Pets Damaged $3 Billion Dollars Worth of Electronics

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Celebrating the connection with our pets. This is Animal Radio
featuring your dream team veterinarian doctor Debbie White and groomer
Joey Vallani. And here are your hosts, Hallie Brums and
Judy Francis.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
Told free to the dream team here at Animal Radio,
the groomer, the vet, the animal communicator, Lady Buger, studio
stunt dogs, even taking a few calls.

Speaker 3 (00:23):
Actually she left the studio.

Speaker 4 (00:25):
Where did she go?

Speaker 3 (00:26):
I don't know. She never leaves the studio. I don't
know where she went.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
Strange, very strange. Something's going on here.

Speaker 4 (00:31):
I know she's like, it's like what you did to
my pets when you were talking about medical marijuana a
couple of weeks ago. My dogs went out and got
their card and they're smoking poddle over the house and
you know what, I think it's a gateway drug. Pretty
soon they'll be doing cocaine and other things. I'm worried
about Animal Radio.

Speaker 5 (00:47):
I'm worried.

Speaker 4 (00:48):
I think maybe that's where Ladybugs sneaked off.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
Tom Well, Yeah, coming from a guy who got poison
ivy and that of course being Joey Vallani. Uh came
in this morning and asked if I would kiss his
boo boo.

Speaker 6 (01:00):
He was checking you.

Speaker 2 (01:01):
Usually it's the ring I kissed. This week, it's the
booboo I had the kiss. And how did you even
get this poison ivy?

Speaker 4 (01:07):
From grooming a dog? From grooming a dog? They came
in and they warned me about it, and I should
have known better because this is about the fourth time
I think it's happened to me from a grooming. So
we're going to talk about that today.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
Well, that's all on the way right here on Animal Radio.
Who else do we have on the show today? I
can't see that far. Over three billion dollars in electronics
are damaged every year by dogs and animals.

Speaker 7 (01:29):
Yes, if you have one of these animals that destroys
your electronics, you better get insurance.

Speaker 6 (01:33):
Interesting, it's gonna be like the dog that ate your homework, though,
you know, don't you think this is gonna be an
excuse my stereo broke?

Speaker 2 (01:41):
Look at the cord.

Speaker 4 (01:42):
But three billion dollars, let's see you a year.

Speaker 2 (01:45):
I just know most of it is in smartphones and
looking for the details, I have them around here somewhere.
But she'll be on with us in just a few
minutes right here on Animal Radio and we go to Cass. Hey,
how are you doing, Cass?

Speaker 8 (01:58):
I'm doing fairly well.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
Where are you calling from today?

Speaker 8 (02:02):
Pennsylvania?

Speaker 2 (02:03):
Lovely Pennsylvania. What's going on? I have the whole dream
team here to help you.

Speaker 8 (02:07):
Well, me and my boyfriend are splitting up. We've lived
together three years, but we have two dogs. One a
year old Tuesday and one's two years old last month.
I don't know if we should split the dolls up.
I leave them in their home that they've grown up in.
I take them both with me.

Speaker 9 (02:27):
Not a lot.

Speaker 6 (02:28):
Well, you know, I can tell you as far as
a lot of folks have concern over what's going to
be the best thing for the pet, and that is
at least how I might advise you is is to
really it can be challenging. We have to replace ourselves
out of the situation and look at the pets psychological
and physical needs. And for me, you know, I can't

(02:49):
tell you what you need to do, but I can
tell you what things I do. Advice folks to look
at are going to be the ability to provide time
for the pets schedule. You know, who has the resources,
the housing that's going to be most compatible for the pets.
And then we also have to look at the relationship
of the dogs together. You know, if they're very bonded together,

(03:11):
or if hey, when one of them's away, they can
manage and get along fine. And you know they're good
if they go on trips without the other dog or
what have it.

Speaker 10 (03:19):
Be.

Speaker 6 (03:20):
But those are the things that we would look at
to make that decision. And I don't think anyone feels
good about this decision. You know, you're in a tough spot.
And the important thing that for the pets well being
and their mental health is that we really just kind
of want to keep the drama out of their lives
as much as possible, because we can get more behavioral

(03:41):
issues anxiety problems when either they sends our problems or
when we start to make some greater welcomes. And I'll
give you an example. I had a dear client of
mine years ago who had an older dog who they separated,
and the older dog spent one week with one owner,
one week with the next owner, and it went really

(04:03):
well in most regards. However, when she got older and
she started to develop some cognitive problems, some senility problems,
it became very taxing on the dog to reacclimate to
the households when she switched from one home to the other.
So you have to kind of look at that and
how the pet rebounds when they leave one household and
return to another. But as the pet parents, the important

(04:25):
things also is to not you know, to be adults,
and when you do have a household that you share custody,
to not have a lot of drama about the greeting.
So you might say, oh, I'm so happy to see you,
glad to see you come back to mama for a while,
but that actually can make them, just like a dog
who has separation anxiety, those really over exuberant greetings and

(04:47):
departures can actually make them more amped up in the
future for both a departure and for returning to the home.
So those kind of things you just kind of have
to keep in mind if you're going to do a
shared custody kind of arrangement. But you know, I don't know,
you got young dogs, so they would be resilient and
as long as they're in good health. I think you
guys got to just discuss among yourself who wants the

(05:11):
care of the dogs, what their needs, are going to
be and who can best suit that? So I don't
know if anyone else has anything to add to that.

Speaker 4 (05:17):
You know, my dogs, I know why I couldn't separate them,
whether my wife or myself had them. I mean, I
know we would both give them, you know, really good care,
but they wouldn't be happy. They're the four of them together,
are bonded. When one leaves, they seem to look for
the one that that's that's that's not in the house.

(05:38):
I you know what, if it was me, I would
I would keep them together, and I'll take what doctor
dev says. Definitely whoever would be the better care provider,
whether you know, whether that be your boyfriend or you,
I would keep both of them together with one person.
I think it's important, especially if they if they grew
up together. It's like it's almost like separating a family

(05:58):
in my mind, you know.

Speaker 2 (06:00):
What, I'm actually staying together with my wife for the animals, and.

Speaker 8 (06:06):
I thought about that. I did consider that.

Speaker 2 (06:08):
Let's just be roomy, Let's ask the animals what's going on? Joy?
What are the animals saying?

Speaker 11 (06:13):
Hi? And Cass, I'd like to know both dogs' names.

Speaker 2 (06:15):
Please, Da Vinci and Luca da Vinci and Luca. Animal
communicator Joey Turner looking into doing whatever she does the
magic she does.

Speaker 11 (06:25):
Well, what I'm doing is first of all, saying hello
to them, and then I'm saying to them, do they
realize that their mom and dad are having trouble getting along?
And of course they both do, and so I want
to also because to me, it's very important to explain
to them what's happening, because so many times when I'm
communicating with animals when their people are splitting, they think

(06:47):
it's their fault. It's just like human children. Oh, you
have to explain to them that it's you two, it's
not them, and then explain things like you're going to
be living in separate is And what I'm asking them
is if they had to choose which place they lived in,

(07:08):
what would they want to do? And of course they
both tell me that they're familiar with where they are,
but they're really concerned about hurting someone's feelings, which also
is another thing I find very very often. So they
would be happy with whatever arrangements you two would be
happy about, because their choice would be based on how

(07:31):
you two are going to feel best. Does that make
sense to guess.

Speaker 8 (07:35):
Yes, it does.

Speaker 11 (07:37):
They do have a question. They want to know if
they get to see the other one they live with.

Speaker 8 (07:41):
Yeah, we're close by each other, so I would think
that would be fair to say yes too. The older one,
da Vinci, I think is probably way more attached than me.

Speaker 11 (07:53):
Da Vinci says he would agree that he is more
attached to you in many ways, but he's just really
wanting to not rock the boat.

Speaker 2 (08:04):
There you go. Well, there you have four or five
different opinions there, and ladybug did Ladybug want to chime in?
You're not going to take sides on Okay, hopefully we've
helped you cast a little bit, or we've made it harder.
I don't know.

Speaker 8 (08:16):
I'm not quite sure yet either.

Speaker 9 (08:17):
I'll let it soak in.

Speaker 2 (08:18):
Okay, good luck on that. Thanks for appreciate.

Speaker 8 (08:22):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (08:23):
Call for doctor Debbie on line four. No, let's go
to f line five. Okay, we've given we've given mine five.
No attention today, Sean, how are you doing?

Speaker 12 (08:31):
Yeah, I've got a problem.

