[speaker001:] okay well do you have any pets
[speaker002:] yes I do uh uh in fact I'm living with three cats at the moment uh one of them is mine one of them is my daughter's and one of them is um partially mine and partially hers I guess
[speaker001:] ah  uh so um
[speaker002:] I I'm and I'm an absolute nut about cats um I didn't I used to have dogs and cats um and uh the dogs have died and those original cats have died and we've taken these on and uh I I just love them I think they're wonderful what about you
[speaker001:] we have uh one dog no kids and one dog so um we
[speaker002:] uh-huh what what kind of dog
[speaker001:] we have a Golden Retriever
[speaker002:] oh we that's what we had yeah we loved them yeah
[speaker001:] oh really yeah she's a mess
[speaker002:] yeah they uh we had as I say two and then uh gave uh the kids' grandparents one and they got another one and so I mean there've been four sort of in the family around they're sweet dogs
[speaker001:] wow yeah they I mean they go through a a terror a time
[speaker002:] yeah how old
[speaker001:] um she's let's see I guess she's about eleven months
[speaker002:] oh well yes you still you're still at the puppy stage yeah
[speaker001:] so she's yeah and they say they stay puppies for a couple of years so
[speaker002:] yes you're right
[speaker001:] um but she you know we took her through obedience school back when at four four or five months
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] and then we had her fixed at around seven months because I couldn't handle her
[speaker002:] um-hum being in heat and all that yeah
[speaker001:] yes I was so worried the whole time that you know a dog was going to jump the fence and
[speaker002:] yeah right
[speaker001:] and we decided that we weren't going to breed her and and stuff because there we felt there were enough dogs and
[speaker002:] right and that's true all ours are fixed too
[speaker001:] and uh so um we went ahead and had her fixed while she was in heat and um
[speaker002:] yeah yeah yeah
[speaker001:] but she's she's pretty smart although she you know she gets angry and she's just like a child when she um oh if she's so into what she's doing you know she won't listen to you listen to a command listen to a command well like um
[speaker002:] oh really
[speaker001:] okay I'm trying to think of an example if we're sitting on the couch and she wants to play with you and you say no you know off
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] and then she'll she'll come and stick one paw up and then you take her paw and set it off well she starts doing it and she gets frustrated that you're telling her no so it turns into this this uh almost a fight you know it's like you can't tell me that you know so she starts losing her patience and then we lose our patience
[speaker002:] yeah yeah what does she do when she loses her patience
[speaker001:] um
[speaker002:] I mean does she bite or bark or
[speaker001:] um no she bites a lot but I mean it's sometimes it's it's not angry but sometimes it is
[speaker002:] oh that's unusual because they don't usually bite
[speaker001:] yeah yeah they well she's real mouthy you know and that's one thing I think with being retrievers is um
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] you know everything goes into their mouth and and she just wants attention but she gets angry that you're not giving her the attention
[speaker002:] right uh-huh uh-huh
[speaker001:] and then when you you know like like she goes and steals things um oh we have to keep the doors to our bedrooms closed and she'll go in and if she gets in there she'll go in and pick a teddy bear off this little rocking chair
[speaker002:] uh-huh oh really
[speaker001:] and she'll bring it in and she'll kind of show it to she'll stand there until you see her and then as soon as you see her she takes off and it's like come get me
[speaker002:] oh my goodness well ours didn't do that ours were much quieter but I had I did have a child at the time and so it may be that the child was sort of all this other stuff for them I don't know
[speaker001:] yeah yeah I think so and also having other dogs or having other animals
[speaker002:] uh yes we we we have found that with with all of our pets is that we we've never had just one because we somehow feel like they need another one I don't know if that's a human thought and not an animal thought or what but
[speaker001:] no I think it's a animal thought too because they do tend to be pack dogs you know
[speaker002:] yeah um-hum um-hum
[speaker001:] and they because she loves uh we have a neighbor down the street that has a dog and um we there's lots of dogs in our neighborhood but the one down the street she just goes crazy over I mean you'd think that that dog was Elvis or something she just goes hog wild over that dog and
[speaker002:] yeah yeah
[speaker001:] and um they have a lot of fun together but she doesn't do that with other dogs it's just that one one friend
[speaker002:] yeah yeah well and I I think they they can be territorial so you you know have to maybe some of them they're more comfortable with than others but
[speaker001:] but we did get her though because we'd heard that they were good with kids so
[speaker002:] oh they and then they are I mean my son would just you know and and you've heard the stories I'm sure but you know everything from using his little wooden hammer on her head to all sorts of things and um she would just move over you know I mean and that was that was the worst that ever happened
[speaker001:] yeah