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The Science Pawdcast
The Science Pawdcast breaks down the latest science happening in the human world AND the pet world.
Each episode will also bring you a guest to enthral you with their area of knowledge.
You'll learn, be captivated, and laugh along with host Jason Zackowski.
Pets and Science, it's the pawfect mix.
You'll also get episodes of SciChat and PetChat which are the live shows from social audio.
SciChat has an interview and Q+A with a scientist, while PetChat is a live community gathering for games and stories about pets!
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Pet Chat November 24th: Bunsen is on T.V. and Snowy Adventures!
Have you ever had to keep a secret so big it felt like your heart might burst? That’s how we felt holding onto the incredible story and now we can finally share it with you!
We recount the whirlwind visit from CBC's Nancy and Pete, who not only captured the magic of our lives with pets but also shared their own delightful tales of animal love and relationships. Amidst the excitement, we found ourselves caught in a snowy adventure with our dogs, adding a touch of winter wonder to our narrative.
Ever wondered how to make content available to all, despite regional restrictions? We dive into Nancy's efforts to make our stories accessible to Canadian viewers through YouTube, alongside sharing Bunsen's grooming session and their adorable stuffies that became cherished gifts for Nancy and Pete. As we recount the joyous surprise of winter’s first snowfall and our visit to Waggles, where Bernoulli found a new buddy, the warmth of our cozy shed fireplace beckoned us all.
But that’s not all; the episode takes a heartfelt turn as we discuss pet loss and the generosity it inspires, with listeners sharing their personal journeys and acts of kindness. Jamie joins us for a passionate conversation about the conservation efforts for the critically endangered northern hairy-nosed wombats in Australia, enriching our discussion with both humor and important environmental insights. Through laughter and tears, this episode celebrates the enduring love of pets and the strong community that lifts us up in times of joy and sorrow.
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Hello pet enthusiasts, welcome to Pet Chat. My name is Jason Zakowski. I'm the dog dad of Bunsen, beaker and Bernoulli and the cat dad to Ginger. The science animals of social media. My co-hostess with the mostest is hi there, I'm chris sakowski.
Speaker 2:I am the dog mom to bernoulli, bunsen and beaker and the cat mom to ginger, and I have turtles you do have turtles.
Speaker 1:Thank you everybody for tuning in to pet chat. We always remind folks who are tuning in for the first time ever. This is our live show that we do once a week. Every Saturday.
Speaker 2:It runs pretty much Not only is that live, Jason, it's live, but then it's also shared on audio. So, audio or live.
Speaker 1:That's right. So we are multicasting our show to Twitter spaces, x spaces, which is audio only, x video, facebook live and Instagram live, so we are all over the different social medias. We have a new camera today and I don't know how it's going to affect our bandwidth, but it's the Bernoulli cam. It's just a camera, bernoulli, and he's eating his treat, so we'll see how long that lasts, for that's on the line. He's on his mat, so that's good line.
Speaker 1:he's on his mat, so that's good yeah, he is, he's been working on those skills, those mad mat skills that's right in level three so the way pet chat works is chris and I will share some really fun stories of the week important stories about the dogs and the cat and then we let the community share. We'll take questions. All right, chris, so let's talk about the stories of the week. Do you want to start first with the big story?
Speaker 2:Now would you say, the big story was that I potentially could have given the wrong dog the wrong meds.
Speaker 1:No, but that's a funny story. We can tell that one later.
Speaker 2:Okay, do you want to talk?
Speaker 1:about the news story. Yeah, so, yeah, let's talk about the news story. We told everybody about it but we kept it under wraps. I didn't even tell anybody at my school about it. But CBC had reached out to us a while ago and they wanted to. They wanted to talk to us about Bunsen's miraculous surgery and the crazy cyst that he had, which was this rare pro like sit tapeworm cyst Very disgusting. We've talked about it quite a bit. The reporter's name is Nancy and she follows the dogs on Instagram and loves them. So she was so excited to come to red deer Like they drove from red to from Edmonton red deer and came to her house and Nancy and Pete the camera operator and they did an interview about Bunsen's cyst and I thought it went really well. You were on camera for a little bit at the start and then Nancy interviewed me, so you probably are better at explaining what happened than I was, because I was like inside the situation.
