Speaker 1: This is pet Life Radio. Let's talk pets.
Speaker 2: Hi.
Speaker 3: Everybody, welcome to Covered in Pet Hair. If you've just
joined us on Facebook and YouTube and Instagram. I'm still
struggling to go live on Instagram. Oh wait, I didn't struggle.
I'm actually live on Instagram. Welcome, Welcome. Yeah, that worked
so much better this time. I was only in three tries.
Three tries, and the third time was the charm And
I'm so excited about that. There's nothing more nerve wracking
than going live and like just failing miss it feels
character Oh it does, it does. I can do anything
if I can go Let's talk well, well, everybody, welcome
to Covered in Pet Hair, a boozy show for pet
lovers on pet Life Radio and YouTube. I am your
host Isabelle Alvrazerata. And today I have the pleasure of
having a drink in a chat with two wonderful people
who are going to help me celebrate Valentine's Day. And
they are They're founders, they are entrepreneurs, they are pet lovers,
rescue advocates, booze snobs of all the booze types. They
are coffee lovers and tea drinkers. They're world Travelers cat
parents to five kiddies. The kiddies' names are Punkins, lb Linus,
Franklin and George and their dob parents to Freddie and Abby.
They are lovers of Bollywood, which Abby was named Abbi sorry,
was named for a famous Bollywood star. And they are
Christy Chond of Specs Iwear and Sib Chond of Booze
for Pause. Welcome guys, welcome back to the show.
Speaker 1: Thank you for having us. It's great to be with you.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, I'm so excited to see you again.
I always like to do something special for Valentine's Day.
Last year, I had Nathan the Cat Lady and trap
King Davis Stirling and I made them blush because they
were both single at the time. I cannot report on
the status of their relationships at this time. I do
not know, but they were single at the time and
had I made them play cat related pickup lines with me,
and some of them got a little racy, and I
remember I'm pretty sure I used one of Christie's yep
for the show. Yeah, so Christy was one of the
ones that gave me inspiration for those racy hiccup lines.
So this war you guys are a married couples. We're
gonna keep it a little more tame. The year before last,
I interviewed my husband and we basically just talked about
how hard it is to be a parent to all
of these critters, whether they're human, feline, canaine. And before
we get to know you, guys, I want to introduce
our drinking game because this is a boozy show for
pet lovers. So anybody at home participating in our drinking
game today. Anytime you hear you guys, cover your eyes,
cover your ice, cover your eyes because you can't know,
because I don't want you to say it on purpose.
Anytime you hear this word that's right here in your screen.
Speaker 2: The secret word is love.
Speaker 3: You're going to take a drink of whatever you're enjoying.
You guys, can uncover your eyes now, but you are
going to take a drink of whatever you're enjoying. Whether
it's alcoholic, non alcoholic. Play along, but please, if it
is an alcoholic beverage, please be over twenty one in
the US to partake. Never drink and drive, and always
drink responsibly. So, because one of you owns a brand
of booze, I'm going to assume that you are all
joining me with Booze for Pause today.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean we would absolutely love to be joining
you with boos for Pause today. And I mean there's
a mystery cup. So I'm just gonna let you and
your audience decide what's in this mystery cup. It it
could be vodka, it could be gin, it could be
in vestper martini urban. I mean, we like to keep
it mysterious, so that's what we're just gonna This is
the mystery container with the mystery beverage.
Speaker 3: Last time you joined me, you gave me a whole
lesson on whiskey, and you are having your whiskey meat
or whiskey with water. I think it was.
Speaker 1: I think there's a couple dropped water in it.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, Well I'm not keeping it mysterious. I'm having
a drink I created, which is a guava berry hibiscus margarita.
I'm calling it a guava berry love punch. And it
is delicious. So cheers, guys, thank you for being on the.
Speaker 1: Show, yours, thank you for having us.
Speaker 3: That looks delightful, beautiful. It is. It's delightful. It is delightful,
and as are you too, and I want to start
the show with a game like I always do, and
I'll have a mimosa, says original trap King. Thank you.
I just yeah, cheers. It does sound good. It is good.
And I was just shouting out to you, Sterling about
how you were a good sport last year joining me
for Valentine's Day and all those very racy pickup lines.
So I want to start the show with a game
that's kind of inspired by the newly Weed game. So
you guys are married and I'm gonna find I'm a
dig into the whole history here and I'm missed to
do this, but I want to play Curious Kitty. This
is my Curious Kitty. This is where I keep the questions,
but I chose them today. I usually just pull them out,
but I picked them because I feel like these are
going to be better for a couple. You're going to
answer for the other person, so I promise they won't
be racy this time, but they're just kind of so
we can gauge how well you know each other and
how long a you known each other.
Speaker 1: We've known each other for almost thirteen years twelve and
a half, and we've been married for just over ten
We celebrated our tenth anniversary in December of last year.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, you guys are about the same as
me and my husband. What yourd you meet twenty thirteen?
Speaker 1: Twenty twelve?
Speaker 3: We started maybe, so we met in twenty thirteen. Yeap, nice,
about the same. And our ten year anniversary is this July?
Uh jay? Yeah? All right, let's see. I'm gonna start
with Christy and you're gonna answer for Sid. Does did
prefer sunny or rainy days? Sonny? She?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 3: Okay, Sid? What is Christie's favorite spice to cook with?
Speaker 1: Salt?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Alright, that's what because I wouldn't have said salt.
