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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 August 27th: A Celebration of Pets, Adventures, and International Dog Day
Ever found yourself intrigued by stories of human and animal interaction? Have you ever wondered about the fascinating world of pets? We invite you to sit back, relax, and enjoy an episode loaded with tales about our furry friends and their incredible tales. We kick things off and pay tribute to International Dog Day with a host of dog-based trivia. We share an inspiring story of a life-saving golden retriever and also take a trip down memory lane with Snoopy, the beloved beagle.
Just as with humans, our pets also love a good adventure, right? Bunsen and Beaker, our pets, take centre stage as they recount their recent Maritime escapades. From exploring the untamed beauty of Alberta's Badlands to visiting the Royal Tyrell Museum, these two have done it all. We also delve into the hilarious revelation that Bunsen, just like us, enjoys lazing around on the couch after a long day. In the midst of these exploits, we remind you of the importance of taking time off and enjoying life's simple pleasures.
As we wrap up the episode, we confess our love for Feta cheese and chat about the antics of our furry squad. From sharing our captivating TikTok content that's winning over kids to discussing our school shopping adventures and the cute moments involving our cats, there's never a dull moment. We also reminisce about game show legend Bob Barker and his message about animal rights, all while giving you a peek into our upcoming episode with Dr. Lauren Logan, who researches the fascinating topic of using water for power. Brace yourself for a heart-warming, funny, and educational journey with us and our beloved pets.
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Hello pet enthusiasts. We're back. It's Pet Chat. My name is Jason Zakowski, the dog dad of Bunsen Beaker, the science dogs on social media, and my co-host is.
Speaker 3:Hi there, my name is Chris Zakowski and I am the dog mom to Bunsen Beaker and the pet mom to Ginger.
Speaker 2:Every week in Pet Chat. It is a really fun show. We have some stories about Bunsen Beaker. We play game, we play game and then we open up the floor to the community to share pet stories or ask us questions. So if you're listening to the replay, hello. If you're listening to us on the Science Podcast, we are happy to have you. It's different than the Science Podcast and it's different than SciChat. We do have a little bit of science, but this one's mostly about pets. Chris, are you happy to be back?
Speaker 3:I am so happy to be back. Do you know how you advertised it?
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 3:You said come for the banter, the crazy banter between Chris and Jason.
Speaker 2:Well, there is a little bit of that.
Speaker 3:I'm going to live up to that advertisement.
Speaker 2:Oh, my goodness. Okay, I don't know if we're ready for that.
Speaker 3:I was born ready Jason.
Speaker 2:You were born ready. That's right.
Speaker 3:I walked right into that one, I was born ready, I walked right into that one.
Speaker 2:Yes, we'd love for you to play.
Speaker 3:Kahoot. I think we're ready to go.
Speaker 2:Okay, so we're going to get started here. There it is. There, it is there, it is Okay. So there's one Science Podcast episode question and then the rest are dog questions, because it's international dog day. Then the Science Podcast, jason broke down this wild story about a lady that had her brain hooked up to a computer to speak again. A pig heart transplant, defended herself against a bear with a toothpick, survived a skydive fall by landing on sheep. Everybody was okay, including the sheep. So this is from the latest Science Podcast episode. Yeah, and I wrote a thread about it. It is a wild study.
Speaker 2:A lady had a stroke in her 30s 20 years ago. She's from Saskatchewan, she's a Canadian, so Saskatchewan is the province right to the east of us and she said yes, to be kind of like a I don't know if it's rude to say it, but kind of like a guinea pig in this university study. And they hooked up sensors to her brain and, by using artificial intelligence, they figured out how to turn her brain waves into words. And it gets even more wild from there, because they also had an avatar like you're, like you know how you guys have avatars for Kahoot who's playing. And they also found a speech of hers and used her own voice in the AI program to give her voice back to her, and the whole thing is about 75% accurate. So, whatever she thinks, the avatar of herself says and there's a little video in the show notes of where she's talking to her husband and she's actually having a joke with him, which it's very sweet and just absolutely wild.
