Steve Miller Band Guitarist Goes To The Dogs

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:15):
Well, thank you. Coming up this hour, we'll talk to
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pig that's in a wheelchair. All part of this exciting hour.
Of course, I'm sure you, yes, you, Stacey Cone, are
working tirelessly for this hour's news, and you see I'm stalling.

(00:37):
I'm waiting for her to get back to her microphone.
What are you working on?

Speaker 3 (00:40):
Well, we all love our pets and we want to
make sure that they're well protected, just like your kids.
You know, when they're riding a bike, you want to
make sure they put their helmet on. What about your
guinea pig? Does it have a helmet? Well, if not,
I'll tell you how you can get them one. Coming
up on Animal Radio News.

Speaker 2 (00:55):
That was worth rushing back to the studio for. Let's
tell you.

Speaker 4 (00:59):
I'm trying why exactly the guinea pig would be wearing
the helmets she must have one clumsy guinea pig.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
Well, this is why we have to stick around, and
that's why they call it a teaser. So we'll stick
around and find out why the guinea pig. Where's the helmets? Hey, Catherine,
how are you doing?

Speaker 5 (01:16):
I'm fine.

Speaker 2 (01:17):
Are you in the bathroom? It sounds like you might
be in the bathroom?

Speaker 5 (01:20):
No, I'm not.

Speaker 2 (01:21):
Look just a little echo, A little bit of an
echo where you call it from today?

Speaker 5 (01:25):
Los Angeles?

Speaker 2 (01:26):
What's going on with your animal? I have the dog
and I have the whole dream team here for you.

Speaker 5 (01:29):
Well, it's my daughter's cat and she lives in Korea.

Speaker 6 (01:37):
Wow.

Speaker 5 (01:38):
And she got the cat from Korea, and it's a
Scottish fold. I believe that's what they call it.

Speaker 7 (01:45):
Okay, Yeah, she.

Speaker 5 (01:46):
Got it in June of last year and since then
she's been having prom he started having They call it
a fungus and she doesn't. Where she lives in Korea,
all the apartments have they put wallpaper on the walls
and they always get mold. So every she's lived in

(02:08):
a couple apartments and they get mold. She left the
other one because there's mold and the landlord will come
in and put wallpaper over it again. So in her
apartment she does have mold. Anyway, the cat has had fungus,
and the way she describes it looks like on the
surface it looks like dandriff. She looked like the cat

(02:29):
has a lot of dandriff. And then what'll happen in
a krusty Deaths house, she said, crusty dandriff, And the
skin becomes very dry. Then the hair starts to come out,
and it comes out and clumps, and one clump, she said,
was like three inches by six inches, And so she
went to the doctor. They gave her some pink liquid.

(02:49):
She doesn't know what it's called because there's a language barrier.
She does speak Japanese, I mean, I'm sorry Korean, but
not enough for them to explain what they're giving her.
And even though she said, it's just beginning to get
a little better because she started grooming the cat, because
as long as she was just rubbing the solution on,

(03:12):
he was licking it. But he has a cone on
right now it just keeps coming back. And right now
it's about the size she described it like thumb size,
the thumbnail. But at one point it was all over
the body. They did have a blood test, but she
doesn't know what the results of the blood tests are

(03:33):
because of the language thing.

Speaker 7 (03:35):
Oh my goodness, Catherine.

Speaker 4 (03:36):
Some of the I think the biggest challenges partly this
language barrier and in figuring out how even I can
help in this situation. We definitely need more information, and
this is going to present kind of fall on your
daughter's shoulders to find a means to understand what the
veterinarian on the ground is telling her. Because there are

(03:57):
different types of fungal skin disease that we can have
in cats and dogs, and I'll be honest, some of
them are incredibly different in that locale in the world
than what I might be treating here.

Speaker 7 (04:08):
So some of the most common fungal skin diseases.

Speaker 4 (04:12):
That we have in dogs and cats is ringworm, and
that can be frustrating to deal with. There are certainly
set dips, medications and so forth that I can advice
to use, but it kind of comes down to, is
it we're talking ringwarmer, We're talking something of more of
a cutaneous fungal infection, which is more There are some
really peculiar things that we can get, especially in some

(04:33):
of the countries on the other side of the world
where they can be more well established in the skin.
They tend to be involving pats sometimes that have immune
systems that don't really combat it and fight it off well,
and it can be very frustrating long lived to deal
with some of these infections for six months or more.
Some types of these more obscure fungal infections, they need

(04:54):
surgery and combined with medications. So the bottom line is here,
we've got to find a way to understand what that
veterinarian is saying. So whether it's something where you can use,
you know, an iPhone translator app to help figure that out.
We need to know what diagnosis they come up with.
So if they have a word for that or a diagnosis,
that's that's going to be the first step that we

(05:15):
need to know. From there, I can certainly give you
some more advice or things about what we might try
and what we might use, But in general, when we
do treat for fungal infections, blood work is important because
a lot of times we have to use medicines that
are hard on the body, and some of them can
actually cause liver issues, so we have to be aware

(05:37):
of ware pedas starting off and then monitor them throughout
that treatment. So kind of again we're going to go
back to we need to know what that veterinarian is
trying to communicate and to get that understanding.

Speaker 7 (05:46):
I know it's hard. I was sick.

Speaker 4 (05:48):
I was a kid, and I was in Germany for
a summer study and I got sick when I was there,
and it was really challenging to try to communicate my
symptoms to a doctor who spoke actually very little Englis,
believe or not, and to try to figure out what
I had and tell my mother back in the US
what was going on. You know, back then, we didn't
have cool things like iPhone translators or you know, some

(06:11):
of the more modern apps, so you know, those might
be the ways that we can help to try to
figure that out a bit more.

Speaker 5 (06:18):
And I know one thinks she's planning to do She's
going to bring him back in December. Now is that
going to cause a problem. I have six cats. I
have three inside cats and three outside cats, and so
if she brings her cat back, will there be a
chance of my cat catching whatever her cat?

Speaker 7 (06:39):
Good question? And this is going to go back. We
need to know what that cat has.

Speaker 4 (06:43):
But in general, fungal infections and many of these types
of things, yes, I will be concerned that it could
be something transmitted. Some of them are opportunist infections that
are involved with moisture climates, different environments. But we just
we got to know what that cat has, so I
would be concerned, and definitely I would encourage your daughter

(07:03):
to try to get those answers so we know what
we're dealing with, or at least what kind of class
of infection the veterinarian is suspicious over there in Korea.

Speaker 2 (07:10):
One eight six six four o five eight four oh five.
That is toll free to the dream Team, and they
can answer most questions. They don't speak career. Do any
of you speak Korean? I don't, sorry, so now we're
gonna have to stick to English or you know that Jersey.

Speaker 6 (07:24):
Doctor dev I have a question.

Speaker 8 (07:25):
Now, how concerned do they need to be about passing
it on to the pet owner because a lot of
fungal infections are very contagious even to us, isn't that correct?

Speaker 7 (07:36):
Oh? Absolutely, yeah?

Speaker 4 (07:37):
And you know, just something as common as ringworm, and
it is probably the most common fungus that we deal
with every day in dogs and cats. So yeah, that's
something just sharing the same space, getting the pets hair
on you that it's definitely a risk for people as well.
So yes, it's good that she's worried about her other pets,
but you know, for her own safety and those in
her household.

Speaker 7 (07:56):
Yeah, we just need to know a little bit more.

Speaker 2 (07:58):
Absolutely, speaking of also contagious, this recall that's been going
on in the last few weeks with the Natura products,
California Natural Products, it's sam and ella. So even the
people that hold this stuff can get sick from it,
you know, the humans as well as the dogs.

Speaker 9 (08:13):
Yeah, if you have this, take it back to the
store where you purchased it. And I have to say,
my neighbor has this for her dogs, and I warned
her about it. She went to take it back to
the store, and the guy at the pet store says, Ah,
don't worry about it.

Speaker 10 (08:25):
You can keep feeding it to your dog. They'll be fine.

Speaker 2 (08:27):
Unless they have a compromised immune system. Yeah, you know what,
find a new pet store.

Speaker 9 (08:31):
Yeah, I said, no, you take that back and get
a different type.

Speaker 6 (08:35):
Didn't you eat it, buddy, Yeah, that's what I would
have said. He try it.

Speaker 11 (08:39):
Hey, Scott, Hey, how's it going.

Speaker 6 (08:41):
Good?

Speaker 2 (08:42):
How you doing today?

Speaker 12 (08:43):
I'm not too bad in yourself?

Speaker 6 (08:45):
Very good?

Speaker 2 (08:45):
What's up in your world?

