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Speaker 3: Hey, this is.
Speaker 2: The Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 1: Yesterday on the show, we were sharing in the good
Speaker 1: news that Rio has a house. Yes, welcome to adult team,
Speaker 1: welcome to a mortgage.
Speaker 3: Thank you so much, happy to be here.
Speaker 4: And it's got a pond.
Speaker 3: Yes, it comes with a fish pond. Yep, there are
Speaker 3: fish in it at the moment.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and we're wondering about what happens. Is that classed
Speaker 1: as a permanent fixture and so they leave that behind?
Speaker 4: I think it is yours.
Speaker 3: The point that you reckon they have to leave the
Speaker 3: fish behind? Yes, well, I hope so, because they're beautiful
Speaker 3: little right. Anyway, Ena left us after the show yesterday.
Speaker 4: Great name.
Speaker 2: By the way, Hi Christian, it's Ena here. I'm just
Speaker 2: ringing about what you do with your fish when you
Speaker 2: buy a house or you stell a house. I had
Speaker 2: a house with a pond. I had about sixty goldfish
Speaker 2: and comets in it, and the new owners were going
Speaker 2: to fill the pond in so I had to rescue
Speaker 2: my fish. So I got into the mud up to
Speaker 2: my knees with a fish net, caught all the fish,
Speaker 2: took them home in a bucket. And then when people
Speaker 2: came for coffee, I would send them home with a
Speaker 2: couple of fish in a plastic bag. And that was
Speaker 2: how I saved all my fish.
Speaker 4: I didn't say your fish, you gave them away?
Speaker 1: What did you do with that party favor?
Speaker 4: You got to go and bill buy a pond? Such
Speaker 4: a pain in the sad night, there isn't it.
Speaker 1: I just wanted to come for just a high chance,
Speaker 1: just around the corner for me in this place, fish
Speaker 1: were lobbed out into a nature strip. Good day for
Speaker 1: the seagulls. So today we want to have your pet stories.
Speaker 1: The lines are open now thirteen fifty five twenty two.
Speaker 1: Any pet stories you've got. Corally sent me this on Christian.
Speaker 1: My daughter a pet goldfish in the outside pond in
Speaker 1: the word that, by the way, as opposed to what
Speaker 1: indoor one that is great listening out that floor right
Speaker 1: by the nest of occasionals. That's the ultimate Bogan move
Speaker 1: wow concept. The pond is indoors. My dad had a
Speaker 1: pet goldfish in the outside pond, but it died. I
Speaker 1: threw it over the fence. Some of our listeners are
Speaker 1: rough around the I love them, but louzzing a deceased goldfish.
Speaker 1: I thought this story is it's a good defense. But
Speaker 1: the damn thing got stuck in the branches of a tree.
Speaker 1: I had to avoid the area until it finally went
Speaker 1: to God. A horrible just some just that one eye
Speaker 1: just judging you out there for eternity, so you see
Speaker 1: forever your crime. There's something almost biblical about that fish
Speaker 1: in the tree. By the way, it was like a parable.
Speaker 1: All right, So we're looking for your pet stories. About
Speaker 1: ten years ago I caved in. The girls wanted some
Speaker 1: guinea pigs. When I will be looking after these guinea pigs,
Speaker 1: And they were like, they've actually came up with a
Speaker 1: contract and put it under my office door that they
Speaker 1: both co signed that they were going to look after him. Anyway,
Speaker 1: after two days, I'm looking after these three guinea pigs.
Speaker 4: Amazing pets. They do this thing called popcorning.
Speaker 1: Oh, go on Instagram and do guinea pig popcorning. They
Speaker 1: it's like they called it popcorning. They jump up and
Speaker 1: down when they're happy. Oh, I don't execute things anyway,
Speaker 1: so they named these three guinea pigs.
Speaker 4: One of them had a strange ginger hair.
Speaker 1: That looked like a wig, so they called that one
Speaker 1: obviously Trump Trump sadly just one day had just died. Okay,
Speaker 1: they die, and so I had to beat it to
Speaker 1: the girls. It was their first time of experiencing a loss,
Speaker 1: and so my wife was away for the week, and
Speaker 1: so it was a two two. Also at the age
Speaker 1: where the younger one lois, I could spend any yarn
Speaker 1: all right, she still believed that big one about December.
Speaker 1: Ruby now was realizing parents are habitual lives. So I
Speaker 1: was They were like, well what happens now? And ag
Speaker 1: she goes to heaven? Okay, and lowises, Oh my god,
Speaker 1: that's beautiful. Where is that that's above us? Thus we're
Speaker 1: all dead people and animals and they all go. Then
Speaker 1: they're all they're.
Speaker 4: All playing, and it's constant rainbows. Something else sounds.
Speaker 1: The older one's going, where exactly showing me on this
Speaker 1: map is heaven above our How do we get up there?
Speaker 1: And then she was like, how is all the dead
Speaker 1: people suspended in the sky? And I was like, mumber.
