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Pet Chat February 15th: Mistaken Identities and Love is in The Air
This episode showcases the delightful chaos of pet ownership during winter, emphasizing stories about Bunsen, Beaker, Ginger, and Bernoulli. It highlights the joys and challenges pets bring to their lives, offers insights on pet care during harsh weather, and celebrates the strong sense of community among pet owners.
- Ginger's new friendship with Bunsen.
- Bunsen's recovery journey and daily care
- Fun stories about Bernoulli's playdates and winter challenges
- Valentine's Day paw-dates and social media community involvement
- Viewer questions on pet health and indoor activities
- Building community through shared pet-parent experiences
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Speaker 2:Hello pet enthusiasts, Welcome to Pet Chat. My name is Jason Zakowski. I'm the dog dad of the science animals of social media.
Speaker 3:My co-host is Hi there, I'm Chris Zakowski and I am the dog mom to Bunsen, beaker and Bernoulli and the cat mom to Ginger.
Speaker 2:Every week on Pet Chat, we bring together the community from across all the different social media platforms to tell stories, listen to us about the shenanigans. We multicast, we're live on twitter or x with audio and their video and, as well, we're live on facebook and instagram. So it's good to see everybody, our we have our community from all four social media sites all together here. Anything you'd like to share of the week just that bunsen's getting better slowly.
Speaker 3:As we have him on rest Every day he goes into the front room and gets to hang out there all by himself all day long, but not really by himself, because Ginger runs in and wants to hang out with him all day.
Speaker 2:I know.
Speaker 3:It's very sweet. But then she's stuck in there all day with him. So sometimes Adam comes home or Adam is home at lunch and then he lets her out. But because he's my cat was in there with Bunsen I said I know she chooses to go in there. She runs. So Ginger is a ninja, she is, she's very quick and if you've seen her dart for the door, she gives NASA's dart a run for its money because she can get out so quickly.
Speaker 2:She's very fast, she's very fast.
Speaker 3:She's very fast and so when she has her eyes on the prize she knows how to get there quickly. I opened the door to put Bunsen in there and it's a bit of a shenanigan, right Cause I'm trying to corral Bernoulli if he's home. And then what do you do with Beaker? She just follows along, but she's a good girl, and then Ginger just darts in there with him and it's cute.
Speaker 3:The other news of the week is Bernoulli has been going back to Wiggles. He's back at Wiggles and they did a kind of slow start with him, ease him back into being with his friends and then just definitely watching for behaviors that might be concerning. And Bernoulli is such a good boy. He played really well with all his friends, like his little friend Milo. They played really well.
Speaker 3:Cooper kept licking his face. He's I missed you so much, bernoulli, I am going to lick your face incessantly. And so Bernoulli was finally like can you stop? Can you just stop licking my face? And Cooper did. It was really good. It was good to hear that he was doing great, played really well with his other friend, jet, and it was also a really funny story. They have another burner there, a larger burner, bernie's mountain dog named Sonny and Bernoulli was like my brother's here, cause he thought from afar it was Bunsen. So he goes running up with a big boy bark and he's like hi, brother. And then he's like no, you're not my brother, alert alert. And yeah, so it was funny, because it's like when you're human and you wave like oh, I don't know you, and then you do the awkward. I was just playing with my hair, I wasn't waving yeah yeah, so that's what bernoulli did.
Speaker 2:Oh, you're not my brother man, I get caught with that like once a month as a teacher because a kid will be waving as I'm walking down the hallway. Now kids wave to me when they see me, but then sometimes kids wave to friends that are just walking behind me and I'm like I don't really teach that kid, I don't know that kid, so I like give them an awkward wave and then I realized they're waving to a kid behind me and it's embarrassing.
Speaker 3:Um, so now you're just living it. You're like hey, yeah, Hi, how are you?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I just give them finger guns. Now, if they wave at me, I'm like like that's way less embarrassing.
Speaker 3:I build school community. That's what I do. I walk up to people and then I'm like, oh hey, how's it going? And then I'm like, oh hey, so and so's friend, because I don't know their name.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, Any kid, I don't know that when they're. We have this large science lab area called the science park You've probably seen it in some of our videos and when it's time for individual work, some kids like to go work out in that area because there's lots of good natural light and it gets them up out of their desk and by and large they work really good because they're academic kids. They just wanted some other, different place to work. But their little friends come from other classes who were on a bathroom break or a quote unquote bathroom break. And then any kid I don't know if it's a girl, I call them Phoebe, Rachel or Monica, like from friends, and if it's a boy, I don't know, they're just Ross, they're always Ross, and they're confused.
Speaker 2:I'm like Phoebe, what are you doing? And the kids are looking around. I'm like Phoebe, what class are you supposed to be in? And they're like biology. And then my students are always like that's not Phoebe. I'm like it's Phoebe. Now Get to class Phoebe, and then they slink away. But that's not part of Pet Chat.
Speaker 3:No, no, that's just the awkward segue. When I was, bernoulli thought the burner was his brother and we got off track.
Speaker 2:Yeah, exactly so it's been. It's been fairly cold this week so it's been tough to get the dogs out. We went on a. I took Bernoulli and Beaker on a big walk today and I think it was a bit too cold. For Beaker. It was like at that sweet spot she probably needed some syrup to wear her snow pants. And there's. It's supposed to be frigid the next three or four days, like with wind chill down to minus 45. Did you see the warning out of Calgary about that, chris? That's crazy, crazy I did.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I saw that I wanted to block it and wash my eyes out from the eyewash station okay yeah, andy, on the office and he's screaming. That was me looking at the forecast, yeah bernoulli has done his treat.
