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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, dog trainer
Alan Cable, rumor Joey Vellani, communicator Joy Turner, and here
are your hosts, Tale Brooms and Judy Francis.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
This hour, we're going to talk to the guy who
tells you that if you yawn, your dog's going to
yawn with you.

Speaker 3 (00:22):
If he loves you and respects respects.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
Yeah, if your dog doesn't think much about you, the
dog won't.

Speaker 4 (00:28):
It won't yawn.

Speaker 5 (00:29):
I'll ignore you.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
That's all coming up this hour right here on the.

Speaker 4 (00:32):
Animal We got to sympathize with you.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
Let's see, Stacey, what are you working on there? Speak up?

Speaker 6 (00:38):
I have a heartwarming story coming up. A woman loves
her chicken so much. She loves it so much that
she loves it more than her diamond earring. That the
chicken ate. That diamond earring was four hundred and fifty dollars,
but the chicken thought it was chicken feed, just thought
it was chicken scratch and stuffed it in its mouth.
I'll tell you what she's going to do to get

(00:59):
it out. Coming up on Animal Radio News we.

Speaker 2 (01:02):
Go to Rick, Hey, Rick, Hey, how you doing good?
How are you doing?

Speaker 7 (01:06):
Not too bad?

Speaker 2 (01:07):
What's up?

Speaker 7 (01:08):
Get a manson a man coon cat?

Speaker 8 (01:12):
But excuse me?

Speaker 2 (01:15):
Mean coon?

Speaker 7 (01:15):
A man? Is it a man coon?

Speaker 2 (01:18):
I think it's a doctor. Isn't a mean?

Speaker 6 (01:20):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (01:20):
Mean coon? Like mean like the strain.

Speaker 2 (01:22):
It's a big cat.

Speaker 7 (01:24):
Yeah, it's from Cedar Springs, Michigan. It was a feral cat,
a barn cat. We got him, and then we got
his sister from another father. I think I'm pretty sure.
And but he's he's a he's a big cat and
she's just a small, little, beautiful little cat. They're both
beautiful cats. But had them both declauded, and they've both
both had their shots and everything. And uh, but uh,

(01:45):
he's going on two years old, and he loves to bite.
And when he bites, he he leaves a mark. I
mean he leaves pain.

Speaker 5 (01:55):
Okay, what's what seems to be happening before he bites you?

Speaker 7 (01:59):
If get pett him on his head and stuff, you know,
my wife's got it all down, she says. He starts
wagging his tail and his ears go back. Says, watch out,
he's getting ready to bite.

Speaker 5 (02:09):
Oh that's true. That's absolutely.

Speaker 7 (02:11):
I think he's just I think he's just playing. Because
one day on the porch by the way, these cats
they live like kings. They've got a door that I
installed in the in the double hung window that she
won't tell me how much she paid for it, that
they go in and out of, and they're very good
at it. But I was sitting on the porch one

(02:31):
day and he lunched over at my leg and bit
my leg and ran. So I'm thinking he's just playing,
but it hurts.

Speaker 5 (02:40):
Okay, Well, the low down on cat aggression is that
there are a lot of different triggers and a lot
of different underlying causes for aggression. So, for instance, some
of the most common causes of cats biting people can
be play related aggression. So they're actually playing with you
and then it just goes too far and they bite you.
There's all so what we call there's what we call

(03:01):
petting intolerance. So you're petting your cat, think and everything's
going great, and they become over stimulated and then they
and bite you. There's other things. There's you know, fear,
there's some status related kind of dominant stuff, redirected aggression.
So something kind of startles them or upsets them, and
you're the closest thing. So the challenge is to find
out in the particular kiddy situation, what might be the problem,

(03:24):
what's the trigger, if you will. So, if it's something
and I'm going to simplify things quite a bit here,
if it's just something as simple as you're pet in
this cat and then he bites you, then that, for
me is a shame on you. Because for cats there
is there is a fine line. Cats aren't dogs. They
don't like to be petted for long periods of time.

(03:46):
They become overstimulated. So when your wife says, yeah, all
these things are physically happening. The tail is swishing back
and forth, you know, the ears are going back, the
eyes are squinting, is looking side to side. That is
your signal that you need to stop and you need
to cease contact with kitty before that escalates into a bite.
And for some counts it maybe you have to back

(04:08):
off on petting altogether. You may just need to pet
for a few minutes and then cease it.

Speaker 9 (04:12):
Yeah, taught to Katy.

Speaker 7 (04:14):
You have to be you have to be very very
much aware, and he'd better cleaning lady.

Speaker 10 (04:19):
There a few weeks.

Speaker 7 (04:20):
Oh my goodness, Katy, they rule you, you don't rule.

Speaker 5 (04:24):
Them, you know well, and that that does cross the
line though, And when humans are becoming injured, that's where
I draw the line. So I'm gonna say, yeah, cans
will be counts and they want to play, but if
it escalates into biting humans, that's where we do need
to take action. And I will tell you that, Uh,
how do you play with Do you play with this kitty?
At times?

Speaker 3 (04:41):
You kind of no, No, we never did, even.

Speaker 7 (04:44):
From when we brought it down from Michigan to North
Carolina called me my dash caddy left to be up
on the dashboard and h But now there was never
never any any rough play. I mean I worked seventy
hours a week. My life works about the same, and uh,
they have the role of the roast, and now there's
never really there was time when I drank a bottle

(05:05):
of red wine and he and I got into it.

Speaker 5 (05:07):
Oh okay, oh my goodness. So Rick, I'm going to
tell you the things that you can do to help
out the situation are going to be definitely to anticipate
what triggers these problems, and you may need to keep
a log, keep a track of it in a little notebook.
What situations are happening, what happened to the may before
this's happened?

Speaker 11 (05:27):
You know?

Speaker 5 (05:27):
Is it always when you're like walking down the hallway
and he want attention, and then we have to address
those situations.

Speaker 7 (05:33):
So if a cat is attacking you, you just hit
one of the triggers right there. He'll attack you when
you're walking down the hallway. Okay, so long, jack gun stuffy.
He launched at my wife one time and left the
bruise down her leg.

Speaker 5 (05:43):
And you know what it's They're very similar in dogs
and that they'll do negative behaviors for attention. So he
wanted your attention. You probably screamed, you said, hey, he's
not that, and he got what he wanted. So the
trick is for a cat that does that kind of thing,
that kind of attacks when you're walking down the hallway,
you have to be prepared for a diversion. So we
can't discipline cats and.

Speaker 7 (06:03):
We are, I mean, my wifle bus is that just
as I will help art my language, swat them on
the butt.

Speaker 5 (06:08):
You know, nope, nope, stop that, stop it right now.
You cannot do that. Cats are not dogs, So as
soon as you respond with physical corrections with a cat,
you are escalating things. So you can you cannot swat
at them, you cannot chase them, you cannot do anything
physically that's going to help. It's only gonna make it
worse because their excitement and their anxiety level goes higher.

(06:32):
So the strategy that you need to do when you
have a cat that is prone to attacking you down
the hallway coming after you, you have to have a redirection. Now,
some cats we can do clicker training with so that
if you want to get their attention, you can actually
train them to the little clickers and use that as
like a food based reward. So you train them to
the clicker at other times and then you give them
a toy or a treat or something like that, and

(06:53):
then with time you repeat that, repeat that behavior, and
you can look at us online. There's some great videos online.
It's really quite interesting. You train them to the clicker
and that becomes something that you can kind of collect
their attention. So if you see that kid, he's kind
of stalking you down the hallway, you get the clicker.
You got the clicker, and a lot of them will
just kind of click right out of it, and they're like, oh,
I get a treat, and then they'll kind of cease

(07:14):
that behavior. The other tricks you can do are actually
to have a cat toy or have a food item
on your person, and if you're in those situation, you
use that as a distraction or diversion.

Speaker 12 (07:25):
I do not.

Speaker 5 (07:25):
Recommend using water squirt guns to squirt your cats in
the face if they're aggressive and doing these type of things,
that too will escalate the situation, so you want to
kind of get away from that. And yeah, there are
some cats. I will admit that we have a lot
of problems with this, and I do use my pheromones,
the scent hormones to kind of help make a happy
cat household, and I may accompany that with behavior medications

(07:49):
for the really tough, difficult cat. But in most cases,
this is all about human training and anticipating when we
have a problem situation in the works.

Speaker 3 (07:57):
That's very similar to the dog stuff to Doctor Dewie,
just to redirecting them.

Speaker 5 (08:01):
Yeah, and just the difference is, you know, you just
can't yell at them and say stop and discipline them.
That just doesn't work.

Speaker 3 (08:06):
Bes Doctor Diddy, My uncle had this cat, and you know,
I'd go over to his house. I was like nineteen,
and he was like totally mellow. And then they said,
babysit our cat and they left, and it was like
a war. I mean, I'm just hanging out, walking down
the hall. All of a sudden, he jumps on me
from a piece of furniture. He's got his claws wrapped
around my neck and he's biting my head. He's biting

(08:27):
my head.

Speaker 5 (08:29):
I would love to see that. I'm sorry it was
a war.

Speaker 3 (08:32):
I mean it was odd, you know, and I didn't
do anything right, you know, according to you, I basically
turned into a cat and I started like sneaking up
on him and he didn't want to be after that.
He didn't want to go near me anymore. And it
was like perfect and.

