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Pet Chat February 18th: Bunsen and Beaker in the Big City and other Tales!

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Welcome to another heartwarming adventure with the Zackowski clan, where pets are not just animals, but family, teachers, and comedians rolled into one!

 This episode is brimming with tales from the Calgary Teachers Convention, where our science dogs Bunsen and Beaker stole the show, to the hilarity of a service dog Easter egg hunt that showcased just how much fun our canine companions can be.

Valentine's Day might have come and gone, but the love stories we share here are timeless, featuring a viral video that swept our community off their feet. Tune in to hear about the dynamics between our furry friends - how Bunsen keeps his cool amidst Beaker's playful energy and Ginger the cat's successful, yet cheeky, attempts at scoring a second breakfast.

Our listeners also chime in with their pets' clever antics, proving that our four-legged pals are much more than just cute faces; they're masterminds at melting hearts and bending rules.

Lastly, we tackle the essential topic of choosing the perfect dog breed for families with special needs children.

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Speaker 1:

Hello pet enthusiasts, Welcome to Pet Chat. My name is Jason Sakowski. I'm the dog dad of Bunsen Beaker the science dogs on social media, and my co-host is.

Speaker 2:

Hi there, my name is Chris Sakowski. I am the wife of Jason and the dog mom to Bunsen Beaker and the cat mom to Ginger. I'm also a mom in real life and I have a lot of other roles like teacher and co-host extraordinaire.

Speaker 1:

You are the co-host extraordinaire. I think I need to throw Ginger into the intro for myself too, because she was hanging out with me today.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, where's the meow? Where's the meow.

Speaker 1:

Is that Meow? I don't think I have it on my soundboard. Is there one? Is there? Is it on? There's a dog there's?

Speaker 1:

What for, yeah, there's a dog sound effect on Twitter, but not a cat. I don't see a cat one. Okay, I'll make one on the soundboard for later. So I think, while we're waiting for people to sign in, let's hear a word from our sponsor. Pet Chat is brought to you by Bark and BeyondSupplycom. Bark and BeyondSupplycom is a small, family-owned company that started making joint supplements for dogs but now has toys and treats and subscription boxes. Skip the big box store and help out the little guy. Shop at Bark and BeyondSupplycom and use the code Bunsen B-U-N-S-E-N and you'll save 10% on your purchase.

Speaker 1:

If you're just tuning in to Pet Chat, hello, you will only see me on screen and anybody else that joins. We have a crew that. We have folks that join. Sometimes every week it might just be me. If you're interested about joining the live video, just give us a DM. We do kind of like curate the people who are allowed to be on live and you will hear Chris's voice. So Chris is not on live. We didn't quite get to have time to set that up. The hope is next week or soon she will also be on live, but Chris's voice is coming through. You'll hear her talk to me. She's on Twitter audio right now running the show. So I think it's time to share our pet stories, and then we're going to open it up to the community to share their pet stories, and that's what Pet Chat is all about. Talking about dogs, chris. Do you want to go first?

Speaker 2:

Well, are we going to share this story together?

Speaker 1:

Well, you can start it.

Speaker 2:

Okay, once upon a time we decided to get another dog. Anyway, no, jason and I did a ton of research on a presentation that we presented at the Calgary Teachers Convention called the Power of Pets in the Classroom, and Jason is in communication with the lead organizer and she makes your life so easy. It's like she is magic. You say I need this, and poof, it arrives. And oh, I need this, and poof, the red tape is cut. And so you asked if we could bring Bunsen and Beaker. Or did she ask if we could bring Bunsen?

Speaker 1:

and Beaker. So I touched the thing here. Just let me see if we lost our audio. Nope, we're good. So it was a bit of both. You submit different sessions to see if they get approved, right. If there's too many people presenting the same thing, they have to decide who's going to present, right? So they really, really wanted us to me to present with Bunsen and Beaker. So when my session got approved about dogs in the classroom or pets in the classroom, she was the one who brought it up and I said, sure, we would love to bring Bunsen and Beaker. I didn't know that was a possibility. And then, yes, the organizer helped us get through a ton of red tape to get dogs into the different areas, because Bunsen and Beaker are not trained therapy service dogs, they're not facility dogs, they're good dogs. But yes, that was the red tape, so that's that Well.

Speaker 2:

having said that, jay, there is a distinction between a service dog and a therapy dog, but then, there's also a distinction between a facility dog, so there's basically three tiers of dogs and I learned more about this in my research and I presented the feel good side of sharing. So you talked about the science and the research and the findings and then I talked about that in action, like the fruition of reading to dogs, the mobility aid and the heartwarming story about that little boy. I'm sure there wasn't a dry eye in the place.

Speaker 1:

Do you want to talk about that story? Because?

Speaker 2:

no, I'm keeping that in my pocket, Jason. That's for the presentation.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, but all these people here who were here, I don't think they're going to be able to get to our presentation. Oh but maybe later Maybe later.

Speaker 2:

Maybe that's one for later, sure, but yeah, because I want to, I guess, refine it when I tell it in Red Deer, but so it was just so awesome. But the I guess the stars of the show were not you and I no, not at all. No, not at all. The stars of the show were Bunsen and Beaker.

Speaker 1:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

And so we brought them, and we were so fortunate to be able to bring them on the Wednesday and have them stay at the hotel for the presentation on Thursday, and so that just alleviated so much stress of like driving to Calgary. Imagine in the morning where it's hairy, scary traffic. I'm driving the RS, which is a small vehicle which I can drive like no problem, but it is a manual transmission and if you're in the wrong lane and then you forget to put the clutch in, oh it's not good. Anyway, it all worked out really well. The dogs I said Jason, in the bag, did you pack Bunsen's brush? And then you said you didn't.

