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The Science Pawdcast breaks down the latest science happening in the human world AND the pet world.
Each episode will also bring you a guest to enthral you with their area of knowledge.
You'll learn, be captivated, and laugh along with host Jason Zackowski.
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PetChat November 18: Tales from the Furry Side
Ever had your dog eat your homework? Well, you're in for a treat as we recount the laugh-out-loud antics of our furry family members, Bunsen and Beaker. From adopting Bunsen, our loveable furball who seems to have an insatiable appetite for homework and loaves of bread, to the hilarious shenanigans of our cat Ginger who seems to be running her own science experiments, this episode is a delight for all pet parents.
We then shift gears to the Twitter dog playdate where a community member met the famous Canadian Penny and Adventures of Sky. Picture this: Fiona and Sophia, our playful duo, hatch a plan to open a beef jerky package while Sasha, the serial cereal thief, leaves us in stitches. Amid the laughter, we also take a moment to discuss the heartwarming stories of our dogs finding their forever homes, and the launch of Dr. Jen's book, Purest Bond.
Finally, we wrap up this episode with a tribute to our community of pet lovers. We share tales of Bunsen's smart antics, and newly adopted senior dog, Benedict Cumberbatch. Our pets aren't just companions, they're an integral part of our lives, providing endless laughter, warmth, and even a little mischief. So come, join us, as we navigate the hilariously heartwarming world of our pets.
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Speaker 3:Hello pet enthusiasts. My name is Jason Zakowski. I'm the dog dad of Bunsen and beaker the science dogs on Social media, and my co-host is Hi there, I'm Chris Zakowski.
Speaker 1:I just kidding. Just kidding, my name is Chris Zakowski and I am the dog mom to Bunsen and beaker and the cat mom to ginger.
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Speaker 1:Jason, you've always been good at that.
Speaker 3:No, no, I kind of stumbled through it occasionally. What never, okay, never well, we're at the sharing point for our stories. Christy, do you want to go first, or did you want me to go first?
Speaker 1:well, I just wanted to say that Bunsen definitely ate the homework this week. Okay so it's so funny. Sometimes he gets very puppy-ish and he was just jumping up and down and spinning and then he was like huh, and Then he found a piece of paper that was on the floor and he started just shredding it like shred, shred, shred. And I'm like what is going on? And Jason said, chris, that's your assignment. And I was like, oh no, I would yeah, was your math work you were doing you thought it was my math.
Speaker 3:I'm sure it was your math.
Speaker 1:No, it wasn't, because then I went over to him and I got it away from him and it was the receipt. It was a receipt for Adam's dental cleaning, okay, which I hope we don't need anyway. So I took it and held it loosely and Bunsen got up and he stole it back.
Speaker 3:He jumped up and he stole it from you. He's been and he ran away with it. I couldn't. I know he he never wrecks anything.
Speaker 1:Never Jason. Sometimes he is a miscreant.
Speaker 3:He, he had something going on, he, I don't know. It was hilarious. My favorite was you took it away from him and you're like Bunsen, why are you? And then mid-sentence, he, like, he just like, nimbly, just snatches it from your hand. You know how, like if you got something and somebody just just whips it and takes it.
Speaker 1:That's what it was like and then you do that to me.
Speaker 3:I know it's hilarious because you're so fast. Yeah.
Speaker 1:I'm not that fast anyway. So today, that that's awesome. And then I, I I gave the dogs a little treat here, because that's what keeps them calm during pet chat. Yeah last week I bought these other chews and it was not good. It was not good come midnight. Do you remember, jay?
Speaker 3:The Bunsen throw up. Oh yeah, he had a giant puke.
Speaker 1:It was giant, it was terrible.
Speaker 3:Yeah, he's got such a sensitive stomach like anything wrong he just throws up.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so I have to be very careful with the things that we give him. Yeah but that was last week, so this week I'm much more careful.
Speaker 3:So, speaking of things that Bunsen shouldn't be eating, yesterday I, when I came home, I beat Chris home. Normally that doesn't happen, but I did. I beat Chris home and I came in and there was a loaf of bread on the ground, like a whole loaf of bread. I'm like, what is this doing on the ground? Why is there a loaf of bread on the ground? And Then I that I look and there's like a little tiny, like little tiny puke of bread. I'm like, oh God, and In the living room there was another loaf of bread wrapper, like an entire loaf of bread wrapper. That was gone.
Speaker 3:So I think that I think Thursday evening you went grocery shopping and you didn't quite put away everything and we both were exhausted and went to bed and and yeah, so the dogs ate an entire loaf of bread and they were so full. When we came home, they were so full, they were so full. Both Bunsen and beaker didn't want supper. That's how full they were. And and they had, they had. They have really had to go to the bathroom. We'll say so. Occasionally we are not the best pet parents. Sometimes we forget and that's a hundred percent on you as a pet parent, if you leave food out and your dog gets into it.
Speaker 1:Well, I'm wondering if ginger is in cahoots with them a little bit. She was knocking.
Speaker 3:Yeah, what did she do today? What did ginger do today?
Speaker 1:Ginger was on the counter and For some inexplicable reason, you left a potato on the counter and and she knocked it on the floor right to beaker and it was, I think, an instant replay of the bread, because beaker was right there, very interested in being the recipient of the prize being knocked off the counter, and it was a potato and beaker was like no, thank you. But I really think, like if we had a crime scene Reenactment, it was exactly the same.
Speaker 3:I wonder if ginger's doing what she's run. Ginger's running her own science experiments, like Knocking stuff off to see what the dogs will eat, and she's like got some lab work somewhere, some observation chart. She's like bread that worked and then potato big axe. Nope, not potato. So yeah, they're okay, they had their, they've, they've, they've pooped out all the bread.
Speaker 3:They're totally fine, they're good to go and we don't have any cool beaver news or anything like that, because the creek was all froze up and the only thing my wildlife camera got was the mouse that just ran back and forth and back and forth across the log, setting off the wildlife camera.
