Animal Party - Dog & Cat News, Animal Facts, Topics & Guests - Pets & Animals- Pet Life Radio Original (PetLifeRadio.com)

How fast can a greyhound run? Do their paws really not touch the ground at top speed? Mark Abrams from G.A.L.T. joins us to talk about adopting ex-track racing greyhounds as family pets. How can such fast runners make good pets for seniors and cat lovers who live in apartments? Mark explains why owning a greyhound is so different from owning any other dog. Go to www.adopt-a-greyhound.org for more info. Deborah shares a home remedy for when your dog gets exposed to smoke or pollutants something yummy from your veggie drawer will help.

Deborah reports on a stupid man saved from bear by 4 little dogs proving once again that good off-leash dogs make everyone safer. Stacy Mantle from Pets Weekly joins the party to talk about the upcoming Wonder Pet Expo in Arizona and the Super Smiley Flash Mob Dance, plus the doggie dunk tank and other crazy exhibits. Did you know your dog or cat could wear a small tag that makes him track able by GPS? Never lose your pet again! Stacy tells us about some great products plus together they both give you driving and hot weather pet tips. Find out about the Wonder Pet Expo or the products mentioned on air at www.petsweekly.com. You can see pics of the giant raccoon killing a Rottweiler at Deborah Wolfe, pet expert on Facebook or www.deborahwolfeonline.com where you can also see a healthy litter of red poodle pups being born.

In Part 2 of our Cats vs. Dogs series, we’ll compare the skills, natural equipment and psychology of Cats, Dogs & the Humans who love them with Dr. Stanley Coren.

Are you a dog lover who barely tolerates cats? Or maybe you are a cat lover who finds dogs terribly messy. This show will give you ammunition for water cooler, or cocktail party arguments about which is better Rover or Kitty. Then again the Professor tells us there are three types of people; the cats only people, the dogs only people and the cats & dogs people who love both the felines and the canines like Deborah does. Whatever your camp this show will teach you something about both cats and dogs while you enjoy a funny, lively debate between experts. Dr. Stanley Coren, Professor and Author of ‘Intelligence of Dogs’ is barking for the dogs while Darlene Arden, author of ‘The Complete Cat’s Meow’ will be meowing for the cats with your host Deborah Wolfe sitting on the fence as moderator and stirring up trouble like the cat on the fence with the dogs sitting below-. Maybe there aren’t any ‘Seeing Eye cats, but cats can work. You can find more shows with these two experts separately if you scroll back through the animal party. These two are among Deb’s favorite guests because they are informative and great fun.

Do you have what you need in your first aid kit? Listen to this show to find out what you need to add to your kit for your pets. Would you know how to stop the blood if kitty or rover cut his paw? Lisa Wagner from www.walksnwags.com joins Deborah to talk about first aid for pets. Cats and dogs are different from humans making first aid different too. Add to that the fact that pet emergencies tend to happen far away from help or often when every thing is closed, and you need some basic skills to keep your pets safe in emergencies. Deborah tells you about some close calls describing how Mike was saved by the Vet at Starbucks, and Chopper went to the clinic with half a bench in his body. Walks And Wags Pet First Aid courses teach you what you need to know in just ten hours of classroom time. You can also take the course long distance. And you can become and instructor yourself and set up a franchise teaching pet first aid to the pet lovers where you live with only ten hours more.

Deborah opens the party with four organizations doing good work for animals hit by the disasters in Japan and how you can help. Our guest, Ellen Tsuyuki from Nekochan Enterprises, sent toys to Japan to help the refugee pet cats deal with their confinement until they can be reunited with their families. Nekochan donates cat toys to shelters to help animate and exercise homeless cats so they come of their shells and connect with people and better their chances of finding forever homes. Ellen set up the company with this pro cat shelter charity work built in and that means with every Nekochan purchase you are helping rescue cats. Your own cats will love these toys because they are totally different and more fun than any thing you’ve bought before. Cats need exercise in fact an average house cat is faster than you might think. Tune in to find out how fast a cat can run plus hear two nice animal news stories about pet loving truckers.

