Pet Show for Sept. 30
Listen to Pet Show. Host Dawn Marks and guest host Chris Schutz talk with Lt. Brent Koeninger of the Oklahoma City Fire Department about his search and rescue dog Huck. Oct. 1 is Fire Pup Day and in honor of that, we talk about how the jobs of fire dogs have changed.
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Pet Show for Sept. 23
Listen to Pet Show! Host Dawn Marks and guest host Brian Sargent talk to Christy Counts with the Central Oklahoma Humane Society.
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Pet Show for Sept. 15
Cohosts Dawn Marks and Bryan Dean talk with Lesa Staubus, a veterinarian with Oklahoma State University about the university’s partnership with the Stillwater Humane Society on today’s Pet Show.
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Rock the pet vote!
Today’s the day! Vote now for Oklahoman Jody Harlan in the Animal Planet Hero of the Year contest! If she wins, it’s good news for Pets and People out in Yukon. (Listen to Jody’s visit to Pet Show last week!)
Here’s information Jody sent out about the contest:
Oklahomans have an opportunity to vote Sept 14-27 for a Yukon woman, who is one of 10 finalists for a national Animal Planet Hero of the Year award. Jody Harlan was nominated for co-founding a local humane society and a lifetime of other animal rescue work.
Supporters may vote for Jody Harlan once every 24 hours at www.animalplanet.com/hero through Sept. 27. Twenty-five percent of the judging criteria will be based on votes for each nominee. All votes must be cast online.
Harlan co-founded Pets & People Humane Society, which has rescued and placed more than 37,500 abandoned pets from local animal shelters since 1990. She helped two nine-year-old volunteers launch the Jr. Pets & People organization, which earned a national “Do Something!” educational grant in 1993. The junior organization became the only humane society operated by children in the U.S.“There are many volunteers who have done more that I have,” Harlan said, “but I hope everyone will vote for me because Pets and People could get up to $10,000 if we win this contest.”
“That kind of donation would save a lot of pets,” Harlan said, adding individuals can also contribute by spaying and neutering their pets and being responsible pet owners.
Harlan has personally rescued, fostered and placed 356 abandoned pets outside the humane society and operates a sanctioned Trap-Neuter & Release program, which feeds, spays or neuters, and releases wild cats to humanely control overpopulation. In the evenings, she manages a regional email group, which encourages adoption of pets on animal shelter death rows for 150 individual rescuers and adoption organizations.
Vote for Jody here. She’s the fourth picture of the slideshow.
Staff Writer Carrie Coppernoll
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Listen to Pet Show today! Cohosts Dawn Marks and Bryan Dean talk with Janice Bailey with Lab Rescue of OK about Purina’s Rally to Rescue, Doing More for Pets Contest. One of the labs the organization rescued, Pearce, has a chance to win the national contest.
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Pet Show
Today on Pet Show, host Dawn Marks and guest host Jesse Olivarez discuss bobcat fever, which is passed to domesticated cats through ticks. Dr. Coldiron gives some details of the disease and how to do your best to prevent your pet from getting it. Listen up!
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In memory of Boz
One of our favorite Pet Show guests, Boz, recently passed away. Boz, a boxer owned by Dr. Phil Mosca, was a therapy dog at Integris Southwest. You can read the original column I wrote about Boz last year. Also, here a video of a visit with our favorite therapy pup:
Staff Writer Carrie Coppernoll
Pet Show – taking your furry friend on the road
Listen to Pet Show! Our guest this week was the illustrious Harrison Forbes! He’s the host of the nationally-syndicated Pet Talk show and author of the book Dog Talk. He’s an expert who’s been heard all over the world. (And as a side note, he’s been interviewed by Larry King. So in a way, the Pet Show crew is almost as awesome as Larry King. Admittedly, we don’t have suspenders.)
Anyway, Harrison’s impressive resume aside, he spoke to us about traveling with your pets this summer. Anybody who’s ever tried to load up a dog or cat and go for a road trip knows this is no easy task. Harrison gives us some great advice for keeping your pets calm and happy during the drive.
Our Tale Tips for the show are more than necessary considering the horrific heat in Oklahoma these days. Dawn shares info about how to protect your animals from the heat:
- Keep up with your regular vet visits.
- Pets need water and shade when outside.
- Look for symptoms of heat problems – panting, difficulty breathing, drooling, weakness, collapse, seizure, vomiting or high temperature.
- Don’t leave your pet in the car. Seriously.
- Keep animals that can’t swim away from the pool.
- Don’t leave windows open in upper stories. Pets can be attracted to the air flow and fall out.
- Haircuts are good – shaving to the skin is bad.
- Keep your pets off hot asphalt, which can burn the pads of their paws.
- If you’re boosting your lawn with chemicals, use them carefully and away from animals.
Staff Writer Carrie Coppernoll
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Pet Show – ask your boss BEFORE you bring that pup to work
Listen to Pet Show! Carrie and Dawn talked about all the fun ways to enjoy National Take Your Dog to Work Day. Step 1: Make sure you can actually BRING your dog to work. This isn’t an act-first-ask-questions-later situation, people! We also talked about the Oklahoma City Summer Classic Dog Show. And speaking of the show, here are some photos from the event by Oklahoman photographer Ashley McKee! (And yes, I included the one we were talking about – the poodle with no pants!)
Staff Writer Carrie Coppernoll
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I can has adopted?
It’s hard for me to even contain how excited I am by a new partnership between one of the Petshow blogs’ favorite time wasters, icanhascheezburger.com, and Petfinder.com, a Web site that helps people find shelter pets to adopt.
The two are teaming up to help find homes for shelter kitties as part of Adopt-A-Shelter-Cat Month. For the next two weeks, visitors to Petfinder.com can add lolcat-style captions to photos of various kittehs on the site. The most popular photos and captions will be featured on icanhascheezburger.com each day.
Organizers behind the two sites hope the additional attention generated by the contest will help many lolsheltercats find homes. We at the Petshow blog wish them luck.
-Staff Writer Bryan Dean
