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Welcome back everyone. I'd like to welcome Jamie Oak. She
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is the author of the Fun and Very Tales of
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Rex Adoption Day. Welcome Jamie.
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Hi, Thank you so much for having me today.
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Michelle I'm so excited to have you on. Well, first,
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tell us who Rex I know unfortunately passed, So tell
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us who Rex was, and also what inspired you to
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turn Rex's adoption story into a book, The Fun and
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Furry Tales of Rex Adoption Day.
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Yes, well, Rex is my furry little angel that suddenly
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showed up on my doorstep about thirteen years ago now,
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and that's what this whole book is about. And he
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became my you know, soul companion, my furry child, just
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you know, my emotional support animal, all of that tied
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up in a bow. And unfortunately he did past on
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September first of twenty twenty four.
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So this has been a very difficult, but this.
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Has been a dream of mine for you know, thirteen years,
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and I just I've been persevering through the grief. It's
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been tough even today. But that is who Rex was.
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He was my Rexy pooh, my love bear. And the
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reason why this story was born is because my son Samuel,
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who at the time was three years old, asked me
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one random night when it was bedtime story time. He
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asked me, how did we get so lucky to have
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Rex as our dog?
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And rather than just telling him the.
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Story, I immediately recalled that I have the whole experience
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documented because I am a camera happy person and I'm
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also a photographer, and so when this whole thing happened
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that was completely out of the blue. I ran into
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my bedroom, I grabbed my nikon.
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I.
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Came out, welcomed this gentleman in with the puppies, took
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them out of the box, and just, I mean, I immediately
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started taking pictures because who wouldn't They're so gosh aren't cute?
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So luckily I grabbed my laptop, I came back upstairs,
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put it.
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On the bed, and Sammy and I watched the whole experience,
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and while we were looking at the photos, I started
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reading I mean, I just immediately knew what the puppies
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were thinking and saying, that's my imagination for you. And
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by the end of this album, you know, my son
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and I we were laughing, we were just I mean,
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it was just so cute.
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You've got to see the pictures. You've got to see
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this story. It's so cute. These puppies are just ridiculously adorable,
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and it made us laugh so hard. And Sammy at
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the end he said, Mama, you've got a pinky swear,
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and he put up his little pinky, his little three
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year old pinky, and said, you have to turn this
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into a book because I want to read this story again.
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Very cute, very cut's it?
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So let's go back a little bit. Thank you for
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sharing that. Let's go back a little bit. How did
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you know now when Rex was brought to your door?
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There were a total of three puppies brought to your
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door from a neighbor, but you adopted. You adopted just one,
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right enough, I mean, you know catsny companions dogs once enough,
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So how did you know that Rex was the one?
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Oh? My goodness, Well, actually I didn't just know.
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I documented the moment like it just it was an instantaneous,
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like a lightning bolt strike of obviousness that this our guy.
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Why Rex not the other two?
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You know, the other two?
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The other two did not climb up my then fiance
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at the time. They did not climb up his leg,
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up his chest and do this thing where he did
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this thing where he pawed his little paws into his chest,
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you know, to like make a little bed, like make
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it a little comfy.
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Where he kind of like you know, turned around three
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hundred and sixty degrees and then he just plopped down
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and snuggled in.
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And I mean it was in that moment, that snuggly,
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snuggly moment where Ben, who I named Mark in this
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book Sophia is me but it is our story.
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But then at the time was like, uh, he just
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pointed at him and just gave me this look like
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this is our guy. I'm like, yes, yes, that is
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the one that it's someone who cuddles up and snuggles
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up right into your heart, because that's what he did.
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You know, that's so funny because I was thinking about
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my not my first dog, but the as an adult,
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but my second one, mister Zeus. So the first time
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I met him, he went into the corners. Wonder what
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that means, but it was at a It was at
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his shelter and he'd been returned, and he was a
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timid dog. He was always kind of shy and you know, chill.
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But yeah, I didn't get that kind of a welcome.
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He just went right in the corner. But once I
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brought him home, we were buds. We bonded. After he
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doubt about the car ride, but he bought it. He
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had an exciting journey, which I told listeners of the
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long time listeners know the zoo story. So let's talk
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about your book. So one of the most unique things
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about the book is that it is told from a
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puppies perspective. What inspired that creative.
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Choice When looking at these photographs and just remembering, recalling
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those moments and the vibes and the energy and just
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my essentially my perspective and my perception of these little creatures.
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And their personalities.
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I really wanted it to be from the puppies perspective
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because it's.
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Truly their story that I am sharing. I am literally
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sharing their story more than I am sharing my story.
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You know, this.
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Story really follows the puppies adventure on their adoption journey,
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and I decide to take it from that perception. Honestly, intuitively, instinctually,
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that's what happened, and it just felt so right. And
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you know, one major thing.
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About this book is that this book.
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Was created sort of not just out of that instance
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with my son asking me about Rex, but even before
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that happened. This was actually captured on video. I have
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this moment where I was holding Rex on my lap
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and we were waiting for his doggy sitter to come.
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We were going on like an overnight or whatever, and
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I was holding him and I turned to Ben and
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I said, you know what.
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I really want to teach.
