September 28, 2023 • 32 mins
Welcome back! This week we come back from break and meet our newest little life saver. Darcy, a Cowboy Corgi with ALL the sass and a turned out paw trotted into our lives and stole ALL the hearts!
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Julie Jackson (00:00):
Hey, welcome to Happy Tales of Happy Tales, the
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podcast where you'll hearstories of the way pubs 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. Hi,friends, and welcome back to
Season Two of happy tales ofhappy tales, took a little
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break, had some life changesgoing on around here and summer
break ending and school startingback up things like that. So
took a little bit of time to,you know, do life and regroup
and now I'm excited to be back.
So I've got some stories comingup with some really, really
interesting people, some reallygreat things, a dog behavior
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list, you don't want to missthat. And people just sharing
their lives with their dogs. So,you know, just a reminder, the
whole point of this is just sowe have something that we all
share our love of dogs, to justtake us away for a few minutes
during the time that we'relistening and remind us of the
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happy good, non stressful,funny, endearing things that are
in our lives. So I had recordedI have recorded a lot of these
stories even before the podcastever launched. So sometimes
chronologically, I kind of jumparound. And there's some
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episodes where you'll hear metalk about Lilly and Roscoe. And
then there's other episodeswhere you'll hear me mention
that they have passed andsometimes they're not in order.
So I thought I would just kindof get you up to date today on
on where we stand. But about 11months ago, we actually were a
three blue heeler family. We hada set of twins that were our
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senior girls Lilly and Eleanortheir littermates. And Eleanor
bless her heart. She looks likea black bear cub. And we joke
we've always called her theoffice manager because she's the
one who keeps everything runningaround here. keeps everyone in
order keeps the flutes undercontrol. She's very serious. She
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always looks at you veryseriously. I don't know if you
ever saw the show Phineas andFerb. Sidenote, if you haven't
ever seen Phineas and Ferb, it'son Disney. Plus, do yourself a
favor. I don't care if you havekids or not. It's brilliant.
It's fun. We still to this day.
Love it. So go check out Phineasand Ferb. But there's a
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character on there, Perry thePlatypus. And he has a lazy eye.
And he's always very serious.
And that is her. But it's funnybecause Perry the Platypus has
an alter ego, Agent P. And he'sa secret agent. And he goes on
all these crazy excitingadventure missions. But no one
knows what he's doing. And hejust disappears and they look up
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and a character will say hey,where's Perry? And they never
find out. But then of course, wesee this exciting adventure that
Perry is on. And so we joke thatshe's our agent II because
sometimes Eleanor just retiresto whatever it is she does. And
we're pretty certain that she'soff fighting crime or keeping
the peace or whatever it is shedoes saving the world. So her
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sister was Lilly. And Lilly isthe sweetest sweet girl. super
loyal. Both of them are butLilly was always my shadow. She
was always right there. Throughthe years though she had
developed this really largetumor on her underside kind of
on her belly. And the vets keptan eye on it. But by the time
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she developed it, theydetermined it wasn't anything
life threatening to her and bythe time she developed it, it
was really too risky to put herunder anesthesia to remove it
when it was not going to besomething that threatened her
life. So we made the choice tojust leave it and she did fine
with it. But it got so large shecouldn't really jump up on
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furniture with us anymore orsnuggle us in the bed. So she
was always at our feet. And shealso started losing her vision
over the years. So it wasinteresting because you know
healers are cattle dogs and theyare working dogs they are meant
to be outside. And Lilly wasfunny because she was seriously
agoraphobic. She hated to gooutside. It stressed her out so
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much if we tried to take her outthe front door. It before she
lost her vision. She was thisway even when she was little.
She was comfortable going in ourbackyard, she would use the dog
door she would lay out in theyard. She was fine in the
backyard. But if we took heranywhere else, she got such a
high anxiety. And so I startedwondering as she started really
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losing her vision if maybe therewas always some kind of vision
vision impairment, maybe just inher periphery. I don't know. I'm
not a doctor. But I justwondered if there was always
something that made her feelvulnerable being out in open
spaces that she didn'trecognize. But, man, even after
she completely lost her vision,she she was so so resilient and
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so smart. And she did greataround the house. I mean, she
would still play with theyounger pups, and she made her
way around just fine. She knewwhere everything was, and she
could navigate her way around.
So she did great. Lilly andEleanor, though, at the time,
were 12. And then we had Roscoeand sweet Roscoe. I sometime
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we'll just do a whole I'llprobably dedicate lots of time
to Roscoe, but I'm not gonnalie. I'm still not ready to do
just any Roscoe spin specificstories yet because it's still
hard. So about 11 months ago,Roscoe was a tiny healer. He
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barely he sometimes didn't evenhit 30 pounds. He usually
hovered around 29. But Rosco wasmissing his rear right leg. So
we used to assure him that hewas a big boy, he just if he'd
had that leg, he would havetipped the scales at 30. But he
also had the face of a baby sealand an underbite not kidding.
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cutest thing you've ever seen.
Rosco could do whatever hewanted. So and he was very
athletic and very capable, eventhough he was missing that leg.
So so many stories about Roscoe,I'll have to share but Roscoe
was definitely very, veryspecial. He was always by my
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side, he, he was kind of anequal opportunity lover. Ricky
called him his wing man. And heloved Ricky too. But he and Lily
were probably out of out of ourpack at the time. If two of them
if any of them may be picked meas their person, a little bit
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more than somebody else. It wasthose two. So about 11 months
ago, Roscoe he was he was almosthe was around nine. And about he
was a rescue. So we never knewexactly his age. But about 11
months ago, he suddenly gotvery, very sick. We thought that
it was, at first we thought aUTI, then we thought maybe an
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ear infection. We did not thinkit was something life
threatening, but we knew that hewas sick, you know, he was
having accidents in the houseand, and starting to kind of
have some little doggy vertigo,if you will. So anyway, took him
to the vet multiple times overthe course of a week and a half.
