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Songs and sounds to delight a wide variety of animals. Play this show for your cat, dog, turtle, parrot, fish or any animal you happen to know.

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Amanda and Jim the Poet  Bad Animals Theme Song   Favoriting         0:00:00 (Pop-up)
David Byrne  I Know Sometimes a Man is Wrong   Favoriting         0:01:00 (Pop-up)
Collie Ryan  Cricket   Favoriting         0:04:00 (Pop-up)
Juniper Tapes  Cicada w/cicadas, katydids & crickets   Favoriting         0:07:17 (Pop-up)
Dr. Tom Nicholson & Dr. Sydney Anderson  Backyard Skunks   Favoriting American Museum of Natural History series   
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Rider/Horse  Small Animals   Favoriting Matted  Ever/Never    *   0:12:59 (Pop-up)
 
Amanda and Jim  Worm charming   Favoriting         0:22:38 (Pop-up)
DMX Krew  The Wiggly Worm   Favoriting    
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Robin  chirping   Favoriting         0:27:55 (Pop-up)
Video Dave + Controller 7  BabyBirdsEatWorms (Dedication July 7)   Favoriting         0:28:39 (Pop-up)
 
vsquare  Take My Hand in Gibbon Land   Favoriting         0:33:41 (Pop-up)
The Kaisers  Monkey Train   Favoriting More from the Kaisers  Imperial 
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gibbons  gibboning   Favoriting         0:38:03 (Pop-up)
Warren Zevon  Gorilla, You’re a Desperado   Favoriting         0:39:05 (Pop-up)
 
Sam Elwitt  Kitty Woman   Favoriting         0:50:22 (Pop-up)
Kitty Korner with Kathleen O’Malley  Xena and Amina   Favoriting    
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The Kiffness  Kitty Caught a Mouse   Favoriting    
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Laurel Canyon Animal Company  Squeaky Deaky   Favoriting         0:52:38 (Pop-up)
Earthtones  Waves   Favoriting We Can Live Together  Discoteca Folklorica    *   0:55:07 (Pop-up)
 


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Listener comments!

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ultradamno:

Amanda! Jim! Malicious Mammals!
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Cheryl The Nerd:

Greetings fellow animals...
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Dan S:

Let's all do the gull dance!
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Deano de los Muertos:

ribbit
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Destroit:

Banimo collective. Assemble.
  8:04pm
Doug in DC:

Perfect, right out of the gate.
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Dan S:

↳ Song: "Cricket" by "Collie Ryan"
Is this song about a certain new WFMU DJ with a Saturday morning show? :)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:09pm
Amanda:

Good evening katydids and all others <3 so nice to have you joining us!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:12pm
dale:

hey now. we went to pets alive in middletown ny, a no kill shelter to get a friend for our squeakers. it's between carrot top, rorschach, peggy sue and bobo fett.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:12pm
Jim the Poet:

Pottio
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Dan S:

↳ Song: "Backyard Skunks" by "Dr. Tom Nicholson & Dr. Sydn...
And will this lead into a Loudon Wainwright III song about a dead one?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:12pm
dale:

...and i'm reminded it can only be one.
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Cheryl The Nerd:

↳ Song: "Backyard Skunks" by "Dr. Tom Nicholson & Dr. Sydn...
Skunks! 🦨 They're so cool! They get a bad rap.
  8:14pm
miragliuolo:

I love this skunk bit. Dr. Nicholson's vibe is great.
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Cheryl The Nerd:

↳ Dan S @8:12
Shoulda looked left and he shoulda looked right
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:15pm
alanSixº:

for hells sake i almost forgot it was monday again
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:16pm
brycepunk1:

bad animals :)
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Cheryl The Nerd:

↳ alanSixº @8:15
Senility will do that to you. 😉
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:17pm
alanSixº:

↳ Cheryl The Nerd @8:16
correct
  8:17pm
Billybob:

↳ Cheryl The Nerd @8:12
Agreed! I actually like the smell of skunk...from a distance, but nevertheless...
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Dan S:

↳ Dan S @8:12
The answer is no. I should have figured that LWIII song would be too conventional for FMU to play. :)
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Dan S:

↳ Cheryl The Nerd @8:14
And now it's stinkin' to high heaven!
  8:19pm
Kathleen from JC:

Hi animals! I am enjoying the height of singing bug season here in New Jersey! Thank you, Jim and Amanda, for opening with a piece that prominently featured insect singing!
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Dan S:

Those Bergen County skunks, if they're not looking for trouble, will stay out of Hudson County! :)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:22pm
ultradamno:

I don't see the peanut butter
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Tome:

a hose and patience you and you'll get worms and more ,,,
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Dan S:

If there are worms in Monty Hall, the station is in trouble. LOL
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Cheryl The Nerd:

