Episode 28: Never a Dull Moment

Julie Jackson: 0:03
Welcome to happy tales of happy tales, the podcast where you’ll hear stories of the way pups have touched our hearts and our lives. So for the next few minutes, let everything else go and just listen and smile. I’m your host, Peter Jackson. Julie. Hey, there you are. How are you?

Beth: 0:24
I’m good. My dogs are going nuts and I don’t know why my videos not working.

Julie Jackson: 0:29
Okay, well, dogs going nuts as it should be no worries. And no worries with the video except that you had your hair and lipstick. So that’s kind of a I did. But that’s okay. Is is all good. So thank you so much for doing this.

Beth: 0:47
Oh, I’m so excited. Oh,

Julie Jackson: 0:50
so who are you going to tell us about today?

Beth: 0:54
Who do you want me to tell you about today? Oh,

Julie Jackson: 0:57
well, okay. You whoever you want. I don’t even know all the choices. I know about sweet Quinn.

Beth: 1:05
Oh my goodness, Quinn. I actually. And this is why I want the video to work because I made Quinn wear bunny costume. Tapas. No, I did. And I got there I am. Do you see me? Oh, no. Okay. Oh, can you come? Is that uh yeah,

Julie Jackson: 1:27
yes.

Beth: 1:29
Oh my god. She’s like, give me side I see that? Okay, so I got this costume on T mu. Which of course you know, I am a huge wish and you may stopper. Oh, sweet

Julie Jackson: 1:52
girl. Look. Hey stop. That is the greatest thing so bad. Oh, sweetie, you looked? Oh, get your face. Hi, honey. I know. Are you mad at me for encouraging this because you look precious. Oh, is that her little tongue? Oh my gosh.

Beth: 2:24
She’s just started doing hanging your tongue. Oh

Julie Jackson: 2:28
my gosh. Look at her. You look precious. Oh my gosh. Okay, you have to tell us about Quinn.

Beth: 2:39
So I get so I’ve been an animal rescue or like, Hold on. Let me get this off of her just a second.

Julie Jackson: 2:46
Yes, of course.

Beth: 2:48
That is cute isn’t and not her favorite out it and like poop in my shoes. So

Julie Jackson: 3:00
the tail

Beth: 3:06
Oh my god. So I’m the worst mom, because I have a cat outfit. We have the buddy outfit that was too small that I stuffed her in like the sausage. And then there’s a dinosaur in here somewhere. I’ve got a dinosaur outfit. But so when he was born on November 16, and she gets dressed in her clothes. And she sits there and she will like, Oh, ouch ouch, ouch, ouch. Okay, like be still for me to and then put her paws that for me to put her legs through and everything. You’re stuck with me because I’m gonna put her down. Okay. Oh,

Julie Jackson: 3:51
so great.

Unknown: 3:54
She’s so when he was born on November 16. And, um, I’ve always wanted a hug. And I’m gonna be 60 And I knew that the dog that I got was going to be like my lot is gonna be my forever dog is gonna be my last dog. Right? Because I’m real big on not leaving messages for your family to clean up. And um, my kids while they’re dog people I don’t didn’t think that they would ever be anyone that would be able to like take my dogs into their family or whatever. And so everybody else here is old. And I was going through a really hard time. When i What are you doing? When I found out about 20 I met her breeder I have always rescued I have never bought from a breeder and I am I’m firm, like it’s just my thing. Just being here in Tennessee. There are too many animals that are looking for homes. Right and I wanted a pug. And pug rescues wouldn’t adopt to me because I do not have a fenced yard. I have a place where my dogs go to the bathroom, they go out and it’s fenced. My front yard is also fenced I have it’s my second chance escape getaway prevention, because when we first moved here out in the country, my dogs would go and they would get the neighbor’s chickens and Oh, right. I didn’t want to pay for chickens. And I really didn’t want to see their child going through the throes of chicken funerals. So I put a wrought iron gate up around my front yard like right around my front porch. But the backyard I just have you know, I opened my French doors and the dogs go down and they go out and they do their thing and that’s it. But we don’t have a big yard for them to like run. So I don’t have dogs that are runners. I don’t have any more Blue Heelers, I don’t have anything I just have old dogs that are just decrepit, that hang out and want to lay on the warming blanket from Big Lots, you know. But I wanted a dog. And we had lost two cats and two dogs over the past two cats and three dogs over the past two years. And I wanted a pug. And I’ve always wanted a pug. So I found a breeder. And Queenie was born November 16. And she was delivered to me on Friday the 13th of January. I was going through a really hard time in my life. And I spent a lot of money on this dog. And while she wasn’t a rescue per se, she was the one that was left from the litter that nobody wanted. And it had been a couple of weeks due to her energy level. And I was like, How can you not want up there? Cool. So when he happened, and this dog is not she is nuts. She is nuts. It’s crazy. But he she appeases me and she wears clothes. She wears her little costumes. She goes on the internet. She looks so cute. She hangs out with my kids and is just like the perfect angel. And then she comes home and bites my feet and puts bruises on me and I made her her own bedroom and she had a TV install professionally and we have a subscription to dog TV. And yeah, she’s Quinnie she’s just 20 That’s it.

