Communicator Sonya Fitzpatrick Tells Us What Your Pet Is Thinking

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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, Halle RUMs and
Judy Francis. We have Sonya Fitzpatrick on the show today.
She is, of course, psychic extraordinaire. I don't know psychic
is the right word. Hell oh, communicator, communicator, let's.

Speaker 3 (00:24):
Get that strict that.

Speaker 4 (00:24):
It's two different things.

Speaker 1 (00:27):
Alan, you're always a skeptish.

Speaker 3 (00:29):
Don't you have to be a psychic to communicate?

Speaker 5 (00:31):
Though?

Speaker 3 (00:31):
I don't. I don't understand. I mean, why why do
we get into this?

Speaker 6 (00:34):
You know?

Speaker 3 (00:34):
It's so you gotta be so careful.

Speaker 7 (00:37):
Because a psychic, see if in communicating, from my understanding
is the animal is actually saying something and she's listening.
She's not predicting, she's not guessing. She's actually a mindfreader,
right exactly.

Speaker 4 (00:48):
There you go.

Speaker 8 (00:48):
Okay, so she's a communicator communicator. Sonya Fitzpatrick communicator extraordinaire
on the show. In a few minutes, Alan, I know
you're always a skeptic. Hopefully we're going to prove you
wrong today.

Speaker 3 (01:00):
That's a bunch of hooey.

Speaker 8 (01:02):
Also, we're gonna be talking to a lady who's teaching
her dog to use iPads and iPhones, and she wants
to teach your dogs to do the same thing. I
really don't understand much about it, but it is on
the way. Uh, Stacy, what are you working on?

Speaker 9 (01:15):
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Speaker 8 (01:30):
We were gonna go to the phones here, but I
understand that the I guess there's so many people calling
for Sonya there's problems with the phones.

Speaker 7 (01:36):
Yeah, I think you're getting too many calls, are all
crossing over and the lines are just not working. I
don't understand overload, overloading the circuit.

Speaker 3 (01:44):
You know, telephones aren't what they used to be. I'm
sorry these all this technology stinks. Yeah, yeah, do you
remember the old days? I mean, I know, you're a young, spry,
gorgeous woman in the prime of your life, you know, uh,
eating your Larva flecks and all that, But you know
back in the day, you know, when we used to say,

(02:05):
give me a call at Cloverdale nine four five two seven.
You pick up the phone, the person sounds like he's
there with you. Now you call people up, it's like, oh,
you're cutting out.

Speaker 10 (02:14):
I can't hear you're cutting out.

Speaker 3 (02:17):
I can't be cutting out. I've got the new trillion
dollars iPhone.

Speaker 5 (02:19):
I'm not cutting out.

Speaker 3 (02:20):
There's a problem with your phone. Not with my phone.
It's your phone. Give me a break. I mean, you
can't even connect a call in here. You can't talk
to people on the phone anymore.

Speaker 11 (02:28):
I don't know what to say.

Speaker 3 (02:28):
Alan you and it's digital you. You walk all over well,
dev you always say that about me. Whenever I voice
my opinion. You tell me I'm a complainer and you
position me as being a negative nanny. And it's like
it doesn't work. You want to know why it doesn't
work because I'm not mister Debbie. That's why it doesn't work.

Speaker 11 (02:45):
I'm not mister deb Listen, buddy, I can handle you
just fine.

Speaker 3 (02:50):
Oh yeah, I know I know that. I mean I
wouldn't want a leg wrestling you. Let's put it that way.

Speaker 12 (02:55):
You are you are a grumpy So I have a.

Speaker 3 (02:58):
Challenge for you, doctor deb Is. If i'm so, make
me laugh, make me smile, make me have a great time.
He's all frustrated.

Speaker 11 (03:05):
I can tell, and you know what, We're gonna go
to yoga together. But that doesn't mean that you have
to be depressed about it. You recognize that, you try
to look for solutions, and then you move forward.

Speaker 3 (03:14):
I'm just I just don't kind of linger on it
like you do. Ellen, You just linger linger. I mean
I just brought it up just now. How could I
be lingering on it?

Speaker 11 (03:23):
He'll help me here, separate him, move him to the
other side. I'm I've had.

Speaker 3 (03:27):
If I'm still talking about it tomorrow, then I'm lingering.
Are you sure we're not married? Hey?

Speaker 1 (03:32):
Al, how are you doing?

Speaker 13 (03:34):
How are you doing?

Speaker 1 (03:35):
Where are you calling from?

Speaker 11 (03:36):
Oh?

Speaker 13 (03:36):
I'm coming from California?

Speaker 1 (03:38):
Okay, the LA area. What's going on?

Speaker 8 (03:40):
I have the good doctor here, and I have dog trainer,
Allan Cable and dog father Joey Vallani and Joey Turner.

Speaker 1 (03:45):
We're all here for you.

Speaker 13 (03:47):
All right, Great, I've got a seven year old sheep.
But he knew it was a very finicky eater. I've
tried all the products from a smart at call a
show either maybe one day and that's that she won't eat.
So I've been doing lately the past month or so,
is that I make her own dog food with flea turkey,
brown rice and vegetable mix, and she seems to be

(04:07):
eating that very well. My concern is should have provided
with silver metal vitamins.

Speaker 11 (04:12):
You knoww Is she always been a picky eaters? Is
something that's just real recent.

Speaker 13 (04:17):
I've had her about four years and she's been a
picky eater since.

Speaker 11 (04:21):
Okay, but before now, did she eat dog food?

Speaker 13 (04:25):
No, she wanted to dog food. She'll prefer to eat
cat food.

Speaker 11 (04:29):
M Oh yeah, cat food stinky man, it's definitely far
more appetizing to dogs. Well, I'll tell you you certainly
can do what you're doing, but I don't advise it
for my purposes. There are generally reasons why dogs are
picky eaters. There can be medical reasons that we might
have going on. So if I had your dog in
front of me, i'd make sure i'd be doing a

(04:50):
good thorough dental exam, making sure there's no rotten teeth,
infected teeth, and we might even talk about doing some
lab work and a seven year old dog that's technically
at our senior at seven point, so I'd want to
make sure we don't have any underlying problems like kidney
disease which can cause a loss of appetite with age,
or other type of medical problems. And if you're checked

(05:11):
out good there, then I would tend to look at
some other things. There are some dogs that can have
digestive problems with dietary reasons, so inflammatory bowel disease or
basically food intolerances can cause dogs to have a kind
of a sore belly, sometimes gas, sometimes vomiting, diarrhea. Sometimes
they just don't want to eat, and that's the only

(05:32):
symptom we have. So for dogs that might be doing that,
I do my thorough veterinary exam, and then I might
look at using a limited ingredient diet. Dogs like my
own I have on a duck based diet, and that
can be very helpful for trying a picky eat or
to see if we can get them on a core
dog food. The reason that I would say I don't

(05:53):
recommend doing the home cooked diet is because there's no
way that you can meet those nutritional needs by doing
a home cook diet on your own. If you want
to do that, there are some steps you can take,
and you can submit your diet through a website and
there's one called balance it dot com where it's actually
backed by board certified veterinary nutritionists that will look at

(06:14):
your diet and tell you what's lacking, what you need
to add and to help keep your pet healthy. That
comes with a cost, but that's something you can definitely
look at doing. My preference for a picky eater is
to try to find what motivates them, what they do,
like what textures and what scenarios. And unfortunately, in many situations,
picky eaters are really a product of human interaction. I'm

(06:38):
a no drama mama and I do not take any
HOOI when it comes to feeding time, I put the
food down and if it's not eaten, it gets taken
away in ten to twenty minutes. And that's what I do.
Set meal feeding, and then you take the food away,
kind of coddling the pet, hover and over them, begging
them to eat. Any of that makes that drama work.

(07:00):
And they're smart eaters are gonna keep doing that. And
I think that's really important thing to recognize. Some people
like that and they don't mind that, and that's the
way they want.

Speaker 3 (07:10):
Their dogs to be.

Speaker 11 (07:11):
So you have to decide for yourself how you want
to approach it and what kind of steps you want
to take.

Speaker 3 (07:17):
But your dog's gonna figure out that if he doesn't
eat the dog food, you're gonna come along and cook
him a great meal. So where's the incentive to eat
the dog food? He knows that, Hey, this guy, if
I don't eat this, he's gonna go cook me up
a home cook me. I'll just hang out.

Speaker 13 (07:31):
Yeah, I may be true. She's a smart dog. She
was checked up by the Venaria about two months ago.
It's physical and she was okay. Did find what she
was having a dry skin?

Speaker 3 (07:43):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 11 (07:44):
Well, dry skin is definitely one of the I hate
to say this, but I'm not saying your dog has
a nutritional problem, but in a nutritional in a nutrient
deficient diet, skin can often be one of the things
that shows up first. So this might be a kind
of reason to try to get onto a basis of
a dog food. And there are definitely some dogs that
will eat food better when it's dressed with some human ingredients.

