Animal Radio Kicks Off The "Who's Your Daddy" Doggy DNA Contest

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Celebrating the connection with our pets. This is Animal Radio
featuring your dream team veterinarian doctor Debbie White, doc trainer
Allen Cable, Broomer, Joey Vallani, communicator Joy Turner, and here
are your hosts, Ali Rooms and Judy Francis.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
Is it just me or does that guy I just
noticed he sounds really really angry. Doesn't sound angry?

Speaker 3 (00:23):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (00:24):
Alan, do you think he sounds angry?

Speaker 4 (00:26):
I don't know what he sounds like.

Speaker 5 (00:29):
Yeah, he sounds like he should be in porn. Is
what he sounds like.

Speaker 2 (00:33):
I don't know. It's Animal Radio on the show. Today,
we're gonna talk to Coon Rippy Mark, Coon Rippy Brown.
Have you seen his video on YouTube? It's gone viral
with the dances with raccoons. Yeah, he dances with raccoons.

Speaker 6 (00:46):
And he showers with raccoons.

Speaker 4 (00:47):
He's really funny.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
Yeah, you've heard of him.

Speaker 4 (00:50):
Oh, you know, I'm a big fan. Let me tell you,
I am a huge fan of this guy. He's the
raccoon Whisper.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
He's in trouble with the law. Apparently. I guess they
took away one of his red coons. We're going to
find out what that's all about in just a few minutes.
I just saw one of his videos which was he
used his hand in Montana body spray to keep his
his what's the funniest thing raccoon away from nibbling him.

Speaker 4 (01:13):
Biting him? Oh, it's just the cutest little skit. And
that raccoon passed away, that one he did that with.
But it's funny. Have you seen that show?

Speaker 7 (01:20):
No?

Speaker 5 (01:20):
I never did.

Speaker 6 (01:21):
I saw it on It was gun show that passed
Away I think was his name.

Speaker 2 (01:24):
Yeah, Well, we'll link to that over at the website
at Animal radio dot com so you can check out
these videos before he comes on. Also, author David Rosenfeldt
is that correct went across the country with twenty five
dogs in three RVs and tell us that.

Speaker 6 (01:38):
Story sounds like fun.

Speaker 2 (01:40):
Stace, what's up?

Speaker 4 (01:41):
Well?

Speaker 8 (01:42):
You know when the Hindes Tomato ketchup slogan was good
things come to those who wait, they probably didn't mean
to have this in their ketchup bottles. Yes, it's an
animal particle, and I'll tell you what particle it is
coming up on Animal Radio News.

Speaker 6 (01:58):
Any kind of animal part I don't want to.

Speaker 4 (02:00):
Know, and I don't want to know about this.

Speaker 2 (02:02):
Yeah, she's gonna ruin ketch up for us, isn't she.

Speaker 7 (02:06):
Not?

Speaker 4 (02:06):
For doctor Debbie. She'll run out and buy a case.
She'll look for it.

Speaker 6 (02:10):
She'll hope she hits the jackpot.

Speaker 2 (02:13):
Did you hear our very own Joey Vallani up for
an award?

Speaker 5 (02:17):
As I was telling how before, I'm gonna for a
industry award this year? What kind for contest judged the
that's wild, buddy, That's like it's like our our oscars.

Speaker 4 (02:29):
So gosh, dang it. You're talented.

Speaker 2 (02:31):
You really are.

Speaker 4 (02:32):
You're really talented person.

Speaker 9 (02:33):
You do something I just I just got, I just
got everyone fooled, is what it is. Well, you're doing
all fool down.

Speaker 4 (02:40):
You're doing it well. Though.

Speaker 2 (02:42):
Do you have a case that she'll put that award in?

Speaker 5 (02:45):
Do I have a case to put that award in?

Speaker 2 (02:46):
Yes?

Speaker 5 (02:47):
Yeah, my wife and my wife lets me, you know,
put it in the china closet.

Speaker 4 (02:51):
Yeah, yeah, exactly.

Speaker 2 (02:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (02:53):
I have a few grooming awards, and you know that
they don't they don't take precedent.

Speaker 5 (02:57):
I'll just tell you that much.

Speaker 4 (02:58):
You don't have your own shelf. I don't have my
own anything.

Speaker 2 (03:02):
Come on, any man, that thinks.

Speaker 5 (03:04):
He's the boss of his household is either divorced or
not married.

Speaker 9 (03:08):
Let's let's be for real. Even the dogs know it,
you know, they know who the boss is.

Speaker 4 (03:14):
Oh my gosh, that's hysterical. I don't have my own anything, you.

Speaker 5 (03:18):
Know, we talk about alpha.

Speaker 9 (03:19):
Yeah, okay, household, I'm number six in the pecking order.

Speaker 5 (03:23):
Okay, we don't have kids, so just figure it out.

Speaker 6 (03:27):
There's just no place for you to win on this one.

Speaker 5 (03:30):
No, there's there's not. There's not.

Speaker 9 (03:31):
And you know what, Joey and I know it. So
that's why I don't even argue the fact.

Speaker 6 (03:35):
See, that's a good thing. You're resigned to it. So
there's no problem everybody.

Speaker 9 (03:39):
There there's there really isn't any problem, I I know.

Speaker 4 (03:43):
And you can get your own shelf if you really
fight for it.

Speaker 5 (03:46):
Back off, that's right. So he's causing trouble. He's causing
trouble on my household.

Speaker 4 (03:52):
Have a shelf, I do, but it's out of sight,
it's in the class. I lost that too.

Speaker 5 (03:57):
I lost the garage.

Speaker 4 (03:58):
The garage was listen, the garage was.

Speaker 5 (04:00):
My grooming studio.

Speaker 2 (04:01):
What's everything? What's it now?

Speaker 4 (04:03):
What could she?

Speaker 5 (04:03):
What's in it now.

Speaker 9 (04:05):
It's it's everything that my wife can't fit in the
house is in the garage.

Speaker 5 (04:09):
So I love.

Speaker 9 (04:10):
I completely lost my grooming studio. It was gonna be
my grooming studio slash where I'd be able to film
and do videos and all that, and I got the
greatest equipment in the world.

Speaker 5 (04:19):
It would be the hottest studio in the world. Forget
it that. That's to the wayside.

Speaker 2 (04:23):
Hi, Cheryl, how.

Speaker 4 (04:24):
Are you doing?

Speaker 7 (04:24):
I don't good in yourself?

Speaker 2 (04:26):
Splendid. Where are you calling from today?

Speaker 4 (04:28):
Uh?

Speaker 7 (04:29):
Conway, Missouri. I'm a truck driver.

Speaker 2 (04:32):
Truck driver, okay, Well, let's let's see what's going on
with your dog?

Speaker 7 (04:35):
Is it no cat?

Speaker 2 (04:37):
Do you drive around with your cat?

Speaker 10 (04:38):
Yep?

Speaker 2 (04:39):
You're an over over the road truck driver and you
bring your cat with you? Does your cat like that?

Speaker 7 (04:44):
Well? My mom had passed away about five six months ago,
and it was her cat, and I promised that I
would get her good at home. I'm not a animal person.
I like animals, but I didn't want to take anything
with me. But uh, you know, I I must turn.
People said that they would take it. They they decided not.

(05:04):
They didn't want a pit so I said, well, I'll
just see what happens. And first day or two was
screaming and hollering, but then she got used to it.
She realized I wasn't going to leave her alone. And
now she scares all the mechanics AOK, afraid of her.
She don't have any front cloths. But she doesn't like
to hear people test, so she'll just fluff to get

(05:24):
her body real big and kill her teeth and her
eyes go wild. I just I just have to laugh.
It's just because he's just taking it.

Speaker 4 (05:32):
You know.

Speaker 3 (05:33):
So she doesn't like a hotty mouth.

Speaker 4 (05:34):
That's that.

Speaker 7 (05:35):
Huh No, she don't like it's this when they're working
on the throats.

Speaker 11 (05:38):
You don't like that.

Speaker 7 (05:40):
But see, but when I got up and nobody gave
me what to do with a cat book, so I'm
just trying to learn.

Speaker 12 (05:46):
I don't want to, you know.

Speaker 7 (05:47):
I did take her to the event while we were
home a week or so ago, and they said she's obese.
She's the same weight that she was when my mom
had her. And I put like eight ounces of dry
food and I don't get sheep stuff. I get the
stuff that's real meat, you know, because I don't want
her to have any accidents or anything. You know, she
likes fish and chicken.

Speaker 13 (06:10):
Okay, So so you're just kind of wondering, like what
you need to do in the truck environment as far
as to kind of keep her happy and healthy.

Speaker 3 (06:17):
Is that kind of the general just.

Speaker 7 (06:19):
Yeah right now because at the house we hardly ever
go home.

Speaker 11 (06:22):
She goes crazy.

Speaker 14 (06:23):
So, you know, she had a lot of room to run.

Speaker 7 (06:25):
But in the truck, you know, I tried a string toy,
but it has batteries and it just goes too fast,
and I put her favorite string on it. She just
kind of sits over her head, going around and round round,
and I don't know what to do keep her happy
and not giving me awake when I do go to sleep.

Speaker 3 (06:42):
Yeah, well that's going to be the challenge.

Speaker 7 (06:44):
That's what I would like to do to get a harness.
But I try to harness and as she gets out
of them because she wants to go outside, and.

Speaker 14 (06:50):
I figure I could walk her or something.

Speaker 13 (06:53):
Yeah, it will honestly be challenging. Not that it's going
to be impossible, but it's gonna be a little tough
to keep a cat in a truck environment and you know,
have her sit around all day and then not expect
her to want to expend energy.

Speaker 3 (07:07):
Later when you're sleeping.

