Episode 2 - Owning a Dog

The speaker and his dad discuss their experiences with owning and raising dogs. They talk about their first dog, Sadie, who was difficult to take care of and eventually ran away and got hit by a car. They also talk about their second dog, Curtis, who was energetic and had to be put down after biting people. They then discuss how they got their current dogs, Delilah and Rita, and the challenges they faced with Delilah's aggressive behavior towards other dogs. They mention Delilah's hunting instincts and her love for people. Overall, they admit that they were not always the best dog owners but have learned from their experiences. What's going on everyone, I'm here with my dad as usual, and this is my dad's son. What's going on dad, how are we doing, how are we feeling? I'm doing okay, how is everybody out there? Today we are going to talk about dogs, owning and raising them, which I'm sure a lot of people have lots of stories and experiences around. We have, as a family, we've had three dogs total. We lost one probably like four or five years ago, so we currently still have two, but dad you've had two other dogs, five in total, Curtis and Sadie. Sadie was the first one, so I think it was my sister who, I don't know if she just brought it home or whatever the hell happened, it was a mixed breed, didn't know what the breed was. Like some kind of mutt? Yeah, like a mutt, it was black with white paws, whatever, and yeah, so my parents said yeah, sure, they weren't that, my father wasn't too happy about it, but you know, and we had no idea what was, how to raise a dog, zero, like nothing, and the dog was not easy to take care of, it was, I mean, we would, you know, back then you did, there was no such thing as like invisible fences, you put them on a chain in the backyard and they barked the whole time, so yeah, so anytime she wanted, you know, got free, she would just keep going and you had to chase her down and actually we did, I think my brother, he babysat dog or whatever you call it, watch dog sitting, right, and it was a Basset Hound that was, got away from him while the people were away, and it was all around town, people were chasing this thing, so we weren't good dog owners, to say the least, but yeah, so Sadie, we had her about, I don't know, say eight years, and unfortunately she was hit by a car because she ran away. At least, starting off the podcast on a light note. Yeah, and then we got our second one, Curtis, which was a, you know, we went to the mall, it was my brother-in-law, we went to the mall and bought him, it was a Springer Spaniel. You bought it at the mall? Bought it at the mall, how sad is that? Let's go shopping, I'm going to buy a dog. Everything they tell you not to do, we did it. How much was a dog back then, do you think? It wasn't that much, let's say 150 bucks, 200 bucks, I don't know. So it was a Springer Spaniel, which we thought was cool, you know, they're cool looking, and he was good, he was just crazy, I mean, he just never stopped, like just, and my mother hated it from day one, because she's taking care of, she already realized what she had to deal with on the first one, having to take care of it all the time, because as kids we were like, yeah, yeah, yeah, we want it, but we're not taking care of it. Yeah, it's a fun little toy for about 30 minutes, it's not clinging after its shit. Yeah, exactly. So he was good, you know, and I went to college or whatever, and he kind of went, got a little crazy, and he was biting people, and fortunately they had to put him to sleep after like eight or nine years. So yeah, that was our dog experience in Fort Worth, until we had you guys, and we decided to get a dog again. Well, you guys were still against it for a long time. I was never against it. Well, yeah, mainly because my mom never had dogs growing up, mainly because she, well, my grandfather was allergic to fur. Right, dog hair. Yeah, and my mom has that too, and also my oldest sister, so that was the biggest problem. She just never wanted a dog. She was so against this thing, like we were never getting a dog, but no, it took, taking care of a family friend was like, we're going away, can you take care of our dog for a week? I remember that. And we were all excited because we got to take care of a dog that wasn't ours. It was the best week ever, and she finally just came around to the idea of like getting a dog. I don't know if it was, because it's the same type of dog that we have, so I don't know if it was like the type of dog. I don't know. I mean, she was, Ferdie was a great dog that we took care of. Right. What kind of dog was Ferdie? Oh, yeah. Yeah, tell everybody. Yeah, Ferdie was a Cairn Terrier, which we've only had Cairn Terriers. For those of you who don't know, that's like Toto from Wizard of Oz. So she was blonde. So I don't know. It was like shortly after, maybe like probably a year after that, my mom finally agreed to get a dog. I was probably like, maybe like eight, something like that. We weren't that young. You weren't that young. Yeah, that sounds about right. Eight years old. I was like capable of putting, like bringing the dog outside by myself. