Providing Protective Vests To Police Dogs - Pet Food Stamps - The Animal Radio® Show

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Celebrating our connection with our pats. This is Animal Radio.
Almost didn't make it in time. It's Animal Radio. I'm
Halle Abrams, Judy Francis. Screening your calls, not really screening
your calls. I think we let anyone through. Isn't that
the policy here? We're we're an equal opportunity offender here

(00:22):
at Animal Radio, Doctor Debbie's answering your vet medical questions,
dog trainer Alan Cable, dog father Joey Vallani, and animal
communicator Joy Turner all here. Now a lot of people
that we speak to at least they travel the country
and many times they need vet care. And I always
like to mention that doctor Debbie is in Las Vegas,
which is a perfect place for a lot of the truckers.

(00:43):
It's kind of like a hub. It's always about location, location, location, location, right,
you know it's a stopover.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (00:49):
I was the one that invented that location location location thing.
At first was it just it was just location location,
and then for more emphasis I decided to put that
third location on that.

Speaker 3 (00:58):
A lot of people know that, Wow, you're an innovator.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
I really am, Stacy, what are you doing well?

Speaker 4 (01:03):
It looks like turkeys are a problem in North Carolina,
the kind that fly. Seriously, they're you know, migrating south
in the winter and it's been so warm in North Carolina.
But these turkeys are hanging around and they're flying in
the trees. And you know, turkeys aren't little, so when
they decide to eliminate, they're all over the place. But

(01:23):
I'll give you all the details, not that there's that
much more coming up on Animal Radio News.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
Now, wait a second, I thought turkeys didn't fly. Was
it that the whole premise behind the w k key.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
Vulture she's talking about? I think so, I believe.

Speaker 5 (01:36):
So.

Speaker 6 (01:36):
Okay, can you guys imagine what it would be like
to be a bird that can't fly? I mean, how
degrading that would be in the bird business. I mean
all the other birds are up there going.

Speaker 7 (01:44):
Eh, kai, you can't fly? Kind of bird can't fly?

Speaker 1 (01:49):
Coming up this hour on Animal Radio, we'll talk to
the guy who's founded the pet food stamps program. If
you're on welfare or you'd get food stamps who want
to be listening up, they also need help. So if
you're one of those blessed ones that has extra cash
sitting in your pockets, you want to help some people
less fortunate feed their animals. We'll have the details all
on the way right here on Animal Radio. Let's see
any meaning. Mighty Moe, catch a tiger by my toe?

(02:10):
How about Ginger?

Speaker 3 (02:11):
Hey?

Speaker 1 (02:11):
Ginger?

Speaker 8 (02:12):
Hi?

Speaker 7 (02:13):
How are you good?

Speaker 1 (02:14):
How are you doing? Where are you calling from today?

Speaker 9 (02:16):
Frisco, Texas?

Speaker 10 (02:18):
Now?

Speaker 1 (02:19):
What's going on? How can we help you?

Speaker 3 (02:20):
Today?

Speaker 1 (02:20):
I got Allen to my ride, doctor de Wut to
my left, the dog father Joey Vallani and animal communicator
Joey Turner all for you.

Speaker 9 (02:27):
Oh fantastic. Okay, Well, we have this gorgeous dog that
we adopted that we love a lot. He's a part
wire hair terrier, part uh something docks and we did
and he's precious. But he's decided that he is now
the big protector. We have a pack, we have two

(02:50):
chihualas on top of this, and so he thinks he's
the big protector. So anytime anything moves outside or around
our house, he goes into a barking rampage. And even
when we come into the garage, you know, when somebody
comes home, he usually leaves the pack in a barking rampage.

(03:12):
So we you know, we've got neighbors all around us.
So far we haven't gotten any citations, but we feel
as if someday we will because he's just it's just irritating,
and you may do it while we're talking. But we
have a dog bore, so we let him, you know,
we let them go in and out when the weather's
and eyes on their own free will, and so he'll

(03:34):
take off and tear up and down the fence and
just bark up the storm. So we've actually seen those
barking collars, the ones that electrocute them when they bark,
and we thought about getting one of those who use
it as a teaching tool, but just looking for suggestions
before we go that route.

Speaker 6 (03:52):
Well, you know, I'm so glad you called because you're
a very intelligent woman. I can tell just by hearing
you speak. And the best teaching tool is you and
your family. And like I always say, I'm not there
to see, I'm not there to see what you're doing.
If you're consistent with rules and structure, if your family
is consistent with rules and structure, if you're setting boundaries,
I can tell by what you're telling me that you're not.

(04:13):
So this dog basically there's a couple of things here.
They're very energetic dogs. The terriers are very very energetic dogs.
They need to be exercised. That's the first and foremost
most important thing. If they're not getting fulfilled, they're seeking excitement.
So that dog's excitement is when you let him out.
That's his excitement. That's his fulfillment. He's gonna bark at

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everything that moves because it makes them feel good, makes
them feel happy, it gets his energy out.

Speaker 3 (04:39):
That's his fulfillment.

Speaker 6 (04:40):
So you've got to change his fulfillment by taking an
active part in his exercise. Just letting him out in
the yard is not enough. You've got to walk that dog. Discipline, structure, rules,
and you being in charge of your dogs, and you
being the leader always starts at the end of a leash.
That is the first place you start is walking your dog,

(05:00):
making sure your dog is at your side. And it's
very hard to teach a terrier to walk on a leash.
You got to be patient and you've got to be firm.
So you've got to be willing to walk your dog
on that leash, and then when you let the dog outside,
you've got to immediately intercede you've got to immediately step
in when that behavior comes out.

Speaker 3 (05:19):
So first the first step is to tire your dog
out with exercise.

Speaker 6 (05:22):
The second step is to know, Okay, I'm gonna let
my dog out. Now, I'm gonna let my husband let
the dog out. As soon as he makes a move
to act like that you heard him away from the fence,
you take the space away the quickest way to stop
the barking. In other words, let's say your dog was
a dog that jumped on the couch and barked out
the window at everybody who walked by, the best thing
to do is just take that space away. So as

(05:44):
soon as your dog jumps up on the couch makes
his move to start barking a grandma walking by, you
get up on the couch, You get right next to him,
and you actually push him out of the way.

Speaker 3 (05:53):
You as the leader, push him out of the way.

Speaker 6 (05:55):
You take that space away, and you make that space
off limits. Okay, And as soon as you do that
in the yard, you take the space away. Where the
dog runs up to the fence and starts barking, you start
taking that space away.

Speaker 3 (06:07):
You're telling your dog, hey, I'm the leader here, I'm
in charge.

Speaker 6 (06:10):
These are the rules, and as soon as your dog
starts to obey those rules and you're tiring them out
with energy with exercise, you're going to praise your dog
for doing whatever it is you want him to do,
for giving you the right behavior. So you use very
very strong leadership techniques to take control, and then when
your dog's doing what you want, you give.

Speaker 3 (06:29):
The dog praise.

Speaker 6 (06:31):
But the first step is to tire that dog out
every day, either with a long walk or actively playing
with that dog. You've got to tire him out. Does
that make sense?

Speaker 9 (06:39):
Yes, it does. And we used to walk him probably
at least a mile every evening, but we actually have
quit doing that so and his excitement level has gotten
to be more so around here.

Speaker 3 (06:53):
So yeah, and I know you know you get tired
to come home from work. Think of it like this.
Think of it like this. Your dog is just like
your kids.

Speaker 6 (07:00):
They have needs, and if they don't get their needs satisfied,
they're gonna find ways to satisfy their needs themselves.

Speaker 3 (07:08):
Which is what you don't want. As a leader.

Speaker 6 (07:10):
You want to be in charge of taking care of
your dog and the first and foremost things that dogs
need besides being socialized. They need exercise. They need exercise
to the point where they're tired. And then they need structure.
They need rules and regulations. They need to know what's
expected of them, and the whole family has to adhere
to those rules and regulations. And then the last thing

(07:32):
they need, and most people think it's the most important thing,
but it's the least most important thing, is affection. You
only give a dog affection when they're calm, laying there, mellow.
You never give an excited dog affection because what you're
saying is, hey, I love this behavior. I love when
you jump on me and hump my arm and bite me.
It's wonderful, good dog. So you don't want to give

(07:53):
a dog like that affection. You want to correct and ignore.
And once you start to exercise that dog and walk
that dog, tire that dog out and take the space
away and teach the dog. No, no, no, I don't
want you doing that. Everything will work itself out, but
it takes time. It takes patience, it takes consistency, it
takes a strong leader, and you have to be committed,

(08:16):
a strong, committed leader, and your family has to do
the same thing.

Speaker 9 (08:20):
Okay, let me ask you one question. Say so he
shoots out the door like a bullet, runs out to
the fence and start.

Speaker 6 (08:28):
That's a problem. Okay, that's a problem. He shouldn't be
allowed to shoot out the door.

Speaker 3 (08:31):
Like a bullet. The only one who shoots out.

Speaker 6 (08:33):
The door is you. Firstly, your dog never enters the
house first. He never leaves the house first. So you
put him on a leash and you teach him to sit,
you step outside. Then you give him permission to go outside.
And the trigger is when you open the door. He's
already hemped up on energy. He's excited because that's his trigger.
He knows he's going to charge the fence and bark.

(08:54):
So you've got to step in and stop that whole procedure.
You've got to step in, knit that in the butt
at the.

Speaker 9 (09:03):
Door, and not use the door dog door anymore.

