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[ Man ] Inspiration
of the pet cemetery business is...
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a little story that probably
leads me back many years.
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I was born in the state
of North Dakota...
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county of Barnes,
city of Valley City.
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I was there for several years...
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being born in 1930,
and then the World War II started...
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in 1941,
when I went to the farm.
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On the farm,
I had my own pet collie...
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which worked with me
and was beside me.
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No matter what I did
and where I'd go...
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my pet collie was with me.
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One, uh --
One afternoon...
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we came back
from hauling bundles --
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"thrashing,"
the old word's going --
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and an old Model A
came up the road...
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and struck my collie
and killed him.
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I never did catch him...
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but I grabbed my collie...
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and I held him in my arms
until he died.
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And I pulled
one little acre of land...
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right behind the house...
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oh, I'd say
a quarter mile away.
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Overlooked the, uh --
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the prairie to the north...
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which was really a beautiful --
had the lake site in the back --
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and I picked that
as the cemetery for my own collie.
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Right across the street
from where I lived in Los Altos...
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was the most beautiful
piece of land...
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as far as I was concerned,
in the whole valley.
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And boy,
I knew what to do with it:
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make that into a pet cemetery.
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I thought, "This is gonna be
my project of life.
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I found the land.
I found the need."
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Something the old-timers
used to tell me years ago:
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"To be a success
in this world or this life...
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find a need and fill it."
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And boy, I found a need, and I wanted
to fulfill this more than anything in the --
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anything I ever did in my whole life,
I wanted to fulfill this dream.
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And there is where
we started our work.
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Planning, development...
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and getting the people interested,
working with --
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I worked with
Carnation Pet Food Company...
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I worked
with Safeway stores...
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I worked with Lucky stores.
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Several. Several.
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I remember talking to Dick Yee
with Dick's Supermarkets...
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and asking him if I could come
and work in his pet food section...
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and just hand out my cards
and talk to the people...
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about having a pet cemetery.
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I went to grooming shops.
I went to the veterinarians.
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And the interest I got
was just phenomenal.
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It was just great.
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So then I had to get
some more interested people...
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in the idea of it,
'cause we needed the financing.
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Floyd, uh...
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is a very heartwarming individual...
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and a man that likes
to do a lot for everybody.
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He'd happened to come
into the office one day...
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and him and I got to talking.
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His real name, I think, is Floyd,
but we always called him Mac.
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And Mac, very surprisingly,
said to me that...
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something he'd always
wanted to do was...
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put a pet cemetery together.
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So I told him,
"Gee, Mac, that's amazing...
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because we've just been thinking
about the same thing ourselves...
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and maybe we can
put it together...
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you know, under one group."
So he said, "Wonderful."
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So I was made aware
of this property...
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that is in Los Altos
on Foothill and Highway 280...
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and we felt that that would make
a great place for a pet cemetery...
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because it had
tremendous visual ability...
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and the thousands of cars
that went past 280.
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And the property leaned
in other directions as well.
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It was a marvelous location
for a restaurant or a motel...
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or various and sundry things.
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We found that people
by the name of Dunton...
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owned the property...
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and we approached them
and asked them what they thought of it.
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There was a meeting held
at Mr. McClure's house...
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which I attended.
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I was a little late...
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but during the meeting...
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Mr. Dunton had expressed...
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his wishes, desires, and needs
to Mr. McClure...
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and emphasizing
very, very strongly...
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"Mac, you have nothing
to worry about.
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I'm a minister
of this particular church.
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You can trust me.
You can trust me. You can trust me.
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I'm a minister.
We will have a pet cemetery.
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It'll be a success,
and you and I will put it together.
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We'll do it, we'll have it,
just you and I."
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It was sort of a "kismet" idea.
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So we went to work
on the pet cemetery...
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and, uh...
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the ugly crisis...
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which we used as our basis --
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and this was no, uh --
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nothing against the SPCA
of Santa Ciara County.
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It was nothing against
the animal control officer...
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of Santa Ciara County.
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But the idea
that we needed the concept...
