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Apparently they are bad for Guya Earth. 12 00:00:46,799 --> 00:00:51,359 Dogs are bad for the planet. The headline from mother 13 00:00:51,560 --> 00:00:55,399 Jones dot com, leftist rag bad News for Man's Best Friend. 14 00:00:55,439 --> 00:01:02,679 Dogs are environmental villains. Sorry, there I go. Okay now, 15 00:01:02,719 --> 00:01:06,799 the story was originally published by the Guardian. Mother Jones 16 00:01:06,879 --> 00:01:14,159 was just republishing it. But regardless, this is the this 17 00:01:14,480 --> 00:01:19,719 there's there are studies. There's research now, uh huh that 18 00:01:19,920 --> 00:01:26,200 dogs have extensive and multifarious I've never heard of that 19 00:01:26,239 --> 00:01:33,200 word before. Multifarious. Would that be like nefarious in many ways? 20 00:01:33,439 --> 00:01:37,920 Wouldn't that still just be nefarious? But whatever, extensive and 21 00:01:38,120 --> 00:01:40,519 multi fairyo, I'm gonna try to work that into more sentences. 22 00:01:40,599 --> 00:01:44,400 I'm just gonna be dropping multifarious here and there, extensive 23 00:01:44,439 --> 00:01:52,719 and multifarious environmental impacts dogs do. They disturb wildlife, they 24 00:01:52,719 --> 00:02:03,359 pollute waterways. Okay, oh you know what, Oh, now it 25 00:02:03,439 --> 00:02:08,879 makes sense. The other day I saw a cocker spaniel 26 00:02:08,919 --> 00:02:11,599 dumping the whole bunch of plastic straws in the stream, 27 00:02:11,680 --> 00:02:13,639 and I was like, what is the why is that 28 00:02:13,680 --> 00:02:16,479 dog doing that? That's so weird. Now it makes sense. 29 00:02:17,319 --> 00:02:22,639 Polluting the waterways and like harming the sea turtles obviously. 30 00:02:24,800 --> 00:02:30,800 Also they apparently contribute to carbon emissions dogs do. So look, 31 00:02:31,039 --> 00:02:37,960 it's science. An Australian review that is not a dog breed, 32 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:40,039 by the way. That is a review out of Australia 33 00:02:40,800 --> 00:02:43,639 of existing studies. So they didn't even do their own studies. 34 00:02:43,680 --> 00:02:45,360 They looked at all of these other studies. So it's 35 00:02:45,360 --> 00:02:49,400 sort of a meta analysis, if you will. A study 36 00:02:49,439 --> 00:02:51,840 of studies. A review of the studies has argued that 37 00:02:52,199 --> 00:02:59,520 the environmental impact of owned dogs is far greater, more insidious, 38 00:03:00,080 --> 00:03:06,400 and more concerning than is generally recognized. The author of 39 00:03:06,479 --> 00:03:15,080 the research goes, but the name is cat Feleine I 40 00:03:15,080 --> 00:03:20,960 think is the No, I'm kidding, it's actually Professor Bill 41 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:28,280 Bateman of Kurtin University. The environmental impact of owned dogs 42 00:03:28,439 --> 00:03:30,719 is far greater, more insidious, and more concerning than is 43 00:03:30,759 --> 00:03:35,479 generally recognized. Okay, all right, so what about if we 44 00:03:35,479 --> 00:03:39,800 were all to just like release the dogs from captivity? Right, 45 00:03:40,439 --> 00:03:43,560 you are no longer allowed to own a dog, and 46 00:03:43,599 --> 00:03:46,639 so now all of the dogs, well, I mean those 47 00:03:46,680 --> 00:03:48,919 that don't just like keep hanging around the house. You know, 48 00:03:49,479 --> 00:03:51,080 they're going to come back to the house because they 49 00:03:51,080 --> 00:03:53,080 love you and they want to sleep on the bed 50 00:03:53,080 --> 00:03:55,840 and all of that. But I'm like, if you just 51 00:03:55,919 --> 00:03:57,520 like kick them out of the house, you can't live 52 00:03:57,560 --> 00:04:00,000 here anymore. All the dogs are out, no more owned 53 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:04,199 owned dogs. Owned dogs are now not good for the planet. 54 00:04:04,240 --> 00:04:08,759 So they are out. So they are on the street. 55 00:04:09,120 --> 00:04:12,159 And do you think then that they may be disturbing 56 00:04:12,280 --> 00:04:17,000 more wildlife when they're out on the street. I think 57 00:04:17,040 --> 00:04:21,879 they do. Just all things being equal, I'm thinking a 58 00:04:21,959 --> 00:04:25,399 dog out on the street is probably gonna be eating 59 00:04:25,439 --> 00:04:28,800 way more squirrels than a dog that only gets to 60 00:04:28,800 --> 00:04:32,439 be out in the backyard for a couple hours a day. 61 00:04:33,360 --> 00:04:36,199 I just think they got a lot more you know, opportunity, 62 00:04:36,199 --> 00:04:38,319 have way more opportunity. They're gonna you know, have more 63 00:04:38,319 --> 00:04:42,639 interactions with squirrels at first, at first, because then eventually, yes, 64 00:04:43,920 --> 00:04:46,079 they kill all the squirrels and then there are no 65 00:04:46,160 --> 00:04:48,079 more squirrels. Then they're gonna have to move up the 66 00:04:48,079 --> 00:04:50,839 bigger game and eventually they will have depleted that source. 