July 5, 2023 • 29 mins
Andi shares a heritage of love, respect and her own terminology just for pups! There's some suffocating love and sneaky stolen sips of water too.
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Julie Jackson (00:02):
Hey, welcome to happy tales of happy tales, the
podcast where you'll hearstories of the way pups have
touched our hearts and ourlives. So for the next few
minutes, let everything else goand just listen and smile. I'm
your host, Julie Jackson.
This week, I'm excited to sharea conversation with you with my
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friend, Andi. Whenever you talkto Andi, there are two things
that you know are going tohappen, it's going to be fun,
and she's going to bring somecool perspective to the
conversation, and she did notdisappoint. One of the things
that I love that you will hearin this conversation is the way
that her mother instilled inthem. Just a love and a great
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respect for for pups and theterminology that they use when
they refer to their pubs. It'sso great. I thoroughly enjoyed
this conversation. And I knowyou will, too. So sit back,
listen and smile. Thank you somuch for doing this
Andi (01:05):
Of course. I'm excited for you. This is cool. I'm excited.
I think it's a great idea for apodcast
Julie Jackson (01:13):
will thank you, you know, it's not like their
stories of like, you know, I wasin an accident and my dog moved
my car off of me. Right. Youknow, it's, you know, it's just
everyday stuff, but it's beenreally sweet. Probably and more
of them than not, I've ended upcrying. They're not necessarily
sad stories, but
Andi (01:31):
Right, like, just feel the love.
Julie Jackson (01:34):
Yeah, yeah. And just want an impact they have.
Andi (01:40):
I wrote a few things down.
So I would not be too scatteredin my house. I don't know if
anybody's talked aboutterminology in their own home.
But we have specific dogterminology that I grew up with.
Julie Jackson (01:58):
I love this.
Andi (02:01):
The first one. My mother was very clear with all of us
that we should never use theword dog. She said dog is just
kind of a rude term. You want tocall everybody a pup or a puppy.
You never want them. I guess inher mind. She didn't want them
to grow up or something. I don'tknow. So whenever anybody says,
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How many dogs do you have? Ialways respond with. Well, like
right now and I have two pups,and one of them is 15. But dog
could be inciting. I don't knowwhy. But my brother ingrained
that in me and I think it'shilarious now. Because people
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are looking at you funny whenyou say how many other puppies?
No, they're not puppies. Youknow, it's like totally
confusing. Another thing is mymother. My mother is a crazy
woman. But one of the terms shewould say is the way the puppy
runs and you know, that's whenyour puppy or your dog see I
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can't even say it now. It's sohappy or excited that they do
the fast runs.
Julie Jackson (03:15):
Zoomies
Andi (03:18):
We call them puppy runs.
Because again, you can't saydog. We have a term for Ali who
is one of the ones I have now.
And we say she said she hassuffocating love. And the reason
we use that term with her isbecause she's about six or seven
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and she's a terrier mix mutt.
And she was it was a tragic, youknow, your bridge with other
puppies only one that survivedone of those kind of. So I've
always felt as if she has somePTSD. But when she's really
excited or upset, she will jumpup and she will put her face
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over your mouth like not herface, but like her neck or her
cheek. And it's so she can feelyour breath. And I can feel her
I can actually feel her start torelax as I breathe on her. It's
incredibly sweet. And so we callthat suffocating love
Julie Jackson (04:31):
that sweet though you're right it is incredibly
sweet.
Andi (04:38):
But the other word I don't even know if I should try to
explain it. But for some reasonmy mother used to also say
Inkster of bonita. It's okay.
Now.
Julie Jackson (04:51):
You have to explain it now you have to.
Andi (04:53):
I think she I think she said that because she liked the
word tincture and you never getto use it, you probably do more.
Julie Jackson (05:03):
Well not even that much anymore. But yeah,
you're right. Probably more thanthe average bear. Yeah. And so
Andi (05:08):
I think she liked the term tincture, and then she was
always wanting to complimentpups, as we say, pups that we
have or love or no. And I thinkfor some reason, see just
thought bunnies were really cutetoo. And she would, whenever she
would see she'd go, look at thatpup over there. That pup has a
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beautiful tincture buddy tie.
And we would all go yes, yeah,that's it. So my daughter called
me even Lydia called last weekand said that her cat had
tincture bunny thigh and I waslike, I'm so happy. I don't
know.
Julie Jackson (05:48):
Living on so. So it's just like a compliment. If
they're beautiful, like,beautiful or something pleasing
is tincture of bunny thigh.
Andi (05:59):
Yeah, but usually we're patting them on the thigh area,
you know, the hunch kind ofarea. And we're saying look at
that tincture buddy thigh. Oranother one that we would use is
with Tucker, who I know youprobably remember. Tucker is 15.
And he said that Chihuahua pugmix that I found on Granberry
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highway running towards our carwas gracious. And I picked him
up and he was kind of like,well, there you are. I've been
waiting, you know, looking foryou. In a lot of times when the
kids would come in and climb inbed with me in the morning. And
the dogs, of course are in thereas well. We would all say I
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think that Tucker got some extravelvet last night. Because his
firm would be so soft, that itfelt softer than at other times.