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And it he just rapidly rapidlydeclined. And after a week and a
half, we ended up losing him.
And it was very, very shocking.
We just weren't expecting that,at that point at that season in
life. So let me just say, hugyour pups, hug your family, hug
your friends, because you justdon't know what this what the
story holds. But anyway, so I'malready getting choked up. I
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told you I can't talk about Istill can't talk about Roscoe.
But so we had to say goodbye toRoscoe. And it was we think he
had a brain tumor.
We think that that's probablyultimately what it was. And then
about five months later, overthe course of about a week Lily
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started declining rapidly andLily was 12 she 12 and a half so
she started declining rapidlyand we lost Lilly on Easter
Sunday. So we call her littleEaster Lilly now but it took us
down from a three healerhousehold which is you know if
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you know anything about healers,especially a lot it's a lot to
Eleanor was our remaininghealer. And Eleanor's older
known She's very calm. Shedoesn't have that wild craziness
of of a young healer now shejust has that sage wisdom of a
healer because if you don't knowanything about them, they're
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brilliant, brilliant, brilliantdogs and I almost feel guilty
calling them dogs, but I meanthat in the highest regard. So
after losing Roscoe, I just kindof started watching the rescues,
the blue heeler rescues and kindof looking at pictures thinking
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you know, we do have a spot inour home at some point and I
don't know that I was totallyready. I don't know if you're
ever ready, but I was kind ofjust open to making sure that
there wasn't a pump out therethat really was an urgent need.
So, I should probably go back alittle bit, obviously love
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healers. Part of the reason Ilove heelers is they've got a
lot of sass I mentioned thatthey're smart. They're very
funny. They're very stubborn.
And they're very challengingsometimes, but I love that about
them. There's so much fun. Ialso love corgis. corgis have
always made me laugh. I mean,don't even even need to explain
why I love corgis. If someonedoesn't love corgis, I just
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enjoy your life without a soulbecause they're just the most
delightful. So there is a Iguess you could say kind of a
boutique breed out there calleda cowboy Corgi. A cowboy Corgi
is a mix between a corgi and ablue heeler. Yes, they are every
bit as wonderful and delightfuland hilarious as you're
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imagining, and all the steps, Ihave always thought they were
completely the most adorable.
But like I said, they're kind ofa boutique breed. And our
personal philosophy is that werescue. I have no problem paying
rescue fees, I have no problempaying shelter fees. So it's not
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that I want a free dog. It's notabout the money. But it's that
we want to use the resourcesthat we have to save a life if
we can. And there's so manyamazing pups out there that need
homes. And so we always try tofind dogs that that are in
desperate need of a home. Andso, so I never thought that a
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cowboy Corgi was really apossibility for us just because
I wasn't going to go to abreeder to buy a pup. Well,
about the time that Lilly kindof started to decline. So I
usually never even entertain thethought immediately after losing
a pup of bringing another oneinto our home. But then, about
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the time that Lily was kind ofyou know, we were starting to
see that hey, something's maybegoing on here. One of my very
dear friends Michelle, you'llhear me talk about her a lot.
And I need to get her on herefor multiple episodes because we
joke that between us and ourfriend Tori we have it's our
pack. And we have so manystories about the pups in our
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pack. But Michelle knew that I'dalways loved cowboy corgis. She
tagged me in a post on socialmedia. A local rescue group.
They're looking for an they havean urgent need for a foster for
this little girl that needs tobe pulled out of the shelter
immediately. Oh my goodness, themost adorable thing you have
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ever seen. She's a cowboy Corgi.
She is a she looks like atricolour Corgi if you know
about corgis, there's two types.
There's cardigan Welsh Corgis,and Pembroke Welsh Corgis. I
don't know all the differencesbut one differences one of them
has a tail and one of themdoesn't. She's the one that has
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the tail. I think those arecardigans don't hold me to that
because I'm not an expert. Butanyway, so she she doesn't have
the little stumpy tail and sheshe's a tricolour which means
that she's mostly black withsome brown and white. So she's
not one that looks like thelittle fluffy loaf of bread
running down the road. But shedoes have a black tail with a
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perfectly white tip. She haswhat we call her stole around
her neck that almost looks likeDalmatian print. It's in white
with the black dots. And thenshe her head looks like a blue
healer. She well kind of a redand blue. She's she's got more
red on her face with whitefreckles. But she's got the blue
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up around her Bentley. If youdon't know what a Bentley is, if
you look at Blue healers most ofthem have a little white spot on
the top of their head, sometimeskind of between their eyes or on
their forehead and that's calledtheir Bentley. The name comes
from someone who's attributedwith originally creating the
breed. And so her her Bentleythat on either side of that is
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is darker, more blue, and thenher little legs are white with
red freckles so her legs are notkidding probably four inches
long. And she is definitely alittle low rider as she stands
about 12 inches tall. You may beable to hear her and Barney in
the background right now. So sheis half the size of one floof
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and she takes them both on atthe same time. She is the
scrappiest most fearless littlething you've ever seen. Anyway,
spoiler alert, she's Irish now.
But my friend tags me in thispost that this little girl needs
a home and I immediately starttrying to apply to be Her foster
but I didn't want I'm we don'tfoster just because we foster
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fail. I mean, I already know wewould foster fails. So if we are
able to take in a pup and wehave a spot in our home, we just
we take them we become theirforever home. And shout out to
all the people that foster bythe way because that there's
such a need for that. And theyhave such a special heart. And
I'm telling you, it's selfless.
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I mean, I will say it right now,I don't foster my reasons for
fostering are very selfish,because I don't want to say
goodbye to those pups. And thattakes a very, very special
person that can put all thoselittle pups ahead of them. And
so just shout out to all theFosters. And if you've ever
considered it, please do it.
