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American politician who wanted to be Trump’s running mate, Kristi Noem, wrote that she killed her dog and a goat and her explanations are baffling. Is she bragging about killing her pointer puppy because she thinks voters will like this toughness? When a dog won’t hunt you train it, give it away or sell it…you don’t kill it! This is an example of wrong-headed bad decision making and emotional detachment that is extreme. Why did the goat deserve to be shot? Apparently because it smelled musky. So she shot a puppy for being a puppy and shot a goat for smelling like a goat.
Science and the law working together; DNA samples were used to prove the cause of two human deaths was by their neighbors’ dogs. Today is rescue a shelter pet day but every day should be since you can find the most wonderful pets in shelters and they come with gratitude. Deborah gives a tip for cat owners that will reduce the amount of dead little animal presents from your cats. Give the birds a break with this cat door tip. Check out Deborah Wolfe- Pet Expert on YouTube for training tips demonstrated with cute misbehaving dogs.
Please send your questions, suggestions, and comments by voice clip or send me a few lines to deb@petliferadio.com
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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 with me, Deborah Wolfe.
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Deborah Wolfe: Good morning, everybody.
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Deborah Wolfe: Good afternoon.
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Deborah Wolfe: Today, well, today, I don't know what to make of American politics, quite honestly, sitting here in Canada.
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Deborah Wolfe: I cannot imagine anyone running for office in Canada and writing a book and boasting about how that person killed their dog and then also a goat.
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Deborah Wolfe: It just makes no sense to me.
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Deborah Wolfe: And I read the passages and I went and looked it all up, and I've just been...
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Deborah Wolfe: The only thing I can come up with is that Kristi Noem wants to seem tough.
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Deborah Wolfe: I think that's what it is.
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Deborah Wolfe: She wants to seem like a woman who will do what it takes, whatever that might be.
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Deborah Wolfe: But she's off on the wrong task.
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Deborah Wolfe: That's the whole problem with this and shows no humanity.
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Deborah Wolfe: And her description of this dog, Cricket, the German pointer who was still an adolescent dog, puppy, and hadn't been trained and got overly excited and ruined a hunt.
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Deborah Wolfe: Well, yeah, that's what an untrained dog will do on a hunt.
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Deborah Wolfe: And then she took it to her friend's house with chickens shortly after, and it attacked the chickens.
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Deborah Wolfe: Well, it's not been trained.
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Deborah Wolfe: It's not been trained to stay away from chickens.
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Deborah Wolfe: It's not been trained to fetch ducks properly.
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Deborah Wolfe: It hasn't been put into a situation where it observes and learns.
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Deborah Wolfe: Nothing's been done with this dog, and she decides to kill it.
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Deborah Wolfe: So she takes it to a gravel pit and kills it.
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Deborah Wolfe: And then after that, I mean, I don't even know how you could even do that.
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Deborah Wolfe: Why not rehome it?
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Deborah Wolfe: Why not find it a home that isn't a hunting home?
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Deborah Wolfe: It's so simple.
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Deborah Wolfe: It's so simple.
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Deborah Wolfe: That doesn't, today happens to be adopt a dog from a shelter, adopt a pet from a shelter day, and here she is just killing it.
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Deborah Wolfe: The dog didn't attack a person.
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Deborah Wolfe: It didn't do anything that made it unfit for society.
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Deborah Wolfe: It's just not fit for a hunting dog.
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Deborah Wolfe: So the dog won't hunt.
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Deborah Wolfe: You don't kill it.
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Deborah Wolfe: You give it away or sell it.
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Deborah Wolfe: Then, then she goes and decides the goat needs to be killed.
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Deborah Wolfe: Why, you ask, would a goat need to be killed?
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Deborah Wolfe: Well, apparently it was musky smelling.
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Deborah Wolfe: I've never met a billy goat that didn't stink.
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Deborah Wolfe: That's just the way they are.
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Deborah Wolfe: You don't kill a goat for smelling like a goat.
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Deborah Wolfe: That's insane.
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Deborah Wolfe: And he was slightly aggressive or posturing with the children.
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Deborah Wolfe: Billy goats are like that.
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Deborah Wolfe: They use their horns to break things and bash things, and they bring about contests.
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Deborah Wolfe: They like to do, you know, when men sometimes to get together and they arm wrestle, or you'll see boys play fight really hard to see who's strongest, or when two dogs that are friends meet at the park, sometimes they'll run at each other, so their chest hit, and they're just trying to see who's the tougher one of us?
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Deborah Wolfe: Who's the bigger dog, right?
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Deborah Wolfe: Well, that's what goats do all the time with each other.
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Deborah Wolfe: They're constantly testing, and if you don't like that, you don't get a goat.
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Deborah Wolfe: If your goat is misbehaving, you sell it, you don't shoot it.
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Deborah Wolfe: So I'm really hoping that this will affect her political career.