But you know, when you firstwake up, and there's that warm,
snuggly kind of puppy feeling.
And so a term that our familyuses that I thought was
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interesting. You know,
Julie Jackson (07:09):
I love that.
Andi (07:11):
He got extra bill, but yeah. Again, Lydia will call me
and say oh my gosh, Sadie gotextra velvet last night. Oh, my
goodness, you know.
Julie Jackson (07:26):
That's the best way to start a day.
Andi (07:31):
Is Well, and then those were the terms I thought of. And
then I was trying to think youknow, their stories about every
single up you ever have. Yes.
Our very first one as a family.
I'm sure. This is when I knewyou. We got Molly MingMing
Julie Jackson (07:53):
Oh, yes, I remember Molly Ming Ming because
she used to come in and visit inthe store.
Andi (07:57):
She did along with us, too. But Molly, what happened
was, that's it's an interestingstory, I think. I'm sure people
remember the Crocodile Hunter.
Oh, yes. Yes, Stever wouldn't,and my daughter at the time was
mid early grade school, I think.
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And when Steve Irwin died, and Iwill never forget it because it
was a Sunday morning. And shehad pictures all over her room
of him with animals. And herplan when people would ask her
what she was going to do in herfuture was to grow up and work
with Steve Irwin. So I woke upthis Sunday morning with the
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news that Steve Irwin had died.
And even now, I feel like Icould get your secrets. He was
like somebody that that we knew,you know. And so we had to tell
Lydia and she was, I mean, itwas the first big loss in her
life. I think it was SteveIrwin. And so later that day, we
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were going outside and there wasa cat in the driveway a black
cat and Lydia, of course, assumethat Steve Irwin had sent her
this black cat from heaven tolet her know that he was okay
and we have to save this catwhose name is now Jade I believe
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she you know very young girlname yes as you are and that we
have to keep the cat well thethe problem here is that I knew
growing up that I was not thatallergic to dogs. As my mother
said it would be ashamed to haveto give you a way. If you were
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highly allergic to but webecause this is yes. But
unfortunately I a cat in my headI really would do me. I'm so
allergic to cats. And I likedthem fine. But you know. And so
I told woody I said, you know,we can keep shade. But Jade has
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to be an outdoor cat. And I haveto take Jade in, because I'm a
responsible pet owner to the vetand have them check them over.
And then if they think he'sokay, we'll get his vaccines get
him fixed all that, that he canstay. So of course, I take the
cat to the vet. And when youknow, cats usually have either
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the two biggies or leukemia oreights, yes. He had one or the
other, like pretty bad. And thevet told me it would be
irresponsible for me to put himback out on the street. I mean,
it must have been aids becauseit's so contagious amongst
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animals. So I had to have Jadeput to sleep. So now in two in
two days, Stever would died. Andthen the cat he sent from heaven
died. And I thought I can't dothis. I have a 10 year old
daughter, now. Not going tobelieve in God,
Julie Jackson (11:11):
Right, this has now become a test of her faith.
Andi (11:16):
So we went I said to the kids, and I talked to Steve and
I said, Let's we're going to thepound. It was time. I had been
avoiding it because I knew howmuch work it was going to be.
And you know, we had donerodents and tortoises and other
things, other animals up untilthat point. So we went into the
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pound, and this mom had justdelivered a litter of puppies,
and Molly was one of them. So Ithink goodness, Paul was too
young to be much of a decisionmaker. So I let Lydia be the
entire decision maker in this.
And so she started petting thesepuppies and one of them kept
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licking her. And then this boycame over and he tried to scoot
in and pet that puppy can youbelieve that? The puppy that was
licking Lydia been a puppy mom.
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We decided at that moment thatthat was our puppy and Molly
Ming Ming was at a black labBorder Collie mix, we think and
Oh, beautiful, beautiful coat.
And just a wonderful. I wasgonna say a wonderful human
being.
Julie Jackson (12:44):
Actually, she was probably better than even
wonderful human beings.
Andi (12:48):
Right? She's very, very much so. She was just
delightful. I mean, ourChristmas pictures always had
Molly in them. Now the reason wenamed her Molly Ming Ming is
Molly. I don't know how that wegot that. But main beam was from
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a cartoon the kids used to watchcalled Super pets or something
like that. Or pets. Wonder Petswonder. Remember, it was a
cartoon about animals in aclassroom. And if you remember
there was a duck named MingMing. And there was an I don't
know some other animal namedtuck. And then Lenny. Well, we
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we never got Lenny. But that'sbut we did have MingMing and
Tucker. So that's why we havetwo out of the three. Her first
week home. She ate a pin cushionwith all of the pins and that
was like our $50 Pup because hegets a dog either. Oh, is now
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costing $500 The first week wegot her because it took forever
for them to to go down. I keptsaying just use a magnet but
they didn't listen to me.
