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Pet Chat February 22: Adventures with Bernoulli and Friends
This week, we dive into the delightful world of our pets, sharing heartwarming anecdotes and touching on important behavioral topics. Join us as we celebrate the joy pets bring into our lives, share training insights, and engage with our listeners' experiences.
• Highlights from Bernoulli's day at Waggles
• The joy of sharing treats like puppuccinos
• Discussing resource guarding behaviors with Beaker
• Overcoming fears and encouraging training in pets
• Engaging with listeners' pet stories and experiences
• Pet challenges and humorous anecdotes from our week
• Wrapping up with thoughts on pet companionship and joy
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Hello pet enthusiasts, Welcome to the live show Pet Chat. My name is Jason Zagowski. I'm the dog dad of Bunsen and Beaker and Bernoulli and Ginger the science animals of social media.
Speaker 2:My co-host with the mostest is Hi there, my name is Chris Z sakowski and I am the dog mom to bunsen, beaker and bernoulli and the cat mom to ginger every weekend pet chat, we bring together our community that is on x or twitter, facebook and instagram, so we're doing like this combined multicast, as it were.
Speaker 1:Okay, so, chris, do you want to give everybody one of the one of the stories of the week with the animals?
Speaker 2:Do we want to talk about Bernoulli going to Waggles today for wagon play?
Speaker 1:Sure, you can talk about.
Speaker 2:you could talk about Bernoulli, yeah sure, bernoulli has a Bernoulli cam right there and he is such a good boy. We took him today to go to waggles, for wagon play, and he had such a great time hanging out with his friends. Additionally, we had to go to town, and so going to town is sometimes more than one stop. So, jason's, I want to get groceries. And I said, okay, that's awesome. So we've stopped in the parking lot, and then I said I'll just stay in the car with Bernoulli and he's like, really Like that he had to go shopping by himself, but what I did is, in the same parking lot there is a store called Bone and Biscuit where we went today, and he was able to get a Popsicle, oh no, a Puppuccino.
Speaker 4:Yeah. And so that was really.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was really fun that he got a puppuccino today and then I just wanted him to have interactions with more people. So he did he had interactions with people. I actually was looking at maybe a new color for him because he's so big, he's outgrown all of his things.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we need a bigger. You're laughing.
Speaker 2:Jason, but it's true.
Speaker 1:And he is enormous.
Speaker 2:And then what? Oh? And then I walked him around the parking lot and then we sat outside save on foods, and then we got into the car so he got some interaction with people. And then we took him to waggles and he got to run around and play with all his other little friends, and he got to play with adults there too that were hanging out with their dogs. So it was a really great afternoon. Everybody had a wonderful time. No issues.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he plays really well with the other dogs and what I like is when he's sick of the dogs he sees the people. He just goes from person to person and of course generally he is very opportunistic, so he'll seek out the people that have given him treats in the past, so he likes those people the most.
Speaker 2:I wonder why.
Speaker 1:I wonder why we got a nice comment from Brent. He says he's watching from Ottawa and he overcame his big fear of dogs this week when he was helping train the guide dogs for blind people. So that's very cool. Susan is asking chris, I thought bernoulli ate the tim beebs hat, and then you have lots of comments about loving your tim beebs hat okay, so I decided to wear my tim beebs hat, so I was a little bit.
Speaker 2:I misspoke. He only shredded the wrapper of the tim bieber.
Speaker 1:Justin bieber, tim horton's what compilation or, and they smushed like tim bieber with tim yeah, tim bits horton, yeah, tim bits.
Speaker 2:So justin bieber, tim hortons, anyway. No, I, bernoulli, okay, I'm gonna. I'm gonna tell the truth here. I may or may not have bought about three or four tim biebs hats, because I lose toques like they're going out of style, and so I wanted to make sure that I had enough of these toques when they were available, and so I bought lots plural, more than one and but Bernoulli only got into the wrapper, which he also OK, this is funny.
Speaker 2:I gave Jason's hey, do you have any shopping bags in your classroom? Of course I do. I have these like bags that we buy Anyway. So I gave Jason them and there was two, precious two plastic bags, because we've said no to plastic bags here in Canada and we have a whole little sock full of them and I'm like here you, you go and you get these two plastic bags bonus deal. No, they do not exist anymore because bernoulli went into the bags, the bag of bags, and he roinked them out and then destroyed them in about a nanosecond. So that's what he did with the wrapper, or the plastic that was on my Tim Biebs. I call it Biebs because it's just a funny thing. If Adam were here, he makes this really funny thing, but it's Tim Biebs hat, and so the wrapper Bernoulli disintegrated, because that's what he does.
Speaker 1:Yeah, his math teacher in French immersion had a deep voice and an accent. His math teacher in French immersion had a deep voice and an accent and that he would say Tim Biebs and Adam is very good at impersonating everybody's voice.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he's so freakishly good at impersonations.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he's quite good. He is right up there with the number of voices that what's his face from Family Guy can do.