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Lessons to children through the lessons that Rex learns, or
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that I want to promote to the world, such as
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following your instincts, your intuition, and being grateful for those
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who care for you, helping others, having empathy, those types
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of things. I've always been very passionate about wanting to
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promote and help help get out there because I think
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that these things are very important for humans. And I
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don't know, it was just a thing where I was like,
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I need this to be through Rex's voice, through the
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puppies voice.
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It's their experience, but it's with my teachings.
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Okay, thanks. What do you think is going through their
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little minds when they are during you know, they're meeting
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you during adoption day? Give me, give me like three sentences.
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What do you think Rex was probably if he could
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talk talk like words, what do you think he would
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have said?
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Well, just like it says in the book, like, oh
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my gosh, who is this lady? She has such a
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sweet voice. Oh my gosh, maybe she could be my mommy,
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because I'm telling you, from the moment he came in,
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Rex was all about, you know, me and Ben and
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and he just seemed like really wanting to be with
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us and loving on us, like from the get go.
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The other two were very, very sweet, And I was
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actually very partial to Chunky Monkey because he's so photogenic.
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I could tell right away that's something that I picked
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up on. But you know, he wasn't so actively giving
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us so much affection and attention, and so I think that, yeah,
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the things that they would be saying, or at least
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Rex for sure, is like, oh my gosh, I'm like, gosh,
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where am I? Is this the forever home? Is this
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my forever family? Who is this lady? She's so nice?
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It's you know, those kinds of probably exciting statements. I
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would hope, I would think.
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I'm sure that it's exactly what Rex was thinking. You
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have some you mentioned your photographer, you have some gorgeous
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photos in the bank, and this is something I might
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have known this because I live in a warm climate,
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so it's something that we deal with all the time.
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But a lot of your pictures are of the puppies
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and they're down at your feet, so you have a
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gorgeous pedicure for like four pages.
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Did you think, Oh my gosh, what in.
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The world would I have done if I wasn't up
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on my pedicure?
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Oh my god, you're so funny. Yes, And actually, I
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mean you see my toes. You don't really see too
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many of Ben's toes because they were not pretty.
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And I've had to do some met your there's foer
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shot that.
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I mean, I need a pedicure right now, big time.
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But but you're absolutely right. That was so lucky. That
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was so lucky.
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It was lucky. I mean, you might have a you know,
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you might have a second market for guys. Well I'm
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saying guys because you're a female feet, but we're not
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gonna go there.
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Thank you all take that as a compliment.
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Yes, yes, your feet look great, great, Thank you.
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Okay, you love feet, Dogs love feet. I don't know
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what it is. Do your dogs look your I mean,
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have your dogs look I mean, yeah.
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The dog, especially when you're walking. I don't know.
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I don't know.
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If there's smells on your feet.
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Oh yeah, and I think they're sulky. I think they
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like them.
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Hats don't go for feet so much except to bite
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them sometimes, true, yes, which weird And like you so
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when I.
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Do my story time because I am a storyteller and
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I do read this out loud at schools and libraries,
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and I was just at Fanter Bookshop in Fremont and
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Half Price Books in Freemont. I always have this back
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and forth with kids when it comes to the stinky
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feet where it's like I look at the kids that
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I read the room and.
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I'm like, ew right, oh, what is it up with
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dogs and feet? You know, it's kind of like I
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kind of like say the elephant in the room, like, yes, they.
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Are on the feet. But I think the kids laugh,
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you know, like big time. They think it's hilarious. So
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I love it it is.
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Did you have any challenges or surprises while photographing the
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puppies because they can be hard to photograph.
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Challenge was to get pictures of me with them.
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I think I got like maybe I don't know a few,
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but you know, that's always the challenge of I know,
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the feeder there, the feeder there. But you know, when
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I look back at this album, it's really sort of
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the photographer's curse is that when you're the photographer, it's
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hard to get in front of the camera and because
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you know, the people are like, oh, well they're taking
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care of it. Well yeah, but you know, so when
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I go back and I look and I'm like, I
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would have loved to have a few more photos of
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me with Rex from that day. I have a lot
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of obviously of Ben holding them. That's sort of my
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That was my challenge, I guess, and what I still
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deal with today because that's like a I can't make
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this moment up, like it happened by accident, fate, whatever
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you whatever you want to call it. And I feel
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lucky that I had the intuition to just capture it.
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my Kido asked me about it, and you know, and
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I had it. I had these this moment and I think,
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you know, I hope that this book inspires a few things.
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You know, of course adopting rescue and shelter dogs and
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all of the lessons within and.
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All of that, but also like like.
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Look, there was a magic moment and I took it,
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you know, I took the pictures and then I told
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the story and.
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It's a real, true story. I think that that's really special.
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I can't go back and be like, I want a
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picture of me with baby Rex.
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Now I can't. And I don't have very money from
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that day. I'm like maybe one or two.
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So it's always like that. It's always when I had
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mister Zeus, it was I got them in two thousand
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and five. Cameras, phone cameras were not that good. My
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first picture of him, he looks like a little fuzz
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in the corner of a table. But you know, hey,
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my memories are there.
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So amen, thank God for that.
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We're going to take a short break.
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We'll be right back, real people, real stories.
