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Happy Hour # 141: Peaches, Peaches, Peaches · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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  Speaker 1: Hey, this is Anny and Samantha, and welcome to Steff.
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  Speaker 1: I've never told you a prodicture of iHeartRadio.
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  Speaker 2: And welcome to another edition of Happy Hour. This is
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  Speaker 2: a I guess an update about my midlife crisis slash
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  Speaker 2: ojen wine, except I don't have a wine at this point.
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  Speaker 2: I guess because I am drinking a heart seltzer this
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  Speaker 2: time round.
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  Speaker 3: Any are you drinking something?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, drinking still cider. Still have some cider, lovely, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's still nice and cool here. I did throw out
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  Speaker 1: my pumpkin yesterday. It was kind of sad, but well,
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  Speaker 1: if you call it the pumpkin, I killed the pumpkin.
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  Speaker 1: I did kill the pumpkin, but I you know when
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  Speaker 1: a pumpkin starts still like rat and the juice gets
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  Speaker 1: in there.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, it's spilled.
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  Speaker 4: All over you. Horrible. Well I did bag it, but
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  Speaker 4: like it leaped through.
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  Speaker 3: The bag and I you don't have a good bag.
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  Speaker 1: I was not sick. I mean I was a close though.
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  Speaker 1: I'm very sensitive to smell, and it was all over me.
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  Speaker 3: So the pumpkin got the last last.
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  Speaker 2: See, pumpkin will come back back at you. This is
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  Speaker 2: why I never carve a pumpkin slash because I.
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  Speaker 3: Don't like small.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I get the baby ones that I just think
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  Speaker 2: is cute, and sometimes I put giggly eyes on it,
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  Speaker 2: like that's the extent of my decorating because I'm like, why,
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  Speaker 2: but we're not talking about pumpkins today. And if you
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just Aye and I right now.
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  Speaker 2: Essentially unless we ask the question about like, well, what
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  Speaker 2: So being on here six times a week, constantly going
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  Speaker 2: never knowing when you might listen to this.
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  Speaker 3: You being our listeners. Thank you us for listening.
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  Speaker 2: Things change, So again, just as just a pleasant reminder
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  Speaker 2: as world is going to chaos and a lot of
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  Speaker 2: But that's not what we're talking about. No, we are
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  Speaker 2: talking about me being a dog mom. I called myself
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  Speaker 2: a dog mom.
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  Speaker 3: I did it.
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  Speaker 2: Oh boy, it took me years, but essentially it has
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  Speaker 2: become a thing. Before we start content, warning, we are
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  Speaker 2: talking about pet, pet death, pet uh you know, hurt
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  Speaker 2: and surgery and pain, all those things, you know. And
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  Speaker 2: when I first lost my dog, I could not listened
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  Speaker 2: to this, So just a warning. Nothing bad has happened.
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  Speaker 2: That's why I just that we're going to talk about it.
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  Speaker 2: So y'all know that I have a crazy dog named
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  Speaker 2: Peaches Gertrude mcfuzzin partially because she has me as an
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  Speaker 2: owner who is anxious on every level, paranoid to some extent,
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  Speaker 2: and has an attachment disorder. So add that to having
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  Speaker 2: a dog, which is also probably why I don't want
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  Speaker 2: to have children, and yes, I have become the forty
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  Speaker 2: something independent woman who owns things and decided that she
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  Speaker 2: wants to be a dog owner as well because I
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  Speaker 2: could afford it. I actually had you and I had
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  Speaker 2: this conversation Annie, like, you really need a savings before
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  Speaker 2: owning a dog, which is sad because there's so many
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  Speaker 2: wonderful dogs out there that need good homes. But it's
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  Speaker 2: a privilege to have a dog, which is sad because
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  Speaker 2: dogs are wonderful. Annie, shut up. We don't care about
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  Speaker 2: your opinion on those, but I know you, but there
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  Speaker 2: are so many things to like having to care for
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  Speaker 2: a dog. When I first got my first dog, which
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  Speaker 2: was when I was at Defacts, he was a senior dog.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, I want I don't want a young dog.
