Sunday Morning: The Pet Project

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Learn more@edwardjones.com good evening, I'm Jane Pauley and this is Sunday morning. On Friday night where your tonight for kind of project of hours, specifically will give thanks to all the pets in our lives. Some wild animals as well.

With the help of Jean-Jacques and Chi-Chi here.

It's easy enough to imagine these two back at home with their real forever families but just how far into the animal kingdom does not welcome mat extend Martha Tyson or looks into it. Snacks is one hampered is she just a little spoiled, but have no say that but then before Christmas by a leopardprint robe with a magenta boa and a big rhinestone ass and another human sized woman with a big D on it very much.

Tim Taylor and Dana Boyle snacks his parents.

That's what they call pet owners these days don't care if people think they're nuts.

I generally fall asleep on the couch with her slick there all night so when we went furniture shopping. The last time we literally said we need something deep enough because I need to build the spoon with my pickle night. Jim and Dana often welcome squirrel girl into their New Jersey home as well.

She's not exactly a pet but close. Nearly 85 million American homes are home to pets as well as people. Three out of four dog and cat owners consider their pets, members of the family. Pretty obvious from these pictures viewers sent us so no surprise there is scientific research proving that your pet is good for your health. When we are in the presence of our stressful structure to measure things like was all in the bloodstream and slower when you're paying not, but we also direct our research labs that have shown that when we pet animals as well.

Alan McConnell heads the Department of psychology at Miami University in Ohio as compared to non-pet owners self-esteem exercise their less lonely. We know that they tend to have lower blood pressure. They can engage with difficult math problems better than people who don't have pets around them. Wait math problems should have taken my pets to college. McConnell's latest work looks at anthropomorphizing projecting human qualities on pets as people view their pet as a family member to a greater degree they get more well-being benefits from referring to them as your babies not so ridiculous after all. Kayla Clark and Chloe Prieto, a lawyer and teacher stuck at home because of coronavirus tried for nearly 8 months to adopt a shelter dog. Lots of application that when somebody else always beat them to which until peanut butter showed up on the website of one of New York City's animal care centers.

It was really meant to be small dogs like peanut butter or Rosie about to be renamed Daisy by Octavia Osman and her daughter Soraya fly out of shelters. It's the bigger older dogs that are harder to place. Who hasn't heard that during coven. Everybody's been adopting pets not true. Nationally, a survey of nearly 1300 shelters shows that adoptions were actually down 19% through September compared to last year. That's more than 200,000 animals. But then, fewer people have been giving up their pets during the pandemic homebound nation's been up in the hands virtually.com with 60,000 products available online. It's like Amazon but for food and supplies. It now has 18,000 employees 11 distribution centers, pharmacies, veterinary telemedicine and 17 million customers.

We out of more than 4 1/2 million active customers.

The just since coven submit saying the proud parent of D here. Work is CEO of chewy thing about this, but the pet industry in 2020 food and supplies will grow roughly 3 1/2 million dollars truly grow $2 million off the 3 1/2 million dollars in a $100 billion dog eat dog business.

Pun intended. Julie.com tries to win loyalty.

This is my dog. By doing things like surprising customers randomly with a hand-painted portrait based on the picture they've uploaded to their pets profile when a portrait shows up your doorstep unannounced total surprise and delight something to stare at fondly whenever you're not fulfilling your duty as a member of your pet staff.

They got your number slinky's got mine about people loving their animals. I had Lee Cowan chats with Michael J Fox about the rescue dog who rescued him. David Pogue introduces us to animals making a splash online down visits with Mindy Irwin carrying on in the footsteps of her late father animal conservationist Steve Irwin, Tracy Smith looks into why some people are trying to cheat death by cloning their beloved pet gets our patent project on Sunday morning.

On Friday night will be back welcome back to Sunday mornings pet project.

