Animal Party - Dog & Cat News, Animal Facts, Topics & Guests - Pets & Animals- Pet Life Radio Original (PetLifeRadio.com)
Summary: The Animal Party starts with a bit of water-bowl talk covering the most explosive animal related news highlights and issues. Deborah gives her opinion along with the facts and stats you want to know to make up your own mind. Do you believe in allowing cats outdoors? What about removing their claws? Do pets make kids’ allergies worse? Have you ever thought about pit bulls? Get the facts and you’ll understand exactly why pit bulls have such a bad reputation and decide for yourself if banning breeds will solve the problem of dangerous dogs in your neighborhood. Topics covered include dog and cat news but go wherever animals and the people who love them go; Bears, fish, farm animals, pets of all sorts, exotics and environmental conservation issues are part of the show when they are part of the news. Every week Deborah invites an animal friend to join the party and that means you get to hear the best experts from the animal world chatting and sharing. Host Deborah Wolfe keeps you informed and educated as she amuses you with upbeat stories from her own dog & cat training and touring experience and she gets the most out of her guests. Listen and laugh as she gets a breeder to describe exactly how the match is made when the intended partners are less than willing, too eager or just clumsy! Whether it’s a stuffy professor or a dog training guru she gets them to share their most personal animal stories and insights and take a stand on controversial topics. Do you want to know how cats & dogs think and why they do what they do? Deborah will fill you in as she entertains you with animal jokes, haikus, riddles and trivia plus interviews with experts from all over the Animal World. Before the show ends Deborah will share her Animal Inbox and answer email pet behavior questions you send. Does your dog ignore you when you call? Does your cat ignore the litter box? Maybe your dog or cat hates your new husband? Get your pet problems solved on-air. Each show Deborah will give you her picks for favorite animal websites and then end the show with some homework your pets will love. Test your own cat or dog to see if he’s dumb or smart; learn how to say ‘hello’ to every dog and cat you meet, cook for your pets with ingredients you already have or plant a garden that will repel or attract cats or learn some party tricks to teach your dog or even your cat! This party is fun and you go home with a party favor and some animal facts and jokes to share at the office and at home with animal lovers of all ages.
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Podcasts:
Deborah Wolfe interviews Kate Quinn about Pilots volunteering to fly homeless rescue animals to families who want them. Sometimes there is a crushing pet population problem which seems unsolvable yet has a common sense solution like sometimes there are homeless animals in one place and homes for them in another far away place and the animals suffer or get euthanized while families that want them go without. Then along came Pilots N Paws and the idea that a pilot flying somewhere for business or pleasure with some space in the plane could take the dog or cat from where it is unwanted in a shelter situation to a home that is ready and waiting using a network of volunteer drivers and short stay layover foster homes and pilots to get the trip done.
Darlene Arden author of 'Rover, Get Off Her Leg' & 'Small Dogs Big Hearts' joins Deborah Wolfe, Author of 'Good Dog!; Positive Dog Training Techniques' to discuss the top three dog problems; Come, Heel, and Jumping Up. You get two takes on these problems from two trainers who agree and differ so the advice is simple and comprehensive. Deborah asks 'Would you live in a building where you had to test your dog's DNA for poop identification purposes'? Dog poop news from Canada that maybe where your strata is headed. For more dog training tips including the invisible-dog games and tricks described by Deborah check out www.deborahwolfeonline.com
Darlene Arden author of The Complete Cat's Meow joins Deborah Wolfe to discuss the 3 most common cat issues and also answer a cat question about littermate kittens and their very different personalities. Have you got a cat who won't use the litter box, ignores you or attacks you or your furniture? Listen to this show and have your cat behaving peacefully and lovingly in no time.
Deborah Wolfe talks with Darlene Arden, Author of 'Small Dogs Big Hearts' & many others about social media and the pet world. What to use, what not to use and how to steer clear of some common mistakes. As usual these two pet experts ended up talking cats and dogs including advice on how to properly walk a small dog when a big, perhaps threatening, dog approaches.
Get the Oxytocin flowing with dog-human eye contact and you and your dog will feel great. Look into your dog's eyes briefly to get the love chemicals flowing explains Dr. Stanley Coren, Professor of Psychology at UBC, author of many books including 'Do Dogs Dream' & 'Wisdom of Dogs'. The latest results from the Japanese studies started twenty years back show that not only does the human get a shot of all natural feel good chemicals, the dog does too when they briefly look into each others' eyes. If you like this show please check out previous shows with Deb Wolfe interviewing Professor Dr. Stan Coren, author of 'Intelligence of Dogs'( & many others) on a variety of news and dog and human psychology topics at episodes 3, 4, 40, 41, 65.