Speaker 2:Well, they arrived right as I got home from school. So when they said that they would be there at four o'clock, boy oh boy, they were there at four o'clock they were there and of course I was doing a last minute scramble to get like the doorway not with your weird science experiments. So sometimes Jason does weird science experiments outside in cold weather and then he leaves all the stuff up there.
Speaker 1:Like he leaves. I left my bin out there.
Speaker 2:Yeah. And then I'm like, oh, I don't want them to think that we're have bins out here. And so I'm like going. And then I'm taking it to the garage and they pull up. I'm like, oh no, I'm here with these science bins, ho. And they pull up. I'm like, oh no, I'm here with these science bins, hooray, hello cbc, hello cbc, how are you doing? And then it's freezing and my hand like shaking hands and hello. And then she's it's okay, just get yourself organized and then we'll come in. I said, absolutely, so, I go inside. And I said, jason, they're here. And we had amazing b-roll outside because pete's very efficient. And he said, let's take advantage of the light because it was just so amazing. I felt I knew her like how much, like we've connected right away she's so good, she's so empathetic, very warm and very warm and all of that, and she's a dog, mom, and she's a cat like it's.
Speaker 1:We had a lot in common well, I was helping pete just organize the where we were going to shoot the video. You were talking to her hair about relationship advice. I don't know how you got there that quickly jason.
Speaker 2:It was really neat. It she's just asked what's questions? And normally I don't share stuff, like I'm a listener, like when all the other people are talking I just listen. But she had a way to have me open up, yeah, and like I just talked about how wonderful you are and she asked how we met and then I just she's what makes your relationship work and I said we like each other a lot and I said that was the start of it, like we're best friends. Jason has been my best friend since I gave him a tour of Red Deer College, now known as Red Deer Polytechnic.
Speaker 1:Make other people feel like so calm and validated and listen to.
Speaker 2:And so I said all these things, just verbal diarrhea coming right out and I don't know, like I just was talking about you and how wonderful you are, and then how, every day when at college you made me lunch, like what? Anyway, we met through the Red Deer Apple users group group and I said we are macintosh users and we just talked and then she came in. I'm not sure. I hope she doesn't use all that in the backstory I don't know, maybe that was her plan.
Speaker 1:Maybe that was her plan.
Speaker 2:So yeah, to flesh out, yeah, you as a person.
Speaker 1:Anyway, the dogs loved her though the dogs loved her and, of course, she's fans of the dogs, so she was like she kept saying she just couldn't. She, this was her taylor swift. Like she said that about four times, like other people are so excited to go see taylor swift and she's like this is my taylor swift to meet bunsen, beaker and bernoulli and I was like we've been nervous all week about this interview, like we're nervous that you guys were coming, and but I wasn't nervous at all once once they got here, because they were just so like down to earth they weren't like super kind and considerate people.
Speaker 2:Yeah, both, both pete and nancy yeah I was a little worried about like bernoulli being puppy bernoulli and on the b-roll when he was jumping on people like I don't like that that's not great.
Speaker 1:He had a little bit of extra energy at the start yeah, he's a little full of pnv, full of gooberness.
Speaker 2:Unleash the goober yeah, but he is a puppy and he is doing much better and yeah, I'm not an actor, so walking by we were just ourselves.
Speaker 1:We were not acting at all.
Speaker 2:No, but let's walk and come through this way and then do this, and then I'm like I'm just walking with Bernoulli and he's like jumping on everything, hooray, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah. And then they set up the house to into a little studio With their big lights, with their big lights, yeah, and then Bernoulli definitely knocked over those things and he tried to eat. He tried to eat everything in Pete's bag yeah, he went into a bag there.
Speaker 2:What's in there?
Speaker 1:he's like stick his whole head in the bag like Bernoulli, and I thought he'd come out with a mic or something like some super expensive thing, but he was like rooting around in Pete's bag every time we weren't watching him like he's like, oh, maybe those sausages, oh hi, bernoulli heard us talking about him anyways, but the whole interview was about but very bunsen specific about our experience with his medical distress and then just how amazing the vet team was in saving his life and how shocked we were that it was a like a tapeworm cyst and it was so big. I hope I did a good job and I came off funny and knowledgeable about the whole thing, but I guess we'll have to wait and see.