Speaker 1:

No, I forgot it was, I was. It was one of the things I forgot. I forgot a couple things.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, so full disclosure when I've forgotten my brush. I've used the dog brush to brush my hair, so I brought my brush with me and I used it to brush the dogs and they looked glorious. They did they looked really good, they looked really good. Yeah, I brushed a whole Bernie's mountain dog amount of hair off of Bunsen.

Speaker 3:

And it was a lot.

Speaker 1:

The extra fee that the conference had to pay to have the dog stay at the Hyatt, that we used every dollar that they paid Because of the hair that was maybe left behind in the hotel room, oh, but yeah. So we did a tag, team presentation, science, and then the kind of the empathy right, and Bunsen and Beaker were there for the cuteness. And so what was really fun was when Chris was talking I took Bunsen and Beaker kind of through the crowd and maybe it was a little distracting, chris, I think I, I think I don't know if there's a better way to do it, but what was really funny was Bunsen and Beaker really wanted to see everybody and when they were going through the crowd they acted very differently. Like Beaker went from person to person to person, whereas Bunsen would find a couple people and then just like sit on them, sit on their feet.

Speaker 1:

So it was really sweet and then after we did a whole bunch of meet and greets and people got to take their photos with Bunsen and Beaker and and that it was really awesome and we were so busy we have almost no footage of the whole thing. So I'm kind of hoping people who were there tag us or something, because we're just busy. Our hands are full with the dogs and our hands are full with presenting. It's not like we can get our photo photo and take media. So yeah.

Speaker 2:

Well, and having said that, like it was very full in that room.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, there was close to 100 people.

Speaker 2:

There were tables, and so circular tables and then chairs at the back, and there was not a lot of room for a dog the size of a bus to get through.

Speaker 1:

No.

Speaker 2:

And it was tight. Yeah, it was tight and, but he did very well Like up and down the rows. He was happy to be there. He actually was more well behaved than Beaker. So in the past Jason and I have done presentations when we went to tell us off Spark After Dark looking for Kevin. But when we went to Spark After Dark, bunsen and Beaker they weren't I guess, seasoned presenters. Now they've been there, done this, bought the t-shirt. They kind of know what to do, whereas Bunsen would be a little bit more vocal.

Speaker 1:

And because he's not moving. Because he's not moving? He wants to move around and see people and go adventure.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, and I was actually thinking that they were going to be similar to how they behaved during Pet Chat, where when I'm sitting on the phone like talking, they're like, hey, we're just going to cry the whole time. So I was worried about that, but that did not happen and Bunsen was very well behaved and Beaker just was looking at you.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, she wanted, when I was doing my part, when I was doing my part of the presentation, she just wanted to come with me and you had them kind of off to the side. She was like looking at me and then she barked a couple of times Because I think she just wanted to come hang out with me, which was sweet.

Speaker 2:

You liked it.

Speaker 1:

It was good for your part, well, and it was, and they kind of barked at perfect points sometimes in the presentation. So I would make an emphatic point, or you would make an emphatic point, and then Bunsen would be like, oh, like a little tiny bark as to accentuate the point. So it was really. It was really funny, even though even though he's like I need to go see some people.

Speaker 2:

No, and then you were saying some things about them Like they're good dogs, but maybe they're not always on their best behavior. And Bunsen gave you sass he did he's like and the people laughed. It was so funny yeah.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, it was awesome and we got great feedback. So, just being able to present Where's the feedback, like it was on social media, they're going to. There's going to be like legit feedback from the conference soon, but, like people were commenting, we had like three or four comments. I wish there was, you know, more tagging of us. People were taking so much videos and photos, but who knows what accounts those teachers have.

Speaker 2:

So, yeah, that's true, that's true, and you gave out prizes.

Speaker 1:

I did, I gave out prizes for the Kahoot game. Yeah, somebody won a beaker stuffy. That was really sweet.

Speaker 2:

And a Bunsen stuffy. And you gave out calendars too.

Speaker 1:

I did yeah, we gave out. Well, of course you got to give out some swag. People were pretty happy about that. Teachers love swag, that's like yes, they live for that stuff.

Speaker 2:

If I could have gone into the conference center where all of the booths were, I would have loved my life.

Speaker 1:

I know, but you had even more. But we had dogs.

Speaker 2:

We had the dogs.

Speaker 1:

So that's the majority of our story this week was the presentation, and the dogs did great. They were showstoppers and I think, like we're doing the same presentation at our local conference, it's gonna be even better.

Speaker 2:

So Well, yeah, because Bunsen and Beaker are gonna be there again.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, and we'll have it I wonder how many people will come.

Speaker 2:

Like that we actually like. No, no.

Speaker 1:

I don't know Because a lot of because people know us locally, whereas in Calgary how many people were following Bunsen and Beaker in the session? One person, two people.

Speaker 2:

Yeah.

Speaker 1:

Very few, right, very, very few people.

Speaker 2:

So yeah, so we'll see. We'll see how popular we are in our hometown.

Speaker 1:

advantage it's okay. There's the sessions that teachers wanna go to are usually ones that look kind of fun and not super super information based, and ours is looks like a fun one.

Speaker 2:

And like thinly veiled advertising.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, that's, ours isn't, but other ones are. It's like hey, I'd like to go learn about polymers and it's like an oil cut. It's like slumberge, an oil field company like trying to get recruit you to go go in the oil field or something. It's like wait a second, this is a bait and switch, bait and switch.

Speaker 2:

Well, before we go further, I've invited Benny and Bowie's mom, lisa, up to speak because, like I'm thinking, she's gonna wanna share a story that happened this week as well, that Ty and Bunsen and Beaker. We'll just be her, really.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, and a quick shout out to Marla Kuno and Chesney just arrived on live video too.

Speaker 2:

Oh, yay, well, I'm gonna turn that on, cause I haven't been doing that.

