The Secret of Lost Cats - Muzzle Recognition Technology - The Animal Radio® Show

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Celebrating the connection with our pets. This is Animal Radio
featuring your dream team veterinarian doctor Debbie White, doc trainer
Allen Cable, rumer, Joey Vallani, communicator Joy Turner, and here
are your Hostsal Rooms and Judy Francis.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
It is a lost show today, Lush, well you book,
you know, we're found, but we're going to talk about
your lost animals friend that I'm using, don't you.

Speaker 3 (00:30):
Uh, We're well, we usually are, but today we're talking
about lost animals.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
We're gonna be talking about the secrets of lost cats.
This is kind of an interesting story. A lady who's
looked at these lost cats signs that you know, are
hung on like telephone poles and on supermarket and she's
going to go behind the scenes. She's actually talking to
the people and getting their stories. Very interesting, interesting and
look forward to speaking to her in just a few minutes.

(00:55):
Also talking to a guy who's invented an application of
face recognition application for your smartphone. Sorry Ellen, that you
can find your animals if they get lost using this application.
So that's on the way right here on Animal Radio.
Big show for you, and of course the phones are
open now. Just a few minutes ago, we had to
tear away Ladybug from the TV. And because dog TV

(01:18):
is now on Direct TV and this whole month it's free.
After this month it becomes four ninety nine. For those
of you that don't know what dog TV is, it's
a television show or television station twenty four to seven
specifically for dogs, and it includes Yes, yeah we did.
We did about a year ago and he was just

(01:39):
kicking off in San Diego. Now he's on Direct TV.
He's gone nationwide with this, and our good bud, Marty
Becker two is also on that. But here's the deal.
The views are all from street level, dog level. The
camera moves around very fast. Yeah, I have a little
trouble with a little nauseous from it. But there's a

(01:59):
lot of eepticism. Many people are saying dogs really can't
see that because the refresh rate for a TV is
usually about sixty hertz that's what humans see it, and
for dogs they see it at about seventy to eighty herts,
So what they see is black screen and then something
then black screen, so they don't actually see what's there.

Speaker 4 (02:16):
But I thought, what the new TVs that that.

Speaker 2 (02:19):
The Newer TVs have a higher refresh rate, so this
is not across the board. There may be some TVs
that they can see this on animal behavior, as say,
dogs don't watch TV when you're gone.

Speaker 5 (02:30):
They like to sleep.

Speaker 2 (02:31):
And in fact, it was Catherine hooped she's out of it,
I believe Cornell University.

Speaker 5 (02:35):
She says.

Speaker 2 (02:36):
Most dogs sleep while you're gone, and they wake up
about every twenty minutes or so, get a drink of water,
then scratch themselves and turn around and go back to sleep.

Speaker 4 (02:42):
Sounds like my husband.

Speaker 5 (02:43):
It's a wonderful life, it really really is.

Speaker 6 (02:45):
It's the life I want.

Speaker 2 (02:46):
Yeah, but you know, I figured why not go right
to the source. Let's figure out what Ladybug is thinking
and if she really likes this, I just she is
watching it. Yeah, And I figured who better than animal
communicator turn her to answer this question? Is it worth
the four ninety nine a month for Ladybug to get
the direct TV dog TV?

Speaker 7 (03:07):
Ladybug says, if you are a bored dog, definitely get
it a board dog. Okay, bored dog, if you're bored,
in other words, if your people are gone all the time.
She doesn't consider herself really a bored dog nood.

Speaker 4 (03:21):
Okay, we're here all the time.

Speaker 7 (03:23):
Exactly, So she was doing what she considered her her
job's duty, okay, by checking.

Speaker 4 (03:28):
This thing out.

Speaker 7 (03:29):
She says, it actually is kind of novel, and it's
kind of interesting, and it does capture a lot of
what she thinks dogs would be interested in. It's just
she thinks she needs to be bored because she sees
it now as kind of novel. So she'd watch it,
but after a while she would rather be doing her
normal life, which is she thinks a lot more active.

Speaker 2 (03:50):
Yeah, I feel that same way about CBS. Go ahead,
Alan Joey, you know.

Speaker 3 (03:53):
Being as though how and Judy are with Ladybug, you know,
just about all the time.

Speaker 6 (03:57):
They're always around Ladybug. You know, be honest.

Speaker 3 (03:59):
Now, doesn't Ladybug wish they would leave sometimes? Doesn't she
just wish they'd go away?

Speaker 7 (04:06):
Hey, she's trying to be diplomatic, and she says she
and she kind.

Speaker 8 (04:11):
Of whispers me, she goes just a little needy. She's
a little needy, Oh she is, okay, And she says, really,
the other half of that is what you just said,
You guys are a little needy of her. So even
though sometimes she could tolerate being by herself a little
little bit. She thinks you guys would not want to

(04:33):
tolerate being without her that little bite.

Speaker 5 (04:39):
That is absolutely correct.

Speaker 2 (04:41):
The harsh reality. It is harsh. It's a real slap
in the face there. We're gonna go ahead and leave
her in front of the TV for this month. This
month it is channel three fifty four in direct TV.
You can watch it, and really it's not for humans
unless you can do the whole motion thing because it
gets me a little nauseous. But here's the thing, I
just don't want to be fighting for. I already fight
for the remote control with my wife and my kids,

(05:04):
and now it's going to be the dog.

Speaker 1 (05:05):
Yep.

Speaker 6 (05:06):
So especially when a dog runs under the bed and
you can't get it with the remote.

Speaker 2 (05:10):
Yeah, be looking in that hole in the backyard for
your remote if it's missing. That four ninety nine a
month seems a little steep for a channel that you
won't be watching, only your dog will be watching. I'd
love to hear what you think. Would you pay nine
a month for your dog to watch dog TV all day?

Speaker 4 (05:27):
People either radios on at least now they're going to
have sound and something to watch visual.

Speaker 3 (05:32):
How why do you assume that there aren't people out
there who won't watch this channel. There are there are
people out there who will get addicted to this channel
and watch this channel.

Speaker 4 (05:40):
Are you speaking about yourself?

Speaker 9 (05:42):
Allan?

Speaker 6 (05:42):
Maybe?

Speaker 2 (05:42):
Maybe I think the kind of people would be like, hey, dude,
don't boogert that man. Don't change the channel. I don't
want to watch Survivor or I don't have CBS, but
you still have that dog TV sort of similar in nature,
if I might say, so.

Speaker 3 (05:58):
You know what they should do April Fools. They should
just turn off every cable channel except dog TV.

Speaker 5 (06:02):
Good idea, that's a good idea.

Speaker 2 (06:04):
Listen, we're gonna go to the phones next, we're gonna
talk to you.

Speaker 4 (06:07):
You're talking to me, I'm talking to you.

Speaker 6 (06:09):
I missed you last week.

Speaker 2 (06:10):
Joseph, Hi, Violet, how are you doing fine?

Speaker 10 (06:12):
How are you good?

Speaker 5 (06:13):
Where are you calling from today?

Speaker 11 (06:14):
I'm over a Poocha's playground and I have some bad
news for some of my little ones doing again here,
and my customers are asking if they get fixed their
Maltese because she is being aggressive to people when they
hold her, and when she's in the car, she barks
at him and tries to get to them. And then
all the people come to her house, she tries biting them. Wow,

(06:36):
oh she's a little spitfire.

Speaker 3 (06:39):
Let me tell you, well, let me ask you this
your dog. This dog is in your daycare. When the
dog starts barking like a maniac.

Speaker 6 (06:45):
What do you do?

Speaker 11 (06:46):
I have to tell him no?

Speaker 6 (06:47):
And then what does he do?

Speaker 3 (06:48):
He keeps barking exactly, pays no attention to you at all, zero, na,
nothing off.

Speaker 11 (06:56):
Then that's because the way they raise him.

Speaker 3 (06:58):
Hey, you just put your finger on the pulse of
the problem. He thinks he's the boss. Now let's just
tell the listeners. Why do dogs bark? Okay, dogs bark
for a variety of reasons. Maybe something physically is wrong
that could be a reason. Aside from that, they want
a tension, they're bored, they're frustrated, they're afraid, they're protecting
their territory, they're excited, they want to play, and yeah,

(07:20):
that's pretty much every reason why a dog will bark,
and to alert you that somebody's coming. So the easiest
way to get a dog to stop barking is to
be territorial and be a pack leader.

Speaker 6 (07:30):
And take over the territory as your own.

Speaker 3 (07:33):
So if your dog were let's say, running to the
front door and barking every single time the doorbell rang,
you would immediately take that space away and heard your
dog away from the door and teach your dog to
lay on a blanket. You know, tell your dog goal, down,
stay in your spot, Down, stay in your spot. You
also teach your dog the word quiet, and when you
get your dog to lay in his spot, you give

(07:53):
him a treat.

Speaker 6 (07:54):
You have a buddy help you with this.

Speaker 3 (07:55):
You have somebody outside, you have him on a cell phone,
and you go like, okay, knock on the door now,
and your dog starts to go nuts, and you go, oh,
get back on that blanket.

