Hello and welcome to Forever 35, a podcast about the things we do to take care of ourselves.

I'm Dori Shafrier.

And I'm Elise Hugh, and we're two friends who like to talk a lot about serums.

Indeed, we are.

How's it going, Elise?

It's going well.

This is a Monday episode where we're going to have a very cool conversation coming up with some guests.

But I feel like we haven't caught up that much over the course of the last weeks or last week or so because I'm coming back

from some time away. So I need to update you and update the listeners on the latest misadventures

of Oscar the Golden Retriever. My God, Elise. I'm not laughing at you. I'm more laughing like ruefully.

Yes. It's a rueful laugh.

For any listeners who are new to the show and have missed the various chapters in Oscars, he's not even a year old yet.

He'll be a year in about three weeks from now. And he has already had open abdominal surgery, like a major abdominal surgery to remove a squish mellow that he swallowed on New Year's Eve, 2024.

And then had to, had a subsequent hospitalization in April after swallowing some other like bouncy ball, some rubber thing that his

intestines couldn't pass. Surprise, surprise. His intestines couldn't pass a giant rubber

bouncy ball. And that had to be like, they had to give him lots of fluids so that it eventually

passed, we think, like, don't know. And then this week,

after he jumped up on the table while we were eating dinner and stole a corn cob off of Ava's

plate. What? A corn co? He has not learned, yes, he has not learned place. So we are, we have a

trainer who comes over and has us work on things.

And like one of the key things for puppies to learn is place.

So he has a place to go to and we can tell him to go there.

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