The Petcast

Barbara Osborne, a guinea pig expert (she has 12 of them!) from Palm City, Fla., joins Steve, Emily and studio guest/bird expert Amy of Grits to Glitz podcast to discuss the idea of pocket pets. Is there such a thing as a "starter" pet? Steve thinks maybe. Some good links for guinea pig people is on the site. Call 206-350-DOGS, e-mail [email protected], our blog is thepetcast.blogspot.com and the site is www.thepetcast.com.

Emily's neighborhood and household is full of mysteries: Why is Archie getting up so early, why was Emily's dog-walker taking him on a gigantic walk and what are those dead yellow birds we talked about on her sidewalk? We deal with all that and more. Amy from GritstoGlitz.Com joined us in the studio and got a surprise - Emily brought in one of the dead birds in a Tupperware.  Amy tells us what the birds are and offers ideas as to what they are.

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Patie Ventre, World Canine Freestyle Organization, discusses her national organization in which people dance with their pets.  Also, Emily claims a cat in her neighborhood stalks her and Archie.Read the blog at thepetcast.blogspot.com, e-mail [email protected], call us at 206-350-DOGS

Comedienne Paula Poundstone has "11 cats, a big stupid dog, two tadpoles, a bearded dragon lizard, and a bunny." The "Wait Wait Don't Tell Me" regular panelist joins us to talk about her brood and to explain the difference between being a cat enthusiast and being "the cat lady."

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Surveys show San Francisco is the No. 1 place for dog owners in the United States, but that doesn't mean that everyone gets along. Controversies surrounding dog parks and leashing have erupted, so the city set up what it believes to be the only municipal Dog Advisory Committee in the nation. What do they do? We ask Bob Palacio, the city staffer who oversees it.

Also, Emily and Steve don't quite buy the recent study that claims that the direction of the dog's wag represents the dog's happiness.

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Dr. Gerald Post, founder of the Animal Cancer Foundation, discusses new treatments and research and responds to the question of whether it's appropriate to do heroic treatments for pets.

Also, Emily related the tale of losing her famly dog and Steve talks about a CuteWithChris.Com episode about a cat that got a makeover.

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Emily hurts herself at dog agility practice, Steve wonders how to avoid having his dogs ruin a new $4,000 couch -- for which he only paid $1,200, fyi -- and Emily's sister is baffled by the death and ressurrection of Bluey the Beta Fish. Also, should you rat out ferret owners and Steve talks about the ferret and bunny he once owned. Briefly in both cases.

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Emily is baffled by what seems to be a parakeet colony in her neighborhood and why Archie wakes her up but not her dogsitter. Meanwhile, Steve is happy that he's down to two peaceful, happy dogs.

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Folks from the feral-cat rescue group FLOCK join Emily and Steve in the studio with three adorable kittens available for adoption. They're so CUTE, but they don't seem to have much use for Steve. Jimmy, our cat-allergic engineer, however, was a big draw, of course.

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We return to several controversial topics of late. Emily responds to a scathing letter about the Taildocking and Ear-cropping chat from No. 66 and then we chat with Margery Glickman of the Sled Dog Action Coalition, who asked to respond to Iditarod trainer Vern Halter's comments about the conditions of the dogs on episode No. 69.

It's not ALL serious, though. Emily treats us to a bit of audio theater as she narrates a very funny diary of a dog and cat from the Internet.

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