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Welcome back everyone. We are talking to Jamie Oaks. She
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is the author of The Fun and Burry Tales of
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Rex Adoption Day. Okay, Jamie, do you have a favorite
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photo in the book and what's the story behind it?
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When Rex gives me a high five, that is my
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favorite picture.
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I mean, when when that happened? I just thought, because
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this is a puppy.
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This is like, what, like, I think he was maybe
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six weeks old at the time, maybe, And I don't
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think anybody got to teaching him how to high five.
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Yet, no, no, And so this is literally one of,
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you know, one of the moments in the book. It's true.
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But I did say, let's just adopt all of them,
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like how are we ever gonna pick just one? Because
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that was the conundrum, like how are we gonna pick
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from these three adorable free angels? Like how could I
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you know? And then when I said that, Rex really
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did run out from under me the couch where he
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had been cowering the moment before, in which I also
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capture the picture before, I actually capture a dog gasping,
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you see it. I've never seen that before, So I
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thought that was pretty cool.
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But there was this moment in the book where Rex thought, uh, oh,
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they're gonna pick one of my brothers and not me
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because he didn't.
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Get a chance to lick my toes and show me
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how much he liked me.
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Right, And then the next moment, I'm like, let's just
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adopt all of them, and this little guy just ran
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out from underneath the.
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Couch and literally gave me a high five with like
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essentially my fingers because this Paul was so small, This
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is so tiny, and that right there, I mean, that
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was amazing. Wow. You can't nake that up. You can't. No, no, no,
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AI couldn't even do that. AI couldn't even do that.
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We talked a little bit about adoption before the break.
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Why is it so important for people to you know,
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this is a book for children, so it's more reaching
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the parents and for the children to understand that it's
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so important to adopt, and that I'm very pro adopt.
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There are even there's rescues for specific breeds if you're looking,
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if you look in different places, you'll find the mix
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you want. I understand some people want designer dogs, but
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there are so many to adopt. So I'm glad you're
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sharing this. You know, created a book that does focus
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on that message. Why is it crucial and your your
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point of view?
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Okay, So for pet lovers, okay, dogs and cats and
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rabbits and birds and just all the pets out there. Okay,
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for the pet lovers out there, I am sure that.
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None of us, none of us even want to think
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that the reality is that when pets do not get adopted.
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There are so.
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Many, so many beautiful furry and children in furry or
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reptile or pet you know, all the pets okay, that
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unfortunately are euthanized, Okay, And that kills me when I
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look up the statistics, like you can ASPCA. You know
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it's millions, Okay, Yes, the last time I looked up
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the statistics, it said every year in America something like
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approximately six point five million dogs and cats get put
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into the shelter system and only three point one dogs
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and cats combined three point one million come out. So
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I'm like, well, what happens to the other millions?
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That's not cool? And how do we whittle that number down?
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How do we.
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Get more pets in homes and safe and sound to
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have beautiful lives with their companion humans. I mean, it
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is something that is.
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So important to me that if you go on my
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social media stories by Jamie, you will see that I
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go to shelters. I just went to the San Jose
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Animal Shelter and I posted about the available dogs that
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are up for adoption there. I also went to the
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other one, the Silicon Valley Humane Society, and I just
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posted a video there and I got a lot of traction,
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and I got a lot of folks going to those places,
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which was such a blessing. I didn't know what would happen,
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but I received word that you know that that helped,
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and I'm hoping to do.
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More like that.
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I feel like we all should volunteer our hours if
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we have a little bit here and there, to go
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to shelters and to help the dogs and cats in
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the shelters be okay during their time in the shelters.
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So this is something that I am very obviously passionate about.
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And I do hope that my book about adopting a
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dog helps other dogs and cats get adopted too, so
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that they can find their forever homes too, just like
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rext it.
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Thank you for all that I think. Also, maybe this
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is a future book, but I'm going to ask you
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about what your future books and then you have another
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one in the works, But maybe there's a future book
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about be proactive also and spay and neuter your dogs
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and especially your cats. Really bad with cats because cats
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are you know, there's so many more feral creatures because
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they're so independent.
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Yes, that'll be intriguing. How to do that topic though.
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With kids.
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With kids so hard.
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But that's a chat think about it.
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But it's you know, I think there's medical books for kids.
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So it's about you know what, we do a snip
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here and a snip there so there's no more babies.
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And if there's no more baby, it's like a math thing, you.
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Know, Michelle, I think you just got inspired. I think
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I just inspired you for a book. I think you
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should write these ideas down and just marinate and do
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it in my.
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Spare time whatever.
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You know, we all stay up late and watch some
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nonsense TV instead. Right, it's so much more fun, I promise.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, well, I mean especially with cats and numbers are crazy. Okay,
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let's say this book audience is for, you know, a
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most of more listening audience. There's some children, but mostly
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pet parents. Lots of pet parents want to be pet parents,
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and human pet parents are human parents. We got them,
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you right, But what would you say to all the
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people that are thinking, you know this, this might be
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a good book for my kids, but I don't know,
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why should they buy your book?
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Oh my goodness, Well, for the soon to be pet parents,
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this is a perfect book to even start to introduce
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the idea of having a free child in your life,
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of adopting a dog or a cat. This is a
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wonderful example of how, you know, this is a new experience.
