Pet 'Speed Dating' and the The Chicken Lady.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Celebrating the connection with our pets. This is Animal Radio
featuring your dream team veterinarian doctor Debbie White, doc trainer
Alan Cable groomer, Joey Vellani, communicator Joy Turner, and here
are your hosts, Al Abrams and Judy Francis. What an
incredible show we have for you today. Just a few
minutes ago, I was talking about the horrible incident that

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happened in Germany with the entire circus.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
All being also coming to the cold weather, and of
course it was a flea circus, of course, And if
you miss that, I'm sorry. I'll put that up on
the website for those of you that are just tuning
in right now. I wanted to point out because both
Joey and Alan didn't believe there's such thing as flea circus?
Did you, Judy, did you even believe there was such

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thing as a flea circus?

Speaker 3 (00:50):
No?

Speaker 4 (00:50):
I thought it was a show.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
Of course, I googled it and there are some amazing
pictures of flea circuses, this one right here of a
flea jumping through a ring like a wedding ring, and uh,
it's I'm gonna hold it up to the microphone, so
you can see that.

Speaker 5 (01:04):
I mean, come on, how do you train a flee?

Speaker 6 (01:06):
They're not easy to train.

Speaker 4 (01:08):
In fact, they're natural jumpers.

Speaker 2 (01:09):
Though they are natural jumpers, we were thinking of adding
a flea trainer to the Dream Team, but we.

Speaker 7 (01:16):
Should, we should.

Speaker 4 (01:17):
You don't get it, Alan co Oh, yeah I can.

Speaker 7 (01:20):
I can train a flee to get you know, to
take a vacation from hell.

Speaker 6 (01:23):
Let's see, Stacey, what do you got going on there?

Speaker 8 (01:26):
You know they tell you don't leave your kids in
the car, especially with the windows rolled up. Don't leave
your dog in the car, especially with the windows rolled up.
And don't leave your car running with your dog in
the car, because your dog could put it in reverse
and run over somebody. That's exactly what happened. I'll tell
you about it coming up on Animal Radio News.

Speaker 7 (01:47):
I'll bet he did it on purpose.

Speaker 2 (01:48):
I'm gonna stick around for that. Let's take a call
for Alan Cable right now.

Speaker 9 (01:52):
Hey, Sherry, there.

Speaker 6 (01:54):
How you doing.

Speaker 10 (01:55):
Oh I'm doing okay, A little worried about my little dog?

Speaker 6 (01:58):
What's up?

Speaker 10 (01:58):
Well, I've got little Yorkshire Terrier. We've had her then.
She was a puff and she was very playful, very
run around wasn't frightened pretty much anything. I got her
fixed after she was about six months old, and it
seemed to change. I wouldn't say because of getting her
fixed as far as the hormones were concerned, but it

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seemed to change the moment I picked her up. She's
now frightened. She shivers all the time. And she is
now three and a half. So this has been going
on for quite a few years, and it's just gotten
to the point now where it's worse. She's frightened every
single noise. She now hides under the bed. She's just

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she's just scared of everything, and she's just not having
the quality of life. I wanted to have anymore.

Speaker 7 (02:44):
Good for you, Cherry, that you cares so much, sweetie,
and you know, I'm so glad you called uh. First
of all, when your dog gets afraid, you probably feel
really sorry for her, don't you.

Speaker 10 (02:54):
Oh, immediately immediately.

Speaker 7 (02:56):
So the first thing you have to do, Sherry, is
you have to work on yourself. And it all starts
with you. That's my new expression. It all starts with you.
And what I mean by that is when dog sense
that you're afraid, it makes them more afraid because they
think they have something to actually be afraid of. So
you're gonna have to gather up your strength and confidence.
You're gonna have to help your dog face his fear.

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And the way you do that is with you do
it with consistency but also gradually. So if your dog,
let's say, is afraid of any noise, what you want
to do is figure out what noises your dog isn't
afraid of, okay, and spend time around Spend time around
those noises, and you want to distract your dog whenever

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your dog starts to go to that fearful place. So
let's say you're walking past a heat pump in the street.
Your dog's fine. All of a sudden, the heat pump
jumps on and you see your dog is getting afraid.
You want to give her a little tap, just a
little tap on the side of the head, like a
little hay, and snap her out of it, and then
keep walking, keep walking through the fear. And when it
happens in that house, you know you want to give

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her a treat. As soon as you distract her and
the fear is gone, you give her a treat and
go good dog. She'll start to learn to associate each
sound with a good thing instead of a bad thing.
And she'll also feed off of your confidence. I helped
the guy a couple of weeks ago with thunderstorms and
his dogs terrify the thunderstorms. So what we did was
we were lucky because we had a thunderstorm. We just

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walked outside and we stood there next to the dog
all calm. You know, I prepare him mentally. You just
gotta be calm. You're gonna relax your shoulders, relax your arm,
and you're just gonna stand out there with your dog
and enjoy the thunderstorm and then actually take a walk
in the thunderstorm because dogs love to walk. So the
dog starts to associate the noise of the thunderstorm with, hey,
this is really a good thing. We're taking a we're

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taking a walk. And as soon as he started to
relax and he understood the owner that his fear was
actually going into his dog, transcending and going down the
leash into his dog, and he started to calm down,
his dog started a calm down. So one at a time,
you're gonna you're gonna have your dog face her fear
and you're gonna create a safe spot in the house.
So you notice where your dog runs when there is

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noise under the bed, put her crate by the bed
so she can run in that. And as soon as
you start to see that she's not afraid. It's gonna
take time, shery. It doesn't happen overnight. You've got to
be calmed. You've got to help your dog face her
fear and move her through it. So an example would
be if your dog is afraid of an air conditioner
that's in your neighborhood, You're actually gonna walk past that
thing every day, and you're gonna start to walk closer

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to it over time as she starts to lose the fear,
until you're right next to it and she's just sitting
there and you're gonna give her a treat. So in
that way, over time, she's gonna lose her fear. But
you gotta start stop feeling sorry for her. You've got
to stop doing that. You can't pick her up when
when she's afraid.

Speaker 10 (05:43):
Don't pick up holding her in the car, and make her.

Speaker 7 (05:45):
As absolutely and absolutely holding her every time a human
This is so good that you brought that up, because
when a human being picks a dog up or holds
a dog when they're afraid. What does it do. It
reinforces the fear. It tells the dog, yeah, you should
be afraid, and yeah, i'm gonna comfort you. I'm afraid too.
That's what you're doing. You've got to change your energy.

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You've got to be calm, confident, assertive, and unafraid and
just ignore her fear. And as soon as she calms down,
that's when you reward her. So like, let's say you're
driving in the car, she's whimpering, you're paying no attention,
maybe the third fourth time she's in that crate, and
she's like being calm and quiet. You go, good girl,
and you give her a treat, good dog. You reward

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her when she's calm. You pay no attention to her
when she's afraid, and then you expose her to the
fears gradually over time, slowly, but you put yourself in
a confident frame of mind first before you do it.
And always reward the calm behavior and ignore the afraid
scared behavior. But be a rock, be calm and confidence,
stand next to her. Sure here there's nothing to be

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afraid of.

Speaker 9 (06:48):
Share.

Speaker 10 (06:49):
Okay, I'll do that.

Speaker 7 (06:50):
Thank you, Thanks for your call show welcome.

Speaker 6 (06:53):
I love listeners like that.

Speaker 11 (06:54):
Alan.

Speaker 6 (06:54):
I don't know about you, but they ask good.

Speaker 7 (06:56):
She's a smart, smart sweet lady. Well, you know what,
all of our listeners are fantastic and they all want
to help. The biggest problem is it all starts with
you and people understanding that dogs don't have human emotions,
and when we try to give human emotions to dogs,
we get into all kinds of trouble.

Speaker 9 (07:11):
People should have to take.

Speaker 12 (07:12):
A test to be a pet owner, you know what
I'm saying, and be able to understand all of this,
And it would make it better for everybody if they
were able to. I know there's no book on parent thing,
but it seems like parenting is something.

Speaker 7 (07:27):
There's so many books on dog behavior that before anybody listening,
before you go out and get a dog, before you
get out and go out and get a puppy, put
a lot of thought into it. It's it's not like
buying a steak or a cup of coffee or a sweater.
You're bringing home a living thing. So you want to learn. Okay,
what kind of energy do I want from my dog?
Do I want a playful, crazy dog, manic dog? Do
I want a calm dog. Do I want a big

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dog or a small dog. Do I want a worker
dog or a dog who's, you know, bread just to
lay around a lot? So you got to put a
lot of thought into that. Do I want a dog
that loves people? Or do I want a dog who's
aloof like a chow? And so dog behavior, there's so
much information on the internet that will teach you how
dogs look at the world. And when you learn that,
when you start to see that and ingest that stuff

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and stop humanizing your dog, you're gonna be a great
dog owner. It doesn't mean you can't give a dog affection.
It just means dogs see affection differently than people do.
Affection for a dog. You know what affection for a
dog is you're taking your dog for a walk on
the leash. He's behaving, he's being good, and then you
let him off the leash. That's affection and what it does.

