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Sometimes There's Side Eye - Episode 16: These Are Our Favorite Things! · Sometimes There's Side Eye

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  Welcome to Sometimes Their Side Eye, a podcast about two friends
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  having real and unfiltered conversations about dogs.
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  And people listen as we talk about our lives with dogs,
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  training behavior, share some laughs and a whole lot of
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  banter. I'm Heather.
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  And I'm Christy this week. I'm excited.
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  Yeah. This week we're going to do our
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  favorite things. Ooh.
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  Ah, I mean all just. Related Yes, of course.
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  So for favorite things, actually, you know what?
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  I'm going to start with a podcast.
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  That's a great idea. Sarah Strimming.
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  And Cog Dog Radio is probably, I mean, well, not probably.
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  Is the reason we're even doing this podcast because Heather and
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  I both got hooked on her podcast during the pandemic?
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  Yes. And so if you're looking for
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  additional podcasts, I would strongly recommend them.
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  And Full disclosure, she just did her 300th episode, so if you
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  decide that you are going to start at the beginning, you're
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  in for it. We binged her.
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  I I think we've been sure in like 6 months.
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  It was it was a problem. It's so, so good.
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  And it sent us down the road to other great podcasts too.
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  Some are super like nerdy dog training staff like Hannah
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  Branigan. And then there's also a pause
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  and reward, which is a wonderful one.
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  I. Love them, I know.
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  I love pause and reward because I feel like it.
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  It can be for your everyday relatable.
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  Yes, yes, yes. OK.
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  So now we have 3 podcasts, but yes, absolutely.
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  Cog Dog is my fave. And if you start at the
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  beginning and you are like, I don't agree with everything she
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  says, that's OKI also did not agree with her, she said, which
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  is what started some conversations.
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  And in her 300th episode, she talks about how she doesn't
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  agree with everything she said. Because we change, We evolved.
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  We learn. Yeah, more new things.
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  Yeah. Yeah.
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  All right. Well, we got some favorite
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  podcasts for people to listen to.
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  I'll start out with a favorite clothing line.
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  Yes, so all dog related clothing at Rescue Strong is some.
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  They are such a great partner to the rescue community.
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  I have met them personally and they are just amazing human
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  beings as well and their clothes are super cute.
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  Yeah, I have so many things from them.
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  And in fact, I'm wearing one of their shirts, right?
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  I think my favorite line that they did is adopt A dog and
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  explore. Yeah, yeah.
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  And go explore. Yeah, I really love that one.
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  I like that one too, yeah, but they have lots of different They
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  have stickers, shirts, license plate brackets.
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  They have all kinds. Of stuff.
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  Oh yeah, I have a license plate bracket from them too.
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  I have a lot of things from them, so definitely check out
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  Rescue Strong. Yes.
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  Do we need to mention again? Of course for dog clothes, Tooth
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  and Hanita. We already gushed about Alley in
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  our Travel with Dogs episode, which is episode 14.
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  So if you want to hear all about that, click back and give a
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  listen. I think Wah wah, one of my
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  favorite things that I have right now are also safety
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  related, but my rough land kennels are absolutely one of my
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  favorite things. They are my kennels that are in
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  my car. They stay in my car for the boys
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  to ride in when we travel. I've had them for a few years
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  now. I just really, really love them.
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  I feel so safe driving around because in Arizona you drive so
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  much and I drive like 30 to 40,000 miles a year and most of
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  it is dog travel. Is that all?
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  I feel like you drive more than that.
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  I drive less now than I used to because of Puppy Kay.
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  I don't go as much, but if I was like full on competing, yeah,
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  I'd probably be like 50,000 a year.
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  I really just feel comfortable with them riding in those and
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  then something that goes right along with those is the Primo
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  pad. Which Primo pad makes a nice
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  comfortable pad that is completely washable and durable
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  that fits right inside your ruffling kennels.
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  I also use them in lieu of a tray in my in my wire crates in
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  my house. And I just love them so much
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  too. They're super easy to clean.
