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Speaker 1: Hello, It's Jones and Amanda. While I'm off recovering from

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Speaker 1: my hip replacement, We've planned something very special for you.

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Speaker 1: We've been doing this show since two thousand and five.

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Speaker 1: I felt every single day of it, and we just

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Speaker 1: celebrated our eighteenth birthday this week. We're playing back some

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Speaker 1: of our favorite bits since we started. Oh, this bit's

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Speaker 1: going to make me cry. Twenty twelve was a big

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Speaker 1: year in our family. Our beloved dog Ripley died. Oh.

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Speaker 1: I get emotional just thinking about this. Oh do we

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Speaker 1: have to play this or cry? And Amanda, let me

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Speaker 1: say officially condolences on the passing of Ripley on Friday.

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Speaker 1: Love a Dog. I really felt for you, and I've

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Speaker 1: wondered if I could talk about it because it's still

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Speaker 1: so raw fast we had it for sixteen years. But

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Speaker 1: I'll try and compose myself because you know, but she

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Speaker 1: got released, and I said to Harley, how good would

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Speaker 1: this have been? That the day we bought her home

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Speaker 1: and she's spewed in the handbrake of my car that

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Speaker 1: you know, for sixteen years, she'd just go hard. And

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Speaker 1: then in the last month, old age just you know,

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Speaker 1: crept up and I think she had a bit of

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Speaker 1: kidney damage, but her she stopped eating a couple of

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Speaker 1: weeks ago, and she lost an enormous amount of weight,

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Speaker 1: and she just smelt different. She smelt like blood and bone,

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Speaker 1: and I think it was just her insides. We're just

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Speaker 1: you know, falling apart. She was sixteen, you know, we

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Speaker 1: had a great in him. That's one hundred and twenty

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Speaker 1: in dog years. She'd be like one of those Peruvian

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Speaker 1: women that you see, Yeah, one hundred and twenty years old,

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Speaker 1: still smoking the car, the camel. That'd be her, living

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Speaker 1: on top of her mountain. And there's been much weeping

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Speaker 1: over the weekend. Every time I look at the spot

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Speaker 1: where she used to sit, you know, and the floor,

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Speaker 1: every time food dropped on the floor, it stays there.

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Speaker 1: The vacuum clean has gone. So I'm kind of chatting

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Speaker 1: like this to make life of what It's been a

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Speaker 1: huge deal for our family to lose our dog, and

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Speaker 1: it's such a surreal thing. I've never had a pet

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Speaker 1: before and never had a dog, and to choose to

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Speaker 1: put your dog down for the vet to say, well,

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Speaker 1: you've booked her in for euthanasia. I'd like that movie

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Speaker 1: Live of Brian chre's the fixion on the left for euthanasia. No,

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Speaker 1: she's just trimming inn ales. My mistake, and what happens

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Speaker 1: when you go there, they just it's and as I said,

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Speaker 1: I've never been in this position before. Other people who've

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Speaker 1: done this know this. But you know, it was very

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Speaker 1: important to me that she'd be looking at us, at

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Speaker 1: Harley and I when this happened, that I had to

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Speaker 1: be there. And it's I've had general anesthetics and they're

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Speaker 1: quite pleasurable, and so I think it's just that he

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Speaker 1: shaved a little fore arm and she was, you know,

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Speaker 1: she was slightly demented by the end. She just when

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Speaker 1: we went to the Vegi just stood there and looked

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Speaker 1: at a wall for ten minutes before it happened. So

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Speaker 1: she had no distress in any way. And the big

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Speaker 1: green needle, that's what it is, the big green needle,

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Speaker 1: and it's just a real moment. She's sort of like

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Speaker 1: a sigh and she went down and it's like I thought,

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Speaker 1: you know, we're killing our dog. And I had no

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Speaker 1: qualm that it was the right thing to do. She

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Speaker 1: was well beyond her comfort of life, if you know

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Speaker 1: what I mean, quality of life, but it's but at

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Speaker 1: the same time, I'm sure there are many humans who

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Speaker 1: would like the dignity of an end like that. So

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Speaker 1: we love her and meet miss so and yeah, there

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Speaker 1: you go for live for her poor maighty all right,

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Speaker 1: I am, and it's very nice. People have just I've

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Speaker 1: just heard there have been calling in because Ripley has

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Speaker 1: been a part of our life and this show, and

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Speaker 1: you know it's the children don't know Ripley as a puppy,

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Speaker 1: and that's kind of been sad to me because we've

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Speaker 1: been talking a lot on the weekend at home about

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Speaker 1: in the early days, we used to take her down

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Speaker 1: to the beach and we're living at the Northern Beaches

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Speaker 1: and we'd throw a stick as far as we could

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Speaker 1: and she'd almost she'd swim out to the boats to

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Speaker 1: retrieve a stick and swim back. And the kids haven't

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Speaker 1: seen that side of her. She was well, she was

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Speaker 1: six when Liam was born. But she's been so patient

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Speaker 1: with the children. She's part staffy, which means she doesn't

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Speaker 1: like other dogs very much, but with the kids. There's

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Speaker 1: one point when she was just sitting there, very very still,

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Speaker 1: when Jack was a baby, we thought what's going on?

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Speaker 1: Went up. Jack's finger was up to the second knuckle

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Speaker 1: in her eye, and she just was put it up,

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Speaker 1: put up with it. Just somebody, somebody moved the kid.

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Speaker 1: And that's what I noticed when when we gave her

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Speaker 1: the needle. I could see her eyes changing. I couldn't

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Speaker 1: see the light leaving. But you know what a fabulous

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Speaker 1: dog she's been. And I said to the children, we

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Speaker 1: grieve because we loved her, and that's how it should be.

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Speaker 1: And it's an appropriate time for you to go. And

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Speaker 1: you know, there's no tragedy here. It's just sadness that

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Speaker 1: she's gone. You don't want a cat, No, I don't

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Speaker 1: want a cat. I know you can get a big

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Speaker 1: green needle. I forgot to become obsessed Nowork the Animal

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