Coyotes, Flood, & Celebrity Pet Gossip
Deb talks about the terrible flooding in Texas; the many pets rescued, and what you can do to make sure your pet survives natural disaster evacuation. First responders and pet rescue. Training tips described with demos of all the basics plus games and tricks at Deb Wolfe – Pet Expert on YouTube. Coyotes biting people in the city! Matt Damon, Nicole Richie & the Great Carol Burnett all have pet stories to tell.
Listen to Episode #190 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, Pet Life Radio.
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Deborah Wolfe: And we will be talking about coyotes and wolves later in the show.
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Deborah Wolfe: I should give you another howl.
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Deborah Wolfe: Howl, because that's what we'll be talking about.
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Deborah Wolfe: We'll also be talking about celebrities.
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Deborah Wolfe: I'm Deb Wolfe, and I bring you Animal Party on Pet Life Radio every week.
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Deborah Wolfe: And there's been a lot in the news, a lot.
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Deborah Wolfe: Oh my goodness.
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Deborah Wolfe: Can a person who admits to killing dogs actually become vice president of the United States?
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Deborah Wolfe: We'll talk about that.
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Deborah Wolfe: And a whole bunch of things.
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Deborah Wolfe: But first, first I want to start with Texas.
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Deborah Wolfe: So, oh, poor Texas.
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Deborah Wolfe: It's always, you know, I always wanted to visit Austin, and I've always thought it would be lovely to live in Texas.
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Deborah Wolfe: And every time I used to go to Florida where my mom lived from Vancouver, British Columbia, which is like crossing North America, we would have to stop in Texas at an airport, me and my kids, and you'd look out and it would be just beautiful, you know?
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Deborah Wolfe: So I always thought about, maybe such a sunny, lovely place, but they do have natural disasters.
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Deborah Wolfe: A lot of them, it seems like, and a lot of lightning and thunderstorms and the planes were often not able to land or leave due to these kinds of things.
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Deborah Wolfe: And right now they've got flood.
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Deborah Wolfe: So, Texas has been flooded.
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Deborah Wolfe: As of yesterday, 224 people had been rescued from flood, like I don't mean evacuated, I mean like helicoptered, boat, that kind of daring rescue by first responders, and 153 pets were rescued, as of yesterday, that way.
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Deborah Wolfe: So I want to just say thank you to the first responders who are willing to rescue pets.
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Deborah Wolfe: And I also want to say it's a good time to talk about some safety tips and things you need to know.
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Deborah Wolfe: But this is something I took when I was watching CNN and I was watching the report on the flood, and they had Deputy Darryl Bailey on.
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Deborah Wolfe: And one thing he said, which was really interesting, they were showing like a Labrador Retriever swimming and being grabbed and rescued.
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Deborah Wolfe: And they had just rescued a man who had been isolated by the flood, so completely surrounded by water with his three dogs.
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Deborah Wolfe: So they rescued him and one dog, and then they came back for the other two dogs who were swimming, and okay, everybody's okay.
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Deborah Wolfe: So Deputy Darryl Bailey said that it's not just the flood or the water that you have to be afraid of, but what's in the water.
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Deborah Wolfe: And he gave a few examples, including snakes.
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Deborah Wolfe: So they have hurricane Harvey level floods there in Texas right now.
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Deborah Wolfe: Yeah, I just want to make sure people understand, you know, when you buy a kennel for your puppy, and then your puppy doesn't need it anymore.
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Deborah Wolfe: And maybe he doesn't even use it anymore, or maybe he wishes he could.
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Deborah Wolfe: But anyway, you put it away or you sell it, or you give it to somebody else who has a puppy.
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Deborah Wolfe: Okay, so now what?
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Deborah Wolfe: You're in a flood, you're in a fire, you're evacuated, you're going to a shelter, your dog's thrown in the car or a van or a truck of somebody else, maybe.
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Deborah Wolfe: And then he gets, maybe he's good for that, but then he gets to a shelter where it's overcrowded and all the animals are stressed.
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Deborah Wolfe: And some of them aren't so nice, and some of them are panicking.
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Deborah Wolfe: Maybe some of them are sick, who knows?
