May 2, 2025 • 31 mins
Ever wondered how apartment dwellers manage dog ownership without constant trips to the elevator? In this heartwarming conversation, esthetician Stephanie and her charming dachshund Snoop reveal how Fresh Patch has transformed their urban living experience, providing a natural grass solution that fits perfectly on their balcony.
The episode takes a fascinating turn when Stephanie shares a critical discovery about canine nutrition that may explain why so many dogs are developing chicken allergies. Despite following recommended feeding guidelines, Snoop became dangerously underweight until Stephanie learned about protein rotation—a simple yet powerful approach that restored her dog's health and might benefit countless other pets suffering from similar issues.
Dog owners will recognize themselves in Stephanie's stories about the emotional intelligence of her pets, from their uncanny ability to sense her moods to their quirky personalities. Whether it's Snoop's judgy side-eye (reminiscent of viral memes), his photogenic habit of carrying oversized toys during walks, or his senior companion Lola's sun-based internal clock for mealtimes, these anecdotes celebrate the unique characters that make our canine companions so special.
The conversation also addresses real challenges faced by working pet parents, including the vaccination dilemmas that arise when dogs experience allergic reactions and the logistical puzzles of arranging pet care during travel. Throughout the discussion, one theme remains constant: the profound bond between humans and dogs, beautifully illustrated when Stephanie reflects on how her dachshunds have supported her through both sad times and happy moments.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome to the Fresh Patch Podcast, where we talk
about everything from dogtraining to potty talk.
It's time to save your rugs andget real.
This episode is brought to youby Fresh Patch, featured on
Shark Tank, Oprah and the TodayShow, and here are your hosts,
Drew and Gabe.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Welcome everybody to the Potty Talk Podcast.
Welcome back for episode 5.
My name is Drew, marketingDirector here at Fresh Patch,
and this is I'm Gabe.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
I am the Partnerships Coordinator, and we have a
couple special guests here today.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
If you wouldn't mind introducing yourself, my name is
Stephanie and I am here with mydachshund Snoop Snoop.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Snoop.
Come show yourself.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Snoop's behind the camera right now for all you
viewers, but he will be in framehere in a second, absolutely as
always, our special puppy guestis running around the set
Exactly and shout out to Adrianabehind the camera, our social
media manager, you know, takingpart in wrangling A little Snoop
back there.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Appreciate it.
But yeah, thank you forstopping by and checking out
Fresh Patch Headquarters.
Really appreciate you takingthe time and hopefully you've
enjoyed your time so far seeingour operations and everything we
like to make sure our guestsare happy and have a good time.
So yeah, thank you for comingby and taking the time.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
Come on, Snoop.
Yeah, thank you for having me.
This place is really big.
I did not expect it to be thisbig.
It's a full operation systemhere and it's really nice.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Yeah, it's a nice place.
It's cool.
Like you know, you come inthrough the office and you're
like oh this is kind of a smalloffice, and then you go through
those doors to the warehouse andyou're like whoa yeah, this is
a decently sized space.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
Yeah, it size space.
Yeah, it's really nice, veryorganized too.
Appreciate it, yeah, thanks tothis guy.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Yeah, yeah, I didn't tell you, but I did start in the
warehouse, like I've been herefor almost nine years.
So oh, okay I started in thewarehouse and I that made sure
everything was organized.
I I couldn't not be unorganizedbecause it gets messy out there
.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
Yeah, you can tell, yeah, it's very a lot of orders,
so shout out all customers forordering you know make keeping
us busy out there in thewarehouse.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
We appreciate it and keep us organized here's snoop.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
And there is mr snoop , uh-huh, front and center,
showing his face, uh-huh,sniffing for all our fresh patch
tennis balls.
Um, but you'll see those pop inin here and there, but cool.
So, uh yeah, let's just getstarted dive into some questions
.
Um, I can kind of start us off,but once again, thank you for
(02:28):
coming, but yeah tell us aboutyou and Snoop, and I know you
have another dog as well.
So if you want to just tell usabout yourself and your dogs,
yeah, of course.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
Ok, so where do I start?
Ok, so I've always had dogs.
Since I can remember, I'm sucha dog person and I ended up
getting into dachshunds aroundthe age of 12.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Oh, wow.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
So Snoop is actually my fourth dachshund, and then
Lola.
She's at home.
She's my third dachshund, butshe has lupus.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
I know, isn't that crazy how dogs are starting to
get these wild?
Speaker 2 (03:07):
yeah, it's a bummer, yeah, for sure.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
Uh-huh, that's crazy so her wrists have actually
collapsed, so she walks on herwrist.
It's so, it's so sad, it's verysad.
Um, I actually thought aboutputting her down, probably about
two or three years ago, butwhen the day, when the day came,
I just knew she wasn't readyyet, and she's been doing great.
(03:32):
I switched her over to raw dogfood and her um health has
improved a lot since then nice.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Yeah, do you make the rod like you, just do it
yourself there's a local companyhere in camarillo.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
So first, okay.
So first I started off with theraw dog food from the store and
then, um, I ended up switchingover to this place in camarillo,
but they're actually shuttingdown I was just gonna ask
because I live in camarillo, soI was like, what is this place
called?
because I'm always interested,so then um I had another company
actually recently follow me.
They're up north and they doraw dog food, so I think.
(04:07):
So I stocked up on theCamarillo food before, because I
think they're going to shutdown sometime this month.
So I stocked up and then, onceI'm done with them, I think I'm
going to try the one up northand see how my dogs like that,
because my dogs are so sensitive.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Yeah, same here.
Yeah, I'll actually have to getget that information because my
dog we're in the middle of liketrying to figure out his diet,
so yeah yeah, so follow-upquestion on that okay has every
dog you've ever owned been adachshund?
Speaker 4 (04:34):
no, no, I've had rottweiler, a rottweiler husky,
a mutt she was like a littlemutt.
And then I had a corgi mix andthen I had a lab dude.
I'm telling you, I've beenthrough them and then once.
Once I got a dachshund.
I was stuck that was it?
(04:54):
That was like the end of it allthe other dogs were always
adopted and I know like peoplelike to adopt, but I just really
love this breed yeah, yeah and.
I know it really well.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
I know this breed very well.
Yeah, that's a good thing.
When you don't like it, youfind the breed that you learn to
love and know the back of yourhand.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Oh yeah, so it's just like stick with it.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
And then I like the process of if you do have a dog
Me and my girlfriend want to dothis right now.
Our dog's getting a littleolder.
We want to do this right now,our dog's getting a little older
.
We want to get a puppy whilehe's still around so he kind of
you know, mingle with each other, he, the new dog, learns, you
know, with the habits and stuff.
I don't know if that happenswith dachshunds, but um, you
know, like you kind of guide,guide them to do like you know
(05:38):
this is how we you know go outand stuff.
This is how we you know feed andeverything.
I've had just family.
They're like it always helpswhen you get an older dog, a
puppy, because it kind ofteaches it the ropes and stuff.
So when the older dog does notso much, in your case, no, not
so much Because Lola, how oldwas she when I got Snoop?
Speaker 4 (05:55):
I think Lola was five when I got Snoop and I feel I
notice sometimes he's gotten herenergy like scared, like
scarediness.
He doesn't like car ridesbecause of her, like things like
that.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Yeah.
So it's like kind of works inthe opposite direction.
I feel like, yeah, it could.
They're learning.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Yeah, they're learning either good or bad
habits.
That's cool.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
The dachshunds are so cute.
They have such personality.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
Yeah, they're funny, for sure they're great.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Little winners, little dobbies awesome.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
So, uh, another question for you um, what is it
that you do for a living?
And like, how has being a freshpatch user kind of helped out
with that?