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and, uh --
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for the people
that loved their pets...
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and needed a place for 'em.
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Not the garbage pit,
not the garbage can...
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and a place to bulldoze 'em
into the ground...
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'cause we have more love and desire
for Mother Nature's little pets.
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God only gave us these pets...
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to be our fellowship...
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our desire and our will...
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and what have we got
to give them in return?
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Not to be put into a garbage pail
or a dump ground...
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but our last good-bye...
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for the things they gave us.
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[Man ] Rendering is one
of the oldest industries.
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It dates back
to the time of the Egyptians.
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They can trace it
back this far, rendering.
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In the Bible,
way back in the Old Testament...
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the guy cut off the sheepskin
and put it over him.
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Put the lamb fat on him
to keep him warm.
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It could be
the oldest industry in the world.
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It could be. It's possible.
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When the public
got concerned about recycling...
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that's when
the rendering industry...
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started to blossom out,
so to speak, and say...
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"Hey, we've been recycling
for 500 years here.
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Take a look at us.
We are recycling.
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We're doing
what everybody wants us to do."
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That's when we started
to come forward.
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Before that, nobody talked
about the rendering industry.
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That's why it was the invisible industry.
Nobody ever mentioned it.
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On the quiet side.
"What those guys do out there --
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They boil all this stuff in pots.
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It stinks."
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What is a rendering company?
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A rendering company.
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And my mind
pretty near exploded...
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with the thought
and the remembrance...
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of a very bad nightmare.
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A dream of hell.
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And it took me back to this
rendering company in North Dakota...
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where all the little pets at that time,
when they died...
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a truck would come out,
and a big old driver would come...
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and grab your pet and throw him
in the back of this truck...
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and take him to what I called
"the boiler chambers."
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It's controversial.
In other words, I --
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You know, we stay low-key.
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We don't want people to know
we're bringing in animals...
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and reprocessing
animal by-products.
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Some people get nauseated
by the thought.
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They get nauseated by it.
You know that?
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It actually nausea--
I've had people ask me --
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I've been at a dinner party...
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and been sitting down
at a dinner table...
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and somebody will say,
"What do you do?"
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And I say,
"I'm in the tallow business."
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And somebody will say,
"Jeez, don't bring that up right now.
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Wait till after dinner,
when we all break up."
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In other words, "We don't want
to talk about what you do, Mike.
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It makes us sick."
Why? I don't know, but it does.
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People say that all the time.
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We called it back home
a "glue factory."
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They don't waste nothing.
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They take the meat and strip it...
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and they take the bones
and boil them...
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and cook them and make
some kind of a meal out of 'em.
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They don't waste nothing.
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Not even the toenails
on the animal or anything.
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And the smell that came from it.
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I walked in there
one day as a child...
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and I seen all these animals
laying there.
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Being a 4-H man
and an animal lover and --
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I just thought,
"Boy, being in hell. Here I am.
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I'm sitting in the floors
of hell right now."
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I furnished the car --
or the station wagon --
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and Mac furnished
some furniture and his time...
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and his promotion skills.
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And Joe...
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also furniture and some labor.
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We both dug the first few graves.
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And I made some
of the caskets...
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and Joe would also go around
and pick them up.
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He'd go around and pick up
the pets to be prepared.
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Burying the pets
was a very, very difficult task.
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Mr. McClure...
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was physically handicapped.
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He couldn't, no way...
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do any physical labor whatsoever.
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And my having
full-time employment...
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it was mostly done
in the evening.
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A gentleman came to my door...
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and the gentleman
was a huge man.
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I'd say about 6'2"...
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a large --
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He's the type --
more like you'd say...
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he's more the Hercules type.
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And he asked me,
"Are you Floyd McClure?"
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And I said, "Yes, sir."
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He says, "Do you have
the pet cemetery across the street?"
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My house is right across the street
from the cemetery.
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I said, "Yes, sir."
And he started crying.
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I thought --
I asked him, "What's wrong?"
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He says,
"Last night my dog died."
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And he says...
