Taylor Swift Loves Her Cats!
Deborah Wolfe talks about Taylor Swift’s 3 cats, what old pets need & trick training tips for dogs and cats! See Deb Wolfe-Pet Expert on YouTube for cat and dog training demos and how to test puppy temperament/personality with 2 cute 8 week old rescued pups. Where does your cat come from? The last 3 original cats; Siamese, Abyssinian, Chinchilla. ‘Karma is a cat purring on my lap because it loves me!!!’ Taylor Swift. A little Taylor talk about Meredith Grey the Scottish Fold you might spot in Deadpool 2. Deb says the fastest learners are Standard Poodles and trick cats. Check out Deb Wolfe-Pet Expert on Facebook to see a fantastic Poodle photo shoot. Please send your text, type or voice clip pet questions, problems or guest suggestions to deb@petliferadio.com
Taylor Swift names as many cats as possible in 30 seconds on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon: HERE
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<v SPEAKER_2>This is Pet Life Radio.
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<v SPEAKER_2>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, Deb Wolfe, because I'm the host of this show, and I've been hosting this show for a long time, actually.
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Deborah Wolfe: And I wanna thank you all for sending me your questions and your comments and your feedback, and I'd love to receive more.
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Deborah Wolfe: So, Deb at petliferadio.com, just send me a voice clip, a question, a typed out anything, and I'll be able to answer it on air.
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Deborah Wolfe: And if I can't, I will get a guest to come in and answer your question.
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Deborah Wolfe: If it's very specific and difficult, I would love that because I wanna learn along with you.
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Deborah Wolfe: But for now, I have been doing this show a very long time and interviewed a lot of experts.
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Deborah Wolfe: So, I've compiled a lot of knowledge, and I'm happy to share it with you, and still keep it all fun and interesting.
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Deborah Wolfe: So today, in that vein, a little bit of education, a little bit of pet candy for the pet lovers.
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Deborah Wolfe: I'm gonna go through, because I started last week to talk about the origins of cats, and I got partway through the description of where they all come from, and I covered the main, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, the main five ancestors.
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Deborah Wolfe: If you look at your cat, it came from one of these, but I missed three.
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Deborah Wolfe: There's eight in total.
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Deborah Wolfe: So later in the show, I'm gonna cover the three I didn't get to.
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Deborah Wolfe: Where does your cat come from?
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Deborah Wolfe: Does it come from Russia or Burma or the Isle of Man or maybe it'll come from one of the places we covered today.
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Deborah Wolfe: So we're gonna talk about that.
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Deborah Wolfe: And also in the show, I had a request for a little bit of Taylor Swift.
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Deborah Wolfe: Yeah, no, don't worry.
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Deborah Wolfe: I'm not gonna sing Taylor Swift, although I would love to, particularly if I were a man, love that song.
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Deborah Wolfe: But I am gonna talk about her cat connection.
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Deborah Wolfe: After all, Karma is a cat purring in my lap cause it loves me.
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Deborah Wolfe: Oh yeah, we're gonna talk about Meredith, Olivia and Benjamin.
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Deborah Wolfe: Taylor Swift's cats.
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Deborah Wolfe: We're gonna talk about that later in the show.
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Deborah Wolfe: So for now, we're gonna break for a commercial and come back and have a fantastic animal party on Pet Life Radio.
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Deborah Wolfe: Stay tuned.
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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 10 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 givethem10.org.
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Deborah Wolfe: That's givethem10.org.
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<v SPEAKER_2>Let's Talk Pets on petliferadio.com.
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Deborah Wolfe: Hello, we're back on Animal Party, Pet Life Radio.
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Deborah Wolfe: Now, it wouldn't be the Animal Party if I didn't do a few dog topics, too.
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Deborah Wolfe: So first of all, I want to talk about something I already knew and kind of forgot and remembered.
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Deborah Wolfe: And it's something really important, because most of us, if you own a dog or a cat, you're gonna own more than one in your life.
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Deborah Wolfe: And most of their life, they're gonna be healthy and just able to do all kinds of things.
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Deborah Wolfe: But the last couple of years, if you're fortunate enough to have them get to elderly age, a 9 or 10, 11, 12, 13, 14-year-old dog or 11, 12, 13, 14-year-old cat, even younger sometimes, may start to exhibit problems and issues that you might mistake for something else.
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Deborah Wolfe: Okay, so what am I talking about?
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Deborah Wolfe: I should know better.
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Deborah Wolfe: I've had so many dogs over the years, and all of them get old, and all of them get elderly, and all of them need special consideration.
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Deborah Wolfe: So here I am with my blue healer that I rescued when he was about five years old from a farm around the corner.
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Deborah Wolfe: And he'd had three owners already and wasn't raised well or given the best nutrition, was tied to a trailer during his puppy years.