Speaker 6 (09:06):
To train exactly, you do not use that dog door
until the dog has been taught to be calm and
mellow in the yard. Now, you know, he's always gonna
bark a little bit at people going by, and that's
you know, that's because he's warning you, And that's because
he's alerting you, and that's because he's you know, he
wants people to know that they're on his territory. Those
are all normal reasons. But barking consistently constantly, No, that's

(09:29):
that's a dog telling you, Hey, I'm not getting what
I need. I'm not getting the exercise I need. I'm
not being fulfilled in the house. So I'm gonna go
excite myself this.

Speaker 9 (09:38):
Way, all right, So, okay, say we exercise him. We
shut the door, We let him out the back to
the backyard, which is a fenced yard.

Speaker 3 (09:47):
Now, listen, this is important. This is important.

Speaker 6 (09:49):
You have to go out first and take him out
on a leash. Take him out on a leash. As
soon as he makes the move to go kooky, you
correct him with a jolt from the leash.

Speaker 3 (09:59):
Okay, but don't say anything. Don't say anything.

Speaker 6 (10:02):
Either correct them with a jolt on the leash, or
turn the opposite way and walk back towards the house
at ninety miles an hour, so he gets a jolt.
Don't say anything. When he starts being calm and not
barking at the fence.

Speaker 3 (10:12):
Good dog. Good, find him up for success.

Speaker 9 (10:15):
What you're saying he's saying. Total attention to what you're saying,
I've got you on the speaker phone so my family
can hear. He is actually standing here watching. He wants
to hear what's going on.

Speaker 1 (10:28):
Give him a big old hug from all of us,
and thanks for listening to Animal Radio. Good luck, Ginger.

Speaker 3 (10:32):
I like that lady.

Speaker 6 (10:33):
She's got a brain and I think that she will
be successful. And I know it's frustrating for Stacy.

Speaker 1 (10:38):
What are you doing? Boy?

Speaker 4 (10:39):
Europe is really having some problem with horse meat. They're
finding that there's some beef products that have been filled
with horse meat and it's escalating all across continental Europe.
I'll tell you about it coming up on Animal Radio News.

Speaker 1 (10:52):
Also on the show today, we're going to talk to
a gentleman who has created pet food stamps. Is that correct?

Speaker 11 (10:58):
Yes?

Speaker 12 (10:59):
Okay, because they're program like people get food stamps, but
this is food stamps for pets.

Speaker 1 (11:03):
I totally get that. You don't even need to explain
it to me. I understand because I know there's a
lot of people that are down in their luck recently
and they're trying to put food on their table. It's
hard to also put food on their animal's table or.

Speaker 13 (11:16):
Bowl, and sometimes they give up their own life.

Speaker 1 (11:19):
Yeah, that's what I'm saying. So he'll be on the
show in just a few minutes. Also, will be talking
to a young lady who's she started a nonprofit organization
to fund canine protection vests for police departments. You know,
like bulletproof vests. I'm not even sure if they call
it bulletproof anymore. We'll ask her in just a few minutes.
Right here on Animal Radio.

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Speaker 1 (13:07):
Robert, Hey, Robert, where are you calling from today?

Speaker 8 (13:10):
Chicago?

Speaker 1 (13:11):
Is it a windy city today?

Speaker 17 (13:13):
No, it's just.

Speaker 1 (13:15):
Fine, beautiful, beautiful place. Okay, Well, I got the good
doctor right here. What's going on?

Speaker 8 (13:20):
Well, we have a dog and a miniature pincher and
a cat. The dog is traveling with me.

Speaker 18 (13:27):
I'm a truck driver, so the whole week I'm gone
with the dogs. And when when I come back on
a weekend, the cat is being in.

Speaker 8 (13:36):
The dog's bed and the dogs plaus I don't know.

Speaker 18 (13:40):
Maybe a month or something like that. We didn't have
a problem problem before, but just the bus month, that's
that started to happen.

Speaker 19 (13:48):
And the cat cat, uh just picked.

Speaker 20 (13:53):
I don't know what what we could do, Okay, So
just so I'm clear, when you're away, the dog is
with you and the cat is fine. But when you
return home with the dog, the cat is urinating in
the dog's better your.

Speaker 3 (14:05):
Bed, in the dog bed, in the dog's bed.

Speaker 2 (14:08):
And it's only is when the dog is returned to
the house.

Speaker 3 (14:11):
Yeah, oh that sounds naughty.

Speaker 18 (14:16):
When we come back, you know, dog dog is after
after being out five days in the truck, he wants
to play with my daughter and he wants to play
with the cat.

Speaker 8 (14:26):
When before I started to drive, you know, doing the trucking,
they were home all the time and they were playing,
you know, without the problems. They are together for like
four or five years. So I started driving a year
ago and that trouble started.

Speaker 19 (14:43):
The cat We're not sure what became.

Speaker 20 (14:48):
Well, I think a lot of this is going to
be driven out of marking territories and resources and and
and I laughed because it's such a naughty kitty. It
just seems like such a blatant thing, like saying, this
is mine, this is my spot, and you know you
may be back, but this is still my spot. So
some of the things that I might ask you to

(15:08):
do might be a little bit challenging. Now, when your
dog is around, where does your cat eat?

Speaker 8 (15:17):
Where does he eat?

Speaker 2 (15:18):
Yeah, where's your cat's football?

Speaker 8 (15:22):
We have a cradle for a cat because she's cratching
her furniture order, but we have a letter furniture, so
we put her for a night in into her trail
and that's that's where her food is. But you know,
the dog is eating the cat's food sometimes, Yeah.

Speaker 7 (15:41):
They do that, They definitely do.

Speaker 2 (15:43):
Okay, So there's a couple of things I would have
you do.

Speaker 3 (15:46):
Now.

Speaker 20 (15:47):
One of the things that you can do when your
dog is away is I'd like you to start feeding
your cat inside the dog's bed.

Speaker 2 (15:55):
So actually put the food.

Speaker 20 (15:57):
Inside the bed in a bowl, not just laying in
the bed. And to start to use this as a
feeding site for your kitty. Now, that's going to do
two things. It's going to make her less apt to
want to urinate there in the future, because you know,
cats are tidy animals and we don't want to soil
where the food is. Now, ideally, what I would ask
you to do is to get two different beds and

(16:18):
to provide one of the beds for the kitty and
make that kind of her spot where she can have
a very similar environment to the dog's bed and see
if she will claim that and accept that as her
own without marking on the dog spot. The other thing
we can do is going to be a little bit
more challenging is we can try to make the environment

(16:40):
on the opposite end of the spectrum. We can make
the environment around the dog's bed on appealing to the kitty.
So sometimes we can do things like motion activated like
compressed air canisters and turning plastic runners upside.

Speaker 2 (16:56):
Down around that area.

Speaker 20 (16:58):
Those kind of things will be useful to keep kitty away,
but may keep your dog away from that as well,
so you have to keep that in mind. The other
thing that I'd really ask you to do is to
pick up some kitty pheromone diffusers. Now, these are plug
in dispensers that don't give off smells like lilax.

Speaker 2 (17:15):
And vanilla French vanilla.

Speaker 20 (17:17):
They're going to give off a scent hormone that you
cannot detect, but cats can and it can help kind
of calm them.

Speaker 2 (17:23):
And when we're having some territorial or cat behavior.

Speaker 20 (17:26):
Issues, it's something we like to use in the area
where the problem is occurring, so in the zone where
the dogbed is. And then also making sure that the
kitty's food is out of dog's reach, because we don't
want to create any other competitions. If Katy feels like
she's got to claim other resources in the house, such
as her food, sleeping sites, all of that kind of stuff,

(17:48):
it might make some more behavior problems more likely. So
yet make sure that food is elevated for Katy where
the dog can't get to it, and then also give her,
you know, some other say where she can kind of
perch and look out and look down on her subjects,
especially the dog in the household, because cats like to
get up high and she'll feel more secure and she'll

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be less app to need to feel to mark her territory.

Speaker 2 (18:13):
And a lot of times it's all mental play.

Speaker 20 (18:15):
It's making them feel and recognize that they are the
kings and queens of our house and as long as
everything is cool or as long as they are the
kings and queens.

Speaker 2 (18:23):
Everything is cool. So those are some of the ways
she can kind.

Speaker 20 (18:26):
Of help that happen.

Speaker 14 (18:27):
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That it was all in act.

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This is an Animal Radio news update.

Speaker 4 (21:04):
I'm Stacy Cohen for Animal Radio. Well, if you're like me,
you probably go on the web all the time to
do shopping. And one thing that's great about the web
is you can do comparison shopping. And if you have pets,
that could be pretty tough. There's a dog owner who's
got an entrepreneurial bent and he started a website aimed
at making it easier for pet lovers to find the

(21:24):
right products at the right price. Doug Doug that's the
name of the site. It's a new price comparison site
and it aims to provide pet product information from multiple
online retailers in a clear, easily understandable format. According to
David Key, he's the site's founder. Mister Key's a former
hedge fund analyst, and he said he created Doug Doug

(21:45):
out of his own frustration. So his site attempts to
sort the products in a way. Like a search on
Doug Doug. For instance, for advantics, you know that's flee
and tick stuff, it'll return a menu of options based
on the pets weight. When you click on the proper
weight like eleven to twenty pounds, an appropriate list of
vendors and prices appear. Doug doug also includes any coupons

(22:05):
next to the item. That way, users can receive the
discount when they buy the item, rather than having to
scour the web for potentially available coupon codes. Doug doug
doesn't conduct any sales itself. Rather, once you find the
best price, you select the vendor, and then you're taken
to that website to complete the sale. A new program
to offer pet food stamps is getting a big response

(22:26):
from New Mexicans. Not Mexicans coming into the country, but
people from New Mexico. The nonprofit Pet food Stamps is
not a government program, but it works just like human
food stamps. Families who qualify for state assistants could qualify
for assistance and feeding their pets as well. Local animal
shelters are hoping the assistance will ease the over population problems.