Speaker 12 (08:47):
Not too bad. We have two miniatureshtowns, one nine pounds
and one fifteen and one of them, the bigger one,
we got from a shelter and she is really bad teeth,
like they didn't take care of it all when you know,
before we got her, and we're wondering if there's anything
that can be done. We still, you know, brush the
teeth and stuff, but I didn't know if there's anything

(09:07):
to like get the teeth back to normal. Looks like
they're got really bad teeth right now.

Speaker 4 (09:12):
Okay, Yeah, And you know, doxin's I'll say right off
of the bat, docsin sometimes can really have exaggerated peridonal
problems compared to some other breeds, especially little dogs.

Speaker 7 (09:22):
So if you have a little dog, we.

Speaker 4 (09:24):
Really want to jump on dental care very early on.
And in your situation there, Scott, you know, if you've
adopted and she's kind of not had dental care up
till now, we're going to have to start from scratch.
And I think the first thing that we need to
do is really see about getting a professional dental cleaning,
and that's very important because to try to brush teeth
on a dog that has advanced dental disease, it's a

(09:45):
painful process. So you want to start fresh with healthy teeth.
So see your veterinarian, get a cleaning polishing scheduled, and
you know, see if there's any problem teeth and that
need to come out of there. In many cases, we
need to deal with those problems where we can actually
get on a good preventative care regimen at home.

Speaker 7 (10:03):
But you're definitely right to.

Speaker 4 (10:05):
Be worried because we know that dental disease is a
big problem, and we know it causes a lot of
other health manifestations in the body. And in fact, by
the age of three years, eighty five percent of all
dogs and cats will have some degree of peridonal disease.
So it's really a very startling thing. And if you're
not making efforts now, it is time. So once you

(10:27):
get your dog's teeth cleaned, there are some important things
that you can do at home, but that again, this
is secondary. After you get those teeth taken care of
at that office, and brushing teeth, by far is the
best thing if you do it.

Speaker 7 (10:40):
Three times a week, you're going to have some benefit.

Speaker 4 (10:43):
Once every six weeks when you go to the groomers
isn't going to do it.

Speaker 7 (10:47):
So you want to make.

Speaker 4 (10:48):
Sure you use a doggy toothpaste and really start slowly
to get your pet used to that brushing sensation.

Speaker 7 (10:54):
But even if that's not something that.

Speaker 4 (10:56):
Your dog will take to, there's some other products out there,
oral rinses that you can apply to the gum line.
There's additives you add to the water that can actually
help prevent plaque accumulation on the teeth. And then of
course most people know about the treats and the different
dental diets out there, and actually some of them are
actually proven to have a benefit. And there is an

(11:20):
organization called the Veterinary Oral Health Counsel and there's actually.

Speaker 7 (11:24):
A seal of approval that they give to.

Speaker 4 (11:26):
Very common dental treats and diet. So some of those
things maybe another avenue that we can use. And again,
once that mouth is clean, we've got a good healthy
starting point to get things started.

Speaker 12 (11:37):
Well for your health.

Speaker 2 (11:38):
Thanks Scott for your call.

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Speaker 16 (13:12):
Oh?

Speaker 11 (13:13):
I got a Jack Russell make and I'm trying to
training to use the leash. And whenever I put the
lee shaw in the spazz.

Speaker 7 (13:25):
Oh wow.

Speaker 4 (13:26):
Okay, So what does he exactly doing? Does he fall
down to the ground? Does he scratch at it?

Speaker 11 (13:31):
That's what he starts off with. And then when I continued,
then he just pulls against it, choking yourself because I
do use a choke collar and it gets to the
point I think that he's going to hurt end up
hurting yourself and I quit, I take it off.

Speaker 7 (13:49):
Okay, And does Tom?

Speaker 4 (13:51):
Does he wear a collar or something outside of the
time when you try to put the leash on him?

Speaker 7 (13:57):
Does he regularly wear something?

Speaker 11 (13:58):
No? He doesn't.

Speaker 4 (14:00):
Okay, Well, there's the first step. And in dealing with
a pet that has anxiety about a leash and is
kind of balking at it, pulling backwards. I've had dogs
where they'll just drop and just kind of lay there,
kind of like you know, they're playing possum. They won't
move until you actually remove it. And then if you

(14:20):
try to push him past what he's comfortable, then he's saying,
the bets are off and I'm trying to get away, right, okay,
So yeah, the first step is to get him accustomed
and being comfortable with wearing something on his neck. The
worst thing you can do is try to put a
collar and leash on a pet who's not already comfortable
with that. So the first thing is to get him

(14:41):
used to a collar of some form. And for every
pet this may be a little different. Sometimes, you know,
even a nylon collar for a dog that's not accustomed
to it, it feels weird, they can freak out, they'll scratch,
And all puppies go through this a little bit when
they're about six weeks to eight weeks of age when
you first get these guys, and if you get a
collar on at that point, they really work through it

(15:02):
and they you know, kind of forget about it. So
it's more when we have these adult dogs that haven't
been used to having a collar and leash on them,
that you'll run into this brick wall if you will.
So some dogs, you know, a light leash, a light
nylon collar will be fine. Others I'll put a cat
collar on, which is usually a little lighter weight, or
even just something as simple as some yarn, and you want.

Speaker 7 (15:24):
To make sure they're comfortable with it. You praise them
when you.

Speaker 4 (15:26):
Put it on them, you know, and definitely don't push
them into that next step of putting a leash on
until we've worked through that phase initially. Food, love, rewards
all very important while you're doing this, and then once
you get them used to the collar, then you can.

Speaker 7 (15:42):
Move up to trying to put a leash on them.
But the same thing holds true.

Speaker 4 (15:46):
So a dog that's afraid of a leash, you know,
the last thing we want to do is put a
big metal choker on them and get them used to that.
We're going to start slow, so you might go with
a cat leash. At the vet clinic here we typically
have little giveaway leashes that we give away to clients
if they need it to get their pet outside safely.
They're very light weight, really flat on little nylon collars.
Those are great for this kind of training. Sometimes for

(16:09):
some dogs that are really sensitive. Going back to something
like yarn. Just putting that on the collar maybe all
that they're going to be comfortable with. So you kind
of have to work up in baby steps to that.

Speaker 11 (16:19):
Well, whenever we put a collar around him, and and
we've tried this before several times, it always ends the same.
He either gets it off by slipping out of it,
or if he can't slip out of it, he chews
it off. And we even went to a halter. I
tried a halter and he managed to chew it up,

(16:43):
you know, and he always destroys it.

Speaker 4 (16:46):
Okay, And what I'm going to recommend that you do
isn't going to be to put a collar on it
and leave it on him.

Speaker 7 (16:52):
That's not going to do us any good. So you
may just take a little collar, a little something.

Speaker 4 (16:57):
Lightweight, and you're going to put it on the back
of his neck and you're just going to rest it there,
and then you're going to feed him, and then you're
going to take that off and put it away, and
it's not going to be on him. You're only gonna
pair it with something that is pleasurable. Food, love, toys,
something that he likes. Short, little exposures.

Speaker 7 (17:13):
This is going to take time.

Speaker 4 (17:15):
You can do it, but you can't expect that he's
going to just work through it on his own. So
really small, short exposures of time. Putting something as simple
as this, like little light leash on on the back
of his neck, drape it over his shoulders, let it
sit there, and praise him when he is calm and
he's looking at you in a calm, easy going way.

(17:36):
If his ears are back, he's darting around, he's trying
to escape. You don't want to praise him for that behavior.
That's not what we want. But you need to find
something to help motivate him, help him feel comfortable about that,
and just keep the exposures really really short until you
can get up there. And like I said, this isn't
easy and you can't push these guys because they definitely
can have some phobias about it. There are some dogs

(17:57):
that have generalized anxieties and will be fearful of other things. Noises,
you know, coats, you know, different situations. And if I
have a path that has more than one phobia, then
a lot of times I will use some drug therapy
to kind of help work through some of this training,
but really this just comes down to the needy, greedy
of just getting him used to the idea of a leation.

Speaker 11 (18:19):
Collar so you can you can appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (18:22):
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I'm Stacey Cohen four Animal Radio. Some new meaning to
the phrase pigging out. A pig farmer in Washington State
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Seattle's BB Ranch founder William von Schneideu told NBC news
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(21:04):
It's a lot of pot that feed a bunch of pigs.
He also says he doesn't smoke any of that himself.
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than those that don't, Just like people. Those extra pounds
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A mom and her son are facing the long arm
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(21:56):
Sheriff's Department last December. He claimed that several bags if
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in order to control the population. They found that Garrison

(22:17):
turned in nearly four thousand dollars worth of gopher feet,
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(22:38):
next month. You know, rabbit's feet, you kind of understand.
You carry him around with you for a little while,
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That's a lot of feet to have in the freezer.
Can you imagine if somebody came over they were hungry,
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You're listening to animal Radio. Here's holl and Judy.

