Cats, Dogs, Wolves & Cars
How to pick the right trainer for your dog; the questions to ask. Cat comedy plus an email question about how to stop a cat from paw kneading the owner at bedtime. Deborah explains why black cats & dogs make great pets. Deborah asks her listeners (97k plus per show) what type of car/ SUV is best for taking 4-8 dogs to dog parks, beaches and wild forest adventures. A vehicle that is good on gas, cleans up easily, isn’t too low to the ground for snow and rough roads and most importantly it must be easy for all dogs to enter and exit. Please send Deb your suggestions. Be alert and protect your pets from wolves and coyotes especially in Powell River, B.C. where wolves have mated with dogs to produce a wolf pack that is not afraid of coming close to houses to kill pets.
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Announcer: This is Pet Life Radio.
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Announcer: Let's talk pets.
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Deborah Wolfe: Hello, you're listening to Animal Party on Pet Life Radio with me, Deb Wolfe.
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Deborah Wolfe: And we're gonna have a great show today.
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Deborah Wolfe: It's just me today.
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Deborah Wolfe: I booked a guest, a dog trainer, who I hope I can rebook in a couple of weeks because we've had some technical difficulties and I haven't been able to talk to her today.
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Deborah Wolfe: I was gonna ask her how she trained, what methods she uses, gonna ask her about difficult dogs and different breeds and different things you would ask if you were to hire a dog trainer.
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Deborah Wolfe: If you hire a dog trainer, you wanna know where they got trained themselves, how long they've been doing it.
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Deborah Wolfe: I would probably ask them who influences them, who do they admire in the dog training world?
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Deborah Wolfe: Is it somebody like Cesar Millan or is it somebody with a softer touch?
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Deborah Wolfe: Who exactly, what have they read?
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Deborah Wolfe: And if they come up blank on those, that's a good indication I'd wanna go somewhere else.
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Deborah Wolfe: I want someone who's read a lot about dogs and also worked a lot with dogs and considered how to train them.
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Deborah Wolfe: And then I might ask them about my breed.
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Deborah Wolfe: So say I had a bulldog or I had a poodle or I had a min pin.
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Deborah Wolfe: I mean, it's gonna be different depending on the dog you have.
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Deborah Wolfe: So I would wanna say, have you ever worked with this kind of dog before?
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Deborah Wolfe: And I would hope that they'd give me some indication that they understand my breed.
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Deborah Wolfe: So for example, if I had a Sheltie and I was asking them, have you ever worked with Shelties?
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Deborah Wolfe: Do you know how to get them to come when called?
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Deborah Wolfe: If they didn't come up with a different sort of a line, if they just said the standard stuff, well, I use food lures and I would know right away they'd never worked with Shelties.
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Deborah Wolfe: If they said, oh yes, those are herding dogs.
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Deborah Wolfe: You have to walk away from them.
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Deborah Wolfe: Bingo, this person can train my dog.
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Deborah Wolfe: And if I said, have you ever worked with golden retrievers before?
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Deborah Wolfe: Let's say I have one and she says, yes, or he says, yes.
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Deborah Wolfe: I might say, what about goldens who are a little bit too needy or pushy?
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Deborah Wolfe: Have you ever taught a golden to stop begging?
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Deborah Wolfe: Have you ever taught a golden to stay out of the water?
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Deborah Wolfe: These are the types of things you might be looking for from a trainer.
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Deborah Wolfe: And if you have an aggressive dog, well, then you really need to know they've dealt with this type of dog before.
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Deborah Wolfe: And what equipment are they going to use?
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Deborah Wolfe: So if you've got a dog, maybe it's got two strikes.
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Deborah Wolfe: It's already done two things wrong.
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Deborah Wolfe: You can't afford one more mistake.
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Deborah Wolfe: Or maybe it's just embarrassing you with its bad habits.
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Deborah Wolfe: Sometimes it's friendly and sometimes it's not.
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Deborah Wolfe: You don't know why.
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Deborah Wolfe: And you want this dog to have a wonderful, off-leash life, but yikes.
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Deborah Wolfe: What if you take it to the park and it causes a big scene, you know, or worse?
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Deborah Wolfe: What if it chases some dog and the dog runs out in front of a car?
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Deborah Wolfe: Or what if it terrorizes a child because the child's so distraught that your dog's attacking their dog?
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Deborah Wolfe: Or what if it injures that dog?
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Deborah Wolfe: So yeah, you gotta really consider all this.