Julie Jackson (14:12):
You're thinking first Steve Erwin. Now Jade now
with
Andi (14:18):
me. Molly MingMing will not die on my watch. I knew
that. No matter how much wespent.
Julie Jackson (14:27):
How much this cost? We're saving Molly made
me.
Andi (14:31):
We must. So it did cost about $500 to get all the pins
out. She was definitely a veryprotective of the kids and and
Steve and I she didn't know howshe felt when I brought Tucker
home. She kind of hated him atfirst first few days. But that's
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when I learned because I grew upwith single single pups excuse
me, Mom No pups, Andy, we
Julie Jackson (15:01):
will not say the D word. This is a family
friendly podcast.
Andi (15:08):
It's rather insulting. I never ever my brother doesn't
either. So anyway, when Tuckercame home that's when I realized
how important a packet is. We'dalways had single pups growing
up, and we were part of theirpack, I think. But there was
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something missing for them. AndI hadn't really known that until
tuck came around. I ended upalso inheriting my mom's pub.
Okay, I have a few more stories.
Smalley Ming Ming came over tobabysit, my kids went there. My
mother came over to babysit mykids one day and mom Ming Ming
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was, of course here with her andloved my mother dearly, of
course, ran up to greet her, andjumped up and just jumped a
little hard knock my motherover, you know, which, as my
mother said, and of course, ifit's a puppet doesn't matter,
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you know,
Julie Jackson (16:15):
exactly. They can do what they want.
Andi (16:18):
But it really hurt her ribs were sore for a few days.
And so she ended up going in andgetting an x ray. And that's how
they discovered her woundcancer. Wow. And if they
discovered it early enough, soshe had a good with treatment
and surgery and all that sheprobably had four years. From
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that point, which was was stillfairly rare. 10 years 1012 years
ago, you know, to have that muchtime. She would always say that
she needed to take Molly out toa steak house if she could. But
I've always liked that story,too.
Julie Jackson (17:02):
That was, you know, that was no accident.
Andi (17:06):
So I ended up inheriting her pup who was bunny? So we had
Molly MingMing Tucker and Bunny.
Bunny was like a whitefluffball. And so I had her up
until about the two of them sixor seven years ago,
unfortunately, both Molly andBunny died a week apart. I
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thought I was gonna die. Right,Tucker? You too. But so that's
what we had to start looking foranother pup to add. And and
that's when ally short foralligator came into the Oh,
Julie Jackson (17:51):
yeah, you're right. There is something excuse
me about them having acompanion. That's that's a furry
companion. It's it's the dynamicis always it's it's always
different. But it's always sosweet.
Andi (18:09):
It didn't. And I saw in your text to me, you said that
you were going to ask me whatI've learned. Yes, yes. And I am
assuming that the majority ofpeople are going to say
unconditional love. So I said tomyself, don't say unconditional
love, you have to come up withsomething else. You're
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challenging Andy. So I came upwith that. I too, am a pack
animal. And I love being part ofthe dog pack, as well as people
pack. There's something about itthat to have. Have other
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creatures that are justcomfortable flopping on top
view, or coming up your body soyou can suffocate on their face.
Or you know what I mean? It'sjust such an endearing quality
to me. That I know that's how Ilive my life wanting to be in
different packs. Yeah.
Julie Jackson (19:15):
I love that. I love that. Thank you so much for
sharing. And you know what Ihave to tell you, it was not as
much a hard and fast rule itkind of developed. But after I
had, I was in college when I Andit's funny, I'm thinking it's
kind of full circle. The firstpup that I ever rescued from the
shelter on my own was ally. So Ihad a pet and she was precious.
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I had a precious Allie. Butanyway, it's funny because as my
parents then you know alwaysreferred to their grand dogs.
And we didn't specifically saywe're not going to use the word
but we it turned into the littlefurry people. And then my dad
would just refer to them as theLFPS
Andi (19:56):
The LFP's. So on some level, your family also knew
that dog is not...it's not thebest word.
Julie Jackson (20:05):
Right? It's not it didn't do them justice. So
Right. So it would either be thedad especially it would be the
the little furry people theLFPS. Or sometimes just for
short, he'd be like the furriesor the furries.
Andi (20:18):
You can't say that anymore. That now is not the
thing to say. So,
Julie Jackson (20:27):
yeah, so anyway, that it was funny, because we
kind of it wasn't specified, butwe kind of had that same that
same evolution in our house,have, you know, in our family,
that we we're not going to callthem dogs? Because it just
doesn't seem to, to elevate themto where they need to be.
Andi (20:48):
Right? You know, that for some reason, puppy? Or puppy or
LFPS? Obviously? Yes,
Julie Jackson (20:57):
although I do love you know, and several
people, of course, make thereference and I certainly not
going to disagree with it, youknow, well, but you know, dogs
spelled backwards. And
Andi (21:08):
then, but it always makes me kind of want to gag a little
I don't know why. Not that Idon't think that God's all about
dogs and dogs are all about God.
