Speaker 1: This is Take twenty with Mattie and Kenzie Ziegler and
Speaker 1: I Heart Radio podcast. All Right, Hey, what's up girl? Stop?
Speaker 1: I just love today. It's like raining for the first time,
Speaker 1: Well is it the first time? It just feels like fault. Well,
Speaker 1: it's like pouring, pouring. I love it, though I haven't experienced.
Speaker 1: I feel like since moving to l A like obviously
Speaker 1: in Pittsburgh, the season has changed so heavily and it's
Speaker 1: so special to like watch it really specifically changed from
Speaker 1: like winter to spring, summer to fall. Here usually can't.
Speaker 1: It's sometimes it's hard to really like I don't know,
Speaker 1: like last like last fall especially, we were like kind
Speaker 1: of at home and it was sunny. I looked out
Speaker 1: my window this morning, the like leaves on my on
Speaker 1: the trees outside were like different colors. I know. This
Speaker 1: months especially has been so fun because it's been raining.
Speaker 1: But that's not what we're here to talk. No, it
Speaker 1: doesn't matter. I think it's like I'm just so happy
Speaker 1: that it's raining. It feels like proper. I know, I
Speaker 1: love it. And then we're gonna go home for Christmas
Speaker 1: and it's gonna be snowy. I know it's we're getting
Speaker 1: the full experience this year. I love it. But besides that,
Speaker 1: oh also this is hilarious. So this morning, so my
Speaker 1: um in my apartment, like I have balconies, and for
Speaker 1: some reason, my dog is really a little strange um,
Speaker 1: but he like I opened the window out usually every morning,
Speaker 1: I opened the window and he goes out on the
Speaker 1: balcony and there's like grass patches, and he was like,
Speaker 1: I am not going out there because he was like
Speaker 1: why is it raining? Like I don't know what to
Speaker 1: do with myself, and I was like I don't know.
Speaker 1: I promised it's fine. Like I went out on the balcony.
Speaker 1: I was showing him we have a roof over like yeah,
Speaker 1: like it's covered, like you're gonna be okay, boots, And
Speaker 1: he just didn't understand. So I like just like grabbed
Speaker 1: him and I felt so bad. He's like squirming because
Speaker 1: he thought he was going to get all wet. And
Speaker 1: then I just placed some from the grass and he
Speaker 1: looked at me and I was like uh and then
Speaker 1: just like pete and then went back inside. Well you
Speaker 1: know what Mom told me today because I I was
Speaker 1: really tired last night and this morning and Mom took
Speaker 1: ivy out this morning and I came downstairs and she
Speaker 1: was like, yeah, I didn't want to pee outside today.
Speaker 1: So I let her pee on the ground and poop
Speaker 1: on the ground. And I was like, mom, like, she's
Speaker 1: a dog, she go outside, and she's like, no, she
Speaker 1: didn't want to, she told me. I was like, okay, wow,
Speaker 1: that's and that's exactly how bad habits start. So we're
Speaker 1: we've just really been trying to figure it out. I mean,
Speaker 1: like I fostered Boots in the beginning of quarantine, and
Speaker 1: I mean by foster, like I knew exactly my motive
Speaker 1: behind it. I knew I was going to adopt him.
Speaker 1: I was just like, it took a long time to
Speaker 1: convince my mom. I was like, like, all my friends
Speaker 1: are fostering. They're going to foster for They foster for
Speaker 1: like three days and then the dogs get adopted. Like
Speaker 1: it's really no us, but we have to sing with
Speaker 1: our mom. If we bring a dog home, she will
Speaker 1: not let it leave the house. But it's so funny.
Speaker 1: When I picked up Boots, she was like really trying
Speaker 1: not to be involved, Like she was just like, oh, wow,
Speaker 1: he's really cute, and like I could tell so badly
Speaker 1: she wanted to just like kiss him and cuddle him.
Speaker 1: And then like two weeks go past, and I'm like, hmm,
Speaker 1: we still have this puppy and I am obsessed with
Speaker 1: Our whole family is obsessed with him. He was a
Speaker 1: part of his family, like straightaway. And then I asked
Speaker 1: the lady. I was like, so, like, has he got
Speaker 1: an adopted? Yeah? Is there anyone like looking to adopt him?