Speaker 2:Seth MacFarlane.
Speaker 1:Seth MacFarlane yeah.
Speaker 2:That's funny, I'm funny.
Speaker 1:Yeah, all right. So, yeah, do Seth McFarlane. Seth McFarlane yeah, that's funny, I'm funny. Yeah, all right, so yeah. So there's, that's the whole story about the Tim Biebs hat. I'm just checking through the chat. I think we'll do a little bit better job of answering some of the comments rather than letting them sit, because if you have to wait 20 minutes to have your question or comment answered, that's a pain in the butt. So, yeah, there's just people are just saying where they're from, just double checking that.
Speaker 1:We did have a question on twitter about sun dogs and we get them when it has to be a bright, sunny day, so no clouds in the sky, and it also has to be generally very cold. I don't think I've ever seen a sun dog when it's been minus below minus 20. Like, it has to be like really cold for us and then, as it gets colder, sparkling in the sky. We're just used to it, but it must be weird to people when it gets that cold and that's the ice crystals that formed. It's just fly through the sky, they sparkle, and when that happens really high up in the atmosphere, they refract the sunlight into basically false suns all around the sun and sometimes they make a perfect circle with points of light, like where you would think a cross is, uh, like the points of a cross, or just left and right of the sun, um, and it's really cool when it's a perfect circle, and it was that. Twice this week I saw the perfect circle and I got video of it one time.
Speaker 2:So and annalise had actually never seen it before. She probably had seen it, but she never took note of it, and she's.
Speaker 1:That is so cool it is cool, it's like it's very cool yeah but you also have to have the right angle to the sun.
Speaker 1:So you saw it in town and I didn't see it at home. You were in town and I was not teaching this week, so I was, I went out to look and it was very weak. So it really depends on your angle to the sun too. Oh, another good question from Madison about the, the boiling water fireworks that I do. How cold does it have to be? So the colder the better. Minus 25 Celsius and whatever that is in Fahrenheit you'll have to convert it. That's really loud, bernoulli.
Speaker 1:Minus 25 is about the cutoff that I would do it at, because if it's not cold enough and you chuck boiling water into the air, it'll come back down on you and you'll hurt yourself. You'll just get covered with boiling water, and the water has to be really hot. So what I do is, instead of using a kettle, I actually want the water hotter than what a kettle can produce. So I boil the water in a pot and then I put it into travel mugs or like a big craft, and then the travel mug holds a small amount of water. I've seen people do it with a whole big pot and I think that's dangerous.
Speaker 1:That's what I used to do. But then I'm like this is dangerous, like throwing that much water in there, so a little Contigo or travel mug, and then I arc it. So I just had practice to get a better. So I throw it and swing my arm in an arc and then, yeah, it gets that fancy beautiful boiling water to steam and snow. And then the snow rains down on you and it turns to steam. But if it's minus 35 for us and colder, you get the you. It's amazing. It goes from being oh, that's cool to being like wow, big difference from minus 25 to minus 35.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I wouldn't even recommend minus 25. I would say minus 35 is the start.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I would practice chucking it in front of you, right, because I know I check the temperature before I do it, so I know that if I chuck it above my head I'm not going to get scalded. People have been seriously burned doing that when it hasn't. I've seen it on tiktok. It was like people were doing it in different parts of the state states when it got cold and it was like minus two and I'm like, oh god, that is nowhere near the temperature required. It might be cold for you because you've never felt that cold before, but it's got to be like really cold to get that. That kind of fancy thing.
Speaker 2:Like when you go outside and your lungs just seize up that cold.
Speaker 1:Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2:You go like that is how cold it has to be.
Speaker 1:Another fun comment. Betsy says I've got the zero days since last ginger mauling mug. Thank you for buying stuff from our store. Yeah, we had our cartoonist draw that up and it's adorable. That's actually my cell phone case. That the oh, this is the oh. No, it's on the bernoulli cam cell phone case, has it? It's the illustration there. So thanks, betsy. Do I have a story this week? I don't know what I should talk about. I don't know.
Speaker 2:Bunsen continues to get a little better you went cross-country skiing today with the dog I did.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so that was it has been since before christmas I was able to go skiing like for one. Bernoulli was recovering from his vasectomy so he was on rest and it was cold like it's been like ridiculously cold and then dark. So when I get home from work it's pitch black. I'm not ski through the dark with the dogs, so there's a couple things that have to go right for me to be able to go skiing, and january's a write-off, because january is usually freaking cold and it was unseasonably cold in february. So we've had a really cold couple two months and it was beautiful. It was so hot. Today I was sweating through my toque. Yeah, it was awesome. Taking the dogs, I loved it. They are probably bernoulli. Looks like he's got a lot of energy but he's cooked. We went for a good 45 minutes or maybe more on a big ski. Yeah, yeah, that was fun. There'll be some video of it. You took some video of me skiing.
