Anti-bullying Dog Therapy - Courthouse Dogs - The Animal Radio® Show

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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, dog trainer
Alan Cable, groomer Joey Vellani, communicator Joy Turner, and here
are your hosts, Halle Brams and Judy Francis.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
Well, we have a big show for you today.

Speaker 3 (00:18):
We're gonna be talking about, well, how hopeful dogs are
because we know they're great friends for us and they're
fun playmates, but they also have helped in the courtroom.
And we'll be talking to a former prosecutor who's found
an organization to put dogs in the courtroom.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
And we'll also talk to a.

Speaker 3 (00:33):
Lady who's what is she doing? I should read this beforehand.
I should remember it.

Speaker 4 (00:37):
The bullying, oxygen deprivations, Oxygen deprivation.

Speaker 3 (00:41):
I shall be talking about bullying and how there's an
anti bullying program using dogs. That's all on the way
right here on Animal Radio, Stacy, what are you working on?

Speaker 5 (00:49):
Well, I have a great love story coming up. There
was a couple of seeing eye dogs that fell in
love and then their owners followed suit. I'll tell you
about it coming up on Animal Radio News.

Speaker 6 (01:01):
I saw that that's a great story.

Speaker 7 (01:03):
We get the call.

Speaker 3 (01:04):
Yes, ma'am, I have.

Speaker 4 (01:05):
A fancy chicken I'm treating for wheezing here at the clinic.

Speaker 7 (01:07):
Oh, you are whezing chicken.

Speaker 4 (01:10):
Yes, yes, it's it's not a barbecue chicken. It's actually
a wheezing chicken.

Speaker 6 (01:16):
A wheezing chicken.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
Please explain, you got some splaining to do.

Speaker 4 (01:20):
Well, this is actually a pet chicken lives in a
house with dogs, cats, guinea pigs and rabbits and children too,
and it's wheezing, so it's actually actually having severe breathing problems.
And chickens, just like other birds, can get viruses, bacterias, parasites,
you name it. So we're kind of treating the little
guy for a multitude of things. But he was sitting

(01:42):
in some oxygen yesterday. We were having him breathe the
oxygen just because he was so bad off.

Speaker 2 (01:48):
Little chicken.

Speaker 7 (01:51):
Yeahd me get that to stay on his.

Speaker 6 (01:52):
Head, special chicken mask.

Speaker 4 (01:54):
Well, you know, we cut to the chase. We make
it easy. We put them in a box and we
just pumped the oxygen in the box.

Speaker 7 (02:00):
Okay, that's what you need now, a little bucks.

Speaker 2 (02:04):
Let's go to Sherry.

Speaker 8 (02:04):
Hey, Sherry, Okay, how how are you today doing okay?

Speaker 2 (02:08):
What's up with you?

Speaker 9 (02:09):
Well, actually, I'm traveling today with my little Ruby.

Speaker 10 (02:12):
She's new Yorkshire Carriers.

Speaker 9 (02:13):
She's not a very good traveler.

Speaker 8 (02:15):
Oh no, My question is she's just about three years old,
and although she at times will go over to the door,
most of the time.

Speaker 9 (02:26):
She doesn't let you know she needs to go to
the bathroom. And I trained her on a potty patch,
and for a while she would go on the potty patch,
and then we start doing more outside stuff. Now she
won't have anything to do with the potty patch, and
she will actually dance around the room, looks like she
wants to play. We'll play for a little while, and
then I'll go into the kitchen. I'll come back and
she's wet on the floor right next to the potty

(02:48):
patch or wherever else she wants to go. And she
actually defecated on a couch the other day, which all
me and I don't know why it is that she.
I mean, we take her out all the time, I
walk her along, I do everything, but but there are
just times when we will leave for a couple hours and.

Speaker 11 (03:04):
Come back and she's pete on the floor.

Speaker 9 (03:05):
We actually had them buy a steam cleaner just because
of her. So I don't know if I should quarantine
her into the kitchen and just put something across the
door and put the Boddy patch in there, figure it's
the only place she could go and retrain her on it,
or are Yorkie's just that hard?

Speaker 6 (03:22):
No, you gotta first of all, share, You got to
demonstrate to your dog the proper way to go to
the restroom outside. And before I go any further. You know,
I'm kidding, right, I'm hoping, So I'm just joking. I'm
just joking. Share, Cherry, you're a good lady. Are you
a little nervous? You a little nervous around your dog?
You get a little nervous that the dog's gonna go,
and you're you're excited yourself.

Speaker 9 (03:42):
Well, yeah, when we leave, I think she knows that
that I'm trying to figure out how to get her
to go to the bathroom real quick before we go.

Speaker 2 (03:48):
Yeah, right, yeah, I do.

Speaker 6 (03:49):
All right, here's what you need, Sherry. Firstly, you need
a crate. Do you have a crate?

Speaker 9 (03:53):
Yes, she hasn't been in years. All right.

Speaker 6 (03:56):
You need a crate, a collar, a leash, some treats, time,
a lot of patience and a lot of confidence. And
what you're gonna do, Sherry. You're going to take her outside.
You're gonna stand still, you're gonna ignore her. If she
wants to play, don't don't buy into that. And you're
gonna wait about ten minutes for her to go to
the bathroom. If she does, you're gonna make a big
deal out of it, like have fireworks in your pocket.

(04:16):
Just go nuts. Okay, a good dog, give her a treat.
When you're in the house with her. You either have
to put her in the crate or you have to
attach her to your hip with the leash so that
you know when she's getting ready to do her business.
And get rid of those pads. Those pads are a
waste of time. They confuse dogs. You know, if a
dog can go to the bathroom in the house, that's
what a dog knows. She can't tell the difference between

(04:36):
the pad and your favorite rug. So you start from scratch,
and you're very calm, and you gotta go outside and
just stand there. When she goes, you bring her back in.
You reward her, You tell her what a good dog
she is. And you got to keep doing it. After
every event you take her outside. That's important too. So
after she wakes up from a nap, first thing in
the morning, before bed, when you come home, wait ten

(04:58):
to fifteen minutes, let her out. But when you're not there, Sherry,
to watch her, you have to keep her in the crate,
or you have to keep her attached to your hips
so that you can correct her immediately. When she makes
a mistake, you can go no, and then bring her outside.
And that's pretty much all there is to it. You
just got to be consistent and have a lot of patience.

Speaker 9 (05:15):
Okay, So if I'm going to be gone for a
few hours, I should just.

Speaker 4 (05:18):
Put her in the crate absolutely.

Speaker 6 (05:20):
That way, she can't make a mistake.

Speaker 9 (05:22):
Okay, all right, Well that's what I'll do.

Speaker 10 (05:25):
I've got a big one.

Speaker 9 (05:25):
I had a little one when she was a puppy,
but I've got a bigger one and'll give her a
little more room and I'll just put her in there.
And we're never really gone that long.

Speaker 12 (05:33):
It's just that she decides, well, I gotta go, I
gotta go.

Speaker 6 (05:36):
No, you're around, yeah, make it a small cry. One
other thing, Sherry, is your dog is letting you know.
You just have to watch her, watch her very closely.
You say, you said before she doesn't let me know
when she has to go out. But each dog does
it in a different way. And believe me, she's giving
you a little cue. You're just not recognizing it yet.
You'll learn to, Okay.

Speaker 9 (05:56):
Okay, because they all look like the same play thing.
She danced around and if I throw the toilet, she'll
go and get it.

Speaker 6 (06:02):
Well. See, that's the thing. When you take her outside,
she has to know it's time to go out, to
go to the bathroom, not playtime. So playing with a
dog is going to make her prolong the event because
she's going to realize that as soon as she goes
you bring her in. So she's going to stick stay
outside and play with you and not go. So you
have to let her know, Hey, it's time to go
to the bathroom now, no joking around.

Speaker 9 (06:20):
Okay, Well, I'm going to give it a shot because
it's kind of.

Speaker 6 (06:25):
Give it a shot. Girlfriend.

Speaker 3 (06:28):
Thank you, Thanks, We appreciate your call. Sherry.

Speaker 2 (06:32):
Let's go to a net Hi in net how are
you o?

Speaker 3 (06:35):
You splendid? What's going on in your world?

Speaker 13 (06:38):
Someone stole a dog?

Speaker 2 (06:40):
Someone stole your dog? Yes, how do you know what
was stolen?

Speaker 13 (06:45):
Well, because we had some people that was working and
when he left, we thought that she was in the
yard because she can't get out the yard, and I
was looking for her because she usually she's running around inside.
We couldn't find her and she can't get out the gate.

Speaker 3 (07:03):
Okay, so you're assuming, you're assuming right now that she's
been stolen. Is that correct?

Speaker 13 (07:08):
Well, we can't find and it's been at least a
couple of weeks.

Speaker 4 (07:11):
It's certainly possible someone could have snatched her doggie, especially
you know, with all we're kind of hearing in the
media lately about kind of the pet flipping situation. But
you know, a your key is a little dog, and
it doesn't take a lot to have someone accidentally open
a back door gate or for a little guy, you know,
to get out of the yard. So for me, I
always would recommend contacting every shelter in the immediate area

(07:36):
and to really keep up with that because I find
a lot of times, even some good hearted people who
find dogs don't report the pets to the shelters and
they try to adopt it out or they try to
find the owners themselves, and then maybe after a couple
of weeks, they say, you know what, we can't find
an owner. You know, I can't keep this dog now.
I'm going to turn into the shelter. And it can
be weeks or even months later. So I would not
lose hope for you know, finding your baby. But there

(07:59):
are some other avenues I make sure you do. Is
your pet microchip? No she's not, Oh darn, because because
that would be one thing is to contact the microchip
companies as well, and to report her missing or stolen.
I would really keep up the efforts and really blanket
the veterinary offices, the shelters, and keep up the looking.
You can't stop. That's the biggest message I have to

(08:22):
give you.

