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with the famous Warren Eckstein, host of the Pet Show, author of any
number of books, including Memoirs of a Pet Therapist. And this is the
story that the person who was treating therapeutically. Warren wrote, it had nothing
to do with Warren and dogs. This was the person that was helping him
out. Wrote that, No, that's not really true. That sounds like
a good story, all right, so Warren. Yes, the nominations are
open for the twenty twenty four Dog of the Year contest. There apparently are
a number of these contests with cash prizes and bragging rights. This is something
supported by Purina. I don't know whether this has nothing to do, however,
with the famous what's the name of that Wolfborough? Is not wolf?
What's the one that they have all of the fancy dogs at Westminster as the
Westminster This is not This is a This is basically looking for the toughest dog
of the uh what does that mean tough dog. I want to want to
jump into that one. Yeah, I want to jump into this to say
it sucks. So you know why everyone's dog is the best dog in the
world. You know, I've had more black I've had more black guys by
telling me my dog's better than your dog. So the bottom line is that
that I hate these contests. I mean, it's really what about the dog
that comes in third or fourth? You know it's it's it's I don't like
the whole idea of it. Now Westminster, I was familiar with that Easter
broadcast from Westminster with is the name out of the past Joe Garagiola, Oh
God, good old Joe, Joe Garagiola, insane, the most crazy person
him, Him, Me and Roger Carrish used to, you know, broadcast
from It's funny because the only one who know about dogs was me. Said,
I say, hey, what kind of dog is that? What kind
of what's that? Yeah, so I'm not even you know, I don't
know. You know, you have to go. I used to involve a
showing dogs in obedience and showing dogs for confirmation. But you know, it's
fine if people want to do that. But the bottom line is I don't
like you know, my kid's better than yours. My dog's better than yours.
This is the number one dog. This is the cutest dog. This
is you know, nonsense, exactly right. My point if you ask me,
my dog's the best dog. If I ask you dog, my dog
gives the best yours my dog. My Even if a kid has a dog
and this dog doesn't win, how's he going to feel? Oh man,
my dogs not as good as my friend's dog. You know, I don't
like it. I don't know. So I have a jay ready to post
this a picture. My daughter has gone to a place in northern California and
has found this, uh, this poodle puppy. I would tell you,
this poodle puppy is a Megan keeps sending me pictures, eyes first opened and
then these grown a little bit. He has the most magnificent face. And
back again to what you just said about dogs. All dogs are beautiful,
like all children are beautiful. We're born perfect and then we screw things up.
So let's not do that with our Here's the bottom line. You fall
in love with the inside of your dog. You don't fall in love with
the outside of your dog. So the bottom line is who cares what he
looks. I've got dogs with one e three legs, and you know,
you forget that. You just fall in love with the inside of the dog.
And I think people, people that really love animals, understand exactly what
we just said. You fall in love with the inside. Remember when you
sent me to the the Bulldog Rescue in Orange County. I don't how many
years ago, as it was after Charlotte died, and you said, go
down and look at these dogs. And I wanted to scoop up every dog
on one of them, pardon the pun, and bring them home with me,
some of the older bulldogs that nobody cared for. I mean, just
the most wonderful beings. And I, you know, on in the back,
I'm like in my car, go ahead. I don't often talk about
this. I mean I get up early every morning. I joked about being
up early with you, but I'm up four o'clock every single morning, and
I'm like my instant, Instagram and my Facebook. Yeah, and by the
time Denise gets up, which is seven or eight o'clock, she looks at
my face and say, mam, you've been crying all morning, and It's
so true because I literally, literally, without exaggeration, two to three hundred
dogs are on my Instagram on my Facebook every single morning that are at shelters
have their last days five hours, so this one's gone. I look at
their faces and I say, why, why? Why are we killing these
animals? We should educate people, sure about spay and neuter, but why
are these Why are these animals being killed? And you look at their faces,
and all they want to do is be loved and hugged and cuddled,
and they seem scared. It's horrible. Most forgiving beings, absolutely most forgiving.
Bob Barker had it right at the end of every program. He said
the same thing. Make sure you spay or newter your animal. You're absolutely
this is not going to be considered, at least at the beginning, very
positive. But there's got to be a lesson here. Jay and I were
talking earlier about this dog and the couple that was walking with the dog.
