How did you discover your incredible hidden talent
of creating environments for animals?
Well you know,
I started out I grew up well I was born in Manhattan.
but we moved upstate my dad bought a cowboy hat,
and you know like Green Acres style, you know what I mean?
Grew up wit' all the animals and my dad was an artist,
so everything had to look cool.
No matter what we did. Wow!
And I had to show--, So this literally,
is in your blood it's in your DNA!
Kinda yeah, and it's-- So cool!
Evolved a little bit more and more,
and I always roll wit my dogs you know.
On the first season I had my dog Chewie,
old English Bulldog rescue.
He would roll everywhere on any job I would go to.
Are these your dogs?
Yeah so--,
Those are the craziest lookin' animals ever!
I call 'em team weirdo.
We got Ee-dee in the front,
I rescued her a little over two years ago.
We got Paulo we drove five hours
to Fort Worth Texas to get him.
Paulo is insane looking!
Yeah he's a little--,
I wanna roll with Paulo!
And who's the little guy in the back?
That's Nessie she was on the street,
she was homeless in this little neighborhood
for like four or five years and finally someone caught her,
now we got her she's a senior and we,
I made a deal with my girlfriend,
we have to unfollow all the rescues on Instagram because,
we can't stop adopting so. Right,
there's gonna be no room for the two of you in the house!
You always make room in the house you know?
That's me and John too parenthesis.
In New York we have only a queen sized bed in our house,
Isaboo my 65 pound pit bull sleeps in the middle,
and John and I have been like quotation marks,
for several years.
We're just sort of parenthesis or quotations,
she takes the whole bed!
That's funny. She sleeps like this.
And when she has dreams it's like (barking),
alright so Isaboo's crib is my entire apartment,
but if you're not insane like I am,
you're gonna teach us some cool crafty things we can do,
for our pets. Yeah and all this is pretty,
inexpensive side of things. Yeah cheap and cheerful.
Cheap and cheerful. Cheap and cheerful.
So we're starting out with some PVC,
this you can get at any home improvement store.
Sometimes it comes precut you get the scrap in.
You start where we go here,
you snap it together, You snap it together.
You got it you know what's up here,
you just snap the PVC.
Snap it together.
Over here you just get some everything you get,
He made a cactus tree! A little cactus right?
And this you could use PVC you could use driftwood,
you could use whatever you wanna use.
So cool! Keep it safe with the glue.
Hot glue guns,
just keep trackin' it, Hot glue guns
are everybody's friend. They used to be,
I don't know I kinda
have nightmares about hot glue guns sometimes.
(laughing)
Alright so you got that,
yeah you put some little coo-cher-mons on top,
what we got, a little cactus?
That was easy! Adorable, adorable!
This one here I kinda got inspired by this,
from a party gone wrong.
You get your regular table,
flip it upside down, An inside table?
Throw a little cushion in there.
It's a canopy bed?
Shut the door!
Got some little canopies on there,
throw a little a this.
That is ridiculous, a little pillow.
Some little pillows in there and then,
so what do you need, is that cool?
That is adorable!
(laughing) (audience clapping)
I'm speechless I don't even know what to say,
that's ridiculously cute it's so cute!
Oh you even have the little name tag,
he just put Luna!
All of this,
you could put your own little personal touch on it.
You know what I'm sayin'? Adorable!
You just get creative have fun wit' it,
don't take it so serious,
just make sure it's safe for the animals and fun.
Any natural materials you use make sure
that they're safe for animals.
So I'm like we did this on the show once,
Oh my god this is the coolest like litter box thing.
Litter box, we did this for a blind dog,
that it was up in Seattle the snow got too heavy,
there was too many predators,
so we put this out on the porch,
it gave him that sense of you know like being outside.
And because he' blind he can tell
by the texture where to use the toilet.
Exactly and it's just you know,
some river rocks you throw in there,
couple two three river rocks.
There's that astroturf,
there's even places that deliver it for you
any time of the year.
So you get a little fresh astroturf delivered to you.
It's a doggie litter box!
It's easy so all year round you have a nice little set up.
(audience clapping)
Oh my god you're my hero!
(laughing) (audience clapping)