Speaker 1: And she's like, I know that you guys are gonna
Speaker 1: end of adopting him, and we did obviously, Um well
Speaker 1: I did. He's my like officially my dog. This is
Speaker 1: my first official dog. And then I moved out and
Speaker 1: he definitely, like I would say, the transition from being
Speaker 1: in a family, like living with your family to moving
Speaker 1: alone having a dog with you, oh my gosh, it
Speaker 1: made it so much better, especially when you're home alone
Speaker 1: by yourself, you know, not with your friend. Makes me
Speaker 1: feel so comfortable. Except he is a scaredy cat, but
Speaker 1: any noise he hears, he's like alert. And then Kenzie
Speaker 1: adopted a dog. Okay, I have been asking for a
Speaker 1: dog for so long, I like five or six years. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I basically got my own dog when I was eleven
Speaker 1: like I got a gifted to me, but it's every
Speaker 1: time I I'm doing quotation marks because like every time
Speaker 1: I get a dog, my mom always like but smothers
Speaker 1: the dog to where the dog's like, oh she's my mom.
Speaker 1: Makes sense, but also, to be fair, at eleven years old,
Speaker 1: you're not going to potty. You're not going to teach
Speaker 1: a dog be potty trained at like the age of eleven.
Speaker 1: You know, I don't know care of a dog. I
Speaker 1: don't know why I was gifted a dog, but well
Speaker 1: it was more for it was more for the family.
Speaker 1: But um, this is actually funny. So I for the
Speaker 1: longest time, I've been asking my mom, Maddie got a
Speaker 1: dog before me. So I was like, okay, this is
Speaker 1: literally so messed up. Um. So, I don't know if
Speaker 1: you know that I did this, but my friend Austin
Speaker 1: and I were hanging out and I was like, I
Speaker 1: really want a dog. I'm going to make a power point?
Speaker 1: Did I show you my power point? I made her? Mom,
Speaker 1: I like went on, like, you know, keynote on your
Speaker 1: laptop and I made a power point and it's like
Speaker 1: I still have it so I can show you. But
Speaker 1: reasons why reasons why I would be a great you know,
Speaker 1: dog mom, and I'd be like and I'd put like
Speaker 1: cute pictures of dogs to be like, look, how cute
Speaker 1: this is, mom, How amazing would this be if we
Speaker 1: had this in our house? Um, And then at the
Speaker 1: end it would be like I'd be saving so many
Speaker 1: like amazing dog's lives because like adoption, you know, blah blah.
Speaker 1: And then she was like that's really cute. And then
Speaker 1: I was like, okay, I did this whole thing. I'm
Speaker 1: not going to get a dog. And then the next
Speaker 1: day I Noddy and I both got a dog from
Speaker 1: the same place like adoption. And I showed her a
Speaker 1: picture of Ivy, and like usually I would go for
Speaker 1: the really like cute looking like fake dogs, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, Like like the very like typical, like
Speaker 1: what you would consider like a picturest dog, you know,
Speaker 1: like a pretty like you get what I mean, like
Speaker 1: the perfect picture of it. But I saw Ivy and
Speaker 1: I was like, oh my god, just growing brush. She
Speaker 1: needs to hear rush. So I showed my mom and
Speaker 1: she was like, okay, ask Greg. And I called my
Speaker 1: stepdad and he was like okay, cool, and so I
Speaker 1: was like easy, I like I think it's so cool too,
Speaker 1: because like we've grown up with dogs obviously our whole lives,
Speaker 1: and we've had like two Yorkies three two at three,
Speaker 1: I think we have a multi pooh. That was the
Speaker 1: one that was like, technically everyone knows Malibu. If you
Speaker 1: guys like fall Along, you know who Malibu is. But
Speaker 1: she know they never felt like our dogs and Maldi,
Speaker 1: we had a quirky she was so beautiful, nice, but
Speaker 1: like literally I never thought that we could love this deeply,
Speaker 1: these dogs so much and being able to rescue them
Speaker 1: and know that we saved their lives. Like my dog
Speaker 1: was like found in a plastic bag on the side
Speaker 1: of the street in front of a cemetery. Like literally
Speaker 1: his eyes weren't even open yet. He was I'm sure
Speaker 1: a day or two old, and so like knowing his
Speaker 1: backstory and knowing like if he could have potentially either
Speaker 1: been left there or brought to the wrong family, I'm
Speaker 1: just like it made me just want to protect him
Speaker 1: even more, just because he's my little baby and he's
Speaker 1: so anxious. But he's getting better, he really is. I
Speaker 1: I love our dogs so much because they're so they
Speaker 1: represent our personalities. Oh my gosh, I don't think you understand.
