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Welcome to this dirty motherpucker Quickie.

This is your podcasting bit on the side with me, Anna White House and Pete Dog in the 2024 house.

Roof, rough. Woo! Woo! New Year, same you. Oh, always the same. Nothing's changed. Lost my phone, didn't I?

Yes, you did. Day one of New Year. Now, obviously, a dog's not for Christmas, it's for life, right?

But there's a few more pets clattering about marital homes and non-marital homes.

Big up for the divorcees over here.

And today I wanted to get into our pets ruining your relationship. Now, I say this off the back of the fact that

with my ex and I, the main conversation over the festive period was around Ziggy the

hamster and Stripey the Fish, who was responsible for feeding which one, Stripey didn't

have his feeder, Ziggy didn't have her salt lick. You know,

like, we're going through a lot anyway. Yeah. But the pressure of a rodent and a fish.

You didn't make the best choice with the hamster, did you? Well, no. Because that hamster is a bit of a

rogue hamster, isn't it? It's a liability. I mean, Ziggy has escaped a number of times,

and I would say Ziggy put pressure on our relationship

before we were divorced.

I'm going to say that Ziggy's the reason we got divorced.

I would say exactly the same thing.

100%.

On that note, there is actually a stat here that says,

from the Law Society,

one in four divorces now involves a dispute over an animal.

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