Hello everybody, it's Nancy and Sylvia and actually, well, Nancy, hello, it's Nancy and

Sylvia.

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Hi, Sylvia.

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Hello, how are you doing?

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I'm doing great, but today we are going to the dogs.

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Woof woof woof woof woof woof.

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Yeah.

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Well, before we start, actually want to ask everybody to do us a favor, wag your tails um

or get your puppy.

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And would you please follow the show and share it with others?

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Because every good dog follows its master, right?

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Woof woof.

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gonna do.

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So we've got a lot going on here but we're talking first about a little bit about the

history of what dogs eat because You know, I guess well there were dogs in the beginning.

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We had dinosaur dogs.

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I guess I don't know.

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Did we have dinosaur dogs?

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We know it didn't have dinosaur.

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We probably had things that looked like dogs maybe, but the really first kind of threads

there were wolves, right?

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And they would take up, they would sneak into campfires, right?

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That's how people lived.

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And then they would like steal some scraps, right?

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That's what they ate.

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But then at, yeah, yeah, and the country dogs still do, right?

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I mean, I'm go into a history of the fancy food, right?

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But the country dogs always do that.

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But.

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These dogs would sneak into the camps, eventually they joined as team members to these

folks because they could help them find prey.

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And in that process, they became domesticated and that all the through line to now dogs

are our families, right?

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Yep, you know when it's really cold when it was really cold up north We'd always say is it

a two dog night or a one dog night the foot of our bed with the feet, right?

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sounds like a song, Two Dog Night.

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it's a group, Two Dog Night.

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I'm dating myself, okay.

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So yeah, so those were ancient times.

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And then they evolved, they evolved.

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And now look what we have today.

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You have every imaginable kind of dog from teeny tiny dogs all the way up to St.

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Bernard's and wolfhounds.

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I mean, it's like designer dogs and shelter dogs.

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They're all family though.

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57 dog, right?

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know, out the shelters.

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And we're gonna talk about that in a little bit.

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But here's how food developed.

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You wanna go into that right now?

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You ready?

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Because I am so into dog food.

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Okay, and I have my own dog.

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I mail order my dog food.

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And I will say this, I will say this, it's tender loving care, TLC.

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And that was what he was fed as a puppy.

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And people are doing more and more of that.

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It's specially formulated and he has been, again.

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I say this, please, with a grain of salt.

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If all ended tomorrow, he's the healthiest dog I've ever had.

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So we'll see, all right?

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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So commercial dog food was developed in like the mid 1800s and James Spratt, okay, Mr.

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Spratt, invented dog cakes and then came, do you remember kennel ration?

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Wait a second, he invented dog cakes?

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Yeah, dog cakes with meat and veggies, not fancy cakes.

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But do you remember?

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Yeah, no, I don't think so.

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I say they were extremely low level, but kennel ration.

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Do you remember kennel ration?

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Yeah.

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Yeah, canned dog food.

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And you'll love this made with horse meat.

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uh You have to whisper that.

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a second so our our little dog when we when we were kids we had two miniature poodles

Jacques Jacques Pierre and Tosh tish-tosh Pittle Posh Right right.

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Well anyway, so so Jacques our first one would not eat anything other than cat food and

then one day Yeah, he liked the smellier the better and so one day my mom got

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horse meat in a can and I freaked and I said, I was so angry with her because you know,

horse back riding was my thing as a kid.

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And I just like, nope, won't do it.

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But yuck, horse meat, can't do that.

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up here you have to whisper it.

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mean, horse meat.

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oh, I mean, you could get attacked.

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No, the horses up here don't go to the glue factory.

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Not that we know of, okay.

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Or into dog food, because that was banned actually.

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Dog food made with horse meat was actually banned in 1970.

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Ah, am I a fountain of facts?

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Okay, so next up was dry food, okay.

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And

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That came about in World War II because rationing, there was not a lot of meat, right?

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So you had to start combining things.

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And that may have also been, it led to eventually Purina kibble, Purina, a name we all

know, and dog chow.

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And that made it mass produced.

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And that's when it was like, know, nutrition, uniform morsels.

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But that was the beginning of kind of some challenges with tastiness and nutrition and

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Boy, did that change, right?

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I'm gonna stop you a second.

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I was like, so how do they taste?

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How do they know whether it's tasty or not?