Speaker 4 (06:36):
okay, so I am an esthetician, so I own my own
business, and just having thefresh patch of grass because we
live in an apartment, so we havea balcony, and it has helped so
much, especially just coming inand out of the house, because
sometimes I'll have time inbetween to just run home and
then I'll just let them out, usethe restroom and then go back
(06:59):
to work yeah that's helped somuch oh my gosh, yeah, that's
awesome sometimes I don't havetime to take them on a walk, so
just using the grass reallyquick helps a lot yeah, totally,
and it, like you know, dogsbrains are kind of trained to
like go on grass, so it's alwaysnice to have that option of,
like you know yes if you can'ttake them out, then at least
(07:20):
like they get the experience oflike yeah, going on grass, which
is yeah, and I'm like, and ifyou don't go, then that's it I'm
done, bye, there, you go in twohours do you, uh?
Speaker 3 (07:29):
do you keep it inside or do you keep it, like out on
the patio?
Speaker 4 (07:32):
oh no, I keep it in the patio, okay, uh-huh, nice,
yeah, and he loves it.
And then when we're home, I'llleave the back door open and
then he'll just go.
They'll go, come back in freelyyeah, yeah, sometimes she's cuz
she's older she's 11 yeah, sothere's there'll be times where
she doesn't want to use it, butbut she still does use it.
(07:54):
But she's just a littlestubborn yeah, good job, snoop,
you know your fresh batch theycan potty time easy
Speaker 3 (08:01):
for you.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
He's so stoked on that ball so cute, there's gosh.
He's like look at me in my eyes.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Yeah, so cute this little tiny dog carrying around
this giant tennis ball aroundthe office.
I love it.
Oh man Cool.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
So, yeah, well, great , that's awesome that Fresh
Patch has worked out so well foryou and your career as well.
I mean, I know we get a lot ofcustomers.
That does help out with theirwork schedule and things like
that.
So yeah, a lot of benefits withFresh Patch, but that is one of
the main.
So super cool, snoop.
Do you have any words to saywhile I get our next question
(08:34):
going?
Speaker 4 (08:36):
No, he's chilling, he's chilling.
Yeah, he's a happy boy.
Yes, he is, he's so happy.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Cool.
So what are some of the morecurrent things happening with
you and your dogs?
Anything special social mediawise, or any birthdays coming up
, or his birthday.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
Yeah, his birthday is actually coming in june, but I
don't do anything.
Yeah, yeah, I don't do nothing.
Um, yeah, I don't have nosocial media for them at all.
I, I should have right.
Yeah, I would have made lots ofmoney off of this dog right
here, right.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Dachshunds are always a big hit on social media.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
You know, what's funny is that I feel they're
starting to get more popular.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Yeah, yeah, I've noticed that too.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
I'm starting to see them a lot more now.
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
The long hair ones too.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
Yeah, those are really pretty.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
the blonde long hair ones yeah, different color furs
yeah yeah, some are spotted yeah, they're.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
They're definitely a hit and they look good on fresh
patch too so yeah, I thinkanother thing too is like I was
saying, is like because theyhave so much like personality to
them, like that usuallytranslates to some pretty good
content you know, yeah, yeah,they're super funny, exactly,
they're very funny dogs, forsure cool, yeah, anything else I
mean, just you know, day to day, just day, today, living I feel
like right now he does havesome gut issues, so I think I'm
(09:49):
gonna see like a specialist forthat.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
Is he on the raw diet also?
He, he is on the raw diet, buthis stomach's been growling a
lot lately oh geez like allnight long it's interesting.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
That's the only sign that you you're seeing or like
that's it yeah everything elseis fine, so you got some gas
Snoop, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
So I think I'm just going to take them in.
Have them checked out.
Interesting.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Yeah, it's always good to you know, get them in.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
it's just these dogs are starting to become more.
He's my most sensitive one, forsure like, out of all of them,
him.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
He takes the cake.
He's the youngest.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
That's why yeah the baby yeah, he takes all my money
oh yeah, so going off the rawdiet okay um, I have a question
um, do you count the calories?
Speaker 2 (10:34):
how do you like go about it?
Do you do calories or like?
Speaker 4 (10:36):
okay.
So on the back of the feedinginstructions I think they said,
based on his weight, to feed himfour ounces, but I was finding
out that was too little, so thenI went to eight ounces and he
he lost a lot of weight he wasreally skinny, he was bones, wow
.
So he was showing his ribs, theback of his spine, and so then
(11:00):
that's when I reached out to thepeople in Camarillo, because
they do consultations.
So then I reached out to herand she's saying well, she asked
me what I was feeding them andI told her the ones from the
store, the raw dog food from thestore.
So then she told me well,protein.
I told her just chicken, shedog food from the store.
(11:21):
So then she told me, um, well,protein.
I told her just chicken.
She's like chicken all the timeand I said, yeah, she goes.
Well, that's, that's theproblem.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
You're feeding them, just chicken, and you need you
need to rotate his proteins,really uh-huh you have to, so I
need she said chicken is reallylean so I need to do something
more fatty.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
so then I ended up getting um venison from her beef
and and I got chicken again.
Chicken, there was like anotherflavor Probably turkey, yeah.
And so now I rotate them and Ifeed him more.
I feed him like a few moreounces, I probably feed him like
10, 11 ounces a day and helooks better.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Yeah, yeah, he looks way better right now.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
I know that's awesome yeah when you guys messaged me
to come, I was like, oh man,he's a little skinny right now
gotta beef him up a little bit,yeah, he looks better now, yeah
get those gains heck, yeah, ohyeah no, that's I mean coming
from me, like I've kind ofbriefly mentioned.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
But the problem I'm having with my dog is like we've
fed him he's 10, so he's alittle bit older, but we've fed
him basically the same meal hiswhole life and recently he's
like you know, it's not thathe's not hungry, he just like
gets tired of the food that he'sboycotting a little, so that
makes a total sense of yousaying, like it's good to like
switch out the proteins thatthey get so yes, yeah, you have
(12:33):
to rotate their food, for sure
Speaker 2 (12:34):
the proteins, yeah, yeah that's interesting because
I just saw something recently.
I mean, my dog too is doing theresearch of like ounces to
calories and it's like a lot ofpeople go, it's like, oh, feed
him this amount of ounces, butobviously it doesn't translate
as well as like the caloriecount, correct.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
And if they're active too and he's active, so he's
burning more fat during the day.
And then you have to be carefultoo with the senior dogs,
because you have a sensitivestomach, oh yeah trust me, I
know yeah, so you have to likeslowly incorporate it in, like
with lola because she's older,with the other, um, like the
venison, the turkey and stuff, Ihave to slowly give her a
(13:11):
little bit mixed in, like I cando snoop, like a full switch,
but her, her stomach, um getsupset.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Yeah, yeah.
How often do you swap it out?
Speaker 4 (13:21):
is it like once a month, every other month or um,
I would say, because they comein like froze, they come in
frozen packets, oh nice.
So then when one packet's done,I'll just do a different flavor
, uh-huh gotcha so probably likeevery two days, okay, oh, wow,
okay, yeah, that's what we dowith oakley too.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Yeah, I really I really gotta give that a try
with all of them.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Yeah, it's like turkey in the morning night,
then the next day it's like beefand yeah, sometimes honestly,
it's beef in the morning, turkeyat night, something like it
just whatever's defrosted,really.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
But yeah, yeah for sure, you know, but um yeah, try
to keep on.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
Yeah, because the um, the in Camarillo told me that
if you just feed them oneprotein they start to develop an
allergy Really To that, to thechicken.
You know that makes so muchsense.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
I know, I know it's so much for me, but one thing
that we've noticed, like goingto events and stuff, is like our
treats are chicken, our chickentrainers, and you know when
we're handing them out, we findthat, you know, that's something
that's been growing a lot isdogs developing allergies to
chicken.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
So I wonder if that's why?
That's probably why, yeah,because we just feed them
chicken all the time.
Yeah, if you think about it, alot of the dog food it's just
chicken, chicken, chicken.
