1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:04,400 The dog Stefan Good Day download with Doug and Jay Kirshner is made possible in 2 00:00:04,440 --> 00:00:08,039 part by Keltren, which is the safe way for you to lose weight and 3 00:00:08,320 --> 00:00:12,960 keep it off, and also by previgent keeping your brain healthy. Doug Stephen 4 00:00:13,400 --> 00:00:19,160 with the famous Warren Eckstein, host of the Pet Show, author of any 5 00:00:19,280 --> 00:00:24,359 number of books, including Memoirs of a Pet Therapist. And this is the 6 00:00:24,399 --> 00:00:29,760 story that the person who was treating therapeutically. Warren wrote, it had nothing 7 00:00:29,760 --> 00:00:32,880 to do with Warren and dogs. This was the person that was helping him 8 00:00:32,920 --> 00:00:36,280 out. Wrote that, No, that's not really true. That sounds like 9 00:00:36,280 --> 00:00:39,640 a good story, all right, so Warren. Yes, the nominations are 10 00:00:39,719 --> 00:00:46,280 open for the twenty twenty four Dog of the Year contest. There apparently are 11 00:00:46,320 --> 00:00:52,439 a number of these contests with cash prizes and bragging rights. This is something 12 00:00:52,600 --> 00:00:56,960 supported by Purina. I don't know whether this has nothing to do, however, 13 00:00:57,320 --> 00:01:00,560 with the famous what's the name of that Wolfborough? Is not wolf? 14 00:01:00,679 --> 00:01:06,599 What's the one that they have all of the fancy dogs at Westminster as the 15 00:01:06,640 --> 00:01:11,799 Westminster This is not This is a This is basically looking for the toughest dog 16 00:01:12,640 --> 00:01:19,239 of the uh what does that mean tough dog. I want to want to 17 00:01:19,439 --> 00:01:22,359 jump into that one. Yeah, I want to jump into this to say 18 00:01:22,400 --> 00:01:26,359 it sucks. So you know why everyone's dog is the best dog in the 19 00:01:26,359 --> 00:01:29,480 world. You know, I've had more black I've had more black guys by 20 00:01:29,480 --> 00:01:32,760 telling me my dog's better than your dog. So the bottom line is that 21 00:01:32,760 --> 00:01:36,439 that I hate these contests. I mean, it's really what about the dog 22 00:01:36,519 --> 00:01:38,319 that comes in third or fourth? You know it's it's it's I don't like 23 00:01:38,359 --> 00:01:42,599 the whole idea of it. Now Westminster, I was familiar with that Easter 24 00:01:42,640 --> 00:01:46,959 broadcast from Westminster with is the name out of the past Joe Garagiola, Oh 25 00:01:47,079 --> 00:01:52,280 God, good old Joe, Joe Garagiola, insane, the most crazy person 26 00:01:53,719 --> 00:01:57,280 him, Him, Me and Roger Carrish used to, you know, broadcast 27 00:01:57,319 --> 00:02:00,200 from It's funny because the only one who know about dogs was me. Said, 28 00:02:00,200 --> 00:02:00,799 I say, hey, what kind of dog is that? What kind 29 00:02:00,799 --> 00:02:06,280 of what's that? Yeah, so I'm not even you know, I don't 30 00:02:06,319 --> 00:02:07,799 know. You know, you have to go. I used to involve a 31 00:02:07,879 --> 00:02:12,080 showing dogs in obedience and showing dogs for confirmation. But you know, it's 32 00:02:12,080 --> 00:02:14,360 fine if people want to do that. But the bottom line is I don't 33 00:02:14,479 --> 00:02:16,120 like you know, my kid's better than yours. My dog's better than yours. 