How to Say ‘Hello’ in Dog & Cat: Pet Etiquette 101
Deborah Wolfe teaches you how to say ‘hello’ to your dog & your cat. Plus how to recognize doggie best friends and spouses at the dog park. Zoo news including a very fat penguin baby and two daddy flamingos. A pitbull cross gets returned safely home to the Alaska border from the Phoenix café thanks to microchip i.d. Do you agree with Breed Specific Legislation like the sign posted at Deb Wolfe- Pet Expert on facebook? https://www.facebook.com/debwolfepetexpert/ Please tell us what you think of bans and rules aimed at just pit bull type dogs ; When you have questions, or guest suggestions or a good equipment tip (like a cat door that works) please send your texts, emails or voice messages to deb@petliferadio.com
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Deborah Wolfe: Hello, you're listening to Animal Party on Pet Life Radio.
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Deborah Wolfe: And I got all new equipment today in the studio.
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Deborah Wolfe: So you probably hear a better sound than ever.
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Deborah Wolfe: And maybe we'll talk about dog and cat equipment later.
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Deborah Wolfe: Because, you know, you gotta get with the times.
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Deborah Wolfe: I like my old equipment, I'm really used to it.
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Deborah Wolfe: And I was kinda persuaded, kicking and screaming, to finally get new equipment when my old headset broke while on air.
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Deborah Wolfe: Yeah, while doing a live show, I had to hold it together with my hands.
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Deborah Wolfe: So I got new equipment and I'm loving it.
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Deborah Wolfe: And it makes me realize, there's a lot of new stuff out there for cats and dogs we should be talking about on Animal Party Pet Life Radio.
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Deborah Wolfe: So you're listening to me, Deb Wolfe, and we're gonna go through some news and some training and some animal topics that I've picked out for you all because this is Animal Party on Pet Life Radio.
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Deborah Wolfe: So here we go.
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Deborah Wolfe: I was thinking the other day that there's a song, the lyrics, we're here for a good time, not a long time.
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Deborah Wolfe: So have a good time, the sun can't shine every day.
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Deborah Wolfe: Okay, we're here for a good time, not a long time.
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Deborah Wolfe: I was actually singing that song backing up a band on the stage.
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Deborah Wolfe: And it occurred to me that that's the dog motto.
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Deborah Wolfe: That's what's going through their head all the time.
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Deborah Wolfe: We're here for a good time, not a long time.
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Deborah Wolfe: We only have 10 to 15 years on this planet, most of us.
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Deborah Wolfe: And we are going to make the most of it.
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Deborah Wolfe: 10 or 15 Christmases, 10 or 15 summers, 10 or 15 Halloweens, 10 or 15 Springs, 10 or 15 trips to the summer cottage, all that kind of stuff.
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Deborah Wolfe: So that's what your dog's thinking when it greets you, like it's the biggest, hugest deal, and all you did was move the car, take out the garbage.
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Deborah Wolfe: You know what?
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Deborah Wolfe: He doesn't get unlimited greetings for 80 years.
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Deborah Wolfe: He only has 10 years of greetings, so he may as well enjoy that moment.
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Deborah Wolfe: And I think sometimes we forget about that with our cats.
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Deborah Wolfe: You know, most cats are not as exuberant in their expressions of emotion.
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Deborah Wolfe: So, they're a little bit more cool, like cool cats.
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Deborah Wolfe: They may show you they're happy by winding around your feet, or maybe you've got a drool-y cat that really lays it on thick when you come in the door.
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Deborah Wolfe: But they're probably not as cuckoo bananas about greetings as your happy young dog would be.
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Deborah Wolfe: And, but we got to remember, you know, just because you can walk by the cat and ignore him more easily, don't do it.
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Deborah Wolfe: Give that cat the greeting.
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Deborah Wolfe: Show your cat you want to say hi.
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Deborah Wolfe: Okay, now, if you're listening and you're thinking, oh, didn't she tell us how to do that?
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Deborah Wolfe: How are we supposed to say hi to our cats again?
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Deborah Wolfe: All right, here it is.
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Deborah Wolfe: When you walk into a room and you see a cat who likes you, a cat you know, or a cat who's very affectionate, or even a cat you don't know.
