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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, it is Mojo in the Morning Show. This
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is very tough for Shannon to bring up, but she's
willing to do so. Shannon, you guys are experiencing something
pretty tough at at the house right now.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Yeah, we are putting down one of our dogs today.
And if you have ever had to do this, you
know that it is one of the most horrible things
that you ever have to go through.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
It is so sad.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
And the anticipation of knowing that this is taking place
today is just about killing me, guys. But Wes is
dog now, my dog, Willow, our frenchie. We are having
to very unexpectedly put her down this afternoon. She has
had something called iv D D, which if you have
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a frenchie or a beagle, I think docsins have this too.
It's an issue that is very common in these dogs
that they have. It's a spinal cord issue and willowhead
surgery for this two two and a half years ago.
We were fortunate enough to be able to pay and
it is very very expensive for her to have the surgery,
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knowing that the outcome might be successful and it might
not be. And in her case, it was successful and
it gave us two and a half extra years with her,
and late on Sunday night we started to notice that
there were some signs of this happening all over again,
and she, in literally a matter of hours, just declined
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so quickly. Her lower extremities are totally paralyzed. She can't
go to the bathroom at all without Wes helping her
go to the bathroom. For lack of forgiving more detail,
and so he and I give him so much credit
watching him walk through this and having to make the
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tough decisions. But we are having hospice come to the
house today and we're going to sayah goodbyes to her.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
How are the kids doing?
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Samantha, who is my sixteen year old stepdaughter, is just wrecked.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
She's not going to school today.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
She's staying home with her, and Lous and Smith are
really super sad too. I mean, it's just so hard
to look at an animal that is suffering and know
that you have to say goodbye and there's nothing that
you can do. We took her to the vet on Monday,
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and that's basically the answer that we got.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
It's tough, though, when you lose a pet, it is
all It's worse than losing a human. I know it
sounds weird to say this because I've experienced loss of
both my parents, but losing I can only imagine the
only other thing that would be worse than losing your
pets sometimes is in God forbid, is losing a child.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
I just could not imagine that.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
But losing a just changes the the magnitude or the
dynamic of an entire family for pretty much.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Ever.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Yeah, and for us, she is the dog like she
is his soul dog, he says, because she got him
through so many rough patches off his life. So when
he looks at her, he's, you know, last night, God
just like watching him on the couch holding her, and
he was just thanking her for everything that she has
done for him and Samantha and our family, and it's
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it's like a freaking gut punch.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
But wow, well, our thoughts and prayers and you know,
hoping that everybody in the family is doing okay, and
this is this is a difficult time, Ashley. How you
wanted to make a comment, I did.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
I'm so sorry for you and Wes and for the kids.
It's not ever easy losing a pet. I myself have
put down three dogs in the last three years. But
at the end of the day, it's those memories that
you keep alive and you keep talking about them and
keep cherishing everything that they gave you in those moments.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Yeah, thank you for saying that.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Three dogs and how many years.
Speaker 5 (04:11):
Since twenty twenty two we lost three dogs, so we've
originated and they were all siblings, originated with our dog Socks.
He unfortunately unexpectedly got cancer in the bladder, so we
had to put him down in July of twenty twenty two,
and then we rescued his two siblings, and then within
those two years, because of their health, raisins and whatnot,
we ended up liam let those.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
The other dogs health deteriorate when the other When when
you lost one of the dogs, because I've always wondered
with our dogs, like we've lost dogs over the years.
The dog that hurt the family the most was Lily,
because Lily was truly a human. You'd looked in Lily's
eyes and there was literally a human being there, and
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that was so difficult for us. And then we ended
up getting a couple of dogs afterwards, Henry and Louis,
and I've always.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
Believed that that if.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Henry were to die, Louie's going right after because Louis
will be so depressed, you know where the vice versa.
If Louie dies, Henry's not even gonna realize it, like he's.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 5 (05:13):
And that's exactly what happened. Benji and Ruby, they were siblings.
They've lived together their entire lives. Benji went first and
then Ruby was gone within six months.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
How do you think the other dogs, Shannon, are going
to take? Take this?
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Charlie who was my sixteen year old, almost sixteen year
old toy poodle. He doesn't know what the heck's going
on ever, He's just old, God love him. I don't
think he's going to be as affected as bo our
two year old Kavapoo because Bo and Willow like they close.
They were very, very very close, and even last night
he knew something was wrong and he was just laying
on the couch by her and wouldn't leave her.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
Chris, what's up?
Speaker 6 (05:48):
Good morning? How are you? Shannon? I'm I'm so sorry
you have to go through this. Oh, but we had
to do it several years ago. Well, two dogs for
the two weeks we had to put down and there,
there's still there's still part of the family.
Speaker 7 (06:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Yeah, listen to the pain in your voice. Still that's
it's so so very sad and called.
Speaker 6 (06:08):
Back prior to COVID, But I still I still love
your dogs.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
Yeah, it's very, very.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Very tough. I've never had to do this before.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Yeah, what's called Have you heard of the rainbow Bridge?
