March 13, 2021 • 47 mins
Let's talk about dog care, coat types,, shedding, grooming, toenails and more. Dogs need a surprising amount of care.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Pet Life Radio, Let's Talk pets.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Hi, Welcome to It's a Doggy Dog World. I'm your host,
Liz Palaika, and with me today are my good friends
Petro Burg Hello and Kate Abbott. And tonight we're going
to talk a little bit about dog Karen Upkeep, especially
as related to certain breeds or types of breeds, or
coats and types of coats, because I think when a
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lot of people choose a new puppy or a new
breed or even mixture of breeds, we think about personality,
what the breed was, bread to do, all those kinds
of things, But there be a lot behind that that
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Speaker 2 (02:06):
Welcome back to It's a Doggy Dog World. I'm Liz
with me today our patron Kate. So how well do
you handle shedding?
Speaker 3 (02:15):
You know the old joke, right, German shepherds only shed
twice a year.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Right, for six months each time. Yeah, my three who
were related bones Hero and seven Bones sheds the least
seven sheds moderately. Now that she's got her adult coat,
Hero sheds constantly a lot.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
What is it you said? Is Golan life is to
kill vacuum cleaners?
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Yes, it is, and he has I don't get good
vacuums anymore because he's going to kill it anyway. So,
you know, disposable vacuum cleaners, they last me a year.
I'm happy. But other things too. You know, how does
that coat react to the weather where you live?
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Even these days?
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Yeah? Yeah, A lot of people discovered that cleaning ears
cleaning toenails. Some dogs have trouble with their feet. Some
dogs are like cocker spaniels in their ears. You've constantly
got to be working at those. So we'll talk about
some of these things and maybe give you a little
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reminder to check these with your dog, or if you're
choosing a dog to add to your home, some things
to keep in mind. So, coach, there's lots of different
kinds of coats. You've got the short hair breeds like
the wine runners, the beagles, jack Russels, Jack Russell's, well,
Jack Russells can come in several coats, but the short
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wrestle People often erroneously think that the short hair doesn't shit.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Yeah, they're just really tiny pine needles and they poke
in th s needles.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
So where is hero? Hero's coat is fluffy and soft,
and when it lands on the floor, it gathers together
and creates new puppies and you can pick them off
your clothes. Quills fur the hair, you can't. It's like hell.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Even those lent rollers they know it. Quills hairs. Just
laugh at them. You'll never remove me from this jacket.
And I didn't name him quill for that reason. But
it does fit, it does.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
And then there's the medium long coat like our English shepherds,
that's got two layers of coat. You've got the guard
hairs that are not stiff like a short haired dog,
but a little coarser, and then the undercoat that's soft
and fluffy, which Hero has gobs and gobs and gobs of.
And that's what forms the new puppies in my hallway,
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long hair dogs like our friends Newfoundland, which is also
two layers of coat, the guard hairs and the undercoat
that's soft and fluffy. You've got wire hair coats like
the wire hair Jack Russell's or the other wire hair terriers,
air Dams and so forth. And then you've got the
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poodle type coat poodle bashons that need to be groomed
regularly and will grow and turn into mats if you
don't take proper care of it and what.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Haven't necessarily ship, but they do have quite the coat.
The only thing I could think of is the single
coated long hair like the Saluki.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Yes, yeah, afghans and a full coat, yeah yeah, a
lot of coat.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
There, a lot of coats.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Yeah. Coat that's will makes them look gorgeous when they're running.
And then you have to sit down and brush out
all the burrs, yes and everything.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Yes, a variety of types.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Don't forget the some coats are more oily.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Laboratory retrievers Rottweilers have oil in their coat, which causes
me to break out in hives. I mean if I
pet them and don't wash my hands. The combination of
that coarser coat potentially prickly coat and the skin oils.
And some people don't like the odor of it because
an oily coat can have You know, if you like
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to bathe your dog weekly, then it's not a problem.
So all those different types of coat have different upkeep
the short. Well, you know what, and you mentioned it.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Doodles are very popular, all sorts of burner doodles, doodles, doodles,
and doodles coat doodless, but not all of them have
the Yeah, they're they're all different.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Well, we had a lady several years ago come to
class with a white doodle and oh, this dog doesn't shed.
She was adamant that that's why she got that bread. Yes,
because they don't shed. And then on the third or
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fourth week of class, she came in all dressed in
black and she was covered with white hair. And I
do have to admit I got slightly snarky that day.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
No, well, they will stand there and argue that their
dog is hypoallergenic. Never well, while the fur is just
blowing in the wind, ye see the pollen flying off
the door. And I did ask her, and I think
it makes it twice as hard if they've got a
combo coat. You know what kind of cut? Do you
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cut them like a poodle? Do you brush? Do you
just trim the edges like a cocker? I mean it's
I had that issue with my cockaboo, you know which
which kind of coat? Fortunately, his hair was mostly cocker,
that a whole lot, but with a curl, with not
a tight curl, but it was more than wavy.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
There was curl to it, especially when it cut some length. So, yeah,
the mixed breeds, and I know we're going to hear
from some listeners, but yes, many of the oodles and
doodles are still mixed breeds. The coat's gonna vary. You
get seven puppies in that litter of the Bernise Mountain
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dog in the poodle, there's gonna be a whole range
of coats. And we see it because we have doodles
of all sorts in our classes, lots of them, and
we'll see ones that look very poolish, very curly, kinky coat,
and the ones that just look like puffballs, shaggy. Y know,
you never know, and some will shed, some won't, some
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will trigger allergies, some won't.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Yeah, wire coats having to strip.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Them, oh, I can never ever do that. And if
you take a wire haircat to a groomer and ask
for it to be stripped, it's going to be expensive
because it takes time and the dog has to be
able to tolerate it, which means you have to start
stripping him as a puppy.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Because we're talking about pulling out the undercoat.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Yeah, you take the stripper comb and your thumb and
you're basically pulling his coat, pulling his hair to get
the undercoat out. And some dogs don't want to tolerate that,
and especially if you introduce it to an adult. Also,
if you have a dog that needs lots of brushing,
or if you have a dog that needs haircuts, or
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if you have one that's prone to tangling, are you
willing to do what's needed or do you need to
pay a groomer?
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Some people love that, you know, they want to spend
each evening grooming brushing, heading, running the comb.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Yeah. We have a good friend who has two huge doodles,
big ones, and she likes the grooming process. Yeah, maybe
that's right. Yes, she did cut a baby. Yeah, a
baby of a different color, I know, but similar coat. Yeah,
but similar coat. I don't have the patience for that.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
So you look at yourself and decide what are you
willing to do and capable of, and are you willing
to do the training to teach the dog to accept that.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
There's a lot to it.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Oh God. The first time I brought out clippers to
clip Walter, he screamed, he was sure I was going
to kill him. And it took quite a while before
he would just end up falling asleep on the table
while I trimmed him.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
And let's just say Walter had a significant stubborn streak. Yeah,
so there was gonna be who was going to win.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Whatever it was. We had discussions about it, but yeah,
he eventually.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Got to the point where you, let's let's just say,
Walter tut kate a lot.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Yes, and even my terrier, I don't have to do
much to his coat, but I do have to check
him for Nixon scrapes because he'd while waiting for you
guys to come this evening, he just jumped into the hedge,
into the what is that pine whatever it is, it's
pokey stuff. And I can hear him in there walking
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around inside the hedge, So that means I'm going to
have to look later for Nixon cuts. One sap.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
When I drove up, I saw he already had some
of his allergy bumped.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
That's another thing with his almost all white, and he's got.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Ticking but sensitive skin.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
He's very sensitive. He will break.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
And you hear that Jack Russell Terrier.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
He's been running collar naked for a while because every
collar I put on him was rubbing a row spot
back of the bottom of his So I just got
a new one. Yeah, it's a very soft, it's very soft.
Two days now, fingers crossed.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
The next thing I'm gonna do is just tattoo my
number on his belly so i'll have some id it.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Oh, I used to have a tattoo gun Humber. We
used to.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
But anyway, even a quote short haired, no no must,
no fuss, still requires coat care.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Yeah, all right, let's talk about that that coat, whatever
kind it is of the dog, that you're thinking about.
And we won't even talk about climate change, but the
weather where you live. If you've got a malmute or
a samoiid and you live in a hot climate, say Phoenix,
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you better plan on that dog being in the ac
most of the time. If you've got a short haired
quilt with sensitive skin and you live in the ice
and snow, you wouldn't like Texas right now. You better
have a body pad in the shower.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Now. They kid me for the way that I pack
in quill into his crate. He's got like it's on
the bottom, on the sides, in the back. He pretty
much crawls in there and just barely turns up. And
why he likes it?
