WEBVTT - Puke Worms 0:00:08.245 --> 0:00:12.885 School of Humans. In this series, we've already talked about 0:00:12.925 --> 0:00:15.085 the roles that animals play in the search for new 0:00:15.085 --> 0:00:20.485 diseases and in vaccine development. This coronavirus SARS covi two 0:00:20.885 --> 0:00:23.885 most likely came from a bat originally and then maybe 0:00:23.885 --> 0:00:26.045 found its way to another animal on the way to humans. 0:00:26.765 --> 0:00:30.005 SARS one came from bats via Asian palm civets, while 0:00:30.085 --> 0:00:33.165 mirrors came from bats, jumped to camels then to us. 0:00:33.805 --> 0:00:36.725 HIV came from primates, and lots of human diseases are 0:00:36.725 --> 0:00:40.685 spread by mosquitoes, like malaria, Zeka, dengae, Westnile, and yellow fever. 0:00:41.645 --> 0:00:44.205 Some vaccines are grown in chicken eggs or even passed 0:00:44.205 --> 0:00:47.725 through blended animal organs. In eighteen eighty five, the modern 0:00:47.725 --> 0:00:50.845 era of immunization was brought in when Louis Pasteur injected 0:00:50.845 --> 0:00:53.765 spinal cord material from rabbits into a nine year old 0:00:53.765 --> 0:00:57.325 boy to protect him from getting rabies. Today, in the 0:00:57.325 --> 0:01:00.645 early stages of development, prospective vaccines are always tested on 0:01:00.685 --> 0:01:03.845 animals for safety, to make sure they won't kill or 0:01:03.885 --> 0:01:06.805 sicken the person who gets it, for immune response, to 0:01:06.805 --> 0:01:09.085 make sure the vaccine induces the right kind of antibodies 0:01:09.085 --> 0:01:12.005 and t cell responses from the body for dosage to 0:01:12.045 --> 0:01:14.565 see how much vaccine is needed to induce the right responses, 0:01:14.925 --> 0:01:17.125 and to tinker with the formula to see what kind 0:01:17.125 --> 0:01:19.645 of ingredients will make the vaccine lasts longer and in 0:01:19.685 --> 0:01:23.125 general work better. Both the Maderna and Fiser vaccines were 0:01:23.125 --> 0:01:26.605 tested in mice and Rhesus macaques at various points, although 0:01:26.605 --> 0:01:29.005 because of the urgency of the pandemic, some of these 0:01:29.005 --> 0:01:32.685 animal trials were happening alongside the human trials. The Oxford 0:01:32.685 --> 0:01:36.005 astrasenticive vaccine is based on a virus found in chimpanzee poop, 0:01:36.645 --> 0:01:38.565 and another vaccine in the works was based on a 0:01:38.605 --> 0:01:41.965 virus founded in guerrilla feces. Researchers in Belgium are using 0:01:41.965 --> 0:01:45.805 antibodies from llamas to create even more protection against coronavirus. 0:01:47.285 --> 0:01:50.765 Animals have also been affected by coronavirus. Cats and dogs 0:01:50.765 --> 0:01:53.965 have gotten the virus, so have gorillas and otters. Naughty 0:01:54.045 --> 0:01:57.045 of the Tiger at the Bronxoo got it. In New 0:01:57.125 --> 0:01:59.805 South Wales, Australia, fifteen dogs on their way to a 0:01:59.845 --> 0:02:02.965 shelter were killed by authorities to protect humans from spreading 0:02:02.965 --> 0:02:06.645 COVID during the handoff and in Denmark, seventeen million minks 0:02:06.645 --> 0:02:09.845 were cold when two hundred farms found coronavirus outbreaks among 0:02:09.925 --> 0:02:14.205 their animals. Almost as soon as this pandemic began, you 0:02:14.245 --> 0:02:17.885 started hearing stories about COVID pets, about how the loneliness 0:02:17.925 --> 0:02:20.765 of coronavirus created an opening of arms from humans to 0:02:20.885 --> 0:02:24.205 dogs and cats, especially about how we weren't just using 0:02:24.245 --> 0:02:26.045 animals to get us out of the pandemic, but how 0:02:26.085 --> 0:02:29.645 we were using them to get through it. In this episode, 0:02:29.645 --> 0:02:31.965 we're going to talk to an American living in Sweden 0:02:32.085 --> 0:02:35.125 who opened her arms to a new puppy, and she'll 0:02:35.125 --> 0:02:38.085 tell us how it didn't work out as planned, not 0:02:38.245 --> 0:02:42.925 even close. This story might make some people mad, but 0:02:43.005 --> 0:02:44.805 before you listen, I ask you to put yourself in 0:02:44.845 --> 0:02:47.805 the shoes of our storyteller. If you can't and you're 0:02:47.845 --> 0:02:50.285 so mad you have to shout at someone, send me 0:02:50.325 --> 0:02:54.405 an angry tweet at Sean Revive from my Heart Radio 0:02:54.445 --> 0:02:57.125 and School of Humans. I'm Sean Revive and this is 0:02:57.205 --> 0:03:12.605 long shot. My name is Marina. I live in Gothenburg, Sweden, 0:03:12.725 --> 0:03:16.765 which is the second largest and first best city in Sweden. 