34 00:02:16,159 --> 00:02:19,360 This is the number one dog. This is the cutest dog. This 35 00:02:19,439 --> 00:02:23,800 is you know, nonsense, exactly right. My point if you ask me, 36 00:02:23,919 --> 00:02:27,000 my dog's the best dog. If I ask you dog, my dog 37 00:02:27,080 --> 00:02:31,479 gives the best yours my dog. My Even if a kid has a dog 38 00:02:31,680 --> 00:02:34,919 and this dog doesn't win, how's he going to feel? Oh man, 39 00:02:34,960 --> 00:02:37,400 my dogs not as good as my friend's dog. You know, I don't 40 00:02:37,439 --> 00:02:40,159 like it. I don't know. So I have a jay ready to post 41 00:02:40,240 --> 00:02:47,840 this a picture. My daughter has gone to a place in northern California and 42 00:02:47,919 --> 00:02:53,759 has found this, uh, this poodle puppy. I would tell you, 43 00:02:53,800 --> 00:02:58,680 this poodle puppy is a Megan keeps sending me pictures, eyes first opened and 44 00:02:58,719 --> 00:03:04,319 then these grown a little bit. He has the most magnificent face. And 45 00:03:04,400 --> 00:03:08,120 back again to what you just said about dogs. All dogs are beautiful, 46 00:03:08,439 --> 00:03:14,840 like all children are beautiful. We're born perfect and then we screw things up. 47 00:03:15,680 --> 00:03:19,840 So let's not do that with our Here's the bottom line. You fall 48 00:03:19,879 --> 00:03:23,039 in love with the inside of your dog. You don't fall in love with 49 00:03:23,120 --> 00:03:24,840 the outside of your dog. So the bottom line is who cares what he 50 00:03:24,919 --> 00:03:29,240 looks. I've got dogs with one e three legs, and you know, 51 00:03:29,800 --> 00:03:31,680 you forget that. You just fall in love with the inside of the dog. 52 00:03:31,719 --> 00:03:36,240 And I think people, people that really love animals, understand exactly what 53 00:03:36,240 --> 00:03:38,439 we just said. You fall in love with the inside. Remember when you 54 00:03:38,520 --> 00:03:44,960 sent me to the the Bulldog Rescue in Orange County. I don't how many 55 00:03:45,039 --> 00:03:47,240 years ago, as it was after Charlotte died, and you said, go 56 00:03:47,360 --> 00:03:52,319 down and look at these dogs. And I wanted to scoop up every dog 57 00:03:52,439 --> 00:03:54,520 on one of them, pardon the pun, and bring them home with me, 58 00:03:54,680 --> 00:03:59,879 some of the older bulldogs that nobody cared for. I mean, just 59 00:04:00,159 --> 00:04:05,479 the most wonderful beings. And I, you know, on in the back, 60 00:04:05,520 --> 00:04:09,159 I'm like in my car, go ahead. I don't often talk about 61 00:04:09,199 --> 00:04:11,240 this. I mean I get up early every morning. I joked about being 62 00:04:11,319 --> 00:04:13,800 up early with you, but I'm up four o'clock every single morning, and 63 00:04:13,800 --> 00:04:16,279 I'm like my instant, Instagram and my Facebook. Yeah, and by the 64 00:04:16,319 --> 00:04:18,839 time Denise gets up, which is seven or eight o'clock, she looks at 65 00:04:18,839 --> 00:04:21,519 my face and say, mam, you've been crying all morning, and It's 66 00:04:21,560 --> 00:04:27,199 so true because I literally, literally, without exaggeration, two to three hundred 67 00:04:27,240 --> 00:04:31,480 dogs are on my Instagram on my Facebook every single morning that are at shelters 68 00:04:31,480 --> 00:04:34,600 have their last days five hours, so this one's gone. I look at 69 00:04:34,639 --> 00:04:39,399 their faces and I say, why, why? Why are we killing these 70 00:04:39,439 --> 00:04:43,000 animals? We should educate people, sure about spay and neuter, but why 71 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:46,360 are these Why are these animals being killed? And you look at their faces, 72 00:04:46,360 --> 00:04:47,839 and all they want to do is be loved and hugged and cuddled, 73 00:04:47,839 --> 00:04:54,040 and they seem scared. It's horrible. Most forgiving beings, absolutely most forgiving. 