Meanwhile...Back at the Ranch

Well we intended to have a serious podcast……..

Best laid plans,

It went sideways talking about food, Jessica won’t share food, Jessica is always hungry. Travis wants really nice restaurants, and we ask what does that mean?

Bad birthdays 😂

We have had some heavy podcasts in the last few weeks so this one is pretty light and just for fun. And CAHTS!

Come along and sit in with some conversation

This weeks podcast is a subject that affects so many people, we get emails and phone calls about this subject constantly. The subject is having a dog in your home that is hurting people and what do you do. We had a client who had a devastating situation occur that we discuss at length.

It’s truly a huge subject and one that is hard to cover all the nuances in one podcast but we give it our best.

Tonight's podcast we welcome Liz Ross the rescues groomer and foster mom also known as Fake Mama. Liz is tons of fun and she shares with us her history starting out as a groomer and we touch on a few subjects about dogs that need to be groomed with hair cuts and what that means to you as a pet owner.

I dreaded this podcast but I knew it had to be done, I tried hard to keep it from being a cry fest and I think we did pretty good. Saying goodbye to Bea was very traumatic for me, the shock of it is what did me in, as I said before trying to find my rational mind in the midst of the crisis was very hard, thankfully I had Laura, Dr. Reno and the ER doctor all there to help lead me the right way.

It wasn’t all tears we did laugh and enjoy our memories of the Queen, her huge personality and her years of running the yard at the ranch. She most certainly made an ever lasting imprint on so many of us.

I will talk about it some more and we touched on it a bit in this podcast but we will be implementing a water fountain outside of the office at the ranch in honor of her, I will work to find someone who can make a concrete statue of the queen to sit next to it, I think she would like that to be forever known as the Queen of Lone Star Dog Ranch.

We tried to answer a few questions from the page and hit on dog food but also the twist of discussing how we all feed our dogs, the process, the decisions on who eats where, and why, who needs a crate, who doesn’t and why. We also discuss how to find a good brand of kibble if raw or fresh isn’t a good option for you.

This is the podcast to help our rescues find their forever homes. Periodically we like to sit down with all of us and talk about each dog in the rescue to give as many details as we can about them. It truly helps our listeners who are interested in adopting but need more info. Laura will ask any potential adopter to listen in and make sure they feel like the dog is a good fit for them and if not maybe a different dog would be.

This is just one of those good ol chitty chatty Sunday night podcasts where many things are discussed, sometimes it just naturally goes that way, and we enjoy them just as much as a serious conversation.

We recorded this podcast a few weeks ago, this would be the last podcast where the baby boy bears could fit on the table. 

We discuss the subject of microchips, I was a little astonished at how confusing this subject is for so many pet owners. The statistic I found was that 40% of dogs in the country that have microchips are in fact not registered which means they have a chip that will lead to nowhere because no info is attached to it. We try and clarify this subject for so many to help you understand how to make sure your dog not only has a chip but to make sure you get it properly registered to you. 

I’m going to include this link for all of you that fall into this category, your dog has a chip and you are unsure if it’s registered. First of all you can look up any chip here on a universal microchip lookup site: 

https://www.aaha.org/your-pet/pet-microchip-lookup/microchip-search/ (https://www.aaha.org/your-pet/pet-microchip-lookup/microchip-search/)

Second if you have a chip in your dog and you don’t know how to register it here is a link for you to get it registered to you. 

https://petkey.org/Register (https://petkey.org/Register)

If you don’t know if your dog has a chip you need to take it to your vet and ask them to scan for a chip and take that number and check on it, if it’s there and not registered then go and do that.

First we apologize for the delay in this weeks podcast. Wes is feeling better and now has it finished.

We spent the majority of this podcast discussing bad behavior in dogs and why it needs to be addressed sooner rather than later. Primarily we discuss Bibble and her vaccuum issues but it goes beyond that.