Speaker 2 (08:54):
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Speaker 3 (09:00):
I think about.

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Speaker 3 (09:05):
Hey, listen, you know what.

Speaker 13 (09:08):
I like the old music better too, but the violin
play is I'm gonna start charging.

Speaker 2 (09:12):
Off the how that's their union, aren't they?

Speaker 14 (09:15):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (09:15):
They are they are.

Speaker 3 (09:17):
Hey.

Speaker 13 (09:18):
People have been asking me about, you know, pet grooming
and if they're on a budget, you know, really what
they can do and how often do I really have
to go to your pet groom now, to be quite honest,
if well, it's necessary, but you can do a lot
of due diligence at home, you know, and my fellow
groomers will kill me here, but honestly, listen, we want

(09:42):
to pet taken care of and if you're going to
avoid us, you need to do stuff at home. So
what you want to do is if you have a
long haired dog, of course, brushing and call me is essential.
That's one thing you want to do, and you want
to do that on a on a at least two
three times a week if you can, depending on the
length of hair, and you want to use a brush

(10:03):
and a comb. As far as nails go, that you
should go to your professional groomer every four to six
weeks and have them checked. I mean, if you have
an active dog, a lot of times they'll just grind
them down themselves and it's really not been that big
of a problem. If your dog isn't active, go to
your groo and it shouldn't cost you. I mean, at
the most, I'm saying anywhere between ten and fifteen dollars

(10:25):
at the very most for a short haired dog or
a dog that basically sheds that doesn't really nod up.
My thing is this with them and long haired dogs,
as long as you're doing some work at home, if
you make sure you go at the change of the seasons. Okay,
so we're coming up now, summer's going into fall, so

(10:47):
you want to get your dog ready. You want to
get that code prepared for that. And then when fall
goes into winter, winter, the spring, spring, the summer, and
if you keep that rule of thumb, your dog will
it'll actually maximize because it's, you know what, the coat,
it's nature. It's like the trees, it's like everything else. Okay,
once it feels the change in the atmosphere, and it's

(11:08):
not so much the temperature, it's the atmosphere itself. It's
like a barometer, and the coat is going to change.
And that's when you're usually going to see more shedding
and more matting at that point in time where you
may need a little bit more help from a professional
than you could do at home. So if you keep
that rule of thumb and at home you brush, comb, brush, comb, check,

(11:28):
nail check ears. You know what, you can get away
with it a little bit longer, so it's a little
bit safer. So if you can't afford the every four
to six week thing, if you make sure at least
the very least you do that you know what, it
will definitely help.

Speaker 3 (11:43):
Joey, could you teach me the seasons again? No fall
goes to what.

Speaker 13 (11:47):
Falls the winter, Winter goes to spring, spring goes to summer.

Speaker 3 (11:51):
Tomorrow, I want to learn the days of the week,
and then next week we can we can learn the months.

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Speaker 10 (13:04):
Every minute you're here.

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I don't know what that means.

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Speaker 2 (13:12):
Here's Alan Judy. Hey, John, how are you doing.

Speaker 10 (13:16):
I'm doing good. Thanks for having me on your program.

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I'm glad you're listening. What's going on? I understand you
want to talk to our dog trainer, Alan Cable?

Speaker 10 (13:24):
Oh well yeah, think me. I'm want to pull over here.

Speaker 11 (13:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (13:31):
I just they were talking earlier when I had the
program on about homosexual dogs and that sort of thing.

Speaker 2 (13:37):
Yeah, is there gay dogs?

Speaker 3 (13:39):
Yeah?

Speaker 10 (13:40):
And I just thought I call and you know, I
have a friend. It's not my dog, but it's a
friend's dog.

Speaker 5 (13:51):
How the story starts?

Speaker 17 (13:54):
And anyway, this dog, I.

Speaker 10 (14:00):
Go visit this my friend maybe a couple of times
a year, and every time I go over there, he
has this dog that's a mix, and uh, it's real
creepy what he does. He Uh he'll say, you're sitting
outside on a patio in a conversation and he'll kind
of sneak up and he'll position himself so his he'll

(14:23):
kind of creep up while you're not really paying attention
to him, and he'll get his his male dog part
there and he'll he's possible and uh, he won't uh
like try to hump your leg, but uh, are you

(14:44):
still that?

Speaker 2 (14:44):
Yeah, we're still here.

Speaker 3 (14:45):
Yeah, Yeah, we're here, buddy.

Speaker 5 (14:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (14:48):
And it's just kind of you don't really notice it,
but then you look down and this this dog has
positioned him himself just as close as possible to you
as he can, and he'll have his leg kind of
kind of open, and it's real obvious what he's doing.
I mean, it's what what is he doing?

Speaker 3 (15:06):
What do you what do you think he's doing?

Speaker 10 (15:08):
Well, he's getting some sort of he's while he's doing
this on purpose, and he's getting some sort of pleasure
out of positioning himself very close to to me or
someone else or and son, that's you know, of course

(15:29):
I chew him away and tell my friend to get
his dog away from me, right, And I watched his
dog kind of creep around and he'll go find another person.
And what makes you think, what makes you think he's
doing something kind of kind of well, they don't know.

Speaker 3 (15:46):
What makes you think he's getting pleasure out of it though?

Speaker 10 (15:49):
What tells you that well, I mean, I don't know
if it's pleasure, but I mean it's sort.

Speaker 3 (15:57):
Of he's not okay, John, Hey, John, you know what,
dogs do a lot of things that are creepy to people.
I mean they're humping and all that nonsense. That's really
creepy to people. People don't like when they see that.
They think it's weird and disgusting because you know, we're
human and humans don't do that, you know, although some
of us would like to, humans don't do that, so
it's kind of weird. But in this case, you know,

(16:18):
that's a behavior. And the first thing you do always,
and doctor w will probably concur is you always take
the dog to the vet to check them out, make
sure there's nothing physically going on. But more than likely
dogs do stuff like that for dominance, and also because
they're stressed, so they really want to just dominate you.
They just want to be in charge. And it's a
weird way that they do that. They come over and

(16:40):
they get on top of you, or they try to
climb on top of your leg or another dog. You'll
see it all the time, and it's just as a
way of being in charge, of showing the person's social status,
who's in control, trying to be in control of others.
So that's all it is, and you pretty much just
got to just correct it and stop it from happening.
And it does. And another reason they do it is

(17:01):
because they're stressed out, you know. That's how they respond
sometimes when they're excited or they're nervous or they're afraid,
and it appears they're aroused, but pretty much it's not
like that. It's it's not that they're aroused, they're just
they're just freaked out.

Speaker 10 (17:17):
Oh okay, because myself and others have commented about this
dog and said, yeah, that's that's a creepy dog just
because when he does this, he's not there trying to
get a pat on the head.

Speaker 7 (17:31):
Or anything like that.

Speaker 10 (17:32):
It's it's I've noticed it where he's climbed under the
chair I was sitting on and position himself like this,
And I didn't even know about it until I happened
to glance over and sure enough, there he is doing this.

Speaker 3 (17:46):
So is he humping?

Speaker 5 (17:48):
That's what I got to hear. And nobody said this word.

Speaker 3 (17:50):
Is he humping? Nobody said that. Nobody said doctor Debbie,
we needed you.

Speaker 11 (17:53):
Come on.

Speaker 5 (17:54):
I got to hear the details. Is he actually getting
interaction because dogs get like little swoollen parts on either
side their pe We need to know is he doing
that too, or is he just kind of sitting with
his parts on you?

Speaker 10 (18:04):
Yeah, no, I didn't notice the dog erection, but okay,
he just kind of get his parts as close as
possible to you or myself or whomever the person is.
And and and he's doing it in sort of a
secretive kind of he's sneaking around to do this, and

(18:25):
he does it while you're not expecting it. And then
the next thing you know, you look down and and
here this dog's position himself.

Speaker 3 (18:32):
Maybe he's a dirty old man came back as a dog.

Speaker 10 (18:37):
Yeah, And I've laughed with about it with some friends.

Speaker 3 (18:40):
Yeah, that dogs, You know, my guess is that he's
just a poorly socialized dog, you know, and you know,
he doesn't know how to act, and nobody's teaching him
how to act. And I know it looks creepy to you,
but you know, it's pretty normal in the dog world
to do stuff like that. You just have to pretty much.
You know, they do it all the time to other dogs.
When they start doing it to people, it's, you know,

(19:01):
it's it's kind of like they're they're trying to be dominant.
I think that's probably what's going on. But you should
still take them to the vet and check him out.

Speaker 10 (19:09):
Okay, I'll let the owner know that I guess that's
not my dog.

Speaker 2 (19:16):
Yeah, yeah, John, John, reappreciate your call today.

Speaker 3 (19:20):
It's not John's dog, but John Watson.

Speaker 2 (19:22):
I hope you well that was my only comment and
I appreciate it. Thanks for me, John.

Speaker 3 (19:35):
I would I would. I would sneak up on the
house and peer through the window when no one's around
see what the owner is doing.

Speaker 12 (19:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (19:43):
Really, huh.

Speaker 2 (19:44):
Thanks for your call, John. We appreciate it.

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This is an Animal Radio news update.

Speaker 6 (21:03):
I'm Stacey cohen Ford Animal Radio. Is that a fish
in your pants?

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Or are you peeing.

