He says they provide structure and emotional support in his life.
Bob Greene: My wife and I have two dogs, Boba and Morty. He says they provide structure and emotional support in his life. Tell me if you have any pets or if there's a favorite kind of animal that you have.
Hi everyone. Here I am and I'm in my loft in St. Paul. So this is Morty right here. Right there. And this is Boba and they are my wife and I's two dogs. My wife and I have two dogs and their names, Boba and Morty. Today is a Sunday where I'm not working. I've taken a week off of work and I just haven't really known what, what to do with myself, to be honest. So, yeah, it's been, it's been really interesting and I've spent a lot of time lounging around with the dogs. So let's go hang out with, with Boba.
Boba is 16 years old. There he is. Look at that guy. Sorry. He's 15 and he's a very sweet boy and I'll tell you his backstory. So tell me if you guys have any pets. And welcome on Slidish, slish, Littleish Slittleish S. Slittleish 27. Hello. Tell me if you have any pets or if there's a favorite kind of animal that you have and how they give you life. I'll be talking about that soon. So anyway, Boba, 15 years old, he used to be a rabbit hunting dog and we adopted him at age six and a half. And he doesn't look like it right there as he.
Look at that. Oh my goodness, he's lounging and. Good afternoon, Jules. Tell me a pet story. What's your favorite animal? Do you have a pet? Do you wish you had a pet? That's what I'm talking about today. Because as you can see with Boba here, he loves to lounge and yeah, at the age that he is at, like I said, 15 years old, on the high, high end, we think, because we adopted him at six and a half from a rabbit hunting operation and he's really adjusted well to indoor life. He was living outdoors and.
But now he lives indoors. He doesn't even like the rain. You know, he lived outdoors in Newfoundland, Canada, but he loves to lounge around like just like this. And so over here, my 11 year old greyhound. There he is. That's Morty, the greyhound. Yeah, he's almost 11 and he's very sweet, very popular as well. So. Yeah, let me know your. Let me hear. Jules has two dogs plus goats and chickens. Excellent, excellent, excellent. Now one thing I want to talk about these dogs is they provide structure and emotional support.
My life. You know, I got to get up and walk the dogs. It's my job to walk the dogs and feed them in the morning and also most days If I'm home at 4 o' clock, then I got to do that as well. They also. There's. There's a few things about them that the. These dogs really provide enjoyment in my life. And with Boba here, what I really like about him is he needs to be close to someone. He needs to know where everybody is. And he's lost his sense of sight and his hearing. He's found his own way to seek us out, sniff us out, just to know that we're all in the house.
He wants to know that his family is close to him. And when he's not, then he's very unsettled. And so there he is, using that snoot right there. He loves to sniff around to see that I'm home and my wife are home now with Morty over here. And there he is, our lovely Morty with Morty. Here's what I like about him, is you cannot walk around downtown St. Paul like I do with Morty without people going, oh, my gosh, wow. And saying, look at that dog. And another thing about Morty is Morty walks around with these two little paw pads, these little therapeutic booties, and everyone's like a dog wearing shoes, right?
And be happy. Welcome. Let me know if you have a pet story or if you have any pets, because that's what I'm talking about. And so people love to see that my greyhound, that he. That he wears shoes, too. That really. That really gets people excited. And they point and they come over, and when people ask to pet Morty, then he leans into them and he presses his nose up against them because he is super, super, super personable. It's just great. I love. I love to see that. So what I'm reflecting on today is that there's something spiritual about that relationship that I see that my dogs have with myself and my wife and with other people.
And way back when I got clean, I was talking about spirituality with my addictions counselor 15 years ago when I got clean. And she was like, look, you don't have to overthink this. Whenever I connect with my higher power, I go for a walk in the forest with my dog. And somehow that was, like, one of the first instances in my life where I thought, hey, there's something about this spirituality thing that can be very simple and that doesn't have to be theological, and it can be something very personal and something I can relate to.
So I immediately connected to that, and I thought, when the time comes, I'm going to get a dog. So what did I do. I ended up getting three dogs in the period of two years when my wife and I got married. And right now we're down to two. And as you can see, they are very happy boys. They have this whole big sectional couch to lie down on. Morty has this memory foam little dog bed that is really, really good for him and he loves it here and people think, hey, you got a greyhound? Then he must be incredibly active.
Well, he sleeps most of the time. So this is my reflection today on dogs as I've been lounging around like a dog after Easter Sunday, kind of just gathering my footing after a very busy late winter early spring. And I'm wishing you a wonderful Sunday and go and relax. I'm going to go to a soccer game, enjoy the rest of my vacation. What time is left? So thank you for joining me and I'll see you on the Cadre sphere.
