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Pechat September 9th: Beaver Mysteries, Bark O'Clock Obsessions, and Chicken Fascinations
Ever wondered what life is like in a household teeming with pet adventures?
Well, welcome to our world of pet escapades featuring Bunsen, Beaker, and our attention-seeking cat, Ginger.
This week, we're sharing an update on the curious case of the elusive beavers in our creek and discussing how our beloved Bunsen has been obsessing over something called Bark O'Clock. Meanwhile, Beaker has developed a rather irrational fear of her new super chew. And did we mention that Bunsen and Beaker have scored an invite to the upcoming Emmaton Expo? We're as thrilled as you are!
Imagine a dog snoring louder than a human - we know, it sounds unbelievable, right? Yet, that's just another day in our unique pet-filled life. We've got incredible stories of five-week-old puppies, a Pokémon adventure, and of course, the hilarious tale of Bunsen and Beaker's tape contest victory against Ginger.
If you've ever wondered what's it like to take a dog to a puppy school, tune in for some priceless anecdotes of our Trixie's experience.
Ending on a note of chicken love, we share how Beaker's newfound fascination with chickens has thrown our lives into a bit of a tizzy.
We've been tasked with becoming vigilant pet parents, ensuring the outdoor escapades of our pets don't spiral into chaos. We also can't help but marvel at our pets' stunning ability to seemingly tell time and their unique door exit strategies.
This episode is also filled with heartwarming tales from our community members about their own pet adventures, from rescuing a baby deer to the antics of a leashed pup. So, come join us on this rollercoaster of fur-filled fun and laughter!
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Hello pet enthusiasts, welcome to Pet Chat. It's our weekly live show. My name is Jason Zakowski. I'm the dog dad of Bunsen and Beaker the science dogs on social media. My co-host with the most is.
Speaker 3:Hi there, I'm Chris Zakowski and I am the dog mom to Bunsen and Beaker and the cat mom to ginger.
Speaker 2:Every week in Pet Chat we start with the game and then we share stories about Bunsen and Beaker and ginger, and then we open up the floor to our community to share their stories. And that's Pet Chat. So we're really happy to see everybody here. We're going to start with our sharing and then we'll open up the floor to the community.
Speaker 3:Do you remember today we went to the bone and the biscuit?
Speaker 2:Briefly yes.
Speaker 3:Yes, and I bought those super chews to help Bunsen. It was Bark O'Clock. He knew like 5.56, bark o'clock, bark, bark, bark. And I said no, Bunsen, but I have those chews. And I gave him one and he was like oh yes, and he just chomped in. Now he's chomping away. Beaker is terrified of hers.
Speaker 2:Really.
Speaker 3:Mm-hmm. She doesn't want to see it. She ran away from me. No, I know, and while I was holding it, I'm like here, be here.
Speaker 3:And she's like no, no we're all going to, and so then sometimes, like Bunsen, will take things from your hand, like, if you have a kong, he'll take it from your hand and run away with it, but Beaker does not. So typically you would have to put it on the floor and then she takes it. No, she ran away from it. She doesn't like it. It is monstrous. It is about the size of her body.
Speaker 2:Okay, that's weird that she doesn't like it.
Speaker 3:Well, and you know what? I'm very glad that she decided not to do her typical Beaker move when Bunsen has something that she wants and she barks her face off.
Speaker 2:That's right. She's jealous, she's like I want both of them.
Speaker 3:I want both of those logs, those log chews, yeah yeah, because mine, although it's good, it's not as good as yours. And then we switch and I want mine back. Yeah, that's the typical thing that happens. But right now she's sitting beside me in the office not barking and Bunsen is content chewing and I have ginger at everybody.
Speaker 2:You have all the animals.
Speaker 3:I do. Can you hear her? She's like meet me.
Speaker 2:I can hear ginger. Sometimes she comes downstairs and like throws herself against the door to try and come in to see me so it goes like.
Speaker 1:It goes like thump, thump, thump thump, oh man.
Speaker 2:Well, no, she's way too little to smash through the wall.
Speaker 3:Well, I don't know what's happening, because it's bark o'clock, but now it's mew o'clock. Now I can't. I can't get away from these animals.
Speaker 2:Maybe she's hungry.
Speaker 3:No, I fed her already.
Speaker 2:Oh, maybe she just wants to say hi to everybody, who knows?
Speaker 3:Maybe she's mewing. I'm so sorry.
Speaker 2:I can hear her. I can hear her. That's hilarious.
