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September 18, 2024 • 9 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're waking up with fifth in the morning, hun kiss
When I was seven to one, Hi, good morning. I
hope you're off to a good start. And if you
have a family dog, then I'm gonna need to lean
into you a little bit. This morning when I was
home visiting my family over Labor Day weekend, and by
the way, sorry, I brought in my friend Sarah from

(00:22):
seven hundred WLWN WBN good morning because I felt like
I just needed someone else in the room while I
was telling the story.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
Okay, I'm kind of nervous.

Speaker 1 (00:32):
Yeah, And I feel like you're a good person to
lean on emotionally if I need some help.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
Oh I love that. Okay, let's hear it.

Speaker 1 (00:39):
So when I was home over Labor Day weekend, I
noticed that our family dog didn't look well.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
How old is this dog?

Speaker 1 (00:49):
I'm not kidding. I think it's fourteen or fifteen years old.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
Okay, my dog is fourteen.

Speaker 1 (00:53):
Okay, And if you're a visual person, you can check
my stories at the tiff Potter if you want to
weigh in on it. So it just looks old and
like it's so cute and tubby. It's this like tiny
little white like Chihuahua dog and it's like definitely overweight,
and it's like it's so cute and tubby, so it's
well loved. Yeah, and it just kind of like drags

(01:14):
it's like little belly on to the ground.

Speaker 3 (01:16):
I get that I have a wiener dog and she
does the exact same.

Speaker 1 (01:19):
Book, so this is kind of gross. But oh no,
she has this skin sore okay, underneath her belly or
on her belly, rather underneath her on her dog belly.
And it's it's bad, it's really bad. And I got

(01:40):
a I don't know, my dad said for a little while,
and I didn't notice it, and he's trying to conceal it.
So I picked up the dog and I handed the
dog to my dad and I said, oh, she's sticky underneath.
I thought she might have laid in some of the
junk that we were cleaning out when we were doing
the Horner clean. Now, yeah, come to find out, I
put my hand in what is like a sore, the

(02:01):
wound a wound, and I was like, Dad, like, what
is that? And he you could tell he was a
little on the like embarrassed side about it, and he
was like, it's nothing, it's not a big deal. It's
not a big deal. And I said, no, what, like,
what is that? And he described it as something called
that The vet said it was a puffy. I don't
know what that is. I'm not looking it up. I

(02:21):
wouldn't recommend looking it up. But if you're a vet
and you know what it is, please call and save me.

Speaker 2 (02:25):
I don't know essentially either. No, I don't know what
that is. It's a puffy.

Speaker 1 (02:29):
It's it's just a giant skin sore. But it looks
as if it's rotting. And I think she's starting to
smell like she's kind of legitimately rotting. Okay, so he's
taken her to the vet. What are they going to
do about it? Like they said, the healing process. They said,
there's really nothing they can do. They said, it's either

(02:50):
you have to put her down or you kind of
just give her the best life that you can for
the rest of her life.

Speaker 2 (02:56):
Does she seem like she's in pain? Like when you
grabbed her?

Speaker 1 (02:59):
Did she tell me when you when you go no,
she didn't wins. When you guys go back through and
look at the photo, you guys tell me if she
looks like she's in pain or not. She looks like
just a tubby, little white chinawa.

Speaker 2 (03:09):
I mean my sister that.

Speaker 3 (03:10):
When you picked her up, and she didn't make any
sort of like noier.

Speaker 1 (03:14):
Okay, that's good, But my sister went to the house.
This is Labor day, guys, so we're fast forward a
couple of weeks later. My sister went to the house
and she's like, Tiff, it smells like roadkill in there. Oh,
And she's like, I think it might be coming from
the dog, which.

Speaker 3 (03:29):
Is where she's literally rotting, which is so sad.

Speaker 1 (03:33):
But she looks like in good spirits and fine. So
I think I need to have a conversation with my dad,
like I think it's time that you you have to
put your dog down. And I don't have a close
emotional connection to this dog, so I'm not kind of
tearing up about this because I was moved out almost
kind of on my own, living in college at that point,

(03:54):
and then living in Boston after that full time, so
I don't really have that like deep, deep emotional connection,
which is why I needed you to come in this morning,
because I don't really know how to approach the situation
with my dad.

Speaker 3 (04:05):
And no one is more obsessed with their dog than me.
I love my little Mini. I got her when she
was six weeks old, and yeah, she's over fourteen now,
and that is really hard once they get older and
you notice that things are not how they were a
few years ago. I mean, my dog has fatty tumors
all over her body, which are apparently fine.

Speaker 1 (04:27):
But how would what's your advice on how I should
approach my dad?

Speaker 3 (04:30):
But that is really really hard when you're on the
outside of things and you can see that this dog
is not okay, but you know that your dad is
really close with the dog and probably needs this whole
baby in his life for the company and the companionship.
But that's a really fine line, you know, to tell
your dad like, hey, I don't think this is a
good situation, but I think I definitely have to talk

(04:52):
to him about it.