Speaker 6 (08:03):
Down, downstay, dog, does it? Good dog?

Speaker 3 (08:07):
Give them a treat, and you progress until the person
is absolutely until they're coming.

Speaker 6 (08:11):
Through the door.

Speaker 3 (08:12):
And if you have a real bad case, every person
that comes through the door should have a treat for
the dog and actually go over to where the blanket
is or where the dog spot is and give the
dog a treat. So the dog forms a good association
with people coming through the door.

Speaker 6 (08:27):
And you have to be consistent.

Speaker 3 (08:28):
You have to be patient, and above all, you have
to be calm, and you have to be confident. And
you also can't give up. It doesn't work one time.
You have to do it for a long time. To
change the dog behavior is a process.

Speaker 11 (08:41):
The chair and sit down and they do.

Speaker 6 (08:43):
Don't tell them, you know. Yeah, that's good.

Speaker 3 (08:45):
If the dog knows what get up in the chair is,
that's good. Forget about the word no, You've got to
use a correction. As soon as the dog starts to bark,
poke the dog in the neck with your fingers and
go just like that, give them a poking shit I
do with.

Speaker 11 (08:57):
The big dog, you know, in the back end, alt
with the little dog.

Speaker 6 (09:01):
With the little dog.

Speaker 3 (09:02):
As soon as that dog starts to go crazy, walk
right in front and stand there for a second. And
if the dog doesn't stop barking, take the dog. Put
the dog in a quiet room or in a crate.

Speaker 6 (09:12):
Every time. Well, see that's a problem too.

Speaker 3 (09:17):
Dogs need exercise. I mean, if a dog doesn't exege,
well you can't. You can't train the owners. It's real
sweet that you call for the owners.

Speaker 6 (09:25):
I mean that you're the middle man. That's real sweet
of you to do that. Yeah, but you can't.

Speaker 3 (09:30):
Help these people, because I tell you what, there's so
many people that can't be helped.

Speaker 6 (09:34):
I mean they come to me all the time, all
the time.

Speaker 11 (09:36):
They come up for puppy and now he's doing good
because they did the owner did the crate. And then
now he's doing better. Now he's on a diet.

Speaker 6 (09:44):
So I love you, and Joey and I are gonna
come stay with you. We love you.

Speaker 3 (09:50):
I'm gonna Joey's gonna Joway's gonna groom everybody and everything
that walks and talks and me, I'm just gonna stand
there and go, you're nice.

Speaker 6 (09:59):
Easy, end of that.

Speaker 11 (10:01):
They take dogs to Los Vegas. They take these dogs
and strollers. They take these dogs everywhere.

Speaker 3 (10:08):
Yeah, that's part of the problem. I mean they're not
treating this walk. That's right, that's right. You got dogs
are dogs. Dogs are not people. Dogs don't belong in strollers.
That's insane.

Speaker 6 (10:18):
That's cool.

Speaker 11 (10:18):
They put the shamas on these dogs. They put everything
in here. I'm pumbing them out.

Speaker 3 (10:23):
I went to a wedding in New Jersey one time
when I was a kid. It was outside, and this
lady comes up to me. It was under a tent.
Rich people were having and this lady comes up to
me in a stroller with a stroller. She says, you
want to see my babies? And I go sure, and
she pulls back the blanket. She got these two miniature
little white things in their little poo poo poo poo dogs.

Speaker 6 (10:39):
And I'm like, this was you? This lady is crazy? Yeah,
oh okay.

Speaker 12 (10:44):
But I don't do that.

Speaker 11 (10:46):
They are leashes and they walk.

Speaker 6 (10:49):
I have a stroller.

Speaker 2 (10:50):
Guys, I hate this.

Speaker 6 (10:52):
See I break all your rules, don't I be? You sure?
Do dogs? Cats, horse or you? Animals are people to.

Speaker 13 (11:06):
What is a hairball anyway? And why are cats always
throwing them up? Hairballs are just that balls of cat hair.
Cats regurgitate hair and food products they can't digest. There
are actually two types of hairballs. Cats make, one type
in the back of their throat and another in their stomach.
Both feel equally as disgusting when you step on them

(11:28):
in the middle of the night. You can cut down
on hairballs by brushing your cat off and are using
one of the many hairball remedies at a pet supply store.
Make sure you have your cat checked out by a
vet if you think the vomiting is not hairball related.
But hairball tossing is perfectly normal, even in a healthy cat.
So watch where you step.

Speaker 14 (11:48):
I'm prit savage for Animal Radio. Animals are people to
Animal Radio.

Speaker 15 (12:01):
I would love to go on vacation, but I don't
want to leave our Charlie behind.

Speaker 5 (12:04):
I agree.

Speaker 16 (12:05):
I heard that the magazine Fido Friendly lists places where
you can stay with your pet. They also offer reviews,
so you have an idea about pet policy, to include
any restrictions, fees, and what pedimenities to expect.

Speaker 15 (12:16):
That's dare I say, pawsome, what are we waiting for?

Speaker 5 (12:20):
I'm way ahead of you.

Speaker 16 (12:21):
I just logged onto Fido Friendly dot com and if
on the four star resort Hilton Santa Fe Resort and
Spa at Buffalo Thunder in New Mexico.

Speaker 4 (12:28):
Charlie agrees.

Speaker 6 (12:29):
When do we leave?

Speaker 16 (12:30):
As soon as you can pack your bags, It's off
to adventure with Charlie. Thanks to fighto Friendly magazine to
find your next family adventure that includes your furry family, Brint,
log on to Fightofriendly dot com in.

Speaker 17 (12:42):
A Hey, it's Vinnie Penn coming at you. Your party
animally got together in New York City the other day
to meet up with a girlfriend of mine going way back.
She shows up with she's got a new dog puff.
I don't know if it's a diddy thing. I really

(13:03):
don't know. And I immediately accused her of being Paris
Hilton or a Paris Hilton want to be rather, to
which she deflected and shot back that I was a
Rick Springfield wanna be when she first met me, and
I used to have a working class dog t shirt.
And she claims I got my first dog because of
Rick Springfield's love for dogs, which has been something we've

(13:27):
fans of his have known for a million years. And
I had quite a few things to say to that.

Speaker 14 (13:31):
One.

Speaker 17 (13:32):
First and foremost, Rick's got a great new album out
and it kicks ass, and if you're a Rick Van
go out and get it. But two, isn't it funny
how we associate certain animals with certain celebrities. I don't
think I ever really realized it until today. Here she
was with this tiny little dog, and I immediately associated
her with Paris Hilton. She immediately associated me with a

(13:55):
certain type of dog with Rick Springfield. Another friend of
ours has a pig and work constantly making George Clooney
jokes that's not really true, but you do. You associate
pigs with George Clooney. Whenever the subject of neutering or
spain comes up, you think Bob Barker. You also think
Bob Barker when you think of old man hitting on
twenty five year old girls. Still, but that's besides the point.

(14:18):
The fact of the matter is celebrities carry such clout
in what they could do with a certain animal type.
I know, back when Michael J. Fox did the voice
for Stuart Little, for the longest time he was associated
and even Mel Gibson back in the day when he
did the movie I'm trying to think of the movie
he did right now with the Chickens and they were

(14:41):
trying to make a break for it, and you associated
him with that long before you associated him with DUIs
and other horrific stances and beliefs. But these celebrities are
linked to there's got to be a board game in this.

Speaker 1 (15:00):
You're listening to Animal Radio call the Dream Team now
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Speaker 5 (15:07):
We have Pam for doctor Debbie.

Speaker 2 (15:09):
Hi, Pam, how are you?

Speaker 12 (15:11):
I'm okay?

Speaker 2 (15:12):
What's going on?

Speaker 12 (15:13):
Okay? I rescue this kitten about Oh, it's been almost
a year. I haven't had her stated yet. I don't
know if she's coming in heat or what. But she cries.
I mean like maybe once or twice out of the month,
she'll like this crying sound.

Speaker 4 (15:37):
Okay. And what is she doing when she's crying? Is
she trying to track you down? Trying to come closer
to you?

Speaker 6 (15:43):
Is she bout doors?

Speaker 12 (15:45):
She's okay. I have four other cats, but they're all stated.
They've been stated since they were real little. And she'll
go up to them and lay down or try to
rub up against somelumb and I mean, just do all

(16:07):
you know kinds of things. They love her, but uh,
she just I mean, I don't know if she's trying
to come in heat. I don't know if she's hurting.
She's okay, she's like Paul and skinny.

Speaker 6 (16:21):
Okay.

Speaker 4 (16:22):
I'll tell you what Pam in the simple truth. It
sounds like your cat is just warning. It really does.

Speaker 12 (16:34):
I brought a kitten from downstairs that hadn't been fixed
up here.

Speaker 4 (16:39):
Well, why are you looking for trouble here?

Speaker 12 (16:41):
No, I'm not that I wanted to find out her
she was really in me and she got she's laughing,
she got mad at him.

Speaker 9 (16:48):
She is saddy.