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Deborah Wolfe: But if you do it with cats you know who like you, they will communicate back, so it's more rewarding.
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Deborah Wolfe: If you do it with a cat you don't know, he may say hello back, he may not.
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Deborah Wolfe: He may just come check you out because he's fascinated.
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Deborah Wolfe: By a human who actually bothers to learn a few words of cat and communicate.
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Deborah Wolfe: So here we go.
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Deborah Wolfe: This is what you do.
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Deborah Wolfe: You walk into the room, you look at your cat, you close your eyes for an exaggerated time.
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Deborah Wolfe: So not a quick blink.
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Deborah Wolfe: I'd say three seconds because you're probably going to do it less, but close your eyes.
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Deborah Wolfe: One, two, three.
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Deborah Wolfe: Now open them and look at your cat.
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Deborah Wolfe: So you looked at your cat and you closed your eyes for three seconds, and then you open them.
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Deborah Wolfe: And what your cat will do if your cat wants to say hello back, is the exact same thing right back at you.
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Deborah Wolfe: Your cat will close its eyes, one, two, probably two seconds, and then open them and look at you.
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Deborah Wolfe: That's like a high five, a human nod, a wave.
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Deborah Wolfe: That's how cats say hello to cats.
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Deborah Wolfe: They trust.
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Deborah Wolfe: Now why would that be their signal?
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Deborah Wolfe: Well, because they're showing you, I trust you enough to close my eyes in your presence.
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Deborah Wolfe: If you were a big threat, a new dog, cat they didn't know, loud screaming person, they would not do that.
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Deborah Wolfe: It doesn't matter how much you close your eyes, they're not closing theirs.
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Deborah Wolfe: They're watching you.
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Deborah Wolfe: Because they're only 10 to 12 pounds.
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Deborah Wolfe: They gotta run if stuff goes wrong.
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Deborah Wolfe: They gotta be able to escape quickly if a big dog comes in to hunt them or something else, a coyote or who knows what.
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Deborah Wolfe: They're kind of at the bottom of the food chain for a lot of animals, so they gotta be ready to go, ready to go, on the alert.
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Deborah Wolfe: But if they will close their eyes in front of you, then they trust you.
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Deborah Wolfe: There's something a little bit equivalent to this that we see in the dog park.
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Deborah Wolfe: Okay, I better get back to that.
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Deborah Wolfe: I'm going to make a note of that so I don't forget.
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Deborah Wolfe: Because first I'm going to tell you how to say hello to a dog.
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Deborah Wolfe: So that's how you say hello to a cat.
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Deborah Wolfe: Very simple.
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Deborah Wolfe: Look at the cat, stare him right in the eyes, then close your eyes.
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Deborah Wolfe: One, two, three, and open him.
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Deborah Wolfe: Now he's going to do the same thing back at you.
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Deborah Wolfe: And most of the time that cat will then approach you.
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Deborah Wolfe: You don't have to approach it.
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Deborah Wolfe: Cats generally, most of the time, most cats don't want you to approach them.
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Deborah Wolfe: They want to approach you for the same reasons I just outlined.
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Deborah Wolfe: I mean, they're 10 pounds.
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Deborah Wolfe: And most of us are over 100.
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Deborah Wolfe: Imagine if you were trying to interact with an individual from a species that was 10 times our size on average, or 20 times, say, it's a 200-pound person.
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Deborah Wolfe: It's pretty scary.
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Deborah Wolfe: They could step on you and break you, so you've got to be careful.
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Deborah Wolfe: And that's how toy dogs run through the world, too.
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Deborah Wolfe: Even though cats and dogs are predators of some things, they are also especially small dogs, prey.
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Deborah Wolfe: So they run through the world a little bit on the alert, as you would too, if that was your situation.
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Deborah Wolfe: So, okay, so how do you say hi to a dog?
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Deborah Wolfe: Well, stay tuned, because we're going to go to break and come back, and I'm going to tell you how to say hi to a dog, and how to tell if two dogs trust each other at the dog park.
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Deborah Wolfe: On Animal Party on Pet Life Radio, with me, Deb Wolfe.
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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: Hello, we're back on Animal Party, Pet Life Radio, and I promised I'd tell you how to say hi to your dog.
