1 00:00:00,960 --> 00:00:04,800 Speaker 1: Call It What It Is with Jessica Capshaw and Camille Luddington, 2 00:00:05,240 --> 00:00:16,360 Speaker 1: an iHeartRadio podcast. 3 00:00:18,239 --> 00:00:22,439 Speaker 2: Hello, Hello, Hello, Hello Call It crew, and welcome to 4 00:00:22,520 --> 00:00:26,040 Speaker 2: another episode of Call It What It Is. Let's just 5 00:00:26,160 --> 00:00:27,960 Speaker 2: dive in because it's just me and you today. There's 6 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:30,000 Speaker 2: no guest today, and I think that we need to 7 00:00:30,040 --> 00:00:32,440 Speaker 2: tell a little bit of the backstory of how I 8 00:00:32,520 --> 00:00:36,159 Speaker 2: got here and how we got to this episode. Mm hmm, Okay, 9 00:00:37,240 --> 00:00:40,440 Speaker 2: here's what has happened. Everybody knows that I. 10 00:00:40,440 --> 00:00:42,840 Speaker 3: Have three rescue dogs. I have Gus and Sully. 11 00:00:42,880 --> 00:00:46,240 Speaker 2: They're my dogs I've had for like thirteen years with Matt, 12 00:00:46,280 --> 00:00:49,040 Speaker 2: that's how old they are. And then I have Caspar, 13 00:00:49,120 --> 00:00:52,080 Speaker 2: who's my newest rescue. He's two years old. He was 14 00:00:52,240 --> 00:00:55,680 Speaker 2: dumped in a box as a puppy. He's this cattle 15 00:00:55,880 --> 00:01:01,560 Speaker 2: dog retrievers lab mixed with all the love, all the energy, 16 00:01:01,600 --> 00:01:05,959 Speaker 2: all the things, and he's adorable. But what I realized 17 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:08,920 Speaker 2: is when I brought him home is that my older 18 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:11,959 Speaker 2: dogs have zero interest in playing with him. 19 00:01:12,360 --> 00:01:12,520 Speaker 3: Right. 20 00:01:13,600 --> 00:01:17,840 Speaker 2: They were just they weren't like it isn't like the 21 00:01:17,920 --> 00:01:20,399 Speaker 2: dogs were like fighting when we got him. It's just 22 00:01:20,400 --> 00:01:23,280 Speaker 2: that they were bored. They didn't want anything to do 23 00:01:23,360 --> 00:01:26,119 Speaker 2: with him. They want they want to their pillows, they 24 00:01:26,120 --> 00:01:28,160 Speaker 2: want to sit on the couch, they want to wait 25 00:01:28,200 --> 00:01:30,160 Speaker 2: for a little bit piece of cheese if it comes 26 00:01:30,160 --> 00:01:30,600 Speaker 2: their way. 27 00:01:31,240 --> 00:01:32,200 Speaker 3: And when they get to go. 28 00:01:32,160 --> 00:01:33,800 Speaker 2: To the dog park, they're happy, and then they want 29 00:01:33,800 --> 00:01:35,840 Speaker 2: to come home and be a pillow again. They're cozy 30 00:01:35,959 --> 00:01:38,160 Speaker 2: and their old age, and to be honest, both of 31 00:01:38,200 --> 00:01:41,240 Speaker 2: them we rescued when one was one and one was four. 32 00:01:41,959 --> 00:01:44,600 Speaker 2: They've always sort of been like that. They were street 33 00:01:44,640 --> 00:01:48,520 Speaker 2: dogs before, and so they didn't they honestly didn't really 34 00:01:48,600 --> 00:01:50,160 Speaker 2: come with like puppy energy. 35 00:01:50,800 --> 00:01:54,000 Speaker 3: So Casper bugs them all the time. 36 00:01:54,280 --> 00:01:56,120 Speaker 2: He's on the couch with a ball in his mouth, 37 00:01:56,280 --> 00:01:59,520 Speaker 2: just waiting for anyone to play with him. And it 38 00:01:59,640 --> 00:02:03,600 Speaker 2: started get really sad. So conversation a year ago started 39 00:02:03,640 --> 00:02:06,480 Speaker 2: where I said to Matt listened, I think we should 40 00:02:06,520 --> 00:02:11,400 Speaker 2: get Casper a friend, a puppy buddy friend. Matt was like, 41 00:02:11,840 --> 00:02:14,600 Speaker 2: hell no, and I was like, just think on it. 42 00:02:14,639 --> 00:02:17,000 Speaker 2: I'll send you four dogs a day to look at, 43 00:02:17,240 --> 00:02:19,239 Speaker 2: which is what's happened for the past year. And we've 44 00:02:19,280 --> 00:02:22,919 Speaker 2: come really close to adopting a couple and Matt has 45 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:24,120 Speaker 2: not been super into it. 46 00:02:24,160 --> 00:02:26,800 Speaker 3: He's like, okay, you do this. You got to start. 47 00:02:26,520 --> 00:02:28,080 Speaker 2: Helping out more. You got to pick up the poops 48 00:02:28,120 --> 00:02:29,559 Speaker 2: because I don't do poop pooping. 49 00:02:29,320 --> 00:02:31,520 Speaker 3: Up in our yard. Okay, so you said you got 50 00:02:31,560 --> 00:02:33,160 Speaker 3: to pick up the poops. You got to feed them more. 51 00:02:35,440 --> 00:02:40,919 Speaker 2: Easter Sunday rolls around and we go to an Easter 52 00:02:41,040 --> 00:02:42,919 Speaker 2: lunch and then Matt has to go and do this 53 00:02:43,120 --> 00:02:46,720 Speaker 2: meeting actually on Easter. So he goes and does this, well, 54 00:02:46,760 --> 00:02:48,760 Speaker 2: it's an audition. He has to do this like audition thing, 55 00:02:48,880 --> 00:02:50,920 Speaker 2: put something on tape, and he's like, Okay, I'll be 56 00:02:50,919 --> 00:02:55,240 Speaker 2: back home after And so I, sneaky sneak knew that 57 00:02:55,320 --> 00:02:58,920 Speaker 2: there was a wag More Pets is a rescue in 58 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:01,239 Speaker 2: Studio City in the Valley in Los Angeles. I knew 59 00:03:01,240 --> 00:03:03,440 Speaker 2: that they were open for the day on Easter for 60 00:03:03,480 --> 00:03:05,959 Speaker 2: any rescue. So I put the kids in the car 61 00:03:06,080 --> 00:03:10,119 Speaker 2: and I was like, don't tell daddy, We're gonna go 62 00:03:10,600 --> 00:03:12,960 Speaker 2: to the rescue and we're just gonna My plan was 63 00:03:13,040 --> 00:03:13,920 Speaker 2: just we never. 64 00:03:13,800 --> 00:03:17,440 Speaker 3: Start a sentence with don't tell daddy, don't sell daddy. 65 00:03:18,680 --> 00:03:22,359 Speaker 2: It's not a full secret because none will not happened. 