Speaker 14 (08:23):
And my name is Joy. I'm the animal communicator. Can
you tell me the name of your girl?

Speaker 13 (08:28):
Her name is Duchess.

Speaker 14 (08:29):
Okay Duchess. When I connected with her to see what
she could tell me, she is actually with someone, so
somebody does have her. They are taking care of her.
And it does not feel from what she the feeling
she's sending me, it doesn't feel like it's the same

(08:50):
person that was in your yard. What she was showing
me is that she ran out when they were whatever
they were taken out of the yard and somebody else founder.
So I'm assuming you've already done things. I put up
posters and that sort of thing.

Speaker 13 (09:03):
Put a post is one today animal shields.

Speaker 14 (09:06):
Okay, well, right now she can't tell me, you know,
because they don't know addresses or things like that. She
can't tell me where she is. It's I just know
that she's comfortable, she's warm, she's being taken care of.
From everything she shows me, she's being treated well. So
all of that at least is good. And I was
trying to get to see if she could show me

(09:29):
anything else. She might be in something that feels like
a townhouse instead of a home. So if you have
anything that looks like townhouses around your place, you might
want to knock on some doors or put posters up
around that particular facility and pay attention to where she is.
She doesn't show me being outside on the grass very much.
She's in most of the time. Well, yeah, so she's

(09:51):
in most of the time, so it's going to be
harder to find her. She does feel like she goes
up steps when she comes from outside to go inside,
so that might be another thing that you could look
for is something that feels like a town home with
steps that lead up to it. Those might be some
way she could look for her too.

Speaker 3 (10:10):
A net.

Speaker 13 (10:10):
Where are you located in Los Angeles?

Speaker 3 (10:13):
Okay? About where do you think the dog was lost?

Speaker 13 (10:15):
South centrally between Alfarodio Own and not far from Crunchhaw.

Speaker 3 (10:21):
Okay? Were there any marks on this dog that people
could recognize if they're listening now?

Speaker 13 (10:25):
Yes, up under her left leg there's a scar where
she had a rash and a lefto dark mark she
had on a collar. But you know they can easily
take it off and throw it away.

Speaker 2 (10:38):
Sure, fairly average looking Yorky?

Speaker 3 (10:41):
Is that correct?

Speaker 13 (10:41):
She's the teacup one, the smallest.

Speaker 3 (10:44):
The small ones. Okay, if you're listening, you happen to
have found this dog. What's the dog's name? What's her name?

Speaker 13 (10:50):
Duchess?

Speaker 3 (10:50):
Duchess, give us a call at one eight sixty six
four o five eight four oh five and we'll look
you up with a net and hopefully get a reunion there.
We wish you the best of luck with that. I
know it's a tough time, but look it, keep looking,
just keep looking, don't give up?

Speaker 13 (11:05):
Okay, Okay, well, thanks.

Speaker 3 (11:09):
Always kind of a tough situation, but that's an example
for those listening. GPS, microchip, just a regular tag. All
of these work.

Speaker 15 (11:18):
And if you have workers come to your house, put
your dog away, put them in a different room or
something that's not going to be affected because I the workers.
You know, I'm not saying they can take them, but
sometimes they do leave doors and gates open.

Speaker 14 (11:28):
I actually had a phone company worker leave a door
open into my birdroom when I lived with canaries, and
one of them got out and my cat got it.

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Speaker 3 (13:09):
How about we talked to Josh. I want to talk
to Josh. Hey, Josh, how do you do? Good to
New did Where are you calling from today?

Speaker 19 (13:17):
Massachusetts?

Speaker 2 (13:18):
Matth till Setts?

Speaker 3 (13:20):
Is that home? Okay?

Speaker 8 (13:21):
With that?

Speaker 2 (13:22):
I just asked if that was home.

Speaker 3 (13:23):
I'm being nosy.

Speaker 4 (13:26):
Asking for whead for lunch too. Yeah, Well, what's going on?

Speaker 6 (13:30):
Josh?

Speaker 4 (13:30):
This is doctor deVie here.

Speaker 12 (13:32):
I have a she's about six months shitu that we've gotten.
We've got in the family for six months ago, and
she has a constant battle of fleas. We have tried
everything from callers to dips, to drop the shampoos to
bombing the house out with you know, they get rid
of all the insects and stuff, and we cannot get

(13:53):
rid of them, and we can feel so bad for her.
I mean, you get to the point where they end
up on my daughter a lot of times, well my
wife even.

Speaker 4 (14:00):
Oh yeah, ikey, I know fleas. Fleas are nasty things,
and I'd have to tell you this this among many
years we've had some really bad flea seasons across the country.
So the thing you have to realize is fleas exist outdoors.
You are not going to kill all the fleas in
the world. The goal and the challenge that you have
is to try to control them on your dog and

(14:20):
and your home. So as long as your Dougie is
going outside, we have the risk of being reinfested with fleas.
So you've got to recognize that because a lot of
people get very frustrated with flea control, and obviously we
want them out of our house and off of the
pets and ourselves. But this is a cycle that is
always going to be at risk if you're in a
heavy flea area. So for me, that's the first thing,

(14:44):
and the next steps that we really have to look
at is that flea control isn't a one time thing.
It can take repeated treatment for the flea life cycle
to really be extinguished. So just keep in mind when
we talk about fleas on their life cycle, five percent
of the whole flea life cycle it accounts for the

(15:04):
adults that are actually on the pat So there's ninety
five percent of fleas that are in the eggs, the
pupa and the larva stages elsewhere in your home that
have not hatched. So you may be treating your pet,
but in order to kill off those immature stages, it's
going to take more work. And that's the biggest thing
is to really stay faithful. So I always say we
got to go for at least three months continuously before

(15:26):
we can expect those all those different generations of the
flea life cycle to be squashed. And if your pet
is going back outside, we're getting reinfested, so you're getting
new generations. They're going to be coming on new adults
that are going to be popping onto the pet. So
you know, there's a lot of question about that, and
I'll tell you what I recommend is really using different

(15:47):
products that hit different cycles of the flea life cycle.
So if you're just using a flea collar, you know,
most of those really aren't very effective in treating a
pet globally for this flea problem. So I like the
combination of an oral product and kind of like a
spot on product. And what many of the oral products
do is they're quick kills. So they those you generally

(16:10):
give once a month. Sometimes we'll do them more frequently,
even as often as a couple times a week daily,
and really bad cases, those what you'll need to see
your veterinarian for. But those kill off the adults very effectively,
and many of them shortly after the pill, those suckers
will be hopping off. So I always kind of recommend
to do this and keep your pets outside and keep

(16:30):
those fleas from hopping back on. But that is definitely
a good way is to start with the orals to
kill off the adults, and then we follow up with
a product that has something that's going to affect the
different generations of the fleas. So with those, you know,
just throwing out some different names out there. For instance,
Frontline is their basic product. Frontline plus has a component

(16:53):
that treats those immature forms. So you want to kind
of work with your veterinary and you make sure you're
getting the right stuff and we're using a frequently enough.
There is some also talk out there that there could
be resistance that fleas are developing to a lot of
our common past control products or flea control products, and
there's some debate on that. But some different strategies we

(17:13):
find is that if we use different products and we
kind of switch it up at different times of the season,
you know, kind of helps to not stick with one
product and hopefully those fleas don't get resistant to our
efforts with those those medications. So so I don't have
a single product that I would really tell you, but
you know, some of the different oral ones cap Stars
one and then you know Advantage or Advantage two is

(17:38):
another that has an insect growth regulator that gets kind
of more generations of fleas. So that is kind of
the scoop And I would have to tell you if
she's ten you said ten months old, five months old,
six months old, so she's just a baby. So she's
you know, she's just developing those whole generations of eggs
going to larva, going to the puba, and then going

(17:58):
to the adults. So you're going to have to keep
battling this. Now, do you have cats other pets in
the home.

Speaker 12 (18:02):
I have one cat.

Speaker 11 (18:04):
She's ten years old.

Speaker 4 (18:05):
She stays in the house, okay, so and then we
also have to make sure we are treating her for
fleas at the same time.

Speaker 20 (18:11):
You do.

Speaker 12 (18:12):
It's a battle of trying to get her and trying
to clean her up.

Speaker 4 (18:15):
Put Yeah, and you know that's where you know, baths
and dips, you know, you can do that, but in
a lot of cases, you know, I'm a fan of
some of the spot on products that have a sustain
effect that lasts for about a month. You may find
less scratches of giving your cat or giving that than
given your cat a bath. But always with kiddies, and

(18:35):
I like to just kind of get that out there
for listeners. Cats are very sensitive to a lot of
the dog flea control products, so you don't want to
mix and match. You always want to use the full
amount of the product on your pet, whether it's a
dog or cat, don't split. It was just to try
to save money between your pets and to make sure
you're battling it on a regular basis. So if you

(18:56):
haven't talked to your vet, I would pick up that
phone call and see if you need to get one
of the ore flea medications to help facilitate your your
battle with the flea.