Speaker 6 (21:08):
An embarrassing leak foiled one man's recent smuggling attempt in
New Zealand. According to The Orange News, the Vietnamese national
tried to go from Australia to Uckland with live tropical
fish hidden in plastic bags and then stuffed in his pockets.
But airport officials got a little suspicious when they noticed
there was water seeping from his pants and he didn't

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look to be older or anything that would cause that leak.
So the suspect initially tried to convince customs that he
was just carrying extra water because he was thirsty in
plastic bags.

Speaker 3 (21:39):
Well.

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They weren't convinced, however, and decided to search him, which
led to the discovery of seven live fish. He's now
facing charges under New Zealand's Biosecurity Act that carries a
maximum penalty of five years behind bars or a fine
of more than seventy seven thousand dollars. Pretty expensive fish.
A couple in Freeport, Pennsylvania's giving aspiring chicken farmers a

(22:00):
chance to take a test run with the animals. According
to the Indiana Gazette, Phil Tompkins and his wife Jen
have recently started a business called rent the chicken. It
allows people to care for chickens for the summer for
about three hundred and fifty dollars. A renter gets two hens,
a wheeled coop, feed, and a water dish. They recently
sold their first chicken starter kit in July. They plan

(22:20):
on holding a larger scale grand opening next spring. The
couple decided to start the business after seeing friends struggle
with raising chickens. Phil also says he noticed raising chickens
is something a lot of people are into, but most
just don't know where to start. The eggs are good,
but you know who wants to raise him in your backyard?
My dogs would eat him in thirty seconds for sure.

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Officials in Florida are turning to Labrador retrievers to help
get rid of an invasive species of snails. In the
past two years, the giant African land snails taken over
the Miami area. The snail, which can be the size
of a rat, can carry a parasitic rat lungworm that
can be harmful to humans well. This week, state agriculture

(23:01):
officials began an aggressive extermination campaign that will include specially
trained Labrador retrievers that can pick up the snails scent.
Richard Gascalla of the Florida Agriculture Department says the dogs
are very good at detecting the giant African land snail.
The labs will join the campaign as soon as they
finish a three month training session. Here, Jack, go fetch

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the snail.

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Bring it back to me.

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We'll have it for supper.

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I'm Stacey Cohen.

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Speaker 2 (23:55):
It's animal Radio. By the way, you know we were
sharing just a few minutes ago. You almost choked on
peanut butter this week, and we're glad to have you
here answering questions. But that was probably a very traumatic
experience for you.

Speaker 3 (24:09):
You know what, how your empathy is touching. I didn't
think he really cared, but yeah, for fifteen minutes, it
was a life and death struggle. I mean I was
in it, man, I was in it to win it,
and I pulled through, so thank you.

Speaker 2 (24:20):
Now, was it just too much peanut butter? Did you
just take a big spoon of peanut butter? And they
just got lodged in your throat.

Speaker 3 (24:25):
I kept sticking it in there, you know, like a
little bit as good, more as better, And I put
too much in my face and you know that organics. Yeah,
I'm a nuts something a six year old. Oh sometimes
aren't all us men's six year olds, doctor Devin when
it comes down to it. Yeah, So I put a big,
big amount in there, and you know, the organic stuff
is drier than the other stuff, and you know, I

(24:47):
didn't have any saliva production happening, and it just got
stuck in my throat and I like couldn't breathe and
I was turning red. Of course, doctor Dewie thinks this
is funny.

Speaker 5 (24:56):
I know, I just I think it's just kind of
interesting that you were just obsessively eating peanut butter like.

Speaker 18 (25:02):
It was a clung.

Speaker 2 (25:04):
He was eating it out of a clung too.

Speaker 3 (25:06):
You know. You know, doctor Debb, you look perfect, and
you know, I'm sure you are, but I'm also sure
that you have a couple of little things going on
that nobody knows about where you're not exactly perfect yourself.

Speaker 5 (25:19):
Oh no, I would never say I'm perfect.

Speaker 3 (25:22):
I far from it.

Speaker 5 (25:23):
But I don't know that I want to air that
on air with you, Alan, because then you're gonna have
all this kind of ammunition.

Speaker 16 (25:28):
See.

Speaker 3 (25:29):
Now, that's sad that you look at me in that light.
I mean that you would think I would take your
personal information and use it against you instead of feeling
empathy and sweetness for you. That's sad. That makes me cry.
I'm sorry, I have to go.

Speaker 10 (25:39):
I have to cry.

Speaker 5 (25:40):
Oh goodness, I had my maggot lunch that you were
talking about.

Speaker 3 (25:44):
What do you think I'm feeling needy? I pulled myself
out of this.

Speaker 5 (25:48):
Ste next to Alan. Let's get on with the show.

Speaker 3 (25:52):
Well, you know, secretly, if doctor Debbie's not happy with me,
I have a terrible week.

Speaker 2 (25:56):
Well, I just want to know how you got the
peanut butter out of your throat? How did that end?

Speaker 3 (26:00):
Finally? You know, you know, I swallowed a thousand times.
Finally I cleared it out, you know, I mean, I
you know, I just kept working it and thinking, you know,
because I don't want to call nine one one for
having too much peanut butter of my face.

Speaker 2 (26:11):
That's one of the kind of things. Yeah, you don't
want to be that guy.

Speaker 4 (26:13):
Did one of the presidents, wasn't a bush that choked
on a peanut or somebody peanut Georgia.

Speaker 3 (26:19):
You expected out of him?

Speaker 2 (26:21):
Yeah, you really do?

Speaker 4 (26:22):
Yeah, yeah, Alan, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (26:27):
We bring in doctor Joel erins Wegg back to the
animal radio air waves from pro Labs. Hi, Doc, how
you doing.

Speaker 19 (26:33):
I'm doing wonderful. But not to not to beat up
on Alan, but you talked about making a nine to
one one call. If he tried that, what would that
call sound like? You know, I practiced in New York
City and then were on the West Side there, and
I've heard of a lot of fetishes, but I don't

(26:55):
think anything is probably as disturbing as a peanut butter fetish. Yeah,
you know, it makes my skin crawl kind of, you know.
And speaking of skin, probably, I think it's time to
check your dog, check your cat, you know, make sure
that they're ready for the harder times ahead and things

(27:18):
get a bit more difficult. I think for animals this
time of year, you want to make sure there are
no internal external parasites. And if you very often you
don't know whether they're there or not. But if your
dog or cat had fleas or you thought they had
fleas over the summer, then they're going to have tapeworms
and getting rid of those guys is pretty simple. Over

(27:41):
the counter tapeworm tabs, same stuff that that's use in
treating tapeworms.

Speaker 2 (27:45):
Well, let me make sure I understand this, because I'm
the dumb guy on the show Tapeworms and Fleas. I
don't know. Do fleas transfer tape worms? Yeah?

Speaker 19 (27:53):
I mean tapeworms have to go through an intermediate host,
with the dogs and cats the most common host of
the fleas. So if your cat hunts or spends time outside,
and even if you're not lucky enough to be the
recipient of a bird or a lizard or something or mouse,
then you can be pretty sure your animal has tapeworms.

Speaker 5 (28:15):
In most veterinary veterinearians across the country, the recommendations are
to deworm your head at least once a year, sometimes
twice a year in more endemic areas for worms. So
this should be something that's done on a regular basis.

Speaker 19 (28:27):
Yeah, on a routine basis, because you never know until
it's too late and you don't want to go into
have to go into your vet with a dog or
a cat that you know has a problem with parasites,
because again, these things are fairly easy and simple to
take care of before it hits the fan, if you will.

Speaker 2 (28:46):
Now Alan's dog, he takes him out to the lake
and he's jumping in the lake, and he spends a
lot of time outside. And I noticed that this last
couple of weeks had kind of an ear infection. What
did it turn out? It was it ear mites?

Speaker 3 (28:57):
No, he had a bad ear infection. We took care
of it, though, you know, we took them to the
that kind of manti about it. Let me tell you what,
getting that spray wash in his ear by myself without
the kids to distract him, that was no easy thing.

Speaker 2 (29:11):
With peanut butter in your mouth.

Speaker 19 (29:12):
Well, but he didn't understand you with peanus talking through
the peanut butter. But you know you mentioned ear mice.
That's a creature that we typically don't think much about.
Small parasite very common in a lot of cats. You'll
see it. They'll pick it up from stray creatures in
their environment. And rather than you look in the ears

(29:34):
of cataby scratching and dog will be scratching at the ears,
and rather than seeing a wet, moist, waxy substance around
the ear. The material be almost like a cigarette ash.
She'd be pretty sure that if that's what's going on,
then the animal has ear mice. And again another very
simple available from your dealer product that Prolapse has ear

(29:58):
my killer with aloe. It's very easy to use couple
of drops in the ears and you can take care
of those nasty little creatures. And I don't know, Debbie,
if if you've ever shown your clients what an ear
might looks like under the otoscope. But they are little bugs.

Speaker 2 (30:19):
Sorry, she thinks all these things are so cool.

Speaker 19 (30:22):
And the other thing about the nice thing about the
ear might killer. Aside from taking care of ear mites,
it also has a laundry list of what repels and
that includes fleas mats, skias flies, ticks, and you'll always
find ticks around in and around the ears, mange mites.
And one of the questions I was always asking people

(30:43):
calling up on an emergency basis is saying, my dog
cat has a tick? How do I get rid of it?
They're afraid of pulling it off leaving the head on.
Very simple solution, put a drop of the ear might
killer on the tick. Wait a couple of minutes, and
typically the tip will drop off. If it doesn't, even
if it's still moving after a few minutes, it's dead

(31:03):
and just doesn't doesn't know it yet.