It's easy enough to imagine Joshua here is an online video star and as David Pogue shows us, she'd have plenty of company you hold the world's first Video made by Thomas Edison in 1864. Nobody knows how many likes it got. Since that pioneering masterwork of feline film viral pet videos have become a cliché. The Internet has the Internet matures something funny is happening tomorrow. Pet videos something funny and something wonderful when we started the company. There was kind of pure fluff which is get out just kind of silly videos laughing at the cat is the leader founded the Dodo.com in 2014. Today it's animal videos get 5 billion views a month. Their heartwarming short videos about animals that overcome abuse or medical problems are many who find joy in interspecies relationships really try to highlight things like animal emotion and expressiveness agency point of view, spontaneity and all the things that make animals human and it's not all just for people to go all writers and activism on them is not the word I would use necessarily so he could be changing people's minds about stereotypes related or we could be actually getting animals adopted or we could be raising donations for certain sanctuaries, online videos no longer exist only for passive viewing pleasure were starting to get involved with the animal welfare in all my days was just make people laugh possible that Nelson is the creator of we rate dogs social media accounts that post-hilarious daily profiles, wacky and lovable dogs. This is Darla. She commenced to snooze mid-meal.

13 out of 10. He writes every caption himself and he rates every dog at least 12 out of 10, this is Manny. He hasn't seen your croissant. 13 out of 10, Nelson started we rate dogs is a twitter account in college and when it took off. He dropped out to manage the account full-time today. We rate dogs has 9 million followers and hopeful owners send in pictures of over a thousand dogs a day on, but one day in 2016, Nelson featured a senior pug who needed $700 for a doggy wheelchair served 450 3C $60. Thus began the weekly we rate dogs fundraising appeal for dogs who need medical care. What readers every single Process and fully funded is bullet handy sport nearby. I can see why you love them all really special this goofball's name is bullet is human's Casey Freund condition cook their little triangles bullet could barely walk, but Freund found a neurologist who is willing to attempt the nine hour surgery.

The bill $12,000 on my credit card.

I was just myself and then we rate dogs. The saved me from that. So one day they post bullet story and we rate dogs.

What happens is actually so they have a story posted within an hour and within an hour after that all the money had been fund raised in tears because it amazing when nothing happens and you don't expect that sweet poster boy over and the most recent update is sprinting down a few that you did that really is just a tiny little miracle for the dues is easier going to work every morning means getting those audiences involved and maybe even cheering them on people happier on my whole life I have been made fun of for loving animals down my chin. Oh, you're so emotional that at the same time you when you really get people one on one. Most people really love few public figures have done more to bring the world of exotic animals into our homes. The latest TV conservationist Steve Irwin.

It's a mission.

Seth Stone tells us that his family pursues to this day. His family has always worked from home even for lockdown, but there's no shortage of space or things to do, what with 700 acres and 1200 animals. This is not your typical family business to take over, bring us drill use you is not just home but life mission of the Irwin family mom Terry kids 16-year-old Robert and 22-year-old bendy, and bendy's new husband, Chandler, grateful that we've been given this unique opportunity to be able to do what we love, which is kind of animals all day, but then also take it to a new level of educating people on how to make a difference in the wild surname was made famous synonymous with animals by Irwin. He was the energetic TV conservationist who seemed almost jumped through the screen. Terry is an American tourist visiting is to first spotted her husband to be wrangling a crocodile's signature their adventures together, never slowed you know if there was a whale stranding in Tasmania like were leaving in an hour working a film for three weeks. We gotta tell the story Steve told those stories until 2006 when he was killed by a stingray in a freak accident bendy just ate but already comfortable in the spotlight spoke at his memorial service, rejoicing, dad capturing parts. Since then, continuing what he started. How often do you think about Steve all my goodness every day, every minute of every day, every day is a tribute to his life.

Was there ever any doubt that this was going to be your life's work. Your think of being an insurance lawyer something else now. I think for both of us. We boys just had such a huge passion for wildlife and for conservation. I remember the first time we have a defeated Croke.

Mindy was 10 years old and then when I 1010 if you use lighter with the right of passage from a good parenting exactly show wins on animal planet chronicles their efforts to educate and expose people to the wonders of the animal world through your work.

You talk about turning create this connection between people and animals. But how do you find a balance they are still wild animals that are respectful and responsible appreciation for wildlife through tourism is really what's gonna say this message is resonating bendy.