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. I didn't, but you know. Yeah. I think the, but so we got Delilah from, Delilah was our first dog, from the same breeder as Ferdie and that family got their dog from. One of the most bizarre. Well, they got the second dog from the same breeder. Yes. That was after we got Delilah, right? I forget. I don't know how we got Rita, but. I don't know. But yeah. Crazy Rita. This place was, where was it? It was in Pennsylvania? No, it was in New Jersey. It was in northern New Jersey. It was? Yeah. I don't know, Sparta or something like that. I just remember traveling very far to get a dog. Yeah. It was out in the middle of nowhere. But the craziest place in the world, like it's this farm, it's this little place or whatever and I just remember showing up and all these dogs just come out of nowhere and they're all, they're big ones and then there's this sepia, a separate like puppy cage or whatever and so there's all the puppies and they didn't have, they weren't popping out puppies like crazy. Like they had very limited. Yeah. Weren't we on a wait list for something? I don't know if we were on a wait list. There wasn't, there was no, there's only two available to choose from. Yeah. Delilah and her sister. Right. So the other ones were already, you know, some people already were committed to buying the other ones. Yeah. Right. I mean, we were, I don't know. I was too excited, but I guess we went, we, Delilah and her sister were like, so polar opposite dogs. The sister was laying down on everybody, just calm, cool as a cucumber. Delilah's causing so many fucking problems. Like she ended up getting into the adult pen. The adults were going after her, causing all these problems, digging all these holes. And the sister's just laying in my aunt's lap, like it's just enjoying herself. And we, for some reason, are like, yeah, let's take the crazy one. Yeah, let's take the feisty one. That's a good idea. Yeah. We want the one that's going to, yeah. The alpha dog. Yeah. That's us. And that, that proved to be against us in many ways. But the lot, yeah. The lot, we didn't know what the fuck we were doing. I mean, mom didn't know what. I had some idea, but again, it's not one of these things where you're just like, you know, hey, bring it home. I, you know, I got the routine down and everything. We did talk about putting it in a crate, crate train. Yeah, because people always told us that to do it and we did it. Yeah, because we didn't do that as a kid and that was a big mistake. Yeah. Yeah. Well, they always talked about, I don't know, you know, still to this day, we talk about like people who let their dogs on the beds. Right. Once you do it for a couple of times, you're screwed. Like it's over with. Yeah. Exactly. Because they, they develop bad habits quick. Yeah. But like these are, these dogs are small, but holy shit, when they lay with you, they want to be right up against your leg and make you sweat like a cow. It's so fucking annoying. They want to sit right on your feet too. Can't even move. Um, no, Delilah was a, was a menace from the beginning, but she was fun to us. So what, so what was some of the things that you remember, some of the things that Delilah did? Well, he was puppy. Just having her as a dog. I mean, yeah, she was, she, yeah, she was, she was awesome from a personality standpoint. She was, Delilah was awesome. I think the biggest thing, which a lot of people have problems with Delilah was so bad with other dogs. That was the problem with her. She hated it. She was a great people person. She loved babies. She loved like hanging out with those people. But when she would, you know, dogs get in fights all the time for no reason, obviously dog owners don't know when it's going to happen. But this dog was like, I need to be the bitch of everybody. And I need to make sure of that. Like when there's a new puppy in the neighborhood, when there was a new dog, she was like, I'm going to assert my dominance until you understand who's in charge here. And it was so embarrassing because, you know, a little puppy would come and she would, you know, the puppy would say hi to our other dog and that would be fine. Then Delilah