Speaker 3:She were talking about how the brain thinks, and it's not specifically in words, it's in the sounds and the phonemes of language, which is absolutely incredible. When you think about that, how they would be able to figure out how does voice and how do words form like pre before they travel down your three year nervous system to your vocal cords and out through your mouth.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's what they figured out. That was the missing pieces. And you want to say hello? How do you think about it? Because you just think about it Hello. Yeah, I know you say hello, hello. Oh, my God, I walked into that one.
Speaker 3:No, you're just, you're just walking around here.
Speaker 2:OK, should we move to the next question?
Speaker 3:Yeah, absolutely OK.
Speaker 2:OK, next question to Rock Row Scooby Doo. Is this type of dog so for International Dog Day? What type of breed is Scooby Doo Labrador?
Speaker 3:Labrador, that was an excellent. Ok, go ahead Sorry.
Speaker 2:Labrador Retriever, Mastiff, Great Dane or Bulldog. What were you going to say?
Speaker 3:I'm so sorry. I was going to say that was an excellent impersonation of Scooby Doo.
Speaker 2:Really, I just threw it out there. I think anybody can impersonate Scooby Doo honestly. Yeah, so we did great, you guys did great on that. Scooby Doo is a great Dane. That is very true.
Speaker 3:And Scrappy too.
Speaker 2:A famous goal and retriever named Toby saved his human's life by doing this. Notice that she had high blood pressure and barked, dragged her out of a well, jumped on her to dislodge an apple bite, led her out of the mountains after getting lost. So this is a one of the most wild ways a dog has helped a human. How did we do? And it's yeah, jumping on, jumping on her. She was choking and her goal retriever noticed she was having trouble and the goal retriever started jumping up and down on this lady's stomach and it actually dislodged the apple bite she was choking on. Ok, next question the very first school to train dogs for the blind opened in Quebec, rome, perry or Tennessee. The very first school is the official school. There probably were schools, unofficial schools or unofficial people doing stuff back in the day.
Speaker 3:The first, your source National Geographic.
Speaker 2:No National Dog Day calendar, something or other. It's probably not right. Anyways, it was Tennessee. Yeah, it opened in the. It opened in the United States, yeah, tennessee. Ok, last question One of the most famous dogs of all time is Snoopy, and we did a little story about Snoopy. Snoopy is a beagle. When did Snoopy first come out? 1940, 1950, 1970, 1960. I would have got this one wrong actually if I didn't know the answer. Wow, holy man, we did so good on that. Yeah, 1950, I would have said 1940, because I swear there were Snoopy cartoons of his alter ego like doing dog fights, like in World War One or something like that. So I would have thought Snoopy was older than he was the Red Baron. What was his name? Chris People. Somebody will put in chat what Snoopy's alter ego was.
Speaker 3:But it was the Red Baron.
Speaker 2:Right, but he pretended his doghouse was a plane and they would have dog fights. Uh right, ro. Ok, so let's move to phase two, but we should probably give a shout out to our sponsor. Absolutely, that chat is brought to you by one of our sponsors, bark and beyond supply dot com. Bark and beyond supply dot com is a small, family owned company that sells toys, treats, subscription boxes everything for your pet. They actually have really cute t-shirts now too. So skip out, skip the big box store and help out the little guy. Check out Bark and beyond supply dot com. It is time now to share a little bit of Bunsen and Beaker nonsense, and then we'll get to the audience. So, chris, do you want to go first with the story?
Speaker 3:I have so many stories because we have not had that chat for a month.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we can't talk for two hours.
Speaker 3:Oh, but I can, I know you could I know? Remember when I yeah, when I was teaching, when I'm teaching and then Adam was in the same school as me and he would say hello, it's Christopher talking here. Because he was talking like Christopher, walk in and I'm Christopher talking.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah.
Speaker 3:How I'm told my that's crazy. Yeah yeah, adam can do it really well.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he can do it better than me.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but I would just be talking and he was like, he was like that skeleton sitting on the bench waiting for my mother to finish talking to teacher friends. But anyway, I'm going to talk about a story.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because I was like this doesn't have anything to do with Bunsen or Beaker.
Speaker 3:It does have. Well, it just has to do with the fact that I can talk for two hours. Okay, but we? I came back from the Maritimes.