Speaker 1: Maddie and Boots are the same exact I was going
Speaker 1: to say person, but like similar, like Maddie's a scaredy
Speaker 1: cat and like with new people, she's definitely like scared
Speaker 1: to open up, you know. And I feel like Boots
Speaker 1: is the same exact way. Boots just like his the
Speaker 1: corks like he has, like he's so he like he
Speaker 1: really just keeps it awkward like at all times, like
Speaker 1: literally like sit weird on the couch, like I literally
Speaker 1: the blanket was like falling. It was like half on
Speaker 1: the couch, half off, and he was sitting on the
Speaker 1: little part that fell off the couch and his butt
Speaker 1: was just on the piece of the blanket that was
Speaker 1: on the floor. And he was just like look at me,
Speaker 1: really all reardly, like I promise I'm comfortable, And it
Speaker 1: was like, no, That's what I love about him so much.
Speaker 1: And our dogs have such a good relationship, like we've
Speaker 1: always been like if we both get dogs or like
Speaker 1: they're gonna be kids in the future, like we're like
Speaker 1: they're gonna best friends friends, And Boots and Ivy have
Speaker 1: they definitely have like a love hate relationship. Um they
Speaker 1: like play with each other. They wrestle each other, like
Speaker 1: actually wrestle each other, but then they like they snuggle
Speaker 1: and it's so it's so cute too because Boots is
Speaker 1: a little older than Ivy, and I feel like Boots
Speaker 1: is super like protective over her and like, and he's
Speaker 1: taught her a lot really, which is honestly, I don't
Speaker 1: know if that's the best thing, because Boots doesn't really
Speaker 1: act like a dog, like I think he thinks he's
Speaker 1: a cat or thinks he's like a bird or something else,
Speaker 1: but he does not think he's a dog. He's taught
Speaker 1: Ivy like some weird manners, even like some human mannerisms.
Speaker 1: Like well, first of all, Ivy never knew how to
Speaker 1: go up the stairs and go on the bed because
Speaker 1: she was just like so tiny, but Boots taught her
Speaker 1: how to jump on the bed. Um. Boots sleeps under
Speaker 1: the covers and like sometimes puts his head on a
Speaker 1: pillow like a human, and so he slept over one time,
Speaker 1: he slept over, like I'm talking about, like he's a human. Um.
Speaker 1: They basically they're like literally our best friends. No, actually,
Speaker 1: and Ivy now sleeps under the covers or like sleeps
Speaker 1: on a pillow like a human, and I'm like, Boots
Speaker 1: can't come over anymore. I'm like, oh my god, I'm kidding,
Speaker 1: but they're they're so cute together, Like I love being like, Boots,
Speaker 1: do you want to go see your cousin? Jumps and
Speaker 1: he started. He runs to the door and he's like
Speaker 1: waiting for me to put his leash on. My favorite
Speaker 1: thing is like when either I come to your apartment
Speaker 1: with I hear you come from my house with Boots,
Speaker 1: like they they don't even say hi to anyone else,
Speaker 1: Like they get so excited to jump on each other
Speaker 1: and they're like so excited. I know it's so cute. Um,
Speaker 1: do you okay? We talked about this a lot where
Speaker 1: it's like I'm always like, oh, Boots like looks like
Speaker 1: you in this picture, like or like you always say
Speaker 1: like Ivy looks like Totoda, Like do you feel like
Speaker 1: that applies to like other people or do you think
Speaker 1: we just like No? I think I think like the
Speaker 1: more you have your dog and you start to look
Speaker 1: like them, yeah, I feel that too. I think it's
Speaker 1: I think, but I do think like I think Boots
Speaker 1: looks a lot like Eddie he acts a lot like Eddie,
Speaker 1: and they have like they have like I don't know,
Speaker 1: I don't pure narrow face like like they have like
Speaker 1: similar like Boots has a little gap in his teeth,
Speaker 1: Like you're right, it's so cute. I just like, I
Speaker 1: know this is crazy that we could like talk about
Speaker 1: them for so long, but literally like he has like
Speaker 1: Boots and I'm sure I be two. They've just like
Speaker 1: impacted our lives so much, and I feel like there's
Speaker 1: such a good comfort dog, Like they help us through
Speaker 1: so much. Like whenever I'm crying or if I'm ever down,
Speaker 1: Boots literally comes up and just lays his head on
Speaker 1: my chest like he knows exactly when I'm feeling bad.
Speaker 1: Like they're fully like emotional support dogs for us, I feel,
Speaker 1: I mean IVS. I love talking about Ivy because I'm like,
Speaker 1: sometimes she's so so so nice where she's like like
Speaker 1: this morning, she was snuggling with me for like hours,
Speaker 1: like we were facing each other and like snuggling. But
Speaker 1: then like when she's up and crazy, She's just like, yeah,
Speaker 1: she's crazy. Do you think dogs are better than casts?