Speaker 3:I know you try and say please don't make any noise, and then I just make animal noise. I'm so sorry.
Speaker 2:Is that your story? Your story is the choose story.
Speaker 3:You know, it could be my story. You go ahead and I probably have more. You know me, Jason, you know me. I can talk forever about nonsense.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 3:Yes.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you, you struck up a random conversation with two separate people and save on foods today when we were getting groceries.
Speaker 3:Four people Jason.
Speaker 2:Four people. Well, I wasn't around for two of those, anyways.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you ran away. You're like oh no, it's Christopher talking here. You got to experience what Adam got to experience.
Speaker 2:I was like, no, I'm going to go look at canned tomatoes, that's what I did?
Speaker 3:You did, you went away, okay.
Speaker 2:So my story, hmm, yeah, so I've got a couple. They're relatively short. The one is if your people have been asking about the beavers, so here's the beaver update. We have still no footage, no photo or video evidence of them doing anything, and I have moved our trail camera. I've checked it to make sure that it works. It definitely works, because it's full of video and pictures of me doing stuff to test it and it's like, everywhere we put it, the beavers are sneaking around the camera, so-.
Speaker 3:Are they the Sasquatch? Do you think they're the Sasquatch?
Speaker 2:You know, at this point I am more certain we will get footage of the Sasquatch as opposed to the beavers.
Speaker 3:So Okay, me too.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so I don't know. They're still doing stuff Like they're working away down there. They're doing beaver nonsense, but we can't get them. We've got nothing. So it's. I'm just actually a little frustrated that we have shy beavers, because they certainly aren't shy with what they're doing. They've reconstructed a giant section of the creek, so, anyways, that's the beaver update and another update or another kind of like little mini story to tell everybody about. That's kind of exciting. I put it up in the nest, I alluded to it, we were waiting for confirmation and, yeah, so not tomorrow, but next Sunday, I guess.
Speaker 2:Bunsen and Beaker are special guests at the Emmaton Expo and they actually did a cool little graphic and they've tweeted it out, so that's kind of neat, and so people can come and get photos and pictures with Bunsen and Beaker on the red carpet, which is kind of cool. And Chris and I have been working on their costumes today. Bunsen's is totally good to go. He looks super cute. Chris put his costume together and I modified the hat that he's gonna wear so it sits up on his head and it isn't uncomfortable, and we made like a little strap for his head so it's super, super comfortable for him and he doesn't mind wearing anything, and then we're just working a little bit on Beaker's to make it better. We're gonna actually try a skirt instead of like the sleepy thing, like the what would you call it? Like a full body costume.
Speaker 3:I don't it's kind of like a onesie.
Speaker 2:It's a onesie. Yeah, Well, it's a costume.
Speaker 3:It's a onesie costume and it's not going to work. It will work if we modify it. But we're gonna try the skirt. So that means we bought now three Pokemon Pikachu costumes.
Speaker 2:Well, we know a lot of people who like Pokemon and I'm sure they'll be happy that we could donate or give away those costumes, so it's all good.
Speaker 3:Maybe we could donate them on Pet Chat.
Speaker 2:Well, we could, or people close to us who have children probably are a better choice, okay you're right, and it's yeah so it's Pokemon day, Pokemon gotta catch up with Pikachu and me, and so that's exciting. I never really got into Pokemon. I know was it Adam and Duncan. Did they get into Pokemon? I think so.
Speaker 3:I think a little bit yep.
Speaker 2:But Pokemon is just as popular today as when our boys were little Like. I was talking to some of the students about Pokemon and they're like some of them are like big into Pokemon. You still occasionally play Pokemon Go on your phone.
Speaker 3:I do and I ran into a student on Friday I wasn't teaching that class, but I just happened to be. They were talking about globalization, economic globalization, and they were talking about map skills and I don't know how map skills globalization came to Pokemon. But I know it was like total ridiculousness. And the one student he's like, yeah, I played Pokemon Go. I said I play Pokemon Go and then we talked about a whole bunch of things very quickly and then I said I gotta go bye Because he was in a social studies class talking about not Pokemon things.
Speaker 2:That's funny. Well, those are my two little stories. It's been a very busy week, to be honest with you, with us being back at school and then organizing. I've had podcast interviews nearly every day this week. It's been very, very busy so I'm kind of out of stories. I'm gonna press over to you If you have one. We can do our little switch route of the community pretty quick here.
Speaker 3:Well, I think we can do our switch route of the community. I can always pepper my stories in because sometimes things remind me of things. And then I just segue into randomness. So I think Cindy has been waiting quite a while and Paula now, and we'll get going with our sharing.