Speaker 2:We'll wait and see At the end of the interview. They were going to see Dr Graham Keyes, the surgeon responsible, with the vet team to interview him and I said so if he says anything different than what Jason said, go with what he says. He's the expert and the vet because we've read through the documents that they sent. We've read through these and we like to think that we know a few things, but this is pretty heavy reading. Dr Graham Keyes is the knowledge keeper of all of that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, If he. If I got anything wrong, please have Dr Keyes. Use Dr Keyes footage, not my wrong information.
Speaker 2:I did.
Speaker 1:Oh sorry, Go ahead yeah.
Speaker 2:It'll just come together. So you have the humanity piece with our dogs and bringing Bunsen to life and all the wonderful things that he's done, and just how valuable he is and how loved he is in our family.
Speaker 1:So you bring the human side and the compassion side and you also talked about the clinical side and we donated the cyst tapeworm cyst to science, which allows uh other, like vet students to learn about this extraordinary thing yeah, I did choke up once, like I choked up twice, twice, yeah, there was a couple times I couldn't keep it together and like I choked up a bit and I was like they had to stop and because some parts of it were really emotional, well, the one that I didn't think that would get me. I think she asked Nancy, asked like how the other dogs, how the other dogs felt about Bunsen. And as I was talking about it, it just hit me like a ton so hard, like how, like Bunsen was at the hospital overnight and that was the first time Beaker has never has been without Bunsen, because Bunsen has been without Beaker before Beaker came to her family. But Beaker has never had a day without Bunsen in her entire life and she was out of sorts.
Speaker 1:And then when he survived and came home and he was so very in getting from surgery, like needing to heal, she guarded him for two days and or maybe more, maybe two and a half more days. She guarded, protected him, watched over him around the clock as he healed. And that's what got me like explaining that, because Beaker came running over too. She sensed that like Nancy or I were having some emotions and then Beaker is very empathetic and she can sense that. So she came over to give us like some, get some cuddles from us. So I'm not sure what Pete is going to do, because the dogs were like milling about underneath everywhere while we were talking. I was petting Bunsen with my foot. I don't know if it's going to be like shoulders up or if he's going to have the dogs milling about as we're talking, because that's what happened.
Speaker 2:He had his iPhone or his phone recording on a tripod and he moved that around and then he had his, and then after the interview we got to have some family time staged like videoing of us just talking to the dogs on the couch and hanging out with them, and then Bernoulli was done, because Bernoulli had gone to Waggles on Friday and then he went and played with his friends and he was done. I'm like, no, you need to come over here, buddy.
Speaker 1:He did not want to come over, he wanted to sleep he just wanted to sleep, but he's part of the family.
Speaker 2:And then ginger was in and out and just being ginger yeah and hilarity, but not. Pete is allergic to cats. Yeah, and it's funny, he sneezed like three times and then what happened was we were talking about how we feed ginger that food so that you can be with her yeah and then, like he said, there's been other interviews where I've just had to set up the thing and say go, I have to go outside, I can't be in your home because of cats. But with ginger, like he was able to do the interview yeah.
Speaker 1:So a lot of people were asking when it's going to come out and the answer is we don't know. We'll let everybody know. Obviously, um, nancy did say it will be on youtube, so that was a. It's been in the a problem in the past where we've been on tv or I've been on a tv show and, uh, it locks out american viewers. They just can't see it.
Speaker 1:And that's like the reverse problem we have in Canada, like I don't know how many times something is trending from Saturday Night Live and I want to see it and I can't. Like it's just invisible to us because it's been locked out of Canada. So we have to wait like weeks for it to somehow get leaked for me to see the thing. Like the George Washington imperial metric system skit that was so funny. I didn't see that till weeks after the fact. People kept tagging us and I was like, thank you, we can't see it. It says video not available in your countries. But we'll let everybody know. And if it is on youtube, I think youtube should work right I talked to nancy about that.
