Welcome back, everybody to older and wilder with Joy and Claire.

Hi, friends.

We have a good group of chat friends today.

I am in Arizona for a few days.

So if my audio sounds different, that is why I'm house sitting for my friend, my childhood

friend I always talk about.

She has a very anxious dog and she only like lets me watch

her dog. So she's like, can you fly out and watch my animals? Because her and her husband have to go out.

Wow, that's a very good friend. Yeah. Only for her would I do this. But you know what? We all need

a friend in her life. Yeah. in an airplane just to watch our dogs.

Yeah, exactly.

She's like, I just can't trust anyone with this.

I mean, truly, she just has a small dog who has severe anxiety.

Yeah, I feel like that is always, I have some friends like that too who are like,

it's actually so hard for us to travel because like we can't board our dog like if our one trusted pet sitter is not available like right yeah

yeah yeah I mean I it's so even with the canine companion's community with all the people we have to

rely on I'm still kind of like all right who's available and who's gonna and then you have to think about like how their dogs get along with our dogs and most of the time they get along just fine, but like Joe's very sensitive and he has very like specific needs. And if there's a dominant dog that's like trying to play with him all the time, he gets really annoyed. And so there's all these sorts of things that we have to think about.

Here's the plug.

If you are listening to this and you have ever wanted to come to Moab in the hottest part of the summer, we are maybe looking for some house slash dog sitters around the 4th of July.

So you could come stay in my house in a non-creepy way and hang out with River and Haynes

because the dog sitting slash boarding universe here in Moab is a lot of resources.

Yeah, there's like one, the vet boards dogs, but it's like they stay in like the kennels

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