Speaker 1: Because I I don't. Okay, well, let's just state the facts.
Speaker 1: We grew up as a dog loving family, like we
Speaker 1: always had dogs, like we never well, actually we had
Speaker 1: we heard one cat. We had one cat for like
Speaker 1: to like ten weeks. We basically like rescued these two cats,
Speaker 1: like our friend took one, we took one. They were kittens,
Speaker 1: and we had them for like ten weeks. And when
Speaker 1: we went back home, our stepdad was allergic, so we
Speaker 1: actually hiding it from him. For we gave both of
Speaker 1: the kittens um to like a person that we knew,
Speaker 1: and she she was obsessed, like the cats loved her
Speaker 1: the most. So I mean they're still they're still thriving,
Speaker 1: they're still driving with her. So yeah, it was like
Speaker 1: meant to be and it worked out really well. But
Speaker 1: I don't know, like it's crazy now because like I
Speaker 1: love kittens, I think and cats, I think they're so cute.
Speaker 1: I just like don't necessarily know if having a litter
Speaker 1: box in my house me already being a clean freak
Speaker 1: and worrying about smells so much, I just don't know
Speaker 1: how I feel, Well, you have a balcony, you have to.
Speaker 1: Eddie and Kenzie have been forcing me. They're like, you're
Speaker 1: you have to get a kitten, like you have to
Speaker 1: have to have a sidekick. Boots needs a kid, like
Speaker 1: a kitten from Are you kidding? How cute with Boots
Speaker 1: and a cappy? Yeah, but you you got up. That's
Speaker 1: that's that's that's a sign. But I really want a kitten. Okay,
Speaker 1: well yeah, have fun with mom. That also, like everyone
Speaker 1: surrounding me the allergic, so I probably can't get one.
Speaker 1: I think one animal is enough already struggling dog moms
Speaker 1: And I'm kidding, we're actually we I think we've done
Speaker 1: a really good job. I will say shout out to
Speaker 1: our mom for helping us a lot, Like she really
Speaker 1: helps a lot whenever I wherever we're traveling or we
Speaker 1: have to work, she always takes such good care of
Speaker 1: the dogs and she loves them, like on a different level.
Speaker 1: Like we're always like the fact that our mom loves
Speaker 1: our dogs the way that she does, Like we can't
Speaker 1: imagine what it'll be like when we have actual babies
Speaker 1: and our dogs are so obsessed with her. It's like
Speaker 1: they literally I'm want to see grandma and he can
Speaker 1: we call her grandma because she is the grandma. Yeah. Um,
Speaker 1: we were talking about this in our Halloween episode. Were
Speaker 1: trying to figure out our dogs Halloween costumes, and my
Speaker 1: mom was wonder Woman with Ivy. Ivy was also wonder Woman,
Speaker 1: and Boots is Superman iconic. Like, honestly, I never really
Speaker 1: pictured Boots dressing up or ever wearing any type of clothes,
Speaker 1: but I think this was appropriate for the occasion, and it,
Speaker 1: honestly is so cute. Like they looked so cute. Ivy
Speaker 1: and her little dress, Oh my god, it's adorable. Remember
Speaker 1: we tried to put it on and it didn't fit
Speaker 1: him and he was like freaking out. It was so funny.
Speaker 1: I mean, I would say, like, I mean it is.
Speaker 1: I will say, like, it is really cute to see
Speaker 1: dogs and like clothes, but not every day mom is
Speaker 1: mom dresses up Malibu. I just feel like they need
Speaker 1: to be in their natural but that would be like
Speaker 1: us being naked, Yeah exactly. Yeah, but they have fur,
Speaker 1: they have like, you know, basically clothes on. Boots looks
Speaker 1: like he's wearing a suit every day. I looks like
Speaker 1: he's doing a little tuxedo. His little fur is so cute.
Speaker 1: I'm just we I just can't believe we have a
Speaker 1: whole episode talking about our dogs. But like, why not
Speaker 1: there are lives. They're literally the best part of every day.
Speaker 1: Like I tell Boots every day, I'm like, You're the
Speaker 1: reason I love life. I tell him that every day.