Speaker 1:Did you share that?
Speaker 3:I don't know, it's not very interesting.
Speaker 1:People might be interested in well.
Speaker 3:I thought it was gonna be the beaver, and every time I looked it was the mouse and then the well the ones. Kind of cute because he Stands there and looks at the camera.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's kind of cute.
Speaker 3:I don't know what it was doing. It was working, for the mouse was running back and forth across the log for three hours.
Speaker 1:It was probably getting away from the owl right?
Speaker 3:Well, that would be interesting. I would post that if they the most got, you would not if the most got a, but I would you would not post that that would. That would get us some engagement, as they call here on X.
Speaker 2:That it's terrible.
Speaker 3:It's the circle of life, Okay no all right.
Speaker 3:Well, that's, that's about it. For a must, we I'm gonna share some more a little bit later, because we have some exciting stuff coming next week for the the week of Black Friday, so I think we'll start to bring folks up and again, here's how the rules go. We don't generally bring up accounts. We don't know and definitely that's not gonna happen anymore. So unless you're following us and you're a relatively new account If you're, unless you're following us where you are an established account you're probably not gonna get up. So that's just how we roll to keep the space safe. Took a chance on a new account the other day and I got burnt, so we're not doing that anymore. So, as we bring people up, we'd love to hear your pet stories or questions. And who should we start with? Chris?
Speaker 1:Well, there was someone, the adventure guy but he's gone.
Speaker 3:Oh, I saw him requesting, but we were doing our thing. Sorry, chris, go ahead.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but we have Sasha, Yep Sasha, and then teen, and then Baden or rich, and then Kathy.
Speaker 3:Kate sounds like a good plan.
Speaker 5:Hey guys, hello, so I just wanted to. I've got a few little pet stories this week, but after last week's pet chat while I was still in Ottawa, we had the epic dogs of Twitter play date on Sunday. So they've got a really cool thing near where Benson and Bowie live. They've got one of these private dog parks that you can reserve a slot. Oh so so that you know your dog in there for rents can come play. You don't have to worry about some strange dog you know messing up your good vibe.
Speaker 5:And it's a really, really nice park.
Speaker 5:But I met the very Twitter dog famous Canadian penny and oh my gosh, she's as amazing as we all think she is, and a lot of people will see pictures of her and talk about just how Soulful her eyes are and they really are.
Speaker 5:There's so much going on when you look in her eyes. It's just one of the most beautiful things. But I also met Adventures of sky, who was a golden mountain doodle she's a golden doodle, burn a doodle cross, and I wanted to take her home because, my god, she was so sweet and she was there with her famous pink Bali, and obviously Benson and Bowie were there and a few other dogs that we know from dog Twitter, and it was just the best experience and I just want to say thank you to all of the humans behind these lovely dogs. But they're just wonderful people and I got so many gifts for Sasha. It was pretty amazing, and One gift for me. So sky and her family had gone to a sugar shack a while back to tap maple syrup and I got some of that maple syrup and boy am I looking forward to making some pancakes.
Speaker 3:Chris and I Chris and I were just talking about maple syrup yesterday. That's hilarious.
Speaker 5:Is this just not the greatest thing we have here in Canada? I'm just saying.
Speaker 3:I was teasing her because we were out of syrup and I was gonna. I was like, okay, when I go to the store I'll get get some aunt Jemima's. And then Chris caught what I was just teasing her and Chris lost her mind. She's like you will not know, you are gonna get maple syrup. What's the matter with you?
Speaker 5:Exactly.
Speaker 1:It's no longer called that.
Speaker 3:Oh, is that? It's not what it's called. It's called Jemima's.
Speaker 1:No, please don't. Oh. And then, like you could say, like the save-on brand Western family.
Speaker 3:Oh sorry, they changed the name of that, okay. Well, I apologize everybody. I didn't know that.
Speaker 5:Yeah, and you were talking about you know, ginger helping the dogs get food. So this was a few years ago, before Sasha, when we had our dog Sophia. We also we had our kept Fiona at the time, and my dog walker walked in on them uh, standing in our kitchen working on a package of beef jerky and we are pretty sure Fiona knocked it off the counter onto the floor, so if he used her teeth to open it and the two of them had a snack, so oh man.
Speaker 5:Yeah, telling you, man, you cannot trust those cats. You absolutely cannot trust those cats. And apparently, while I was gone in Ottawa, Sasha stole my husband's box of cereal off the counter and ripped up the cardboard, made about half the cereal.
Speaker 3:So second breakfast second breakfast.
Speaker 5:Man, you know it's, but you know it's funny we were talking about. You know, if you leave it out it's your fault, and I was just going to like you shouldn't have left it on the counter, honey, cause she knows she's not supposed to serve off the counter, so she waits till you're not in the room and then she will go serve off the counter. So, uh, one other thing. Uh, this came from a conversation Lisa and I were having last weekend and we got to talking about Adam's late snake. Uh, ackless Yep, and how, uh, the ultra's of parliament has been down a band member since his sad passing and we think beaker should recruit Norbert.
Speaker 3:Oh my goodness, On drums you could use his tail.
Speaker 5:Yes, that'd be the best, and you know there's some ripe text from Bunsenage there too.
Speaker 3:Well, also, ginger isn't in the band either, so that's the other thing I was thinking about too.
Speaker 5:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Um, I can talk to Sam or cartoonists and we'll brainstorm some new, some new artwork for vultures of parliament. And and over Christmas I I write two new songs for vultures of parliament.
Speaker 5:So Ooh, if that's very exciting, but anyway, yes, I just thought Norbert would just make a fantastic driver.
Speaker 3:I agree.
Speaker 5:Yes, so anyway. Uh, that is all I have for this week, but, as always, I am having a great time here at pet chat and I see that Donna's here and I don't want to know what time it is where she is.
Speaker 3:It's probably like a decent time in the morning.