Speaker 2:What you went to the Maritimes.
Speaker 3:I did. I went to the Maritimes with the Red Deer Royals and Adam and I was a parent chaperone and have we not had pet chat since you were in the Maritimes? I'm thinking maybe not, but I have written these things down and some of them I've shared on the podcast.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's why I'm confused. Right, we did. Okay, go ahead.
Speaker 3:But yeah. So I was watching videos that you would create of Bunsen and Beaker, because I took your old phone and it attaches to your iPod so I was able to see your. I'm so sorry. Beaker is barking. Can you hear her barking?
Speaker 2:A little bit, but it's okay.
Speaker 3:Oh, okay, if I open the door, here comes Beaker, here comes Bunsen.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 3:So I came back but I was watching those videos and I was like Bunsen is looking a little bit like he needs a brush, because when his hair is not brushed and he's shedding, it kind of looks a little bit gray and it's a little tough spray by his sides and he was looking like that. And so when I came home I said, hey, how's it going, jason? Of course we had her catching up and you told me that you had brushed Bunsen and I was like, oh, that's so awesome.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you told me that you brushed him and I'm thinking, hmm, he still has some of those like flyaway puffies that are on the side of him. So I said when is his brush? I said hey, jason, I just think I'd like to give him a little quick brush. And I said when is his brush? And and you said I don't know. And I said what, jason? You told me you brushed him and you said you remember what you said to me?
Speaker 2:I think I said I couldn't find his brush so I used yours.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah. So Jason was brushing Bunsen with my hairbrush when I was gone.
Speaker 2:Well, you were, you weren't around, you weren't using it.
Speaker 3:Right, yeah, I guess I guess I wasn't using it so that you use my brush.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:And hopefully there's no dog lice.
Speaker 2:I don't think that's a thing. They get fleas.
Speaker 3:Okay, oh, okay, that's fine. You took a risk that my brush would get fleas. Okay, your turn for a story.
Speaker 2:You just get the shampoo, just like when our kids got lice, chris, you just shampoo the kids.
Speaker 3:The flea shampoo.
Speaker 2:Well, yeah, instead of lice shampoo.
Speaker 3:Yeah, ok.
Speaker 2:That was the worst. God, kids, little kids are so gross. You think dogs are gross, but little kids have like they just have lice, all of them. I think every kid in grade one has lice. Don't quote me on that, that's not true. Ok, yeah, it's been a. It's been a minute since we've talked, so I will share a story. It's it's kind of a rehash of one that I think I said on the science podcast, was it? Last week?
Speaker 2:We went to the Badlands, chris, I think, yeah, it was last week, it was yeah, yeah. So we, we shut her down, we stopped doing these audio shows because, like, to be honest, I was feeling burnt out, like I was doing we. I worked really hard all July and maybe I'll tell you guys some of the cool stuff that we got done. And it was time for a break and Chris was gone and I was like we need to take a holiday. So we went to the Badlands and Alberta is super weird.
Speaker 2:So we have the Rocky Mountain, rocky Mountains, and then, like two hours east is desert, like, not desert, like Arizona desert, but like Alberta desert. It's called the Badlands. Cactus grow there, there's rattlesnakes, and I've never I haven't been there for years and that's where the Royal Tyrell Museum is. It's the dinosaur museum that's like world famous. Like 10 percent of all of the fossils on earth come from. Like around the Royal Tyrell Museum. And it was amazing to go hike through the little canyons because the like, the, the landforms are so weird, and it was just really fun because you pick your own path. It was quite an adventure and it but the problem was it was hot. It was really hot and though we got away really early in the morning to go hiking by about like 11, it was about 11. It was getting really, really hot for Bunsen and I think he tried to trick us.
Speaker 2:So after two days of hiking, when the day we were leaving, it was time to go out and we were like, ok, we're just going to take them for a little walk around this cute little town. We stayed in and Bunsen started to limp and he was only limping when he was on rocks. If he was on grass he was fine. So I was worried he heard his paw. I was like, oh no, here does pie, maybe because in the canyon maybe he stepped on a cactus, maybe he stepped on a sharp rock, and I was like that doesn't make much sense because he's a mountain dog. He's got great big, like tough leathery feet, like his paws is underneath his paws are like bear paws and he was limping and I was like, oh no, bunsen's hurt and we're like babying him because we love this dog. And we drove home and and was he limping when we got home? Chris at all, zero percent.