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  It gives the dogs a little cushion to lay on, but they last
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  for years and years and years, so I think the ruffling kennel
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  goes along with the Primo pad as some of my favorite things.
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  Yeah. And and it's the rough land
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  kennel impact rated or or anything like that.
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  So I don't think it's officially crash rated, but all you have to
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  do is look around and search around for some photos of people
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  who have had car accidents and the crates have saved their dogs
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  lives and I've seen some pretty heinous racks where those
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  kennels have held up. They are molded, so they're
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  super strong and even in the heat out here, even if they
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  like, will dimple a little bit, they pop right back out because
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  they're just like this, fully molded.
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  I don't know if it's resin, I don't know what the material is,
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  but I just really, really love them and I don't.
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  And you can also hose them out. The door comes fully off and
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  it's so easy to pop them out of your car and hose them out and
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  dry them off. I mean, they're just very, very
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  easy to use, which is good for me.
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  Yeah. And they're a little bit
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  lighter, Yeah. Some of the other crash rated,
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  so to be fair, I won an impact crate on a raffle site, which
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  was amazing because they're super, super expensive.
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  So I won unpack crate that was the size for Tiago and I got it
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  and I was all excited and it was so heavy that I actually sold it
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  and I used the money to buy both my Roughland kennels and had
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  cash left over. And I have not looked back.
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  And I know every a lot of dog sports people have their
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  preference one way or the other, but for me, I'm roughland all
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  the way. Because it's much easier for you
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  to handle by yourself. They're so easy to pop in and
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  out of my car. Yeah.
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  The only thing I would change, and I will probably at some
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  point, if I had to do it over again, I would have gotten a
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  front door and a back door. I didn't think that through.
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  Well for a couple reasons. One for extra ventilation.
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  And then the second reason is because if we were in a rear end
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  crash, then you have a back door to be able to get the dogs out
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  that way. And I didn't think that through
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  when I made the purchase. Now in my car there's room from
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  the rear hatch to where the crate door actually starts.
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  So I'm not tied up against like some people where I'd be like I
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  absolutely have to have a back door.
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  But it is something that I would say, if anybody starts looking
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  into them, absolutely spend the money and get the double door
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  set up or a side door, depending on what your configuration is,
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  so that God forbid you're ever rear-ended, you can pop your
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  dogs out that way, yeah. Cool.
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  What do you got? Oh, you want more of mine?
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  Okay, I like it. Biothane lines, I mean, we talk
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  about them plenty of times. It is absolutely one of my
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  favorite things. My 30 foot and my 10 foot are my
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  go to. Well, they're the two sizes I
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  have. I just never found a reason to
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  buy any other links. Those are my favorite links.
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  Durable, washable. Get them dirty in the mouth.
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  You don't really need to wash them.
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  No, because. They just wipe off so easily.
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  Yeah, they wipe off, but if you needed to for some reason like
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  you throw it in a tub, like nothing's going to happen to it.
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  At this point. I consider them unbreakable.
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  I mean if you're breaking a Biotheme line, I don't know what
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  you're doing. My 10 foot line is years old and
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  I it's still going. I just, I really love my
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  Biotheme lines. So that is absolutely on my
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  list. And then for dog apparel sort of
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  things, I love most things, rough wear.
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  I really love Tiago's hiking harness, which is like a
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  lightweight roughwear harness. And then I love them for their
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  float coats or their life jackets.
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  Anybody out there who has like a muscular dog, like a bulldog or
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  like a Pitbull type of dog, the roughwear float coats fit just
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  so much better than anything I've found.
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  And if you talk to other Bulldog people, they all say, oh,
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  roughwear, that's the way to go. They are shorter in the body, so
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  it doesn't fit awkwardly because they're so beefy in the chest
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  area and in the rib cage. And then they kind of, you know,
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  well, tater thins out because he's not overweight.
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  But they fit really well. Please don't hate us if you have
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  a bulldog. How there's just.
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  Neurotic about her dog's weights.
