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Petchat October 15th: From Moose and Beavers to Pet Health and Fostering Adventures
What happens when you're outsmarted by a beaver, or find yourself in an unexpected encounter with a moose? Join us as we delve into an adventurous tale of our beloved pets Bunsen and Beaker, and our interactions with local wildlife. Listen closely as we share our experiences, from fascinating beaver escapades to a suspenseful moose sighting. Let us take you on a journey to recall how our training skills rose to the occasion during that thrilling moose encounter and marvel with us at a beaver's surprising strength.
Have you ever wondered about the differences between red deer in Scotland and elk in Canada, or why our dog Bunsen seems fascinated by moose legs? Tune in for a candid chat with our friend about incredible animal encounters both home and abroad. From wild boar attacks in France to the unique wildlife in Loch Lomond and an adopted Spanish dog, we cover it all.
When it comes to our pets, their health is paramount.
Get updates on Kiefer's physical therapy regimen and learn about the alternative treatments Vink and Chief Brody are receiving from the Golden Ratio. Tag along as we ponder on the possibility of laser and acupuncture for dogs with missing toes, and gain insight into Feta's progress in our home and the heart-rending decision we face regarding her adoption.
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Hello pet enthusiasts, welcome to Pet Chat. My name is Jason Zakowski. I'm the dog dad of Bunsen Beaker the science dogs on social media.
Speaker 4:My co-host is Hi there, I'm Chris Zakowski and I'm the dog mom to Bunsen Beaker and the cat mom to Ginger.
Speaker 3:Every week in Pet Chat we play a game. Chris and I share some wacky stories about Bunsen, Beaker and Ginger and apparently the woodland creatures that are flocking to our environment the moose and the beavers and then we invite the community, who's here listening, to come and share their pet stories or ask for their clarification. So beaver update the beaver. We put our wildlife camera up where the beaver we thought was working and as this beaver has outsmarted us over and over again, things continue to go that way. He just picked up and decided to move and work at a completely other end of the creek, knocking over massive trees. There's a huge tree that he chewed and it fell over the creek. It's actually pretty dangerous. It's just kind of like hanging there. I think if it fell on Chris or I we would get squashed. So we got to give it kind of a wide berth.
Speaker 3:But then all over this area where the big, big, big dam is, that's where the beaver's working now. So I put the wildlife camera up there. Hopefully we catch him knocking down some more trees. But we don't have any more footage because where we thought he was working, maybe he smelt us or he didn't like that. We were there and just decided to work somewhere else. I don't know. It's a pretty smart little beaver. I'll give you that. Give him that, Cause we know what's a male because of how big he is. It's an enormous beaver.
Speaker 4:Is that how we know?
Speaker 3:Yeah, I know, well, I cause the male beavers are of that size and um. And then I like, kind of like, did some napkin math based on the size of the log he was next to, and it's, he's literally as big as beaker. That's how big the beaver is, chris. He's huge. He's probably bigger than beaver beaker if you include the tail, which is, which is wild.
Speaker 4:This is what we do. We say oh, beaver. And then when we're talking about the beaver, we say beaker. And then, when we're talking about beaker, we say beaver. It's happened to me four times down at the I've called beaker beaver.
Speaker 3:I don't know how many times this last month. I was like beaver what are you doing? And beakers like I'm not a beaver, I don't need to listen to you, I'll just continue to dig a giant hole. Oops Called you.
Speaker 4:I didn't listen to you when she's digging.
Speaker 3:No, no. When she's digging holes she's like Bunsen with a moose lake. No training works. Well, that's my beaver update. Do you want to talk about the other thing I do? Okay. I do want to talk about the training that does work Right, so that probably actually saved the dogs.
Speaker 4:Yeah, a hundred percent. So Jason and I were going for a walk yesterday it was Friday, yeah, and Jason's like hey, would you like to go for the long walk? And what that means is, instead of kind of going down a little hill, we turn left and keep going until the Jason's favorite meadow.
Speaker 3:And I said well, I know.
Speaker 4:And I said, well, what do you think I'll do, whatever you're up to? And Jason said, well, I missed my workout today because I had a headache. And if Jason works out um lifting weights with a headache, it's just really bad. So he's like I'd really like just, uh, you know, get a little bit more cardio in and go for the long walk. And I said, okay, yeah, no problem, let's do that. Three seconds later, we're now at the um the corner to turn left, and Jason and I were there and the dogs were ready. Beaker was like hopeful every day, every time.
Speaker 4:If she's so hopeful to go left she's hopeful to go left, and I'm like, oh, I was just about to say Beaker's hopeful to go left, and Jason's like there's two moves, what. I'm like Beaker come here, and so she did she, that was good training, good recall, and I got her and you had Bunsen right there, um, and I Bunsen came when I called them immediately too. Immediately, immediately two moves two massive huge huge and uh, jason's like well, do you still want to go for the long walk?
Speaker 3:And you're like no, this walk is over.
Speaker 4:That's what I said. I said we're not going anymore, we're turning around and going home right now. Jason said oh no, they're probably. They probably walked on.
Speaker 3:Yeah, they, they went away.
Speaker 4:Um, anyway, my heart was pounding in my chest.
Speaker 3:But we had the dogs on the leash on the leash for the rest of the walk, just for their safety.
Speaker 4:For the rest of the walk, just in case. And then we had, we didn't go on the long walk, we definitely went down the hill and Beaker was kind of pulling a little bit because she's like, oh, yeah, we're going to go down the hill. And then she pulled me and good thing, jason is a large mammal, not as large as the moose, but I was like came crashing into him and he's like, oh, you just took me out. Well, you're pretty immovable object, um, so thank you for breaking my fault, cause I did. I fell down, um, and you're like are you all right? And I said, yeah, I'm all right. He's like well, that was scared the moose away. Thanks, jason. And then we continued on our walk and then saw the aftermath of the Beaver, um, but then the aftermath of all having all the moose there. So today, today, we went on a walk and we did the oh, okay, Well, this is the gross part.
Speaker 4:Yeah, and there's all these treats on the ground and you might wonder what are these treats? Well, they're the massive moose poops that the moose leave and the dogs are like oh, this is glorious.
Speaker 3:Oh, I was. They pooped so much. I almost pooped, I almost threw up. They must have moved into the creek.
Speaker 4:Sorry for people who are a queasy, but I this is pet chat.
Speaker 3:We talk about poop. This is like 50% of owning a pet as poop. Talking about poop. Thinking about your dog pooping. Is it pooping enough, is it not? Is it pooping too much? What does the poop look like?
Speaker 4:100%, I know, but still like some people might be eating.
Speaker 3:Well, I don't know, I can eat a sandwich while Bunsen and Beaker are pooping.
Speaker 4:No, you cannot. That's disgusting. I don't think you could.
