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ANIMAL RADIO® | August 2nd 2005 Newsletter
Programming with a Purpose
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In this issue:
MEET YOUR MEAT BEFORE YOU
EAT IT - THE FAST FOOD CRAZE
ANIMAL RADIO's LIVE BROADCAST
FROM SOUTH LAKE TAHOE AUGUST 13th
PETS,
PARKS, BEACHES & PLAYGROUNDS COULD PROVIDE A HAZARDOUS COMBINATION
CATS HAVE DEFECTIVE SWEET TASTER RECEPTOR
WHAT'S
SO WEIRD ABOUT BEING A HERPER?
ANIMAL
RADIO LIVE AT THE SAN DIEGO PET EXPO SEPTEMBER 24-25
GET YOUR PET'S PICTURE ON
REAL U.S. STAMPS
WHERE TO TAKE
YOUR DOG IN CALIFORNIA
PRODUCT REVIEW
KOOKY KAT CATNIP - DOGGONE CRAZY BOARD GAME
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ANIMAL RADIO NETWORK
PROGRAMMING - AUGUST 2005
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ANIMAL RADIO with Hal Abrams, Judy Francis, Rae Ann Kumelos, Darlene Arden and YOU!
This week:
Author Tina Volpe author
of The Fast Food Craze -
How fast food is hurting out bodies and our animals.
Dr. Joseph Brand, Associate Director of Monell Chemical Senses Center
Defective taster receptor gene in cats. Why Fluffy hates sweets.
Wallace Swett of Primarily Primates
Why monkeys don't make good pets.
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The Fast Food Craze: Wreaking Havoc on Our Bodies and Our Animals
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Hear Author Tina Volpe this
week on Animal Radio http://AnimalRadio.com
Meet your meat before you eat - What's being killed for you might actually be killing you, too!
Author Tina Volpe became a vegetarian 30 years ago when she was just a young girl. For as long as she could remember, she'd felt a kinship with the farm animals that lived on her family's property and was inalterably affected when these creatures turned up as food on the dinner table.
Five years ago, she took her compassion to a new level.
Disturbed by yet another news report about the obesity epidemic in this country and its inescapable link to our craving for fast foods, Tina decided to investigate. What she uncovered made her both furious and frustrated.
"We are literally killing ourselves by our addiction to some of unhealthiest foods on the planet," she explains. "Fast food corporations may soon have to put warning labels on their products." But it gets worse, she says.
"Our nation's insatiable appetite for meat has given rise to giant agricultural corporations which, driven almost exclusively by profit, are forcing animals to live in the most horrible conditions and then slaughtering them in the most inhumane manner imaginable."
The Fast Food Craze: Wreaking Havoc on Our Bodies and Our Animals, by Tina Volpe, helps people make better choices about foods and about what's really important in this world. The Fast Food Craze reveals how we're destroying our bodies at the expense of animals - animals that are known to be loving, social creatures.
"We are killing them and ourselves for no logical reason at all," says Tina.
(Hear Tina Volpe live this week on Animal Radio. http://AnimalRadio.com)
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ANIMAL RADIO
LIVE FROM SOUTH LAKE TAHOE AUGUST 13TH
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We're back on the road bringing
you the best of Pet-Friendliness. Animal Radio's Pet Friendly
Tour of America continues.
Catch us live in South Lake Tahoe and Carson City
on August 13th. Two-States in one day.
Hold on California and Nevada! Animal Radio
will be broadcasting LIVE and NATIONWIDE from:
LAKE TAHOE WILDLIFE CARE,
1485 Cherry Hills Circle, South Lake Tahoe,
CA, from 10am-12:00noon PST.
and then we'll broadcast from:
PETCO,
911 Topsy Lane #108, Carson City, NV from
2:00pm- 4:00pm PST
We'll
have stuff from Farnam, makers of Comfort Zone.
and then we'll broadcast
from:
...plus another special event at a
super secret location to be announced on-air and online.
Bring your pet for prizes! We'll be loaded down with great stuff!
We'll also get you qualified to win the "No Name" Summer Giveaway.
