This is the Daily Dog Podcast for Friday, February fourteenth, twenty twenty.
I'm your host Joel Lownes and today's dog is Chuck, an Akbosh Great Pyrenees
mix. His owner, author and podcaster Bridget Cutshaw, told me about Chuck's
athletic abilities. Chuck is a super happy dog. We were we were fostering
him. We got a call through the Believe it's the National Great Pyreneese Rescue
group, and one of my husband's co workers was like on the board and
he was found by Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama. So we agreed to
foster him and my husband went to go pick him up. That was quite
a dry from Atlanta Browns trip. Oh yeah, well, I mean it's
not really that bad, but you know, to do a day trip like
that, it was probably a total of probably five hours and to do a
round trip. He's always super happy. He obviously when you foster dogs and
adopt dogs, they could have some anxiety. So we don't really know his
background. And he was young, probably I think eight months old. He
was destroying everything chewing right, well, young dogs like the chew I mean,
like chewed on window sills shoot on husband shoes. But he was always
super duper happy, right, and we the first summer we had him,
he's not almost three. We had him in the backyard. We have a
pretty big backyard, and we didn't know anything was amiss. But then my
husband got a call from one of our neighbors and they said Chuck was in
their house. They're like, what, how did this happen? Because we
have a pretty tall fence, and it turns out our neighbor was in the
process of moving things out at the house, like furniture, and that's why
the door was open. He's super happy, so at least they knew it
was our dog and weren't freaked out. So it turned out there was um
coyote running around the neighborhood. We actually lived near a lake called Lake Altuna,
so you're gonna have a lot of wildlife. So Chuck was on a
mission to get the coyote. Right, so we're lucky. You know.
We don't know if we ever caught him, but it was my neighbor.
My other neighbor saw We didn't know we had to go repair or change our
fence because he knew how to climate because it was a wooden fence with you
know, a picket fence where you have the horizontal and vertical boards, where
he took the horizontal boards and using my steps and jump. Wow, that's
how athletic he is, right, really tallboys even taller now. But that
to me is a it's just a funny story that you don't know this big
giant dog is missing and he's in your neighbor's house saying hello to everybody.
Yeah, we we have a similar story. We we live about a block
from a thrift store and we got a call one day that's, uh,
yeah, your dogs are here in the store. They just came for a
walk. They escaped the fence that somebody left the gate open and they just
walked down the block and the right into the store. Yeah. I don't
know kind of dogs you have, a parrenees or to me have the funniest
personalities. And but he like, he is very very friendly. He likes
he doesn't like birds though, and that's one of the reasons we got him
because the original foster had chickens on her farm in Alabama. He destroyed I
mean, yeah, he didn't like them. So that's how we got involved
with Chuck. We don't really know what his little name was. We just
I call him Chuck Morris because he's right and that's what he did. He
got out of the house. We had no idea that he's just trying to
protect everybody by chasing a coyote. And so we had to spend extra money
to fix our fence to make a difference so that he can't use it as
a to leap over it make it harder, I guess. And my husband
lost a lot of shoes that first year. And because he always shoot the
right shoe the right I don't know why, but he is a super you
know. That's why we like dogs. Right, they bring you in the
moment they do, Yes, they really do. He's he's really happy,
well cool. And you've got a podcast of your own called Real Things Living.
I do. I have a it's called Real Things Living. It's like
an offshoot of my first book that I wrote called Real Things and it is.
I wrote this after having um cancer again cancer diagnosis, and it was
something. You know, I'm in the publishing and printing business and I'll always
help people with their books. I'm like, you know, it's my turn
to write something, and so I've been blogging for years, so I realized
there was a um a theme to it, and so I created a book
out of it called Real Real Thing, Six Ways to Embrace Life. And
then I gave a lot of those books a I Think you know cancer,
I call Out of Chemo podcast. Gave it to them and it's it's seems
pretty good and I had I got to present it in New York at the
Lincoln Jazz Center because at the same time I had just finished I was learning
about health coach certification because I've just interested in that so kind of just inspiring
people to be more um you know, and we're engaged with life. And
one of the things I write about in that book is dogs right and how
they've had such a positive I find that to have a positive impact because they
make you be in the moment, you know what I'm saying in the set
of because they do they stick the noses in everything. And then and the
Real Things Living podcasts, I got the idea after being interviewed on other podcasts
for she probably heard Chuck Market in the background other podcasts about my other book.
I wrote another book two years ago, so that's kind of like,
you know, what I like doing this, and I'm sharing or's not just
sharing your real story, but talking about you know, resilience. You know,
we all have to deal with something right and how to get through it.
And I think that's probably again jumping back to dogs while I'm just they
just I don't know, they're just so calming, right, and to me
they are even though they can do crazy stuff. So that's why I started
it. It's been almost a year now, so I've been doing the podcast,
and most of the people that I have on their talk about something that's
gone through. It doesn't necessarily to be about health issue or cancer, but
about you know, something they had knocked them down and how they got back
up right. And that's really what it is, trying to inspire people.
And I always throw in dogs. That's great when that's a great message.
Where can people find the podcast? They can find it on what's on eight
different platforms, but you can go to Apple Podcasts that's probably the easiest way.
It's on Spotify as well, and I just recently started sharing some of
the video. I do some of the videos with zoom on YouTube, right,
so some people want to see it rather than just hear it. And
so it's just it's just called real things living well excellent, well, yes,
pretty simple. Yeah yeah, well, Bridget, thank you for coming
on the Daily Dog today and tell me about Chuck and about real things living
and folks. If you want to find Bridget online, you can go to
Bridget Cutshaw dot com or you've also got links to her Instagram and Twitter in
the show notes, as well as a picture of Chuck. So just tap
on those show notes and you'll see what a good boy Chuck is. Yeah,
see is he's a good boy. Thank you so much. All right,
thanks Bridget, all right, have a great day, everybody. To
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