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  Speaker 2: I want one that needs help. Like not that all
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  Speaker 2: of them don't, but you know what I mean, those
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  Speaker 2: are special cases. So I adopted a senior dog that
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  Speaker 2: had a cushions disease, which I didn't know what that
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  Speaker 2: was at that point in time, and I was like,
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  Speaker 2: oh no.
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  Speaker 3: That went through a lot.
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  Speaker 2: Of like healthcare stuff, and I put myself into pretty
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  Speaker 2: big debt for my dog, to the point that I
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  Speaker 2: lapsed of my credit and a lot of things because
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  Speaker 2: I made poor choices as a twenty something new college
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  Speaker 2: grad working in a field that pays literally less than
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  Speaker 2: minimum wage for the hours as a social worker that
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  Speaker 2: I was working. But I needed emotional stability and my dog,
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  Speaker 2: Bennington Ziggler, which is what I called him, was my
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  Speaker 2: saving grace for the first three years of that field.
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  Speaker 2: Again majorly debt, like I'm still probably paying for it technically. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: and he's making that face of like, this is why
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  Speaker 2: I don't own dog. No, don't lie to me.
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  Speaker 3: It's just a lot. It's a lot. But after he died,
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  Speaker 3: I was a mess. Like I still.
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  Speaker 2: Tear up when I think about my dog and how
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  Speaker 2: he died. Like he didn't die tragically or anything, but
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  Speaker 2: it was just like so many things happened that I
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  Speaker 2: was like not able to see him. I'm cheering up
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  Speaker 2: now thinking about it. This has been like years too.
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  Speaker 2: I couldn't get another dog for several years because I
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  Speaker 2: was so attached to him, which I only had him
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  Speaker 2: for like four years technically, because it was the last
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  Speaker 2: four years of his life his owner, previous owner had
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  Speaker 2: died and he'd gotten pasted of vets until I adopted him.
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  Speaker 2: So like all these things finally got to the point
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  Speaker 2: that I'm like, I'm ready for a new dog. I
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  Speaker 2: don't want them to be older anymore. I can't take it.
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  Speaker 2: I need a longer than four years. But I don't
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  Speaker 2: want a tiny puppy. And of course I wanted to adopt,
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  Speaker 2: and so I adopted it from I adopted Peaches Garton
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  Speaker 2: mcphuzzin I think in twenty fifteen, twenty sixteen, twenty fifteen,
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  Speaker 2: from our local animal shelter, which does a lot, but
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  Speaker 2: it's over capacity. So if anybody in Atlanta needs the animal,
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  Speaker 2: or anybody in Georgia, go adopt Fulton County Animal Shelter,
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  Speaker 2: Lifeline or wherever at your local shelter. Okay, again, not sponsors,
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  Speaker 2: but I believe in their work. But yeah, So I
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  Speaker 2: adopted Peaches from there, and I didn't change her name
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  Speaker 2: because she was nine months out at the point. I
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  Speaker 2: really liked the name Peaches, so I kept it, and
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  Speaker 2: I just added on Peaches Scarture mcfuzzin. And if you know,
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  Speaker 2: there's a there's a book, a Doctor Seuss book apparently
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  Speaker 2: called Gertron mcfuzz and it just added sounded so perfect.
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  Speaker 3: That that's what I named my dog.
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  Speaker 2: I've never even read the book, but Peaches Girture mcfuzzin,
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  Speaker 2: come on, come on pretty good?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, thank you, and it fits her, it fit y.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: She is chaos in a shaddy, shady blonde fur. And
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  Speaker 2: just recently she had pretty major surgery because they found
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  Speaker 2: masses on her body, which they don't know if it's
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  Speaker 2: cancers or not, but like it could affect her mobility,
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  Speaker 2: and I had sore. I would never do major surgery
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  Speaker 2: on my dog unless it was absolutely necessary. Before I bought,
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  Speaker 2: I got my dog, and I have become that with
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  Speaker 2: a good like good pay that, I'm now like, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I'll do whatever to save my dog. Can I train
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  Speaker 2: my life for the life of my dog for years? Yes,
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  Speaker 2: then I'll do it. There was a TikTok video or
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  Speaker 2: like would you kill would you let your partner die
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  Speaker 2: if it meant that it would give ten extra years
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  Speaker 2: to your dog's life?
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  Speaker 3: And I was like, probably my partner was concerned.