I do. I think they are. But Ithink it's more complicated than
we realized. You know? Yeah,yeah.
Julie Jackson (21:32):
Yeah, that's fair. I think that's,
Andi (21:34):
I feel really sorry for people who don't know, this kind
of love. Kind of like havingchildren. I feel sorry for
people who haven't. Because it'sa different sort of, you know,
and I feel that way aboutanimals.
Julie Jackson (21:48):
No, it really is.
And it's so of course, like yousaid, unconditional, but that's
true. But it's so pure,
Andi (21:54):
very,
Julie Jackson (21:55):
it's just such a pure, you know, just, and it
cracks me up, though. Because Imean, you know, mine all have
different levels of SAS, youknow, and I have some that it
doesn't matter what I do,they'll look at me with this
huge, ridiculous derpy smile ontheir face, every single time
and then I have others that willshoot me that look, you know,
like, what, you know,
Andi (22:18):
my husband always says that Tucker looks like an old
Frenchman wearing a Blu ray issmoking a cigar. And he says he
just always feels like he's thatcharacter kind of.
Julie Jackson (22:35):
Like they're they are unique. There's so
individual. But even you know,even when sometimes, you know,
some of them maybe will get alittle out of sorts with you
more than others. But theyalways forgive and they know
they don't ever love you anyless. They just know, you know
that. Okay, that was uncalledfor.
Andi (22:53):
I'm setting you down for a moment since they want their
treats and my kids. They can'tbe delayed. You know what I
mean?
Julie Jackson (23:01):
Yes, I've had that discussion numerous times
that I have never in spite ofall my years, being rescued by
dogs have never become a gooddog trainer. But I found out
that pretty much all of the dogsI've rescued are excellent
people trainers.
Andi (23:17):
Oh, without a doubt.
Because yeah, I remember gettinga rotisserie chicken once once.
And I put it on the calendar.
But obviously I didn't know myway very well because I put it
too close to the edge. And so wefound Molly came in wagging her
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tail and we found just theplastic container. So in that
little lesson I said what did welearn to push the chicken
further back? You know, yes,blame for that. Yes.
Opportunity. She needed to takeyou know, eight
Julie Jackson (23:58):
that that was just smart. That was just smart
on her part.
Andi (24:03):
Exactly. But I do think they all train us to do whatever
it is I sometimes feel likeokay, now do you want me to hold
your bowl while you drink out ofit? Or? No, but
Julie Jackson (24:22):
yeah, we we kind of laugh because we recently got
an elevated dog bowl for water.
And we just use both both of thebowls we just fill with water.
And then we still have their bigwater bowl like they also have
it but for whatever reason nowthey've all decided that the
elevated water bowl is the oneand that they'll get just almost
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a little bit obnoxious aboutlike you need excuse me, Garson,
I need some refill this.
Andi (24:55):
This is this is not working out. There's one that
care carry the water bowl toyou. I had one that used to
carry it to me and go look, youknow, I love that
Julie Jackson (25:06):
they would the food bowls. Yes. So I have told
the story. And then I'll tellyou again because it cracks me
up. And I might have to send youa link real quick. So if if so
just bear with me. But we gotthese rocks that are they look
like lava rocks or something.
And the premise is that they'resupposed to, you put them in
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their water. And it's supposedto change the pH of their urine
just enough that it preventsthose yellow patches in your
grass. Oh, you know what I'mtalking about?
Andi (25:41):
I know exactly what of course
Julie Jackson (25:43):
and but marketing ploy maybe I'm not sure. The
deal is you're supposed tochange those rocks out maybe
every three months. I think theysaid I think you know we're
going on like six years now.
Yeah, I mean, yeah. Didn't have
Andi (25:57):
a sort of like an ice filter who? Exactly what?
Julie Jackson (26:02):
Yes. So they're there, their water bowls are
metal, and the rocks are stillin there. Because those stinkers
figured out very quickly, thatif they bang the rocks around
inside the bowl, we can hear itanywhere in the house. So when
the water bowl is empty or low,it does not matter where we are
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in the house, someone will startbegging the rocks around and
they and the older dogs havetaught the younger dogs to do
it. So they all do it now.
Andi (26:33):
Kind of like an emergency response system, if you will,
Julie Jackson (26:38):
like they're pulling the fire alarm.
Andi (26:42):
Some now people need water now. Well, I must admit, I do
have a tendency now to fill up amug of water and set it in the
living room so that way they cansneak they could sneak over and
drink. And then I can go
Julie Jackson (27:07):
It's like a game.
This is fun. Oh, I love it. Oh,well, Andi, this has just been
the best. Thank you so much!
Andi (27:15):
Oh, this sounds really fun. I really I can't wait to
hear see watch. Whatever.
Julie Jackson (27:23):
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go smooth speech. Thanks, y'all.
Hey, welcome to happy tales of happy tales, the
podcast where you'll hearstories of the way pups have
touched our hearts and ourlives. So for the next few
minutes, let everything else goand just listen and smile. I'm
your host, Julie Jackson.