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Deborah Wolfe: You know, sad, sad story, true rescue.
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Deborah Wolfe: Now he has the best life, has had the best life for many years now.
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Deborah Wolfe: He was born in 2011, so now it's 2024.
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Deborah Wolfe: And that leg he was tied to that never seemed to cause him problems all through his life is now kind of giving him some trouble on stairs.
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Deborah Wolfe: Okay, so I know that.
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Deborah Wolfe: I know that.
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Deborah Wolfe: I know it's been giving him trouble for a while.
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Deborah Wolfe: I've been avoiding letting him upstairs because he can't quite see very well anymore.
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Deborah Wolfe: And so he'll sort of throw himself down the stairs in the house.
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Deborah Wolfe: So I've been keeping him in the main floor and I've made some adjustments that you would do.
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Deborah Wolfe: But I started to worry that maybe he was going senile or had some kind of bladder problem or some issue because he started to have pee accidents in the house near the front door.
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Deborah Wolfe: And just, you know, I made the vet appointment to do the blood work.
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Deborah Wolfe: We actually had the blood work done yesterday.
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Deborah Wolfe: But just as a precaution, I thought, you know what?
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Deborah Wolfe: Maybe this is the mobility thing.
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Deborah Wolfe: Maybe he just doesn't want to use the back steps.
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Deborah Wolfe: So instead of going out the doggy door and peeing outside, he's actually waiting at the front door till he can't hold it anymore.
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Deborah Wolfe: How sad, right?
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Deborah Wolfe: Maybe this isn't senility or a bladder problem.
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Deborah Wolfe: Maybe this is just the bum leg.
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Deborah Wolfe: So I had my friend build a ramp very quickly, took him maybe an hour at a scrap wood, maybe two hours.
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Deborah Wolfe: Anyway, new ramp and no more accidents ever since.
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Deborah Wolfe: So sometimes I think we forget these things.
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Deborah Wolfe: We forget that I also have a plastic ramp, hard plastic ramp that's made for dogs that collapses, that I would use for pregnant dogs to get in and out of a car.
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Deborah Wolfe: I thought, you know what?
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Deborah Wolfe: Maybe I'll try that when I took him to the vet yesterday, set that up for him.
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Deborah Wolfe: Whereas normally I just lift him into the car and lift him out of the car, even though he's 50 pounds, 55 pounds.
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Deborah Wolfe: But this time, we used the ramp and even though we can't quite see it and he's not sure where it is, it sure helped him.
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Deborah Wolfe: So I think sometimes we forget that when the dog starts having accidents, it could be something else completely.
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Deborah Wolfe: So a lot of these things I found with people, they get the thing too late.
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Deborah Wolfe: I've noticed this with humans too, but with pets in particular, your dog starts to need something like a ramp, but you ignore it or you don't want to realize it, you don't want to admit it, you kind of push it aside.
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Deborah Wolfe: And by the time you introduce the ramp or the aid, whatever it is, to help him, he's kind of set in his ways.
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Deborah Wolfe: You can't see it anymore, you can't hear anymore, he's got other problems.
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Deborah Wolfe: It's good to introduce these things quickly.
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Deborah Wolfe: As soon as you see your dog struggle with stairs, give him a ramp.
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Deborah Wolfe: As soon as you see him struggle to get in the car, give him a ramp.
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Deborah Wolfe: As soon as you see him fumbling around at night, start putting in nightlights.
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Deborah Wolfe: Because even though dogs and cats have amazing vision in their prime, far better than us in the nighttime, as they get older, it dwindles.
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Deborah Wolfe: And so a dog that used to be fine at night, may get really confused and disoriented and bump into things, same for the cats.
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Deborah Wolfe: So just keep that in mind as your animals age.
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Deborah Wolfe: Okay, so that was my little doggy bit.
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Deborah Wolfe: And even an old dog like me can learn new tricks about dogs and remember some of the stuff I forget.
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Deborah Wolfe: Because it's been a long time since I had a really elderly dog, you know, but as I say, they all get there.
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Deborah Wolfe: So you got to be prepared for it.
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Deborah Wolfe: And this dog that I'm talking about is going to have a longer life just because of the ramps.
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Deborah Wolfe: He's going to be so much more comfortable.
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Deborah Wolfe: He's not going to have to hold it.
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Deborah Wolfe: He's not going to have accidents.
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Deborah Wolfe: He's not going to feel guilty.
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Deborah Wolfe: I'm not going to be upset with him.
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Deborah Wolfe: You know, all the things that go with that.
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Deborah Wolfe: And constantly considering, well, is it time?
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Deborah Wolfe: Is it not time?
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Deborah Wolfe: No, it's not time.
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Deborah Wolfe: It's time to build a ramp.
