June 18, 2024 • 32 mins
I'll just say this upfront, this episode ain't for everyone. It's raw, emotional grief.
How do you cope with the loss of a pet who was more than just a companion, but a beloved family member? Join me on an emotional voyage as I remember Pinto, my cherished dog, and explore the deep bond we shared and the unwavering joy he brought into our lives.
Pinto's presence was a constant source of love and happiness. I recount the heartbreaking events of June 14th, the day we lost Pinto, and how this tragic moment collided with a significant date for our Snowdrop Foundation. Through these personal stories, I celebrate Pinto's enduring legacy and the profound impact pets have on our lives.
You also get a couple of episodes of Pinto's alter ego, The Mayor of Sconeyville.
I share poignant reflections on the loss of our beloved pets, including fond memories of Pomeranians Yip, Yap, and Pinto, each with their unique personalities.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Fuzzy, fuzzy Mike.
Yeah, fuzzy, you can take itwith them on a bus or train, on
a highway or on a planebackstage, or on a bike.
It's Kevin Kline's Fuzzy Mike.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Hello, welcome to another episode of the Fuzzy
Mike.
This is going to be a hard onefor me.
Um, normally I write bulletpoints or or actually script out
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segments.
Uh, especially when I have aguest, I always have bullet
points that I want to cover.
Um, I don't have a guest thisweek and I haven't written
anything out either.
This is all from the heart, so Idon't know what I'm going to
say.
I don't know what I'm going tosay.
I'll talk about my dad everyonce in a while and the genes
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that he passed on to me.
The one gene that he did passon to me that I am so thankful
for and so grateful for is thelove of animals.
My dad, he loved his dogs.
I think he loved his dogs morethan he loved his kids.
I love my dogs.
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Last week we had to put one downand it was so unexpected, oh
God.
We went to bed June 13th andPinto was perfectly fine.
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I mean, he was dealing withseizures and he was in the final
stages of congestive heartfailure.
But there were three things helooked forward to every day
Breakfast, lunch and dinner.
And they were all set times6.30 am, 1 pm and 7 pm, and that
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was to coincide with themedicines that we were giving
him.
Well, at first light in themorning, which ended up being
like 545, I could always feel apaw on my face.
That was the alarm clock.
That was Pinto telling us hey,it's time to get up and eat
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breakfast.
So we'd get up and feed himbreakfast at about 6.15 or so,
he and Beans, his brother, andthen they'd go out and do their
business and then he'd come backand lay down.
Then, depending on what time wegot up, he got up with us and
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then he would go greet Grandmaand then Grandma would put him
up on her lap and she would talkto him and they would have
their little conversation.
We used to call it his spot.
His spot was on Grandma's lapand then when he was done and it
was getting close to lunchtimehe would get down and we always
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called it Pinto's's hawkingbecause he would hawk us for
about an hour.
You know, at noon he would Idon't know where the clock came
from, but his internal clock atnoon started staring at us.
He would stare at us and justlike, dude, where's my food?
I mean, he lived for threemeals a day and in between those
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three meals he lived forsleeping and being held and
getting loved on, which wasquite often Matter of fact, it
was always and then about fiveo'clock in the afternoon, when
we were sitting down eating, hewould start staring again and
we'd have to remind him brother,you're an hour and a half early
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, at best really two hours early, but I would always cave.
6.15 would roll around and I,like I always just told Trish
I'd be like you know, it's morepeaceful for us to feed him
rather than to tell him no, it'snot food time yet.
And then he would shift hisstare over to me and I'd be like
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buddy, it's not time.
Then he would shift his stareover to grandma.
She'd be like I'd listen to momand dad.
So we just figured, you know,6.15 was as late as he was going
to let us not feed him and I'llmiss that about him.
Then, after he would eat hisdinner, he would come in and he
would watch TV and sit rightnext to me.
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June 13th, everything was fine.
He ate his last meal, came andlaid by me.
Then it was time to go potty,get his pills, and night-night
we called it potty pills andnight-night and he could have
been dead asleep and all we hadto do was say if he was ready
for potty pills, and night-nightears would perk up.
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He'd stare at you and he wasready for potty pills and
night-night.
If it was 10.30 and we weren'tin bed, he was staring at us
like why, why are you keeping meawake?
I should be in bed by now.
But when he got up for pottypills and night-night on the
13th he was a little wobbly.
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He was a little wobbly and wejust thought, you know, he was
waking up from a deep slumber,didn't think anything of it.
So he walked outside, did hisbusiness, came in, we all went
to bed and then we woke up onthe 14th.
The 14th was supposed to be aspecial day for us because
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that's the birthday of SnowdropFoundation.
It was our 18th year ofSnowdrop Foundation, the
nonprofit that we created forChelsea Campbell for helping
kids with cancer, scholarshipsfor college-bound pediatric
cancer patients and survivorsand research money for
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undifferentiated sarcoma andother sarcomas.
The research is being done byDr Nino Renuso at Texas
Children's Cancer Center.
June 14th has always been aspecial day for us because of
that.
But we got up on our own.
