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Dear Sugars

Rewind: Pet Dilemmas

Dear Sugars

WBUR

Boston, Wbur, Sugar, Cheryl Strayed, Society & Culture, Dear, Relationships, Advice, Steve Almond

4.6 β€’ 5.9K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 15 June 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

This episode was originally published on August 26th, 2017. In this episode, adventures in animal ownership! The Sugars, along with Julie Barton β€” author of the memoir Dog Medicine: How My Dog Saved Me From Myself β€” answer letters about pet dilemmas and the ways these creatures affect human relationships.

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0:00.0

The sugars are here,

0:01.0

are here.

0:02.0

The universe has good news for the lost, lonely, and heart sick.

0:10.0

The sugars are here, speaking straight into your ears.

0:13.7

I'm Steve Aulman.

0:14.9

I'm Cheryl Strade.

0:16.0

This is dear sugars.

0:18.0

Oh, dear, son, won't you please?

0:25.0

Share some little sweet days with me. I check my bell drives every day.

0:37.0

Oh, in the sugar.

0:40.0

Oh, in the sugar you see in my way.

0:49.7

Hi Steve,

0:50.3

Hi, Cheryl.

0:51.5

So today, we are the much anticipated episode on cats and dogs.

0:57.0

Yes. We promised it because you know whenever we do those pet questions we get a lot of mail and I'm sort of famous for always

1:08.1

exciting on the on the side of the cat.

1:10.1

Whoever loves the cat most to me is just always right. I am an absolutely

1:15.8

you know unrepentant cat lady and as long-time listeners know grew up poor many

1:21.7

years of my life with a single mom for a big chunk of my childhood.

1:27.0

And my house, ever-changing as it was from my mom and dad being married to my mom being the single mother to my mom being with my

1:34.6

stepfather. The one thread was that we always had animals and the reason we always had animals

1:40.6

is because my mother was the person who took in every animal that she came upon.

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