[speaker002:] okay what kind of puppy you got
[speaker001:] well uh I think she's mostly German Shepherd uh she was uh uh a person lives across the street from me uh brought her home from work because a coworker of hers uh had this dog appear on its front doorstep somebody somebody abandoned her and she's only about oh six between six and eight six to eight weeks old
[speaker002:] uh um-hum oh
[speaker001:] and uh uh I can't understand why anyone would abandon this dog though she's almost I mean she's that this young and she's almost housebroken
[speaker002:] wow
[speaker001:] I mean she actually asks to go out and uh yeah I was
[speaker002:] that's great
[speaker001:] amazed really good temperament and very playful and affectionate good personality I don't know I can't imagine what uh would have been wrong with this dog so
[speaker002:] yeah well I I have a dog that God gave us too
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] yeah she just appeared
[speaker001:] oh really
[speaker002:] yeah my husband calls her street dog but we've had her now for about three years and I just you get so attached to them
[speaker001:] uh-huh oh yeah I had a uh last year I had another I had another German Shepherd now this one was purebred and uh he when he was about seven months old got a gastrointestinal virus and was just about on death's door but uh managed to get him to a veterinarian in time and uh and on huge doses of antibiotics and
[speaker002:] um-hum um
[speaker001:] he actually got over it with huh seven hundred dollars in vet bills
[speaker002:] wow
[speaker001:] um but he had actually was able to get him over that and then
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] and then he was gaining weight again was just getting healthy and uh he put on about fifteen to twenty pounds after the thing and then he got hit by a Cadillac
[speaker002:] oh no
[speaker001:] so I couldn't believe it that was that was really hard but
[speaker002:] oh gee
[speaker001:] and that was even harder for I was on a business trip at the time and the dog was being house sit or dog sit whatever by some friends of mine down the street so they just felt absolutely awful
[speaker002:] um-hum oh I bet
[speaker001:] and I felt felt probably worse for them than than for me because oh gosh they the uh this fellow's wife who was uh watching the dog probably she I think she loved that dog more than I did and uh
[speaker002:] oh gosh
[speaker001:] she was just really attached to it but uh it's it's unfortunate but now I've got another one so
[speaker002:] yeah yeah how long has it been since the first one
[speaker001:] um see he it it was just over a year uh it was in March of last year
[speaker002:] uh yeah
[speaker001:] so um yeah it'd been didn't didn't have one for a whole year
[speaker002:] yeah well I had I had a German Shepherd before this one and when she died it just it just I absolutely destroyed me I mean I was just you know I couldn't even talk about it for months and so I decided well that's it I'm not going to do this anymore
[speaker001:] yeah right
[speaker002:] and then God gave me this dog so
[speaker001:] my dad's like that he uh he had a beagle that he loved and uh when that Beagle passed away uh he didn't want he wasn't going to have another dog there's no way no how and then uh the
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] he the Beagle died in I guess about October and by Christmas time we went down to the pound and got him uh or I Humane Society and got uh got another one a stray and
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] she she turned out to be a great dog and we had her for six years until she just passed away recently and again dad went through the whole thing but
[speaker002:] okay yeah well you just do you can't help it's like it's like a kid
[speaker001:] mom went and yeah yeah it is well hopefully this one here Cocoa will live a full life
[speaker002:] yeah well when uh my my doggy uh that we have now uh she's she's mostly Golden Retriever
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] the vet called her uh a golden mix like who knows you know but she's uh she's that sort of strawberry blonde reddish color you know
[speaker001:] yeah right oh
[speaker002:] and uh and her nose is that pink
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] you know she doesn't have a brown nose and her eyes she's sort of unicolor you know eyes are the same color and everything so
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] I named her Rosebud
[speaker001:] huh
[speaker002:] and uh a friend of mine said she that she grew this friend of mine grew up on a farm and said that she had uh a pet cow named Rosebud and she said there's a lot of longevity in that name said my cow lived seventeen years
[speaker001:] that's not too bad the Golden Retriever's are good dogs too they're kind of like get that permanent smile to them
[speaker002:] yeah right
[speaker001:] they're always always happy I don't think I've ever seen them not look happy
[speaker002:] and she's so easy going and so sociable
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] you know she loves everybody little kids can just you know maul all over her and she just you know
[speaker001:] right this
[speaker002:] thinks it's great
