Are Your Pets Making You Tired? - Foster Failures - The Animal Radio® Show

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Mmmmm.

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

Speaker 1 (00:14):
We are happy to have doctor Debbie back this weekend.
Doc Halligan of course filled in last week and it
was fine, but there seemed to be a little bit
of sexual at tension between Joey and Doc, even if
Joey won't admit it.

Speaker 3 (00:24):
You can't leave and leave these guys alone, my goodness, No,
you can't.

Speaker 1 (00:28):
How was your vacation?

Speaker 3 (00:30):
She was good.

Speaker 4 (00:30):
It was good.

Speaker 3 (00:32):
Happy to be back.

Speaker 4 (00:34):
It's always a.

Speaker 1 (00:35):
Good thing, right, yes, are you ready to answer calls?

Speaker 3 (00:37):
I sure am, let's get to it.

Speaker 1 (00:39):
Okay, Alan Cables here, dog trainer extraordinaire, as well as
dog father Joey Vaalani and animal communicator Joey Turner for
you and Stacy Cohene. What's going on over there?

Speaker 5 (00:48):
You know, many people can't seem to get a good
night's sleep, and they've already got stressed. They drink too
much caffeine, or their spouse snores. But researchers at Mayo
Clinics Center for Sleep mediciner finding there's another surprise reason
behind those tired eyes. And they've got four legs, dogs
and cats. I've got some answers to help you fall
asleep coming up on Animal Radio News.

Speaker 1 (01:10):
I completely understand that my dog snores so loud and
keeps me up at night.

Speaker 3 (01:14):
Yeah, you're blaming him.

Speaker 4 (01:16):
I know what a monkey does to fall asleep. Well,
it was a story that the stacy was just talking
about this monkey who's addicted to porn. Oh, you know, Debbie,
Can I just say I have so much respect for
my mother in law. They've got a frenchie that lives
in their house and the dog had this terrible cough
and they went to two vets and neither one could
diagnose that it was kennel cough. They actually diagnosed it

(01:37):
themselves on the internet, and that's exactly what it was.
These two vets were clueless, didn't know what it was.
So there's just a well, it's just a whole lot
of mediocre veterinarians and mechanics and doctors, and then there's
folks like you who know there's stuff and it's you know,
you got to be lucky to stumble upon a doctor
Debbie's all.

Speaker 1 (01:54):
I got to tell you, we are very very lucky
to have doctor Debbie answering everybody's question. She's also our vet.
That's why we trust her implicitly with your animals, because
it is hard to find a really good vetinarian. In fact,
we had to kick a couple of the curb you've
roughing up vets, you know, to talk to you. Well,
I have high expectations. You know, if they want me
to just drop off the animal and pick them up
in the evening, I have a problem with that. That

(02:16):
doesn't or if they don't want to interview with me,
because I think you need to interview a vet before.

Speaker 6 (02:21):
Yeah, I think you should have a pre interview before
you even bring your animals in.

Speaker 4 (02:25):
Well, they should want to talk to you, I mean,
you know, if they're not, they're not going to want
to talk to you and like a person face to face.
I mean, why would you want to bring your pet
or anything there? Even a mechanic should do that, you know,
answer your questions and talk to you.

Speaker 1 (02:38):
Hey, Rick, Hey, how are you good? How are you
doing today? Where are you calling.

Speaker 7 (02:41):
From right now? I'm in wich Stock Kansas. I'm a
truck driver out of Arkansas.

Speaker 1 (02:46):
Do you travel with your dog?

Speaker 7 (02:48):
I do all the time, and I have for over
thirty years.

Speaker 1 (02:52):
Oh good, good.

Speaker 7 (02:55):
Let's going to have a Siberian Husky. He's four years
old and he's got an unusual for Siberian husky. I've
had three in my life. I wanted him to be eighteen.
One was twelve when she died, and then i've got
this one here, who's four. All of them been purebread,
none of them are papered. They were just pure bread husky.

(03:15):
But this one, he's extremely nervous, and that's in or
out of the truck so bad that at times he
just trembles. And I can manage that pretty good just
by cuddling comforting him. But the problem I'm having with him,
and he's the first one I've had this problem with,
is he is housebroken. As long as somebody's right there,

(03:38):
he'll come and get you, tell you he needs to
go out. He'll hold it all night long, but as
soon as somebody steps away, he'll pee or poop somewhere.
And I just don't know how to control that.

Speaker 4 (03:55):
Hey, Rick, have you had this dog since you were
since the dog was a puppy.

Speaker 7 (03:59):
If he was seven weeks old, only get him.

Speaker 4 (04:03):
You know, it's interesting. What do you do when the
dog pees and poops? When you come back and you
find it, what do you do?

Speaker 7 (04:11):
I will scold him, and then I will walk him
to the door and take him outside.

Speaker 4 (04:16):
Okay, all right, firstly, don't scold him anymore. Okay, when
you walk back and you find it, don't pay any
attention to him at all. Just put his lesh on
unless you catch him doing it. Unless you catch him
in the act. That's the only time you quickly make
a correction. And it's not a scolding. It's like, hey,
stop it, and then you take him outside immediately, and
then you praise him when he goes outside. But when

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he does it and you don't catch him, you walk back,
you take him, you chain him up, take him to
where he can't see you clean it up. It's very
important that he doesn't see you clean it up. In
other words, dogs are always watching us for cues, for
leadership cues, and a dog will figure out how to
get attention from his owner. And it's really strange people.

(04:58):
So I'm sorry what you say, buddy.

Speaker 7 (05:00):
I said, oh yeah, and these hes. These are so
extremely intelligent. They learn really quick.

Speaker 4 (05:07):
The other thing I was going to tell you after
I tell you about this is is the fear that
your dog has and how to you know, how to
alleviate that. Dogs are nervous for lots of reasons. But anyway,
you take your dog away from the you know, the accident,
you clean it up and pay no attention to your dog.
It's very very important you pay no attention to your dog.
And as soon as you stop paying attention to the dog,
and make sure that the dog understands that, you know,

(05:29):
you only want them to go to the bathroom outside,
which is very important that they understand that. A lot
of times you think they do, but they don't. So
the important thing is no attention after the accident, and
absolutely do not let the dog see you clean it
up because some dogs get a big rise out of that,
you know. So, and then use an enzyme cleaner to
alleviate the smell. You've got to get the smell out

(05:50):
of the dog will keep marking the same spot. So
so take your dog out.

Speaker 7 (05:56):
I think is the name of the product.

Speaker 4 (05:58):
Yeah, that's a good product. So take your dog out
before your you know, you plan to walk away, and
you might also try confining the dog either in his
crate or in a small space because they don't like
to go there, and that will pretty much hopefully eliminate
the dog going when you're not around, so that you
can control you know, the dog. Now as far as
the fear goes, the one thing that you don't want

(06:18):
to do, believe it or not, when your dog is
shaking and fearful again, is to give your dog attention.
So because your dog will continue to be fearful and
shake because he's getting attention. So you want to teach
him to be calm and happy and mellow without you around.
And in every situation. It's not uncommon for dogs to
be scared of doorways and shadows and hallways. It's very

(06:41):
common because a dog will have a bad experience in
a hallway or a bad experience in a in a
in a certain part of the house, or looking at
his shadow and will associate that bad experience with either
the door, the doorway, the hallway, or the shadow or
something like that. So you have to turn those into
good experiences by figuring out and watching your dog. Watch
your dog to see what is making your dog afraid.

(07:02):
Try to notice what the fear trigger is, and when
you figure it out, you can eliminate the fear trigger
over time just by sitting. Like let's say your dog
was afraid of his shadow. You would just sit there
in front of the dog with his shadow there, and
you would give him treats and invite him into the
shadow and pet him. No parade though, no hugging, no comforting,
just good dog, give him a treat until he starts

(07:23):
to associate either the doorway or the shadow with something
pleasurable like you giving him a treat. It's a very
powerful trigger, you know, to change an association. It's very
powerful when you use positive reinforcement. So watch your dog
because he's watching you, and be a leader, Be a strong,
confident leader, and your dog will calm down.

Speaker 7 (07:45):
Yeah, I've just never seen that in the husk either,
generally very calm, very happy, go lucky dogs.

Speaker 4 (07:51):
All dogs are different.