Speaker 10 (23:12):
Listen.

Speaker 2 (23:13):
We were talking talking a few minutes ago. Or Stacey
was talking about this pig that hot.

Speaker 10 (23:17):
A farmer is feeding the eating hot.

Speaker 2 (23:20):
Hot scraps to pigs. I guess just the stems and
the sticks and stuff like that. Here's a story about
a pig. This is one inspirational pig. Crispy Bacon is
his name. They don't I think they just call him
Crisp right now. He was a potbellied is a potbellied
pig who was developmentally disabled when he was born with

(23:40):
not developmentally physically disabled when he was born with no
back legs. In fact, I'll let the owner, which happens
to be the veterinarian who took care of him, Doctor
lend Lucero on the phone. How you doing, Doc?

Speaker 16 (23:50):
Oh, I'm doing good. How are you doing? Thanks for
having me on.

Speaker 2 (23:52):
Well, it's such an interesting story. Now this pig came
into your office, I.

Speaker 22 (23:56):
Assume he did.

Speaker 16 (23:57):
Yeah, And I guess you could say too that he
was developmentally disabled because he didn't quite develop right.

Speaker 23 (24:01):
He was.

Speaker 2 (24:02):
He was a patient. You're a patient, you are a veterinarian.
And the person who brought him in, I guess wanted
to euthanize him.

Speaker 16 (24:09):
Put him to sleep, right, So, so he wasn't quite
a patient yet. You know what happened was, uh, the
young lady who who brought him in was actually trying
to save him. So he was a day old. And
I guess after talking with her parents and her being
a college student, just not having the time and the
knowledge of what all it was going to take to
get him, I guess to thrive and really live out

(24:31):
a full life. She's talking about these things with her
parents and decided that, you know what, I don't know
if I can do this, And I'm not. I'm not
sure it's fair to the animals. It's not fair to me.
So you know, she came into the hospital looking for
some kind of answer, you know, and not knowing a
whole lot about what her options were. You know, she
assumed euthanasia was the only answer.

Speaker 7 (24:50):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 23 (24:51):
So she put it.

Speaker 16 (24:52):
She put him on the table. You know, this, this
little guy was full of life. So there was no
way that you know, I could bring myself to ethan I.
You know, the little pig not a healthy pig. Yeah,
he's born with a genital defect, but you know's to
say that's any reason to euthanize. You know, this guy's
going to stay in a manageable way. He shouldn't shouldn't

(25:13):
be too tough.

Speaker 2 (25:14):
You decided to adopt him because you didn't want him
to be euthanized. And you, I guess you took a
director set of your kids, right, Yeah.

Speaker 21 (25:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 16 (25:24):
Connects was a fun little building block set that my
son and I used to mess around with when he
was tiny, and we used to make all kinds of
cars with him and just make these really cool roller
coasters and uh, it was perfect. So I would just
framed down a little wheelchair. You know these wheelchairs and
the idea of of wheelchairs as an aid for handicapped animals.

(25:47):
Who's been around for a long time. But uh, he
was he was less than the pounds. So I had
to get creative with what I was going to use.

Speaker 23 (25:55):
And you know what better.

Speaker 16 (25:56):
Than something that you can just snap together really quickly
and just as you need to.

Speaker 9 (26:01):
But how do you get him to use it? God,
I tried to put a leash on a puppy and
they just lay down like they can't move. How do
you get him?

Speaker 2 (26:07):
Yeah? Move?

Speaker 16 (26:08):
I think I think I'm kind of fortunate on that
aspect that you know, he wanted to go, so you know,
if he wanted to stay, well, then I'd probably run
into those same problems.

Speaker 2 (26:19):
I understand that now you've hooked up with Handicapped Pets
dot Com. We've spoken to them in the past and
they've been customized a wheelchair for Chris.

Speaker 16 (26:28):
That's correct. Yeah, they they've actually given me one that
that he's in now, and it's the walking little of
many and it's made for smaller breed dogs. And they
send me things that because the anatomy is so different
from a pig to a dog. There's modifications that have
to be made, and I call up one of the

(26:49):
representatives there and kind of, I don't know what to
do here. I don't know what to do here, or say,
how about we cut off the struts and make this
a little bit longer, And they're they're just so helpful.

Speaker 2 (27:00):
Oh, yes, they're great guys. And they also put together
a Facebook page for Chris and a Twitter account and
a web page. You should all check it out. We
don't have a lot of time left, but I want
to ask Joy, our animal communicator, to ask Chrispy or
Chris how he's feeling.

Speaker 6 (27:13):
Does he like this?

Speaker 24 (27:15):
Oh, Chris has just been in my head since you
guys started talking.

Speaker 7 (27:18):
He is so.

Speaker 24 (27:20):
Completely enthralled with the fact that he can be like
this great thing, this great icon, and be able to
show everybody that pigs really aren't stupid, that they really
can be smart. And he is so incredibly grateful that
he's having this opportunity. He thinks he's like the goodwill
ambassador for pigs.

Speaker 2 (27:39):
Bet I understand doctor that this has been an inspiration
for a lot of people that are disabled, and you
take them around to schools and such.

Speaker 16 (27:45):
I have yes, and you know, he's been an inspiration
to everyone, you know, not just the disabled. There was
a young kid that wrote him songs and it's a
really really good song I posted on his web website
this weekend, and you know he's inspired. He's not disabled.

Speaker 2 (28:05):
I'm going to go ahead and link to that, and
in fact, we'll put links and pictures up at the
website at animal radio dot com so you can see
Chrispy doc. Thank you so much for what you've done
and sharing your story with us today.

Speaker 16 (28:15):
Oh, you're very welcome, and thank you guys for having me.
It's always a pleasure.

Speaker 25 (28:18):
You know.

Speaker 8 (28:19):
I wonder what would happen if we got him together
with the with the farmer that fed his pigs of.

Speaker 6 (28:24):
Marijuana, And what would happen? You know, it could be
an accident waiting to happen.

Speaker 2 (28:28):
Yeah, you don't want to drive under the influence, No,
exactly anything.

Speaker 24 (28:32):
You guys should mention that, because when I was looking
for Chris the pig, the other pigs jumped in my mind.

Speaker 2 (28:38):
Really other pigs.

Speaker 24 (28:40):
The ones that are doing the marijuana thing.

Speaker 2 (28:42):
Oh they and what did they have to say?

Speaker 5 (28:46):
Now?

Speaker 24 (28:46):
The funny thing is I have actually spoken to quite
a number of pigs over the time that I've been
doing this, and believe it or not, these pigs actually
came across. You know how people who are high on
pot they sound kind of different.

Speaker 2 (29:00):
I know, yeah, sure.

Speaker 24 (29:03):
Exactly, And that's exactly in these pigs out they did.
They sounded exactly like that. It was just really funny.
It's kind of if they were human, they'd be going,
oh wow, man.

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Hope you're glad to be listening, you know, one saying
that I've got to tell you. It may be true,
it may not be true. I always encourage the Animal
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(29:48):
mouths are cleaner than humans. My two beloved dogs, you know,
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French kiss with my dog or the full on their
tongue lapping at my lips kiss.

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I never really did that.

Speaker 25 (30:08):
When I see people doing that, I'm always just especially
after you've just seen the dog in particular spend a
good twenty minutes giving himself Quite frankly, I'll just I'll
come right out and say a genital bath. And the
person says, oh, come, I you know the dog's mouths
are cleaner than humans. I'm finding it hard to believe.

(30:30):
Is their doggie scope? Has anybody? Can I go to
a pets I haven't been in a while? Is there
doggie scope? Is there doggie floss? I know my two
dogs didn't get up in the morning and brush their teeth,
So how is it possible that this dog who just
ate a lizard lapped at his own crotch region, maybe

(30:55):
even you know, ate his own feces or licked another dog's.
But his mouth health is really cleaner than your own.
You're saying, if that's the case, then might I suggest
you just have all of your teeth and your gums removed,
Just stitch your mouth up, because if your dog's mouth
is cleaner than yours, then yours should never be allowed

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Speaker 2 (32:48):
And we go to Debbie, who has a behavioral question.
I gotta say, Allan called in sick this morning. I
think he might have had a bad ad atchilada last night,
and I really didn't want him in the studio, So
turning this call over to doctor Debbie, who I'm sure
is perfectly able to answer this.

Speaker 7 (33:04):
Aren't you people and ready? So what can I do
for you here? Debbie?

Speaker 13 (33:08):
All right, I'm calling I recently, about six months ago,
rescued a dog. She's in the Chiuaha family. She's a
real good dog. They were going to put her down
because they couldn't keep her, and she's been a.