Speaker 13 (07:08):
So we are got to find a way for her
to outlet you know, that energy. So you know, you
might look at even some of the different interactive toys
with Frawley Cat where you know you can set those
let them go and get her up and moving a
bit while you're driving. And that's going to be a
big thing because no matter how little you feed her,
if she moves very little during the day, she's going

(07:31):
to be overweight. So you know, animals are very capable
at taking the energy we feed them and turning it
into fat by becoming less and less active. So that's
something she can do and she'll do it unknowingly just
living that sedentary lifestyle. So you're going to have some
challenges and making sure she can have that and it's
going to mean, yeah, maybe getting her accustomed to a

(07:52):
harness and spend a little time doing leash training or
leashwalking outside of the cab. And it does take time.
You can do it if your kitty is food motivated.

Speaker 3 (08:00):
I find that leash training and harness training you got to.

Speaker 13 (08:03):
Take it in baby steps compared to dogs, but you
can do it and just you know, never pull her,
but just let her get used to the whole sensation
I have in the harness on without being outside of
the cab. And that's really the first step to get
her used to. And I think that as far as
you know can food, certainly you know that may be
fine and she likes that, but if you actually fed

(08:25):
her dry food, there's some opportunities to get her a
little bit more movement and doing things in the cab.
So some of the dry foods, you can put those
in food dispensing toys for cats, so they have to
kind of bat it around, push it around, move investigate,
do things and kind of like what they naturally do
in the wild. Cats don't just sit around and birds
hop in their mouth. They got to work for it.

(08:47):
So let her do more work in the cab while
you're driving, and that might be just by switching and
modifying some of her food over to a dry form.
We don't want to overfeed her, so you got to
cut back on the other things.

Speaker 7 (08:59):
I'll probably her too many snacks, but another train on
the snack that she wants so that she has to
see it and then she has stick one thing out
and I say wait, wait, wait, and then she kets
and all.

Speaker 13 (09:11):
Of yeah, well you can turn that, turn that turn
that motivation for those treats and performing into getting her
use of that harness. And I think that would be
a great thing and allow her to do more things
energy and get some exercise. And uh, it definitely sounds
like she's going to work for that food for you,
But I mean it sounds.

Speaker 7 (09:29):
Like supposed to feed them.

Speaker 13 (09:33):
Yeah, that's going to depend a lot on the food,
the calorie content in her current condition. And I can
tell you the health A healthy weight cat about ten
pounds with the average food may eat a half a
cup a day. Now, if she's not moving much, she's
going to need less. And if the calorie content of
the food is higher or lower, you're gonna have to
change that. So I do always refer to the bag

(09:55):
as a starting point, But for a cat that's not
moving around and kind of sitting on her her buff
for most of the day, you're going to need to
feed less.

Speaker 3 (10:02):
Than what they recommend on the label.

Speaker 7 (10:03):
So one other thing I want to ask you is
what can I do about getting them dander? I'm allergic
and her danderous is terrible.

Speaker 13 (10:11):
Yeah, well, brushing her is actually one of the best
things you can do. And if she's a longer hair
coat cat, brushing her daily. Shorter hair cats you brush
once twice a week, that'll help. By brushing, that helps
to distribute the natural oils in a cat's hair coat,
and that's one very important thing that can help with that.

(10:31):
As far as dander I do know some folks that
have allergies and they have to shave their cats just
to help manage that. It's not something yeah, it's not
something that cats need, but you know, if depending on
your allergy level, that is something that some folks will
do and just a way to help to live co
habitate with your cats if you have some allergies.

Speaker 7 (10:51):
So motion toys, things, frolly cats lie and sometimes I Jesus,
but I get tired of you know, haven't had goal everywhere?

Speaker 3 (11:05):
You're getting turned into account lover.

Speaker 2 (11:06):
I can tell yep, I hear it in your voice.

Speaker 7 (11:09):
Well, when I was down in Texas, a guy said,
once you pret you can't buy some time, and I said, well,
I got around on attorney said, well, good, I'll take her.
And then he started laughing said, look in your face.
Give okay now that I'm used to, but I surprise everybody.
They didn't think it worked out with her being on

(11:30):
the truck, but she turned on my head light for
me in the morning while I get ready to get
a water bowls empty. She sits on a morn til
I move.

Speaker 15 (11:39):
And as keep that truck to mean that's for sure.

Speaker 2 (11:45):
Give your kiddy a big old hug from all of
us here at Animal Radio.

Speaker 1 (11:48):
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Eight hundred nine eight seven O six one eight eight
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Speaker 2 (13:01):
I wish I were tall solid?

Speaker 5 (13:02):
What do I sound like? I sound like a midget?

Speaker 4 (13:05):
How tall are you sound like a big guy?

Speaker 5 (13:06):
How five to five and a half?

Speaker 6 (13:09):
Alan? How tall are you?

Speaker 2 (13:10):
Five eight?

Speaker 4 (13:11):
I wish I were six, just six feet?

Speaker 2 (13:13):
Remember your first disappointment in actually meeting that disc jockey
and putting that face to that voice.

Speaker 6 (13:19):
Yes, it was in the mirror, Yeah, that was when
I met Hall.

Speaker 5 (13:22):
So so was it better?

Speaker 9 (13:24):
Was it better in person or was it better you know,
over the air before you've seen them.

Speaker 6 (13:28):
Actually, I have to admit it was better in person.
I thought you might be short, fat and bald.

Speaker 2 (13:32):
That's what I sound like apparently, Yeah, so not a
lot of people.

Speaker 6 (13:35):
No, Actually, you had a good voice, and I've learned
that you can't match the voice with the looks, because
some people have some great voices and you look at
them and go, oh my gosh, and then others have
horrible voices and they're gorgeous. So you just got to
be got to be careful.

Speaker 2 (13:50):
For those that are listening. I look like Fabio. So
if you're yes, yes.

Speaker 4 (13:54):
Yeah, if Fabio had no looks and no muscles.

Speaker 6 (13:56):
Yeah, and weighed one hundred and fifty pounds. Something went.

Speaker 2 (14:00):
So this is coming in off of the app asking
Alan their truck drivers and they're lonely, and they want
to know.

Speaker 3 (14:10):
You're in trouble.

Speaker 4 (14:11):
Now, Alan, they're truck drivers and they're lonely. I'll be
right there.

Speaker 14 (14:17):
Over.

Speaker 2 (14:17):
We just got this in off the app. It was
Kiko and Steve wrote their truck drivers and they're lonely,
and they want to know if they should get a dog,
and if so, what kind of dog would be good
to have on the truck traveling with them.

Speaker 4 (14:30):
See, now that's a good question, and a lot of
people get dogs to fill holes in their lives. You know,
they're lonely or they suffered a loss, and believe it,
a dog can be a great companion. But you have
to remember this. It's very important that you understand before
you get a dog that dogs have needs as well,
and they're not like human needs. They're different, and it's

(14:52):
important to educate yourself and read do a lot of
reading about dog behavior and about what a dog's needs
are before you just go get one, and ask yourself
if you can satisfy those needs, because if you can't,
you probably shouldn't get a dog. Now, there are dogs
that are just mellowed out and they like to lay
around a lot. There are breeds like basset hounds, you know,

(15:12):
and you know they're not very active, and beagles, and
you know, there are a lot of dogs that don't
need much exercise, and a lot of people don't get
those dogs. They get dogs that need a lot of
exercise that they're not equipped to give, and so you
get a frustrated dog, and sometimes you get an aggressive dog.
So get on the internet and do some reading about
the different dog breeds and which ones can lay around

(15:34):
and don't need to chase and hunt and run and play.
They don't need much like bulldogs. I don't think bulldogs
need much activity either, So that would probably be a
good truck dog. But remember, find out what a dog needs.
And dogs do need a little bit of attention, and
their needs are different than your needs are, So ask yourself,
can I satisfy these needs? Can I give a dog

(15:56):
a healthy, happy environment? That's really important?

Speaker 2 (16:00):
Where are those needs?

Speaker 7 (16:00):
Like?

Speaker 2 (16:01):
Obviously the dogby walks several times a day? Right?

Speaker 4 (16:03):
They need socialization. The first thing is, you know, you
got to bring them around lots of people and lots
of dogs when they're small, so that they get used
to the human hand and they get used to affection
and attention and they learn that it's good. Other dogs
are good and other people are good. And the second
thing they need they need exercise. They need a lot
of exercise. Lots of different dog breeds need lots of exercise,

(16:24):
some need less. The third thing they need is structure.
They need boundaries and they need limitations. They need you
to be a leader. They need you to teach them
positively what is good and what is not good, what
they can do and what they can't do. And it
starts with taking possession of all good things. The dog
learns that all good things come from you, like his food,
his toys, going out to play, going on a walk.

(16:46):
It all comes from you. And so when you give
a dog structure, you're being a good leader. And a
good leader has a calm, happy dog. So that's the
third thing a dog needs. And the last thing they
need is affection. Dogs could live very happily without affection.
If you look at dogs in a dog pack, you
don't see the other dogs coming over giving the you know,
giving a dog kisses and petting a dog, and you know,

(17:08):
affection is something that is good. But you have to
learn when to give affection and when to give attention.
And a dog that doesn't get positive attention when he's
doing good, positive things and only gets negative attention, like
you're yelling at him all the time, he's going to
do that behavior because any attention is better than no attention.
So for those of you listening who yell at your
dogs a lot, learn to give your dog attention when

(17:29):
he's doing the right thing, and give them less attention
or no attention when he's doing the wrong thing, and
he'll start doing the right thing more often than not.
And the last thing to remember is this, we expect
a lot out of our dogs. You know, people want
dogs to be perfect, to come every time they call them.
Never to get angry, never to get upset. That would
be like telling you, hey, you know what, never lose

(17:50):
your temper again in your whole life. Dogs are living things.
We put high expectations on them, higher than we would
for ourselves, So try not to do that. Remember they're
not perfect and they're not going to behave perfectly every
single time. But if you're calm, relaxed, a good leader,
you know how to positively motivate your dog, you're gonna
have a great companion and a friend for life.

Speaker 2 (18:11):
Hey, thanks Steven Kiko for the question from the app.
You can download the app right now. It's free for
iPhone and Android and you can ask your questions right
from it, as well as listening to past shows.