Speaker 1: He is though, like I know it sounds silly, but
Speaker 1: they got us through so much, and especially during the pandemic,
Speaker 1: like having them with us and being able to like
Speaker 1: settle with like settle down during the pandemic and not
Speaker 1: working and then having to put our focus into something
Speaker 1: else and really like being there for these dogs as
Speaker 1: they're getting older is like really special. Um, do you
Speaker 1: want to tell them how you came up with Boots
Speaker 1: his name? Because I feel like everyone is like, why
Speaker 1: is his name Boots? Yeah, Well so when we got him,
Speaker 1: when we rescued him, his name was most Cody. They
Speaker 1: named him Cody at the shelter um and I was like,
Speaker 1: obviously not, he is not a Cody and that's not
Speaker 1: a dog, Like that's not that's not him. And literally
Speaker 1: within the second day, I believe um, me and Eddie
Speaker 1: facetimed one of his friends and his friend like we
Speaker 1: showed Boots, We showed Cody at the time on FaceTime,
Speaker 1: and he just went Boots because he has he has
Speaker 1: black fur and um white, like all of his paws
Speaker 1: look like he's wearing white little boots. And so he
Speaker 1: literally just looked at him and over FaceTime was like
Speaker 1: Boots and We're like, oh my gosh, his name is Boots,
Speaker 1: like that's and it just stuck perfect, and I remember
Speaker 1: like everyone was kind of skeptical, but it made the
Speaker 1: most sense. And now I can't picture him having any
Speaker 1: other names. And now, like our nicknames are so funny,
Speaker 1: like we call him like boots bot what else we
Speaker 1: call him? Well, I call him I call him move
Speaker 1: as Mr Move is my go to nickname because I
Speaker 1: think he looks like a cow cow. I know, so
Speaker 1: does so does Ivy in a weird way actually so random.
Speaker 1: Eddie's mom helped me name Ivy. We're like sitting together
Speaker 1: and Nellie and I have a lot of the same interest,
Speaker 1: so we were like looking at crystal names. We were
Speaker 1: like trying to think of something cute, and then we
Speaker 1: were looking at plant names, like just flowers, and she
Speaker 1: was like, she kind of like gives me poison ivy
Speaker 1: vibes because like she's she definitely is like a sassy dog.
Speaker 1: So I was like, oh, ivy fits are perfectly and
Speaker 1: now like it's weird because at first I was like,
Speaker 1: I don't know about Ivy, and now it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: that's obviously it's perfect. It's literally perfect. But I can't
Speaker 1: imagine her being like a generic dog name. It's so interesting.
Speaker 1: Ivy has at so many different stages every time, Like
Speaker 1: like if you were to see a picture from when
Speaker 1: Kenseye rescued her from a picture from like three months
Speaker 1: ago to a picture now, it would look like Kenzie
Speaker 1: had three different dogs. Like literally, she her coat just
Speaker 1: keeps changing. She had dark brown hair when we first
Speaker 1: got her, and then it got long and so long
Speaker 1: and like white and now and then you cut it,
Speaker 1: and now she looks she looks the cute and she's
Speaker 1: ever looked. You do look like Ivy a little bit now.
Speaker 1: I think Dakota looks away more like I feel like,
Speaker 1: does Ivy have any nicknames? Oh my god, she's so many.
Speaker 1: We call her scruff most of the time because her
Speaker 1: hair is scruffy. I call her miss Ivy. I do
Speaker 1: miss Ivy, miss Ivy. Um, I'm trying to think of
Speaker 1: the nicknames. I called out stuff um, our dog voices, girl, Um,
Speaker 1: what's the when I call all the time, and I
Speaker 1: can't even think of it right now. She's going to
Speaker 1: be so offended. I know, Um, I don't know. I
Speaker 1: have to think about it. But I do see yourself
Speaker 1: having more dogs like on your own when I I
Speaker 1: think when I'm older, I will probably have probably like forties.
Speaker 1: I hope probably have like seven dogs in my house.
Speaker 1: I've just I've always been an animal person. We're like
Speaker 1: animal lovers. I mean, if you can't even tell by
Speaker 1: this like we could, I think we should. I think
Speaker 1: the goal because I know you want a farm and
Speaker 1: I do want a farm too, so we should just
Speaker 1: can join our farms. Well, we were talking about buying
Speaker 1: mom a farm and then just like and then like
Speaker 1: we'll get it like horses, lambs, sheeps and just not
Speaker 1: for any reason, just to have them and take care
Speaker 1: of them. Yeah, oh no, are you kidding? We just
Speaker 1: love them. But yeah, I think like we were, we've
Speaker 1: turned into successful dog montains. I'm proud of you, Kenzie.
Speaker 1: I'm proud of you, and we love our dogs. Shout
Speaker 1: out to Boots and Ivy, shout out. We love you children.
Speaker 1: But yeah, that's basically it. Like I feel like we
Speaker 1: need to wrap this up because we've been talking about
Speaker 1: our dogs forever and you're probably sick of it, but
Speaker 1: I feel like most of you could relate. I love
Speaker 1: my dog, I love you Boots. Okay, bye bye, Thanks
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