Speaker 2:I did, I did. I'm just like content queen here Anytime I see, get some content. But okay, I had a wonderful moment with Bunsen. It's going to make me a little bit verklempt, like that when you get that caught in your throat and your eyes water, and it's like that. Me a little bit verklempt like that when you're get that caught in your throat and your eyes water and it's like that that there's a word for that it's verklempt and so you went away and bunsen's been very sad that he's been left behind, but he can't go with being on rest the way he is he.
Speaker 2:There's no way that he can go down by the creek and go like that, but he'd wreck himself like he oh yeah, he would do it no, we're not doing that yeah, but that would he would wreck himself yeah yeah, no, so we're not interested in having him wreck himself. But so I went out and I did the bird feeders, because we've got the little chickadees coming out they woke up from torpor, yep yep, and so on the deck there was a pile of snow and it was soft.
Speaker 2:And I brought bunsen out to the deck with me and he was so happy. He was tunneling through the snow and just laying in it and being so happy with me on the deck. And so instead of going inside after doing the birds, the bird feeders, I just sat out there with him and he just got to be himself in the snow yeah, that's been tough to leave him behind on adventures but, like, really, he's been out of the winter since november since we noticed his gates changing.
Speaker 1:He's really been on rest since then, strict rest since his MRI of his bulge disc and I just wanted to, I didn't mean to correct you there, chris, he can walk. It's not like he can't walk at all, he's just on rest to heal. Yeah, and we think I don't think I know he's getting better, his gait is getting better, he's stronger, everything is improving but it's very slow. There's we've we got a couple messages from people who their dog has had something similar and the advice to them was much the same rest and see and it was like two months for most dogs without and they rested for two months and they did not need surgery. And there's still a couple things they're not allowed to do anymore jump off the bed, bed or and run down the stairs. So they got his ramp. But yeah, that was good to hear from a couple of people who have been in a similar situation to us.
Speaker 2:I didn't think I sounded like he couldn't go.
Speaker 1:Sorry, chris, I didn't mean it that way. I just meant that I didn't want to make people really honestly can't go.
Speaker 2:Yeah because otherwise he would hurt himself.
Speaker 1:Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2:Because there's hills and the whole idea is that he would be jumping onto, like his chest and shoving up into his neck, which, no, no. But the good news is like I bought that ramp when we had the alien baby taken out of him and they said, hey, you should get a ramp, and so I did, and then I put it away because we didn't need the ramp anymore. What Brought it back out and he uses the ramp.
Speaker 5:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So that was a good purchase.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was. He did not want to use the ramp to start with and now he's fine with it. So it's just, it just takes, just, takes practice. Oh hey, somebody has a comment about how we heat our homes so we don't freeze to death. That's a great question from Pat Natural gas.
Speaker 2:Natural gas yeah.
Speaker 1:Alberta is situated really on where the Bear Paw Sea was. Millions of years ago, bear Paw Sea dried up and tectonic plates pushed things together, so that's how there's land here now and all the little sea critters and algae and what's-its that were in the sea. They got covered up and became oil and gas. Also the forests and the ferns and the swamps that surrounded the Bear Paw Sea. They died and got covered up and that became coal.
Speaker 1:So Alberta has huge deposits of coal, oil and natural gas, and the one thing that we have in abundance like the stores of it, basically infinite is coal bed methane is what it's called. So as the coal compacts and decays, it releases trapped gases, which is methane, and when I worked in the oil patch in between teaching certificates that was known we called methane sweet gas because sour gas would kill you. So we were always worried about sour gas was not something that was commercially used, because Alberta would heat. Their most homes were heated with electric heaters, like electric air blowers, and then there was a big change to natural gas. So, yeah, we have a natural gas is piped into our house and our furnace burns it and then that's wicked outside. The fumes are wicked outside and then the hot air is blown around our house. Is that too much of a science talk there, chris?
Speaker 2:No, that was good, that was beautiful.
Speaker 1:Yeah, wasn't that long ago a lot of people in Alberta used coal like burnt coal to heat their house.
Speaker 2:We live on the road called the Coal Trail.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And so they would travel the road that we live on, like my grandpa would, in his horse and carriage, to go get more coal to worm the house. Now the original farmhouse isn't here, but the one built in 1918 is, and so he would have gone to get coal for that house.
Speaker 1:Is there much coal mining? Not anymore, no. So the coal that Alberta has is there's three or four different qualifications of coal or like types of coal, and we have it's called sub bitumous or shale coal, and it was really. It's really only good to heat your home with. It's not the stuff that you would make steel. So that fell apart when people didn't need to heat their, when people didn't need to heat their homes with coal anymore, that all the coal mines in alberta stopped. So that was the end of that. But we still used coal for electricity. When I was a kid that's where all of our electricity came from was coal plants that were burning coal, thermoelectric plants, and now they've switched to natural gas, so burns with less particulate. Obviously it still creates greenhouse gases, but that's what Alberta uses, just because it's so plentiful. All right, chris, I'm going to move the camera upstairs, so are you okay bringing some folks up or holding the fork down while I take the camera upstairs?