66 00:03:22,360 --> 00:03:23,800 Speaker 3: In the know that I'd want to want to use. 67 00:03:23,720 --> 00:03:25,040 Speaker 2: At the point where I was like, listen, if you 68 00:03:25,080 --> 00:03:27,800 Speaker 2: want to get one, get one, fine, you know. 69 00:03:28,600 --> 00:03:30,600 Speaker 3: So I was like, we're gonna go. We're just my 70 00:03:30,680 --> 00:03:34,760 Speaker 3: plan was just to hold a couple puppies. I just thought, like, 71 00:03:34,800 --> 00:03:37,600 Speaker 3: we'll hold them. When them, we'll go. That's always the plan. 72 00:03:38,560 --> 00:03:40,520 Speaker 2: So we went and they held. They sat and they 73 00:03:40,560 --> 00:03:43,560 Speaker 2: held a couple of Pomeranian puppies. And then I said, 74 00:03:44,360 --> 00:03:47,840 Speaker 2: do you have any other little puppies back there in 75 00:03:47,880 --> 00:03:52,119 Speaker 2: the pack, anyone that wants to come forward? Like it's 76 00:03:52,120 --> 00:03:54,040 Speaker 2: like a seance, right, and does anyone else want to 77 00:03:54,080 --> 00:03:58,240 Speaker 2: come forward? And they're like, we do. Actually we have 78 00:03:58,440 --> 00:04:02,280 Speaker 2: a pure bread English black lab. And they said he 79 00:04:02,440 --> 00:04:04,640 Speaker 2: had a little sister who was a yellow lab and 80 00:04:04,680 --> 00:04:07,680 Speaker 2: she went in twenty four hours and him and his 81 00:04:07,720 --> 00:04:10,240 Speaker 2: brother sat forever, and he was the last one and 82 00:04:10,280 --> 00:04:14,160 Speaker 2: he came out Jess and his eyes locked with mine and. 83 00:04:14,120 --> 00:04:17,440 Speaker 3: He yeah, take me home. Yeah, And I. 84 00:04:17,480 --> 00:04:21,120 Speaker 2: Said, also, I'll disclose I was on my period, so 85 00:04:21,160 --> 00:04:23,080 Speaker 2: I was feeling a little emotional when he was looking 86 00:04:23,120 --> 00:04:23,320 Speaker 2: at me. 87 00:04:24,279 --> 00:04:26,400 Speaker 3: He caught me the wrong time of the life, like. 88 00:04:26,400 --> 00:04:30,560 Speaker 4: Going grocery shopping when you're hungry, nothing to stand between 89 00:04:30,560 --> 00:04:32,520 Speaker 4: you and taking that dot com because you told your 90 00:04:32,560 --> 00:04:34,159 Speaker 4: children not to tell daddy no. 91 00:04:34,320 --> 00:04:36,400 Speaker 2: And I couldn't call him because I didn't want to 92 00:04:36,440 --> 00:04:37,479 Speaker 2: interrupt that audition. 93 00:04:37,640 --> 00:04:39,400 Speaker 3: That would have been really amp And you knew. 94 00:04:39,240 --> 00:04:41,080 Speaker 4: He was yeah, because he was locked up. He wasn't 95 00:04:41,080 --> 00:04:42,919 Speaker 4: going to come out of nowhere and be like yeah. 96 00:04:43,040 --> 00:04:45,599 Speaker 2: Put him in the car, drove home with him. I 97 00:04:45,720 --> 00:04:48,560 Speaker 2: get home, I'm so excited. The dogs all greet him. 98 00:04:48,720 --> 00:04:53,560 Speaker 2: There's no real issues. And then here's what happened. They're 99 00:04:53,600 --> 00:04:55,640 Speaker 2: running around the backyard and we have a nice we 100 00:04:55,680 --> 00:04:58,400 Speaker 2: have a large backyard. I would never adopt four dogs 101 00:04:58,400 --> 00:05:00,400 Speaker 2: if we didn't have some sort of back yard because 102 00:05:00,400 --> 00:05:02,719 Speaker 2: that'd be mean, right, So running out of the backyard 103 00:05:03,120 --> 00:05:09,159 Speaker 2: and suddenly I kind of almost like sobered up, and 104 00:05:09,200 --> 00:05:12,360 Speaker 2: it looked like, yes, this is what I sat sobered up, 105 00:05:12,360 --> 00:05:14,719 Speaker 2: and I was like, that's a lot of dogs. 106 00:05:16,600 --> 00:05:18,840 Speaker 3: These were a lot of dogs in my backyard. 107 00:05:19,360 --> 00:05:22,960 Speaker 2: And I thought, crap, Matt's going to come home and 108 00:05:23,040 --> 00:05:26,120 Speaker 2: I have to break the news to him, like there's 109 00:05:26,160 --> 00:05:30,440 Speaker 2: another doll in here and check your credit cards statement, 110 00:05:32,279 --> 00:05:34,960 Speaker 2: did not have a dogbed, did not have food, didn't 111 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:39,440 Speaker 2: have anything for him. Uh Nott comes home and I 112 00:05:39,600 --> 00:05:40,720 Speaker 2: burst into tears. 113 00:05:41,080 --> 00:05:41,800 Speaker 3: Yeah you did. 114 00:05:42,400 --> 00:05:44,960 Speaker 4: By the way, that was very well played. Sympathy for 115 00:05:45,040 --> 00:05:47,240 Speaker 4: you is what he's supposed to have right now. Yeah, yeah, yeah, 116 00:05:47,560 --> 00:05:49,799 Speaker 4: sympathy for you. 117 00:05:48,279 --> 00:05:50,560 Speaker 3: You've created this. 118 00:05:51,560 --> 00:05:57,080 Speaker 2: I did itoation, and I felt terrible because I. 119 00:05:55,600 --> 00:05:58,440 Speaker 3: Have never experienced this before. This is what the episode's 120 00:05:58,440 --> 00:05:59,000 Speaker 3: going to be about. 121 00:05:59,080 --> 00:06:01,240 Speaker 2: I burst into tears and I said, I think I've 122 00:06:01,240 --> 00:06:05,159 Speaker 2: made a terrible mistake, like I have taken on this 123 00:06:05,279 --> 00:06:05,960 Speaker 2: dog and. 124 00:06:05,920 --> 00:06:07,040 Speaker 3: For life, right. 125 00:06:08,320 --> 00:06:10,800 Speaker 2: And I'm looking at all these dogs in our backyard 126 00:06:10,800 --> 00:06:13,080 Speaker 2: and it looks like that scene where Melissa McCarthy steals 127 00:06:13,120 --> 00:06:15,520 Speaker 2: all the puppies and bridesmaids and there does twenty of 128 00:06:15,520 --> 00:06:15,760 Speaker 2: them in. 129 00:06:15,760 --> 00:06:18,719 Speaker 4: The back Like I felt like her probably just as unhinged, 130 00:06:18,839 --> 00:06:21,320 Speaker 4: quite frankly as unhinged. 131 00:06:21,400 --> 00:06:25,880 Speaker 2: And he is very he's very steady in the storm. 132 00:06:25,960 --> 00:06:30,279 Speaker 2: And he was like, he's really cute, and you've made 133 00:06:30,279 --> 00:06:32,040 Speaker 2: the commitment and it's time to put on your big 134 00:06:32,080 --> 00:06:34,080 Speaker 2: girl pants now and you've been wanting this for a 135 00:06:34,120 --> 00:06:37,680 Speaker 2: long time. And he's we're obviously keeping him. 136 00:06:38,120 --> 00:06:39,080 Speaker 3: I love Matt. 137 00:06:39,360 --> 00:06:43,680 Speaker 4: He's so good in these situations, I know. So that's 138 00:06:43,720 --> 00:06:49,040 Speaker 4: how Scooby came into our life. Scooby, Scooby. That's how 139 00:06:49,080 --> 00:06:53,640 Speaker 4: Scooby came in. Here's what I did not anticipate. My 140 00:06:53,760 --> 00:06:58,599 Speaker 4: first two dogs were street dogs. They came potty trained, right, 141 00:06:58,760 --> 00:07:00,920 Speaker 4: they came older, They were not in a crate. They 142 00:07:00,960 --> 00:07:02,600 Speaker 4: just kind of sat around. They were fine. 143 00:07:02,960 --> 00:07:05,800 Speaker 2: When I got Casper, we did get him as a puppy, 144 00:07:05,960 --> 00:07:08,600 Speaker 2: but I had to work immediately after. Matt had to work, 145 00:07:08,640 --> 00:07:11,560 Speaker 2: and so we did the very swing keep thing of 146 00:07:12,480 --> 00:07:15,360 Speaker 2: sending the puppy all yeah to a little doggie boarding 147 00:07:15,360 --> 00:07:17,120 Speaker 2: school where they go for three weeks and they come 148 00:07:17,160 --> 00:07:18,440 Speaker 2: back and they're fully trained. 149 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:20,720 Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, And I think you did that with 150 00:07:20,800 --> 00:07:24,400 Speaker 3: your puppy. It's expensive too, It is so much money. 