Speaker 1: 0:01

Thank you and welcome to another episode of the Carolina Laku Podcast. I am Afro and I am here with my co-host, Lexi. You didn't say shit. I can't hear you. I can't hear you.

Speaker 2: 0:18

Okay, that's the second time it's done that. It did it last time I was streaming and it did it just now. It'll randomly mute itself and I don't know why. But hi, everybody's me. It's lexi. Hope you guys had a good week or two weeks.

Speaker 1: 0:30

We're back yes, we are back and, um, I do want to introduce somebody who, uh, you know, I kind of know, grew up with them in the same house for eons. This is Dr Spriggs. You don't mind if I call you doctor, right? I?

Speaker 3: 0:48

don't mind.

Speaker 1: 0:50

All right, ms Spriggs. So this is my sister, everybody, this is my sister. We got her on this episode. She is a veterinarian specializing in dermatology. She can probably explain that a little bit better than I can. But, um, just kind of just as an intro, tyler, kind of tell us about yourself and kind of just, what do you uh do and are you a fan of anime, and how did you get into it?

Speaker 3: 1:20

go ahead and just boast me up a little bit, though all right, yes, I'm tyler spriggs, dr spriggs, I am afro's little sister. So yeah, household, all that good stuff, but um, it's like cliche, like typical kid likes animals. Okay, I want to pursue veterinary medicine, but uh, I went to undergrad in vet school at Tuskegee, to you you know, and go to Alabama.

Speaker 1: 1:49

But um go ahead go ahead go.

Speaker 3: 1:54

And then, um, yeah, just ended up going to state, finished my residency in dermatology, so I am a skin doctor for your dogs, cats, large animals, but more so dogs and cats, so anything going with their skin allergies, for sure, that's really what I see all the time. That is what I focus on, instead of just the general stuff. Um, yeah, and as far as anime, I would say if it wasn't for my bro then I wouldn't really be into it much. He really is the one that introduced me more and more to different anime shows or movies and tries to get me more hip. So it's really him. I will say what's your favorite? My favorite? Well, what I've seen and know the most is Demon Slayer. So that's really what I know, good choice.

Speaker 2: 2:49

Good choice.

Speaker 1: 2:51

That's good, thank you. Thank you for that, ty. So, like I said, how we usually start these off, lexi, what have you been up to since the last time that we talked?

Speaker 2: 3:06

Oh, my jacket came in, so that is here. And then this sweater came in. No yesterday, cowboy Beepa, watch this on the back. This is pretty much it. Friday I get to go see Schoolboy Q and Atlanta, so I'll be doing that, and then I can, like a couple weeks, have to go to California for work, and that's pretty much all I've been up to.

Speaker 1: 3:37

Nice, same, not much. Not much of shit, working, planning stuff. I'll be back home next week what else? I'll be traveling too soon and I would say probably like October for work, heading to Tennessee. Actually, going to be driving that, so that should be nice. And other than that, I mean I bought a steam cleaner but it's not going to get here until Friday because what a nice one. Yeah, but the whole Amazon shit, the shit that happened last week with the cross-track shit shit it pushed everything.

Speaker 2: 4:27

It put everything so I got all my prime day stuff like I got my last thing today, so I wasn't affected by that at all actually I was like man, like I really wanted to start using that shit.

Speaker 1: 4:40

But um, what I'm talking about about is I think everybody should know about this shit, even if you're not in tech. What was that? Thursday or Friday?

Speaker 2: 4:51

It was Friday, please, everybody. It was not a cyber attack. It was not. Please stop calling it a cyber attack, because that just hurts me when everybody says it. I know you guys have your little tinfoil hats on, I think you know, but it literally was not that at all. Somebody was testing or not testing, but they were working in prod and that is a big no-no in software development, like you don't do that at all, but you know that happened and they didn't do testing and they just pushed it out with a little patch, thinking, hey, it's going to be great, fan and dandy, and no they, they fucked up the world for a lot of people. So that's literally the summary of what happened on friday.

Speaker 1: 5:34

Yep, um, definitely put a halt, a halt to um a lot of stuff airlines, banks, um, some stores, I mean in around the world. Um, the company that I worked for was affected a little bit. Some companies were really fucking affected by this thing. Um, I mean, they got it fixed by the time it started to hit the east coast. A lot of stuff was kind of being resolved already and stuff. But if you lived in hong kong and australia, you were kind of like smacked at like in the beginning of it and it just worked its way across the world. Um, yeah, I didn't know that crowd strike had so much, um, I didn't know it had its hands in so much shit to the point where it could do that it wasn't. I mean, yeah, company grows, but um, this, this, I'm not gonna say it's uh, well, it was kind of a bad thing.

Speaker 2: 6:30

It makes cross strike look kind of like it looks terrible like their stock shares have gone down like tremendously since then. And then if you know the ceo of crash track, he also did. He also was a part of McAfee and then they had a similar incident 10, 12 years ago. It doesn't make them look good at all. I think Microsoft was in talks of trying to buy out CrowdStrike or do a partnership with them on an official partnership level. Now I know Microsoft's going to be like nah, we good on that.

Speaker 1: 7:07

One thing when I was working, um, the one thing that they really pushed or told us about is that the owner has a race car. So I guess that's cool. Like they pushed the fuck out of that. They, he owns a race car oh, that's dope, that's cool, that's's amazing. Love that, love that. But anyway, yeah, that's what I've been up to, nothing too crazy at all. But before we get into talking to Tyler asking her questions and kind of just going on her background and stuff like that, I was talking to a friend of mine this past week and she was telling me about, you know that meg the stallion song, that she did with I don't know who she did it with it's like yuki yuki something

Speaker 3: 7:56

yeah, some korean like pop star or something like that right.

Speaker 1: 8:00

My friend was like I can't stand like people using that song, like doing their fucking makeup. You know what I mean. And it's like you're not even like it's. You know nobody wants to gatekeep shit, but it's kind of like do we need to start gatekeeping shit?

Speaker 2: 8:20

okay, you know, in blur culture we always like gatekeeping is a thing, it is a thing.

Speaker 1: 8:26

But I mean, is it, do we, do we need to start doing it when it's? Like you know, I post stuff every day and that song is within the top viral songs of tiktok right, so it's like What'd you say?

Speaker 1: 8:48

What they have. Oh, I didn't even see the dance. So when I heard that, I was like, do we need to start gatekeeping shit? Do you think gatekeeping would like? When I heard that, I was like, would gatekeeping start like lessening down like the number of people that go to conventions and stuff like that? If we were like what? If, like before you got a ticket to a convention, you had to take like a test to like get the ticket Like an anime test To show like your real shit, that wouldn't work either because, like, people just look them up online oh, what's the question?