Speaker 7 (07:52):
You know you have night he has nightmares. You will
jump up and run smack into a wall because it's
not even a way.

Speaker 4 (08:00):
Know what all dogs do that? I mean my dog
does that too. He's chasing someone.

Speaker 7 (08:03):
I've ever seen one do that. This one's the first
one that I've had, you know, four or five dogs
in my life. I've always kept until from first till death.

Speaker 4 (08:11):
So does that rattle you? Do you get all? You
get the nervous when that happens yourself? Do you notice
that in yourself?

Speaker 8 (08:17):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (08:17):
I noticed that. The last incident, I thought he had
just about wiped himself out. He jumped up and ran
smack into the coffee table. And I have a very
heavy coffee table, was one of the ones with the
like marbletop on it, and he moved the coffee table
two feet and just started crying. He wouldn't get up
off the floor. I didn't know what had happened to him.

Speaker 4 (08:37):
You know, I want you to make a conscious, a
conscious move in your mind, a conscious to consciously think
of being calm and being a leader and being that
dog's confidence. I want you to be confident in yourself
and be that dog's rock. And when you start acting
that way, your dog's gonna mellow right out. I guarantee

(08:58):
it'll take a couple of days, but you'll notice a
behavioral change in your dog. Is you gain confidence, your
dog will too. They feed off of us. You wouldn't
believe it, but they do.

Speaker 7 (09:08):
Okay, Well, I know he's with me twenty four to seven.
I mean it's unless I go to the store or
something like that when I'm at home. But in the truck.
You know, he's with me every day in the truck,
and he doesn't go anywhere that I'm not there.

Speaker 4 (09:19):
So just be confident and envision the outcome you want.
Just think if you want your dog to stay, think
of him staying in your head. Think of exactly what
you want in your head.

Speaker 7 (09:29):
All right, I appreciate the info.

Speaker 4 (09:31):
Well try, Thank you, buddy, thanks for calling.

Speaker 9 (09:33):
You know, thank you.

Speaker 10 (09:34):
Why why couldn't you say this a long time ago?
I mean you knew I got four, I got fear you.
I got four male kar and tarry us. Okay, And
I've talked about a million times that I can't get
them to stop peeing. But I got to tell you,
they see me cleaning up and come down with the
mob and why you mother and you know xxx whatever,
and the dog's all run and then they watched me clean.

Speaker 9 (09:55):
It up, so they shouldn't watch me clean it upp.

Speaker 4 (09:58):
No, no, no, you see, any time, people don't understand that,
even when you get mad at a dog. You're giving
your dog attention. Even when you get upset, you're giving
your dog attention. The object is to never give a
dog attention unless the dog is doing what you want.
And so when you give a dog attention by either
scolding or yelling or cleaning up in front of the dog,
the dog is very happy about that. They love attention.

(10:19):
It doesn't matter if it's good or bad. Attention is
the whole ball of wax for a dog. But then
they're not happy when they're like that. They're manic because
they're in charge of you, and they don't want to
be in charge of you.

Speaker 9 (10:30):
They want you to be my company to the dog.

Speaker 10 (10:32):
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Yeah, but there's nothing Hell doesn't know about seventies rock
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Speaker 1 (13:11):
Hey Myron, how are you doing?

Speaker 12 (13:13):
I'm fine. How you doing today?

Speaker 1 (13:15):
Well, let me introduce you to doctor Debbie over here.
She's probably the best vet in the country and hopefully
she can help you with whatever is going on with you.

Speaker 12 (13:22):
Oh, hello, how you doing? I have a cat? When
I have my mother's cat, and she's about ten and
twelve years old, and two Sunday night, Monday and Tuesday,
she went into the closet and wouldn't come out, she
wouldn't eat, she didn't even use the restroom in a closet,
and she was hissing and scratching like she didn't want

(13:45):
them to bother her. And I was wondering what was
going on with her?

Speaker 3 (13:51):
Okay, Now, is she the only katy in your mom's house?

Speaker 12 (13:55):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (13:56):
Yeah, the only pet I should even ask about that.

Speaker 12 (13:59):
Yeah, yes, she's the only head if she don't even
go outside. She has been outside a couple of years
because she doesn't even like going outside.

Speaker 4 (14:05):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (14:06):
And then is there anything going on in your mom's house?
So we've been moving new people, visitors, anything.

Speaker 4 (14:11):
Different going on? No? No, my mother?

Speaker 12 (14:13):
Does you say have visitor? The CIP for family?

Speaker 4 (14:16):
Okay?

Speaker 3 (14:17):
All right, Well, when he can't does this kind of unexpectedly,
and we do a lot of sleuth work first. That's
my first step. Is I like to really look at
the things that we don't think might be upsetting or
a problem. So I've had cats freak out when a
new sofa chair was moved into a room. It's certain
things can freak them out. So we really have to
look at that and make sure there's nothing that we
can identify in changing the environment, changing people, animals, or

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routines in the house. All of this is very important
making sure even the litter location substrates haven't changed. If
something has freaked her out made her fearful, just she
may be retreating and completely hiding. But the thing that
concerns me is it doesn't sound like we got a
lot of different changes going in and it sounds like
your mom's is pretty stable there. So the first thing

(15:03):
that I worry is that there could be something medically
going on, whether it's something painful or especially if she
stopped eating. Yeah, yeah, So that definitely is that raises
some real red flags that we could have a medical problem.
And as much as we might want her to tell
us when something's a problem, some cats they do this

(15:24):
and it just makes it harder to help them and
to know how to approach that. So we have to
be cautious and safe because if she's hissing her and
grewelin and not wanting you near, you know, certainly we
want you to be safe and approaching her, But there
are some things you can try to kind of lure
her into to get closer to her, hopefully so we
can confine her container. Look at her or even just

(15:44):
getting her into a carrier, and to have your vet
take care of things and do a good thorough exam.
So for me, if it's a closet, you know, we
could definitely keep that area quiet contained. There are feel
away type products which are pheromones, which are natural scent
hormones that can have a calming effect. That could be
something we can spray in the room to kind of
help kind of simmer her down and hopefully kind of

(16:06):
take the edge off a little bit. For cats, we
use food as a reward, so she's not eating. We
can't really do a whole lot in that realm, but
things like tuna fish, some really stinky a can cat foods.
If you heat those in the microwave, those can be
very appetizing. So that might be a way to kind
of gain trust to have her allow the approach of
either you or you know, your mother to kind of

(16:28):
investigate things further. But we're really going to have to
get her, i think, to a vet to make sure
that we can identify if there's something wrong medically, and
you know, it has to be within your comfort zone.
But I've had folks where you know, they take a
large blanket, kind of toss that over kitty and then
safely kind of scooch them into a box, a cat

(16:48):
carry or something so that we can move that exam,
you know, to another site where you know you have
professionals that can get a good look at her. But
I share your concern. It definitely sounds like something we
need to get her checked out pretty soon.

Speaker 12 (17:02):
Okay, Well, thank you so much for your time.

Speaker 3 (17:06):
Okay, good luck, and let us know how that goes.
The other thing is, occasionally, if your mom has had
your kitty into the vet recently, if there's something in
her history that has proven a problem in the past,
then they may direct you with some other types of things.
So for some kidies, I might even prescribe a tranquilizer
if it seems appropriate to their previous health. So that
might be another thing to try.

Speaker 12 (17:28):
Ok yeah, because she's been a very nice fire can
it is all of a sudden, it's just out of
the ordinary. It just popped up, yeah, not unusual.

Speaker 3 (17:39):
Yeah yeah. So oh gosh, Well, I hope everything's okay
with this baby.

Speaker 12 (17:43):
All right, thank you so much for your time.

Speaker 1 (17:45):
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excited about Valentine's Day. Well, no, that's a lot. I
don't even know. You can tell that I riff when
I do these when I really I'm not excited. I'm
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saw greeting cards Valentine's Day cards for your dog or cat.
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Speaker 18 (19:07):
What?

Speaker 17 (19:07):
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they bend over to the dog roses are red, violets
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Speaker 17 (19:25):
What is Valentine's Day cards for your pet? I mean,
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This is an animal radio news update.