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Deborah Wolfe: That's what it's time for.
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Deborah Wolfe: It's not time to put the dog down.
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Deborah Wolfe: It's time to build a ramp.
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Deborah Wolfe: Problem solved.
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Deborah Wolfe: Okay, everybody.
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Deborah Wolfe: So that's a good news story.
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Deborah Wolfe: And we'll talk about elderly animals in the future too.
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Deborah Wolfe: One thing about cats when they get old is they're not very good at grooming themselves anymore.
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Deborah Wolfe: They lose that amazing yoga flexibility they have, where they can clean any part of them and nibble on their nails and fix everything.
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Deborah Wolfe: And they start to get kind of messed up.
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Deborah Wolfe: They really need your help.
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Deborah Wolfe: So even though you may have never clipped your cat's claws, have a look at them.
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Deborah Wolfe: If your cat's 8, 9, 10, have a look.
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Deborah Wolfe: If they look all jagged and rough and weird and they're not all even and pretty, like she just came from the from the nail salon, if they're not all even and pretty, she's not doing it because she does a good job.
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Deborah Wolfe: Your cat does.
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Deborah Wolfe: So some dogs do this too.
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Deborah Wolfe: Blue Healers in particular, but most dogs need your help all the time through their whole life.
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Deborah Wolfe: And cats, as they get older, you need to trim their nails.
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Deborah Wolfe: So it's a good idea when you have a young cat to get them to be happy when you touch their toes and happy when you kind of fiddle with their nails and maybe even get them used to the clipper, even if you're not clipping anything at a young age.
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Deborah Wolfe: So when you go bring it out, when they're eight, they're not all freaked out by it.
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Deborah Wolfe: And brush them, brush them everywhere, because when they get old, they can't do it themselves.
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Deborah Wolfe: So you're going to need to do it for them, dogs and cats.
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Deborah Wolfe: All right, that's enough about aging.
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Deborah Wolfe: We're going to go to a break and come back and I'm going to give you the goods.
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Deborah Wolfe: I'm going to tell you about the three ancestors of cats.
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Deborah Wolfe: And I'm going to give you a little teaser.
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Deborah Wolfe: I'm going to tell you about Taylor Swift.
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Deborah Wolfe: Taylor Swift, the more I research her, the more I like her.
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Deborah Wolfe: And I think she's going to have to be a running topic on my show.
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Deborah Wolfe: This is not going to be the only show we talk about Tay-Tay.
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Deborah Wolfe: Oh no, no, no.
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Deborah Wolfe: This is just the beginning, ladies and gentlemen.
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Deborah Wolfe: Just the beginning, all you cat lovers.
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Deborah Wolfe: All right, stay tuned.
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Deborah Wolfe: We're coming back from a break.
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Deborah Wolfe: In a minute, Animal Party Pet Life Radio.
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<v SPEAKER_2>Let's Talk Pest on Pet Life Radio.
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Deborah Wolfe: Hello, we're back on Animal Party, Pet Life Radio with me, Deb Wolfe.
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Deborah Wolfe: And if you want to see me training cats, just little tricks I've done lately, how to jump up on a fence, how to follow lead, how to sit, how to come check out Deb Wolfe-Pet Expert on YouTube.
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Deborah Wolfe: And you'll also see some recent videos I posted on testing puppy temperament.
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Deborah Wolfe: Had two puppies, the same litter, born June 25th, so they're just over eight weeks.
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Deborah Wolfe: And I show you the difference just in a few seconds, picking them up and rolling them over and how you can tell how they're different.
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Deborah Wolfe: So they're adorable.
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Deborah Wolfe: There are dogs that were born here to abandoned parents and didn't know the female was pregnant till just before delivery.
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Deborah Wolfe: Eight puppies, six have homes, two still don't have homes.
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Deborah Wolfe: And those are the two I demonstrate with.
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Deborah Wolfe: Mama and Papa have homes.
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Deborah Wolfe: It's a good story, but months of care and feeding and until they're ready to go.
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Deborah Wolfe: And now, now's the end where all these people get these great dogs that have been well socialized and their border collie blue healer crosses and everybody's getting vaccinated and Mama and Papa are getting neutered and spayed.
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Deborah Wolfe: And it's all a goodwill story.
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Deborah Wolfe: But you want to see the two last puppies, both girls.
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Deborah Wolfe: One is so calm and chill and the other could be a working dog.
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Deborah Wolfe: The other could work animals.
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Deborah Wolfe: So you'll see the difference even at this young age.
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Deborah Wolfe: If you check out Deb Wolfe-Pet Expert on YouTube and there's lots on there.
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Deborah Wolfe: If you go through the index, you can find Come Sit Stay Heal and all the basics, how to groom a cat, how to cut nails, everything's on there.
