August 31, 2026 • 16 mins
Sam has a new lady in his life - Lucy! She likes to cuddle, chew, and follow Sam everywhere. She was lonely for a while so in this podcast we find out how she's adjusting to being Sam's #1 girl. Also - why Lucy was the 2nd choice name, and how is Lucy treating the cat?!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the Murphy, Sam & Jodi After the Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Sam, we were so excited to learn that there's a
new lady in your life that rescued you this weekend.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Little Lucy, your new dog.
Speaker 4 (00:11):
My new dog.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
I have a couple of questions.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
So right off the bat, how's it going with your cat?
When Lucy came in, how's it going with Abu? Because
you adopted this dog, what, two days ago? Yeah.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
I think it's going to take a little while for
Lucy to lose interest and just accept the cat. There's
nothing vicious going on. It's just constant aggravation. If the
cat is not around, it's fine. But whenever a boo
comes around or like if a boo goes outside and
Lucy's outside, it's just a sniff fest.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Right.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
As long as a boo's not in any danger. I
was worried about that.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
I mean, a boo has a couple of times gotten
tired of it because I'll hear.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
And then it's over with for a while.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Well, they work it out then. They're going to work
it out.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Good.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
I was worried. I've watched them do it, too. And
all it is is just a goofy sniffing. I just
want to see who you are.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
Because I don't know what a cat is.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
For anybody who hasn't seen a picture of Lucy, Sam's
new best friend, new lady in his life, we put
it on Instagram and Facebook, all of our places.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
So she's precious.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
I actually haven't seen it. So I guess I ought
to look right now.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
She's there.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
By the way, at the shelter, her name was Jumba.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Oh, I was going to ask you that, too. That's
my second thing, the name.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
J-U-M-B-A.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Right.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
I didn't ask. The origin. I just, you know, was like, well,
Jodi said I could change it, so I'll just change it.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
You got to work on, though, to teach her her name.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Make sure you say it a lot to her.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
I've been doing Lucy with everything. Positive.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Yeah. Right.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Good girl, Lucy, kind of a thing.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Yeah. she's a mix she's a mix you know she's
a mutt which is those are some of the best
dogs in the.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
World she's cute you know it's funny there's a couple
of uh of the comments on our facebook page have
said looks like it's got a little shepherd and it's
like you know what i think it might be a
little shepherd color too yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
How's she behaving around the ducks uh.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
She hasn't back she hasn't gone to all the way
out to the fence by the ducks now she's gone
out and by the fence nobody's there but When the
ducks were all gathered out there, I was like, come on.
And she walks about. I was like, I'll go with you.
And I'll walk all the way out to the fence.
She'll go about halfway. And then that's like it. I'm
not getting near the duck. But it's all that stuff
(02:24):
I know is going to come whenever it comes. Sure.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Are you definitely alpha? Are you the love of her
life now? Like, are you it?
Speaker 4 (02:33):
I'm wondering if, and this is going to sound weird,
but you know how I always say my cat doesn't
know how to cat?
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
I'm thinking right now that. Lucy doesn't really know how
to dog so I don't know what her history was
but some of the things and I'm not a dog
expert obviously my name's not Caesar but watching her behavior
like the all Saturday when when I got her um
it was just scavenging and scrounging the whole house sniffing all.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Over the place which is what she should be doing.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
Every now and then bringing something out and then or
if there was stuff I didn't see on the floor
I'd look at it and she'd sniff it and I'd
see she's chewing and it's like, well, what are you,
what are you chewing? Caught her eating a feather too.
So whatever.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Right.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
So I'm just like, okay, so maybe she was, you know,
a homeless dog.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
This is not going to be a like two days
and she's all in. This is going to be months. Yeah.
Or at least a couple of weeks. You know, you
think about if you were put into a strange place
and you don't know anybody or anything about your surroundings,
the first thing you're going to do is learn. Right. Exactly.
And so she's, She's not in her comfort zone by
any stretch of the imagination. And she's you can look
(03:44):
at her face. She's a puppy. So, you know, yeah.
