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It's time for the good news.

Tell me something good.

You're first.

So, let's see, my dog needed a bath, like really bad, like groomed because she started to get

her hair grows out and it gets matted if you don't brush it a lot. And I got a little behind on that. So I called to try to book her an appointment and they don't have any openings for a month. At the dog place for a month? Yeah, where the place that's most convenient for me to take her and they do a really great job and they have a great price. Who do they think they are? The testicle doctor? Well, no, I guess you're just really busy right now. It's ridiculous. Then I get a call yesterday last minute because they know that I live super close and they're like, we just had a cancellation if you can get her up here right now. I was like, yeah. So that was awesome to take her in. But then also, I'm on a walk yesterday

listening to a podcast about our microbiome. And just speaking of like cleaning dogs or even just

having a dog in general, having one in your home significantly improves your gut microbiome

because your dog is introducing other types of bacteria into your home that then helps you.

So if you have a dog, feel good about that.

And you're like sometimes freaking out your gut.

Yeah, like a back.

Would you compare it to bacteria?

Like good bacteria?

Yeah.

The stuff in your gut that's crucial to it functioning properly.

And so when you have a dog, it makes sure the bacteria

in your home more diverse. So it's good. So sometimes if you're freaking out like, oh, my dog,

like I always want to wipe her paws off. You still should. I still should. And I buy these wipes.

I know she's got other things, but sometimes I just really overthink it. And I'm like, oh,

this is disgusting. I can't believe we have a dog just like all over my stuff. And then I just thought I'd give you that encouragement of like maybe you're thinking about getting a dog and you're worried about your microbiome, problem solved. I wanted to shoot my dog this morning. Why? Wait, this is Tell me something good. I know. And it's not a dog problem. It's that our dogs, if somebody drives up, they go crazy, obviously, especially at night. Amazon showed up like 3.30. In the morning? Yes. What are they thinking? Exactly. So the dogs, and so I think all of a sudden somebody's breaking in. So, all right, I get up, but I do it slow.

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