[speaker001:] okay good morning now do you have any pets
[speaker002:] I've got three dogs
[speaker001:] three dogs my goodness what kind of dogs do you have
[speaker002:] uh-huh um a Heinz Fifty Seven a Golden retriever and a a kind of a Labrador retriever but he's a mutt
[speaker001:] Heinz Fifty Seven
[speaker002:] yeah but he I've got a thirty pound one a sixty pound one and a seventy five pound dog
[speaker001:] my goodness gracious that uh gives you a lot of work doesn't it
[speaker002:] yes the the first two was planned the last one was an accident
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] um-hum do you have any
[speaker001:] well I my dog uh was just sort of a mixture of two and I can't tell you the kinds anymore died about uh six or eight months ago and uh her name was Gena
[speaker002:] oh um-hum
[speaker001:] and she was a very very sweet dog we loved her very very much but the pet that is of great interest that maybe uh you would enjoy hearing about
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] about um twenty five twenty six years ago my brother-in-law showed up in my front yard pulling a trailer and in this trailer he had a pony
[speaker002:] uh-huh yes
[speaker001:] which I didn't know he was bringing and so over the weekend I had to go out and find some wood and and put up some kind of a structure to house that pony because he a stall because he brought the pony to my children
[speaker002:] uh-huh stall uh-huh
[speaker001:] and that pony lived with us for about twenty five years and uh the
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] his name is Sandy and he was a champion jumper in Chicago
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] it turned out that my brother-in-law's daughter had had a ponies in a at a certain place out there and it caught on fire and they they got out there and got all the ponies out and these people were so happy that they gave her this pony for saving the rest of them
[speaker002:] um-hum oh
[speaker001:] and as I say we had Sandy for about twenty six years
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] he has his own little house back there and um two acres of ground to
[speaker002:] do you still have him
[speaker001:] no he died about a year ago he was thirty one years old which is very old for a pony they know he was a medium to large size pony
[speaker002:] ooh yeah yeah how big was he
[speaker001:] and uh I used to know the different uh breakdown yeah and uh he he was really a nice guy I really can't complain about Sandy
[speaker002:] hands yes oh I've got a I've got two horses
[speaker001:] you have two horses well tell me what what what things do you do with those those horses to enjoy them
[speaker002:] uh yes also they're pets I ride them some and yeah I ride them some but they're they're the they come when you call and
[speaker001:] oh okay you you ride them uh-huh um-hum
[speaker002:] and you know nuzzle you and play with you and and uh and just they're pets
[speaker001:] my goodness you are a busy lady with two ponies and three dogs
[speaker002:] three dogs no cats
[speaker001:] I'm yeah I'm afraid the cat would be scared to death I'd I have I have a cat a pony a cat pony I have a cat also whose name is Babe
[speaker002:] um-hum um-hum
[speaker001:] and it used to be in the old days I had uh mothers and father cats you know and then we'd have a of six or eight and litters around and so forth and this is the only one that's left from the whole big batch that uh lived through the years when my children were at home
[speaker002:] uh-huh um-hum
[speaker001:] now the pony has died the dog has died and the three children have moved out and have their own homes and so my wife and I and Babe are the ones left on the farm now
[speaker002:] the dogs died and you've and you are you gonna are you gonna get another dog or any more pets
[speaker001:] we are so busy right now trying to take care of ourselves that uh I don't know how we can handle any other pets right now
[speaker002:] um-hum yeah
[speaker001:] if things ever calm down why we'd like to have pets again I I enjoyed uh Gena she was a very sweet dog but I hate to have her she was an outside dog and I hated to have her on a chain all of her life
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] but that's basically what she had to do we could let her loose and let her run oh for an hour or two every day but we had to make certain she didn't get off the property or get up to the highway and
[speaker002:] see my three are in in anywhere they wanna be dogs they're they're indoor uh they always sleep indoors
[speaker001:] um-hum uh-huh well mine mine have always slept outdoors
[speaker002:] and
[speaker001:] and well they had their own house
[speaker002:] dogs are dogs are um at least dogs are um uh pack animals and uh you are their pack
[speaker001:] um-hum yep they certainly depend on you
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] but uh my dog Gena as I say she had her own house and she was warm and comfortable in there and
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] other times why she could go in the in the barn with the pony and uh they got along fine so they had their own great big house back there I have several other acres of ground that I normally planted corn
[speaker002:] yeah uh-huh uh-huh
[speaker001:] so I have a big enough building back there I had to build this new building to put the pony in the little one I built only lasted about two years and so he had to move into his new castle
[speaker002:] oh goodness  yeah a barn with the hay and everything else in it the feed
[speaker001:] yes he had the works so I'm sure that uh Sandy had a a good life he was fed twice a day and had his own two acres to roam in and to graze and so forth
[speaker002:] um