February 25, 2025 • 22 mins
The episode dives into the heartwarming experience of living with senior dogs and the lessons learned along the way. Featuring Emma, Bonito, and Apple, the hosts share personal stories, insights on care, and an urgent plea to adopt senior pets, emphasizing the joys and challenges of this rewarding journey.
• Highlighting the love for senior dogs
• Personal stories about adopting Emma, Bonito, and Apple
• Discussing challenges faced with aging pets
• Tips on nutrition for senior dogs
• Importance of adopting and rescuing older dogs
• Sharing a humorous travel adventure with the dogs
• Call to action: adopting senior dogs as a rewarding experience
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Here we are again in another episode of Two
Generations, One Mic.
I am Andy, with my husband Mark, and today's episode we're
going to talk about a really Imean, if you guys don't like
dogs, don't watch this, butwe're going to talk about what
is it to live with senior dogsand dogs in general.
But our dogs are seniors, soreally old seniors.
(00:26):
So today's episode is aboutthat.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
So technically they're all through rescues
different times.
Everybody asks if they're like.
Everybody thinks the baby islike the baby of them.
But so we have Emma, which wewill show you here.
Emma is 15 years old.
She was a rescue from MexicoCity when she was a baby that
you rescued her.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
I rescued her when she was two months old.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Yeah, I met her.
I don't know how many yearslater, but I remember the first
time she just looked at me.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Three years.
She was three when she wasthree.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
I met her for the first time when she was three
and she just sat there on thebed looking at me and growling
at me like what are yourintentions with my mother?
I into my mother.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
I know she was Emma.
I gotta tell you, babe, and I'msorry, but Emma is the love of
my life.
You're not the love of my life.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Emma is.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Emma is just the most precious miniature schnauzer.
I mean, her soul is just sokind.
And when she was a baby I usedto have another dog when I was
little, a dog I grew up with andEmma would get up on the table,
grab fruit from the table, grabone for the older doggie and
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then one for her, and I was likeprecious angel.
And, if you remember, emma hasnever destroyed one single toy.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
No, we still have her toy, that's Garfield that she's
had, and Vodka the cow, whichis a cow from that chain of
restaurants that does the spicychicken sandwiches yeah.
So we have that that she'splayed with forever, and we
actually had to keep it awayfrom the little one who's the
destroyer of all toys.
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So we have those put up so thatno one can get there and
destroy them.
But Emma's always had suchpersonality and she's not only
an amazing soul but she's veryjudgmental.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
And she can look at you with such judgment, like all
the time, like you see picturesof her, like when we're leaving
the house and she's likestaring just barely, peeking
around the corner house andshe's like staring just barely,
peeking around the corner, likewhere the hell you think you're
going?
Speaker 1 (02:26):
I know she's, she's, she's, she doesn't bite she
judges, oh, extremely.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Yeah, we were in when we lived in new york city.
We had a three-bedroom placeand we very with we have three
puppies around.
It's like having three toddlersall the time I don't tell that
story.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
That's very private jesus christ.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
So we went, uh, we had a, we had our guest room
there that we would have ourlet's call it adult private time
, and so we decided to sneak inthere and have some adult
private time, so you know, andwe shut the door behind us and
all that stuff.
And then so we come out andEmma's just looking at us.
She's just staring at us likeand she literally looks and
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shakes her head like sinners.
I'm going to tell Grandma.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Yeah, like I don't know, like maybe this is not for
people that don't have dogs.
They're like they don'tunderstand.
But when you have dogs it's notlike you can have intercourse
in front of them, right, likeit's something very intercourse,
very appropriate.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Funny, you say coitus .
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Coitus, yeah, I mean.
Well, fine, I'll say it how thekids say it.
Now, how do they say it whenyou hook up?
I?
Speaker 2 (03:33):
don't know.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
I don't know what the kids say, I don't know what the
kids say nowadays, but when youhave dogs it's not like you
don't feel comfortable doinganything in front of them.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Right, because they're judging you.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
But I don't know if it's just us or all the dogs in
the land are the same, but it'sjust weird and they don't let
you do anything because they'rethere, they want I don't know,
especially ours.
We have three.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
And they're always on top of us.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Yeah, they're always like very attached.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Mostly on me.
All three of them like to layon top of me at the same time,
all the time.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
They're very attached and the older they get, the
more attached they get.
So it's very.
It's not easy to have privatetime when you have doggies
Because, like you said, it'slike having toddlers.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Well, that was Emma.
So we also have our actuallyour last rescue.
But the second in line in ageis Bonito.
And Bonito is 14 years old andhe is from a little small city
outside of Madrid and his storyis his human mother got him when
her husband passed away as ababy.
So this poor puppy knew nothingabout anything other than life
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with an elderly Spanish womanwho never probably watched TV
because he barks at the TV likehe doesn't understand what it is
and just basically went to thebars with him.
He went with her every night tothe bars, so he's very
comfortable in a bar and whenwe're in Spain he starts barking
at 7 o'clock we call it baro'clock.
Bonito's like let's go to thebar, let's go to the bar because
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he likes to go and he sits onthe chair at the bar and just
likes to look at everything andeverybody and gets his little
snackies and stuff and everybodyloves him and he's great.