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  Speaker 4: I can hear the Kate Bush, so.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I love my dog and I will have a probably
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  Speaker 2: giant breakdown when she does pass because I get attached,
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  Speaker 2: severely attached to animals like that I have gotten to
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  Speaker 2: the point that if I see a dead animal, particularly
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  Speaker 2: dogs and cats, I start crying. I'm a mess, Like
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  Speaker 2: my emotions have gone from one spectrum to the other.
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  Speaker 2: Like ten yars ago, that wouldn't have been a thing.
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  Speaker 2: I would have been upset. And if I see them
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  Speaker 2: being killed on like shows, immediately like dead to me.
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  Speaker 2: The film is dead to me. This is the worst
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  Speaker 2: film ever. Whoever's recommended this to me, I was also
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  Speaker 2: dead to me, Annie, because that's kind of like it,
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  Speaker 2: you know, like there's a website for a reason. I
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  Speaker 2: know many people understand what I'm feeling in this level,
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  Speaker 2: but like ten years ago, I don't think it would
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  Speaker 2: have affected me as much as this has. Again, though
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  Speaker 2: it was ten years ago when I had my other
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  Speaker 2: dog and I still tear up thinking about him, But
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  Speaker 2: like having this point of like, wow, I have become
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  Speaker 2: this person. Like you know, I think certain amount of
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  Speaker 2: concern is that you care more about your pet than
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  Speaker 2: other people.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think that's true.
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  Speaker 2: I think God have never been put to the test
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  Speaker 2: of that, and thank God hopefully will never be put
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  Speaker 2: the test of that unless one of those zombie apocalypse,
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  Speaker 2: which I've told people before like I would probably rather
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  Speaker 2: my self starved than my dog. I don't know about
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  Speaker 2: other people, but just self. But again, I have never
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  Speaker 2: been put in that situation, so.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: This has gotten really dark, but like there's this moment
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  Speaker 2: of like I have become that forty something meter generation
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  Speaker 2: X slash millennial person who yes, chose this life of childlessness.
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  Speaker 2: I think I chose it. Who knows, maybe I couldn't
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  Speaker 2: have ever had children, Like I have a pretty dark
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  Speaker 2: history for my own health. So I don't know, and
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  Speaker 2: I've never put it to the test, but I am
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  Speaker 2: at this point because of choices and adopted a dog
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  Speaker 2: in hoping to keep her for forever.
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  Speaker 3: Is my main goal.
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  Speaker 2: But all these different things, and it's kind of a
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  Speaker 2: fascinating look at my own personality again with my attachment issues,
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  Speaker 2: Like there are so many tiktoks, and I'm glad to
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  Speaker 2: be seen where people just cry at the thought of
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  Speaker 2: their pet past and I have I'm there, Like especially
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  Speaker 2: with the surgery, so my dog is very sensitive to sedation,
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  Speaker 2: but my dog is a jerk, and so it is
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  Speaker 2: very anxious about any procedure. So if he's being restrained,
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  Speaker 2: she's gonna snap I could not take her, even as
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  Speaker 2: a puppy, to get her nails done without her snapping
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  Speaker 2: at them. So eventually the groomers will be like, no,
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  Speaker 2: you're gonna have to take her. And this was like
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  Speaker 2: months after I got her, so it wasn't me. I've
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  Speaker 2: put her in training, I've taken her to dog parts,
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  Speaker 2: I've taken her to doggy daycares. I've talked about the
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  Speaker 2: stories of like, oh, this daycare is kind of scary.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if I want to bring in this one.
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  Speaker 2: The ones that would be great with her would be great,
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  Speaker 2: but at the same time, like she was getting more
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  Speaker 2: and more anxious being there, so it wasn't helping her.
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  Speaker 2: When she was a puppy and I would try to
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  Speaker 2: take her with other dogs, if they chased her, she
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  Speaker 2: was reactive and that only led to her being more
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  Speaker 2: reactive when I would try to put her with their dogs.