This week, I'm excited to sharea conversation with you with my
(00:26):
friend, Andi. Whenever you talkto Andi, there are two things
that you know are going tohappen, it's going to be fun,
and she's going to bring somecool perspective to the
conversation, and she did notdisappoint. One of the things
that I love that you will hearin this conversation is the way
that her mother instilled inthem. Just a love and a great
(00:49):
respect for for pups and theterminology that they use when
they refer to their pubs. It'sso great. I thoroughly enjoyed
this conversation. And I knowyou will, too. So sit back,
listen and smile. Thank you somuch for doing this
Andi (01:05):
Of course. I'm excited for you. This is cool. I'm excited.
I think it's a great idea for apodcast
Julie Jackson (01:13):
will thank you, you know, it's not like their
stories of like, you know, I wasin an accident and my dog moved
my car off of me. Right. Youknow, it's, you know, it's just
everyday stuff, but it's beenreally sweet. Probably and more
of them than not, I've ended upcrying. They're not necessarily
sad stories, but
Andi (01:31):
Right, like, just feel the love.
Julie Jackson (01:34):
Yeah, yeah. And just want an impact they have.
Andi (01:40):
I wrote a few things down.
So I would not be too scatteredin my house. I don't know if
anybody's talked aboutterminology in their own home.
But we have specific dogterminology that I grew up with.
Julie Jackson (01:58):
I love this.
Andi (02:01):
The first one. My mother was very clear with all of us
that we should never use theword dog. She said dog is just
kind of a rude term. You want tocall everybody a pup or a puppy.
You never want them. I guess inher mind. She didn't want them
to grow up or something. I don'tknow. So whenever anybody says,
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How many dogs do you have? Ialways respond with. Well, like
right now and I have two pups,and one of them is 15. But dog
could be inciting. I don't knowwhy. But my brother ingrained
that in me and I think it'shilarious now. Because people
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are looking at you funny whenyou say how many other puppies?
No, they're not puppies. Youknow, it's like totally
confusing. Another thing is mymother. My mother is a crazy
woman. But one of the terms shewould say is the way the puppy
runs and you know, that's whenyour puppy or your dog see I
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can't even say it now. It's sohappy or excited that they do
the fast runs.
Julie Jackson (03:15):
Zoomies
Andi (03:18):
We call them puppy runs.
Because again, you can't saydog. We have a term for Ali who
is one of the ones I have now.
And we say she said she hassuffocating love. And the reason
we use that term with her isbecause she's about six or seven
(03:43):
and she's a terrier mix mutt.
And she was it was a tragic, youknow, your bridge with other
puppies only one that survivedone of those kind of. So I've
always felt as if she has somePTSD. But when she's really
excited or upset, she will jumpup and she will put her face
(04:05):
over your mouth like not herface, but like her neck or her
cheek. And it's so she can feelyour breath. And I can feel her
I can actually feel her start torelax as I breathe on her. It's
incredibly sweet. And so we callthat suffocating love
Julie Jackson (04:31):
that sweet though you're right it is incredibly
sweet.
Andi (04:38):
But the other word I don't even know if I should try to
explain it. But for some reasonmy mother used to also say
Inkster of bonita. It's okay.
Now.
Julie Jackson (04:51):
You have to explain it now you have to.
Andi (04:53):
I think she I think she said that because she liked the
word tincture and you never getto use it, you probably do more.
Julie Jackson (05:03):
Well not even that much anymore. But yeah,
you're right. Probably more thanthe average bear. Yeah. And so
Andi (05:08):
I think she liked the term tincture, and then she was
always wanting to complimentpups, as we say, pups that we
have or love or no. And I thinkfor some reason, see just
thought bunnies were really cutetoo. And she would, whenever she
would see she'd go, look at thatpup over there. That pup has a
(05:29):
beautiful tincture buddy tie.
And we would all go yes, yeah,that's it. So my daughter called
me even Lydia called last weekand said that her cat had
tincture bunny thigh and I waslike, I'm so happy. I don't
know.
Julie Jackson (05:48):
Living on so. So it's just like a compliment. If
they're beautiful, like,beautiful or something pleasing
is tincture of bunny thigh.
Andi (05:59):
Yeah, but usually we're patting them on the thigh area,
you know, the hunch kind ofarea. And we're saying look at
that tincture buddy thigh. Oranother one that we would use is
with Tucker, who I know youprobably remember. Tucker is 15.
And he said that Chihuahua pugmix that I found on Granberry
(06:22):
highway running towards our carwas gracious. And I picked him
up and he was kind of like,well, there you are. I've been
waiting, you know, looking foryou. In a lot of times when the
kids would come in and climb inbed with me in the morning. And
the dogs, of course are in thereas well. We would all say I
(06:45):
think that Tucker got some extravelvet last night. Because his
firm would be so soft, that itfelt softer than at other times.
But you know, when you firstwake up, and there's that warm,
snuggly kind of puppy feeling.
