there was an octy rants or something to
clean his ear with. But it just it just never
goes away. It's always there.

Speaker 3 (49:24):
Okay. And is he an inside kitty or does he
go outside?

Speaker 15 (49:27):
He's both. He's a farm cat. In the winter time
he pretty much stays in the house and in the
summertime he's pretty much out all the time.

Speaker 11 (49:35):
Okay, All right, Well, here's what I would typically do, Karen,
when we have especially a chronic ear infection.

Speaker 3 (49:41):
There's a couple of things I would do.

Speaker 11 (49:43):
Is I would want to make sure we take some
nice samples of what that garbage looks like inside the
ear and do some things with it.

Speaker 3 (49:49):
So I put that on slides.

Speaker 11 (49:51):
I might even culture it, but I definitely want more
about what we've got. And if I find mites, great,
then we'll treat that way. But I wouldn't stop looking
because a lot of times we can find bacterial infections
along with that, or fungal infections, and I want to
make sure we get the right medication round there. Now,
if we've got a lot of garbage in the ear,
one of the main things we may need to do

(50:12):
is to get that out of the ear, and that's
really hard to do with just squeezing a liquid down
the ears and asking you to clean the mat home.
So the only thing is age concerns aside with anesthesia,
I would talk about doing a anesthetic flush to get
the garbage out and to allow us to look inside
that ear canal, because there's a lot of things that

(50:34):
might be playing a role deeper down in the ear
that we really need to get to the root of.
And that's how I would try to manage some of
those chronic aspects to an ear infection. Now you mention
some other stuff about the congestion and some of this
discharge stuff. In some cases, with chronic infections and cats
in the ears, we can actually run into a development

(50:56):
of a type of apoll up that grows maybe you know,
a primary problem. The growth is the underlying issue. But
in some cases it's actually a benign growth that can
occur deep inside the ear canal, and in some cases
it actually can come from the ear canal and actually
go into the back of the throat or down into
the back of the mouth. So some of the concerns
of a growth back there might not be all that

(51:19):
far gone, and that might take some actual anesthetic procedures
to actually look at that and to try.

Speaker 3 (51:26):
To evaluate that a bit further.

Speaker 11 (51:27):
But that could be something that might be playing a
role to cause booth, that congestion type sign and the
ear infection. And you know, I guess the other thing
is we do have an older kitty here, so we
have to keep our eyes open for bad teeth as
well as you know, tumor potentials kind of all the
way across the board. But I think that I would

(51:48):
get a little bit more aggressive as far as getting
those samples, getting the ears cleaned, and then seeing if
we might have something like a polyp in there.

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Speaker 1 (53:31):
It's Animal Radio. And if you're one of those people
that drives through the drive through with your dog and
end up buying a cheeseburger or some nasty food that
you shouldn't even be eaten for your dog, you're not alone.
And there's a young lady, Amanda Brown. Will be talking
to her in just a few minutes. Here. She opened
up her own business. It's a drive through just for dogs.

(53:55):
That is so cool. Can't get any human food there,
at least you can't order human food there, but if
you have a dog, you can drive through. And apparently
she has several different sizes and grain free and supersize
and all of that stuff.

Speaker 24 (54:09):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (54:09):
And I we'll find out about that in just a
couple of minutes and see what her aspirations for franchising,
because I'd love to see that out here right now.
It's in eastern Pennsylvania.

Speaker 10 (54:17):
Yeah, I'd love to open one.

Speaker 1 (54:19):
Yeah, I'm telling you, it'd.

Speaker 11 (54:20):
Be cool if you could get a doggie bag from
your doggie for yourself, you know, like you can eat
all those nuts.

Speaker 3 (54:29):
A few? Are you going to eat that?

Speaker 1 (54:34):
We're going to head back to the phones in just
a couple of seconds, and let's see, Lorie, what are
you working on over there for this hour?

Speaker 14 (54:41):
Well?

Speaker 4 (54:41):
I dug up a new survey that the Baylor College
of Medicine did about drugs for dogs, like painkilling drugs
and how pet owners are being affected by some heavy
duty drugs that are given to their pets.

Speaker 1 (55:00):
Huh, okay, that's on the way right here on not
always good. Yeah, I know that isn't always good. I
have a feeling I know where you're going with this,
and it's, uh, it's just downright wrong. But we'll talk
about that in just a couple of nets. Right here,
Let's say we go to line two, doctor Debbie.

Speaker 3 (55:16):
I'm here, Hello, Taran, Hey, how are you good?

