Comedian Brian Donnelly Goes To The Dogs - Pot Is A Big Problem For Colorado Dogs - The Animal Radio® Show

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Celebrating the connection with our pets. This is Animal Radio
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are your hosts, Tali Rooms and Judy Francis.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
I don't know about you. That guy seems to be
growing on me there. It's not as child b lester
as he sounded what three weeks ago.

Speaker 3 (00:25):
I think he's jazzy. I kind of like that.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
He has a very white kind of like it. If
you want to know what gets doctor Debbie excited, we
found big show for you today. In a few minutes,
we'll talk to comedian Brian Donnelly, who will be joining
us Boston comedian. Also, we're going to be talking to
a lady who's taking dogs to LAX Los Angeles International

(00:48):
Airport and she's a de stressing passenger, should we say,
taking him around to meet people that look stressed, stressed
from traveling because traveling is very stressful. Hey, stay, so
it looks so cheerful.

Speaker 4 (01:02):
Did your dog seem like, Ay, he's got the munchies
all the time. He just kind of wants to sit
back and take in the view from maybe your couch,
not move around a whole lot. Have your dog said, Hey, dude,
well it could be your dog's getting high on pot.
There's a big problem with this in Colorado. I'll tell

(01:24):
you about it coming up on Animal Radio News.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
That is exactly how Ladybug acts.

Speaker 5 (01:30):
Hey, yeah, don't shoot even now.

Speaker 3 (01:32):
You know that is horrible.

Speaker 5 (01:34):
I mean I've had pats that almost die from getting
into either pot, brownies, or someone stashed somewhere. So it's serious.

Speaker 2 (01:42):
When they come into your office, they don't tell you
naturally what it is, and you have to figure it
out right.

Speaker 5 (01:47):
Oh, absolutely, yeah. And it's usually like people are you know,
eyes are going sideways, like oh, I can't see anything,
my mom's in the room, or you know. And I've
had family members blame it on you. Oh, someone must
have thrown something over the wall, and it's like, come on,
it's from your stash under the bed man. You know,
I could smell it on you.

Speaker 3 (02:05):
That almost happened to me once. I'm not lying, I
almost died from that from I was I was. I
was living with this guy and I came home from
work and he baked these brownies and he took a
she was in the shower, and at that time I
was pretty fat, you know, and I love sweets and
I started eating these things and I ate like twelve
and he comes out of the bathroom. He goes where

(02:26):
the brownies? I've been eating them? And he goes, you
ate all those? And I go yeah. He goes, I
baked those with you know, I baked those with pot
And I was so messed up. I'm not kidding. That's
why my brain doesn't work anymore. I mean to this day,
I couldn't talk for two days. It was awful, awful.

Speaker 2 (02:43):
That's like the teaching telling movie.

Speaker 6 (02:45):
You just the moot ass that I've ever seen anybody
eat in my life.

Speaker 3 (02:50):
Yeap, that actually happened. I mean, that was a terror.
I'll never forget that. Or maybe I did forget it.
I don't know, we either one. It was terrible.

Speaker 2 (02:57):
Another stimulating edition of old Doctor Debbie Get Excited coming
up in just a few minutes.

Speaker 3 (03:03):
It's just a bit, Doctor Debbie. It's like a radio bit,
you know what I mean.

Speaker 5 (03:06):
I'm practicing my stern uninterested face. Wow, Ye do I
sound unexcited about this?

Speaker 3 (03:15):
Well? Well, today's Doctor Debbie will just get the doctor
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Speaker 2 (03:24):
Wow, that's incredible and we actually got a sponsor for it.
Believe that this is for Alan, Is that correct, Miss
Judith Francis. We head to Aaron hey erin how are
you doing? Dude?

Speaker 7 (03:39):
Just fine, sir?

Speaker 8 (03:40):
How are you good?

Speaker 2 (03:41):
What's going on in your world?

Speaker 9 (03:43):
Well?

Speaker 7 (03:43):
I've got a two and a half year old Britney
Spaniel Mail that I adopted from an ad in the
papers says pretty good home and uh, you know he's
a very outgoing dog, you know, for Brittany. I know
they're outgoing, in friendly and all that, which is wild him.
But uh, I have the sneaky suspicion he's been abused,

(04:04):
and uh, trying to figure out what I can do
to help, you know, bring you back. You know, he's
real lyverly of nails.

Speaker 3 (04:15):
So well, eron, let me ask you a question. And
you're such such a good guy to care and to
and to want to give your dog confidence when you
come home. Let's say you come home, what does the
dog do when he first sees you? Well?

Speaker 7 (04:26):
He, uh, they run around and you know, give a
couple of little barks, nothing to just see, you know,
kind of announced them. Hey you know Dad's home, coodle. Uh,
I've got to been an enclosure. So they can't you know,
run wild, get out on the room and get hit
or anything.

Speaker 3 (04:40):
So what makes you think this dog is afraid of you?
I mean, how does the dog show you he's afraid
of you?

Speaker 9 (04:45):
Uh?

Speaker 7 (04:46):
Like, well, when me and my son will go out
to feed him, Uh, he will cower down and you
know show like okay, yeah he understands. He's almost showing
you like he's being dominant.

Speaker 3 (04:57):
And yeah, well you know when a when a dog,
when he he cowers down, do you mean he rolls
over on his back or he just puts his head down?
What does he do?

Speaker 7 (05:05):
He will put his head down or sometimes just show
it right down to the ground on his belly, like
you know, he's like he's almost like he's expecting.

Speaker 3 (05:13):
To get hit. Well he's not, you know, I don't
want to say he's expecting to get hit. What he
is doing, he's being totally submissive to you. He's letting
you know that you're in charge, that he recognizes you
as his leader. And it's not necessarily a bad thing.
But for a dog that's been hit or a dog
that lacks confidence, the best thing you can do. Again,
it all starts with the walk. My man, put him

(05:35):
on a leash, take him for a walk every day,
twenty minute, thirty minute walk. He's walking at your side,
you're calm and confident. He gets that energy from you,
that calm, confident energy. And then you praise him for
you know, having a good walk, or whenever he does
something you like, you tell him good boy. So you
teach him a trick like sit and stay and make
him stay there for thirty forty fifty seconds, give him

(05:57):
a treat, tell him good boy, and he'll have a
sense of accomplishing something. And that increases a dog's confidence.
Whenever dog achieves success, a dog gets confidence when you
praise them.

Speaker 7 (06:10):
Well, as I told you, you're a screen or what
I called a while ago. Like if my like I said,
or any male gets near him, he cowers down.

Speaker 3 (06:19):
Well, he's showing mission.

Speaker 7 (06:20):
He'll come right up to my wife or my daughter
and he's got no issue with that.

Speaker 3 (06:25):
Well again it all again, buddy, It all start, It
all starts with you. It all starts with you, and
you taking your dog for daily walks and then teaching
males how to approach your dog. And so when you
approach your dog, if you tower over your dog, that
makes the dog fearful. It also, you know, a weak,
insecure dog will definitely cower. What you want to do

(06:46):
is kneel down alongside the dog, looks straight ahead and
pet your dog from the side and give the dog confidence.
You're the one who's going to give that dog confidence
and teach the dog that you know, he doesn't have
to be afraid, he doesn't have to cower down. But
you know that doesn't show fear. That's just showing dominance.
You know, when a dog cowers down or bends down

(07:07):
or rolls over, dog's just being submissive to you and
showing you that, yes, you are in charge. That's all
that is. And some dogs are strong, confident dogs. Some
dogs are weak dogs. Some dogs are born with it.
Some dogs are abused and that's how they get it.
But if you walk your dog every day, if you
walk your dog every day and spend time with your dog,
your dog will gain confidence. And that's what you want

(07:28):
to give your dog.

Speaker 7 (07:30):
Well, I spend as much time as a hand working
with him and all that. But I mean, I'm an
over the road truck driver, so I'm gone most of
the week. But I mean, yeah, you know, we do
work with him, and I don't yell at him, don't
raise my boys.

Speaker 3 (07:43):
But do you walk him? Do you walk him? Oh? Yeah, absolutely,
walk him every day every chance you get, whenever you're home.
Twenty thirty minutes a day. Just him on a leash, okay,
and you will see as you praise him. Don't feel
sorry for him though, Just praise him when he does
thing you like, and no parade. Just hey, you're a
good boy, good job, that's it, and then move on.