Speaker 5 (21:03):
I'm Stacey Cohen for Animal Radio. Well, this is a
case that may reflect a pet owner's worst nightmare. It
has made its way to the Texas Supreme Court. They
have to decide if a family can place sentimental value
on a pet that was accidentally euthanized. About three years ago,
Jeremy and Catherine Medland's family dog, Avery, escaped from their
yard during a thunderstorm. Well days later, the Medlins were

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happy to hear the Fort Worth Animal Control had found
their dog and they could come by and pick them up. Well,
Jeremy and his two kids went to go pick up
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and accidentally euthanizing avery will. In nineteen sixty three, Texas
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The Court's going to rule on this case sometime in
the next nine months. A Western Ohio restaurant is trying
to help a patron get his pet chicken back.

Speaker 4 (22:19):
Peaches, Bar and Grill.

Speaker 5 (22:20):
And Yellow Springs has offered a one hundred dollars reward
for the safe return of a pet named Falcon. No
questions asked. It says a customer tucked the live chicken
into his backpack when he came in to watch a
live band perform, but he says the pack with his
chicken was stolen. The Dayton Daily News reports that the
customer said the chicken was his traveling companion. No other

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information was immediately available Friday. What kind of companion is
a chicken? Does anybody know? Does anybody have a chicken
as a pet that you just take with you places.
I can't even understand that lay an egg in your backpack,
you can't even put it down. The high cost of
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could be in trouble if the price doesn't drop soon.
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of Operation Wildlife. They're based in Lynnwood and they have
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and other non domestic animals. Mice and rats are even
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OL returns about sixty nine percent of the animals that
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Speaker 1 (24:09):
Jerry on the phone, Hi Jerry, how are you fine?

Speaker 11 (24:14):
Well?

Speaker 3 (24:14):
Hi Jerry, this is doctor Debbie.

Speaker 4 (24:16):
What can I do for you?

Speaker 16 (24:19):
I'm calling in regards to a cat that I had
gotten at the Pasadena Humane Society in November. And the
cat is about five years old, it only had one eye.
And unfortunately the cat he is attacking people for no

(24:43):
reason at all.

Speaker 4 (24:45):
Okay, and and.

Speaker 16 (24:48):
Uh, I went to the care center for my arm today.
But what I was calling about is I I didn't
know if, if if the cat would be able, if
I should take it back to the Humane Society. But

(25:08):
I've already taken it back. Oh goodness, the cat bit
my husband and it bit the back of my daughter's head.

Speaker 4 (25:18):
Oh my gosh.

Speaker 3 (25:19):
What were the contexts?

Speaker 7 (25:21):
When?

Speaker 3 (25:21):
When did the bites occur? What was going on in
the household?

Speaker 16 (25:25):
Well, right now, I'm my daughter. My daughter is thirty,
so she lives lives alone. But right now I'm I'm
living alone right now because we have a home in
North Carolina.

Speaker 19 (25:37):
My husband sell that what was.

Speaker 3 (25:41):
Particularly what was going on right before the cats bit
the people? What was doing?

Speaker 16 (25:49):
Well, my husband was petting the cat's head when he
bit my husband's fan, and my daughter was just sitting
in a chair and the cat was on the back
of the chair and the cat gets the back of
her head. And then last night I was sitting on
the couch and I was working on my computer and

(26:12):
he just launched at me and grabbed my arm. And
when he did me, I mean the two bottom teeth
and the two tap k nineteen went away in my arm.

Speaker 3 (26:27):
Yeah, well, definitely, And I feel horrible for your situation
there and having to give that baby up. You know,
the thing when we look at with cats with aggression,
they aren't the same things as dogs, So we always
have to kind of throw out all the rules of
what we know about dogs. Cats motivation to bite can
be very different, and we always have to look at
the context. Is what is the trigger point, what's going

(26:48):
on in the environment right before that, and how does
that affect the cat.

Speaker 4 (26:53):
So in some.

Speaker 3 (26:54):
Situations, such as when cats are being petted, the first
thing to realize is cats don't pet each You never
see that happening. You see them grooming and licking, but
they never take their hand touch it or their low
paw touch another cat's head and run that all the
way down their body. It can be too stimulating for cats.
You know, they make chin rub, they may groom in

(27:15):
the face, but they really don't do a petting behavior
to each other. So when we as humans do that,
if a cat has a really low trigger for physical contact,
it can set them off. So you have to recognize,
at least in that situation that this kitty does not
like extended physical contact, and you have to watch for
signs that when that kitty is getting upset, you stop

(27:36):
the behavior, give them a treat of reward, and you
leave the situation. And we have to set patterns like that.
Now some of those other it sounds like we'd have
to get a little bit more in depth with what
particularly was going on there, but you know, territories and
all of that type of thing really come into play.
So you know, I guess for future reference, you know,
with kitties that have aggression and behavioral issues, I always

(28:00):
go to environmental enrichment. Cats on deck and a lot
of different things like where we have cat trees vertical height.
Cats need that to feel a sense of getting away
and feeling safe, whether it's from other people or other cats.
So we want to give them that, and we want
to give them outlets for physical activity, hunting behaviors, prey behavior,

(28:20):
so that we take the humans out of that loop.
So those might be interactive toys, food toys where we
don't just put the food in the bowl. We make
them bad around a toy and knock the food out
of that and then that's how they spend their day
getting food. They don't just walk up to the bowl,
eat it and then say what am I going to
do with myself for eleven more hours of the day.
So just I would keep that kind of thing in

(28:41):
mind when we get into a kitty that's having these
type of problems.

Speaker 20 (28:44):
Okay, wellby that particular kitty, your kitty that you gave
back blames people for hurting him and it has something
to do with his eye.

Speaker 16 (28:52):
Oh I see. Well I've had three cats that live
to be in their twenties and they ever acted like
this cat before. So what I wanted to know if
I should take the cat back? And because like I
said in last night, it was ten o'clock and there

(29:15):
was nothing going on in the environment. I was just
calmly working on my computer. He was sitting next to me,
and then that's when he he bit my arm.

Speaker 3 (29:28):
Yeah, a lot of these things they do take, you know,
pretty extensive training and a lot of lifestyle changes. Sometimes
it means bringing a behaviorist into the home, and there
are can't behaviorists and a lot of that. You can
find help either through your local veterinarian or different behaviorists
that might be available locally, but that's usually my resource

(29:49):
that I try to intervene if we can't intervene now,
if there's a risk of physical injury to the humans
in the home. I cannot blame anybody in your situation
for making a tough decision as you have, But I
would just hope we extinguish all the possible solutions here
before we get to a point where we have to
relinquish the kiddie. But human biting, you know, or biting

(30:10):
humans is certainly a huge problem, and I would not
want anyone to be in jeopardy.

Speaker 9 (30:15):
In that household.

Speaker 16 (30:16):
Now I have another course, and I'm quite concerned about Okay.
I went on the Pasadena website a couple hours after
I took the cat back and they have the cat
back up to be adopted, and it's supposed to be
quarantine for ten days. And I called and I called

(30:39):
the Basadena Humane Society and they said they would take
it off the website and they still haven't done it.
So wouldn't you be quite concerned about that that they're
going to adopt this cat out again when it should
be in quarantine for ten days for biting someone.

Speaker 3 (30:58):
Yeah, And then I think I would take up with
the actual authorities within the shelter. Sometimes, you know, these
type of things can be turfed out to other people
within the facility, and we want to make sure that
the manager of the facility is aware of that.

Speaker 16 (31:12):
The doctor, the man, Yeah, I asked specifically.

Speaker 3 (31:18):
Yeah, And I would also hope that we've you know,
conveyed to them and that they can convey to potential
families that you know, we do have some issues to
work through with this kitty, and we always want to
be upfront when where relinquishing a PAP or when they're
adopting them out. On the other end, is that you know,
if we've had issues in a previous household, I want
to keep in mind that, you know, make sure We're
not getting into another situation that won't be have the

(31:40):
time or the tools to deal with that. So well,
my best thoughts go out to that kitty and I hope,
I hope we have a good forever home that they find.
And I'm so sorry you had to go through that
that that's very heart wrenching to have that happen.

Speaker 1 (31:53):
Yeah, okay, thank you for your call today, Jerry.

Speaker 4 (32:02):
I would love to go on vacations, but I don't
want to leave our Charlie behind.

