Hi everyone welcome to the Golden Ratio podcast I'm Jen Gee or mom joined as always by G your dad and it's a special episode of

the podcast to celebrate slash mourn the sizzle adoption by the Nelson family with Matt Nelson and Zoe of

we rate dogs slash dog rates slash dog feelings slash thoughts of dogs

of West Virginia and the internet.

Yep and Zoe okay Zoe on Instagram.

It is bittersweet.

Yep.

So let's give you the whole background on it. You obviously know about

Sizzle. If you don't you can go listen to our two previous Sizzle episodes and

yeah so Matt and I have been kind of pals via the internet. He's rated the dogs a bunch of times and then, you know, we kind of got to talking on the internet. We have talked on the phone. We've met before he and his mom have come over to visit when they were in town.

They're awesome.

Yep, we're pals. His mom is also awesome. And so we talk pretty regularly, well we internet talk pretty regularly, and they had been looking for a while to maybe get a friend for Zoe and we had a golden come into the rescue that

they had thought about adopting that we had thought about adopting and kind of

just wasn't the right dog for either of us and so when we got...

Wasn't the right dog for them and then it wasn't the right time for us because we were actually

going to have that dog come to visit right when KASO had the incident with the foreign object.

So I was like, this is not a good time. We have a foreign object.

And so, yeah.

Yeah, we thought KASO might not make it, right?

Then it was a very serious, it's like funny now, but it was very,

it was, you know, she's 13 serious business, yeah.

Yeah, yeah yeah for sure yeah and like nursing her back to health as

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