Sit back and enjoy this mash-up gleaned from 4 years of HRN Holiday Radiothon specials! Featuring clever conversation, listener submitted songs & poems, Hedwig wisdom, and a fantastic interview with dressage great Jim Koford! Tigger and Pati are taking some much deserved time off, but we have some great holiday tips and moments for you!
Listen in!
Guests and Links for Episode 172:
- Link to Sound File for Sight Impaired: Click Here
- Co-Hosts: Tigger Montague from and Pati Pierucci from from Pierucci Dressage
- Ask Hedwig
- Learn more: Holiday Tips for Horses, Humans and Dogs
- Image source: BioStar US
Buckaroo, Tigger’s nine-year-old Australian Shepherd, is a connoisseur of foods, treats, and his human’s peanut butter jar. Tune in for Buckaroo’s evergreen holiday tips for horses, fellow canines — and of course, humans:
1. Be sure to leave platters of food on the edge of the counter for ease of canine counter surfing. Pushing plates and platters to the back of the counter makes it hard for Eden, our counter-surfing Australian Shepherd expert, to get the food to us. Come on, it’s holiday time for us too.
2. Lift the embargo of “No Feeding Food to Dogs Under the Table.” Isn’t Christmas the time of giving?
3. Please tell your guests that giving the dogs a few morsels off the cheese hors d’oeuvre plate is not a crime, and we canines promise to be polite by not mistakenly grabbing a guest’s finger.
4. If you don’t want dogs like Crockett and Keen to mark the Christmas tree, keep it outside, okay? Otherwise, it’s not their fault. They are intact males; that tree is an important canine message board. After all, our paws are not highly functional on keyboards.
5. Make sure you have plenty of toddlers around to feed us Christmas cookies when no adult is looking. This is one of the most important behavioral holiday tips for humans. Toddlers are the perfect height for Aussies to grab a free cookie snack out of toddler’s hand or just clean up the crumbs. I am especially adept at washing a toddler’s face with my tongue … just to be helpful of course.
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