Bow.
Yes, good bow.
I came to meet Elizabeth.
She came to my house to tell me about my dog,
but I didn't think of is
that it had been 15 years since I had a puppy.
So there's says a lot I didn't know.
She left her in the car
in a crate and I'm over protective
and I just lost my dog.
I go, where's the dog.
Where's the dog.
Get the dog.
And she's like,
Rachel you're ignorant.
And it stopped me in my tracks.
Did it not?
The one thing I cannot abide by,
None of us have time right now to be willfully ignorant.
It is the worst thing we can do to each other,
to our country.
However you have to learn to listen,
learn to listen.
And you did that for me.
Ready?
Go get it. Do you find
that going down the path of working
with animals has helped you work
with humans better in life?
I found that working with humans have helped me work
with animals better. Wow.
Yeah, definitely.
And I thought it would be the polar opposite.
That animals teach you the empathy
or the patience,
but really it's,
the people are more challenging
and they help you with challenging dogs?
They come in with more stories.
They come in with more stuff.
The dogs,
when they walk in,
you know exactly what you're getting right in front of you.
Gotcha. So, by learning how
to work with people and talk and,
and figure out what their goals are
and what their challenges are.
You know some people don't come
in with a lot of resources.
We, we just got to figure out how to make it work.
That allows me to help that dog in a much better way.
I get you. If that makes sense.
Do you always see the same behavior
in animals that come from similar circumstance?
Good question. When you get
a rescue dog versus a,
a bred,
a dog that's been bred
for a specific breed. Some dogs,
some rescue dogs,
just slide into the house like their Mary Poppins.
You know,
Christmas dinner.
We take a lick from the grannies wine.
We play around with the kids
because that's our expectation when we go
in and get these dogs.
There are some dogs
when they come into that situation,
they don't have the resilience
and they need way more support.
You've just completed a book.
What is the,
the soul of that?
And what do you want people to get from it?
And what do you want people to get
from your life's work? So the book it's,
it's called building a balanced canine.
And it actually reflects so much
of what we're talking about.
That's a good girl.
The beginning of every chapter,
talks about the human perspective on what they're seeing.
And then the dog's voice comes in
and explains it from their point of view.
So a huge part of the book is about owner education.
Learning's not one way,
any information I give to you,
you're going to give back something
and that's what a true learning and teaching experience is.
Whether you're dealing with a dog,
a human,
a dolphin,
it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter.
It's two way.
And it needs to be
because then everybody benefits.
Nice job.
Bella Boo Blue,
at just under six months old,
she is about the size.Izzy was.
She's about 50 pounds.
Yeah, she's already about 50 pounds.
She's got huge paws. And this beautiful lady,
look at those reindeer hooves.
There they are.
Elizabeth Lajeunesse.
And Elizabeth has come into our life
for a variety of reasons in my opinion,
She has literally written a book on dogs.
And what I love about Elizabeth is
that she brought to our lives a little more order
on how humans can speak
to each other too. Yep.
This is the first time we've ever zoomed
with any of our dogs.
You see the reaction we're getting.
Yeah that's it.
Izaboo used to cry,
if she heard me in a TV screen
or in a computer screen
because she'd try and go around it and find me.
Sure. Look Bella doesn't care.
Bella's like quiet and perfectly happy.
(magical music)