Speaker 1:I feel like Ginger was trying to interrupt because she didn't get an opportunity to brag about her victory against Bunsen and Beaker with a tape contest.
Speaker 2:Oh, that was fun filming. That I'll tell you.
Speaker 1:That was very cute. It was very entertaining. Thank you for posting that, and I put a picture of one of the puppies in the chat. They're five weeks old on Thursday and they are just super cute and fun right now.
Speaker 2:Look at their faces and their paws. They're so cute.
Speaker 1:They're the perfect age. They're so fun right now.
Speaker 2:Do they have names, or they all, like puppy one, puppy two, puppy three, puppy four, or do you have like nicknames, like that one's bitey.
Speaker 1:Well, they are three, quarter border Coley and a quarter Australian Shepherd. So one is, there's three pups total. One is Blue Murl and the other two are black and white. And so the Blue Murl is already sold and his family named him Blue, and the one in the picture we are calling him Georgie, and he started to develop some brown on the inside of his legs and I think that must be maybe the Australian Shepherd Shepherd influence. And then there's one, just completely black and white, and the little blaze on his head kind of looks like a feather. So we've just been calling him feather, but ultimately we'll sell one more and hopefully, well, maybe two. We'll put both of these black and whites on to livestock and if one is up to the task we'll keep it, and if not we'll sell who isn't, or both of them, if neither will work for us.
Speaker 2:OK, I love the update. Thank you for sharing. It was in the back of my mind that there your puppies were getting older and I was like, oh, yeah, we should. I was like I should try and find pictures of that when I have time.
Speaker 1:But thanks for sharing, yeah of course, first vaccines and deworming next week.
Speaker 2:Oh boy, OK, I think over to Paula.
Speaker 5:Hi everybody. Hello, how are you guys doing? We're good.
Speaker 5:Super great. Oh, that's good. I'm so excited for you guys. On Edminton, I wish it was closer because I'd be there in a gunshot, but anyway, I'm so jelly, whoever is going. But anyway I guess some funny stories.
Speaker 5:As everybody knows I don't know if everybody knows, but most people know I'm a dog sitter and I sit dogs and I had three Brussels griffons I had to sit this week. One day I overnighted. So she says, oh, they'll just sleep in all sleep in the bed. But one's kind of old and he was getting grumpy and he didn't want to sleep in the room, so that was OK. But there's a, they have a puppy and she's six months old and her name is Olive and she's funny because she she likes you one minute and next minute she's afraid of you. Oh no, yeah, she runs under the dining room table and and it's kind of hard and she and then you have to sit on the couch and then she slowly like comes up to you and then and then she licks you like a lollipop. It's kind of funny but anyway. And so this is really funny.
Speaker 5:They have high ceilings in this house and I went to bed and Chloe's the middle dog and all of a sudden they wake up and I hear this huge snoring and it sounds like it's echoing in the mountains because it was, you know, reverberating off the tall ceilings and it was like one. It was so bad I couldn't sleep. So it was. It was kind of a funny night because I'm thinking, oh my God, this dog snores louder than a human. So that that was one funny pet story. But I mean, if you heard it, if I got it on tape, people probably would be like Holy cow, that dog really snores, I know.
Speaker 3:That was Jason the other night. Hey, oh, jason never snores, never, ever. And then he was snoring so loudly. It was crazy. I'm sorry.
Speaker 5:I couldn't help it, I guess not, yeah, it is hard, I mean, and you're trying to sleep and it's almost like Chinese torture because it's like that's all you hear is the snoring. But anyway, but, and then Trixie had puppy school this week and she did, okay, they were doing a lot around the cone and we had to like, do you know, we're trying to train them so they they get to the heel position. But she got brave and she went on the floor and she was more interested in the other dogs. She didn't even know I was there and poor, my poor husband, dave, had to leave the room because then she started going to him and she wasn't paying attention. So we have a little groundwork to do with Miss Trixie.
Speaker 5:But this is the funniest thing. We were walking into the training room and I was like the second one in and I've got Trixie under my armpit because we just figured that's easier carrying her in and I had, you know, I had my pod pack bag and I had a whole bunch of stuff. And I'm going to my gym and I'm going to my folding chair and because we have these little little like table that they sit on, that they call home, and there's two folding chairs, my husband goes to one. I look and I see this thing under my chair and I'm like what is that? I'm thinking of myself and I get closer and closer and it's a snake. What?