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  I am as neurotic as the nails, so they just fit really, really
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  well on like a like a muscular beefy kind of dog and they work
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  really well. So that's absolutely hands down
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  Roughwear, and I know they're a little bit more expensive, but
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  to me tater his Roughwear coat we just used for dock diving
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  well when he did and it just holds up that I've had it for
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  years so. I will say if you can't afford a
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  rough wear coat, at least get one with a handle on it.
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  Yes, because I personally, I know Lucy goes kayaking with me
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  sometimes and and she thought she could jump from the kayak to
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  the shore, but when she did that she pushed the kayak away from
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  the shore so she just went in the water instead.
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  Huge difference to. Just grab yes.
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  A handle on their back and lift them out of the water at least
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  so their front legs are out of the water and then be able to
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  get the rest of their body out. I would say that is a main.
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  Definitely look for that. Yeah.
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  I mean even like Tater's at home life jacket is the cute little
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  shark fin jacket off Amazon that's like $25.00.
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  But in the Arizona heat, they only last one year and then they
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  die When you consider $25 each summer.
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  I think his rough wear float coat was like 80, I want to say.
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  But I've had it for more than three years.
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  So, you know, but I also take care of it.
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  Yeah. So you know, you kind of like
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  weigh the the pros and cons. There Speaking of rough wear,
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  like, I love Lucy's cooling vest from Yeah or cool like I think
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  it's called like a swamp cooler. Oh.
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  Yeah, and they have lots of different ones.
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  I don't know that one is better than the other.
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  The one I have is the the swamp cooler I believe is what it's
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  called. It's a little long for her, I'm
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  going to be honest, because her chest is so big, she had to go
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  with a size up, but then her body is kind of short, so it
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  goes all the way to like over her butt.
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  However, that is the only reason we were able to take.
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  Walks every day this summer. Like if you don't know, Arizona
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  had 31 days over 110 degrees and most of those days we never got
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  below 90 degrees, even for our lows.
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  Even at night, Never. Never dropped below 90.
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  My dad cannot handle that, so the rough wear cooling coat is
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  what allowed us to still have. Walks every day.
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  And if you know Lucy, that's her jam.
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  That's like her. What she lives for is her daily
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  walks. So you guys saved my life.
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  Rough wear? Yeah.
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  Honestly, like I well, I said two rough wear things.
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  I just really love their products and the cooling code
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  thing man that does make a difference because when Tiago
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  was showing I used a cooling coat for him too.
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  He had a fancy dancy sequin show code.
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  Bleh but. You're still fancy?
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  No? I literally said to the woman.
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  I would like the least blingy. Possible, but I will say that it
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  really did make a difference for him.
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  I know. I'm like, how much bling can you
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  put on one thing for a dog? Oh, how obnoxious can I be, You
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  and Cindy, because she has some blingy, blingy shit for her
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  dogs, let me tell you. Our friend Cindy showed her
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  Rottweilers too, and she had some real blingy jackets.
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  And I'm over here going. Can I have the least blingy
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  thing that you have? For sure.
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  Like I see our friend Cindy's collars and things that she
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  thought. And I'm like, yes, those are my
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  style. And I'm over here going, That's
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  just too much. We love you, Cindy.
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  They look beautiful. I'm saying like I love it.
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  I want it all. What else do you Speaking of
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  blingy also, so I'm going to say.
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  Lucy's pearls are definitely a favorite for me.
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  It just has kind of brought down a lot of like barriers or guards
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  that people have up about pitbulls, a dog and girls come
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  on like. Is just ridiculous and people
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  love it and. In fact, I had one lady say ohh
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  that dog's too bougie to be your friend to her dog.
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  She told her dog, well that dog's too bougie to be your
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  friend. I was like, this is a $20 like a
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  dog from the pound. Like she is not so bougie.
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  She just dresses up funny, so like.
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  I will say I got my pearls from a company called BB Babies so
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  they do have a reputation for having long wait time.
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  So she will quote you 8 weeks, 4 to 8 weeks.
