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The Science Pawdcast
The Science Pawdcast breaks down the latest science happening in the human world AND the pet world.
Each episode will also bring you a guest to enthral you with their area of knowledge.
You'll learn, be captivated, and laugh along with host Jason Zackowski.
Pets and Science, it's the pawfect mix.
You'll also get episodes of PetChat which are the live shows from social audio.
PetChat is a live community gathering updates about the animals in our life, but also the animals in the wonderful community that supports us!
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Pet Chat July 15th: Celebrating Friendships, Exploring Pet Stories, and Heartwarming Animal Rescues
Remember that nostalgic sensation when you see an old friend, and you both marvel at how it feels like you just met yesterday? We shared that exact sentiment this week as we celebrated the anniversary of our first meeting!
We took a playful and whimsical turn, hosting a fun game featuring questions from last week's content. Packed with laughs, we revealed anecdotes about our feline friend Ginger's fear of storms, and our dogs Bunsen and Beaker's love for rolling in dead ducks. Oh, and ever wondered why mountain lakes have an emerald hue? Well, the secret lies in the rock flower.
Adventure seekers, listen up! It's not just humans who have a knack for exploration, our dogs Bunsen and Beaker are intrepid explorers too, joining us on our walks. Bunsen's reaction to reaching the top of a steep hill was priceless! Meanwhile, Beaker has been splashing around, making progress in her swimming lessons. Fun fact: Bunsen loves spending his summer days sleeping.
There's nothing like a heartwarming animal rescue story to tug at your heartstrings. Keith shares an unbelievable account of his rescue dog Doby, saving a baby bunny from a rabbit hole. Not only is Doby a savior, but he's also a gentle giant, caressing the bunny in his mouth without hurting it. We discuss the role therapy dogs can play in various scenarios, from the Ottawa Airport to Police Investigators.
Lastly, we share the moving tale of Amy's new puppies and their guardian breed mom, stressing the importance of spaying and neutering your pets. So join us, as we fill your day with interesting facts, moving stories, and a hearty dose of laughter.
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Hello pet enthusiasts, welcome to Pet Chat. My name is Jason Zakowski. I'm the dog dad of Bunsen and Beaker, the science dogs on social media. My co-host is.
Speaker 3:Hi there, my name is Chris Zakowski and I am the dog mom to Bunsen and Beaker and the cat mom to Ginger.
Speaker 2:If you're tuning into Pet Chat for the first time or you've been here before. We play a game, we share stories and then we open up the floor to the community to share their stories about their pets. We are multi-casting to Twitter and Facebook right now and if you're listening to the replay, welcome and hello. Well, Chris, today is a very special day.
Speaker 3:I know it is a very special day.
Speaker 2:Happy anniversary Chris.
Speaker 3:Happy anniversary, jason.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you mentioned how long we have been married. That number just keeps growing. It's kind of shocking.
Speaker 3:Why? Why is it shocking?
Speaker 2:Well, I don't know. It's not shocking. It's good. Every day with you is like the first day I met you. It's great, it's great.
Speaker 3:The first day you met me, you said you've never seen anybody more beautiful.
Speaker 2:That's what I said.
Speaker 3:And you loved me from that day forward.
Speaker 2:It was love at first sight. That is correct.
Speaker 3:And Jason, you're lucky that we found each other, because I told you I was going to wear a certain outfit.
Speaker 5:Yes.
Speaker 3:And I changed it at the last minute and I didn't wear that outfit and I was wearing different clothes, but you still were able to say hey, are you Chris? And I said yeah. Are you Jason? And you said yeah. And then history is written, I guess, in the eyes of the victor.
Speaker 2:Well, well, I definitely won. I don't know who I was competing against, but anyways, let's get on with the show. So I think we're going to start with a little game, a Kahoot.
Speaker 3:I am signed in.
Speaker 2:Okay, we got it. We got to beat Chris. Five, four, three, two, one. Okay, as always, the Qt questions are built from last week with all of our content on social media. Okay, kids who have had kids, who had dogs in their house, did better on this test. The BMO test, the BDI test, the Buzzfeed test, the IQ test. So, yes, this was right, it was the BDI test. Oh, we caught a bunch of people. Yes, that's the Battelle developmental index, and I broke down that study on the latest episode of the Science Podcast. Oh, you did. Did you listen to the Science Podcast? How did you know it was the BDI test?
Speaker 3:So, jason, I listened to you talk.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 3:And sometimes I kept snippets of what you talk about. Okay, other times I just think you're talking to yourself.
Speaker 2:Well, I do. I run the podcast by myself. It's like I yell into this room by myself, having conversations in my head, but that's kind of normal, because I pretend I'm dogs on the internet. So, okay, next question On the Science Podcast, jason talks about why the lakes and the mountains are an aqua marine color. So a lot of people are bamboozled by how beautiful the lakes are in the mountains that we kayak on. Well, is it because the lakes are naturally chlorinated or it's because of rock flower? Is it because of how clean the water is? It's because they're fed from ice and it's because of something called rock flower. That's why the lakes are that aqua marine, emerald color. The ice hype in the mountains is so heavy, it crushes the rocks and grinds it, and that flower, that powdery stuff, comes down into the lake and that's what gives the mountain lakes where we live their special color. Okay, we got Slim Shady, kathy, carousel, benny and Slime Shady, slime Shady.
Speaker 2:Next question which animal is most scared of thunderstorms? Well, we've had our share of thunderstorms last week. Which of these animals in our house? Bunsen, beaker, ginger, chris We've been to mention this before, but I think this is the first question about it. And it's ginger. Yeah, ginger doesn't like thunderstorms at all. Do you know where she?
Speaker 3:goes. She goes downstairs and hides, yeah, she goes downstairs and hides, yeah, behind your cosplay buckets.
Speaker 2:I know behind the Mandalorian buckets, Bunsen is absolutely oblivious to thunderstorms and beaker is pretty much too. I don't know about you, but definitely ginger is more scared than you, chris.
Speaker 3:I'm not scared of them.
Speaker 2:Oh, big changes in points. Slim Shady is just a little ahead of Kathy. Then we have Katrina, violet and Carousel. Next question Bunsen and beaker rolled on this. Oh, this is a bad day. Coyote poop, cow poop, a moose leg, a dead duck. What did Bunsen and beaker roll on this week? Both of them, it was the worst. Oh, most people, I think, saw that video I made. Oh, yeah, it was definitely a dead duck, every very rotten dead duck, bunsen. We'll probably talk about this when we share stories. But yeah, that was the dead duck. Oh man, it's very tight for first place here. Let's work, we're down to the wire. Last question In text from Bunsen this week Bunsen may be writing movies.
Speaker 2:What was his movie called Silence of the Hams, the Good, the Bad and the Moose Leg, harry Potter and the Chamber of Back. Bacon or Canadian Bacon? Bunsen was writing this movie, I think, because it coincided with the strike happening in the Hollywood. I caught some people with the Good, the Bad and the Moose Leg and Canadian Bacon, canadian Bacon's an. Actually that's a real movie with John Candy the late John Candy in it, but it was Silence of the Hams. That was too easy to, too easy to spoof. Silence of the Hams.