Speaker 8:It's 2 30.
Speaker 3:2 30 in the morning. Oh my God, you're too Okay. Sorry, I thought it was going to be a decent time.
Speaker 8:Oh no, it's not Australia. Like we're um, you know she always goes all the time. She's like good morning, I'm not that cheerful yet.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 5:I hope you're having a great time, Donna. I love the pictures.
Speaker 8:Keep them coming, thank you.
Speaker 3:Thanks, Sasha. Uh, we'll go to it's team next, right.
Speaker 9:Hello, hello, I've missed you guys the last couple of weeks and I apologize for that. Um, I have a couple of stories to share and one of them is related to the golden ratio. Um, last year, nacho cheese fry was put in my hands. As here's a very, very broken dog, please fix him. Uh, he went. The golden ratio was a perfect place for him. It turned out that he was not as physically broken as we were led to believe. Um, he had some other broken areas which made him reactive and aggressive towards Remy. Um, I just experienced that same thing in my house. I adopted a Aussie doodle that we are 99% sure is one of Anderson's litter mates, maybe the litter mate before this poor dog. Um, some really, really bad things happened to her in her short lifespan. She has never been around another dog since her litter mate.
Speaker 9:Um it became unsafe here. We had a total of four dog fights. We did have an injury. She tried to eat the cats and she ended up having to go to the bite jail at the city shelter. It's where they go into quarantine. Her shelter is amazing at a private room. She had constant death just loving on her.
Speaker 9:I posted her up for adoption the day before. Someone here locally was already following us on Facebook, saw that story, wanted to get in on her because both dogs are fully vaccinated. The city let her out of bite jail early because she is going to be the only child and are going to be able to give her everything that she needs and there'll be plenty of time. Um, it's going to take a good year to get her socialized to be around another dog. They all the time in the world for that. So that's really really neat.
Speaker 9:Um, not, her birthday was this week and it's also the launch, as most of us know, for the purest bond by Dr Jen. Yeah, and if anyone listened to her book release party on zoom, we got a little shout out for introducing not to them, and it's fantastic because in the book the dogs are all indexed and you can, you know, find your favorite ratio dog and read in the book what's about them, and I don't know if it's like super official or not, but, um, she called us out and they, you know, yeah, we're in the injury section and I thought that was hilarious. So back on that we had some more crossover stuff this week. The very positive side Alpine animal hospital. My vet called me with a very special little old man who is absolutely perfect. I'm going to drop his story in the comments right now so Chris doesn't have to look too hard to put it in the nest.
Speaker 9:He is a seven to 10 year old Cavalier King Charles spaniel, which is a mouthful and we named him Benedict Cumberbatch a friend actually, you know begged and I promised that they could name the next herd dog and she's like I don't know a lot of celebrities. I know Hannibal and I want well, we just had a dog biting incident. We can't have a Hannibal. It's Benedict Cumberbatch. Um the internet there's lots of fan accounts where they just butcher the spelling of his name and make up funny things and all of dog. Twitter and X are on board with this and I went every single day at the. You know the new name spelling. It's the same name, it's just we spell it differently. You know, you know bendy full cucumber, the cucumber stories, it's own little thing and that eyes him with Barry and his love for sandwiches and what is a sandwich and what isn't a sandwich and that ties into your bread story. We are just hitting all the marks tonight. I love it.
Speaker 3:Well, I I did see your story about um Tilda and I think it was I know you were probably it was. It was awful that they're, the incident happened, but I think we all are are totally in your corner that you did such the right thing happened for that dog and um, like some dogs, just have to be the only child and that is okay and that is totally fine.
Speaker 9:Absolutely Okay.
Speaker 9:And she may never be able to be around small dogs. I think she has the potential to be a big dog, but either way, um, her new family, they don't, you know, they don't care, they just they levered a bit. I did have a solid month with her. Um, she learned three words in sign language. She just needs a human. She was deprived of human contact also, and, um, there's just like every bad neglect story, it happened to her and it broke my heart, but I did have to be the adult and do what was best for her, as well as the rest of the herd, everybody, to be safe and loved. And that's not always in my house.
Speaker 3:Yeah, no, and I, we, I saw that and there's. You know, you could just look at the comments. Everybody was like that's, that's just what you have to do, and um, and that the life for that dog is is still going to be an amazing life, and that's, that's just amazing.
Speaker 9:Yeah, kuno's mom made a comment um about on the socialization, and I do recommend that everybody get a puppy class. I loved it when you guys took beaker, even though it was in COVID and you had to wait, and she still she had Bunsen. It's just, it's so important Learn to be around a dog that's not in your home. Um, even just you know to don't jump on another guy, don't jump on the person. There's basic matters. Um, there's a lot of work. You've always preached about how there's so much work that goes into having a dog and I respect thank you for always sending that message out.
Speaker 3:Oh, thanks, team. Uh, chris, just put like 60 things up in the nest so everybody can take a look at. Take a look what's going on there with the herd. Um, if it's okay with you, can we go to the next speaker? We've got quite the docket.
Speaker 9:No, yes, but I have. I have one more thing because I look for public support every year that you have done this, we have done the end of the year wrap up, and since you said it's almost December, I want you to know I'll be a hundred percent available if you want to do that again.
Speaker 3:Oh, okay, yeah, we'll talk, and we'll talk through DM.
Speaker 9:Okay, perfect, all right, love you all. Thanks so much.
Speaker 3:Oh, great update. Uh, Chris, who's next? I have no idea.
Speaker 1:Uh, okay. So, um, we've had Sasha, also known as Holly. We've had teen I think we were going to go to um Baden, uh, rich. And then we have Kathy. Um, I don't know if you brought Donna ahead of Dr Tracy.
Speaker 3:I don't know, We'll get. We'll get to it.
Speaker 8:Everybody can talk first. I can go last, Chris.
Speaker 3:Okay, go ahead, rich, hey guys.