0:03:17.165 --> 0:03:21.845 But as you can probably tell, I am American, not Swedish. 0:03:22.005 --> 0:03:23.925 I should start off by telling you that Marina is 0:03:23.925 --> 0:03:26.445 a friend. My wife and I once stayed with her 0:03:26.445 --> 0:03:30.325 in Sweden over Christmas. We ate a ton of pickled fish, 0:03:30.405 --> 0:03:33.045 and because I'm like ten years old, we joked a 0:03:33.045 --> 0:03:41.925 lot about Swedish chef. Anyway, Marina has been living in 0:03:41.965 --> 0:03:46.285 Sweden's twenty sixteen. She loves Sweden for a long time. 0:03:46.405 --> 0:03:48.805 It was her dream to live there, and she's finally 0:03:48.885 --> 0:03:52.325 doing it. The first case of COVID nineteen in Sweden 0:03:52.405 --> 0:03:55.325 comes in January twenty twenty, and then there are no 0:03:55.325 --> 0:03:58.445 more cases until late February, and there is no confirmed 0:03:58.445 --> 0:04:02.925 community spread until March. But by April, the state epidemiologist 0:04:02.965 --> 0:04:05.325 of Sweden says that he believes between five and ten 0:04:05.525 --> 0:04:10.165 percent of Swedes are already carrying the virus. Marina works 0:04:10.205 --> 0:04:13.285 for a big Swedish tech company and eventually stops going 0:04:13.285 --> 0:04:16.685 to the office and starts working from home. Working from home, 0:04:16.765 --> 0:04:21.205 my daily life was like waking up, like sometimes I 0:04:21.205 --> 0:04:23.885 would get dressed, sometimes I'd just wear pajamas all day. 0:04:24.485 --> 0:04:27.285 Sometimes I'd go take a walk, sometimes I wouldn't. Like 0:04:27.485 --> 0:04:29.805 I was having a really hard time sticking to any 0:04:29.845 --> 0:04:32.765 sort of schedule because the days were all the same 0:04:33.365 --> 0:04:37.485 and there was nothing to do. For years, Marina thought 0:04:37.485 --> 0:04:39.845 about getting a dog, and like a lot of people, 0:04:40.005 --> 0:04:43.205 coronavirus and the loneliness that comes with it is the 0:04:43.245 --> 0:04:46.445 turning point. I was just at my wits end, like 0:04:46.845 --> 0:04:49.685 so sick of just being by myself. So I decided, like, 0:04:49.805 --> 0:04:52.485 now is the time I'll get a dog. I can 0:04:52.525 --> 0:04:55.045 be at home and train the dog. It seemed like 0:04:55.045 --> 0:04:59.165 a good idea. She has a few reasons for wanting 0:04:59.165 --> 0:05:03.525 a dog. One companionship, someone to be around the house with, 0:05:04.245 --> 0:05:08.365 two giving her life some structured taking a dog and walks, 0:05:08.445 --> 0:05:11.365 giving the dog food. It would give me something to 0:05:11.445 --> 0:05:14.725 focus on that wasn't just me. Then also this idea 0:05:14.725 --> 0:05:17.285 of you know, I've lived in Sweden five years and 0:05:17.325 --> 0:05:20.365 it has been challenging to make friends here and have 0:05:20.445 --> 0:05:24.085 a community. And I thought that by getting a dog, 0:05:24.605 --> 0:05:27.325 I would be able to meet other dog owners and 0:05:27.485 --> 0:05:30.205 like it would open up my life in the human 0:05:30.325 --> 0:05:33.845 sense as well. But the problem is a lot of 0:05:33.885 --> 0:05:36.765 people in Sweden and millions of people across the globe, 0:05:37.125 --> 0:05:39.205 see the pandemic as a good reason to get a dog. 0:05:39.845 --> 0:05:43.885 So it was impossible to get a dog for love 0:05:44.005 --> 0:05:46.045 or money, Like, no matter how much you were