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Pet Chat August 31: The dog days of summer are over

• Jason Zackowski

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Ever had to suit up in the sweltering summer heat to tackle a sneaky wasp problem? In this hilarious yet slightly tense episode of Pet Chat, where Chris recounts her daring adventure dressed in a survival suit! Our beloved pets—Bunsen, Beaker, Bernoulli, and Ginger—add their own unique twists to our week, with Bernoulli making a memorable visit to a local school and Bunsen showing remarkable resilience as he recovers from major surgery.

Curious about how to handle a giant puppy with a penchant for chewing books and baseboards? We've got you covered! Tune in to hear about Bunsen's impressive training journey through multiple levels of puppy school and the unexpected impact of COVID-19 on Beaker's training. We’ll share practical tips for managing your pet's chewing habits and strategies for dealing with those pesky wasps that seem to pop up when least expected. Plus, a touching story about Sasha's trip to the Norwegian fjords, featuring some friendly goats in Bergen!

Looking for some heartwarming pet stories and maybe a chuckle or two? Bunsen's post-surgery recovery, Beaker's comforting presence, and Bernoulli's antics are sure to entertain. We wrap up the episode with a heartfelt thank you to our amazing community for their support during Bunsen's recovery journey and a nod to Ginger's latest catio adventures. Don’t miss this fun-filled episode packed with laughter, love, and the quirks of our furry family members!

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Speaker 1:

Hello pet enthusiasts, welcome to Pet Chat. My name is Jason Zakowski. I'm the dog dad of Bunsen, beaker and Bernoulli the science dogs on social media.

Speaker 2:

My co-hostess with the mostest is Hi there, I'm Chris Zakowski and I am the dog mom to Bunsen and Beaker and the cat mom to Ginger all right.

Speaker 1:

So if you're new to pet chat, hello to our community all over the place. So we've got a whole schwack of people listening to audio only on x or twitter. We've got people watching live on twitter and facebook and then we've got, uh, people watching and listening on instagram. Hello, okay, really, he's right there. Great he's.

Speaker 2:

I just making sure he isn't eating something he shouldn't he does like chewing books he learns that way well, you're gonna learn not to put them where he can reach them this is true this is true because you were sent two books to read from potential guests that you're interviewing on the science podcast.

Speaker 1:

Yes.

Speaker 2:

And one of them I had to rescue from him today.

Speaker 1:

That's ironic. He's eating the book about dog training.

Speaker 2:

Yeah About dog intelligence, and I was like I should have. I didn't want to, because if you get it on video then the person might feel disrespected.

Speaker 1:

That's true.

Speaker 2:

Because the book isn't taken care of.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, it's good marketing, though maybe, maybe, yeah, read this book so this doesn't happen to your dog. Yeah, bernoulli's eating it pretty much, that was today okay, we're gonna move to Chris and I are gonna tell a couple updates of the week and then we're gonna move to community sharing. Chris, do you want to start with a story or an update?

Speaker 2:

do you want me to update about Bunsen?

Speaker 1:

Sure, you can update about Bunsen. I'm sure people want to know.

Speaker 2:

Okay, I'll see if he's around.

Speaker 1:

Is he around?

Speaker 2:

Oh yeah, he is around. Of course he's around. I'm just going to move this here, and I'm going to move this here and I'm going to say hello.

Speaker 1:

So this is interactive. So people on audio. Chris is like moving the camera. Oh, there's a good boy.

Speaker 2:

Bunsen, good boy, and we're going to back up. I don't know if you can still hear me, though.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, we can hear you. Yeah, we can hear you.

Speaker 2:

So Bunsen's hair is growing in.

Speaker 3:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

And Jason has a really funny video that he made about that. I don't know when it's going to go on social media.

Speaker 1:

Probably tomorrow.

Speaker 2:

Maybe it's gonna go on social media, probably tomorrow maybe never tomorrow, it's okay. Anyways, here he is, look at his eyes no, he's so, he is so alert, and he is so he's just, I don't know he's not in pain, he's not in distress, yeah, um, he's like his happy resting. So he has rbf resting bunsen face, which is happy he's so happy all the time he's so happy all the time. Like he is such a sweetheart. I love him.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, he noticed that I moved the camera, so yeah, he's like I don't want to be on camera, don't show my belly, don't show my shaved belly he's showing it off.

