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Marci Kladnik joins the party from Santa Barbara California where she works inside the world of wild feral cats.. Marci explains why TNR (Trap, Neuter & Release) is the best technique for feral cat colony management. Together Deborah and Marci discuss the lives of feral cats and the conflicts- real and political that occur between bird lovers and TNR cat advocates. When a feral cat population truly is threatening a vulnerable bird nesting area, the colony is moved; most of the time the conflict is based on myth not fact and the cats are actually helping the birds with rodent patrol. Eggs and chicks get eaten by rodents constantly on every farm unless either cats or poison are at work.

The Tweety vs Sylvester model just doesn’t match up with our rat, and mouse infested, pollution, and fertilizer reality. Why should you spay or neuter your cat? Deborah gives you the selfish, safety and training reasons to alter your cat, and Marci gives you the scary numbers. 3+1= 20 explains Marci who has a whole new kind of math she calls ‘Cat Math’. This party is full of take home party tricks; Marci shows you how to call kittens with a cooing noise so they’ll come and eat and Deborah tells you how to plant your garden with cats in mind- you can draw them to certain areas and keep them out of others just by choosing the right ground cover and plants.

More details on this episode MP3 Podcast - Inside the Wild World of Feral Cats with Deborah Wolfe

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Marilyn Krieger, is the Cat Coach for Cat Fancy Magazine, catchannel.com and now for us at Animal Party. She’ll explain her new book ‘Click Your Cat to Better Behavior’ by solving our own email cat problems about cats who attack us, hide on stairs, jump up on counters, dart out doors, destroy furniture and avoid litter boxes. Plus she’ll share her party tricks for getting cats to do fun tricks using the clicker and her new book. If you’ve got a cat of any kind you can use her tips to curb the mischief and get some great two-way communication going with trick training. You can also use your cat’s new ability to come or sit or high five on command to silence the smug cat hater in your family. We ask Marilyn her opinion on Trap, Neuter and Release feral cat management efforts, her opinion on the indoor vs. outdoor debate for pet cats and what she knows about declawing.

Deborah adds news items from around the world that match the topics plus contrasts dogs with cats in places to keep you dog lovers enjoying the show. If you’ve got a cat hater in your family you can listen to this show and you’ll be able to show off a cat trick and silence that smug person. Do you know which animal brain is most similar to the human brain; the cat or dog? Listen to the show and find out while you also learn how to solve the most common cat training problems. Mordecai Siegel, cat and dog expert and author, ‘Uncle’ and mentor to many other writers and experts will be sadly missed by both Marilyn and Deborah who share their thoughts in the wake of his passing.

More details on this episode MP3 Podcast - The Cat Coach Tackles Bad Habits With New Clicker Tricks with Deborah Wolfe

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Teri Wilson, author of Dog books, and Romance books including ‘Cup of Joe’, ‘All Creatures of Our God & King', ‘Do You Hear What I Hear?’, ‘Rodeo Redemption’ (& others) took her southern self to the Alaskan Iditarod and worked a dog team. See www.spanieldiaries.blogspot.com to see what volunteering at the Iditarod is like. Teri explains the unbelievable tug-of war style power of a team of pulling dogs and how she got trained to roll out of the way. What does an ice hook have to do with mushing? Listen to the show and find out. Teri describes the sites of the region including the historical dog journey from Anchorage to Gnome of over 1,000 miles, which brought diphtheria medicine to children and saved lives. This is a great example of dog work that helps humans and teamwork human with dogs. Would you like to go next year and volunteer?