Speaker 2: 9:25

Let me Google real quick. Oh, I've got a friend that's in the anime. Hey, can you ask these questions real quick? It's not going to stop anything, I think if we gatekeep, it's just going to make people more of like, ooh, what's this? And then like, yeah, I mean, it's nice that stuff is becoming mainstream.

Speaker 1: 9:54

But then like it is a double, it's really not. Mainstream is cool, it's dope, it's really not, it's like. It's like when somebody who's like a really big, like food reviewer Right, let's say you've been going, you were going to a restaurant for years before, like it blew up, right, and this famous food reviewer comes and checks it out and the whole. Like here in North Carolina there is a lady that sells watermelons like out of a truck, like out of the back of a truck, and her watermelons are like good, like this was to be the best watermelons, like in the state, right, and somebody did like a review about them. And now she has lines out the ass every day for a yellow watermelons, red, everything. I'll be pissed off if I was going to that shit from the jump.

Speaker 3: 10:46

Why that's bringing her more business.

Speaker 1: 10:50

That's dope, that's cool, but I ain't getting no watermelon though.

Speaker 3: 10:54

You are going to get watermelon.

Speaker 1: 10:56

I ain't getting no watermelon, though she doesn't run out, she does run out. She does like a lot of these places that get reviews like she does like a lot of these places that get reviews. They like, they like the small ones, like a food truck might be around, you know a food truck like good.

Speaker 2: 11:14

Okay, let's not think about you Right, selfish. Think of it as a whole and think about it for her. Like now she has more business, so now she can probably use that money she's getting from that more business to do grow, upgrade, upgrades and grow her business. So you might in turn, get more walla melons because of her doing this. But then again, like you also think about it too, just like I don't know if you watch like keith lee on like tiktok, but like he does food reviews of like different restaurants and then like most of these places are struggling beforehand and then he goes and they just blow up. But I mean that does help and you know, after that big surge you know a lot of people stop going, but like it brings more revenue into, you know, the business and it does help them in the long run.

Speaker 3: 12:06

And you don't need to get there sooner. If she's going to be that popular, you need to get there a little bit earlier, so that way you don't end up not having your watermelon Shut up motherfucker, all right. Just saying yeah.

Speaker 1: 12:20

And then, with that same friend I was talking to, we were talking about how watching anime back in the day was difficult, how you had to go and download stuff from a LimeWire or a Morpheus or something like that, and then the shit's not in order, Right.

Speaker 2: 12:46

So you gotta like.

Speaker 1: 12:47

So you gotta like really like try to find the shit so it can be in order, or you I mean you got to Nami and all that other stuff, but it's like it's certain animes that they only showed on to Nami. They weren't showing shit and that might not be something that you want to watch, so you gotta find other ways. You gotta like deal with, um, just waiting, downloading and all that stuff and all that shit. Now it's just like oh yeah, I can just get a crunchyroll, watch all that shit in a day or like youtube part, like one of three, and it's like 360p.

Speaker 2: 13:23

Or I used to watch my anime on Winamp, so that's how old I am, but yeah.

Speaker 1: 13:33

I would like I said I was a person that would like download stuff from like Alarm, wire or Amorphous and go from there like Kazaa, jesus, you know shit like that, and just like see what you see what I can find. And the funny thing is, of course it's not, it's not dubbed. You know it sometimes and feet, to be really honest with you, it might not even be subbed. You just you. Just you don't know what the fuck they saying. You hoping that you do, but you don't know what the hell they saying. You just sitting there like, yeah, I'm watching this shit, I got it. Yeah, I'm watching this shit, I got it. Like I'm watching this shit, this is, you know, I get to see I can, I can talk about it.

Speaker 1: 14:19

Y'all see when, when that motherfucker flew up in the air and shot that motherfucker. Yeah, wait, wait, hold on, wait on wait a minute.

Speaker 2: 14:25

Is this why all you like most of you men only talk about fight scenes in anime, like, not about story. It's always about like who had the greatest fight or who can beat up who, because that is y'all top two conversations when y'all talk about anime. It's just that.

Speaker 1: 14:41

I think it's fighting and it's also the way that the person looks Like. I think that and I think anime creators know this, that, and now it's to the point where it's not really. I think anime nowadays is more they, I think the illustrators and the creators know, like, okay, like making goat, like whoever made goju knew for a fact, he knew for a fact. All right, we gonna get this motherfucker pretty looking eyes, right, he gonna cover them shit. But when he take them shits off, oh, it's gonna be waterfalls, right, and that's and that's what. Right, and that's what it was. That's what it was. I've seen people react to the first time he shows his eyes. Go ahead, lexi.

Speaker 2: 15:36

Why? Why you putting a smile out on me Like, excuse you, I mean he's cute, but you know he's not in my top husbando's list. So I'm like he's cute, but you know he's not in my top husbando's list. So I'm like he's cute or whatever. Keep it moving, or whatever.

Speaker 1: 15:52

But he's they knew what they were doing. Nowadays it's like yes fan service.

Speaker 2: 15:58

They know that if they can make a pretty character in an anime, they can market the shit out of that person and have people all on social media talking about this person doing fan fiction, buying up all the merch, it's just yeah.

Speaker 1: 16:18

Yeah, fan fiction is crazy, but let's get to our guest that we have here today. Like I said, we have my sister, dr Spriggs, here, veterinarian. So I guess, dr Spriggs, what is?

Speaker 3: 16:40

please call me Tyler what is that?

Speaker 1: 16:42

just call me Tyler nah man, I gotta call you Dr. What did you say? Just call me Tyler. Nah man, I gotta call you Gettysburg. She hates that shit. So when going through the process of becoming a veterinarian, I guess first what's the length of time to actually the from start to fin? I mean, I guess start to like finish, finish, to the point where you're like working I'm a vet, yeah, like regular, not specializing let's say, if you let's, let's do regular, and then with specialization, uh, well, your whole life, um, but no, specifically you really.

Speaker 3: 17:32

So you do undergrad and you don't have to get, like you don't have to have a degree to end up going to that school. Like, as long as you take the prerequisites, yeah, what? Yeah, but that shouldn't encourage somebody to say, oh, let me just go take these courses, because really, if you think about in the long run or all together, it's basically you doing all four years. So if you pick and choose, I have one classmate that did that, only one. So four years of undergrad, um, and you, like you major in like biology, animal science or what have you, um, and then really after that is the hard part, because vet school there's not that many veterinary schools in the country. It's like what? Probably at this point I want to say like 33 or something around that. That range compared to just regular medical school, so it's more competitive to get in.