67 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:52,680 Then they'll have to move up to another game, and 68 00:04:52,720 --> 00:04:55,040 then they will finally come for us, which I kind 69 00:04:55,040 --> 00:04:58,360 of feel like is what these environmentalists are always angling for, 70 00:04:58,720 --> 00:05:02,319 because that is really the the only way to preserve 71 00:05:02,399 --> 00:05:06,279 the planet in its pristine state, which is completely untamed, 72 00:05:06,439 --> 00:05:10,040 unmanaged and wild. Right, that's what mother nature is, that's 73 00:05:10,079 --> 00:05:15,199 what the environment is. The only way to preserve that 74 00:05:15,399 --> 00:05:19,120 is to eliminate all of the billions of people on 75 00:05:19,199 --> 00:05:24,879 the planet. That's it, which I think is there. I 76 00:05:24,879 --> 00:05:26,600 think that's the end goal here for a lot of 77 00:05:26,600 --> 00:05:31,920 these people. Apparently the environmental impact of cats is very 78 00:05:31,959 --> 00:05:36,079 well known because by cats, cats you want to talk 79 00:05:36,120 --> 00:05:41,600 about murdering some stuff. Cats are murderous and for no 80 00:05:41,720 --> 00:05:47,360 reason either. They're like the only animal that hunts just 81 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:52,319 for kicks, Like, no, they're not hunting for shoes. No, 82 00:05:52,399 --> 00:05:55,439 I'm saying they go out and they just take pleasure 83 00:05:55,480 --> 00:05:57,279 in the hunt. They just do it because it's fun 84 00:05:57,319 --> 00:06:00,279 to do. And that's apparently also, by the way, why 85 00:06:00,319 --> 00:06:03,160 they get on you at like, you know, five am, 86 00:06:03,600 --> 00:06:05,439 five point thirty am. That's why they jump on the 87 00:06:05,439 --> 00:06:07,600 bed and start like messing with you before you got 88 00:06:07,600 --> 00:06:12,160 to wake up, because that's prime hunting time and they're like, dude, 89 00:06:12,360 --> 00:06:15,079 let's go hunting. You're gonna miss out on the hunt. 90 00:06:15,879 --> 00:06:20,160 That's why they do that. So we apparently have done 91 00:06:20,160 --> 00:06:22,199 lots of research on the cats, and so now the 92 00:06:22,240 --> 00:06:25,240 cats are fighting back. They probably funded this research against 93 00:06:25,240 --> 00:06:30,319 the dogs. The review was published, believe it or not, 94 00:06:31,600 --> 00:06:37,600 in a publication called Pacific Conservation Biology, and it highlighted 95 00:06:37,639 --> 00:06:43,480 the impacts of the world's commonest large carnivore in killing 96 00:06:43,639 --> 00:06:50,759 and disturbing native wildlife, particularly shore birds. Shore birds as 97 00:06:50,759 --> 00:06:55,000 opposed to the unsuore birds they're not very confident in 98 00:06:55,120 --> 00:07:02,120 much In Australia. Attacks by unrestrained dogs on little penguins 99 00:07:02,160 --> 00:07:08,120 in Tasmania may contribute to colony collapse according to computer modeling, 100 00:07:08,560 --> 00:07:12,000 and that's never steered us wrong. Before a study of 101 00:07:12,040 --> 00:07:16,079 animals taken to the Australian Zoo Wildlife Hospital found that 102 00:07:16,160 --> 00:07:20,920 mortality was highest after dog attacks, which was the second 103 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:25,040 most common reason for admission to the hospital. You know, 104 00:07:25,160 --> 00:07:30,319 the number one reason why these cute little Tasmanian penguins 105 00:07:30,879 --> 00:07:35,319 and others, I guess number one reason they end up 106 00:07:35,360 --> 00:07:43,680 in the hospital they get hit by cars. Look, if 107 00:07:43,720 --> 00:07:48,040 you're a wild animal and your number one predator is 108 00:07:48,079 --> 00:07:51,600 a Chevy and your number two is a dog that 109 00:07:51,680 --> 00:07:54,720 broke its leash or something, I think you're doing okay 110 00:07:54,759 --> 00:07:58,319 out in the wild. Seriously, Like the wild is a 111 00:07:58,319 --> 00:08:02,240 pretty tough place. And if those are your biggest your 112 00:08:02,279 --> 00:08:05,839 biggest predators that you have to worry about, I'm thinking 113 00:08:06,240 --> 00:08:08,720 you don't do like the crows do. They've learned. And 114 00:08:08,839 --> 00:08:11,959 pigeons too, they've learned how not to get hit by 115 00:08:11,959 --> 00:08:13,839 cars all the time, and they live in the city, 116 00:08:14,800 --> 00:08:19,040 so maybe, I don't know, Like eventually they these penguins 117 00:08:19,040 --> 00:08:22,879 will learn, and if they can't learn, I don't know, 118 00:08:22,920 --> 00:08:26,800 put up a fence along the road trying to save 119 00:08:26,839 --> 00:08:29,120 these guys. But then, of course, then the car strikes 120 00:08:29,120 --> 00:08:31,480 as the leading cause of death, that'll go down, and 121 00:08:31,519 --> 00:08:33,840 then the dogs will go up because the dogs can 122 00:08:33,840 --> 00:08:36,360 probably jump the fences or something, and then they will 123 00:08:36,480 --> 00:08:39,159 you know, they'll be they'll be labeled as like the 124 00:08:39,279 --> 00:08:42,159 number one reason why the animals get attacked or come 125 00:08:42,159 --> 00:08:45,360 into the hospital, and then like then the pressure campaign 126 00:08:45,399 --> 00:08:50,519 will really ramp up against the dogs in the This 127 00:08:50,600 --> 00:08:53,519 is you know what this is like. It's like a 128 00:08:53,559 --> 00:08:56,279 monkey with a calculator. That's what this reminds me of. 129 00:08:57,360 --> 00:09:01,039 It's like, we have all this data, and we could 130 00:09:01,039 --> 00:09:02,919 do all of this stuff with the data, but they 131 00:09:02,919 --> 00:09:06,200 don't know what they're looking at. They don't understand. There's 132 00:09:06,360 --> 00:09:08,840 like drawing conclusions. Well, we looked at the number of 133 00:09:08,879 --> 00:09:13,000 wildlife that have been taken into a particular hospital, and 134 00:09:13,039 --> 00:09:15,840 while most of them were hit by cars, the number 135 00:09:15,879 --> 00:09:20,360 two reason was dogs. So therefore dogs are terrible for 136 00:09:20,399 --> 00:09:23,879 the environment. Dude, dogs are the equivalent of the penguin 137 00:09:23,960 --> 00:09:28,799 that it attacked. They're both animals. They're on the same level. 