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Deborah Wolfe: And if you do have an aggressive dog, you wanna know what equipment is the trainer going to use?
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Deborah Wolfe: Because if they suggest something you're not comfortable with, you're not gonna use it.
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Deborah Wolfe: There's no point in wasting your money, right?
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Deborah Wolfe: You wanna know, is it a change of harness?
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Deborah Wolfe: Is it something simple like that?
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Deborah Wolfe: Or are they gonna use a pain device like a prong collar or a shock collar?
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Deborah Wolfe: If you got a burkaholic dog, are you gonna be willing to put a lemon spray collar on its face so it gets sprayed with lemon every time it barks or not?
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Deborah Wolfe: You gotta think about these things.
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Deborah Wolfe: So we're gonna go to break and come back and do a show that meanders around about dogs and cats.
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Deborah Wolfe: I'm gonna give you some of the latest quirky news.
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Deborah Wolfe: And I'm also gonna quote this comedian who I just, I think she's so funny.
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Deborah Wolfe: Her name's Deborah D.
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Deborah Wolfe: Giovanni.
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Deborah Wolfe: And she's a A-lister comedian.
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Deborah Wolfe: She's very, very funny.
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Deborah Wolfe: And I was watching her the other day and she just went into this whole thing about cats.
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Deborah Wolfe: Oh my gosh, it was so funny.
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Deborah Wolfe: She says, if your cat is boring, you are doing it wrong.
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Deborah Wolfe: And I totally agree with that.
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Deborah Wolfe: So we'll come back from a break and talk more cats and dogs on Animal Party, Pet Life Radio.
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Deborah Wolfe: Hello, we're back on Animal Party on Pet Life Radio.
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Deborah Wolfe: Well, okay, so Deborah Diolani in her comedy routine, she opens up this bit on Cats by saying, my cat's better than your cat.
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Deborah Wolfe: Now, I don't wanna start anything, but it's true.
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Deborah Wolfe: And I think that's great.
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Deborah Wolfe: My dog's better than your dog.
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Deborah Wolfe: My cat's better than your cat.
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Deborah Wolfe: My dog's cuter than your dog.
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Deborah Wolfe: How can you pick, right?
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Deborah Wolfe: It's like the prettiest baby.
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Deborah Wolfe: It's impossible.
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Deborah Wolfe: They're all winners.
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Deborah Wolfe: But I think she's right.
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Deborah Wolfe: If your cat is boring, you're doing it wrong.
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Deborah Wolfe: She also talks, she does a whole bit on Cats with Hairballs and the bliss, the joy of waking up to the sound of a cat barfing in your bedroom.
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Deborah Wolfe: So if you can catch any of her act, I highly suggest it if you're a cat lover, check out Deborah DiGiovanni.
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Deborah Wolfe: All right, so now we're going to go back to the news a little bit.
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Deborah Wolfe: I was trying to distract myself and I was watching this show Emergencies, you know, ER Emergencies.
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Deborah Wolfe: And I was just watching it mindlessly as I was doing some bookkeeping and all of a sudden they showed this pug.
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Deborah Wolfe: And I'm thinking, oh no, why is there a pug in a hospital?
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Deborah Wolfe: Well, the pug, and there's a patient, a human patient, human patient's missing a finger, and the pug, they believe, somehow swallowed the finger.
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Deborah Wolfe: So, okay, what are we going to do?
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Deborah Wolfe: What are we going to do?
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Deborah Wolfe: It was touch and go.
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Deborah Wolfe: They were going to kill the pug to get the finger.
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Deborah Wolfe: Now, the person involved makes his living playing piano.
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Deborah Wolfe: And yet he was not willing to kill the pug.
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Deborah Wolfe: He was insisting, no, no, you can't do it.
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Deborah Wolfe: You can't do it.
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Deborah Wolfe: You can't do it.
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Deborah Wolfe: In the end, they were able to get the finger out and they had a vet help them and everything.
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Deborah Wolfe: The surgeon refused to operate on the animal, but they were able to use an endoscopic tool and grab the finger and all was well.
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Deborah Wolfe: The pug was alive.
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Deborah Wolfe: The man got his finger back.
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Deborah Wolfe: The man plays piano.
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Deborah Wolfe: Everything worked out.
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Deborah Wolfe: But I was watching this show and I was just so touched by the fact that a man who might lose his livelihood just wouldn't budge on this.
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Deborah Wolfe: All the nurses and doctors are arguing with him and they're trying to convince him, just kill the dog, kill the dog.