Speaker 3 (33:22):
Real good dog.

Speaker 13 (33:23):
She gets fine with our other tuala, but when we
take her out for a walk on a leash, she
seems to get really aggressive when she sees other dogs.
She starts jumping up in the air and acting all crazy,
and she just like she wants to be aggressive towards
the other dog. And I'm afraid to get her around

(33:44):
the dog because I'm afraid of what she might do.
Is she being aggressive or is it just her one
towards them.

Speaker 7 (33:52):
What kind of depends Now?

Speaker 4 (33:53):
Has she ever had the encounter where she actually is
doing all this stuff crazy and then she does actually
physically contact come really close to another dog?

Speaker 7 (34:01):
What does she do?

Speaker 21 (34:02):
All right?

Speaker 13 (34:03):
I'm afraid to do that. I don't want to have to.
You know, do you have other.

Speaker 4 (34:08):
Like family members with dogs? Does she do this to them?
Or is this just only unfamiliar dogs outside of the home.

Speaker 13 (34:13):
Only unfamiliar dogs. I have grandkids. She's excellent with them.
She loves them, she can't wait for them to come
over and see them. But when it comes to being around.

Speaker 16 (34:23):
Other dogs, she gets aggressive.

Speaker 13 (34:26):
Anyone can come around her, she'll be she met them
at first, and then she gets to know them and
she's fine. So I don't know if I should take
the step and let her go next to another dog
and see how she reacts. I'm kind of afraid to
do that.

Speaker 25 (34:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (34:38):
Well, can you ask what's causing this?

Speaker 4 (34:40):
And there can be different motivations for dogs when they
display this behavior.

Speaker 7 (34:44):
Sometimes it's just anxiety.

Speaker 4 (34:46):
They're freaked out, they see another critter, they want to
get near them, they want to have an interaction, but
they're tethered and that creates the type of basically emotional anxiety.
There are other dogs that it's more amount of protectiveness.

Speaker 7 (35:01):
The leashes is.

Speaker 4 (35:02):
An extension of your arm, and if a dog is protective,
particularly of family members, then that leash, as far as
that's extending, is how far that zone.

Speaker 7 (35:10):
Is that they feel that the need to protect.

Speaker 4 (35:12):
So there can be totally different situations for different pets,
and I'd say, you know, it takes a little more
work to figure out exactly where your pet fits in
with us, But the general things that I would say is, no,
we don't want to allow interaction.

Speaker 7 (35:24):
If we're not in control of the situation.

Speaker 4 (35:26):
And it all comes back to you as the pet parent,
to be in control. And a lot of working with
a pet who has leash aggression, and that's actually what
we call it leash aggression, is that we want to
make sure that we can focus their attention on us
and maintain ourselves as the one in control of the situation.

(35:46):
And this has to go back to the whole basics.
And I know Allan will talk my ear off all
the time about these kind of things when we're talking
about behavior training and leash training, and it is really
the foundation to your whole relationship with your dog.

Speaker 7 (35:58):
If you do not have control of your pet on a.

Speaker 4 (36:00):
Leash doing sit, stay, down, come, then you can't expect
them to behave well on the end of the leash
when you're out for a walk.

Speaker 7 (36:08):
So a lot of this goes back to.

Speaker 4 (36:09):
Practicing good leash behaviors in the privacy of your own
home or backyard and making sure that your pet has
those commands down. And one very important thing when we're
dealing with a pet with leash aggression is we want
to focus their attention on us, not on those distractions
that are going nearby, whether there are other people or animals.

(36:31):
We need to be able to control the situation by
focusing your doggie's attention on you. So the way we
do that is we find what motivates your dog food,
maybe maybe a toy, a squeaky something like that. There
are folks that do clicker training for the same reason,
because you can click when of those little clicker things,
pair it with a positive thing like a treat or

(36:52):
snack or affection, and they get the idea that the
clicker means pay attention to me. And that's what we
need to practice and focus on in a quiet scenario
without those other dogs present. We can't expect to jump
up to the going to a dog park and expecting
to be able to train or to practice this kind
of thing. You have to do this at home when
it's quiet, and that's really kind of the mainstay is

(37:13):
starting to do that, focusing your pet's attention, and then
when we can build up to things, we're going to
try to maybe just go outside.

Speaker 7 (37:20):
Of the door, go in the front yard, maybe.

Speaker 4 (37:23):
Just where there's some animals or people nearby, and we
start at a thresholder it's very light, and you might
see a dog or maybe hear them in the background,
but we're not going to.

Speaker 7 (37:32):
Allow our pet to get excited.

Speaker 4 (37:34):
If you see any signs that your dog is starting
to get excited, barking, getting all worked up, then we
need to take control of that situation. Say no, sit down, paw,
and we're going to redirect their attention back to you
and then praise them when.

Speaker 7 (37:47):
They do that. So that's very important.

Speaker 4 (37:51):
And there's no point in if your Doggi's yelling or
barking and carrying out looking at another dog, don't yell back,
don't say stop it.

Speaker 7 (37:58):
Stop it and pole the leash.

Speaker 4 (38:00):
That just freaks them out more. And it's just it
just like throws gasoline on a fire for a dog.

Speaker 13 (38:05):
That's what I've always done is I brought her in
real close to me and kind of huddled down with
her and told her, you know, it's okay, it's okay,
you know, and.

Speaker 4 (38:13):
I'll stop that.

Speaker 7 (38:15):
No, stop it.

Speaker 4 (38:16):
So what you're doing is if she's already displaying that behavior,
you're rewarding it.

Speaker 7 (38:20):
By doing that.

Speaker 4 (38:22):
Oh, so think of what she's she's barking, she's carrying on.

Speaker 7 (38:27):
She says, get away from me to you dog, you.

Speaker 4 (38:29):
Smelly scoundrel, and you just sit down in your patter
and say, good girl, it's okay, it's okay.

Speaker 13 (38:33):
She just did because I want her to calm down,
and I thought that would be the best thing to do,
was to try to get her to calm down.

Speaker 4 (38:41):
Yeah, And if you're already in that scenario, the best
thing I can tell you is you want to turn
your body, turn her away and start walking in another
direction and maintain control. Don't even talk to her, just
really go in another direction and get her out of
the sight of that dog. Then get her to sit
listen to you do a behavior, and then you reward
her for that. You don't want to order anywhere near
that time that she's demonstrating like that. Okay, yeah, but

(39:05):
don't don't coddle her when she's acting up, because that
definitely will make that worse.

Speaker 2 (39:11):
That's the one thing I'd learned this year, in fact,
is that when our dog we want her to feel
comfortable around another dog, and she's barking in that dog,
and we coddle her, we pet her, we're kind of
feeling fuel to the fire. We're telling her it's okay
to be mad at that other dog, or to be angrier,
to be barking, or to be there right, Yes.

Speaker 4 (39:28):
Exactly exactly. So, yeah, you know you're the problem all along, Helen, we.

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Wow, we got a lot going on today. Joey's walked
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(41:16):
he's just about to start off his tour. This is
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Aren't puppy kisses the best? I love him when they
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(42:03):
I'll tell you about it coming up on Animal Radio News.

Speaker 2 (42:06):
I can't wait for that stacy of course, uncovering the
stories that really count. And we're going to go to
how about Chris, Hey, Chris, how are you doing?

Speaker 25 (42:13):
Ah?

Speaker 21 (42:14):
I could be richer?

Speaker 2 (42:15):
Oh me too. Well, we're rich in a special way.
It may not be money, but we have a lot.

Speaker 21 (42:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (42:22):
Problem.

Speaker 21 (42:24):
My son lives up on a mountain ridge in Pennsylvania
and we have more than our fair share of bears
right now. He's got two of them, and one of
them is he's being okay when the dogs go out.
He's got three dogs. He runs up a tree like
he's supposed to. But there's another one that my son

(42:45):
describes as the biggest animal he has ever seen. He
comes right up onto his porch, which is also his deck,
and when the dogs try to run him off, he
just kind of looks like him with this look on
his face, like what do you think you're doing here?

Speaker 11 (43:02):
This is my deck.

Speaker 21 (43:06):
My son has gone out there with his shotgun and
shot it up in the air, and the fair just
looks at him like, what are you making noise for?

Speaker 24 (43:15):
Oh?

Speaker 21 (43:16):
No, you know, hunting season is several months away. The
animal people have been up there trying to figure out.

Speaker 23 (43:26):
You know, they put.

Speaker 21 (43:27):
Traps up, and of course that's not working. We think
the big bear has been trapped once before and was
relocated to my son's neighborhood, so he's not going to
crawl into a trap again. Yeah, and he's going to
try to get into the house, oh sure.

