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 just two friends who like to talk a lot about serums.

And this is a mini episode where we hear from you. We share our comments and your thoughts

and we answer your questions to the best of our ability, but please remember, we are not

experts. We are podcast hosts. We always encourage you to seek support first and foremost from a

medical and or mental health professional as needed. You betcha.

You betcha. Um, Elise, how's it going? It's going pretty well. I haven't been to the emergency

vet today at all. So that's a good day. Um, wow. The bar is on the floor. We got into this funny discussion about IQ last night.

Okay. There's been this running joke in my group chat about IQ. And then I brought this up with my running buddy this morning, who is a neurologist, neuroscientist, and she was saying to me,

the creature in your house whose IQ I most want evaluated is Oscars. What do you think his IQ is?

Like three? Would you put it at three? And she said that there's actually these doggy IQ tests

where you can have them perform certain

tasks or see how long it takes for them to find something underneath a blanket.

Oh my God.

And I was like, well, you know who I think is actually like quite intelligent is Abe, my cat, my cat that behaves like a dog, the one that can open doors, the one that comes when called.

He can come when called.

Like if he's way back in the backyard and I call him from upstairs in the house, he will

hear me and then come to me.

So he knows the come command better than the dog.

And then Abe also plays fetch.

I love that he plays fetch.

And so I was like, is there a cat one where I

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