Cat Origins & Bad Dog Owner Awards Go to Otter Lady & Frisbee Dumb Dumb At The Beach
Did you know Mary Tyler Moore loved poodles? Deb Wolfe describes a well exercised standard poodle who is the life of the party on walks but also the easiest couch potato when inside. Next you get a history summary of the many cat breeds we see today & their 8 common breed ancestors from a few ancient places. What not to do with your dog at the beach! See how to train a cat & how to tell an 8 week old puppy’s temperament demonstrated with untrained cutie pie pets on deb wolfe – pet expert on YouTube along with cat & dog training videos.
How to teach a cat to like being touched and brushed all over at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KWC3GryPwI
Listen to Episode #199 Now:
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Announcer: This is Pet Life Radio.
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Announcer: Let's talk pets.
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Deborah Wolfe: Hello, you're listening to Animal Party on Pet Life Radio.
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Deborah Wolfe: And today's gonna be an interesting show.
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Deborah Wolfe: I've got a lot to talk about.
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Deborah Wolfe: Dogs, cats, and well, a little bit of celebrity.
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Deborah Wolfe: A little bit.
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Deborah Wolfe: So maybe I'll start with the dog news.
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Deborah Wolfe: Here we go on Animal Party Pet Life Radio.
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Deborah Wolfe: Welcome to the party.
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Deborah Wolfe: So you know, lately I've been doing a little bit of a series, an unintended, absolutely unintended, on bad dog owners that I come across.
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Deborah Wolfe: Yeah, I wish I wasn't coming across them so often.
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Deborah Wolfe: But the worst dog owner of the year so far on the beach for me is the one I just saw.
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Deborah Wolfe: Now the dog, lovely dog named Penny, I was told it's a golden doodle.
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Deborah Wolfe: Don't look like a golden doodle.
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Deborah Wolfe: Looks like a slightly larger black cocker spaniel.
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Deborah Wolfe: That's what it looks like.
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Deborah Wolfe: But anyway, I don't really trust anything the guy says because he told me the last time I saw him on the beach that it was his dog's first time swimming ever.
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Deborah Wolfe: But I had already seen the dog swimming at previous trips to the beach.
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Deborah Wolfe: So the guy's just full of it.
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Deborah Wolfe: And I don't know why people make up these stories.
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Deborah Wolfe: You know, I remember once when I was younger, there was this girl, little girl, same age as me, a little bit younger.
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Deborah Wolfe: And she had these striking, striking eyes.
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Deborah Wolfe: And my mother asked her mother, are those natural?
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Deborah Wolfe: And her mother said, yes, they're natural.
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Deborah Wolfe: And the girl looked at me and said, I don't know why she lies about it.
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Deborah Wolfe: She knows I have colored contacts.
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Deborah Wolfe: And that's this kind of thing.
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Deborah Wolfe: I'm sure the dog was thinking, what are you talking about?
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Deborah Wolfe: I've been swimming all summer.
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Deborah Wolfe: So anyway, so we made up this story about how it was his first time swimming.
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Deborah Wolfe: Okay.
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Deborah Wolfe: Well, why is this guy the worst bag dog owner on the beach to me?
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Deborah Wolfe: Well, number one, I'll give you a whole bunch of reasons.
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Deborah Wolfe: I'm just going to spell him out.
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Deborah Wolfe: He lets his dog run around without watching where it's going.
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Deborah Wolfe: So if it has to go to the bathroom, it's going to go wherever it wants and he's not going to notice.
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Deborah Wolfe: Number one, do you want to step in that when you're walking on the beach or your kids are playing Frisbee?
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Deborah Wolfe: No.
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Deborah Wolfe: Okay, that's number one.
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Deborah Wolfe: He's not walking in on a leash to the woods.
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Deborah Wolfe: I've never seen him walk in on the leash to the woods like the other good dog owners do.
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Deborah Wolfe: No, it has no choice, not the dog's fault.
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Deborah Wolfe: Okay.
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Deborah Wolfe: Number two, he does not teach it to avoid people's blankets and towels.
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Deborah Wolfe: In fact, he doesn't care.
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Deborah Wolfe: So this dog will run all over people's blankets and towels, picnic stuff, scattering sand and mud everywhere.