Speaker 18 (16:49):
Her hair stood up, so so I you know, I
told my manager just take him away because she was
getting really violent.

Speaker 4 (17:00):
Yeah. Well, I'll tell you what. For kittens or for cats,
they can go into heat generally about six months, but
you know, I've seen some female cats go into heat
as early as four or five months of age. But
when they do go into heat, it's pretty obnoxious. They
will definitely kind of mew carry on a lot of times.
They'll take their backside and stick it towards their favorite

(17:20):
loved one, whether it's either a person or another animal,
and they'll stick their tail up really high. I do
a lot of rolling behavior now. And they'll go in
and out of heat, and that's the crazy thing with
cats is that it just doesn't stop. Like a dog
will go in heat twice a year generally, and you're
done and over with it. With cats, you can count
on this fun pretty much year round, because they'll go

(17:41):
into heat for a couple of days and then they'll
go out for a couple of weeks and then it'll
come back. So yeah, exactly, I'd say get that taken
care of it. But my goodness, you tempt fate getting
that boy around there. And you know the way that
cats mate when they're mating, they actually turn around and
and they fight, so you know, there's a little bit

(18:03):
of love there, but there's also a little bit of hate.

Speaker 12 (18:05):
Okay, okay, because it was like, let me see how
she acts with this when that hasn't been fixed. And
because my male cats, you know, they've been sick since
they was a kittens and then and they're like nine
years old and my female's nine. But I rescued her

(18:28):
out of the alley. Her mama just dropped her and
I've had her ever since. And they just took four
matter of fact, they made them lazy things get up
and play. She made them play with her. But I
just didn't know. I kept thinking, Man, she just keeps
my daughter, said, Mama, she's coming and heat too much.
If that's what she's do, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (18:48):
You got to get it done. And not only for
the for her to go out of heat. But uh,
there's a lot of healthy ish, yeah, a lot of
she can avoid. What kind of cancers can she avoid? Doctor, Well, the.

Speaker 4 (18:58):
Big thing in female to be avoiding memory cancer. That's
the big one. So if we take away that sessence,
that estrogen production, then we can decrease the risk of
breast cancer. But there's also the other you know, piometra,
the uterine infection, and you know, just that desire for
her to look asleep or sneak out that door when
she's feeling especially amorous. So yeah, and you know, you

(19:20):
you ask something. You know, is she in pain?

Speaker 6 (19:22):
We don't know.

Speaker 4 (19:23):
It's certainly possible that cats could be having cramps. We
don't know, so you know, I guess you'd make that argument. Heck,
most women hate their periods, so you know, why not
spare her that hard aching fairs.

Speaker 2 (19:34):
Thanks for your call today. We appreciated, Pam.

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Speaker 15 (20:42):
This is an Animal Radio news update.

Speaker 20 (20:45):
I'm Stacey Cohen for Animal Radio. Well, you know we've
already got channels devoted to food, sports, comedy. There's even
a dog channel just for dogs. Well, viewers in China
are soon going to be able to enjoy a channel
that features nothing but giant pandas. According to China's official
Shiwan news agency, the so called Giant Panda Channel will
broadcast footage of the animals around the clock at ipanda

(21:07):
dot com. It's gonna start next month. Sources at this
research base of the giant panda breeding in southwest China
say there will be twenty eight high def cameras keeping
track of all eighty pandas at the facility. The website
started posting video clips a few weeks ago. They've already
attracted almost fifteen thousand Internet users. A vacationer became horrified
after he ate a rare six legged octopus. According to

(21:31):
the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph, Labros Hydrus discovered this
rare hexapus while he was snorkeling in neuro grease. While
he killed the hexapus, this might be graphic. You might
want to hold your ears. He smashed it on a
rock and then, ready for this, he took it to
a local bar to cook it.

Speaker 21 (21:48):
I don't know.

Speaker 20 (21:48):
Do they do that where you live, where you just
kill something on the side of the road, you bring
it into the bar, say hey, fry this up.

Speaker 6 (21:54):
I don't know.

Speaker 20 (21:54):
Maybe they'd do that in Greece. Well, anyway, the tavern
chef wouldn't fry up the octopus good for him, So
Labris took it back to where he was staying and
he cooked at himself. Afterward, he contacted a biologist who
told him that the six legged octopus was extremely rare. Well,
Labras feels horrible about killing and eating the rarity. He
says he simply thought it had just been born with

(22:16):
six tentacles. He thought it was just a you know,
kind of a freak of nature and nobody would miss it.
Little did he know, Main's north Woods have a visitor
who could turn into a full time resident. The visitor
is a one hundred and forty pound black guinea not
a pig, but a hog. The animal and another hog
were being hauled to slaughter when a trailer door opened

(22:36):
during transit. Both of these little pigs got out. The
Bangor Daily News says that one hog was shot slaughtered
they ate him too, but the other one got out
into the woods, and the president of the American Guinea
Hog Association says the breed's talent for finding food and
a coat that can with stand cold weather could mean
that pig could live out the next twenty years running free.

(22:56):
Two new videos from Canada creating a stir about the
possible Xiit instance of Bigfoot. They show the large figures
in the forest, but are too far away to be
seen clearly. Doctor Jeff Meldrum he wrote this book Sasquatch
Legend Meat Science, and he says that he has seen
the videos.

Speaker 5 (23:13):
It's vagueness makes it a very little value. It could
be anything.

Speaker 20 (23:17):
The videos out of British Columbia surface after a Canadian
app called Playmobility put out a request for images of Bigfoot,
the Locknest Monster, and its Canadian cousin, Aga Pogo. The
company has an app called Legend Tracker. It drops such
creatures into real settings. Legend Tracker spokesman Miles Marzini says
the company did not have a hand with the user

(23:38):
submitted videos. Bigfoot could actually be out there. I'm Stacy Cohen.
Getmore animal breaking news at animal radio dot com.

Speaker 15 (23:47):
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Speaker 1 (23:53):
You're listening to Animal Radio.

Speaker 6 (23:55):
Here's Alan Judy.

Speaker 2 (23:56):
You know you see these signs on the posts, tele
on posts or at your local supermarket for a lost
cat or lost dog.

Speaker 4 (24:04):
You're all over my neighborhood.

Speaker 2 (24:05):
This is and you know what, sometimes it's you know,
they're weird, like they'll say he likes to watch Star
Trek or Star Wars and strange things like that really
don't help you find the animal or anything like that.
But our next guest doctor Nancy Davidson. She wrote a
book The Secret of Lost Cats. I think is her book? Yes,

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And I say that because I don't have a copy
of it in here. Does it exist? Is there a
copy of the book. I don't worry about it.

Speaker 6 (24:31):
Judy so well prepared.

Speaker 2 (24:33):
I am well prepared. And that's I think. When people
think Animal Radio and they think how, they say, well,
one he's a giver and two he's really well prepared.
But she she put together the book, The Secret of
Lost Cats. She went under cover. She went to these signs,
and she called the owners, and she interviewed the owners
and found out there are stories because everybody has their story.
We welcome doctor Nancy Davidson to the show. Hi, doc,

(24:55):
how are you doing?

Speaker 9 (24:56):
Very good?

Speaker 22 (24:57):
Thank you?

Speaker 6 (24:57):
So tell us how.

Speaker 5 (24:58):
You got involved.

Speaker 2 (24:59):
I'm assuming I mean probably you lost your animal and
that's how you got involved in this.

Speaker 20 (25:03):
Yes.

Speaker 22 (25:04):
I was living in Connecticut at the time, New Haven,
and I had a very friendly cat and no one
had seen him. And after a day or two I
put up a poster and literally my life changed.

Speaker 3 (25:18):
After that.

Speaker 22 (25:19):
I had so many positive responses from strangers calling me
wishing me good luck, hoping I found him, although they
had no information to give me. Specifically about how to
find him.

Speaker 2 (25:33):
Why do you think so many people reached out to you?
Was your sign different? What did your sign say?

Speaker 17 (25:37):
Well?

Speaker 22 (25:38):
Had I had a sign where my poster was an
orange My cat was an orange cat, and I drew
a picture of him and colored him in an orange,
gave him a little bit of a smile because he
was a happy cat. And I put characteristics of him
on the poster, you know, phrases like is friendly, we'll

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follow you, acts hungry the people walking by. You know,
it's a small town neighborhood, and there's just some warmth
there and the universal longing that we all feel when
someone's missing. We go, Oh, what happened?

Speaker 2 (26:18):
I hope they're okay, did you find your cat?

Speaker 6 (26:21):
Wow?

Speaker 22 (26:22):
You're cutting right to the end of the story.

Speaker 2 (26:24):
Okay, I don't want to do that. I don't want
to cut to the end of the story, So go on.