Speaker 3 (31:05):
What does pro labs have to retell me from peanut butter?
What can I what can I tick?

Speaker 11 (31:10):
You know?

Speaker 19 (31:10):
There are certain things that are way beyond the scope
n of modern medicine.

Speaker 3 (31:15):
Ellen, before you go, doctor, you and Debbie going at
it toe to toe, two professionals, two bets. You have
to come up with a pest that doctor Debbie doesn't
think it's cool under a microscope?

Speaker 19 (31:24):
Oh, Alan, Yeah, that's what I say.

Speaker 10 (31:30):
Is it's so good?

Speaker 11 (31:34):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (31:34):
Isn't he good?

Speaker 19 (31:36):
You won't find him under most microscopes.

Speaker 2 (31:38):
No, and if you do, you can kill him with
peanut butter, Doctor Jory's why I always enjoy talking. Do
you think so much for joining the guys?

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Speaker 3 (33:52):
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Are people too? Animal radio?

Speaker 11 (34:05):
Vinnie Penn coming at you with another party animal installment.
That's right, Despite all your emailing, I have not been canceled. Okay,
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or kicked off the air. I had an interesting drunken
fight the other night, believe it or not. A girl
I went to grammar school with I've known since sixth grade.

(34:25):
Now our kids are in the same class together, and
we were talking about what fans we were of Benji
when we were young, back in the seventies, the Benji movies.
You almost remember that. And her husband, who up until
this point seemed like a pretty good guy, all of
a sudden turned it into a Rolling Stones versus the
Beatles thing and started just.

Speaker 3 (34:48):
It was lassy this and lassy that.

Speaker 11 (34:50):
And it was like bro, I actually said, bro, whoa, whoa,
we're talking about Benji here, no reason to bring up
that corny collie next thing. You know, it was Benji
versus Lassie. How Lassie always knew how to communicate and
get Timmy always? Why was Timmy always in trouble? Why
was he always falling down wells and letting tree branches

(35:11):
land on to maybe Timmy need it?

Speaker 3 (35:13):
You know, Timmy was just he was a little too needy.
Benji got him. He stopped bank robberies.

Speaker 18 (35:20):
I mean, Benji kind of.

Speaker 3 (35:21):
Ran on his own.

Speaker 18 (35:22):
He was a lone dog.

Speaker 11 (35:25):
Yes, it was a pathetic night. Actually, it really was
kind of embarrassing that we could get into a Benji
versus Lassie argument. Maybe you'd like to chime in, drop
me a line. Vinnie at Animal radio dot Com. I
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Speaker 2 (35:56):
Let's take another one for our animal communicator, Joy Turner.
I believe we have d on the phone. Hey Dan, Hey,
how's it going good?

Speaker 9 (36:02):
But going to Me and my wife are getting separated,
and I have a little pool and we're both pretty
attached her and I just want to figure which way
is the best way for her to stay with you.

Speaker 17 (36:12):
Know, Okay, So Dan, tell me what your girl's name is, Sparkle. Okay,
she says, well, she won't answer your question here with me,
and then both you and your wife need to talk
to her about why the two of you aren't going
to be together anymore, because that's really her preference. Dogs
are so very much what animals are, so very much

(36:34):
like kids in this kind of circumstance. They always want
the family to stay together because that's what they're familiar with.

Speaker 20 (36:40):
So do talk to her.

Speaker 17 (36:41):
Just think about a lot of pictures in your mind
about why from your perspective, the two of you are
splitting up. And she says, does she have to choose
only one place to be? Oh?

Speaker 20 (36:52):
No, not really, it's just which one lie does she'd
rather go with, you know, because one she has one
house and I have another house.

Speaker 17 (36:58):
You know, she understands what's that. But she's wanting to
know is can she spend time with each of you?

Speaker 20 (37:04):
Yeah?

Speaker 17 (37:04):
Yeah, that would be her preference rather than having just
one place that she goes to and never sees the other.

Speaker 6 (37:10):
Huh.

Speaker 17 (37:10):
She'd like to be able to see both of you.

Speaker 20 (37:12):
Yeah, because the wife has a couple of dolls, a
couple of cats, and another dog. And I just wondered
what was I giving her a problem?

Speaker 3 (37:20):
You know?

Speaker 20 (37:21):
She says she's done because she's alone. She's been a
lower ever since.

Speaker 14 (37:25):
You know.

Speaker 17 (37:26):
Yeah, And she says, well, not enough of an issue
that she would never want to see your wife. Do
you find that you're lonely without her?

Speaker 10 (37:38):
Of course?

Speaker 12 (37:38):
Have you?

Speaker 3 (37:39):
People? Do you? People have no feelings? Dan is getting separated? People, Dan,
listen to me, buddy, before Joey goes on my shoulders
here for you, mo, man, my shoulder is right here.

Speaker 2 (37:49):
I care.

Speaker 3 (37:50):
I love you Dan.

Speaker 17 (37:52):
Thirty eight years of marriage, you know, yeah, she says, So,
here's the deal. She wants to be sure that her
mom knows she still loves her, and she says, if
you're lonely without her, she thinks that Mom would be
less lonely because she's got somebody else there with her.
She wants that to be the deciding factor, not who

(38:13):
she would prefer, because she thinks that's just a question
she cannot win no matter what answer she gives. Of course,
so yeah, so she says, So if you're the one
that's going to be the loneliest, then she'll come and
stay with you. And maybe sometimes Mom can take her
for like a day or a weekend or something like that,
but she wants it to be the most lonely one

(38:35):
to get her.

Speaker 20 (38:36):
Oh, okay, and I'll ask her if, however, is her
pills work in her new pills.

Speaker 17 (38:41):
She says, well, she thinks so, but she doesn't think
she's been taking them long enough for her to really know.
So what are those pills for Dan? Yeah, she thinks
that maybe they're doing some good, but she needs to
take them a little bit longer before she can know.
So ask your vet how long they feel it's going
to be before there be a noticeable effect for her?

Speaker 20 (39:01):
Okay, they said a week or so, two weeks, you know, okay,
and how.

Speaker 5 (39:05):
Long has it been?

Speaker 3 (39:06):
Now?

Speaker 10 (39:07):
Just about two weeks?

Speaker 17 (39:08):
Okay, Well she.

Speaker 5 (39:08):
Needs a little longer, so give her another week.

Speaker 2 (39:11):
Okay, there you go, Dan, hopefully, hopefully they answer some
questions for you. We feel for you, buddy, all.

Speaker 8 (39:17):
I appreciate that. Thank you. Guys.

Speaker 10 (39:18):
There you go.

Speaker 2 (39:19):
You really upset Alan? Here?

Speaker 3 (39:21):
Nobody nobody Dan answered.

Speaker 2 (39:22):
Dan calls up.

Speaker 3 (39:23):
He says I just got a separation, and nobody says, sorry, Dan,
we're real So are you doing okay? Nobody cares? Nobody heart.

Speaker 5 (39:31):
He was so upbeat about it though, I mean, he
sounded to a beat. He's seen at peace with it.

Speaker 3 (39:36):
I'm sorry, I have to go get a snack. I'm sorry.

Speaker 18 (39:38):
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Speaker 10 (39:40):
Here?

Speaker 2 (39:40):
Come here, I'll give you a big old hug.

Speaker 1 (39:41):
There.

Speaker 3 (39:42):
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Speaker 1 (41:01):
This is Animal Radio featuring your dream team veterinarian doctor
Debbie White, dog trainer Allen Cable Broomer, Joey Vallani, communicator
Joy Turner, and here are your hosts, Tale Rooms and
Judy Francis.

Speaker 2 (41:14):
Let me just see your one lucky dog. Do it
tuned in just in time, we have doctor Marty Becker
on the show today. If you have a cat, you'll
want to be listening for that. He's going to tell
you how to bring that cat into the veterinarian without
freaking them out, which is, you know, it's kind of
tough to do.

Speaker 3 (41:28):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 2 (41:29):
Also, if you yawn, does your spouse yon? Also does
your whoever you're with, do they yan? How about your dog?

Speaker 3 (41:35):
Do you say the word.

Speaker 2 (41:38):
Try not to Yon? Right now, we're all yawning in
the studio. Not the dog though, But I understand dogs
do yawn when their owners yawn. And we'll see we'll
find out more about that in just a couple of minutes.
Right here on Animal Radio, Hi, stage, what's up?

Speaker 3 (41:53):
Well, coming up?

Speaker 6 (41:54):
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Speaker 4 (42:13):
Oh boy, I heard it.

Speaker 3 (42:15):
You know, if some guy wets his pants and you
stare at it. You will wet yours.

Speaker 5 (42:20):
Go ahead, you enjoyed it you first?

Speaker 13 (42:22):
Yeah, who's gonna wet their pants first?

Speaker 3 (42:26):
Though?

Speaker 2 (42:26):
That's what I want to know. You have four cats?

Speaker 3 (42:28):
Is that correct?

Speaker 4 (42:29):
Four cats have me?

Speaker 2 (42:30):
Four cats?

Speaker 3 (42:31):
Have you?

Speaker 2 (42:31):
Do you take them to a cat only veterinarian?