Yep, because it's cheaper.
That's why it's cheap.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Yeah, for sure, yeah, we just took my dog off chicken
because he's a bean biter.
He bites his paws all the timeoh probably that allergy.
Yeah, and the vet was like oh,it's allergies for sure, but
didn't specify exactly.
And then we've just beenkeeping an eye and we're like,
okay maybe it's this chickenthing.
So we took chicken fully out ofhis diet.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
Better, just turkey.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
We just started three days ago, so haven't noticed a
difference.
He's actually been biting himworse, but we'll see how it goes
.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
I mean it's a team effort.
Yeah, you know, when we're inthe meetings, um, and you know
we'll catch oakley out of thecorner of his eye just going in
on his, and you know we all takeour turns.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
I think it's a nice mixture of allergies and boredom
, though honestly, because he'sa white shepherd um, he has
energy too, you know I thinkhe's got a little husky in him,
honestly, so he's always wantingto go and we've noticed too.
When we really give him a goodrun or something, he's tired and
won't even touch okay, that'sgood.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
Yeah, so you're, you're right, I think he needs
more activity.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Yeah yeah, but I bring him here every day and you
know he's playing with theother dogs, but I take him on
another walk when I get home anda good one too but he wants to
like run run.
You know what I mean so througha field or something.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
I have a cheat code with my dog.
Um, for whatever reason, likehe loves destroying boxes, like
that's like the ultimate form ofenrichment for him.
So whenever he's getting allantsy, I pull him out in the
warehouse and I'll throw a boxat him and that'll distract him
for 15 minutes and then you know.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
he must have been a cat in his past life, I'm sure.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
You know we've said that before, but the thing is is
he's like 100 pounds.
And so he's like doing catstuff running on the backs of
furniture and stuff.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Oh, he's a cat for sure, oh for sure.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
That's so funny.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Yeah patch team for him to open boxes.
We always get returns.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
We tell our customers not to return items because
usually once you return it likewe're not going to use it again,
especially um the grass.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
But you know we take returns for like the wooden
sleeves and stuff.
But yesterday we filmed thevideo of him because we're
trying to make tell people likedon't return stuff.
So it's just him ripping up thebox, he's like literally
pushing it out of the warehousedoor.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
So he knows like I'll catch him like about to bite a
box or something.
I'm like no, no, no.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
And he knows where the returns are now, so that's
like his safe space that's sogood, yeah, awesome.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
So I know we kind of touched this a little bit but
like what are some strugglesthat you see you know being a
working part?
Speaker 4 (16:58):
um, I I think for the most part nothing.
I feel more.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
The struggle is traveling oh, yeah, that's the
struggle.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
I feel that, yeah, that's the biggest struggle,
especially since me and myhusband we have no family here
and my babysitter are my parentsand they live three hours away.
So if we want to travelsomewhere, we either have to
take the dogs or we have tocoordinate driving three hours,
(17:33):
dropping the dogs off, and thenmy dogs stay there for X amount,
like weeks at a time, and thenbefore we would, they stay there
for weeks at a time and then wego on our trip and then we have
to coordinate going back downthere and then picking them up
yeah, that's crazy.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Yeah, yeah, that's a lot I'm about to go away this
weekend too, and that's likewhen we first got my girlfriend,
I first got the dog.
It's like okay, yeah, like OK,let's go here, let's go here,
let's do this.
And it's like, oh wait, we gotanother variable now.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Dog sitter payment to the dog sitter.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
You know all the, all the things.
So, yeah, I can agree with that.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
That's definitely a big struggle.
Yeah, I don't want to do theboarding thing one because Lola
is fully vaccinated but he's not, and I don't want to give him
his rabies vaccines because hehas gotten allergic reactions to
vaccines before he swelled upin his face.
Oh wow His whole face swelledup, oh that's scary.
We were so lucky.
(18:30):
We were so lucky.
I went to work that day but myhusband was off.
So we were lucky that myhusband stayed, because I've
never had a dog get an allergicreaction to vaccines.
So my husband was home and hecaught it.
So imagine if we both, if I,would have took him to the vet,
got his vaccines and then wentto work.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
He probably would have died like at home.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
That's so scary, so right now I'm fighting actually
with the city of ventura to notvaccinate him hey, make it a
class action.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
I'm in on it, you know.
Speaker 4 (19:02):
And I and I told, and we told them, we said, look, if
you look, we, because lola'sregistered, lola's fully
vaccinated, I'm not, I we wantto make it.
We want to let them know thatwe're not anti-vaxxers because
you know, especially since covid, it's been a huge thing, right,
vaccines.
So we told them, hey, we're notanti-vaxxers because you know,
especially since covid, it'sbeen a huge thing right vaccines
so we told them hey, we're notanti-vaxxers.
(19:22):
Lola's fully vaccinated, butthis is what's been happening
with him, like is there anexception?
So, um, someone actually didcall last week.
They sent us a fine and thenthey called us last week and
then my husband was on the phone, talked to her and I think she
might help us.
She goes well, why haven't weeverything I just said right now
?
She goes well, why haven't yousaid anything and my husband
(19:44):
goes.
We've been telling you guys noone's like no one's listening to
us yeah, no one wants to acceptit yeah so she's like okay,
we'll see what we can do, likeI'm gonna see what I can do and
help you guys that's crazy.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
So that's why the cities are on it.
Speaker 4 (19:57):
On top of it, I will say like so that's why we can't
take him to boarding, becausethey have to be vaccinated that
makes sense.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Yeah, that's a bummer .
Speaker 3 (20:04):
Yeah, I know does he have a separation anxiety um, I
don't think so.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
He's just, he's just quiet, uh-huh so if I was to
leave him, like at your house.
Yeah, he would just be reallyquiet.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Yeah, okay but they wouldn't like it, your house, he
would just be really quiet.
Yeah, but they wouldn't likeKind of gets a little depressed.
Yeah, he would just be reallyquiet.
That's it, yeah, okay.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
He'll just be like this Just chilling, that's not
bad.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
Yeah, I'll take care of him if you need.
I would feel so bad though thewhole time.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
I'd be like, though, to babysit them.
She's a groomer.
She works out of her house inVentura.
She's great, and she hasbabysat them a few times.
Nice, yeah, and she's like.
They're so chill, your dogs areso easy, like anytime.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Look at his little face.
Right now.
Connections like that.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
Yeah so.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Very nice, cool, moving on a little bit.
Talk more about Snoop here andLola too.
But what are some of theirquirks and funny moments?
I guess you kind of have allthe time with them.
Speaker 4 (21:14):
I would say for Snoop he, when I take him downtown to
Main Street he knows where thedog store is at.
You know how there's a dogstore and that's where we have
to stop first get a toy.
But now that she moved, youknow how she moved.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
Well, he still goes to the old store.
So I have to train him to go tothe new one.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
That's funny, snoop, you've got a good memory, man,
and then he walks around, helikes the new one.
Yeah, that's funny, you got agood memory man, yeah, and then
he walks around.
He likes to go for walks withthe toys in his mouth.
That's awesome.
You gotta show it off,especially the new.
Speaker 4 (21:48):
The new toy, come on and the toy's always much bigger
.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
They're like this big it's so cute, that's classic
that's makes, just makes greatcontent great photos, you know,
catches people's eye when you'rewalking on the street.
You know that that's.
That's always fun.
There's a there's a dog in myold neighborhood.
It's.
It actually went viral on likeFacebook and Instagram and stuff
.
But giant dog, I think it's acane Corso, but had to be like
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200 pounds.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
And he always had a Winnie the Pooh stuffy and like.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
Would walk around the entire neighborhood and like
someone snapped a picture of him.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
It's like no matter how big you are, you always need
your, your poo bear yeah andlike he's the most intimate.
Like you walk past you're like,oh my gosh, that's a, that's a
big, scary looking dog.
