There is a new episode of The Pawsitive Publish in Dialog about our particular relationship with canines with visitor Si Wooler.
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About this episode with Si Wooler
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We discuss in regards to the large adjustments that persons are keen to make for
their fearful canines, and why the canine’s relationship with their individual is
vital for all canines, however particularly the fearful ones. We discuss
what an excellent job Si does of serving to individuals see issues from the canine’s
perspective, and we ask how he talks with shoppers in regards to the canine’s
umwelt, or how the canine perceives their world.
We ask about how Si
determined the place to suit Sophie’s story within the guide. And Kristi places Si on
the spot and asks how he offers with the outdated concept of dominance when
it comes up in dialog and what he thinks of poisonous masculinity in
canine coaching.
Extra Than Only a Canine: Understanding, Loving, and Residing with Canines, The Indispensable Information for All Canine Lovers
by Simon Wooler is out now within the UK and out there wherever books are
bought, together with UK Bookshop.
Extra Than Only a Canine can be revealed in North American on Could thirteenth and is on the market for pre-order now.
The books we suggest on this episode are:
Additionally talked about on this episode:
The discuss by Dr. Lindsay Parker is the A&S Colloquium Kicking the Canine.
The episode of The Social Canine Pod with Zazie Todd as visitor.
Zazie’s favorite bookstore, Black Bond Books.
The opposite books that Si mentions are Sophie from Romania: A Yr of Love and Hope with a Rescue Canine by Rory Cellan-Jones, and Bark! The Science of Serving to Your Anxious, Fearful, or Reactive Canine by Zazie Todd.
Si Wooler has been coaching canines for greater than ten years. He
studied with the Academy for Canine Trainers, one of the rigorous canine
behaviour and coaching programmes on the earth and specialises in
coaching fearful and reactive canines. In 2023, he labored with writer and
broadcaster Rory Cellan-Jones and his spouse Professor Diane Coyle to assist
their Romanian rescue canine, Sophie, overcome her profound fears, bond
together with her individuals and regularly uncover the world, a journey that was
adopted day by day by a whole lot of hundreds of followers.
Si got here to canine
coaching after 20 years as a sound engineer so loud barking hardly
registers on his private decibel scale. His personal fearful, ‘unhomeable’
rescue canine, Thomson, was the motivator for searching for out efficient,
evidence-based coaching strategies and leaving his profession in sound and
stage to give attention to working with troubled canines and the individuals who love
them. That is his first guide.
Si’s web site, Sociable Canine.
Highlights of the dialog with Simon Wooler
Z: So, Si, inform us in regards to the guide.
S: Let you know in regards to the guide. Nicely, the guide was very a lot impressed initially by the expertise of Sophie from Romania and Rory and Diane’s dedication to assist her. And we had been approached by our publishers, Harper Collins. I needed to look on the again to recollect. I can by no means bear in mind their identify. I do not know what it’s.
However Harper Collins approached me, having seen the story of Sophie on social media, and requested if I might like to write down a guide. And it is one thing that truly had by no means actually occurred to me, however I believed it was very thrilling. And Nina was poking me within the ribs and saying, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it.
So in the long run, Extra Than Only a Canine is mostly a end result of not simply 10 years, effectively, in all probability nearly nearer to fifteen years of expertise within the subject, however reflections on my training about canines, how vital it’s to grasp their studying experiences and the way they be taught in order that we can assist them in a real manner.
And that is busting some myths, it is telling tales. It is serving to individuals to attach with their canines, notably in the event that they’re dealing with conduct issues. However typically, I sort of hope it is an vital learn, however an pleasurable and entertaining and at instances humorous learn as a result of I believe all of us want that in our worlds.
And people who find themselves coping with canines with important emotional issues undoubtedly want to have the ability to have a look at their relationship in a lighter manner typically and get some respite from it too.
Z: I believe it undoubtedly is. I imply, it’s extremely pleasurable and it’s humorous in elements too, which I believe may be very, very good.
S: Hopefully within the meant elements, which is all the time useful.
Okay: So within the guide, you utilize a whole lot of storytelling about your personal life and your shoppers, canines of their lives. And one of many issues that stood out to me at first was simply how a lot you modified your life for Thomson.
So I wished to know, simply type of like reflections on what are among the favourite tales that you’ve out of your shoppers about what they’ve achieved for his or her canines? You already know, these large issues that we do for our canines.