151 00:07:24,920 --> 00:07:27,840 Speaker 3: Did you do that because you have Aguscus and you're 152 00:07:27,840 --> 00:07:31,720 Speaker 3: a cal Yeah yeah, yeah yeah did you did you 153 00:07:31,840 --> 00:07:33,120 Speaker 3: do the puppy boarding school? 154 00:07:33,800 --> 00:07:38,080 Speaker 4: Okay, So I'm like you, I love dogs. 155 00:07:38,120 --> 00:07:38,960 Speaker 3: I've always loved dogs. 156 00:07:38,960 --> 00:07:42,960 Speaker 4: I've always had dogs, and when I got out of college, 157 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:44,920 Speaker 4: I was like, of course I can handle having a dog. 158 00:07:45,480 --> 00:07:49,960 Speaker 4: I could not, absolutely not at all. And I think 159 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:51,960 Speaker 4: the main reason why I couldn't was because I didn't 160 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:53,560 Speaker 4: take the time to train the dog. 161 00:07:54,200 --> 00:07:57,240 Speaker 3: So I learned my lesson the hard way. Did you 162 00:07:57,320 --> 00:07:59,920 Speaker 3: have to rehome the puppy. I did have to reh 163 00:08:00,040 --> 00:08:03,080 Speaker 3: I'm that puppy. There's no shame in that, no, I know. 164 00:08:03,200 --> 00:08:05,480 Speaker 4: And by the way, she we found her an incredible 165 00:08:05,480 --> 00:08:09,080 Speaker 4: home and she lived out her days in total luxury 166 00:08:09,160 --> 00:08:12,280 Speaker 4: and there's no way to meet and I could go 167 00:08:12,360 --> 00:08:15,040 Speaker 4: visit her, and she finally did mellow out. She was 168 00:08:15,080 --> 00:08:17,680 Speaker 4: a lab and she had a ton of energy, and 169 00:08:17,720 --> 00:08:19,760 Speaker 4: I could not meet her where she was at. 170 00:08:20,360 --> 00:08:21,320 Speaker 3: You were a college kid. 171 00:08:21,520 --> 00:08:23,400 Speaker 4: I was just out of college and I was I mean, 172 00:08:23,440 --> 00:08:25,480 Speaker 4: I was hustling. I was trying to get jobs. 173 00:08:25,520 --> 00:08:27,160 Speaker 3: I was like, I got a work scheduled, then I 174 00:08:27,200 --> 00:08:30,560 Speaker 3: got a job, and then I was working crazy hours. Yeah, no, no, 175 00:08:30,680 --> 00:08:31,280 Speaker 3: that's yeah. 176 00:08:31,320 --> 00:08:31,480 Speaker 2: You know. 177 00:08:31,560 --> 00:08:33,520 Speaker 3: It was just a lot. And she was really not 178 00:08:33,760 --> 00:08:34,560 Speaker 3: very well behaved. 179 00:08:34,760 --> 00:08:36,560 Speaker 4: If you have the wherewithal and if you can afford 180 00:08:36,600 --> 00:08:38,240 Speaker 4: to have them go off for training, I am all 181 00:08:38,280 --> 00:08:41,160 Speaker 4: for it. Yeah, And we did do that with Gus 182 00:08:41,559 --> 00:08:43,360 Speaker 4: also because we did not have a dog, and we 183 00:08:43,559 --> 00:08:45,400 Speaker 4: did have four children. So when I put my four 184 00:08:45,480 --> 00:08:47,440 Speaker 4: children in the backyard, to me, that looked like a 185 00:08:47,440 --> 00:08:50,640 Speaker 4: lot of children, yes, yeah, yeah, and adding in a. 186 00:08:50,640 --> 00:08:53,240 Speaker 3: Dog, I was like, oh, very buckle up. And Josie 187 00:08:53,360 --> 00:08:55,880 Speaker 3: was little. Yeah, she was little, she was like one 188 00:08:56,000 --> 00:08:56,320 Speaker 3: or two. 189 00:08:56,600 --> 00:09:01,280 Speaker 4: But then then we had we we he came great train. 190 00:09:01,559 --> 00:09:05,000 Speaker 4: Although then he shows up and he actually wasn't. And 191 00:09:05,080 --> 00:09:07,719 Speaker 4: I did go to a dog trainer and get all 192 00:09:07,720 --> 00:09:08,640 Speaker 4: of her tips and tricks. 193 00:09:08,640 --> 00:09:10,160 Speaker 3: I love her so much. She's in Los Angeles. You 194 00:09:10,240 --> 00:09:14,679 Speaker 3: should totally go use her. And uh. The first night 195 00:09:14,679 --> 00:09:16,520 Speaker 3: in the crate, he cried and cried and cried and. 196 00:09:16,480 --> 00:09:18,880 Speaker 4: Cried, and I felt so terrible, and he didn't want 197 00:09:18,880 --> 00:09:20,760 Speaker 4: to go in this crate they that they told me, 198 00:09:20,880 --> 00:09:22,640 Speaker 4: you know, was his den and so hot. 199 00:09:22,679 --> 00:09:24,560 Speaker 3: He was so happy. No, he wasn't. 200 00:09:24,600 --> 00:09:26,439 Speaker 4: He wanted to get the fuck out of that crate. Yeah, 201 00:09:26,760 --> 00:09:29,320 Speaker 4: and scream and cry. He was like no. And I 202 00:09:29,400 --> 00:09:31,520 Speaker 4: had four kids, and I was like, this is this 203 00:09:31,760 --> 00:09:33,280 Speaker 4: puppy cannot take my ship down. 204 00:09:33,760 --> 00:09:34,200 Speaker 3: And so. 205 00:09:35,880 --> 00:09:39,360 Speaker 4: In that first week I definitely did like put him 206 00:09:39,360 --> 00:09:40,599 Speaker 4: in a half nelson. 207 00:09:40,240 --> 00:09:43,920 Speaker 3: At one point. It's a half nelson like right under 208 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:45,120 Speaker 3: like right underneath my arm. 209 00:09:45,160 --> 00:09:46,679 Speaker 4: Like I had to snug a fly him a little bit, 210 00:09:46,720 --> 00:09:48,280 Speaker 4: like you know in the dog world, you got to 211 00:09:48,320 --> 00:09:51,320 Speaker 4: dominate and didn't hurt him. I'm very gentle, but I 212 00:09:51,480 --> 00:09:53,800 Speaker 4: was like, you know, you got to be the alpha 213 00:09:54,120 --> 00:09:56,240 Speaker 4: and you got to put them on their back and like, 214 00:09:56,320 --> 00:09:59,760 Speaker 4: you know, be the alpha, and so I aufed him 215 00:10:00,640 --> 00:10:03,000 Speaker 4: and then honestly, it was just that one little tussle 216 00:10:03,040 --> 00:10:05,440 Speaker 4: that we had and he's been he's been a dream 217 00:10:05,520 --> 00:10:06,400 Speaker 4: dog ever since. 218 00:10:07,040 --> 00:10:09,400 Speaker 3: He knew. In that moment, he's like, don't mess with 219 00:10:09,440 --> 00:10:10,600 Speaker 3: mom m macappi. 220 00:10:10,800 --> 00:10:27,520 Speaker 2: No, what about cal Because then you got a second puppy. 221 00:10:27,920 --> 00:10:30,240 Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, that is the one that I had 222 00:10:30,240 --> 00:10:31,440 Speaker 4: the puppy blues with a bit. 223 00:10:32,240 --> 00:10:35,200 Speaker 3: We really wanted him. We had just moved. 