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Deborah Wolfe: It will take the toy he's throwing for it and dig a little crater under the toy.
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Deborah Wolfe: And then the sand it's digging flies all over the place at other people's faces and blankets and all kinds of stuff.
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Deborah Wolfe: And if anyone complains, he gives them an attitude like they're an animal hater.
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Deborah Wolfe: Okay, so this is my one day where I'm not dealing with dog messes.
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Deborah Wolfe: I'm on the beach and this dog's kicking sand at me because of course it decides to sit right by me and bring the toy right to me and it can smell that I'm friendly.
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Deborah Wolfe: But you know, this is not what I want at the beach.
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Deborah Wolfe: So anyway, so this is what's going on.
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Deborah Wolfe: But that didn't make him the worst dog owner.
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Deborah Wolfe: No, no.
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Deborah Wolfe: The reason he's the worst dog owner is because he would hock the frisbee into the ocean and not look or completely turn his back on the dog while other people thinking they were doing the dog a favor would hock the frisbee into the middle of the ocean.
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Deborah Wolfe: Okay, so we're talking about a beach that is west facing.
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Deborah Wolfe: It's a peninsula.
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Deborah Wolfe: It's on the Georgia Strait.
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Deborah Wolfe: It's the Pacific Ocean.
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Deborah Wolfe: It doesn't usually have under toes, but the waves can be choppy.
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Deborah Wolfe: The tide can go out.
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Deborah Wolfe: And this dog is quite small, cocker spaniel size, right?
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Deborah Wolfe: And it's struggling.
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Deborah Wolfe: And people keep hocking this thing so far.
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Deborah Wolfe: They're throwing this toy so far that the dog could barely make it there.
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Deborah Wolfe: And then by the time it gets there, the toy's half sunk and it's sort of paddling around upright in the water, trying to see the toy, trying to see the toy.
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Deborah Wolfe: And you can see this dog has a really strong, bread-in work ethic, as doodles would, as poodles would, as golden retrievers would, they're retriever dogs, and cocker spaniels are also supposed to retrieve birds.
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Deborah Wolfe: So this dog won't leave it.
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Deborah Wolfe: He just won't leave it.
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Deborah Wolfe: He'd rather drown than leave it.
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Deborah Wolfe: And the guy's turning his back on this little puppy.
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Deborah Wolfe: So that's why he wins the Worst Dog Owner Award for today.
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Deborah Wolfe: All right, we're going to talk about some other things.
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Deborah Wolfe: And later in the show, I'm going to talk to you about something fascinating.
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Deborah Wolfe: Where do different cats come from?
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Deborah Wolfe: I mean, if you look at a cat book, and I've got one in front of me right now, a really good one.
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Deborah Wolfe: It's called the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Cat Breeds.
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Deborah Wolfe: It's awesome.
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Deborah Wolfe: And there's a whole page on colors.
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Deborah Wolfe: And it just like it'll say the breed.
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Deborah Wolfe: And then all it shows like a color palette, almost like you'd see at a paint store.
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Deborah Wolfe: All the different breeds that all the different colors that match that breed.
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Deborah Wolfe: And then the next one and then the next one and then it's astounding the variety.
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Deborah Wolfe: So what I'm going to talk to you about today, I don't know how far I'll get through it.
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Deborah Wolfe: I have about eight, one, two, three.
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Deborah Wolfe: Yeah, eight that I listed, made notes on.
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Deborah Wolfe: Of the kind of most common breeds you would maybe already have come across, like Siamese, like Russian blue, cats you've probably seen that are very, very ancient.
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Deborah Wolfe: So we can track where domestic cats started, like what part of the world.
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Deborah Wolfe: It's very cool.
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Deborah Wolfe: I'm going to talk about that later.
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Deborah Wolfe: And I'm going to talk about Mary Tyler Moore.
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Deborah Wolfe: Did you know she was a poodle person?
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Deborah Wolfe: I bet you didn't.
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Deborah Wolfe: All right.
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Deborah Wolfe: Stay tuned on Animal Party Pet Life Radio.
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Deborah Wolfe: We're coming back to talk cats and dogs at the Animal Party.