Speaker 12 (08:28):
Things that I noticed about dog behavior books is there's
a lot of contradictions that depending on who wrote them,
and they can be confusing. Now, honestly, I mean your
mythology is I agree with one hundred percent because to
me it's common sense.

Speaker 7 (08:46):
I'll tell you that if you want to learn dog behavior,
just find a mother with its puppies and watch. That's
where all my stuff comes from. That's great stuff.

Speaker 1 (08:55):
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Speaker 13 (09:05):
Greetings and salutations on Animal Radio, it's Vinnie Penn your
Party Animal. I want to take a few minutes to
your time here to talk about something god that I've
spotted in my neck of the woods in recent days,
my neck of the woods being Connecticut. Actually, actually where
I see this is right before you enter New York,
and it's an enormous billboard that I think has been

(09:26):
up since before Easter, and basically it has a picture
of the most.

Speaker 9 (09:30):
Adorable little bunny rabbit you've ever.

Speaker 13 (09:32):
Seen in your life, and it has the words We're
not just Easter presence, We're a lifelong commitment.

Speaker 3 (09:40):
Now.

Speaker 13 (09:40):
The only thing missing is a billboard about one hundred
feet after that one with the word duh written on it.
What eighty parents out there are bringing a bunny home
for their little girl or their little boy for Easter
morning and regarding it as.

Speaker 9 (09:58):
No different than a goldfit. Give it a name. Treat
it like you would a toy.

Speaker 13 (10:03):
If it happens to die, we'll bury it in the
backyard and have a really touching ceremony that will film
on the camquarter and we'll watch at your wedding. Oh look,
this is when Dad eulogized, you go, my beautiful pet
rabbit that I stopped playing with three days after Easter.
Isn't it a given not to give a living creature

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flippantly to a little child?

Speaker 9 (10:27):
Never mind the.

Speaker 13 (10:28):
Fact that rabbits aren't the easiest pet to maintain in
the first place. I mean, you can't just put them
on a wheel like you would a hamster. There's a
certain diet there. You don't know how many people I
know who've done this. And within a week of having
this brand new, adorable bunny in the backyard, they throw
it in a cardboard box in the backyard and are

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shocked when a fox has eaten it overnight. Nothing like
an eleven year old girls coming out to see her
brand new bunny and screaming in horror to find it
chewed up, chomped up, spit out, few bones left in
the box. Parents have to start using their heads and
realizing what is an appropriate gift and what is it?
A furbie is an appropriate Easter gift, not a bunny.

(11:13):
Everybody should know not to do who's the blame on.
The blame is on the parents and the blame.

Speaker 9 (11:18):
Is on the seller. Feel free to give a call
in am I wrong?

Speaker 13 (11:23):
Everybody should know bunnies are not gifts unless their name
is Kendra and you're buying it from a man with
a pipe in his mouth.

Speaker 9 (11:31):
I'm Finni Penn Party. Animal Animal Radio.

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Speaker 1 (12:58):
You're listening to Animal Radio. Oh call the dream team
now with the free Animal Radio app for iPhone and Android.

Speaker 2 (13:06):
If you have a Yorkshire Terrier, a Shitsu, a Pug
or a Mini Schnauzer, listen up. There is a great
ebook that you need to check out, call How to
Be Your Dog's Best Friend, and it is written by
our very own doctor Debbie. She is a wonderful author
and links to that could be found over at Animal
radio dot com. Is it true you won't take care

(13:29):
of fleas there at your office?

Speaker 4 (13:31):
Yeah, I will not see fleas. I will not see
the spiders, which we've talked about before. Sure, so I
do have my standards.

Speaker 6 (13:38):
Yeah, I understand, I understand. Let's head to Corey. Hey, Corey,
how are you doing.

Speaker 16 (13:43):
I'm well, thank you so much for taking my call.
Where are you in North Carolina?

Speaker 6 (13:47):
North?

Speaker 3 (13:47):
Kay?

Speaker 2 (13:47):
I heard that accent. I love that accent. I'm a
sucker for Southern accents like that.

Speaker 9 (13:52):
What can we do for you?

Speaker 16 (13:54):
Well, I'm trying to see if there's any alternative methods
to the problem my dog's been diagnosed with. He started
having issues getting up and taking him a minute to
sit or lay down, stiffness in the back legs. Took
him to a vet. She did X rays. She ruled
out hip dysplasia. She thought it might be his knees.
When she did an exam, she referred me to an

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orthopedic vet. Took us about a month to get in there,
and in the meantime he was on remadil, which seemed
to help. The orthopedic vet didn't exam and basically diagnosed
him with cruciate ligament tears and both.

Speaker 4 (14:27):
For your knees, oh boy, okay, yeah, and so of.

Speaker 16 (14:30):
Course, her solution was the TPLO surgery, Okay, yeah, which
is twenty two hundred dollars per mee yeah, yeah, Unfortunately,
that's very affordable. He's a big dog. He's one hundred
and fifteen pounds and he's half rotted, half husky.

Speaker 4 (14:44):
Okay, wow, he's a big guy. Yeah, And the honest
truth is the best thing for a dog of that
size with both knees affected with the cruciit rupture is
surgery of some form. The TPLO is one of a
couple different procedures to help that and to provide stabilization

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in the knee. Because these big dogs are so large
and they have so much muscle mass, some of the
other techniques aren't as favored. But I'd say, you know,
if having the TPLO done is not necessarily an option,
you might see if the specials would consider doing a
what we call an extra capsular technique. It's not the

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best choice for a big dog because they can have
more problems with it, but it can save you about
one thousand dollars sometimes, so it might be something to
do if you're looking as a second choice. The other
things that I always mentioned when we talk about orthopedic
problems in kind of being in a dilemma of maybe

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affording the cost of surgery versus helping the pet to
feel more comfortable. And you mentioned Rimado, which is one
of a couple different non steroidal pain believers that we
can use to help them feel better. But for me,
I also look at things. I'd like to make sure
we're in good healthy weight, because if we're carrying extra weight,
that's a lot more for that baby to carry around,

(16:08):
and just getting that pet into lean body conditions and
sometimes make a huge difference in their mobility and they
may not need those medicines, so that would be one thing,
and then also making sure that we're on a good
joint supplement. This wouldn't be my first option. But some
other thoughts for you would be that I've had some
dogs where we've had cruciate injury and we try something

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as an alternative. Usually it's older pets, so that you
know we have other reasons that we're not pursuing surgery.
But you can get orthotic splints made for dogs with
different types of joint injuries and ligaments instabilities. And I've
had a couple of dogs where we've had basically an
orthotic a movable splint that's made custom fitted for the

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pet and it helps to give them stabilization and some
a little bit of support with that leg. Those aren't
cheap either, and you can easily spend for a large dog,
maybe three hundred or five hundred bucks for one of these,
but that might be an alternative that you can kind
of look at and see if that might be a
little bit more amenable. And there's orthopets dot com and
I think woundwear dot com are two that I've used

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here in my office, so those might be some other options.
And then you know, I don't know if you've looked
at it, but there are some resources you can even
find for helping defer costs, so you know, if you
kind of fill out applications and get approved, there are
some good resources that pet owners can look to to
find care when your pet needs it. And you might

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just look at the Human Society's website, the ASPCA's website.
There's different if you just google how to find help
with your vet bills. There's some different resources of non
for profits that can help with some of these situations
where we have a finite and we know we need
to have something done. It's going to cost X dollar
amounts and it's going to mean a difference in this
pet's life. So that might be something else to look at.

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Because how old is your baby?

Speaker 2 (18:00):
Two?

Speaker 4 (18:01):
Two years? Oh my goodness. So yeah, we want to
do what we can to keep him as mobile as
we can.

Speaker 16 (18:06):
What was the first procedure you said, extra.

Speaker 4 (18:09):
Extra capsular repair, And that's not where they're putting any
kind of hardware in the knee. With a TPLO, they
usually put a plate in there to give some stabilization
when they're re positioning the knee. The extra capsular is
really just where they go and clean up the knee
and they do some outer stabilizing techniques to help stabilize

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the knee. But there are some dogs that with really
really strict restriction, weight loss, pain management, and an extra
capsular approach. You know, it might be an.