Speaker 5 (18:21):
Alan, what do you think of a chiuau or as
a good truck dog?

Speaker 2 (18:24):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (18:25):
I think chiuaoas are great dogs, you know. I mean,
I think you know, just about any dog could be
a good truck dog. It's just you know, they have
to gauge how much time they're willing to play with
them every day.

Speaker 9 (18:35):
Yeah, because I'm thinking about what you said bulldog and
I love bulldogs, don't get me wrong. I'm thinking about
picking this fifty sixty pound dog getting out of the
truck all the time because you know he's not en
up and jumping down.

Speaker 4 (18:45):
And maybe you'd have to have a ramp. They can
walk right up on it. But you're right, yeah, that's
a big dog.

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Oh?

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I I agree.

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nine foot sea dweller put up a ninety minute fight.
He must have had five guys trying to reel that
thing in. How did the rod not break too? A
recent act of kangaroo censorship have left some people hopping mad.
The Mirror says Tourism Australia posted a photo of a
kangaroo named Big Baths on their Facebook page, but since
Big Bas was sprawled out on his back in the pick,

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they chose to keep it PG and they pixelated the
animal's private parts. I didn't know that kangaroos were so
well endoub but the people at Tourism Australia explained that
they were only having a little bit of fun and
not everybody thought it was that funny. In fact, more
than sixteen hundred people commented on the photo, many calling
the censorship stupid, crazy and everything in between. One user,

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even a Hughes Tours in Australia trying to turn Big
Baths into a centerfold model. The agency since replaced the
photo with another that's a little bit more modest. He's
probably wearing boxers now or something, but they joked that
Big Bads has since taken to being a little camera shy.
When the Hinds Tomato ketchup slogan was good things come
to those who wait, they probably didn't mean a tangled

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mess of rat fur. Health officials in Brazil they've banned
a Mexican made batch of everybody's favorite condiment after they
detected traces of rodent fur in the bottles. Oh can
you imagine pouring it out and then ah, there's something
in this, Oh there's something. Wow, my burger's a little hairy.
It was imported into the country last year. The tended

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bottles have reportedly oh, you have something in your teeth.
It looks like it might be a rodent tear. They've
already been pulled from store shelves, and the Brazilian government
has banned any sales, distribution, and marketing of the units
from the batch. Mexico's own authorities have stepped in, launching
an inspection of the factory where the ketchup was made.
It's so gross because mainly everybody knows that if you're

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gonna have mouse pelts, you want mayonnaise on them, not
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Speaker 15 (23:24):
Baby.

Speaker 2 (23:26):
You are quite the singer. I didn't realize that.

Speaker 4 (23:28):
I'm happy because my family they're on their way back
as we speak. They're somewhere around Billings, Montana.

Speaker 2 (23:33):
Now are they hitchhiking back? Is that what I to understand?

Speaker 4 (23:36):
No, No, they're not. I actually gave him a bus
passed this time. They're riding on the roof of the
Greyhound half price.

Speaker 2 (23:41):
For those that don't know, Allen's wife and children have
been gone all summer long. You've had the house. Now
you've got to be cleaning that up. Now. I imagine
there's underwear strode all.

Speaker 6 (23:50):
Over pizza boxes.

Speaker 4 (23:51):
So that's what I have to do this weekend. I
have to. As soon as the Animal Radio show is over,
I get to work. I get to work here.

Speaker 5 (23:58):
See he's the opposite. Yeah, i'd be going into morning now.

Speaker 4 (24:03):
Yeah, he'd be sad that they're coming back. Yeh Oh god,
I'm kind of afraid.

Speaker 2 (24:10):
Why what do you think will happen?

Speaker 4 (24:11):
I haven't seen my kids in two months. I mean,
I don't know. You know, they change, they change fast.

Speaker 7 (24:16):
You know.

Speaker 2 (24:16):
It could be all grown up daddy? Who we got
a new daddy? What about Uncle Rob? I guess that's
my life. Let's head to David Rosenfeld. He's on the phone.
He's a mystery writer and he's also a animal saver,
like I believe. He runs a shelter and he has
twenty five dogs, and he traveled across the country in
an RV. Well, I take it back three RVs to

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get all twenty five dogs across the country, and he's
chronicled it in his new book, Dog Tripping. Welcome to
the show, David, Thank you so tell us a little
bit about the story, and without giving it all away, obviously,
traveling with twenty five dogs a big move for you.
Why were you traveling and how did it go?

Speaker 22 (24:55):
We're traveling because we had a rescue foundation in California,
through which we save about four thousand dogs. But if
we rescue a dog that was too old or blind
or epileptic for anybody else to want them, they would
come home as our pet, and so we were always
had anywhere between I'd say twenty and forty.

Speaker 4 (25:12):
Wow.

Speaker 22 (25:12):
And at the time we were moving, my wife had retired.
We were ready to move to our house in Maine,
and we had twenty five large dogs and how to
figure out how to get there?

Speaker 6 (25:21):
I guess you can't fly?

Speaker 2 (25:23):
No, probably we.

Speaker 22 (25:24):
I mean it's in the book. We explored everything, and
flying was just not practical for a number of reasons,
one of which is these are all old, you know, arthritic,
you know dogs that are They would just be freaked
out by it and we weren't going to do that
to them.

Speaker 4 (25:37):
Wow, that's so interesting.

Speaker 6 (25:38):
So how'd you come up with the idea of the
RV and how are you going to fit twenty five
dogs in an our arms?

Speaker 22 (25:42):
Well it was three rbs and they fit fine. I mean,
they were comfortable and you know, but the other you know,
the problems were like, how are you going to stop
and walk them? You can't let them out on the highway.
So we had to do We had two hundred and
fifty feet of a lio of plastic fencing that we
unrolled each time instead of our own dog park, and
we had eleven volunteers. These people were readers of mine.

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Most of them we didn't even know, and they flew
into California spent a week with us. It was amazing,
really amazing.

Speaker 10 (26:10):
If they did.

Speaker 2 (26:10):
Wait, so let me get this straight. People that have
read your books, your mystery books, you invited them to
help drive or what?

Speaker 22 (26:17):
Actually I didn't invite any of them. What I did
was I sent out We had no idea how to
do it, so I would send out emails and on Facebook,
and I'd ask these people if they have any idea
how to do it, and in the process the number
of them said, you know, we'd really like to be
part of it. So it was fine with us. It
was just my wife and I weren't going to be
able to handle it. So these people were amazing.

Speaker 6 (26:38):
How did you know what kind of people you're going
to get? I mean, I know they say like radio groupies,
beware of them, but what about book groupies. Aren't you
kind of frightened?

Speaker 22 (26:45):
Well, you know, and it could have been. I even
said to one of them, you could be a serial killer.
But rather than doing it by ourselves, traveling with serial
killers would have been fine.

Speaker 7 (26:54):
You know.

Speaker 22 (26:54):
It was just way.

Speaker 4 (26:57):
Did you shoot any video of the whole thing?

Speaker 22 (27:00):
There was video shot of it actually, which we had
lost for a while, and then the person who shot
had just discovered it. So they're sending it into my
publicist to do for a TV showman to be on.

Speaker 6 (27:10):
So how many people and how many animals did you
have in each TRV?

Speaker 22 (27:14):
We had nine, nine and seven in terms of dogs,
and then we had four, four and three in terms
of the people.

Speaker 6 (27:23):
I traveled the country in an RV with five cats.

Speaker 22 (27:26):
That was kind of fun, but I was completely miserable
the entire trip, and the other ten people, the other
ten people thought it was the greatest adventure your life.
I mean they just they still email about how wonderful
it was.

Speaker 4 (27:37):
How long did the trip take?

Speaker 22 (27:39):
Well, did it feel like it took or took it?
Actually we left on Monday afternoon, Monday afternoon and got.

Speaker 4 (27:44):
There Friday afternoon, oh my gosh, And.

Speaker 22 (27:46):
Which was actually longer than we had hoped. We had
hoped to be able to alternate drivers and sleep on
the way, but that just proved not to be feasible.
So we'd stopped like for four nights, four hours each
night in a hotel and one of us. Oh we
me and and always my wife and one other person
would stay on the RVs and then everybody else were
going through the hotel.

Speaker 6 (28:05):
I can't imagine all the dog here. What do these
RVs look like when you had to turn them back in?

Speaker 22 (28:09):
They were a pretty good shape. When I called the
rental company, I was prepared to lie and say, you know,
we're just gonna take our dog. They said they didn't
care how many dogs we had, as long as we
returned the vehicles and the shape that we got. And so.

Speaker 4 (28:25):
You guys pull up to like, let's say, a rest stop,
you get out, you unfurl the fence, you bring the
dogs out. What are some of the comments you got
from people who just will checking this out?

Speaker 22 (28:33):
Well? And that made it worse because you know, every
time we stopped, anybody around would come over, and of
course that got the dog was excited. But you know,
and people everybody said, oh, we wish you were we knew,
we knew about it because we would have joined. You know,
it's quite easy to say that after the fact, but
you know the problem was every time we stopped, the
dogs wanted to get off. And if you've ever driven

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an RV and I never will again. You stop for
gas every twenty it h so, you know, and these
are our you know, older dogs, you know, a blind
dog and stuff, so it's not so easy to get
them off and on. So it was it was quite
a job.

Speaker 6 (29:09):
Did you end with the same amount of dogs as
you started with?

Speaker 13 (29:12):
We did?

Speaker 22 (29:13):
Fortunately we almost one ran off. One got out of
its collar and ran off in Iowa City, but she
came flying back. She decided it's it's better on the
RB than it would be out in Iowa City.

Speaker 4 (29:25):
I'm telling you right now, this is a movie right here.
This could be a movie.

Speaker 22 (29:28):
Actually, it's weird. There's been a lot of interest for
a movie, which surprises me because I don't really see
it because it's like there's no dramatic thrust to it,
you know what I mean.

Speaker 4 (29:37):
It's like this, but there's comedy.

