[speaker001:] now do you have any pets
[speaker002:] uh yes we currently have three we have two cats and a dog
[speaker001:] oh you do
[speaker002:] well we have quite a big household here
[speaker001:] oh my goodness are they uh a specialty kind of um cats or
[speaker002:] well they're um uh the we have a solid black one that's kind of long hair and uh but he's I don't know he's has a little Persian in him but we're not not sure how much and
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] that we inherited the neighbors uh Persian and when they had to move to a place that wouldn't allow cats so uh he was like a full full blooded Persian um and then our dog's a big old golden retriever
[speaker001:] oh my um-hum
[speaker002:] how about you you have some
[speaker001:] well we have uh a cat and a dog and a turtle
[speaker002:] and a turtle hm
[speaker001:] a turtle we have a turtle uh the the turtle kind of was inherited from the school where I teach the uh children found it last year going out through the uh property it's just a small one it's not one of those large ones at all it's one a very very small turtle
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] and they had it in their classroom all year long almost and were going to let it go and I didn't have the heart it it wasn't even my classroom it was the next door classroom I didn't have the heart to watch them let it go so I said I would keep it during the summer time so uh we are
[speaker002:] oh was it well we we were in uh similar we kind of did a did a similar thing uh we inherited a lizard from my uh my son's uh uh class
[speaker001:] oh gee
[speaker002:] and uh it it it it it finally it died about two weeks ago so my son had a uh yeah uh had had a little funeral he made a little coffin and he buried it in the yard and made a little cross for it
[speaker001:] oh oh uh-huh oh my goodness well you know and it's it's it's very hard for me to have any living uh creatures and and then uh sort of watch them disappear it was no trouble to have this turtle it has uh tank and then they don't do anything and it's not large
[speaker002:] yeah yeah yeah
[speaker001:] and uh our cat uh is a another little story we've had the cat for several years now but um uh uh when my my children uh started school at Cistercian school up in Irving you might be familiar with it since you're from the general location it's a boys school well anyway uh one of the persons in the car pool
[speaker002:] okay
[speaker001:] uh their cats were always having kittens and uh my husband was driving the car pool one day he was off from work and he said he'd accept one of the cats now I had been avoiding this for years
[speaker002:] oh had you
[speaker001:] but he said that when the cats were weaned that we would take one of the cats
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] now I don't really mind I don't really mind but I know that once you take a little living creature there that there's another responsibility in in the house and uh
[speaker002:] yes yes there is and uh
[speaker001:] so we have uh a uh what do we have Siamese all the Siamese traits came out in this one particular cat it's not a thoroughbred Siamese
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] but it looks if you were to see it you'd say oh you have a Siamese cat but I know it's not a thoroughbred but it it and we have had her for many
[speaker002:] it looks Siamese yeah
[speaker001:] oh gosh I think we've had her almost eight years now
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] seven years or something
[speaker002:] well we just had a uh uh oh it happened about a year ago we had a cat that we had for uh twenty years uh the the year we got married we we got the cat and she finally uh died right after uh Christmas a a year ago
[speaker001:] oh my  oh my
[speaker002:] and that was kind of uh uh a sad parting but she had a little bit of Siamese
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] uh if you looked at her face you'd you'd picture Siamese although she was solid black too but
[speaker001:] right um-hum
[speaker002:] um uh my wife uh uh uh kind of missed her because she was uh a cat you could hold in your lap and stuff the two cats we have now don't care at all to be
[speaker001:] oh I see
[speaker002:] held or anything like that
[speaker001:] um-hum um-hum well our our cat is um is not the most lap cat although she will uh when she's uh in the right mood uh you know let you hold her on her lap uh and you know she's not uh
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] uh a a bad cat but uh she she kind of is her own cat in in her own way although as I said she will uh she will come around you and she will let you hold her but she's not really a lap cat hum-um
[speaker002:] yeah yeah on on her own terms and what kind of what kind of dog do you have
[speaker001:] yeah oh we have a um a black uh Lab
[speaker002:] oh okay yeah they're friendly too
[speaker001:] and actually it's a cross between a golden and a black so it has longer hair
[speaker002:] oh okay
[speaker001:] and we've we've had her now for um oh about almost ten or eleven years now
[speaker002:] is is she a real a real friendly type of dog
[speaker001:] oh yeah