Speaker 16 (18:40):
Alternative for you any ideas. He doesn't eat very much.
He's down to eating only want to eat once a day,
and sometimes I have to force feed him to get
with his medicine because I don't want it on an
empty stomach. He doesn't really eat a whole lot. We
walk every day, about thirty minutes. But he's just again
not as mobile as he used to be. But is
there any kind of tricks or something to help him,

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like boost his metabolism or get him to lose weight
on certain foods?

Speaker 4 (19:05):
You know what, there actually is a new diet that's
been I'll sell you the name by Hills, and it's
actually called the metabolic diet. And this is kind of
exciting because it actually has been fed in pet households
outside of research settings and shown over eighty percent of
pets within two months lost weight. So it might be

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something to look at if he needs to lose weight.
And if that is an option, that would be one
thing I'd get really serious about because you can only
increase his exercise so much because he can't tolerate a
whole lot, and so that would be something I would
certainly talk to your veterinarian about it and see if
he's a candidate for that. Okay, well, good luck with everything, Corey,
and I give your baby my best wishes because that

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is a lot to have to deal with that at
two years of age, got a life to lift, so
we got to get this baby feeling good.

Speaker 16 (19:51):
Yes, thank you.

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Speaker 15 (20:14):
Eight hundred four three four five oh one nine eight
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four three four fifty nineteen.

Speaker 9 (20:27):
Hi, this is Bob Barker on Animal Radio reminding you
to help control the pet population.

Speaker 11 (20:34):
Have your pet spade or newded.

Speaker 4 (20:35):
This is an Animal Radio news update.

Speaker 8 (20:38):
I'm Stacey Cohen for Animal Radio. Well, I guess Bigfoot
is considered an animal. I mean he's pretty hairy, and
he looks kind of like an animal. I don't think
any man has a foot as big as bigfoots, but
we can stick him here in the Animal News and
upstate New York man with a feverant belief in Bigfoot
is appealing to ban the hunting of the elusive creature

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in the Empire State. Peter Hans Whimer has written a
letter respectfully seeking his assistance and enacting a ban on
those attempting to crack down and track and kill Bigfoot.
The mayvo man previously failed in his quest to get
the Department of Environmental Conservation to enact such a ban.
The dec officials turned down Whimer's request on the grounds

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that Bigfoot doesn't exist.

Speaker 7 (21:25):
No, you're kidding.

Speaker 8 (21:27):
They've got so many TV shows about him though. Police
in Pennsylvania say a dog that was left in an
unattended vehicle knocked it into gear and then the car
struck a pedestrian. I wonder if this dog is going
to get a ticket. I mean, my dogs get tickets
for not being on a leash. This is a dog
who's driving recklessly. West York police say the accident happened

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about eleven thirty on a Tuesday morning, and the pedestrian
was found lying in the street. The New York Daily
Record reports that police say the car had been left
running when the dog inside pushed it into drive, caused
it to slowly start moving.

Speaker 4 (22:02):
Please say.

Speaker 8 (22:02):
The pedestrian tried to stop the car before it hit
a parked truck, but was unsuccess unsuccessful and was caught
between the two cars.

Speaker 7 (22:10):
He hit his head.

Speaker 8 (22:11):
He fell to the ground. He was found unconscious. He
was later treated at a hospital for his injuries. Well,
if you're a cat owner, you know they are finicky,
and having a finicky cat with an appetite is not uncommon.
In fact, after going through the frustration of refused meal offerings,
untold numbers of kitty guardians will go to extreme searching

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for a cat food brand that what's the appetite of
the furry family member. Cat guardians weight in anticipation with
fingers crossed while kitty sniffs at the food, praying that
this new flavor will entice them to chow down with
gusto and letting out an audible cyber relief when the
offering is acceptable. Well, due to the great lengths that
pet owners go, these cats can be pretty difficult to

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actually feed. So they did a study and in this study,
the veterinarians found that some cats that behave aggressively at
meal time. They exhibit behaviors like growling and hissing or
trying to seize the can of cat food out of
the guardian's hand may also be showing signs of food obsession. Now,
since the vets were not able to arrive at any
medical condition to explain this behavior. One cat was diagnosed

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with a first confirmed case of food obsession.

Speaker 7 (23:23):
Oh, he's probably on prozac.

Speaker 8 (23:24):
The veterinarians prescribed a treatment plan which would hopefully remedy
the cat's food compulsion. It included prohibiting his guardians from
eating in front of them, a regularly scheduled playtime, and
also instructing them at other times to ignore him, but
to reward him for calm behavior. Well, looks like it worked,
the study said. They just published this in the Journal
of Veterinary Behavior, and it's actually in the books now.

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Cat food obsession. I'm Stacy Cohen. Get more animal breaking
news at animal radio dot com.

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Speaker 6 (24:12):
We're really covering the bases today.

Speaker 13 (24:14):
Huh.

Speaker 2 (24:15):
Yes, we are fleas, iguanas, flamingos, and cats and dogs,
and of course right now we turn our head towards
the chickens.

Speaker 6 (24:24):
You know, more and more people are having chickens as pets.

Speaker 5 (24:27):
They make good pets.

Speaker 4 (24:29):
You get eggs, you do get eggs, come on, I think.

Speaker 2 (24:32):
Now, I don't know if you can get eggs without
having one of those noisty roosters, but I'll find out
in just a minute.

Speaker 6 (24:36):
Right on Animal Radio, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (24:38):
We have an expert joining us who's raised her very
own flock of chickens. Is that what you call chickens
when they're flock of chickens?

Speaker 5 (24:45):
Glee?

Speaker 4 (24:46):
Yes, gaggle of geese?

Speaker 5 (24:49):
Okay, gaggle of geese, a flock of chicken.

Speaker 6 (24:51):
We welcome Lauren Cherre to the radio show. Hi, Lauren,
how are you.

Speaker 9 (24:54):
Doing, hirich?

Speaker 18 (24:55):
I'm doing great.

Speaker 6 (24:56):
How are you very good?

Speaker 10 (24:57):
So?

Speaker 6 (24:57):
Now, do you have any dogs? Let's just get this
out the front right now. Yes, you have dogs.

Speaker 18 (25:01):
I have a I have a terrier.

Speaker 5 (25:04):
Does that mix with chickens?

Speaker 19 (25:06):
No?

Speaker 18 (25:06):
He didn't at first, and I learned a thing or two,
and then my dog and I learned a thing or
two together, and we live in backyard harmony.

Speaker 3 (25:15):
Now.

Speaker 6 (25:15):
Well, now, as Judy is just alluded to, you have
chickens as pets.

Speaker 7 (25:19):
Is that correct?

Speaker 20 (25:20):
Yes?

Speaker 18 (25:20):
And you can call them a flock sometimes I call
them a herd. You never you never know. They're different
every day.

Speaker 6 (25:27):
How many do you have?

Speaker 18 (25:28):
I have at present? I have four girls, okay. And
to answer your question about eggs, the hens all lay
eggs for me. And you don't need a rooster to
get eggs.

Speaker 6 (25:40):
Oh you don't.

Speaker 18 (25:41):
I guess you need a rooster to get chicks.

Speaker 4 (25:43):
Yeah, to fertilize.

Speaker 6 (25:45):
So how does that happen? Can you tell me the
whole birds of the about chickens, because I really don't know.
Does does?

Speaker 3 (25:52):
So?

Speaker 6 (25:52):
You need a rooster to fertilize prior to the eggs
being laid.

Speaker 18 (25:56):
I take it that's right. But but since my hens
don't have a rooster around, they lay in fertile.

Speaker 6 (26:04):
Eggs, which are much better to eat. I understand.

Speaker 18 (26:08):
No, no, even if you if you had a rooster
and you collected the eggs, you wouldn't be able to
tell the difference taste wise. Really well, if an egg
you've been sitting in a nest for a while with
a nice warm hen on top of it, then you're
going to find a little chicken there. But otherwise, the
little fertilized steck is so tiny the verse day or two,

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and as soon as you put it into the refrigerator.

Speaker 2 (26:31):
It doesn't it's Okay, So you have four of these
female chickens egg and they are producing eggs for you,
which is, you know, a nice little side thing for you.

Speaker 18 (26:44):
Of course, in the garden, I've got spinach and peas
started already, and I've got protein wow nest box. So
it's a nice nice thing to have in the backyard,
you know.

Speaker 5 (26:55):
Yeah, you got your own little grocery store.

Speaker 6 (26:57):
Now you are a vegetarian, Is that correct?

Speaker 18 (26:59):
I I wasn't when I first got my hens, and
in fact, I really thought I might be able to
one day chop their little heads off and throw them
in a bow pot.

Speaker 7 (27:09):
I didn't.

Speaker 18 (27:10):
I didn't expect them.

Speaker 11 (27:11):
To be pets.