Speaker 3: 18:27

So I personally applied to like four different vet schools. I already knew where I wanted to go, but I just wanted to. You know, just look at the options. So tuskegee was always my choice. That's why I even went to the school for undergrad, because they had a vet school and they graduate, what like 70 80 percent of black vets. So that's what sold me right there.

Speaker 3: 18:47

Like this is dope, I want to go where I know I'm going to be celebrated, praised and be around my, my tribe, my people, um, but it was diverse because we also had, um, a lot of people from Puerto Rico, because they have a big recruitment there too. So my class was pretty diverse, like a mix of definitely black, some white, puerto Rican and then maybe one or two people like of Asian, that Asian descent, and really it's just four years of just more school and then you have your clinics, fourth year. So, total, you do like eight years undergrad and vet school, and then you have your clinics fourth year. So, total, you do like eight years undergrad and vet school and then you're like a regular veterinarian. You just do general practice, gotcha, yeah, okay, I didn't want to mention that.

Speaker 1: 19:35

What were the other schools that you applied to?

Speaker 3: 19:38

So, besides ski, I applied to Virginia, maryland, because I would get in-state tuition for Maryland. I applied to Auburnstate tuition for Maryland. I applied to Auburn, auburn University. That was kind of just. I didn't really want to apply to Auburn. I was like, hey, I want to apply to LSU but I need to take a little bit more credits. That was going to really be over the top, like 23 credit hours. I said we're not doing that. I replaced it with Auburn and I applied to ross university that's in the caribbean gotcha, gotcha okay so I got into ski and I got into ross and I was like we're going to ski?

Speaker 2: 20:16

gotcha, gotcha the second doctor that I know that I have a friend of mine.

Speaker 1: 20:21

She also did her medical training in the caribbean too, so I like it and when it comes to, when it comes to the specializing, I guess, what's the? Is that something that you're, that you're thinking about junior, I guess like a junior senior year within vet.

Speaker 3: 20:51

Yeah, mostly I would say. Some students already come in with like, ok, I don't be a vet, I know I don't want to do general practice, like I want to end up specializing. Like neurology, they want to be a neurologist. Some people already come in knowingy they want to be a neurologist. Some people already come in knowing that they want to specialize. Most times you don't. Most times it's like I'm gonna be a veterinarian. Oh my gosh, I get to have animals cool. And then you get to like your second, third year, you start to like externships, internships and kind of get a feel for what you may want to do. Or just dip your you know your feet in every little thing and say, okay, I don't like that, I like this like er medicine. No, it's not for me, it's not too fast it's too much, it's fast-paced, my anxiety.

Speaker 3: 21:36

So, like when stuff comes in, it's like, okay, you have to act quick, like you have no what to do and you have a couple minutes to think. But sometimes if something is like literally dying on you, you need to know all right, we want to give this much, that much of this. Okay, let's, that's too much for my mental. So, yeah, I did an internship because I had to do it. I knew ER was a part of it and I pushed through it. Er medicine, no, I thought I wanted to be a surgeon when I went to vet school. That was my first like, oh, I want to do surgery. And that changed pretty quickly because I did, like I did a summer program and that's where it came to my mind. So I did a summer program at Purdue. It was called like Arc Square, and that's where I was able to actually figure out oh, they have specialists. Like, oh, my gosh, like they actually had this shit. Okay, that's cool. Like cardiologists, ophthalmologists, all these things, everything people have we have, they have for dogs and cats, they do, and a lot of people don't know that. So it opened up so many doors and I was like, okay, do I want to do GP? No, I want to specialize, maybe be a surgeon.

Speaker 3: 22:47

I did my junior year and we had junior surgery and I was like I don't like to stand up for like six, seven hours and cutting into stuff. I don't like cutting into stuff too. It's to me a bit. For me it's a bit invasive and also it's a lot of pressure too, versus compared to er, yeah, er, something may die or something may live because of what. What it came in for. The owner's kind of aware that surgery, yes too, but that's yeah, that that changed quickly. You can't touch your face and I sweat very easily. So there's like different factors that were like, yeah, this is not for me very easily. So there's like different factors that were like, yeah, this is not for me. Derm dermatology came about during my clinical year, so right before so my going into my fourth year of vet school, that's when I'm we were able to sit and meet the different clinicians that work at the vet school and I was like oh shit we got dermatologist.

Speaker 3: 23:43

I had never seen this lady before. She's a black woman, shout out Dr Hubbard. She's my mentor and she's the one that got me started and like, once I took what was like general practice, which like regular hospital stuff. That's where we had dermatology and I was like I think I like this, who else can I talk to? She put me in contact with her mentor in Atlanta and so, dr White. I was with her for like a summer or a couple of weeks in the summertime. Then I went to Auburn for a couple of weeks.

Speaker 3: 24:12

So I was like shadowing and doing externships, like really trying to get more knowledge and like really solidify, like okay, this is what I really want to do, because once you specialize, yeah, you can end up doing something else. You don't have to stay with it for life, but you specializing in this because you really love that. So I'm a person, I'm a creature of habit and I'd like to have direction and like to focus on one thing. So GP. A lot of people do GP, which is general practice, because once you're done your four years of vet school, you can work wherever, wherever any hospital you want to. A lot of people are just wanting to make money because you're it's a lot of debt, so that's what's expensive. If you don't have in-state tuition, you're paying that out-of-state tuition and it's expensive a lot more yeah yeah, it is expensive.

Speaker 3: 25:02

Yeah, yeah, it is. So I would say most students, even the ones I would teach at state, that was their first thing, like I got to start making money, so they didn't want to do any more schooling, or I'm tired of school, I don't want to do that cool. So if you specialize, it depends on what you do, because some places they require an internship, like a rotating internship, where you have to do, er, um, surgery, like general practice and kind of. Some of them have specialty hospitals where they rotate through the other services too, but the main ones are going to be surgery, er, icu, those type of things. So that's what I did.

Speaker 3: 25:44

My first year out of vet school was, yeah, internship, and I was in Virginia at a VCA animal hospital out that way, and it was intense because I was the only first intern that they had. So it was a lot of pressure for me, a lot of just new stuff for them. So that year was a good year, but I commuted from Baltimore to, like, northern Virginia, yeah, and I stayed at home with my mom yeah, fun times, fun times. And then yeah.

Speaker 3: 26:23

And then you do a Derm internship internship. You don't have to, but if you do like a specific, okay, I want to do dermatology. I do a dermatology internship. It looks better on your resume, so you don't have to. But you are required to do a rotating internship before you can apply to a dermatology um program for a residency, and that's usually a three-year program gotcha, gotcha, okay, dope, dope.

