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Speaker 1: From Meat Eaters World News headquarters in Bozeman, Montana. This

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Speaker 1: is Cow's Week in Review with Ryan cow Calahan. Here's

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Speaker 1: cal bad news dog owners. A new study out of

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Speaker 1: Australia has found that quote the environmental impact of owned

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Speaker 1: dogs is far greater, more insidious, and more concerning than

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Speaker 1: it is generally recognized. This study, first reported in The

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Speaker 1: Guardian and sent in by listener Rachel A from Saint Louis,

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Speaker 1: was commissioned by mister Bigglesworth. If you don't remember, that's

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Speaker 1: Doctor Evil's hairless pet cat in the Austin Powers franchise.

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Speaker 1: Look what you did to mister Bigolfworth? Just kidding. It

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Speaker 1: was actually published in the journal Pacific Conservation Biology. It

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Speaker 1: examined all the published research on dogs and determined that

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Speaker 1: all that pooping world chasing isn't great for the environment.

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Speaker 1: Dogs have contributed to the colony collapse of penguins in Tasmania.

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Speaker 1: Dog attacks are the second most common reason animals end

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Speaker 1: up in the Wildlife Hospital in the Australian Zoo, and

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Speaker 1: studies have found that deer foxes and bobcats are less

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Speaker 1: active in areas where dogs are allowed. Dog poop can

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Speaker 1: impact plant growth, and the dry dog food industry is

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Speaker 1: a big greenhouse gas emitter. You know, we're not shy

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Speaker 1: about covering how god awful cats are, right, and we're

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Speaker 1: nothing if not fair and balanced here on cows we

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Speaker 1: can review, so I thought this study was worth covering.

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Speaker 1: Of course, many of these negative impacts can be solved

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Speaker 1: by keeping your dog on a leash or otherwise under control.

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Speaker 1: Just like with cats, it's more of a people problem

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Speaker 1: than a dog problem. I will also point out that

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Speaker 1: in most coverage of how cats kill birds in native wildlife,

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Speaker 1: I don't usually see anything about the benefits cats give

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Speaker 1: to their owners. In this article from The Guardian, on

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Speaker 1: the other hand, the reporter quotes a trauma therapist who

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Speaker 1: says that for some people, dogs are quote literally the

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Speaker 1: only reason to survive, to get up, to still keep going.

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Speaker 1: I don't think anyone has ever said that about it

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Speaker 1: can't so I think maybe we can tolerate a little

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Speaker 1: negative environmental impact for a man's best friend. Tolerate doesn't

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Speaker 1: mean we can't mitigate. Pick up after your dog if

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Speaker 1: the darn creator chases animals, or let's say you find

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Speaker 1: yourself on an uninhabited island full of penguins. You know,

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Speaker 1: don't let your dog chase them a cround eat them all.

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Speaker 1: It's common sense dog ownership. Gang. We'll get some no

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Speaker 1: dog penguin encounter stickers made up for the cows. We

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Speaker 1: can review audience anyway. This week we've got the crime desk,

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Speaker 1: public lands, and bears. But first I'm gonna tell you

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Speaker 1: about my week. And my week was. My weekend was great.

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Speaker 1: The lady, the dogs and I headed west try and

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Speaker 1: bag some turkeys for the first weekend of the season

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Speaker 1: here in Montana. We arrived into a not so great

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Speaker 1: camping spot at midnight, where I found the camper batteries

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Speaker 1: were not charged, which isn't a big deal. Headlamps and

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Speaker 1: camping go hand in hand for me. But it was

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Speaker 1: the carbon monoxide detector intermittently screeching it's dying siren that

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Speaker 1: put the girlfriend's Border Collie into high anxiety. That anxiety

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Speaker 1: turned the four hours of sleep into maybe one and

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Speaker 1: a half. Wet noses, heavy panting and pause on my

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Speaker 1: forehead eventually made me fumble for the toolbox and the

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Speaker 1: I hit the woods on time with only snort at

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Speaker 1: my side. We found turkeys firmly rooted to private land,

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Speaker 1: but gobbles make a sleepless night worth the getting up.

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Speaker 1: Later that day I retrieved the lady and we managed

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Speaker 1: cordial exchange. The next morning, we woke up early and

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Speaker 1: did it again. We snuck into a new corner at

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Speaker 1: which wasn't a big deal. I felt like we had

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Speaker 1: eventually gave up, Not overly enthused about the competition on

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Speaker 1: thought you should know or something along those lines persistence, kids.