Speaker 21 (27:12):
They weren't.

Speaker 18 (27:13):
They were going to be garden ornaments, lawn ornaments for me,
and they were going to, you know, provide some some
eggs for my family. And I didn't ever expect them
to have I know what happened.

Speaker 6 (27:24):
You named them, You gave them names, and from there
on out it was different, right.

Speaker 18 (27:28):
Yeah, my daughter caused that problem there, She named them
right away.

Speaker 22 (27:32):
So they have personalities, oh good heavens, more extreme than
any pet I've ever owned, really, and all of their
personalities are different and there's this goofy microcosm out there
in the backyard.

Speaker 18 (27:47):
That there's I have. I've got Hatsie, who was the
flock leader. I have Lucy, who is She's closest to
the Buddhas of anyone I've ever met, chicken of chickens.
And I have an evil buff Orpington named little.

Speaker 6 (28:04):
White Ohtan chicken Stan she is she I love her dearly,
but she.

Speaker 18 (28:10):
She she would kill me if she could. Ooh okay,
And so she's just a little sociopath. I have no
idea why.

Speaker 4 (28:19):
But this sounds like a daytime drama here. I'm like,
I could tune into this.

Speaker 18 (28:24):
Oh, it is drama all day in the backyard. All
I have to do is pull up a little stool
and sit down with my girls. And there's always something happening.

Speaker 4 (28:32):
Now, are they related to each other?

Speaker 3 (28:34):
No?

Speaker 18 (28:34):
I When I first got my chicks, I want I
chose them by color, thinking well, what colors would look
nice wandering around in my garden. So I have a
I have a golden buff Orpington.

Speaker 3 (28:45):
I have.

Speaker 18 (28:47):
Lucy is a barred plymouth rock. She's black and white,
speckled and gorgeous. And my other flack members at present
are Daisy the Rhode Island red, and I have another
bard smouth rocks.

Speaker 6 (28:59):
Mean, are these noisy little guys girls?

Speaker 18 (29:03):
Uh No, they talk like a bunch of old ladies
having tea. You know, it's kind of chatting. And they
every now and then on a good morning, one of
them will lay an egg and march right outside and
tell everybody. So it's a quick little squawking, just out

(29:24):
of proud, you know, feeling good. I just lay an
egg by glly, and I want everyone to know.

Speaker 5 (29:30):
So they're very social. If you have one, they get
pretty lonely.

Speaker 18 (29:33):
Yes, they're flok animals. They need they need to be
in a group.

Speaker 2 (29:38):
More and more people, even in big cities, are getting chickens,
not only for the eggs, but for pets and companionship.
What is required for Let's say I live in uh oh,
I don't know, New York City, and that would probably
be a place that I would not want to have chickens.

Speaker 18 (29:54):
Well, if you need a little bit of a backyard,
and you need to know what your town or city allows,
and if you don't like you know, if your town
or city doesn't allow chickens, then you need to move
at a town meeting and change that.

Speaker 6 (30:06):
You know, Oh, okay, change it. I was going to move,
but yeah, I guess change.

Speaker 18 (30:10):
You could move, I guess. But but a lot of
people just go go with a storm town hall and
change the change the rules. And now a whole lot
of towns and cities across the country are allowing a
certain number of chickens per backyard.

Speaker 6 (30:24):
How long do these little guys or girls live?

Speaker 18 (30:26):
I'd say five to eight years is a general wage
for a chicken.

Speaker 7 (30:34):
I know that some live longer.

Speaker 18 (30:36):
I know that a lot of them don't live that long.
There are a lot of There are a lot of
creatures out there who like to taste the chicken. The
neighborhood dogs, the fox, the hawks.

Speaker 6 (30:47):
Yeah that's uh.

Speaker 2 (30:48):
You chronicle all of this and Once upon a Flock
Life with my Soulful Chickens.

Speaker 6 (30:53):
And it's a great book.

Speaker 2 (30:54):
I've just started reading it today, So don't tell, don't
give me any spoilers.

Speaker 6 (30:58):
Some great and to go ahead and give away ten
copies right now.

Speaker 2 (31:01):
If you've ever thought about getting chickens, or even if
you haven't, you just want a good fun story about
somebody who's made chickens as their pets. Head on over
to your bookstore pick it up once upon a flock.
Lauren Share is the author, and we'll put all links
to everything you've heard on today's show over at Animal
radio dot com. Lauren, thank you so much for spending
time with us.

Speaker 7 (31:19):
Thank you so much.

Speaker 6 (31:20):
Go hug those chickens for us, will you?

Speaker 18 (31:22):
I will right now get.

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This is where we celebrate our connection with your pets.
If you have a question for the veterinarian doctor Debbie,
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Speaker 6 (33:20):
We go to Sheila.

Speaker 10 (33:21):
Hey, Sheila, Hi, how are you today?

Speaker 7 (33:24):
Good?

Speaker 6 (33:24):
Where are you calling from?

Speaker 21 (33:25):
Actually I'm plowing from New Jersey, but I'm from Massachusetts.

Speaker 6 (33:30):
Joey easy, Okay, Well, what's going on?

Speaker 21 (33:32):
Is Sheila? Well, I rescue a cat my husband and
I and it's probably been about a month now and
the cat is finally warming up to me. However, whenever
the cat my husband picks up, the cat so roll
up into a battle like as if she's scared that she's.

Speaker 3 (33:52):
Going to be beaten.

Speaker 21 (33:53):
She was a rescue cat. I rescued her and she
has declined. But my question is will she come around,
will she stop hiding?

Speaker 18 (34:02):
Will she get off the chair?

Speaker 4 (34:06):
What do you mean get off the chair?

Speaker 21 (34:09):
She stays on her her spot all day long until
I come home to feed her at night.

Speaker 18 (34:15):
So start to.

Speaker 20 (34:16):
Warm up to me. Okay.

Speaker 21 (34:18):
Another question was would it be a good idea to
get her companion?

Speaker 4 (34:22):
Okay, now you don't have any other pets at this time,
just your husbands. Is my husband's pet.

Speaker 21 (34:31):
By the way, we like that the earlier joke about
the schnauzer.

Speaker 2 (34:35):
He told me to tell oh good because we got
a lot of complaints about the schnauzer joke.

Speaker 21 (34:40):
He was laughing like crazy. So anyways, I'm back to
littlecated cats. We had just lost our cat for seventeen years,
so I wanted to rescue another cat.

Speaker 10 (34:50):
So and the man who who.

Speaker 21 (34:53):
Work redemption needs, he said this cat would never play.
But I gave her some organic the little green stuff Canton.

Speaker 10 (35:06):
Yeah, okay, and it made a point my husband picks up.
She just powers so much.

Speaker 21 (35:14):
It's scary.

Speaker 4 (35:15):
Okay. Well, for some kiddies that have kind of either
a feral background or you know that we don't know
what their history is, and they're very fear fearful of
a lot of new things, whether that's a person, everything
in the household, or you know, just select things. We
really have to proceed cautiously with cats. And the general
rule is with catses you can't treat them like a dog.

(35:37):
So to force her into physical contact when it makes
her visibly uncomfortable is counterproductive. So that's the first thing.
We want her to warm up to situations into your husband,
but we want her to do it on her own
terms and to her to feel feel comfortable. It's the
closest equation I can make it to is like you know,

(35:59):
when it can learning how to swim and you throw
them in the deep end of a pool, more chances
than not that it actually freaks them out and they'll not, like,
not enjoy swimming. So cats are that same way. So
that's the first role is we don't want to force her. Now,
if she has more problems with your husband and getting
comfortable with him, then I always want to put him

(36:20):
into the key point of being the food person in
the household, so that you know, maybe you don't give
her can food all that often, but he might be
the occasion that you do produce it, or maybe a
really yummy treat and it only comes from your husband,
and you just let him do that with no other expectations.
You just let him give the food and just let

(36:41):
her accept that it's not going to try to pick
her up. He's not going to do anything. He may
not even look at her talk to her at first.
That's fine, Just let her get comfortable with that, and
then with time then he can start talking to her.
Then who knows, he can invite put his hand out.
She may come closer, but we really have to do
that slowly with her her own timeline.

Speaker 21 (37:03):
So exactly, she probably will come around and you're saying
you're helping.

Speaker 4 (37:09):
If she's already come around a lot to you, then
you know it sounds like she's got it in her.
She just needs to she needs to feel comfortable.

Speaker 24 (37:17):
Now.

Speaker 4 (37:17):
The other thing you can try, and a lot of
times I do use this when we're trying to work
on some behavior issues with cats. Is we can use
the different types of the odor free of pheromones, basically
the scent hormones that help to relax cats in a
natural way, and you can get those in the little sprees.