Speaker 3:Yeah, zero he was fine.
Speaker 2:I think he just was all done hiking in the heat and he was trying to pull a fast one on us, just like he did Years ago in the mountains after hard days of hiking. Because, like I think, at heart he's a couch potato, he's good to go walk around for a bit and then it's time to sleep and he is maybe getting a little older. But that was. You have to give him credit. That was a really smart move. Oh, jason, I have been keeping a list.
Speaker 3:Okay, do you want to do one more? So I thought we could talk about the story of the windmill and those super steep stairs. Okay, yeah, go ahead, okay.
Speaker 2:That's actually a really funny story yeah.
Speaker 3:Going from the main floor up to the bedroom. And you know, bunsen likes to sleep by the door and he, that's just what he does. But sometimes he likes to sleep in our bed with us and then he'll go and lay down by the door. But beaker very much spends time with us and she sleeps in the bed all night. Yes, so here we are, in the cute little windmill with the super sketch stairs.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we stayed in a windmill. Pardon we stayed in a windmill. We have like I know we have to stress that it was a windmill.
Speaker 3:It was a windmill.
Speaker 2:It was like an old-timey Dutch windmill.
Speaker 3:It was amazing, but what happened was you had to go go to bed early because you got you had what started to be a migraine.
Speaker 3:Yes you need to take care of those immediately, otherwise you have severe, a severe migraine. So you went upstairs and I stayed down with the dogs and then I took them out to the bathroom. So I said, oh, they're gonna be good, they're gonna be perfect. And then I went up the stairs and Be cursed or to cry and I was like, oh no, what am I gonna do? So what I did is she jumped up on a chair and I scooped her up. I, when I carry her, I scoop her underneath her chest and then under her bum, um, and I brought her up the stairs and she was very happy because then she could sleep in the bed and that was awesome.
Speaker 3:But then part way through the night, bunsen started to cry. So I thought, oh man, what am I gonna do? So I went downstairs and I was worried that she would cry to come down, but she didn't. She just hung out with you upstairs all night. And then I got to hang Downstairs with the crying Bunsen. All he needed was like a bit of a tummy rub, um, because it was a new place and and he's a creature of habit he, uh, sometimes it takes him a while to acclimatize. Fast forward to the morning You're feeling fine, feeling a lot better. Um and beaker's upstairs and what goes up. Jason has to come down and this is where the problem lies. It was so funny.
Speaker 3:It was so funny I said come on, beaker, and she's like okay. And then she jumped down and she's like no, I'm not doing those stairs. There's no way, and so she launched herself back up on the bed and then she started to be like a little reptile, like Her legs were like going on either side of her, and she was like downward facing dog.
Speaker 2:She was moving as quickly sideways as she was forward. She was moving like a tetris piece. She was moving like she's like like if you've ever played tetris like going down then to the side like she looked like a frogger.
Speaker 3:Couldn't get her no. She's like I want, I want to come down and I want you to pick me up, but I don't want you to pick me up. I do, no, I don't, and I'm gonna run to the other side of the bed.
Speaker 2:I wish we got it on tape, but it was actually kind of stressful. We were killing ourselves laughing. But we're like what? What if we can't get beaker? Like what we're gonna.
Speaker 3:I tried to pick her up and I, I'm like jason, I can't, I'm she's like, and I don't know where the nice night time beaker where I was able to pick her up went. It was this new beaker.
Speaker 2:Scrummy beaker.
Speaker 3:Scrummy beaker, so jason can pick her up and then he would pass her to me. And then I tried going down the stairs because there's a point when it's so sketch, and so I turned backwards, thinking maybe that would be a better way to go down backwards. But she's like nope. And she launched into my arms and then jumped on the bed again and I'm like oh no. And then jason tried the second time. But you're too tall.
Speaker 2:I physically Didn't fit. No because the stair you had to like duck, I had to duck and I couldn't carry. I couldn't carry beaker down, but we got her down. It was a team effort because you carried her down the first bit and then passed it to meet, pass her to me and it was. It was all good.