I'm with you over salt things? Is that? What is
this like? A is this like a like an inside
joke that you're always like making everybody like swell up
after dinner? Well, I hope we don't oversell.
Speaker 2: I always tell him whenever I make like, if you
don't like anything about it, you have to tell me
otherwise the next time I make it, I'm gonna make
it the same way, and you're gonna have to like
eat it because you said that you liked it and
you didn't correct anything wrong. So honestly, it's helpful in
our house. And no I put so much salt on
our food though, and.
Speaker 1: It's delightful every time.
Speaker 3: So in fact, god, you know, I'm a salt I'm
a salt lover. It's short on salt, it's short on taste.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, yeah, salt and butter, Yeah, oh, butter.
Speaker 3: And bread too, right, Like, let's just stop bot at all?
Might as well? All right, the next one sid of
these three, which would be Christie's choice cookies cake or
candy cake cake? See, I'm a candy person. Okay, all right,
Christy for SID, would he choose lemons, limes or oranges?
Speaker 2: Well, so he gets limes and lemons and foods I do.
Speaker 1: And there's a story behind why, but I'll let her continue.
Speaker 2: Technically I could say lime or lemon. I think it
could be right.
Speaker 3: That's amazing, that's amazing. Okay, what's the story behind the
lemons and the limes? Could use? They're different colors.
Speaker 1: Yes, they're very different colors. And the thing is, though,
growing up in India, for me, like the word for
if now, if here have any other Indian folks are listening,
we'd be like, you's totally wrong. But growing up like
the word was nimbu. I didn't know if it was
lemon or lime, and so when I got here, it
was just kind of like it was a nimbu and
so we just used the term and it's so yeah.
To this day, I'm still like, yeah, lemon, lime whatever
I mean, it's a great taste of lymon, for all
I know, so lymon.
Speaker 3: So it happens in Spanish too, like certain Spanish speakers
will say lemonez for both, and I was raised with
limas for the green and lemonis for the yellow. Then
some people say lemon is there of this, and I'm like,
that is not a thing. Green? Lemon is a lime
like Okay, So I totally amerstand speaking of limes and
lemons and Spanish. Who's next? Who was I gonna ask next? Oh? Yeah, sit?
What would Christy order at a Mexican restaurant?
Speaker 1: I my the default would be oh, tacos al pastor oh.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yes, order two, I'm having another one? Okay, yes, perfect, plightful.
All right, that's what's interesting, Christy, what is its favorite
Thanksgiving dish? What is the pizza?
Speaker 2: As usually? Do you always just say pizza before me?
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, yeah, that's spot on because we didn't really
have like growing up. We would get together at like
my grandparents place, and so sometimes we would do the
traditional stuff. But we were also just like very happy
with round table pizza. No, no endorsement of a round
table if you're listening, I'm open to it. But yeah,
so we're big fans of pizza.
Speaker 3: Okay, I've never heard of round pizza. What's it like?
Is it good?
Speaker 1: It's the last honest pizza if you believe the marketing.
Speaker 3: I think.
Speaker 1: I didn't know if it was everywhere, just a California think.
Speaker 3: But I've never heard of it.
Speaker 1: Very delightful.
Speaker 2: You know, Washington has it too. They have the belt
is somehow like curl they like curl up and then
they hold the little reason side and the top is
the perfect crunchiness like it's legit.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Christy, you've been hanging out with pets too long, right,
My god, that sounded like exactly like my dogs would
describe like a snossage. They'd be like, and it's perfect,
and it's like really greasy, and it just like smells
so stinky, and it's just it's just so good when
it hits the lips all that good stuff. Okay, that
is so funny. Okay, Sid how much water does Christy
drink every day? Gallons? Like gallas?
Speaker 1: She has this was it forty ounce? The forty five
yet with the straw and that she goes through probably
three or four of those at least during the day.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that is so good. I wish I had that problem.
I don't drink enough. I mean unless it's in a
like a cocktail glass that it's got the quwa and
it's hard for you drink it.
Speaker 2: It's all about the straw.
Speaker 3: The straw does hels It just idle great, the straws key,
the straws key, I think. And it's so bad because
the paper straws are awful, and then I hate washing straws,
so like the reusable straws are just like such a
bane of my existence. So it is it's hard, but yes,
the straws make all the difference. Okay, last one for
I guess it was for Christy?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, great, yes, yeah, I got the water.
Speaker 3: Yes, okay, perfect. So if SIB could try time travel,
where would he go?
Speaker 2: Goodness?
Speaker 1: I haven't even necessarily thought about where I would time
travel too.
Speaker 3: Okay, and then while she's thinking, maybe Sid, you tell
us where do you think Christy would go? Again?
Speaker 1: Also a good question. I would have to say it
would have to involve somewhere buy an ocean, gray and rainy,
potentially misty, where she gets to wear performance out or
where so either like up to Seattle somewhere cold, rainy.
Speaker 3: But like time travel so like in the eighties, in
the eighties with a member of his only jacket or.
Speaker 1: When Yeah, I would say back in the eighties, me
buy some real estate.
Speaker 3: Oh that that would be amazing. Yes, that's all drew up.
Speaker 2: I feel like for you, you would go. All I
keep seeing is like then please, I don't know if
there's a specific time, but like sometime, like maybe when
golf was being invented, to like be there when golf
is being invented.