willing 0:05:46.085 --> 0:05:49.045 to pay, there were just like no dogs available. A 0:05:49.125 --> 0:05:51.125 friend tells her that he got his dog via a 0:05:51.165 --> 0:05:54.485 site called blockett. It's like a Swedish Craigslist. You can 0:05:54.525 --> 0:05:56.645 buy and sell stuff on there. You can also find 0:05:56.645 --> 0:05:59.805 a pet from individual owners. So that wasn't my first choice, 0:05:59.805 --> 0:06:02.525 but I decided to go with it because it seemed 0:06:02.525 --> 0:06:04.405 like the only way I could get a dog here. 0:06:04.965 --> 0:06:07.405 So I had to message a bunch of people. Like 0:06:08.005 --> 0:06:09.965 none of the dogs worked out. They were just like 0:06:10.045 --> 0:06:13.525 being snapped up really quickly. There's a really hot dog market. 0:06:14.245 --> 0:06:18.125 So finally, when I found this super cute little black 0:06:18.165 --> 0:06:22.005 and white French bulldog puppy, I was so excited. I 0:06:22.085 --> 0:06:25.085 messaged the woman, gave her my whole spiel, and it 0:06:25.125 --> 0:06:27.845 was like interviewing for an apartment, Like I had to 0:06:27.845 --> 0:06:32.605 sell her on choosing me as the dog owner. I 0:06:32.885 --> 0:06:36.165 sort of leaned on being American because Swedish people kind 0:06:36.165 --> 0:06:38.845 of like Americans by default, So I was like, I 0:06:38.965 --> 0:06:41.285 live here and I live alone, and I just would 0:06:41.325 --> 0:06:43.685 really love a dog. I think it would really help 0:06:43.765 --> 0:06:49.725 me like integrate into Swedish society. Marina's sales pitch works 0:06:50.325 --> 0:06:53.645 and she gets the dog. But the dog is two 0:06:53.645 --> 0:06:56.085 hours away and she doesn't have a car or a 0:06:56.165 --> 0:07:00.285 driver's license. So I asked a friend of mine, a 0:07:00.325 --> 0:07:03.805 Swedish friend, to drive me there to pick up the dog. 0:07:04.485 --> 0:07:07.325 So she agreed and we rented a car, went down there, 0:07:07.605 --> 0:07:11.725 little road trip. She meets the dog in person. He's adorable. 0:07:13.085 --> 0:07:16.245 He's a bit freaked out, obviously because a stranger is 0:07:16.285 --> 0:07:18.605 taking him, but he seemed okay. He was fine in 0:07:18.645 --> 0:07:22.485 the car, so he picked him up. I paid for him, 0:07:22.725 --> 0:07:26.205 got all his dog paperwork, etc. It seemed fine, like 0:07:26.285 --> 0:07:31.685 the woman seemed normal, and I took him home. Finally, 0:07:31.725 --> 0:07:34.965 she has a dog, a companion during these shitty times. 0:07:35.765 --> 0:07:42.485 But the shitty times aren't over. So Marina is home 0:07:42.485 --> 0:07:45.965 in her apartment, no longer alone, but with her new puppy. 0:07:46.805 --> 0:07:49.205 Before she even gets him, she does what she calls 0:07:49.205 --> 0:07:53.365 a name storm, basically a brainstorming for a name with 0:07:53.485 --> 0:07:58.925 ranking based on various criteria. She comes up with Roscoe. Yeah, 0:07:58.965 --> 0:08:02.245 so he's a French bulldog, like really cute little pointy 0:08:02.325 --> 0:08:07.205 bat ears black and white for a little black nose, 0:08:07.685 --> 0:08:10.965 and these like little puppy paws that are a bit 0:08:11.005 --> 0:08:13.885 like out of proportion with his body, so they felt 0:08:13.965 --> 0:08:17.125 kind of like big for him. But he was quite 0:08:17.165 --> 0:08:20.285 thin when I got him, so I was like trying 0:08:20.285 --> 0:08:23.525 to fatten him up a little bit. But very sweet 0:08:23.565 --> 0:08:26.845 with like the most quintessential like puppy eyes. You know, 0:08:26.925 --> 0:08:29.805 he would look up at you and be like the cutest. 0:08:30.605 --> 0:08:33.605 Marina quickly figures out that Roscoe might need more attention 0:08:33.645 --> 0:08:36.485 than an average puppy. When she picked him up. The 0:08:36.525 --> 0:08:40.565 owner told Marina that Roscoe was already housebroken. He is not, 0:08:41.445 --> 0:08:45.645 so he immediately just started peeing everywhere and being a puppy. 