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Deborah Wolfe: All right.
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Deborah Wolfe: So chinchilla.
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Deborah Wolfe: Now you may think a chinchilla is a little mouse like animal, but actually it's one of the ancient breeds of cats.
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Deborah Wolfe: And it was manmade by crossing cats of various colors with silver tabby Persians in England in the late 1800s.
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Deborah Wolfe: Now this cat has a very Persian look actually, a flat face and it's fluffy.
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Deborah Wolfe: And what most cat owners would melt to look at.
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Deborah Wolfe: It's almost like the cats on the cottonel commercial, the little kittens.
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Deborah Wolfe: That's basically what it looks like.
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Deborah Wolfe: Big eyes.
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Deborah Wolfe: Okay.
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Deborah Wolfe: The next one that I'm going to tell you about is the Siamese.
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Deborah Wolfe: And they were first brought to England from Thailand in the 1880s.
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Deborah Wolfe: The first Siamese are said to have been prized by the Thai royal family.
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Deborah Wolfe: Now, that's not the only royal connection.
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Deborah Wolfe: If you're talking cat talk to a cat expert, you don't say, oh, my female cat, you would call her a queen.
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Deborah Wolfe: Yes, you would.
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Deborah Wolfe: You could call her a molly.
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Deborah Wolfe: That's another word for a female cat, but a proper correct way to refer to a female cat is to call her a queen.
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Deborah Wolfe: So that's not the only connection we have between cats and royalty.
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Deborah Wolfe: All right.
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Deborah Wolfe: And the last one I want to talk about today is the Abyssinian.
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Deborah Wolfe: This is one of my favorite cats.
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Deborah Wolfe: I've met cats that are part Abyssinian.
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Deborah Wolfe: I'm not sure I've ever met a full pedigreed one.
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Deborah Wolfe: I've seen them at cat shows, but I don't think I've ever actually encountered one.
00:14:38.008 --> 00:14:41.928
Deborah Wolfe: They have kind of a high cheekbone look and a short hair.
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Deborah Wolfe: And the ones I've met are so good for tricks.
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Deborah Wolfe: So anyway, this is what it says about them.
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Deborah Wolfe: In the 1880s, such cats were taken from Ethiopia by servicemen returning to Britain at the end of the Abyssinian War.
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Deborah Wolfe: So that's where they came from.
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Deborah Wolfe: They're the cats I really like to work with because they seem to learn fast and they seem to be eager for tricks.
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Deborah Wolfe: But you can test any cat for that.
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Deborah Wolfe: If you're adopting a cat, a rescue cat, bring a toy with you when you go to the shelter and move it around and see if your cat will come to it.
00:15:12.568 --> 00:15:14.788
Deborah Wolfe: See if your cat will follow your finger.
00:15:14.788 --> 00:15:17.968
Deborah Wolfe: If your cat is good about all that, it's probably a trick cat.
00:15:17.968 --> 00:15:21.848
Deborah Wolfe: If it ignores it or just wants cuddles, it's probably not.
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Deborah Wolfe: So there's easy ways to test cats and dogs.
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Deborah Wolfe: All right.
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Deborah Wolfe: The moment you've all been waiting for before we finish this show, let's talk about Taylor Swift.
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Deborah Wolfe: So she has three cats.
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Deborah Wolfe: Yes, she does.
00:15:34.928 --> 00:15:39.148
Deborah Wolfe: And they are part of her persona, her public persona.
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Deborah Wolfe: She's had them on her featured holiday card in 2020.
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Deborah Wolfe: And she's talked about them in Time Magazine, where she said in 2019, she told Time, I have cats.
00:15:53.088 --> 00:15:54.748
Deborah Wolfe: I'm obsessed with them.
00:15:54.748 --> 00:16:01.548
Deborah Wolfe: I love my cats so much that when a role came up in a movie called Cats, I just thought like, I got to do this.
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Deborah Wolfe: In fact, Swift even attended a cat school on set to prepare for her role.
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Deborah Wolfe: Oh my gosh.
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Deborah Wolfe: I would love to see the cat school.
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Deborah Wolfe: Do they rub their bums against things?
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Deborah Wolfe: Do they lick their hands and then wipe their faces?
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Deborah Wolfe: I guess so.
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Deborah Wolfe: All right.
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Deborah Wolfe: I'd like to see Taylor Swift doing all that.
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Deborah Wolfe: That would be hysterical and beautiful.
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Deborah Wolfe: Then she says, they're very dignified.
00:16:25.168 --> 00:16:26.608
Deborah Wolfe: They're independent.
00:16:26.608 --> 00:16:29.508
Deborah Wolfe: They're very capable of dealing with their own life.
00:16:29.508 --> 00:16:31.048
Deborah Wolfe: Well, that is true, isn't it?