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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 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, 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: That's givethemten.org.
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<v SPEAKER_3>Hello, you're listening to Animal Party on Pet Life Radio.
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Deborah Wolfe: So you're listening to Deborah Wolfe, that's me.
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Deborah Wolfe: And if you want to see me demonstrating how to train a cat to shake paw, or come when called, or jump over a fence post, or you want to see me show you how to look at two seemingly identical eight week old puppies, pick them up and figure out which one is more active, which one less, what the differences in personality are already from just a very quick one minute little exam.
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Deborah Wolfe: If you want to see that, go to Deb Wolfe Pet Expert on YouTube, because that's where you'll find that and all kinds of basics.
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Deborah Wolfe: Come sit, stay a heel for dogs, manners for cats, everything you need is there.
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Deborah Wolfe: And you can see it demonstrated with naughty pets who become polite right before your eyes.
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Deborah Wolfe: Okay, so Fabio My Poodle has like a dual personality.
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Deborah Wolfe: Now, he doesn't have bipolar or anything like that.
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Deborah Wolfe: But when he's out in the field playing with other dogs, he is the most athletic, the most energetic, the most interactive.
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Deborah Wolfe: Mr.
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Deborah Wolfe: Bouncy Poodle, he's all over the acreage at Camp Good Dog.
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Deborah Wolfe: He's just like the ever ready bunny out there, bing, bing, bing, bing, bing, bouncing around.
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Deborah Wolfe: And then he gets to the house.
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Deborah Wolfe: And someone once said to me when I was saying to the woman who was walking him, I said, how was he today?
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Deborah Wolfe: Was he super hyper?
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Deborah Wolfe: And the person who heard me, my friend David said, what are you talking about?
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Deborah Wolfe: All he does is lie on the couch and watch TV because that's what he's like at home.
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Deborah Wolfe: When he crashes, he crashes hard.
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Deborah Wolfe: And there's dogs like this who get, when they get enough exercise, they can be just ever so easy to own at home.
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Deborah Wolfe: And standard poodles are typically like that.
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Deborah Wolfe: But let's talk about Mary Tyler Moore.
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Deborah Wolfe: So Mary Tyler Moore was told by the show executives, producers, that the set needed a little warming up.
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Deborah Wolfe: And she should bring in some family photos.
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Deborah Wolfe: So what'd she do?
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Deborah Wolfe: She brought in a picture of her two poodles.
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Deborah Wolfe: And I know that because she was interviewed on Betty White's Pet Show.
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Deborah Wolfe: And they had the two white poodles who are miniatures, I believe.
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Deborah Wolfe: Or no, they were silvers, silver and miniature.
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Deborah Wolfe: You can probably find that footage on YouTube actually.
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Deborah Wolfe: Anyway, they had these two silver mini poodles come on, one I think was named Winston, and do a little cameo appearance on Betty White's Pet Show way back in the day.
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Deborah Wolfe: But I think it's interesting to think that what she thought would warm up the set was a picture of her two poodles.
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Deborah Wolfe: Go Mary.
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Deborah Wolfe: All right.
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Deborah Wolfe: I loved that show when I was a kid.
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Deborah Wolfe: I really, really did.
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Deborah Wolfe: And I especially loved Rhoda.
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Deborah Wolfe: But that's for another time.
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Deborah Wolfe: Now we're going to talk a little bit about cats.
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Deborah Wolfe: Let's talk about cats.
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Deborah Wolfe: So I wanted to tell you about the history of cats.
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Deborah Wolfe: We're going to start a little bit about that.
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Deborah Wolfe: But before I do, I want to say that, you know, the word Molly.
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Deborah Wolfe: Molly's now become synonymous with a street drug.
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Deborah Wolfe: But when I was learning to all this cat training and dog training, Molly was what we called a female cat.
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Deborah Wolfe: That is right.
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Deborah Wolfe: Or we called her a queen.
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Deborah Wolfe: Now that's appropriate.
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Deborah Wolfe: So, if we can't use Molly anymore, I guess a female cat is a queen.
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Deborah Wolfe: And I think most of the cats would agree with you.
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Deborah Wolfe: We can use that old term instead.
