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[00:00:33] Speaker C: Part shepherd, part ridiculous.
[00:00:37] Speaker D: The reason why you're not supposed to make a baby vampire. Because they're crazy. That's what puppies remind me of.
[00:00:42] Speaker E: You're the.
[00:00:48] Speaker D: I've let you down.
[00:00:50] Speaker C: You know the expression follow you around like a lost puppy dog?
[00:00:53] Speaker D: That's what you're doing.
[00:00:54] Speaker C: That's very dead puppies. I don't find funny. I just want to clarify. That's not what I'm saying. For the record.
[00:01:01] Speaker F: No.
[00:01:01] Speaker E: Right in for the record.
[00:01:05] Speaker F: Please edit.
[00:01:06] Speaker D: That out for the rest of the trip. That was business as usual. No problem. Give the cat the thing. It foams like a crazy beast and then it goes to sleep for 6 hours.
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[00:02:05] Speaker C: Do you guys want a quick look at the puppy before we leave? She's awake. Yes. Okay, I'll go grab. Do you know what I was secretly giggling about, folks, when Meredith was leaving her sophisticated. Marco Polo's the different language name for her puppy. And then I was like, and our dog's name, BJ. I was just like, you couldn't ask for more iridoxical examples. Totally.
Don't eat those.
She's desperately hungry all the time. I would have named her Doodle Doodle, doodle, doodle. I love that there's so many dogs mixed with doodles now.
[00:02:50] Speaker D: Or poodles, I guess.
[00:02:51] Speaker C: I know. They take every dog and make them ridiculous.
Part shepherd, part ridiculous.
They're so silly, right? Yeah.
People are just done with having shedding dogs. Poodles are very smart too, though. They're so smart. But it's funny that they're also just always a cartoon. This is how I picture a poodle all the time.
I think she's grown even.
She's already gained five pounds in two weeks. She's going to eat. When you got her, what was the eight weeks? So she's ten now. Older boy. Big baby. She's got very sweet eyes.
[00:03:29] Speaker E: And she's tired.
[00:03:31] Speaker C: Look.
[00:03:31] Speaker E: Oh, my goodness.
[00:03:33] Speaker C: She's tired.
[00:03:34] Speaker E: That's the puppy move.
Trying to eat you.
[00:03:37] Speaker C: Trying to hold them.
I have to sleep now.
She's either like, fed and rested and lovely. Or biting.
Yeah, she's doing really good with brushing, though, getting her coat brushed. She'll need brushing every day, so we'd brush every day.
[00:03:58] Speaker D: You know those baby vampires in the twilight book, Sarah? Like, how the reason why you're not supposed to make a baby vampire. Because they're crazy. That's what puppies remind me of.
[00:04:07] Speaker C: They're a good personification. Yeah.
The idea of a baby vampire is my nightmare. Maybe puppies inspired that.
[00:04:19] Speaker D: Maybe the baby vampires are based on puppies.
[00:04:22] Speaker E: My friend who had breed just like that. The Bernice mountain dog. But just Bernice Mountain dog. I was staying at her place in Vancouver when she was a puppy and I was sleeping on the couch and she woke me up when they let her out of the crate by lunging her baby teeth at my, like, her little vampire.
[00:04:43] Speaker C: I was like, ow.
[00:04:43] Speaker E: I had all these marks on my clothes.
[00:04:45] Speaker C: Oh, my God, I forgot. I mean, we kind of remembered, but I forgot how much biting there is.
[00:04:51] Speaker E: And their teeth is so sharp.
[00:04:54] Speaker C: There's so much. Puppies are fun for like a week. And then you're like, fuck puppies. I hate sleep already. It's been like super fun, but fuck off now. I'll see you in two years.
[00:05:09] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:05:10] Speaker C: So when does the extreme bitings end? Ten months?
[00:05:14] Speaker D: Nine months till nine months. You just have to. I read this book or a blog. Treat the biting like a pyramid. Plan for it the whole day. I can't remember how it goes, but I remember it ended with a Kong.
A frozen peanut butter filled Kong is what they have at the end of the day. But like the rest of the. You just got to make sure that they have.
[00:05:36] Speaker C: Yeah, we have an antler. Got a bone. We got, you know, like a.
I. I forgot so much about puppies. Went to the library and I got out this Caesar Malone book. I'm just going to show you.