But I mean, when Jodi and I had boxers and
we got Ashley, our second boxer, she was a year
and a half old. But she's the true all of
that stuff with her.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
I need to chew. She chewed through books that were
super thick.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Until she was two years old. And then when she
finally hit that point, the chewing part was over.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
We didn't give her enough chews. I don't know if
we gave her enough Kongs and things like that. So
offer Lucy a lot of chews and things like that.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
I busted out some of... When Gus passed away, I
threw away some of his toys. I threw away a
bunch of Gus stuff. Not threw it away, but donated
a bunch of Gus stuff.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
And so... I kept a few toys, like Gus's favorites.
I don't know why. Yeah. So I broke those out,
and instantly she grabbed one and started walking around with it.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Good.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
It was like, oh, that was Gus's favorite.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
And it takes a dog time to learn what's theirs
and what's not. So if you continue to give her
those toys, and then she'll have a little bucket or
basket that's just her toys, she will eventually learn.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
They're so smart.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
But you have to show everything, mostly with praise, because
they really, really want to Please you.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
They are all about you making you happy. You know that.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
And because you're not, because Abu is not a real
cat or whatever you say.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Doesn't know how to be a cat.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Because she has no other companion dog. And I'm not
suggesting you need two dogs. But I'm going to say
the dynamic is different now. Now that we've had two dogs,
I always want two dogs.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
Why?
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Because they're pack animals. They understand each other. They acclimate.
They follow when they see one doing the other.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
It becomes a lot easier to manage, truly. But because
you are Alpha, you are her packmate, literally everything that
you do is what's going to.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
You know. That's what's going on right now, yeah. Everywhere
I go. And it's like it's one of those things where, oh, good,
she finally laid down on the floor while we're watching TV.
I was like, I got to get up and go
to the bathroom.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Oh, no.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
And it's like, stay here. It's good.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
She won't. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
I mean, it'll come.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
It'll come in time or you'll have an extremely needy dog,
but who cares?
Speaker 4 (06:02):
The cutest thing is when I'm in the kitchen cooking,
she comes and sits at the edge of the kitchen
and then she lays all the way down and just
watches me the whole time.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Is it like the Superman pose with the back legs flat?
Like a Sphinx. I love that. Oh, like a Sphinx.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
That's so sweet. So does she bark?
Speaker 4 (06:21):
I have yet to hear a bark, which is weird.
I heard some whimpers. And when she fell asleep while
I was watching TV on the floor, all of a
sudden I heard the dreaming chases. My mom says, chasing
a bunny.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Chasing a squirrel.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Are you going to, you know, what you do now
while she's new is, It's a big deal. I know
this because we've had a lot of dogs, Murphy, and
I feel like if I could do it again, and
we will do it again one day, I would do
some things differently. Are you going to put her in
the car and take her for rides often? Because if
you want her to be a dog who's easy to
take places, you've got to start taking her places.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
Yeah, eventually at some point. Because when I went to
put her in the car when we left the shelter,
she didn't know what to do. It wasn't like, oh,
jump up. Of course not.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
What?
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Of course not.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
So I lifted her and put her in, and then
she just cowered the whole way home. And I kept
reaching back and petting her.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Correct. Done that ride many times.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
Yeah, that and when I've, like, hey, come sit on
the sofa. She doesn't get that. You know, I lift
her front paws up, and it's like, so.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Good. So she's waiting for you to show her everything,
which is fantastic. It sounds really good. It's not like
you're not going to go home to, you know, your
sofa being eaten up. Because she's crated for one thing
right now, right?
