June 11, 2024 • 9 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the Murphy Salmon Jodi after the Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
When you have pets and you travel, it's a whole
different ballgame getting out of town.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
You mean because you're leaving them behind, or you're taking
them with you.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Oh, I mean because you're leaving them behind.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Some people actually do take their pets on vacation. You know.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
You know how I feel about pets on planes. I'm
always so worried about my ears, and.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
I'm not talking about planes. But you know, there are
people that will take their dogs, will drive to the beach.
Of course, some beaches you can't take the dog on
the beach and that sort of thing. But yeah, talking
like family, the little ones especially, you know, you take with.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
You, Yes, and that's great if you can do that.
I love that idea. We've never been that family. We
took one of our dogs on, you know, to Thanksgiving
one year, remember, and it was a female dog and
the male dog in.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
The house where we were saying.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
It was a whole big Clark Griswold situation, not get
enough of her scent, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
Yeah, he was all over.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
And they literally ran into the Thanksgiving table while Evert
I was eating just like in Christmas vacation anyway, nobody
hacked up a.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Bone now, Murphy.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
So we're getting ready to go do a little business
traveling this week, and so's there's so much.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
To think about.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
And you know, our girls, Taylor and Phoebe are going
to be staying at the house and taking care of
the house and our pets three dogs and a bearded dragon,
and two things jumped to my mind last night when
we had dinner with them. The girls came and I'm
giving I have a list of things to go over
with them, okay, And I saved Sparky for last, because
Sparky are along here Chihuahua is not doing well.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
And they knew.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
I'm like, I'm gonna save him for last because there's
some special instructions here.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Liquid medicine, a pill at night.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
You know, just doesn't like a liquid medicine.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
They'll tell you that he likes to spit that back
out at you.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Yeah, yeah, I mean he does a lot better with pills.
But for whatever reason, the vet wanted to give him
a liquid version.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Of this because of his weight being less anyway.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Maybe chewing a problem.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
So much to you know, it's like you realize you
hear people say I can't have a pet because I travel,
and I'm thinking, you can have a pet and you
can have somebody watch them. And then like last night,
I'm thinking, now I feel like, after all these years,
I understand because I feel like I spent half an
hour telling our girls just the whole pet routine. Hey,
(02:23):
I need you to buy worms for Nugget because there's
only one worm left, you know left, you know Edie
gets this special food. I'm insane. And then by the
end of it, it's the whole Sparky thing. I feel
like I'm nervous about this one, Murphy because I'm not
saying never, but have we ever left town without a
pet emergency while we were gone? I mean sometimes it happens.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Yeah, I mean maybe twice.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Champ was bitten by a snake ye one of the
last and it was the worst one, and he had
to be brought to emergency of vet care in the
middle of the night. We were hundreds of miles way
and that was our pet sitter who saved the day.
So I had to leave special instructions in case because
Sparky's not doing well. He was just diagnosed with a
vertebrae disease, and he's walking kind of wonky and he's
(03:13):
got nerve.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Probably the girls understand everything, yes.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Oh yeah, well really Sparky is Phoebe's dog technically, even
though Phoebe's moved out, and you know, as soon as
she walks in the house, he knows it. Again, he's
all he's all about her, right, he'll.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Be sleeping with her. I know that that's what that'll be.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
The way he'll get extra special care that he would
not get from a regular pet sitter.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
So I feel good about that. But I left.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
But believe me, I left the vet's name and number
and emergency stuff like if something happens and he gets
even wonkier than he is now, if he seems to
be in pain, if he's you know, falling over, they
want to see him. The VET knows too that. The
VET told me, like, I need to see him if
he gets worse. Yeah, So I'm just nervous about it now.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
I hope we'll be. I mean, at least it's the
girls and you're talking about l for that people, you know,
stressing about going to vacation and saying that it's too
difficult to take care of pet. It's nice when you've
got kids, are built in family members, because it doesn't
really cost you any extra to do that, you know
what I mean. And right, that's I mean, that's what well,
that's what makes it only vet visits cost But you
(04:17):
know what I mean. And and so and they actually
do they know these dogs inside and out, so they're
gonna be they're more sensitive to them. But look, I
think Sparky is going to be fine. This is a
really quick turnaround trip. It's not like a vacation. If
we were going away for a long time. You know,
we might be making some other plans, you know, instructions
at the VET.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
But you never know.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
I'm telling you, you know, I just feel like I
just it's just a worry. It's just a worry in
the back of my mind, which is why I left
them an emergency credit card, an emergency phone numbers.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
All of that. Like if Sparky watch, you know, watch
them closely.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Probably scaring the heck out of them, you know.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
By realistic, realistic.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Yesterday afternoon, when he was it was time to go potty,
the other dogs went out and I couldn't find him,
and the VET told me that's normal, he's gonna he's
gonna hide when he doesn't feel good, or he's gonna
be up underneath you, following you everywhere, which which he does.