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Deborah Wolfe: In Canada, I really don't think that we would vote for a woman who brags about killing animals, especially in these circumstances.
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Deborah Wolfe: It wasn't, you know, I saved my children from an attacking bear.
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Deborah Wolfe: Okay, yeah, we'd vote for a woman for that up here in Canada.
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Deborah Wolfe: We would, but not, I saved no one and killed a dog for no reason.
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Deborah Wolfe: That's just terrible, Kristi.
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Deborah Wolfe: So I hope you all are paying attention to this and considering this, because it really does show to character.
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Deborah Wolfe: And that someone could get something so wrong, that they would think their only option or their best option is to take a life, is really shocking.
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Deborah Wolfe: And then to not have remorse about it, to think that that's something that would help you on the campaign trail.
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Deborah Wolfe: She's just way off, which this woman's lost her marbles.
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Deborah Wolfe: So I'm not going to talk about her anymore.
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Deborah Wolfe: I surely hope I won't have to.
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Deborah Wolfe: I hope you all aren't going to vote for her.
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Deborah Wolfe: Alright, I hope she never gets put on the ballot, because this woman is bad news, bad, bad news.
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Deborah Wolfe: Alright everybody, we're going to take a break and come back to some good news on Animal Party Pet Life Radio.
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Deborah Wolfe: Hello, we're back on Animal Party on Pet Life Radio.
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Deborah Wolfe: And I was watching TV, you know, as you do, and there was a commercial, and it was about a brand new kind of litter box, you know, the latest, greatest litter box.
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Deborah Wolfe: And I, yeah, if you've got a cat, you've got a box somewhere in your house that stinks.
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Deborah Wolfe: And no matter what you do, no matter what litter box you get, as soon as you clean it, the cat wants to use it.
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Deborah Wolfe: And it always has that, you know, special scent, that fragrance.
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Deborah Wolfe: So litter box is a big problem for cat owners.
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Deborah Wolfe: It's a huge issue.
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Deborah Wolfe: But this company decides to advertise their product by saying this line.
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Deborah Wolfe: The announcer opens up the commercial with the line that says this.
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Deborah Wolfe: We all wish we could hear what our cats think.
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Deborah Wolfe: Okay, do we?
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Deborah Wolfe: Do we really?
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Deborah Wolfe: Do I want to hear what my cat thinks?
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Deborah Wolfe: I don't know.
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Deborah Wolfe: I think they might have very dark thoughts or commanding.
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Deborah Wolfe: Sometimes when I look at my cat, I swear he's not thinking good things.
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Deborah Wolfe: I don't know if I want to hear everything my cat thinks.
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Deborah Wolfe: Bird, bird, bird, bird, bird, bird.
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Deborah Wolfe: Is that what I want to hear?
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Deborah Wolfe: I'm not so sure about that.
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Deborah Wolfe: But I would like a litter box that didn't smell.
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Deborah Wolfe: So if you can come up with one, I'll buy it.
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Deborah Wolfe: I think they'd probably say things like feed me, feed me, feed me, feed me.
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Deborah Wolfe: I think they'd be very repetitive.
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Deborah Wolfe: Oh, what if you had a cat with OCD?
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Deborah Wolfe: No, I do not want to know what my cat thinks.
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Deborah Wolfe: I don't want to hear my cat.
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Deborah Wolfe: How about you?
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Deborah Wolfe: If you want to hear your cat, let me know.
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Deborah Wolfe: If you think you do hear your cat, let me know what your cat's saying at dev at petliferadio.com.
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Deborah Wolfe: You can send me real questions.
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Deborah Wolfe: My dog won't come, my dog hates my neighbor, my dog won't stop barking, my cat won't sit still, my cat hates the vet, my cat scratches all the time, my cat doesn't like my dog, anything like that.
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Deborah Wolfe: Or why does my cat do this thing?
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Deborah Wolfe: Or why does my dog do this strange thing?
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Deborah Wolfe: You can ask me anything like that and I'll answer it, or I'll get an expert to answer it if I can't answer it myself.
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Deborah Wolfe: So anything pet behavior is very, very welcome.
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Deborah Wolfe: But also just the bizarre.
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Deborah Wolfe: I'm always interested in hearing from pet owners about anything they're thinking about.
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Deborah Wolfe: So that's Deb at petliferadio.com, Deb Wolfe at petliferadio.com, either way.
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Deborah Wolfe: And you can do it with a voice clip.
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Deborah Wolfe: You don't have to type it out.
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Deborah Wolfe: You can just send me a voice clip off your cell phone and then we'll play you asking your question and we'll answer it.
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Deborah Wolfe: All right.
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Deborah Wolfe: So there's been some more pets in the news and that's what I'm going to cover today.
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Deborah Wolfe: Sometimes though, I notice pets come with really interesting names.