Speaker 1: 26:50

So, within this, um, within this journey of becoming a veterinarian, what was, uh, what was, was there any? Did you? Did you ever think of just saying uh, I think I might, you know, not specialize and kind of just stick with gp?

Speaker 3: 27:14

oh yeah I had those moments for sure.

Speaker 2: 27:17

I'm like what the fuck am I doing?

Speaker 1: 27:20

I?

Speaker 3: 27:20

don't gotta do this like like I decided I want to do all this Like I don't have like. But yeah, I did have those moments where I'm like I could give up. I could just say F, this, I'm gonna do GP, Cool. But I knew that if I did that I wouldn't be happy. So I'm like this, that's doing GP is not for me. I want to specialize. I want to do derm because, yeah, you could specialize in anything else if you wanted to, but I wasn't interested in anything else but skin gotcha gotcha, I don't give up on myself.

Speaker 1: 27:58

So I was like we will, we will push through, we will finish this and we finished okay so I kind of want to, um, now we can sit here all day and kind of go through your background and stuff. But I kind of want to ask you, like certain things that, like you know, like we're not, we're not trying to give. Look, if you've got questions, you've got to pay for fucking questions. All right, let's just keep. All right, let's just keep it. A book you want a consult? Yeah, you want a consult, you've got to pay for that shit. But just like things that I would, you know, think about kind of off the top of my head, like, okay, so well, I'm just gonna hit you with this, would you go? Now I'm gonna ask you shit, okay, and remember, I make clips of shit, okay.

Speaker 3: 28:58

Yes, Christopher, I know.

Speaker 1: 29:00

Alright, would you go first? Question is would you go first question is would you go shelter or purebred?

Speaker 3: 29:10

Shelter.

Speaker 1: 29:11

Shelter.

Speaker 3: 29:12

Oh yeah, adopt, don't shop Reason. Reason Because there's so many, literally so many dogs and cats that are in these shelters, that literally want love and they've been there for years and they're the sweetest dog in the world. But it's like, oh, it's an old dog, oh, I don't want that, I want a young dog yeah or I want a purebred golden doodle, but that is not.

Speaker 3: 29:38

that is not purebred. Okay. That's a mutt. Okay, it's a golden retriever in a fricking poodle mix, okay. So, people, that don't get me wrong, I love purebred dogs, I do, but I'm one like adoption, because they have these kill shelters, unfortunately, and so those are the ones that break my heart the most, because they give them this time limit and if they're not adopted, they got to go. The ones that break my heart the most because they give them this time limit and if they're not adopted, they gotta go. So I'm all for pushing for shelters, or, if you find a dog, a stray, a or cats.

Speaker 1: 30:14

that's actually a good question to lead into. Let's say, you do find a stray and this stray doesn't run away from you, because most of the time they run, trust me. I was driving in a town and I saw a white pit bull, very skinny. He was about to get hit. He was about to get hit by me and he was just out in the. He was about to get hit by me and he was just out in the road and I stopped, pulled over and I tried to call him but his ass looked at me like nigga, I don't know you, and he turned around and went the other way. He turned around and went the other way.

Speaker 1: 30:53

See, that's the thing I might start doing. It's just like keeping some dry food in a car or something like that. You know what I mean. Just because where I live there are a lot of strays out here and some of these strays are, some of them are being bad. Like you said when you were here I don't know, maybe like a week ago, there's a black dog that I told you about who walks around the neighborhood in the morning, never see him at night or the afternoon. So he definitely belongs to somebody. He doesn't look malnourished or anything like that. He looks pretty healthy, nice, healthy coat, really nice looking dog and he just makes his rounds and just pees on everybody's lawn. Right, that's what he really does his morning walk, yeah, everybody's, it just goes right.

Speaker 1: 31:46

so when you do find let's say you do find a stray cat or a stray dog or lizard or any fucking animal that you know, whatever, what are, what, what would you say are those first steps that should be taken when you do find a stray?

Speaker 3: 32:08

You don't remember Like I found Cooper, like my dog.

Speaker 1: 32:11

Yeah.

Speaker 3: 32:12

I found her in my backyard.

Speaker 1: 32:13

You gotta, you gotta, give a little detail about that, Okay so, sorry y'all. So when I was in in my backyard, you got to give a little detail about that, ty, okay so sorry y'all.

Speaker 3: 32:17

So when I was in what? My second year of vet school, I was living in a house with like two other girls it was, you know, us three and I look out the back window and I'm like, is that a puppy? And so I'm just really looking and I'm like it is a puppy. And it was like mangy looking, it looked nasty, looked tiny, and I was like I've never seen a puppy just roaming around in the streets. But in Tuskegee it's very rural and so a lot of people do not have, you know, they don't have their dogs and cats fixed, so they're out in the streets roaming around, mating, and so it's not uncommon to find you know, any stray animals. Honestly, that's really how most students ended up getting their pets, or most vet school students end up finding because somebody or they found their dog or cat. So I found this little black dog in my backyard. I was like we couldn't have dogs where I live. I had a cat already and I was like, well, we got to at least get it cleaned up, take it to the vet school, you know, make someone can adopt it. So we had to catch this dog. It took like two days. They gave it a bath. My roommates gave it a bath. We left out cat food to try to trap it because we only we only had cats. Me and my roommate had a cat, a piece, and I was like, okay, well, let's leave our cat. He was eating it. And so I was like, cool.

Speaker 3: 33:41

So I came home one day and a guy from the vet school, he was able to catch the dog and they gave it a bath. And I was like, oh, let me take some pictures. And I was like, oh, let me call my mom and just tell her. Like, hey, we found a dog. Not even think anything of it. So I told her about the dog and I was like, yeah, we're trying to take it to the shelter, but because of where it is in Tuskegee, we can't take it to this one. We have to take it to that one and they're full. And I was like well, we're going to take it to the vet school. See what happens, yeah. So I called my mama back, I sent her pictures of the dog and she called me back and I could tell she had cried. And I was like and this is what she's like bring him home, or bring him home is what she said.

Speaker 1: 34:23

I was like yeah and she, yeah, and that dog ended up in my house for like what? A couple days.

Speaker 3: 34:43

No, no, did she my house for. Like what a couple days.