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Think about princess and the peak. He's the princess.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
But because of a student stopped me the other day.
Another dog was a Great Pyrenees mix, and they wondered
if their dog was getting anxious about being left in
the crate because it would pant so hard. Well, when
does this happen, i asked? Well? At night? Was he awakers? Oh,
he's asleep. He's not likely to be anxiously panting in
his sleep. And the woman, the woman owner says, well,
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I'm sure it's very comfortable for him. I put a bit,
there's a there's a mattress in the bottom, and then
there's a blanket, and then I put some blankets on
the side, you know, like bolsters, and then I put
a pillow in the back from to rest his head.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Remember she said a Great Pyrenees.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Mixed said, so you've really well insulated a crate for
a dog who'd prefer to sleep in a snowbank. Oh,
they said, so. We talked about cooling pads that you
can put in, but just putting a floor fan on
the dog at night, and see, take all the bedding
out takes.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Quill.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
It's great. That's what Quill wants and needs.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Have a nice coat's what Quill wants. Not sure it's
all you.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Haven't seen curled up, wivering giving you a look over his.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Shoulders because he's got you wrapped around. We're recording this
in February. Just to give a basis for my next comment.
There's been a short video going around Facebook right now
of a family who has a Great Pyrenees long haired
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livestock guardian dog. And of course most of the country
right now is covered with snow, and the video is
of the dog on the back their back porch covered
with snow, snow all over the dog. You could just
see the shape of the dog, and she is recorded
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on the video. No, I don't force my dog to
sleep outside. My dog is killing me because he wants
to sleep outside. No, I did not deprive him of
access to the house. I did not deprive him of
a doghouse. And the camera pans to a doghouse is empty.
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And you know, basically she's going to say, her dog
chose this, her dog loves this.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
He's wearing two fur coats.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Yes, yeah, you know, and then the snow insulation on
top of it. He's happy. Where if you did that
with quil oh, No, no, no, he would kill time.
Hero would be fine with that, except he's used to
being in the house. Bones would tear my house down
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to the foundation to get back inside. Of course, he
has no body fat, so no insulation. My guys would
even stick out their paws out the door. No, I
don't think seven would be happy. So where you live
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does have bearing on your dog's needs according to the weather.
You know whether he can tolerate the ice and snow.
When the blizzard to go outside and go potty and
run right back in, or whether he preferred to stay
out there, or is he a short haired dog that
you need to put potty pats in the shower and
teach him to go potty there. You know, if you've
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got a small dog, especially that doesn't have much body
fat or weight and short coat, he may it hypo
cerfic really really quickly in the weather that like Texas
is having right now.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
I do have a really wonderful full body suit.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Yeah, but he won't move when you put it on. It.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
She really just doesn't like it, but it does keep
him warm. It's great.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
I mean, Kayla, she has the Aussie and then her
boaster are on and real Rio.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
The Aussie would just run out there. He likes the cold.
He's got a nice coat, which is funny. He's a
California loves to go out there and then play in
the snow.
Speaker 4 (17:30):
And then there's this bild boaster arms like one hundred
and ten pounds. He just takes one pot out and
then turn comes back and looks her.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
Like, no mom.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
She has to put a jacket, a nice heavy jacket
around him, and then he'll run out do it and
we'll come right back in. There's real right around the
yard having a great time of snow, and the big
old Bostern's.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Like, nope, there's something real wrong about that. But then
there's the opposite two. If you live in a hot climate,
you know, don't be taking your melmeut for a walk
at noon for your bulldog or your bulldog or your
pug or your Pekinese or yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Speaking of bulldogs and pugs, the special cleaning thing with
them is to get into those grooves, the wrinkles in
the skin and sharpays, of course, but those have to
be cleaned regularly.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
And a lot of times, especially bulldogs with no muscle
at all, several times a day. Yeah, that skin will
get inflamed. All right, Well, let's take a break for
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Speaker 4 (18:49):
So what's your reaction, Kate when you hear Ben and
Jerry's now has dog treats now.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
I won't have to share my ice cream with them
anymore because you know, comes near me when I'm eating
my Ben and Jerry's, they're likely to get growled at.
Right now, I think it's a cool idea. I've sometimes
made my dog's frozen treats or gotten some that are
commercially available, but considering how much I love Ben and Jerry's,
it's about time my puppy dog's got to enjoy that
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as well.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Out of my favorite one is the cherry Garcia.
Speaker 4 (19:21):
Oh my god, yeah, I'll growl anybody comes near.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
Me that I'm a chunky monkey freak. Yeah, I like
that that way.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
But also I love peanut butter, and did you know
that one of the doun you dog flavors is paunch.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
It has peanut butter and pretzels.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
Ooh, and Rosie has pumpkin and many cookies. That's am
I ni. I'm sure it has lots of cookies too,
but they're a little small cookies and they're many cookies
and pumpkin, which I do give my boy pumpkin in
his dinner, so this could actually been a nicer way
for him to get it.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
Yeah, so I think I would qualify mine in the
freezer is my ice cream, And then I have to
label the dog's version of Ben and Jerry's as the
frozen treat dogy dessert.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
And one way you can tell is instead of the
black and white cow on the front of the little container,
it's a black and white dog for the dog treat,
so you can tell which one is which because it's
their dog. Frozen treats are are not designed for humans,
made with human quality ingredients, but not designed for humans,
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so you do want to keep them separate. And I
can only give my boy a little bit if I
dare of my own ice cream, my Ben and Jerry's
ice cream, because yeah, it doesn't always set well with him,
but now he has his own, He's gonna have his own.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
All right.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
So go out there and buy some for your furry
little friend there and enjoy together.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
Enjoy.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
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Speaker 2 (21:07):
Welcome back. Okay, Ears, Ears and conquer Ears.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
You don't have to watch four, especially if they go
swimming a lot.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Yeah, and then there's individual tendencies too, Hero I have
to pay attention to his ears. He's had a couple
of ear infections. He's four now and he's had a
couple of ear infections. Now I I know that for
him individually, I have to clean them more often. He
doesn't have allergies, it's just he's more prone to it.
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Bones seven both have nice ears and really have to
do anything about it. But Hero, I have to get
a cotton ball somewhich hasel and wipe, wipe them out,
get up a little bit, yeah, get all those creases
in the ear. And with him too, he's got fluffier ears,
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he's got more coat.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
It's probably part of his coat thing.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Yeah, and I have to trim that on a regular basis,
much to his dismay. I call him his pappy on
the ears, well.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
And upright ears. My friend Sue has a short haired
terrier Smookoat, but his ears are gigantic Dobby. The elf
ears stand straight up and they're just scoops. They catch everything.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
German shepherds, yeah, my German shepherds. Yeah. Yeah. I always
had to clean them and weak to make sure it
stay clean. In class, I know, I used to tell
people all the time with German shepherds. Keep an eye
on that. If you haven't had a German shepherd before,
keep an eye on his ears because they.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Do well what we tell our classes. Keep a nose
on that.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
Keep a nose on it.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
Smell your dog's ears. They should have a healthy smell exactly,
and you'll notice the difference if they're not healthy.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Catch it your infections soon, yep, resolve it. Quicker toenails,
Oh my boy. Remember when Bones was a baby. God,
the first two years of his life. I started out
he'd be running and playing, and I started out. Every
time he broke a toenail, we went to the vets
and I had the vet take care of it. And
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then it got to the point we were both so
complacent about it. Bloody footprint, Yeah, it's Bones, and I
just have him sit and I grabbed that paw and
trim off the rough edges and put some steptic powder
on it to stop it from bleeding. He got so
he just hold a pile out and I could panagh.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
It's so competitive and is running and just so dugs.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Yeah, I will say he's eight and a half. Now,
can you believe that he's even a half. The last
couple of years. Knock on wood. He he hasn't broken one. Actually,
the one who broke a toenail last was hero playing
with seven, dashing up and down. But yeah, if your
dog is a hard runner or climbs or jumps or
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goes camping with you, terrier just a terrier.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
Well, completely ripped out a tonio. It hasn't grown back.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Bone, ripped one bones, ripped one out, but it did
grow back it. He ripped out a two claw. It
just came back a little deformed, so I actually have
to watch it more because it's not the normal shape.
But it did grow back.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
Get your puffy dog used to having their feet handled
and touched and clipped ass puppies.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Oh, it's speaking of pus trimming the hair between the pads. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
By the way, I'm sorry. Have you guys seen this.
It's been advertised to me a lot on Facebook lately.
I don't know anyway. It's a sling. You put your
dog in the sling and let you hook it up
to some point and they hang with all four feet down,
and it's supposed to be the best way ever to
trim their tonias.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Have you gotten it yet? No?