More details on this episode MP3 Podcast - I Did The Iditarod with Deborah Wolfe

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Deborah reports on a treatment that is both new and old and gets rid of allergies in people and pets. About four treatments is all it takes to handle most allergies and for severe peanut allergies there is a 100% guarantee. Did you know that recently Canada changed its regulations so now all Canadian flights must have animals in cargo? Why? Because 1 in 10 passengers surveyed complained of severe pet allergies when confined on planes. Deborah tells you some things you can do to help the allergy sufferers in your family when they visit your pet filled home. Laura Cook from Zero Allergies joins the party with her expertise and she’s brought with her samples of every thing that allergy sufferers avoid from pollen to wheat to cat hair and vacuum lint. It is March right now- cherry tree season- on the west coast and for the first time ever Deborah is doing radio with no allergy meds thanks to these treatments. Plus Deborah is finally winning her long battle with cat allergies and the cats are sleeping wherever they choose not exiled from the bedroom. Laura describes the science behind the treatments and Deborah tells you what it is like as a patient. This treatment involves no needles and you can keep taking meds if you need them so there is no risk to giving it a try. Laura also treats diabetics to help them need less insulin, patients suffering from MS, arthritis and every kind of digestive or allergic problem.

More details on this episode MP3 Podcast - Say Goodbye To Pet Allergies with Deborah Wolfe

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Deborah asks Caroline Coile the most common questions she gets when on tour plus her own questions too; Are some cats gay? Do cats masturbate? Facts about the cat penis. What is the cat purr all about? Do cats hate car rides? Are cats bothered by sound pollution? Cats hear better and see better in most ways than dogs but their sense of smell though worse than dogs. Caroline explains the amazing facts of cat vision and contrasts the cat to its fellow mammals. Do cross eyed cats see okay? Can cats count? Is catnip like pot? Deborah adds to the discussion with information on dogs and large cats, Hans the horse, and Caroline gives you the most interesting science behind the cat and how experiments are structured to test pets and babies for abilities.

Are some feline breeds smarter than others? Deborah tells you how to teach your dog or any dog how to accept cats and learn not to chase and bug them. Deborah complains about the myth that all cats are like high-strung snobby women and all dogs are like easygoing guys and Caroline responds with her experience of dogs, cats, men and women. Her most loyal pet that would be most likely to come to her rescue was a cat- not a dog -explains Caroline who went swimming as a girl with her cats following and waiting for her on the beach. Deborah talks about two cats she knows who hitch rides. Advice on car trips with cats. Test your own cats to see if they will sympathetically yawn with you like dogs and people.

More details on this episode MP3 Podcast - Why do Cats Bury their Poop? with Deborah Wolfe

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We all know a cheetah is faster than a man running, but is a cheetah faster than a gold medal speed skater? Find out how humans rank against animals in sport. Deborah shares the results of the Camp Good Dog Dog-Olympics so far with guest camper dogs competing in several events including hockey! A big thank you to the working dogs of the Olympics as Deborah explains how avalanche, airport and police dogs are selected, trained, and assigned to the Games. 56 dogs are keeping the Games going and horses too with the RCMP. The British and Russian press has been blasting Vancouver and the Olympics with criticism which is interesting given that they are next to host and given that Britain has no medals and Russia has lost face winning fewer medals than they’d hoped and losing to the Canadians (yay) in men’s hockey last night. Men’s hockey seems to trump all in both Russia and Canada even though it is Canadian women that bring home hockey medals most ( and hopefully will again tonight). In fact 13.5 of the 16 Canadian medals won so far were by Women; this is partly because in Canada laws, rules and norms dictate that men and women get equal access and equal funding for sport (almost) and that puts our women at an advantage over the rest of the world’s women who take a backseat to their brothers. Perhaps some countries will notice this and support their women more in future. Perhaps women’s ski jumping will get their turn! Politics and Olympics to overlap and this time Nature is getting heard too. ‘You say protest, I say party!’ shouts one group of Olympic loving Canadians. Deborah gets to the core of the protests and explains the facts behind the legitimate concerns for antipoverty initiatives, and on the animal side - for bears and salmon. In fact, for the first time ever in Olympic history, First Nations are official hosts here in Vancouver-Whistler, B.C. for these 2010 Canadian Olympic Winter Games and this is giving them a platform to reach international ears with their message of no more trophy bear hunting, and no more salmon farms. Find out why it matters so much and how these creative people are getting their message on camera. If you can come to the Games, it is well worth it and very family friendly; the Police are doing a terrific job and they are everywhere you go smiling. Free live music, performers of all sorts from jugglers to dancers throughout the downtown, Yaletown and at every suburb venue all connected by skytrain plus free admission to big deal places like the Vancouver Art Gallery and the Olympic pavilions makes this a giant street party. Big Screens show star moments, gold medal finishes and get crowds fired up as they dance and sing with the many different Canadian bands. For those listeners here right now in Vancouver, please take the time to get away from the Games and get out in Nature. Deborah describes a few quick easy side trips you can take to see eagles, bears, artists blowing glass & making beads, get spa treatments at a natural hot spring with more eagles to view en route, check out the sea wall downtown on foot or by rental bike or ride the skytrain just for the view of it all over town. And if you’d like to do something good for wildlife and still have a terrific fishing day, check out sturgeon fishing on the Fraser River, out of Mission, B.C. (45 min east of Vancouver) and you can get your own ‘big fish photo’ with a prehistoric fish that is the biggest on earth.