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Deborah Wolfe: And he's like, no, no.
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Deborah Wolfe: And you know what?
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Deborah Wolfe: There was another way.
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Deborah Wolfe: There was another way.
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Deborah Wolfe: There's often another way.
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Deborah Wolfe: You just have to insist.
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Deborah Wolfe: So commendable in that case with all that pain and all that adrenaline and shock and he's still stuck to his guns and the dog and the man are happy to this day.
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Deborah Wolfe: So there you go.
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Deborah Wolfe: Something from TV.
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Deborah Wolfe: I was thinking about dog perms.
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Deborah Wolfe: If you gave a perm to an Afghan, it would look like a poodle.
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Deborah Wolfe: If you straighten a poodle's hair, it would look like an Afghan.
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Deborah Wolfe: And I'm thinking about all the different dogs and how much the coat influences us in how we treat them.
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Deborah Wolfe: If a dog has spots, if a dog has stripes, he's more likely to get adopted.
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Deborah Wolfe: If a dog is black, he's less likely to get adopted.
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Deborah Wolfe: And the same is true for black cats.
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Deborah Wolfe: Now part of that is because today, we adopt animals through social media a lot of the time, through pictures, not actually meeting them.
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Deborah Wolfe: And black animals do not photograph as easily as animals with spots and flecks and lighter coloring.
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Deborah Wolfe: You just don't see them.
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Deborah Wolfe: They can look scary or dark or unhappy, even though they're just as good as the others.
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Deborah Wolfe: In fact, if you're willing to adopt a black dog or a black cat, you're probably gonna get a way better pet because there's way more to choose from because everybody's looking for the one with blue eyes or brown freckles or cute spots.
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Deborah Wolfe: And they're walking right by those wonderful, well-behaved black animals.
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Deborah Wolfe: So black is beautiful when we're talking about pets.
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Deborah Wolfe: And I really want to encourage you to think about that.
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Deborah Wolfe: Definitely, especially with all the stigma around black cats.
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Deborah Wolfe: In Japan, black cats are good luck.
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Deborah Wolfe: But in many, many countries, if a black cat crosses your path, it's said to be bad luck.
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Deborah Wolfe: It's ridiculous.
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Deborah Wolfe: It's absolutely ridiculous.
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Deborah Wolfe: But nonetheless, it makes people shy away from them.
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Deborah Wolfe: It makes them have a sort of bruja witch image that they really don't need and don't deserve.
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Deborah Wolfe: So if you're willing to take on a black cat, as long as you're willing to keep it in during Halloween, when people do nasty things to them, you're gonna get a way better pet.
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Deborah Wolfe: You're gonna get so much choice at a shelter or anywhere really.
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Deborah Wolfe: So it's a great idea.
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Deborah Wolfe: Okay, so, oh, I had a question.
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Deborah Wolfe: All right, we're gonna deal with the cat question and then we're gonna go to break.
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Deborah Wolfe: There's a question about a needy cat with a K.
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Deborah Wolfe: And the person says this cat is pretty well adjusted and happy, uses the litter box, has no health problems, but, da, da, da, done, there's always a but, right?
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Deborah Wolfe: When it comes to Animal Party, Pet Life Radio, my show, when people write in, there's always a but.
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Deborah Wolfe: My dog's the best dog ever, but he pees everywhere.
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Deborah Wolfe: My cat's incredible, but it destroys the furniture.
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Deborah Wolfe: Okay, so this one, but my cat's terrific.
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Deborah Wolfe: Loves to sleep with me and it's a he cat, it's a boy cat.
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Deborah Wolfe: I don't know much else about the cat, but in the middle of the night, needs, you know that making pancakes kind of thing that they do, making bread with their hands go up and down, up and down, up and down, and they sort of open their claws and close them.
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Deborah Wolfe: And what that is, is very similar to what a kitten does when it nurses.
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Deborah Wolfe: It pushes against the other side of where it's nursing to make the milk come.
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Deborah Wolfe: So, you know, you've seen babies do this too, but cats really do this.
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Deborah Wolfe: The eight little kittens will all be nursing at the same time, and they'll all be looking like they're, like they're paddling away, right?
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Deborah Wolfe: Like they're just needing bread.
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Deborah Wolfe: Boop, boop, boop, boop, boop.
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Deborah Wolfe: Right, left, right, left, right, left with their front claws.