138 00:09:30,279 --> 00:09:33,759 If the person wasn't putting a roof over that dog's head, 139 00:09:33,879 --> 00:09:36,279 that dog would be out on that short line, way 140 00:09:36,360 --> 00:09:41,080 more killing, way more penguins. What are you guys even 141 00:09:41,159 --> 00:09:43,840 doing that down there down Under in Australia? What do 142 00:09:43,919 --> 00:09:47,559 you even why are you doing this? Do you want 143 00:09:47,639 --> 00:09:51,240 people to hate you? I think so? All right, if 144 00:09:51,279 --> 00:09:53,039 you're listening to this show, you know I try to 145 00:09:53,080 --> 00:09:54,879 keep up with all sorts of current events, and I 146 00:09:54,919 --> 00:09:57,120 know you do too. And you've probably heard me say 147 00:09:57,240 --> 00:10:01,480 get your news from multiple sources. 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Susan says, as a dog owner 165 00:10:57,639 --> 00:11:01,399 many of many dogs for many years, the government or 166 00:11:01,480 --> 00:11:05,159 some kind of crazy organization can get my dog when 167 00:11:05,159 --> 00:11:07,600 they pry her leash out of my well, you know 168 00:11:07,639 --> 00:11:10,320 the rest, right, Yeah, Well that's the thing too about 169 00:11:10,360 --> 00:11:13,000 dogs is if they do show up to take your 170 00:11:13,039 --> 00:11:16,960 dogs and you resist them, the dog sense that, right, 171 00:11:16,960 --> 00:11:20,080 they're going to key off of your emotion and they're 172 00:11:20,120 --> 00:11:26,480 going to aid in your fight. But downside, we already 173 00:11:26,519 --> 00:11:29,000 have a registry of the dogs, so they're going to 174 00:11:29,080 --> 00:11:31,720 know exactly who is the dog owner, you know in 175 00:11:32,240 --> 00:11:34,960 like cities like Charlotte where you have to register your dogs, 176 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:37,200 and so now they're going to have a list to 177 00:11:37,240 --> 00:11:44,480 come confiscate your dog. The review of these other studies 178 00:11:46,279 --> 00:11:52,440 was done published rather in Pacific Conservation Biology, and so 179 00:11:52,480 --> 00:11:54,200 they looked at a lot of the stuff in these 180 00:11:54,240 --> 00:11:57,320 studies that were done in Australia. And I did see 181 00:11:57,320 --> 00:12:03,720 somebody ask a question here, Jonathan said, wait a minute, 182 00:12:03,720 --> 00:12:09,000 this is Australia. Is it owned dogs or dingoes causing 183 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:12,919 the problem. That is a very good question, Jonathan. I 184 00:12:12,960 --> 00:12:15,559 don't even know the difference between a dingo and a dog. 185 00:12:16,200 --> 00:12:19,559 I think dingoes are basically dogs that haven't been domesticated, right, 186 00:12:19,639 --> 00:12:23,759 They look very similar, I think, And so is it 187 00:12:24,240 --> 00:12:27,200 are the dogs? Are the dogs being blamed for the 188 00:12:27,240 --> 00:12:33,879 sins of the dingoes? That's not cool? Like the cats 189 00:12:33,879 --> 00:12:36,000 blaming the dogs for all of the stuff you know 190 00:12:36,039 --> 00:12:38,039 that goes wrong in the house. Like, that's not cool either. 191 00:12:38,080 --> 00:12:44,360 Jonathan also points out that I have ignored the dog's 192 00:12:44,440 --> 00:12:48,879 disgusting habit of gambling illegally. There are infamous there's an 193 00:12:48,919 --> 00:12:53,919 infamous painting of them in the act. That's true. That's true. 194 00:12:54,039 --> 00:12:56,840 I forgot about that. We have we have, you know, 195 00:12:58,600 --> 00:13:05,399 visual evidence, and they're smoking. That's an environmental no no too. 196 00:13:07,519 --> 00:13:11,759 In the United States, studies have found that deer foxes 197 00:13:12,039 --> 00:13:18,360 and bobcats were less active in or avoid wilderness areas 198 00:13:18,399 --> 00:13:25,159 where dogs were allowed. Okay, so I'm failing to see 199 00:13:25,159 --> 00:13:31,080 the problem here. So if I've got the dog, I'm 200 00:13:31,159 --> 00:13:35,720 less likely to have deer foxes and bobcats. Okay, I'm 201 00:13:35,720 --> 00:13:40,039 not sure that's true. Okay, because in my neighborhood there 202 00:13:40,039 --> 00:13:43,360 are people posting all the time on the Facebook group 203 00:13:43,600 --> 00:13:48,679 about their dogs have gone missing, and people spotting foxes 204 00:13:49,120 --> 00:13:53,200 and coyotes and stuff in the area, and it seems 205 00:13:53,240 --> 00:13:56,000 like they're being it seems like the dogs are getting targeted, 206 00:13:56,120 --> 00:14:00,240 you know, So I'm not so sure about that. So 207 00:14:00,639 --> 00:14:03,200 I don't think I want a bobcat around my property. 