224 00:10:35,280 --> 00:10:37,640 Speaker 4: We were in a rental that all felt like a 225 00:10:37,679 --> 00:10:39,800 Speaker 4: really good idea to have a puppy, but all of 226 00:10:39,800 --> 00:10:43,040 Speaker 4: a sudden we were in seasons and he he has 227 00:10:43,840 --> 00:10:46,040 Speaker 4: a disposition that's a little more like I always think 228 00:10:46,080 --> 00:10:51,120 Speaker 4: dogs have voices and gus, you know, the aforementioned you know, 229 00:10:51,360 --> 00:10:54,000 Speaker 4: little teeny bit of a bumpy beginning, but then total 230 00:10:54,040 --> 00:10:56,640 Speaker 4: acquiescence and and he kind of like walks around the 231 00:10:56,640 --> 00:10:59,520 Speaker 4: house and I think that his his voice, his dog voice, 232 00:10:59,559 --> 00:11:00,439 Speaker 4: and pets would be. 233 00:11:00,400 --> 00:11:02,920 Speaker 3: Like, well hello there, oh right, shall we sit? 234 00:11:03,400 --> 00:11:05,720 Speaker 4: I think I'm going to get outside and get a 235 00:11:05,800 --> 00:11:06,720 Speaker 4: lie in the sun. 236 00:11:06,800 --> 00:11:08,920 Speaker 3: Today, Like that's how he talks. And then all of 237 00:11:08,960 --> 00:11:11,920 Speaker 3: a sudden Cal showed up and Cal's like, oh my, oh, like, 238 00:11:11,920 --> 00:11:14,040 Speaker 3: what are we gonna do? Can I eat that? 239 00:11:14,120 --> 00:11:17,480 Speaker 4: Oh that's okay, I'll eat moons, which, by the way, 240 00:11:17,559 --> 00:11:20,320 Speaker 4: it really grosses me out that that situation. I mean, 241 00:11:20,320 --> 00:11:22,160 Speaker 4: if you're gonna eat your poop in front of me, 242 00:11:22,640 --> 00:11:25,080 Speaker 4: how am I meant to ask you to come into 243 00:11:25,080 --> 00:11:25,560 Speaker 4: my home? 244 00:11:26,320 --> 00:11:27,880 Speaker 3: I don't know understand. 245 00:11:28,440 --> 00:11:30,520 Speaker 4: Isn't that what boundaries are for? Are we supposed to 246 00:11:30,520 --> 00:11:34,760 Speaker 4: exercise them? Aren't we supposed to say no? So I felt, yes, 247 00:11:34,840 --> 00:11:35,920 Speaker 4: I had peppy blues. 248 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:39,640 Speaker 3: And also all the kids were kind of looking at me. 249 00:11:39,720 --> 00:11:43,400 Speaker 4: Like, I mean, he's really cute, but he does seem 250 00:11:43,440 --> 00:11:46,920 Speaker 4: a little naughty, and yeah, I had no backup for 251 00:11:48,360 --> 00:11:51,000 Speaker 4: any reasons to keep him, but I was not getting 252 00:11:51,200 --> 00:11:53,720 Speaker 4: he was not going anywhere. So I was like, yeah, 253 00:11:53,800 --> 00:11:57,800 Speaker 4: that was the blues part. Yes, my general feelings of dissatisfaction. 254 00:11:57,880 --> 00:11:59,719 Speaker 4: I just like to really things that you get. 255 00:12:01,120 --> 00:12:03,920 Speaker 2: So the first night he cries all night in his crate, 256 00:12:04,120 --> 00:12:06,400 Speaker 2: and you know, I'm reading the tiktoks, It's like they 257 00:12:06,400 --> 00:12:08,400 Speaker 2: really need to be in their crate. They love their creates. 258 00:12:08,400 --> 00:12:12,320 Speaker 2: It's going to be their safe space. He acted like 259 00:12:12,400 --> 00:12:15,720 Speaker 2: that crate was like Alcatraz. 260 00:12:15,240 --> 00:12:20,199 Speaker 3: Right on fire or on fire building yep. 261 00:12:20,320 --> 00:12:23,720 Speaker 2: And he even figured out how to unlock it, like 262 00:12:23,760 --> 00:12:26,360 Speaker 2: he was fucking Houdini. And he came out and he 263 00:12:26,440 --> 00:12:28,640 Speaker 2: was so excited, and the first night he ended up 264 00:12:28,679 --> 00:12:30,480 Speaker 2: on the couch, he was just chilling. When I came 265 00:12:30,480 --> 00:12:31,400 Speaker 2: down the morning, I was like. 266 00:12:31,360 --> 00:12:32,440 Speaker 3: How did you get out? 267 00:12:32,520 --> 00:12:34,360 Speaker 2: And there was a poop and a pee out. I'm like, 268 00:12:34,480 --> 00:12:39,360 Speaker 2: what the point is? You've been using the term puppy blues. 269 00:12:39,840 --> 00:12:43,960 Speaker 2: I have never heard of this term. And by day 270 00:12:44,080 --> 00:12:48,040 Speaker 2: three of me crying over the stress of this new dog, 271 00:12:49,240 --> 00:12:51,440 Speaker 2: I wonder so many things. I'm gonna be honest, I 272 00:12:51,480 --> 00:12:54,280 Speaker 2: thought like I can't handle this, and this is really 273 00:12:54,320 --> 00:12:56,320 Speaker 2: embarrassing because I have a bunch of other dogs and 274 00:12:56,320 --> 00:12:59,640 Speaker 2: I have kids, and I felt like our dynamic and 275 00:12:59,679 --> 00:13:02,560 Speaker 2: our home was so cop aesthetic and we had our 276 00:13:02,640 --> 00:13:06,200 Speaker 2: thing down, and now I've introduced this other being for 277 00:13:06,280 --> 00:13:12,240 Speaker 2: what reason? And it's all fucked up. And my kids 278 00:13:12,320 --> 00:13:15,640 Speaker 2: usually had been caught. My son had trouble sleeping for 279 00:13:15,880 --> 00:13:18,480 Speaker 2: years and he was coming in every night to wake 280 00:13:18,520 --> 00:13:21,040 Speaker 2: me up. And he just the past month like stopped 281 00:13:21,040 --> 00:13:23,520 Speaker 2: doing that, and now I'm like, hey, let me figure 282 00:13:23,520 --> 00:13:25,199 Speaker 2: out a way to not get any more sleep again. 283 00:13:26,880 --> 00:13:30,040 Speaker 2: And then I just bought new rugs and shit here, 284 00:13:30,080 --> 00:13:32,840 Speaker 2: and of course he's like, that's a new rug. Great, 285 00:13:33,040 --> 00:13:36,600 Speaker 2: that's a fucking potty that I love now right. 286 00:13:36,840 --> 00:13:39,880 Speaker 3: Yeah, by day three. 287 00:13:40,440 --> 00:13:43,760 Speaker 2: I was crying to Matt and I was like, I 288 00:13:43,800 --> 00:13:47,800 Speaker 2: think I'm depressed. I think I'm depressed, and he was like, 289 00:13:47,920 --> 00:13:49,680 Speaker 2: you know, did his Matt thing of like, yeah, we 290 00:13:49,760 --> 00:13:51,000 Speaker 2: got this, don't worry, it's gonna. 291 00:13:50,840 --> 00:13:51,320 Speaker 3: Be out of that. 292 00:13:52,160 --> 00:13:56,640 Speaker 2: So I got on TikTok as you do, and I 293 00:13:56,720 --> 00:14:00,560 Speaker 2: looked up people's experience with puppies and there was like 294 00:14:01,000 --> 00:14:03,800 Speaker 2: postpartum puppy came up, I'm puppy blues. 295 00:14:03,920 --> 00:14:06,360 Speaker 3: Had you heard of these terms before? We talked about 296 00:14:06,400 --> 00:14:08,680 Speaker 3: them in the No, no, no, no, definitely, so I 297 00:14:08,720 --> 00:14:09,400 Speaker 3: had not either. 298 00:14:09,840 --> 00:14:14,319 Speaker 2: So these terms came up and hundreds, probably thousands of 299 00:14:14,520 --> 00:14:18,840 Speaker 2: videos came up of people saying I'm so depressed after 300 00:14:18,880 --> 00:14:22,560 Speaker 2: getting this beautiful puppy that I've been dying to get. 301 00:14:23,040 --> 00:14:26,760 Speaker 2: I'm anxious, I'm not sleeping, I'm having trouble, I'm working 302 00:14:26,760 --> 00:14:27,240 Speaker 2: from home. 303 00:14:27,360 --> 00:14:28,400 Speaker 3: This is a nightmare. 