Speaker 2:A snake.
Speaker 5:A snake. It was a. I'm like oh good Lord. And I was like it wasn't big, it was just. It was probably about a foot long. It was a baby one. It was very thin but it was very.
Speaker 5:At first I thought it. I didn't know what it was because it looked kind of Was it alive? Yes, and so I said to my instructor I go, there's a snake under my chair and she's like, she's like what? I'm like, there's a snake under my chair. So like she comes running over and now people are starting to come in for class and she's like hold it, she goes close the gate, nobody in the room, because she didn't want the dogs did scare it. So this other girl came over who was brave, and she picked it up by the tail and curled in this little ball. But it wasn't very big, it was kind of a tannish color, it looked like maybe a gardener or something, but it was very tiny, it was a baby. It was maybe about a foot long, but it wasn't bad. But I mean, it's like figures. It was my luck to get a snake under your chair.
Speaker 2:There's a snake in my boot, isn't that the saying, chris?
Speaker 3:Yeah, I was going to say that there's a snake in my boot. Well, paula, we went at my staff, we had a meeting in the conference room and we walked in the math department, all walked in and there was a mouse on the floor. And we're like there's a mouse on the floor, but it was dead. Okay, what that happened? Well, it can happen that there are strange animals, I guess, wherever you can go.
Speaker 2:It is. There was a cat that got into the school in the science park a couple of years ago. Whatever you're teaching is over if a cat walks by or walks into the classroom, because the kids are like there's a cat and you're just done. It doesn't matter what you're teaching, it's over because there's a cat, so that's.
Speaker 3:Makes sense to me.
Speaker 2:Yeah, okay, I guess we're done learning chemistry, kids. There's a cat. How everybody look at it. There's the cat. Okay, it'd be ironic if I was covering ions, because that would be a good part, talking about cat ions and having a cat.
Speaker 3:Cats have paws.
Speaker 2:Cats have paws.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you can be like. Hi kitty, Show us your paws.
Speaker 2:That's right, the science cat. I'll bring ginger and special for that.
Speaker 3:Ooh, you should bring her in her backpack.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think she'd be fine. I think she'd be totally fine. She's pretty chill.
Speaker 3:Well, and she's eating the anti-allergy food. So it works for you. So all the kids who might be allergic would necessarily have the same reaction to her. That's right I think I should still run it. She has a superpower.
Speaker 2:Maybe I should just do it and ask for forgiveness after.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it was my anticipatory set.
Speaker 2:Okay, Paula, thank you for sharing.
Speaker 5:Oh, you're welcome, but, like I said, who's luck with that be to have a snake under their chair? Me, but anyway, it was funny. Actually I laugh. And the thing is, you know, you always have pictures of stuff, but my cell phone was in my pocket and I couldn't get to it. So because I had so much stuff in my hands, but I really did have a snake under my chair. Maybe I can get a copy, because the teacher did take a picture, so I'll post it to Twitter so you guys can see.
Speaker 2:So thanks, it is Good night it has been so long since I've saw a snake where we live Like I'm trying to think the last honeymoon. No, like that was, I want to say. Maybe a decade ago I saw a garter snake, but they are just like super rare where we live. Like they are just super, super, super rare they are, but we're going to move to Donna.
Speaker 3:Hi, Donna.
Speaker 4:Hi. Well, the whole reason I logged in was to say there's a snake in my boots and y'all took that thunder. So we're all on the same brain wavelength. And when you bring ginger to class, give me a week's notice so I can book a flight and be a special guest, because I need to show up to see that, because I'm the type of person I'm like, ooh, there's a cat. But I do that when I see a bunny or anything out the window, I'm like that squirrel for sure. Sorry, I'm watching a very big football game right now Huge, and so I'm trying not to drop an F bomb anyways. So I'm leaving for two weeks.
Speaker 4:The big suitcase came out. Callie saw it, so I'm in the proverbial doghouse slash cat house. She's brought me about 25 of her toys and asked for 5,000 treats and she's acting like she hasn't been fed. So I think she's trying to stash her nuts for the winner because she thinks I'm not coming home because it was a big suitcase. Oh no, yeah. So I hate doing that, but next year that's going to change a little bit. I know Dawn put a message that she wanted my Irish Brogue and I was going to read that tweet that she was talking about in that Irish Brogue, but it's inappropriate for this hour. So I'll wait till the after show and then I'll do it, because it won't be recorded. So, and then every time you say beaver, I think we need to turn this into a drinking show because I'm like will he or won't he get banned? So that's what I'm waiting for, but I'm just going to hang out and listen until the after show and chime in.