(08:06):
And if it's no more than ten percent of the
diet that is actually human kind of added foods, then
I think that's forgivable. And we want to get those nutrients,
the vitamins, all of that kind of core balanced diet
you'll find in a prepared dog food.

Speaker 3 (08:22):
For the hot dog water.

Speaker 11 (08:24):
Ellen likes my hot dog water trick. So you bring
up a great thing, Allen. So for picky eaters, what
I'll often do is boil hot dogs and you know,
bowl of water, a pot of water, and you eat
the hot dogs. And you take that water that you
boil those hot dogs in and you use that to
soften dog food like dry.

Speaker 3 (08:45):
Kick and it helps.

Speaker 11 (08:47):
Yeah, it helps. You give a little extra flavor to
it and makes it a little bit more appetizing to
some dogs. And then you know, you can eat the
hot dogs.

Speaker 13 (08:55):
Oh, I like that idea to try that.

Speaker 11 (08:57):
You're smart, Alan, See.

Speaker 3 (08:59):
I'll tell you don't. You know what I do too, sir,
is you know I may cook a tiny piece of hamburger,
tiny piece, and then I'll chop it up as small
as it can go so he can't eat it, you know,
by itself. And then I mix it in with his
dog food so that the hamburger flavor rubs off on
all the dry dog food. And I'll do that once
in a while because I love him, you know, I
love him so and then I'll put it down. But

(09:20):
it's just a very small piece of hamburger, and because
the dog food is flavored with it, he eats it all.
He gobbles it up.

Speaker 13 (09:26):
Okay, that's two good ideas I can try, the very
concerns for her health and also I want her to eat.

Speaker 11 (09:35):
Yeah, And that's part of the problem is because you know,
when a dog's not eating, we get kind of nervous
and some of the instincts we want kind of out
of panic and do whatever it takes to get him
to eat. And you know, I have a little guy,
my little boss man. He is not a great eater.
But like I said, I'm a no drumma mama. I
put the food down, he doesn't feel like eating, I
take it away. And some other things you can do

(09:55):
are to actually increase the activity level. A dog that
goes out for several walks a day, or goes out
and runs and plays naturally, it's gonna build up a
greater appetite. And that's one great way for those fuzzy eaters.
You know, you think they do a lot out in
the yard, You really need to take them out, get
them active, get them running, doing something, and you'll find
they'll eat better for you.

Speaker 3 (10:14):
I see people at the dog park all the time
and they're like, at the water fountain, go, come on,
get a drink, good a drink, drink some water. You're
thirsty to get a drink. And they're just breaking out
because their dog won't come over and drink water. And me,
you know, I just put my foot on the water fountain.
I don't talk to them, I don't say anything. If
there's nothing interesting, he drinks. But if there's another dog
around or something's going on, he's not gonna drink. So
that's the way it works, you know. That's how dogs are.

Speaker 13 (10:35):
Yeah, that's how I am. Come over and drink, drink
something is hot.

Speaker 10 (10:38):
Drink at me.

Speaker 13 (10:42):
What are you talking about? I'm not thirsty. Okay, give
me some excellent ideas which I'm gonna go in and try.
Because she's been a very good companion, you know, TIMI.
He loves her and we take on vacations with us.
I want to make sure that she's also well prepared
for it.

Speaker 11 (10:58):
Wonderful. Thank you so much for your call.

Speaker 1 (11:00):
Okay, well, thank you, take care.

Speaker 8 (11:01):
We're gonna be talking to a lady who's teaching her
dog to use iPads and iPhones and she wants to
teach your dogs to do the same thing. I really
don't understand much about it, but it is on the way, Stacey,
what are you working on?

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I'll tell you how they did it.

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Speaker 8 (13:30):
You're teaching Lady Bugers studio stunt dog to actually dance
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There, she's doing a good job.

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She likes this beat. There's something about this song.

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She is a smart little gal, oh she is.

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I can teach her almost anything.

Speaker 8 (13:43):
Can you teach her to use an iPad? That's the
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Speaker 4 (13:47):
I bet I could.

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I bet you could. I have no doubt.

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I don't either.

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She probably would hijack that. You'd never see your iPad again.

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I'll teach her how to use yours.

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I like that.

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Speaker 8 (14:14):
I can't wait for that. Let's head to line four
where we have Robert for Joey. Hey Robert, how are
you doing all right?

Speaker 5 (14:20):
You good?

Speaker 1 (14:21):
What's going on?

Speaker 6 (14:22):
Thanks for taking a call. I've got a little female chiualacross.
She's probably about six years old, about ten to thirteen pounds.
When I go to clip for toenails, she goes bananas
and what I have to do currently is wait till

(14:43):
I catch her asleep and that I might get to
clip one or two toenails and after that we're done.
I mean, she won't let me do it. I need
to get them clip. They're getting bad and I just
don't know how to have it.

Speaker 17 (14:55):
Well, you got the Piranha of all little dogs, you
know when Choua was coming to the salon. I have
to tell you sometimes we cringe to cut their nails.
So this isn't This definitely is not an easy task.
But let me ask you a question. Did you ever
try doing it with two people?

Speaker 6 (15:10):
Yes, she will still doesn't. I've tried to hold her
and get my wife to do the clipping and vice versa,
and she doesn't bite. She just she will tuck those
little feet up under her and she wants to be
a holder, and she will she'll tuck those feet up
under her and fight you to see you're just you're

(15:32):
clip them.

Speaker 5 (15:33):
I can picture it. I definitely can picture it now.
The see.

Speaker 17 (15:35):
The advantage that we have as groom is we have
a you know, grooming table with with a with a
safety loop, so it makes it easier.

Speaker 5 (15:42):
But what you can do is.

Speaker 17 (15:43):
Try this take a towel and wrap your dog in
a towel, only exposing the leg that needs to be
cut at that time. So what it's gonna do, it's
gonna immobilize and you gotta you're gonna have to make
it a little bit tight, but not too tight where
it's uncomfortable, but tight enough where she's not going to
claw you up. And the good thing about it is
she doesn't bite. So because she doesn't bite, that actually

(16:06):
you don't have to worry about the mouth. And what
I would do is I'd wrapp her in a towel,
expose that cut those nails, and you know what the
important thing is in a situation like this, because you
have a dog that's really really nervous about having their
nails cut. To begin with, I wouldn't cut too much
off at a time.

Speaker 5 (16:24):
I wouldn't. I don't want to make the dog bleed.

Speaker 17 (16:27):
Now, even if the dog bleeds, you know what, it's
an old wives tale. They're not going to bleed to death.
It will make a mess, but sometimes it could traumatize
your dog because it is a pinch and it's you know,
they're going to feel it. So what I would do
is I would do it more often. The other thing
about doing it more often is your dog will finally
get used to it. Maybe if you know, five, ten,

(16:47):
fifteen years, they'll get used to it.

Speaker 5 (16:49):
No, just joking, they'll get used to it.

Speaker 17 (16:52):
Probably within the first few times, knowing that you're not
gonna hurt them, and by immobilizing them, it also makes
them a little bit more comfortable because when they feel
like that you're in control, they're not as nervous. When
they don't feel like you're in control and you're trying
to do something they don't like, they're gonna fight even harder.

Speaker 5 (17:10):
So that's what I would do.

Speaker 17 (17:11):
And I definitely recommend cutting over grinding in a situation
like this because it's quicker. Grinding takes a little bit longer,
and the sound of the grinder sometimes will spook the dog.
So what I would do is I would just take
a little off. I would try to do it once
a week. Wrap your dog in a towel and each leg.
As you're done, put that leg in a towel, pull

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out the other one, okay, and hopefully that'll help you.

Speaker 6 (17:35):
Got it? Got it? I want to beat I want
to beat my own drums, right, quick. I'm a truck driver.
I don't know if you know of this, you probably do,
but there are dog rescue places out here that use
truck drivers to transport dogs to a new home. As
someone thatdops a dog out of state and they know

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that particular truck driver is going through that town to
pick you can pick that dog up going to the
to the point b we did. There are instructors out
here that do that.

Speaker 5 (18:06):
I have to be one of them, and that's great.

Speaker 6 (18:09):
You could check with people could check with their own
local dog pound or adoption agency and see if they
have truckers to do that. It's free. We don't charge nothing.
We just we do it to help the dogs.

Speaker 5 (18:20):
That's great.

Speaker 17 (18:21):
You know what's funny about that is eleven years ago,
that's how I got one of my carent terriers through
Karen Terryer Rescue. The dog came up from South Carolina
and I had to meet them at the Vincelin Body
truck stop on a New Jersey turnpike. Yeah, he came
in a semi And it's good to have people.

Speaker 5 (18:37):
Like you out there.

Speaker 6 (18:38):
What about you think Benadrill to calmer down?

Speaker 17 (18:40):
Benn Adril doesn't have the effect that it does on
us on dogs, Benadril actually helps keep mass sell tumors
on dogs at bay. So I have a dog that
had a problem and we give him three ben a
drill a day and he's about twenty two pounds and
something like that, because that would knock me out completely,
and it doesn't knock him out at all. A matter

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of fact, it doesn't even show any effect on them.
And when I asked my veterinarian, my veterinarian said that
they just don't have the same effect to it that
we do. So you know what, I wouldn't because I
don't think that it's really gonna help.

