Keep Your Pets Safe from Heat, And Keep Your Cars Safe Too
Deborah gives you some stats about pets in hot cars, and bears in hot cars too! Wildlife and cars must get along better. Summer heat safety plus what to pack and how to teach dogs and cats to like their carrier/crate or kennel in case you need to evacuate someday. Prong collars are not necessary for any dog anytime but especially not sweet well behaved older dogs. Update your equipment as your pets age and needs change. Rescue Freya’s litter of 8 black and white puppies born June 25 by surprise just opened their eyes; A beautiful site. 1 pup is spoken for 7 still need foster homes and forever homes. Border Collie/Heeler cross puppies. The 2 healthy well behaved parents will need homes too. See the happy family at https://www.facebook.com/campgooddog/
Listen to Episode #187 Now:
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Announcer: This is Pet Life Radio.
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Announcer: Let's talk pets.
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Deborah Wolfe: Hello, you're listening to Animal Party on Pet Life Radio, which means you're listening to me, the host, Deborah Wolfe.
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Deborah Wolfe: And I've been the host of this show for quite a long time, actually, which means I've probably reached a lot of you with some really sound pet advice.
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Deborah Wolfe: And I know sometimes people preach at you, and you don't want to be preached at, but I'm gonna preach at you anyway, just a little bit.
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Deborah Wolfe: There's a dog who came to camp.
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Deborah Wolfe: Most of you know I run a boarding kennel for people going on holiday.
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Deborah Wolfe: They send their dogs.
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Deborah Wolfe: And this dog, he's like sweet, and he's kind of getting almost elderly.
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Deborah Wolfe: You know, he's been around a long time now.
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Deborah Wolfe: A big dog, very mellow.
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Deborah Wolfe: All you have to do is like make a sound with your teeth, you know, a kind of clicking sound, and he'll come.
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Deborah Wolfe: You don't even have to say the word come.
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Deborah Wolfe: You just have to start to say the word come.
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Deborah Wolfe: Very, very sweet, docile, easy going guy.
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Deborah Wolfe: Does whatever you want.
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Deborah Wolfe: He will bark at workmen.
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Deborah Wolfe: On occasion, he stayed here and workmen are here, and then all of a sudden he's like a different dog.
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Deborah Wolfe: So I do see that there's still a young dog inside there that would protect me and would perhaps be loud and barky when necessary.
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Deborah Wolfe: But the rest of the time, this dog is basically a lovable carpet.
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Deborah Wolfe: He's just so sweet and gentle, and yet he wears a prong collar when he's not here.
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Deborah Wolfe: The people put a prong collar on him all the time.
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Deborah Wolfe: He's had this prong collar his entire life, and it's made wounds in his neck.
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Deborah Wolfe: He's got scarring, he's got wounds, he sometimes has infections, he needs creams.
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Deborah Wolfe: And no matter what we say, they just won't take the prong collar off.
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Deborah Wolfe: I don't understand why people need these collars.
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Deborah Wolfe: I really don't.
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Deborah Wolfe: The idea, the philosophy, I guess, is that it's supposed to be like a mama dog nipping at her youngster, kind of disciplining him when he pulls.
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Deborah Wolfe: Okay, I kind of get the logic there, except dogs grow up, and their mother doesn't do that anymore.
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Deborah Wolfe: And she probably never did exactly in that way.
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Deborah Wolfe: And also, why don't you just get your dog to respect and love you and listen to you, so you don't have to constantly be biting its neck to get it to behave?
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Deborah Wolfe: When dogs are hyper, which this dog isn't, but let's just say maybe once upon a time he was, and that's another thing.
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Deborah Wolfe: If your dog once had a problem and he's aged out of it, then catch up to what you've got today.
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Deborah Wolfe: Don't be disciplining and using equipment you needed when your dog was hyper, or maybe you had a sprained ankle or whatever.
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Deborah Wolfe: Once you've realized that the problem's over, your relationship has grown and the dog will listen to you now, take that thing off, whatever it was.
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Deborah Wolfe: Put him on a regular collar, just a regular collar that has a little bit of a choke chain in it, if your dog does pull at times.
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Deborah Wolfe: And that way you can have it set on the regular collar most of the time.
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Deborah Wolfe: And if you're in a situation, maybe he's reactive approaching the dog park, or maybe he's excitable, I don't know, near balls or something.
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Deborah Wolfe: And you know, on your route, you have to pass a field of people playing ball or something like that.