He does both right now, and he was in a
hiding position. I had to find him underneath the sofa.
(05:19):
I got him out of coax him out, but he
was taking such a long time to get to the grass,
and I think it's because he was in pain. So
I picked him up gently, brought him to the you know,
it's a pick him up, let him go to the
bathroom situation. Sometimes bring him back in well.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
Like a turtle. Did you keep him going in the
right direction?
Speaker 2 (05:38):
I actually did for you know, speedsake, Yeah, you know,
sort of distance between two points, but not like a time.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
I want to give you the opposite of that. This
and that's what you were talking about, Murphy, kind of too,
what you were saying about the worrying about your pets. Yeah, Gus,
Gus in a boo, not really a boo, because he's
a cat. He does what he wants. But Gus, I've
had that problem right now for this little trip and
then one you know, vacation in a few weeks, because
(06:07):
in the past I've hired a service. Okay, way back,
I had a neighbor do it, and it starts to
get where your kids do it. It's one thing when
you're asking a neighbor to come over two or three
times a day. It's yeah, because it's like, hang on,
I got to go take care of Sam's dog, and
it's like I don't want that. So I hired a
service for a few years and that was great, but
(06:27):
it really starts to get expensive, especially when you're doing
two visits a day. Yeah, and the cat is considered
an animal, have nothing to.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Do with you.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Yeah, well you can always tell them, look, please ignore
the cat for two days and then.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
In a few weeks it'll be over the fourth of
July holiday. Well, guess what happens there? Chi ching goes
a little hot.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
It does because they they have to, because they're too
they're too busy.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
I have a neighborhood person watching Gus while we're going
to be on this little business trip, and it's good.
I still haven't found anybody for the vacation trip, just
because part of me still wants to have a service.
I know it, because that's going to be it for
a whole week. Gus is having a little medical issue.
You just got to take pills twice a day, okay,
So I might just have to bite the bullet and
(07:17):
maybe you'll.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Get lucky and find somebody who you knows something in between,
which is like what Jody and I had until ours
moved away for the summer. You know, when you're talking
about somebody moving six hundred miles away from you, who
you know, who's been looking after your pets for a
long time, who's reasonably priced.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Doesn't eat our house like she's got here our hearts.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
The first two girls I had doing the dog and
cat a couple of years ago, they're great. I mean
pictures all the time. They love the dog everything, and
it's like, hey, sorry, but this was our last one
because we're moving, and it's like, no.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Well, people get on with their lives.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
Are you still here in town?
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Every day?
Speaker 2 (07:54):
You have to stay on top of it, and you
think about who you have in your social circles that
you trust and all that.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
But know this.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
You could also let me give you this a little idea.
You could also offer it up as a you can
stay at my house. You can house sitting and pet sitting.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
I've offered that to Maddie because she's in but she
is going on a little trip this week to the
beach because her friends are you know, it's her birthday
blah blah blah. And then our vacation week. Well, they're
going on a family cruise.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
It's like see with her mom.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
Otherwise should have been like, yeah, I'll stay here and watch,
and I would have been like, oh.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Yeah, I know, well keep at it.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
Oh I am. I mean, there are not going to
stop my vacation. Don't worry.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
There are people who I say, people young, people who
have cars, who are looking for summer work, who would
take this on as summer work and you can interview
them just like a real legit thing.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
And you know, and then the neighbors. You know, if
they've committed, you're not imposing. You're only imposing if you
asked beyond what they committed, right, So you know what
I'm saying. And you can always return the favor if
it's not if they're not accepting payment, so you know,
and that's I mean to me, that's always good. You
got a built the neighbor, because you've also at somebody
who looks up at the house and all that kind
of stuff.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
I always treated the neighbors to, like gift cards and stuff.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
So smart, yeah, so smart. Missed any part of the show.
Get it all on the Murphy Salmon Jody podcast.