Speaker 2:Yes, absolutely. Are there any more stories that you would like me to share this week?
Speaker 1:Anything you want to talk about. You can talk more about your hat, because people want to know more about it, or you can think about some stories of the week or bring folks up on audio.
Speaker 2:But I'm gonna peace out and bring bernoulli upstairs okay, so did we say a word from our sponsor we, you could talk about them.
Speaker 1:We have no prize yet from them.
Speaker 2:We could do our own prize later sure I'm not going to talk about that because I don't have access to the roadcaster to make sound, to make the music. Jason makes all the magic happen in his little tech room there, but I would like to reset the room. So tonight we are hosting a show. It's called Pet Chat and it says come talk pets. That's the name of the show and that's what we do here. We share our stories of the week with Bunsen, beaker and Bernoulli and Ginger, and then we open up the floor to speakers who would like to speak.
Speaker 2:Now the only participants that can speak aloud are the ones on audio, which is X audio, and Jason already explained that it magically, just is magical. It goes through his roadcaster to be multicasted across the different social media platforms. So if, at this time, if there's anybody who would like to come on up to speak, I will vet you. Usually, if there's someone who we've had lots of times before, then it's a-okay. But Jason and I were talking this morning about hey, it's been a long time since we've had inappropriates come up or asked to come up. That hasn't. That was been great. So I'm maybe there's just less of them and Jason's like oh, I think we just do a good job of Jason's doing the camera. I don't know If you're watching. That's what's happening. It looks like the Blair Witch Project. If you're watching on the audio or on the live.
Speaker 1:That's the best I got, Chris.
Speaker 2:I love it. It's perfect. It's perfecto, okay.
Speaker 1:I just got to close the doors now.
Speaker 2:Where are you? The Renewal Cam went away. Close the doors. Now where are you? The Bernoulli cam went away. He turned off the audio to it anyway, so no one has requested to come up to speak, so I'll just share. I'm in Adam's room. Jason is 3d printing and it's making a sound. So I thought, hey, I'm just going to go into Adam's room so you can see the different decor. He has these twinkle lights. Twinkly lights. They're really cool. They're like three bit or like Minecraft, they're 12 bit, I don't know. I don't know the tech term, jason will. And so here I am in Adam's room. He wants to make sure. I don't know how to get onto his computer, but I know how to get onto his laptop, but I don't know how to get onto his computer. Computer he's. You know the password. No, I don't.
Speaker 1:All right, I've set up the Bernoulli cam.
Speaker 2:Up there.
Speaker 5:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So I've just been sharing my location live on location from Adam's room.
Speaker 1:All right.
Speaker 2:And yeah, because no one is. Oh, there's one request now. I request to speak.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I've moved Paula up.
Speaker 2:Oh, great, thank you.
Speaker 1:All right, so we're going to bring in some speakers. I don't really have anything else to share. It was a pretty low key week for me. Maybe have something at the end, I don't know, but we're share. It was a pretty low-key week for me. Maybe have something at the end, I don't know. Uh, but we're gonna bring up folks who want to share their pet stories or ask questions and I'll be checking the different. I'll be checking the different sites for comments and questions and we'll be getting to those. So you'll hear a couple people on audio right now who are on spaces, which is on twitter or x. All right, so we'll go to Paula and then we'll pop back and forth.
Speaker 4:Hi everybody, How's everybody doing?
Speaker 1:Good Hi Paula.
Speaker 4:Hi, we loved all your content this week because you were way colder than us and we were still cold, it's relative it was way colder in Canada, I know, and it was weird because we had so much ice that the lawns look like cupcakes.
Speaker 4:Like the roofs are still got snow in it. It's ice. It looks like a glazed donut everywhere. It's really crazy. But today it started just a little bit warming up so it's starting to melt. But it melts weird because the ice is so hard on the top that it actually makes like these skeleton meltings on the bottom. It's really weird and you can see it's like fingers holding up the ice, but anyway. But we had a kind of exciting week this week. It was Trixie's second birthday.
Speaker 1:Oh, congrats On.
Speaker 4:Thursday. I almost forgot it because I was really sick with vertigo. Oh no, oh yeah, Happy birthday. But we managed to get her in her little birthday hat. She sometimes likes to get dressed and then sometimes she doesn't like to get dressed. So we threw it on anyway and we said OK, you're going to get a little birthday picture. So we, we celebrated that way and it was a real quick day because, like I said, I had spent most of the day in bed.
Speaker 1:Oh no, Sorry to hear that, Paula.