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Deborah Wolfe: A female dog is a dam.
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Deborah Wolfe: And a male, if they're mating, is a sire.
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Deborah Wolfe: So we don't have to use outdated words or swear words for them either.
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Deborah Wolfe: Okay, so let's go to the cats.
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Deborah Wolfe: Now, it's interesting to think, where did they originate?
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Deborah Wolfe: Well, they originated one, two, three, four, five places at once.
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Deborah Wolfe: So way up in the top of Russia near the Arctic Circle is one place.
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Deborah Wolfe: Another place is in Burma, and you can guess who came from there.
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Deborah Wolfe: Yeah.
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Deborah Wolfe: Okay.
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Deborah Wolfe: Well, we'll get to that in a second.
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Deborah Wolfe: Actually, two breeds from Burma.
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Deborah Wolfe: And then we have Thailand.
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Deborah Wolfe: You might be able to guess which breed came from there probably.
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Deborah Wolfe: And then we have Ethiopia.
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Deborah Wolfe: So after that, quite a few of them were brought to France.
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Deborah Wolfe: And from France, we have some other breeds.
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Deborah Wolfe: And all of them ended up in North America.
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Deborah Wolfe: So here we go.
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Deborah Wolfe: I'm going to tell you first about the Burma breeds.
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Deborah Wolfe: Now, Burma, I think, is now called Myanmar, but the cats still are called Burman and Burmese, the two cats that came from that part of the world.
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Deborah Wolfe: So at the end of World War II, a pair of temple cats were sent to France.
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Deborah Wolfe: And from those two cats, the breed of Burman was created.
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Deborah Wolfe: Now, the Burmese, a cat called Wong Man, was taken from Burma to the United States in 1980 and was the foundation queen of the breed.
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Deborah Wolfe: Now, I kind of find this interesting too, because it points out a topic I'm always trying to stress to everybody, which is cats can make a lot of babies.
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Deborah Wolfe: And if you have a cat, you really ought to spay it.
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Deborah Wolfe: So we can see how one cat taken from a part of the world has made all the ones you see today that look like that.
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Deborah Wolfe: So really, you really got to be careful.
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Deborah Wolfe: And I know it sounds crazy, but if you have one intact male cat and one intact female cat, and they make babies in five years, hypothetically, they can have 11,000 kittens, which is a ton, way more than we need, way more than we need.
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Deborah Wolfe: So spay and neuter your cats.
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Deborah Wolfe: But now we're gonna just go a little more and tell you one more before we go to break.
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Deborah Wolfe: And I will get back to dog talk.
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Deborah Wolfe: Don't you all worry.
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Deborah Wolfe: In fact, I'm gonna talk about a situation with a beautiful lab who ended up, LabCross, who ended up in big trouble in the water.
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Deborah Wolfe: Yeah, I'll tell you about that after the break.
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Deborah Wolfe: So back to the cats.
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Deborah Wolfe: We're talking about the top of Russia and near the archipelago.
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Deborah Wolfe: And this is where the Russian blue came from.
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Deborah Wolfe: So we were talking about the Burmese cats.
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Deborah Wolfe: And they kind of, sort of an interesting looking cat, the Burmese especially.
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Deborah Wolfe: Short haired, the Burmese, the Burmese has longer hair.
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Deborah Wolfe: The Burmese has a gray face and white body.
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Deborah Wolfe: The Burmese is different colors, but very sleek look to it, very strong look to it.
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Deborah Wolfe: And almost hairless around the eyebrows.
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Deborah Wolfe: Now the Russian blue is often silver, but again, you would have to go to these breed colors to really identify, because the colors have been changed a lot.
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Deborah Wolfe: But originally, it was a blue cat.
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Deborah Wolfe: So like a gray blue, like a Weimaraner.
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Deborah Wolfe: And they were brought from the Port of Archangel in Russia all the way to France.
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Deborah Wolfe: The Burmese also were brought to France.
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Deborah Wolfe: And when we come back after the break, I'll tell you a little bit more about some of this history.
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Deborah Wolfe: But I'm also going to tell you about the otters and the lab crops.
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Deborah Wolfe: Hello, we're back on Animal Party PetLife Radio.