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Deborah Wolfe: And one dog, the first dog that Prince owned, was called God.
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Deborah Wolfe: Well, that's a very strange name to call a dog.
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Deborah Wolfe: A dog checked into my kennel the other day.
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Deborah Wolfe: We're at Camp Good Dog here up in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
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Deborah Wolfe: Dog checked in with two names.
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Deborah Wolfe: Not one name.
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Deborah Wolfe: No, not just Chuck, but Chuck Norris.
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Deborah Wolfe: Yup, Chuck Norris is staying at my kennel right now.
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Deborah Wolfe: Yeah, I wish.
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Deborah Wolfe: Well, anyway, Chuck Norris, the dog, is staying at the kennel and he sure suits his name.
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Deborah Wolfe: Sometimes I think people give a dog a name too quickly, and sometimes they take too long.
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Deborah Wolfe: Sometimes they give a dog a name, the first name that comes to them, they see him and they go, oh, he's so cute.
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Deborah Wolfe: Let's call him Cutie.
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Deborah Wolfe: And then they realize that like, that's a lot of dogs called Cutie, a lot.
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Deborah Wolfe: You're standing in the park and you're calling Cutie and your dog's ignoring you and other dogs are coming and it's not really the best name.
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Deborah Wolfe: So you kind of want to come up with something unique, but then there's people who wait so long that the dog chooses his own name.
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Deborah Wolfe: So I have two customers at my kennel over the years, both have had the same problem.
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Deborah Wolfe: They waited too long to call the dog to come up with a name.
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Deborah Wolfe: And so they started spelling it.
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Deborah Wolfe: And they would say to each other, Hey, does the DOG need to be fed?
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Deborah Wolfe: Oh, I don't know.
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Deborah Wolfe: Did you walk the DOG?
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Deborah Wolfe: And that went on for a few weeks until the dog decided his name was DOG, just like it's spelled DOG.
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Deborah Wolfe: So now we got two dogs that come to Camp Good Dog called DOG.
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Deborah Wolfe: And actually, I think that's a great name.
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Deborah Wolfe: But if you do take too long, your dog may decide for himself.
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Deborah Wolfe: So get busy on picking those names if you've got a good a new pet and make sure it's something a little bit unique.
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Deborah Wolfe: We really do have enough Max's and Bella's.
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Deborah Wolfe: And I am telling you, if you go to a park and call one of those names, you will get other dogs.
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Deborah Wolfe: So try and come up with something a little bit different.
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Deborah Wolfe: Okay, we're going to go to a break and come back 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 I'm about to tell you about a story that's a little bit complicated and kind of interesting.
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Deborah Wolfe: So, two dogs from a nearby property attacked and killed a woman near me in an area called Pit Meadows, just a suburb area of Vancouver, in 2021.
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Deborah Wolfe: But the interesting part is, at first it was blamed on a bear.
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Deborah Wolfe: But then someone else was hurt in the same area, suspiciously, people thought.
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Deborah Wolfe: People really did think it was a certain couple of dogs.
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Deborah Wolfe: So, what happened is DNA samples were taken from the dogs following the second death of someone on a neighboring property.
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Deborah Wolfe: And because there were fatal traumatic injuries, mostly to the arms and the legs of the person, it was consistent with a dog, a dog attack or coyote attack or wolf attack.
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Deborah Wolfe: But the authorities, the conservation officers, initially did think it was a black bear.
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Deborah Wolfe: However, now they've taken the DNA analysis of hair and saliva samples, and they figured out that it was the dogs.
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Deborah Wolfe: So, it took two years, and the people are in trouble because they denied having a dangerous dog, and it manifested a propensity to cause harm to others, was not taken under control, and they did nothing about it.
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Deborah Wolfe: So, that's good.
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Deborah Wolfe: But I find it just fascinating that DNA can be used this way.
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Deborah Wolfe: And both the dogs were euthanized in January 2023.
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Deborah Wolfe: So, two years after, they killed the first person and then killed another person.
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Deborah Wolfe: And this idea that your dog has a propensity, it's quite a confusing, you know, how do you know your dog?
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Deborah Wolfe: The first time a dog bites, nobody expects it, right?
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Deborah Wolfe: Everyone says, oh my God, he's never done that before.
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Deborah Wolfe: Well, of course not, there's going to be a first time.
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Deborah Wolfe: But should you have expected it?
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Deborah Wolfe: Was he growling?
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Deborah Wolfe: Was he resource guarding?
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Deborah Wolfe: Was he not liking people going near his bowl or his favorite sofa or his toys?
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Deborah Wolfe: Was he not moving off the couch when you wanted the couch?
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Deborah Wolfe: Was he insisting on holding his ground in certain ways?
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Deborah Wolfe: All these are signs that you go to grab his collar and he looks at you like, don't do it.