Speaker 4 (25:02):
No, I just.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
For a cured ham. It just doesn't. No, the dogs
look so embarrassed and uncomfortable.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Yeah, how about little peanut butter on the side of
the wall and let them lick it while you're doing
their teach them to allow their pots to be handled.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
Yeah, I'm just like, why are you keep giving me
this advertisement? No, so weird.
Speaker 4 (25:31):
I don't want to but yeah, between the yeah, you
were just saying, you when your little ones go slip
and sliding.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
Yeah, Katie's a little what is she.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
Or something?
Speaker 3 (25:45):
Pounds? I mean, she's just a little thing, but yeah,
she was. She shook the next thing, I know, she
was all sprawled out and then she couldn't get herself
back up.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
Of course she's ancient, she is ancient.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
But yeah, so I just picked her up and turned
her over and trimmed to be the hair between her
pats because the yeah, the hair had grown out in
bed mom, and she had no traction on the floors.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Yeah, it's same in my house.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
I know, some dog starts slipping a little bit more,
it's like, oh, kind of trim them up and it
keeps their.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
Feet little cleaner from mud by stuff. I know. My
Australian shepherds when I had the Aussies, some of them
would get downright bear like.
Speaker 4 (26:25):
Hairy pads snowshoes.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
Yeah, much more than the English shepherd. Yeah, so I was.
You know, I trimmed those all the time, either clippers
or scissors. The s is not quite so much, but
I still check them. When I trimmed toenails, I check
the hair.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
Yeah, I couldn't take a couple of seconds. If your
puppy dog is relaxed and allows you to do.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
It, yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
Speaking of relaxed and allows you a lands, A.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Lot of the books in how to care for dogs
tell you how to express the anal glands. Okay, first,
the annal glands. If you lift your dog's tail and
look at his target in the back, the anal glands
are to either side of his anus, like yeah, about
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four and eight. If you see your dog scooching his
butt on the grass or on the carpet, it may
be the anoglands are full or itching or a little inflamed.
Not always, there could be other things. He could have
a little piece of dry boop back there and cause
him to itch. But a lot of times it's the annogland.
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If you're seeing online or in a book or a
DVD or a video that you can do this at home.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
Think twice.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
Think twice, because if you do it incorrectly, or if
the anal glands are full or infected and you start
messing around back there, you could cause more problems than
you solve. So take your dog into the vet first.
Have your vet check it out, make sure that they're
not full. If they are full, he can express it.
(28:09):
If they're inflamed, he's going to have you medicate it.
Then you can ask, can I do maintenance on this
at home and express it? He may tell you sure
and show you how, or depending on the state of
your dogs back end, he may say no, please don't,
but pay that exam. Take your dog into your vet.
(28:32):
Kate and I were both vet texts in the past
in the galaxy long ago, far far away, and I
know of one dog that came in with a ruptured
anal gland because the owner was trying so hard it
was full. He knew it was. And that's nasty. That
was terrible, terrible, terrible.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
You have to slush it with iodine and treat it
like an open wound. It's just horrible.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
Yeah, it really is. And the poor dogs are so comfortable,
and you think about it, it's gotta be painful.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
You can't even give them a doughnut pillow to sit on.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
No, so yes in a glands are part of the
care and up keep of your dog.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
But and if they're not kept well, if they have
a problem, you'll notice the.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
Smell, yes, and you'll see the butt scooching and probably
leave a skid mark bis trying to figure out how
to say it nicely, a skid mark behind. Also with
that region. We talked about trimming the hair between the
pats on your dog, but trimming the back end a
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little bit of the on again. When I had Aussie,
I always did that because they were so fuzzy hairy.
Just trimmed a little bit under the stub of the
tail so that things wouldn't stick to it bones. I
don't need to do that, seven, I don't need to
do that here my fuzzy boy, Yes, I do need
to do the hair. He's very good about going potty.
(30:05):
I mean, not to get too gross, but he arches
nicely in the backyard when he's going. His form is good.
But he's such a fuzzy, hairy boy that I do
need to clean back there on a regular basis, so
I don't have to clean other things.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
As long as we're getting personal the other boy parts
as well.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
Oh yes, yes, if your boy has hair that's growing from.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
We're just gonna line.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
We're just gonna go there from his penis and sheath.
If there's a long stream of hair there, puppies, especially
when they're puppies, trim it carefully, wash it nicely with
his own personal washrag and a little bit of soap,
because again, puppies don't always keep themselves as clean as
(30:56):
they need to be well.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
And then the other side, Katie, the old Kakapoo, she's
sixteen now, I believe anyway, Yes, I have to trembur
girl parts. Yeah, because otherwise they'll stay damp, and.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
Then you've got a urinary tract infection and skin infection. Yeah, yep,
they can't take care of themselves and yep, so got
to do that too. And then we call it in class,
we talk about it manscaping.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
For the boy.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Parts and some boy puppies. I'm sorry, that's like a
great big group of like six or eight hairs and
the urine sticks to it. Yeah, and the puppies don't
clean themselves well in the growing potty all the time,
and it can get disgusting. Please people can't. Yeah, people
(31:52):
get a good laugh at that though when we say that.
Speaker 3 (31:56):
Most of the women there's no hot wax involved.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Ok.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
Yeah, so once you talk about this podcast man a puppy.
Sorry listeners, we have too much fun sometimes. All right,
let's move to teeth. For some reason, a lot of
dog owners don't like to clean keep their dogs teeth clean.
But it's just like any other aspect of care, if
(32:24):
you teach your dog to accept it and don't try
to do the whole mouth at the same time. I
start when I'm teaching a young dog, I'll do a
quarter of the mouth. At a Monday, I do lower right, Tuesday,
I do lower left, Wednesday I do upper right, and
so forth. And that way, you and your dog aren't
(32:45):
fighting each other because you're trying to do the whole mouth.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
If you teach them to enjoy chewies at an early age.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
And sometimes you have to try different things. Bones was tough,
bones not as hard as quill. But Bones was, contrary
to his name, is picky about chewing things. But I
finally found a few things that he does like to
chew on, and now it's helping to maintain the clean teeth.
(33:14):
Or sometimes you have a dog that, no matter how
much he tried to get teeth clean, they just have
well the genetics in there too.
Speaker 4 (33:23):
Yeah, so I keep joking the palmerani and the only
thing he has left is his canines.
Speaker 3 (33:30):
You can't have.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
Hard dog food or anything hard to chew.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
On him than that.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
Then yeah, the palm yeah free. Well, of course that
made it better when he was chasing one of the
cats and the cats just kind of turned around and went, yeah,
come here, gut me.
Speaker 4 (33:50):
Yeah yeah, So yeah, genetics sauces does not help have
a good dog with nice, good, healthy teeth.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
It's actually the last time I had and she's them
poodle mixed with their bad teeth. Well, she had horrible teeth.
Her first mom was too afraid to have her put
under anesthesiah, so she'd never had her teeth cleaned until
I got her at fourteen fifteen. Yeah, and it was
affecting her health. It's just some sort of enzomatic It's
(34:19):
a capful of water and her water bowl every time
I change water and it really has helped.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
Oh that's good, And there's lots of ways you can
brush the teeth if I have a dog who's very
very good about it and is accepting of me doing
lots of different things with him. I've even used a
water pick Bashire I used to water pick on Cisco.
I used to water pick on and that made it
(34:45):
real easy to take them outside. Have one dedicated water
pick for me and one for the dogs, and it
would take literally two minutes to do the whole mouth,
tilt their head down so they're not trying to swallow it,
and put that sonics spray of water around.
Speaker 3 (35:01):
And that's a lot easier than taking the string and
trying to get it between.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
Each Never tried the flossing, but the water pick work
great with my three now. I haven't tried the water
pick with him. I just use a baby toothbrush, get
a little baby toothbrush, and I use baking soda, a
little bit of baking soda and water to make a
paste and chichuo chi ch ch chchu.
Speaker 3 (35:27):
I use those little rubber caps on the finger, uh huh.
Because as much as Quill hates it, he won't bite me,
so I can if I put the toothbrush in there,
he'll just oh yeah yeah, But he'll let me put
my finger in there, even though he stares at me.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
And try different things. See what your dog is more
likely to accept. I mean, this is a lifelong thing,
so you might as well compromise a little bit. Don't
force him to do one technique if he's better with another,
And it's better.
Speaker 3 (35:56):
To have several techniques. Anyway.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
I tried the doggy tooth paste one time. Did I
try it with Riker? I swear he almost sucked it
off my finger. It smells like food.
Speaker 3 (36:11):
Don't use human toothpaste.
Speaker 2 (36:13):
Oh, never, never, ever, unless you.
Speaker 3 (36:16):
Want your dog to look like he's rabbit.