Speaker 4:Oh man, thanks, I'll tell you that's no, if anybody's been through vertigo, it's like Dorothy and Wizard of Oz had nothing on me and it's like the bed was spinning at full tilt. It was like, oh, but then my husband, thank goodness, had some medicine, so he's like here, take this, and I'm like, okay, and it halved it, so it was great, so I could do stuff during the latter part of the day, so that really helped out, but anyway, but Trixie had her big day and I can't believe it's two. She's two already, because she is a terrible two. I love that dog, but she is funny, so we're just can't believe how fast time flies.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it goes by quickly.
Speaker 4:Yeah, it sure does.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Bernoulli's in his terrible twos, and by that terrible 10 months. The disadvantage of where I put the camera, Chris, is we don't know what Bernoulli's doing. He is off camera right now going rogue. He could be taking things off the counters, but all we see is Beaker's butt and Bunsen's head.
Speaker 2:So no, but every other time I can't see him either.
Speaker 1:Oh, we can see when he sneaks things though. So yeah, we know about the terrible twos. Paula, not that Bernoulli is terrible, he's just a puppy. He's a good boy.
Speaker 4:No, he's still a puppy, he's okay. He's still in that. Actually, so is Trixie, because I guess most dogs are puppy till they're age two. So I can see her kind of being a little bit more mature. She doesn't do crazy things like she used to, but I still got to keep an eye on her cause she'll get in trouble, Trixie trouble. But hey, we love her and she's got some issues but we're going to hopefully get them ironed out. We're going to. We're actually going to go see a dog behaviorist because she's been really guarding my husband over me.
Speaker 2:So it okay.
Speaker 4:Oh yeah, so it can come and go, which is weird. I don't know if anybody's got any experience with this type. I've never experienced this in my whole life. Usually dogs when you own them, they see you kind of as equals. They'll fade for one more, you know, by following them and all that stuff. But this time around she loves my husband and she loves me, because if I'm away dog sitting she'll come and greet me like she never saw me before. And then there's other times that if I come downstairs, say taking a shower, and you come downstairs and she's sitting on the couch with her husband, she gives me this look like, don't you dare come near him, and it's OK, oh gosh. So it's been a little challenge but, like I said, we're going to hopefully work on some of these issues and see what we can do to iron them out the one I remember and I'm not a dog trainer that I'm just going off of what folks we've spoken to on the podcast have suggested.
Speaker 1:With little dogs that that do that like they is, try not to let them feel that they are the like the queen or the princess by being held by the person they're resource guarding all the time like that person should give them the cold shoulder a bit oh, yes, he does that okay, he totally puts his back to her and yeah, and he'll just say go in your crate, and she'll go in there yeah, and then she pouts for half an hour and then oh no, oh no
Speaker 4:gosh, she pouts and I should take video of this because people probably think I've been drinking something. But it's like she has this different expression on her face and then and then she'll come out of the crate and she slinks to me, like, like she did something bad. I didn't say anything. She's just slinking toward me and then she'll put her head in my chest and like go, okay, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1:It's been a rodeo. Keep checking the comments and see if people say anything.
Speaker 4:Oh, that would be great.
Speaker 1:Like I said.
Speaker 4:if someone's been through this, I would like a little piece of advice because it's really been a time. But anyway, thank you very much and, like I said, I'll put the little picture. If I can find my post, I'll put it up in the nest for you for Trixie's birthday.
Speaker 1:Okay, sounds good, paula.
Speaker 4:Okay, take care, gary, buddy, have a good week.
Speaker 1:I'll bet you, speaking of Queens Ginger made an appearance and Chris picked her up just as I was saying that and people thought that was hilarious. So we got some comments saying, speaking of queens, there's Queen Ginger. Somebody asked about Bunsen's recovery. Just real quick, that's bad guy. Rudy Bunsen's recovery is going good, very slow, but he is improving. Like his gait is getting better and he's not slipping as much and if you're watching live he's like right near the camera just laying down right there.
Speaker 2:That's his favorite trick. Yeah, lie down, lie down.
Speaker 1:Yeah, exactly yeah. No more questions, some nice. I'll read one comment and then we'll go to our next speaker, which is Jen. Somebody just got to go back up. There's a lot of as people join on Instagram. It tells me they've joined, so it's just like most of it is notifications of people joining. Rod Rod says I just want to say enjoy your channel, thank you. I have three burners in my life and seeing yours is very fun. Aw, that's cute. Thank you, okay.
Speaker 2:We'll go to Jen. Hi, Jen how are you? Okay, we'll go to Jen. Hi Jen how are you?
Speaker 3:I'm okay, how are you doing? While Sorry about that, but just want to echo that this is still my favorite ex person your group and so to speak and I'm glad you guys are still doing a wholesome family-friendly pet chat. So thanks for doing that and I think that's really important that you keep doing that. So that's first thing.
Speaker 1:I'll just wait till we start trying to hawk what we got coming forward here, some cryptocurrency, jen? No, I'm just teasing. We'll fit right in with 99% of the other spaces here on Twitter.
Speaker 3:I know, yeah, anyway, I wouldn't blame you for doing it. But no, that's as long as it all went to charity.