Speaker 2:I talked to her. I said, hey, we do have american listeners and we have listeners from all around that maybe have said that they are unable to access it. And she's with these segments. They can click a setting that will maybe allow for larger viewership, but it is the CRTC protectingadian content and protecting our identity.
Speaker 1:So thank you as canadians.
Speaker 1:This is yeah, yeah yeah, I'm just trying to get a good bernoulli cam shot here. He's sitting on my foot. So I don't know, that's the best I can do. Everybody okay, he just wants cuddles right now. So this is what happened. People don't know, that's the best I can do everybody, okay, he just wants cuddles right now. So this is what happened. People don't get to see this side of Pet Chat, where I have Bernoulli like this downstairs, so that's very much what happens. This is like what happened on the interview too. So, yeah, so we'll wrap that up. We were like I told Nancy, thank you so much for caring about our dogs and caring about Bunsen's story, because I don't know, it's just so sweet that she cared enough to push for that story about Bunsen and it's going to help out other dog owners potentially with this super rare thing that happened to Bunsen.
Speaker 2:We also gave her a Bunsen stuffy.
Speaker 1:Yeah, which she thought was so cute.
Speaker 2:Yeah, she just loved it. She's all loved it. And then we gave Pete a Beaker stuffy, cause Beaker was connecting with him, yeah. And then we gave them both a calendar. So yeah, they are, oh. And then I gave them a pop pack bag to hold all their loot, yeah. And then they were on their way. That are on their way.
Speaker 1:That's true, okay, I'm just gonna move the bernoulli cam shaky steve, yeah, sorry, it's the blair witch project this is what we got. This is what this is. This is the best we can do over here. All right, chris, do you want to talk about the last little story? And then we'll get to community sharing, which is maybe I'll talk about the snow. So it's been snowmageddon. It started snowing thursday and it hasn't stopped.
Speaker 2:Um okay, the hilarity okay. No, it started, uh, snowing on on Tuesday, but only at my school. Oh, yeah, that's right so on Tuesday I had to go at lunch to pick up Bunsen from home and then go to the groomers to take him to the groomers and then come back to my school on my lunch hour.
Speaker 2:Uh, cause we wanted him looking so good for the interview and they did an amazing job he looks so good, he looks so fluffy yeah, so his dirty dog groomers here in red deer on davidson drive. They did an amazing job on our bunsen. But I left the school like when I got to school there was no snow. And then I left at lunch and there was snow. And then I got bunsen and there was like basically within a five kilometer radius of the school there was no snow anywhere else. But when I got back to the school it was like wow, but then it's been. I know it just started. It just started. It's like a cloud over me snow. It knew I was so not wanting it to happen.
Speaker 1:Just trying to get the best angle for Bernoulli here, cause he's moved and I have partitioned this guest room into the podcast studio and I don't know how to tilt this thing down, so that's the best everybody's going to get. So they're going to get way back there. Oh, there we go. You'll get my knee Maybe. Perfect, yeah. So there's been a lot of snow and what's really cool is there's like enough snow for the dogs to frolic in it. Um, so we took them for a walk today through the snow. They of course, that gets not too cold for Beaker, even though I think her paws were bugging her a little bit. Um, but Bernoulli was just so thrilled with the snow, um, and occasionally he has stuck. He stuck his head in the snow, but as soon as Bunsen could, bunsen stuck his head in the snow, which was really cute.
Speaker 2:We went to waggles today.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:We did go for a long walk today and then we went to waggles and it was minus 10, but it felt like minus 400.
Speaker 1:It was cold.
Speaker 2:Today it was cold. It was cold, but I was, I had my mitts and I had my toque and I had my Heli I think it's Heli Hansen neck thing, but still. So we get out and Bernoulli's having fun and he's running around and his little friend showed up, and then I may or may not have seen the warm fire place oh yeah, that was.
Speaker 1:There's a fire running it's in the shed.
Speaker 2:So I was like, oh, if I go in now then I'm not going to come out. So I did do some rounds outside, but not for very long, and then I went in the little shed and I was on the edge just to have a wind break. But then I moved closer and closer to the fire.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:But I got to spend time with all of Bernoulli's little friends.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that was pretty cute.