We didn't get a paw in the face, we didn't get walking around
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on the bed and kind of figuredsomething might be up.
So we picked up Pinto and BeansBeans led us to the kitchen and
Pinto and Beans Beans led us tothe kitchen and Pinto just
stood there.
He couldn't walk and he justkind of collapsed his legs and
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we picked him up, put himoutside to go potty.
His tail was on the ground andhis back legs were bent and he
couldn't move.
And, uh, we didn't expect him,we didn't know what to do.
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So we took him to the animalhospital and told them what was
going on, and he didn't looklike he was in any pain.
He didn't look like he wasthere.
His face was kind of off, kindof distant, certainly not as
alive as he normally was.
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But they said that they hadthree criticals that they were
taking care of right now andthey wouldn't be able to get to
him before our regular vetopened.
And so they suggested that theyjust take his temperature,
check his glucose level.
And they did.
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Temperature came back and hewas below normal.
So that signified to them thatsomething was wrong.
His glucose level was fine.
So they wrapped him in ablanket, gave us the blanket,
told us there was no charge,which stunned us, but it was
very, very kind of them and theysaid just wait for your regular
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vet to open and take him thereWhile we were in the parking lot
before the vet opened at eighto'clock and they opened him, we
went in and they said well,we've got a full slate today.
Let's see if we can work him insometime.
But take him home and get himcomfortable and we'll call you
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if something could be done, ifwe can get him in.
And so we did.
And we got a phone call at 1015.
They made some room for us andby then I was laying down in the
bed with him and, uh, he peedon me and he didn't even realize
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it.
He peed on me and he didn't evenrealize it, and I didn't really
realize it either, until wewoke up from our little snuggle
nap.
And we took him into the vet andI knew I knew, because he
wasn't himself he didn't want toeat and he lived to eat and he
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couldn't stand and he couldn'twalk.
And so the vet came in andlooked at him and did all these
tests on him.
And here's the sad part aboutit is that he passed every
single test.
His tongue was pink, his gumslooked good.
Every single test, his tonguewas pink, his gums look good.
Uh, his strength in his legswere.
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He said he's strong.
And we said well, what's goingon?
And he said, if I had topinpoint it without a
neurological test, he had astroke and what is damaged is
his brain.
His brain is not communicatingwith his body.
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His brain isn't communicatingwith his back legs to be able to
support him, to be able toallow him mobility.
His brain's not reallycommunicating with his bladder
to let him know that he's got togo potty or got to go outside.
His brain's not communicatingwith his throat, because he was
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having trouble swallowingbecause we gave him some water
from a syringe and he hadtrouble swallowing because we
gave him some water from asyringe and he had trouble
swallowing that.
And the doctor said I could runa whole bunch of tests on him.
He says all these tests aregoing to come back negative.
He said so it's definitely hisbrain and all of this is
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irreversible.
He not in any acute pain, buthe is possibly in some dull pain
.
Um, but he's not the same dog.
And I said I, I know he's notthe same dog from two nights ago
.
It's radically different.
And so the vet said you, you'vebasically got a decision to
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make.
Do you want to take him homeand make that decision to bring
it back, or maybe not bring himback and just leave him at home,
or do you want to make thatdecision now, driving?
Speaker 1 (11:58):
over.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
I had already made that decision and the doctor
said you're not making the wrongdecision.
His quality of life wasn'tthere anymore, just like that.
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He was totally fine 12 hoursbefore.
All I could think about waswatching him, not being able to
move, not being there.
He wasn't present and I knowit's the right thing to do and I
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looked it up.
I said you know, online, Ilooked up euthanizing dogs when
you know it's time andeverything pointed to we made
the right decision.
When his quality of life iscompromised, when mobility is
compromised, when there's noappetite, when he's not himself.
So he was 13.
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We know he was at least 13.
He might have been older thanthat.
He was a rescue and we hadseven great years with him.
I mean, all dogs have apersonality.
This was just larger than life.
He loved three things, in thisorder grandpa oh my god.
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When grandpa would come over,nothing else existed, it was
grandpa and he would followGrandpa around.
If Grandpa went to the bathroom, he would use his head as a
battering ram to try and openthe bathroom door.
I mean Grandpa took precedenceover everything.
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Next was food he lived for histhree meals.
And then the third thing was Idon't know if it would be a toss
up between sleep or mom Trishoh, when she wasn't in the room
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he would look for her like hewould look for grandpa.
I was always an afterthoughtuntil grandpa or Trish were gone
and then I was a substitute,but every night he would lay
next to me and we'd watch TVtogether.
He'd let me hold him.
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I mean, he was such a chill dogand if anybody that ever saw one
of his videos that we made,there was a progression of names
that he had.
His first name before weadopted him was Arctic White Fox
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.
I don't know, he was white, soI guess the Arctic White, and he
kind of looked like a fox.
So, yeah, I get it, but therewas no way we were going to call
a dog Arctic White Fox.
So we started Trish and Istarted kicking names around and
she wanted to keep it legumethematic because we already had
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beans and so we were justthinking of different beans that
we could call him, you know,like Navy or Garbanzo or geez,
you name it.