Speaker 7 (08:06):
Well, thank you very much for that.

Speaker 3 (08:08):
He thanks.

Speaker 2 (08:08):
You're welcome, always welcome.

Speaker 3 (08:10):
You're studying her again? How sorry? Just good on the microphone.
I love to do that to women. I bring out
the drool.

Speaker 9 (08:21):
Hey, hell, how you doing, buddy? Hello, doctor Daddy, the
ever bubbly veterinarian. I have a question for you.

Speaker 5 (08:30):
Okay.

Speaker 9 (08:31):
I am looking at possibly adopting another fur kid. And
she is a rescue dog. Not sure on her age,
but she has scoliosis, the permanent curvature of her back.
She's a little French bulldog Okay gets around really good,
and I was just kind of curious what would I

(08:52):
have to look forward to in the future as to
where being a truck driver be able to have her
in the trunk with me. Is the possibility that some
could go really bad wrong and she loses her use
of her back legs.

Speaker 5 (09:10):
We all have there's some concern. And when we talk
about bulldogs and Frenchies English bulldogs, they do they're prone
to a type of vertebra deformity, usually born with it,
and it can cause scoliosis or what we call kyphosis,
which is a kind of instead of side to side deformity,
up and down deformity. But basically, if that's present in

(09:31):
the neck or the upper back area, we're not likely
to have any major problems. When it occurs in the
lower back, that might pose more of a risk down
the road. And the concern would be is that, you know,
those misshapen vertebrae can put pressure on the spinal cord
and we can basically run into signs of intervertebral disc problems, pain,

(09:54):
wobbliness in the back legs, weakness, and definitely, you know,
very grease of pain. So that would be my number
one question. You know, maybe as you're looking at adopting
this baby is what areas has an X ray been done?
If not, I would I would definitely shoot one because
if you see the visible deformity, that says, yeah, there's
a problem there, but there could be other locations that

(10:16):
might need to be picked up by X ray.

Speaker 9 (10:18):
In the pictures and a little video they got over,
you can see where it's pretty bad because actually she
kind of we standing there and one problem will be
touchingly drawn on the back and the yellow will be
almost all the way over to her right hand side.

Speaker 5 (10:34):
Wow, So she already has a pretty good disability. That
one's that.

Speaker 9 (10:40):
Yeah, But she just gets around really good from what
I can tell. I actually can ask Judy and she
saw the video on her Yeah, she hooks.

Speaker 5 (10:47):
Around like a little frog. But you can tell it's
back in her back end is really curved around to
going towards her front end.

Speaker 10 (10:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (10:54):
And really for me, you know, just just having the
scoliosis is not necessarily you know, a problem itself, but
it really is a degree of impingement we might have
on the spine in her comfort level. So if I
had her here in front of me, what I would
do is do a good neurologic exam, kind of test
her nerve function to her feet and feel along her spine.
If we picked up any pain along anywhere, then those

(11:16):
might be some signs that, you know, we could anticipate
some some serious problems. But definitely I'd say an extra
of that lower back would make me feel better to
you know, kind of give you more odds as far
as how big of a problem she could have with
some pain down the road. So I didn't answer that
question for you, did I?

Speaker 9 (11:35):
But I just wanted to call and find out because
you've got all sorts of answers and you always have
really good answers.

Speaker 11 (11:41):
Doctor Debbie.

Speaker 5 (11:42):
Oh, well, thank you so much. And hopefully this little
baby is going to find her way into your life.
And you know special needs dogs are you know, they
are a tough adoption. So I would certainly commend you
shower with lots of love.

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and we go to Patty. Well, I guess I got
to hit this button over here. O. Sorry about that. Hey, Patty,
how are you doing well?

Speaker 13 (13:29):
I have a cat that I'm having some problems with
I switched him to raw food back in August, and
he was doing pretty well and he was eating a lot.
It seemed like his metabolism really increased. And now he
started dropping a lot of weight, and I was starting
to get really worried. Took him to the vet. All
the tests came back fine, and we think maybe I

(13:50):
was making their food a little too lean, so switch
up the food a little bit. Now he just doesn't
want to eat and he's still losing weight, and I
just don't know what to do.

Speaker 2 (14:00):
And you wanted to talk to Joy about this.

Speaker 13 (14:02):
Yeah, okay, help me in the past.

Speaker 14 (14:04):
Okay, Okay, So Patty, tell me the name of your kiddie, Charlie. Okay,
so hold on a second. I have a feeling. What
I'll do is tell you what Charlie's feeling like, and
then we'll probably pass you over to doctor Debbie. Okay,
so let me say hi to Charlie. Charlie says he
thinks the reason that he was eating so much in
the beginning is because he felt like he never ate

(14:25):
until he ate that food, and then he got really full,
and he feels like he doesn't need to eat as much,
right now, and so I'm telling him, well, that's good,
and how's he feeling. He says, well, he thinks he's
feeling good, but he's feeling a little bit. He wants
to call it lethargic.

Speaker 13 (14:43):
He's missing them, and I have no clue when that happened.

Speaker 14 (14:46):
He says, oh, well, they just fell out. He's not
really worried about those. But you know, I think again,
and you can talk to Debbie about this. I think
that that's maybe a thing your vet needs to pay
more attention to.

Speaker 5 (14:57):
Yeah, and definitely, I don't know what specific the tests
your veterinarian has done so far.

Speaker 13 (15:02):
Were they mostly ful urinary and blood work as well,
because we were originally concerned that it would be hyperthyroid
and it didn't come back at all. He's everything was
within normal range.

Speaker 5 (15:15):
Okay, all right, And because that's definitely one of the
main things when I think of a senior kitty that's
losing weight, we look at the kidneys, we look at
the thyroid, would like to see if they're diabetic, and
then from there, if we have digestive signs at all
in a senior kitty, a double digit kitty, as I
like to call them, then I look in the belly,
because some things aren't always very apparent on some of

(15:37):
the testing, so often I'll do X rays or even
sometimes in the course of a physical exam, there may
be something very subtle that we might note, whether it's
a change in the stool consistency, or the bowel loops
might feel a little bit more thickened, because older cats
can have some tendencies towards inflammatory bowel disease or even
types of cancers in the in the digestive tracts. So

(16:00):
if we're not finding anything else on the lab work,
that might be the next route that I would tend
to look at to try to solve that puzzle. And
I'd agree that, you know, even being on a good
lean diet, cats don't lose weight easily. So if your
older kitty is dropping weight notably, then there's usually some
cause for that. It's just a matter of getting to

(16:21):
the root of it and kind of ferreting it out,
if you will.

Speaker 13 (16:24):
Well, in the beginning, when I switched into the raw,
he was eating an awful lot. And then everybody I've
talked to who's dealt with, you know, transitioning cats to raw,
they said sometimes that happened as their body's just clearing
out all the other stuff. That and their metabolism does
kick up a bunch, but it seemed like to know,
all of a sudden just kind of dropped off. But

(16:45):
he was losing weight when he was eating like crazy,
that's why we thought, you know, but I mean, let's
see in October he was twelve pounds. He's a little
over nine pounds now. And the second opinion that I
got yesterday said that she goes he's more like he's
very lean, like an athlete lean. And it just seems
like we're always struggling with the food to sometimes it

(17:06):
act like he's hungry, and he'll be in front of
a bowl of food and cry like he's hungry.

Speaker 5 (17:13):
Okay, there's then I'm going to tell you there's something
going on here, and it may be difficult for me
to truly help you without putting my eyes ears brands
on your pet, because dental disease can cause you know,
pets to not eat, but it's usually not until things
are very advanced. So for me, I would certainly, you know,
if I felt any kind of nodule in the thyroid,
any kind of lump in that area. Oftentimes I will

(17:36):
actually send the thyroid panel out to some of the
specialized hormone labs. So even if my regular local lab
comes up normal and I'm still suspicious, there are different
types of thyroid tests that can be done to look
at that in other direction. So that might be one thing.
But definitely having a good oral exam and if there's
anything else at all related in the upper ear the neck,

(17:59):
then those might be having. Is that we look at
reasons why we don't want to eat and you know,
making sure we're something as simple as you know, the
ears are good.

Speaker 13 (18:06):
Because I have him, she looked at all of that,
like she did a pretty thorough like XAM on him
the other day and he was just in like three
weeks before. And I'm sure my stress level on the
whole matter is it helping?

Speaker 5 (18:18):
Yeah?