‘How many sniffer dogs did it take to keep the royal couple safe at their wedding last week?’ Today’s show is all about rescue and the gratitude you get from rescued pets. Susan Kars joins us to talk about her work fostering cats for Vokra. Teaching a cat to trust and then giving it up can be tough she explains, but she finds fostering cats very rewarding and she keeps on doing it. She describes how volunteers are placed first with very easy to handle cats, ex-pets and that the job of fostering is relatively easy but hugely rewarding. Her latest cat in residence can be seen on the Vokra website at www.orphankittenrescue.com along with many others who need homes. Fostering helps by keeping cats (and dogs) out of cages until they can find forever homes. It also allows the foster moms and dads to give to a cat and bond with a cat and do good work while not incurring the costs of cat ownership. For adopting homes, it allows them to truly get to know and see the cat or dog that is in foster care before they bring it home and they continue to receive support and advice as needed once the foster pet is home with them. Got pet questions or guest interview suggestions? Please contact me through www.deborahwolfeonline.com where you’ll find wildlife and pet photos, pet blogs, my favorite animal video clips and great pet radio. You can also find me on Facebook at Deborah Wolfe, Pet Expert.

Deborah updates you on the 100 sled dogs killed post Olympics, and the new anti-cruelty recommendations that will be adopted. Vladislav Roytapel, the Russian Dog Wizard joins the party to share his expertise and training advice as well as his opinions on dog related issues many dog owners face. Do you sleep with your dog? Vladae says, maybe you shouldn’t. Deborah fills in the cat content where possible with diet and training and comparisons but this is mostly a dog show. Vladae talks about what its like to be a guest on David Letterman, his past as a KGB dog trainer and his take on how dogs speak and learn. Hear two different styles of dog training plus information on many breeds and some behavior problems.

Animal good news from Japan plus Deborah welcomes Darlene Arden with a quiz in cat talk and Darlene passes both cat calls translating correctly. She does speak cat and her book will help you understand, raise, and care for your cats with better insight. Teach them to play piano, do basic dog tricks and more advanced fun like agility plus solve bad kitty manners and behaviour issues. Do you train a cat like a dog? Darlene explains the differences and says ‘Cats are easier to train than dogs’. Learn the truth about widely believed cat myths. Do you hug pets? You may not after this show. Darlene answers two email cat behavior questions including one signed Farty Yoga Cat plus litter box advice and tips for moving with older cats. Darlene says don’t spray water at cats on counters, kittens aren’t for grandma, and she describes how to teach a lashing out cat not to pick on the youngest child. During the answer Darlene states ‘cats remember every thing’. Deborah knows the cat pheromone diffuser spray works and she tells funny stories about spills and accidents with her 7 or so cat household. Find Darlene Arden and her group ‘Rover Get off Her Leg’ & Darlene Arden, Author on Facebook, petxpert on twitter and Darlene Arden on redroom.com where you can also find Deborah Wolfe. animaldeb on twitter and deborah Wolfe, Pet Expert on Facebook, but for one stop where you can get all of Deb Wolfe’s latest work, Check out the newborn puppy pics, wildlife photos, favorite doggie and kitty videos, blogs and links (with no junk mail ) when you join the pack for free at www.deborahwolfeonline.com

Fur-Bearer Defenders Spokesperson, Adrian Nelson talks to us about cats and dogs ending up killed so they can line our coats and boots. What you can do to make sure you don’t accidentally buy dog and cat fur in your clothes and linings. Find out the SPCA sent an ex homicide investigator to follow the imported fur and trace it back to its source. The footage of these dog and cat farms was clandestinely made and you can now see it at the fur-bearer defender website. Think it isn’t true? Well even the officials have admitted to the BBC that cat and dog fur is traded and sold and farmed in some countries for export to North America. Find out the full story plus how certain animals like beavers and coyotes are considered pests and then trapped horribly by cities and towns.