But so Bonito, that's his life.
In a very sheltered small cityoutside of Madrid.
He lived and he was with hishuman mother for 10 years and
unfortunately she died of COVIDand when she died her kids, her
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adult kids, were assholes.
They barely fed poor Bonitowould go over and beat him
because he peed in the house.
They never went over to takehim outside hardly.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Yeah, so basically they abandoned him in the
apartment for like two months orso.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
And then they end up selling the apartment and threw
him in the streets to die.
That's what they chose to do tothat baby, and you found out
about the story.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Yeah.
So I was helping a friend, ourfriend Margarita.
I was helping her to find a dogbecause she wanted to adopt a
dog and we already had two dogs,right we?
We never thought, oh man, weneed a third dog.
It just wasn't, we weren'tlooking for it.
But then I was helping her and,oh my gosh, I was doing the the
little scroll down the screenand I just saw a picture of
Bonito, like in a little likelike a, like a little jacket and
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a little bow tie.
I was like I read his story andis this senior dog?
He's 10 years old already.
Nobody wants to adopt a seniordog, which they're the most
amazing dogs.
If you can give the chance to asenior dog, please do it.
I know you, everybody says, oh,but it's not going to last as
long it can.
I mean, you never know thatwith a little puppy either.
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But if you can give a seniordog the opportunity to
absolutely die in a warm bed,just do it, because it's very
rewarding.
They're very low maintenance,low energy.
Well, I don't know about lowmaintenance, but low energy.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Bonito's, not low energy.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
He's like he's five.
Well, because he's a Spaniardand like Spaniards are like they
live until 150 probably, likethey're old people in the
streets all the time.
But it was the story of him andI remember we were at the
restaurant having dinner withour friends and I remember we
were at the restaurant havingdinner with our friends and I
was like baby, look at thisangel.
And you're like baby, we cannothave one more.
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I was like but please, look athim.
And then you look at him, it'sa precious boy.
And you're like fine, reach outto them, see what they say.
And next thing, we knew wedrove to the middle of nowhere,
like the GPS didn't even work onthe car.
Yeah, way outside Our phones, wedidn't have any signal.
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And we got to this place wherethey had a goat outside and a
thousand cats because it's thislike animal rescue and we took
our other two puppies and wesaid, well, let's take them and
if they get along fine, thenwe'll give it a shot to bonito.
And it was almost christmastime four years ago and I
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remember like when he came out,they were, they were carrying
him and he had the mostbeautiful face.
I was like, oh, it just feltlike I don't know I.
It just felt like I don't knowI.
Just I just felt like that wasmy boy and I never wanted to
have a male dog.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Honestly, Well, I don't like male dogs.
Yeah, and I know it's your boy,but the way he looks at me.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
He bonded with me immediately.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
And seriously look at these eyes.
How could you not want to havethis boy and give him the best
life for the rest of his life?
He is just my shadow.
I can't go anywhere, anywherein the house, without him right
behind me all the time, alwayslaying by me, always touching me
, always freaked out if I'm notaround, so he has to be there
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next to me.
So he's quite the greataddition to the family.
And then we have the littletroublemaker.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Little Apple.
So with Apple we called herApple, because we were actually
in New York when we were at abar at that time.
We were living in Dallas andthen we were at the bar in New
York and we saw this friend ofours posted this picture of she
was.
It was back in the day whereeverybody was doing like
(09:05):
catching Pokemons or anything.
So the pokemon thing, the app,sent her to a dumpster behind
her office building where shewas working.
She didn't find any pokemons,but she found this little baby,
puppy, baby yorkie, covered inin paint and like all dirty and
it was Apple.
(09:25):
Like somebody threw her in adumpster.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Yeah, probably a breeder, and we're not fans of
breeders for profit when itcomes to puppies which is
illegal in Spain, by the way.
They should do the same thingin the US.
You're not allowed to breedpuppies for profit.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Well, people will still do it.
I just think it's lazy.
Yeah, but Apple had a littleproblem.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
That's lazy, yeah, but the apple had a little
problem.
That's why she had a littleproblem with her leg.
We thought like a little limpthat she had and they probably
thought we can't make money offher, let's throw her away.
And they threw her in adumpster and she was so skinny
and so frail and eating grassand leaves and she was just a
mess and we got her.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
We told your friend like, hold her, we're coming
back and we'll adopt her.
And I remember when she cameback, the first thing, like she
started running and she had herlittle, we called her her boba
leg and it was just like sofunny I don't know, it was just
like a little boba she has andshe uses that to blackmail us
(10:24):
now.
No, not like how do you say itnowadays?
She?
Speaker 2 (10:28):
does?
She Makes us feel sorry for her.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Yeah, like I have a bubble, but anyway.
So Apple is now 10.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Yeah, she's technically a senior too, almost
.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Yeah.
So we have our 15-year-old Emma, our 14-year-old Bonito and our
10-year-old Apple, and it'seven when we still see them like
, oh, it's our puppies.
We have to start thinkingsometimes that any day now could
be the day that Emma is notgoing to be there.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Yeah, Emma is really, even though she's only one year
older than Bonito, she, itreally has taken a turn on her,
the age, and so she's gettingreally senile.
