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The next Stefan Good Day download with
Doug and Jay Kirshner is made possible in

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part by Keltron, which is the
safe way for you to lose weight and

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keep it off, and also by
previagent keeping your brain healthy. One of

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the bright spots on the radio is
Warren Eckstein and his Pet Show, heard

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every weekend. Warren is a blessing
and a solid contributor to radio Wonders if

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you will. I have been a
fan of Warren's ever since I met him,

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and I can tell you that it's
a long and dusty trail we've followed

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together over the years. So talking
about pets and animals and stuff, make

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sure you avail yourself at the opportunity. You can watch actually on Facebook the

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Pet Show every weekend as well.
Warren and his cast of like three dozen

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dogs that are in the studio with
him. You love all of them.

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So here's the story about a squirrel. Talk about pets. We really be

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talking about dogs, talking about cats. Were talking about things about how many

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people have a pets? Squirrel?
Right? How many people have have you?

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You must have trained over the years, very interesting animals, and so

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I'm wondering whether or not you've ever
trained a squirrel and what it's like to

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be around a squirrel? Can you
actually train? They seem like scatterbrains to

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me. No, they're They're amazing
little animals. Quite honestly, though I've

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never trained a squirrel. No.
I help people understand maybe squirrel little,

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But I've never trained a squirrel because
I think there are you know, there

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are certain animals that should be left
to their own device, of course,

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unless there are people that have rescued
injured squirrels that have wound up keeping them

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as pets because they needed to be
rehabilitated. But I've never had the opportunity

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of training pets. I've worked with
snakes. I worked with a board boa

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constrictor. That was an interesting case. Boa constrictor. Yes, a board

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bowl constrictor. The guy called me
from Dallas, Texas years ago and he

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had this bowl constrictor and all of
a sudden, it wasn't eating, it

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was just not moving around. And
I took a look at it and it's

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been in the same area, the
same location, the same vibarium for its

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entire life. So I had him
change it, make it bigger. Add

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rocks ad stones had things to climb
on, and the snake came around.

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The snake was just getting depressed because
he was totally bored in the same environment

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day in and there. I think
that animals get bored. I think dogs

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get bored. I can see it
in my dog. Frankly, when they're

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not you know, either they aren't
in sync with their regular daily habits and

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then they you know, they get
off or if you have them doing things

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like I take Daisy with me everywhere
and sometimes I'm busy for a while,

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she's in the truck, she's watching
what's going on. But I got to

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think that it's boring. Is the
same as if they stay at home.

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You know how many people leave their
dogs home all day long? They go

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to work, the dog sits around
and does what What is the dog doing

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for eight or ten hours while you
were gone? Isn't the dog came about

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what he's going to do when you
come home? Well, yeah, dogs

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do get bored. Yeah, yeah, certain people dogs. You know,

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there are times over the years where
I've were walked into situations where the dog

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was totally bored with certain individuals,
and I found that that I was generally

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bored with the same people the dog
was bored with, so it works out.

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But yeah, dogs, you know, dogs do yup, they do

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get bored and boredom is one of
the biggest behavioral issues that I deal with.

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I mean, let's face it,
if a dog's left eight hours a

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day and you don't compensate with exercise
before you leave and when you come home

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or make the environment interesting when you're
gone, then the dog's gonna become bored.

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And that boredom can destructive chewing and
house breaking and all kinds of other

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problems. So boredom is a big
problem with dogs, and that's why it's

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so important to keep the dog physically
active but mentally stimulated as well. Now,

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you did a stick on your program
a week or so ago about dogs

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hiding and why they do. You
went into the psychology of dogs hiding.

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Will you share that with the audience
here? Yeah, I was talking about

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the concept that dogs are a little
bit different than cats when it comes to

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hiding. When a dog's not feeling
well, they carry their feelings on their

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shoulders. So when a dog's not
feeling well, they're more apt to approach

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a person that they feel comfortable.
On the other end, the cats are

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more silent sufferers, so cats going
back to predatory prey issues. When a

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cat's not feeling what, they want
to go and hide. That's why a

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lot of people, when they get
an older cat or the cat's not feeling

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well, they can't find the cat
it's hiding. But dogs, dogs look,

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they look for someone that they can
be confident, someone they trust,

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someone they feel comfortable around, to
make them feel good. So yeah,

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it's absolutely true that that they do
comfort. Here's an interesting point though,

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I just started writing about this morning. Do you even notice that when you

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get up from an area that Daisy
just takes that same spot the guy.

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She goes right to it and she
likes the the is it the vibe?

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Is it the heat? Is it
the smell? What is it that they're

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trustee they want to be It's the
scent, It's the warmth when your dog

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steals your spots because they enjoyed the
scent that you leave behind. More so,

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your spot represents warmth and comfort for
them. They instinctively know that that

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spot has been a likely familiar how
a familiar place in their familiar person in

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it, and they feel lot comfortable. So yeah, my dogs are the

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same way the minute I get up
there there, and that's because it's a

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comfort zone for them. It makes
them feel really, really confident and comfortable.

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This program is heard in Hopkinsville,
Kentucky. Somebody on the station sent

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me the story of a pit bull
who was sworn in by the police as

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their new pah troll officer, get
it, patrol. I like that,

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Yeah, yeah, the dog show
dogs at the They just the dog showed

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up at the police station one day
and found it forever home there, apparently

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escaped from an animal shelter someplace.
I thought this was kind of a cool

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thing, so they made it an
official officer of the police force. Dog's

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name is Bolo in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. There you go. The next Stefan

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Good Day download with Doug and Jay
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