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Speaker 1: Not every weekend results in a bird, but it sure

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Speaker 1: was fun. Moving on to the crime desk, three adults

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Speaker 1: old Christian Thomas, twenty one year old Alan Thomas, and

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Speaker 1: That doesn't mean the kids involved there are getting off

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Speaker 1: Chad Alston was recently cited for hunting turkeys over a

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Speaker 1: Those of you who have taken youngsters hunting know where

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Speaker 1: this is going game. Wardens found bird seed in the

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Speaker 1: days prior to the opening day of the youth Turkey season.

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Speaker 1: And I think we can all sympathize with wanting to

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Speaker 1: person sees the consequences of not following game laws and

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Speaker 1: never ends up back on the crime desk. Here at

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Speaker 1: Col's we can review. In addition, you've heard me say

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Speaker 1: it here many times. I truly believe the last thing

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Speaker 1: that we want to do for a brand spicketty new

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Speaker 1: hunter is make it seem like something dies every time

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Speaker 1: Over in Colorado, new documents are throwing shade on an

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Speaker 1: Aspen man's claim that he poached a bull moose without

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Speaker 1: what a lawyer might call malice a forethought. Thirty six

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Speaker 1: year old Ruben Sadowski admitted to poaching a young bull

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Speaker 1: moose near Cunningham Creek in Pitkin County in September last year,

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Speaker 1: claimed that since Sadowski was a novice bowhunter, he had

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Speaker 1: wardens that he thought to himself, is this nature handing

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Speaker 1: it's not moving away from me? All of that kind

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Speaker 1: But the newly released documents also contradict that state he

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Speaker 1: local media also reported that Sadowski was the co founder

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Speaker 1: askcl which describes itself as a creative art retreat and

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Speaker 1: a gathering place unlike any other. Sadowski has since stepped

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Speaker 1: down from his responsibilities at the Nature and Wellness organization,

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Speaker 1: almost like what he does is retreat from responsibility. The

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Speaker 1: United States Department of Justice announced last week that it

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Speaker 1: had secured a nine hundred thousand dollars sentence against two

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Speaker 1: trafficking case. I can't imagine that's a super long list,

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Speaker 1: but good for them anyway. The press release the DOJ

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Speaker 1: explained that doctor John Waldrip of Ktawala, Georgia, had amassed

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Speaker 1: an astounding collection of one thousand, four hundred and one

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Speaker 1: that Waldrup's collection included four eagles protected by the Bald

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Speaker 1: International Union for the Conservation of Nature. Waldrup purchased many

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Speaker 1: of these specimens from eBay and Etsy without the required

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Speaker 1: he recruited an employee of his, Tony Jones, to accept

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Speaker 1: of the largest finds ever for Endangered Species Act violations,

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Speaker 1: but I guarantee you that the seizure of his entire

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Speaker 1: collection hurt more than any fine ever could. The forensic

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Speaker 1: it was the largest seizure of bird mounts in their

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Speaker 1: a Virginia man was just sentenced to thirty days in

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Speaker 1: harvesting ginsying in the Cumberland Gap National Historic Park. The

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Speaker 1: DOJ reported this week by Kobe Brummitt admitted to digging

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Speaker 1: up over three hundred ginsing routes and selling them for profit.

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Speaker 1: In case you're wondering, yes, ginseng roots are of available

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Speaker 1: we know how Kobe moved his ill it gotten goods

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Speaker 1: to Mississip. Man traveled to Ohio recently and poached at

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Speaker 1: least four antler deer, according to the Buckeye State Department

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Speaker 1: of Natural Resources. Twenty five year old Dawson Brown pled

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Speaker 1: guilty to seven charges of hunting deer from a vehicle

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Speaker 1: at night with firearm during archery season. You'll also be

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Speaker 1: unsurprised to learn that he did not have the required

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Speaker 1: Brown's buddy, twenty four year old Jay Smith, will also

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Speaker 1: Moving on to the mail bag listener Ryan Stephenson wrote

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Speaker 1: Send it an email askcl at the meat Eater dot

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Speaker 1: That's Ascal at the Meat Eater dot com. Let me

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