Speaker 12 (42:33):
No?

Speaker 4 (42:33):
I don't. There isn't in my area. I live in
a not a really large area and there's not a
cat specific place. But I take them where they have
cats and dogs, so there's not any separation.

Speaker 2 (42:44):
Well, I did not realize this. There are now cat
friendly practices and we bring in doctor Marty Becker, Animal
Radio vetinary correspondent. How you doing, Doc?

Speaker 18 (42:51):
Doing great? My friend? Always great to hear you. You
know what's funny about I'm when you made me laugh
when you talk about being owned by cats. We have
four cats and four dogs, and I love the variation
in the species, you know, and the dogs are the
same almost every day. They do the same ritual and
they wake up the same stretch, the same playbow, the same.
This that the cats, I never know what's going to

(43:13):
happen any given day, exactly where they're going to be,
if they're hungry or not. If they want to play
or not. But you have to understand a thing about cats.
You know, dogs are predators. Every dog is derived from
the wolf, and cats are both prey and predators. Kind
of a weird ecological niche for them. But whenever they
go to the Veterina Hospital, they're not predators. They're only prey.

(43:36):
And so there's three things a cat. In the past,
there's only three things a cat would do. One would
be to take flight, and that's try to run away,
you know, when you try to stuff in the carrier
on the way in, when you try to take them
out of the carrier once you get there, running around
on top of the you know, the counters and on
top of the cabinets of the exam room. A second

(43:56):
one is to freeze. And in the past we thought,
oh God, love working on this cat because it just
sits there. But unfortunately it sits there because it is
so stressed, you know, it's trying to basically hide. And
the third thing is to fight. In the past, we've
had cage cards caution fractious cat, and that that was

(44:17):
the one you saw coming in at three o'clock and
you just went, let's let you know, remember Marlon Perkinson
and what is the other guy's name.

Speaker 3 (44:24):
Let's let Jim do it.

Speaker 18 (44:26):
Yeah, yeah, let Jim. You take this one. You know,
this is the new veterinarian. You see this cat. You
know they're a good client, you know, but it was
like a battle to be won, fractious cat and we've
got to go battle, and you know, you get the
weld and gloves on and dark in the room and
all sorts of things. But we now know so much
more about these cats that giving example, there's a fourth F.

(44:49):
You know, we talk about fight, flight or freeze, and
the fourth F we want to see in a cat
practice now is far out.

Speaker 10 (44:57):
Man.

Speaker 18 (45:00):
It's like colleage and the guy that comes in or
the gal and you know they're on something. You just
can't quite figure out what it is that they sure
luck happy and relaxed. And so there's several things we
do now. One is we have them use pheromones at home,
and so they're coming in on pheromones and we actually
wear pheromones on our clothes. And this is not any pheromone.

(45:21):
It's the feline cheek pheromone. So the same thing when
a cat looks at you and rubs against you and
or the couch. It's that same pheromone in a synthetic form.

Speaker 2 (45:30):
Oh dude, where do we get the pheromones?

Speaker 17 (45:32):
Man?

Speaker 3 (45:33):
I'm where, I'm so and my wife will let me
in the house.

Speaker 18 (45:37):
Several there's several kinds and you got to be careful.
The one that I like is from a company called
Siva and it's called Fila ways. You can get it
online from your vet from pet stores. But it's called
feel Away like feli w a Y. And then so
we're wearing that on our clothing, on our smocks and
on our scrubs. It's in the cage. There's also a

(45:58):
carrier cover that was developed the Ohio State University. What
it does it slips over the carrier and so it
kind of masks all the stimuli that the cat sees.
We also give them a chill pill and it's called
anstetain and it's a green tea extract. The kitties love
the taste of this pill. They'll you know, in a
recent study there was there was ninety three percent palatability,

(46:19):
So ninety three percent of the cats would take the
pill willingly. What it does, I don't want to get
too technical but it's a green tea extract called elth
the inning, but it works on the brain and something
called gaba pent and it just puts them in a
very relaxed state. And then once they come to the hospital,
rather than you know, we used to just bring them in,
they'd have to sit around the reception area where there

(46:39):
was other cats that were you know, putting out you know,
bad signals, and dogs walk them by and they see
people's feet and there's lots of noise in there. We
put them right in the exam room, but we don't
put them up on the table. We lay it down
on the ground with the door facing the wall, and
we let them sit in there about ten minutes with
the owner. And there's actually a special music being played
that's developed by a neurologist and it's called through a

(47:02):
Cat's Here, And this veterinarian neurologist developed this classical music
that calms them. And there's pheromones in there. So once
we come in there, then we you know, are wearing
these pheromones. The cat is coming in hungry, so will
re spawn better to food rewards. But we do very
few of the exams on the table. Most of them
are done in the owner's lap or or sitting in

(47:23):
a chair side by side. We never start at the
tip of the cat's nose now. We always start at
the tip of the tail and work our way the
other direction, because when you're around the cat's face, that's,
you know, a way to increase a lot of anxiety.
So what will happen between the pheromones between this reducing
the anxiety triggers being able to if we see anxiety

(47:46):
flare up, we just don't push through it like we
used to. We find ways to douse it out that
you'll get these cats that were formerly the fractious cat
that'll come in and rub up against you and Marcius
be and somebody.

Speaker 3 (47:58):
They love it.

Speaker 18 (47:58):
It's pretty pretty incredible.

Speaker 2 (48:00):
These clinics that practice this, because not all clinics practice
this way, and usually in most cases it's usually dogs
running around. It's all craziness, right, Are these credited? Are
they do they have? I mean, can you call up
and say, are you a CFP clinic which means Cat
friendly practice or yeah?

Speaker 18 (48:18):
Yeah. As matter of fact, there's there's about three thousand
members of the American Association of Feline Practitioners. I'm a
member myself. And so if you're a member of the
American Association of Feline Practitioners, you can apply to become
a cat friendly practice. And there's certain criteria there that
you have to go through to show that you're a
cat friendly practice. But you can go to the website
catvets dot com and it has all the information about it.

(48:41):
But I'll tell you what's kind of neat. You know,
I hope you know, we've been friends for decades, and
I hope we continue to be friends for decades and interact.
And you're going to see a totally different way of
veterinary practice in the coming years. You're going to see
hospitals designed where cats can come in a separate door
right into the exam rooms. You're going to actually see
a target area outside where rather than going up in

(49:04):
sniff and cortisol. You know, our dogs always take a
leak on the bush or the post or the corner
of the clinic and they smell cortisol, which is a
stress hormone. And it's just like it's just like you
reading a sign that says, you know, what, hell, Hell's
going to break loose in here in about two seconds.
And I got to go in there. This thing might
actually give them a cloud of pheromones and then the
sense that they're there, and remotely give them a treat

(49:26):
that comes out on the ground so that they think
they went to the Indian casino and you know, hit
the jackpot.

Speaker 10 (49:31):
You know, you know, you know.

Speaker 2 (49:33):
What I learned is don't bring the carrier out only
when you're going to the vet. Bring that carrier out
just on any regular day and let them play in
it so that they don't immediately associate it with going
to the vet.

Speaker 18 (49:44):
Yes, that's exactly right. What we call it fun furniture.
If you leave the carrier out, I actually like you
to leave it out all the time and put new
toys in there and new treats in there, and then
sprits pheromones. And every once in a while there is
a new carrier I help design. I have no financial
interest in this, but I've known this company for twenty
years and you know them too. It's pet Mate, and

(50:06):
I help them design a new carrier. It's called the
Navigator Kennel. And you can take this apart and put
it together silently in less than a minute. And it
has two tone browns, so it's prettier, it has a
lot more ventilation. But the good thing about it, a
lot of times we just leave the cats in the
carrier to examine them, and it has a way they
can go in the top. The front door swings both ways,

(50:28):
so there's several ways for the cat to go in
and out. But if the cat prefers just to stay
in there, kind of hidden under a towel, within twenty seconds,
I can take the top off and just leave the
cat in there, which is really nice. But for everybody
listening out there, if you don't have a cat friendly practicing,
or you probably do, but if you just want to

(50:48):
try to help your cat come into a calm state,
just use the pheromones. Ask your veterinarian about a prescription
of anks attain. It's really inexpensive, it's very safe. You
give it twelve six and two hours before the visit.
Those two things right there are probably going to take
seventy five percent of the stress out of your cat
because it goes right back to stuff that works on

(51:09):
these neural pathways. And you know, I know some of
us have depression and you take medication, or you have
anxiety and you take xanax or paxel or something, and
who knows. You know, we don't exactly know how it works,
most of us, but we just know that it really works,
and it really works for these cats.

Speaker 3 (51:24):
Hey, doctor Marty, is there a similar thing for dogs.

Speaker 18 (51:27):
Yeah, there's a pheromone called adaptyl. It's a pheromone. When
the mother secretes it's called dog appeasing pheromone. And when
the mother whelps, so three days after she whelps, there's
a line of sabasis glands right down the midline, right
between the teats, and it secretes this pheromone. And that's
why those puppies are always so calm. You know, you'll
see them wrastling around and whining. In all of a

(51:49):
sudden they all hook on up there and they're getting
a whiff of this pheromone and that's why they're all
side by side, just milking away, real calm. But it
works throughout a dog's natural life. So you know, you
can take your ten your old dog in there and
it gets a whiff of adaptol and it's just looking
around like mama, mama. Great.