208 00:14:04,480 --> 00:14:06,480 Oh yeah, yeah, I know coexist and all of that, 209 00:14:06,639 --> 00:14:10,480 but they don't recognize property lines, you know. And my 210 00:14:10,720 --> 00:14:12,840 HOA doesn't allow me to put up a fence except 211 00:14:12,840 --> 00:14:15,360 one of those ones with the slots in it, or 212 00:14:15,399 --> 00:14:17,720 the slats rather, and so they can just walk right 213 00:14:17,759 --> 00:14:20,240 through them. That's not much protection at all. I don't 214 00:14:20,279 --> 00:14:23,559 want bobcats at my back door, that's me. I don't 215 00:14:23,600 --> 00:14:29,279 want a rabid fox, you know, under my car. No, hey, guys, 216 00:14:30,440 --> 00:14:35,519 priorities here. Other research shows that, get this one. This 217 00:14:35,679 --> 00:14:39,159 was amazing to me. I had no idea. You probably 218 00:14:39,159 --> 00:14:45,720 have not either. Research shows that insecticides. I know you're thinking, like, 219 00:14:45,799 --> 00:14:50,600 how does this tie in with dogs. Insecticides from flea 220 00:14:50,960 --> 00:14:58,679 and tick medications kill aquatic invertebrates when they wash off 221 00:14:58,960 --> 00:15:05,919 into waterways. Well, how are you even tracking that? First off? 222 00:15:06,240 --> 00:15:10,480 How are you tracking a like what a flea collar? 223 00:15:10,759 --> 00:15:13,000 That's what we're talking about here. The drops go on 224 00:15:13,039 --> 00:15:15,960 their necks and then it absorbs into the body. So 225 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:18,000 what are they peeing it out? And they're peeing it 226 00:15:18,080 --> 00:15:22,039 into the waterway or something? How many dogs peeing into 227 00:15:22,120 --> 00:15:25,480 waterways are we talking about here? Most dogs I see 228 00:15:25,519 --> 00:15:28,159 and have had, they pee on grass. They don't go 229 00:15:28,240 --> 00:15:30,679 into the water to pee. They pee on the grass, 230 00:15:30,759 --> 00:15:33,000 so then it filters through the grass, in which case 231 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:35,399 then I got questions for the grass. What are you 232 00:15:35,440 --> 00:15:38,120 even doing over there? Grass? You're just laying there. Your 233 00:15:38,200 --> 00:15:41,759 main job besides looking good, is well and also to 234 00:15:41,960 --> 00:15:44,320 you know, foment the growth of weeds. Your job is 235 00:15:44,360 --> 00:15:46,759 to filter the rain water that hits you before it 236 00:15:46,799 --> 00:15:49,399 gets to the waterways. That's why we pay all of 237 00:15:49,440 --> 00:15:52,480 the taxes here. If you try to pave over the grass, 238 00:15:52,519 --> 00:15:54,879 then you got to pay more taxes because grass is better. 239 00:15:55,279 --> 00:15:59,000 But if grass isn't even doing its job enough to 240 00:15:59,039 --> 00:16:04,159 filter out you'rein from all of the dogs. I don't 241 00:16:04,159 --> 00:16:06,759 even understand how you would track that let alone. I 242 00:16:06,799 --> 00:16:09,600 don't believe the results. I do not believe these results. 243 00:16:10,879 --> 00:16:14,720 Somebody actually said, hey, let's find out how much flea 244 00:16:14,799 --> 00:16:18,440 and tick collar meds are getting into the waterways, and 245 00:16:18,480 --> 00:16:22,039 then they devised a method to determine that I don't 246 00:16:22,039 --> 00:16:25,720 buy it. I'm just not buying it. I think they 247 00:16:25,720 --> 00:16:28,279 probably got the same kind of medications and they just 248 00:16:28,360 --> 00:16:30,600 dumped a bunch of it into some waterway and it 249 00:16:30,679 --> 00:16:32,240 killed a bunch of stuff, and they're like, oh, yeah, 250 00:16:32,240 --> 00:16:35,240 look at that. It can kill them. Well, yes, it 251 00:16:35,320 --> 00:16:37,720 probably could kill them. It's like the what was it, 252 00:16:37,759 --> 00:16:39,840 the famous study where they gave the rats all of 253 00:16:39,879 --> 00:16:41,600 the sweet and low or something like, look at that 254 00:16:41,759 --> 00:16:44,679 kill the rats? You know? Well, yeah, you gave them 255 00:16:44,720 --> 00:16:49,600 like seventeen billion times the lifetime dosage in a single hit. 256 00:16:50,080 --> 00:16:51,919 I'm pretty sure anything in that amount is going to 257 00:16:52,039 --> 00:16:59,639 kill somebody. And what's more, dog poop it can leave 258 00:17:00,120 --> 00:17:09,319 scent traces and affect soil chemistry and plant growth. I 259 00:17:09,359 --> 00:17:12,119 guess in a bad way because I always thought the 260 00:17:12,160 --> 00:17:15,559 poop would help with the with the growth of the 261 00:17:16,559 --> 00:17:19,160 like the lawns and stuff. Pee no, no, pe will 262 00:17:19,240 --> 00:17:22,279 kill the lawns. But poop. I understood poop is a 263 00:17:22,279 --> 00:17:26,480 good thing, didn't. The indigenous peoples put the poop in 264 00:17:26,599 --> 00:17:29,279 the crops and make them grow, and then taught the 265 00:17:29,319 --> 00:17:33,119 stupid pilgrims how to farm with the poop technique. Didn't 266 00:17:33,160 --> 00:17:38,359 they do that? This is so confusing, And don't even 267 00:17:38,359 --> 00:17:42,039 get me started now on the pet food. Oh my gosh, 268 00:17:42,519 --> 00:17:46,200 that really increases the carbon paw print. Here here's a 269 00:17:46,200 --> 00:17:49,079 great idea. How about making an escape to a really 270 00:17:49,160 --> 00:17:52,359 special and secluded getaway in western North Carolina. Just a 271 00:17:52,440 --> 00:17:55,039 quick drive up the mountain and Cabins of Asheville is 272 00:17:55,160 --> 00:17:58,960 your connection. 