Meanwhile... Back at the Ranch... Episode 94 (Audio)

As I mentioned earlier this week we spend some time discussing the situation with Jolene and Ed at the house. I do want to clarify a few things because I think people tend to imagine the worst case scenario and so I want to talk little bit further in this post.

Some people wondered why Ed would be sent to the other side of the house thinking that was some sort of punishment to her, it very much isn’t. Ed is 10 years old and she sleeps the majority of the day. Jolene is 1.5 years old and has lots of energy and it would make no sense to do anything but have Ed on the other side of the house. It causes her no stress whatsoever so it truly is the best option.

I also think people imagine things like they can never be together, like ever which is also untrue, Jolene is not a monster that attacks a dog on sight, this situation has occurred because of Ed behaving erratically triggered by me moving in and out of the house, and she is responding to that.

I know lots of people have dogs that will just look at another dog and attack it, I assure you this is not the situation we have here.

There is no one answer for why, and how, and what is causing this kind of problem in peoples homes, they are all different personalities, with different energy levels, and lots, and lots, and lots, of extenuating circumstances so there is no way to explain the how and the why for every persons dynamic in their home.

Anyway that’s what a lot of tonights podcast is about, we welcome Laura back from being so ill. Lordy the conversation takes a precarious turn that I’m not even going to touch…

Meanwhile... Back at the Ranch... Episode 93 (Audio)

We spent some time chatting about a few things in this video, first of all Laura came down with Covid this week so we missed her for the podcast and the intake of all of these new rescues.

We talked some about the rescue of Amelia Earhart and the difficulties of trying to rescue dogs from the valley and the gift that was Wayne Wickman flying her in to us. And in typical fashion we got sidetracked on to phobia's, who knows how that happens but that's the fun of podcasting.

Meanwhile... Back at the Ranch... Episode 92 (Audio)

Tonights discussion is about saying goodbye to Mama Peggy and Whitey and we spend some time about the many things we face when it comes time to make this decision with the pets that we love so very much. 

Meanwhile... Back at the Ranch... Episode 91 (Audio)

Tonights podcast is all about Corgi's, the podcast is available to everyone in the hopes that it will help find them their forever homes.

Meanwhile... Back at the Ranch... Episode 90 (Audio)

How are Laura and the Rock different?

Who is Lance?

How are you?

Clucking like hens..

Starbucks sizes?

And book reports

It’s one of those podcasts…

Meanwhile... Back at the Ranch... Episode 89 (Audio)

Just a good old fashioned conversation podcast, with lots of subjects including the cats, and cleo and even a little explanation of me taking on my mom's dog.

Meanwhile... Back at the Ranch... Episode 88 (Audio)

Meanwhile... Back at the Ranch... Episode 87 (Audio)

She's baaaaaccckkk

Lady Galloway returns and we had lots to talk about. Come on along and join us...

Meanwhile... Back at the Ranch... Episode 86 (Audio)

This is a discussion that I have wanted to talk bout for a very long time. Getting Dr. Reno can be difficult as she is very busy but this week we snagged her.

The topic that I wanted to discuss is the subject of spaying and neutering our dogs and the controversy with many that spaying and neutering large dogs or giant dogs too early leads to a higher incidence of joint disorders. At this point in time it seems to have just become fact and we hear it over and over again from clients that they want to wait until their dog is 14 to 24 months old before spaying and neutering, but I think you need to consider all of the information before making your decision based on this one study. There are many things to consider and that is why I wanted to talk about this subject.

This information came from a study out of UC Davis almost 10 years ago and what we discuss is in my opinion and Dr. Reno's opinion that the study is very limited to be basing all of our decisions on it. What doesn't get factored in these decisions is the behavioral issues that arise from not spaying and neutering dogs until they are adults.. That is what we discuss in this podcast. At Lone Star Dog Ranch a dogs behavior is let to being a happy social dog that is able to stay with us and we feel that behavior is ignored in these decisions that  families are making based on this study and the results of 759 Golden Retrievers only from the age of 1 to 8.

I will include the study here if you would like to read it for yourself.

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0055937

Meanwhile... Back at the Ranch... Episode 85 (Audio)

As promised we worked really hard on this podcast to try and get all of these Bordeaux’s the exposure that they need in order to find them homes. When we have this many Bordeaux’s we are positive it becomes a blur on who is who and what is this dog about and what is that dog about.

So because of that we gathered together myself and Travis and Wes and invited Emma and Jennah who also work with these Bordeaux’s every day and know the ins and the outs of each of them.

So that’s what we did we discussed them one at a time as individual and tried to include lots of photos and videos of each one of them to help you identify them and get to know them better.