Can confirm. I'm in Bergen County. Skunks are common around here.
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Cheryl The Nerd:

Can confirm. I'm in Bergen County. Skunks are common around here.
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Cheryl The Nerd:

Aack! Posted twice. Big fingers. Small phone. Sorry 'bout that.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:25pm
Jim the Poet:

HOW'S TICO
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Dan S:

↳ Cheryl The Nerd @8:24
It's OK. We'll call it a comment so nice you had to post it twice. :)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:26pm
alanSixº:

completely unrelated to anything but i just made a grilled cheese on a calandras roll with sharp vermont cheddar and dill pickles. and dang i nailed it
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Dan S:

↳ alanSixº @8:26
Sounds tasty.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:27pm
Amanda:

↳ alanSixº @8:26
omg that sounds so good
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:28pm
alanSixº:

↳ Amanda @8:27
i might schedule it for a marathon lunch 🥪
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:28pm
dale:

↳ alanSixº @8:26
grilled cheese AND pickles? sounds like a trip!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:28pm
alanSixº:

↳ dale @8:28
try it you'll love it if u love pickles
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Cheryl The Nerd:

🤢🤢🤢
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BuckyKatt:

Greetings, fellow members of Mammalia! Happy World Elephant Day & National Vinyl Record Day!
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dale:

↳ alanSixº @8:28
i will. like the sweeter bread and butter variety, but up for anything.
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Listener Bop Monroe:

would she eat it in a box would she eat it with a fox?
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Cheryl The Nerd:

I ate grilled cheese almost every day during the pandemic. 3 ingredients, easy to get, cheap.
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BuckyKatt:

If you see a skunk in Hoboken don't get too close or it will bend your ear for 20 minutes about the best pizza in town
  8:32pm
miragliuolo:

Isn't raw worms a Klingon delicacy?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:33pm
alanSixº:

↳ Cheryl The Nerd @8:32
with worms?
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Dan S:

↳ BuckyKatt @8:32
As will the rats in NYC.
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Dan S:

↳ miragliuolo @8:32
Even the Borg can't adapt to eating them.
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Listener Bop Monroe:

during the lock down i fell for that commercial and started going, oh, it's grilled cheese o'clock and would make it on the stove.
bought a pack of swiss today for just that purpose! bread cheese and butter.
might try the pickle tho.
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Cheryl The Nerd:

↳ alanSixº @8:33
Nah. Straight cheese. I like to keep it simple.
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Listener Bop Monroe:

↳ miragliuolo @8:32
mmmm....
that's some good gocckk!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:36pm
alanSixº:

↳ Listener Bop Monroe @8:34
cool - it's really good with cheddar but i'm sure it'll work with swiss - lighter on the butter when adding pickles
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Dan S:

↳ Song: "Take My Hand in Gibbon Land" by "vsquare"
Take a gibbon by the hand and hit the trees swinging.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:36pm
Amanda:

Swiss grilled on rye with bacon = excellente
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Dan S:

↳ Amanda @8:36
Now you're talking my language!
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Cheryl The Nerd:

I've done grilled cheese with Steak-umms. That was tasty.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:37pm
Amanda:

↳ miragliuolo @8:32
I think so? Where are my WFMU trekkies?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:38pm
alanSixº:

↳ Amanda @8:36
oh hell yeah
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Listener Bop Monroe:

oh now thats also a cool diriection! go DJA!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:38pm
alanSixº:

↳ Cheryl The Nerd @8:37
that is no longer a grilled cheese it is now a cheese steak ... um
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Cheryl The Nerd:

↳ alanSixº @8:38
I don't care what you call it. It was yummy.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:40pm
alanSixº:

↳ Cheryl The Nerd @8:39
😂
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Dan S:

↳ Song: "Monkey Train" by "The Kaisers"
We could have a contest: Name the NYC subway line that is most like a Monkey Train. :)
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Listener Bop Monroe:

-but his hair was perfect!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:41pm
zachary:

Great show Amanda and Jim the Poet.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:41pm
alanSixº:

taking the boy for a walk with speaker in pocket cause bad animals got him all jazzed up
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Tome:

Warren YeA !<>!
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Dan S:

↳ Song: "Gorilla, You’re a Desperado" by "Warren Zevon"
A great Warren Zevon song that I wasn't familiar with. Thanks!

