Meanwhile...Back at the Ranch

It’s just one of those podcasts where we have fun and talk about a multitude of subjects, but land on thrill seekers and the trouble that follows.

Tonight’s podcast is puppies puppies puppies - we discuss the difficulties of having one, and the work that goes into it. Laura shares the details of bringing home Trooper and while thinking she was prepared discovered that she hadn’t.

Meanwhile... Back at the Ranch... Episode 122 (Audio)It feels like we have had so many discussions lately about loss and grief but unfortunately our podcasts are what's going on in our daily life and right now illness and loss in our dogs has been ongoing.Tonight we discuss Laura's loss of big dog and we hope some of you will take comfort in us discussing our feelings.

We spend some time tonight on some serious subjects about dogs with cancer, discussing mast cell tumors and trying to help people to keep an eye out on their dogs and have them looked at. We discuss Vivi's foot at length to try and give people a good understanding of the complications of what is happening with the infection that is ongoing in it.Of course things take a silly turn which is what you see in this preview, never fails we always end up laughing.

Meanwhile... Back at the Ranch... Episode 120 (Audio)Tonights podcast, is all rescue Frenchies all day long. Hoping to give them the exposure they need to potential adopters, giving them the information on each one of them in our rescue.

Meanwhile... Back at the Ranch... Episode 116 Part 2 (Audio)Just a silly podcast we had to fill in with Jessica and I being out of town, the convo is all animals, rabbits, chickens, ducks oh my....

Meanwhile... Back at the Ranch... Episode 118 (Audio)We recorded a couple shows before my mom went to IT-LEE so this is one of those. The first part of our show is brought to you by Taco Bell (lol) and then we do an update about the CaHts, followed by each one of us talking about one of our favorite stories of a dog we rescued. Hope you enjoy!

Meanwhile... Back at the Ranch... Episode 119 (Audio)

Meanwhile... Back at the Ranch... Episode 117 (Audio)The final conversation about what happened with Melba and how I made the ultimate decision to let her go on and be with my dad. We wanted to provide an update on a subject we talked about several months ago and that is depression and anxiety that both Jessica and Wes have been plagued with. At that time they were both exploring the possibility of ketamine treatment and this podcast has them updating how it went for both of them.

Meanwhile... Back at the Ranch... Episode 116 (Audio)Tonights podcast we discuss the the difficulty of making decisions about very old dogs with dementia and quality of life. I've got to make a decision about Melba and it is a challenge for me.

Meanwhile... Back at the Ranch... Episode 115 (Audio)Sorry for the delay tonight with the podcast, lots of things Wes has been working on and a little storm with internet flickering at the same time....Tonights podcast we discuss the whole story of Tim and Begonia and we then work our way to letting you see some video of evaluating dogs for their behavior. The quality of the video isn't as good as we would like and Wes hopes to improve that in the future but we think you will be able to see some things and learn a few things.

Meanwhile... Back at the Ranch... Episode 114 (Audio)I had to share the story of something that just ruined my day...After that guess what ...Laura took another fall...lordy she fills us in on the gory detailsThe majority of this podcast we continue our anger about the breeder of these dogs we took into the rescue and the plight of dogs in these circumstances.

Meanwhile... Back at the Ranch... Episode 113 (Audio)Rescuing these dogs from this "breeder" will be the subject of tonights podcast with a special guest appearance from Ricky Barnes. I share with you the details of trying to get these dogs from this woman, and I must tell you that trying to tell the story of these dogs and where they come from, and to try and protect the ability to maybe get more out of there caused me a great deal of stress.You see as I discuss in the podcast it isn't as easy as just telling the story of the dogs, you have a choice... you tell the story and you piss off the person you are getting them from, and never will you be able to get any others out, or you try and soften the story, try and keep it a little more under wraps to hopefully succeed with getting more of the dogs that are in that hell hole.I tried to be gentle, I tried to not infuriate her, I really did but it didn't work, you see once the condition of her dogs go up on the page, and the condition of their health, their skin, their ears, and of course Hyacinth dying from pyometra due to her neglect, and then the little pup Larkspur dying from having terrible nutrition and pneumonia.BUT...she didn't see it that way, she saw it as me lying about her, she sees nothing wrong with the condition of her dogs, she thinks they are fat and healthy and clean.I'm going to say right now that Ricky could smell the horridness of her house from outside, Ricky said its the worse smell he has ever smelled, and Ricky has seen some things. After I posted about the dogs she went on a rampage blowing up Ricky's phone with voicemails that we all lied and are judgmental about her and she would never work with us again..Honey, I never lie, and I certainly didn't lie about you.So we thought it would be best to just discuss the whole topic in ints entirety with all of the details in a podcast.These dogs lived in hell in a 1,000 sq foot house with nothing but floor to ceiling cages that will knock you over from the yuck in there. Yes she said she was sick for a month in the hospital, yes her aunt died that lived next door and she had to take all of her dogs. BUT ....yes she has been doing this for years and years and years and nothing has ever changed..so the excuse of being sick is just that, an excuse.It is disgusting, Ricky was livid and wanted to do anything possible to get more dogs out of there, that is why we offered to buy some from her, we succeeded, but we obviously struck a nerve with showing the public what dogs look like coming out of her care and her house..Wes always says shame is a powerful thingI failed to tow the line between calling her out on every single filthy thing we saw, or trying to buffer her from that, and get more dogs. It makes me sad that I couldn't balance it because I know the dogs in there need out, but I also know that this lady is just one of thousands of other backyard breeders that are gross and have no business doing what they are doing.Anyway we discuss it at length in tonights podcast but I wanted you to know the struggle this has been. Including the act that no laws are broken here, she would be seen as keeping a roof over their head, she fed them and that would be that..

