This is an All-Eirs English podcast episode 116,

why Americans are pet crazy.

Welcome to the All-Eirs English podcast

where you'll finally get real native English conversation

and fluency for business and life. We believe in connection, not perfection, when it comes to learning English.

Now here are your hosts Lindsay McMahon, the English adventurer, and Aubrey Carter, the Illed's Whiz, coming to you from Arizona and Boston, USA. Americans are crazy about their pets. In this episode learn all about

designer dog culture and how Americans view their animals.

Listen in to compare this with your culture today.

Hey there, Aubrey, How's it going today?

Hi, great, how are you? We just got back from Mexico a couple days ago.

Oh yeah, that's right. How was your trip to Mexico?

It was amazing. It's the best place to go with kids because you've got the beach right there.

There are so many resorts in Mexico where you're right on the water and it's quite inexpensive at least compared to California which is

our other option yeah just immersed in the culture and I had some amazing

opportunities to speak Spanish I was gonna ask yeah I think for the first time, you know, people were responding to

me in Spanish and I was able to have these great conversations instead of responding

in English because their English was so much better than my Spanish.

Oh, it's awesome.

That's fantastic.

Wow, you sound very refreshed and you know, you sound like you've been traveling,

so that's a really good feeling, right?

It is, right? Some trips you come back and you're like oh I need a

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