And so a term that our familyuses that I thought was
(07:06):
interesting. You know,
Julie Jackson (07:09):
I love that.
Andi (07:11):
He got extra bill, but yeah. Again, Lydia will call me
and say oh my gosh, Sadie gotextra velvet last night. Oh, my
goodness, you know.
Julie Jackson (07:26):
That's the best way to start a day.
Andi (07:31):
Is Well, and then those were the terms I thought of. And
then I was trying to think youknow, their stories about every
single up you ever have. Yes.
Our very first one as a family.
I'm sure. This is when I knewyou. We got Molly MingMing
Julie Jackson (07:53):
Oh, yes, I remember Molly Ming Ming because
she used to come in and visit inthe store.
Andi (07:57):
She did along with us, too. But Molly, what happened
was, that's it's an interestingstory, I think. I'm sure people
remember the Crocodile Hunter.
Oh, yes. Yes, Stever wouldn't,and my daughter at the time was
mid early grade school, I think.
(08:21):
And when Steve Irwin died, and Iwill never forget it because it
was a Sunday morning. And shehad pictures all over her room
of him with animals. And herplan when people would ask her
what she was going to do in herfuture was to grow up and work
with Steve Irwin. So I woke upthis Sunday morning with the
(08:41):
news that Steve Irwin had died.
And even now, I feel like Icould get your secrets. He was
like somebody that that we knew,you know. And so we had to tell
Lydia and she was, I mean, itwas the first big loss in her
life. I think it was SteveIrwin. And so later that day, we
(09:01):
were going outside and there wasa cat in the driveway a black
cat and Lydia, of course, assumethat Steve Irwin had sent her
this black cat from heaven tolet her know that he was okay
and we have to save this catwhose name is now Jade I believe
(09:25):
she you know very young girlname yes as you are and that we
have to keep the cat well thethe problem here is that I knew
growing up that I was not thatallergic to dogs. As my mother
said it would be ashamed to haveto give you a way. If you were
(09:46):
highly allergic to but webecause this is yes. But
unfortunately I a cat in my headI really would do me. I'm so
allergic to cats. And I likedthem fine. But you know. And so
I told woody I said, you know,we can keep shade. But Jade has
(10:09):
to be an outdoor cat. And I haveto take Jade in, because I'm a
responsible pet owner to the vetand have them check them over.
And then if they think he'sokay, we'll get his vaccines get
him fixed all that, that he canstay. So of course, I take the
cat to the vet. And when youknow, cats usually have either
(10:29):
the two biggies or leukemia oreights, yes. He had one or the
other, like pretty bad. And thevet told me it would be
irresponsible for me to put himback out on the street. I mean,
it must have been aids becauseit's so contagious amongst
(10:50):
animals. So I had to have Jadeput to sleep. So now in two in
two days, Stever would died. Andthen the cat he sent from heaven
died. And I thought I can't dothis. I have a 10 year old
daughter, now. Not going tobelieve in God,
Julie Jackson (11:11):
Right, this has now become a test of her faith.
Andi (11:16):
So we went I said to the kids, and I talked to Steve and
I said, Let's we're going to thepound. It was time. I had been
avoiding it because I knew howmuch work it was going to be.
And you know, we had donerodents and tortoises and other
things, other animals up untilthat point. So we went into the
(11:39):
pound, and this mom had justdelivered a litter of puppies,
and Molly was one of them. So Ithink goodness, Paul was too
young to be much of a decisionmaker. So I let Lydia be the
entire decision maker in this.
And so she started petting thesepuppies and one of them kept
(11:59):
licking her. And then this boycame over and he tried to scoot
in and pet that puppy can youbelieve that? The puppy that was
licking Lydia been a puppy mom.
(12:22):
We decided at that moment thatthat was our puppy and Molly
Ming Ming was at a black labBorder Collie mix, we think and
Oh, beautiful, beautiful coat.
And just a wonderful. I wasgonna say a wonderful human
being.
Julie Jackson (12:44):
Actually, she was probably better than even
wonderful human beings.
Andi (12:48):
Right? She's very, very much so. She was just
delightful. I mean, ourChristmas pictures always had
Molly in them. Now the reason wenamed her Molly Ming Ming is
Molly. I don't know how that wegot that. But main beam was from
(13:08):
a cartoon the kids used to watchcalled Super pets or something
like that. Or pets. Wonder Petswonder. Remember, it was a
cartoon about animals in aclassroom. And if you remember
there was a duck named MingMing. And there was an I don't
know some other animal namedtuck. And then Lenny. Well, we
(13:34):
we never got Lenny. But that'sbut we did have MingMing and
Tucker. So that's why we havetwo out of the three. Her first
week home. She ate a pin cushionwith all of the pins and that
was like our $50 Pup because hegets a dog either. Oh, is now
(13:59):
costing $500 The first week wegot her because it took forever
for them to to go down. I keptsaying just use a magnet but
they didn't listen to me.