Speaker 4 (07:48):
I wouldn't be surprised if it was eating up if
I left her out.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Right. That's an anxiety.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
It's funny because I'll be sitting there and then she'll
just wander off. And it's like, okay. Like when Gus
would wander off, obviously he was 13 years old. It's like,
I'm worried about Gus. I don't care where he's going
because I know he's going to come back in the
living room. So far with Lucy, when she wanders off,
it's like, okay.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Something's up.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
I listen and listen. And all of a sudden I
hear a noise. It's all right. She's chewing something. Let
me go get her.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
In all of our time of fostering and having dogs,
we've had dogs that love to go for a ride
in the car and know how to behave in public
and go to a restaurant that has dogs and you
sit on the patio.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
And I love that.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
And then we've got some who are so anxious that
the only time they ever get in the car is
they know they're going to the vet.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
It's not great. And that's why I say if you
want her to go places with you, start now.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
You just have to show her now and then eventually
she will jump in the car. She'll try to go
in the car even when she's not supposed to go.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
But that's up to you.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
No, I plan to do that. I plan to take
her to the dog park and everything. I don't want her, me,
to be her only dog friend.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Right. You know.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
That can become a thing.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
My daughter Maddie said, take her to get a pup cup.
I was like, we will. We will.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
That's so, so awesome.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
And, you know, her name is Jumba.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Um.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
I have been batting around names for about a week.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Oh, before you even met the baby.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
Yeah, just like name. You know, because I would verbalize it. Like,
how's this going to come off my, you know, and
if I name her this, what are the alternates going
to be? You know, like Lucy.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Nicknames.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
Lucy Goosey, Lucy Lou, Lucy.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Oh, yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
We have that, too.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
We have lots of nicknames for our dogs.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
It's so sweet.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
And I wanted a girl. There were a lot of
cute boys. I almost went, let me just do this. But,
you know, another one of Miss Judy's is you don't
want a boy. They lift their legs on everything.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Which is true.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Well, wait. You can have a female dog that also
has accidents in the house, Marks, and just has accidents.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Or what do they call that? It's the wedding thing
that they'll do.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Oh, submissive wedding.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Submissive wedding. You never had that with a female dog? Oh,
your pet? them and they're— Yeah, and they just cower
and they pee.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Well, Sparky's a male, and he submissive wets every now
and then, too.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Wow, I think he's submissive marking.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
He's a tiny dog. That may be part of it.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
The name that I really thought was going to roll
off my tongue well was actually Dolly.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Oh!
Speaker 4 (10:18):
And because of the events of the past week, I
just didn't want it to be like, oh, for Dolly Parton.
It's like, no, just because I like the way it rolled.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
It does.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
So it was like as much as I wanted to, no.
So it's like I thought of Lulu and it was Lucy. Lucy, hey.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Lucy is a good name.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
Let's do Lucy. I thought of Jodi and I was like, no,
that's not going to go over well.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
You got enough Jody in your life.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
So was it easier than you thought to transition after
Gus or not?
Speaker 4 (10:50):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Good question. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
I don't know if it's because of the time or
my state. But, yeah, it was very easy. Because you're ready.
I hit up an adoption event Friday. Nothing there. Two
on Saturday. And then that's when I went to the shelter. And,
you know, like I said earlier, too, it wasn't as
hard as I thought in the shelter.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
I mean, there were a ton of dogs.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Oh, yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
Room after room after room.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
If you're really looking for the selection, that's going to
be the biggest selection.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
It's true.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
It's correct for them to do the events because a
lot of people don't want to go to the shelter.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
And, you know, I ran into a few scared dogs, obviously.
You reach out to pet them and they run away.
But there were a handful of dogs that were like, hey,
I'm ready to go. Come on, get me. And that's
kind of what Lucy was, too.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
It's funny because for you to explain that experience of looking,
you know, at however many events you went to and
then looking at all the dogs at the shelter and then,
you know, deciding on Lucy, um, that kind of thing
does not happen for me. If I went to an
adoption event today and there were three dogs, one of them,
(12:01):
I could imagine myself taking home.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Like, right. You know, if I went to three adoption events,
I could have picked three dogs easily. And I have
never been at a shelter when I couldn't have taken
a dog home. You know, I don't know if that's
more about, you know, just connecting with them easily.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
I think it's all of those things. It's the rescue aspect.