Speaker 4:Hi, hey, uh, um, your, uh. Your bread story reminded me of a uh bread story of my own. Um, um, just around, when we were allowed to have people over again, um, I decided to try my hand at baking bread and the first couple of loaves. If somebody had broken into the house and I threw the loaf at them, I probably would have been charged for assault with a dangerous weapon.
Speaker 3:It was like a fruitcake.
Speaker 4:Oh, they were solid, oh Lord where they saw it so managed to get two loaves just right. We had some friends over for supper and we must have had the bread just right, because we went through a loaf and a half of it between six or seven of us. So we were doing the goodbye thing, which in Nova Scotia you start with your kitchen goodbye, and then there's the front door goodbye, and then there's the porch goodbye, and then there's the car goodbye, and then you wave at them as they go down the road. So the whole process takes about 15 minutes. So and Baden has a bread addiction, we cannot leave bread anywhere where he can get it. And so we sort of forgot this and we left the loaf on our kitchen table, where we quite often eat, and came back in and sure enough, he had the loaf between his front paws and he was munching on it. But he had eaten. He left the crust and had eaten the entire center out of this homemade loaf of bread.
Speaker 3:Oh my goodness, he was making a dip bowl.
Speaker 4:Yeah, and the look on his face was yes, you caught me and I don't care because this was good, and so that if and if I, if you may, if I may, indulge. You had a thread on pets and kids, or dogs and kids. You had a few. Anyway, our grandson who's three. He comes by every Thursday to spend time with Nana and Papa and you can run laps. You can go in one door in our TV room, go together, go through the kitchen, go down the hallway, come back in, run round and round and round.
Speaker 4:And I can't remember who grabbed the pink octopus first. Might have been grandson, might have been baden dog and then baden tease grandson with pink octopus. But they ended up doing laps around the house. First one would have the pink octopus and the other would chase him, and then it would get swapped around and they chase back. It was really quite funny. But what was amusing or cute? If you will baden smart enough to realize that if you can't catch you in one direction around the house, he just waits for you to come around the other way and gets you there. So that's my two doggie stories for the day, both cute, and I hope people found them rather amusing.
Speaker 3:Those are great stories. Rich Bunsen is like Baden. That way, right, chris. Like Bunsen, he is not fast, but he uses his brain to outwit the things that are running away from him or that he's chasing, which is really funny in our house.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he can triangulate and out think like a boy or a rapids.
Speaker 3:Yeah, he out thinks little kids, yeah.
Speaker 4:Well, one of the dog parrots we go to occasionally there's a whip it and of course you know how fast that thing will run.
Speaker 3:Those things are fast yeah.
Speaker 4:And he'll be doing. He'll get all the dogs to try to chase him and he'll be coming around the trees or shrubs in one direction and Baden will chase him a little bit and then he'll go nope, freak this, he's going to come out here. I'm going to wait, and he'll just go into a crutch and wait. He's, yeah. Some days he's really smart and other days his one brain cell wanders off without him.
Speaker 3:Love your stories, rich. Thank you so much for coming tonight. It doesn't surprise me that a chocolate lab loves food, and especially bread.
Speaker 4:So did you see? One of the labs on Twitter is been quite, was quite whiny because his girl human is working out of the house, as a boy human is working in the house with lots of snacks and he was told that he had to go on a diet because the boy human was giving him too many snacks, which I replied to which I replied diet to a Labrador actually translates to eat all the food you can steal.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I know if you, if you can put that up in the nest. I'm sorry, maybe I missed that one.
Speaker 4:So Okay, I'll put it on the purple thing and then well, yeah, chris will throw it up there or I will.
Speaker 3:Yeah, we'll get it up there. Chris is like a ninja at that in the background. All right, thanks, we'll go to Kathy next. Hey, kathy.
Speaker 6:Hi there All right?
Speaker 3:Are you recovered from your amazing trip?
Speaker 6:I am finally recovered. I have to admit, travel is hard on me, especially when I'm traveling alone, because that means I have to pay attention to everything. The interesting thing was I thought I was going there for a friend of the Golden Ratio Squad meetup. It turns out I was there for a friends of Bunsen and Beaker meetup.
Speaker 3:Oh really.
Speaker 6:Everybody sitting at the table at lunch. I just asked how many of you follow Bunsen Beaker? Oh, I do, I do, oh, of course I do. Oh. That's how I found the Golden Ratio.
Speaker 5:Oh.
Speaker 6:Bunsen Beaker. I mean to a person, Dr Nancy was there. Dr Nancy's on tonight, oh cool, and she's the most wonderful person ever, Nancy, you're wonderful. So it was just the nicest group of people, all of whom follow you, follow Jen and Ingo follow Breivorman. It was like follow Teen. There was a lot of conversation about Teen and all the work that Teen does. So it was such a cool group of people I mean just couldn't be better. That's so sweet, Couldn't be better From all over the world. And there were two people there from UK, which was like shocking. I do have an Ellis story. I traveled very light when I traveled, so I had only worn the pants that I wore to the day that I was dog wrangling mostly Feta and Remy for like half a day. So I thought I can, I'll be able to wear those home again, which I did, and Tom brought Ella with him to the airport to pick me up she was excited.
Speaker 6:Yeah, she was excited to see me. And then we got home and she sniffed me up and down and would not look at me the rest of the day.
Speaker 7:Oh, no, oh yeah.
Speaker 6:She wouldn't come. She wouldn't Nothing. She just turned her head and looked the other way.
Speaker 3:Oh, jealous.
Speaker 6:She was really jealous. I had to take the pants off, put them in the wash and by Thursday then she would had come around. But boy, that night it was like no, I don't know where you've been, but I don't like it at all.
Speaker 3:You brought back. You brought back the smell of like other animals and then probably the dog's brain's just race, right they have to, I'm sure.
