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Pet Chat June 9th: Puppy Adventures, Four-Year Anniversary, and Life Updates

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 Bernoulli, our latest furry addition, who has already stolen our hearts and brought endless joy and mischief into our lives.

This episode of Pet Chat is packed with heartwarming stories from Bernoulli's first week with us, including his escapades at puppy school and his budding friendship with another pup named Milo.

We also share some charming moments of his interactions with our cat, Ginger, and the nostalgic comfort he brings, reminding us of our beloved late dog, Kahlan.

Our episode continues with an exciting life update from Donna, who recounts her six-week adventure on the road and her new role as COO in California. She shares the trials and triumphs of her cats, Sasha and Callie, during her absence.

With Bunsen fully recovered and new footage of Norbert the beaver, there's even talk of introducing another beaver to keep Norbert company.

We wrap up with a nod to Kris's excellent organizational skills and a reminder to check out Bark and Beyond's social media for the latest contests and updates.

Thank you for joining us and for your ongoing support!

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Speaker 1:

Hello pet enthusiasts, welcome to Pet Chat. We have a puppy, bernoulli. My name is Jason. I'm the dog dad of Bunsen, beaker and Bernoulli, the science dogs of social media.

Speaker 2:

My co-host is Hi there, I'm Chris Sikorski. I'm the dog mom to Bunsen, beaker and Bernoulli and the cat mom to Ginger.

Speaker 1:

Ginger is hiding in the garage a little bit maybe. I don't know.

Speaker 2:

Yeah.

Speaker 1:

Normally in Pet Chat we have a game. We're going to forego the Kahoot game this week just to keep things a little bit tighter. We're going to run Pet Chat a little bit. It's not going to last as long because Chris has a lot of stuff going on up there with the little puppy. I'm hooked into all of the tech to multicast to Twitter video and Instagram video, record it and all that kind of stuff. So I feel kind of bad, I can't help her. So I feel kind of bad, I can't help her. So we're just going to hop right to the main part of the show, which is Chris and I are going to share some puppy stories, some dog stories, some stories of the week, and then we'll open up the floor to community sharing. Once Chris is done, I think she'll just put the camera on Bernoulli, because he's super, super cute. Chris is grabbing Bernoulli. I think he really wants what's on the floor.

Speaker 2:

Hello.

Speaker 1:

Hello.

Speaker 2:

Very much does want what's on the floor. The other dogs have chews and now I put them both on the deck. And I bought Bernoulli a couple puppy chews today, but they don't smell the same as the ones the other dogs have.

Speaker 1:

So no, he wants what Bunsen has always okay. So I'll start with my stories, as Chris is corralling a little panda bear up there. So we've had Bernoulli now one week so so we didn't have pet chat last week because we just wanted the day with Bernoulli. We picked him up in a Tim Hortons parking lot in Mayerthorpe of all places. So we've just been really enjoying Bernoulli being home with us and he definitely has some really adorable qualities. That's quite a bit different than bunsen, for example. One is he's super cuddly. Now, maybe not when chris picked him up, but he he likes to be super close when he's sleeping. He likes to be close on your feet. It's just really, really adorable.

Speaker 1:

Today we took took Bernoulli to puppy play and that was absolutely adorable. I forgot how much fun puppy play was in puppy school. Bernoulli did great. He's really good at the early skills. But this is our third time through some of the puppy schools. Beaker missed a bit because of covid. So what puppy school focused on today was like polite puppy. It's called polite puppy. Polite puppy comes and sits in front of you and sits appropriately and gets rewarded. And we were working on names his name and I think he's got it. I think Bernoulli knows what his name is. Bernoulli because he listens for his name now, which is really, really cute, and his recall is great. So we'll see what happens as he gets older. If there's a moose leg out there, and then he had a friend, what was the friend's name? The tall, lanky dog that's Milo that's Milo.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, so his friend named Milo, they got along really good. They're bigger Milo, I think's Milo. Yeah, so his friend named Milo, they got along really good. They're bigger Milo, I think. Has 12 weeks, did they say? And Bernoulli's nine, 13. Milo's 13 weeks, so he's a month older actually, whoa, yeah, so Milo's a bit bigger than Bernoulli. So they got along with their shenanigans. So, in a a nutshell, that's my two stories from the week, and I don't know if you heard me talk about the the stories, chris, but I talked about a few things there you talked about going to get Bernoulli from Mayor Thorpe.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, alberta yeah yes yes and it was an amazing experience going to get him and the drive back was great. He introduced into our family very, very quickly. We were nervous about how it would all shake out, but it's been going really, really well because this is a big commitment and our family has changed forever having the third puppy. So, like you said, he is an amazing dog. What I love is that he is a bit of a mix of like bunsen, of course, like kind and and happy and go lucky, also a mix of beaker with the cuddly. Then also one thing I wasn't expecting but I absolutely love is that he sits under our feet, like where Callan used to sit.