S: Sure, I believe tales are vastly vital. And the tales round Thomson had been meant to indicate or illustrate that that is doable, that it isn’t insurmountable, the problem and the numerous problem that worry, reactivity, aggressive conduct can current for individuals.
My shoppers tales. It is all the time extraordinary to me simply what number of tales they’ve and the way a lot they consider their lives with their canines by way of tales, by way of their experiences collectively and simply how resilient they’re to it and the way they’ll nonetheless see the humorous facet of issues that they cope with.
I imply, I only recently completed a two and a half week residential with a canine referred to as Troy and he is been six months within the UK and was so terrified that he hasn’t but really set foot out of, out of the home. And but the tales that come out of people that have canines like which are outstanding. So for instance, Troy and I found this to my very own amusement.
Troy have to be, he is a German shepherd canine, Rottweiler cross, with I think a little bit of Jack Russell in there someplace as effectively. However he would, at 2 o’clock within the morning, this shy, retiring, nervous canine would run down the hall and throw himself spleen bustingly onto you in your mattress after which do some spin after which run off once more.
And lots of the tales that come out of lots of people’s lives with these canines are these little moments of pleasure that their canine reveals. In order that little playful cheekiness or that the primary stroll is usually one thing that individuals will inform their story about.
What tales can I. As a result of the guide has tales of sick well being and managing that, it has tales about discovering the dedication to unravel the issue, even when which means going by way of six totally different trainers. And so they can nonetheless be witty about these moments the place issues simply go sideways.
So yeah, I imply, I believe that life tends to be about tales and definitely individuals’s experiences with their canines as a result of they’re members of the family, there are sure to be tales and I believe there’s typically tales of making an attempt to incorporate their canines in issues with the household and so forth and so forth that I believe is simply so endearing and simply reveals how vital they’re to us and the way vital they develop into in a extremely quick time period.
Did that reply? I am not even certain if that answered the query, to be trustworthy, however you already know me, tangent man.
Z: It leads very properly into our subsequent query really, which is as a result of your guide is admittedly in regards to the relationship between individuals and their canines and we will inform that simply from the title, Greater than only a Canine, they are not simply canines.
So why is that relationship particularly vital for fearful canines?
S: Oh, that is an excellent query, I believe, as a result of actually what I’ve realized over time, working quite a bit with each fearful canines which are fearful and hideaway, and canines which are fearful and select aggressive conduct as a method to repair that, to assist them address that.
One of many issues I’ve found and are available to grasp much more vastly is simply how vital connection is for them, how vital it’s for them to really feel not simply secure within the setting that they are in, however secure with the individuals that they are with.
And people individuals develop into what in human psychology they name safe bases. In order that your canine can really feel extra assured about exploring new environments as a result of they know that safe base is there to return again to and it sort of stabilizes their world.
However I believe equally, I am certain a whole lot of us know what it is wish to have members of the family or associates who’re affected by psychological well being points and simply how achingly painful that’s since you simply can not help however really feel a way of empathy for them.
And you already know, once you see canines, canines in apparent ache or worry, it is not possible to not see them as somebody in want of assist, somebody desperately in want of help and sympathy and acknowledgement. And I believe that simply sort of connects with individuals. However the entire enterprise of creating a relationship is step one to creating it doable. And that is what Extra Than Only a Canine is definitely about, is making that relationship in order that.
Or giving, nearly saying it. You are not doing nothing in the event you’re simply concentrating on being with them, spending time with them, discovering out what they suppose is enjoyable and benefiting from that and simply giving them area and openness and option to develop into what’s a whole, utter change of their lives.
Significantly if it is rescue canines, if they seem to be a rescue canine, it is a full topsy turvy, flip the world up on its head second for them. And so they’re normally canines that weren’t in nice emotional form to start with. So, you already know, my feeling about it’s that we have got into a spot in fashionable society the place our expectation is that if canines are upset or anxious about one thing, they are going to recover from it fairly rapidly. They need to recover from it fairly rapidly. And my query is, why?
Why ought to they recover from it fairly rapidly? I imply, ought to, ought to. There’s nearly a chapter on why ought to, should not, ought, or thrown out of the English dictionary as a result of it isn’t about what needs to be occurring or should not be occurring.
It is about what is occurring. And that is what now we have to cope with and care for. And there should not be an assumption. There you go. I did it. I did it. I did not. Should not. We mustn’t assume that canines will get better rapidly. And that is Ripley digging up the couch you could in all probability hear.