Maybe that's what's helping you too, Sam, is you actually
have helped a dog. You know what I mean? Otherwise,
maybe it would have found its next home. Who knows?
Maybe not, you know? Right. But I think that when you–
Jodi and I are probably just dog fanatics. I mean, look,
at one point we had five full-time dogs plus a foster.
(12:44):
That was probably a little crazy, but it was also fun.
I mean, it was a lot of fun because dogs
interact wonderfully with people. But when dogs interact with other dogs,
there's just something special about that. And when you do
bring the next dog in, it's easier to train.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
It's The new dog knows when to pee because all
the other dogs are peeing.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Everybody else is doing it, right? And, you know, I mean,
we're humans.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
They know when to eat.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
They know when to go in their crate because everybody
else is doing it.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
I think our pack size is right right now. I'm
glad we paused for a bit because Champ, he's getting older. But, look,
both of these guys, Champ and Sparky, are both old,
and they've both rebounded from whatever is going on, and
they're still doing their thing. Even though I wouldn't call
them best buddies, they will be together at times. They'll
go out together. They understand all of those dynamics. And,
(13:37):
you know, because they are two boy dogs, you take
them out, one's waiting for the other to pee before
he will.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
Be on top of it.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Right.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
But they also know what's going on when you do that.
It's not going to be a wait, you know.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Hope the dog pees because you're a human telling it
to pee.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
And they're like, what are you telling me to do?
Speaker 4 (13:54):
I don't know. I've opened the door and she runs
right out and pee. keys. That's good. And I try
to like, oh, good. Outside, go potty. Outside, go potty.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Same words every time help.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
The only issue I have is that when she does
number two, it's always been right off the edge of
the patio. It's like, okay, we need to go out
in the yard. We got lots of fences here. Go
way out there and do that. Not right where I
step off the patio.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Are you worried about her today? Like you, this is
the first day you've left her.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
I mean, this sounds crazy, but I want to get
home to make sure she's cool and that she's Because
this is, I don't know how dogs think, but, you know,
she went from a cage to two days of, woohoo,
this is great.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Now a cage.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
Get back in this thing while I go to work.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
But understand something, you know, and I think this is commonly,
you know, calling it a cage, it's a crate. And
the thing is, it's not jail. We see it as
jail because we humanize things. But it's the safest place
that she can possibly be because she's in a new place.
You don't want her biting a cord that's plugged into something, right? Or,
you know, I mean, something like that. So it's the
(14:59):
best place. And so as long as you treat the
crate as a happy, safe spot, that's not a negative.
What was a negative for her at the shelter that's
very scary is A bunch of barking dogs, a bunch
of constant mayhem.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
All the scents.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Right. And so there's a lot going on. I don't
think it's about being in a crate, in a cage,
in whatever. It's just the, that was, and it took
me learning that too early on with Chevy, who loved
to escape, by the way. He was the one that
somehow could magically get out of any sort of crate.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
But they're den animals.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
So once you make it a happy place.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
I have her in the living room.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
I mean, the crate is like a little den. That's
all I mean. I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (15:40):
I put treats in there. I put the Kong in there.
I have a blanket or a bed, whatever that the
padding that goes on the tray.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
Great. And I also threw an extra towel in there. Just,
you know, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (15:53):
I didn't put a light and an end table or
any of that.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Good.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
I'm so excited.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
Now she, she has picked up a few things and
walk through the house with them, but it's usually drop
that or stop and she'll drop my shoes or whatever. Great.
The only thing, I was taking a bath, and I
was like, she's not here. Where is she? I get
out the tub, and these are my glasses.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Oh, no.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
They don't fit quite.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
As well anymore.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
Oh, no.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
Classic.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
I mean, that's a classic. Plus, things that are yours
smell like you.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Oh, yeah.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
I found a pair of underwear in the living room.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
And it's like, okay, I get that.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
She's a puppy. Lucy's a puppy.
Speaker 4 (16:36):
But you know what's funny about this is Sam 15,
20 years ago, oh, I would have lost my mind.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
Livid.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
And I was just like, all right, whatever.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Sweet little Lucy.