Speaker 6 (19:13):
Okay, all right, I'll do the towel trick again.

Speaker 5 (19:16):
You got it.

Speaker 1 (19:17):
Good luck with that, Robert.

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You know what freaks me out, though, is whenever she
enters the room and she snaps her gloves and tries
to flip our lips. That's that's kind of freaky. The
first few times is she like it.

Speaker 1 (23:56):
Can where's my iPad? Do you know where?

Speaker 4 (24:00):
I don't know. Maybe you should find Ladybug first, and
maybe you'll find.

Speaker 8 (24:03):
By what's in there with Ladybug? I see what's happening here?
We welcome to the air Anna Jane Grossman. She's a
dog trainer out of New York City, New York City,
and she runs a school for dogs where she's teaching
dogs to work iPads. Yeah, I believe this is I
figured we need to get her on the phone and
figure this all out. And I'm welcome to the show.

Speaker 19 (24:24):
Hi, thanks for having me.

Speaker 8 (24:25):
So what's going on? I mean, I see a picture
here of a little dog playing with an iPad or
an iPhone. You're obviously teaching them to use these electronic devices.
I have lots and lots of questions.

Speaker 19 (24:36):
First of all, why, well, at school for the dogs,
one of the first things we teach to all dog owners,
whatever they come in for, is how to teach their
dog to just touch their hand, a simple hand touch.
It's really a targeting exercise that's both good for people
to sort of figure out how to teach their dogs

(24:57):
something new and good for focusing a dog tension. So
usually after we get a really good hand touch, we
move it on to objects and we show them how
to get their dog to touch the end of some
sort of sticks. But lately we've been getting them to
touch their noses to an object that a lot of
people have in their back pockets, which is their iPhone

(25:18):
or their iPad. And it's a little bit more exciting
than getting a dog to touch the end of a
fly swatter, because when they touch their nose to the screen,
something can actually happen.

Speaker 8 (25:27):
Yeah, well, like what happens? Do they butt dial or
nose dial somebody? I mean, what are they doing checking
their stocks?

Speaker 19 (25:35):
They're basically playing games, which is what we're doing on
the iPad anyway. Most of the time, we have one
app that we use that has a guess button and
a no button, or you can switch them out so
it's a black button and a white button right and left,
so we get them to touch those, which is both
fun because you can sort of make it like they're

(25:55):
answering questions for you. But it's also a way to
teach dogs to differentiate between for example, black and white,
or left and right, or up and down.

Speaker 8 (26:04):
Is there any practical use for this at this point
in time or do you think there will be in
the future.

Speaker 19 (26:11):
There are some apps that you can sync up with
household items like a lamp, for example, so it's possible
you could teach your dog to touch the button that'll
turn on and off the lamp, which could be useful
for some people. The real problem is more that most
apps out there aren't meant to be used with dog noses.

(26:32):
So yeah, most buttons are pretty small. But you know,
a lot of people ask me what the useful purpose
is and I can't help but think, you know, what's
really the useful purpose of teaching a down or a
paw wave or playing dead. A lot of stuff that
we teach the dogs isn't necessarily purposeful, but it's really
fun for the humans. It's fun for the dogs. And

(26:53):
my feeling is the more things that you teach your animal,
whether or not they're silly, the better they're going to
be at learning and figuring out what it is that
you want them to do, which could be useful when
the thing you want them to do is to stop
barking at the mailman or to stay close to your
side while you're walking on a ike.

Speaker 7 (27:11):
Is there any way I can protect my iPad? Are
they gonna, you know, mess it up or anything?

Speaker 19 (27:16):
Well, most of our clients do keep when they're using
it with a dog, do keep it in some kind
of case or have some sort of screen protector on it.
Although a surprising amount of people at this point have
like an extra iPhone or an extra iPad, an old
version they're not using anymore that they use with their dogs.
They don't mind if it gets a little.

Speaker 5 (27:39):
You know what.

Speaker 1 (27:39):
This reminds me on it.

Speaker 8 (27:41):
But we talked to that insurance lady what a few
weeks back, and she said the biggest accident was or
the biggest claim was on cell phones and tablets dogs
chewing the electronics.

Speaker 19 (27:53):
Yeah, well that this can actually help towards that, because
you're giving your dog an appropriate way to interact and
they're not chewing it. They're just touching it and only
hurt I devices yet because their nose touches are generally
pretty gentle.

Speaker 3 (28:08):
But then you know, you could start a problem, like
all of a sudden, the dog just likes it too
much and then the next iPhone comes out. You got
all these nerd dogs online at midnight waiting for the
next version to come out.

Speaker 1 (28:17):
Yep, yep.

Speaker 8 (28:18):
Well, you know you brought up a valid concern earlier.
We were talking about this before we got you on
the phone here, and Alan was concerned that, you know,
the kids these days, they're behind the computers, they're they're texting,
they're not out doing what we did as kids, getting
out and playing outside, and they're not as physically fit
as the kids from my generation.

Speaker 1 (28:39):
Are we breeding animals that are going to be fat
because they're just playing on the iPad.

Speaker 19 (28:44):
It's quite the opposite, because what we're teaching is not
how dogs can go to the corner and use these
on their own. These are all games really that are
meant for people to play with their dogs, interaction with
their own so it really is interacting and not about
you know, shutting them up them up so mom and
dad can eat dinner. I mean, if you want to

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be sad, then you're better off a bone to chew on.

Speaker 3 (29:09):
How lid to me? How made it sound like you know,
you were a crazy person and you were teaching.

Speaker 19 (29:15):
The other thing is that you know we we're at
school for the dogs. We're in middle of Manhattan. A
lot of people, a lot of our clients live in
very small spaces and don't have a lot of time.
So this kind of these kinds of tricks that we teach.
I mean, our iPad class is just one of the
kind of fun sort of trick classes that we hold.
It's stuff that you can do with your dog in

(29:37):
a very small amount of space. You know you can,
you don't. You could live in a studio apartment and
have ten minutes a day to hang out with your
dog and teach them to interact with this pretty advanced
object that we have. Anyway, it's really just teaching them
to touch a button, right, which I think is pretty
cool stuff and pretty advanced stuff, and it is it

(29:58):
is a kind I mean, it's mental exercise, it's not
physical exercise. But you know, if you can't, if you're
not going to, if you don't have the time or
the space to go throw a ball for your dog
for an hour, well at least you can sit in
front of the TV with a glass of wine and
teach your dog how to tell the difference between a
button that says left and a button that says right
on the iPad, Hey, I'm there.

Speaker 8 (30:18):
I'm waiting for the day that they can call me
up and ask me, you know, to come pick them
up after.

Speaker 4 (30:23):
Your daycare play.

Speaker 3 (30:25):
Great class for her school would be to teach the
dog to get a cab for the owner.

Speaker 1 (30:29):
That's a good idea push a button.

Speaker 4 (30:31):
There's an app for that.

Speaker 1 (30:32):
How much does the class cost?

Speaker 19 (30:33):
Our classes are fifty dollars. They're an hour. We also
do it in private lessons. But you know, we really
aim to make dog training fun and easy and accessible,
and so whatever tools we can use to make that happen,
you know, we're all for it.

Speaker 1 (30:50):
I think they're doing what you do. Yep.

Speaker 3 (30:52):
Yeah, I love what you do.

Speaker 20 (30:53):
Thank you. I love what I do.

Speaker 1 (30:54):
Too, and you get to take your dog to work too.
Isn't that Greaty's I bet? Okay. So the website is
school Forthdogs dot com. Is that correct?

Speaker 19 (31:05):
That is correct? And our next class is on September
twenty fourth. There's still our spaces left. Our phone number?
Can I give our phone number?

Speaker 1 (31:14):
Absolutely?

Speaker 19 (31:14):
Our phone number is two one two three five three dogs.

Speaker 1 (31:18):
That's easy to remember.

Speaker 8 (31:19):
We'll put that all over at the website too, at
animal radio dot com. Anna, Jane Grossman, thank you so
much for joining us and telling us about this unique
thing that's going on.

Speaker 19 (31:29):
Thank you. I really appreciate you having.

Speaker 1 (31:30):
Me answer you.

Speaker 3 (31:32):
See how you you're a troublemaker. Hell, that's what you are,
You're a troublemaker.

Speaker 8 (31:35):
Well, I had a lot of questions and frankly, I
want my iPad back and Ladybugs down there drooling all
over it.

Speaker 3 (31:42):
I mean, that's awesome what that lady's doing.

Speaker 1 (31:44):
It is absolutely awesome.

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Speaker 1 (33:05):
Hey Jim, how are you doing pretty good? What's going
on in your world?

