Ep 9: Political Animals Special

With 6 days before the 2020 national election in America, Melissa 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.

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About your host:

Melissa McCue-McGrath, CPDT-KA, is a 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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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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Your host, Melissa McCue-McGrath is an author, dog trainer, and behavior consultant in Southern Maine. She'll talk about dogs all day if you let her. You've been warned :)