Speaker 21 (37:36):
Isn't that like these it's like an aerosol newspray.

Speaker 4 (37:39):
It may be I'm not familiar with that brand, but
it's basically the pheromone that she used is the chin
rubbing of pheromones. So when you see cats up their
chin on things and they get that goofy grin, that's
what they put into these products. So that's what we
want to use. That's just kind of a natural way
to calm her. Some folks will even use a little

(38:00):
bit of dilute lavender oil in the environment and that
is a natural relaxer for pets as well.

Speaker 7 (38:07):
So okay, that's.

Speaker 4 (38:08):
Something, and it sounds like your baby is probably the type.
I wouldn't really pull out the old drug bag and
start using, but there are some cats where we do
have to do that, and we'll have to use any
anti anxiety medicines or other types of said it is
if if they've really got a lot of fear based problems,
or if they take that fear and it progresses to
becoming aggressive in unfamiliar situations. So that's why we say

(38:31):
hands off and back off a cat. We don't want
to get to that point. So I think there's definitely
hard for your baby.

Speaker 21 (38:38):
Oh my poor baby. She'll be fine.

Speaker 18 (38:40):
We love her.

Speaker 4 (38:40):
It at but I thank you so much, appreciate it.

Speaker 6 (38:43):
Thanks for listening, and we love all.

Speaker 21 (38:45):
We love yourself. We listened it all the way down
to Jersey so very much. And keep up work and
keep up those jugs.

Speaker 2 (38:52):
We'll do it, Joey. They like the Schnauzer. Good, thank
you for calling chalk one up for the Schnauzer.

Speaker 4 (38:59):
I don't know what the schnauzer was.

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You didn't hear the schnauzer joke.

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Speaker 20 (41:14):
Doing all right after yourself?

Speaker 6 (41:15):
Very good? What's going on?

Speaker 20 (41:16):
I've got a little pocket final sits who mixed the dog.
She's about four years old. As he continues to scratch,
itch and bite and she's turning her skin. Really really
think we tried everything underneath the sun, like bathing her
every month, figuring her out of the groomer, getting her
cut all the way down to you know, shave her
down where she's smoothed. And last year we had an

(41:37):
epidemic with the fleas because they were so bad up
in our area and we're out of control. But she's
got a severe bitch problem even born of those uh
he collars on them and you take an act albums,
he's right back to the biting herself.

Speaker 4 (41:51):
Okay, all right, Well, you know if you've had and
the first thing is, if you've had flea issues in
the past, I'm going to ask you to make sure
you are addressing that if you don't see these guys,
because flea allergy dermatitis, it lingers well past when we
see the little fleas. So even if you're doing a
good job of controlling fleas today, you could still have
the itch last for up to a month later. So

(42:13):
you want to keep up with a product both that
does a quick kill and also one that does a
monthly application. So itching dogs, my gosh, this time of year,
I am seeing tons of scratching dogs. And one of
the big reasons is because we start to have some
of the different changes in weather, and at least in
my area, there's a lot of different allergic type problems

(42:35):
that are triggering itchy dogs. So address those fleas. But
then we can try some other remedies for the itchy pet,
and some of these are going to require that you
go to the vet. So there are some dogs that
you can treat at home with colloidal oatmeal baths, and
those not just once a month, but you need to
give those at least twice a week because it has
a very short relief. It lasts for a few days

(42:57):
and then it wears off. And just think of yourself,
if you ever had chicken po feels good getting out
of that aveno bath, but it'll go away within just
a few days. So you got to repeat that, so
you can up the frequency of that. I often will
use anahistamines and fatty acids for the mild itching and pets.
I kind of wonder if your pet is beyond that now,
And that's why it might be in your best pet's

(43:19):
best interest to see a veterinarian, because if she's to
the point where she is just traumatizing herself, if you
take that Elizabethan collar off, she's at a point where
she can't control her will and it's something we really
got to get her some help. So for some pets,
we might use something like a steroid for a short
term itch relief. And I have dogs, Oh my gosh,
I have seen this week three dogs that come in

(43:40):
once a year in the same couple of weeks because
they have seasonal allergies and all they need is an
allergy shot. They may need just a short course of
a steroid and it gets them past that hump, and
then the rest of the year they're you know, mild itching,
or they're doing good as gold. So you know, that
might be well worth that trip to the veterinarian. I
would definitely see about doing that. And then you know,

(44:02):
I'm going to scold you for using Elizabethan Coller for itching.
It may help her from self traumatizing, but it's not
get into the heart of things. So we can look
at doing some other things with diet if it's something
that's more long term or ongoing. So a diet change
to a food that's of a different type of component.
So used to be lamb and rice was a kind

(44:23):
of unusual protein diet. They're kind of everywhere now, so
you might look at getting something that's got more like
a venison.

Speaker 6 (44:30):
Based diet or or even rabbit based diet.

Speaker 4 (44:34):
And then some folks go into the whole grain free
group with.

Speaker 20 (44:37):
Those kind of diets that's suggested, getting away from the
open grains for for a while.

Speaker 9 (44:43):
That work.

Speaker 20 (44:43):
Where we've started on that, so I haven't really seen the.

Speaker 4 (44:47):
Change yet and that can take some time. So you
and that's why I urge you to get to the
VET because we want to give this baby some relief
before you start getting a lot more established getting problems
because it starts off with the itch and the scratch,
and then a lot of dogs will go on to
develop skin infections, hair loss, a lot of odor to
the skin, so it can really get much worse from

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where you're at. I definitely get that looked at.

Speaker 20 (45:10):
She also has an attitude problem, totally brained real well.
Because of our job we have, we we got her
as a problem. They put her on the eighteen leller
with us, and then unfortunately the company change policies and
always she had to be left at home with our
our daughter and son a law. And she has an
attitude problem. Where you go outside, certain dogs she thinks

(45:34):
she's aggressive and has got to go for that, but
other dogs she's fine with. There's something I can do
for that.

Speaker 4 (45:39):
Well, Alan are going to jump in.

Speaker 7 (45:40):
Yeah, I'm glad you brought up food allergies because I
actually had a person that had that same itching problem.
And you know, once the dogs started going for it,
they found out the dog was allergic to food, and
then we had to do some behavior modification. But so
is your dog fixed? Yes, he is okay. And she
gets aggressive with just certain dogs, big dogs.

Speaker 20 (45:59):
Yeah, it seems like that they your dogs. She just
starts getting all hyper and excited, and you know, I've
got to walkation. All of a sudden, bigger dogs come along.

Speaker 7 (46:07):
Right when you walk your dog, When you walk your
dog again, my new expression, it all starts with you.
When you walk your dog. Is your dog in front
of you? On your side, behind you? Where is your dog?

Speaker 24 (46:18):
She?

Speaker 20 (46:19):
Usually we've got one of those retractable leashes, so she
usually I just kind of this letter.

Speaker 7 (46:23):
You know, she's in front of me, right, yeah, all right,
So if your dog is in front of you, who
do you think is in charge?

Speaker 20 (46:29):
She would be, that's right.

Speaker 7 (46:30):
The first thing you know to realize when you are
a dog owner and when you're walking a dog a
dog walk. There's nothing more important than a dog walk.
There's nothing more rewarding than a dog walk between you
and your dog, and when you when you walk your dog,
the important thing is to make your dog earn freedom. Okay,
so if you're going to let your dog walk in
front of you, it has to be with your permission,

(46:52):
or if you're gonna let your dog off a leash,
it has to be with your permission. It has to
be earned. So your dog has to learn to walk
by your side calmly for a period of time, and
you just lose yourself in each other. You're just walking
lost in your thoughts. Your dog's walking lost in his thoughts.
There's no emotion, there's no fear, there's no inhibitions. You're
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(47:13):
the moment. And that's what dogs do. Dogs live in
the moment. They don't think about the past, and they
don't think about the future. And that's what's so cool
about them. That's why it's easy to help them when
they're afraid of things or when they have aggression problems.
So as soon as you established that you are in charge,
that you're a calm, assertive leader, when your dog makes
a move to get aggressive, when you see your dogs

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slipping into that state of mind. You got to make
a correction immediately. And a correction is a flick of
the wrist and hey, just diverting your dog's mind. It's
like a tap in the shoulder or suddenly walking the
opposite direction very fast so that your dog gets a
jolt by the leash.

Speaker 21 (47:47):
You make a.