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Let's explain to our kiddo, we're going to adopt a dog.
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We're gonna go and see how the energy is between us.
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You know, We're gonna you know, check out to see
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what the doggie is, how they're interacting with us. And
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this is great in terms of really introducing the whole
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concept and showing kind of an example, if you will,
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you know, of adopting.
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Also, it's a great celebration of adoption book.
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One of my friends actually recently just told me that
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her friend is having a Gotcha Day party.
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For her dog. I was like, wow, that's something. Really
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what is it? A today Gotcha Day party? So they
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don't know the birthday of their dog. Instead they celebrate
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their Gotcha Day the day that they adopted their dog.
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And I thought, oh my god. I actually went on Amazon.
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There's even decorations for this. I was like, oh my god,
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this is amazing. But a Gotcha Day present. She was like,
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this is a Gotcha Day book right here, like this
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right here celebrates adoption this right here. And you know, Michelle,
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you did it yourself too. This book inspires people to
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think about.
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The day the they adopted their pet. It does all
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the time, like you spoke about it.
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Whenever I talk about this book or after I read aloud,
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people come up to me they're like, you know, when
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I adopted my dog, this is what happened.
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And I love that.
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I love that this book actually really resonates with people
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in a very specific happy memory, namely.
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The gotcha day of their pet. And aside from that,
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it does have a lot of this wonderful you know,
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lessons about adoption. And these are rescued puppies. In the book,
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it talks.
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A lot about how grateful the puppies are to the
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kind man who rescued them. There is specifically quite a
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bit of language about that to really help children and.
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People of all ages learn, you know, to be grateful
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for others, to be grateful for those who take care
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of you. That's like a big and that it's important
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to help others, namely in this case, it goes hand
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in hand. Rescuing these little puppies equals helping others, right,
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So there's so many great messages. Yeah, and lesson and one.
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I don't know, maybe you're too modest, but the pictures
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are amazing. They're all beautiful.
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Thank you you're colorful.
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I mean, they're very and that is important because they're
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engaging for children. That's really important. Okay, what can we
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expect next?
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Well, just like this book that makes people like just.
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Go ooh and awe and cute and giggle and all
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of that.
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Okay, the next book, The Fun and Furry Tales of.
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Rex Puppy Love, is super super cute and makes everybody
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that looks at the pictures of Rex, and that one
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just ooh in awe gives everybody happy vibes, like both
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of Like all my books, I want to give you
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happy vibes.
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Even if it's a heavy, heavy kind of topic like
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rescuing dogs that were like left outside or whatever, you're
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gonna get it in a beautiful, cute, happy vibe. But
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this book takes it to.
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Another level because I tapped into one of my God
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given gifts, which is.
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Being a poet. I'm a poet and I know it.
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I've been a poet since I was twelve. I've been published,
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I won many, many, many awards, and so I brought
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my poetry skills if you will to the fun and
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for retaales of Rex Puppy Love. How this Yes, it's
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all in poetry. It's so super fun to read aloud.
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How that Facebook really is about gratitude. This is about Rex.
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Coming to his new home and being so super grateful
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because Rex knows what it is to not have a
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home and not have parents and not have food and
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all those things. And so this book is a true
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like Rex is talking to you and telling you, look
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how beautiful my home is and my toys are, and
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that is to help inspire children to feel gratitude.
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Well, what are you grateful for? Who are you grateful for?
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My books are meant to be an interactive read with kids,
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you know, to really you know, showcase these lessons. And
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so Puppy Love, I'm really going double down on trying
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to promote having genuine feelings of gratitude because that makes
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us healthier and happier as human beings.
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Period.
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Yes, yes it does.
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We need more gratitude and that's the life lesson I
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have learned the hard way.
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So I am now promoting what.
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We need a lot of that. We need more of
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that these days. Okay, Jamie, Where can people find out
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where they can purchase The Fun and Furry Tales of
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Rex Adoption Day and find out more about you?
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Stories by Janie dot com and you spell my name, Jamie.
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Stories by Jmie dot Com.
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That's it.
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My website, it's got it all. If you just want
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to check out the book, it's on Amazon. Also found
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on my website, but it's on Amazon. The Fun and.
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Furry Tales of Rex Adoption Day Puppy Love is coming
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out soon. You can pre order Poppy Love on website again,
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Stories by Jamie dot com and you can book me too.
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I love coming to schools and libraries and bookstores and
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any kind of stores actually, because you know families with children.
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We come.
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We do a storytime party, I read the book, I
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do all of my discussion. My program. It's a social
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emotional learning program.
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Okay, helps kids really learn gratitude, empathy. There's movement, there's art.
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I do a bubble dance party. You can check this
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all out on my social media's I'm on all the
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social medias.
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Okay, well, just about it.
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Out of time, So Stories by Jamie, that's it. Thank
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you so much for coming.
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On Best Bets for Pets.
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Thank you bye bye, bye bye.
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Thank you everyone for joining me today. Thank you to
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my guest Jamie Oh the opera at the in Furry
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Tales of Rex Adoption Day. Thank you to everyone that
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listens to Best Bets for Pets. I appreciate your loyal listenership.