Please do it. So anyway, I didnot get my application in a time
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and this wonderful preciousfamily got her as a foster. And
but in the comments, the fostermom bless her heart, she saw my
comment that I really wanted toadopt her. And so after they got
her and started taking just suchamazing care of her, she tags me
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in the comment and tells me whenshe will be available for
adoption, if I'm stillinterested. And yes, we were
definitely still interested. Sowe arranged a meet up, and my
husband and daughter and I wentover to their house one night to
meet Darcy. And she is thecutest sweetest thing you've
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ever seen. She's very tiny. Andher front right paw is I hate to
say deformed because that makesit sound like it's a bad thing.
But that bone is rotated. And sothat Paul when she stands still
instead of faces forward facescompletely to a 90 degree angle
to the right. So she has thistwisted paw. It does not stop
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her or slow her down at all. Notfor one second. But it is a
little deformity that she has.
And we think the foster thinksthat she was they found her in
Oklahoma, they think she wasdumped. And they suspect that
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maybe she it was by a breeder,because they couldn't sell her
because of that little paw,which is heartbreaking to me.
But if you see her home, oh mygosh, the paw turned out. It
always looks like she either hasher hand on her little hip, or
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someone pointed out it lookslike she's in perfect third
position for ballet. So her nameis Darcy. And we call her the
Tiny Dancer, which sometimesturns into Tony Danza. If you
don't know that reference,Google "Friends- Tony Danza".
You're welcome. So we got Darcyas soon as she was ready for
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adoption,that the first time anyone meets
her, she just has this gentlespirit and she walks up and she
sits in front of you and she'sso tiny, and her little ears
stick out. And she looks at youand just gives you this tiny
little smile. Not the smile onyour see your teeth but just the
kind of little smile. She justcurls her lips back. And it is
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the most adorable thing thatyou've ever seen. And then she
we probably should teach her notto do this but she just loves
it. She will stand up on herhind legs then and put her front
paws on you. And take her littleright paw and just tap you. And
it kind of looks like the wholeT Rex thing going on because her
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little little legs are so short,but just gently taps you to get
you to look at her and payattention to her. So she can get
a little closer to you. Sheloves kids. She loves other
dogs. She loves people. She'svery much a lady though she has
very sweet little manners. She'svery polite. And so it was
instant love at first sight. Andso we after we met her we were
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able to go pick her up the nextday we went and picked her up
the next day and brought herhome. I am so delighted to say
she loves everyone but shereally did pick me and that was
really heartwarming. I don'tknow why. But that very first
night she crawled up in the bedand she got right up on my
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pillow and she laid her littlehead on my shoulder and slept
the whole night. And now sheloves everyone. She's very
independent. She'll go do herown thing. But but every night
at some point then she curls upand snuggles up with me and I'm
her I guess her home base. Butshe has been such a delight. We
recently took her on her firsttrip to Home Depot and Lowe's as
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you do and on three differentoccasions, completely
independent of one another.
They, I mean, some were not evenin the same store. We had people
that were coming towards us thatwalked up and started laughing
and said, your dog just smiledat me. Can I meet your dog? So
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it's really hilarious. She justis so personable. She definitely
is a healer. She looks like atricolour Corgi wearing a blue
heeler costume. And when ourlittle ears poke out, and she's
so short when she walks in aroom, especially if you know the
light is behind her and you justsee her silhouette, looks like
grow grew from the Mandalorianwalking in the room. She she's
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just so funny. And definitely ahealer she loves to herd and she
herds by nipping. Some peopledon't love that. But it's very
gentle. You just feel her tinylittle her tiny little teeth on
the back of your heel or theback of your calf and she likes
to move you through the room.
She just is so funny. One day, Iwas only moving about 10 steps.
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And when she gets really excitedthat we're going somewhere she
will heard and she started tohurt me. And of course, I only
took about 10 steps. And then Istopped us stopped. She had her
little head turned sideways andher little teeth on the back of
my calf and she just froze. Andshe just froze with little teeth
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on there. And then she threw meside I like that's it. This is
it. We're stopped. She is themaster side I sometimes we
definitely feel like we're beingjudged, but it's always so cute.
She I don't know if this wasfrom her time on the main
streets. But she is a little bitof a resource hoarder. Not so
much with food, but with toys.
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And so we joke because she's sotiny, she can get under things
that the others can't. Forexample, in my office, I've a
futon. And we call that herlair. She loves to get under
that futon and just watcheverything. And if anyone gets
too close or is you know, ifthey're participating in
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shenanigans that she wants toput a stop to, she shoots out of
that thing. It's like a honeybadger. Or she's like a little
Parana. She just launches outfrom underneath it. But I have
learned that every day I have togo look under the futon and
check her lair because she has astash under there. This morning.
I think she's at somewherebetween seven and nine of the
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toys. And then I found an emptycardboard box and a single sock
and a sock ball a pair of socks.
So excuse me, we have to gothrough and see what she's up
to. The flutes love her becauseshe plays hard with them. She's
not scared of them, she's notintimidated. And they all play
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together every morningespecially they just wear each
other out. And they'll tag toeach other. And she just gets
right in the big mix of it.
They're all really sweet witheach other though they don't
they don't play rough for Well,I mean, I guess they play a
little rough, but it's play.
They don't play in a in a waywhere like the flutes don't take
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advantage of the size differencebecause they're a lot bigger
than her. So anyway, she hasjust been nothing but a delight.