Speaker 22 (26:27):
The point of the story is is that I went
on a wild goose chase finding Zach and I got
strange phone calls. I got a call from a guy
who said he found an orange cat in the Polish
church at midnight two nights ago, and he couldn't get
close because the cat was wild and snarly, and he

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hoped that this was helpful. And you know, I'm playing
this back on my answering machine and I'm thinking, hmm,
was this helpful? You know? Two days ago at midnight
in a garden of good and evil he saw this,
you know, feral vampire cat. And my cat's the kind
that we you know, looks you on the nose to
say hello. But having no other clues, of course, I

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ran over to the Polish church around you know, the grounds,
and at one point I looked at a statue and
I thought, oh my god, this is saint. I have
no idea my cat is a lapsed Jew with some
Buddhist influences.

Speaker 21 (27:30):
He is so not here.

Speaker 22 (27:34):
They're on the way home. I thought to myself, well,
how were other owners finding their cats? I mean, were
they getting you know, calls like I was, And were
people leaving them empathy and you know, good wishes? And
my attention was turned to lost cat posters and I
saw them everywhere.

Speaker 2 (27:55):
And then did you call the people that were on
these posts?

Speaker 22 (27:58):
I eventually I ended up calling them, but I first
went through a phase of trying to understand why each
of the posters seemed a little different. Someone would write,
you know, other cats miss him. Someone would say, you know,
my four year old is heartbroken. And I started to

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realize that there were snippets of information and stories about
the owners, and so not only did I want to
know whether the cat was rescued, I wanted to know
the story behind the lost cat poster. Who's the owner.
We're also asked to be, you know, little deputy searchers,

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counting on us maybe to have seen the cat and
report it. And yet we're never going to find the
outcome because everything's so private.

Speaker 4 (28:49):
So are you going to tell us about Zach?

Speaker 22 (28:53):
Well, the Zach's story really was a mind blower to me.
So he was missing for five days and I had
no clues. Now, as a therapist, I you know, a
lot of clients came and went and they'd say, where's Zach.
Zach would greet them on the porch or sit in
the session. And one woman on her way out of

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the session threw a card on my desk and said,
maybe you should call my psychic. Yeah, I look at
the poster and it's been five days and I'm crying again.
And then I thought, you know what, do I have
to lose? I picked up the psychic's number. I called
the woman picked it up, and I said, hello, do
you find lost pets? And I heard silence, and then

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I heard the clip of a cigarette lighter and an
inhalation of smoke, and on the exhale, I heard he's alive.

Speaker 4 (29:48):
And excuse me.

Speaker 22 (29:50):
I started, I just started choking from my inhalation, he says.
She says he's alive, and I'm like, really, really, how
do you know? And you know, I didn't want to
be totally taken in, and at the same time, I
was like desperate for information. Again. She inhales and she exhales,

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and she says beautiful cat, orange bushy tail, and I'm like,
how did she get his coloring right? And Jack's still alive?
And I say, well, you've been going five days, and
she exhales again, and she says the neighborhood kid knows
a young boy. And then my heart sank and I

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goes the ten year old strange kid next door and
I said, but nobody's seen them. They've been away for
five days. And I'm like, oh wow, the only piece
of information I have is from this chain smoking psychic.
Who says the little boy next door knows decided, well,
I have to go next door and find out if

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there's any clues in the house. Literally looked in all
the windows and you know, try to figure out how
to get in. And at one point I'm looking with
the flashlights his black room, and I see an orange
blur in the background. Now I think I'm hallucinating because

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I'm so desperate to find him. But the blur keeps
walking forward.

Speaker 10 (31:20):
And comes right up and it's Zachy and he comes
right up to the glass and he puts his paw
on the glass, and then, like it was a prison visit,
I put my paw on the glass.

Speaker 9 (31:31):
Leading me out.

Speaker 2 (31:32):
What is a great story? And I encourage listeners to
pick up The Secret of Lost Cats. Well, I have
ten copies to give away that correction, Yes we do.

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or animal communicator Joey. You can also listen to the
show free download for iPhone an Android. And this question
came in off the app, and it's from John. He
writes heavy All I ever heard of a product called
Furfast for dogs and cats. It's a weight loss product
to help a beast dogs lose weight at a safe rate.
I was concerned about the ingredient and he goes on

(33:19):
to list the ingredients and because I really don't can't
pronounce them, I'm just going to give them to you, doctor,
and you can take a look at them and tell me.

Speaker 4 (33:27):
Well there, I'll try my best too. Faceus vulgaris, O
faciolus valgaris.

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That's what they call me.

Speaker 4 (33:34):
There's a life pacee blend asked forgillous Niger fermentation product
and al carnatine. So I can't say that I've actually
heard this particular brand, but all of these ingredients are
not unusual, and in different nutritional supplements we can find
some of these different things cropping up, and I can't

(33:57):
say that anything really has me too alarmed that it
sounds dangerous. And one ingredient, el carnatine, is actually been
looked at by veterinary nutritionis and it has found to
be beneficial for weight loss. So that might be something
that you can't consider. I will tell you all the
way around, though, is that weight losses It comes down

(34:19):
to a formula, a math formula. Take in less calories,
then you need expend more calories in the output. So
for me, I always go back to that math equation.
So no supplement is going to replace that good sound
calorie counting. It really applies for dogs as well, So
for me, I might look at el carnatine as an

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additive feature, but it's not going to do it on
its own.

Speaker 2 (34:44):
So you shouldn't be giving any kind of supplements just
to lose weight on its own. There's no real it's
just like humans. There's no secret pill or anything.

Speaker 3 (34:53):
No.

Speaker 4 (34:53):
But you know, I think it's always great to be
alerted to the possibility of your pet being overweight, because
you know, it is at app pidemic in the United States.
And really the interesting thing and the funny thing that
veterinarians will tell you is that forty five percent of
people will mistakenly say that their pet is in good,
healthy weight when during that veterinary exam, the vet is

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going to tell them your pet is actually overweight. So
we have to really start to recognize it's the problem
of obesity. So I'm glad that this listener is paying
attention to the problem of obesity because really, over fifty
percent of our dogs and cats in the United States
are currently overweight or obese, So it's a big.

Speaker 3 (35:33):
Can't you, doctor, Debbie, can't you tell when you look
at your dog. I mean, what are the signs visually
when you look at a dog that he is overweight.

Speaker 4 (35:40):
Well, when you're looking at a dog, we go by
body conditions scoring. So this is a method of looking
at the body. And I usually use a score between
one to five, one being very skinny and five being
just obese. So a three is ideal. And what we
want to see is a little tucked up area on
the flank when you get them from the side, when

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you look down over top of them, you don't want
to see a potato shape. You want to see a
little bit of an indentation at the waist. And when
you actually touch them, you should feel the ribs with
just a little bit of gentle pressure. If you're feeling
padding squishing, then you've got extra weight on that baby.
And what's really interesting is people will bring in dogs

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to me. They say, oh, I found the stray dog.
He's so skinny. No he's not, He's in perfect body weight.
This is what a normal weight weight dog that looks
like in the United States. So we have to get
used to that and teach yourselves what that looks like.

Speaker 2 (36:37):
You know, what I really like is the guys and
gals that bring their dogs into the VED office and
they say, okay, well, I'm feeding them Hills Diet, Signs Diet,
Special Diet, lose weight stuff and they're still gaining weight.
And at the same time they're giving them treats, table
scraps and all kinds of other stuff.

Speaker 4 (36:54):
Yes, everything adds up. Everything they put in their mouth
or that we give them, it all does add up.
There are some, you know, different strategies with weight loss diets,
and there's some really exciting things out on the forefront.
And I'm not going to plug anyone company, but Science
Diet has a new diet called a metabolic diet that's
a little different than anything else in the past, where
we're not talking about fiber content. It it's actually a

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natural balance of ingredients that turns on the lean dog
jeans in that body and it shuts down the fat
dog jeens helps them to lose weight even if you
kind of cheat a little bit. So can I try it.

Speaker 6 (37:29):
Come up with them for people?

Speaker 4 (37:30):
Yeah, you know, veterinary medicine is always on cutting edge.
You know, human medicine sometimes lags behind.

Speaker 2 (37:38):
I'm looking at these flash cards here and they show
what food treats, junk food that we give them what
it's equivalent to for humans. And it's like one French
fry if you give your dog one French fry is
equivalent to six cheeseburgers if we eat six cheesebergs.

Speaker 3 (37:52):
That's that's so bad to give a dog fried food,
isn't it, Doctor DeBie? I mean, isn't that death right there?

Speaker 4 (37:57):
Well, yeah, it's it's not a good idea in any
which way. The thing it's making us feel better, but
it's really doing nothing for that pet nutrition and all
those empty calories. You know, you're taking away a belly.
That's you know. So I have a client the other
day that their dog wouldn't eat anything, but they were
feeding it all these other treats and snacks, and it's,
you know, where's the good nutrition. We're not getting that
because we're getting chunk.

Speaker 2 (38:17):
Good to know.

Speaker 5 (38:17):
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dog trainer Allen Cable, dog father Joey Valani or Joey Turner,
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Welcome, my friend.

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That's all in the way right here on Animal Radio.
Let's take a call for Alan Cable. Hey, Rick, Hey,
how are you good? How are you doing today? Where
are you calling from right now?