Speaker 1 (55:19):
How are you doing today?

Speaker 27 (55:20):
I'm doing pretty good.

Speaker 1 (55:21):
Where are you?

Speaker 27 (55:22):
I'm in Kentucky.

Speaker 1 (55:23):
I could almost hear your accent.

Speaker 11 (55:26):
From Georgia's switching it up on us here.

Speaker 1 (55:31):
Yeah, so how are your animals? I got doctor Debbie
right here, she can help.

Speaker 27 (55:34):
Oh, well good.

Speaker 15 (55:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 27 (55:35):
We have a two and a half year old Britney
Spaniel and we bought her because we intend to breed her.
We were actually had a stud ready for her for
her next heat cycle. But she appears to be pregnant,
and for all my research, all the symptoms that she
have wouldn't be false pregnancy because she's too far out
of heat and producing milk. Now, okay, I can't feel

(56:00):
any poppies, so you know, I've never had to feel
for poppies before. She doesn't look bigger.

Speaker 3 (56:06):
Okay, but how do you know?

Speaker 11 (56:09):
And no chance that there's a boy around or is
that kind of a vague possibility.

Speaker 27 (56:13):
You know, unless something came in our yard and we
candled her for part of the time she was in heat.
But it's possible, but we didn't see anything happen.

Speaker 11 (56:22):
Well, never underestimate the power of hormones in dogs.

Speaker 27 (56:29):
You said it, Hell, I know I have I have boys,
and yeah.

Speaker 11 (56:35):
But I guess the question and the answer to that
is both false pregnancies and a true pregnancy. Last typically
about the same time, so about sixty four days is
the general norm. So you know, we're at that time
frame where if we don't see puppies dropping and we
don't really feel comfortable that this is a pregnancy, you
can fix this or get the answer to the solution
very quickly. Number one would be you can see your

(56:57):
veterinarian and have an ultra sound done. That would be
one of the most efficient ways at this point to
see we're pregnant. The true reality is that false pregnancies
are not uncommon, and dogs will go through all of
those signs of pregnancy, including some weight gain, milk production,
nesting behaviors, and even carrying around little dolls like babies.

(57:18):
So there isn't an easy answer when the pet is
displaying those type of signs. Now, some of the hormonal
effects may last beyond what a regular pregnancy would, So
that's where if it's getting past that sixty four day
period of time and there's no babies, you know you
may still be going through some hormonal surges from this
kind of whole roller coaster.

Speaker 27 (57:37):
False pregnant scular area is very swollen and she has
a rash. She's been licking herself constantly. And at first
we thought maybe it was like allergies or you know,
some skin irritant, and then we started thinking, well, hormone
surges and women cause skin problems. Maybe you know, now
that we're thinking she's pregnant, would that be part of it?

(57:58):
Could they even have that if they're not pregnant?

Speaker 11 (58:00):
Sure could either scenario? Yeah, yeah, definitely. Now when you
look at her, I mean, does she look like she's
gained a tremendous amount of weight.

Speaker 27 (58:07):
Not a lot. She does look a little thicker, and
her abdomen is a little, like they say, firmer, and
you know, it looks bigger. She looks like a cow.
My boys think we should milk her, I mean, got
a milk?

Speaker 11 (58:21):
Well, definitely, and that milk is kind of freaky because,
you know, especially if we have a dog that we
know has not been around male dogs and this happens,
it's kind of like weird, huh, but very.

Speaker 27 (58:31):
And it's not out of the real possibilities. We just did,
you know, We didn't let her go out and find
a boyfriend, and we don't know what dog would have
been in the yard. We just moved here. We had
only been here a month before she went into heat.

Speaker 1 (58:46):
There is there a stick that dogs can pee on, doc,
how do you find out? Is it a blood test?

Speaker 15 (58:50):
Idea?

Speaker 1 (58:51):
And then and then it is false pregnancy? Would that
show up as a positive also, you know, that's.

Speaker 11 (58:56):
A great question on that. And I don't know that
the human pregnancy test can actually.

Speaker 3 (58:59):
Be used for dogs.

Speaker 11 (59:01):
But I'd say the easiest way I could suggest to
kind of get to the rood of this, see the that,
you know, and if she were here and I could
feel her belly, you know, I could probably tell you
a little bit more as well, but i'd say for
her safety, and you know, for if there is a pregnancy,
you know, getting to see a veterinary and be important.
And there's also some benefits in that because if we
have a pregnancy, a lot of times we will take

(59:22):
X rays of the babies, so we.