Speaker 4 (43:46):
And you know, the biggest thing with bears is, you know,
food motivates them to do a lot of things and
put themselves in scenarios where we don't think that they
would be comfortable with. So that's the biggest thing that
when we're dealing with bears kind of crossing into our realm,
into our environments, is to ensure that we're doing everything
we can to make it less favorable for them to

(44:08):
want to come in close to our homes.

Speaker 7 (44:10):
And that's usually.

Speaker 4 (44:11):
Taking control of food, garbage, any kind of edibles, whether
it's you know, fruit, trees, things of that nature. So
that's the first thing that you know, really to make
sure that we do is that we're not leaving garbage
out if it's in Preferably we keep garbage indoors or
in a shed and only put it out or take

(44:32):
it to the dump when it's time because that they'll
keep coming back if they've got that, or if you
feed birds, if you have bird feeders out, that's a
great thing that they'll be attracted to.

Speaker 7 (44:42):
You know, dog food is sitting outside in bowls. All
of these things.

Speaker 4 (44:45):
Are food sources, so they really have to be a
zero attractants and desire for them to want to come nearby.
So that's definitely the one big thing that I would
suggest to do. And bears don't always scare, and if
the dogs aren't scaring this one, you know, it may
be hard and sometimes that you do have to call
in the wildlife authorities.

Speaker 7 (45:05):
Where they'll have the the beer beer bear deterrent crews.

Speaker 4 (45:11):
And I've seen this, you know, in different documentaries where
you know they use sometimes even you know, not just
regular bullets, but even rubber bullets to try to scare
them away. They have to train them to be afraid
of being around people. So hopefully those local authorities you know,
can have the right resources for that. But you got
to clean up everything, I mean, garbage, you know, clean
those garbage cans out. Motion activated lights, if they're getting close,

(45:35):
you can try activating them, you know, some of the
really bright halogen lights so if they're coming near the
home at night or near where your garbage is secured,
you know you have something like that to help deter
them and to kind of scare them away. But I
feel for you, man, because you know it's hard when
wildlife gets close to your home. You know, you have
a responsibility and a right to you know, make sure

(45:56):
everyone's safe and protected there.

Speaker 7 (45:58):
So some of you got to do what you need
to do and call those people.

Speaker 21 (46:02):
Well, I think you uh nailed it. The garbage is
taken inside the house. My son even this year planted
twelve more fruit trees.

Speaker 23 (46:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (46:14):
Yeah, and that's hard because if you have one, then you.

Speaker 4 (46:19):
Know it's reasonable to say you're gonna go around pick
up the you know, the fallen fruit and things like that.
But if you've got a you know, a grove that
you've got, that that's just you know, asking them to
come close to the home. So I'm not saying shut
those trees down, but you know, you just got to
weigh the pros and cons and that might be something
that if.

Speaker 7 (46:34):
Those bearers are attracted to, they're gonna keep coming.

Speaker 21 (46:37):
Yeah, he was planning the fruit trees for the deer.
There's an added bonus. I think, yeah, the deer or
anything we've put out there that they're afraid of.

Speaker 7 (46:55):
That you know of well as far as different sense,
you know, just cleaning up.

Speaker 4 (46:59):
You know, if you have like the garbage areas, there
are definitely some folks that will advocate putting lime in
there just to help kind of cover.

Speaker 10 (47:07):
Up the odors of garbage.

Speaker 4 (47:09):
As far as deterrence sense, you know, I'm not really
aware of anything that's good to keep them away. The
biggest thing is to keep the food odors away. So
even like garbage, you can vacuum pack garbage or make
sure that you know, you keep any of.

Speaker 7 (47:21):
The food related garbage out at.

Speaker 4 (47:23):
A very minimum, just when you're you know, disposing of things.
I feel for you, man, I hope the deer come around,
but I hope the bears go away.

Speaker 2 (47:31):
Okay, thank you, thanks for your call, Chris, Thanks for
listening to Animal Radio. Don't forget the Doctor. Debbie's books
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Hey?

Speaker 8 (47:51):
I am going to give you the three what I
feel is the most essential products that you should have.
You a pat that's just every day general household products
that if you kept in your house, you know what,
you'd be a much happier person and it would save
you a lot of money and you'll have everything to
cover all bases.

Speaker 6 (48:10):
So let's start here.

Speaker 2 (48:11):
Okay.

Speaker 8 (48:11):
Number one, they're all every one of them are powdered based. Okay,
first thing, I'm gonna tell you. You want medicated powder,
gold bond. Okay, okay, Now what is it good for?
It's good anytime your dog gets any type of skin allergy,
skin rash, is a little bit itchy, maybe went to
the groom, I got a little bit of raizor burn,

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which sometimes happened. And what you do is you put
a little bit of a medicated powder on and you
know what, it works, wonders. The dog stops scratching, they're
not itchy anymore. And it also helps it helps heal.

Speaker 6 (48:44):
That's number one. You can use it on everything here.
You could use you know, things in your household.

Speaker 11 (48:49):
I use.

Speaker 8 (48:53):
Yeah, there you go. Anyway. The other thing is cornstarch. Now,
cornstarch I talk about all the time. It's a great
quick cleaning tool to absorb dirt, oil, grease, and you'll
sprinkle it on your dog or cat.

Speaker 6 (49:08):
Okay, and to medicated powder.

Speaker 8 (49:09):
I wouldn't put on the cat, but the corn stuch
you could use on your dog or your cat. You
sprinkling it in the coat, you work it through with
your hands or a brush, and then you brush it
all out. The best thing to do is put your
pet on a towel so you don't make a mess.
The corn stutch goes down into the towel and that's
after it absorbs the dirt and oil, and you'd be surprised,

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very surprised of how much cleaner your pet's gonna look.
And the last thing is probably my favorite one because
I use it on everything. And I think I'm the
guy that paraded this more than anyone. And I'm sure
you know what it is.

Speaker 2 (49:39):
No, I don't.

Speaker 6 (49:40):
It's oxy. It's it's oxygen based clean oxy. Okay, Okay,
Now I'm gonna tell you.

Speaker 8 (49:45):
You mix a scoop of at with a gallon of
very warm to hot water, and what you could do
is you can use it on your pholstery, you can
use it on your carpets, you can use it anywhere
your pet's gonna soil or leave any type of organic odor, okay,
which could be fecal mat of vomit, all of that,
and it's gonna clean it right up and it's usually
gonna pull the stain out. Now, the other good thing

(50:06):
is about it is it's probably one of the best
skunk odor remedies that I've ever used.

Speaker 6 (50:12):
And for a skunk, what.

Speaker 8 (50:14):
What you would do is add literally one drop of
dish detergent to that gallon of water. And again, don't
make it too hot where you're gonna burn the dog.
But it has to be warm enough for it to
really work good. And you're gonna shake it up. Now,
what the soap does. It gives the product. It's like
a bonding agent. It's not gonna just run right off
your pet. It's gonna hold it there and while it's drying,

(50:36):
the smell is going to probably intensify. In those cases,
when it's dry, you're gonna be surprised of how much
better your dog smells. Not the one thing I'm gonna
tell you right now is don't if your dog is
sprayed by a skunk you're using this, don't wet it
first because you're gonna build a bond between the skunk spray,
which is an oil base, and the water. So you

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want to use this directly on it. Let this penetrate,
don't rinse it off. Don't ever rinse it off. And
if you need to put a little on a spray bottle,
you know, to get in areas maybe around the top
of the head, run the ears, get keep it out
of the eyes completely.

Speaker 6 (51:13):
It's not good for the eyes, but it's otherwise. It's
not toxicod safe for your.

Speaker 8 (51:17):
Dog, safe for your puppies, safe for your kitten, safe
for you.

Speaker 6 (51:20):
Okay, so we're going green too a little bit today.

Speaker 2 (51:23):
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searching all of the house for them, he convinced his

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daughter's fiance to take a crowbar and hammer to the
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seen the mouse run in. After tearing up some molding,
the dentures were retrieved. Bill's future son in law suggested
boiling the dentures in peroxide before putting them in. Bill's
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Speaker 2 (53:46):
Answering the behavior questions for Alan Cable today would be
doctor Debbie pulling double duty.

Speaker 7 (53:53):
Yeah, I hope my paycheck looks bigger this week.

Speaker 2 (53:55):
I hope so too. Last week we were talking about
the World's Ugliest Dog. In fact, we had the founder
of the World's Ugliest Dog contest on the air with us,
and she didn't tell us that she was going to
crown another ugly dog.

Speaker 10 (54:08):
Last week, I know a new one who was coming up.