0:08:45.765 --> 0:08:48.725 And at first I thought like, oh, it's because he's 0:08:48.765 --> 0:08:51.645 like freaked out. He's in this new environment. He's not 0:08:51.805 --> 0:08:54.645 used to me like I thought it was just how 0:08:54.685 --> 0:08:58.285 puppies were, not having hot a dog before. The next 0:08:58.325 --> 0:09:02.165 few days are chaos day and night. All day and night, 0:09:02.525 --> 0:09:05.885 Marina is on dog duty. He wouldn't sleep through the night. 0:09:05.965 --> 0:09:08.005 He wanted to play all the time. He wanted to 0:09:08.085 --> 0:09:11.325 chew on everything, like things that sound like so obvious 0:09:11.445 --> 0:09:14.525 to experience dog owners. I was going through it for 0:09:14.565 --> 0:09:17.125 the first time, both because of the lack of sleep 0:09:17.165 --> 0:09:20.445 because of his weird hours, but also just like taking 0:09:20.525 --> 0:09:22.765 him out to pee a hundred times a day, and 0:09:23.445 --> 0:09:25.765 he was peeing way more than was normal, but I 0:09:25.805 --> 0:09:30.365 just didn't realize it at first, but he was so 0:09:30.365 --> 0:09:33.845 so cute and he started like bonding with me, and 0:09:33.885 --> 0:09:36.925 we were getting along as well as can be given 0:09:37.125 --> 0:09:40.445 just how much work he was. By the fourth day 0:09:40.445 --> 0:09:47.525 with Roscoe, Marina is exhausted, abnormally exhausted, and at first 0:09:47.725 --> 0:09:49.525 she thinks it's just a lack of sleep from taking 0:09:49.565 --> 0:09:53.525 care of the new puppy at all hours. So by Wednesday, 0:09:53.525 --> 0:09:56.885 I was feeling like really run down and just tired, 0:09:57.565 --> 0:09:59.845 and I thought it was just because of this like 0:10:00.365 --> 0:10:02.925 change in my life with the dog and not being 0:10:02.965 --> 0:10:05.925 prepared to have a puppy. But that I get a 0:10:05.925 --> 0:10:08.205 call from my friend Sarah, the one that I went 0:10:08.325 --> 0:10:11.325 to pick him up with, and she said that she 0:10:11.445 --> 0:10:16.045 had tested positive for COVID and that I had been exposed. 0:10:16.365 --> 0:10:19.285 So I'm like, fuck, I'm gonna have to get a test. 0:10:20.045 --> 0:10:21.765 She's able to get a test the next day at 0:10:21.805 --> 0:10:25.085 a clinic down the street. But then I came home 0:10:25.085 --> 0:10:27.005 and I'm like, now, what, Like I may or may 0:10:27.005 --> 0:10:30.765 not have COVID, I have this dog. I still have 0:10:30.845 --> 0:10:33.605 to take the dog outside. It's cruel to like not 0:10:33.725 --> 0:10:36.925 take him on walks. So I spent that first day 0:10:37.005 --> 0:10:41.485 just like furiously contacting doctors and like anyone that I 0:10:41.525 --> 0:10:44.005 thought might have an answer to this, Like am I 0:10:44.085 --> 0:10:47.445 allowed to go outside? Can I leave my apartment? And 0:10:47.565 --> 0:10:50.325 if I can't, what the hell am I going to do? 0:10:51.445 --> 0:10:55.885 You're probably thinking, Wait, isn't Sweden at this point world 0:10:56.005 --> 0:10:59.045 famous for its lack of a lockdown for its nationwide 0:10:59.045 --> 0:11:03.725 experiment in creating coronavirus herd immunity. That isn't exactly true. 0:11:04.805 --> 0:11:07.765 It is true that through October twenty twenty, Sweden had 0:11:07.765 --> 0:11:10.765 not imposed any strict laws for its citizens, while other 0:11:10.765 --> 0:11:14.325 European countries are in full lockdown mode with legal implications 0:11:14.325 --> 0:11:16.765 for those who break the rules. Swedes can still go 0:11:16.805 --> 0:11:20.085 to bars and restaurants, and Swedish kids can go to school. 