Speaker 20 (33:10):
Well? I inherited a Lasa, a year old Lasa and
a nine year old Sheetsu about a year ago from
my aging parents. They were supposedly holfpoken, but after having
them a few months, realize the sheetsu they're both newtered,
So get that out of the way. The Sheetsu doesn't

(33:30):
do marking virtually at all when we go on a
walk or anywhere else I've noted. But the lasa does
law marking when we take him through walk, and we
caught him marking in our house, so we quickly move
him out when we would catch him. But now we
don't catch him, but we still after cleaning the rugs
and everything, we'll come and find a wet spot here

(33:53):
and there where he likes to do that. So he's
still doing it, and that's my problem.

Speaker 11 (34:00):
It's just your your lassa doing it or both of them.
It's just okay and and there, and there are other
dogs in the home as well, or.

Speaker 3 (34:07):
Just those guys.

Speaker 20 (34:08):
It's uh, a ten year old, eleven year old sheep
and a ten year old cheetsu. Okay, anything did.

Speaker 3 (34:17):
You say your parents passed away? Is that what you said?

Speaker 6 (34:19):
Or parent?

Speaker 20 (34:20):
And it's just a living home now, so we assume
the dogs.

Speaker 3 (34:26):
Do you want to go dead? Where should I go?

Speaker 11 (34:28):
Well, I mean the first thing that I was you know,
being a medical professional, the first thing I always like
to do is I don't like to make assumptions about
abnormal behaviors. And I think a lot of times with
both dogs and cats, the first instinct is how do
we fix this in a training method? And no, not
squash and Allen's efforts in any way, but I think
it's always important to make sure the pet is in

(34:48):
good health, and especially in both in shitzus and losses,
we can see propensity for urinary problems. They can get
different types of bladder stones, not to mention infections. So
for me, even if we think everything sounds and smells
like it's a behavioral problem, I would want to make
sure that that baby is evaluated by a veteran area

(35:08):
and screen for at least urinary tract infection. That it's
very important we can get overlap of a behavioral problem
and a medical problem, and in fact some of that
that's how it kind of starts and triggers. So that
would be definitely something I would work on. And as
far as cleaning wise, getting into an enzyme based cleaner
that we can actually use and really spot treat that

(35:30):
area or areas where they're going to is very important,
and sometimes you can do that. If it's so deep
in the carpet or it's been going on for so long,
that can sometimes be very difficult. And I've had situations
where we actually just have to tear out the carpet,
tear out the pad underneath, and actually treat down to
the concrete, if you will, to the slab, because repeated

(35:52):
soiling in that area, really it's gonna be very hard
to clean the surface if it's down and deep in there.
So that would be at least some of my perspectives,
and really not I know, Ellen, this is your your gig,
but I would say for the offending Lassa, that doggie
would be not out of my sight and I would
not allow that dog free range of the house at all.

Speaker 20 (36:13):
Well, now where we have started the azematic cleaning a
couple of days ago, and we put up a barrier,
you know, a fence a doggie fans in the house,
so he can't get in there. Neither one of them
can at night, so we're just really watching him. But
you know, we don't We don't know until we take
down the barrier, and then the next morning we find
out if.

Speaker 10 (36:33):
He's done it or not.

Speaker 3 (36:34):
Well, she's right. You go to the bed and you
make sure there isn't a problem, and sometimes she's right. Also,
the behavioral problem can go hand in hand with a
medical problem. So once you eliminate the medical problem, going
inside your doggie's mind, dogs that experience change, it's very
anxiety causing for them. It makes them nervous and stressed out.
So think about it. Your dog really doesn't know. Neither

(36:56):
one of these dogs really knows why they came to
live with you. They just everything changed for them, just
all of a sudden, everything changed, and that causes dogs
to get anxiety. And when dogs are insecure and have
feelings of anxiety, a lot of times they start marking
inside the house. It happens a lot of times when
you move, or you bring a baby home, or you
get pregnant, or a visitor comes over that they've never

(37:20):
seen before, or maybe you've got the scent of other
dogs on your pants, or you get even a new
piece of furniture can trigger it. So when a dog
is insecure and is anxious and fearful and doesn't know
his place in the house, they will start marking territory
inside the house. Usually When a dog is confident and
secure and knows his place in the pecking order in

(37:41):
the house, they don't feel a need to mark inside.
They usually mark outside the house. So Debbie brought up
some really good points. The first thing you have to
do is if you catch your dog doing it, or
if you get there after the fact, not make a
big deal about it. Just don't even pay attention to
the dog. Just clean it up. And you've got to
find way is to actually make the dog feel confident.

(38:04):
And a schedule is the most important thing. Here's some
of the most important things. A schedule, consistency, a reward,
and let's see confinement. Just like Debbie said, so you
start by not letting the dog out of your sight,
putting the dog on a schedule where you take him
outside at regular times during the day, same time every day.

(38:24):
You reward the dog for going to the bathroom outside
a good dog. And if you catch the dog trying
to mark, you immediately go nope and move him outside.
You know, don't make a big deal out of it,
Just nope and move him outside. And whenever he does
something well or something you like, you praise him and
give him a reward and let him know that. Yep,
that's the right thing to do. You're doing the right
thank pal. So you set him up for success and

(38:47):
you teach him what you want. If he's not out
of your sight, he can't mark. So you've got to
make sure you keep him under observation at all times.
And if it happens at night, yep, set up that
child fence and make sure he's inside. Don't let him
out your site until you're ready to monitor him. You've
got to catch him in the act to correct the behavior.
Does that stuff make sense?

Speaker 20 (39:07):
It makes sense.

Speaker 14 (39:08):
Two things.

Speaker 20 (39:09):
I've never caught him peeing out when he's kept out
of the illine where.

Speaker 13 (39:14):
He normally piece.

Speaker 20 (39:15):
He hasn't pee it in the house where he's been sequestered.

Speaker 21 (39:20):
You know.

Speaker 3 (39:21):
But see that's what I'm saying. You got to sequester him,
and then when you let him go free, you got
to keep Alicia attached to your hip or you've got
to follow him around and watch him. And if you're
not prepared to do that, you got to keep him
sequestered to put him outside. You know, it's up to you.
It's up to you, buddy. You know you have got
to do what it takes to let the dog know. Hey,
you don't need to do this inside, You're okay.

Speaker 22 (39:42):
All right, we'll give it.

Speaker 1 (39:43):
Well, thanks for your call, Jim, We appreciate it.

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Speaker 8 (41:12):
On the Big Show today, Sonia Fitzpatrick psychic extraordinaire.

Speaker 1 (41:17):
Can we call her psychic?

Speaker 4 (41:19):
I think she's more of a communicator. I think that
they draw a fine line between those two.

Speaker 1 (41:23):
Doesn't she have her own radio show?

Speaker 3 (41:25):
Do you know anything about that?

Speaker 1 (41:26):
You know what, I'm asking my producer, and she's text.

Speaker 7 (41:28):
Your producer's got a lot of stuff going on, other
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I'm sitting here. I'm not sitting here tooling my thumb.

Speaker 20 (41:37):
You know what.

Speaker 11 (41:37):
I think the men in this room really just are
very demanding today. I don't know, Judy, I.

Speaker 3 (41:43):
Know, do you see how on like being a late
night talk show host? Hey, Matt Damon's coming out. Doesn't
he make movies or something?

Speaker 5 (41:51):
Boy?

Speaker 1 (41:52):
All the lines lit up today.

Speaker 4 (41:54):
Let's go to line too.

Speaker 1 (41:55):
Hi, Richard, how are you doing? Very good? I understand
you want to talk to Alan Ca.

Speaker 3 (42:01):
What is your problem, Richard, Richard, tell me your problem.
I'm here for you. I love you, buddy, Okay, yes
I have.

Speaker 23 (42:06):
My mother has a small little dog. I'm not it's
not a photo, but it's a nicked pole with another type.
I'm not sure which, but anyways, you know how you
call dogs when they see they haven't seen you for
a while, they usually run up to you, while this
dog usually does the opposite. It shies away from you,
just wondering if there's any way to break that.

Speaker 3 (42:23):
Does the dog do it to everybody or just you, buddy?

Speaker 23 (42:26):
Everybody except everybody most.

Speaker 3 (42:28):
Likely her, except your mom? And how long has your
mom had the dog since a puppy or did she?
Did she rescue it?

Speaker 17 (42:34):
Yeah?

Speaker 23 (42:34):
She reck the landlord gave it to her, but maybe
about four months.

Speaker 3 (42:39):
Old, see Richard. Basically, it's it's pretty This one's pretty simple.
The dog's just afraid, afraid of people, and usually that
happens when dogs aren't socialized. Properly during that critical period
when they're little puppies. So the dog attempts to flee
from people because it's afraid, and that's one of the
techniques that dogs use when they're afraid. They run away,
sometimes they show their teeth, they growl, or they become

(43:01):
very still, and that's how you know the dog's afraid.
And to stop a dog from being afraid of people,
you basically have to make the dog understand that you
know you're no threat and that you're actually a positive thing.
So it might be a good idea when you walk
in the house to when the dog's afraid, have your
mom remove the dog to another place and then you
just sit in a chair and your mom lets the

(43:23):
dog out, and every time the dog goes a little
bit closer to you to investigate, your mom goes good
dog and gives the dog a treat, and the dog
starts to associate you and other people with treats instead
of being fearful that you're going to do something. It's
so funny, Richard. Some dogs. People think that dogs have
been abused when they're afraid of people, but some dogs
are just afraid of people that wear hats or people

(43:44):
that have beards, or people that are women, people that
are men. When I was helping out in Columbus, Ohio,
at at the training center for the service dogs, one
dog failed because he was afraid of the Walmart happy face.
I mean, he passed everything he've learned. How Yeah, we
couldn't walk them over a Walmart happy face in the story.
He was just fearful of that.