Speaker 1:It's all a scam, it's all. It makes no sense to me, but anyway, no, it doesn't.
Speaker 3:I 100% agree. Anyway, I wanted to say hi to everyone, hi to both you and Paula, and thanks for the posts on the weather. Being from Saskatchewan, it's really funny, right, right, because it was so cold here, yeah, and of course we love to brag that we were the coldest place in canada or the world for two days?
Speaker 3:yes, yeah, and then I saw your post that it went from whatever to plus three and I was warning everyone and they're like no, that's not going to happen. And I'm like no, he's a scientist and it's going to happen. And it did and it was pretty funny and and I I'm a cat person I love seeing the videos of the doggies, but especially ginger and like, how did like. How did she do in this? Did she want to go out as soon as it got hot?
Speaker 1:she wanted to go out when it was minus 40. She was insane, yeah. So she got out a bunch of times because I was not to get too much into it. Chris had to work this week a couple of days and I had a couple of days off and I used those that opportunity to do some spring cleaning, which is getting rid of some of Chris's clutter. Ginger got out a whole bunch of times and every time she got out it's like she forgot how cold it was and she wanted right back in. I'd let her just mill about. She went under the stairs, cause she likes to go under there, and then 10 seconds later she's like holy heck, what is this? And she like slunk back into the door.
Speaker 3:Oh, that's funny. Do you guys have a cat door that she can come in and out of?
Speaker 1:No, we have a catio and it's warm enough for her to go in the catio now. So I think we'll put her in the catio tomorrow for a bit.
Speaker 3:She loves it. Oh, that's nice. Anyway, thanks for the posts with the weather again and stuff like that. I posted a reply on a sun dog and you're right, we take this for granted, right? We had sun dogs here in saskatoon for three days and I'm like, nah, I'm not taking another picture. I know what happened again next year, but it's really amazing, right, when you see that sort of stuff. Anyway, I just wanted to hi at everyone and hope you're all doing well and thanks again thanks, jen, like it.
Speaker 1:The northern lights was like that. There was a stretch where I didn't look for them and I would get notifications on my phone. I'm like man. I regret that there was like a good stretch of eight, seven to eight years where they would be happening and I would be like nah. And now every time I go outside, I go, I make a point of going outside at night, every day, every night, and then I look up for them yeah, I agree.
Speaker 3:Even there was one here in saskatoon where the it looks like the sun dog had a sun dog, if that makes sense oh yeah yeah, and I was like stop and take a picture and I was like now and I'm like I'm not doing that again. You know we have to appreciate this stuff, but I'm glad it's not just me, makes you feel a bit better.
Speaker 1:So thanks, jen. Hey, paula, we have somebody, uh, nancy front, who's watching on facebook. So she says it mostly takes time and the person being guarded can't allow it, praise it, ignore it. So that's like echoing what the trainer said, and obviously you said your husband's doing that, but that's just a comment from facebook for you okay, thanks, tell him.
Speaker 4:Thank you so much perfect, thanks, nancy.
Speaker 1:I'll just quickly check. Oh so somebody's asking about the catio in the winter. Now this it's interesting. She could be in her catio in the winter because it's insulated and it's got. You got it with some kind of heat lamp, chris.
Speaker 2:Okay. So yes, technically we could use it in the winter. But I gave Gord the heat lamps for the chickens.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So he has been raising chickens from the chickens that we have.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And he was like, oh, I need a heat lamp. And I said Ginger has two in her catio because, okay, there's a reason why we can't have nice things here on lawn ornaments, because they blow away into next week. Like it's terrible. Like even if you think, oh, this is really anchored down, no, nothing is when those winds come.
Speaker 1:bye-bye snowman it's just because of where it's, because of where our house is. Our house sits on a bluff right. It sits on like we have a, a ravine, I don't know, like it's a creek ravine and that wind just it creates like a tongue links, like a circle effect as it goes down and then up, as it blows in from the north and it'll just take it you're right, chris like it'll take everything away which you're very sad about every yeah, I wish I could have like really nice lawn ornaments, but I can't.
Speaker 2:But we got the catio with this insulated stuff on it yeah but it's taking a beating, like we had to take some of it off, so I wouldn't put ginger in it in the winter yeah, even where it's in the most protected place, it's still getting a took a beating from the wind. Um yeah even stuff that we've attached down, like the stuff that's anchored to the deck, bye-bye yeah, the weird like hotel racky thing that for some reason you got from Facebook marketplace.
Speaker 1:Oh, I love that thing that I've turned into a I've hanged bird feeders from. That hasn't blown over because that thing weighs 10 million kilograms. That is basically made from a dying neutron star. That's how heavy that is. That will never, ever blow away. That's what we need to get the lawn owner ornaments made of. Is that same kind of like?
Speaker 2:I don't know, it's made of animantium or something yeah, because it doesn't matter how much you anchor it in, you think this is enough.
Speaker 1:It's not we had a tree from costco that was beautiful. It was like a. It was a fake tree and every branch had lights on it.