Speaker 1:

Hey.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, For me it's like oh my God, this is exactly what I wanted after we had lost Callan, and Bunsen wasn't like that. Bunsen loves to be with the family, but he likes his distance too. But Bernoulli will come and sit by your feet and hang out with us really close.

Speaker 1:

So I love that. Yeah, do you have any specific?

Speaker 2:

Bernoulli stories. He likes to run around, he likes to drag the cat.

Speaker 1:

Oh no, that's right. That's one thing that we did not expect bringing Bernoulli was. I thought the cat would be able to hold her own. No, that is not the case at all with Bernoulli. Zero percent the case, it's okay. If Bunsen barks, it's all right.

Speaker 2:

Okay, cause he's outside and he's barking, that's okay. If bunsen barks, it's all right. Okay, because he's outside and he's barking, that's okay. So that was a bit of a surprise.

Speaker 1:

Bernoulli didn't spend any time with ginger the first couple days, like he kind of looked at her and then, as he got more familiar with the environment that we have here, he was all up in her business yeah, he grabs her by this the back of her neck and then, if she's hiding, he drags her out and then she tries to fight him, but he is impervious to all of her attacks, probably because of the angle that he has her at, and then he's just chubby and fluffy. So maybe she hasn't really tried to hurt him either.

Speaker 1:

Maybe she knows he's a puppy, I don't know he has a lot of inertia yes behind him yes, and I think ginger just was shocked her intimidation tactics didn't work on him, because I know all she has to do is like, look intimidating, and bunsen gives her a huge, huge amount of space, like if, if he, if she's just like and bunsen's like, oh no, I don't want anything, none of that please. And even beaker like ginger can intimidate beaker and block her from like going through a doorway. I think ginger tried to block bernoulli and bernoulli just came through her like a wrecking ball, just came through and she I think she's just struggling with trying to figure out how to deal with the puppy. Bernoulli's just in the background there doing something, all right. So I think we are going to have a shorter pet chat, just because Chris is kind of like managing a bunch of different animals right now.

Speaker 1:

So we'll open up the floor to the community for questions and comments. If you have any questions you can ask or share your pet story. So we'll move to that part of the show right now. I know Sasha's up here right now. So that's Holly, sasha, holly. So go ahead. Hi Jason, hi Chris, hello. Oh, you're quite quiet.

Speaker 5:

One second now go ahead okay go ahead okay, I was gonna say I'm just using my phone and my airpods and it normally works, congratulations. He looks like a little baby muppet and I watch him and I see things that sasha did as a puppy too, like the inability to run in any coordinated manner. It's like oh my god, that was sasha. She could not. It probably took her until she was about four months old to figure out how her paws really worked. You guys have been so busy and you may have missed this, but a week ago yesterday, arc, we lost our cat fiona oh, we did see that.

Speaker 5:

It was heartbreaking yes, and I just first of all, I wanted to thank so many people here who reached out to me. Either they commented on the tweet or they DMed me to express their condolences, and I just want everyone here to know how much that meant to me and thank you very much. This is just the most wonderful community we have here. And second, chris and Jason, all the Bernoulli posts this week whenever I was feeling sad, I could just go look at puppy nonsense and I felt better that really I think the timing was good that way because, I had a way to kind of redirect how I was feeling and remember when Sasha was that size.