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And of course thank you to Gosh all of the
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furbabes I've adopted over the years, mister Zeus, Miss c
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who was before Zeus, Dennis, Charlotte, Molly, Sammy, Jebro and Nikki,
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all my adopted furbabes. So thank you for everything you've
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gotten to my life again, stories by Jamie dot com
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and of course like each, thank you to Mark Winter
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for all you do to make our shows sound amazing.
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Thank you so much, and hey, remember keep listening. You
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Welcome back everyone. I'd like to welcome Jamie Oak. She
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is the author of the Fun and Very Tales of
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Rex Adoption Day. Welcome Jamie.
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Hi, Thank you so much for having me today.
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Michelle I'm so excited to have you on. Well, first,
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tell us who Rex I know unfortunately passed, So tell
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us who Rex was, and also what inspired you to
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turn Rex's adoption story into a book, The Fun and
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Furry Tales of Rex Adoption Day.
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Yes, well, Rex is my furry little angel that suddenly
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showed up on my doorstep about thirteen years ago now,
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and that's what this whole book is about. And he
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became my you know, soul companion, my furry child, just
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you know, my emotional support animal, all of that tied
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up in a bow. And unfortunately he did past on
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September first of twenty twenty four.
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So this has been a very difficult, but this.
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and I just I've been persevering through the grief. It's
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been tough even today. But that is who Rex was.
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He was my Rexy pooh, my love bear. And the
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reason why this story was born is because my son Samuel,
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who at the time was three years old, asked me
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one random night when it was bedtime story time. He
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asked me, how did we get so lucky to have
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Rex as our dog?
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And rather than just telling him the.
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Story, I immediately recalled that I have the whole experience
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documented because I am a camera happy person and I'm
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also a photographer, and so when this whole thing happened
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that was completely out of the blue. I ran into
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my bedroom, I grabbed my nikon.
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them out of the box, and just, I mean, I immediately
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started taking pictures because who wouldn't They're so gosh aren't cute?
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put it.
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and while we were looking at the photos, I started
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reading I mean, I just immediately knew what the puppies
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were thinking and saying, that's my imagination for you. And
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by the end of this album, you know, my son
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and I we were laughing, we were just I mean,
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it was just so cute.
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this story. It's so cute. These puppies are just ridiculously adorable,
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and it made us laugh so hard. And Sammy at
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the end he said, Mama, you've got a pinky swear,
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and he put up his little pinky, his little three
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year old pinky, and said, you have to turn this
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into a book because I want to read this story again.
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Very cute, very cut's it?
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So let's go back a little bit. Thank you for
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sharing that. Let's go back a little bit. How did
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you know now when Rex was brought to your door?
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door from a neighbor, but you adopted. You adopted just one,
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right enough, I mean, you know catsny companions dogs once enough,
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like a lightning bolt strike of obviousness that this our guy.
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Why Rex not the other two?
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You know, the other two?
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The other two did not climb up my then fiance
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up his chest and do this thing where he did
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this thing where he pawed his little paws into his chest,
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hundred and sixty degrees and then he just plopped down
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snuggly moment where Ben, who I named Mark in this
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book Sophia is me but it is our story.
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pointed at him and just gave me this look like
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this is our guy. I'm like, yes, yes, that is
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the one that it's someone who cuddles up and snuggles
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up right into your heart, because that's what he did.
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my not my first dog, but the as an adult,
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but my second one, mister Zeus. So the first time
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that means, but it was at a It was at
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his shelter and he'd been returned, and he was a
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timid dog. He was always kind of shy and you know, chill.
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brought him home, we were buds. We bonded. After he
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doubt about the car ride, but he bought it. He
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had an exciting journey, which I told listeners of the
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long time listeners know the zoo story. So let's talk
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about your book. So one of the most unique things
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about the book is that it is told from a
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puppies perspective. What inspired that creative.
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those moments and the vibes and the energy and just
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my essentially my perspective and my perception of these little creatures.
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I really wanted it to be from the puppies perspective
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because it's.
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Truly their story that I am sharing. I am literally
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sharing their story more than I am sharing my story.
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You know, this.
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Story really follows the puppies adventure on their adoption journey,
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and I decide to take it from that perception. Honestly, intuitively, instinctually,
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that's what happened, and it just felt so right. And
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you know, one major thing.
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with my son asking me about Rex, but even before
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that happened. This was actually captured on video. I have
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this moment where I was holding Rex on my lap
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and we were waiting for his doggy sitter to come.
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I was holding him and I turned to Ben and
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I said, you know what.
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I really want to teach.
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Lessons to children through the lessons that Rex learns, or
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that I want to promote to the world, such as
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following your instincts, your intuition, and being grateful for those
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who care for you, helping others, having empathy, those types
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of things. I've always been very passionate about wanting to
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promote and help help get out there because I think
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that these things are very important for humans. And I
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don't know, it was just a thing where I was like,
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I need this to be through Rex's voice, through the
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puppies voice.
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It's their experience, but it's with my teachings.
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Okay, thanks. What do you think is going through their
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little minds when they are during you know, they're meeting
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you during adoption day? Give me, give me like three sentences.