Speaker 1: That's actually kind of what I was thinking about to like.
Speaker 3: Yeah, really, you thought an avid golfer.
Speaker 1: I love the game. I just haven't been able to
really play in a while, but I absolutely love it. Like, yeah,
it's if I could choose to do anything with my
day besides me with Christie and the kids and get
paid for it, it would be being out on a
golf course. So yeah, I'm a huge fan.
Speaker 3: So my husband loves it too. And I'm sure you
have a lot of beautiful places to play in California.
Speaker 1: We're pretty spoiled at her. Yeah, there's some really nice
ones and I've been pretty lucky to play a few,
but the bucket list is long. So Scotland is somewhere
in the little golf and Whiskey trip to scott And
at some point.
Speaker 3: So yes, okay, that sounds amazing. I'll click golf for that.
I was at Pebble Beach once ages ago, but only
for the spa, so I couldn't speak to the course,
but the spallwood top not nice.
Speaker 2: We've been there several times with French fries and champagne
on the belt overlooking the eighteen. It's the best place
to be.
Speaker 3: That sounds amazing. No, I was there by myself, so
I wasn't a spawn. I feel like that sounds like
really good. And then add the spat to it. Okay,
so you were both on my show separately in the
past couple of years, and so I but a lot
of people may not know who you are and why
you're so special to me and why I think so
highly of you. So you both have companies where you
sell products, but those products are first of all amazing
and second of all they support animal welfare. So Christy,
why don't you start us off and tell us about
Specs I Wear, what it is and how you help
animals with it.
Speaker 2: So in twenty twenty two, I started an online only
iWar a company called Specs Iwear, Inc. We sell prescription
and non prescription glasses and sunglasses, and we donate one
hundred percent of profits, but more so, ten percent of
your purchase price to an animal organization. So we have
I think eighteen or nineteen different partners that we donate to.
So when you check out, you just have to pick
which organization or if you say no preference, we pick
for you. And it's a great way to use I
think that we're going to say the same thing here
to like, have a product that a lot of people
use on a daily basis, and if it's something that
people are going to buy anyway, why not buy from
a company that does something really good for those pet
lovers that are our animal lovers that are out there.
Speaker 3: Amazing. I love that. And so your company, your product
sid is very similar in that you donate one hundred
percent of profits we do to animal welfare, but tell
us about what you sell.
Speaker 1: So if you're hear anything in the background, by the way,
that's Freddie. He's here in his little wagon. He wants
some attention as well, so you might here arking.
Speaker 3: Well, pet cameos are always welcome here.
Speaker 1: Fair enough, we will we will see if he's camera ready,
So are so four pauses. The name of the spirits
and Booster pauses. The company and the idea is essentially
like the same thing. So people are going to drink.
We don't necessari encourage anyone to drink, obviously that isn't already,
but if you are of legal drinking age and you
wish to do a good thing while you enjoy a
tasty beverage. We have five different spirits. We've got Bourbon, single,
Multi American whiskey, Rye whiskey, vodka, and gin and same
thing on. Hundred percent of our profits go to nonprofit
animal rescue. So the hope is that people are going
to do something anyway, and why not be able to
capture some of the resources that come from that and
give them to smaller nonprofits that don't get the national
attention that really are kind of on the front line
doing the work every day.
Speaker 3: So that's the whole anyway, Absolutely, I love both the concept.
I love the products. I will say that Christy has
come up with some amazing names for her frames, which
I think adds a whole layer. You know when you're
there that this is a cat lover who knows cats.
When you read those, that was not like some like
disconnected marketing team coming up with those that you can
tell by the names that she knows her cats. And
one of the other things I love is that you
guys kind of inspired each other to pursue these things.
So what which came first, Booster Pause or spex eyewear.
Speaker 1: Booster Pause actually started first, and the idea kind of
happened way back. I think it was twenty sixteen is
when we kind of started to germinate the idea, and
then it was just a process from there of kind
of trying to get everything off the ground and get going.
So the launch was semi simultaneous. Specs actually launched products
first in early twenty twenty, and then we came on
board or we launched like at the end of twenty
twenty two. So the company started first, but the products
came second, launched through the same year. Yeah, I love
it so much.
Speaker 3: Okay, and then let's talk about you guys. How did
you meet? But I have to check if the story's right.
Like when I interviewed my husband and he told me
how he proposed, I was like, that's not that's not
what happens. My god.
Speaker 1: Now, I think we're pretty small on the on the
actual meeting and the whatever, but the thought process behind
what followed that might be a little different from both
of us. It sounds fancier, like more again like saucy
than it probably really is.
Speaker 3: So there's that.
Speaker 2: But anywhere, let's see, I had just moved from Seattle
down to San Luis Obispo and and there for just
a couple of months, and I didn't know very many people.
It was a Friday night, and I'm a big Washington
Heskies football fan, so I wanted to go watch They
were playing cal that night, and I figured that because
it's the California team, maybe they would put it all
on the TV in the bar because sometimes they won't
blah blah. So I went to this one specific place,
sat down at the bar, asked for the game to
be put on. And when I watch football, I watch football.
I don't want people talking to me. I want to
be able to watch the game, enjoy my beverage, have
some food, and wash my game because I didn't have
cable at the time, Like I'm there to watch money.
And he came and sat down next to me, and
thankfully he realized that. And like this guy next to
me who wanted to chat my ear off and was
driving me crazy. So he was very sweet and very
respectful and only talked during commercials. And he was so pretty.