Speaker 2 (36:19):
Well, it's also not good for it, even for us.
They tell us we're not supposed to swallow the toothpaste.
And anything you put in your dog's mouth, he's going
to swallow some of it. So don't use our toothpaste.
So to have you, I've taught my dogs to do
lots of Okay, new COVID project.
Speaker 3 (36:43):
For bones don't a challenge.
Speaker 2 (36:52):
COVID. I was going to say, have lots of time,
but no, I'm working on a book.
Speaker 3 (36:55):
No, I don't. I did see a woman who taught
their dog he's a straw, and I don't know how
she did it, because that's quite a that's an interesting thing.
Close your lips around and suck it up.
Speaker 2 (37:06):
Yeah, I can see teaching him to hold the straw,
but just suck it.
Speaker 3 (37:13):
Huh. I never did figure find out her, figure out
how she taught that, huh.
Speaker 2 (37:18):
Interest or she just had that.
Speaker 3 (37:19):
One weird dog that went, oh, I want to do
that too.
Speaker 2 (37:22):
Yeah. Well, and there are those dogs that like to
memica or start it with something tasty like beef browser.
Speaker 3 (37:29):
I believe this was a very delute ice cream chake.
Speaker 2 (37:32):
Yeah, well that would do it too.
Speaker 3 (37:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
When I go through a certain coffee shop and get
the the.
Speaker 3 (37:39):
Uh yeah, the whipped cream and a small.
Speaker 2 (37:42):
Yes, I swear they suck that up. He's gone that fast.
What else do we do with our dogs for care?
Speaker 3 (37:50):
Getting quill used? Well, you did it too in your parents.
Because Hero has had eye issues yes, as a young dog, Yes,
and may continue to have them older. You're already getting
him used to the goggles.
Speaker 2 (38:04):
Yes, he has a pair of goggles. They are I
won't say the brand name since they're not a sponsor
unless they're listening and want to be a sponsor. I'd
be happy because I too.
Speaker 3 (38:14):
I can talk about him too.
Speaker 2 (38:15):
Yeah, it's not the small goggles that just fit around
the eye, but it's bigger and it looks like skers goggles.
And after he had his first surgery on his eye,
he was very light sensitive. He's since overcome that, but
he was very light sensitive, and so this helped. They
(38:38):
were like sunglasses, and he took to them. Took a
little bit of practice, took us a couple of weeks
on and off, on and off, on and off. If
I put him on him now, he's great. He'll just
run around and he's going to need another surgery at
some point in the future, and when we do that,
he'll go back to them again, at least to protect
(38:58):
him after the surgery.
Speaker 3 (39:00):
Won't be a great big shock at the time that
he's still dealing with the shock of surgery. Right right, right.
I even Walter had lost vision in both eyes, so
I had got him a wrap around visor just to
protect him from poking himself in the face. And every
now and then I put it on quill and make
him walk around a little bit. And we have a
(39:20):
party just in case he should ever need something like that.
Speaker 2 (39:24):
Sure boots. Yeah, especially after Kate and I went camping
in Arizona and Bureau of Land Management inhospitable doesn't. It
was great in the fact there was nobody around. Every
star in the sky a reason, but the goats. The
(39:52):
ghats had birds. The sponge would go through our shoes.
Speaker 3 (39:56):
Yeah, and the first time through my hiking boots.
Speaker 2 (40:00):
The first time we went out there and let the
dogs out to go potty, and we had what four
dogs with us or three dogs with us, and all
of a sudden, all the dogs are going like they're
walking on hot coals. At we started checking feet.
Speaker 3 (40:17):
And it was like, oh my god, checked the sand. We
knew that the ground wasn't that hot, right, so why
were they walking? Oh those things?
Speaker 4 (40:29):
Yeah, and again the locals are laughing at you.
Speaker 2 (40:32):
No, there was no locals.
Speaker 3 (40:38):
Okay, that buzzard over there was.
Speaker 2 (40:39):
Going ha ha, they'll be dead suits. So yeah, teaching
them to wear boots. In fact, I haven't done that
with seven yet. I need to teach her to wear hers,
putting clothes on them.
Speaker 3 (40:53):
And by the way, I just a friend's German shepherd.
We had to get him used to wearing boots just
because he would run around my pool.
Speaker 2 (41:03):
Yeah, so you know, was it, Cisca? Cisco ran around
your pool until I started paying more attention to him
after that, Cisco. I have never been one for putting
clothes on dogs, I have to admit. And when Kate
started dressing her Rottweiler, I made great fun of her.
(41:27):
I really really really did. But we also came to realize.
I came to realize that teaching the dog to wear
something is good should they ever need surgery, they ever
need bandaging, if you need to protect a bandage or
protect a wound. So we actually started incorporate into our
(41:49):
training classes. Is fun. Have your dog do a sit, wait,
call him across the yard, put a T shirt on him,
have him do sit weight, and then call him back
to the original position, and it's fine. Cisco, one of
my offsies, loved dressing up. Oh my god, that dog loved.
He loved Halloween. We went to see the play Kiky Boots,
(42:14):
and I dressed him up in red glitter, red BoA's sequins,
leg wrappings, and he loved it. He absolutely he strutted,
Look at me, I'm gorgeous. He just I've never had
(42:35):
a dog loved dress, and that kind of convinced me.
It was like, all right, if your dog doesn't like it,
that's different. Just make sure you can do it should
they need it. But Cisco absolutely loved it.
Speaker 3 (42:48):
The class did she say there's a name for that.
There's a name.
Speaker 2 (42:53):
She never said what it was or couldn't remember it.
But she had just.
Speaker 4 (42:56):
Gotten Spade and elizabethan collar or any of the other
collars out there.
Speaker 2 (43:02):
She had this.
Speaker 3 (43:04):
It's a onesie, but there's no back to it.
Speaker 4 (43:08):
It just ties so covers the belly, so totally covers
a belly from her neck to her belly, and it
ties on her back.
Speaker 3 (43:18):
About six different ties to bring it all together.
Speaker 2 (43:22):
It was quite a few. Still is your tye in
all those look? Of course? Yeah, suck it up, girly.
Speaker 3 (43:32):
It wasn't white coming together at the top too. It
gave her that yeah, like a little sausage. But but
she was comfortable in it. She was and she wasn't
banging into the other dogs or the back of the
people's legs or.
Speaker 2 (43:45):
I'll have to look at it. When seven gets yes.
Speaker 3 (43:51):
Beta, it recommended it seven.
Speaker 2 (43:54):
When she came into season. When she came into her
first season, putting the doggy panties on her, that was
not funy. I did some training, but she's also got
a stubborn streak, and we had a few words over that.
Her second season, it wasn't nearly as bad one. Things
were a little more predictable. I knew when she needed it,
(44:15):
Bunce told me when she needed it, and she was
a little more accepting, but it was still there was
some attitude size I need that. Yeah, But at her
second season, we did some training in between two, so
that made it a little bit easier. And then she's
gonna get spade. Yeah, we're going to eliminate that need.
Speaker 3 (44:38):
Sometimes the closer needed. Sometimes it's just torture them so
later on they won't be as tortured.
Speaker 2 (44:44):
Right, or make a game out of it. Yep. Yeah,
she got a spoonful of peanut butter while I put
her panties on you and she it's very hard to
protest when you're licking the peanut butter off the roof
of your mouth.
Speaker 4 (45:00):
It's surprisedly when Willow had her first season, she had
no problems.
Speaker 3 (45:04):
She liked it.
Speaker 2 (45:05):
It's almost going, she said, girly. She would probably love
dress up, just like sister seven is not gurly. Seven
is my girl, She's my.
Speaker 3 (45:16):
Tomboy dressing up my rott miners. They weren't particularly thrilled
until they realized that people like to pithom more.
Speaker 2 (45:23):
Sure, well we've done that with the therapy dugs, people
with Roddy's, or get some glasses, put a bandanna on,
put a tutu on them. You see a great, big,
huge rot whiler wearing a tutu in sunglasses.
Speaker 3 (45:38):
I never did that. No, I did a boa.
Speaker 5 (45:41):
I did a bo around her neck, Gina one time. Yes,
it was a grass skirt for for whoh, there we go. Yes,
you put it on your German shepherd too.
Speaker 2 (45:55):
He liked it. Great big, great, big, huge lush coat.
German shepherd wearing a green grass skirt.
Speaker 3 (46:03):
Yeah, yeah, he liked it.
Speaker 2 (46:06):
All right. Well, I think we've covered just about everything. Yeah,
all right, Well, hopefully we gave you lots to think
about and some things to laugh at. Imagine a German
shepherd and a green two two skirt bulla skirt.
Speaker 3 (46:27):
To make it worse, I had on one too, and
we were dancing together, and.