Julie Jackson: 8:21
Now how, what year what year did you get her? When you said you got her in January was that how many years ago was last January? As in the 23? A few months ago or a year? Yeah. Oh, okay.

Beth: 8:35
So she Okay, so she’s only like four and a half months old.

Julie Jackson: 8:40
Okay, that was my next question. Oh my goodness. She is adorable.

Beth: 8:45
Thank you.

Julie Jackson: 8:47
And I totally caught your comment and had to laugh about that she would poop in your shoe

Beth: 8:54
Yeah, she’s Oh my god. I don’t see any way for me to turn that camera around right now but she’s actually chasing our tail right now. She chases her tail and she catches it and then she sits there and just like it’s it it is this this dog is beyond anything that I have ever had. Oh, there it is here when you go chase well of course now she’s not gonna eat now. No, ma’am.

Julie Jackson: 9:32
Oh, oh. Oh my goodness.

Beth: 9:37
And he like pugs are so

Julie Jackson: 9:40
yes. What what are some of your favorite things that she does because she obviously has all the personality.

Beth: 9:49
She has more personality than me and I’m a scary person. She doesn’t sleep. She bites Well like a shark like little puppy pugs are. She is right now trying to kill her sister I have an 18 year old Yorkie that wants to play with her but I hear screaming every now and I’m like screaming is that the Yorkie or is it like that?

Julie Jackson: 10:35
So but the Yorkie likes her and

Beth: 10:38
I guess though, I mean, well. She just jumped up in her chair, she can get up. Get away when she wants to get away. Oh my gosh 800 years old. What is her name that sissy

Julie Jackson: 10:54
Sissy look at how sweet her face is. Oh, look at that little frosty face. Hi. Nice to see.

Unknown: 11:03
So I got 50 from a neighbor who was breeding her and she was bread and bread and bread and bread. And it was one of those horrible pi Matreya situations. It was just not good when I had her spayed after I got her. The neighbor was just like, looked at my kids and was like, Do you want her I’m dead breeding her. And I’m like, no taco. So yeah, that that was domestic, domestic cleanup now. And I had actually taken another dog from that neighbor. Later, a couple years later, I was out jogging one night, and I got another dogs in that neighbor. But I mean, we still love those neighbors. And it’s just, it’s one of the things that happens here in Tennessee. And not that I’ve learned to live with it. It’s something that broke my heart and got me into rescue. When I moved down here to this area, and I started my rescue called Barkaritaville. We went down to New Orleans after Katrina, we brought dogs back. We reunited them with their families we fostered for months, reunited them with their families. Here’s the thing. Are you going to

Beth: 12:30
and you think that she’s itching, but she’s not he’s taking her tail.

Julie Jackson: 12:35
I like this. She had to move the rug to do that though.

Beth: 12:40
Because she does like

Julie Jackson: 12:43
that that needed to be in place her place.

Beth: 12:45
I have never experienced a puppy like this before in my life. My friends have put puppies and they take them and they coddle them and cradle them to their chest and have like these nice bonding times. And with Quinnie not so much. Now.

Julie Jackson: 13:08
At least it’s going to be on her terms of the jump. Okay. She’s so cute.

Beth: 13:16
And for anyone that’s watching and seeing this, there is nothing wrong with her. There is nothing wrong with her. But she doesn’t have skin problems. It’s just it’s quinnie. And I’ve asked my vet about it. And they said, it’s just personality, like, oh,

Julie Jackson: 13:33
oh, those are the most fun. The ones that have the huge personalities. They test your patience the most. But and I’m laughing because you said you don’t have blue healers anymore. So I mean, if you’ve had blue healers, you know, and that’s saying a lot to say that you’ve never had a puppy like her before. If you’ve had blue healer

Beth: 13:55
Quinny Please don’t.

Julie Jackson: 13:59
So I love Barkaritaville. Thank you. Do you still do that?

Beth: 14:06
I don’t I had to get back into work in the real world. Gotcha.

Julie Jackson: 14:14
Gotcha. But I love that you did that and the name.