74 00:04:54,160 --> 00:04:58,560 Bob Barker had it right at the end of every program. He said 75 00:04:58,560 --> 00:05:02,639 the same thing. Make sure you spay or newter your animal. You're absolutely 76 00:05:03,959 --> 00:05:06,680 this is not going to be considered, at least at the beginning, very 77 00:05:06,720 --> 00:05:10,639 positive. But there's got to be a lesson here. Jay and I were 78 00:05:10,639 --> 00:05:15,360 talking earlier about this dog and the couple that was walking with the dog. 79 00:05:16,199 --> 00:05:21,160 There were two stories. One of them the couple and the dog were attacked 80 00:05:21,199 --> 00:05:26,000 by a grizzly bear, but they got out alive. And then there's another 81 00:05:26,040 --> 00:05:30,920 couple in their dog that was killed by a grizzly bear, and so one 82 00:05:30,959 --> 00:05:33,920 wonders that when people get angry, they want to go find the bear and 83 00:05:34,040 --> 00:05:39,519 kill it because it killed these people. And so there's something missing here. 84 00:05:39,560 --> 00:05:43,680 And I know you know what the lesson is. I'll have you explained why 85 00:05:43,720 --> 00:05:47,160 it is that this is a reality. First of all, the bear is 86 00:05:47,199 --> 00:05:54,079 not coming into their condominium. They're going into the bear's condominium. So whenever 87 00:05:54,079 --> 00:05:56,800 you go into an environment where they are a wild animal, you need to 88 00:05:56,839 --> 00:06:00,319 take all of that into consideration. Personally, just from my perspective, if 89 00:06:00,360 --> 00:06:04,199 there's an area where people do a lot of walking with their dogs, in 90 00:06:04,240 --> 00:06:08,839 an area where there might be black bears or grizzly bears, whatever, I 91 00:06:08,839 --> 00:06:12,519 don't walk my dog in that area. Bears are small enough to pick up 92 00:06:12,639 --> 00:06:15,879 on other animals that may be around, so my dogs, I just I 93 00:06:16,079 --> 00:06:18,879 play it safe. Maybe I'm a little eccentric, only based on the fact 94 00:06:18,879 --> 00:06:21,839 that I hear every horror story out there. So if there's an area where 95 00:06:21,879 --> 00:06:26,000 there's a for example, we hear about the alligate is down in Florida, 96 00:06:26,079 --> 00:06:28,879 you know, attacking a dog here and there, or a coyote. Now, 97 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:31,439 mom, I am listen, I have there you go. I have 98 00:06:31,519 --> 00:06:36,120 a seven foot fence in my backyard. Seven foot Okay, every time my 99 00:06:36,199 --> 00:06:40,360 dogs are in my yard, I am there with them with a stick in 100 00:06:40,399 --> 00:06:43,240 my hand and a flashlight. That's just the way it is. Maybe because 101 00:06:43,240 --> 00:06:45,360 I'm a little eccentric when it comes to taking care of them, but the 102 00:06:45,399 --> 00:06:47,600 bottom line is, don't take your dog to an area where there's danger. 103 00:06:48,240 --> 00:06:50,639 Look right now, for example, rattlesnakes. If you want to go for 104 00:06:50,639 --> 00:06:54,920 a hike in the Santa Monica Mountains, people take that dog off a leash 105 00:06:54,959 --> 00:06:57,800 and let them go off to the sides. That's where the snakes would be. 106 00:06:57,879 --> 00:07:00,000 Snakes are not coming out to get your dog. To be conscientious in 107 00:07:00,040 --> 00:07:03,000 care. For example, if you're walking in an area and you notice bear 108 00:07:03,079 --> 00:07:06,079 scat or poop on the ground, maybe you shouldn't be taking your dog to 109 00:07:06,120 --> 00:07:12,959 that neighborhood. Your bear's poop in the woods. I guess they do. 110 00:07:13,720 --> 00:07:16,079 Sorry, I guess they do. Warn Exstey and host of the pet show 111 00:07:16,120 --> 00:07:18,959 The Petshow dot Com is here with us. All right. So here's another 112 00:07:19,279 --> 00:07:26,720 example. This moose. This lady's out walking her dog in Colorado on a 113 00:07:26,759 --> 00:07:31,279 trail and this moose attacks the woman walking her dog. It's a cow moose. 