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Deborah Wolfe: And so she's saying in the middle of the night, this cat jumps on the bed and that's what it does, and she doesn't like it because it wakes her up.
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Deborah Wolfe: So what can she do to stop this?
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Deborah Wolfe: This is really tricky.
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Deborah Wolfe: It's one of the hardest things to break.
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Deborah Wolfe: And actually she's lucky it's not suckling at the same time, because there's a lot of cats who do that.
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Deborah Wolfe: And then they make the bed wet and that's extra nice.
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Deborah Wolfe: But the easiest solution would be to keep the cat out of the bedroom at night, so you completely avoid that habituated behavior.
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Deborah Wolfe: And then at other times, bring the cat into the bed when you're awake enough to deal with it, watch TV or whatever it is you wanna do, be on your phone, TikTok, whatever, but be in the bed as if you're going to sleep.
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Deborah Wolfe: The cat will come running, the cat will come and try and initiate the same behavior, but you'll be awake enough to interrupt it.
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Deborah Wolfe: So you can hold the cat's paws, you can block the cat from kneading, you can distract the cat by doing other things, petting it in a different way.
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Deborah Wolfe: If you do that a few times and it keeps going back to kneading, you can grab it by the scruff of the neck and gently place it off the bed so it lands on the floor.
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Deborah Wolfe: Now I'm not saying throw it, but I am saying don't cuddle it.
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Deborah Wolfe: Don't, don't, oh, it's a pussy pussy little kitty, kitty, kitty as you put it down to the ground.
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Deborah Wolfe: You're trying to show it, look, you do this, you're not on my bed.
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Deborah Wolfe: You do this, you're out of the room.
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Deborah Wolfe: You do this, I don't want you around.
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Deborah Wolfe: But at the same time, you're showing it, you do this and you can cuddle with me all day in this bed, right, and you teach it something else.
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Deborah Wolfe: Now some cats, they like to knead so much, you can actually give them almost like a sucky, like the way a child has a favorite blanket or a favorite toy, a soother, you could give them a special blanket.
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Deborah Wolfe: I've found fleece works really well with cats, that's theirs and they're allowed to knead it and they're allowed to play with it, they're allowed to suck on it.
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Deborah Wolfe: You don't really care what they do with it because it's theirs.
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Deborah Wolfe: Make sure it's washable, make sure you have more than one and just keep it rotating.
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Deborah Wolfe: That's another way to deal with this.
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Deborah Wolfe: So the cat will be kneading its blanket, not your body and probably not even wake you up.
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Deborah Wolfe: So that's one of the things you could try when you're awake, when you're spending time with the cat in the bed to teach it a new behavior, you could try teaching it to knead its own blanket or even a small stuffed animal that's squishy and sort of similar to the feel of your arm or your leg or whatever it is your cat likes to knead on, try that.
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Deborah Wolfe: Now, if you do stuffed animal, you should probably sleep with it first so it smells like you because all of this is really your cat showing you that it thinks you're its mother and it wants to get close to you.
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Deborah Wolfe: So it's really not a bad thing.
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Deborah Wolfe: You might want to reconsider tolerating it.
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Deborah Wolfe: The dry kneading is a lot better than the wet kneading.
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Deborah Wolfe: Okay, everybody, we're gonna go to break.
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Deborah Wolfe: Hello, we're back on Animal Party Pet Life Radio with me, Deb Wolfe, and I'm so happy to be here.
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Deborah Wolfe: Recently, I got my latest statistics.
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Deborah Wolfe: Here we go, we need a drum roll for this.
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Deborah Wolfe: So you all are part of a huge listening audience.
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Deborah Wolfe: Everybody listening to my show today, Animal Party Pet Life Radio, wherever you're listening to it, Spotify, iTunes, wherever, all the places people listen, we now have tracked 97,000 people listening every week.
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Deborah Wolfe: And that's just to my show each week in trackable numbers.
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Deborah Wolfe: There's actually more people because there's downloaders and there's subscribers and there's network listeners.
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Deborah Wolfe: Pet Life Radio has over 7 million monthly listeners and Pet Life Radio has a live stream of 250 million.
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Deborah Wolfe: And that was last fall.
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Deborah Wolfe: I haven't updated those statistics.
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Deborah Wolfe: There's also subscribers on iHeart.
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Deborah Wolfe: So we have a huge listening audience.
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Deborah Wolfe: Pet Life Radio is the number one pet station in the world now.
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Deborah Wolfe: And I'm so happy to be part of all that.
