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Pets · Chuck Douglas

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  Speaker 1: Chuck Douglas in the Power Hour six ten WTV and
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  Speaker 1: A two one nine eight eighty six my number eight
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  Speaker 1: two one WUTV. And thanks to UH to everybody by
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  Speaker 1: the way, who UH who sent their their well wishes
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  Speaker 1: and blessings on Facebook today about UH about the loss
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  Speaker 1: of Lope. I, I truly appreciate it. Just got UH
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  Speaker 1: several messages here during the break and UH and those
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  Speaker 1: are appreciated as well. As I said, it's UH, it's difficult,
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  Speaker 1: and I have no idea what the appropriate uh, the
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  Speaker 1: appropriate time is. I don't think there's a rule when
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  Speaker 1: it comes to mourning the loss of of the family pet.
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  Speaker 1: But UH, I will get it over with as quickly
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  Speaker 1: as I possibly can. Ain't all be easy, but I will.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's kind of weird, to be honest with you.
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  Speaker 1: As you get older and I still you know, you
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  Speaker 1: start thinking. It's like when you get rid of a car,
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  Speaker 1: car breaks down, send it to the junk area and
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  Speaker 1: you think, wow, man, I had this card, this card, this,
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  Speaker 1: and I started thinking through all my pets today over
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  Speaker 1: my lifetime. You'd think by now I would be better
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  Speaker 1: at this, you would think, but that's not always the case.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to agree with Ohio Governor Michael Dwaine here
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  Speaker 1: in a second, also, Franklin County Shares Department doing something
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  Speaker 1: completely completely reasonable, a great idea, and most likely completely
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  Speaker 1: sexist by twenty twenty five standards. I will get into
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  Speaker 1: that momentarily. Ron, thanks for hanging on. You're on sixth
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  Speaker 1: NATV at High.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, no problem, man, Yeah, I just wanted to give
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  Speaker 2: you hugs from afar Man. I saw your message this
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  Speaker 2: morning from work and I started ball in, eyes out.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, oh my god, I'd go to the bathroom
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  Speaker 2: and get a hold of myself because I got two
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  Speaker 2: of my own, you know, and I could just feel
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  Speaker 2: your pain, you know. I just hope that the mine
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  Speaker 2: go like yours so that I don't have to put
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  Speaker 2: them down, because I can only imagine that's got to
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  Speaker 2: be like so much more heart wrenching.
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  Speaker 1: I've had to do that in the past two and this.
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  Speaker 1: You know, she as I said, she had a bed
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  Speaker 1: where she slept every night, and there's a blanket in
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  Speaker 1: there and she'd curl up, and I mean that's where
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  Speaker 1: she was every night. Yesterday, we've got a shoe rack
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  Speaker 1: in the bedroom because the Queen has four hundred thousand
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  Speaker 1: pairs of shoes. And when she went upstairs last night,
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  Speaker 1: she said that Lupa was on the bottom of the
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  Speaker 1: shoe rack, sleeping between her slippers, and that was very unusual.
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  Speaker 1: But I think she was trying to be close to someone.
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  Speaker 1: And and as I say, when I woke up this morning,
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  Speaker 1: she was not in her bed. She was up at
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  Speaker 1: the head of my bed, laying there next to me,
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  Speaker 1: and I was I was broken hearted that I did
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  Speaker 1: not hear her tags jingle and could not have just
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  Speaker 1: noticed that something was wrong and maybe held her one
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  Speaker 1: last time. That was that was the sad part. But
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  Speaker 1: she went next to me and she knew she was
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  Speaker 1: safe there. Yeah, I think, thank you. I appreciate you, buddy,
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  Speaker 1: Thank you very much. Take care at see. It's hard, man,
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  Speaker 1: it's hard. When I was about ten years old, my
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  Speaker 1: sister had a cat. She named it after the Arabian
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  Speaker 1: Nights character Shahrazad. So when her cat had kittens, I
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  Speaker 1: wanted a kitten, and she wanted to continue the trend
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  Speaker 1: of the Arabian Nights thing. So my cat was named
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  Speaker 1: Little One. And Little One followed me across the street
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  Speaker 1: and this girl from across the street, whose parents had
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  Speaker 1: bought her a Mustang Cobra came flying down this and
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  Speaker 1: she hit her. But that cat, after being hit by
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  Speaker 1: the car, could have gone anywhere. She ran to me
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  Speaker 1: and dropped at my feet, and that's where she said goodbye.
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  Speaker 1: And as I got older, it occurred to me she
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  Speaker 1: she came to where she knew she was safe, she
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  Speaker 1: was hurt, she was in trouble. She came. Yeah. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: And that's that's how I felt about Loopa this morning.