Speaker 2:oh, he's gonna take that treat here. You go over there and then we'll just turn the camera around so people can see you. There we go. Sorry, I'm just trying to organize the Bernoulli cam. When he's done his treat he gets to go upstairs and I'll try to get all the animals on live. There we go.
Speaker 3:I've done that when I was sharing a story, because now I don't have any stories to tell.
Speaker 2:We can definitely talk about our Valentine's posts. They take quite a bit of work and they generally. I've said this so many times. If somebody told me six or seven years ago I would be setting up Zoom dates to make Valentine's Day dates with dogs, I'd be very skeptical. But Beaker had her annual date with Benny and that was very cute. I see Lisa is here on Twitter listening, so Lisa also did a great job sending us some B-roll and pictures to make it really sweet. And then new this year is Bernoulli has a little sweetie named Chesney and Chesney is the service Rottweiler of Marla named Chesney, and Chesney is the service Rottweiler of Marla, and Chesney and Benny are on social media, on Instagram and X or Twitter. So that was pretty cute.
Speaker 2:But aside from that, we have some questions about how cold it is and if school is canceled. Generally, school is not canceled unless there's lots of snow, and that's for rural communities because the buses can't safely get to pick kids up before the plows go. But for city schools it never shuts down, no matter the snow, no matter the cold. School in alberta, canada, does not shut down for cities. There is no low temperature and there's no amount of snow that will shut school down Never. Hopefully that answers your question. I did teach at a rural school and there was the occasional snow day, which was cool.
Speaker 3:No teachers were expected to try to make it in.
Speaker 5:Try.
Speaker 3:There was that one day you had the flu. Yep and you were so sick and you're like oh, I'm like, I'll make sub plans for you, I will type. You just talk, I will type yeah and then they at that time they had a phone out fan list, like the staff fan list, and that you got a call and the person said, hey, it's a snow day and your exact words were thank God and you hung up the phone and you went back to bed.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that was a win because I wasn't coming in anyways and then I didn't have to make sub plans, because kids still come on snow days but there's 5% of the school, so usually some lucky teacher who makes it in. They got to watch like all the kids. So that kind of sucks. So I feel bad. That feel bad.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, we make an alternate schedule. Like here you have these ones. You do this. We're going to combine classes and and I'm not going to lie.
Speaker 2:The one snow day, chris, and when I taught at that rural school, I just brought my. The Wii had just come out. So I just brought the Wii and me and three kids just played the Wii all day long. Tennis, wii, tennis. Remember how fun Wii Tennis was? Yeah, because there's literally three kids. People are talking about how they have, like they're canceled for different reasons and it's canceled in Ontario. And do people have suvs? No, not everybody has suvs.
Speaker 3:It's just how it is get to school. Brave the roads, just drive real. Jason has it. Jason has a yaris.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I got a little car a little car and, okay, this car is very light and I couldn't even get out of Waggles. So there's the other day. So Jason went to Calgary to present at Teachers Convention, which is awesome, but then that left me holding the bag for everything and I had to pick up Renewy from Waggles and they have a slight, so slight slope Inclined getting out onto the road and not even If you would look at it, look at you'd be like that's not bad. Let me tell you it was because it was a little bit icy and I went forward and then there's cars coming so I had to wait and then I'm spinning out. So then I'm like I'm gonna take a run at it. So I backed up and then tried again. Nope, did not get enough forward momentum to get up onto the road and Bernoulli's in the back going. What's your deal Like?
Speaker 2:why can't you drive and you just give her? You just give her, Chris.
Speaker 3:Oh, jason, I was spinning out really bad. I could smell the ice melt, slash rubber, whatever that smell is. It was not going well for me. So then now I have third time's a charm, right. But now the mom or dog, dad, who was behind like picking up behind me, is now behind me and they had to back down the driveway and then I go. I was able to get out because I had to time it where there wasn't any cars passing. It was not good. Jason, you have all seasons on there and I you do not have winters.
Speaker 2:I know I probably should have put winter tires on it. I was cheaping out because I would have required both a summer and winter set and I was like I'll just get all seasons this year and then winter tires next year. So that's why it's a bit of a problem. And yeah, we got the Yars because I was teaching a good 40 minute drive away for a 35 minute drive. It was a bit of a commute to the other school and the Yaris was really good on gas and we didn't expect we'd have three dogs and I would then take a position in the city. I think you could probably fit three dogs in there. Beaker and Bernoulli fit quite comfortably in the back of the Yaris. I don't know about all three of them and that's what the van's for. But I'm going to move the camera upstairs. So, chris, you're going to be without me for a second here, is that okay? Can you hold down the fort? You can probably bring people up to start sharing and then I'll be right back.
Speaker 3:Because we already talked about the Valentines. You said that we were going to do that during the Valentine's.
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah, okay, Oops, I'll be back.
Speaker 3:Oh, hello everyone. I would like to reset the room. This is Pet Chat. Welcome to Pet Chat. And we are here to share our stories of the shenanigans of the week, and then we're also here to listen to your pet stories, and I'm going to bring up people to speak from the audience. Now Jason live streams to various social medias, so the people who come up to speak are from the X community and I'm going to bring up the request button here and I'm going to bring up Rich, who has bathed in the chocolate goofball, and Rich lives in eastern Canada, in in nova scotia.