Speaker 3:It was all good. That was the third time was the term. I said I can take her. If I'll pass her to you, like maybe this will work. Um, but yeah, because I didn't have any problems like with the mechanics of of it. It just was, uh Like she was like not a hundred percent sure and then the next night she's like no, I think I'll stay downstairs, thanks.
Speaker 2:Yeah, she remembered the stairs. That was a very cool place. We stayed in and I posted a video about it. It's the one with the secret rate. As we were checking out, you saw the secret Um attic. There's like a little note on the ceiling. What did it say? Explore something, pull down and explore.
Speaker 3:Pull down and explore.
Speaker 2:Yeah, right and you're like Jason, come see this thing. I thought I didn't know what you were wanting me to come upstairs for, so I went up and I'm like, oh my god. So we pull it down and it was like attic stairs that come down like an accordion and it was a secret library. It was a little secret library up at the top of the windmill With a little chair for reading. It was a reading room and we missed it. We got to see it for a hot Five minutes before we checked out. With that being said, if you would like to share one of your pet stories or ask a question of us, you can request the mic to come on up and share.
Speaker 3:We have Baden ready to go with rich.
Speaker 4:Hi guys, hello, jason, repeat after me newfoundland, newfoundland.
Speaker 2:No one. Newfoundland, Newfoundland, newfoundland. Yes, oh, is that from the labrador video, the the? Okay, sorry about that.
Speaker 4:Oh, you didn't. You didn't see my comment.
Speaker 2:Oh, I must have missed it, no sorry.
Speaker 4:It's okay, still a cool video. And then Learned something from uh kuno. I didn't realize labs were bred for their vision as well.
Speaker 2:Right that I did see that comment. Uh, because labrador retrievers were One of the most sought after breeds for guide dogs, which is that's. That's very cool.
Speaker 4:Yep, um, the interesting thing I have to talk about is animal related but not pet related. If you'll uh, uh and grant me an indulgence, go for it. I've been, uh, I've been hauling material in and out of an old refinery and Uh, essentially downtown dartmouth called an area called woodside. It's an old asso refinery. It's been there for the better part of a hundred years and as uh going in and out of the refinery on a regular basis, um, it's amazing to see the size of the deer herd and the number of um Bucks, does and fawns. It's really really remarkable how many there are, and essentially it's a bit of a wilderness.
Speaker 4:Essentially in downtown Dartmouth and in a very, we were, uh, we were building a containment area for all the polluted soil, and the other neat thing is there must have been at least Half of the doesn't osprey nests, oh, cool, and all of them, um, uh, raised looks like successfully at least one chick and it's. It's just so cool to see that, and I believe there's coyote in there too, but it's just so neat to see that in a sort of incredibly polluted urban environment. And just how much mother nature will um Adapt, if you will. Oh, and there's also a ton of cobra chickens, for those things are nigh on and Um, I'm sure, I'm sure, if there's a nuclear war, cobra chickens will be sitting there at the end going Yep, this is now all ours.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the world will belong to cockroaches and canada geese.
Speaker 4:Yep, so that's just my uh, my little, uh, my little animal blurb for the uh for the day. And then I um, one of the rules about being in there is no photography Not that I always listen to rules, so, but I do have a couple pictures of the deer and all that. And then there was a couple of um Couple of bucks that had really, really impressive racks, huh, so it's just kind of cool.
Speaker 2:That is neat, uh, that it's been reclamated by nature, right.
Speaker 4:Yep, nothing, and it's all been nature. It's not been. It's not been a result of um Human intervention, it's just, it's all all nature and uh. But the only other thing is we're traveling around a bit, badans, uh, sleeping the camper just down from where I'm at, um we're, uh, did you make it to nebronso, chris?
Speaker 3:Um. So we drove over the Confederate bridge from um Prince Edward Island and we're on the road in New Brunswick until we hit Nova Scotia again.
