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Show is our focus right now. Warren Eckstein is our focus. And Happy
New Year to all you animal lovers who like listening to Warren, whether he's
here or on the Pet Show Hurt on a lot of these same stations every
weekend around the country. He is really an expert when it comes to taking
care of animals. We were just talking off the air about a number of
things that affect our animal population. This new three D printed device that Jay
and I were talking about earlier, which has aimed. The developers of this
say they wanted to use it because it gets rid of the need to test
drugs and chemicals on animals, and so they've gotten a funding boost from some
private entities that are somehow rather weren't getting a hold of human heart cells and
lungs and kidney cells and liver cells and brain cells. I don't know how
they do that, but at least they're not having to test live animals,
and so that's why I thought this would be good for you. I thought
you'd be interested in this because it's a problem. The animal approach versus the
non animal approach is a non starter, I think in conversation, isn't it.
Well, you know, this is a battle I've been fighting for more
years than I'd like to imagine, and a lot of it is based on
money. There have been computer projects and samples where they didn't have to test
on animals. But what happened to give you a prime example years ago,
I was involved with the debate, and the debate was on animal testing,
and they talked about this, and they talked about that. So one university
got millions of dollars to study the effects of a certain drugs on black ponies.
Another group, another college, got the same amount of money to study
the same drugs on white ponies. White ponies and black ponies physiologically are exactactly
the same, exactly the same. So it was the redundancy. That's where
I really got angry about the redundancy of the testing because based on that,
more and more places we're getting money to do more testing. Nowadays, I
believe there's really no need for testing on animals, with the computer technology we
have, it is just just abusive as far as I'm concerned. And some
of the abuses, you know, even years ago it was worse. But
the abuse these animals go through the testing of with rabbits, with with makeups,
squirting stuff in their eyes, which I had to deal with years ago,
and just I don't understand how people can do that. Maybe years ago
there might have been some need or some idea that we can find this out
or we can find that out. But with technology the way it is,
what you guys were talking about, and all the new technology, it's amazing
to me that that that animal experimentation is still part of our are a way
of doing things that makes you wonder, doesn't it. It does make you
want, But it's always dollars and cents. Everything always boils down. So
if you give me money, I'll do this, you know. Yep?
Yeah, all right. Larren lives in the to southern California, as I
do part time. I noticed that there are a lot of wildlife watchers off
the coasts that have been treated to a number of orca sightings. Orcas do
they be? Are they eating dolphins? How does the food chain work with
sharks, orcas and dolphins. Orcas are likely. Yeah, they're kind of
like the high predators, so there's not too many. There's not too many
animals that can fit an ochre in their mouth. Yeah, so yeah,
they just so. In fact, there was some great vitnoch great. I
hate to say great, but there's some beautiful photos or videos of the orcas
going after the dolphins, which breaks my heart. But that's that's nature.
That's the way things survive. I haven't seen any. I've been going down
to the beach, but the waves have been so high here in Santa Monica,
in the water so rough. For the last few days, I haven't
seen any orcas. I had the opportunity years ago of hanging out with an
orca and actually give them a beautiful kiss on the nose. But they're really
impressive animals. Yeah I got to follow of it somewhere in my book,
But they're impressive animals. They're they're amazing, and just leave them alone.
If we just leave the animals alone, what a great world this will be.
It scares me when people go out there though, on these well watching
tours, because I really think it upsets the animals themselves. All right.
So here's this story that'll make your day about a dog named Neo who had
been in a shelter for four hundred and fifty days. It was part of
an animal abuse trial going on. There were a number of like where my
dog came from. There were forty dogs in this one house, and they
put the guy in jail who had been running it. And this is another
example of that with dogs that are in My dog was in more than four
hundred fair he was in there almost two years anyway. So they found one
of these dogs, the dog named Neo, as they emptied out this house.
And now they're using this dog to rehab. They go to rehab homes
with him, and apparently one of the homes wanted to adopt him did so.
This dog is the dog is the dog of the house, if you
will. It's a rehab facility in central Arkansas. And the dog goes from
floor to floor to room to room and just brightens everybody's day. And they
do exactly that, Doug. They brighten everybody's day just seeing petting, holding,
looking, laughing, smiling. Boy, there's nothing in a world like
a good a good day spent with a dog or a cat. Yep,
that's part of the Good Day program. Make it a good day with your
pets. Love them, love them, love them, and love them some
more. Arron nex time love him. Thepetshow dot Com is his website.
Check it out for a weekend programming about your dog, your pets. The
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