Speaker 13 (08:33):
Okay, I've got a Chinese hug getting eyes heights getting
real bad.

Speaker 9 (08:38):
I just wondering loving.

Speaker 14 (08:40):
I ain't a doggor but looking at it looks like cataracts.

Speaker 6 (08:43):
Is there anything I can do for better potentially? And
I guess the first thing is that when when we
have a color change to a dog's eyes and they're
starting to turn cloudy and kind of white, a lot
of times we just kind of logically think they're cataracts,
but it's not always the case. So the first thing
that I would do is, I would certainly want to
take a look at your doggie eyes because we can
have cataracts form with age. Sometimes even things like diabetes

(09:06):
will cause cataracts. But in some cases we truly can
just get an aging in the lens of a dog's eye,
what we call lenticular sclerosis, and it's just an aging change,
so it isn't always something that is really severe for
their vision. And even in some breeds see some cornial
disease that makes the eye kind of white and it's
a different area of the eye. So it definitely I'd

(09:28):
say start with a vet exam. Let's take a peek
at the eye, because that for me makes a big
difference in what we do. And if we do find
that your dog has cataracts, there are some things to do.
One is, yes, there is surgery. We can have those removed.
It's generally done with veterinary ophthalmologis. But even short of
removing cataracts, there's a lot we can do medically to

(09:49):
help manage that. Anytime I have a diagnosis of a cataracts,
I always always want to do a diabetic screening on
that pet. So if you have a dog with cloudy
eyes and you haven't had them checked at the vet,
that is definitely get to get those car keys in
your hand and get a reagion to get that pet
checked out. But for some pets with cataracts, with time,
you know, they may adjust if they lose their vision,

(10:10):
with that, they can get along okay. But we don't
tell people to ignore cataracts because there can be some
problems that occur besides the vision loss, and that is
what we call lens induced uvi ititis. So cataracts leak
a type of protein into the eye and that can
cause inflammation which can cause pain and can really make

(10:31):
a pet very miserable. So if we have cataracts, in
many cases I will put a pet on a topical
anti inflammatory to keep it in check. Keep those pets
comfortable and you know, then monitor their vision. If there's
any other problems where the lens slides out of position
and luxey it's out, then we may talk more surgery
and things like that. But definitely there are certainly things

(10:54):
to do. Now. I am not a fan of those
supplements that'll say they'll restore vision and remove cataracts, and
that's just a bit of whoy in my mind, So
don't fall into that. Let's get these iyes checked out.
Sometimes we'll do what we call a cotton ball test
at home. So if you cover one of your dog's
eyes and you throw a cotton ball horizontally in front
of their eyes, if they notice it and they watch it,

(11:15):
go and buy them, and then we still have some
vision in that eye. If they're not seeing that, then
that's that's going to be something that we really want
to check that pet out see if we've got advanced
cataracts or maybe some other causes of vision loss.

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two one five sixty eight fifteen.

Speaker 2 (12:59):
This is O Stacy, looks like you're working hard. What's
going on?

Speaker 17 (13:03):
Did you know that there's about eight hundred and fifty
chimps that are used in US laboratories every year and
they're used for research. The only reason they do that
is because they are similar to humans.

Speaker 6 (13:13):
I mean, look over at.

Speaker 17 (13:15):
How when you look it's kind of skinny to be
a chimp. Nah, he doesn't really. You probably weren't evolved
from the chimps. Something else.

Speaker 2 (13:22):
Well, thanks, I don't know.

Speaker 17 (13:22):
Ostriches maybe or something, but not Joey maybe.

Speaker 2 (13:26):
I don't know.

Speaker 17 (13:27):
Anyway, I know you guys are throwing things at me
right now. The new guidelines are going to mean though,
that three hundred of those eight p fifty they're going
to be retired, and I don't know if they get
four or one K plans or what, but they're not
going to be used for research any longer, which is
good news. They're starting to look at the ethical considerations
of chimps. I'll tell you about it coming up.

Speaker 7 (13:46):
Well, it's about time get those chimps out of those labs.

Speaker 2 (13:50):
Hey, Debbie, Hi, how are you? Where are you today?

Speaker 18 (13:53):
Well, at this moment, I'm going around Cincinnati. Number One,
I have two questions. Number one is I have a TV.
She's ten years old. I took her to the vet
for she had an ear infection. I happened to mention.
I thought maybe she might have a urinary track infection

(14:15):
because she had gone in the house twice this week
and she's housebroken. She's you know, she's ten years old.
It has to be something going on. But she ran
all kinds of blood tests and all that on her,
and everything came back fine. I did get something for
her ear infection, but she also told me that her

(14:39):
urine was a little watery, and she said the next
time she I brought her back, if I wanted, we
could do a blood test on her kidneys. Now my
question is might this be the beginning of kidney failure?

Speaker 6 (14:58):
Okay? Now I went to back up first and foremost
because you use an abbreviation that might have some people
scratching their heads. You said you have a PEGV right.

Speaker 18 (15:06):
Yes, I'm sorry, Okay, so.

Speaker 6 (15:08):
That's a kind of a unique breed of petit basset
graffon right. Yes, the van Deen, right, it's a French breed,
so I don't know how And Judy, have you guys
heard about this breed?

Speaker 2 (15:20):
Special but very cool.

Speaker 6 (15:23):
Don't see video those out out in practice though, that's
very very lovely. So now I want to clarify also,
you had some urine tests. Now, did they test her
blood when you initially had that visit?

Speaker 18 (15:34):
Yes, they tested it for thyroid diabetes all that.

Speaker 9 (15:39):
I don't know.

Speaker 18 (15:39):
It was like four hundreds in there.

Speaker 6 (15:42):
Okay, but you hope the kidneys are included in there,
all right, because I just want to make sure because definitely,
if we have a pet with a dilute urine, the
first thing is definitely we want to check those kidneys.
And there's some basic urine tests that we would do,
the bun and creatinine or some of the basic chemistries

(16:03):
that we would look at on a chem profile. Those
are the first things that speak to us about the
kidney function. So not sure where your pets were originally,
but if it wasn't done or it wasn't included in that,
then definitely I would encourage you to have that done
because it's very important to look at that. If we've
got dilute urine. The other thing, we'll look for other
signs of either kidney disease or infection, and we can

(16:25):
do that with some special urine tests where we can
check the protein in the urine and compare that to
other analogs in the urine, and that helps us to
give us a suspicion of you know, do we have
that road of kidney disease. We need to go hunting
and do more involved testing like ultrasounds or X rays
or what have you. And then certainly, even if we
don't see anything in the urine, but we are having

(16:46):
urinary signs, I'll culture urine because we don't always see
bacteria in a sample, and there can be infection in
that urinary track, so that might be something to Unfortunately,
more tests. I'm sure you want to hear that right now,
but that would be you know, a realistic way to
kind of make us feel better. Do we have something
in this urinary tract we have to worry about. After

(17:08):
that's all kind of satisfied and we hopefully look good
in that department, then we might look at other things.
And I've had a couple patients where we can have
a condition of diabetes incipetus. It's not terribly common. It's
not your regular diabetes, but it's a type of diabetes
that affects their concentration of urine, and they actually produce

(17:29):
large amounts of very dilute urine. It takes a little
special testing for that as well, but that's something else
to look at, and in some cases I eliminate all
the other things that will influence a watery urine. So
some dogs will tank upon pool water. Some pets drink
a lot of water out of just what we call
a psychogenic problem where they drink excessive amounts, And then

(17:52):
we look at any medicines or things like that that
might be causing an increased thirst. So that's where the
sleuth work in veterinary comes into play, and that's when
our job gets really interesting, when we're trying to piece
together not only lab tests but also things that go
on in the house or in your pet's life. It's
kind of a roundabout answer to that, but I hope
that gives you some confirmation that, yes, I would definitely

(18:14):
look into those kidneys more.

Speaker 18 (18:16):
And a second question, people are so I'm going to
think I'm crazy, but my other dog is an old
or is a English mathsin and she is three years old.
I do want to have one litter of puppies, and
I just want to experience one litter with her and
then I will have her spade. But my question is

(18:39):
do they when they come and heat, do they experience
stomach cramps? Moody argie, like, do.

Speaker 6 (18:50):
We have a PMS?

Speaker 19 (18:52):
Do dogs have PMS?