Speaker 2 (46:31):
A coconut bract shell bro for I will never ever,
I wasn't going to bring it up. You brought it up.
Never ever forget cake and a coconut shell bra. Yep,
all right, that's it. We'll see you next time.
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with me today our patron Kate. So how well do
you handle shedding?
Speaker 3 (02:15):
You know the old joke, right, German shepherds only shed
twice a year.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Right, for six months each time. Yeah, my three who
were related bones Hero and seven Bones sheds the least
seven sheds moderately. Now that she's got her adult coat,
Hero sheds constantly a lot.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
What is it you said? Is Golan life is to
kill vacuum cleaners?
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Yes, it is, and he has I don't get good
vacuums anymore because he's going to kill it anyway. So,
you know, disposable vacuum cleaners, they last me a year.
I'm happy. But other things too. You know, how does
that coat react to the weather where you live?
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Even these days?
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Yeah? Yeah, A lot of people discovered that cleaning ears
cleaning toenails. Some dogs have trouble with their feet. Some
dogs are like cocker spaniels in their ears. You've constantly
got to be working at those. So we'll talk about
some of these things and maybe give you a little
(03:24):
reminder to check these with your dog, or if you're
choosing a dog to add to your home, some things
to keep in mind. So, coach, there's lots of different
kinds of coats. You've got the short hair breeds like
the wine runners, the beagles, jack Russels, Jack Russell's, well,
Jack Russells can come in several coats, but the short
(03:45):
wrestle People often erroneously think that the short hair doesn't shit.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Yeah, they're just really tiny pine needles and they poke
in th s needles.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
So where is hero? Hero's coat is fluffy and soft,
and when it lands on the floor, it gathers together
and creates new puppies and you can pick them off
your clothes. Quills fur the hair, you can't. It's like hell.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Even those lent rollers they know it. Quills hairs. Just
laugh at them. You'll never remove me from this jacket.
And I didn't name him quill for that reason. But
it does fit, it does.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
And then there's the medium long coat like our English shepherds,
that's got two layers of coat. You've got the guard
hairs that are not stiff like a short haired dog,
but a little coarser, and then the undercoat that's soft
and fluffy, which Hero has gobs and gobs and gobs of.
And that's what forms the new puppies in my hallway,
(04:59):
long hair dogs like our friends Newfoundland, which is also
two layers of coat, the guard hairs and the undercoat
that's soft and fluffy. You've got wire hair coats like
the wire hair Jack Russell's or the other wire hair terriers,
air Dams and so forth. And then you've got the
(05:21):
poodle type coat poodle bashons that need to be groomed
regularly and will grow and turn into mats if you
don't take proper care of it and what.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Haven't necessarily ship, but they do have quite the coat.
The only thing I could think of is the single
coated long hair like the Saluki.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Yes, yeah, afghans and a full coat, yeah yeah, a
lot of coat.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
There, a lot of coats.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Yeah. Coat that's will makes them look gorgeous when they're running.
And then you have to sit down and brush out
all the burrs, yes and everything.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Yes, a variety of types.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Don't forget the some coats are more oily.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Laboratory retrievers Rottweilers have oil in their coat, which causes
me to break out in hives. I mean if I
pet them and don't wash my hands. The combination of
that coarser coat potentially prickly coat and the skin oils.
And some people don't like the odor of it because
an oily coat can have You know, if you like
(06:28):
to bathe your dog weekly, then it's not a problem.
So all those different types of coat have different upkeep
the short. Well, you know what, and you mentioned it.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Doodles are very popular, all sorts of burner doodles, doodles, doodles,
and doodles coat doodless, but not all of them have
the Yeah, they're they're all different.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Well, we had a lady several years ago come to
class with a white doodle and oh, this dog doesn't shed.
She was adamant that that's why she got that bread. Yes,
because they don't shed. And then on the third or
(07:12):
fourth week of class, she came in all dressed in
black and she was covered with white hair. And I
do have to admit I got slightly snarky that day.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
No, well, they will stand there and argue that their
dog is hypoallergenic. Never well, while the fur is just
blowing in the wind, ye see the pollen flying off
the door. And I did ask her, and I think
it makes it twice as hard if they've got a
combo coat. You know what kind of cut? Do you
(07:46):
cut them like a poodle? Do you brush? Do you
just trim the edges like a cocker? I mean it's
I had that issue with my cockaboo, you know which
which kind of coat? Fortunately, his hair was mostly cocker,
that a whole lot, but with a curl, with not
a tight curl, but it was more than wavy.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
There was curl to it, especially when it cut some length. So, yeah,
the mixed breeds, and I know we're going to hear
from some listeners, but yes, many of the oodles and
doodles are still mixed breeds. The coat's gonna vary. You
get seven puppies in that litter of the Bernise Mountain
(08:27):
dog in the poodle, there's gonna be a whole range
of coats. And we see it because we have doodles
of all sorts in our classes, lots of them, and
we'll see ones that look very poolish, very curly, kinky coat,
and the ones that just look like puffballs, shaggy. Y know,
you never know, and some will shed, some won't, some
(08:48):
will trigger allergies, some won't.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Yeah, wire coats having to strip.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Them, oh, I can never ever do that. And if
you take a wire haircat to a groomer and ask
for it to be stripped, it's going to be expensive
because it takes time and the dog has to be
able to tolerate it, which means you have to start
stripping him as a puppy.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Because we're talking about pulling out the undercoat.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Yeah, you take the stripper comb and your thumb and
you're basically pulling his coat, pulling his hair to get
the undercoat out. And some dogs don't want to tolerate that,
and especially if you introduce it to an adult. Also,
if you have a dog that needs lots of brushing,
or if you have a dog that needs haircuts, or
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if you have one that's prone to tangling, are you
willing to do what's needed or do you need to
pay a groomer?
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Some people love that, you know, they want to spend
each evening grooming brushing, heading, running the comb.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Yeah. We have a good friend who has two huge doodles,
big ones, and she likes the grooming process. Yeah, maybe
that's right. Yes, she did cut a baby. Yeah, a
baby of a different color, I know, but similar coat. Yeah,
but similar coat. I don't have the patience for that.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
So you look at yourself and decide what are you
willing to do and capable of, and are you willing
to do the training to teach the dog to accept that.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
There's a lot to it.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Oh God. The first time I brought out clippers to
clip Walter, he screamed, he was sure I was going
to kill him. And it took quite a while before
he would just end up falling asleep on the table
while I trimmed him.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
And let's just say Walter had a significant stubborn streak. Yeah,
so there was gonna be who was going to win.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Whatever it was. We had discussions about it, but yeah,
he eventually.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Got to the point where you, let's let's just say,
Walter tut kate a lot.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Yes, and even my terrier, I don't have to do
much to his coat, but I do have to check
him for Nixon scrapes because he'd while waiting for you
guys to come this evening, he just jumped into the hedge,
into the what is that pine whatever it is, it's
pokey stuff. And I can hear him in there walking
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around inside the hedge, So that means I'm going to
have to look later for Nixon cuts. One sap.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
When I drove up, I saw he already had some
of his allergy bumped.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
That's another thing with his almost all white, and he's got.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Ticking but sensitive skin.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
He's very sensitive. He will break.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
And you hear that Jack Russell Terrier.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
He's been running collar naked for a while because every
collar I put on him was rubbing a row spot
back of the bottom of his So I just got
a new one. Yeah, it's a very soft, it's very soft.
Two days now, fingers crossed.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
The next thing I'm gonna do is just tattoo my
number on his belly so i'll have some id it.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Oh, I used to have a tattoo gun Humber. We
used to.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
But anyway, even a quote short haired, no no must,
no fuss, still requires coat care.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Yeah, all right, let's talk about that that coat, whatever
kind it is of the dog, that you're thinking about.
And we won't even talk about climate change, but the
weather where you live. If you've got a malmute or
a samoiid and you live in a hot climate, say Phoenix,
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you better plan on that dog being in the ac
most of the time. If you've got a short haired
quilt with sensitive skin and you live in the ice
and snow, you wouldn't like Texas right now. You better
have a body pad in the shower.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Now. They kid me for the way that I pack
in quill into his crate. He's got like it's on
the bottom, on the sides, in the back. He pretty
much crawls in there and just barely turns up. And
why he likes it?
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Think about princess and the peak. He's the princess.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
But because of a student stopped me the other day.