Meanwhile... Back at the Ranch... Episode 112 (Audio)This is one of those podcasts for fun, Jessica and I are going to Italy and have finally booked the flight, this is a trip that I have wanted to make for at least 8 years, Laura won’t come and we never let her hear the end of it.It moves onto talk about gross things with food, gross bathrooms, and all of things, the metric system, I don’t know how it happens but sometimes we just roll with it, and have fun laughing..

Meanwhile... Back at the Ranch... Episode 111 (Audio)We can sum this podcast up in one wordcAhTs

Meanwhile... Back at the Ranch... Episode 110 (Audio)A few topics tonight, personal space, an update on Bubb's, making practical decisions about a sick dog, prolapses, special needs dogs and we revisit the story of Joe Joe and Hercules...

Meanwhile... Back at the Ranch... Episode 109 (Audio)Tonights podcast we discuss adopting older dogs, the fear of losing dogs that may not have as long of a life as a younger dog, and grief and how people deal with that in various ways.

Meanwhile... Back at the Ranch... Episode 108 (Audio)Laura recently changed her little tiny dogs to dehydrated raw food so we discuss that topic for a while, from there its carrot cake, cookies, chocolate pie and traveling home from Oklahoma in ice.

Meanwhile... Back at the Ranch... Episode 107 (Audio)

Meanwhile... Back at the Ranch... Episode 105 (Audio)

Meanwhile... Back at the Ranch... Episode 104 (Audio)

Meanwhile... Back at the Ranch... Episode 103 (Audio)We feel like a broken record but its what is engulfing our life right now. This podcast was filmed yesterday where we discussed Bubbs and then we lighted the conversation because it tends to get exhausting and heavy. Laura fills us in on her New Years Resolution and her enjoyment of the purge...

Meanwhile... Back at the Ranch... Episode 102 (Audio)This is the last podcast we recorded for 2022, sadly it had us discussing the virus, discovering a clients dog passing away in the night and of course we discuss Jolene at length.I know that all of you know how difficult this was, I know that many of you have been through the same thing, and I know that there are many of you who are facing it right now. We try and discuss it in every way possible to help people with the feelings that come with this, it certainly is a very difficult decision and because I discuss it openly and honestly, it leaves me open for criticism and this is exactly why so many people feel shame and guilt about making the same decision.I hope those of you who feel that will listen to this podcast, and hopefully it will help ease that pain, even if it's just a little bit.

Meanwhile... Back at the Ranch... Episode 101 (Audio)

Meanwhile... Back at the Ranch... Episode 100 (Audio)We wanted to circle back and discuss the treatment that Jessica was headed for with depression on a podcast a few weeks back. In addition to a few other topics we will fill you in on how that went as well.

Meanwhile... Back at the Ranch... Episode 99 (Audio)

Meanwhile... Back at the Ranch... Episode 98 (Audio)Just a chitty chatty podcast discussing trying to exercise with your dogs and trying to talk Laura into traveling outside of the country 😂We cover talking about adopting out 24 puppies at Jenns house, the role her and Laura play together and the long process it truly is.

Meanwhile... Back at the Ranch... Episode 97 (Audio)This podcast is off of the topic of dogs, but that’s just how it goes sometimes.I know so many people that struggle with mental health including Wes and Jessica who struggle every day with depression and or anxiety. It seems that it is an epidemic, tonights podcast gets personal with the subject and what we feel like contributes to it especially with young people now.I’ll leave it at that, it may be something you have no interest in, it may be something you have great interest in, when recording a podcast sometimes the topic heads off in a way we didn’t anticipate, we are just people sitting together and having a discussion.