304 00:14:28,600 --> 00:14:30,720 Speaker 2: I don't even love the dog, and I thought I 305 00:14:30,880 --> 00:14:33,000 Speaker 2: loved the dog, and then in the comments, it's like 306 00:14:33,040 --> 00:14:34,920 Speaker 2: two years later now they love the dog. 307 00:14:35,240 --> 00:14:37,760 Speaker 3: So there truly is this period of. 308 00:14:37,720 --> 00:14:39,520 Speaker 2: Time that I was not aware of that I wish 309 00:14:39,560 --> 00:14:42,080 Speaker 2: I had been aware of, called the puppy blues, and 310 00:14:42,120 --> 00:14:44,040 Speaker 2: I'd never had it before, and so. 311 00:14:45,720 --> 00:14:47,480 Speaker 3: We thought we'd do a whole episode on it. 312 00:14:47,880 --> 00:14:50,960 Speaker 4: Yeah, and just call it what it's also like, you 313 00:14:51,040 --> 00:14:53,320 Speaker 4: do you deal with real feelings because it's a real, living, 314 00:14:53,400 --> 00:14:56,720 Speaker 4: breathing animal that you are and you're in charge of 315 00:14:56,720 --> 00:14:59,160 Speaker 4: taking care of. I felt very guilty when I was 316 00:14:59,200 --> 00:14:59,800 Speaker 4: having a hard time. 317 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:06,560 Speaker 3: I felt so guilty. I felt absolutely terrible. 318 00:15:06,320 --> 00:15:08,400 Speaker 4: Because Matt giving you any of the like when it's hard, 319 00:15:08,840 --> 00:15:11,480 Speaker 4: is he like you kind of do this to yourself. 320 00:15:11,920 --> 00:15:15,200 Speaker 2: I didn't think it through, and I have to say though, 321 00:15:15,280 --> 00:15:18,320 Speaker 2: Casper and him became fast best friends, and if they 322 00:15:18,360 --> 00:15:20,560 Speaker 2: had enough, if that had enough happened, I would have 323 00:15:20,680 --> 00:15:22,800 Speaker 2: really regretted it because I would have thought, like, this 324 00:15:22,920 --> 00:15:24,120 Speaker 2: is the reason I'm really doing it. 325 00:15:24,200 --> 00:15:26,080 Speaker 4: Yeah, by the way, guess couldn't have cared less about 326 00:15:26,160 --> 00:15:28,120 Speaker 4: cal We thought that that was going to be the case, 327 00:15:28,160 --> 00:15:30,200 Speaker 4: like they would be playmates, but Nope, they both just 328 00:15:30,240 --> 00:15:30,880 Speaker 4: care about us. 329 00:15:31,080 --> 00:15:35,560 Speaker 2: Yeah, my other dogs don't care, but they really are 330 00:15:35,640 --> 00:15:38,920 Speaker 2: best friends. And what I didn't know is that the 331 00:15:39,040 --> 00:15:42,200 Speaker 2: English lab compared to it. He's a pure bred English Lab. 332 00:15:42,280 --> 00:15:46,040 Speaker 2: They're actually much calmer than American labs, and so he's 333 00:15:46,120 --> 00:15:49,760 Speaker 2: pretty chill. He's actually really chill, floppy, real cute puppy. 334 00:15:49,800 --> 00:15:50,280 Speaker 3: Thank god. 335 00:15:50,640 --> 00:15:52,960 Speaker 2: Okay, so here are some facts that I found kind 336 00:15:53,000 --> 00:15:58,880 Speaker 2: of interesting. A significant number of dog owners, estimated around 337 00:15:59,160 --> 00:16:03,480 Speaker 2: seventy percent, experience what's known as the puppy blues after 338 00:16:03,560 --> 00:16:07,880 Speaker 2: bringing home a new puppy. These feelings can manifest as anxiety, depression, 339 00:16:08,120 --> 00:16:11,880 Speaker 2: or both, often due to the significant changes in lifestyle 340 00:16:11,920 --> 00:16:16,240 Speaker 2: and responsibility that come with puppy care. And it said 341 00:16:16,520 --> 00:16:20,280 Speaker 2: the East Coast Dog Training found in a twenty twenty 342 00:16:20,360 --> 00:16:24,200 Speaker 2: three survey, seventy percent of puppy owners reported sentiments of 343 00:16:24,240 --> 00:16:28,600 Speaker 2: anxiety and depression or depression, which is bond caruse. The 344 00:16:28,600 --> 00:16:33,400 Speaker 2: Hoffington Post is on a whole article piece on this, 345 00:16:33,600 --> 00:16:36,200 Speaker 2: and the title of it is, Yes, the puppy blues 346 00:16:36,240 --> 00:16:39,000 Speaker 2: are a real thing. Here's how to cope. We'll get 347 00:16:39,040 --> 00:16:42,800 Speaker 2: into that, but we also threw it out to you 348 00:16:42,840 --> 00:16:48,120 Speaker 2: guys and we asked if you guys had experienced any 349 00:16:48,160 --> 00:16:52,080 Speaker 2: of this, and so we should read some of the 350 00:16:52,120 --> 00:16:54,760 Speaker 2: submissions we got because the crew gets it. 351 00:16:55,480 --> 00:16:58,680 Speaker 3: Yes they do, Yes, they do. The union they understood. 352 00:16:59,200 --> 00:17:01,520 Speaker 4: So let's start with Nicole and Nicle wrote in and said, 353 00:17:01,560 --> 00:17:04,480 Speaker 4: it's literally like postpartum depression. Hard to tell if it's 354 00:17:04,480 --> 00:17:06,840 Speaker 4: the change that's a struggle, or if it was just 355 00:17:06,920 --> 00:17:07,720 Speaker 4: the wrong decision. 356 00:17:08,160 --> 00:17:09,600 Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that's where it starts. 357 00:17:09,800 --> 00:17:12,080 Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think I think that you have your 358 00:17:12,080 --> 00:17:13,560 Speaker 2: home and you're set in your ways, and then you 359 00:17:13,600 --> 00:17:15,560 Speaker 2: imagine this cute little thing coming in and just being 360 00:17:15,640 --> 00:17:18,480 Speaker 2: part of it, like going with the flow, and you're like. 361 00:17:18,480 --> 00:17:19,680 Speaker 3: No, you're the main event. 362 00:17:19,760 --> 00:17:22,320 Speaker 2: Now, Yeah, you're the main event, and you're sort of 363 00:17:22,400 --> 00:17:25,280 Speaker 2: dictating right like hearing him, I'm up. 364 00:17:25,359 --> 00:17:26,480 Speaker 3: I'm still up right now. 365 00:17:26,480 --> 00:17:28,920 Speaker 2: I'm like two weeks into it, I'm still up through 366 00:17:28,960 --> 00:17:32,880 Speaker 2: the night to take him out. Megan wrote, my dog 367 00:17:33,040 --> 00:17:35,840 Speaker 2: was a nightmare from the time we brought her home 368 00:17:35,920 --> 00:17:39,960 Speaker 2: until four months, constant biting, crying, chewed her way out 369 00:17:40,040 --> 00:17:41,520 Speaker 2: of a wooden crate we brought her. 370 00:17:41,560 --> 00:17:42,080 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, he. 371 00:17:42,119 --> 00:17:44,000 Speaker 2: Chewed his Yeah, he chewed his way out of a 372 00:17:44,000 --> 00:17:47,200 Speaker 2: wooden gate. Guys, he was able to get himself out 373 00:17:47,200 --> 00:17:49,600 Speaker 2: of once her puppy teeth fell out, she was a 374 00:17:49,640 --> 00:17:52,520 Speaker 2: different dog. She's been mine, my husband's, and my kid's 375 00:17:52,600 --> 00:17:54,359 Speaker 2: best friends for eight and a half years. 376 00:17:54,440 --> 00:17:54,640 Speaker 3: Now. 377 00:17:55,119 --> 00:18:11,640 Speaker 4: Okay, that's a good that's a good story. By the way, 378 00:18:11,680 --> 00:18:14,040 Speaker 4: I love Cal and I and we got through it. 379 00:18:14,080 --> 00:18:16,360 Speaker 4: He's still he's still definitely the naughtier of the dogs. 380 00:18:16,560 --> 00:18:21,359 Speaker 3: But he's so sweet. He is so sweet. Yeah, I 381 00:18:21,520 --> 00:18:23,560 Speaker 3: love him. And he's like a heartier size. 382 00:18:23,560 --> 00:18:26,320 Speaker 4: Guess it's a little more like, you know, a little puff, 383 00:18:26,440 --> 00:18:29,200 Speaker 4: but a smaller body. But Cal's got like some girth. 