Speaker 22 (29:39):
Yeah, yeah, there's definitely some unintended a comedy, that's for sure.

Speaker 4 (29:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (29:44):
You're pretty sure that you'd never do it again, No chance,
I didn't think.

Speaker 4 (29:47):
So if we have.

Speaker 22 (29:49):
To do it again, unfortunately we won't. I don't know
how we were doing it any differently. I mean, I
think we did it the best way we could.

Speaker 6 (29:54):
So how what recommendations would you give someone else trying this?
What can they do to make it easier?

Speaker 22 (30:02):
I think we did it right, you know, It's just
it is what it is. And I mean, if there's
somebody nutty enough to have twenty five dogs and to
take them across country, they sort of deserve what they get.
But I think we did it as well as we
could have done it. It's nothing I would have done
differently except maybe hired people to take my place.

Speaker 2 (30:22):
Well, I'd like to go ahead and give away copies
of the book that chronicles this journey dog tripping, and
it's on Saint Martin's Press. If it's not at your bookstore,
they've either sold out or they can order it and
get it on Amazon and will link to everything over
at Animal radio dot com and your website. What are
we going to find over there.

Speaker 22 (30:39):
Well, you'll find this book. And then I've written sixteen novels,
many of which there's a series, and they the series
of the Andy Carpenter Mysteries. And he's a dog lunatic
like I am. So there's a lot of dogs and
those and so information about that, I mean, not as
much as you should because I'm not the best. I
keep pick out my website reasonably.

Speaker 4 (31:00):
Just worry.

Speaker 2 (31:01):
See, I'm just putting up my MySpace page right now.
I'm a little behind the curve. I understand that David
rosenfelt joining us. Check out the book. It looks like
a good book. As soon as Judy's done with it,
I'm picking it up. I got to get my own.
That's how you get paid. David, Thanks so much for
joining us today. The pleasure take care.

Speaker 5 (31:19):
Now. Can you imagine doing that?

Speaker 2 (31:21):
That's cool, crazy man. Oh yeah, like a.

Speaker 4 (31:24):
Huge annual event that got bigger and bigger and bigger.

Speaker 6 (31:27):
See if I would have known about it, I would
have volunteered. That would have been cool.

Speaker 5 (31:31):
Yeah you say that.

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Speaker 2 (32:51):
Hey Rosie, Hey, Hello, welcome to our madness.

Speaker 23 (32:55):
Hi.

Speaker 2 (32:57):
Where are you calling from today?

Speaker 23 (32:58):
I'm calling from Long Beach holf Oh what's going on?

Speaker 2 (33:02):
I got everybody here for you?

Speaker 18 (33:04):
Ah.

Speaker 23 (33:04):
Okay, So, about six months ago we adopted a little
kitten that showed up on our balcony and we'd already
had two dogs at the time, so the condition was
the cat had to get along with the dogs, So
we kind of conditioned her to play with the dogs
and so she now she does, you know, she she
loves them and she's always on the floor and they're
always chasing each other. Except she's nocturnal, and this playtime

(33:26):
goes from like midnight till four in the morning, and
they just the docs and chases her because she's you know,
docs in and uh and then the terrier follows. Then
she's running because she's having a great time. But they
jump on top of us when we're sleeping, boy right
off of us. Yeah, and it's just driving us crazy.
So we've tried locking her out and then she'll cry

(33:47):
at the door. We tried locking them out, they cry
at the door. We tried having them all, you know,
with the door open. So they'll play in the living
room and they want us to join in. I don't know.
So it's pretty rough.

Speaker 13 (33:58):
Oh, Rosie, I feel you're pa not currently with my
existing pet.

Speaker 3 (34:02):
I have the geriatric bunch right now, but I had
kiddies that did this. And the truth is cats.

Speaker 13 (34:08):
Are nocturnal and they're gonna tend to want to play
and do things at night, So that is an inherent
nature for them. So it's challenging with cats, but you
can modify them to become more of a day active pet.

Speaker 3 (34:22):
Now I'm assuming do you work during the day? Are
you away?

Speaker 21 (34:25):
We do?

Speaker 23 (34:26):
We're usually away, I say maybe, like maybe like twenty
percent of the time we're at home.

Speaker 13 (34:32):
But okay, that's gonna be the problem because during the
day hours when we want her to be active, you're
not there, so there's nothing for her to do but
sleep and just get all revved up and ready for
the evening hours. So the trick is that we have
to get her tired and got to get playtime in
before you go to bed. So if you can't spend
a lot of time during the day hours, once you

(34:53):
get home, we need to schedule playtime.

Speaker 3 (34:55):
And it's great that she plays with the dogs, but I.

Speaker 13 (34:57):
Would make sure you do scheduled playtime with just her,
and you may need to put the doggies away just
so she can play one on one with you. There's
some wonderful toys that you can do that are kind
of like the cat fishing pole type things, things that
she can chase. But to be involved with that because
she sounds like she loves the chase and you want
to help to instigate that, and you got to change

(35:18):
things up with cats when they're playing. You know, you
can't spend twenty minutes playing with one toy. You got
to pull out like four because they're just so like,
you know, whatever, give me the next one. So yeah,
but you really got to exhaust her before bedtime. Now,
I will tell you at nighttime. Some other strategies that
I found can help locking cats out.

Speaker 3 (35:37):
Is what I had to do with my cats.

Speaker 13 (35:39):
I had to just for my health of my marriage.
I had to shut the bedroom door and put earplugs in.
And some other techniques you can use with that are
to set up cat feeders at interesting times of the night.

Speaker 3 (35:52):
So two am, three am.

Speaker 13 (35:54):
Set up an automatic cat feeder somewhere and have that
go off with an audible tone that raws her attention
to that. That's one great way to find her something
else to do in the middle of the night, preferably
away from your bedroom.

Speaker 4 (36:08):
You you have those dogs tired out too, exactly.

Speaker 13 (36:10):
And whether or not you can keep the dogs separate
is great, But yeah, Alan, definitely, it's the same thing
with dogs, just like the kiddie.

Speaker 3 (36:17):
Just to get them exhausted.

Speaker 23 (36:19):
That's a good idea. Cool, Okay, I guess I haven't
really been exercising her, like the dogs don't walk, but
that's a good idea.

Speaker 3 (36:28):
Cats are hard to get tired.

Speaker 13 (36:29):
I had one that I used to get on a
treadmill and he would kind of walk on the treadmill
for treats and then he'd go and flap down and
then you know, that was it.

Speaker 7 (36:38):
So how long.

Speaker 23 (36:41):
Do you think she would need to get exhausted?

Speaker 6 (36:43):
A lot of time.

Speaker 3 (36:44):
There's no magical time. But she how old is.

Speaker 23 (36:48):
She's like eight months?

Speaker 13 (36:51):
You're not going to tire her out very honestly. What's
going to happen is she's going to become bored before
she gets tired.

Speaker 3 (36:58):
And that is the problem with cat dogs.

Speaker 13 (37:00):
You can kind of put them on a treadmill or
run them next year on a bike, and you know,
they're I'm sorry, they're they're sweet, but they're dumb.

Speaker 3 (37:07):
Cats are virtuo intelligent.

Speaker 7 (37:09):
You know.

Speaker 6 (37:10):
I have a cat and a dog that chase each
other around during the evening and stuff. But at night,
I create my dog so that makes it easier. So
the cat can't get to the.

Speaker 2 (37:18):
Dog at night, but the cats still bother you know, the.

Speaker 6 (37:20):
Cat still bothers me, but the dog is created so
they can't chase each other.

Speaker 23 (37:24):
We've thought about just locking them all out, like we've
tried it. You know, it's I guess the same ideas
creating that it's going to be their space at night.
So they just slip out and they just get all
sad and they scratch at the door forever. But I mean,
do you think that would stop if we gave it
more than a week or do you think it would
just continue because they're it'll stop.

Speaker 4 (37:43):
You're giving in, and every time you give in, you
teach them that it's going to work. So you have
to be diligent. You have to get ear plugs. Like
dev said, it.

Speaker 2 (37:51):
Takes a few weeks to teach those cats. I mean,
it's not something that you're going to have a bunch
of nights that is going to be real noisy. But
if you get through that period of time, I guarantee
you it'll be a lot quieter. Teach them that you're
not going to wake up at that time. Yeah, kettle,
black kettle.

Speaker 6 (38:08):
The pop black out? How many nights? How many times
a night does your can't wake you?

Speaker 2 (38:15):
Only two? But it used to be like five times.

Speaker 3 (38:17):
Oh you got down down to better than than five.

Speaker 23 (38:20):
But yeah, they're really tough. They just you know, it
wouldn't even be so bad if they just sit on
the sit on the floor. But they it's like they
like to propel off of our tests.

Speaker 10 (38:29):
They like to.

Speaker 23 (38:31):
Like, all right, it's like diving board, like we're gonna com.

Speaker 4 (38:35):
It's funny.

Speaker 2 (38:36):
The other thing you know you can do is get
a night job.

Speaker 3 (38:40):
Hell, I thought you were going to suggest.

Speaker 13 (38:42):
I was going to mention the possibility of getting another cat,
you know, if they should other we have we have.

Speaker 23 (38:48):
One other cat. And she just looks she's from her towers,
on her tower, and she just looks at all of
them and she's just she's on times when none of
them were around, you know, she's like you all are crazy.
You know, three years ago everybody was gone and I
was by myself off and mice was wonderful. She just
she just glares and all of them and just's this
little we'll set.

Speaker 22 (39:08):
Up we got going on.

Speaker 4 (39:09):
They need somebody should invent a mechanical couple of mechanical mice.
You know, they jot out from under the furniture every
twenty minutes or something real fast.

Speaker 23 (39:17):
Anyway, Thank you so much. That's great advice. So I'm
definitely going to try and work it out of her,
or decide to walk out with my dog. Maybe we'll see.

Speaker 7 (39:26):
Well.