(22:47):
We distributed about three thousand pounds of pet food each
week and Albuquerque, said Don Glass. She's the marketing director
at Animal Humane New Mexico. Animal Humans Emergency Food Bank
feeds about four hundred families every month in Albuquerque, but
the help is only for dire situations. There's no long
term help. To qualify, families have to prove that they're
receiving state assistance. If approved, they'll get a monthly allotment

(23:10):
to spend it. National retailer pet Food Direct applications can
be filled out on the pet food Stamps website. Because
the organization is nonprofit, they also need money of monetary
donations while they search for federal funds and grants, so
that'd be a good thing to help out. One hotel
guest decision to skip the European Resorts pool and take

(23:31):
a dip in the three thousand gallon lobby fish tank
has become a YouTube hit. The man's giggling friends use
their cell phones to capture this impromptu swim, but more
than two hundred dollars a night forced our Radison Blue
Hotel in the Channel Islands. A spokeswoman for the hotel
said it was a dangerous stunt for the man and
the fish, although none of the tank's regular inhabitants were harmed.

(23:52):
Sounds like a great way to take a dip. I
guess I don't know. Clean up but when you get out,
guess what you smell like fish? I'm Stacey Cohen. Get
more animal breaking news at animal radio dot com.

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Speaker 1 (24:19):
It's animal radio a whole different animal And I was
looking in the paper this morning. I saw one of
these police dog these canine dogs that help out the cops.

Speaker 3 (24:29):
It's so cool.

Speaker 1 (24:30):
They're trained to go in usually ahead of the cops
if there's some kind of trouble. I've always wondered, are
these animals protected?

Speaker 2 (24:37):
I know what happens to them?

Speaker 13 (24:38):
They don't have guns.

Speaker 1 (24:40):
Yeah, they have no guns. And you don't really want
to train a dog to use a gun because that
could be that's a whole messy. Really, you don't want
to get involved with maybe a stun gun though. I'm
just there's a suggestion. I'm just gonna throw that out there.
But there's a nonprofit group in Massachusetts. It's called Vested
Interest Vested Interest in Canines, and they're providing protective vests
for police dogs. And we have from a Vested Interest

(25:03):
in Canine Sandy Marcel. She is the president. Hi, Sandy,
how are you doing?

Speaker 23 (25:07):
I'm great how are you very good?

Speaker 1 (25:09):
So tell me about this organization, what you do and
what you've done well.

Speaker 23 (25:12):
We started off as a nonprofit back in two thousand
and nine. It was something that I had done previously
as a volunteer for thirteen years, and I decided after that, Carriet,
it was time to become a nonprofit because it would
open so many doors and opportunities for us to be
able to help more dogs. So it became a nonprofit

(25:35):
in two thousand and nine and we focused on initially
helping dogs in Massachusetts, and then as time went on,
we realized there were needs for dogs everywhere and decided
to expand our mission just about a year later, so
we've been helping dogs across the country.

Speaker 1 (25:52):
Now, when you say helping dogs, what is it that
you're doing.

Speaker 23 (25:56):
We're raising money for a bullet and stab protective vests
for the law enforcement dogs, you know, whether it's narcotics tracking,
patrol dogs, any actually any breed of dogs that's involved
in law enforcement work that has a need that department's
budget doesn't have to provide to them.

Speaker 1 (26:15):
So these are like bulletproof vests that the cops wear,
except they're for dogs.

Speaker 23 (26:20):
We actually call them bullet and stab protective vests because
nothing is ever.

Speaker 13 (26:23):
Bullet proof, okay, And what is does something like this
cost for a dog?

Speaker 23 (26:28):
They're just over one thousand dollars and wow, yeah, and
they last for five years. So in most dogs career,
we anticipate that they're going to need two of those vests.

Speaker 1 (26:39):
Why is it you don't think that the police department
automatically suit their canines with vests. I mean, I would
have thought they would have done that.

Speaker 23 (26:45):
Yeah, Well, in most cases, they just don't have the
budget to do it. And in some cases the departments
actually raise their own money for the canine programs, such
as to get the dog and to outfit the cruiser
with the necessary cage an alarm system, and sometimes they
raise the funding for the dog's veterinary care, food grooming
of that nature. So sometimes people don't realize that that's

(27:08):
the case.

Speaker 12 (27:09):
Now, can these vests be reused if the dog doesn't,
you know, the career doesn't last five years? Can they
be used by other dogs?

Speaker 6 (27:16):
We do.

Speaker 23 (27:17):
We will offer to recycle them. Sometimes they'll send them
back to us if the dog retires early, and we'll
cross check each vest is sized per dog. So we'll
cross check our sizing to see if there's any dog
on a waiting list that might be a good fit
to recycle the vessel.

Speaker 11 (27:32):
Yes, we do.

Speaker 1 (27:33):
How many dogs are there really canines that are helping cops?

Speaker 23 (27:37):
There's got to be thousands throughout the United States? Thousands.

Speaker 10 (27:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (27:41):
I heard about that shooting what was it in Florida
of the canine and when they won in Minnesota too, Right.

Speaker 23 (27:47):
There was a shooting in Florida of a retired police
dog and then the police dog in Minnesota was stabbed
to death.

Speaker 1 (27:54):
Wow, that's horrible. Okay, So how many have you have
you managed to get for different police departments?

Speaker 23 (28:00):
Are about two hundred and.

Speaker 1 (28:01):
You probably need a lot of help to do that.
I mean a thousand bucks per that's not cheap. No,
that's not cheap.

Speaker 10 (28:09):
Too.

Speaker 3 (28:11):
Why do they only last five years? Well, what happened?

Speaker 23 (28:14):
The ballistic material that's inside the vest breaks down after
a certain period of time, so the manufacturer puts a
warranty on them, just the same as with the police officer.
Same thing.

Speaker 1 (28:24):
How can we help out, Well, we.

Speaker 23 (28:26):
Have a campaign coming up through a group on grassroots
and it's coming up March fourteen through the twentieth, and
we would love to make people aware of this campaign
because there are still thousands of dogs out there that
need help. And we've actually been recruiting canines across the
country to come on board with this campaign, and we

(28:48):
previously did this campaign with group On in January. It
was a regional campaign and people were very receptive to it,
so much so that they donated over fifty five thousand
dollars in a two week period, which allowed us to
outfit fifty three dogs with vests in twenty three states.

Speaker 1 (29:06):
Wow, that is amazing. That is really good work.

Speaker 23 (29:08):
So it really is. It was just incredible. We never
expected in a million years for the response that we got,
but we've been working with the grassroots team and they
have been incredible about helping us and continuing to help us,
so we think it's a wonderful partnership.

Speaker 1 (29:24):
You're also seeking volunteers right we are.

Speaker 23 (29:27):
We're seeking volunteers to help. We do a lot of
networking through social media, so people have the opportunity to
help out on their own time. The campaign is a
week long, but we've been working with volunteers for the
last three weeks that are helping to recruit canines across
the country to network with other businesses online that will

(29:47):
help us share this link when it comes out. So
we're hopeful that we would have the opportunity to double
this campaign, which is also a pet animal related campaign,
to a group on So we think it's a really
good fit nationwide, which we'll go to over twenty million people.
What's the website, Well, they can find it through our
regular website and they can get to our Facebook Twitter

(30:09):
page through there. So it's www dot VAS and Victory
I as in Indiana, k as in Kitchen, the number
nine s as in Samantha dot RG, and we'd love
to have people check it out and join us. The
group on campaign is very affordable. It's actually a ten
dollars donation, so that's how many people across the country

(30:31):
would like to see these dogs safe.

Speaker 1 (30:33):
You got to love that. I'll put all that information
over at the website at animal radio dot com too.
You're doing good work, Sandy, keep it up, will you?

Speaker 23 (30:39):
Well, we thank you for giving this great opportunity to
keep spreading the word.

Speaker 1 (30:43):
We have a lot of listeners that care and hopefully
we'll find some more vests for them, not for the
listeners for the dogs.

Speaker 23 (30:49):
The listeners aretiate you taking the time to help spread
our message.

Speaker 1 (30:53):
Have a great day, Sandy. We appreciate it. Boy, there
she's doing some good work. I love it to hear
people doing stuff like that.

Speaker 12 (30:59):
You know, my dad was a cop and I remember
him bringing home two retired police dogs.

Speaker 3 (31:03):
Really.

Speaker 1 (31:03):
Yeah, did they wear vests?

Speaker 13 (31:05):
No, they didn't wear vest. This was years ago. You know,
I don't even think back then. You know, well forty
something years ago that they had.

Speaker 1 (31:10):
This for seven years ago. But we're not going to
give out any years ago.

Speaker 13 (31:14):
Yeah, let's just say ten years ago.

Speaker 3 (31:16):
When the dinosaurs were roaming.

Speaker 1 (31:18):
Hey, all the lines are lit up.

Speaker 10 (31:20):
What is it?

