Thanks for listening and as always... Have an exotic week and kiss your wild thing for me.
Send your pet photos in now and we will add your fur kids to the #PetParade. jamie@animaltalkradio.com
Ever wondered how to keep a wanderlust cat content indoors? Grab your headphones for today's episode of Animal Talk. Dr. Brad Davis kicks things off with a gripping tale of a Rottweiler attack that left him with a serious thumb injury. Donna Blumel then steps in with a nifty solution for listeners facing the challenge of a stray cat that loves the outdoors—double-sided sticky tape on newspapers near the door. We also touch upon the often contentious topic of declawing outdoor cats, stressing the importance of expert advice from local vets and trainers.
Join our lively discussion as we navigate the curious world of animal fears and phobias. From weasels to alligators, personal stories bring to life why certain animals send shivers down our spines. We explore the humor and discomfort that arise from unexpected encounters and confront the unpredictability that often fuels these fears. Whether it's nervously standing on a boardwalk or pretending to hold a spider, we highlight how facing our animal fears can be both terrifying and enlightening.
Finally, we dive into the heart-wrenching dilemmas of managing aggressive dogs. Hear about a neglected dog that, sadly, had to be euthanized, and another whose charm is overshadowed by sudden biting episodes. We discuss the tough decisions between rehoming and euthanasia, shedding light on behavioral evaluations, handling techniques, and the emotional struggles faced by caregivers. This segment offers a nuanced perspective on the challenges of pet care and the difficult choices that come with loving troubled animals. Tune in for an episode full of insights, emotions, and practical advice for every animal lover.
Thanks for listening and as always... Have an exotic week and kiss your wild thing for me.
Send your pet photos in now and we will add your fur kids to the #PetParade. jamie@animaltalkradio.com
Ever wondered how to keep a wanderlust cat content indoors? Grab your headphones for today's episode of Animal Talk. Dr. Brad Davis kicks things off with a gripping tale of a Rottweiler attack that left him with a serious thumb injury. Donna Blumel then steps in with a nifty solution for listeners facing the challenge of a stray cat that loves the outdoors—double-sided sticky tape on newspapers near the door. We also touch upon the often contentious topic of declawing outdoor cats, stressing the importance of expert advice from local vets and trainers.
Join our lively discussion as we navigate the curious world of animal fears and phobias. From weasels to alligators, personal stories bring to life why certain animals send shivers down our spines. We explore the humor and discomfort that arise from unexpected encounters and confront the unpredictability that often fuels these fears. Whether it's nervously standing on a boardwalk or pretending to hold a spider, we highlight how facing our animal fears can be both terrifying and enlightening.
Finally, we dive into the heart-wrenching dilemmas of managing aggressive dogs. Hear about a neglected dog that, sadly, had to be euthanized, and another whose charm is overshadowed by sudden biting episodes. We discuss the tough decisions between rehoming and euthanasia, shedding light on behavioral evaluations, handling techniques, and the emotional struggles faced by caregivers. This segment offers a nuanced perspective on the challenges of pet care and the difficult choices that come with loving troubled animals. Tune in for an episode full of insights, emotions, and practical advice for every animal lover.
Jamie:
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Jamie:
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Dr. Brad:
Dr Brad Davis, I'm here to answer any veterinary questions you might have, and the brightest of the bunch, donna Blumel, and I'm here to answer training questions.
Jamie:
My name is Jamie. I just want to make sure everybody has a good time. Dr Brad is on the mend. When animals attack. Brad you got.
Donna:
You need to take a picture of that so we can add it to the website.
Jamie:
That's right A good portion of your thumb.
Dr. Brad:
Lopped off yes.
Jamie:
By what was it? Last week it was a Rottweiler A. It's gone.
Dr. Brad:
Yes, by what was it last week? It was a Rottweiler. A Rottweiler decided I looked tasty and moved faster than any dog I've ever seen, yeah, and literally bit off my thumbprint Yikes. And if you look closely I just showed you guys the wound. But if you look closely you can see that the little lines in your thumbprint they're stretched out as they stretch the tissue to cover my whole thumb.