Speaker 2 (52:05):
We'll put all this information over at the website. America's
Vet Marian and featured vetinary correspondent for Animal Radio. It
is doctor Marty Becker. Thanks so much for joining us. Oh,
I want to mention Betts Street dot Com as the website.
That's right, That's right, my friend. Thanks, we'll see you again.

Speaker 3 (52:17):
You know that was so funny though when he brought
up Marlon Perkins. Do you guys remember that show? Every
episode was the same. I will stay here in the
confines of the armor played truck while Jim goes out
and attempts to milk the rhino.

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Speaker 1 (53:59):
You're listening to Animal Radio. Call the Dream Team now

Speaker 2 (54:07):
We have Dan on the phone. Hey Dan, how are
you doing?

Speaker 18 (54:09):
Are you good?

Speaker 2 (54:10):
Where are you calling from today?

Speaker 8 (54:12):
Well, I'm somewhere in southern Illinois headed to Minnesota.

Speaker 2 (54:16):
What's going on? How can we help you?

Speaker 8 (54:18):
Well?

Speaker 11 (54:18):
I am.

Speaker 8 (54:19):
I'm telling about a macaw that my wife got about
a week ago and she bought macconts about three.

Speaker 2 (54:26):
Months old, and.

Speaker 8 (54:29):
When we brought it home, we noticed, you know, how
they spread their wings and kind of stretch out. The
left wing is fully formed in there, but the right
wing ends like the gobow.

Speaker 20 (54:43):
Yeah, you can't really tell.

Speaker 8 (54:45):
That the right wing isn't all there until it spreads
its wings as.

Speaker 10 (54:50):
Well.

Speaker 8 (54:51):
Yeah, that doesn't look right. So the birds tried to
fly once or twice and it'll take off from the
cage and it won't a dive into the groaned or anything,
but it doesn't get any lost. Mm hm, well, I
guess what's the question. Is somewhat young for birds to

(55:13):
be born with a deformity like this or is this
maybe something that just hasn't fully grown yet.

Speaker 5 (55:21):
Okay, well that's very interesting. You know, I'm always doctor Ivy,
always like kind of likes the weird and strange things,
And I wish I could see your bird's wing because
it sounds very interesting and something that I do think
of that should take a look at, especially because we
are a juvenile, a young bird. You know, if this
was something that was more of a growth deformity, we

(55:42):
want to intervene when they're young However, if this wing
is short and you just like say, there's half the
wing that is on the other side, yeah, it could
be a congenital deformity. And while that's not necessarily what
we would call normal, it isn't uncommon. And we can
definitely see birds born with various deformities, whether they affect

(56:03):
the wing or the limb, so it definitely can happen.
But I would definitely encourage you to just because some
of these guys can get some different kinds of contracture,
so basically tightening down of the soft tissues and those
kind of things we may be able to help and
do something for. But if there's only if there's only

(56:23):
half a wing on that side, it's not going to
grow in kind of what you got is what you got.
But I would hope we could preserve what God did
give this bird and hopefully, you know, keep him comfortable
and you know, not have that create more of a problem.
And I would be very cautious with allowing the bird
to jump and to do starts and flying, because that's

(56:44):
actually how we break the good wing A lot of
times when when birds jump, if we don't have the
lift that he needs to get up you know, we
can definitely land on the ground, put the wings down
and fracture the opposite side, So be very cautious with that.
That's something you certainly have a special needs bird that
is going to need a little extra attention, and not

(57:05):
that the bird can't live a you know, healthy normal life,
but may not just be a flight bird. That's all right.

Speaker 2 (57:11):
He seems to be.

Speaker 8 (57:12):
He seems to be fine. He doesn't try to fly much.
But it's like if my wife puts them on, you know,
they've got their little purchase that they pull around behind him.
That he sits fine, which is kind of unique because
they've only been together for a week and his bird's
already attached to her.

Speaker 5 (57:26):
Oh that happens quick, yeah.

Speaker 8 (57:29):
Real quick. So she'll walk into the other room and
he doesn't want to let her out of her out
of his sight, so he'll try to, you know, get
into that next room.

Speaker 20 (57:38):
But he can't.

Speaker 8 (57:39):
Of course, there's a lot he can't fly. So he
does fall and hits the floor every once in a while,
but he gets back up and you know, starts climberr
own and doing whatever. As far as the wings go,
he does use his wings a lot when he's climbing around.
He uses own like we would use our arms. But
that's where we're noticing, you know, obviously that this ring
is shorter, and we're just wondering. We don't really want

(58:02):
them to fly anyways, because you know, she takes them
outside on you know, hot days and so on and
so forth, and they don't want them to have to fly.
And of course, if it's going to save us money
and not have to clip his wings, that's always a
good thing too. We just wanted to make sure that
there wasn't going to be any other repercussions down the line,
you know, as he gets older from some sort of

(58:22):
deformity that we don't know anything about. I mean, we
tried to google it and we couldn't even find anything
on that.

Speaker 5 (58:28):
So yeah, and that's the challenge is, Yeah, I think
a vet's going to need to put their eyeballs on things,
and in many cases we'll even need to shoot a
quick X ray just to see what bones are there,
because a lot of times, you know, we can take
an X ray and see that there's generally a lack
of certain bones, or that there was a previous fracture
or something like that. So Yeah, I think it's well
worth you getting into the vet at this point.

Speaker 2 (58:49):
Okay, I hope that helps out Dan, Thanks for listening.

Speaker 3 (58:51):
How long does a macaw live?

Speaker 5 (58:53):
A lot longer than most people expect. You know, a
lot of these guys have to be willed into, you know,
human wills. So you know, if we're looking sixty seventy years,
you're looking at a kid that you're going to have
to really dedicate your life to.

Speaker 3 (59:07):
That's amazing, isn't it.

Speaker 2 (59:08):
Let's see just a couple of list We're going to
check our news.

Speaker 6 (59:10):
What do you got coming Upstays, wouldn't it be cool
to go in your backyard and you can just pick
out fresh eggs because you've got your chicken back there,
just like in the olden days, you know, you can
have farm fresh chickens and keep them in your backyards. Well,
many neighborhoods are letting people do that, and a lot
of people that live in a suburban neighborhood just have
no idea how to start their own chicken operation. But

(59:32):
there's a couple in Pennsylvania that have a whole program
for you. It's called Rent the Chicken. I'll tell you
about it coming up on Animal Radio News.

Speaker 2 (59:41):
Rent a chicken.

Speaker 4 (59:41):
I know, Judy, get them on the show. I will
why not to step ahead of you?

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Dogs or cats, horse or you?

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Animals are people to.

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Six months after adopting their dog, a Michigan couple noticed
that their chocolate lab Remington, didn't seem to be as playful.
Kelly and Scott Cornelie said they're usually active. Dog didn't
seem to want to play or even move. Scott noticed
what he thought might be a lump, possibly a broken rib,
and brought Remington to the vet. Imagine they're surprise when

(01:00:15):
an X ray showed an eight and a half inch
aluminum arrow shaft lodged in Remington's chest. The arrow, which
might have been there for some time, had entered just
under his armpit, just missing his heart. Scott and Kelly
couldn't afford the operation, but their vet doctor, Stephen Harden,
donated his services for the unusual case and removed the arrow.

(01:00:37):
Remington is now on his way to recovery thanks to
their vet with a big heart. I'm pretty savage for
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This is an Animal Radio news update.

Speaker 6 (01:02:02):
I'm Stacey Cohen for Animal Radio. Well, it's gator season.
It's gator hunting season, and a big one was caught
in Mississippi.

Speaker 16 (01:02:10):
Well, I really got excited when we finally got it
home because we didn't have a type measure in the boat,
so when we got home, he was bigger than any
of us had guessed.

Speaker 6 (01:02:19):
Dustin Bachmann talked to ABC's Good Morning America after the
opening weekend of Mississippi's alligator hunting season. His gator measured
over thirteen feet long it weighed seven one hundred and
twenty seven pounds. Another record was also set with Brandon's
catching a ten foot long, two hundred and ninety five
pound female alligator that was the longest and heaviest ever captured.

(01:02:41):
A British woman recently located her missing diamond earring, but
she's going to have to wait almost a decade before
she's able to wear it again. Claire Lennon told The
Telegraph that her pet chicken, Sarah, snatched the four hundred
and fifty dollars piece of jewelry while she was perched.

Speaker 3 (01:02:58):
On her shoulder.

Speaker 6 (01:02:59):
Everybody carries around a pet chicken, don't they veterinarians determine
the earring was trapped in the chicken's stomach, and while
they said they could remove it with risky surgery, Lenin
quickly ruled that out because she says her six year
old daughter would be devastated if Sarah died, so instead,
they intend to wait until Sarah grows old and passes
away from natural causes, which Lenin estimates could happen in

(01:03:21):
about eight years. I don't know how long chickens live.
I don't know what the average age of a chicken is,
eight to ten. Maybe, I'm not sure. Anyway, that's nice
that they're gonna wait. I guess it doesn't come out
in the poop like dogs or something. You know, you
go through the dogs if they eat something. Well, at
least I do my dogs eat something that I need.
I look in the backyard and see if it's there.

