WEBVTT 1 00:00:04.240 --> 00:00:11.519 You're listening to Petlifradio dot Com. That's it. 2 00:00:11.839 --> 00:00:14.599 You're madder than a junkyard dog and you're not gonna 3 00:00:14.640 --> 00:00:19.039 take it anymore. Your feathers are ruffled, your dander's up, 4 00:00:19.039 --> 00:00:21.800 and you've got a definite bone to bit. Welcome to 5 00:00:22.199 --> 00:00:24.839 Pet Peeves, the show that lets you dig through the 6 00:00:24.839 --> 00:00:28.800 dirt and unleash your passion for pets. Why let sleeping 7 00:00:28.879 --> 00:00:30.760 dogs lie when you can take the bull by the 8 00:00:30.800 --> 00:00:33.880 horns and let the ver fly. So get your claws 9 00:00:33.920 --> 00:00:36.880 out and get ready to rattle some cages on Pet 10 00:00:36.920 --> 00:00:40.079 Peeves with your host, pet expert and award winning author 11 00:00:40.359 --> 00:00:41.799 Amy Shojo. 12 00:00:42.960 --> 00:00:46.079 Hey there, and welcome to pet Peeves on Pet Life Radio. 13 00:00:46.280 --> 00:00:50.200 I'm your host, Amy Shouldai, and I'm a certified animal 14 00:00:50.320 --> 00:00:54.119 behavior consultant. So what exactly does that mean? 15 00:00:54.880 --> 00:00:55.039 Now? 16 00:00:55.079 --> 00:00:58.079 That brings me to my rant of the week in 17 00:00:58.159 --> 00:01:01.320 the best of all possible world or animal Friends, bring 18 00:01:01.479 --> 00:01:04.879 nothing but joy. Dogs, play fetch, get along with the 19 00:01:04.879 --> 00:01:08.799 other fur kids, and never raid the trash. Cats, snuggle 20 00:01:08.840 --> 00:01:12.159 in our laps, never miss the potty or claw the furniture. 21 00:01:12.400 --> 00:01:15.519 They're born knowing how to walk nicely on a leash, 22 00:01:15.760 --> 00:01:21.719 stay off forbidden countertops and never bite Great Aunt Susie Ha. 23 00:01:22.200 --> 00:01:27.680 In reality, pet loving owners can have some unrealistic expectations. 24 00:01:28.159 --> 00:01:32.079 Few of us speak dog or understand feel and ease, 25 00:01:32.480 --> 00:01:37.079 at least not without practice, and people can easily misunderstand 26 00:01:37.400 --> 00:01:41.840 normal pet behaviors. They may actually encourage bad antics without 27 00:01:41.840 --> 00:01:44.760 even knowing any better. So what do you do? Too 28 00:01:44.799 --> 00:01:48.920 often these socially inept cats and dogs and sometimes owners 29 00:01:49.359 --> 00:01:52.480 mean that the pet ends up in a shelter. Yet 30 00:01:52.519 --> 00:01:56.079 there is help available that can literally save your pet 31 00:01:56.159 --> 00:02:00.000 relationship or even the dog in cat's life. To promote 32 00:02:00.159 --> 00:02:05.120 that idea to keep the love alive, Behavior Express Tour 33 00:02:05.400 --> 00:02:09.400 sponsored by Siva Animal Health and the American College of 34 00:02:09.520 --> 00:02:14.159 Veterinary Behaviorists, maybe coming to a city near you. My 35 00:02:14.240 --> 00:02:17.680 guest today will tell us all about this promotion. Doctor 36 00:02:17.800 --> 00:02:23.080 Marty Becker, America's veterinarian, is a spokesperson at the September eighth, 37 00:02:23.199 --> 00:02:27.599 twenty twelve Dallas event, where you'll find free behavior tips, 38 00:02:27.680 --> 00:02:31.840 shelter pet adoptions, behavior demos, giveaways of all kinds of 39 00:02:31.879 --> 00:02:35.639 fun stuff. Now. 