Mike Hopcraft, The Reptile Guy, joins Deborah to talk about rescuing an alligator and a dangerous python and about owning reptiles as pets. How can you tell a bad store from a good one? Mike explains how he reads alligator body language and how regulations have changed the way he does his rescue work. In warmer places like Florida, people should never let pet reptiles escape as they become invading species that do huge damage. Check out www.reptileguy.ca to ‘sponsor-a-reptile’ ; See stories with photos of rescued Caymans, turtles, snakes and dragons or ask Mike your reptile question. Deborah wants to know if your work demanded it, would you kiss a snake?

Author and Legal Activist, Allie Phillips, joins us from her work in the Nation’s capital changing the world to make it safer for kids and animals. Allie wants you to know about pound seizure; the practice of selling animals lost, found and rescued into lab research programs and how you can make it stop. Her new book will enable you to become an activist for animals in every day ways like looking for the leaping bunny on products you buy and online by supporting efforts under way and in person too. In fact she even explains how you can train your own pet to provide therapy. Allie left a career as a lawyer often working with abused kids to set up programs for kids in the system to get the benefit of therapy animals present during their intake, examinations and interviews. Noticing that abused families often stayed with abusers because of vulnerable pets, she created a program for integrating the family pet into family shelter programs. Allie tells us all about these great projects now underway and expanding to new areas all the time plus she tells you what she thinks of Michael Vick, a prominent dog abuser/killer and glorified football player. Deborah helps Allie get her message out by relating similar experiences in pet rescue and pound seizure in Canada. Together they explore these difficult topics so that you can see how things are improving and in easy ways join the efforts to make life better for kids and animals. Did you know that a man got sentenced 2 years for killing a goldfish. It makes sense to Deborah and Allie and they’ll tell you why.

Deborah asks would you rather kiss your favorite celeb like Angelina Jolie or her husband Brad Pitt to welcome the New Year or your pets? Plus New Years resolutions your dog might write; cats wouldn’t bother because they think they are perfect already! Author and musician, writer and traveler, Greta Beigel joins us to talk about her book which shows us the Jewish holidays from a cat’s perspective. The book is done in gentle rhyme making it ideal for children ages 8+ to read themselves or read aloud to kids younger. Together Greta and Deborah discuss how Jewish pet owners pamper and spoil, overprotect and otherwise treat their pets like their own Jewish offspring. Are mice kosher? Do cats have cat mitzvahs? Do Jewish cats see the doctor more than non-Jewish cats?

A stinky cat saves a family from fire and Deborah tells you the story plus what is a salty dog? Bring one along to this party with Charlie Crosby, pet disaster relief coordinator. Noahs’ Wish has only one mission and that’s to help pets during disasters. They go where people are fleeing and rescue pets from situations like Hurricane Katrina, The Okanagan Fires, and more. In fact they are always looking for new rescuers so if you are good with animals and adventurous, sign up for ther 2011 courses and get the skills you need to actually go where the disaster hit and save the animals instead of just watching it play out on TV. Charlie explains how Noah’s wish works to keep animals safe from disasters all over America and Canada and tells about her own experiences in the flood and fires. www.noahswish.org to see photos of dogs rescued at Katrina, information on the upcoming courses and what you need to know to keep your own animals safe when you obey an evacuation order.

Guest Stacy Mantle, editor of www.petsweekly.com joins Deborah to tell us what’s hot, new and different on her list of best pet gifts for this year. From the sheet that lets you sleep extra pets on your bed to the heated plug in pet beds, she’s got stuff you’ve never heard about and pet bling too. Do most people spend more on their pet presents or their in-laws at this time of year? Tune in and find out the answers to some holiday pet trivia. . Get Deborah’s safety tips to keep your pets healthy and happy through the holidays plus hear Deborah read some zingers from the Pet House Rules plaques customized for every breed with your own dog’s photo and the rules your dog presides over in your home. www.petplaque@gmail.com Want to give back then get the planet dog ball that costs less than $10. and every cent goes to helping dogs get trained to work for deserving people. www.planetdog.com. These balls glow in the dark and taste like mint giving your dog minty breadth; I bet your dog’s breadth doesn’t smell minty right now! For any of the other great products reviewed on this show, check out www.petsweekly.com for all things pet.