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Deborah Wolfe: I'm just gonna update you on the cat history, finish off the topic I started.
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Deborah Wolfe: So the Manx cats, they came from France.
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Deborah Wolfe: After all, these other cats were brought there.
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Deborah Wolfe: They created them there, and from there to North America.
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Deborah Wolfe: And the same for the Rex.
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Deborah Wolfe: So I think, I think I'll leave.
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Deborah Wolfe: The last three, the Siamese, the Abyssinian and the Chinchilla for next time.
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Deborah Wolfe: And I'm gonna go to some dog news.
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Deborah Wolfe: So on Vancouver Island, there was an incident where, and this may be, you know what, this may be the worst beach owner, the worst dog at the beach.
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Deborah Wolfe: Yeah, they probably take the cake.
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Deborah Wolfe: Maybe they get the medal.
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Deborah Wolfe: So somebody, a woman walking her dog, walks the dog to the same place all the time, sees otters, and I put this in quotes, playing, and decides to throw for her dog and let her dog swim around the otters.
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Deborah Wolfe: And the otters attacked that dog, and that dog drowned.
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Deborah Wolfe: And now the woman is, you know, going to the press and giving lots of interviews and talking about PTSD.
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Deborah Wolfe: And I do feel for her because she lost her dog.
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Deborah Wolfe: But I feel more for the dog, and I feel more for the otters, because the otters are there raising babies.
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Deborah Wolfe: They have pups right now.
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Deborah Wolfe: And they don't want some carnivore coming in, something that looks to them like a coyote or a wolf, a predator.
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Deborah Wolfe: Of course, they're going to attack the dog with tiny little bites.
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Deborah Wolfe: But there's a lot of them, and they're bigger than you think.
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Deborah Wolfe: And they're more at home in the water than your canine, no matter what kind of dog he is.
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Deborah Wolfe: So when you see wildlife, put your dog on a leash for the sake of the wildlife most of the time.
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Deborah Wolfe: But that dog could have grabbed a otter baby, and they don't know the difference between a domestic dog and a pack of wild dogs, so you can't blame the otters, like this woman's doing.
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Deborah Wolfe: She's trying to get a campaign going to get rid of the otters.
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Deborah Wolfe: And to me, this is insanity.
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Deborah Wolfe: You got to keep your dog on a leash.
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Deborah Wolfe: Now, I know you people listening in Florida, you don't let your dogs run into ponds because it could be alligators there, right?
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Deborah Wolfe: Well, people have to start paying attention to these things.
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Deborah Wolfe: Take care of your dogs.
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Deborah Wolfe: Keep them on leash when you're unsure of the area or whenever you see any wildlife.
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Deborah Wolfe: Even small wildlife that you think your dog can handle could easily have diseases.
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Deborah Wolfe: You know, you don't want your dog getting some kind of parasite or worse, getting attacked by a rabbit animal because most of these animals, they don't want to encounter your dog or your cat.
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Deborah Wolfe: They really don't.
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Deborah Wolfe: They really, really don't.
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Deborah Wolfe: The only animals who want to encounter your cat are animals who want to eat it.
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Deborah Wolfe: So you want to keep your cat safe from wildlife, your dog safe from wildlife.
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Deborah Wolfe: If you can keep your cats indoors, that's the safest.
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Deborah Wolfe: They live way longer.
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Deborah Wolfe: If you let them outside, then put a bell on them so they're not killing things and tag so you can get them back and good tattoo ID and a microchip and train them to come home and have cat doors that close in the evenings.
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Deborah Wolfe: And ideally, you only let them out with you in supervised areas that have good fencing over top and all around.
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Deborah Wolfe: So birds of prey can't come in and swoop down and take your cat.
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Deborah Wolfe: You got to be safe with these animals, everybody.
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Deborah Wolfe: All right.
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Deborah Wolfe: So because I said something that was a little negative about the otters, we're going to go to some happy news before we end the show today.
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Deborah Wolfe: And that's at the London Zoo.
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Deborah Wolfe: At the London Zoo, they do an annual weigh-in.
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Deborah Wolfe: Yeah.
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Deborah Wolfe: Okay.
