Radio 2SM Breakfast Segment #20 with Kaye Browne

*** RADIO 2SM PET SEGMENT #20 WITH KAYE BROWNE ***
This week:
Finally – we can rest in peace WITH our much-loved pets! New laws in NSW mean it’s now legal to share our grave with our pet’s ashes. 
And what puts a smile on lots of dogs’ faces?  Rolling in poo! But why do dogs do it?  And how to – hopefully – stop it!

PLUS:
Cats – so many secrets – and the biggest one – how they hide getting older. How to help ease their pains and enjoy senior status.

Also this week!
KB’s quick tip to help families train dogs NOT to over-react to knocks at the door.  

00'00" - Welcome Ron Wilson and Kaye Browne
00'09" - RIP With Our Pets
02'09" - Why Do Dogs Roll In Poo & How To Stop Them!
04'42" - Senior Cats - What Are They Hiding Health-Wise?
06'39" - KB'S 'Quick-Tips' - Stopping Dogs Barking At The Door!

FULL TRANSCRIPT:
RON: Time now for our weekly pet segment with Kaye Browne from VETtalk On-Hold  Kaye, good morning.
KAYE: Good morning, Ronnie.

RON: Look, I know people who will actually want to do this. Finally, we can actually rest in peace with our much loved pets, New laws in NSW mean it is now legal to put your pets’ ashes in with your own. This is quite amazing for a lot of people.

KAYE: It is indeed. It has been a long time coming. There's been a lot of people actively pushing for this because let's face it, pets are now so much a part of our lives and the thought that people can now go to where their pet and their loved family member are either buried together or their ashes are mixed together and it's really, just part of the grieving process that people are allowed to do that so this has only just happened. 

I've got a call, a contact from Dr Sam Kovac, who's one of the many vets that I'm lucky enough to know from Southern Cross Veterinary clinic. And he said, he's known for years that people have been sneaking ashes into coffins just because they want their much loved pet to actually rest in peace with their much loved mother or father, human, mother or father. But now it means it's legal and that makes it much easier for cemeteries and crematoria because there are a lot of people that that really want to have this happen. 

And Sam actually mentioned that it's a particularly important thing for the homeless, who often don't have much, you know, certainty in their lives, and their pet is their only solid point of contact. Their reason for being, really, and he has a charity called Project Hope, which provides free medical treatments and checks and vaccinations. 

And that's for people who are homeless and also for victims of domestic violence. So that's a pretty important charity. But they are going to be absolutely delighted as well, because it means that people don't have to fear being put in the ground and never having their pet join them ever, or their ashes of the pet or their remains so it can take a little bit of working out, but it's happening.

RON: Yeah, such an interesting development. Now I have a question for you. Why do dogs roll in poo their own? And there's another dog anybody. Is it kind of like Cologne for dogs or something? How, how do you, how do you stop them doing that?

KAYE: Au de poo fume!

RON: Au de poo fume. I love it.

KAYE: Yes, you know, experts have long pondered this particular thing, and I've actually pondered it myself on occasion when there's been a pong. As I looked up a bit of information as well. You know a dogs idea of a good smells different to ours. They like the smell of poo. They also like the smell of dead things. I have dogs that unfortunately rolled in a dead fish.

Ohh no. Yeah, that was nice coming home in the car. But yeah, they like dead things,  they think the experts think it's covering up the dogs own smell or that they're bringing home proof of where they've been. A bit like a selfie or a postcard to tell the pack hey, guess what I smelt today? So it's pretty social media really, but, it is a bit tricky to stop them now if they're on-lead that's a bit easier, but if they're off-lead oh oh not good so you will get some hint that they're about to roll in too. 

So I guess like a lot of things start early and train your dog to leave it, that's a good thing to train. And then if they don't touch or sniff or roll and the thing that they're being told to leave as they obey you they get a treat. So practise on something that's, you know, not too nasty to start off with and practise it and you know pretty soon dogs are smart. 

They go hey, if I leave whatever that interesting thing is I actually get a treat and the other quick thing to remember is, in your own backyard, pick up the dogs poo every day.

RON: Exactly!

KAYE:  If you spot a dead bird or a dead rodent, you know, pick