Bruce Fogle
Desert Island Discs
BBC
4.3 • 14.3K Ratings
🗓️ 19 August 2001
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Sue Lawley's castaway this week is the vet Bruce Fogle. His interest in the relationship between pets and their owners has turned Bruce Fogle into a best selling author on dog and cat behaviour. His advice on how to tackle unruly animals has helped readers all over the world. He chooses eight records to take with him to the mythical island.
[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Krestey Young, and this is a podcast from the Desert Island Discs archive. |
| 0:05.0 | For rights reasons, we've had to shorten the music. |
| 0:08.0 | The program was originally broadcast in 2001, and the presenter was Sue Lolly. My cosway this week is a vet from his practice in West London through his |
| 0:35.7 | best-selling books and on radio and television he dispenses advice on pets and |
| 0:40.6 | owner behavior. His success came from his observation that pet keeping is a human |
| 0:46.0 | aberration, no other species does it, and people therefore need guidance in what is |
| 0:50.4 | inevitably a rather one-sided relationship. |
| 0:53.0 | Born and brought up in Canada in a house not surprisingly full of pets of all kinds, |
| 0:57.0 | he came to this country 30 years ago. |
| 1:00.0 | There's no democracy in pet ownership, he says. |
| 1:03.0 | Assert your dominance, otherwise you don't have a decent relationship. |
| 1:07.1 | He is Bruce Fogle. |
| 1:08.9 | What happens then, Bruce, if we don't assert our dominance I mean how how horrible can dogs and cats be to it |
| 1:17.8 | They hang around our houses waiting for opportunities |
| 1:20.9 | They're they're great observers of our behavior. |
| 1:23.7 | In fact, they're better than we are of their behavior. |
| 1:25.9 | And they will slip into the voids that we leave. |
| 1:29.6 | If you allow the dog up on the bed, |
| 1:31.4 | initially because it's a puppy, well, it's on the bed initially because it's a puppy well it's on the bed then it |
| 1:34.4 | grows into an adult and dominance can kick in I can think of one carker |
| 1:39.3 | spaniel who said this is now my bed. |
| 1:43.3 | And the childless couple in their early 30s |
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