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Deborah Wolfe: You could always switch it to the choke setting for that.
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Deborah Wolfe: But those collars, which are called Martindale collars, even on the choke setting, never choke the dog.
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Deborah Wolfe: It's just a difference of loose and fitted.
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Deborah Wolfe: So the dog gets the message, whoa, it's fitted.
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Deborah Wolfe: The human wants something.
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Deborah Wolfe: The prong collar causes pain.
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Deborah Wolfe: And if you have a dog who's reactive, he's got too much going on, too much adrenaline, too much excitement, too much invested.
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Deborah Wolfe: You don't want to add to that with a little bit of pain because a little shot of pain, I mean, have you ever seen a boxer, a human boxer fighting around or a fighter in a ring?
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Deborah Wolfe: He gets hit, now he's even more into it, right?
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Deborah Wolfe: Pain is not necessarily a deterrent, especially light pain, constant pain, consistent pain.
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Deborah Wolfe: It's not even doing what they want it to do.
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Deborah Wolfe: So I would say, get rid of your prong collar.
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Deborah Wolfe: If you say to me, well, I can't, then maybe it's time for a training session with a trainer who doesn't use prong collars.
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Deborah Wolfe: And within half an hour, I mean, for me, it would probably be 10 minutes, but within a half an hour, your dog will be walking for you nicely, on leash, no pain device, no infections in the neck, no wounds, no sores, and building a relationship with you because he's walking with you, not against you, right?
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Deborah Wolfe: He's trying to be your companion, and you're trying to be his companion instead of just causing him issues when he doesn't obey you.
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Deborah Wolfe: It's such an old way of thinking.
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Deborah Wolfe: Who wants that kind of friendship?
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Deborah Wolfe: I don't want that kind of friendship.
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Deborah Wolfe: All right, we're gonna go to break and come back and talk a little more.
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Deborah Wolfe: I wasn't gonna talk about dog behavior today, but it just slipped in there.
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Deborah Wolfe: So, there you go.
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Deborah Wolfe: You get a little tip on why I don't recommend prong colors ever.
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Deborah Wolfe: Okay, we'll be back after break on Animal Party, Pet Life Radio.
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Deborah Wolfe: Hello, we're back on Animal Party, Pet Life Radio.
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Deborah Wolfe: And, well, I want to talk about wildlife and vehicles.
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Deborah Wolfe: Here's the thing we don't often think about, right?
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Deborah Wolfe: Only four people a year die in Canada from wildlife hitting their car, okay?
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Deborah Wolfe: So usually you times it by 10, if you're talking about America.
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Deborah Wolfe: So that would mean probably about 40 people, roughly.
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Deborah Wolfe: I mean, it could be more, your rate might be worse, you guys might be worse drivers, I don't know.
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Deborah Wolfe: But in Canada, about four people a year die, but 10,000 animals die.
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Deborah Wolfe: So the animals are really taking a hit on this, right?
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Deborah Wolfe: Six to 10,000 animals die every year in Canada because people are hitting them with their cars.
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Deborah Wolfe: So yeah, there's so much of this.
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Deborah Wolfe: I've got so many statistics sitting before me, like 20,000 collisions a year.
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Deborah Wolfe: Okay, so they're not all deaths.
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Deborah Wolfe: Some of the animals survive, maybe wounded, maybe never to have a good life again, maybe to die later, I don't know.
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Deborah Wolfe: But you gotta slow down.
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Deborah Wolfe: And when you see those signs, you know, the beautiful road signs, I love these signs where it shows like, it's funny how it's different in every place, but it'll show some kind of beautiful silhouette of a deer kind of galloping or leaping or something.
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Deborah Wolfe: And it's meant to tell you slow down because you're gonna hit one if you go too fast.
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Deborah Wolfe: They're unpredictable, especially deer.
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Deborah Wolfe: I see them all the time on the road.
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Deborah Wolfe: And like the other day, I was on this road, Duney Truck Road, the speed limit's 60.
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Deborah Wolfe: I was going 60.
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Deborah Wolfe: And then I saw a deer on the road and it crossed the road, but in a very weird way, it sort of crossed the other side of traffic and then crossed in front of my car and then crossed back halfway and then decided to continue and cross back in front of my car and went into the shoulder.
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Deborah Wolfe: And so I had honked a bunch of times at the traffic so everybody stopped and this deer kind of did his thing.
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Deborah Wolfe: But the guy behind me in a truck was freaking out.