Speaker 1:Hey, rich, rich hey, chris, how you doing good, how are you? Not too shabby. I see that the dad guy managed to come through for valentine's, even though he was wandered away from home yeah, he was actually really good.
Speaker 3:Like I texted him in the morning hey, good morning, happy Valentine's Day. And then he said, hey, did you look in the blue bag? And now and then it wasn't actually a blue bag, it was a Costco bag and there was chocolates in there and a coffee mug and I was like, oh yes, because Ferrero Rocher are delicious. So I definitely was so excited about those. For Rocher mistake was the mistake was taking them in the vehicle with me and eating them on my way to the gym. They're not calories if you're on your way to burn them off, but I ate them. And then I went and worked out and then I left the gym and then I ate the rest of them. So I was eating my feelings and eating regret. Actually, I didn't feel good after eating a whole thing of ferrero rocher a hint for getting out of slight hills with your yaris.
Speaker 1:Yeah, go backwards um you. You have too much faith in my driving skills no, but um, if you can't make it up forwards, if you turn. Okay, now I'm pulling out of a road can be bad, but going backwards transfers the weight. Oh, lord baden's next to me and he just passed wind if I die remember, I like you guys rest in peace no, but it transfers the weight onto the front wheels.
Speaker 1:So you go up the hill better, because when you're trying to go up frontwards as you accelerate, the weight comes off the front wheels okay, so you don't have any traction I didn't, but that's good news.
Speaker 3:Everybody who's watching on the camera. Bernoulli just went up and snatched a glove that's on top of his crate?
Speaker 2:Oh no, he did. Do you want me to go see?
Speaker 3:Yeah, he did. Yes, I do. So this is another story of the week, so you can see his dog crate there if you're on live and it's becoming a catch-all. It's winter, so you take your gloves off, you take your toque off and just putting them on the top there which I'm trying to avoid, but it's happening. And I went to town today and I picked up the mail and then I came home and there's like black chunks of stuff all over right where Jason is, and it was the remnant. I'm like what is here, what is this? And Jason said do you want the good news or the bad news? And I said what? So that happened, and now Bernoulli is going to probably do it again, because he's been self-serving getting these mitts, anyway. So thank you for the tip of driving, rich. I don't think, though, I could back up the vehicle very effectively. I can back down my own driveway and I may have driven off the driveway doing that.
Speaker 1:May I tell a moose story?
Speaker 3:Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 1:Mid-90s I was with Bedford Institute of Oceanography and, most specifically, I was supporting the Canadian Hydrographic Service, and Newfoundland has more moose per square mile than practically anywhere else in the world.
Speaker 2:I did know that. Okay, I did know that. Yes.
Speaker 1:We were working in a place called Illamort, Newfoundland Newfoundland is such interesting place names, Chris will recognize. Illamort means Dead Island, but anyway. So I needed some parts air freighted in from Halifax and we needed them the next day. So the nearest airport to Illamort is Cornerbrook. So after supper I grabbed a Dodge Neon. So just to give an idea how long ago it was, Dodge Neon was a new car back then. I drive to Cornerbrook in the dark.
Speaker 1:Oh wow, so like the 90s mid 90s and have to wait a while for the parts to clear. Whatever finally get the parts on the way. Up there I got into a I ducked into, with a convoy of trucks going. Moose were not an issue at that point, but coming back at about two o'clock in the morning there weren't any more trucks on the road. So I'm southbound, I'm going at a reasonable clip, pop up over hill and there's two moose also heading southbound. The problem is I was doing probably 100 kilometers an hour and they weren't. And if you want a rude awakening at 2.30 in the morning when you're driving, come across a couple of moose from the rear. It woke me right up and you don't really realize how small a neon is and how big the butt end of a moose is, until you almost run into one.
Speaker 3:Going 100 kilometers an hour. That's crazy.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 1:Scary too, going 100 kilometers an hour. That's crazy, yes, scary too. Yeah, moose are. Moose are very big for sure.
Speaker 1:Speaking of newfoundland, uh, there's a show called um hudson and rex, which is a detective show shot in st john's and it features a german shepherd and the show. He's called Rex Right and his partner, charlie Hudson. And Rex was not particularly old and it was discovered while filming this season that he had a late stage cancer and unfortunately we lost another doggo. And it's tragic, and I know these things happen, but it's sad to lose yes, losing another one.
Speaker 1:Now his nephews have been taking over for him and on the show on the show, yeah, they're not quite as he was doing the show, for this would be a seventh season. So he was, he was incredibly well trained and all that sort of thing, and they're starting to get there and it's still fun to watch, but it's a little different knowing that one of my favorite doggos is no longer with us. That's tough. And, on a funny note, baden and I were watching it one day and Rex started on the TV show. Rex his actual name is Diesel Von Bushwald, I think Rex started to whine about something and Baden's head popped up and he looked quite intently at the TV, as if to say okay, buddy, I'm coming.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's very sad when the animals you grow attached to, both on social media and then also on TV shows and movies. They generally don't outlive us, so we them pass and it's quite sad. Yeah, yeah, and what was the name of that show?
Speaker 1:again, just to wrap up uh, hudson and rex it's on city tv, okay, in canada okay, and it's also on in the states, but I'm not entirely sure. Actually, it's worldwide. It's gone into syndication.