And we just looked at him andPinto came out and it was like
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it was perfect.
He looked like a little Pinto,and so Pinto became his new name
, from Pinto, you know, I, I, Ialways make up different names,
so let's try and follow theprogression here.
Pinto became Pintobious, becamePintobious, became Tobes.
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Don't ask me where it comesfrom, it just comes.
So I would always call himTobes, tobes.
What are Tobes?
Tobes, what are you doing,tobes?
Okay, so then Tobes becameTobus, became Tobusconus, became
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Tobiscus J Again, no idea, butTobusconus became Tobiscone,
tobiscone.
We're watching one of thedebates between then President
Trump and candidate Joe Biden.
I asked Trish, I'm like do youthink in the canine world they
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have politicians like apolitical hierarchy Made no
sense at the time.
A lot of the shit that I dodoesn't make sense.
And she said where do you comeup with this crap?
And I'm like, like, for example, like would he be the mayor of
Sconeville?
Thus, a character was born andpinto, tobes, tobias, tobis,
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tobiscus j, tobasconus,tobiscone became the mayor of
sconyville took that characterand ran with it Literally Made a
whole YouTube channel out ofhim.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
This is Channels Television's breaking news.
Is there a new green initiativein Sconeville?
During his lunch break today,the mayor of Sconeville was
excited to get some fresh airand check out the newly
landscaped grounds of City Hall.
Here you can see the mayorsurveying the new mulch and lush
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greenery.
However, things took anunexpected and unprecedented
turn.
While inspecting the preciseedging of the thick green verger
, noticing a spot that lookedundernourished, the typically
demanding mayor decided to waterit himself instead of ordering
the grounds crew to redo it.
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Is the mayor turning over a newleaf?
When news of the mayor ofSconeville happens, we'll bring
it to you first at Breaking News.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
We now take you back to your original program and
people started to watch theYouTube channel and subscribe to
the YouTube channel and commenton it and it made a difference
in people's lives and it was funto do.
I've got some videos that I'llshare with you now about, you
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know, the mayor of Sconeville.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
This is Channels Television's breaking news.
First the mayor, now all ofSconeville.
After his mea culpa to theAsian community, the mayor of
Sconeville basked once again inthe glow of universal adulation.
However, the glory wasshort-lived, as the mayor of
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Sconeville was forced toconfront another emergency issue
affecting Sconeville and itscitizens.
A member of the mayor's cabinetinformed him that a cyber
attack had been launched againstthe Snossages plant, halting
production until a ransom waspaid.
The ransom amount 101Dalmatians.
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An immediate investigation waslaunched by the mayor's head of
cybersecurity, mcgruff, theCrime Dog.
Sources tell us that the probeis still underway and, even
though it's very early into thesearch for answers, preliminary
data analysis indicates that theattack originated from the paws
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of a ransomware syndicate ofSiberian huskies.
The mayor never the diplomatadvised sconyvillians to wait
for the completed investigationinstead of rushing to judgment.
When news of the mayor ofsconyville happens, we'll bring
it to you first on Breaking News.
Now back to your originalprogram.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
I miss him.
I already miss him.
I already missed him when hetook his last breath and we were
there and I knew it was goingto be hard.
I didn't know it was going tobe this hard because we'd
already dealt with Yip and Yav,our two previous Pomeranians.
Yip died of renal failure atage nine and Yav died of cancer
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at age 16.
Nine and Yap died of cancer atage 16.
But the difference with themwas we had time to prepare.
Now we knew the end was gettingnear.
We knew the end was comingPinto.
We didn't know it.
It was just a shock.
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And he didn't show outward painlike Yip and Yap did.
And I still don't know how todeal with it.
I just don't.
He would cuddle with me.
He loved to be on his back.
I'd pet him his.
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When you would come home, hewould be in the front room and
he'd sip around the corner andsometimes his back legs would go
out and he would slide and he'dget up like, yeah, I meant to
do that.
His personality was just.
Like, as I said, all dogs havepersonality.
Yip's personality was just.
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He was a little blackPomeranian.
He lived to be nine years old,renal failure, so we had to put
him down, but his personalitywas just, chill, just, he loved
to lay on the top, uh, back, ofthe couch.
The only time he would ever getupset was when I got up for
work.
All hell broke loose.
He would bark at me, he wouldgo or move himself along the
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edge of the bed and scratch thescratch, the footboard of the
bed, uh.
But then when I left the roomback to sleep, he, uh, he loved
other dogs yap, on the otherhand, who lived to be 16.
Uh, his personality was that ofa jerk.
Yep, he was my boy, though.
I loved him.
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Uh, what made him a jerk?
Uh, from the time he was awakeuntil the time he went to bed,
he constantly barked.
Uh, he did not like many, ifany, people holding him except
Trish and me, and we had to holdhim a very special way.
There was one person that hewould let hold him and that was
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our friend, kevin Godfrey, andit was amazing.
You would just go right over toKevin and Kevin would pick him
up and he would be fine.
When you tried to leave thehouse, he would be fine.
Um, when you tried to leave thehouse, uh, he would nip at your
heels.
