peter's township school district and and buy a house as opposed to a condo townhouse and get a dog and so forth but i got to tell you there's a big change in tony since tony got her dog and i would say it's for the better i think is really your first experience with with it directly and so everything is new to you all the the growing process and just you know what they explore and they discover as they get older is all new to me too and then as he and i are together i'm learning how he is communicating with me which i don't think i picked up on those subtle cues at the beginning but now i'm getting the idea that he'll come over and i'm sitting there and he he's in those touch or so he leads with his nose he's not a pop person to touch but he'll take his nose and he'll touch my leg and then he'll look at me and then that's my cue to look at him and see what is it that he wants does he want up on the couch does he want me to follow him does he want to go outside so he's made the contact with yes so how do you then determine the that he's what he wants oh well of course you know i expect him to answer me and i go what do you want and then he'll look at me the ears go up and then so i'll go through a litany of things to do you one up and the feed makes no effort then i know i stand up and then when i stand up if he wants to play he runs and gets a toy if he wants to go out he runs over to the doors so he's got your attention yes he's made you get off the couch exactly and then  so i would suggest who is training yes well i know he's mr alpha dog i will give in to that i mean we do try to have a shared else but it doesn't always work you know i do try to initiate play so that i'm the one in charge and i do do that but sometimes and when it's indoors and he we've been in for a while and i'm so busy doing other things it's almost like he says to me you need to take a break and so to why he'll come over with a toy and just sit there with a toy and like let's go towards what was the first shocking thing he did that you were totally unexpected heat acorn's oh that's actually not that's actually taught a stick and so luckily his come and teach me how to have him leave it drop it he understands those commands on his time and it's just not consistent with them and so we work through that and we practice  but if he wants it it doesn't matter to you know he just won't listen sometimes to me you know i'm not always in charge i know that and so that's an issue with him so in now he's learned you know he eats undesirable stuff so i don't know where that came home or why yeah oh you know i actually i prefer one it is whole because it is easier to get it oh yeah it comes right up again now if i can grab it out of his mouth i will access where we're sitting or whatever so and he's thirsty he tells me and so he looked at me and i'll go you guys have to watch it s he's telling you exactly what he needs so every time i see it he's been doing this for years and it just shocks me because it's it's it's there is found a way that they know we understand yeah right he if he's feeling sick when he's in bed i can tell because he gets close to me there really he's an independent sleeper he wants his own little burrow under the bed at the end and that is his right and but when he's not feeling well he comes next to me and he goes and or you know and i you know you know what's going on any kind of comes up and then he'll jump over top of me and lay there and he'll turn around and look at me and then i know it's going to be a throw up episode or he needs to go outside yeah so he's very good about telling me feel sick so i get abby when she wants you to pet her or there because you know how they are they'll just scar everything up and then look at you like are you going to feed me and so i put it in one of those tricky tree type of balls and then he rolls around there's a pole that again that will sometimes it will roll under a piece of furniture and he can get under there sometimes he'll cry but if i don't hear that he'll come and get me and he touches me with the nose and then he walks and he sure looks at me are you  coming and then i follow him and i go right after him and then he'll say he'll go over to wherever the furniture is and he'll sit and then he'll look in the direction of where it is but remember  it was really going dog he has at it as a puppy all the other ones of the rescue dogs and i train with no knowledge of training i train duchess and if her water bowl is empty she would walk to the kitchen sink and look up at this at the faucet on the screen and just sit there and stare at the faucet because she knew that she wanted water right now she knew where the water came from and she would tell us and she used to get that she was around to the litter and she would get better infections because her urine  we didn't take her outside and she would get up in the middle and i go wake my father up make him follow her to the people had was and she would say squat to and she would turn around look at look and show that she's unable to pee look up at my dad look down look up and i witness this and look down and you sit there and say this is the animal yet she's telling him i'm sick help me yeah they communicate so well want to look at the window she goes to the window she turns around and she looks at me like ok open the window does the same thing put his nose on the window and then turns around to me yeah that's something you think you know how do they how do they put all that together you know i kind of wonder like part of even one of them and think we are right well you know there was a great show i want to tell you week or two ago on sixty minutes and they had a segment on dogs in the intelligence of dogs and they were talking about now they are starting to study dogs in a way that they used to study apes because they're finding out that there are some parts of dogs that are far more intelligent than apes are and they take direction better and it's probably come through all those years of bonding with humans and that's there's a man that's trained his dog has a one thousand word vocabulary of now and verbs you can pick among like the hundreds of toys and it in like a verb command with that toy and that dog will do a lot of crawlers graduates of can do that yeah exactly i did teach and you know that's pretty amazing when you think of it and you sit there and think like i know dogs that that understood german that he travel with you when you go places not too much and not a good idea of traveling was coming here to the high school or going up to peter's words park i take him up to the church he was a volunteer the other day for family promise and we slept overnight at the church where we were hosting the homeless he got a shout out from the minister he is a volunteer he did real well the kids love him and it's great therapy for them and it's almost like he knows he can sense that they need well that touching of him we had a guest on the show veronica marley who was a dog