Speaker 2:Okay, well, here we go. Thanks for playing, everybody. It's always kind of fun to start with Kahoot. The top three people, not including Chris, are in third place. We have well, we'll start in fourth place. In fourth place we have Violet, then Carousel Katrina and then Kathy Zed. So congratulations everybody. Well done. We are proud to have Bark and Beyond Supplycom now as an official sponsor of the Science Podcast. Bark and Beyond Supplycom is a small, family owned company that started off making joint supplements for dogs, but now they sell toys and treats and a whole bunch of other goodies. Skip the big box stores and check out the amazing deals and awesome stuff at Bark and Beyond Supplycom. You'll see a link in our show notes and use the coupon code Bunsen B-U-N-S-E-N for 10% off at BarkandBeyondSupplycom. Click the link, skip the big box stores. How about the little guy? Okay, it is now time to share stories about Bunsen, beaker and Ginger. Chris, are you ready to go, or do you want me to keep talking?
Speaker 3:I can probably start talking and you can let me know if Bunsen sounds like he's heavily breathing. Okay, because I've already given him supper and I've already given him a chew and he's just doing toddler time right now. So I'm just calmly petting him and he's very much enjoying it.
Speaker 2:Good deal.
Speaker 3:But I did want to talk and I don't want to steal your thunder in your story because you love this story, but maybe we can talk about it together. I want to talk about dog diving with Beaker.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so we started last week. Was it this week actually? We went, or her first day was on Wednesday.
Speaker 2:Wednesday yes, and.
Speaker 3:I booked an introductory lesson for her as per what we need to do. That's what the website told me to do, just to see if your dog is interested, and kind of set out your goals and your aspirations for your dog. And so we went and Beaker had a wonderful time. So she likes to go long, she likes to go short. She's still building up confidence and strength to jump sideways off the dock. And then we went again on Friday and I was really thinking that she would retrieve our duck that we had for her, because she used that duck when we went to the Innisfail pool the day they had, like the dog days of summer day, before they were cleaning the pool they let all the dogs come. But no, she did not want her duck. She definitely wanted the toys that were available at the location, which are chucket type toys, but then she also retrieved the stick like one on Friday. So I don't know. We're building up her endurance with swimming and building up her in Well, she doesn't. She's an excellent swimmer.
Speaker 6:Yes.
Speaker 3:So they talked about the trainer talked about her swimming mechanics and how she paddles with both front feet and her back feet and how she turns to the left and how she turns to the right without any difficulty. But it's just building up that confidence and strength to do the pop, the pop off jump. But I'm really super excited for her that she has something that she loves to do, like Bunsen loves the snow and the mountains. Yeah, that's an activity for Beaker.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's. That was the main thing. Which I thought was really sweet was like Bunsen is known as the winter guy and he just he just relishes in the winter and he's so easy to take photographs of and videos of in the winter. But Beaker doesn't really have a thing, but this is her thing and we're not near a lake and we try to get her to water but like the creek I guess counts, I mean she can swim in the creek but this is like full on swimming and yeah, she's just building her confidence and first she, she, she's going to get there. But they never push the dogs. They start really small and they work their way up to going off the dock. So I know some, some dogs jump right off the dock the first day like they just go flying and they're good to go. Some dogs I think that she was talking about a lady in her greyhound like they've been going for a year, or is it two years and the dog is still getting comfortable swimming.
Speaker 3:I think they've been going for two years.
Speaker 2:Yeah, for two years. Yeah, so I mean Beaker's jumping off the side of the ramp, getting better every time, so yeah, and if she never ever goes flying like her hero Benny, that's okay, she just loves it, she loves retrieving, so yeah, and there's. There's two different types of games you can do there, which is cool. There's the dock, diving for distance, and then there is what's that one, what's the other one called zipper race or something, isn't it the air tag? Air tag, yeah, so it's not for distance, it's how fast the dog can go get the thing and bring it back. So I'm not sure if Beaker is going to be able to jump for distance, but she's very fast, she's a very, very fast swimmer, so she might do well at like the timed events where she's got to go get the thing and then come back, cause she swims like a little rocket.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but they also have other events there too, and you were talking about Beaker's pre drive, and they have barn hunt and Alberta is a rat free province, so they use gerbils.
Speaker 2:But and no animals harmed. I should say that cause. As she was explaining barn hunt, I was like getting horrified. I'll let you continue I just I didn't want people to as soon as you said that, I didn't want you people to think oh my God, they're hunting gerbils, sort of, but not really Go ahead.
Speaker 3:But not really. No, but that's right. I was just about to say that no animals are harmed in this experiment.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 3:And they put the gerbils in these tubes and the dogs are I don't know. I guess they go sniff them out or hear them out or or what. But you were concerned because you said, oh, we don't want to encourage that seeking out of prey, but she said it's an outlet. So they kind of find the opposite, where if dogs are given an outlet for that searching then they don't necessarily do it back at home.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's true, yeah.
Speaker 3:So that was. That was interesting. That might be something to look into. Bunsen would not probably be interested in that at all.
Speaker 2:I think he is interested in the summer sleeping on the floor or on the couch. I think that is his, that is his event and he will win that event every single time called staying cool and sleeping the summer away. That's his plan and you know there's some wisdom in that, I think.
Speaker 3:I may or may not have been doing that a couple of days during the summer myself A little bit of a siesta and then fiesta.
Speaker 2:Yes, we'll take speaker requests in about 10 minutes, so everybody who's requesting you'll just have to wait patiently.
Speaker 2:Thank you. Well, what should I talk about? I'm gonna do a couple, two fours here. Indra was in our space like for a hot second. I know on the weekend she's usually hiking, so if she comes back I'll give her a shout out, but I just wanted to remind everybody that Indra runs these amazing spaces on mindfulness and wellness and meditation. So if you aren't following Indra Bartona, please do so. I thought I'd give her a shout out, even though she's gone.
Speaker 2:Might. I'll go with two stories. So the first one is definitely pet related and it has to do with the duck. So we take the dogs on a walk through the farmland and we go down this rather steep hill and then we go up the steep hill and it crosses the Cooley, which is like where the creek has like cut this, not a ravine, but it's pretty steep on either sides. And when we got up to the other side, bunsen started to go bananas Like. He started to zoom around, like I've never seen him move this quickly before in the winter. He was running chaotically and randomly like he wanted to play, but not really, and then he stopped like a statue and smelled the wind for way too long and I was like this is bizarre, what is he doing, is he okay? Like he ran like a weirdo and then he stood and he smelled the air. Oh, how long do you think he was frozen like that? For Like 30 seconds it was a while.
Speaker 3:It was a while, you should note the change in behavior. I picked up on it right away that he was acting very unpredictably and he said you've never seen him run this fast in the winter, but you really meant summer.