114 00:07:31,759 --> 00:07:38,959 She's got her calves with her, and so the moose goes after these 115 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:44,279 women. They guess they got headbutted a couple of times. A big moose 116 00:07:44,399 --> 00:07:46,560 is nothing to mess with, I'll tell you that, much bigger than a 117 00:07:46,639 --> 00:07:51,519 cow. Anyway, this woman got to a house and told the story to 118 00:07:51,720 --> 00:07:56,800 officials. But once again it's it's a different animal. But it's the same 119 00:07:57,199 --> 00:08:01,319 principle as we were talking about before, Rightame it on the animal. Blame 120 00:08:01,360 --> 00:08:03,759 it on the animal. That's what they're you know. The bottom line is 121 00:08:03,800 --> 00:08:05,639 this, First of all, very often people get a little too close to 122 00:08:05,680 --> 00:08:09,480 wild animals. It's a beautiful deer, it's a beautiful moves, it's a 123 00:08:09,480 --> 00:08:11,079 beautiful list. It's a beautiful that they get a little too close and don't 124 00:08:11,079 --> 00:08:13,839 take into consideration. This is not their dog or a cat. This is 125 00:08:13,879 --> 00:08:18,399 a wild animal that survives every day instinctive. It is a little different exactly, 126 00:08:18,480 --> 00:08:22,360 it's a different ball game. So the bottom line is, why would 127 00:08:22,399 --> 00:08:24,959 you take your dog in an area where there are so many dangers? Why 128 00:08:26,040 --> 00:08:28,000 there are so many other places You can go to a dog park and go 129 00:08:28,040 --> 00:08:30,759 around the neighborhood school yard. Why would you expose your dog to that? 130 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:33,519 And then when the person calls up on my show, for example, and 131 00:08:33,559 --> 00:08:35,440 say, you know, I was taking my dog for a walk and I 132 00:08:35,480 --> 00:08:37,879 know there's a lot of coyotes in this area. It's a little dog and 133 00:08:37,919 --> 00:08:41,639 they can't No, why take your dog for a walk. And here's the 134 00:08:41,639 --> 00:08:45,320 bottom line. And I'm not gonna you know, I'm not gonna promote myself, 135 00:08:45,679 --> 00:08:48,120 but I have these air horns. I sell these air horns on my 136 00:08:48,120 --> 00:08:50,519 website. I think there's seven bucks. I think I lose money and every 137 00:08:50,519 --> 00:08:54,600 airhorn I sell. But the bottom line is we just heard for example, 138 00:08:54,759 --> 00:08:56,600 I don't know if you saw the story in La where a woman took her 139 00:08:56,600 --> 00:09:01,200 dog to seven eleven about ten or eleven o'clock at night. She walked in 140 00:09:01,279 --> 00:09:05,320 with her eleven year old dog into seven eleven. She was beaten up and 141 00:09:05,360 --> 00:09:09,679 attacked by another woman as her the other woman's boyfriend stole her eleven year old 142 00:09:09,679 --> 00:09:13,600 dog. Can you imagine the loss of someone's And she watched this guy dragging 143 00:09:13,600 --> 00:09:16,080 her dog out as she was being beat up. Bottom line, this dog 144 00:09:16,159 --> 00:09:18,799 was reunited. The dog got back, but again in Los Angeles, and 145 00:09:18,799 --> 00:09:22,879 I'm assuming it's the same in every city. In town. You have to 146 00:09:22,919 --> 00:09:26,879 be afraid to take your dog for a walk. People are stealing French ball 147 00:09:26,919 --> 00:09:30,080 dogs. They're attacking people with dogs. And this eleven year old dog was 148 00:09:30,080 --> 00:09:31,799 going to be used as a bait dog. And if you don't know what 149 00:09:31,840 --> 00:09:35,080 a bait dog is, they take these dogs to teach other dogs to fight. 150 00:09:35,320 --> 00:09:41,159 Incredibly stupid stuff. Didn't I see something a baseball player or a football 151 00:09:41,200 --> 00:09:43,720 player. I think I just saw this in the last twenty fours, Jay, 152 00:09:43,759 --> 00:09:45,720 do you know what I'm talking about? This the Department of Defense. 