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Somebody 299 00:19:39,400 --> 00:19:43,000 not only did somebody have to do the research and 300 00:19:43,039 --> 00:19:50,079 then submit this paper to the Pacific Conservation Biology Magazine 301 00:19:50,160 --> 00:19:54,920 or whatever. Somebody then had to review it and say yeah, 302 00:19:55,039 --> 00:19:59,200 let's publish that. They publish it, and then you've got 303 00:19:59,480 --> 00:20:07,160 the guard reporter and editors who see this study and say, yeah, 304 00:20:07,240 --> 00:20:09,599 let's do a story on that, and then Mother Jones 305 00:20:09,880 --> 00:20:14,119 follow suit and that's how and then I'm downstream of them, 306 00:20:14,839 --> 00:20:18,599 except they're reporting it as if like, oh, you know, 307 00:20:18,799 --> 00:20:21,759 it's just very bad for the earth. All of these 308 00:20:21,799 --> 00:20:28,000 domesticated dogs just pooping and peeing everywhere and chasing birds down, 309 00:20:30,440 --> 00:20:36,160 and then you realize they eat. It's true, dogs eat. 310 00:20:37,079 --> 00:20:44,119 The carbon footprint of pets is significant. A twenty twenty 311 00:20:44,200 --> 00:20:47,759 study found again, here's another one. Someone did a study 312 00:20:47,759 --> 00:20:52,559 on this found that the dry pet food industry had 313 00:20:52,599 --> 00:20:57,799 an environmental footprint of around twice the land area of 314 00:20:57,960 --> 00:21:02,079 the UK, which makes sense because I think that they've 315 00:21:02,160 --> 00:21:04,960 basically de industrialized by this point, so there really isn't 316 00:21:04,960 --> 00:21:06,920 a whole lot of emissions going on over there. I 317 00:21:06,960 --> 00:21:09,759 think it's also not very big anymore. I mean it 318 00:21:09,880 --> 00:21:13,200 used to be very big, right, that whole empire going, 319 00:21:13,599 --> 00:21:19,680 but not anymore. But the entire dry pet food industry 320 00:21:19,759 --> 00:21:24,519 has an environmental footprint of twice the land area of 321 00:21:24,599 --> 00:21:31,319 the UK. So what we're converting emissions into land miss 322 00:21:32,160 --> 00:21:35,240 that that does not seem to me to be a 323 00:21:35,319 --> 00:21:39,759 one for one. I don't know, a conversion, you know, 324 00:21:39,920 --> 00:21:46,720 that's are you saying that all of the UK's footprint 325 00:21:47,440 --> 00:21:51,880 doubled is the size of all of the footprint of 326 00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:55,039 however many pet food producers there are, I guess in 327 00:21:55,119 --> 00:22:01,839 the world. Okay, now do a fact farm, Now do 328 00:22:01,920 --> 00:22:04,319 some factory farm. Oh my gosh, I just realized dogs 329 00:22:04,359 --> 00:22:08,839 do eat They eat meat too. Oh dang it. That's 330 00:22:08,839 --> 00:22:12,240 probably what drives their score up or down, depending on 331 00:22:13,400 --> 00:22:15,799 what's the negative there, Jay says Pete, I have not 332 00:22:15,920 --> 00:22:20,599 registered my dogs the thirty years I have lived in Charlotte. Oh. Sorry, 333 00:22:20,599 --> 00:22:22,640 I should not have said that on the air. One 334 00:22:22,640 --> 00:22:25,079 of my dogs was killed by a buck during the 335 00:22:25,200 --> 00:22:28,920 rut on Thanksgiving twenty twelve. I'm sorry to hear that. 336 00:22:31,480 --> 00:22:32,839 So here's one of the things though, and I don't 337 00:22:32,839 --> 00:22:34,799 want to get too graphic about it, but I'll tell 338 00:22:34,799 --> 00:22:36,640 you the story. A couple of months back. Well, I 339 00:22:36,640 --> 00:22:38,920 guess about a year ago, we had somebody in the 340 00:22:38,920 --> 00:22:45,160 neighborhood and they had a deer die on their fence 341 00:22:46,640 --> 00:22:51,039 because the deer tried to jump over the fence and 342 00:22:51,079 --> 00:22:53,759 the fence had those little spiky things on the top, 343 00:22:54,839 --> 00:22:57,759 you know, to prevent or kill teenagers from jumping over 344 00:22:57,799 --> 00:23:03,359 the fence. But a deer jumped over and landed on it, 345 00:23:03,480 --> 00:23:08,720 impaled itself and died. Side story. There is a very 346 00:23:08,759 --> 00:23:15,319 few organizations and agencies will come out and remove that carcass. Yeah, 347 00:23:15,319 --> 00:23:17,039 it was a whole thing on the Facebook group too. 348 00:23:18,160 --> 00:23:21,000 It also no more spikes on the fences, so that 349 00:23:22,119 --> 00:23:24,960 HOA rules went into effect. There just the flat top fences, 350 00:23:24,960 --> 00:23:27,079 so if the deer does misjudge and they land on it, 351 00:23:27,119 --> 00:23:30,720 they won't die. One more reason then to put a 352 00:23:30,759 --> 00:23:32,880 dog in the yard and the deer won't try to 353 00:23:32,960 --> 00:23:36,720 jump through your fence, right, seems like that would be 354 00:23:36,799 --> 00:23:39,079 like are we giving enough credit? Like you got to 355 00:23:39,119 --> 00:23:42,400 look at both sides of the ledger here, right, If 356 00:23:42,440 --> 00:23:46,400 a dog's mere presence in your yard is going to 357 00:23:46,480 --> 00:23:48,920 keep the deer away, and you're like, oh my gosh, 358 00:23:48,920 --> 00:23:51,799 that's a negative environmental impact. Yeah, but maybe the dog's 359 00:23:51,799 --> 00:23:55,640 presence kept the deer away from you know, the murderous fence, 360 00:23:56,240 --> 00:24:02,039 and so that's a net positive for the deer. Right now, 361 00:24:02,039 --> 00:24:06,000 there are some other benefits that the researchers do point to, 362 00:24:06,200 --> 00:24:10,240 like you know, the effect on the owner's