Speaker 4 (16:47):
It's nice to feel that way. Oh, my God.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
So excited for you.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
But if she eats another thing.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
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Speaker 2 (00:03):
Sam, we were so excited to learn that there's a
new lady in your life that rescued you this weekend.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Little Lucy, your new dog.
Speaker 4 (00:11):
My new dog.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
I have a couple of questions.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
So right off the bat, how's it going with your cat?
When Lucy came in, how's it going with Abu? Because
you adopted this dog, what, two days ago? Yeah.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
I think it's going to take a little while for
Lucy to lose interest and just accept the cat. There's
nothing vicious going on. It's just constant aggravation. If the
cat is not around, it's fine. But whenever a boo
comes around or like if a boo goes outside and
Lucy's outside, it's just a sniff fest.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Right.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
As long as a boo's not in any danger. I
was worried about that.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
I mean, a boo has a couple of times gotten
tired of it because I'll hear.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
And then it's over with for a while.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Well, they work it out then. They're going to work
it out.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Good.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
I was worried. I've watched them do it, too. And
all it is is just a goofy sniffing. I just
want to see who you are.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
Because I don't know what a cat is.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
For anybody who hasn't seen a picture of Lucy, Sam's
new best friend, new lady in his life, we put
it on Instagram and Facebook, all of our places.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
So she's precious.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
I actually haven't seen it. So I guess I ought
to look right now.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
She's there.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
By the way, at the shelter, her name was Jumba.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Oh, I was going to ask you that, too. That's
my second thing, the name.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
J-U-M-B-A.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Right.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
I didn't ask. The origin. I just, you know, was like, well,
Jodi said I could change it, so I'll just change it.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
You got to work on, though, to teach her her name.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Make sure you say it a lot to her.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
I've been doing Lucy with everything. Positive.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Yeah. Right.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Good girl, Lucy, kind of a thing.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Yeah. she's a mix she's a mix you know she's
a mutt which is those are some of the best
dogs in the.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
World she's cute you know it's funny there's a couple
of uh of the comments on our facebook page have
said looks like it's got a little shepherd and it's
like you know what i think it might be a
little shepherd color too yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
How's she behaving around the ducks uh.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
She hasn't back she hasn't gone to all the way
out to the fence by the ducks now she's gone
out and by the fence nobody's there but When the
ducks were all gathered out there, I was like, come on.
And she walks about. I was like, I'll go with you.
And I'll walk all the way out to the fence.
She'll go about halfway. And then that's like it. I'm
not getting near the duck. But it's all that stuff
(02:24):
I know is going to come whenever it comes. Sure.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Are you definitely alpha? Are you the love of her
life now? Like, are you it?
Speaker 4 (02:33):
I'm wondering if, and this is going to sound weird,
but you know how I always say my cat doesn't
know how to cat?
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
I'm thinking right now that. Lucy doesn't really know how
to dog so I don't know what her history was
but some of the things and I'm not a dog
expert obviously my name's not Caesar but watching her behavior
like the all Saturday when when I got her um
it was just scavenging and scrounging the whole house sniffing all.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Over the place which is what she should be doing.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
Every now and then bringing something out and then or
if there was stuff I didn't see on the floor
I'd look at it and she'd sniff it and I'd
see she's chewing and it's like, well, what are you,
what are you chewing? Caught her eating a feather too.
So whatever.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Right.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
So I'm just like, okay, so maybe she was, you know,
a homeless dog.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
This is not going to be a like two days
and she's all in. This is going to be months. Yeah.
Or at least a couple of weeks. You know, you
think about if you were put into a strange place
and you don't know anybody or anything about your surroundings,
the first thing you're going to do is learn. Right. Exactly.
And so she's, She's not in her comfort zone by
any stretch of the imagination. And she's you can look
(03:44):
at her face. She's a puppy. So, you know, yeah.