Speaker 2:

Ladies and gentlemen, it goes from here all the way. It matches on the other side yeah yeah, so this is bunsen super happy, super healthy and what. I'm wondering if his head is growing back.

Speaker 1:

So if you're not, familiar with our story oh my god, I can't if you're okay.

Speaker 2:

Do you don't want me to talk about?

Speaker 1:

it. No, go ahead, because I think you're right.

Speaker 2:

Okay, what happened was in June, like right after we got Bernoulli, I took both dogs to Bernoulli. I wanted to get him microchipped. There he is and I said, hey, bunsen's due for his Bordetella, can I bring both dogs in? And they're like yep, bring both dogs in. They really wanted to see, they really wanted to see newly because he's the star of the show. And then at that time I said she's, oh, how's bunsen doing with his earache and his ear infection and stuff? No, just I'm gonna hit mute for a second, jay, and I'll be right back.

Speaker 1:

OK, we'll have to, as it's a live show and Bunsen's probably barking at somebody who's come to the door. That's OK. I'll finish just a little bit of the update about him. Yesterday was his last day on crate rest, so he's done great.

Speaker 1:

For two weeks he's been on crate rest inside the house. If he's not on crate rest he has to be on leash. He's was only allowed outside for very short periods of time to use the washroom. He had to learn how to use a ramp because he wasn't allowed to use the stairs. So we've just been super impressed with him. He's really sucked it up and this Thursday he goes for his post. If he's feeling okay, staples come out. And this Thursday he goes for his post. If he's healing, okay, staples come out. And then we also will find out the biopsy results of the, the biopsy results of the massive growth that was inside him. So we're maybe a little we're maybe a little stressed out about that, but the thing is that he's recovered from like a near death, so that's awesome. Okay, over to you, chris, if you want to finish talking about his head. I explained his health and the checkup on Thursday.

Speaker 2:

So we had noticed, like right after Renu, right after we got Renu Bunsen, his head seemed to be squished in on the right-hand side. So it turns out he wasn't chewing on his right hand side at all.

Speaker 2:

And he went for an MRI test and things like that Pause, two, three. They remove this large growth. Maybe it was pushing on a nerve in there or something. And I'm either. I'm hopeful thinking, wishful thinking that his head is his muscle is growing back in his head, or maybe it is. His head is his muscle is growing back in his head, or maybe it is.

Speaker 1:

I think it is. I think it is. Yeah, his head is changing. It's not as bony, so I was wrong. Maybe it's a coincidence.

Speaker 2:

Could be.

Speaker 1:

But I know you're going to ask Dr Keys about that on Thursday.

Speaker 2:

I'm going to ask Hello Hi, can we talk about muscle atrophy and his mysticulation muscles when he chews? Do you think? Maybe I don't know yeah because it came back inconclusive right yeah, there was. They didn't know why it happened yeah, like the results came back inconclusive. He didn't have that locked jaw, no cancer on his, oh my goodness, it's the some kind of trigeminal nerve yeah, the trigeminal nerve.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, we'll see yeah, we're crossing our fingers that of course the biopsy comes back and it's not anything too serious and if it is, I'm sure they'll have a treatment plan in the end. We've just we have more time with the big guy right, and that's. You can't put a price on that or you can't put anything on that. We're just so happy that his recovery is going well. So that's the update on Bunsen. So for me my story this week is going to be a twofer. I'm just going to give a quick recap of how awesome Beaker has been during this whole ordeal.

Speaker 1:

When Bunsen first came home I know I mentioned that there's Beaker, she's a good girl that Beaker stood guard over Bunsen. Definitely his first night, when he was so out of it from drugs and in quite a lot of pain, she slept next to him. She slept on the couch next to him. And then for the next week when he was out of sorts, still, she would chase Bernoulli away if he was messing with the crate, which was cute, and she always wanted to be inside Bunsen's crate. And then we had to make the crate a little smaller and she would sleep beside it. And now that Chris and I are back at work because it was prep week for teachers in Alberta. What was really cute is we have the furbo on Bunsen and Bernoulli sorry, and would constantly go and check on Bunsen throughout the day and he had a little and Bunsen cried once and Beaker scurried over to see him on the furbo Because we get alerted when there's movement and we're like, oh no, what's going on. So that was very sweet. Shout out to the golden wolf, she's the goodest girl.