Speaker 2 (39:26):
We wish you the best of luck with that, Rosie.
Let us know how that turns out.

Speaker 4 (39:29):
So funny when when she asked you how much do
I have to play with her each day? I was
going to say a month every weeking hour. Hey, hey,
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Speaker 2 (40:58):
I'm very excited. Actually, Coon Rip going to be on
in just a few minutes. He, of course, is the
guy the where is he from Tennessee? From Tennessee, big
old bearded guy who showers with his raccoons and videotapes
it for YouTube. He's gone viral. It's kind of interesting
the kind of stars and celebrities we have in this
day and age. They're all YouTube I'm sensation.

Speaker 4 (41:17):
Stars, and they're infinitely more interesting than Hollywood celebrities. Oh,
definitely more talented.

Speaker 2 (41:24):
Too, Stacy, you look like you're thinking about something. I'm
assuming it's I have no idea you're pondering.

Speaker 8 (41:29):
So how do you explain to your wife when all
of a sudden there's a strange bra that's laying in
your bedroom on the floor.

Speaker 4 (41:40):
How do you tell?

Speaker 7 (41:41):
You know?

Speaker 8 (41:41):
What do you say?

Speaker 4 (41:43):
I don't know where it came from?

Speaker 8 (41:45):
And she says to you, you know, I went shopping
with Mary Anne, our neighbor, and.

Speaker 2 (41:50):
That's her bra.

Speaker 8 (41:51):
Explain that to me, Well, there's a cat that seems
to be stealing the neighbor's clothes.

Speaker 4 (42:01):
Seriously, I'll tell you about it.

Speaker 2 (42:03):
Coming out reminds me of the story of well Doctor
Debbie having to remove a thong from a dog.

Speaker 13 (42:11):
Yeah, and then the owner, you know, the wife said,
you know, I don't own a thong.

Speaker 3 (42:16):
I don't wear them.

Speaker 4 (42:18):
It was just one of the famous chipping dogs.

Speaker 3 (42:21):
Could be.

Speaker 4 (42:22):
It was a story last year about a cat that
was stealing underwear from the neighborhood women's underwear and putting
them in the garage.

Speaker 3 (42:28):
It's a klepto kitty, you know.

Speaker 13 (42:29):
It's a cat maybe with a little bit of social things,
or maybe he just wants to wear clothing.

Speaker 2 (42:33):
We're happy to have Mark coon Rippy Brown on the
phone with us. Hey, Mark, how you doing?

Speaker 11 (42:37):
Hey?

Speaker 22 (42:37):
I'm good.

Speaker 2 (42:38):
Do you mind if I call you coon Rippy?

Speaker 11 (42:40):
That's what they called me around here.

Speaker 2 (42:41):
Yeah, you see, you sound like more of a coon
Rippy than a Mark to me. That's all I'm saying. Okay,
I love the videos, but I understand that one of
your raccoons has been taken away by the Tennessee Wildlife
Resources Agency. Can you tell us what's up?

Speaker 11 (42:57):
Well, the I don't know the story because the two
two wr officers said they saw CNN. The TWA spokesperson
said it was a tip from a complaint from a neighbor,
and I don't have any neighbors. And then another spokesperson
said that it was an anonymous call from a tipsterure,

(43:19):
so we don't know what the deal is.

Speaker 2 (43:21):
Well, now they just took her. What wouldn't it tip
be about? What is illegal here? Not allowed to earn
one of these? What's going on?

Speaker 18 (43:28):
Well?

Speaker 11 (43:29):
Yeah, Tennessee law says you can't take any animal out
of the wild into captivity. But I had gun show
for going on four years, and I at that time,
I was a nuisance Walleye remover, and we had captured
gun Show's mother in the attic of a house and
relocated her, not knowing that she had went down inside

(43:51):
the wall and had a baby up out of the bathtub.
And a day or two later they heard a noise
of chattering and I went in there and found this
probably two and a half three week old baby in there,
and I called to t w A to come and
get it. And I made three different phone calls over
the course of three days, and then they were dispatched
to anybody to come get it. So a day turned

(44:13):
into week, and the week turned a year, and a
year turned you know, So I just wind up raising it.

Speaker 2 (44:18):
Yeah, And now so you have experience doing this. You
were licensed in you're not anymore.

Speaker 11 (44:23):
I was lifn by the TWI has loosen animal removal,
but I just quit doing it now.

Speaker 6 (44:29):
Your latest raccoon, Rebecca, It's not like you went out
in the wild and just captured her took her away.
How did you get her? Uh?

Speaker 11 (44:36):
There was an agricultural teacher here in the county that
my understanding, had a chicken coop project somewhere, and there
was a raccoon in there. Killing chickens. So he had
ordered a couple of students to go in there and
kill this mother, not knowing there were two babies in there,
and one happened to the other baby. I'm not sure,

(44:56):
but one high school student contacted me because I had
a history of knowing how to raise these orphaned animals.

Speaker 6 (45:04):
So did you know it was illegal to keep her
at that time?

Speaker 11 (45:07):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (45:08):
My question is this though, if you call the state
and they don't come get the animal, what are you
supposed to do? Just let it die?

Speaker 11 (45:14):
So you know that's my question, well exactly, and that
was my complaint. It was pointless to call because I
had called once before three times. And my mentality is
if I call you three different times and you respond
to I just assume you don't want to talk to me.

Speaker 2 (45:31):
So they've taken Rebecca away, and but you're trying to
get Rebecca back. There's a petition going on. What all's
happening now? What's the status right now?

Speaker 11 (45:39):
That petition got started out in California. If we uploaded
that video and it just went crazy, I'm just sitting
along for the ride now, watching to see what happens.
But I did get a telephone call from the governor's
office last week. They said that Rebecca as the named ambassador,
which will be used for education. Well playing tarror was,

(46:01):
she'll spend the rest of her life in captivity. And
of course, you know you got two different sides of
the defense here. If she is released back into the
wild where she's already imprinted, I'm sure she can go
out and gather her own food. She could be taught back,
but she's still imprinted, and there'll always be the chance
of her wandering up on someone's porch looking for a

(46:22):
friend and be shot. And a twenty eight dollars hunting
license will allow you to legally go and shoot her
out on top of the tree this winter. And so
it's sixty one a half dozen another. Either she's hunted
and killed or she spends out the rest of her
life in captivity.

Speaker 3 (46:38):
Who wouldn't she be with you home?

Speaker 6 (46:40):
If she was with you, wouldn't she be quote in captivity?

Speaker 11 (46:43):
She had free range. I did to keep her in
a pretty good sized cage. I head inside the house,
which was no different than you do your house pet.
You put your dog in a carrier when you leave
the house because you don't want to chewing up the furniture. Well,
raccoons like a house doll on steroids would have folded up,

(47:04):
ride running gear under and it will rehabit. But while
we were there, she'd go outside, go out on the force,
follow you through the yard, jump up on your back
while you're trying to mow grass, ride the moor with you,
just whatever. And if she lost sight of me and
I went in the house, well she'd run up on
the forest and start scratching on the door, go to check.

Speaker 2 (47:26):
You know, you know, we don't all agree here at
Animal Radio all the time. I'd suld like to see
you get this key, get Rebecca back, but I see
doctor Debbie here. What's up girlfriend?

Speaker 3 (47:37):
Well, you know what I sympathize with the situation, because
this is the problem when people.

Speaker 13 (47:42):
Start raising wildlife is because they do become in a
position where to release them back to the wild is
you know, not.

Speaker 3 (47:48):
In the best interest.

Speaker 13 (47:49):
But raccoons, and the thing I want listeners to get
is that we don't advocate wildlife as pats for a
lot of reasons, because you can tame a raccoon, but
they never become domesticated. They're never going to be like
a dog or a cat, and in fact, some can
get quite aggressive once they reach sexual maturity.

Speaker 11 (48:04):
So I never had any issues with gun Show because
he was imprinted. Now I didn't take him, you know,
his eyes was already open and he was out following
mama around.

Speaker 3 (48:15):
Okay, wait a minute, I got other I got other
arsenal here.

Speaker 13 (48:19):
So as a veterinarian and someone who's involved in human
and animal health, the bigger thing that we need to
be aware of is that the reason that it is
illegal to keep raccoons as pets is they are the
number one carrier of rabies in the United States, thirty
six percent of the wildlife cases.

Speaker 11 (48:36):
Should know that there's only been one case of raccoon
to human ray bas ever recorded in the United States,
and that was back in two thousand and three. Well,
let's don't even just talk about animals.

Speaker 13 (48:49):
There's raccoons, she's human, and then there's raccoon to other animals.
So we don't want to encourage people to bring the
main vector of rabies into their household for both human
and animal health.

Speaker 11 (49:00):
Let's get all, there's.

Speaker 13 (49:03):
No vaccine that is valid for a raccoon in the
United States. It is not recognized so there's nothing that's
going to protect and keep that raccoon from being euthanized.
And I can tell you I work with raccoon rehabilitators
in my state, and they are terrified that their raccoon
bites or scratches someone because they know that they have
to be destroyed if something like that happens, because there

(49:24):
is no approved vaccine for them.

Speaker 3 (49:27):
But yet, there's another topic that I got to get
out there.

Speaker 13 (49:29):
Raccoons also carry a type of round room called bayless ascarisk,
which has the unpleasant side effect of migrating in other
animals and people and causing neurologic problems and death. So
acting well, the interesting thing is raccoons don't show any
symptoms of this. So if people and I don't want
to encourage people from hearing you sounds like you got

(49:52):
your stuff together, But I do not want other people saying, oh,
it sounds like it's a great idea to have a
raccoon as a pet. Let me take this little kit
in and we're going.

Speaker 3 (49:59):
To raise it.

Speaker 11 (50:00):
Yeah, you know, there's always copycats and followers. You know,
you've got women out there that want to look like
Britney Spears. But you don't recommend anybody going out and
get a raccoon if they don't know what they're doing.
You know, well it's legal, wrong time. It can't fool
your face off.

Speaker 15 (50:17):
You know.

