well do you have any pets
yes i do i have a dog named Grisly who's a ten year old uh mixed breed between Golden Retriever Afghan Hound and Chow and i have a pair of box turtles
oh
oh i used to have box turtles um well years ago when i was growing up i
yeah
i really liked them um
oh yeah i do too
Lucky and Spot that's their names and they live in an aquarium without water in my family room and my dog thinks he's a mother turtle and always has his nose all around my turtle box
oh
so do you have any pets now
yes um we have one dog a Bichon Frise um
our friends in Houston bred the dogs i had never heard of them
no i haven't either
they're um they're all white and they're small and um and fluffy they don't shed i guess they are distantly related to a poodle but
they're not very well known in this country and they're not um high strung or over bred
oh and how big do they get
um
ours is uh on the small end and she's about ten pounds and they range from probably ten to sixteen pounds
oh that's interesting
and they love people um
and kids and that was something we were looking for um
our our love is Golden Retrievers and
that's what we had intended to get in Houston but we had a small yard and a pool and knowing how they love to dig and love the water um and we thought that was kind of a tough climate
yes the water yes
yeah
so uh we ended up getting this and uh my son would rather have a Golden Retriever though i think now he wants a
oh
a good size dog
uh-huh well we've got a good size dog and we were considering getting a puppy a small house lap top dog
for him because he likes other animals and for me because we used to have a miniature Dachshund and i miss having a little one
oh
yeah
you know around the kind you have sounds very interesting though
what they really are um they're really sweet dogs we've uh we thought probably our neighborhood in Houston had more of this breed than any other place just because of um
the family that had them and and bred them they had five litters of puppies and and a lot of them stayed in the neighborhood because um
oh
uh-huh
and how do you spell that breed
they
it's B I C H O N F R I S E
F R I S E and how do you pronounce that
Bichon Frise
okay
i'm writing it out phonetically
yeah they're uh
and they don't shed so they're they're good dogs for people with with allergies and they love people i mean they're
yes
do they bark a lot
um no not really ours um
ours barks more than uh than
some because she spent a lot of time at our friends house we used to swap back and forth dogs that they have three dogs they had a Cockapoo and and two Bichons um
uh-huh
and she didn't bark at all until she spent time there and and um
oh
now it's funny she's she's a good watch dog i mean if there's
uh-huh
um she'll bark that way but she also talk a lot she
yes
um
has a definite personality and so if we're leaving her she barks at us because she doesn't want to be left um
oh
does she ever mess in the house
no no and they're um they're very smart dogs the circuses in Europe used to use them um for the acts they uh
oh
oh they'll dance on their hind legs each
uh-huh
oh gee
um but they're very easy to train and
uh-huh
and about how much are they
well they range i'd noticed up here they're a lot more expensive it seemed to me from the ads in the paper they run anywhere from two hundred to four hundred dollars i think which i thought was a lot
and how about the and how about the person in uh Houston
well she's no longer breeding them but um because her dogs um
oh
the the second one that she has was one of the puppies from the litter and uh the one male that she used had a tooth problem
uh-huh
and so she only bred that dog once because it had the tooth problem and did them strictly as um pets you know they weren't weren't show quality
oh yes
just pets
yes that's what we'd rather have is just a pet instead of we used to show Saint Bernards when i was a little girl we did that every weekend
right
oh but yeah it takes a lot of time um
yes and it's very expensive
yeah um but she might have some contacts here i know originally i know that
the dog's grandmother um
was from Plano
oh that's where i live
oh that's where i live too
yeah i'm at Coit and Legacy