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don't know, but have you accidentally ever ate a dog bite of something?

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I have.

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Mal, no, a Bible occasionally eat a dog biscuit.

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Not a lot, just a taste.

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I'm like, are you crazy?

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No, I don't eat.

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I don't, I don't eat.

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He's crazy.

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Not me.

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I don't eat.

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No, I don't even try.

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Okay, okay.

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Okay, so then in the 60s to the 80s, specialization came in.

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And what was that?

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That was puppy food and all of those kinds of things.

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And the nutritional quality began to improve to the late 2000s, late 20th century.

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Sorry.

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We're not even, yeah.

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Okay, okay, okay, okay.

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I get so excited and I talk with my hands, right?

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uh That's holistic and all-natural came into being uh Grain free got to be very popular

particularly with people that you know Didn't want the kind of the mix of stuff.

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They wanted it to be anyway.

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Yeah, that was the fillers Okay, so grain free controversy There is a dog version of

cardiomyopathy, you know, that's the heart thing that kill kills people that's the heart

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inflammation

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okay, cardiac care, okay.

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And that was caused, they think.

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Now there's no definitive link and people stopped feeding grain free because veterinarians

got very concerned and some still are, although there's no definitive thing going on here.

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ah But it was cause it contained, they think, legumes and pulses.

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Do you know what pulses are?

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Pulses are

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dried beans and legumes.

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I had no idea.

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so it's just a fancy name for dried stuff.

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Where did get the name pulses?

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I don't know.

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Pulses.

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wait a second, but you figure dogs eat grass, so there's dried seeds in the grass.

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I guess they're just smaller seeds versus the legumes.

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and they eat the same food like breakfast night and breakfast morning dinner at night kind

of thing.

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anyway our dogs are treated more like humans than ever and today the big movement if you

watch television or walk by a television during a sporting event it used to be about well

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things that maybe we shouldn't say on

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Go ahead, go for it.

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erectile dysfunction.

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But now it's about farmer's dog.

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don't know if there's any connection alongside farmer's dog.

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dog.

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that sounds right.

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No, we're not that's rather pornographic poor doggy

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Anyway, Farmer's Dog is probably the biggest brand.

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And I was skeptical when I saw that.

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And frankly, that stuff comes in a pouch.

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And the ads are beautiful.

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They know where they're throwing people out of their house because the people look in the

refrigerator and see the Farmer's Dog packet.

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And they're like, I know.

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I love those commercials.

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anyway, so here's the deal.

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uh They are actually finding very preliminary because it's pretty new.

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You know raw dog foods been around for you know a while, but this is heavily advertised

That it actually is good for dogs.

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Ah Is that cool?

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All right do

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because our vet used to get a lot of dogs that were coming in with the raw dog food.

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Now this was probably about, so we've been down here four and a half years.

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So pre COVID thinking, you know, five years plus right back.

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And all the dogs that were coming in with digestive issues had shards of bone in their

stomachs from the raw dog food.

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this?

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How long ago was this?

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I'm going to say six or seven years ago.

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Okay, well, it fits perfectly.

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Yes, they said be very careful about that kind of food because it still isn't up to

standards.

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And there's like standards associations that standardize and say what kind of ratings and

yeah.

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And so the farmer's dog stuff is considered pretty good because it's very meets the

standards.

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Yeah, yeah.

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gal from Grey's Anatomy that's doing her fancy dog food stuff.

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oh yeah.

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I mean there's all kinds of evolutionary things and revolutionary things taking place.

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Now, question is, are you ready to get into the things dogs eat that they're not supposed

to eat?

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Well, let's take a break on that one.

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Well, actually, well, let's talk about the things that not good for them, like the

poisonous stuff, and then we'll go to the other stuff.

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Okay.

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Okay, things that are not good.

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Here's the official list, okay.

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Chocolate, coffee, caffeine, poisonous bugs and spiders.

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This is just a list.

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I think it's kind of interesting.

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Yeah, like really, seriously.

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Raw dough and fermented items that result sometimes in dogs getting drunk, okay.

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Now that's the official list.

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You want to hear the list of dogs that what some of the most interesting things dogs have

eaten and lived through.

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OK.

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take a break because this is where we're gonna make a little bit of a shift in our

conversation.

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Hang tight because it's all about woof, the dog food.