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  Speaker 1: You know, as sad as I was to lose her,
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  Speaker 1: I was glad on the other hand that you know,
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  Speaker 1: she came up there by daddy.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I've said I've said it a million times. People
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  Speaker 3: who don't who've never had a pet, a dog or
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  Speaker 3: a cat, and they both act differently. It just depends
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  Speaker 3: on what kind of person you are. You're losing a
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  Speaker 3: family member. People don't understand that. I just think it's
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  Speaker 3: a stupid animal that you have fun with sometimes, and
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  Speaker 3: it's much more than that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and when when they go like that, it makes
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  Speaker 1: you feel like you did something right. Yeah. You know
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  Speaker 1: we uh, I got made fun of talking to her
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  Speaker 1: all the time, but we had conversations.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I talked to I talked to kitty like it's
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  Speaker 3: she's a person. She Uh, she's a little rude conversation.
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  Speaker 1: But she's a cat. That's her job. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: But if I'm sick as much as she's aloof and
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  Speaker 3: cats are. When I'm sick and I'm laying in bed,
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  Speaker 3: she is right beside me. Yep, the entire she knows,
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  Speaker 3: I'm telling you, she knows if I don't feel well.
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  Speaker 1: Lupa was the same way as she. If I was
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  Speaker 1: sad or I was I was upset about something, she
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  Speaker 1: would just come over, lay down next to me and
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  Speaker 1: put her little nose up there on my leg and
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  Speaker 1: just go, I know you're sick, man, and just lay
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  Speaker 1: there until I've decided to get up and do what
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  Speaker 1: I had to do. Her eyes told me so much,
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  Speaker 1: and uh, hey, make fun of me all you want.
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  Speaker 1: We had great conversations, we really did. I never thought
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  Speaker 1: I have a little dog. First of all, I've had
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  Speaker 1: big dogs my whole life.
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  Speaker 3: You said that before, you never thought you'd have a name.
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  Speaker 3: You thought you'd have big dogs.
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  Speaker 1: All my son's fault, because he he wanted to have
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  Speaker 1: this chihuahua. He was dating a girl whose parents had chihuahuas,
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  Speaker 1: and then he gets an apartment almost immediately after getting
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  Speaker 1: in Chihuahua. So I ended up with chihuahua and uh
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  Speaker 1: and I'm like, oh man, I hate little dogs.
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  Speaker 3: How many how many hours before you were friends? Not
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  Speaker 3: days out?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? It was it was very quick. Yeah, it was
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  Speaker 1: very quick because she she took to me immediately, and
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  Speaker 1: I you know, it was it was pretty awesome.
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  Speaker 3: I always think pets picked their person, like they have
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  Speaker 3: a person that they like.
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  Speaker 1: You have to wonder about that. I mean, you know,
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  Speaker 1: cosmically are we are we connected and side? And you know,
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  Speaker 1: all children ask the question. I don't know that it's
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  Speaker 1: ever been answered. You know, do dogs go to heaven
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  Speaker 1: if heaven is truly going to be heavenly? For me? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: they do that that would make it truly heavenly. We'll see,
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  Speaker 1: I guess. Governor Dwine in the news today there was
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  Speaker 1: a sound bite Allison had in the I think it
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  Speaker 1: was the four o'clock report if I'm not mistaken, but
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  Speaker 1: Governor Dwine was talking about the people going to to
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  Speaker 1: daycare centers and trying to get in and they wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: let them in and he said something along the lines, well, hell, no,
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  Speaker 1: they shouldn't let him in. I'm gonna tell you something.
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  Speaker 1: I understand people want the you know, if there's a
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  Speaker 1: daycare scam going on and government dollars being stolen, I
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  Speaker 1: understand people want that clarified. But you know what, I
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't let them in either. And we've used daycares over
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  Speaker 1: the years, but you set up an appointment to go
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  Speaker 1: in and interview the people and check the place out
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  Speaker 1: and so on. You don't just walk into a daycare.
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  Speaker 1: You don't just walk into a school.
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  Speaker 3: I'd be furious if my kid was in daycare and
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  Speaker 3: somebody with a camera's like, I'm just gonna come in
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  Speaker 3: and check it out. Yes, I would be enraged at
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  Speaker 3: the people who were running that nut.
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  Speaker 1: Protecting those children is the ultimate priority. I don't care
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  Speaker 1: who you are. You should not just be able to
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  Speaker 1: walk into a daycare. Suspicions aside. The children come first,
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  Speaker 1: and so I got no problem. And there's one, you know,
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  Speaker 1: particular fairly prominent Ohio resident who took somebody out with
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  Speaker 1: a camera and she tried to get into a daycare
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  Speaker 1: and they pushed her back out the door, and she
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  Speaker 1: was on her social media, making a big deal out
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  Speaker 1: of the fact they pushed her out the door and
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  Speaker 1: locked her out. You know, I'm sorry about your luck,
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  Speaker 1: but I say good for them. I don't care if
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  Speaker 1: the kid's in there, Somali or Mexican, or white kids
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  Speaker 1: or black kids, doesn't matter. Those children are to be
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  Speaker 1: protected at all times by that staff and U and
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  Speaker 1: they did exactly that. Forget what the reasons are for
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  Speaker 1: you trying to get in, what the reasons are for
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  Speaker 1: them keeping you out. The fact of the matter is
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  Speaker 1: you can't just barge into a daycare. So, Governor Dwaine,
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  Speaker 1: I agree with you on this one. Don't get used
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  Speaker 1: to it, but I agree with you on this one.