Speaker 1:

We got Lisa and we've got Kuno and Chesney. Lisa, did you wanna go now?

Speaker 6:

Sure, if that works for everybody.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, yeah, yeah, go ahead.

Speaker 6:

All right, like what a week. I have to say, valentine's Day was absolutely amazing and I sort of tuned in just like three minutes late, so I missed the story about the treats, but I can assume kind of what it is and Bowie and Benny are absolutely loving those treats.

Speaker 1:

Oh yay.

Speaker 6:

So thank you so much for that. So Valentine's Day funny story I'm at work when the video came out, so all day I'm checking my phone, I'm checking my phone. I'm checking my phone because it blew up. My Twitter was out of control.

Speaker 1:

Like my staff working walks by. Yeah, there's thousands of likes on that video.

Speaker 6:

Oh, my God, it was amazing, it was absolutely amazing. So my staff's sergeant walks by and he goes. You're pretty attached to your phone today. What's going on? And I'm just going a little bit of a love story, thank you. And anyway, so he just kind of chuckled because he's kind of on the periphery of everything he knows because of the Bunsen and Beaker stuffies and ginger stuffies that go out. But Benson and I have to say Chris and Jason, thank you, thank you again. Amazing, amazing video and just sort of a side story there, the Elvis song that played. I actually walked down the aisle to the guitar version of that. So it was just. I thought this song was so familiar and it was just and I thought I know why, because that was my wedding song as I walked down the aisle. So thank you for that and I can't wait to find out what the cliffhanger is. I just can't wait to find out what the end of that's gonna be.

Speaker 2:

Funny story is actually Jason, and my love song too. Oh my gosh there, I know. Yeah. So I didn't know Jason was gonna use it. And then he's like I've made the video and of course it plays, and by the end I'm crying. He's like is it that good? I said, jason, is that good? And then when you messaged that, I was like Jason, like, look like it's serendipitous, I guess.

Speaker 6:

It is the song Like we are truly like a family now.

Speaker 3:

That's all I can say.

Speaker 6:

So it is just amazing and it was just an incredible day and I just thank you again and the teaser. I honestly think that was my favorite part. Hi, I love you. Hi, like it's just, I saw it's, it was a ginger, she's the worst, that is. That was absolutely my favorite part.

Speaker 7:

She is the worst, worst, oh my.

Speaker 6:

God, it was perfect. It was absolutely perfect. So thank you and just Jason and Chris, you are just, truly, truly the best. Benny is so lucky to have you as a future mother, and I love it.

Speaker 1:

Now, sadly for the folks on Twitter, if you're trying to find that video, I had to delete it. We got a copyright strike with the, I think, the audio the audio that I made it on Instagram and then I downloaded it from Instagram and I guess the Elvis estate is watching that song very carefully. So we got a copyright strike and I had to delete it, so you'll have to watch it. You'll have to watch that video on Instagram or TikTok. It's still up there.

Speaker 6:

It may still be on our feed, cause it was still there. Oh no, it's on.

Speaker 1:

Well, unless unless you posted your own copy of it.

Speaker 6:

I retweeted it. Oh yeah, so it's gone the original.

Speaker 1:

if the original video is gone and then all of the retweets are gone as well.

Speaker 6:

Okay.

Speaker 1:

Yeah.

Speaker 6:

Oh, okay, cause. Yeah, we don't want you getting in trouble.

Speaker 1:

No, no Well we were.

Speaker 2:

We were at supper and I was just on Jason's phone cause I forgot my phone back at the hotel and I was holding his phone and we were talking about something and then it went bleh, your account is locked. And I said, jason, and I thought our whole supper was going to be ruined, because that's terrible. But Jason clicked a few buttons click, click, click. I'm like what are you clicking? He's like nothing. Click, click, click. And then it was back in action. And then he did some super sleuthing later and there were a bunch of other people around that song.

Speaker 1:

Around Valentine's Day 72 people on Twitter.

Speaker 6:

Okay, all right, so kind of like a forbidden love thing now. So it's good.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, it's good. The same thing happened to us with Mariah Carey, so any Mariah Carey stuff that we posted we got copyright strikes. This is a couple of years ago, so I just got to be, I got to be more careful. Leave the leave, I guess. Leave the audio, the music audio on Instagram. Leave the music audio on TikTok.

Speaker 6:

So I don't know when the love story's there, Jason, when the love story's there, you got to go with it. So it's.

Speaker 1:

I'll post it on the Pop-Hack, so the people that are members of our community I can post it there. That's fine. So I'll throw it up on the Pop-Hack for everybody.

Speaker 6:

All right, and that's it for me. So thank you for letting me share. It was a great, great day, and I'm still gainfully employed, despite me being on my phone the entire day that way.

Speaker 1:

Oh, my goodness, and thank you so much for doing the little date. Everybody was waiting not everybody, but many people were waiting all week for that video to drop and we wouldn't have been able to do it without your help.

Speaker 6:

No, it's a big deal and you guys are the ones that make it happen. It's just. My part is very, very little and I will thank Benny for cooperating this time and I promise that I honestly did brush him before the video and it was just like he shakes and that's it, like it's just he's done.

Speaker 1:

You look very handsome.

Speaker 6:

Thank you, I think so too, and Beaker beautiful as always.

Speaker 1:

So before we get to community sharing, Chris, since Lisa brought up Ginger being the worst, I think you have one more story that happened this week that I was not around for.

Speaker 2:

Absolutely, Jason, but our septic alarm is going. So we're gonna go to community sharing first, and then I'll come back.

Speaker 1:

Okay, so we'll leave that one in our pocket because Chris has to go deal with our septic alarm. Okay, so, if you'd like to share a pet story, we would love for you to come up to the stage to talk, ask questions, any of that and I know Marla's got Kuno and Chesney doing some stuff there. Marla, you're welcome to jump in at any time online and everybody will hear you on audio as well. So request the mic on audio and I will bring you up. I'm watching that right now and if you have a question or comment on Instagram or Facebook, you can post it and I will do my best to read it.