Speaker 6 (18:54):
What a great question. We'd have to say some of that,
we honestly do not know. There are some dogs that
I do feel have some mild diarrhea around the time
that they're in heat, and they can have some behavioral changes,
so it is certainly realistic to expect they have some
of the physical changes. I don't know if they're as
you know, moody as we women can take the blame

(19:16):
for being because I always feel that dogs are much
sturdier than us humans when it comes to pain and emotions,
they take the cake. They really are much tougher that way.
So hard to say about that, but you know, I'm
going to also go back to me and say that
I am not a fan of breeding just for the
experience of breeding. And I always tell folks that have

(19:36):
families or children when they say the kids want to
see a babies be born and they want to have puppies.
You know what I say, I sign them up to
go to the shelter and to walk dogs. And when
those dogs are gone the next week because they're euthanized,
for me, that is a life changing experience. My lecture
for the day.

Speaker 19 (19:59):
I would love I'll have to go on vacation, but
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Speaker 2 (20:03):
I agree.

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Charlie agrees, when do we leave?

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Speaker 19 (20:41):
This is an animal radio news update.

Speaker 17 (20:44):
I'm Stacey Cohen for Animal Radio. Rusty, the Little Red
Panda finally back at the National Zoo after he made
a break for it. Zoo official say Rusty was recovered
in the Washington, DC area after somebody called and said
the animal was nearby. Doctor Brandy Smith, who in charge
of the Little Red Panda, said that Rusty was hiding
in a tree when the zoo keepers arrived, and they

(21:06):
say Rusty's keepers were able to get him down. They
just called his name and then he went right into
his little crate. He was taken to the zoo's Vet
hospital as a precaution. The zoo hasn't determined yet if
the panda escaped or if he was taken. He was
missing for a scary twenty four hours. A racing pigeon
from Japan's getting used to his new home after he
went five thousand miles off course. He wound up in Vancouver, Canada.

(21:31):
Maj Birch, founder of the Mountaineer Avy and Rescue Society,
told ABC News the wayward birds showed up in British
Columbia last week, emaciated and dehydrated. Birch explained that they
eventually learned the pigeon embarked on a six hundred mile
race on a northern Japanese island back in May. But
the journey apparently wasn't long enough for this particular bird,

(21:52):
who instead chose to fly across the Pacific Ocean. I
wonder if he was just making a getaway. Birch and
his team got the phone number for the pigeon's owner
from a tag on the bird's leg. The owner says
he was relieved to find out the bird was still alive,
pointing out that he must be a superior pigeon. Nevertheless,
he chose to let that bird stay in Canada to
spare him the stress of making another ocean crossing. Well,

(22:13):
if you thought the now extinct nine Patty Wendy's t
rex burger was excessive, wait till you hear about the
Guinness Book of World Record winner for the largest item
on any menu in the world. According to Food Beasts,
the dish in question as a whole is a roasted camel.
A roasted camel, you heard me right, stuff with lamb,

(22:34):
which is stuff with chicken, which is stuff with fish
or eggs, And who knows what that's stuff with. After that,
the giant meals prepared by the Bedouin and they typically
make the camel feest for weddings and other parties. Sounds good.
I wonder what camel tastes like. I know, I know
what you're gonna say. Just like chicken, right.

Speaker 2 (22:53):
Right, I said.

Speaker 17 (22:57):
Wally is a mutt from Chico, California. He's taking the
reins as the world's Ugliest Dog. He's part boxer, part beagle,
and part Bassett Hound. He won the title on Petaluma
because of his huge head, short thick legs, and he
has kind of like duck feet. Whilely's owner wins fifteen

(23:18):
hundred dollars and of course we'll be making all the
TV rounds. Actually, between you and me, Wally was not
so ugly. I have a dog that looks just like him.
The feet just hang out. They're very cute. Anyway, I'm
Stacy Cohen. Get more animal breaking news at animal radio
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Speaker 10 (23:40):
Hi a talent cable and we're talking about dogs. I'm
gonna give you a little project. I want you to
watch your dog for a week. His body language, the
way he moves, his energy level. Is he calm and
happy or wound up in manic. Watch your dog as
much as you can for an entire week. Just observe
your dog's behavior, and then really think before you react.
I'll give you an example. I was in the dog

(24:00):
park just yesterday. A woman with a smaller dog is
walking her dog barks at just about every single dog
and just lays into this bigger dog. The bigger dog
is calm and relaxed and pretty much just wants to
say hi, do a little sniffing around. You know, you
can observe the different energy. One dog very nervous, very afraid, manic, anxious, fearful.
The other dog calm, relaxed, lottie dog. What do you

(24:23):
think her response was, Well, she immediately snatches the dog up,
is holding the dog.

Speaker 5 (24:28):
Going, oh, it's okay, it's okay.

Speaker 10 (24:30):
That would be the perfect thing to do if the
dog were human, but it's a dog. So what do
you think the dog gets from that? He's acting crazy
and gets affection, So that tells him it's a good thing.
He's acting like that, she's reinforcing it. It also tells
the dog. Yes, there is something to be afraid of,
and you're right to be afraid. Best thing to do
since the dog's on Alisha's just turn around and walk

(24:50):
the other way. If you can't do that, you get
out in front of the dog to show him you're
in charge and you're gonna protect him.

Speaker 5 (24:57):
You're the pack leader.

Speaker 10 (24:57):
This is assuming, of course, the dog that he's afraid
of is mellow. You don't want to get in the
middle of two insane dogs. Now, you also give your
dog a correction to refocus his mind, little jolt of
the leash, little hand signal, and you do it over
and over again until the dog starts to understand that
that behavior is the wrong behavior. When the dog is mellow,
you say, good dog. The more in charge you are,
the more calm you are, the more calm your dog's

(25:19):
gonna be. Dogs are like kids. They need boundaries and
you're the only one who can show them what they are.
But you can't do it with words. You've got to
do it with body language and corrections in a composed,
calm self. And don't forget the praise. So go out
there and watch some dogs, watch yours. See if you
can figure out what your dog is saying, and before
you act, think about the message it's sending the dog.

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Speaker 2 (25:55):
Hey Charlie, how are you doing? What's going on in
your what? What can we help you with?

Speaker 8 (26:02):
Oh?

Speaker 24 (26:02):
I got listen while I had her for over five
years and uh, I don't look she's she bitter than
mount him. But she do everything I tell her. But well,
we hold every morning and the like. He thinks she
can play with everybody. I don't like her for playing
when everybody you know, because they stolen or want she
and I'd be wanting her to warm me up. Somebody
walking up on me and while my mother, but everybody

(26:23):
walk up. She thinks she slow to play with him,
every dog if you see she's thinks you swow to
play with him because he's too friend of it. I
won't to working out and do the shopper for him
now because I can't watch it out myself because I
stay by myself.

Speaker 5 (26:33):
She's too friendly. Your dog is too friendly?

Speaker 24 (26:37):
Yeah, she'd like to take with every dog to pull
doll and and they be gruss. Sometimes a guy be
walking with two and he can holler all of them,
I know, they kill up and she's too small on
the player and they'll be trying to fight.

Speaker 10 (26:49):
Well, it looks like it actually looks like she wants
to play, But what she's probably doing is instigating those
two dogs to get them all riled up and even more.

Speaker 24 (26:57):
Crazy for the big dog on that the little doll
in the well, you know, but they'd be ready to key.

Speaker 10 (27:03):
You're so funny, buddy, as as well. What I would
do is turn the opposite direction and start walking away.

Speaker 13 (27:09):
You know.

Speaker 10 (27:10):
But as with all dogs and all dog training, the
key is you, you know, the key to getting your
dog to behave the way you want your dog to
behave is you being a great teacher.

Speaker 5 (27:20):
And the way to teach your dog is not with words.

Speaker 10 (27:22):
You've got to use corrections and you've got to use rewards,
and that's the only way.

Speaker 5 (27:27):
To do it. There is no quick fix.

Speaker 10 (27:29):
So if you don't like your dog, you know, you know,
walking up and instigating bigger dogs. If your dog is
on a leash, you just got to turn real swiftly.
The opposite direction and start walking and give her a correction,
a jolt.

Speaker 5 (27:40):
And go, uh, you know, and just walk the opposite
direction with what you're gonna You're gonna have to correct her.

Speaker 10 (27:50):
When she does behaviors you don't like, and you're gonna
have to reward her when she does behaviors you do like.

Speaker 5 (27:56):
And that's the only way to do it.

Speaker 10 (27:58):
So every time your dog does something you don't like,
you have to give her a little correction, like a
little jolt at the leash and say oh, or make
a sound whatever that is, and get.