Uh, I don't know if that was hedidn't want you to go or just I
don't know.
I never knew why he did that.
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Uh, but yeah, uh, if, uh, ifyou, if he was outside for a
long time, that was anotherno-no.
And it was kind of like thatwith Pinto, and we have a couple
of photos.
I'll put them up right here ifyou're watching on YouTube.
I think these are the onlyphotos in existence of Pinto
outside.
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I mean, when you hear the terminside dog, that was Pinto, but
his personality was absolutelylarger than life.
You could do anything to him.
You could make him dance, youcould make him work out and he
would just lay there.
He loved it, he loved attention, he loved being loved on and I
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miss that about him.
I miss his little bark, whichhe rarely did.
I miss his little growl.
You know, if he was on thecouch and beans wanted to come
up, there would be a little backand forth growl and it was
always kind of funny, but Idon't know what else to say.
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I mean it was such a surprise.
I mean, at least we have Beansand Beans is not as affectionate
.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Beans is not as smart .
Speaker 2 (25:54):
He's got his own personality.
He is paranoid, he's afraid ofeverything, shadows included,
and he just likes to be in hisown bed and he just likes to be
in his own bed.
So it's going to take some timegetting used to not having
Pinto's vibrant personalityaround.
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Good thing about Beans is hedoes like to cuddle with me.
So we cuddled last night and atleast my arms are wrapped
around another buddy.
So it'll be tough when we haveto let him go.
Man, this one stings.
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This one hurts really, reallybad.
He was a TV star.
Our friend Melanie, who used towork at KY3 here in Springfield
, did a whole feature on himabout second chance dogs,
because he was a rescue.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
And today I would like to begin highlighting
rescue pets and letting everyoneknow what great companions they
are.
Joining me now is Kevin Klineand his dog Pinto.
Hi guys.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Hi, there Say hi.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
Oh, so cute, so cute.
So talk about Pinto.
What kind of breed is he andwhere'd you get him from?
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Pinto's a Pomeranian and we adopted him from a
Houston rescue organizationcalled Recycled Palms.
And Norma from Recycled Palmsin Houston, she knows that Pinto
lived a really, really goodlife, but that he's over the
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rainbow bridge now and all I cansee with Pinto is because it
happened so quick it's him onthe other side of the rainbow
just looking over at me, justlooking up at me with those eyes
and saying Dad, I'm right here,pick me up.
I wish I could, I wish I could.
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I hope I'm wrong on that.
I hope that he's playing withdip and yap.
I hope that he's found a newcity hall and he's lording over
a new domain.
I'm hoping that my dad might beloving on him.
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I hope that Chelsea was thereto meet him and greet him and
love on him too.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
I don't know what the afterlife is.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
I really don't.
I don't know if any of us do,but I hope it's a happy place
for him, man.
He gave us so much happiness.
You know, I saw somethingonline not long ago.
It was on Facebook.
It was a picture of somebodyhugging a dog and said as much
as I love you.
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Now, in 10 years, I know you'regoing to break my heart.
Mine is shattered, it is justshattered, and our friends have
been so kind, reaching out andtelling us that you know if we
need anything, if we want to getaway, we can visit them.
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We had our friend autumnyesterday.
Bring us some homemade bananabread and some flowers, because
she she knew pinto and she knowshow much we're hurting it's.
We've got a lot of support.
Don't have my dog, though.
Don't have my dog, so hopefullyyou've listened to this and
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enjoyed the pictures that I'veposted.
I'm sorry, I'm so sorry thatthis is the episode you're
getting.
Normally, I try and help younavigate through something that
you're going through Either myown thoughts or an expert, but
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I'm laying this on you and it'snot fair and I'm so sorry.
So we've already recorded theTuttle Cline episode this week
and I promise you it's much moreuplifting than this is.
I was actually able to hold ittogether and Tim brought it up a
little bit and I just didn'twant to go there because the
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tunnel incline podcast is abouthumor and it's about fun and
about laughter and I knew thatif we talked about Pinto that it
wouldn't be toe, that itwouldn't be so, uh, I waited for
this and you know, if you don'twatch this, turn it on and you
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realize that, oh shit, this isgoing to suck yeah, it does and
you don't watch it.
I'm totally fine with that.
I am totally fine with thatbecause this is just really me
just trying to get it off mychest and trying to cope with it
, trying to figure some way outto get rid of this grief.
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You know, I had so much I sleptfrom 5 30 in the afternoon on
Saturday until noon on Sundayand I got up and I went for a 10
and a half mile run, thinkingthat that might get some of this
out of me.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
And it hasn't man.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
It hasn't Probably going to be a while, so I'll
just keep looking at thesepictures.
I'll keep watching his videos,remember how much fun he was,
his little personality that waslarger than life, and the impact
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that he had on people who methim.
Everybody loved him.
Everybody loved him.
So did I.
So, again, I apologize thatthis is what this episode is.
I thought about not even doingone, but, selfishly, I had to do
this so that I could talk aboutmy boy.
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Thanks for listening, forwatching If you ever met him,
thanks for loving Pinto.