Speaker 2:Oh, in the summer, sorry, yeah, in the summer he's never really run this fast. And then he just took off and it was like the moose leg all over again. So normally he listens like a very, very good boy. But he did not listen to me and he ran and a few, I don't know maybe a couple hundred meters away and then started to roll on something and Beaker was following right along. She was just super happy about the new adventure. We're going someplace weird. This is great.
Speaker 2:Normally I'm the one that doesn't listen and they both were rolling on something and I got there and it was a very dead duck. It was disgusting. So like once I got there, bunsen listened to me and he's like okay, time to go. So fine, we go on the walk with the dogs. But anybody who was following behind Bunsen it was like following just like rotting dumpster, like he smelled so bad, so bad. I don't think Beaker really understood why she was rolling, so maybe she missed it. That's what I think she did. I think she was just randomly rolling because Bunsen was rolling, but he was so bad I thought we could maybe take him to town, but he smelled so bad, chris, I don't think I wanted. I thought we can't put him in the cars cause he'll get dead duck goo all over the car. So we gave him a hose bath like twice, with shampoo twice, and he was a very wet, unhappy burner but he did not smell bad anymore. So that is the for duck's sake story.
Speaker 3:Did you? Did you tell people that you almost vomited?
Speaker 2:No, but that's how bad it smelled.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I the dogs. I called them to me and they were coming, and Jason was still over by this death smell and he almost vomited two times.
Speaker 2:I have a pretty good constitution for like not puking at smells, but it was like cream, like crisp summer air and then death, and I wasn't ready for it and it was really bad. So, yeah, that's the. That's the duck story. Okay, so that's story number one. I did want to mention story number two, Chris. What have you and I been working like? For hours and hours every day for like the past 10 days? Today we didn't, today and yesterday we really we took time off from this, but we've been working around the clock on us. What, what, what is it?
Speaker 3:It's called texts from Bunsen.
Speaker 2:Yeah, text from Bunsen two, and we have successfully finished all of the jokes. It was a huge deal, but we worked really hard. We got them all done. We're going to have to cut it down, cause there I counted the pages, chris, and there's 460 pages. That is way too many pages. So, yeah, exciting, but maybe we'll move some of those jokes to texts from Bunsen three. So there's still there's still a lot more work to do with it, but the big part is over now. It's like sorting the pages into chronological order, the way I want the book to look, and I have to write some other things, but that big job is done and I am pretty confident, when you guys get back from Nova Scotia, that we can record the audio book and it should be ready for everybody at the end of the summer, which is very, very exciting.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:For sure. That's awesome and amazing. We also have to prove Freed. Are we just quick question going to do the after show for our subscribers, cause I have two funny stories that I'm going to share at that point.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we can do the after show for the subscribers, so we'll wrap it up about seven and then for the people that have subscribed, we can do a subscribers only after show. And thank you to everybody who's.
Speaker 3:They have two very good stories Okay.
Speaker 2:All right, sounds good. Well, that's it. Should we open up the floor to people who would like to share their stories about their pets or ask us questions?
Speaker 3:Yeah, okay For sure. Do you want to go over the ground rules?
Speaker 2:Sure, I can go over the ground rules. So this is a family friendly space, which means that we try to limit any kind of swearing or anything like that. I'd like everybody who comes up to speak to stay on topic. So we're talking about pets, you're sharing a pet story or you have questions for us. That's great, and Chris and I definitely reserve the right to figure out who can come up, when, who can't. And if we're not familiar to us, we're going to DM you and figure out what your story is.
Speaker 2:If you have a locked account or you're brand new to Twitter, or if your profile picture is an egg, you may not get to come up, and that's just because, again, this space is open to anybody, which means anybody can come in. So that's the ground rules, and if you're on Facebook live, you can type in a question or a story and I'll relay it to everybody in the space. Okay, that is the deal. So if you'd like to come up to share a pet story, go ahead. I think we'll go with Baden and then Tracy. Hey, y'all, hello.
Speaker 6:Happy anniversary.
Speaker 2:Oh, thank you.
Speaker 6:How many?
Speaker 2:22. Is that right, Chris?
Speaker 3:I know, okay, now you're double 27.
Speaker 2:Okay, chris will just have to say no, Jason. We got married in the year 2000.
Speaker 3:Oh, that's easy to keep track of 23 then. So it kind of is hey, that's handy. It kind of is that's really handy yeah. I'm just thinking of your thread on what happens when you come home.
Speaker 2:I'm just thinking of your thread on what happens when you come home.
Speaker 6:I'm just thinking of your thread on what happens when you come home and your spouse is cranky. You might have to follow that. Yeah, I was just on Twitter with that, for you page.
Speaker 2:You never know what you're going to see. And it was like the algorithm was shoving like toxic masculinity onto my for you page and I was all done with it. So it was like a clap back against, like the, the toxic mask Masculinity bros, yeah, and anyways. It's the truth too. You shut up and you listen and then you clean the. You do the dishes. That's, that's the best. Yes, dear, at the appropriate moments and if necessary, you are right.
Speaker 6:Dear, and I was wrong. That's right. That's the way. That's the way you roll.
Speaker 2:This is the way. Yes, now. Cute dog, cute pet story.
Speaker 6:Our granddaughter was by today. She's just about six months and she's Now Wiggling about on her tummy. She hasn't quite started crawling, but she's reaching for, she likes to lay on her tummy and reach her toys, and I'll let you know. And she's reaching for, she likes to lay on her tummy and reach her toys and all that sort of thing. And Bade and dog came over with one of his stuffies and was leaning over her and he put the end of the stuff he just out of her reach and when she'd start to grab it he'd move not far away, just a little bit, so that you had to reach further. I don't know if he was trying to help with her grab stuff or if he was, if I think he was trying to get her to play with him. Quite honestly and of course this always happens as soon as I got my phone out for the camera, he moved right away and came over to see what I was doing. So that's my cute pet story for the for the month.
Speaker 2:I love it. Thanks, rich Dogs know what they're doing. They, they, you know they're way smarter than we give them credit for.
Speaker 6:Oh, and actually, if I may, thunderstorms and yeah fireworks when we have thunderstorms.
Speaker 1:I'd love it.
Speaker 6:But what Bade and does during the thunderstorm? He's a Labrador Retriever and as soon as he hears a bang from a thunderstorm or a or a firework, either he sometimes sits and watches the fireworks or he'll grab a toy, retrieve it, bring it to me, pass it to me, then go back and wait for the next one, like there's no fear, no, nothing, yep. Okay, that's a bang, some something needs to be retrieved and that's just sit around going. Yep.
Speaker 2:That's good, and some dogs definitely get anxious and some cats do so. Well, thanks, rich. Thanks for popping in. We'll keep things moving today. So I appreciate your story. Okay, we'll go to Tracy and then Andrew, then Melinda, then I believe I'll bring Keith up. So, tracy, go ahead. Hi guys, happy anniversary, thank you.