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Deborah Wolfe: The staff is overworked, the people probably volunteers.
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Deborah Wolfe: The last thing they need is one more pet without a cage.
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Deborah Wolfe: What they need is a cage.
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Deborah Wolfe: And not only that, if you have your cage with you, you might be able to squeak in under the rules and get your dog into a shelter for humans.
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Deborah Wolfe: You might not even have to leave your pet somewhere else.
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Deborah Wolfe: So those kennels, the plastic kind that you can fly with because they're strong enough to stack without hurting your animal inside, those are the ones you want.
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Deborah Wolfe: You don't want to buy something that's weak or just a cage where he can get hurt or exposed to the sun or whatever.
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Deborah Wolfe: You want the kind you can travel in.
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Deborah Wolfe: One good make is V-A-R-I, Bari, but there's lots of good makes.
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Deborah Wolfe: But it should say on the tag certified for air travel.
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Deborah Wolfe: And if you're buying used, just make sure you pick a brand that's certified for air travel.
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Deborah Wolfe: Make sure you pick a kennel that's big enough for your dog to sit without his head rubbing the top, lie down without his paws touching either end and turn around.
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Deborah Wolfe: So that's what you need.
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Deborah Wolfe: Now in a shelter situation, evacuation situation, he may be in there a while and he may need food and water put in there.
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Deborah Wolfe: And so you can't go too small, but you need a crate for every dog you have.
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Deborah Wolfe: So if you have four dogs, you need four crates.
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Deborah Wolfe: Now that's a lot of storage, I understand.
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Deborah Wolfe: You might want to leave one or two set up with the door open or no door at all.
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Deborah Wolfe: So they're always used to going in there when they feel like it could be in the backyard or shed or in an area the dogs like to be in.
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Deborah Wolfe: And I always have a couple in my house and I find when a dog really wants a deep sleep, they go in there, you know, and then it's not a nasty place.
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Deborah Wolfe: It's not the no no place or the punishment place.
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Deborah Wolfe: It's a place where sometimes I throw treats and sometimes I throw toys and they've got some bedding in there and they kind of like it.
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Deborah Wolfe: So if I had to evacuate and stick them in there, the cage itself wouldn't make them panic.
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Deborah Wolfe: It would be a safety place.
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Deborah Wolfe: And that's really what you want, you know.
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Deborah Wolfe: But these kind of crates come apart.
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Deborah Wolfe: They come apart in half.
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Deborah Wolfe: They have different kinds of, depending on the brand you buy, some clip, some screw to come together and come apart.
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Deborah Wolfe: But whatever, they come apart really easily and you can put the door between the two layers so they break away in half and they fit inside themselves.
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Deborah Wolfe: So what you end up with is basically a tub.
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Deborah Wolfe: You can put other stuff in there.
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Deborah Wolfe: You can store it if you want to just have one kennel open for the dog who needs it and store all the rest of them.
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Deborah Wolfe: Put Christmas lights in there for all I care.
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Deborah Wolfe: Or better yet, put supplies in there that you might need should you evacuate with your dogs, like collapsible bowls, like water bottles, like things you can put food in and Tupperware so you're ready to go, that kind of thing.
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Deborah Wolfe: So in an emergency, you know what's going on.
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Deborah Wolfe: Maybe a photocopy of all their vet papers and vaccine records could go in there.
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Deborah Wolfe: Take a picture on your phone of all that stuff too.
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Deborah Wolfe: Because unvaccinated dogs have problems getting spaces when things go wrong.
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Deborah Wolfe: So you want to be able to prove in a second and not be trying to contact your vet who's probably also evacuated and not available.
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Deborah Wolfe: So that's all good stuff for safety tips.
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Deborah Wolfe: And while we're talking about safety, I guess I'd like to highlight there was a seminar given here in British Columbia by a rescue society called ALERT and they're a volunteer organization.
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Deborah Wolfe: And what they did was they ran a seminar for first responders.
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Deborah Wolfe: That's and first responders took part in this.
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Deborah Wolfe: So all firemen, anyone who might be involved in a fire evacuation, because that's the area they're talking about, the Okanagan here in British Columbia.
