Daily Highlight: Have You Lost Your Little Buddy?

After two of our friends recently lost their dogs, the 'Big Show' takes a moment to remember our lost friends along the way.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Today's Daily Highlight from Elvis Duran in the Morning show.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
You know, I love CBS Sunday Morning. It's one of
my favorite shows. If you don't watch CBS Sunday Morning
on Sundays, you're really missing out on really the best
TV has to offer. It really is an incredible show.
The stories are just well paced and interesting and deep
and wonderful. So one of the reporters on CBS Sunday Morning,
her name is Martha Tyschner. I believe she's been there

(00:27):
for one hundred years. She's great. She did a story
about Vermont's Dog Mountain, this dog chapel up in Vermont
where people will go to grieve and say goodbye to
their dogs. And you go into the dog Chapel in
Vermont and you see just walls covered with photos that
people bring in and tack up. They also bring their
other dogs, and there's dogs running around. It's just an

(00:50):
unbelievable place. And you know, for some reason, a lot
of people don't give dog lovers and cat lovers room
to grieve when they lose arguably one of the most
important parts of their lives. Right and closer to home
here in Central Park, I don't know if you know
about the Secret Pet Memorial Tree. We've talked about it before.

(01:12):
There's a part of Central Park called the Ramble. It's
just a very, very just It's a wooded, hilly kind
of behind the scenes walk through Central Park, and right
in the middle of it is this tree decorated by
pet owners with photos of their pets that passed away.

(01:32):
Have you ever been to the Pet Memorial Tree in
Central Park?

Speaker 3 (01:35):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:35):
No, Oh, it'll take your breath away. It's incredible. So
go check it out next time you're in the Bramble
in a beautiful Central Park. What another great way to
pay tribute to these pets of ours. So a really
good friend of ours who we work with here at
Z one hundred and New York, they had to let

(01:57):
their dog go.

Speaker 3 (02:02):
I'm sorry.

Speaker 2 (02:04):
It just it kills me. I'm so sorry. It just
kills me when people have to let let them go,
you know, because we are all they know. We adopt them,
or they come into our lives when their little puppies
or kittens and where all they know. So the day
they leave us, we've been with them the entire time.

(02:27):
Can someone say something, please?

Speaker 1 (02:29):
Yeah, someone, I'm about our engineer Jeff right now because
he just.

Speaker 2 (02:34):
Know that's what I was talking about.

Speaker 1 (02:35):
Yeah, he just cross his dog and it makes me
very sad for him, because that's your little buddy that's
in your house with you unconditionally through everything, your crappiest moods.
They're right there, and it sucks that we have we
now live them, like you know what I mean.

Speaker 3 (02:48):
I wish that was a.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
Magic pill that, oh God help us, you know, maybe
one day don't come out with something. Well, God, he
told us there is a pill that could prolong your
dog's life.

Speaker 3 (02:58):
That we were talking about this that I've seen. The
meme that says this all the time is that we
are here for They are here for a portion of
our lives. We are their entire life.

Speaker 2 (03:08):
That's exactly trust us to make those decisions, you know absolutely.

Speaker 1 (03:13):
I just wish they could speak and you could talk
to them and they could say, hey, you know I'm
not feeling good. You get me checked out, or hey,
don't keep doing the surgery.

Speaker 3 (03:21):
Yeah you know I'm good, let me get If you
remember Elvis when we lost Kobe, I mean it's nine
years ago now, we knew things weren't good with him,
and we took him to the vet and I'll never
ever ever forget. Doctor Berg looked at me in the
face and he said, do you love him more than
you love yourself? And I said yes. He said, then
do what's right for him, not what's right for you.

Speaker 2 (03:40):
And I did.

Speaker 3 (03:40):
And it was hard, and I miss Kobe every day,
but I had to do what was right for him,
because that's your responsibility as a pet owner, is to
take care of them.

Speaker 2 (03:48):
You have to let them go, you do. Our friend
Phil Cross, his dog left them Saturday this weekend. They do,
you know. They come into your lives and then just
as soon as you get wrapped up, they leave us,
you know. And I'm so sorry. I got some emotional
But so if you have a friend who is a

(04:09):
pet and you just don't understand why they're so connected
to that pet, you don't understand why they treat that
pet like their child, it's because they are connected. It's
because they are their child. They are their children. And anyway, yeah,
when I heard the news about Jeff dog Jackie, I'm
so so sad. But anyway, so yeah, the Memorial pet tree,

(04:30):
it's usually I think it's it's usually you are on
Christmas time, it's it's up in Central Park, so take
a walk and go check it out when next Christmas
rolls around. And so there you go. I truly think that,
you know, when we lose our pets, it's like it
is losing a member of your family. There's days you
need to take off, you need to and give people

(04:51):
that space to grieve. All right, So if you do
a CBS Sunday morning search for that Memorial dog Park
in Vermont, watch that story. It'll totally move you. It
really is a great It's actually a very happy story
at the end. So give it a watch, all right.
I didn't mean to like like poop pool on everyone's
Festive Monday.

Speaker 1 (05:12):
I always think when it comes to people in their pets,
I love seeing good pet owners with their pet because
I feel like it's the best version of themselves. You
can meet the meanest old bastard and you see them
with their dog and they're just so loving and adorable.

Speaker 2 (05:23):
I'm like, okay, there at me.

Speaker 1 (05:25):
I was looking right at you.

Speaker 2 (05:28):
She said, God, yes, so there's that. And so you
go to work and you know they're at home waiting
for you. I bet you can't wait to get home
and see them, so go give them all the love
you can give them. They're just there everything,