[speaker001:] well you have do you have any pets
[speaker002:] yeah I do I have a like a seven and a half year old dog
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] and he's kind of a big Benji long hair and he's white and he's the baby of the house
[speaker001:] uh-huh uh-huh
[speaker002:] and tonight he has a friend visiting who's a pit bull so they're kind of running around chewing on things
[speaker001:] uh-huh hm uh-huh yeah do you have any children or
[speaker002:] uh we have a child but he's like twenty so he's not like a chip you know like a little kid anymore
[speaker001:] oh okay I see yeah uh-huh so whether um why do you have a dog what uh-huh
[speaker002:] and uh why well actually we bought him for my son's thirteenth birthday and he's just been with us ever since and uh
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] we spend more on him on his haircuts and medical attention than we do ourselves
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] and that's what pets are like
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] but he's like uh you got to have him when you come home and there's nobody here he's always here and
[speaker001:] yeah uh-huh
[speaker002:] so it's nice nice to have him there
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] what about you how come you don't have a pet
[speaker001:] well mainly because it's just uh at this point in life I've had to be available to travel and we live in an apartment right now so um they're not even allowed here
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] but uh when I was growing up I always had cats and and then um later I guess uh the last few years that I was at home my mother and father got a dog and I learned to really appreciate dogs as well they're totally different types of pets but um I see how dogs are really faithful friends and
[speaker002:] yeah yeah we were talking earlier tonight one of the ladies that's visiting with us tonight her dog is her life
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] yeah and she has she has a German Shepherd tried to tell her to get a husband and for something and let the dog go but she's not for that she's in control she's in control with the Shepherd
[speaker001:] uh-huh yeah okay yeah that's true yeah my dad I think uh finds that he really enjoys his dog he says he's the best friend he has but uh
[speaker002:] but uh yeah oh yeah uh it's just
[speaker001:] I don't know that's kind of sad though
[speaker002:] I know our dog takes a nap everyday with my wife and he jumps right up in the bed and the whole bit
[speaker001:] um-hum uh-huh
[speaker002:] it's just when we first got him we didn't like dogs around the house or in the house and
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] but now we put up with about anything
[speaker001:] um-hum yeah well I've seen that there's there's a lot of um you really have to appreciate their good qualities because there there are problems yeah they leave a lot of hair around and
[speaker002:] yeah yeah it it it's if like now you have to vacuum three or four times a week and it just I we didn't used to have to do that but uh
[speaker001:] um-hum uh-huh yeah but obviously you find him worth it or you'd get rid of him
[speaker002:] but uh yeah yeah could never get rid of him yeah you get you get attached I think that like maybe the first year of his life we didn't get attached
[speaker001:] yeah uh-huh
[speaker002:] we were kind of timid about it and because we'd we'd all we'd all had dogs as kids and lost them or something and and we do we were afraid to but he kind of rooted his way in
[speaker001:] um-hum yeah
[speaker002:] and hey I know at times when he's had emergency problems we're just a nervous wreck
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] so that's that's part of being a pet owner these days
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] and I don't know but cats I don't know you can have a cat in the apartment couldn't you
[speaker001:] isn't it well not this one I it's not allowed here but
[speaker002:] oh
[speaker001:] yeah the thing I like about cats is they're more independent you can leave them and they can take better care of themselves than a dog it seems like you know depends
[speaker002:] yeah um we never had much luck with cats we had some when we lived in New Mexico and coyotes ate them so
[speaker001:] oh wow yeah
[speaker002:] we were kind of timid about having cats and again plus we we found out that when they were kittens we really liked them and as they got older they kind of ignored us
[speaker001:] yeah um-hum yeah they'll do that sometimes
[speaker002:] so but with a dog they don't do that
[speaker001:] so um-hum
[speaker002:] when I was a kid I I raised parakeets
[speaker001:] oh really uh-huh
[speaker002:] so those were I always thought those were good pets to have extremely messy but
[speaker001:] um-hum yeah yeah oh I had goldfish but I didn't think much of those they were they don't have any personality
[speaker002:] yeah they're they're fun but I like to look at fish one of our favorite restaurants here in town
[speaker001:] so um-hum
[speaker002:] has a humongous fish tank and I like to go there just uh the food's not that great but a fish tank's wonderful to look at them you know floating around
[speaker001:] yeah yeah
[speaker002:] matter fact we got two dogs fighting right now yeah
[speaker001:] do you well maybe I better let you go and go solve the conflict there
[speaker002:] yeah well there's enough people here actually the pit bull is from Dallas he lives up he lives up there but they're down visiting and
[speaker001:] uh-huh oh really uh-huh
[speaker002:] so it's kind of unusual to have two dogs in the house
[speaker001:] uh-huh