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Radio 2SM Breakfast Segment #22 with Kaye Browne

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*** RADIO 2SM PET SEGMENT #22 WITH KAYE BROWNE ***
This week:
Some medications for our pets can be very helpful, but how long should we keep them on them and is it safe to stop their meds?
And Spiders!... Is there an easy and safe way to keep them out of the house?
Also this week...
Cats might seem to be able to look after themselves, but sometimes 'stuff happens'...
How can we make sure they stay safe, especially during winter?
PLUS:
Irresistible training treats – what really works for dogs, cats even birds!
00'00" - Welcome Time Webster and Kaye Browne
00'09" - Pet Medications... Should We or Not?!
03'52" - How Can We Safely Keep Spiders Out Of The House?
06'39" - Cat-astrophic Dangers For Cats! Tips To Keep Them Safe
08'38" - Bones... Should We Give Them To Our Dogs?
FULL TRANSCRIPT:
Seg-22-Edit.mp3 Transcript TIM: Ok let's talk pets. Everybody loves talking about their pets, don't they? And here's Kaye Browne. Hello, Kaye.
KAYE: Hello Tim how are you?
TIM: I'm good. You know, it was bring your pet to work day or maybe just Jesse decided it was. She brought. She brought moon the Rottweiler in just the sweetest dog in the world. So we we love talking about our pets, don't we? Because we love them to death, don't we? Yeah.
KAYE: We do indeed. And we've talked about Moon in the past because Moon had a rough start too, with wanting to escape. So yeah, Jesse has definitely talked about Moon and gotten help for Moon. So how's your dog doing?
TIM: Yeah well, I'm just gonna add to that with our rescue, Ellie, because she was very anxious when we first got her. She's a rescue. And ohh look, I won't go into her circumstances at such a long story, but she was very anxious when she came home, but over a couple of weeks she has calmed down quite a lot. But if I could jump to that story about whether or not to medicate them, and there's a bit of controversy about that and where the reason they might be anxious in the 1st. But she was on medication Ellie, when we first got her, and then we decided we'd gradually wean her off. Now we've done the right thing or not?
KAYE: Weaning her off any medication slowly is definitely the right thing. Was it Fluoxetine commonly known as Prozac? or, you know, another common name.
TIM: Yeah, yeah. OK, so do we get a bit selective with the use of the drugs or can they be I mean ongoing, if you continue to have the problem with your pet?
KAYE: Yeah, look, it's unfortunate that in some ways our dealings with pets mirror what's happening in the human world and medication use is up in both humans and in dogs. In fact, it's definitely one of the third most highest selling prescription medications, but with good reason, because without it, our pets can be so anxious that it actually shortens their life, they get so worried about everything about their owners going away about other animals, their quality of life is hampered, so if your little Ellie is doing well around you and you're obviously very calm and gentle with her and it's just building that trust bit by bit, seeing how you go and if need be, you can go back on it, but you know, if she's doing well, eating well exercising and appears to be sleeping well, I think you're doing the right things.
TIM: Ohh, she's doing all of those things, I mean because she loves her ball and you can just see almost the look on her face to say, well, this is a different environment, but these people are pretty cool and we've gradually taken off and yes, she yeah, she's doing all those things he eats well, loves her exercise, and then he's quite happy now to settle and relax when she first arrived, not so much, so yeah, work in progress, work in progress. And look, we should say too and it's, you know, it's a horrible thing to say a lot of pets are surrendered, dogs in particular surrendered and euthanized, because they are ultimately untrainable, or people think they are aggressive or that.
KAYE: Yeah, absolutely. Professor Paul McGreevy, who you might have heard of. He's the head behaviourist at the University of Sydney vet school, and he's done a lot of work on behaviour, and I've been lucky enough to talk to him many times. And he says a lot of the time it's the owner that needs fixing. So if you are going to have a pet on medication, the other thing you need to do is actually get some advice from a fear free trainer or a professional dog trainer so that you can actually do that at the same time as the medication, otherwise it's no point just giving a pill and you know if they've got separation anxiety, just leaving them home alone, so it's about changing the environment, changing the behaviour and that way we'll have less dogs being surrendered, and more happy, healthy, long-lived dogs.