Fuzzy, fuzzy Mike.
Yeah, fuzzy, you can take itwith them on a bus or train, on
a highway or on a planebackstage, or on a bike.
It's Kevin Kline's Fuzzy Mike.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Hello, welcome to another episode of the Fuzzy
Mike.
This is going to be a hard onefor me.
Um, normally I write bulletpoints or or actually script out
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segments.
Uh, especially when I have aguest, I always have bullet
points that I want to cover.
Um, I don't have a guest thisweek and I haven't written
anything out either.
This is all from the heart, so Idon't know what I'm going to
say.
I don't know what I'm going tosay.
I'll talk about my dad everyonce in a while and the genes
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that he passed on to me.
The one gene that he did passon to me that I am so thankful
for and so grateful for is thelove of animals.
My dad, he loved his dogs.
I think he loved his dogs morethan he loved his kids.
I love my dogs.
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Last week we had to put one downand it was so unexpected, oh
God.
We went to bed June 13th andPinto was perfectly fine.
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I mean, he was dealing withseizures and he was in the final
stages of congestive heartfailure.
But there were three things helooked forward to every day
Breakfast, lunch and dinner.
And they were all set times6.30 am, 1 pm and 7 pm, and that
(02:20):
was to coincide with themedicines that we were giving
him.
Well, at first light in themorning, which ended up being
like 545, I could always feel apaw on my face.
That was the alarm clock.
That was Pinto telling us hey,it's time to get up and eat
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breakfast.
So we'd get up and feed himbreakfast at about 6.15 or so,
he and Beans, his brother, andthen they'd go out and do their
business and then he'd come backand lay down.
Then, depending on what time wegot up, he got up with us and
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then he would go greet Grandmaand then Grandma would put him
up on her lap and she would talkto him and they would have
their little conversation.
We used to call it his spot.
His spot was on Grandma's lapand then when he was done and it
was getting close to lunchtimehe would get down and we always
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called it Pinto's's hawkingbecause he would hawk us for
about an hour.
You know, at noon he would Idon't know where the clock came
from, but his internal clock atnoon started staring at us.
He would stare at us and justlike, dude, where's my food?
I mean, he lived for threemeals a day and in between those
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three meals he lived forsleeping and being held and
getting loved on, which wasquite often Matter of fact, it
was always and then about fiveo'clock in the afternoon, when
we were sitting down eating, hewould start staring again and
we'd have to remind him brother,you're an hour and a half early
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, at best really two hours early, but I would always cave.
6.15 would roll around and I,like I always just told Trish
I'd be like you know, it's morepeaceful for us to feed him
rather than to tell him no, it'snot food time yet.
And then he would shift hisstare over to me and I'd be like
(04:32):
buddy, it's not time.
Then he would shift his stareover to grandma.
She'd be like I'd listen to momand dad.
So we just figured, you know,6.15 was as late as he was going
to let us not feed him and I'llmiss that about him.
Then, after he would eat hisdinner, he would come in and he
would watch TV and sit rightnext to me.
(04:59):
June 13th, everything was fine.
He ate his last meal, came andlaid by me.
Then it was time to go potty,get his pills, and night-night
we called it potty pills andnight-night and he could have
been dead asleep and all we hadto do was say if he was ready
for potty pills, and night-nightears would perk up.
(05:20):
He'd stare at you and he wasready for potty pills and
night-night.
If it was 10.30 and we weren'tin bed, he was staring at us
like why, why are you keeping meawake?
I should be in bed by now.
But when he got up for pottypills and night-night on the
13th he was a little wobbly.
(05:42):
He was a little wobbly and wejust thought, you know, he was
waking up from a deep slumber,didn't think anything of it.
So he walked outside, did hisbusiness, came in, we all went
to bed and then we woke up onthe 14th.
The 14th was supposed to be aspecial day for us because
(06:05):
that's the birthday of SnowdropFoundation.
It was our 18th year ofSnowdrop Foundation, the
nonprofit that we created forChelsea Campbell for helping
kids with cancer, scholarshipsfor college-bound pediatric
cancer patients and survivorsand research money for
(06:28):
undifferentiated sarcoma andother sarcomas.
The research is being done byDr Nino Renuso at Texas
Children's Cancer Center.
June 14th has always been aspecial day for us because of
that.
But we got up on our own.
We didn't get a paw in the face, we didn't get walking around
(06:53):
on the bed and kind of figuredsomething might be up.
So we picked up Pinto and BeansBeans led us to the kitchen and
Pinto and Beans Beans led us tothe kitchen and Pinto just
stood there.
He couldn't walk and he justkind of collapsed his legs and
(07:18):
we picked him up, put himoutside to go potty.
His tail was on the ground andhis back legs were bent and he
couldn't move.
And, uh, we didn't expect him,we didn't know what to do.
(07:40):
So we took him to the animalhospital and told them what was
going on, and he didn't looklike he was in any pain.
He didn't look like he wasthere.
His face was kind of off, kindof distant, certainly not as
alive as he normally was.
(08:00):
But they said that they hadthree criticals that they were
taking care of right now andthey wouldn't be able to get to
him before our regular vetopened.