[speaker001:] this this friend of mine has the well it's the same guy that was watching uh my German Shepherd when he got hit but uh went fishing with him on Friday and took he's got a full a pure bred Golden Retriever and then I had uh the puppy a little tiny puppy and we went and took the two dogs up fishing and this they just they had a ball romping around and you know you can't get a Golden Retriever near water without it jumping in
[speaker002:] uh-huh getting in yeah
[speaker001:] and uh this Golden Retriever jumped in the the really fast moving uh river current and uh
[speaker002:] oh no
[speaker001:] well no actually he had no trouble at all he first jumped in and I he's he's just about a year old himself and never had really I don't think he'd swum before but he jumped in in the the river
[speaker002:] really did puppy go to
[speaker001:] well the puppy jumped in the into some of the pools but not into the I was careful to keep her away from the
[speaker002:] oh that's good yeah
[speaker001:] the fast moving water because if she fell in then I'd of been had to go in after her and up here the waters probably about forty degrees right now
[speaker002:] ewe ewe
[speaker001:] and I would not have been fun trying to retrieve her but uh this dog Dennis jumped in and got this look on his face like what do I do now as he's floating down the river then finally discovered that he could swim and uh actually paddled up against the current and uh made it back to the shore and climbed up and then he he jumped in again and he was swimming for quite a bit all afternoon he loved it
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] Cocoa didn't think too much of it though she jumped in and then started screaming and uh made me pull her back out I pulled her out and uh then had to wrap her up in a sweatshirt because she was shivering so bad and
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] so but she got over it so
[speaker002:] well the German Shepherd that I had before we we had a little pool
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] and uh she was she did not want any part of swimming but she liked to to get in the pool on the first step she'd just get on the first step and lay down
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] you know in the summertime when it's really really hot
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] and she'd just lay there on that step and just you know cool off
[speaker001:] yeah I've I live right across the street from a a big lake here um it's on Oneida lake and I'm wondering if uh if she'll want to go out there and go swimming next year I mean I've got the yards all fenced in so she doesn't run loose but uh
[speaker002:] um-hum yeah
[speaker001:] she could go in sometime when if I'm watching her something
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] but uh
[speaker002:] well the one that we had just didn't want any part of that
[speaker001:] oh really
[speaker002:] yeah and she oh baths oh gee she hated baths worse than anything it was it was just really a fight to you know get her clean
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] have you seen uh Canine
[speaker001:] no no
[speaker002:] the movie oh you've got to see it especially since you have a German it is so cute
[speaker001:] oh really
[speaker002:] yeah and uh an part of the the movie is where he's trying to clean this dog up and it's it's just hysterical
[speaker001:] oh okay my my dog last German Shepherd it was a real chore trying to give him a bath too and that was the thing I couldn't figure out because he would go in the lake it wasn't like he didn't ah
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] normally I mean he didn't seem to have a problem with getting wet but if you wanted to get him wet forget it
[speaker002:] yeah well that's how Cleo was you know she'd lay on her step
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] but that was that was the only time she wanted to get wet and she didn't want you getting her wet
[speaker001:] right right obstinate obstinate
[speaker002:] yeah but you really need to see that movie I I we we bought the movie and I don't I don't know how many times I've seen it and it came on TV the other night and I was watching it again and my husband heard me laughing and he said I can't believe that you're still getting such a kick out of that movie
[speaker001:] uh-huh huh I'll have to check it out I saw the the uh previews for it and all and it did look like it'd be a good movie movie but uh
[speaker002:] it is great
[speaker001:] really haven't had a whole lot of time to get out to see the movies lately but
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] I got to do more more fun things like
[speaker002:] well we always wait until we can rent them you know
[speaker001:] yeah yeah well I'm uh I'm a second lieutenant in the Air Force and so I travel a lot and yeah I'm a engineer at uh at the laboratory Rolm Laboratory Griffis Air Force Base up here so
[speaker002:] oh really oh
[speaker001:] that's how I got into uh into the switchboard project and all that so
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] but it's nice having a dog here uh the
[speaker002:] oh yeah
[speaker001:] oh no oh no what's the unrequired what's the word I'm looking for uh lots of affection
[speaker002:] there's just right
[speaker001:] no conditional unconditional affection from the from the dog
[speaker002:] that's it really
[speaker001:] yeah yeah
[speaker002:] not critical at all yeah they're really wonderful
[speaker001:] no no yeah well it's been nice talking to you we seem to be degenerating here so