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Deborah Wolfe: Yes.
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Deborah Wolfe: But a cat is not a piece of furniture and I know she knows this.
00:16:35.128 --> 00:16:37.288
Deborah Wolfe: She spoils her cats and treats them wonderfully.
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Deborah Wolfe: But I just want to, sometimes people think, oh, it's like a piece of art.
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Deborah Wolfe: I'll pick a pretty one.
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Deborah Wolfe: I'll put it in my house and I'll ignore it and feed it once in a while, maybe get an automatic feeder and an automatic water and automatic litter changer and I'll just kind of give it attention when I feel like it.
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Deborah Wolfe: That's not very nice.
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Deborah Wolfe: That's not the way to have a happy cat.
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Deborah Wolfe: A happy cat wants to be touched and entertained and played with.
00:16:59.628 --> 00:17:06.748
Deborah Wolfe: It wants to feel like it's hunting something before it eats, so have some active play before it actually gets fed.
00:17:06.748 --> 00:17:09.028
Deborah Wolfe: It wants to have interaction with you.
00:17:09.028 --> 00:17:12.628
Deborah Wolfe: It wants to have rushing and cuddling and all that stuff.
00:17:13.428 --> 00:17:18.548
Deborah Wolfe: And it like most cats like to learn things, like their name and some basic words.
00:17:18.548 --> 00:17:23.348
Deborah Wolfe: You might call it commands, but you might also call it communicative interaction.
00:17:23.348 --> 00:17:26.148
Deborah Wolfe: When you call your cat and he comes, it's like, oh, you're calling me?
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Deborah Wolfe: Okay, I know what you want.
00:17:27.908 --> 00:17:30.728
Deborah Wolfe: Then it comes over and you pet him and he's, yeah, I like that.
00:17:30.728 --> 00:17:34.568
Deborah Wolfe: He's communicating to you, so why shouldn't you communicate to him?
00:17:34.568 --> 00:17:39.348
Deborah Wolfe: Instead of the sound of the can opener being the thing that brings him over, make it a word.
00:17:39.348 --> 00:17:40.628
Deborah Wolfe: Start talking to your cat.
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Deborah Wolfe: Start thinking pictures to your cats.
00:17:43.928 --> 00:17:48.648
Deborah Wolfe: Okay, now that one is a little controversial, but I'm going to talk about it anyway.
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Deborah Wolfe: When us humans talk to each other, we're so verbal.
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Deborah Wolfe: Everything's blah, blah, blah, blah, blah to the animals, right?
00:17:56.308 --> 00:18:06.368
Deborah Wolfe: We've seen that bar side cartoon where the dog's listening and the person says blah, blah, blah, ginger, blah, blah, blah, walk, blah, blah, blah, car.
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Deborah Wolfe: That's kind of what's going on.
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Deborah Wolfe: They tune most of it out because it's just chatter.
00:18:11.048 --> 00:18:15.748
Deborah Wolfe: So, so what we need to do first of all is speak like we mean it.
00:18:15.748 --> 00:18:19.448
Deborah Wolfe: Say words they know as first thing and repeat them.
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Deborah Wolfe: So the same word for the same thing every time.
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Deborah Wolfe: So they get to learn it just like you would with a child or a person learning a new language.
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Deborah Wolfe: Cats can learn things too.
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Deborah Wolfe: It's not just dogs.
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Deborah Wolfe: Dogs, 30 words, easy.
00:18:30.948 --> 00:18:32.028
Deborah Wolfe: 60, easy.
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Deborah Wolfe: 300 for the smartest poodle, easy, right?
00:18:35.608 --> 00:18:39.468
Deborah Wolfe: And we're not even touching on Coco the monkey and how many words she's got.
00:18:39.468 --> 00:18:42.228
Deborah Wolfe: Nobody even knows how many words cat can learn.
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Deborah Wolfe: But it's probably the same as dogs are better.
00:18:44.668 --> 00:18:48.548
Deborah Wolfe: Because with most things, when I train dogs and cats, cats learn faster.
00:18:48.548 --> 00:18:49.808
Deborah Wolfe: So, okay.
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Deborah Wolfe: So with your body language, we don't tend to use it much anymore.
00:18:53.688 --> 00:19:03.248
Deborah Wolfe: If you look at a border collie, anywhere, in a dog park or at a field or playing fetch with its owner, it's doing semaphore the whole time.
00:19:03.248 --> 00:19:05.548
Deborah Wolfe: If you look at coyotes, same thing.
00:19:05.548 --> 00:19:09.488
Deborah Wolfe: Signaling with their bodies, very set movements to signal.
00:19:09.488 --> 00:19:16.188
Deborah Wolfe: And when dogs greet each other, dog who wants to play puts his bum in the air, puts his front end down, that's play posture.