Not only has 4 million Instagram followers, but this yes there's a bendy Barbie doll. It's serious work that funds wildlife hospital. They opened in 2004. In that first year, they treated 64 animals now though.

See more than that every single day. Robert showed us around via video chat kind of the daily work that happens here. This rising wildlife hospital. That's a koala on the operating table. The habitat quality dwindling in the kind of isolated to small islands at this point disease spreads very very fast. The hospital was inundated during the devastating bushfires earlier this year which burned more than 20% of Australia's forests and killed as many as 3 million.

Yes, billion animals. Then on top of that is huge knock on effect Wegener feel for decades to come for so many species they rely on these beautiful large areas of natural habitat, then the pandemic brought another challenge keeping all of this going without visitors.

Their main source of revenue and some very big bills. Animal food was $80,000 a week. He finally reopened after 78 days all animals were just as excited as we were jumping out of the Chandler Powell married into the family this past spring after a pitch perfect courtship which no surprise involved a crocodile their engagement and wedding were all documented on their show. Now they're expecting a baby girl.

She already has some sort of little safari shirt and khaki keys, not just it's not your typical family business, but my favorite line of work, the Windsor hearing on Steve's legacy and apparently inherited his affinity for having so much of their lives broadcast, hoping their love of animals might just inspire your now some breaking news, President-elect Joe Biden and his wife Jill won't just be bringing their German shepherds major and champ to the White House, the Bidens tell us exclusively that soon they'll be joined by a Take-out with preacher Garrett this week Stephen Law ally of Mitch McConnell in one of Washington's biggest midterm monument list for me to Senate races you think Republicans have the best chance of taking a democratic seed what Nevada not Georgia. Georgia is right up there with New Hampshire's products to New Hampshire people really just kind of don't like you have for more from this week's conversation, follow the take-out with major Garrett on Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

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When the king of the family moved into the White House. They brought with them you an abundance of charm and plenty of patch multiple dogs God Tom kitten parakeets named Bill Maybelle Alan Price is a director of the John F. Kennedy presidential library and Museum in Boston. He says Americans were instantly taken with the families four-legged members how many American kids wanted a pony. After seeing Caroline with macaroni. Everybody wants a party after the but it was a gift from Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, a clamorous dog named pollution, that set tongues wagging, arriving with her own passport pushing, was the offspring of Soviet space dogs. She fluffy she is definitely a fluffy dog dish sense of humor.

She's from the Soviet Union. I don't know. I don't think we have that recorded as well as remind she was fetching enough to catch the eye of Charlie, the Kennedys locationally handsome Welsh terrier therefore beautiful puppies together in life is good. The president dubbed the offspring pup next to some this furry first family melted hearts during a particularly frosty. I have directed the continued and increased surveillance of military buildup that that helped sort of fall. The cold at a very tense time. It is a very tense time and that human connection is tangible.

It's real and it's part of the presidential story captured our collective imagination. When Pres. Kennedy was assassinated. These pets become a big part of the memories that America holds over time that so abruptly. One of the cutest and rarest of creatures. Most likely will never find a place in our homes, but it does have a very secure place in our hearts.

Rita braver lays it out in black Chinese name shall keep Jeannie's a little miracle giant panda cub morning at the Smithsonian's National zoo last August was destined to be a star.

Is it true that there were so many people watch this as it started to happen at the panda cam crashed.

Oh yes were down very quickly that something was going on, you know everyone is home is in the middle of the pandemic. Everyone was watching something positive that was going on. So yeah, everyone wanted to see the birth and Lori Thompson, who helps run the panda program here says the world kept watching his mother major nurse the baby from hairless Bob into a cuddly come shallow TG won't meet the public for a while but earlier this month we got aware look through the glass as Thompson and she that Donald night for perform their weekly exam touch. All the limb stretch out the joints is growing gangbusters. He looks great at 22. The Cubs mom made sure is now the oldest panda in North America birth I healthy Cobb she's geriatric for panda so we were not necessarily expecting a cub. One reason there are so few pandas in the world's emails are in heat just a couple of days a year.