153 00:09:45,759 --> 00:09:48,320 Who was a guy at the Department of Defense who was involved in the dog 154 00:09:48,320 --> 00:09:50,360 fighting? Yeah, did you talk about yeah? Yeah, yeah yeah. 155 00:09:50,519 --> 00:09:54,399 It was a major Department of Defense official and advisory. He worked at the 156 00:09:54,440 --> 00:09:58,559 Department of Defense. I just posted on my Facebook, Jay, if you 157 00:09:58,559 --> 00:10:01,240 want to take it off my Facebook. Yes. So the bottom line is 158 00:10:01,240 --> 00:10:03,399 that, yeah, this, this, this is incredible. This is a 159 00:10:03,399 --> 00:10:07,759 guy that that was How did they do? And then bad enough? What 160 00:10:07,840 --> 00:10:13,360 they found in his home was what they found in his home was a battery 161 00:10:13,679 --> 00:10:16,120 with two like battery charges for your car. This is the way they executed 162 00:10:16,159 --> 00:10:20,120 the dogs that lost Oh my god. And this is like another Michael Vick 163 00:10:20,200 --> 00:10:24,080 story, another Michael story. Yeah, yeah, I know this, you 164 00:10:24,120 --> 00:10:26,679 know. And then I've had the opportunity of seeing some of Michael vicked dogs 165 00:10:26,679 --> 00:10:31,000 and a lot of them are rehabilitated and they're doing well. But the bottom 166 00:10:31,039 --> 00:10:33,080 line is these type of people, if they can do that to a dog, 167 00:10:33,639 --> 00:10:35,840 my belief is they can do it to a human being. Yep, 168 00:10:37,879 --> 00:10:39,759 we are next time from the pet shows. Here we're talking about some of 169 00:10:39,799 --> 00:10:43,240 the issues around having a pet, some of the things that have been having 170 00:10:43,320 --> 00:10:46,639 the people with pets. It is the story of a cat that went missing 171 00:10:46,679 --> 00:10:54,080 for five weeks and ultimately was found trapped beneath the neighbor's porch. And the 172 00:10:54,120 --> 00:10:58,960 way they found this cat was somebody heard the cat me outing hello. Five 173 00:11:00,200 --> 00:11:03,840 weeks though, how in the world this cat? I guess the cat they 174 00:11:03,919 --> 00:11:09,559 figured ate some spiders and bugs and that sort of thing and lick condensation from 175 00:11:09,600 --> 00:11:13,639 pipes in order to survive. But he lost half of his body weight. 176 00:11:15,320 --> 00:11:18,320 And this is this just not caring or a little cat, you know, 177 00:11:18,759 --> 00:11:22,279 Doug. It's interesting because I always get in trouble when I say this, 178 00:11:22,399 --> 00:11:24,080 But the bottom line is the times they are a change. And to quote 179 00:11:24,080 --> 00:11:26,600 Bob Dylan, you know, when I was growing up, everyone would let 180 00:11:26,639 --> 00:11:30,440 their cats outside and the cats would run around, they'd come back and ni 181 00:11:30,679 --> 00:11:33,480 you know, occasionally a cat might be heard or whatever. It's too dangerous 182 00:11:33,480 --> 00:11:39,080 out there nowadays. People are crazy out there nowadays. So my concept is 183 00:11:39,120 --> 00:11:41,080 this, you can take the time to teach your cat to walk on a 184 00:11:41,159 --> 00:11:45,720 Lucian hornets. I know that sounds eccentric, but you can do that now. 185 00:11:45,799 --> 00:11:48,399 If you go to Amazon or any of the big companies, you can 186 00:11:48,440 --> 00:11:52,759 buy cat enclosures where you can let your cat outside in a safe, sensible 187 00:11:52,799 --> 00:11:56,360 way without the dangers of the cat taking off, or or other animals coming 188 00:11:56,360 --> 00:11:58,480 in and getting your cat, or even diseases from other feral cats, perhaps 189 00:11:58,519 --> 00:12:03,440 the enabled. So there are things you can do. People sometimes become a 190 00:12:03,440 --> 00:12:05,759 little lack of days ago, if I'm using that word properly, a little 191 00:12:05,799 --> 00:12:09,120 lack of days ago when it comes to their dog or their cat, And 192 00:12:09,120 --> 00:12:11,039 all it does is it's one quick turn and the dog or cat can be 193 00:12:11,080 --> 00:12:13,679 gone. So my heartbreaks for this kitten, of course it does. But 194 00:12:13,679 --> 00:12:18,600 the bottom line is people need to be more conscientious