Speaker 1 (32:05):
I agree.

Speaker 21 (32:06):
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you can stay with your pet. They also offer reviews,
so you have an idea about pet policy to include
any restrictions, fees, and what pedimenities to expect.

Speaker 5 (32:17):
That's dare I say, pawsome, what.

Speaker 4 (32:20):
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Charlie agrees, when do we leave?

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Speaker 7 (32:43):
Hi, listen to John O'Hurley.

Speaker 22 (32:45):
You're listening to Animal Radio and remember, most importantly.

Speaker 23 (32:48):
Please spay or newter.

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Speaker 1 (32:57):
Hey John, how are you doing.

Speaker 23 (33:01):
I'm doing good. Thanks for having me on your program.

Speaker 1 (33:05):
Oh well, Cole, I'm glad you're listening. What's going on?
I understand you want to talk to our dog trainer,
Alan Cable.

Speaker 23 (33:11):
Oh well yeah, I just they were talking earlier when
I had the program on about like homosexual dogs and
that sort of thing, and I just thought i'd call and, uh,
you know, I have a friend. It's not my dog,
but it's a friend's dog.

Speaker 3 (33:34):
How the story starts.

Speaker 23 (33:37):
And anyway, this dog, you know, I go visit this
my friend maybe a couple of times a year, and
every time I go over there, he has this dog
that's a mix. I don't know what kind of mix,
but it's a small dog and it's real creepy. What
he does?

Speaker 8 (33:56):
He say?

Speaker 23 (33:58):
You're sitting outside on the patio in a conversation and
he'll kind of sneak up and he'll position himself so
his he'll kind of creep up while you're not really
paying attention to him, and he'll get his male dog
part there and he'll possible and uh, he won't h

(34:25):
like trying to hump your leg. But are you still there?

Speaker 4 (34:29):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (34:30):
We're still here.

Speaker 4 (34:30):
Yeah, Yeah, we're here, buddy. Yeah.

Speaker 23 (34:33):
And it's just kind of you don't really notice it,
but then you look down and this this dog is
positioning himself just as close as possible to you as
he can, and he'll have his leg kind of open,
and it's real obvious what he's doing.

Speaker 14 (34:49):
I mean, it's what is what is he doing?

Speaker 4 (34:51):
What do you what do you think he's doing?

Speaker 23 (34:53):
Well, he's getting some sort of while he's doing this
on purpose, and he's getting some sort of pleasure out
of positioning himself.

Speaker 4 (35:07):
What makes you think he's getting pleasure out of it? Though?
What tells you that? No?

Speaker 23 (35:12):
I mean, I don't know if it's pleasure.

Speaker 4 (35:15):
I mean it's sort of okay, John, Hey, John, you
know what dogs do a lot of things that are
creepy to people. I mean they're they're they're humping and
all that nonsense. That's really creepy to people. People don't
like when they see that. They think it's weird and
disgusting because you know, we're human and humans don't do that,
you know, although some of us would like to, humans
don't do that, so it's kind of weird. But in

(35:36):
this case, you know that's a behavior. And the first
thing you do always, and doctor w will probably concur
is you always take the dog to the vet to
check him out, make sure there's nothing physically going on.
But more than likely dogs do stuff like that for
dominance and also because they're stressed, so they really want
to just dominate you. They just want to be in charge.
And it's a weird way that they do that. They

(35:58):
come over and they on top of you, or they
try to climb on top of your leg or another dog.
You'll see it all the time, and it's just as
a way of being in charge, of showing the person's
social status, who's in control, trying to be in control
of others. So that's all it is, and you pretty
much just got to just correct it and stop it
from happening when it does. And another reason they do

(36:20):
it is because they're stressed out you know, that's how
they respond sometimes when they're excited or they're nervous, or
they're afraid, and it appears they're aroused, but pretty much
it's not like that. It's it's not that they're aroused,
they're just they're just freaked out.

Speaker 23 (36:36):
Oh okay, because myself and others have commented about this
dog and said, yeah, that's that's a creepy dog, just
because when he does this, he's not there trying to
get a pat on the head or anything like that.
It's it's I've noticed that where he's climbed under the
chair I was sitting on and position himself like this.

(36:59):
I dodn't even know about it until I happened to
glance over and sure enough, there he is doing this.

Speaker 3 (37:07):
So is he humping?

Speaker 4 (37:08):
That's what I got to hear.

Speaker 3 (37:09):
And nobody said this word?

Speaker 4 (37:10):
Is he humping? Nobody said that. Nobody said doctor deb Wie,
we needed you come on.

Speaker 3 (37:15):
I got to hear the details. Is he actually getting
interaction because dogs get like little swoolen parts on either
side of their penis. We need to know is he
doing that too, or is he just kind of sitting.

Speaker 4 (37:24):
With his parts on you?

Speaker 8 (37:26):
Yeah?

Speaker 23 (37:27):
No, I didn't notice the dog erection, but okay, he's
just trying to get his parts as close as possible
to you or myself or whomever the person is. And
and and he's doing it in sort of a secretive
kind of he's sneaking around to do this, and he

(37:51):
does it while you're not expecting it. And then the
next thing, you know, you look down and and here
this dog position himself where maybe.

Speaker 4 (37:58):
He's maybe he's a dirty old man came back as
a dog.

Speaker 23 (38:04):
Yeah, And I'm laughed with about it with some friends.

Speaker 4 (38:08):
That do you know. My guess is that he's just
he's just a he's just a poorly socialized dog, you know.
And and you know, he doesn't know how to act,
and nobody's teaching him how to act. And I know
it looks creepy to you, but you know, it's pretty
normal in the dog world to do stuff like that.
You just have to pretty much. You know, they do
it all the time to other dogs. When they start

(38:28):
doing it to people, it's you know, it's it's kind
of like they're they're trying to be dominant. I think
that's probably what's going on. But you should still take
him to the vet and check him out.

Speaker 23 (38:39):
Okay, I'll let the owner know that. I guess that's
not my dog.

Speaker 1 (38:46):
Yeah, John, reappreciate your call today.

Speaker 4 (38:51):
It's not John's dog, but John Watson.

Speaker 23 (38:57):
Well that was my only comment and she heard.

Speaker 1 (39:01):
Thanks for coming me.

Speaker 9 (39:05):
It is good stuff.

Speaker 4 (39:06):
I would I would. I would sneak up on the
house and peer through the window when no one's around,
see what the owners doing.

Speaker 9 (39:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 23 (39:14):
Really, huh.

Speaker 1 (39:15):
Thanks for your call, John, We appreciate it.

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Speaker 4 (40:51):
Lest let's not forget the dream Team.

Speaker 1 (40:53):
To my left, dog father Joey Volani, to my rights
dog trainer Alan Cable. Straight in center, doctor Debbie answering
your vet medical questions. Also with US animal communicator Joey Turner.
It's Stacy Cohen working hard in the newsroom. You know
I always say you're working hard.

Speaker 9 (41:09):
But are you well.

Speaker 5 (41:10):
I've got a story coming up about a family whose
dog was accidentally euthanized, and of course they're suing. You
know what this did happen to me once. I had
a Saint Bernard and he was having a throat operation.
He had one of those things where he was constantly
going you.

Speaker 4 (41:28):
Know that dry cough.

Speaker 5 (41:29):
Anyway, it's called an elongated palette, and the vet gave
him too much anesthesia and it killed him. So it's
a horrible, horrible thing. I'll tell you about this story
though it happened in Texas, coming up on the Animal
Radio news.

Speaker 25 (41:45):
You know, I was in a really good mood until
you brought that whole thing up, you know, I mean,
I know, bad things happen at times that you don't want,
but something like that, I know, it's just you know,
I don't know that veterinarian would disappear for was my dog?

Speaker 1 (42:01):
I bet I bet it would. Yeah, put out a
hit on him, wouldn't you, Joey? Yeah, absolutely absolutely, he
might even take care of yourself?

Speaker 9 (42:12):
What you never you never get involved yourself. You got
people for that.

Speaker 4 (42:16):
You got to keep your eyes clean.

Speaker 9 (42:17):
That's right.

Speaker 1 (42:19):
Let's give Line six a little attention today. Hi, Mary, Harry,
Mary Anne, how are you doing?

Speaker 8 (42:24):
Oh?

