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Welcome to AMR Answers. This is Sarah Bowen-Shea.

And this is Dimity McDowell. Nice to talk to you, Sarah.

Yes, you too, dim you as the mother of a gainfully employed college graduate. I've heard such things exist.

I know, I know.

Well, so this morning, I was just, we were just talking, usually we talk about something workout related.

And I did do a workout this morning with our many happy miles crew.

We did some side plank, some glued bridges, some, what else we do?

It was a, it was mostly a matte one, bird dog, not bird dog.

I always get bird dog and dead bug mixed up. Is it a bird? Is it a bug? Is it dead? Is it flying? Is it what? Yeah, we did a couple of different things. But anyway, so but I had to cut it stopped exactly at 730 because I had to be, well, I had two big things this morning. They're not fitness related.

I took RuPaul, which is our new dog, to her tryout, her audition, her interview, shall we say,

at Doggy Daycare. For the drag show? I know. I wish. I wish. Yeah. So she got had to have a quote unquote interview where she has to stay there for three hours. And I'm like, oh, you can keep her for eight. Wait, wait. That's okay. Oh, it's, oh, it's to see if she can go into the, if the daycare will accept her. Exactly. Yeah. Oh, I remember that. Oh, yeah. Yeah. See if she's, she's very, very mouthy. That's another word for bites like

a mother. And it's not, it's not aggressive bites, but holy cow it hurts. I mean, oh my gosh, she is very mouthy. We're working on it. I mean, I have to say, like, it was funny when I filled out the, we got her from the Weimarana Rescue Society. It's called Mile High Wymeran or something here in Denver. And that's where we got Mason. He was a Weimaraner and a lab mix. And so that's kind of what we were looking for too, because I really liked that combo.

And they were like, you know, are you ready? You know, when you fill out the application, like, are you ready to spend like $2,000 on this dog in a year? And I'm like, oh, sure, you know, like, you know, like, no, but you know, like you have to, you know, bet and training and equipment. And I mean, all that, you know, like you never know, right? I mean, pets are expensive, you know?

And I was like, oh, sure, yeah, okay, sure. And then, you know, I'm like, okay, you know, now we're in the hole for, I mean, it's, it's all good, but we have not spent $2,000 on her yet. But I'm just saying, like, okay, we had to have like some private training because like Banjo goes crazy. Like we know Banjo from this podcast, right? So he's very, yeah, very, very howly.

And, you know, and then she gets in his face and it's just, you know, there's just a lot going on.

It's a lot of canine chaos. So. And so yeah, so now I'll add a daycare because she's just, she's eight months old. You know, she's got a lot of puppy energy, a lot of puppy energy. So I completely remember when Augie went to his evaluation. I'm just like, I just need a day where I can like get stuff done, not have him be on, you know, just following me around and all this stuff.

And also he, we, he came to us later.

I mean, well, not compared to Rupal, but he was about five months old.

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