More details on this episode MP3 Podcast - Join the Olympic Party, Vancouver 2010 -- Animal Style with Deborah Wolfe

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Caroline Coile, PhD, author of ’Why Do Dogs Like Balls?’, and ‘Silly Dog Tricks’ (+29 other books) joins the party with answers to the funniest doggy questions Deborah can find from her book. Are dogs gay? If not why do boy dogs form a line of humping bunny hopping two legged dancing males, asks Deborah? Can dogs hear pet deterrents and collars? Why do female dogs often think they are pregnant when they are not? Get the best recipe for de-skunking your stinky dog or getting stubborn dark eye stains off pretty fur when Caroline and Deborah laugh and chat and party together. Pick up some great easy tricks to teach your dogs and listen to Caroline and Deborah party with their dogs.

More details on this episode MP3 Podcast - Why Do Dogs Like Balls with Deborah Wolfe

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7-year-old autistic, James Deloney is found after 48 hrs in sub zero weather with no coat; The dog came home and when rescuers followed his reverse tracks they found this lost boy with no language. GOOD DOG! All the volunteer searchers and all the police men, couldn’t bring him back like the family dog can! Now there is a nursery rhyme that ought to be told. How many rat descendents will come from one mama rat in a year? Deborah explains how Rottweilers are like Rhinos. Author Melanie Coronetz joins the party to talk about her book ‘In the Shadow of Mercury: A memoir of mid-life and dogs’ which delights New Yorkers with a real sense of place. Melanie explains how she fell into dog owning and competing and schipperke paws plus she talks about the terrible loss of her first Mercury and the brutal attack and slaughter of her next two schipperkes on leash at her feet in Central park.

More details on this episode MP3 Podcast - Melanie Coronetz, Author of ‘In the Shadow of Mercury: A Memoir of Mid-Life and Dogs’ with Deborah Wolfe

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Teeth cleaning and probiotics for dogs? Are we serious? Exactly how to get your reluctant dog or cat or your easy going puppy to love teeth brushing. Diane Jansey has been looking after dogs’ mouths for over 30 years- she’s a canine nutritionist and dental hygienist plus she knows how to breed and show to win. What to do with a Bichon, Maltese or any type of dog that greets with a piddle puddle? Pumpkin, mango and other health food items your dogs will love plus how to introduce these foods to your pets’ diet. Deborah asks Diane her opinion on the move away from tail docking and ear cropping. Diane explains how probiotics work for dogs under stress and how probiotics plus digestive enzymes can stop dogs from eating dog poop.

More details on this episode MP3 Podcast - Putting Some Bite Into Healthy Teeth with Deborah Wolfe

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This week Deborah talks to Tamira Ci Thayne, founder and CEO of Dogs Deserve Better, an award-winning national nonprofit working on behalf of America’s chained and penned dogs. Future Show: Send in photos of pets you would like ‘read’ by Tim Link, author of ‘Wagging Tales’ who reads pets thoughts and feelings and tells their stories. The photo must be well lit with both the pet’s eyes shown well for it to be chosen. Please send to [email protected] with the subject heading PET READING.

More details on this episode MP3 Podcast - Dogs Deserve Better with Deborah Wolfe

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