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Deborah Wolfe: So this is what you do.
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Deborah Wolfe: If you've seen men who sort of know each other, they're not best friends, they don't want a hug, they don't want to do a one-armed hug, they don't want to do a high five, they don't want to do a fist bump, they don't want to do a handshake, but they know each other well enough to say hi if they were in a small setting.
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Deborah Wolfe: Now, there's one guy already at the restaurant, another guy arrives and they catch an eye of each other, they meet eyes, they lock eyes across the room.
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Deborah Wolfe: Lot of people in the way, they're not going to go run over and say hi, hi.
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Deborah Wolfe: No, no, no.
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Deborah Wolfe: But what they are going to do, usually, is one man will take his head a little bit angled downward and move it upward like a flick.
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Deborah Wolfe: And the other guy will usually do the same or he'll move his head downward like a nod.
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Deborah Wolfe: And that's kind of like, hey, man, how's it going?
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Deborah Wolfe: Okay, bud, I see you.
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Deborah Wolfe: I see you.
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Deborah Wolfe: That's it.
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Deborah Wolfe: That's all it is.
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Deborah Wolfe: That's what your dogs do.
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Deborah Wolfe: So when you come in, if you're meeting a dog you don't know and you want to say hi to him, you can do the same thing.
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Deborah Wolfe: You can look at him, not too directly, not intensely, not like you want to fight with them.
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Deborah Wolfe: Same as the cats, right?
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Deborah Wolfe: You're not going to keep eye contact.
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Deborah Wolfe: No, but you can look at it.
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Deborah Wolfe: And then gently, you can even close your eyes.
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Deborah Wolfe: If you're worried that you're staring, close your eyes.
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Deborah Wolfe: Then just nod your head up, just up.
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Deborah Wolfe: And what you'll find is that dog will do the same thing.
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Deborah Wolfe: He will nod his head in greeting to you.
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Deborah Wolfe: And then you just said hi to your dog.
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Deborah Wolfe: So now you can say hi to your cat and you can say hi to your dog.
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Deborah Wolfe: All right, I'm going to get to some news because a dog was returned from a long way away and so was a cat.
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Deborah Wolfe: And I love those stories, even though only 10% of lost cats get returned and only 60% of lost dogs get returned.
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Deborah Wolfe: Still, one of them is a microchip story, and I want to make sure whatever you do, if you have cats and dogs who wonder, if you're worried about this, if you're moving, if you just happen to be at the vet, ask for it.
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Deborah Wolfe: They can microchip your cat or dog in two seconds.
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Deborah Wolfe: It's like a little injection they do at the back of the neck and it's done.
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Deborah Wolfe: And then you have the peace of mind to know that if your dog or cat ever ends up loose or lost or stolen or in somebody's hands where it ends up in a good place, like a vet or an SPCA or a shelter, your dog or cat will be reunited with you.
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Deborah Wolfe: So microchipping is good.
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Deborah Wolfe: So, okay.
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Deborah Wolfe: Dogs in the park.
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Deborah Wolfe: When you see two dogs in the park go back to back, that's a sign of trust.
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Deborah Wolfe: You'll see it in movies, you'll see it in war, you'll see it in police, you'll see it all kinds of situations where two people on the same team are surrounded.
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Deborah Wolfe: They will automatically go back to back.
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Deborah Wolfe: Now, one person, let's say they're armed people, one person has his gun surrounding half the circumference of the circle, and the other person has their gun covering, and they have back to back.
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Deborah Wolfe: So, they're each covering each other's back.
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Deborah Wolfe: That's what dogs do.
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Deborah Wolfe: That's exactly what dogs do, back to back.
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Deborah Wolfe: I get your back, you got my back, literally.
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Deborah Wolfe: So, if you see that in the park, that's a sign that those two dogs are together.
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Deborah Wolfe: There's other signs two dogs are together, and one of them is a little strange.
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Deborah Wolfe: So, the one sign that I find a little strange, and I just saw it the other day.
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Deborah Wolfe: I was at McDonald Beach, off Richmond near the airport, and I saw two little dogs, and one of the dogs jumped out of the car.
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Deborah Wolfe: They were getting ready to go for a walk, and he got all excited.
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Deborah Wolfe: He's running around.