Speaker 2:Okay, so appreciate you. Yeah, so appreciate you, chiming in, thank you.
Speaker 3:Jason, you're ignoring me.
Speaker 2:What.
Speaker 3:I've texted you. Oh what Is our bedroom door closed?
Speaker 2:I've closed everything. Yeah, I went up there and I closed. All the doors were open and a really nice comment from Dakota says sending much love to your awesome family. I live in North Carolina now, but I grew up in Milk River, alberta. Your posts helped me so much these last few months.
Speaker 2:Thank you so much, aw. And then Bayou Alfred says how is Bunsen's mental health faring with his confinement? Is the big fella doing okay? And I would have to say 90%. He's doing good, would you agree? Like during the day we're gone he's he just cause a couch potato anyway, and he does get a little sad when we have to keep him on one side of the room for his own good. But aside from that I think he's doing okay.
Speaker 3:Jason when I leave for work, I've given him his drugs.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, he has drugs.
Speaker 3:He has fairly significant I forgot pain medication, yeah, I put it in cheese and the other dogs come running and drooling because they love cheese. It's oh cheese fest here, yeah and buns is just so good like I don't even have to squish it up, that good, I can just hold it in my palm and then take it. And he takes the whole pill. Yeah, both pills.
Speaker 5:Yeah.
Speaker 3:But he only takes one in the morning and then a different one at night.
Speaker 2:That's true, yeah, all right. Yeah, he's on Gabopentin and OxyContin for two weeks. Yeah, good, for two weeks. Yeah, we've just got some questions on what it is. All right, we'll go to Donna Jamie and then Cottage Oven. Donna, hello, good to hear you. Hello y'all how are you Good, and how?
Speaker 4:are you?
Speaker 2:Hello.
Speaker 4:For those who don't know, Canada just scored 1-0. Yay, Canada. I think Rich was listening to it with the sound on because I could hear it when he was talking and now I don't hear it.
Speaker 4:So go Canada. So I've missed y'all. It's been crazy weather out here. We went from those severe fires to massive monsoons with mudslides, so I've seen all the weather out here. But, not to make anybody jealous, we have beautiful snow-capped mountains around me in three directions and it's 74 degrees. It's beautiful. Today my funny story is being in California and people can talk about this. There's psychics and then there's pet psychics. Callie got talked to from a pet psychic. I'm dying. I am absolutely dying because she nailed it, absolutely nailed it. She said Callie knows that I love her dearly and she loves me dearly, but she thinks I'm too strict.
Speaker 3:And.
Speaker 4:I said hold up a minute, define strict. And they said the psychic said it's because I stopped giving her a lot of treats and food when I come home from trips, because I'm not on trips anymore and so she feels like she's being slighted. She told the psychic that I always bring her a present home and I haven't left in a while and that she's glad I'm home but that she loves me. And that was quite the drive and she goes. Did you go on a long drive with her recently? I said yeah, I moved from Texas to here. I just thought that was bananas, just bananas. So I have my mind blown for just a minute. But Sasha's here now too. So I got to take Sasha on a little walk around the lake that's by me. Today she's 15 and for a husky that's pretty old. So she's starting to lose her eyesight and her legs are going a little bit, but she still acts like a puppy. But things are good.
Speaker 4:I am trying to keep y'all as safe as possible with our new administration, removing all the guardrails on food safety and who knows what about what. So I still have access to things. I'll post it whenever I see it. I've had some DMs asking me like hey, where do you go? And I said, don't worry, I'll keep y'all going. I always tag y'all, but in case I miss one, y'all can always DM me and I'll tell you where to look, if that's helpful.
Speaker 2:It is Donna, thank you. And for people that are watching live that maybe don't know, we Donna's nickname is food safety, donna Craig. So we we especially on Twitter we repost what when there's food recalls or possible food contamination bulletins. So that's what she was referencing.
Speaker 4:There's that bad one right now with. There's that terrible one with the tuna that is in a lot of big soapbox stores like Trader Joe's H-E-B down south in Texas. But Trader Joe's has it, costco it's their tuna. Just be careful and double check that you don't have it, because it's a massive botulism and all these diseases were almost gone, but they're not right now, so it's a little scary, so be careful.
Speaker 2:Thanks, donna. Just some quick comments from the live and then we'll go to Jamie who's on audio right now. A good one. Chris. Somebody asked do you take Bunsen's harness off at night? And the answer is yeah. Yeah, he doesn't wear his harness at night. His harness is just there. It's like his collar and it's pretty comfortable on him. It's no different than really wearing a collar. It doesn't seem to bother him. We also take it off when he's home alone during the day, but when we're at home.
Speaker 3:he wears that harness that he has on right now. If you're wondering, and the reason that is is because if he's in the kitchen with me, he's tethered to me- so he doesn't run around. So he doesn't run around. So that's part of the rest that we have him on is limiting his access and movement.
Speaker 2:Jamie, go ahead.
Speaker 6:Good morning everybody. So last week I was having a chat about how rainy it was here. It stopped raining on Wednesday and since then the weather's just been completely disgusting and now it's really hot and, of course, all the mud that formed from all the rain is really stinky. The dogs and I are hiding in the bedroom with the air conditioning and River is spread out, taking half of a king-size bed and enjoying that. Thank you very much. But his story this week is sometime in the last week he's managed to get some wheat-based product and, being the petty mix that he is, he's allergic to wheat and now he looks like he's been eaten by a mob of moths.