Speaker 13 (18:19):
And uh, you know, because I have one that's a
really chubby cat, which is also one reason why I
had to in switching to raw, which I think overall
worked out really good for him. And I mean, I
would put Charlie on non rall.

Speaker 8 (18:31):
If I needed to.

Speaker 13 (18:32):
But I'm just afraid that he's just going to keep
losing weight.

Speaker 5 (18:35):
I guess I'm just I'm not a raw food proponent,
but I guess the common sense thing that I would
say is, if he was heavier before and we're worried
about the weight loss now and you're not comfortable doing
more testing or looking further, I'd have to advocate going
back to the food he was on and just seeing
how he stabilizes and see if he continues to lose weight.
If he does, you have a simple answer there that

(18:56):
you've got something you need to look at.

Speaker 15 (18:57):
Right.

Speaker 13 (18:57):
I know that I was dealing with food allergies with
both of them, and raw food seemed to be the way.
And actually he looks so I mean, yes, he's I
think he's losing a little too much weight, but he
looks so much better, his coats better, his activity levels
I think better. And I was just hoping, you know,
maybe he would be able to tell me a little
bit more what the heck is going on with him,

(19:17):
because he's driving.

Speaker 2 (19:18):
Me net well, good luck six six four five eight
four o five.

Speaker 3 (19:23):
Doctor de Wi. You're like the house of the veterinary world,
you know. I mean, it's not good enough that you
send a pet to your lab. You're like, I've got
to find the answer. I've got to find another lab.

Speaker 5 (19:33):
It's so funny you say that because I was watching
House when I was on the treadmill this morning at
four am. I like, you know, I get it bet early.
It is insane, But you know what is the greatest thing?
Because I love watching the episodes, and so I stay
on the treadmill longer because I don't want to miss
the ending that.

Speaker 3 (19:47):
Should be my vet doctor de wi. I'd come to
you if I didn't think you'd run me over in
the parking lot.

Speaker 16 (19:57):
I would love to go on vacations, but I don't
want to leave our Charley behind.

Speaker 17 (20:00):
I agree. I heard that the magazine Fido Friendly lists
places where you can stay with your pet. They also
offer reviews, so you have an idea about pet policy,
to include any restrictions, fees, and what pedimenities to expect.

Speaker 5 (20:12):
That's dare I say, awesome? What are we waiting for?

Speaker 17 (20:16):
I'm way ahead of you. I just logged onto Fido
friendly dot com and found a four star resort, Hilton
Santa Fe Resort and Spa at Buffalo Thunder in New Mexico.

Speaker 16 (20:24):
Charlie agrees, When do we leave as.

Speaker 3 (20:26):
Soon as you can?

Speaker 2 (20:27):
Pack your bags.

Speaker 17 (20:27):
It's off to adventure with Charlie thanks to Fido Friendly Magazine.
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This is an Animal Radio news update.

Speaker 4 (20:41):
I'm Stacey Cohen for Animal Radio. Well, when a disaster strikes,
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the loss of animals has a huge impact on livelihoods,
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the population is dependent on farming. So New U Delhi
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wouldn't have ever found it without Flow, the wonder pug.
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to detect bladder cancer from urine samples and lung and
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said Cooper, but she did treat her dog to a big,
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I don't know how I became a crazy dog person.

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Yeah, they rescued me from probably getting remarried. You know,
these dogs are incredibly helpful to all of our lives,
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they can't talk, though, because I need to have anybody
know how many times I come down in the middle
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Speaker 3 (24:17):
Well, let's get doctor w excited.

Speaker 12 (24:19):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (24:19):
I'm glad that that's the title. We're going to stick
with that. Yes, Oh, this is really cool. This is
happening at LAX. Is that correct? Okay, we have Heidi
Hubner on the phone. Hi, Heidi, how are you doing.

Speaker 20 (24:28):
I'm good, how are you?

Speaker 2 (24:30):
I am just so excited all of Twitter about what
you guys are doing at LAX. You're taking dogs out
to lax Lax for those of you that don't know,
is the Los Angeles International Airport and you're having them.
What calm stressed passengers we are.

Speaker 20 (24:45):
You know, traveling can be stressful sometimes, so we have
our therapy dogs that will be behind screening to do
stress passengers. You know, somebody might be leaving and missing
their dogs. They can come, you know and get some
love kids. Well, if you name it, anybody who wants
to pet a dog We've got them there.

Speaker 2 (25:03):
This is a great idea. Who came up with this idea?
Was it a happy hour idea that you guys all
were sitting around after we're drinking and saying, why don't
we take the dogs out to lax?

Speaker 3 (25:15):
No?

Speaker 20 (25:15):
You know it's interesting. San Jose Airport has the same
programs they launched ten years ago, and somebody caught wind
and upper management about the program and they said, Heidi,
this is something we want to do. You know, you're
our animal expert and animal lever. How can we do this?
Then I took the ball and.

Speaker 21 (25:32):
Ran with it.

Speaker 5 (25:33):
Where the dogs come from.

Speaker 20 (25:34):
The dogs are with Therapy Dogs, Inc. Which is a
national nonprofit organization that has therapy dog programs all over
the United States.

Speaker 2 (25:43):
How's it working so far? Are the passengers enjoying this?

Speaker 20 (25:46):
You guys, it's been such a success. I mean when
you see people start smiling and you feel the stress
level lower immediately, and you know, strangers start talking to
each other and just to comments that they make, saying, man,
you know I have the worst traffic getting here, but
this has made it all better. Maybe somebody's flight is delayed,
and you know, they just smile and say, this is

(26:09):
thank you so much for this. This is just brightened
up my whole day.

Speaker 2 (26:12):
Well, I love it. What do you think about this? Alan,
isn't this great?

Speaker 3 (26:15):
It's awesome? Did you have to get because you know
when people are happy that unhappy people try to stop
that from happening. How did you get permission to do this?
I mean it's a wonderful idea.

Speaker 20 (26:26):
Well, thank you. Our executive director, Jeana Marie Lindsey is
she's wonderful about embracing new programs and anything to make
you know, the passenger experience better at LAX. So when
we presented this idea for her and she said, you
know what and make it happen. I think this is fantastic.
And you know, I'm hoping that more airports will want

(26:48):
to do the same program and they can contact me.
I will help them in any way that I can.

Speaker 2 (26:52):
How can they contact you?

Speaker 20 (26:54):
They can visit the website which is www dot la
w UA dot org slash v ip.

Speaker 5 (27:05):
This is a fabulous idea, I think. But and I
don't want to be a Debbie downer here, but what
about you know, have you had any kind of repercussions
with folks with animal allergies. Is that something that's come
up yet.

Speaker 20 (27:18):
You know, that's a really good question. And we did
have somebody you know, say they had allergies. And the
volunteers go through a training with me in case a
situation like that would come up, and they acknowledge the
passengers saying, thank you so much for letting me know,
and they move the dog away to an area away
from them. And the same thing too, Let's say somebody

(27:39):
just isn't an animal lover. That's okay, you know, they
let the volunteer know, and the volunteer, you know, have
a great flight, have a good day, and they move
on to the people who would like to.

Speaker 2 (27:49):
See the dog. These dogs wear uniforms so you can
to identify them right right.

Speaker 20 (27:53):
They have a red vest that has the PUFF logo
on it as well as pet me because we want that. Yes,
these are you know, our airport dogs that you can
go up and pat. They're not working dogs, you know,
with like the Canine Unit or somebody's personal dog or
a service dog. And then the volunteers also wear red
vests as well.

Speaker 3 (28:14):
If you ever, you ever want to have some fun,
you know, just march one of those dogs into the
cockpit of the plane with the passengers already loaded, and
tell the passengers it's a new program. This dog is
going to be flying the plane.

Speaker 20 (28:28):
That's funny.

Speaker 2 (28:29):
Well, I just love what you're doing and I will
put links to learn more over at the Animal Radio website.
Heidi Ebner joining us and the new program at Lax
to calm passengers with dogs. So if you're heading through
Lax catching your flight, you see one of these dogs
in these uniforms, go on, buy and pet them. I'm
going to put on a petby shirt I'd like to catch.

Speaker 20 (28:50):
That's funny. You guys, thank you so much for having
me on. I really really appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (28:55):
Take care, I have a great day.

Speaker 3 (28:56):
Now. That's the best idea I've ever heard on this show.
That's just that's stellar.