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Deborah Wolfe: And if you're interested in advertising with the show, please contact us because I would love to talk about your product, love to interview you on a show and we can play some ads, especially if it's a dog or a cat product that you're willing to send me a sample for so I can try and review because I really love to test the stuff.
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Deborah Wolfe: I'm advertising and it can be anything from a bounce dryer sheet that gets rid of pet hair.
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Deborah Wolfe: I have the pets to test it to a vehicle that's designed for pets.
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Deborah Wolfe: I'm kind of in the market right now and I've been looking at cars.
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Deborah Wolfe: And if you've got a vehicle that you think is really, really good, and I'm not talking about advertisers right now, although yeah, you can contact me too.
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Deborah Wolfe: I'm talking about people who own pets.
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Deborah Wolfe: If you've got a vehicle that you think is the best for getting your dogs to the dog park, I have a Mazda SUV.
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Deborah Wolfe: It's sort of built like an eclipse.
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Deborah Wolfe: And it's getting old.
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Deborah Wolfe: It's a 2005.
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Deborah Wolfe: It's seen many, many dog parks.
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Deborah Wolfe: And it's time for me to update.
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Deborah Wolfe: So I need a new, probably a used, but another vehicle.
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Deborah Wolfe: And I want one that dogs can get in and out of easily.
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Deborah Wolfe: And I don't want to be low to the ground like a minivan.
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Deborah Wolfe: So that's just letting you all know.
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Deborah Wolfe: But my car, the doors don't quite open enough.
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Deborah Wolfe: They have an angle.
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Deborah Wolfe: So my oldest dogs have to kind of be helped into the car or cajoled, or I have to use a ramp at the back.
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Deborah Wolfe: And it's just not that convenient as my dogs age.
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Deborah Wolfe: So, or when I have a pregnant dog, that can be a problem or an injured dog.
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Deborah Wolfe: So I'm looking to get a vehicle that my fans tell me is the best for getting dogs in and out, going to parks, going to forests, going to beaches, getting it clean again, that kind of thing.
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Deborah Wolfe: Probably gonna be taking between four and eight dogs every time, because that's how I roll people.
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Deborah Wolfe: That's what I like.
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Deborah Wolfe: I like my canine army around me when I go places, and I go places off the beaten track.
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Deborah Wolfe: So I want a vehicle that can handle it.
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Deborah Wolfe: So if you've got a vehicle that you think would be perfect, please let me know, send me an email, or send me a voice clip.
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Deborah Wolfe: Deb at petliferadio.com.
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Deborah Wolfe: All right, everybody.
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Deborah Wolfe: So I'm gonna post that alongside this show.
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Deborah Wolfe: If you wanna give me feedback, if you wanna give me suggestions, if you wanna send me your queries or questions about dogs and cats, pet problems, behavior problems, guest suggestions, advertising queries, anything at all, my door's open.
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Deborah Wolfe: I'm so happy with our latest numbers.
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Deborah Wolfe: It's just making me really, really happy.
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Deborah Wolfe: So some of the cars I've been thinking about, I've heard, cause I went online and I looked at the reviews for the most dog-friendly cars.
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Deborah Wolfe: And so they're saying the Honda CRV, SUV is one of them.
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Deborah Wolfe: They're saying the 2021 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited is one of them, because some of these have special dog features.
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Deborah Wolfe: They're saying the Kia 2021 Compact Hatchback is one of them.
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Deborah Wolfe: 2021 Land Rover Discovery SUV, Subaru Outback Wagon.
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Deborah Wolfe: Yeah, Subaru seems to be popular with dog owners.
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Deborah Wolfe: I do notice that at the dog park.
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Deborah Wolfe: And of course, there's a couple of Teslas.
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Deborah Wolfe: There's a Model Y Compact Crossover.
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Deborah Wolfe: There's a Volvo.
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Deborah Wolfe: There's a Chevy.
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Deborah Wolfe: Are they kidding me?
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Deborah Wolfe: Someone was sent me an email telling me I should get a 2021 Corvette sports car.
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Deborah Wolfe: That can't be right.
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Deborah Wolfe: That just can't be right.
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Deborah Wolfe: And then they say the Explorer has a bench seat.
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Deborah Wolfe: Well, I've had some bad experience with the Explorer in the past, so I don't think I'd go that route.
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Deborah Wolfe: But I'd really like your suggestions because I am looking.
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Deborah Wolfe: And someone said the Bronco Sport SUV is the car.