Jamie:
So there's an image for everyone at home. Okay, and have a great dinner. Okay, excellent, wow, all right. So, but you're on the menu.
Dr. Brad:
Don't forget our annual thing Wish happy birthday to all the mothers. Yeah, happy birthday to all the moms. I was close to saying that I love it. Happy birthday to all the moms on Mother's Day, wherever it's a tradition. Wherever it's a tradition, your mother's made it.
Donna:
It's a tradition we can leave behind.
Jamie:
Actually I thought about that and I was like well, at least that died. And no, you should have had this. Brad brought it back.
Donna:
I know you should have had this meeting prior to the show starting. Yeah, yeah.
Jamie:
I wasn't a boy. Besides pictures of Brad's demolished thumb, photos of things that we do in and around the show and the pet parade, which is fun you send in photos of your pet and we put it up in the pet parade, just a way of bragging about the critters that make our lives complete.
Dr. Brad:
as it were.
Jamie:
But if by making your life complete means driving you crazy, then we're here to help. Of course, you can always send your emails to us from the website and we help you with those. We get back to those 24, 48 hours or so and then try to answer some on the weekend as well, when they come around. For those you send them in and we help answer them. I got one right here. Throw it out here, dear Animal Talk, a chain letter. I touched it. I touched it. I touched it.
Jamie:
Ah, Alright, hi, I brought a stray cat into my home that I just love. However, he doesn't want to stay in the house. I'm guessing he's about a year old. He never leaves, he just likes being outside. We're moving to a new place, but it's only a few hundred feet away. What can we do to keep him in the house so he doesn't leave us by getting confused and going to the wrong house? Our old one also uh. Should we have him declawed, seeing that is he uh, that he likes to be outside so much? He's very good with our three old son. He's never even scratched him or even, uh, anything, even the way our child abuses him and he just loves him to death. I listen, I'll be listening, but I'm moving, so that's why I sent you an email.
Donna:
Thanks a lot, gary.
Donna:
Well, the best thing to do when you have a cat that you want to keep inside is to make the door to leading outside an unpleasant place to be, and one of my favorite things to use is stuff you can usually find in your home newspaper and double-sided sticky tape, and you put that right in front of the door double-sided sticky tape all over the newspaper.
Donna:
So when he approaches the door and he walks onto the paper which all cats love to walk on paper, so he's going to kind of be drawn in there anyway. So he'll come in, he'll step on it, it'll get stuck to his paws and then he'll start running and then the paper will proceed to chase him because it's stuck to him and what that'll do is make the front door, or any door, become a bad place to be. We don't want to hang out in front of that door because scary things have happened there and that's the easiest way. Or most people would tell you to use water. The only reason I don't is because, if you do need to give this cat a bath, you don't want to stress him out by doing that.
Donna:
So, I try to avoid using water as a punishment for cats, and double-sided sticky tape is much more enjoyable to watch too. The newspaper chases the cat through the house. It's great, great entertainment. Who needs TV?
Jamie:
that much, right. And then the cat's sitting there hyperventilating.
Donna:
Well, no, after you calm them down, you unstick it, and you may have to leave it there for a week or two before he gets the idea. Some cats will get the idea pretty quick. Others it may take a week or two before they finally go. Okay, I'm not going near that door, but as far as the declawing question, I would say no.
Dr. Brad:
Anytime you have a cat that gets outside, you put them at a greater risk. It would be kind of like taking a boxer to the ring, putting them in the ring and then tying their hands behind their back and saying go to it and bruises and knuckles with your face as much as you can because they're just not going to be able to protect themselves. And as awful as it sounds, the life of a cat, an outdoor cat, is really a rough life. You're facing off not just against others of your own ilk. You're facing against things like dogs. You're facing off against well, let's just face it neighbor kids, let's just face it.
Dr. Brad:
And so there's a lot of things that you're going to need to protect yourself from, and I think that's one of the reasons that we see that they don't live as long. So having a cat declawed I'm really in favor of that. I think that's one of the reasons that we see that they don't live as long. So having a cat declawed, I'm really in favor of that. I think it's a great thing to do, I think if they're an indoor cat and that's why I'm in favor of indoor cats but once they get a taste for the outside, it's really hard to keep them inside. It's kind of, you know, women can understand that because that's kind of like men.