Speaker 25 (41:08):
I'm in which Stock, Kansas. I'm a truck driver out
of Arkansas.

Speaker 5 (41:11):
Do you travel with your dog?

Speaker 25 (41:13):
I do all the time, and I have for over
thirty years.

Speaker 2 (41:16):
Oh good.

Speaker 25 (41:17):
I have a Siberian husky. He's four years old and
he's got unusual temperament for Siberian husky. I've had three
in my life. One lived to be eighteen, one was
twelve when she died, and then I've got this one here.
It is four. All I've been purebread. None of them
are papered. They were just purebread husky. But this one,
he's extremely nervous, and that's in or out of the truck,

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so bad that at times he just trembles. And I
can manage that pretty good just by cuddling comforty. But
the problem I'm having with him, and he's the first
one I've had this problem with, is he is housebroken.
As long as somebody's right there, he'll come and get you,
tell you he needs to go out. He'll hold it

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all night long, but as soon as somebody steps away,
he'll see or poop somewhere. And I just don't know
how to control that.

Speaker 6 (42:09):
Hey, Rick, have you had this dog since you were
since the dog was a puppy I had.

Speaker 25 (42:14):
He was seven weeks old. Only get him.

Speaker 3 (42:16):
You know, it's interesting. What do you do when the
dog pees and poops? When you come back and you find.

Speaker 2 (42:22):
It, what do you do?

Speaker 25 (42:23):
I will scold him, and then I will walk him
to the door and take him outside.

Speaker 3 (42:28):
Okay, all right, firstly, don't scold him anymore. Okay, when
you walk back and you find it, don't pay any
attention to him at all. Just put his leash on
unless you catch him doing it. Unless you catch him
in the act.

Speaker 6 (42:40):
That's the only time you quickly make a correction.

Speaker 3 (42:42):
And it's not a scolding, it's like, hey, stop it,
and then you take him outside immediately, and then you
praise him when he goes outside. But when he does
it and you don't catch him, you walk back, you
take him to where he can't see you clean it up.

Speaker 6 (42:56):
It's very important that he doesn't see you clean it up.

Speaker 3 (42:58):
In other words, dogs are always watching us for cues
for leadership cues and a dog will figure out how
to get attention from his owner.

Speaker 25 (43:06):
Oh yeah, and these hes thes are so extremely intelligent,
they learn really quick.

Speaker 3 (43:12):
The other thing I was going to tell you after
I tell you about this is is the fear that
your dog has and how to you know, how to
alleviate that. Dogs are nervous for lots of reasons. But anyway,
you take your dog away from the you know, the accident,
you clean it up and pay no attention to your dog.
It's very, very important you pay no attention to your dog.

Speaker 6 (43:29):
And as soon as you.

Speaker 3 (43:30):
Stop paying attention to the dog, and absolutely do not
let the dog see you clean it up because some
dogs get a big rise out of that, you know so,
and then use an enzyme cleaner to alleviate the smell.
You've got to get the smell out of. The dog
will keep marking the same spot.

Speaker 6 (43:45):
So so take your dog out.

Speaker 25 (43:48):
Is the name of the product.

Speaker 6 (43:49):
Yeah, that's a good product.

Speaker 3 (43:50):
So take your dog out before your you know you
plan to walk away. And you might also try confining
the dog either in his crate or in a small
space because they don't like to go there, and that
will pretty much hopefully eliminate the dog going when you're
not around so that you can.

Speaker 6 (44:04):
Control you know, the dog.

Speaker 3 (44:06):
Now as far as the fear goes, the one thing
that you don't want to do, believe it or not,
when your dog is shaking and fearful again, is to
give your dog attention. So because your dog will continue
to be fearful and shake because he's getting attention. So
you want to teach him to be calm and happy
and mellow without you around. And in every situation. It's
not uncommon for dogs to be scared of doorways and

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shadows and hallways. It's very common because a dog will
have a bad experience in a hallway or a bad
experience in a certain part of the house or looking
at his shadow and will associate that bad experience with
either the door, the doorway, the hallway, or the shadow.

Speaker 6 (44:43):
Or something like that.

Speaker 3 (44:44):
So you have to turn those into good experiences by
figuring out and watching your dog. Watch your dog to
see what is making your dog afraid. Try to notice
what the fear trigger is, and when you figure it out,
you can eliminate the fear trigger over time just by
sitting like let's say your dog afraid of his shadow.
You would just sit there in front of the dog
with his shadow there, and you would give him treats

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and invite him into the shadow and pet them. No
parade though, no hugging, no company, just good dog, give
him a treat until he starts to associate either the
doorway or the shadow with something pleasurable like you giving
him a treat. It's a very powerful trigger, you know,
to to change an association. It's very powerful when you
use positive reinforcement. So watch your dog because he's watching you.

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And be a leader, be a strong, confident leader, and
your dog will calm down.

Speaker 25 (45:33):
Yeah, I've just never seen that in the husk either.
Generally very calm, very happy, go lucky dogs.

Speaker 6 (45:38):
And all dogs are different.

Speaker 25 (45:39):
You know, you have night he has nightmares. You will
jump up and run smack into a wall because it's.

Speaker 9 (45:45):
Not a way you know what.

Speaker 6 (45:46):
All dogs do that. I mean my dog does that too.
He's chasing someone, do that.

Speaker 25 (45:50):
This one's the first one that I've had, you know,
four or five dogs in my life. I've always kept
until from first fill death.

Speaker 6 (45:56):
So does that rattle you?

Speaker 3 (45:58):
Do?

Speaker 6 (45:58):
You get all? You get the nervous when that has yourself.
Do you notice that in yourself?

Speaker 9 (46:02):
Yeah, I noticed that.

Speaker 25 (46:03):
The last incident, I thought he had just about wiped
himself out. He jumped up and ran smack into the
coffee table. And I have a very heavy coffee table,
was one of the ones with the like marbletop on it,
and he moved the coffee table two feet and just
started crying. He wouldn't get up off the floor. I
didn't know what had happened to him.

Speaker 3 (46:19):
You know, I want you to consciously think of being
calm and being a leader and being that dog's confidence.
I want you to be confident in yourself and be
that dog's rock. And when you start acting that way,
your dog's gonna mellow right out. I guarantee it'll take
a couple of days, but you'll notice a behavioral change
in your dog. As you gain confidence, your dog will too.

Speaker 6 (46:40):
They feed off of us. You wouldn't believe it, but
they do.

Speaker 25 (46:43):
Okay, Well, I know he's with me twenty four to seven.
I mean it's unless I go to the store or
something like that when I'm at home.

Speaker 9 (46:49):
But in the truck.

Speaker 25 (46:49):
You know, he's with me every day in the truck,
and he doesn't go anywhere that I'm not there, So just.

Speaker 3 (46:54):
Be confident and envision the outcome you want. Just think,
if you want your dog to stay, think of them.
Stand in your head, think of exactly what you want
in your head.

Speaker 25 (47:02):
All right, appreciate thanks for calling.

Speaker 5 (47:06):
Hi, Debbie. How are you doing?

Speaker 26 (47:07):
I'm great?

Speaker 21 (47:08):
How are you good?

Speaker 2 (47:09):
What's going on in your world?

Speaker 26 (47:11):
I think I need to talk to doctor Debbie. I
have an unusual situation. I have four Boston Terriers and
I have one of them who's at six years old.
He has developed a weird thing when the leaves started
to follow this year that he's never had before, and
that's where he starts bubbling out of his nose and

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he has trouble breathing, and then he might fall over
on his side and sit up slim and then be okay.
But seemingly he's just he's you can see that he's
in distress. We've been to the emergency clinic and I'll
turn a integrative vetinarian here and a regular veterinarian, and

(47:56):
nobody seems to really have a real answer, or they
just want to put him on in the zone or
temeral p and deva drill and then he seems okay
sort of, and then when we start to wean him off,
he goes back to the same weird behavior. And we've
had leaves, you know, for the six years that we
have had him, and this is the first time I've

(48:17):
ever seen this.

Speaker 4 (48:18):
Okay, And so has he had problems breathing unrelated to
the fall, you know, being a Boston tier. Has he
had problems with any kind of nasal surgery soft palate
as far as.

Speaker 21 (48:31):
Before the age of.

Speaker 26 (48:32):
Twelve months he had two soft pallet surgery from at
Ohio State University. Okay, and the nasal one too.

Speaker 4 (48:39):
Okay, all right, So he has so and that's the
big thing now when he has the episodes when he's
bubbling in that, does he just fall over kind of
all of a sudden have any kind of seizure like.

Speaker 26 (48:50):
Activity, you know, it does not look like a seizure,
and they don't think that it is. They think that
he he can't get air, and because right afterwards he
sits up white phlim and then he's like fine, and
he's not really passing out passing out, but he just
falls over on his side. And when he does that,

(49:12):
you know, it's and I've even tried like I've given
the Heimlich and in the white flew will pop out
untill feel fine. So what they're saying is they think
it's accumulating. The except of Fucus is accumulating and he
has I was told he has an extra fat tongue
and that he has even since the surgery. He just
has a tiny little opening, you know, through his throat.