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Deborah Wolfe: Okay, those are all signs that a dog is not accepting your authority, not comfortable with your relationship and likely to make a power play, which is going to be with his mouth.
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Deborah Wolfe: So if you've got a dog who's behaving this way, you need to train him.
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Deborah Wolfe: If you've got a dog who drags you around the neighborhood, stop it.
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Deborah Wolfe: Every time you let that dog do that, he's re-establishing his control over you.
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Deborah Wolfe: And it doesn't matter if he's a min pin or a Great Dane.
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Deborah Wolfe: If he's a min pin and the leash breaks, he's going to just go.
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Deborah Wolfe: Maybe he'll get hit by a car.
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Deborah Wolfe: Maybe he'll attack some giant dog and get in trouble.
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Deborah Wolfe: Who knows what he'll do if he's untrained.
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Deborah Wolfe: He really needs your help learning how to behave properly, successfully, peacefully with other animals and people in life.
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Deborah Wolfe: And that all starts with the leash.
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Deborah Wolfe: If your dog isn't behaving on a leash, he's not going to behave off a leash.
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Deborah Wolfe: Now, I get flack on that.
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Deborah Wolfe: I get people coming here and saying to me, oh, well, he's only aggressive when he's on a leash.
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Deborah Wolfe: Yeah, okay, sure.
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Deborah Wolfe: Yeah, when he's on a leash, he feels less able to run away, less able to take charge of the situation, more dependent on you.
00:14:13.012 --> 00:14:21.872
Deborah Wolfe: And a dog who has real issues might be more aggressive on leash, but that doesn't mean you let him go and hope for the best, which is exactly what people do.
00:14:21.872 --> 00:14:27.092
Deborah Wolfe: They let him go and they hope for the best, and then they start calling out to people approaching, is your dog friendly?
00:14:27.092 --> 00:14:29.032
Deborah Wolfe: Or they'll even ask you the gender of your dog.
00:14:29.032 --> 00:14:30.352
Deborah Wolfe: Is your dog a female?
00:14:30.352 --> 00:14:34.712
Deborah Wolfe: Because they've got a female who hates females or a male who hates males.
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Deborah Wolfe: No, people, you can't be doing that.
00:14:37.352 --> 00:14:42.972
Deborah Wolfe: If your dog isn't perfectly well behaved and peaceful with others, then he needs to be on a leash all the time.
00:14:43.452 --> 00:14:46.852
Deborah Wolfe: And if he's horrible on leash, pay for a training lesson.
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Deborah Wolfe: It will take one lesson.
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Deborah Wolfe: That's it.
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Deborah Wolfe: In fact, it takes minutes to get a dog to heal.
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Deborah Wolfe: So if you're out there listening and maybe your dog isn't aggressive, but he's pulling you around, maybe he's a breed that likes to pull.
00:15:00.752 --> 00:15:02.112
Deborah Wolfe: There's a few of them out there.
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Deborah Wolfe: Huskies, German Shepherds, Dalmatians.
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Deborah Wolfe: If you let them, they'll walk lead.
00:15:06.552 --> 00:15:09.332
Deborah Wolfe: They'll walk in the lead and pull you, drag you.
00:15:09.332 --> 00:15:10.772
Deborah Wolfe: They will set the pace.
00:15:10.772 --> 00:15:12.432
Deborah Wolfe: They will try to determine the course.
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Deborah Wolfe: They will be the leader of the walk.
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Deborah Wolfe: But that's not ideal.
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Deborah Wolfe: You, definitely not.
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Deborah Wolfe: So what you want to do right away, right away, you start your walk, the first few steps.
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Deborah Wolfe: If he's pulling or she's pulling, you just stop.
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Deborah Wolfe: Uh-uh, I'm not walking rudely.
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Deborah Wolfe: I only walk politely.
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Deborah Wolfe: It doesn't take very long for most dogs to learn, literally minutes, seconds.
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Deborah Wolfe: And they, wait a minute, if I pull, she stops, I'm not gonna pull anymore because I really want to go to the park.
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Deborah Wolfe: Simple.
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Deborah Wolfe: The trick is to remember, because later on in the walk, you'll forget, you'll be talking to a friend or drinking your mocha or just thinking about things as a dog will start pulling in its own habit.
00:15:49.692 --> 00:15:51.872
Deborah Wolfe: And that's when you got to correct him again.
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Deborah Wolfe: Stop walking.
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Deborah Wolfe: If he wants something badly, like to get to his friend or to greet your daughter coming home from school or to play in the park, there's a destination he wants.
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Deborah Wolfe: That's great.
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Deborah Wolfe: Use it.
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Deborah Wolfe: You're going to show him that when he heals nicely, he gets that destination.
00:16:13.332 --> 00:16:16.072
Deborah Wolfe: When he's rude, you go the opposite way.