384 00:18:29,280 --> 00:18:29,639 Speaker 3: I like it. 385 00:18:29,760 --> 00:18:32,720 Speaker 2: Yeah, And it's funny because even now I'm two weeks in, 386 00:18:33,560 --> 00:18:34,360 Speaker 2: I haven't. 387 00:18:34,080 --> 00:18:39,080 Speaker 3: Cried in you know, a week, and so it's gotten 388 00:18:39,080 --> 00:18:39,720 Speaker 3: a little better. 389 00:18:40,920 --> 00:18:42,680 Speaker 2: And I've made it a where I said to Matt, 390 00:18:42,760 --> 00:18:44,320 Speaker 2: next time I make a b decision, I need to 391 00:18:44,320 --> 00:18:48,520 Speaker 2: not be in my period because that was probably not 392 00:18:48,560 --> 00:18:50,800 Speaker 2: the right time for me to like be really resilient 393 00:18:50,800 --> 00:18:51,960 Speaker 2: and making a decision too. 394 00:18:52,760 --> 00:18:56,960 Speaker 3: But I love this damn dog. I love this dog. 395 00:18:57,160 --> 00:18:59,879 Speaker 2: And it's still tough and we're still dealing with all 396 00:18:59,880 --> 00:19:02,480 Speaker 2: the things because it's he's fresh, right, He's. 397 00:19:02,280 --> 00:19:04,320 Speaker 3: Just out of the oven. He's just been Are you 398 00:19:04,359 --> 00:19:07,119 Speaker 3: still great training? Yes? We are, but I have to 399 00:19:07,160 --> 00:19:10,399 Speaker 3: tell you, I I here's why I don't like. 400 00:19:10,480 --> 00:19:13,480 Speaker 2: I went on TikTok and everyone's like, okay, So here's 401 00:19:13,480 --> 00:19:15,399 Speaker 2: what you're gonna do. You're gonna make the crate like 402 00:19:15,480 --> 00:19:17,160 Speaker 2: his little space that he just loves. 403 00:19:17,160 --> 00:19:19,120 Speaker 3: You're gonna throw a treat in and throw a treat out. 404 00:19:19,119 --> 00:19:22,240 Speaker 2: Okay, great, Like that's a cute exercise for ten minutes, Right, 405 00:19:22,760 --> 00:19:24,440 Speaker 2: what fucking happens at ten pm? 406 00:19:24,440 --> 00:19:25,520 Speaker 3: When you put that dog in? 407 00:19:25,560 --> 00:19:27,960 Speaker 2: You can't sit by that crate and go okay minutes 408 00:19:28,040 --> 00:19:31,280 Speaker 2: and you treats every thirty minutes for the next fucking 409 00:19:31,320 --> 00:19:31,760 Speaker 2: twelve a. 410 00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:32,880 Speaker 3: Here's what happens. 411 00:19:32,880 --> 00:19:36,560 Speaker 2: They cry and they're crying loud, and they're barking, and 412 00:19:36,600 --> 00:19:40,760 Speaker 2: it's so stressful. And if I had an apartment, I 413 00:19:40,880 --> 00:19:44,160 Speaker 2: would seriously not know what to do because I would 414 00:19:44,240 --> 00:19:47,080 Speaker 2: feel the anxiety of neighbors. 415 00:19:46,480 --> 00:19:46,960 Speaker 3: Next to me. 416 00:19:47,200 --> 00:19:50,480 Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, yeah, Oh has he pooped in his crate yet? 417 00:19:50,840 --> 00:19:53,680 Speaker 4: They always say that they don't do that, But guess what, minded. 418 00:19:53,720 --> 00:19:58,040 Speaker 3: He has not yet. You better hope he doesn't. 419 00:19:58,080 --> 00:20:01,720 Speaker 2: But like knock on wood, Alexandra, create training is so 420 00:20:01,880 --> 00:20:02,360 Speaker 2: worth it. 421 00:20:02,400 --> 00:20:03,840 Speaker 3: But it's a lot of sleepless nights. 422 00:20:04,200 --> 00:20:06,320 Speaker 2: I had not so, like I said, I had never 423 00:20:06,359 --> 00:20:07,560 Speaker 2: done the crate training before. 424 00:20:08,320 --> 00:20:11,320 Speaker 3: I started to dread the evenings, like really dread. 425 00:20:11,080 --> 00:20:14,080 Speaker 2: Them, yeah, and get like kind of almost emotional at night, 426 00:20:14,200 --> 00:20:14,640 Speaker 2: being like. 427 00:20:14,640 --> 00:20:17,320 Speaker 3: Okay, it's my turn. I'm being real. 428 00:20:17,440 --> 00:20:20,040 Speaker 2: I know it sounds crazy, and I said, Champaign problems, right, 429 00:20:20,080 --> 00:20:22,119 Speaker 2: I have a puppy, like, oh my god, boo oo me, 430 00:20:22,800 --> 00:20:26,600 Speaker 2: but I felt yeah, I did find it very isolating 431 00:20:27,160 --> 00:20:31,320 Speaker 2: and depressing. And I have three other dogs, and I 432 00:20:31,320 --> 00:20:33,359 Speaker 2: had never experienced this before. So I'm glad we're talking 433 00:20:33,359 --> 00:20:33,719 Speaker 2: about it. 434 00:20:33,760 --> 00:20:34,080 Speaker 3: Okay. 435 00:20:35,240 --> 00:20:37,520 Speaker 4: So Blair wrote it and said we just got another 436 00:20:37,560 --> 00:20:39,840 Speaker 4: dog because our older dog was lonely, and now they 437 00:20:39,840 --> 00:20:40,840 Speaker 4: are inseparable. 438 00:20:41,080 --> 00:20:43,040 Speaker 3: We'll see good for you. Maybe they do make friends 439 00:20:43,080 --> 00:20:45,119 Speaker 3: every once in a while, they do, Chloe sid The 440 00:20:45,160 --> 00:20:47,200 Speaker 3: waking up at three am to take them out is brutal. 441 00:20:47,720 --> 00:20:50,280 Speaker 3: I have I have a two thirty timer. That's when 442 00:20:50,280 --> 00:20:52,440 Speaker 3: I tick him out. When does that stop? How long 443 00:20:52,480 --> 00:20:54,240 Speaker 3: did you do that? I don't know. 444 00:20:54,720 --> 00:20:57,800 Speaker 2: Do you guys know crude? Please someone tell me because 445 00:20:57,840 --> 00:20:58,480 Speaker 2: I'm over it. 446 00:20:59,160 --> 00:21:01,479 Speaker 3: But I'm gonna do it. So doesn't pee in this crazy? 447 00:21:01,560 --> 00:21:04,080 Speaker 4: Is it like with babies? If he gets us to 448 00:21:04,119 --> 00:21:07,200 Speaker 4: a certain weight, can he hold it? How old do 449 00:21:07,240 --> 00:21:09,439 Speaker 4: you think it's age appropriate? He's four months. 450 00:21:09,880 --> 00:21:11,800 Speaker 3: I think I think it's an age appropriate thing. 451 00:21:12,520 --> 00:21:15,399 Speaker 2: But he's new with us, he's been he he was 452 00:21:15,520 --> 00:21:18,040 Speaker 2: in the you know, he was in the rescue in 453 00:21:18,040 --> 00:21:19,360 Speaker 2: a little room the whole time. 454 00:21:19,400 --> 00:21:20,360 Speaker 3: He's used to doing that. 455 00:21:20,760 --> 00:21:22,919 Speaker 4: Samantha wrote in and said, I resented my dog so 456 00:21:23,080 --> 00:21:25,200 Speaker 4: much he hit one year and now I'm obsessed. 457 00:21:25,640 --> 00:21:27,640 Speaker 2: I think we should talk about that because I think 458 00:21:27,680 --> 00:21:29,600 Speaker 2: that I saw that a lot on social media too, 459 00:21:29,600 --> 00:21:32,520 Speaker 2: and a lot of people really feeling guilty about. 