do you have a pet
yes we have two too many at the moment um
what all do you have
well we have a um a dog as a golden lab and a um cat and they're both driving us crazy actually they're uh
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lot of work
just a just a lot of work and the kids seem to be in so many activities that
the reason for having the pets were you know for them and they don't seem to have the time to to care for them so we're at a frustration point with our pets how about you
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i know how that it is because until like a few days ago i had a little Miniature Pinscher
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and um my parents finally took him to Miami where they are
what
and um it was kind of a pain because i was taking these classes after work so i couldn't leave my dog locked up you know all day and then all night so i'm glad they took him
right
yeah
because otherwise i would have a big mess in my apartment when i'd come home you know
that's for sure they're they're a big responsibility they're really fun for especially for the kids if they have the time to enjoy them but
so
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boy uh it's a lot of work it seems
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that's true
you know there's something you to come home to and happy to see you
well i i enjoy mine if my husband's out of town i enjoy having the dog just for you know he'll he'll bark if anyone comes around or
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protection
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that sort of thing so it is a comfort from that standpoint
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do the cat and the dog get along or
yeah they do they um
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they get along fine but the cat doesn't get along with anyone in the family she
every time you walk by she grabs attacks your leg and just hangs on and we've had cats before we've never had one like this so i i don't know what the deal is with this cat
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did you find it or did you buy it or huh
no it was a gift someone gave it to us for my daughter's birthday so um
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and we you know we had been looking for one so we were hoping to get one but this this one is
kind of been a problem we live across the street from a vet and he just can't quite figure it out either so
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um-hum it is kind of strange i wonder where they got the the cat from
it was um from uh um Wills Point i don't know if you're familiar with
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the town you know just outside Dallas and knew somebody that lived in the country so we're wondering if maybe if they were kind of a country outside breed you know um
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maybe they're just a little too wild or something
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yeah well
huh that's interesting
but um
does your husband hunt with the dog or anything or
no no he's not a hunter he he's always liked having big dogs but um doesn't work real well in the city with small yard
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when we um when we get got the dog we lived out in the country and she could just run and that was fine that that worked real well
yep
oh how neat
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but now that we're in the city it's kind of hard yeah
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how long have you been living where you live
um we've moved here in January
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so just not quite a year um you said you're going to school
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um-hum yep i i'm just at the Albany Easy Learning Center
work
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i'm just taking education and psychology courses i'm a teacher and i have a bachelor's in psychology so i'm just trying to brush up on stuff to be a better teacher
oh good
yeah
oh well that's good well i i bet your your kids do you have pets in your classroom or you don't
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hum-um nope downstairs they have a gerbil and a
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fish i think like a gerbil and a fish but in our particular classroom we don't have anything we have plants
yeah
yeah
seems like our kids have mostly
had um guinea pigs and that sort of thing in their classrooms and that's kind of neat you know um the whole class gets to take turns taking it home and
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and that so a little visiting pet you can you can uh have the fun of it without the total responsibility
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but that's worked well
can just mess up it's cage you don't have to worry about your whole apartment
right
really
yep
um have you been trying to call in lately and it's been the same topic
no um let's see i'm trying to think the last time i called in was probably um
no
few days ago it was cooking or something
it was what
cooking yeah
really because i've been calling in lately and this is uh my last call that i have to make i think
yeah
and um every single day for probably about a week it was gun control
oh
gun control and i was just about to freak out you know because i already talked with someone about gun control
get tired of gun control huh
uh-huh you only can talk so much about gun control so hm
this is true yeah
well um-hum well do we go until they cut us off or