Jamie:
Once they get a taste for going out and running around, it's hard to keep them in, so there you go. Words of wisdom from dr brad, we always have those little nuggets of uh, wiseness, the analogies are
Donna:
just yeah, wow that's a lot of blood, so, no, no, you can't use that excuse anymore, that was last you've had plenty of time to recover those platelets.
Jamie:
Okay, visit our website and of course you send us the emails there. And do you have another email there?
Dr. Brad:
Brad, sure do Dear Animal Talk. Read the mail. Read the mail. Read the mail. How can I stop my neighbor dogs from barking at my dogs? Yeah, is there anything you can suggest? Thanks, and this is signed Bill. Really tall fence.
Jamie:
Wooden Solid.
Donna:
That should help it may, yeah, it absolutely might A sale sign on the front lawn.
Donna:
That would help even more. He is not yelling. No, there are legal steps you can take for a nuisance barking dog, and every city has nuisance law, so you can contact your local police and find out what's the next step. Where do I go from here? I've lodged this complaint. The dogs do this all the time. If nothing clears up, you can try talking to your neighbor Again, saying, hey, look, your dogs are barking. It's really getting out of hand. Try to be the neighborly person and do the right thing. And if that doesn't work, then you can get into using other training techniques, other training tools. One of them is called the Ultrasonic no Bark Collar. Well, actually it's not a collar, it's a little handheld unit that you can push a button and a sound emits, supposedly to stop the dog.
Donna:
Wow, doesn't work on all.
Dr. Brad:
I'm living on the edge because I'm sitting next to her Within striking distance. I'm safely over here. No, because I can still.
Donna:
I can Well hopefully he'll take long enough to beat up that I can get away.
Jamie:
Yeah, oh, so you only have to outrun the bear, I only got to outrun you and you're in the corner, so you kind of are out of luck.
Donna:
That's right, oh, you're going to do it.
Jamie:
But yesterday Donna and I were chit-chatting about Florida, donna's recent trip to Florida, and then I always go back to my experience in Florida driving down the Alligator Alley. And there's a highway down there and they call it the Alligator Alley and it's a four-lane median highway highway and there's some swamps on the edges of it and you'll see alligators here and there sporadically, but there's a little dirt path that goes off of it and uh, but runs parallel with uh, with the highway for quite a ways and uh, if you you find the right little turn off and you take this, it's a really tiny dirt road. Uh, that is Alligator Alley and there is just like a gator, every couple of feet.
Jamie:
It was amazing. Anyway, donna's sitting here curling and cringing in her seat because I didn't know this yesterday when I brought it up. But she's very, very afraid of alligators and so I revisited the story today because Big story on CNN today, one of the things that they showed again and again was a big 400-pound alligator and it was believed it killed this 28-year-old woman. They captured it and they killed the alligator and they found like her arms inside of it, two human arms. They were making sure they were her arms because they found like the dismembered body and so okay, anyway, so pleasant little story there, but anyway. So apparently, donna, your fear very well-founded.
Donna:
I guess gators do jump up and trap people. Do you know why? Let me explain why.
Dr. Brad:
Let me ask real quick Did they have sleeves on them? Yeah, I don't know. Did they have sleeves on them? Because it does have the right to bear arms. I'm sorry, go on ahead. I have the right to bear arms. I'm sorry, go on ahead. I'm sorry, I couldn't help it. No, that's terrible. There was nothing else for me here.
Donna:
Go ahead, see this is the reason you know I'm not scared of tigers, lions. You know big other animals and it's not just bears. I find you know most well black bears and some polar bears and some of the other bears non-grizzlies are very cute and they're just adorable. The reason I have such an issue with alligators and crocodiles is because they really don't care what you are, you're food and most of the other animals, if given the chance, wouldn't prefer to eat us. And I think that's where most of my fear comes from as an alligator just not that picky Crocodile, not that picky and they can jump.