Speaker 19 (19:04):
Okay, I appreciate it very much.

Speaker 3 (19:06):
Thanks for your call, Josh, thank you appreciate it. You
know what, we were battling the fleas, and we used
the spot ons and we actually changed from one spot
on to another and suddenly it started to work. I
guess they got some kind of resistance. But the comforts,
which is the pill that you were talking about earlier.
I don't know if by name a great pill that
we've used in our cat is rid him of any fleas.

(19:27):
And he had of course, he had the what do
they call that malarry.

Speaker 4 (19:30):
It was just covered a miliary dermatitis. So yeah, flea
allergy dermatitis, and it's definitely helpful for those guys.

Speaker 7 (19:37):
It worked, Wonders, it was miracle.

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This is an Animal Radio News update.

Speaker 5 (20:35):
I'm Stacey cohen Ford Animal Radio. Well, there's a pair
of seeing eye dogs and they're getting credit for leading
their owners to love. According to NBC's Today Show, Claire
Johnson and Mark Gaffey first met at a course for
their guide dogs, Rod and Venice. They met last year
in Shrewsbury, England. Apparently, though the guide dogs were inseparable,
and the dogs seem to be falling in love. They're

(20:57):
visually impaired. Owners soon followed suit just months after Claire
and Mark began their own romantic relationship. They're now planning
to get married, and during the ceremony, the couple plan
to honor their dogs for helping them find love with
a wedding cake decorated with bones and paw prints.

Speaker 6 (21:13):
Cute.

Speaker 5 (21:14):
Gaffey says, Rod and Venice are central to the whole
thing because the dogs brought them together. Well, do you
ever yawn and then somebody next to you yawn's? Contagious
yawns may not be unique just to humans. They did
a Japanese study and it was published in the journal Plouse,
and it shows that dogs tend to yawn after a
person yawns. Researchers also found that dogs are more likely

(21:37):
to yawn after a human if that person is their owner.
The study author, Teresa Romero, says that the research shows
contagious yawning in dogs is emotionally connected in a way
that's similar to humans. While they weren't able to determine
the exact reason that dogs mimic yawns, they were able
to rule out that it was a type of distress
response to seeing a strained human face. While the dogs

(22:00):
repeatedly followed their owners and yawning, fourteen dogs did not
yawn at all.

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It made me want to yawn.

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The owners of Auburn's Flying Pig Barbecue are hoping for
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wooden pig disappeared sometime last week, and George Miller, who
owns the restaurant, says the pig was made for him
by a relative, and they're asking for whoever pig napped

(22:30):
him to bring him home. No questions asked. You know what,
I had a cow once. I may have told you
this a life sized cow. It wasn't a real cow,
but it was a you know, one of those fake ones.
And I had it in my front yard and it
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You're listening to animal radio. Here's Alan Judy.

Speaker 3 (23:44):
The hair of a cat rant it out a British
murderer suspect. Fingerprints are not the only thing that killers
can leave behind. Now add cat hair to that list.

Speaker 7 (23:55):
Well, how you'd never get away with anything what you're
covered with.

Speaker 3 (23:58):
K I make sure there's a certain amount of cat
hair in my food. I do to restaurants.

Speaker 23 (24:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (24:05):
British University said Wednesday that it's DNA database of British
felines helped convict a man of manslaughter.

Speaker 11 (24:12):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (24:12):
Yeah, and they I guess.

Speaker 3 (24:14):
Investigators identified cat hair discovered around the dismembered torso of
the uh the gentleman that was a victim, and they
matched the hair to the cat belonging to a man's friend,
David Hilder, who was convicted.

Speaker 7 (24:27):
That's amazing.

Speaker 3 (24:29):
And you know what, cats are not only helping out
in court now with their cat hair, but dogs are
helping out in the courtroom. And this came across my
desk this morning. This comes out of Dickinson County, Tennessee.
A new program is allowing dogs inside courtrooms.

Speaker 7 (24:44):
Awesome.

Speaker 3 (24:44):
This is great because I've always thought that's the courtroom's
kind of a tense place to be.

Speaker 15 (24:49):
Extremely I've worked for judges and it's not a fun
place to be. It's very tense.

Speaker 3 (24:53):
So the Courthouse Dogs Foundation, founded by Ellen O'Neil Stevens,
has thirty nine dogs in the program in the courthouse
in Tennessee. I believe we have her on the phone.
She's traveling across the country. Hi Ellen, how are you doing?

Speaker 10 (25:07):
Oh, good afternoon. I'm just going to be fine, thank you.

Speaker 3 (25:09):
Where are you right now?

Speaker 10 (25:10):
Right now, we're between Aveleune, Texas and Dallas, Texas and
a little town pulled off to the side of the
road in Linger, Texas.

Speaker 3 (25:19):
Wow, okay, are you on your way? Is this work related?
You're vacationing? What's going on?

Speaker 23 (25:23):
It's a little bit of both.

Speaker 10 (25:24):
We just finished attending the Crimes Against Children's conference in Dallas,
Texas pot House and spreading a word about the use
of courthouse dogs assisting in the investigation and prosecution of crime.

Speaker 2 (25:36):
Now you're a former prosecutor, right.

Speaker 10 (25:39):
That's correct. I was a prosecutor for twenty six years
in Seattle, Washington.

Speaker 3 (25:43):
What made you decide to add dogs to the mix.

Speaker 10 (25:46):
Well, during the two decades that I worked there, I
saw a great deal of pain and suffering experienced by
many people, finally victims and witnesses of crime. Many of
people are affected by the stress of the investigation and
prosecution of crimes. And so one day my son, who

(26:11):
has cerebral palsy, came home with this gobulous service dog
that we got for him from Keen ninety tenons for Independence.
And there was one day a week when his dog, Jeter,
couldn't be with him, and I was working in juvenile
work coort at the time, and I thought, well, you know,
maybe Sean's dog, Jeters, could help these kids in their recovery,

(26:33):
and I brought him to drug court. It was a
little unusual to have a dog there, but he was
a huge success. And then word got out about this
and I had prosecutors from my office saying, well, do
you think Jeter could help these twin girls that have
been sexually assaulted by their father? And I said I
think so, and Jeter did. He went into the courtroom

(26:56):
with them in two thousand and four and help them.
They were only seven years old, were with them when
they testified against the father who was just a few
feet away from them, and it made a huge difference.

Speaker 3 (27:10):
Is this Are they being used only with situations with
children or are they being used all around? Because I
know if I was I was on the stand, I
certainly would want a dog next to me. And I'm
just a child in my head, really is all I am.

Speaker 10 (27:27):
So it is our philosophy that the dogs should be
available to anyone affected by stress during the course you know,
criminal justice proceedings. But they also helped defendants in veterans court,
mental health court, duy court, and we were very excited

(27:47):
to help probation officers in York County, Pennsylvania, have a
dog begin assisting veterans in their veterans court there. Many
of these men and women suffer from traumatic stress syndrome,
and having a dog there helps them through that process
makes a huge difference to them as well.

Speaker 15 (28:09):
Have you ever run up up against any opposition, any
judges refusing to allow dogs in their courtroom, or any
other attorneys opposing it.

Speaker 10 (28:17):
Well, yes, The primary objection is from defense attorneys, who
if the dog is assisting in the courtroom, they raise
the objection saying, well, look, I'm judge. Everybody likes dogs,
especially dogs that are, you know, very appealing like these
dogs are. And if you are associated with the state's
witness in the witness box while he or she is

(28:40):
testifying in court, the jury is going to like the
state's witness more than my clients. And that's judicial to
my client. But what most defense attorneys don't realize and judges,
and that's why we try to educate them about this,
is that these dogs are so well trained they can

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lie perfectly still for an hour or two and are
often completely hidden in the witness box, and they're able
to provide that support with really not being any distractions whatsoever.

Speaker 3 (29:16):
All very interesting. Where can we learn more? There's a website, yes.

Speaker 10 (29:19):
Www dot courthousedogs dot org. And we're also getting our
first international conference about courthouse dogs in Seattle in November,
and information about that conference is on our website. We
have people from Chile that will be participating, a judge
and an assistance dog trainer, and law enforcement from Canada

(29:41):
who will also be participating in our organization. So we
are spreading. Oh and I just do want to mention
one thing. The Hague in the Netherlands contacted Courthouse Dogs
Foundation and asks us to apply for an award for
innovation in the criminal justice field, and they accepted our
application and we certainly hope we win that prize.

Speaker 6 (30:02):
You're an outside the box thinker. That was just a
wonderful idea. Can you recall a case that stands out
in your mind where a dog really made a huge difference.

Speaker 10 (30:12):
Well, I have to say the case that's now pending
in front of our Supreme Court in Washington State. So
the appellate court affirmed the presence of the dog and
that was taken up to our state Supreme Court. And
this was a fifty eight year old man who is
cognitively and physically impaired, and this young woman took advantage

(30:34):
of him and took all of one hundred and fifty
thousand dollars that he had saved over lifetime for his
retirement and spent all of his money.

Speaker 11 (30:42):
And he was devastated by this.

Speaker 10 (30:44):
And he had our Courthouse Dogs in Key County, Washington
with him during the defense interviews during the trial, and
he said that at the end of the trial, Iola
one great baby Hamburger.

