Ep. 442: Houndations - The Dangers of Impulsive Puppy Shopping
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🗓️ 31 December 2025
⏱️ 17 minutes
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This week, Tony talks about how time and a little due diligence go a long ways toward finding the perfect pup.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:09.0 | Hey, everyone. |
| 0:09.9 | Welcome to Foundations. |
| 0:10.8 | I'm your host, Tony Peterson. |
| 0:12.0 | And today's episode is all about taking the right approach to researching your new puppy. |
| 0:23.8 | It's a pretty good idea to not be overly impulsive in life, at least when it comes to |
| 0:28.0 | the big decisions. You know, you wouldn't want to marry someone you met a week ago |
| 0:31.4 | any more than you'd want to buy a house like just on a whim, you know, that kind of thing. |
| 0:36.2 | This also goes for getting a new furry best friend |
| 0:38.7 | who is very likely to be with you for at least the next decade. |
| 0:42.8 | Yet a lot of folks will, you know, not put very much thought into their next puppy, |
| 0:47.6 | you know, about as much as they'd put into what they're going to have for dinner tonight. |
| 0:50.7 | That's a mistake, and it's something I'm going to talk about right now. |
| 1:04.4 | In a past life, I managed a restaurant in southeastern Minnesota, where we had the typical ensemble of servers, cooks, dishwashers, et cetera. There are plenty of stereotypes to go around |
| 1:10.7 | when it comes to the restaurant working |
| 1:12.2 | crowd, and many of them are warranted. |
| 1:15.1 | A lot of them center around folks who, let's just say, aren't the most reliable |
| 1:19.4 | workers you can find. |
| 1:20.8 | So when you did find someone who could show up on time and handle the job, you would |
| 1:24.6 | try to keep them around. |
| 1:26.2 | One of those folks that I had was a younger |
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