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You know, what's going on to busy? Golly? Yeah, we
got some hate mail. Somebody very upset that the animals
are people too. Jingle now, we just dealt with this
last week. Yes, by the end of the show, we'll
have a new jingle. That's all on the way right here.
Joey's going to tell you how to groom a cat
if you're so inclined to do that.

Speaker 4 (31:37):
Well, everybody knows that the economy's tough and things are
tight for people, very difficult sometimes for people to even
feed their dogs and cats. But New Mexico has created
a new food stamp program for animals.

Speaker 1 (31:51):
And is it true that we will have the founder
of that food stamp program on the show today.

Speaker 13 (31:55):
Yes, we are, because I want to find out a
little bit.

Speaker 2 (31:56):
More about it.

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Speaker 1 (33:06):
Hi, Kendra, Hi, are you guys good? Where are you
calling from today? Las Vegas, Nevada, beautiful Las Vegas, the
home of doctor Debbie. What's going on?

Speaker 25 (33:15):
I have a little blind deaf dog.

Speaker 26 (33:17):
I used to own my own rescue and see me
valley where I'm from. And I picked him up out
in Current County and he's about a year and a half.
We're guessing Queensland healer Jack Roffulmick, and he is. He's
only got twenty percent site in one eye, so he's
legally blind and he is completely one hundred percent deaf.

(33:37):
And I was curious. And he's very well behaved, he
doesn't both out the doors, he's very good with other animals.
But I was curious how I teach him how to
like fit, stay, lay down, try and get him some
basic obedience.

Speaker 2 (33:50):
Maybe, yeah, definitely. And a lot of rewarding is going
to be the big thing with these.

Speaker 20 (33:57):
So there are some you can use either the general
sign language, hand signals, or there's some general ones you know,
like the thumbs up for a good dog, come down,
and you have to just be consistent use the same
hand command as you're training. And because we are hearing
and a site impaired, you want to make sure that

(34:18):
when you're doing initial training that you do keep him
on a kind of a close leash so that you
can redirect without having to you know, chase him down
or to try to gather his attention. But really it's
a matter of picking your hand signals and rewarding. So
if he does something good and he does your your behavior,
then you give him the hand signal and you give

(34:39):
a little food reward. It's very easy to teach things
like you know, the come just based off those visual
commands alone. For around the house, a lot of it
is kind of learning different sites for a pet that
has both, you know, vision and hearing problems. I try
to structure different areas of the home with Now dog's

(35:00):
sense of smell is far superb to ours, but there
are some ways that you can help him. Make sure
you can find the doggy door or where he goes
outside by scent marking that so you might use like
lavender oil by the back door as a way.

Speaker 13 (35:13):
To kind of help facilitate you know what, I want
to just buddy in real quick.

Speaker 12 (35:17):
There was a website that I came across recently and
it's called Tracers and it's t R A C E
r Z and they have sent markers for blind dogs
and their stickers that you can put around that have sense.

Speaker 7 (35:30):
So there you go.

Speaker 13 (35:31):
Yeah, it's pretty neat.

Speaker 3 (35:32):
Yeah, he's really good.

Speaker 26 (35:33):
Like I said, he's well, he's really well behaved for
the most part. But it's also because I turned into
his seeing eye dog where he follows me everywhere. He
doesn't really go anywhere to get in trouble, so he's
obedience wise. I mean, he never bolts out the doors.

Speaker 9 (35:46):
You never.

Speaker 3 (35:46):
We have no issues with.

Speaker 26 (35:47):
Him holding his body until we go outside and stuff
like that. It was just like basic commands because he's
very intelligent. He's gotten to the point where if eye
closed right now, mind you, it's taken them almost a
year to do it. But I'll close the door and
we have those long handles and he figured out how
to open it.

Speaker 1 (36:04):
Oh, well, he come in to where I'm at.

Speaker 26 (36:07):
Okay, So I just wanted to get some basic obedience
into him. So you know, I could take him out
and pub I can tell him to sit and stay.

Speaker 20 (36:13):
Yeah, and basically all those same commands, and the way
you train a hearing dog, you know, the down command.
You kind of have to show them that if they
don't already know that behavior and that prompting for that behavior.
But then once you do, you do the hands suddenly
reward him for it, and he'll figure that out, you know,
really quickly. As far as now, one thing you may
need because he is a bit visually impaired, there is

(36:37):
a vibrational collar can be a helpful thing as well.

Speaker 2 (36:40):
Now not talking about a shock collar. We're gonna be
zap in him, but.

Speaker 20 (36:44):
It's a good way to get a dog's attention when
they're a bit out of your immediate zone where he
may not be able to locate you quite as well.
So that's another thing you can look into. And I
know there's there's a lot of different ones out there.
You just google it and find some of those different companies.

Speaker 26 (36:59):
Oh cool, we'll want to get them one of those.
I didn't even know they made this. Oh and another thing,
he has an issue where he gets scared really easily
because he can't see very well and he can't hear sure,
and he peece and no one has to be near him,
nothing has to move. It's just like if a shadow
is not where it normally is, or it's like, for example,

(37:19):
we have like this little entry where will we hang
our jackets, And sometimes we'll just throw our jackets over
the little shelf and that throws them completely off, like completely,
he can't see it well enough to know exactly what
it is, and he pieced just everywhere.

Speaker 2 (37:34):
Well, some of that is making him feel comfortable in
his environment.

Speaker 20 (37:37):
And while he may follow you and be dependent on you,
that may make him help maneuver, but he does have
to develop self sufficiency, so always being dependent on human
even if they're visual dogs and they get around, if
a dog can't be out of our presence, then they're
gonna be more They're gonna have more challenges coping with
things that are outside the norm or that can frighten

(37:58):
them in their environment. And there's gonna be a lot
that can spa him because he may not see those
things coming. The shadows may be jumping out from left
and right at him. So you're going to have to
make sure that you do work on rewarding good behavior
and calm behavior. So if he's you know, following you
around the house consistently, we don't necessarily want to reward

(38:18):
just that behavior. We want to reward him for being
able to find his pillow, lying down and being quiet
and calm when he's ten feet away from you. And
that's the difference. So it isn't always about coming to
me and sit and down. We want to be able
to say, okay, here's your dog pillow. Can you sit down,
lay and be a good boy, and then we'll reward
you for that. And sometimes, you know, even check around

(38:39):
a lot of trainers, even here locally in Las Vegas,
we'll have some experience training the deaf dogs, and that's
a great way to kind of get a little bit
of a professional consultation to help you along those ways.

Speaker 26 (38:50):
We have four children and their young children, and he's
perfect with them. I mean, I bet you just being
death helps with that because he can't hear him scream.
But with the kids, we have a great Dane in
a massive and he's great with them. It's just little
things like his basic obedience. I had no idea how
to teach him to stay or how to sit and
stuff like that, and that's really helpful, especially like we

(39:10):
have company. Like I said, he follows me everywhere, so
if I'm in the kitchen or we have company, I
don't necessarily want him at my feet. And I don't
want to put him away and make him because he
has a crate, and we try not to lock his
crate unless we're going to be gone, because I don't
wanthim to feel like it's his not his home. You know,
I was always taught not to lock a dog up
when you have company because it's their home. You don't
want them to be a think company's a bad thing.

Speaker 20 (39:32):
Well, that'll depend on the situation, but you know, he
may feel cozier in an enclosed place when things are
a little uncertain.

Speaker 2 (39:39):
So I don't want to say.

Speaker 20 (39:41):
Joe provide that because that can actually be a good
retreat for him. Dogs are then the animals, so they
definitely they dig their private space.

Speaker 10 (39:48):
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Speaker 1 (41:16):
Coming up this hour on Animal Radio, we'll talk to
the guy who's founded the pet food stamps program. If
you're on welfare or you'd get food stamps, you want
to be listening up. Also this hour we're going to
answer that nasty email about the animals are people too?
Radio jingle that we use, so you want to stick
around for that.

Speaker 3 (41:32):
Right here?

Speaker 1 (41:33):
Which one are we going to?

Speaker 13 (41:34):
Going to?

Speaker 12 (41:34):
Line two?

Speaker 1 (41:35):
And online two we have John john Is calling from
New Orleans. How you doing, Marty Grass?

Speaker 3 (41:42):
Over you over there?

Speaker 27 (41:43):
We're breaking up very badly.

Speaker 1 (41:45):
Yeah, what's going on with your animal?

Speaker 27 (41:46):
What he's seeing in the house. He's from the shelter.
I adopted him about three months ago and they started
him on a hawk worm program and I can't exercise
him to the medication, and he's got a lot of energy.
I don't know if that's connected with it, but I
mean he will just let it go. I just finished

(42:08):
clean enough and enormous cool.

Speaker 1 (42:10):
Is this a cat or a dog?

Speaker 3 (42:12):
This is a dog.

Speaker 27 (42:13):
Is a German chepherd. He's a small animal.

Speaker 20 (42:16):
Okay, well, And just to clarify, so he's being treated
with for heartworm disease, which means that he's being treated
by the heavy duty molarsamine which helps to kill the
adult worms, and when that happens, pets have to be
confined strictly because activity exercise, running plane can actually cause
those dying worms to lodge and cause blackages, and that

(42:40):
can actually cause a fatal event. So that's why that
activity restriction is so imperative and at being.

Speaker 2 (42:46):
Treated for heartworm disease.