Speaker 25 (28:11):
My shed behave.

Speaker 6 (28:14):
Hey allan, I missed what kind of breed of dog?
Did he say?

Speaker 5 (28:18):
She's a She's a chooha, she was.

Speaker 26 (28:21):
A minige of a parent.

Speaker 24 (28:22):
I just call us a whoa because she lived.

Speaker 6 (28:27):
I'm always a rouppy. I'm happy to see those kind
of dogs that are really friendly and happy and and uh,
you know, good with people. I think that's a great
trait to have, because that breed I think has a
tendency to not be always so nice with strangers. So
in my world, I'd be thrilled with that, and I'd
welcome your puppy in my office.

Speaker 24 (28:44):
I just don't like her going to be playing with.

Speaker 10 (28:49):
Well again, buddy, you have got to change the behavior.
Nobody can do it for you. And you've got to
come up with a way to translate to your dogs.

Speaker 24 (29:00):
She lives when I say, but I wonder what could
I do?

Speaker 10 (29:05):
All right, here's what you can do. Here's what you
can do. Is your dog on a leash. You have
her on a leash all the time, all the time.

Speaker 2 (29:11):
All right.

Speaker 5 (29:12):
So your dog is on the leash and you're walking
down the street and.

Speaker 24 (29:15):
There's two dogs acting right.

Speaker 10 (29:18):
And there's well, no, you got to hold the leash.
Don't hook it to your pants. You got to hold it, okay,
And you've got to have a little choker chain on her,
Just a little choker chain on her. And when you're
walking down the street and there's two dogs acting like lunatics,
and your dog starts to act like a lunatic, you
give her a little jolt with your wrists, turn and
walk the opposite direction very quickly.

Speaker 5 (29:39):
And that's what you do. That's a correction.

Speaker 10 (29:41):
And you do it every time she does a behavior
you don't like. And when she starts behaving the way
you do want her to behave, which is calm.

Speaker 5 (29:49):
You say, good dog, and you give her a treat.

Speaker 26 (29:53):
Okay, there you go, I'll go, But I mean, I'm
sorry what you say I said?

Speaker 24 (30:04):
They don't get Oh.

Speaker 10 (30:07):
Yeah, well you know, dogs are dogs and people are people,
and the best thing we can do is learn how
to think like a dog. And when you learn to
think like a dog, everything goes wonderfully because they can't
they can't read our minds. They they don't know what
the word no means. They don't know what the sentences
we're speaking are. So the less amount of talk you do,
the better you know. And try to try to try

(30:29):
to watch your dog and figure out what your dog
is thinking.

Speaker 5 (30:32):
There's so many signs.

Speaker 24 (30:35):
Yeah, I trust me.

Speaker 25 (30:35):
I know that boy.

Speaker 10 (30:38):
So when you when you see her getting into that
mannicked state, correct or refocus her mind.

Speaker 24 (30:44):
Okay, what's been amountable to lay down stay until I
get back? What else you'll beat until I get back?
I don't about walk up and took them cause they
stole and one day and say I got it back,
But that was.

Speaker 9 (31:03):
Oh me and design time.

Speaker 5 (31:06):
That's you know you're you're doing You're doing good, buddy.

Speaker 10 (31:09):
Is just that one thing you just got a teacher
to you know, just to not get riled up around
riled up dogs.

Speaker 5 (31:15):
And that's not too difficult. It just takes persistence and
it takes time.

Speaker 2 (31:20):
Hey, thanks for your call, Charlie. Good luck with that.
Let us know how that works out. Yeah, not a
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Speaker 2 (32:51):
Matthew, welcome to the show.

Speaker 25 (32:53):
Hey, thank you having you all today.

Speaker 2 (32:55):
Good doing good. What's going on?

Speaker 25 (32:57):
I got a question for doctor Dibbie about my six
year old male golden doodle.

Speaker 6 (33:03):
Can h okay?

Speaker 25 (33:06):
What's that?

Speaker 5 (33:07):
I was just going on.

Speaker 25 (33:10):
He's a good boy. I love him, you know. And
what I really want is not I don't want to
second guess my vet diagnosis, but I want to question
his pain level. It's a question I forgot to ask
the vet. He's recently come up intermittently lame in his
left time, and uh we sedated him and did some

(33:34):
radiological you know stuff, and his hip looks good. There's
no signs of any bone cancers or growth or tumors,
and and no movement in his hips, no drawer signs
in his knee. Uh, there's no signs of an arthritic condition.
But she diagnosed the acute arthritis. But his pain level

(33:56):
is it seems severe to me. Can can the onset
of arthritis cause I mean real severe pain in these guys.

Speaker 6 (34:06):
Okay, I'm going to back up here a little bit.

Speaker 5 (34:08):
Now.

Speaker 6 (34:09):
You said on the x rays they did not see
any changes. But when we diagnose arthritis, generally off of
an X ray, there's some changes where we go, oh,
look at all those little knovvy things on the bones
or on the joints, and that's a sign that it's
kind of been a chronic osteoarthritis condition. Now, did they
see anything like that?

Speaker 25 (34:28):
No, she's seen no normaladies, but she said it could.

Speaker 9 (34:33):
Be the beginnings of Okay, and it.

Speaker 25 (34:35):
Just didn't sound right to me. And if there's no
drawer sign, I guess If so, there's no ACL rupture
or anything like that, Could there be other issues going
on in his knees or hips that I should maybe
go get a second opinion on.

Speaker 6 (34:50):
Definitely, I mean it's quite possible. And when we're talking
about just so I can explain for everyone else, drawer
sign is a common kind of a test, a physical
movement that Veninearians will do and as you generally a
sedated pet and we wiggled the knee and we basically
test for instability and the ligaments there, and one of
the major support ligaments in the knee, called the cruciate ligament.

(35:13):
When that's damaged or torn completely, there's some movement. It's
kind of like a drawer that's kind of opening. So
if they didn't see that, it's possible we could have,
you know, some maybe partial cruciate injuries that could cause
a lot of knee pain and lameness and not show
any kind of signs on X rays or on that
physical exam. As far as our threat is, I'd usually

(35:36):
reserve that diagnosis to when we have chronic changes and
where we can see radiographic evidence that there's some changes
in the joints. So I might back up and say
we have an acute strain or sprain, or maybe we
have something else going on, and that's very possible. As
far as the physical exam, I think in this point

(35:57):
would probably be the biggest thing that I would fall
back on and where their suspicions might lie, whether that's
in the knee, the hip, or what have you.

Speaker 11 (36:06):
Now.

Speaker 6 (36:06):
Did they put your baby on any medications of any.

Speaker 25 (36:08):
Sort, Yeah, some remediental and she said that she wants
to use it when the pain starts to play her up.
I've had him on who's supposed to be androidan for
about a year, just as a preventative, and it does
show up when he is when he does get very active,
and sometimes it comes those in a day, but it's

(36:28):
coming on more often now and okay, lasting longer. That
makes any sense.

Speaker 6 (36:33):
To you, Yeah, yeah, And I guess I'm going to
be a little wishy wash because I would like to
say that, you know, the physical test support what you're
seeing at home, and if it doesn't all fit that,
then I don't want to say you're vet's wrong, but
you know, I would definitely want to make sure that
the signs of what you're seeing agree with what they're
seeing and describing the in the physical exam, and if not,

(36:54):
now the other thing is a lot of times my
father is even guilty of this. Anti inflammatory in many
cases work best when we do use them for a
consistent period of time, so you can do that hit
or mistreatment. But if we're having especially more established discomfort
or lameness, it's better to use that for a course
a period of time consistently and you'll get better response

(37:16):
with the inflammation as well as with the pets comfort
than just that once in a blue moon kind of thing.
But if that therapy is not working, gosh, there's some
other things you can look at getting into you know,
if we have definite osteoarthritis chronic changes. There are many
foods that have glucosamine enhanced in there. There's a product

(37:37):
called Adiquon, which is an injectible formula that can be
very nice in helping pets with arthritic pain. But usually
arthritis is kind of that achiness, that slowness to get up,
that I've overdone it and oh I'm just having a
rough time. If we have more acute pain, really more intense,
then I really want to go back to that physical
and exam and look again.

Speaker 25 (37:59):
Okay, yeah, because the pain just seems too intense to
me to be the beginnings of our rights. Because when
it gets really bad, he won't even put any weight
on it, he'll hobble completely at home the peg up.

Speaker 6 (38:10):
Yeah, and how long ago were.