Jamie:
I've seen them.
Donna:
I've seen them on documentaries. They can jump. If they know that there's food nearby, they will jump out and get that food.
Jamie:
It's so sad about this young lady. She's 28. She was just out for a jog and somebody said that they saw someone fit her description she was taking a break and just sitting on a bridge, kind of thing. No one saw the incident take place. No one's come forward as of yet. But I mean she's dead and that's sad, it's gruesome, it's a gruesome, horrible thing.
Jamie:
But Donna's phobia is the gators and we were talking about phobias yesterday. I didn't even know about this story until today. And your phobia, apparently very well-founded, my phobia and my question to everybody what is your animal phobia? What scares you? What animal freaks you out? Or it's like you know, some people are definitely afraid of birds. Yes, frightened of birds. My friend Jenny, just you know, someone has like a feather bow on and she like freaks out. It's feathers and birds just freak her out. Me it's large bugs. Large bugs like tarantulas and things like that really freak me out.
Jamie:
They creep me out. Those are the ones that freak me out. So what is your animal phobia, Brad? What's yours? What animal is there? Being a vet, you probably have a higher resistance or a higher tolerance.
Dr. Brad:
Weasels, weasels. There's some weasels I'm afraid of.
Jamie:
Okay.
Dr. Brad:
But yeah, no, I don't. You know, I really don't think so. I don't think I've ever been scared of animals. I don't like horses.
Jamie:
Yeah.
Dr. Brad:
But I'm not afraid of horses, but I just don't like them Because they have four points of their body that can kill you, right, and they have four points of their body that can kill you Right and lightning fast. And they have four bowling balls at the end of each leg, okay, and they have a brain the size of a walnut.
Jamie:
I mean, I don't like that. But.
Dr. Brad:
I tend not to fear animals. I always have this big thing where I'm afraid of snakes, but I'm not that afraid of snakes, it's just fun to make, like it.
Donna:
Oh no, you screamed like a little girl when that snake came at you. Well, you see, now there's the thing it's coming at you.
Dr. Brad:
Let's go back on that. It's the coming at you part.
Donna:
But it was a benign snake. The snake that was coming right at you, coming right for you, was a benign snake If an altar boy was coming right at me, I'd scream that's when something's coming at you.
Dr. Brad:
you scream, Not an exuberation you got to be. I'm saying if something's coming at you, you don't know what's going to happen. It could be something awful, it could have a chainsaw. Yeah, that's true, that's the thing. What snake was it? When was this? Because there's been more than once that I've screamed was it looked like a?
Donna:
smaller garter snake. Yeah, the little snakes are more scary to me Because it just seems like they're faster. Yeah, this one was quick. I remember that they opened the top and it dove out of that Tupperware container right at you.
Dr. Brad:
It just seems like it's going to go right down your throat and it's going to be like Alien.
Jamie:
What is it with some of the reptiles? They always have to carry their pets in pillow sacks and Tupperware.
Dr. Brad:
Don't they make real containers for these things? It depends what their mom has, but no, I think it's all the things that you list are otherworldly too, Don't forget we list snakes and birds Within your own species. You don't fear things quite as much. Fairly, certainly a tiger would do a bigger number on you than anything else, but we don't find them scary because they're kind of cute.
Donna:
Well, no, it's not just that, they're kind of cute. I know that we're not naturally on the menu for them. They typically don't want to be where we are and on occasion they do end up harming somebody, but it's usually a startle factor, like the grizzlies or some of the black bears. It's never usually an intentional thing. It's usually a we stumble, oops and do something stupid. So we're not just, we're not on the menu. See, I'm not scared of sharks either, because I know we're not on the menu. It's not something that you know. They go looking for us. We happen to be there when they're hungry from time to time, but an alligator just doesn't care time, but an alligator just doesn't care. Everything's on the menu for an alligator, and that's what kind of freaks me out a little bit is because they're just not that picky.
Dr. Brad:
Can you look at them in zoos? Can you go to a zoo and look at an alligator? Does it just make you too crazy?