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Deborah Wolfe: There's lots and lots of fires in the summer.
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Deborah Wolfe: And so just like California and Washington State lately, this kind of thing happens here in the summer.
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Deborah Wolfe: So what they were teaching them is how to evacuate a horse, a 2,000 pound animal, how to do it, how to airlift, how to land them, how to do it without hurting them, how to approach them, how to catch them, how to everything them.
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Deborah Wolfe: I wish I could have got on that course.
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Deborah Wolfe: But what a great thing to be doing.
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Deborah Wolfe: And kudos to all the people who participated in that.
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Deborah Wolfe: All right, we're going to take a break.
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Deborah Wolfe: And one more rescue story.
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Deborah Wolfe: In Port Albany, off the coast of British Columbia, off the coast of Vancouver Island, so on the Pacific Ocean, there was a rescue where a man and his dog got trapped.
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Deborah Wolfe: And North Shore Rescue from Vancouver went over there.
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Deborah Wolfe: And they rescued the man, but they couldn't find the dog.
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Deborah Wolfe: So the next day after the Albany squad rescued the man, they went back with a collar and some treats.
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Deborah Wolfe: And they went back to the last place the man had been, and they just waited patiently.
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Deborah Wolfe: And of course, the dog came back.
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Deborah Wolfe: So Izzy the dog, the border collie is back with his owner safe and sound.
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Deborah Wolfe: Although both of them had a very harrowing experience.
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Deborah Wolfe: When you're hiking, keep your dog on leash, right?
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Deborah Wolfe: You don't want him, people will throw balls over cliffs and the dog will dive after it.
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Deborah Wolfe: Or they see a squirrel and they don't realize that there's a cliff there.
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Deborah Wolfe: Or they get spooked by a bear and they run the wrong way and, you know, bring the bear back to you.
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Deborah Wolfe: There's lots of reasons why you want your dog on leash when you're hiking in the woods.
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Deborah Wolfe: All right, everybody, we're going to go to 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 gonna end the show with the celebrity stuff.
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Deborah Wolfe: So you gotta hang in there.
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Deborah Wolfe: You wanna hear about Nicole Richie, Matt Damon, and my favorite, Carol Burnett.
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Deborah Wolfe: Yes, what do they all have in common?
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Deborah Wolfe: Well, they're all gonna be talked about on Animal Party, Pet Life Radio in the last segment today.
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Deborah Wolfe: But right now, I wanna give you some training, some training information, because everybody wants my training information.
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Deborah Wolfe: I get emails all the time and questions all the time.
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Deborah Wolfe: If you wanna ask me your question and you'd like me to answer it on the air, or you'd like me to bring an expert on to answer it, because it's a really tough question I can't answer, then I'll do that.
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Deborah Wolfe: So cats, dogs, other animals too, but mostly cats, dogs, anything you wanna know about why they do what they do, or how you can teach them not to, or how you could redirect them, or anything at all about cats and dogs, just ask me, deb, D-E-B, at petliferadio.com.
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Deborah Wolfe: And once you hear my training tips today, if you're looking for more, you can always go to my YouTube channel, Deb Wolfe, Pet Expert.
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Deborah Wolfe: And when I first started it, I put up a whole bunch of training videos, all the stuff you guys need.
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Deborah Wolfe: Come, sit, stay, heal, quiet, off, fetch, games, all of that.
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Deborah Wolfe: And I put it, I demonstrated with naughty dogs, visiting dogs at my boarding kennel, not ringers, not my number one blue healer or my smartest standard poodle who do everything I tell them.
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Deborah Wolfe: No, no, no, no.
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Deborah Wolfe: You get to see dogs who haven't even learned how to learn yet, dogs who aren't even paying attention yet, dogs who are stuck in their bad habits, dog who just licorice, he just won't drop that ball.
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Deborah Wolfe: I mean, or a bastard hound who every time he smells food, starts howling.
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Deborah Wolfe: You can see all the characters and see how I work with them and see them become good, quiet, well-behaved dogs.
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Deborah Wolfe: You can see the Coyote Cross dog who's terribly afraid.
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Deborah Wolfe: Yes.