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Mm-hmm.

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Thank

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Are you ready, pooch?

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Yeah, yeah, we'll talk about Leona at the end.

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How's that?

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Okay, so we're back with dog stuff.

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Well, maybe I shouldn't say dog stuff.

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sounds like dog poop as opposed to dog food.

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right.

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So we're going to do a little bit of a radio show here.

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Not that we aren't anyway.

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And Sylvia is going to be the dog owner and I'm going to be woof, the dog talking about

what I ate and what I don't eat.

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How's that?

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love it.

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What's your name, doggy?

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My doggy, my name is the Mighty Quinn, aka Quinn.

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All right.

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So Quinn, Quinn, I've got you on the uh couch where you like to lay.

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All right.

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Now, what is your mama?

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Okay.

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I'll call you her, your mama.

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What have you done to upset your mama as far as what you've eaten?

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Okay.

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well, she doesn't get too upset till she finds out what the vet bill is.

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And I don't like to do that, but.

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I think your mama has a couple of stories about you, okay?

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So let me tell me, tell me what you've eaten.

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I mean, I need to know this so can help you get over this obsession.

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Well, let me stretch out first and talk about that, so...

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ah

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You're just laying on your back.

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Everything's exposed.

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doing all that good stuff.

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Ruff.

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Anyway, so let me go down the list, Sylvia, because it really is a doozy.

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it makes me tired just thinking about it.

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Chomp, chomp, chomp, chomp.

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Anyway, so we'll start with underwear.

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She has the best underwear.

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my God, it tastes so good.

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And when she's not looking, I will go diving into the hamper.

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She doesn't even know that I can reach to the bottom.

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Hmm, hamper diver, huh?

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Yeah, I'm a dumpster diver.

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She's just not that so smart and catching me when I do it.

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But anyway Socks socks are not quite as tasty as underwear.

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I'm not sure why I think the underwear really has the the top of the list It's kind of

like people caviar, right?

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Right, then she she she has a tendency to be creative in certain things and

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She leaves out technical pens.

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So, you know, technical pens with those little sharp points at the end with permanent ink.

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Well, I decided it was time for a tattoo and this one landed on my tongue.

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So I have a black spot on my tongue.

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Yes, they call me the Mighty Quinn for many reasons.

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Oh, and then there was that really tasty rat poison that was in the garage.

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Oh, that stuff tastes so sweet and good.

242

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Yep.

243

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Well, I had to go on like a month of vitamin K for that one, but you know what?

244

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It was worth it.

245

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It tasted so good.

246

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And don't forget the rats that I ate along the way.

247

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No.

248

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Yeah.

249

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Well, you know, the cats, eat those too, but that's besides the point.

250

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Razor blades.

251

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So I did eat.

252

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They weren't so good.

253

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Yeah.

254

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Disposable ones are actually the better ones of the two, but those are the ones I had.

255

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And you know what they fed me to get rid of those.

256

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What?

257

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Well, because they take me to the vet, they're going to slice me open.

258

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I heard like, no, don't slice me up.

259

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Anyway, ah good.

260

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And that cone of shame, not good.

261

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No, no, no.

262

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So they fed me cotton balls loaded with olive oil.

263

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And she's asking the vet, do you think he's going to eat olive oil?

264

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And the vet looks at her and since I take stock people, you know, I am a magic dog, the

mighty queen, we do a lot of things here.

265

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But the vet said, look, he ate the damn razor blade.

266

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What do you think?

267

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And she looked at him halfway nuts.

268

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And so we went home, we'd get some special olive oil, extra virgin, of course, please.

269

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And darn, if those olive oil, cotton balls, a whole bag, they were delicious, almost as

good as underwear.

270

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But the good thing is that everything came out in the end and it didn't hurt.

271

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Oh man, you crazy dog!

272

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as they say.

273

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Woof, yeah, woof.

274

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might even eat some razor blades in the future just so you can have those cotton balls.

275

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Then there was that Soresto collar.

276

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That one cost her $5,000.

277

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Oh my God.

278

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Yeah, I did.

279

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Yeah.

280

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Well, it wouldn't go through.

281

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Cotton balls didn't work on that one.

282

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So they had to open me up.

283

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Yup.

284

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Not pretty.

285

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And my owner, Nancy, she was down there taking care of her folks in Florida at the time.