Welcome to the Murphy Salmon Jodi after the Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
When you have pets and you travel, it's a whole
different ballgame getting out of town.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
You mean because you're leaving them behind, or you're taking
them with you.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Oh, I mean because you're leaving them behind.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Some people actually do take their pets on vacation. You know.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
You know how I feel about pets on planes. I'm
always so worried about my ears, and.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
I'm not talking about planes. But you know, there are
people that will take their dogs, will drive to the beach.
Of course, some beaches you can't take the dog on
the beach and that sort of thing. But yeah, talking
like family, the little ones especially, you know, you take with.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
You, Yes, and that's great if you can do that.
I love that idea. We've never been that family. We
took one of our dogs on, you know, to Thanksgiving
one year, remember, and it was a female dog and
the male dog in.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
The house where we were saying.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
It was a whole big Clark Griswold situation, not get
enough of her scent, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
Yeah, he was all over.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
And they literally ran into the Thanksgiving table while Evert
I was eating just like in Christmas vacation anyway, nobody
hacked up a.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Bone now, Murphy.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
So we're getting ready to go do a little business
traveling this week, and so's there's so much.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
To think about.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
And you know, our girls, Taylor and Phoebe are going
to be staying at the house and taking care of
the house and our pets three dogs and a bearded dragon,
and two things jumped to my mind last night when
we had dinner with them. The girls came and I'm
giving I have a list of things to go over
with them, okay, And I saved Sparky for last, because
Sparky are along here Chihuahua is not doing well.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
And they knew.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
I'm like, I'm gonna save him for last because there's
some special instructions here.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Liquid medicine, a pill at night.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
You know, just doesn't like a liquid medicine.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
They'll tell you that he likes to spit that back
out at you.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Yeah, yeah, I mean he does a lot better with pills.
But for whatever reason, the vet wanted to give him
a liquid version.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Of this because of his weight being less anyway.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Maybe chewing a problem.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
So much to you know, it's like you realize you
hear people say I can't have a pet because I travel,
and I'm thinking, you can have a pet and you
can have somebody watch them. And then like last night,
I'm thinking, now I feel like, after all these years,
I understand because I feel like I spent half an
hour telling our girls just the whole pet routine. Hey,
(02:23):
I need you to buy worms for Nugget because there's
only one worm left, you know left, you know Edie
gets this special food. I'm insane. And then by the
end of it, it's the whole Sparky thing. I feel
like I'm nervous about this one, Murphy because I'm not
saying never, but have we ever left town without a
pet emergency while we were gone? I mean sometimes it happens.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Yeah, I mean maybe twice.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Champ was bitten by a snake ye one of the
last and it was the worst one, and he had
to be brought to emergency of vet care in the
middle of the night. We were hundreds of miles way
and that was our pet sitter who saved the day.
So I had to leave special instructions in case because
Sparky's not doing well. He was just diagnosed with a
vertebrae disease, and he's walking kind of wonky and he's
(03:13):
got nerve.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Probably the girls understand everything, yes.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Oh yeah, well really Sparky is Phoebe's dog technically, even
though Phoebe's moved out, and you know, as soon as
she walks in the house, he knows it. Again, he's
all he's all about her, right, he'll.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Be sleeping with her. I know that that's what that'll be.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
The way he'll get extra special care that he would
not get from a regular pet sitter.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
So I feel good about that. But I left.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
But believe me, I left the vet's name and number
and emergency stuff like if something happens and he gets
even wonkier than he is now, if he seems to
be in pain, if he's you know, falling over, they
want to see him. The VET knows too that. The
VET told me, like, I need to see him if
he gets worse. Yeah, So I'm just nervous about it now.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
I hope we'll be. I mean, at least it's the
girls and you're talking about l for that people, you know,
stressing about going to vacation and saying that it's too
difficult to take care of pet. It's nice when you've
got kids, are built in family members, because it doesn't
really cost you any extra to do that, you know
what I mean. And right, that's I mean, that's what well,
that's what makes it only vet visits cost But you
(04:17):
know what I mean. And and so and they actually
do they know these dogs inside and out, so they're
gonna be they're more sensitive to them. But look, I
think Sparky is going to be fine. This is a
really quick turnaround trip. It's not like a vacation. If
we were going away for a long time. You know,
we might be making some other plans, you know, instructions
at the VET.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
But you never know.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
I'm telling you, you know, I just feel like I
just it's just a worry. It's just a worry in
the back of my mind, which is why I left
them an emergency credit card, an emergency phone numbers.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
All of that. Like if Sparky watch, you know, watch
them closely.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Probably scaring the heck out of them, you know.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
By realistic, realistic.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Yesterday afternoon, when he was it was time to go potty,
the other dogs went out and I couldn't find him,
and the VET told me that's normal, he's gonna he's
gonna hide when he doesn't feel good, or he's gonna
be up underneath you, following you everywhere, which which he does.