Speaker 3 (30:59):
For the help at least, oh, just wonderful work these
animals are doing. Ellen, thank you so much for joining us.
We hope to check in with you again.

Speaker 10 (31:07):
Thank you so much.

Speaker 2 (31:08):
Take care there you go.

Speaker 3 (31:09):
Former Prosecutor Ellen O'Neil Stevens, founder of the Courthouse Dogs Foundation.

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Speaker 24 (32:40):
It's actually Sagoin're going it?

Speaker 6 (32:42):
Okay?

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Speaker 24 (32:44):
At Palace Britty?

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What's going on? And how can we help you?

Speaker 13 (32:47):
Well?

Speaker 24 (32:47):
I have two Yorchis, and the one that's really in
question is Tucker. She had been lost for literally over
over a year. She was returned to us finally, thankfully
through a chip, and so we've had her back now
for about six years. And during that time that she

(33:08):
was gone, we got another dog, also a Yorkie, So
there are two females. And from the beginning, Tucker, the
one that was lost, had tried to kind of assert
her dominance and Lucy was pretty passive. But now Lucy
has gotten definitely more aggressive. Well, the biggest problem recently
that has happened Tucker eats, like since she's been returned

(33:32):
to us, she inhales her food, she doesn't chew it.
So I started feeding Lucy just a nano second before
i'd feed Tucker. I don't know whether that sort of
let Tucker know that Lucy was more dominant now. Anyway,
the problem that has occurred recently is that I am
virtually positive it's Tucker that has recently started to pee

(33:53):
on a couch and defecate on an ottoman. I mean
she's had, you know, quote the accidents before or not
using the potty pad and using it on a carpet
or something, but never on furniture ever, And she did
it twice urinating and once defecating, just more like desperate

(34:14):
obviously for answers. Right now, she doesn't appear to have
any kind of physical problem. You know, she's eating and
playing and doing all that kind of stuff, so it
doesn't appear that there's an illness. But I haven't.

Speaker 6 (34:27):
You're stressed out. You're stressed out and anxious about the
whole thing.

Speaker 24 (34:30):
Right, Well, don't like dogs peen and pooping on.

Speaker 11 (34:33):
My furniture, of course not.

Speaker 6 (34:35):
What do you do when your dog peas and poops?
When you find it? What do you do? What's the
first thing you do?

Speaker 24 (34:40):
Probably yell?

Speaker 6 (34:41):
You yell, okay, and you're yelling at the dog, and
you're yelling at the dog.

Speaker 24 (34:46):
Well I have well, first no, when I first discovered,
not at the dog, but because I do believe that
that was the dog that brought it in, I do
bring her in to.

Speaker 6 (34:53):
Look at it and see. That just does no good
because about a minute after she does it, she doesn't
even remember doing it. She just knows it's poop and
pee' that's all she's getting from it. And she's getting
that you're mad because there's poop and pee, but she
doesn't associate doing it and you being mad. So you know,
look at you have two dogs basically fighting for dominance,

(35:15):
and it's very very common for a dog's age to
determine their dominant Like they a dog.

Speaker 4 (35:20):
Gets a little older, they become a little bit.

Speaker 6 (35:21):
More aggressive, so they're challenging each other. But the real
problem is that you're not the leader. You have to
be in charge. The dogs can't be in charge. And
when dogs are in charge, it causes stress and anxiety
and all kinds of problems like chewing, peeing, biting, barking,
all kinds of problems. So you have to change your behavior.

(35:42):
You have to be a calm, confident leader, and you
have to be in charge. And there are things you
can do. First of all, you've got to keep the
dog that's peeing inside of a crate so that she
or he can't do it, okay, And then you've got
to have structure so that the dogs go out the
same time each day, and you talk to about food.
You've got to be in control of the food so

(36:03):
the dog doesn't just get the food. You hold onto
the food, you stand there, you make the dog sit,
and then you put the food down, and you make
the dog wait until you say it's okay to eat
the food. You know, there's a lot of things you
can do to demonstrate you're a leader, like not letting
the dogs sit on the couch where you sit. If
the dog's on your furniture and it's in your spot,
you push it out of the way. When you walk

(36:25):
the dogs, you've got to walk them together. They've got
to be at your side, not in front of you.
They've got to be at your side. When you enter
the house, you've got to come in first. When you
leave the house, you go out first. It's just simple
little things like that to demonstrate you're in charge.

Speaker 24 (36:40):
The one problem that I will really say I have
a tremendous challenge with is if I try and create
this dog, she screams at the most horrendous pitch on.

Speaker 6 (36:54):
Well you've got to then you've got a teacher that
the create is a good place. See, all of this
stuff takes a lot of patience, persistence, and time. It
doesn't happen overnight. So basically what you have to do
is teach her the crate is a fun place to
be and you leave the door open. You start feeding
her in the crate, you give her treats when she's
in the crate, you leave the door open. When she
starts being comfortable enough to go in the crate by herself,

(37:17):
you'll start closing the door for twenty minutes, and then
you'll lengthen it to forty minutes, and then you'll lengthen
it to fifty minutes, and you'll give her treats while
she's in there, and you're always happy when she comes out.
But a dog that hasn't been created its whole life, well, yeah,
it's not gonna want to go in there now. As
far as barking and making noise, you've got to learn
to ignore that. And a good place, a good thing

(37:38):
to do with a dog that's barking or a dog
that is making noise and you don't want to give
that dog attention but it's driving you crazy. Is if
you have a laundry room or a closet or some
room like that that you don't use in your house,
you can make that a room where a dog goes
to have basically a timeout. It's a timeout room when
your dog is barking and misbehaving, you tell your dog, hey,

(37:59):
I'm gonna put you in time out, and they hate
going there. And they learned very quickly that you're not
going to pay any attention to them when they bark.
You're only going to pay attention and give affection when
they're calm, when they're behaving mellow, when they're laying there
on their rug. You never give a dog attention except
when they're doing what you want. When they're doing what
you don't want, you totally ignore them when they poop

(38:20):
in the house unless you're catching them in the act.
You know, punishing them after does no good. It just
teaches them that you're going to get crazy if you
see poop in the house. They don't know they did it.

Speaker 4 (38:29):
Though, Allen, you always do mention that we have to
keep the medical thoughts in mind. But I have actually
seen a change in many situations where there's a change
in the hierarchy of the household where the older or
the dominant dogs suddenly is being challenged by the younger
dogs in the home in different ways. And sometimes this
can actually be a clue that there is a medical

(38:50):
problem wrong with the older dogs. So even though she
seems perfectly fine. You know, I would certainly recommend getting
her checked out, especially for urinary tract issues. Lower spine
issues are theright because those can also contribute it to
some of the problems with mobility, where she made shoes
to go where she's at, and she may be saying, hey,
this is my central zoom, this is my area. I'm
gonna kind of market, but I'm also having trouble getting outside,

(39:12):
and i don't want to show my weakness.

Speaker 6 (39:14):
Doctor W's absolutely right. Dogs are constantly challenging you, and
they're challenging each other to redefine the pack hierarchy. They're
gonna do that, but it's very important for you to
be the head doog.

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Speaker 3 (40:44):
We're all here except Joey Voalani, who's uh not here today.
And in place of Joey Valanni, Allen has brought in
his dog, Rudy.

Speaker 6 (40:55):
Right, is it Rudy Rudy Vallani?

Speaker 2 (40:57):
Yesh Rudy Valanni. And I'll be real honest with you, really.

Speaker 6 (41:00):
Kind of smells yes, he does.

Speaker 4 (41:03):
He's a poor fellow.

Speaker 6 (41:05):
He's got an ear thing going on right now.

Speaker 2 (41:07):
So that's all coming from his ear.

Speaker 6 (41:08):
Yeah, yeah, I got to get him into the vet,
but I have to wait till Monday.

Speaker 4 (41:11):
Oh my goodness. Now has he had this before?

Speaker 6 (41:13):
I don't think so. No, No, it smells and I
you know, I just cleaned it out with a paper
towel and it's got a little bit. He's got an infection.
I'm sure it's an infection, and I'm worried because I
wish I could get him in right now, but I can't.

Speaker 4 (41:25):
Gosh, well, why isn't your vet open every day in
the week, Like I.

Speaker 6 (41:28):
Know, are you really? Are you there? Are you there
every days?

Speaker 4 (41:33):
Aren't I am not in the clinic every day, but
I often work Sundays and all throughout the week. So yeah,
we are staffed in my area every day the week.
But you know, in the answer to your question, if
you have concerns that your pet has an ear infection
and you can't get to the vet right away, if
you don't have a product on the shelf from your
veterinarian for ear cleansing, then you know, I actually will

(41:55):
recommend him do a homemade ear cleaner, really, and you
can do this. Yeah, you can do this really easily
with kind of diluting white vinegar with I usually used
to stilled water. So we do it one part to
four parts, so you know, twenty five percent is going
to be the white vinegar and then three quarters is
going to be the distilled water. So you mix that

(42:16):
together and that helps helps to clean the ear, and
it helps to change the pH of the environment in
the ear, so it's more acidic and that's unfavorable to
organisms like yeast and bacteria. Now, your veterinarian will certainly
have better products that are more you know, pH balanced,
and that also have boric acid in them and things
like that. But that would be something you can definitely
do right now, and you know, put that in the ears,

(42:38):
massage it gently. Clean. I don't use Q tips. I
generally use cotton balls or cleanex Especially for a big dog,
you can stick your whole finger in their ear and
clean up pretty nicely.