Speaker 4:

Well, we're here. Chesney, can you wave?

Speaker 1:

Aw yeah, super cute.

Speaker 4:

We had to wash the pee off of her head today, though. Oh no, it wasn't Kuno's, he's in the clue. She went for a walk with her current pistol and put her head where it didn't belong at the wrong moment. Otherwise, we've had a busy week, haven't we? You guys? We're getting ready for dog show season. We've got the first trial in four weeks, and so we've got a lot of work to get done and I'm super busy.

Speaker 4:

I just signed up to teach a six-week novice and intermediate level rally course at a dog training facility in Sherwood Park oh cool. And I'm planning a service dog Easter egg hunt for the service dog and training clients. Yay, that would be loads of fun, because dogs hunting I mean, every year I stuff little Easter eggs and I hide them and the dogs have to go sniff them out. And if you've never done this with your dogs, it's the best fun. You get their little basket and you go hunting for eggs and it's great. They love it, it's fun. They just don't like wearing the rabbit ears for the pictures at the end. No, but things to think about with spring quickly approaching.

Speaker 1:

That's awesome. Do you do it at like what I'm just thinking? When we do it here, we could have like tons of snow. Is it like indoors?

Speaker 4:

or outside, indoor, outdoors We've used school parking lots. On a weekend when there's nobody there, usually you'll have like little areas where you might have a tree and some stuff like that Playgrounds, if you can find an accessible playground. That's another spot that we do where we can hide eggs, even off the ground. And because I'm a bit of a dog nerd, I make sure to use extra special smelly stuff inside the dog eggs. So we'll use some chicken in some, maybe a meatball in one freeze, dried liver treats in a few, and the dogs have such a good time that's fun. Dogs like to use those scents, yeah. So, and planning it as a group type thing where everybody gets to jump off the box and it moved and scared her, but planning it as a group thing is always fun. So that and, like I say, lots of getting everybody ready for dog show season and teaching Chesney, teaching her a few new tricks. This week she worked on pulling doors closed using a ball and a rope.

Speaker 1:

Oh, Chris showed me a video of that. It's super cute.

Speaker 4:

And see, when I leave my apartment I can't wheel. Well, I can, it's just it's a pain in the butt because I have to wheel all the way back in to grab that door handle. And it's just so much easier if you can send a dog to go grab the rope than it said me to go grab the rope. Hey, you guys, where'd you go?

Speaker 1:

Yeah, they're doing their own thing now. They're doing their own thing.

Speaker 4:

They did, they left, they'll be back. Anyhow, let's pass it on and hear from the rest of our community.

Speaker 1:

Thanks, Marla.

Speaker 2:

They also were bed hogs. Again this week you posted another picture of them hogging the bed. I love that it's amazing Like they take up the whole thing.

Speaker 4:

It's like stunning the advantage the the lone advantage, I think to you know missing limbs is I don't take a lot of space in the bed, so they can kind of have a little bit more room. But yeah, they're professional bed hogs. I think that's a large dog trait, though they just have the ability to spread out and take the whole thing and like getting into bed. Kuna was actually my main source of how I get into bed.

Speaker 4:

I parked the wheelchair beside the bed. I have a wooden board that rests on the bed and I kind of use that to bridge between the wheelchair and the bed and I sort of shimmy halfway up, put an arm over the dog and pull myself the rest of the way, and it's not the most graceful thing, though. Sometimes I end up kind of just flopping over on top of him or beside him and he looks at me and just absolute dismay, and then I just sort of position myself at the top and he takes the rest. And well, once we got Chesney it just became more. But I'm pretty sure if I sleep sideways on the bed I could take up just like the top quarter and there's probably room for one more dog.

Speaker 1:

Oh, my goodness.

Speaker 4:

But I don't know if the landlord would be up for that.

Speaker 1:

Well, you know, it's better to ask for forgiveness than permission. That's what I always say. In fact, that was one of my slides from one of my science presentations. When Ben, whenever Bunsen, comes into our bed, it's like game over for space. He is so big but he doesn't stay for long because I think he gets hot. Like he doesn't stay for more than you know, half an hour. He gets way too hot.

Speaker 4:

I find that Chesney does that as well. She gets off the bed and goes and sleeps on the couch unless she hears anything that might remotely be food, and then she is back so fast it's not even funny. He has a cycle where he'll sleep on the bed for a few hours, quietly get off and he quietly comes back. But when I go to get out of bed in the morning, he insists on being on the bed and as soon as I sit up and start to move over to the edge of the bed, I've got a paw on me and he looks up at me and he's like no, you need to snuggle, you need five more minutes. And it makes it really difficult to get out of bed on time. How do you argue with like 120 pounds of dogs saying no, you need five more minutes to snuggle in bed.

Speaker 1:

That's a hard thing to argue with. I don't know how many mornings I've been like you know I have to. I take a bit of time on the couch in the morning, I do a little bit of social media stuff before I get ironed my dress clothes and I get dressed and get ready for school and then usually beakers on the couch with me. It's like you know, this is really hard to decide to just get up out of this situation.

Speaker 4:

Back that up a second. You iron your dress clothes. Yes, is that what normal people do In the morning? I'm one of these people and part of it is I've been single for a while now and you know, with being disabled it's not the easiest to put clothes away. So I have gotten in the habit of when the hamper gets full it goes into the washing machine, then it goes into the dryer and then the dryer, like my laundry room, is really small so I can kind of fit in and get things in the washer and it's not easy to get them out. But when it comes to getting them out of the dryer I send a dog in to get what I need out of the dryer. So every morning the dog picks my outfit out of the dryer for me and then when I'm done it goes to the hamper and when the hamper gets full it starts over again. So when I look bad I blame the dog because, like he picked the outfit.