So I guess if there is any kindof take home message from my
story, first of all, it was justto kind of let y'all know that
you know, now you'll hear metell stories about Darcy. And
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Darcy is our our newestaddition. But I guess if there
is a take home message to don'twith anything with anything in
life. First of all, don't letfear ever dictate your
decisions. Don't if you'remaking a decision, Oh, I'm
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scared, we won't be able to dothis or I don't, I'm afraid we
won't be able to do that. If youever hear yourself saying that
do not make a decision based onthat, that that is not a
criteria. And so if there's ifany of it is fear, throw that
out. And don't let that be a proor a con on your list. But also,
don't ever wait for things untilyou're ready. If you see an
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opportunity, and especially ifyou feel that tugging in your
heart, saying I think I shoulddo this. And if you think
there's any possibility at anyany point you're gonna look back
and say, remember that littlepup or remember that job
opportunity, or remember thatwhatever. Remember that
adventure that we decided not totake if you think there's ever
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going to be a chance that you'regoing to look back at it and
say, hmm, I can't believe wepassed up on that or I wish we
hadn't passed up on that. Thendon't just don't. I mean, be
reasonable. Don't don't runyourself into debt. Don't do
something that's going toendanger your life. But Don't
wait, just stop waiting. If youhave the opportunity, take it
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because that's where theblessings are. That's where the
blessings are. And they're neverwhere you expect, and you can't
plan blessings, you can't planthem. They wouldn't be blessings
if you planned them. Blessingpart of the beauty. I mean, some
of them might be but part of thebeauty of blessings is the you
don't see him coming. So I'mhere to tell you just take that
chance, whatever it is thatyou're thinking about, do it,
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just do it. So that being said,thank you so much for being
here. i Hey, seriously, pleasego visit us at the website. It's
happy www you know the deal, dothappy tails of happy tails. The
first tails is t a l e s likestories. The second one is T A
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ILS like the kind of the dogswag. So happy tales of happy
tales.com You can find all theepisodes there, you can reach
out to me, that's the best wayto message me. Also, I've added
a Resources tab to that site. Asyou can imagine, we've probably
try more dog gadgets and thingsaround here than the average
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bear. And so we post things onthere. When we find something
that we really like we post iton there so that you can see it,
we post the links, I am anAmazon affiliate, if you don't
know what that means, it justmeans that I have a little
specific link that I can postthat lets Amazon know that I
sent you there. And if youpurchase using that link, they
send me a few bucks doesn'tchange the price that you pay.
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But it does help me kind ofhelps to offset like, you know,
hosting fees for the podcast andthings like that. So you know, I
would be grateful if you did usethat link, but certainly no
pressure. Some examples ofthings that we have on that
resource tab right now, we'vegot a harness that we really
like to use with the dogs, we'vetried several. And some of them
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are much more challenging to geton and off, especially if you
have a wiggling dog. So we foundone that we really love because
it's very easy to get on andoff. We also have some seat
belts, we always use seat beltswith our pups. And so we have
seat belts that we have foundthat we really like we've tried
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several different types. We havea link on there. For those. I
haven't added it yet. But I willThis week I'm going to add we
have a really great little waterbottle for dogs that we take
with us when we walk. And welove it because it includes a
built in little bowl they candrink out of but also a way that
what they don't drink can goback into the bottle so that
it's not wasted. Really lovethat. And another thing that I
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shared after one episode, it's aflashlight looks kind of like
one of those Maglite typelights, not the huge ones though
the smaller size, but also has astun gun a built in stun gun in
the tip you can't really eventell it's there. Obviously lots
of good uses for that. But Iused to carry that when we would
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go on very early morning runswhen it was dark outside. Not
only for safety, but the otherthing that I have found. Dogs do
not love that crackling sound ofthe stun gun. So it would be a
great thing if you're ever outwalking your dog even during the
daylight. But if you're in anykind of area where there's the
possibility that you can runinto loose dogs, they're just
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really sad, awful storiessometimes about people being
attacked by dogs that are out.
I'm just gonna say, I don'tthink those are bad dogs. I
think that they've either theyeither dogs that never had
people to care for them, or theyhad bad humans whole other
story. But if you were ever in adangerous situation, a lot of
times just using that cracklingstun gun feature, not touching a
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dog with it just the sound isenough to deter them, we found
that that often was enough tomake the dogs run away. So those
are some examples of things weshare on the resource site. Also
have some really wonderfulguests on the show that have
done super cool things. Theyoffer really cool services. And
we always reference those thingson the website as well. You can
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All of those things just helpother people find the podcast.
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And finally, I would love tohear your stories. I I run into
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dog people all the time andthey're like I don't have any
story to tell, if you have adog, you have a story. Even if
you don't have a dog, you have astory. It's just not a dog
story. Everybody's got a story.
So I mentioned in the beginning,the whole reason for this
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podcast is just to bring alittle joy and a little break,
just a little break toeveryone's chaos, a little
stress relief, where people canjust hear stories about
something that's just pure andgood and fun, and joyful. And
that's what dogs are. So you mayhave a story about a specific
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event that was funny, or sweetor heartwarming. Or maybe you
just have a dog you adore, andyou want to tell us about that
dog. And we want to hear itbecause what happens too, is a
lot of times, people listen, andthey relate to that they hear
something that they can relateto. And there are all kinds of
experiences that we share. Andwe don't know we share those
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experiences, until we sharethose experiences. And that's
what brings us together. Soplease let me know that you have
a story that you would like toshare. And what I would do is I
send you a link to my calendar,and you just go to that link.
And it lists available timeslots that we can do a zoom
call, I usually turn the cameraon simply because there's always
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almost always at leastshenanigans going on in the
background of my calls, wherethe pups make appearances. And
that's fun. And sometimes guestpups make appearances. So I do
that so that we can post it onthe Oh, it's also podcast is
also on YouTube, by the way, andI post the videos on YouTube. If
you absolutely don't want me touse the video, that's fine. I
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will totally respect whateveryour wishes are. But we still
post the audio. And we just dothat Zoom call and that's where
the podcast comes from. You cando it in your pajamas. If
there's not a time on mycalendar that works for you. You
just let me know I'm completelyflexible and I can find other
times we it is no problem. But Iwould love to share your story
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and you may not think so butother people would like to hear
your story. So please reach outthe website once again is the
best way just go to the contactme part of the website. Send me
a message. Thank you so much forcoming back. I'm excited to be
back. And remember You are asgreat as your dog think she
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thinks Y'all have a great one.