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We know 80 00:05:04.600 --> 00:05:07.000 you're foaming at the mouth to get back to pet Peeve, 81 00:05:07.399 --> 00:05:08.240 So here's amy. 82 00:05:08.319 --> 00:05:11.040 What's the more tail time verb Lying Fund. 83 00:05:11.959 --> 00:05:14.399 Welcome back to pet Peeves on pet Life Radio and 84 00:05:14.439 --> 00:05:18.279 please help me. Welcome doctor Marty Becker, his latest book, 85 00:05:18.680 --> 00:05:22.399 Your Cat, The Owner's Manual, was published in May of 86 00:05:22.480 --> 00:05:27.319 this year, twenty twelve, and it's best selling companion Your Dog, 87 00:05:27.639 --> 00:05:31.000 the Owner's Manual is now out in paperback. In fact, 88 00:05:31.040 --> 00:05:34.279 Marty has written more than twenty books in all, and 89 00:05:34.399 --> 00:05:38.399 he's been a contributor to Parade Magazine, Readers, Digest, and 90 00:05:39.000 --> 00:05:42.600 ARP dot com. Welcome to the show, Doctor Becker. 91 00:05:43.000 --> 00:05:46.279 You know what, my friend jaf Amy, we could almost 92 00:05:46.279 --> 00:05:49.639 fill a bookshelf. You've done more than I've done between 93 00:05:49.639 --> 00:05:51.959 as we can put one show for about anybody, any 94 00:05:51.959 --> 00:05:53.959 pet owners library, couldn't. 95 00:05:53.600 --> 00:05:56.519 We Well, I think so, and a couple of them 96 00:05:56.519 --> 00:05:58.920 we did together, which was great fun with the chicken 97 00:05:58.959 --> 00:05:59.560 soup books. 98 00:06:00.040 --> 00:06:02.360 I love your books too, and you know, we're both 99 00:06:02.439 --> 00:06:05.480 like minded. We love people in the prevention and I 100 00:06:05.560 --> 00:06:07.519 think that's one of the good things about this tour 101 00:06:07.759 --> 00:06:10.439 is that it's you know, sure it's been it's sponsored 102 00:06:10.480 --> 00:06:15.720 corporately to have great products, you know, away and adaptable. 103 00:06:15.839 --> 00:06:18.680 But the American College of Veterinary Behavior, so that is 104 00:06:18.720 --> 00:06:20.839 not easy to get and I think a lot of 105 00:06:20.879 --> 00:06:24.079 times people don't realize there's over one hundred board certified 106 00:06:24.160 --> 00:06:27.439 veterinary tennis in the United States. There's only about fifty 107 00:06:27.959 --> 00:06:29.959 give or take a few. Might be a few more 108 00:06:30.000 --> 00:06:33.759 than that now veterinary behaviorists. But you know people like 109 00:06:33.839 --> 00:06:36.439 myself that you know, I don't just play a veteranor 110 00:06:36.519 --> 00:06:39.160 on TV. I'm a practice in veterinarian and I'm a 111 00:06:39.519 --> 00:06:43.519 right newspaper column and do media as you do. And 112 00:06:43.879 --> 00:06:46.839 I have a great interest in behavior. My daughter's a trainer. 113 00:06:47.199 --> 00:06:50.560 But we lean on these veterinary behaviors definitely ourselves when 114 00:06:50.560 --> 00:06:53.759 we have trouble with cases or need you know, some 115 00:06:53.920 --> 00:06:55.000 specialized expertise. 116 00:06:55.079 --> 00:06:57.800 It is out there right, And I wanted to ask 117 00:06:57.920 --> 00:07:00.319 you also because I always ask all of my guests 118 00:07:00.399 --> 00:07:03.399 before we start anything else, is tell us about your 119 00:07:03.519 --> 00:07:07.560 pets first, what pits? Share your heart and maybe your pillow. 