He had a white shirt on and a tie, and
he rolled his sleeves all up and he ate chicken
with a knife and a fork, and his skin was
glowing and perfect. And I was like, there's this guy's
probably gay, or like if he's not gay, there's no
way he wants to.
Speaker 4: Date this that I probably looked just like this T shirt,
Like I think I'm still sweaty from teaching. Like I
was like, he's going to date some beautiful business executive
that wears a pencil skirt and like we can just chat.
And so I had no guard up whatsoever and was
able to just chat, which was nice. And he was
very friendly and then we got rided. We just chatted
for a while and then we want to take over sure, I.
Speaker 1: Mean, that's all spot on. I was actually on my
I lived in Fresno at the time, and I was
on my way back from Santa Barbara. I'd been working
there for the day and very randomly. It was like
seven o'clock on a Friday night. I had one location
on the Central Coast that actually was carrying a different
vodka I had at the time. This is back in
twenty twelve, and I was literally at the exit on
the freeway. I had another three hour drive to come home,
and I was like, I'm hungry, I should eat, and
I pulled off went into this restaurant that had my vodka.
Was the only reason I knew of it, and walked
in there only spot open was next to her at
the bar, so I sat down and yeah, we started talking.
She was watching football, and I knew to shut my
face when the football game was on because I would
want someone to not be talking while I'm trying to
watch a game. So I was like, that's cool, do
our thing. And I didn't get a hamburger and fries,
which is what I wanted to, because I was like, no,
I don't want to make a mask. I must spill
something on my white shirt. She's gonna think I'm a clown.
And so I got the chicken. And that's why I
was like, trying to be very proper with my chicken
so I wouldn't flow it on myself. Almost put my
napkin in my shirt, but I was like, no, that
might be a little too much, so I didn't do
that part of it. But yeah, So we were just
friends for a while. We chatted here and there, and
then summer after my thirteen we really started talking more
and more and hung out on a just a football, like, hey,
let's watch our teams were playing each other and so
we're like, hey, let's just hang out. And that turned
into our first date, and that turned into the rest
of our lives.
Speaker 3: Oh, this is the most romantic thing I've ever heard
about football. I would have been the person talking through
the whole game, because I have zero interest in football.
I don't care. Don Anicia my husband and my husband's
having like the best week of his life because the
Eagles just went the Super Bowl. He's all excited and like,
I have to take feign excitement too, like the eagles
covers like who can? So I would both of you
would have been like not her? So I love it
so much. And then now you all share your life
with five cats and two dogs. And what fascinates me
about a home with that many pets and seven pets?
For those were not good in math, it's a lot.
That's a lot of pets and two different species. And
for those that aren't really familiar with cats, sometimes introducing
cats to each other is even harder than dogs and cats.
Even though people say like fighting like cats and dogs,
it's actually cats and cats sometimes all the way. So
how's that experience been. And did you always know when
you were dating that like you were gonna be like
these crazy pet people.
Speaker 1: We had absolutely no idea that we were going to
be these crazy pet people. Pukins actually had adopted us.
So we'd just gotten married and a few months later
we were living in this condo a couple levels and
Pukins was there was this we lived in, like a
three story condo, and right next to us was this
house with this over grown yard in the back of
there's a bunch of ca that were out there and
Christy would go out in the morning on her patio
second floor, overlooked the little area with her coffee and
she talked to the cats. Well, one of them took
that as an invitation to come over and say hello,
and she did, and so we let her go. A
couple of nights, We're like, she's not ours, she's just
gonna whatever. But then third night we're like, if she
comes back, she staying. And so she came back and
she stayed, and we tried to call the phone number
on her tag. There was no the number was as connected,
the microship didn't work, any of that stuff, and we're like, ah, are.
Speaker 3: Eight, you're ours.
Speaker 1: And then she opened the floodgates to everybody else.
Speaker 3: There's always one, there's always one that's fully responsible for
the craziness that ensues. So it was Hookins. And how
about the dogs? Like, were you both only cat people?
Did you grow up with pets?
Speaker 2: I grew up. I had dogs growing up. We had
just one family ag at a time, with a shelte
when I was like five, and then we got a
jack Ristle Terrier when I was a junior in high
school after Ceezy had passed. So and then I didn't
get to be with her. Name's roxy. You didn't get
to be with her for very long because then I
moved out college blah blah blah. But so just the
two dogs growing up. And then I always had like frogs,
lizards at a couple of guinea pigs. We had some
like hamsters, so we had lots of like little fish.
I always had some other little tiny creature. I really
liked the lizards and the frogs though, And then I
had a cat for a little bit after, but then
it went with an ex so I like to be.
Speaker 3: Back then very long.
Speaker 2: And then I was pless for a while. And how
Freddy came along was we were both volunteering at the
local shelter during COVID. We were going in and walking dogs,
and we had four cats at that point, and I
had really been kind of just talking strongly about dogs
and I haven't maybe hitting one at some point in
our lives, and then being around so many dogs that
needed homes, it was like, oh, this is really hard.
And then one day this little tiny puppy that he
was only nine pounds was brought in by somebody that
had found him in a field, and I saw him
and I immediately fell in love. And thankfully the shelter
worker that was on duty that day he kind of
figured that out too, So we were looking at him
and he was like, well, Christy, could you just hold
him real quick while I cleaned his kettle.