She forgets where she's at, shewakes up in the middle of the
night.
She doesn't know where she's at.
Half the time We'll catch herjust walking, and just she
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notices herself now more.
She stares at the mirror andlike inches away from the mirror
just staring at herself or areflection off of our wine
fridge or anything.
It's a reflection that shootsback.
But the sadder parts is whenyou see her and she's just stuck
in a corner, or she's literallyjust standing there one foot in
our water bowl and doesn'trealize it.
She's just standing there inthe water.
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And so it's like she gets lost.
But then we think, you know,she has good days and bad days,
and on days that she's nothaving a good day, it's very
obvious and it's very sad and ithurts our heart.
But then, just as we think, ohmy gosh, this is going to be it.
And then next thing I knowshe's running down the hallway,
galloping past them and doing itshe does parkour, you call it
(12:02):
parkour, we call it parkour.
She's running, jumps and bouncesoff, everything she does like a
parkour and you're like wheredid this energy come from?
Speaker 1 (12:09):
I know she does that and honestly, again, like when
she was 10 years old I mean,schnauzers don't live that long
right, and like 13 years old arethe average but now she's 15
and turning 16 this year andagain she sees perfectly.
She's deaf now, but she's fine.
(12:31):
And Bonito, again, like he'salso deaf, right, the
14-year-old.
You have to deal with that whenolder dogs I think they lost
their hearing about at 12, whenthey were 12.
But that doesn't stop you, like, having a deaf dog is not that
bad, honestly, it's like thenormal dog.
You just have to tap on themwhen you want to grab their
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attention.
Because even us, we stillforget and we try to yell at
them.
But I mean, I guess it's justthey.
We're used to yell at them likehey bonito, emma, and they're
not turning around.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
They're not going to turn around, right, yeah, they
don't hear us, so we startlethem when we come up behind them
.
But it's funny because eventhough they've only been
together for four years, theyact like an old married couple
all the time.
They'll cuddle, they'll kiss oneach other, then they'll be
fight.
Then they fight with each otherlike an old married couple, and
the little one gets in themiddle of it and like hey, stop
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it, stop it, stop it, stop it.
She starts biting the both ofthem.
Like stop it, stop it, she'llstart Stop fighting, stop
fighting.
And she tries to.
And the little ones like also,it warms my heart that, like
when Emma's having a problem atnight or something, and we're
thinking OK, the little onewakes up and comes in like right
in her face, checking on her,making sure she's.
OK looking at if she's OK,always worrying about what's
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going on with Emma because she'sbeen there since she was a baby
.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Yeah, she grew up with her.
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
She used to play with them all the time and Emma
can't really play anymore andshe can't run around with her
anymore.
But Bonito will start, whonever had any siblings, actually
started playing this year withApple and it's funny to watch
them run around and play alittle bit and Emma can't get
really involved.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
And what I've noticed , honestly and I talked to our
vet about this is like, sadly,we didn't have Bonito since he
was a baby and good food isreally important for them to
actually get older, and in agood way to get older, Because I
see doggies all the time thatare 10, 12, and they're like you
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can tell they're not good butfeeding them, for example, we've
always given them good food,good brand food or, honestly, if
you cannot afford to buy goodbrand food, you can actually
give them chicken and rice.
I think that's a great thingfor them to eat, like chicken
rice, pasta with chicken, Likethey need the three things right
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Potatoes, carrots, celery,parsley is really good, cilantro
is really good.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
I make a broth for them.
I make their stock about everyfour or five days.
I get chicken like chickenthighs or chicken legs, because
it has a bone in it.
It's more flavor and there's nosalt, no garlic or onion,
because that's not good for them.
It's poisonous for puppies, butI mix celery in there and
cilantro and parsley freshchopped in there with some
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turmeric, which is also verygood for puppies.
So I put turmeric in there andthen you take the skin off.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Yeah, because it's a lot of fat.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
And then, yeah, you just slow boil the chicken and
then we use that chicken and wemix it with their dry food.
That's a really good dry foodthat we got.
You know, it's not, it's notlow-quality food, it's
good-quality food.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Yeah.
So for the older dogs and again, like I think this is important
, if you have a younger dog,start giving them carrots like
cooked carrots or raw carrots,if they like them every day.
Because we've noticed Emma forbeing 15, her eyes are perfect.
She has a little bit of grayhere and there, but she's
perfectly fine and even the vetis like wow, she's like like her
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eyes are like from a six,seven-year-old Apple, which is
10, her eyes are crystal clear,like everybody thinks she's
still a puppy because I mean,you'll see her eyes in a picture
.
She is absolutely perfectlyfine.
She's overweight because sheeats a lot.
She's a little chubby.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Yeah, her eyes can spot a snacky on the floor.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
I know From 100 overweight because she eats a
lot.
She's a little chubby, yeah,her eyes can spot a snacky on
the floor from 100 yards away,but that's very important.
So give your dogs.
Start giving them like carrotsas soon as you can, and again,
raw or cooked, they're great.
Cucumber is also great for them, like watermelon without the
seeds.
Blueberries we used to playwith Apple when she was little.