Speaker 9:So I took off like a chunk of this week Cause I do everything there and I needed a break.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 9:So I was like, oh, I'm going to get stuff done around here, and which is it's. It can be hard with depression, but I was like determined to get stuff done. And Ricky is not happy about it, though. He's like I'm going to hide under the bed. So he's been hiding under the bed a lot. He just came out as soon as I started talking about him, so he's out now for pets, but he's been a hiding boy for the past two days.
Speaker 2:And why? Why was he hiding? Sorry, I missed that, tracy.
Speaker 9:Um, I think, just cause like there's a lot going on, like I'm trying to like organize my life.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay, I see Sorry.
Speaker 9:The living room was a mess for a while there and, uh, there's just too much for him, so Well, we've been doing some cleaning too.
Speaker 2:I wonder if that affected ginger. Did you notice that? Chris, at all? The dogs don't really care. They get a little antsy when I'm moving stuff because it's weird. I didn't really watch the cat.
Speaker 3:She comes and says what are you doing? Anything new, anything different. She's like hmm, you've opened this cupboard. What are you doing in there? Can?
Speaker 2:I go in. That's right, as I was. As soon as I was taking stuff out and moving stuff around, she was like on me like a dirty shirt. That's right. Yes, she's a curious cat. Well, thanks for your story, tracy. Um, it's good to have a pet If you're feeling um, you know, if you're not feeling up to snuff. There's a lot of evidence that shows that pet ownership does help. More than it, you know, more than not having a pet. So, um, if you need some pet photos, just tag us and we'll send some your way. Okay, we'll go over to Andrew. Hello, andrew. Oh, is that?
Speaker 6:me.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's you Go ahead, Do you have?
Speaker 1:a pet story for us. Today I'm sat here in Cornwall in the UK. What time is it with you guys?
Speaker 2:Uh, it's, for us it's early evening, but depends on where people are calling in from, because North America is really big.
Speaker 1:Really one in the morning I'm sat here with my lovely Bella yeah, you talked about Tracy. Yeah, yeah, don't let her give up on the puppy, you know, because she will save her. It's a cat. Sorry, it's a cat.
Speaker 2:Sorry. Oh, it's all good, you know.
Speaker 1:Okay, yeah, I've got a lovely cock, a spaniel next to me Just fluffing her ears up, and she's lovely. You know, she saved me, so we all go through stuff in life. Don't be all, and so say to Tracy, but the cat, what was the cat called?
Speaker 3:His name is Ricky yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, you know, yeah, it might hide under the, under the bench or wherever, but yeah, they will save you and they will help you, and that's what they do, don't they?
Speaker 2:Don't you think? I think 100%, andrew. I 100% agree with you. What's your Cocker Spaniel's name? Again, you said it and I kind of missed it Bella, bella. Oh, that's a nice name Bella Swan.
Speaker 1:Have you watched the movies, bella Swan? I know I'm a bit old, you know, but Twilight.
Speaker 3:Oh, Chris, you should have got that I got Bella Bella Swan definitely from the Twilight movies there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, you know, named after Bella Swan, yes, but you know it's. They are special people in your lives and they do make a difference. And they do. They do make you get up in the morning, they do when you've had times. They make you get up out of your bed and go for a walk, get some fresh air, listen to the birds and the bees. Even though, dan, here we've I'm feeding the birds, they're eating us because there's no insects this year. I don't know why. You guys are probably having hot weather. I mean, in Europe they're talking about really hot weather. We're supposed to get thunderstorms. I love thunderstorms. We never get them, just a sprinkle of a shower. But yeah, you know, the main thing is that I think they're like little gods sent to look after us all, to be honest, but that's just me.
Speaker 2:So I think many people who are here listening Andrew would totally agree with you. So you thank you so much for tuning in so late at night and sharing some really thoughtful messages. Okay.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's just, it's just nice to hear you know. I mean, I walk down a local park and I meet, you know, especially early in the morning you meet some really nice people when the sun comes up and they walk their dogs in you and most of the time you only, you only know the dog's names. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 7:You get that yeah.
Speaker 1:And then sometimes you have to say what's your name and you shake their hands and say, after months goes by, yeah, you know, you don't know their name. And then eventually they go yeah. I met this guy today and he said you've got this red setter. His name was Sansa. Yeah, from, yeah.
Speaker 10:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah. It looked at me and said game of thrones. And he said how did you know that? Well, I did like the show, you know. You said, well, you're one of the few. And I said, well, we tried to watch House of Dragons. It's all right, but it's not the same, you know, you know. So, yeah, you get to meet some good people, and I tend to be. I tend, if you don't like pets, if you don't like a cat or a dog. When you meet those sort of people, do you think, well, you just give them a bit of a wide berth. I call it that, right, I'll leave it there. Nice to talk, guys.
Speaker 2:Andrew, we are so thankful you joined our space. Okay, take care of yourself.
Speaker 1:Yes, and you guys.
Speaker 2:Awesome. Thanks, Andrew.
Speaker 3:Thanks, Andrew.
Speaker 2:Andrew, if you wouldn't mind muting your mic. We're just getting a little bit of feedback from you.
Speaker 1:I'll do that. Yeah, I'll try and do it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, if you don't, if you can't, I'll do it, it's all good.
Speaker 6:Okay, I'll do it.
Speaker 2:Okay, we'll go over to Melinda, then Keith, then Brenda. Hi, everybody Hi.
Speaker 11:How's it going? It's going well. Happy anniversary to you too, aw, thank you.
Speaker 9:Thanks.
Speaker 11:Melinda, You're welcome. When you were talking about dock diving and your sweet golden, I was thinking about my sweet golden that I had, oh, 20 years ago, 30 to 20 years ago who helped raise my kids, and I think I put in one of the comments how she used to jump in the pool and try to retrieve the kids back to the stairs. But I wanted to tell you the story today of how I discovered her secret life, which was I was working out of my house writing, and I had moved my desk into the family room, kind of behind the sofa. The kids were at school. I'm writing away and the dog is going in and out her dog door and doing whatever doggie thing she does, and I heard this scraping sound out back.
Speaker 11:So I looked out the back window and watched her as she nudged a chair up to the pool fence. She jumped into the chair over the pool fence with a ball in her mouth. She went to the deep end side, threw the ball into the water, jumped in after it. I kid you not. She went and got the ball, swam to the steps, did it all again and again and again, and when she got tired she just lay down on the steps for a while and after a while she would do it again Before it was time for the kids to get home from school.
Speaker 11:I was wondering what she was going to do and if I needed to go rescue her from the pool area. But no, she took one of the chairs in the pool area, pushed it over towards the fence, got into it and jumped back over. She took her elf off, laid down where she dried out, and she thought she got away with the whole thing. That's amazing. And she did because I let her do that the rest of our life out in California. We were still there for another four years and she did that almost every day, whether it was hot or cold. She just loved it. I'm thinking Beaker will probably build up her confidence and really enjoy the water.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so everything about the water she loves. The only thing that they're slowly building her up to is the jumping into open space. Yeah, so swimming, no problem. In fact, the trainer had stopped us from going because she noticed Beaker was so tired, but Beaker kept wanting to go, yeah.