Speaker 1:

And then I'll just tell a quick story about Bernoulli. I took Bernoulli to my school on Friday and man, was he a hit and he was so good with the kids. Well, school hasn't started and I wasn't actually teaching yesterday. There was hundreds of kids in the school getting their books and changing classes and checking out their lockers and new kids were being taken on a tour by the leadership kids. So Bernoulli got to hang out with and see a ton of different kids and he was so friendly and gentle.

Speaker 1:

And he does this thing where, like he'll lean in backwards and then look up into the person's eyes and lock with them, and this one girl said she's like, oh man, that was a spiritual experience after petting Bernoulli for a couple of minutes and an administrator, one of the vice principals was walking through and she saw Bernoulli and he like, laid back into her and he went and she rubbed his belly and he just looked into her eyes and she's like boy, I've been having a stressful day and this is all better now. Our little brave Bernoulli. He is so good with the public, which is awesome. He's because he's as warm and friendly as beaker, because beaker's very outgoing with people.

Speaker 2:

So that's my bernoulli story over to you, chris I came home today and jason was wearing his survival suit, and the survival suit is for winter and so it's supposed to keep him warm, like like in minus 40, minus 50 degrees Fahrenheit weather, and so he's wearing that and he's wearing a toque, and it's probably what? 27 degrees Celsius today, almost 30.

Speaker 2:

Not going to lie, it was a little hot A little warm and he's got gloves on and he's holding a saw what I know. So I'm like what is going on? So we've had a little bit of a. Okay, I'm not gonna lie, it's been a great spring because it wasn't super wet, so we didn't have the same amount of mosquitoes that we normally do. Awesome, yeah. But when it's hot and dry, you know what comes? Wasps. And so we have this tree that the wasps are in, but they don't look like they're going to a nest at all. And so now today, jason's been looking at this. He's like I can't find your nozzle for the hose so I can't spray it. So he's walking towards the tree and then he's chopping down, cutting off branches, in the hopes that he sees where the nest is. But you didn't get swarmed.

Speaker 1:

It's bizarre. There's no wasp nest in that tree. I chopped down all of the overhang. I would have got attacked by a million wasps, as that's why I was wearing all that protection, because I'm allergic to stings now, but anyways, nothing. I don't know where the wasp nest is in the tree. What does this have to do with pet chat, though?

Speaker 2:

You just said sharing stories for oh okay, okay, yeah, I didn't die, but I'm gonna. I'm not gonna lie. It's been annoying having the wasps there because typically we would take ginger out to her catio and even though it's not close, I don't want ginger to get stung in her catio.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, exactly, exactly.

Speaker 2:

So if there's any strategies to get rid of wasps, I've done two things One is suggest that Jason use the hose, and then two I made wasp traps.

Speaker 1:

Oh, you got a bunch Two liter, did I they got a two liter bottle.

Speaker 3:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

And then you snip it and then you turn the lid upside down and then you put sugary water in the bottom and then they go in and then they can't get out, oops.

Speaker 1:

I just use the one shot and murder them all with chemical spray.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, but we should do a preface that normally no animals are hurt during our show.

Speaker 1:

Oh.

Speaker 2:

Wasps are an exception because they're jerks. Wasps are an exception, yeah.

Speaker 3:

Oh, and then when?

Speaker 1:

when Ginger got that when.

Speaker 2:

Ginger got that mouse. That one time there was Okay.

Speaker 1:

That mouse went into Ginger's catio and it deserved its fate. So, yeah, that's what happens. You got to check yourself before you wreck yourself. Yeah, should we move to community sharing? We've got our stories out of the way and now we're going to invite folks to uh share some stories. So uh, chris, if you want to bring up a couple people on on twitter audio I do okay, perfect.

Speaker 1:

So if you'd like to speak on audio, we can bring you up. That's the cool thing about twitter audio is it's interactive. That way, I'll go through instagram and read some of the comments. If you want to type a comment for me to read, or a story about your pet or, um, some kind of question, we can definitely read that out. And there's a bunch of. There's a bunch of questions on instagram and comments, so I'm going to start with just a few of those. As you bring people up. M buys buyers 11 said. Years ago, when I had to pay for a damaged library book, the librarian said dog training books were the most frequently damaged. That's funny.

