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thank you
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hello everyone Karen Glasser here and
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welcome to minding your mental health
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I'm here with my co-host and Son Rob
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Glasser we talk about how a changing
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World affects our day-to-day and what
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you can do to make life just a little
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easier today we have a fun topic it's
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called pets at work
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so
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what do we have
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we have pets at work
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um so this is a fun one I think we've
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talked about a little bit before uh
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talking about the new age bringing your
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animals to work or if you work at home
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your animal is already with you right
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but it really is shown that a fuzzy fur
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baby for family member whatever you want
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to call them actually can help you be
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more productive and even interact better
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with your colleagues too so USC
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they're a psychology department wrote a
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little blog about some of the benefits
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um so they showed up as saying that
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companies such as inverse square a
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custom application development company
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has been open to pets in the workplace
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due to their effect on work-life balance
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both the employer and the employee have
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stated that it helps them pass long work
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hours happily and the press the pets
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remind them to take those necessary
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breaks
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much as we at home need to as well right
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spending too much time on an individual
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project problem or other work issue can
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cause can cause undue stress as well as
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inhibit your productivity because you
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know as Einstein said doing the same
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thing over and over again expecting the
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same results is the definition of
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insanity yep there you go so what
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exactly are our little fur babies
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helping us to do so companies like Etsy
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excuse me actually allow pets in the
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office space so I can just imagine a
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whole bunch of people making art doing
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all this cool stuff and a bunch of furry
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animals running around while doing so
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that sounds like heaven to me
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um because I both like art and you know
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pets
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um so things like short walks Play Time
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sessions are temporary distractions to
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allow for a good mental break of course
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you all need a little bit of a mental
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break once in a while right you know to
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ease that that stress that we have right
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um other than that they say that
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provides a little comic relief keeps
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your spirits high and just as laughter
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is and positivity is contagious so is
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negativity and stress so you want to
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obviously do the prior over the ladder
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and with your pets you get some good
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morale you get better communication and
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just for you guys who are in the
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healthcare industry you also can reduce
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your blood pressure lower your stress
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level and just make you more calm
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right it's amazing when you think about
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that that our our little pets our little
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dogs our cats our big pets that that
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they can do that for us that's why we
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wanted to do this topic today
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because well you at home I at home other
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people at home probably have their dogs
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and cats sitting there they beat your
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bird I know people who are in love with
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rats and hamsters and that's their thing
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and they'll put them on their shoulder
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not for you right but for me
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um all right now not only that but it
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actually physically does help with
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things like communication many times you
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work in an office you probably don't
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actually know the person sitting next to
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you because your job doesn't need a
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title or entail to have to do that you
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might have to pass them through pass
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over some paperwork but you really have
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no purpose in doing so however when you
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have a more comfortable flexible
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environment with your dog or cat you are
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forced to have the conversations you
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know such as what's their name when did
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you get them you know oh what kind of
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dog or cat is that do they do anything
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cute and you actually are forced to
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comprehend now it's actually funny that
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I'm thinking about this because you know
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me I'm perfectly fine not working
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however when I do have other co-hosts on
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who have a pet like for instance a
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Victoria who you know her cats are in
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her room I always tend to move to her
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cats why because you can't not talk
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about the animal in the room right well
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and and they say that animals and kids
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those are the two things that if you
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make sure you put them either in your
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marketing or in your everyday people
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can't resist cute little pets and cute
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little kids so we're talking about pets
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today but exactly if they're cute right
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they're cute they are but it is kind of
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fun and I didn't realize that it
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actually does force you to communicate
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and in that communication you're not
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only working together better but you're
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actually being more productive overall
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because you're asking questions you are
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working on solutions that you might not
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have figured out without the help of
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the person next to you right
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um on top of that because of the you
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know where uh Health Care savings for
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people and pets are a lot of places
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actually do work with initiatives such
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as this one called the human animal Bond
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research initiative