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Deborah Wolfe: And I do a whole segment on body language.
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Deborah Wolfe: And you watch, it's so amazing to see when I close my eyes and do the moves I describe, the dog comes over.
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Deborah Wolfe: And when I stand up and act like we normally do, the dog runs away.
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Deborah Wolfe: And I can show you exactly how to coax an animal who's afraid.
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Deborah Wolfe: So before we get to the celebrities in the last segment and all that, I guess I should talk about coyotes.
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Deborah Wolfe: First of all, in South Vancouver, there's been an attack on a woman.
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Deborah Wolfe: She was out walking her little dog and they were surrounding her.
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Deborah Wolfe: She picked up the little dog and the coyotes bit her.
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Deborah Wolfe: And so she had two small dogs, actually.
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Deborah Wolfe: And the dog is okay.
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Deborah Wolfe: He survived, had to go to the vet.
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Deborah Wolfe: She's okay.
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Deborah Wolfe: The elderly woman is okay.
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Deborah Wolfe: She fought them, literally fought them.
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Deborah Wolfe: And there was a swarm of them on a baseball pitch as well.
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Deborah Wolfe: And then they interviewed a bunch of people.
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Deborah Wolfe: And some of them were saying that the coyotes seemed to travel in threes.
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Deborah Wolfe: Now, I'm not sure that's correct.
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Deborah Wolfe: I think you only see three.
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Deborah Wolfe: I think they allow you to see three.
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Deborah Wolfe: There's three that surround your pet or surround you, but there's more there.
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Deborah Wolfe: So really, really, really do not underestimate the coyote or the coyote pack.
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Deborah Wolfe: It's something you must be aware of.
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Deborah Wolfe: And if people tell you, oh, there's coyotes here today and you've got a little dog, go somewhere else.
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Deborah Wolfe: That's my suggestion.
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Deborah Wolfe: Don't think, well, I don't see them.
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Deborah Wolfe: This person must be dramatic.
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Deborah Wolfe: No, no, no, no, they're there.
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Deborah Wolfe: You just don't see them.
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Deborah Wolfe: And they should be praying at night, but they've gotten so used to our human handouts in the form of actual handouts when people are so silly that they'll toss them an apple core or toss them the end of a sandwich or something like that.
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Deborah Wolfe: And that just trains them to try to get food off people any way they can, which is usually intimidation.
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Deborah Wolfe: So we want not to do that.
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Deborah Wolfe: Do not feed coyotes.
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Deborah Wolfe: If you're eating, you know, pack in, pack out, don't think, well, this is biodegradable.
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Deborah Wolfe: I'll leave the crust of my peanut butter sandwich here.
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Deborah Wolfe: A bird will get it.
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Deborah Wolfe: No, no, no, no, you're drawing rats and coyotes when you do that.
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Deborah Wolfe: If you really want to feed the birds, go where the birds are, toss it to the birds, then they'll eat it.
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Deborah Wolfe: All right, and bird advocates would say, don't toss bread to birds.
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Deborah Wolfe: They would say, toss grain to birds.
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Deborah Wolfe: Birds can't handle processed food.
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Deborah Wolfe: So that's another thing to remember.
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Deborah Wolfe: Maybe just pack in and pack out is the best way to go.
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Deborah Wolfe: And okay, so one more wild thing news.
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Deborah Wolfe: I was gonna tell you about the wolves.
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Deborah Wolfe: Their population, they tried to return them and it worked out great.
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Deborah Wolfe: You know, you need wolves because if you don't have wolves, you get other animals overpopulating the area and then they have a decimating effect on vegetation.
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Deborah Wolfe: So you actually need wolves.
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Deborah Wolfe: But they put a whole bunch of wolves in the US and then they sold 10 to Colorado and the numbers aren't stable.
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Deborah Wolfe: So they think they're being poached.
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Deborah Wolfe: So I just wanna tell you, if you think it's cool to kill a wolf because then you'll have more deer to eat, it's a bad idea long-term.
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Deborah Wolfe: You're gonna devastate the vegetation and it's just not the way to go.
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Deborah Wolfe: We need the wolves.