Speaker 3:I've done it before. No, you have not. Oh the germ, but Chris, why you want to?
Speaker 4:Craig, he's going to come up and tell you all about the germ.
Speaker 3:I hold it in my other hand, but anyways, what is our theory? Why there's moose all of a sudden?
Speaker 4:Oh, I think, and you think, and I said I'm interested to know if it's because of all the Beaver activity creating the water that's down there.
Speaker 3:That's 100% it. That creek would be absolutely dry this time of year. But because of the, because of the absolute nonsense of the Beaver's crazy aqueduct construction, the creek has and will have water all until it freezes in the winter, and I am pretty sure that's why the moose are like doot, doot, doot free water and aquatic plants, because they're moose, love eating like stuff that grows in creeks and rivers and lakes and stuff like that. They actually dive for it. I know they'll like go deep into a lake and hold their breath. It scares the crap out of people who are like fishing and a moose like pops up right beside them. Hello, I'm an aquatic dinosaur. Anyways, well, that's, that's our, that's our update.
Speaker 4:Anyway, we live to tell about it, because the two moose went away, like Jason predicted.
Speaker 3:Yeah, they don't want to be anywhere near us. They're not scared of us.
Speaker 4:No, I was just nervous.
Speaker 3:Well, yeah, they're, they're, they're. You don't mess with moose. If they were coming towards us, we would not. It would be a different story, we would be telling you the last thing I'm just going to quick mention and I have I got to take some time to find the link the ginger stuffies arrived on this week on was it Wednesday, tuesday, tuesday or Wednesday? And Chris and I have been packing so many stuffies. We worked from like eight o'clock this morning till like 5 30, right before Petschat. So those of you guys who preordered the ginger stuffie, thank you so much. They are all of them are adorable. We haven't found one bad stuffie yet and we're we're hopeful to get them all packed this weekend and then out to people so that they ship on Monday and you get them by like Thursday.
Speaker 4:Yes, and their faces are so cute.
Speaker 3:And.
Speaker 4:I look at them every, every time they go in the bag. I'm like you are the cutest stuffie, yeah, and our foyer is full.
Speaker 8:It's full.
Speaker 3:It is full of boxes and stuffies and I take a picture, but it looks like a disaster.
Speaker 4:It does look like a bit of a disaster.
Speaker 3:Our house looks like a disaster. I'm not going to lie, but that's okay. We'll clean it all up once we're done.
Speaker 4:It's just our, our, I don't know our assembly line of assembling the stuffies.
Speaker 3:It's like muddle, it's like a Ford factory, but to pack stuffies, yeah. Anyways, the reason I'm bringing this up is we're keeping that the preorder, the preorder deal for the ginger stuffie, open as long, only as long, until we ship the stuffies. So I'm going to, I'm going to send out a special newsletter tonight about it. But if you haven't picked up a ginger stuffie and you want, like the preorder deal, which is the best deal, Um, I mean, that's close, that weird. That is over once. We ship them on sun, like Monday morning. So just the heads up there and you can find that on our website. It's in the link for Bunsen and Beaker and I'll post some stuff up in the nest. Well, that's, that's that. So we move on to community sharing.
Speaker 4:Absolutely.
Speaker 3:Okay, what's our rules, Chris?
Speaker 4:Our rules are that we appreciate everybody who comes up to speak and share their stories, but we are a people-rated space where we appreciate. I guess I don't know, jason, how do you say it?
Speaker 3:You always say it so well that we Well, like if we don't know what you count, if you're a new account or you're a suspicious looking account, you may not get up to speak. So just make sure your DMs are on and then come on up and share. That's about it. Okay, Sarah, you're up. Hello, Sarah, and then we'll go to Dr Tracy. Hi, Sarah.
Speaker 1:Hi, how are you Good? You know it's funny. We were talking about the Moose and we were coming back from a camping trip. We were just driving along the river and there's an area where the road and the river are like equal they're level and we see a very, very large Moose and she's just standing there with her head under water, come up and eating. It was really a beautiful sight from the car, not from the road. Had we been in the road I would have ran for my life. But how close were you when Chris was almost killed by a Moose while you allowed her to fall down?
Speaker 3:Way closer than I would like. I'm a little embarrassed. I thought they were Sasquatch to start with, like I saw big, fuzzy shapes moving very close through the trees and I was like, oh my God, it's a big foot, we're gonna be rich. And then I was like, oh my God, it's Moose. And it was close. I don't know. What do you think in feet, chris? Meters, 10 meters, something like that? 10 meters, they're within 10 meters.
Speaker 3:So whatever that is in feet, I don't know what's that let's Google the conversion for the Americans 10 meters to feet, so 39 inches, 39 feet in a meter 32 feet. 32 feet.
Speaker 1:That is pretty darn close.
Speaker 3:This is very close.
Speaker 1:Sad about the whole thing is like big foot you were all excited for when nobody knows big foot could have eaten you. But you were like, oh Moose. Now the fear sets in.
Speaker 3:Yeah, well, I think I've listened to some cryptozoologists before. The main theory is that big foot is vegetarian, so I think we'd be okay.
Speaker 1:Well, I mean, so are Moose right.
Speaker 3:That's true, I think in a pinch Moose would eat a human, though.
Speaker 1:Your logic is flawed there.
Speaker 5:Very flawed.
Speaker 1:You know, just because it's a vegetarian doesn't mean that it can't hurt you. But big foot is real and he lives in the Pacific Northwest. Just wanna put that out there.
Speaker 3:We had the planes version.
Speaker 1:I don't think he travels up into Canada. I think that's too. I think it's too cold.
Speaker 3:But it was a male and female and the male was enormous. I think it was the same one we saw in the. It was the two we've been seeing for a while and I think they've moved into our area because the beavers have made a water source for them.
Speaker 1:So is that true? I mean, are you just joking, or is it true? Because the beavers redistributed the water. That's why they're all coming out. Do you never see them there before, and now you do.
Speaker 3:They pass through, they don't stay. But these guys there's two that we've seen on and off for three weeks now. So I think they've like, and judging by the amount of Moose crap in the creek, I think they've decided that this is a great place to be because there's like a water source the beavers have created.
Speaker 1:Where do they go in the winter?
Speaker 3:I don't know.
Speaker 1:They lose their legs.
Speaker 4:That's what happens.
Speaker 3:They go in Bunsen's belly.
Speaker 1:Do they like? How did their legs fall up? I need an explanation.
Speaker 3:The working theory is that, like you can hunt Moose in Canada, just like anywhere else, so you can get a ticket for a Moose, and probably some hunters got a Moose or two and the legs are not useful. So usually you should clean up after yourself if you're a hunter, right, but some hunters will, as they skin the animal and they cut it up, they'll just chuck whatever they're not gonna use. And a Moose head is way too heavy for a coyote to pull around, but a coyote can move a leg pretty easily, so I think they just get scattered by scavengers and then Bunsen finds them. And yeah, that's my working theory my dogs have never found a Moose leg ever.