Speaker 6:Oh no, yeah, poor dog. He's all patchy and lumpy and his hair's falling out, but at least it's summer and he's not going to freeze. So I spend a bit of time making sure he doesn't chew himself raw, but while he's sleeping on the bed he's not chewing, which is that's fine.
Speaker 2:Oh, it's the worst when dogs are itchy.
Speaker 6:Yes, yeah, yeah, I've spoken. Yes, I'm speaking about you and your itches and no, you're not allowed to chew, as he rolled over and immediately tried to chew his bum, but with all the mud we've got here Tennessee. The big, white, shaggy wolfy mix that she is loves playing in the mud, and then she comes up and her white face is black and her white legs black to the elbows and she wants a cuddle, of course.
Speaker 2:Of course, yes, of course.
Speaker 6:Because the rain stopped, the creeks have dropped so that they're safe to swim in again now. Last week they were way too fast and dangerous dangerous and this week they're just running fast. So they've been going for swims and now we can wash her face off and she. It means that she's able to get cuddles when she needs them, rather than being shoved away in horror.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and cozy's just good oh good, do you remember how muddy uh bernoulli would get with beaker in the summer? Uh, bernoulli, yeah. And then he was just a little love bug because he was a puppy and he didn't know that he was a slimy, disgusting guy and he was so cute. It was really hard, but like he would be wet and dirty and I, we were just disgustingly muddy for the entire month in the summer. Do you remember that, chris?
Speaker 3:I do, and being able to put him in the little play pool and rinse them off was a lot of fun and that allowed him to get a little bit used to water, because Beaker showed him the ropes and Bunsen's like I'm not ever stepping foot in that ever no did benelli get better with his swimming?
Speaker 6:no, no, he's terrible is it that he's trying to swim vertically?
Speaker 2:I think he's just not built to swim like he's awful.
Speaker 6:He's just awful at it tennessee, when she started, was trying to swim vertically, so she was basically standing on the bottom of the pool flailing her front legs, yeah, and not getting anywhere. But if you went in with her and then lifted her belly up, just put your hand under her belly and lifted her belly up, she eventually got the idea that her back legs work as well.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 6:And now she powers through the water.
Speaker 2:We'll have to see Jamie.
Speaker 3:He does okay with his life jacket on because it makes him float a bit, but yeah, still, he's bad, bad at swimming what we did is we have the creek and the like beaker slough which is probably filled with disgusting leeches or something disgusting I don't even want to know what's in that, um, and he was going in that and then I had to go in and rescue him like all the way up to my waist and my jeans, and then I had to haul him out of the pond at Waggles and then we were going to take him with us dock diving to get used to the bigger pool and then at that point it was June and then Bunsen had his head atrophy and then it just was a bit of a, and then the summer, then we were in August and that's when we were doing a lot of our dock diving with Beaker and then Bunsen got so sick and then that just took out any other funtivities with Beaker and like Bernoulli, because we were so focused on Bunsen.
Speaker 6:Yeah, yeah, no, I completely understand. Yeah, I would have thought with his big fuzzy bum he would have, it would float a bit better.
Speaker 2:No, is there Berniceernice or they're? I think they're, just they're. The way their body is proportioned is very top heavy, so yeah, it makes it tough for them to swim because they were. They're carting dogs with big fronts and more athletic back ends, as opposed to a new fee, which is more proportional, but new fees, a big dog that can swim really well. All right, thanks, jamie thank you okay, take care, we'll go to cottage. Thanks for waiting. Cottage oven.
Speaker 5:Hello how you doing I'm, yeah, my name is rob. I'm down here in the daytona beach, florida area. I've been. I've talked on here a couple of times. Yeah, anyway, you were talking about the neon and the moose. Back when I was 10, we were in the process of moving from one part of New Jersey down to the shore, because my dad had just bought a marina and so he would be driving back and forth and so we'd be waiting for him to come home, and at one time he was a little bit late and the car that he was driving was his MG Midget, tiny two-person sports car.
Speaker 2:Oh man.
Speaker 5:And the drive from the shore back to where we had been was through the Pine Barrens and he encountered a deer. Now, they're nowhere near the size of a moose, now they're nowhere near the size of a moose, but the MG midget is nowhere near the size of a full deer in that area. Oh no, and he went. We had to go by. I wasn't there, we were at home waiting for him, but he went under the deer. It was like a low bridge, he said, and he was fine. The deer hobbled off and the only damage to the car was a hoof print on the right rear wheel tail light and the front left headlight. Oh man, and when he was mentioning the neon coming up all of a sudden, approaching the moose like that, it just reminded me of that one, and that's definitely a different story. Not often you get an MG midget going under a deer bridge.
Speaker 2:Whenever there's a collision with a big animal, if you can walk away from it, yeah yeah and especially since this was just barely a collision it was. That's why I say more of an encounter yeah, I'm glad everybody survived right could have been worse oh, it could have been much, much worse, but that was.
Speaker 5:That's definitely one for the books, yeah, for sure. That's all I just wanted to relate that. Just interesting contrast and but also similarity there. So I appreciate it and glad to hear everything's going well up there and keep resting, bunsen, and maybe someday you'll get that new fee I don't know.