mental and 363 00:24:10,359 --> 00:24:16,200 physical health. Right, people will probably go out and like 364 00:24:16,240 --> 00:24:20,400 they love their dogs, emotional support dogs and all dogs like, 365 00:24:20,440 --> 00:24:23,079 they love their dogs, they enjoy having them around. They 366 00:24:23,079 --> 00:24:28,480 bring them joy and laughter and stuff. Not to mention, 367 00:24:28,640 --> 00:24:31,640 I mean there's a whole like TikTok genre of dog 368 00:24:31,720 --> 00:24:34,000 videos and stuff. I mean, you just be putting all 369 00:24:34,079 --> 00:24:37,400 those people out of work. People will probably go out 370 00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:41,319 and really enjoy the environment around them too. Right, So 371 00:24:41,400 --> 00:24:44,119 you go walking with your dog, if you don't have 372 00:24:44,160 --> 00:24:46,000 a dog, you're probably not walking as much as you're 373 00:24:46,039 --> 00:24:49,319 walking with the dog, right you know, no, no, no, 374 00:24:49,839 --> 00:24:52,000 I totally would walk by the dog. No, you have 375 00:24:52,039 --> 00:24:54,640 a fenced in yard, you're opening the door, you're letting 376 00:24:54,640 --> 00:24:56,359 the dog go outside, and you're closing the door, and 377 00:24:56,400 --> 00:24:58,839 you're going back to the game, like that's what's happening there. 378 00:24:58,920 --> 00:25:00,960 But if you don't have a f you got to 379 00:25:00,960 --> 00:25:03,039 walk that dog. And if you don't have a dog 380 00:25:03,079 --> 00:25:07,160 at all, right, you're not going for those walks. And 381 00:25:07,200 --> 00:25:10,079 they say, like, look, if you're going out into nature 382 00:25:10,079 --> 00:25:11,920 and you're walking around with the dog, maybe you become 383 00:25:11,960 --> 00:25:14,880 more protective of the environment. See, So there are some 384 00:25:15,039 --> 00:25:21,480 benefits also the companionship of the dog. Right. Sometimes in 385 00:25:21,519 --> 00:25:25,160 some people's cases, it's literally the only reason they have 386 00:25:25,240 --> 00:25:27,359 to get out of bed in the morning. They got 387 00:25:27,400 --> 00:25:30,519 some thing that's depending on them and they love it, 388 00:25:30,599 --> 00:25:33,279 and so that's otherwise they would just be like too 389 00:25:33,279 --> 00:25:37,039 depressed PTSD whatever. They're like, I'm not doing it. In 390 00:25:37,079 --> 00:25:40,240 this review, the researchers attributed the extent of the environmental 391 00:25:40,240 --> 00:25:44,200 impacts to the sheer number of dogs globally, as well 392 00:25:44,240 --> 00:25:50,039 as the quote lax or uninformed behavior of dog owners. Okay, 393 00:25:50,039 --> 00:25:53,240 I'm on board with this. Now that is true. Okay, 394 00:25:53,319 --> 00:25:56,319 this part is true. It's never This is what the 395 00:25:56,359 --> 00:25:59,079 dog whisperer. If you've never seen an episode, I'm going 396 00:25:59,119 --> 00:26:01,000 to tell you the whole every episode it ends the 397 00:26:01,039 --> 00:26:04,839 same way. Okay, it's the owner's fault every single time. 398 00:26:05,119 --> 00:26:08,480 If your dog is misbehaving, it's your fault. Okay, the 399 00:26:08,519 --> 00:26:12,599 dog owners are the problem. The dogs are just pack animals. 400 00:26:12,640 --> 00:26:15,039 They're gonna do whatever you tell them to do and 401 00:26:15,079 --> 00:26:16,839 want them to do because you're the pack leader. But 402 00:26:16,920 --> 00:26:19,680 if you don't assume the role as pack leader, they're 403 00:26:19,720 --> 00:26:21,519 going to try to be pack leader and they don't 404 00:26:21,519 --> 00:26:24,000 know how to lead a pack of humans. We don't 405 00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:25,640 know how to lead packs of humans. Why do you 406 00:26:25,640 --> 00:26:27,319 think the dog is going to know that. So that's 407 00:26:27,359 --> 00:26:31,359 always the end result that the dog owner stinks. Okay, 408 00:26:31,920 --> 00:26:34,119 So if you want to attribute all of this to 409 00:26:34,319 --> 00:26:38,160 the uninformed behavior of dog owners, I am with you there, 410 00:26:38,200 --> 00:26:41,960 because the biggest problem I have with dogs is their owners. Really, 411 00:26:42,200 --> 00:26:44,759 it really is a simple way to mitigate against the 412 00:26:44,799 --> 00:26:47,880 worst impacts was to keep dogs leashed in areas where 413 00:26:47,920 --> 00:26:51,880 restrictions apply, and to maintain a buffer distance from nesting 414 00:26:52,039 --> 00:26:57,799 or roosting shore birds. And they say, maybe some dog 415 00:26:57,880 --> 00:27:04,240 exclusion zones, maybe a suitable for some areas, sustainable dog 416 00:27:04,319 --> 00:27:09,079 food production maybe if nothing else, they say, pick up 417 00:27:09,119 --> 00:27:15,240 your own dog poop. Yes, please, for the love of me, 418 00:27:15,880 --> 00:27:18,960 pick up your dog poop. I'm tired of seeing the 419 00:27:19,079 --> 00:27:22,039 nasty comments and the pictures of people's dog poop on 420 00:27:22,160 --> 00:27:26,400 the sidewalks in my HOA Facebook group. I don't understand 421 00:27:26,440 --> 00:27:29,119 why people take these pictures. 