Speaker 2 (29:00):
Next weekend we have Emmy Lou Harris.

Speaker 3 (29:02):
Is that correct? Do you want to know me?

Speaker 2 (29:04):
This will be her second time on Animal Radio and
she's having a concert called Wolfstock, and she'll be joining
us and telling us about that all next week right
here on Animal Radio.

Speaker 3 (29:12):
Five Animal.

Speaker 10 (29:22):
Vinnie Penn coming at you, your resident party animal on
Animal Radio. Topic today, of course, is going to be
Animal communicators. Now, admittedly I don't know much about this,
nor do I even understand it. The dog whisperer, all
of this whispering. I wish there was more whispering going
on in my house, to tell you the truth. Although
when I do hear whispering in my house, I do

(29:44):
get very suspicious, and not that it's a surprise party
is going to be thrown for me. These animal communicators,
I don't necessarily understand how they study this, how they
become an expert in this. I remember at one time
on my old radio show a female listener calling in
and saying that she had a new boyfriend whom her
cat seemed to attack every time in the middle of

(30:07):
the night. My of course, immediate suggestion was maybe he
shouldn't be sleeping over so quickly, come to think of it,
she never called in the show again after that. Her
belief was that the cat didn't like the boyfriend and
she wanted to find out why, and she brought in
the animal communicator, who said the cat was feeling envious,
it was infringing upon her turf. All of these things

(30:28):
that really any schmoe would have known right out of
the gate. She of course had to pay a communicator
to come in and help her figure that stuff out.
I say, how do you know this guy wasn't one
of those guys who thinks it's funny to doubts beer
on the cat every time you leave the room.

Speaker 3 (30:43):
Guys are stupid like that.

Speaker 10 (30:45):
Especially when they're dating. They think that kind of stuff
is hysterical. Furthermore, in the animal communicating thing, when they
find a cat or a dog calling one particular place
in the house, like their place, and staring blankly at
a picture on the wall, and they have something akin
to a seance where they're like they're looking at that photo,
they're in touch with that person. Maybe they've been reincarnated. No,

(31:08):
maybe you have mice bugs at any event. I don't
want to kill an entire line of work, but animal
communicator to me, doesn't seem all that different from that
lady that you used to call on the phone.

Speaker 3 (31:21):
What was her name, the Jamaican woman who.

Speaker 10 (31:23):
Was like, hello, woman, you're going to find love in
your life. Unless you're my sister, anyone is going to
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Speaker 1 (32:08):
You're listening to Animal Radio.

Speaker 3 (32:10):
Here's Hal and Judy.

Speaker 2 (32:12):
Hey guy, how you doing?

Speaker 8 (32:13):
I'm doing okay.

Speaker 2 (32:14):
Where are you calling from today?

Speaker 8 (32:16):
I am calling from Morril Bay, California.

Speaker 2 (32:19):
Oh beautiful. Are you listening on KPEC?

Speaker 23 (32:21):
I am.

Speaker 2 (32:22):
I love that station. That's our home hometown station.

Speaker 5 (32:25):
I was gonna say, we've had quite a few callers
from Moro Bay.

Speaker 2 (32:27):
Okay, So you wanted to talk to doctor Debbie right.

Speaker 8 (32:30):
Thanks for taking a call, Doctor Debbie, and your staff
is very professional and persistent. So I feel fortunate, awesome,
My good to hear that.

Speaker 5 (32:39):
How can I help you?

Speaker 8 (32:40):
My question is regarding dental hygiene on DOT and the
question is regarding anesthesia. You know, because the dogs frequently
have to get put under anesthesia for a good thorough
dental cleaning. And the question is, you know, are the
certain protocols. My dog twelve years old has lost some

(33:06):
weight recently, mean losing weight would be going She's a
bjeent Frechet. She went from twelve pounds to like nine
and a half pounds.

Speaker 5 (33:19):
That's pretty substantial.

Speaker 8 (33:20):
And so the question is anesthesia and then what kind
of protocol prior to anesthesia as far as blood tests
and are there any norms or what would be considered
you know, conservative, you know, precautions.

Speaker 5 (33:39):
Okay, Yeah, you got a couple of good questions kind
of buried in there, so I'm going to break them apart.
So the first question for your your particular baby there
from dropping twelve pounds to nine and a half, now,
have you been making efforts to get your baby to
drop weight or did that just kind of happen accident.

Speaker 8 (33:53):
She's always been around, you know, twelve pounds, and as
she's getting older, she's becoming more finity and she's not
really eating very well. So the one of the thoughts
is that her teeth are bothering her because there is
some plaque and targear and maybe that's part of the problem.

(34:14):
And so we're taking her to the schedule to go
to the vet or teeth cleaning, and our concern is anesthesia.

Speaker 5 (34:23):
Absolutely yeah. Now for me, I can tell you now,
if you came to my office and we were talking
this very conversation, before I'd say, oh, yeah, the weight
loss is probably the teeth. In an older pet that's
dropped weight in that kind of proportion, I'm going to say,
I'm going to recommend more of a medical work up
before we talk about the teeth. Now, that is, unless
I see some big, snagly teeth hanging out your dog's

(34:45):
mouth and clear abscesses there where I can easily blame
that on causing a pet not want to eat and
to dropping weight. If I don't see that, then for me,
in an older pet, I really say, okay, let's back
up a little bit. I'm not in a rush to
put your pet under anesthesia. I want to make sure
that there's not something else that we can attribute this
weight loss to, and that might entail doing some baseline tests.

(35:07):
They could be considered pre surgical tests, but it's really
more what we find dictates whether or not we go
to that step. So basic blood work, a chemistry panel,
and a blood count. If anything came up on the
physical exam, it wouldn't be out of line to do
some X rays check that heart, see if there's anything big,
any kind of masses, anything unusual going on internally. And

(35:28):
then for some older paths, especially if they're in the
double digits, I actually like to do a pre surgical
EKG just to check the electrical rhythm of the heart,
make sure we don't pick up any arrhythmias or any
kind of changes that might signal that there's a problem
with a heart. Those would be things that we would
definitely want to look at, but I think the basics
are really for your baby to get a look at

(35:50):
some lab work, just to make sure we don't find
any other kind of age related chronic diseases that can
come on.

Speaker 8 (35:58):
Heart conditions and weight loss. Are they common links to
one another?

Speaker 5 (36:04):
Not always directly with those things, but we can see
some other problems that may be present that can attribute
to the weight loss. So for those things, I'd be
looking liver kidneys, you know, do we see any signs
of anemia, any signs of evidence of tumors. Heart is
really more for just kind of the anesthetic safety, so
that isn't so much related to the weight loss itself,

(36:25):
but more just Okay, we're talking about anesthesia. Let's make
sure that this heart is doing what it should be
doing and that we're not going to have any extra
concerns with anesthesia. Now, the second part of what you're
asking is, like, you know, do we take that into
account as a veterinarian, if we have a old dog,
if we have a fat dog, say, if we have
a Italian greyhound. Yes, all of these things mean something

(36:48):
very specific to the veterinarian, and most veterinarians have different
anesthetic protocols, so we don't treat everyone the same. And
you know, if a young dog comes in for a
healthy spain uter type surgery, we have kind of different
cocktails or different protocols we might use for that pet
versus the twelve year old dog that we're concerned about

(37:10):
anesthetic safety. Maybe we define some kind of health problem.
We're watchful for those pets. We're going to use different
protocols and they there's kind of a whole combination of
things that we look at and we administer to a
pet going under anesthesia. So it's more than just gas.
There's sedatives, there's medicines that kind of help regulate the
heart rate, that decrease secretions in the earway. So there's

(37:34):
a lot more in that injection that we give than
you might think. So all of those things i'd say
would be very important. And you know, ask your veterinarian definitely,
you know, let let him or her know that you
have concerns about that, and you just want to kind
of ask them, Hey, you know, what are you doing
differently now than you did when you cleaned her teeth
when you know she was two years of age. And

(37:55):
it's something that you know, we're all quite comfortable explaining
because it is something we address the individual for anesthesia.
So I hope that helps. Did that answer your question?

Speaker 8 (38:04):
It does? So is there any kind of a threshold
or precautionary threshold that would be I don't know if
I'd used the Lord industry standard, but at one point
in time is it advisable too? Because what I hear
hearing you say is my particular situation, to just put

(38:26):
her under anesthesia without a workup would would not be advisable.