0:11:21.165 --> 0:11:24.725 But as daily coronavirus cases start to explode from just 0:11:24.765 --> 0:11:27.165 a few hundred in September to more than three thousand 0:11:27.165 --> 0:11:31.405 a day in late October, Sweden's national Health agency recommends 0:11:31.405 --> 0:11:36.645 stricter measures in harder hit regions, including Gothenburg. There's still 0:11:36.725 --> 0:11:40.605 just recommendations, but on October twenty ninth, the day before 0:11:40.645 --> 0:11:43.205 Marina finds out she's been exposed to coronavirus on her 0:11:43.245 --> 0:11:46.325 road trip. Residents are asked to stop going in most 0:11:46.365 --> 0:11:49.885 indoor places, and for those who actually test positive for 0:11:49.965 --> 0:11:54.365 COVID nineteen there are special rules. But Marina for now 0:11:54.445 --> 0:11:56.085 is just trying to get a jump on things in 0:11:56.125 --> 0:12:00.005 case she tests positive. So I finally got the ok 0:12:00.405 --> 0:12:03.485 from various powers that be that as long as I 0:12:03.605 --> 0:12:07.405 stayed away from other humans and dogs, I could take 0:12:07.485 --> 0:12:10.725 him outside. But he's a puppy. He doesn't understand this, 0:12:10.885 --> 0:12:13.285 Like he wants to go sniff other dogs butts and 0:12:13.405 --> 0:12:16.085 like go near other people. So I had to really 0:12:16.205 --> 0:12:19.325 be careful to keep him on leash and just like 0:12:19.445 --> 0:12:23.045 keep him away from people while I was waiting for 0:12:24.125 --> 0:12:27.005 the test result, which she gets on October thirty first, 0:12:27.285 --> 0:12:31.085 So happy Halloween to me. Turns out I did have COVID, 0:12:32.125 --> 0:12:35.605 I still had a puppy, and now I had to 0:12:35.645 --> 0:12:38.645 just be at home until I no longer had COVID, 0:12:39.005 --> 0:12:43.325 you know however long that took. For two weeks, Marina 0:12:43.365 --> 0:12:46.925 mostly stays inside her apartment with Roscoe. It's a third 0:12:46.925 --> 0:12:49.845 floor walk up with one bedroom in a balcony pretty 0:12:49.885 --> 0:12:53.045 big for one person, but still a Swedish apartment. I 0:12:53.045 --> 0:12:55.845 would take him, you know, to do his business on 0:12:56.125 --> 0:12:59.525 the balcony, take him on walks twice a day. But 0:12:59.605 --> 0:13:03.205 it became like incredibly stressful because not only was I 0:13:03.365 --> 0:13:07.965 feeling like increasingly more sick, but he still demanded all 0:13:08.045 --> 0:13:12.085 this time and attention and energy. So I had a cough, 0:13:12.445 --> 0:13:17.765 I had like aches and pains, some diarrhea, like it 0:13:17.885 --> 0:13:21.525 felt kind of like a food poisoning plus of flu 0:13:21.645 --> 0:13:25.165 at the same time. Type of a situation. Marina is 0:13:25.205 --> 0:13:28.805 stuck at home and feels like total shit, and then 0:13:28.845 --> 0:13:32.325 things get even worse when Roscoe gets sick too. So 0:13:32.445 --> 0:13:36.165 in addition to his like weird like peeing all the time, 0:13:36.405 --> 0:13:40.245 he started throwing up his food and had like some 0:13:40.285 --> 0:13:43.325 weird poop and stuff. And I'm like, oh no, like 0:13:43.725 --> 0:13:45.285 what do I do Because I can't take him to 0:13:45.325 --> 0:13:49.005 the vet because I have COVID. She finds an app 0:13:49.085 --> 0:13:52.565 that allows her to get a telemedicine appointment, but for dogs, 0:13:52.965 --> 0:13:56.285 I was able to talk to a vet over the app, 0:13:56.565 --> 0:13:59.645 and so I had several appointments that way, just asking 0:13:59.685 --> 0:14:03.645 like is this normal puppy stuff? The vets tell her 0:14:03.685 --> 0:14:07.325 they can't know exactly what's wrong with Roscoe without examining him. 0:14:08.325 --> 0:14:10.285 But she can't get him examined because she has to 0:14:10.365 --> 0:14:14.445 quarantine until she's not contagious. So then during this time, 0:14:14.565 --> 0:14:16.725 like the two weeks that we were like cooped up 0:14:16.725 --> 0:14:18.725 in my apartment, he woke up in the middle of 0:14:18.725 --> 0:14:21.885 the night and started throwing up, and I'm like, crap, 0:14:21.925 --> 0:14:25.005 it's three in the morning. I just like went to 0:14:25.085 --> 0:14:27.805 bed not too long ago, like I'm exhausted. Now I 0:14:27.845 --> 0:14:31.085 have to clean up dog barf. I'm cleaning up this 0:14:31.165 --> 0:14:33.685 dog barf, and then it turns out there are worms 0:14:33.725 --> 0:14:36.685 in it, and I was just like, just kill me now, 0:14:36.805 --> 0:14:42.005 Like my dog has worms, like literal living worms, because 0:14:42.045 --> 0:14:45.605 this is a thing that dogs can get. So luckily 0:14:45.645 --> 0:14:49.045 I had some warm medication for him already, so I 0:14:49.045 --> 0:14:51.565 gave him that. But that was like one of the 0:14:51.645 --> 0:14:55.485 lowest moments where I was just like, my apartment is disgusting. 