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PETS, PARKS,
BEACHES & PLAYGROUNDS COULD PROVE A HAZARDOUS COMBINATION
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Its
summer and the kids are outdoors. That means lots of playground,
park, and beach outings! Parents need to know what risks their
children face from contaminated sandboxes, dirt and grass found
in our favorite Summer time spotseven our own backyards.
Diseases passed from animals to people-called zoonotic diseases-are
spread directly through contact with infected animals, or indirectly
through exposure to contaminated waste and soil. Typical zoonotic
diseases are hookworm and roundworm infections. Children are most
vulnerable in places like sandboxes and playgrounds where pets
play too.
Children infected with roundworm can suffer damage to vital internal
organs and inflammation of the retina causing permanent partial
blindness. Hookworms generally migrate under the skin causing
inflammation of the infected areas and leaving extremely itchy,
winding red trails under the skin.
According to The Centers for Disease Control (CDC), there are
more than three times as many reported cases of roundworm infection
in humans than the highly publicized West Nile virus. In addition,
there are more than 1 million cases of hookworm reported worldwide
every year.
Dr. Michael Rubinstein, Clinic Director of the Humane Society
of New York can be heard this week on Animal Radio
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CATS HAVE
DEFECTIVE SWEET TASTER RECEPTOR
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Scientists
from the Monell Chemical Senses Center, in collaboration
with scientists from the Waltham Centre for Pet Nutrition, UK,
report
that a defect in a gene that codes for part of the mammalian
sweet taste receptor can account for cats, indifference to sugar
and other sweets.
Cat owners have long recognized that, unlike most mammals, domestic cats are uniformly uninterested in sweet-tasting foods. According to an early study conducted at Monell in the 1970s, the same indifference to sweets is also evident in wild cats such as lions, tigers, leopards, and jaguars.
"One possible explanation for this behavior is that felines are unable to detect sweet-tasting compounds like sugars and high intensity sweeteners because their sweet taste receptor is defective," comments Xia Li, PhD, a molecular geneticist at Monell and lead author of the current study. "An obvious place to look, therefore, is at the genes coding for the sweet-taste receptor."
(Hear the entire interview with Dr. Joseph Brand, Director and Member of the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia on Animal Radio.)
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WHAT'S SO
WEIRD ABOUT BEING A HERPER?
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To most civilians (i.e., non-herpers), reptiles and amphibians
are just plain weird. Some have shells. Others have no legs. Many
eat (yuck!) bugs or (double yuk!) mice and rats.
To these same civilians, herpers come in a close second in the
weird category. And as you know, we herpers are proud of our weirdness.
This
is especially true of herpers who are willing to go way beyond
what "normal" society defines as the call of duty in
terms of taking care of animals.
My daily e-mail contains at least one good, "You wouldn't
believe" story from a herper.
Many of these stories involve food, both human and herp.
For instance, there's the creation of two shopping lists - one
for humans, the other for herps. And the issue of who gets the
best quality food. In this case, the humans always lose. The family
gets the canned goods, the iceberg lettuce, maybe a chopped tomato
and cucumber for their salad; their herps enjoy the freshest,
and most expensive Boston or red-leafed lettuce, fresh cantaloupe,
and hothouse tomatoes.
When there's a pet shop in the mall next to the supermarket, a
third shopping list is also created. This one includes mice, feeder
goldfish, superworms and crickets.
Herping has been known to change the way herpers look at other
animals.
Take the lady from the Midwest who hates cockroaches. Now she
raises them. They make excellent treats for her bearded dragons.
Or the avid Texas baseball fan who, during night games, can't
keep his attention from straying from the field to the bugs flying
around the lights. Hmm, he thinks, wouldn't my lizard love some
of those bugs?
Of course, herper madness does not stop with food. A couple I
know love to shop for furniture. That's because they've converted
lots of their old furniture into cages.
Others have remodeled a room into a walk in-cage for a full-grown
iguana. Some rip out prized rose bushes so their turtles can have
a bigger pond.