Speaker 6:I'm sure I had golden retriever hair on my pants, must have, but just so. Everyone knows they are the sweetest dogs. They were all so well behaved. There were 270 people that went through the line to have book signed and those dogs are perfect. And Nancy also dog wrangled for a while and it was just. It was amazing to see how well they do Even little Feta. She was not crazy at all, she was really quite calm and especially when she had Remy with her. So it was wonderful.
Speaker 3:That is so sweet. I was looking at the photos. I had a crazy busy week but I knew that was happening, so I was. I was watching and looking at all the photos and we're just such big fans, too, of the golden ratio and we're just so happy for Jen and this book and you know, it's just wonderful. I wish I could read when goodness just the one thing, like when goodness is rewarded, that is special. Like when goodness is rewarded, that is. That is what is important.
Speaker 6:Absolutely and honestly. Jen and Ingo are also, just like you and Chris, just the nicest people. As wonderful in person is, they sound on their podcasts and everything else Super generous, super nice, fun, absolutely. I wish I could remember the names of all the people who are followers, who were there, but unfortunately I know their real names now and I don't know their Twitter handles. I have to go back and look at the list to see Clare Dog, I know, but other than that, I don't know their Twitter handles, just to know how. I know how we always talk about something relating to FEDA or the golden ratio on PetChat. Well, down there we were talking about Bunsen and Beaker and you and Chris, so just so you know.
Speaker 6:So thanks again for bringing a great community like this together.
Speaker 3:That's super Well. If we ever, if a publisher ever, reaches out to us and we write our book, I guess you all are going to have to come up to Canada for a big old party.
Speaker 6:I'll be there.
Speaker 3:All right, thanks Kathy. We'll go to Thank you for everybody for waiting. We have some people patiently waiting in the queue, so I see you there. I see, like Richard and and Shell, we'll go to Dr Tracy and then Donna and then we'll we'll get through the rest of the queue. Dr Tracy, hello.
Speaker 2:Hello, hi everybody.
Speaker 2:Hi I actually have two stories, but it's getting kind of late and there are lots of other people here, so I'll save one for next week because it's ongoing. It's going to be going on for a long time. It's about socializing a dog. But the one I'll tell you is we adopted a dog not long ago. He's a mastiff mix and he was starving. He always ribbed so good. His hip bones are all the vertebrae in his back. It was awful and he's strapping up nicely now, but he's always hungry. He'll eat everything. Yeah, he understands this. One day I had a bag of puppy chews. They're really small, bite-sized little chews and they just make nice little snacks for my big dogs because they're all about 70 pounds. He got it off the counter and ate the bag, all the chews.
Speaker 3:Oh no.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, he loves those chews. He has to have them all the time and not long afterwards. My husband loves to make pizzas. He makes wonderful pizzas, and so he made a couple of pizzas and we ate one of them for dinner and the second one came out of the oven and we left it on the counter to cool a bit before we put it in the refrigerator to eat it another day, and we went in the kitchen. My husband noticed later. He went in the kitchen to check on it and it was gone. He ate, my dog ate the pizza, a whole pizza, all by himself, that is so much pizza.
Speaker 2:Oh it is, it really is. I can't believe him. So now we can't leave food on the counter anywhere. We have to put it in the microwave or the oven, and I don't know what we're going to do next week for Thanksgiving, because we can't leave anything on the counter. He'll eat it.
Speaker 3:No, you'll just have to. You'll have to just be very watchful or corral the dogs in a different location.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we'll have to put him up in the bedroom. Yeah, and listen to them. Have fits because they can get down to us. Yeah.
Speaker 3:Dr Nancy, our first dog. I've spoken about Callan. We didn't know what we were doing when we got the first dog. So well, callan was my heart dog. She was not very well behaved or trained sometimes and she literally would eat everything off the counter. So we had to do the same thing with her.
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah, I had a husky like that One day. He ate a pound of hot dogs and a pound of butter in just a couple of minutes. Oh my God, he was so happy.
Speaker 4:Oh.
Speaker 2:Well your story, that's my story.
Speaker 3:I can't wait for your next story next week.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it'll be ongoing for quite a while so.
Speaker 3:Okay, chris is back, are you okay? What happened?
Speaker 1:I wasn't able to hear anybody, and so I joined on your other phone and then it was a bit of a gong show, but I'm back using my old phone.
Speaker 3:Okay.
Speaker 1:And I was able to put some things in the nest. I don't know.
Speaker 3:Okay, there's some people requesting to be speakers, but we have a full. We have a full docket tonight, so sorry, we're not taking any more requests. We're going to get through the people that are waiting, dr Net. Sorry, dr Tracy. Thank you so much, donna. You're next and then we'll go to Richard and then shell. Hi, donna.
Speaker 8:Hello, hello.
Speaker 3:Oh, we're so excited for your trip. Oh my God, I've been looking at all of your photos every day whenever I've had time.
Speaker 8:I mean, we're so excited for you. Thank you, and I just want to thank everybody. There's some I'll post when I get back because it was a little spotty up in the art tick, but I first want to thank everybody who is part of Her group, golden ratio teen, everybody who was sending me birthday wishes or heartfelt messages when I finally dropped my mom's ashes off yesterday. I've been up to Canada and Alaska and I've seen the Northern lights before, but until you're on a reindeer, like underneath those Northern lights, going crazy and watching them run across the field, and then, I swear, one of the tour guides actually looked like Santa.
Speaker 8:So, and I you never know, but I know it was not intentional Um, he's just a Norwegian Arctic dude. Um, so, and and I cannot, I'm not part of the Norwegian tourism industry, I swear, but I would, um, spend money and come here all day, every day, and I can't wait to come back in the summer sometime because it is magical, so just absolutely magical. However, don't come now because that volcano in Iceland is about to blow and once that happens, we're all pretty screwed.
Speaker 3:You'd be stuck in Norway for a while.