'Bring your Friends, your dogs, your guitars, Drums.... to the Rally at Vancouver City Hall' reads the Facebook notice telling people to get out and bark for change. Pete Fry (from the Green Party, running for election next weekend, in Vancouver, B.C. Canada) joins us to talk about a rally to strengthen the local laws so that tied up dogs are no longer permitted. Deborah and Pete discuss when tying a dog is okay or even advisable and when its cruelty and how the laws must change. Other topics included park use, and dog owners vs. non dog owners conflicts plus how mental illness can factor into cruelty against animals.
Find your keys, your cell phone, maybe even your missing cat. Deb and Sue discuss how to train dogs to find things and people and how they do this kind of work. Author of 'Scenting on the Wind', Susan Bulanda offers concrete tips on how long to train, how to start, steps for teaching the find and flag sequence to many different types of dogs. She explains why dogs need work and Deborah helps adapt her advice to your living room and park so you can get some fun happening with searching and also have your dog actually assist you with things you lose.
Deborah Wolfe talks with Stacy Mantle from petsweekly.com about stuff for pets including mud baths for pampered pooches, Earth Balance's new urine extractor cleaner, and a training trick treat device that Dr. Ian Dunbar helped create so it is control, and reward based and effective like Dr. Dunbar's methods. In the Dr. Ian Dunbar vs Caesar Milan debate Deborah picks Dunbar and she explains why. Stacy calling in from Arizona, shares her hot weather tips, and Deb talks of surprising pet news like the dogs who drive cars in Australia.
Deborah interviews her good friend Dr. Stanley Coren, P.H.D. Psychology, Author of 'the Intelligence of Dogs' & many other bestselling dog books about the strange and empowering connection between service dogs and children on the autistic spectrum highlighting some of the difficulties for families with multiple kids or dogs and the solutions to making this work for everyone. How do you pick a puppy when its for your special needs kid? Find out and dispel some widespread myths you might mistakenly be holding onto with some truth and fact from Dr. Coren. who is both an expert on mental health in humans and and expert of the mind of the spectacular creature we call dog.
Stacy Mantle, Editor of Pets Weekly joins Deborah Wolfe to talk about the best gifts for pets and pet loving people this year. Deb adds holiday pet safety tips for the cold and for gifting, decorating, dress up and tells you how to give tempting treats without giving too much. Plus you will hear a couple of Deb's homemade tricks for mattes and cat brushing. Stacy tells you about interesting gifts from $10. to $50. to get those pet lovers' and their pets off your lists early or finish up with some belated Chanukah gifts. All of Stacy's suggestions are products she's tried that work well with her dogs and cats. Look for a future show about products that bombed the pets weekly product test and bombed at Deb's Camp Good Dog, dog kennel too.
Deb shares facts about cats and cat training and how they think and act. Find out how to get an aloof or shy cat to be more cuddly. Learn how you can tell which cat is the bully and which the victim. And Deb tells you which four cat books are her all-time favorites. Litter box, and training tips are woven in with stories, facts and news and it’s all cat centered cat talk. Ciao Meow !
Deborah Wolfe goes solo today telling dog stories, but first she contrasts a good owner making travel plans for a puppy with Justin Bieber and his monkey meltdown. Training tips to stop your dog from pulling you to the park, get your dog to want to listen to you, and stop piddling little rescue dogs and dogs are woven into the conversation as Deb covers many different breeds and talks about the dogs she's met at Camp Good Dog and on the bad dog tour plus her own five dogs and how their pack works. Why you may not want to travel with your dog and Deb says never take your dog to fireworks. Find out why and get Deb's list of pet friendly leftovers, remedies for bee sting and mattes, and chew toys; home remedies from your freezer or pantry.
Two experienced Cat & Dog Trainers, your host, author Deborah Wolfe and guest Darlene Arden, author of many pet books including 'small dogs big hearts' joins Deborah to give you two takes on dog training issues and problems with some cat advice thrown in too of course. In between stories and facts and training tips we managed to help out Maureen from Success Dog Grooming, with her little dog problem; a bichon/shitzu cross that pees and poops everywhere. A three time abandoned little five year old dog who just isn't responding to the normal methods Maureen has used to train many dogs successfully in the past. Can all dogs be house trained? Tune in and find out.
What happened to Pets in the Holocaust? Sue Bulanda, Author of Faithful Friends joins Deborah to discuss the Holocaust and what happened to the pets separated from their Jewish families. Deborah and Sue discuss that war and events now and delve into issues relating to extreme kindness and hardship in the worst of times. Sue promised to join us in future to talk about scenting dogs and how they do the work they do, but also gave her opinion on breed bans and pit bulls. Check out the show to hear what this world famous expert dog scenting trainer says about pitties. If you have any stories or even a snippet of a story about a pet who was lost in the upheaval surrounding WWII please contact sbulanda@gmail.com
Angela Kerslake joins Deb Wolfe to discuss trips and fundraisers for a Guatemalan Animal shelter. Do you want to make a difference for animals or have an exotic vacation or maybe both?