There were two stories. One of them the couple and the dog were attacked
by a grizzly bear, but they got out alive. And then there's another
couple in their dog that was killed by a grizzly bear, and so one
wonders that when people get angry, they want to go find the bear and
kill it because it killed these people. And so there's something missing here.
And I know you know what the lesson is. I'll have you explained why
it is that this is a reality. First of all, the bear is
not coming into their condominium. They're going into the bear's condominium. So whenever
you go into an environment where they are a wild animal, you need to
take all of that into consideration. Personally, just from my perspective, if
there's an area where people do a lot of walking with their dogs, in
an area where there might be black bears or grizzly bears, whatever, I
don't walk my dog in that area. Bears are small enough to pick up
on other animals that may be around, so my dogs, I just I
play it safe. Maybe I'm a little eccentric, only based on the fact
that I hear every horror story out there. So if there's an area where
there's a for example, we hear about the alligate is down in Florida,
you know, attacking a dog here and there, or a coyote. Now,
mom, I am listen, I have there you go. I have
a seven foot fence in my backyard. Seven foot Okay, every time my
dogs are in my yard, I am there with them with a stick in
my hand and a flashlight. That's just the way it is. Maybe because
I'm a little eccentric when it comes to taking care of them, but the
bottom line is, don't take your dog to an area where there's danger.
Look right now, for example, rattlesnakes. If you want to go for
a hike in the Santa Monica Mountains, people take that dog off a leash
and let them go off to the sides. That's where the snakes would be.
Snakes are not coming out to get your dog. To be conscientious in
care. For example, if you're walking in an area and you notice bear
scat or poop on the ground, maybe you shouldn't be taking your dog to
that neighborhood. Your bear's poop in the woods. I guess they do.
Sorry, I guess they do. Warn Exstey and host of the pet show
The Petshow dot Com is here with us. All right. So here's another
example. This moose. This lady's out walking her dog in Colorado on a
trail and this moose attacks the woman walking her dog. It's a cow moose.
She's got her calves with her, and so the moose goes after these
women. They guess they got headbutted a couple of times. A big moose
is nothing to mess with, I'll tell you that, much bigger than a
cow. Anyway, this woman got to a house and told the story to
officials. But once again it's it's a different animal. But it's the same
principle as we were talking about before, Rightame it on the animal. Blame
it on the animal. That's what they're you know. The bottom line is
this, First of all, very often people get a little too close to
wild animals. It's a beautiful deer, it's a beautiful moves, it's a
beautiful list. It's a beautiful that they get a little too close and don't
take into consideration. This is not their dog or a cat. This is
a wild animal that survives every day instinctive. It is a little different exactly,
it's a different ball game. So the bottom line is, why would
you take your dog in an area where there are so many dangers? Why
there are so many other places You can go to a dog park and go
around the neighborhood school yard. Why would you expose your dog to that?
And then when the person calls up on my show, for example, and
say, you know, I was taking my dog for a walk and I
know there's a lot of coyotes in this area. It's a little dog and
they can't No, why take your dog for a walk. And here's the
bottom line. And I'm not gonna you know, I'm not gonna promote myself,
but I have these air horns. I sell these air horns on my
website. I think there's seven bucks. I think I lose money and every
airhorn I sell. But the bottom line is we just heard for example,
I don't know if you saw the story in La where a woman took her
dog to seven eleven about ten or eleven o'clock at night. She walked in
with her eleven year old dog into seven eleven. She was beaten up and
attacked by another woman as her the other woman's boyfriend stole her eleven year old
dog. Can you imagine the loss of someone's And she watched this guy dragging
her dog out as she was being beat up. Bottom line, this dog
was reunited. The dog got back, but again in Los Angeles, and
I'm assuming it's the same in every city. In town. You have to
be afraid to take your dog for a walk. People are stealing French ball
dogs. They're attacking people with dogs. And this eleven year old dog was
going to be used as a bait dog. And if you don't know what
a bait dog is, they take these dogs to teach other dogs to fight.
Incredibly stupid stuff. Didn't I see something a baseball player or a football
player. I think I just saw this in the last twenty fours, Jay,
do you know what I'm talking about? This the Department of Defense.
Who was a guy at the Department of Defense who was involved in the dog
fighting? Yeah, did you talk about yeah? Yeah, yeah yeah.