Speaker 8:A hundred. Well, I, I fly to London in a few hours. That's why I'm up so early. Everybody's like why are you wait? Um, so I go to London and start the journey home to the US on Monday. So as long as it doesn't blow before Monday, we're good. Um, but I did have a day where I got to spend time with 200 and a hundred Huskies Um, and it was alleged Huskies. I'm calling BS. Um, because they're not the Huskies that I'm used to or seeing like Malamutes or Alaskans or Siberians. They're what. What is that Breed is a tamar, tamar, rent or something like that. It's a smaller version. Um, but those dogs were athletes and they were sweet and it was cold. Um, so I don't want to. I don't want to take up time because I want everybody else to have their pet stories from home. I'm sure when I get home I'm going to get the fuzzy turn from Cali, but I just want to wish everybody a happy American Thanksgiving and thank you all for your best wishes. I really appreciate it.
Speaker 3:You bet, donna. Uh, we wish you safe travels on the way home.
Speaker 8:Thank you, it's out of my hands but I'll be looking out the window making sure. I told Kathy cause Kathy and I were texting. Uh, I told Kathy. I said I mean I had to been a drill in two glasses of champagne. I was still wide awake.
Speaker 3:Uh, you're in the same position I was when I flew home from Kansas city after the I presented um, cause I had to fly out at like three o'clock in the morning, so I got like a couple of hours of sleep, and I was like what am I doing? Like what if I? What if I do go to sleep and sleep through my alarm? So that was a long day, so you were flying quite a bit further than I am, though, so best wishes, there We'll go. Thank you, yeah, you bet. Thanks.
Speaker 1:Yeah, donna, I just don't have words, but I, I really, um, loved your attribute to your mom, um, and just I hope you uh, found the closure that you were, that you were seeking, not that, um, like it's ever closed, but because your heart will always be with your mom. But I, just, I, just I just don't have the words to articulate just how, how powerful that was and and good for me as well. Um, another person who has lost their mom, and just, and with Jason's mom too, and just I just really hope that your heart is just a little bit, a little bit more whole, I guess.
Speaker 8:Uh, I, I appreciate that. I just wanted to have a tribute and, even though her ashes were spread in Colorado last year, I had some and I wanted to leave some in both her homeland, so Norway and Ireland, and I was happy that I got to do that. And such a stunning location. It took me a minute. I was waiting, waiting, waiting and then when I saw that place, I'm like that's it. So I appreciate your kind words, chris.
Speaker 3:Yeah. I don't have words either If it's if and when, or when my time comes and my ashes are placed someplace that beautiful. If my carbon can go back to the earth in a location like that, I think I would hope everybody after me has a bit of closure too 100% like that's in my will.
Speaker 8:I actually have money for a plane ticket for my needs and nephew to take me north, south, east and west on the globe.
Speaker 3:Oh love it. Okay, thanks, donna, we'll go to Richard and then she'll Richard, hello, Hello everybody.
Speaker 7:Hi, I found Adele's hiding place. She I've got to stand at the end of the couch and it's got this little mouse pocket in the back of it that is down by the floor and she likes to play boobong with these little tennis balls. Okay, and she'll bump it all against something so that it changes direction and she can turn and go after it real quick, because it's the floor is carpeted and she's real agile and she turns and moves real fast and and and she had booped these little balls up against the wall and they went in underneath that low end stand and were hiding back in underneath that. I found them and we've been learning fetch for the last three days. As long as I got treats in my hand, she brings it back to me. If I don't have a treat in my hand, she just goes out and, loving women, please boop with it again, that's it for me.
Speaker 3:That's a sweet story. Remind everybody what Adele is cat dog, sorry.
Speaker 7:Adele is Jack Russell Terrier.
Speaker 3:Jack Russell, right? Sorry, Richard, I just was trying to remember. Everybody's pets Boop the ball. That's what Beaker does. She boops the balls too. Bunsen doesn't really play fetch. If we throw a ball for Bunsen, he's just like why, why would you do that so far away? No, Alright, thanks, Richard. Okay, we'll go to Shell Shell. Thank you for waiting so patiently.
Speaker 10:Thank you. I just wanted to thank you so much for Bunsen and Beaker and everybody on here. I've had a super hard year and a half and just listening to you and all the stories about pets has been the bright spot in my days. I have a Nova Scotia duck to a language neighbor named Hunter. He's very sweet.
Speaker 10:I have not had a vehicle for the last little while due to circumstances and I had purchased these lovely beautiful sugar cookies for my grandkids for Halloween, you know, like black cat cauldron ghosts and such, and I had them pushed way to the back of my kitchen counter and winter could maybe get his front paws up and certainly couldn't reach the back. But I've been away from home a little extra longer because my commute is a little longer and he obviously is bored and starving because apparently I have not fed him in weeks. But he managed to get these cookies off the counter, kitchen counter, scarfed them all down. Then there was debris when I got home and of course he looked very ashamed when I got home but I think secretly he was very pleased with himself. The funniest part is the next day when we went for a walk and he's punishing me by me having to pick up his poo. His poo was blue from all the ice.
Speaker 4:Oh, oh.
Speaker 10:So that is my dog's dealing story for the night.
Speaker 3:I love Nova Scotia duck tolling retrievers. Chris got to meet one when she went to was it. Did you meet one in Nova Scotia, Chris, when you were in Rich's province?
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 3:Oh, my goodness, that's a layer. That's hilarious, and I was so jealous you got to meet one, because I love those dogs so much.
Speaker 1:I know, I know we were at this beach and I found a ball and I gave them the ball and it was just like so good.
Speaker 10:Well, if you're ever in Calgary and you want to meet up for a dog walk, I'm down.
Speaker 3:Oh, Calgary is a lot closer than Florida.
Speaker 10:That's right.
Speaker 1:It's also a lot closer than Nova Scotia.
Speaker 3:This is true. I actually think Nova Scotia is further than Florida, is it? It would be close it would be because you're going diagonal to Florida. Yeah, I'm going to check on the map. I'm going to check what's closer Nova Scotia or Florida from where we live. That's horrible. That's so big. That's so big. Canada and the United States is.
