and hello there so i guess the question is do you have any pets what do you have
hi
yes we well we have a cat yes named Bounce actually it's Bounce the uh about third
a cat named
Bounce
Bounce the third okay
yeah uh that's because when i was little i had a storybook about a cat named Bounce and
and the name stuck with you
and the cat was um gray and white in particular had to be gray and white so all the Bounces have been gray and white we also have a rabbit
okay
very good
a rabbit
named Coco Bunny
and i assume that now the rabbit doesn't get out right the rabbit's in in the cage okay
right the rabbit is in a cage outdoors only year round
and this rabbit has been with us for um oh six seven eight eight years
one now do you just have one rabbit in other words it never multiplies okay
one rabbit
No that's for sure and uh that's actually all the pets we have at this time
well i've i've had uh i had three Cocker Spaniels uh up until about
how about you
um four or five i guess about four years ago and they they were all very old twelve thirteen and fourteen fifteen and they died and but i believe the a child must have a
um hum um-hum
yeah
pet to grow up with so on my uh kid's fourth birthday his birthday present was a Basset Hound
right
oh
which as he calls it a basket hound but that's okay yes but uh anyway so yes we have the Basset Hound who is now two years old and in fact it just had the lovely uh
oh yeah cute
uh-huh
yesterday i got to take the dog to the veterinarian for his shots
oh boy
that's one of the uh to me one of the things i don't care about having a pet about
did
right yeah does he live indoors or outdoors outdoor yeah that's kind of
no he's an outdoor dog uh he's a very low maintenance dog uh we actually have a uh an automatic feeder and we have an automatic waterer so he always has plenty of water
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so i don't have to worry about going out there and like for example i'm going on this two week vacation he'll be fine
yeah
ooh how nice
no one even has to look after him although we have a neighbor who's going to come over you know say hello just to keep him happy but uh
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he's just in the fenced backyard and
he's in a very well fenced backyard that has openings so he can look out and see the kids and chase the kids and he likes that
yeah
well how nice
yeah that sounds like a good situation that's about how i would like to have a dog if i had a dog
see our cat is also um well outdoors and in the garage
at one time she was an indoor cat and then she started to do things in the house that i didn't appreciate
claw
now has it been declawed
no no no no well
it has not oh you should
have you ever thought of having it
well no because she's outdoors
okay okay
so if she's outdoors i don't want her declawed
true true true
um but she um she was kind of a feisty feisty feisty little character when she was little and as she has gotten older because she's about seven years old
now my wife would very much like to have a cat because she she grew up with a cat then uh the cat lived indoors and the whole bit i just don't care for cats i don't know what it is about it but she i guess because
would she
yeah
yeah well they're so independent a lot of people don't i
yes they are
you can't say come here i mean it just doesn't you know
that's true it could just stand there and stare at you in a strange way in fact my cat right now is just rubbing up against the the wood on the door here staring
with a look of don't you want
to feed me or to pick me up and love me yes you sweet thing
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well we have a humongous uh our back what do you call it the uh living room has nothing but
one big window after another so it's all windows and we can look out in the backyard and we're always seeing the dog and the dog you know he's
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he he knows when we're in the room because when we're in the room and just come walking down the hall whatnot he'll come and and look at us you know we'll wave at him he'll come back to you you know yeah
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so he is sociable even though he even though he's outdoors yeah
yes he is he's very most loving dog you've ever had i can't i can't really i cannot imagine not having a dog
yeah my boys and um my husband have been talking recently about having a dog but we don't have a a fenced in backyard
and we don't want a fenced in backyard we're on a corner and we look out at a creek and a park
and we just you know one reason we
well what you have to do is have an indoor dog
yeah i guess it would have to be and we
and they can be very nice too after after they've been trained
yeah that's true
yeah well that's right
and they do require a lot of training
yeah yeah that's for sure
now my dog he you know we've got him trained that we could bring him inside but once we bought the new house my wife said uh-huh no no he's not coming inside this house so
uh-hum um well pets
pets really are hard on houses i mean there's just no doubt about that we've my husband was in really estate for a while and
you know he had more problems over pets um in both rental houses and houses that people owned and other people looked at it and didn't like the way it smelled and so so that's my main
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and they do get the carpet uh soiled sometimes
objection
yeah i mean even even the best trained one you know is going to have problems from time to time and you just can't really get that that smell out and
yes
well i tell you what i've got some uh carpet uh cleaner that uh you know it's some type of dog smell smell away it works wonderful it really really does
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well that's good when we moved into this house both dogs and cats had been in it and um we did not realize that there was a problem and after we moved in it was
so bad that we had to go ahead and um recarpet the entire house
oh
and uh when they pulled the carpeting up it was so bad on the back there were so many spots you just wouldn't believe and um they they we had to have a exterminating company come in and they had to treat the concrete slab
oh come on
and they had to wear you know gas masks and stuff so we moved everything from one half of the house to the other half and you know then got took took that well actually both
now this is from a cat or a dog
okay
that um took that part of the carpeting up and then treated that and we had to stay out of the ho use for
you know ten hours or something and then we came back and then they put the new carpet down there moved the furniture back to that half of the house and had had to do it again
because yes dogs need training but cats usually don't even need any training seem like they automatically go to their little litter box they think yeah
yeah no they usually don't yeah yeah so anyway we've had that that was a very bad experience well i don't really think we're going to have any more indoor pets
well in fact if we're getting ready to go on our vacation my little six year old now he's saying we need to buy a mother dog to take care of uh
Copper while we're gone i said you don't buy mother dogs you buy little puppies
so they'd have company right well it really is fun to have two pets together um-hum yeah
and and and my wife's saying uh-huh no
well we had three at one time we had three in the backyard all at one time and they played and they also humped on each other all the time but you know they
yeah
yeah but they must really have fun together it it's cute to see several several at a time like that
oh they did
although i'll tell you what it really would scare me like now in the summer when this hot uh when they're playing that hard i you know it's i'm not sure if that was that good for them or not
oh yeah
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but our dog does have plenty of company let me because of the uh we have a
just the kids
the fence that we have has slats in it so he can see outside and he is constantly chasing the kids and people walk in our neighborhood he's always and we're on the corner too so you know he has a lot of traffic going by and he
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