The next Stefan Good Day download with Doug and Jay Kirshner is made possible in
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keep it off, and also by previagent keeping your brain healthy. One of
the bright spots on the radio is Warren Eckstein and his Pet Show, heard
every weekend. Warren is a blessing and a solid contributor to radio Wonders if
you will. I have been a fan of Warren's ever since I met him,
and I can tell you that it's a long and dusty trail we've followed
together over the years. So talking about pets and animals and stuff, make
sure you avail yourself at the opportunity. You can watch actually on Facebook the
Pet Show every weekend as well. Warren and his cast of like three dozen
dogs that are in the studio with him. You love all of them.
So here's the story about a squirrel. Talk about pets. We really be
talking about dogs, talking about cats. Were talking about things about how many
people have a pets? Squirrel? Right? How many people have have you?
You must have trained over the years, very interesting animals, and so
I'm wondering whether or not you've ever trained a squirrel and what it's like to
be around a squirrel? Can you actually train? They seem like scatterbrains to
me. No, they're They're amazing little animals. Quite honestly, though I've
never trained a squirrel. No. I help people understand maybe squirrel little,
But I've never trained a squirrel because I think there are you know, there
are certain animals that should be left to their own device, of course,
unless there are people that have rescued injured squirrels that have wound up keeping them
as pets because they needed to be rehabilitated. But I've never had the opportunity
of training pets. I've worked with snakes. I worked with a board boa
constrictor. That was an interesting case. Boa constrictor. Yes, a board
bowl constrictor. The guy called me from Dallas, Texas years ago and he
had this bowl constrictor and all of a sudden, it wasn't eating, it
was just not moving around. And I took a look at it and it's
been in the same area, the same location, the same vibarium for its
entire life. So I had him change it, make it bigger. Add
rocks ad stones had things to climb on, and the snake came around.
The snake was just getting depressed because he was totally bored in the same environment
day in and there. I think that animals get bored. I think dogs
get bored. I can see it in my dog. Frankly, when they're
not you know, either they aren't in sync with their regular daily habits and
then they you know, they get off or if you have them doing things
like I take Daisy with me everywhere and sometimes I'm busy for a while,
she's in the truck, she's watching what's going on. But I got to
think that it's boring. Is the same as if they stay at home.
You know how many people leave their dogs home all day long? They go
to work, the dog sits around and does what What is the dog doing
for eight or ten hours while you were gone? Isn't the dog came about
what he's going to do when you come home? Well, yeah, dogs
do get bored. Yeah, yeah, certain people dogs. You know,
there are times over the years where I've were walked into situations where the dog
was totally bored with certain individuals, and I found that that I was generally
bored with the same people the dog was bored with, so it works out.
But yeah, dogs, you know, dogs do yup, they do
get bored and boredom is one of the biggest behavioral issues that I deal with.
I mean, let's face it, if a dog's left eight hours a
day and you don't compensate with exercise before you leave and when you come home
or make the environment interesting when you're gone, then the dog's gonna become bored.
And that boredom can destructive chewing and house breaking and all kinds of other
problems. So boredom is a big problem with dogs, and that's why it's
so important to keep the dog physically active but mentally stimulated as well. Now,
you did a stick on your program a week or so ago about dogs
hiding and why they do. You went into the psychology of dogs hiding.
Will you share that with the audience here? Yeah, I was talking about
the concept that dogs are a little bit different than cats when it comes to
hiding. When a dog's not feeling well, they carry their feelings on their
shoulders. So when a dog's not feeling well, they're more apt to approach
a person that they feel comfortable. On the other end, the cats are
more silent sufferers, so cats going back to predatory prey issues. When a
cat's not feeling what, they want to go and hide. That's why a
lot of people, when they get an older cat or the cat's not feeling
well, they can't find the cat it's hiding. But dogs, dogs look,
they look for someone that they can be confident, someone they trust,
someone they feel comfortable around, to make them feel good. So yeah,
it's absolutely true that that they do comfort. Here's an interesting point though,
I just started writing about this morning. Do you even notice that when you
get up from an area that Daisy just takes that same spot the guy.
She goes right to it and she likes the the is it the vibe?
Is it the heat? Is it the smell? What is it that they're
trustee they want to be It's the scent, It's the warmth when your dog
steals your spots because they enjoyed the scent that you leave behind. More so,
your spot represents warmth and comfort for them. They instinctively know that that
spot has been a likely familiar how a familiar place in their familiar person in
it, and they feel lot comfortable. So yeah, my dogs are the
same way the minute I get up there there, and that's because it's a
comfort zone for them. It makes them feel really, really confident and comfortable.
This program is heard in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. Somebody on the station sent
me the story of a pit bull who was sworn in by the police as
their new pah troll officer, get it, patrol. I like that,
Yeah, yeah, the dog show dogs at the They just the dog showed
up at the police station one day and found it forever home there, apparently
escaped from an animal shelter someplace. I thought this was kind of a cool
thing, so they made it an official officer of the police force. Dog's
name is Bolo in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. There you go. The next Stefan
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