He does both right now, and he was in a
hiding position. I had to find him underneath the sofa.
(05:19):
I got him out of coax him out, but he
was taking such a long time to get to the grass,
and I think it's because he was in pain. So
I picked him up gently, brought him to the you know,
it's a pick him up, let him go to the
bathroom situation. Sometimes bring him back in well.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
Like a turtle. Did you keep him going in the
right direction?
Speaker 2 (05:38):
I actually did for you know, speedsake, Yeah, you know,
sort of distance between two points, but not like a time.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
I want to give you the opposite of that. This
and that's what you were talking about, Murphy, kind of too,
what you were saying about the worrying about your pets. Yeah, Gus,
Gus in a boo, not really a boo, because he's
a cat. He does what he wants. But Gus, I've
had that problem right now for this little trip and
then one you know, vacation in a few weeks, because
(06:07):
in the past I've hired a service. Okay, way back,
I had a neighbor do it, and it starts to
get where your kids do it. It's one thing when
you're asking a neighbor to come over two or three
times a day. It's yeah, because it's like, hang on,
I got to go take care of Sam's dog, and
it's like I don't want that. So I hired a
service for a few years and that was great, but
(06:27):
it really starts to get expensive, especially when you're doing
two visits a day. Yeah, and the cat is considered
an animal, have nothing to.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Do with you.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Yeah, well you can always tell them, look, please ignore
the cat for two days and then.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
In a few weeks it'll be over the fourth of
July holiday. Well, guess what happens there? Chi ching goes
a little hot.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
It does because they they have to, because they're too
they're too busy.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
I have a neighborhood person watching Gus while we're going
to be on this little business trip, and it's good.
I still haven't found anybody for the vacation trip, just
because part of me still wants to have a service.
I know it, because that's going to be it for
a whole week. Gus is having a little medical issue.
You just got to take pills twice a day, okay,
So I might just have to bite the bullet and
(07:17):
maybe you'll.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Get lucky and find somebody who you knows something in between,
which is like what Jody and I had until ours
moved away for the summer. You know, when you're talking
about somebody moving six hundred miles away from you, who
you know, who's been looking after your pets for a
long time, who's reasonably priced.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Doesn't eat our house like she's got here our hearts.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
The first two girls I had doing the dog and
cat a couple of years ago, they're great. I mean
pictures all the time. They love the dog everything, and
it's like, hey, sorry, but this was our last one
because we're moving, and it's like, no.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Well, people get on with their lives.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
Are you still here in town?
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Every day?
Speaker 2 (07:54):
You have to stay on top of it, and you
think about who you have in your social circles that
you trust and all that.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
But know this.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
You could also let me give you this a little idea.
You could also offer it up as a you can
stay at my house. You can house sitting and pet sitting.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
I've offered that to Maddie because she's in but she
is going on a little trip this week to the
beach because her friends are you know, it's her birthday
blah blah blah. And then our vacation week. Well, they're
going on a family cruise.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
It's like see with her mom.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
Otherwise should have been like, yeah, I'll stay here and watch,
and I would have been like, oh.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Yeah, I know, well keep at it.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
Oh I am. I mean, there are not going to
stop my vacation. Don't worry.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
There are people who I say, people young, people who
have cars, who are looking for summer work, who would
take this on as summer work and you can interview
them just like a real legit thing.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
And you know, and then the neighbors. You know, if
they've committed, you're not imposing. You're only imposing if you
asked beyond what they committed, right, So you know what
I'm saying. And you can always return the favor if
it's not if they're not accepting payment, so you know,
and that's I mean to me, that's always good. You
got a built the neighbor, because you've also at somebody
who looks up at the house and all that kind
of stuff.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
I always treated the neighbors to, like gift cards and stuff.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
So smart, yeah, so smart. Missed any part of the show.
Get it all on the Murphy Salmon Jody podcast.
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