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Mail orders are accepted to 442 00:28:39,200 --> 00:28:42,759 get all the details that create a video dot com. 443 00:28:42,839 --> 00:28:46,759 A couple of messages. This is from Jan who says 444 00:28:47,720 --> 00:28:51,440 you don't want to see dog poop on your Facebook feed, 445 00:28:51,519 --> 00:28:55,880 but you avidly follow politics. There is a disconnect here. 446 00:28:55,920 --> 00:29:02,519 I don't quite get what's more of a visual thing, 447 00:29:02,559 --> 00:29:08,440 I think, And I got some tweets here. These are 448 00:29:08,480 --> 00:29:12,839 Pete tweets at Pete Calener. Melissa says, get up and 449 00:29:12,880 --> 00:29:16,079 open the door, let the dog out. Police the dog 450 00:29:16,240 --> 00:29:19,200 opens the door anytime he likes, with an electronic collar 451 00:29:19,279 --> 00:29:22,880 and a high tech automatic pet door, Get up, you're funny. 452 00:29:23,079 --> 00:29:27,200 And then she got a picture here of that's pretty cool. See, 453 00:29:27,200 --> 00:29:30,200 that's the problem we had. We had it. Christy and 454 00:29:30,240 --> 00:29:32,720 I bought our house years ago and it had a 455 00:29:32,759 --> 00:29:35,920 dog door in the back door, but we didn't have 456 00:29:35,920 --> 00:29:39,680 any dogs. We did have cats, and they loved it 457 00:29:39,799 --> 00:29:43,279 after they figured it out, which occurred after they weren't 458 00:29:43,319 --> 00:29:45,559 terrified of it anymore. But once they got through it 459 00:29:45,599 --> 00:29:48,279 and they realized how to get through it, they loved it. 460 00:29:48,680 --> 00:29:51,160 And they went in and out all the time, and 461 00:29:51,200 --> 00:29:56,519 they would bring us all sorts of presents, lots of shrews, voles, 462 00:29:57,039 --> 00:29:59,920 a bird. Well, to be fair, we never got the bird. 463 00:30:00,319 --> 00:30:03,160 We just saw the blood and feathers all around the 464 00:30:03,160 --> 00:30:06,039 dining room one time and that was it. I don't 465 00:30:06,039 --> 00:30:07,759 know what happened. We never found the birds. I don't 466 00:30:07,799 --> 00:30:14,240 know by the way, shrews nasty. Oh gosh, those things 467 00:30:14,240 --> 00:30:17,599 are nasty. One time one of the cats brought in 468 00:30:17,680 --> 00:30:21,920 a vole, yeah, a big no sorry, a mole, an 469 00:30:22,039 --> 00:30:26,759 actual mole. Those things are hideous, Oh my gosh, especially 470 00:30:26,759 --> 00:30:28,240 in the middle of the night when you're bleary eyed 471 00:30:28,279 --> 00:30:29,960 and you're like, what's that running across the top of 472 00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:35,839 my head? That's that is a terrifying experience. But they 473 00:30:35,839 --> 00:30:39,440 did save Christy once from a cockroach, which they also 474 00:30:39,559 --> 00:30:42,960 brought in but then released, because that's kind of their jam. 475 00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:44,920 I don't know if you're aware of this about cats, 476 00:30:44,920 --> 00:30:47,279 but they they like to bring it in and then 477 00:30:47,359 --> 00:30:49,799 drop it and it's not dead. Oh and they murdered 478 00:30:49,880 --> 00:30:54,400 tons of lizards. But anyway, we had a cat door 479 00:30:55,079 --> 00:30:58,079 and they loved going in and out. I have not 480 00:30:58,160 --> 00:31:00,839 seen the automatic one. We had the flap, just the 481 00:31:00,880 --> 00:31:05,480 plastic flap on it, you know. And little known fact 482 00:31:05,559 --> 00:31:10,680 about those doors, other animals can use them to enter 483 00:31:10,759 --> 00:31:17,440 as well, so it's not one way. So and one 484 00:31:17,519 --> 00:31:21,039 day we ended up with a with another cat under 485 00:31:21,039 --> 00:31:23,759 the bed and it looked like our cat. We thought 486 00:31:23,799 --> 00:31:26,039 it was our cat. Turned out not to be our cat. 487 00:31:26,759 --> 00:31:29,000 It was some neighbor's cat and then had come into 488 00:31:29,039 --> 00:31:31,480 our house. I don't know why and why it made 489 00:31:31,519 --> 00:31:34,039 its way up to the bedroom and took a nap 490 00:31:34,079 --> 00:31:37,640 under our bed, but that's what it did. It's all 491 00:31:37,640 --> 00:31:40,599 a distraction. Tweets was this dog article written by the 492 00:31:40,640 --> 00:31:44,519 Australian version of Taylor Lorenz. It's a good question. It 493 00:31:44,640 --> 00:31:50,799 sounds kind of like it, and Russ, he says, hear 494 00:31:50,839 --> 00:31:53,160 me out. What if instead we get rid of the 495 00:31:53,200 --> 00:31:57,759 Guardian and Mother Jones folks and anybody else who supports 496 00:31:57,799 --> 00:32:00,599 this idea, we'd get the Reduction and Environmental Pact. Plus, 497 00:32:00,640 --> 00:32:02,599 the world is a happier place because we still have 498 00:32:02,640 --> 00:32:05,720 all the dogs, but we don't have these miserable skulds. 