Speaker 3:Well, count yourself lucky, We've Bunsen.
Speaker 1:You guys are fighting that, your dogs are fighting them everywhere.
Speaker 3:What is? How many has Bunsen found? 11, Chris, he's one shy. He's done a lot. 11, he's one shy of the third full Moose. That's what it is. 11.
Speaker 1:Moose. But how do you get him away from cause? Does he mind when you tell him to not?
Speaker 3:Oh, he doesn't listen at all, he runs away with it. He runs all. He'll carry a 40 pound Moose leg all the way home. He's like such a good boy, but he is not a good boy at all. When he has a Moose leg I trade him a Popsicle. I had a Popsicle one time. I traded him some treats, but the last few, when he's gotten home, he's just dropped them and then given them to me. So Ha, ha, ha ha.
Speaker 1:But he has to run all the way home with them first right, yes, no, he'll carry them all the way home.
Speaker 3:Yeah, like a 40 pound Moose leg A 40 pound Moose leg for kilometers, like miles, we go for walks so and Beaker leaves them alone. Yeah, she doesn't care, she's curious, she's like oh, what do you have?
Speaker 2:Um, yeah, Ha, ha ha.
Speaker 3:Hello everybody, oh hello, um Hi, dog adventure, dog Cooper, we're. We're going kind of in order of speakers, but if you have something to jump in with about the story, go ahead.
Speaker 2:No, well, I've just joined, so apologies. So I'm hearing about, like you know, bringing things home, whether it be whatever, a leg or all that kind of stuff. But yeah, just fit me in where you want to. Perfect, I don't want to intrude.
Speaker 3:Very kind of you. I appreciate that. Um, Sarah, did you have a story or share? Did you just want to talk about the death, the Moose legs, Mooses.
Speaker 1:And then we'll go to our next speaker. I came for the Mies Mieses and the Beaver update.
Speaker 3:See, it's click baity, it worked. Okay, we'll go to Dr Tracey and then Ramona and then Donna, and then we'll keep going through the speakers that way. Dr Tracey, hello.
Speaker 10:Hi, I have a Moose story.
Speaker 5:Yay.
Speaker 10:Moose story. I mean, I could have a Moose story but it wouldn't be exciting. The Beaver story is interesting. I have a Beaver story.
Speaker 3:OK.
Speaker 10:I used to live in Fort Elaine and I got my doctorate at the University of Idaho, which was 90 miles south of where I lived in Moscow, idaho, and so I would commute back and forth to classes every semester and it was a 90 mile trip one way 90 miles down to Moscow and 90 miles back and the highway we called it the goat trail. It was real narrow and windy and there were no shoulders on either side.
Speaker 3:Oh, my goodness.
Speaker 10:The mountains, and it was mostly traveled by chip trucks, big trucks. It would haul wood chips from north, by the Canadian border, south, all the way to Lewiston, idaho, where there was a big paper mill, and they drove like maniacs and every once in a while they'd roll their trailer and so there'd be big piles of chips alongside the road, and so it was kind of scary driving at it if you had to do it late at night, and my parents were at night, and so one night I was coming home and it was about midnight and I was maybe halfway home and I was going through this really narrow canyon and there was a stream on one side of the highway and I had to stop because all of a sudden I saw two trees across. Oh my god, what they were doing there.
Speaker 10:And then I saw that one of them was moving Fever, pulling the tree across the highway and down towards the stream below, and so I waited and hoped that no chip truck would come and hit me, and a little while later he got it off the road and I was wondering how to get around the other tree, and then that started moving too, and so finally he pulled it off my side of the road and I was able to drive on home. So that's my beaver story.
Speaker 3:Doc, did you see how the beaver moved the tree? Because that's what I'm the most curious about, because our beaver has knocked over huge trees that, like I'm a reasonably strong guy, I don't even think I could move these trees.
Speaker 10:These were big trees. They were big pine trees oh my god. He was able to do it at all. I really can't. He just had a hold of the end of it and he's like these creatures are bananas. It was a crazy thing I never like they're big, they're really big.
Speaker 3:Yeah, beavers are huge, they are. They're way bigger than you think.
Speaker 5:Yes.
Speaker 3:I've got tears coming out of my eyes.
Speaker 5:Oh my god.
Speaker 3:I love that story. Sarah, your hands up. Did you have something before we moved to I?
Speaker 1:do, because Dr Tracy and I lived in the same area and that highway that she's talking about is the most terrifying thing in the world to drive on.
Speaker 5:Wow.
Speaker 1:And Dr Tracy, the paper mill that you're talking about. Fun fact, my father from, I think, 1984 until 1996, was vice president of that particular branch for all those years.
Speaker 10:Oh my goodness, when did you live, Sarah? Where did you live?
Speaker 1:I grew up in St Mary's.
Speaker 10:Oh my goodness, yes, yes, my world.
Speaker 3:Where is St Mary's in Idaho in relation to, oh, what's that place that my family stayed at, chris Sandpoint, sandpoint, sandpoint was like the my family's like go-to vacation spot.
Speaker 1:It's a little bit north of there. Ok yeah, beautiful area. It's buried in the woods, yeah yeah.
Speaker 8:It's up on the border of Canada in the northern part.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's very close to the border, if I remember.
Speaker 5:Well.
Speaker 10:I lived at Kelso Lake, which is way off, in the middle of nowhere, in the middle of.
Speaker 3:Dr Tracy love the story. I really hope our wildlife camera catches the beaver moving the tree. All we got was him chewing it.
Speaker 10:That would be wonderful if you could catch that.
Speaker 3:I want to know how they do it. I want to know that.
Speaker 10:I wish I came better, but all I had was my headlights, because it was pretty, that's a bananas the herd.
Speaker 3:You got your hand up. Did you have something to add?
Speaker 7:I do. I live in Idaho and we have moose come in all the time. We have a river that runs through and the beavers build the dams, but you guys are talking about places I've never heard of. I've lived here for 13 years, never knew there was a St Mary's, so I learned something. Thank you, you're way too, self I am.
Speaker 7:Idaho Falls is pretty much Well. No, I've been to Brexburg so maybe I've been through. There's so many small, small towns. But I never learned my geography because I didn't commit to living here. And now I live here and learn my geography.
Speaker 10:I tell you to come up, go up north, but there anymore. But of course you can't leave all your animals.
Speaker 7:Yeah, that's a tough one for me. I mean the dad guy, he's a good fill in. He's not a full timer, though, and no replacement for mom.
Speaker 8:I got a Barbie trailer now.