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Deborah Wolfe: He keeps yelling, kept yelling at the whole, everybody who would listen, he's not even on the road, he's not even on the road, as though we should all resume speeding by at 60.
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Deborah Wolfe: Well, the deer hadn't quite decided where he was gonna go and they leap really fast.
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Deborah Wolfe: I don't want to ruin my car or your car.
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Deborah Wolfe: I don't want to hit the deer.
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Deborah Wolfe: And the deer was an adult deer, looked like a female.
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Deborah Wolfe: It probably had babies on one side of the road or the other.
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Deborah Wolfe: So I'm anticipating more deer, right?
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Deborah Wolfe: I just don't want a collision.
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Deborah Wolfe: I don't want dead animals.
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Deborah Wolfe: I don't want damaged cars.
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Deborah Wolfe: This guy should just slow down.
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Deborah Wolfe: And all of you out there, if you're in a wildlife zone and you see an animal that you think has made it across the road, it might be part of a herd.
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Deborah Wolfe: It might have babies with it.
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Deborah Wolfe: Like just look around, slow down, take a picture if you like, deal with the road rager behind you.
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Deborah Wolfe: Who cares?
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Deborah Wolfe: There's more of you stopping than there are of him honking.
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Deborah Wolfe: But if you go fast and speed through, you might hit that animal, you might damage your car, you might cause a pile up with other cars.
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Deborah Wolfe: So it's totally not worth it.
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Deborah Wolfe: So just be careful.
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Deborah Wolfe: And deer are so much more common along the highways and urban places now than they were 20 or 30 years ago.
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Deborah Wolfe: And they're the ones that are really, I mean, moose, yeah, you hit one of those, you're in trouble.
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Deborah Wolfe: A few months ago in the winter, a bear ran after my tire and I hit a baby bear, but he was fine.
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Deborah Wolfe: I was going slow though.
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Deborah Wolfe: But these things do happen.
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Deborah Wolfe: Now I know I live in the woods in a very rural place, but lately in the news, I've seen reports of bears.
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Deborah Wolfe: There was a bear that broke into a car in a suburb of Vancouver called North Vancouver.
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Deborah Wolfe: And bears are really good at getting into things.
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Deborah Wolfe: Let's think about bears.
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Deborah Wolfe: They almost have a thumb, sort of like a raccoon, almost.
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Deborah Wolfe: And they have very strong dextrous fingers and hands, paws, beyond human capacity to even understand the strength of a bear.
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Deborah Wolfe: I mean, really, they can topple a car, no problem.
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Deborah Wolfe: Their talents can cut through metal.
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Deborah Wolfe: Nothing really stops them, but they're very intelligent.
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Deborah Wolfe: So they can actually open your car door or your trunk because, well, they have an amazing sense of smell.
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Deborah Wolfe: So maybe your kid left a chocolate bar wrapper on the floor in the back, or maybe you did.
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Deborah Wolfe: Or maybe there's bubble gum or mints.
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Deborah Wolfe: I mean, it could be anything in there, a tea bag, anything that smells like food, and they think there might be more food.
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Deborah Wolfe: So anyway, in a suburb of Vancouver, which is a big city, third largest city in Canada, so compares to many cities of the world, lots of people.
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Deborah Wolfe: Okay, in a suburb, bear finds this car, decides there's food and it breaks in, and he can't get out.
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Deborah Wolfe: No, he can't.
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Deborah Wolfe: Now, it's really hot here right now.
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Deborah Wolfe: We have a heat wave and no animals should be left in a car.
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Deborah Wolfe: So authorities get called and the police come and they break the back window.
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Deborah Wolfe: Yeah, because the bear was gonna die from the heat, but you should see this car.
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Deborah Wolfe: Oh my goodness.
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Deborah Wolfe: So bears are good at getting into things, but they're not always good at getting out of things.
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Deborah Wolfe: So around here, we always set our alarms and lock our cars at night, even if you're not worried about people breaking in, you don't want a bear to break into your car because trying to get out, they destroy your entire car.
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Deborah Wolfe: So that's what's happened.
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Deborah Wolfe: And just speaking of the heat, since we're talking about it, I can't believe I still have to say this, but so many animals die in hot cars.
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Deborah Wolfe: And I know it's summer all over the place right now.
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Deborah Wolfe: Well, last year, our local provincial SPCA, so the whole province wide, the state basically, got 837 calls for animals in hot cars.
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Deborah Wolfe: That's a lot.
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Deborah Wolfe: People should not be doing that.