We used to play with her withthe blueberries and she will
chase them and she absolutelyloves them.
Emma not so much.
She only kind of like toleratesthem, so it was not easy to
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give it to her.
But and bonito, I don't know,sometimes he does.
But try to find like reallygood food that your puppy will
like instead of buying them uh,like store-bought treats that
are not good for them becausethey have a lot of like fat and
carbs and everything.
Try to give them like fruitsand vegetables that are good for
them that you can actuallytreat them like sweet potato
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right, cook sweet potato, theylove it.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Yeah, I do sweet potatoes in the air fryer for
them all the time.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Yeah, you can give it to them as a treat and that's
great.
But going back to the food part, I think is, if you cannot
really afford like a good brandfood by like at the store, right
, like make a good broth forthem, like with chicken feet,
for example, you can make abroth.
Don't give them a chicken feetthat are cooked already, because
they can choke.
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The bones are not great for them, but the bone broth is great
for them.
And rice, like rice, is verycheap and rice is good for them.
And rice with some chicken,some chicken.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
But again plain, no salt no garlic, no onion, none
of those.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
When they're older.
You got to realize when thedogs are older and our vet told
us like they cannot processprotein as much so you have to
go a little bit higher on therice and the, the pasta, and not
so much on the, on the chickenand the, the beef and everything
, because, again, like they,their, their organism cannot
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process it as as good as theyused to be.
But I think having older dogsis very rewarding, waking every
day with them and seeing themthat they still love you, and
even with those little gray eyesthat Bonito has now and he
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still tries to see you, and theobsession he has with you.
I hate it.
I hate that he's so obsessedwith him.
All my dogs are obsessed withmy husband and that's not fair
because I adopted them.
I was the one that said I'mgoing to get this puppy and all
this puppy.
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So now what we need to do iskeep adopting puppies until we
find one that actually isobsessed with me.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
We actually took them on a great vacation this past
summer.
We were like, let's take adriving vacation, a mini
vacation, just to give them atreat that we can all remember
that we did, and so when we werein Spain, we just took our car
and we drove down to southernSpain, right on the coast
between southern Spain andPortugal, and we stayed at an
Airbnb that took puppies and wejust let them go with us and we
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said, oh, this is going to begreat, we're going to go to the
beach, it'll be awesome andwe'll take this thing.
And it was the middle of summer, august was hot, and we didn't—
?
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Well, we did that one day in the morning and it was
great.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Yeah, but this was the afternoon.
We didn't think that throughthat, the sun had been out all
day, and so we, literally hereare the three of us, and we're
going across the beach, and thisis not a close beach, right.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
It's like what is it like?
Probably like half a mile fromthe deck to the actual ocean.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Right and we were walking.
We started walking and westarted getting into that sand.
That's been sitting there inthat sun all day it was so hot
and we were walking and we werelike okay, let's go, let's keep
going, let's keep going.
And by the time we got abouthalfway there, you started to
scream.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
I was like abort, abort, retreat, retreat, mission
failed.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Mission failed.
At that point we had alreadypicked up all three puppies.
We have them in our armsbecause we want their paws to be
burned.
So we're carrying the puppies,all three of them.
We're carrying them.
We're halfway to the waters.
We had to decide do we go backthe other direction or we keep
going toward the water?
Speaker 1 (20:37):
And that was like.
But.
And our feet were burning sobad.
Yeah, like running in sand,like into the sand and on the
sand, is so complicated, andcarrying two dogs is even more
complicated.
I was like, oh my gosh, I don'tknow what to do at this point.
We just kept going all the wayto the water.
We got to the water.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
We're like oh, thank God, the water.
And then we put the puppiesdown in the water and they were
like what's this Saltwater theydidn't like, they didn't really
care for it too much.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
I know, but it was so hot.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Well, it's the sun.
I didn't know it either.
We just took off and that'swhat ended up happening.
I know it was a great littlevacation.
We ended up also at thisamazing restaurant where they
again let puppies in, which theydo a lot in Europe.
So we just sat in thisbeautiful restaurant that was
right on the ocean and you couldsee the beach.
It was gorgeous.
Oh, that was in Portugal.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
That was the most beautiful In Portugal yeah, yeah
, that was so on the beach right, it was right there by the
beach.
Yeah, that was really reallynice.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
Yeah, we have a great picture of that, yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
And I don't know how long they're going to last, but
we are absolutely going to keeptrying to do the best we can.
And again, please, people,people, give an older dog the
opportunity.
It's very rewarding.
Again, we never thought bonitowhen we adopted him at 10, he
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was going to be already 14 rightbecause you've had older dogs.
Well, other dogs in your life,right 12?
Is the oldest exactly so bonitoand mr, way past that age.
And again you see this boy, andthe boy is just.
Everybody thinks he's like five.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Yeah, it's definitely rewarding.
It's going to be heartbreakingwhen that time comes for all of
them, but it's definitelyrewarding.
So, as we say all the timeadopt, don't shop, and rescue,
because it's very important.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
And we need to stop this breeder for profit thing.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
It's got to go.
But please like, subscribe andfollow us.
If you have any comments,questions, we'll be happy to
answer them.