Speaker 7:I got a Barbie trailer and hopefully I'll get that ready, for I think that's going to get put off till the spring. I'll have to do a little bit of winterization on the windows. Nope, the dream is still to get that going, get it full of kennels. I want to line the bottom with kennels so that when I go out to Los Angeles there's so many that need help and because we are in smaller areas, we can pretty much manage the rescue population. But there's no, there's just not a lot of people that I do with the major medical rescues Out there and they call me all the time. I get tagged all the time and there's just not enough time or space to move them all. I have a mini Cooper so I can only take two or three, but if I could load up 20 dogs I would absolutely do it.
Speaker 5:Wow.
Speaker 7:Well, I just want to put time in really on the most of the beavers and the I don't know Idaho.
Speaker 3:Well, I appreciate that. I appreciate you chiming in. That's great. The herd will come back to you when we get to, when we go through the queue. Is that okay? Is that cool?
Speaker 7:Yeah, I'll hang on. I'm actually available tonight. I made it home in time to be on PetChat because it's been missing in my life and making me kind of sad, so I'll hang out.
Speaker 3:Appreciate it. Okay, good deal.
Speaker 7:Yep.
Speaker 3:We'll go to Ramona, Ramona hi.
Speaker 11:Hey Jason, hey Chris. So I'm down here in Albuquerque and, chris, your magic at it. But I just put a picture on Twitter A friend of mine took of the eclipse this morning. We were, we were prime, prime, prime viewing.
Speaker 3:Oh, so jealous, so jealous.
Speaker 11:And I thought of you this morning. I thought of you this morning as I'm wearing my glasses and I'm looking up and I'm just in awe, and I thought of you this morning. I thought, oh, jason would love it if he was here. So I put that up, chris, if you want to grab it and throw it in the nest. And also, a couple of weeks ago, we talked about the high fence that I had to do for boomer and Chris, and so you can. You can see boomer, as compared to the six foot cross fencing I had to put up. So, but the, the eclipse was amazing, jason, it was, it was stunning, I was beautiful and perfectly clear and and it was, it's awe inspiring. I thought to myself, you know, I wondered what before science. I wonder what people who experienced that would think, you know, during, during that time, you know, before science, what did, what did people think? You know? Did they really think the world was going to end? It's? You know, it's kind of it's kind of wild to think about before we knew what it was.
Speaker 3:I've talked to astrophysicists, physicists about that before and it depends on the culture. Like some of the ancient cultures that wrote stuff down, so they had records, they knew it happened. And then some of the if they had, they had math, they actually started to be able to predict when eclipses could happen. But if you were part of a culture that didn't write stuff down, it was very verbal so it was very murky. It was probably much more mystical to you. It was all obviously awe-inspiring.
Speaker 11:Anyways, yeah, I'm sure it was, and it was the final weekend of we have down here the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta. That's been going on since, oh gosh, I think since 1972 was the first one, but it's a Hotter Balloon Festival that goes for the first two full weekends in October. So they were doing the balloon fiesta this morning and then they had. We had the eclipse, so it was quite a day in Albuquerque, so if anybody ever gets to come to Albuquerque in October, it's a pretty magical experience.
Speaker 3:I appreciate the share, Ramona, but I'm very, very jealous of your story.
Speaker 11:I'm sorry, jason, but I did think of you, if that counts.
Speaker 3:That does count, thanks, you guys.
Speaker 3:Yeah, chris and I are definitely we are going to try to. The plan is to fly to the eclipse that's happening in April. When is it, chris? The next one in April? The totality one? April 8th? April 8th, yeah, and we haven't quite decided where to go, but and we're going to try to. I know if we go to one of the major cities we can probably convince our division that it's professional development and we can use some of our PD money. But obviously the best viewing is in the desert where you are, ramona, like you have a much better chance of clear skies if you're around, you know.
Speaker 11:Well, if you guys ever want to come to Albuquerque, I have a spare room. Sweet.
Speaker 3:We'll hold you to that, and next time there's a freaking eclipse that passes over your house.
Speaker 11:Please do, please do. I live south of Albuquerque in a nice rural area and Boomer would love to have company.
Speaker 3:Chris, way to go, putting the stuff up in the nest. There You're a machine.
Speaker 4:Not really. I can just do it. Okay, it's something I know how to do. So to just piggyback off of that, this morning we went out and looked at the eclipse, but I went into the farmhouse and told Adam, Annalise and Papa Gord about it and they all came out too and I just loved how excited Annalise was.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:She'd never, seen anything
Speaker 5:like that before yeah.
Speaker 3:She was very excited.
Speaker 4:Yeah, adam has, and he was just like you know. Oh yeah, I've seen something like this before. You know you'd like I've seen one sunset, I've seen them all, but it was really magical for her, which I think is totally empowering and awesome.
Speaker 3:Yep. Do you know who the next speaker is?
Speaker 5:It's me.
Speaker 3:It's Donna.
Speaker 8:Okay, so I saw the eclipse as well, being in Dallas, in the South. Well, I work directly South, but they consider us Southwest. So, like Ramona said, you're welcome in Dallas anytime. I've got plenty of room for you. But I want to piggyback on a couple of stories. And Sarah's right, the Sasquatch is in the Pacific Northwest and I don't know if you saw that viral video on Twitter with a couple thought that they saw him.
Speaker 12:Yes.
Speaker 8:And I don't know why we're calling them a him, because it could be a chick, because she's made it a very long time out there and I don't know how you can say it's a vegetarian when it's on the Slim Jim commercial and it says snap into a Slim Jim, it eats. It eats the beef turkey. So I got to say I actually lived where beavers were in the Pacific Northwest and I saw how they carried the logs.
Speaker 5:How.
Speaker 8:So what they do is they roll it, like with teamwork, onto their backs. So they're like the little you know dwarfs and Snow White, the seven dwarfs, and they have it on their back and they carry it, what Like little, like they're putting it on their shoulders and just chilling. Going across the road I saw him drag them through and it's almost like when they drop it, they like drag it the rest of the way, laying on their back and kind of flinging it because they're strong as hell too. That's how I saw them carry it, and I used to live in Colorado, where there was a lot of moose as well, and there was one big moose in this huge meadow one time with a baby and this dummy I almost dropped the A word, but this dummy goes running in the field to try and take a picture.
Speaker 8:Oh, man and that moose almost killed that person and I know somebody did get killed in that meadow. You don't mess with the moose. No you just don't. So thank you, dogs for protecting Chris, because Jason was like Sasquatch and left you. I'm just kidding, but I just think that's funny, my brain broke.
Speaker 3:My brain broke. I saw something like dark moving through the forest and I'm like it's Sasquatch. And then I was like, is that a person? And then I was like, oh my God, it's a moose. We're going to die.