Speaker 1:It looked like yeah, like little cherry blossoms yeah, and it looked like the tree of gondor. If, like the white tree of gondor, when it was at night and I set that up in front of her house and it was like it looks so, so good, because it just looked like this glowing tree and that lasted a month and then it blew away like it blew over and got smashed and I anchored that in with I've got chopsticks here longer than this like railway tie spikes. No, ntm, just gone, like just done Done. It's in Oz, it's gone forever.
Speaker 2:Gone forever.
Speaker 1:Yeah, this is in Pet Chat. This is weather, so we'll go to Sarah, who's on Twitter. Go ahead, sarah.
Speaker 5:Hey, hi, you guys, Love you guys, love your dogs and, of course, ginger. I love Ginger. Yeah, so the adoption has went through for my little husky yay she is quite a terror. She's a little over a year, we're estimating. Just found out that she may have been a mom, oh, which really upsets me. So you she gives birth and then you take the puppies and you just throw her into a shelter.
Speaker 1:Oh, wow.
Speaker 5:You know what I mean. She's getting better. But today they locked me out of the house so I had to go around and unlock and go through my garage, go through my house to unlock everything and unlock the back door, not realizing that I left the gate open, hi Ginger. So she ran out the front. Last week she ran into the neighbor's yard twice because there was a missing fence post. Got that fixed, now she's in the front yard, but she came right back. I don't know, that's very Husky. Like Huskies are like escape artists, and don't they usually just go?
Speaker 1:Some do. Yeah, I don know. I just it's probably dog dependent. There. There are probably lots of different dogs that as soon as the doors open they have that good cronk and evil cronk from emperor's new groove and one is don't and the other one's like run away and they just decide to run but she is doing so much better and improving and she needs some training and we're gonna get training done.
Speaker 5:Yay, and it's a whole process with the new puppy it's a lot of work, even if it's a mother puppy, but she's getting along with my german shepherd, so both odin and loki, big marvel fan over here, are getting along. Yay, okay, you guys have a great time and I am interested in what Paul has to talk about today. Bye.
Speaker 1:Thanks, sarah. Chris, your friend Megan had a Husky right. Was that Athena Megan?
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Who died sadly last year. Athena was a scape artist. She was like classic husky, like runaway classic yeah yeah, yeah, when they lived in, when her and thane before they had their little guy. What's the little guy's name again? Jacob sorry, jacob. Yeah, so they lived in reder. Athena got out I don't know how many times then. Yeah, it felt bad for them. Escape artist.
Speaker 2:And then she had Sophie to her retriever.
Speaker 5:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And she would. Then she got the genius idea of clicking them together when she went for a run with them, because Sophie listened, and then Athena's. Oh, I'm stuck to this golden retriever because, sophie listened, and then athena's. Oh, I'm stuck to this golden retriever can't run away.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, we have some comments about how norbert's doing and the answer is we don't know. I did go down and check the chips, like the trail cam footage, and there's nothing. There's just one had a coyote passing through, which is pretty normal for our area, so nothing. Um, we'll just have to wait and see. There was a cold snap last year, uh, and we didn't see norbert until the cold snap stopped and that's when he bit out of the ice and tried to get more trees. But this last year norbert did a way better job of gathering food and I don't know how deep his den is into the side of the creek. It could be way bigger. So maybe Norbert doesn't even need to come out until it's summer, until the creek melts. I don't know, but the long story long answer is we don't know. We're not sure about Norbert.
Speaker 2:We hope he's doing well.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And there's two more comments here on Twitter.
Speaker 1:Okay, go for it.
Speaker 2:Dawn says that Sadie is very protective. If she's on the other sofa and Michael sits down next to Dawn, sadie will immediately come over and gets in between them. And then another person, fefti, said that they went to a behavior specialist because she or Thefty, I don't know, it's Plefty, poncho. Pancho had the same issues and a behavior therapist was called, helped so much and trained Thefty on how to manage the behaviors, but the dog is not cured. Plefty just knows what to do when pancho goes off, and that's part of it too. Right, recognizing the cues with your dog, yeah, before it gets gets too much. Because beaker, being a covid puppy, got very resource protective and so we definitely went to training with her and it's better, but I think she still has that.
Speaker 1:It's um, she sometimes doesn't like mernoulli. She tells him off and sometimes mernoulli's doing nothing, he's just like standing there smiling, he's low and then beakers what? And then she let. She just does that at him and mernoulli's oh, I don't know what I did, I'm a meathead. His whole life is. He doesn't understand why anybody could be mad at him. I think, like today at Waggles there was a dog that was lying down and I guess when the dog lies down it gets snippy. And Bernoulli's like, oh, hello, lying down. And the dog was like, and Bernoulli's oh boy, okay, he just went away. He's like whoops, sorry, yeah yeah okay.
