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This is the Daily Dog Podcast for
Friday, February fourteenth, twenty twenty.

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I'm your host Joel Lownes and today's
dog is Chuck, an Akbosh Great Pyrenees

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mix. His owner, author and
podcaster Bridget Cutshaw, told me about Chuck's

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athletic abilities. Chuck is a super
happy dog. We were we were fostering

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him. We got a call through
the Believe it's the National Great Pyreneese Rescue

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group, and one of my husband's
co workers was like on the board and

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he was found by Auburn University in
Auburn, Alabama. So we agreed to

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foster him and my husband went to
go pick him up. That was quite

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a dry from Atlanta Browns trip.
Oh yeah, well, I mean it's

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not really that bad, but you
know, to do a day trip like

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that, it was probably a total
of probably five hours and to do a

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round trip. He's always super happy. He obviously when you foster dogs and

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adopt dogs, they could have some
anxiety. So we don't really know his

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background. And he was young,
probably I think eight months old. He

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was destroying everything chewing right, well, young dogs like the chew I mean,

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like chewed on window sills shoot on
husband shoes. But he was always

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super duper happy, right, and
we the first summer we had him,

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he's not almost three. We had
him in the backyard. We have a

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pretty big backyard, and we didn't
know anything was amiss. But then my

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husband got a call from one of
our neighbors and they said Chuck was in

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their house. They're like, what, how did this happen? Because we

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have a pretty tall fence, and
it turns out our neighbor was in the

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process of moving things out at the
house, like furniture, and that's why

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the door was open. He's super
happy, so at least they knew it

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was our dog and weren't freaked out. So it turned out there was um

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coyote running around the neighborhood. We
actually lived near a lake called Lake Altuna,

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so you're gonna have a lot of
wildlife. So Chuck was on a

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mission to get the coyote. Right, so we're lucky. You know.

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We don't know if we ever caught
him, but it was my neighbor.

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My other neighbor saw We didn't know
we had to go repair or change our

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fence because he knew how to climate
because it was a wooden fence with you

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know, a picket fence where you
have the horizontal and vertical boards, where

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he took the horizontal boards and using
my steps and jump. Wow, that's

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how athletic he is, right,
really tallboys even taller now. But that

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to me is a it's just a
funny story that you don't know this big

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giant dog is missing and he's in
your neighbor's house saying hello to everybody.

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Yeah, we we have a similar
story. We we live about a block

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from a thrift store and we got
a call one day that's, uh,

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yeah, your dogs are here in
the store. They just came for a

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walk. They escaped the fence that
somebody left the gate open and they just

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walked down the block and the right
into the store. Yeah. I don't

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know kind of dogs you have,
a parrenees or to me have the funniest

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personalities. And but he like,
he is very very friendly. He likes

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he doesn't like birds though, and
that's one of the reasons we got him

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because the original foster had chickens on
her farm in Alabama. He destroyed I

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mean, yeah, he didn't like
them. So that's how we got involved

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with Chuck. We don't really know
what his little name was. We just

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I call him Chuck Morris because he's
right and that's what he did. He

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got out of the house. We
had no idea that he's just trying to

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protect everybody by chasing a coyote.
And so we had to spend extra money

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to fix our fence to make a
difference so that he can't use it as

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a to leap over it make it
harder, I guess. And my husband

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lost a lot of shoes that first
year. And because he always shoot the

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right shoe the right I don't know
why, but he is a super you

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know. That's why we like dogs. Right, they bring you in the

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moment they do, Yes, they
really do. He's he's really happy,

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well cool. And you've got a
podcast of your own called Real Things Living.

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I do. I have a it's
called Real Things Living. It's like

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an offshoot of my first book that
I wrote called Real Things and it is.

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I wrote this after having um cancer
again cancer diagnosis, and it was

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something. You know, I'm in
the publishing and printing business and I'll always

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help people with their books. I'm
like, you know, it's my turn

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to write something, and so I've
been blogging for years, so I realized

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there was a um a theme to
it, and so I created a book

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out of it called Real Real Thing, Six Ways to Embrace Life. And

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then I gave a lot of those
books a I Think you know cancer,

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I call Out of Chemo podcast.
Gave it to them and it's it's seems

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pretty good and I had I got
to present it in New York at the

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Lincoln Jazz Center because at the same
time I had just finished I was learning

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about health coach certification because I've just
interested in that so kind of just inspiring

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people to be more um you know, and we're engaged with life. And

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one of the things I write about
in that book is dogs right and how

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they've had such a positive I find
that to have a positive impact because they

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make you be in the moment,
you know what I'm saying in the set

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of because they do they stick the
noses in everything. And then and the

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Real Things Living podcasts, I got
the idea after being interviewed on other podcasts

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for she probably heard Chuck Market in
the background other podcasts about my other book.

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I wrote another book two years ago, so that's kind of like,

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you know, what I like doing
this, and I'm sharing or's not just

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sharing your real story, but talking
about you know, resilience. You know,

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we all have to deal with something
right and how to get through it.

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And I think that's probably again jumping
back to dogs while I'm just they

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just I don't know, they're just
so calming, right, and to me

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they are even though they can do
crazy stuff. So that's why I started

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it. It's been almost a year
now, so I've been doing the podcast,

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and most of the people that I
have on their talk about something that's

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gone through. It doesn't necessarily to
be about health issue or cancer, but

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about you know, something they had
knocked them down and how they got back

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up right. And that's really what
it is, trying to inspire people.

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And I always throw in dogs.
That's great when that's a great message.

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Where can people find the podcast?
They can find it on what's on eight

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different platforms, but you can go
to Apple Podcasts that's probably the easiest way.

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It's on Spotify as well, and
I just recently started sharing some of

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the video. I do some of
the videos with zoom on YouTube, right,

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so some people want to see it
rather than just hear it. And

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so it's just it's just called real
things living well excellent, well, yes,

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pretty simple. Yeah yeah, well, Bridget, thank you for coming

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on the Daily Dog today and tell
me about Chuck and about real things living

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and folks. If you want to
find Bridget online, you can go to

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Bridget Cutshaw dot com or you've also
got links to her Instagram and Twitter in

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the show notes, as well as
a picture of Chuck. So just tap

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on those show notes and you'll see
what a good boy Chuck is. Yeah,

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see is he's a good boy.
Thank you so much. All right,

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thanks Bridget, all right, have
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