Speaker 11 (38:12):
Those X rays?

Speaker 25 (38:14):
Three or four days ago, oh real recently?

Speaker 6 (38:17):
Okay, all right.

Speaker 25 (38:18):
Yeah, yeah, and the rimadill's starting to work. I'm an
over the road truck drivers, so I've seen him go
through this pain. But my wife tells me that, you know,
he is kind of hobbling around a little bit now,
and he's he's feeling a little bit better. But you know,
I don't want to see.

Speaker 6 (38:35):
The little bag of pain, right, Oh gosh, yeah. I
mean it's worse watching your pett and pain than going
through yourself. And I think anyone who listens to the
show would agree with that. So, yeah, I know not.

Speaker 25 (38:47):
To overdo it, but there's no way to tell him
not to overdo it. And he's a really active guy,
and he wants to jump down the stairs and chase
rabbits in the backyard and just go crazy. And you know,
he doesn't quite get the fact that it kind of
getting a little older and it's starting to affect them.

Speaker 6 (39:05):
If I could get my word out to him and
tell him to behave and be quiet while you're rehabilitating,
then then we'll go a long way there. But yeah,
feel your difficulty with that. That's tough to get him
to quiet down. But yeah, if that's persisting, then I
would certainly take another look there and seeing me and
especially if we are worried about maybe a partial cruise. Shit,
that's thinking of doing something more significant down the road.

(39:27):
So hope, hope all turns out well there and your
lovely golden noodle is doing well, so have.

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A great one.

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Speaker 2 (40:57):
Big show. Today, we be talking to a lady who
works for an insurance company. She says there's been over
three billion dollars worth of electronic devices damaged by our
dogs and cats and animals, our companion.

Speaker 3 (41:07):
Animals in one year.

Speaker 2 (41:08):
In one year? Is that it one year? We're gonna
have to check on that and make sure that's right.
That seems like a lot, I.

Speaker 3 (41:13):
Know it does. But the electronics aren't cheap.

Speaker 4 (41:15):
That's in there.

Speaker 2 (41:16):
Are you coming there?

Speaker 4 (41:18):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (41:18):
I am.

Speaker 2 (41:19):
Have your animals ever damaged your devices?

Speaker 4 (41:22):
The bird? The bird, The bird's the worst. The bird
has destroyed one phone and at least thirty remotes. But
you know that doesn't go on the insurance. But the
about the.

Speaker 2 (41:32):
Remotes all the time. Yeah, people always calling in saying
the remotes been buried or in the backyard. They found
it after three years, passes in the poop. Actually, have
you ever seen that? What have you seen?

Speaker 6 (41:43):
Yes, I've taken X rays and you can see parts
of the remote in the stomach and we've had one
where the dog vomited up pieces of it. The other
one it actually passed it, So wow.

Speaker 4 (41:54):
That's they just will just wash it off and we
use it.

Speaker 2 (41:57):
Ew How about you, Joy, Joey, have you had any
of your electronic devices pete on, vomited on, destroyed, chewed.

Speaker 11 (42:06):
I have to tell you my kids are just the
absolute most fabulous kids. They don't do things like that
at all. But then bear in mind I'm with them
almost all the time, so they don't get bored, they
don't get lonely, they don't get all those things a
lot of animals do.

Speaker 2 (42:20):
Now do they know what you're thinking? Do they know
that you know what they're thinking?

Speaker 4 (42:24):
Oh?

Speaker 11 (42:24):
Absolutely, Well yeah, sometimes they play little games and they think, well,
I can think something and I can whisper.

Speaker 19 (42:29):
My mom won't be able to hear me, but I.

Speaker 11 (42:32):
Keep saying I do get that.

Speaker 4 (42:34):
Perfect dogs you're a little jealous. Yes, I am.

Speaker 11 (42:38):
Well, Joey, I can teach you and then you can
have a perfect dog too.

Speaker 3 (42:41):
Good luck on that one.

Speaker 4 (42:42):
Yeah, I know, just talk to Alan about that one.

Speaker 2 (42:44):
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Speaker 6 (42:52):
Oh?

Speaker 17 (42:52):
When I tell you this, it's hard to believe. You
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Speaker 2 (43:08):
You're like shaking your hand. I know what it is.

Speaker 3 (43:10):
Yes, yes, it took me a minute, but I just yes,
I figured it out.

Speaker 2 (43:14):
We'll stick around for that. Let's head on over to Lucille.
You know there was a bb King song Lucille. Was
that written about you? Lucilee?

Speaker 22 (43:22):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (43:24):
Hi, Hey, where are you calling from today?

Speaker 9 (43:27):
Call him from Bourneville, Pennsylvania near Reading.

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Speaker 9 (43:40):
Okay, I wanted to talk to doctor Debbie and I've
had a cat. It's the guests. About three weeks now,
he started with like three days of vomiting where he
vomited up nothing but like white foamy saliva. He wouldn't
need barely with drink. So I took him to the
and they did an X ray and they thought they

(44:02):
seen a blockage, so they did exploratory surgery and they
found nothing. They said there was a little bit of
hard poop in the bow, but nothing that would have
caused this problem. So they send him home. After he
got home, he had the same problem. Took him back
in again. So they put him on a pill for nausea,

(44:25):
and they put him on a quarter pill which he's
still on every three days to increase his diet. Now
he is a bit overweight. He's fourteen pounds and he's
five years old.

Speaker 6 (44:37):
Okay, So when they did the surgery and they said
they saw a stool in his colon, was it did
they describe that he was blocked like constipated or did
they just saw some poop. It was no big deal
kind of thing.

Speaker 9 (44:48):
Well, they said he could have been constipated, and they
said they found a little bit of hard poop in there.
But they did put him on I mix in his
moist once a day, a little bit of mirror relax.
That's what they tell me.

Speaker 6 (45:01):
Wonderful stuff. That's such wonderful stuff.

Speaker 9 (45:04):
So that's that's what he's on now about once a day.
He walks around like he's still not feeling quite right.

Speaker 6 (45:13):
Okay. And then when they did the exploratory, did they
do any kind of biopsies of any sort of the intestines, pancreas,
anything like that.

Speaker 9 (45:21):
No, they didn't say. They said everything look good.

Speaker 6 (45:24):
Okay. Well, just because sometimes when we have a vomiting
situation that's looks bad enough that we that we suspect
there's a blockage, sometimes we do honestly have to go
in and look. It's an opportunity though, to actually take
biopsies of the bowel, because there are some things that
can cause vomiting that aren't going to look visually kind
of jump out at you that we might pick up

(45:46):
on a biopsy. Some of those things. Inflammatory bowel disease
is you know, it's a problem in cats just like
in people. It can cause ongoing vomiting, diarrhea, weight loss.
Some cats just don't eat well with some of these problems.
So those kind of things you have to prove by
a biopsy. So I don't know, like with the particulars

(46:08):
of your kitty situation, but those are things that you know,
I like to think of. So it's good that they
ruled out the obstruction. The other things I look at
with a kitty with you know, chronic vomiting is I
really like to look at diet, deworming, and kind of
the environmental things, anything that the kitty might be chewing

(46:29):
on ingesting environmentally, whether it's house plans, toys, things like that.
So for me, if I have a kitty with you know,
bad vomiting, I do like to deworm them because cats
can actually get stomach worms, which they don't actually pass
in the stool, you don't see them, and they can
get stomach worms from eating little things that run around
like cockroaches, snails, you name it. So that's something that's

(46:53):
well worth just a prophylactic deworming if you will. But
you know, from there, if he's eating, and he's picking
up to you with eating with his mertazepine, the appetite
stimulant that they're given him. Then we might see about
using a hypoelergenic and a kitty like this hypoelergenic diet
which could be used for something like inflammatory aboutel disease,

(47:15):
and that might be something if you know, if he
takes to it, you can give it a whirl and
see how the vomiting might do after several weeks of
being on the kind of diet. But for any kitty
that has any kind of constipation poop in issues, you
mentioned my relax and I just think this is the
most wonderful thing for cats and if they're constipated, older

(47:37):
cats in particular can have a real problem where they
only poop every few days. And for me, if I
hear that that cat's not pooping regularly but they're eating, well,
you know, I do like miralacs and I can say
human use as well. It's a fabulous, fabulous thing. It's
a lifesaver. So you know, I think what your your
veterinarian is suggesting, all of those things are really sound

(47:58):
good things, and it just might take us in some
of these other therapies and trying some different things, you know,
to see if we can find something that's working for
your baby. Okay, and does he chew on anything, has
he ingested string or does he like to eat things
like that.