Donna:
No, I well, I tend to try to force myself to confront my fears. So I will stand on the you know little boardwalk and you know be freaked out, but I'll stand there and take a picture.
Dr. Brad:
So could you stand next to, like the University of Florida mascot? You know other than the?
Donna:
Oh no, that doesn't bother me, Okay. No, if it's real and it's like within inches of me, yes, I would be really freaked. Okay.
Jamie:
What is your animal phobia? What animal are you afraid of?
Dr. Brad:
One of my technicians who's actually in vet school now. Actually, I could take my hands. She would know there's nothing in my hands. I would take my cups of both hands, put them together, make like a ball and make like I was holding a spider, and she would get so scared. I could chase her around as she screamed because there might be a spider in my hand. It's just the thought of the spider was so great. People are so afraid of.
Jamie:
That's how Donna's just cringing just talking about the gators, oh yeah.
Donna:
When he was telling me that they were right there next to the car. That, yeah, that little alligator alias.
Jamie:
That was an interesting little drive. Hey, it's Jamie. I'm going to hop on in here and remind you about our sponsor, wearingfunnycom WearingFunnycom for all your pet parent t-shirt needs. Head on over to WearingFunnycom and check out the vast array of amazing, hilarious t-shirts thoughtful, cuddly and cute for you and your kitties and your puppies. And hey, we take requests. If you have a critter that we don't have represented, let us know. We'll get you connected with just the perfect shirt for you and your critters, showing your love for being the best pet parent you can possibly be wearing funnycom back to the show. We also like to scour the news. Like I said, that very sad news story but we also like to scour the news stories and find things?
Jamie:
uh of entertaining and interest values. I am so on the wrong page here and uh share those stories with you, um, and and bring them to you. As Brad saunters over to the news nook, your radio tabloid news source, the National Animal.
Dr. Brad:
Rough justice. A knife wielding mugger has fallen foul of the law after he demanded a woman hand over her bags, only to discover they were full of fresh dog excrement. David Carlisle held the weapon to Marion Budd's stomach and ordered her to hand over two bags of cash as she walked her dog in Westbury-on-Trim, Bristol, England.
Dr. Brad:
But he could barely believe his bad luck when he found out the bags were just used to scoop up the dog's poop. He was later caught and was jailed for four years for attempted robbery. Apparently, his partner told on him he's a stool pigeon.
Donna:
That should qualify as the bad animal joke of the week right there.
Jamie:
It's beautiful. I like that one.
Dr. Brad:
Okay, I like that. Thank you, horace. The tortoise travels 1.8 miles in eight months. This has the best quote ever in a news story. Months this has the best quote ever in a news story. A pet tortoise reportedly made it as far as 1.8 miles away from his home in eight months since going missing an average of 39 feet a day. According to the bbc horace the horace, the herman's tortoise, was spotted in the middle of the road on the outskirts of cardiff by an animal welfare inspector. Uh, they were so. The owners were so surprised received my call. They are delighted that they will be reunited with their long-lost pet. The owner received Horace as a Christmas present about seven years ago. He had been into the garden and five minutes later he had vanished. Experts believe it's the only escape to go this slow, except for Fox's prison break, ha.
Jamie:
Ha, ha, ha, ha ha. I love that show though.
Dr. Brad:
Never seen it. It's like prison break and they're still there. It's almost over, the season's almost over.
Jamie:
I know I'm just. They're over the wall.
Dr. Brad:
My staff loves the show, by the way, they love the guys. Okay, this one has multiple endings.
Dr. Brad:
Oh no 12 species of flies get federal protection. No, twelve species of flies get federal protection. This from Honolulu. Twelve species of rare flies, known for their elaborate courtship displays and found only in the Hawaiian Islands, are now protected under the Endangered Species Act. The US Fish and Wildlife Service announced the protected status for the highly valued picture wing flies Tuesday. The Hawaiian picture wings are one of the most important endemic vertebrates in Hawaii, said Brent Plater, a staff attorney in the Center's San Francisco office. Picture wing flies are about two to three times the size of common house flies and are considered harmless to humans. Other species of picture wing flies are found outside Hawaii. Killing one of these flies could lead to arrest by a SWAT team. Want the others.