00:19:16.188 --> 00:19:23.228
Deborah Wolfe: Cats, when they want to get to know each other, as they walk by each other, their tails gently flop over and touch each other.
00:19:23.228 --> 00:19:24.228
Deborah Wolfe: That's a high five.
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Deborah Wolfe: Cats and dogs have a lot of body language.
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Deborah Wolfe: We've kind of cut it out of our repertoire and we need to bring it back.
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Deborah Wolfe: And the easiest way to do that is to actually think, to try to picture, like a movie in your head, the thing you want.
00:19:40.088 --> 00:19:54.268
Deborah Wolfe: So if you're standing at the dog park and your dog isn't coming and you're getting really fed up, instead of picturing the meeting you're late for and the rush that's gonna ensue when you finally get the dog in the car, don't even think about that.
00:19:54.268 --> 00:20:05.148
Deborah Wolfe: Think about your dog coming and getting cuddled and getting pet and having a little tussle with him, if that's what he likes, or getting a ball or getting a treat, whatever it is that he likes.
00:20:05.148 --> 00:20:07.528
Deborah Wolfe: Imagine that little movie.
00:20:07.528 --> 00:20:08.468
Deborah Wolfe: Same with a cat.
00:20:08.468 --> 00:20:10.088
Deborah Wolfe: You want your cat to come to you?
00:20:10.088 --> 00:20:16.148
Deborah Wolfe: Stand there and imagine your cat coming over to your ankles and wrapping around your ankles.
00:20:16.148 --> 00:20:19.668
Deborah Wolfe: Imagine that as you say the command, as you initiate.
00:20:20.408 --> 00:20:39.168
Deborah Wolfe: Because you're thinking about it and visualizing it, firstly, you're sending out a message to the universe with all your body language, whether you realize it or not, and your smells, your scent is not the annoyed scent, the irritated scent, the scent that comes with harsh words and bad memories.
00:20:39.168 --> 00:20:41.808
Deborah Wolfe: No, it's the scent of happiness.
00:20:41.808 --> 00:20:44.468
Deborah Wolfe: Your dog and cat can pick that up from so far away.
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Deborah Wolfe: They'll be coming.
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Deborah Wolfe: That's the first thing.
00:20:46.728 --> 00:20:47.948
Deborah Wolfe: So that's the first thing.
00:20:47.948 --> 00:20:51.968
Deborah Wolfe: Second thing is, they probably receive these pictures.
00:20:51.968 --> 00:21:03.128
Deborah Wolfe: So when you, because you're afraid of dogs maybe, and a big dog you don't know jumps on you, and you think, don't bite me, and you picture him biting you, that's a bad plan.
00:21:03.888 --> 00:21:07.828
Deborah Wolfe: Because everything you're doing is signaling him to bite you.
00:21:07.828 --> 00:21:12.788
Deborah Wolfe: If instead you think, oh, please be calm and sit down.
00:21:12.788 --> 00:21:15.348
Deborah Wolfe: Please be calm and sit down, if that's what you want.
00:21:15.768 --> 00:21:19.428
Deborah Wolfe: And imagine the dog sitting down, that's probably what you're going to get.
00:21:19.428 --> 00:21:21.428
Deborah Wolfe: Because most animals are not trying to attack us.
00:21:21.428 --> 00:21:23.168
Deborah Wolfe: They're just trying to get attention.
00:21:23.168 --> 00:21:25.548
Deborah Wolfe: And they're doing it in the ways they've learned before.
00:21:25.548 --> 00:21:28.328
Deborah Wolfe: And then whatever ensues is reactive.
00:21:28.328 --> 00:21:31.608
Deborah Wolfe: They react to how you stand, how you talk, how you are.
00:21:31.608 --> 00:21:35.688
Deborah Wolfe: So if you're calm, generally they're calm.
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Deborah Wolfe: All right, so I'm going to go through a little more.
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Deborah Wolfe: Are we talking Meredith Grey?
00:21:39.768 --> 00:21:43.148
Deborah Wolfe: Let's talk about Meredith Grey, Tay-Tay's cat.
00:21:43.148 --> 00:21:46.028
Deborah Wolfe: I'm going to save Olivia Benjamin for other shows.
00:21:46.028 --> 00:21:47.948
Deborah Wolfe: We're just going to talk about Meredith Grey.
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Deborah Wolfe: So Meredith Grey, which is Swift's first famous cat, is a Scottish fold named Meredith Grey.
00:21:54.148 --> 00:21:57.428
Deborah Wolfe: Yes, she's named after the one in Grey's Anatomy.
00:21:57.428 --> 00:22:05.008
Deborah Wolfe: Okay, so she got her in 2011, and what she says about her cat, she says she is awesome.