Another dog was a Great Pyrenees mix, and they wondered
if their dog was getting anxious about being left in
the crate because it would pant so hard. Well, when
does this happen, i asked? Well? At night? Was he awakers? Oh,
he's asleep. He's not likely to be anxiously panting in
his sleep. And the woman, the woman owner says, well,
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I'm sure it's very comfortable for him. I put a bit,
there's a there's a mattress in the bottom, and then
there's a blanket, and then I put some blankets on
the side, you know, like bolsters, and then I put
a pillow in the back from to rest his head.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Remember she said a Great Pyrenees.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Mixed said, so you've really well insulated a crate for
a dog who'd prefer to sleep in a snowbank. Oh,
they said, so. We talked about cooling pads that you
can put in, but just putting a floor fan on
the dog at night, and see, take all the bedding
out takes.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Quill.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
It's great. That's what Quill wants and needs.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Have a nice coat's what Quill wants. Not sure it's
all you.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Haven't seen curled up, wivering giving you a look over his.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Shoulders because he's got you wrapped around. We're recording this
in February. Just to give a basis for my next comment.
There's been a short video going around Facebook right now
of a family who has a Great Pyrenees long haired
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livestock guardian dog. And of course most of the country
right now is covered with snow, and the video is
of the dog on the back their back porch covered
with snow, snow all over the dog. You could just
see the shape of the dog, and she is recorded
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on the video. No, I don't force my dog to
sleep outside. My dog is killing me because he wants
to sleep outside. No, I did not deprive him of
access to the house. I did not deprive him of
a doghouse. And the camera pans to a doghouse is empty.
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And you know, basically she's going to say, her dog
chose this, her dog loves this.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
He's wearing two fur coats.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Yes, yeah, you know, and then the snow insulation on
top of it. He's happy. Where if you did that
with quil oh, No, no, no, he would kill time.
Hero would be fine with that, except he's used to
being in the house. Bones would tear my house down
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to the foundation to get back inside. Of course, he
has no body fat, so no insulation. My guys would
even stick out their paws out the door. No, I
don't think seven would be happy. So where you live
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does have bearing on your dog's needs according to the weather.
You know whether he can tolerate the ice and snow.
When the blizzard to go outside and go potty and
run right back in, or whether he preferred to stay
out there, or is he a short haired dog that
you need to put potty pats in the shower and
teach him to go potty there. You know, if you've
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got a small dog, especially that doesn't have much body
fat or weight and short coat, he may it hypo
cerfic really really quickly in the weather that like Texas
is having right now.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
I do have a really wonderful full body suit.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Yeah, but he won't move when you put it on. It.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
She really just doesn't like it, but it does keep
him warm. It's great.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
I mean, Kayla, she has the Aussie and then her
boaster are on and real Rio.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
The Aussie would just run out there. He likes the cold.
He's got a nice coat, which is funny. He's a
California loves to go out there and then play in
the snow.
Speaker 4 (17:30):
And then there's this bild boaster arms like one hundred
and ten pounds. He just takes one pot out and
then turn comes back and looks her.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
Like, no mom.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
She has to put a jacket, a nice heavy jacket
around him, and then he'll run out do it and
we'll come right back in. There's real right around the
yard having a great time of snow, and the big
old Bostern's.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Like, nope, there's something real wrong about that. But then
there's the opposite two. If you live in a hot climate,
you know, don't be taking your melmeut for a walk
at noon for your bulldog or your bulldog or your
pug or your Pekinese or yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Speaking of bulldogs and pugs, the special cleaning thing with
them is to get into those grooves, the wrinkles in
the skin and sharpays, of course, but those have to
be cleaned regularly.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
And a lot of times, especially bulldogs with no muscle
at all, several times a day. Yeah, that skin will
get inflamed. All right, Well, let's take a break for
one of our sponsors. Take listen, we'll be right back.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
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Speaker 1 (18:38):
Stay, it's a doggy dog world. Will be right back
after a short pause. Well for to be exact.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
So what's your reaction, Kate when you hear Ben and
Jerry's now has dog treats now.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
I won't have to share my ice cream with them
anymore because you know, comes near me when I'm eating
my Ben and Jerry's, they're likely to get growled at.
Right now, I think it's a cool idea. I've sometimes
made my dog's frozen treats or gotten some that are
commercially available, but considering how much I love Ben and Jerry's,
it's about time my puppy dog's got to enjoy that
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as well.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Out of my favorite one is the cherry Garcia.
Speaker 4 (19:21):
Oh my god, yeah, I'll growl anybody comes near.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
Me that I'm a chunky monkey freak. Yeah, I like
that that way.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
But also I love peanut butter, and did you know
that one of the doun you dog flavors is paunch.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
It has peanut butter and pretzels.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
Ooh, and Rosie has pumpkin and many cookies. That's am
I ni. I'm sure it has lots of cookies too,
but they're a little small cookies and they're many cookies
and pumpkin, which I do give my boy pumpkin in
his dinner, so this could actually been a nicer way
for him to get it.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
Yeah, so I think I would qualify mine in the
freezer is my ice cream, And then I have to
label the dog's version of Ben and Jerry's as the
frozen treat dogy dessert.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
And one way you can tell is instead of the
black and white cow on the front of the little container,
it's a black and white dog for the dog treat,
so you can tell which one is which because it's
their dog. Frozen treats are are not designed for humans,
made with human quality ingredients, but not designed for humans,
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so you do want to keep them separate. And I
can only give my boy a little bit if I
dare of my own ice cream, my Ben and Jerry's
ice cream, because yeah, it doesn't always set well with him,
but now he has his own, He's gonna have his own.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
All right.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
So go out there and buy some for your furry
little friend there and enjoy together.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
Enjoy.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Let's talk past, Let's headline radio.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
Atlight radio dot com. We know you're begging for more,
So back to It's a Doggy Dog World with your
fetching hosts Liz Peliga and this week's co hosts, Kate
Habit and Burke.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
Welcome back. Okay, Ears, Ears and conquer Ears.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
You don't have to watch four, especially if they go
swimming a lot.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Yeah, and then there's individual tendencies too, Hero I have
to pay attention to his ears. He's had a couple
of ear infections. He's four now and he's had a
couple of ear infections. Now I I know that for
him individually, I have to clean them more often. He
doesn't have allergies, it's just he's more prone to it.
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Bones seven both have nice ears and really have to
do anything about it. But Hero, I have to get
a cotton ball somewhich hasel and wipe, wipe them out,
get up a little bit, yeah, get all those creases
in the ear. And with him too, he's got fluffier ears,
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he's got more coat.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
It's probably part of his coat thing.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Yeah, and I have to trim that on a regular basis,
much to his dismay. I call him his pappy on
the ears, well.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
And upright ears. My friend Sue has a short haired
terrier Smookoat, but his ears are gigantic Dobby. The elf
ears stand straight up and they're just scoops. They catch everything.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
German shepherds, yeah, my German shepherds. Yeah. Yeah. I always
had to clean them and weak to make sure it
stay clean. In class, I know, I used to tell
people all the time with German shepherds. Keep an eye
on that. If you haven't had a German shepherd before,
keep an eye on his ears because they.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Do well what we tell our classes. Keep a nose
on that.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
Keep a nose on it.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
Smell your dog's ears. They should have a healthy smell exactly,
and you'll notice the difference if they're not healthy.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Catch it your infections soon, yep, resolve it. Quicker toenails,
Oh my boy. Remember when Bones was a baby. God,
the first two years of his life. I started out
he'd be running and playing, and I started out. Every
time he broke a toenail, we went to the vets
and I had the vet take care of it. And
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then it got to the point we were both so
complacent about it. Bloody footprint, Yeah, it's Bones, and I
just have him sit and I grabbed that paw and
trim off the rough edges and put some steptic powder
on it to stop it from bleeding. He got so
he just hold a pile out and I could panagh.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
It's so competitive and is running and just so dugs.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Yeah, I will say he's eight and a half. Now,
can you believe that he's even a half. The last
couple of years. Knock on wood. He he hasn't broken one. Actually,
the one who broke a toenail last was hero playing
with seven, dashing up and down. But yeah, if your
dog is a hard runner or climbs or jumps or
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goes camping with you, terrier just a terrier.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
Well, completely ripped out a tonio. It hasn't grown back.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Bone, ripped one bones, ripped one out, but it did
grow back it. He ripped out a two claw. It
just came back a little deformed, so I actually have
to watch it more because it's not the normal shape.
But it did grow back.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
Get your puffy dog used to having their feet handled
and touched and clipped ass puppies.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Oh, it's speaking of pus trimming the hair between the pads. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
By the way, I'm sorry. Have you guys seen this.
It's been advertised to me a lot on Facebook lately.
I don't know anyway. It's a sling. You put your
dog in the sling and let you hook it up
to some point and they hang with all four feet down,
and it's supposed to be the best way ever to
trim their tonias.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Have you gotten it yet? No?