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"I wanted to bury him
this morning."
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His family was home,
and they were gonna go to church.
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But he had him
completely wrapped in --
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like a mummy, pretty near.
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I would then...
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get the pet out of his car...
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lay him out in the driveway...
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and proceed to clean him up...
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brush him out,
make him as presentable...
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as possible
under the circumstances.
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We had all kinds of animals.
Every type of animal.
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We had snakes,
we had rats...
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we had monkeys,
we had chickens...
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we had hamsters,
we had mice.
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Seen a few.
Rodents of all types.
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And we had --
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Of course, dogs, cats...
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were our main pets.
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But it doesn't make any difference
what type of animal.
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If that animal, you love it...
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and you want to give it a proper burial,
that's your business.
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You bury that pet
'cause you love it.
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You could have...
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an idea that all animals
should be buried...
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but if you live over here,
or five or 10 miles away...
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and you have a horse,
and that horse dies on a Saturday...
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and it's 102 degrees,
and you can't get anybody to bury it...
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you're going to get a hold
of the rendering company real fast.
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'Cause you want that horse
out of there, like, now.
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See?
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I remember
one young lad there that --
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He had a pet lamb,
and his lamb died...
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and right away
his dad picked up the phone.
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This is a 4-H animal...
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that he'd taken from birth
and just loved this animal.
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And right away, his father...
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had grabbed the phone --
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and back in North Dakota,
very few people had phones...
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but at this particular farm,
they had a phone.
247
00:14:22,616 --> 00:14:25,411
He called the rendering service
outside of Valley City...
248
00:14:25,536 --> 00:14:28,080
and asked them to come
and pick up the animal.
249
00:14:28,205 --> 00:14:31,417
I've had people call
that have an animal...
250
00:14:31,542 --> 00:14:35,171
and they'll want us to bury it,
and we don't bury animals.
251
00:14:35,296 --> 00:14:38,049
And they're crying.
People are very emotional about --
252
00:14:38,174 --> 00:14:40,217
That's why
it's a controversial thing.
253
00:14:40,342 --> 00:14:44,221
That's why I don't like to break away
and get into the individual things.
254
00:14:44,346 --> 00:14:47,141
But you take a guy
who loses his pet horse.
255
00:14:47,266 --> 00:14:50,061
I mean, to some people,
you know...
256
00:14:50,186 --> 00:14:52,938
it's like losing
their son or their daughter.
257
00:14:53,064 --> 00:14:55,357
I mean it.
That's no kidding.
258
00:14:55,483 --> 00:14:58,694
They're really chilled up bad.
Heavy. It's heavy.
259
00:14:58,819 --> 00:15:03,032
You get some real moaners
on the phone. They're crying, and --
260
00:15:03,157 --> 00:15:05,951
This young lad,
boy, he was so upset...
261
00:15:06,077 --> 00:15:08,204
he went out
and jumped on his pony...
262
00:15:08,329 --> 00:15:10,414
and rode
clear over to our place...
263
00:15:10,539 --> 00:15:14,668
and told me
that his pet had died...
264
00:15:14,794 --> 00:15:16,712
and wanted to know
if he could...
265
00:15:16,837 --> 00:15:19,757
bury his pet
with my collie out there.
266
00:15:19,924 --> 00:15:21,634
I said, "Well, sure."
267
00:15:21,759 --> 00:15:23,803
So we hooked up
a team of horses...
268
00:15:23,928 --> 00:15:26,764
and headed to his place
to beat the rendering truck.
269
00:15:26,889 --> 00:15:30,684
And we did. We got there
and got the pet on the wagon...
270
00:15:30,810 --> 00:15:33,270
and got him back over
to the farm...
271
00:15:33,437 --> 00:15:35,940
and, uh...
272
00:15:36,065 --> 00:15:39,360
I guess we beat the rendering truck
by two hours or something.
273
00:15:39,485 --> 00:15:42,530
We had a little altar
set up in the office...
274
00:15:42,655 --> 00:15:44,907
with some artificial flowers...