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Deborah Wolfe: They've already got 300 this year.
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Deborah Wolfe: So, you know, and the weather just picked up.
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Deborah Wolfe: It's been raining up until now.
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Deborah Wolfe: So that's very alarming.
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Deborah Wolfe: Anything can happen to delay you.
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Deborah Wolfe: Your dog doesn't need to get to the brink of dehydration and heat exhaustion while he waits for you.
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Deborah Wolfe: And then you come out and you rescue him over and over and over as you do your errands.
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Deborah Wolfe: That's ridiculous.
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Deborah Wolfe: Leave your dog at home with shade and water and maybe a frozen treat and a cool place to be.
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Deborah Wolfe: And that's just, your dog doesn't want to be in that car.
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Deborah Wolfe: He might think he does, but he doesn't.
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Deborah Wolfe: Now, what do you do if you see one of these cars?
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Deborah Wolfe: You can't just break the window.
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Deborah Wolfe: No, you can't do that.
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Deborah Wolfe: Although I've been tempted at the chiropractor a few weeks ago, I was really tested.
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Deborah Wolfe: But you can't do that because it's against the law, for one thing.
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Deborah Wolfe: But also the animal, there's glass and you can get hurt.
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Deborah Wolfe: The animal can get hurt.
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Deborah Wolfe: Traffic problems, all kinds of issues.
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Deborah Wolfe: The animal can escape.
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Deborah Wolfe: It's really not a smart thing to do.
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Deborah Wolfe: So what do you do?
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Deborah Wolfe: Well, here you have a couple of choices.
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Deborah Wolfe: You can call this helpline.
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Deborah Wolfe: It's only for my province, 1-855-622-7722.
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Deborah Wolfe: That's the helpline.
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Deborah Wolfe: Or you can call the local RCMP, the police basically.
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Deborah Wolfe: So, and they'll, if you call the police in your state or city, they'll be able to tell you what helpline to call if you haven't already researched it.
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Deborah Wolfe: But you might want to look it up and know the helpline because that's what you're supposed to do.
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Deborah Wolfe: You're supposed to take note of the license plate, vehicle color, make and model.
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Deborah Wolfe: If it's located to any businesses nearby, that helps them find it.
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Deborah Wolfe: But with GPS, they should be able to find it.
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Deborah Wolfe: Any address that you've got, tell them if the animal is showing signs of distress, what those signs are.
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Deborah Wolfe: And, you know, like confusions, vomiting, staring, salivating, pantsing, no pantsing at all, any of those things.
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Deborah Wolfe: And then just stay there until they come rescue the animal.
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Deborah Wolfe: So that's what you want to do.
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Deborah Wolfe: Okay, everybody, heavy topics.
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Deborah Wolfe: We're going to go to break and come back with something, something beautiful.
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Deborah Wolfe: Hello, we're back on Animal Party, Pet Life Radio.
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Deborah Wolfe: Something beautiful, huh?
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Deborah Wolfe: Is that what I said?
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Deborah Wolfe: Okay, we'll come to that.
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Deborah Wolfe: We'll come to something beautiful.
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Deborah Wolfe: First, I'm gonna tell you about the Montreal SPCA.
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Deborah Wolfe: What a smart idea.
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Deborah Wolfe: Yes, yes, yes, yes.
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Deborah Wolfe: Okay, what'd they do?
00:15:48.868 --> 00:15:49.548
Deborah Wolfe: What'd they do?
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Deborah Wolfe: Well, they had so many calls, so many, that they were just overrun with pets, overrun completely, more were coming in, and they knew that as the time for renting came, the new changeover, they were gonna get even more pets, and that's what happened.
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Deborah Wolfe: So what are they doing?
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Deborah Wolfe: Well, first of all, they are lobbying to get all the rent rules to allow pets, the no pet clauses removed, which some parts of Vancouver has already done successfully.
00:16:20.428 --> 00:16:22.668
Deborah Wolfe: So well done on that, because that's key.
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Deborah Wolfe: People are turning over their animals just because they're not allowed to in their new rental accommodation, keep them.
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Deborah Wolfe: And that's just awful, awful.
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Deborah Wolfe: All that homeless pet, just for no reason.
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Deborah Wolfe: Okay, I mean, you can ask for a larger deposit.
00:16:37.128 --> 00:16:42.928
Deborah Wolfe: There are ways of dealing with this that's fair to the landlord, but you shouldn't be allowed to exclude pets.
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Deborah Wolfe: Anyway, that's the first thing they're doing.