120 00:07:07.839 --> 00:07:10.800 Well, well, your your intro was so right on, and 121 00:07:11.000 --> 00:07:13.439 I think sometimes people think America's veterinarian. Wow, I'd love 122 00:07:13.519 --> 00:07:16.399 to just have a you know, surveillance camera there and 123 00:07:16.439 --> 00:07:20.319 just everything works at his house and in reality, I'll 124 00:07:20.319 --> 00:07:22.439 give you the skinny first of all, all of our 125 00:07:22.519 --> 00:07:26.480 pet all of our animals even are thin. Our horses, 126 00:07:26.560 --> 00:07:29.240 our dogs, our cats, they're all with their ideal body weight. 127 00:07:29.360 --> 00:07:32.759 That I can say with all honesty, and it's not 128 00:07:32.879 --> 00:07:36.560 easy when you get everything from barncats to you know, 129 00:07:37.279 --> 00:07:40.480 laptop bull mix. But that's a priority for us to 130 00:07:40.560 --> 00:07:43.639 keep everything thin. So it's a matter of how much 131 00:07:43.639 --> 00:07:46.600 you feed, how you feed, what you feed. You know, 132 00:07:46.639 --> 00:07:49.879 we do portion control. We use food puzzles and very 133 00:07:49.920 --> 00:07:52.839 careful there for the most part. Everybody's got really good 134 00:07:52.959 --> 00:07:56.800 dental care before the tour on your cat the owner's manual. 135 00:07:57.040 --> 00:07:59.279 My wife does daily oil care and our dogs and 136 00:07:59.360 --> 00:08:02.160 has their entire lifetime, and that means she brushes their 137 00:08:02.199 --> 00:08:05.360 teeth every day once a week's uses an oral sealant. 138 00:08:06.120 --> 00:08:09.920 She gives dfle treats, so you know, she does the 139 00:08:09.959 --> 00:08:15.639 whole thing. The CET toothpaste and then the enzymemenpregnated ct us. 140 00:08:16.199 --> 00:08:18.920 Before this last tour, I never did anything for the cats. 141 00:08:18.959 --> 00:08:20.959 I mean they were they'd never seen a toothbrush, they 142 00:08:21.000 --> 00:08:23.759 never were going to never see one. And we discovered 143 00:08:23.800 --> 00:08:29.000 some enzymeenpregnated chowes for cats et oral hygiene choose and 144 00:08:29.480 --> 00:08:31.959 the cats. I had cats on there that you know. 145 00:08:32.120 --> 00:08:33.919 Amy eve been doing the media a long time too, 146 00:08:33.960 --> 00:08:36.000 and a lot of times, just like kids and pets, 147 00:08:36.000 --> 00:08:38.879 they want to see their kids and they're on TV right. 148 00:08:39.039 --> 00:08:42.440 So these producers or these directors would say, Okay, you're 149 00:08:42.480 --> 00:08:44.399 coming to this city on this tour, and I'm going 150 00:08:44.480 --> 00:08:47.519 to bring Sparky and oh she's just so easy going. 151 00:08:47.639 --> 00:08:50.120 She did the love Bug. And then we get ready 152 00:08:50.159 --> 00:08:52.840 to do the segment and I see the carrier over 153 00:08:52.879 --> 00:08:55.679 there's just rumbling, sounds like a bowing cecient in there. 154 00:08:57.240 --> 00:09:00.200 Oh God help me. So we'd spray a little the 155 00:09:00.240 --> 00:09:03.120 way in there and on set eight out of ten 156 00:09:03.159 --> 00:09:04.720 times they could give them that dental chew and they 157 00:09:04.720 --> 00:09:07.600 would they get eat it on camera. May a bleeve 158 00:09:07.639 --> 00:09:09.759 out of me. So now we do daily oral care. 159 00:09:09.840 --> 00:09:13.559 So here's the good part. Then, daily oral care for 160 00:09:13.639 --> 00:09:15.600 dogs and cats. I'll tell you what we do wrong. 161 00:09:16.039 --> 00:09:17.960 First of all, without all of all, the dogs look 162 00:09:18.000 --> 00:09:20.159 at the mouth, which you're not supposed to do. So 163 00:09:20.679 --> 00:09:23.159 we let them give us kisses like a teen nine 164 00:09:23.240 --> 00:09:27.399 tonsil swap, even though we've seen them excavate to fight. 