Speaker 1: Three more days of this press conference now on behalf
Speaker 1: of heaven. Anyway, I go, hey, listen, you know what,
Speaker 1: this doesn't need to be a sabocation. Let's celebrate the
Speaker 1: life of Trump the guinea pig. And why don't we
Speaker 1: go and get some ice cream and soda and we'll
Speaker 1: have a funeral in the garden. But we'll turn into
Speaker 1: a celebration. So anyway, I put on a hell of
Speaker 1: a celebration for them. Up, we got picnic and we've
Speaker 1: got meats, bread, and we had a picnic blanket. Then
Speaker 1: we then we buried Trump and all the way back
Speaker 1: in that was so much fun.
Speaker 4: Can we dig her up and bury?
Speaker 3: Or?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 4: You can't keep doing it one time? It's your one
Speaker 4: time that every week, let's go and dig up? Wait
Speaker 4: was sick? All right? Lines are open now for your
Speaker 4: pet stories. What's yours? Christian O'Connell show podcast? Are you
Speaker 4: already go back to your chicken trauma?
Speaker 3: Oh my goodness. This is a sow point within the family.
Speaker 3: Even to this day. My mom listens to the podcast
Speaker 3: and I know I'm going to get angry messages as
Speaker 3: soon as she hears this. In about year ten, we
Speaker 3: had chickens. We've had them for about three years beautiful,
Speaker 3: the cute little bantam one's flog things on their head.
Speaker 3: Mum and Dad went away for an Italian holiday. They
Speaker 3: went to Tuscany. They came back just pining for a
Speaker 3: Tuscan guard and they're like, oh, I would love to
Speaker 3: turn the backyard into this beautiful Tuscan garden. But the
Speaker 3: bloody chicken coop and the chicken are there tearing.
Speaker 4: Up the who wins.
Speaker 3: I go away for school camp a week.
Speaker 4: I come back.
Speaker 3: Paved patios, there's a fig tree, a gold there's all
Speaker 3: this stuff they've put in.
Speaker 4: The chicken coop's gone concrete. Where are the where the chickens?
Speaker 3: Where do you put the chickens? Are They round by
Speaker 3: the pool? Fox got them the worst kind And to
Speaker 3: this day she will not admit. Here's the cover up
Speaker 3: going on. Too convenient. It's why there's no way that
Speaker 3: the fox just.
Speaker 4: Me's with your mom. Wow, they're sleeping under the concrete.
Speaker 5: Under the fig tree with the chicken dinners, the next
Speaker 5: couple of chickens tonight every night, just that stranger like
Speaker 5: feathers just always floating in the air that Tuscan garden.
Speaker 4: Feathers always in this garden, like that Alex. She myself
Speaker 4: something great grown up on a farm man. Yeah, so
Speaker 4: many pet stories.
Speaker 6: I had a dog, a Maca, the most beautiful, wonderful companion.
Speaker 6: I grew up with him, basically Adam, since I was
Speaker 6: about three years old. He went everywhere with me, protected me,
Speaker 6: sat outside the tenth when we went camping, just on
Speaker 6: the lookout, the most.
Speaker 4: Incredible, the best. Aren't they talk? Blue Hla was.
Speaker 6: Yeah, And if you believe in ghosts, keep listening here, folks.
Speaker 6: So he passed away, poor old Maca, and he was
Speaker 6: about nine. He had terrible arthritis. And anyway, I reckon
Speaker 6: the night after he died. I can't tell how much
Speaker 6: I love this dog, like you know when you're your
Speaker 6: first pet, your best friend. He was my best friend.
Speaker 6: We went everywhere together, and I mean that we went
Speaker 6: to every corner of that farm together. Anyway, I went
Speaker 6: to bed the night after I to this day don't
Speaker 6: know whether I was dreaming or I woke up. I
Speaker 6: walked out into the dining room, which is just off
Speaker 6: the veranda where I slept, and there was Maca, this
Speaker 6: golden shining Maca, like he was like kind of glowing,
Speaker 6: and I remember him coming to me, and I'm hugging
Speaker 6: him and I'm having this moment with him, and then
Speaker 6: we kind of broke off and he walked out the
Speaker 6: veranda door, and I never saw him again, and I
Speaker 6: to this day am convinced that that was him, that
Speaker 6: was his wanting to say goodbye. And I'll never forget
Speaker 6: him walking out that door. And I never saw him again.
Speaker 6: That was it, and I was and I'd go to
Speaker 6: bed the next few weeks hoping that I would have
Speaker 6: that experience again.
Speaker 4: One of the most moving stories I've ever heard on
Speaker 4: the show. Yeah, it was. It was so surreal, and
Speaker 4: you must to close your eyes. If I just scrated
Speaker 4: my eyes come back because.
Speaker 6: I want to see him again. I was just so
Speaker 6: desperate to see him again. I'll never forget hugging him,
Speaker 6: and I honestly think it was him. I don't know
Speaker 6: it's this, Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 4: I don't think the dogs got such beautiful souls they have.
Speaker 6: He was such a smart, wonderful He used to hate
Speaker 6: this machinery salesman that he used to come to the farm,
Speaker 6: and he knew that Mum hated this guy, so he
Speaker 6: would not let him out of the car.