[00:05:48] Speaker E: I sent Kim my Caesar Malone books.
[00:05:50] Speaker C: How to raise the perfect dog. This one's mostly about puppies, like, raising puppies. And so I was like, I need to read that book again. I've read it, but again, I don't remember anything. But I read it before our last dog anyway, so I'm rereading as fast as I can. I got days ago. Every moment, I'm just like, teach me, Caesar. Teach me.
Because she's restricted to the kitchen. You'll be like, cooking, and she'll wake up and bite you in the back at the leg. It's like, I just bought these overalls.
[00:06:21] Speaker E: When you got your puppy. That's what I did. Immediately, I was like, I will bring my Caesar books and then ship them to you when I was visiting Bob, I was like, she needs these.
[00:06:30] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:06:30] Speaker D: Because I don't know anything about puppies.
[00:06:32] Speaker C: I've never had a food motivated dog either.
That's a great thing.
[00:06:37] Speaker D: Food motivated dogs are good. Oh, food made, training. It's the dream. Like, I'm afraid of dogs that are not food.
[00:06:44] Speaker C: Well, rip wasn't right. Yeah, but she's desperately hungry all the time. But, oh, well, she can't eat that much because she's going to be a big dog. So sorry, you can't have more food.
[00:06:55] Speaker E: And the Caesar. Milan. I had an older chihuahua when I got those books, and there's just no. I tried to be the pack leader. And then after one week of trying, after reading the books, my chihuahua, who was probably like 15 at the time.
[00:07:11] Speaker C: Came home from our little late to the game.
[00:07:13] Speaker D: Sarah.
[00:07:14] Speaker C: Right.
[00:07:14] Speaker E: Well, I was trying to because she's kind of unruly, right. And she's always trying to attack other dogs, and Chihuahuas are vicious.
[00:07:21] Speaker D: She's just a normal chihuahua.
[00:07:23] Speaker C: Right.
[00:07:24] Speaker E: And I remember we did it for a week where she had a walk beside me and I was kind of in front of her and all the whole thing. And then we came home from a walk and she walked right into my apartment and onto my couch and peed. And I was like, you win. You're the Piac leader. You're the pack up. I'm done. I'm sorry, Caesar.
[00:07:42] Speaker C: No, I'm sorry, Caesar. I've let you down.
[00:07:47] Speaker E: I'm not the pack leader.
[00:07:48] Speaker C: She could be the pack leader. That's so sorry, Caesar. I'm sorry. Yeah, boy.
[00:07:55] Speaker E: I didn't use them.
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[00:08:09] Speaker G: Book interrupted.
[00:08:12] Speaker A: This interruption is brought to you by exams. I am taking my diploma in wine right now because of course I don't have any free time at all. I'm just going to add in a diploma in wine. But I took two exams, so there's in total five exams. And then you also have to do a kind of research paper. But the first two exams you have to pass in order to do the rest of the exams. But I did the exams in January and they don't tell you the results for ten to twelve weeks. So you basically sit in this what if kind of scenario for ten to twelve weeks in order to see if you passed the exam and you only need a pass to keep going. And somebody said, c's get degrees. That's exactly like I have no idea because the pass rate isn't great. The way that they explain it is sometimes people have all the information but they don't say it the right way. And so then therefore they fail. So I really have no idea if I'm going to pass or not. I hope I pass. I thought that I was passed when I finished the exam. It's now been what, five weeks? And when you wait for this long, you start to second guess everything that you did. And how did you write it and what did I write? And did I write enough? And did I write it the right way? And then I'm. Plus I'm studying for the next exams that are coming up. And then if I don't pass, then am I allowed to take the next two exams? Not sure. So anyways, it's very annoying and kind of this like weird stress that kind of lives in your body and yourself through everything else for ten to twelve weeks until you find out. I just wish they would just tell you right away and then you could know whether. Do I need to retake the exam? Do I need to study somewhere on those topics? Anyways, so this is one of the random stresses I have in my life. I know. Nothing like super bad, obviously, but it's just tell me, just tell me if I passed.
[00:10:11] Speaker G: Book interrupted.
[00:10:13] Speaker D: My husband's going to come home at some point, just so you guys know. So I'm kind of semi distracted because I hope so. Yes, I hope so.