Speaker 26 (42:25):
I'm doing fine, thank you.

Speaker 1 (42:26):
What's going on?

Speaker 26 (42:27):
Well, my dog isn't I have a shot suit and
she's sixteen and her back legs are bad, so she
she's dragging them and I've had her to the vet,
but at her age, I don't want to put her
through surgery and such. So she's not eating. She's drinking

(42:53):
and if we cook her up a little chicken, she'll
eat some. But she's in pain. And I was wondering
if I could give her Saint Joseph's baby aspirin, and
what would you suggest? I was thinking of maybe baby
food in a syringe so that she gets some nourishment.

Speaker 3 (43:12):
So do we know what particularly is causing her to
not use her legs? Have they found a problem with
her spine?

Speaker 16 (43:19):
Is?

Speaker 4 (43:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 26 (43:20):
They did a test on her. They thought it was something,
oh doctor, I really don't remember. That was a few
years ago, and they thought it was something that was
a really big deal. And they did this test on
her and they told me, thank goodness, it wasn't and
they gave her pain medication and fish oil and a

(43:45):
glossamine as something yes, And so I've been giving her
that for the past few years, a half a pill
a day and the squirt of the fish oil, and
she's been okay. But what happens is she sleeps bed
with us and her vision isn't all that good anymore,
and she's fallen out of the bed a couple of times,

(44:06):
and I think that has put her into like a
you know, she's having an attack. It's hurting her because
up until a few days ago she was fine, so
I don't think anything would come on from a few
days ago. You know, she showed her weakness in her
left leg, but when she was walking she was okay.

(44:27):
But if she you know, she started to run and
try to make a strap turn, it'd give away, but
she could pick it up. But now she's just draking
both her legs. And I think it's because she fell
off of the bed and somehow hurt herself. And she
also wears diapers, and while I'm at work, I had
my husband change her diapers during the day because she's

(44:49):
getting really wet because she drinks so much. Okay, she
may have pulled her legs, maybe trying to put the
diaper on it. He may have injured her.

Speaker 3 (44:58):
Okay, well, Mariamne, bless your heart. I mean, you have
a geriatrical little girl here.

Speaker 4 (45:03):
And in managing her.

Speaker 3 (45:06):
Yeah, so, I mean you got a lot going on
as far as with keeping her tidy back there and
making sure she can get around. You know, for me,
there's two things that from what you're saying, that really
concerned me. One is that's she's not eating. So as
much as we might want to treat pain with a
lot of different things, if a pet's not eating, shoving

(45:27):
anything down their mouth is not going to help, but
actually can make things worse. And I know a lot
of folks think of aspirin as kind of one of
those simple things you can give, but it actually can
be very detrimental, and we no longer recommend aspirin as
a way to treat arthritic pain. It actually causes a
little micro ulcers pretty much with every dose that we give,

(45:48):
So if we stuck a tube down the throat and
looked at it, we could see ulceration in the stomach.
The other thing is when we use aspirin, it takes
such a long time to eliminate from the body that
we can't use other good medicines that can have a
more immediate effect.

Speaker 4 (46:02):
So we might have to wait a week before I.

Speaker 3 (46:04):
Can pull out another type of a nonsteroidal pain reliever
to use because it takes that long to get out
of the body, so we don't have this gal eating.
So I would definitely endorse things like you know, baby
food or some different canned dog foods that you can
kind of heat up, add a little bit of rice,
a little cind of sheese, things like that, see if
we can get her eating, and then if you can't

(46:25):
get her eating immediately, you know, I'd really have to
say working with your veterinarian to have them assess her,
because if she's in pain where she is uncomfortable, we
maybe getting to the point where we can't manage that,
or we can't manage it with pills alone, and we
might need to try some injectable medications. So there may

(46:46):
be some things that we can try on in kind
of a hospice kind of way. But I just don't
want to miss that point of identifying that, you know,
we're not keeping her around too long and to the
point where she's you know, uncomfortable and suffering and she's
shutting down.

Speaker 26 (47:01):
Yeah, doctor were looking at her and she's not her heart.
I mean, she's got a lot of life in her
eyes in her face, and she's not rithogic, she's just
she's just dragging her back and she is hurt. I
haven't given her any aspirin for a few days, and
I don't really give her aspirin, and I was giving
her a quarter of a bayer and a few days ago.

(47:25):
I says, we can't do this every day because I
was aware of it being harmful, you know, to them.
So she's really had in the SA three days, she
hasn't had anything, Okay, okay, So I will try feeding her.
We bought food. We bought some dog food that looks
like she may be interested. And we did buy the

(47:46):
baby food. And is there anything in particular, peas, carrots,
you know, I.

Speaker 3 (47:53):
Just I try to make sure we're not using anything
that has onion powder. That's just kind of all those
ingredients that you know, kim hard for dogs. So we
don't want to do that. And then you know, even
if if we can add and if she starts eating
and we can get her on something for long term pain,
my choice might be adding something like tramadol or gava penton.
Those can be taken pretty well. Maybe it's mild sedation,

(48:16):
but you know, I think for your gall if we're
worried about the stomach upset things like that, that might
be a good way to go to add into fish
oils and to add into the joint supplements.

Speaker 26 (48:27):
I appreciate it so much. Thank you so much for falling.

Speaker 4 (48:30):
Okay, thank you.

Speaker 26 (48:32):
Yeah, we love our girl.

Speaker 1 (48:36):
Take care of mariad you. Thank you so much for calling.

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Speaker 17 (48:59):
Vinie Penn Party Animal. I'm just going to come right
out and say it. My sister and my brother in
law killed the family pet and ate it for dinner,
and ate it for dinner. I'm just going to say
it with my nephews, my two small nephews. If that's
not further proof of the economy being in turmoil, as

(49:20):
if any of you needed it. I don't know what
is killing the family pet and eating it for dinner.
You heard right, But I guess I should explain that
the family pet at the time and just for a
few days, was a lobster. Get a load of this.
My nephew has just begun fancying lobster. My sister tells

(49:42):
me recently, on the phone that they went out for
a seafood dinner. He tried lobster for the first time
and he loved it. So maybe in the good uncle
that I am and a big fan of lobster Graham.
I don't know how many of you out there are
familiar with lobster Graham. You can go right online and
send like a variety of different meals, you know, chowders
and even steaks and things like that, but of course

(50:04):
seafood and namely obviously lobsters. I said, I'm going to
be the good uncle Uncle Vinnie, even though they call
me Uncle Sam. But that's a real long story. So
I sent them out a little small order of lobsters
for the family. Well, his sister's got the bright idea.
She's going to open the box, open the crate when
it shows up with the boys, and when they see

(50:27):
that the live lobster in there that was sent along
with some chowders, as I said, and whatnot, the kids
scream in ecstasy and immediately named him Plankton. And my
sister or my brother leted to know what to do.
They're like, they think it's a pet. They're calling him Plankton.

(50:48):
They just they can't process that the lobster they've eaten
at restaurants, even though it looks exactly the same. Just
not moving is what they're going and they would ever
hear of eating it. So for three days they had
to kind of let the lobster hang around. I don't
know if it was three days. I'm kind of running

(51:08):
a mock right now, and then ultimately do what all
parents do and lie that plankton ran away one day
while they were at school. But hey, lobsters for dinner tonight.
We got it from there, and they just kind of
served it in a way that the kids didn't know
they're eating plankton? Am I the bad guy in this?

(51:28):
Because my sister screamed at them And when we opened
the crate, we didn't know it would be alive, waving
its arms at us. And what am I going to
send you a dead lobster? That's what Italians do when
they're threatening your life. Of course it's going to be alive.
It's the lobster, Graham, and we're going to send you
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it crawl around and the carpets for a while, and
the kids were playing with it, because of course the
claws were they're closed up with elastic bands and whatnot,
and I'm made to look at the bad guy. And now,
of course the children think that Plankton made his way
all the way from Las Vegas, Nevada, to Reno and
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my sister's collie that died a couple of years back.
Plankton and Sonny sounds like a Fox TV show, Vinnie
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Listen. We are in whatever you get one hundred and
fourst different cities right now on Animal Radio X satellite,
all across the country. Where are you listening today? I'm
telling you if you're listening in Vermont, that's because your
state has the most animal lovers in the nation. Pet owners. Yeah,
Vermont has the most pet owners in the nation, according

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to a brand new study. Seventy percent, almost seventy one
percent of everybody.