But then he just like, does thelittle head thing with a poo
bear and it's not just like ah,you're just a big softy that's
like my dog.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
he's a big, big boy like we talking about, but he
has this pickle toy that's likethis big, and every night, at
the end of the night, when he'sready for bed, he lays down with
it and puts it in his mouth andcurls up, falls asleep with it
in his mouth and it's just thecutest thing ever.
That's so cute, they get soattached to their toys.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
Yeah, they do.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
And they pick their favorites.
I don't know if Snoop picksfavorites.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
He has a favorite.
Yeah, he has a favorite.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Yeah, they mess with some here and there but there's
just that one, like the pickleOakley's is a gremlin.
It's this weird-looking thing.
I don't know His choice.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
He's probably buried and dug it up about ten times
now.
That's so funny, classic, it'struly one, I would say Lola's.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
Lola knows when it's time to eat, so she doesn't get
up.
She lays in bed all day and weknow when it's time to eat
because she'll get up and she'llstart to corral us to go into
the kitchen.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
That's hilarious, is it like?
Same time every night, sametime every day?
She's off the sun, she's on thesun.
Schedule oh, 100%.
Yeah, you don't have any alarmsor anything.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
No, nothing Gotcha.
How's the time change?
Oh, with the time change, shegot me earlier now yeah, yeah so
now we're like two hours off.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
That's how much we have alarms, but he also we can
tell he goes off the sun too,because sometimes we'll have the
alarms off and he just goesballistic at like five thirty.
Yeah, like what is going on,but the time change did get him
like.
He was like three thirty, likejust begging for.
Speaker 4 (24:11):
I'm like, dude, you got two hours Three o'clock, yes
, three o'clock.
They want to eat.
Yeah, come on man Like yeah,you know better than that.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
Booze will be right now, that's so funny.
It's got to be confusing forthem, though, you know, because,
like out of nowhere.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
Because they don't know.
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
I was supposed to be fed now Wait a second here Not
being fed now, so interesting.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
That doesn't add up, yeah, let me go corral.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Are they starving me?
What's going on Corral, corral.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
Corral, great.
Speaker 4 (24:44):
so we have plenty of these working here, um, uh,
referring to like funny,embarrassing, like kind of potty
moments, like I tell youpersonally the amount of times
that I've cleaned up poop andpee in this office it's a lot,
yeah, so I bet what's like afunny, you know, maybe a little
embarrassing story that you have, like you know, potty accident
I would say lola, she, you know,when you're always walking,
you're like why did this dog goin the street or the sidewalk
(25:05):
that's her oh right, on theconcrete, yeah, I don't know why
she does that I'm thinkingbecause she's old, so I get it.
She can't really go too farshe's like I gotta go right now
so she'll smell the grass, butthen go on the concrete like she
doesn't.
She doesn't make it.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
I had my old dog used to like back up like a truck
into bushes and like leavelittle ornaments.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
Oh I used to have one , yeah yeah, my other dogs and
he was.
He was a bush one to a bush one, that's Oakley Bush and tree.
I was like I didn't get it,yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
It's almost like like my dog is like needs the
privacy, like there's some timeswhere he like he'll climb all
the way up in a bush and likethat thing disappears.
But then there's also timeswhere he just like can't hold it
and he just like nestles upnext to a bush.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
I'm like I think you're just trying to have like
your own stall, like not be seenright now like I don't know
what's going on, but teach theirown, you know, do your thing oh
, that's cool.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Um that, I've kind of lost my train of thought.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
We'll definitely cut there, but maybe I won't.
Yeah, we'll just leave it inthere.
Um cool.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
So this is one question we ask every guest but,
what is your most memorablemoment with your dogs?
Snoop, both of them.
Two different stories, if youhave one for each.
Speaker 4 (26:25):
Memorable, honestly, I would just say, just them
spending time with me, justbeing with me through my sad
times, when I'm sad and when I'mhappy, they're happy Like they
really do feel your energy ohyeah, and they feed off of it,
yeah, so I just think just thembeing with me all the time is
(26:46):
just memorable to me man, I lovethem.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
Those moments are priceless when you know you're
having a bad day or somethingand they come up and they know,
cuddle like oh man, they know.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
So yeah, they know yeah, it's so great, like I was
mentioning before, I have badallergies and some days you can
they know.
Yeah, it's so great.
Like I was mentioning before, Ihave bad allergies and some
days you can ask the team Likeit's brutal and you know, I'm
just like I'm struggling, but itwas a little locked up
sinus-wise.
Yeah, yeah it's bad, but like itwas like last week that it was
really bad and I went home andstuff, this time he just like
(27:23):
walked in and he was likestanding by my side and I got
right in her bed and he hoppedin instantly and just like got
up and cuddled me and stuff.
I was like, oh you know, I'mnot feeling good, like for sure
like so it's such a good,they're smart, they're so smart
yeah, like you said the energy.
They read the energy a mileaway.
It's a beautiful thing,honestly.
Speaker 4 (27:44):
Look at him right now .
Speaker 2 (27:45):
He's just cuddling me See my emotional.
You're happy, they're happy.
Speaker 4 (27:51):
We all need them.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
I always feel like you get what you give with your
pet.
If you're showing them the loveand the affection they give it
right back.
I agree, definitely you feedthem.
You know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (27:59):
If, like, you're showing them the love and the
affection, like they give itright back.
Oh, I agree.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
Yes, I agree Definitely.
You know, you know they'regoing to be nice.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
That's so funny.
It's crazy to think about, likehow it's like an evolutionary
thing, how Thousands of yearsago a caveman you know gave,
gave some food to a wolf, andthen now we're here and like do
a podcast making social mediaaccounts for our dogs and yeah,
(28:28):
man, how's his uh?
Does he give the side eye ever?
I know that's.
Speaker 4 (28:31):
Oh, yes, oh yeah, all the time he does that's so good
so cute judgy his judgy eyes.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
He looks like the one meme, yes, the most popular
meme.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
I caught like a quick glimpse of him and I was like
oh, I know what you're talkingabout.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
Yeah, where he was like scrunched up looking to the
side, yeah, he does do that.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
There may be a future for you as a memer, that's
right.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
Snoop, you got a lot ahead of you.
That's right, snoop.
You got a lot ahead of you, alot of good things.
We got to get the social mediaaccounts going.
Now Snoop's what's a clevername Snoop Doggy Dog Well,
that's copyright.
Do you think that was?
(29:16):
Have you ever looked into thoseSnoop Dog?
Speaker 4 (29:20):
He has like a dog line.
It's like dog bowls and apparel.
How did I know how?
Speaker 2 (29:23):
did I not know that?
Yeah, like chains, gold chainsand stuff.
Speaker 4 (29:26):
Yeah, no, don't, don't, don't expose me to that,
because then tonight I'm goingto go on the website.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
I'm going to buy something.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
I'm so sorry.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
But I had to.
Well, he needs at least asweater or something.
Speaker 4 (29:38):
Oh yeah, he has sweaters.
The gold chain, the chain, Ithink the chain right.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
The chain he would look good with the chain.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
That's right Snoop.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
Cool.
Well, thank you so much forjoining us on the Potty Talk
Podcast.
We really appreciate your timeTaking time out of your day to
come down here and see FreshPatch.
So if you want to.
Well, you don't have any socialaccounts, so we usually give
this time to shout out yoursocial um or your dog.
Speaker 4 (30:04):
Well, you have personal, but yeah, I have
personal, but I don't haveanything for sale.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
So if you want to shout out your personal go for
it.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
Yeah, all right, thanks.
Um, my name is stephanie.
I'm a licensed esthetician inventura, and my instagram and
tiktok are bare complexionskincare.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
There you go so hit her up if you are local to the
ventura area give her a follow.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
Yeah, give her a follow um.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
She'll help you out, so, but yeah, thank you for
coming on yes, thank you forhaving me.
Speaker 4 (30:30):
It's been so much fun .