Speaker 4:I just wanted to mention the another name for Dr Taller Retrievers, or Nova Scotia Dr Taller Retrievers is Little River Dog, because they're originally from Little River, yarmouth County.
Speaker 3:I love that nickname for them.
Speaker 1:They're the cutest. Their nickname is the cutest, the cutest little doggy. I love them, the cutest little doggy.
Speaker 6:They do have a cute, they should also be called.
Speaker 3:Well, shell, thank you so much for coming to Pet Chat and telling us a little bit about winter. We appreciate you coming. Go ahead, sorry.
Speaker 10:Oh, I just thank you. It was nice to be able to speak to you all. Have a wonderful evening.
Speaker 3:You bet we can't take any more speakers because we're going to start to do some wrap up. So, yeah, I apologize. We had a lot of people want to talk today, and that is what PetChat is about. But we're we, Chris? We actually do have little people in the house that are running around, so I don't want to do PetChat for too long. So can we, Chris? Should we talk about the thing that's coming out next week?
Speaker 1:Jason, you can't preface that with. We have little people running around the house. Well, it's Ellie and Rafi are here, and yeah, Ellie and Rafi are here and Annalise is here to watch them.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's not fair to her to just keep yacking on here and have them her watch the kids so.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 3:Well, what do you? What did you think? People thought I was like Hobbits.
Speaker 1:I don't well, I don't know what I thought. I just, you can't just preface things with there's. There's things happening in our house without explaining.
Speaker 3:Oh, right Cause this is audio yes, it's just audio.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they can't see, but Rafi and Ellie are over, because Melissa wanted to do a craft thing and I said, yep, I can watch the kids for sure. But issue we have PetChat, and then Annalise was so gracious to be able to come over and watch the kids for the hour while we are doing PetChat, so that avoids any issues, even though Ellie is old enough to kind of look after. But you know, sometimes little sisters and brothers, little brothers and sisters they fight a bit. They fight a bit.
Speaker 3:Speaking of book launches, text from Bunsen to the book that Chris and I worked on all summer is launching next week. So we are going to be having I'm not sure what day it will come out next week Definitely for Black Friday. There's two, two things we're working on. We worked hard, like there's a print book, there is the audio book and there's an e-book, and so the print book, of course, is amazing. The audio book is all of the family working together to do all of the different voices of the characters. So it's like the audio book for the first volume, and then there's the e-book, and I spent a couple hours today and I added 50 extra pages into the e-book, so there's a lot of extra value if that's something that you want to get Now.
Speaker 3:We don't have a publishing company behind us because we're self-publishing, so I don't have a budget to go on any kind of like book tour, but we're really hoping everybody responds really well to the launch next week. If you love text from Bunsen the writing I think I've mentioned this before I've gotten better at writing jokes and, as we were kind of picking the best of the best for the volume two, they're definitely a step up. That's the theme. Yeah, so Donna mentioned we should do a book launch Zoom. Chris, we should do that.
Speaker 8:Oh yes, I'm on, I'll watch.
Speaker 1:I went to the book launch Zoom of the Golden Ratio.
Speaker 3:Yeah, we just have to find time to do it, because that's the only thing, because you work every night on prepping for teaching and we'll just have to carve out some time in the week. We'll organize that?
Speaker 1:Yeah, no problem, we'll do that.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I missed the Golden Ratio book launch Zoom, because the Ukrainian family, the refugee family that stayed with my parents they're still wonderful people. Jane turned 17. That's the Ukrainian daughter and she's a huge fan of baby Yoda. So Marina, the mom, asked me to come to Jane's party dressed as the Mandalorian for her birthday. So you can't say no to that. You can't say no to come to some girl's birthday party as the character she loves. So I did that. It was really cute and she was really surprised. So I was kind of. I knew I wanted to go to the book launch for the Golden Ratio, but Chris was there in our, in our place.
Speaker 6:So I'm Jason. Just do it in place of a pet chat one time, so you don't have to add an event on.
Speaker 3:Yeah, maybe we'll do that next Saturday. That's probably what we can do. We're hoping to have it launched before Black Friday. But I mean, instead of pet chat we could do it. Then Pet chat could be. Yeah, we could maybe do an earlier one, that way people in your parts of Europe can can come, so it's not like two o'clock in the morning, like Donna.
Speaker 8:Who's in. Well, I will take. I was on that Zoom as well at two o'clock in the morning, because I will show up it for people I care about at two o'clock in the morning. Count on it. But it was, I'm going to say, when Chris logged in and said, hi, I'm here. She was like a celebrity, everybody's like oh my God, chris is here, mommy baby is here. So, and then also I would be remiss in neglecting your little TV spot. You were so awesome, so I hope you get a show someday. I'm not trying to add more work, but you were awesome.
Speaker 3:Oh, that's right, I was on TV last week. I totally forgot about that. I was going to mention it and then I forgot. Yeah, so there's two ladies, linda Steele and Jody Vance.
Speaker 3:They are like they're super respected broadcasters and they kind of like reached the point in their career where they didn't want to be. They were like, I guess what would you call what they did, chris? Like they were the lead people on the news. What are those people called Like I don't know, anchors? Yeah, they were anchors. They were like the main anchors in Alberta and British Columbia and they were best friends and they're like this, we don't want to do this anymore. So they just pitched a show to the BC check, like the station for BC, and they're like, yeah, we'll give you a primetime show.
Speaker 3:So it was really cool that I got to be on that. So I'm going to be on that. I got to be on that. It's a really big show and I hope I did a good job. They love the section and they want me back. And Jody Vance actually wants to start coming to Pet Chat because she loves dogs so much, so we might see Jody in the chat. She actually she couldn't come today, but she might come next week. So yeah, that was cool. Well, thank you Donna. Yeah, chris said it was good. So I trust Chris, but I mean probably if I was bad she'd still say I did a good job.