00:16:45.048 --> 00:16:52.928
Deborah Wolfe: And the second thing they did was last Sunday, because they're so overflowing with animals and they knew they were gonna get more every time.
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Deborah Wolfe: It's the first of the month that people move out.
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Deborah Wolfe: This happens.
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Deborah Wolfe: So what'd they do?
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Deborah Wolfe: What'd they do?
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Deborah Wolfe: They made it a free adoption day.
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Deborah Wolfe: So people just had to pay a token admin fee, that's it, and they could get an animal.
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Deborah Wolfe: And the lines went out the door.
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Deborah Wolfe: So well done.
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Deborah Wolfe: Better to have dogs and cats in people's homes than in overcrowded rescues or worse.
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Deborah Wolfe: So well done Montreal SPCA, yay!
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Deborah Wolfe: Okay, so they had a 20% rise in abandonments in the first four months of the year, and they were expecting the worst on July 1st as that date approached, because that's a really big move date here.
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Deborah Wolfe: It's Canada Day, and for some reason, it's a big move date.
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Deborah Wolfe: So then the fears actually materialized.
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Deborah Wolfe: 150 animals were abandoned at the shelter in the first week of July.
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Deborah Wolfe: A quarter of them because of a move.
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Deborah Wolfe: So Montreal SPCA is now seeking to have the no pet claws removed from leases.
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Deborah Wolfe: Yes, yes, yes, yes.
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Deborah Wolfe: And free adoption, so that's what you gotta do.
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Deborah Wolfe: There's some rescues around here that make it so hard for people to adopt.
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Deborah Wolfe: They put you through such a rigmarole.
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Deborah Wolfe: If you want a cat, you have to promise you'll never leave a door open.
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Deborah Wolfe: You'll never have a cat door.
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Deborah Wolfe: You'll never have a kid forget to open a door.
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Deborah Wolfe: You never don't even have little kids probably.
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Deborah Wolfe: I mean, they make it near impossible because they're so strict about their indoor only cat policy, which I do understand.
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Deborah Wolfe: I do understand cats get killed in the outdoors by traffic, by animals, and they're much safer inside.
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Deborah Wolfe: I do get that.
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Deborah Wolfe: But if your shelter's overflowing and you have no more space and can't take anymore, or you're actually having to euthanize cats, why wouldn't you let people have them?
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Deborah Wolfe: A lot of these cats won't go anywhere anyway.
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Deborah Wolfe: They're already acclimatized to indoors.
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Deborah Wolfe: And the ones that would go outside and want to go outside, I got a question.
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Deborah Wolfe: Question how you keep a cat like that in, because I don't, as you probably know from listening to the show.
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Deborah Wolfe: I have cat doors.
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Deborah Wolfe: I live on a farm, so there's coyotes and wolves and whatever else out there, raccoons and cars, and all the things that cats could come into contact with.
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Deborah Wolfe: So they probably don't live quite as long as if I'd lock them inside and never let them out and figure out artificial means to entertain and exercise them.
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Deborah Wolfe: But as you can tell from my tone of voice, I'm not going to do that.
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Deborah Wolfe: I do entertain and exercise them, but they can go and they can hunt and they can have their life outside.
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Deborah Wolfe: And mostly it's the small little mice that are their favorite game.
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Deborah Wolfe: And there's always a rodent problem when you have chickens, which I do, so they're helpful in that respect.
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Deborah Wolfe: And there's no mice in the house, at least no live ones.
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Deborah Wolfe: Dead ones, yes.
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Deborah Wolfe: And I have to deal with that, but better dead ones than live ones.
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Deborah Wolfe: That's what I figure.
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Deborah Wolfe: Now, all you people out there who are people who own pet rats, please, please, like give me some slack here.
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Deborah Wolfe: These are not your pets.
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Deborah Wolfe: And they don't look like your pets either.
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Deborah Wolfe: Really, they don't.
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Deborah Wolfe: Okay, so back to the topic of cats.
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Deborah Wolfe: So the cat rescues around here sometimes are a little bit difficult that way.
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Deborah Wolfe: And then occasionally, like about 20 years ago, they'll get a weird cat, a cat that just makes it so difficult for them.
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Deborah Wolfe: There was this one called Sadie.
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Deborah Wolfe: And like these places are like fortresses.
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Deborah Wolfe: They have double gates, locking doors and all this.
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Deborah Wolfe: And no cat ever escapes, except Sadie.