Yeah, it's been great meetingsnoopy such a sweetheart yeah
and for all you listeners andviewers.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Um, check us out on youtube, spotify our website
freshpatchcom.
Give us a follow on all socialmedias and if you are on YouTube
, hit that subscribe button.
Leave a comment like we reallyappreciate it and trying to get
this podcast going and get it tomore people and stuff, so any
help from you guys would beappreciated.
And, of course, check outfreshpatchcom for all your real
(30:58):
grass needs, non-grass needs.
We got sprays, we got treats.
So check it out freshpatchcom.
And thank you again.
Speaker 4 (31:05):
Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Cool.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
Thanks for listening to the Potty Time Podcast
brought to you by Fresh Patch.
We hope you enjoyed the show.
Give us a like or a follow, orshop all of our real grass
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Welcome to the Fresh Patch Podcast, where we talk
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It's time to save your rugs andget real.
This episode is brought to youby Fresh Patch, featured on
Shark Tank, Oprah and the TodayShow, and here are your hosts,
Drew and Gabe.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Welcome everybody to the Potty Talk Podcast.
Welcome back for episode 5.
My name is Drew, marketingDirector here at Fresh Patch,
and this is I'm Gabe.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
I am the Partnerships Coordinator, and we have a
couple special guests here today.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
If you wouldn't mind introducing yourself, my name is
Stephanie and I am here with mydachshund Snoop Snoop.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Snoop.
Come show yourself.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Snoop's behind the camera right now for all you
viewers, but he will be in framehere in a second, absolutely as
always, our special puppy guestis running around the set
Exactly and shout out to Adrianabehind the camera, our social
media manager, you know, takingpart in wrangling A little Snoop
back there.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Appreciate it.
But yeah, thank you forstopping by and checking out
Fresh Patch Headquarters.
Really appreciate you takingthe time and hopefully you've
enjoyed your time so far seeingour operations and everything we
like to make sure our guestsare happy and have a good time.
So yeah, thank you for comingby and taking the time.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
Come on, Snoop.
Yeah, thank you for having me.
This place is really big.
I did not expect it to be thisbig.
It's a full operation systemhere and it's really nice.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Yeah, it's a nice place.
It's cool.
Like you know, you come inthrough the office and you're
like oh this is kind of a smalloffice, and then you go through
those doors to the warehouse andyou're like whoa yeah, this is
a decently sized space.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
Yeah, it size space.
Yeah, it's really nice, veryorganized too.
Appreciate it, yeah, thanks tothis guy.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Yeah, yeah, I didn't tell you, but I did start in the
warehouse, like I've been herefor almost nine years.
So oh, okay I started in thewarehouse and I that made sure
everything was organized.
I I couldn't not be unorganizedbecause it gets messy out there
.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
Yeah, you can tell, yeah, it's very a lot of orders,
so shout out all customers forordering you know make keeping
us busy out there in thewarehouse.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
We appreciate it and keep us organized here's snoop.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
And there is mr snoop , uh-huh, front and center,
showing his face, uh-huh,sniffing for all our fresh patch
tennis balls.
Um, but you'll see those pop inin here and there, but cool.
So, uh yeah, let's just getstarted dive into some questions
.
Um, I can kind of start us off,but once again, thank you for
(02:28):
coming, but yeah tell us aboutyou and Snoop, and I know you
have another dog as well.
So if you want to just tell usabout yourself and your dogs,
yeah, of course.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
Ok, so where do I start?
Ok, so I've always had dogs.
Since I can remember, I'm sucha dog person and I ended up
getting into dachshunds aroundthe age of 12.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Oh, wow.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
So Snoop is actually my fourth dachshund, and then
Lola.
She's at home.
She's my third dachshund, butshe has lupus.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
I know, isn't that crazy how dogs are starting to
get these wild?
Speaker 2 (03:07):
yeah, it's a bummer, yeah, for sure.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
Uh-huh, that's crazy so her wrists have actually
collapsed, so she walks on herwrist.
It's so, it's so sad, it's verysad.
Um, I actually thought aboutputting her down, probably about
two or three years ago, butwhen the day, when the day came,
I just knew she wasn't readyyet, and she's been doing great.
(03:32):
I switched her over to raw dogfood and her um health has
improved a lot since then nice.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Yeah, do you make the rod like you, just do it
yourself there's a local companyhere in camarillo.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
So first, okay.
So first I started off with theraw dog food from the store and
then, um, I ended up switchingover to this place in camarillo,
but they're actually shuttingdown I was just gonna ask
because I live in camarillo, soI was like, what is this place
called?
because I'm always interested,so then um I had another company
actually recently follow me.
They're up north and they doraw dog food, so I think.
(04:07):
So I stocked up on theCamarillo food before, because I
think they're going to shutdown sometime this month.
So I stocked up and then, onceI'm done with them, I think I'm
going to try the one up northand see how my dogs like that,
because my dogs are so sensitive.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Yeah, same here.
Yeah, I'll actually have to getget that information because my
dog we're in the middle of liketrying to figure out his diet,
so yeah yeah, so follow-upquestion on that okay has every
dog you've ever owned been adachshund?
Speaker 4 (04:34):
no, no, I've had rottweiler, a rottweiler husky,
a mutt she was like a littlemutt.
And then I had a corgi mix andthen I had a lab dude.
I'm telling you, I've beenthrough them and then once.
Once I got a dachshund.
I was stuck that was it?
(04:54):
That was like the end of it allthe other dogs were always
adopted and I know like peoplelike to adopt, but I just really
love this breed yeah, yeah and.
I know it really well.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
I know this breed very well.
Yeah, that's a good thing.
When you don't like it, youfind the breed that you learn to
love and know the back of yourhand.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Oh yeah, so it's just like stick with it.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
And then I like the process of if you do have a dog
Me and my girlfriend want to dothis right now.
Our dog's getting a littleolder.
We want to do this right now,our dog's getting a little older
.
We want to get a puppy whilehe's still around so he kind of
you know, mingle with each other, he, the new dog, learns, you
know, with the habits and stuff.
I don't know if that happenswith dachshunds, but um, you
know, like you kind of guide,guide them to do like you know
(05:38):
this is how we you know go outand stuff.
This is how we you know feed andeverything.
I've had just family.
They're like it always helpswhen you get an older dog, a
puppy, because it kind ofteaches it the ropes and stuff.
So when the older dog does notso much, in your case, no, not
so much Because Lola, how oldwas she when I got Snoop?
Speaker 4 (05:55):
I think Lola was five when I got Snoop and I feel I
notice sometimes he's gotten herenergy like scared, like
scarediness.
He doesn't like car ridesbecause of her, like things like
that.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Yeah.
So it's like kind of works inthe opposite direction.
I feel like, yeah, it could.
They're learning.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Yeah, they're learning either good or bad
habits.
That's cool.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
The dachshunds are so cute.
They have such personality.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
Yeah, they're funny, for sure they're great.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Little winners, little dobbies awesome.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
So, uh, another question for you um, what is it
that you do for a living?
And like, how has being a freshpatch user kind of helped out
with that?
Speaker 4 (06:36):
okay, so I am an esthetician, so I own my own
business, and just having thefresh patch of grass because we
live in an apartment, so we havea balcony, and it has helped so
much, especially just coming inand out of the house, because
sometimes I'll have time inbetween to just run home and
then I'll just let them out, usethe restroom and then go back
(06:59):
to work yeah that's helped somuch oh my gosh, yeah, that's
awesome sometimes I don't havetime to take them on a walk, so
just using the grass reallyquick helps a lot yeah, totally,
and it, like you know, dogsbrains are kind of trained to
like go on grass, so it's alwaysnice to have that option of,
like you know yes if you can'ttake them out, then at least
(07:20):
like they get the experience oflike yeah, going on grass, which
is yeah, and I'm like, and ifyou don't go, then that's it I'm
done, bye, there, you go in twohours do you, uh?