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What do you think Rex was probably if he could
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talk talk like words, what do you think he would
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have said?
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my gosh, who is this lady? She has such a
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sweet voice. Oh my gosh, maybe she could be my mommy,
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because I'm telling you, from the moment he came in,
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Rex was all about, you know, me and Ben and
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and he just seemed like really wanting to be with
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us and loving on us, like from the get go.
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The other two were very, very sweet, And I was
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actually very partial to Chunky Monkey because he's so photogenic.
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I could tell right away that's something that I picked
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up on. But you know, he wasn't so actively giving
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us so much affection and attention, and so I think that, yeah,
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the things that they would be saying, or at least
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Rex for sure, is like, oh my gosh, I'm like, gosh,
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where am I? Is this the forever home? Is this
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my forever family? Who is this lady? She's so nice?
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would hope, I would think.
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I'm sure that it's exactly what Rex was thinking. You
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have some you mentioned your photographer, you have some gorgeous
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photos in the bank, and this is something I might
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have known this because I live in a warm climate,
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so it's something that we deal with all the time.
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But a lot of your pictures are of the puppies
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and they're down at your feet, so you have a
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gorgeous pedicure for like four pages.
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Did you think, Oh my gosh, what in.
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The world would I have done if I wasn't up
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on my pedicure?
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Oh my god, you're so funny. Yes, And actually, I
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mean you see my toes. You don't really see too
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many of Ben's toes because they were not pretty.
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And I've had to do some met your there's foer
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shot that.
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I mean, I need a pedicure right now, big time.
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But but you're absolutely right. That was so lucky. That
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was so lucky.
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It was lucky. I mean, you might have a you know,
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you might have a second market for guys. Well I'm
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saying guys because you're a female feet, but we're not
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gonna go there.
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Thank you all take that as a compliment.
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Yes, yes, your feet look great, great, Thank you.
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Okay, you love feet, Dogs love feet. I don't know
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what it is. Do your dogs look your I mean,
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have your dogs look I mean, yeah.
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The dog, especially when you're walking. I don't know.
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If there's smells on your feet.
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Oh yeah, and I think they're sulky. I think they
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like them.
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Hats don't go for feet so much except to bite
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them sometimes, true, yes, which weird And like you so
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when I.
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Do my story time because I am a storyteller and
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I do read this out loud at schools and libraries,
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and I was just at Fanter Bookshop in Fremont and
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Half Price Books in Freemont. I always have this back
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and forth with kids when it comes to the stinky
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feet where it's like I look at the kids that
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I read the room and.
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I'm like, ew right, oh, what is it up with
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dogs and feet? You know, it's kind of like I
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kind of like say the elephant in the room, like, yes, they.
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Are on the feet. But I think the kids laugh,
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you know, like big time. They think it's hilarious. So
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I love it it is.
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Did you have any challenges or surprises while photographing the
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puppies because they can be hard to photograph.
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Challenge was to get pictures of me with them.
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I think I got like maybe I don't know a few,
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but you know, that's always the challenge of I know,
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the feeder there, the feeder there. But you know, when
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I look back at this album, it's really sort of
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the photographer's curse is that when you're the photographer, it's
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hard to get in front of the camera and because
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you know, the people are like, oh, well they're taking
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care of it. Well yeah, but you know, so when
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I go back and I look and I'm like, I
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would have loved to have a few more photos of
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me with Rex from that day. I have a lot
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of obviously of Ben holding them. That's sort of my
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That was my challenge, I guess, and what I still
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deal with today because that's like a I can't make
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this moment up, like it happened by accident, fate, whatever
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you whatever you want to call it. And I feel
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lucky that I had the intuition to just capture it.
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And then I think it was been more lucky that
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my Kido asked me about it, and you know, and
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I had it. I had these this moment and I think,
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you know, I hope that this book inspires a few things.
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You know, of course adopting rescue and shelter dogs and
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all of the lessons within and.
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All of that, but also like like.
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Look, there was a magic moment and I took it,
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you know, I took the pictures and then I told
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the story and.
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It's a real, true story. I think that that's really special.
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I can't go back and be like, I want a
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picture of me with baby Rex.
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Now I can't. And I don't have very money from
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that day. I'm like maybe one or two.
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So it's always like that. It's always when I had
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mister Zeus, it was I got them in two thousand
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and five. Cameras, phone cameras were not that good. My
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first picture of him, he looks like a little fuzz
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in the corner of a table. But you know, hey,
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my memories are there.
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So amen, thank God for that.
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We're going to take a short break.
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We'll be right back, real people, real stories.
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Let's talk past, Let's done, petalot Life.
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Welcome back everyone. We are talking to Jamie Oaks. She
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is the author of The Fun and Burry Tales of
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Rex Adoption Day. Okay, Jamie, do you have a favorite
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photo in the book and what's the story behind it?
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When Rex gives me a high five, that is my
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favorite picture.
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I mean, when when that happened? I just thought, because
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this is a puppy.
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This is like, what, like, I think he was maybe
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six weeks old at the time, maybe, And I don't
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think anybody got to teaching him how to high five.
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Yet, no, no, And so this is literally one of,
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you know, one of the moments in the book. It's true.