Speaker 11:I was lucky and glad that Kenosha knew her limits, but she did not like to jump off into space either. She jumped off the side of the pool into the water but I never saw her. Now that I think about it, never saw her get up on the diving board and jump off. But when the girls tried to dive off she would circle and swim frantically and bark at them as if please don't, please don't. She was scared for them. We had to give her a toy to play with in the water the whole time if they wanted to swim, or else she was bothering them, trying to get them out. Hairless monkeys aren't supposed to swim. According to my golden retriever, that makes sense, you know. Anyway, thanks for letting me share that she was one of my heart dogs. I'm almost 70. I've had a lot of dogs in my life and she is right up among the top three. She was a great nanny to my girls.
Speaker 2:Yeah, as Adam now has graduated, I reflect on our family dog Kellen, which I've talked about right.
Speaker 9:And.
Speaker 2:I think the memories that you have with those family dogs, they're just so ingrained because the kids are a little right, so yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 11:I never had to worry with my kids around because she took such good care of them. If they cried, she came and got me right away. All that sort of stuff.
Speaker 2:Well, I don't think Kellen was great with the whole watching the kids. Chris, do you think I think she would be right with them when they were in trouble?
Speaker 3:Because, yeah, she, she, she likes shenanigans.
Speaker 2:She was all the shenanigans. That's right, yeah.
Speaker 11:Can I tell you one more quick story about?
Speaker 2:Kenosha Sure Go ahead.
Speaker 11:When we would leave the house. The girls had a collection of troll dolls back in the 80s and early 90s and when we would leave the house sometimes she would get mad we didn't take her with us and we would come back to find one troll doll in front of the door with its face chewed out.
Speaker 3:That's funny but terrible.
Speaker 11:It was awful, but she knew how to make a statement. She really did.
Speaker 2:That's next level mafia stuff happening right there.
Speaker 11:Oh, it really was. I will let somebody else tell stories, but thank you for taking me down such happy trails.
Speaker 2:Love it. Thanks, melinda, chris, I I missed the order. Did Donna come up before Keith? I want to be respectful of as we brought people up.
Speaker 3:No, I had Melinda, karen and then Keith, but Karen dropped down, so now we're at Keith.
Speaker 2:OK, so we'll go Keith Donna. What about Brenda? I think we'll go Keith Donna.
Speaker 5:Brenda, brenda. So it's Keith Brenda me.
Speaker 2:OK, we'll go, Keith, brenda, donna, then Alistair. So Keith, go ahead, good evening everybody.
Speaker 4:First I brought my dog over to see him and after I was there a little while he went outside in the backyard so I let him out. So it's just like two year olds If you don't hear from him or see him in a minute, then there's something going on. So I went outside and sure enough, he comes walking up and he's got this thing in his mouth and it's got legs hanging out and I'm like it's a rat. He went and got a rat somewhere. Oh man. Well, I went up to it and he has the drop it command. So I gave him the drop it command and he dropped it in my hands.
Speaker 4:Oh good, and it did. It looked like a little rat and I'm like, what am I going to do with this? And so I looked at it a little bit closer. It didn't have a rat tail, it had this little tiny tail with a puff on the end and I said you know what? I bet that's a bunny. So, and it didn't even have its eyes open yet and he, he had caressed that bunny in his mouth to where he didn't hurt it a bit. It was still wiggling, still alive, still moving in my hands, no blood or anything he had he had, like he was carrying a baby around.
Speaker 4:And so I ran inside, got on the internet, try to get small rescue information. But it was Sunday and I thought, well, everything's going to be closed. But I was lucky, small rescue in our area. A woman answered it. I told her. I said I think I got a little bunny here. It's very young, it doesn't even have its eyes open. I don't know what to do.
Speaker 4:I have looked for the nest. I couldn't find the nest, and so she texted me, this guy who was a small rescue guy, and but she told me, she said you have to find the nest because there's 95 percent mortality if they don't go back in the nest, even if they're under rehab care. So I got the idea. I said you know what, I'm going to let him back outside and maybe he will go straight to the nest where he found this bunny to begin with. And sure enough, he went to the back corner of the yard and stood there and looked down and it was a rabbit hole. That was, you know, covered with grass and I had Like fuzzy hair around it and I'm like I bet that's it. So I took a picture of it. I texted her. She said yeah, that's it.
Speaker 4:Oh my god put the bunny back in there. And when I did put the bunny back in there I mean it's like it knew exactly what to do it went right down in the hole and I covered it up and and so Everything ended out. You know, it turned out to be a good story in the end.
Speaker 2:That's a wonderful story, keith. You're getting like tons of love in the chat from that. What a great share. That's so heartwarming.
Speaker 4:I was so proud of my dog you know that he he didn't tear that that little baby up and and I was so thankful. I got somebody on the phone and I put a. She said if you could put like a basket with like a Four inch opening, they kind of like that too, like slight cover, or so I had this elevated dog bed that I had on the porch, my sister had, and so I put that over that because a couple of days before the grass cutter had come and I'm sure he mowed right over that, so I wanted to put something out there to keep him from mowing that area, at least for a well, a little while, until they had enough Time to, you know, leave the hole and go do whatever they do amazing.
Speaker 2:What's. What's your dog's name, keith, or what was your dog's name?
Speaker 4:My dog. My dog's name is Doby Doby like Doberman?
Speaker 2:Uh-huh, love it. Is that your profile picture? Is that Doby?
Speaker 6:Yeah, that's.
Speaker 2:Doby, what a good boy. Yeah, he's a rescue.
Speaker 4:Oh, and I got from the end of the services.
Speaker 2:Hmm, he is the best boy, all dogs are the best dogs.
Speaker 4:I mean.
Speaker 2:I made a post about that. I think people didn't get the joke, but yeah, doby is definitely Doby, sorry, doby is definitely the best dog.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I'm thinking in bigger pins.
Speaker 2:Oh sweet, good deal, awesome yeah.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I ordered a pair of the. I mean, I ordered the set of the blue ink and then you had the the messed up set.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, the oops beaker screwed up pens.
Speaker 4:Yeah, yeah, in order to set of those.
Speaker 2:Oh well, we almost sold out of those. We had hundreds of them, but people were thought that was so funny. I think they they were ordering them like crazy. So thank you for everybody. He was ordering the oops beaker screwed up pens. Okay, good night everybody. Thanks, keith, appreciate your share. Okay, we'll go. Brenda, donna, then Alistair, brenda, hi.
Speaker 7:Hi. So for the last 13 months I have not had a dog in the house. I had two Bernice mountain dogs before, but I lost one at 13 and then another Due to leptosporosis at eight years old. So I've been waiting and hoping to get another dog, and a week ago I went From my northern Ontario city that I live in down to southern Ontario and I picked up a nine week old Legoto Roman Yolo, which is an Italian water dog.