165 00:09:27.279 --> 00:09:30.200 Gopher out of the ground and drink out of the toilet. 166 00:09:29.879 --> 00:09:31.480 Drink out of toilet and come out of the crowd 167 00:09:31.519 --> 00:09:34.480 with the green grin. Yeah. As far as the behavior, 168 00:09:34.720 --> 00:09:37.159 it's you know, we're supposed to be places they can't 169 00:09:37.159 --> 00:09:41.200 get on like our new leather couch, and sure enough, 170 00:09:41.559 --> 00:09:43.799 you know, once a day they're up on the couch 171 00:09:44.559 --> 00:09:46.279 whether they're not supposed to be. There's one bed in 172 00:09:46.320 --> 00:09:48.360 the guests bedroom that's got an heirloom quilt on it. 173 00:09:48.399 --> 00:09:50.120 They're not supposed to go in there searing up. They 174 00:09:50.159 --> 00:09:53.320 sneak in there, and we've got The worst thing is 175 00:09:53.320 --> 00:09:56.080 when somebody we live in a remote part of North Idaho, 176 00:09:56.440 --> 00:09:59.519 and if the doorbell rings or somebody comes in ups 177 00:09:59.559 --> 00:10:02.559 that X. I call it the sixteen pound doorbells because 178 00:10:02.559 --> 00:10:05.080 those two dogs come alive then and then about with 179 00:10:05.159 --> 00:10:08.080 about a three minute warning before they arrive. And so 180 00:10:08.559 --> 00:10:10.879 you know, I gave up trying to do the thing 181 00:10:10.879 --> 00:10:12.480 where they bark to alert us and then they go 182 00:10:12.519 --> 00:10:15.000 sit by the door. Idea, I'm doing an interview ago, 183 00:10:15.000 --> 00:10:19.519 they're going to sixteen pound doorbells and yes, so really great. 184 00:10:19.559 --> 00:10:21.360 I mean they sleep in bed with us. You know, 185 00:10:21.399 --> 00:10:23.519 we have a battle of the fur, just like everybody 186 00:10:23.559 --> 00:10:26.200 else does. But the two important things that you've heard 187 00:10:26.240 --> 00:10:28.159 me talk over the years and write about are their 188 00:10:28.200 --> 00:10:30.240 ideal body weight and we do do daily world care. 189 00:10:30.720 --> 00:10:34.000 And because of that, they're going to live thirty percent longer. 190 00:10:34.360 --> 00:10:38.519 Yeah, my juvenile delinquent five year old German shepherd is 191 00:10:38.919 --> 00:10:42.559 ideal body weight. The fourteen year old cat is as well. 192 00:10:43.080 --> 00:10:46.120 I wish I had the ideal body weight that they do. 193 00:10:47.120 --> 00:10:49.919 That's the problem there. And Mary, I wanted to ask 194 00:10:50.000 --> 00:10:52.480 you also as a veterinarian, because a lot of people, 195 00:10:52.519 --> 00:10:56.480 I think don't really get this. Can you actually separate 196 00:10:56.639 --> 00:11:00.519 health from behavior? I don't think you can, now, you know. 197 00:11:00.559 --> 00:11:02.840 And I'm just as soon as you say that, I'm thinking, Okay, 198 00:11:02.879 --> 00:11:06.000 exam examiner Becker, what do you do? I was just 199 00:11:06.039 --> 00:11:08.960 at a large veterinary of conference of Central Veterinary Conference 200 00:11:09.000 --> 00:11:11.440 in Kansas City, and I talked about creating a fear 201 00:11:11.480 --> 00:11:14.600 free practice. And a friend of ours, doctor Karen Overall, 202 00:11:14.600 --> 00:11:17.679 the board certified veterinary Behaviors, I love her. I listened 203 00:11:17.720 --> 00:11:20.600 to her over two years ago and she made this comment, 204 00:11:20.840 --> 00:11:24.200 Fear