Pandemic Puppies, Foster Kittens & A Small Animal Pet Debate: Episode 286
The Mom Hour
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4.9 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 10 November 2020
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
The animals in our lives have certainly had an interesting year, what with all the working and learning from home. Many families whose work/life situations previously caused them to hold off on pet-ownership took the plunge and got a pandemic puppy. And COVID or no COVID, our kids never stop asking to add to our respective menageries. Join Meagan and Sarah for a fun look at life with family pets, especially through the lens of 2020. We’ll talk about pandemic puppies, the Powers family’s adventure in fostering a litter of kittens, and the merits and drawbacks of various small animal pets. Enjoy!
(Listen all the way through for a very special cameo from the littlest of our combined eight kids, animal lover and guinea pig expert, Violet!)
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Sarah. And I'm Megan. We're two moms with eight kids between us from little to |
| 0:05.7 | grown. We're in different areas of the country and in different stages of life. But we both know that |
| 0:10.5 | motherhood's a lot easier when real moms share tips and encouragement. |
| 0:14.0 | And remind you that it's really all going to be okay. |
| 0:16.0 | We're not experts. We're parents who've been there. |
| 0:19.0 | We're not perfect. We're real. |
| 0:20.0 | Welcome to the mom hour. |
| 0:22.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to episode 286 of the Mom Hour. |
| 0:27.0 | I am Sarah Powers here as always with Megan Francis. |
| 0:30.0 | Hey Megan. |
| 0:31.0 | Hey Sarah. |
| 0:32.0 | I am also here with my dog Zander. You do not currently have a pet at your feet at this recording. |
| 0:38.0 | Not as of this moment, but often my kitty cat is nudging my laptop screen while I'm trying to record or has decided that that's the moment she wants to like come snuggle up on my arm and purr really loudly. I mean it's basically like like clockwork. |
| 0:53.3 | So it's it's very different right now that there's no animal on on my person. |
| 0:57.2 | Right. Well we are talking about pets today. |
| 1:00.4 | Kind of in the context a little bit in the context of 2020 and COVID pandemic, because I do think this has influenced people's decisions around pets and the way they think about pets, and we'll get into that a little bit. |
| 1:13.6 | But we realized when we were planning this episode, |
| 1:15.8 | we've done episodes about pets and caring for pets and getting kids their own pets |
| 1:19.7 | and all that, exactly twice. |
| 1:21.4 | Turns out we do it every two years on the dot in the mid to late fall. |
| 1:25.0 | Isn't that funny? I wonder why that is. I mean in the content creation like mind |
| 1:31.7 | mind game that is our brains which are like melded at this point like the way we come up with |
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