all the time about where 195 00:12:18,600 --> 00:12:20,360 their dogs and cats are. All right, So in league with that, 196 00:12:20,559 --> 00:12:26,559 here's the story of a missing shit Zu. I always like to be because 197 00:12:26,559 --> 00:12:31,879 it's silly on the air. This is a dog in Jacksonville reunited with his 198 00:12:31,960 --> 00:12:37,279 owner after it found its way to New Jersey. How does a dog that 199 00:12:37,440 --> 00:12:43,240 lived in Jacksonville, Florida get to New Jersey? Listen? How small can 200 00:12:43,279 --> 00:12:50,039 the dog be left Florida for Jersey? Come on dog? Yeah, that's 201 00:12:50,039 --> 00:12:52,159 the point. Yeah, it's amazing. It's amazing to me. For you 202 00:12:52,240 --> 00:12:56,039 if people say how can dogs find their way around? When you know they 203 00:12:56,759 --> 00:12:58,919 just roam? They can roam, they get lost easily, but they all 204 00:13:00,080 --> 00:13:01,639 so sometimes know where they're going. You hear about the story of the dog 205 00:13:01,759 --> 00:13:05,159 or cat finding its way home from one hundred miles away. How do they 206 00:13:05,159 --> 00:13:09,080 do that? There's a lot of things about it. Some people suggest that 207 00:13:09,080 --> 00:13:11,879 that dogs and cats can focus on the stars, and they follow that along. 208 00:13:13,159 --> 00:13:16,399 Other people say that there are people that actually say this. You know 209 00:13:16,440 --> 00:13:20,480 who Creskin is, Yeah, amazing. Cruskin's a good friend. I've known 210 00:13:20,559 --> 00:13:24,519 Kreskin for ever. We've had We've had this conversations a million times, and 211 00:13:24,559 --> 00:13:28,720 he would basically say that, you know, you can't always describe how they 212 00:13:28,759 --> 00:13:31,360 do it, but you know they do it. So he said to me 213 00:13:31,440 --> 00:13:37,000 that sometimes the the the the love factor, the love factor, if that's 214 00:13:37,039 --> 00:13:41,399 such a thing, can actually help a dog or cat find its way back 215 00:13:41,440 --> 00:13:46,080 home with their loss. I buy it, I just do. I buy 216 00:13:46,120 --> 00:13:50,600 it. I should just see how in my case Daisy, but with Charlotte 217 00:13:50,600 --> 00:13:54,039 and any of the dogs that I've had, but the ones as I get 218 00:13:54,080 --> 00:13:58,000 older, maybe they meant a little bit more to me, and they just 219 00:13:58,120 --> 00:14:01,200 will. It's no, it doesn't make a different what you do, what 220 00:14:01,279 --> 00:14:05,519 you say to them. It is is love. Daisy's in my truck with 221 00:14:05,559 --> 00:14:09,960 me all the time, and she'll stick her head under my arm and then 222 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:16,200 stick her nose in my face. You know that's the way they just think 223 00:14:16,200 --> 00:14:18,519 about this, Doug. Every time you look at Daisy and every time Daisy 224 00:14:18,559 --> 00:14:22,759 looks at you. A brand new study just came out the other day. 225 00:14:22,799 --> 00:14:26,480 A brand new study says, not only does your oxytocin get better, but 226 00:14:26,519 --> 00:14:28,919 so does your talk. So just looking at each other makes you both feel 227 00:14:28,960 --> 00:14:31,879 better. That old song, all those sudden my heart sings, There you 228 00:14:31,960 --> 00:14:35,519 go as well as it put us as well. Thank you. This is 229 00:14:35,559 --> 00:14:41,440 a blessing having you here with us for some conversation about our loved ones sorry 230 00:14:41,480 --> 00:14:46,399 animals Warren Nex time check out the petshow dot com. The next Stefan Good 231 00:14:46,440 --> 00:14:50,799 Day download with Doug and Jay Kirshner. Is made possible in part by Keltren, 232 00:14:50,840 --> 00:14:54,320 which is the safe way for you to lose weight and keep it off, 233 00:14:54,600 --> 00:14:58,320 and also by Previlegent, keeping your brain healthy.