Speaker 1 (44:02):
Those things freak me out too. I gotta be real
honest with you. That's why it were shopping hers because
those smiley faces.

Speaker 3 (44:07):
And that's something. I mean, you just never know what
a dog's gonna be afraid of, but you can tell
when they are afraid. And this dog just sounds like
you're very afraid and fearful. So you kind of have
to slowly be patient with her and get her to
the point where she associates people besides your mother with pleasure.

Speaker 23 (44:23):
Well, I should have said that it's a male dog,
and I've actually known it for a little while. He's
always excited to see me, but he wags its tail.

Speaker 5 (44:30):
It's always see that's a miss.

Speaker 3 (44:33):
That's a mistake, Richard. It appears to you that the
dog is excited to see you, but What you're really
seeing is anxiety and fear. A lot of people mistake
that for for oh, the dog's happy. Just because a
dog is wagging its tail and going kooky, it doesn't
mean they're happy to see you. What it actually means
is they're afraid of you because you're coming into their
you're coming onto their territory, and they're trying to deal

(44:55):
with their fear. That's why she turns around and runs away.

Speaker 23 (44:58):
Oh okay, all right, as soon as I sit and
it's safe place, then it comes over to me and
wants me to pat it and all that. But the
intro is always run away and then run to a
safe blood.

Speaker 3 (45:10):
And then she's fearful. She's fearful, and she's trying to
protect your mother. Your mother's probably not a strong, dominant
pack leader, and the dog just thinks it has to
protect your mom. It's afraid of everybody. And then once
you sit down, you know, and and it becomes mellow,
she can kind of investigate you, but she's still afraid
of you.

Speaker 15 (45:26):
Buddy.

Speaker 23 (45:27):
Okay, that sounds like it is. That's the case, So yeah,
thank you very much.

Speaker 3 (45:32):
Just be calm, have your mother be calm, and act
like the dog isn't there. Just walk in, sit down,
pay no attention to the dog. And when your mom
knows you're coming over, it'd be a good idea just
to put her in another room so that she can
be introduced to you after you're inside the house. And
that goes for everybody.

Speaker 5 (45:46):
Okay, is that the dog and a MoMA?

Speaker 8 (45:48):
Yeah, that's a good question, Joey.

Speaker 1 (45:52):
Thanks for your call. Richard.

Speaker 17 (45:53):
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gotta because it's.

Speaker 5 (45:57):
Well, it's no fun without without knowing what's going on.

Speaker 17 (46:01):
So just so and Judy, I'll talk to you, and
and and every and Alan everyone else. I'm not talking
to how because this has to do it how I
said to a nice email. I sent hel a nice
email this week, so I thought, okay, nice email from someone.

Speaker 5 (46:15):
I'm not going to get into the crups of it.

Speaker 17 (46:17):
But he sent me back a response that you know
what was I was a little jerky. If I could
have punched them right through the computer at that time,
I would have, but I couldn't.

Speaker 4 (46:27):
So I had something jerky.

Speaker 17 (46:30):
How Yeah, little you know, he had a little jerky
response back that that wasn't too nice. So I just said,
you know what, there's no problem, but I'll get even
so just so you guys know, because it's this is
no fun knowing alone.

Speaker 5 (46:44):
I took my.

Speaker 17 (46:44):
Four dogs over the house house and I had them
were crap on his lawn.

Speaker 24 (46:48):
Okay, well that was your dog, that was it was
my dog, just so you know. And then they dug
up it because after the crap they dig. So just
want so everyone knows. But I feel good now about it.
You know, we don't have any you know, there's no problem.

Speaker 4 (47:01):
You should feel better because he actually stepped in it.

Speaker 1 (47:04):
In the middle of the night.

Speaker 8 (47:05):
I want to go get my newspaper and I said
that damn next door neighbor dog is crapping on our lawn.

Speaker 5 (47:10):
Again, it's no fun unless people know that you did it.

Speaker 3 (47:14):
You know, email stinks though you can't see what the
person says.

Speaker 8 (47:17):
You know, I know you can't tell if someone's laughing,
if they're being sarcastic or what. Because I'll tell you
real honestly, and you know I am. I lay things
out on the line. But Joey said a very gracious
email from a listener that said they really love the show.

Speaker 1 (47:31):
They think it's great.

Speaker 8 (47:32):
That we should win some kind of award, and Joey
forwarded that to me and I wrote back that in
four bucks, will give me a gallon of gasoline?

Speaker 1 (47:39):
Is what you know?

Speaker 25 (47:41):
How?

Speaker 8 (47:43):
That was one of those cases that I really wish
that I had like a timer on my email that
I could take about this before I send it. I
really didn't mean it that way, Joey. I didn't mean
it to be sound sarcastic.

Speaker 5 (47:53):
Yeah, all that didn't mean it that way. That that was.
That was just a nice response to it.

Speaker 15 (47:59):
I can.

Speaker 3 (48:00):
I know what it sounds like, though. It sounds like
an indictment of How's lack of confidence in himself. If
I might be a psychotherapy.

Speaker 4 (48:06):
There you go.

Speaker 1 (48:07):
Oh, thank you guys.

Speaker 4 (48:08):
I was going to say something else. He needed something else,
but I wasn't gonna say it.

Speaker 17 (48:12):
Well, I'm not a therapist, so I just had my
dogs crap on his lawn.

Speaker 1 (48:16):
Well, I want to tell you, and I want to
tell all listeners.

Speaker 8 (48:18):
We appreciate all of your emails very very much, and
we're very glad that you are here listening to Animal Radio.

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Dogs, orcuats horse or you Animal are people to A
British woman was trapped for an hour with her hand
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Speaker 22 (48:48):
It all started when her box are playing in the
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Owner Vicky Morrile frantically tried to remove the hook, but
ended up getting hooked to her dog. She was able
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injured so badly she'll need a skin graft. Hopefully her
dog will stick to Frisbees in the future. I'm brit
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Speaker 25 (49:28):
I'm Emmy Luke Harris. Keeping a dog on a chain
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Chaining a dog hurts his body and his mind. It's
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Speaker 2 (49:58):
You're listening to animal Radio. Oh here's Alan, Judy Ellen
is back.

Speaker 11 (50:03):
Alan, I missed you, so I'm glad you came back
in it.

Speaker 3 (50:06):
Yeah, something before me there, I mean yes. Will this
get doctor Debbie excited? Now you know Debbie has a
fixation with the macabre. It gets the hairs on her
neck standing up. So Doctor Debbie, As if you didn't
need more proof of the horrors of the deep. There's
something called a zombie worm and it feeds off the
bones of whales and other scavenge sea creatures. But this

(50:27):
thing doesn't have a mouth. So finally, researchers are trying
to figure out how does this thing eat bones without
a mouth? And they figured out it excretes an acid,
and they acid allows the worms to break down and
absorb the bone. The researchers explain this to me, but
just the tip of the weirdness Iceberg. For these amazing worms.
The females grow to three centimeters long, but the males

(50:49):
never grow to even one twentieth of a centimeter, And
it seems like the males live on the females in
a gelatinis like tube, and they serve no other purpose
but to fertilize the female els eggs.

Speaker 11 (51:01):
They're useless, just like most males.

Speaker 16 (51:02):
Hum.

Speaker 4 (51:03):
Yes, yes, oh cool, that is really neat.

Speaker 3 (51:08):
Did you know some ribbon worms will eat themselves if
they can't find food?

Speaker 11 (51:11):
Eh, that is crazy. That is just I'm hungry. I
can't find anything else to you.

Speaker 3 (51:18):
This finger looks good.

Speaker 1 (51:19):
Sounds like a regular Saturday night for me. But that's all.

Speaker 3 (51:22):
Did that get you excited there, doctor DEVII? You know
it did?

Speaker 11 (51:26):
And I have to say that, you know, I like
the zombie tie in because you know, zombies are all
the rage nowadays. Like all the kids at work that
work with me, Yeah, they're all talking about oh the
zombie movie, the zombie show, and it's it's really kind
of infectious.

Speaker 3 (51:39):
What do you know? Did you hear about holl and
I's experiment We found the termites heat would twice as
fast when they're listening to heavy metal, you know? And
how did that last Saturday night?

Speaker 1 (51:48):
I was wondering why you were borrowing my Metallica collection.

Speaker 3 (51:52):
That just I don't know what to do with that.
Alan I'm sorry, man, I gotta.

Speaker 1 (51:57):
Go back to work.

Speaker 3 (51:58):
That didn't get her excited enough.

