well well i have a a a new puppy in this house it's been i've had her here about two weeks
oh
oh well actually i put a dog of that i'd had for seventeen years to sleep about a month ago
you got any pets
oh that's too bad
yeah so that's uh
um i'm thinking about getting another one but i don't know in the mean time i have a cat that's uh nearly twenty pounds
and the the vet assures me it he has a large bone structure so but just a big old Tom
so we're still uh in the in the paper stage i guess if you put your seventeen year old dog away
while back you have it's been a long time since that was the case
yes oh what sort of puppy do you have
well it we took you know it's from a shelter it's a mix of uh
gee i guess uh uh
Shepherd and um and a
black Lab
oh those are the best kind
so it's going to be a monster
yeah
yeah that that's where i got uh
my dog was from the shelter and the idea was to get a Shepherd Lab mix and he
turned out to be about half that size
um
he he i just couldn't resist him at the shelter so
uh he was
well he was at least eighteen when he died because
he was full grown when i got him
so you don't know how old he was when you got him
i really don't
huh
did you uh did you have him fixed or was he uh was he
he
he was fixed
his name was Randy
oh great
with uh good cause
and uh so i got him fixed
i guess that's a good plan he wasn't fixed when you got him though huh
but
no no
yeah i it's uh i've never
um had an animal that long never
i was it was a hard thing to do
well
well he was real sick huh
he just was real arthritic uh and then just stopped eating
you know it was real it was real clear that you know it was it was time to go
oh
time times were over well that's a that's a that's a shame that
yeah but this uh well eventually i guess
so you going to get another one
eventually i i haven't yet
but they're a lot of work too
yes they are they are indeed
the the hardest part is the stage you have right now i think
yeah yeah but you know but get little i got little kids and they they do a pretty good job of taking care of the dog and so forth so that'll be fun for them
oh i think pets are wonderful for kids
any
yeah
used to
teaches them responsibility and all that kind of stuff too at least in theory
my kids could use it
yeah
oh
okay
well you think that gives them uh the uh what what they're looking for here
but
well i i guess i um sometimes have been told
in well yeah i guess that's fine
so thanks for calling talking
well it's nice to talk to you
good night now
good night