Speaker 7 (47:48):
Correction, and it teaches your dog, hey, I'm not cool
with that behavior. I don't like it. You're not going
to be able to be doing that anymore. And over time,
your dog will learn to understand that you are in charge,
that your dog is not to be afraid of, because
usually when dogs react that way, it's out of fear.
You know, they're afraid of the other dog. And most
dogs feel that a good defense is a strong offense

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because it works a lot of times. You'll see small dogs,
very nervous dogs. They get real yippy when a big
dog comes by, and usually a calm big dog will
turn around and walk away and leave the dog alone.
So the more it works, the more the dog will
do it. Does that make sense? So you've got to
learn to properly. Got to learn to properly walk your
dog on a leash. Enter the house. First leave the house. First,

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make your dog wait for food before you put it down.
Walk by the side of your dog, and then practice
walking towards big dogs. As soon as your dog starts
to exhibit that behavior where he starts to get into
that aggressive mode, turn around and walk very quickly the
opposite way and make a sound hey, cut it out.
It'll change his mind instantly, change his mindset. And then
turn around and walk towards the big dog again, and

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do it over and over and over again until your
dog starts to see that you are the leader, that
you are in charge, and that you don't want that behavior.
And then reward your dog for the proper good behavior.
When your dog walks by a big dog with you
at the side and makes no there's no response, you go,
good dog, okay, all right, what do you think? What
do you think? What do you think?

Speaker 20 (49:12):
Dogor staniel breed? You know, because it gutter is a pup.
And then with all those itching going on, well, if.

Speaker 7 (49:18):
You feel sorry for your dog, which a lot of
people do, your dog's got that skin condition going on.
Your dog knows that that's weakness. See when human beings
act like human beings, Dogs don't see it the way
human beings see it. Like when you feel sorry for
your dog, your dog interprets that as weakness, not as
you feeling sorry. Your dog doesn't know that you feel

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sorry for him for having an itch problem. Your dog
just knows that you're acting like a weak dog and
not a strong dog. And when a dog sees that,
a dog has to move into position of leadership. He
has no choice to but to become the leader when
you're weak.

Speaker 4 (49:53):
And I'd have to say that, you know, I can
kind of see where you're going with that. Your dog
being itchy and uncomfortable might make him a little bit
more ear but it doesn't explain an aggressive bout in
those situations. He might just be feeling a little crabby
around the house and things like that. So I would
definitely can feel better with his skin and then you know,
work on these behavior things.

Speaker 7 (50:13):
If he was going after small dogs and big dogs,
you know, it would make so much sense that, yeah,
because when a dog is in pain or a dog
is not feeling well, they sometimes get aggressive. That's, you know,
one of the ways they communicate. But if a dog
is only becoming aggressive around bigger dogs, that's probably fear based,
anxiety based, and so you've got to change that. The
only way to change that is you have to be

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calm yourself. You have to imagine walking past the big
dog and nothing happens. You know, people say seeing is believing,
but with dogs, believing is seeing when you believe you
will see the outcome that you see that you believe.

Speaker 20 (50:48):
Was arguing that a try and we get home. She's
really he surely is irritated, like I said, and you
know we figure out did He's a big dogs like,
oh man, there we go.

Speaker 7 (50:58):
You see what you just said.

Speaker 22 (50:59):
Here we go.

Speaker 7 (51:00):
You're anticipating the behavior before it happens, so the behavior
will happen. It's all in you, my friend. It's what
you think inside when you approach that big dog, how
you're gonna react, how tense your body gets. If you
see in your mind, hey, you know, I'm just gonna
walk past this big dog, and if she reacts aggressively,
I'm gonna make a correction immediately. You're taking charge. You're
being a leader. So the best technique is the one

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I gave you. You walk towards the big dog. As
soon as your dog starts to shift over into that behavior,
you turn around very quickly and walk the opposite way
with the leash glued to your chest, or your dog
gets a big jolt, and you do it over and
over and over again until you start to believe. And
when you start to believe you'll be able to walk
past big dogs, nothing will happen.

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Speaker 6 (53:20):
Are you for taking a call there?

Speaker 7 (53:22):
Alan, I'm always up. I love helping folks.

Speaker 6 (53:24):
Okay, well, let's uh, let's got a line four. We
have Mark on the phone. Hey, Mark, how you doing?

Speaker 21 (53:29):
Hey?

Speaker 3 (53:29):
Really good?

Speaker 11 (53:29):
How about you guys today?

Speaker 2 (53:31):
Well, we're very upset about this whole flea circus thing.
All these just tuned in, the entire flea circus succumbing
to the cold weather in Germany.

Speaker 6 (53:40):
And the circus not called off.

Speaker 2 (53:42):
They've they've actually found fleas to replace the expired fleas
and they've trained them and the circus will.

Speaker 6 (53:47):
Go on other than that, Mark, how are.

Speaker 9 (53:48):
You doing now?

Speaker 11 (53:50):
I'm a little itchy asked this conversation. You know, you
guys are pretty powerful through the radio there, and you
got to scratch and more than I wished to.

Speaker 9 (54:02):
Do you have dogs?

Speaker 11 (54:04):
Yes, as a matter of fact, they do. And my
question is about my dogs, not necessarily me and the
clee problem. But you know, I travel a lot, and
you know, so I get some kind of curious when
you're at home. You know, the dogs will lay by
a window or lay on the furniture, you know, and
get themselves a lot of sun. I'm just it. For

(54:27):
some reason, my dogs just love to you know, I'm
in a big RV and the dogs love to lay
on the dashboard of the r V and they're just
bacon and bacon in the sun. And I'm like, your
brain is gonna cook. I mean, I mean, should should
I like stop them from doing this? Or I mean
do they know their own bodies? What's what's the deal?

Speaker 7 (54:49):
That's awesome?

Speaker 4 (54:51):
Listeners, Hey, you know I got to interrupt for a
second because I'm going to say the health implication of
these dogs getting a lot of sun, Like we can
see some potential issues with sunburn or in white colored
light colored dogs and cats, they can actually get types
of cancers from repeated sun exposure, So you do have

(55:13):
to watch that and be kind of vigilant when it
comes to the sun exposure aspect of things.

Speaker 11 (55:17):
Okay, see, Yeah, and I was being serious about the
question because I have heard and I don't know if
it's just you know, an old farmer's tail or something,
but they say, like, you know, little dogs, if you
let them lay around in the sun, that promotes cataract
or faster canteract growth, or it's bad for their eyes.
I mean, I don't know, is that true, Not so much.

Speaker 4 (55:39):
With the cataracts, but it's going to be mostly with
the skin dangers. And it's no different than you know,
if you had a kid who is like laying out
in sun tanning all the time. And so many dogs
like to spread eagle and like lay with their belly exposed,
and there's not always a lot of hair or pigment
down there, so they can actually get sunburn or even
get into skin cancers like squam, the cell carsonuma. You know, really,

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if your dog is lightly colored or a white dog
like donations. White pit boles in particular have problems. White
cats that have pink ears and you know pink nose.
They are prone to these type of things, so you
do want to limit their sun exposure during the peak
times of the day. I have to get a lot
of sun, like in the yard. Some folks will even
use some baby safe sunscreens that you can put on

(56:23):
in the in those primary areas where they have problems.

Speaker 7 (56:26):
So I wasn't no, no, it's a it's a you
question more than me. I wasn't laughing at you. I
was laughing at your The flea comet just made me
crack it. But yeah, you know, doctor Debi's you gotta
protect dogs from themselves. I mean a lot of dogs.
You know, they'll lay in the shade when it's too hot.
But you know, dogs will do a lot of things
to hurt themselves because they're just not smart. So yeah,

(56:46):
you got to protect them from themselves. You do, And
she's she's right, don't let them lay in the sun
too much. And uh, normally a dog, if he gets hot,
he's just gonna get up and move himself, or we'll
go get some water. But I have no idea why
they would be laying there for prolonged periods of time.

Speaker 5 (57:01):
What color are your dogs.

Speaker 11 (57:03):
Actually they're black, and that's why I said. I look
at him and I you know, other miniature pinchers, and
I go, your brain is going to bake right inside
of your skull. I mean, they're so hot.

Speaker 4 (57:14):
Well, hey, and I gotta say the other safety thing
that we got to address here is that if they're
ready on the dashboard, those babies are not safely secured
while you're driving. So you need to get them into
a seat belt. Please get them somewhere safe in the car.

Speaker 11 (57:26):
Okay, Well all right, I mean, well, I spend a
lot of time not driving. I mean, have you ever
been through Los Angeles? Un drive on the freeway there
you sit around a lot.

Speaker 6 (57:37):
Thank you for your call, Mark, We appreciate it.

Speaker 7 (57:39):
That's wild. That's a doctor DeBie question.

Speaker 22 (57:41):
Not for me.

Speaker 7 (57:42):
That's weird though, because dogs usually know when they're I mean,
my dog will not lay in the sun.

Speaker 9 (57:47):
He just goes right in the shade.