286

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So I felt a little guilty on that one.

287

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But it kept the collar away from my other housemate, Otis.

288

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Otis of Reading.

289

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Yeah, I don't like him so much, but I got the collar and the cone of shame.

290

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Then there was the time that the bone, you know how they have those big beef bones?

291

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Oh, I love those.

292

00:16:27,966 --> 00:16:33,826

Well, there was a time that I got that one stuck around my jaw, just trying to get the

marrow out.

293

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Well, they had to saw that one off my jaw.

294

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Talk about that one.

295

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Well, then there was paper towels.

296

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Paper towels are always delicious, especially if they have a little extra gravy on it.

297

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Toilet paper.

298

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I share the toilet paper with Otis.

299

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He eats the inside.

300

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I eat the outside.

301

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So, you know, we got to share things.

302

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Yeah.

303

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Dead stuff.

304

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Dead stuff in the yard is so good.

305

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ah the stinkier, the better.

306

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Grass, of course.

307

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Garbage.

308

00:17:03,276 --> 00:17:04,437

Business card case.

309

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I got in trouble with that one.

310

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That was one that she had had since the first day she worked.

311

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my God.

312

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Did I get a spanking for that one?

313

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Well, I got yelled at.

314

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didn't get hit.

315

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She's not a spanker.

316

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She's a yeller.

317

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I know what I'm not done.

318

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I'm not done.

319

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There's the watch band, the watch band, both metal and leather.

320

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And then we've got, well, I also ate the front of the grass on the that one hurt, but I

got more over cotton balls for that one.

321

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oh

322

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I see a pattern.

323

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Yeah, and credit cards.

324

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My stomach's worth a lot in American Express dollars.

325

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But I guess I think that does it.

326

00:17:50,992 --> 00:17:59,076

All right, well, a few more belly rubs, but I think you've gotten my dog beaten in the

race to have the worst foods go down your gullet.

327

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A bottle of melatonin is about as bad as he's done, but he loves all the other things you

do except razor blades.

328

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He doesn't do that, and he's never had to have surgery.

329

00:18:08,241 --> 00:18:16,665

uh Didn't you have a poignant story, though, about getting, let's call Nancy back in,

okay?

330

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Let's call your owner back in.

331

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And didn't you, mom?

332

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Come here.

333

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But didn't your dad pay for that surgery?

334

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It was a poignant story, wasn't it?

335

00:18:28,584 --> 00:18:29,335

yes, yes.

336

00:18:29,335 --> 00:18:33,037

Quinn, down, sit, stay, no, lay down, okay.

337

00:18:33,578 --> 00:18:44,776

So yeah, so this was a really sweetie, you know, um I was down in Florida taking care of

my folks and I'm always looking for some adventure that was going on to keep mom and dad

338

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happy.

339

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Mom did like to go on the adventures, but dad was always adventurous and I decided that I

could, I got a helicopter ride, know, one of those discount things.

340

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Well, be careful.

341

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ride out of Tampa and we were driving around.

342

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We're about to get into the plane in the helicopter.

343

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And I get a call from Bob.

344

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said, I can't talk to you.

345

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We're getting into the plane.

346

00:19:05,941 --> 00:19:06,742

You got to talk to me.

347

00:19:06,742 --> 00:19:07,232

No, can't.

348

00:19:07,232 --> 00:19:09,523

I I'm at the vets.

349

00:19:09,764 --> 00:19:10,334

Which one?

350

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The emergency vet.

351

00:19:11,565 --> 00:19:13,747

Ah, you are kidding me.

352

00:19:13,747 --> 00:19:15,087

What's happened?

353

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Quinn, the mighty Quinn.

354

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What'd I say?

355

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Sit down.

356

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Don't, don't bother me now.

357

00:19:20,331 --> 00:19:21,072

Okay.

358

00:19:21,072 --> 00:19:24,846

So, um, he's looking for pets and belly rubs, but anyway.

359

00:19:24,846 --> 00:19:29,006

So the mighty Quinn had eaten the seresto collar.

360

00:19:29,566 --> 00:19:33,426

he says, the vet told me it's going to cost $5,000.

361

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Either we do it or that's it with the dog.

362

00:19:37,606 --> 00:19:39,826

And I tell my dad, and I'm shocked.