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Deborah Wolfe: Sadie escaped regularly to the point where they'd have to hunt her down and find her.
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Deborah Wolfe: She'd come back for food.
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Deborah Wolfe: They'd get her inside.
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Deborah Wolfe: And then a few days later, oh, Sadie got out.
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Deborah Wolfe: So they asked me to take Sadie.
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Deborah Wolfe: And I took Sadie to my farm thinking, yeah, well, whatever, one more outdoor cat.
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Deborah Wolfe: I don't mind.
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Deborah Wolfe: Yeah, two days later, she's sitting on my bed.
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Deborah Wolfe: So you never know what a cat's real desire in life is, if it wants to be out or in, until you give it the opportunity.
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Deborah Wolfe: Yeah, but most cats, if given the choice, most young, healthy cats would want some outdoor time.
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Deborah Wolfe: And many, many cats who have been denied that would still enjoy a catio type arrangement, a patio where they get outdoor time or yard or something, but they can't, predators can't get at them and you're with them at the time and it's secured.
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Deborah Wolfe: So they have the ones with the fence over top, so they're completely enclosed, completely safe, and they have other variations of it.
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Deborah Wolfe: But I do recommend outdoor time for cats, if you can make it possible and make it safe.
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Deborah Wolfe: So, I mean, I do have the advantage here of having so many dogs, which makes my perimeter safe, which stops the predators from coming in.
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Deborah Wolfe: And then my property extends down from the road, so the cats have very little interest in the road itself.
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Deborah Wolfe: They want to go to where the mice and things are down in the fields and by the river and near the chicken coop, so they're not very motivated to go to the road.
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Deborah Wolfe: And you kind of have to structure things, so your animals are motivated, tempted to do the right thing.
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Deborah Wolfe: That's the way to do it.
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Deborah Wolfe: Okay, I promised you something beautiful, so I'll give you an update.
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Deborah Wolfe: Though we had eight puppies born here.
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Deborah Wolfe: Basically, what happened was two dogs were checked in, a boy and a girl, sort of like Noah's Ark, Adam and Eve, whatever.
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Deborah Wolfe: But I didn't know that at the time.
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Deborah Wolfe: She's young.
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Deborah Wolfe: He's a little bit older, like young dog still, but she's very young.
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Deborah Wolfe: Anyway, she's a blue healer, and he's a border collie cross.
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Deborah Wolfe: And they're lively and happy and slim and fit and trim and everything's going great.
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Deborah Wolfe: And then I start to notice she looks a little chubby.
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Deborah Wolfe: It's kind of odd because we're not, we're feeding her what we're supposed to.
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Deborah Wolfe: We're measuring it and everything at the boarding kennel.
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Deborah Wolfe: No, she's looking chubby.
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Deborah Wolfe: Okay, she's starting to look like a snake that swallowed a basketball.
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Deborah Wolfe: What the heck is going on?
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Deborah Wolfe: Well, June 25th, she gave birth to eight puppies.
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Deborah Wolfe: Yes, and they are gorgeous.
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Deborah Wolfe: Yes, they are.
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Deborah Wolfe: So now they've just opened their eyes.
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Deborah Wolfe: And when you hear this show, they'll probably be available because it appears that the owners are not coming back for the parents or the puppies, unfortunately.
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Deborah Wolfe: It was a strange call for me to make, I gotta say, when I call the people and I'm like, well, I have good news.
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Deborah Wolfe: You know, I'm basically telling them they've sent two dogs to camp and they're picking up 10.
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Deborah Wolfe: But they were happy and nice and said they'd come in a few days and that was weeks ago.
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Deborah Wolfe: So I do think that I will be finding homes for the eight black and white puppies who are so gorgeous.
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Deborah Wolfe: They are so beautiful.
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Deborah Wolfe: Couldn't be a better outcome.
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Deborah Wolfe: Three boys, five girls already once spoken for.
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Deborah Wolfe: So hallelujah on that.
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Deborah Wolfe: And I found a foster mom to take two, perhaps three if I'm persuasive, and she'll find homes for them.
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Deborah Wolfe: So we're just working on the rest and then the parents.
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Deborah Wolfe: It's not something I wanted to do this summer, but it's definitely a labor of love and the beauty of watching a dog become a mama and take care of her young and watching them open their eyes, see you for the first time, see her, their mom for the first time, the way they sound, the way they smell, all of that is amazing.
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Deborah Wolfe: It's just a beautiful, beautiful scene.
