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Speaker 1: This hour is brought to you by a gorgeous dog.

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Speaker 2: I know, and there's a dog in the studio, which

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Speaker 2: is you've noticed how it's instantly made everything just feel calm.

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Speaker 1: Everyone's just relaxed.

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Speaker 2: Figuo is gorgeous. Alex, your latest addition to the family.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to the studio, Alex Kerns.

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Speaker 3: Alex.

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Speaker 1: You So you've got another one.

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Speaker 2: This is the eighth book in the beautiful Everything about

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Speaker 2: these books is a delight to hold, to flick through.

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Speaker 2: This one's called The Wisdom of Dogs and it's another

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Speaker 2: great book where you can just open it up, flick

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Speaker 2: open to a page, read the inspirational quote from the

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Speaker 2: dog on the page, and on you go.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I love that you got that from it too,

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Speaker 4: least because that's exactly how I wanted it to be.

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Speaker 2: Well, it's the perfect size, it is, it's the perfect

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Speaker 2: weight nearly in your profit, yes, absolutely.

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Speaker 4: And it gives you your daily wisdom. You just flick open,

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Speaker 4: and that's yours. So I just got where the silly

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Speaker 4: hat and already, oh yes, failed on that, So I've

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Speaker 4: left without my silly hat. But there are some fun

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Speaker 4: things in there like that, and then there's some serious

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Speaker 4: things in there too, about self care and looking after yourself,

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Speaker 4: and I just I wanted the spectrum of quotes to

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Speaker 4: cover the essence of dogs, from like playful puppies to

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Speaker 4: you know, wise souls that seem to understand everything that

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Speaker 4: we do and.

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Speaker 2: Say, and they do Tayli, one who has a dog

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Speaker 2: knows that. I think my favorite is on page seventy three.

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Speaker 2: Your uniqueness is your superpower. That face is that the

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Speaker 2: same face that's catching a ball on an earlier page

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Speaker 2: as well?

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Speaker 5: I think it's I think this is a treat catching case.

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Speaker 2: It could be, Yes, you caught the most amazing shot

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Speaker 2: of a dog just about to catch a ball in

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Speaker 5: Totally. I think they're different dogs. Ones are lab and

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Speaker 4: But oh okay, certain food motivated dogs definitely are good

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Speaker 4: for treat catching.

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Speaker 5: Playful dogs are for the ball catching. And there's a

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Speaker 5: bit of everything in there.

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Speaker 4: There's some rescue dogs, special needs dogs, some breeds, something

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Speaker 4: for everyone.

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Speaker 3: Well, photos magnificent, beautiful page nine there. That's one of

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Speaker 3: my old histarles that was when was going out.

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Speaker 5: They are little cavaliers.

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Speaker 4: And then my sister in law's dogs, Lolly and Birdie

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Speaker 4: one of them is hearing impaired, so she would love

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Speaker 4: that that was one of your favorites and that you

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Speaker 4: had that hairstyle.

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Speaker 3: I did have. There's a little cocky at the top

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Speaker 2: There are a few in here with the special needs,

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Speaker 2: which you did a whole book of dogs with special needs,

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Speaker 4: Yes, imperfection, So I think the special needs puppies in here,

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Speaker 4: and mostly the cleft.

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Speaker 5: Palate Puppy Yeah, Palate Puppy.

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Speaker 2: Rescue No Pup Left Behind is a w A based

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Speaker 2: rescue group.

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Speaker 1: You've got three of them, like, they asked.

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Speaker 5: Me to photograph for them, and I said yes, And

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Speaker 5: now I've got three of their dogs.

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Speaker 1: Not a softy huge fall.

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Speaker 4: We tend to take in the ones my partner and

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Speaker 4: I take in the dogs that have special needs that

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Speaker 4: their clefts can't be fixed, or their surgery didn't work

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Speaker 4: be honest, they're just no different to any other dog.

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Speaker 4: They think they're completely normal. Course everyone am I to

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Speaker 1: And their needs are not that difficult to meet, are they?

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Speaker 4: So?

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Speaker 2: I mean, if you're looking for a rescue dog, and

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Speaker 4: Nine times out of ten when they have surgery, their

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Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, it just so happens.

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Speaker 4: The three that I have either haven't had surgery yet,

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Speaker 4: like and you're right though, they need the same things food, love,

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Speaker 4: you know, the tagline on this book is Everyone's best

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Speaker 4: friend just happens to be your best therapist. And even

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Speaker 4: these little dogs for me are just you know, love

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Speaker 4: think just you know what we get from dogs as.

