The next Stefan Good Day download with Doug and Jay Kirshner is made possible in
part by Keltron, which is the safe way for you to lose weight and
keep it off, and also by prevagent keeping your brain healthy. Time for
our weekly visit from Warren Eckstein, who is probably America is number one,
if not the number one person in the entire world on the planet. Nobody
knows more about pets than war An x Stine. Thus the one hundred and
fourteen year run of the Pet Show on the radio that you can hear every
weekend on a lot of these same stations. So let's talk about the cold
Dog shelters have made appeals for homes. Our own James Collins just adopted a
dog from one of these homes. The temperatures have plummeted below zero in many
areas of the country, so there's a new thing. Animal shelter came up
with this idea which I thought was kind of cool, called Operation Frost.
The animals that live in some of these outside the kennels. Some of these
places can't afford to have shelters that are actually enclosed, so the dogs are
outside. And then there's your own dog and how you take care of your
dog in the cold. So, Warren, would you go through some of
the things that are necessary for us to be thinking about when it comes to
the freezing cold and our pets. Yeah, the bottom line is keep him
inside. You know. It's interesting, but there are certain dogs that when
kept outside, adapt to the cold weather. However, all dogs need minimum
of a three sided place to go. You know a lot of people dog
will build a doghouse and they'll put you know, the snoopy dog house with
a hole in the middle, and what happens is, no matter what you
do, the air is going to come in the way to build a doghouse
properly is kind of like a rectangle. Put the door off to one side
so that when the dog goes in, he's got three walls around him that
will keep him warm. Bottom line is, you know what, most dogs
that are live with people are indoor outdoor do dogs, and keeping them out
doors in the cold weather is really really a bad idea, especially older dogs,
puppies, whatever. But all those is wet. I noticed that with
the cows, the cows like the cold weather. It's good for them unless
it's wet. And then it's not but the wind. The wind's also a
problem. I'll tell you why. In the cold weather, usually there's wind,
and when there's wind, it's easier for a dog to get lost because
their ability to find their way home is great. Speaking of that, by
the way, I got asked on my show this week, thug. You
know, my specialty was teaching dogs to sniff out drugs, bombs and narcotics
whatever. So someone asked me about how good a dog's nose really is.
How much can that dog really smell? Well, let me tell you it's
approximately one hundred thousand to one hundred million times better than us. But here's
the bottom line. Wow, if you take two Olympic sized swimming pools,
two Olympic sized swimming pools, but a teaspoon of sugar, the dogs will
pick up that teaspoon of sugar in an Olympic two Olympic sized swimming If that's
how good they noses. I've never had a dog that was as much of
a sniffer as a daisy is. She can find and she sticks, you
know, old dogs they stick where it should be. I know, yeah,
I know, yeah, right. You know there's certain dogs that smell
better. You know, the dogs like the bloodhounds. People people say,
why the bloodhounds because they have wrinkles in their face and the sense stays in
those wrinkles, and therefore they constantly have that same smell. So yeah,
but then get me back to that cold weather. Bottom line is if it's
too cold for you to be outside, bring your dogs inside, especially those
older dogs and those younger dogs, and watch you dog. You know a
lot of people put their dog outside. They put water outside, the water
freezes. Yeah, I don't I don't want to get into a horror stories.
When I was a peace off for New York, I remember working in
a horrible situation where dogs pour froze in the ice in the yard and have
to be amputated at the scene to remove the dogs. A horrible situation.
That's what people don't understand how dangerous it can be. The cold weather can
be really, especially when it's windy and as you said, dog critically,
when it's wet outside. Yeah, all right, here's the story of a
dog speaking of sniffing. This dog saved an entire neighborhood. I was talking
about this the other day, Quiet Philadelphia andighborhood this dog saved it from blowing
up in flames because it was the dog smelled a gas leak and was digging
in the backyard, and the woman who owned the dog wondered about it.
He kept digging and digging in the same spot, and the hole got larger
and larger. So she went out looked at it, and she could smell
what the dogs smell, because you know, the gas has an odor put
into it, because if it doesn't have it put into it, you're never
going to smell the gas and it'll be dead. So this dog found it,
dug it up, and saved the neighborhood. It was kind of a
good story. Yeah, no, it's an amazing story. But the bottom
line is that's the advantage of a dog's nose. We may if you're cooking
spaghetti sauce, dog I might smell spaghetti sauce. The dog comes and he
smells the oregular, the garlic and everything individually. That's what makes them so
great at sniffing out things like drugs or even gas. I hear stories like
this all the time, between gas leaks or other type of problems that might
be going where the dog picks up the scent of car. You can't even
smell carbon dioxide in the house, but somehow dogs were able to pick it
up and get the family out of the house. So if your dog reacts,
react with them. That's all I got is God love them or an
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