Speaker 4:Okay. Yeah, we're in uh, we're staying in the capital of New Brunswick, a place called Fredrickton. It's uh gorgeous place right on the river now that it stopped raining. Um, it's called Heart Island RV Camp in uh RV Park and uh Water Park. Our special needs. Daughter loves the water park and uh, the only downside is I think you saw my tweet was that the river, which is really nice looking as blue green algae. So I did see that. Yeah, I did see that the goofball can't go swimming.
Speaker 2:That and that's good. That stuff can be deadly.
Speaker 4:Oh, and it's incredible how fast it could be deadly. Yeah, yeah, especially, especially just smaller dogs. Yeah, so that's my story for the week I love it so much.
Speaker 2:Thank you, we'll go to Cindy Sydney. Hello Sydney.
Speaker 1:Hello, how are you guys?
Speaker 2:We're good, we're hope you're well.
Speaker 1:I could not be better.
Speaker 4:Yay.
Speaker 1:I have three week old puppies that are just entering the fun stage.
Speaker 2:Oh yay.
Speaker 1:So they had their first time outside tomorrow and a little puppy play pen and got to feel the grass on their little paws and tummies. You know they're still really awkward at the head stage, so when they try to bark they like fall over.
Speaker 2:Yeah, oh, my goodness, a door, and they're. They're border collie puppies.
Speaker 1:There's just three. So there's three quarter border collie and one quarter Australian shepherd. Right, okay, that's half border collie and half Australian shepherd, and so I have one blue moral and two black mites. I did put some pictures in the chat, but I have my count locked down because of trolls and bots right now, so apologies to can't see them. Um, yeah, and so they are. Just, we'll keep. We'll keep the one that works the best for the livestock, because that's what the parents do and we really like the parents to train up a pup and the mum's getting older, so we would really love her wisdom and experience to help train a replacement. And yeah, that's the story of these cute babies.
Speaker 2:That is when they start to move around and they start to act like little puppies. Oh it's over so quickly, but it's such a precious time.
Speaker 1:It is so fun, you know. And I did have to deal with gopher fleas on them because the mother, when she was almost like, do well, when she was due any day, I let her out of her weapon pan in the morning and she disappeared for a day and a half and we couldn't find her. And she had dug a secret hole under one of my barns and had her puppies in there and we spent a whole day digging her in, the puppies out, and, oh boy, and so the puppies right, they don't have any flea defense and the gophers are so bad that the little babies were covered with gopher fleas.
Speaker 2:Oh, my goodness.
Speaker 1:We took them right into the vet because I'm like I they're too little to be bathing, I don't want them to be hypothermic, Like there has to be something they can do. And they titrated a dose of revolution off label, but specifically to their exact weight.
Speaker 2:So, that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, very thankful for that, and they're they're fine Cause, as we know, right fleas, especially in babies, they can make them anemic quickly.
Speaker 2:Yes, they'll drink them, yeah.
Speaker 1:And who wants to hold a flea puppy? No, thank you, flea free.
Speaker 2:What a great story. Uh, chris, do you remember when we went to get Bunsen and there was like 10, how many, 13, how many Bernice mountain dog puppies was, were, were there, it was.
Speaker 3:I want to say 10, 10.
Speaker 2:And then Bunsen escaped.
Speaker 3:He did, he ran away.
Speaker 2:He ran to be with his friends, his litter mates, and then we're like which one is Bunsen? And it was like all these puppies were everywhere and they're so happy. And then we're like oh, that's Bunsen, the biggest one. It was, we could find him cause he was so such a big puppy.
Speaker 3:He had just gotten like a little shampoo, so um, he had a blowout hair he's so fluffy. She was like no, he's going to be all dirty again. We don't care we don't care we, I was crying.
Speaker 2:We were just so happy to have that dog, oh my God. But yeah, like the puppies were like Hi, hello, we're Bernice mountain dogs. Hello, I am another Bunsen, I'm another Bunsen, hello, hello. Uh, we're going to uh through, two of us are going to bite your shoes and we're going to, we're going to tangle up your, your shoelaces, and and then, oh you know, we're going to try and knock you over, because they're just puppies, they're just hilarious.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and I was really stunned on how fast Bunsen actually could move, right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you think puppies don't move quickly, but he was like he was moving as fast as we could run.