Speaker 6 (42:47):
That's awesome girl, Thank you so much.

Speaker 3 (42:50):
Sure is that a common problem, because a lot of
people call and say they have smelly dog ears.

Speaker 4 (42:55):
Yeah, and you know, smelly ears definitely there. If you
smell something that stinks in your dog's ear, The first
thing I think of is yeast in bacteria. Okay, normal
dog ear wax does not smell. It just kind of
hasn't well, it kind of has a good smell, you know,
if you could say that I do.

Speaker 15 (43:13):
And this happens more and dogs that have the ears
that fold down instead of ears that are picked up.

Speaker 4 (43:17):
Depends not necessarily. There are definitely breathes like the cocker spaniel.
And I think that's where some of that comes from,
is that people think that because they have those droopy ears,
that's why they have more ear infections. But in reality,
some breeds are more predisposed to ear infections, like cocker
spaniels who have a lot of allergies. Allergies kind of
go hand in hand with ear infections, so it can
have upright ears, just like a you know, sherman shepherd.

Speaker 3 (43:39):
Well, let me ask you this question, because I know
Alan takes the dog Rudy goes swimming.

Speaker 6 (43:44):
He swim you know what it is? Though he jumped in,
he was I give him permission to chase a rabbit
because I did not see that there was like a
marsh there, and neither did he, so he there must
have been all kinds of junk in that thing and
it got in his head and now it's developed in Yeah, so.

Speaker 4 (43:59):
I've got definitely make sure you do get that that
guy checked out because he may need some antibiotics both
orally and maybe even in an ointment for him to rest.

Speaker 6 (44:07):
I'm going to take him to the vet that he
wants to eat on Monday. Maybe.

Speaker 4 (44:10):
Yeah, Well, you know, make sure you feed him well beforehand.
That we always appreciate that I.

Speaker 6 (44:15):
Feed him well. He just you know, I think when
when he had his knee surgeries, you know, I don't
think they put him because the VET is such a
good vet, like you, doctor DeBie, and I don't think
they put him out. They're very very conservative with the
with the you know, the the anesthesia. Yes, so I
think the dog was awake and feeling the pain. Yeah,

(44:35):
I think so. Buck he remembers this vet. I mean,
it's just this one guy, and when he sees this guy,
he's like, I'm gonna kill him. That's what goes on
in his head.

Speaker 4 (44:46):
Maybe so definitely, But he was not awake for his surgery.
Don't don't please, don't spread that kind of thing. We
we have to have our pets under anesthesia. For surgery movement.

Speaker 6 (44:54):
But isn't it possible that they can come out a
little too early or something and then and they can
see the person and associate the smells and the pain,
and you.

Speaker 4 (45:02):
Know, you know, in the modern veterinary office, we can
assess if a pet is unconscious pretty well. We watch
heart rate, respiratory rate, and that's adjusted. Now what they
will remember, they'll remember they wake up, ouch, my leg hurts.
Where am I at? I'm at a vet's office. I've
had dogs. They walk in the door and they see
this one door that heads back to what we call

(45:22):
our treatment room. They see the door and the door
freaks them out. They've been through that year before before,
so they know they don't want to go through that.
So they definitely can have you know, you know, reactions
to different areas or sites, places, smells, all of that
things you know, you can all trigger.

Speaker 6 (45:38):
Are you sure you can tell when a dog is out?
Because the howl's out right now and nobody can tell.

Speaker 7 (45:44):
Breathe Sorry about.

Speaker 6 (45:46):
That, thanks man. I'm gonna go to the store right
after we're done.

Speaker 2 (45:48):
I have a little vinegar here. We can do this
right here before the end of the show.

Speaker 6 (45:52):
You're welcome to try.

Speaker 3 (45:53):
Hell, I wouldn't do it.

Speaker 2 (45:54):
I'll let doctor Debbie do it.

Speaker 3 (45:57):
I know that he likes you. He does with you
do even females. Ladybug kind of takes to you well.

Speaker 2 (46:04):
At first, she.

Speaker 4 (46:05):
Didn't you well when she first met me. I think
she smelled the office on me. And now you knows
she tolerates you.

Speaker 2 (46:11):
Hey, Stacy, what are you working on?

Speaker 3 (46:13):
Coming up?

Speaker 5 (46:13):
I've got a story about a bunch of dogs that
we're trying to break a world record. Not just ten
or twelve dogs. We're talking six hundred and thirty five
dogs all in the same place. Did it happen?

Speaker 6 (46:24):
I believe it did happen. It was the most butts
ever sniffed in a day.

Speaker 5 (46:28):
I'll tell you coming up on Animal Radio News.

Speaker 6 (46:30):
It was a wonderful record to behold.

Speaker 3 (46:32):
Let's see.

Speaker 2 (46:33):
Let's head to John. Hey John, how are you doing?

Speaker 10 (46:36):
Hi? Hi?

Speaker 26 (46:36):
This is John.

Speaker 2 (46:38):
Where are you calling from?

Speaker 3 (46:39):
John?

Speaker 26 (46:39):
Anna Loop, California on Town South?

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So what do you got going on?

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Oh?

Speaker 26 (46:45):
I got a little puppy six months old and it's
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We're worried about freeing our ice cream. I don't know
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Okay, you're worried about it? Is she currently eating ice
cream and.

Speaker 26 (46:56):
We fear her dog once in a while.

Speaker 4 (46:59):
Okay, so you're looking to ask me for permission to
give your dog ice cream? Is that right? Well, it depends.
There are certainly dogs that have very sensitive stomachs, and
veering from their regular diet can upset their system. The
interesting thing that people need to recognize is that dogs
and cats, a good majority of them, are actually lactose

(47:21):
and tolerant. So that's something to think about when we
start offering them different dairy products that that can cause
some dietary upset. And it may not be a life
threatening illness, but you know, we might talk about excess gas,
soft stools, maybe some vomiting. As a child, I can
tell you my dog, he definitely dined on cleaning the

(47:41):
ice cream bowl with a regular occurrence. So a little
bit probably is not going to be a big deal.
But in general, there's a lot of fat in ice
cream and calories that we really just don't need to do.
So I'm not going to give you that clearance to
say it's okay to give ice cream. It would just
be something I would try to discourage meat.

Speaker 6 (48:02):
Give them some meat, dogs meat, Give them some meat,
a chunk of.

Speaker 26 (48:05):
Meat, that's interesting. The local young man and the pet
start suggested, I'd taken with peanut buttery and uh what
dogs food, and freeze it and then give them that.

Speaker 4 (48:16):
Well, that can be kind of a fun treat, but
I would say rather than put it in the food,
frozen peanut butter can be very useful when we're trying
to get dogs to be occupied chew on toys. So
you can take a little bit of peanut butter, stick
it inside a kong or another kind of chewing toy
and keep them occupied. I don't want to just give
dogs food that really it's it's pretty ungratifying. I mean, yes,

(48:39):
they like to eat it and it's yummy, but it
doesn't really occupy their mind or their chewing instincts. So
I like the frozen peanut butter and a toy. I
don't like throwing in the bowl. That's just it's not
letting a dog be a dog.

Speaker 26 (48:53):
One last one we'll do best questions. I just said
this dangerous to feed dog grapes grape.

Speaker 4 (48:59):
Yes, that's actually true. Grapes and raisins have the potential
to cause kidney failure in dogs. And it's very true.
And that's another thing where people will say, I've done
it before and my dog is perfectly fine. It's something
they were looking at. They don't know really what the
toxic principle is, but it can happen. So do not

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feed grapes or raisins to your dogs.

Speaker 26 (49:22):
Thank you, Debby. And what about chocolate.

Speaker 4 (49:23):
Chocolate, Oh, that's another one. Chocolate's a no no, and
small amounts aren't likely to be toxic, but you can
certainly get a taste. They'll develop a taste for chocolate.
And my own dear labrador had ingested several pounds of
chocolate items and had the world's worst chocolate toxicity. He
had heard arrhythmias, vomiting. It was a really bad stage.
So it can be toxic in large amounts. So I

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don't like to do it at all.

Speaker 26 (49:49):
We don't do that. We just figured it out the
scoop of a tiny little tablespooneful.

Speaker 4 (49:53):
Yeah, and there's so many, you know, fun kind of
healthy dog treats out there that can be flavored like chocolate,
but they really don't contain chocolate. So if you feel
the urge to give something like that, you can always
reach to the to the pet store to find something.

Speaker 3 (50:06):
I remember the the peanut butter that wasn't really peanut
butter's dog peanut butter dog butter is what they call
it from dog for dog, which is much.

Speaker 7 (50:15):
Better formulated and healthier for dogs.

Speaker 3 (50:17):
Good for them, So you might check that out. We
have a list over at the website at animal radio
dot com food so you should not feed your dog,
which includes, of course scrapes and reasons.

Speaker 2 (50:26):
Thank you for calling.

Speaker 26 (50:27):
Thank you. I enjoyed it very much, Thank you very much.

Speaker 3 (50:29):
What are you laughing at?

Speaker 6 (50:30):
That guy had a whole grocery list? You know? What
about this? Can I feed him less? What about that?

Speaker 4 (50:35):
What about That's great? He knows. Once you get a
professionals ear, you just keep shooting out those questions. You
get the best money for your time for your money.

Speaker 6 (50:43):
Yeah, pistachio nuts? Can I feed up pistashia nuts? What
about caviar?