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um that helps people save almost 12
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billion a year
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for having pets or for companies that
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allow pets in the workplace now
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obviously not every workplace does it
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but what kind of cool incentive is that
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for the employer not only do you get to
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have happier employees or happier
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workers but you're saving them and you a
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couple bucks for doing it so I don't see
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a button in that either uh um and of
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course they've also we've talked about
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this before how knowing it actually
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lowers the obesity rate as well because
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you're forced to go take your walks
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you're forced to be more active so a lot
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of times people who work in places with
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pets have lower instances of different
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uh issues because
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of that so that was the
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uh scientific part of it there and they
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do have some obvious things there you
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know up to date with vaccinations making
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sure that nobody's allergic apparently
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15 to 30 percent of the world has some
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sort of allergy so obviously you have to
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take that into mine I didn't realize it
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was actually that high that's kind of
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surprising to me so does that mean they
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need you need to have dogs that don't
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shed or they have humans yeah yeah the
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high quality yes or in those cases
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probably just nothing at all or maybe
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something that you kind of put off to a
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corner that doesn't involve everybody
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but you can still have them on your
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floor
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um but yeah that was interesting one in
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the course of the colleges know what
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they're doing when they're talking about
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this stuff and of course USC one of our
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personal ones here uh so you know I
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don't know anybody well I think I know
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people that went there maybe your
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brother your brother went there oh okay
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there you go he wanted to okay
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there you go
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um now we wouldn't have a good show
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without giving you guys some of these
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ideas to actually play and do so
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teambuilding.com which is an awesome
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name has 15 virtual ideas because in
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honesty yeah I mean you can you know a
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lot of people are at work but a lot of
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people aren't and they're probably not
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going to be back at work for a while but
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it doesn't mean you don't have to you
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know it doesn't mean you can't interact
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with so I'm just going to pull up a few
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that I liked a lot the first thing I
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loved I thought was so cute was the pet
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ID badges so they have a picture of one
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here it's a dog named Cali and she is
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from the marketing department
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employee number 101 so of course you're
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having some uh I love that yeah so of
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course you have oh Krista wrote I love
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having our pets here working for him
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gives me a quick cuteness break there
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you go that's what we call we don't call
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it a work break it's a cuteness break it
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is pet eye detox and you could attach
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them to their callers or if they wear a
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little you know sweater you could put it
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on their sweater but I thought that was
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cute because everybody usually has a
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badge so why not the four-legged workers
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too the next one I loved here the pup
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performance review and it's who's a good
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boy and who's been a naughty dog so of
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course some of the questions you can ask
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for who's been a good boy they stayed on
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screen they wore their prettiest collar
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or costume they showed the other
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employees their toys they smiled for the
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camera they gave their odor kisses or
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they were just an excellent employee
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they barked until the owner muted their
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mic uh they tried to sit on the keyboard
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for those of you who have a cat they
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stole their owner's snacks they licked
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themselves or they growled at other dogs
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what are you gonna do though it's still
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fairly cute even when they're being bad
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yes
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um one of the other ones I thought was
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really fun was guess the owner via the
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pet so what you would do is the uh the
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boss whoever would grab all the people's
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uh animals put them up and kind of like
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a uh what is it a clue you know type of
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game or guess who excuse me guess who
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and basically you put up the thing and
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you give everybody you know 30 seconds
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to a minute and be like who whose
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employee is this pet belong to who who
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belongs to who it's like a matching game
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I thought that was great because that's
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definitely something that's a good
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Icebreaker if you're brand new or if
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you're a new business and maybe nobody's
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been connected yet it's a great icebreak
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maker for everybody you can do a
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four-legged family album basically just
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give yourself a time to share cute
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pictures whether you put them all on a
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Google drive or just share your your
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Facebook or your Instagram because who
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doesn't want to stare at cuteness all
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day yep
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um you can put dog Zoom background so if
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you really want to get into it I know
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you have your green screen you could put
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your pet behind you and make a gigantic
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godzilla-sized dog behind on your screen
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um and then you can do stuff like dog
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trivia uh and these are things like how
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many dogs do you have what breed what
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are their names do they do anything
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funny stuff like that but if you guys
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want to look through it they have a lot
