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🗓️ 13 February 2026

⏱️ 5 minutes

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0:00.0	Thank you for listening to my morning monologue.
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0:26.6	Dr.ora.com.
0:28.5	Update on bear.
0:30.4	For those of you who know that I was fostering a puppy in a kill shelter and I'm a foster fail.
0:40.0	I adopted the dog.
0:42.2	Crazy me.
0:43.7	I haven't had a night's sleep since.
0:46.9	Great training helps, but I still have to get up in the middle of the night
0:49.9	to make sure he gets to pee and poop.
0:51.5	So it's taking its toll. Nonetheless, he's 13 weeks.
0:58.8	I've had him three. Came at 10, so he's 13 weeks. He knows his name. He knows to wait when I put the
1:06.3	food in his bowl. He waits and looks at me until I release him to eat. I can throw something down and go
1:14.2	leave it and he looks at me and waits till I tell him he can have it. He sits. He comes here
1:22.1	and he goes down in 13 weeks.
1:30.6	Now, I think he's scarily smart.
1:35.1	I don't think I've ever had a dog, even the poodle,
1:38.7	who got things that fast.
1:41.6	I mean, I show him things, and I only do like five minutes twice a day training.
1:48.5	That's it, five minutes twice a day. And he sucks it up, soaks it up like a sponge, I should say.
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