Speaker 2:

That is funny, probably because people are getting them to help train their dog and then the dog is already a shenanigan mischief maker. Oh, that's what I should have shared. When bernoulli went to doggy training him and coda got were mischief makers together yeah, they get into trouble get into trouble because they are like the smart kids in the class that are goofing off.

Speaker 1:

That's my dog one more question from instagram and then we'll go to the first speaker you brought up. Mello Dyish says are Bernice prone to benign tumors? And I can't answer that question. They are prone to certain types of cancer, but I'm not a vet to tell you the rate. I think a lot of big dogs are prone to some types of cancers. Okay, chris, go ahead. Who's our first speaker?

Speaker 2:

So we'll go with Jen, Steve and Susan and then Holly, also known as Sasha the Bernadudo. So we'll say hi to Jen, Go ahead. Hi, can I talk about the wasps?

Speaker 1:

Go for it.

Speaker 2:

Oh, yes, please.

Speaker 3:

Oh yeah, so they're really bad here in Saskatchewan and we don't want to hurt any living creature, but there's some wasp traps that work pretty good. They're cheap. I don't want to advertise Amazon, but they're there. You can put beer in it, because we love beer, or you can just do honey and sugar solution. They die pretty quickly. My 84-year old parents are watching this right and let's be clear that we don't want them to suffer, even though they're lost. My dad trapped one in a beer bottle and I made him do something with it fast instead of him. It's lingering there for 48 48 hours, but they've been really bad here. The other thing you can do if you don't want to kill the wasp is you can get paper wasp nests and put them up where you don't want the wasp and they'll think there's a nest there and they won't come around there.

Speaker 1:

Oh, I've heard that, yes, you can shove them away. That's interesting.

Speaker 3:

So that's my comment about wasps, and no one wants to hurt anything but wasps. Like you say, they're jerks. So thanks for letting me speak, but those paper wasp things work really well and they'll direct the wasp to another part of the yard.

Speaker 1:

That's fine. They just can't be on our deck, so maybe I'll put one up in the tree.

Speaker 3:

And they really work well.

Speaker 1:

That's a great idea, thank you.

Speaker 3:

Okay, thanks, good to hear from everyone here Good.

Speaker 1:

Perfect Question from X Video before we go to our next speaker. Did Bunsen go to puppy school and he did? Yeah, bunsen went to puppy preschool and he went through level one, two and three. So he has the highest level training that our area of Alberta can allow, beyond taking him to service training or facility dog or anything like that. So that's why he's such a good boy. As we did invest quite a bit of time with the very excellent waggles, char and crew did a great job helping us train Bunsen, beaker went through most of that. It was a bit derailed because of COVID and we're hoping to put Bernoulli through everything just like Bunsen was through. Okay, who's our next speaker? Chris, it's Bunsen.

Speaker 2:

We had Susan, so we're going to go to Sasha, and then there's another Susan that I'm going to bring up, so we'll go to Holly.

Speaker 5:

Hi guys, it's good to be back listening to Pet Chat. I'm in the right time zone again. The last couple of weeks we were in Europe, actually in the Norwegian fjords, which, if you ever get a chance to see the fjords, just do it. It's one of the most incredible things I've ever seen in my life. But while we were gone was when Bunsen had his crisis, and of course, you know that week was just awful because it started baseball. Poodle passed away yeah, very sad. Then Beatle passed away and then, of course, there was everything with Bunsen, and I found out about it ironically from my husband, who's no longer on Twitter but he's on blue sky, and Darth found out about it, ironically, from my husband, who's no longer on Twitter, but he's on Blue Sky, and Darth found out about it.

Speaker 3:

And.

Speaker 5:

Darth had posted. And so I wake up and my husband's oh my God, you have to go check on Bunsen. I saw that Darth had mentioned what was happening and with the time zone difference and everything, I'm like, oh God, I'm going to be asleep when Bunsen's in his surgery and I'm so worried about him. And it's amazing how attached you get to dogs you've never met before.