Beth: 14:17
I’m still in touch with a lot of my adopters and you know their dogs have passed that they adopted for me and they’ve moved on. They still contact me for help with their current dogs. And I’m more than welcome to I’m more than willing to help them if anyone’s looking. These are like the best dog treats. Oh, okay. Oh, sweet potato

Julie Jackson: 14:41
dog treats. Now where do you find those?

Beth: 14:45
I get mine off of Amazon and I get the 32 ounce bag which is like 25 bucks. And it comes every two weeks.

Julie Jackson: 14:53
Okay? No, I appreciate that. Another friend who was doing one of these she shared she also gets off Amazon and we tried freeze dried minnows had never Yes, and they are exactly what you think. And it looks like a bag full of crunchy little fish. And I was freaked out by them. But I will tell you, I think my guys would juggle for them.

Beth: 15:18
I tell you what else we do. And this was such a had. I’ve the breeder turned me on today’s and I have to say. So when I say that I get Queenie from a breeder. Yes, I’d spent a whole paycheck on on Quinn. And I fully intend on showing her getting points whether I breed her or not. I don’t know. My breeder has a kennel. The dogs live in her home. She breeds for the betterment of the breed. It is not her dogs are tested, they’re medically tested to make sure that they’re not going to pass on any inappropriate genes like you know, pocket supplies, things like that. says everything that she’s supposed to do. It is not a bad place. The puppies are in her house. She loves them. They are treated like her children. She is her own flight nanny. She will fly across the United States. Oh, never your dog to you. The families are research everything so it’s not a cult. And I know because I used to be one of those people in rescue that was so against breeders. But if you’re doing it for the right reasons.

Julie Jackson: 16:51
Well, and I don’t I mean, people don’t love their dogs any more or less because they’re from a breeder or rescue, you know, is a pedigreed

Beth: 17:02
puppy. She is registered. AKC see Casey Quinny is a pedigree dog. But anyway, we’re always going dream sticks. Oh, okay. Are those dots? No, these are Walmart. Ah, and these are non rawhide. Oh, they come in different sizes. And I just did a quick talk because I left this, which arrived yesterday on my coffee table last night. And I woke up to well, many being left. I’m waiting to clean this up. Do

Julie Jackson: 17:54
you do we know that it was corny? Is it kind of like you?

Unknown: 17:59
Definitely not quinnie Because Quinnie, you know, has her bedroom. She has her own bedroom with Mr. E and oh, sorry. I missed that though. Because we only have like old like, now, and I’m like, you can never tell who’s trying to die now. You know, the house and it’s like, Who is this making? Bad noise? That Quinnie has her own bedroom. I’ll show ya.

Julie Jackson: 18:33
So who was the culprit with the dream sticks then?

Unknown: 18:37
I think it was Lucy. We have Lucy and Ricky.

Julie Jackson: 18:40
Oh my gosh, of course you do. What kind are they?

Unknown: 18:43
I know their palm shot it says. So this is quite nice room. Quinnie has this big toddler gates in the bedroom and she has her own TV that I had installed. Of course. TV

Julie Jackson: 19:04
with

Beth: 19:04
dog TV. Yes. So this is Quinn’s room and it was also my my closet that we do laundry in here. And that’s where when did not eat the that peanut butter treats. No. It was I’m quite sure it was Lucy. So it was one of the Ricardos one of the recorders. It was you’re gonna lose your Ricky and then Ricky has been appropriately renamed Ricky body. Like yes.

Julie Jackson: 19:52
Is it based on his personality? Or just because you’re, yeah, it’s totally based on this personality. And

Beth: 19:59
he reminds me of the scene where he’s running around the track in his underwear going on.

Julie Jackson: 20:08
So you never have a dull moment in your house, do you? Absolutely not. And

Beth: 20:14
you know what? quadruplets also. So, yes, I’ve got quads. My kids are 23 now. And then I have a singleton that was born three days later on the same day, who’s 20? And they’re all going to be her for Easter. So I’m really excited. They’ve all seen Winnie. And they love her. And well, why I have one that hasn’t seen Winnie yet. So it’ll be a fun day.

Julie Jackson: 20:39
Oh, my gosh, you are going to have a full house. That’s fantastic. That if

Beth: 20:46
it wasn’t chaos, it wouldn’t be family. Right.