Speaker 3: 34:44

No, no did she, yes, she was in the cage. She was, so she had name, so her name is cooper, but she has scabies. So basically, scabies is a contagious mite that you can get and I could not touch her physically. I had to wrap her up and I had my cat so I couldn't have them contact each other. But she was the sweetest little dog. She pooped in her cage, where she, let me know, she pooped. But yeah, I took her from Alabama. We drove from Alabama up to Maryland, which is like a 12 hour drive. I stopped at, yeah, christopher's house, which is midway, and that's when he had met her and I was like, yeah, she said she want this dog, so we're gonna take the dog up to her. And when I took her to my mom's house, that was the first time that dog had wagged her tail and I left for what? A couple weeks because I did like a like a mission trip called world vets and when I came back she had a full coat of hair is that when you went to guatemala?

Speaker 3: 35:41

no, I was in um nicaragua nicaragua, yeah I was there and I came back I was like, oh damn, this all got hair. So that is what kind of really literally was like the whole derm, like derm came into my mind. That's pretty damn cool, because this dog looked like this and then I come back two weeks later and she has a full coat of hair, shiny. I said that's dope. How can I continue to do this and help dogs or cats that really have severe skin issues? So she was one I rescued.

Speaker 3: 36:12

She is one that if you're going to decide I found this dog or cat, I want to keep it yeah it's your first pet ever yeah my biggest thing is hey, yes, google can be helpful, but google can also be a downside, um, but most of the most basic things, like you know, making sure you have water. As far as food goes, if it's like a puppy and you don't, you don't know how old it is, you never know if you find it, so you just have to kind of guesstimate. Okay, it's a puppy, let me feed it puppy food.

Speaker 3: 36:47

Brands of food that I tend to recommend, that I tend to recommend are going to be like Purina Hills and Royal Canin, because those three brands of food have been like scientifically studied further than a lot of other brands of food. And yeah, just start, like, start there, feed them how much. It says on the side of the bag. If you're trying to figure out and don't use a red solo cup, because that is the biggest thing people will do it's like, oh, yeah, I fed a cup, or what kind of cup, the solo cup.

Speaker 1: 37:22

I'm like, yeah, you get a measuring cup so actually about red solo cups, you can actually measure with a red solo cup because it has indents within the cup that actually show you the measurements. Just putting that out there.

Speaker 3: 37:41

Yeah, but if you really want to know, okay, exactly how much you should feed your dog, use a measuring cup Whether it be if you have a regular measuring cup, which most people do, cool or if you can get the dog or cat ones that you can find honestly anywhere like at pet stores, will be appropriate. Bedding a crate okay, dogs, please crate. Train them like. That's the biggest thing that I tend to advocate for, especially if you don't, whether you work from home or not, you're going to leave home at a certain point in time and it's going to be, you know, hours or what have you. So you want them to be able to be comfortable in the crate but also know not to go in the crate as far as, like urinating and pooping, you know. So that's, to me, probably the hardest part for some people is the crate training, or also just puppy train, like making sure they go out and use the bathroom outside and outside the house. That comes with the territory and when you discipline them, you have to discipline them right away. You can't do it minutes or hours afterwards because they're going to associate what they just did like they could have just laying down in the corner. You came home and saw poop on the floor. Oh, let me go and discipline them. They're gonna think, oh me just laying here is bad. No, you have to catch them in the moment and discipline them then.

Speaker 3: 39:03

So that's probably one of the other biggest downfalls I see with a lot of new pet owners or changing foods a lot like oh, they don't want to eat this, I want to feed that. They're not trying to eat this. Okay, now they want to eat that. Let that dog get hungry enough. Whether it be a day, two days, three days, they don't get hungry enough. They're going to eat that food because they're playing with you. So I will see that a lot. My friends asking like oh, they don't want to eat this, I switched over to another food. Yeah, you are, you are. It's okay to play around with stuff, but switching diets cause a lot of GI issues too. You can't just switch from one food to another and then say, oh shit, my dog is shitting all over the place. Yeah, what happened?

Speaker 3: 39:55

I switched him from this side to that diet in one day. Yeah, don't do that.

Speaker 1: 40:01

And with, I guess with the strays, right Are you? Would you say alright, you find a stray, let's say it is malnourished, right, let's say it is pretty, um, malnourished, right, let's say it is pretty skinny, and stuff like that. Would you say give give a bath after bath, feed water and set vet appointment.

Speaker 3: 40:32

Definitely set a vet appointment. That's the biggest thing. That's one out the gate. If you don't have a vet already established, if you don't have other dogs or pets, they can go to another. Or a lot of times in GP setting they switch doctors every time, so you may not get the same doctor each time your dog goes in and you may say, hey, I like this one specifically. Well, you need to inquire once the next time that doctor is going to be on so that way they can see your pet. So you definitely want to establish a GP or a hospital. If you find somebody you like at that hospital, a doctor at the hospital, stick with them, because everyone has different opinions about what they will recommend doing for your pet, based on what they were taught and also their own experience. So definitely set sell a vet appointment.

Speaker 3: 41:39

Yes, water I would feed, depending. It really depends on how the dog or cat looks. If they just seem like they're not really into the dry food, you can put a little bit of water in it to make it mushy, to make it wet food. Or you may decide, hey, I'm just going to buy wet food. Period, separate them from any other pets you have in the house, especially if you decide, oh, I'm going to bring them in for the next few days before their vet appointment, don't. I would suggest not introducing them to your other dogs or your cats. You can put different toys, like scented toys, or bedding, in that area with your other dogs, so that way they can actually at least smell.

Speaker 3: 42:18

Okay, this was coming into our home, especially if it's something that they can't catch. If it's something that they can't catch, which like, like I said, scabies the only thing they can catch, of course, fleas they can also have too. But that's one big thing I advocate for is like getting used to the scent of other pets, or your own scent too. I did that with my cats when I introduced them. One of my cats I found outside and his name is keanu, who knows how old he is. The other one's name is baloo. He came from pet smart, so he's one of those types of cats yeah I didn't introduce them.

Speaker 3: 42:55

I literally let them smell each other through the door like the bottom of the door yeah, until they could get used to each other. And also because keanu, he was dehydrated when I first got him so they couldn't get any blood from him to test him out, so I had to separate them. But I was like, okay, how can I at least separate them but also get used to it? You can do that gotcha, gotcha.

Speaker 1: 43:21

okay, how do you um what? When it comes to just cats in general, I had a friend ask me what is the best cat litter for a cat?

Speaker 3: 43:36

America's best cat litter. No, that ass no really like. That's my personal favorite.

Speaker 1: 43:46

Yeah.

Speaker 3: 43:46

Um, I used to be a big clay cat, litter kind of girly, only because, yeah, clay, so like tidy cat, for example, that's, or fresh, like fresh step, is another clay.

Speaker 1: 44:00

so literally it's gray.