Speaker 2:Marla says I should get a roddy yeah, marla says we should get a roddy no, she said, I should get a roddy oh, if you get a roddy, I get a new fee they are.
Speaker 5:They are amazing and they're big babies.
Speaker 3:I just love Chesney. Chesney is adorable and I love Kuno.
Speaker 1:Yeah, absolutely Chesney and Kuno and Chesney were. Kuno was an amazing dog, chesney is an amazing dog. Yeah, I'm goofball slightly jealous that Bernoulli is cuddling up to. Chesney is an amazing dog. Yeah, I'm goofball slightly jealous that Bernoulli is cuddling up to Chesney. But then he's a gray bearded old fart like myself. Probably best somebody younger.
Speaker 5:Although it does say a lot also about how good Marla is about the training.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, marla's an amazing dog.
Speaker 5:She's doing that herself, yeah, and she's doing that herself, yeah, and she's just absolutely remarkable.
Speaker 2:Yeah, marla is a.
Speaker 2:Marla is a very cool lady, amazing dog trainer. Yeah, that's right. I just want to give a shout out to somebody on Instagram. That's Mary B Deco. Mary B D Kovic, you have a story about your black rescue cat. If you want to type that up, I'll read it for sure, but you're on live so you can't unfortunately can't join the live. But if you type it up, I'll keep watching the Instagram comments for that to come up and I'll read your story. And then Ice Goddess is asking on Instagram if the next puppies we'll get will be a Rottweiler and a Newfie. I don't know. I think we're pretty good with three right now. We joke about getting another one, but we want to make sure Bunsen's okay. We want to not have a puppy while he is healing and needs more of our attention. It probably wouldn't be fair to him.
Speaker 3:No, absolutely not. If things were different, like there was some Bernese Mountain Dogs that I sent some pictures to Jason and I'm like, hey, but then we found out about Bunsen and no, absolutely not. It's already enough work to have the three dogs.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:And Bunsen.
Speaker 2:Bernoulli was such a joyful puppy, though, chris, I know we could have another joyful puppy he was, so I can't
Speaker 5:it's too much. It's too much, I know. Yeah, you can honestly say you have a three dog night yeah, that we can very good very good, but I'm
Speaker 3:chasing that sound effects but he's always slow on oh I am slow.
Speaker 2:I am slow that's because they're on another, they're in another. Okay, I've lost it, whatever, yeah.
Speaker 1:But with the temperatures you guys are getting, I don't think three dogs is enough, you need five.
Speaker 2:Yeah, those fuzzy dogs do better in the winter. For sure Beaker was shivering today. I've never seen her shiver, so it was no, that's not true. She shivered a couple weeks ago when I took her out. Yeah, like I think it was too cold. She wasn't. Didn't look like her paws were bugging her. But the next time she goes out I'm gonna put her snow pants on. She is so much more comfortable in her snow pants and you lose a lot of. I think dogs lose a lot of heat through their feet, just like we would through our hands and our feet as well. So, and a lot.
Speaker 3:Just keep the heat closer to her body okay yeah thank you, kathy's been waiting hi, kathy a couple things.
Speaker 8:First, I want to thank everybody for the support I've had the last couple weeks, with both angel and my brother crossing the rainbow bridge within two days of each other, and I really appreciate it. Great community, that's all I can say. The second thing is tonight on the NBC National News in the US there was a story about a man who uses his infrared drone to find lost dogs oh, I saw that oh, I saw that.
Speaker 8:Yeah, so tell us more that is amazing and it was a bernie's mountain dog that they were featuring a two-year-old that had been lost for did they say 10 days or?
Speaker 2:Whoa.
Speaker 8:And the place where this man works out of is where Jen Golbeck grew up.
Speaker 2:No way.
Speaker 8:And I taught high school about 15 miles from there.
Speaker 2:Oh, wow.
Speaker 8:So it's a very rural area, and so for him to be able to find those animals, I just think it's a fantastic tool.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's amazing. The drone technology has like my drone is. How many years old is my drone? Chris, three years. Three years old.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so I do sneak a peek. I don't tell Chris this, but I do sneak a peek at the drones when I go into Best Buy. Peek I don't tell chris this, but I do sneak a peek at the drones when I go into best buy. And the technology on a similar price drone to what I paid three years ago is bananas like the. I didn't see one with an infrared camera, though. That's unique, so that's pretty cool that is pretty cool.
Speaker 8:And then one more thing about adding dogs. I don't know if you've listened to the last podcast from jen gobek and ingo no jen was gone for at least two weeks, maybe longer, in ukraine taking photos and now she? Then she was home for a week and ingo visited his parents in germany. And here's what she said my dogs are feral.
Speaker 8:Oh, she had gone to westminster yeah to watch rally and all of that, and she came home saying my dogs have got to go through training, they're feral, and I imagine with six, three of whom are puppies of varying ages, I can only imagine what kind of chaos goes on with one person there and a whole ocean that they like to swim in.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 8:Chris, I don't know. I don't know about adding dogs.
Speaker 2:Not right now.
Speaker 2:Definitely not right now, but maybe in the future see, it's all relative though, because Bernoulli is still a baby, but we've worked hard to train him and he's like at the highest level. In red deer for a pet dog like that, you can pass a level. And then we we see Chesney with Marla and we're like, oh my God, bernoulli's a meathead Like he, like Chesney is so smart. Marla has done such amazing work with Chesney. But it's all relative, right, cause that's not Bernoulli's job and we didn't put that kind of work in. But we're just like, we're really happy Bernoulli can hold a five, five minute down wow, he's a good dog. And then Chesney can grab her own poop bag and take it to the garbage and we're like, oh my god, bernoulli's kind of stupid.
