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A: I used to get the, uh,
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A: A, uh, Golden Retriever.
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B: Ooh, that's one of my favorite kinds of dogs.
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A: Yeah.
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A: Is it really?
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B: How long have you had it?
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A: We've had him for,
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A: let's see, he just had his fourth birthday.
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B: Fourth birthday.
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A: Yeah,
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A: and we got him when he was about eight weeks old
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A: and, uh, he's pretty okay,
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A: we like him.
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B: Does he shed a lot?
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A: He does.
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A: That's the one thing we don't like about him.
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A: In fact, we threaten him in the summertime that we might just shave all of his hair off.
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A: He'd probably look pretty funny if we did that.
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B: How much does he weigh now?
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A: He, actually, he just went to the vet yesterday to get his shots and everything,
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A: and they put him on the scale
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A: and he's up to ninety four now.
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B: Oh.
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A: But he's not a real, he's not a real tall, uh, dog for a Golden Retriever.
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A: He's kind of stocky, shorter and stockier.
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B: Um.
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A: But,
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B: Is he good with family?
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A: He is.
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A: It's, uh, just me and my wife
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A: and, uh, he's kind of our temporary substitute for having kids.
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A: We treat him like our kid right now so he's spoiled rotten.
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B: Yeah,
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B: I can understand that
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A: Because I,
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A: Get away with that a little bit more with pets than you can with kids
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B: Uh-huh.
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A: How about you?
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B: Well, we have a cat who's also about four years old.
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A: Oh.
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B: And he's our spoiled child right now, too
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A: Uh-huh.
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B: And he also sheds a lot.
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A: Yeah.
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B: But, we, uh, we hope to get a Golden Retriever someday.
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B: But we figure we'll get the kids and then the, the dog
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A: That's probably a good idea.
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A: They're good though.
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A: Uh, have you ever had a Retriever before?
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B: No,
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B: but my husband had one when he was growing up.
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A: Because I, I find that they're good around other animals like cats and other dogs.
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A: They don't tend to get real jealous or territorial.
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A: They like to play.
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B: Um.
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A: Especially with the kids.
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A: They love to play with kids.
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B: Is, is your dog an inside and outdoors?
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A: No,
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A: he's pretty much an inside dog.
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B: Um.
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A: He stays in.
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A: We, we're kind of in a, not a real busy neighborhood, but more so than I'd want him to be out too much
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A: and he doesn't like it if we tie him outside.
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B: Oh, really?
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A: He's really a wimp.
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A: And when it comes to being alone,
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A: uh, now if you give him the freedom to walk around and go wherever he wants, he likes that,
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A: but he does not like to be tied outside.
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A: He'll, he'll just bark and bark and bark.
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B: Um, when he gets outside, does, in, does he run away and then eventually come back?
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A: No,
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A: he's, uh, taken to the training pretty well
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A: and, uh, he knows where our yard is
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A: and we have a pretty small yard,
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A: but he seems to know the boundaries.
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B: Um.
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A: And he usually is good about staying within them,
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A: although our next door neighbors have a dog, too
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A: and, uh, she, she is good friends with my dog.
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B: Oh, yeah?
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A: And so he often gets to smelling her scent and will go over there to sniff around and stuff
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A: but, he's pretty good.
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A: He stays out of the street
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A: and, uh, if I catch him I call him
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A: and he comes back.
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A: So he, he's pretty good about taking to commands and and things.
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B: Um.
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B: Did you bring him to a doggy obedience school or just train him on your own
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A: No
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A: we never did.
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B: and,
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A: I, I trained him on my own
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A: and, uh, this is the first dog I've had all my own as an adult.
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B: Uh-huh.
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A: We've had kid, or we've had dogs when I was a kid,
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A: but this, this is the first one that I, uh, took in,
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A: so I wasn't sure if I'd be able to get it all right the first time,
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A: but, uh, he, he seems to have picked it up pretty well.
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A: I never really to hit him or anything.
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