Meanwhile... Back at the Ranch... Episode 96 (Audio)Jessica was out of town but Eva stepped in for a little bit in our podcast to fill us in on Taylor Swift 😂We discussed lots of updates about how Melba is doing and handling making adjustments for a very old dog. We also spent lots of time discussing my pack with Jolene and Ed and Loretta on what I have seen and how that is going.

Meanwhile... Back at the Ranch... Episode 95 (Audio)

Meanwhile... Back at the Ranch... Episode 94 (Audio)As I mentioned earlier this week we spend some time discussing the situation with Jolene and Ed at the house. I do want to clarify a few things because I think people tend to imagine the worst case scenario and so I want to talk little bit further in this post.Some people wondered why Ed would be sent to the other side of the house thinking that was some sort of punishment to her, it very much isn’t. Ed is 10 years old and she sleeps the majority of the day. Jolene is 1.5 years old and has lots of energy and it would make no sense to do anything but have Ed on the other side of the house. It causes her no stress whatsoever so it truly is the best option.I also think people imagine things like they can never be together, like ever which is also untrue, Jolene is not a monster that attacks a dog on sight, this situation has occurred because of Ed behaving erratically triggered by me moving in and out of the house, and she is responding to that.I know lots of people have dogs that will just look at another dog and attack it, I assure you this is not the situation we have here.There is no one answer for why, and how, and what is causing this kind of problem in peoples homes, they are all different personalities, with different energy levels, and lots, and lots, and lots, of extenuating circumstances so there is no way to explain the how and the why for every persons dynamic in their home.Anyway that’s what a lot of tonights podcast is about, we welcome Laura back from being so ill. Lordy the conversation takes a precarious turn that I’m not even going to touch…

Meanwhile... Back at the Ranch... Episode 93 (Audio)We spent some time chatting about a few things in this video, first of all Laura came down with Covid this week so we missed her for the podcast and the intake of all of these new rescues.We talked some about the rescue of Amelia Earhart and the difficulties of trying to rescue dogs from the valley and the gift that was Wayne Wickman flying her in to us. And in typical fashion we got sidetracked on to phobia's, who knows how that happens but that's the fun of podcasting.

Meanwhile... Back at the Ranch... Episode 92 (Audio)Tonights discussion is about saying goodbye to Mama Peggy and Whitey and we spend some time about the many things we face when it comes time to make this decision with the pets that we love so very much.

Meanwhile... Back at the Ranch... Episode 91 (Audio)Tonights podcast is all about Corgi's, the podcast is available to everyone in the hopes that it will help find them their forever homes.

Meanwhile... Back at the Ranch... Episode 90 (Audio)How are Laura and the Rock different?Who is Lance?How are you?Clucking like hens..Starbucks sizes?And book reportsIt’s one of those podcasts…

Meanwhile... Back at the Ranch... Episode 89 (Audio)Just a good old fashioned conversation podcast, with lots of subjects including the cats, and cleo and even a little explanation of me taking on my mom's dog.

Meanwhile... Back at the Ranch... Episode 88 (Audio)

Meanwhile... Back at the Ranch... Episode 87 (Audio)She's baaaaaccckkkLady Galloway returns and we had lots to talk about. Come on along and join us...

Meanwhile... Back at the Ranch... Episode 86 (Audio)This is a discussion that I have wanted to talk bout for a very long time. Getting Dr. Reno can be difficult as she is very busy but this week we snagged her.The topic that I wanted to discuss is the subject of spaying and neutering our dogs and the controversy with many that spaying and neutering large dogs or giant dogs too early leads to a higher incidence of joint disorders. At this point in time it seems to have just become fact and we hear it over and over again from clients that they want to wait until their dog is 14 to 24 months old before spaying and neutering, but I think you need to consider all of the information before making your decision based on this one study. There are many things to consider and that is why I wanted to talk about this subject.This information came from a study out of UC Davis almost 10 years ago and what we discuss is in my opinion and Dr. Reno's opinion that the study is very limited to be basing all of our decisions on it. What doesn't get factored in these decisions is the behavioral issues that arise from not spaying and neutering dogs until they are adults.. That is what we discuss in this podcast. At Lone Star Dog Ranch a dogs behavior is let to being a happy social dog that is able to stay with us and we feel that behavior is ignored in these decisions that families are making based on this study and the results of 759 Golden Retrievers only from the age of 1 to 8.I will include the study here if you would like to read it for yourself.https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0055937

Meanwhile... Back at the Ranch... Episode 85 (Audio)As promised we worked really hard on this podcast to try and get all of these Bordeaux’s the exposure that they need in order to find them homes. When we have this many Bordeaux’s we are positive it becomes a blur on who is who and what is this dog about and what is that dog about.So because of that we gathered together myself and Travis and Wes and invited Emma and Jennah who also work with these Bordeaux’s every day and know the ins and the outs of each of them.So that’s what we did we discussed them one at a time as individual and tried to include lots of photos and videos of each one of them to help you identify them and get to know them better.