Speaker 8:I was a little worried that on one of the posts this week where Bernoulli's thinking maybe, or somebody said, maybe, bunsen, that maybe Chesney could help Bernoulli's thinking maybe, or somebody said, maybe, bunsen, that maybe Chesney could help Bernoulli learn to open doors, chesney's also learning to open the refrigerator. I'm not sure you want that.
Speaker 2:No no.
Speaker 3:No, that's so cute that she's doing that. But then I also saw that Jen posted that the dogs had an escape hole and they went to Wayne's the steak neighbor. Oh, my God, and they went to Wayne's the steak neighbor. Oh my God, yeah, they went to the steak neighbor's house and that's something that Venk always liked to do, right, so that made me think of her. But I want to say Guacoman went too, and with the girls.
Speaker 8:Yes, more than that. She didn't even realize Guacoman was outside. That's how crazy it is at her house. And the next thing she knew the little dogs were. The puppies were barking and barking and as soon as she let them out, they raced to Stake Neighbors because they had seen him go over there.
Speaker 3:Oh, okay.
Speaker 8:But she hadn't seen it. Oh no, and then Chief Brody was in the house.
Speaker 3:Otherwise he would have gone. Hey, but she hadn't seen it. Oh no, and then Chief Brody was in the house, couldn't? Otherwise he would have gone to Remy. Exactly, All six of them would have been over there, yes.
Speaker 8:Yeah, so anyway, yeah, three dogs and a cat, I think that's a good number, it's a lot.
Speaker 3:You all's a good number. It's a lot.
Speaker 8:You all have a good week.
Speaker 3:You too. Thanks, kathy, thank you.
Speaker 8:Thank you.
Speaker 1:Three cats, one dog and two grandchildren make this house very interesting. Once a week Wouldn't mess it for the world.
Speaker 3:No.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's lovable, chaos, chaos. I'm just trying to read this story from mary chris.
Speaker 2:You typed it up maybe there's a middle section missing, mary. All I see is after they left, my roommate told me the cat was jumping. I don't see the middle part of that story in chat, otherwise I would read it and this is just maybe incomplete. I'm so sorry, I see you've typed. After they left, my roommate told me the cat was jumping on her belly harder and woke her up, probably because the cat did something heroic, but I'm just missing the front part there. Sorry, chris, go ahead.
Speaker 3:I was just going to talk a little bit about Bark and BeyondSupplycom.
Speaker 2:Yeah, go ahead, and then we'll go to Paula.
Speaker 3:Yeah, kristen, put in the chat. Don't forget that they have joint supplements for dogs. When we were talking about arthritis and we definitely use joint supplements when we thought Bunsen had arthritis and we've used them and the dogs just love those treats. They just are like Whoa. This is delicious and nutritious.
Speaker 2:And of course they've got that love 15 coupon code to save 15%. I think, it's over tomorrow night. So check out BarkingBeyondSupplycom if you want to get some stuff. They've got good shipping rates, like if you're an American within the States. We have heard that the shipping rates are. They're really good within the shape and within the States. Okay, we'll go to Paula and then I'll try to piece together that story. Somebody's typing Paula go ahead.
Speaker 7:Hi, how's everybody doing tonight? Good, hopefully you're well. I'm good. Thanks, I just want to say I had seven Yorkies. I was the breeder gone bad. I had the grandmother, the mother and father. No, you're laughing, this is a true story. I didn't expect the grandmother, but the owner went to England and she didn't want to take the dog. So I took her and then we had one pup and then we thought, oh, they're so cute, but the vets wait till the bitch is in heat and then you can fix her. The dog who didn't know what to do the first round, the husband did it in the second round, in a snowstorm, with about 22 inches of snow in February. So they were a unit under the deck, if you did not get my drift, and we ended up with three oops puppies. So then we had seven. So what are we going to do? My husband's like you're going to sell them. I'm like no, and it's like no one's going to take good care of my dogs like I did. So we didn't sell them. We kept the whole brood and the looks that we got from people.
Speaker 7:When I walked dogs. I used to walk like six at a time, because we had another one, so the cars would almost run off the road. It was funny. And then at the time we used to go to the Cape and I live in Connecticut and we would go through the toll booth, which they don't have anymore. But we went to the toll booth and the gives us a look and he goes. Lady, he goes. How many dogs are you having a car anyway? Because we had some in crates somewhere on my lap. It was nuts.
Speaker 7:But let me just tell you they were little, they were Yorkshire Terriers, that's how my name Yorkie seven little dogs, big dogs, they're all the same, but big dogs, I know, are bigger. But yes, they are a lot of work. But you basically do the same thing. You have a routine. They eat at the same time, they go out at the same time and then the vet bills can get nuts.
Speaker 7:The only bad thing is and I can understand what you're saying when they get older and you want to pay attention to Bunsen, because that's the best thing right now for the big bear and I love him so much. I'm glad to hear he's better. But you know, when they get older they start to die and sometimes we lost the mother and one of the sons. We don't even know what happened. I think he just had, like, his heart expired and he just died. It was weird and he was young and he just passed away. So we lost two in two weeks and so when they get older it's sadder because you're losing more at the same time, kind of thing.