In fact, may shine in the zoos. Now panda T NTN made Xiao GG and his three older siblings to the wonders of modern science. She's always been artificially they've never been able to figure it out.

They try, but they have lots of issues with that. This time they didn't even bother T NTN using his five-year-old frozen semen in order to minimize contact among the zoo staff during the pandemic learned about the new baby. Send me an email saying congratulations on your the father of a new baby panda well fairy godfather. At least Rubenstein Washington businessman has helped bankroll the pandas since 2011. He's watched with cautious pride. As research developed here helped move pandas from the danger to the vulnerable list in 2016. You only have about 2500 of these pandas in the world. So while there not quote endangered. They're not actually in abundance, either pandas at the national zoo and everywhere outside China are actually on loan from the Chinese government, call it pan diplomacy. I do think that the US is not a very good job in working with the Chinese to make certain that we will have more pandas for quite some time.

Like his older brothers and sister Xiao GG will be sent to China after a few years, but in the meantime he will be a constant reminder of the need to preserve his whole species. People are, save and conserve what they don't know and don't understand, so if nothing else, this panda goes up to continue to say were out here. Please take care of us while you can.

There are celebrity paths and then there are celebrity pet lovers like Michael J Fox. Here's Lee Cowan it's been 35 years since a whitening sent Michael J Fox back hillbillies clock never really recovered. Hands are still stuck at 1004 but the clock ticking down to purge the great thing we are at the courthouse square on the universal lot we thought he was a perfect place to chat with Fox, now 59 years, but the other jewel in his life, his beloved dog Gus Powell well is pretty much remarked great Dane itch Fox called that's his nose in Fox's latest book. No time like the future were God's is featured prominently no matter what you switch no matter what you would use the channels with you and you will Gus has been by Fox's side. Almost half as long as Fox has been battling Parkinson's disease. Some days are better than others. This one somewhere in between. Three. Good day, feathers on its knee when he got two years ago was a tumor that had to be removed from his spinal cord. But we returned home in a wheelchair. Gus was way in circles looser with this little army looking dogs just seem to get when you're not at your best.

Right when you're not feeling right. He knows about me when you're jealous is is sometimes actually was as far as possible see you W. He swears the reason people stopped to talk to them during walks in Central Park is because God's not because he is Michael J Fox MRG not a normal.what is clear is Fox's voice. This is the perfect fit for a movie doll assessing the litter box. I hope that if dogs could talk to have Fox's sense of comic timing is spot in Central Park bench plaque for Mike Fox and Gus Reed's New York. His wife Tracy Paul gave it to him for his birthday reminder Gus is every bit as human as anyone else sits on a bench walks together me more than most of us will ever really know. Especially as Fox's walking gets focused on learning to be in the moment, moments like this where the restorative power of a slobbery kiss really says it all known S silent Cal Pres. Calvin Coolidge was a man of words. Many pets, the colleges were known for being animal lovers, which is why people sent them animals as presence is Andrew Hager's story and in residence at the presidential pet Museum Harvey Firestone tire magnet gave him a pygmy hippo.

Others gave lion cubs a black bear even a wallaby. Yes, the Coolidge White House was really hopping, but while most of those were shipped off to the zoo. There was an unlikely exception. One of Calvin Coolidge's supporters for Mississippi decided to send the colleges a Thanksgiving dinner and what he sent them was a live raccoon. Have you ever tried raccoon. I have not tried rec. I have taste like chicken but for the Coolidge is that idea was off the table. They decided well were going to keep her instead. So Coolidge gave her a name Rebecca and then he gave her stumbling so Rebecca had jewelry. Yes, you have a handmade collar.

Actually it's on White House raccoon on it. Now the press was pretty rough on Rebecca Cleveland plain dealer called her the most obstreperous of all Coolidge's patents. That is tough to be called obstreperous chapter still with the tabloid rumors. What do we know about Rebecca's love life. Well, they got her mail raccoon name Ruben but Rebecca and Ruben did not get along at all.

Coolidge finally left the White House along with the rest of the family. In 1929, but not without leaving her mark on presidential history. When you go back and you look at the pets, the presidents have had since Coolidge.

