[speaker001:] okay well why did your roommate get a dog
[speaker002:] I really don't know he kind of moved out entirely and um was living with his girlfriend in this apartment and they had gone ahead and gotten this Rottweiler puppy and next thing I knew well he went ahead and kept uh the room here kept paying for it after he graduated and next thing I knew they had kicked the Rottweiler out so he came back home with it
[speaker001:] oh
[speaker002:] we've got a big yard here and he can run around out there but he's pretty rough I'm getting a lot of scars on my hands
[speaker001:] oh that's good
[speaker002:] arms and stuff
[speaker001:] well is he teething
[speaker002:] yeah and it's it's getting kind of rough in fact he'll even chew on your face if you make the right kind of noise
[speaker001:] yeah oh yuck oh yuck well I have a um I have a well I call her my a puppy but she's actually going to ten and uh had her all ten years and she she'll rough house with you but she's she's learned very quickly when enough is enough
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] but she loves to play and stuff but I don't know she's she's I'm getting ready to I'm fixing to move out in on my own
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] and she's going with me and I mean that's I I'm thinking that she's going to be one of my main sources of of companionship in in the beginning
[speaker002:] do you um think about her as defensive kind of maybe tool or something
[speaker001:] you mean a as far as protection house protection
[speaker002:] nah protecting you and the house
[speaker001:] oh no no no she had a stroke about two years ago she's blind
[speaker002:] uh
[speaker001:] so no no she she's strictly the lovable type
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] so no she's she's too little to do that
[speaker002:] I live downtown and the neighborhood's pretty and I like the um the idea of having a a good mean strong dog around we've had some in the past and it's really paid off I
[speaker001:] so this is this is not your first experience with with a dog
[speaker002:] no no we've had two other ones here at this house and the last one was well the guy said it was half wolf and it really had that look yellow eyes it was very intelligent but there was man if it got the chance it wouldn't leave anything alive in the area
[speaker001:] whoa
[speaker002:] cats and squirrels and stuff like that I can remember going for a jog one day with it and it got hold of a baby squirrel
[speaker001:] oh
[speaker002:] and you know there really wasn't a whole lot that could be done other than let it go ahead and finish it off at that point
[speaker001:] um um well uh let's see a lot of the uh I don't know if you've I've I've been I've heard about a lot of studies and stuff and they said that um people that have pets have a lower incidence of um heart disease and stuff like that
[speaker002:] yeah I believe that and I believe it
[speaker001:] yeah you take out all your aggressions on the dog
[speaker002:] and plus having something to care for and somebody that cares for you
[speaker001:] yeah yeah
[speaker002:] they're they're good companions absolutely
[speaker001:] it's a lot better than coming home to an empty house
[speaker002:] yeah what what do they call that unconditional um
[speaker001:] so
[speaker002:] uh that kind of love where there's just no expectations or anything like that
[speaker001:] oh yeah yeah I I know what you're talking about yeah
[speaker002:] totally undevoted totally devoted uh
[speaker001:] yeah totally I mean because I mean they know no other no other kind
[speaker002:] yeah I used to have a chicken I only had it for a few months though and one of the dogs around here got a hold of it
[speaker001:] a chicken
[speaker002:] and see the when I moved in here the neighbors had chickens and even though this is downtown they had a rooster over there and it woke me up every morning a little bit after sunrise and my uncle found this chicken in his neighborhood and one night when it roosted nearby he went ahead and grabbed it and asked if I wanted it and brought it on over Ethel a little black bantam
[speaker001:] Ethel that's cute did did she do eggs I mean did you did you did she lay eggs and stuff
[speaker002:] uh she didn't hang around long enough tried trimming her wings but she kept getting out
[speaker001:] oh oh yeah yeah
[speaker002:] I'm not really sure what happened to her
[speaker001:] gosh yeah the chicken that got loose in the city
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] so
[speaker002:] we had a cat recently too but it decided that it just didn't like staying inside all the time it kept wanting out so I'd go ahead and let it out and it got till it got more and more feral
[speaker001:] um-hum um-hum
[speaker002:] and next thing I knew man it'd gotten till it really smelled of the outside
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] it had found some horrible smell that it liked and when it would come in you couldn't couldn't stand being near it and one day it went ahead and marked the couches in the living room at that point I went ahead and banished it and that was it no more cat
[speaker001:] well is is is your Rottweiler mainly an indoor dog or an outdoor dog
[speaker002:] well we're trying to get her to be more and more of an outdoor dog right now she's indoors she's still a puppy and needs a lot of social interaction
[speaker001:] right
[speaker002:] so you come home and she's dying to come in barks at night howls lonely
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] so we go and let her in
[speaker001:] um-hum well and that's it was I know growing up I had I had several dogs that were outside
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] and Pooh Bear is inside is an inside dog but and and I found that it's so much easier to socialize with her because she's inside and I can do other things with her there
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] whereas I don't have to go outside to play with her you know what I'm saying
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] so I think it's I don't know I