Speaker 5:

it doesn't last long.

Speaker 1:

No.

Speaker 5:

And I love his giant oven mitt paws. So, yeah, I think he's absolutely wonderful. And again, thank you everyone for your kindness and that's all I've got this week, so thank you.

Speaker 1:

Thanks, holly. Yeah, our social media account started, I think, when Bunsen was like seven months, six months or seven months, especially on Twitter. We had nothing. So we have whatever we took of him at the time, which is, you know, maybe 20 good pictures and five videos. Thank goodness I took a video of him fighting the lemon because that went viral. Now I'm like I am not missing a second of whatever this little dog does. So I've been like the paparazzi with him. Every minute is like a thousand photos. My camera.

Speaker 1:

I got a warning that I'm running out of iCloud space and I think I have terabytes of space so I might have to buy some more iCloud space for some Bernoulli nonsense. I do appreciate the feedback because I don't have time to do my normal science content. My goal is to do like a video a week. I think I did one about puppy paws and puppy breath. Chris and I just couldn't pull it together to do the podcast last week so we had to cancel. We were so exhausted like eight o'clock rolled around and we're like there's no way.

Speaker 5:

We all know puppies are work. That first week I had Sasha. I basically slept when she slept.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, they're like a newborn baby. Thanks, paparazzi. Okay, donna, craig is correcting me with the pun. It's paparazzi, so thank you, donna. Okay, kristen is here with Barkin Beyond. Kristen, do you want to talk about your contest?

Speaker 3:

Yes, sure.

Speaker 1:

First.

Speaker 3:

I want to say congratulations on the new puppy. Yay, so our contest. We had quite a few sponsors, y'all being one, so thank you for that. This is our four-year anniversary. We made it, but it's been a struggle, you know. So we have four gift cards we're giving away.

Speaker 1:

Wow.

Speaker 3:

I think we've already had like 165 or something like that. Last time I checked have entered.

Speaker 6:

Okay.

Speaker 3:

We'll have four winners and it ends at midnight, so make sure everybody I hope everybody gets to enter in that contest. So the tweet is our pinned tweet.

Speaker 1:

Okay, and just for the folks maybe on Instagram or Facebook how do they enter the contest?

Speaker 3:

Okay, so we're on Facebook and Instagram as well, okay okay, so we're on facebook and instagram as well. Okay, and posted. You'll have to find our page and the instructions are in there as well. It'll tell you what to do because you know it's different on each social media okay, you have to do do I have the right thing pinned in spaces?

Speaker 1:

it says today we have been in business for four years and it would be Emma's 13th. Is that the correct one?

Speaker 3:

Yes.

Speaker 1:

Okay, perfect.

Speaker 3:

I believe, so. Wait a minute. No, it's my pin tweet. I'm sorry.

Speaker 1:

Okay, we'll put that into the nest.

Speaker 3:

Thank you.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, no worries, it's in the nest.

Speaker 3:

Good luck everybody.

Speaker 1:

Thanks, Kristen. Thank you what's bernoulli up to chris?

Speaker 2:

I took him out to do busy busy busy, busy busy, busy, busy. Yeah, we need to put a word to going to the bathroom that's what we learned today in puppy class.

Speaker 1:

I did that. I didn't say busy, busy. I said let's get down. I said let's get down. I said let's let's get down to business, which is a bit long. I just didn't know what to say because I had been watching a Tik TOK video about Mulan and that was what was in my head.

Speaker 2:

Yeah.

Speaker 1:

Let's get down to business to defeat the Huns.

Speaker 2:

Yeah.

Speaker 1:

That's one of the greatest Disney ballads of all time, by the way. People yeah, that's one of the greatest disney ballads of all time, by the way. People, yeah, okay, we'll go to paula paula's over on spaces. Hello, paula. And then there's some folks with questions on instagram which I'd like to answer hi, how's everybody doing?