Speaker 5: I was like, yes, so you picked up the tiny
little puppy and then use oh but ch arms. What
sid like was sheltered pretty much, and then he had
to do a five day stray hold, which was horrific
every single day.
Speaker 2: I mean like, if his family came back fround, great,
that's great. But he's found in a field, so I
doubted it. Family wasn't found. We got to adopt him.
So that's how Freddy came in and let you talk about.
Speaker 1: Every well, I'll be I guess he's our oops oops
puppy in a year and a half now. So Christy
was actually out running errands and going grocery shopping and
one of the places where she went there was this
dog like running around the sidewalk and clearly not belonging
to anyone, and she was like, this dog is going
to get hit, So got him, coaxed him over, took
him to a vet hospital around the corner microchip, but
nothing registered to it. Same thing register him at the
Humane Society, all that stuff. Nobody stepped up and we're like, okay,
I guess we have another dog now. So it kind
of random though, because he's been Freddy's protector and like
Freddie's bodyguard, and he's fiercely protective of both Christy and Freddy.
So it's amazing. And Freddie has his stroller that he
goes for walks in and since day one has just
kind of fallen in right next to the stroller. It's
pretty incredible.
Speaker 3: He's Freddy older, he's four.
Speaker 1: No, he's got a he developed a neurological condition at
about a year and a half, like neuromuscular. It's called
mitochondra myopathy. So essentially his cells just don't make enough
energy and so he can't get around by himself. So
he's a little weekly sometimes with us when he wants
attention or but yeah, he so we.
Speaker 3: Pick him up.
Speaker 1: Well, mainly Christie's been his one hundred percent primary caregiver. Heed. Yeah,
and he's uh, he's the little type of stuff. So Preddy. Sorry,
long answer to your question is no, he's still pretty young,
but he looks like he's older just because of his
condition and because he can't get around, so it's when
we're out walks, but like, oh old, and it's like
he's not that old.
Speaker 6: But so I don't even think I knew you had
him all. You're so prescious he's oh my gosh. And
so how does he get along with the cats? How
does everybody get along?
Speaker 1: He actually gets along fairly well with the cats. He
will bark at anyone coming out of the letterbox for
whatever reason. That's this thing I like, he just has
to bark at them. But mostly he gets along with them.
Abbi not so much. He Freddy does not want to
be close to him. He's come a long way, don't
get me wrong. From the beginning, like they couldn't even
be in the same room, but now they could be
on the same couch. Far enough apart, but like Abbie
loves him and wants to be like in his dish
the whole time, and Freddy's like just like a snapping
turtle jaws trying to eat Ubby's feake.
Speaker 3: But you're coming on too strong, Yes, he's yeah.
Speaker 1: Abi Lapeu is what we call him because he's full on,
like pepy law my Gosh.
Speaker 3: If there's anybody too young watching this, they're gonna be like,
who's peppy La Pew? The wasub notched this quarter ever,
But yes, pepe La Pew, but he was. He came
on strong. Definitely, cats up get along. Have you had
to do any kind of like training to like introduce
them and things like that, or do you guys have
like since you've done this so many times, you're just
pretty good at it.
Speaker 2: No, with who cans. We thought that she wanted a friend,
so that's when we introduced Elbie to her.
Speaker 1: She didn't want a friend.
Speaker 3: We didn't want They usually don't. I'm not a cat
behavior expert, but every time I've spoken to one or
heard one speak at like a conference, usually they're pretty
happy alone unless they're like part of a bonded pair,
and then of course you can't separate them and they
want to be with that other being. But yeah, they're
usually pretty good.
Speaker 2: We learned that the hard way. So poor Elbie was
stuck in a room for a long time trying to
do like and swapping and the feeding each other on
either side of the door. And we'd been told, like,
definitely get a male because Pubin's is female, and then
somebody else said like, it's not about sex, it's about temperaments.
Speaker 3: So then we were like, yo, this was really really sweet,
so I'm sure they're gonna love each other. They didn't.
Speaker 2: They don't really like each other at all. The third one, Linus,
he's just like a sweet angel of a boy. He
can get growley and bit more sometimes playful, but it's not.
But he just wanted to play with the girls so badly.
They didn't really want to play with him. And we
learned that his brother was actually still up for adoption,
which we didn't know about because he had been separated
out from his litter because he had broken his hip
and had to go in for emergency surgery, so he
was staying with the metal, so we didn't know anybody
was still left. So once we found out that his
brother was still available, we were like, well, I guess
we have four cats now.
Speaker 3: So they took like a day.
Speaker 2: And they were like, wait a minute, I know you
and then it's separable, so how is it really easy?
Is your dips?
Speaker 3: Bell was awesome? And then George, like our last one.
Speaker 2: We got him when he was a tiny baby, so
he stayed in a little apartment. We called it like
a little round about you know that had his other
box said, so we had it right in the middle
of our living room, so everybody got to come over
and get good sniffs with him and get to know him.
And he's I think he was actually the missing link.
He's kind of brought everybody together. He's the one that
can go around. Everybody tolerates him, if not has a
great time with him, like he's he's awesome. They all
have their moments like I see el we've given Pukin's
the evil.