Speaker 4 (50:17):
The thing is, though, there's got to be common sense.
I mean, there was a story, I think it was
last month. An eagle broke his wing, and so this
gentleman did what you did, called the state. Nobody came out.
He nurses this eagle back to health, and now he's
on TV and the state comes in and arrests him
for having a you know, an endangered or a protected
animal in his in his uh in his possession. And

(50:40):
all he was doing was saving this thing's life and
fully intended to let it go. You know, he just
wanted the wing to heal, and he's gonna let it go,
and in comes to the nut jobs from the state
and now now we're going to arrest you because you're
on the news. I mean, you know, there's got to
be some common sense here. I mean, where you know,
I understand.

Speaker 11 (50:57):
This is a land free, they let us be free.
But what I've done shouldn't be condemned. What I've done
should be commended. I mean, I didn't. You know, most
HAG teachers, at least when I went to school, they
teach capture, relocate, and release, not murder exactly.

Speaker 9 (51:12):
You know.

Speaker 11 (51:12):
And of course you know the newspapers they've gotten the
story wrong. They said Rebecca was killing the chickens. Rebecca
couldn't even roll an egg over.

Speaker 4 (51:19):
Yeah, you can't believe what you what you see in
the paper, that's for sure. They don't get any of
it all up.

Speaker 11 (51:24):
You know, that's just the way it goes.

Speaker 2 (51:25):
Well, I you know, Debbie, I I hear what you're
you're a Debbie downer sometimes, but you laid out like
a great points. You did make some great points there.
But for you, Coon Rippy, I really sort of hope
that you get Rebecca back there.

Speaker 22 (51:38):
And I know I don't want to.

Speaker 11 (51:39):
I don't want to be used as an education.

Speaker 25 (51:41):
Two.

Speaker 2 (51:41):
I'll tell you what we're gonna do. We're gonna put
this petition address over at the website at animal radio
dot com. If you want to get behind count.

Speaker 11 (51:48):
Yeah, I tell you, well why he had you ain't
gonna do. Go look at the latest video with just stuff.

Speaker 2 (51:52):
Well, oh you got a new one.

Speaker 11 (51:53):
Yeah, I just kidnapped the baby baarcut by a great
smoking Mountain National Park.

Speaker 20 (52:00):
You got a sense of humly one.

Speaker 2 (52:02):
We're gonna check in with you and see how this
progresses as it goes on, Coon Rippy, Mark Brown, thank
you so much for joining us today.

Speaker 11 (52:08):
All right, sure, take care of me particular.

Speaker 2 (52:11):
Okay, what was that last word? What did he say?

Speaker 3 (52:14):
I don't don't be particular.

Speaker 2 (52:16):
I think you said, Tickler, come here.

Speaker 4 (52:18):
Isn't that something?

Speaker 3 (52:20):
I'm not in a bad mood.

Speaker 13 (52:21):
Okay, I'm just very I'm very passionate about this.

Speaker 4 (52:25):
You know, we just hit in your area, and isn't
it something death that you know? You call the state,
you do the right thing, and they're like, yeah, we don't,
we don't care. And then, you know, instead of letting
the thing die, you know, you nurse it back to
health and they see it on the news. Now we're interested.
Now we're gonna come down and bust you.

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Portions of today's show are a repeat from an earlier broadcast.

Speaker 15 (53:51):
Say he said with all across the usay the most
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Animal radio, Animal Radio.

Speaker 2 (54:14):
This story comes out of Windsor, Vermont, where a pile
of goat manure spontaneously caught fire. Imagine that, well, a worker.

Speaker 4 (54:22):
It's a miracle, It's a Christmas miracle.

Speaker 2 (54:24):
I knew this could happen.

Speaker 6 (54:25):
That's why you need to flush immediately.

Speaker 2 (54:26):
Yeah, well this is goat goat. Okay, it had accumulated
for a while. A worker on her way to the
milk cooats discovered the fire in a one and twenty
cubic yard manure pile. That's that's a lot of manure.

Speaker 4 (54:38):
That's big. That's that's a lot of that.

Speaker 2 (54:40):
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Speaker 6 (54:42):
I bet it smelled good around there.

Speaker 2 (54:44):
They say it smelled like burning leaves.

Speaker 4 (54:46):
Really yeah, wow, that's eaten grass and stuff. That's all well, of.

Speaker 2 (54:51):
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all great.

Speaker 9 (54:54):
Yeah, Well, don't smell like burnie leaves when it's fresh
out the can.

Speaker 2 (54:57):
Now, sure doesn't, does it.

Speaker 4 (54:58):
That would have happened like an in the old timey days,
like a couple hundred years ago. Maybe people would have
thought you were a witch.

Speaker 2 (55:04):
Make that poop catch on fire. Let's see which one
are you going to?

Speaker 6 (55:08):
Bottling?

Speaker 18 (55:08):
Teen?

Speaker 2 (55:09):
Hey Bob, how are you.

Speaker 14 (55:09):
Doing pretty good?

Speaker 2 (55:10):
How are you doing doing? Okay? What's up in your world?

Speaker 11 (55:13):
You got a six year old pure bread Golden Retriever
and I've been associating ever since he was a fuck
with other dogs for what have you, and he does
real good.

Speaker 14 (55:22):
But every now and then, on rare occasion, he'll go
after a dog like a pet co or a four
on the street harder. Very seldom does he do it,
but he does do it on the just out of
the blue hell turn on.

Speaker 4 (55:33):
Hey, is there anything in common with the dogs he
goes after, Bob, do you notice anything in common?

Speaker 11 (55:38):
Well, there would be a big dogs.

Speaker 4 (55:39):
Yeah, they're big dogs.

Speaker 14 (55:41):
Yeah his size. I mean one was a lab one time.
One one was like a shepherd mix. I mean, it's
just it doesn't happen that much, but it does happen
every now and then.

Speaker 4 (55:52):
Well, you know, it's interesting. Matter of fact, I think
I was talking to Judy about this too. I mean,
it's just a dog on dog aggression. It's a huge problem.
And a lot of times, you know, because your dog
is mellow around most dogs, which is really good, A
lot of times it's just because he's afraid and you
probably tense up really bad when it happens. You probably
get tense and you're probably a yell at him and

(56:13):
get all tense and all freaked out yourself.

Speaker 14 (56:15):
No, no, no, I've I had a German shepherd. It
was aggressive but you know, I've had dogs all my life.
I just teld him leave it, and uh, most time
he will. I don't even you know, he doesn't out
of booze before he does.

Speaker 4 (56:27):
It may look like he's doing it out of the blue,
but in reality he isn't you know. There. It happens
real quick, I'll give you that. But there are morning
signs and signals you'll be able to tell. He gets
all perched, he gets all tense, his ears go up,
you know, just rightly, yes, yes, yes, And that's what
you got to look for for dogs and folks that

(56:47):
have dogs that are aggressive towards other dogs. You want
to set your dog up for success. And the best
thing to do before you do these exercises that I'm
gonna give you real quick is to exhaust him. You
got to exhaust them. The more tired he is, the
more exhausted he is, the better the success you're gonna have.
So play with him like a half hour fetching or
whatever is he likes to do. Get the energy out,

(57:08):
get them all, get him tired, get him real tired.
The second thing is check yourself before you wreck yourself.
Always reassess your attitude in your mood, take deep breaths
and relax yourself, be calm. I give an example. I
was in the park the other day and it's a
very thin trail and we were running, me and my dog,
and I see this dog around the bend and the
woman's got him on this leash and she's holding him.

(57:28):
She's all stressed out, and she's like Barney, Barney, Barney,
and you can just tell the dog as she's yelling
and getting tense herself. The dog is getting more tense
and he just wants to go after my dog even
more because she's reinforcing yes, there is a thread. There
is a thread here, Barney. We have to protect me.
And so we go by, and of course this dog
just attacks. You know, it happens in a flash, but

(57:51):
I knew it was gonna happen. So the second thing
is you got to check yourself before you wreck yourself.
Take deep breaths, relax your body. The third thing is
you want to get your dog up for success and
teach them that other dogs are a good thing. So
a really good exercise, if you have the time, and
you have the you have somebody who can help you,
is to sort of stand there on the street and
you're on a cell phone with your buddy, and your

(58:12):
buddy's gonna appear out of nowhere with a dog, and
he's gonna disappear just as fast. But the key is
when your buddy comes around the corner with the dog
and your dog sees him, you're immediately gonna say, good boy,
give him a treat, and your buddy's gonna disappear. And
so over time, you're gonna be patient and do this
to where the dog is exposed to the other dog
for a longer and longer period of time, so that

(58:34):
your dog starts to associate other dogs with, hey, I'm
gonna get a treat when there's another dog around. And
see little tricks like this, little games like this that
teach your dog other dogs are a good thing. Is
how you get dogs to get used to each other
and acclimate. And one more thing, this is why it's
so important people not to take puppies away from their
parents and their and their little litters too young, because

(58:57):
this is where dogs learn how to read communication of
other dogs and they learn how to socialize with other dogs.
And a lot of dogs you'll see him at the
dog park. They don't understand what other dogs are saying.
They don't know how to read other dogs themselves. It's
it's pretty interesting. So just remember positive reinforcement. And remember
also when you correct a dog, you're not punishing him.
You're just trying to redirect his attention really quickly. So

(59:19):
you don't want to grab that leash and yank it
like like as hard as you can. You just want
to give it a little a little tap, a little joelt,
try to redirect his attention. And when he does redirect
his attention, that's when you give him praise. Most people
give their dogs attention at the exact wrong time. They're
always yelling at their dogs.

Speaker 14 (59:36):
Just bumping when he'll tround, looking back all nine.

Speaker 4 (59:41):
Times out of and then tell him he's a good boy.
See as soon as he does that, backs off because
you're doing the right thing. You go, good boy, good boy,
that's what you do, buddy, All right, pal, thanks for calling.

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This is an animal Radio News Update.

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I'm Stacey Cohen four in more Radio.