[00:10:22] Speaker C: I hope so. Hope he comes home at some point.
[00:10:25] Speaker D: I just mean during this taping. So I'm kind of distracted because I'm like, text me so I can mute. He's forgotten some key or so.
[00:10:33] Speaker C: Anyways, that's all good. I just feel very lazy today. Like the smoke has been so bad this week it's bad again today.
[00:10:42] Speaker D: Ours has been okay, but it's just came a little bit again yesterday. There's some discussion like, is there a new fire? And I haven't from my Facebook news heard any confirmation or not from the local news.
[00:10:54] Speaker F: Kim?
[00:10:55] Speaker C: Yeah, I watched the smoke report. There's firesmoke CA or whatever. And I'll show, like the smoke forecast the next whatever it is.
Yeah. So it's like a moving has different colors. And I'll show you how bad the air quality is going to be so you can see where the prevailing wind is and kind of what fire you're.
[00:11:13] Speaker F: Getting your smoke from, what pollution you're breathing in.
[00:11:17] Speaker D: I hope I get it from the West Creek fire.
[00:11:20] Speaker E: Yeah.
[00:11:21] Speaker C: You know, they had the fire in northern BC and Alberta and Northwest territories. I mean, that one, when it was blowing down, took know everyone was in smoke. But yeah, it just makes me kind of lazy. I was going to go for a run this morning. It's like I got all my stuff on. I opened the door and I go, oh, can't run in this. It's too thick. So I changed and took the dog for a walk because the dog still needs a walk, so maybe I shouldn't be out in the smoke, but whatever.
[00:11:44] Speaker D: How is that dog? Is it gigantic yet?
[00:11:47] Speaker C: She's 80 pounds and she'll be a year old tomorrow. Wow.
[00:11:51] Speaker F: Oh, my gosh.
[00:11:54] Speaker D: I don't think my big dog is 80 pounds.
[00:11:57] Speaker C: Yeah, she's sleeping right now. I could try to get her over.
[00:12:00] Speaker D: No, don't. I don't want you to have to, you know what I mean? Regret it in a minute when she's like, we're playing now, right?
[00:12:06] Speaker C: She's like, inexplicably good. Oh, you know what happened? We went to a dog park and she doesn't run away. She likes to be with me. And a group of people went by and I was talking to my brother on my bluetooth headset and she thought I was with them. And then she went with them. I thought she was in the tall grass because she likes to run around the grass. And I was like, oh, no, where is she? And they're like, are you looking for a black dog with a blue, like harness?
[00:12:27] Speaker D: Because it's ours now, right?
[00:12:29] Speaker C: She ran into the forest. I was like, oh. So I start running into the forest, but I try to go a different way to meet up with her off head her off the path. I'm running up the hill and like, oh, my God, what am I doing? She came back down the other way. And I ran and ran all around whistling and calling her. Anyways, eventually she's way over there, she sees me and she came running. She was so exhausted. Just running up and down.
[00:12:52] Speaker D: I like that. This story started with my dog doesn't run away.
[00:12:56] Speaker C: No, that's the thing. She never run away. She got sloth and she went back. She retraced our steps to where we had been looking for me.
[00:13:03] Speaker F: Oh, my gosh, that's so smart.
[00:13:06] Speaker C: She won't let me leave the room. She follows me around. I was like, that's what that, the expression. Follow me around like a lost puppy dog. That's what she's doing.
[00:13:14] Speaker D: That's right.
[00:13:15] Speaker C: If I leave the house, she waits at the top of the stairs. I have to put her in the crate when I leave because otherwise she'll stay awake waiting and so she could just relax in her crate and stuff. But poor dog.
[00:13:26] Speaker F: Oh, she just loves you.
[00:13:28] Speaker C: But it's made her even better than she was. Yeah.
[00:13:31] Speaker F: Oh, totally.
[00:13:32] Speaker C: My gosh.
There's going to be a lot of ignoring because you don't want to make separation anxiety. So when I come home, ignore her for a while.
[00:13:40] Speaker D: Did somebody say dog? Did you see that? Little stupid.
[00:13:43] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:13:45] Speaker D: Separation anxiety.
[00:13:47] Speaker C: What?
[00:13:49] Speaker D: Oh, here comes the glory hog. Watch in a second. We're going to get overrun in a minute. Oh, Luna's so nice. I love her.