Speaker 11 (52:00):
You ended on your your weak points.

Speaker 3 (52:02):
I don't know. Did you know that a snail can
sleep for three years and a shrimp's heart is in
his head?

Speaker 8 (52:08):
You know what I think you need to aim more for,
like genitalia kind of stuff.

Speaker 1 (52:12):
She'd love that kind of stuff.

Speaker 3 (52:13):
Let me go to my Genitalia section here. Did you
know lions made over fifty times a day sometimes?

Speaker 1 (52:19):
Holy moly?

Speaker 4 (52:20):
Wow, it is impressive.

Speaker 11 (52:22):
Well, what else do they do?

Speaker 21 (52:24):
They eat?

Speaker 11 (52:24):
I guess and then such.

Speaker 3 (52:26):
That's why they're always laying around and the and the
female goes and hunts.

Speaker 1 (52:29):
They're just tired.

Speaker 3 (52:30):
Heck yeah, I will look that up for next week's
Strange Genitalia Facts. I will look that up on the Googles.

Speaker 11 (52:35):
Wow, did not appointing that though, no, no human I
will counterpoint that with some interesting stories to them.

Speaker 3 (52:41):
Hope you have Genitalia stories. I love those.

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You're listening to Animal Radio. Here's Alan Judy.

Speaker 8 (53:32):
It's Animal Radio celebrating the connection with our pets. Have
you ever wondered what breed your dog is? I mean,
you love them, whatever breed they are, you love them.
And a lot of the MutS are some of the
healthiest animals around. But I know, like Judy, wanted to
know exactly what breed pixel of the Animal Radio studio
stunt dog is.

Speaker 7 (53:51):
Yeah, you know, and I don't pick her by breed.
I pick her by her personality. And you know, I
wasn't looking for anything specific.

Speaker 1 (53:59):
So we got a whole embark.

Speaker 8 (54:00):
They make a DNA breed test and they send us
one of these tests, and in fact, we have an
extra one we're giving away.

Speaker 1 (54:06):
We did the test last week. It's a swab.

Speaker 8 (54:09):
That we rubbed around Pixel's mouth and sent it in
and we got the results back, and I gotta say,
I gotta say, I'm really surprised.

Speaker 21 (54:18):
She looks.

Speaker 8 (54:19):
To me, she looks like a a chihuahua with a
little Jack Russell terrier. And anytime we take her out,
everybody guesses jack.

Speaker 4 (54:26):
Russell, oh yeah, or like a rat terrier.

Speaker 8 (54:29):
And when she runs, she looks sort of like a
whippet or a greyhound.

Speaker 4 (54:33):
Then they guess whip it.

Speaker 8 (54:34):
So that's why we decided to go ahead and do
the test. And we not only got the breed results back,
but we found out the siblings that she has, and
we'll talk about that in just a second. We welcome
back to the show, Vet geneticist and animal theo genealogist.

Speaker 1 (54:51):
Is that what is that pronounced her correctly?

Speaker 28 (54:53):
Jenna Duckwiler, stereo geneologist. It's just the study of animal reproduction.

Speaker 3 (55:01):
So thank you for.

Speaker 28 (55:02):
Having me back.

Speaker 1 (55:03):
So what are the results for Pixel? I can't wait
to hear.

Speaker 28 (55:06):
So miss Pixel is a very interesting mix of breeds here.
So you guys were dead on with chihuahua. So she
is thirty nine point three percent Chihuahua. Okay, she is
eleven point five percent Cocker spaniel.

Speaker 4 (55:22):
H I don't see that.

Speaker 28 (55:25):
She's eleven point two percent poodle, nine point eight percent
Yorkshire Terrier, eight point nine percent miniature Schnauzer, six point
one percent sheets soup, and thirteen point two percent super mutt,
which means that far back in her lineage, there's been
a lot of dog breed mixing going on, so we

(55:45):
can't confidently assign that percentage to anyone breed.

Speaker 8 (55:49):
The super mutt comes in second as far as dominance.
Do we know what breeds are in a super mutt
or we just can't tell.

Speaker 28 (55:57):
So we can't tell for sure. So the way that
a DNA test works is we're looking at very long
stretches of DNA that are common between pixel and our
reference population of purebred dogs. So when we see a
lot of mixing that happened in the past, sometimes those
segments get too short to really confidently assign to any
one breed. But if you click into that super mutt percentage,

(56:20):
you'll actually see that we're going to give you our
best guess. So in her super mutt percentage, our best guest,
So trace breeds that may be president in her ancestry
would be the Australian cattle dog, the German shepherd dog,
and the American pitbull terrier.

Speaker 1 (56:36):
Seems so weird, yes, I.

Speaker 7 (56:39):
Mean, she's only about eighteen pounds. I just can't picture it.

Speaker 8 (56:42):
With your test, the in bark test, we did not
send you any pictures. We did not give you any
description whatsoever. I know some of the other brands they
actually ask for pictures and a description and what you
think they are, which I don't think is fair. Really,
I don't think we get a fair evaluation. But with you,
we did not send you any pictures. Tell us what
traits you were able to find.

Speaker 28 (57:04):
Yeah, so, based on looking at pixels traits here, I
can tell you she's likely small on the small side.
So our estimated weight for hers twenty two pounds, which
sounds like it's pretty close to what she actually weighs.
She likely has short hair, She likely has a lot
of white spotting, and the colored areas on her coat

(57:25):
are likely like a dark blue in color. And she
likely has tan points, so that would be on the
eyebrows sometimes on the toes. You'll see that tan or
on the inside of the ears.

Speaker 1 (57:36):
Wow, that is amazing.

Speaker 7 (57:38):
That describes her the You know, I always call the
kind of gray, but I guess you could call it blue.

Speaker 28 (57:43):
Yeah, that's the genetic term is blue.

Speaker 4 (57:45):
For that color.

Speaker 1 (57:46):
And so besides the breed, you also have some health information.

Speaker 28 (57:51):
Yeah, so for Pixel, the great news is she only
has one health marker that we need to be aware of,
and that's for alanine amino transfer race or ALT activity.
So this is actually not a disease. It doesn't predispose
to any disease. This is just something that's good for
her veterinarian to know. So dogs with this result will

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have a low baseline alanine amino transfer race or ALT
level on blood work. So that's a liver enzyme that
we veterinarians use to monitor liver health.

Speaker 8 (58:23):
I'll tell you what I was really surprised about. This
is what made the hair on my arm stand up.
Not only did you get what breed she was, but
you told me who her siblings were and where they
live and even allowed me to message the siblings or
the siblings guardians, I should say.

Speaker 28 (58:40):
Yeah, so we've actually got a mother listed for Pixels.
So the siblings and parent offspring do share a similar
amount of DNA, usually about fifty percent, but the pattern
of how that shared is going to be different between
siblings and parent offspring. So we're able to determine that
Bell here is actually pixels mom, which is great.

Speaker 8 (59:02):
So does that mean that Bell's mom did the embark
test or does that mean that a test was done
and you pulled from like a big database.

Speaker 28 (59:10):
Yeah, these are embark tested dogs. So these are dogs
within our database that are opted into relative finder.

Speaker 8 (59:16):
Okay, in my hot little hands, I have one of
these embarked DNA tests to give away for our Who's
Your Daddy contest? If you want to find out what
breed your dog is there genetic health risk, and maybe
even some siblings, go ahead and email us at your
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Speaker 28 (59:47):
That is www dot embark vet.

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Dot com and put in the promo code animal radio.
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Speaker 1 (59:57):
Is that correct?

Speaker 28 (59:58):
Yep, that's correct.

Speaker 1 (59:59):
Okay, so one more time.

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If you want to win it, go ahead and send
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Well, thank you so much.

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This is an Animal Radio news update.

Speaker 9 (01:01:04):
I'm Stacy Cohen for Animal Radio. Well, every guy likes
to say that he slept with a fox, right, Well,
British man says a recent foxy surprise in his bed
was definitely unwelcome. According to the Mirror, Leon Smith rolled
over in bed the other morning and he expected to
see his girlfriend, but instead he found himself face to
face with a fox the cotton that has four legs

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and a tail. Leon said he was shocked, but the
animal was surprisingly calm. It stayed long enough for Smith
to grab his phone and take a picture, but eventually
jumped off the bed and ran out of the room. However,
Smith says it took another ten minutes to get the
fox out of the house. The couple guests that their
visitor must have come through the cat door, which they're
now considering removing so they can prevent any return trips.

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Turns out, even alligators feel guilt every now and then.
According to Miami TV station WFR, Mario Aldocetto's camera was
stolen by one of the reptiles while he was feeding
and photographing them at the Everglades Alligator Farm in Homestead.
Mario says he wrote the camera off and he just
felt lucky that the gator didn't grab one of his arms.

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But eight months later, an employee spot's an alligator climbing
out of the pond with a camera strap wrapped around
its leg and the camera dragging behind it. Mario said
the camera was badly damaged, had a number of bitemarks
on it, but with the help of a pair of pliers,
he was able to yank out the memory card. It
contained only one usable picture. Mario said that photo in

(01:02:29):
the camera. They are now on display at the Alligator Farm,
the National Zoo's welcoming a brand new edition. A giant
panda named may Shan gave birth to a cub, and
zoo visitors are absolutely thrilled.