Speaker 25 (54:17):
I have been through it is it especially in pat
So let me tell you it's a it's a beautiful state.

Speaker 10 (54:22):
And I can see that because, you know what, there's
a lot of Vermont is an area that that really
has no like congested areas that I know of, and
you know, you know what, it's very conducive to have
a pet there.

Speaker 9 (54:33):
Great, great state.

Speaker 4 (54:34):
Aren't folks older there too? There's a there's an older
population there to the retirement. I don't know.

Speaker 9 (54:40):
I didn't do that census. I don't know.

Speaker 1 (54:43):
Well the number two state, yeah, well, the number two
state is New Mexico. Also kind of a dome scratcher.
This is these are the top ten states with the
highest lowest percentage of pet owners. Vermont number one, New
Mexico number two, followed by South Dakota, Oregon, Maine, and Washington.
I always knew Washington had a lot of pets. People
love their pets in Washington. What do you think is

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the state with the least animals? What do you think, Joey,
only because of New Jersey, New Jersey. I'm going to
say New Jersey. It's actually not true. New Jersey falls
fourth in that list.

Speaker 6 (55:17):
There, fourth in the least.

Speaker 1 (55:18):
Only about one in every two people have pets in Jersey.

Speaker 6 (55:22):
So what's the one that has the least What state
has the least amount.

Speaker 1 (55:24):
Of That would be d C Washington, d C oh
twenty one percent, which is extremely low.

Speaker 9 (55:31):
Did you have a drive through there? There's no room.
There's no room for a pet.

Speaker 1 (55:36):
And for those of you living in California, we come
in at fifty two point nine, so a little over
what people California?

Speaker 4 (55:45):
What number?

Speaker 23 (55:45):
A number.

Speaker 1 (55:48):
Down there? Right down? Hold it them there, see you
can see it. There you go, a little information for you.

Speaker 9 (55:54):
I love these state trivias.

Speaker 8 (55:56):
Yeah, I like that.

Speaker 1 (55:57):
Hey Bob, how are you doing? Oh I'm sorry, I
gotta press that button. Hey Bob, how are you doing?

Speaker 22 (56:01):
It's Todd.

Speaker 19 (56:02):
That's pretty good.

Speaker 22 (56:03):
How are you today?

Speaker 1 (56:04):
Very good?

Speaker 2 (56:04):
Todd?

Speaker 1 (56:06):
What's on your mind?

Speaker 12 (56:08):
Okay?

Speaker 22 (56:08):
What it is is we've purchased this little small swaha
and anyways to pound ah. And the thing about it
is is my wife wanting to put her on heartworm medicine.
And I've heard through rumors that the small dogs like
that don't need to be on heartworm medicine. And I

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don't really want to be taken advantage of.

Speaker 3 (56:34):
That's bullpucky. I'm telling you, a dog size does not
make them immune to developing heartworm disease. So you this
maybe needs to be on heartworm preventive.

Speaker 22 (56:45):
What part of the country are you in Mississippi?

Speaker 4 (56:48):
Oh my god, Yes, as the country.

Speaker 22 (56:50):
They go with us on the truck, all three dogs
and they are out here, and that was another thing
that's kind of concerned me.

Speaker 3 (57:00):
Yeah, now, and especially if you're doing a cross country traveling.
The American Heartworm Society has actually published statistics that shows
that all of the fifty major states do have heartworm disease,
different exposures and incidents of disease.

Speaker 4 (57:14):
But this maybe needs to be.

Speaker 3 (57:15):
Protected, and I'm not afraid of her being two pounds. Fortunately,
for the dosing range of most of these products, they
start at one pound and go all the way up
to maybe twenty five as the first interval. The important
thing to know with the heartworm preventatives is that the
dosage say, for a lot of the common ivermectin containing products,
they're actually in micrograms, which are one thousands of milligram,

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so we're talking very small, low doses. So this isn't
likely to be a problem even for a two pound dog.
So I am not worried at all, I want to
get your baby protected and listen to your wife for
God's sakes.

Speaker 22 (57:50):
Oh yeah, okay, Well I'm just I was just with well,
you know how it is. I want to hear it
from a professional.

Speaker 1 (57:57):
Well, you know what the answer always is to your wife,
you always, the answer always is yes, dear, Sorry I
was wrong.

Speaker 22 (58:04):
I agree with you that she is not here right now,
so she doesn't know I'm masking. Yeah, there, let's do that.

Speaker 4 (58:13):
No problem.

Speaker 22 (58:14):
The same is is we also have another chihuahua.

Speaker 12 (58:19):
Okay, he's all male.

Speaker 22 (58:21):
Oh my gosh, is he a male?

Speaker 4 (58:23):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (58:23):
You meaning he still has those two little brain cells
between his legs.

Speaker 22 (58:28):
The thing is is she's two pounds and he's seven pounds.
And if they made with a too.

Speaker 3 (58:35):
Big no, not necessarily.

Speaker 16 (58:39):
Now.

Speaker 3 (58:39):
The thing to know that two pounds to seven pounds
is a pretty close range. Now, if you were saying
that her boyfriend was going to be, you know, a
German shepherd, I'd be a little worried. But also when
we look at certain breeds chihuahua's, especially some of the
real applehead chuahas, sometimes just being a chihuahua, they have

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a big domey head. So just being in Chihuahua could
pose a risk for troubles during birth and delivery. Other
breeds like bulldogs bust interiors also have kind of big
round heads, so they can get stuck in the birth
canal irregardless of the size of the father. So before
you do make that commitment to breed, and we do
not advise breeding. There's oodles of dogs in the shelters.

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In fact, in Las Vegas, almost fifty percent of the
dogs in our shelters are chihuahua's, So we don't need
more of them. We don't need to make more as
lovely as they are.

Speaker 22 (59:34):
Makes such pretty suppies. See because she is black and
white and has a little bold inner or can.

Speaker 3 (59:41):
Aw, she sounds lovely. But you know what I'm gonna
tell you is that every day, gorgeous, lovely little black
and white chows are put to sleep because everyone keeps
breeding these babies. So I would have to say I'm
not a fan of breeding these babies. If you do
need to do it, and you feel compelled to do it,
make sure you do consult with your veterinarian. We need
to have these babies up to date on their shots

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and be prepared for a possible sea section, and that's
one thing people aren't always ready for. Yeah, there's health
risks there well, and you know costs too. I had
a family they weren't prepared for a sea section. They
thought it'd be a great experience, and then you know,
fifteen hundred dollars later, they're like, I can't afford this. Well,
great reason to spay neuter. So think think about that, Todd.
Just my little commercial message there, and I wish your

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babies very well and hope they're doing. Go ahead and
get that baby on heart and preventive right away.

Speaker 1 (01:00:29):
Thanks for listening there, Todd. We appreciate it. Bet he
didn't expect that barrage there what he called possibly Wow.

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This is an Animal Radio news update.

Speaker 5 (01:01:44):
I'm Stacey Cohen for Animal Radio. Well, many people can't
seem to get a good night's sleep, and they already
have stress, caffeine, or their spouse snores. But researchers at
Mayo Clinic Center for Sleep mediciner finding there's another surprising
reason behind those tired eyes, dogs and cats. I'm one
of those people. More than half of the people coming
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have reported sharing their bedrooms and off in their beds
with their pets. The physicians started to recommend they toss
the pets out. But you know what, if you're an
animal lover, that's not flying. Top veterinarians say there are
some other options to keep your pets clean, keep them lean,
and keep them on your sleep cycle. With help from
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Getting pets on the same sleep cycle can actually be fun,
says doctor Gary Landsberg. He's a veterinary behaviorist, and he
says when a pet sleeps all day, no surprise that
the animal wants to play all night. Exercise your pet
both physically and mentally. That'll help them settle down when
you do, and when they nudg you in the night, well,
if their medical, physical and mental needs have been addressed,

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just ignore them. Otherwise, your pet's going to get the
idea that you'll play with them whenever they want. I
think that's the idea my pets have. Well, oh, there's
a female chimp that really likes porn. Turns out some
chimpanzees are just as easily seduced by pornography as some humans.
According to Elmundo Gina, a chimp that lives at the