Speaker 2:It was pretty cute and he had such a great time at Waggles he always does. They're always so happy to see him there, yeah, and it was just awesome. But on Thursday I was so tired, like it's been such a week, so I guess I should talk about so.
Speaker 2:Bunsen's going for potentially dental surgery on Tuesday. So in the summer, in June, we took him for a CAT scan because I remember he has head atrophy, he's growing his head back. I I said that on cbc. I'm like great job, bunsen, you're growing your head back yeah, when we had our little family time there. But so he had the head atrophy and the the cat scan maybe showed that there was some potential tooth decay or something weird with the teeth, but it was inconclusive.
Speaker 2:So now we're potentially seeing the manifestation physically of what the ct scan picked up. Maybe. Maybe because I went in for him to have a check and they looked and they're like, oh yeah, that doesn't look great, but we're gonna have to knock him out and go in and maybe do a dental and then see what's there. And he said it's not a typical tooth issue that's happening. So typically one of them will get broken. One of these chewers will get broken from like chewing something like a stick or something that's really rigid, and then what happens is they get the infection and then their face blows up. It doesn't blow up, it just. You know what Bernoulli had, like the little lump on the side.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the abscess, yeah, but this is not in that spot, so it's something else going on. Yeah, anyway, he said we should start a round of antibiotics and anti-inflammatories. Just to get him just around and blah, blah, blah, I'm like perfect. Anti-inflammatories, just to get them just around and blah, blah, blah, I'm like perfect. And then on Thursday, I know I gave the correct antibiotic to Bunsen, but then I had the anti-inflammatory and I may or may not have given it to Bernoulli, because they look the same when you're like super tired, and I was like which dog did I give that to?
Speaker 2:yeah and then you don't want to give another one.
Speaker 1:Just in case I did give it to Bunsen yeah but then you were saying that Bernoulli was quite loopy yeah, he was loopy that night so I think he got a little bit of the drugs, um, but in your to your defense, they do look similar and Bernoulli has grown incredibly fast. He is huge. He is almost as tall as Bunsen now. So, like it is wild, he's maybe not as long and he's not as big around, but he's almost as tall as Bunsen, if you can believe it.
Speaker 2:I can believe it.
Speaker 1:All right, that's probably the end of our story.
Speaker 1:We should probably move to community sharing, hey yeah, that sounds like a great idea okay, so how this rolls is after the first little bit, we're going to move to community sharing. So if you've got a story or a question and you're on audio spaces, so that's the twitter thing, where you can join the conversation with your voice, you can request the mic to come up to talk and if you have a question or you'd like to share a story and you're watching live, you can just you can type it in and chris and I will try to get to those as we go. And so, yeah, chris, if you could monitor twitter, I'm gonna hop back through instagram and check out the questions there.
Speaker 2:That sounds great.
Speaker 1:Okay, bernoulli is eating Bernoulli camera. Bernoulli don't eat the Bernoulli camera. How did the CBC interview go? Yeah, we covered that. Oh yeah, people were putting in question the answers to the questions, so that's fun. On Instagram, lots of comments, thanks. Thanks for all the great comments on Instagram. Everybody, pat, says I can see CBC news individual stories in a live stream here in Connecticut. That's cool. Oh, chris, was there a snowdrift following you? Should we call you Olaf, maybe? Maybe poor Bunsen has been through the wars. Yeah, he is getting older and, like teeth, problems do happen with older dogs. So like that was something that folks with older dogs know about, especially little dogs. Okay, pat has a good question how much does bunsen weigh? Um, he's very svelte right now. So, chris, how much does Bunsen weigh?
Speaker 2:Okay. So this is super funny. He does paws up really well and I took him to, took him to the vet for his appointment, and just one second. Oh, I'm on the wrong phone, jason. You have my phone. I do so if you go into the notes app, okay, it'll have his weight, his most current weight, okay. So you go into the notes app, okay. Uh, it'll have his weight, his most current weight, okay, so just go to the notes app and then 40.1. Are you sure that's the right date that?
Speaker 1:says November.
Speaker 2:Yes, yeah, so 40.1,. But he went on the scale and he took, he looked at the weight and then he put his paw off of it and hit his paw in behind. I'm like what are you doing, buddy? And he's like putting his paw. So not all his weight was on the scale.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so he's under 90 pounds for the Americans.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but it was funny because I'm like that's weird, Like you aren't that light. And then he did it twice. He put the one paw off to the side. So he said this is how much I weigh and I'm like that's not accurate.