Speaker 7 (01:01:50):
Well.

Speaker 8 (01:01:50):
The owners of an actual cat burglar, a real one,
are trying to bring an end to their felines companion's
life of petty crime. Richard Windsor and his wife Sophie
say that their two year old Tabby Norris, has been
building quite the collection of stolen goods from their neighbors' homes.
Norris supposedly started small. He started nabbing the occasional dishcloth,
but now he's starting to steal bras, pants and T shirts. Uh, hello,

(01:02:15):
this is your bra, my neighbor. That's kind of embarrassing.
We have which one of the neighbors bras?

Speaker 1 (01:02:20):
Is it?

Speaker 8 (01:02:21):
You know? Then you go, I gotta ask everybody what
size they wear. Richard says they thought it was funny
at first, but then they realized they had to find
a way to return the goods that Norris brings home.
They started writing letters to the neighbors explaining the situation,
and Richard says all of them have been pretty good natured.
He adds that he and his wife have started ignoring
Norris when he shows off his goods in hopes that
he'll stop his thievery. A four year old boy from

(01:02:43):
California unfazed after a snail emerged from a cut in
his knee. According to ABC News, this snail of a
tail began when Paul Franklin tripped and fell during a
camping trip near the beach last month. Paul's fall left
him with what his parents believe was nothing more than
a scrape knee. However, when the wound was still swollen

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three weeks later, they started to worry a little bit.
Paul's mom Rachel, noticed what Ken Franklin calls a big
pussball on Paul's knee that had a black hue. So
they popped it, and Ken says a snail popped out.
Rachel says at first she thought it was a rock,
but on closer inspections, she noticed it was a snail shell.
The family believes that when Paul cut his leg, a

(01:03:26):
sea snail egg managed to get into the wound and uh,
they hatched a snail. They ended up naming the snail Turbo,
after the DreamWorks animated film, which is based on a
story about a snail. Snail did live for one day,
but then he died. I'm Stacy Cohen. Get more animal
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It's Animal Radio celebrating the connection with our pets. And
we have Pixel the Animal Radio Studio stunt dog in
studio today. She's usually here with us, but we have
her in here today for something very special. Now, you
got Pixel what two and a half years ago, Judy.

Speaker 6 (01:04:27):
Two and a half years ago from a rescue and
she was from a litter of well there were seven
of them, and they all looked so different.

Speaker 2 (01:04:35):
Do they tell you what breed she was?

Speaker 18 (01:04:37):
Jack Russell Chihuahua.

Speaker 6 (01:04:39):
But you know, people see her all the time and
they guess all these different breeds and it really makes
me wonder is she really or was she just kind
of thrown in the mix.

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Here's another puppy. Take it with you.

Speaker 2 (01:04:49):
Now, you've mentioned to me that you wanted to get
a DNA test done.

Speaker 18 (01:04:52):
I've been talking about it for the last couple of years.

Speaker 2 (01:04:55):
Why. I mean, you're gonna love her anyway, right, I know.

Speaker 6 (01:04:58):
But when people guess, and you know, I I'd like
to know so I can say you're right or you're wrong,
and plus I want to know.

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Okay, So we found the embark DNA test. That's embark
emba ark. And on the phone with us we have
doctor Jenna doc Wiler. She is from in Bark High Doc.
How are you doing?

Speaker 7 (01:05:14):
Hi?

Speaker 17 (01:05:14):
I'm great. How are you doing today?

Speaker 2 (01:05:16):
Very good? So, before you came on the air, Judy
was telling us when she went to go pick up Pixel,
the Animal radio studio stunt dog, that all her siblings
looked entirely different. Could they be different dads? How does
that work? Doc?

Speaker 4 (01:05:28):
Yeah?

Speaker 17 (01:05:29):
So, actually dogs can have litters with multiple fathers. It's
a phenomenon called super fee fundation.

Speaker 2 (01:05:36):
Really.

Speaker 17 (01:05:37):
Yeah. So dogs actually release their eggs over a pretty
long period of time, several days, and it does offer
the opportunity to mate with multiple males during that time.
They have a pretty long fertile period. So sometimes if
you see a litter where the puppies just look completely
different from each other, they might actually be have siblings
and not full siblings.

Speaker 2 (01:05:56):
I learned so much on this show. So in my
hot little hand, I have the dog DNA test and
we're going to actually give it a try today with
Pixel the Animal Radio Studio Stunt Dog. So I have
a lot of questions. Are you ready, I'm ready? Okay.
So I have a friend who has a dog. It's
always a friend friend, Yeah, right, And she says that

(01:06:18):
it's a lab Rhodesian ridgeback collie mix. Now I'm thinking
there's three different breeds she just listed. Wouldn't it be
just two breeds mom and dad or does that go
back lineage wise for like the grandpa and grandma.

Speaker 17 (01:06:34):
Would Yeah, so that why would it be three breeds?
So if it was two purebred parents, then we would
only have two breeds in that mix. But certainly if
we have mixing that happened further back, we can have three, four, five, six, seven,
we can end up with a lot of different breeds
and an individual mixed breed dog.

Speaker 2 (01:06:53):
And so the test is going to tell us not
only the breed, but what else.

Speaker 17 (01:06:57):
So we are also going to test for an into
the over three hundred and fifty breeds and varieties. We're
going to test for over two hundred and seventy known
genetic health conditions and over fifty five physical traits.

Speaker 6 (01:07:10):
Now on these health conditions, is this something she has
or may develop?

Speaker 17 (01:07:15):
Yeah, that's a great question. So a DNA test is
only able to tell us if we have risk for
a genetic disease.

Speaker 2 (01:07:24):
How accurate are these tests?

Speaker 17 (01:07:25):
So we are proud to say that we are over
ninety nine percent accurate. We are very proud to have
the most robust reference panel for that breed ancestry identification,
and we have a lot of different quality checks on
our health and trade markers to ensure accuracy. And really
that's very important to select a reputable DNA testing company

(01:07:47):
because animal genetic testing is actually not regulated at all,
so the company is going to have to hold itself
to a high standard. So at Embark, we are clear
certified and follow ISO's standards. So those are human laboratory
quality measures.

Speaker 6 (01:08:01):
You know, we did a DNA test on a dog
boy probably ten fifteen years ago. Have these tests come
a long way since then?

Speaker 17 (01:08:10):
They have come a very long way since then. If
you go back kind of to the beginning of K
nine genetics, we have Tasha the boxer, who was the
first dog to have her whole genome sequence. That only
happened in two thousand and five, so it's only been
twenty years since that point. So if you're talking about
DNA tests that were ten or fifteen years ago, there's

(01:08:30):
been a lot of advancements since that time.

Speaker 2 (01:08:33):
We are with doctor Jenna Dockweiler, She's from barg DNA Testing,
and we have one of these tests in here that
we're going to do in just a couple of seconds here,
Plus we're going to give one away and I'll give
you details about that in just a couple of seconds here.
So I'm going to do this one over. How much
does this cost? This test that I'm holding in my hand,
I'll hold it up to the microphone so you could
see it there.

Speaker 17 (01:08:51):
So that is one thirty nine for that full breeding
health test. So that's going to include over three hundred
and fifty breeds in varieties over two hundred health conditions
and physical traits, as well as some other fun things
like Relative Finder.

Speaker 2 (01:09:06):
Oh oh I like that.

Speaker 6 (01:09:07):
Yeah yeah, puppies in the hood that might be reduced.

Speaker 17 (01:09:11):
Yes, yeah, exactly. Anybody who's been tested on our platform
and has opted in to being findable on the relative
Finder platform. We have a we can list siblings, parents,
and you have a way to message one another on
the platform.

Speaker 2 (01:09:26):
Oh I love that.

Speaker 17 (01:09:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:09:28):
Where can we get the test?

Speaker 17 (01:09:29):
So you can order online at embarkvet dot com.

Speaker 2 (01:09:33):
And I understand if we put in animal radio the
promo code animal radio that we'll get ten bucks off
this puppy here.

Speaker 17 (01:09:39):
Huh yep, that's exactly right, animal radio all one word.

Speaker 2 (01:09:43):
Okay, so let's go ahead and do this here. Fortunately,
we have pixel right on over here. Come over here,
Pixel there. See I brush your teeth, So this should
be pretty easy.

Speaker 18 (01:09:52):
I would think excellent.

Speaker 4 (01:09:54):
I love that.

Speaker 2 (01:09:55):
In the box a it looks like a tube with
some kind of purple liquid in it and a cotton
swab at the end of that. So we need to
wait at least thirty minutes after our dog eats check.
We have done that perfect, and now we need to
swab the lower pouches.

Speaker 17 (01:10:11):
Yeah, just like right in her cheeks, kind of at
the corner of her mouth.

Speaker 18 (01:10:15):
She's so co operating, she is.

Speaker 17 (01:10:17):
What a good girl.

Speaker 2 (01:10:19):
I think she thinks I'm going to brush her teeth.
Probably so well, you with just one side or all over.

Speaker 17 (01:10:24):
You can do both sides if she'll allow you to. Really,
if that swab is glistening with saliva once you take
it out of her mouth, you're probably good to go.
And I should mention that if we ever can't read
a swab for whatever reason, we do send a replacement
free of charge.

Speaker 2 (01:10:38):
Okay, I've swabbed around, so I'm going to put it
back here, give me the tube, Judy.

Speaker 18 (01:10:42):
Okay, there it is.

Speaker 2 (01:10:43):
And I'm going to put the swab back into the
tube facing down this time, and then shake the tube.

Speaker 1 (01:10:49):
Yep.

Speaker 17 (01:10:50):
That liquid is just the DNA stabilizing fluid.

Speaker 18 (01:10:52):
That was easy.

Speaker 2 (01:10:53):
Yeah, And then I just pop it into the so
it'll go in.

Speaker 17 (01:10:57):
The little clear plastic pouch. And then there should be
a padded mailer that's pre paid for USPS that you
can pop it back into.

