[speaker002:] I'm doing fine
[speaker001:] um my name's yeah I'm from uh New York where you from
[speaker002:] what's what was your name
[speaker001:] uh Brad LeMeaux
[speaker002:] oh I'm Nola and I'm in Plano Texas
[speaker001:] Nola in Texas I I talked to someone from Texas yesterday where in Texas you say
[speaker002:] it's Plano it's just north of Dallas
[speaker001:] okay you have pets
[speaker002:] uh oh pets yes
[speaker001:] do you have pets yeah that's what the topic's supposed to be
[speaker002:] yeah I didn't quite understand what you said I'm sorry
[speaker001:] I got my New York accent
[speaker002:] we don't have uh I grew up in New Jersey but it's been a long time since I lived there did you already push the one okay um yeah we have fish that's it
[speaker001:] yes that's pretty easy
[speaker002:] yeah it's uh uh uh neither my husband or I really wanted to take care of cats or dogs or anything like that so and the girls kind of wanted something we have four uh well now we have four girls when we got the fish to start with we had two or three but um
[speaker001:] what the
[speaker002:] for some reason I just decided to start a fish tank and set up a ten gallon fish tank and it started with the some uh we had a real hard time getting it established tried the goldfish and they were just filthy could not keep the tank clean um eventually I took them back to the store and started started all over again and I had another couple of kinds that ate each other so that bunch didn't work either
[speaker001:] what type were they like sicklets and stuff like that
[speaker002:] um there were some neons and a couple of other kind I can't remember what they were
[speaker001:] I don't know if the
[speaker002:] but but they didn't get along very well whatever they were
[speaker001:] I I had fish that were like they were called sicklets a type of family this is when I was a kid they they had um what are they called like oscars and uh I forgot the different names that they had but they would eat eat they would actually they ate when they got big enough they would eat goldfish we would buy goldfish and feed them to them
[speaker002:] yeah huh well these were not supposed to be an aggressive kind like that but they were and uh they I could see them picking on each other
[speaker001:] yeah I I agree with that I I I um I don't really wanna deal with any other pets except for stuff like fish I I thought about I've often thought about getting a fish tank but even that's too much work for me
[speaker002:] yeah yeah anyway I finally got rid of those those all killed each other off and I cleaned the tank up again and got it all fixed again and so established and I got about half a dozen guppies from a friend and they just bred and bred and bred and they're uh there must've been a hundred guppies in that tank and I had I took I must've taken thirty or forty of them at a time back to the store two or three different times because there were so many of them I couldn't keep them down but
[speaker001:] and what did they do they they just took them back
[speaker002:] they took them back and gave me a credit of about a dollar each time
[speaker001:] yeah really yeah that's
[speaker002:] so yeah helped to buy fish food and filters
[speaker001:] yeah that's what my friend used to do with his other fish he used to sell them back to the store they'd buy them but uh that's cool that's
[speaker002:] uh-huh but but but uh then I I I I went for a while where um while I was pregnant with our new little baby we uh I I just kept forgetting to clean the fish tank and it was really dirty for a long time but those fish still lived in there and um finally I cleaned the tank out and most of them had disappeared um and I don't think I've got any males in there anymore so they're not multiplying anymore
[speaker001:] that's easier
[speaker002:] yeah yeah I need to get a new um algae eater though
[speaker001:] do you do you still you still have guppies
[speaker002:] yep there's still there's about a dozen guppies in there right now
[speaker001:] so you you stayed with the guppies great great yeah the fish are fun
[speaker002:] so but that's the only thing we've got yes you may I know sorry and and so you have fish or do you have
[speaker001:] no I I used to have fish when I was a kid
[speaker002:] but you don't have anything right now
[speaker001:] but I don't have anything now I I guess when I moved out of my parent's house I uh gave my fish to my friends and fish tank I think I gave to someone else um but I thought a few years ago go and get one but I've moved around so much recently
[speaker002:] yeah it's kind of a problem moving them
[speaker001:] yeah they're not that easy but although it like living in New York City there's definitely no other pet that you would want I mean people some people a lot of people have cats some people have dogs I mean I've I've even seen big big dogs in small apartments and I don't really see that
[speaker002:] you feel sorry for them
[speaker001:] yeah someday if I move out into the country I like it like a you know like a Labrador or something like that some you know bigger dog that could kind of run around outside and stuff
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] but yeah you see these big dog I mean I see this guy in my building with some I think it's like a golden retriever or something like that and he he's good though he takes him out all the time or her out all the time
[speaker002:] uh-huh you'd have to do it an awful lot though
[speaker001:] yeah this guy he seems like he runs and stuff and runs with the dog so he probably gets in enough exercise
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] but you know lot