Hey, welcome to Happy Tales of Happy Tales, the
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podcast where you'll hearstories of the way pubs 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. Hi,friends, and welcome back to
Season Two of happy tales ofhappy tales, took a little
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break, had some life changesgoing on around here and summer
break ending and school startingback up things like that. So
took a little bit of time to,you know, do life and regroup
and now I'm excited to be back.
So I've got some stories comingup with some really, really
interesting people, some reallygreat things, a dog behavior
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list, you don't want to missthat. And people just sharing
their lives with their dogs. So,you know, just a reminder, the
whole point of this is just sowe have something that we all
share our love of dogs, to justtake us away for a few minutes
during the time that we'relistening and remind us of the
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happy good, non stressful,funny, endearing things that are
in our lives. So I had recordedI have recorded a lot of these
stories even before the podcastever launched. So sometimes
chronologically, I kind of jumparound. And there's some
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episodes where you'll hear metalk about Lilly and Roscoe. And
then there's other episodeswhere you'll hear me mention
that they have passed andsometimes they're not in order.
So I thought I would just kindof get you up to date today on
on where we stand. But about 11months ago, we actually were a
three blue heeler family. We hada set of twins that were our
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senior girls Lilly and Eleanortheir littermates. And Eleanor
bless her heart. She looks likea black bear cub. And we joke
we've always called her theoffice manager because she's the
one who keeps everything runningaround here. keeps everyone in
order keeps the flutes undercontrol. She's very serious. She
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always looks at you veryseriously. I don't know if you
ever saw the show Phineas andFerb. Sidenote, if you haven't
ever seen Phineas and Ferb, it'son Disney. Plus, do yourself a
favor. I don't care if you havekids or not. It's brilliant.
It's fun. We still to this day.
Love it. So go check out Phineasand Ferb. But there's a
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character on there, Perry thePlatypus. And he has a lazy eye.
And he's always very serious.
And that is her. But it's funnybecause Perry the Platypus has
an alter ego, Agent P. And he'sa secret agent. And he goes on
all these crazy excitingadventure missions. But no one
knows what he's doing. And hejust disappears and they look up
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and a character will say hey,where's Perry? And they never
find out. But then of course, wesee this exciting adventure that
Perry is on. And so we joke thatshe's our agent II because
sometimes Eleanor just retiresto whatever it is she does. And
we're pretty certain that she'soff fighting crime or keeping
the peace or whatever it is shedoes saving the world. So her
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sister was Lilly. And Lilly isthe sweetest sweet girl. super
loyal. Both of them are butLilly was always my shadow. She
was always right there. Throughthe years though she had
developed this really largetumor on her underside kind of
on her belly. And the vets keptan eye on it. But by the time
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she developed it, theydetermined it wasn't anything
life threatening to her and bythe time she developed it, it
was really too risky to put herunder anesthesia to remove it
when it was not going to besomething that threatened her
life. So we made the choice tojust leave it and she did fine
with it. But it got so large shecouldn't really jump up on
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furniture with us anymore orsnuggle us in the bed. So she
was always at our feet. And shealso started losing her vision
over the years. So it wasinteresting because you know
healers are cattle dogs and theyare working dogs they are meant
to be outside. And Lilly wasfunny because she was seriously
agoraphobic. She hated to gooutside. It stressed her out so
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much if we tried to take her outthe front door. It before she
lost her vision. She was thisway even when she was little.
She was comfortable going in ourbackyard, she would use the dog
door she would lay out in theyard. She was fine in the
backyard. But if we took heranywhere else, she got such a
high anxiety. And so I startedwondering as she started really
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losing her vision if maybe therewas always some kind of vision
vision impairment, maybe just inher periphery. I don't know. I'm
not a doctor. But I justwondered if there was always
something that made her feelvulnerable being out in open
spaces that she didn'trecognize. But, man, even after
she completely lost her vision,she she was so so resilient and
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so smart. And she did greataround the house. I mean, she
would still play with theyounger pups, and she made her
way around just fine. She knewwhere everything was, and she
could navigate her way around.
So she did great. Lilly andEleanor, though, at the time,
were 12. And then we had Roscoeand sweet Roscoe. I sometime
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we'll just do a whole I'llprobably dedicate lots of time
to Roscoe, but I'm not gonnalie. I'm still not ready to do
just any Roscoe spin specificstories yet because it's still
hard. So about 11 months ago,Roscoe was a tiny healer. He
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barely he sometimes didn't evenhit 30 pounds. He usually
hovered around 29. But Rosco wasmissing his rear right leg. So
we used to assure him that hewas a big boy, he just if he'd
had that leg, he would havetipped the scales at 30. But he
also had the face of a baby sealand an underbite not kidding.
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cutest thing you've ever seen.
Rosco could do whatever hewanted. So and he was very
athletic and very capable, eventhough he was missing that leg.
So so many stories about Roscoe,I'll have to share but Roscoe
was definitely very, veryspecial. He was always by my
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side, he, he was kind of anequal opportunity lover. Ricky
called him his wing man. And heloved Ricky too. But he and Lily
were probably out of out of ourpack at the time. If two of them
if any of them may be picked meas their person, a little bit
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more than somebody else. It wasthose two. So about 11 months
ago, Roscoe he was he was almosthe was around nine. And about he
was a rescue. So we never knewexactly his age. But about 11
months ago, he suddenly gotvery, very sick. We thought that
it was, at first we thought aUTI, then we thought maybe an
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ear infection. We did not thinkit was something life
threatening, but we knew that hewas sick, you know, he was
having accidents in the houseand, and starting to kind of
have some little doggy vertigo,if you will. So anyway, took him
to the vet multiple times overthe course of a week and a half.
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And it he just rapidly rapidlydeclined. And after a week and a
half, we ended up losing him.