is the worst thing a social species can experience, 205 00:11:24.240 --> 00:11:26.840 and it causes permanent enmage to the brain. And in 206 00:11:26.879 --> 00:11:30.200 that instant I saw five hundred pounds of human holding 207 00:11:30.279 --> 00:11:33.039 down a seven to ten pound cat. And that has 208 00:11:33.080 --> 00:11:35.960 happened inside many a veterinary hospital. And it happened inside 209 00:11:35.960 --> 00:11:38.399 many a laundry room at a home to people trying 210 00:11:38.399 --> 00:11:41.519 to give catin bill and so I saw the obligation, 211 00:11:41.799 --> 00:11:45.000 saw the opportunity to change things. And now what you 212 00:11:45.039 --> 00:11:47.600 can do is we wanted to where it's not only 213 00:11:47.799 --> 00:11:50.240 not the worst thing that happened this year, it's probably 214 00:11:50.240 --> 00:11:52.159 one of the better things that happened this month. Is 215 00:11:52.200 --> 00:11:55.200 becomes of the vet. It's a combination of the carriers, 216 00:11:55.240 --> 00:11:59.200 fun furniture, it's a combination of using pheromones feel the 217 00:11:59.200 --> 00:12:01.799 way for the cats, adaptable for the dogs and the carriers. 218 00:12:02.120 --> 00:12:04.720 When they come in, it smells like a It's almost 219 00:12:04.759 --> 00:12:06.840 like a bong at a college party that's in the room. 220 00:12:06.879 --> 00:12:08.600 You walk in and then you smell something. You know 221 00:12:08.639 --> 00:12:10.519 what I want it to This is not humans don't 222 00:12:10.519 --> 00:12:14.320 smell it, but just the dogs and cats. Like all area, 223 00:12:14.960 --> 00:12:17.960 we do weight management as in Wai. So the cat, 224 00:12:18.039 --> 00:12:20.600 you're immediately taken to a room. We actually tell the 225 00:12:20.639 --> 00:12:22.679 owners there and you're going to actively do nothing for 226 00:12:22.759 --> 00:12:25.000 ten minutes. That sounds like a paradise, which you're going to. 227 00:12:25.080 --> 00:12:26.840 We're going to have you. We know it's about that 228 00:12:26.879 --> 00:12:29.000 long for the cat. You can press. Here's when I 229 00:12:29.120 --> 00:12:31.440 add to some stuff about creating a fear free visit. 230 00:12:31.840 --> 00:12:34.919 And then you turn the carrier away from pointing towards 231 00:12:34.960 --> 00:12:36.759 the wall, the little food trail, a little catnip to 232 00:12:36.840 --> 00:12:38.440 encourage it to come out. You know, I could go 233 00:12:38.519 --> 00:12:40.159 on and on, but if what you want to do 234 00:12:40.279 --> 00:12:43.240 by that, if that cat comes in in a more 235 00:12:43.279 --> 00:12:46.360 fear free way, then the results that you get are 236 00:12:46.360 --> 00:12:48.200 going to be more accurate as the veterinarian. So now 237 00:12:48.200 --> 00:12:50.559 I'm going to know that's a more authentic heart rate, 238 00:12:50.799 --> 00:12:53.919 that's a more authentic temperature. And you know, now the 239 00:12:54.000 --> 00:12:57.080 cat's not so jazzed up that it buzzing with adrenaline, 240 00:12:57.080 --> 00:12:59.279 and it no longer expresses any pain when you move 241 00:12:59.320 --> 00:13:02.360 the right shoulder. So it's better all the way around. 242 00:13:02.399 --> 00:13:05.559 And I happen. You know, this is America's veteran and talking. 