(01:03:42):
For humans, the adoption process pretty complex, lengthy, and often difficult.
For animals. It's pretty much consists of picking up an
orphan baby with your mouth, provided it fits in your mouth.
Humans do that too. They bring it home and hope
your human parents let you keep it. Well, that's the
way it worked out for hass a yellow lab found
a little squirrel who was separated from its mom, scooped

(01:04:04):
it up and took it back to the house. Well, now, Hassen,
the squirrel who's Chris and Jack are fast friends and
they even pose for a picture together with the little
squirrel on top of his head. Jack seems to enjoy
riding Hoss on his head. Either that or Jack is
a master of Indian deep tissue. Scout Massage, a southern
California hamburger chain, has a new item on its menu

(01:04:24):
this month. You know what, This kind of grosses me up,
but I'm gonna tell you about it anyway. Slater's fifty
to fifty is serving up the room. It's a burger
made with a fifty to fifty mix of ground kangaroo
meat and ground bacon. Now, somebody I know ate this
and they said it tasted very good.

Speaker 5 (01:04:39):
It was very lean.

Speaker 6 (01:04:40):
It comes top with melted bree cheese, bacon, huckleberry ketchup,
baby greens, and radish slices.

Speaker 3 (01:04:46):
I don't know.

Speaker 6 (01:04:46):
I imagine it probably tastes like rabbit or something. I'm
Stacy Cohen. Get more animal breaking news at animal radio
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Speaker 1 (01:05:02):
You're listening to animal radio.

Speaker 3 (01:05:04):
Here's Hal and Judy.

Speaker 23 (01:05:10):
Stop it.

Speaker 2 (01:05:11):
When I yawned?

Speaker 3 (01:05:12):
Just now?

Speaker 2 (01:05:13):
Did you yawn? I did?

Speaker 18 (01:05:16):
Alan?

Speaker 2 (01:05:16):
Did you yon?

Speaker 13 (01:05:18):
You know?

Speaker 3 (01:05:18):
I'm always yawning. That's my problem.

Speaker 5 (01:05:21):
I guess some caffeine and you people, I'm still young.

Speaker 3 (01:05:23):
I drank a whole pot today. Is that?

Speaker 2 (01:05:26):
Is that why you're not yonny?

Speaker 3 (01:05:27):
I'm sleep good last night.

Speaker 2 (01:05:29):
I'm so so.

Speaker 3 (01:05:29):
What else you want to know? What else you needs?

Speaker 2 (01:05:31):
That's really it? That's really enough information.

Speaker 3 (01:05:34):
Let's talk about to fungus. Let's get you go first.

Speaker 2 (01:05:37):
When I yawn, I see that. Sometimes my dog will yawn.
Also rarely on occasion, I can't get your dog to yon?

Speaker 8 (01:05:46):
True?

Speaker 5 (01:05:46):
They do yours?

Speaker 3 (01:05:48):
Does Debbie?

Speaker 19 (01:05:49):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (01:05:49):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (01:05:50):
I want everyone to try it right now. Try to
get your dogs to yawn. If he can do it,
if your dog is bored with you, they yawned for
different reasons. We bring in Richard Christian. He's a writer
for All Pet News and he just did an article
on yawning being contagious. Hey Richard, how you doing?

Speaker 13 (01:06:07):
How's it going?

Speaker 10 (01:06:07):
Everybody?

Speaker 23 (01:06:08):
And that's to me too, all so.

Speaker 2 (01:06:09):
Tell us what you've what research you've done, and what
your article is about, and what we can learn from
the yawning being contagious?

Speaker 20 (01:06:17):
Well, I mean I did.

Speaker 23 (01:06:18):
I did a lot of actual arline research, which isn't
obviously as much fun. So I did a couple of
studies of national geographics and a few others, but obviously
it kind of required the two hands on research whenever possible.
So I tried to do some hands on research with
my dogs and catmind you, which.

Speaker 20 (01:06:33):
Wasn't wasn't really nearly a truthful And what were your results?

Speaker 2 (01:06:37):
What did you find out?

Speaker 23 (01:06:38):
Oh, well, it's tough to say, because you know, I
write during the day and my dogs during the daytime
are got to be the laziest dogs on earth, So
they're already yawning about every other second to begin with,
so I'm not to have I just kind of capitalized
on what they already do or if they really do
care about me. So I actually started to the complex
by the end of the week because I wasn't sure
if maybe makes some about at off. And then is

(01:07:01):
funny thing is it actually transfer over to because I've
noticed and I wouldn't yall right away, And then I
started to think. You know, no's do I not care
about thought the whole stoy kind of.

Speaker 2 (01:07:15):
I believe this was your study that included twenty five dogs,
Is that correct?

Speaker 23 (01:07:18):
No, this is a study through I believe was natural geographic.

Speaker 2 (01:07:21):
Okay, national geographic dude study with twenty five dogs. They
found out dogs are more likely to yawn after their
owners yonded, and were less likely to yon if their
owners offered a fake yawn. They could tell the difference
between a fake yon and a real yawn. Kind of intriguing.

Speaker 23 (01:07:36):
Now, okay, now what about you guys? If you see
someone fake yawning, do you actually not yon as well?

Speaker 3 (01:07:42):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:07:42):
I can tell a fake yon too. What about you, Judy?

Speaker 23 (01:07:44):
So you wouldn't You wouldn't yawn for a fake yon?

Speaker 12 (01:07:46):
No?

Speaker 3 (01:07:47):
It can make me. Yeah, yeah, I've never had a
fake yon. Nobody's ever faked it. Nobody's ever faked yon.

Speaker 5 (01:07:55):
That's what the women all say.

Speaker 3 (01:07:59):
It's a real young.

Speaker 6 (01:08:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:08:02):
Yeah, they don't have to face.

Speaker 23 (01:08:04):
I wonder if if we admit that we are dukes
by the stake yon, is that the same way as
us admitting that our dogs.

Speaker 2 (01:08:11):
Could be maybe dogs?

Speaker 23 (01:08:14):
Another complex?

Speaker 2 (01:08:15):
Yeah, don't get a complex the dog. Dogs also yawned
because of stress and anxiety too. It's not just bored
him and fatigue, right, because I know that whenever Lady
Bug gets a little nervous, I'll see her yawned.

Speaker 23 (01:08:27):
But that's the same as humans. And that's the remarkable
thing is what the study showed you. That is the
effects of beyond to humans and dogs are all similar.
So we will also stress yon to stress anxiety, and
so when they're yawning, or even when our human counterpart
are yawning in concert with us, it's to empathize with
the fact, Oh no, my owner or my loved one

(01:08:47):
must feel tired of must feel stressed. I want to
I want to let them know that I care about
them feel the same way. So I'm gonna yawn in return.
So that's that's basically what the study suggests that the dog,
you know, not it's not necessarily tired, but the dog
thinks that you're it's going wrong with you, and he
wants to make sure you know that that he cares
for you.

Speaker 4 (01:09:05):
Okay, So I need to yawn when I look at
my husband, and if he doesn't yawn back, then he's
in trouble.

Speaker 2 (01:09:13):
Oh wow, pretty pretty revealing here, all of this.

Speaker 3 (01:09:16):
Actually, it's hard enough to be a guy. Now you're
putting more on top of it.

Speaker 2 (01:09:19):
Now, Well, the I guess this article is written up
I we at the website at all pet News allpetnews
dot com. Of course we'll link to it from animalreo
dot com. Richard, thanks so much for joining us today.

Speaker 3 (01:09:31):
Take care, can't win if you're a guy. You so too, Alan,
mister mister Debbie better start yawning, and then he better
start laughing too. You don't know, you don't know what
to do anymore.

Speaker 2 (01:09:42):
Yeah, and you don't want any fake yawns because they'll
know I will know.

Speaker 3 (01:09:46):
Yes, what timing is everything? I mean, you can't yawn
while she's telling you a story while she's telling you
about her day exactly.

Speaker 5 (01:09:53):
That would be a bad choice.

Speaker 2 (01:09:54):
Yeah, yeah, But you notice as she's telling you that
story and you say, I don't want to yawn. I
can't don't yawn, don't yon? What do you feel like
you have to yawn? Even more?

Speaker 18 (01:10:03):
What you do it is?

Speaker 3 (01:10:04):
What are you doing? Your wife starts telling you about
her day, and three days past before she's finished with
that day, and you're three days behind.

Speaker 2 (01:10:10):
Hi, Tony, how you doing pretty good? Where are you
calling from today?

Speaker 10 (01:10:15):
Nebraska?

Speaker 2 (01:10:16):
Very good? How are your pets doing? I have the
good doctor, doctor Debbie right here.

Speaker 5 (01:10:21):
Hi Tony.

Speaker 8 (01:10:22):
Hi, he's doing good.

Speaker 7 (01:10:24):
But the only thing I'm ad proms was he once
while he gets red eyes?

Speaker 5 (01:10:31):
And what kind of baby are we talking about here?

Speaker 7 (01:10:35):
It's Australia shepherd?

Speaker 5 (01:10:39):
Okay? And how old?

Speaker 7 (01:10:41):
He's ten months old?

Speaker 5 (01:10:43):
Ah, so he's a young and so full of lots
of energy and maybe a bit foolish as well, i'd imagine. Yeah,
all right, so he said that his eyes are red?
Is is there any problems without you're seeing the weights
of the eye turning red.

Speaker 8 (01:11:00):
Lights the eyes?

Speaker 5 (01:11:03):
Okay? And there's anything else going on? Discharge from the eye?
Does a rub at them or squint his eyes?