Speaker 3: 44:02

I didn't know it was clay the thing about is I would get like the tidy cat clumping litter because it will clump fast. But if you have a cat that, let's say, will pee but will kind of step in once they cover up, the cat litter may step in. That it gets caught to their paw and as they're walking around that shit's coming off okay, so it gets over the house. If you're, you got your cat's in your room, in your bed. You have clay litter in your bed. Okay, not cool.

Speaker 3: 44:35

Yes, I was one of those girls that used to use clay. My cats right now they do stay in my room. So it was something where every day I was literally before I would get in bed like wiping off to make sure there was no clay. But I use corn. It's actually ground up corn. It's called world's best cat litter and I have a little robot. Shout out to those who use that Literally it's an automated cat box that cycles after my cat goes in there. I only have to change out the bag what? Probably once a week, but it clumps, but it doesn't leave that mess. So it doesn't leave it stuck to my cat's paws and it doesn't have an odor either. So it's really good for odor control.

Speaker 1: 45:22

Gotcha, gotcha.

Speaker 3: 45:23

You have different ones though. Some people use pellets, like you have pellet litter crystals, some people will use crystal litter. It's really just a preference, because some cats have a preference.

Speaker 1: 45:39

Yeah, I understand that, okay, and it's really just a preference, because some cats have a preference. Yeah, I understand, okay. And I guess another question would be when it comes to because you, you got to know me about this when it comes to treats for dogs, right. So when it comes to like, well, I'm going, I'm thinking more like all right, you have a bigger dog and you get them, like the pig ear or the deer antler or the um, what else? The, the hoof, like the, the, yeah, the ox hoof or whatever it's called, the little, the black joints or the horns and stuff like that. You know what, what's the? They sell them and they say it's for the dog and all that stuff, but what's the? Uh, I guess what. What do you think about those type of treats and stuff like that?

Speaker 3: 46:37

uh similar, like it depends on the dog, because some dogs are big uh chewers like they gotta. They have to chew on something and that may be a dog that can chew and be done with that bully sick or that antler within like an hour, for example, and some of them chew on it for a little bit. The problem for me is when the dog if you look at something, and it could be this long, okay, your dog could end up swallowing that thing whole potentially right, and so you have to be mindful right, so it's not going to come out on its own, so you have to take that dog to the vet because if it gets stuck you got to go to the ER.

Speaker 3: 47:19

Okay, the ones that are like circular, those are easy to get, like trapped on their like lower lip, like their lower mandible, for example. There are videos of dogs actually having to get sedated to have those taken off or like cut off, cut around the bone, like get the bone off of them. Or one person was actually able to physically maneuver it out of the dog's mouth. Same thing with toys, like if a dog can possibly swallow that toy.

Speaker 3: 47:46

you have a german shepherd and you give it a regular tennis ball, yeah, it could swallow that whole yeah okay, so treats, you have to be mindful of your dog and you have to figure out what is too, what is too small or what is big enough that my dog could possibly swallow this hole. And you may surprise yourself because you may never think that, oh, they could swallow that hole, yeah, and they end up doing it yeah so they're good. To me they're good, but it just depends on the dog gotcha.

Speaker 1: 48:22

Um, I will say also people, um, depending on your dog, don't go out and buy toys, trust me. I have done this many times. I have bought the butt plug, uh kong things and they don't work. I have, I have done the whole putting treats inside of it, freezing it, putting peanut butter, maybe like cream cheese, on. That's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying yeah on the outside of it.

Speaker 1: 48:48

But if you, if you buy one toy and the dog doesn't like he, they don't like pounce on it or like go for it. Don't be like, oh, let me try another toy and see if that works. Like, dude, look honestly, buy like get an old sock, get like a yeah a water bottle, put that water bottle into that sock.

Speaker 1: 49:18

There you go, that's a toy. Right and tie that motherfucker off, really nice, so they can't break through it or get it loose. That is a good toy. All this squeaky For me, for me personally, my dog. I don't like squeaky toys.

Speaker 3: 49:35

Good, you shouldn't buy squeaky toys. Like that's when I say foreign body, foreign body yeah, when I say foreign body literally like it's trapped and it has no way out. You got to go in and either surgically take that shit out or try to take a scope and go in their mouth and grab it. So squeaky toys are one of the biggest things that they see in the ER. That a dog has swallowed, socks for sure. Okay, stuffing of toys.

Speaker 1: 50:05

Yeah.

Speaker 3: 50:06

That's another thing because that can expand in their stomach and cause an issue. So it's you literally have to know your dog and I agree, don't buy a shit ton of toys and you'd be disappointed that your dog only picks probably the most basic toy of all of that and it could be the sock with a bottle in there. Let the dog go, take the dog to the dog on pet store with you and let them pick out the toy like. Let them smell around and figure out okay, I want this one or some dogs do.

Speaker 1: 50:33

They will pick it out for you or for themselves yeah, I wanted to um see if, um lexi, do you have anything that you want to ask? I know you don't have any pets or anything like that. Have you ever thought about getting a pet?

Speaker 2: 50:48

I think about it all the time like I want to get a dog or a cat. No, no, I'm not lying like because I love sunny, like she's amazing. I don't like being responsible for another living breathing thing. That part just keeps me up. You complain about that all the time. My question is segue into that what's the best pet insurance to get for your pet, because we talk about that often.

Speaker 3: 51:22

That's a good question. That's a really good question because there's more than one that I would say that I hear my clients either say they have or they go through. So, believe it or not, state Farm does have insurance for your pet. State Farm is one. Lemonade is another one. That's kind of one of the newer ones. Trupanion Trupanion is another that I see clients often get too. Those would probably be the big three I see the most yeah, yeah, gotcha. No, no, not state farm. My mom was like no, nationwide, nationwide. He said nationwide on his side. I remember him saying that about his dog. So, yes, he, nationwide, not state farm. It wouldn't surprise me if they did. But lemonade, lemonade, nationwide, trupanion are like three that I know off the top of my head. Okay, and with the pricing of stuff, that's a big thing.

Speaker 3: 52:29

People, clients, complaining about the pricing of services yeah, yeah, you. And they say it's supposed to be cheap. Pricing of services yeah, yeah, you, and they say it's supposed to be cheap. If our health is not cheap and it's pricey, what makes you think that your dog or cat's health is not going to be the same way? Okay, they got to have surgeries that cost money. That is why we are really advocating for clients that when they get a pet, get insurance. Don't even try to second guess it or oh, let me wait and see. You go wait and see, go fuck around and find out, okay, and your dog's gonna have an injury and guess what? You gotta pay all that out of pocket because you don't have insurance. So get insurance if you get a dog. Get a cat, definitely. If you have a dog. Cats and they, they a little bit different cats don't want to break shit as much as dogs do or get into stuff like that. But don't complain about it because you have to pay for that service now, um, are there two?