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Deborah Wolfe: He watches as your daughter's standing there and you guys walk away from her, even though he wants to greet her.
00:16:21.472 --> 00:16:23.952
Deborah Wolfe: And he's like, it's a total wake up call for him.
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Deborah Wolfe: Mind blown.
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Deborah Wolfe: He just sits there going, what are you doing?
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Deborah Wolfe: What are you doing?
00:16:27.492 --> 00:16:29.092
Deborah Wolfe: And then he starts to pay attention.
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Deborah Wolfe: As he heals and you walk toward her, oh great, he gets all excited again and he breaks the heel and you turn away.
00:16:34.772 --> 00:16:40.472
Deborah Wolfe: And you just keep doing that until he accepts that if we walk nicely, the world is ours.
00:16:40.472 --> 00:16:42.112
Deborah Wolfe: We get everything we want.
00:16:42.112 --> 00:16:45.492
Deborah Wolfe: And if we walk rudely, we get nothing.
00:16:45.492 --> 00:16:49.512
Deborah Wolfe: So if you're interested in seeing that demonstrated, I have it on YouTube.
00:16:49.512 --> 00:16:50.032
Deborah Wolfe: It's free.
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Deborah Wolfe: Just go on there.
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Deborah Wolfe: Deborah Wolfe-
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Deborah Wolfe: Pet Expert on YouTube.
00:16:52.852 --> 00:16:59.252
Deborah Wolfe: There's about, well, probably 50 training tips, but there's about five really solid core training tips.
00:16:59.852 --> 00:17:03.492
Deborah Wolfe: Come, sit, stay, heal, all the basics.
00:17:03.492 --> 00:17:04.812
Deborah Wolfe: So go to that.
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Deborah Wolfe: Check it out.
00:17:05.812 --> 00:17:13.332
Deborah Wolfe: Gives you many ways to train many different kinds of dogs very easily, very quickly, with a lot of positive approach.
00:17:13.332 --> 00:17:15.132
Deborah Wolfe: There's nothing unpleasant at all.
00:17:15.132 --> 00:17:16.612
Deborah Wolfe: You'll be having a good time.
00:17:16.612 --> 00:17:17.352
Deborah Wolfe: Your wrists won't hurt.
00:17:17.352 --> 00:17:18.352
Deborah Wolfe: Your arms won't hurt.
00:17:18.352 --> 00:17:20.452
Deborah Wolfe: The dog won't be upset with you.
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Deborah Wolfe: He'll actually enjoy the training.
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Deborah Wolfe: And even though you might think your dog wants to lead the walk, he'll love the walk more when you're in charge.
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Deborah Wolfe: So I'm going to leave you with that training advice.
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Deborah Wolfe: And let's see.
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Deborah Wolfe: Wanted to talk a little bit more about the day to day because it is adopt a dog or cat from a shelter day.
00:17:40.932 --> 00:17:43.072
Deborah Wolfe: And I think that should be every day.
00:17:43.072 --> 00:17:46.352
Deborah Wolfe: So it doesn't matter that the show will be airing different times for different people.
00:17:46.352 --> 00:17:47.132
Deborah Wolfe: That's okay.
00:17:47.132 --> 00:17:50.912
Deborah Wolfe: Because every day should be adopt a dog or cat from a shelter day.
00:17:50.912 --> 00:17:54.792
Deborah Wolfe: The dogs and the cats in the shelters are incredible animals.
00:17:54.792 --> 00:17:56.332
Deborah Wolfe: There's every kind of dog or cat there.
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Deborah Wolfe: And you can find the match for you.
00:17:58.652 --> 00:18:02.812
Deborah Wolfe: Someone else rejected this animal, but that doesn't mean it's not a good animal.
00:18:02.812 --> 00:18:09.692
Deborah Wolfe: They may have rejected it because they became allergic, or someone in their family got ill, or someone lost their job, or someone lost their residence.
00:18:09.692 --> 00:18:10.792
Deborah Wolfe: It could be something like that.
00:18:10.792 --> 00:18:12.412
Deborah Wolfe: The kid moved out that owned the dog.
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Deborah Wolfe: Anything like that.
00:18:13.972 --> 00:18:17.632
Deborah Wolfe: It's not necessarily the dog that caused the problem, or the cat.
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Deborah Wolfe: In fact, it's likely they didn't.
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Deborah Wolfe: A lot of times, cats are sent there just because they don't get the litter box right.
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Deborah Wolfe: And a lot of times, that's because the humans didn't set it up right.
00:18:27.372 --> 00:18:28.172
Deborah Wolfe: Simple as that.
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Deborah Wolfe: You set it up right, you'll have a good cat.
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Deborah Wolfe: So when you go to a shelter, you want to make sure you spend time with the animal.
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Deborah Wolfe: It's really easy to fall in love with a picture, or a cute spot, or bright blue eyes, or something strange about a dog or a cat, and then go home with the wrong pet.