Speaker 12 (01:02:44):
We came on to mayby Panda's birthday.

Speaker 5 (01:02:45):
We're so excited.

Speaker 1 (01:02:47):
That's awesome, pretty neat to be here.

Speaker 15 (01:02:49):
It's great news for the zoo, for the pandas, and
for tourism.

Speaker 9 (01:02:54):
There's still no word on whether that cub is a
male or a female, but zoo officials say they are
pleased with the care that Mayshunk's give it. The cub
will have its first examine a few days, and you
could check in on the mother and cub via the
National Zoo's pandicam and escaped twelve hundred pounds bull back
in its pen after several days on the loose. According
to Boise's TV station KBOI, this bull escaped last week

(01:03:17):
and had eluded capture by staying in this thick brush
along the Boise River in Eagle, Idaho. The Ada County
Sheriff's Office announced that they had wrangled the bull late
Monday night. Apparently Eagle Police officer Jeff Weininger he was
able to shoot the bull with a tranquilizer dart. Eagle
Police Chief Steve Bartlett said that Weininger's a great shot,
adding he's also a cowboy. But even after being hit

(01:03:39):
with the dart, that bull was able to run several
hundred yards before it collapsed. Bartlett says the bull's speed
was amazing, adding that when it ran away, it looked
like a cheetah.

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I'm Stacy Cohen.

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Speaker 2 (01:04:01):
You're listening to Animal Radio. Here's Alan Judy.

Speaker 8 (01:04:04):
Happy to welcome to the show. Sonia Fitzpatrick. Hi, Sonya, how.

Speaker 15 (01:04:08):
Are you doing? Hello?

Speaker 29 (01:04:09):
Hal I'm doing well. Thank you.

Speaker 1 (01:04:11):
I just love your accent.

Speaker 29 (01:04:14):
Yes, I've been here twenty years and I haven't lost it.

Speaker 1 (01:04:18):
I was going to say, that's like a New York
accent you have there.

Speaker 29 (01:04:21):
Oh, how did you know how well?

Speaker 8 (01:04:23):
You've got a book out called They're No Sad Dogs
in Heaven and you're talking, yes, talking about well, what
happens after you lose a pet?

Speaker 29 (01:04:32):
As you said, losing an animal, you know, is like
losing one of our children. And it's the hardest thing
any of us with animals have to face, and it's
very traumatic for us. And often, you know, people put
further animals to the people around them because they love
us unconditionally and they're always there for us, and they're

(01:04:54):
always pleased to see us. And you know, it's a
very hard thing to you know, to let an animal go.
And many people will say to me, I haven't said
goodbye to my animal. But you know, in this in
my book, I explain that there aren't any good bys
because they have an energy body just as we do,

(01:05:16):
and they're around us and with us. It's just that
we miss that physical body so much when we are
still in our physical form.

Speaker 7 (01:05:24):
How now people always want to talk to their animals.
Why do you think they want to talk to their
animals more after they've passed than when they're with us
right now.

Speaker 29 (01:05:32):
Well, I wouldn't say that they want to talk to
them more when they passed. I think they feel a
great need to know where they are. And you know,
animals communicate telepathically on the physical plane as well as
in the on the spiritual plane. And so we have
the I have people from all walks of life that

(01:05:52):
that you know, call me, and everybody has the one
thing in common because they love their animals with a passion.
So it's not just on't animals passing over. Often they
can have problems with them too, and they want to
know why they're having the problems. But when they go over,
people know that's the end of the physical body and

(01:06:13):
the end of the relationship that they've had with them.
And that's the hardest thing.

Speaker 7 (01:06:18):
But if there's no sad dogs, and aren't they you know,
no sad dogs in heavens? Aren't they sad that they're
no longer with us?

Speaker 29 (01:06:24):
What they are with is you see, that's what people
don't understand. Study they're riders and around us. But you know,
when we go out of our physical body, we're energy.
And people are often say to me, you know, or
you know, I feel and sense them around them, and
that's absolutely right, because they are around us, and they
are with us, and they're just a thought away. So

(01:06:45):
there's really you know, they haven't they're around us and
with us. And many people have wonderful experiences, which I've
written about in the book, where they sometimes hear their
animal running down the hall, or they feel their cat
jumping on the bed literally physically for all that, and
some of them are fortunate enough to see their cats

(01:07:06):
or their dogs or whatever pettages that's gone over that
they miss so much, So there really isn't any separation,
it's just different. The physical body is gone. We miss
that so much.

Speaker 7 (01:07:16):
What's the craziest thing you've heard someone say about an
animal that passed in a way that they felt him
or song or what did the animal do?

Speaker 29 (01:07:24):
Well, I don't think it's crazy duty. I think they
come through to comfort their loved ones that are still
here because they know how we're feeling, and they know
what pain we go through and how sometimes we never
get over losing them. We just don't get over it.
And you know, it's like some people see their cat.

(01:07:45):
I mean, I have a cat that I happen to
be very psychic and the animals. I was born deaf
when I was a child, and the animals taught me
their language and what goes on, and I could see
into the spirit world. But you know, people will have experiences.
I do have that passed over twenty years ago Wellington
and I lived in England, you know, at the time,

(01:08:05):
and I used to trip over him all the time
in the hall. He would always get under my feet
and about once and sometimes twice a year, he'll still
do that. Wherever I am, He'll run straight in front
of me. I trip that. I feel I've got to
trip up. I are literally so fast I see him.
So people have experiences. And I had one gentleman who
said I always used to take my dog in a

(01:08:26):
truck with me, and I was so sad, and one
day I could really feel and sense him and I
actually felt his head go on my knee, which he
always used to put his head on my knee. That's
a great comfort when they come through and a person
experiences that.

Speaker 3 (01:08:40):
What about people who are jerks to their pets and
their pet passes over. Does the pet care about that person?
Does the top about.

Speaker 29 (01:08:48):
Running animals love they love in a stronger way. You
travel and as always grieving when an animal leaves at
home as well as the people, because the other animals
really to like grieve. So you know, animals are very
deep with their feelings and their emotions and the love,

(01:09:08):
you know, transcends all boundaries, so they don't go over
and forget about that person. I mean often animals have
been in past lives with people, and you have that
tremendous We love all our animals as much in different ways.
I mean, I've got fourteen animals rescue animals that live
with me, and I love them all as much in
different ways. But sometimes we really contact with an animal

(01:09:30):
and we feel something stronger. We can't always work it out,
but we can feel it, and that's often when our
souls have been together in many past lifetimes. So animals, yes,
they continue to love us no matter what, and they
can love when they go over into the spiritual world.

Speaker 17 (01:09:48):
I got to tell you a little bit a little
story swing It is a Joey Vhani from Grumer has
it and we also did Katie Koric together.

Speaker 5 (01:09:55):
I don't know if you remember Darning.

Speaker 17 (01:09:57):
I don't forgive not that, but anyway, I was, I
was the judge. But anyway, I remember Sonya and this
was great. Sonya would would was the groomers were grooming
the dog. She was telling us what the dogs were
thinking and some of the dogs didn't like the groomers
that they.

Speaker 29 (01:10:14):
Were actually a sign.

Speaker 17 (01:10:20):
And it was It was great because she would come
back to us in the judges room and she's gone,
this dog doesn't like doesn't like the person. He said
that that that he's handling them a little bit rough.
And it was funny because we knew it because you
could see it. You know what was actually going on
when when because we were watching it the whole time.
But Sonya just came in and came out and really
didn't pay attention. She nailed it every single time when

(01:10:43):
we knew where it was rough handling and she was
able to nail it just by talking to the dog
that it was amazing.

Speaker 8 (01:10:48):
But didn't she also tell you you would become a
big famous groomer or something like that.

Speaker 17 (01:10:53):
Sonya told me that you'll be a big star one day, okay,
and then I became.

Speaker 5 (01:10:57):
Then then you guys called me and saying, there you go.

Speaker 8 (01:11:01):
Career, right there, Sonya, we're talking with Sonya Fitzpatrick. And
I imagine you talk to a lot of animals. Are
they Are there any that just won't talk to you?
They don't want anything to do with talking to their
owner or guardian.

Speaker 29 (01:11:14):
I don't think I'm a dog or a cat anyway,
So you know, when I'm sort of talking to them,
they'll ask me, am I a dog? And I tell them, yes,
I am, as well as a human. And I've had
probably two animal laws in my whole of my career.
And I've spoken too literally thousand and thousands of animals,

(01:11:34):
and I've had two that have said a particular and
they were both cats. You know, cats are so different,
They've all got their own personalities. But within like four
minutes of talking, they're they're they're talking faster than any.

Speaker 10 (01:11:46):
Of the others.

Speaker 29 (01:11:47):
So no, it's it's never happened to me.

Speaker 21 (01:11:53):
The animal radio.

