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Speaker 1: This is the Fitting In with Her with Kate Richie podcast.

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Speaker 1: This is a pretty amazing story.

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Speaker 2: Georgie Gardner is her name, and Josh Georgie Gardener, No,

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Speaker 2: not Georgie Gardner that we know, another one and Josh Fishlock.

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Speaker 2: They're a couple now in November twenty twenty three, so

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Speaker 2: we're talking about a year and a half ago.

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Speaker 1: They went to Kangaroo Island in.

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Speaker 3: South Australia, which is a beautiful part of the world,

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Speaker 3: and they took their little dog with them, a miniature

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Speaker 3: dash ound by the name of Valerie, and they went

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Speaker 3: down to Stokes Bake Valerie is a domesticated dog actually

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Speaker 3: you obviously, and it's their little pet and they've decided

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Speaker 3: to take him down to Kangaroo Island.

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Speaker 1: What a great time.

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Speaker 2: Plenty of room for Valerie to run, and unfortunately that's

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Speaker 2: what happened. Valerie ran and ran and ran and kept

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Speaker 2: running away from the couple. They lost Valerie on their

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Speaker 2: holiday down to Kangaroo Island.

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Speaker 1: Who let the dogs out?

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Speaker 2: Georgie did and Josh did, and they lost poor little Valerie.

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Speaker 1: Now they went looking.

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Speaker 2: They spent a couple of days down at Stokes baying kangaroo.

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Speaker 1: Isms dangerous on the island.

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Speaker 2: Fits like if a dog runs off, is it a

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Speaker 2: rocky outcropp and for sure?

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Speaker 1: And I reckon there's snakes around. There's a bit happening,

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Speaker 1: poor Valerie.

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Speaker 2: So they looked for a couple of days for Valerie

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Speaker 2: and couldn't find.

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Speaker 3: It's only a miniature dash in so it's a little

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Speaker 3: miniature sausage dog.

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Speaker 1: Could be in a kangaroo's pouch.

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Speaker 2: You then have to make you then have to jump

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Speaker 2: into the rental car, I get into a ferry, then

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Speaker 2: catch your plane home.

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Speaker 1: Because they were from New South Wales. All breed from

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Speaker 1: New South Wales.

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Speaker 2: And you know what, they've left Valerie behind thinking what

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Speaker 2: do we do?

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Speaker 1: They left their number with a few locals. Didn't hear

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Speaker 1: anything five hundred days later. What do you mean five

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Speaker 1: hundred days?

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Speaker 2: So there is a wildlife company that's over in Kangaroo

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Speaker 2: Island that's set up cameras around the island to see

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Speaker 2: certain types of animal animals.

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Speaker 1: That actually found a little sausage dog five hundred days later.

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Speaker 2: The dog has been running free on Kangaroo Island, fending

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Speaker 2: for itself for five it's close to a year and

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Speaker 2: a half whip and it's still going strile is it

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Speaker 2: was it like hanging with any other animals that it

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Speaker 2: had it merged with the penguins or the kangaroos, or.

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Speaker 1: They haven't caught Valerie yet. This is the thing. They've

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Speaker 1: only got CCTV footage. Oh my god. So what they're

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Speaker 1: going to do.

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Speaker 2: They're going to set up some food, so Valerie keeps

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Speaker 2: coming back, hopefully with the trust of knowing that the

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Speaker 2: food's going to be there.

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Speaker 1: And then they're going to nab.

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Speaker 2: Or trap Valerie and take her back to her parents, trying.

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Speaker 1: To make Valerie go to rehab.

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Speaker 2: It's actually good to know that a domesticated pet can

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Speaker 2: actually survive on a huge island like that. For so

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Speaker 2: long American Valerie's moved on, mate, I don't think.

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Speaker 1: I don't think Valerie wants to go home. Read the

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Speaker 1: play You Left Your Dog on an Island and Valerie

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Speaker 1: settled in with the locals.

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Speaker 2: Valerie would have made some amazing friends. There's a movie

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Speaker 2: in this. There is a movie in it, if only

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Speaker 2: there was a cat with Valerie as well. You Get

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Speaker 2: a Blow and notis follow up movie.

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Speaker 1: Shane Jacobson will be in it. Will do that for sure.

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