Meanwhile... Back at the Ranch... Episode 84 (Audio)Soooo. sometimes we sit down to podcast and we have absolutely nothing planned to talk about...This is one of those and in true reality it turns into a Seinfeld episode and off it goes...Mostly we talk about Trav's vacation in Boston with some very bad Boston accents. 🤷‍♀️🤣It just continues to go off the rails but we laughed so hard we cried and hopefully you will too...And no we aren't showing the pic of the "baby" 😂

Meanwhile... Back at the Ranch... Episode 83 (Audio)We had Emma sit in with us this week for our podcast before Travis went out of town. She always has interesting stories from her days in the ER so we thought we would share some of them tonight.

Meanwhile... Back at the Ranch... Episode 82 (Audio)We shall just say the first part of this podcast is filled with TMI, sometimes we just have conversation that we don't necessarily mean to have but it makes us laugh so we just keep it in. The second half of this podcast we discuss dogs with obsessions with things, shadows, sticks, balls, laser toys. How to identify it and what to do about it.

This podcast is filled with stories, the update on the CaHtS.The story of SteveThe story of LarryThe story of Laura being mean.Lots of rescue stories and a video of Pappy Van Winkle watching TV,I loved that dog..

Meanwhile... Back at the Ranch... Episode 80b (Audio)Tonights podcast is the part two continuation of our podcast sitting down with Aaron Stewart the trainer from The Educated Dog

Meanwhile... Back at the Ranch... Episode 80a (Audio)We welcomed Aaron Stewart from The Educated Dog to come sit in with us on a podcast, we literally talked for hours so we had to divide the 3 hours into two podcasts. This is part one, we will share part two some time soon. Aaron has years of experience training dogs and lots of good stories to talk about. We hope you enjoy listening in.

Meanwhile... Back at the Ranch... Episode 79 (Audio)A couple of months ago we recorded a podcast with the history and back story of all of our dogs, only those that are currently living.As I said last night, I have always known that I needed to do a podcast about Mooie alone. It’s hard to explain the essence of Mooie but thousands of you have been here long enough to remember.She meant everything to me, she was tiny, she was hilarious, she was fearless, and she was undeterred by anything life threw at her and when you listen to this podcast you will understand just how much was thrown at her, and subsequently me.The story obviously doesn’t have a happy ending, Mooie was ripped away from me in 2016 at the age of 8, but that doesn’t mean this podcast is filled with sorrow, there are lots of funny stories and photos and videos of this little nut Moo Moo.Poor Wes has worked his fingers to the bone with getting the Bet video done before this morning but in addition to that I spent 3 hours gathering photos and videos of Mooie that he has to sort through and get inserted into the podcast at the appropriate times. I added so many videos at the end of Mooie at her best, chasing chickens, loving puppies, chasing the mop, etc etc etc…I’m sure its clear to you just how much I adored this dog and I cry today when think about her and remember the pain and the loss but I can also recall the hilarity that was Mooie.I will warn you there are some graphic photos when we discuss flesh eating bacteria trying to literally eat her alive, I felt it was important to put them in to understand the magnitude of what this little 13 pound dog had to overcome.I mostly hope you walk away after watching this podcast with a good solid understanding of the story of Mooie…

Meanwhile... Back at the Ranch... Episode 78 (Audio)Tonights podcast we welcomed Emma to come in and sit with us. Emma works at the ranch and works at the sanctuary. She is a vet tech with lots of experience working in a very busy ER.We thought we would tackle a lot of subjects including dogs overheating, snakebites, reverse sneezing, and bloat to name a few.Travis of course updates us on Birdie with her snake bite and we did have to handle a live emergency during this podcast that we left in because that is our life and you want to be able to see and hear that.

Meanwhile... Back at the Ranch... Episode 77 (Audio)We made it!!Back upstairs to the podcast room after a couple of months with not ability to get up there.We primarily focus this podcast on a dog like Missi, a returned intelligent rescue who took ownership of her home. We try to go into all of the details of how this happens, what it looks like very early on and how to correct it if this is what might be happening to you.