243 00:13:05.720 --> 00:13:08.279 I am exceedingly good in the examer Once I leave 244 00:13:08.279 --> 00:13:11.120 the exam room, not so good. There's others thousands of 245 00:13:11.120 --> 00:13:14.240 others that are better at me, at internal medicine, surgery 246 00:13:14.279 --> 00:13:17.240 and everything. But I'm a detective in that exam room, 247 00:13:17.279 --> 00:13:19.720 and I know I got to look at obvious problems 248 00:13:19.759 --> 00:13:22.720 to potential problems, and I'm going to dig, dig for 249 00:13:22.759 --> 00:13:25.200 these behavior problems and find out, you know, there any 250 00:13:25.240 --> 00:13:27.120 behaviors that you'd like to prove upon, and we know 251 00:13:27.200 --> 00:13:28.720 the common ones that they're facing. 252 00:13:29.039 --> 00:13:30.240 What are the common ones? 253 00:13:30.440 --> 00:13:33.519 Well, for cats, you know, it's not using the litter box, 254 00:13:33.600 --> 00:13:37.960 it's destructive client, it's inner cat aggression. And you see said, 255 00:13:38.000 --> 00:13:40.320 I mean, I wish I could maybe I'm have a 256 00:13:40.360 --> 00:13:42.399 tape of this or go online and listen to this 257 00:13:42.440 --> 00:13:45.279 because your intro was perfect about those kind of things. 258 00:13:45.480 --> 00:13:47.600 This will be online so you I'll send you the 259 00:13:47.679 --> 00:13:49.799 u URL and you can use it however you want. 260 00:13:49.879 --> 00:13:52.200 Oh, it's perfect, you know. And what we do is 261 00:13:52.240 --> 00:13:55.080 these there's so much that happens when we're away that's 262 00:13:55.120 --> 00:13:57.639 perfectly normal in the cat world. You know, there's one 263 00:13:57.720 --> 00:14:00.159 cat in the human world. We teach every know. I 264 00:14:00.159 --> 00:14:01.559 got a two and a half year old granddaughter with 265 00:14:01.759 --> 00:14:04.120 on this trip. We tell her, you know, you know, 266 00:14:04.159 --> 00:14:06.600 one person, one vote, you're as poorting as everybody else 267 00:14:06.799 --> 00:14:09.399 in the cat world. It's not one cat, one vote. 268 00:14:09.399 --> 00:14:12.679 There's always a benevolent dictator. That's what you hope for. Anyway, 269 00:14:12.720 --> 00:14:16.120 it's a benevolent dictator, not a not an abusive dictator. 270 00:14:16.720 --> 00:14:19.120 But what would it be like if every time I 271 00:14:19.159 --> 00:14:20.360 wanted to go to the bathroom. 272 00:14:19.960 --> 00:14:21.919 I thought I was going to get beat up exactly. 273 00:14:22.200 --> 00:14:25.039 And then these ones that you know, just I met 274 00:14:25.039 --> 00:14:27.519 somebody on the tour that she couldn't figure out why 275 00:14:27.559 --> 00:14:30.600 her cat was doing as destructive behavior. And then she 276 00:14:30.720 --> 00:14:33.000 finally set up kind of some kind of events thing. 277 00:14:33.039 --> 00:14:36.279 A neighborhood cat would come up to her window and 278 00:14:36.480 --> 00:14:39.159 back up key on the picture window while the inside 279 00:14:39.159 --> 00:14:42.639 cat was watching. So her solutions. You probably never heard 280 00:14:42.639 --> 00:14:45.399 this one, Amy, I'd never heard it. She took lasting 281 00:14:45.519 --> 00:14:49.000 forks like you'd have at a picnic, and took gorilla 282 00:14:49.159 --> 00:14:51.919 duct tape and duct tape the whole row of forks 283 00:14:51.919 --> 00:14:54.840 on the outbus cat couldn't back up the window. 284 00:14:55.240 --> 00:14:56.039 That's wonderful. 285 00:14:56.240 --> 00:14:57.360 Yeah, I you ever heard of that one? 286 00:14:57.559 --> 00:14:59.279 Never heard that one before. That's great. 