Episode Details

Their second dog had passed every test for months.

Josh and Jenn's dog Odie had years of history with them. Artie was the new one, a shy rescue pulled from a hoarding situation, with no red flags in her foster home and no incidents when they first brought her in. For months, nothing happened. Then it did. Three times, months apart, with nothing connecting them that Josh, Jenn, or their trainer could ever pin down.

In this episode, Em talks with Josh and Jenn about what it was actually like to live inside that unknown, before, during, and after.

You'll hear:

• What their trainer said when even he couldn't identify a pattern
• What it was like calling around at 2am trying to find an emergency vet that would take them
• What Josh and Jenn still don't know, even now

Press play if you've ever brought a new dog into a house with one already in it, and wondered what you couldn't see coming.

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