Z: Hi there, Ripley.
S: Sure. So, you already know, that is my large motivation. That is my large drive. Not simply on this guide, however in all the things I do now, which isn’t only for individuals to acknowledge the connection and perceive that the canines are a part of the household, but additionally to offer themselves permission to sort of decelerate and really feel all the things that they do really feel.
As a result of dwelling with canines which are upset 247 is tough. It is actually, actually onerous. And too typically there’s criticism of individuals and there is an assumption in our society that if a canine is fearful or exhibit different conduct which will point out that they are anxious, that one thing dangerous will need to have occurred to them and it have to be the individuals who did it.
And fairly often that signifies that individuals do not go for assist. They do not search for assist. And what I wish to say is, we’re not judging you. We’re not judging you. Actually, if something, we’re providing you with kudos for searching for assist for you and your canine.
And we have to dispel that delusion that every one canines that behave in that manner, that behave fearfully, have been mistreated. They’ll have been, however fairly often not by the individuals which are coming to ask you for assist.
In order that’s vastly vital. Having empathy not only for canines, however for individuals, too.
Okay: Our subsequent query is leaping somewhat bit into sort of, I believe we’re going proper from like, the sweetness to sort of the onerous stuff. However one factor that did come as much as me after I was, I am unable to bear in mind which a part of your guide I used to be , however there was type of a minimum of point out of behavioral euthanasia.
And I used to be considering, okay, behavioral euthanasia can nonetheless be somewhat little bit of a taboo matter, even amongst canine trainers who needs to be snug with these conversations, you already know, so I would like your ideas on how does this probably not serve canines or their guardians, the truth that we hold this as a taboo topic, and the way can we type of have these conversations in whereas recognizing that the aversive crowd tends to type of sling at us this accusation that we go proper to behavioral euthanasia at any time when there is a canine that we will not deal with, even though that’s simply mistaken, you already know, and the truth that proof really reveals that it is a very totally different story.
S: Wow, that is an excellent query.
Okay: Perhaps briefly we will simply contact on that earlier than we go.
S: Yeah, it is a actually, actually good query. And it is an vital one, I believe, as a result of it is vital to have the ability to say to individuals, I do not think about that it is my place to advise or suggest euthanasia. I’ve by no means had a state of affairs the place I have been required to do this. I think about there are. I think about some conditions are both simply so harmful or the canine is in a lot misery that that is going to be put up entrance and middle as an actual possibility and will effectively have already been proposed by any individual within the combine, like Yvette, for instance.
My obligation is to say it’s an possibility. It is an possibility that is on the desk and in the event you resolve to take it, then you’re going to get my help, unquestioning non judgmental help in that call.
The truth that the suggestion that as non aversive trainers we go straight to conduct euthanasia as an answer for a canine that we will not handle is baloney. And I am going to put it on the market, it is baloney, individuals.
I believe in that roughly dozen years of follow, I’ve had one consumer who’s determined that that was the best way that it needed to go as a result of they simply felt the canine, their canine was too harmful. Like she wasn’t predictable sufficient in the home and she or he wasn’t predictable sufficient in public.
And so they had been simply, it was, it was attending to the purpose the place they had been extremely confused they usually had been anxious that it was impacting on their place locally, in the best way that the group seen them and their lives had been deteriorating because of this. And so they made that call and I supported them in it, each informally and formally. It must be there as an possibility for excessive circumstances.
However I will push again once more on that accusation that you simply talked about, Kristi, as a result of if I am confronted with a canine whose conduct I am undecided I perceive or I really feel like I am not making progress with it, my suggestion is not going to be put your canine down.
My answer goes to be, firstly, let’s have a dialog about meds. So let’s discuss whether or not or not there is a pharmaceutical answer that may assist us a minimum of. And the three of us know that remedy for canines, nervousness remedy for canines, is designed to make behaviour modification simpler to do simpler and more likely to progress higher.
And that is the dialog I’ll have with individuals round meds. I’ll very pointedly say that I believe meds is a frontline possibility, not a final resort, and we must always see what that does as a way to assist us.
I additionally suppose that if I do not perceive, it is vital to be trustworthy with your self and say, effectively, I do not perceive that conduct. And then you definately go and also you try to work out why that is occurring. So that you have a look at, you do the 2 issues that truly I do not go into an excellent deal within the guide, but it surely’s develop into more and more obvious.