Speaker 8:Honestly, I'm with Sarah. I don't think the Sasquatch would be hanging out in Alberta, although I would love to hang out where you live. It looks stunning. But you know, they kind of like that misty, shroudy, fog, foggy stuff, that from the Pacific Northwest. From what I understand and when I lived up there for five years, that's all I heard. Watch out for Sasquatch.
Speaker 8:But my pet story this week because I know she won't come on and talk is I was in Minnesota. So I got to go see Kathy again, which, if y'all haven't met her in real life, she is a gem, such a Brad human and I love her to death. But I got to meet her dogs this time, because the last time it was just her and me and the tornado siren. This time it was me, the dogs and the cats and then Kathy. So I got to meet Ella and Angel and Minnie and let me tell you, having that big Bernie's mount dog, but the softest forever and those eyes just staring at you, I don't know how I don't have a Bernie's puppy right now because, oh my God.
Speaker 8:And then Ella, who is such a senior lady, but she was so sweet and I made sure to sit on the floor and so she didn't have to crawl to get to me over Ella and Minnie. So I it was awesome getting the sea pets on the road. And then I had a 16 hour layover in DC and then my work partner is like, do you really have to pet all the stray cats? I said I do so because he goes. You're saying hi to everybody. I'm like Greg, you have to say to cats. So again, thank you, kathy, for let me love on your dogs and you and can't wait to get my ginger stuffy.
Speaker 3:I'll be there on Thursday or Friday, donna Unfortunately.
Speaker 8:I'm in Michigan the next two weeks. I'm only home this weekend, so be waiting for me when I get back, and hopefully Cali hasn't messed it up, because I'm going to tell my stepdad to open it and give it to Cali.
Speaker 3:Okay, thanks for sharing, donna. Okay, who's next Is it? Is it Adventure Dog Cooper than Paula?
Speaker 4:I believe so yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah, adventure Dog Cooper. Thanks for waiting patiently. We'd love to hear a pet story from you, if you have one.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm a bit confused about what this conversation is about, but we've gone a bit left and a bit right, yeah.
Speaker 3:Well, you could talk about anything. Moose beaver, something somebody else said, yeah.
Speaker 2:So I've been to America. Maybe you can understand that I'm English. I live in Scotland. I've got an adopted Spanish dog, oh, right next to me, who's half I've beaten hound half Rhodesian Ridgeback. Now those dogs were trained to hunt lions. Can you imagine what they thought when they were sort of going no, that's not the Joe I want.
Speaker 3:You're like how come he gets to hunt rabbit? Yeah exactly.
Speaker 2:But yeah, now, I've never come across a moose. I've come across, in Europe, wild boar. They're the nastiest buggies around. Oh yeah, they're awful. When I was in France, the local, my, my friends, families parents killed one because they were attacking him and just shot it.
Speaker 3:Right, yeah. No, they're pretty vicious yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so, and you know what the worst thing about it was? I left a day before the barbecue was held.
Speaker 3:I do hear they're pretty tasty. I've never had boar myself.
Speaker 2:I've been a bore. I know you're a vi, obviously now and thanks for letting me join your conversation, because it's interesting to hear all these stories, because I live in a country yeah, tiny little island. Yeah, I think the scariest thing we've got is a rabbit you live are you?
Speaker 3:you live on an island in Scotland. See that again. Well, I'm.
Speaker 2:I'm English yeah.
Speaker 3:Okay.
Speaker 2:I live here now, yeah, but yeah, this island's got nothing to offer. That's scary. You can't get killed by anything other than yourself. I would have said it's, it's nice, and I've been to America quite a few times. I mean, I was born in Boston, but not your Boston rate, my, my, the Lincolnshire one, you know the original one. But yeah, we have rabbits, and what do we have? Well, what's do we have? That scary? I couldn't imagine being confronted by a moose. To be fair, I love them.
Speaker 3:We have deer, here you have. You have red deer right in Scotland.
Speaker 2:the red deer yes we do have red deer. That's pretty. That's it we also. Are you ready for this? We have wallabies in Scotland. In Scotland, on an island, on Loch Lomond, we have wallabies. I don't know if, if you're, this collective understands what a wallaby is. A wallaby is a half size, can go.
Speaker 3:I feel like. I feel like this is something that I trick Americans with about Canada, and you're Scottish and you're tricking a Canadian about Scotland. Call me Scottish.
Speaker 2:I just, I just talked to.
Speaker 3:I have a science podcast and I talked to a scientist that's researching the red deer on in the Hebrew, the Hebrides, the Hebrides I forget how to pronounce it Hebrides, hebrides. Yeah, and Chris and I, the city we live in in Alberta, canada, is called Red Deer and that is because set, and that is because settlers from like Scotland, ireland, england, whatever saw elk. We don't have red deer in Canada. They saw an elk and they're like oh, it's a red deer, and then it stuck. So we live in a town named after something that doesn't exist in Canada.
Speaker 2:Well, I mean, I don't know unicorns, that I guess do they. But my dog certainly gets excited when he sees a red deer. One thing is, I don't think he would hurt one, but he's a comparable size, he's massive, my dog. I mean, he's five kilos, 80 centimetres to his shoulders, and yeah. But I just say to him, it's a friend, it's a friend and he's been defused. He's been defused squirrels and all that kind of stuff. The last time he did one he wouldn't let it go. So I had to cup his nose right so he couldn't breathe. So he had a choice of not breathing or letting it go.
Speaker 2:And I'm not cruel to animals, but yeah, no, he's a hunting dog, it's in his spirit. You know, his mum's trained hunt rabbits and his dad is trained hunt lions. I mean, he's snoring by me, maybe you can hear it, I don't know, but yeah, softest shite, and isn't what? Isn't the animal kinderable kingdom, wonderful. So I've been to America, I've held an alligator, I've, you know, seen trash pandas, apparently, whatever they're called, raccoons, right, and all that kind of stuff. Everything's part of a nice circle of life, isn't it? But it's been lovely to hear from you and I'll stay online to the seven everyone else, because that's great, and thanks for letting me chat.
Speaker 3:Thank you for joining us today. I appreciate it.
Speaker 2:Cool man.
Speaker 3:I love, and we put some photos of your dog up in the in the nest. Cooper, a handsome fellow.
Speaker 2:He's not bad, but honestly, don't say that out loud because he'll go to the same thing with Bunsen Cheers.
Speaker 3:All right, thanks. Thank you very much. We'll go to Paula next. Hi, paula.
Speaker 12:Hi, how's everybody doing? Good good, I don't know, jason. 30 feet from a moose is pretty darn too close for my book.
Speaker 3:It was. It was way too close, Paula.
Speaker 12:Good thing. Good thing, Jason, you weren't wearing your Groot outfit. He'd think you were the biggest looking yummy tree or something, but it's a little bit of a trouble. But anyway, oh my God, I'm with Chris. I would have been running for the well, I don't know if you couldn't run. Do they chase you when you run?