Speaker 2:Thanks, Donna. Chris, guess what I found.
Speaker 3:Where'd you find there's a snake in my boot? Oh, that's awesome. Reach for the sky.
Speaker 2:It's a woody soundboard. It's a woody soundboard. I found a woody soundboard.
Speaker 3:Perfect, there's a snake in my boot. Works for so many scenarios.
Speaker 4:Oh, and, chris and Jason, you got a friend of me to sing.
Speaker 3:Oh, there it is.
Speaker 2:So we'll go to Brent, Hi Brent.
Speaker 6:Well, I have a pet story. I was kind of inspired this week by a friend with a dog because we Well, I was able to like donate. We were able to figure out where to donate some dog toys that were no longer needed.
Speaker 2:Where were they donated?
Speaker 6:My friend Davie and I were able to send them to British Columbia to the for people who lost their home in the fires.
Speaker 2:That was. That's wonderful of you and for a very, very bad situation for the folks in BC. Yeah, there's how many homes were lost in the shoe swap with those fires, like I thought, I read over a hundred.
Speaker 6:So I was happy to see those toys going to a new, forever home.
Speaker 2:That's amazing. Well, good job, Brent. That's a great share.
Speaker 6:Also, I have a fear of dogs since I've been little. But since my friend has a golden retriever, I don't have a fear anymore.
Speaker 2:Golden retrievers are pretty smiley things. They're pretty happy. Well, I can't say I was scared of cats when I was little, but I knew I was allergic to them.
Speaker 3:So yeah, I don't think that you would have just engaged with them until you met me and I had Poco.
Speaker 2:Well, and that did nothing to change my opinion of cats, Chris.
Speaker 3:No, it did nothing.
Speaker 2:It's too bad. We didn't have that food back then, the Live Clear. What is the food that Ginger's on?
Speaker 3:It's the Live Clear Purina pro plan Live Clear.
Speaker 2:You know we need to talk to that company to get sponsored or something with how many people were telling about that food.
Speaker 3:I'm just glad to share that it works for you. It's not 100%, but it definitely can help people.
Speaker 2:That's right.
Speaker 3:There was great news today.
Speaker 3:We were getting ready for the walk and if we don't go on a walk at a certain time, I swear but I swear, jason that our dogs can tell time, because they start bullying us, saying when it's time to walk, it's time to walk, and Beaker will jump up and down like a yo-yo at the door and Bunsen's like, yeah, I'm ready to go too.
Speaker 3:But today you went out first and the garage door was open because we had just come back from groceries and I guess you didn't close it, and that's okay, and my van door was open. So it was like a lot of weird things happening all at once. And so Beaker shot out of the door because she is ready to go and I had Bunsen and he always he's a little slower getting out that door, the front door he just like die, like jumps right off the steps, but going out the garage door he's a little bit different. Anyway, so you're there, you're like, hey, your van door is open, I'm trying to get the dog out. And then you're like ugh, because Beaker ran out and saw the chickens.
Speaker 2:Not one, but like five chickens.
Speaker 3:Like five chickens. And so I was like, oh no, I'm going to click up Bunsen just to make sure there's no shenanigans happening, because you had the cat, because you were going to put her in the catio, so your arms were full, beaker's off leash. I thought we just need more control. I'll keep Bunsen on leash. And he said I need some help. And I'm like, oh no, but Beaker was awesome. She just looked at them and she was like I kind of want to see you. And then you said I need help. And of course Bunsen is peeing at that time. So he is peeing, I can only hold the leash so far. And like Beaker, come here. And she's like, yes, I'll come, but I really want to see these chickens.
Speaker 2:So she had good recall with chickens she did have. Yeah, she came right to me when I called her and I was like okay, and then you came out and I was like okay, you can grab her. And the cat is like Jinger's, like like squirming because she sees the chickens too. And these chickens are so dumb, Like why would they come where there's three predators that would murder them? Like I don't get it, they should stay up by Gord's house. So what's the best way to explain this? There's a chicken coop by our father. My father-in-law is on the same property as us. Like it's how long of a walk Three minutes to his house, something like that.
Speaker 3:Chasing 30 seconds 30 seconds.
Speaker 2:It's very close. And then there's a chicken coop and the chickens are free range. Normally they stay way up there and the dogs don't bother them, because the dogs don't go up there and they're not allowed. They listen. But these chickens are dumb as bricks because they come down to our house always.