We can point you in thedirection of shelters if you
want to learn more about how toadopt puppies and rescue babies.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
And that's how I end up with other dogs.
There you go, I'll help you,and then I get one for myself.
Here we are again in another episode of Two
Generations, One Mic.
I am Andy, with my husband Mark, and today's episode we're
going to talk about a really Imean, if you guys don't like
dogs, don't watch this, butwe're going to talk about what
is it to live with senior dogsand dogs in general.
But our dogs are seniors, soreally old seniors.
(00:26):
So today's episode is aboutthat.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
So technically they're all through rescues
different times.
Everybody asks if they're like.
Everybody thinks the baby islike the baby of them.
But so we have Emma, which wewill show you here.
Emma is 15 years old.
She was a rescue from MexicoCity when she was a baby that
you rescued her.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
I rescued her when she was two months old.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Yeah, I met her.
I don't know how many yearslater, but I remember the first
time she just looked at me.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Three years.
She was three when she wasthree.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
I met her for the first time when she was three
and she just sat there on thebed looking at me and growling
at me like what are yourintentions with my mother?
I into my mother.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
I know she was Emma.
I gotta tell you, babe, and I'msorry, but Emma is the love of
my life.
You're not the love of my life.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Emma is.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Emma is just the most precious miniature schnauzer.
I mean, her soul is just sokind.
And when she was a baby I usedto have another dog when I was
little, a dog I grew up with andEmma would get up on the table,
grab fruit from the table, grabone for the older doggie and
(01:33):
then one for her, and I was likeprecious angel.
And, if you remember, emma hasnever destroyed one single toy.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
No, we still have her toy, that's Garfield that she's
had, and Vodka the cow, whichis a cow from that chain of
restaurants that does the spicychicken sandwiches yeah.
So we have that that she'splayed with forever, and we
actually had to keep it awayfrom the little one who's the
destroyer of all toys.
(02:03):
So we have those put up so thatno one can get there and
destroy them.
But Emma's always had suchpersonality and she's not only
an amazing soul but she's veryjudgmental.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
And she can look at you with such judgment, like all
the time, like you see picturesof her, like when we're leaving
the house and she's likestaring just barely, peeking
around the corner house andshe's like staring just barely,
peeking around the corner, likewhere the hell you think you're
going?
Speaker 1 (02:26):
I know she's, she's, she's, she doesn't bite she
judges, oh, extremely.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Yeah, we were in when we lived in new york city.
We had a three-bedroom placeand we very with we have three
puppies around.
It's like having three toddlersall the time I don't tell that
story.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
That's very private jesus christ.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
So we went, uh, we had a, we had our guest room
there that we would have ourlet's call it adult private time
, and so we decided to sneak inthere and have some adult
private time, so you know, andwe shut the door behind us and
all that stuff.
And then so we come out andEmma's just looking at us.
She's just staring at us likeand she literally looks and
(03:04):
shakes her head like sinners.
I'm going to tell Grandma.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Yeah, like I don't know, like maybe this is not for
people that don't have dogs.
They're like they don'tunderstand.
But when you have dogs it's notlike you can have intercourse
in front of them, right, likeit's something very intercourse,
very appropriate.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Funny, you say coitus .
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Coitus, yeah, I mean.
Well, fine, I'll say it how thekids say it.
Now, how do they say it whenyou hook up?
I?
Speaker 2 (03:33):
don't know.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
I don't know what the kids say, I don't know what the
kids say nowadays, but when youhave dogs it's not like you
don't feel comfortable doinganything in front of them.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Right, because they're judging you.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
But I don't know if it's just us or all the dogs in
the land are the same, but it'sjust weird and they don't let
you do anything because they'rethere, they want I don't know,
especially ours.
We have three.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
And they're always on top of us.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Yeah, they're always like very attached.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Mostly on me.
All three of them like to layon top of me at the same time,
all the time.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
They're very attached and the older they get, the
more attached they get.
So it's very.
It's not easy to have privatetime when you have doggies
Because, like you said, it'slike having toddlers.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Well, that was Emma.
So we also have our actuallyour last rescue.
But the second in line in ageis Bonito.
And Bonito is 14 years old andhe is from a little small city
outside of Madrid and his storyis his human mother got him when
her husband passed away as ababy.
So this poor puppy knew nothingabout anything other than life
(04:39):
with an elderly Spanish womanwho never probably watched TV
because he barks at the TV likehe doesn't understand what it is
and just basically went to thebars with him.
He went with her every night tothe bars, so he's very
comfortable in a bar and whenwe're in Spain he starts barking
at 7 o'clock we call it baro'clock.
Bonito's like let's go to thebar, let's go to the bar because
(05:01):
he likes to go and he sits onthe chair at the bar and just
likes to look at everything andeverybody and gets his little
snackies and stuff and everybodyloves him and he's great.
But so Bonito, that's his life.
In a very sheltered small cityoutside of Madrid.
He lived and he was with hishuman mother for 10 years and
unfortunately she died of COVIDand when she died her kids, her
(05:21):
adult kids, were assholes.
They barely fed poor Bonitowould go over and beat him
because he peed in the house.
They never went over to takehim outside hardly.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Yeah, so basically they abandoned him in the
apartment for like two months orso.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
And then they end up selling the apartment and threw
him in the streets to die.