0:14:55.605 --> 0:14:59.005 It's full of COVID. It's full of like dog pee, 0:14:59.005 --> 0:15:02.245 it's full of like you know, puke with worms in it. 0:15:02.325 --> 0:15:07.365 Like this is just so correct. So now Marina's got 0:15:07.365 --> 0:15:10.605 COVID and her puppy is puking up worms, and she 0:15:10.725 --> 0:15:13.965 can't really do much about it. Plus, she's starting to 0:15:14.045 --> 0:15:17.605 question if Roscoe's previous owner lied to her. He hadn't 0:15:17.645 --> 0:15:19.605 been trained at all, Like he didn't know how to 0:15:19.645 --> 0:15:21.725 walk on a leash. She didn't know a lot of 0:15:21.805 --> 0:15:25.125 basic dog stuff that he should know by being six 0:15:25.205 --> 0:15:28.245 months old. So then I started thinking, like was he 0:15:28.325 --> 0:15:32.165 just not taken care of? Like did someone mistreat him? 0:15:32.485 --> 0:15:35.085 His temperament was very sweet, He just like didn't know 0:15:35.205 --> 0:15:38.365 anything about how to be a dog. So for a 0:15:38.365 --> 0:15:43.285 couple of weeks, Marina's sick and Roscoe's sick, but eventually 0:15:43.605 --> 0:15:47.165 Marina starts feeling better, her fever goes away and her 0:15:47.205 --> 0:15:51.285 cough becomes mild. Her doctor tells her she can stop quarantining. 0:15:51.845 --> 0:15:53.725 That was like the big day for me because a 0:15:53.845 --> 0:15:56.005 malt I could go out and do all the things 0:15:56.445 --> 0:15:58.845 I needed to do. And the number one thing I 0:15:58.965 --> 0:16:02.085 needed to do was take Roscoe to the vet to 0:16:02.085 --> 0:16:05.045 see if there was something wrong with him or what 0:16:05.165 --> 0:16:08.445 was up with his situation. The vet tells her that 0:16:08.525 --> 0:16:11.725 Roscoe had been underfed by his previous owners, but he 0:16:11.765 --> 0:16:15.805 seems relatively healthy otherwise. She isn't sure why he's peeing 0:16:15.845 --> 0:16:18.645 so much, but she gives Marina some special food to 0:16:18.685 --> 0:16:21.485 help with the puking. In Sweden, all dogs have an 0:16:21.485 --> 0:16:25.805 ID chip that's like put into their little puppy bodies 0:16:25.965 --> 0:16:30.525 to identify them if they get lost. It's true. All 0:16:30.525 --> 0:16:32.645 Swedish dogs need to have a chip or a tattoo 0:16:32.765 --> 0:16:35.045 marked with a unique ID number, and they have to 0:16:35.085 --> 0:16:37.885 be registered in the Swedish Board of Agricultures Dog Register. 0:16:38.205 --> 0:16:41.205 The register keeps a record of popular names for Swedish dogs. 0:16:41.885 --> 0:16:44.365 Molly and Bella are the most common in twenty twenty. 0:16:44.965 --> 0:16:49.405 Luda and Siga are close behind. So in addition to 0:16:49.445 --> 0:16:53.085 the chip, Roscoe also has a little puppy passport and 0:16:53.165 --> 0:16:55.725 it turns out his chip number doesn't match the number 0:16:55.765 --> 0:17:01.085 in his passport. They're one digit off one digit And 0:17:01.165 --> 0:17:04.845 I'm like, why is that? And she's like I don't know. 0:17:04.925 --> 0:17:07.405 But her whole demeanor change and she was like, you 0:17:07.485 --> 0:17:10.565 need to get this sordid asap because it is not 0:17:10.685 --> 0:17:13.365 allowed for you to be in Sweden with a dog 0:17:13.885 --> 0:17:18.645 that is improperly registered. She leaves the vet appointment wondering 0:17:18.645 --> 0:17:21.405 how the hell she got into this mess. Maybe he 0:17:21.485 --> 0:17:25.085 was smuggled in maybe that would explain all his health 0:17:25.085 --> 0:17:29.005 issues that