[speaker001:] okay well do you have a pet
[speaker002:] I have two cats
[speaker001:] two cats you're lucky
[speaker002:] and do and oh and two fish
[speaker001:] you have two fish
[speaker002:] and what do you have
[speaker001:] well uh my husband you know how sometimes when you marry someone that you get along on everything except one major thing
[speaker002:] oh no
[speaker001:] my husband is a hunter fisherman outdoorsman Marlboro type person who had to have a sporting dog so we have a black Labrador
[speaker002:] um
[speaker001:] beautiful gorgeous black Labrador but to me he belongs up in the field you know in the ranch in the farm and
[speaker002:] right does he sleep in your house
[speaker001:] well because we finally negotiated that I was losing my mind um he sleeps in the laundry room and then he goes out for the day but this this is a beautiful dog and he is wonderful with our little girls and he is he's comes from a purebred line and there's nothing you could say bad about him except that I was more of a cat or a small dog person that you could sit in the chair and cuddle
[speaker002:] right right
[speaker001:] and this is huge you know of course when he runs around the yard he just digs he doesn't know that he's tearing up things but he does
[speaker002:] yeah yep
[speaker001:] and the worst part that I had with him he's he's three now was when he was uh about eight months old and I did not know what to expect from a dog having not had one
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] and I left him in the kitchen with the little baby gates up while I was gone for about an hour and I came home and he had ripped my wallpaper off my wall
[speaker002:] oh my word
[speaker001:] and it was in the floor and I just about lost it and I called and said come home and get your dog and so he said well puppies just chew when they're nervous and well I wish you had told me you know and it was about eight months later he ate a piece of a linoleum he kept picking at it and I didn't know the the tile in the kitchen and picked a hole in it
[speaker002:] oh dear
[speaker001:] so the last thing he did was when I had set out a whole lot of begonias in the back yard and he dug them all up and brought them to the porch and I told my husband I said you know it's either me or the dog and he looked at me like well you know so he loves this dog and every night when he comes home from work he hugs it and talks to him and he's a good dog
[speaker002:] good bye um-hum
[speaker001:] so it's one of those things I'm just having to get used to and that's why I laughed when they called it the topic I thought oh boy do I have a pet
[speaker002:] oh
[speaker001:] but I I grew up with cats and I'm very comfortable yeah
[speaker002:] I love my cats I had one cat for eighteen years I got her when I lived in Hawaii
[speaker001:] oh
[speaker002:] before I even got married I had my cat
[speaker001:] she's old isn't she oh I started to say then you broke your heart
[speaker002:] well she I had to have her put to sleep last June oh it was awful it was just awful but and she just sat there on my lap you know she just just waited and
[speaker001:] oh oh bless your heart that makes me feel so bad
[speaker002:] oh it was awful but her hair but the bad thing was though she would pee in my husband's shoes you know and she just liked his shoes and he'd have to dress hundred dollar shoes
[speaker001:] yeah oh no  oh oh no
[speaker002:] oh it's just bad and my closet and it was oh so sick
[speaker001:] oh that's awful I've never heard of that before
[speaker002:] it oh it's just terrible and once she did it you know then she would I mean she wouldn't if our shoes sat side by side she would pee in my husband's shoes she must have known he didn't like her or something
[speaker001:] um-hum or the smell or something
[speaker002:] oh anyway I've I've and I would shut I would bar the closet doors and I would carpet carpet vacuum uh clean the carpets and oh dear it was just awful that was very funny
[speaker001:] uh-huh well does now does your cat sleep in the house they are they're house cats
[speaker002:] I uh well I have two cats right now and of course they sleep with my kids my kids my my fourteen year old son has an extra pillow on his bed just for the cat
[speaker001:] yeah oh yeah good oh but the cat doesn't destruct does it see it doesn't do anything
[speaker002:] oh no I won't I'm not gonna have a dog we've had two dogs
[speaker001:] see
[speaker002:] and um they both got ran over after we've had them for several years just nice little outside dogs but
[speaker001:] oh no yeah
[speaker002:] were just my kids' friends they would go jogging I they would go with me when I would go running and and the last one got hit um as she was following my one of my sons across the road to the school
[speaker001:] oh oh no oh that is
[speaker002:] it was awful it was just and it just it's too heartbreaking but they do dig up and they just they just wreck things and I'm not a dog person
[speaker001:] they do wreck things well I'm not either I'm not either and it's just been
[speaker002:] ooh I wouldn't want a lab it sounds beautiful but but
[speaker001:] he's beautiful but it's just one of those concessions I just had to make but I kind of ignore him now today's the first cold we've had in Texas and it's really cold and drizzly and it's freezing and people are doing their fires
[speaker002:] um
[speaker001:] and I brought him in because he's just a wet mess out there and he's in the laundry room with this little carpet square and he's just huddled up like if you'll be nice to me I won't make any trouble you know again and then my daughters both have hamsters
[speaker002:] oh and how old are your girls
[speaker001:] and I I they're eleven and eight and I gave in at Christmas and they have they keep their cages real clean it always smells of cedar and they just sleep and eat bits of apple and carrots and
[speaker002:] oh yeah sure
[speaker001:] I think they're cutting us off oh
[speaker002:] no that's somebody's trying to cut in on my line and I don't want to answer I'll just wait no I've I've got incoming calls and I don't know why somebody's calling
[speaker001:] oh okay okay oh okay
[speaker002:] I I hate to cut it off I think they would cut us off so we'll just wait whoever it is will call back
[speaker001:] I understand okay well they'll cut us off pretty soon
[speaker002:] well it's somebody calling for my kids you know jeez actually it's my son I know it is my older boy he never likes to come home from school but anyway that's what we have and I have I've tried to start a fish fish tank and I keep losing all my fish
[speaker001:] yeah I know  how does salt water salt water or basic yeah yeah
[speaker002:] no just regular water