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Deborah Wolfe: He's a little, I don't know, 15-pound, 20-pound little fluffy thing, upright ears, white and black, brushed immaculately, and he's just giving it, you know, ba-ba-bow, ba-ba-ba-bow, running or freaking out.
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Deborah Wolfe: So they tell him, they pat the car, and he jumps back in, and he's quiet again.
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Deborah Wolfe: And then they let him out again, and he's doing this little scrummy behavior, and I see why he's scrumming.
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Deborah Wolfe: There's another dog, pretty much exactly like him, in the car, possibly a female or just a smaller version of him.
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Deborah Wolfe: Okay, so now he's scrumming, and the other dog jumps out of the car like it's supposed to, and the two are on leash, and they start to head toward the off-leash area.
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Deborah Wolfe: They're walking through the dog park.
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Deborah Wolfe: And the first one starts to just harass the other one, on its face, on its ears, kind of not mounting sexually, but jumping on it and pouncing on it and wrestling with it, and just giving it the gears, just giving it such a hard time.
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Deborah Wolfe: Now, the other dog, the so-called, I guess, victim for all to watch, is so happy with this.
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Deborah Wolfe: It's like grinning and it's used to this.
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Deborah Wolfe: This is their ritual.
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Deborah Wolfe: So what's that all about?
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Deborah Wolfe: You've probably seen this with other dogs.
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Deborah Wolfe: I've seen it so many times.
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Deborah Wolfe: It's posturing.
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Deborah Wolfe: It's showing the rest of the dog park, we're a team, and look how tough I am.
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Deborah Wolfe: So it's complicated, but that's what's going on there.
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Deborah Wolfe: And they're both happy to do it, because they want everybody to know how tough they are and that they're a team.
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Deborah Wolfe: The first dog is not hurting the second dog, although it does sound like it.
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Deborah Wolfe: And it's just one of those odd behaviors that you get in dogdom.
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Deborah Wolfe: All right, everybody, let's go to some news.
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Deborah Wolfe: I want to talk about, well, since we just talked about two dogs jumping on each other, and oftentimes these are boy dogs, not necessarily a boy and a girl.
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Deborah Wolfe: Well, when it's a male and a female from the same house, sometimes even when they're neutered and spayed, what they'll demonstrate at the park is the male will jump on top of her as if they're trying to make puppies, and they're not, and there's nothing happening.
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Deborah Wolfe: But it's just, it's a display.
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Deborah Wolfe: Look, she's my wife, and she's sitting underneath him going, he's my husband, just in case you're wondering.
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Deborah Wolfe: Nobody else is coming up here, and that's a signal for the dog park.
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Deborah Wolfe: So there's another interesting signal.
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Deborah Wolfe: So there's this penguin.
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Deborah Wolfe: Yeah, there's two, no, they're flamingos.
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Deborah Wolfe: They're flamingos.
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Deborah Wolfe: Two flamingos are male flamingos at the San Diego Zoo, and they don't have names.
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Deborah Wolfe: I'm sorry to say they are number 26 and number 27.
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Deborah Wolfe: Two male flamingos are daddies.
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Deborah Wolfe: They were acting so much like a couple and so much like they wanted to raise young that the zookeepers gave them a dummy egg to see what they would do with it, and they tended it so well that then they gave them a fertilized egg, and they tended that so well that now they have a baby.
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Deborah Wolfe: And they're going to have to do a blood test when the baby's a bit older to figure out if it's a boy or a girl.
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Deborah Wolfe: But these two male flamingos are raising a baby at the zoo.
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Deborah Wolfe: So I found that really interesting.
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Deborah Wolfe: Very, very interesting.
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Deborah Wolfe: Now somewhere else in Melbourne, Australia, far, far away, there is a record-breaking penguin called Pesto, who is 49 pounds.
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Deborah Wolfe: And they've never seen anything like it.
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Deborah Wolfe: He's enormous.
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Deborah Wolfe: But apparently this baby is so big because his parents are very good, and they are feeding him 25 fish a day.
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Deborah Wolfe: So they say he'll slim down when his feathers come in.
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Deborah Wolfe: Well, we should hope so, right?
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Deborah Wolfe: I don't, he's so freakishly big, it's funny.