But I mean, when Jodi and I had boxers and
we got Ashley, our second boxer, she was a year
and a half old. But she's the true all of
that stuff with her.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
I need to chew. She chewed through books that were
super thick.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Until she was two years old. And then when she
finally hit that point, the chewing part was over.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
We didn't give her enough chews. I don't know if
we gave her enough Kongs and things like that. So
offer Lucy a lot of chews and things like that.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
I busted out some of... When Gus passed away, I
threw away some of his toys. I threw away a
bunch of Gus stuff. Not threw it away, but donated
a bunch of Gus stuff.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
And so... I kept a few toys, like Gus's favorites.
I don't know why. Yeah. So I broke those out,
and instantly she grabbed one and started walking around with it.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Good.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
It was like, oh, that was Gus's favorite.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
And it takes a dog time to learn what's theirs
and what's not. So if you continue to give her
those toys, and then she'll have a little bucket or
basket that's just her toys, she will eventually learn.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
They're so smart.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
But you have to show everything, mostly with praise, because
they really, really want to Please you.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
They are all about you making you happy. You know that.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
And because you're not, because Abu is not a real
cat or whatever you say.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Doesn't know how to be a cat.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Because she has no other companion dog. And I'm not
suggesting you need two dogs. But I'm going to say
the dynamic is different now. Now that we've had two dogs,
I always want two dogs.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
Why?
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Because they're pack animals. They understand each other. They acclimate.
They follow when they see one doing the other.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
It becomes a lot easier to manage, truly. But because
you are Alpha, you are her packmate, literally everything that
you do is what's going to.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
You know. That's what's going on right now, yeah. Everywhere
I go. And it's like it's one of those things where, oh, good,
she finally laid down on the floor while we're watching TV.
I was like, I got to get up and go
to the bathroom.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Oh, no.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
And it's like, stay here. It's good.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
She won't. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
I mean, it'll come.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
It'll come in time or you'll have an extremely needy dog,
but who cares?
Speaker 4 (06:02):
The cutest thing is when I'm in the kitchen cooking,
she comes and sits at the edge of the kitchen
and then she lays all the way down and just
watches me the whole time.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Is it like the Superman pose with the back legs flat?
Like a Sphinx. I love that. Oh, like a Sphinx.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
That's so sweet. So does she bark?
Speaker 4 (06:21):
I have yet to hear a bark, which is weird.
I heard some whimpers. And when she fell asleep while
I was watching TV on the floor, all of a
sudden I heard the dreaming chases. My mom says, chasing
a bunny.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Chasing a squirrel.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Are you going to, you know, what you do now
while she's new is, It's a big deal. I know
this because we've had a lot of dogs, Murphy, and
I feel like if I could do it again, and
we will do it again one day, I would do
some things differently. Are you going to put her in
the car and take her for rides often? Because if
you want her to be a dog who's easy to
take places, you've got to start taking her places.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
Yeah, eventually at some point. Because when I went to
put her in the car when we left the shelter,
she didn't know what to do. It wasn't like, oh,
jump up. Of course not.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
What?
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Of course not.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
So I lifted her and put her in, and then
she just cowered the whole way home. And I kept
reaching back and petting her.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Correct. Done that ride many times.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
Yeah, that and when I've, like, hey, come sit on
the sofa. She doesn't get that. You know, I lift
her front paws up, and it's like, so.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Good. So she's waiting for you to show her everything,
which is fantastic. It sounds really good. It's not like
you're not going to go home to, you know, your
sofa being eaten up. Because she's crated for one thing
right now, right?