Speaker 1:

And he's a great scapegoat. I can only blame my poor fashion sense. Normally I'm like, hey, chris, does this tie go with this shirt? And I think she just says yes to everything.

Speaker 4:

But I'm impressed that you get up and you iron your clothes Like wow for the motivation factor there.

Speaker 1:

It's my thing. Like every teacher has a style and my style. I wear dress pants and a dress shirt every day, so you know it's. They do get kind of wrinkly if you don't, if you don't iron them.

Speaker 4:

Well, I'm impressed.

Speaker 2:

Chris do you have a state of the art iron, because the last one broke.

Speaker 1:

I have a very nice iron. It is important to me to have a big iron that produces lots of heat and little picture you with the teched out iron. Yeah, yeah, I just about got one. That was even better, but I was scared of Chris, seeing how much money it was going to cost, so I didn't get it.

Speaker 4:

I think you're allowed that iron if she can have the Dyson hairdryer. You know that kind of thing.

Speaker 2:

I don't, I don't have that.

Speaker 1:

I don't know what that is.

Speaker 4:

It's like that $800 hair dryer that Dyson makes. That makes your hair pretty no matter what. And yeah it's. I just couldn't add them like $800 is a lot of money Compared to like my $20 Walmart hair dryer you bet?

Speaker 1:

Yeah, I Was just gonna. I was just gonna say, chris, was there anybody else who came up on audio? It looks like, looks like there's nobody. Nobody that came up.

Speaker 2:

No, there's nobody, but the good news is that the septic alarm is not on audio, because it turned off. Yeah so that's good.

Speaker 1:

Should you want to do, you want to tell your your story that you had in your pocket before you went away?

Speaker 2:

Sure, unless anybody else wants to come up to speak, we're open for business here. So we we left on Wednesday. We took two vehicles down to Calgary. Jason had the van full of science supplies up to the rafters and I had the RS and two dogs, so we both were full.

Speaker 1:

Your cargo is much more precious.

Speaker 2:

Well, your cargo could have asphyxiated you, so that's concerning. Anyway, I'm here, we are in the car, get there, stay the night and then Went to the presentation on Thursday. But I had to be back for Thursday night and so I was Get home with the dogs pretty late, like I'd say ten o'clock, 9, 30 or 10 o'clock, and Take them to outside, to go to the bathroom and then come in the house and ginger was like, oh, they're back. And the dogs were just happy to be home. They were still a little bit tired from travel and ginger was just waltzing around like she owned the place and she was swatting at both of the dogs and then beaker lost her mind. She's like no, you are not gonna swap at me, you are not going to be Doing Matt.

Speaker 2:

So it was Burke, burke, burke, it was fight. And then Bunsen who was in the front room. He came in a safety officer, bunsen, to be the buffer between the two and she's like swat, swat, swat, anyway. So then I said we need to calm down, everybody needs to calm down, it's time to go to bed. So we go to bed.

Speaker 2:

I've got beaker on the left of me and then ginger on the right, so I'm sandwiched between two animals, bunsen's in the hole protecting the door, and and there I am until morning. And then ginger was being all affectionate, like jumping up and like laying on my chest and like just Strutting in front of beaker and beaker was making, like these little jealous, oh, growl sound. She's like I'm jealous, I'm oh, I'm jealous, and ginger was lapping it up and I, and then beaker was like doing the growl. Well, like oh, and then I said no, enough, we have to get along, we all have to get along. And so beaker stopped and she laid down and ginger of one last watch, she was like swat, and then it all started again. I'm like no, this is not good, but they're getting along fine now.

Speaker 2:

Yeah like just over that. Oh, you're back. Yeah because ginger had the the rule of the roost right when she was all by herself here.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, she's like gone. Everybody was gone for a day and she owned the house. It's so funny. I Wasn't there for it. I wasn't there for it, I. I had to stay in Calgary for one more night to because I presented the next day all day. Okay, it looks like we got some speakers coming up. I'm throwing them up, chris.

Speaker 2:

I did, oh, you did, we both did we both did it, once Jen and then Donna okay. Hi Jen.

Speaker 5:

Hi, how are you all doing? We're good, good, I love hearing ginger stories, so so, so. So who's older, bunsen or beaker?

Speaker 2:

Bunsen's older Bunsen is six so beaker, yeah.

Speaker 5:

so when you talk about beaker and ginger, that's where the jealousy is going on, right?

Speaker 2:

Yeah, because Beaker is three and she is the little baby of the house and then we got ginger and then she's like, oh, what is?

Speaker 5:

it. It's adorable to watch. I mean, I mean you. So I just want to make sure I had this right. I mean, when I watch beaker and ginger, it's, it's just adorable, right, and it's cute to see them compete, you know, for the attention I mean, but it's, it's really classic, right. But I mean you can tell they're both really loved. But I don't know, I love the videos where I see them. You know you're, you're you know when, that when you see them like jealous of each other, and I think it's adorable, so, and I think it's totally normal. So that's all I had to say. So thanks for showing those, those clips, because they just make me laugh.

Speaker 1:

They make us laugh too, and and the like ginger and beaker, they do like each other, like they hang out all the time Like they were on the couch together for most of the day. They I don't, it wasn't couch wars, but they just wherever ginger is, beakers next to ginger, and wherever ginger or beaker goes, ginger is usually next to beaker, not touching but in the same room, and then, like Bunsen and ginger don't have a relationship at all. Nothing, bunsen it like it does. Yeah, bunsen and ginger have really no relationship at all, which is which is, I guess I think I actually find that kind of sad.

Speaker 5:

That's the way it is. I don't know why, but yeah, hmm.