Speaker 1 (04:53):
Okay, But I'm asking you, how would you approach I
want to be approached because that's so hard for me.

Speaker 2 (05:00):
It's a mini close to my dog.

Speaker 1 (05:01):
If Minnie's at the end of her life and your
husband Jad says, hey, I think it's time that we
have to put her down, what would how would you
want to be consoled in that moment.

Speaker 3 (05:09):
Oh, I always start I would just start bawling. But
I mean I would like to hear options. Everybody always
wants options. But if there's nothing to do for this
dog and you don't want to see her living and misery,
I think that's a good that's a good way to
go about it. Like, hey, this dog is clearly not okay.
Do you want this to be how her life is?
Is her rotting like this? This is not how anyone

(05:32):
would want to live. I mean, it's so sad because
I can't even imagine my dog going through this, and
I'm like getting all choked up over here. But nobody
wants to face this right when they've got this pop
at this age, they know that the dog's life is
coming to a close. No nobody wants to live without
their dog. It's awful. But the reality is is that

(05:54):
this dog is on its final leg.

Speaker 1 (05:57):
Literally, and the truth is so hard we laugh to
keep from crying.

Speaker 2 (06:02):
But I'm fine, but the dog is not in pain.

Speaker 1 (06:04):
Here's what we're gonna do. Five one three seven, four
nine one oh seven one oh. If your vet, first
of all, I would love to talk to you in
this situation. If it just if you've had to go
through something like this, if you've had to share in
this family experience and kind of be the one to
guide your family towards this, please send help please, And
if you need a visual of a fat, tubby white dog,

(06:26):
please go to my stories.

Speaker 2 (06:28):
I don't even want.

Speaker 1 (06:28):
To see it, So Hi, good morning. You're waking up
with Tip in the morning on Kiss one oh seven one.
If you're here for the commercial, free music, amazing, if
you're here for the conversation. I feel like my show
does a good job of trying to balance what's happening
in the celebrity world and what's happening in our own worlds,

(06:50):
and just bringing it to the same kitchen table to
chat about it every single morning on my show, and today, unfortunately,
is about my family dog. If you're visual person this tubby,
little white chihuahuas on my story, I have to tap
through a bunch of other things, but eventually you'll know
it when you see it. At the TIF to F's
Potter like the Wizard, I think it might be time

(07:11):
for me to have a really tough heart to heart
with my dad about this dog, because it's really not
doing well and I just I needed to lean on
someone on how to have this conversation this morning. So
if you've gone through it, thank you for sharing. We're
gonna start with you. You're on the air this morning. Thanks
for stopping by.

Speaker 2 (07:29):
The same thing.

Speaker 4 (07:29):
With my own dog, he was at the end of
his life and it was a real sad situation.

Speaker 1 (07:34):
But I just I saw he was a.

Speaker 4 (07:37):
Little miserable, but since he wasn't in pain, I did
keep him around just because he was a part of
our family.

Speaker 1 (07:44):
Right, So, how do you approach this situation with your
own family or how like, I just don't know where
to go from your like our conversation right now to
having this one with my dad on how to put
the dog down if.

Speaker 4 (07:55):
Needed, right, because a lot of people from the outside
told me this same thing. He does look miserable at
his last stage is but in my mind, it's like
I couldn't come to terms with putting him down and
myself and I was like, if he's got his last
few months, why not let him go out naturally, make
him as comfortable as possible and just allow like the

(08:17):
course to run itself.

Speaker 1 (08:19):
And did it.

Speaker 4 (08:20):
Yes, Actually it worked out perfectly. We are as a
Sunday evening. We are all home when it happened. We
could all console him. It was like what I wanted,
but it was a very hard process to like other
people to see if we go through.

Speaker 1 (08:36):
Sure, I'm sure, and I can hear it in your
voice now that it's still pretty painful. I'm sorry about
that losing dog. It's I'm sure, it's an unimaginable feeling,
and I'm thinking of you. What's your name, by the way,
we neighborhood. You in actually Rotisheimer from Covedale. Thanks for
your input. I appreciate you.

Speaker 4 (08:52):
Gal, Oh, no problem.

Speaker 2 (08:53):
You have a great day and good luck.

Speaker 1 (08:56):
The thing is, though I mentioned earlier with Sarah when
we were chit chatting, that it smells a little like
it's rotting. That's that's why. That's why I'm like, I
don't know if we can wait for it to go
over the Rainbow bridge because it's like rotting. Nonetheless, thank
you for your input. If we've moved on from this

(09:17):
and you still want to contribute, you can talk back
with Tiff on iHeartRadio or just suit me a DM. Okay, hey,
we're still commercial for you. In the meantime, Paycorp stadium
is trending big time today, and I'll explain why at
six point fifty. But I figured other NFL stadiums are
trending this morning for how good their food is. Do
you think paycor could keep up with some of these

(09:39):
NFL stadiums if they end up going through with the
renovations and stuff. We'll chitchat about that in two songs.
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