Speaker 3 (59:23):
Know how many to anticipate.

Speaker 11 (59:25):
So there's some pre planning steps that you know, we
don't always like these teenage pregnancies where they're unanticipated.

Speaker 3 (59:30):
We try to get ahead of them so we know
what we're getting into.

Speaker 27 (59:32):
Fifteen or sixteen, we're so disappointed.

Speaker 3 (59:36):
No, she's you said she's two years right?

Speaker 27 (59:39):
Yeah, I got top.

Speaker 3 (59:40):
Okay, she's just a foolish young adult, that's all.

Speaker 1 (59:43):
I'll watch out for those foolish young adults. Well, good luck.
Let us know how that turns out there, Tarren.

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Speaker 4 (01:01:32):
Stealing from a sick animal might seem like a very
low way to get a drug fix, but it does.

Speaker 6 (01:01:38):
Happen, and it happens a lot.

Speaker 4 (01:01:41):
Sadly, opioid abuse is rampant, and a survey from Baylor
College of Medicine reveals to us a surprising number of
pet owners are stealing their pets medications, especially painkillers and
namely the drug tramadol, with many vets reporting they've actually
witnessed in their own practices, owners trying to get medication

(01:02:03):
for themselves and inventing symptoms for their pets and reasons
to get these prescriptions. Yeah, vets have been advised by
the American Veterinarian Medical Association. They have issued a statement
suggesting that all vets give only a limited number of
refills for prescription pain medications. Because of this opioid abuse,

(01:02:24):
New Hampshire is now requiring veterinarians to check pet owners'
names and their pets against a database of opioid prescriptions
that is tracked by the Prescription Drug Monitoring Program there,
and then the vets will have to check the names
two more times in that year in case somebody's name

(01:02:47):
later pops up as having a drug addiction, you know.
And there's kind of like a little war that's going
on with this. They're saying, you know, vets are not
trained to understand or even know, and how.

Speaker 6 (01:03:00):
Would they know if a human is addicted to drugs?

Speaker 4 (01:03:02):
And what could happen if they denied somebody who's actually
addicted to drugs?

Speaker 6 (01:03:06):
And how do they counsel them or what do they do?
So there's people on both sides of that.

Speaker 1 (01:03:10):
One doctor Debbie have you had any patients seek opioids
from you for their own use, and do you know
about it?

Speaker 11 (01:03:17):
Yeah, you know, I think we've been suspicious of a
few people maybe over the years, you know, seeking tramadoll,
seeing their pets needed it. But you know, I see
more commonly than that, I see people giving their own
pain medicines to their dogs and you know, not wanting
to go spend and get another prescription, so they'll see,
I just got some at home. I'll just give it
to my dog.

Speaker 1 (01:03:38):
Yeah that won't work.

Speaker 11 (01:03:40):
Yeah, well, if it shorts them on their pain medicine,
that's the other thing. If it is an appropriate you
know thing like tramadol that we use both in people
and in dogs.

Speaker 1 (01:03:48):
But see, what I'm thinking about is the animals that
need that and the owner is taking that medicine away
from them. That's really the low of the low.

Speaker 6 (01:03:55):
Yeah, that is.

Speaker 3 (01:03:57):
And one would hope that's not the case.

Speaker 11 (01:03:59):
That you know, maybe it's more someone making up a
symptom and you know, seeking in that way than actually
taking it from a poor you know, animal and pain.

Speaker 1 (01:04:06):
Now, when you prescribe opioids, do you have to get
information from the owner or driver's license or anything like that.

Speaker 3 (01:04:14):
No, it's first in our hospitals.

Speaker 11 (01:04:15):
You know, there's some controlled drugs that veterinarians will prescribe
through their hospital.

Speaker 3 (01:04:19):
Meaning they'll dispense them out.

Speaker 11 (01:04:21):
For the most part, we do most of that through
outside pharmacy, so we do stock some tramadol, but for
the most part, for large quantities or other things that
are like higher classes of prescription drugs, will send those
through a human pharmacy, so they are kind of monitored
through oversight and someone else can be the place.

Speaker 3 (01:04:40):
That's not my job. I'm a veterinarian, so I'm not
out to arrest people and look for that kind of fraud.

Speaker 1 (01:04:46):
Nor are you trained for that.

Speaker 11 (01:04:48):
No, No, you know, I like to watch cop TV shows,
but I'm really not going to practice that in my
daily life now.