Speaker 2:

Ginger swatted at him, though, like he wasn't free from the swat zone.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, but it does nothing to him. He doesn't care, does absolutely nothing. No it's like it's like a mosquito biting an elephant like it doesn't. It doesn't affect him.

Speaker 5:

So so I have to ask and I don't know much about dogs but Bunsen, how old is Bunsen for a dog of that breed? Like is he getting older?

Speaker 1:

He is. Yeah, he's getting. Yeah, he's getting up there. Yeah, he's still Incredibly healthy and runs like we. Well, he is older. He doesn't show his age.

Speaker 5:

I guess what I want is the best way to say yeah, but maybe get at the point where he's like meh, you know yeah maybe he's just a patient guy.

Speaker 1:

Like he dealt with beaker and was Never mean to her when he when beaker was like seriously biting his face, like he never was ever Mean to her. He's he tells beaker off a couple times, but that's like when he's eating and she's trying to steal his food, like that happens very rarely, but that's that's the only time he tells her off.

Speaker 2:

Jason, that happened last week.

Speaker 1:

What's that when beaker?

Speaker 2:

to steal his food. No, I was on the couch, oh right, I was like, oh hi, and I Was petting Bunsen on his head and then beaker came over and I was petting her on her head, yeah, and then Bunsen's like, oh hi, beaker, and he kissed her, he licked her on the head, and she's like that I'm having none of that. No, yeah, no. And then she lost her mind.

Speaker 1:

So and Bunsen just was like oh great I tried to be nice, he barked back.

Speaker 2:

Oh, he told her no, yeah, okay, but he's like no, I was being nice to you and you're being our BF. Yeah risk beaker face.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, but it's not like. It's not like he bitter, was violent, no, so it told her not to do that.

Speaker 2:

So no, and then they did their play bow and then run around.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, and then they're fine like there so.

Speaker 5:

Bunsen still has some, some, some boundaries, which is good. Yeah, he's got some boundaries.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, he's on a pushover, but, boy, when beaker was a little baby shark, when she was teething, oh man, all bets were off.

Speaker 1:

she, Like it, was, it wasn't good so sharp and he was hurt, she would rip chunks of his fur out and he would just take it.

Speaker 5:

Oh my god, I would love to hear you know someone that knows about the, you know pets and their the dynamics. What's going on with Ginger and beaker? I mean it's really interesting. But anyway, again, keep showing those clips. They're so funny.

Speaker 1:

Thank you, so you bet. Thanks, jen. Okay, let's do one more person from audio, and then there's a question on On uh video, chris sure, uh, it's Donna.

Speaker 2:

Okay, hi Donna.

Speaker 7:

Hey y'all. Something just interesting happened. Where the nest is now, people's faces show up. Who's talking At that time? I've never seen that happen. That just started happening on my phone. Really weird. Um Okay question for the group has anybody ever had their cat oaky doke them out of second breakfast? A cat, not a dog, a cat.

Speaker 1:

Like because mine did like tricked you for more food.

Speaker 7:

Yeah, she got me this morning because I had got, I had gotten up at 4 30. Um, uh, my stepdad's having some medical issues and then I got up to check on him and then, uh, I'm usually not that early, I'm up early, but not that early. So she's meow, meow, meow, meow, meow. So I gave her her, besides her dry food, she gets a wet food. So I given her that On a little paper plate. Well, when I got up normal time at 7 30, the plate was shoved underneath the chair where I couldn't see it, and she meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, like hello breakfast, and I gave it to her and then I found the plate. So I've I've never had a cat oaky doke me for second breakfast. I was wondering if y'all did.

Speaker 1:

Uh, ginger tries to trick chrysanite all the time. All the time she tries to trick us for more food.

Speaker 7:

Yeah, I've never had that happen and she's a. She's a fatty McFaddyton and I'm like she's on overweight management food, so she got me pretty good. It's like she had two big Macs today, so I guess today's her cheat meal.

Speaker 1:

I don't, that's all I can say is yet dogs. Dogs can be manipulative for more food and definitely cats can be. I've done a couple different like science breakdowns of like cats are. Cats are on par for manipulation, if not more than dogs.

Speaker 5:

Can I add to that my cat, miley. She's 16 years old and she has learned how to speak to. So I have a lot of caregivers sorry in my house for my kids. I have two special needs kids and she has learned different meows for each person that comes in the house, so she can have a buffet all day and we're getting to the point where, like, it's four to five different types of food a day. So I you know cats will do that, and I don't know if it's an older thing or whatever, but they will do it.

Speaker 1:

That. That was one of the things that I broke down in the study. Gen cats will develop a different meow, a different way of talking to different people. If it's effective in getting what they want and that could be attention, that could be a treat, it could be whatever right. So that is very true in the science.

Speaker 5:

Backs that up 100% and and it's amazing, and even you know I've heard about, you know the science before about the meows, but even the postures and where they'll put themselves, it's unbelievable. So, yes, cats will manipulate and they're smart. So the food thing, I absolutely yeah, 100%.

Speaker 1:

I wonder if people are posting in the in the chat about it. Chris, I'm going to let you look at that so I don't crash because there's. I've got enough stuff going on here.

Speaker 2:

Sure, there was. No one was saying anything in the chat. Okay, I'm just hello. And now there's an ad for oh, oh, paula, put the Dyson hairdryer in, oh you thought big brother was like putting ads in the chat from talking about.

Speaker 1:

Dyson.

Speaker 2:

I was like God can you imagine? I thought that's what. I thought that's so funny, oh man.

Speaker 1:

That's like, that's like an Elon thing, like to put ads, like we're just talking about Dyson and then Dyson ad shows up in the nest to advertise to everybody.