[00:13:56] Speaker E: Yes.
[00:13:56] Speaker D: No, you're not Luna. What about me, Mummy?
You can't see him. He's got his paw on me, too. What about me, Mummy?
[00:14:04] Speaker C: Pet me. Oh, and now hubby's here, too. Everybody all at the same time. Okay. Jumps up, tries to put her paws on your shoulders for a hug, but she's so big, or really trying to discourage it, but she'll jump right up on you for a hug. And I was like, we have to stop this hugging thing. She jumps up on my kids. Violet is only 40 pounds. The dog's 80s. She jumps off and by the wa.
But she'll be able to kind of hold up the dog. But anyway, it's a problem. She's a cuddlebug.
[00:14:32] Speaker E: Yeah, you can't have that.
[00:14:33] Speaker C: Our dog is cute.
[00:14:35] Speaker E: Part lab, part, I guess, senegal farm dog. It's just like this tan, small dog that the farms have. And there was a black lab that made these puppies. And so our dog is like short and stout with a short and has. I call them the zombies. He has so much energy. I say him because his name's Peter, but it's really actually a.
[00:15:00] Speaker C: We I just can't help but say Peter, but it's actually a girl anyway.
[00:15:06] Speaker E: And she runs around like crazy, and she freaks everyone out because she's so excited to see people when we come to the farm. But she's too solid, and the kids are, like, terrified. Well, not the kids. I'd say ita is terrified.
[00:15:19] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:15:20] Speaker C: Lots of power.
[00:15:21] Speaker F: How did you come up with the name Peter for a female?
[00:15:25] Speaker E: Because. Okay, so we got the dog from a neighboring farm because his dog got impregnated by this black lab, and he wanted to give away the puppies. We said we wanted all males, and then he ended up giving us two females and a male.
[00:15:42] Speaker F: We thought, yeah.
[00:15:44] Speaker E: So it was Charlote, happy, and Peter because my kids named them. My son named Peter after Peter Rabbit because it's.
It's a really cute dog. It has, like, a sock. It's all black with one white sock.
[00:15:59] Speaker F: Yeah.
[00:15:59] Speaker E: And then when we got them back to the farm, we realized they were all girls and there was no boys.
The kids already named them. And I was like, do you want.
[00:16:09] Speaker C: To change his name, Debbie?
[00:16:11] Speaker E: Not Peter. And he's like, no, it's Peter.
[00:16:14] Speaker C: And I was like, okay.
[00:16:15] Speaker E: And then, unfortunately, the other two puppies didn't make it. They passed away.
[00:16:19] Speaker D: Yeah, I think that was on an episode. I think you were at an episode, very upset about it.
[00:16:25] Speaker E: It was an interruption. Yeah.
But they're, like, full farm dogs, right? So the one little puppy dug in. We had a giant mound of dirt they were using for the farm, and I guess it had dug itself inside, and we thought it had run away, and it collapsed, and they didn't find it until they got halfway down the pile.
[00:16:47] Speaker C: Horrible.
[00:16:48] Speaker E: That was Charlote. And then the other little one. We're not sure. It was really bad for bugs that year, and we had tried all these things, and we're not sure if it died from the medication or died because of the bugs.
[00:16:59] Speaker F: Yeah.
[00:17:00] Speaker E: So we weren't sure. Yeah, it was really horrible. They gave them so many shots, and we found out that that litter of puppies, because the bugs were so bad that season when the puppies were born, the dog had nine puppies. And Peter, out of all the puppies they gave away, was the only one that lived that season, ever made it to adulthood.
[00:17:18] Speaker C: Isn't that so sad?
[00:17:20] Speaker F: Oh, wow. That is very sad.
[00:17:21] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:17:21] Speaker D: My husband had a cat named Dennis Nancy. The cat ended up being called Nancy Dennis because the same thing happened, like, named it, whatever name they named it, and then they realized it was the other sex. And so instead of just completely changing its name, they just called it both names. I think Nancy Dennis is a hilarious name for a cat.
[00:17:41] Speaker F: Well, and it's a fun story. It's fun to ask, why do you have a girl dog named know, and then you get. I mean, yours is a sad backstory when you talk about the other puppies.
[00:17:54] Speaker C: I don't find funny. I just want to clarify. That's not what I'm saying.