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Deborah Wolfe: Now, I remember watching OJ and his Bronco way, way back when CNN was new and they were tracking him.
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Deborah Wolfe: And I remember thinking, gosh, I like that car.
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Deborah Wolfe: So maybe the Bronco Sport SUV is the one for me.
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Deborah Wolfe: I don't know.
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Deborah Wolfe: Let me know you guys, because a lot of times the cars are advertised as dog friendly, but they're really not.
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Deborah Wolfe: And I want easy load and load out.
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Deborah Wolfe: I want a little bit high off the ground so I'm not getting stuck places if it snows.
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Deborah Wolfe: And good mileage would be nice.
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Deborah Wolfe: So if you've got a car you love for taking your dog somewhere, let me know what it is.
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Deborah Wolfe: And if you're an advertiser that thinks you've got the car for the dog-walking crowd, I have 97,000 dog-walking listeners who would love to hear about it.
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Deborah Wolfe: Okay, so we're gonna go to one more break and come back.
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Deborah Wolfe: Stay tuned and I'm gonna be talking about a sloth.
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Deborah Wolfe: Hello, we're back on Animal Party, Pet Life Radio.
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Deborah Wolfe: And it's me, Deb Wolfe, and I noticed in the news that in Peru, there was this policeman who stopped his car and very slowly got a sloth to safety.
00:22:17.973 --> 00:22:24.153
Deborah Wolfe: A sloth was in the middle of the highway, and he carried this thing all the way to safety.
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Deborah Wolfe: And I gotta say, there's so many instances like that.
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Deborah Wolfe: Recently, out near Soup, there was a dog stranded and the Coast Guard came and saved it.
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Deborah Wolfe: And it's just so wonderful when the authorities step up and save animals.
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Deborah Wolfe: It's such a good feeling, and they have to go out of their way to do it.
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Deborah Wolfe: It's really not in their job description.
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Deborah Wolfe: So I just wanted to give a shout out to all the first responders who've ever responded to an animal emergency when it isn't really in your job description.
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Deborah Wolfe: Thank you.
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Deborah Wolfe: The karma will repay you, I'm sure.
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Deborah Wolfe: Okay, so we have some news in a place called Powell River.
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Deborah Wolfe: And I saw footage of it.
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Deborah Wolfe: If you want to look for it, you can probably find it online.
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Deborah Wolfe: If you type in Powell River Wolf Pack, it's absolutely frightening.
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Deborah Wolfe: People have their homes and their whatever, their truck parked outside or their car or their little baby swing set or their yards, all their little barbecues and stuff.
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Deborah Wolfe: And they're normal house pet dogs who are around, you know, somebody has a Cocker Spaniel, someone else has a German Shepherd, whatever, random.
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Deborah Wolfe: The wolf pack in the area has been coming into town en masse and attacking and killing and taking these dogs away.
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Deborah Wolfe: And there's footage of it.
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Deborah Wolfe: And it's absolutely horrendous.
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Deborah Wolfe: Now I was watching it and I watched it and I watched it and then I expanded the view and I watched it some more.
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Deborah Wolfe: And I thought, those don't look like wolves to me.
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Deborah Wolfe: So I went and researched it a little more and it turns out they're not exactly wolves.
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Deborah Wolfe: The wolf population has mated with dogs there.
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Deborah Wolfe: So the wolves don't look like you think.
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Deborah Wolfe: If you saw a picture of one of them, you'd say, oh, that's a stray dog or that's a mutt or that's my neighbor's dog even, you might think.
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Deborah Wolfe: They don't look like the classic wolf.
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Deborah Wolfe: Some of them are brown, for example.
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Deborah Wolfe: Some of them have spots.
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Deborah Wolfe: They don't look like wolves.
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Deborah Wolfe: But they are wolves.
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Deborah Wolfe: They've got wolf jaw power, wolf tooth power, wolf reflexes, and they can leap over those fences that keep your dogs in, right?
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Deborah Wolfe: They can, it's so easy.
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Deborah Wolfe: I had a wolf cross years and years ago, my pet, and one time I got a new car, actually, it was the Explorer, and I had had a minivan before, and he was sitting, he was just sitting waiting for me to load him in, and I opened up the back, and you know how the Explorer back, it sort of opens up like a hatchback, and I said, get in.
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Deborah Wolfe: And he'd misjudged, it was a new car, he didn't recognize it, so he jumped onto the roof.
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Deborah Wolfe: Okay, now he was around eight years old at the time.