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  Speaker 1: A two one, nine, eight eighty six the number, Doug,
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  Speaker 1: you're on six ten do wl E TV in High Hi.
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  Speaker 4: I just wanted to let you know the best pet
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  Speaker 4: you ever had, this is the last one you ever had.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, Doug. I've had some good ones over
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  Speaker 1: the years.
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  Speaker 4: I have too, I've had some good ones. The best
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  Speaker 4: one I had is one I have now trust eighteen dollars.
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  Speaker 4: That's a pound. I've had him for eight years and
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  Speaker 4: he's great.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you know what those pound dogs and stray
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  Speaker 1: dogs and so forth that have been out there, They're hungry,
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  Speaker 1: they're scared, nobody's loving a noise care of they When
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  Speaker 1: somebody takes them in and takes care of them, they
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  Speaker 1: are so so happy about it. I've never gone out
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  Speaker 1: and paid for a dog in my life. I've known
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  Speaker 1: people that have paid two three thousand dollars for a
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  Speaker 1: dog in a pet style. I think that's crazy.
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  Speaker 4: Well, the most expensive dog in the world is no
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  Speaker 4: better than the way you're training.
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  Speaker 1: Them exactly exactly, and love does a lot. I appreciate you, Doug,
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  Speaker 1: thank you very much for the call. It's yeah. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you face it. If you've got some dog that's living
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  Speaker 1: in the streets and eating out of trash cans and
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  Speaker 1: hair is all matted up, and somebody kicked them out,
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  Speaker 1: through them out, abandoned them or whatever, man, you wash
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  Speaker 1: that dog up and cut their nails and give them
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  Speaker 1: big hugs and feed them well in a warm place
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  Speaker 1: to sleep.
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  Speaker 3: You got a friend for life.
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  Speaker 1: You talk about, you talk about somebody that's going to
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  Speaker 1: be loyal to you and defend you, and there you go.
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  Speaker 1: People are the same way. I think that's our biggest flaw. Seriously,
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  Speaker 1: when it comes to the way we have language and
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  Speaker 1: we have clothes, and we have cars, and we have
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  Speaker 1: Internet and all that kind of crap, We're still just animals.
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  Speaker 1: They're good animals and they are bad animals. But when
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  Speaker 1: you take an animal that is down and out and
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  Speaker 1: you give it hope and love and care for it,
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  Speaker 1: the loyalty is unbreakable. Sometimes I think they get it
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  Speaker 1: more right than we do. Quite frankly, just saying before
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  Speaker 1: I get out here tonight, Franklin County Sheriff Dallas Baldwin,
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  Speaker 1: I want to this is a good thing, but it's
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  Speaker 1: going to get called out for being sexist, and it
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  Speaker 1: should be. But instead of getting it canceled, I'd like
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  Speaker 1: to see it expanded. January marks National Self Defense Awareness Month.
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  Speaker 1: Franklin County Sheriff's Office is taking the opportunity to spotlight
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  Speaker 1: its rape Aggression Defense system. It's a twelve hour Copper
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  Speaker 1: Hints of course exclusively for women, emphasizing awareness, prevention, risk reduction,
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  Speaker 1: and risk avoidance. See Notably, RID is the only self
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  Speaker 1: defense program endorsed by the International Association of Campus Law
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  Speaker 1: Enforcement Administrators. All instructors are nationally certified. Here's the deal
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  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty five. Showing women how to defend themselves
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  Speaker 1: as wonderful. But we got a bunch of young men
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  Speaker 1: out there, a couple of maybe what we call Nancy boys,
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  Speaker 1: never been in a fight, never never had a hand
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  Speaker 1: raised to them, never raised their hand to anyone. They've
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  Speaker 1: lived their lives in video games. I seriously, I think
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  Speaker 1: a program like this needs to exist for men as well,
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  Speaker 1: young men who have never faced any sort of physical
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  Speaker 1: challenge or intimidation. So I'm saying this again publicly. I
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  Speaker 1: appreciate the Sheriff Baldwin and the department for doing this
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  Speaker 1: for women. They are our prince and our queens. They
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  Speaker 1: should know how to protect themselves if we are not
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  Speaker 1: there to protect them. But there are plenty of men
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  Speaker 1: out there, young men especially, who couldn't protect ourselves out
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  Speaker 1: of a paper bag if they had to. So I'd
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  Speaker 1: like the Sheriff's Department to consider doing this for young
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  Speaker 1: men as well, And if I can help them publicize it,
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  Speaker 1: get some support behind it, or whatever. I have a
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  Speaker 1: microphone available to the Sheriff anytime he wants it.