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But I did say, let's just adopt all of them,
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like how are we ever gonna pick just one? Because
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that was the conundrum, like how are we gonna pick
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from these three adorable free angels? Like how could I
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you know? And then when I said that, Rex really
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did run out from under me the couch where he
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had been cowering the moment before, in which I also
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capture the picture before, I actually capture a dog gasping,
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you see it. I've never seen that before, So I
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thought that was pretty cool.
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But there was this moment in the book where Rex thought, uh, oh,
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they're gonna pick one of my brothers and not me
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because he didn't.
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Get a chance to lick my toes and show me
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how much he liked me.
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Right, And then the next moment, I'm like, let's just
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adopt all of them, and this little guy just ran
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out from underneath the.
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Couch and literally gave me a high five with like
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essentially my fingers because this Paul was so small, This
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is so tiny, and that right there, I mean, that
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was amazing. Wow. You can't nake that up. You can't. No, no, no,
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AI couldn't even do that. AI couldn't even do that.
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We talked a little bit about adoption before the break.
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Why is it so important for people to you know,
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this is a book for children, so it's more reaching
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the parents and for the children to understand that it's
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so important to adopt, and that I'm very pro adopt.
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There are even there's rescues for specific breeds if you're looking,
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if you look in different places, you'll find the mix
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you want. I understand some people want designer dogs, but
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there are so many to adopt. So I'm glad you're
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sharing this. You know, created a book that does focus
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on that message. Why is it crucial and your your
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point of view?
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Okay, So for pet lovers, okay, dogs and cats and
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rabbits and birds and just all the pets out there. Okay,
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for the pet lovers out there, I am sure that.
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None of us, none of us even want to think
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that the reality is that when pets do not get adopted.
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There are so.
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Many, so many beautiful furry and children in furry or
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reptile or pet you know, all the pets okay, that
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unfortunately are euthanized, Okay, And that kills me when I
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look up the statistics, like you can ASPCA. You know
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it's millions, Okay, Yes, the last time I looked up
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the statistics, it said every year in America something like
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approximately six point five million dogs and cats get put
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into the shelter system and only three point one dogs
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and cats combined three point one million come out. So
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I'm like, well, what happens to the other millions?
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That's not cool? And how do we whittle that number down?
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How do we.
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Get more pets in homes and safe and sound to
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have beautiful lives with their companion humans. I mean, it
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is something that is.
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So important to me that if you go on my
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social media stories by Jamie, you will see that I
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go to shelters. I just went to the San Jose
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Animal Shelter and I posted about the available dogs that
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are up for adoption there. I also went to the
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other one, the Silicon Valley Humane Society, and I just
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posted a video there and I got a lot of traction,
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and I got a lot of folks going to those places,
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which was such a blessing. I didn't know what would happen,
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but I received word that you know that that helped,
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and I'm hoping to do.
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More like that.
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I feel like we all should volunteer our hours if
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we have a little bit here and there, to go
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to shelters and to help the dogs and cats in
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the shelters be okay during their time in the shelters.
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So this is something that I am very obviously passionate about.
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And I do hope that my book about adopting a
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dog helps other dogs and cats get adopted too, so
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that they can find their forever homes too, just like
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rext it.
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Thank you for all that I think. Also, maybe this
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is a future book, but I'm going to ask you
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about what your future books and then you have another
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one in the works, But maybe there's a future book
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about be proactive also and spay and neuter your dogs
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and especially your cats. Really bad with cats because cats
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are you know, there's so many more feral creatures because
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they're so independent.
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Yes, that'll be intriguing. How to do that topic though.
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With kids.
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With kids so hard.
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But that's a chat think about it.
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But it's you know, I think there's medical books for kids.
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So it's about you know what, we do a snip
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here and a snip there so there's no more babies.
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And if there's no more baby, it's like a math thing, you.
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Know, Michelle, I think you just got inspired. I think
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I just inspired you for a book. I think you
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should write these ideas down and just marinate and do
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it in my.
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Spare time whatever.
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You know, we all stay up late and watch some
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nonsense TV instead. Right, it's so much more fun, I promise.
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Yeah, well, I mean especially with cats and numbers are crazy. Okay,
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let's say this book audience is for, you know, a
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most of more listening audience. There's some children, but mostly
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pet parents. Lots of pet parents want to be pet parents,
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and human pet parents are human parents. We got them,
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you right, But what would you say to all the
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people that are thinking, you know this, this might be
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a good book for my kids, but I don't know,
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why should they buy your book?
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Oh my goodness, Well, for the soon to be pet parents,
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this is a perfect book to even start to introduce
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the idea of having a free child in your life,
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of adopting a dog or a cat. This is a
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wonderful example of how, you know, this is a new experience.
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Let's explain to our kiddo, we're going to adopt a dog.
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We're gonna go and see how the energy is between us.
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You know, We're gonna you know, check out to see
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what the doggie is, how they're interacting with us. And
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this is great in terms of really introducing the whole
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concept and showing kind of an example, if you will,
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you know, of adopting.
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Also, it's a great celebration of adoption book.
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One of my friends actually recently just told me that
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her friend is having a Gotcha Day party.