Speaker 3:but made a beeline and I couldn't catch him. Yeah, I remember that I'm going to go be with my friends and I'm going to make a beeline to them and I'm going to deacondodge so you don't get me. And now I'm with my friends and it was kind of like the coconut game. Which which coconut is? Where's the right dog?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I, I am glad that happened, because I think if that didn't happen we probably wouldn't get to see all the other dogs. Uh, tracy, your hands up, and then to Rich Tracy, go ahead.
Speaker 3:Hi. Um, so I just wanted to know if there's anybody else trying to get uh Janet Ngo to officially adopt Feta in November, or for just me, like using a lawyer, speak against.
Speaker 4:Ingo to try to get them to uh adopt her cause.
Speaker 3:She's so cute.
Speaker 2:Chris, tell Tracy about your obsession.
Speaker 3:I have been obsessed with the whole Feta story A hundred percent. I've been watching every one of the daily snaps and watching the videos, not only on the daily snaps but then also going to YouTube and watching the videos more than one time. Um, and she is, she is so cute. I just, I just love her and the way she's interacting with all the other members of the squad is chef's kiss. Like it was so funny when she, um was jumping on bank men. It was like so funny.
Speaker 2:Flashbacks of beaker and Bunsen.
Speaker 3:Flashbacks of beaker and Bunsen. Yeah, and even Jason posted the little gremlin video. We have a beaker when she was under the bed and it just reminds me of little Feta. And then if you look and see her little teeth, you're like, yep, those are shark teeth. I don't know what's going to happen, um, but they're, they're just doing a great job. Uh, fostering her right now.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no-transcript Coach Wars who's winning? So our niece Ellie, we did. We have her for the morning. What was going on that? We had Ellie for a while.
Speaker 3:Well, we had her when we went back to school shopping.
Speaker 2:I didn't do that.
Speaker 3:Oh, you didn't do that. No that you would rather put your-.
Speaker 2:I'd rather fly into the sun than go back to school shopping.
Speaker 3:No, so we went to Old Navy and I got Rafi and Ellie some clothes and we just kept shopping and then I brought them back home for lunch.
Speaker 2:Oh right, yes, yeah.
Speaker 3:And then they were there and then Melissa went home to cook supper and she took Rafi with her. But then we had Ellie, because she wanted to come on the beaver walk Right To see what was happening with our potential guests called the beavers, and that's why we had her. Go ahead, jay, but you were going to-.
Speaker 2:Right. So so it's a long way to get to the answer, rich, but the one thing that I am shocked is how much our TikTok content resonates with like kids of Ellie's age, because Ellie will scroll through our entire TikTok and watch like the educational videos and then some of the fun ones. But it's like something about TikTok is perfect for those kids brains and of course it's Bunsen and Beaker. So she likes to watch it and she was tallying up who was winning couch wars and it was Ginger. She had a number so she watched all of the couch wars and I think she had like tallyed it up and yeah, she's like, yeah, ginger's winning couch wars.
Speaker 2:I forget the numbers, honestly, but I'm going to go with Ellie's expertise because she watched every single one of our TikToks over about 45 minutes. Sorry, nephew James, he doesn't really even know about TikTok and I was showing my sister and James was like what's that? And then he was watching Bunsen explain gravitational waves to Beaker and he was addicted. He just kept watching and I was like, oh my God, it's like it's so addictive to kids, this TikTok format.
Speaker 3:Sorry when I came home from school today. I did go to the school to do some work. Yes, ginger was winning couch wars. Jason said that they were both on there, but Ginger got the coveted spot.
Speaker 4:Yes, I was quite amazed that. I don't know if you saw the tweet or not, but our Calico Daisy had the corner and Babe just hopped up, turned his back and just sort of half flopped on her and she sort of had most indignant. She could give Grumpy Cat a run for his money with the pissed off expression and the sort of head popped up from underneath him and she just looked so disgusted. And another time, our Ginger Cat Sherman. He was in the spot and, as you may have seen, baden is scared of Daisy. That's what made him sitting on her so amazing. And she'll be in that corner and he will put his head on the sofa and just whine and moan and fuss and look at me as if to say why are you allowing this cat to sit in my corner? If it's Sherman, he just hops up and sits on it. You know there's no, those two grew up together, so they're good buddies. But yeah, no, I just wanted to. I'm rooting for Beaker quite honestly, but it seems that the vicious cat is winning.