Speaker 4 (07:48):
I wouldn't be surprised if it was eating up if
I left her out.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Right. That's an anxiety.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
It's funny because I'll be sitting there and then she'll
just wander off. And it's like, okay. Like when Gus
would wander off, obviously he was 13 years old. It's like,
I'm worried about Gus. I don't care where he's going
because I know he's going to come back in the
living room. So far with Lucy, when she wanders off,
it's like, okay.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Something's up.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
I listen and listen. And all of a sudden I
hear a noise. It's all right. She's chewing something. Let
me go get her.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
In all of our time of fostering and having dogs,
we've had dogs that love to go for a ride
in the car and know how to behave in public
and go to a restaurant that has dogs and you
sit on the patio.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
And I love that.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
And then we've got some who are so anxious that
the only time they ever get in the car is
they know they're going to the vet.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
It's not great. And that's why I say if you
want her to go places with you, start now.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
You just have to show her now and then eventually
she will jump in the car. She'll try to go
in the car even when she's not supposed to go.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
But that's up to you.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
No, I plan to do that. I plan to take
her to the dog park and everything. I don't want her, me,
to be her only dog friend.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Right. You know.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
That can become a thing.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
My daughter Maddie said, take her to get a pup cup.
I was like, we will. We will.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
That's so, so awesome.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
And, you know, her name is Jumba.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Um.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
I have been batting around names for about a week.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Oh, before you even met the baby.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
Yeah, just like name. You know, because I would verbalize it. Like,
how's this going to come off my, you know, and
if I name her this, what are the alternates going
to be? You know, like Lucy.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Nicknames.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
Lucy Goosey, Lucy Lou, Lucy.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Oh, yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
We have that, too.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
We have lots of nicknames for our dogs.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
It's so sweet.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
And I wanted a girl. There were a lot of
cute boys. I almost went, let me just do this. But,
you know, another one of Miss Judy's is you don't
want a boy. They lift their legs on everything.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Which is true.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Well, wait. You can have a female dog that also
has accidents in the house, Marks, and just has accidents.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Or what do they call that? It's the wedding thing
that they'll do.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Oh, submissive wedding.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Submissive wedding. You never had that with a female dog? Oh,
your pet? them and they're— Yeah, and they just cower
and they pee.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Well, Sparky's a male, and he submissive wets every now
and then, too.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Wow, I think he's submissive marking.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
He's a tiny dog. That may be part of it.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
The name that I really thought was going to roll
off my tongue well was actually Dolly.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Oh!
Speaker 4 (10:18):
And because of the events of the past week, I
just didn't want it to be like, oh, for Dolly Parton.
It's like, no, just because I like the way it rolled.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
It does.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
So it was like as much as I wanted to, no.
So it's like I thought of Lulu and it was Lucy. Lucy, hey.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Lucy is a good name.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
Let's do Lucy. I thought of Jodi and I was like, no,
that's not going to go over well.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
You got enough Jody in your life.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
So was it easier than you thought to transition after
Gus or not?
Speaker 4 (10:50):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Good question. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
I don't know if it's because of the time or
my state. But, yeah, it was very easy. Because you're ready.
I hit up an adoption event Friday. Nothing there. Two
on Saturday. And then that's when I went to the shelter. And,
you know, like I said earlier, too, it wasn't as
hard as I thought in the shelter.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
I mean, there were a ton of dogs.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Oh, yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
Room after room after room.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
If you're really looking for the selection, that's going to
be the biggest selection.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
It's true.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
It's correct for them to do the events because a
lot of people don't want to go to the shelter.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
And, you know, I ran into a few scared dogs, obviously.
You reach out to pet them and they run away.
But there were a handful of dogs that were like, hey,
I'm ready to go. Come on, get me. And that's
kind of what Lucy was, too.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
It's funny because for you to explain that experience of looking,
you know, at however many events you went to and
then looking at all the dogs at the shelter and then,
you know, deciding on Lucy, um, that kind of thing
does not happen for me. If I went to an
adoption event today and there were three dogs, one of them,
(12:01):
I could imagine myself taking home.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Like, right. You know, if I went to three adoption events,
I could have picked three dogs easily. And I have
never been at a shelter when I couldn't have taken
a dog home. You know, I don't know if that's
more about, you know, just connecting with them easily.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
I think it's all of those things. It's the rescue aspect.
Maybe that's what's helping you too, Sam, is you actually
have helped a dog. You know what I mean? Otherwise,
maybe it would have found its next home. Who knows?
Maybe not, you know? Right. But I think that when you–
Jodi and I are probably just dog fanatics. I mean, look,
at one point we had five full-time dogs plus a foster.