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Deborah Wolfe: Okay, so that was a little bit of zero news.
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Deborah Wolfe: There was a rodeo in Massachusetts, this is sort of interesting, where eight bulls escaped.
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Deborah Wolfe: But I would not want to be on the road or nearby with eight bulls.
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Deborah Wolfe: Although bulls get a bad rap because, you know, in bullfighting, they're actually triggered into reacting the way they do.
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Deborah Wolfe: In general, a bull's not going to react much, unless you challenge its territory or you come near its females or you scare it.
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Deborah Wolfe: So they've got a pretty bad rap, and then they pick the worst of the worst of the worst for those sports.
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Deborah Wolfe: So they kind of give you the idea that all bulls are difficult.
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Deborah Wolfe: Now, I wouldn't suggest you go walk through a field with one in it, because that would be a challenge to its territory.
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Deborah Wolfe: But if you do, go slowly and be ready to get out of there.
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Deborah Wolfe: All right, so a thousand miles, a thousand miles, a cat returned from Yellowstone to California.
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Deborah Wolfe: The cat was lost and it returned.
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Deborah Wolfe: And I'm going to come back after the break and tell you about an interesting story.
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Deborah Wolfe: A police dog jumping into a police car that was moving.
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Deborah Wolfe: Why?
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Deborah Wolfe: Because someone had stolen the car.
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Deborah Wolfe: Well, how did that go?
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Deborah Wolfe: Stay tuned on Animal Party, Pet Life Radio, and find out.
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Deborah Wolfe: PetLifeRadio.com Hello, you're listening to Animal Party on PetLife Radio.
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Deborah Wolfe: And I do say that it's really difficult to get a dog or a cat back when they're lost.
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Deborah Wolfe: Yeah, it is.
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Deborah Wolfe: But there's a good new story.
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Deborah Wolfe: A dog that had never been out of the Yukon, the Yukon is the north in Canada.
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Deborah Wolfe: So it was lost along the Alaska-Canadian border, a Pit Bull Cross.
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Deborah Wolfe: It was actually stolen.
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Deborah Wolfe: Yeah, stolen.
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Deborah Wolfe: I mean, who would steal a Pit Bull Cross?
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Deborah Wolfe: Why are people stealing?
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Deborah Wolfe: It makes you worry.
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Deborah Wolfe: It makes you worry it was stolen for fighting or something like that.
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Deborah Wolfe: But it actually wasn't.
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Deborah Wolfe: It was stolen and missing for a long time.
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Deborah Wolfe: And Toby, this dog, went missing up in Alaska, had never been out of the north, ended up, of all places, in sunny Phoenix, Arizona.
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Deborah Wolfe: Yeah, got dumped.
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Deborah Wolfe: Whoever stole it just decided to dump it.
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Deborah Wolfe: So the dog wandered into a cafe, the Phoenix Cafe, and they figured out it had a microchip.
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Deborah Wolfe: And Toby's now back up in the north.
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Deborah Wolfe: Yay, Toby.
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Deborah Wolfe: So that's an interesting little snowbird trip for Pitbull Cross to take.
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Deborah Wolfe: But it just goes to show you how good the microchips can be in helping you get your dogs and your cats back.
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Deborah Wolfe: So here's this story.
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Deborah Wolfe: I love this story.
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Deborah Wolfe: I got to watch it on our local news.
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Deborah Wolfe: A guy decides, well, first of all, a woman was ill in a park.
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Deborah Wolfe: So the police came over with their car, drove into the park, busy weekend, children everywhere, big playground, nice day, right?
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Deborah Wolfe: And it's just this past weekend.
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Deborah Wolfe: And the police drive in and they leave their car, and they go run to the woman who's in trouble, health-wise.
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Deborah Wolfe: And some guy, the accused, gets in their police car and starts to drive it around the crowded park, where there's kids and families, picnics and whatever.
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Deborah Wolfe: And he starts doing donuts.
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Deborah Wolfe: And so, so what do the police do?
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Deborah Wolfe: Well, at one point, they open the car door, and the police dog jumps in.
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Deborah Wolfe: Dun, da, da, da.
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Deborah Wolfe: I love these stories.
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Deborah Wolfe: So now, the guy who's driving thinks, I don't know.