Speaker 1:I'm just leaving Bernoulli camera because he's off camera right now.
Speaker 2:Chris, okay.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that was good. While it lasted, that was fun. We'll do it again. Yeah, it won't be long and Bernoulli will weigh as much as Bunsen, we're pretty sure. Yeah, it won't be long and Bernoulli will weigh as much as Bunsen. We're pretty sure we can go to Jamie and then we'll go back to some questions from Instagram and live. I see Jamie came up there.
Speaker 2:Hi Jamie.
Speaker 3:Good morning. How are you doing?
Speaker 1:We're good.
Speaker 3:Good, how are you? Yeah, all right here. It's been so many weeks since I've managed to make it to chat. River is good. He's peering over the stairs behind me to try and see what I'm doing. Rosie's probably off playing with her chicken. Jenna's not too good. She's got an upset tummy and hasn't eaten for a couple of days, so we're trying to. She's got some medicine from the vet and we're trying to jolly her along with interesting food rather than just her regular stuff. So she's got the sads because she's got the upset tummy.
Speaker 1:Oh, I'm sorry to hear that.
Speaker 3:Yeah, talking about old dogs, she's 11 and a bit now, so we just keep an eye on her. I've been away for work this week, and so some science for you we have. Unfortunately, australia has the worst record on mammalian extinctions in the world. Yay Australia. Mammalian extinctions in the world yay Australia. But one of my work projects is working with our National Parks Service to improve the habitat for northern hairy-nosed wombats, and northern hairy-nosed wombats are critically endangered. There's about 400 of them left in the world.
Speaker 3:There are more pandas in the world than northern hairy-nosed wombats, and so I spent a few days in a predator-free national park and I did get to see some of the wombats. One of their threats is dogs. So, yeah, dingoes that you've just shared the picture of in the nest, but also other wild dogs and things like that come in and can kill them. So they're inside a big predator-proof fence in a great big basically a great big zoo, but they don't get fed or anything like this. They just have a great big park that they live in.
Speaker 3:They're nocturnal, so we went for walks at night looking for them, and I managed to see a couple of them while I was out and about, but then we just got back to the base camp and one of the wombats that has a nearby burrow came in for a drink of water, so I've got lots and lots of photos of that one, so that one is probably one that's affectionately called Dunny, because Dunny's burrow is just near the toilet. Oh, and dunny is a good australian word for toilet. Yes, that's most likely dunny, and yes, they wear it weigh about 40 kilos yeah, they're big and they're big, chunky animals.
Speaker 3:Yes, so that's my week jamie, I have a question.
Speaker 1:And then there's a question from one of our live viewers. Is it the wombats that poop as a square?
Speaker 3:Absolutely it is, and I brought home a bag of square poop.
Speaker 1:That's so wild. Their poop is squared, is it like? Is it a little rounded or so square you could, it's like you could make blocks out of it, like block towers.
Speaker 3:Yes, both.
Speaker 1:Oh my God, that's hilarious.
Speaker 3:They're not like lego square okay, but they are definitely square.
Speaker 1:Wow, put a picture of some poop in the chat oh, I talked to cbc about poop for half of the interview, so it's all good we're of course we're just so comfortable talking to the public now about poop and so I can share a couple of photos.
Speaker 3:So there's a, that's a photo, there's a photo of the skull, and then I've got to work my way through the photos and find the, the poo, the best one of the poo.
Speaker 1:But yes, and there was another question, you said yes yeah, I'll just put it up in the on the up on the Jumbotron for live viewers. Kelly asks a really good question. Jamie, are koalas still critically endangered?
Speaker 3:No, they're not classed as critically endangered. They're classed as I think they may just be listed as endangered, not critically. I think they may just be listed as endangered, not critically. So there's all these different categories for listing of endangerment, and so where there's only 400 wombats there's, and because they're confined within fenced national parks, they're confined within fenced national parks. So it's the number of animals and their distribution, so because there's only one population, that makes them more endangered, whereas koalas are fairly widespread.