Speaker 3:You can try to run from a moose. You're not going to make it. They run incredibly fast.
Speaker 12:They're not aggressive. Where they would chase you? Oh no, they'll chase you. Oh, they would chase you.
Speaker 3:They could, I mean they'll. Most of the time, no, but if they want to chase you and some have like to scare you off from from, from something like, as Donna said, like if it's got a baby around it'll, it'll chase you.
Speaker 12:Oh yeah, that's right, it was having something where the mother was being extinct, yeah, yeah, and protective, sure, but anyway, oh my gosh. But I feel like we're in mutual Omaha wild kingdom with all these stories. But it's really cool. I'm, I'm, I'm fascinated with your beavers. I think that's so cool and and they are huge, I, I have, you know, we have muskrats in Connecticut. They're like you know, they swim and they look like you know mini beavers, but they don't feel Tams and such, but anyway, maybe they do. I don't know, I have to look at that.
Speaker 3:They don't they? They actually live it. We checked with Dr Emily Fairfax about that. They live in the dens. They can live in the den with a beaver. They kind of like they, they, they sublet the hell, little place.
Speaker 12:That's right. I remember that convo, so that's that's what you're absolutely right. But anyway, it's been kind of a crazy week. Trixie finally graduated puppy school, yay.
Speaker 3:Yay, congratulations.
Speaker 12:Thanks and yeah, she's doing pretty good. You know she's she's a little shy. She was very shy at first because, like I said, she was sitting under the seat and we were like, oh my gosh, this dog's never coming out. But then she got so learned, like everybody, and you know when we've been taking her different places, and you know she did really well.
Speaker 12:And for the last class I thought they were going to kind of test us to see, you know, what she knew. But actually they set up an agility course and it was the first time she ever went through it and she went all the way up the little mountain because they had these little steps, and she went all the way to the top and then at the end they were clapping because a lot of the bigger dogs were scared and nervous of it. And then there was a tear board and I thought there is just no bloody way in heck, she's gonna go on a teeter board and she's the prizes. She jumped on the teeter board and we very gently started to rock it and then the teacher said let it go. So we let it go and she was like, yeah, this is cool.
Speaker 12:It was really kind of comical to see what she was used to. But then we've been taking her to some craft shows and because we're big in that New England right now and people are funny, they're like oh, can I, can I see your pet? And I say sure, and I said, but be careful, because she's a little shy. And they go up to her and they give her a cookie or something and the next thing you know she'll lick their hand and she goes like she puked the treat out.
Speaker 12:No, no, no, she kind of goes, this little growl.
Speaker 3:Oh, okay.
Speaker 12:You know, but she, but she's licking their hand.
Speaker 12:You know, it's like this dog still needs a little bit more socialization, but anyway, she just keeps us laughing Because she's like she's a character. It was the best name to name her, because she's always full of tricks, that's for sure, so, but anyway. So we're pretty proud of that and I can't wait for my ginger. I'm excited, and we'll have to keep it away from Chiksi because she might think it's a new, new somebody coming into the house, so, but anyway. But thanks, guys, great pet check. Nice to see in some old faces here tonight, and and I'm really jealous, ramona, that you saw that eclipse. So good for you though. All right, have a good night everybody.
Speaker 3:Thanks, paula. Yeah, we were watching. We've been watching Trixie's like this, the Trixie story with puppy school, so it's very cool. That's similar to when, like Bunsen and Beaker have had their test. Like it's always. It's different. It's what they are trained to do, but they always like waggles. That's where our dogs are trained. They always set up something completely different. So you have to the dogs have to apply what they know. Bunsen was so good at that stuff, man, he was so good at dog dog school. He loves school. It's his favorite thing. Okay, we'll go to the herd. Hey, thanks for waiting.
Speaker 7:Oh, no problem at all. I was just looking on my timeline. I was trying to find it. The eclipse back in looks like 2022. Maybe 21. Maybe it was 2020. I don't remember, but you have Bunsen out in his protective eye gear and I was at my backyard with my dogs and their solar protective eye gear and it was one of our first exchanges and it just made me fall in love with your account. We did not see the eclipse today. It was just completely clouded over. There's pictures on the internet of people claiming that you know these are from my town this morning and I guarantee they're not.
Speaker 3:They're from somewhere else.
Speaker 7:They're from somewhere else, but okay. So the biggest update with me is I had a house with too many orange cats in it. I had a couple of fosters plus my own, and one of them went to a showcase today. She did not get adopted, she's back here. But the little blind kitten that I helped him see, he went to another foster where he is going to be with a kitten of his own age. They're both very, very tiny, you know, six, seven weeks old. Neither of them has a sibling to play with and learn how to be a cat and you know when to bite and when, really, when, not to bite. So they're going to grow up together in someone else's house.
Speaker 7:So I'm like, right on, I am down on the orange cats. I had a guest cat my son's who was also orange, and I come home to shipping confirmation that the ginger stuffy is coming. So I'm back up to too many orange cats, but ginger definitely gets its stay. We have a place on the shelf with our Bunsen 1.0, our Bunsen 2.0, our beaker stuffy and the herd stuffies that we have. We've reserved to spot for her. I'm very, very excited about that Other herd news.
Speaker 7:I probably noticed that in it, besides the cats, I haven't been taking in a lot of fosters lately. Barry and Kiefer, the two paralyzed pups, are both learning to walk and need more of my time for physical therapy. They are my priority. So I am on hold with any future dog fosters unless, of course, it happens to be a senior Yorkie with major medical conditions, because that's a soft spot for me. So if anybody sees a senior Yorkie that really needs me, I'm in Anywhere in the country I'll go, and then I'll be up to having two more dogs than cats and everything will be right in the world.
Speaker 3:I love your updates. Thank you so much.
Speaker 7:I know I kind of ramble through them, but there's a lot going on. I don't know that I have everybody's like. Everybody knock on wood with me. Everyone is relatively healthy. You know some have permanent issues and stuff, but I don't have any disasters going on right now.
Speaker 3:We do. One of my favorite things is your breakfast with Kiefer's. It's like your reoccurring posts, so I like it, I like those.
Speaker 7:That's how I measure his progress. The snuffle mat the sunflower thing that also looks like a plate of tacos Fully engages his brain and that's the only time where he can really hold a stand. So it's, it's part of his physical therapy regimen. It I'm hold, you know, adjusting his legs for him so I can tell if he's using his front end, is he actually putting weight on them? And he started doing these handstands and we think that he's got enough feeling that he's tried to situate his feet and Reset himself into his own stand, which is key to being able to walk.