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Deborah Wolfe: So 14,000 animals get weighed.
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Deborah Wolfe: Oh my goodness.
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Deborah Wolfe: Oh my goodness.
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Deborah Wolfe: And yeah, it's so interesting.
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Deborah Wolfe: I watched some footage of this.
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Deborah Wolfe: If you can go on YouTube and look it up, it's really interesting.
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Deborah Wolfe: They get the animals different ways.
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Deborah Wolfe: A lot of them are tempted by food on the scale.
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Deborah Wolfe: Some have to be picked up and you stand on the scale and you subtract your weight.
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Deborah Wolfe: Some have to be tricked into walking into scales.
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Deborah Wolfe: I mean, they're very fascinating to see.
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Deborah Wolfe: So if you ever stressed out about weighing in yourself somewhere, just think of these animals.
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Deborah Wolfe: Oh my goodness.
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Deborah Wolfe: What a stressful time.
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Deborah Wolfe: And okay, so if you've got a dog or cat that's particularly nervous at the vet, you want to take your dog or cat there a lot.
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Deborah Wolfe: And in the case of a dog, I would suggest they usually have the scale in the waiting room because they want you to weigh as you're waiting to be received by reception so they can get your weight, your dog's weight, rather.
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Deborah Wolfe: Don't worry, they're not weighing you.
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Deborah Wolfe: Unless your dog is so bad that you have to get on the scale and announce your weight in the reception so they can subtract it.
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Deborah Wolfe: So this is why you want to do this.
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Deborah Wolfe: You want to teach your dog to get on the scale so that doesn't happen to you.
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Deborah Wolfe: So they always offer treats.
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Deborah Wolfe: If your dog's really sensitive or allergic, bring your own.
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Deborah Wolfe: And then you just get your dog to stand on the scale.
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Deborah Wolfe: Even if you have to lift him on there, even if to pull him on there with a leash, even if he's scared and trembling, just put him on there somehow.
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Deborah Wolfe: Okay?
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Deborah Wolfe: And then love him up.
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Deborah Wolfe: Cuddling, praise him.
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Deborah Wolfe: If he'll take the treat, he's not that stressed.
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Deborah Wolfe: When dogs are really stressed, they won't take a treat.
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Deborah Wolfe: So calm him down, cuddle him.
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Deborah Wolfe: If he's too stressed to take the treat, let him jump off the scale.
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Deborah Wolfe: Maybe he's scared of the metal.
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Deborah Wolfe: You could try putting a blanket he knows on there.
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Deborah Wolfe: Maybe he's scared of the sound.
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Deborah Wolfe: Maybe he's just scared of the clinic.
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Deborah Wolfe: Give it another try.
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Deborah Wolfe: But you want to get him so used to the scale that when you go there for something like a painful thing, that's not added to his stress.
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Deborah Wolfe: That cats, you don't really have to worry about the weigh-in because it's a little tiny scale on the counter and the cat sort of likes to be contained and likes being in that.
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Deborah Wolfe: And they usually put something in it so it's not cold.
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Deborah Wolfe: But cats are very nervous at the vet too.
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Deborah Wolfe: So, what I would suggest with cats is not so much going there often and all that.
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Deborah Wolfe: Dogs will learn to love the vet, most cats won't.
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Deborah Wolfe: So, I would suggest instead, you handle your cat a lot.
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Deborah Wolfe: You get your cat used to being handled and not just by you, by people who visit, by friends.
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Deborah Wolfe: So, it's not just only mom who touches me, right?
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Deborah Wolfe: And don't just touch it on the head and the ears.
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Deborah Wolfe: Make sure your cat lets you touch it everywhere.
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Deborah Wolfe: It might take a while to do that.
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Deborah Wolfe: And I've demonstrated that at Deb Wolfe Pet Expert YouTube.
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Deborah Wolfe: I started with one of my kittens on how to brush a long-haired rescue cat that's not really used to being brushed.
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Deborah Wolfe: And so, I've demonstrated sort of lesson one.
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Deborah Wolfe: I'm about to post that, and I'll do lesson two soon because he needs to be brushed again.