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For her dog. I was like, wow, that's something. Really
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what is it? A today Gotcha Day party? So they
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don't know the birthday of their dog. Instead they celebrate
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their Gotcha Day the day that they adopted their dog.
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And I thought, oh my god. I actually went on Amazon.
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There's even decorations for this. I was like, oh my god,
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this is amazing. But a Gotcha Day present. She was like,
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this is a Gotcha Day book right here, like this
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right here celebrates adoption this right here. And you know, Michelle,
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you did it yourself too. This book inspires people to
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think about.
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The day the they adopted their pet. It does all
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the time, like you spoke about it.
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Whenever I talk about this book or after I read aloud,
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people come up to me they're like, you know, when
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I adopted my dog, this is what happened.
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And I love that.
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I love that this book actually really resonates with people
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in a very specific happy memory, namely.
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The gotcha day of their pet. And aside from that,
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it does have a lot of this wonderful you know,
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lessons about adoption. And these are rescued puppies. In the book,
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it talks.
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A lot about how grateful the puppies are to the
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kind man who rescued them. There is specifically quite a
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bit of language about that to really help children and.
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People of all ages learn, you know, to be grateful
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for others, to be grateful for those who take care
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of you. That's like a big and that it's important
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to help others, namely in this case, it goes hand
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in hand. Rescuing these little puppies equals helping others, right,
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So there's so many great messages. Yeah, and lesson and one.
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I don't know, maybe you're too modest, but the pictures
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are amazing. They're all beautiful.
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Thank you you're colorful.
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I mean, they're very and that is important because they're
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engaging for children. That's really important. Okay, what can we
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expect next?
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Well, just like this book that makes people like just.
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Go ooh and awe and cute and giggle and all
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of that.
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Okay, the next book, The Fun and Furry Tales of.
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Rex Puppy Love, is super super cute and makes everybody
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that looks at the pictures of Rex, and that one
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just ooh in awe gives everybody happy vibes, like both
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of Like all my books, I want to give you
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happy vibes.
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Even if it's a heavy, heavy kind of topic like
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rescuing dogs that were like left outside or whatever, you're
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gonna get it in a beautiful, cute, happy vibe. But
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this book takes it to.
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Another level because I tapped into one of my God
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given gifts, which is.
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Being a poet. I'm a poet and I know it.
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I've been a poet since I was twelve. I've been published,
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I won many, many, many awards, and so I brought
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my poetry skills if you will to the fun and
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for retaales of Rex Puppy Love. How this Yes, it's
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all in poetry. It's so super fun to read aloud.
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And you know how it is with rhyming books for kids.
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How that Facebook really is about gratitude. This is about Rex.
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Coming to his new home and being so super grateful
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because Rex knows what it is to not have a
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home and not have parents and not have food and
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all those things. And so this book is a true
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like Rex is talking to you and telling you, look
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how beautiful my home is and my toys are, and
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that is to help inspire children to feel gratitude.
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Well, what are you grateful for? Who are you grateful for?
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My books are meant to be an interactive read with kids,
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you know, to really you know, showcase these lessons. And
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so Puppy Love, I'm really going double down on trying
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to promote having genuine feelings of gratitude because that makes
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us healthier and happier as human beings.
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Period.
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Yes, yes it does.
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We need more gratitude and that's the life lesson I
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have learned the hard way.
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So I am now promoting what.
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We need a lot of that. We need more of
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that these days. Okay, Jamie, Where can people find out
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where they can purchase The Fun and Furry Tales of
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Rex Adoption Day and find out more about you?
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Stories by Janie dot com and you spell my name, Jamie.
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Stories by Jmie dot Com.
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That's it.
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My website, it's got it all. If you just want
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to check out the book, it's on Amazon. Also found
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on my website, but it's on Amazon. The Fun and.
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Furry Tales of Rex Adoption Day Puppy Love is coming
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out soon. You can pre order Poppy Love on website again,
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Stories by Jamie dot com and you can book me too.
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I love coming to schools and libraries and bookstores and
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any kind of stores actually, because you know families with children.
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We come.
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We do a storytime party, I read the book, I
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do all of my discussion. My program. It's a social
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emotional learning program.
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Okay, helps kids really learn gratitude, empathy. There's movement, there's art.
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I do a bubble dance party. You can check this
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all out on my social media's I'm on all the
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social medias.
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Okay, well, just about it.
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Out of time, So Stories by Jamie, that's it. Thank
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you so much for coming.
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On Best Bets for Pets.
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Thank you bye bye, bye bye.
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Thank you everyone for joining me today. Thank you to
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my guest Jamie Oh the opera at the in Furry
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Tales of Rex Adoption Day. Thank you to everyone that
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listens to Best Bets for Pets. I appreciate your loyal listenership.
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And of course thank you to Gosh all of the
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furbabes I've adopted over the years, mister Zeus, Miss c
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who was before Zeus, Dennis, Charlotte, Molly, Sammy, Jebro and Nikki,
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all my adopted furbabes. So thank you for everything you've
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gotten to my life again, stories by Jamie dot com
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and of course like each, thank you to Mark Winter
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for all you do to make our shows sound amazing.
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Thank you so much, and hey, remember keep listening. You
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never know what will have next. On Best Bets for.
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Pets, Let's talk bets every week on demand only on
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