00:22:05.488 --> 00:22:08.548
Deborah Wolfe: She's like the most adorable cat in the world.
00:22:08.548 --> 00:22:11.768
Deborah Wolfe: Okay, so the relationship isn't one-sided.
00:22:11.768 --> 00:22:14.208
Deborah Wolfe: She actually has a song.
00:22:14.208 --> 00:22:15.488
Deborah Wolfe: The relationship isn't one-sided.
00:22:15.488 --> 00:22:17.008
Deborah Wolfe: Swift has a loyal fan in Meredith.
00:22:17.008 --> 00:22:25.568
Deborah Wolfe: In 2012, when her then-new single, I Knew You Were Trouble, was playing on the radio, Swift filmed Meredith meowing along to the song.
00:22:25.568 --> 00:22:28.468
Deborah Wolfe: So you can probably find that if you look hard enough.
00:22:28.468 --> 00:22:38.128
Deborah Wolfe: Meredith has made appearances on her Instagram, and if you look closely in Deadpool 2, you'll spot Meredith.
00:22:38.128 --> 00:22:39.468
Deborah Wolfe: Really?
00:22:39.468 --> 00:22:40.928
Deborah Wolfe: Yes, really.
00:22:40.928 --> 00:22:44.528
Deborah Wolfe: So, well, I'm going to tell you more about that next time.
00:22:44.528 --> 00:22:45.768
Deborah Wolfe: I can tell you more about Meredith.
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Deborah Wolfe: There's just so much on these cats.
00:22:48.328 --> 00:22:49.868
Deborah Wolfe: What about Paula Abdul?
00:22:49.868 --> 00:22:52.368
Deborah Wolfe: What does Paula Abdul have to do with Taylor Swift's cats?
00:22:52.368 --> 00:22:57.008
Deborah Wolfe: Well, I'm probably going to tell you next time, because I think we're running out of time today.
00:22:57.528 --> 00:23:00.988
Deborah Wolfe: Her other cats are Benjamin Button.
00:23:00.988 --> 00:23:01.588
Deborah Wolfe: I love this.
00:23:01.588 --> 00:23:02.648
Deborah Wolfe: And Olivia.
00:23:02.668 --> 00:23:04.128
Deborah Wolfe: Oh, Olivia.
00:23:04.128 --> 00:23:04.568
Deborah Wolfe: All right.
00:23:04.568 --> 00:23:09.728
Deborah Wolfe: So we'll talk about them on a future show and more dog topics and more cat topics.
00:23:09.728 --> 00:23:13.888
Deborah Wolfe: And I'm so happy you're all here on Animal Party, Pet Life Radio.
00:23:13.888 --> 00:23:16.228
Deborah Wolfe: We've had so much success.
00:23:16.228 --> 00:23:20.368
Deborah Wolfe: One of my favorite shows I've ever done is Animal Party on Pet Life Radio.
00:23:20.368 --> 00:23:25.488
Deborah Wolfe: And I've been on the air on many shows for a couple of decades now, but this is one of the best shows ever.
00:23:26.088 --> 00:23:31.848
Deborah Wolfe: And I have total freedom to talk about whatever I want in the pet world and invite whatever guests I want.
00:23:31.848 --> 00:23:44.708
Deborah Wolfe: So if you have a suggestion for me, a topic, a question, a problem, I love pet problems, or a guest suggestion, please send them to Deb at petliferadio.com, either a voice clip or a text.
00:23:44.708 --> 00:23:46.528
Deborah Wolfe: And I'll get your problem solved.
00:23:46.528 --> 00:23:47.668
Deborah Wolfe: I'll get your guest booked.
00:23:47.668 --> 00:23:50.028
Deborah Wolfe: I'll get your answers for you.
00:23:50.028 --> 00:23:53.948
Deborah Wolfe: So I just want to end with a Croatian proverb I heard.
00:23:54.688 --> 00:23:57.048
Deborah Wolfe: And it's very simple.
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Deborah Wolfe: And it kind of describes the difference between human intelligence and animal intelligence.
00:24:02.288 --> 00:24:05.028
Deborah Wolfe: And basically, this is a Croatian proverb.
00:24:05.028 --> 00:24:11.568
Deborah Wolfe: A donkey falls, slips and falls on thin ice one time.
00:24:11.568 --> 00:24:16.848
Deborah Wolfe: A human will slip and fall on thin ice three times.
00:24:16.848 --> 00:24:21.348
Deborah Wolfe: So animals learn faster than us is basically the idea here.
00:24:21.348 --> 00:24:22.788
Deborah Wolfe: You know, that's true with cats.
00:24:22.888 --> 00:24:25.408
Deborah Wolfe: When you're training a cat, don't bore the cat.
00:24:25.408 --> 00:24:27.148
Deborah Wolfe: Cats learn like standard poodles.