Julie Jackson (14:12):
You're thinking first Steve Erwin. Now Jade now
with
Andi (14:18):
me. Molly MingMing will not die on my watch. I knew
that. No matter how much wespent.
Julie Jackson (14:27):
How much this cost? We're saving Molly made
me.
Andi (14:31):
We must. So it did cost about $500 to get all the pins
out. She was definitely a veryprotective of the kids and and
Steve and I she didn't know howshe felt when I brought Tucker
home. She kind of hated him atfirst first few days. But that's
(14:53):
when I learned because I grew upwith single single pups excuse
me, Mom No pups, Andy, we
Julie Jackson (15:01):
will not say the D word. This is a family
friendly podcast.
Andi (15:08):
It's rather insulting. I never ever my brother doesn't
either. So anyway, when Tuckercame home that's when I realized
how important a packet is. We'dalways had single pups growing
up, and we were part of theirpack, I think. But there was
(15:31):
something missing for them. AndI hadn't really known that until
tuck came around. I ended upalso inheriting my mom's pub.
Okay, I have a few more stories.
Smalley Ming Ming came over tobabysit, my kids went there. My
mother came over to babysit mykids one day and mom Ming Ming
(15:53):
was, of course here with her andloved my mother dearly, of
course, ran up to greet her, andjumped up and just jumped a
little hard knock my motherover, you know, which, as my
mother said, and of course, ifit's a puppet doesn't matter,
(16:13):
you know,
Julie Jackson (16:15):
exactly. They can do what they want.
Andi (16:18):
But it really hurt her ribs were sore for a few days.
And so she ended up going in andgetting an x ray. And that's how
they discovered her woundcancer. Wow. And if they
discovered it early enough, soshe had a good with treatment
and surgery and all that sheprobably had four years. From
(16:40):
that point, which was was stillfairly rare. 10 years 1012 years
ago, you know, to have that muchtime. She would always say that
she needed to take Molly out toa steak house if she could. But
I've always liked that story,too.
Julie Jackson (17:02):
That was, you know, that was no accident.
Andi (17:06):
So I ended up inheriting her pup who was bunny? So we had
Molly MingMing Tucker and Bunny.
Bunny was like a whitefluffball. And so I had her up
until about the two of them sixor seven years ago,
unfortunately, both Molly andBunny died a week apart. I
(17:30):
thought I was gonna die. Right,Tucker? You too. But so that's
what we had to start looking foranother pup to add. And and
that's when ally short foralligator came into the Oh,
Julie Jackson (17:51):
yeah, you're right. There is something excuse
me about them having acompanion. That's that's a furry
companion. It's it's the dynamicis always it's it's always
different. But it's always sosweet.
Andi (18:09):
It didn't. And I saw in your text to me, you said that
you were going to ask me whatI've learned. Yes, yes. And I am
assuming that the majority ofpeople are going to say
unconditional love. So I said tomyself, don't say unconditional
love, you have to come up withsomething else. You're
(18:32):
challenging Andy. So I came upwith that. I too, am a pack
animal. And I love being part ofthe dog pack, as well as people
pack. There's something about itthat to have. Have other
(18:52):
creatures that are justcomfortable flopping on top
view, or coming up your body soyou can suffocate on their face.
Or you know what I mean? It'sjust such an endearing quality
to me. That I know that's how Ilive my life wanting to be in
different packs. Yeah.
Julie Jackson (19:15):
I love that. I love that. Thank you so much for
sharing. And you know what Ihave to tell you, it was not as
much a hard and fast rule itkind of developed. But after I
had, I was in college when I Andit's funny, I'm thinking it's
kind of full circle. The firstpup that I ever rescued from the
shelter on my own was ally. So Ihad a pet and she was precious.
(19:38):
I had a precious Allie. Butanyway, it's funny because as my
parents then you know alwaysreferred to their grand dogs.
And we didn't specifically saywe're not going to use the word
but we it turned into the littlefurry people. And then my dad
would just refer to them as theLFPS
Andi (19:56):
The LFP's. So on some level, your family also knew
that dog is not...it's not thebest word.
Julie Jackson (20:05):
Right? It's not it didn't do them justice. So
Right. So it would either be thedad especially it would be the
the little furry people theLFPS. Or sometimes just for
short, he'd be like the furriesor the furries.
Andi (20:18):
You can't say that anymore. That now is not the
thing to say. So,
Julie Jackson (20:27):
yeah, so anyway, that it was funny, because we
kind of it wasn't specified, butwe kind of had that same that
same evolution in our house,have, you know, in our family,
that we we're not going to callthem dogs? Because it just
doesn't seem to, to elevate themto where they need to be.
Andi (20:48):
Right? You know, that for some reason, puppy? Or puppy or
LFPS? Obviously? Yes,
Julie Jackson (20:57):
although I do love you know, and several
people, of course, make thereference and I certainly not
going to disagree with it, youknow, well, but you know, dogs
spelled backwards. And
Andi (21:08):
then, but it always makes me kind of want to gag a little
I don't know why. Not that Idon't think that God's all about
dogs and dogs are all about God.
