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Speaker 3: But today we have one we haven't really had before.
Speaker 3: We have Casey on the line, who is having a
Speaker 3: bit of a problem deciding what comes first, a baby
Speaker 3: or a dog. Casey, welcome to the show. Talk us
Speaker 3: through the situation.
Speaker 4: So basically, I would really love a dog, and my
Speaker 4: partner is super hesitant because they want to get pregnant.
Speaker 1: I don't understand why you have to have a baby
Speaker 1: or a dog. Is the dog a puppy and you're
Speaker 1: wanting to do it at the same time, because that would.
Speaker 4: Be a lot Well, no, it would be a puppy.
Speaker 4: We would have it like a year beforehand. But they're
Speaker 4: afraid that we're gonna stop loving the dog, or that
Speaker 4: it's going to be too hard for us. But I
Speaker 4: also see it as a bit of a test.
Speaker 2: It will be a test for sure. I don't think
Speaker 2: you're gonna stop.
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't have a kid. Laura has a
Speaker 3: multiple kids and a dog. But I don't think you're
Speaker 3: gonna stop loving the dog. But it is a lot
Speaker 3: to be taking on because a puppy is really hard work,
Speaker 3: and puppies aren't puppies for like two or three months.
Speaker 2: Puppies can be puppies for two years.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it's interesting because no one wants to
Speaker 1: admit that. Like like when I had Buster so Busses
Speaker 1: my dog. I had him for quite a few years
Speaker 1: before having children, and he was he came with me
Speaker 1: everywhere like everything I did. Buster just was in tow
Speaker 1: all the time. That became a little bit trickier to
Speaker 1: manage when I had a baby. So you know, of
Speaker 1: course he still gets all the love, he gets all
Speaker 1: the attention, but he wasn't as much as in like
Speaker 1: if I was dragging around a pram and the baby
Speaker 1: and then having to get from one place to another,
Speaker 1: the pram was in the back. There was no space
Speaker 1: for the dog to be in the back. Mind you,
Speaker 1: He's also enormous, And I want to be careful about
Speaker 1: saying this. I know there's gonna be so many people
Speaker 1: here and who were like, you should not treat your
Speaker 1: dog any different of course in a per well, but
Speaker 1: like there's less time for everyone because you're bringing in
Speaker 1: a whole human into the world. So for a lot
Speaker 1: of people it deprioritizes a little bit, but you don't
Speaker 1: love them any less, and it rebalances once you get
Speaker 1: a grip on the whole motherhood thing and you and
Speaker 1: you figure it out and you find your feet and
Speaker 1: then you know. And now in our situation, we've got
Speaker 1: two kids and our dog adapted.
Speaker 2: He's eleven. He loves life, and now he's got two
Speaker 2: kids terrorizing. I think that's the thing.
Speaker 3: Laws he's eleven, and so even when you started having kids,
Speaker 3: he was quite.
Speaker 2: Old, ye six at the time.
Speaker 3: Is there a way you could maybe adopt a dog
Speaker 3: that's not a puppy or get, you know, a dog
Speaker 3: that's a little bit older in life, that's not as
Speaker 3: needy and as energetic as you know.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean that's not a bad idea, that's a
Speaker 4: good compromise. But I think the idea of having a
Speaker 4: puppy is seeing how he raise something together.
Speaker 1: Baby different a baby a baby dog and a baby human.
Speaker 2: They're so different, Yes, yeah, they are, they really are.
Speaker 1: Controversially, I reckon a puppy is sometimes harder than a human.
Speaker 2: I really do.
Speaker 1: They're harder to like just I know you can kind
Speaker 1: of leave them at home and stuff like that. You
Speaker 1: come home, they've eaten through your underwear, They've pissed on
Speaker 1: your laptop.
Speaker 2: Like puppies are hard work. Yeah, I would agree.
Speaker 4: Okay, so what's the decision here is?
Speaker 3: My advice is get a dog for sure, because you know,
Speaker 3: my dog is the best thing in my life.
Speaker 2: Get a dog. I just don't think you.
Speaker 3: Should probably be having a baby and a dog at
Speaker 3: the exact same time. The way you train your puppy
Speaker 3: is like instrumental in for that dog's the rest of
Speaker 3: its life. Like the way how easy it is for
Speaker 3: you in your day to day, how well it's trained,
Speaker 3: how well it obeys you.
Speaker 2: Like the way you set up your dog. And I
Speaker 2: hate something set up.
Speaker 3: But it's so true that makes the rest of its life,
Speaker 3: you know, make or break.
Speaker 2: I'm confused. Is it you who wants the puppy?
Speaker 4: So I want the puppy, but she thinks it's going
Speaker 4: to be too much work, and I think it's a
Speaker 4: good test.
Speaker 1: It might be who do you think is going to
Speaker 1: end up doing the majority share of the puppy load
Speaker 1: me you reckon?
Speaker 2: All right? Well maybe look it might work. Good Luck,
Speaker 2: that's all I have to say. Good luck. A baby
Speaker 2: and a puppy is hard work, that's for sure.