Bewilderbeasts #9: Political Animals Special and Get Out The Vote
Channel: Melissa McCue-McGrath, CPDT-KA
Date: 28/10/2020

With 6 days before the 2020 national election in America, we include kids in the process. She she talks about animals in politics, including a berserker bunny who nearly sunk President Jimmy Carter's boat, why the two parties use a donkey and an elephant for representation, and animals who became town mayors in Vermont. 

Let's go!

https://www.vote.org/

If you have ideas for future episodes, have an animal on your ballot, know of historical animals who changed the world, animals who help humans, or wacky animals in the news, send them in to: 

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About your host:
Melissa McCue-McGrath, CPDT-KA, is a science-based dog trainer outside of Boston, MA, and author of the book, "Considerations for the City Dog". She has a dog training channel on YouTube that has free classes and lessons for anyone who is interested in positive reinforcement dog training. More about Melissa can be found at MelissaMcCueMcGrath.com
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Intro Music is “Tiptoe out the back” by Dan Lebowicz
Interstitial music is by MK2
Taps this week is played by Andrew Dale via Freesound.org
Don’t forget to like, subscribe, review and share with your curious friends - you know, all the things the other podcasts tell you to do? And, for the love of animals and humanity - VOTE. 
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I got today's information from 

https://www.livescience.com/34241-democratic-republican-parties-switch-platforms.html

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/23805/how-did-donkey-elephant-become-political-mascots

https://www.wpr.org/how-did-us-political-parties-get-their-mascots

https://www.dictionary.com/e/political-parties-animal-mascots/

https://www.history.com/news/how-did-the-republican-and-democratic-parties-get-their-animal-symbols

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/02/01/us/goat-dog-honorary-mayor-election-vermont-town-trnd/index.html

https://www.facebook.com/FairHavenPoliceDepartment/photos/a.256838401067240/2785016208249434/ 

 https://preview.tinyurl.com/kupohwe (Wikipedia)

 https://preview.tinyurl.com/y53jeaot (Washington Post)

 https://preview.tinyurl.com/y6buvhsd (CNN)

 https://preview.tinyurl.com/yxrdsr9w (Burlington Express)



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Lastly, I wrote a book in 2015 called, "Considerations for the City Dog". If you have read it, please leave a review and tell your friends! If you haven't, consider purchasing from dogwise.com or amazon.com in either Kindle or paperback format. In these unprecedented times, any form of income would be wonderful, and that book can help a lot of people. So, if you have the means and would like to support dog trainers like me who are trying different things to reach their students remotely, know that every thumbs up, shout out, and purchase goes directly to help us reach our students. 

Thank you! 
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