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Deborah Wolfe: No, thank you.
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Deborah Wolfe: And he runs, he runs for it.
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Deborah Wolfe: He jumps out of the car and he runs, and the police dog stops him, tackles him, and nobody...
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Deborah Wolfe: Well, one person got hurt trying to get out of the way of the car before the dog got in it, but no one else was hurt, no children were hurt, and it wasn't serious, and everybody's okay.
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Deborah Wolfe: So thanks to the police dog at Templeton Park in Vancouver last weekend.
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Deborah Wolfe: The guy who ran into the car apparently had 50 priors.
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Deborah Wolfe: So it's definitely something to consider.
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Deborah Wolfe: People could have got hurt, the police could have got hurt, the dog could have got hurt.
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Deborah Wolfe: A lot could have gone wrong with all that.
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Deborah Wolfe: So it's a good ending, and these dogs are so amazing.
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Deborah Wolfe: They're so well-trained to know who to go for and who not to go for.
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Deborah Wolfe: I mean, there was no question for that dog that he might make a mistake and go for the wrong person.
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Deborah Wolfe: No question at all.
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Deborah Wolfe: They are just on their game.
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Deborah Wolfe: Okay, so I should talk a little bit more about those cats, because you might be worried about them, Cheech and Chong.
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Deborah Wolfe: So Chong has now completely recovered from his injury, and we figured out what the injury was.
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Deborah Wolfe: And this kind of has to do with equipment.
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Deborah Wolfe: It's time for me to get an equipment update on my cat doors.
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Deborah Wolfe: So if you know of a cat door that you find is really, really good, please let me know.
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Deborah Wolfe: Because the ones I have are not as good as I thought they were.
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Deborah Wolfe: And I've been ordering these same ones for years, and when they break, I get a new one.
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Deborah Wolfe: And they're the kind that you can put between anywhere there's exterior.
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Deborah Wolfe: So they have two panels, one that goes on the outside and one that goes on the inside.
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Deborah Wolfe: And they have doors that lock so you can lock your cats in or out.
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Deborah Wolfe: I would never lock them out, but you can lock them in at night.
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Deborah Wolfe: And then you could open it.
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Deborah Wolfe: And they have all kinds of options.
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Deborah Wolfe: They're good.
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Deborah Wolfe: So I thought they were good.
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Deborah Wolfe: But it turns out that injury that Chong got where all of a sudden he started limping and his whole back right thigh was hurt.
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Deborah Wolfe: And this is a one-year-old cat, medium hair tabby, male, neutered.
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Deborah Wolfe: Anyway, he's really active and athletic.
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Deborah Wolfe: And all of a sudden he was dragging this one leg and I thought, oh no.
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Deborah Wolfe: So I felt it and couldn't feel any breaks, couldn't feel any problems.
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Deborah Wolfe: But I thought just to be sure I'd take him to the vet.
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Deborah Wolfe: The vet felt it and he agreed it was probably just muscle strain, stress.
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Deborah Wolfe: He said to isolate the cat for a couple of weeks with no exercise.
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Deborah Wolfe: So I started to do that.
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Deborah Wolfe: And about a week into it, all of a sudden his brother, short haired male tabby, same litter, starts limping on a different foot.
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Deborah Wolfe: Now what's going on?
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Deborah Wolfe: So I put him in the same room.
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Deborah Wolfe: Now they're both on quarantine.
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Deborah Wolfe: That's a bit difficult because you probably know cats love the vertical.
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Deborah Wolfe: How do you stop them from jumping up on the desk or the chair or the filing cabinet?
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Deborah Wolfe: Well, it's difficult.
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Deborah Wolfe: Let's just put it that way.
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Deborah Wolfe: But I can't proof the room with a litter box and food and water and quarantine them so they wouldn't get any exercise.
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Deborah Wolfe: Now I got two injured cats.
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Deborah Wolfe: What is going on?
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Deborah Wolfe: All right.
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Deborah Wolfe: So again, feel them all over.
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Deborah Wolfe: Make sure there's nothing wrong.
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Deborah Wolfe: There's no wounds.
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Deborah Wolfe: There's a little scrape underneath all that fur on the long haired one, chong, little scrape.