And it was very, very shocking.
We just weren't expecting that,at that point at that season in
life. So let me just say, hugyour pups, hug your family, hug
your friends, because you justdon't know what this what the
story holds. But anyway, so I'malready getting choked up. I
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told you I can't talk about Istill can't talk about Roscoe.
But so we had to say goodbye toRoscoe. And it was we think he
had a brain tumor.
We think that that's probablyultimately what it was. And then
about five months later, overthe course of about a week Lily
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started declining rapidly andLily was 12 she 12 and a half so
she started declining rapidlyand we lost Lilly on Easter
Sunday. So we call her littleEaster Lilly now but it took us
down from a three healerhousehold which is you know if
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you know anything about healers,especially a lot it's a lot to
Eleanor was our remaininghealer. And Eleanor's older
known She's very calm. Shedoesn't have that wild craziness
of of a young healer now shejust has that sage wisdom of a
healer because if you don't knowanything about them, they're
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brilliant, brilliant, brilliantdogs and I almost feel guilty
calling them dogs, but I meanthat in the highest regard. So
after losing Roscoe, I just kindof started watching the rescues,
the blue heeler rescues and kindof looking at pictures thinking
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you know, we do have a spot inour home at some point and I
don't know that I was totallyready. I don't know if you're
ever ready, but I was kind ofjust open to making sure that
there wasn't a pump out therethat really was an urgent need.
So, I should probably go back alittle bit, obviously love
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healers. Part of the reason Ilove heelers is they've got a
lot of sass I mentioned thatthey're smart. They're very
funny. They're very stubborn.
And they're very challengingsometimes, but I love that about
them. There's so much fun. Ialso love corgis. corgis have
always made me laugh. I mean,don't even even need to explain
why I love corgis. If someonedoesn't love corgis, I just
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enjoy your life without a soulbecause they're just the most
delightful. So there is a Iguess you could say kind of a
boutique breed out there calleda cowboy Corgi. A cowboy Corgi
is a mix between a corgi and ablue heeler. Yes, they are every
bit as wonderful and delightfuland hilarious as you're
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imagining, and all the steps, Ihave always thought they were
completely the most adorable.
But like I said, they're kind ofa boutique breed. And our
personal philosophy is that werescue. I have no problem paying
rescue fees, I have no problempaying shelter fees. So it's not
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that I want a free dog. It's notabout the money. But it's that
we want to use the resourcesthat we have to save a life if
we can. And there's so manyamazing pups out there that need
homes. And so we always try tofind dogs that that are in
desperate need of a home. Andso, so I never thought that a
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cowboy Corgi was really apossibility for us just because
I wasn't going to go to abreeder to buy a pup. Well,
about the time that Lilly kindof started to decline. So I
usually never even entertain thethought immediately after losing
a pup of bringing another oneinto our home. But then, about
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the time that Lily was kind ofyou know, we were starting to
see that hey, something's maybegoing on here. One of my very
dear friends Michelle, you'llhear me talk about her a lot.
And I need to get her on herefor multiple episodes because we
joke that between us and ourfriend Tori we have it's our
pack. And we have so manystories about the pups in our
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pack. But Michelle knew that I'dalways loved cowboy corgis. She
tagged me in a post on socialmedia. A local rescue group.
They're looking for an they havean urgent need for a foster for
this little girl that needs tobe pulled out of the shelter
immediately. Oh my goodness, themost adorable thing you have
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ever seen. She's a cowboy Corgi.
She is a she looks like atricolour Corgi if you know
about corgis, there's two types.
There's cardigan Welsh Corgis,and Pembroke Welsh Corgis. I
don't know all the differencesbut one differences one of them
has a tail and one of themdoesn't. She's the one that has
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the tail. I think those arecardigans don't hold me to that
because I'm not an expert. Butanyway, so she she doesn't have
the little stumpy tail and sheshe's a tricolour which means
that she's mostly black withsome brown and white. So she's
not one that looks like thelittle fluffy loaf of bread
running down the road. But shedoes have a black tail with a
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perfectly white tip. She haswhat we call her stole around
her neck that almost looks likeDalmatian print. It's in white
with the black dots. And thenshe her head looks like a blue
healer. She well kind of a redand blue. She's she's got more
red on her face with whitefreckles. But she's got the blue
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up around her Bentley. If youdon't know what a Bentley is, if
you look at Blue healers most ofthem have a little white spot on
the top of their head, sometimeskind of between their eyes or on
their forehead and that's calledtheir Bentley. The name comes
from someone who's attributedwith originally creating the
breed. And so her her Bentleythat on either side of that is
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is darker, more blue, and thenher little legs are white with
red freckles so her legs are notkidding probably four inches
long. And she is definitely alittle low rider as she stands
about 12 inches tall. You may beable to hear her and Barney in
the background right now. So sheis half the size of one floof
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and she takes them both on atthe same time. She is the
scrappiest most fearless littlething you've ever seen. Anyway,
spoiler alert, she's Irish now.
But my friend tags me in thispost that this little girl needs
a home and I immediately starttrying to apply to be Her foster
but I didn't want I'm we don'tfoster just because we foster
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fail. I mean, I already know wewould foster fails. So if we are
able to take in a pup and wehave a spot in our home, we just
we take them we become theirforever home. And shout out to
all the people that foster bythe way because that there's
such a need for that. And theyhave such a special heart. And
I'm telling you, it's selfless.
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I mean, I will say it right now,I don't foster my reasons for
fostering are very selfish,because I don't want to say
goodbye to those pups. And thattakes a very, very special
person that can put all thoselittle pups ahead of them. And
so just shout out to all theFosters. And if you've ever
considered it, please do it.