And so they suggested that theyjust take his temperature,
check his glucose level.
And they did.
(08:21):
Temperature came back and hewas below normal.
So that signified to them thatsomething was wrong.
His glucose level was fine.
So they wrapped him in ablanket, gave us the blanket,
told us there was no charge,which stunned us, but it was
very, very kind of them and theysaid just wait for your regular
(08:43):
vet to open and take him thereWhile we were in the parking lot
before the vet opened at eighto'clock and they opened him, we
went in and they said well,we've got a full slate today.
Let's see if we can work him insometime.
But take him home and get himcomfortable and we'll call you
(09:03):
if something could be done, ifwe can get him in.
And so we did.
And we got a phone call at 1015.
They made some room for us andby then I was laying down in the
bed with him and, uh, he peedon me and he didn't even realize
(09:24):
it.
He peed on me and he didn't evenrealize it, and I didn't really
realize it either, until wewoke up from our little snuggle
nap.
And we took him into the vet andI knew I knew, because he
wasn't himself he didn't want toeat and he lived to eat and he
(09:53):
couldn't stand and he couldn'twalk.
And so the vet came in andlooked at him and did all these
tests on him.
And here's the sad part aboutit is that he passed every
single test.
His tongue was pink, his gumslooked good.
Every single test, his tonguewas pink, his gums look good.
Uh, his strength in his legswere.
(10:14):
He said he's strong.
And we said well, what's goingon?
And he said, if I had topinpoint it without a
neurological test, he had astroke and what is damaged is
his brain.
His brain is not communicatingwith his body.
(10:34):
His brain isn't communicatingwith his back legs to be able to
support him, to be able toallow him mobility.
His brain's not reallycommunicating with his bladder
to let him know that he's got togo potty or got to go outside.
His brain's not communicatingwith his throat, because he was
(10:59):
having trouble swallowingbecause we gave him some water
from a syringe and he hadtrouble swallowing because we
gave him some water from asyringe and he had trouble
swallowing that.
And the doctor said I could runa whole bunch of tests on him.
He says all these tests aregoing to come back negative.
He said so it's definitely hisbrain and all of this is
(11:21):
irreversible.
He not in any acute pain, buthe is possibly in some dull pain
.
Um, but he's not the same dog.
And I said I, I know he's notthe same dog from two nights ago
.
It's radically different.
And so the vet said you, you'vebasically got a decision to
(11:45):
make.
Do you want to take him homeand make that decision to bring
it back, or maybe not bring himback and just leave him at home,
or do you want to make thatdecision now, driving?
Speaker 1 (11:58):
over.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
I had already made that decision and the doctor
said you're not making the wrongdecision.
His quality of life wasn'tthere anymore, just like that.
(12:25):
He was totally fine 12 hoursbefore.
All I could think about waswatching him, not being able to
move, not being there.
He wasn't present and I knowit's the right thing to do and I
(12:51):
looked it up.
I said you know, online, Ilooked up euthanizing dogs when
you know it's time andeverything pointed to we made
the right decision.
When his quality of life iscompromised, when mobility is
compromised, when there's noappetite, when he's not himself.
So he was 13.
(13:17):
We know he was at least 13.
He might have been older thanthat.
He was a rescue and we hadseven great years with him.
I mean, all dogs have apersonality.
This was just larger than life.
He loved three things, in thisorder grandpa oh my god.
(14:20):
When grandpa would come over,nothing else existed, it was
grandpa and he would followGrandpa around.
If Grandpa went to the bathroom, he would use his head as a
battering ram to try and openthe bathroom door.
I mean Grandpa took precedenceover everything.
(14:43):
Next was food he lived for histhree meals.
And then the third thing was Idon't know if it would be a toss
up between sleep or mom Trishoh, when she wasn't in the room
(15:07):
he would look for her like hewould look for grandpa.
I was always an afterthoughtuntil grandpa or Trish were gone
and then I was a substitute,but every night he would lay
next to me and we'd watch TVtogether.
He'd let me hold him.
(15:29):
I mean, he was such a chill dogand if anybody that ever saw one
of his videos that we made,there was a progression of names
that he had.
His first name before weadopted him was Arctic White Fox
(15:50):
.
I don't know, he was white, soI guess the Arctic White, and he
kind of looked like a fox.
So, yeah, I get it, but therewas no way we were going to call
a dog Arctic White Fox.
So we started Trish and Istarted kicking names around and
she wanted to keep it legumethematic because we already had
(16:13):
beans and so we were justthinking of different beans that
we could call him, you know,like Navy or Garbanzo or geez,
you name it.
And we just looked at him andPinto came out and it was like
(16:35):
it was perfect.
He looked like a little Pinto,and so Pinto became his new name
, from Pinto, you know, I, I, Ialways make up different names,
so let's try and follow theprogression here.
Pinto became Pintobious, becamePintobious, became Tobes.
(17:01):
Don't ask me where it comesfrom, it just comes.
So I would always call himTobes, tobes.
What are Tobes?
Tobes, what are you doing,tobes?