Speaker 1: 53:32

you told me about this too, but I want to do this. Are there certain breeds in, in your opinion, of like, let's say, I'll say, dogs that you're like? Why were these breeds even made? Like, hit me what you got. It is the beloved Frenchie. Okay, hit me, what do you got?

Speaker 3: 53:58

It is the beloved Frenchie, okay, french bulldogs in general, bulldogs, any, what we call brachycephalic breed, which tends to be your English bulldog, your French bulldog or your American bulldog. Yeah, those three, especially them two, frenchie and English bulldogs, they can't breathe, bruh, they cannot breathe. So they're actually banned in a couple countries, believe it or not.

Speaker 1: 54:26

I didn't know that they are.

Speaker 3: 54:27

Yeah, they're banned because of the genetic nightmare. They are because people same thing. People don't think if it's hot outside to you or if you think it's warm outside to you. Just imagine having a bulldog or a frenchie that barely has opened up nostrils trying to breathe. Usually they have to breathe with their mouth open and they have what we call elongated, elongated, soft palate. So what that means is like, if you look so it goes like this okay, what happens is when they're breathing in that air, this is flapping, like this, it gets stuck okay when it gets stuck, no air is able to go in.

Speaker 3: 55:11

Yeah, so it's trapping them. So let's say they're outside walking, doing a regular ass. Walk down the street For you, it's okay For them. They're like, oh shit, I'm about to die. Those are the ones that we don't have out in the heat like that. Frenchies, English Bulldogs I love a Frenchie that has a nose. How often is?

Speaker 1: 55:35

that a thing though.

Speaker 3: 55:37

Seeing a Frenchie with actual nostrils that are open.

Speaker 1: 55:40

Yeah.

Speaker 3: 55:42

I don't see that often. Usually you have to correction. People usually have to get surgery for them to correct that, to make it open. Even with that whole soft palate thing they have surgery for that. It's something called BOAS, it's like a brachycephalic obstruction. Airway syndrome is what that stands for. So a lot of times they'll have their nares corrected, their epiglottis, like soft palate, also resected or fixed so that way they can breathe better. They are higher risk. So frenchies, english or brachyce phallic in general they just pose a higher risk when it comes to general anesthesia, so putting them under because there's not a lot of air getting in for them and they're not able to push all of that out. So at least where I was uh doing my program at state nc state, after any breakers phallic breed had any type of anesthesia, they automatically went to an oxygen tank for like an hour that was a part of the protocol is that they get one hour free oxygen after they come from surgery, so that way they're okay.

Speaker 3: 56:50

They also don't take out the tube quick either. They wait for them to wake up fully. They also are in that tank, sometimes with the tube in, just to make sure they can breathe on their own. You can't do that, you just can't. I would get rid of them. But it's the glorified breed. Frenchies are glorified.

Speaker 1: 57:18

I want to hit you with like just fast round questions, okay, um, and you know you can take your time with it, but best breed of dog for with if you have children.

Speaker 3: 57:33

Uh Labrador.

Speaker 1: 57:35

Labs Okay For goldens Labs and goldens are good gotcha, gotcha um best dog for very athletic or very fit people that go running and stuff like that very active people I would say, like your cattle, dogs, like our shilling cattle, those or collies, border collies, I'll see.

Speaker 3: 57:59

Or healers Blue healers is another one, or another phrase. Those are the ones I would say I see the most. Labs too, if they're fit, if they already are fit.

Speaker 1: 58:11

Best breeds for, let's say, you wanted something for protection.

Speaker 3: 58:17

You could do a Cane Corso. A Cane Corso is one, a Presque Canary is another one, but they are not family-oriented dogs at all. Yeah, um.

Speaker 2: 58:31

Eh, that's a good.

Speaker 3: 58:32

Doberman.

Speaker 2: 58:33

Yeah, I got a question. I know he was going to cut in so I had to get my little moment. Yeah, go ahead. What's the best? Quiet breed, because I don't like wild barking dogs and I want a dog, so I need to know the best quiet breed.

Speaker 3: 59:03

Do you like big dog or small dog? If you had to pick, Give me one or both.

Speaker 2: 59:08

One or both. Okay so if you had a small dog. I mean, the test is pretty big, so we'll get there.

Speaker 3: 59:16

So if you had like a small dog that doesn't bark much, jeez, I feel like all the small dogs bark, that's the thing. Um, yum, yum, yum, yum, yum, I would say I don't really see that. Lexi, that's, that's a stretch. Um, maybe a Basenji Basenjis can be a little irritating for other people, but I've never heard them bark. I've heard them whine a little bit. A Shiba Inu they may or may not, these are breeds that I don't see often, but they are relatively quiet. Okay, large breed dog, that's quiet.

Speaker 1: 1:00:03

I don't really see too many greyhounds making noises alright good and for our, just for like our anime listeners and gamers and stuff. What is your take on uh corgis? Funny, you real funny what's your take on corgis? Yeah?

Speaker 3: 1:00:28

I love corgis. I do like I like if I. I'm a big dog girly. So if I had to pick a small dog, I tell people I'm like I would do a court, like I would pick a corgi. Corgis are cute. Boston Terriers to me are cute too. They're on the smushed face side. But yeah, that's my probably my favorite one. People say, oh they're, they're not always nice, they're a little bit too. This too I'm like. Well, the ones I've met have been really nice corgi wise.

Speaker 1: 1:00:57

So I love it are corgis kind of like overall, like pretty, are, let me ask you this are most corgis like purebreds, yeah, yeah all of.

Speaker 3: 1:01:10

I've never seen a crossbred corgi. If I did, maybe once, if that, but it was predominantly like a lab mixed with a corgi mixed with something else, which was something else, like it was compact into one.

Speaker 1: 1:01:25

I don't really see any corgi mixes has there been a mix of a dog that you saw and you were like damn that, actually that works.

Speaker 3: 1:01:40

Believe it or not, it was like an Akita mixed with German Shepherd. If it wasn't a German Shepherd within it, it had no, it was an Akita mixed with a German Shepherd. If it wasn't a German Shepherd within it, it had no, it was an Akita mixed with a German Shepherd. It was a big, yeah, very big dog, very handsome. He had the face it was mixed like. He had the black face of like an Akita and the ears a bit of an Akita, with the mix of Shepherd. His body was all Shepherd and the tail was Shepard. But you could tell like he was not purebred and I was like his tongue had the spottedness on it too. Yeah, a little bit of spottedness.

Speaker 1: 1:02:22

Damn.