00:18:46.872 --> 00:18:48.932
Deborah Wolfe: So you want to make sure it's a pet.
00:18:48.932 --> 00:18:56.312
Deborah Wolfe: If you can take it for a walk, take it for a walk, take the dog for some time, and toward the end, and say they give you 20 minutes.
00:18:56.312 --> 00:18:58.492
Deborah Wolfe: They say you can take it for a 20-minute walk.
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Deborah Wolfe: If at 15, you're already eager to go back, let's snog the dog for you.
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Deborah Wolfe: Just take it back and try another one.
00:19:06.492 --> 00:19:08.992
Deborah Wolfe: Try another day, try another place.
00:19:08.992 --> 00:19:14.192
Deborah Wolfe: But if at 15 minutes, you can't bear the thought of taking that dog back.
00:19:14.192 --> 00:19:19.652
Deborah Wolfe: Like you just hate that, you can't believe it's already been 15 minutes, and you wish that there would be another hour.
00:19:19.652 --> 00:19:21.312
Deborah Wolfe: All right, now you're on the right track.
00:19:21.312 --> 00:19:23.172
Deborah Wolfe: Now you've got a dog you can work with.
00:19:23.172 --> 00:19:46.152
Deborah Wolfe: And hopefully on that walk, you tried to see if you could get it to sit, if you could teach it something, maybe a new trick, if you could get it to take a treat from you gently, if you could heal by other dogs, if you could get it, even though it's on a leash, calling it with the word come and seeing its response, trying different things, just seeing if you have a connection with this dog, and if you're gonna enjoy working with it.
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Deborah Wolfe: So that's really key.
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Deborah Wolfe: I also think that there's some great advantages to the internet now.
00:19:52.692 --> 00:20:02.952
Deborah Wolfe: So in Canada anyway, if you wanted a dog from an SPCA, you could look on a list of all the dogs in all the SPCAs of your province, and be able to find one.
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Deborah Wolfe: So let's just say, I love Rottweilers.
00:20:05.552 --> 00:20:08.552
Deborah Wolfe: Rottweilers are my breed and I want to rescue one.
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Deborah Wolfe: That's how I do it.
00:20:09.552 --> 00:20:16.132
Deborah Wolfe: I just look up Rottweiler and I'll find all the Rottweilers in my area that are in shelters and be able to look at pictures of them.
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Deborah Wolfe: I might be able to phone and talk about them.
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Deborah Wolfe: I might be able to, if I'm very serious about a particular dog, they'll ship it to my local SBCA so I can meet it.
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Deborah Wolfe: So there's a lot of advantages to doing this, as opposed to going to a breeder and getting a puppy that's very young and needs to be taught absolutely everything.
00:20:35.632 --> 00:20:42.632
Deborah Wolfe: Can't be left alone at night, can't be left alone during the day when you go to work, needs people to visit on it, needs a lot more, right?
00:20:42.632 --> 00:20:46.652
Deborah Wolfe: Like a baby, like any baby, needs more of your time and attention.
00:20:46.652 --> 00:20:50.872
Deborah Wolfe: So getting a dog at a shelter, somebody else already put in that work.
00:20:51.172 --> 00:20:56.572
Deborah Wolfe: They already know not to go to the bathroom in the house and they already know basic rules of life.
00:20:56.572 --> 00:20:58.832
Deborah Wolfe: So now you just get to build on that.
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Deborah Wolfe: And oftentimes you're getting a dog who's had it real good, lost it all and is waiting for that opportunity.
00:21:06.872 --> 00:21:12.552
Deborah Wolfe: So when you adopt him, it's not that he won't bond with you, he'll bond with you and then some.
00:21:12.552 --> 00:21:14.212
Deborah Wolfe: There's gratitude in that.
00:21:14.212 --> 00:21:17.632
Deborah Wolfe: He knows what he lost and he knows what he got back.
00:21:17.632 --> 00:21:18.552
Deborah Wolfe: He knows where he's been.
00:21:19.072 --> 00:21:21.432
Deborah Wolfe: He's really, really aware of it all.
00:21:21.432 --> 00:21:24.652
Deborah Wolfe: And the sun basically rises and sets on your head.
00:21:24.652 --> 00:21:27.032
Deborah Wolfe: You are the savior for that dog.
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Deborah Wolfe: That's how it goes.
00:21:28.532 --> 00:21:30.912
Deborah Wolfe: And he'll be giving back to you every day.
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Deborah Wolfe: It's a completely different relationship than a silver spoon puppy that you adopt, which is also a wonderful relationship.
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Deborah Wolfe: I have dogs.
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Deborah Wolfe: I have a blue healer that I rescued, who's now quite elderly.
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Deborah Wolfe: And I have some other dogs, a couple that were born here, Doodle and a Poodle that were born here.