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of really cool stuff on here and it's
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just a lot of fun cuteness and again it
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goes back to why the topic at hand what
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why pets of the workplace are good for
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you because it makes you go out of your
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Zone to do something silly and so I I'm
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curious you know we have some viewers
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right now but whether you're watching
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live or you're going to watch on replay
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do you if you go to an office for work
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are you allowed to take your dog or cat
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or some other animal with you to work
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let us know I'm curious
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um kids you know we work at home so our
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our pets are with us all the time and
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that is kind of one of the reasons that
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I don't actually want to go into a
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traditional office because I like having
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my pet with me it does get me out of the
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house right and may I walk my dog every
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day because he looks at me with that
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look like what do you mean you're not
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taking me outside today right so I love
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that and I'm curious so let us know
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um I think I want to add in because of
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course one of the biggest things of pets
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at work is the therapy animals too and
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for those of you who know me I am
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retraining my my bigger dog to get back
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into that Force he's got his little vest
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not a fan of it but no dog really is you
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know but I'm getting him back in the
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thing and that's another thing to look
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out for as well a lot of workplaces do
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actually have to abide by whether there
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is some sort of condition or not and I'm
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not really sure how that works because
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theoretically if you have a dog that
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could cause an allergy attack you're not
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allowed to say don't bring them in
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because of your thing but they also have
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to keep in mind the
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the other thing so I don't know if
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anybody knows out there if there's a
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rule if there's some sort of loophole I
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don't know because you can't tell the
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person who has the animal no but you
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also don't want to injure your
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um
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but but I do remember all my classroom
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teachers we had bunnies we had to take
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care of we had a bird we had to take
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care of so actually at my school we did
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have a rotation you had to take care of
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the penalty
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we had to take him home yeah I remember
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so I don't know but I'm curious about
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the the therapy one because I don't know
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if there's a rule abiding by that where
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if if it's going to cause a problem do
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you just tell your person to work from
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home or you know I don't know what
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you're doing
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I think the whole idea would be trying
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behind training I don't know I think but
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the idea behind training a
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um a dog like that
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um
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that's they're supposed to be able to be
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okay in an environment and that's what
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they're being oh well I'm talking more
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of like if it were to cause an allergic
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reaction or if it were to cause somebody
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some pain yeah what do you do yeah I
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don't know and are there qual are there
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requirements for um dogs that that if
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they could be
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um give allergy you know of that kind of
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thing can they know I know for instance
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poodles are hypoallergenic and poodles
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are actually one of the big dogs now
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they're actually used as therapy dogs
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maybe because of the fact that they are
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hypoallergenic or and I remember uh Ace
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when it came in there and I she showed
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me pictures she slept on the desk
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because he's that small
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um yeah she's right so you have to show
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your vaccines you have to you can go in
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through a certain area you go yeah so I
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think because uh certain animals are
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hypoallergenic now labradoodles uh
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whatever the Obama's dog is
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um the water dog Portuguese Water Dog
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those are so I think those dogs are now
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being trained Yorkie has human it has
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dog hairs yeah so and that's why we have
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ours because I do have allergies and so
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we we tend to go for the dogs the idea
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but I just suffer through because you
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know you're very very cute very cute
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yeah so I thought I'd be calling it of
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course uh if you want to bring your
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animal out you got to have the right
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supplies right so we do so first of all
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um if you're going to bring your dog you
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have to be able to put them in
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on a so we we these are cool I like
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these a lot I do too they're
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double-sided they're reflective and the
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reason why these are great also it
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because they're reflective you can walk
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at night which means that light on them
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you won't you'll get won't get run over
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um but you need a leash they're and
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they're pretty so check out this one um
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all you have to do is scan the QR code
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it will take you there and if you have a
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dog
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um that maybe needs a little bit of
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support and keeps running or something
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you might want to you know add a harness
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um which literally wraps around the dog
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as you can see how cute is this dog oh
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my gosh and these are actually a lot
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better because the harnesses that go in
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the neck can sometimes cause a problem I
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do like the ones that go on the chest
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more so this is one of my favorite
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things and I have this actually I should
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have brought it in um it is a water
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bottle that has a handle on it and it