Speaker 3:Jason, you know they're not dumb as bricks because you set out all that bird feed.
Speaker 2:Well, yeah, but there's, it's not for them.
Speaker 3:They can't get up to it. Okay, so they're not chickens. Are they a bird?
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 3:Will they eat the bird seed? I guess, yes, so I don't know how they know that there's bird seed readily available.
Speaker 2:Can they smell it? I don't know anything about chickens.
Speaker 3:Maybe I don't know, I don't know if they can smell it, but anyway they come and there they are, and they were there today and it was a hot mess.
Speaker 2:They're flirting with disaster. I tell you they, because the dogs know that they're there and normally because of that we keep them on leash, so there's no mishaps when we take them out to go pee or number two, right Cause we don't have a fence property and it's kind of rare for chickens to be around. Like they didn't grow up with chickens, so it's not like we could train them, but one more, it's like stupid chickens. They see the dogs and the dogs are like very curious. They're like look at these, these look tasty. And that's part of the jokes on texts from Bunsen is like they're, they're.
Speaker 3:But having said that, jason, you, when we walked down the hill for our walk, you said you know if the chickens ran, you were worried about that because that would activate beaker's prey drive.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:That's what you were worried about. Yeah, but I love her, she's such a good dog. She was running and trying to see them and they were in my flower bed. Thank you, chickens, for being in the flower bed. But right where beaker was trying to go, I had my ferns and so beaker thought maybe the ferns were a fence and so she didn't go through. She's like oh, I'm foiled, I can't get those chickens. But by then you were able to get her, cause she's a good girl.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and it's not like I haven't tried to desensitize them to the, to the chickens, like I take them up on leash, I show them the chickens, I'm like no, you need to stay. And I reward them. So like I've done some of that, but not enough to probably stop the temptation because they're they're not out all the time and it's like very novel.
Speaker 3:Well, and when I walk the dogs in the front field, I walk by the farm and definitely chicken poop on the ground and Bunsen likes to eat that.
Speaker 2:Oh gross.
Speaker 3:It's pretty gross, but there's that.
Speaker 4:On the next episode of the science podcast. Can chickens smell?
Speaker 2:I'm pretty sure I don't think they can, because we've talked to different bird scientists and that was always the thing, like if you handle a baby bird, the myth was the mama would smell, that you handled it right. And then the bird scientists were like that's a myth, because birds can't smell, like they just don't have the ability to smell.
Speaker 4:That's the baby deer. We're told not to touch them because then their moms will not come back for them. So here in Texas they say if you see a baby deer by itself, call somebody. Don't touch them.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't, I don't, I can't speak to the, the, the, the accuracy of that, but I know like we have had like multiple bird scientists talk about that Super weird I did have. When was that? When Callan was alive? When I, when I, yeah, when I had the font.
Speaker 3:I was just going to bring that up. You were walking with Callan, yeah, you were walking in a creek with Callan, yeah, and there was a font there. You tell the story.
Speaker 2:Yeah. So, like font, they, they just hide, they, they, they. That's their only skill is. They just hide and they hope nobody sees them. The mama deer goes off and leaves them and Callan found the deer and the font. Uh, like Callan wasn't going to hurt it, she's a go and retriever and the deer took off Like it's. I thought the font wasn't going to move, but it moved and it was running around. And then Callan's like, oh boy, this is a fun game. And she was chasing the font and I was like, oh God, this is terrible.
Speaker 3:Uh, so make and do a demo of the sound that the font made.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was making like a weird kind of screaming sound. It was terrifying. So I didn't know that deer make that sound and I didn't want to like stress it out anymore. Like I don't think Callan was going to hurt it, she was just excited that it was running. So I grabbed it and I scooped it up. I like picked up the baby deer. Um, this is a long time ago. How many years ago was this A decade?
Speaker 2:It has to be a long time ago and I was like what am I going to do with this baby deer? But you're not supposed to mess, you're not supposed to move the deer, because the mama deer just expects it to be where she left it. So I kind of like went back to where the deer was and set it down, and then I grabbed Callan and I had a leash, because we always go on a walk with a leash, so I leashed her up and that was it, and the deer kind of just stood there and I was like well, I hope your mama finds you. So, don, I hope that deer was okay. Okay, thanks for coming to a pet chat tonight. Thanks to all of our speakers for sharing their stories. We really appreciate you could be anywhere in the world, but you're here listening to our wholesome space, which we really appreciate because there's spaces have gotten really crowded lately with like a bunch of other topics. So we appreciate you listening.