That's what they chose to do tothat baby, and you found out
about the story.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Yeah.
So I was helping a friend, ourfriend Margarita.
I was helping her to find a dogbecause she wanted to adopt a
dog and we already had two dogs,right we?
We never thought, oh man, weneed a third dog.
It just wasn't, we weren'tlooking for it.
But then I was helping her and,oh my gosh, I was doing the the
little scroll down the screenand I just saw a picture of
Bonito, like in a little likelike a, like a little jacket and
(06:10):
a little bow tie.
I was like I read his story andis this senior dog?
He's 10 years old already.
Nobody wants to adopt a seniordog, which they're the most
amazing dogs.
If you can give the chance to asenior dog, please do it.
I know you, everybody says, oh,but it's not going to last as
long it can.
I mean, you never know thatwith a little puppy either.
(06:33):
But if you can give a seniordog the opportunity to
absolutely die in a warm bed,just do it, because it's very
rewarding.
They're very low maintenance,low energy.
Well, I don't know about lowmaintenance, but low energy.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Bonito's, not low energy.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
He's like he's five.
Well, because he's a Spaniardand like Spaniards are like they
live until 150 probably, likethey're old people in the
streets all the time.
But it was the story of him andI remember we were at the
restaurant having dinner withour friends and I remember we
were at the restaurant havingdinner with our friends and I
was like baby, look at thisangel.
And you're like baby, we cannothave one more.
(07:11):
I was like but please, look athim.
And then you look at him, it'sa precious boy.
And you're like fine, reach outto them, see what they say.
And next thing, we knew wedrove to the middle of nowhere,
like the GPS didn't even work onthe car.
Yeah, way outside Our phones, wedidn't have any signal.
(07:32):
And we got to this place wherethey had a goat outside and a
thousand cats because it's thislike animal rescue and we took
our other two puppies and wesaid, well, let's take them and
if they get along fine, thenwe'll give it a shot to bonito.
And it was almost christmastime four years ago and I
(07:56):
remember like when he came out,they were, they were carrying
him and he had the mostbeautiful face.
I was like, oh, it just feltlike I don't know I.
It just felt like I don't knowI.
Just I just felt like that wasmy boy and I never wanted to
have a male dog.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Honestly, Well, I don't like male dogs.
Yeah, and I know it's your boy,but the way he looks at me.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
He bonded with me immediately.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
And seriously look at these eyes.
How could you not want to havethis boy and give him the best
life for the rest of his life?
He is just my shadow.
I can't go anywhere, anywherein the house, without him right
behind me all the time, alwayslaying by me, always touching me
, always freaked out if I'm notaround, so he has to be there
(08:38):
next to me.
So he's quite the greataddition to the family.
And then we have the littletroublemaker.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Little Apple.
So with Apple we called herApple, because we were actually
in New York when we were at abar at that time.
We were living in Dallas andthen we were at the bar in New
York and we saw this friend ofours posted this picture of she
was.
It was back in the day whereeverybody was doing like
(09:05):
catching Pokemons or anything.
So the pokemon thing, the app,sent her to a dumpster behind
her office building where shewas working.
She didn't find any pokemons,but she found this little baby,
puppy, baby yorkie, covered inin paint and like all dirty and
it was Apple.
(09:25):
Like somebody threw her in adumpster.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Yeah, probably a breeder, and we're not fans of
breeders for profit when itcomes to puppies which is
illegal in Spain, by the way.
They should do the same thingin the US.
You're not allowed to breedpuppies for profit.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Well, people will still do it.
I just think it's lazy.
Yeah, but Apple had a littleproblem.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
That's lazy, yeah, but the apple had a little
problem.
That's why she had a littleproblem with her leg.
We thought like a little limpthat she had and they probably
thought we can't make money offher, let's throw her away.
And they threw her in adumpster and she was so skinny
and so frail and eating grassand leaves and she was just a
mess and we got her.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
We told your friend like, hold her, we're coming
back and we'll adopt her.
And I remember when she cameback, the first thing, like she
started running and she had herlittle, we called her her boba
leg and it was just like sofunny I don't know, it was just
like a little boba she has andshe uses that to blackmail us
(10:24):
now.
No, not like how do you say itnowadays?
She?
Speaker 2 (10:28):
does?
She Makes us feel sorry for her.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Yeah, like I have a bubble, but anyway.
So Apple is now 10.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Yeah, she's technically a senior too, almost
.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Yeah.
So we have our 15-year-old Emma, our 14-year-old Bonito and our
10-year-old Apple, and it'seven when we still see them like
, oh, it's our puppies.
We have to start thinkingsometimes that any day now could
be the day that Emma is notgoing to be there.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Yeah, Emma is really, even though she's only one year
older than Bonito, she, itreally has taken a turn on her,
the age, and so she's gettingreally senile.
She forgets where she's at, shewakes up in the middle of the
night.
She doesn't know where she's at.
Half the time We'll catch herjust walking, and just she
(11:19):
notices herself now more.
She stares at the mirror andlike inches away from the mirror
just staring at herself or areflection off of our wine
fridge or anything.