Have people talked about that with you? The rainbow bridge
is something that we learned when we lost Lily. And uh,
actually our our Marissa, who's our you know, she's our
pet mom or or the adoptive mom of our pets
always because she takes care of the dogs whenever we
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need anybody to take care of them. But she gave
us something that was the rainbow Bridge. And I will
tell you it's it's amazing when you read that, you
know and realize these these animals, you know, you think
of them.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
As just a dog.
Speaker 7 (06:54):
And I thought of that before I lost Lily.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Like I was like when people would cry over the
loss of an animal, I'm like, Okay, everything will be okay.
Days and weeks and months and years later, You're going
to always remember, you know, what Willow has brought to
your family.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
Jen what's going on.
Speaker 8 (07:11):
My Friendie Punky Brewster, she just cast away a couple
of weeks ago and it was unexpected as well. She
had a seizure.
Speaker 7 (07:19):
I tried to do.
Speaker 8 (07:20):
Everything I could to savor but she died. And there
is this place called Trusted Journey in Clarkston. They do
pet cremation Jamie. She's amazing and she helped me and
my kids through all of it. They did Pop Prince.
They let us, you know, spend time with her. Really
great place.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
Yeah. Interesting.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
So have these companies, by the way, we like I said,
we have a company coming to the house today so
that she can you know, pass peacefully in her home.
I'm so grateful that there are there are companies and
vets that do this because it's just so it's so
necessary when you're going through something like this, and you
know it just hopefully it brings a little bit of
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comfort to all of us.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
How has this been for you and your relationship.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
With Wes hard But I like watching him walk through
this and explain this to the kids and care for her.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
I really am. It's just in awe of him.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Yeah, because that is one of those things where I
will tell you that it is so difficult on a family,
how difficult this is, but it is something that is.
Speaker 6 (08:34):
More.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
You wonder sometimes why stuff like this happens and why
you know, you end up losing losing a person or
a pet. But it also it can bring a family
there together, you know what I mean, and help a
family out. So man our our you know thoughts for this.
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For you guys, I cannot I could not even see
going through this, uh right now.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
So this is brutal. This is really brutal.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Yeah, and you know what, I will say this for
anybody that is uh have experienced this, send Shannon some
advice on how you get through this. I still live
with Lily's ashes on my freaking bedroom bookstand. I'm like,
are we gonna spread that at and Chelsea will not
do it because Lily meant that much to the family
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that we have.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
The freaking to keep her close. Still, yeah, and like,
can't we just get rid of this?
Speaker 6 (09:33):
I don't think my family ever recovered from us losing
our family dog. I was about ten or eleven, but
like my dad was so shaken from it.
Speaker 7 (09:43):
I don't think I'll ever get a dog again, really, because.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Sometimes that's my dad, that's why he will not get
a dog. He will watch my dog, but he will
not get his own dog because of this same Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Because it's wild, because of we said we would never
get another dog, and then we ended up going to
get two. And I got to be honest with you,
I felt like it did heal the family, like I
really did, like it was one of those things. And
then I've often heard where people will say, if you
know your dog is you know, suffering or not suffering,
but possibly towards the end of his life. If a younger,
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newer dog sometimes will actually extend that life, and maybe
that that's what happened.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Well, that's what we did with Bo for Charlie. You guys,
I have so many dogs. If you're not following the names,
I totally understand. But it and that really is true.
And we do think that that helped Willow heal. And
like I said, we got two and a half years
that we extra that we did not expect with her
following her first surgery.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
It's interesting, it's interesting you say, now it's the dog,
the youngest dog, the baby.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Pain and the booty, but helped.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Most comforting Willow. Right now, you said, yeah, why are
you looking like that. What was that? Looking at your face?
You have like a you always have, like a spittating
grant on you. I was thinking about the dogs I had.
I ain't you like your dogs?
Speaker 6 (11:01):
I did?
Speaker 7 (11:02):
I mean one of them ran away, the other one
was a whole so we gave gave them.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
Let's talk more about this, all right, we had.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
Your dogs.
Speaker 7 (11:11):
I'm telling you.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
Her name was Sheba.
Speaker 7 (11:13):
Sheba left, came back, joint was bleeding. It was six
dogs behind her.
Speaker 9 (11:20):
He just got the thrash air. My mama was like, no,
give it up, I need I'm sitting over here.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
All I can think about.
Speaker 7 (11:38):
His own time. How old I was like twelve?
Speaker 4 (11:45):
Yeah? My mom was like, no, six a whole back.
I was like, she gotta go.
Speaker 7 (11:54):
Do we know where Sheba met the sex in the neighborhood?
Speaker 6 (11:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (12:03):
Did Sheba live a long life where?
Speaker 4 (12:05):
I don't know?
Speaker 7 (12:06):
We gave her you got rid of like that day.
My mom was like, no, you're not doing this, Oh
my god.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
By the way, can I get a replay Bianca of
me just spitting water just out of my mouth, just
a second ago from taking a drink of water on
that one I got. I actually have a headache right
now from you laughing so much as what Kevin just said.
Speaker 7 (12:28):
All right, Uh, let me move on to another topic.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Let's get away from h sadness of losing a dog
and the dog, the hole dog that Kevin was talking about.