Speaker 4:

hi, paula, we're good, we're just tired and happy tired puppy parents right on that puppy puppy oh, I'm telling you that bernoulli is is like a breath of fresh puppy breath air. I love that post about puppy breath because I think that smell is better than any smell in the world. It's just so fun and it's nice to know the science behind that. So it's been really fun. I want to know is you've had for nearly a week? How much has he gained weight? Like, like, did you weigh him when you first got him and what does he weigh now?

Speaker 1:

so we didn't weigh him when we first got him. We kind of like, I think we asked terry the gentleman how much he weighed. I think he said like 16 or 17 pounds and then we weighed him a few days ago and he was 18. He's got to be 20 now, like he's just significantly chunkier and bigger. So actually that's something we have to do tonight or tomorrow, paula.

Speaker 4:

Yeah, well, no, he looks bigger because you can tell I love your live videos when he's running he comes and he gives you that walk at the end of the drive and enjoying your lives and everything. And on the Trixie home front, we're getting the end of puppy school too. We can't get in the next batch of classes but we're going to try to see if we can get into some more stuff. But she tried for the first time going on a skateboard of all things, oh wow. And she actually got three paws up and we had to keep it from rolling. We had to put it in special little boxes and then she stood on it, so she got it. Then we took it off of it and then it started to roll, was liking it and then at the end she kind of flipped and did a belly flop, oh no. And then at the end she kind of flipped and did a belly flop.

Speaker 4:

Oh no, I have a video of it. It's pretty funny, but she's OK. I mean she didn't get hurt, but she was like, OK, I'm going to try it again. So I don't know, I have to go to one of these five dollar stores or whatever See if I can find a skateboard for Trixie. I think this is going to be her't gotten anything from this shop, please. It's a great family business. She's got great sales on things. Free ship till midnight. Like she said, Get some treats for your favorite furry friends and support this great family business because we want to keep her going.

Speaker 1:

Chris is weighing Bernoulli as we speak. Live.

Speaker 4:

Oh, okay, I can see.

Speaker 1:

All right, chris. How much does Bernoulli weigh I?

Speaker 2:

know, I only know how much I weigh with Bernoulli. Now I got to weigh myself.

Speaker 1:

Okay, so we got to do some math. It's easier with two people because I can get him to sit on the scale. That's a very good trick that you can get dogs to do is like pause up and sit. So like both Bunsen and Beaker are really good at that at the vet because they just get up on the thing. So all right, so we're just waiting on the verdict for chris and then we'll go to some questions and then, of course, to donna. It's great, okay, he's just 18.

Speaker 2:

okay, 18.2 okay yeah so maybe he's eating my shoe.

Speaker 1:

He's eating your shoe, okay, terry. Underscore renee. 1180. Asks will bernoulli have a nickname? I think his nickname we've been doing is bernie, but we do love his full name of Bernoulli so we have been using his full name pretty much the whole time of Bernoulli. Shay asks what does Ginger think of him? The answer is Ginger thinks he's a homicidal bear cub. So Ginger does not enjoy Bernoulli right now and is probably on Bernoulli. But Bernoulli is a puppy, so we're hoping that as Bernoulli gets a little bit bigger they get along a little better.

Speaker 1:

Is he afraid of anything? No, so he is the stereotypical, extremely brave Bernice Mountain Dog. Like Bunsen was unfazed by anything. The only thing he was scared of was we took him to a parade when he was a puppy, in a marching band. A fire truck came by and he was scared of the siren. And I, like Bernoulli's been unfazed by everything. He's not scared by big dogs, he's not scared by any dogs, he's not scared of the cat, he's not scared of rain, he's not scared of the vacuum, so scared of the vacuum.

Speaker 2:

So he's a pretty brave guy, not timid at all, very assertive too he was scared of the red deer royals bunsen was scared of the red deer royals yeah, when they went by with their dude he was terrified of the fire truck siren, though that was like way too much for him.