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Deborah Wolfe: The second you walk into the barn, you get this vibe of just contentment.
00:24:26.768 --> 00:24:30.828
Deborah Wolfe: It's energy, but it's such a baby energy.
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Deborah Wolfe: I can't explain it until you feel it.
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Deborah Wolfe: But the mom is looking at you like, look what I did, all proud and happy, happy, happy and excited to see you.
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Deborah Wolfe: And the babies are all squirming around and talking because she's left them to greet you.
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Deborah Wolfe: And you go over to them and they're all excited to see you too.
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Deborah Wolfe: And they're looking at you like, oh, that's you who's been petting me all these weeks.
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Deborah Wolfe: Hello, you know, it's an amazing hello.
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Deborah Wolfe: And you just pick them up and make eye contact and touch them and keep them close to mom while you do it.
00:24:59.468 --> 00:25:11.088
Deborah Wolfe: So they get this very good, all sort of well-being feeling all over of comfort and contentment that goes along with being next to their mom, but now they're with you.
00:25:11.088 --> 00:25:17.288
Deborah Wolfe: So the human addition is part of that early, early memory of safety, right?
00:25:17.308 --> 00:25:18.508
Deborah Wolfe: You get that right early.
00:25:18.768 --> 00:25:25.148
Deborah Wolfe: And they're just little black and white, little panda, Jersey cow puppies.
00:25:25.188 --> 00:25:26.888
Deborah Wolfe: That's the only way I could explain it.
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Deborah Wolfe: Gorgeous little things.
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Deborah Wolfe: And none of them are weak.
00:25:29.368 --> 00:25:33.908
Deborah Wolfe: There's a few little ones and one very large one, but neither parent is big.
00:25:33.928 --> 00:25:38.208
Deborah Wolfe: Mom's quite small, maybe 25, 30 pounds, and dad's about 45 pounds.
00:25:38.228 --> 00:25:40.888
Deborah Wolfe: So they're not huge dogs and they'll be hurting dogs.
00:25:41.188 --> 00:25:45.368
Deborah Wolfe: And if anyone local is interested, by the time you hear this show, they'll probably be available.
00:25:45.728 --> 00:25:47.468
Deborah Wolfe: So check out Camp Good Dog.
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Deborah Wolfe: If you want to see pictures of these beautiful puppies, we do post them regularly, along with pictures of our campers.
00:25:54.128 --> 00:25:59.368
Deborah Wolfe: So go to Facebook, Camp Good Dog, and we're up in British Columbia, Canada.
00:25:59.948 --> 00:26:12.968
Deborah Wolfe: And we post pictures of all these different dogs from the city who come here when their owners are on holiday, and you see them get like dirty, you see them roll in tall grass and swim in the pond and play with other dogs.
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Deborah Wolfe: For the dogs, it's like living at the dog park, you know, when all your friends are there.
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Deborah Wolfe: And your owner's not too busy to take you.
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Deborah Wolfe: It doesn't matter what the weather is, you're still gonna get to go for walks every day off leash.
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Deborah Wolfe: And so they're pretty happy.
00:26:28.648 --> 00:26:30.268
Deborah Wolfe: You'll see them grinning from ear to ear.
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Deborah Wolfe: And right now we have a heat wave.
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Deborah Wolfe: So most of them, even the ones that don't swim, they kind of half swim, they wade into the pond and cool off or intentionally get splashed by other dogs going in and out, that kind of thing.
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Deborah Wolfe: So they cool off.
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Deborah Wolfe: And it's just a beautiful, beautiful time of year out here in British Columbia.
00:26:48.728 --> 00:26:52.788
Deborah Wolfe: You know, we manage through this dark wet winter.
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Deborah Wolfe: And then this year, like last year, June, we called it Junuary because it was wet, very, very wet.
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Deborah Wolfe: And now, ta-da, it's a heat wave.
00:27:05.248 --> 00:27:10.848
Deborah Wolfe: It's 80 degrees, 25 to 30 every day, and no rain in sight.
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Deborah Wolfe: And so people like me are happy, very, very happy.
00:27:16.168 --> 00:27:18.548
Deborah Wolfe: It does mean though that we have to worry about fires.
00:27:18.968 --> 00:27:23.248
Deborah Wolfe: And so you should have a crate or a kennel for every pet you've got.
00:27:23.788 --> 00:27:28.968
Deborah Wolfe: Now, they do collapse, so you can fold them all into one and use it as a storage box, but you should have one.