Speaker 7:We are Back to doing weekly acupuncture with electric stimulation. He has a couple of toes that have no sensation and dogs really need them. Like they can lose a pinky toe and have no problem, but if they're missing their two middle toes it really hampers the functionality of their feet. So we're doing that and if anybody's a golden ratio, fan on the pod. This week they announced that Chief Brody is Getting the full treatment that he forgets and they're gonna start doing. I know they started laser therapy on Vink and I think they're gonna try some acupuncture therapy as well. I see if avoid surgery for yeah, cuz Vink had the limp.
Speaker 3:I remember I I was so busy the last bit I couldn't. I wasn't keeping up on the last like five days, but I know it, vink had a limb in yeah.
Speaker 7:Hip dysplasia is very common in dogs. Elbow Just is not as common and she has, because it and that just means it's out of joint gets kind of like dislocated. Yeah, the bones are on each other and then you get little bone debris and so hopefully all of this can help break it up, just because surgery, you know, is it's a risky procedure and Obviously Jen and I have, you know, talked about this. We bounce ideas off the head, we try things and report back to each other. But you can watch, I Guess how do I say this without being rude or anything. I'm all into. You know I show the updates more. They may not have the ability because of the facility that they're going to, but I have a mobile back coming to my house for it. So we were sending pictures back and forth and it's like their little robots getting recharged and it's amazing what it can do. And alternatives to Massive surgery is always a good thing, so I'm super excited to see how things progress with our friends in the ratio.
Speaker 3:Us to yep, yep, you bet. And, of course, chris is still obsessed with Feta. Chris, what were you showing me? What were you showing me today, chris?
Speaker 7:Feta sorry, that's Anderson Feta. She's a tough one. I mean. Everything in me wants them to permanently adopt her, because the big reason there's nothing wrong with having a healthy dog when you do special needs and Having a perfectly healthy puppy is just. It's so refreshing and so the selfish part of me wants them to have a healthy dog. The other selfish part of me wants to keep seeing Feta. I just am in love with Absolutely the opposite of not so.
Speaker 3:Chris, what was the photo you were showing me today? You're like look at this, look at this.
Speaker 4:Feta was looking at herself in the mirror, yes, and it was like her thinking of oh, you're a good girl and you're gonna play with your brothers and sister and it's gonna be a great day super perfect.
Speaker 7:Yeah, super cute. I loved her eating the box because it was a thistle steam cleaner box and like it's definitely hers. They have puppy in the house, you gotta have a steam cleaner. What happens? I know she gets gets her space soon and they'll make the decision and cannot wait for that announcement. No matter what they have, she is set up for success, whether you know she stays in the squad or gets a new adopted home, and that's what Feta needed.
Speaker 3:That's that's. That's that the I mean. Ultimately, it's up to them, not us cheering them on. They have to make that decision themselves.
Speaker 7:So oh, I think that he knows where the. But you know I do, when you take a dog in as a foster, you kind of put it in your heart that your job is to make them as healthy and adoptable as possible. Yeah, so either way it's a win. I Want them to keep her.
Speaker 3:We do too. Yes, selfishly, we do too.
Speaker 7:Yes, one note on the Sasquatch they actually live on Scalp Mountain in Pocatello, idaho, and I know this because a neighbor's dad told me he saw it and With that you know that is 99% of all crypto zoology, as somebody's dad said they said this. It has to be true.
Speaker 3:Thanks, teen.
Speaker 7:Okay, I'll talk to you guys later and I will definitely see you next week, and we cannot share pictures of our ginger stuff. You buy then, I think.
Speaker 3:I think so you betcha.
Speaker 7:Too later. I love you guys. Bye.
Speaker 3:Thanks, I'm Chris. Did you bring up a new speaker? I've been like trying to load Canva in the background and it's not. I brought up Susan. Oh, susan, okay, go ahead, susan.
Speaker 5:Hi Susan Hi, Um, Jen, Um, go bet did uh uh oh something on Facebook last week and they are definitely keeping Fedda and she confirmed that on on that Facebook.
Speaker 3:That Facebook's a session okay, well, that's exciting I.
Speaker 5:I know like she's so cute.
Speaker 3:It's? I don't know if it's. I think it's impossible to see a goal golden retriever puppy and not just fall Hopelessly in love with a golden retriever puppy, just hopelessly in love, because that's what happened with us with beaker, like she did one of those subscriber snaps that you guys do like a Twitter subscriber video and it's.
Speaker 8:It's Fedda on a caller. So, since the cat's out of the bag, it's Fedda on a caller. She got a caller a golden ratio caller with her name on it. So she got a caller on a caller and she got a caller on a caller on a caller A golden ratio caller with her name on it.
Speaker 3:Oh, sorry, susan, I cut you off. I apologize, I was not looking at the screen.
Speaker 5:No, it's, it's great. And I saw that caller too and I was just like oh my god, they're keeping her.
Speaker 3:Uh, bianca saying Fedda has a red and white caller now. Is that correct, susan?
Speaker 5:Yes that's that's right.
Speaker 3:Super cute, Uh, yeah good.
Speaker 7:Yeah, everybody, go listen to this week's pod Because it does mention the caller they do talk about. Her spay date is October 31st and there is some cautions that she's still a foster until that date. She outgrew her other caller and she also ate the clasp off of it, so kind of it's not official official, but she does in fact have a squad caller and I think I think our holdout is Ingo. So go listen to the pod and then let's just blast him to. Just you know, get over it. Foster's just a word. Fail comes after it Jen.
Speaker 10:Jen said that they can't Officially say whether they're going to adopt her until after she's been spayed. Those are the rules of great. Yeah, those are the rules.
Speaker 7:When you take a foster in, you have a commitment to get them through. You know certain qualifications one of its full vaccinations and they are neuter, and a foster parent can't make a claim on them Until that's done. That's a good rescue to it, but it's, you know it's. I can't really say anything, but you'll get a lot of good tidbits out of this week's pod. It should be out on all of the audio forms this week. So Right.
Speaker 7:Take a listen to that. But she does bring up that you know she got a squad caller. So I think they're they're baiting us a little bit, but they also, you know, legally they can't make a decision until the 31st. So maybe we'll get, you know, a little extra Halloween treat and, I don't know, maybe we won't. We're going to.
Speaker 4:It better not be a trick, I know, right, it has to be a treat.
Speaker 7:I'm not patient when it comes to adoption, so I'm trying really, really hard.
Speaker 11:Oh you guys, it'll be a treat. In goes the one that said screw it, give me a puppy. Yeah.
Speaker 7:No, because we've had. We've had those talks before about. You know, when you have a bunch of senior dogs and you have a puppy and then just seeing how Feta and Remi have bonded, it's kind of Remi's dog like. Isn't it Remi's choice at this point?
Speaker 11:Yes, remi would be so sad if Feta moved away.
Speaker 7:Yeah, so anyway. So October 31st is a big date, so everybody tune in and to all your socials and look for things on that. I'm sure we'll. We'll get an announcement by the end of the day I love it it's.
