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B: Oh, yeah?
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A: And so he often gets to smelling her scent and will go over there to sniff around and stuff
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A: but, he's pretty good.
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A: He stays out of the street
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A: and, uh, if I catch him I call him
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A: and he comes back.
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A: So he, he's pretty good about taking to commands and and things.
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B: Um.
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B: Did you bring him to a doggy obedience school or just train him on your own
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A: No
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A: we never did.
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B: and,
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A: I, I trained him on my own
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A: and, uh, this is the first dog I've had all my own as an adult.
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B: Uh-huh.
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A: We've had kid, or we've had dogs when I was a kid,
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A: but this, this is the first one that I, uh, took in,
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A: so I wasn't sure if I'd be able to get it all right the first time,
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A: but, uh, he, he seems to have picked it up pretty well.
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A: I never really to hit him or anything.
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B: Uh-huh.
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A: Just, you know firm tone of voice and those sorts of things.
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B: Huh.
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B: Really?
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A: I, I see other people out there
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A: and they hit their dogs and try to,
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A: and, and those horrible collars that they put on them with invisible fencing,
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A: least I,
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B: Invisible what?
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A: Invisible fencing,
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A: have you heard of that?
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B: No,
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B: what is that?
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A: 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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B: Oh.
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A: and then they wear a collar with a special little attachment on it
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A: and if they get too close to that perimeter, it it zaps them.
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B: Oh.
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B: Boy.
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A: Yeah
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B: I'd be afraid to walk around if I was that dog
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A: Yeah,
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A: well, a friend of mine at work here said that he tried it with his dog
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A: and he wanted to see what he was subjecting his dog to
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A: so he held on to the collar
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A: and he walked out to the perimeter.
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A: He said it was a good jolt.
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B: Oh, really?
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A: Yeah,
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A: and so, I, I don't take too well to, to those sorts of training techniques.
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B: Um.
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A: I don't think they're always necessary.
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A: If you put enough patience into,
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B: Yeah,
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B: just be consistent and diligent with it
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A: Uh-huh.
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B: and, um,
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A: It's, uh, is your cat an indoor cat or an outdoor cat?
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B: Yeah
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B: he's indoor and all declawed because I know the, uh, average life span of an outdoor cat is eighteen months.
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A: Somebody just told me that
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B: Yeah.
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A: because of the leukemia?
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B: Yeah,
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B: that and also just, uh, getting hit, I guess, or getting beat up.
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B: And the average life span of an indoor cat is eighteen years
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A: Wow.
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B: So,
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A: Quite a difference.
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B: Yeah.
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A: What, uh, what kind of climate do you have?
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B: Well, uh, it's, we just moved recently
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B: so now we're in the, uh, Dallas area
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B: and it's very very nice
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A: Oh.
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B: and,
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A: The only experience I have,
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A: I don't have any children
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A: but I've, uh, I was a baby-sitter in high school.
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A: And then, just recently, after we were married, I baby-sat for a dentist while she worked.
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A: And I just, uh ...
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B: <talking> Yeah.
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B: That's the only thing I've ever done also, is baby-sit.
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A: Is it?
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ery faint.
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B: But, uh, I've heard people that I work with talk about, you know, child care.
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B: Especially, I guess it's even harder on single mothers.
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A: Oh, yeah.
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A: The expense.
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B: Yeah.
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B: Having to pick up the kid by, you know, six o'clock
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B: or it's five dollars for every minute you're late.
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And stuff like that
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A: Uh-huh.
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B: Which is understandable.
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B: I mean, these people can't, you know, stay there till eight o'clock because somebody has to work late
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A: Just sit around
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A: That that's true.
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B: but
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A: See the lady I did it for,
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