Speaker 7:

Well, that definitely happened to me. I was talking how I needed a massage and next thing, you know, I got 25 massage ads and not all the kind that you want.

Speaker 1:

Oh boy, so Jen answered that question, donna, about cats. Anybody else who'd like to maybe chime in, go ahead, put, put a little note in the chat or you could come up to speak. Nobody has done replied on Instagram. There is a question for Marla from Madison. I don't know if you can answer this one. Marla, love that you see that, right. I don't know if you see that on the Chiron there, love the dog roller. I'll let you go.

Speaker 4:

The roller dog toy. So that would be that over there. Yeah, truthfully, kuno does not like it at all. Chasney, on the other hand, thinks it's the best thing ever. You take the lid off and you put kibble or small treats in it and there's a little hole at the top that you can grab open to various degrees. And then there's a little hole at the bottom and they have to roll it around and depending on how much and how hard they roll and how small you make the opening determines how fast the kibble comes up.

Speaker 4:

Him no way. I think he's not going to be too much work. I think he prefers to be it's that's just not his thing. But Chasney thinks this is like the best thing ever and is happy to bop it around and swat it and chase it all over the place. Just different personality types. I think he likes things he can pick up and drop and actively roll, whereas this kind of just does that wobble back and forth, roll around. But we do a lot of those in the wintertime stuff like that, the fun feeders.

Speaker 1:

Okay, cool, thanks, marla. Thanks for answering that, madison. Hopefully that answered your question. Appreciate it. Are there toys that Bunsen and Beaker don't go for? Chris, like Bunsen's not really a stuffy guy except for his hedgehogs.

Speaker 2:

Right, there's that wobbly one that was Callan's like oh yeah. Bunsen wasn't a big fan of that.

Speaker 1:

No, Callan loved that toy.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, and then Ginger doesn't like her toys from Advent.

Speaker 1:

But Beaker loves Ginger's toys, that's right Beaker had like three of them in her mouth the other day.

Speaker 2:

I know she found them, but Tracy's been waiting on audio. Hi Tracy.

Speaker 3:

Hi everyone.

Speaker 1:

Hello.

Speaker 3:

Hi everyone, hi, hi, hi everyone, hi, hi, hi everyone, hi everyone, hi everyone, hi everyone. We are good. Hello, hi. So Ricky and I are doing good. His main thing is like trying to get treats right after he passes dinner and then he'll also. He wants like like the broth. So I've been doing that a little more. So I think I just might start buying him cans again. So he's losing it so, but he definitely just wants to eat like what's real at time. But I you're doing Kimmel as well, so.

Speaker 1:

Okay, sounds like a sneaky cat, maybe like Donna's cat.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, I mean he tried it, like you know, just wanting treats, like right after his dinner. I'm like he just ate and then he'll he'll like inhale his wet food and then probably still wants me to open another can. And so that's why I was trying to use those toppers, cause, like you know, I think there's a choice to go on my path of cans, but you just eat like a whole can and he'll be fine, and then what more food at a like not going to feed you, you're going to be super late again. So he's actually like a decent weight right now. So I kind of want to keep him there. I'll get him that much lower than that, but he's not a decent weight, so he's doing good.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, that's important. Yeah, say no to second breakfast most of the time.

Speaker 3:

Okay, thanks, tracy. What's going on, chris?

Speaker 1:

What's going on with the barking?

Speaker 2:

Okay, I am so sorry, I thought I was muted. I am so sorry, Tracy. Okay, so this is what's happened. Ginger is waltzed into the room where I'm hiding Because I can't keep the door closed because then the dogs will bark outside. And then ginger waltzed in and then beaker was like oh hi, it's you. And then he was like oh hi, it's you. And ginger jumped up onto my lap and did that whole sassafras thing, like I'm here on the lap. And then now Bunsen was coming in and I got a picture of all three of them and then I was doing the video and then Bunsen's like oh, I'm in a bark because that's who I am. It's been a times and shows, I tell you.

Speaker 1:

Go ahead Jen.

Speaker 5:

Oh. So I have a question for all the dog people out there. So I like cats because I'm lazy and they're not hard to look after, except for the food issue, which is that hard to look after. But you know I'm thinking about, you know, getting a dog. I have two special needs kids. Is there a dog that's easy to look after? Or you know, you know for us, you know not nice people, or you know cat people that is easier to manage and I would say stay away from oh sorry sorry, Jen Go keep going.

Speaker 1:

Sorry, I'm sorry.

Speaker 5:

I'm asking honestly. I mean, my favorite dogs are Huskies, Sheltees and big furry dogs, but I understand that I'm not like cats. So honestly, I'm asking from the dog experts here.

Speaker 1:

Every dog is unique, so like there are breeds of dogs that are maybe lower energy and more people pleasing but that's one thing to keep in mind that you could get any kind of dog and they're all individuals, dogs that you know would require probably less constant exercise and stimulation, I would stay away from the working breed dogs, so those are like your herding dogs. I would stay away from Border Collies, the Sheltees, the Kelpies, like those type of dogs I would stay away from those. Ones are very, very, very, very smart yeah.

Speaker 5:

Are you saying only a stupid dog.

Speaker 1:

No, no, those are. They're intelligent and they need a job. Right, Marla said. Marla suggested what I was going to suggest, and that's labs.

Speaker 4:

Labs are specifically English labs or bench labs.

Speaker 1:

Yeah.

Speaker 4:

They're super food motivated. Yeah, generally the easiest to train. Yeah, but really, if you could even get your hands on an older one, because, like lab puppies are just big balls of energy, yeah, but an older lab if you can, that's kind of the way to go. But they will eat you out of house and home if you let them, because their bottom was pets.