Speaker 6:Okay.
Speaker 7:He is so cute. I did post a picture On my Twitter feed and I tagged you guys, so you'll probably see it at some point when you have a minute to look. Everybody's gonna think she's a poodle.
Speaker 2:Just image Google that it does look poodle-ish, for sure.
Speaker 7:It looks poodle-ish but it won't be. They're not supposed to be like frufru, they're supposed to look rustic. You're supposed to keep them night like trimmed An inch long, but it was like it was a drastic difference from the Bernice and I. I just thought I'm going to go a bit smaller because it's kind of hard right to say to somebody hey, can you look after my 105?
Speaker 2:Yeah, but since a whole yeah. Bernice mountain dogs are a whole thing.
Speaker 7:Yes, and, and you know, and don't worry, they'll, they'll leave about, you know, a bale or so of hair, you know, in a couple of days, over over your house. So this will be, this will be a Bit, a bit easier. In that sense I'm I'm loving it. But what I have to say that I'm absolutely loving this week with her is to start, it's been 20 something years since I've had just one dog at a time. I've always had two. I've always gotten another one as the one dog was getting older.
Speaker 7:So to have her being so little and training, she is so flipping, smart, she knows how to sit and she knows down. She can spin already. She knows how to that in like just a few days, because I'm doing a few minutes at a time here and there. In the morning, when I put her food in her dish, she goes galloping over to her mat where she knows she has to sit for her food. It's just, it's hysterical. I've just I some, I'm smiling like an idiot all the time. It's just, it's so fun to have a puppy in the house, so fun. Anyway, I just wanted to share that.
Speaker 2:Kathy Zercher in the chat said Theo, not quite old, that's another dog. Dog of Twitter is a Legoto. Yeah, very cool. Oh man puppies, just they do the well, all dogs. But there's something. There's something about puppies that just make your it's like the if you're the Grinch they just make your hearts four or five sizes bigger.
Speaker 7:Instantly okay, thanks, anyway, that's all I want to say tonight. Thanks for the time.
Speaker 2:Thanks, brenda. Okay, we'll go to Donna and then Alster Donna Hello. Hi y'all happy anniversary Hi first off Chris is probably gonna be wondering, or a kicking me if I don't say it Are you feeling better, because you were quite sick.
Speaker 5:Oh, yeah, I was on desk door for a minute and I actually had a work trip this past week. I'm doing well and okay. Thanks for the flowers, just so y'all know. Those lasted three and a half weeks, so good job. I was quite shocked that they lasted so long. So thanks you guys. Whooping cough is no joke, that's what it was. Go get your shots. Um, so I picked it up on a plane somewhere. As you guys know, I'm on a flight every week, but I I just got to do a couple of wedding puns With my friend Chris, if you don't mind. So hey, chris, she's on me. Did you know that he married Mrs Wright's? And? And the reason he did? You just didn't know her first name was always.
Speaker 2:That's a good one, I think, chris is dealing with Bunsen and beaker right now.
Speaker 1:No to my Chris, I know always.
Speaker 3:So just give me four seconds, I'm gonna wait four seconds.
Speaker 2:For those of you who don't know, donna and Chris, occasionally they go back and forth with puns, usually when I'm having like tech problems.
Speaker 5:So Well, I'll tell my pet story why I'm waiting for her four seconds to do the second one. Um so, oh, oh, awesome. Did you hear the one I just did, chris? No, I heard zero things, because I was trying to corral the dog.
Speaker 3:Oh well, adam got here. Oh well, that's you know the excitement of favorite humans walking in the door.
Speaker 5:I'll do that every single time and you're chopped liver. So I said hey, Chris, hey Donna. Did you know Jason married to Mrs Wright? Because I'm not left. Well, it's because your first name is always, and then the and then the other one is hey Chris, hey Donna, do you realize that married men always spend?
Speaker 7:their wedding ring.
Speaker 3:Why.
Speaker 5:Because we're still trying to figure out the combination.
Speaker 3:There you go.
Speaker 2:I do. I do spin my wedding ring, though, like I do.
Speaker 5:Almost every married man I know spins their wedding ring and then, being from Texas, only Texans who are on this call will know this it's the. There's only one school, one university in Texas that men wear their class ring and everybody knows I'm going to say it's Texas A&M because they use it as bobble openers, whatever. I don't know what it is, but married men and Texas A&M men always spin their ring. They're still trying to figure out the combination. Good, aggie joke there.
Speaker 5:But my, my story this week is actually not of my pets. So I was flying. I was in South Dakota this past week and I was flying out of Rapid City airport. It's a small, regional airport and it's been like beautiful weather up there compared to the seventh circle of AT double hockey sticks down here. And I was sitting there and I haven't seen this except in the Minneapolis airport before. But they had service dogs that were there for just pet me. So instead of, you know, for people dealing, they just have them there to pet dogs, and it was actually three golden retrievers that were walking around the airport.
Speaker 2:My goodness.
Speaker 5:And one of them. One of them, his name was Roger. He was 99 pounds, four years old, so big, yes, and he wasn't fat, he was just ripped in shape, big boy, I guess, dealing for mountain snow up there. And he had the biggest pause and he he would do for those who follow the golden ratio, he would do a lot of nose.
Speaker 5:So if he didn't like a person, like if they were not, you could tell that I was like, ooh, I'm not sitting next to that person on the plane, cause that dog was like nope and would just sit down. And then he came up to me and he lifted both my legs. He went in between my legs. I was sitting there and just kind of popped down and put all his weight on me. And she goes, well, he just picked you today and I said, well, I just picked him. So I hope you're going to give me the leash, cause he's coming home with me. But he was super sweet, so I was rubbing all over him and then you know it's touching his, his flanks, you know, and asking him if he liked butt rubs and they go, oh, it's his favorite. And I went with all the golden fibers of love all over my work clothes onto the plane, which I don't care, but there was another smaller golden that kind of reminded me a lot of beaker, and then there was one and I just started laughing and I said what's this dog's name? And she said father Ted.
Speaker 5:So for you Canadians and British folks who watch the father Brown shows and I'm like, is he drunk all the time? And they go pretty much so drunk with puppy love and it was just the best and I wish all airports did that, because if anybody had nervous flyers or anything of that nature, to have the ability and I was going home to my pets and it was a big mistake to have all that smells on me, because Callie was like hi, hi, hi, and then she's like what? And then Sasha, the same, was like no, you can just give me treats and walk away. I don't know where you been for a week, but that was not cool.
Speaker 5:So I just wanted to tell that story and thank you to the people who have those service dogs to go to airports or malls or, unfortunately, down here in Texas where we had a mass shooting, and they use those to help victims, or like Benny and Lisa, benny and Bowie's mom, who deals with horrific situations, to have the stuffed bunts and then beakers and hopefully real dogs around. You guys weren't wrong, tracy, and I'm sorry, forgive me. The gentleman who had the talk, who brought up having animals as pets, always helps in those situations and I mean I was in a good place and it made me in a better place and I just had to share that story. But that's it for me. Again, happy anniversary y'all.