287 00:14:59.399 --> 00:15:02.320 Oh just where well first he said it works pretty well. 288 00:15:02.600 --> 00:15:03.080 It helps. 289 00:15:03.279 --> 00:15:08.399 Yeah, those cats can be determined long distancing yes, yes, well, 290 00:15:08.440 --> 00:15:11.600 and for dogs, you know, here in North Texas this 291 00:15:11.759 --> 00:15:13.799 is the first week of school, so you have the 292 00:15:13.919 --> 00:15:17.639 kids are gone, the dogs are maybe there's some separation 293 00:15:17.799 --> 00:15:19.320 behaviors going on there. 294 00:15:19.600 --> 00:15:22.559 You know. I was in Kansas City that inventory commence 295 00:15:22.639 --> 00:15:24.799 this week walking down on the beautiful plaza down there, 296 00:15:24.799 --> 00:15:27.720 and here come two Great Danes, big great danes, one 297 00:15:27.759 --> 00:15:29.960 hundred and fifty pounds Great danes, nice and thin though 298 00:15:30.039 --> 00:15:33.440 I like that, and a little chihaha Bella. She was 299 00:15:33.519 --> 00:15:36.320 five pounds, so two hundred and fifty pound dogs, one 300 00:15:36.360 --> 00:15:39.080 five pound dog and the one dog. The dog had 301 00:15:39.159 --> 00:15:41.279 terrible skin problems, and I was telling her, she goes, 302 00:15:41.440 --> 00:15:43.120 you know, it's just a lot. It can kind of 303 00:15:43.480 --> 00:15:45.879 you get sun countable. Sometimes it'll cut of mouth bite, 304 00:15:45.879 --> 00:15:48.960 and so here's a perfect example. I was talking to 305 00:15:49.000 --> 00:15:51.879 her about environmental allergies and skin issues and all kinds 306 00:15:51.879 --> 00:15:53.919 of issues of pain that could cause the dog to 307 00:15:54.039 --> 00:15:56.440 bite and to have that impression. It was just in 308 00:15:56.559 --> 00:15:59.559 such severe discomfort and pain. So I talked about getting that, 309 00:16:00.159 --> 00:16:01.799 and then we also talked about the fact that the 310 00:16:01.879 --> 00:16:04.399 dog is very bonded to her when she leaves it. 311 00:16:04.399 --> 00:16:07.159 It's actually gone through a window twice, oh gosh, the 312 00:16:07.240 --> 00:16:09.960 window to get her. And we talked about you know, 313 00:16:10.000 --> 00:16:13.480 separation anxiety being a real, you know, a real situation, 314 00:16:13.559 --> 00:16:15.639 and we have a dog at home and has separation anxiety. 315 00:16:15.720 --> 00:16:17.720 She's a little and I'll come back to these danes 316 00:16:17.759 --> 00:16:20.360 in a second. But her name is Cora and she's 317 00:16:20.399 --> 00:16:24.559 a Umpei carrier because she's Pomeranian Sharpay and Karen terrier, 318 00:16:24.759 --> 00:16:28.360 one of those weird Kinane cloud come from a life 319 00:16:28.360 --> 00:16:31.120 of being in an age two years at somebody's house. 320 00:16:31.320 --> 00:16:33.519 First year she was in the house, second year outside 321 00:16:33.559 --> 00:16:36.759 in the cage for two years. Third year was adopted 322 00:16:36.759 --> 00:16:40.039 by you know, taking to PetSmart, and then we adopted her. 323 00:16:40.320 --> 00:16:42.320 But she had a shoe fetish man. She would not 324 00:16:42.399 --> 00:16:44.679 go in a cage. She had a you know, we 325 00:16:45.080 --> 00:16:48.559 call her shoe boxer, a Melta Barcos because she worked 326 00:16:48.559 --> 00:16:52.480 our shoes over like crazy soul Amelda Barcos. We started 327 00:16:52.519 --> 00:16:55.759 her on Reconcile, which is doggye prozac. It's it's in 328 00:16:55.799 --> 00:16:59.120 a form that's really flavorable. You know, flox a