Speaker 5:

They can eat whatever they want, you know. But you know that's actually a good idea. I mean, even a rescue dog that would be older, right, would be a good pet.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, and also be very careful with like make sure you have some temperament testing If you're going to get a rescue. You don't want to get a rescue. You don't want to have an animal that has as a first time dog owner has had bad experiences. If you're not ready to deal with the training and the consequences that come with that, Sometimes when dogs retire from their breeding career, breeders will place them in families.

Speaker 4:

But also if you have kids with certain delays or intellectual disabilities, things like that, consider the dog Reaching out to some of the big service dog organizations. They have dogs that don't necessarily quite make the cut for their service dog program and they have good breeding, good training. They might just be Not quite the right fit for service dog work and they usually try and place them in a companion home and they're not always going to be able to do that. Places like dogs with wings. And You're getting a good dog that just didn't quite meet the needs of the program that it went into and it'll have a fair amount of professional training and already be really well socialized, especially with people.

Speaker 1:

So that can be a really good fit for someone that might be in your situation. Yeah, another, another breed that seems to be a good fit for service dogs. They seem like they'd be wanting to run, run, run, run, run, but that's not the case. Um, the research I've done, I've read there, they make wonderful like apartment style dogs that love to sleep all day.

Speaker 5:

Well, that's, that's good to know. Um, I have, you know, my brother and I are both, you know, cat people and my brother. I have a funny story.

Speaker 1:

He did all these Reddit videos and I was like I don't have a cat, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's a big. It's a big step up from a cat to a dog, because, I mean, cats do their own thing for 99% of the day and like, obviously, you, you should interact with them, you should play with them, All that kind of stuff too. Dogs are generally not that way.

Speaker 5:

They are the 1% they have some energy right, and it's not fair to have a cat. Yeah, that's true. Yeah.

Speaker 7:

Thank you 100%, hey Jankbun. To piggyback off of what you said with the Greyhounds, I know in the states there's a lot of retired Greyhounds from dog racing and it's unfortunate that they're raised in the first place. But that's neither here nor there. But those dogs know you save their bacon and they are like the best dogs, like that one of those retired racing dogs, it's like you said. All they want to do is sleep, wear a sweater, be a grumpy old man or woman and and they know you save their bacon and they're super loyal for that.

Speaker 5:

So thank you, I will look for one yeah you bet I should probably make a hashtag.

Speaker 1:

We've been doing a dog, two or three dog breeds every week. I don't know if you noticed that I've started. We started at AM. We went all the way to the end of the week. I don't know what you said. I don't think so. We're back at A. I just did. I just did a couple more planned for this week and then I obviously you could check those threads because there's the pros and cons of them and some are definitely not not recommended for first time dog owners. They're great dogs, all dogs are good dogs. Some dogs are just not recommended because their, their needs are a lot more than just a dog. So we're just an individual. We got a Bunsen and we have a beaker and they're one of a kind, just like Kuno and Chesney are one of a kind. Oh, look at that smile, uh. So I think we're kind of at the end. Should we do the draw for the prize, chris?

Speaker 1:

Um absolutely Okay. We are just at about one hour. We lose Instagram. It's kind of random. And then Instagram thought we were being suspicious, so I had to go through all of the things that we were doing while we were doing the show. That's suspicious. Yeah, I think it was like why are you doing this multicast thing? I think it was just weirded out by what I was doing. Okay, how many folks do?

Speaker 2:

we have on Twitter.

Speaker 1:

Chris. Uh, it looks like 27. Okay, and we've got probably that same amount across the other social medias. So we're gonna go live or Facebook live. Drop a comment and we'll put you in the numbers. If you are on Instagram live and you want to be in the draw, just drop a comment right now. So I know you're here because I don't have the same kind of thing.

Speaker 2:

We'll give you a second, because there's a delay. I tell you, jason, I cannot play hide and seek from the animals they can smell you through the wall. I know ginger's on my lap, beaker is on the floor and Bunsen is at the door going let me in, let me in. And I'm saying not by the hair of your chinny chin chin, let you in. It's quite a thing. I put a picture of the three of them in the chat Doing their nonsense. It's pretty nonsensical here.

Speaker 1:

So we've got one, two, three, three people commented that they'd like to be in the draw. So what does that bring us? To 30? 30? Random, okay, random number 30. So, in order to get two out of Twitter, okay, we've got a 19. So we're still in the draw. 19 is Teresa White at Wrangling Dinos. Teresa White, teresa White at Wrangling Dinos. Congratulations, you have won the prize. So, teresa, just give Bark and BeyondSupplycom a DM and they 'll hook you up with the prize. Okay, well, you ready to do our wrap up, chris?

Speaker 2:

Yes, I sure am.

Speaker 1:

Okay, sounds like it's kind of melting down where you are. Bunsen is having his little new cries.

Speaker 2:

He's having a little bit of a sad time. Okay, well, if I stand up, maybe, and then now Beaker can't get by.

Speaker 1:

Ginger it's, it's. We'll have to make a second studio for you downstairs. They'll know you're downstairs.

Speaker 2:

They'll know. They'll be like, hey, where's all my treats?

Speaker 1:

Okay, so again, that's Wrangling, dinos. Congratulations, you won the prize. All right, we're going to wrap things up everybody. Thanks for coming to PetChat today. Thanks for joining our multicast on Twitter Live, twitter Audio, instagram Live and Facebook. Live To the people Next week we're going to try to get Chris live next week. That's right.

Speaker 2:

I'm going to make sure I have my hair looking half decent, that's right.

Speaker 1:

We do have a science guest next week or this week, coming up on Tuesday, who is a geneticist. So we're going to be talking about genes, yeah, but not Levi's, no, that Well, we could talk about Levi genes we could, but we could Probably not, probably not.

Speaker 2:

What about Wrangler? You got to wrangle your genes.

Speaker 1:

Yes, that.

Speaker 2:

Can I make?

Speaker 1:

gene jokes you can no-transcript.