Speaker 9 (48:18):
I've seen maybe him chill like on some fuzzies like
that was on the carpet. That's the only thing I noticed,
because he doesn't go outside. He's strictly an indoor cat.
But that's that's the only thing I noticed, unless he
got a hold of something here that I haven't seen.
I try to keep everything out of reach for them

(48:41):
as much as possible.

Speaker 6 (48:42):
Yeah, and it is so important also that not just
eating with a kiddie, but you know, drinking that we
make sure this guy is getting adequate hydration. So making
sure he's drinking and if he's not, then you know,
talk to the veterinarian about, you know, if we need
to get some fluids for him so he can you know,
stay fully hydrated, because that'll run a cat down, you know,
all that vomiting for several days in a row, it

(49:03):
depletes their you know, their hydration. Also, sometimes look at
electrolyte disturbances that we you know, we just have to
correct that in addition to the anti nausea medicines that
we typically use. So I hope that goes better for
you and for your guy. And he's a young fella,
So we want to get this fellow. Well, you said
he's five years old.

Speaker 9 (49:22):
Yeah, that's that's the reason. I thought, you know, we
we if he would have been, you know, much older.
The vet had said about putting him down, and I said,
I just didn't feel like I wanted to do that
because I mean, he's like one of my favorite cats
I have. I have several, but you know, and he's
a good cat.

Speaker 6 (49:39):
Thank you so much for your call. This is doctor Debbie.
I'm your vet friend looking out for your pet friend.

Speaker 2 (49:46):
Ladies and gentlemen, the dog father.

Speaker 4 (49:48):
How you doing, buddy, I'm getting my ass off right now,
That's how I'm doing. Boys that because I got poison
ivy And this is the probably the fourth time in
my grooming career that I've gotten poison and ivy from
a dog.

Speaker 3 (50:01):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (50:03):
So it wasn't even you playing in the bushes. It
was a dog.

Speaker 4 (50:06):
It was it was a dog. And it was funny
because the woman actually warned me it was the first
life was one. She says that the dog was out
and it was out in the woods and there was
a lot of poison ivy and that was the whole
reason why they were bringing the dog into be groomed,
because she had gotten it from it from the dog before.
All right, no problem. I didn't really think too much

(50:28):
of it. But just so everyone knows, you can contract
poison ivy from your pets. Are an avid hiker and
you just have it in your backyard and your dogs,
you know, they love to roll around and everything. Now,
contrary to belief, dogs do get poison ivy. It's it's
not very common, but some dogs will come down with

(50:50):
some irritation and some some rash and it's usually not
as bad as you know as if you got it.
There's a couple of things you could do. Number one
on the best thing that I found so far is
a product called tech new Tec and you it's safe
for pets and it's safe for you. Now, what it
does It breaks down the oils that that the poison

(51:12):
ivy poison oak actually give off. So to break that down,
you rinse it away. But a lot of people, you
know what, they don't want to wash their pets. So
if you don't want to wash your pets in a pinch,
you can use some type of waterless shampoo. Now a
matter of fact, the wall product works very well too.
They're on waterle a shampoo that you can use as well,

(51:33):
and I would definitely take that with me. You know what,
just routinely before you put your dog back in the car,
spray them down, talel them off, and you shouldn't have
too much to worry about. If it's a short haired dog,
you know what, you want to be safe, use the
tech new or even dish detergent. This detergent works good.
I don't recommend using it a lot only because it's

(51:55):
not the greatest product in your dog's coat, but it
definitely will will help the situation, and then you won't
be like me.

Speaker 2 (52:03):
You know, it's kind of weird to hear you say that,
because you're such a big, tough guy, you know, a
soprano type of guy. I got poison ivy today and
I don't know, it just doesn't fit.

Speaker 4 (52:12):
Wow, big guys don't get poison ivy? Is that how
it works? I'm gonna come over to here and I'm
gonna rub my arms all ottle. I just thought it
would take a little nice pig kiss and a hug.

Speaker 2 (52:22):
I thought it would take a little more than poison
ivy to take you in.

Speaker 4 (52:24):
That's all I Poison ivy took me. Poison ivy took
me down. Put a gun on me. I'm okay, rub
poison ivy on me. I have a problem.

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Speaker 13 (54:10):
Hey, I just have a question for your vet.

Speaker 6 (54:14):
All right, I'm right here. This is doctor de w
What can I help you with?

Speaker 13 (54:17):
Yes, I'm I'm trying to find a kitten, you know,
from a breeder. Uh, and uh you know it's down
you know, I'm looking at.

Speaker 25 (54:27):
Three or four different breeds.

Speaker 13 (54:29):
And uh, Basically my question is I seem to be
getting the attitude from all these breeders. Uh. You know,
I'll ask them questions about you know, well, uh do
they have the kittens out the rnt of the house
or they kept in a bedroom or do you keep
them in a cage? And uh, you know, can you
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(54:52):
area on the grass and maybe shoot a quick video
so I can see how they act? And you know,
uh uh, I'm interested in not only a you know,
cat that looks the way I would like it to look,
but also one that is mentally and emotionally healthy and
uh uh has been exposed to socialization and different environments

(55:19):
or you know, not just the inside of a house
or a bedroom. And I would I want a confident,
happy animal that can cope with its surroundings if I
want to take it at four months of age, which
breeders insist.

Speaker 8 (55:33):
On keeping the cats until they're that.

Speaker 13 (55:35):
Old, and so all the windows of opportunity for socialization
and so on are pretty much closed when you get it.
And I'll ask these breeders questions about, you know, how
the kitten's disposition is, and they won't even bother to
answer me.

Speaker 4 (55:50):
You know.

Speaker 13 (55:51):
One breeder emailed me like, uh well, nobody's ever complained
about any of my kittens before, And another one offered
me an adult female that she had been breeding that
was three or four years old for eight hundred dollars
one thousand was shipping, And the only thing I had
was a three or four year old picture that was
taken when the cat was a kitten. And I'm wondering

(56:12):
if I'm being unreasonable or or it just cat breeders.

Speaker 6 (56:18):
Yeah, well, you know, so you're looking at cats that
are not in your area, correct, You're looking for cats
in other stats or something?

Speaker 18 (56:26):
Uh?

Speaker 13 (56:27):
Well, yes, because I am looking for kind of a
specific looking cat. I you know, I'd be happy was,
you know, two or three different breeds.

Speaker 24 (56:38):
It doesn't have to be just one wire.

Speaker 6 (56:40):
You've got some really great thoughts on how you want
to select a cat, and you're right it is important
to Number one is personality? Personality? Is it the right fit?
I don't care what a cat looks like. I want
to know if the lifestyle is going to fit with
my household. Do you have a very busy, noisy household,
you know, do you have kids? A cat's personality is

(57:02):
going to be very important to match that. So you got,
you know, the right kitty for the household. Now what
you're doing is you're asking these people to really pre
select the cats for you. And I have to say that,
you know, this is really your responsibility. So if you're
gonna choose to find a cat outside of the city
or the state where you're at, you're at a disadvantage.

(57:25):
You need to be the one to make these decisions
how that cat looks. Now, this is the digital age,
and I don't know, it doesn't seem hard to me
to make a video of a cat or a dog
plan and put that on YouTube, drop it in an email. Heck,
I see animals symptoms all the time by iPhone in
my office, so I don't think that would be an
extrange or an extreme request. But you are trying to

(57:45):
screen for personality with you not being even there, So
there's going to be some big shortcomings with that approach.
So you know, adopting from a shelter is not a
bad idea. You have some on the ground experience, you
can screen the cats, you can get them young. And
I have run into this with breeders where they insist
on keeping dogs or cats until they're four months of

(58:07):
age five months of age, even believe it or not,
And you're right, there's a big social window by four
months of age that we really want to be able
to expose kiddies and puppies to all these different things
in their world. So you're going to be missing out
on that opportunity. Not that it means you won't have
a good cat in the end, but if you have
that opportunity during that age, it would be ideal to

(58:29):
expose them to all the sites, sound, smells, things in
your world that might they might encounter in that you
want them to be chill with. So I don't know,
you know, I feel your frustration sometimes when it comes
to breeders, and you know that's kind of this whole movement.
Do we need people who just want to breed for
that six hundred dollars sale? Is that really the right
thing for the animal? Are we saving lives? Are we

(58:52):
do mean animals so living in kennels to be the
breeders for the next generation of purchase pets in this manner,
So just be cautious. You're supporting an industry that if
you don't get the right feel from those people you're
undernew obligation to support them with your dollars, and that's
really how this works out. So there's got to be

(59:13):
cat breeders out there that fit your needs and your
desires for what you're looking for. And I'd have to
say that if it means getting in a car and
driving or getting on a plane, if I had to
pick out a pet that way, I would have my
hands on it and I would do everything I could
to screen that pet to make sure it had the
communication with me, it had that bond, and then it

(59:33):
was going to be a good fit personality wise. So
I don't know, I hate to be a breeder basher,
but you know, i'd have to say that you've got
some challenges with what you're trying to do there.