Speaker 1:I would just say it differently. Like I was bubbling over with excitement and enthusiasm for how well you did, like I couldn't contain it. You were so good and if you weren't as good, I would say, hey, yeah, that was a good segment. So, yeah, no it was. It was excellent. You were clear, you were concise, you were funny all the things that you are in real life and so you really came across on the camera and you're passionate about everything that you do. It just was so good.
Speaker 3:That was stressful, though this is what nobody really knows is. I was teaching. I was teaching grade nines at on a on a Thursday was it Thursday at the end of the day? So they're like you have to have a lot of energy with the younger kids or they'll steamroll you and the, the vice principal, was supposed to come cover my class and he was supposed to get there, so I had 10 minutes to set up. He didn't come until one minute and 30 seconds before. I was supposed to be on the air with these people.
Speaker 3:So I'm like answering science questions and organizing all the kids and I'm like trying to email him like where are you? I'm, I'm on TV in a minute and a half, like what's going on. Of course I'm thankful he came to cover my class so I didn't have to get a sub. So he comes and I'm like, ah, so I go and set it up and and then I had to like you know, I didn't have any like set up in between to to calm down or anything. It was like what's the, what's the saying in the Hobbit? Out of the pan and into the fire. That's basically what it was like. Did I tell you? That's what happened, chris, I forget if I mentioned that.
Speaker 1:You did and I was angry oh oh, it's okay.
Speaker 3:I was really thankful I got coverage, because otherwise I'd have to get a sub.
Speaker 1:But it's still. It's still just. It didn't honor you. No, he well, who knows what happened there?
Speaker 3:could have been there, there could have been a fight or maybe something. You know like things happen when you're principal, vice principal, that just destroy your day. So, yeah, it's all good. My colleague was ready to step in and and watch their class and my class at the same time. So, yeah, I think if it wasn't grade nines, I wouldn't have been as worried. But like you can't really leave grade nines unsupervised because they may start fires or break windows.
Speaker 8:Hey, that sounds like the movie kindergarten cop. Are they that bad Jason?
Speaker 3:The group I have is incredibly intelligent, but they're a lot of energy. Yeah, who is your daddy and what does he do? I love that movie. I think I've seen that movie.
Speaker 8:Me too, and that is a great, great impression.
Speaker 3:I think I've seen that movie 10 times.
Speaker 9:And you could have seen it what?
Speaker 1:how long ago, 20 years ago, jason? And the line still comes oh.
Speaker 3:I haven't, I haven't seen kindergarten or cop in like probably probably 15 years, chris yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and there it is. Just like you were on the Austin Powers podcast and you knew that movie. Like you're an internet.
Speaker 3:That was so fun, I, but that's not part of Petschup. We don't have to talk. We don't have to talk about that.
Speaker 4:I was just wondering where your grade nines might have got the ideas to blow things up or set things on fire. I mean, I can't imagine where they would have got that.
Speaker 3:Well, you know I always say, do as I say, not as I do, and never try this at home, do it at a friend's house. So that's plausible deniability right there. Actually, yeah, and I do make sure there's no like explosive chemicals left behind in my classroom. But anyways, we should wrap up, Chris, because we're we've gone over a little bit and we we did mention the Bunsen and Beaker text from months and two, volume two, eternal winter. So look for that. We love everybody. We love everybody's support. This is our, this is like our heart and soul. So, just like I know Jen poured her heart into that book, we, we poured our heart in a different way into text from Bunsen, volume two. So we we'd love everybody to to support us that way when it comes out next week.
Speaker 1:And there is one more thing. It's kind of icky talking about it, but I made merch. I made ginger merch.
Speaker 3:Oh, you did. You made tons of stuff, yeah.
Speaker 1:You asked me to make ginger merch and I did something outside the box I made wine glasses.
Speaker 3:You did and guess who? Guess who we're sending the wine glasses to.
Speaker 1:Uh, steel and vans.
Speaker 3:Yeah, Steel and vans. So they're going to have their wine glasses on the TV show and they want a Bunsen and Beaker stuffy that they're going to have in the background on the TV show. So we're just really excited that this happened all of a sudden too. All right, so as we're wrapping up, remember we have a gift card from Barking Beyond and remember to use yeah, remember to use the code Bunsen B U N S E N to save 10% at Barking Beyond. Um, Chris, could you throw something of theirs up in the nest so people can collect through that if they're interested in shopping?
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Speaker 1:Yeah With Georgia. So cute. I saw that today and I loved the little uh soap right Like a cleanse timeline.
Speaker 3:Cleanse yeah, so cute Little baby, Little baby. Very cute. Dead time there. Sorry, there we go. The wrap up music, wrap up music. Whew. Well, thanks for coming to Pet Chat. Um, it's been a week for Chris and I. Uh, we have been so busy. I think I've fallen asleep twice in a chair this week working so hard on getting everything ready on top of our full time teaching job. So, uh, like we were both so looking forward to Pet Chat because it's for us too, it's something that we look forward to every week. Uh, many closing thoughts, Chris.
Speaker 1:Thank you everybody for coming. We really appreciate you joining us and sharing your pet stories and all the things that are happening in your world. We love listening to all of this and sharing this time with you.
Speaker 3:And I think I'm just going to echo, like what I said earlier, kathy and a bunch of other folks, we're, we're just so happy that uh like for for Dr Jen, golbeck and Ingo and the Golden Ratio, because when goodness is rewarded, um, it makes me feel that there's like the world is right. You know when, when things are, things are gray, and if that type of stuff gets rewarded, I, I hate that, I really hate that. But when goodness is recor rewarded, when the people who are doing good get, get that, um, man, I just my heart just swells for them too. So so I hope it makes the best seller. I hope we see Dr Jen on good morning America or whatever you guys have down there, the Americans, your big show, um. So yeah, go, golden ratio, we're cheering them on too.