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  I got mine in 10 weeks. However, most of my friends who
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  ordered on the same day got theirs in 15 plus weeks.
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  So why are you mentioning them, Christy?
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  The reason I mention them is because pearls are fun and I
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  have had Lucy's pearls, I wanna say 5-6 years so and she wears
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  them all the time. And she does wear them a lot.
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  And they're just now starting to show where.
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  Wow. So I feel like that's such a
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  quality product. And like, she went to the ocean
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  with them. She is in the lake with them.
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  I you guys, I like, have cleaned out so much poop from her pearls
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  because she loves to roll in poop.
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  Like, not Like it's. Literally.
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  Like, bitch, I don't care. I got my pearls on.
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  I'm still going to run in that poop.
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  She's like, look at that out poop for it.
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  I'm like. Oh oh poop and the girl.
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  Isn't that a shining recommendation for the company?
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  Even your dog can roll an elk poop in these pearls.
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  Some piece so fancy. I do know there's other vendors
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  on Etsy and so if having the correct time quoted to you is
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  important then. Yeah, maybe go with a different
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  vendor. I just don't, I can't say how
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  their product, yeah pulls up, yes.
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  I just know what I have and I I will say I have enjoyed having
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  the those pearls. So, yeah, I mean I feel like
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  waiting, you know, of months versus having like something
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  that lasts that long and is durable on a dog, that's pretty
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  impressive. Yeah, yeah.
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  What else he got there? He got any other?
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  Do I have no other part? Oh, I do.
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  You know what I'm going to say? What?
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  My nail files from Sally Beauty Supply.
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  Actually, those are my favorite too.
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  All right, everybody asked me. I don't know how many times I've
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  sent, like photos of these nail files.
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  The nail files that I used to do both Tater and Thiago's nails
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  are from Sally Beauty Supply. I will link them in the show
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  notes. My favorite one is the
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  rectangular 100 grit black nail file.
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  Now sometimes they're not available during the pandemic.
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  It was real sad, but it was real sad.
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  I ordered a different brand, and I regret it every moment.
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  I don't buy money on Amazon. Amazon.
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  They're junk. They don't stand.
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  They don't. Yep.
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  They don't withstand anything. I have tried to, like, search
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  them from other sources. No, Sally Beauty Supply, The
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  rectangular black is the way to go.
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  If they don't have it, they have a 101 eighty black one that's
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  like, what would that shape be? It's like, I don't know, some
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  kind of gone, like a hexagon, a Pentagon.
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  No it is. It's like some some kind of
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  shape, not not rectangular gong shape, gone shape.
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  Anyway, you can't get the rectangular ones.
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  That's my second choice, but also from Sally's what I do is
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  well, during the pandemic when they were hard to find.
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  If I was anywhere near Sally's I would pop in and just buy
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  whatever rectangular ones they had.
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  But you can also buy them online.
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  Now they seem to be back in stock, or if you go to Sally's
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  just buy five or six at a time. They're only like $1.89 and that
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  way you have a back stock. I use 1A week, so I usually buy
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  10 at a time and I will. Say like I, you probably use
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  yours a. Few times don't do it as long
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  like I don't. Do Lucy's nails as much as you,
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  but like mine lasted for months. But I also have a Rottweiler
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  with really hard black nails, OK?
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  Yeah, and Lucy's nails are pretty.
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  Relatively soft I feel like compared to Tiagos.
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  Yeah, like this last one. OK, so I did fin the lab puppies
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  nails on Friday and then I used it on my dogs and then I used
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  the same one to do a little Chihuahua.
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  Cersei mellow niece Cersei. I used it to do her nails too,
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  so that is multi use. But if I tried to use the same
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  one twice for Tiago, I don't think it would quite do the job
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  I need. Yeah, yeah.
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  So just know it may last longer than than once a week.
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  Yeah, and most people don't do their dogs nails once a week
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  like me. So absolutely one of my totally
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  top favorite things. And then the last thing is not
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  like a particular product necessarily, but it's something
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  that I just love to have that makes my life easier.