363

00:19:39,826 --> 00:19:44,046

And my father said, let me help you with the bill.

364

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So he helped us with the bill.

365

00:19:46,506 --> 00:19:47,706

It was really sweet.

366

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He says, I know, I know.

367

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a $5,000 sudden shock.

368

00:19:52,877 --> 00:19:57,102

mean, yeah, I mean you got a tough decision to make at that point and people do.

369

00:19:57,102 --> 00:20:00,973

I was ready to I was ready to get on the plane and tell the helicopter go to Connecticut.

370

00:20:00,973 --> 00:20:02,746

I'm gonna kill the dog myself

371

00:20:02,913 --> 00:20:05,728

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know what you're saying.

372

00:20:05,728 --> 00:20:08,854

mean, that's, but that was a beautiful story.

373

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Mighty Quinn.

374

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about Quinn.

375

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And I asked, and I sent pictures.

376

00:20:15,028 --> 00:20:15,458

my god.

377

00:20:15,458 --> 00:20:22,653

And the interesting thing is, after they opened him up, they decided because he's a large

dog, he's a standard poodle.

378

00:20:22,653 --> 00:20:26,215

And you think a poodle would be a little bit more discerning on...

379

00:20:26,936 --> 00:20:28,717

Otis of Reading is very discerning.

380

00:20:28,717 --> 00:20:31,349

Yes, Otis, he's discerning about eating stuff.

381

00:20:31,349 --> 00:20:34,341

He eats a lot of stuff too, but he's picky with his dog food.

382

00:20:34,341 --> 00:20:36,262

um

383

00:20:36,874 --> 00:20:39,174

He, uh, what was I going with this?

384

00:20:39,174 --> 00:20:40,982

totally lost my train of thought.

385

00:20:40,982 --> 00:20:42,096

I'm about dogs.

386

00:20:42,096 --> 00:20:43,176

That's good.

387

00:20:43,197 --> 00:20:47,415

Well, after that, listening to that history.

388

00:20:47,415 --> 00:20:48,105

here's what happened.

389

00:20:48,105 --> 00:20:59,054

Yeah, what happened is when they opened him up because he's a large dog and large dogs

have a tendency to also sometimes get bloat and They'll get colic and die from that.

390

00:20:59,054 --> 00:21:12,535

So they get a twisted gut They actually surgically um Soed his stomach to the side of the

walls of the inside of his body cavity, so it won't flip So he's still pretty good at

391

00:21:12,535 --> 00:21:14,216

eating all sorts of crap

392

00:21:14,667 --> 00:21:15,859

What a dog.

393

00:21:15,859 --> 00:21:19,515

I tell you what, let me talk to Quinn for just a minute though.

394

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I want to talk to him about...

395

00:21:21,719 --> 00:21:22,226

Yeah.

396

00:21:22,226 --> 00:21:22,946

Quinn.

397

00:21:24,239 --> 00:21:25,699

Okay, okay, God.

398

00:21:26,179 --> 00:21:27,139

All right, honey.

399

00:21:27,319 --> 00:21:29,499

Okay, you gotta listen to me on this one, okay?

400

00:21:29,499 --> 00:21:33,639

If you don't do anything, watch how you eat your bones, okay?

401

00:21:33,639 --> 00:21:39,219

I don't know what your mommy does, but you have to be very careful.

402

00:21:39,239 --> 00:21:46,159

And you only eat raw bones, like raw lamb bones or beef bones, and the big ones.

403

00:21:46,159 --> 00:21:51,638

And I don't know what kind of bone it was they cut off your mouth, but yeah, you gotta

have big ones.

404

00:21:51,638 --> 00:21:58,075

And never cooked ones okay I know i'm talking to the wall here you're not going to listen

to me but.

405

00:21:58,836 --> 00:22:05,122

cooked ones, because it softens up the bone in it cuts into shards more easily okay.

406

00:22:05,122 --> 00:22:09,601

so I'm going to tell Nancy about that one because she gave me a cook when it's her fault.

407

00:22:09,601 --> 00:22:11,022

one more lesson.

408

00:22:11,162 --> 00:22:13,024

Don't eat rawhide bones.

409

00:22:13,024 --> 00:22:14,665

And it's all over the marketing now.