Speaker 2 (59:44):
Don't Thanks for your call, Donna Alan Cable with your
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I'm Stacey Cohen four Animal Radio Well. Police in Canada
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The CBC says a Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer picked
up a week old baby moose right along the side
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Animals explained that the little moose was crying out for
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routine traffic stop became anything but for one rookie cop
in Texas, he was bitten by a monkey while handing
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Turns out the monkey's a trained entertainer who travels with
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new set of principles and criteria, according to the National
Institute of Health. Francis Collins, who's the director, cited some
new methods and technologies that are going to replace chimps.
You know, they've used them in experiments for years, but
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It's animal Radio. Many of you lost your Internet connection
some cell service last week. Officials have finally identified the
culprit behind the twenty hour internet and cell phone outage
last week in the central part of our country. What
was it? It was an eager beaver. Eager that's what
it says right here. An eager beaver. Apparently hungry beaver
chewed through the fiber lines that connected the Internet and

(01:04:54):
cell phone service. Over eighteen hundred Internet users were affected
by the blackout. They don't know the number of self
users that were.

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You think somebody would have made sure it wasn't in
a beaver's habitat.

Speaker 3 (01:05:06):
Really, Oh, they're built there, aren't They laying them underground?

Speaker 26 (01:05:10):
Now?

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Does not that open it up to more? And I was
burrowing and getting to them.

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I was in the Beaver Scouts as a youngster, and
we would have known that. Of course, you remember the
beaver Scouts.

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Yeah, did you damage any lines?

Speaker 4 (01:05:20):
I did?

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Didn't we had that. Weren't a beaver Scout? Was it? Actually?

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I've never heard of it.

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I thought you were trying to give yourself, some fancy
name that really never had any there was.

Speaker 2 (01:05:33):
We used to do this. Am a beaver, You're a beaver.
We are beaver's all. When we get together, we give
our beaver call.

Speaker 6 (01:05:42):
I would love to see that.

Speaker 10 (01:05:43):
Oh my gosh, Oh my gosh.

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Okay, let's recover here your tail.

Speaker 4 (01:05:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:05:51):
See, I'm trying to do this segue into the big
Our dogs damaged and destroyed our electronic equipment. You here
on animal Radio, so let's stay focused, please focus, please.
We have Sandy Robins joining you. She is a pet
specialist for Square Trade Insurance, and this week I got
a pet release from them saying that there's been over

(01:06:12):
three billion in damaged devices. I don't know if this
is over a year over several years, but I figured
i'd get her on the phone. Let's talk about this. Hey, Sandy,
how you doing.

Speaker 9 (01:06:21):
Hey?

Speaker 22 (01:06:21):
I'm well, how are you doing well?

Speaker 2 (01:06:23):
Splendid? Thank you very much. So three billion is that
over one year? Two years? Three? How long did it
take for these dogs and our animals to really destroy
all these devices?

Speaker 25 (01:06:33):
Well they came.

Speaker 22 (01:06:34):
That's that's in the year from what I gather. But
you know, you think about it, you know, back in
the day. The excuse was for students and businessmen alike,
you know, my dog ate my homework or my dog
ate my report. Now it's a case of you know,
my my dog ate my laptop or peede on my iPad.
And I guess there were so many of these stories

(01:06:57):
reaching a square trade who are a warrant tea company,
that they started teaching it seriously and is this really
what is happening out there?

Speaker 2 (01:07:06):
They're doing research. They've done a look at this research here,
ladies and gentlemen. It's amazing, pages and pages, like two
thirds of the accidents are caused by the pet putting
the item in their mouth. Well that's that's a give
me a lady, bugs at your if we left the
phone out, she might choose the phone.

Speaker 22 (01:07:21):
Well, no, not my dog, or if your dog till
your dog does it right exactly.

Speaker 2 (01:07:28):
Here's the here's the statistic that stood out in this report.
About one in six cat or dog owners say one
of their pets has thrown up or gone to the
bathroom on one of their electronics. I'm going to do
a poll right here in the studio. Doctor Debbie has
has never.

Speaker 6 (01:07:43):
Never experienced this, but I am a very strict, mom,
So I cannot believe. Now, these just have to be
people that are letting their dogs run amok am I wrong.

Speaker 22 (01:07:52):
Well wait a minute, it's happened to be with a cat.
In fact, my husband sometimes likes to work on the
kitchen country he puts out all your papers and stuff.
The cat jumps on and is looking for attention and
walks all over the papers and sits on them, as
cats do. And on one occasion he left the phone
lying on the counter and she threw up a hairball
and she aimed directly at the phone.

Speaker 2 (01:08:13):
See I think they do.

Speaker 7 (01:08:15):
You know, well, I haven't had any electronic devices damaged.
If I leave my shoes on the floor.

Speaker 3 (01:08:19):
The cat vness that they care about this, that doesn't count.

Speaker 2 (01:08:22):
Unless it's one of those smart smartphones.

Speaker 3 (01:08:26):
Yeah, no, it's smart.

Speaker 2 (01:08:27):
That's not an electronic device.

Speaker 4 (01:08:28):
Then you know my problem is the bird, My bird.
The girl will get a hold of a phone, absolutely
phones and remotes, loves them, destroys them.

Speaker 2 (01:08:36):
I'm looking at the statistics that says male pets are
fifty percent more likely than female pets to damage your devices. Now,
this kind of seems like a weird statistics to met creditice.

Speaker 3 (01:08:46):
I mean you, I mean, can you really say that.

Speaker 22 (01:08:49):
I'm not sure whether that that's true. I mean, you know,
our male dogs or male cats more destructive. I don't
really think so. I think pits are sometimes they like kids,
if you think about it, they're distractive because they bored
and they're looking for something to do.

Speaker 3 (01:09:05):
Exactly.

Speaker 22 (01:09:06):
That's the bottom line. It really is the bottom line
if you think about it. You know, if you go
to work in the morning and your pet, cat or
dog is home alone for eight hours straight, they're bored.
So they're going to either choose the furniture or if
you happen to leave the laptop lying out, they may
consider having a go at the laptop or the you know,
iPad or whatever it is.

Speaker 2 (01:09:26):
Well, it does say they're seventeen percent of pet owners
believe that their pet damaged the device because their pet
was angry with them.

Speaker 22 (01:09:33):
You know, That's what I don't believe. I don't believe
that pets demonstrate anger like that. And that's a question
for a pet behaviorist and probably another topic for you.
But I actually think it's definitely a boredom issue.

Speaker 2 (01:09:47):
Definitely boredom. We should get them out and get them
ext Do you know what.

Speaker 3 (01:09:51):
The most expensive item that was damaged laptops?

Speaker 22 (01:09:54):
Laptop It's okay, yeah, yeah, absolutely.

Speaker 6 (01:09:57):
You know.

Speaker 22 (01:10:00):
I have a friend who has a cat that removed
the number four key on her laptop, so she could
do everything, but she couldn't type a dollar fine or
a number four.

Speaker 2 (01:10:14):
Now, doctor Debbie said that this may be bad behavior
at it's epitome, I would guess. And then, of course
the survey found that if you let your pets sleep
in bed with you or ride in your lab while driving,
you're two to three times more likely to have a
pet related accident.

Speaker 6 (01:10:27):
Well, there you go, goes back to the owner.

Speaker 22 (01:10:29):
It does, and we don't get me on the topic
of pets and cars. They have to be restrained. You know,
we restrain our children, we restrain our luggage, but we
let our its bounce about. And you know, the statistics
out there say that a sixty pound dog in a
vehicle traveling thirty five miles per hour, which is not fast,
turns into a two thousand, seven hundred pound projectile. But

(01:10:52):
that's an accident waiting to happen.

Speaker 2 (01:10:54):
I'm taking my electronics, I'm putting them on high shelves.