Speaker 20 (42:48):
So it can be really tough because you know, they
do get they get anxious, they get built up pent
up energy. So for some dogs, you know, if it's
appropriate and it's cleared with the veterinarian, I will use
some tranquilizers and sedatives kind of help calm them at
certain times of the day. But besides that, you know
your problem with urination and urinating in the house, it

(43:09):
would not typically be a symptom related to the heartworm treatment,
but it's always a great idea to have that you're
in sample checked with your veterinarian to make sure there's
not something going on, because if there's not, then we're
going to focus more on getting kind of back to
the core basics with training. An anxious or kind of
freaked out pet who has all this energy that can't

(43:29):
go outside may be more prone to eliminating in the house,
either through urine marking or just soiling in the house.
So in those instances, we really have to do supervised
outdoor trips to go to the potty area, and you
have to go back and treat them almost like he's
a puppy, you know, where you praise, take them out
on a leash, you know, give them loads of affection

(43:50):
and in the occasional treat even for doing that outside
and supervision really is key in these situations. So if
you're missing the the urine accidents in the house, you
know you can't you know, you definitely can't punish him
on those things. And the more you can supervise and
get him outside and give that positive reinforcement for the
good place that he goes, that's going to go the

(44:12):
furthest here.

Speaker 2 (44:13):
You know, if this is more of a behavioral type.

Speaker 27 (44:15):
Problem, Okay, do you think that medication can cause their
hair fall out?

Speaker 20 (44:21):
Not typically, but as far as if you're in an
area where you have a lot of heartworm, you very
likely have other types of parasitic diseases, so fleas.

Speaker 27 (44:29):
Or definitely anything he doesn't have any other diseases.

Speaker 20 (44:34):
Okay, well, very okay, Well, I mean as far as
you know with the hair loss, you know, I guess
I can't say a whole lot about that.

Speaker 2 (44:42):
It's hard to see it over the television.

Speaker 20 (44:44):
I don't think it's related to your pets medication. Now,
there certainly can also be pets that turn to themselves
if they have cooped up anxiety, and they can actually
self traumatize and that can cause hair loss. They'll actually
have sores, and that would be something typically you would
be observing and then potentially seeing him doing that.

Speaker 2 (45:05):
So if you're not witnessing that, it might be less
likely for that he's doing that.

Speaker 27 (45:14):
He's got a lot of.

Speaker 20 (45:15):
Gas, I don't know, okay, Yeah, And is he Is
he a pretty you said he's a pretty high strung fella.

Speaker 2 (45:23):
Does he do a lot of panting, a lot of
running around the house?

Speaker 3 (45:27):
He does?

Speaker 2 (45:27):
Okay?

Speaker 20 (45:28):
Because one common cause of excess gas is excess ingestion
of air, and this is one reason why a lot
of the bulldogs and the squishy faced dogs have tremendous gases,
because they're always kind of going swallowing air. So if
a dog is running around panting a lot, and they're
really anxious, they may be inherently swallowing more air. So

(45:49):
this is where maybe you know, a sedative or an
anti anxiety medicine might help that regard as well. Now,
if not, and you still have a lot of gas,
there's a couple of things you can do. One thing
is diet hary altering. So sometimes one type of diet
or one brand might settle with a pet's digestive system
better than another.

Speaker 3 (46:09):
You know, just like people.

Speaker 20 (46:10):
You know, certain diets may be better or not so
good for them depending on the fiber content and the ingredients.
So that might be one thing to try is to
switch to another good premium quality food and do that,
doing that gradually in a pinch.

Speaker 2 (46:25):
There are some occasional dogs.

Speaker 20 (46:26):
I give bino two, but that's that's usually the uncommon
pat that I've already tried everything else.

Speaker 3 (46:36):
Was the last thing you said, trying bino.

Speaker 20 (46:40):
That's what I told my wife, But I'd rather see
it try a different diet first.

Speaker 1 (46:47):
So I was talking to my wife about that too,
and she but she wanted it for me. She was
a story. Hey, I appreciate your calling today.

Speaker 10 (46:55):
Good luck with that.

Speaker 1 (46:56):
John thanks for calling for New Orleans today, where I
believe Lottie Gras is finally ended there for that? What
does that last? Six months? So it is listen a
big show today. We got some hate mail. Actually it's
not really hate mail. Yeah, maybe it is hate mail.
Somebody very upset at the animals? Are people too jingled?
That's all on the way right here. Joey's going to

(47:18):
tell you how to groom a cat if you're so inclined.

Speaker 10 (47:20):
To do that.

Speaker 4 (47:20):
Well, everybody knows that the economy's tough and things are
tight for people. You know, it's very difficult sometimes for
people to even feed their dogs and cats. But New
Mexico has created a new food stamp program for animals.

Speaker 1 (47:35):
And is it true that we will have the founder
of that food stamp program on the show today?

Speaker 13 (47:39):
Yes, we are because I want to find out a
little bit more about it.

Speaker 26 (47:44):
Dogs or cats, horsery?

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determined to win Bubba the lobster, so she could set
him free. Easier said than done. After winning, Miranda's family
called and emailed zoos and aquariums, but none of them

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wanted Bubba. Finally, Mike Britson from the Columbus Zoo contacted
a diver in Maine who agreed to find Bubba a
home in the Atlantic. Miranda's family spent two hundred and
eighty dollars to send Bubba a main and a foam container.
Bubba should be safe from the dinner plate in main waters,
where lobsters his size are illegal to catch and keep.

(48:33):
I'm Fritt Savage for Animal Radio.

Speaker 13 (48:38):
Animals a people to animal RAI.

Speaker 1 (48:44):
This is animal Radium, Okay. I just can't believe how
much reaction we are getting to the jingle animals are
people too?

Speaker 3 (48:54):
Jingle this animals people.

Speaker 1 (48:57):
To You might hear it once twice during the show,
and it is making not only the phones ring, but
the email is going crazy.

Speaker 3 (49:05):
It's very nostalgic sounding.

Speaker 1 (49:07):
It is, well, forget the sound, it's what it's saying
that's upsetting people. I know that, Joey, you're hearing about
it too. We got an email today from can I
say her name?

Speaker 3 (49:17):
Sure?

Speaker 1 (49:17):
She put it in the email right now.

Speaker 10 (49:19):
Hi.

Speaker 1 (49:19):
My name is Gillian McCallum, and I reside in San
Luis Obispo, California.

Speaker 13 (49:23):
Down the road.

Speaker 1 (49:24):
Just down the road, she says, I was listening to
the show Sunday, February seventeenth and heard the jingle animals
are people too. As a pet owner, that jingle seem
to play right into the animal rights mantra. Might I
suggest changing it to animals and their people too, unless
you meant to imply that animals are people, And in
that case, I'll stop listening to the show and supporting
your local sponsors. That's how animate this young lady is.

Speaker 13 (49:49):
She really doesn't like it.

Speaker 1 (49:50):
She would stop listening to the show because of this.

Speaker 7 (49:53):
Jingle animals people to play it again? Play again?

Speaker 1 (49:58):
Well, no, to tell you, I'm going to fix this up.
And I mentioned this on a call two weeks back,
that I would fix it up as dangerous. Dan called
and he said he was very upset about that too.
So I'm hoping this version will work for you Animal family.

Speaker 6 (50:14):
Does that work for you about people animals?

Speaker 14 (50:19):
I like that.

Speaker 4 (50:19):
There you go.

Speaker 1 (50:21):
Thanks for your email. Email us at your voice Cityanimal
Radio dot com. We'd love to get those emails, just crazy,
crazy crazy.

Speaker 3 (50:28):
You know, I have a theory.

Speaker 13 (50:29):
Pick your battles, people, what's your theory.

Speaker 6 (50:32):
Well, my theory is when whenever somebody gets upset over
something like this, this is not the core problem. The
core problem, if you really look at people and analyze people,
the core plot problem is love. When somebody is happy
and they're getting you know, uh, what would you call it,
Joey Nioki. You know, when they're when they're having fun
with their significant other, they're loved and and they're getting busy.

Speaker 3 (50:53):
You know, they're happy and they don't come.

Speaker 6 (50:54):
Up with all this stuff, this ludicrous stuff to complain
about everything, because they're happy. But when somebody like you
go to a bar, there's a guy in the bar.
He's leaning against the wall. He looks like a mass murderer.
He's got this look on his face, and he's mad
because no women will talk to him. But no women
will talk to him because he looks like that, because
he's got that face on. But the guy who's smiling
and acting open and welcoming and warming and funny, he's

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got all the ladies wanting to talk to him, and
he's the happy guy. He doesn't have time to complain
about jingles. But the guy against the wall, he's like, well,
who am I going to ruin? What day am I
going to ruin today? Because I'm miserable. I want everybody
else to be miserable.

Speaker 7 (51:32):
You know how I look, if they're complained about jingles,
they're listening.

Speaker 1 (51:35):
That is absolutely correct. And Jillian was a Jillian or Gillian.
I think it's Jillian. Alan was not inferring that you're
a lonely, bitter woman or anything like that.

Speaker 12 (51:44):
I was put I kind of thoughts too, Alan At
how about how about.

Speaker 1 (51:54):
By the end of the show, we'll have a new jinglessians.

Speaker 2 (52:01):
I want to have what you're drinking?

Speaker 6 (52:03):
Well, dah, that's just called life. Well, you're perky enough
as it is. You don't need anything.

Speaker 2 (52:08):
Oh, I've got my diet coke right here.

Speaker 3 (52:12):
Yeah, that's all you need. I think.

