[speaker001:] any pets
[speaker002:] yes I have one Chihuahua that's fourteen years old
[speaker001:] wow
[speaker002:] do you
[speaker001:] I have two cats
[speaker002:] oh uh-huh there's been a time when we had as many as like four pets when our children were growing up and everything you know but they died off one by one and that's it
[speaker001:] uh-huh yeah I bet you're attached to your Chihuahua
[speaker002:] yeah yeah cause they're just they are kind of like a baby you know they're
[speaker001:] yeah they are so little and cute
[speaker002:] you have to carry them around you know they can't do a lot
[speaker001:] yeah they are so little and cute
[speaker002:] right uh but well our cat died two years ago and she was eighteen years old well I am telling you this because you have cats
[speaker001:] wow yeah eighteen
[speaker002:] so she lived a long time
[speaker001:] was it an inside or outside cat
[speaker002:] well uh kind of both uh
[speaker001:] that's what mine are
[speaker002:] she had always been almost an entirely outdoor cat except we have a little door you know where she could come in
[speaker001:] uh-huh uh-huh
[speaker002:] but then as she got real old then she went out less and less and then not at all you know the last year or so
[speaker001:] right right right
[speaker002:] so uh
[speaker001:] huh yeah mine are two characters they're only
[speaker002:] what do your cats look like
[speaker001:] oh I have one that is a calico and she is not very friendly and I have one that is uh uh yellow and white long hair
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] and in the summer time we have to get him shaved and it's the funniest looking thing you have ever seen
[speaker002:] oh yeah to you to have him skin I mean his hair
[speaker001:] his fur shaved because he he mats up so bad
[speaker002:] oh oh
[speaker001:] and he doesn't lick his coat
[speaker002:] he doesn't
[speaker001:] and he gets great big old knots all over him and then when you go pick him up he looks so funny it looks like a cat going out for aerobics
[speaker002:] oh my goodness
[speaker001:] cause they don't shave you know their legs
[speaker002:] oh yeah I don't think I have ever seen a cat sheared like that
[speaker001:] no it's real strange  they call it a lion cut they shave it all the way to the collar it's really funny he's real friendly he acts like a dog
[speaker002:] oh my I bet
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] do your cats get along well
[speaker001:] no they don't like each other at all they really don't that is really strange
[speaker002:] oh now we do a lot uh we our daughters are like in their late twenties and one of them has a Shelty
[speaker001:] uh-huh uh-huh
[speaker002:] and uh so any time she is traveling or she is working a lot or whatever all kinds of reasons her dog is here a lot you know
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] and uh its a very pretty dog you know looks like a little miniature collie
[speaker001:] right oh really
[speaker002:] uh-huh that looks just like Lassie except in miniature
[speaker001:] oh neat
[speaker002:] but uh it is a real pretty little dog but uh I don't know if all of them are that way or not its a real shy dog it really only likes like my daughter and us you know
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] and uh otherwise it'll go hide
[speaker001:] yeah well that is what my cats do when company comes they hide
[speaker002:] yeah well uh I uh now cats it is more usual I think to do that I don't think I have ever known a dog that would this I mean she is so shy
[speaker001:] yeah shy
[speaker002:] or what roommates she has had and all if the dog comes out and sees it is not my daughter she goes back under the bed she won't even come out that's why we have to keep her so much because she won't come out for anybody else
[speaker001:] oh my word that is shy wow does your dog and your daughter's dog get along
[speaker002:] yeah yeah they don't uh uh I mean they know each other and all that but they I mean they don't play or anything but my Chihuahua is older she doesn't care any thing about playing we have promised her that
[speaker001:] get in each other's way yeah
[speaker002:] she we are not going to get any more pets until she is gone she is going to be an only child
[speaker001:] yeah yeah
[speaker002:] because every when we got her she was like one of four pets
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] uh
[speaker001:] and now this is her time
[speaker002:] right right we had a
[speaker001:] well those are so cute I just adore them
[speaker002:] yeah well of course this one's
[speaker001:] do you carry it a lot with you in the car and stuff
[speaker002:] oh yeah trying to make a long story short we stopped at a service station several months ago and then when we got home I said well you get the dog I will get the baby I had the grandchild in the backseat
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] no dog the dog had hopped out at the service station to go to the bathroom and uh we didn't know it until we got home and I mean you talk about somebody being frantic and upset and and it took us three days of walking that little town and talking to everybody and handing out posters and pictures with pictures of the dog
[speaker001:] oh my word how'd you find it
[speaker002:] well somebody looked at the picture on the poster well not poster I made you know xerox copies looked at the picture and said I saw that dog Sunday and he directed me to who
[speaker001:] yeah