Hub and Spoke. Audio Collective.

This is Rumbel Strip, America Heilman.

A dog explains those extraneous noises of an empty house. It breathes the same air with you.

It needs an occasional conversation, a hand on the back, more so than a cockatiel or a python anyway.

It stays with you, even in the middle of the night, at 4 a.m. when you've woken with a harsh taste in your mouth and you're

writing on a yellow legal pad in the dim light and only the crickets and the

wind outside like now.

now. The only pets I have now and one of them is,

I have three kids, they ten and fifteen and we have a snake that belongs to my son

who's ten and we have a cockatiel but a dog would be a big jump from a snake and a bird.

Yeah, but you get a lot more affection from a dog than you would a bird and a snake.

That's right. That's right. right.

And I think, you know, I think sometimes my kids worried that I'm lonely in the house by myself.

I think they'd like me to have a dog because they would think that it would keep me company.

Oh, I'm sure.

They're always waiting for you.

They're always happy to see you no matter what happens, you know?

I mean, I lived with a man that beat me and held a gun on me and I'd go to bed at night and wonder if I was going to,

if that was the night was going to be my last night on or something, you know, and I don't know. I just I just have such peace and happiness with the dogs and to defend

the day I said if the Lord if I knew the last day I had on Earth I would

just want to be totally away from human beings and just rub me, brush my dogs and clean my dogs, and I enjoy grooming those

dogs, I can totally get lost.

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