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Deborah Wolfe: So leave the wolves alone, says Deborah Wolfe.
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Deborah Wolfe: All right, everybody, we are gonna do, let's see, one training comment.
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Deborah Wolfe: So I noticed the other day, somebody that I know calling their dog, and they were using all the wrong words.
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Deborah Wolfe: So when they wanted the dog to get off of them, they said down.
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Deborah Wolfe: And that particular dog doesn't know that command, they know lie down.
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Deborah Wolfe: So the dog didn't understand, right?
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Deborah Wolfe: The dog's trained with off.
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Deborah Wolfe: And then the person went to the front door and said, come on, come on, meaning stop bothering me at the front door, get back.
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Deborah Wolfe: But of course they were saying, come, come, come at the front door.
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Deborah Wolfe: So the dog was bothering them more.
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Deborah Wolfe: And then oddly enough, this person at the same doorway wanted them to stay, but said, go, because he said, go away, go away, go away.
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Deborah Wolfe: But now they're hearing, go, come and go at the front door, which is what they want to do.
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Deborah Wolfe: They want to come and go with you.
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Deborah Wolfe: You're going out the door, they want to join you.
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Deborah Wolfe: So you got to be really careful of your words.
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Deborah Wolfe: It's really easy to say these things and not think, okay, the dog is very literal.
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Deborah Wolfe: If you're standing at the door and you don't want him with you, you say, you're staying here, get back, stay.
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Deborah Wolfe: If you want him to come with you, you say, come on, let's go.
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Deborah Wolfe: Right?
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Deborah Wolfe: But you can't say, come on, let's go when you want him to stay, or you're just going to confuse your dog.
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Deborah Wolfe: So be clear with your words.
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Deborah Wolfe: And the other thing is they know a lot more words than you think.
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Deborah Wolfe: You can speak full sentences to a dog, especially the sentences you do over and over, like, would you like to have dinner?
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Deborah Wolfe: Would you like to go for a walk?
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Deborah Wolfe: Should we go on a car ride?
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Deborah Wolfe: Oh, look at your muddy feet.
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Deborah Wolfe: Stop, sit down.
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Deborah Wolfe: You know, all these things that you're repeating over and over, the dog will get used to and know the phrase.
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Deborah Wolfe: So, that's another thing to just keep in mind.
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Deborah Wolfe: You don't have to dumb everything down for dogs, but you do have to be clear in your communication.
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Deborah Wolfe: All right.
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Deborah Wolfe: So, I'm going to go to one more break and we're going to come back and talk about all those celebrities.
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Deborah Wolfe: Stay tuned on Animal Party Pet Life Radio.
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Deborah Wolfe: This is Deborah Wolfe, host of Animal Party on Pet Life Radio.
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Deborah Wolfe: You know the expression, cats have nine lives?
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Deborah Wolfe: Well, what if you can give them one more?
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Deborah Wolfe: The Give Them Ten Movement is on a mission to help give cats an extra life.
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Deborah Wolfe: How?
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Deborah Wolfe: With spay and neuter.
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Deborah Wolfe: Spaying or neutering your cat helps them live a longer, healthier life.
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Deborah Wolfe: And it helps control free roaming cat populations too.
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Deborah Wolfe: Learn more about the benefits of spay and neuter and meet Scooter, the neutered cat, at givethemten.org.
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Deborah Wolfe: Hello, we're back on Animal Party, Pet Life Radio.
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Deborah Wolfe: An extra how for all you people who do like coyotes.
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Deborah Wolfe: Actually, I've seen two in the last week.
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Deborah Wolfe: Both times I was driving, not so late at night, supper time-ish, so it's still a lot of light out here in Vancouver, where we live, where Camp Good Dog is.
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Deborah Wolfe: We have really short daylight in the winter and really long days in the summer.
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Deborah Wolfe: So it was pretty light out, and I saw one dart across the road both times, once it was a tall, what I believe to be a juvenile male, but very tall, and the other time it was probably a young female.
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Deborah Wolfe: It is the time of year where they're feeding pups and making pups, and looking for pets like cats.
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Deborah Wolfe: Anything, any freebie you want to give them, they'll get.