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Deborah Wolfe: But it didn't get infected and it wasn't hot and it's not a bite wound.
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Deborah Wolfe: What could it be?
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Deborah Wolfe: What could it be?
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Deborah Wolfe: So now chong's all better, and I see him going out the cat door, and I see his leg get stuck.
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Deborah Wolfe: And the cat door flaps back and slams on his leg because he's long.
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Deborah Wolfe: He's a long, big cat.
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Deborah Wolfe: And a cat door maybe doesn't account for that.
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Deborah Wolfe: So now, I've had to change things, and I'm going to have to buy new cat doors.
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Deborah Wolfe: But it just goes to show you, there's always room to update your equipment.
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Deborah Wolfe: And it takes some observation sometimes to figure out what's wrong.
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Deborah Wolfe: I thought, I was blaming my dogs.
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Deborah Wolfe: I thought, well, you know, my dogs like cats, but maybe one of them just got too excited, was playing with the cat, and even though they're retrievers, maybe it grabbed the cat too hard.
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Deborah Wolfe: I mean, I was just trying to come up with what this could be.
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Deborah Wolfe: But now, now I saw it, it's a cat door.
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Deborah Wolfe: That's what it is.
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Deborah Wolfe: So I got to get new cat doors, two of them, because I never want my cats to be outside and unable to come home.
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Deborah Wolfe: I always want them to be able to come in, no matter what the weather, no matter what the situation, always want them to be able to come in.
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Deborah Wolfe: And I'd like to be able to set the doors, so once they're in at night, they can't go out again.
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Deborah Wolfe: I need some suggestions, everybody.
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Deborah Wolfe: Deb at petliferadio.com.
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Deborah Wolfe: Send me your cat door suggestions, because the ones I've got certainly aren't working.
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Deborah Wolfe: All right.
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Deborah Wolfe: Well, we've come to the end of the show, and I've given you quite a lot of news, a lot of news.
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Deborah Wolfe: I do want to highlight something I put on Facebook on my Deb Wolfe, D-E-B-W-O-L-F-E, Pet Expert, on Facebook.
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Deborah Wolfe: I posted a photograph of a sign that I saw outside the Richmond Chinese Night Market.
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Deborah Wolfe: Richmond is a city right near Vancouver, and it's where the Vancouver Airport is, the International Airport, so it's very much part of Vancouver, even though it's separate.
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Deborah Wolfe: It's like a suburb, very, very close.
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Deborah Wolfe: One bridge takes you there.
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Deborah Wolfe: And they have different rules from everybody else.
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Deborah Wolfe: They have breed ban legislation that is like breed legislation on steroids.
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Deborah Wolfe: It's so strong.
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Deborah Wolfe: And the photograph I took shows the sign that's posted outside the Richmond Night Market, so everyone knows what dogs are allowed in and what dogs are not and under what rules.
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Deborah Wolfe: And it's like almost like a mug shot, honestly, although the dogs are beautiful and they're photographed well.
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Deborah Wolfe: It's like almost like a wanted poster, if you will.
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Deborah Wolfe: It's got photographs of a bunch of different dogs, heads, faces, close up.
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Deborah Wolfe: And it's basically these dogs are considered dangerous in the city of Richmond.
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Deborah Wolfe: They don't have to have a first defense.
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Deborah Wolfe: They don't have to do anything wrong just by being who they are.
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Deborah Wolfe: Now, you can guess who they are.
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Deborah Wolfe: There's a Rottweiler in there.
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Deborah Wolfe: There's a Pitbull in there.
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Deborah Wolfe: And if you want to look it up, check out Deb Wolfe-
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Deborah Wolfe: Pet Expert on Facebook, and you'll see the sign.
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Deborah Wolfe: But it basically spells out that in the city of Richmond, if you have one of those dogs, you have to obey the rules as if you have a dog who's had a couple strikes, dog that's been deemed dangerous.
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Deborah Wolfe: Just by breed, they're deemed dangerous.
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Deborah Wolfe: So that means things like always leashed and always muzzled and never left unattended.
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Deborah Wolfe: I mean, various strict rules.
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Deborah Wolfe: So I'd love to know what you all think about that at Deb at petliferadio.com.
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Deborah Wolfe: I just want to let you know where you can find me.
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