00:27:29.408 --> 00:27:30.728
Deborah Wolfe: I find dogs like them.
00:27:31.168 --> 00:27:38.468
Deborah Wolfe: Just to have one out somewhere that they can run into during a thunderstorm or when kids are bugging them or whatever, you can even take the door off it.
00:27:38.828 --> 00:27:44.768
Deborah Wolfe: I find dogs like to have one around, but you should have one for every pet, and you should have meds.
00:27:45.688 --> 00:27:51.648
Deborah Wolfe: And if you've got prescription meds, keep a copy of the prescription in case you have to relocate with your pet and go fill it somewhere.
00:27:52.168 --> 00:27:53.588
Deborah Wolfe: You might not be able to reach your vet.
00:27:53.608 --> 00:27:59.028
Deborah Wolfe: Your vet may be flooded or under a fire or evacuation warning too, if it's local to you.
00:27:59.568 --> 00:28:00.688
Deborah Wolfe: So have that all with you.
00:28:00.708 --> 00:28:03.528
Deborah Wolfe: Have rabies and vaccine proofs on your phone or with you.
00:28:04.028 --> 00:28:07.588
Deborah Wolfe: And water and bowls, collapsible bowls are great.
00:28:07.988 --> 00:28:09.768
Deborah Wolfe: Make sure your kennel is stackable.
00:28:10.068 --> 00:28:17.368
Deborah Wolfe: So if you end up at a shelter or rescue place and they're stacking all the dogs together, your dog's not a pain or not welcome.
00:28:17.788 --> 00:28:22.228
Deborah Wolfe: And if you've got dogs and cats that don't like a kennel, it's time to work on that.
00:28:22.568 --> 00:28:23.648
Deborah Wolfe: It's really easy to do.
00:28:23.668 --> 00:28:34.728
Deborah Wolfe: I mean, cats love enclosed spaces anyway, so just put their food in there sometimes with the door off or open, or put some catnip in there or some toys or play with them in there or cuddle with them in there.
00:28:34.748 --> 00:28:40.648
Deborah Wolfe: I mean, you can get a cat used to a little kennel really easily because they love boxes and it's just a box.
00:28:41.108 --> 00:28:48.608
Deborah Wolfe: So start now though, make it something that's not part of an emergency, not part of a vet visit, just cause, just cause.
00:28:49.228 --> 00:28:51.588
Deborah Wolfe: And with dogs, make it a game.
00:28:52.228 --> 00:28:54.428
Deborah Wolfe: It's not just punishment place, right?
00:28:54.468 --> 00:28:56.228
Deborah Wolfe: It's not just go to the vet time.
00:28:56.788 --> 00:28:58.148
Deborah Wolfe: It's where's your ball?
00:28:58.388 --> 00:28:59.788
Deborah Wolfe: It's go get your bone.
00:28:59.868 --> 00:29:00.928
Deborah Wolfe: It's where's your treat?
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Deborah Wolfe: Yeah.
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Deborah Wolfe: And if your dog really, really loves kids, like loves them, some golden retrievers are like this, some spaniels, not in the most dogs don't love kids to this degree, but they might love a kid.
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Deborah Wolfe: If they really, really, really love the kids, then kids can play with them in the kennel.
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Deborah Wolfe: But most dogs will use the kennel to escape children who are just a little too much.
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Deborah Wolfe: So that's a good thing to remember.
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Deborah Wolfe: And I always choose kennels that don't let the light in.
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Deborah Wolfe: I know it seems to us like they might like it more open, like the cage style, but dogs, their eyes are on the top of their head and the lights that we choose that beam down on them are pretty irritating.
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Deborah Wolfe: So for a dog to get into a dark cozy cave, that's kind of important.
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Deborah Wolfe: So the kind that are solid are better.
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Deborah Wolfe: Now, if you made the mistake and you bought the cage kind, you can always cover it with a blanket, as long as your dog's not the kind who pulls blankets through and eats them.
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Deborah Wolfe: You know, if your dog's a well-behaved dog, you can cover it with a blanket and then it becomes a closed cozy cave.
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Deborah Wolfe: Oh, I've run out of time already, and I was gonna talk about some more stuff.
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Deborah Wolfe: Well, we'll talk about some more stuff next week.
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Deborah Wolfe: Yeah, I wanted to talk about something strange going on with the dolphins and the manatees.
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Deborah Wolfe: So I'll save that for next week.
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Deborah Wolfe: Until next week, from me and Animal Party, Pet Life Radio, be good to your animals.
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