Speaker 4 (25:02):
No, I just.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
For a cured ham. It just doesn't. No, the dogs
look so embarrassed and uncomfortable.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Yeah, how about little peanut butter on the side of
the wall and let them lick it while you're doing
their teach them to allow their pots to be handled.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
Yeah, I'm just like, why are you keep giving me
this advertisement? No, so weird.
Speaker 4 (25:31):
I don't want to but yeah, between the yeah, you
were just saying, you when your little ones go slip
and sliding.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
Yeah, Katie's a little what is she.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
Or something?
Speaker 3 (25:45):
Pounds? I mean, she's just a little thing, but yeah,
she was. She shook the next thing, I know, she
was all sprawled out and then she couldn't get herself
back up.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
Of course she's ancient, she is ancient.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
But yeah, so I just picked her up and turned
her over and trimmed to be the hair between her
pats because the yeah, the hair had grown out in
bed mom, and she had no traction on the floors.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Yeah, it's same in my house.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
I know, some dog starts slipping a little bit more,
it's like, oh, kind of trim them up and it
keeps their.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
Feet little cleaner from mud by stuff. I know. My
Australian shepherds when I had the Aussies, some of them
would get downright bear like.
Speaker 4 (26:25):
Hairy pads snowshoes.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
Yeah, much more than the English shepherd. Yeah, so I was.
You know, I trimmed those all the time, either clippers
or scissors. The s is not quite so much, but
I still check them. When I trimmed toenails, I check
the hair.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
Yeah, I couldn't take a couple of seconds. If your
puppy dog is relaxed and allows you to do.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
It, yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
Speaking of relaxed and allows you a lands, A.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Lot of the books in how to care for dogs
tell you how to express the anal glands. Okay, first,
the annal glands. If you lift your dog's tail and
look at his target in the back, the anal glands
are to either side of his anus, like yeah, about
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four and eight. If you see your dog scooching his
butt on the grass or on the carpet, it may
be the anoglands are full or itching or a little inflamed.
Not always, there could be other things. He could have
a little piece of dry boop back there and cause
him to itch. But a lot of times it's the annogland.
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If you're seeing online or in a book or a
DVD or a video that you can do this at home.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
Think twice.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
Think twice, because if you do it incorrectly, or if
the anal glands are full or infected and you start
messing around back there, you could cause more problems than
you solve. So take your dog into the vet first.
Have your vet check it out, make sure that they're
not full. If they are full, he can express it.
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If they're inflamed, he's going to have you medicate it.
Then you can ask, can I do maintenance on this
at home and express it? He may tell you sure
and show you how, or depending on the state of
your dogs back end, he may say no, please don't,
but pay that exam. Take your dog into your vet.
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Kate and I were both vet texts in the past
in the galaxy long ago, far far away, and I
know of one dog that came in with a ruptured
anal gland because the owner was trying so hard it
was full. He knew it was. And that's nasty. That
was terrible, terrible, terrible.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
You have to slush it with iodine and treat it
like an open wound. It's just horrible.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
Yeah, it really is. And the poor dogs are so comfortable,
and you think about it, it's gotta be painful.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
You can't even give them a doughnut pillow to sit on.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
No, so yes in a glands are part of the
care and up keep of your dog.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
But and if they're not kept well, if they have
a problem, you'll notice the.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
Smell, yes, and you'll see the butt scooching and probably
leave a skid mark bis trying to figure out how
to say it nicely, a skid mark behind. Also with
that region. We talked about trimming the hair between the
pats on your dog, but trimming the back end a
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little bit of the on again. When I had Aussie,
I always did that because they were so fuzzy hairy.
Just trimmed a little bit under the stub of the
tail so that things wouldn't stick to it bones. I
don't need to do that, seven, I don't need to
do that here my fuzzy boy, Yes, I do need
to do the hair. He's very good about going potty.
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I mean, not to get too gross, but he arches
nicely in the backyard when he's going. His form is good.
But he's such a fuzzy, hairy boy that I do
need to clean back there on a regular basis, so
I don't have to clean other things.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
As long as we're getting personal the other boy parts
as well.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
Oh yes, yes, if your boy has hair that's growing from.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
We're just gonna line.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
We're just gonna go there from his penis and sheath.
If there's a long stream of hair there, puppies, especially
when they're puppies, trim it carefully, wash it nicely with
his own personal washrag and a little bit of soap,
because again, puppies don't always keep themselves as clean as
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they need to be well.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
And then the other side, Katie, the old Kakapoo, she's
sixteen now, I believe anyway, Yes, I have to trembur
girl parts. Yeah, because otherwise they'll stay damp, and.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
Then you've got a urinary tract infection and skin infection. Yeah, yep,
they can't take care of themselves and yep, so got
to do that too. And then we call it in class,
we talk about it manscaping.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
For the boy.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Parts and some boy puppies. I'm sorry, that's like a
great big group of like six or eight hairs and
the urine sticks to it. Yeah, and the puppies don't
clean themselves well in the growing potty all the time,
and it can get disgusting. Please people can't. Yeah, people
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get a good laugh at that though when we say that.
Speaker 3 (31:56):
Most of the women there's no hot wax involved.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Ok.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
Yeah, so once you talk about this podcast man a puppy.
Sorry listeners, we have too much fun sometimes. All right,
let's move to teeth. For some reason, a lot of
dog owners don't like to clean keep their dogs teeth clean.
But it's just like any other aspect of care, if
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you teach your dog to accept it and don't try
to do the whole mouth at the same time. I
start when I'm teaching a young dog, I'll do a
quarter of the mouth. At a Monday, I do lower right, Tuesday,
I do lower left, Wednesday I do upper right, and
so forth. And that way, you and your dog aren't
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fighting each other because you're trying to do the whole mouth.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
If you teach them to enjoy chewies at an early age.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
And sometimes you have to try different things. Bones was tough,
bones not as hard as quill. But Bones was, contrary
to his name, is picky about chewing things. But I
finally found a few things that he does like to
chew on, and now it's helping to maintain the clean teeth.
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Or sometimes you have a dog that, no matter how
much he tried to get teeth clean, they just have
well the genetics in there too.
Speaker 4 (33:23):
Yeah, so I keep joking the palmerani and the only
thing he has left is his canines.
Speaker 3 (33:30):
You can't have.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
Hard dog food or anything hard to chew.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
On him than that.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
Then yeah, the palm yeah free. Well, of course that
made it better when he was chasing one of the
cats and the cats just kind of turned around and went, yeah,
come here, gut me.
Speaker 4 (33:50):
Yeah yeah, So yeah, genetics sauces does not help have
a good dog with nice, good, healthy teeth.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
It's actually the last time I had and she's them
poodle mixed with their bad teeth. Well, she had horrible teeth.
Her first mom was too afraid to have her put
under anesthesiah, so she'd never had her teeth cleaned until
I got her at fourteen fifteen. Yeah, and it was
affecting her health. It's just some sort of enzomatic It's
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a capful of water and her water bowl every time
I change water and it really has helped.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
Oh that's good, And there's lots of ways you can
brush the teeth if I have a dog who's very
very good about it and is accepting of me doing
lots of different things with him. I've even used a
water pick Bashire I used to water pick on Cisco.
I used to water pick on and that made it
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real easy to take them outside. Have one dedicated water
pick for me and one for the dogs, and it
would take literally two minutes to do the whole mouth,
tilt their head down so they're not trying to swallow it,
and put that sonics spray of water around.
Speaker 3 (35:01):
And that's a lot easier than taking the string and
trying to get it between.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
Each Never tried the flossing, but the water pick work
great with my three now. I haven't tried the water
pick with him. I just use a baby toothbrush, get
a little baby toothbrush, and I use baking soda, a
little bit of baking soda and water to make a
paste and chichuo chi ch ch chchu.
Speaker 3 (35:27):
I use those little rubber caps on the finger, uh huh.
Because as much as Quill hates it, he won't bite me,
so I can if I put the toothbrush in there,
he'll just oh yeah yeah, But he'll let me put
my finger in there, even though he stares at me.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
And try different things. See what your dog is more
likely to accept. I mean, this is a lifelong thing,
so you might as well compromise a little bit. Don't
force him to do one technique if he's better with another,
And it's better.
Speaker 3 (35:56):
To have several techniques. Anyway.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
I tried the doggy tooth paste one time. Did I
try it with Riker? I swear he almost sucked it
off my finger. It smells like food.
Speaker 3 (36:11):
Don't use human toothpaste.
Speaker 2 (36:13):
Oh, never, never, ever, unless you.
Speaker 3 (36:16):
Want your dog to look like he's rabbit.
Speaker 2 (36:19):
Well, it's also not good for it, even for us.
They tell us we're not supposed to swallow the toothpaste.
And anything you put in your dog's mouth, he's going
to swallow some of it. So don't use our toothpaste.