he had come from some like Eastern European 0:17:29.085 --> 0:17:33.285 puppy mill, and I had bought him without knowing any 0:17:33.325 --> 0:17:36.485 of this. So I went home and I'm like, I 0:17:36.565 --> 0:17:38.885 really don't know what to do, Like I don't know 0:17:39.525 --> 0:17:43.485 how do I resolve the situation, Like who do I 0:17:43.645 --> 0:17:48.045 talk to to get my dog legal? With no idea 0:17:48.085 --> 0:17:52.645 what to do next, she calls the police. A detective 0:17:52.685 --> 0:17:55.285 tells her to bring the dog into the station. The 0:17:55.365 --> 0:17:57.965 first day I was free to leave my apartment, I 0:17:58.005 --> 0:18:00.205 went to the vet. The second day I was free 0:18:00.205 --> 0:18:03.245 to leave my apartment, I went to the police station 0:18:03.365 --> 0:18:07.325 downtown with my dog. The Swedish detective there doesn't know 0:18:07.405 --> 0:18:10.165 what to do either, but he calls the Swedish Department 0:18:10.165 --> 0:18:12.565 of Agriculture and they tell Marina to go home and 0:18:12.605 --> 0:18:15.965 wait for their call. I come home, give Roscoe a 0:18:16.005 --> 0:18:18.645 new toy because he's been such a champ about all 0:18:18.685 --> 0:18:21.285 of these trips and he doesn't know what's happening, but 0:18:21.405 --> 0:18:25.485 he's been like really cooperative as I like him. All 0:18:25.485 --> 0:18:29.285 over town. That night, she gets a call from a 0:18:29.325 --> 0:18:33.365 woman at the Department of Agriculture. She explains to Marina 0:18:33.405 --> 0:18:35.805 that if the chip by D number doesn't match the 0:18:35.845 --> 0:18:40.485 doggy passport number, then she has only two choices and 0:18:40.605 --> 0:18:45.765 they both completely suck. Option one is you can do 0:18:45.925 --> 0:18:50.005 a two month quarantine with a dog in which he 0:18:50.045 --> 0:18:53.485 has to stay in your home, not be around any 0:18:53.485 --> 0:18:56.965 other humans or animals, and we reserve the right to 0:18:57.085 --> 0:18:59.965 like check up on you, and if you break the 0:19:00.045 --> 0:19:05.485 rules of the quarantine, they're illegal consequences. So I'm like, Okay, 0:19:05.525 --> 0:19:09.325 that seems really extreme. Two whole months of that, and 0:19:09.525 --> 0:19:12.805 I live alone in an apartment, Like, it wouldn't be 0:19:12.845 --> 0:19:17.885 easy in the best of situations. So, while already living 0:19:17.885 --> 0:19:22.085 in quarantine or Sweden's relatively mild version of it, she's 0:19:22.085 --> 0:19:24.165 told that one option for Roscoe is to do an 0:19:24.165 --> 0:19:30.325 extreme two month quarantine with an unhousebroken, worm, puking, adorable puppy, 0:19:30.325 --> 0:19:34.925 with no help from friends, family, or even a vent an. 0:19:34.925 --> 0:19:38.245 Option two was that I could choose to put him down, 0:19:39.725 --> 0:19:43.885 And I'm like, is there option three? Is there? Option zero? Like, 0:19:44.285 --> 0:19:46.725 help me out here? Is there anything else we can do? 0:19:46.925 --> 0:19:50.605 I explain the situation that I still am getting over COVID. 0:19:51.565 --> 0:19:54.885 I'm an American, I don't have like anyone living here 0:19:55.005 --> 0:19:58.045 to help me, it wouldn't be easy, and not to 0:19:58.125 --> 0:20:01.685 mention taking two months off of work, and just like 0:20:01.805 --> 0:20:05.285 the cruelty of not letting a puppy like be around 0:20:05.285 --> 0:20:08.845 other or dogs. It just seemed like even if it 0:20:08.885 --> 0:20:12.885 were possible, it would suck and it would like harm 0:20:13.005 --> 0:20:17.285 his emotional development as a dog to do this. They 0:20:17.325 --> 0:20:21.725 give Marina twenty four hours to make a decision quarantine 0:20:22.485 --> 0:20:28.245 or put Roscoe down. So at first I was thinking, like, 0:20:28.285 --> 0:20:31.445 there has to be another way, and so all of 0:20:31.485 --> 0:20:34.725 my friends and sisters are like trying to dream up 0:20:34.805 --> 0:20:38.205 like other alternatives, like maybe