Speaker 6 (52:14):
I think you changed that jingle every week and make
it something else that is people but animals, garbage collectors.

Speaker 1 (52:22):
We're taking your suggestions for what animals should be.

Speaker 13 (52:25):
Animals animals.

Speaker 1 (52:32):
Animal communicator Joey Turner just got a call from a
dog who doesn't like the jingle either. He doesn't want
to be associated with people. Wow, brout of control.

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Speaker 1 (54:10):
Let's go to Jason. Hey, Jason, how are you doing today?

Speaker 19 (54:12):
All right?

Speaker 10 (54:12):
How are you doing good?

Speaker 1 (54:13):
Where are you calling from?

Speaker 19 (54:14):
Hamburg, Pennsylvania.

Speaker 1 (54:16):
Probably listening on w e EU and I appreciate it. Correct, Well,
I understand you have a dog issue, and I have
Alan Cable. He can fix any vexing dog issues you have.

Speaker 3 (54:24):
Promise okay, I have a lab Rottweiler mix.

Speaker 19 (54:30):
And to give you our schedule, we both both me
and my wife work seven o'clock in the morning. Dogs
go out, they go to the bathroom, they come in.
They're in the room until I come home at three
o'clock in the afternoon. I take them out. They go potty,
they come in, they eat their dinner. In between three
and eight o'clock at night, me and my wife take
them out. They go, they go to the bathroom, they

(54:50):
do their business. They both they both go.

Speaker 10 (54:52):
I have two dogs.

Speaker 19 (54:53):
Anyways, two labs, but the three year old lab is
what I'm talking about. They both do their business, come
back in, and every night she still goes to the
bathroom on the floor. It's like every night thing. I
don't know how to stop.

Speaker 10 (55:06):
If I'm doing it.

Speaker 3 (55:06):
Where does she go to the bathroom on the floor?

Speaker 10 (55:08):
I know where?

Speaker 6 (55:09):
Where the same spot every time or a different spot
or carpet hard wood.

Speaker 19 (55:14):
Well, we had her up with my son up in
his room for a little bit, and yet it would
be in the same spy or time one of the steps.
And then just last night we figured you out that
I just put a new carpet in my son's room,
so I didn't want her to stay up there, so
I let her to stay down with me and my
wife and my other dog. And she still wound up
going then in my daughter's room on the floor. Yeah,

(55:34):
and when you when you, I want to put new
carpet in and there, but I'm afraid to because you're
going to keep going to her bathroom on the floor.

Speaker 3 (55:39):
When you when you find it the next day, do
you get mad at her?

Speaker 6 (55:43):
No?

Speaker 19 (55:43):
I can't because it's how can I get mad at her?
I wasn't there when she.

Speaker 3 (55:46):
Did it, okay, very simple.

Speaker 6 (55:49):
First of all, how many hours is it between the
time you go to bed and wake up that she
gets to go again?

Speaker 3 (55:55):
How many total hours does she you know, is she
not supposed to?

Speaker 19 (55:59):
We go to bed and we take them out at
nine o'clock and then my wife is taking them back
out at seven in the morning.

Speaker 27 (56:05):
Again.

Speaker 6 (56:05):
Okay, do you take do you take their water away?
Do you do you leave water out during the night
or do you take it away?

Speaker 10 (56:12):
No water, no food?

Speaker 3 (56:13):
Okay? And so you let her have free run of
the house too. She can go wherever she wants, just
on the second floor, just on the second half.

Speaker 19 (56:21):
We have a baby gate across the top of the steps.
She's not allowed to go downstairs. She just stays up,
okay with me.

Speaker 3 (56:25):
The first thing is have you taken her to the
vet to make sure nothing's wrong?

Speaker 10 (56:29):
I have not.

Speaker 6 (56:30):
Okay, I would start there and if there's nothing wrong,
and there probably isn't. The second thing you're gonna do,
it's a very simple thing. It's going to make you
uncomfortable for a couple of weeks, but it will work
very well. When this happens, you kind of got to
retrain your dog repotty train your dog. So first thing
you're gonna do is get a good enzyme cleaner at
the pet food store that's designed to take the scent

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totally out, and you're gonna clean all the areas where
the dog is gone that you know about, so that
she's not tempted to go back to those areas. The
second thing you're gonna do is confine her to a crate,
a kennel or a room, maybe your room, so that
you can hear and she wakes you up if there's activity,
and she can let you know she has to go.
But the best thing put her in a crate overnight

(57:11):
to start with. And what you're gonna do is you're
gonna wake up. Let's say you go to bed at nine,
You're gonna wake up at about one or two o'clock
in the morning, and you're gonna let her out. And
every night you're gonna do that for about four days,
and then every night after that you're gonna lengthen it
by about fifteen maybe a half hour.

Speaker 3 (57:27):
So for a week, at two o'clock in the.

Speaker 6 (57:29):
Morning, you're gonna get up, you're gonna let her out,
you're gonna go back to bed, put her in a crate,
and then you're gonna do it at two thirty, and
then you're gonna do it at three o'clock, and slowly
you're gonna work your way up to the time you
normally would let her go out, and that should pretty
much solve your problem. You're gonna teach her slowly when
it's okay for her to go out where it's okay
for her to go out. So when you take her

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out late at night, no talking, put her on the leash.
You get out there, you go go to the bathroom,
go to the bathroom or whatever it is. You say, pee,
whatever it is, whatever words you.

Speaker 3 (57:58):
Use, go to the bathroom. Business.

Speaker 6 (58:00):
As soon as she goes and is finished going, good dog,
give her a treat, Go back in the house, put
her in her crate, go to bed.

Speaker 19 (58:08):
You said it would be okay to just keep her
in the room instead of creating her.

Speaker 6 (58:11):
Well, for some reason, you seem to be adverse to
the crate. But the crate is a wonderful The crate
is a wonderful thing.

Speaker 3 (58:18):
It really is.

Speaker 6 (58:19):
There's nothing harmful or bad about a crate. Dogs actually
love crates, and that's why they like to lay under
coffee tables, and they like to go in small, confined
spaces because it reminds them of their den So a
crate is actually a good thing.

Speaker 3 (58:32):
If you want to, you can leash her up to
your bed so that she's right there with you. But
I would use it. I would use a crate until
you can trust her. What are you going to say,
deb Oh.

Speaker 20 (58:41):
I was just gonna say, Ellen, I think I mean
glad you mentioned to see the vet to make sure
there's not anything going on urinary wise, because actually female
dogs can develop some incontinence problems that can present themselves,
usually when they're sleeping and lying down. So talking to
your vet having that checked out would be definitely an
important step before you start, you know, getting really into

(59:02):
a vigorous training program, and in the crate. I endorse
that as well, because if she were having accidents in
the crate, you know, I've got more argument for that
situation that you got a health problem.

Speaker 3 (59:11):
There, right.

Speaker 6 (59:12):
Yeah, And you should always with with any kind of
problem with bathroom and going to the bathroom and urinating
and stuff like that, always take your dog to the
vet because you know it could be a physical problem
that she has.

Speaker 3 (59:23):
That's where you start.

Speaker 19 (59:24):
Number two. She's not being oh yes, it's not it's
not your ene. And well, you know what the thing
about it is, every time that we take her out,
she goes. It's not like we take her out and
she she messes around anything. She goes out, she does
her business and we come in. So it's not it's
not like she's not going.

Speaker 9 (59:43):
So she she does.

Speaker 3 (59:44):
Number two, when you take her out at night every.

Speaker 19 (59:46):
Yes, every night, every time, you know, between eight and
nine o'clock at night. One schedule. You know, we we
have we keep we keep it schedule. We both bark.

Speaker 10 (59:54):
We you know we have we have schedules.

Speaker 6 (59:56):
I mean, do me, do me a favor, and do
me a favor because you know, obviously she's not getting
it all out. So stay out there with her a
little bit longer, stay out there a little allow her
to sniff around, let her take her time, and let
her go more than once, because I'll bet you she
probably has to.

Speaker 3 (01:00:13):
She's probably conditioned to go. And then you go in
the house.

Speaker 6 (01:00:16):
If you stay out there a little bit longer with her,
no talking, just stand there, let her sniff around, be patient,
and she goes again.

Speaker 3 (01:00:23):
Then tell her what a good dog she is. I
suspect that will help as well.

Speaker 6 (01:00:27):
But you've got to take control of the situation so
that you can teach her and train her, retrain rehousebreaker again.
And the best way to do that is with a crate,
or to have her confined to a space that's very
close to you so that you can hear her rustle
when she has to go. If she goes and she
doesn't and you don't wake up, you're gonna need to
use a crate, buddy, because it's not mean. Trust me,

(01:00:49):
She'll love it in there. You know why, because you're
always happy to see her when you open the door,
and so they associate it with good things.

Speaker 13 (01:01:00):
I would love to go on vacation, but I don't
want to leave our Charlie behind.

Speaker 3 (01:01:04):
I agree.

Speaker 28 (01:01:05):
I heard that the magazine Fido Friendly lists places where
you can stay with your pet. They also offer reviews,
so you have an idea about pet policy, to include
any restrictions, fees, and what pedimenities to expect.

Speaker 21 (01:01:16):
That's dare I say, awesome, what are we waiting for?

Speaker 1 (01:01:20):
I'm way ahead of you.

Speaker 28 (01:01:21):
I just logged onto fido friendly dot com and if
I'm the four star resort Hilton Santa Fe Resort and
Spa at Buffalo Thunder in New Mexico.