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Deborah Wolfe: And it's not that the relationships are better or less.
00:21:50.732 --> 00:21:52.272
Deborah Wolfe: It's just different.
00:21:52.272 --> 00:21:53.472
Deborah Wolfe: It's just different.
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Deborah Wolfe: That blue healer watches my back.
00:21:55.392 --> 00:21:58.932
Deborah Wolfe: That blue healer, his whole life is about me.
00:21:58.932 --> 00:22:04.592
Deborah Wolfe: And partly that's his breed because he's a shepherd and he wants to bond with the human shepherd.
00:22:04.592 --> 00:22:08.212
Deborah Wolfe: Partly that's the breed, but a lot of it's the rescue.
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Deborah Wolfe: He's just so grateful for everything I've given him.
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Deborah Wolfe: And you won't get that from a puppy that never had a hungry day or a noisy night in a shelter.
00:22:18.472 --> 00:22:25.472
Deborah Wolfe: A puppy that's been raised with love and goodness every day of its life, doesn't know that there's anything else.
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Deborah Wolfe: So it's a little bit of a different relationship, but it's definitely something to consider.
00:22:29.952 --> 00:22:31.072
Deborah Wolfe: All right, everybody.
00:22:31.072 --> 00:22:33.452
Deborah Wolfe: And we're almost done with the time today.
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Deborah Wolfe: It went so fast.
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Deborah Wolfe: Okay, I'm going to throw in one more tip.
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Deborah Wolfe: So for the people out there with cats that kill things, cats that kill things.
00:22:42.072 --> 00:22:49.272
Deborah Wolfe: This is like that politician killing her dog because it chased dogs or it chased ducks or chickens or turkeys.
00:22:49.272 --> 00:22:51.512
Deborah Wolfe: You know, cats are meant to kill things.
00:22:51.512 --> 00:22:52.852
Deborah Wolfe: They're little predators.
00:22:52.852 --> 00:22:53.872
Deborah Wolfe: They're also prey.
00:22:54.152 --> 00:22:55.112
Deborah Wolfe: They're so small.
00:22:55.112 --> 00:22:58.392
Deborah Wolfe: They're prey to so many animals, but they're also predators.
00:22:58.392 --> 00:23:01.432
Deborah Wolfe: They're carnivores and they like to hunt.
00:23:01.432 --> 00:23:02.672
Deborah Wolfe: They want to hunt.
00:23:02.672 --> 00:23:09.192
Deborah Wolfe: They hunt rodents primarily, which in our society now that we're so plagued by rodents is a good thing.
00:23:09.192 --> 00:23:18.692
Deborah Wolfe: But they also hunt birds, which is not a good thing because the birds are suffering from all our light pollution and different climate changes and fires, and the birds need our help.
00:23:18.692 --> 00:23:22.052
Deborah Wolfe: And ideally, your cats would be catching mice and not birds.
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Deborah Wolfe: So how do you arrange that?
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Deborah Wolfe: Well, one easy way is to bell your cat.
00:23:26.972 --> 00:23:28.292
Deborah Wolfe: You've seen those little bells.
00:23:28.292 --> 00:23:31.232
Deborah Wolfe: You put a collar on your cat, you put a bell on the collar.
00:23:31.232 --> 00:23:34.812
Deborah Wolfe: And then when he gets close to a bird, the bird hears the bell and flies away.
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Deborah Wolfe: So that's one real easy way.
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Deborah Wolfe: Unfortunately, there's the odd cat, and I will say it's quite rare, but I've seen it more than once now, who's smart enough to put the bell in his mouth just before he pounces.
00:23:50.212 --> 00:23:53.432
Deborah Wolfe: And then let the bell go so the bird doesn't have much warning at all.
00:23:53.432 --> 00:23:56.852
Deborah Wolfe: So that's, if your cat's one of those, you're gonna have problems with this.
00:23:56.852 --> 00:23:58.512
Deborah Wolfe: But that's really, really a rare cat.
00:23:58.512 --> 00:24:00.252
Deborah Wolfe: Most of them don't figure it out.
00:24:00.252 --> 00:24:09.172
Deborah Wolfe: And with a little bit of a knot or a bump in the collar, you can make it so the bell doesn't slip around to the front where the cat can grab it.
00:24:09.172 --> 00:24:10.972
Deborah Wolfe: So the bell's on the back all the time.
00:24:10.972 --> 00:24:11.632
Deborah Wolfe: You can do that.
00:24:11.632 --> 00:24:13.212
Deborah Wolfe: You can MacGyver it a little bit.
00:24:13.212 --> 00:24:15.472
Deborah Wolfe: So the bell is a really good option.
00:24:15.472 --> 00:24:23.852
Deborah Wolfe: Another really good option, if you're gonna let your cats outside, is to have the kind of cat doors that have a little switch in them.