Speaker 3 (07:29):
do you keep it inside or do you keep it, like out on
the patio?
Speaker 4 (07:32):
oh no, I keep it in the patio, okay, uh-huh, nice,
yeah, and he loves it.
And then when we're home, I'llleave the back door open and
then he'll just go.
They'll go, come back in freelyyeah, yeah, sometimes she's cuz
she's older she's 11 yeah, sothere's there'll be times where
she doesn't want to use it, butbut she still does use it.
(07:54):
But she's just a littlestubborn yeah, good job, snoop,
you know your fresh batch theycan potty time easy
Speaker 3 (08:01):
for you.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
He's so stoked on that ball so cute, there's gosh.
He's like look at me in my eyes.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Yeah, so cute this little tiny dog carrying around
this giant tennis ball aroundthe office.
I love it.
Oh man Cool.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
So, yeah, well, great , that's awesome that Fresh
Patch has worked out so well foryou and your career as well.
I mean, I know we get a lot ofcustomers.
That does help out with theirwork schedule and things like
that.
So yeah, a lot of benefits withFresh Patch, but that is one of
the main.
So super cool, snoop.
Do you have any words to saywhile I get our next question
(08:34):
going?
Speaker 4 (08:36):
No, he's chilling, he's chilling.
Yeah, he's a happy boy.
Yes, he is, he's so happy.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Cool.
So what are some of the morecurrent things happening with
you and your dogs?
Anything special social mediawise, or any birthdays coming up
, or his birthday.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
Yeah, his birthday is actually coming in june, but I
don't do anything.
Yeah, yeah, I don't do nothing.
Um, yeah, I don't have nosocial media for them at all.
I, I should have right.
Yeah, I would have made lots ofmoney off of this dog right
here, right.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Dachshunds are always a big hit on social media.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
You know, what's funny is that I feel they're
starting to get more popular.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Yeah, yeah, I've noticed that too.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
I'm starting to see them a lot more now.
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
The long hair ones too.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
Yeah, those are really pretty.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
the blonde long hair ones yeah, different color furs
yeah yeah, some are spotted yeah, they're.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
They're definitely a hit and they look good on fresh
patch too so yeah, I thinkanother thing too is like I was
saying, is like because theyhave so much like personality to
them, like that usuallytranslates to some pretty good
content you know, yeah, yeah,they're super funny, exactly,
they're very funny dogs, forsure cool, yeah, anything else I
mean, just you know, day to day, just day, today, living I feel
like right now he does havesome gut issues, so I think I'm
(09:49):
gonna see like a specialist forthat.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
Is he on the raw diet also?
He, he is on the raw diet, buthis stomach's been growling a
lot lately oh geez like allnight long it's interesting.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
That's the only sign that you you're seeing or like
that's it yeah everything elseis fine, so you got some gas
Snoop, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
So I think I'm just going to take them in.
Have them checked out.
Interesting.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Yeah, it's always good to you know, get them in.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
it's just these dogs are starting to become more.
He's my most sensitive one, forsure like, out of all of them,
him.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
He takes the cake.
He's the youngest.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
That's why yeah the baby yeah, he takes all my money
oh yeah, so going off the rawdiet okay um, I have a question
um, do you count the calories?
Speaker 2 (10:34):
how do you like go about it?
Do you do calories or like?
Speaker 4 (10:36):
okay.
So on the back of the feedinginstructions I think they said,
based on his weight, to feed himfour ounces, but I was finding
out that was too little, so thenI went to eight ounces and he
he lost a lot of weight he wasreally skinny, he was bones, wow
.
So he was showing his ribs, theback of his spine, and so then
(11:00):
that's when I reached out to thepeople in Camarillo, because
they do consultations.
So then I reached out to herand she's saying well, she asked
me what I was feeding them andI told her the ones from the
store, the raw dog food from thestore.
So then she told me well,protein.
I told her just chicken, shedog food from the store.
(11:21):
So then she told me, um, well,protein.
I told her just chicken.
She's like chicken all the timeand I said, yeah, she goes.
Well, that's, that's theproblem.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
You're feeding them, just chicken, and you need you
need to rotate his proteins,really uh-huh you have to, so I
need she said chicken is reallylean so I need to do something
more fatty.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
so then I ended up getting um venison from her beef
and and I got chicken again.
Chicken, there was like anotherflavor Probably turkey, yeah.
And so now I rotate them and Ifeed him more.
I feed him like a few moreounces, I probably feed him like
10, 11 ounces a day and helooks better.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Yeah, yeah, he looks way better right now.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
I know that's awesome yeah when you guys messaged me
to come, I was like, oh man,he's a little skinny right now
gotta beef him up a little bit,yeah, he looks better now, yeah
get those gains heck, yeah, ohyeah no, that's I mean coming
from me, like I've kind ofbriefly mentioned.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
But the problem I'm having with my dog is like we've
fed him he's 10, so he's alittle bit older, but we've fed
him basically the same meal hiswhole life and recently he's
like you know, it's not thathe's not hungry, he just like
gets tired of the food that he'sboycotting a little, so that
makes a total sense of yousaying, like it's good to like
switch out the proteins thatthey get so yes, yeah, you have
(12:33):
to rotate their food, for sure
Speaker 2 (12:34):
the proteins, yeah, yeah that's interesting because
I just saw something recently.
I mean, my dog too is doing theresearch of like ounces to
calories and it's like a lot ofpeople go, it's like, oh, feed
him this amount of ounces, butobviously it doesn't translate
as well as like the caloriecount, correct.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
And if they're active too and he's active, so he's
burning more fat during the day.
And then you have to be carefultoo with the senior dogs,
because you have a sensitivestomach, oh yeah trust me, I
know yeah, so you have to likeslowly incorporate it in, like
with lola because she's older,with the other, um, like the
venison, the turkey and stuff, Ihave to slowly give her a
(13:11):
little bit mixed in, like I cando snoop, like a full switch,
but her, her stomach, um getsupset.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Yeah, yeah.
How often do you swap it out?
Speaker 4 (13:21):
is it like once a month, every other month or um,
I would say, because they comein like froze, they come in
frozen packets, oh nice.
So then when one packet's done,I'll just do a different flavor
, uh-huh gotcha so probably likeevery two days, okay, oh, wow,
okay, yeah, that's what we dowith oakley too.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Yeah, I really I really gotta give that a try
with all of them.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Yeah, it's like turkey in the morning night,
then the next day it's like beefand yeah, sometimes honestly,
it's beef in the morning, turkeyat night, something like it
just whatever's defrosted,really.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
But yeah, yeah for sure, you know, but um yeah, try
to keep on.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
Yeah, because the um, the in Camarillo told me that
if you just feed them oneprotein they start to develop an
allergy Really To that, to thechicken.
You know that makes so muchsense.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
I know, I know it's so much for me, but one thing
that we've noticed, like goingto events and stuff, is like our
treats are chicken, our chickentrainers, and you know when
we're handing them out, we findthat, you know, that's something
that's been growing a lot isdogs developing allergies to
chicken.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
So I wonder if that's why?
That's probably why, yeah,because we just feed them
chicken all the time.
Yeah, if you think about it, alot of the dog food it's just
chicken, chicken, chicken.
Yep, because it's cheaper.
That's why it's cheap.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Yeah, for sure, yeah, we just took my dog off chicken
because he's a bean biter.
He bites his paws all the timeoh probably that allergy.
Yeah, and the vet was like oh,it's allergies for sure, but
didn't specify exactly.
And then we've just beenkeeping an eye and we're like,
okay maybe it's this chickenthing.
So we took chicken fully out ofhis diet.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
Better, just turkey.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
We just started three days ago, so haven't noticed a
difference.
He's actually been biting himworse, but we'll see how it goes
.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
I mean it's a team effort.