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Deborah Wolfe: An eight-year-old regular dog would not be able to jump from a sit onto the roof of a car with no effort.
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Deborah Wolfe: And then he looked down at me like, oops, you know, so get out, get in the car, and he did.
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Deborah Wolfe: But it just shows you, their abilities are so, they out, in every way, they're faster, they're stealthier, they're able to get under, around, in, over, everything quicker.
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Deborah Wolfe: They communicate with each other constantly.
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Deborah Wolfe: Where there's one, there's more.
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Deborah Wolfe: They will surround your dog.
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Deborah Wolfe: If your dog's in heat, they'll get her pregnant.
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Deborah Wolfe: If your dog is big and tough, they might kill it, just so it's not competition.
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Deborah Wolfe: If it's a very successful communicator, it might join the pack and join those genetics and produce offspring that will one day torment you and your neighbors.
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Deborah Wolfe: So in any way, you do not want your dog with these wolves.
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Deborah Wolfe: Now I've had people tell me, oh, my dog runs with the coyotes once in a while, or my dog runs with the wolf pack that comes through here in the summer.
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Deborah Wolfe: She's gone for two weeks every year and comes back again.
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Deborah Wolfe: And I think, are you nuts to let that happen?
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Deborah Wolfe: So even if your dog is all that successful, which most of them won't be, most of them will just be killed.
00:26:19.753 --> 00:26:26.173
Deborah Wolfe: But even if your dog is that successful with getting along with the wildlife, they have things in them.
00:26:27.113 --> 00:26:36.773
Deborah Wolfe: Parasites, worms, heartworm, everything that you don't want your dog to suffer from could be in that pack unchecked.
00:26:37.633 --> 00:26:41.913
Deborah Wolfe: So I really want you to keep your dogs away from the wolves, be vigilant.
00:26:41.933 --> 00:26:44.513
Deborah Wolfe: If you're in Powell River, you really gotta get a handle on this.
00:26:44.533 --> 00:26:47.013
Deborah Wolfe: Don't leave your dog outside at all, especially not at night.
00:26:47.293 --> 00:26:48.593
Deborah Wolfe: Be with them all the time.
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Deborah Wolfe: You need more than just lights that come on.
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Deborah Wolfe: These wolf dog crosses are not afraid of humans the way I could see in the video, they're not the way normal wolves are.
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Deborah Wolfe: Normal wolves would have not come that close.
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Deborah Wolfe: There was a man chasing them, yelling at them, and they were still around looking for more dogs to take.
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Deborah Wolfe: It was so frightening.
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Deborah Wolfe: So be careful everybody, if you're up near Powell River, really, really watch your dogs, watch your little kids and keep your cats inside.
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Deborah Wolfe: All right, so that's a big message for the people of Powell River and the wolves out there.
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Deborah Wolfe: I know some places in the world don't have wolves at all.
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Deborah Wolfe: Some places have what?
00:27:26.873 --> 00:27:30.533
Deborah Wolfe: By Canadian standards, are very small wolves.
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Deborah Wolfe: Here, they're very, very large creatures, over 100 pounds.
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Deborah Wolfe: But these ones who've bred with dogs, they're a lot smaller.
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Deborah Wolfe: And in some places, in the east, like over by Maine and Nova Scotia and Canada, over in the east coast, the wolves have bred with coyotes.
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Deborah Wolfe: Now, that's a combination you really don't want because instead of, well, any combination is not good, but you get an extremely cunning animal that is very hard to track and very unpredictable.
00:28:05.453 --> 00:28:11.613
Deborah Wolfe: And it's kind of like the worst of both in terms of the humans who want to share our world with them.
00:28:12.093 --> 00:28:15.473
Deborah Wolfe: So the coyote's been here longer than any other canine.
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Deborah Wolfe: And I think the coyote will be here forever because it's superbly designed to live in and around us and almost be undetectable.
00:28:25.573 --> 00:28:35.373
Deborah Wolfe: And if it starts mating with wolves, it's gonna get a little more strength, a little more hybrid vigor, and possibly a little more size, which we probably don't want.
00:28:35.393 --> 00:28:40.373
Deborah Wolfe: If you think you don't have coyotes and you live somewhere in North America, you're probably wrong.
00:28:40.693 --> 00:28:42.933
Deborah Wolfe: There probably are coyotes all around you.
00:28:43.453 --> 00:28:46.413
Deborah Wolfe: Some people call them coyotes, some people call them coyotes.