00:24:27.148 --> 00:24:29.728
Deborah Wolfe: They learn really, really fast.
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Deborah Wolfe: If you want to see one of the cutest standard poodle photoshoots I've ever seen and I put it on Deb Wolfe-Pet Expert on Facebook, check it out.
00:24:38.808 --> 00:24:42.308
Deborah Wolfe: Because I found this one on the internet and I just had to repost it.
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Deborah Wolfe: It's oh my goodness.
00:24:43.968 --> 00:24:46.668
Deborah Wolfe: It's just standard poodle all over.
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Deborah Wolfe: Deb Wolfe-Pet Expert on Facebook.
00:24:48.688 --> 00:24:53.068
Deborah Wolfe: But anyway, standard poodles learn super fast and they get bored.
00:24:53.068 --> 00:24:55.388
Deborah Wolfe: Board of Colleagues learn super fast but they don't get bored.
00:24:55.388 --> 00:24:57.328
Deborah Wolfe: They like to show off what they know.
00:24:57.328 --> 00:25:00.268
Deborah Wolfe: Doberman, same thing, like to show off what they know.
00:25:00.268 --> 00:25:02.948
Deborah Wolfe: But standard poodles get bored like cats.
00:25:02.948 --> 00:25:06.708
Deborah Wolfe: They do the trick twice and then they look at you like, don't you got anything else?
00:25:06.708 --> 00:25:08.268
Deborah Wolfe: Didn't we already do this?
00:25:08.268 --> 00:25:10.448
Deborah Wolfe: So keep it moving when you're training a cat.
00:25:10.448 --> 00:25:30.208
Deborah Wolfe: Get the cat to do it once or twice well for a reward and then you can go back to something they've already done that you haven't done for a while or that you did firstly, go back to the first trick, but don't keep doing that trick over and over and over and over like a golden retriever likes to do or a lab or a spaniel over and over and over and over.
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Deborah Wolfe: No, cats don't want that.
00:25:31.868 --> 00:25:33.748
Deborah Wolfe: They want to keep it interesting.
00:25:33.748 --> 00:25:35.968
Deborah Wolfe: So keep it moving, do new tricks.
00:25:35.968 --> 00:25:41.148
Deborah Wolfe: And if you're looking for something to see on how to train a cat, it's really all so simple.
00:25:41.148 --> 00:25:42.628
Deborah Wolfe: It's just timing.
00:25:42.628 --> 00:25:52.228
Deborah Wolfe: You just say what you want, get the cat to do it, and then give him the praise he likes, whether that's stroking or a little treat or a toy.
00:25:52.228 --> 00:25:57.688
Deborah Wolfe: And you just repeat that a couple of times till he's doing it himself once or twice, and then move on.
00:25:57.688 --> 00:25:59.308
Deborah Wolfe: You can even move on to just cuddling.
00:25:59.308 --> 00:26:04.988
Deborah Wolfe: Like it doesn't, or if the cat wants to play wild game, you can play with a cat toy after that.
00:26:04.988 --> 00:26:07.608
Deborah Wolfe: The reward can be anything the cat likes.
00:26:07.608 --> 00:26:08.908
Deborah Wolfe: And the same for dogs.
00:26:08.908 --> 00:26:12.168
Deborah Wolfe: Dogs don't have to be given food every time they do something well.
00:26:12.808 --> 00:26:16.848
Deborah Wolfe: In fact, Pavlov proved years ago it's better not to.
00:26:16.848 --> 00:26:20.148
Deborah Wolfe: I like to treat the treats like a sticker.
00:26:20.148 --> 00:26:27.828
Deborah Wolfe: You know, when your kid's doing okay in school, he doesn't get a sticker, but then all of a sudden he does really well for him, better than he usually does.
00:26:27.828 --> 00:26:29.448
Deborah Wolfe: Teacher gives him a sticker.
00:26:29.448 --> 00:26:32.548
Deborah Wolfe: Well, the sticker means something, because he doesn't get it every day.
00:26:32.548 --> 00:26:33.428
Deborah Wolfe: And that's true.
00:26:33.428 --> 00:26:36.868
Deborah Wolfe: Every time a dog does something right, he should get good dog.
00:26:36.868 --> 00:26:44.928
Deborah Wolfe: But once in a while, when he's exceptional, or when he's learning something new, or every few times, that's when you give them the treat.
00:26:44.928 --> 00:26:46.368
Deborah Wolfe: And the same for cats.
00:26:46.368 --> 00:26:49.328
Deborah Wolfe: Don't give them the treat every time, or they'll just ignore you.
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Deborah Wolfe: Alright, everybody, that's it for today on Animal Party Pet Life Radio.
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Deborah Wolfe: Be good to your animals.
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