Yeah, you know, when we're inthe meetings, um, and you know
we'll catch oakley out of thecorner of his eye just going in
on his, and you know we all takeour turns.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
I think it's a nice mixture of allergies and boredom
, though honestly, because he'sa white shepherd um, he has
energy too, you know I thinkhe's got a little husky in him,
honestly, so he's always wantingto go and we've noticed too.
When we really give him a goodrun or something, he's tired and
won't even touch okay, that'sgood.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
Yeah, so you're, you're right, I think he needs
more activity.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Yeah yeah, but I bring him here every day and you
know he's playing with theother dogs, but I take him on
another walk when I get home anda good one too but he wants to
like run run.
You know what I mean so througha field or something.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
I have a cheat code with my dog.
Um, for whatever reason, likehe loves destroying boxes, like
that's like the ultimate form ofenrichment for him.
So whenever he's getting allantsy, I pull him out in the
warehouse and I'll throw a boxat him and that'll distract him
for 15 minutes and then you know.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
he must have been a cat in his past life, I'm sure.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
You know we've said that before, but the thing is is
he's like 100 pounds.
And so he's like doing catstuff running on the backs of
furniture and stuff.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Oh, he's a cat for sure, oh for sure.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
That's so funny.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Yeah patch team for him to open boxes.
We always get returns.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
We tell our customers not to return items because
usually once you return it likewe're not going to use it again,
especially um the grass.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
But you know we take returns for like the wooden
sleeves and stuff.
But yesterday we filmed thevideo of him because we're
trying to make tell people likedon't return stuff.
So it's just him ripping up thebox, he's like literally
pushing it out of the warehousedoor.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
So he knows like I'll catch him like about to bite a
box or something.
I'm like no, no, no.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
And he knows where the returns are now, so that's
like his safe space that's sogood, yeah, awesome.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
So I know we kind of touched this a little bit but
like what are some strugglesthat you see you know being a
working part?
Speaker 4 (16:58):
um, I I think for the most part nothing.
I feel more.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
The struggle is traveling oh, yeah, that's the
struggle.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
I feel that, yeah, that's the biggest struggle,
especially since me and myhusband we have no family here
and my babysitter are my parentsand they live three hours away.
So if we want to travelsomewhere, we either have to
take the dogs or we have tocoordinate driving three hours,
(17:33):
dropping the dogs off, and thenmy dogs stay there for X amount,
like weeks at a time, and thenbefore we would, they stay there
for weeks at a time and then wego on our trip and then we have
to coordinate going back downthere and then picking them up
yeah, that's crazy.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Yeah, yeah, that's a lot I'm about to go away this
weekend too, and that's likewhen we first got my girlfriend,
I first got the dog.
It's like okay, yeah, like OK,let's go here, let's go here,
let's do this.
And it's like, oh wait, we gotanother variable now.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Dog sitter payment to the dog sitter.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
You know all the, all the things.
So, yeah, I can agree with that.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
That's definitely a big struggle.
Yeah, I don't want to do theboarding thing one because Lola
is fully vaccinated but he's not, and I don't want to give him
his rabies vaccines because hehas gotten allergic reactions to
vaccines before he swelled upin his face.
Oh wow His whole face swelledup, oh that's scary.
We were so lucky.
(18:30):
We were so lucky.
I went to work that day but myhusband was off.
So we were lucky that myhusband stayed, because I've
never had a dog get an allergicreaction to vaccines.
So my husband was home and hecaught it.
So imagine if we both, if I,would have took him to the vet,
got his vaccines and then wentto work.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
He probably would have died like at home.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
That's so scary, so right now I'm fighting actually
with the city of ventura to notvaccinate him hey, make it a
class action.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
I'm in on it, you know.
Speaker 4 (19:02):
And I and I told, and we told them, we said, look, if
you look, we, because lola'sregistered, lola's fully
vaccinated, I'm not, I we wantto make it.
We want to let them know thatwe're not anti-vaxxers because
you know, especially since covid, it's been a huge thing, right,
vaccines.
So we told them, hey, we're notanti-vaxxers because you know,
especially since covid, it'sbeen a huge thing right vaccines
so we told them hey, we're notanti-vaxxers.
(19:22):
Lola's fully vaccinated, butthis is what's been happening
with him, like is there anexception?
So, um, someone actually didcall last week.
They sent us a fine and thenthey called us last week and
then my husband was on the phone, talked to her and I think she
might help us.
She goes well, why haven't weeverything I just said right now
?
She goes well, why haven't yousaid anything and my husband
(19:44):
goes.
We've been telling you guys noone's like no one's listening to
us yeah, no one wants to acceptit yeah so she's like okay,
we'll see what we can do, likeI'm gonna see what I can do and
help you guys that's crazy.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
So that's why the cities are on it.
Speaker 4 (19:57):
On top of it, I will say like so that's why we can't
take him to boarding, becausethey have to be vaccinated that
makes sense.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Yeah, that's a bummer .
Speaker 3 (20:04):
Yeah, I know does he have a separation anxiety um, I
don't think so.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
He's just, he's just quiet, uh-huh so if I was to
leave him, like at your house.
Yeah, he would just be reallyquiet.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Yeah, okay but they wouldn't like it, your house, he
would just be really quiet.
Yeah, but they wouldn't likeKind of gets a little depressed.
Yeah, he would just be reallyquiet.
That's it, yeah, okay.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
He'll just be like this Just chilling, that's not
bad.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
Yeah, I'll take care of him if you need.
I would feel so bad though thewhole time.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
I'd be like, though, to babysit them.
She's a groomer.
She works out of her house inVentura.
She's great, and she hasbabysat them a few times.
Nice, yeah, and she's like.
They're so chill, your dogs areso easy, like anytime.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Look at his little face.
Right now.
Connections like that.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
Yeah so.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Very nice, cool, moving on a little bit.
Talk more about Snoop here andLola too.
But what are some of theirquirks and funny moments?
I guess you kind of have allthe time with them.
Speaker 4 (21:14):
I would say for Snoop he, when I take him downtown to
Main Street he knows where thedog store is at.
You know how there's a dogstore and that's where we have
to stop first get a toy.
But now that she moved, youknow how she moved.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
Well, he still goes to the old store.
So I have to train him to go tothe new one.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
That's funny, snoop, you've got a good memory, man,
and then he walks around, helikes the new one.
Yeah, that's funny, you got agood memory man, yeah, and then
he walks around.
He likes to go for walks withthe toys in his mouth.
That's awesome.
You gotta show it off,especially the new.
Speaker 4 (21:48):
The new toy, come on and the toy's always much bigger
.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
They're like this big it's so cute, that's classic
that's makes, just makes greatcontent great photos, you know,
catches people's eye when you'rewalking on the street.
You know that that's.
That's always fun.
There's a there's a dog in myold neighborhood.
It's.
It actually went viral on likeFacebook and Instagram and stuff
.
But giant dog, I think it's acane Corso, but had to be like
(22:12):
200 pounds.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
And he always had a Winnie the Pooh stuffy and like.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
Would walk around the entire neighborhood and like
someone snapped a picture of him.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
It's like no matter how big you are, you always need
your, your poo bear yeah andlike he's the most intimate.
Like you walk past you're like,oh my gosh, that's a, that's a
big, scary looking dog.
But then he just like, does thelittle head thing with a poo
bear and it's not just like ah,you're just a big softy that's
like my dog.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
he's a big, big boy like we talking about, but he
has this pickle toy that's likethis big, and every night, at
the end of the night, when he'sready for bed, he lays down with
it and puts it in his mouth andcurls up, falls asleep with it
in his mouth and it's just thecutest thing ever.
That's so cute, they get soattached to their toys.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
Yeah, they do.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
And they pick their favorites.
I don't know if Snoop picksfavorites.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
He has a favorite.
Yeah, he has a favorite.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Yeah, they mess with some here and there but there's
just that one, like the pickleOakley's is a gremlin.