Zevon could be pretty grim at times but he also could exhibit a wry sense of humor in his songs.
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BuckyKatt:

↳ Dan S @8:33
NYC pigeons have lots of thoughts on bagels. Best ones to eat, to peck at, to stick one's beak through the hole, etc.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:44pm
dale:

does randy newman have many/any animal songs?
  8:44pm
Doug in DC:

Zevon!
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BuckyKatt:

Zevon + critters? I'm in.
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Dan S:

I'm not sure whether you're kidding or serious, Amanda!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:46pm
alanSixº:

for carmelita i think you'd have horses neyying, cause "the white horse"
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:46pm
JohnEBGood:

Go Jim and Amanda. Hey Jim, you are number 2 of DJ's I'd like to meet. Monica is number one. Peace : )
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Cheryl The Nerd:

Maybe geese honking behind Lawyers Guns & Money. Geese are the badass gang leaders of the fowl world.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:46pm
Matt Fiveash:

Send Lawyers Gnus & Money
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Cheryl The Nerd:

↳ Matt Fiveash @8:46
*groan*
  8:47pm
chresti:

Banimo!
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Dan S:

And of course, obviously, some wolves howling for...
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Listener Bop Monroe:

i send lawyers guns and money all the time
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Dan S:

↳ Listener Bop Monroe @8:48
But do you send any gnus?
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Amanda:

↳ Listener Bop Monroe @8:48
Heyo!!!! Though I wouldn't do that if I were you
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Listener Bop Monroe:

no gnus is good gnus
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:49pm
Amanda:

↳ dale @8:44
Simon Smith and the Amazing Dancing Bear
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Cheryl The Nerd:

↳ Listener Bop Monroe @8:49
Dammit you beat me to it!
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dale:

↳ Amanda @8:49
thumbs up emoji!
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Listener Bop Monroe:

timing and punctuation is everything.
:-)
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Jim the Poet:

↳ JohnEBGood @8:46
See you someday! I hope you meet Monica!
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Cheryl The Nerd:

↳ Amanda @8:49
Gotta play the Muppet version of that.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:50pm
dale:

not xena and gabriel?
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slugluv1313:

greetings, Amanda! Jim! Kathleen! Creatures of all Species and Temperaments! 😺😺

got in right at the beginning of your show, been listening -- however, the Feline Overlords were demanding their DINNER! 😸😸
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:51pm
alanSixº:

thanx Kathleen!
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HyperDose:

↳ Song: "Xena and Amina" by "Kitty Korner with Kathleen O’...
Tuxies are the best! 😍
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:51pm
ultradamno:

↳ dale @8:50
I would hope they weren't sisters images2.fanpop.com...
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Listener Bop Monroe:

omg they're so beautiful!
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Dan S:

Infamous right-wing fake journalism channel: Fox Gnus. But they do have animals in both parts of their name.
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Cheryl The Nerd:

All the gnus that's fit to print
  8:53pm
Kathleen from JC:

Hi slugluv and feline overlords!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:54pm
dale:

↳ ultradamno @8:51
we don't judge.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:55pm
alanSixº:

great show thanx jim n amanda, tico says so too - gnite everybody
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Cheryl The Nerd:

Thanks Jim and Amanda!
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Dan S:

Well, this has been fun. Thanks, Amanda, Jim the Poet, Kathleen, and fellow commenters!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:56pm
Amanda:

Thank you all so much for listening this eve!
  8:57pm
Kathleen from JC:

Someone left several cans of cat food at my cat colony feeding area today. It looks like they opened one can experimentally, but they bailed out on the experiment. But I am very touched by their gesture, so I am going to make a thank you card out of a photograph of the cats standing in front of the cans.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:57pm
ultradamno:

For people who also listen to the movie show, I've been rediscovering Rinse Dream movies and posted a couple of things of interest mastodon.social...
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Cheryl The Nerd:

↳ alanSixº @8:55
Gnight hoodlum. Go eat your pickled cheese!
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slugluv1313:

↳ Song: "Xena and Amina" by "Kitty Korner with Kathleen O’...
omg CUTENESS OVERLOAD! Tuxedo Division 🖤🤍🖤

awww sounds like my Shy Boy, Chubby *Little* Brady -- i was fostering him with his sister Sean, when they were both tiny kittens -- she was so glamorous and friendly -- and mischievous! would be totally naughty, but look at Brady, with this "he did it!" look 😹😹
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Cheryl The Nerd:

↳ Kathleen from JC @8:57
That sounds like a great idea!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:58pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

Thanks, animal people.
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Listener Bop Monroe:

another audio treaty treat to start the week. thnx JtP and DJA.
gnite all from Tannersville and Alanna sez woof! it might just be grilled cheese o'clock again.
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slugluv1313:

↳ Song: "Kitty Caught a Mouse" by "The Kiffness"
LOVE The Kiffness!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:58pm
dale:

thanks amanda and jim and kathleen and animal fanciers.
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Listener Bop Monroe:

"let's all lay eggs on pete davison's face"
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slugluv1313:

thank you so much Amanda and Jim and Kathleen! 🐕🐈‍⬛
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slugluv1313:

↳ dale @8:12
hi Dale! Pets Alive is freaking awesome!!!
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