Speaker 1:

So and then madison asks has beaker warmed up at all? And yes, beaker has warmed up a considerable amount. So like, beaker and bernoulli hang out all day. They're not cuddly, like bernoulli's not laying on top of beaker, but like they hang out. They walk right beside each other, they stand beside each other, they sleep beside each other, they interact with each other. Beaker does not like the puppy play at all. She does not tolerate bernoulli nipping at her. And beaker barks at bernoulli occasionally or like, does like a kind of like, curls her lip. But bernoulli just doesn't take any guff. He barks right back at her and then she doesn't know what to do. She's like no, and he's like are you kidding me? I'm, I'm gonna do what I want. So he's pretty assertive with beaker when she's beaking back at him, which is kind of funny, all right. And then tk says I like bernoulli. Yes, we like bernoulli too. Over to donna donna, great to see you over on spaces there, hello hi guys, I've missed everybody.

Speaker 4:

I will say that having the bernoulli countdown to when you were picking him up was coinciding to when I was actually gonna come home after six weeks, so being on the road. So that was a great little clock and to kind of celebrate with y'all. He is too cute, way too cute. Ginger is gonna be a cat pretty soon and just beat the crap out of him, so I see paws flying in the future. I also see marla and kuno and chesney in here and I, just as a dallas stars fan, I'm sad but I'm rooting for all of Canada because y'all haven't had a cup in a long time. So let's go, oilers, and I hope you get all the gold treats and I will tell you, being gone for six and a half weeks was hard.

Speaker 1:

Oh, you cut out for a second Donna.

Speaker 4:

Can you hear me now?

Speaker 1:

Yeah, you're back.

Speaker 4:

I'm sorry You're back, it's my phone. When it decides to go off, everything goes off. Just being gone six and a half weeks for my Sasha and Callie was really hard, but my Callie took it especially hard. Her fur got really rough. I've been brushing her like crazy. I took I feel like the equivalent of three cats off, but she pooped all over my bed.

Speaker 1:

Oh no, she was not happy with yeah, yeah.

Speaker 4:

Yeah, and then the minute I got home, your phone went off again, Donna. She's let me have it pretty good. I have big news, though I'm leaving Texas.

Speaker 1:

Really Okay, okay.

Speaker 4:

So I've been named chief operating officer of a business that's still associated with mine, but I'm leaving my company and I'm moving to California. So all you West Coast peeps, I'll see you out there pretty soon.

Speaker 1:

Oh my goodness, congratulations.

Speaker 4:

Thank you. And then, on the science front, I have beaten diabetes.

Speaker 1:

Oh, good for you.

Speaker 4:

So that's Callie was keeping me from having low blood sugars, because that's what I have now instead of the high blood sugar, and I'm off insulin. I'm really happy to see Bernoulli join the family and it's so cute.

Speaker 1:

Thanks, Donna.

Speaker 4:

Thank you very much and, chris, that was your opportunity to say Bernoulli gained weight and you've lost weight. I haven't.

Speaker 1:

It's the end of the teaching year. All teachers gain weight. All teachers gain weight. In June we have both Chris and I have one more week of full teaching before exams start, so I have about a million and a half photocopying to do. Oh, did ginger get mauled?

Speaker 4:

Yeah, but now you guys get to lose weight cause you're chasing after a puppy.

Speaker 1:

I tell you, do you know how many deep squats I've done, like you, deep squatting 18 pounds over and, over and over again. That's a workout, that is a work and because Bernoulli's it's getting your quads ready for cross-country skiing season yeah, yeah, bunsen is fully healed.

Speaker 1:

So he is on full off-leash walks again and he's he's totally fully healed. So his recovery from rest to very low activity, to partial activity to moderate activity now he's on full activity. He's been two or three times on a full walk, creek walk, doing the fun stuff, totally fine. So that's excellent news for him. And we've got tons of new beaver footage. I don't even know what to do with it all. Um, there's like probably an hour of norbert doing things. I don't even know how to cut it together. It posted that he's following the ducks around. It's really cute. So the ducks swim one way and then he swims after them so he's not hurting them, because we would get that on camera and it would be horrific. He's just following the ducks.