Speaker 2:Thanks Donna. Thanks Donna. Yeah, the research is just like it's almost so overwhelming now that animals are good in every situation where there could be stress that it may do. An airline may want to think about their budget with all of those like viral videos of people losing their mind on the flight, like maybe it's worth it to have some golden retrievers patrolling and keeping everybody chill so you don't have a person losing their mind on the flight, costing you hundreds of thousands of dollars to turn the flight around, or something like that. So maybe they're doing some kind of cost analysis, which would be smart, chris.
Speaker 3:you were going to say I wasn't going to say anything.
Speaker 2:Okay, Alistair, thank you for waiting so patiently. And then I'm bringing Benny Bowie Lisa up. Alistair, go ahead.
Speaker 8:I just put up a couple of videos and pictures of my dog Yay. I don't know if you noticed them. Oh, there you go, I got it, I got it. Alistair, I got it.
Speaker 2:Yep.
Speaker 8:It's all like when it comes to dogs it's all about training. It doesn't matter what breed of dog you got, it's all about training the dog, because the dog I've got that, you can see, is a rescue dog as well. It was attacked by other dogs as it was growing up and we've trained it constantly.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 8:And it's literally. You can get it to roll over, plowed it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you bet, I agree. I agree, bunsen is much more trained than Beaker. But there's a reason why we can take such good photos of the two of them is because they're very well trained dogs.
Speaker 8:Well, it's the same with him. He's very well trained but he doesn't like other dogs because he was bullied. Yeah, it sounds bad saying bullied, because that's a human trait, but he got attacked by other dogs when he was younger, so it's very hard for him to deal with other dogs. But he's very good at less than, as you can see by the empty videos of him.
Speaker 2:I so appreciate you posting the video of your wonderful rescue dog and that's very cool. Everybody got to take a look at that. Training is important, that is correct. Thanks, alistair, lisa, go ahead Hello.
Speaker 12:Hello, how is everybody? Happy anniversary, you two.
Speaker 2:Thanks, lisa Thanks.
Speaker 12:Lisa, thank you for sharing it with your 100 closest friends. That's amazing.
Speaker 2:We might go for supper after this, we haven't decided. Or maybe I got an air fryer. We might get crazy and use that, so I don't know.
Speaker 12:Oh, the world's your oyster right now. No, it's amazing. So I'm so proud of Beaker. She's going to be great. Benson started out the same way on the ramp and it's a process, and when she feels comfortable, she's just going to go for it. So she is doing so well and Benson was dog diving today as well.
Speaker 2:I saw yeah, he's Beaker's hero.
Speaker 12:Oh, he just loves it. We're not going to break any distance records by any stretch of the imagination, but it is just, he absolutely loves it and he just goes crazy for it. And it's just hilarious because when he's done he has curly hair when it gets wet.
Speaker 12:So he is just like I'm going to be honest. He's packing a couple extra pounds right now, but he is just this fluff ball right now, so he looks like he's packing a good 15 extra pounds when he's done so. It's just hilarious, but he's doing so. Well, we have the therapy dogs to release stress at the Ottawa airport and they are amazing. So when you've got cranky, cranky people who have missed a flight or are delayed, these dogs are amazing and two of them are goldens and they were there when we did our trip to Vancouver and Victoria. So it was they're just amazing.
Speaker 12:And also we do have therapy dogs for the investigators at the Ottawa police. They bring them in to the different sections and they come into my section quite often and I'm a favorite because I always have dog treats in my pockets, so it's great to see them. But I just wanted to touch on that when Donna mentioned these dogs and they are absolutely amazing. And I also had the opportunity to use our therapy dog West with one of my interviews before I went on holidays and he is absolutely amazing. So he just sits and he just calms everybody down and the person you're interviewing just sits on the floor or sits on a chair and just pets them and it's just amazing the difference with the anxiety drawn with them. So that's it for me. I just wanted to say hello and I just say how proud I am of Beaker and she's going to be great, and just say hello to everybody because I've been kind of distanced for the last few weeks because we've just been really busy.
Speaker 2:Thank you, Lisa. Thanks for the words of encouragement.
Speaker 12:Oh, you guys take care, she's going to be awesome. She's going to be awesome. I'm going to wait for that big dog diving date. I know you guys take care.
Speaker 2:Thanks, lisa. Yeah, what Lisa mentioned like obviously, when Bunsen and Beaker come to our schools they're not in the same situation as the kids that she would be working with with therapy dogs, but it's so true Like when they're in the room with kids it's like the temperature just lowers. Kids can be joking around like high school kids joke around, and they're quite loud and that's just the way they are. I'm used to it. I think it would probably be super annoying for people that aren't around kids all the time, but then when they see that Bunsen and Beaker are here, it's like it just calms, just brings it down. It's very, very cool. Do you notice that too?
Speaker 3:Chris, I'm a little bit worried to unmute because our water alarm is going off.
Speaker 2:Oh, great Okay.
Speaker 3:It's okay, it'll go off in just a second. I'm just trying to hide in the closet so no one can hear the alarm. Yeah, so I took Beaker to school with me during exam break and we went upstairs and the kids who are going to write science 30,. They got to pet Beaker and actually I had Bunsen too and they're like who's this? The dog lovers, you know? Because they are like oh hello, and Beaker is like oh hello.
Speaker 2:Beaker loves everybody. Yes.
Speaker 3:Yeah. So they're like are you going to pet me? And then Bunsen actually found someone to sit on their feet.
Speaker 2:Oh he blessed them and I said, oh, you're chosen. He blessed them.
Speaker 3:Just like how Donna said that, like when the dog sits on the feet or when they choose you. When Bunsen chooses you, you know, because he will sit on your feet and be a cutie pie, Okay.
Speaker 2:We got one speaker left. I just want to give a. I just kind of do a little wrap up. Barking Beyond has a prize for us today as our sponsor, so Barking Beyond has a $20 gift certificate. You'll notice in the chat now there is like a whole bunch of stuff going on. In the chat there is a link to Barking Beyond and you can use the code Code Bunsen B-U-N-S-E-N to save 10% off at Barking Beyond. They have a crazy awesome selection of stuff. And then another shout out to Indra, indra's back. I was hiking, as I predicted, and also in the chat I have Indra's upcoming space. No, it's a replay. It's a replay of a space with success minded, an overcoming limiting beliefs, which I think I spoke in that one. I think I spoke in that one, and I do see some speaker requests, but we are going to wrap stuff up after Amy. So Amy go ahead. Thanks for being patient.
Speaker 10:Well, thank you for hosting this space. I really enjoy hearing about dogs. So 10 weeks ago I rescued a dog we needed one in the sheep, in with the sheep to guard them and then five weeks ago she gave birth to a litter of puppies that I didn't know, that she was pregnant, even it was the first day on vacation, and the person I was looking after her was, like you have puppies? No, so yeah, I actually know nothing about puppies because I never like I've always spayed and I'm not a reader. So I looked it up and it's really creepy how like on point people are with like by week four they will do this, and week five they will do this. It's like literally the day of the. So they're little puppies now, Like they're chewing on toys. Oh, man.