would come out of fucking nowhere and just chew apart this puppy being like, being like, yeah, you think let's just get this straight here. I don't care who you are. I don't care how big you are. That was the thing about Delilah. She's one foot off the ground yet she's going up to big labs, golden retrievers being like, you have no idea who the fuck you're messing with. She'd go under the big dog just, but she was a, she was like a natural hunter, right? She was crazy in our backyard, ripping apart her and our other dog would strategize and find snakes in our rock walls in our backyard or whatever. She would be under our shed for five hours. You couldn't get her inside after because she was just hunting constantly. So she was crazy in that aspect, but like she loved everybody. She thought everybody was great. Yeah. We couldn't even bring her to the like soccer games, games and everything. Yeah. It was embarrassing. Yeah. She would, she would just go absolutely nuts. It's not even the barking. She would growl very aggressively. Yeah. And she would see dogs that are on the other side of the field. So what, you experienced her getting into a really bad one. I mean, she's, she's caused some dogs, a couple injuries, but you had a bad one with her, walking her. Yeah. Yeah. She went after a, it was like an older lab, I guess. And her big thing was always to go after the nose of the dogs. I don't know. I guess she understood that. I think because she's small. The sensitive spot or something. And so she nipped the dog's nose and they're off leash, the dogs. And what was the other thing? Off leash versus on leash. It was a little bit different story. On leash was actually worse because they were kind of protect, she was protecting, you know? But yeah, she, she went after the dog's nose and the, the dog wasn't having, this is the first time I've ever seen this happen. Dog wasn't having it. And literally bit her in her, in her butt and lifted her, threw her up in the air. And the ladder was shaken up like there's no tomorrow. And the woman who was her dog, she happened to be a vet. And she's like, because our other dog, Olive at the time, started smelling her butt and she's like, oh yeah, she broke skin. She's like, but it's not going to bleed for about 30 minutes. She was right. She's like, she'll be okay. Yeah. It should be okay. But, and it did start bleeding about 30 minutes later, you know, the two bite marks in her hind. And, uh, but that didn't, that didn't stop her. Oh no. She would have, she would have kept fighting. Yeah. She's crazy. She was absolutely crazy. So we're like, we knew that at the time, but I guess like when she died, we like saw, like we didn't have, we brought other dogs to like public events or public areas or whatever. And them interacting with dogs is so much easier. Just so much. They didn't fight with anybody. And we're like, wow, we can actually be around other people with dogs and not like we would pick her up and like face the other way and like, look, make her look at something, have her in our arms and be like, don't look over here. Why? Another dog was right behind us. So she wouldn't, cause she would, she's almost jumping out, jumped out of the car. I rode her in a bike one time. She almost made me crash in the car, um, with our bike. Cause she jumped, almost jumped out of that bike. Um, I remember she used to, uh, with the UPS driver, the friend, oh, she was a jump into the UPS truck all the time and he was driven away with her a number of times. And then the one time, um, our neighbor found her cause she was chasing after a bear. Oh, right. Yeah. She went to the backyard. Uh, the, the, these, these houses are pretty far away. It wasn't, we lived on, we were in kind of the woods, two acres and, uh, the neighbor behind us is pretty far, a couple of hundred yards away. And they call us and like, do you have a, uh, uh, a tan dog? And they're like, yeah, she's like, yeah, the dog is in our house upstairs on the bed in my bedroom laying down. That was Delilah. Cause she was a boss. It was crazy. She was always the boss. She did whatever she wanted. Yeah. And there was one time I was, uh, for those of you who don't know, New Jersey, at least of where we were, um, in North Jersey, we got a lot of bears, a lot of black bears. Um, and there was one time I was out with both my dogs and I saw a cub come around one of the corners of the house. And, um, I was like, that's not good. And of course the mom, the mama bear comes around. I cannot get Delilah for the life of me. I'm like, I'm chasing her. She's running after me. I grabbed my other dog cause I don't want to get eaten by the bear. I really don't. Um, so I grabbed my