Speaker 3: Eye right now and have for more or later, I
don't know. But oh we actually with Kara of rob Hodventures,
we heard like during my Halloween episode, like are we
so the first time if there was a little encounter
or confrontation, it's just part for the course here. Yeah,
I know, I know golf terms. I do. Yeah. Maybe
it's like it is so nice to see to hear
that like George kind of brought everybody together like that
tends to happen sometimes where it's like it's kind of
like children, where it like the child or like an
unexpected child might like complete the family. It seems to
happen sometimes with pets too, where they kind of bring
in some balance. And when I my husband and I
got married, we each had two pets and we brought
them together, and there was one that everybody kind of
respected everybody, and he was the tiniest one. He was Radar.
He was like twelve pounds and everybody else was big,
and everybody just listened to Radar. And we spoke to
an animal communicator who said, Radar sets the tone for
the home. And I was like, but I thought that
would be me or my husband. He's like, no, no, Radar,
Radar does that. I'm like, okay, So, yeah, that's so cool.
I love that so much. So Tomorrow's Valentine's Day? Are
you all big on giving Valentine's Day gifts to pet.
Speaker 1: I don't know that we've ever given them anything.
Speaker 3: You like, seven's a lot. That's like a lot of
Valentine's for pets, it is.
Speaker 1: And then we don't want anyone to feel left out,
so it's like we'll try to sprinkle some treats in
during the day for everybody. Yeah, but yeah, mostly we
just yeah, I don't know, if you can see Pukins
behind us, Yeah, she's rushing I'll forgive.
Speaker 3: I mean, I have no problem.
Speaker 2: He's just looking for a new family that will give
her gift.
Speaker 3: I'm so sorry. I just let your pets know that
that's like a thing, and they weren't aware of it
before and now they're like, wait a minute, like how
many Valentine's Days do they owe me for?
Speaker 1: I mean, we try to, and but we try to
do it more because we're also like between being able
to go places if like I'm out working, I have
a little more flexibility, and then Christie's you know, taking
care of all these monkeys and like I said, she's
Praady's full time caregiver. So yeah, it's harder to be
able to go out and just kind of pick things up.
So we try to do stuff just kind of honestly,
during the year, we try and just do like little
things as much as we possibly can. So specifically, i'd
say we probably did before we had kids more than
we do now.
Speaker 3: So yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm I always tell my husband
whatever I want, I already bought for myself, so just
don't please don't because I've already blown the budget. So
like if you add something to that, like just it's
not good. So we have like a rule against gifts
at my house, which I think works well because it
takes the pressure off the other person. And I'm you know,
love languages. Gifts are neither one of ours, so it
works well for us. Like, you know, I just have
to tell my husband how nice he looks in those
genes and like his whole day is made, like.
Speaker 1: All it takes.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's all it takes. Okay, So how about eating
out on Valentine's State? What are your thoughts on doing
something that ludicrous?
Speaker 1: I mean, you have to plan it way in advance
to get a reservation first of all, so you got
to do that.
Speaker 2: I don't like that. A lot of restaurants now are
doing that, Like how do you say it?
Speaker 3: Like pre fee free fieks.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So, like I get that that makes sense for them,
but like the whole reason for going to a restaurant
is because like I want to have a choice of
not too many things that's overwhelming, but like more than
like one thing, you know. So I don't love that
idea too, And I know that they're charging like a
bazillion dollars more so lately we're not doing it. This year,
I was going to, but we've had Elbie's been a
little bit sick, so we've had some high vet bills recently.
So it's going to do like good meal tomorrow night.
And I'm like, we're not doing up. But that's usually
what I would do is go get some good, nicer
step up and what we would normally eat or something
and make something really nice for dinner. But yes, more
I think we're just going to have like maybe I'll.
Speaker 3: Make pizza, yeah, exactly, something more simple. I love gat
How about flowers? How do you feel about those?
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm a huge fan of getting flowers, right
to receive flowers, I'm good with not and honestly, like
with as many cats as we have floating around, our
biggest concern is them getting into something, and ain't nobody
at time for that, So.
Speaker 3: I'm never I'm not a big Yeah you're not into them.
Speaker 2: I think they're beautiful, don't get me wrong. I love
I love flowers, but like getting them as a gift,
which I will always appreciate if someone does, obviously, but
it's not my favorite gift to get because then they
die and then I have to do this and then
the water smells disgusting, and then you have to sell
them a vase, which usually gets like ichy inside.
Speaker 3: You are my people, You are my I remember I
have actually I remember my mom. I was like seventeen
or nineteen. I had a boyfriend, and I remember like
bitching about having to wash the vase and my mom
being like, you are so spoiled, like your little boyfriend
went and bought you roses, and here you are like complaining.
And to this day they know, and my husband knows
that just cut flowers, just not for me. Get me
a plant, a snake plant, preferably, because I can't kill those.
Somehow I got a bunch of them. I've never been
able to hurt them, so something like that to me
would be a lot more. I don't know red roses
versus like other colors, which ones are prettier? Are you
a red rose person?
Speaker 2: I don't think I've ever seen a rose that I
didn't like. I think roses are okay, honey.
Speaker 3: So for those that aren't familiar, Christy was a ballerina,
So I always imagined that you would say, like, no,
I like a tea rose or something like oh.
Speaker 2: I was always the one that would like sneak out
the back door, like all of my friends would go
get there, all the praise and everything, and I was like,
my job is done. I have to go home now. Like,
so you were not a prima donna, not the one
I wanted to go get all of the love from people. Now,
Ca'll be the to bring flowers, Like, don't do that thing.