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Deborah Wolfe: Just little reminders, if you live in a wilderness area, you can't put your garbage in the truck even for one night, or the crows and the ravens, the raccoons and the rats will find them.
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Deborah Wolfe: And we do have an epidemic of rats in North America right now, which leads into our first story.
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Deborah Wolfe: So I was looking at Nicole Richie doing an interview and she was talking, first of all, I can't imagine being her.
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Deborah Wolfe: I can't imagine growing up with Lionel Richie as a dad.
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Deborah Wolfe: And like, for example, her first pet, guess who gave her her first pet?
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Deborah Wolfe: None other than the Rockstar Prince.
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Deborah Wolfe: I mean, seriously, that's awesome.
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Deborah Wolfe: But the thing is Prince named the pet before she got it, and he called the pet the dog God.
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Deborah Wolfe: So that's a little weird.
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Deborah Wolfe: But anyway, so she had a dog named God from Prince when she was growing up.
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Deborah Wolfe: But she also mentioned that when she was with Paris Hilton and they were besties and they were growing up, they had many pet rats.
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Deborah Wolfe: Enough so that they could name each rat after one of the characters in the show 90210.
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Deborah Wolfe: Now, that's a very dated comment right there.
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Deborah Wolfe: You know it has to be true when you hear that.
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Deborah Wolfe: Rats with the names of all the characters in 90210.
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Deborah Wolfe: My little sister used to watch that show.
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Deborah Wolfe: I never got into it, but I do remember it was that thing.
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Deborah Wolfe: So yeah, so Nicole Richie can't imagine her having rats.
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Deborah Wolfe: Apparently, she doesn't anymore.
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Deborah Wolfe: All right, moving along to our next celebrity.
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Deborah Wolfe: I'm saving Carol Burnett for the end.
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Deborah Wolfe: She's my favorite.
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Deborah Wolfe: All right, anybody who can do it, Tarzan, yell like that.
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Deborah Wolfe: And her show back in the day was so good.
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Deborah Wolfe: Carol Burnett and friends, so good.
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Deborah Wolfe: Okay.
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Deborah Wolfe: So the next one I want to talk about is Matt Damon.
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Deborah Wolfe: So he has dogs and four dogs actually.
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Deborah Wolfe: And but when he was in Costa Rica, he tells the story of how he was staying there for a month.
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Deborah Wolfe: And there was this cat living in a dumpster, a total jungle cat, a cat that could survive anywhere.
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Deborah Wolfe: And it was living in a dumpster.
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Deborah Wolfe: And so he started feeding it.
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Deborah Wolfe: And then he realized at the end of the month that they couldn't just leave this cat.
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Deborah Wolfe: It had become habituated to their feeding it.
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Deborah Wolfe: And that's true.
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Deborah Wolfe: When you go and you feed a stray animal and you get it so used to handouts, you really ruin it for its old life.
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Deborah Wolfe: You have to do something.
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Deborah Wolfe: Anyway, so they decided to take this cat home, toughest jungle cat ever.
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Deborah Wolfe: They take it home and he thinks, okay, well, it's a tough, wild, feral cat.
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Deborah Wolfe: I have a backyard in LA.
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Deborah Wolfe: It will live in the backyard.
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Deborah Wolfe: No, never went into the backyard once, he says.
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Deborah Wolfe: But then it had a brain tumor, terrible brain tumor.
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Deborah Wolfe: So he rescues this cat.
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Deborah Wolfe: Now he's in it for thousands of dollars, cancer treatments and testing and all this.
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Deborah Wolfe: So finally, radiation, all these suggestions are made for this cat.
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Deborah Wolfe: And he goes to this vet in New York City who says, you know what, we could just pump them full of steroids and see what happens because they didn't really think they would be able to cure the tumor or the cancer.
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Deborah Wolfe: So they pumped him full of steroids and the cat's still alive.
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Deborah Wolfe: He was supposed to have a few weeks, but this dumpster cat from Costa Rica, now living in New York City in a swanky Matt Damon apartment, is alive and well years later.
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Deborah Wolfe: And as Matt Damon describes it, because of the steroid treatments, it's a pumped up cat.
