Topic Talk | Dogs

Become a monthly subscriber for just $1.99 per month and receive an additional two to three episodes per week! https://app.redcircle.com/shows/9472af5c-8580-45e1-b0dd-ff211db08a90/exclusive-content In this episode of The A to Z English Podcast, Xochitl and Jack talk about dog ownership in the United States, Mexico, and Korea. Transcript: 00:00:55 Jack Welcome to the A-Z English podcast. My name is Jack and I'm here with my co-host social. And today we have a topic talk episode and today's topic is dogs and like dog ownership in different cultures, like how people think about their dogs and. 00:01:10 Xochitl Yeah, yeah. 00:01:16 Jack Treat their dogs and so soap. So why don't you kick it off here for us? And UM, like, what is your generation people your age? How do they feel? 00:01:26 Jack About their dogs. 00:01:28 Xochitl OK, so I would say I kind of grew up in a culture where dogs are dogs and people are people. 00:01:35 Xochitl And this is a very Mexican thing. And it's also a very. 00:01:41 Xochitl Real staple of older American culture. My dad is a boomer, and in those days, you know it. Dog culture was similar to how it is in Mexico. You kind of let your dog roam free. 00:01:54 Jack Right. 00:01:56 Xochitl In the streets, he like has his own pack of friends. 00:01:59 Jack Right. And if there's if there's like an order, it's like the dog is the last. You know, there's no, there's no babying the dog and stuff. Like it's an animal. 00:02:04 Xochitl Yes. 00:02:10 Xochitl And they also kind of hold. 00:02:11 Xochitl Their own independent life, like they go out kind of independently. That's still a thing in Mexico. And also it used to be a thing in, in the US and my dad was a kid in the 60s and. 00:02:23 Jack Hmm. 00:02:24 Xochitl Yep. 00:02:25 Xochitl And and they they're very independent. They're not really babied. And they're kind of seen as like the lowest caste working member of a family because you have them for protection or sometimes you have farm dogs just or, you know, it's a companion animal. But most of the time it it has a job to do. 00:02:46 Xochitl And it has a plate on the pecking order, as we say in the US, which is like the top dog is, you know, maybe the mom and dad of the household and the kids and then the dogs at the box. 00:02:56 Xochitl And and I would say that was very, very true for the older generations. But now my younger generation, I've see, I've seen it as a global phenomenon in Korea and the US in Mexico, that people treat their dogs kind of like babies. I'm. 00:03:12 Xochitl I'm a little guilty of. 00:03:14 Xochitl This when I first had Wendy, I swore I wouldn't be one of these people. I didn't even want to sleep in the same bed. 00:03:19 Xochitl His. 00:03:20 Xochitl But he's so cute. It was like hard so. 00:03:24 Jack He worked his way into the into the bedroom, up on the bed. Yeah. 00:03:26 Xochitl He worked his way up into his then. Yeah, because he got big enough to be able to jump onto the bed. And then after that, just kind of game over because I couldn't keep him off. I tried to keep him off and he was smarter than me and found out how to get through every obstacle course that I've placed for him. So that's how a. 00:03:32 Jack OK. 00:03:46 Xochitl Like 4 LB. Dog outsmarted me my whole. 00:03:48 Jack Yeah, I I feel. 00:03:50 Jack Like Americans now, and maybe Canadians, too, are dogs are like their four legged children. 00:03:59 Jack You know there's. 00:03:59 Xochitl Yeah, and I. 00:04:00 Xochitl Think it it it? Sorry, Jack didn't mean to cut you off. I was just going to think because a lot of people are having kids later or choosing not to have kids at all. And I think that really affects the way that we see. 00:04:02 Jack No, no, no. Go ahead. Go ahead. 00:04:08 Jack Yeah. 00:04:13 Xochitl Dogs and for me, I kind of people only say the older you get, the more sure you are that you're going to want kids and actually the opposite has happened. Now that I'm well into my 27 bear on thi