Jamie:
Yeah, these were good, thank you, thank you for the shock.
Dr. Brad:
They protected the animals because politicians hate to be caught with their flies down.
Donna:
Thank you. Oh, that's a good one.
Dr. Brad:
And there are three main places in Hawaii where flies are found the beach, the mountains and about three feet around, Dog the Bounty Hunter.
Jamie:
You should have come to the comedy show On Friday. We went to the comedy show. I told him that and the stand-up comedian did a whole bit about Dog the Bounty Hunter. Oh did he really. Yeah, see, he would have enjoyed it.
Dr. Brad:
He seems like a very nice man if he's listening.
Jamie:
Yeah, he's in Hawaii. Yeah, but you know what if one day, if he's listening, yeah, he's in Hawaii.
Dr. Brad:
Yeah, but you know what, if one day I'm in Hawaii, I don't want to run across him, and then he'll say oh, you're at that show, you know that animal talk radiocom you can check out the pet parade, you can send in pictures of your pet and you can send in your questions as well.
Jamie:
We answer those when we get them 24, 48 hours or so and get to them on the weekend as well.
Dr. Brad:
Do you have another email over there? All right, what do you got, Dear Animal Talk.
Donna:
What's this fan mail from a flounder?
Dr. Brad:
Yesterday, after the thunderstorm, I found a baby bird under the tree. He doesn't have feathers yet and I don't think I can put him back up in the tree or he'll fall out. I don't know where the nest is. I brought him inside and I'm keeping him in a shoebox.
Donna:
What should I do to take care of this bird? Get him to sign Billy, get him to a rehabber right now, because I'll tell you, it doesn't matter how many you know in the past birds your family may have saved, unless you are actually a licensed rehabber who knows exactly what kind of baby bird this is that you're dealing with. We need different types of food, we need formula, we have to have heat. There's so many needs that they have that most people don't have the ability to give them that round-the-clock care that they need, so get them to a rehabber.
Donna:
Call your local humane society or your vet hospital. Get them to a rehabber. Call your local Humane Society or your vet hospital. They should be able to either have somebody that they can recommend you to or they'll tell you to bring them in because they've got somebody in their facility that does it.
Dr. Brad:
Another suggestion that I tell people that usually works pretty nicely is if they fell out of the tree during a storm, it's because of the wind usually. If you get one of those Easter baskets and you take, you put some grass in it, whatever hang it up in the tree.
Donna:
Usually mom will find them.
Dr. Brad:
Mom usually comes back and we'll start taking care of them, so that also can work. But again, either way, it's tricky. But a bird without feathers away from mom not going to last long. If you're any time you try to save wildlife, first off you might be breaking some local laws, but also you're going to be brokenhearted most of the time, Most of the time. So just don't get your hopes up too high if you try to save this bird. Definitely.
Jamie:
Do you have another one over there, brad? Sure, do, sorry what you got for me, dear Animal Talk. You've got mail.
Dr. Brad:
I have a cocker spaniel and I've just inherited him from my grandma who passed away. How many times do I have to groom him? Is it an annual thing? A monthly thing? How often do dogs need groomed? This is signed, katie.
Donna:
It depends on the breed as to when they need to be groomed. I don't know. Really, I've never groomed a dog, so I bathe my dogs twice a year. I don't have long-haired dogs, though I don't have dogs that have to have special haircuts or anything.
Dr. Brad:
Call your vet, ask your vet. But the other thing is call groomers. Call, like, three groomers in the area, get different opinions and you'll get a feel for who's saying yeah, they need groomed every other day or they need groomed every other year. You'll find a good medium that works for you.
Jamie:
Brad, what's going on?
Dr. Brad:
Anything new and interesting at the clinic. Well, we do have something interesting. We had actually a big situation, and there's this old saying that no good deed goes unpunished, and I find that that's one of the most true statements ever. We had a couple of ladies who have been longtime clients of the clinic. Their sister passed away and she had three dogs, and the dogs were—actually you met one of the dogs the dog was completely matted over these dogs looked like they had shells. Um, they're one.