410

00:22:14,665 --> 00:22:23,632

Do not eat rawhide bones because they're made from the inside lining of the animal that

they're taken from, a cow, for instance.

411

00:22:23,733 --> 00:22:24,153

Yeah.

412

00:22:24,153 --> 00:22:32,700

Yeah, yeah, But what it does is they have to chemically treat it so much and it still

doesn't break down in your mouth.

413

00:22:32,700 --> 00:22:33,920

OK, guy?

414

00:22:34,061 --> 00:22:34,468

So.

415

00:22:34,468 --> 00:22:41,060

they come from China too and and Nancy Nancy's pretty good about not buying stuff from at

least dog stuff from China.

416

00:22:41,060 --> 00:22:41,939

Yeah

417

00:22:42,721 --> 00:22:45,662

So anyway, there you have it.

418

00:22:45,662 --> 00:22:50,104

Now, um I just want to tell you just some quick statistics.

419

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51 % of our households, our national households, have dogs.

420

00:22:54,286 --> 00:22:56,526

And that's 68 million dogs.

421

00:22:56,607 --> 00:22:57,442

Some people have two.

422

00:22:57,442 --> 00:22:58,729

Hey, hey, mom, come back.

423

00:22:58,729 --> 00:23:01,656

ah

424

00:23:01,656 --> 00:23:02,176

Quinn.

425

00:23:02,176 --> 00:23:03,047

You don't really care.

426

00:23:03,047 --> 00:23:08,821

You just care about your razor blades and all of that.

427

00:23:08,821 --> 00:23:10,862

And then here's something interesting.

428

00:23:10,862 --> 00:23:15,035

The most popular animals that we all have, we have to feed all these animals, right?

429

00:23:15,035 --> 00:23:21,229

Our dogs, cats, freshwater fish, small animals like guinea pigs, don't ever do it.

430

00:23:21,229 --> 00:23:22,990

People don't ever do that.

431

00:23:23,971 --> 00:23:29,615

Birds, reptiles, horses, and saltwater fish.

432

00:23:29,939 --> 00:23:36,213

And um Leo, our good friend Leo the podcaster, has tarantulas.

433

00:23:36,213 --> 00:23:41,086

I don't think they rank very high, but he's got several tarantulas.

434

00:23:41,086 --> 00:23:45,269

you, mean, Leo, he says crickets.

435

00:23:45,269 --> 00:23:46,510

I ask him.

436

00:23:47,831 --> 00:23:48,681

Okay.

437

00:23:48,713 --> 00:23:56,136

crickets, let's sort of finish up our show because I think there's some interesting

stories about one of the most famous dogs.

438

00:23:56,136 --> 00:24:05,610

Well, maybe it's not the most famous dog, but certainly at a certain time there was a very

famous dog owner by uh the name of Leona Helmsley.

439

00:24:05,651 --> 00:24:13,914

And Leona was known at least in the New York area, and I think she made pretty big news

about how she treated her pooch troubles with.

440

00:24:14,006 --> 00:24:23,975

at the absolute royalty because she considered well, Leona considered herself the queen of

New York at the time anyway, because it was the Helmsley Palace, a rather interesting

441

00:24:23,975 --> 00:24:29,659

lady, but her her hotel is actually or is or was beautiful.

442

00:24:30,180 --> 00:24:35,304

I guess probably because she wanted to look so nice for the dog, but not us people.

443

00:24:35,525 --> 00:24:41,617

But you've got some stories on exactly what happened when she died because it made a lot

of national news and when Leona

444

00:24:41,617 --> 00:24:46,118

she was a neighbor here in Lexington, Kentucky.

445

00:24:46,318 --> 00:24:49,579

She was in the federal prison here for tax evasion.

446

00:24:49,579 --> 00:24:53,200

And I remember, yeah, no, I mean, think about that.

447

00:24:53,200 --> 00:24:54,031

Think about what she went to.

448

00:24:54,031 --> 00:25:03,579

But anyway, this was a Maltese tiny dog named Trouble, just one, it's singular, Trouble,

and died at the age of 12.

449

00:25:03,771 --> 00:25:11,697

But when she died, she left that dog $12 million and cut out her grandchildren and a bunch

of other people and imagine.

450

00:25:11,697 --> 00:25:13,557

Yeah, remember this.