Speaker 4 (01:04:55):
Kind of a downer thing here, another one, but something
that I think is really important because given the relatively
short life spans of our pets, it's not unusual for
those families who have children for those kids to witness
the realities of life kind of played out before their
very own eyes with their pets. But children have to

(01:05:16):
understand death in those moments and how they do and
those are pretty much, you know, largely ignored topics. According
to some new research that's out, a professor of animal behavior,
his name is doctor Joshua Russell says that children often
see themselves as kind of like the center of their
pets universe and their affections, and they describe their pets

(01:05:37):
as siblings or their best friends even and it turns
out that kids have a really distinct sense of fairness
or unfairness of whether or not an animal lived until
an appropriate age.

Speaker 6 (01:05:51):
It makes a big difference.

Speaker 4 (01:05:52):
Russell interviewed kids between six and thirteen years of age
and found that the children felt a short lifespan is
normal for hamsters and fish, but apparently the kids had
trouble accepting early deaths.

Speaker 6 (01:06:06):
For dogs, cats, and even rabbits.

Speaker 4 (01:06:09):
And children whose pets lived the extent of their potential
lifetimes or beyond you know, who had lived to an
old age expressed more acceptance of those deaths.

Speaker 6 (01:06:20):
After their pets had gone.

Speaker 4 (01:06:22):
But they say conversely, children whose pets died unexpectedly or
tragically described it as emotionally and morally unfair and had
a much more difficult time reconciling the loss. You know,
you think because sometimes parents just say, oh, they've gone
to heaven. You know, you cross the rainbow bridge. Well
what is the rainbow bridge? You know, it brings up

(01:06:42):
a lot of questions. But hopefully now maybe some of
us will have a little bit more understanding of how
serious and what a big deal it is to kids.

Speaker 1 (01:06:51):
Sure it's a big deal talking about therapedo to them
for these kids, because that's that's where I got to say.
I don't know, maybe I grew up a different time.
The dog died, your father dug a hole. You help
them put the dog in a hole, and you covered it.
You mourned a little bit. But I hope that I
talk about therapy.

Speaker 4 (01:07:08):
No, they're not talking about therapy, but I personally don't
think that would be a bad idea. I mean, some
people are just you know, it all depends on how
you're raised, too, because you only know what you know.
But if that helps somebody get over, you know, a
really close relationship, because who knows really how kids process
things and.

Speaker 1 (01:07:25):
Adults too, you know, you're just talking about kids being.

Speaker 4 (01:07:28):
Oh yeah, as an adult has been I mean I've
had some really tough ones to get over.

Speaker 6 (01:07:32):
But I've got something that may make.

Speaker 4 (01:07:34):
You laugh now, okay, subject Okay, I thought this was
one of the funniest stories. And it just came out
last month and after the month before, after the November elections.
Hopefully we've all found our sense of humor again and
gotten over all that because this is hysterical and as
an animal lover, I hope you will appreciate it. To
Google now has an extension?

Speaker 1 (01:07:56):
Is an extension the same as an app you know,
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:08:01):
Okay, But in Google Chrome they call it an extension okay,
for their browser which is called Chrome.

Speaker 6 (01:08:08):
Listen to this.

Speaker 4 (01:08:09):
This extension is called Make America Kittens Again, okay.

Speaker 29 (01:08:16):
And what it does.

Speaker 4 (01:08:17):
What it does it replaces pictures on the Internet of
Donald Trump, our president elect, with pictures of adorable kitten.

Speaker 1 (01:08:27):
This is great. This is great because I'm having a
lot of trouble surfing the internet right now because I
run into this Trump pictures of it and I just
I give up. So now I'm so glad somebody's actually
come up with a good idea I want. I'm switching
to Chrome today.

Speaker 7 (01:08:43):
I thought that was hysterical.

Speaker 6 (01:08:44):
What a great way to spread the cheer of animals.
Really I'm lour Brooks.

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Speaker 5 (01:09:04):
Hello animal radians, it's Robert Semro, your pet world insider,
are here with this week's animal radio list. Five New
Year's resolutions for the pet world. Another year has ended
and as we begin the next one promises of change
and doing better or bouncing through our minds. So I
thought i'd give you a gentle reminder that your pets
need to be included in your resolutions. Number one, get

(01:09:26):
your pets identification, microchips and paperwork updated. I know we've
all promised this before, so stop what you're doing, and,
as a famous sports philosopher says, just do it for
the sake of your pets. If your pet isn't already microchipped,
what are you waiting for. Please don't tell me that
your pets can't get out or get lost. They can,

(01:09:47):
and if it happens, your best chance at being reunited
with them is by having them microchipped. If you do
have them microchipped, update their information and make sure that
your local shelters have microchip readers. I would read the
actual chip inside your pet, verify that it's working, it's accurate,
and that the information on file will bring them home

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to you. Number two is time resolution. Number two is
so simple that if you don't do it, I hope
your pet will cone of shame you at some point
this year. Spend some extra time learning about your pet
each day. I don't mean sipping tea and discussing your
favorite books, though I have found that Zoe has great
taste in books. What I do mean is actually getting

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to know your pet by really studying their body and
behaviors and noting changes that may not have been there
the last time you looked.