Speaker 3: 1:02:23

Yeah, it was like one or two spots, but yeah, he was a good looking dog.

Speaker 1: 1:02:26

That's what's up.

Speaker 2: 1:02:39

You got um, you got other questions, uh, yeah, so I guess what would be the best dog for?

Speaker 1: 1:02:44

like first time pet owner, I?

Speaker 3: 1:02:46

can answer that one for you. I would say, really it really, because, no, it depends on the person and a person's personality. So that question is very loaded. So I can't say, oh, this breed will work for everybody. So, like how you made a comment about, oh, what is a breed that doesn't bark much? Okay, you may say specifically okay, I want a breed that doesn't bark much, or a breed that doesn't shed much of any hair. That can kind of guide you into what direction would be a recommendation for a first time pet. I would say the most cliche answer is a Labrador, like everyone always knows. Oh, labs, lab Puppies or Golden Retrievers those are always the ones we see all the time.

Speaker 2: 1:03:24

I love.

Speaker 3: 1:03:25

Petties. Oh, I love Petties. I'm a Pettie. I love Pitbulls. That's probably my number one well, number two favorite large breed dog. I was about to say that I love pit bulls. That's probably my number one Well, number two Favorite large breed dog. I love like a. I like great days, because I had a great day growing up, so that's always been a fave. But I like giant schnauzers. They're huge and I love their coats. So, yeah, but pitties, but pitties, pitties. Everyone has a pity and I always, I find a pity, like that's what we had in Alabama all the time.

Speaker 1: 1:04:00

What's? Yeah, I'll ask you. You got another one Lex.

Speaker 2: 1:04:07

No, I think I'm good Go ahead.

Speaker 1: 1:04:09

I was going to ask is there a when it comes to pits is? You know, all dogs have their, their, you know, have their uh pros and cons, but with with pits does. Does color matter when it comes to a pit?

Speaker 3: 1:04:30

No, but people, people make it. Some people make it look I want a to a pit. No, but people make it. Some people make it Look I want a red nose pit. I want a blue nose pit, bruh. Why? Because of just the look of it, like, oh, I want a red, I want a fawn one or like it's some type of red nose, like something boy not even some people want brindle pitties.

Speaker 3: 1:04:56

But it's one certain color, like red, that some people may go for. To me, as long as it's cute, friendly, I don't care the color, I don't care about that at all. But if it just so happens to be brindle, okay it's a brindle pity. But yeah, some people will. They want what they want, so they want a specific color. Be mindful you get a blue-nose pit. Prime example is Sunny. Sunny is considered a blue-nose pit. The coat, their coat. What happens with it is that they have something called color dilution alopecia. If you see Sunny's eyes, color dilution alopecia. So if you see something besides color dilution, alopecia there you go.

Speaker 3: 1:05:38

So what that means is, literally, because of their coat color, the hair comes out and it may grow back in. It may not. Or they may progressively continue to lose their hair because of their coat color, progressively continue to lose their hair because of their coat color. So I will see that in uh, doberman pincher. Like dobermans, for example, the ones that are not the normal brown and black, they're like this fawn color. That's not normal. Yorkies that are like silver that's not normal, that's crazy A silver lab.

Speaker 1: 1:06:10

Yeah.

Speaker 3: 1:06:10

Yeah, silver labs, that's not normal. Okay, so any or like bulldogs that are gray, anything that's not the normal, standard color of that dog. I will say a lot of times we'll see this skin. It's basically a cosmetic issue. We can't fix it at all. Yeah, and that really can piss off some clients because they are hoping that it is. But you chose this dog. Unfortunately, this is a con that could come with it and they may not see it in another dog that they have before.

Speaker 1: 1:06:42

It's just a pick, unfortunate pick that happens but yeah, and kind of, you know, kind of before we go, what is something that you would want people to know when it comes to selecting an animal? Or you know they're thinking about going and thing you know they're thinking about. You know what I think? I want to get a pet.

Speaker 3: 1:07:13

Do your research. You have to If you want a specific breed or you just want a pet in general, or if you want to, it's really if you get more specific. Because if you just say I want a dog, cool, you're kind of like that means you're open. But also be mindful if you pick a certain breed of dog, like beagles, they're gonna howl. Okay, if you don't want a dog, that's howling hounds. Don't get that kind of breed. So if you really are able to narrow down what the pros and cons, like what you want and what you don't want, that can help you on the long run.

Speaker 3: 1:07:48

And there are definitely these you know facebook groups out there which I personally am not a huge advocate for because they're not always that accurate when it comes to certain breeds of dogs. And clients will say, well, I read this on this Facebook group and it's like, okay, good for you, like good for you, but do your research. You can read you can read good for you, but do your research, you can read. Good, you can read that. That's something I always I suggest to clients or people if they want to get a dog and also like putting in their mind if you want to get a boutique breed, and when I say boutique I mean purebred. Be prepared, if you can pay for a boutique breed, that means you can buy a yacht, okay. And I say that so specifically because the health issues that come with different breeds of dogs and Christopher knows this too he he gets on me about it like okay, ty, what about a boxer?

Speaker 3: 1:08:48

and I go down a slew of what they tend to have niggas all the time so if you're like, okay, a dog, you want a dog to live a long time, you don't want to get a giant breed dog because they don't live that long. They live like seven to ten years, sometimes maybe a little bit longer small dogs they live a time. So if you want a dog to really grow up with your kids and go through college and all that stuff, you may want to consider a small dog. If you want something for protection, a big dog. If you have a baby, get that baby. Well, that dog, I commit it to the baby because it's just different dynamics. So you really have to figure out what is a family kind of dog versus not what is good for just one person and one person only. So research, research, research. If you don't know, reach out to a veterinarian. They may answer the questions for free, okay, or they may not. They may charge you, but they have dog books. They have different books out here for you to educate yourself too.

Speaker 1: 1:09:54

Yeah, yeah, cool, all right, awesome, awesome. Um. Lexi, do you have any other questions?

Speaker 2: 1:10:02

No Good.

Speaker 1: 1:10:04

All right, cool. Well, tyler, thank you for joining us on this podcast. I do appreciate it a lot. A lot of good information there. Yeah, it's very great to see where you are now Very proud of you, girl. I am A lot, you've done a lot. Shut up.

Speaker 2: 1:10:30

He has emotions.

Speaker 3: 1:10:33

They're in there, alright that's it.

Speaker 1: 1:10:35

The podcast is over.

Speaker 3: 1:10:39

I'm mushing for two seconds no more.

Speaker 1: 1:10:42

Thank you guys for joining us for another episode and we will see you guys again later. Alright, bye, bye guys.