(12:44):
That was probably a little crazy, but it was also fun.
I mean, it was a lot of fun because dogs
interact wonderfully with people. But when dogs interact with other dogs,
there's just something special about that. And when you do
bring the next dog in, it's easier to train.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
It's The new dog knows when to pee because all
the other dogs are peeing.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Everybody else is doing it, right? And, you know, I mean,
we're humans.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
They know when to eat.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
They know when to go in their crate because everybody
else is doing it.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
I think our pack size is right right now. I'm
glad we paused for a bit because Champ, he's getting older. But, look,
both of these guys, Champ and Sparky, are both old,
and they've both rebounded from whatever is going on, and
they're still doing their thing. Even though I wouldn't call
them best buddies, they will be together at times. They'll
go out together. They understand all of those dynamics. And,
(13:37):
you know, because they are two boy dogs, you take
them out, one's waiting for the other to pee before
he will.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
Be on top of it.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Right.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
But they also know what's going on when you do that.
It's not going to be a wait, you know.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Hope the dog pees because you're a human telling it
to pee.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
And they're like, what are you telling me to do?
Speaker 4 (13:54):
I don't know. I've opened the door and she runs
right out and pee. keys. That's good. And I try
to like, oh, good. Outside, go potty. Outside, go potty.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Same words every time help.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
The only issue I have is that when she does
number two, it's always been right off the edge of
the patio. It's like, okay, we need to go out
in the yard. We got lots of fences here. Go
way out there and do that. Not right where I
step off the patio.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Are you worried about her today? Like you, this is
the first day you've left her.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
I mean, this sounds crazy, but I want to get
home to make sure she's cool and that she's Because
this is, I don't know how dogs think, but, you know,
she went from a cage to two days of, woohoo,
this is great.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Now a cage.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
Get back in this thing while I go to work.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
But understand something, you know, and I think this is commonly,
you know, calling it a cage, it's a crate. And
the thing is, it's not jail. We see it as
jail because we humanize things. But it's the safest place
that she can possibly be because she's in a new place.
You don't want her biting a cord that's plugged into something, right? Or,
you know, I mean, something like that. So it's the
(14:59):
best place. And so as long as you treat the
crate as a happy, safe spot, that's not a negative.
What was a negative for her at the shelter that's
very scary is A bunch of barking dogs, a bunch
of constant mayhem.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
All the scents.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Right. And so there's a lot going on. I don't
think it's about being in a crate, in a cage,
in whatever. It's just the, that was, and it took
me learning that too early on with Chevy, who loved
to escape, by the way. He was the one that
somehow could magically get out of any sort of crate.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
But they're den animals.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
So once you make it a happy place.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
I have her in the living room.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
I mean, the crate is like a little den. That's
all I mean. I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (15:40):
I put treats in there. I put the Kong in there.
I have a blanket or a bed, whatever that the
padding that goes on the tray.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
Great. And I also threw an extra towel in there. Just,
you know, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (15:53):
I didn't put a light and an end table or
any of that.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Good.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
I'm so excited.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
Now she, she has picked up a few things and
walk through the house with them, but it's usually drop
that or stop and she'll drop my shoes or whatever. Great.
The only thing, I was taking a bath, and I
was like, she's not here. Where is she? I get
out the tub, and these are my glasses.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Oh, no.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
They don't fit quite.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
As well anymore.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
Oh, no.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
Classic.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
I mean, that's a classic. Plus, things that are yours
smell like you.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Oh, yeah.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
I found a pair of underwear in the living room.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
And it's like, okay, I get that.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
She's a puppy. Lucy's a puppy.
Speaker 4 (16:36):
But you know what's funny about this is Sam 15,
20 years ago, oh, I would have lost my mind.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
Livid.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
And I was just like, all right, whatever.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Sweet little Lucy.
Speaker 4 (16:47):
It's nice to feel that way. Oh, my God.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
So excited for you.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
But if she eats another thing.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
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