Welcome to episode 1451 of The Sleeper in the Bus.

I am Justin Mason, joined as always on Sundays by Jason Colette.

How you doing, my friend?

Ah, been better.

I will say this, so, like, sad news and then, like, other stuff.

But my oldest dog had to be put down.

If you know me listening to this for a while I'm a big big advocate for rescuing dogs and this is a dog that I

rescued let's see we had her 10 years so uh 2015 uh and she was uh had some medical issues

that went downhill really quick over last couple of weeks and And so that was, that was this past Monday.

So, you know, not say, I want to keep rescuing dogs, but I may switch to fostering

because as anybody who's ever had pets, you know it never gets easier every time this

happens.

And this is the fourth rescued dog that we've,

that this has been the final outcome.

And three of them were earlier than we expected with things.

The last one, the third one was she was 16 years old as a beagle.

But both of the last two have been in this year.

But the other piece of this is, you know, Justin, I don't know how you figured out that

Danielle was truly your soulmate.

But like I had a reaffirmation this week that my wife was my soulmate because she dislocated

her ankle and fractured it in two places on Sunday evening coming to check on said dog.

Took a slip on the last step.

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