Speaker 2:Beaker does a good sad face, so I think she's just more empathetic than Ginger. Like when Ginger's not winning, you're just like, well, it's a cat and the cat. People are probably sad for Ginger. But yeah, I hear you there. And Bunsen, blesses heart, wanted to be that cat's friend from the moment that he saw her and the cat wanted nothing to do with. Bunsen still wants nothing to do with him. So he kind of gave up trying to work on being her friend pretty quickly. But then Beaker and Ginger have this weird like dynamic, like real life sisters, where they're competitive but they kind of like each other. They always hang out together close in the same room. When Ginger coughs up a hairball, beaker is so concerned and gets right there and is like are you okay? Bunsen just doesn't care, he's just given up on this cat. Anyways, I don't know where I was going with that, but there you go, does Ginger?
Speaker 4:ever rub her head against Beaker's face.
Speaker 3:You know how cats yeah, ginger does, and sometimes Beaker will reciprocate it and Bunsen actually licked Ginger the other day what he walked by or any licked her.
Speaker 2:That's weird. Was it totally unprovoked? He just walked by and went slurp and kept walking.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:That's weird.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but Beaker she is like hey, how are you? And then kind of nudges her with her nose. I put in the I don't know if I put it in the chat or the nest. This morning they were sleeping.
Speaker 2:Ginger and Beaker were sleeping on the bed together, it's so weird Like they'll sometimes fight but they have to be close to each other for most of the day. I don't get it. It's the weirdest dynamic.
Speaker 4:Gizmo the evil cat, they'll start rubbing their head against Baden's muzzle and he looks so confused because it's not a dog behavior, it's not, no, and looking at me, like you know there's a little bit of side eye Like what am I supposed to do now? Yeah, and he'll occasionally. He'll occasionally with Gizmo, thump him down with one paw, hold him in place and then, just using his front teeth, I call it puppy nibbles. Well, puppy nibble up and down the belly of the cat. My goodness Must like it, because it's either that or I mean because he goes into this incredibly loud purr that you can hear all over the house. So it's either a distressed purr, like I need to heal myself here fast. What to the Dungeon masters and Dungeons and Dragons call it health, self healing or something? Probably, yeah, or he's just going. Yes, my big buddy is paying attention to me and nibbling my chest.
Speaker 2:Oh, that would be. Uh, I think that would be a big fight if the beaker decided to do that to ginger.
Speaker 3:Um, actually doc came, yet came by the other day. Oh he did yes, and you may remember that the whole plan of having ginger here Was that she had to start the allergy food at gourd's house.
Speaker 4:Yes.
Speaker 3:Uh, for about a month. So ginger started there and she would have hung out with doc there, um, so she knows him. And then he came over and she swatted his face.
Speaker 2:She knows him and doesn't like him.
Speaker 3:She's just she. She wants people a weather friend.
Speaker 2:She wants the dogs to be in line, she wants them to know who's the boss. And she is the boss. I think so.
Speaker 3:Well, I wanted to honor bob barker.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay.
Speaker 3:Um. So, if you are not aware, um, bob barker passed away today at the age of 99. Um, barb barker Was the host of the prices rate and, uh, he has been In our homes, like during daytime tv. Everybody watched him on a sixth day, um, but he always signed off his show, um with a very specific reminder. And so, in honor of bob barker, I want to remind you to help control the pet population and have your pets spayed or neutered.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's. That is a very important message that he had. Do you think it's because his last name had bark in it?
Speaker 3:No, it had to do with his, uh, his late wife, uh, beverly joe, um, and he would buy her furs and then eventually, um, he bought her a full length leather coat that she said thank you, but she never wore it. And uh, then they started to have a conversation about how she felt about animals and uh, he's always liked animals and then he just became more active, more active about that and was telling everybody about it.
Speaker 2:Well, that was really sweet. I was going to talk about the time he punched adam sandler in the face and happy gilmore.
Speaker 1:Nothing like living your life um to 99 years and coming close to a dollar without going over.
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