Speaker 3: That's I don't like any Yeah, at the end of
the show, yeah, you know, all right. So last question
I have about Valentine's Day silly holiday or like, do
you see the value in it?
Speaker 1: Well, oh, okay, I see the conceptual value in it
if someone can take what that day is about and
again kind of just spread it out over the year
as opposed to like if someone's kind of using that
day as the catch up of all the affection and
maybe not so much, but I think conceptually I dig it.
And if people can actually focus on like, hey, it's
not about what you get or what you give someone
as far as gifts, it's about the intent and it's
about the thoughtfulness behind it, then I'm all for it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, same say Christy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that there's so much build up to it.
I think that so many people get like have these
big expectations and then if their poor partner doesn't do
exactly what they the bloombly hope that they will do
or whatever, we're like dropping the hints or like, you know,
proposals gone wrong, and like there's just so much pressure.
I just feel bad for everybody that has like horrific
Valentine's Day stories that because of all that pressure, Like.
Speaker 3: Yes, do you have to either one of you have
like an embarrassing Valentine's Day story?
Speaker 2: No, thankfully, I feel like that would pop right into
my head if I did, and then thankfully I don't.
Speaker 3: So my husband proposed on Valentine's Day weekend. Oh and
uh it was in two thousand and seven. No, no,
that's when we got married. So it's like two thousand
and fourteen something like that, and we went away. It
was like Volencide and Valentine's Day was a Friday. We
wake up and we're going to go to a winery
in uh, Virginia for the weekend for Valentine's Day. And
he gives me a gift and it's obviously jewelry, and
we had been speaking about getting engaged, and so he
gives me this gift and it's a bracelet, and I'm like, well, great, right,
like nice piece of jewelry, but not exactly what I
had in mind, buddy. And then we check into the
bed and Breakfast, beautiful place, name escapes me completely, and
then he gives me another gift in the evening again
like a necklace, so like I could tell by the
packaging that it was not what I had in mind.
And then the next morning he really tricked me and
he gives me a tiny little box and it was
ear rings. Finally, on February fifteenth, I remember seeing him
standing at attention at the Bed and Breakfast doing who
knows what, and I was like, oh, okay, I think
this is it. Because he was so nervous, he was dusted,
he was all like awkward, He's like fumbling the box,
and I'm like, I got the piece of jewelry I
was hoping for. That was what like ten no eleven
years ago, this weekend, and yeah, I finally got the
right piece of jewelry. And he thinks, you know, which
I thought was really good. But like, honestly, if that
hadn't finished the way that it did, I would have
been like womp, wom here I was thinking we were
this wasn't like this is the engagement weekend, and if
it wasn't, then yeah, it would have been a lot disappointing.
And I feel like that happens to a lot of people,
or like the people who are hoping for like a
designer bag, and like just because it's Valentine's Day, the
partner has to like figure out how to pay for it,
And I'm like, well that's not very fair, right, So
like someone's gonna either be broke or disappointed, Like those
are two very bad places to be. Though I agree
with you. We don't do Valentine's Day at all. My
kids have to do Valentine's Day at school, which means
that I need to once we wrap up here go
address like forty Valentine's Day with two of my friend
from Noah and from Mela, because my kids are young
enough that my friend will be a mess if they
write it, so I have to write it for them.
I might make them write their name, but I don't
know if I have the patience for them to do
twenty each just before them. So as a parent, Valentine's
Day is also a little tedious. Sure, I do love
Gallentine's Days? Do you guys like like the concept of
like girls getting together or like, I don't know, Guyantine's Day,
is that a thing where you like go have like
a beer with your friend?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it should absolutely be a thing, Guyantine's Day, and
like golfing and drinking whiskey and drinking beer, Like, yes,
absolutely that should be a thing. And I have no
problem with Gallentine's Day as well.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, celebration, Yeah yeah, Celebrating the love that you
have with friends and family and pets is so much
better than like forcing some kind of romantic moment with
your partner, right, Yeah.
Speaker 1: Because again it goes back to like there's so much
expectation and hype that's built up around it that if
one or the other of both partners can deliver what
the expectation is, it's like that's just a huge disappointment.
And yeah, some unrealistic expectations happen and it's not necessary.
Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, Well, I want to finish this up
with just a question for each of you, what is
the most thoughtful thing the other has done for you,
whether it's for Valentine's Day or just for no reason
at all.
Speaker 1: I can kick us off. I honestly, like, I genuinely
have a hard time picking one thing because there's been
a great many things that Christy does that I think
are pretty incredible and thoughtful. Like if I'm traveling for work,
I'll open up, I'll open my wallet and then there'll
be a little note in it that says we love you,
and it's got everyone's name. There'll be in my luggage
or a card in my luggage. Last year before, I
was traveling on our anniversary and she had the hotel.
She'd set up with the hotel to bring me in
bacon because we love bacon. So the pol folks had
a little card that's a happy Anniversary, and they'd all
signed it. And then I got this play to bacon
while I'm in this meeting, which was fantastic, and everyone
was pretty jealous that I had bacon.
Speaker 3: So it's just little thing that is hilarious. I love
that that's so thoughtful.
Speaker 1: So yeah, it's kind of that's arm to pick. She's
pretty thoughtful, just period, no pressure.
Speaker 3: Turn. Yeah, that was pretty good. I can only gets
the same.