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  Speaker 2: Like it was a whole thing, y'all. So I really
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  Speaker 2: did want her to be sociable. I wanted to take
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  Speaker 2: her out to like restaurants and be that cool person
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  Speaker 2: that can sit with her dog. And once upon a time,
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  Speaker 2: my dog was really and still is food motivated, but
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  Speaker 2: like not enough for her not to be reactive. M So,
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  Speaker 2: like there's things that are like oh no, and every
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  Speaker 2: time I think she's doing better, something happens and she
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  Speaker 2: gets scared. So it's just the constant level of like, okay,
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  Speaker 2: for the safety of myself and because of my dog,
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  Speaker 2: and for other people and other dogs, I try not
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  Speaker 2: to do that. She gets along with other people, loves people,
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  Speaker 2: loves people, gets a little hyper, jumps on them once
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  Speaker 2: it gets mouthy, which can seem seem as scary. So
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  Speaker 2: I try to keep her at a distance and try
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  Speaker 2: to find a plan. And he knows because he needs
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  Speaker 2: dogs at plenty of times. But like all these things,
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  Speaker 2: but I have become this person with all of these things.
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  Speaker 2: So with the sedation that I was like, Okay, this
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  Speaker 2: is the only way we're going to get her medicated.
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  Speaker 2: We're gonna get her updated on shots, We're gonna get
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  Speaker 2: any of these things done. Because even with like putting
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  Speaker 2: her on uh just pills, different medications that did not
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  Speaker 2: stop her. So like the VET was finally was like, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna have to sedate hers for real, for real,
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  Speaker 2: And the two times that happened, like they had to
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  Speaker 2: bring her back. Essentially they had to do the counter
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  Speaker 2: drugs because her heartbeat was so low. So I've freaked.
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  Speaker 2: I've been freaking out. Unfortunately, people have told me stories
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  Speaker 2: of uh, which is I'm glad to know because I
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  Speaker 2: was able to, like let let the vets know. I'm
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  Speaker 2: concerned about this. You will have someone screaming in your
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  Speaker 2: office if something happens to my dog because of this
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  Speaker 2: like cut type of procedures, but like of dogs passing
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  Speaker 2: or dog's nying because the sedation just that everything else
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  Speaker 2: was fine. So I have a lot of concerns. So
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  Speaker 2: going into this procedure, I've been crying. I've been upset.
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  Speaker 2: I've been going back and forth about whether or not
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  Speaker 2: I wanted to be done talking to the vet constantly.
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  Speaker 2: I've been pretty annoying. I will say that nice but annoying. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: And so everything has gone well, everything is good. We're
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  Speaker 2: just waiting for results. But the fact that I've become
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  Speaker 2: this person, I will say, like, that's been Like the
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  Speaker 2: joke is that you're just gonna be single with your dog?
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  Speaker 3: Is that what you want?
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, yes, not the single part, Like I have
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  Speaker 2: a good partner. If I don't have a good partner,
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  Speaker 2: then yes. But I do have a good partner who
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  Speaker 2: has been with me the entire time, which has been
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  Speaker 2: nice to have this partner. But I have become very
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  Speaker 2: dependent and have become one of those dog owners and Annie,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if I should be concerned or I
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  Speaker 2: should be satisfied that this is how it's become.
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  Speaker 4: Hmm, maybe both, maybe both.
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  Speaker 3: As a person who has none of those feelings.
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  Speaker 1: Hmmm.
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  Speaker 2: And you know me very well, I do. Do you
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  Speaker 2: think I have made some bad choices, good choices or hmm, choices?
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  Speaker 4: I know.
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  Speaker 1: I think you have made good choices. I think that
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  Speaker 1: and this really became much sadder than we intended.
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  Speaker 3: To be listeners, that's what happened with me.
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  Speaker 1: I think that it's the you know, is it better
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  Speaker 1: to have loved and lost than never to have loved
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  Speaker 1: at all. I think that you love Peaches, and she's
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  Speaker 1: brought your love jewelry, and that's great, But there's the
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  Speaker 1: also the question of is gonna hurt like lot? So
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  Speaker 1: I think that I don't think you've done anything wrong.
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  Speaker 1: I think this is one of the that's why life
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  Speaker 1: sucks sometimes, right.
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  Speaker 2: So the other debate to this is I've been wanting
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  Speaker 2: a second dog again, though in knowing that my dog
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  Speaker 2: is rough and a bit of a jerk. The only
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  Speaker 2: times that I've seen my dog do okay with other
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  Speaker 2: dogs is when they are submissive and smaller than her.