Speaker 5 (38:32):
Yeah, that's correct. Yeah, And in my office, you know,
I can tell you in this last month we kind
of had this big dental special and you know, there
were some different discounts, and I actually sent two clients
out the door mad at me because I would not
put their pet under anesthesia or dental cleaning, because there's
something on the physical exam that either kind of raised
my interest or kind of sent some little red flags up.

(38:54):
And you know, whether they didn't wish to look into that,
or they couldn't do that, it was just in my opinion,
it wasn't the safest thing for that pat.

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Speaker 1 (40:07):
Celebrating the connection with our pets. This is Animal Radio
featuring your dream team veterinarian doctor Debbie White, dog trainer
Allan Cable groomer Joey Vellani, communicator Joy Turner, and here
are your hosts Alle Abrams and Judy Francis.

Speaker 2 (40:23):
We have comedian Brian Donnelly who's using his dog as
old Boston Terrior in his act and he'll tell us
all about that coming up in just a few minutes.
Also another stimulating edition of will Doctor Debbie Get Excited?
And this, of course is Alan's new segment which is
already filnd a sponsor.

Speaker 3 (40:40):
What inspired this segment? Well, you know, I really get
a big chuckle, a big gofa out of Doctor Debbie
when she talks about gross stuff, and it really gets
her intellectually intrigued, you know, the gross of the veteran.
It just made me laugh and I thought you know,
one day, I thought, I got to come up with
something where I can try to get her intrigued every
single week. So I came up with will this I

(41:01):
want to talk like an announcer guy, will get the
go ahead? Will this get doctor Debbie excited? So we'll see. Well,
you guys have to guess if this concerns the silkworm moth,
the silkworm war moth. And I'll bet that at least
nine of these are on doctor Debbie's coffee table. But
do you think this will get doctor Debbie excited?

Speaker 14 (41:20):
How?

Speaker 3 (41:20):
Judy and and Joy? What do you think?

Speaker 9 (41:22):
Well?

Speaker 2 (41:23):
Does it involve smells? That's the kind of thing that
excites her. It's hard to tell extra genitals. Yes, she
loves that.

Speaker 3 (41:30):
You're getting warmer, You're getting much warmer.

Speaker 2 (41:31):
I think her excited? I agree, I agree, I agree, Joy.

Speaker 3 (41:35):
Does Doctor Debbie the silkworm moth has eleven brains? Cool?
Is that exciting? Is that exciting? That's exciting? I don't know.
I figured you had like nine on your coffee table
and you could tell me.

Speaker 5 (41:49):
You know, that kind of gets me a little excited,
But I still feel a little bit unsatisfied there. It's
just like, there's gotta be more.

Speaker 3 (41:55):
Okay, how about the desert rat? Well, will this get
doctor Debbie excited? This concerns the desert rat. No, I
don't know.

Speaker 2 (42:01):
She seems kind of blackluster today. Yeah, yeah, I'm gonna
say that.

Speaker 3 (42:05):
All right, Well, all right, you guys enjoyed. You could
be wrong. The desert rat can copulate one hundred and
twenty two times in an hour. That's pretty cool. I've
got how excited?

Speaker 16 (42:20):
In What hour?

Speaker 2 (42:21):
Wow?

Speaker 9 (42:22):
What hour?

Speaker 3 (42:22):
Yeah? What hour? Okay? And here's an extra added bonus
for you. The membranes and a dog's nose, if enfolded
and laid out, would be larger than the dog itself.

Speaker 2 (42:32):
Holy moly, did you know that, doctor Debbie?

Speaker 5 (42:35):
I have heard that somewhere along the road, but it
would have been exciting maybe had I not heard that before.

Speaker 3 (42:40):
So sorry, An, I'm very excited about that. The desert
rat got to you. I'm very excited about that. I
have a better guide of where to go next time.
I'm learning. I'm learning, discovering, exploring and growing.

Speaker 2 (42:50):
Do you hi? How are you?

Speaker 15 (42:52):
I'm well?

Speaker 3 (42:53):
How are you save us?

Speaker 5 (42:56):
We got to get off this track of conversation.

Speaker 2 (42:58):
What's going on with your animal question.

Speaker 15 (43:00):
Well, I have a she's a little over five years old.
There's a Catalier poodle mix. About two years ago, she
started chewing and licking her paws all night long.

Speaker 2 (43:11):
She also scratches.

Speaker 15 (43:12):
Under her chin. I've tried doing a topica, I've tried
a different steroid. We've tried all kinds of things, and
I don't know what to do. I can't keep her
on the steroids. Although her itching will stop, it's not
good for her. And I wonder if there's anything, a homeopathic,
something other than vinegar that might help. Someone said do

(43:37):
vinegar because it's a yeast build up on her feet.

Speaker 25 (43:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (43:40):
I mean there's a lot of different in many of
the different skin products that your veterinarian might have have
some component of vinegar. It's usually not something very you know, purified.
I shouldn't say we would not want to use pure
vinegar on the feet. That would be a little too irritating.
I guess I'm kind of curious. So you've had your
baby on a topic of steroids, and what else did
you say?

Speaker 15 (44:02):
I can't remember the name of this steroid, so that
was it.

Speaker 25 (44:07):
So she's okay?

Speaker 15 (44:08):
Going two things. I tried trimmy, you know, I keep
her hair because she doesn't shed. I keep her her
feet trimmed up pretty good between her toes. It's just
she licks all night long. Neither one of us is
getting a sleep at this point, oh dear. And I
keep trying everything, and I keep going to the event
and spending lots of money on a dermatologist, but it's

(44:30):
not not seeming to give her any relief.

Speaker 3 (44:34):
Okay.

Speaker 5 (44:35):
And for when I hear of you know, licking and
showing the pause, of course, the allergy alert button goes
way up. So that's definitely one of the main focuses.
But we also don't want to forget some of those
ongoing problems that can accompany allergies. And in the feed
area because it's kind of in between the webbing and
there's that hair in there, we really have to be
watchful for problems like east infections and bacterial infections in there.

(44:57):
So that would be a big focus, in as much
as I hate to spend more money at thevet, sometimes
getting some samples from those areas and evaluating that and
making sure we're treating that road.

Speaker 15 (45:07):
I have and she's gone through all the allergy tests
and everything. She's apparently as allergic to dust mites and grass.

Speaker 5 (45:15):
Okay, and is she on allergy therapy right now?

Speaker 15 (45:20):
We try We tried it for about seven months, okay,
and it didn't really work, nothing happened, okay.

Speaker 5 (45:29):
Yeah, And most dermatologists will tell you with allergy therapy
what we call immunotherapy where you give the injections to
desensitize your pet, that really we need to be prepared
for the long haul. So even seven months of not
seeing a change is a little bit premature in some books.
So most people I try to have them prepared for at.

Speaker 26 (45:49):
Least a year of being faithful with that before we
pull the plug and say this isn't helping at all.

Speaker 3 (45:54):
Now.

Speaker 5 (45:54):
Granted, you still need to have other avenues to try
along along the way. You can't wait it out, have
to deal with the problem at hand, but that just
sometimes can be a little bit early before we give
it up and throwing the towel on that. So for me,
for the long term solutions, when we have a pet
that we tried a lot of different allergy problems, a

(46:15):
lot of different approaches, I really for me, I'm a
firm believer in dealing with things like diet and going
with a hypoallergenic diet. That is one of the number
one strategies, especially if we don't see great improvement with steroids.
That is a number one thing, and it takes a
lot of tough love. It takes training the people in
the household that we cannot give little treats and biscuits

(46:36):
and other foods. We have to stay very stringent with
a food allergy trial.

Speaker 15 (46:41):
So for me, that would be too We've got her
off all grains, we'd give her more proteins. I also
give her like chicken breasts, or if we're having a beef,
I'll give her some beef or laym or fish.

Speaker 5 (46:52):
Okay, that is not a hypoalergenic diet at all. So
if we want to be serious about a food allergy diet,
really need to be very There's two different approaches. One
is we do a hydrolyzed protein diet or we do
a limited ingredient diet. Those are the ways that we
deal with food allergies. It's not just changing brands. It's
not going to grain free. Those are great ideas, but

(47:14):
they really don't treat it one hundred percent. So you
got the right idea. I would just want to make
sure that we're really getting the true idea. Now, if
I have a pet on a food allergy diet, say
it's a prescription food by company A, and we feed
that and I say, oh, you know, I'm eating a
little pizza. I'm throwing my dog with crust pizza.