Speaker 7 (01:11:11):
Now that I seen another dog, they usually get cear
drops from the eyes.

Speaker 5 (01:11:17):
That it's about normal, okay, A little bit of that
staining in the corners of the eyes. Yeah, okay, Well,
as far as you know, an occasional redness in the eye,
you know, a lot depends on what environment he's in.
So for a dog that's living indoors and the lap
of luxury, sitting on the couch. There really shouldn't be
a lot of environmental things that cause red eyes in

(01:11:39):
a dog that age. If that's continuing in a pet
that kind of lives indoors and as a secluded environment,
I might be more apt to be concerned about that
and investigate it. And one of the first things we
do for a red eye.

Speaker 3 (01:11:52):
Is we look at it.

Speaker 5 (01:11:53):
We look at it with magnification, and in many cases
we'll stain the eye with a fluorescent stain to make
sure there's abrasions or anything on the cornea. So that
might be if we're worried about things. But in a
path that goes outside and spends time outdoors, you've got
the effect of wind dust, allergens, all those things that
can cause the occasional red eye. And again in a

(01:12:17):
young dog, I kind of walk that line up. I
need a little bit more evidence, if you will, that
we have a problem regarding those eyes. Now you mentioned
that if he's not eating well, that would be something
that I would definitely say would alert me to see
the veterinarian because young dog that's not eating reliably and
having eye problems would definitely have me picking up fat

(01:12:38):
telephone and call in your local veterinarian and so I
would encourage you to check into that and your vet locally.

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Would you like to know what the breakfast of Champions
is for Doctor Debbie. Here's a lady who's see and
I know this is radio. No one would have known
unless I opened my big mouth. But it's peanut butter
and jelly without the bread.

Speaker 5 (01:13:46):
Well, normally every single day for launch I have peanut
butter and jelly. It's just my fave. I can't live
without it. But we were out of bread.

Speaker 2 (01:13:55):
Today, so on, how do you keep in such good
shape eating peanut butter and jelly bread?

Speaker 3 (01:14:00):
Yeah? All it every days running for mister Debbie.

Speaker 5 (01:14:03):
It's the peanut butter. I'm telling you, there's gotta be
something really good for you in peanut butter and jelly,
low sugar jelly.

Speaker 3 (01:14:10):
There you go.

Speaker 4 (01:14:10):
Okay, that's what kind of peanut butter.

Speaker 5 (01:14:12):
I like chunky because I think that's better for you.
I don't know, maybe it's so all health and you
know what, you eat it on those thins, little sandwich thins. Yeah,
so you're not eating as much bread.

Speaker 3 (01:14:24):
I love peanut butter. Peanut butter good stuff.

Speaker 5 (01:14:27):
You know, it's great for you know, it's one of
those tricks to get pills down dog, So I like
it for you know, just happened around.

Speaker 3 (01:14:33):
I almost killed myself on it, so hungry, and I
love the organic kind. It's real thick. So I put
too much in my mouth and I actually couldn't swallow it.
It got because you know, there wasn't enough production. I
didn't have any production, so it got stuck in there
and I was like freaking out. You know, I was like,
should I call nine one one?

Speaker 6 (01:14:48):
What do I do?

Speaker 3 (01:14:49):
But I can't talk? You know, I couldn't talk. Yeah,
I learned a lesson, don't you know. Don't stick too
much in your face is what I learned.

Speaker 5 (01:14:57):
Only you Alan?

Speaker 18 (01:14:58):
Hi?

Speaker 2 (01:14:58):
Who's this is this? Martha?

Speaker 8 (01:15:00):
Yes?

Speaker 18 (01:15:00):
It is Hey.

Speaker 2 (01:15:01):
I wanted to make sure I got the right line here.
How are you doing today?

Speaker 3 (01:15:03):
Martha?

Speaker 12 (01:15:04):
I'm fine? Thank you?

Speaker 18 (01:15:05):
How are you very good?

Speaker 2 (01:15:06):
Where are you?

Speaker 12 (01:15:08):
I'm in Kansas?

Speaker 2 (01:15:09):
Is your dog named Toto? Or now are you driving through?
I'm just asking him.

Speaker 12 (01:15:15):
Well, we have a little bitty four pound Yorky bit.
The problem we're having is with our ninety seven pound lab.

Speaker 5 (01:15:23):
Oh good size lab there?

Speaker 12 (01:15:25):
Huh, yeah he is. He's a big guy. He's not overweight,
but you know he's he's a pretty good sized guy.

Speaker 5 (01:15:33):
That and what's going on with him?

Speaker 12 (01:15:36):
Okay, on the fifth, he'll be nine years old and.

Speaker 18 (01:15:39):
It's my birthday.

Speaker 5 (01:15:41):
Oh my goodness. He shares my birthday birthdays.

Speaker 8 (01:15:45):
That's awesome.

Speaker 5 (01:15:46):
He's a leo. Oh cool.

Speaker 12 (01:15:51):
Okay, he's a house dog. We take him out five
times a day approximately, and that's the time he's out.
He's almost pure white, and we keep him shaved down,
you know, so he doesn't have a lot of hair
in the house. But he's a beautiful he's almost white.
But here's the problem we've run into. We've fed him
ooh knoo. But ever since he was eight weeks old
and we got him, and in the last three or

(01:16:14):
four months, he's wanting to graze like a cow would
on grass. We take him out to potty and he
spends more time eating grass. And the last time we
had him shaved at the vets, which was about a
month ago, he's O, don't worry about it. And I said, well,
I've always heard it they have an upset stomach when
they eat grass. That he says, not necessarily. So I

(01:16:34):
wanted someone else's input on this because I don't want
I think something's going on with him that needs to
be treated.

Speaker 5 (01:16:39):
Now absolutely, and I guess I have a couple questions. Yeah,
how's this poop quality, Let's talk poop.

Speaker 8 (01:16:48):
It's great.

Speaker 12 (01:16:48):
I mean it's not runny, it's it's solid. Sometimes he
will go twice a day, and majority of time he'll
go in the morning around six thirty and then in
the evening around six. Now every twelve hours.

Speaker 5 (01:17:01):
So ago, okay, Sony sounds nice and regular. That's good.
And then you said he never gets sick when he
eats the grass. Does he ever have upset tummy problems?

Speaker 12 (01:17:09):
No?

Speaker 5 (01:17:10):
No, okay, yeah, And I'm gonna kind of agree with
your veterinarian because in many cases dogs basically be what
we call lawnmower dogs that they just enjoy grazing. So
in some cases, yes, it could be a sign that
they have maybe parasite problems digestive problems, But in the
absence of any actual digestive upset on his end, then

(01:17:32):
I'm gonna lean towards that category where I think he
just probably enjoys it. And you know, we don't really
know why dogs do this. You know, we always speculate
that maybe there's a medical cause, but you know, in
some ways it's something that they don't really need to
do anymore because they're fed a good diet, a well
balanced diet. So we don't know if this is some
remnant of old behaviors. So I guess the bottom line

(01:17:55):
is if it doesn't bother him and it's not creating
a disturbance, then I'm not worried about it.

Speaker 12 (01:18:00):
Either okay, I don't need to get him a vitamin
supplement or changing. We thought about changing because he's been
a lu kanuma now for nine years. Does that hurt
him to keep him on the same course once in
a while, Like when my husband eats ice cream at night,
he will saving a little bit like a big ol'
spoonful of ice cream.

Speaker 5 (01:18:18):
Huh, Okay, it comes out well, a small amount in
the whole scheme of things. Probably not a huge problem.
But I guess go into your question of do you
need to change the food because he's been on that,
and the answer is no, you don't have to change
unless there's a problem where he's not accepting the food
or we're worried that it's not agreeing with him. Would
an experiment and changing him to a different diet be interesting, Yeah,

(01:18:41):
it might be, and I might like to see what
he does as far as if he eats less grass,
But that just would be a decision you'd need to
make if you want to make that commitment to switch
him over to a new food, see how he acclimates
and see if the grass eating is any different. My
thought is it probably won't change, But there's only one
way to tell you can always try a diet, you know,

(01:19:02):
switching over.

Speaker 12 (01:19:03):
Okay, Doctor Debbie, I appreciate your input on this because
I would already such a wondrous a lab is a
wonderful dog.

Speaker 5 (01:19:10):
Hey, I'm with you. I got two of my own
at home, and and I'm just happy to hear yours
shares a wonderful birthday with the fine doctor here. So
thank you for your call, Martha.

Speaker 2 (01:19:22):
Take care of your day you too. Don't tell me
what kind of data happen. No, I'll have a great day,
but thank you for calling. Well, it went by fast again.
Be sure to check out Doctor Debbie's books, Yorkshire Terriers,
Shit Suos, Pugs, Mini Schnauzers, How to Be Your Dog's
Best Friend. They're over at Kindle And of course we
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Speaker 2 (01:19:49):
You're just ready to go?

Speaker 3 (01:19:50):
Huh?

Speaker 18 (01:19:51):
We all ready to go?

Speaker 2 (01:19:52):
One collective yawn?

Speaker 18 (01:19:54):
I like it here.

Speaker 3 (01:19:55):
I want to stay, I want to be on the
air more goodbye.

Speaker 18 (01:19:59):
I have a great week.

Speaker 2 (01:20:00):
Someone drag him out here. There's some peanut butter Allen Hi.

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