Wild About Pets

A dog so clever you may not believe it

2009-02-26T12:11:00.000-08:00

After broadcasting my show with Patricia McConnell on Friday, February, 13, I stopped at my storage facility to pay a bill. I have a piano stored there. The manager of the place and I started talking about dogs. He told me a great story.

He has a German Shepard that was a former K-9 police dog. Quite clever these dogs are. Story goes that Mike and his wife were throwing a birthday party and had a truly huge birthday cake, sitting ready on a table. This room, I'm assuming it was the kitchen, had one of those locking gates so that dogs, babies, etc cannot enter. Leaving the cake in the room until time to present it later on in the party, Mike shut the door behind him and using a key, locked the door. His mistake was leaving the key in the lock.

Sometime later, He and his wife unlocked the door, entered and found, no cake. The entire cake was gone! The room had clearly been locked. What had happened?. Unbelieving, they checked on their dog. There he was, lying in it's bed, frosting all over its mouth, a huge lump of a stomach and looking rather sick.

Turns out the dog had turned the key, opened the door, entered the room, eaten the whole thing, went back out, pulled the door shut and turned the key to lock the door behind him.
If it hadn't been for all the evidence on the dogs face and the resulting visit to the vet to pump the poor dog's stomach, they never would have believed it. To this day, that dog wants nothing to do with sweets anymore.

Do you have any great stories of your dog doing the unbelievable? Please share.

Ups and downs for pet owners.

2008-12-11T15:16:00.000-08:00

I've been reading in the news about two very different realities for pet owners. One in which people are having to give up their pets due to money issues or losing their homes and second the reports from the pet industry that indicates that sales are still very good for pet treats, toys and new collars, etc. During my radio show interview with PAWS Chicago, we heard that the numbers of pets being given up are increasing. (By the way, check out on their website, the program they have to help people with pets whose homes are being foreclosed). It also makes sense that even if we are financially somewhat strapped, if we consider our pets family members, we are going to spend everything we can on them. What are your thoughts and experience regarding your pets?

Wild animals are not pets.

2008-11-03T16:11:00.000-08:00

I would like everyone to know that the use of wild animal photos on my website does not mean that I believe that the wild animals depicted should or can be considered pets.

My show and website is all about wild animals and household pets and that is why I have photos of both. I chose the name of the radio show and website, "Wild About Pets" to represent this combination; my love and interest of wild animals, my love of pets, and the idea that within our pets lie aspects of their wild ancestry.