Speaker 4 (49:36):
I gotcha, all right, And that's going to be the
big thing. Is what I think your boy is doing
is having vaguel episodes. And this is actually something that
happens a lot in the break, thesephaalic breeds, the short
face breeds. And one of the reasons is is that, well,
how back up. The vegus nerve is a nerve that
goes from the head down to the abdomen, and there

(49:56):
can be certain things in the body that disrupt that
or over stimulate that nerve. For some animals and people,
it can be things like digestive problems, it can be
respiratory problems. And I see this a lot in the
break acephalics that if they have a lot of the
respiratory components to the upper airway disease, they have the
narrowed nostrils, they have a neurotrichia long soft palette. They

(50:19):
can even get everted tracheal or laryngeal saccules, and some
other changes up there. So some of those things they
might not see, but they might suspect. You'd have to
kind of go up with the scope to see some
of those other things in the back of the throat.
But just being of that breed and having some of
these airway changes, it's going to make it very likely

(50:41):
that the vegus nerve can get over stimulated. And what
happens with that the heart rate drops and the heart
doesn't pump as well, and the blood pressure drops, and
the pet will pass out and it usually come right
back up. I've even seen dogs do this after they vomit,
so where they'll vomit and then they just pass out
and then they come right back up. So the goal

(51:01):
would be is to try to address what is the
biggest problem, and that's going to be the respiratory disease.
So that might mean going to have you know, some
of these other upper airway things evaluated and to see
if those need to be addressed. And then the other
thing is, yeah, if we have allergies, something seasonal that
makes our respiratory symptoms are worse. Oh boy, you've got

(51:21):
an extra whammy onto the whole thing there. So then
we might talk about, you know, things like you know,
steroids can be helpful for the short term, which you
may even want to see dermatologists for allergy testing and
molds just like anything else seasonally we can test for.
We can hypoth sensitive desensitize pet with hyposensitization injections, and

(51:43):
that might be.

Speaker 2 (51:43):
One thing you can do.

Speaker 26 (51:45):
You can do that from all yeah.

Speaker 4 (51:48):
Absolutely, yeah. And every region in the country is a
little different in some of those things, so you have
to make sure that testing is done appropriate for your area.

Speaker 26 (51:55):
I see, Okay, great, Thank you so much. I appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (51:58):
Thanks for your call, Debbie.

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Speaker 3 (53:15):
My wife and her friend were taking a walk through
the neighborhood and were terrified by a dog that charged
them from the driveway. My wife's friend was really scared
and one of the throw rocks at the dog. Nothing happened.
And just so you know, even if a dog war
to will attack you, the odds that you're going to
get seriously hurt.

Speaker 6 (53:29):
Are very very very low.

Speaker 3 (53:31):
Most dog bites, even the ones that send people to
the emergency room, don't require much attention at all. So
the most important thing is to prepare yourself mentally, just
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look into the distance, but stand tall and face him.
You can look to the left, to the right, doesn't matter.
Stand there, confident and in charge. Inside your own mind.
The dog will probably lose interest and walk away. Then
you too, start walking away, keeping your body sideways to
the dog, making sure you can see him. Calm, confident, relax,

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take deep breaths. Dogs read your body language very well,
so a confident, calm, non aggressive response from you makes
you a very uninteresting target. Sometimes the dog gets excited
scaring people, and other times he's protecting his territory or
warning the people in the house that someone's there. If
you're calm and confident and moves slowly without nervousness, the
dog will probably lose interest in you and go back

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I know that's hard to do. Again, don't look at
the dog in the eye. He should lose interest, walk away,
and then you slowly retreat, but make sure you don't
turn your back to him if he comes at you again.
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Speaker 2 (55:12):
Almost take another call for the Good Doctor, doctor Debbie.
We have Jim on the phone. Hey Jim, how you
doing good? Very good?

Speaker 5 (55:19):
Where are you today?

Speaker 21 (55:20):
Ventura Calibourne.

Speaker 12 (55:23):
For us.

Speaker 2 (55:24):
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Speaker 5 (55:26):
Debbie's right here, Yes, thank you.

Speaker 4 (55:29):
How with that introduction, man, I better have a good
answer for you here today. What do you got going on?

Speaker 26 (55:35):
Well, I got alps.

Speaker 21 (55:37):
So this guy, I don't know if it's got fleas
or I don't know if it's a diet because he's
itching and scratching and biting himself till he gets really raw.

Speaker 4 (55:46):
What parts of his body is are he doing that on?

Speaker 6 (55:49):
Only it's like his weird legs back in the hind
area and underneath his leg. Okay.

Speaker 4 (55:56):
The big thing is that when we're talking about the
causes of itching, one of the first things in many
parts of the country we really have to address very
aggressively is flea control. And they are just a huge
problem in that one bite can cause an itch response
that can last for weeks. So it's hard sometimes to
see these little critters and they only spend a very
small proportion of their time on the pet. So we

(56:19):
need to do a very good vigilant flea control. That
might be something like a spot on product that sounds
like you may have been doing, but it also is
going to require finding out a little bit more about
what's going on in your pet skin. And when we're
talking about allergies, that can be a huge cause of itching.
And there's food allergies which are related to the proteins
that they're taking in and that a pet can be

(56:40):
sensitive to those, as well as inhalent or environmental allergies.
So there's kind of this whole bag we kind of
classify as allergies, but they can be from different types
of situations. So food allergies, yes, can cause itching, and
it's probably one of the more common things in my
area that cause in the Las Vegas area. But we

(57:02):
also want to look for things like those flays as
well as infections, yeast, bacterial, and other types of processes
that can be going on. So for me, I would
take a look at your baby. I would do a
nice physical exam look through their fur. If there's any
redness or sores or moisture on the skin, I'd like
to sample that because that gears us towards the right
medications if we need to go there. So I think

(57:25):
that you're going to need to get at least some
veterinary guidance on this from someone who can put their
eyeballs on your dog. Some of the simple things that
we can try at least until you can get to
the vat zapae are going to include using things like antihistamines.
Most dogs can tolerate things like benda drill chlorophiniuramine, which
are antihistamines that can help with the itch response as

(57:48):
well as Yeah, yeah, most dogs can take bena drill.
There can be some sensitivities for some pets that have
seizure disorders and things like that, but you will want
to confirm that and check with your veterinary make sure
your pet can take that and that that would be appropriate,
but that would be something they can guide you through.
The Other thing that you can do is to use

(58:08):
topical therapy and just like a person when you got
like say, chicken pox and you're itching really bad. Oh
that was so long ago, but I remember that, you
can take in a veno bath and oatmeal bath and
there are products that have the similar ingredient that can
be soothing to a pet and it can last for
about two to three days, then the benefit wears off

(58:29):
and you got to do it again. So colloidal oatmeal shampoos,
conditioning sprays, things of that nature, and that might help
at least get you through that point and tiak and
get to that veterinary office and you see what your
particular situation is.

Speaker 21 (58:43):
Can I mix like a flea back with that oatmeal stuff?

Speaker 4 (58:46):
Now, you're not going to want to mix anything with
that kind of product. You can alternate those on different days.
So if you're doing a flea bath or a flea treatment,
most of those you want to leave on and not
wash the product off right away. But you can alternate
that in doing a colloidal oatmeal bath on another day
or a week later.

Speaker 3 (59:07):
Right.

Speaker 21 (59:07):
That's the food.

Speaker 4 (59:09):
Yeah, Now food is kind of gets into a kind
of lengthy conversation when we talk about food allergies, and
that's not going to be a quick fix. So I
would say that might be phase two or phase three
when we're talking about trying to control the itch. The
first thing is to really make sure we're tackling those
fleas aggressively, treating the pet and the environment, and then
I'm also looking for these other problems, the skin infections

(59:32):
that we need to kind of control before we can
expect to stop that inch.

Speaker 28 (59:36):
Alright, cool, I appreciate that.

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Speaker 15 (01:01:13):
This is an Animal Radio news update.

Speaker 20 (01:01:16):
I'm Stacey Cohen for Animal Radio Well. A mechanical likeness
of a bear best known for roaming through several Glendale, California,
neighborhoods is going to be featured on the city's official
Rose Parade float. This bear, I remember seeing the video
of it.

Speaker 2 (01:01:33):
He was he was.

Speaker 20 (01:01:34):
It was probably a couple hours. He was going in
and out of people's backyards while they were trying to
chase him. The city council proved the idea this week,
and the displays projected to cost about one hundred and
fifty five thousand dollars, most of the money expected to
come from private donors. The four hundred pound animal was
dubbed Meatball because they caught him eating frozen Costco meatballs

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in a garage freezer. Meatball became quasi celebrity after his
row was captured by several LA TV station helicopters. A
sixty year old Chinese man had been suffering from nasty
headaches and fainting fits for more than six months before
he went to see a doctor.

Speaker 2 (01:02:12):
Well.