Speaker 5:

But and I will tell you an animal related story from the trip that I think you guys will really appreciate so in bergen, norway, the city's actually surrounded by seven mountains and there's a tram that goes up to one of them from the center of town. So I took the tram up there and I get up there and I'm walking around and there's all these goats that are up there and they're like incredibly tame, like they're just coming up to you and demanding you pet them, and it was just the coolest thing I had ever seen. I had never seen goats that were not on a farm, that were just that tame and really liked people that much. And I got a cute picture of one who had just decided that standing up was just too much work and just plopped down in the middle of the path and was like I'm here, it it's all good, come by and pet me.

Speaker 5:

I just thought that was the neatest thing animal related thing I saw on that trip and it was like, oh my God, they're goats and they're so cute. You were talking about the books and the chewing. Sasha was not a book chewer, but our previous dog was, and I will tell you how my husband cured this was, and I will tell you how my husband cured this. What he did is he took a paperback that he just didn't care about at all and he soaked it in bitter apple and then left it where Sophia would get it and we know she got it because it was moved, but she never went near a book ever again after that.

Speaker 1:

Was it soggy or did it dry?

Speaker 5:

It dried first yeah, like he had it dry first and then put it out and leave it somewhere. She would get it.

Speaker 1:

No more books.

Speaker 5:

So that's my suggestion if you're worried that Bernoulli's going to get a hold of something of value in the book department.

Speaker 1:

I think we got to soak some of our charger cable cords in bitter apple. Chris, We've lost a couple.

Speaker 5:

Yeah, we did that with her. The other thing at the time we had this fake tree in our living room that was in a pot of like bark chips and she was trying to eat the bark chips. So we soaked the bark chips and bitter apple as well, and that got her to not get into those either. So, yeah, just my suggestion. And I also agree that wasps are a-holes, and because I'm a city dweller, my first thought is call the exterminator oh, nope we had.

Speaker 5:

We live in a townhouse and we had a yellow jacket nest earlier this summer. That was between our unit and the unit next door in the back where the patios are, and I refused to go out there until that thing was gone. I was just like I'm not going outside, not happening.

Speaker 1:

You can get stung multiple times very quickly from a wasp nest. It isn't uncommon, if you're not dressed properly and you do it wrong, to get 10 to 20 stings like it can be a rough go yeah, and it's not like bee.

Speaker 5:

It's not. They're not like bees. Actually, they pollinate and they're good for our environment and everything. It's like wasps and yellow jackets just they can just go away. Don't need them.

Speaker 1:

We'll have to get away. I've I've talked to a wasp scientist before that specializes in parasitic, parasitistic wasps and if you think normal wasps are a little bit of an a-hole parasites, those parasitistic wasps they are on another level of a-holeness.

Speaker 5:

Oh, my God.

Speaker 1:

Nightmare fuel. Do not YouTube search it.

Speaker 5:

Okay, I will not, but anyway I'm so glad that Bunsen is doing well and that he's off, crate, rest and give him a big hug from his aunt Holly.

Speaker 1:

Will do. Yeah, I gave. He wanted a big hug this morning. He wanted like a big five minute hug. It was pretty sweet. Love that lug. Hey, chris, we got a good question from Instagram, jay Carton one. I started seeing your Instagram account recently when you showed Bernoulli chasing your cat. Yeah, we had a virus. It's an ongoing thing on all social medias, with Bernoulli interacting with Ginger. I had the same problem with my schnoodle chasing my cat and I wonder if you have any tips to stop this. We'll go. I think we can talk about the procedure. And parasitic yeah, parasitic. Maybe I said it wrong, tk, sorry. Anyways, so Initially we just let it happen because we assumed that Ginger would put Bernoulli in his place, right Like we're like. Oh, if Bernoulli is a puppy and is roughhousing a bit with the cat has incredibly sharp claws and teeth and will let Bernoulli know very quickly.

Speaker 2:

Let Beaker know.

Speaker 1:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

Beaker was like oh okay.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, she fights. She fought back with Beaker and she hit bunsen a couple times and then he's okay, whatever. Never again will we have an interaction until I have life-saving surgery we started seeing it happen.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, it was happening right actually the time around the time that bun, that bernoulli, was going to puppy school and we were learning something called leave it yeah and I said, hey, this might really work for bernoulli and the cat. And our trainer, char, said, leave, it is for poison. Leave it is for things you absolutely do not want the dog to have. But you want the dog to be with the cat and not see her as poison. So leave. It might not be the clue that you're going to be successful in using.