It's a reflection that shootsback.
But the sadder parts is whenyou see her and she's just stuck
in a corner, or she's literallyjust standing there one foot in
our water bowl and doesn'trealize it.
She's just standing there inthe water.
(11:40):
And so it's like she gets lost.
But then we think, you know,she has good days and bad days,
and on days that she's nothaving a good day, it's very
obvious and it's very sad and ithurts our heart.
But then, just as we think, ohmy gosh, this is going to be it.
And then next thing I knowshe's running down the hallway,
galloping past them and doing itshe does parkour, you call it
(12:02):
parkour, we call it parkour.
She's running, jumps and bouncesoff, everything she does like a
parkour and you're like wheredid this energy come from?
Speaker 1 (12:09):
I know she does that and honestly, again, like when
she was 10 years old I mean,schnauzers don't live that long
right, and like 13 years old arethe average but now she's 15
and turning 16 this year andagain she sees perfectly.
She's deaf now, but she's fine.
(12:31):
And Bonito, again, like he'salso deaf, right, the
14-year-old.
You have to deal with that whenolder dogs I think they lost
their hearing about at 12, whenthey were 12.
But that doesn't stop you, like, having a deaf dog is not that
bad, honestly, it's like thenormal dog.
You just have to tap on themwhen you want to grab their
(12:55):
attention.
Because even us, we stillforget and we try to yell at
them.
But I mean, I guess it's justthey.
We're used to yell at them likehey bonito, emma, and they're
not turning around.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
They're not going to turn around, right, yeah, they
don't hear us, so we startlethem when we come up behind them
.
But it's funny because eventhough they've only been
together for four years, theyact like an old married couple
all the time.
They'll cuddle, they'll kiss oneach other, then they'll be
fight.
Then they fight with each otherlike an old married couple, and
the little one gets in themiddle of it and like hey, stop
(13:27):
it, stop it, stop it, stop it.
She starts biting the both ofthem.
Like stop it, stop it, she'llstart Stop fighting, stop
fighting.
And she tries to.
And the little ones like also,it warms my heart that, like
when Emma's having a problem atnight or something, and we're
thinking OK, the little onewakes up and comes in like right
in her face, checking on her,making sure she's.
OK looking at if she's OK,always worrying about what's
(13:48):
going on with Emma because she'sbeen there since she was a baby
.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Yeah, she grew up with her.
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
She used to play with them all the time and Emma
can't really play anymore andshe can't run around with her
anymore.
But Bonito will start, whonever had any siblings, actually
started playing this year withApple and it's funny to watch
them run around and play alittle bit and Emma can't get
really involved.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
And what I've noticed , honestly and I talked to our
vet about this is like, sadly,we didn't have Bonito since he
was a baby and good food isreally important for them to
actually get older, and in agood way to get older, Because I
see doggies all the time thatare 10, 12, and they're like you
(14:36):
can tell they're not good butfeeding them, for example, we've
always given them good food,good brand food or, honestly, if
you cannot afford to buy goodbrand food, you can actually
give them chicken and rice.
I think that's a great thingfor them to eat, like chicken
rice, pasta with chicken, Likethey need the three things right
(14:59):
Potatoes, carrots, celery,parsley is really good, cilantro
is really good.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
I make a broth for them.
I make their stock about everyfour or five days.
I get chicken like chickenthighs or chicken legs, because
it has a bone in it.
It's more flavor and there's nosalt, no garlic or onion,
because that's not good for them.
It's poisonous for puppies, butI mix celery in there and
cilantro and parsley freshchopped in there with some
(15:28):
turmeric, which is also verygood for puppies.
So I put turmeric in there andthen you take the skin off.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Yeah, because it's a lot of fat.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
And then, yeah, you just slow boil the chicken and
then we use that chicken and wemix it with their dry food.
That's a really good dry foodthat we got.
You know, it's not, it's notlow-quality food, it's
good-quality food.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Yeah.
So for the older dogs and again, like I think this is important
, if you have a younger dog,start giving them carrots like
cooked carrots or raw carrots,if they like them every day.
Because we've noticed Emma forbeing 15, her eyes are perfect.
She has a little bit of grayhere and there, but she's
perfectly fine and even the vetis like wow, she's like like her
(16:14):
eyes are like from a six,seven-year-old Apple, which is
10, her eyes are crystal clear,like everybody thinks she's
still a puppy because I mean,you'll see her eyes in a picture
.
She is absolutely perfectlyfine.
She's overweight because sheeats a lot.
She's a little chubby.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Yeah, her eyes can spot a snacky on the floor.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
I know From 100 overweight because she eats a
lot.
She's a little chubby, yeah,her eyes can spot a snacky on
the floor from 100 yards away,but that's very important.
So give your dogs.
Start giving them like carrotsas soon as you can, and again,
raw or cooked, they're great.
Cucumber is also great for them, like watermelon without the
seeds.
Blueberries we used to playwith Apple when she was little.
We used to play with her withthe blueberries and she will
chase them and she absolutelyloves them.
Emma not so much.
She only kind of like toleratesthem, so it was not easy to
(17:00):
give it to her.
But and bonito, I don't know,sometimes he does.