Speaker 1:question from tales of two cities large breed mom gp. What would gp stand for? Large breed mom gp, great pyrenees, great Pyrenees, great Pyrenees yeah, when should I get them fixed? Okay, I don't really want to answer that question because we're not vets, so that's something I would talk to your own vet about. And then there's some I can just talk about the research. The research is pointing towards large breed dogs generally waiting longer to be neutered. We waited, we were going to wait until two years and then that felt like an eternity, with him not being able to go see his friends. So that's why we went with a vasectomy. But that's a discussion for, like you, to talk to your vet about, obviously, hey, you got the strobe light city yeah there's another one going tls nyco5.
Speaker 1:What does beaker resource guard?
Speaker 2:it's you, chris, and like toys or food sometimes, but not as bad, but that's no, not as bad with the, the toys or the food, but it's me and it's because we hung out every day when we were at home. I was teaching from home and she's okay. But if I'm nice to another dog, that sends her to the moon. So if I am in town with her and I see another dog, I'm like I'm so sorry I cannot say hello to your dog. I can't be nice to your dog.
Speaker 2:No beaker gets jealous she does, she gets jealous, yeah, and I just don't want to set her off yep, she is very cute.
Speaker 1:She was so happy today because we went the long. We went for a long ski and there's like, uh, we take a corner and go down the hill, that's the short way and then we can keep going further on the property and that's the medium way and then there's another turn and then as soon as I went that way, she's oh my god, it's happening, we're going the long way. And then there's another turn and then as soon as I went that way, she's oh my god, it's happening, we're going the long way. Because we haven't done that for since bernoulli. We got bernoulli because when bernoulli was a little one, we never went very far with him. Um, we're exhausted. All of our speakers looks like nobody else is requesting to come up, so I think we should do a wrap-up. Should we do our own draw? I didn't get a hold of our normal sponsor this week.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we can.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:But make sure, if you win, you have to DM us. Yeah, so we can send you your prize.
Speaker 1:Right, okay.
Speaker 2:Sometimes I think people forget.
Speaker 1:Yeah, one more. One more question. Somebody's asking will we get a fourth dog? We actually had a serious discussion about it and we came to the conclusion that, with bunsen's health, it's not something that's fair to him be either get a rescue or a puppy. It's not fair to him.
Speaker 2:Right now he needs our attention and he needs no I I pretty much had reached out to another place and started not started conversation, but definitely was like my ears were definitely perked up about it and I was thinking about it and I got some pictures on and on and then then bunsen went for his mri and it's just no, it's not the right time for us and I don't even think this summer even just we need to give bunsen enough time yeah, to be fully healed, yeah, so next summer is what we would look for.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because I didn't really want to get a puppy, like when it's minus 40 and take them to the bathroom.
Speaker 1:Oh, you would take them to the bathroom. Okay, I don't think so. I think I would be taking the puppy to the bathroom.
Speaker 2:Okay, hello world. Jason is amazing. He knows how much I don't like going outside when it's super cold, and he definitely did that duty for the last couple of weeks, so for that I'm eternally grateful but, it doesn't mean that I don't do it.
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 2:Jason, you did go to Calgary. You left me for like overnight. And so who's going to do it? Then I, it was me.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Like, I do step up and I do it.
Speaker 1:I think I'm very appreciative.
Speaker 2:I think you just hook all the leashes together in a giant long leash, though, chris, I can't not with Benson the way he is. I really had to finagle them and get them in good places, and then I may or may not have put Ginger in the bathroom so she didn't escape. These are things that I wouldn't want to have her escape while I'm on my watch, but it's like corralling all of them and we moved. If you're on live, you can see our coat hanger. It used to be by the other door and then or by the turret room, which then we couldn't get in with the dogs. It's nightmare. So we just need to not have super winter coats, super survival suits yeah can the winter be over please?
Speaker 1:yeah, because we those are like full-on hazmat suits that we wear when it's really cold they're. They're large pieces of clothing yeah, they're like think of a hazmat suit that's fluffy, it's like an astronaut suit, basically without the helmet basically without the helmet, yeah, but it has a hood yeah, but when you wear it they're rated for minus 57 or something like I read no minus 30 only I was toasty, I was snug as a bug and a rug and that thing.
Speaker 1:When it was minus 45. The only thing that was cold was my face. They, they're right. Like it could be. You could walk around the arctic and then things I bet somebody said I got a somebody said I got a puppy in december. Never again, so yeah no, not a good time it would be imagine how cute a baby bernice would be in the snow, though like how fun that would be that would be amazing yeah, I would do that, but we're I may or may not have watched like 10 bernice mountain dog puppies running through the snow.
Speaker 2:I know there's. I may or may not have watched like 10 Bernese Mountain Dog puppies running through the snow. I know there's so many. I may or may not have watched that on repeat.
Speaker 1:Yeah, not only the little panda bears, but they're also covered in snow. All right, that's the end of the show. We'll see everybody next week, take care.
Speaker 2:Thanks for coming.