460 00:21:32,240 --> 00:21:34,800 Speaker 3: The year is a long time. Yeah, year is a 461 00:21:34,840 --> 00:21:36,760 Speaker 3: long time to feel that way. But maybe not. 462 00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:39,600 Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know, like what your lifestyle is like, 463 00:21:40,320 --> 00:21:42,320 Speaker 2: but a lot of people were. 464 00:21:42,200 --> 00:21:43,280 Speaker 3: Talking about the resentment. 465 00:21:43,320 --> 00:21:46,360 Speaker 2: They sort of did have early days with their puppy 466 00:21:47,040 --> 00:21:50,000 Speaker 2: because they're not sleeping and you're picking up the and 467 00:21:50,040 --> 00:21:51,800 Speaker 2: you take them out and they pee and they come 468 00:21:51,840 --> 00:21:52,720 Speaker 2: in they pee right. 469 00:21:52,640 --> 00:21:55,240 Speaker 3: Again, and you're like, what the fuck? I just you know, 470 00:21:55,400 --> 00:21:58,600 Speaker 3: so yeah, and they get into everything and. 471 00:21:58,560 --> 00:22:02,600 Speaker 2: They get into everything, and that's yes, Betty, my ten 472 00:22:02,640 --> 00:22:06,280 Speaker 2: month old lab has eaten thirty pairs of Undy's twenty 473 00:22:06,280 --> 00:22:11,040 Speaker 2: five socks and can open drawers. That's like the Velociraptor 474 00:22:11,080 --> 00:22:12,960 Speaker 2: in Jurassic Park when he opens the door for the 475 00:22:12,960 --> 00:22:16,879 Speaker 2: first time. It's so terrifying opening drawers and it's a lab. 476 00:22:17,480 --> 00:22:17,840 Speaker 3: Yeah. 477 00:22:17,920 --> 00:22:20,640 Speaker 4: Yeah, Katherine In said, nothing like chasing your puppy trying 478 00:22:20,640 --> 00:22:21,840 Speaker 4: to get batteries out of his mouth. 479 00:22:22,480 --> 00:22:25,399 Speaker 2: See that is that would have made me cry. Last week, 480 00:22:26,040 --> 00:22:30,000 Speaker 2: Lauren It said, I cried every day the first month 481 00:22:30,040 --> 00:22:31,000 Speaker 2: I got my dog. 482 00:22:31,280 --> 00:22:33,840 Speaker 3: That was three years ago, and she's the best dog ever. Now. 483 00:22:34,760 --> 00:22:38,080 Speaker 2: I just don't think you realize until you're in it, 484 00:22:39,040 --> 00:22:41,280 Speaker 2: and I think that you just just be prepared to. 485 00:22:41,200 --> 00:22:43,560 Speaker 3: Cry all the time. Yeah, I know that it's normal. 486 00:22:43,640 --> 00:22:45,959 Speaker 2: It helped me to see all these tiktoks showing me 487 00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:48,080 Speaker 2: like this is normal because I'd never experienced it before. 488 00:22:48,440 --> 00:22:50,560 Speaker 4: Do you take him out and try and run him 489 00:22:50,640 --> 00:22:53,320 Speaker 4: so that he gets all the energy at I feel 490 00:22:53,359 --> 00:22:54,440 Speaker 4: like that was something I did. 491 00:22:54,920 --> 00:22:57,359 Speaker 2: I mean, luckily he plays so much with Casper that 492 00:22:57,400 --> 00:23:00,560 Speaker 2: there's a natural like running and chasing and all that kind. 493 00:23:00,440 --> 00:23:01,280 Speaker 3: Of stuff happening. 494 00:23:01,720 --> 00:23:05,639 Speaker 2: But I feel really bad because we are very fortunate 495 00:23:05,800 --> 00:23:08,920 Speaker 2: enough to have a backyard, and that's not everyone's situation. 496 00:23:09,119 --> 00:23:11,560 Speaker 2: And the truth is they also can't go out for 497 00:23:11,760 --> 00:23:14,800 Speaker 2: walks right like they're too little, they don't have enough 498 00:23:14,840 --> 00:23:16,840 Speaker 2: their shots, and so a lot of people are having 499 00:23:16,880 --> 00:23:19,720 Speaker 2: to they're at home, and they're also having to figure 500 00:23:19,760 --> 00:23:23,400 Speaker 2: out how to pause their work schedule or whatever they're 501 00:23:23,440 --> 00:23:24,560 Speaker 2: doing with their kids. 502 00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:26,920 Speaker 3: And now how many times a day is. 503 00:23:26,880 --> 00:23:30,520 Speaker 2: That that's rough to wear them out, to get them 504 00:23:30,560 --> 00:23:32,359 Speaker 2: to go into their create where they're gonna cry. 505 00:23:33,560 --> 00:23:36,919 Speaker 3: It's just it's a lot, Yes, it is. 506 00:23:37,400 --> 00:23:40,080 Speaker 2: Celene said, we rescued a dog and he had worms, 507 00:23:40,200 --> 00:23:45,000 Speaker 2: severe puking and watery diarrhea. Never forget, but now he's 508 00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:46,560 Speaker 2: a healthy, perfect boy. 509 00:23:46,880 --> 00:23:48,680 Speaker 4: Amy rode in and said, I have a perfect four 510 00:23:48,760 --> 00:23:50,800 Speaker 4: year old lab named Hank, and he was a very 511 00:23:50,880 --> 00:23:52,800 Speaker 4: hyper puppy. It drove me nuts at time, but now 512 00:23:52,800 --> 00:23:56,760 Speaker 4: I miss his energy. Okay, barb rud In because of 513 00:23:56,800 --> 00:23:58,320 Speaker 4: my puppy. I just had to clean up a dead 514 00:23:58,359 --> 00:23:59,680 Speaker 4: bird in my living room while I was on a 515 00:23:59,720 --> 00:24:04,800 Speaker 4: zoom with a new client. Okay, this is something, because 516 00:24:04,800 --> 00:24:06,879 Speaker 4: you know we kind of live in the country that 517 00:24:07,280 --> 00:24:11,280 Speaker 4: I turned into a squealing, ridiculous city girl. 518 00:24:11,880 --> 00:24:15,359 Speaker 3: The dogs come back with things in their mouth. Really, 519 00:24:15,400 --> 00:24:19,720 Speaker 3: I haven't experienced this yet, and it's disgusting. 520 00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:22,120 Speaker 2: What is the what is like an example of something 521 00:24:22,160 --> 00:24:25,600 Speaker 2: they brought in a house, like a bird. 522 00:24:25,920 --> 00:24:29,720 Speaker 4: Yeah, a bird or a frog or youw there was 523 00:24:29,760 --> 00:24:33,320 Speaker 4: one time we were on a walk, hike, whatever, and 524 00:24:33,400 --> 00:24:37,399 Speaker 4: Cal brought something back and I did not investigate or 525 00:24:37,560 --> 00:24:39,840 Speaker 4: you know, take multiple looks at it, because I really 526 00:24:39,840 --> 00:24:42,000 Speaker 4: needed it to stop being just I just wanted to 527 00:24:42,040 --> 00:24:44,800 Speaker 4: erase it from my memory in general. But I think 528 00:24:44,840 --> 00:24:48,040 Speaker 4: it looked like whatever I would imagine a naked mule 529 00:24:48,119 --> 00:24:50,760 Speaker 4: rat would look like. I don't know that I've ever 530 00:24:50,800 --> 00:24:52,680 Speaker 4: seen a naked mule rat, but it looked like what 531 00:24:53,160 --> 00:24:54,840 Speaker 4: would be called a naked mule rat. 532 00:24:55,359 --> 00:24:57,160 Speaker 3: That's so disgusting. 533 00:24:57,359 --> 00:25:00,679 Speaker 4: And it was disgusting. And then I started scream and 534 00:25:00,720 --> 00:25:02,479 Speaker 4: then I was like, drop it, drop it. And then 535 00:25:02,520 --> 00:25:06,560 Speaker 4: he thought that was funny, and then it was a nightmare. 