Speaker 20 (01:02:13):
An X ray of Wang Ming's head revealed that he
had a six inch long parasitic worm inside of his skull.
I'm gonna give you a moment to think about that.
He was admitted to the first People's hospital to have
it removed in a three hour operation. Here's the best part,
right for this, He's alive, well and wormless. The worst

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part when doctors removed the terrifying parasite and put it
in a container of water, it started swimming around.

Speaker 7 (01:02:42):
I know.

Speaker 20 (01:02:44):
Your food right now is just kind of swimming around
your mouth. Okay, ready for this. A bear wanders into
a bar and a drink's named after him. I'm not kidding.

Speaker 6 (01:02:53):
It's not a joke.

Speaker 20 (01:02:54):
It really happened at a pub in ST's Park, Colorado.

Speaker 28 (01:02:57):
My wife happened to put on after she saw the pit.
One of our bartenders that evening was Missy and she said, well,
the bear wandered in for a drink, but sadly had
to leave as Missy wouldn't serve him because he didn't
have his ID.

Speaker 20 (01:03:11):
Did Callahan's with laguineous Saloon, nightclub and grill, and says
the bear came in through the back door of the
bar on West Elkhorn Avenue. Security camera footage shows the
bear making its way past empty tables and turning around
and sauntering right back inside. Patrons at the bar were
completely oblivious to the animal. The bear's gotten so much
attention Callahan actually named a drink after him. Well, I

(01:03:34):
know this isn't funny, but I'm kind of laughing anyway.
Police in the city of Odam, England, were investigating allegations
of animal cruelty against one Musa Khan when a police
dog with no understanding of irony ate the guy's hamster.
Despite the dog being forced to cough it up, the
animal had died, unfortunately, and an awkward pause no doubt

(01:03:54):
followed before police resumed their bold crusade of animal protection.
Hamster is accepted. Conn was charged with mistreating his parakeet
band from bird ownership for two years. The dog later
told his friends at the pound that as they all
had suspected hamsters do taste like chicken. I'm Stacey Cohen.
Get more animal breaking news at Animal radio dot com.

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Speaker 1 (01:04:28):
You're listening to Animal Radio.

Speaker 2 (01:04:30):
Here's allan Judy.

Speaker 5 (01:04:34):
It's Animal Radio. It is our big Lost show.

Speaker 2 (01:04:38):
Today we're talking about your lost animals and this next guest,
John Pellmeno, drives around a big old RV promoting Finding Rover,
which is his brand new iPhone app that will help
you find your animal using face recognition software. Now you've
seen this maybe if you're an Apple guy. You know

(01:05:00):
that Apple in some of their programs that use face recognition.

Speaker 5 (01:05:04):
I've never seen it.

Speaker 2 (01:05:05):
Yeah, I've never seen it used for animals. It I
can't imagine that would be very easy. But we got
John on the phone. Hey, John, welcome to the show.

Speaker 21 (01:05:11):
Hi, how are you.

Speaker 2 (01:05:12):
I am very.

Speaker 5 (01:05:13):
Enthused by this whole idea that you have here.

Speaker 2 (01:05:16):
Is it working?

Speaker 26 (01:05:17):
Oh?

Speaker 21 (01:05:18):
Absolutely it is. You know, we launched two weeks ago
and in the first two weeks we've recovered through facial
recognition seven dogs already.

Speaker 2 (01:05:26):
Really okay, now, I want to know more. So it's
a it's a smartphone app, and you got to explain
this for Alan, Allen has a dumb phone. Unfortunately you
have a smartphone. But how does it find Obviously you
got to put your animals picture in there so that
it can recognize it later on, I assume, how does
explain for the dummies like me?

Speaker 21 (01:05:47):
Oh, it's actually really simple. All you do the app
is free. You download the app and then you register
your dog by taking a photo of it. When you
take a photo of your dog, you'll you'll be prompted
to take and mark the eyes and the nose and
that's it. And as soon as you do that, your
dog is registered.

Speaker 2 (01:06:04):
All that that sounds so simple, But let me tell
you right now, lady buglers dogs, it's really hard to
get a good photo of her. How do I even
get her to look at the camera.

Speaker 14 (01:06:14):
Oh?

Speaker 21 (01:06:14):
Well, that was one of the toughest things. But what
we did is we invented a bark button. So when
you when you go to the camera in the app,
there's a little bark button and when you hit it.
We found that a puppy squealing attracts the attentions of
ninety nine percent of the dogs who look straight at
the camera and then you take it.

Speaker 6 (01:06:30):
That's absolutely true.

Speaker 21 (01:06:32):
Wow, that is ingenious, Yeah, John, hilarious when you see it,
when when you see it work, I mean they're looking
around all of a sudden, straight at the camera.

Speaker 4 (01:06:40):
John, I got to ask you something because I'm a
little bit of the skeptic probably here always. So Yeah,
have you looked at like families of related dogs and
does the software work within just like related dogs that
you might have.

Speaker 2 (01:06:55):
I guess what you're saying is some animals look alike.

Speaker 4 (01:06:58):
Yeah, brothers discern them.

Speaker 21 (01:07:02):
Actually, the software and the programming doesn't know it's actually
a dog. So we were fortunate enough to partner up
with the University of Utah and these amazing scientists who
spent a year developing this pat this software, and so
it doesn't know it's a dog. So you can actually
put one hundred German shepherds in the database, put years
in there, and years will pop up in the top

(01:07:22):
three ninety eight percent of the time.

Speaker 2 (01:07:23):
Wow, that is pretty possible. Judy is downloaded the app
and she's just about to take a picture of Ladybug
using the bark feature, which you just talked to me.

Speaker 5 (01:07:31):
Go ahead if you will.

Speaker 6 (01:07:32):
If it doesn't work, I can make her stare at the.

Speaker 2 (01:07:34):
Camera, okay, so that when you hit the button, that's
the sound it makes, and your dog looks at the
camera and it snaps a photo of your dog that
you need to rich. So I got to ask, it's
a free application. How are you making your money? Come on,
big guy, spill the beans.

Speaker 21 (01:07:49):
Yeah, we're not. We're very fortunate that we've had some
wonderful investors and her dog lovers. Our premise was that
it was always going to be free. There was never
going to be any charge. It's been three years in
the develop Eventually, I'm sure we'll, you know, we'll bring
in sponsors and.

Speaker 6 (01:08:04):
So forth and so on.

Speaker 21 (01:08:05):
But we didn't want to be one of those sites
that all you see is advertising, advertising advertising. This is
really about us as a community looking after each other's tense.

Speaker 6 (01:08:13):
And we God, dude, I just want to hug you
so bad right now.

Speaker 21 (01:08:17):
Well, well, thank you. It's been It's just it's been
both humbling and amazing in the last three weeks. I mean,
I come from the construction industry. I sold my company
three years ago. I came up with this idea in
a coffee shop looking at a lost.

Speaker 2 (01:08:28):
Dog coffee shop wink wink.

Speaker 21 (01:08:30):
Okay, yeah, looking looking at a lost dog poster with
my wife and brought back memories of this dog we'd
lost them, and driving around the neighborhood with our kids
crying in the back and posters and everything we did.
And I thought there had to be a better way,
And this idea popped in my head and I stuck
with it, and three years later, here we are.

Speaker 4 (01:08:48):
But did you find your dog?

Speaker 6 (01:08:49):
Brilliant?

Speaker 21 (01:08:50):
Luckily, two days later a neighbor had our dogs, so
there was a happy ending to our to our dog Harley.

Speaker 2 (01:08:55):
We're hearing a lot of stories like that today. YEA,
check your neighbors first. Your dog is so you've said
you've had seven recoveries just recently.

Speaker 5 (01:09:03):
Tell us about that and how it worked.

Speaker 21 (01:09:05):
Well, what will happen is when you post your when
you post your dog lost, it goes into the database,
a push notification goes out to everybody that has the
app within a ten mile area. When somebody finds a
dog and they and they take a picture of the dog,
it automatically does a search and it'll pop up the
five most likely dogs to the search and if there's

(01:09:27):
a match your phone. That's the only time you ever
put your phone number. It's the only time we ever
ask anything about the owners. We don't ask anything until
you lose your dog or you find a dog, and
that's just the phone number so you can contact each
other and once that happens, the owner will then click
that my dog's back home.

Speaker 9 (01:09:44):
And we have a success.

Speaker 2 (01:09:45):
You've had seven of those this week. That's pretty amazing.
So I see this is only available for the iPhone.
What about Android?

Speaker 21 (01:09:53):
Android will be out in about ninety days. You know,
I say it's simple, but it you know, it's been
three years developing.

Speaker 9 (01:09:58):
There's there.

Speaker 21 (01:09:59):
It's a very complicated app. So we wanted to make
sure we worked all all the bugs with one platform.
So we're working out all the bugs in the Apple
platform and with a ninety days Android will be out.
And also for those who are not mobile phone savdy,
you'll be able to upload your dog's picture on our
website and do the exact same thing, so anybody to
have the phone can help you find your dog.

Speaker 5 (01:10:20):
Wow, you gotta love it. Okay, so cool.

