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JN1012, certificate number 523

Custer the Wolf.

You have two dogs.

I do.

Which do you think is the top predator?

It's funny.

Well, actually Mindy just bought this reindeer at a consignment store that's exactly the same size and

color as our golden retriever with antlers and for one thing the dog stuffed reindeer

no she bought a real reindeer yeah yeah Christmas party decoration I think she thinks but the dogs are like who is this intruder and they just

stalk and growl at it all day and I keep thinking it's one of the dogs all like out of

the corner mile I'll be like why's the dog still standing there oh right it's it's you

Comet the dogs have not

figured out by using their nose and other senses that this is not a dog? It took a

couple days. We have a very neurotic golden retriever who to this day if I walk in the room holding, let's say, a cookie sheet will freak out and run behind a chair with her tail between her legs because what's that thing? Now we've had

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