And it struck me the opposite day, I used to be watching one thing on YouTube. There was a man speaking about sort of communication strategies and issues like that. And really one of many issues that got here up very strongly was that it isn’t about speaking, it is about listening.
So you have obtained some assets with these guys who’re confronted with these actually, actually tremendous troublesome canines. One is to hear and the opposite is to look at.
So hearken to the human, the human facet of the connection and watch the canine facet of the connection. And normally you begin to see, if you cannot account essentially for the conduct, you begin to see someplace the place you’ll find an in.
And that observational stuff is admittedly, actually vital for me. My final consumer, you already know, that I discussed earlier, it was fairly apparent that he got here alive at night time. And so we shifted many of the work from daytime to nighttime. So it was 3, 4am within the morning that we had been doing stuff to try to assist him develop into extra assured. And that migrated into sunlight hours.
However that is, for me, these are the 2 most vital issues to strive. And there are many issues you are able to do earlier than anybody begins to speak about euthanasia. And it isn’t going to be me, is my rule. That is going to return from the human consumer. They’ll say, I am undecided we will address this, we will do that.
After which the choices can be we will strive for a re residence. We will search for any individual who’s skilled in dwelling with canines like this and are ready to take the danger with the entire crucial caveats and situations.
And if they are saying we’re considering that one of the best factor is perhaps to euthanize her or him, then my reply is, effectively, I am unable to advise you to do this, however it’s an possibility that you’ve. It is, you already know, and it is an comprehensible one. It is not one that you’ll get judgment for from me, and you will get full help from me. And in the event you want me to talk to your vet, then I am going to try this, too.
That was an extended reply to a brief query.
Z: Nicely, one of many stuff you touched on in there’s your interactions with the shoppers and your conversations with the shoppers. So to carry it to a much less heavy matter, let’s discuss in regards to the concept of a canine’s umwelt. And the way do you clarify to individuals how our understanding of the canine’s umwelt can really assist to enhance their relationship with their canine?
So let’s use it with out the terminology. How do you want to speak to individuals about how understanding what issues really feel like and are like for the canine, the canine’s experiences, how does that understanding assist to enhance their relationship with the canine?
Okay: I really feel like one of many strengths of your guide was that, that you simply actually introduced it all the way down to the canine’s POV. You already know, we had been doing a whole lot of life by way of the canine’s eyes.
And I believe that that is, that is a method that we will actually, like, work with the people of the element, so. Yeah, yeah, but it surely’s not essentially simple to speak to our shoppers about that, so.
S: No, it isn’t. And so they’ve obtained a whole lot of preconceived concepts, and people preconceived concepts have come from some good, you already know, they discovered good studying for. They discovered good individuals on the Web. They’ve additionally discovered some actually atrocious ones they usually do not actually know the best way to siphon them off, so they do not know what the filters are for good and dangerous recommendation and good and dangerous opinion, in the event you like.
And I believe it is about, it is a dialog. I believe that you’ve, as soon as you have established a rapport with them and really, fairly often that’s on account of your rapport with their canine. Even when it is a canine that’s saved 15ft away as a result of it needs to shred bits of you.
So the truth that you’re centered on their canine and also you’re doing one thing to try to settle the state of affairs down and make the canine join with you, you already know, simpler with simply fearful canines reasonably than canines which have aggressive responses, as a result of it is a problem to discover a place the place you’re in, the place it is all calming down, the place you have obtained sufficient distance between you to handle the thresholds, in the event you like.
However nonetheless, individuals acknowledge your consideration to their canine and then you definately after which I. What I are likely to do is I am speaking to them about what their wants are and their challenges are and what their worries about it are. And I am becoming the answer that they are searching for into their life.
Hi there, Doglet. It is a doglet.
Okay: It is Archer.
S: Who’s that?
Okay: Archer.
S: Archer. Hello, Arch.
So I am making an attempt to grasp what their fears and issues are too, as a result of we’re serving to two species right here. And if we’re solely involved about serving to the canine, then I’d say you are within the mistaken enterprise. As a result of. And here is a contentious factor that can likely get some feedback. I do not suppose we’re within the canine enterprise. We’re within the individuals enterprise.
We’re about serving to individuals assist their canines and dwell higher collectively, dwell extra harmoniously collectively, dwell happier collectively, and perceive what it’s that is happening with the canine as a way to enable for change in that. So reasonably than making an attempt to drive change, they’re giving canines alternatives and decisions and company and likelihood to cope with the setting that they discover themselves in.