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doesn't leak and when you when your
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dog's thirsty right you have it on your
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hand you squeeze the bottle and the
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water comes up in the top side in this
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little drinking area and the dogs can
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drink and you can carry it with you I
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love this thing
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um it's one of the best I think it's
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great you know there's all sorts of
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things that you can get
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um
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I'll put this comment up um there are
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all sorts of things that you can get
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when you're going to take your dog for a
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walk you can get portable little um
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water water feeder things that you can
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grab a couple of those here yeah at home
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they have dog help stress students the
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Brussels police also have one to help
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children I love this these are this is
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awesome this is awesome
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um the next thing is is the feeder
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Express now when when
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um our German Shepherd we had to put her
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down a couple of months ago but Annie is
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a was a big dog I mean like 90 pounds
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and when she drank or when she ate
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everything went oh everywhere the water
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would Splash right the food would be
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everywhere so this thing is really cool
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if you have messy dogs this is really
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cool first of all it raises it up a
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little bit so for your big dogs they're
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not having to bend down to drink or eat
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but there is underneath these bowls
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there's little holes so the water goes
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down underneath the food goes in there
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nothing gets on the floor so if you have
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messy animals this is something you want
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to take a look look at now rob you were
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talking about you know taking your
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taking the dog out during the day when
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you're at work taking for a walk you
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have to have poop bags I mean
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guys you actually can get fined now so
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if you you want to be careful you have
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to make sure you clean up after yourself
16:44
you should do that anyways even you know
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you should do that it's only respectful
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and polite thing you don't want somebody
16:51
having your dog poop on your front yard
16:53
or on the sidewalk clean up your mess
16:56
now we already talked about the fact
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that some of these things are um uh
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feeder things that will stop the mess
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but you can also put a dog bowl a mat
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and right under it as well I have one of
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these because as you'd like to say why
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not I have one of those and I actually
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want to show this one
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and Christopher is in there right now
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I don't know I think I see his little
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pause he's in there he's so cute this
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thing is super cool
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um it's it is a little pricey but we've
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had this for seven years and
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um they come in you know big sizes
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little sizes obviously have a little dog
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um but
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they she goes he goes in there loves
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this thing so if you're looking for
17:45
something really special for your dog
17:47
especially if they're little and they're
17:48
they've got little hair and they get
17:50
cold really easy that's the ticket
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right oh yeah certainly absolutely
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absolutely
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um and then finally
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um you know treats you want to be able
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to give your treats treats to your dogs
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during the day go ahead and do that and
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then this is my favorite
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um rob you and I just have the
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opportunity to actually start promoting
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um the BarkBox people I'm really excited
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about this and I know that you and I are
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going to do an unboxing later on um in
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the next month or two when um and we're
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gonna do a standalone thing and we will
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share it with all of you there's toys in
18:24
here there are treats in here really fun
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things if you love your dogs and your
18:30
cats well dogs in particular because
18:32
this is a bark box if you love your pets
18:34
we like to get them gifts and take care
18:36
of them
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um
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these are fun things Rob right I mean
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these are really fun things to take your
18:42
dog to work now we could have come up
18:44
with a lot of other things but these are
18:45
really specifically for when you go to
18:47
work you want to be able to take care of
18:49
your dog and your cat and whatever while
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while they're there right
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um we also want to make sure that
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um you pick up our free ebook finding
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your passion ebook again we have QR
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codes now to make it a whole lot easier
19:02
all you have to do is take your camera
19:04
out and and push and literally just put
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it there you don't even have to do
19:08
anything you don't have to push a button
19:09
nothing and it will scan it and it will
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take you over to there this thing is
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absolutely free we always talk about
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doing what you love this is something to
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help you do that and finally you can go
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check out Rob's swag store and pick up
19:23
many different things that are there but
19:25
we have the importance of now Journal
19:26
notebook we hope that you will pick that
19:28
one up as well
19:30
any last thoughts Rob we had a lot of
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stuff today I feel like I've been a
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little bit I know right I need a uh I
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lost it is now to uh he's my my uh
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exactly yeah I mean hopefully uh more
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businesses will open up I know a lot of
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businesses already do it as it is uh but
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it just you know it's just like uh
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you know go adopted for for a family
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member makes your life so much happier
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and
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and I think it makes working a little
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bit happier too if if you are able to
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take your pet to work sitting at your
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feet or sitting next to you just knowing
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they're there to pet them and I it just
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makes me feel good so I hope you guys
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will take a listen to this and let us
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know are you taking your pet to work we
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want to know inquiring minds we want to
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know
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go out
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give somebody an awesome day and we will
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see you next time on minding your mental
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health goodbye everyone
#Pets