Speaker 7:Yeah they're all the same age. Yeah, because they're all the same age and some lasted longer and some didn't. But it was heartbreaking because you just loved them so much. But then when they got older it was tough on the vet bill, so that's the only drawback that we had, and back then I don't even think they had doggy insurance or it was just starting. But, and, Donna Craig, yes, I know what you mean about dog psychiatrist or whatever, or psychic, because I went to one free at a Whole Foods and she nailed my dog Because I thought that our dog was not feeling well one of my Yorkies because she used to what they call syncope.
Speaker 7:She was like she would cough and then pass out, Her lips would turn blue and then 10 seconds later she'd pop up like nothing happened. So it was like she passed away for a little bit. It was weird, but it was just her heart condition and everything but. Um, I wanted to know if the dog was in pain. But she's like no, your dog will be fine, but she's playing chicken in the road with you and she doesn't want to leave you and you don't want to leave her. And she was dead. Right because when not to make a pun there, but on the way home from one of the vets that we were going to because she had seen a cardiologist. She died in the backseat of the car on the way home and we were putting her to sleep that afternoon and so she beat me to the punch.
Speaker 7:So it was like it was sad, but it was weird how this lady knew a lot about the dogs and one of the dogs was really afraid of my husband. I think that might have been, I don't know if that was.
Speaker 3:Olive at the time. It could have been. It was Olive. Olive was like no, dave, no, thank you.
Speaker 7:Yeah, she didn't like men. And then I put this dog, like why isn't this dog like my nice husband, because he's the nicest guy in the world? And then the psychic lady goes she had some really bad trauma as a puppy. She doesn't want to tell me, because she said the dog didn't want to tell her and it was always that way and it was like she was like a cat. She was always on her terms for my husband, but near the end she got, she warmed up better, but she never liked men. She liked women, but she didn't like men. Especially, my husband wore a dark T-shirt, so we just wonder if there was some happening that she had that, but anyway.
Speaker 7:So I just wanted to say seven dogs. You think that's crazy, but big dogs are definitely a lot more to handle than little ones. But they, they had their problems too. They would fight each other because they didn't know they were brother, father and son or whatever. And they the doorbell ringing and they'd start a tassel and I was like, oh my gosh, but anyway, so stay with three for now and see how it goes. But I was thinking of you when I saw Westminster Dog Show, because I'm looking and I'm going, those new fees and oh, the beautiful way. They're all so impeccably groomed and everything. So it was fun.
Speaker 3:Yeah, they probably did something with the drool they gave them anti-druel medication. Probably did something with the drool.
Speaker 7:They gave them anti-druel medication. Oh, they do. No, you, chris, I kid you not. I've been to dog shows and I've been in the back room where they're grooming and stuff. When they have them on the tables and they're constantly got the drool towel, it's almost a waiter with the napkin when they pour the wine. Take the drip, drip. That's so gross.
Speaker 2:They do it is. It's gross, but it's like a do-rag.
Speaker 7:It really is. It's amazing, but they do. They have special whitening for the fur. You watch a dog show and it's quite a process. I think you almost have to go to grooming school to know what to do and I had forgotten it was on. So I was watching it on replay on demand this morning and Trixie posted a picture, was all of a sudden perplexed and looked up and was watching the show for a good 20 minutes In fact they were doing the hound group and I said, oh, there goes, Ginger, goes, Ginger the beagle. So we were funny laughing because she was really watching the beagle section. So it was cute. So but anyway, listen, have a good week and thank you for all the nice Valentine stuff, because that just cheered everybody's week up and it was really cute and I really enjoyed it. So thanks again and hope everybody has a great week.
Speaker 2:Thanks, Paula.
Speaker 3:Thanks.
Speaker 2:Paula, yeah, as we mentioned, the format of the Science Podcast is going to be a little different this season. We're foregoing the family section because we do talk a lot about what's going on with the pets anyways, and I do make that as an episode that's on the podcast feed. It keeps the main show a little tighter and shorter and then not every episode will have an interview with a scientist. It's getting harder for me to source scientists and with how busy I am, that's always a stress for me trying to organize interviews. So just hopefully that that setup's a little different. It just means some of the episodes will be a little longer and some of the episodes will be a little shorter. This last one was a shorter episode two.
Speaker 2:We talked about that asteroid coming at us and then also basically they were looking at a intervention technique for child animal harm. So these are kids that are at risk or have harmed animals and how to mitigate that. Instead of just giving up on these kids, can you use different types of education and intervention techniques to stop that from happening again? And it's a really good, heartwarming study that we broke down, which is a good end to something that's very sad. Okay, we'll talk next week and we're going to be talking. We have our live back and forth with the Paw Pack tomorrow night, so we'll see any of the Paw Pack. That's our Patreon group. We do a live every Sunday with them for about an hour, which is fun, so we'll see, yeah, and they become our friends.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's very cool.
Speaker 3:It's very cool. We get to hear their joys and talk to them about everything and it's just really cool how the world is so large but like we can make it a smaller by using technology and zoom or stream, yard or circle or whatever platform we're using.
Speaker 2:we're definitely able to connect with people yeah, if you check our website, there's a link for the paw pack and that's just a way. You love what we do, you can support us. There's different tiers of support. It's like patreon and that's at your own discretion to join or not, and with that I think we'll sign out. Thanks for coming tonight and we'll see you all next week.