Please do it. So anyway, I didnot get my application in a time
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and this wonderful preciousfamily got her as a foster. And
but in the comments, the fostermom bless her heart, she saw my
comment that I really wanted toadopt her. And so after they got
her and started taking just suchamazing care of her, she tags me
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in the comment and tells me whenshe will be available for
adoption, if I'm stillinterested. And yes, we were
definitely still interested. Sowe arranged a meet up, and my
husband and daughter and I wentover to their house one night to
meet Darcy. And she is thecutest sweetest thing you've
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ever seen. She's very tiny. Andher front right paw is I hate to
say deformed because that makesit sound like it's a bad thing.
But that bone is rotated. And sothat Paul when she stands still
instead of faces forward facescompletely to a 90 degree angle
to the right. So she has thistwisted paw. It does not stop
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her or slow her down at all. Notfor one second. But it is a
little deformity that she has.
And we think the foster thinksthat she was they found her in
Oklahoma, they think she wasdumped. And they suspect that
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maybe she it was by a breeder,because they couldn't sell her
because of that little paw,which is heartbreaking to me.
But if you see her home, oh mygosh, the paw turned out. It
always looks like she either hasher hand on her little hip, or
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someone pointed out it lookslike she's in perfect third
position for ballet. So her nameis Darcy. And we call her the
Tiny Dancer, which sometimesturns into Tony Danza. If you
don't know that reference,Google "Friends- Tony Danza".
You're welcome. So we got Darcyas soon as she was ready for
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adoption,that the first time anyone meets
her, she just has this gentlespirit and she walks up and she
sits in front of you and she'sso tiny, and her little ears
stick out. And she looks at youand just gives you this tiny
little smile. Not the smile onyour see your teeth but just the
kind of little smile. She justcurls her lips back. And it is
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the most adorable thing thatyou've ever seen. And then she
we probably should teach her notto do this but she just loves
it. She will stand up on herhind legs then and put her front
paws on you. And take her littleright paw and just tap you. And
it kind of looks like the wholeT Rex thing going on because her
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little little legs are so short,but just gently taps you to get
you to look at her and payattention to her. So she can get
a little closer to you. Sheloves kids. She loves other
dogs. She loves people. She'svery much a lady though she has
very sweet little manners. She'svery polite. And so it was
instant love at first sight. Andso we after we met her we were
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able to go pick her up the nextday we went and picked her up
the next day and brought herhome. I am so delighted to say
she loves everyone but shereally did pick me and that was
really heartwarming. I don'tknow why. But that very first
night she crawled up in the bedand she got right up on my
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pillow and she laid her littlehead on my shoulder and slept
the whole night. And now sheloves everyone. She's very
independent. She'll go do herown thing. But but every night
at some point then she curls upand snuggles up with me and I'm
her I guess her home base. Butshe has been such a delight. We
recently took her on her firsttrip to Home Depot and Lowe's as
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you do and on three differentoccasions, completely
independent of one another.
They, I mean, some were not evenin the same store. We had people
that were coming towards us thatwalked up and started laughing
and said, your dog just smiledat me. Can I meet your dog? So
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it's really hilarious. She justis so personable. She definitely
is a healer. She looks like atricolour Corgi wearing a blue
heeler costume. And when ourlittle ears poke out, and she's
so short when she walks in aroom, especially if you know the
light is behind her and you justsee her silhouette, looks like
grow grew from the Mandalorianwalking in the room. She she's
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just so funny. And definitely ahealer she loves to herd and she
herds by nipping. Some peopledon't love that. But it's very
gentle. You just feel her tinylittle her tiny little teeth on
the back of your heel or theback of your calf and she likes
to move you through the room.
She just is so funny. One day, Iwas only moving about 10 steps.
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And when she gets really excitedthat we're going somewhere she
will heard and she started tohurt me. And of course, I only
took about 10 steps. And then Istopped us stopped. She had her
little head turned sideways andher little teeth on the back of
my calf and she just froze. Andshe just froze with little teeth
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on there. And then she threw meside I like that's it. This is
it. We're stopped. She is themaster side I sometimes we
definitely feel like we're beingjudged, but it's always so cute.
She I don't know if this wasfrom her time on the main
streets. But she is a little bitof a resource hoarder. Not so
much with food, but with toys.
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And so we joke because she's sotiny, she can get under things
that the others can't. Forexample, in my office, I've a
futon. And we call that herlair. She loves to get under
that futon and just watcheverything. And if anyone gets
too close or is you know, ifthey're participating in
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shenanigans that she wants toput a stop to, she shoots out of
that thing. It's like a honeybadger. Or she's like a little
Parana. She just launches outfrom underneath it. But I have
learned that every day I have togo look under the futon and
check her lair because she has astash under there. This morning.
I think she's at somewherebetween seven and nine of the
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toys. And then I found an emptycardboard box and a single sock
and a sock ball a pair of socks.
So excuse me, we have to gothrough and see what she's up
to. The flutes love her becauseshe plays hard with them. She's
not scared of them, she's notintimidated. And they all play
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together every morningespecially they just wear each
other out. And they'll tag toeach other. And she just gets
right in the big mix of it.
They're all really sweet witheach other though they don't
they don't play rough for Well,I mean, I guess they play a
little rough, but it's play.
They don't play in a in a waywhere like the flutes don't take
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advantage of the size differencebecause they're a lot bigger
than her. So anyway, she hasjust been nothing but a delight.