And for me, the human finish of that lead is so vital. You must acknowledge the stress and the strain and the fear and the worry that’s occurring for these individuals 24 7. You already know, within the preliminary dialog, I believe it is a large. It’s about listening and it is about figuring out the place the stress factors are, saying and saying to start with. Proper. How can we. How can we make that simpler for you? And developing with issues that aren’t about what I believe they need to want, however are about what they really do want and gearing the plan, the continued plan to that.
It issues to me. You already know, it actually issues to me as a result of these individuals love their canines. They’re deeply distressed about what’s occurring. Generally they take it extremely personally. And I believe the very first thing that one of many first issues to say is, this is not private.
You’re really vital to them and you are going to develop into extra vital to them. They’re simply scared.
Okay: Yeah. I believe worry is one thing that. And I do know Zazie has really written in regards to the science on this, however individuals are likely to miss worry of their. In canines and in their very own canines, even. So it is, I believe, one of the vital messages that we will deal with residence for certain.
S: Yep, yep. I believe so, too. I believe it is about. I believe it is about not blaming individuals, not judging them. It is about giving them area and time, and it is about successfully telling them they’re allowed to take time with their canine to assist resolve it.
Poor little guys. Hey, bless their hearts. Each final one in every of them simply tugs at my heartstrings each time I, you already know, I am going in and you may really feel and you may hear the ache within the human voices about it and the dedication, absolutely the dedication to resolve it as a result of, you already know, on the finish of the day, individuals do not pay us to go in and assist them if they do not wish to resolve that problem, if the canines are usually not so vital to them that they wish to hold them.
You already know, the Sophie story is especially poignant in that sense as a result of Rory’s expectation was for a canine that he’d have the ability to exit to stroll with as a result of he is obtained Parkinson’s illness. So it was fairly vital to train. And Sophie, as they thought, was going to be an actual catalyst to that.
And regardless of all the things, regardless of hiding behind the couch for months and toileting on. On pet pads and refusing to eat and afterward barking at nearly all people that set foot within the place, they had been decided that Sophie had develop into a member of the household. And you do not throw out members of your loved ones as a rule except you already know one thing actually hideous has occurred.
So I believe, on the threat of sounding like a damaged document, my focus is about household, is about relationships. And all the things that I do in sensible phrases, be it coaching or be it emotional shift, it is about altering that relationship. It is about making that relationship stronger.
Z: And I will bounce in with a query right here since you talked about Sophie, one of many questions we wished to ask you, it is a writing query. So Sophie’s a extremely well-known canine that you simply labored with, and also you waited till about midway by way of the guide earlier than you actually began telling a few of her story in right here.
So what was your thought course of? How did you resolve the place to introduce Sophie into the guide and the place she would slot in?
S: What an excellent query. We had a really deliberate construction for it. Nina, my companion, is a copywriter. She writes, and we talked quite a bit about collectively about what the construction of the guide was going to be.
It was vital for me that it wasn’t a retelling of Sophie’s story, that it did not Begin with Sophie. It wasn’t. It did not all the time come again to Sophie. Not that I do not love her. I do. She’s completely lovely. I fall in love with all of them.
However it was vital to have the ability to say that Sophie is not. What is the phrase? That not one of the canines concerned within the guide. So not one of the tales and no canines that individuals come to us about, none of them are dysfunctional. This isn’t about abnormality. That is about regular.
The traditional method to fearful stimuli, in the event you like, that these canines are behaving as they’d in the event that they’re afraid. Now, the truth that they do not should be afraid is sort of irrelevant. As a result of they’re afraid. They suppose what they’re is harmful. And subsequently now we have to respect that as being their way of thinking.
And I believe Sophie was launched the place she was simply because that was the precise place to place that story. And he or she was going to be the fearful canine story, in the event you like. Though, you already know, lots of them are. However I could not ignore it as a result of Sophie. Not solely is Sophie’s story an excellent one, however Diane and Rory have develop into actually shut associates. And with out Sophie, no person would have requested me to write down a guide.
So it was vital for it to not be about Sophie. Trigger Rory, aside from the rest, Rory’s already written one [Sophie from Romania]. And it was vastly trustworthy and insightful and beneficiant of spirit. And in order that would not have been the purpose. And it wasn’t the purpose. The purpose was to not write a the best way to guide, however to write down a guide that was to some extent, it has some. Here is the way it works. It has various. Here is how conduct works. Here is what is going on on on this state of affairs.