(01:03:11):
Seville zoo in Spain has become addicted to watching adult entertainment.
Primologist Pablo Herreros explains that they installed a TV in
Gina's enclosure to give her something to do at night. Well,
they also gave her the remote so she could flip
through the channels herself, and to their surprise, Gina's favorite
late night entertainment was porn. However, Herreros admits that many

(01:03:34):
of the employees at the zoo probably would have landed
on that channel as well. Who knew. There's an artist
in Siberia who has built one smelly serpent sculpture. According
to Ria Novosta, Mikaal Bapopsov has created a sculpture out
of cobra, a cobra sculpture out of cow dung. The

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snake was created to mark the coming of the year
of the Snae. According to the Chinese calendar, it begins
on February tenth. The snake is on display in the
Siberian village of Yoba, where Baposov works as a building manager.
He has seventeen cows that he raised and he harvested
the material from that. He says he made the cobra
so kids could play around and have some fun. Well,

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that's exactly what I would want my child playing on
cow dung. He modestly adds that it's not a sculpture,
but just a piece of work that he did. He's
already planning for when the Chinese calendar flips to the
year of the Horse. He says he plans on building
an equine statue and saying he's sure he can pull
it off. I wonder if he'll use horse dung for that. Nay,

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Speaker 1 (01:05:05):
Doctor Debbie answering your vet medical questions back from her vacation,
Thank god, dog trainer Alan Cable, dog father Joey Volani,
and animal communicator Joey Turner. Now, not that Doc Halligan
was was any kind of nightmare or anything like that,
but I gotta say you and uh, Doc Halligan, Joey,
there's something going on between you two. It's hard to
do a show with.

Speaker 23 (01:05:25):
You, not at all.

Speaker 10 (01:05:27):
You could have put the tail on me, and you
know it would it would have told all the you know,
want to tell the story They would have would have
told the tail, the tale, would have told the tale.

Speaker 4 (01:05:36):
Okay, well it seems like just Doc Calligan, who's maybe
it's one way. Maybe she's got a rabbit on that.

Speaker 9 (01:05:41):
Oh, I can understand that. I can definitely understand that.

Speaker 4 (01:05:44):
You know, yeah, because you're so irresistible.

Speaker 9 (01:05:48):
That's right.

Speaker 1 (01:05:51):
How did you get your animals? Are any of your
animals foster animals? Not just you, Joey, not you just
dal and not you Doc dev or Judy, but you listening,
Perhaps you fostered an animal for a couple of days.
You were just going to, you know, hold on to
it until they could find a suitable owner for it,
and then all of a sudden you found yourself in
love with that animal. Did they call that a foster failure?

(01:06:14):
That is a foster failure.

Speaker 9 (01:06:15):
I'm a foster failure.

Speaker 23 (01:06:16):
Are you?

Speaker 1 (01:06:17):
Which animal is foster?

Speaker 4 (01:06:18):
With?

Speaker 16 (01:06:18):
Two?

Speaker 10 (01:06:19):
One too, Buster, which was our second one, and the
last one we got Peanut. They both were fosters, and
and you know, I mean my wife talked me into
a Buster was very mutual.

Speaker 4 (01:06:29):
Peanut.

Speaker 9 (01:06:29):
There was no way. There's no way with keeping a
fourth one. There's no way, there's no way. Well, it's
two years, okay, and he's still here.

Speaker 1 (01:06:37):
I have on the phone with us Vivica Stoneberry. She
is the Queen of fostering.

Speaker 9 (01:06:42):
Can I call you?

Speaker 4 (01:06:43):
That?

Speaker 1 (01:06:43):
Would that be an appropriate title for you?

Speaker 13 (01:06:45):
And that's sweet? Thank you so much. I would love
to be the queen of fostering.

Speaker 1 (01:06:49):
Well, you're trying to encourage everyone to foster. It seems
like I see all your documentation, your propaganda here, and
it seems like you want more animals in my house.

Speaker 8 (01:06:57):
Oh I do, I do, I do.

Speaker 13 (01:06:59):
And it's just it's just I can't think of a
better way to spend a day. I was just at
an adoption event today after having delivered two of my fosters.
Two little foster purrs went to a fabulous home. And
last night I delivered a little foster pupp to his
forever home.

Speaker 1 (01:07:15):
And how many animals have you, keppt? How many do
you have?

Speaker 3 (01:07:18):
A you a foster failure?

Speaker 17 (01:07:19):
I have a few.

Speaker 13 (01:07:20):
I have see four dogs. Three are foster failures. I
have three cats. I'd say two of those are foster failures.

Speaker 19 (01:07:30):
And I goes on to.

Speaker 13 (01:07:31):
One pup named Lucy Lou for two years until my
mother was ready to adopters. That's a foster failure that
moved on and is living large in San Diego.

Speaker 4 (01:07:40):
Now, have got any men that are foster failures in
the closet there?

Speaker 13 (01:07:44):
No, I chose my husband. That didn't just happen that way.

Speaker 1 (01:07:49):
Well, a lot of us have considered fostering an animal
at one time or another, but we come up with
these excuses why we can't do it, which oftentimes are
not the actual real reasons. We're just coming up with
these excuses.

Speaker 6 (01:08:00):
If my dog doesn't behave, I can't bring another dog
in there, or you have to.

Speaker 1 (01:08:04):
Be the perfect foster parents.

Speaker 13 (01:08:07):
I love you bringing that up because I just want
I want to point out to anyone who's listening, if
you think your home, for example, is not the perfect home,
like your yard is too small or not enough space.
If you'd rather be in your home than be in
a cell or a cage in a shelter, then you
have the perfect home. That's my definition. If you'd rather

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be in.

Speaker 9 (01:08:28):
Your home, that's a great definition.

Speaker 13 (01:08:30):
And another reason people say that they don't want to
foster is they say, well, I could never give up
the animals.

Speaker 1 (01:08:36):
Yeah that's my problem.

Speaker 13 (01:08:37):
Yeah, Okay, well I want to tell you that's not
true if you're worth a great group, because with a
great group you, as a foster parent, you get final say.
And the reason I gave up little Rudolph last night
is because I can't give five dogs the love that
they need. And I was delighted out of all the applications,
he went to the family that I thought was the

(01:08:58):
best for him, that he is the best for. And
those two little foster kittens that I dropped off this morning,
I had them for four months until I met the
most wonderful family at an adoption event last weekend, and
I was delighted to leave them there.

Speaker 3 (01:09:13):
Do you follow up with these families over the years.

Speaker 23 (01:09:15):
I do.

Speaker 13 (01:09:16):
I become friends. They don't always have me over for Thanksgiving,
but you know I'm in both. If I don't have
any invitations this year, yeah, I have new friends. It's
just a whole wonderful community of people who love animals
and also love people, because if you don't love people,
what happens to all the animals?

Speaker 10 (01:09:32):
How long did it take you to get over the
emotional attachment though of being able to do that? You know,
that's the hardest part for me, is just you know,
is getting over that emotional attachment.

Speaker 9 (01:09:44):
I mean, I know in your heart and all that
you feel, you know this is probably the best for
the dog.

Speaker 13 (01:09:48):
Well, I tell you. When I follow my gut and
I release an animal to the perfect home for that animal,
I really am releasing. When I don't follow my gut
and my head is saying, well, that's a good home.
They have enough money, it's a good place. If it's
all the intellectual then I still hold some of those

(01:10:09):
in my head and heart because they're not in the
right homes. I don't know if that makes sense.

Speaker 9 (01:10:13):
That makes a lot of sense.

Speaker 1 (01:10:14):
Actually, what about the excuse that I use. I don't
have time or money.

Speaker 6 (01:10:19):
Yeah, we work all day.

Speaker 13 (01:10:20):
If you'd still rather be in your home and you
could hire someone. I've sometimes hired, for example, a dog
walker to come by when I can't let the pup
out and say you can't, but you have a friend
who could, Then you can team up. I've done a
number of co fostering. Oh really, I actually take in
the dog for example, because of my pack. But I
could be the promotional mom, and so I took that

(01:10:42):
puff to adoption events and I put him and her
all over the internet, and the mom that actually physically
homed him wasn't able to do that. So that's a
way of co fostering.