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  Speaker 2: Then she's fine, Like she can chase them and they
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  Speaker 2: just have fun the end. The few dogs, Like there
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  Speaker 2: was a time that a friend of mine brought her
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  Speaker 2: dog over and it was a mess for the first
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  Speaker 2: day and a half, Like it was bad, Like We're like,
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  Speaker 2: oh no, what we're gonna do. But then like after that,
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  Speaker 2: after all of the snarling and they were like I
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  Speaker 2: have a picture of them crawling up together on chairs
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  Speaker 2: and chasing each other and having the best time ever.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, what is what is this? M And like
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, is it worth that to we get the
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  Speaker 2: second dog? Like, if if we had anything, I would
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  Speaker 2: want a smaller puppy that is just easy going, because
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  Speaker 2: if they react, the other dog reacts, She's gonna react,
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  Speaker 2: which is not a good And I don't want to
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  Speaker 2: put any dog in that position either. And it's selfish
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  Speaker 2: for me to want this. This is a selfish reason
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  Speaker 2: because I'm like, I'm gonna know I need that second dog.
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  Speaker 2: If something happens to Peaches or I'm gonna lose it,
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  Speaker 2: right again, very selfish, I get it, but yeah, like it.
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  Speaker 2: My dependency of my dog depending on me is so
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  Speaker 2: high that I kind of yeah, I'm scared and anxious
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  Speaker 2: about like the future of without which again, Mike Vett
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  Speaker 2: has said that she is very healthy. Everything looks good,
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  Speaker 2: her teeth even look good. And she's around nine now,
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  Speaker 2: Like everything looks good on her. I can I can
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  Speaker 2: do her nails, I can bathe her like everything like
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  Speaker 2: the vets or then they can't do I can.
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  Speaker 3: Do do you know what I mean?
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  Speaker 2: Like she doesn't react the same with me, which I
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: try to tell people, don't do this, just do this.
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  Speaker 3: I can do this. You can't do this type of thing, right,
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  Speaker 3: but like there's so.
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  Speaker 2: Many things to and I'm like, wow, in my level
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  Speaker 2: of mental instability that the ups and downs that I've
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  Speaker 2: gone through, she has helped me out so much more
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  Speaker 2: than anything else the dogs. And then again this is
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: where I'm like, oh, this is At the same time,
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: I couldn't really name her a service dog, like right,
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: I'm not gonna lie about that because she's like she's
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: a service to me right right. But that's about the extent,
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: although she has been your comfort. I have seen this
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: several times, the way that you two will gather together
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: for a fanfic and you just kind of read, and
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: then she sits there and you just yell at her.
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: She just stares at you, like what, and both of
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: you seem to enjoy that. All you do is just
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: say her name repeatedly in a loud way. She's like huh,
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: And you're like the pages for nothing.
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: Because it's funny because I have the I have one
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: of those digital frames and quite often pictures of Peaches pop.
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  Speaker 3: You're welcome.
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: I tried to convince you to get a dog too,
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: but then, like the incidents with my dog, you're like.
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: What, why would I get a dog? Yeah, I try
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: to commission a cat.
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're not the only one on that boat. I've
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: got a lot of people. I aw people tooting that orn.
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: I mean, are ex super producer Andrew. Yeah, I'm sure
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: it would be a big proponent to like, you get
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: in a cat because they're they're a bit independent. We
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: need one that will be a snugly one too though
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: for you.
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, my favorite cats were like the very effect cats.
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: It's a hidden miss with cats too. I al say's
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: hidden miss with dogs, I mean two, but like not
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: as much as cats. But yeah, like I'm trying to
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: turn you into the one of us, so I don't
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: feel so lone.
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: You're not.
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: I feel like I.
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: Have a few friends who just doesn't like very particular
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: or don't like animals as much, which is quite funny
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: to me. I'm like, huh, how did I end up
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: with y'all? Yeah, that's a nicety of you.
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah four, Oh wow, I feel like I'm really good.
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: I'm with Peaches though.
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: Like it's he just loves you.
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I like. But it's like that kind of the
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: argument of like being the cool ant. I like Colm,
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: and I'm like, hi, then I go home.
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: We're going to share this moment together.