Speaker 2:

So what I would do is he would start to go for the cat, and then I would call him off and say Brunelli, and then he would come to me and I would give him a treat, so positive reinforcement for the behavior coming off of the cat. Yeah, and that seemed to work a little bit, but it's not 100%. Jason, do you have more to add?

Speaker 1:

No, that's exactly what we did is we didn't punish Bernoulli. A lot of there was a couple people who had some comments were like get rid of your dog. The dog's a puppy. Puppies are going to bite and chew anything. But we didn't let the roughhousing go on for more than half a second.

Speaker 1:

After a couple of the videos we're like, okay, this is clearly not working. So instead of videoing the interaction to see if ginger would fight back, we had a plan to to redirect Bernoulli. But you have to let, you can't? You don't want to have the. The dog never interact with the cat and keep them away from the cat. So we started to just watch Bernoulli like a hawk and as soon as the interaction became biting, then Chris would redirect, and in any of the videos you've seen I'm filming. And then what you don't see is Chris redirecting Bernoulli and he's gotten so much better with his interactions with Ginger, as you can see, he's gone two days without having any negative interaction. So that's like any biting. There's a suggestion yeah, so redirect positive reinforcement to something else and then, if the cat isn't fighting back, just start really monitoring their interactions, because Ginger is just too kind. She's an odd cat.

Speaker 1:

All right, we'll go to Susan on audio. Thanks for waiting, susan, go ahead.

Speaker 6:

Sure, I just want to say that Chris is right and Jason, I'm sure you understand that, just as a general rule.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, she's always right.

Speaker 6:

Of course. But I had an old chocolate lab and when he was maybe 12 or 13, he started to lose his voice, Like when he would bark, it was just hoarse, and that stayed with him the rest of his life. And then about six months after that I noticed a couple other things. One was in his head that he started to lose kind of his muscle mass in his head it was on both sides and also his back, like his back end got weak, his back legs got weak, which normally think in a bigger dog. That's hip dysplasia, that's just age, that's whatever Turns out. All three of those things were connected.

Speaker 1:

And it and it's.

Speaker 6:

It was something. Actually Michigan state was doing a study on it and I had a functional vet who was fantastic and knew about this and it was called G O L P P. It's geriatric onset, laryngeal paralysis polyneuropathy Wow. So it was all connected because it wasn't muscular like the legs. It wasn't muscular, it wasn't bone, it was neuropathy, it was all nerve related.

Speaker 1:

That is so interesting.

Speaker 6:

And it was all connected. Yeah, so I'm going with Chris on this one. I think somehow this is connected in Bunsen.

Speaker 1:

I said last pet chat, no, it was with the Paw Pack. So we have a paid community called the Paw Pack. It's like our Patreon. And I said I'll have to get a great big bowl of crow and eat that, if Chris is right. So I don't know where we can find some crow.

Speaker 6:

Chris, I might have to eat some of it. Later I think you're going to need it. And just really quick. One more thing I later I think you're gonna need it. And just really quick. One more thing. I was listening to npr this morning. I think this american life and it was the theme was rats, for whatever reason, and they were talking about how hard it is to get rid of rats and all that and that any place that is inhabited by people has rats, except alberta can.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, we're rat free.

Speaker 6:

And it was this whole rat free Alberta thing. So congratulations.

Speaker 1:

I until I went to New York. I'd never seen a rat in my life before I didn't know what they looked.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, I didn't even know what they looked like. Wow, yeah, I was shocked. I was like boy, they're big, they're spooky, what is that? I was fascinated by boy, they're big, they're spooky, what is that? I was fascinated by there. They were like where were we? We're like in Central Park and there's a bunch of them like hiding under a fern. They're just like and what is that? Are those squirrels? And then I was like looking down, I'm like those are weird looking squirrels. And then I think Chris said Jason, there's rats. You look like a weirdo Quit staring at the rats. And I was like I'm from Alberta, we don't have rats, we killed them all.

Speaker 6:

I don't know how you did it, because I actually had to get out of the car at that point before they explained how it happened, but congratulations.