TIM: Yeah, and the wonderful companions that they are, like beautiful little Moon, the adorable little thing she is, well, she's not that little. She's a Rottie, but she's gorgeous. Now just away from puppy dogs and on to spiders, and some people are absolutely terrified of them. We've had the shortest day of the year, but there's still plenty of winter left as we know, July, August can be terribly cold. What do we need to be concerned about to keep the creepy crawlies out of the house? Whhhoo yeah, I know.
KAYE: Well, just like us, we the spiders like to have a nice warm spot for winter, where there's a source of food and water funnily enough, because spiders can eat up to four times a day, but they can also go several weeks without actually eating because they can go sort of into hibernation. So, the thing is to try and avoid having sources of food like insects, flea, and any of those sort of little invertebrates cos’ spiders are really good hunters and they actually help us out by, you know, keeping the surrounds around our home, insect free but taken to extremes, we really don't want to have them inside and particularly not those ones that might bite.
TIM: Yes, yes, yeah.
KAYE: We don't want those.
TIM: Yeah, and it's true too, some countries actually think they're lucky spiders, don't they? KAYE: They do indeed. In Greece, for example, they think that if you see a spider, it means money is coming your way. I go looking for spiders every Thursday before Powerball but hasn't worked for me yet. TIM: Yeah. LAUGHS!
KAYE: And in Victorian England, a spider on a wedding dress meant good luck for the happy couple, and a lot of people throw spiders out, but my mother always said just gently put a spider outside or else it'll rain. We've had enough rain. I think people should gently put spiders outside, rather than squish them.
TIM: Oh, absolutely. I actually I'll tell you a quick story, we do get the occasional Huntsman, some of them, you know, size of a dinner plate and they're just the Cocker spaniels of the spider world we think. And we do that you know put them under a colander and take them outside but people can be terrified of them because they're so big and they will bite you but only if they're challenged, so it depends on the spider, but Kaye, as you and I both know, some people, it's just a full stop. Spiders. No, that's it. Hate them.
KAYE: Hey, there's a couple of other quick things I can help you with, peppermint works quite well at repelling spiders. Lemon doesn't, so you can use the essential oil. They also don't like music, classical music or even electronic dance music.
TIM: Ohh bless them. They don't like electronic music now I love my Huntsman even more. But the trouble with that is Kaye, I've got to put up with playing it.
KAYE: Well, there is that because I don't think they make headphones for spiders. TIM: Yeah. Now that's the spiders. It is the winter time, and some dangers for our pets. We simply need to warn the cat owners, there are the catastrophic dangers if their pets choose to snooze in the washing machine or dryer, what a terrible story that was.
KAYE: Ohh yes, but this one fortunately has a happy ending. I definitely like those. A little Burmese kitten, a nine month old kitten, snuck into the owners front loader washing machine and unbeknown to the owner, turned it on, well the cat didn’t turned it on, the owner turned it on to a cleaning cycle which is cold water and soap, so at least it wasn't hot water, but it went for 55 minutes.
TIM: Yeah, so how many of its lives did it use up 8?
KAYE: I think it might have it. It also lost a couple of toes, but it's absolutely doing brilliant well. So now the owner is, I guess, warning other people to watch out for things like that I've personally seen in the past that cats love to sit on car bonnets, when you know the owner, has just arrived home and it's still warm, and sometimes they'll even try and sneak in underneath the bonnet so there's been lots of stories of cats, having gone for a long drive with their owner not knowing they were under the bonnet, so the answer to that is really just make sure you've got somewhere nice and cosy up high because they do like to watch from above and they've got a nice warm place for winter to sleep.
TIM: Ohh, they love the warmth our recently deceased, but he was 16 Freddy the Burmese, we got a slow combustion and Freddy would sit on the hearth and you think to yourself if you stay there much longer you're gonna combust. But he never did. They love the warmth, don't they cats. They really do, yeah.
KAYE: They do yea they do, yeah. And then they sit on us and we enjoyed the warmth from them.
TIM: Great talk next week. Thanks, Kaye. Great to talk to you.
KAYE: Thank you. You too.
TIM: That’s Kaye Browne.

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