536 00:25:06,680 --> 00:25:08,480 Speaker 4: It was a night It was a nightmare. It was 537 00:25:08,520 --> 00:25:09,240 Speaker 4: a total nightmare. 538 00:25:09,320 --> 00:25:13,399 Speaker 3: I did, Okay, we'll read a couple more and then 539 00:25:13,440 --> 00:25:14,200 Speaker 3: we'll tell. 540 00:25:14,040 --> 00:25:18,040 Speaker 2: Uh we Oh my god, Megan said, my dog is 541 00:25:18,080 --> 00:25:20,720 Speaker 2: a lab. See labs have they came out with this thing? 542 00:25:20,720 --> 00:25:23,359 Speaker 2: And I now have a lab that labs have the 543 00:25:24,800 --> 00:25:28,080 Speaker 2: like the gene for obesity, so they truly do eat anything. 544 00:25:28,320 --> 00:25:29,840 Speaker 2: Meg said, my dog is a lab and he ate 545 00:25:29,880 --> 00:25:32,760 Speaker 2: some brownies, got drunk off of hand sanitizer, and so 546 00:25:32,920 --> 00:25:36,880 Speaker 2: much more. That would have made me cry last week. 547 00:25:36,920 --> 00:25:38,680 Speaker 2: That would have sent me you guys. 548 00:25:38,760 --> 00:25:41,240 Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yea yeah yeah yeah. 549 00:25:41,280 --> 00:25:41,520 Speaker 2: Oh. 550 00:25:41,600 --> 00:25:42,680 Speaker 3: I don't even know how you would. 551 00:25:42,800 --> 00:25:45,919 Speaker 4: I mean, like the the anger and like the frustration 552 00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:48,640 Speaker 4: that would happen after this one. Harmony wrote in and said, 553 00:25:48,640 --> 00:25:51,840 Speaker 4: nothing like coming home to your whole restoration hardware cloud 554 00:25:51,920 --> 00:25:53,800 Speaker 4: couch ripped two pee. 555 00:25:54,400 --> 00:25:56,200 Speaker 3: The nice couch. I've seen that couch. 556 00:25:56,520 --> 00:25:59,160 Speaker 4: Oh my god, if you had, did you mean, can 557 00:25:59,200 --> 00:26:02,160 Speaker 4: you get puppy and assurance for the things they destroy? 558 00:26:02,359 --> 00:26:06,439 Speaker 3: I wish is I cover it with their homeowner? So 559 00:26:06,560 --> 00:26:07,919 Speaker 3: what to do about the puppy blues? 560 00:26:07,960 --> 00:26:10,560 Speaker 2: First off, I think it's helpful to name it because 561 00:26:10,600 --> 00:26:12,679 Speaker 2: then I would know. It always helps to know what 562 00:26:12,720 --> 00:26:14,480 Speaker 2: you're experiencing. I would have been like, oh, this is 563 00:26:14,520 --> 00:26:17,920 Speaker 2: the puppy blues. So we looked into some ways to 564 00:26:17,960 --> 00:26:21,080 Speaker 2: help support yourself. If you know someone that has the 565 00:26:21,119 --> 00:26:23,720 Speaker 2: puppy blues, validate their feelings. 566 00:26:23,880 --> 00:26:26,480 Speaker 3: Let them know It's normal to feel overwhelmed. 567 00:26:25,840 --> 00:26:30,520 Speaker 2: Anxious, sad, even regretful, and you can say things like 568 00:26:30,560 --> 00:26:32,399 Speaker 2: this doesn't mean that you're a bad owner. 569 00:26:32,520 --> 00:26:35,600 Speaker 3: It's a big adjustment and you're not alone. 570 00:26:35,960 --> 00:26:38,560 Speaker 4: I know what Matt said to you, exactly right, And 571 00:26:38,920 --> 00:26:41,359 Speaker 4: encourage rest and routine. 572 00:26:41,800 --> 00:26:44,720 Speaker 2: Remind them that it gets easier because puppies do go 573 00:26:44,800 --> 00:26:49,719 Speaker 2: through rapid development and what's hard now will pass and 574 00:26:49,800 --> 00:26:53,680 Speaker 2: most people feel better in a month. And a month 575 00:26:53,720 --> 00:26:55,600 Speaker 2: fields like a really long time, but I have to 576 00:26:55,600 --> 00:26:57,680 Speaker 2: say two weeks in and I'm already feeling better. 577 00:26:59,119 --> 00:27:00,600 Speaker 3: And then do watch red Flag. 578 00:27:00,640 --> 00:27:04,119 Speaker 2: So if they seem really deeply depressed, anxious, or they're 579 00:27:04,280 --> 00:27:07,560 Speaker 2: you know, you know, suggest for them to get some 580 00:27:07,600 --> 00:27:09,080 Speaker 2: sort of help. 581 00:27:09,119 --> 00:27:10,840 Speaker 3: Maybe you talk to a therapist or either. 582 00:27:10,720 --> 00:27:13,480 Speaker 2: Need a break, they need a break or off, you know, 583 00:27:13,560 --> 00:27:15,720 Speaker 2: offer to find someone that can help them, you know, 584 00:27:15,800 --> 00:27:19,679 Speaker 2: do a training session with them or that behaviorist, and 585 00:27:19,760 --> 00:27:22,560 Speaker 2: reassure them that asking for help is a strength and 586 00:27:22,640 --> 00:27:25,720 Speaker 2: not a failure. I realized these are champagne problems, guys. 587 00:27:25,800 --> 00:27:27,760 Speaker 2: I realized that this is not, like, you know, a 588 00:27:27,800 --> 00:27:28,960 Speaker 2: life or death situation. 589 00:27:29,760 --> 00:27:30,720 Speaker 3: But I was. 590 00:27:31,800 --> 00:27:35,359 Speaker 2: Shocked at my own feelings after being a dog owner 591 00:27:35,440 --> 00:27:39,600 Speaker 2: for over a decade, initially getting my Scooby Dooby Doo. 592 00:27:40,560 --> 00:27:41,480 Speaker 3: Yeah, and it. 593 00:27:41,359 --> 00:27:43,920 Speaker 2: Was really helpful to see everyone on TikTok and learn 594 00:27:43,960 --> 00:27:46,240 Speaker 2: about the puppy blues. So I just and then I 595 00:27:46,280 --> 00:27:48,040 Speaker 2: started talking to everybody and they didn't know the term, 596 00:27:48,040 --> 00:27:50,960 Speaker 2: but they'd also experienced it like you. Just and so 597 00:27:51,240 --> 00:27:53,199 Speaker 2: here is our little episode on it. And if you 598 00:27:53,240 --> 00:27:55,920 Speaker 2: guys have any more stories about this, we would love. 599 00:27:55,800 --> 00:27:56,480 Speaker 3: To hear from you. 600 00:27:57,080 --> 00:28:00,560 Speaker 4: Yep, there's no shame in it. And always, always, always, 601 00:28:00,920 --> 00:28:04,919 Speaker 4: just no matter how frustrated you are, remember that you 602 00:28:05,040 --> 00:28:08,959 Speaker 4: keep that papy, that puppy safe. You keep that puppy safe. Yeah, 603 00:28:09,640 --> 00:28:10,320 Speaker 4: that's your job. 604 00:28:10,560 --> 00:28:12,199 Speaker 3: That's your job. Here for you. 605 00:28:12,359 --> 00:28:14,800 Speaker 4: If I lived in the same same place, I'd take 606 00:28:14,840 --> 00:28:16,600 Speaker 4: him for the night and just sleepover. 607 00:28:16,720 --> 00:28:19,000 Speaker 3: And trust me, you be, you would have the puppy 608 00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:19,960 Speaker 3: blues by the morning. 609 00:28:22,560 --> 00:28:25,200 Speaker 2: I love him, but I do you know what. I 610 00:28:25,240 --> 00:28:27,600 Speaker 2: love him so much though. I let's call it the 611 00:28:28,119 --> 00:28:33,119 Speaker 2: end of the episode.