00:24:23.852 --> 00:24:31.272
Deborah Wolfe: So they can be open both ways or closed both ways or open one way and closed another.
00:24:31.272 --> 00:24:35.112
Deborah Wolfe: And the reason that's so good is because in the morning, I have these kind of cat doors.
00:24:35.112 --> 00:24:36.692
Deborah Wolfe: I get up and I open them.
00:24:36.692 --> 00:24:40.052
Deborah Wolfe: So now my cats can go out all day, do their thing.
00:24:40.052 --> 00:24:52.072
Deborah Wolfe: Around four or five o'clock, now this time of year, a little later, around six or seven, as it's starting to maybe get toward dusk, I set it so once they come in, they can't go back out again.
00:24:52.072 --> 00:24:54.272
Deborah Wolfe: They have to come in and stay in.
00:24:54.272 --> 00:24:57.472
Deborah Wolfe: Now that's good for me because it's good for the cat's safety.
00:24:57.472 --> 00:25:03.952
Deborah Wolfe: It means they're not out at night when coyotes are out and all the things that would prey on them when there's less traffic and there's more predators.
00:25:03.952 --> 00:25:06.232
Deborah Wolfe: They're not out, so that's a good thing.
00:25:06.232 --> 00:25:10.872
Deborah Wolfe: But it also means they're not out for that pre-dawn.
00:25:10.872 --> 00:25:12.752
Deborah Wolfe: That's when it used to happen.
00:25:12.752 --> 00:25:17.712
Deborah Wolfe: They get the baby birds in their nests right in the early, early morning.
00:25:17.712 --> 00:25:25.032
Deborah Wolfe: If your cats are still inside sleeping on your bed and they don't get let out till eight or nine o'clock, they're not going to get those birds.
00:25:25.612 --> 00:25:27.492
Deborah Wolfe: The whole, everything's changed.
00:25:27.492 --> 00:25:34.572
Deborah Wolfe: And the best, one of the best side effects of this is you don't get little critters left dead in your house.
00:25:34.572 --> 00:25:36.552
Deborah Wolfe: They're not being brought back anymore.
00:25:36.552 --> 00:25:38.492
Deborah Wolfe: So I made this change recently.
00:25:38.692 --> 00:25:45.492
Deborah Wolfe: I had these kind of cat doors for years and then the switches broke and I didn't realize how important the switches were.
00:25:45.492 --> 00:25:48.192
Deborah Wolfe: I was letting my cats just come and go whenever they wanted.
00:25:48.192 --> 00:25:50.992
Deborah Wolfe: And then recently I replaced them with new cat doors.
00:25:50.992 --> 00:25:52.432
Deborah Wolfe: I just ordered off Amazon.
00:25:52.432 --> 00:25:53.972
Deborah Wolfe: It was really easy to install.
00:25:54.552 --> 00:25:56.672
Deborah Wolfe: And just took the old one out, put the new one in.
00:25:56.672 --> 00:25:59.832
Deborah Wolfe: And so now they're forced to be inside all night long.
00:25:59.832 --> 00:26:02.392
Deborah Wolfe: And it's just changed dramatically.
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Deborah Wolfe: I haven't had a bird killed since, not one, since I switched the cat doors over.
00:26:07.032 --> 00:26:09.272
Deborah Wolfe: And it used to be often.
00:26:09.272 --> 00:26:11.412
Deborah Wolfe: I hate to say it, but it was too often.
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Deborah Wolfe: And now, no, no birds, no dead birds at all.
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Deborah Wolfe: So I highly recommend switching your cat doors to the kind where you can close your cats in at night.
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Deborah Wolfe: And if you're listening to this and you're saying, oh, that's terrible advice, cats should be kept inside all the time.
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Deborah Wolfe: I do realize that that's the modern thinking among most of the cat experts.
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Deborah Wolfe: Most people believe cats should always be inside all the time now.
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Deborah Wolfe: It is true that a cat's lifespan is shorter if it's allowed outdoor time, that it could get hit by a car, could get hurt by other cats or by predators.
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Deborah Wolfe: But quality of life is also something to consider.
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Deborah Wolfe: And so if you are confining your cat all the time into an indoor life, you might want to consider some of the patio furniture or creating an enclosed patio because they really weren't meant to be like space creatures and spaceships always inside.
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Deborah Wolfe: They are animals meant to be in the outside.
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Deborah Wolfe: So if you are going to have cats that are indoor only, please consider creating an outdoor safe space for them where they can't escape, but they can at least experience the outside, the sunshine, the shade, the sound of nature, the smell of nature.
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Deborah Wolfe: You'll have a happier cat and you'll have a less fat cat if it has outdoor time, everybody.
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Deborah Wolfe: Okay, we've run out of time on Animal Party Pet Life Radio.
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<v SPEAKER_6>From me and from the station, be good to your animals.
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