Now we're up to our long-distance dedication and this one is about kids and pets and a situation that we can all understand.

It's from a man in Cincinnati, Ohio and here's what he writes.

Dear Casey, this may seem to be a strange dedication request but I'm quite sincere and it'll meet a lot if you play it.

Recently there was a death in our family. He was a little dog named Snuckles but he was most certainly a part of us come start again.

I'm coming out of the record. Play the record, okay?

Please.

See when you come out of those up-tempo God damn numbers man is impossible to make those transitions and then you got to go into somebody dying.

You know they do this to me all the time. I don't know what the hell they do it for but God damn it if we can't come out of a slow record.

I don't understand it. Is down on the phone?

Okay, I want a God damn concerted effort to come out of a record that isn't a f***ing up-tempo record every time I do a God damn death dedication.

Now make it and I also want to know what happened to the pictures I was supposed to see this week.

I wish you could see what's happening right here at the Burbank Springs Broadcast Center. There's never been a more appropriate visual image or real life experience as it ties in with the theme of the show right now we're doing our three pet special shows yesterday or actually the last two days and then today and as it's all happening my actual pet Rudy is becoming quite.

I don't know antsy because as I mentioned a lot recently she knows that when I say no mountain to tall she knows what that means somehow and so it's very like triggering for her and I've now said it because we've recorded three shows already today I've said it three times and so she is not happy with me she thinks it's time to go have her dinner.

I'll tell you what if she latches onto my finger and won't let go tiny Tim style I'm sending through her to a farm somewhere to be with snuggles hi everybody welcome to the program it's episode 2758 in a collector series thank you for tuning in thank you for letting me and Andrew get about our travel plans which means we're bringing you these special episodes hope you're enjoying them they've been weird as you might have predicted and I have only had minimal pet talk and here we are on the final final one.

The final one well ski welcome back to the show can you hear the dog and my usually when there's noise in the background I overestimate how audible it is are you hearing any of this.

Let me turn up yours it sounds like a leaf blower just kidding have I told you I can definitely hear that now what's going on are you messing with her though because I mean I know that she gets antsy but trying to do the damn show really I've never heard her be that vocal during a show before.

I know she's like I'm honestly a little bird Rudy Rudog I feel like she's she's really tiny Timming me right now and I'm scared.

I feel menaced in my own broadcast studio I want to be there hearing her go crazy just makes you want to be there and so I can play with her.

I know it's kind of heartbreaking because she's cycling through all the things she thinks will get her the outcome she wants so she's like you know whining

whining and kind of jumping up on me and then she'll sit for a moment and kind of like she'll try that approach she's trying to care and the stick and that's the problem speaking of carrots I got this crudite you know veggie.

Platter thing that carry bought at the grocery store and I've been kind of munching on that as we've been recording show after show after show and I keep giving her just to calm her down.

Rudy not carry that is I keep giving Rudy carrots which I think I feel like of all the things I could overfeed her like vegetables like are pretty harmless but I don't know is there a limit to how many carrots I should be feeding her I don't want to mess with her system.

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