[speaker001:] okay um do you have any pets now
[speaker002:] well we don't right now no we've uh I grew up with uh with pets my folks and I always had a dog and a cat some birds but uh right now we don't have anything
[speaker001:] yeah oh okay um that a matter of choice or compulsion
[speaker002:] what about you well we've just um it seems like we've always been at a place where we'd have to go away for the summer or something and uh it was never convenient to have anything I we're thinking about getting a dog if we get into a house
[speaker001:] yeah yeah
[speaker002:] uh someplace where there are you know we can take care of it and everything we've got some children who would just really uh enjoy having an animal you know a dog I think and
[speaker001:] yeah yeah
[speaker002:] what about you all
[speaker001:] well right now I'm student and campus housing does not even allow thinking about that
[speaker002:] um-hum oh no
[speaker001:] no we almost got chased out of here for feeding a stray cat
[speaker002:] is that right
[speaker001:] yeah they're very strict about it
[speaker002:] but you like uh you like pets and things
[speaker001:] oh love animals
[speaker002:] oh yeah
[speaker001:] I was raised our house when I when I was growing up there was almost never uh at least one cat in the house it's almost almost always at least one cat sometimes you know like fifteen or twenty
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] but uh always cats in the house
[speaker002:] oh yeah we enjoyed we enjoyed them uh we like we like pets but um you know you've got to deal with uh taking care of them and and feeding them and everything like that
[speaker001:] always yeah
[speaker002:] and our kids are we've got some children and they're not not used to it you know on a daily basis they they uh and
[speaker001:] how old are your kids
[speaker002:] oh from fourteen down to seven
[speaker001:] um okay
[speaker002:] you've sound like you've got some small ones in the background
[speaker001:] one our first he's about ten eleven weeks now
[speaker002:] is that right oh great congratulations
[speaker001:] yeah yeah uh originally West Virginia
[speaker002:] where are you from um-hum okay
[speaker001:] um I don't know how familiar you are with that area of the country but
[speaker002:] I been to Charleston
[speaker001:] Charleston West Virginia
[speaker002:] yes uh-huh
[speaker001:] okay that's pretty much the south end of the state or the southern quarter of the state anyway
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] okay in the north end of the state you got that little narrow strip of West Virginia going up between Ohio and Pennsylvania
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] right at the base of that northern peninsula is my hometown
[speaker002:] um-hum well that's yeah that's interesting so it's really up north in the country really uh it's I guess uh
[speaker001:] yeah yeah it's well uh my parents' house is like three miles south of where the Mason Dixon Line would have hit the Ohio River had it continued that far
[speaker002:] gosh I see
[speaker001:] so
[speaker002:] pretty nice country up there
[speaker001:] oh it's beautiful
[speaker002:] hills or what
[speaker001:] uh well from my neck of the woods it's hilly um you know
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] uh maybe three hundred four hundred feet elevation uh that type
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] variations from the valleys up to the hills to hilltops
[speaker002:] is it a farmland
[speaker001:] um not a lot of farmland there mostly it's uh I mean you know there's you know individuals with their own own farm uh growing their own food uh most of the agriculture it's more in the way of uh sheep and cattle
[speaker002:] oh yes um-hum
[speaker001:] and even that's you know small time mostly uh the biggest chunk of what's going on there is is uh industries coal mines and chemical plants and power plants
[speaker002:] sure um-hum okay
[speaker001:] uh aluminum plants there's like two aluminum plants with you know
[speaker002:] what are you what are you studying there at Hattiesburg
[speaker001:] computer engineering
[speaker002:] oh yeah what year
[speaker001:] uh just finished up my fourth semester
[speaker002:] well great
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] yeah I hope that works out well
[speaker001:] it it's a big change I spent twenty years as a mechanic so yeah
[speaker002:] was oh did you well you've got some experience behind you in the work force
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] yeah are you uh shooting for a bachelor's now or master's or what
[speaker001:] I'm working on a bachelor's degree
[speaker002:] all right okay good
[speaker001:] I'm working on a bachelor's degree it'll be computer
[speaker002:] hope it's a good program there
[speaker001:] pardon
[speaker002:] hope it's a good program there
[speaker001:] uh it seems to me from what I've been able to find out that's considered a pretty good program it's nice and small which means you know
[speaker002:] yep yeah good
[speaker001:] if you don't get the class this semester then you got to wait three or four semester you know anywhere from two to four semesters to get it again but uh it's it's worth it once you get it
[speaker002:] hum well yes that's good and probably a good uh student teacher ratio and things yeah
[speaker001:] oh yeah yeah most the class is pretty small
[speaker002:] good
[speaker001:] that works out real well
[speaker002:] well I was wondering what if you all were to get a pet like if you were to move into an apartment or a house somewhere what would you get
[speaker001:] uh well um first off we'd probably wind up with a uh cat or maybe a puppy uh I'm partial towards the larger dogs um
[speaker002:] um-hum um-hum
[speaker001:] our last we we've had a couple of cats before we moved on campus uh had a hamster or two they were they got to be a lot of fun
[speaker002:] um-hum a hamster um oh yeah
[speaker001:] uh it's amazing how much character you can