So I guess if there is any kindof take home message from my
story, first of all, it was justto kind of let y'all know that
you know, now you'll hear metell stories about Darcy. And
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Darcy is our our newestaddition. But I guess if there
is a take home message to don'twith anything with anything in
life. First of all, don't letfear ever dictate your
decisions. Don't if you'remaking a decision, Oh, I'm
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scared, we won't be able to dothis or I don't, I'm afraid we
won't be able to do that. If youever hear yourself saying that
do not make a decision based onthat, that that is not a
criteria. And so if there's ifany of it is fear, throw that
out. And don't let that be a proor a con on your list. But also,
don't ever wait for things untilyou're ready. If you see an
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opportunity, and especially ifyou feel that tugging in your
heart, saying I think I shoulddo this. And if you think
there's any possibility at anyany point you're gonna look back
and say, remember that littlepup or remember that job
opportunity, or remember thatwhatever. Remember that
adventure that we decided not totake if you think there's ever
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going to be a chance that you'regoing to look back at it and
say, hmm, I can't believe wepassed up on that or I wish we
hadn't passed up on that. Thendon't just don't. I mean, be
reasonable. Don't don't runyourself into debt. Don't do
something that's going toendanger your life. But Don't
wait, just stop waiting. If youhave the opportunity, take it
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because that's where theblessings are. That's where the
blessings are. And they're neverwhere you expect, and you can't
plan blessings, you can't planthem. They wouldn't be blessings
if you planned them. Blessingpart of the beauty. I mean, some
of them might be but part of thebeauty of blessings is the you
don't see him coming. So I'mhere to tell you just take that
chance, whatever it is thatyou're thinking about, do it,
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just do it. So that being said,thank you so much for being
here. i Hey, seriously, pleasego visit us at the website. It's
happy www you know the deal, dothappy tails of happy tails. The
first tails is t a l e s likestories. The second one is T A
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ILS like the kind of the dogswag. So happy tales of happy
tales.com You can find all theepisodes there, you can reach
out to me, that's the best wayto message me. Also, I've added
a Resources tab to that site. Asyou can imagine, we've probably
try more dog gadgets and thingsaround here than the average
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bear. And so we post things onthere. When we find something
that we really like we post iton there so that you can see it,
we post the links, I am anAmazon affiliate, if you don't
know what that means, it justmeans that I have a little
specific link that I can postthat lets Amazon know that I
sent you there. And if youpurchase using that link, they
send me a few bucks doesn'tchange the price that you pay.
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But it does help me kind ofhelps to offset like, you know,
hosting fees for the podcast andthings like that. So you know, I
would be grateful if you did usethat link, but certainly no
pressure. Some examples ofthings that we have on that
resource tab right now, we'vegot a harness that we really
like to use with the dogs, we'vetried several. And some of them
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are much more challenging to geton and off, especially if you
have a wiggling dog. So we foundone that we really love because
it's very easy to get on andoff. We also have some seat
belts, we always use seat beltswith our pups. And so we have
seat belts that we have foundthat we really like we've tried
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several different types. We havea link on there. For those. I
haven't added it yet. But I willThis week I'm going to add we
have a really great little waterbottle for dogs that we take
with us when we walk. And welove it because it includes a
built in little bowl they candrink out of but also a way that
what they don't drink can goback into the bottle so that
it's not wasted. Really lovethat. And another thing that I
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shared after one episode, it's aflashlight looks kind of like
one of those Maglite typelights, not the huge ones though
the smaller size, but also has astun gun a built in stun gun in
the tip you can't really eventell it's there. Obviously lots
of good uses for that. But Iused to carry that when we would
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go on very early morning runswhen it was dark outside. Not
only for safety, but the otherthing that I have found. Dogs do
not love that crackling sound ofthe stun gun. So it would be a
great thing if you're ever outwalking your dog even during the
daylight. But if you're in anykind of area where there's the
possibility that you can runinto loose dogs, they're just
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really sad, awful storiessometimes about people being
attacked by dogs that are out.
I'm just gonna say, I don'tthink those are bad dogs. I
think that they've either theyeither dogs that never had
people to care for them, or theyhad bad humans whole other
story. But if you were ever in adangerous situation, a lot of
times just using that cracklingstun gun feature, not touching a
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dog with it just the sound isenough to deter them, we found
that that often was enough tomake the dogs run away. So those
are some examples of things weshare on the resource site. Also
have some really wonderfulguests on the show that have
done super cool things. Theyoffer really cool services. And
we always reference those thingson the website as well. You can
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All of those things just helpother people find the podcast.
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And finally, I would love tohear your stories. I I run into
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dog people all the time andthey're like I don't have any
story to tell, if you have adog, you have a story. Even if
you don't have a dog, you have astory. It's just not a dog
story. Everybody's got a story.
So I mentioned in the beginning,the whole reason for this
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podcast is just to bring alittle joy and a little break,
just a little break toeveryone's chaos, a little
stress relief, where people canjust hear stories about
something that's just pure andgood and fun, and joyful. And
that's what dogs are. So you mayhave a story about a specific
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event that was funny, or sweetor heartwarming. Or maybe you
just have a dog you adore, andyou want to tell us about that
dog. And we want to hear itbecause what happens too, is a
lot of times, people listen, andthey relate to that they hear
something that they can relateto. And there are all kinds of
experiences that we share. Andwe don't know we share those
(30:59):
experiences, until we sharethose experiences. And that's
what brings us together. Soplease let me know that you have
a story that you would like toshare. And what I would do is I
send you a link to my calendar,and you just go to that link.
And it lists available timeslots that we can do a zoom
call, I usually turn the cameraon simply because there's always
(31:24):
almost always at leastshenanigans going on in the
background of my calls, wherethe pups make appearances. And
that's fun. And sometimes guestpups make appearances. So I do
that so that we can post it onthe Oh, it's also podcast is
also on YouTube, by the way, andI post the videos on YouTube. If
you absolutely don't want me touse the video, that's fine. I
(31:45):
will totally respect whateveryour wishes are. But we still
post the audio. And we just dothat Zoom call and that's where
the podcast comes from. You cando it in your pajamas. If
there's not a time on mycalendar that works for you. You
just let me know I'm completelyflexible and I can find other
times we it is no problem. But Iwould love to share your story
(32:09):
and you may not think so butother people would like to hear
your story. So please reach outthe website once again is the
best way just go to the contactme part of the website. Send me
a message. Thank you so much forcoming back. I'm excited to be
back. And remember You are asgreat as your dog think she
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thinks Y'all have a great one.
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