Dr. Brad:
One was there were two cockery things and one not like joe cocker, because you can't get the smell out of that but I mean, they were just, they were just, uh, cocker spaniel mixes, and one was a shepherd mix, but apparently the dogs lived their whole lives in a cage, okay, and so they're not well adjusted and again completely, completely shell-like, covered, matted over. And we were exceptionally nice to these people because they're a couple of nicer older ladies that are always very nice to us and so we were always nice to them. They're good clients, so we were nice back and did a lot of stuff for them.
Donna:
I'm waiting to hear what kind of trouble you got me in now. No, no, no. Waiting to hear what kind of trouble you got me in now?
Dr. Brad:
no, no, the thing about it is is that, uh, the dog that one of the dogs had, actual one of the dogs didn't make it because it's matting. It actually caused so much damage it kicked, died it was. It was so damaged that it was actually its leg was about to come off, and so, rather than it would actually dug into the leg, the matted fur, and we ended up euthanizing it, um because it was so badly injured.
Dr. Brad:
it would have been that or amputation. Now the other one is, sadly enough, the one that survived was the unpleasant one. This is a dog that acts very nice but all of a sudden snaps and bites, and I don't mean snapping as in snapping, but all of a sudden it'll be like hey, I love you, sort of thing, and without warning it'll bite you. And it bit each one of these two ladies before, but Donna was nice enough. She ladies before, but donna was nice enough.
Dr. Brad:
she was stopping by the clinic for a little bit and uh, and she spoke to the people and then the dog went to the new home a cousin who happens to be one of the most unpleasant people I've ever met and the dog bit her. Which good dog, but anyway. Um, the thing is is that the dog was brought back in. It's now bit three people. It's it has a charge and attack a few of the staff members, but they love it because it's such a sweetie most of the time 99.9% of the time but tomorrow is the 10th day where, after biting someone, you have 10 days that you keep the dog alive and if the dog still doesn't have rabies at that point, then you can legally euthanize it. Now here's the thing In your guy's opinion, is this dog that's nice most of the time? Is it a dog to find a home for or is it a dog that, if it's going to be a risk? Is it worth putting a family at risk to find this dog a home, or what level are?
Donna:
we at Well, do you want to go first, because I've actually met this dog.
Jamie:
Yeah, well, I mean, how old is the dog?
Dr. Brad:
It's an adult dog. It's hard to say, because the lady obviously didn't care much for the dog. The dogs were just. They were almost like fish. They were just kept in a cage and not well treated at all. They weren't part of the family.
Jamie:
Yeah.
Dr. Brad:
So the dog basks in attention, it just loves it. It rolls around the floor but then all of a sudden decides it's had enough and attacks.
Jamie:
Right, right, and so it never had that. It doesn't. Yeah the socialization is way up. Oh see, you hate saying we'll put it down, but there's so many dogs I mean, how many dogs a day? The numbers would just be staggering of how many dogs are put down every day. That would make 10 times better of a pet.
Dr. Brad:
Yeah, so a safe dog that's going to be euthanized because of them, a home, that's who we should be looking at, and you met the dog, yeah.
Jamie:
I met the dog. It's hard to it's hard to say that though it's, it's, it's. You know well, it's it's never it has that sweet factor.
Donna:
And it's not his fault and it's not his fault. He was created to be this little monster that he is and and when I he was, he was fine for most of the stuff that I did when I was sitting and talking with them, um, but see, now they they weren't. I don't think it completely honest with everything that this dog, or either that, or they didn't know everything that this dog was doing and, um, I kept waiting for the call because I knew this dog was going into a new home and I knew this was going to be an issue with this dog because of this dog's. They lifted up their sleeves and showed me the bite marks that this dog had caused on them, and normally what we recommend is to have a behavior evaluation performed, find out is this going to be something that the dog will accept? A correction? Now, I don't do that. That's a very dangerous thing, so I don't do it. That's what my boss does.
Jamie:
He's good at it. That's funny stuff. Watch him do an evaluation and that's something that I usually recommend having done.