other dog and I ran inside and this bear went, Delilah's going like absolutely insane barking at this bear. This bear went right up to her. They went nose to nose with each other. And this bear was like, yeah, fuck you dog. Like I don't need you. And took a shit in our yard and then just walked away from our dog. Delilah freaking out. And I'm like, you would have been eaten. You would have been that bear's lunch. Yeah. Yeah. But she just didn't, she didn't care. Do you remember the time when the electricity went out, we went over to our friend's house. Oh, that's the funniest fucking story. Yeah. With the, uh, so we, we, our, our electricity went out, which was somewhat of a common occurrence in our neighborhood. And our friends who lived in the town over, they, they had electricity and so we're like, oh, can we come over and can we bring the dogs? And they're like, sure. And they had two dogs, but their dogs were like, you go in the house and they kind of run for the hills. Well, they also knew Delilah and they were like, yeah, I'm going to fuck with her. Yeah. I'll go. I'll go the other way. So, and they're bigger dogs. One was a beagle and one was, um, it was like a mixed beagle. Yeah. Yeah. And the other one was whatever. And, um, so we get it, we go in the house and, uh, happened to be that another friend, they, uh, came over, um, and they had a, a Karen Terry or also same color, um, but her and her name was Penny. She was a pretty, pretty tough personality too. So we brought our two dogs over, um, Olive is the other one we'll talk about all in a, in a minute, but the, uh, brought her over and, uh, Penny went over to Olive to kind of boss her around. And out of nowhere, Delilah came like literally like in a, you know, fight match off the ropes out of, out of, out of nowhere, standing in the kitchen. Yeah. We're standing in kitchen. She came out of nowhere. She hit the dog on its nose again, right at Penny. The dog yelped and ran and went upstairs. And Delilah goes over to the corner of the wall and lifts her leg up and takes a leak on the side. And basically he said, bitches, this is my house now. Okay. And we never saw Penny. Never saw Penny again. Never came down. And we're all stunned. We're all sitting there looking around like, what the fuck just happened? And that was her. Yeah. I think the biggest, the, the biggest, that was crazy. That was insane. But I think the Delilah part of her personality, I don't know if she likes, if she stayed kind of like her only dog, our only dog for a while, like if she would have had this aggressiveness towards her. I mean, she did. She was aggressive. But when we got Olive, I think that was a big, so we got Olive, I don't know, probably like four years after Delilah. Was it four years? Yeah. Maybe three or four years. Yeah. That sounds about right. Something like that. Olive was the different, very different than Delilah. But she was related to Delilah too. Yeah. They had the same dad. The same, same, we got her from the same breeder. Yeah. And they had the same, it was Delilah's sister who we saw. Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That was Olive's mother. Yeah. Yeah. So, but the difference was- Same father though. Yeah. Olive was black, brindle, I guess. Yeah. That's what you call it. Yeah. And she was the runt of the litter. Like she was- Nobody wanted her. Nobody wanted her. Because she has this like, it's very funny, she has like twig little tail. But she doesn't have like, what do they call it when they run really nice? The gate. The gate. Yeah. She has a terrible gate. Well, because remember Rita was sold to Delilah at older and she's like, damn, I should have showed her. Yeah. They wanted to turn her into a show dog. Of course we spayed her. Spayed her. Right? I don't know which one is which. What are you doing? Anyway. Not important. She can't have dogs. So that disqualified her from being a show dog. Yeah. So she can't be a show dog. But yeah, Olive had a terrible, like her tail can't lift 90 degrees. Doesn't go up. Yeah. But yeah, she, yeah, she looked differently. So she looks like a little bear. Yeah. We call her the bear. And I mean, she doesn't really look like a real bear. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. 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But so, Rita was like, we don't have any puppies. We tried to explain that we're like Delilah's owners, you know, because she loved Delilah. Yeah. It's kind of making an exception for us. Yeah. We're like, we only have two dogs from you. Come on. We're in good business here. But she was like, she called us probably like two days later and she was like, I don't know if you would go for this. She's like, I have a three-year-old. She was like, she's had eight puppies. It was either her third pregnancy, I think. I think she had two litters. Two or three. She had eight total puppies. Right. Which our friend has one of her puppies. We know two of her puppies. Right. One of them is in our neighborhood, which is the funniest. No, no, no, no. That's the... Oh, friend of a friend. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And so she was saying, she was like, we have this three-year-old that she's had two or three litters, eight puppies, and she's had really tough pregnancies. And she, in the last litter that she had, she lost a lot of puppies. And then when she was, when they were born, she didn't want anything to do with these puppies. She didn't want to feed them. She didn't want to nurse them at all. She just had no interest in being a mom, basically. And so Rita explained that all of the puppies were up for adoption. They were getting taken or whatever, picked up, I guess. And so she was like, I have no use, basically, for Rocky anymore. Like, Rocky is just going to be on the farm, just living our life. Well, she also did say that the one thing is, is that she follows me around all the time. Yeah. But also the price of the dog. Well, yeah. She said, you're basically paying- It was sad. Well, yeah. No, she was just, you're paying for the vaccination shots, all that kind of stuff. It was like 300 bucks, whatever. Yeah. Yeah. That she- It wasn't like the cost of the puppy. Yeah, no. That's all it was. But it was- Well, we thought that was sad. It was like, oh, no. Yeah. That and, well, it's not that. It's, I guess it's, we didn't want to go through training a dog, like having a puppy- Yeah. And going through that whole- Yeah. You know, it's- Well, anybody knows it's a pain, right? Chokes fucking on us. Yeah. I mean, the chew. You don't have to go through the teething. Yeah. You don't have to go through- Oh, yeah. Chewing up everything and- The puppy pads. And we're like, okay, that sounds appealing. Yeah. Right? So- Yeah. So we ended up agreeing to it, which, wow, chokes on us. Wow. Someone was looking down on us, being like, yeah, these motherfuckers think it's going to be easy. And we didn't have jobs. We were like, oh, God, we're spending too much time. Yeah. So we went to go get her. It was a different farm. Yeah. She moved. So she left the one and then she, I don't know, she moved somewhere and then went back and then she, the guy owned the farm. Yeah. And so she lived with him and that's why she had, and it was a much better setup. Obviously than the first one. The first one was like, it was not nice. Yeah. Oh, God. This one was fine. This was like a house with- Yeah. A big barn with all the kennels in the back. Yeah. And they weren't in her living room. The first one was in her living room. Oh, yeah. It was crazy. Yeah. Yeah. But we show up and we see these two, she explains that the dogs can be brindle, black, like our dog Olive. And we show up and we see these two dogs on the porch. One of them's like nicely groomed and one literally looks like a walking carpet. Like the image from Beauty and the Beast with the walking, singing carpet or the broom. That's what this dog looks like. And I was like, I swear to God, if we get the broom, I'm going to be pissed. So we walk in and we're in like the kitchen or whatever. And so she introduced us to Rocky and Mousy. And Rocky, they're both great dogs. Rocky is so much energy, just such a cute little dog. And so that's the one we end up getting. And this dog had never been in a car before. And we were just- Never been in a car, never been. I don't think she's- Left the farm. Never. Yeah. Never went upstairs. Never went anywhere. Like- Yeah. So she- Never went outside. No, because she would, with her pregnancy, Rita explained to us that she had her peeing in the shower, which we'll get to as a problem we think. But yeah, so we brought her home. Yeah. First time this dog was in a car, which was crazy. And she- Did she explain to us her sensitivity with like her armpits and stuff? No. She didn't tell us anything. Yeah. No. But she did tell us that she was going to cling to my mom. Oh, yeah. Yeah. And she was like, because she followed her around. And then she's like- Yeah. Looks at our mom, whatever, and said, oh, she's going to follow you everywhere. Yeah. And she said she was going to have a hard time with you. But you kind of like let that go. Yeah. You don't realize that, okay, yeah, she'll follow me. Yeah. Like, wink, wink. Like- Bummer. It's not that bad. I mean, how bad can it be? Well, we'll get into that in a second, but- But she told you that she was going to have a hard