teen 329 00:16:59.200 --> 00:17:03.600 or generic prozac is extremely bitter. But did a bond modification, 330 00:17:03.720 --> 00:17:06.759 which you've done with pet where you desensitize them and 331 00:17:07.680 --> 00:17:10.039 no more drama in coming and going and take the 332 00:17:10.160 --> 00:17:11.720 keys and rattle them and put them away and he 333 00:17:11.799 --> 00:17:13.839 goes car up off, do all the things. But she's 334 00:17:13.920 --> 00:17:17.359 ninety five percent better with separation anxiety because of the 335 00:17:17.440 --> 00:17:21.000 bond modification. Now as she goes into her cage, you know, 336 00:17:21.119 --> 00:17:23.319 we throw trees in there from time to time. We 337 00:17:23.480 --> 00:17:27.599 splits it liberally with the pheromones. So she's got the 338 00:17:27.640 --> 00:17:30.279 adaptyl in there and feels like she's back with little 339 00:17:30.319 --> 00:17:33.559 Mama and does really well. But this little great Dame, 340 00:17:34.039 --> 00:17:36.519 I was telling her, you know, one of the world's 341 00:17:36.599 --> 00:17:40.119 top better behaviors. Doctor Wayne Hunhausen's probably a mile from 342 00:17:40.119 --> 00:17:42.640 where she lives. Wow, didn't know that there's help there. 343 00:17:42.680 --> 00:17:45.440 And I said, you know what, with some chemical crutches 344 00:17:45.480 --> 00:17:48.720 and some training in working with you know, this can 345 00:17:48.799 --> 00:17:50.920 be a lot better, a lot better not just for 346 00:17:51.200 --> 00:17:53.480 for the dog, but for you. This family of building 347 00:17:53.559 --> 00:17:56.720 they can't leave. And so there's a perfect example right 348 00:17:56.720 --> 00:17:59.960 there where you said you can't separate behavior and metas 349 00:18:00.240 --> 00:18:02.000 they go hand and hand, you first out a look. 350 00:18:02.079 --> 00:18:04.759 Does this pet is it uriname because it's eur ain 351 00:18:04.839 --> 00:18:08.519 infection or urinamme because it has anxiety? Or does it 352 00:18:08.599 --> 00:18:11.839 have both? Or is it nothing with the pet? Everything 353 00:18:11.880 --> 00:18:13.599 to do with the owner of miss reading signals and 354 00:18:14.240 --> 00:18:15.319 confusing this path. 355 00:18:15.680 --> 00:18:18.079 That's fascinating and we're going to have to take a 356 00:18:18.240 --> 00:18:21.480 break here. 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What's the more tail time verb lying fun. 390 00:20:31.559 --> 00:20:35.359 We're back again and speaking with doctor Marty Becker about 391 00:20:35.480 --> 00:20:40.000 the Keep the Love Alive behavior Express Tour, sponsored by 392 00:20:40.079 --> 00:20:44.000 Siva Animal Health and the American College of Veterinary Behaviorists. 393 00:20:44.720 --> 00:20:48.559 Doctor Becker is lectured at every single VET school in 394 00:20:48.640 --> 00:20:52.480 the United States, and he's been named Companion Animal Veterinary 395 00:20:52.519 --> 00:20:56.359 of the Year by the Delta Society and by the AVM. 396 00:20:56.400 --> 00:20:59.759 A he practices, he says, when he schedule a house 397 00:21:00.119 --> 00:21:04.519 at two veterinary hospitals in North Idaho, because as you 398 00:21:04.640 --> 00:21:07.960 can tell, he loves ve medicine, he loves pets, and 399 00:21:08.119 --> 00:21:11.519 he loves the people who care for him. Marty, I 400 00:21:11.599 --> 00:21:14.440 wanted to ask you, is everything we've talked about before, 401 00:21:15.240 --> 00:21:18.400