[speaker001:] um we have two pets at the moment we have a cat and we also have a bird that's a strange combination I visit the cat is an an outdoor cat and
[speaker002:] oh
[speaker001:] um we've had him for four years it's really a good cat when we first talked about getting one my husband isn't really fond of cats and
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] and we went ahead and got this one for my little girl from her great-grandma and it's turned out to be a very good pet she or he is
[speaker002:] oh
[speaker001:] um you know he stays outside he doesn't try and come in the house and trip you up and he just he's almost like a dog our cars will come down the road and and the cat will come running out from
[speaker002:] oh
[speaker001:] the fields we live in quite a rural little community and and he comes running he can hear our car so he is more more you know like a dog it's really a good animal
[speaker002:] oh does your cat try to run away at all
[speaker001:] no we haven't had a bit of problem with that the only um incident we had about like that was when he was just a kitten um on Halloween we lost track of him and I don't know whether he followed some trick-or-treaters or you know they scared him or what but
[speaker002:] um-hum oh
[speaker001:] he uh was gone and we thought for sure he was gone and he was gone three weeks and then he yes and then he came back and he had a crooked paw so apparently he had
[speaker002:] three weeks oh
[speaker001:] yeah apparently he had broken his foot somehow but he did come back so
[speaker002:] well that's great
[speaker001:] yes yes and how about you
[speaker002:] we have a dog
[speaker001:] oh
[speaker002:] we have a three year old dog it's about medium size and she's uh an indoor dog
[speaker001:] oh uh-huh oh fun
[speaker002:] and she is yeah she's like our baby
[speaker001:] oh now is it is that's that's not still considered a puppy
[speaker002:] not technically we consider her a puppy I she still acts like a puppy but
[speaker001:] do you oh real active and
[speaker002:] yeah oh very
[speaker001:] oh what's oh what's her name
[speaker002:] too active Sam Samantha
[speaker001:] oh oh that's that's a nice name we um our cat is named we named it Duchess and then we found out it was a boy but it was too late to change so and now is is that the only pet you have
[speaker002:] oh oh that's neat yes
[speaker001:] oh the what kind of a dog is it
[speaker002:] she's a mix between a German Shepherd and a Husky
[speaker001:] oh pretty
[speaker002:] yeah she is really pretty and she's a good watchdog we live in a one bedroom apartment and she will growl and bark at strangers walking by or she hears any footsteps
[speaker001:] ah uh-huh oh oh that's good
[speaker002:] yes it is good it's nice to have
[speaker001:] boy and your apartment apparently allow they allow pets
[speaker002:] yes we it was hard to find um apartments out here we live in uh Penn State University and it's hard to find apartments that take pets so we're way on the outskirts of town
[speaker001:] um-hum oh oh
[speaker002:] because and we have a ground floor apartment with like a private yard that we can just open up the door and we play Frisbee and ball and
[speaker001:] uh-huh how nice
[speaker002:] so that she gets some exercise we go for walks
[speaker001:] oh boy that sounds ideal because yeah they do need especially dogs they need to run and jump and oh well that's great I
[speaker002:] um-hum that's true
[speaker001:] we had a um our little bird we've only had it for about six months and we got that for my son for his birthday and it's named Buttercup a little yellow yellow parakeet yeah they chose that and I one other pet we had had an experience with over the summer it's a kind of a funny thing we
[speaker002:] oh that's a good bird name
[speaker001:] my neighbor had given her children each a a a a bunny rabbit for Easter
[speaker002:] oh wow
[speaker001:] yes and and then her kids had them for a couple of months and they you know kind of tired of them like kids do and and she said do you want these and so we said yes we'll take them and and take care of them for a while and she said now you know when you don't want them I know a man that just loves them and he'll take them anytime you want and
[speaker002:] oh
[speaker001:] we were a little bit reluctant with the cat and the bird already to take on some more but so we took these three rabbits from them
[speaker002:] hm
[speaker001:] and about two weeks later um my son went out to feed them and and he said mom I I think the white bunny's sick
[speaker002:] oh no
[speaker001:] and so yeah we went out immediately and lifted up the hutch lid and that mama rabbit the white one had had eleven babies uh yeah eleven oh so that was quite a surprise and
[speaker002:] how many oh my goodness
[speaker001:] so we went from three bunnies to fifteen in a matter of two weeks but that I guess that was her first time being a mother and I I'm not real
[speaker002:] oh my gosh
[speaker001:] knowledgeable about bunnies but they all died and I they all did and she well she didn't take care of them and I've heard sometimes that with their first their first
[speaker002:] oh they all did
[speaker001:] you know litter that they do that but yeah it was it was really a really hard experience
[speaker002:] oh that's sad