Episodes We Love: Pet Dilemmas
Dear Sugars
WBUR
4.5 • 5.9K Ratings
🗓️ 19 April 2019
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
This week, adventures in animal ownership! The Sugars, along with Julie Barton -- author of the memoir "Dog Medicine: How My Dog Saved Me From Myself" -- answer letters about pet dilemmas and the ways these creatures affect human relationships. This episode was originally published on August 26th, 2017.
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| 0:00.0 | Produced by the ILAB at WBUR Boston. |
| 0:14.0 | The universe has good news for the lost, lonely, and heart sick. |
| 0:18.0 | The sugars are here, speaking straight into your ears. |
| 0:22.0 | I'm Steve Olman. |
| 0:23.0 | I'm Cheryl Strayed. |
| 0:24.0 | This is Dear Sugar's. |
| 0:28.0 | Oh dear song, won't you please? |
| 0:35.0 | Share some better sweet days with me. |
| 0:42.0 | I check my bell vibes every day. |
| 0:50.0 | Oh, and this sugar, you see in my way. |
| 0:58.0 | Hi, Steve. |
| 0:59.0 | Hi, Cheryl. |
| 1:00.0 | So today we are the much anticipated episode on cats and dogs. |
| 1:05.0 | Yes. |
| 1:06.0 | We promised it because whenever we do those pet questions, we get a lot of mail. |
| 1:13.0 | And I'm sort of famous for always siding on the side of the cat. |
| 1:19.0 | Whoever loves the cat most to me is always right. |
| 1:23.0 | I'm an absolutely unrepentant cat lady. |
| 1:27.0 | And as long time listeners know, grew up poor many years of my life with a single mom for a big chunk of my childhood. |
| 1:35.0 | And my house ever changing as it was from my mom and dad being married to my mom being the single mother to my mom being with my stepfather. |
| 1:44.0 | One thread was that we always had animals. |
| 1:47.0 | And the reason we always had animals is because my mother was the person who took in every animal that she came upon. |
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