Speaker 12 (01:11:58):
I would love to go on vacation that I don't
want to leave our Charlie behind.

Speaker 1 (01:12:02):
I agree.

Speaker 30 (01:12:03):
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 4 (01:12:14):
That's dare I say?

Speaker 11 (01:12:15):
Awesome?

Speaker 4 (01:12:16):
What are we waiting for?

Speaker 30 (01:12:18):
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 21 (01:12:26):
Charlie agrees, When do we leave?

Speaker 30 (01:12:28):
As soon as you can pack your bags, It's off
to adventure with Charlie thanks to Fido Friendly Magazine. To
find your next family adventure that includes your furry family friend,
log on to Fido Friendly dot com.

Speaker 16 (01:12:40):
This is Animal Radio. Baby.

Speaker 8 (01:12:44):
We're talking with Sonia Fitzpatrick. What does Alan's dog think
of him?

Speaker 29 (01:12:48):
Because I have to know you know, I mean, this
is Raydio.

Speaker 3 (01:12:53):
I am, I'm right here, I'm yes, ma'am okay.

Speaker 29 (01:12:58):
And how many dogs do you have?

Speaker 3 (01:13:00):
I have one?

Speaker 29 (01:13:01):
Okay, so let me just tune in. And what's the
name of your dog?

Speaker 3 (01:13:05):
His name is Rudy.

Speaker 29 (01:13:07):
Rudy oh, he said, He said that he never knows
when you're coming or going. When did you give him
something different to eat?

Speaker 3 (01:13:17):
When do I give him something different?

Speaker 22 (01:13:19):
To you?

Speaker 29 (01:13:19):
We want to give him something different to eat?

Speaker 3 (01:13:22):
When did I give him something different to you. I
don't know. I mean I give him. I give him
little treats every day, you know, sometimes.

Speaker 29 (01:13:30):
I'll put a hot But you gave him something it
was really really nice.

Speaker 3 (01:13:34):
Oh yeah, I did not to you yet you know what.
I ate it too though. It was like the steak
jerky stuff.

Speaker 29 (01:13:41):
Oh, he loved it. He wants more of that. Not
the question, but their only answer. They'll ask me what
they want to know what, not what you do. But
obviously he says, you got a funny scent of humor,
and you play like a dog and you get down
on the floor.

Speaker 1 (01:13:54):
Sometimes this is true, he does.

Speaker 3 (01:13:55):
I see it all the time, and he says that.

Speaker 29 (01:13:58):
Oh god, Donnie, he lucks you well.

Speaker 3 (01:14:00):
Of course he loves me.

Speaker 29 (01:14:01):
And you know, he says, and you're crazy.

Speaker 15 (01:14:03):
About him too, well, of course, you know, he says.

Speaker 29 (01:14:07):
And he said him.

Speaker 3 (01:14:10):
No, no, he was born right here.

Speaker 29 (01:14:12):
But you rescued. Who's the one in spirit?

Speaker 3 (01:14:15):
Let's see rescue? Well, I work with dogs that I rescue.
I mean, I don't actually.

Speaker 29 (01:14:20):
Interesting, because there's a black one in the spiritual realm.

Speaker 3 (01:14:24):
A black one. I rescue dogs that I rescue them
from their human owners, is what I teach the human owners.

Speaker 29 (01:14:31):
There's one in the spiritual Which of the dogs, can
you remember? I had trouble with the back.

Speaker 3 (01:14:35):
Leg, A back leg. Let me think about that back leg. Well,
my last dog had trouble with both of his back legs.

Speaker 15 (01:14:43):
Thank you.

Speaker 29 (01:14:44):
It's your last dog coming through.

Speaker 1 (01:14:46):
Wow.

Speaker 29 (01:14:47):
And he said he hung on as long as he could.

Speaker 3 (01:14:49):
Yeah, he was an awesome dog. Wow.

Speaker 29 (01:14:51):
He said that he taught you a lot.

Speaker 3 (01:14:52):
He did teach me a lot. Absolutely he did it.

Speaker 29 (01:14:56):
And he also had a bit of trouble with the
lawyer back. But he said he didn't feel sorry for himself.
He was very annoyed that his legs didn't work the
same way.

Speaker 3 (01:15:05):
He was playing frisbee. The last day he was alive.

Speaker 29 (01:15:08):
His legs locked up that day, and he said he
was ready to get out of his body. But you
had a I mean, we have a tremendous connection, as
I said earlier, with all our animals. But you had
a really strong connection with him. And he loved going
in the truck.

Speaker 3 (01:15:23):
He was an awesome dog. He certainly was an awesome dog.

Speaker 29 (01:15:26):
Well, you were awesome to him too, He said, he
was the love of your life.

Speaker 3 (01:15:30):
Yeah, he was a good guy, I love that dog
really a lot.

Speaker 29 (01:15:33):
Well, and that the reason why you know, you love
all your animals as much in different ways as we
all do. But sometimes we connect with an animal in
a very stronger way. And that's because we've all been
in past lives. Our souls have been together in past lives,
you know that being too many lifetimes together.

Speaker 3 (01:15:53):
I could bring that dog anywhere I could. He could
be running fifty miles an hour. I could go, Cody
stop and he would just stop on a dime.

Speaker 29 (01:15:59):
Well, and also, when did you give him a hamburger?

Speaker 3 (01:16:02):
The last dog or this dog.

Speaker 29 (01:16:03):
Was the one I'm talking to the.

Speaker 3 (01:16:05):
Spirit Oh my gosh, Well he died years ago, so
he probably had a lot of hamburgers.

Speaker 29 (01:16:09):
We loved him and just one does two?

Speaker 3 (01:16:11):
Yeah, well what dog doesn't exactly not do hamburger.

Speaker 8 (01:16:17):
We are with Sonya Fitzpatrick. You know, the phones are
ringing off the hook, and we are so out of
time here. I'm hoping maybe we can get you back
on sometime to answer some listeners calls.

Speaker 29 (01:16:25):
The book done.

Speaker 1 (01:16:27):
The book is called there Are No Sad Dogs in Heaven.
Sonya Fitzpatrick.

Speaker 8 (01:16:31):
Yes, the Sonya Fitzpatrick, the author I have ten copies
to give away right now.

Speaker 31 (01:16:44):
In depend your party animal coming back at you one
quick question to throw your way.

Speaker 21 (01:16:48):
Whatever happened to the doghouse.

Speaker 31 (01:16:51):
I don't mean the sofa after you've had it out
during dinner over what you were going to watch on
TV that night.

Speaker 21 (01:17:00):
Versus one Tree Hill.

Speaker 31 (01:17:04):
Not that doghouse. We all know that doghouse is alive
and well. Buddy of mine just bought a new place.
Visiting him this past weekend, he takes me out to
show me where Thor's room is. And Thor's room, to
be honest with you, is what I would call the
back patio. Huge, awning, big sofa, bed, plush, very comfortable,

(01:17:28):
this whole area to meander about. And it got me
to thinking about when I was a kid, almost every
backyard had.

Speaker 21 (01:17:34):
That really cool, just kitchy cool doghouse way.

Speaker 31 (01:17:37):
In the corner, and it was exactly I mean it
was a little small for some of the dog, sometimes
pretty big for some of the other dogs, and they
would have their name over the roof. And I mean
sure back then we thought, oh, when it pours and rains,
they must run. And it never stopped to think how
much the dog might love it in there. They don't
need to be upgraded to the bridal suite. I don't

(01:17:58):
know that a lot of the I think the animal
communicators out there as much as I think that's farcical,
they might tell you, you know, I'm looking at spot
here and I think he needs some space. I think
he wants some distance from you guys. And you know,
on the back patio, he could hear you squabbling over
the O'Reilly factor and it's not really working for him

(01:18:19):
the back patio. Please don't let the doghouse go the
way of even the bird house or the tree house.
Some other guys I know pointed to the fort they
had in the backyard for their kids, and it was
completely prefab It was not just those planks wedged into
the tree that really weren't even safe, with the ladder
just being planks of wood nailed into the tree kind

(01:18:42):
of haphazardly, and the fire department needing to be called
just to get the kids out. This is what youth
was in the seventies. No, you weren't safe in that
treehouse in the backyard. He didn't want to be. And yeah,
the doghouse was a little bit small for the dog,
and maybe he did get a little bit scared during understorms,
but it was better than him hearing the two you

(01:19:02):
make love. I'm pretty pad your party, Animal Baby.

Speaker 8 (01:19:06):
Well that's all we have time for today. I want
to thank Sonya Fitzpatrick for joining us. The phone still
ringing off the hook from that. In fact, we're gonna
have to get her back on and hook.

Speaker 1 (01:19:13):
Her up with the listeners. Can you arrange that I
make that happen.

Speaker 8 (01:19:16):
I also want to thank Anna Jane Grossman for turning
my dog onto the iPad. And now I'm gonna have
to get a second ipade, one for me, one for
the dog.

Speaker 1 (01:19:24):
Have a great week. Bye bye bye.

Speaker 21 (01:19:28):
This is Animal

Speaker 4 (01:19:32):
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