a house into a town house or condo tony goes from a townhouse into a house gets a dog i don't downsize i yeah yeah and i honestly tried to talk her out of it but you  says who rescued two and i always say who is who yeah well he owns me sure but yeah he's definitely been a good companion a good watch dog and he's been good for me yeah you know he gets by get out and walk every day we do two miles when the weather's nice and then he goes out and plays in the backyard or walkabouts do you yeah  that i really didn't have very and it's given me that experience so it's it's given me a little bit maybe more compassion and understanding about things and then i've learned a little a lot more about the breed and i've become interested in dogs in general and so now on t v i might watch things like dr pole or other veterinarian type shows or animal shows that maybe i wouldn't have done before it's it's nice to have something in the house and know that he's there and him bark is you know they bark at anything that comes by they say the docks and bark at the wind and i think that's true i also have to have a schedule in a routine and when i was working of course you have that because your days are set at work and you have to be here to time that are the time in this and that any other thing when meetings then when you retire all of a sudden you have all this time on your hands it's not scheduled and most of my time before was always scheduled by everybody else more so than by myself so i had to kind of really learn how to schedule my day but with him in it he's very routine in likes to do the same thing and that's the thing about dogs in general they they were set pattern or set routine and when you vary it they become upset yes even their digestive tracks become upset yes you know if they go to the bathroom what four o'clock in the morning they're going to the bathroom or  sadly and although he's i mean i've been really blessed because i think this was a good match because i'm not a morning person and he's not either in fact i can get up and shower and get ready and he still under the covers waiting till the very last minute before he has to get up and he's good about self regulating at night he'll go into the bedroom and just lay on the floor in a little area i've set up for him and then he'll just kind off there and wait for me in the evenings if i don't want to spend time for these guys and that's so much with tucker because he depends on me to care around being a girl is everything but abby if i'm in a family room and she wants to go to bed and if i'm not in there she comes and gets me and looks at me and says like come on let's go you know and then if i don't go she eventually makes herself back up under the bed and goes to bed but you tell me hey what are you doing  you know you brought up something that's pretty interesting the go on in these walks and that helps your exercise on some days you don't feel like going for a walk but you know that he has to be right and so i have to get out every day every day and shine no matter what it doesn't matter we do and in the wintertime religious flea i'm out there walking which is good for me you know oh absolutely i mean i work out in addition to the walks i go to the gym and things but four sometimes even i take six out of the time which was ridiculous but i would try it sometimes but but i was walking least two miles a day to take three with me and then come back at the other history take them around and you got to know neighbors that you wouldn't see th live on the other side of the development and you've got to talk with them and know who they are and they know who you are that would've never happened if not at all exactly i think there just in my neighborhood alone within just a small area there were seven docks and really yes it was just kind of really neat that i had all these people around me that had oxen's either had i'm currently had had them before but you know they just love the common talk to him and pet him several years ago they were the number one dog in beverly hills california everybody was was in the dogs trying the stuff but but there are incredible dogs absolutely you know dogs are tell when i talk with her she tells me stories about him every day when i call my mother to check in with or so ask me how osgar is before we even get to us or the family has and that's out there and she loves my sister's  pretty he's been good for that you know he's he's a good talking peace and he loves to explore as you know these dogs look for small game and they're always sniffin and hunting in the noses to the ground so i'll go up  to peter's woods park or peters lake and he loves exploring there and so gives me different venue's as well and i can enjoy the scenery and he's happy i'm happy he loves it when i say let's go the park but i have never missed it i guess so that's a hard question for me to answer but you know he's just for a show sleep hungry all the time he can eat twenty four seven and so i have to really regulate his food in his intake of things so let's talk about what are the some of the things that you don't intentionally peed in that he's eating you know i know over the years you've had issues where he's consume things that he should not have been right you've had some issues with so what tell the audience some of those stories there are all well early on when he was a puppy i had an i pad in the house and i