Animal Party - Dog & Cat News, Animal Facts

News about Pamela Anderson’s latest Peta poster and the Rodeo gone wrong and right plus information on how to stay safe this summer and have happy times with your pets at home, on the road, the beach, the dog park and vacation trips. What can we copy from how we act with pets to make our love relationships better? Deborah shares the recipe for anti-skunk stink cleaner and more practical pet tips....

Tim Link joins the party to talk about animals and how they think and communicate with thoughts. He can read your pets. Deborah asks him if they think in words or pictures or something else and he explains. Plus Tim does some readings for pet life radio listeners who emailed photos and questions. Why does one cat bully another? Can Tim help teach some cats to wait to be called before jumping up on...

The party gets started with a party joke as Deborah reads a funny paragraph about dog poop from the book, ‘A Year in Merde’ by Stephen Clarke. A whole lot of goldens, labs and mixes of the two are coming to the party and they are all so well behaved walking on their harnesses and laying down politely without raiding the buffet; these aren’t the rude Labs and Goldens we often see counter-surfing an...

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...

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 usi...

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...

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...

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 fa...

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 polic...

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 whe...

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...

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? P...

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 f...

What is the strangest job for dogs? Our party guest today is Kristen Smith from Planet Dog and she’s here to tell you all about the service dogs her products help support; Seeing eye dogs, hearing dogs, dogs of war, epileptic seizure detection/escort dogs and new ways service dogs are helping kids with diabetes and autism. Planet Dog sells eco friendly dog toys, and dog stuff like cheeky bumper st...

Lisa Peterson, Director of Club Communications for the AKC comes to party and talk about breed bans and why they don’t work and how the Canine Good Citizen program can solve the public safety problem much better. Plus Lisa tells you how you and your mutt or purebred dog can have a blast at AKC events; every dog has a sport they love from digging and tracking to obstacle racing or duck retrieving a...

Deborah Wolfe parties with Dusty Rainbolt, Author of ‘GHOST CATS’ & ‘Cat Wrangling Made Easy’. First we answer an email from a frustrated pet owner who has a ‘Dennis the Menace’ cat named Lex who jumps up on the keepsake counter and knocks off plants and pictures to get some play action every night. Dusty gives many solutions to this cat prankster including some fun and easy tricks. Then Debor...

Have you tried to give your cat a pill? Or a bath? Expert tips on how to understand your cats better and get smoother results. Deborah talks about the latest scientific research to underestimate the communication intent of the dog bark and tells you about a new kind of healthy milk taking off in Europe. Then Beth Adelman, ‘the Cat Lady’ Columnist for the New York Sunday Post joins the party to tel...

Dogs do make us happy! Deborah brings you the results of a Japanese Scientific study that noted oxytocin caused by the love of dogs. Deborah begins by telling you what toy dogs and Captain Kirk have in common then the party guest arrives and it is Darlene Arden, author of ‘Small Dogs, Big Hearts’ & ‘Petiquette: Rover Get off her leg! She Joins Deborah to talk about small dogs, their bodies, pe...

Want to listen in while two dog experts visit and exchange ideas in depth? This is your chance to hear Dr. Stanley Coren, UBC Psychology Professor & Bestselling Author, interpret his book, ‘ The Intelligence of Dogs’ helping you understand what this means for training your own dog or for selecting the right type of dog in the future. Deborah Wolfe, and Dr. Coren share some historical dog stori...

Deborah welcomes Professor and Author Dr. Stanley Coren to give you the highlight lecture, the cram session notes on the ‘Intelligence of Dogs’. Deborah begins the show with animal news; Goat Canucks Goat? Deborah becomes a hockey fan finally after years of resistance. A three year old girl survives a cougar attack when her mom jumps in between and beats the cougar; Cougar safety for humans and pe...

Join the Animal Party and check out the water bowl talk about justice for animal crimes, bears, blue fin tuna (aka toro) on your sushi menu, and hear Deborah Wolfe’s dog trainer’s review of ‘Marley & Me’ now on dvd. Do you know how many animals were domesticated in the last 4,000 years? Find out when cats and dogs first joined up with humans. Stacy Mantle from Pets Weekly Magazine joins Debora...

Obama picked the right kind of dog but not the right name. Do you know which animal brain is most like the brain of a bi-polar human? Are pit bulls bad to the bone? If not, why are pit bulls in the news so much for violent attacks? Host, Deborah Wolfe takes a look at the issue of bad dog breeds, breed bans, and chained dogs. Cats invented the real estate time share concept says Dusty Rainbolt, aut...