Speaker 26 (47:33):
You just ruined all that money you're spending on that
special diet because that effect really can take many weeks
to get that little crust of pizza crust out of
her immune system, if you will, So you really have
to be ready with a food allergy diet for.

Speaker 5 (47:47):
Eight weeks of being very strict sticking to the food.
And for me, I'm a big fan of the hydrolyzed diets,
which kind of different brands are out there. Purina has one,
Science Diet has one, but those are sold for your veterinarians,
so you really would want to talk to them about that.
There's other approaches with the limited ingredient diets. Those used

(48:08):
to be things like lamb and rice, which we did,
gosh decades ago, used to be a great limited ingredient diet,
but it's in a lot of foods, so pets have
been exposed to it. And with this type of diet,
we want to stick to maybe one protein source and
one carbohydrate source, so you don't really want to be
adding things into those diets. It's just really important to
stick with that. Now, some other things long term approaches

(48:31):
that I'll look at, will be other causative factors. With
a pet that has allergies, Thyroid problems not uncommon in
some breeds of dog, and we can have a low
thyroid that can make them have more difficulties with the
skin problems and more recurring problems. So if you haven't
had your baby screen for a thyroid problem, that would

(48:52):
be a wise choice as well. And then really, as
far as I guess, I can't stress enough the surface
of the skin, what's going on in there, what we
can do, whether it be ani fungal antibiotic treat really
what is on your pets skin surface, and that might
give us a little bit more relief and symptoms and
also kind of get us more comfortable and get you

(49:12):
guys sleeping. And in regards to antihistamines, there's a lot
of different ones out there. Some will help the baby
sleep better at night as well, because they do have
some sedative quality and if you've tried up most of
the human ones. Sometimes I'll even go to the human
varieties things like zerotech. But you know, again always using

(49:33):
that with your veterinarians recommendation and dose recommendations there.

Speaker 15 (49:36):
Okay, well that's great.

Speaker 2 (49:39):
A lot of information there, DTA, there is, And I've
tried a couple of things.

Speaker 15 (49:43):
I just I don't know if there's anything I could
just put on her feet at night so she'll get
some sleep and then you attack the other ideas with
the diet.

Speaker 5 (49:53):
Yeah, and as far as for you know, anything that
might help just topically, it really is going to depend
a bit on what's going going on the skin surface.
If you do have inflammations to reading this, in many cases,
getting a topical spray that's not oily but more of
a water or alcohol base that has an anti inflammatory
like beta methisone in it, that would be a very

(50:15):
good thing to kind of help take some of that
itch down right before bedtime. Beta methasone.

Speaker 26 (50:21):
Yeah, it's a type of steroid and given topically it
can be very helpful just kind of curves thatych.

Speaker 15 (50:28):
It's a temporary thing, okay, Yeah, just something through and
then try to change these diets a bit and then
I'll meet with it that again.

Speaker 5 (50:37):
Okay, sounds great. Thank you so much for your call.

Speaker 15 (50:39):
Great, thank you. I appreciate it.

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Nine to one one. Police aren't sure how to explain it,
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was lying by the telephone. His owner, Gary Rochison, was
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alert necklace. Rochison said he had tried to teach Tommy
to dial nine one one on the speed dial before,
but he wasn't sure if the training stuck. Police Officer
Patrick Dougherty says he knows it sounds kind of weird,
but he can't seem to find any other explanation. Rauchison
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Speaker 2 (52:43):
Ah, Hi Tayana Tayota on Tiana, Hi Tiana.

Speaker 21 (52:47):
How are you doing fantastic in yourself?

Speaker 2 (52:49):
Oh splendid? What's going on?

Speaker 21 (52:52):
I have a nine month old on English massive puppy
and she jumps like a mustange and is chilling me.
I got her own about five months and she kind
of came doing that, and I've been really strict trying
to train her, and she she generally won't do it,
like to me, but to my partner most of all
when she's getting fed and she's like now she's about

(53:12):
one hundred and ten pounds. Before she was only like
sixty seventy. Wasn't so so bad that it was still
a lot. Now she's getting bigger, and I'm afraid because
she knocks us over.

Speaker 3 (53:22):
Well, might I say, first of all, Tiana. That is
a gorgeous name, and I like it so much. I'm
gonna take it from you, and from now on, I
want you folks to address me as Tiana Cable. Thank
you so much. That is a gorgeous name. But you know,
it's funny when a person gets a dog when they're
little and their puppies and they're jumping on you, and
you think, oh, they love me, they like me. Actually,
when a dog jumps on you, what a dog is

(53:42):
doing is invading your space and disrespecting you and taking
you over. So it's not really happiness and love. It's disrespectful.
So to teach your dog not to jump on people.
You said, when you feed the dog, the dog jumps
on your partner, you're gonna have to stand there with
the You're gonna have to learn. You're gonna have to
learn to be quiet and stand still a lot. Can
you do that? Can you be quiet and stand still

(54:04):
a lot? I'm talking for like a minute on the clock.
Both of you have to learn to do this. Do
you think you can do that?

Speaker 21 (54:10):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (54:12):
Okay. What you're gonna want to do is, whenever your
dog jumps on you, you're gonna take a firm step
forward and use a word, whatever word it may be.
For me, it's hey, Hey. You take a firm step
forward to where you almost knock the dog over, okay,
and you say hey. In that way, you're taking your
space back. And you're gonna do that every time the
dog jumps on you. And then you're just gonna stand

(54:33):
there silently, looking straight ahead. Don't look at your dog,
don't talk to your dog. Now, at feeding time, when
you take the dog's food, you take the dish, You
put the food in the dish, and you stand there
with the dish. You don't say anything, you don't do anything.
You just look ahead with the food, and you do
not put that food down until the dog becomes totally calm.

(54:55):
And you might have to stand there for a minute
or two or three on the clock, but you don't
put the food until the dog down, till the dog
has come. Then when you do put the food down,
you don't let the dog go at it immediately. You
stand in front of it right and just look ahead,
stand in front of it, and he tries to run
around you, You change direction and heard him away. You

(55:16):
take total control of the food, and you don't let
the dog have the food until he's calm and until
you give him the go ahead and use a hand
signal for the go ahead. Don't use the word okay,
use a hand signal point that the food. Your dog
will totally understand it's okay to eat now. But you've
got to be consistent and your partner's got to take

(55:36):
her space back and teach the dog to respect her.
Does that make sense to.

Speaker 21 (55:40):
You, It totally does. Like we have a boy also,
he's two, and he's she did really really good with him.
It's just a puppy. She's I don't know if this
dog is crazy. She's been that way, Like soon as
she can. We have other dogs and she's trained them
all that exact same way. We put the food down.
They don't move until we let them know it's okay
to eat. But she's kind of okay.

Speaker 3 (56:02):
She's got a lot of energy sitting Tiana. She's got
a lot of energy. You know, when people go to
buy dogs, what do people do? They walk in the
pet store and they pick the dog that's the most lunatic.
You know, he's wagging his tail, he's jumping around, he's
shaking back and forth, and people go, oh, he likes me,
I want that one. Well, see, actually that dog is
just very, very excited, and when you pick a dog out,

(56:23):
you got to pay attention to the excitement level of
the dog. You'll see some dogs you're just sitting there
and they're not doing anything, and people are like, oh,
I don't want that one. He doesn't like me. But
in reality, you might want that dog because he's already
calm and mellow, so you don't have to teach him
to be calm and mellow. With an excited dog, you
have to teach the dog to mellow out. And it's
a little bit of work.

Speaker 21 (56:43):
It's a little bit of work man's feeling like a
lot of works. She My daughter has thebal poggy and
every time she walks away, she's eight, and the puppy
jumps up and pushes her in her back with her
front paws.

Speaker 3 (56:55):
So here's how you stop it, girl, here's how you
stop it. You know the dog is going to do it,
so you have If your daughter turned to walk away,
as soon as the dog makes his move, you step
right in front and go, hey, you, and you poke
them in the neck gently with your fingers, like your
teeth or your fingers. You poke them, and you walk
right in front of them, and you move them back,
and you teach the dog to respect people's spaces. So

(57:18):
you have to be alert. You have to watch what's
going on and be there to make the correction. So
the best thing to do is keep your dog locked
up until you're ready to work with him in that
way to give them the exercise. So you're gonna call
your daughter into the room. You're gonna say, okay, we're
gonna do it now. So then your daughter starts to
walk away, you're ready. The dog makes his move, you
step in front, hey, and you take away the space.

