Speaker 1: I've always grown up with pets. I've always been a
Speaker 1: pet family. We always had dogs. You have never had cats.
Speaker 2: Cats.
Speaker 3: We went through a few in quick succession.
Speaker 1: You mean they got out.
Speaker 3: They were playing sort of like cat with the with
Speaker 3: the cars on the main road.
Speaker 1: That's the thing about cats, though, because they roam the
Speaker 1: streets as often accidents.
Speaker 2: I trust them cats. Well, you're a bird guy.
Speaker 1: I don't trust birds.
Speaker 2: I went through a stage, I reckon.
Speaker 3: Can you're still a bird guy?
Speaker 1: Entry level pet for families with because you have got
Speaker 1: a lizard, you're a reptile family. Now be doing it?
Speaker 2: Would you have a day aquarium?
Speaker 1: The first The first pet is often a fish. There's
Speaker 1: a difference between a goldfish.
Speaker 3: And how big is an aquarium, Like, you mean a
Speaker 3: big tank. If you've got a filter on your tank.
Speaker 2: That's an aquarium an aquarium. Yeah, you're a real hardson.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean fish is supposed to be calming. That's
Speaker 1: not having medental surgeries and things.
Speaker 3: Global eye fish stage, easy to get them from the show.
Speaker 4: And the fighting fish in their own tank. Yes, everyone
Speaker 4: had one of those on their kitchen bench.
Speaker 1: Well, if you, if you, if you're in the market
Speaker 1: for an entry level pair. Goldfish is one, but the
Speaker 1: other one that a lot of people get rabbits or
Speaker 1: guinea pigs. Now, something has happened with rabbits that to
Speaker 1: put you off having a rabbit forever.
Speaker 2: We got friends of ours that I've got a rabbit.
Speaker 2: They want to look after it.
Speaker 1: Well, this might make you think.
Speaker 3: Is it just freestyle around the house?
Speaker 1: Sometimes they do.
Speaker 2: They've got like an enclosing outside. Yeah, like there are
Speaker 2: the foxes.
Speaker 1: Will they build them in like they've got like roofs
Speaker 1: on their things. Yeah. Anyway, let me take you to Colorado,
Speaker 1: which is where this has started. There is a lot
Speaker 1: of wild rabbits in Colorado who aren't cottontail rabbits, like
Speaker 1: the cute little fluffy tail rabbits. Unfortunately, there is a
Speaker 1: rapidly spreading virus in America. And I'm not sure if
Speaker 1: you've seen this amongst the rabbit community facebook pages, they
Speaker 1: are growing black tentacle like growths out of their heads.
Speaker 1: Have a look at these pictures.
Speaker 2: They're like.
Speaker 1: They're like but they're tentacles. They move, chase and they
Speaker 1: suck onto things, so they're like suction and they they've
Speaker 1: got minds of their own. They wriggle and all the rabbits.
Speaker 2: And you remove them, that's it for life.
Speaker 1: Well, they're saying you can't pick them up. If you
Speaker 1: go to pick them up, they consuction onto you, onto
Speaker 1: the human hand, the consruction onto things.
Speaker 2: Bunny gotta go, get that, bunny gotta go.
Speaker 1: So they're saying everyone needs to keep their pets inside
Speaker 1: because it's contagious, and they've got Okay, that one's made up.
Speaker 2: I think tentacles. It's time think that.
Speaker 3: Well, Cabrey's going to have to redesign their eggs.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, look at them. That is that's not great.
Speaker 1: Rabbits with tentacles. There is no cure for this virus.
Speaker 1: Let's see r PV virus. Apparently they're saying they're Medusa,
Speaker 1: like they are.
Speaker 2: What h were you and you went through your cat stack?
Speaker 3: My cat stage was we went it through as a family.
Speaker 3: We used to name the cats after Melbourne footballers, so
Speaker 3: we had Jacko after Alan Jakovic. He was a little
Speaker 3: bit flighty, just a bit sort of crazy.
Speaker 1: A lot of people name their pets, and then we
Speaker 1: had celebrities.
Speaker 3: Toddy after Todd Varney Tod did you have a Wayne.
Speaker 2: Kerry we didn't have.
Speaker 1: He never played for the D's.
Speaker 2: It was only players.
Speaker 1: So did you have Anita?
Speaker 2: No, we didn't have, didn't Greeny.
Speaker 3: We didn't get along the cat line. We se ceased
Speaker 3: it to.
Speaker 1: Turned into a dog family.
Speaker 2: Very successful.
Speaker 1: The cat.
Speaker 2: I was the same with the bird, Avery, I gave
Speaker 2: that up at eight. Remember, what do you name your birds?
Speaker 2: I didn't name what were they called?
Speaker 1: You didn't name the bird?
Speaker 2: Well, it was it was more of a.
Speaker 3: We had he's got something he's got.
Speaker 1: Saying that called Fred and Barney us what.
Speaker 2: I had a number of them, and I was a breeder. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so I get all the little breeder. You named the
Speaker 2: parental birds?
Speaker 4: No, no, because the bloody cat next door I used
Speaker 4: to get in so I would change the parental birds
Speaker 4: quite a bit. What I didn't want to get attached.
Speaker 1: Instead of fixing the cage, you just decided to keep
Speaker 1: naming the birds.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was easier. I fixed the cage. But cats
Speaker 2: get in there, mate, cats get into that. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Anyway, eighteen realized five, I want a girlfriend's time to
Speaker 4: get rid of the birds.
Speaker 2: Yeah, to get a bird, get rid of them?
Speaker 1: And then how long did it take you to get
Speaker 1: a girlfriend.
Speaker 2: The right years Lauren.
Speaker 3: Lauren wake out feeling good following them on the socials