Speaker 3:It's very cool to we don't have a. We don't have a puppy anymore because beaker's all grown up and I can't believe how old she is now she's. We still call her a puppy, a little puppy, a little baby girl. But I just love I can watch home retrievers do nonsense all day long. Their nonsense is so high.
Speaker 3:So just for everybody in pet chat, a couple things in the nest. We're gonna do a quick vote for the name of our beaver. So in the nest and in the chat I've you guys get to vote special for one of the bracket names and it's caster versus chopper. So only pet chat tonight gets to vote on that and then one of those names will advance in our beaver 18. So we so go ahead and vote. It's up in the nest, it's the newest thing that just showed up, or it's in the chat. Looks like chopper is ahead 100% with five votes. Okay, so we're we're nearing the end. We have to have our draw for barking beyond. They couldn't make it tonight. Chris, do you have any? Anything else you want to mention before we? We kind of wrap up. Oh, somebody's requesting Josh s.
Speaker 4:Yeah, Josh was in the space earlier today in dress space.
Speaker 3:Oh right, okay, yeah, sure, we can bring Josh up. Josh up quick. Hi, josh, did you welcome to pet chat? You requested how's it going?
Speaker 9:I'm doing good. I didn't realize you guys were already at the end. I just hopped in like five minutes ago and I'm like what is Bunsen and Beaver doing? I don't know the space, and so I had to come in and it looks like a lot of fun.
Speaker 3:We have a lot of fun. It's goofy. Today we were talking more about animals in the wild than our own pets. We're talking about moose and beaver, but of course, if you want to talk about any of your animals, go ahead. I'm just loading some stuff in the background here, so go ahead.
Speaker 9:Well, absolutely, I'm a dog lover Me and Christina you know my wife, christina. We've met. We've got a boxer and a beagle and I love my boxers. I had one previously that lived a very long life and moved on and we picked up another little one and ended up picking up a second one because the little one needed a second one as a friend Interesting story, but I won't get into that now. But speaking of wildlife, interestingly enough Christina and I just recently adopted a baby elephant and a baby rhino Out of a wildlife refuge out of South Africa and it was the funnest little thing I heard about it.
Speaker 9:Bunsen and beaker we didn't talk about this earlier, but what I taught for 10 years was conservation and natural resources. That's my background and so I'm big into wildlife and natural resources and stuff like that. But yeah, finding this was super fun, so it's a new experience for us and Christina just absolutely loves them. But it's just a sponsorship program to help support the refuge and whatnot. So I thought it was kind of fun that you guys are on that topic. So that was just my share. I don't want to take too much time.
Speaker 3:It's all good, Josh, For a second there I thought you had a baby rhino and elephant in your house and I was like that's going to be a lot of poop in about six months, and then I realized that you were sponsoring them in some protected area. So I'm a little slow sometimes.
Speaker 9:No, trust me, my wife thought the same thing. She's like, do we get to take them home? I'm like, no, honey, we don't have the space for them and I don't think we could. But yes, but no. We are proud to adopt the parents amongst many others. But yeah, that would definitely be a chore. We'll stick with the dogs for now.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you think Bunsen has big poop sometimes, Chris.
Speaker 4:Sometimes he does. Josh, what are the names of your dogs?
Speaker 9:Our boxer. Her name is Chloe and our beagle is Samantha, and so we call them Chloe May and Samantha Jane.
Speaker 9:Nice Super cute and my wife is a psychologist, she's a doctor and she wanted. She was hoping that maybe we could find a puppy that we could train and have trained as like a therapy dog that we could have in our office space. But we came to find out shortly, a few months into it, that our boxer needed her own special need animal. We got Sam. So our boxers just got so much anxiety and whatnot and so we had to find her a friend and a partner that she can that helps calm her down. So we ended up getting a support dog, but it was for our other dog.
Speaker 3:That's okay. Well, thanks for your share, Josh. Chris, I rolled the number. Guess what number it is? It's a number from one to 42. Guess what I rolled?
Speaker 4:Number nine.
Speaker 3:No, the bad guess it was 40.
Speaker 4:40. Whoa.
Speaker 3:That's right so we what.
Speaker 4:Are you going to count the no? My question Are you going to count from the top or are you going to count from the bottom?
Speaker 3:Okay, well, barkin Beyond has a $20 gift certificate for somebody and there's 42 people in the space, so you and I can't win, which means it's the last person in the space and, according to me, on your phone on my phone.
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Speaker 4:Well, I would like to thank everybody who came to listen to our space and everybody who shared their stories, their pet stories, with us, even though it did kind of go a little bit wild, but I always enjoy listening to everybody share in our community. It's always a wonderful time. I was going to talk a little bit about packaging ginger stuffies today, and that's the only thing we did.
Speaker 3:That is the only thing we did today.
Speaker 4:Making the boxes and all the other goodies that people who ordered five months of catatouche are going to get, and and the gingerbuzzle.
Speaker 3:The gingerbuzzle has the laser pen.
Speaker 5:It does.
Speaker 3:That laser pen is so cool.
Speaker 4:So we did that today. Now I'm at a card stock so I need to go to town and get some more. But other than that just being terrified for my life and your life and the dog's life with the moose sighting it's just been a great week. Other than that.
Speaker 3:I'm so overconfident I probably would try to use my kung fu on a moose and it wouldn't go well for me, like what would happen if you kick the moose in a groin. That's my. That's the first strike in kung fu groin strike.
Speaker 8:You would be impaled on the answer. It would be running through the woods with you on its antlers going.
Speaker 3:I got a human leg. Yeah, I'd be like, oh, you're a moose. Style is no match for my praying mantis style, because that's what I was trained in was praying mantis kung fu, and like the bug, I would be squashed. Oh, tracy's requesting, we'll bring Tracy. We'll bring you up real quick because Trate Hi Tracy, we're just ending, but go ahead.
Speaker 6:I actually worked a little later today. I just want to give a Ricky update. He was the biggest meow monster A couple of days ago and he would like not settle in like normally. He'll like get on my lap and, you know, get his pets, but he like was so indecisive. But I'm about to go home to him today, so I'm hoping he's a good boy and we can just relax.
Speaker 3:We hope so too.
Speaker 5:Hey, I just wanted to give a big shout out to bark beyond, because they are Amazing and I love everything that I get from them.
Speaker 3:We love them too. Thanks for the shout out, susan. All right, it's the wrap up music. Chris, what a great pet shot Pet chat today.
Speaker 4:It truly was.
Speaker 3:It wasn't really about pets from our end. We were talking about beavers and moose Definitely not good pets, unless you're Doris from Red Deer, who had Mickey the beaver as a pet. Actually, you know what's wild, chris. So nobody here knows, but we have a Facebook page for Bunsen and Beaker.