So to have you, I've taught my dogs to do
lots of Okay, new COVID project.
Speaker 3 (36:43):
For bones don't a challenge.
Speaker 2 (36:52):
COVID. I was going to say, have lots of time,
but no, I'm working on a book.
Speaker 3 (36:55):
No, I don't. I did see a woman who taught
their dog he's a straw, and I don't know how
she did it, because that's quite a that's an interesting thing.
Close your lips around and suck it up.
Speaker 2 (37:06):
Yeah, I can see teaching him to hold the straw,
but just suck it.
Speaker 3 (37:13):
Huh. I never did figure find out her, figure out
how she taught that, huh.
Speaker 2 (37:18):
Interest or she just had that.
Speaker 3 (37:19):
One weird dog that went, oh, I want to do
that too.
Speaker 2 (37:22):
Yeah. Well, and there are those dogs that like to
memica or start it with something tasty like beef browser.
Speaker 3 (37:29):
I believe this was a very delute ice cream chake.
Speaker 2 (37:32):
Yeah, well that would do it too.
Speaker 3 (37:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
When I go through a certain coffee shop and get
the the.
Speaker 3 (37:39):
Uh yeah, the whipped cream and a small.
Speaker 2 (37:42):
Yes, I swear they suck that up. He's gone that fast.
What else do we do with our dogs for care?
Speaker 3 (37:50):
Getting quill used? Well, you did it too in your parents.
Because Hero has had eye issues yes, as a young dog, Yes,
and may continue to have them older. You're already getting
him used to the goggles.
Speaker 2 (38:04):
Yes, he has a pair of goggles. They are I
won't say the brand name since they're not a sponsor
unless they're listening and want to be a sponsor. I'd
be happy because I too.
Speaker 3 (38:14):
I can talk about him too.
Speaker 2 (38:15):
Yeah, it's not the small goggles that just fit around
the eye, but it's bigger and it looks like skers goggles.
And after he had his first surgery on his eye,
he was very light sensitive. He's since overcome that, but
he was very light sensitive, and so this helped. They
(38:38):
were like sunglasses, and he took to them. Took a
little bit of practice, took us a couple of weeks
on and off, on and off, on and off. If
I put him on him now, he's great. He'll just
run around and he's going to need another surgery at
some point in the future, and when we do that,
he'll go back to them again, at least to protect
(38:58):
him after the surgery.
Speaker 3 (39:00):
Won't be a great big shock at the time that
he's still dealing with the shock of surgery. Right right, right.
I even Walter had lost vision in both eyes, so
I had got him a wrap around visor just to
protect him from poking himself in the face. And every
now and then I put it on quill and make
him walk around a little bit. And we have a
(39:20):
party just in case he should ever need something like that.
Speaker 2 (39:24):
Sure boots. Yeah, especially after Kate and I went camping
in Arizona and Bureau of Land Management inhospitable doesn't. It
was great in the fact there was nobody around. Every
star in the sky a reason, but the goats. The
(39:52):
ghats had birds. The sponge would go through our shoes.
Speaker 3 (39:56):
Yeah, and the first time through my hiking boots.
Speaker 2 (40:00):
The first time we went out there and let the
dogs out to go potty, and we had what four
dogs with us or three dogs with us, and all
of a sudden, all the dogs are going like they're
walking on hot coals. At we started checking feet.
Speaker 3 (40:17):
And it was like, oh my god, checked the sand. We
knew that the ground wasn't that hot, right, so why
were they walking? Oh those things?
Speaker 4 (40:29):
Yeah, and again the locals are laughing at you.
Speaker 2 (40:32):
No, there was no locals.
Speaker 3 (40:38):
Okay, that buzzard over there was.
Speaker 2 (40:39):
Going ha ha, they'll be dead suits. So yeah, teaching
them to wear boots. In fact, I haven't done that
with seven yet. I need to teach her to wear hers,
putting clothes on them.
Speaker 3 (40:53):
And by the way, I just a friend's German shepherd.
We had to get him used to wearing boots just
because he would run around my pool.
Speaker 2 (41:03):
Yeah, so you know, was it, Cisca? Cisco ran around
your pool until I started paying more attention to him
after that, Cisco. I have never been one for putting
clothes on dogs, I have to admit. And when Kate
started dressing her Rottweiler, I made great fun of her.
(41:27):
I really really really did. But we also came to realize.
I came to realize that teaching the dog to wear
something is good should they ever need surgery, they ever
need bandaging, if you need to protect a bandage or
protect a wound. So we actually started incorporate into our
(41:49):
training classes. Is fun. Have your dog do a sit, wait,
call him across the yard, put a T shirt on him,
have him do sit weight, and then call him back
to the original position, and it's fine. Cisco, one of
my offsies, loved dressing up. Oh my god, that dog loved.
He loved Halloween. We went to see the play Kiky Boots,
(42:14):
and I dressed him up in red glitter, red BoA's sequins,
leg wrappings, and he loved it. He absolutely he strutted,
Look at me, I'm gorgeous. He just I've never had
(42:35):
a dog loved dress, and that kind of convinced me.
It was like, all right, if your dog doesn't like it,
that's different. Just make sure you can do it should
they need it. But Cisco absolutely loved it.
Speaker 3 (42:48):
The class did she say there's a name for that.
There's a name.
Speaker 2 (42:53):
She never said what it was or couldn't remember it.
But she had just.
Speaker 4 (42:56):
Gotten Spade and elizabethan collar or any of the other
collars out there.
Speaker 2 (43:02):
She had this.
Speaker 3 (43:04):
It's a onesie, but there's no back to it.
Speaker 4 (43:08):
It just ties so covers the belly, so totally covers
a belly from her neck to her belly, and it
ties on her back.
Speaker 3 (43:18):
About six different ties to bring it all together.
Speaker 2 (43:22):
It was quite a few. Still is your tye in
all those look? Of course? Yeah, suck it up, girly.
Speaker 3 (43:32):
It wasn't white coming together at the top too. It
gave her that yeah, like a little sausage. But but
she was comfortable in it. She was and she wasn't
banging into the other dogs or the back of the
people's legs or.
Speaker 2 (43:45):
I'll have to look at it. When seven gets yes.
Speaker 3 (43:51):
Beta, it recommended it seven.
Speaker 2 (43:54):
When she came into season. When she came into her
first season, putting the doggy panties on her, that was
not funy. I did some training, but she's also got
a stubborn streak, and we had a few words over that.
Her second season, it wasn't nearly as bad one. Things
were a little more predictable. I knew when she needed it,
(44:15):
Bunce told me when she needed it, and she was
a little more accepting, but it was still there was
some attitude size I need that. Yeah, But at her
second season, we did some training in between two, so
that made it a little bit easier. And then she's
gonna get spade. Yeah, we're going to eliminate that need.
Speaker 3 (44:38):
Sometimes the closer needed. Sometimes it's just torture them so
later on they won't be as tortured.
Speaker 2 (44:44):
Right, or make a game out of it. Yep. Yeah,
she got a spoonful of peanut butter while I put
her panties on you and she it's very hard to
protest when you're licking the peanut butter off the roof
of your mouth.
Speaker 4 (45:00):
It's surprisedly when Willow had her first season, she had
no problems.
Speaker 3 (45:04):
She liked it.
Speaker 2 (45:05):
It's almost going, she said, girly. She would probably love
dress up, just like sister seven is not gurly. Seven
is my girl, She's my.
Speaker 3 (45:16):
Tomboy dressing up my rott miners. They weren't particularly thrilled
until they realized that people like to pithom more.
Speaker 2 (45:23):
Sure, well we've done that with the therapy dugs, people
with Roddy's, or get some glasses, put a bandanna on,
put a tutu on them. You see a great, big,
huge rot whiler wearing a tutu in sunglasses.
Speaker 3 (45:38):
I never did that. No, I did a boa.
Speaker 5 (45:41):
I did a bo around her neck, Gina one time. Yes,
it was a grass skirt for for whoh, there we go. Yes,
you put it on your German shepherd too.
Speaker 2 (45:55):
He liked it. Great big, great, big, huge lush coat.
German shepherd wearing a green grass skirt.
Speaker 3 (46:03):
Yeah, yeah, he liked it.
Speaker 2 (46:06):
All right. Well, I think we've covered just about everything. Yeah,
all right, Well, hopefully we gave you lots to think
about and some things to laugh at. Imagine a German
shepherd and a green two two skirt bulla skirt.
Speaker 3 (46:27):
To make it worse, I had on one too, and
we were dancing together, and.
Speaker 2 (46:31):
A coconut bract shell bro for I will never ever,
I wasn't going to bring it up. You brought it up.
Never ever forget cake and a coconut shell bra. Yep,
all right, that's it. We'll see you next time.
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