Speaker 2 (01:11:06):
And how long will it take for you to get
the results.

Speaker 17 (01:11:08):
It'll be about two to four weeks. After we receive
that swab at our lab.

Speaker 18 (01:11:13):
And then how do we get our results?

Speaker 17 (01:11:14):
So you'll receive an email when results are ready, and
then you'll be able to log into your account, so
the same way that you activated that swab online, it'll
be the same platform that you'll be able to see
the results.

Speaker 2 (01:11:27):
You know, we have one of these extra kits right here.
We'd like to go ahead and give one away. Remember
the Who's your Daddy contest that we did several years back.
We're going to bring it back. If you want to
find out what breed your dog is, email us at
your voice at animal radio dot com. That's your voice
at animal radio dot com and tell us why you

(01:11:48):
should get a free and bark DNA test.

Speaker 4 (01:11:53):
Alan Cable with today's amazingly sweet love story. Watch well
Owen's getting a little kiss from his dog. He's seven
years old. This is a story of how one little
boy and a dog changed each other's lives. Owen has
an illness that causes his muscles to constantly be tense,
so it's very difficult for him to move around and

(01:12:14):
do simple things. It's made him very shy and with drawn. Well,
some folks were searching for someone to adopt a dog
named Hachi. He's a big Italian shepherd that only has
three legs like train.

Speaker 8 (01:12:25):
Then to us.

Speaker 4 (01:12:27):
Owen says it was a magical meeting.

Speaker 8 (01:12:29):
First I met him pace head on my lap and
that's what happened.

Speaker 4 (01:12:34):
Owen's family says he's a different kid with Hachi. There
much more outgoing, me happy.

Speaker 14 (01:12:39):
I think changed my life.

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Speaker 1 (01:13:15):
You're listening to Animal Radio. Here's Alan Judy.

Speaker 2 (01:13:18):
Hey Elaine, how are you doing.

Speaker 25 (01:13:20):
I'm doing fine?

Speaker 14 (01:13:21):
Really like to show.

Speaker 2 (01:13:22):
Oh well, thank you very much. Where are you calling
from today?

Speaker 25 (01:13:24):
I'm in Florida today.

Speaker 2 (01:13:26):
Are you a truck driver?

Speaker 14 (01:13:27):
Yes?

Speaker 25 (01:13:27):
My husband and I run team and I raised my
dog in the truck.

Speaker 2 (01:13:31):
Well you did.

Speaker 6 (01:13:32):
What kind of don do you have?

Speaker 25 (01:13:34):
She's a poodle and when you run team, you basically
are always moving on like you know, a solo gets
to actually stop for you know, ten eleven hours.

Speaker 2 (01:13:43):
Uh huh.

Speaker 25 (01:13:43):
So we don't get to do that. But when we
do stop, I've raised her on weep heads. She still
uses them to this day. I mean, she just you
don't get the chance to stop and take the dog out.
I do use a little laser light in the truck
to make her jump up high on the bed, up
against the wall.

Speaker 20 (01:14:00):
You know.

Speaker 6 (01:14:00):
It's an exercise.

Speaker 25 (01:14:01):
Yeah, well, especially the jumping. And I know now why
they use poodles and circuits, because she can walk on
her back legs in a moving vehicle. She's standing still.
She's fabulous at it. But and then if I get
in a parking lot that's vacant at night and stuff,
I use that laser light and really just run or
tired in a matter of minutes, as opposed to actually

(01:14:22):
having to get her and walk her, you know, three miles,
because we don't get to stop that often. The only
thing the best thing about poodles is they don't shed,
and if you raise them, they don't have to be
ankle biers and whiners. I mean, she thinks she's a
big dog. And the only disadvantage is if you own
your own truck or you break down. A lot of times,

(01:14:43):
the closest facility is a hotel, and if they allow animals,
they'll charge as much as twenty five dollars a night
for that. You need to be prepared to put your
dog in a crate. So if you have rent a
car to get back and forth and they make collapsible
you know, dog carriers and stuff like that, you don't
want to do that in the moment of the anxiety

(01:15:03):
the broken truck, and if you kind of practice a
fire drill type thing. But she just she loves it
and I can't imagine doing it without her. I mean,
even in twenty below. You know, I know my dog's
getting exercise and I can do you know, I can
still do right right, And she doesn't know that she's
not you know, she only knows what I've taught her,

(01:15:24):
and as far as she's concerned, I can't be wrong.

Speaker 2 (01:15:27):
So so she's lived no other life all eleven years
along with you in the truck.

Speaker 25 (01:15:31):
Right, So she has been with us twenty four to
seven from well, I got her when she was six
weeks old at a slea market and she hasn't she
doesn't know anything else. I mean, you know, we get
motel rooms and we do have a home that we
come home to every you know, three to six weeks,
but she's never been away from us.

Speaker 6 (01:15:47):
Now I'm not a trucker, but unfortunately, well no, fortunately
my dog is with me twenty four seven. But doesn't
sometimes mommy need a break?

Speaker 25 (01:15:54):
Well, yeah, I do, just from drying.

Speaker 14 (01:15:56):
Well.

Speaker 11 (01:15:57):
Yeah, but you know, we all make choices.

Speaker 14 (01:15:59):
It's lifestyle.

Speaker 2 (01:16:01):
Are you talking about from your husband or the dog?

Speaker 25 (01:16:03):
Oh no, that's a very small space. But for sixteenth
we will have been married thirty years. Oh wow, it's
working and we've been doing this together since two thousand.
But it is about you know what you can teach
them and they give you back. And really, if you
can fool your dog into thinking, you know, you're a goddess,
what else could.

Speaker 11 (01:16:21):
You ask for?

Speaker 2 (01:16:24):
I love it. Some great advice there, Yeah, always carrying
a crate along just in case there's an emergency. Good
advice there. Hey, thanks for calling today.

Speaker 25 (01:16:31):
Oh, one other thing, reflective caller, because on the side
of your truck, you know, they to say that you
do have a pet on board in case you know
something bad happening.

Speaker 8 (01:16:40):
Oh, you mean.

Speaker 2 (01:16:41):
Like one of those signs that you've seen in the
house is that's.

Speaker 6 (01:16:44):
A fireman, you know, for the fire environment. I have
three animals inside or something, right.

Speaker 25 (01:16:48):
Because you know I and rightfully so the rescue is
going to look for humans first. But even if you
do have a dog, if it doesn't have a reflective
caller on, you know, it could be they'd never see them.
You know, a black poodle or a white poodle in
the snow. You know it doesn't hurt to have something
reflective on them.

Speaker 11 (01:17:05):
You know that you leave on.

Speaker 2 (01:17:06):
These are all great tips, great tips, And you know,
I hear people some truckers will call in and say
they won't take their dogs on the road with them
because they don't think it would be fair. But I
think in your situation where your dog has grown up
on the road, I think that your dog wouldn't be
happier anywhere else than with you and dad.

Speaker 25 (01:17:24):
Oh I don't think she could imagine that. Yeah, you know,
it might be hard to take a you know, golden
retriever all the farm and put it in the truck
and expect that to make any kind of sense. But
I think if you're committed to the lifestyle, having an
animal on the road with you, whether you're a team
or solo, definitely makes the life better, more enriching.

Speaker 11 (01:17:42):
I mean, it just is it is.

Speaker 25 (01:17:43):
You want to see people have told them so crazy
they go over He's like, you know, you've got a
little dog and just any time you make somebody smile
or do right by an animal issue.

Speaker 2 (01:17:52):
Okay, good words, Thanks for your call today.

Speaker 4 (01:17:57):
Iye a talent cable with another dog tip. Folks call
animal radio a lot with training questions. How do I
get my dog to do this and to stop doing that? Well,
we all know what a hassle housework can be. Right,
imagine if your dog did the cleaning for you. I
know what you're thinking, that's impossible, but it isn't. You're
about to meet Jesse the Jack Russell terrier. He cleans
up spills, he vacuums dusts, even shines his owner, Heather's shoes.

(01:18:21):
So how did Heather train him to do it? Well,
it's easier than you might think. Your dog might not
be able to do housework, but there's so many things
you can teach your dog just by taking advantage of
his nature. Jesse showed a knack for tricks early on.
So here's what we always talk about on the show,
and how Heather taught her dog Jesse to do housework.

Speaker 6 (01:18:38):
I guess Heather reenforcement when they're doing something that you
like as you encourage them.

Speaker 4 (01:18:42):
So when your dog is doing something you like, you
tell me he's a good dog and give him a
treat set them up for success. A lot of it
involves patients just waiting for your dog to do something,
no matter what it is that you like.

Speaker 6 (01:18:53):
Jessicoter.

Speaker 4 (01:18:54):
First, Jesse put his paws on the scooter and she
praised him gave him treats. Next, he put his paws
up and he made it oo again. She praised him
and gave him treats. Right, Heather was there every step
of the way to reward Jesse. So how do we
apply this to your dog. Let's take something really basic
like lying down on the same spot. You can guide
your dog to that spot and have your dog go down,
or you can just wait till your dog goes to

(01:19:16):
the spot and goes down either way. When your dog
goes to that spot and lies down, you give your
dog praise in a treat. Now to take it to
the next step, have somebody ring your doorbell. When it happens.
Guide your dog to that spot with your body and
have him lie down. If he looks like he's getting
geared up to bark, give him a really quick correction,
either with a poke with your fingers, a quick snap
of a leash, or a loud sound to refocus his mind.

(01:19:37):
When he does, hold up your hand like a stop sign,
and when you get him to stay, you give him
a treat. Tell him what a good dog he is.
Over time, you're gonna see your dog going to that
spot more and more often when you're around, and eventually
he'll automatically go there when the doorbell rings. He's gonna
start to associate being in that spot with praise and treats.
Get more tips at animal radio dot com.

Speaker 2 (01:19:57):
Well, that's all the time we have for you today.
Have yourself a spectacular weekend.

Speaker 3 (01:20:02):
By bye bye. This is Animal Radio Network.

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