Speaker 2: I mean, like we always we both struggle sometimes with
completing sentences because we expect the other person to just
know exactly what we're thinking, because most of the time
that happens. So then we both get really frustrated when
it doesn't happen. We're like we then the words will calm,
and then we're frustrated because they're like the one time
you want them to know what you're thinking and they're
not knowing what they're thinking any But I feel the same.
I mean, like there's just I can't think of anybody
else of my life that I'm okay with spending as
much time with as I spend with him, with us
both being home most days, like you travel for work
sometimes obviously, but we're around each other almost all of
the time, and like I never get sick of him.
He's always looking out for all of us to make
sure that we are taking care of that we are safe,
that we're happy. Like it's again, it's not just like
one thing. It's just the fact that I feel one
secure and safe with this man all of the time.
It is like the best gift that I could possibly have.
Speaker 3: So yes, yes, safety is so important. You guys really
are like animals. You guys like really are your pets,
because like that's it shelter being content at home. Bacon.
It's just it's really the really most important thing for everybody.
It really is. Yeah, like a sausage would be a
little bit easier to do that with, but I wrote
photos and you do make like a heart shape bacon
breakfast tomorrow. I want to see the photos, Okay, So
tell me how can my audience learn more about both
of your projects and all the awesome work that you
do for the pet industry.
Speaker 2: I'm at Specs, iwearink dot com that's Spex. We're also
on Instagram and Facebook, And the best way if anybody
wants to learn more, like can always reach out. I
talk to people on the phone. I think that's what
sets us apart is that you can actively on the
phone really easily, So it's really easy to find out
more about us at any of the resources for you.
Speaker 1: We are at boozefoorpause dot org. If you type in
dot net or dot com, I think it'll take people
there as well, so they can kind of find a
little bit more. And then if you click our spirits,
we actually have a retail partner that will shift. I
think it's like forty plus states and we've got our
vod Gudgeon, and right now it's the Bourbon. Those three
are available online. So if people want to try us, help
us out, tell people about us, that would be also awesome.
Also on the socials to follow, it just kind of
helps spread the word that like, hey, there's some there's
at least these two companies that are trying to do
something nice and any support in word of mouth or
purchases we can get will take.
Speaker 3: And for those that are in the market for glasses,
the episode that I did with Christy, we talked a
about how to buy it, what looks better for your eyebrows,
what shape is going to work for you. We did
it all. We talked fashion, we talked function, we talked
it all. So, I mean, if you are in the
market for glasses, please please please don't just walk into
any optical Look at specs first. You'll see that some
of them are super modern, some of them are really
beautifully classic. You've got it all at Spex. And then
I have yet to try Boost for Pause, but I
will be ordering for my birthday. So yeah, because I
would love to have the Bourbon, because that of the
ones that are available for shipping, that would be my
vice and then I want people to try to look
for them, ask for them, because the more we ask
for them, like you said, Sid, the more maybe it'll
get on people's radars. And again it's one hundred percent
of profits of both these brands go to animal welfare
and they also Christy, you donate ten percent of the sale.
Yeah amazing, So like, really truly I want to propose
a toast to both of you for being amazing. Oh
you a happy Valentine's Day with call me yourself.
Speaker 1: Thanks youre right, And I do have to say like
shout out to you, like listening to all the episodes
and even just both of our episodes and others and
then speaking with you, like I don't know if people
understand the level of research that you do when you
talk to your guests, it's pretty awesome, and like you
just have a really great way of bringing all that
stuff across and the fun games that we play. So
I hope that people understand like the level of research
and how deep you go as well before each show
is it's pretty awesome.
Speaker 3: So thank you for doing Oh, thank you, thank you
so much. I love it. So it really it's no
big deal just because I enjoy it so much. To
have fun, I crack myself up and I'm just so
grateful to be able to do it. So here's to
my executive producer, Mark Winter for allowing me to do this.
Thank you Mark. He's my executive producer at pet Life Radio.
And for those who don't know pet Life Radio, we
have seventy pet podcasts on there, so mine is just
one of amazing of seventy amazing show that he produces.
And I want to propose tost to my audience for
joining us for these awesome conversations. Thank you for tuning in.
Here's to a live Covered in Pet Hair because there's
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trying to do every week live on at three pm
Mountain Standard time every Thursday. I do have some travel
coming up where the time difference would be eight hours,
so we're not gonna go live then, but I promise
you that I will bring you amazing guests, just like
Sid and Christy and people who are doing such an
amazing job in the pet industry, which is really super cool.
It's all very much like minded people who are bringing
brands to pet parents with all the best of intentions.
So I love to support you guys, and thank you
for your support of my shelf and have I'll great, happy,
wonderful Valentine's Day Galentine's say Guyantine's Day refused to Valentine whatever,
just like all of it. I hope it's wonderful, whether
you're single, married, staying home and avoiding the other humans
in the world, whatever you're doing, I hope you have
a safe, wonderful and I hope you feel loved, because
that's really all that this is about. So if you
have pets, I'm sure you do and give your pets
some love for all three of us, absolutely, and you'll
give some love to all seven of yours, please for sure, yes, absolutely.
Speaker 2: Right after yes, we're here, some whining already like.
Speaker 3: Well and you doing and you like stop mind, need
to go for a walk. So mine two are like
staring at me. If you guys again for everything. Everyone,
have a great weekend and it is a long weekend.
Speaker 6: Be safe and I'll talk to you next time.
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