Speaker 3 (50:46):
Cavey?

Speaker 14 (50:47):
What's is that? Good?

Speaker 10 (50:48):
Is that?

Speaker 14 (50:48):
Okay?

Speaker 2 (50:48):
I also have this little sore on my butt?

Speaker 6 (50:50):
Feed them shrimped? Do I take the little legs off?
What do I do?

Speaker 2 (50:53):
So what was it?

Speaker 7 (50:54):
I was going to do it because I wanted to
go on whatever.

Speaker 2 (50:56):
Oh you did, well, then tell him do it again?

Speaker 3 (50:58):
Do it again? What was it?

Speaker 8 (50:59):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (51:00):
Yeah, how I didn't like the way you address Judy.
You better take it back.

Speaker 2 (51:02):
Sorry, I apologize.

Speaker 7 (51:04):
I did it because I wanted to say this on it.

Speaker 2 (51:06):
Yeah, okay, go ahead, tell us what it was.

Speaker 15 (51:09):
I could say I had our next collar lined up,
but she refused to go on air. She was gonna
come on, Debbie, this was going to be Julie. She
was going to come on and say that she bathed
her dog and she took it to the groomer, but
he still stinks.

Speaker 7 (51:20):
She didn't know why.

Speaker 15 (51:21):
Well, now she says she found out he rolled and
something had something all over him, and she picked it
all off and he doesn't smell anymore.

Speaker 3 (51:27):
That's good.

Speaker 4 (51:27):
You know what, There are sometimes the mystery smells that
come walking in the veterinary office. So I don't think, Julie,
you should feel bad at all. I've had dogs come
in that people are battling, bathing their dogs with medicated shampoos,
can't find the stink, and you know it might turn
out to be something like a stinky old collar. That's
dog in the pool. Yes, I was a savior. I

(51:48):
save these people. They were just ready to spend money.
And I said, you know what, let me take the
collar off. And I took it off. I was like,
oh boy, you got a really stinky coll you.

Speaker 6 (51:57):
Gotta get a new one.

Speaker 4 (51:58):
And you know, forty dollars later, you know the answer?

Speaker 3 (52:02):
I know, was it forty dollars for the answer or
forty dollars for the collar?

Speaker 6 (52:06):
For the office once a month, just to you know,
just to see doctor Debbie. I cover my dog with
some foreign smell and play with myself. Called guess the
smell became guess the smell? See if she can do it?

Speaker 3 (52:16):
You're really ingured in You're you're a genius man.

Speaker 6 (52:18):
I come up with, thanks you do.

Speaker 1 (52:20):
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Speaker 22 (52:32):
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I agree.

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Speaker 1 (53:13):
You're listening to Animal Radio call the dream Team now

Speaker 6 (53:21):
Doctor w Did you hear the story of the pitbull
cops story out of Baltimore?

Speaker 4 (53:25):
No, I don't think I have.

Speaker 6 (53:26):
You know, I'm having deja bous right now. I don't
know why. But anyway, well, anyway, these people in this neighborhood,
you know, as people often do, they misunderstand the poor
little pit bulls. And you know, they called the cops
and they said, there's a vicious dog terrorizing our neighborhood.
Please send help. And so this officer showed up, and
thank goodness, he was a dog lover, and you know,

(53:47):
he the dog was just terrified and ran into an
alley and he followed the dog in there to see,
you know, how vicious this dog was. And the dog
immediately just walked up to him with his tail between
his legs and started licking his hand. It's like eighty
pound pit bull. So the CoP's like, okay, So he
puts them in the back of the cruiser and gets
in there with him and has his buddy drive and
they bring him to the shelter, and the cop can't

(54:09):
do it. You know, he says to himself, if I
bring the dog in there, they're gonna put him to sleep.
So the cop wound up taking him home. He's got
two other dogs and they're all getting along just fine.
And turns out this dog was just a pit bull.
But he's a sweetheart. And I just hope people have
an open mind when it comes to pit bulls. They
have such a bad rap. And did you know, like
ten twelve years ago, you know, pit bulls enjoyed a
fantastic reputation that during World War One they were there

(54:32):
was actually pit bulls on posters in World War One,
and then Spanky, you know our gang, their little rascals,
that old TV show, that dog in the in the
show there he was a pit bull. So up until recently,
pit bulls had a great rap and now they just
have such an awful reputation.

Speaker 3 (54:47):
Well, it seems like there's a dog every ten years
that gets that bad rap. It was the German Shepherd,
it was the Rottweiler.

Speaker 7 (54:54):
The Oberman Doberman's yet.

Speaker 3 (54:56):
I believe it on the media and again this week
they reported another pitbull, Mollie. And of course some of them.

Speaker 4 (55:03):
You don't hear about the chihuahua.

Speaker 2 (55:05):
You don't know.

Speaker 4 (55:05):
I get nailed by Chihuaha's all the time, but I
don't seek medical attention because you've got a little puncture.
But it's the pible. Yeah, they can definitely put more
damage to their bike then, you know.

Speaker 2 (55:16):
Hi mail, welcome to the show.

Speaker 3 (55:17):
Hi there, what's going on?

Speaker 19 (55:19):
We have a chinchilla probably about ten years old, and
she pretty much stopped chewing on things like that she
normally used to, okay, and it looks like her teeth
are getting a little longer. She does still eat, you know,
like her regular food and hay but you know, she's
drooling a lot, and she's to drinking a lot more water.

Speaker 4 (55:41):
Oh okay, she is drooling, so she's getting a little
stained on her face with that.

Speaker 10 (55:45):
Yep.

Speaker 19 (55:45):
Yeah, And I don't know if it's just because of
the way she's drinking and drinking so much. It seems
like a lot more all right.

Speaker 10 (55:51):
Now.

Speaker 4 (55:51):
Normally people with rodents would say, oh my god, they
chew a lot already, so it's good when they don't chew.
But in this situation, especially since you were describing that
she's having drooling, gosh, I'd say the number one thing
we need to do is a good dental exam on her.
The front teeth, the incisors are one thing, but the
back teeth, the molars in chinchillas as well as rabbits,

(56:12):
can really be a huge problem. They are continually growing
and they continually wear the opposing teeth down. If they
start to get little spikes and overgrow in aspects, that
creates cheek pain or it can even entrap the tongue,
so it can be quite serious. And if we're given
up on some of those chewing items or some of

(56:33):
the different hay items, those are some of the first
signs that I say that we need to get a
good look inside that oral cavity and evaluate those teeth.
Many chinchillas do need to have their teeth trimmed, so
getting a good look as part of it, and then
doing any kind of dental care that we might need
to trim the teeth or heaven forbid, if there is

(56:55):
any bad ones that are actually creating abscesses, then extracting
those surgically distracting those would be the way to proceed there.
But I'd say definitely the first thing I would do
is get a good look inside that mouth and uh,
you know, make sure your veterinarian is comfortable looking atla
mouse because they are a little interesting little critters and
they got a lot of crooked little teeth in that mouth,

(57:17):
and it can be it can be very overwhelming if
if they're not comfortable with that.

Speaker 3 (57:21):
Got it? They're soft, aren't they?

Speaker 11 (57:23):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (57:24):
Oh beautiful?

Speaker 2 (57:27):
No, not this one.

Speaker 7 (57:30):
What is the what is their normal lifespan? Doctor Debbie?

Speaker 4 (57:33):
You know, actually, your baby sounds like we're already pretty
much in the in the older years of chinchillas. So yeah,
I do see them living eight, ten, twelve years, but
certainly hope that your baby sees many more years.

Speaker 2 (57:45):
Yead Met, thanks for your call today.

Speaker 3 (57:46):
Whether it be flamingos or tintillas.

Speaker 2 (57:49):
Or whatever it is, Doctor Debbie can handle it.

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Speaker 6 (58:08):
I actually have a question for you.

Speaker 23 (58:11):
One of my last days on the beach, I noticed
something very interesting. There was one guy on the beach
who had a newborn with him, a newborn, but a
year old, a year and a half old, kind of
taking his first little lumbering steps on the sand. And
the guy was there without baby's mother. And to my left,

(58:32):
a bit of a ways down was another gentleman who
was frolicking with a dog in somewhat the same capacity.
And I swear, if I'm not mistaken, the guy with
the dog was getting more. The girls were staring at
him much more than the guy with the baby. Well,
I guess, as I say it out loud, women seeing

(58:53):
a guy with the baby, they probably assume there's a
mother not far off, and perhaps one who takes taekwondo.
You know, maybe they're living in fair Maybe that's why
the guy with the dog I mean, the dog is
the ultimate chick magnet, particularly on the beach.

Speaker 6 (59:08):
You throw that frisbee and.

Speaker 23 (59:10):
That dog comes running out soak went and does that
shake and you do a funny little id get me
soaking wet. This dog was a chick magnet. And it
wasn't even like it. You know, it was a rot wilder.
There's beautiful chocolate lab or you know anything of this nature.
It was a straight up mump. Not that I'm anti
mump by any stretch of the imagination. But the girls

(59:30):
were running over look it even and the dog would
shake his the salt water on the girls.

Speaker 6 (59:36):
Don't do that.

Speaker 23 (59:36):
Then they were laughing. Everything I was thinking about was
every time I took a girl of the beach, if
I splashed water on their shore, she was like, you
jerk and stomped off to the concession stand, only to
come back with French fries that she didn't share. The
dog is a chick magnet more than a kid. But
as I said, I think I'm realizing on the air
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Speaker 22 (01:01:12):
This is an animal Radio news update.