Speaker 2 (54:10):
She apparently did. A huge headed, duck footed mix of
a Beagle Boxer and a bassett Hound was the twenty
fifth annual World's Ugliest Dog. Wally is his name. He's
a four year old mutt from Chico who entered at
the last minute and who was judged the most unsightly
out of thirty dogs. Apparently, the last few years it's
all been these Chinese crested sairliest dog, so this is kind.

Speaker 10 (54:33):
Of nice to cheat it up and else.

Speaker 2 (54:34):
Yeah, I'm looking for the picture here. I can't find
the picture of him. I really want to see that.

Speaker 4 (54:39):
I have to say that the Chinese crust did really
have a corner on the market.

Speaker 7 (54:42):
Though they really did.

Speaker 2 (54:43):
Do they have for several years.

Speaker 4 (54:45):
They really are between the like the zits they have
on their back they're hung out, and the cataracts they
really do, they can make a really kind of staggering look.

Speaker 2 (54:54):
Well. With Wally, judges say they were especially impressed by
his bizarre wattle. He has a wa his dog that waddles.
Apparently he wins fifteen hundred bucks and will make several
TV appearances over the next week. I wanted to ask Joy,
our animal communicator, if they could tune in to Wally.
If you could tell me what Wally thinks about this
win as the world's likeliest.

Speaker 24 (55:15):
Talk he has absolutely no thought about it at all.
It's like, who cares.

Speaker 2 (55:20):
He's not offended by that.

Speaker 24 (55:21):
He's not offended, he's not pleased. He's just like blah.

Speaker 2 (55:26):
Really think he'd be at least a little bit proud,
proud or offended.

Speaker 22 (55:31):
Yes, yet, no, he's not.

Speaker 24 (55:32):
He's just like, who cares. It's like, I don't care.
It's a human thing, makes no difference to me. I'm
just who I am. Don't talk to me about it.
It's all right, fine, just don't make a big fuss.

Speaker 2 (55:41):
Well, congratulations to Wally. Let's dedicate the show, this show
to him if we can. Also this video that's circulating
on the internet, if you haven't had a chance to
see it, about the monkey that bit the police officer.
I really love that realized this. But apparently police officers have,
or some police officers have goggles or not goggles, a
camera from their glasses glasses cam. Oh really, not just

(56:04):
in their car, but on their glasses. And this is
how this particular video was taken. Oh wow, a rookie
officer giving a ticket, a speeding ticket to someone. As
soon as he handed the pen and the paper over
to have the ticket signed, the little monkey reached out, pulled,
pulled his hand in and bit him.

Speaker 7 (56:25):
Officers really need more hazard paid. I gotta tell you
they worry about guns.

Speaker 4 (56:28):
And now they got monkey.

Speaker 2 (56:32):
We're gonna post that video over at animal radio dot
com if you want to see it.

Speaker 9 (56:35):
Yes, good thing he had a video. Can imagine going
back and trying to explain no, really it was a monkey.

Speaker 7 (56:39):
He'd be like, uh huh.

Speaker 2 (56:41):
Let's go to Cara. Hey, Kara, how are you doing.

Speaker 19 (56:43):
I'm good.

Speaker 2 (56:44):
Where are you calling from today?

Speaker 13 (56:47):
I'm from Minnesota, Mini soda.

Speaker 2 (56:50):
I love me. I just love how you guys talk.
What's going on?

Speaker 3 (56:54):
Okay?

Speaker 29 (56:55):
So I have a cat, and if I were to
get another cat, well, then my cat that I have
now doesn't get along with that one like shall hiss
you know, puts her tail up now. And I was
wondering to say, like a way that I can you know,
get he just become friends? If I wanted to get
another cat, or so.

Speaker 7 (57:12):
You have two cats already and they're not getting along.

Speaker 29 (57:15):
No, I only have one and I want to get
another one.

Speaker 4 (57:19):
All right, So I mean there's some definitely some big
guidelines that I can give you, and I'll tell a
couple of big mistakes that people do when they're adding
a cat to the home. Number one is that they
don't match the personalities of the cats.

Speaker 7 (57:34):
So it's more.

Speaker 4 (57:36):
Important to match a personality to a like cat than
it is of say the male female thing.

Speaker 7 (57:41):
We don't really worry about that in cats. Dogs.

Speaker 4 (57:43):
We talk about it in cats. It doesn't matter if
a male is with a female. What we want is
the personality to be compatible. So if you have a
very outgoing cat that's kind of an in your face,
more aggressive cat in the sense that you know, is
more vocal, more demanding than you, a cat with a
similar personality, which you do want to get is a

(58:04):
really kind of laid back, passive, not a very interactive cat,
because they're going to have more likeliness of problems. So
that's the first thing is really look for that same
kind of personality. And now I'm not saying to go
out and find an aggressive dog a cat, but really
just a cat that's more bold, outgoing and that is
less apt to have fear with new situations. So that's

(58:25):
the biggest thing. The next thing that I'll tell you
is that when you do add a new cat, the
biggest mistake we make is that we push the kiddies
too fast together. In cats, their whole behavior and socialization,
they move at a different pace than dogs do. So
you really got to give them their space, introduce them gradually,

(58:45):
and you want to make sure that that's going to
be done even with separation. So a cat might be
in one part of the house and then the other
cat will be in the other part of the house.
You switch betting so they get used to each other
since and then we gradually put them together.

Speaker 7 (58:57):
That's the best way to let them get used to things.

Speaker 4 (59:00):
Now, the other thing I'm going to tell you is
that if you've got an adult cat, you really should
be looking for a young cat. Age does matter because
that also helps to facilitate an introduction. If you've got
a young cat that's coming in kind of on the
bottom of the katie totem pole, if you will, and
the adult cat will feel less threatened and the young
cat is going to be less out to want to

(59:22):
kind of kind of.

Speaker 7 (59:22):
Take charge and challenge in that situation. So those are
some of the really.

Speaker 4 (59:26):
Big things, and then combining that with making sure you
have when you do get these guys in the same environment,
that you have lots of resources for them. So resources
for cats means lots of water bowls, food bowls, extra
litter sites. So you should have at least three sites
where these cats can have options in different areas of

(59:47):
the house to eliminate.

Speaker 7 (59:49):
So you want to kind of.

Speaker 4 (59:50):
Make sure that there's not a lot of competition, even
in a physical sense where they have to cross over
to one part of the house to get to that
food bowl. And then you have a you know, a
your feline household. If there's less listen things to argue
and fight about.

Speaker 21 (01:00:04):
All right, No, FA's thank you, thanks for.

Speaker 2 (01:00:07):
Calling, Carl, send us pictures. We want to see this
brand new addition to your family. Okay, okay, don't forget.
You can see these pictures and everything we're talking about
during the week over at the website and on our
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This is an Animal Radio news update.

Speaker 3 (01:01:12):
I'm Stacey Cohen for Animal Radio. A helpful eBay seller
is going to great lengths to make sure that somebody's
pet guinea pig is as safe as possible. Sean McCoy,
or Mighty Sox as he's known online, is auctioning off
a chain mail and helmet combination designed specifically for one
of the tiny rodents. Yes, your guinea pig could have
his own helmet. McCoy says he made the armor himself

(01:01:35):
for his own guinea pig, Lucky, who was unlucky and
unfortunately passed away over the weekend.

Speaker 2 (01:01:41):
I took it up.

Speaker 25 (01:01:41):
He took it out.

Speaker 22 (01:01:42):
I woke up. He didn't.

Speaker 3 (01:01:43):
Oh that's so cut and dry. So in honor of Lucky,
he plans to donate all the money raised from the
armour sale to the Metropolitan Guinea Pig Rescue in Roundhaill, Virginia.
Now the auction, the last time we checked, the bids
had already surpassed the fourteen hundred dollars.

Speaker 7 (01:01:57):
Mark for a little helmet.

Speaker 3 (01:02:00):
And Alaska man could be facing criminal charges after he
go toed a bear with barbecue and ended up getting mauled.
State troopers told the Anchorage Daily News the man was
attending a picnic at a campground when he decided to
take his barbecue on a bike ride. Well, he ran
across a black bearr He tossed the bear some meat, like,
get away from me, here some meat. Well, the bear
ate the meat, but attack the man when he offered

(01:02:22):
it more. He suffered puncture and scratch wounds and was
treated at a nearby hospital. Officers believe he had a
little bit too much to drink during the picnic. I
saw pictures of that. Oh my gosh, you could see
the claw marks actually in his skin. It was horrific.
An Indiana man's recovering after his puppy. Ready for this,
this is another kind of weird story, not that any

(01:02:44):
of my other stories aren't weird, but an Indiana man
is recovering after his puppy gnawed off a couple of
his toes. According to Indiana's WTCHIV, Roger Brown of Brazil, Indiana,
has been hospitalized when he woke up with a blood
soaked left foot. It was chewed on by his six
month old pit bull named Bo. The dog was actually

(01:03:05):
able to chew off Brown's pinky toe and his big toe,
as well as taking a significant chunk out of his
actual foot. He blames himself for the incident. Apparently, Brown,
who's disabled and diabetic and doesn't feel very much, had
a wound on his foot which was caused by diabetes.