Speaker 6 (01:10:52):
Now, do these dogs have a better chance of finding
the forever homes as opposed to dogs that are just
kept in the shelter in cages for months at a time.

Speaker 13 (01:11:00):
Absolutely, because the fosters know there. We know our animals.
And so today at the adoption event, when I was
talking to people if they needed a cat that was
friendling with dogs, well we knew which ones were. We
take the guest work out. We really were matchmakers. We
fosters are matchmakers.

Speaker 1 (01:11:19):
I got to think that it's better to foster than
to adopt because you can try several different animals and
see which one works best in your household.

Speaker 13 (01:11:27):
That's absolutely right. I have a foster mom right now.
She's got two young children. They weren't really sure whether
they could bring in an animal, a dog. If she
had the time the energy could fit it in. And
so right now she is fostering a pup named Dash,
and she's starting to take walks and get more exercise,
and her little daughter's really enjoying Dash. So that may

(01:11:47):
very well turn into a foster failure, but it would
never have happened if she hadn't tried.

Speaker 1 (01:11:51):
Well, how was the best way to get involved with fostering?

Speaker 13 (01:11:54):
Okay, just go on the internet. Just type in, for example,
I'm in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Type in or say it's a boxer.
I would pick a breed. If you like a breed,
just look up salters in your area and then call them.
So you can either go through the phone book or
go on the internet, or talk to friends who are
involved in rescue.

Speaker 1 (01:12:12):
We are with Vivica stone Berry, the U foster Queen.
That's the title life giving her Well. Thank you, Vivia
cut thanks so much for joining us.

Speaker 16 (01:12:19):
Oh, thank you.

Speaker 13 (01:12:20):
This has been just a delight. Have a wonderful day
out there, you.

Speaker 1 (01:12:23):
Too, have a wonderful weekend.

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Hi, this is Jenni Fisher on Animal Radio.

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Just uh I just we just got a new little
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He's uh, we adopted him from the pound. It's a
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On with is Isn't that cute? Isn't it cute? Don't
you just love it? No, you're you're the dog is
taking over your life, buddy.

Speaker 18 (01:14:54):
Yeah, well we we love him and we're ready to
give him our lives.

Speaker 17 (01:14:58):
That's all right, Okay.

Speaker 4 (01:15:00):
Now, if you really want to love a dog and
give him your life, you got to put this down
on a pad. For a dog to be happy, love
is like fourth on the list. The first thing he
needs is structure, and structure something you have to teach him.
Put a short leash on him with a choker chain.
You have to be prepared to follow him around every
single time he puts something in his mouth.

Speaker 9 (01:15:20):
You don't want him to chew.

Speaker 4 (01:15:21):
You take that leash and you give him a correction
and say a stern no, and then you put something
in his mouth that he is allowed to chew. When
you can't watch him, when you can't be there, you've
got to put him in his crate.

Speaker 9 (01:15:32):
You've got to put him in his kennel.

Speaker 4 (01:15:34):
This way, he can't get into trouble, and he's always
happy to go in his kennel because dogs like small spaces,
and they also like when you let him out, you're
happy to see him. Jeff, You've got to be a strong,
confident pack leader, no guilt involved. It's all business. Dogs
don't communicate like people do. Dogs communicate like dogs, and
you have to act like a dog buddy. You have

(01:15:54):
to communicate with your dog the way your dog understands communication.
You have to be strong, confide, in charge, and you've
got to give your dog's stern corrections when he's doing
something when he's doing it, not after. Once you start
doing that, you're gonna notice a change in your dog's behavior.
So give him a correction with the leash and stick
something in his mouth that he's allowed to have one

(01:16:14):
of his toys. And it's going to take a while. Okay, buddy,
you gotta and it's going to take time. Be persistent
and don't give up and just be calm.

Speaker 1 (01:16:23):
Thank you very much, thanks for your call today. I
appreciate it.

Speaker 9 (01:16:26):
You know what works. Still, put a Hobanaro in the crotch,
sw the underwear that he's steals. Set they'll stop.

Speaker 10 (01:16:32):
But just especially the women, make sure you take the
Hobbernaro out before you put the underwear back.

Speaker 1 (01:16:37):
On, because you know I might try that.

Speaker 6 (01:16:40):
Tip of my husband.

Speaker 9 (01:16:43):
Steals your underwear he carries him in the yard.

Speaker 1 (01:16:46):
Hey Jack, what's going on? I understand you want to
talk to Alan.

Speaker 19 (01:16:49):
Hey, I'm an over card driver and I'm trying to
find a dog that matches the ability to ride in
the truck for a long time. But we'll also match
my personality. That can be a type a personality if
that means anything, but I can also be very active
and very fun out of the truck for sport activities
and just pretty late back and having fun.

Speaker 4 (01:17:10):
Well, see you answered your own question, jacket. All depends
on how much exercise any dog, let me tell you,
dogs or pack animals, so they The idea of having
your dog with you most of the time, if not
all the time, is wonderful to a dog. The fact
that he's going to get to be with you, so
you know, any dog will do it. Just all depends on,
you know, the level of activity. You know, like Baskett
Hounds and beagles, Cocker spaniels, English bulldogs. They're kind of

(01:17:33):
lazy older dogs too. Is a good choice if you
don't want to spend too much time exercising. But if
you do, any kind of shepherd and do you want
the dog to protect your truck, that's another question you
could ask yourself. So if you want a dog like that,
any kind of German Shepherd mix, you know, a German
Shepherd mix with a Dobe or a lab or an
Airdale or a husky, Blue heelers or protective dogs are

(01:17:56):
very smart, unbelievably smart. They're easy to train. They're usually
not big barkers. So you guys just got to ask
yourself what you want and a dog and then just
go to work on finding the dog with the right personality,
and that might take you a little time. I mean,
don't go by looks, go buy personality. You know, the
dog that you see that has mellowed out and can

(01:18:16):
stare at you for a long time, has a long
attention span. But just about any dog is just gonna
think it's wonderful to be with you in that truck,
my friend, And it's really cool that you want to
get a dog.

Speaker 19 (01:18:26):
Dude, I'm looking for something. It's you know, a writing companion,
probably twenty five thirty pounds.

Speaker 4 (01:18:31):
I'll tell you what, man, a blue Healer or a
any kind of blue Healer mix would be an incredible
choice because you will be amazed at how much fun
they are to be around. They're very very smart. Matter
of fact, if you get a chance, go on YouTube
or go on the internet and look up a dog
named skid Boot. He's a blue Healer. He's kind of
old now, but he's got a fantastic owner. And that

(01:18:53):
dog will amaze you. He's a genius dog. Okay for me,
skid Boot, you know, like skid and boot, those two
words skid. Hey, Hey, what are you haul on my phone?
What are you usually haul on that truck?

Speaker 19 (01:19:05):
Actually? I just got home for three days off, but
I w was in Greenbrier, West Virginia, and I haul
about everything.

Speaker 4 (01:19:12):
Man, what you do is so difficult. Thanks for bringing
us all our stuff, my friend. We love you.

Speaker 12 (01:19:17):
We love you guys, We love you.

Speaker 4 (01:19:19):
Know. Without you, there's no Sunday dinner at you always house,
there's no meat balls, there's no postib, there's nothing contraband
take care of my friends, answer.

Speaker 19 (01:19:27):
My question and taking time to have me on the
radio with you.

Speaker 1 (01:19:31):
Okay, And if you get that dog, take a picture
and send it to us. We always like to see
the new additions to the Animal Radio family. Well that's
it for today, right, that's it, Okay, very good. Hey,
thanks for joining us. Remember you can reach us all
week long. Email us at your voice at animal radio
dot com, tweet us at Animal Radio, Facebook us at
Animal Radio, or even download the Animal Radio app for

(01:19:51):
iPhone or Android. You can ask your questions right from
the app or listening to the show. And don't forget
to check out doctor Debie's books Yorkshire Terriers, Shitsuos, Pugs,
Mini Schnauzers, How to Beat Your Dog's Best Friend, available
over at Kindle and we linked to everything you've heard
on today's show over at animal radio dot com. Have
yourself a most splendid weekend, will you.

Speaker 4 (01:20:11):
Thank you so much to all of you. Bye guys,
Bye bye bye. This is Animal Radio Network.

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