499 00:32:05,799 --> 00:32:08,920 It's a win win. I like it. Russ. Yeah, if 500 00:32:08,920 --> 00:32:12,599 your species is facing extinction because you can't avoid cars, 501 00:32:13,039 --> 00:32:16,400 you're kind of self selecting and you don't deserve to continue. Well, 502 00:32:16,440 --> 00:32:23,000 that's why possums are possums. Their life spans only like 503 00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:28,960 two years in the wild. So I do have some 504 00:32:29,119 --> 00:32:33,680 bad news though for these Australian researchers. The bad news 505 00:32:34,839 --> 00:32:38,960 is there is a biotech startup in San Francisco. It's 506 00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:45,599 called loyal, and the company announced that the FDA has 507 00:32:45,640 --> 00:32:49,200 certified a daily pill that it has developed. It's called 508 00:32:49,400 --> 00:33:00,559 Loy Dash two, so very marketable Loyal Lloy two the pill. 509 00:33:00,880 --> 00:33:04,400 The FDA says the pill has a reasonable expectation of 510 00:33:04,599 --> 00:33:12,400 effectiveness in extending the lifespan of senior dogs. The FDA's 511 00:33:12,400 --> 00:33:15,960 Center for Veterinary Medicine must still confirm the drug safety 512 00:33:16,240 --> 00:33:19,720 and the company's ability to manufacture it at scale before 513 00:33:19,799 --> 00:33:26,200 veterinarians can prescribe it to eligible dogs. Australian researcher's hardest hit. 514 00:33:28,119 --> 00:33:31,119 If dogs live longer, they're going to have more environmental 515 00:33:31,119 --> 00:33:34,799 impact and these people are going to go nuts. So 516 00:33:35,119 --> 00:33:38,279 the eligible dogs are ten years or older and weighing 517 00:33:38,319 --> 00:33:43,839 at least fourteen pounds. It's more feasible to do longevity 518 00:33:43,839 --> 00:33:47,000 testing in animals that have a shorter life span than humans. 519 00:33:47,039 --> 00:33:50,279 Of course, this is Henry Miller writing a DC journal. 520 00:33:51,079 --> 00:33:54,240 The problem is the process can still be lengthy and expensive. 521 00:33:54,519 --> 00:33:58,759 Trials of drugs or other interventions to promote longevity are 522 00:33:58,839 --> 00:34:03,480 notoriously difficult. As the classic cartoon illustrated, you know you 523 00:34:03,559 --> 00:34:05,759 got two scientists. They're standing in front of a lab 524 00:34:05,799 --> 00:34:07,759 bench and one of them says that the liquid in 525 00:34:07,799 --> 00:34:10,679 the flask that he is holding, he's holding it up, 526 00:34:10,679 --> 00:34:13,199 and he's like, yeah, may very well bring about immortality, 527 00:34:13,639 --> 00:34:17,119 but it's going to take forever to test it. Yeah, 528 00:34:17,119 --> 00:34:20,559 that's the okay. So the company is conducting trials with 529 00:34:20,639 --> 00:34:25,159 some dogs receiving the actual treatment and others receiving placebo pills, 530 00:34:25,639 --> 00:34:32,519 both beef flavored. A twenty twenty three Pew Research Center 531 00:34:32,559 --> 00:34:35,519 found forty nine percent of American households own at least 532 00:34:35,519 --> 00:34:39,440 one dog, and they all go out to the same 533 00:34:39,760 --> 00:34:44,199 pub and brewery as you do when you do. Ninety 534 00:34:44,239 --> 00:34:47,119 seven percent of pet owners consider their animals to be family. 535 00:34:47,719 --> 00:34:50,719 Fifty one percent not only consider their pets to be 536 00:34:50,760 --> 00:34:52,599 a part of the family, but say they are as 537 00:34:52,760 --> 00:34:55,280 much a part of their family as a human member, 538 00:34:56,760 --> 00:35:00,159 which I think depends on the human members in your family. Well. 539 00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:05,920 The company Loyal hopes to price their treatment under one 540 00:35:06,039 --> 00:35:12,800 hundred dollars per month. Loyal previously received a reasonable Expectation 541 00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:19,679 of Effectiveness certification for another longevity drug that one targets 542 00:35:20,039 --> 00:35:27,079 the large breeds like Great danes, but that treatment requires injections, 543 00:35:27,920 --> 00:35:30,719 and that's expected to take longer to reach the market. 544 00:35:31,320 --> 00:35:37,880 Loyal is not alone in pursuing veterinarian longevity solutions. There 545 00:35:37,880 --> 00:35:42,000 are other biotech firms that are working on pet weight 546 00:35:42,119 --> 00:35:49,199 loss drugs similar to the human drug o zenpic. Okay, 547 00:35:49,480 --> 00:35:55,199 I'm drawing the line on this one, okay, because your 548 00:35:55,280 --> 00:35:59,360 dog only eats what you give it. Once again, that's 549 00:35:59,400 --> 00:36:03,760 a you problem. If you got an obese dog or cat, 550 00:36:04,719 --> 00:36:08,199 that's your fault. That's not the dog or cat's fault. 551 00:36:08,360 --> 00:36:13,400 That's your fault. You shouldn't be injecting your dog with 552 00:36:13,920 --> 00:36:17,199 ozen pic because you can't stop feeding your own dog. 553 00:36:17,440 --> 00:36:22,639 Like that's stupid. But then again, we live in very 554 00:36:22,679 --> 00:36:25,880 stupid times, so I expect it that'll probably be on 555 00:36:25,920 --> 00:36:29,440 the market like asap, that one will, Yeah, and it'll 556 00:36:29,440 --> 00:36:31,079 probably cost a ton of money. And then you've got 557 00:36:31,079 --> 00:36:36,400 another competitor, right, You're gonna have more competition for these drugs, 558 00:36:37,079 --> 00:36:40,760 so people who actually need the drugs for diabetes purposes 559 00:36:40,840 --> 00:36:43,320 and such, they're now going to be competing not just 560 00:36:43,400 --> 00:36:46,559 with Hollywood starlets that want to drop ten pounds before 561 00:36:46,639 --> 00:36:49,559 the shooting of their next movie. No, no, Now they're 562 00:36:49,559 --> 00:36:51,840 going to be competing with every you know, fat fee 563 00:36:51,880 --> 00:36:56,400 line and obese pooch. That's that's not cool. Come on, people, 564 00:36:56,599 --> 00:37:01,199 we're better than this. All right. That'll do it for 565 00:37:01,320 --> 00:37:04,000 this episode. Thank you so much for listening. 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