You are listening to the Daily Roundup here as part of the Reality C Podcast. I’m your host reality. Steve, thank you all for tuning in. Good Wednesday show for you. You’re gonna get the behind the scenes details. Of my adoption of my new dog, Toby. I received him on Monday and what I explained in my video yesterday that I put out on my socials, TikTok and Instagram.
That’s pretty much most of it, but I’ll give you an update on everything that’s happened since then. Taylor, Frankie Paul, had a day in court yesterday and. Needless to say it didn’t go well for her, but it was pretty much what I think most people expected to happen. I watched episode two of winner games.
No, just no Survivor tonight. Let’s see if they can recover from that awful episode, but I wanna specify this is not on the players in the game. Not at all. This is a production problem for Survivor this year. And then of course we’ve got the Valley airing tonight as well. So let’s get started. Yesterday on my socials, and for two days on this podcast, I had been teasing that I did a thing well.
That thing was I adopted a new dog. That wasn’t my intention. There was a local radio event here two Saturdays ago that I went to and. At this event, there were people in the radio industry. There were podcasters, but the event was also advertised as we will have dogs up for adoption. There’s going to be numerous local shelters bringing dogs to be adopted.
I knew that. I have not been in the running to adopt a new dog. I’ve thought about it. I’ve had Luca for almost eight years. It’ll be eight years this summer, and. My nephew has always brought it up to me, and I’ve always thought about it. Why don’t you get Luca a brother or a sister? And to me it was a selfish thing.
It’s always been a selfish thing to me, was like, we’ve got it so good in terms of our routine, like I don’t want to disrupt it. What if things get weird or. You know, it was just one of those deals. So I went to this event and I wasn’t against it, but I wasn’t gonna go openly looking. I didn’t go to that event saying, I’m going to adopt a dog today.
I said, I’ll look around if something piques my interest. There were hundreds of dogs. Theres from about 10 or 15 different shelters. But I ran into a radio friend of mine, Kelly Raspberry, who works on the Kid Crowd Morning Show here at Kiss FM in Dallas and. She asked me what kind of dog I have. I said, I’ve got a beagle.
She’s like, oh, there’s a beagle up there. And in walking around most of the place, there were no other beagles at this event. Not that I’m not against adopting another dog, but I’ve got a Beagle. I figure if I am gonna get Luca, a brother or a sister, why not get him? Why not get her someone that looks like her?
So I see this beagle and his name is Toby. He’s six years old, he’s up for adoption. And he was just, you know, you saw in the video, he was in the cage and he was clearly not enjoying his surroundings and he was kind of whimpering. And I took him for a walk a couple times and I said, so what do I need to do here?
I, I almost feel like I can’t not put in an application for Toby, and I don’t even know how they do it, but. I put in an application right when I got home, filled it out and they said, the owner will be contacting you. And I said, do you know where I am in the pecking order here? How many people have put in an application for Toby?
Toby was one of the cutest dogs there that day. I don’t know how many people put in applications. 10, 15 was I the only one I don’t even know. All I know is they said the owners will be contacting you. They did. I saw Toby last Tuesday. We met up at the dog park with Luca. I put that in my video as well.
Honestly, they didn’t, they didn’t have any beef whatsoever. You know? Right. When they saw each other, they smelled each other. They walked around the park a little bit, but there were so many other dogs at the park that they were very distracted from just only focusing on each other. So I was like, but it went well.
And I can’t imagine Luca doesn’t have an issue with other dogs. She’s never had an issue with other dogs. So I was like, okay. And I went out of town, obviously, you know, this weekend I went to California. And then I got back and they said, let’s move forward with the process. I filled out the paperwork that I needed, paid the fee, and they dropped Toby off on Monday and it’s been great.
Like Luca is still asserting her dominance for sure, because this has been her house. She hasn’t had any other dogs here in the seven and a half years that I’ve had her. So yeah. When another dog invades her space, she’s gonna get a little protective, but they play, they play with each other, or at least they did on the first day.
Now it feels like we’re already in a routine where they’re both just doing their own thing. The only thing that’s different is that Luca is somebody that the second you put her bowl down, she just scarfs down her food. Toby, I was told eats on his own volition, he’ll eat when he feels like eating. His old family told me they put out a bowl and sometimes he doesn’t touch it all day and he doesn’t eat until nighttime.
I’m like, okay, I gotta figure that out. So yesterday was the first day where I fed both of them and I fed Luca at eight in the morning and I put a bowl out for Toby. He looked at it and walked away, which made Luca immediately go over and start eating his food. And I was like, okay, well this can’t happen.