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Deborah Wolfe: If you don't like brushing yourself, you don't have a big, you know, high-maintenance hairdo, and you don't have kids that require braids and updos and all kinds of hairdos, or you do have those kids and you resent doing it or you don't like doing it, well, don't get a long-haired cat because they need it all the time.
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Deborah Wolfe: Even the medium-length cats.
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Deborah Wolfe: This cat has a sibling, two brothers that I rescued.
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Deborah Wolfe: One short-haired, he doesn't really need to be brushed.
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Deborah Wolfe: I brush him because he needs to get used to being brushed everywhere and touched everywhere, but really he's never needed it yet.
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Deborah Wolfe: And then there's his brother with the medium coat that needs it every week.
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Deborah Wolfe: Oh man, it's like a new hobby for me.
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Deborah Wolfe: So if you don't want that hobby, get a short-haired cat.
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Deborah Wolfe: There's plenty of those in the rescue shelters, for sure.
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Deborah Wolfe: Okay, so I've demonstrated all that on YouTube and you can see it there.
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Deborah Wolfe: And I guess I'm going to end the show with that.
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Deborah Wolfe: With cats though, if you've got a cat who's nervous about going to the vet, you teach it to be touched, you take it for in the crate, in the kennel that you're going to be using to go in and out of the vet, you maybe leave that open with the door off or open, put temptation treats or whatever you like in there from time to time, right, pet it in there, put some catnip in there, make the little cage not something they're afraid of.
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Deborah Wolfe: And that's usually very easy to do because cats like little cages, little dens, just like dogs do.
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Deborah Wolfe: So even more so.
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Deborah Wolfe: So you make it their favorite little hidey place, and then that's not stressing them out when they're going to the vet.
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Deborah Wolfe: And you might even want to take them on an extremely short car ride that goes nowhere.
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Deborah Wolfe: Put them in the crate, take them in the car, go around the block, come home.
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Deborah Wolfe: Do that a few times so the car isn't a panic situation either.
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Deborah Wolfe: Okay.
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Deborah Wolfe: So once you've done all that, and you're ready to go to the vet, and you're about to call up and say, hey, I'm due for annual vaccines.
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Deborah Wolfe: You sent me my reminder.
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Deborah Wolfe: I'm bringing Tabby.
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Deborah Wolfe: Instead of just letting them book your appointment, you can say, could I have an appointment at a time when there's not many dogs?
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Deborah Wolfe: Could I have an appointment at a time when it's very quiet?
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Deborah Wolfe: Because the clinics don't mind.
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Deborah Wolfe: There'll be a day when there's like all cats that day, or some cats, or maybe it's surgery day, and there's hardly anybody coming and going, but you can get an appointment.
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Deborah Wolfe: They don't mind making special accommodation, so your cat will be calmer and more well-behaved.
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Deborah Wolfe: They don't want to be scratched or bitten.
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Deborah Wolfe: And that way, everything goes smoother.
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Deborah Wolfe: You could also consider if you only have cats and you don't have dogs, you might consider going to a cats-only vet.
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Deborah Wolfe: Because then you don't have to make a special time.
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Deborah Wolfe: And then they really know cats, and they really love cats, and your cat will be more comfortable there.
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Deborah Wolfe: But I like to pick my favorite vet, and my favorite vet does cats and dogs.
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Deborah Wolfe: So that's what I do.
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Deborah Wolfe: If I have to bring in a sick cat, I'll make sure it's at a quiet time.
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Deborah Wolfe: All right, everybody.
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Deborah Wolfe: I think I told you about everything.
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Deborah Wolfe: It was so delightful.
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Deborah Wolfe: If you do look up the Mary Tyler Moore footage with her and Betty White on that show, it is so delightful to watch.
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Deborah Wolfe: It's only a few minutes.
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Deborah Wolfe: But seeing the two of them young and vibrant with these poodles bouncing all over the set, it's something to watch.
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Deborah Wolfe: And Betty White was a true friend to dogs and cats and animal rescue.
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Deborah Wolfe: And she still has foundations long after her passing that are helping animal rescue.
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Deborah Wolfe: So big salute to Betty White.
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Deborah Wolfe: Alright everybody, from me and Animal Party and Pet Life Radio, thanks for listening and be good to your animals.
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