Speaker 1:

There's a whole division of the government that if there's ever a rat sighting they go and eradicate it. So that's what I've been told. Maybe it's a conspiracy theory and they've put something in our water and it makes us blind to rats and what we think are squirrels are actually rats. I don't know. Do you know what, chris? You're from BC. When you were growing up in BC, what did the BCites say about us Albertans? About rats.

Speaker 2:

It was a rat-free province, and I'd never seen a rat, though, in BC either.

Speaker 1:

Okay.

Speaker 2:

I lived in the lower mainland in abbotsford. Did you see a rain? I never saw a raccoon, but we had a raccoon on our trail camp because our beaver is bringing all the wildlife to the yard. Jason wrote a song about that I did did you? Yeah, you did. You said our beavers bring all the wildlife to the yard, something is better than yours. Like you did the whole, said our beavers bring all the wildlife to the yard, something is better than yours. Like you did the whole thing, don't you remember? Two weeks ago?

Speaker 1:

Did I sing it? No?

Speaker 2:

Jason, you don't sing.

Speaker 1:

I don't, I think I just made it up on the spot. Okay, bernoulli has eaten the nub off of the doorstop. He's like whamming it with his paw over here oh, so that's yeah, that happens.

Speaker 2:

So there's a couple things that maybe are not positives about Bernoulli. One is he likes to chew the knobs off those doorstops and he likes to play with the doorstops. But then there's one in our bathroom and it's on a bit of a curve and he likes to chew that what's it called baseboard? Yeah, so he likes to chew baseboard when he's in the bathroom. So what we like to do is, I don't know, should we just share what we do?

Speaker 2:

I don't know, I like, I just I. I like to have him with me, and so if I'm having a shower, I'll he'll be on the mat. And then we have the gorilla the. It's like a gorilla tree thing that he can chew because he likes chewing the baseboard. Look at that face he is very cute you can't be mad at that face and you can also say please don't choose to chew the baseboard. Here's something that you can chew and he's yeah, I don't want to chew that. That's he's chewed. That's what I'm supposed to do.

Speaker 1:

The problem is he's huge. He's like, yeah, I don't want to chew that, that's he's chewed, that's I'm supposed to chew. The problem is he's huge. He's bigger than beaker now and he's still a puppy. So it's like weird because he looks like a puppy and he acts like a puppy, but he's ginormous, so it's actually fun. I think he's really fun man, and he was. He's so good with the public too. Chris, I think I can probably sneak him into the school while I'm teaching. Do we have any more speaker requests?

Speaker 4:

yeah, oh yeah, sorry yeah, we are not paying attention, sorry, we've got a lot going on here with the show hi snickerdoodle hello everybody, hello last weekend before summer's over yep, a little bittersweet yeah yeah, when my dog was a puppy he used to play with that doorstop thing. It seems to be a fascination with him. But the story I was going to tell about chewing things. One day my husband was supposed to be looking after the puppy but he was absorbed on the computer. And I came in, yeah, yeah, and I came into the room and the puppy was chewing on one of my best sandals.

Speaker 4:

Oh no yeah, I pointed this out to my husband and he said, oh dear. The next day he came home with a shoebox. He had gone after work, he had gone into a shoe store, told the clerk what had happened and she said, oh, we better find a really nice pair of sandals for you. So he came home with a beautiful pair of sandals for me and he kept an eye on the puppy after that. But our dog actually was pretty good about not chewing things. We were very lucky with him oh, that's great.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, sorry, go ahead. No, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to cut you off. Go ahead I'm coughing here, go ahead I was just gonna ask chris which of the three was the most chewy and destructive bunsen was the most destructive of my flowy work clothes and my pajama pants and basically anything.

Speaker 2:

Fabric shred, rip. Beaker chewed my shoes. She wasn't as bad, but Bernoulli really likes Birkenstocks and those are an expensive sandal. And Jason's oh, he's chewing your Birkenstock again, but he doesn't know they're Birkenstocks. He are an expensive sandal. And Jason's like oh, he's chewing your Birkenstock again, but he doesn't know they're Birkenstocks, he just calls them sandals. He's chewing your shoe again, and so that happens. The biggest culprit, though, is Jason, because you used to wash and dry my shoes all the time.

Speaker 1:

I'm the most destructive. Is that what? You're saying You're the winner. I am the most destructive dog in the house. I tell you, I wound up in the dog house.