Speaker 10:And mom is because they're great, pierce knees, so like I don't know about these, these types of dogs, but I do Yep, they're guardian.
Speaker 2:they're guardian breed great big polar bear dogs.
Speaker 10:Yeah, so I have a temporary fence up, but she's made it her life goal to just wander and she's chewing through it and just like I'm ready to throw her back in the pasture with the sheep. But like man, her puppies are so mobile and just so cute. I actually bought a GoPro and today was the first day I was using it and, oh my gosh, there's like a thunderstorm. I was like shit, I have to go out and like feed them and water them before the storm. And then Dixie was out there like no, I'm not going in, I don't want to die with a GoPro strap to my forehead. Can we go in?
Speaker 2:So do you have a plan for the puppies, Amy? I can't imagine you having like six or seven great pair knees on your place.
Speaker 10:No, okay, first of all nine puppies, nine Okay.
Speaker 2:Those large breed dogs have a lot of puppies. Bunsen came from a litter of what was his 12, Chris.
Speaker 10:There was a lot, okay, yeah, I wish it was six, but so three of them are staying on the farm. One of them is going to be a working dog, two of them will stay with me. I have basically between one and three are still available. It just depends on who backs out on me and I. Also. I did the DNA test on them when they were two weeks old, so I'll know next week or the week after, like, what the mix is, to know if, like, they should definitely just be pets or if they're okay to be, you know, working dogs.
Speaker 2:Yeah, peronies are great working dogs. They are naturally guard flocks like of chickens and sheep, so that's very cool, amy. I did throw Chris and I through some photos of the puppies and videos up in the nest for people to take a look at.
Speaker 10:Thank you, I appreciate that. I just like. I want to talk about that all the time. I'm a little obsessed, I'm like, but you know, they're only this age once and they grow so, so quickly, like they're already the size of a pug. They're like five, six pounds right now and they're five weeks old.
Speaker 2:Yep, oh, the puppy stage is the most fun and it goes by quickly. And then you're like, yeah, it's a whole thing, yeah.
Speaker 10:Yeah, I like puppy soup stage the best, but only lasted for like four days until they were like no, I'm good, I'm just going to eat the dry food.
Speaker 2:Puppy soup. That's where it's like a mash right.
Speaker 10:Yeah, like you just put warm water over the puppy food to make it yeah.
Speaker 2:It's like a goo to eat. I love it. Well, thanks, amy. Okay, let's roll on to the prize and then some wrap up. We have a whole Shrek of people today. There's how many people, chris? 48 people plus the folks on Facebook.
Speaker 3:Well, there's 52. There's 52 right now. Okay, in the space.
Speaker 2:So we'll do fifth, but minus us right, we can't win a prize, and Barking Beyond can't win a prize, so we'll go 48.
Speaker 6:Yeah.
Speaker 2:That sounds good to me. Oh, my goodness, four Amy. You won, amy. You won the prize from BarkingBeyondSupplycom. I rolled a four and Amy is the fourth person in the chat. Congratulations, amy. It's a $20 gift certificate from BarkingBeyond. Get something for those puppies.
Speaker 10:Thank you, I appreciate it.
Speaker 2:So you just got to contact BarkingBeyond Amy and they'll set you up with the prize.
Speaker 10:Thank you, we'll do.
Speaker 2:Yeah, okay, do you have any information items? Before we wrap up, we're going to do a subscribers only a little after show in a second here. But, chris, do you have any information items?
Speaker 3:Well, we've already talked about the text from Bunsen 2.0. Yeah, we continue to work on our calendar, so look forward to that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the Paw Pack has voted. The Paw Pack has been voting yes.
Speaker 3:Yes, it's on the pictures and then we'll have that ready. So stay tuned for that. Yeah, we continue to work on our school supply pack for back to school. So we continue to work on that and what else.
Speaker 2:The Activity Book which we're really excited about. So, by luck, the new printer that we have not like a printer we have in our house, like a printer company that is going to be making our calendars. They make children's activity books as well. Like you know the book that kids are, maybe you did yourself where you do a maze and there's like a crossword and there's coloring and there's like an I spy game. All this stuff they make those books and what are we going to do? Chris, this is super exciting.
Speaker 3:We're going to make one ourselves.
Speaker 2:We are going to make a Bunsen and Beaker activity book. Yeah, and it's, it's so we're we're hoping to get that done this summer. We'll see what the demand is and we're hopeful we could set up some kind of like magazine subscription for them where you get a new activity book every couple months or something like that and it prints at a like. It's a really low cost. So we're working out the cost that it would be and I think it would compete with what you'd get at like chapters at a bookstore. It's not going to compete with an activity book from the dollar store but it'll definitely compete with something you'd get from chapters and I think we can do a better job. And plus it will have a science, empathy and cuteness spin.
Speaker 2:So kids will be doing like crossword puzzles, not on random stuff but on science stuff, or there'll be lessons on kindness or or help Bunsen find the moose leg in the middle of a maze. So it's all going to be everything that we love about our dogs and we're going to wrap into this activity book. So look for that. Geez, probably the end of summer. We probably should have got it done before the summer, but we really just thought of this two weeks ago.
Speaker 3:Yeah. So well, we'll see what the demand we have about seven things on the burner right now.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we've got. We've got a lot of things going, but that's good. We'll let everybody know. I'm pretty sure within a week or two we'll have the back to the back to school supplies up and there will be two things you can do. You could get a back to school supplies for your yourself, your child, your niece, nephew, grandson, granddaughter, so it'll be a pack of everything that you need to go back to school. It'll all be Bunsen and Beaker branded. Or we will have a Bunsen and Beaker buddy donation where we're going to be partnering with schools and you could buy our donate pack of pens and pencils to a school and we're going to do that at really low cost so that it's sort of competes with what teachers do with Amazon. You know, like what do they call it? Like, fill up my school something, something right. Fill, get my school, tools for school, tools for schools, or something. Yeah, so we're excited about that. That's the information items.
Speaker 2:All right, wrapping up. Thank you for coming to Pet Chat today, chris. I look forward to this every week, do you look? Do you look forward to it too? I look forward to it.
Speaker 3:I look forward to it. A hundred percent, I do.
Speaker 2:You know we could have gone out for anniversary, I guess, to someplace fancy, but I think this is better. Maybe we should go for something fancy after this, Some kind of late supper. What do you think?
Speaker 3:That sounds amazing.
Speaker 2:That sounds amazing. Okay, all right, we've already got through all the information. Thank you for coming. As I used to say, and I'm going to start saying it again, you could be anywhere in the world, but you're listening to our show on Twitter. If you missed it, there's a replay, and please check out the science podcast. We are on good pods, we are. We are in the top 30 of all podcasts not just science podcasts.