451

00:25:13,598 --> 00:25:28,668

And while she was alive though, and I don't know who cared for the dog while she was in

prison, but ah the dog had its own chef and it was fed such things as uh crab cakes, cream

452

00:25:28,668 --> 00:25:29,709

cheese.

453

00:25:29,709 --> 00:25:33,293

You know, it was a small dog, by the way, and small dogs live a long time.

454

00:25:33,293 --> 00:25:43,237

So it actually kind of died young, but anyway, you'll find out in a minute what maybe why

I don't know uh steamed vegetables and they were served to the dog on a silver platter,

455

00:25:43,237 --> 00:25:45,560

literally a silver platter.

456

00:25:45,560 --> 00:25:48,376

would have liked to have been a dog owned by Leona Helmsley.

457

00:25:48,376 --> 00:25:49,636

I know.

458

00:25:49,817 --> 00:25:51,818

then she died.

459

00:25:51,818 --> 00:25:53,800

And she left money to her brother.

460

00:25:53,800 --> 00:25:55,841

She did leave him millions.

461

00:25:55,841 --> 00:25:57,352

And I guess he cut the dog off.

462

00:25:57,352 --> 00:26:01,925

But the dog went to Florida and lived in a palace down there, one of her places.

463

00:26:01,925 --> 00:26:04,346

So I mean, it did fine, OK?

464

00:26:04,346 --> 00:26:09,289

But guess what it ended up eating for the rest of its life after she died?

465

00:26:09,950 --> 00:26:12,131

Alpo, canned Alpo.

466

00:26:12,131 --> 00:26:17,274

uh Leona, you're turning over in your grave.

467

00:26:17,739 --> 00:26:20,380

Anyway, that was the story of Leona.

468

00:26:20,380 --> 00:26:26,203

And that kind of, you know, that story sort of ushers in this whole obsession we now have.

469

00:26:26,203 --> 00:26:28,759

Our dogs are our children.

470

00:26:28,759 --> 00:26:30,504

I mean, I love Hart.

471

00:26:30,504 --> 00:26:33,105

I mean, I, you know, I can't imagine life without him.

472

00:26:33,105 --> 00:26:35,276

And the older I get, the more attached I am.

473

00:26:35,276 --> 00:26:43,030

And I, cause I love everything, you know, Nancy, I just reached the point where I love

everything and I mother everything.

474

00:26:43,030 --> 00:26:45,890

And now I'm at the age where I grandmother everything.

475

00:26:45,951 --> 00:26:46,775

And so.

476

00:26:46,775 --> 00:26:47,896

No, my cat and my dog.

477

00:26:47,896 --> 00:26:53,220

I choose my house based on whether it's going to be friendly for my cat and my dog.

478

00:26:53,220 --> 00:26:55,521

You know, it's pretty weird.

479

00:26:56,263 --> 00:26:56,653

Yeah.

480

00:26:56,653 --> 00:27:02,518

my mom would always say that she was a uh grand dog, a grandma, grandma dog.

481

00:27:02,518 --> 00:27:04,139

Yeah.

482

00:27:04,200 --> 00:27:06,962

She wasn't a grandma dog, but she was a grandma doggies.

483

00:27:06,962 --> 00:27:08,413

And she always asked about the dog.

484

00:27:08,413 --> 00:27:11,245

So we'd send her pictures as well.

485

00:27:11,503 --> 00:27:14,004

Can I add just a couple of things too?

486

00:27:14,005 --> 00:27:22,199

I know that we're running out of time, but the pandemic really escalated all of this

because of the loneliness and people needed companionship, right?

487

00:27:22,199 --> 00:27:26,272

And I mean, it's continued, but there's some challenges and here's some challenges.

488

00:27:26,272 --> 00:27:38,109

ah Where dogs can be, and I own a restaurant and I know people ask all the time and there

are people getting service dog destinations and some of them are legit and some of them

489

00:27:38,109 --> 00:27:38,615

aren't.

490

00:27:38,615 --> 00:27:39,180

You're right.

491

00:27:39,180 --> 00:27:43,515

can take them but I do you want dogs sitting next to you as you dine out?

492

00:27:43,515 --> 00:27:45,303

A lot of people don't, right?

493

00:27:45,303 --> 00:27:46,704

in Europe, they do that a lot.

494

00:27:46,704 --> 00:27:49,568

And we saw dogs in Paris quite frequently.