Speaker 2 (01:01:28):
Charlie agrees, when do we leave?

Speaker 28 (01:01:30):
As soon as you can pack your bags, It's off
to adventure with Charlie. Thanks to Fido Friendly Magazine. To
find your next family adventure that includes your furry familyfriend,
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Speaker 2 (01:01:42):
This is an Animal Radio news update.

Speaker 4 (01:01:45):
I'm Stacey Cohen for Animal Radio. There's a huge statue
and it's called bad Dog, and it's turning out to
be pretty good publicity for the Orange County Museum of Art.
The twenty eight foot tall piece of art from Richard
Jackson depicts a dog who's lifting one of his legs
and then he leaves a little yellow paint stain on
the side of the building. Museum spokeswoman Kristin Schmidt told

(01:02:06):
the Orange County Register almost all of the reaction to
the dog has been pretty positive, although some people are
not so happy that the dog is anatomically correct. Jackson meanwhile,
explains that his intention was never to shock or offend anybody,
but he says, you know, sometimes people's reaction to a
particular piece of art often vary, and it usually depends
on whether you're going home from church or maybe from

(01:02:28):
a strip club. When you see it, you know, it's funny.
I've never heard it explain that way. I always thought
that art was in the eye of the beholders. That's
the line I always heard, never heard the strip club
one surprise. Residents in Shelby, North Carolina, are pretty upset.
They're these vultures that are flocking to their town. According
to ABC News, the birds typically pass through the town
on their winter migration south, but this year they decided

(01:02:52):
to stay because of the mild winter. Kristin Duran from
the North Carolina Cooperative Extension says the state's Agriculture Service
says the state is just not getting cold enough to
push them along. So there's like about one hundred and
fifty turkey vultures that have been calling this town home.
The birds have been unsettling to many residents, to say
the least, but Joan Schmootz says she doesn't really mind him.

(01:03:13):
She says every morning the vultures land in her yard
and they throw out their wings and they catch the sun.
While she enjoys watching the birds, though she says they've
been doing a job on her yard. Well, this next
story is pretty disturbing. This was first centered on Britain
and Ireland. This scandal over beef products filled with horse meat,
and it's escalating across continental Europe. After Nesley, one of

(01:03:38):
the world's best known food companies, said it was removing
pasta meals from store shelves in Italy and Spain, there
are growing calls for more oversight of processed food. The
involvement is Nestley is significant in a fast moving situation
that's forcing Europeans to question the content of their meals.
Before the announcement, the horse meat crisis had already spread,

(01:03:59):
with perhaps a dozen countries caught up in product recalls.
Neslie said it was confident that products in the American
market were unaffected. Neslei USA does not use meat source
from Europe, a company statement set Additionally, USDA Meat inspectors
are in all processing plants and also have responsibility to
oversee any type of imported meat. We also have requested

(01:04:22):
and received confirmation from all of our suppliers that they
do not provide Nassli USA with any meat from the
affected countries and companies. You know there's no slaughterhouses operating
in the US and no horse meat is imported from
for human consumption, making the chances that Americans are unintentionally
eating horse meat fairly remote, according to a USDA spokesperson,

(01:04:44):
nonetheless very disturbing. I'm Stacy Cohen. Get more animal breaking
news at Animal radio dot com.

Speaker 2 (01:04:52):
This has been an Animal Radio use update.

Speaker 21 (01:04:54):
Get more at Animal radio dot com.

Speaker 23 (01:04:57):
I'm Beth Stern on Animal Radio and dot from your
local shelter.

Speaker 5 (01:05:01):
Portions of today's show are a repeat from an earlier broadcast.

Speaker 14 (01:05:05):
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Download the Animal Radio app for iPhone and Android.

Speaker 1 (01:05:14):
It's Animal Radio, not your father's Pet Talk. Remember you
can get Animal Radio on the Animal Radio app for
your iPhone or Android here at any time you want,
and actually ask your questions right from the app. We're
also on Facebook and of course over at Animal radio
dot com and live right now in your ears. We've
been talking this morning about pet food stamps, because you know,

(01:05:34):
sometimes people really can't afford their pets food, and sometimes
they'll even give up their own food so that their
pet will we hear these stories so that their pet
can eat.

Speaker 13 (01:05:44):
Yeah, they don't eat. They give all their food to
their animals.

Speaker 1 (01:05:46):
Mark Oconn, and I hope I'm pronouncing your name right, Mark,
is that Oconn?

Speaker 25 (01:05:50):
It is Alan And thanks for having me.

Speaker 1 (01:05:52):
You are the founder and the executive director of the
Pet food Stamps program. And this is a nonprofit program.
Where are you located.

Speaker 25 (01:06:00):
We're located in Queens, New York, Queens.

Speaker 17 (01:06:02):
New York.

Speaker 1 (01:06:02):
Okay, So is this national?

Speaker 25 (01:06:05):
It is national? Correct?

Speaker 3 (01:06:06):
Okay?

Speaker 1 (01:06:06):
What do you guys do?

Speaker 25 (01:06:08):
Well, basically what we do is we send out pet
food to people in this country, US citizens who were
on food stamps of public assistance and are simply having
a rough time feeding their pets.

Speaker 1 (01:06:20):
Now, is it true that on the food, the regular
food stamps that people get, they cannot spend it on
pet food?

Speaker 25 (01:06:26):
That is correct? And I actually learned that a couple
of years ago when a lady friend of mine was
on food stamps having a rough time, had a cat
and was telling me that she would have to feed
her cat before her sometimes And I said, but you're
on food stamps and she said, yeah, but you're not
allowed to buy pet food with it. And that's how
the idea developed a germ of the idea in a

(01:06:49):
state with me. I pursued it and was able to
finally get the project off the ground about two weeks ago.

Speaker 1 (01:06:54):
Just oh, so it's a fresh it's a little baita.

Speaker 25 (01:06:57):
It is brand new. I mean, the germ of the
idea has been around for a couple of years, but
the due diligence, the research, and all the things that
come together to bring a project of this nature to
fruition took some time, and it actually opened up exactly
two weeks ago tonight.

Speaker 1 (01:07:13):
Well, I think you're doing good work because many pet
owners sometimes, if they're not as attached to their pets
as I am, they'll give up their pets because they
can't afford them any longer, and then they end up
in the shelters and that ultimately they may be euthanized
simply because they're homeless. But there are over fifty million
Americans who currently receive food stamps, so I think what
you're doing is absolutely awesome.

Speaker 13 (01:07:32):
You know, can be on food stamps in order to
apply for this.

Speaker 25 (01:07:36):
Now people either below the povert level are also able
to fly. Whether you're on sometimes with welfare or you
are in a very low income bracket, but han't received
your actual food stamps yet. There are ways to receive
pet food as well in that category.

Speaker 20 (01:07:51):
Now, I have a lot of patients who are on
therapeutic diets for medical problems. Are there any kind of
distinctions on what kind of food, brands of food that
you will cover?

Speaker 25 (01:08:01):
There are no RX, no medicines with this program yet,
and I stress yet it is specifically food.

Speaker 13 (01:08:10):
Now, what if I have anything, you.

Speaker 12 (01:08:12):
Know, another animal besides a cat or dog, I have
a bird, or a rabbit or a ferret.

Speaker 13 (01:08:16):
Do you provide food for those animals as well?

Speaker 10 (01:08:18):
Well?

Speaker 25 (01:08:19):
Initially the program was going to focus on cats and dogs,
but as you can imagine the amount of letters, and
they're in the thousands in just the first couple of
days talking about parrots, an awful lot of parrots. You know,
I have turtles myself, people with reptiles, and ferrets and
guinea pigs. So pet Food Direct does carry those products

(01:08:39):
and we did expand to offer those as well.

Speaker 1 (01:08:42):
Now, the most important thing, obviously, if you're not on
welfare or you don't have a low income, maybe you
could help out with this. You're applying for tax deductible
status right now. Is that what's happening.

Speaker 25 (01:08:51):
That is correct, it's not pending pending you. We do
have our text our d number.

Speaker 1 (01:08:56):
Though, okay, and if you do get accepted, I believe
it's retroactive and he donat will be taxed deductible for
that very good work. We'll put all the information over
at animal radio dot com. Mark, thank you so much
for your time today.

Speaker 25 (01:09:07):
Thank you both Hal and Judy, and continue the great work.
Thank you so much.

Speaker 1 (01:09:10):
Bye bye, No, ladies and gentlemen.

Speaker 17 (01:09:12):
The dog Father, you know, I got a lot of
people call me about cat issues and figured, let me,
let's talk about it to you.

Speaker 7 (01:09:20):
The one asked me and she wants to know how
come every time she has.

Speaker 17 (01:09:22):
A cat groomed, particularly a haircut where it's cut down
real sure why the cat goes and hides.

Speaker 7 (01:09:28):
And cats are very sensitive. I want everyone to know
they're not like dogs.

Speaker 17 (01:09:33):
I mean, dogs can also be shy, but cats know
when something is completely different. So when you ball the
cat and you make a cat naked, what ends up
happening is the cat knows that there's something wrong. They
don't know they're ball they don't know they're naked. They
just know something's not right. So what they do is
they hide because that's their way of the defense mechanism.
But I just want a lot of people to know

(01:09:54):
and understand because people think that lion cuts. You know,
they look great and that sort of thing. But doing
something very unnatural to a cat, that's not something that
most of them like. Some of them you may think
that they do, but honestly, they would rather have their
nice coat dumb or I should say fur, because dogs
have cats have fur.