00:28:46.973 --> 00:28:48.773
Deborah Wolfe: They're believed to only come out at night.
00:28:49.113 --> 00:28:50.673
Deborah Wolfe: Not true at all.
00:28:50.713 --> 00:28:52.473
Deborah Wolfe: I've seen them in the middle as a day.
00:28:52.493 --> 00:29:00.933
Deborah Wolfe: And when there's one, even more so than the wolf, when there's one coyote, there are many, and they look identical.
00:29:01.293 --> 00:29:04.293
Deborah Wolfe: So you may think you've just seen one, but you've probably seen a few.
00:29:04.513 --> 00:29:07.473
Deborah Wolfe: They pop up like puppets in the woods and you can't tell who's who.
00:29:08.133 --> 00:29:11.793
Deborah Wolfe: And they will use tricks to get your dog to follow them.
00:29:12.033 --> 00:29:13.433
Deborah Wolfe: They'll pretend to be friendly.
00:29:13.873 --> 00:29:18.213
Deborah Wolfe: They'll greet and meet and greet with all the social skills of a normal dog at a dog park.
00:29:18.713 --> 00:29:24.933
Deborah Wolfe: Take a little turn peeing on something, sniff a little bit, all that, and your dog will happily follow it off.
00:29:25.553 --> 00:29:27.113
Deborah Wolfe: And then the pack will kill your dog.
00:29:27.693 --> 00:29:29.633
Deborah Wolfe: That's the kind of thing that happens with coyotes.
00:29:29.853 --> 00:29:31.013
Deborah Wolfe: So be super careful.
00:29:31.153 --> 00:29:33.793
Deborah Wolfe: Keep all your food away, keep your little pets away.
00:29:34.353 --> 00:29:39.653
Deborah Wolfe: Be vigilant, everybody, because I don't want to see my Animal Party Pet Life Radio audience get hurt.
00:29:40.193 --> 00:29:41.013
Deborah Wolfe: All right, everyone.
00:29:41.033 --> 00:29:44.373
Deborah Wolfe: It's been a bit of a whirlwind show all over the map.
00:29:44.813 --> 00:29:48.413
Deborah Wolfe: I'm planning on having a guest next week to talk about searching.
00:29:48.753 --> 00:29:50.153
Deborah Wolfe: So here's the thing about searching.
00:29:50.173 --> 00:29:51.993
Deborah Wolfe: We all know dogs find stuff, right?
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Deborah Wolfe: We know dogs, pigs find truffles, and dogs find lost people in avalanches, and all kinds of things like that.
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Deborah Wolfe: But have you ever thought, okay, well, what if my dog or cat goes missing?
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Deborah Wolfe: How come I can't get a dog to find my missing cat?
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Deborah Wolfe: How come I can't hire a dog to find my missing dog?
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Deborah Wolfe: Well, now you can.
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Deborah Wolfe: But not only that, I found someone who does it just for the love of helping people.
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Deborah Wolfe: Someone who's trained their pet animal to find their pet dog.
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Deborah Wolfe: It's a white shepherd, beautiful dog called Halo.
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Deborah Wolfe: And this Lady Karen has trained her dog.
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Deborah Wolfe: She's in training now.
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Deborah Wolfe: She describes herself as a beginner, but I would argue that.
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Deborah Wolfe: And the dog's been trained to find other animals by their scent.
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Deborah Wolfe: So if your cat goes missing, you take its favorite bed and you let Halo, the dog, sniff that bedding, sniff and sniff and sniff and sniff.
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Deborah Wolfe: And then you walk Halo to the last place your cat was, maybe the cat door, maybe the door it escaped out of, maybe the last place your neighbor saw it.
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Deborah Wolfe: And boom, Halo's nose goes to the ground and Halo finds your cat.
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Deborah Wolfe: So I had this experience recently with two golden retrievers and Halo found those goldens and it didn't even, it took maybe an hour and we had been looking all day, all day, all day, all day, lots of people calling and social media postings and posters and all day a gate blew open, two goldens got loose.
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Deborah Wolfe: They were not customers, thank God.
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Deborah Wolfe: Well, everything at Camp Good Dog is double, triple gated, so that wouldn't happen, but they got loose and I had to find them and Halo came to the rescue.
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Deborah Wolfe: So that's what we'll be talking about next week on Animal Party, Pet Life Radio.
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Deborah Wolfe: Until then, from me, Deb Wolfe and Pet Life Radio, be good to your animals.
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