time with you, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It was just one of those things. Just with guys. Yeah. So Rita also told us that when we brought her home that we should have introduced her and Olive outside the house, because it was like, that was Olive's house to make the introduction better. So we brought Olive out into the backyard, and we do have a pool, and we brought Betty into the backyard. They said hi, whatever. Betty's very excited. Betty fucking just jumped straight into the pool. We don't know if this dog can fucking swim. My mom's screaming at my dad, being like, go get her. My dad's slowly emptying his pocket. We're watching this dog kind of try to swim. She's good. She was fine. She figured it out quickly. Yeah, she was okay. Natural instinct. You grabbed her by the stairs, but she was fine. She scared the shit out of me. She has never gone in that pool since. Never. Not even close. No. You splash water on her, and she's like, heading for the hills. This dog is not anything like we ever knew of, wanted. She's a unique cat. She's not like a normal dog that we've ever experienced. No. No. I haven't heard of anybody that has a type of dog like this. One of the reasons why we came up with the name Betty, which I think it fits her personality fantastically. We thought of a lot of names. One of the things is my aunt, and my mom says it a lot, but my aunt calls everybody Betty. Just, well, hey, Betty. I don't know. Like a nickname. Yeah. Just calls everybody Betty. We were talking about it, and I brought it up, and I was like, what if we just called her Betty? We thought it was a joke at first, but then we were like, it's kind of funny. This dog fits that name fucking perfectly. She's crazy. Loves my mom. My mom is her best friend in the entire world. She thinks about my mom constantly. She's like glue. Yeah. She literally follows her around all day around the house. Oh, yeah. And if she's not home, she'll find someone else. Not me, but yeah. Well, she's on vacation right now, and she's like, I've got to find a new mom because my mom's coming back soon. She's constantly looking for my mom. Yeah. After, yeah. During the day, night. She's got to be next to her side while she's cooking. She's literally one foot away from her at all times. On the couch sitting right next to her. Yes. Oh, yeah. She won't be anywhere. And it's like, you'll be sitting on the couch with her, and my mom will be in the kitchen. She'll be looking in the kitchen like, oh, do you see her? I haven't looked at my mom yet. I got to go look at her. She'll sit at the back door, which you can see out. She'll sit there and she'll leave, and she'll be gone for three or four hours. And Betty will just sit there sitting up, looking out the window for three or four hours, waiting for her to come back. And she absolutely loses it when she sees her pulling up in the driveway. No, the worst part is when me and you show up or someone else shows up, she'll run right past you. Be like, do you have my mom? Have you seen my mom? I can't find. We have come up with so many voices. Lucy's got the Betty voice. So that's what she's starting to show off now. But no one, she really did not tell us that she did not know how to use stairs, which was, oh, my God. That was hard. The amount of Cheerios we went through and peanut butter is not even funny. She'd never been on a walk. So we had to try to go on a walk. She'd never been on a walk. So we had to try to go on a walk. She'd never been on a walk. So we had to try to go on a walk. She'd never been on a walk. So we had to try to go on a walk. She'd never been on a walk. So we had to try to go on a walk. Well, we, we found out that why she didn't pee or what she did with her pee and poop. Oh, yeah. Because she was raising puppies all the time. That's her life. That's her life. Just literally having puppies. Yeah. So she grew up basically in a bathtub. Yeah. Right? A bathtub or shower? Shower. Well, she, yeah. So she would come upstairs with us when she was first there and she started peeing. In the shower. In the drain. Like straight on the drain. She would go right to the shower. It was the perfect aid. Yeah. And we're like, what is that? Like, like you don't go, we take you outside. She doesn't go. First of all, she never went outside. She never went in the grass. No, in the beginning we would just take her right to the shower. Yeah. So she would pee. Yeah. It was crazy. Yeah. Yeah. She didn't live outside. No. She didn't know the elements. No. We have rocks in our driveway. We don't have like concrete or whatever. This dog still to this day, it's been three years. 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