Speaker 21 (01:03:20):
Well.

Speaker 3 (01:03:21):
He'd been treating the wound and wrapping it tightly before
he went to bed. However, he says on the night
of this strange incident, he hadn't been as careful as
he should have been. Even though the dog has left
him permanently disfigured, Brown decided not to euthanize the dog. Instead,
he plans to continue raising and caring for the puppy.
Do we really want him to continue to raise him

(01:03:41):
care for this puppy? I mean, how could you not
wake up when something's munching on your foot? My dog's
licked my toe or something, and I'm like, get out here.

Speaker 10 (01:03:50):
Stop that.

Speaker 22 (01:03:50):
I'm Stacy Cohen.

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Speaker 2 (01:04:31):
We'll head back to the phones for doctor Debbie, dog
trainer Allen Cable, dogfather Joey Velani, and animal communicator Joy
Turner in just a couple of seconds, but we want
to take some time to visit with Kenny Lee Lewis
guitarist of the Steve Miller Band joining us just about
to kick off there, what three month tour you got
going on?

Speaker 23 (01:04:46):
Yeah, we'll be back sometime around August twelve.

Speaker 2 (01:04:49):
Hi everyone you are You have taken flight like an
eagle to a new level.

Speaker 23 (01:04:52):
Oh well, thank you so much. Yeah, I said. My
influence is, you know, back in those days where all
the English and Asian guys, you know, Jeff Becker is
one of my favorites, of course, and Jimmy Page collaps.

Speaker 11 (01:05:03):
And of course, how old.

Speaker 10 (01:05:04):
Were you when you picked up your first guitar.

Speaker 23 (01:05:06):
Well, my first acoustic guitar was my brother's series forty
dollars silver tone guitar, which sits next to me in
my bedroom still to this day. And that was in
the sixth grade, so I was probably about twelve.

Speaker 2 (01:05:17):
Tell us about your animals. You have a dog?

Speaker 23 (01:05:19):
I do. I have a dog. She's a Papillon Faline
Papion named Sophie, and she's quite a character. My daughter
got her a great point average when we said you
can have a dog if you want, and she got
this wonderful little Papillon and she's become a member of
the family now and she's quite a character. I mean,
these dogs were bred down from a miniature English spaniels

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back in the fifteenth century and we're a part of
the French court and everything, and just very interesting. They
really love people. They're not that interested in dogs, although
they'll say hi. But you know, she's always depressed and
when we take her to the dog hotel, she really
wants to be with people.

Speaker 10 (01:05:57):
I love the Papillons, that's the name. It's a French
word for butterfly because they have those big butterfly.

Speaker 23 (01:06:02):
Like ears, right, but this particular one is a throwback.
Her ears are downs. Plus she's very large for papions
the patios back during the turn of the century, we're
in the you know, ten to twelve pound class, and
that's what she's in. But most of them now that
you see, like you were talking about with the brick
years and everything, a crossbread with long hair chiuaoas, and
they're kept down to about six seven pounds, and that's

(01:06:24):
the one you usually see the dog show.

Speaker 2 (01:06:26):
Now when you say they've become are that Sophie's part
of the family? What does that mean? Is she sleeping
in the bed? Is she eating it? Are you giving
her treats at the table. What are you doing to
spoil her?

Speaker 23 (01:06:36):
You know, thanks for reminding me all that. You know,
she gets all that. She doesn't sleep with my wife
and I. We decided to put her in a dog
that at the end of the bed and that works.
We just well, we just didn't want to have you know,
I mean, we have an acre of land, you know,
out there on Mososa's Valley road and foothill and slow
and she goes outside whenever she wants. She never runs away,
so she can go out whenever she wants, but she

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comes back with all kinds of stuff on her fur
and stuff. So we're trying to make it so it's
a little more sanitary for that. But she sleeps with
light hours. She doesn't care. She gets streets all the time.
And one thing that she does do that we with
treats on her. She started playing the piano one day.

Speaker 2 (01:07:11):
Wow.

Speaker 23 (01:07:12):
And because my wife is a great piano player, Diane
Steinberg Low, it's a great pianist. Companies all the choirs
and stuff. I'm down the Central Coast and she's a
singer writer artist herself, and she plays the piano all
the time. And so that the dog would try to
get intentionally go over and play the piano, and we
give a treat, you know, just to see if she
do it again for a hoot. Now that's to the
point where we don't treat her. We just applaud Wow.

(01:07:34):
She goes throughout the applause and and you know, once
in a while she get a treat. If she plays
something really hip, we'll get her a treat.

Speaker 2 (01:07:41):
Well, that's the same way you learned, didn't she didn't.
Steve He would throw you a treat every once in
a while and then just yeah.

Speaker 23 (01:07:46):
As a matter of fact, the solo that you were
talking about this on the internet, that was a bone
that was thrown to me one night when Joe Satreani
had just played his solo and I had no idea
he was gonna throw me a solo, so he threw
it to me and I just said, okay, watch out,
you know. So I did it and it went onto
a video that we released as a free thing with
our box set, and it was something that couldn't be

(01:08:07):
you know, edited out or taken away or whatever. So
it was a solo that I got to, you know,
get on a media that will be around for a
long time. Yeah, so that's why I put it on
my website.

Speaker 2 (01:08:16):
Maybe you could work the dog into the act somehow.
I'm thinking, I'm just trying to help you out a
little extra cash.

Speaker 23 (01:08:22):
I've shot some video ever, and one time, sometimes we're
watching a movie and there's like a real creepy scene
and stuff she'll play somewhere. We'd bella bart talks up
close voices because they're ponds, they're small, you know, but
she'll play some really hip stuff and we'll go like, wow,
is as good as anything that any of our friends
have every underscored. And so that's when we hear retreats
they do that again. But yeah, that would be pretty funny.

(01:08:43):
I've shot video over but I still have a post
on Facebook and AU guess I'm just trying not to
be too crazy with that cause so many people both
their animals. I don't want to be.

Speaker 10 (01:08:51):
One of those, but we're all one of those around here.

Speaker 2 (01:08:55):
Now your tour all across the country. Some great tour dates.
You can check out Steve millerband dot com to learn more.
I wanted to mention this before we go here. You
have a great CD kind of a jazzy thing going on.
It's a side project, has nothing to do with Steve Miller,
but it's your own work and it's a pretty tasty
little CD.

Speaker 16 (01:09:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 23 (01:09:11):
Thanks, I appreciate that. Did it you know quite a
few years ago with some of the former Steve Vailor
Man members.

Speaker 2 (01:09:17):
I wanted to mention that Kenny Lee lives in San
Luis Obispo. So if you're listening on kve E C
or on Next Time Satellite, he's in your te this
is where he lives and this is where you'll see
him at the dog park with Sophie. You take the
dogs out a good park.

Speaker 23 (01:09:30):
All the time. Like it said, she you know, goes
around and says hi to everybody for about five minutes
that she looks at me because okay, I'm done, let's go.

Speaker 2 (01:09:36):
Well, Kenny, I appreciate you taking time to spend with
us today. Go give Sophie a big old hug from
all of us and have a right to Thanks.

Speaker 23 (01:09:42):
For supporting animal evers all across the world. Dan Tack, Bye, bye,
Okay bye.

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Speaker 31 (01:10:06):
Hi Talent Cable. Thanks for stopping by.

Speaker 21 (01:10:08):
Today.

Speaker 31 (01:10:08):
We're going to talk about something unpleasant to you and me,
very unpleasant, but totally natural to some dogs. I think
you probably figured out dog's leak just about anything, including
their own.

Speaker 21 (01:10:18):
You know.

Speaker 31 (01:10:18):
Wow, And as gross as that sounds and looks, it's common.
Sometimes it can be a sign of loneliness or being bored,
could be anxiety, or maybe your dog is copying other dogs.
Sometimes it's because the dog learns that when there's number
two around, he gets punished, so he's actually making it
disappear so you won't be mad at him. Sometimes he's
just cleaning up his living space. And yep, sometimes a

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dog enjoys it. It really doesn't present a problem except
that we hate seeing it. And you know, a lot
of folks like when their dog's given that their kiss,
And if you know your dog's doing that, it's gonna
click in your brain after it's already too late.

Speaker 6 (01:10:54):
Uh huh.