Speaker 1:They're just not common. Okay, all right, thank you, jamie. Hopefully that answers your question. Kelly, that's a great question. All right, I hope Jenna gets on the mend.
Speaker 3:It's always sad when dogs don't feel well. Yeah, so she may have to go back to the vet tomorrow. See what else is going on.
Speaker 1:Yeah, chris and I are thinking about you. Thank you All right, yeah.
Speaker 3:Chris and I are thinking about you, thank you.
Speaker 1:All right, okay, thanks, jamie. Thanks for popping in, and a happy Sunday to you, cause you're a day ahead in the land of the future.
Speaker 3:That's us. We are from the future.
Speaker 1:It doesn't. There's a bit a couple of questions, chris, about Norbert, so I'll answer that. Then we'll go to a speaker on Twitter. I haven't checked the camera the last four or five days, but Norbert is doing fine and the cold weather and the snow seems to have moved the coyote along. There was a coyote that was playing possum with him, like checking him out, stalking him, but no, yeah, like everything seems to be going good with Norbert. Was a coyote that was playing possum with him, like checking him out, stalking him, but no, yeah, like everything seems to be going good with norbert. So hopefully that answers your question.
Speaker 1:Maybe I'll go switch out the chips tomorrow from all the cameras that are down there. There's just a lot of snow, there's just so much snow and I need a system because some of the cameras it's such a dumb design the sd cards load from the bottom and they're spring loaded, so once you unclick them they go and they shoot right out. Now I get that's helpful and probably what they're expecting people to do is take the camera off the tree and then change the chips. But I'm too lazy so I just change the chips on the tree and I've lost one of the little SD cards is blasted into the grass and then it's gone because it's tiny and it's like down in the woods, so it's not like it's on easy to see low grass. Anyways, I don't know where I'm going with this. I wish they just top loaded the SD cards.
Speaker 1:Hey, to all of the trail cam people listening's, nobody listening. Who works for trail cam companies? Try your best to make them top loaded, please. Okay that, hopefully that answer your question about norbert. We'll go to special k now.
Speaker 4:Special k, hello hi, how are you guys?
Speaker 4:we're good, hello Hello hello, hi, okay, so I've actually been following you guys since early 2023. This is the first time I've ever spoken, hello, yeah. So I've commented a bunch of times in your posts and in your threads. I love you guys. I'm so grateful for you guys. I live in the States and so, as everyone probably is aware, we had an election recently and it's been rather chaotic, and you guys are just such a breath of fresh air from politics, which is the main reason why I'm on Twitter. And also, you guys are one of the only reasons why I have stayed on Twitter. I've actually migrated to another platform, but I've stayed, like I said, mostly for you guys, because I just enjoy following you guys and I just love your account and I love the dogs and I'm glad that and the cat, and I'm glad that they're all thriving.
Speaker 4:But the reason that I wanted to come on and speak is because, a few weeks ago, I actually was the winner of the gift certificate from Bark and Beyond. Oh and, but it was. It's funny, but not funny, and I'm going to try to tell the story without crying. No, it's OK. So I had actually stepped away just for two minutes during the two minutes that you announced that I was the winner. Of course, I don't win anything. So I was totally shocked to hear from the other room that I won and I couldn't get back fast enough to speak right then and there. So that's why. And then I haven't been able to get back on to Pet Chat until now.
Speaker 4:So just a little backstory. So I adopted my dog, sasha, when she was six months old in 2005 and she lived until she was almost 19. Yeah, wow, she was my baby, like just my partner in crime, for almost 19 years. And but this is the point of why I wanted to come on here she passed away April 5th. Okay, I'm going to try not to cry.
Speaker 4:She passed away in in April and again, I had stepped away from my phone the night that I won the gift card which I was so grateful for, from my phone the night that I won the gift card which I was so grateful for. So my question tonight, or just my comment, is, if this is allowed and okay, obviously I can't use it right now. I don't know when I will get another dog one day, I just don't know when. I'm not quite there yet. So if there's anyone listening here or just you can I don't know in any other pet chat. I'd be more than happy to gift the gift certificate sorry to someone else who could use it. I would love to do that.