Speaker 1:

I don't know. He's lonely or I feel bad for the guy. I'm sure hoping you know like he gets another beaver that floats into his life. Some people have suggested us talking to wildlife centers to see if there's a nuisance beaver that has to be moved. But the problem is we don't know if norbert's a boy or girl, so and I'm not a beaver expert and nor would I want to go trap him to figure out what kind of undercarriage he has, because if you have a nuisance beaver, you'd want an opposite sex beaver. If you have the same sex beaver, they could actually be territorial with each other. I read which isn't great, there's only room in the creek for one beaver, that's male or female.

Speaker 4:

Donna, go ahead can you ask someone to come out and do that for you?

Speaker 1:

that's a good idea. I've sent photos to a couple beaver people and they're like no, you have to. You basically have to trap them and then knock them out and like look in their crotch because they have internal genitalia.

Speaker 4:

Wow.

Speaker 1:

I just died. I'm just saying you can clearly look at a dog and be like it's got some business going on, especially if it's one of them short haired dogs. Dog owners know what I'm talking about.

Speaker 2:

I would be worried that they would come trap or beaver and then take them away oh, nobody can take norbert, he's our beaver well, but he's a wild animal and they might say no, you can't have him why it's our land jason we've given it's the wild, so it's not like you're.

Speaker 4:

You got him stuck there it's like sanctuary.

Speaker 1:

You know, like back in the day where you were in trouble, you'd run into a catholic church and you'd go sanctuary and then like whoever was after you couldn't get you. Like that's what our property is, it's saint beaver sanctuary okay, well, you can try that is that real, chris? You're the catholic. Is that a thing that happened happened in the back of notre dame, stupid florida oh, they should be yeah, florida scored.

Speaker 1:

Now I've got to update this ticker they scored about three minutes ago oh, I'm just checking it every so often, paula, sorry your hands.

Speaker 2:

Oh sorry, chris, go ahead I thought the oilers had scored.

Speaker 1:

No, no florida scored, oh god.

Speaker 4:

Oh God, hey, hey.

Speaker 1:

Oh no.

Speaker 4:

No, Jason.

Speaker 6:

Yeah.

Speaker 4:

Could you, instead of getting like a game and wildlife guy, couldn't you get somebody that's like a conservationist, that would have like no input on whether it was on your property or not to see if there's any junk in the trunk, because you know? You got to get somebody that's not going to take it away, and I don't think they would take it away because it's your property yeah, and it's not a new they don't take moose away. They're walking across your property, right?

Speaker 4:

no I would try someone that's like a conservationist and say, hey, listen, we have this beaver, but we want to know the sex of it and maybe they could do it. You know, kind of give them like a sleepy injection for like a half an hour or whatever. They need to check them out and see if what he is. So I would do something like that.

Speaker 1:

If you're afraid of somebody saying no, you can't, but it is your property, so I think you're okay there's a pretty good wildlife rehabilitation center and I'm sure if I contacted them they'd be able to let me know of like a ecologist that's nearby. So yeah, I'm just reading through the chat because, like chris is, I think you're dealing with bernoulli, not mauling ginger. Uh, don's asking if bernoulli thinks ginger is another puppy. I think he's more confident playing with her because she is smaller. Kf asks about a local zoo. We took the interbaccalaureate biology kids to the zoo on Friday.

Speaker 1:

That was a fun trip I got to see red pandas, and then there was a comment about where I'm just going back through. Somebody was asking where we Norbert came from and we don't know. We have no idea because, like, he showed up in melt, like spring melt, so that creek the creek is actually fairly fast flowing, so if he got into it at any point he would have been washed kind of right to where he built his first couple. What happened? Washed to where he built his first dam, or beavers they this? They trek overland like he could have just been on like a walkabout for a while and then found a nice place to build the dam too. So all right, so that's that. I'm just going to check through instagram no you seem.

Speaker 1:

Okay. What's going on back there, chris? Oh, as beaker and bernoulli are getting into it. Oh, bunsen is here now. Uh-oh, everybody's here. Okay, chris is otherwise, are you? Are you gonna be able to deal with all the dogs inside?