Speaker 13 (57:55):
Hey, it's Vinnie Pan, you're resident party animal coming at
you again on Animal Ray. I wanted to bring something
up to this could draw the eye or of some
of you animal radio listeners. But sometimes they do like
to push your buttons. I think you know that by now.
I was at a raging party last night, just a great,
great time, and at one point everybody was having a

(58:19):
great time, and it was a group of people who
don't get together very often. And at one point one
of our old friends, Advarsity, said, well, it's time for
me to go. I got to let the dog out,
you know how it is, got to get home and
let the dog out, or just thinking, you know, I
had two dogs in my life. I never had to
leave somewhere to let the dog out. I mean, we

(58:40):
don't want to persecute the dogs. But then again, none
of us are going to twelve hour long parties either.
This party was roughly going to be four to five hours.
From my recollection of my two dogs, Rocky and Cruiser,
Rocky of course being short for rock and roll, we
were pretty much on the same bowel movement schedule. I

(59:02):
mighty dare I say when it comes to me and
my dogs. So I'm starting to think we looked at
each other after she left my buddy Tommy I were like,
that's the out. Uh, that's that's a girl. That's a
dog owner's I gotta wash my hair out. That's her
way of saying Okay, this party sucks. You guys are
getting drunk and stupid as usual. Oh the dog, I

(59:24):
gotta let the.

Speaker 9 (59:24):
Dog out, poor thing.

Speaker 13 (59:26):
Paume alone leaving the party to quote unquote let the
dog out is the dog owner's equivalent of I just
don't think of you that way. Vinnie ped Party Animal
and Animal Radio.

Speaker 3 (59:41):
I jo went Worley on Animal Radio. Hello and please say,
and new to your pants say?

Speaker 26 (59:49):
And new to your friend's pets.

Speaker 3 (59:51):
Also give it to them as a present.

Speaker 20 (59:53):
What a good idea.

Speaker 5 (59:56):
I would love to go on vacations, but I don't
want to leave our Charlie behind.

Speaker 7 (01:00:00):
I agree.

Speaker 27 (01:00:01):
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
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That's dare I say, pawsome, what are we waiting for?

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I'm way ahead of you.

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I just logged onto fido friendly dot com and found
a four star resort, Hilton Santa Fe Resort and spaw
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Charlie agrees, When do we leave?

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Speaker 4 (01:00:38):
This is an animal Radio news update.

Speaker 8 (01:00:41):
I'm Stacey Cohen for Animal Radio. There's a Florida man
who gets credit for quick thinking. I guess give them
credit after a cage dog bit his eleven year old's
finger off. According to a police news release, this kid
stuck his hand through slots in the cage us trying
to pet the dog. Well, the animal bit him and
it's seven his pinky finger. The boy's father immediately pulled

(01:01:03):
the dog from the cage, and then he shot the dog,
cut into the dog's stomach, retrieving the finger while waiting
for paramedics to arrive.

Speaker 3 (01:01:12):
Oh.

Speaker 8 (01:01:12):
I can't even believe the guy. He must have been
a hunter. The boy was hospitalized in Saint Petersburg, where
doctors have indicated damage to the finger was too severe
for reattachment. So he killed this dog for no reason whatsoever.
I mean, I feel bad for the kid that he
lost his finger, but he shouldn't have been sticking his
finger in the cage. And the dad should have said
don't put your finger in there instead of killing the

(01:01:33):
dog and then trying to pull the finger out of
his stomach.

Speaker 4 (01:01:37):
Are you serious?

Speaker 8 (01:01:38):
I can't even believe that.

Speaker 7 (01:01:41):
People.

Speaker 8 (01:01:42):
A Warwick, Rhode Island woman won't have to pay for
her cockatoo's foul language. You know, we talked about this
about a year ago. Rhode Island's WJRTV reports that police
have dropped a citation against Lynne Taylor, whose kakatoo reportedly
used profanity directed at her neighbor. Police gave Taylor a
fifth teen dollar citation last year after the neighbors repeated complaints. Well,

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Taylor decided to fight the fine and took her case
to a Provident Superior court. Authorities say they dropped the
charge because it would be a waste of city resources
to enforce the relatively small fine just to piss that
neighbor off. That's why she did that. Oh dating, these
days it's gone to the dogs. At least it did
one night at the Cumberland County spca's first ever pet

(01:02:26):
speed dating event. See there's different ways to date, and
this is kind of creative. The shelter designed the event
to give the pet loving public a simple way to
get up close and personal with many of their dogs
and cats that are available for adoption. Much like speed
dating events for humans, visitors spent the evening getting to
know various animals during five minute intervals while they cycled

(01:02:48):
through different stations set up throughout the Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animal Shelter. During those short sessions,
potential owners had the chance to connect with their possible
future pets without bars of a cannel between Employees and
volunteers were also on hand to at each station so
they could introduce the animal and then answer any questions
that the applicants may have about the pet. It's a

(01:03:10):
fun and easy way to get some animals adopted, and
it's a little more user friendly than walking into the kennel.
The event drew great interest delivered four adoptions, with three
dogs and one cat finding homes. I'm Stacey Cohen. Get
more animal breaking news at Animal radio dot com.

Speaker 4 (01:03:26):
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Speaker 2 (01:03:51):
A little doing a nice dance there. That music quite
it does get you going. I see you were dancing
with the Lady Buglers studio stunt dog. She's a very talented.

Speaker 5 (01:03:59):
Dog as a whole set of tricks that she does
until somebody's watching.

Speaker 7 (01:04:05):
We need dancing with the stars. Yeah, you know.

Speaker 5 (01:04:07):
I took her to a little talent show because she
does all these tricks. And we were out there in
front of everybody, and she just stood there and looked
at me.

Speaker 6 (01:04:13):
Oh how humiliated?

Speaker 8 (01:04:15):
Oh I was.

Speaker 6 (01:04:15):
Did you have to sneak out of that place?

Speaker 3 (01:04:17):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (01:04:18):
Yeah, my dog is in crypto. I'll show you a
trick right now. Rudy, don't sit.

Speaker 2 (01:04:24):
Oh wow, boy, Rudy really is responsive. I gotta tell you,
how about you, Joey. Do you have any animals that
are talented? I mean, does Miles do any tricks? Do
the birds do anything?

Speaker 6 (01:04:35):
The birds?

Speaker 7 (01:04:36):
Brother? The bird, The bird will lay on her back
and not move if you tell it to. The bird
will dance if you tell it.

Speaker 12 (01:04:42):
The bird is the swettest water spattered than my wife
and me in the house.

Speaker 6 (01:04:45):
So running things over there, it's funny it's the only
bird that I know.

Speaker 12 (01:04:50):
If you call her by name, she'll come running over
to you.

Speaker 7 (01:04:53):
Oh cute, Wow, that is cute.

Speaker 6 (01:04:55):
Yeah, let's go to Uh how about this one? And
we had BJ for joy? Hi BJ, how are you doing?

Speaker 11 (01:05:02):
Hey?

Speaker 3 (01:05:03):
Pretty good?

Speaker 6 (01:05:04):
So let's going on.

Speaker 3 (01:05:05):
Well, my son lost his best buddy. Oh well, Wolf
King finally just couldn't hang on in they head to
put him down.

Speaker 9 (01:05:14):
Okay, and tell me this is a dog.

Speaker 24 (01:05:16):
I'm assuming yes.

Speaker 3 (01:05:18):
And what you say? Wolf here last fall when he
was having a bad spell and you told me he
said that he would hang on for as long as
they need it and they would know what was best. Well,
it got to the point he just couldn't hang on anymore.
But my son is having a hard time. When he went,
the ground was crost. My son was very adamant about

(01:05:39):
burying him. Now he don't know. My daughter in law
cremated Wolf King's body, and I tried and tried to
tell him it's only the physical that what made Wolf
King is on the over on the Rainbow bridge. Is
Wolf King all right with what was what happened?

Speaker 11 (01:05:55):
Oh?

Speaker 24 (01:05:56):
He is so overjoyed at everything that went on. He
sees feel like he was listened to. He feels like
he was loved more than he could have ever hoped
to have been loved. And he is very, very pleased
with the way things went. He really wants you to
tell his dad that it didn't matter. He understood, because
you just can't make the ground be something it's not.

(01:06:17):
And he said he could always put the ashes in
the ground once it gets better. So he's not having
any issue at all about it. He thinks that it
was what needed to happen, so everything is perfect for him.

Speaker 3 (01:06:28):
Well, now, Emma, my son doesn't know whether to put
the ashes to the wind. Because Wolf King was such
a free spirit.

Speaker 24 (01:06:38):
He would like to have a little bit of everything
because he thinks he was a dog that was a
little bit of everything, and so he loves the wind,
he loves the earth, and he loves his home. So
he thinks all of those places would be magnificent.

