my family wants us to get a dog but I don’t think it’s the right thing to do I’m Dallas dear from Australia let’s talk about that good mythical morning today’s episode is brought to you by Orabrush did you know that 90% of all bad breath comes from a dirty tongue you don’t want dog breath you should let your dog have the dog breath and you have nice breath and I suppose you could use that on your dog but not recommended for dogs recommended for dog breath and people who don’t want dog breath pick it up it or brush calm or CVS or Walmart alright it’s a new week it’s fresh once again still don’t have an air freshener in here but what can you do you just keep we keep forgetting I had a spend then we keep smelling special little event this weekend what I didn’t go anywhere special I didn’t have any sort of special festivities but my family dog sat that sounds violent it’s not a sport that’s not when you put your children on large dogs and have them joust which could be a good idea that is when I’m gonna write that down that’s when you take care of someone else’s dog I took care of babysitting for a dog you babysat for a dog two dogs one of them was a Great Dane and if you do not know anything about Great Danes they are very large dogs this dog could have easily eaten both of my children if Great Danes were in that kind of thing so if you got down on like your knees in your hands it’d probably be as big as you well we’ve got it we’ve got a picture of my seven-year-old son next to the dog just to give you an idea of how big this dog was and your seven-year-old is 6 feet tall he’s 7 foot 3 is very tall for his age so if you get any idea of how big this dog is his name is Waldo Waldo and Gus Gus the guy his golden retriever how brother are they’re not really brothers but you know they live there like step brothers they’re in the same house have the same parents brothers from a different month adopted adopted brother I hope they’re both adopted because humans can’t have dogs it has been tried so and these were these dogs in the house I hope not yeah they were you they were in the house they slept in the house in fact the Great Dane Waldo you have to you have to put a blanket over Waldo when he goes to bed and he’s like so docile he’s just like he’s so big and he’s sitting there with this blanket over him and then like we put him he he he thinks he’s trapped with another blank we put in to bed a little bit early and then with the kids when the kids went to bed at like 9:00 and then he kind of came out we had guests over and he kind of comes out to the live room and he’s got the blanket draped on him like a like a royal coat of some kind hello oh he speaks – oh hello I need to pee please pick you look actually looks like you talk like this his name is Walt Anq about it uh but anyway we how did it go it went it went great they mean I see you don’t have the dog now I work in your backyard this is where our studio is we there’s a there’s a yard we got rid of the dog there are no huge dogs we got rid of them but and by that is the sensational way of saying we gave them back to our friends Nick and Alison after they came back from the thing that they were at their rightful owners and the dogs were happy to see him the boys my two boys were sad to see the dogs go now one of the reasons that we’re babysitting the dogs or dogs sitting the dogs is because my wife and my two kids Locke and Shepherd are putting the pressure on Daddy to get a dog now that we’ve moved to California we have a house with a backyard were settled in you know and you know the kids are happy to be here but she’s just like Jessie’s like we just get him a dog you know let’s complete the family let’s get a dog so they’re like going on these adoptive websites and stuff and showing me pictures the dog she’s emailing me pictures of dogs texting me pictures of dogs trying to pull it the heartstrings so we can get a dog but let me tell you a writer state you in your stances if you don’t want a dog my stance is I love dogs I love your shirt because it has a dog on it but this is as close as I get to owning a dog a flattened one that is on my shirt yeah I I like dogs – I’m especially like I’m on a t-shirt I’m a dog person between the dog person and a cat person I have a dog person I like dogs I’ve had dogs in the past the reason I don’t want a dog is because I feel that I am cursed and I’m not speaking in some sort of like voodoo sense but my track record with dogs in the past lends me to believe that this is just not a good idea let me tell you a couple of quick stories first dog we ever owned when I was a kid sandy sandy ran away now this isn’t Police Creek right but we scream remember this dog mm-hmm we had sandy for maybe a couple months sandy runs away we weren’t mistreating sandy she’s just like I’m out of here I gotta go got to figure out where the creek is and Buies Creek and she ran away and then the second dog we got Beauty the black dog Black Beauty you know I don’t remember Beauty yeah cuz she was there for a few weeks and then she checked out too she she she went crazy she she just went nuts she ran away she ran away because we went to pick peaches at a peach orchard and we were like let’s let Beauty run around she loves peaches she loves him so much she stayed there she left we can never find her again and we I mean I was heartbroken both of these times because I was a young kid we never had a dog again as a family until I got married to my wife Jessie and I actually found a dog in the woods while I was working now I used to work in the woods and was it was it a peach orchard woods I know it wasn’t the same dog and it was the older he wasn’t sandy it wasn’t like an old decrepit say wasn’t sandy your beauty it was a puppy a little small puppy you remember gypsy we always end with a why got in with a why and well I don’t think you do we adopted gypsy took care of her she was not a pretty dog but we loved her she grew up to be about a year old oh yeah