Speaker 1: Interference he went over and haunted him for the rest
Speaker 1: of his life.
Speaker 4: He pa, that's where he got the polter dog.
Speaker 1: All right, we got some Let's take some calls here,
Speaker 1: Let's get David on. Good morning, David, Sorry David, there
Speaker 1: we go. Hey David, welcome to the show.
Speaker 7: Yeah, first time caller, long time listener, welcome.
Speaker 4: All right, what's your story for us? David? Thanks for calling.
Speaker 7: Well, it's kind of sad but funny. We were moving
Speaker 7: from New gil On to Australia about twelve years ago,
Speaker 7: and of course we couldn't leave our beloved Hunter a
Speaker 7: Cross behind, so we put her in the care of
Speaker 7: Pits Service Cup and she was on a domestic flight
Speaker 7: from New Plymouth to Auckland before getting international transfer. And
Speaker 7: when the plane landed in Auckland, they were unloading the
Speaker 7: crate and she somehow the crate wasn't shut properly and
Speaker 7: so she bolted across a runway and unfortunately, unfortunately, the
Speaker 7: protocol is to get the urn have tranquilizers, because they
Speaker 7: can't guarantee that the tranquilizer is going to work. You
Speaker 7: can't have a dog running around the airport going nuts,
Speaker 7: so they unfortunately had to put her put her to
Speaker 7: doggie heaven on the tarmac. It was two days before Christmas,
Speaker 7: and I had to I had to tell my six
Speaker 7: an eight year old that their beloved Bella had gone
Speaker 7: to sleep permanently. And the pet the pet company said, oh, look,
Speaker 7: we'll we'll, we'll bear it for you. I said, no,
Speaker 7: you won't, you'll you'll send you'll send that that poosh
Speaker 7: back to us in one one, one shape or another. Uh.
Speaker 7: And so they sent us dollar back frozen. And it
Speaker 7: was two days before Christmas, a couple of days before
Speaker 7: we're all jumping on the plane to move to Australia.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 7: And the kids were out of the back lawn. They
Speaker 7: dug her a nice little hole and then as she
Speaker 7: was thawing out, they were giving her her last cuddles.
Speaker 7: So my kids were were cuddling her, thawing out poach
Speaker 7: for for a couple of hours and they got they
Speaker 7: all mast got off.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I don't want to laugh, like I don't
Speaker 1: care about this. I was still heartbroken after my dog
Speaker 1: died last year. But the most darkly comic thing is
Speaker 1: it okay to laugh? Du don't feel really bad?
Speaker 7: Yeah, one hundred percent. It's a long time ago that
Speaker 7: the kids have recovered they went through.
Speaker 4: Some calcomewing dog New Zealand airports. I don't ever get
Speaker 4: lost to start running around the.
Speaker 1: Airport and she won't thought me out, very frozen.
Speaker 4: In the garage.
Speaker 7: Another part of the story as well, that we we
Speaker 7: we had a cat that we brought back from Australia
Speaker 7: when we moved back to that didn't she got when
Speaker 7: she passed away. She got buried next to Beller up
Speaker 7: in the up in the up in the backyard. But
Speaker 7: she was best friends with our new dog, the Kelpie,
Speaker 7: And when she passed away, we buried her up next
Speaker 7: to Bella and the Kelpie sat next to the grave
Speaker 7: for nearly a week. Wouldn't come?
Speaker 4: Yeah, the wasn't stuck in the coffin? Was it.
Speaker 1: Someone I don't want to get off.
Speaker 7: I can keep going.
Speaker 1: But no, there can't be anymore. There can't be anymore.
Speaker 1: We can't squeeze the juice out of you anymore.
Speaker 7: It's all good.
Speaker 1: Dog taken out airport, frozen and sent to you, and
Speaker 1: then the thawing out.
Speaker 4: It's about five. I'll never forget this.
Speaker 1: This just like a sort of Adam Sandler movie. Cuddling
Speaker 1: with the thawing out.
Speaker 7: You know, they was teens, but they needed to, you know,
Speaker 7: say the goodbyes. And they were in Facebook cuddling the
Speaker 7: frozen out, frozen in trauma.
Speaker 4: Get some gloves on the oven gloves.
Speaker 7: I'll tell you what we planned, an avocado tree on
Speaker 7: top of them. And the producers amazing.
Speaker 4: Happy ending to this it.
Speaker 1: Oh well, there was me getting a bit sad. But
Speaker 1: about those avocados. Send us some going to.
Speaker 7: Bord a house because they don't buy a smash Dellows.
Speaker 1: All right, listen, you have to be you are instant
Speaker 1: call of the week. I could call it right now,
Speaker 1: A to Tuesday. This is some story of stories, yes, David,
Speaker 1: a darkly comic tale, but we are the pet stories.
Speaker 1: And wow, you just took down the house. Amazing. You've
Speaker 1: won a thousand dollars.
Speaker 7: Oh fantastic. I can pay my pound.
Speaker 4: Bill, David. Thank you very much for your story. Amazing story.
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Speaker 4: Thank you very much.
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