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: But uh, you kind of like get her riled up either,
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: So that's that's nice. There's a few hools to try
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: to rile her up. Don't do that, Okay, I'm like,
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: you go, I guess, but like I'm like, if you
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: don't do that, she's not like this, why are you
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: doing this? Right? There's only a few people would do that, actually,
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: but they also love doing that is that like, okay,
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: as long as you're not I guess, but yeah, but
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: like spending all this money, it was a lot of money,
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: like unexpected, not unexpected, but like things I would never
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: have paid I could have never paid for again, like
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: I try. I did that one time. It hurt me
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: for ten years, like if not still because I really
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: could not afford it. And I'm like, wow, this sucks.
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: And this is that level. And the I believe in
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: the UK because I think that someone wrote to us
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: about this before that they have pet insurance like automatic
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: and it's actual pet insurance and I'm like, oh right,
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: what does it? Oh this must be nice.
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we're filling out our benefits right now and it
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: is not like that. There is pet insurance, but it
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: is not for you years.
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: It is a lot of money.
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: And from what I've seen from other users who have
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: pet insurance, it's a hit and miss about whether not
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: actually covers anything, because as we know, the US insurance
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: is corrupt mm hmm. And it's not for people, it's
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: for the companies.
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: It's make money.
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: Yep.
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: That's a whole other show.
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: Indeed.
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: But anyway, thank you for letting me vent in wine
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: about and also like you know, can't figuis some of
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: that my anxieties of my pet.
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: Because it's spent a lot.
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: It's been like, as you know, any of the surgery happened,
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: which I forgot to tell people because I didn't want
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: to sound like that obsessive dog person a B. When
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: something stressful happens for me, I don't tell people till
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: after the fact because I need to like internalize it
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: and I figure out what's going on and how I
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: feel about it. I'm also the non reacted, like the
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: freeze person in stress in stressful situations, like I'm just
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: but it looks like I just shut down and that
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: I don't care. It looks like I'm being stoic, which
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: I've been complimented a lot about, Like you handled us
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: stress really well, you don't react, that's great, And I'm like,
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: that's just some freezing, Like I don't know if it's
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: actually that healthy, right, because I'm trying to gather myself
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: to figure out what to do for next, which again
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: sometimes is helpful, right, Sometimes it's just a learned behavior, yep.
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: Which is again why I didn't tell.
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: I didn't like I realized I hadn't told that many people,
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: especially when I was like, oh, we're supposed to be recording. Yeah,
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: So I came back on to record very quickly.
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: I'm like, I gotta go. I'm freaking out. I gotta go,
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: which I did. I didn't think I would.
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: I was going to react that way either, which is
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: weird because I knew I was gonna react that way.
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: I feel like those things though, Like you can be
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: in a place that is quote good and be like
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: I'm good, and then the next day you're like, oh no,
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: I'm not good.
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: Change. You just go back and forth.
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: But yeah, so there's a lot just that why my
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: dog is recovering. I will be taking her back next week.
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: So this is a Nomber seventh, twenty three for any
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: of the other like for dated time in reference. I'll
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: be going the next week to remove her stitches. And
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: they're gaiy all ones, like six inches long. Yeah, they
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: took a full lot of her fur. Someone called her freakin' butt,
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: and it's not wrong.
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: I said, she's gonna look roal goofy in a bit
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: so rude. It comes from a place to love, it's true.
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: So she's wearing a donut. She's been mad at me
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: because I make her not let her not scratch. But
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: she's doing well, just like why.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I know all the the Sminty fan is
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: rooting for Peaches and is glad she's doing okay. People
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: always check in about her, so I'm sure they're they're
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: glad to know.
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: There you go.
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Cheers to you, Peaches.
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: Cheers Cheers to y'all and the other dog moms who
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: claim it.
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: Yes, cheers to you. Yes.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: Well, if you want to let us know about your
• 25:07
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• 25:10
  Speaker 3: All love pictures.
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: Pictures of dogs are always great, or any any animals
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: always appreciate it.
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: Got a hedgehogs.
• 25:17
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• 25:26
  Speaker 1: Ever told you we.
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: Have a tea public store. We should get a.
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: Shirt for Peaches. There, here we go. We also have
• 25:35
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• 25:39
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• 25:42
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• 25:45
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• 25:47
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• 25:48
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