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I can understand that
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Because I ,
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Get away with that a little bit more with pets than you can with kids
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Uh - huh .
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How about you ?
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Well , we have a cat who 's also about 4 years old .
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Oh .
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And he 's our spoiled child right now , too
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Uh - huh .
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And he also sheds a lot .
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Yeah .
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But , we , uh , we hope to get a Golden Retriever someday .
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But we figure we 'll get the kids and then the , the dog
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That 's probably a good idea .
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They 're good though .
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Uh , have you ever had a Retriever before ?
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No ,
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but my husband had one when he was growing up .
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Because I , I find that they 're good around other animals like cats and other dogs .
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They do n't tend to get real jealous or territorial .
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They like to play .
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Um .
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Especially with the kids .
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They love to play with kids .
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Is , is your dog an inside and outdoors ?
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No ,
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he 's pretty much an inside dog .
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Um .
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He stays in .
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We , we 're kind of in a , not a real busy neighborhood , but more so than I 'd want him to be out too much
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and he does n't like it if we tie him outside .
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Oh , really ?
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He 's really a wimp .
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And when it comes to being alone ,
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uh , now if you give him the freedom to walk around and go wherever he wants , he likes that ,
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but he does not like to be tied outside .
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He 'll , he 'll just bark and bark and bark .
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Um , when he gets outside , does , in , does he run away and then eventually come back ?
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No ,
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he 's , uh , taken to the training pretty well
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and , uh , he knows where our yard is
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and we have a pretty small yard ,
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but he seems to know the boundaries .
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Um .
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And he usually is good about staying within them ,
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although our next door neighbors have a dog , too
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and , uh , she , she is good friends with my dog .
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Oh , yeah ?
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And so he often gets to smelling her scent and will go over there to sniff around and stuff
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but , he 's pretty good .
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He stays out of the street
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and , uh , if I catch him I call him
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and he comes back .
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So he , he 's pretty good about taking to commands and and things .
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Um .
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Did you bring him to a doggy obedience school or just train him on your own
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we never did .
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and ,
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I , I trained him on my own
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and , uh , this is the first dog I 've had all my own as an adult .
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Uh - huh .
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We 've had kid , or we 've had dogs when I was a kid ,
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but this , this is the 1st one that I , uh , took in ,
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so I was n't sure if I 'd be able to get it all right the first time ,
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but , uh , he , he seems to have picked it up pretty well .
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I never really to hit him or anything .
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Uh - huh .
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Just , you know firm tone of voice and those sorts of things .
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Huh .
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Really ?
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I , I see other people out there
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and they hit their dogs and try to ,
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and , and those horrible collars that they put on them with invisible fencing ,
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least I ,
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Invisible what ?
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Invisible fencing ,
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have you heard of that ?
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No ,
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what is that ?
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It 's , uh , it 's a system you can put in your yard where you bury these little , uh , transducers or emitters in your yard at the perimeter
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Oh .
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and then they wear a collar with a special little attachment on it
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and if they get too close to that perimeter , it it zaps them .
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Oh .
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Boy .
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Yeah
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I 'd be afraid to walk around if I was that dog
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Yeah ,
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well , a friend of mine at work here said that he tried it with his dog
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and he wanted to see what he was subjecting his dog to
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so he held on to the collar
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and he walked out to the perimeter .
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He said it was a good jolt .
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Oh , really ?
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Yeah ,
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and so , I , I do n't take too well to , to those sorts of training techniques .
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Um .
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I do n't think they 're always necessary .
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If you put enough patience into ,
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Yeah ,
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