faces all the audience janes with his with his art show and tony with her let's compute and we have an interesting show today i'm so excited to talk about it because we have two people here that grew up really without  adult life become dog rescuers right jim has the last what three years now having you come on the show and talk about how your adoption of of oscars changed your like both in a surly positive but a little bit of a negative way well so can you tell us a continuation of your story here  where we're you know with oscar well oscar turns three in july and his got to date is in october that's when i got him and so that'll be the third year and he's helped me the east through retirement and we take walks every day and thankfully because the him i am medication free and have no more diagnosis of hypertension so it is true that if you get a dog and you know that's that's not a myth actually we had a nice trip but with during the day if i'm going to be out for a long time and i know he needs to be let out or whatever that's the tough part for me is like work my routine reasons i asked him to come on you are very active doctors are too but little less less active than trying to run right so you have to walk your dog all day so you had an ok yeah i was walking great see in our neighborhood and just about a half a block from the dog a neighbor's dog shot out from nowhere really came out of nowhere and attacked what type of dog dog stopped walking when they got to be some time seven years old eight years old that kind of like to walk a mile around the neighborhood and they kind of one day just kind of collectively said we're done with that and i was actually kind of done with it because my dogs were attacked twice in the course of the time i had six walk through the time carried one and walk two in time and it's hard to defend the dog when you're out doing that so i know you walk oscar have you had any concerns with animals coming up in attempting to harm oscar or you they've always been with their owners and one time in the neighborhood he was with a bunch of kids and so the guard was down a little bit and one of the kids brought her dog and the dog lunged forward oscar and you know ducks and don't like anybody in there and so they got into it and he somehow he was in his harness he slipped out and this one snapped and the other dog went away and so and the second time another dog came walking towards him and got right in his face and he snapped again and the dog let him go so he can defend himself in a sense but now he's very anxious around bigger dogs in the air that he doesn't know in the neighborhood and so his  walk my dogs neighbor and everybody had dogs watching dog fences which i think are ridiculous for this very reason they very rarely per prevent the dog from scraping the dog will take the shock to get out the dog will not take the shock to come back in but i'd walk what's known fences in the yard and you're sitting there always on dog runs out tap you know you're walking a couple of hogs and i'm picking picking one dog up and leaving the other dog away and kicking with my feet to get the dog away from my dog it was crazy but one day i was walking the dogs just at the actually got back to the front of the house ready to walk up the driveway and the neighbor had a brown lab beautiful lab i used to go pet it talk to and so forth it was a rescued lab and the i'm talking to my neighbor and we must have been there ten minutes and i had three with me sugar was our leash just sitting there and this lab grab sugar by by the neck picked her up started to throw an error i pulled the lead and and of course neighbors were all upset there was no damage done for the person at my dog's neck and i was done number one of the dogs it was ok too innocent they came home and then they came out we had already passed their property and the dog came running from behind i didn't hear he didn't hear it and they stopped and it was like a face off and i had my stick there  off no i didn't know what commands the dog knew right and go home and they called the dog in the dog started to slowly inching up in this one didn't he doesn't catch anything but you know hopefully more so than he did we were told that you should always when you're walking the dog be in between your cell the your dog hear you and then the other people on the other side so that they sense a barrier and that you're bigger and that you're protecting your dog and so the other dog supposedly shy away doesn't always happen of the six talks and collect collectively had one  time for them could walk without the lead would not stray within six inches for me i could walk anywhere with mice and take them on the trail in the old days before the leash law went in and walk them on the trail i'm concerned it was and i was uncertain of them who it was you know concern of another dog coming after them so that's what you just said sounds like a pretty good idea i didn't follow that fortunately with those couple i didn't have any issues i actually try to avoid walking him on the trail to much of much rollerbladers bikers yeah  way it's kind of just the road is just for the two of us and we have like a couple of miles tracks that we do but if i know it's a name or is a barking dog i just totally avoid that area and it's somewhat negligence of the owner of the dog word quick word is i agree be vigilant people where i don't wear headphones when i walk i know what's going on in i'm always looking around and course now he turns around all the time this was a terrific show because it helps educate staff thank you so much such an excellent job always thanks so much for watching let's talk healthy pets we'll see you next time never a healthy dog is a happy dog i tend to forget the say that but that's the truth a healthy dog is a happy dog and a happy