Speaker 2 (01:10:22):
Here's the website, Findingrover dot com finding rover dot com
to learn more. It is a free app, So why not?
Why not register your animal right now? So just in
case I nowhere down the line, you leave the door.

Speaker 5 (01:10:34):
Open like a phone head.

Speaker 2 (01:10:36):
The dog is missing, and all of a sudden you remember, Hey,
I have this app that has his face in it
and someone may take a picture. Now what about the
person that has to take it that finds the animal?
They have to take a picture of the animal too,
right right.

Speaker 21 (01:10:48):
Well, that's the beauty of it. And you know, we
want you to do everything. We want you to chip
your dog, We want you to do everything you can
to protect your dog. But's a great thing about this
is Sunday afternoon in the park and there's a big
dog there. All you have to do is take a picture.
You don't have to put in your car, take it anywhere,
or do anything. Just take a picture.

Speaker 2 (01:11:04):
Is your company public? Can I get in on the
stock exchange?

Speaker 21 (01:11:07):
No, we're not. But some other exciting news. You know,
we also developed this for cat. It actually works even
better for cats. We can't get it not to identify
a cat. In about three months, Finding Kitty'll be out.

Speaker 6 (01:11:19):
When does finding ex husband come out?

Speaker 5 (01:11:21):
Yeah?

Speaker 21 (01:11:22):
I don't think anybody.

Speaker 28 (01:11:22):
Wholl ever look for that.

Speaker 6 (01:11:23):
Yeah, who cares.

Speaker 2 (01:11:26):
I'm thinking one year, I'm betting one year you will
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Speaker 2 (01:12:52):
Hey Phil, how are you okay?

Speaker 9 (01:12:54):
I have two little trouble making your piece that I
just love like there's no tomorrow. One of them is
chewing and chewing and chewing everything I have.

Speaker 5 (01:13:06):
Tried, though.

Speaker 9 (01:13:08):
I have tried the stuff that you buy at pet
care stores that's supposed to make it bitter, and they
hate the taste of it. Not with Molly. Molly has
managed to chew through all of the collars that I've gotten.
She has managed to chew through her license pet carrier
that I have her, or that I put her in

(01:13:30):
for this. She chewed away part that actually locked the door.

Speaker 17 (01:13:35):
You know.

Speaker 12 (01:13:36):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:13:36):
Let me ask you a couple of questions. Is your
dog neutered or Spade? It's a little boy dog, right,
has he neutered yet? No?

Speaker 9 (01:13:42):
No, they were both Spade when they were six months
right between six months and a year old.

Speaker 6 (01:13:48):
They were beautiful?

Speaker 3 (01:13:49):
And does your dog have any does your dog have
any physical problems? Have you checked your dog out with
the vet the one that's chewing?

Speaker 6 (01:13:55):
Just to be safe?

Speaker 12 (01:13:56):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (01:13:59):
Fill, the dog's got your leg pill.

Speaker 9 (01:14:01):
They have their own little hmo. Okay, each one of them.
Every time they sneeze, they.

Speaker 5 (01:14:07):
Go to the dog.

Speaker 3 (01:14:08):
I'm beautiful now, Phil, I got another question for you, Phil,
I got questions, and I know you've got answers.

Speaker 6 (01:14:14):
Do you play with your dog? Phil? Do you walk
your dog every day for like a half hour?

Speaker 9 (01:14:20):
I drive a truck cross country right, every time the
air brakes go on, they get out.

Speaker 6 (01:14:26):
Do you tire amount good though? Filled? Does the attire
the little dogs out to where? Yep? They want to
sleep and stuff?

Speaker 3 (01:14:31):
Here's my suggestion, without knowing you and being there with you, Phil,
when you take your dogs out and you tire them out,
you put the dog in the crate immediately after, and
as soon as the dog is laying there being calm,
you tell your dog what a good dog he is,
and you give them a treat. You reward him for
calm behavior in the crate. Okay, the more tired that

(01:14:55):
dog is, the better, it's gonna be for you. And
when you decide to play with the dog and do
a chew thing like where you're gonna play with the dog,
where the dog's gonna get to choose something, then you
always have only two or three toys, pick the favorite ones,
your dog's favorite ones, and you stick that in his face,
and when he starts chewing it, you're like, good boy,
good dog.

Speaker 6 (01:15:14):
And you're consistent, Phil. You do it day in and
day out.

Speaker 3 (01:15:17):
But the most important thing is to tire your dog
out and to teach your dog to be alone without you,
so that when you leave, your dog is calm, and
when you come back, your dog is calm. So you
want to work towards calmness. You want your dog to
be calm all the time, except when you're playing. At
other times, like you said, whenever she hears the air breaks,
she starts to rev up. So that's like a little

(01:15:39):
trigger that tells her, oh, we're gonna stop, I'm gonna
get out. Well, so then play with the air brakes
and don't stop, Phil, so that she starts to associate
the air breaks with nothing. You don't want to give
her any triggers that get her wound up in kookie
and crazy?

Speaker 6 (01:15:53):
Are you there? Phil? I think I killed.

Speaker 12 (01:15:57):
Phil.

Speaker 6 (01:15:57):
Phil? Then you want to get married? I'd love a
way like you. Hey, Bud, I want to I'm looking
for a woman who won't interrupt me. You're the next
best thing.

Speaker 4 (01:16:09):
Me.

Speaker 9 (01:16:09):
Man, you got the wrong person for that. Don't even listen.

Speaker 12 (01:16:20):
Man.

Speaker 9 (01:16:20):
I am open minded, not to the point that I
let my brain fall out.

Speaker 3 (01:16:24):
Okay, you know, well filled, did anything? Did anything I
say about your pooch? Did that help you at all?
To make any sense?

Speaker 9 (01:16:32):
Kind of? But you'd have to understand Molly, She's I.

Speaker 6 (01:16:37):
Don't have to understand Molly. I have to understand you.

Speaker 9 (01:16:40):
Yeah, I know. I know. One thing I am my
dogs is very consistent. They have never been off of
the they have. They came from the breeder's arms right
into my arms at Moayan Iowa, right into my truck. Okay,
this is the only life they've ever known. They get
out four and five times a day for at least

(01:17:00):
a half hour to run and play and invite at
each other and play and just have a good time.
Then they get back in. They get a good treat
for coming to me when I call them and we're
going down the road. The problem is when I go
inside in a restaurant, I come back out and something
has been chewed up and.

Speaker 28 (01:17:21):
They have Well.

Speaker 6 (01:17:22):
Phil again again.

Speaker 3 (01:17:24):
When you leave the don't say goodbye to them, don't
talk to them, just leave.

Speaker 6 (01:17:29):
Learn to stop talking. Okay, about a half hour.

Speaker 3 (01:17:32):
Before you know you're gonna pull over to eat, do
not talk to your dogs at all. Just be calm
and remember play with you gotta set it up in
your brain. I'm gonna play with the dogs. I'm gonna
exhaust the dogs. I'm gonna get back in the truck.
I'm gonna drive another forty minutes with the dog in
the crate. Then I'm going to leave the truck without
saying award, and I'm gonna come back without saying a ward.
You gotta do this stuff, Phil consistently. It's not gonna

(01:17:55):
change overnight. You got a young, energetic dog, and you're
probably not getting the dog tired enough. You probably think
you are, But the dog needs to be run a
lot until the to the point of exhaustion where she
just doesn't want to run anymore, she just wants to stop.

Speaker 2 (01:18:10):
Does he does he put the dog in a crate? Well,
he goes in, I don't get what's gonna keep him
from chewing?

Speaker 6 (01:18:15):
Well, well keeps sharing dogs chew. Dogs chew because through.

Speaker 9 (01:18:20):
The man really dogs jaws.

Speaker 6 (01:18:26):
He has a Billy goes he don't have a dog.
Dogs chew because they're bored.

Speaker 3 (01:18:31):
Nine times out of ten, if there's nothing wrong with
the dog, they chew out of boredom. They're bored, and
that just means they're not getting enough energy released and
they start chewing everything.

Speaker 6 (01:18:43):
And you've got to teach them what they can chew.
And you've got Phil, You've got to work towards being calm.

Speaker 9 (01:18:49):
You know.

Speaker 6 (01:18:49):
I just talking to you.

Speaker 3 (01:18:51):
You know you're a guy who likes to talk a lot.
I'll bet you're talking to those dogs all the time.

Speaker 9 (01:18:55):
I was quiet, and you told me, you said, Phil,
were you there? And I said that, I.

Speaker 2 (01:19:00):
Gotta agree with you. I gotta agree with Phil them.
I'm with fil He did say that with Phil to.

Speaker 6 (01:19:06):
I agree with Phil to.

Speaker 9 (01:19:08):
I have not missed anything. You are telling me that
there are triggers. I'm gonna have to watch for those triggers. Yes,
and I'm fun to have to adjust my behavior in
order to adjust the dog's behavior.

Speaker 6 (01:19:20):
Now now you're Phil, now you're talking.

Speaker 2 (01:19:23):
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you wish you had a lot more. And there is
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