Speaker 1 (01:10:35):
Number three.

Speaker 5 (01:10:36):
Learn something to improve your pets' lives. Learn something this
year with them or for them. Maybe you'll learn a
new sport or activity that you can do together, or
maybe you'll take the time to learn more about what
benefits your pets, what harms your pets, or what you
can do to enhance their lives. There's a lot of
great information out there, so it's going to be easy

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for you to achieve improvement this year. Number four. Help
your pet be more healthy this year, from nutrition to
play to mental stimulation. Filled with the healthy outlook and
activities that will give them a healthy change that is
sustainable and makes a difference for them and for you.
Number five, Begin a daili er weekly pet journal, something

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that takes just fifteen minutes to do daily. What did
you and your pet do today? What was their behavior like?
What was their health like? What special moment occurred that
you will cherish. I use my pet journal today to
communicate with my pet healthcare team. I'm able to give
them updates on their health, their care, and what's happening normally,

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as well as what's out of the normal. Something I
learned last year when Sugar passed was that I would
also look back fondly and treasure these notes about my
soul dog and our other pets and our daily interactions.
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Speaker 1 (01:13:00):
It's Animal Radio. I forget if it was you, Laurie,
or if it was you Joey telling me about In
and Out Burgers. They have the special meal for dogs
if you go through like a burger. I know that.

Speaker 21 (01:13:16):
I knew about the secret menu for for people.

Speaker 2 (01:13:19):
I didn't know a dog one.

Speaker 1 (01:13:21):
Well, when you go through the drive through and you
have your animal with you, it's always very tough because
they smell the food and they want the food they wanted,
and you really don't want to share that food with him,
because it's uh, you shouldn't even be you.

Speaker 10 (01:13:34):
You know, at least you got the choice your animal.
You can't feed it up.

Speaker 1 (01:13:38):
But you'll love our next guest and what she's done.
Amanda Brown is joining us and they have a place
called Baine Invader's Doggie Drive Through, and I believe it
is specifically and only for dogs, and we welcome her
to the show. Hi, Amanda, how are you hi?

Speaker 12 (01:13:53):
Well?

Speaker 30 (01:13:54):
Thank you?

Speaker 1 (01:13:55):
Now you're in Easton, Pennsylvania. Is that correct?

Speaker 9 (01:13:57):
Correct?

Speaker 1 (01:13:58):
And that's where you have a dog eat drive through.
It's sort of like a restaurant. Is it a fast
food restaurant for doggies?

Speaker 31 (01:14:05):
Yes, sort of, it's more or less. It's like a
little hut and it has drive through windows on both sides,
so you can just drive up and a lot of
people bring their dog, so it's super fun and you
just place in order and we make it fresh custom
for you right there and then send you on your way.
So it's fun.

Speaker 21 (01:14:23):
We love it.

Speaker 1 (01:14:24):
So do you serve human food there?

Speaker 24 (01:14:26):
No, we don't.

Speaker 31 (01:14:27):
Actually, I was thinking about serving my toffee or bottled
sold or something, and apparently the health inspector said that
that's just not an option, so you.

Speaker 1 (01:14:36):
Can't do that. What is it you serve? What kind
of dog food do you serve?

Speaker 31 (01:14:40):
So I part a fresh pet. They make all fresh
meat foods festivals at the act the base of our meals.
You get to come in drive up and pick a
fresh pet base. So we have we have grain, grain free,
and rall so there's three different options. And from there
you to add too topping. So we have fresh fruits

(01:15:03):
and vegetables like stew, potatoes, carrots, all like boiled freshmanley,
fresh strawberries, watermelon, some other fruits and vegetables as well,
and then you can also for a little bit more
ad some topping.

Speaker 1 (01:15:16):
How's business going so well?

Speaker 31 (01:15:20):
About two and a half months.