he can go stay in 0:20:38.245 --> 0:20:41.165 a kennel, maybe there's a friend who can take him, 0:20:41.205 --> 0:20:44.405 and I'm like no, they specifically said he's like not 0:20:44.445 --> 0:20:48.085 allowed to leave my apartment. Marina is also living in 0:20:48.125 --> 0:20:51.245 Sweden on a visa, so she's nervous about doing anything 0:20:51.245 --> 0:20:53.685 that can get her kicked out of the country. So 0:20:54.685 --> 0:20:58.645 I slept on it, I cried, I snuggled him. I 0:20:58.765 --> 0:21:01.925 was like a mess. And then the next day I 0:21:02.005 --> 0:21:05.205 woke up and I was I would just like start 0:21:05.205 --> 0:21:08.645 crying at any moment, and poor Roscoe, like he knew 0:21:08.685 --> 0:21:10.765 something was wrong, and he would come up to me 0:21:10.765 --> 0:21:13.725 and like lick my hand and like try to comfort me, 0:21:13.805 --> 0:21:17.445 and and I'm like, oh god, I'm like trying to decide, 0:21:17.485 --> 0:21:20.765 like do I keep you alive or not? But he 0:21:20.845 --> 0:21:24.085 has to make a decision. The twenty four hours go 0:21:24.165 --> 0:21:28.485 by extremely fast, and then ultimately I realized, like I 0:21:28.565 --> 0:21:31.725 am not healthy enough to do this, Like I am 0:21:31.765 --> 0:21:37.405 still recovering from COVID, I am not well, and without 0:21:37.485 --> 0:21:40.925 any help, I won't be able to do this. I'm 0:21:40.925 --> 0:21:44.205 gonna get sicker. He's gonna get sicker. And the thing 0:21:44.245 --> 0:21:46.845 that really kind of tipped the scales for me was 0:21:46.885 --> 0:21:49.845 thinking of like just how cool it was to him 0:21:50.085 --> 0:21:53.285 to keep him cooped up with me in the apartment 0:21:53.965 --> 0:21:57.005 without access to the medical care that he needed, Like 0:21:57.085 --> 0:21:59.565 he needed to go back to the vet for more tests, 0:22:00.085 --> 0:22:02.325 and I wasn't going to be allowed to take him 0:22:02.405 --> 0:22:06.805 even to the vet. So Marina makes any credibly difficult choice. 0:22:07.285 --> 0:22:10.485 I called the vet again to make a second appointment, 0:22:10.805 --> 0:22:14.045 and the second appointment was to have him put down. 0:22:16.605 --> 0:22:19.325 The next day, she tries to give Roscoe the best 0:22:19.405 --> 0:22:23.085 morning of his life. She gives him all his favorite treats, 0:22:23.485 --> 0:22:27.525 takes him on a walk, gives him extra cuddles, all 0:22:27.525 --> 0:22:30.245 the things he loves. I was really struggling to keep 0:22:30.285 --> 0:22:33.525 my own emotions in check, and I didn't want that 0:22:33.725 --> 0:22:37.965 to like worry him. So it was just really awful. 0:22:38.285 --> 0:22:41.245 So I put him back in the carrier. Call another uber. 0:22:42.325 --> 0:22:45.405 At the vet's office, everyone is really kind and empathetic. 0:22:46.005 --> 0:22:49.285 So you go there, they check you in, They take 0:22:49.325 --> 0:22:52.645 you to a special room that's sort of like a 0:22:52.685 --> 0:22:55.485 private room where you can be with your dog, just 0:22:55.525 --> 0:22:59.125 the two of you. Because it's Sweden and they love candles, 0:22:59.245 --> 0:23:02.565 there was a lit candle in there, so it's almost 0:23:02.565 --> 0:23:06.205 this life chapel feeling in a way. There's a high 0:23:06.245 --> 0:23:10.365 table covered with a blanket. But Marina can't let Roscoe 0:23:10.365 --> 0:23:12.245 out of her arms. Yet he liked it when I 0:23:12.245 --> 0:23:14.245 would hold him, so I just had him in my 0:23:14.405 --> 0:23:17.765 arms to the point that my arms started getting really sore, 0:23:18.325 --> 0:23:21.365 but I refuse to put him down. But then the 0:23:21.445 --> 0:23:25.485 nurse comes in and explains what's going to happen. First, 0:23:25.845 --> 0:23:28.765 they'll give him a sedative to make him calm. Then 0:23:28.845 --> 0:23:32.285 once it's taken effect, they'll give Roscoe a second injection 0:23:33.205 --> 0:23:36.845 and that's the one that kills him. I put him 0:23:37.165 --> 0:23:41.565