Speaker 7 (01:10:13):
They would like to have their fur. The bottom line
is this, make sure your cat is not entangled free.

Speaker 17 (01:10:19):
It's going to make a big difference as far as
the cat's a cat feels, their attitude, everything about it.

Speaker 7 (01:10:25):
Keep it natural.

Speaker 17 (01:10:26):
So the most important thing that you can do is
brush and comb, And if your cat doesn't like a brush,
just use the comb. If you combed your cat twice
a week, and I'm talking about long, short, medium hair, whatever,
twice a week, you'll never have problems. Your cat will
never get dirty, because what happens is when a cat
gets madded up, they don't like to clean themselves anymore

(01:10:47):
because they can't the process. It becomes a little bit
how could I say it, It becomes bogus.

Speaker 7 (01:10:53):
They're like, hey, you know what is this.

Speaker 17 (01:10:55):
Here that I'm looking on? And it's a big old knot,
it's a big old mat. They can't get down to
their skin. They do is they start neglecting their own grooming.
So the process is if you keep them tangle free,
you're gonna have a cat that's gonna look better, it's
gonna feel better. The less dandard that they'll get in
most cases because they're actually treating themselves. Cats routinely don't
need to be bathed. You can just use a spray,

(01:11:17):
bottle of water, a rag, a towel, anything, spray the
wipe them off and that's as much cleaning as they
ever need if they're not doing it themselves. I mean
some cats at times we'll need a bath, but that's
because we didn't follow the process of the grooming, which
is brushing and combing, so really important. Keep your cat
brush tangle or comb tangle free. They'll keep themselves clean.

(01:11:39):
If you have to cut them down for whatever reason.
Don't do it more than once. Do it once, learn
understand this isn't natural process, and you know what, move
on from there and you'll have a very.

Speaker 7 (01:11:50):
Very happy kitty.

Speaker 1 (01:11:51):
We started brushing our cats real young, so they enjoy
it and they want to be brushed.

Speaker 13 (01:11:55):
It's funding, it is.

Speaker 3 (01:11:57):
That's the whole thing.

Speaker 7 (01:11:58):
If you start young, you're not gonna have problems.

Speaker 17 (01:12:00):
It's when all of a sudden, you know, you have
a four year old cat and you decide, okay, let's
start it now. And in most cases they don't like it.
In most cases, they're not like dogs. You can't reason
with a cat. A cat is like a wife. A
wife was a boss in the house. A cat is
the boss in the house. And until you understand that,
you're not going to have a happy relationship. Okay, so

(01:12:21):
that goes like with your cat as well. So remember that.

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Speaker 3 (01:12:31):
And remember, a cat is like a wife, so why
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So it is definitely a lot cheaper.

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Speaker 1 (01:14:20):
We have Eric calling from Reading and I assume listening
on w eeu Hey.

Speaker 10 (01:14:24):
Eric, Hi, the voice of Berks County.

Speaker 1 (01:14:25):
It is a great station. We've been on that station
for almost a decade. Really, a lot of people love
their animals over there and ready and you notice.

Speaker 10 (01:14:32):
That my dog is a well dog. I having problems
with a little of party training and the nasty habits.
The fox carrier Jack Wessel makes.

Speaker 3 (01:14:42):
Very high energy dog.

Speaker 10 (01:14:43):
Yes it is.

Speaker 6 (01:14:44):
What are you doing about that? What do you do
about your high energy dog? How do you exercise your
high energy dog?

Speaker 10 (01:14:49):
I take it for a walk to talk me to
walk sometimes. She and I had her for a walk
in the field once and a hawk almost got her.
Osprey wanted to get her her in the worst way.
I scared the osprey away.

Speaker 3 (01:14:59):
Yes, what's your problem? What's what's going on?

Speaker 10 (01:15:01):
Well, she just wants to play all the time. Like
to her out to go partty. She just wants to
run around and chase me and make me chase her
and stuff, and that you won't go Yeah, you know.

Speaker 6 (01:15:12):
It all starts with the leash. I'm glad you walk her.
How how many times a day do you walk her?

Speaker 10 (01:15:16):
Well, it's tough for me to walk, so it's she
just what's to day.

Speaker 6 (01:15:19):
To go for?

Speaker 3 (01:15:21):
Quot to my walk or so does she like to fetch?
Does she like to just chase balls and bring them
back or anything like that.

Speaker 10 (01:15:27):
Yeah, that's a session with a chasing balls or bringing
them back to me. So you won't bring up back
to well, I can't throw it if you don't bring
it back to me. And she looks at me, it barks.

Speaker 6 (01:15:35):
You know what, Eric, one of the hardest things about
doing this show is that I can't be there with
you to see what you're doing, to see how you're
speaking to your dog, to see how much you're talking
to your dog. So to make it very simple, when
you're when you're going to the bathroom, when you're taking
your dog to the bathroom and when you're playing, you've
got to make two distinct, separate events in your dog's mind.

(01:15:55):
Your dog has to know in his mind that it's
time to go to the bathroom, and it's not play.
But the first most important thing with especially a terrier
or small breed like that, is to tire that dog
out every day and make sure that dog gets a
lot of exercise. Because they are so high energy, they've
got to be fulfilled. And when they're not finding fulfillment,
when they're not getting their energy out, they're going to

(01:16:17):
act all crazy all the time. So that's the best
way to know your dog's not getting enough energy. So
maybe you know, I don't know how much it cost.
Maybe there's somebody in your neighborhood, like Judy, a dog
walker that can walk your dog every day for you,
and maybe you can play with your dog to the
point where your dog is actually panting and tired and
wants to lay down and not play, so you would

(01:16:39):
actually talk.

Speaker 10 (01:16:40):
He just wants to keep going and going in the
middle of the Vito Star get their squeaky toys and.

Speaker 3 (01:16:47):
Again again. Again.

Speaker 6 (01:16:49):
That is because the dog is not getting enough exercise
during the day. If your dog's getting enough exercise, then
your dog will be a lot more mellow and lay
around a little bit. Even terriers will just lay around
a little bit. So you got to find a way
to tire your dog out. And then when you take
your dog to the bathroom, you don't want to talk Eric,
You don't want to talk at all.

Speaker 3 (01:17:08):
You just want to put your dog on the leash.

Speaker 6 (01:17:10):
You bring your dog outside, you kind of just stand there,
You look off into the distance. You wait for your
dog to start sniffing around. Once they start sniffing around,
that's their signal that they're actually getting ready to go
to the bathroom. And when your dog starts to do
that and give you that signal, you pick a set
of words like maybe go to the bathroom, and you.

Speaker 3 (01:17:29):
Just say it over and over.

Speaker 6 (01:17:30):
Don't use the words hurry up because the words hurry
up you might use that around people.

Speaker 3 (01:17:35):
You know, you might say, hey, hurry up, hurry up.
We're going to the restaurant. Hurry up.

Speaker 6 (01:17:38):
We're going to the sports so we're going to the game.
So you don't want to use words that you would
use all the time. Maybe go to the bathroom would
be the best words. And so when your dogs starts
sniffing around, you just stand there and go go pee,
go pee, go pee, and you say it three times,
stop and then do it again, go pee, go pee,
go pee. Then when your dog does start go to
the bathroom. To go to the bathroom, just be silent.

(01:17:59):
After your dog is gone to the bathroom, you say
good dog, and you give your dog a treat, and
then it's playtime or go back in the house time,
and you do it consistently.

Speaker 10 (01:18:10):
Problem if she used to ride my arm for some
strange reason, she just started laying on the sofa watching TV,
she call start humping my arm.

Speaker 6 (01:18:20):
There's well, that's good. Yeah, just go no and and
give her a little poke in the neck with your fingers.
Anything you don't like. When she's doing what you do like,
you go good dog. But don't try not to talk
so much, you know, try not to have long conversations
with her. Try to try to be very very uh
disciplined with the words you use and how often you
talk to your dog till she starts to calm down,

(01:18:42):
and then you can start talking to her and stuff.

Speaker 10 (01:18:44):
She listened and one time, I he said, one time
I pat her on her back. I said the back
she said, I love you. He barked. You wonderful things.

Speaker 3 (01:18:57):
You ever see that dog on the internet that actually
was going on here?

Speaker 1 (01:19:00):
It is I have it right here.

Speaker 3 (01:19:06):
Well, there you go.

Speaker 6 (01:19:07):
Eric, I mean, you know, you know you love border collige,
so maybe you should get another dog, a border collie.
Another dog would tire your terrier out too. They could
just run around like maniacs together.

Speaker 10 (01:19:16):
Yeah. I thought about it, the local pet story, and
I've kind of fall in love to the Comeranians. I
hold them and they all kissing my mustache and look
me all over and the face, and the puppies love me.
I got a kind of trashion with dogs. He's up
to Anny spache dog and put my hand down and
sniff it and I stretch it behind the ear and
they give me the old lick and jumping my lapp host.

Speaker 1 (01:19:39):
You're a puppy magnet, that's what you are. Eric, Hey,
thanks for your call today. That, my Friends, is another
animal radio show. Thank you for joining us today. Don't
forget you can visit us all week long over at
our website at Animal radio dot com and of course
the Animal Radio app for iPhone and Android. Make your
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Speaker 2 (01:20:16):
Goodbye bye.

Speaker 3 (01:20:31):
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