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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.\\xa0

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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 \\u201cTiptoe out the back\\u201d by Dan Lebowicz
Interstitial music is by MK2
Taps this week is played by Andrew Dale via Freesound.org
Don\\u2019t 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.\\xa0
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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

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Intro/Outtro music: Tiptoe Out The Back - Dan Liebowicz
Interstitial Music: MK2
Additional music: Freesound.com, Pixabay.org and HappySoulMusic.com

Twitter: @BewilderedPod
Website: BewilderBeastsPod.com
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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 :)