Speaker 4:

So it's true. The one thing that fascinates me about bernier are his eyes. They're so expressive there's something else.

Speaker 1:

It's like he's not real.

Speaker 4:

Hey, it's like he's a ai version of a puppy oh, and he looks like a giant plushie in some of his. He's just priceless. He really is we are.

Speaker 1:

We're just so lucky like he's just sitting here looking. He heard his name for newly, oh oh, hi, yeah, he is. He's got some kind of like gaze, like his yes, focusing gaze is intense, um, and he does have those goobery expressions.

Speaker 4:

It's really fun hopefully he will keep those when he grows up. They're not just a puppy thing that's two anyway, everyone have a good weekend, enjoy the last days of summer awesome.

Speaker 1:

There's a question from Instagram. Thank you very much, also there. Snickerdoodle Blossom Polly says is that Bernoulli? Yep, that's Bernoulli. He's hanging with me in the room down here. It helps with our live show having the dog separated and he is so bright. Yeah, he is, he's got. His little eyes are very. They look right into your soul. Harlequin mask markings. Ariana says bc has rats, doesn't it? Yeah, they do. Theresa white says bernoulli is trending on twitter again. Let's, I've been. People have been sending me screenshots of bernoulli trending all day. I don't know, know why, I don't know what I posted. Tk says I love his gaze. And then Anne McQueen McQueenie says my dog, as a puppy, ate the ironing board cover while it was hanging on the back of the door. Six inch hole in the cover. Oh my God, that's destructive. Ok, I think we don't have any more speakers. I think we should probably move to do a little bit of wrap up and then award the prize, chris yeah, that sounds awesome yeah.

Speaker 1:

So I do want to thank everybody who supported us with the. Just let me take this down. Sorry, I can't focus with that up there. There we go with our pre-sale of the bunsen and beaker calendar. We are sold out. We have none left. We sold a hundred percent of all of our calendars during the pre-sale. I'm so sorry if you didn't get one, chris. Chris and I might have to re-evaluate, maybe in october, about doing another calendar sale, but we sold out of the bunsen and beaker calendars and they're on their way. We're getting labels ready and all of the prepsen and Beaker calendars and they're on their way. We're getting labels ready and all of the prep work to send them out. There's hundreds of them we got to send out.

Speaker 1:

I want to thank everybody who picked up one. Thank you so much for picking up a calendar. We really appreciate that. The calendar stickers that some of you were getting, chris and I we put a lot of care into their designs. I hope you have a lot of fun with them. I don't know how many calendar stickers are on that sheet, chris like 60, some or something. It's wild. The cricket had a workout making all those calendar stickers, that's for sure.

Speaker 2:

There's 54.

Speaker 1:

There's 54. Okay.

Speaker 2:

On each yeah.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, and text from Bunsen volume three. We should have that ready to go as a presale at the end of September, which is we are so ahead of where we were last year. So, chris and I we wrote the book Text from Bunsen 3 during the summer and it's going through the third round of proofreading the e-book as well, and I'm finishing up the audio book. It's 70% done. The audio book takes forever because I have to do all of these different voices sorry, chris, do you want to talk?

Speaker 2:

I've got to stop Bernoulli from eating something here yeah, I'd like to talk, but the minute I start to talk then Bunsen starts to bark. You may have seen, I put his cone on, because I didn't want him to be licking his wound at all.

Speaker 1:

All right, we've hit the max attention span of the dogs. This was good. We did a full show today, a full, normal show. So thank you for everybody who's joined us. From Twitter, audio, x audio or X spaces, x video, instagram and Facebook. We brought together our community, which is really cool. Thank you for watching Pet Chat. Pet Chat is at the same time every single week, 8 pm Eastern, 6 pm Mountain time and probably we'll have a little less content in the next while because Chris and I are back at work full time and it's hit the ground running thing as a teacher for the first couple of weeks, so I can't guarantee a ton of content. Sorry, I'm just blocking Bernoulli from eating a cord with my foot. Go.

Speaker 2:

Chris. Hey, thank you everybody for coming. We really appreciate you as our community and listening to our shenanigans with the dog and the cats and all the stuff that we've got going on here. We really enjoy sharing this time with you and have a great week.

Speaker 1:

All right, Take care everybody.