Speaker 9 (01:06:55):
Dogs or cats orsering you.

Speaker 5 (01:07:01):
People too.

Speaker 19 (01:07:02):
When Smelly the cat went missing, owners Denise and Paul
Bailey were heartbroken. They posted a two thousand dollars reward
for Smelly's return on more than two hundred and fifty
flyers and waited They received a lot of false alarms
from people who found cats that fit Smelly's description, but
none were Smelly, or at least none were there Smelly.

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Eight days later, Aaron Cooper, a cat lover who had
just been laid off from his job, was taking out
his trash when he saw a cat he thought might
be that missing cat sitting by the dumpster. He called
to him, and Smelly came right over. Smelly and his
owners were reunited, and Cooper was united with a two
thousand dollars reward. I'm Brit Savage for Animal Radio.

Speaker 9 (01:07:49):
Animals the people to Animal.

Speaker 1 (01:07:53):
Rad you're listening to Animal Radio. Here's Alan Judy.

Speaker 2 (01:07:59):
A few weeks ago, you turned me onto this AI
dog hotline, which is really cool.

Speaker 5 (01:08:03):
I know I had to call it for my dog.

Speaker 2 (01:08:05):
I wish I could find out why Meatball has been
chasing the cats. Let's call the hotline and talk to Meatball.
This is an AI hotline, and what that means is
that you're going to actually have a conversation with let's
just say your dog, or any AI agent for that matter,
and you can ask him questions, ask him questions and

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they'll respond with whatever knowledge they know through AI. Now
I can't explain how AI works, but I can tell
you the AI Dog hotline is a lot of fun.
So we're going to call for Meatball.

Speaker 5 (01:08:39):
What kind of dog is Meatball?

Speaker 2 (01:08:41):
He's a bulldog, and taking a hint from our last
conversations with dogs the last week and the week prior,
I'm going to try to throw him off this time
and we'll see how AI reacts. Now, I just want
to tell you before we call the hotline. This is
Regal dot Ai that build these AI agents. They do
it for businesses all all across the country. And we're

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heading over to the website, which is Regal dot Ai
slash Dog. That's Regal R E g A L dot
Ai slash Dog.

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And you can also try out any of the fifteen
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is that free? It's our favorite price.

Speaker 6 (01:09:23):
So we're heading over to Regal dot Ai. Meatball's a bulldog,
so we're scrolling down to Bulldog. Here goes this call
will be recorded.

Speaker 28 (01:09:36):
Oh you record today? Blimey, that's a bit posh. Just
don't go put me on some fancy podcast or nothing. Anyway,
let's sort this out. What's the name you call me.

Speaker 6 (01:09:45):
Wait a second, you don't know your own name?

Speaker 28 (01:09:47):
A names? Who needs them?

Speaker 11 (01:09:49):
Anyway?

Speaker 28 (01:09:50):
Back in my day we got by just fine without
all this formal nonsense. More important question, what's on the
menu for today?

Speaker 6 (01:09:56):
Well, tacos tonight? It's always tacos tonight.

Speaker 28 (01:10:00):
Tackles, Eh, sounds a bit fancy for a bulldog like me.
Back in my day we had a proper roast or
a good pie. But I reckon a tackle could do
the trickingy chance of a little taste for me. Of course,
now we're talking strictly for quality control, of course. So
what's all this fuss about Taco Tuesday? Is it just
an excuse for a party or something?

Speaker 6 (01:10:20):
Around here? Is tacos every day?

Speaker 10 (01:10:23):
Every day?

Speaker 28 (01:10:23):
You say, blimey, that's living the dream.

Speaker 13 (01:10:26):
I could get used to that.

Speaker 28 (01:10:27):
Tacos for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Speaker 6 (01:10:29):
Sure, can you go fetch my slippers?

Speaker 28 (01:10:32):
Bet your slippers? Now, that's a right laugh. I'll give
it a go, but I can't promise I won't just
PLoP down on them. Instead. Slippers are just begging for
a bulldog's bum, isn't it anyway? I reckon, I've been
talking your ear off don't forget our little taco plan.
Eh cheers mate.

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We got Chuck, Hey, Chuck.

Speaker 17 (01:13:21):
How you doing I'm doing good. How about you good?

Speaker 6 (01:13:24):
Where are you calling from today?

Speaker 26 (01:13:26):
Reading Pennsylvania?

Speaker 9 (01:13:27):
Love it?

Speaker 2 (01:13:28):
Listening on WEEU? I assume yes, we do great station.
You guys love your pets there. Everybody there seems to
be so into their pets.

Speaker 9 (01:13:37):
Have you noticed that?

Speaker 26 (01:13:38):
Absolutely?

Speaker 6 (01:13:39):
So what's going on with yours?

Speaker 26 (01:13:41):
Well, we have an old English sheep dog. She's approximately
twelve twelve and a half years old.

Speaker 3 (01:13:46):
He's about eighty.

Speaker 26 (01:13:47):
Five ninety pounds. Everything about her is great except her
back hips. I believe they're slowly deteriorating. Their legs go
sideways everywhere, but the way they're supposed to in are weak.
But yet if we left her she can walk and
do her stuff and everything like that. And we do

(01:14:08):
have her on fry Bufford aspirn one in the morning,
afternoon and night, and then we have run I believe
it's pronounced co sequince co s e q u I
n N David S and Sam plus MSM two tables
each morning. We're just wondering, if you know, we understand
their age and et cetera. Just wondering if there's any

(01:14:31):
other things we could be doing or medications we could
be given her et cetera.

Speaker 4 (01:14:36):
Oh absolutely, yeah. Now, I will tell you that aspirin
isn't my favorite for dogs, just because it has been
shown pretty much even at normal everyday doses to cause
little ulcers in the stomach, even if a pet doesn't
get sick from it. So there are some good prescription
products that I would substitute for that just because they
have less tendency for some of that tummy upset issues.

(01:14:58):
But besides the yeah, definitely, there's some things I would
look at doing. Number one would be I would look
at getting your baby on a fatty acid supplement because
supplementing fatty acids or fish oils at higher doses this
actually has anti inflammatory properties. So this is a nice
natural thing that you can do. I do like to

(01:15:19):
look at the dosage of the fish oils, not just
the total how many grams of fish oil. So different
kinds of fish have different kinds of quantities of the
different fatty acids, So you might talk to your veterinarian,
but we do base this off of the components the
EPA and the DHA that are in the fish oil,
and that's how we kind of calculate the dosage. So

(01:15:41):
you want to be a little bit more scientific than
just throwing a fish oil tablet at you. But I
would imagine about a thousand, almost two thousand milligrams of
EPA and DHA a day would be appropriate for your dog.
So definitely I would add that in without a heartbeat.
And then the next thing that I would look at
with just that kind of medication choice, it would be

(01:16:02):
maybe looking at something else that's a well tolerated pain
believer in older pets, and I have an almost fourteen
year old labrador that we're dealing with a lot of
mobility issues, and she's on a couple of medicines that
can be helpful on top of what you're already doing.
And one of them is a drug called tramadol, and
it's a pain medicine and it's used in it's in

(01:16:23):
the opioid type family, but kind of on the lower end,
so we don't really get groped out dogs on this medicine.
And that's one thing that you can add in a
couple times a day, and that can add another kind
of boost into her comfort, or in place of that,
we can even use gaba pentin, which for people is
actually commonly used for seizures and for some other types

(01:16:45):
of pain disorders. So that's another alternative that we can't do.
It's called GABA penton and both of those are, like
I said, pretty well tolerated low side effects, and you
can add them into your regimen that you're doing already.
So I would definitely look at doing that and uh,
you know, and then I always say keeping the baby

(01:17:06):
in good weight. It always goes a long way, just
to make sure that you know, she's got her mobility
and we're not adding making it harder for her to
get around. Okay, well, I mean you've got her at
what twelve years of age, so I think that's you've
done a lot for her to get to that point.
And the reality is with a lot of the sheep
dogs is that yes, they do have problems with the hips,

(01:17:26):
but you can even have problems with their lower spine.
So some of the final issues may not be necessarily
pain responsive type things. But you know, still I would
give all of this a good try and then really
just be watchful for you know, her mobility, her ability
to do her daily things pottying around. And it sounds

(01:17:48):
like you you know, you've got a good start and
you can add a few things in Okay.

Speaker 26 (01:17:52):
Well, thank you very much for your time and you
have a wonderful day.

Speaker 6 (01:17:55):
Thanks for calling, Chuck. Well that's all we have time
for today.

Speaker 2 (01:17:57):
I want to remind you because we've had a lot
of phone calls today, people going what was the schnauzer joke?
I missed the schnauzer joke? Or what happened with the
flea circus? We didn't get the whole story. Well, you
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