Speaker 2:

I'm dealing with all of this inside. Did you feed the cat?

Speaker 1:

no, because the cat was in the garage. Okay, all right. Last call for stories and then we'll do our wrap up because, like I said, we wanted to keep it short tonight. Last call for stories or questions. I'll read through the chat one more time. I think I got it all.

Speaker 4:

Did you watch acolyte yet, Jason?

Speaker 1:

No, I have not watched any TV or played any video games since we got Bernoulli. I thought about watching TV today and I was like no, I couldn't even like I didn't have the bandwidth to deal with like even think about TV and actually, like I, bernoulli was so tired after puppy school and Chris had to go, uh, to an appointment. For a couple hours. Bernoulli just slept on my chest for a while, which was really sweet and that was worth more than any TV show, but is Acolyte good. I'm hearing mixed reviews about it, but I think it's the haters.

Speaker 4:

I fell asleep because it was my first weekend off since January and. I turned it on and literally fell asleep, so I can't give honest feedback yet.

Speaker 1:

All right. Oh, Kristen, do you have any last words before we wrap up?

Speaker 3:

I just want to say thank you to Paula for the little shout out. I thank you everyone for the support. Had a pretty good week. If I could just keep that going, that would be great.

Speaker 1:

That's awesome and normally we have a prize, but you have such a big contest. I think that contest is a big enough prize for folks out there.

Speaker 3:

It ended up being like over $300.

Speaker 1:

Wow.

Speaker 3:

Yeah.

Speaker 1:

That's awesome and thank you so much for being a sponsor of Pet Chat for these years. It's been fun to have you and then to give a little reward for folks that come, and it's a huge community across social media sites, like we do have folks on Instagram right now, you know there's over 1,200 people are watching live between Twitter and Facebook, which is awesome, and then we do have like 30 odd people on the audio space, which is really cool.

Speaker 2:

That's good. Yes, thank you, and so, jason, can you talk about that?

Speaker 1:

oh right, I should give some folks a shout out. So it was. It was a group of people actually kind of pooled their money together and got us a gift certificate. I don't have the names handy right now and I don't want to miss somebody, so I just want to just thank everybody. We put it to good use and we did order a bunch of awesome stuff from Bark and Beyond. We got some joint stuff for Bunsen because he's getting older. We had a whole bunch of treats and stuff for the puppy, because Bernoulli just chews through treats like a lawnmower. So we're excited about that order from Barkin' Beyond.

Speaker 3:

Thank you, and I'm glad they picked us.

Speaker 1:

Skip the big box store.

Speaker 4:

Right. I think that's a win-win. No.

Speaker 3:

Amazon and Chewy and all that.

Speaker 1:

That's right, tracy got here a little late, but we'll honor tracy. Tracy, if you want to just chime in real quick, we'll go to you over on spaces hi guys, hi, just a quick, ricky update.

Speaker 6:

We had a 13th birthday on june 1st, and so we did a lot of snuggling, yay. And then I went out because I needed a break. I've just been like stressing about the cat for two and a half months now, so I did do something for myself as well. Well, you need to do that once in a while.

Speaker 6:

Yeah, but yeah, he's doing good. He's eating all his wet food and because there's like little toppers whatever like, so it makes it like more of a soup. So he really really likes those and snuggly, and no behavior changes so he's still doing good. No weirdness since that one time that he had.

Speaker 1:

Well, that's good news. Thank you Awesome. Thanks, tracy, as we wrap up. Thanks for coming to Pet Chat. I've got a little bit of a frazzled brain, as you can see, chris is visibly frazzled dealing with all the dogs. You did great, though, chris. I don't think I could have done what you did organizing them all, and do check out BarkinBeyond's pinned tweet if you're on Twitter, and if you're on Facebook, check out their Facebook page. There's a really cool contest happening now for some gift cards. Any last words, chris, before we wrap last words, chris, before we wrap.

Speaker 2:

Thank you everybody for coming. It's been a wild ride having these three dogs, and that's all I can say.