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  And that is if I have a dog room at my house, like one of my
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  bedrooms is turned into a dog crate room and it has carpet, I
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  will buy a $30. Well it was $30 before COVID,
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  $30 piece of linoleum from Lowe's precut, and I will put
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  that down over top of the carpet to put the crates on.
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  And I love it for a lot of reasons.
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  One, it keeps the stink from getting into the carpet, cause
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  dogs, and if anybody gets sick, it's very easy to clean.
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  It makes it easier to clean the crates, It makes it easier to
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  clean up dog hair. I mean, all the reasons I've
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  been doing this for 20 years, putting linoleum down.
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  And then it's not super expensive.
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  So when you're done, if you move, you can, you know, toss it
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  out. In the old days when I really
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  had no extra money to pay for a linoleum, I would actually find
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  it on free cycle. Or I would post on free cycle
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  and ask if anyone had remnants of linoleum.
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  And you can just get a piece that's maybe 2 feet by two feet
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  wider than your crate on all sides and you can use that.
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  So that's kind of like a way to get around it if you don't have
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  extra money to purchase it, but I find it super useful and it
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  makes my life easier. It's.
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  Probably good even for like nice hardwood floors.
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  Yes, throw some linoleum over it.
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  So yeah, like in case they're splashing or or like you said,
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  all dogs getting sick. Yeah, and the the crates can
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  scratch. Like if your crates are older.
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  Actually that reminds me because we had laminate floors in our
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  last house that we had put in and I had it down over top of
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  the laminate too. Because you know what?
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  If a dog gets sick and you're away at work for like 4 hours
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  and it's gonna sink into something like laminate.
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  So nasty. But yeah, so that's one of my
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  little hacks. That is a favorite thing.
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  So one of my favorite things that is also not a product would
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  be my. Very real grass in the backyard.
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  So this, this is, this is controversial, No.
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  Yeah, not really. We're, we're starting, we're
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  stirring a little controversy here.
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  So in Arizona and a lot at the West, we're on water
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  conservation or trying to be water conscious.
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  So one of the big things has been to put in a fake grass, and
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  I definitely considered doing that, but then ended up.
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  Just keeping my real grass because I thought budget wise I
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  don't need fake grass, but as I've cut my real grass I've
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  decided that is the way to go for me because my dog loves to
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  just go out and lay in the grass and it is significantly cooler
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  than fake grass. And it keeps my yard
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  significantly cooler overall as well.
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  And there's a lot of wildlife that comes then, like all the
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  birds come and eat the bugs in the grass.
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  And for some of you that's a negative or a positive, I think.
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  I feel like it's a it's enrichment for some dogs because
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  it's birds or? I do like birds, actually.
• 22:17
  I like wildlife coming to my house and in Arizona wildlife is
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  is birds. Because I'm not having an elk or
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  a come through my house, not down here.
• 22:29
  Yeah, and I'm too far away from the mountains for thankfully for
• 22:32
  like snakes and things to come. So yeah, I do agree with you
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  because we had real grass at our last house.
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  You also have a really nice tree, so it kind of gives them a
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  good shade too. And we had real grass, like I
• 22:44
  said in our last house. I just don't want to freaking
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  mow it. I'm lazy, so I'm a turf girl all
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  the way. I love my turf.
• 22:51
  We've had it for four years and I wouldn't change it.
• 22:54
  I wouldn't go back. But I do agree that our last
• 22:58
  yard there are benefits having real grass for sure.
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  So those are some of our favorite things.
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  Because I something may have an awesome idea.
• 23:17
  That's something I've never heard of.
• 23:19
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  I know. Also on our next episode in two
• 23:27
  weeks, we are going to have an awesome interview with Christy
• 23:31
  Cole from Desert Harbor Doberman Rescue of Arizona DHDR. She was
• 23:36
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• 23:40
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• 23:43
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• 23:46
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• 23:49
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• 23:53
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• 23:54
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• 24:12
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