There's even been serious negotiations over whether or not to
add a wing to the family house - not just for herps to move into,
but to display a herper's hundreds (or was that thousands?) of
herp knick-knacks.
Herps of course, start to affect many other parts of your life.
Your family complains that they don,t see you anymore. Or they
refuse to let you leave the house without a written promise not
to return with another snake, frog or turtle.
You start to develop different sets of friends - herp people -
and everyone else.
And when your spouse says, "Either the herps go or I go!",
you hesitate. You negotiate. You beg, bargain and plea.
This is where the Herp Postnuptial Agreement was first introduced.
In the case of herp lovers married to each other, it lays out
how who gets what herps. (Only kidding; but it sounds like a good
idea.)
It's not all bad though.
Your friends and family always know what to get you for your birthday,
Mother's Day, Father's Day, or wedding anniversary - anything
related to your favorite herp.
These same people also start to visit you more often. After all,
you have a better, more varied and healthier herp collection than
the local zoo. And the kids can ask the "zoo-keeper"
all the questions they want.
And that is something any owner of any animal (dog, cat, bird
or herp) most desires - being able to talk about your beloved
pets for as long as you like!
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Hear
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SAN DIEGO
PET EXPO SEPTEMBER 24-25
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ANIMAL RADIO LIVE BROADCAST-
Visit Animal Radio at the San Diego Pet Expo, where we will broadcast
live on September 24th, from 10am to 12noon PST. The San Pet Expo
is San Diego's premier pet event helping to promote responsible
pet ownership and care. The San Diego Pet Expo's goal is to bring
pet-related companies and consumers together for an entertaining
and educational experience for adults and children of all ages.
A wide variety of pet-related exhibitors such as manufacturers,
distributors, retailers, clubs, and animal care professionals
showcase new products and services to a target market attendance.
Over this two day event, exhibitors will be provided the opportunity
to increase sales and expand their customer base. Attendees of
all ages will experience world class entertainment, pet adoption
opportunities, product giveaways and view spectacular exhibits
from the most established and most exciting new pet-related companies.
You can learn more about the expo at: http://www.sdpetexpo.com
Keep your eyes on the Animal Radio website for details on this monumental Adoption Expo Broadcast.
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PRODUCT REVIEW
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(rated 5 paws)
KOOKY KAT CATNIP - BUDZ IN A BOTTLE
The Kooky Kat Catnip - Budz in a Bottle - really lives up to its name. Animal Radio tried the oil on the studio cats, and it did just that, it made them kooky. All of the studio cats normally respond to catnip, but the oil was more concentrated and we were able to spray it on an old catnip toy to help rejuvenate it. The oil is in an easy to use spray bottle, only takes a tiny spray and lasts a very long time. You can use it on their beds, toys and even their scratching posts, the uses are limitless. Just be sure not to spray it directly onto your cat. Overall, it was a big hit with the Animal Radio studio cats, and will be with yours too!
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(rated
4 paws)
DOGGONE CRAZY BOARD GAME
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CALIFORNIA
PET-FRIENDLY PICKS
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California
is so doggone dog-friendly these days that it was hard for Maria
Goodavage, author of The Dog Lover's Companion to California,
to keep the latest edition of her fun bow-wow bible to 1,000 pages.
Here are her top picks for great places to visit with a pooch
when traveling around the Golden State. Her ranking is based on
overall dog friendliness, which includes dog-welcoming parks,
beaches, lodgings, restaurants, and fun diversions. If your dog
deserves a vacation (and what dog doesn't?), the places below
should be high on your list.
1) Carmel
2) San Diego/Coronado
3) Mendocino
4) Mammoth Lakes
5) Santa Barbara
6) Napa Valley
7) Lake Tahoe
8) Big Bear Lake
9) San Francisco
10) Palm Springs
If your pooch likes to be pampered while on the road, she'll be happy to know that many hotels roll out the red carpet for canines. Here are a few examples of places to stay with a dog who likes the high life. (These descriptions are excerpted from more detailed entries in the fifth edition of The Dog Lover's Companion to California.)