I do. I think they are. But Ithink it's more complicated than
we realized. You know? Yeah,yeah.
Julie Jackson (21:32):
Yeah, that's fair. I think that's,
Andi (21:34):
I feel really sorry for people who don't know, this kind
of love. Kind of like havingchildren. I feel sorry for
people who haven't. Because it'sa different sort of, you know,
and I feel that way aboutanimals.
Julie Jackson (21:48):
No, it really is.
And it's so of course, like yousaid, unconditional, but that's
true. But it's so pure,
Andi (21:54):
very,
Julie Jackson (21:55):
it's just such a pure, you know, just, and it
cracks me up, though. Because Imean, you know, mine all have
different levels of SAS, youknow, and I have some that it
doesn't matter what I do,they'll look at me with this
huge, ridiculous derpy smile ontheir face, every single time
and then I have others that willshoot me that look, you know,
like, what, you know,
Andi (22:18):
my husband always says that Tucker looks like an old
Frenchman wearing a Blu ray issmoking a cigar. And he says he
just always feels like he's thatcharacter kind of.
Julie Jackson (22:35):
Like they're they are unique. There's so
individual. But even you know,even when sometimes, you know,
some of them maybe will get alittle out of sorts with you
more than others. But theyalways forgive and they know
they don't ever love you anyless. They just know, you know
that. Okay, that was uncalledfor.
Andi (22:53):
I'm setting you down for a moment since they want their
treats and my kids. They can'tbe delayed. You know what I
mean?
Julie Jackson (23:01):
Yes, I've had that discussion numerous times
that I have never in spite ofall my years, being rescued by
dogs have never become a gooddog trainer. But I found out
that pretty much all of the dogsI've rescued are excellent
people trainers.
Andi (23:17):
Oh, without a doubt.
Because yeah, I remember gettinga rotisserie chicken once once.
And I put it on the calendar.
But obviously I didn't know myway very well because I put it
too close to the edge. And so wefound Molly came in wagging her
(23:40):
tail and we found just theplastic container. So in that
little lesson I said what did welearn to push the chicken
further back? You know, yes,blame for that. Yes.
Opportunity. She needed to takeyou know, eight
Julie Jackson (23:58):
that that was just smart. That was just smart
on her part.
Andi (24:03):
Exactly. But I do think they all train us to do whatever
it is I sometimes feel likeokay, now do you want me to hold
your bowl while you drink out ofit? Or? No, but
Julie Jackson (24:22):
yeah, we we kind of laugh because we recently got
an elevated dog bowl for water.
And we just use both both of thebowls we just fill with water.
And then we still have their bigwater bowl like they also have
it but for whatever reason nowthey've all decided that the
elevated water bowl is the oneand that they'll get just almost
(24:45):
a little bit obnoxious aboutlike you need excuse me, Garson,
I need some refill this.
Andi (24:55):
This is this is not working out. There's one that
care carry the water bowl toyou. I had one that used to
carry it to me and go look, youknow, I love that
Julie Jackson (25:06):
they would the food bowls. Yes. So I have told
the story. And then I'll tellyou again because it cracks me
up. And I might have to send youa link real quick. So if if so
just bear with me. But we gotthese rocks that are they look
like lava rocks or something.
And the premise is that they'resupposed to, you put them in
(25:26):
their water. And it's supposedto change the pH of their urine
just enough that it preventsthose yellow patches in your
grass. Oh, you know what I'mtalking about?
Andi (25:41):
I know exactly what of course
Julie Jackson (25:43):
and but marketing ploy maybe I'm not sure. The
deal is you're supposed tochange those rocks out maybe
every three months. I think theysaid I think you know we're
going on like six years now.
Yeah, I mean, yeah. Didn't have
Andi (25:57):
a sort of like an ice filter who? Exactly what?
Julie Jackson (26:02):
Yes. So they're there, their water bowls are
metal, and the rocks are stillin there. Because those stinkers
figured out very quickly, thatif they bang the rocks around
inside the bowl, we can hear itanywhere in the house. So when
the water bowl is empty or low,it does not matter where we are
(26:26):
in the house, someone will startbegging the rocks around and
they and the older dogs havetaught the younger dogs to do
it. So they all do it now.
Andi (26:33):
Kind of like an emergency response system, if you will,
Julie Jackson (26:38):
like they're pulling the fire alarm.
Andi (26:42):
Some now people need water now. Well, I must admit, I do
have a tendency now to fill up amug of water and set it in the
living room so that way they cansneak they could sneak over and
drink. And then I can go
Julie Jackson (27:07):
It's like a game.
This is fun. Oh, I love it. Oh,well, Andi, this has just been
the best. Thank you so much!
Andi (27:15):
Oh, this sounds really fun. I really I can't wait to
hear see watch. Whatever.
Julie Jackson (27:23):
Thank you so much for joining me today. I know
that you are busy. And I reallyappreciate that you chose to
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