It's this weird-looking thing.
I don't know His choice.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
He's probably buried and dug it up about ten times
now.
That's so funny, classic, it'struly one, I would say Lola's.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
Lola knows when it's time to eat, so she doesn't get
up.
She lays in bed all day and weknow when it's time to eat
because she'll get up and she'llstart to corral us to go into
the kitchen.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
That's hilarious, is it like?
Same time every night, sametime every day?
She's off the sun, she's on thesun.
Schedule oh, 100%.
Yeah, you don't have any alarmsor anything.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
No, nothing Gotcha.
How's the time change?
Oh, with the time change, shegot me earlier now yeah, yeah so
now we're like two hours off.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
That's how much we have alarms, but he also we can
tell he goes off the sun too,because sometimes we'll have the
alarms off and he just goesballistic at like five thirty.
Yeah, like what is going on,but the time change did get him
like.
He was like three thirty, likejust begging for.
Speaker 4 (24:11):
I'm like, dude, you got two hours Three o'clock, yes
, three o'clock.
They want to eat.
Yeah, come on man Like yeah,you know better than that.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
Booze will be right now, that's so funny.
It's got to be confusing forthem, though, you know, because,
like out of nowhere.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
Because they don't know.
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
I was supposed to be fed now Wait a second here Not
being fed now, so interesting.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
That doesn't add up, yeah, let me go corral.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Are they starving me?
What's going on Corral, corral.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
Corral, great.
Speaker 4 (24:44):
so we have plenty of these working here, um, uh,
referring to like funny,embarrassing, like kind of potty
moments, like I tell youpersonally the amount of times
that I've cleaned up poop andpee in this office it's a lot,
yeah, so I bet what's like afunny, you know, maybe a little
embarrassing story that you have, like you know, potty accident
I would say lola, she, you know,when you're always walking,
you're like why did this dog goin the street or the sidewalk
(25:05):
that's her oh right, on theconcrete, yeah, I don't know why
she does that I'm thinkingbecause she's old, so I get it.
She can't really go too farshe's like I gotta go right now
so she'll smell the grass, butthen go on the concrete like she
doesn't.
She doesn't make it.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
I had my old dog used to like back up like a truck
into bushes and like leavelittle ornaments.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
Oh I used to have one , yeah yeah, my other dogs and
he was.
He was a bush one to a bush one, that's Oakley Bush and tree.
I was like I didn't get it,yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
It's almost like like my dog is like needs the
privacy, like there's some timeswhere he like he'll climb all
the way up in a bush and likethat thing disappears.
But then there's also timeswhere he just like can't hold it
and he just like nestles upnext to a bush.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
I'm like I think you're just trying to have like
your own stall, like not be seenright now like I don't know
what's going on, but teach theirown, you know, do your thing oh
, that's cool.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Um that, I've kind of lost my train of thought.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
We'll definitely cut there, but maybe I won't.
Yeah, we'll just leave it inthere.
Um cool.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
So this is one question we ask every guest but,
what is your most memorablemoment with your dogs?
Snoop, both of them.
Two different stories, if youhave one for each.
Speaker 4 (26:25):
Memorable, honestly, I would just say, just them
spending time with me, justbeing with me through my sad
times, when I'm sad and when I'mhappy, they're happy Like they
really do feel your energy ohyeah, and they feed off of it,
yeah, so I just think just thembeing with me all the time is
(26:46):
just memorable to me man, I lovethem.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
Those moments are priceless when you know you're
having a bad day or somethingand they come up and they know,
cuddle like oh man, they know.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
So yeah, they know yeah, it's so great, like I was
mentioning before, I have badallergies and some days you can
they know.
Yeah, it's so great.
Like I was mentioning before, Ihave bad allergies and some
days you can ask the team Likeit's brutal and you know, I'm
just like I'm struggling, but itwas a little locked up
sinus-wise.
Yeah, yeah it's bad, but like itwas like last week that it was
really bad and I went home andstuff, this time he just like
(27:23):
walked in and he was likestanding by my side and I got
right in her bed and he hoppedin instantly and just like got
up and cuddled me and stuff.
I was like, oh you know, I'mnot feeling good, like for sure
like so it's such a good,they're smart, they're so smart
yeah, like you said the energy.
They read the energy a mileaway.
It's a beautiful thing,honestly.
Speaker 4 (27:44):
Look at him right now .
Speaker 2 (27:45):
He's just cuddling me See my emotional.
You're happy, they're happy.
Speaker 4 (27:51):
We all need them.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
I always feel like you get what you give with your
pet.
If you're showing them the loveand the affection they give it
right back.
I agree, definitely you feedthem.
You know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (27:59):
If, like, you're showing them the love and the
affection, like they give itright back.
Oh, I agree.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
Yes, I agree Definitely.
You know, you know they'regoing to be nice.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
That's so funny.
It's crazy to think about, likehow it's like an evolutionary
thing, how Thousands of yearsago a caveman you know gave,
gave some food to a wolf, andthen now we're here and like do
a podcast making social mediaaccounts for our dogs and yeah,
(28:28):
man, how's his uh?
Does he give the side eye ever?
I know that's.
Speaker 4 (28:31):
Oh, yes, oh yeah, all the time he does that's so good
so cute judgy his judgy eyes.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
He looks like the one meme, yes, the most popular
meme.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
I caught like a quick glimpse of him and I was like
oh, I know what you're talkingabout.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
Yeah, where he was like scrunched up looking to the
side, yeah, he does do that.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
There may be a future for you as a memer, that's
right.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
Snoop, you got a lot ahead of you.
That's right, snoop.
You got a lot ahead of you, alot of good things.
We got to get the social mediaaccounts going.
Now Snoop's what's a clevername Snoop Doggy Dog Well,
that's copyright.
Do you think that was?
(29:16):
Have you ever looked into thoseSnoop Dog?
Speaker 4 (29:20):
He has like a dog line.
It's like dog bowls and apparel.
How did I know how?
Speaker 2 (29:23):
did I not know that?
Yeah, like chains, gold chainsand stuff.
Speaker 4 (29:26):
Yeah, no, don't, don't, don't expose me to that,
because then tonight I'm goingto go on the website.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
I'm going to buy something.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
I'm so sorry.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
But I had to.
Well, he needs at least asweater or something.
Speaker 4 (29:38):
Oh yeah, he has sweaters.
The gold chain, the chain, Ithink the chain right.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
The chain he would look good with the chain.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
That's right Snoop.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
Cool.
Well, thank you so much forjoining us on the Potty Talk
Podcast.
We really appreciate your timeTaking time out of your day to
come down here and see FreshPatch.
So if you want to.
Well, you don't have any socialaccounts, so we usually give
this time to shout out yoursocial um or your dog.
Speaker 4 (30:04):
Well, you have personal, but yeah, I have
personal, but I don't haveanything for sale.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
So if you want to shout out your personal go for
it.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
Yeah, all right, thanks.
Um, my name is stephanie.
I'm a licensed esthetician inventura, and my instagram and
tiktok are bare complexionskincare.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
There you go so hit her up if you are local to the
ventura area give her a follow.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
Yeah, give her a follow um.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
She'll help you out, so, but yeah, thank you for
coming on yes, thank you forhaving me.
Speaker 4 (30:30):
It's been so much fun .
Yeah, it's been great meetingsnoopy such a sweetheart yeah
and for all you listeners andviewers.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Um, check us out on youtube, spotify our website
freshpatchcom.
Give us a follow on all socialmedias and if you are on YouTube
, hit that subscribe button.
Leave a comment like we reallyappreciate it and trying to get
this podcast going and get it tomore people and stuff, so any
help from you guys would beappreciated.
And, of course, check outfreshpatchcom for all your real
(30:58):
grass needs, non-grass needs.
We got sprays, we got treats.
So check it out freshpatchcom.
And thank you again.
Speaker 4 (31:05):
Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Cool.
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