Speaker 3 (01:10:57):
Well, the cat can still get them. You need to
get what.

Speaker 2 (01:10:59):
You want about that.

Speaker 22 (01:11:00):
Any any suggestions, I think you do have to lock
them up. Seriously, I wouldn't leave them lying on the counter.
I wouldn't even phone this. It's it's just a matter
I think is being cautious. Sometimes the accidents are accidental,
but sometimes you know, if they're lying there and they
bored and they think, oh, well you know too, toy.

Speaker 7 (01:11:19):
Well just think if your pet does damage your item,
then you get to hang one of those sign of
shames and take a picture and put it.

Speaker 2 (01:11:23):
All the dogshaming dot com. Have you seen this website?

Speaker 4 (01:11:27):
Not fair?

Speaker 22 (01:11:28):
There should be an owner shaming one.

Speaker 2 (01:11:31):
Sandy. We appreciate your time, Thank you, it's been fun.
Tell us what your pet has damaged, and if they
vomited on your phone or cell phone, let me know.
I'd like to know about that too, because that's the
kind of people we are here at Animal Radio.

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help you finish what you started.

Speaker 16 (01:13:00):
Eight hundred two one five six eight one five, eight
hundred two one five six eight one five eight hundred
two one five six eight one five. That's eight hundred
two one five sixty eight to fifteen.

Speaker 23 (01:13:14):
Hello, this is doctor Poul on Animal Radio. Take care
of the pets and make sure that in these hot
days that known they get in lots of water and
don't die them outside in the sun because then get
a heat stroke.

Speaker 1 (01:13:31):
You're listening to Animal Radio. Here's hol and Judy.

Speaker 2 (01:13:34):
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Just can't beat that. This question came in from the app. Hi,
I love your show. Have been listening for a while,
but I have not heard this topic discussed.

Speaker 3 (01:14:04):
So here goes something new.

Speaker 2 (01:14:06):
Yes, well not really sort of maybe for her. She
says she is a Himalayan flame point cat who recently
began an extremely annoying habit. I can't read this.

Speaker 3 (01:14:23):
You want me to read it?

Speaker 2 (01:14:24):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (01:14:25):
Could you read it?

Speaker 2 (01:14:26):
I'm sorry it's so small. Oh wow, you can't read
it either.

Speaker 6 (01:14:31):
Okay.

Speaker 7 (01:14:31):
I have a Himalayan flame point cat who recently began
an extremely annoying habit. I haven't had a man around
the house much in the last three years, and now
I do.

Speaker 3 (01:14:40):
Congratulations, congrats.

Speaker 7 (01:14:42):
My cat has taken to meowing very loudly around and
on the bed when my guy and I are making whoopee.
Really he didn't do this with my former partner, but
he was a cat lover. This new guy is not
a cat lover. I've told this new guy that he
needs to at least pretend he likes the cat and
give the cat positive energy, as cats are very emotionally

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sensitive creatures. I've also sat and visualized and try to
communicate to my cat that he is still the man
of the house. Oh yeah, and this is where he
lives and he's safe and it's his permanent home.

Speaker 3 (01:15:16):
YadA, YadA. Any other advice.

Speaker 7 (01:15:19):
It's really annoying and my guy definitely does not like
it at all.

Speaker 2 (01:15:23):
Why why is the cat in the bedroom at all?

Speaker 6 (01:15:25):
Wait a minute, yes, okay, I have I cannot keep
my trap shut here.

Speaker 4 (01:15:29):
Now, it would freak me out.

Speaker 6 (01:15:32):
This is wrong on the human level here, you know,
if your cat's your baby, you wouldn't let your children
watch you have sex, So you really should not allow
your cat in the bedroom when you're having sex, just period.
It's just not a good idea for many reasons. There
can be injuries that I have heard stories of being sustained,

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so I wouldn't put it past your kidd if it
became physical. But no, there's no reason this cat needs
to be in the bedroom when she's having private time
with her man. That's what a door is for. So
I would not the kid outside of it.

Speaker 4 (01:16:06):
But I don't think. I don't think he would work
if the cat was looking in me owen. I just
I just don't think the whole the whole thing would work.

Speaker 2 (01:16:13):
I get it. It wouldn't work out.

Speaker 4 (01:16:17):
It really wouldn't work out. The cat would have to
go real quick. Let's see how the flintstones to kitty
put the cat outside.

Speaker 7 (01:16:23):
See you're talking about the guy losing interest in not
liking the idea. I'm looking at the woman's point of view. Hey,
if my cat doesn't like this guy, something's wrong, you
know something.

Speaker 4 (01:16:33):
Maybe the cat just you know, he hasn't seen this,
so well, what's going on? You what about me.

Speaker 6 (01:16:38):
Did you ever think about what the sex acts physically
looks like and then cat you know physical like just communication,
you know that can be upsetting and give some mixed messages,
whether they not perceive it as you know, a sexual thing.
You know, that's that's her human. So I agree with
you know, trying to keep the you know, the husband
or the boyfriend needs to you know, treat the cat well,

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feed it, give it affection, and he needs to be
the one that does the only feeding in the household.
But I really think that, yeah, it's we've got to
get this cat out of the bedroom.

Speaker 5 (01:17:07):
But you know that's a voyeur.

Speaker 7 (01:17:10):
Well, you know a cat scry, crying and scratching on
the other side of the door as a mood killer.

Speaker 2 (01:17:16):
That is a mood killer too.

Speaker 11 (01:17:17):
Yeah, they're going to throw in the cat perspective here
for everybody else. Okay, Well, this this little kitty, I'll
tell you, he's got a lot to say about all
this stuff. And he uses some words again that it
surprises me. Animals typically don't use words that are swear words,
but he every now and then swears. In my head,
he thinks that he should be considered in the choice

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of people for us because he considers his woman in
him a team and he was not considered. He thinks
that nobody should come into her life that is not
in love with both of them, and he thinks that
he to him, the guy is kind of like attacking
his woman and he does not like that. He thinks

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that he should shouldn't be doing that because he's not
our guy. He may be somebody she likes, but he
really thinks she needs to find a guy that is
compatible with both of them, okay, or get rid of
the one that's not.

Speaker 3 (01:18:13):
Yeah. See I take that as a warning sign to
get rid of the guy.

Speaker 6 (01:18:15):
I'm just saying, shut the door, shut the door.

Speaker 2 (01:18:19):
Yea, my decision. Well, there you go. It's boy. We're
not really solving any problems today. We're giving you a
lot of opinions though, that is for sure. Remember you
can send us your email at your voice at animal
radio dot com or directly right from the app, the
Animal Radio app for iPhone and Android.

Speaker 17 (01:18:35):
No.

Speaker 4 (01:18:35):
I hate being off on Saturdays. I had like forty projects.
My wife has me on already today.

Speaker 6 (01:18:40):
Now I need to do list.

Speaker 2 (01:18:41):
I love it.

Speaker 10 (01:18:42):
Oh.

Speaker 4 (01:18:43):
It started at seven thirty this morning The only time
it ended was when I had to come to the show.

Speaker 2 (01:18:48):
Oh really, so what do you gotta do?

Speaker 4 (01:18:50):
Well, I'll tell you what I did so far.

Speaker 2 (01:18:52):
Okay.

Speaker 4 (01:18:52):
I mulched all the beds, I trimmed, I trimmed all
the hedges. I actually regrounded the walk away in the back.
I gotta go when I'm done today, I have to go.
And I gotta put the like a barbecue gazebo together.
Then I gotta hang curtains in a room. Okay, And
this is all while she's out at a shower.

Speaker 2 (01:19:12):
Awesome that to do list. Wow, you've got a lot done.
You come over to my place.

Speaker 26 (01:19:17):
All of them.

Speaker 4 (01:19:17):
I didn't do all of them yet.

Speaker 11 (01:19:19):
Look at how needd you are.

Speaker 8 (01:19:20):
Joey.

Speaker 5 (01:19:21):
Oh yeah, Oh you're so lucky, dude. My wife is
so mad lucky.

Speaker 4 (01:19:26):
I'll tell you what. Let's switch. Let's switch houses for
about a month.

Speaker 2 (01:19:34):
Thanks so much for joining us. Remember you can get
more on your Animal Radio app for iPhone and Android
over at the Animal Radio website at animal radio dot com.
We'll see you next week right here for more animal radio.

Speaker 6 (01:20:00):
This is as Animal Radio Network

Speaker 13 (01:20:11):
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