I do remember the ugly dog yeah we were down at the beach with my wife’s parents and sandy no gypsy jumped the fence and I and I heard screech tire boom go outside the dog is dead oh no my wife is pregnant with our first child at the time she’s totally emotionally unstable then her dog dies that’s why you named your first child gypsy no that’s not how the story ends she cried for a week we buried the dog it was just a solemn I saw I was like oh this is hard then a couple years later this I mean we’re talking this is bury the dog in a peach or no we did this is this a couple of years ago a couple years later after gipsy um there’s a my in-laws dog has puppies I already noticed a trend Hey I would even call it a track record okay with dogs friend and they I actually witnessed the birth of these puppies I filmed it on video I filmed the birth of this dog that we then adopted on video so I was there at its birth so I felt like its father in a lot of ways but that dog was embarrassed and I we took the dog nobody wants to be filmed while giving birth trust me at this time I named the dog Merle it was a girl and I named it Merle because I’ve always wanted to name a dog after my favorite country music singer favorite singer of all time what happened to the why what happened to the why cuz Myrtle II sounds stupid so it named it Merle it’s your rule you can break it right so we have Merle for a little bit and we get to know separately from this we get to know some friends lance and Lacey they spent some time in Egypt where they adopted two dogs of this special Egyptian breed their plan was to come back to the States breed these dogs together and then sell this special breed of dog in the United States okay one of the dogs tragically died in like a leash choking incident like not they didn’t kill it but it was just like it got caught up in something were you there I was not back there it had nothing to do with this so they were left with one dog that this is a precious dog Chantilly they travel all the time in fact he’s at Oxford University now but they were going to Turkey and Lance unless you’re like can you guys keep our dog we keep the dog in our backyard in Fuquay we had a nice little backyard so we had Chantilly and Merle they get along great but Chantilly is a little bit of an acrobat and can she can open the gate and get out the gate so it happened two or three times we were bring them back and we put them back there so let me get this straight you were keeping Chantilly and she opened the gate and ran away well is what it is you know there’s a common denominator here and it’s you well it gets a lot worse than her running away one morning put the kids to bed we kept this is gonna get ugly people I’m sorry this is just a fact this is why I don’t want a dog we had Chantilly for about a week in about three or four days into that week I get up that morning and Jessie’s like the dogs are gone we’ve got to figure out a way to keep them in there so I start going around the neighborhood looking for him and I get into somebody I’m going like in between people’s backyards and stuff you know it’s North Carolina you can just walk through people’s yards there’s no fences or anything except in my yard and I see Chantilly dead completely untouched completely didn’t get hit by a car anything just sleep like that she had fallen asleep and died right there and then about a hundred feet from her if I’m Merle also dead what they had both gotten into some kind of think they were in a cult and I’m poison or something like so yeah we think somebody might have poisoned him honestly but okay so that’s not the worst of it I’m dog sitting for somebody’s dog who is in Turkey now I had it’s very precious and they’ve only been our friends for like six months I have to call them on their turkey trip to tell them that their dog died under my care so we call him up he’s probably email gibbous yep right get I wanted to email him get him on the phone I’m like hey how you guys doing they’re like oh good glad you called you know we’re doing great turkeys awesome and um you got to get right to that Indian and I’m like you can’t be like how you do it hey small talk whether Tara quizás what they were doing that I got to be like hey I said listen I’ve got something very serious to tell you yeah Chantilly and Merle got out of the fence and apparently got into some kind of poison and they’re both dead silence and they were they I mean they took it incredibly well you could have added something like and now they’re in the great peach orchard and dog heaven that was I don’t think they would have taken it well they took this picture of meeting peaches and frolicking with sandy and beauty and this peach marmalade you know balls full of things that dogs love and dog heaven the moral of the story is every dog that I have ever cared for by no fault of my own is now dead doesn’t matter you’re gonna lose you’ll get a dog and my wife wants to bring another one into this house you’ve already lost you’ve let other people’s dogs come in here and they haven’t died you’ve had a great experience oh we can do that it’s over ma’am you’re making really making light of this I mean two dogs lost their lives under my care more than that I count at least four well I’m gonna blame the other ones on my parents don’t don’t don’t do that to another dog man your your your family needs to I don’t want to do it to another dog I don’t want a dog I want to admire dogs from a distance but I don’t want anything to do with taking care of the mythical we love what do we call that endings Wheel of Mythicality it tells us how to end whatever it says to do we’re gonna do shout out to librarians shout out to librarians okay you went to school you got a degree in library science we know about that we know about the Dewey Decimal System yeah and you know what you’re watching us because you’re so smart with the Dewey Decimal thing and that’s 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