(57:38):
You don't let him invade your daughter's space, and you're
gonna teach him with routine and consistency and calm energy
that No, you're not allowed to invade people's spaces and
jump on them. That is not behavior that I want.
That's how you do it.

Speaker 21 (57:52):
This question's answer should be having to like with the
other dogs, make sure they're not in the same room.

Speaker 7 (57:57):
Correct.

Speaker 3 (57:58):
Yeah, Well, if the other dogs are contributed, i'd have
to be there to see it. But sometimes dogs are instigators,
and you might have a dog that's calmer than you
think and the other dog is getting them all rebbed up.
So yeah, you want the other dog. Yeah, you have
to work with an individual. And again, like I always
tell people, you've got to walk your dogs every day.
It all starts with the walk. The walk is so important. Yeah,

(58:21):
and make sure he's not in front of you. Make
sure he's not in front of you pulling on the leash.
He's on your side. Well, she's crapping out. See I'm sorry, Tiana,
Cable can no longer hear you. But I know you're
gonna do a great job. Just be calm and be
and be consistent and teach your dog rules.

Speaker 2 (58:42):
And thanks for calling.

Speaker 3 (58:43):
My name is Tiana.

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I'm Stacey Cohen for Animal Radio. Four Miami men are
taking a page from the Bible. According to the Miami Herald,
Rodolfo Almira and his three friends have begun to build
a replica of Noah's Ark. So he followed measurements that
have been laid out in the Bible. He and his
three buddies set out to make the arc a reality.
In the six months since they've started, the foursome have

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managed to erect the three story ships lower deck. But
this little project hasn't been without its setbacks. Almira has
been slapped with building code violations. How do you slap
a building code violation on something that was got the
plans laid from the Bible? I mean what the windows
are not up to code while people were a little
smaller back then. The group is also running short of money,

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and Almira estimated that they are could cost a total
of one point five million bucks. When the project is complete,
He's hoping it'll contain a museum as well as a
small zoo. Veterinarians are warning Colorado dog owners about the
possibility of their animals overdosing on pot edibles like you know,
marijuana cookies and brownies and things like that. First of all,

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keep the chocolate away, and I have the pot too,
I'm assuming. Health officials say they've seen a steady rise
in marijuana toxicity cases as this drug becomes more readily available.
A recent study in the Official Journal of the Veterinary
Emergency and Critical Care Society reported one hundred and twenty
five cases in the Denver area. Severe symptoms can include vomiting, tremors,

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urinary incontinence, and even death, as well as your dog
kicking back, going, Hey.

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Dude, dog says, dude, you know you're in trouble.

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A year and a half ago, oh man. A year
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in a hospital in Boca Raton, Florida. She had pneumonia.
She was just out of it. She was hallucinating that
she was in jail. But then her husband had a
great idea. He said, bring in the family dog, Delilah.
It was a little white Maltese, and see if the

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pet could calm his wife down. Well in the hospital room,
that dog ran a missus London's side, nuzzled her hand
and she came right out of that delirium right away.
So they've decided that it's really a good thing to
allow a pet into the hospital room. It helps people,
especially older people. And the University of Maryland Medical Center

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in Baltimore actually lets family pets visit their owners as
long as they have certain requirements that are met, and
a dozen other medical centers across the country are doing
the same thing. In the end, officials decided that the
benefits comfort and reduced rest for patients were more substantial
than any of the risks. I'm Stacy Cohen. Get more
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Speaker 3 (01:05:06):
Come in the studio and see it? Because you know
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You actually have to put you in a different room
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Actually sixteen feet thirty four inches.

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Wow, you wish we're talking about a microphone. By the way,
you know who we have on the phone. This is cool.
A comedian from Boston, Brian Donnelly, is joining us. Hey Brian,
how are you doing?

Speaker 23 (01:05:29):
Hey?

Speaker 8 (01:05:29):
Everybody?

Speaker 11 (01:05:29):
How's it going?

Speaker 2 (01:05:30):
Very good? Very good? Well, you're the only comedian that
I know that's actually using your dog in your act.

Speaker 11 (01:05:37):
Yeah, somewhat.

Speaker 2 (01:05:38):
He's sort of like your is he the straight dog
in the act? How does that work?

Speaker 11 (01:05:42):
Yeah?

Speaker 20 (01:05:43):
He is.

Speaker 11 (01:05:44):
He is our comedy muse. For some reason. Ever since
we got BT in November, I feel like we've been
pushing out better stuff than the five plus years I've
been in Boston.

Speaker 3 (01:05:56):
Did you say BT?

Speaker 11 (01:05:58):
BT's an for Boston Terrier?

Speaker 5 (01:06:03):
Oh, that's creative, very that's very unoriginal. I'm gonna be
honest here.

Speaker 11 (01:06:10):
The best people are like what's the name? And I'm
like BET, And they're like, what's that standport? And I
was like, you're gonna hate me when I say it
for Boston Terrier?

Speaker 2 (01:06:22):
Well go ahead, I'm sorry, go ahead.

Speaker 3 (01:06:25):
I'm just gonna say, what what gave you the idea?
I mean, you're sitting around the apartment, You're looking at
your dog. You've got a great act already, Like, what
gave you the idea to put the dog in the act?

Speaker 11 (01:06:35):
You know, honestly, it was he is. I've never had
a Boston Terrier before. He just has almost almost like
a human personality. So yeah, when we started writing stuff,
actually we're we're working on getting some more stuff written
and filming it with him, but basically making him the

(01:06:56):
focal point for a couple of a couple of our sketches,
which is great.

Speaker 2 (01:06:59):
Well, you have a web series, is that correct?

Speaker 8 (01:07:02):
Yeah?

Speaker 11 (01:07:02):
Right now?

Speaker 3 (01:07:03):
Yep.

Speaker 11 (01:07:03):
We just launched one a few weeks ago. It's called
step Friends. It's about two guys who it's me and
my friend buddy of mine from up here, Mike Vaggio,
And it's about two guys who grew up his best
friends and then I go ahead and I married his
mother and now I'm his stepfather.

Speaker 6 (01:07:25):
And it's business.

Speaker 11 (01:07:27):
But honestly, the first five we've done barely barely explore that,
and it's just like the it's just dumb ideas that
we figured that was a good connector between the whole thing.
But the next the other ones we're shooting are gonna
few more flashbacks.

Speaker 2 (01:07:44):
Where can we find these?

Speaker 11 (01:07:45):
Uh, if you check out, if you go to Facebook
probably Facebook, you fee look up step Friends. It's Facebook
dot com slash step Friends with a zu, just step
friends all one word with a Z. There's there's a
few out and then we actually have some other sketches
that are that are more like Boston. There's what we
did about Fenway Park that it looks like a sports documentary,

(01:08:09):
but it turns out it's about this Popeye's chickens. That's funny,
it was what give it a look?

Speaker 2 (01:08:16):
Okay, we'll link to that from animal radio dot com. Now,
I noticed in your press release you mentioned the very
same thing that happens to me on my phone. All
the pictures on my damn phone or on cats and
my dogs, there's not a human to be found. This
is obviously the same with you, right.

Speaker 11 (01:08:31):
Yeah, we are funny enough. Just this morning, my wife
and I were walking to grab a cup of coffee
and we found this. Never even noticed it was there.
Walked in this part of in Summerville, which is like
right outside of Boston, walked around this area all the time,
and noticed this huge I guess it's like a some
type of use box or something like that, like some

(01:08:52):
big piece of city machinery or whatever. And there's this
huge Boston Terrier you're painting on it. So we took
a picture of BT sitting next to that, so it
looks yeah, I just put that on Instagram. It's like
everything is just either you know, my dog or you
know inane pictures of other Junker in the city.

Speaker 3 (01:09:11):
Bron What does what does BT do in the act?
I mean, does it like you sit there and watch
you tell jokes and then roll over and play dead
when you bomb, or what does he do?

Speaker 21 (01:09:19):
Well?

Speaker 11 (01:09:19):
Need one in the step friends that we have now, uh,
the last one, he's in it, but because but uh
for the most part, in the other ones he's going
to be. We have this one that we're going to
film more. Basically he becomes uh where I had where
the ideas that I adopt a dog and then the
dog ends up becoming basically my master, and the dogs

(01:09:41):
kind of busts me around and like we get a
crape to the dog and it ends up like having
me sleep in the crate and stuff like that. So
that's kind of where it's at.