495

00:27:49,568 --> 00:27:54,116

And if they're small and they're sitting on somebody's lap and they're behaved well, I

don't have a problem with it.

496

00:27:54,116 --> 00:27:56,497

don't either, but some people are allergic to them.

497

00:27:56,497 --> 00:28:01,519

People like our good friend, Frida, who frequently comments on our work, love Frida.

498

00:28:01,519 --> 00:28:02,849

Frida's terrified of dogs.

499

00:28:02,849 --> 00:28:04,540

She was attacked when she was little.

500

00:28:04,540 --> 00:28:05,911

So, you know, there's all that.

501

00:28:05,911 --> 00:28:10,292

And then we have shelters that are overflowing and people at the same time.

502

00:28:10,292 --> 00:28:11,243

Yeah.

503

00:28:11,243 --> 00:28:17,765

And so you just got all these kind of things that happen as a result of a good thing is

that we're feeding them better and better.

504

00:28:17,765 --> 00:28:18,346

Right.

505

00:28:18,346 --> 00:28:19,986

And they're living longer.

506

00:28:19,986 --> 00:28:22,287

So anyway, that's that.

507

00:28:23,042 --> 00:28:32,107

Well, I know one quick story before we leave that a friend years back when Boston Chicken

was hot and popular, guess upon Boston Chicken was hot.

508

00:28:32,107 --> 00:28:32,887

Haha.

509

00:28:32,887 --> 00:28:34,168

I think it was hot anyway.

510

00:28:34,168 --> 00:28:45,394

uh She used to buy her dog, which was a little like wiener hot Doxon dog, a chicken from

Boston Chicken with all the fixings every other day.

511

00:28:45,514 --> 00:28:52,206

And I don't know how long that dog lasted, but I got to tell you, I think she kept Boston

Chicken afloat.

512

00:28:52,206 --> 00:28:53,499

you

513

00:28:53,499 --> 00:29:01,299

and I think in your notes that you mentioned that, that, you know, we ought to help the,

could be, that's that's a biz op.

514

00:29:01,719 --> 00:29:06,366

Help these, help these companies invent dog dishes, you know, that are.

515

00:29:06,366 --> 00:29:13,361

When you go to KFC, next time you want to ask is the kind that doesn't have so much salt

so you can give it to your puppy too.

516

00:29:13,361 --> 00:29:15,452

Yeah, that's a good idea.

517

00:29:15,452 --> 00:29:17,091

We should charge them for that.

518

00:29:17,091 --> 00:29:23,351

about all of that is I'm always concerned about nutrition.

519

00:29:23,351 --> 00:29:36,411

mean, it's hard enough to keep track of mine, but at least I know the dog food, if I trust

the people who sell it to me, that it's nutritionally balanced.

520

00:29:37,876 --> 00:29:41,676

Dogs cannot live by chicken alone or Boston chicken alone.

521

00:29:41,676 --> 00:29:42,368

Yeah.

522

00:29:42,368 --> 00:29:44,092

I love that Boston chicken, by the way.

523

00:29:44,092 --> 00:29:44,724

I remember that.

524

00:29:44,724 --> 00:29:46,147

It was good.

525

00:29:46,147 --> 00:29:47,648

and we can't live by chicken alone.

526

00:29:47,648 --> 00:29:51,811

So I guess is the the cow would say eat more chicken.

527

00:29:51,811 --> 00:30:01,708

uh Well, on that note, it's been a lot of fun doing this dog show episode with you and the

mighty Quinn.

528

00:30:01,708 --> 00:30:02,838

What do you say?

529

00:30:03,366 --> 00:30:04,720

I think it was good.

530

00:30:04,720 --> 00:30:10,484

uh Woof woof woof woof.

531

00:30:10,484 --> 00:30:13,736

OK, my tail is wagging and my belly is being rubbed.

532

00:30:14,070 --> 00:30:15,491

Ha ha ha.

533

00:30:15,738 --> 00:30:18,958

We'll see you soon and woof we'll hear you soon.

534

00:30:18,958 --> 00:30:19,758

Take care.

535

00:30:19,758 --> 00:30:20,318

Bye.

536

00:30:20,318 --> 00:30:20,729

Bye

537

00:30:20,729 --> 00:30:21,671

Bye bye.