Speaker 31 (01:10:54):
First thing you can do to try to stop it
is to give your dog more attention and lots of exercise,
and feed him more than once a day so he
has something to look forward to, and also because it'll
keep him from getting hungry throughout the day and tempted.
Also pick up after him as quick as you can.
Like we said before, he might be cleaning his living space,
which is your job. The most important thing, though, is
to first make sure there's nothing wrong by taking him

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to the bed. There could be something physical causing it,
like worms or other parasites. Because they rob your dog
of essential nutrients. He might be eating whatever he can
find to make up for it. As always, the way
to stop a dog from doing something like chasing cars
or you know what it is we're talking about that
we don't want to talk about, is to make a quick,
firm correction and teach your dog to command leave it

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or no bite. You know, it's almost like a shove
on the shoulder, Hey, leave it. You can do it
by tugging on a leash real quick again saying leave
it or no bite, or by a quick poke with
your fingers in the neck, all at the same time
saying leave it or no bite. Something to change his attention,
to take it away from what he's doing. As soon
as he stops the behavior you don't want him to do,
he praise him, maybe even give him a treat. That's
probably the most important thing. Always remember to praise your

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dog for desired behavior. I want to set your dog
up for success. Hey, thanks so much, and as always,
get more tips at animal radio dot com.

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Speaker 2 (01:13:14):
Hey, Scott, how you doing mine?

Speaker 21 (01:13:16):
How are you guys? Good?

Speaker 2 (01:13:17):
Where are you today? I mean, are you listening on
kro oss it k No.

Speaker 21 (01:13:26):
I didn't know they had it here in town. I
listened to it on XM in the semi.

Speaker 2 (01:13:30):
Oh good, So you're at OTR yes, Okay, Well, I
got Doc deb here. She's she's like, stop asking them
their life story.

Speaker 7 (01:13:39):
I'm here to work. Come on now, what's what's going
on there? Scott?

Speaker 21 (01:13:43):
Well, I adopted a ge cup Chiwallah, a six month
old one in California here a couple of weeks ago.
And my concern is I live in Iowa where it
can get to thirty below in the wintertime. Yeah, I'm
just concerned. Learn about her wealthy and coming from a
warm state to a colder climate.

Speaker 4 (01:14:05):
Okay, Well, and for me, I'm gonna tell you it
doesn't matter what she's used to as a teacup chihuaha.
She is not a cold weather dog no matter where
she lives. So it's it's I'd say it's impractical to
expect that we're going to really acclimate her to cold temperatures.
Chihuaha's in general, they just don't tolerate cold really well.
That's why you see all these little cute seas walking

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around with those you know, sweaters and fleeces and the
hats and the gloves.

Speaker 7 (01:14:30):
Oh no, not all of that, but that's why we
dress these guys up because they really.

Speaker 4 (01:14:35):
Don't have the body fat and the body size to
really generate and to maintain their own body temperature in
that extreme weather. So you're good to definitely be aware
of that and to be watchful. So as far as
the basic things for a little teacup chihua or any
chihuahua under fifty five degrees, I really start to take
extra measures. So that may be things like sweaters, fleeces,

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and and actually I can tell from my own experience
with Boss, my little terrier mix, some of the best
warming cover ups I mean aren't necessarily just the knitted sweaters.
They actually do make down jackets for dogs, and the
fleeces are actually quite warm, so those are very nice
and Boss highly recommends them, I will tell you that.

Speaker 7 (01:15:18):
So those would be some basic things.

Speaker 4 (01:15:20):
Now you also want to keep in mind the potty
training for these little guys, because some of these little
doggies are quite diva like and in snow weather, especially
you know, below zero weather, we need to make accommodation.
So you want to think of that now while the
weather is kind of in the temperate zone, so you
can plan. Some doggies will do great going outside as
long as you keep that snow, you know, shoveled and

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you give them a clear path and they don't have
to go outside.

Speaker 7 (01:15:45):
Their means to really go eliminate.

Speaker 4 (01:15:47):
But otherwise you can train them inside on one of
those little potty patches.

Speaker 21 (01:15:52):
Well, she's pretty good about the pads, and I have
a doggy door and she goes out all the time.
She loves her backyard.

Speaker 7 (01:16:00):
Okay, good, good.

Speaker 21 (01:16:02):
My main concern is like the pads on the bottom
of hers seat.

Speaker 4 (01:16:06):
You sure, yeah, So with with that you can definitely yeah,
you can definitely do doggy boots or even just kind
of the little slip ons for them to go outside.

Speaker 7 (01:16:19):
You have to watch that.

Speaker 4 (01:16:20):
Yeah, those little feet with long periods of time on
frozen surfaces, definitely can They can get some freeze bite,
so you want to be aware of that for you know,
just kind of getting her acclimated to go outside in
that you're really you know, carry her outside, put her down,
let her do her biz, and carry her back in.
That's gonna be the best way to kind of gradually

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acclimate her to that. But if it's really extreme temperatures,
something that it burns your face when you're going outside,
I really would advocate using the booties just to protect
those feet. And then, you know other things I may
not have mentioned, heated dog beds. Sometimes these little guys,
even in Las Vegas Winners, believe it or not, these
little guys come in ring when it's you know.

Speaker 7 (01:17:01):
Forty degrees outside.

Speaker 4 (01:17:03):
So if you have a heated dogbed and she's you know,
not the type that might chew or destroy any of
that type of thing, that can be a really great
way to kind of keep them warm into kind of
reward them after they go outside to do their business.

Speaker 10 (01:17:15):
There's something else I want to ask, Oh, I like that.

Speaker 9 (01:17:22):
I want to talk about this other product that I
just saw and I actually got a sample.

Speaker 7 (01:17:26):
At super Zoo.

Speaker 2 (01:17:27):
Does it make noise?

Speaker 17 (01:17:28):
No?

Speaker 7 (01:17:28):
No, no.

Speaker 10 (01:17:29):
It's called Comfy Tails and it's k U M F
y Tails t A. I l Z what it is.

Speaker 9 (01:17:36):
It's a fleece jacket but it has an insert. It's
a gel pack and what you can actually do is
put it in the microwave.

Speaker 7 (01:17:43):
You heat this jet.

Speaker 2 (01:17:44):
Without the dog. You put it on before you put
it on the dog.

Speaker 9 (01:17:46):
You take the gel pack, you put it in the
microwave for a few seconds, and then you insert it
in this coat and it goes underneath her belly and
then you wrap the coat around her and it'll keep
her warm outside for a long time. And you can
also uh make it cold too if it's real hot weather.
But it's called comfy tails and it's a thermal pack
and it's I got one from my little dog. She's
eight pounds and gets cold.

Speaker 2 (01:18:07):
One of those frilly things. Is it all kinds of colors.

Speaker 9 (01:18:11):
There's different colors, but this this jail pack is amazing
and it just stays on their underbelly and it will
keep them warm.

Speaker 10 (01:18:17):
So look up comfy tails pets smart you do.

Speaker 7 (01:18:23):
Oh yeah, they're awesome.

Speaker 21 (01:18:24):
I've went shopped and spree with her one day.

Speaker 6 (01:18:29):
You spoiled her.

Speaker 4 (01:18:31):
Oh yes, Well that sounds like you've already got kind
of some of those basic things. So I mean, really, Scott,
I think we got to remember these little guys are
just so so sensitive to the cold weather. And uh,
you know a little extra TLC keeping that baby warm.
Is this is this little one going to be traveling
with you in the truck or staying at home?

Speaker 21 (01:18:48):
Stay at home? I got a pit bull boxer, and
I got that I've called to you about that had
hit dysplasia and your tips on that helped her.

Speaker 7 (01:18:59):
Oh fabulous, that's the.

Speaker 21 (01:19:01):
One that goes with me in the semmile all the time.
And then I got a pure bid Irish pitbull.

Speaker 4 (01:19:07):
Oh well, we appreciate you being a follow up and
a frequent caller here Scott, and give this little baby
a good pat on the head. And you got a
little time to get her acclimated before that cold when
your chill comes.

Speaker 7 (01:19:18):
Thank god, he's.

Speaker 21 (01:19:20):
Beaten up on her.

Speaker 23 (01:19:21):
Takey bears right now.

Speaker 2 (01:19:24):
Thank you for your call, Scott. We appreciate it. Call
it back if you need more help there where. We
always like to be of help because most people, let's face,
a lot of people call and say you think you
guys think you know it all.

Speaker 6 (01:19:34):
Don't you.

Speaker 2 (01:19:34):
I'll go into seven eleven you well, okay, maybe they say, Hell,
you're always trying to take credit for doctor de Wi
and Allen. What we'll have yourself. That's safe and fun
weekend with your animals. Go take him out right now,
get him, give them a little exercise. We're gonna do
that with Lady Bug, the studio stunt dog. And we'll
see you next week right here on this fine station
for more Animal Radio.

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Bye now, bye bye bye.

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