And then I was literally putting the bowl right under Toby’s nose to try and feed him, and he just didn’t want it. So I was like, okay, well I guess they were right. He just will eat it when he eats it. But the problem is I can’t leave the bowl out because the second I leave any bowl out with food in it, Luke is gonna go eat it.
So. I don’t know if Toby’s gonna gimme a signal of when he wants to eat. I don’t really know how it works. But all day I tried like two or three different times and a couple times I had to put Luca in her crate because anytime I walked up to Toby with the bowl, Luca was right there trying to get into that bowl.
So I was like, Luca, you need to go in your crate. I’m gonna see if Toby wants to eat right now. And he didn’t. And he just kept walking away from the food. And I’m like, all right, well, I don’t know what to do from here. But, so I ate dinner around seven o’clock and right after I was done eating dinner, I fed Toby.
I tried again. I put Luca in her crate. And I put the bowl down and Toby was receptive to it and finally ate his bowl of food. But Luca’s in the crate literally staring at him the whole time, trying to get out of the crate, kind of scratching and trying to get outta that crate because I don’t know, someone’s eating food and she’s not.
So yeah, I’m gonna have to figure that out. I don’t want to have to put Luca in her crate every single time. It’s feeding time and Toby needs to eat, but I don’t know what Toby’s eating schedule is. If it looks like he’s only going to eat once a day and at night, I, I mean, that’s the thing. It’s gonna be tough ’cause I’m gonna pour the bowl every morning for him, but if he doesn’t eat it, then I can’t just leave it there.
I have to like put it out of reach of Luca because she’ll just scarf it down. So that has been. The only, I, I wouldn’t even call it a difficulty. It’s just a scheduling thing that I gotta figure out. They both slept in the bed with me on the first night. I have little less room to move around because Lucas slept in her normal position, but Toby was on top of the bed at the foot of the bed near my feet.
So I didn’t have a lot of room to move around. I’m fine with that. I’m used to sleeping with a dog, but now I’ve got two. And you know, during the day they love playing. I wanna say they love playing because they haven’t really, outside of the video I posted, which was the first night they were together and they were kind of playing around with each other.
They haven’t done that since. They sleep on the same couch, they’ll walk by each other, they’ll, you know, sniff each other, but they haven’t had any sort of playtime. Sometimes when I pet Toby Luca comes over and wants to be pet, but that’s only when she’s like active. If she’s just laying on the couch and I want to go sit next to Toby and pet him and kiss on him, Luca’s right there and sees it and doesn’t do anything, I think, as long as I do it to her as well.
But it’s been great so far, like this is gonna be a great, great marriage. Even though they’re not married. Is Toby technically her brother? Since they’re not blood related. I mean, I guess right? It’s a sibling step. I don’t know. Whatever the case, they seem to be getting along fine. It’ll be, I, I, I’m enjoying it already, and I just, you know, look, when I adopted Luca in August of 2018, her paperwork said she was between two and three, so she’s between 10 and 11 years old.
I mean, let’s face it, you know, knock on wood, I, I, I, I don’t. Have a ton of years left with her, even though she’s in great health right now. And I, I’ve never had a health issue with her once, but, oh, outside that one time when she had a, a neck, that neck problem where I freaked out, but that lasted 24 hours.
So now where I’m at is. You know, I, I think it’s good for her to have a partner and have somebody to just be around. Luca’s always looking where he is. He’s pretty much where she is and I can tell that he’s probably a little annoyed by her right now. ’cause sometimes he just wants to be left alone and she’s just kind of sniffing around him.
It’s not like she’s trying to play with him. He doesn’t wanna play. She just. It’s kind of always, but you could just tell she’s always looking where he is. Her head pops up if I say Toby’s name. So it’s, it’s, it’s been really good so far. I mean, it’s only been 48 hours, less than 48 hours, but I, I’ve enjoyed every second of it and I wanna thank everybody who left positive messages yesterday under that.
I don’t think any of you had who, who had guessed what I was hinting at. Nobody had guessed that I got another dog and I wouldn’t have expected you to, but. Yeah, I mean, sometimes you just see a dog, like if there was no, if, if there were no beagles at that event, I probably wouldn’t have came home with a dog that day.
I just saw a beagle that was literally the male version of Luca. Luca, like I said, is between 10 and 11. Toby is six, and the family that had him before great, great family. They just had stuff at home where they just felt that. Toby needed to be re-homed and I think I gave him the perfect home for that.
And Luca seems to really enjoy his company even they do, even though they do do a lot of sleeping all day long. So anyway, thanks again to everybody who contributed and, and left me a message on my Instagram yesterday. This podcast is brought to you by zocdoc. Life can feel like a big puzzle.
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