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PetLifeRadio.com - Animal Party Episode 19 Inside the Wild World of Feral Cats

05/20/10 • 46 min

Animal Party - Dog & Cat News, Animal Facts, Topics & Guests - Pets & Animals- Pet Life Radio Original (PetLifeRadio.com)

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 truly is threatening a vulnerable bird nesting area, the colony is moved; most of the time the conflict is based on myth not fact and the cats are actually helping the birds with rodent patrol. Eggs and chicks get eaten by rodents constantly on every farm unless either cats or poison are at work.
The Tweety vs Sylvester model just doesn’t match up with our rat, and mouse infested, pollution, and fertilizer reality. Why should you spay or neuter your cat? Deborah gives you the selfish, safety and training reasons to alter your cat, and Marci gives you the scary numbers. 3+1= 20 explains Marci who has a whole new kind of math she calls ‘Cat Math’. This party is full of take home party tricks; Marci shows you how to call kittens with a cooing noise so they’ll come and eat and Deborah tells you how to plant your garden with cats in mind- you can draw them to certain areas and keep them out of others just by choosing the right ground cover and plants.
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PetLifeRadio.com - Animal Party Episode 18 The Cat Coach Tackles Bad Habits With New Clicker Tricks

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 using the clicker and her new book. If you’ve got a cat of any kind you can use her tips to curb the mischief and get some great two-way communication going with trick training. You can also use your cat’s new ability to come or sit or high five on command to silence the smug cat hater in your family. We ask Marilyn her opinion on Trap, Neuter and Release feral cat management efforts, her opinion on the indoor vs. outdoor debate for pet cats and what she knows about declawing.
Deborah adds news items from around the world that match the topics plus contrasts dogs with cats in places to keep you dog lovers enjoying the show. If you’ve got a cat hater in your family you can listen to this show and you’ll be able to show off a cat trick and silence that smug person. Do you know which animal brain is most similar to the human brain; the cat or dog? Listen to the show and find out while you also learn how to solve the most common cat training problems. Mordecai Siegel, cat and dog expert and author, ‘Uncle’ and mentor to many other writers and experts will be sadly missed by both Marilyn and Deborah who share their thoughts in the wake of his passing.
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PetLifeRadio.com - Animal Party Episode 20 Assistance Dogs for the Blind and Kids with Autism

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 and begging -- they must be well trained ever so polite Guide Dogs. Barry Dunner explains what its like to walk the blindfold walk with only a seeing eye dog for eyes. And Deborah asks what exactly Autism support dogs do for the kids they serve.
Did you know the dog stops the child from rocking and helps in ways besides keeping the child from running away? Barry brings touching stories about the impact of the dogs he’s seen trained to serve. It costs $35,000 to train a Seeing Eye dog and the blind person pays nothing, but there is a wait list and demand is high. Barry and Deborah discuss the training, placement and the effect of getting a dog placed; it’s a ripple and everyone wins! You can find out more about Guide Dogs at www.bcguidedog.com
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