[00:17:58] Speaker E: For the record.
[00:17:59] Speaker C: No, for the record.
[00:18:03] Speaker F: Please edit that out.
[00:18:06] Speaker D: I also have a girl cat named Hercules with the same. It happens more often than you.
[00:18:12] Speaker C: Totally.
[00:18:12] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:18:13] Speaker F: Oh, good.
[00:18:15] Speaker C: Wonderful.
[00:18:16] Speaker D: Yeah, I could tell you what I mean. And here's another thing. Do you guys know this Sarah has a cat in Senegal.
[00:18:23] Speaker E: Oh, yeah.
[00:18:24] Speaker D: That is literally, literally the exact same as a cat that I have here in my house right now.
[00:18:31] Speaker C: Exactly.
[00:18:32] Speaker D: Black cat with a white dot on the end of its tail.
[00:18:35] Speaker E: That's it.
[00:18:36] Speaker F: Oh, my God.
So crazy.
[00:18:39] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:18:40] Speaker E: Isn't that.
[00:18:40] Speaker C: I showed her a picture of my cat.
[00:18:41] Speaker E: She was like, wait.
[00:18:43] Speaker C: And then I was like, if only they could meet. I know.
[00:18:50] Speaker D: They're twins.
[00:18:52] Speaker F: Hey, on zoom, you guys hold them.
[00:18:55] Speaker C: True.
There was like, no way. My cats don't come in the.
[00:18:59] Speaker A: Oh, and also, I'm in Ontario right.
[00:19:00] Speaker E: Now, so my cats are back in Senegal.
[00:19:03] Speaker F: Oh, my gosh. You're in Canada right now.
[00:19:06] Speaker G: She doesn't travel with her cats.
[00:19:07] Speaker C: Oh, yeah.
[00:19:08] Speaker F: Oh, I wouldn't either. Lord help you.
[00:19:11] Speaker C: Can you imagine bringing a cat on a 24 hours trip?
[00:19:14] Speaker D: When I traveled to Ontario, there was a woman traveling with cats, brutal. In her bags that she brought onto the plane. Like, not wherever you send animals that aren't coming.
[00:19:26] Speaker C: Did it meow the whole time?
[00:19:27] Speaker D: Not that I noticed.
[00:19:28] Speaker E: Meow.
[00:19:29] Speaker C: Meow. She probably drugged it. That's what people do, right, when they travel with the cat? Sometimes. It's true. People drug their cats and.
[00:19:36] Speaker F: Totally.
[00:19:36] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:19:37] Speaker D: And you do it with human antihistamines?
[00:19:39] Speaker F: Well, yeah, because they get so much anxiety.
[00:19:42] Speaker C: Yeah. Do you? Yeah.
[00:19:43] Speaker D: Me and Nancy, when we drove from Ontario to BC, her cat was so. Because she knew he didn't travel well anyway. And so she googled, like, what do we do? And whatever. So it was human antihistamines. I can't remember now. Like, pseudophed or whatever. What we didn't know, though, was that cats have this built in defense mechanism where if they eat something, I guess, poisonous or whatever, the body registers is foreign, they'll foam up like a crazy rabid. Anyways, Nancy's freaking out already because she's high strung as it is. So we give this cat this dosage, and it immediately starts foaming at the mouth. And I'm like rapidly googling, did we kill this cat? Like, what's happening? But it was just normal.
[00:20:32] Speaker C: And then for the rest of the.
[00:20:34] Speaker D: Trip, that was business as usual. No problem. Give the cat the thing. It foams like a crazy beast, and then it goes to sleep for 6 hours.
[00:20:42] Speaker C: That's so traumatic.
[00:20:44] Speaker F: For you and the cat?
[00:20:46] Speaker C: Well, no.
[00:20:47] Speaker D: For Nancy. Really?
[00:20:48] Speaker C: Yeah.
I'm not taking any food from that lady.
[00:20:54] Speaker F: When we get home, I'm running away.
[00:20:57] Speaker D: Totally.
[00:20:58] Speaker C: Oh my God.
[00:20:59] Speaker D: What is this torture?
[00:21:01] Speaker E: I have a quick question about the book.
Come on.
[00:21:08] Speaker C: Let'S talk about pets.
People love hearing about our pets, right?
[00:21:12] Speaker D: This is the pet podcast, right?
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