It was a major Department of Defense official and advisory. He worked at the
Department of Defense. I just posted on my Facebook, Jay, if you
want to take it off my Facebook. Yes. So the bottom line is
that, yeah, this, this, this is incredible. This is a
guy that that was How did they do? And then bad enough? What
they found in his home was what they found in his home was a battery
with two like battery charges for your car. This is the way they executed
the dogs that lost Oh my god. And this is like another Michael Vick
story, another Michael story. Yeah, yeah, I know this, you
know. And then I've had the opportunity of seeing some of Michael vicked dogs
and a lot of them are rehabilitated and they're doing well. But the bottom
line is these type of people, if they can do that to a dog,
my belief is they can do it to a human being. Yep,
we are next time from the pet shows. Here we're talking about some of
the issues around having a pet, some of the things that have been having
the people with pets. It is the story of a cat that went missing
for five weeks and ultimately was found trapped beneath the neighbor's porch. And the
way they found this cat was somebody heard the cat me outing hello. Five
weeks though, how in the world this cat? I guess the cat they
figured ate some spiders and bugs and that sort of thing and lick condensation from
pipes in order to survive. But he lost half of his body weight.
And this is this just not caring or a little cat, you know,
Doug. It's interesting because I always get in trouble when I say this,
But the bottom line is the times they are a change. And to quote
Bob Dylan, you know, when I was growing up, everyone would let
their cats outside and the cats would run around, they'd come back and ni
you know, occasionally a cat might be heard or whatever. It's too dangerous
out there nowadays. People are crazy out there nowadays. So my concept is
this, you can take the time to teach your cat to walk on a
Lucian hornets. I know that sounds eccentric, but you can do that now.
If you go to Amazon or any of the big companies, you can
buy cat enclosures where you can let your cat outside in a safe, sensible
way without the dangers of the cat taking off, or or other animals coming
in and getting your cat, or even diseases from other feral cats, perhaps
the enabled. So there are things you can do. People sometimes become a
little lack of days ago, if I'm using that word properly, a little
lack of days ago when it comes to their dog or their cat, And
all it does is it's one quick turn and the dog or cat can be
gone. So my heartbreaks for this kitten, of course it does. But
the bottom line is people need to be more conscientious all the time about where
their dogs and cats are. All right, So in league with that,
here's the story of a missing shit Zu. I always like to be because
it's silly on the air. This is a dog in Jacksonville reunited with his
owner after it found its way to New Jersey. How does a dog that
lived in Jacksonville, Florida get to New Jersey? Listen? How small can
the dog be left Florida for Jersey? Come on dog? Yeah, that's
the point. Yeah, it's amazing. It's amazing to me. For you
if people say how can dogs find their way around? When you know they
just roam? They can roam, they get lost easily, but they all
so sometimes know where they're going. You hear about the story of the dog
or cat finding its way home from one hundred miles away. How do they
do that? There's a lot of things about it. Some people suggest that
that dogs and cats can focus on the stars, and they follow that along.
Other people say that there are people that actually say this. You know
who Creskin is, Yeah, amazing. Cruskin's a good friend. I've known
Kreskin for ever. We've had We've had this conversations a million times, and
he would basically say that, you know, you can't always describe how they
do it, but you know they do it. So he said to me
that sometimes the the the the love factor, the love factor, if that's
such a thing, can actually help a dog or cat find its way back
home with their loss. I buy it, I just do. I buy
it. I should just see how in my case Daisy, but with Charlotte
and any of the dogs that I've had, but the ones as I get
older, maybe they meant a little bit more to me, and they just
will. It's no, it doesn't make a different what you do, what
you say to them. It is is love. Daisy's in my truck with
me all the time, and she'll stick her head under my arm and then
stick her nose in my face. You know that's the way they just think
about this, Doug. Every time you look at Daisy and every time Daisy
looks at you. A brand new study just came out the other day.
A brand new study says, not only does your oxytocin get better, but
so does your talk. So just looking at each other makes you both feel
better. That old song, all those sudden my heart sings, There you
go as well as it put us as well. Thank you. This is
a blessing having you here with us for some conversation about our loved ones sorry
animals Warren Nex time check out the petshow dot com. The next Stefan Good
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