Julie Jackson: 20:49
Right. Thank you so much for sharing. So,

Unknown: 20:55
please, one thing that I do want to say and I want to add this because this is so super important to me. And this is kind of what I wanted to talk about in the beginning. But because I’m so ADHD, I’m like, ooh, squirrel. All good. When I got Quinny, I was going through a really difficult time in my life. And I just wanted to touch on the fact that mental health is so important. I ran last Christmas, like right, before I found Quinnie, I was in a real dangerous place. And once I found quinnie, and I got her my life completely turned around that a puppy can game changer, you have a reason to get up, you’ve ever reason to man, you have a reason to do the things that you don’t feel like you want to do anymore. At least for me, that’s what’s so, you know, I just, I recently quit my babyface, I recently quit my job this week, due to mental health. And it’s just, it’s

Julie Jackson: 22:05
it’s, Oh, Hi, sweetie.

Beth: 22:12
It’s just so important to me that dogs play such a big part in our mental health. Um, be good to your dog, your dog will be good to you. If you need help with your dog, I’m always here, you can reach out I can walk you through stuff. You know, if you’re having a baby and you want to get rid of your dog, what is it going to take to keep your dog because that dog is gonna have problems, these are house. There’s just so many things that I am able to help with that will help prevent this shelter population, you know? Yeah,

Julie Jackson: 23:04
thank you for sharing that and for being so transparent, because I really appreciate that. And it, you hit on to two things that really I totally relate to. I was in a situation where I was rescued by a guy. He was our little three legged healer that we lost in November very suddenly. But when he came into my life, it was a really, really dark, hard time and middle of a lot. And he was a huge part of of getting me through that and that and that’s true. They, like you said game changer. And the other thing you mentioned too is is when people are having babies, and they think I can’t have the dog. When I was pregnant, my daughter is in college now. But when I was pregnant with her, we actually ended up with our fourth dog at the time because someone else found out they were pregnant, and had a yellow lab that they had just taken in and then they said, Oh, we’re pregnant. We can’t have this. We can’t have this dog. And I had I knew of them and I was like, Okay, we’ll take her. And of course she was our fourth one. And then our daughter was born and our birth announcement when she was born, had her as an infant laying with all four laying around her. And on that was the picture inside. And on the outside. It said We welcomed the pitter patter of a new set of paws. And you know, it was of course you have to be responsible, you know, and they’re still animals, so I would never leave them unattended are anything but man every one of them had the sweetest relationship with her. And they all looked out for her when she was an infant. So no

Beth: 24:56
kids grow up with baby or kids grow up With our dogs, and I know I did, and I had a Boston Terrier named pepper that was with me for my first 16 years. And my first dog was

Julie Jackson: 25:09
pepper to go ahead, sorry, not a Boston Terrier. She was a cockapoo, but Pepper.

Unknown: 25:18
But when I did have Barkaritaville going, I had an office here in Tennessee, I had one in Kentucky, I had one in Ohio, and one in Michigan, and I would just drive up i 75 once a month and adopt out dogs. But all those people stayed in touch with me, the dogs were shipped to me. And they all had home visits everything. I mean, it would totally, absolutely legit, upfront rescue. And I can’t tell you how many people would contact me and say, Well, I can keep my dog I need to take my dog. I’m like, you don’t need me to take your dog. You need me to help you learn how to keep your dog. Oh, no. Right.

Julie Jackson: 26:01
That’s yeah, that’s such a good point. Well, if you have contact information that you want me to share, if you’ll send that to me, I can put it down in the comments when this airs. And if you have any pictures of all your sweet pups that I can also put those with this too so that people can go and see them. Because I know that I mean, I’ve got to meet two of them. And I’m sure I would love to see the Ricardos to see. Oh, she’s so cute.

Beth: 26:39
Oh, yes, yes. And

Julie Jackson: 26:41
those ears. Oh my god.

Beth: 26:43
Oh my god. The ears are like airplane ears. Now they’re flopping and it’s ridiculous.

Julie Jackson: 26:50
It’s adorable. Oh, there she goes. Okay. She’s got business now. She’s got to go take care of something. She’s got to go move a rug

Beth: 26:59
needs to move around. Yes. Oh, no, she’s no, no, no, no, no, that’s a no. Try, Julie. You have a wonderful birthday.

Julie Jackson: 27:12
Thank you so much. Yes. It’s our little belated dinner out. So I appreciate birthdays. Oh, thank you. Yeah, it was to Tuesday. Yeah, it was Tuesday.

Beth: 27:24
At a time, I will be more than happy to talk dogs with you.

Julie Jackson: 27:28
You know what, I love it and keep us posted on as Quinnie progresses. And if you have any stories, you know, if something happens in your life, that’s hilarious. shoot me a message or you have the link and you can go on and thank you so much for doing this. You’re welcome. You have a great night, go to dinner. Okay, thank you go smooth your pitches

Beth: 27:52
or maybe not.

Julie Jackson: 27:54
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