communicator reiki master and and i think they do more than sense they're able to pick up on the energy and the thoughts and like she was saying and we're all energy and we're we're all connected and we're we're communicating with one another right now so so has i know in a multitude of positive ways oscar has impacted your life has there been any negative impacts on your life as a result of having an oscar the only negative impact is i can't just take off or not is free yeah like if somebody invites me to go activities are if i have to i can work them overnight or yeah i took him with me he slept overnight at the church prevent me from doing that i have a window with tucker you know everything i do including travel time is within the four hours yeah so you learn to deal with in the end it's just part of your life yeah tony we're going to go to a little break here for a minute and we'll be back with your watching healthy pets healthy honors and we're with our special guest my cousin tony snow koski and her body oscar changed our lives that impact our lives and little little nuances that we pick out as as they train us to accommodate them in their lives tony what happens when when he wants to go outside for any reason if he wants to go outside he is not a barking dog he doesn't go to the door and to let me know i can be totally another part of the house and will never know he had to go outside he i have sliding glass doors and he's been trained to go out the back sliding glass doors and i have these vertical blinds and he hits the vertical blinds in the right that that that that that that you know they just go back and forth if i don't hear it i don't know so if he sits there long enough and i do see him on no he goes outside but if i don't think you'll come and get me and then often i'm downstairs and working in the computer room and he'll come downstairs and touch me with his nose and then turn and go back up the steps so i know he needs to go outside and you take him for long walks he has is you know a genetic defect in his back legs so we can do almost up to a mile of the time good and so i take him out in the morning and i take him out once in the afternoon so he gets about two miles in and i get about two miles in with him in the summer time he's a terrible walker he doesn't like the heat and humidity anything above sixty eight seventy he just doesn't want to bother going out there you couldn't live with anybody and then no and then in the winter time anything below i'd say about twenty six twenty seven he doesn't want to go out so he has this little window of temperature preference so if he he's not too bad if it's a light rain he's ok which doc says don't like rain or snow and if it's a heavy year he'll just look out at it and then he'll turn around and go back in even if he's asked me to go outside to turn around of that so they're hysterical and if he doesn't want to go out i know for sure he rolls over on his back yeah he's almost like a two year old trying to come up and he embryonic and he'll sleep there or if he doesn't want any noise and he just wants a quiet he goes in the back bedroom and goes up on the bed just falls asleep so he's very good about putting himself but he has a real wind up period  before he's goes to sleep so you have a routine when you feed him how does it communicate with you with if he's if it's time to eat oh yeah if i'm reading or computing or watching television and it's dinner time which is six o'clock in our house he comes right over touches me and will sit there and just look and if i continue to do what i do he jumps up on my lap so he sits he faces puts his face right mine and looks to me like let's go it's time to get this dinner going and a look at him and i'll say to him is it time to eat in the ears go up and he jumps off and he goes right in the kitchen i'll come in from hiking and and and i'll sit on the help of the shower sit on the couch and i'm like ok now i'm like all tired and i'm watching the clock and i know it's time to feed them and three of those four that i have there's just fine and they're  resting they're doing whatever doing but little zoe she's like like a time clock and she sits there and she goes like right on the dot turn around to look up there and then a look at me and i go i'm right i'm a little off schedule today so so your mom my aunt was not a dog lover an animal lover of any kind whatsoever so i'm having a conversation progress yeah she's mellowing it all those years it uses her up there you deprive me of this right i'm actually glad i waited till i retired well it's not fair to the dog for you to be gone all day i was going to put him in a crate i couldn't do it i mean just me i couldn't do it so i joke because sometimes people ask me if i want to take part time jobs and work or substitute is a like there are like cattle although that's changing right but in europe where you go to a restaurant you the dog sits at the table with you right it's like something i think i think because we were such an agricultural country farm land and the dogs were farm dogs  on the patio and he cornered it one shake done done gone i told him to drop it and think goodness you listen to me i scooped that little bugger up there wasn't a puncture wound in that thing on the patio and probably for eight years seven eight years that toad was there and that toad came out only when i came out with the dogs and my dogs would go up i had already been crank  and then i got sugar and they they would go up to the toad sniff the toad whatever didn't bother the togo but sure we get to try to get birds all the time she had she got a couple actually interesting didn't come up when you're and then i saw the dogs go over to the hole sniff the hole and then walk away so i figure the total died but it was two things were amazing to me the fact of the total come up when i came out and the dogs were there and hang getting a dog and as little experience like you did i think you have to patients and you have to understand that they're going to consume time at first at the same side of that you're getting somebody else's dog that they gave their habits and you have to break those kind of kind of maybe you were ok with that i think one of the best things i got was from you know her mrs miller trained dogs which she told us to obedience classes and peters i took him to those classes because she taught me on how to handle a dog so it doesn't matter i guess where you take the classes but it helped me knowing nothing to have somebody who was experience with dogs absolutely or that world with me and one of her best pieces of advice was acclimate your dog to people get them out you know let them sniff people let them be around people and so i took him to donaldson's crossroads i took him to the part i got him to know people here and so he's very very bad about people with i would say the owner of the other thing that i would probably add to what you're saying is that you've got to match the right dog to the right person and of course