Speaker 1:That's so wonderful of you and if you reach out to Barkin Beyond, they have charities that they support, so that would probably, unless you know of somebody that you'd really like to give the gift certificate to, barkin Beyond does a really good job, because they sponsor different, different oh, so like I could just give it back to them and gift it somewhere else yeah, and they will donate it to, like a, a dog family that rescues dogs kind of thing. There there's a couple that they sponsor yeah.
Speaker 4:Okay, yeah, I'm happy to do that. Or again, if there's anyone listening on the chat tonight who wants it, please feel free to DM me. I can get your email and we can do it that way too. But either way, I was so grateful to win, but, like I said, I couldn't get back on to speak till that night, yeah, so I would be happy to give that back to somebody.
Speaker 1:Okay, that's, that's very wonderful, and man Chris and I are just so sorry for your loss. Like pet loss is very hard.
Speaker 4:Yeah it, yes, it was. It was like I said she. I'm so grateful for almost 19 years with with her and she was my very first dog. I did not grow up with dogs. I learned as I went. I learned as we grew together.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 4:And yeah, she was just like magic. I literally just struck gold with her Like she was and of course everybody should say that about their dog A hundred percent, but she really just was like one in a billion. So anyway, yes, I so I just wanted to come on here and figure out what I can do to give that back to somebody.
Speaker 1:You bet yeah, just DM. I'm just looking, oh school crest Sorry.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm just looking, so she was a Yorkie Maltese. Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yes, I have posted some pictures in your threads.
Speaker 4:Yes, yep, she was a yorkie.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah um, yeah we go ahead, chris we had a maltese name. We named her yo because we rescued her from like the pound at the rescue place and she was like jumping up and down at the gate and we were like trying to find a name. But I just said I don't care what anybody else calls her, I'm calling her yo-yo.
Speaker 4:Oh my God, I love it, yeah, so cute, love that, love that little dog oh that was when Chris was a teenager. Yeah, yeah, it was before we met so, oh, that's so sweet.
Speaker 4:How Sasha, quickly? Just how so her name? My dog's name was Sasha, and how she got that name? When I was married at the time when we adopted her and my stepdaughter was six and we adopted her from this elderly couple and the husband got sick and he was in the hospital, and so they just couldn't keep her because the wife was at the hospital all the time. So, anyway, so we we my ex-husband and I we found her and we didn't know if we were going to keep the name or not, and so we just. I asked my stepdaughter if she liked the name, and she said yes, and so we kept it. And so that's how. So they had named her, but my stepdaughter liked the name, and so I kept the name.
Speaker 1:There you go. Yeah, our cat Ginger came with her name. We didn't change her name.
Speaker 4:Oh, very sweet, that's very cute. So anyway, I just wanted to, like I said, I just wanted to come on and say again how grateful I am for winning it, but I would be thrilled to gift it back to somebody who actually could use it.
Speaker 1:No problem.
Speaker 4:All right, thank you guys, so much.
Speaker 1:Okay, Thanks Special K.
Speaker 4:Thank you, okay, you're welcome special k.
Speaker 1:Thank you, okay, you're welcome, have a good night. And just so people who are listening on audio know, there's been a couple comments just commending special k for gifting it back and people just dropping some messages saying they're so sorry for your loss. So there's people on that's facebook live and instagram live that are commenting.
Speaker 4:Oh, thank you, See, that's making me cry. So thank you guys so much. I really appreciate that. Thank you, good night.
Speaker 1:You bet she she prickered on Instagram lives tells me I should be using a bag or basket to catch the card. Yep, that's what I'm going to do. That's a great suggestion. That's a great suggestion, Chris. We're getting close to the top of the hour. Do you have any?
Speaker 2:other wow already yeah, it goes fast I believe we've been here almost an hour yeah, so it's been.
Speaker 1:It's really fun doing this, chris, and I look forward to pet chat every week. Thank you so much for everybody for tuning in any final third. Any final words, chris?
Speaker 2:thank you everybody for coming. We really appreciate you listening to our stories and sharing stories of your pets and everything that's going on in your world. We really love the community that we've built together.
Speaker 1:Yeah, thank you very much. Okay, we'll see you guys next week.