[speaker001:] hello Lynn
[speaker002:] yes
[speaker001:] okay do you have any pets
[speaker002:] yes I have a dog and cat now
[speaker001:] oh what are their names
[speaker002:] Tibby and Liberty
[speaker001:] which is the dog and which is the cat
[speaker002:] Tibby is the dog and Liberty is the cat
[speaker001:] yeah my wife and I we have we have two cats um one's real nice but the other one is uh well she's pretty wild
[speaker002:] oh ours are pretty calm
[speaker001:] yeah are they um just house pets
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] yeah that's that's what ours are too
[speaker002:] yeah our cat we got from the pound the day before the night she was going to be put to sleep so that's why we call her Liberty
[speaker001:] oh really oh well that's a nice nice story um
[speaker002:] do you wanna hear about my other animals I've had I've had a skunk
[speaker001:] sure sure yeah
[speaker002:] I've had a Burmese python I've had rats I've had mice uh let's see had gerbils
[speaker001:] wow
[speaker002:] I have a I had a son he's now gone from the home that was a pet animal lover
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] so at one point I had a snake skunk dog and cat running loose in the house
[speaker001:] wow the um do the skunk uh was that kind of like a cat to have around the house
[speaker002:] yes
[speaker001:] yeah so it
[speaker002:] it was litter trained and we had it perfumed and um
[speaker001:] yeah um-hum
[speaker002:] it was very aggressive but all the all three of them dog cat and
[speaker001:] really
[speaker002:] skunk used to chase each other all through the house
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] and the only thing we have with the skunk he was very very protective of his territory
[speaker001:] the skunk oh yeah
[speaker002:] being the sofa and the blanket on the sofa nobody came near it when he was there
[speaker001:] hm oh um I had I had a dog one time and uh he chased after a after a skunk and got sprayed so we had to uh we had to give him a tomato tomato juice bath
[speaker002:] oh
[speaker001:] and uh and get him cleaned up
[speaker002:] yeah they um ours would still back up to the dog or cat when he got mad and try to perfume them but
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] the glands had been removed so
[speaker001:] right but I suppose it was still in the instinct of them to
[speaker002:] right
[speaker001:] to back off and get ready
[speaker002:] one other question we had is why do you have pets
[speaker001:] yeah why I don't know I I think they're kind of nice to have they're kind of I don't know just relaxing to I don't know to pet and to I don't know when they like sit up on your lap and stuff like that just kind of enjoyable to you know have like I don't know something giving you some affection as well what what do you think
[speaker002:] yeah I always said if I died well I always said if I died I'd come back as a dog that'd be the best way to be
[speaker001:] oh yeah yeah yeah um do you like big dogs or or little dogs
[speaker002:] well we had a German Shepherd and he had dysplasia
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] and he had it for about three or four years where we just about had to lift him and carry him every place he went
[speaker001:] really
[speaker002:] so when he died we got a little one
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] but our Shepherd was almost thirteen years old and it just you know it was almost cruel
[speaker001:] um-hum almost cruel for him to to walk
[speaker002:] because yeah he just he couldn't get up he couldn't walk so he was a hundred and twenty pounds so it was a chore
[speaker001:] wow yeah
[speaker002:] so we said the next time around we'd get something little that if something happened it would be easier to carry
[speaker001:] sure yeah it was something
[speaker002:] and then we've had three cats in our married life and we've got a calico now
[speaker001:] yeah we've got a calico cat too yeah yeah she's the she's the nice one
[speaker002:] do you
[speaker001:] yeah we um we used to live in an apartment and like our cats never went outside but um the neighbors used to let their dogs out and our neighbors were I don't know kind of slimy and um our cats wound up getting fleas um from the apartment that we were in
[speaker002:] um
[speaker001:] so we had to we had to flea bath them and that was uh that was an experience that they didn't enjoy at all
[speaker002:] yeah well don't even talk to me I when I was single I had gone away for the weekend and my husband then fiance was to keep my cat
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] and he let her out and my house was loaded with fleas I mean you walked in and your legs were just black
[speaker001:] really
[speaker002:] and we had such a time and never got the cat back
[speaker001:] really
[speaker002:] yeah I found it you know in the street
[speaker001:] ah
[speaker002:] I was a social worker at the time and found it it