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Speaker 2: Well well, I often wonder, you know, when people get

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Speaker 2: don't have a dog, it's you.

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Speaker 1: Know, I mean it's sad straight or a cat.

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Speaker 2: A cat also meets the requirement. And what do you

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Speaker 2: think are the main health benefits of having a dog.

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Speaker 4: There's lots of proven health benefits of having a dog.

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Speaker 4: They've proven to reduce stress, you know, they feel good.

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Speaker 4: Hormones increase when you're around a dog, when you're patting them.

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Speaker 4: They're great for age care, therapy and things like that,

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Speaker 4: And just a dog will listen to all your secrets

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Speaker 4: and never tell so just even like you said, having

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Speaker 2: That make us lie of course too, because who doesn't

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Speaker 2: leave the house and say to their dog, I won't belong.

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Speaker 1: Not hours, but I'll be back in a minute.

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Speaker 2: Totally.

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Speaker 4: I think there's been a study every day and that

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Speaker 4: they can't I'm not sure if this is great, so

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Speaker 4: you might need a fact check. But that they can't

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Speaker 4: tell how long you've been gone. Yeah, I think they

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Speaker 4: just know you went and you came back.

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Speaker 1: There was always you came back.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, and hours or two minutes.

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Speaker 1: I am in sleep, but all I'm not there. So

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Speaker 1: I have sprung her.

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Speaker 3: You say, Alex, don't you can tell all the secrets

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Speaker 3: they won't tell. But if they ever do, there'll be

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Speaker 3: a best seller and you'll clean up.

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Speaker 5: Literally. With our little dog gg, she sees everything.

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Speaker 4: She's one of those dogs that you can't eat a

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Speaker 5: She was a person, she'd be running your business.

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Speaker 3: Curious and I'm very envious. No pup left behind, So

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Speaker 3: wish I'd come up with that.

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Speaker 1: It's great, very amazing. How's this for a statistic?

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Speaker 2: You have photographed over fifteen thousand pets? Yes, now, I've

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Speaker 2: photographed my dog a couple of times. Times tried fifteen sometimes.

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Speaker 1: So I've been working with animals.

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Speaker 2: It must be you must have the patience of several saints.

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Speaker 5: To be honest, it's the first thing I had to learn.

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Speaker 4: To get really stressed and I'd be like, in my mind,

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Speaker 5: So I had to let that go, just be like,

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Speaker 5: I'll always get what I needed, Do what you want,

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Speaker 4: But yeah, I had to learn patients really early on,

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Speaker 4: and I find animals really easy. Yeah, I'm not good

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you can't just wave a block of chocolate around

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Speaker 4: animals are in the nude. They don't have anything on you.

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Speaker 1: The duck mouth, no lips, very duck.

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Speaker 4: I've never shown a dog a photo of themselves on

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Speaker 5: Whereas dogs don't ever, they're just like this, Yeah they

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Speaker 1: You know, just photograph dogs. You photograph all sorts of things.

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Speaker 2: What is the most what is the weirdest or strangers

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Speaker 4: Photographs some really cool stuff. I love Australian baby native

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Speaker 4: a photographed to sun baby sun bear cubs in Cambodia

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Speaker 4: rescue in camp Vodio. Yeah yeah, But to be honest,

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Speaker 4: you always think what's your favorite animal? You think elephant

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Speaker 4: and tiger, and they're amazing but mine is just dogs, dogs, dog.

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Speaker 5: And fifteen thousand photos. Yeah, pretty much, mostly of dogs. Probably.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Now, as you walked in, you had to be seven sloth,

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Speaker 3: You had to a seven pieces of merchandise. You wouldn't

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Speaker 3: cheatd chance likerch is hard work if you've done it well,

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Speaker 4: I like a project and I like to create, you know,

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Speaker 4: new things on top of the other things I'm creating.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, well it's all helps promote what you're doing,

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Speaker 3: which is well.

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Speaker 2: The Wisdom of Dogs is in all good book retailers

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Speaker 2: near you. Definitely go and get yourself phone because, like

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Speaker 2: I said that, just it feels good, it looks good,

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Speaker 2: it says good things.

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Speaker 1: I love it so much. Thank you for coming in.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for bringing the girl in.

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Speaker 5: He's a horrible Thank you.

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Speaker 1: Thank