inadvertently dropped the i pad cloth cleaning class that comes with it i mean he was a pop he was like the size of your dogs and i couldn't find this clean cloth and couldn't find it in a dawned on me he ate it so we went down to the vet and the vets looking and you know he's breathing ok the whole symptoms didn't lose his appetite nothing but he lost the cloth than i can almost tell when he eats things like acorns i was telling you he cicadas when they were here this year when he was a puppy he would eat rocks any kind of cloth things squeakers if he swallows those things chances are he throws them up and that usually within twelve to eighteen hours i can almost set a clock by it so his stomach is very reject of foreign objects so i watch everything i like there's nothing on my floors that drops or falls because of him says he's going to go for it anybody ever give an explanation why he's like this i don't know you know you and i have talked before that he was a puppy mill dog then he was rescued by an organization so i don't know what his penchant is for these foreign objects he settled down now that he's six and it's not as much else and if i'm kind of walk away but there's something about the smell or acorns when they drop out of the tree i collect i literally comb the yard looking for them so there you go he doesn't eat them but you know what happens a grass cutters come in the wheels press the acorns into the ground ground yeah and he sniffs those acorns right there now he knows when i say that he just looks at me and then it falls right out of the mouth oh you've gotten to that point yes i have got early on i was like that but now he understands that he knows so the cicadas was they were tough he just like the crunch of those things but i can't give him things like bully sticks or things that are really long or dog biscuits that are long because he'll swallow them entirely just gulps and yeah not a good idea no you know and so they want to eat all the time and i substitute with carrots my neighbor grows beans green beans and that's what spurred so washed the green beans and put them in a little bag and hang them on the fence and he sees that he shoots right out there and he's barking and so i'll go what's a problem and then i see this bag of green beans and she always has w one real long one in there cuts the tips off and then i just hand it to him and he loves it he loves green bean tucker always love the apples yeah he likes samples too i'll cut little slices of apples when i have them and give them to him any kind of veggie that's good for him i'll let him have bananas he's ok with bananas blueberries he loves watermelon yeah these are these guys you know not too much because you can have a reaction yeah  but his stomach is pretty decent he doesn't react a whole lot yeah well that's pretty good i watch his intake of stuff too so what do you what do you do when you travel i take him to a local place  board is ok if i say it or you can ok fuzzy paws oh i know that they know that name they feel like it already loves it he loves to see that reaction i get he just he'll jump i want to go right down in the car and he can't get out of the car fast enough to go there and then when i pick him up he's ready to come home so you don't hesitate to travel because you know that he's taken care of there yes already in place a they  tell me he's very good they love him you know i bag all the food by day pre measured everything else so it makes their job easy for them to take care of them and they said he listens really well and they just they laugh because he's a burrowers you know and they said we will find him in the morning and so most like you can't find him because he's under that blanket so wrapped around and how they breathe under there oh yeah i often wonder that plays well with the other dogs which amazes me him once when he was a puppy i took him down to my sister's carol and i was outside of philly when you go to visit carol you don't take her with you because of her dog or right because it's like too noisy and  they blitz and has one of those invisible fences and so he can just run anywhere and i don't want him out running because if he sees a squirrel or a chipmunk and it goes and she lives on the country yeah or so it's just not going to happen  not free range i tried it you know i travel all over the place with these i'll take him up to church with me they love i'm up there too in fact when we have we host the homeless families and family promise and if i volunteer to sleep over night i take him with me so he sleeps overnight at the church with me so that's about the extent of our travels but it gives those kids a chance to see a pet because they just don't they lose their pets in the process so he's been good therapy for some people he's good with kids yes  long as these high school kids he was fine with his are more adult like but if they were little kids coming up with those high voices then he puts his tail between his legs and hunches down gets a little frayed have you thought about getting him out of compassion oh i think about it all the time i go on petfinder a lot and i'm looking i actually i love the black colored ones the smooth i'm into th the white markings that's interesting you see happen like a bit of white on his chest he's always had that is a pop abby was a black and tan brendel now she's a black and gray brindle and he was just a pure black