There's nothing quite as unusual as a raccoon. Sad to think that time will inevitably take our beloved pets from us but do we have to let them go. Here's Tracy Smith.

What happens when it hurts too much to say goodbye.

The way David and Alisha share heart toward their yellow lab. Marley never knew just how much until that day back in 2014 they were hiking with him these hills near their San Diego home steeper than we had anticipated, and so Alisha went off the path to grab all the walking stick to help do the paragraph and Marley all of a sudden just like darted from me is our call on the ground were Alisha was reaching for a walking stick and I didn't know what was happening and Alisha, fell back there when I looked more closely, so it was a rattlesnake.

Rattlers like this guy are common on these trails for the share heart's snakebite out here. Could've been a real disaster.

This trail is incredibly steep miles from any hospital, the share heart didn't have their phones on them and Alisha is four months pregnant. Thankfully, 12-year-old Marley scared the snake away and a few months later, share heart's first daughter Maddie was born. Marley saved my family you know and we got emotional time and just just realize how lucky we were that he had done that, but by then, Marley been diagnosed with cancer and by Thanksgiving weekend 2014, it was clear, the end was near. Just remember the last thing you said to him was, you know, this kept saying thank you for being the best dog crime) needed to was just out of love and their love for Marley was so strong they couldn't really let go. So this your hearts turn to Biogen pets of Austin, Texas, a company that is cloned hundreds of pets for a multitude of grateful owners, including one Barbra Streisand you helped Barbra Streisand cloned her.yet, her daughter passed away about what you and very quickly and actually spokesperson Mullane Rodriguez says it works like this. Your vet takes a tissue sample from your pets and sends it off to Biogen and for as much as $50,000. You heard right. The company will culture the cells create embryos and plant them in a surrogate and deliver a clone of your loved one about animal rights groups say forcing dogs and cats to be surrogates for clones is simply inhumane. You know that the Humane Society says that should be outlawed in their opinion, we have a lot of clients that would be the case now we get positive feedback continually wonderful notes of appreciation that our clients as this is something that we provide and happy is the operative word here. This is Marley's clone yellow ball of exuberance, but to David and Alisha share heart is nothing less than Marley reborn.

They rang the doorbell dog and I just stood there with my mouth open for like five minutes because I just couldn't believe how exactly lux. He's almost like an exact replica is exactly between Marley reason. I guess the same environment. So really, he's become the same dog and well cloning is still controversial. It can mean for some at least five that with the right amount of love science and money never really need to say goodbye. Perhaps no presidential family had more fun than Teddy Roosevelt's at the White House and here at historic Sagamore Hill families longtime retreat in Long Island, New York.

You know Roosevelt's six kids grew up with no fewer than 40 animals nearly every dog had a today at the Roosevelt's Jack the terrier was so revered he was given his own funeral service Park Ranger Scott Kearney and I paid observance at Sagamore Hills pet cemetery rock there some special and special pets were given special names Joe side of the badger was a real honey Eli the macaw was a standout and Peter rabbit kept the place jumping tested fears the families one legged rooster but the adorable little fur balls named after local dignitaries caused some confusion to the kids come rushing no father father donors or children of stairs and explained to the best known is surprisingly the Roosevelt own Bullmoose.

What's not surprising is that the man known as the conservation president would see the value in raising his children around animals thought having a pet would teach the child responsibility and empathy that requires to take care of another case in point Archie Roosevelt was lying sick on an upper floor of the White House. Youngest brother Quentin brought their pony Algonquin up for a visit by the new White House elevator that the fund family attended the oldest son phrase that we were expected to have an maraca on presidents and their pats as our loyal viewers know we begin each Sunday morning with a trumpet fanfare and tonight we thought we'd end on the same note, this time with accompaniment Jane Pauley thanks to Gigi and John-John. We hope you've enjoyed our pet project and hope you'll join us this and every weekend for Sunday morning. Drew Barrymore all my goodness, I want to tell you about our new shout business podcast and in each episode mean weekly gastric and cover all the quirky find inspiring and informative stories that exist because well maybe you do too. From the newest interior design trend Barbie car to the right and wrong way to wash her arm.

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