Okay, so then Tobes becameTobus, became Tobusconus, became
(17:23):
Tobiscus J Again, no idea, butTobusconus became Tobiscone,
tobiscone.
We're watching one of thedebates between then President
Trump and candidate Joe Biden.
I asked Trish, I'm like do youthink in the canine world they
(17:50):
have politicians like apolitical hierarchy Made no
sense at the time.
A lot of the shit that I dodoesn't make sense.
And she said where do you comeup with this crap?
And I'm like, like, for example, like would he be the mayor of
Sconeville?
Thus, a character was born andpinto, tobes, tobias, tobis,
(18:15):
tobiscus j, tobasconus,tobiscone became the mayor of
sconyville took that characterand ran with it Literally Made a
whole YouTube channel out ofhim.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
This is Channels Television's breaking news.
Is there a new green initiativein Sconeville?
During his lunch break today,the mayor of Sconeville was
excited to get some fresh airand check out the newly
landscaped grounds of City Hall.
Here you can see the mayorsurveying the new mulch and lush
(18:56):
greenery.
However, things took anunexpected and unprecedented
turn.
While inspecting the preciseedging of the thick green verger
, noticing a spot that lookedundernourished, the typically
demanding mayor decided to waterit himself instead of ordering
the grounds crew to redo it.
(19:17):
Is the mayor turning over a newleaf?
When news of the mayor ofSconeville happens, we'll bring
it to you first at Breaking News.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
We now take you back to your original program and
people started to watch theYouTube channel and subscribe to
the YouTube channel and commenton it and it made a difference
in people's lives and it was funto do.
I've got some videos that I'llshare with you now about, you
(19:49):
know, the mayor of Sconeville.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
This is Channels Television's breaking news.
First the mayor, now all ofSconeville.
After his mea culpa to theAsian community, the mayor of
Sconeville basked once again inthe glow of universal adulation.
However, the glory wasshort-lived, as the mayor of
(20:14):
Sconeville was forced toconfront another emergency issue
affecting Sconeville and itscitizens.
A member of the mayor's cabinetinformed him that a cyber
attack had been launched againstthe Snossages plant, halting
production until a ransom waspaid.
The ransom amount 101Dalmatians.
(20:37):
An immediate investigation waslaunched by the mayor's head of
cybersecurity, mcgruff, theCrime Dog.
Sources tell us that the probeis still underway and, even
though it's very early into thesearch for answers, preliminary
data analysis indicates that theattack originated from the paws
(20:57):
of a ransomware syndicate ofSiberian huskies.
The mayor never the diplomatadvised sconyvillians to wait
for the completed investigationinstead of rushing to judgment.
When news of the mayor ofsconyville happens, we'll bring
it to you first on Breaking News.
Now back to your originalprogram.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
I miss him.
I already miss him.
I already missed him when hetook his last breath and we were
there and I knew it was goingto be hard.
I didn't know it was going tobe this hard because we'd
already dealt with Yip and Yav,our two previous Pomeranians.
Yip died of renal failure atage nine and Yav died of cancer
(21:47):
at age 16.
Nine and Yap died of cancer atage 16.
But the difference with themwas we had time to prepare.
Now we knew the end was gettingnear.
We knew the end was comingPinto.
We didn't know it.
It was just a shock.
(22:09):
And he didn't show outward painlike Yip and Yap did.
And I still don't know how todeal with it.
I just don't.
He would cuddle with me.
He loved to be on his back.
I'd pet him his.
(22:34):
When you would come home, hewould be in the front room and
he'd sip around the corner andsometimes his back legs would go
out and he would slide and he'dget up like, yeah, I meant to
do that.
His personality was just.
Like, as I said, all dogs havepersonality.
Yip's personality was just.
(22:55):
He was a little blackPomeranian.
He lived to be nine years old,renal failure, so we had to put
him down, but his personalitywas just, chill, just, he loved
to lay on the top, uh, back, ofthe couch.
The only time he would ever getupset was when I got up for
work.
All hell broke loose.
He would bark at me, he wouldgo or move himself along the
(23:18):
edge of the bed and scratch thescratch, the footboard of the
bed, uh.
But then when I left the roomback to sleep, he, uh, he loved
other dogs yap, on the otherhand, who lived to be 16.
Uh, his personality was that ofa jerk.
Yep, he was my boy, though.
I loved him.
(23:39):
Uh, what made him a jerk?
Uh, from the time he was awakeuntil the time he went to bed,
he constantly barked.
Uh, he did not like many, ifany, people holding him except
Trish and me, and we had to holdhim a very special way.
There was one person that hewould let hold him and that was
(23:59):
our friend, kevin Godfrey, andit was amazing.
You would just go right over toKevin and Kevin would pick him
up and he would be fine.
When you tried to leave thehouse, he would be fine.
Um, when you tried to leave thehouse, uh, he would nip at your
heels.
Uh, I don't know if that was hedidn't want you to go or just I
don't know.
I never knew why he did that.
(24:20):
Uh, but yeah, uh, if, uh, ifyou, if he was outside for a
long time, that was anotherno-no.