Speaker 5 (01:01:15):
I'm Stacey cohen Ford in more Radio. A badger has
been credited with a major archaeological fine in Germany. You
know badger's there they like dig up stuff. Well, the
animal had dug up land and in the process unearthed
some old human bones, like really old. Archaeologists were called in.
They announced this week that the badger had discovered a

(01:01:35):
twelfth century burial site which included graves of two Slavic
lords and several warriors. The lords were buried with bronze
bulls at their feet. Well, one of the warriors had
a sword at his side. Archaeologist Thomas Kirsting said it
was clear from the marks on one of the warrior's
skull he was a pretty tough guy. He added that
it's the first grave to be found in Brandenburg, so

(01:01:57):
it's a pretty important discovery. The artifacts are going to
be blayed at a local museum next month. Well, you
know how state and county fairs they always have a
butter cow, At least they did in Ohio. When I
grew up, it was a big deal that butter cow
was pretty much the mascot of the Ohio State Fair.
Iowa's iconic butter cow sculpture is back on display now
after it was trashed by animal rights activists. Authorities say

(01:02:20):
the culprits doals the large sculpture with red paint, and
they scrawled freedom for All on the glass refrigerated case.
A group called Iowan's for Animal Liberation took credit for
the attack. In an email, they said the paint represents
the blood of eleven billion animals murdered each year. The
Iowa State Fair says that six hundred pound cow sculpture
it uses enough butter to smother more than nineteen thousand

(01:02:43):
slices of toast. Well, some dogs apparently don't care all
that much about breaking a world's record. The UK's Daily
Telegraph says the Kennel Club was attempting to set a
new record for the largest assembly of dogs staying in
one place at the same time. So to accomplish the
goal that animals had to either sit or stay in
their designated spot for at least two minutes, but Kennel

(01:03:05):
Club spokesman said some of the dogs just got a
little too distracted, so they were up wandering around sniffing
each other's rear ends, so they didn't qualify. The Kennel
Club had brought together six hundred and thirty five dogs
in this attempt, but event organizers haven't given up. They
say they're going to get the dogs back together again
next year. Scientists are urging the media to stop saying

(01:03:26):
shark attack. A group of scientists are asking the media
stop using that word. The American Elasmo Branch Society, which
studies sharks, rays, and various other creatures, believes that the
term reinforces negative stereotypes and undermines shark conservation efforts and
you know, their self esteem. Instead, they encourage reporters to

(01:03:47):
be more accurate and differentiate between shark sighting, shark and counters,
shark bites, and fatal shark bites. I'm Stacy Cohen. Get
more animal breaking news at animal radio dot com.

Speaker 18 (01:04:01):
This has been an animal radio news updates. Get more
at animal radio dot com.

Speaker 1 (01:04:06):
You're listening to Animal Radio call the dream Team now

Speaker 3 (01:04:14):
It's Animal Radio. We are celebrating in our connection with
our pets, Doctor Debbie, dog trainer, Alan Cable, animal communicator,
Joey Turner, and Joey Valoney's on vacationist.

Speaker 2 (01:04:23):
Well he's not called in sick as.

Speaker 7 (01:04:25):
Well or is he out dancing in the park.

Speaker 2 (01:04:27):
We think he's dancing in the park.

Speaker 3 (01:04:28):
He actually called him well, he called in, well, can't
make it because I'm feeling too good. Got to go
out to the park. And that's exactly. I'm looking out
the weather out of the studio right now. It's a
beautiful day.

Speaker 7 (01:04:37):
It's a dancing in the park day.

Speaker 2 (01:04:39):
I want to get out there with the dog. But
we got this to do.

Speaker 3 (01:04:42):
Did I bring everyone down?

Speaker 2 (01:04:43):
Everyone's looking out the window now.

Speaker 6 (01:04:45):
I mean, I mean, we've got this to do. What
does that mean? I mean, you get to do this
fantastic radio show, talk to all these amazing people about
dogs and cats, and and you're making out like it's
some sort of chore. You're the luckiest guy.

Speaker 20 (01:05:00):
You know.

Speaker 2 (01:05:00):
I really am.

Speaker 3 (01:05:01):
I really am, And I apologize if I made anyone
think otherwise. I have the best job in the world,
and I get to bring my animals to work, which
creates an environment, a peaceful, relaxing environment around here. And
the dogs, as we were talking earlier, being used in
the courtroom to help witnesses testify because it calms them.
We see that there's a cat that's actually helped pin

(01:05:24):
the uh pin a murder suspect. So we see the
animals are helping in all kinds of different ways. Now
we have Rachel McPherson. She's the founder and executive director
of the Good Dog Foundation. She joins us and she's
working on an anti bullying program with the dogs. I
gotta figure out, you know, bullying is.

Speaker 15 (01:05:42):
Isn't It's it's finally you know, it's always been around,
but it's finally being brought to everyone's attention.

Speaker 7 (01:05:47):
I was bullied in school.

Speaker 2 (01:05:49):
Were you really? I can't imagine?

Speaker 23 (01:05:50):
Were you?

Speaker 2 (01:05:50):
Well, Alan, I can understand that really, yeah, I really was.

Speaker 6 (01:05:54):
For a whole year, I was bullied by this kid.
I didn't even know this kid.

Speaker 2 (01:05:57):
Really, and what did you do?

Speaker 3 (01:05:58):
How did that end?

Speaker 6 (01:05:59):
He just walk up to me and punch me in
the stomach and walk away. And this went on for
a full year. And I swear this is the the
God's honest truth. I mean, he took my wind away.
I couldn't breathe. I was freaked out. I used to
look out the windows at the school to see what
exit he was at and take the other exit. Until
one day it was like the last day of school
of the day before the last day of school, and
we didn't have buses We walked in Brooklyn to school

(01:06:21):
and we had to walk a mile and I was
walking and there he was behind me, and he comes
up from behind me and I just snapped. I just
snapped like a nut and I literally they were pulling
me off. This kid. He weighed he was probably a
foot taller than me, and he probably outweighed me by
at least fifty pounds, and I was bashing his head
into the sidewalk. I just snapped.

Speaker 15 (01:06:42):
See, mine would never got physical. It was all mental.
This girl threatened, yeah, that she was going to beat
me up after school every day. So it was always
just this mental thing. She never actually touched me, but
every day and I would be afraid to walk home.
I would be let out five minutes early.

Speaker 3 (01:06:55):
She was renting space in your head, he did. I
think we were all bullied. I think that's why you
get into radio, as you get bullied as the young
I am today this very day. But anyway, Rachel McPherson,
we welcome you the show. Hi, Rachel, how are you doing?

Speaker 20 (01:07:09):
Hi?

Speaker 28 (01:07:09):
How are you doing? Thank you so much for having
me today.

Speaker 3 (01:07:12):
I didn't mean to get off on a tangent there,
but I think, okay, this anti bullying thing.

Speaker 28 (01:07:16):
Is it a great segue into what our.

Speaker 3 (01:07:18):
Program's all about, Well, tell us what it is.

Speaker 28 (01:07:21):
Well as the cases that you just discussed, we have
children in classrooms that talk about bullying to the dog,
and what we do is we take the dog into
the school classroom and we really talk about how to
treat a dog really well. And so we're dealing with,
you know, treating dogs with kindness and making sure that

(01:07:42):
we take good care of our pets.

Speaker 2 (01:07:44):
So when you take them into the classroom, you're focusing
on the dog.

Speaker 28 (01:07:46):
Really, we're focusing on the dog. But what's amazing that
happens is that by focusing on the dog, we also
weave in you know, if you take good care of
your dog, you should also take really good care of
your friend. And have any of you had any situations
where a friend has really not taken really good care
of you and then the bullying comes out?

Speaker 7 (01:08:09):
So are you focusing on the bullier? Are the persons
that's being bullied?

Speaker 28 (01:08:13):
We're focusing on the child that's been bullied. And then
also some kids admit that they've actually done this, to
admit it, huh, yes, we have a because then they
start they realize that they should be kinder to the dog,
and they should be kinder to their friends. So we
have a complete discussion of all of the above.

Speaker 6 (01:08:35):
Were you always a believer in the power of dogs,
because I've always known this about dogs, and you know,
human beings have pretty much thought inside that box and
shut dogs out. And it's really encouraging to see folks
like you take the lead and see what dogs are
capable of doing for people. Have you always thought this
way or is it something you just learned recently.

Speaker 28 (01:08:54):
I've actually always thought this way. I grew up as
a child and you can tell by the South in
my mouth in the state of Mississippi, and I used
to train horses and I had a lot of dogs,
and I've always known the power of the human animal bond.
And I was going to do a documentary film about this,
but then I realized it was against the law in

(01:09:15):
the state of New York for dogs to go into
major medical facilities. So I created the Good Dog Foundation
our training program, which our training program is really unique.
And I created the foundation and we now are in
three hundred and ninety facilities in four states, and we
have over eleven hundred trained dogs wow assist. So we're

(01:09:39):
the largest certifying animal assisted therapy organization on the East Coast.
The Good Dog Foundation so cool.

Speaker 3 (01:09:46):
I'm doing great work. So I guess nonprofit you are
always looking for a little help one way or the other.

