[speaker001:] well do you have any pets
[speaker002:] yes I do I have a dog named Grisly who's a ten year old uh mixed breed between Golden Retriever Afghan Hound and Chow and I have a pair of box turtles
[speaker001:] oh oh I used to have box turtles um well years ago when I was growing up I
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] I really liked them um
[speaker002:] oh yeah I do too Lucky and Spot that's their names and they live in an aquarium without water in my family room and my dog thinks he's a mother turtle and always has his nose all around my turtle box
[speaker001:] oh
[speaker002:] so do you have any pets now
[speaker001:] yes um we have one dog a Bichon Frise um our friends in Houston bred the dogs I had never heard of them
[speaker002:] no I haven't either
[speaker001:] they're um they're all white and they're small and um and fluffy they don't shed I guess they are distantly related to a poodle but they're not very well known in this country and they're not um high strung or over bred
[speaker002:] oh and how big do they get
[speaker001:] um ours is uh on the small end and she's about ten pounds and they range from probably ten to sixteen pounds
[speaker002:] oh that's interesting
[speaker001:] and they love people um and kids and that was something we were looking for um our our love is Golden Retrievers and that's what we had intended to get in Houston but we had a small yard and a pool and knowing how they love to dig and love the water um and we thought that was kind of a tough climate
[speaker002:] yes the water yes yeah
[speaker001:] so uh we ended up getting this and uh my son would rather have a Golden Retriever though I think now he wants a
[speaker002:] oh
[speaker001:] a good size dog
[speaker002:] uh-huh well we've got a good size dog and we were considering getting a puppy a small house lap top dog for him because he likes other animals and for me because we used to have a miniature Dachshund and I miss having a little one
[speaker001:] oh yeah
[speaker002:] you know around the kind you have sounds very interesting though
[speaker001:] what they really are um they're really sweet dogs we've uh we thought probably our neighborhood in Houston had more of this breed than any other place just because of um the family that had them and and bred them they had five litters of puppies and and a lot of them stayed in the neighborhood because um
[speaker002:] oh uh-huh and how do you spell that breed
[speaker001:] they it's B I C H O N F R I S E
[speaker002:] F R I S E and how do you pronounce that
[speaker001:] Bichon Frise
[speaker002:] okay I'm writing it out phonetically
[speaker001:] yeah they're uh and they don't shed so they're they're good dogs for people with with allergies and they love people I mean they're
[speaker002:] yes do they bark a lot
[speaker001:] um no not really ours um ours barks more than uh than some because she spent a lot of time at our friends house we used to swap back and forth dogs that they have three dogs they had a Cockapoo and and two Bichons um
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] and she didn't bark at all until she spent time there and and um
[speaker002:] oh
[speaker001:] now it's funny she's she's a good watch dog I mean if there's
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] um she'll bark that way but she also talk a lot she
[speaker002:] yes
[speaker001:] um has a definite personality and so if we're leaving her she barks at us because she doesn't want to be left um
[speaker002:] oh does she ever mess in the house
[speaker001:] no no and they're um they're very smart dogs the circuses in Europe used to use them um for the acts they uh
[speaker002:] oh
[speaker001:] oh they'll dance on their hind legs each
[speaker002:] uh-huh oh gee
[speaker001:] um but they're very easy to train and
[speaker002:] uh-huh and about how much are they
[speaker001:] well they range I'd noticed up here they're a lot more expensive it seemed to me from the ads in the paper they run anywhere from two hundred to four hundred dollars I think which I thought was a lot
[speaker002:] and how about the and how about the person in uh Houston
[speaker001:] well she's no longer breeding them but um because her dogs um
[speaker002:] oh
[speaker001:] the the second one that she has was one of the puppies from the litter and uh the one male that she used had a tooth problem
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] and so she only bred that dog once because it had the tooth problem and did them strictly as um pets you know they weren't weren't show quality
[speaker002:] oh yes just pets yes that's what we'd rather have is just a pet instead of we used to show Saint Bernards when I was a little girl we did that every weekend
[speaker001:] right oh but yeah it takes a lot of time um
[speaker002:] yes and it's very expensive
[speaker001:] yeah um but she might have some contacts here I know originally I know that the dog's grandmother um was from Plano
[speaker002:] oh that's where I live
[speaker001:] oh that's where I live too
[speaker002:] yeah I'm at Coit and Legacy