But try to find like reallygood food that your puppy will
like instead of buying them uh,like store-bought treats that
are not good for them becausethey have a lot of like fat and
carbs and everything.
Try to give them like fruitsand vegetables that are good for
them that you can actuallytreat them like sweet potato
(17:22):
right, cook sweet potato, theylove it.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Yeah, I do sweet potatoes in the air fryer for
them all the time.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Yeah, you can give it to them as a treat and that's
great.
But going back to the food part, I think is, if you cannot
really afford like a good brandfood by like at the store, right
, like make a good broth forthem, like with chicken feet,
for example, you can make abroth.
Don't give them a chicken feetthat are cooked already, because
they can choke.
(17:48):
The bones are not great for them, but the bone broth is great
for them.
And rice, like rice, is verycheap and rice is good for them.
And rice with some chicken,some chicken.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
But again plain, no salt no garlic, no onion, none
of those.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
When they're older.
You got to realize when thedogs are older and our vet told
us like they cannot processprotein as much so you have to
go a little bit higher on therice and the, the pasta, and not
so much on the, on the chickenand the, the beef and everything
, because, again, like they,their, their organism cannot
(18:24):
process it as as good as theyused to be.
But I think having older dogsis very rewarding, waking every
day with them and seeing themthat they still love you, and
even with those little gray eyesthat Bonito has now and he
(18:45):
still tries to see you, and theobsession he has with you.
I hate it.
I hate that he's so obsessedwith him.
All my dogs are obsessed withmy husband and that's not fair
because I adopted them.
I was the one that said I'mgoing to get this puppy and all
this puppy.
(19:05):
So now what we need to do iskeep adopting puppies until we
find one that actually isobsessed with me.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
We actually took them on a great vacation this past
summer.
We were like, let's take adriving vacation, a mini
vacation, just to give them atreat that we can all remember
that we did, and so when we werein Spain, we just took our car
and we drove down to southernSpain, right on the coast
between southern Spain andPortugal, and we stayed at an
Airbnb that took puppies and wejust let them go with us and we
(19:33):
said, oh, this is going to begreat, we're going to go to the
beach, it'll be awesome andwe'll take this thing.
And it was the middle of summer, august was hot, and we didn't—
?
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Well, we did that one day in the morning and it was
great.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Yeah, but this was the afternoon.
We didn't think that throughthat, the sun had been out all
day, and so we, literally hereare the three of us, and we're
going across the beach, and thisis not a close beach, right.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
It's like what is it like?
Probably like half a mile fromthe deck to the actual ocean.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Right and we were walking.
We started walking and westarted getting into that sand.
That's been sitting there inthat sun all day it was so hot
and we were walking and we werelike okay, let's go, let's keep
going, let's keep going.
And by the time we got abouthalfway there, you started to
scream.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
I was like abort, abort, retreat, retreat, mission
failed.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Mission failed.
At that point we had alreadypicked up all three puppies.
We have them in our armsbecause we want their paws to be
burned.
So we're carrying the puppies,all three of them.
We're carrying them.
We're halfway to the waters.
We had to decide do we go backthe other direction or we keep
going toward the water?
Speaker 1 (20:37):
And that was like.
But.
And our feet were burning sobad.
Yeah, like running in sand,like into the sand and on the
sand, is so complicated, andcarrying two dogs is even more
complicated.
I was like, oh my gosh, I don'tknow what to do at this point.
We just kept going all the wayto the water.
We got to the water.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
We're like oh, thank God, the water.
And then we put the puppiesdown in the water and they were
like what's this Saltwater theydidn't like, they didn't really
care for it too much.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
I know, but it was so hot.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Well, it's the sun.
I didn't know it either.
We just took off and that'swhat ended up happening.
I know it was a great littlevacation.
We ended up also at thisamazing restaurant where they
again let puppies in, which theydo a lot in Europe.
So we just sat in thisbeautiful restaurant that was
right on the ocean and you couldsee the beach.
It was gorgeous.
Oh, that was in Portugal.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
That was the most beautiful In Portugal yeah, yeah
, that was so on the beach right, it was right there by the
beach.
Yeah, that was really reallynice.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
Yeah, we have a great picture of that, yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
And I don't know how long they're going to last, but
we are absolutely going to keeptrying to do the best we can.
And again, please, people,people, give an older dog the
opportunity.
It's very rewarding.
Again, we never thought bonitowhen we adopted him at 10, he
(22:01):
was going to be already 14 rightbecause you've had older dogs.
Well, other dogs in your life,right 12?
Is the oldest exactly so bonitoand mr, way past that age.
And again you see this boy, andthe boy is just.
Everybody thinks he's like five.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Yeah, it's definitely rewarding.
It's going to be heartbreakingwhen that time comes for all of
them, but it's definitelyrewarding.
So, as we say all the timeadopt, don't shop, and rescue,
because it's very important.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
And we need to stop this breeder for profit thing.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
It's got to go.
But please like, subscribe andfollow us.
If you have any comments,questions, we'll be happy to
answer them.
We can point you in thedirection of shelters if you
want to learn more about how toadopt puppies and rescue babies.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
And that's how I end up with other dogs.
There you go, I'll help you,and then I get one for myself.
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