However it was extra about serving to individuals to grasp that so that they could have the ability to make some progress with their very own canines or simply. Or simply make an excellent nearer reference to their canines. And a few individuals, I hope that learn it, can have a wonderful reference to their canines and can simply get some understanding of what the science and the precept is behind conduct.
Such as you, you have achieved so effectively in Bark!, Zazie. And I believe extra of us should be doing that. You already know, we should be shouting it from the rooftops. We should be saying, that is what is going on on. That is how conduct works. It is not one thing that you simply pluck out of the ether, but additionally that we acknowledge people who find themselves having a tough time as effectively. And to say it is doable, that is doable.
Okay: So Zazie, do now we have time for another query, do you suppose, or ought to we transfer into the books?
Z: In case you have time, you ask another query after which we’ll transfer on to the books and perhaps we’ll make it. Attempt to make this one a reasonably fast query.
Okay: Okay, I am going to make it a quick.
S: It is not the query that is the issue, is it? It is the reply.
Okay: Okay, so I am going to provide you with an opportunity, a alternative. We now have a pleasant pretty one about writing kinds after which now we have sort of a tough hitter and you may decide. What do you, what are you within the temper for proper now on the finish of our dialog?
S: Oh, you are going to hold going to maintain the onerous hitter severe as a secret. Laborious. Go for the onerous hit.
Okay: Okay, so pack management and dominance considering is tied up with poisonous and hegemonic masculinity. So on this subject of ours, which is basically girl dominated, I used to be simply curious the way you construction your follow to handle these subjects immediately along with your shoppers. And the way do you type of have in mind the truth that you are working in a girl dominated subject as you type of delusion bust, if in any respect.
S: Wow, that is fascinating. Nicely, how did you, how did you describe that? The, the, the masculinity bit? That was good. That was nice.
Okay: Poisonous and hegemonic masculinity, which aren’t my phrases.
S: Yeah, hegemonic, that is an excellent phrase.
Okay: There is a actually good. Do you bear in mind the identify of the physician who did that actually, actually nice webinar who type of pulled this, the threads of this argument?
Z: No, I’ve forgotten. I’ll discover it and put it within the present notes.
S: Yeah, that sounds completely fascinating. So reply the query as transient as I can.
No, no, I do not, I do not give it some thought really. Apparently, I typically give it some thought outdoors of the session. However it’s not one thing that. As a result of here is the factor, the best way that I deal with it’s I do not, except it comes up, proper? So I do not deal with pack management, the pack management delusion, or the dominance delusion except it raises its head. And it is normally in a really harmless manner that that occurs.
So they are not, they are not pushing it onerous at me, however they’re victims of, you already know, that indiscriminate degree quantity of various data that is out there on the market.
So what I do is normally by then they’ve had some large aha moments about how studying actually works. I’ve already achieved an introduction to how animals be taught by way of affiliation and the way they be taught by way of penalties and achieved some little, little examples and even demoed it on their canine if, if their canine is keen to return and spend a while with me. Doing it with meals. Proper.
In order that they’ve already had some. Oh, wow, have a look at that. Look how rapidly, how fast that’s. And I’ve had a chance to say that is how that is working, that is what is going on on right here.
After which I can say there is not any proof in conduct science for the dominance assemble to be true with home canines. And so they purchase in. They purchase in utterly. There’s not even a. I’ve by no means as soon as had a battle over that one. They’ve folded.
How I normally put it’s take that concept, put it in a kitchen drawer someplace, shut the drawer, lock it, take the cupboard out of the kitchen, put it within the automobile, drive to someplace the place you possibly can throw it off the cliff. And throw it off the cliff as a result of we do not want it. It is not vital.
Okay: Speaking about tales, that is a really highly effective imagery.
Z: It’s good. Thanks, Si.
S: As for almost all of girls within the subject that. I do not realize it. I do not. I am such a liberal, you see, I do not. It would not, it would not sweat me in a manner.
And I believe, effectively, I imply, have a look at, have a look at the 2 of you. I imply, two mighty brains within the subject and. Yeah. And to be trustworthy, I do not know what to say in that regard. I am sort of relaxed about. I do not really feel threatened by both of you.
Z: Darn it. We did not give you onerous sufficient questions.
Okay: I can get higher. Give me an opportunity.
Z: Nicely, thanks, Si.
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