Speaker 1 (01:15:21):
You know what, do you have a land line? Amanda?
Can we call you back on a landline? Yourself seems
to be cutting out here? Yes, hold on, I'm gonna
put you back on with Judy. It's Animal Radio and
we're getting Amanda back on the phone. She has a
drive through dog. It's a doggy driver. You won't find
any human food there, just food for your doggy, and
it looks like pretty healthy food. It's in eastern Pennsylvania,

(01:15:44):
which is I guess if you're listening on WEEU, this
is in your territory there. So do we have her back? Okay?
I believe we have her back? Are you there?

Speaker 30 (01:15:54):
I am here?

Speaker 26 (01:15:55):
Sorry?

Speaker 1 (01:15:56):
So much better, so much better. So, how it's business going.
Do you find that there are a lot of cars
or is it? Is it going tough or what both?

Speaker 30 (01:16:03):
I mean, on the weekend it's awesome. And in Pennsylvania
now it's Winner, so they're always pictured winner to be,
you know, sort of a downtime. But the first month
was amazing, and I know that's how and what it
should and could be. The first weekend we had about
ninety cars come through. You know, it's exciting, and I
know it can you know it can be you know,

(01:16:25):
something awesome. I just have to stick with it. So
that's that's where I'm at right now. I keep telling myself,
build it and they will come. Yeah.

Speaker 10 (01:16:33):
I know a lot of fast foods won't serve people
if they walk up to the window without a car.
Do you get a lot of dogs that come up
to your window without people?

Speaker 8 (01:16:43):
No, but we do.

Speaker 30 (01:16:44):
Some people do walk through.

Speaker 1 (01:16:46):
Would it be safe to say you're the only doggie
drive through in the country, Well.

Speaker 30 (01:16:50):
We're there is a There is a company called a
Doggie I think it's called Doggie drive Through and she
does something I think she sells like biscuits and they
have some other stuff like that. But what we're doing
is yeah, there's nothing comparable to it.

Speaker 1 (01:17:06):
How did you come up with the idea?

Speaker 30 (01:17:08):
I read an article about a year and a half
ago that's stating that fast food is literally going to
the dogs, and it just basically said that there's a
high percentage of people that even go through the drive
through or either getting something for their dog or specifically
going there for their dogs. So I thought, like, well,
that's the case, Like, why not do something that it's healthy.

(01:17:29):
You know, it's fun and it's healthy for them. It's
not you know, a cheeseburger that's made out of I
don't even know. So that's sort of where, you know,
I thought, oh, this could be cool. So it took
a little while to get it, get it set up,
but now we're moving along.

Speaker 1 (01:17:45):
So I'd like how it's healthy food because I'll tell you,
fast food is turned Americans into big fat, greasy people,
and I certainly don't want to see that happen with
the dogs with the drive throughs now.

Speaker 30 (01:17:57):
Yeah, you're not kidding, I know, I know. I'm excited,
you know, I think the response we've gotten so far
is great. I've had a bunch of people, a bunch
of customers have returned multiple times. Some people come to
three times a week, so it's fun. I think it
could be awesome. And you know a place where it's
sunny all the time and nice and warm.

Speaker 1 (01:18:18):
Okay, it's called Bane Invaders and you can go to
the website at baaneinvaders dot com. That's spelled b A
N e A N d v A d e r
s dot com. And of course we have linked everything
you've heard on today's show over at animal radio dot com. Amanda,
good luck, keep it up, and uh let's check in
maybe in the summer and see how it's going.

Speaker 30 (01:18:39):
Okay, Okay, yeah, that would be awesome. Thank you, thanks
so much for let me get on.

Speaker 1 (01:18:42):
Yes, of course, there you go, another great entrepreneur tapping
into the pet business. Suddenly I'm hungry for some big,
greasy cheeseburgers. I don't know why. Okay, time for us
to get on out of here. Ladybug wants to play
with her new toys that she got for Christmas, and
I don't blame her. They're actually pretty cool little toys
that one actually looks like a real raccoon. Oh that

(01:19:03):
is a real raccoon. You know what you might want
to get her away from that. I wanted to say
before we left that if you have a Shitsu, a Pug,
a Yorkshire Terrier, or a Mini Schnauzer, our very own
doctor Debbie has a great online book. It's a kindle
book called How to Be Your Dog's Best Friend. We
have links over at Animal radio dot com, or you
can just head on over to Amazon, download the Animal

(01:19:26):
Radio app, and get your fix at Animal Radio dot pet.
We'll see you next week.

Speaker 3 (01:19:29):
Bye bye, see you next week. This is Animal Radio
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