And it was kind of like thatwith Pinto, and we have a couple
of photos.
I'll put them up right here ifyou're watching on YouTube.
I think these are the onlyphotos in existence of Pinto
outside.
(24:45):
I mean, when you hear the terminside dog, that was Pinto, but
his personality was absolutelylarger than life.
You could do anything to him.
You could make him dance, youcould make him work out and he
would just lay there.
He loved it, he loved attention, he loved being loved on and I
(25:08):
miss that about him.
I miss his little bark, whichhe rarely did.
I miss his little growl.
You know, if he was on thecouch and beans wanted to come
up, there would be a little backand forth growl and it was
always kind of funny, but Idon't know what else to say.
(25:39):
I mean it was such a surprise.
I mean, at least we have Beansand Beans is not as affectionate
.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Beans is not as smart .
Speaker 2 (25:54):
He's got his own personality.
He is paranoid, he's afraid ofeverything, shadows included,
and he just likes to be in hisown bed and he just likes to be
in his own bed.
So it's going to take some timegetting used to not having
Pinto's vibrant personalityaround.
(26:16):
Good thing about Beans is hedoes like to cuddle with me.
So we cuddled last night and atleast my arms are wrapped
around another buddy.
So it'll be tough when we haveto let him go.
Man, this one stings.
(26:37):
This one hurts really, reallybad.
He was a TV star.
Our friend Melanie, who used towork at KY3 here in Springfield
, did a whole feature on himabout second chance dogs,
because he was a rescue.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
And today I would like to begin highlighting
rescue pets and letting everyoneknow what great companions they
are.
Joining me now is Kevin Klineand his dog Pinto.
Hi guys.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Hi, there Say hi.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
Oh, so cute, so cute.
So talk about Pinto.
What kind of breed is he andwhere'd you get him from?
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Pinto's a Pomeranian and we adopted him from a
Houston rescue organizationcalled Recycled Palms.
And Norma from Recycled Palmsin Houston, she knows that Pinto
lived a really, really goodlife, but that he's over the
(27:33):
rainbow bridge now and all I cansee with Pinto is because it
happened so quick it's him onthe other side of the rainbow
just looking over at me, justlooking up at me with those eyes
and saying Dad, I'm right here,pick me up.
I wish I could, I wish I could.
(27:54):
I hope I'm wrong on that.
I hope that he's playing withdip and yap.
I hope that he's found a newcity hall and he's lording over
a new domain.
I'm hoping that my dad might beloving on him.
(28:18):
I hope that Chelsea was thereto meet him and greet him and
love on him too.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
I don't know what the afterlife is.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
I really don't.
I don't know if any of us do,but I hope it's a happy place
for him, man.
He gave us so much happiness.
You know, I saw somethingonline not long ago.
It was on Facebook.
It was a picture of somebodyhugging a dog and said as much
as I love you.
(28:51):
Now, in 10 years, I know you'regoing to break my heart.
Mine is shattered, it is justshattered, and our friends have
been so kind, reaching out andtelling us that you know if we
need anything, if we want to getaway, we can visit them.
(29:14):
We had our friend autumnyesterday.
Bring us some homemade bananabread and some flowers, because
she she knew pinto and she knowshow much we're hurting it's.
We've got a lot of support.
Don't have my dog, though.
Don't have my dog, so hopefullyyou've listened to this and
(29:48):
enjoyed the pictures that I'veposted.
I'm sorry, I'm so sorry thatthis is the episode you're
getting.
Normally, I try and help younavigate through something that
you're going through Either myown thoughts or an expert, but
(30:12):
I'm laying this on you and it'snot fair and I'm so sorry.
So we've already recorded theTuttle Cline episode this week
and I promise you it's much moreuplifting than this is.
I was actually able to hold ittogether and Tim brought it up a
little bit and I just didn'twant to go there because the
(30:33):
tunnel incline podcast is abouthumor and it's about fun and
about laughter and I knew thatif we talked about Pinto that it
wouldn't be toe, that itwouldn't be so, uh, I waited for
this and you know, if you don'twatch this, turn it on and you
(30:56):
realize that, oh shit, this isgoing to suck yeah, it does and
you don't watch it.
I'm totally fine with that.
I am totally fine with thatbecause this is just really me
just trying to get it off mychest and trying to cope with it
, trying to figure some way outto get rid of this grief.
(31:16):
You know, I had so much I sleptfrom 5 30 in the afternoon on
Saturday until noon on Sundayand I got up and I went for a 10
and a half mile run, thinkingthat that might get some of this
out of me.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
And it hasn't man.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
It hasn't Probably going to be a while, so I'll
just keep looking at thesepictures.
I'll keep watching his videos,remember how much fun he was,
his little personality that waslarger than life, and the impact
(32:00):
that he had on people who methim.
Everybody loved him.
Everybody loved him.
So did I.
So, again, I apologize thatthis is what this episode is.
I thought about not even doingone, but, selfishly, I had to do
this so that I could talk aboutmy boy.
(32:21):
Thanks for listening, forwatching If you ever met him,
thanks for loving Pinto.
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