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Deborah Wolfe: So I think that's amusing, totally amusing and well done.
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Deborah Wolfe: So two and a half years have gone by and the cat's still doing great.
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Deborah Wolfe: And Matt Damon sees Jack totally pumped.
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Deborah Wolfe: Okay, so the last story I want to tell you before I leave you today.
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Deborah Wolfe: And if you're looking to see dogs playing at Camp Good Dog, my boarding kennel, you can always go to Facebook and check them out.
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Deborah Wolfe: We have over-representation of adorable doodles and poodles because that's what I did breed for years.
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Deborah Wolfe: And they keep coming back to board when their owners go on holiday.
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Deborah Wolfe: But there's also a boxer and a border collie cross.
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Deborah Wolfe: And I'm trying to think of everybody who's there.
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Deborah Wolfe: A bunch of little dogs, lots of little dogs this week coming up to Mother's Day.
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Deborah Wolfe: So that'll be good.
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Deborah Wolfe: But yeah, actually one thing about the boxer, the whole reason the boxer's here, and the boxer's pretty cool dude, his name's Chuck Norris.
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Deborah Wolfe: Yes, yes it is.
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Deborah Wolfe: And Chuck Norris, the boxer, actually pulled the cage off, pulled the bolts right out of the wall on his cage when he got excited to go for a walk yesterday while I was in the kennel doing something else.
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Deborah Wolfe: So I had to fix it.
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Deborah Wolfe: Chuck Norris, Chuck, of course he did.
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Deborah Wolfe: He's Chuck Norris.
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Deborah Wolfe: Anyway, the reason he's here, this boxer, is because his family planned this amazing trip and they booked all pet friendly accommodations, everything like that.
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Deborah Wolfe: And then they found out that boxers aren't allowed to fly in summertime on commercial airlines.
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Deborah Wolfe: That's right.
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Deborah Wolfe: Neither are pugs.
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Deborah Wolfe: Any dog that looks like it ran into a wall, any dog with a squishy, squishy face, you know, that sort of stunted nose and muzzle.
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Deborah Wolfe: They have bronchial problems, they have breathing problems, and they're far more likely to die in air travel than any other dog.
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Deborah Wolfe: So in the summer, when it's hot, that makes it even more likely.
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Deborah Wolfe: And so the airlines have gotten smart about this and they won't take them.
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Deborah Wolfe: So you really have to think about it.
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Deborah Wolfe: If you have a pushed in face dog, what are you going to do when you travel in hot, to hot places or at hot times of year?
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Deborah Wolfe: All right.
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Deborah Wolfe: So we're moving on to Carol Burnett.
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Deborah Wolfe: So Carol Burnett tells this story that's so awesome.
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Deborah Wolfe: She has a Bengal cat.
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Deborah Wolfe: Okay.
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Deborah Wolfe: Well, they're special and everything because of their markings and they're not as removed from the ancient primitive cat as our modern cats are, although many would argue cats aren't really very domesticated.
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Deborah Wolfe: But anyway, okay.
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Deborah Wolfe: So the Bengals and they, she has this pet cat.
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Deborah Wolfe: She says she loves dogs, but right now she just has a cat.
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Deborah Wolfe: So this cat takes her phone off the hook when it wants to be fed.
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Deborah Wolfe: And she sees the red light, phone off the hook, goes to the food bowl.
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Deborah Wolfe: He's already there waiting and feeds him.
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Deborah Wolfe: Classic example of cat's intelligence.
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Deborah Wolfe: It has figured out exactly how to get her attention in such a unique, specific way.
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Deborah Wolfe: And it never fails, you know, it's amazing.
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Deborah Wolfe: Amazing that it did that.
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Deborah Wolfe: And it tells me that Carol Burnett still has a landline.
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Deborah Wolfe: Me too, Carol.
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Deborah Wolfe: All right, everybody, thank you so much for listening today.
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Deborah Wolfe: It was been a great show and I look forward to talking to you again next week.
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Deborah Wolfe: I'll be having some guests back on the show soon on Animal Party, Pet Life Radio.
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Deborah Wolfe: Until then, be good to your animals.
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