Donna:
What I was talking with them about was how to deal with this dog until they got him in to see somebody, until they actually made the step in Different ways to approach this dog, because this dog gets very, very threatened when you reach for him. He feels very threatened if you are looming, standing in over the top of him. So those are things that kind of set this dog off, kind of like your neighbor's dog.
Donna:
Those same types of behaviors set that dog off. And so what I was explaining to them is you know, while you're working with this dog, don't do these things. And so this is something where he seems like he has those moments of really nice, because I got to see that in him. But when you have an unpredictable dog which is what this is this is a very unpredictable dog you're petting it and then it turns around and bites you. That's not normal. That's not normal dog behavior and in most cases, is not repairable dog behavior.
Dr. Brad:
And just to mention too, is that with the owners and with my. One technician is in love with the dog and she just can't keep it and when she took it home for a day and it bit her twice and the thing is she has almost like and I'm not trying to belittle anybody or anything, but she has like a beaten wife syndrome with it because she's making excuses for the dog.
Donna:
Most people do. I find, honestly, most people do. When they have a dog that is aggressive or is a fear biter or anything else, they always make excuses for the dog.
Dr. Brad:
I walked by him quick. He was threatened. Well, you know what You're allowed to walk by your dog quick.
Donna:
Right. See, that's what I always say I should be able to do anything to my dog that I want.
Dr. Brad:
Right, but most likely tomorrow we're going to make a decision.
Jamie:
That is a tough call. Does you know anything about monkeys? Give Animal Talk a call. It's Animal Talk. That was actually an email from six years ago. Yeah, it's right on top and that was pretty much the text of the email. Does you know anything about?
Donna:
monkeys. Does you have any info about monkeys?
Dr. Brad:
It's right on top. That's the first one. Hello, does you have any info on monkeys? If not, can you point us in the right direction Please? This is not a joke.
Jamie:
And we always advise it Okay, what's the date on that getting monkeys?
Donna:
oh, yeah, how many years have we had that one?
Jamie:
yeah, july 2002 which again, though, monkeys. It's not good, it's it's been no, but it's been funny every time, it's just yeah certain phrases are always funny.
Dr. Brad:
And does you have any monkeys? Ah, good times, I'll help you out.
Jamie:
Certain phrases are always funny. Does he have any monkeys? Does he have any elephants? Ah, good times, we'll help you out who's bad. It's time for the Bad Animal Joke of the Week. Who's bad? Alright, bad Animal Joke of the Week. You are more than welcome to submit your very own bad animal joke and we'll use it on the air. Send it to jamie atTalkRadiocom. Brad, this is a participatory joke. I need your help with this one as well. All right, Brad, ask me if I'm a tiger.
Dr. Brad:
Jamie, are you a tiger?
Jamie:
Yes, I am actually All right. Ask me if I'm a kitten, jamie, are you a kitten? No, I just told you I'm a tiger. All right, there we go. Christina, age 10. You know she's making the honor roll 800.
Dr. Brad:
There's a thin line between joke and not a joke.
Jamie:
That was walking that line Skating that line pretty close.
Dr. Brad:
It's a bad animal joke that was walking that line, skating that line pretty close.
Jamie:
It's a bad animal joke. It's bad. It starts out, it's everything.
Donna:
It's bad, it's all that is, if there was a poster for the bad animal joke that would be on the poster.
Jamie:
That was pretty horrible. Thanks for being with us for another episode of Animal Talk. Make sure you do all those podcast things. In the podcast places Like subscribe, leave a comment. We hope you had a little fun along the way. Make sure you head on over to wearingfunnycom. You can grab yourself some gear to show off what a proud pet parent you are. Are you a cool cat mom? Are you a happy doggy daddy? We got all the gear just for you hats shirts all kinds of swag wearing funnycom.
Jamie:
Go check it out and show yourselfa little animal pride with animal talk. Once again, like subscribe. Leave a comment. Thank you so much for being here. Have an exotic week and kiss your wild thing for us.
Dr. Brad:
Bye, guys. Have fun storming the castle. Think it'll work it would take a while. Bye.
