Hello, guys. Today's episode is something I obviously never would want to have to make

for obvious reasons. I think the only thing harder than having to deal with this on my own

or with Shane and our family is having to break your hearts and bring you along on the

journey. And I think the reason that I feel it's necessary to do so is not only did I introduce

you to our kitten Mario. But I don't think I can move on having shown you our kitten and having

you fall in love with him and just move on as if nothing happened. And so Lizzie's joining me,

which thank you so much. I know it's a hard thing to ask for you to come on when it's our family.

But I'm happy to be here for you. Yeah, and you were you were one of the first people I

talked to on the phone after it actually happened. But our kitten Mario is no longer with us. And I

honestly don't even really know how to comprehend it because it was going so well. This cat came

into our lives in such a time where I think it was needed for us. Like I truly believe that this

kitten will change our lives forever. And I think a large part of his purpose, even though his

life was so short, was to change the direction of our lives or reroute how we view things or think

of things. And I think all tragedies do that to people. They pull you back. They make you think

about where you are and where you want to be. But I guess before we get into all of that,

we were obviously acclimating him to our family. And I know that with dogs and cats, you really

have to be very careful. And we were they had come a long way. Cheeto had been become best friends

with Mario and they were loving on each other all day, every day playing with each other. And

they were having so much fun. And they were he was getting used to the dogs as well. And it was

going really well. And there were no signs of anything going wrong. And so Shane and I were sitting

in the beauty room like we would do most nights with the kitten and we had the door cracked a little

because the dogs would come up to the door and we wanted to get that. Start introducing.

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