Hotel Monaco, San Francisco The hotel's mission is to seduce and pamper, and dogs are not excluded from this noble cause. The Monaco offers something called the Bone A Petit Pet Package. It includes bottled water, clean-up bags, dog towels, quality chew toys, gourmet dog cookies, and temporary pooch ID tags. You can also ask the front desk for Lassie, Babe, or Dr. Doolittle videos. The price for all this: $0! Yes, free! In addition, so that your furry friend won't be lonely if you need to step out, dog walking or sitting services are available for a fee.
Cypress Inn, Carmel Dogs get the royal treatment here, in part because actress and animal activist Doris Day owns this sumptuous hotel. The stately Moorish Mediterranean-style inn is very elegant, with fine oak floors and delicate antiques, but you never feel out of place with your dog. Day's staff makes sure your dog feels especially welcome, right down to offering pet beds and pet food for your four-legged friend. The hotel staff will help get you a pet sitter, should you decide to venture out on your own without your dog.
Fess Parker's Four Seasons Resort, Santa Barbara Fess Parker's dog guests don't have to watch hungrily as you chow down on your tasty room service meal: They can order their own. The in-room pooch dining menu includes premium ground sirloin, a quality brand wet dog food, and gourmet dog cookies. And if you really want to treat your dog, canine massages are available. For $65, your dog can get a 40-minute in-room massage from a dog-knowledgeable massage therapist from the resort's spa
San Ysidro Ranch, Montecito Upon registering at
the Pet Register and wolfing down some tasty peanut butter biscuits,
the guest dog goes to his cottage and finds his name and his accompanying
human's name on a sign outside his cottage door. Inside, he'll
be greeted by a basketful of VIP goodies, including a bowl filled
with squeak toys, rawhides, tennis balls, cookies, and a two-liter
bottle of Pawier water. His bed is soft and cedar-stuffed.
A room-service pet menu offers several dining items, including
biscuits, ravioli, cheeseburgers, canned dog food, and even New
York steak. If we could afford to stay here, Jake would surely
check off every item on the list, vacuum it down, and wait patiently
at the door for room service to deliver the next course.
Pooches who stay here can also get a luxury most people would
drool for: A professional massage. A "slow and gentle"
massage is said to increase circulation, help aches and pains,
and soothe away fears. A half-hour massage costs $65. (Really.)
L'Ermitage, Beverly Hills Dogs get a doggy bowl, a pooch bed, and a menu upon check-in. It's the most fascinatingly expensive and fancy pet room service menu I've ever seen. Some of the items: grilled fillet of beef with organic rice and brown gravy ($28), poached salmon belly in frothed milk (for kitties I imagine; $23), and the piece de resistance, beluga caviar with a hard poached egg ($155; Again, it must be a rich cat thing. I've never spent that much on a dinner for four much less on an appetizer for a pet.).
Loews Coronado Bay Resort, Coronado (San Diego County) -- The treatment
dogs get here is nothing short of Red Carpet, thanks to Loews'
Very Important Pet Program. Your dog will be welcome with a note
from the hotel's general manager. It includes a list of nearby
dog-friendly locales, as well as groomers, pet shops and vets.
In your room you'll find food and water bowls, treats, and toys.
A doggy room-service menu is also available, with items that sound
so good you might be tempted to share them. If you forgot a leash
or your pet's bed, you can borrow these from the concierge's "Did
You Forget" closet. Dog walking and pet sitting can be arranged
if the staff isn't too busy. If you opt for a pet sitter, you'll
get a Puppy Pager, which allows hotel staff to contact you in
case of emergency.
(Hear us yapping with Maria Goodavage live on Animal Radio. http://AnimalRadio.com)
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NO NAME SUMMER GIVEAWAY
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Grand Prize Package Includes:
Bissell - Spotlifter Deep
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Steps for Pets - Cat Condor or Dog House
Loews Hotel - "Pumped Up Pets" Package
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This package get's bigger every two-weeks. You can qualify as many times as you wish before Septemeber 27th. Drawing is live on-air the first week of October.
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