and tan tucker and how are they you know tony it's hard to say because i rescued them i've had her eleven years and him ten and i would say they're probably levon to thirteen right in that range there you know i'm thinking she was maybe a tailor younger than him but not on mine is your docs have a long life span to go seventeen eighteen well my my crinkles lasted for eighteen and a half years shortest i've ever had one earliest i've ever had when we was twelve but usually about fifteen fifteen and a half so they have a pretty good lifespan they you know as you know they have trouble with their backs yes i mean i'm scared to define and i watch him tried to get a ramp but the ramp you know how ramps are for an inch or so many feet well it won't fit in my bedroom but he's pretty good i he lets me put him there he has me take him down there  dream it's really interesting to talk to her and i'm doing my best to try to commiserate become a holistic veterinary very interested in that i think you've really helped her put her on her way as i said she did the acupuncture she's taken classes  learning about alternatives to medications yeah the animals should be really helping animals and following that totally that medical model right that we live by she's the one that told me to give him the coconut oil a teaspoon of fish oil for every twenty five pounds so you know you make that but we won't tell so you said you so i you know i keep delaying the date all the time thinking maybe if he gets a little more docile and not so to he's very territorial in that house there can't be anybody like two or three houses down on all the way around in that perimeter that if they're even in his territory he goes nuts but i have the sofa at the back of the sofa bumps up against the window big window and she goes up on the back rest of the weather window looks like a watched those videos where they say you're very calm don't you know because they think that you're barking too so i'll go to the front door and i look out i don't see anything good to hug could talk for telling me good boy but it's amazing the way they pick up your just they're just protecting their home you know that's what his job is i told them that's your main job in life number two just two jobs one is keep me company in exercise for two to watch the house and then i'll and so the specialist took a look at it and asked me you know ask my vet myself was he in pain could he run could he jump was he walking ok and we was like yes yes yes yes so we actually recommended not to do any surgery if this dog was functioning he was afraid that the surgery could actually change his personality and because he was such a happy dog he didn't he recommended not to they just said keep exercising him so that's another keep his muscles strong keep the muscles strong so he walks he runs around the already chases his ball he is quick or you got to be pretty quick to be able to catch the chipmunks right and he said he's got to yeah and he's smart enough to know what  across my patio so my back yard just slopes a little bit and he sits up there and he waits and he watches them go back you know across and and he he knows how to corner them too which is interesting and he'll see them coming this way he go i have a shed there in the back he goes around the shed and surprises them and then they don't know what to do so the chipmunk panics and it comes back across the patio which is wall wall nobody right there where they were from the same letter there was a five zero he was sitting on the floor and there was a fly buzzing around constantly irritating him so he set up on his hind legs kept still you know this is  wish i had a camera and i had video this oh he picked up his paw he turned his paw this way like a cat now and he kept still and he's what i see him with his eyes he's watching this and all of a sudden he being amazed by what they do and how they are and you know that's what i've learned too and i've learned just fascinating things about the breed and you know how consistent they are from dog to dog and then of course  some of the behaviors transcend all breeds yeah as well yeah but yeah and there's there is a doc's a nice every once in awhile send you the crew so the celebrity datsun that little black he's a black miniature like yours he's so well behaved and he puts his costumes on and he barks when they want to bark and they dress him up this one i can't put anything on him he hates at all and even like wearing his little halter to put on to go out yeah these guys are like that to them nowhere in fact he loves to go for a walk but as soon as he sees me goes for the halter he runs and goes under the bed and he knows to go all the way under the middle of the bed his and then if i close the door he goes behind the couch and it's like a game with him we got to do this routine of you having to find me before we go for the walk and he watches my movement to see what i'm doing to see ok is she going to get ready and is she going to get you know her jacket or get the keys to the houses you hear that jingling well you know i know when i had already in crinkles they would actually i take them with me everywhere but when i go into the office you know see patients i wore a certain outfit to the office and they knew that they weren't coming with me that time so they wouldn't budge i'd stay on their beds and not move but if they so much on boots or shoes or