Speaker 28 (01:09:52):
We're always looking for a little help, and we appreciate
all the help that we get and we love doing
the work. And more important, cly, the dogs are just
amazing doing the war.

Speaker 3 (01:10:03):
They sure are. The Good Dog Foundation dot org is
the website. If you have a couple of bucks and
you want to help a good organization out, I'd head
on over there, and of course links to everything you've
heard on today's show over at Animal radio dot com.

Speaker 2 (01:10:15):
Rachel, thanks for spending time with us.

Speaker 28 (01:10:17):
Oh, thank you so much for having me. I appreciate you.
Have a beautiful day out there in the park.

Speaker 3 (01:10:22):
We'll do that as soon as this wonderful show is
over with it. I'm sorry I don't sell.

Speaker 6 (01:10:28):
Genuine do I know you don't.

Speaker 8 (01:10:29):
Now.

Speaker 3 (01:10:30):
I'm having a lot of fun today, but I just
can we black out the windows?

Speaker 2 (01:10:33):
Can we close the curtains or something like that?

Speaker 6 (01:10:35):
You know what I want to I want to expand
on that, you know, the court lady, where you bring
the dogs into the courtroom, Like, like, what if I
was a defendant and I was calmed by like rappers,
you know, like and I wanted to bring sleeep dog
in there with me or over something.

Speaker 29 (01:10:50):
Dogs orcats of course are in you animals people to
waterbeds were a big hit in the seventies, but lately
they're a big hit with cows. Dairy farmer Kirk Christie
says his cows give milk while resting on waterbeds and
watching a flat screen TV. He says the specially made

(01:11:11):
cow waterbeds were a big hit with his cows from
the beginning.

Speaker 7 (01:11:15):
They provide heat.

Speaker 29 (01:11:16):
In the winter and cool them in the summer, depending
on the watery pipes in happy cows produce more milk,
and since the waterbeds, milk production has jumped up twenty percent.
Christy installed the TV because he said the cows were
so used to just hearing his voice that when visitors
came by, they'd get scared. Now they get a chance
to meet new people on TV, and according to Christy,

(01:11:38):
they like Oprah and Doctor Phil. He may be the
only farmer offering his cows TV entertainment, but the waterbeds
are here to stay. According to the manufacturer, there are
over one hundred and fifty thousand cow waterbeds being used
and more orders are coming in every day, causing a
lot of cows to ask hails, what's your sign? I'm

(01:12:01):
Britt Savage for Animal Radio. Animals are people to Animal Radio.

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Speaker 12 (01:12:43):
Hi, this is Carrie Anni Napa from Dance to the Stars.

Speaker 18 (01:12:45):
Don't forget to stay and you to your animals, and
you're listening to animal Radio.

Speaker 1 (01:12:53):
You're listening to Animal Radio. Here's allan Judy.

Speaker 3 (01:12:56):
And we're going to I'm sorry, I guess I gotta
hit that, but right there and that would be Greg. Hey, Greg,
how are you doing.

Speaker 19 (01:13:02):
I'm doing good. How are you doing?

Speaker 2 (01:13:04):
I'm doing okay. How's your dog? What's going on?

Speaker 11 (01:13:06):
Okay? So I actually got a rescue high cyber husky
and he's probably approximately like eight to ten months. I
took him into the VAT and he's actually pretty good dog.

Speaker 19 (01:13:18):
The only thing is that just when he.

Speaker 11 (01:13:20):
Wants attention, he wants to like use his mouth to
like squeeze your armor and to get your attention. And
he's pretty uh, how would you say? He doesn't know
his own strength?

Speaker 6 (01:13:36):
Hey, Greg, how you doing, buddy? I'm glad you called.
I really am. I love Siberian huskies. They're awesome dogs.
They have lots of energy, and you know, they were
bred to pull and so they, uh, they're always pulling
it stuff and they like to dig, and you know,
they'll try to escape if they don't get enough exercise
and they're not stimulated. They need they need a lot

(01:13:57):
of attention. They need you to play with them lot,
get their energy out a lot because they have so
much energy, and because they are sled dogs, and dogs
use their mouths in all different kinds of ways, not
just to attack, but to actually interact with the world
around them. And so a dog will put his mouth
on you occasionally to get your attention or to you know,

(01:14:19):
get you to pay attention to him. And a lot
of times dogs don't know their own strength, and that's
why when a dog is a puppy, they kind of
learn that from their moms and their littermates. That's why
it's so important not to take a dog away from
a puppy it's mother. You know, before people say eight weeks,
I like twelve weeks because dogs learn, so dogs learn
so much from their moms. So humans can also teach

(01:14:42):
their dogs something called bite inhibition is what they call it,
or what we call it, And it's a way to
teach your dog to be gentle with his mouth. And
the best way to do it, the way I like
to do it is and I like to do I
like to do this too, Greg because it prevents you know,
food aggression and and a dog taking possessive, getting possessive
over his food. I like to handfeed my dog a

(01:15:05):
little bit each day, you know, a little kibble each day.
And I always say words don't mean much to dogs,
but if you use a very selected few words or
sounds when you're teaching your dog something, it makes a
big impact. It's kind of like the guy who's always talking,
and you know, nobody pays attention to him. They tune
him out. But the guy who doesn't say much very often,

(01:15:25):
when he starts talking, everybody perks up. That's how it
is with a dog. So if you are going to
just kneel down with a piece of kibble, piece of
dog food and hold it in front of your dog,
and when he goes to get it very fast, you
just put your hand up and go hey, you know hey,
and retreat, take the food back, and you do it

(01:15:46):
over and over again with your hand very slowly to
teach him to move slowly. And then when he tries
to get the food, if he's going fast, you retreat,
you take the food back, you hold your hand up,
you go hey, no, and you will very quickly teach
him to gently take the food out of your hand.
And that's what you want to do, and it takes time.

(01:16:06):
I want you to think of yourself, Greg as a teacher.
You are your dog's teacher, and everybody who's listening to
the radio that has a dog should always think of
themselves as a teacher. Now, because each dog is different.
You have to find ways to communicate what you want
to your dog, and you're the only one who can
do that. And you've got to do it without language,

(01:16:26):
without words, because you know they don't understand sentences. So
you've got to learn to do it with movement, and
you've got to learn to do it by paying attention
to your dog. And you've got to satisfy your dog's
needs by getting his energy out. So if you tire
him out before you do this exercise, it's going to
be very very successful, very quickly. So then when he
puts his mouth on you, you do the same thing.

(01:16:49):
You teach him not to put his mouth on you
by holding your hand up and going hey, And you're
very quickly going to teach him that teeth are not
appropriate on humans. It may take a little time, but
he'll get it. Everybody in your house has to do
it though.

Speaker 11 (01:17:03):
Okay, buddy, right, I appreciate it.

Speaker 6 (01:17:07):
Does that make sense to you?

Speaker 10 (01:17:08):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (01:17:09):
Yes, most definitely. Okay, good luck to you, Palin. If
you have any other problems, you know, we love hearing
from you. Thanks for calling us.

Speaker 11 (01:17:16):
Let me thank you, thank you appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (01:17:18):
Boy, that ended fast. I'll talk allan. You told me
to start enjoying the show more and stop looking out
the window. It actually went by very fast. I had
a good time. However, it is time now to take
the animals out to enjoy some of this beautiful weather,
and I hope everybody across the country can do that
before you. Before you go write this down Animal radio
dot com, I suggest you download the Animal Radio app

(01:17:39):
right now. It's free.

Speaker 2 (01:17:41):
If you haven't done it, why haven't you done it?

Speaker 3 (01:17:43):
Come on, man, it's a free app, and you could
ask your questions of our dream team right from the
app for iPhone and for Android. And of course there's
a million other ways to listen. Over one hundred and
seven AM and FM stations across the country air Animal Radio.
We're also available online on I Heart Radio two brand
new channels, a highlight channel and a full show channel.

(01:18:04):
Just go to talk radio and type in Animal Radio
and iHeartRadio. Of course, we're on Stitcher, We're on tune In,
We're on Live three sixty five. I'm missing something else, well.

Speaker 7 (01:18:13):
I forget the other one.

Speaker 3 (01:18:14):
There're iTunes, yeah, iTunes. So there's so many ways you
can head on over to the website at animal radio
dot com and learn a lot more about that. Now
we're talking about dog TV. Before we've been doing a
radio show for the dogs. Not a lot of you
can hear it because it's actually beyond our hearing pitch level.
It's very high decimony. I think the dogs can hear that,

(01:18:37):
and it plays a lot of things like squeaky toys
and stuff. So if you notice your dog is looking
at the radio when you're listening to Animal Radio, that's
because they're listening to that. Of course, we don't charge.
The four ninety nine a month.

Speaker 2 (01:18:47):
Is free as radio should be, and that's right.

Speaker 3 (01:18:49):
Yep. You can continue to listen to the regular Animal Radio,
and your dog can continue to listen to the high
pitched Animal Radio with all the noises and stuff, simply
by downloading the Animal Radio app. Be sure to check
out doctor Wi's books York Share Terriers, Shitzus, Pugs and
Mini Schnauzers, How to Be Your Dog's Best Friend good Reads.

Speaker 2 (01:19:08):
They're like owners manuals for your animal. Have a great week.
We'll see you next week right here on this fine
station for more Animal Radio.

Speaker 20 (01:19:14):
Bye bye bye.

Speaker 3 (01:19:30):
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