Speaker 3 (01:09:48):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:09:49):
What funny. I am glad that you're bringing him into
the act there. I hope you're splitting the commission there
or splitting whatever you get.

Speaker 3 (01:09:56):
I feel like he has a he has a bet
deal in the house now And does he have an
agent because Hal would like to be his agent.

Speaker 2 (01:10:07):
Well, Brian, we appreciate you joining us today and give
Bet a big old hug from all of us. If
you will.

Speaker 11 (01:10:13):
Thanks for having me.

Speaker 2 (01:10:14):
Okay, there you go? Has he gone? Okay? I just
want to mention, have you ever noticed comics generally in
the morning, they're not very funny in the in the
evening they're really really funny, But in the mornings they're
just they. I don't know. It has something to do
with all the nightclub. Maybe I'm having another stroke.

Speaker 3 (01:10:32):
I don't think he came out of the How could
we tell? That's the thing I.

Speaker 2 (01:10:35):
Want to know before we go. I want to mention
that next weekend we have Emmy Lou Harris.

Speaker 3 (01:10:41):
Is that correct? Do you want?

Speaker 2 (01:10:42):
And only this will be This will be her second
time on Animal Radio, and she's having a concert called
wolf Stock, and she'll be joining us and telling us
about that all next week right here on Animal Radio.

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Patrick Kpatrick Kelly, you.

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I'm okay taking.

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I'm in Iowa today.

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Well?

Speaker 29 (01:12:28):
I have this dog, she's uh four years old. For
about four years three months old. I've had her for
four years and she I drive a truck for eleven,
so we spend a lot of time in a semi truck,
which she does really well. But when we go home
and in my car, she's just as fasting. I'm afraid

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she's gonna have a puppy stroke one of these days.

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Do you get in the car with her, just like
you do the truck?

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Oh?

Speaker 29 (01:12:59):
Yeaps, yeah, yeah, if we go she always wants to
get in a car. But once that car gets to
move in, she's just running back and forth, crying and
whining and screaming and just it's frightening.

Speaker 3 (01:13:13):
How big is your dog? What kind of dog you got?

Speaker 29 (01:13:15):
She's a Snaouzer and Yorky micks about twenty one twenty
two pounds.

Speaker 3 (01:13:21):
You know, it's really really cool. My suggestion for you,
really quick is just to put a crate in there.
Put your dog in a crate in the car, Okay,
if you want to do it really quickly, and then
just take off and see what she does. If she
acts all calm in the crate, you're good to go.
If she gets all crazy in the crate, don't talk
to her, don't look at her, don't pay any attention,

(01:13:41):
only give her attention when she's quiet. And if she
does go crazy in the crate, then what you want
to do to teach her to ride in cars is again,
keep your car parked in the driveway and sit in
the car with your dog. Don't even move the car,
just sitting in the car. And when the dog mellows out,
you tell her good dog. And then you start the
car and you sit in the driveway and when the

(01:14:03):
dog mellows out, you tell her good dog, and then
you take a trip around the block and you progress
it from there. But try a crate, you know, because
the truck rides differently from a car, and she might
be getting just motion, sickness and fear because of all
the windows, which you know, a truck doesn't have all
those windows. It's like a it's like a traveling house.
It's like a traveling house. So she probably doesn't get

(01:14:24):
that sense of movement in the truck like she does
in the car. You know what I mean?

Speaker 29 (01:14:28):
Yeah, Well, lot of you might have something there, because
it seems like if we just take a cruise down
of the lake and drive around slow, she's not as bad.
But when I go on highway speech. It's just unbelievable.

Speaker 3 (01:14:41):
Yeah, she's afraid of the sounds, the g forces, the
instability of the turning. So you know, put her in
a crate, but put a crate in the car anchor
the crate so the crate can't move, and I probably,
I bet you she'll be really cool inside the crate
and calm and confident in the crate.

Speaker 29 (01:15:00):
Well, that's a great idea. I could put that crate
on the back of the harley too.

Speaker 3 (01:15:03):
Then, right, well, see, now that would be a different thing.
That would be you'd have to really get your dog
acclimated to that slowly, baby steps, because you could freak
her out real easily.

Speaker 11 (01:15:13):
Okay, okay, well.

Speaker 29 (01:15:17):
Yeah, that sounds like a pretty logical idea.

Speaker 3 (01:15:19):
Actually, it's all logic with dogs. You know, when you
take the emotion out of it and you really start
to watch them and pay attention to their bodies and
what they're doing, you can figure out whether they're happy
or they're afraid, or whether they're getting anxious or fearful,
and then you can act accordingly. It's people's emotions get
in the way. People's human emotions get in the way
of them being good dog trainers.

Speaker 29 (01:15:40):
Right right, Well, hey, I appreciate that, but I said
I'm going to do that. I'm gonna try that.

Speaker 3 (01:15:45):
All right, buddy, Thank you, thank you.

Speaker 2 (01:15:48):
Take care, Patrick, drive carefully. A let's head to line four.
Is that correct, Judy? Yes, we take Deborah on for Alan. Hey, Debrah,
thanks for waiting on hold.

Speaker 23 (01:15:57):
There, Yes, you're nice. A question about my Boston Terriers.

Speaker 3 (01:16:04):
Yeah, yeah, I'm listening, doctor Frasier Crane here, I'm listening,
all right.

Speaker 23 (01:16:10):
I drive a truckling distance and while we're out on
the road he does great. But when we go home
for time off, he decides to you're night. Now. I
don't know what to do about it.

Speaker 3 (01:16:20):
And see, here's the thing. Your dog might be a
little confused. Do you have a routine when you get home.
Do you have a routine for taking your dog out?
Do you take him out certain times during the day.

Speaker 23 (01:16:31):
Yes, he has the backyard fence stand, so you know
he goes out constantly.

Speaker 3 (01:16:36):
But do you take him out personally?

Speaker 23 (01:16:39):
Oh? I don't.

Speaker 3 (01:16:40):
All right, Sweede, here's what you need to do. Dog's
pee in the house for just a couple of different reasons.
It seems complicated. But a lot of times it's either separation, anxiety,
they're marking their territory, they can't hold it, they get excited,
or they're being submissive. And the best way to eliminate
that is to put your dog in a schedule and
take him out at distinct times during the day. So

(01:17:03):
you would basically after he eats, take him out, first
thing in the morning, take him out before he goes
to bed, take him out, and a couple of times
scattered during the day. Don't wait for the dog to
tell you he needs to go out. Take him out
on a leash, and as soon as he starts going outside,
tell him what a good dog he is. Have you
been reprimanding him or punishing him when he goes in

(01:17:23):
the house.

Speaker 23 (01:17:24):
Yes, he's spending time out, Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:17:27):
Don't don't punish him when he goes in the house,
because a lot of times they don't know why they're
being punished. They don't make the connection. Sometimes when you
punish a dog in the house for going to the bathroom,
they think you're punishing them because they're going to the
bathroom in front of you, you know, So it's kind
of like you got to take him outside and spend
more time praising them and rewarding them much less time
punishing them. It works way better when you praise and

(01:17:49):
you reward a dog than when you punish a dog,
because it confuses them. They don't know why they're being
punished much of the time. Does that make sense to you? Yes?
All right, girl, you try that out and keep on truck. Hey,
before you go, what are you hauling?

Speaker 23 (01:18:03):
I have a medical supplies today.

Speaker 3 (01:18:05):
Oh that's beautiful. How much can I have? Thank Good
luck to you girl.

Speaker 2 (01:18:16):
Thanks for your call, Debrah. Well that's all we have
time for today. It just blew by. I want to
thank Brian Donnelly for joining us, as well as Heidi Houbner.
Am I pronouncing her last name right? Thank you so
much Heidi for being on Animal Radio don't forget. You
can get your fix of Animal Radio over at animal
radio dot com or download the Animal Radio app for
iPhone or Android. It's free and you can ask your

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Yorkshire Terrier Shit Suos, Pugs, Mini Schnauzers, How to Be
Your Dog's Best Friends, and of course, Joey Valani's line
of Waterless shampoos, all of them over at animal radio
dot Com. We'll see you next week for more animal
radio right here on this fine station.

Speaker 3 (01:18:53):
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