okay do have a dog or a cat or
uh i got both
both
yep
what kind of dog
it's uh half Border Collie and half Lab
is it a house dog
half Border Collie
no i mean is it a house dog mean do you keep it in the house
yeah
yep it's
and
it's uh and you'd think he's an uh little poodle
a little poodle
he's about eighty pounds though
really
yeah
well i've just the opposite i've got a Pomeranian he probably weighs about five
he thinks he's a little man
yeah
he's a little he presses around and struts
but i don't have a cat though that might be a little bit too much
do you keep the dog and the cat both in the house
yep
yeah they get along
yeah oh yeah they get along real good oh the dog was brought up with cats so he doesn't really bother the cats
well that's good
well now the little kitten picks on him all the time
oh really
yep
well how old is the dog
uh let's see uh about seven eight years old
goodness mine's only i guess three
and
and our cat's only about two years old
well um what made you get a dog and a cat
well uh we both we've had cats and dogs before you know before we even got married so
i kind of like cats and she likes dogs so yep
so you compromised
so we've had them oh at one time we had two dogs and two cats
goodness
but
well i got my dog little dog to keep me company and now i'm hardly ever at home
so now it's like whenever you come in he's all over you
oh yeah well ours does that the company when we get it
oh really
yep
yeah it's like a new face
yep
uh
something i guess like just something new and different
oh yeah he he's pretty he's real friendly
well that's good
but but when somebody knocks at the door he's his barks
is real uh you know like he's a real bad dog
but uh
when you come in the house and he
he'd probably show the burglars where everything was at
thinks i think that Brian would probably do the same thing
oh
well i've heard that um pets are like to to people that are sick or to older people that they're have like calming effects on them
yeah
i've heard that too
especially i guess if they have like high blood pressure or
um like heart conditions it just kind of helps to have a little or a dog or a cat or something around just to lavish the attention on it kind of calms them
um-hum
yeah i know i think it helps them too when they take them out for walks and stuff especially dogs you know plus they're uh the dog's a good
yeah
good uh way to protect your house too when you're gone
uh that's true
you know like i said he barks a lot when somebody rings knocks on the door or rings the doorbell so it kind of keeps people away
yeah
they think twice about breaking in
um
trying there's something i was going to tell you and i forgot just totally went out the window
uh
but our little our little kitty he she uses uh
she's pretty cute little the wife got her when
she she was a stray and uh it bit her and so she had to bring it home with her to see if she got rabies or anything
and then y'all decided to keep it
yep so
isn't that funny how there's always a story behind something
oh yeah
well that's basically how she got the dog too
oh
well do you have names that are appropriate with more or less how you found them or how you got them or anything or
well well not really
no
we uh the dog's name is Morgan
and the cat's name is Oscar Anne
Oscar Anne well that's a new one
yeah well well see at first they thought that the cat was a a boy
so they called her Oscar until the found out she was a girl so they just called her Oscar Anne
oh i see
so that's
uh that's the name there and uh how we got the dogs was we were stationed in England and
she went to some we had a dog and she took it to dog obedience school
um-hum
and this farmer was gonna kill these six puppies they had and
she kind of said well i'll kind of i'll take one of them off your hands
and that's how we got Morgan
Lord did you have a problem naming um coming up with names for them
i think uh well i didn't really come up with the name she did so
it took me like three weeks to name mine because i kept saying well i wan t to find a name that fits
uh-huh
and i actually had for a couple of days had started calling