275
00:15:45,032 --> 00:15:47,493
and Mr. McClure
would light the candles...
276
00:15:47,618 --> 00:15:50,412
and be ready to receive...
277
00:15:50,538 --> 00:15:53,958
the mourning owners of the pet.
278
00:15:54,083 --> 00:15:56,669
The mother
was uptown shopping...
279
00:15:56,794 --> 00:15:59,630
and the kids were home.
280
00:15:59,797 --> 00:16:01,924
I'm not talking
about just small children.
281
00:16:02,049 --> 00:16:05,553
I'm talking about kids
that are teenage children.
282
00:16:05,678 --> 00:16:09,014
And the mother had given 'em
specific chores to do.
283
00:16:09,140 --> 00:16:12,726
One was, the girl was
to wash and dry the clothes.
284
00:16:12,852 --> 00:16:15,896
One was to wash, and the other
was to take the clothes...
285
00:16:16,021 --> 00:16:18,524
out of the washer
and put it in the dryer.
286
00:16:18,649 --> 00:16:20,526
So anyway, the job was done.
287
00:16:20,651 --> 00:16:24,864
The girl threw the clothes in the dryer
and slammed the dryer door shut...
288
00:16:24,989 --> 00:16:27,491
and walked back to the kitchen.
289
00:16:27,616 --> 00:16:30,536
And as I understand this now...
290
00:16:30,661 --> 00:16:32,830
she heard some meowing...
291
00:16:32,997 --> 00:16:35,958
and frightening screams
of the cat.
292
00:16:36,083 --> 00:16:39,253
They were looking for the cat
and couldn't find the cat.
293
00:16:39,378 --> 00:16:43,424
All of a sudden,
they seen in the dryer --
294
00:16:43,549 --> 00:16:46,969
They heard it in the dryer,
and they opened the dryer door...
295
00:16:47,094 --> 00:16:49,346
and the cat was in the dryer.
296
00:16:49,513 --> 00:16:52,141
The little cat suffered
a broken neck.
297
00:16:52,266 --> 00:16:55,519
I guess they'd called out
the fire department...
298
00:16:55,686 --> 00:16:57,688
and they tried to revive the cat.
299
00:16:57,855 --> 00:16:59,982
The cat did pass on.
300
00:17:00,107 --> 00:17:04,028
The love that people have
for their pets...
301
00:17:04,195 --> 00:17:06,447
is really tremendous.
302
00:17:06,572 --> 00:17:10,409
It's something that is
very, very difficult to explain.
303
00:17:10,534 --> 00:17:14,705
On several occasions,
I've seen it myself...
304
00:17:14,830 --> 00:17:16,832
where we were burying a pet...
305
00:17:16,957 --> 00:17:20,211
where the whole cemetery
would be at the gravesite...
306
00:17:20,336 --> 00:17:23,047
and the children...
307
00:17:23,214 --> 00:17:26,592
and the mother and the father
would really break down...
308
00:17:26,717 --> 00:17:29,470
and actually cry.
309
00:17:29,595 --> 00:17:32,223
The little services...
310
00:17:32,348 --> 00:17:35,643
that we give
out there at the cemetery...
311
00:17:35,768 --> 00:17:39,730
we bring out pretty much that...
312
00:17:39,855 --> 00:17:42,441
"Here before us lies little Toby.
313
00:17:42,566 --> 00:17:45,402
Little Toby was put on this earth
for two reasons:
314
00:17:45,569 --> 00:17:47,988
to love and be loved.
315
00:17:48,113 --> 00:17:52,534
And today we're standing here
saying good-bye to little Toby...
316
00:17:52,660 --> 00:17:57,081
who was
the Smiths' beloved little friend.
317
00:17:57,248 --> 00:18:00,209
And now we are going
to give you back...
318
00:18:00,334 --> 00:18:02,461
little Toby, to Mother Nature."
319
00:18:02,586 --> 00:18:04,755
We had a gal here --
320
00:18:04,880 --> 00:18:07,049
I had a gal hired here --
321
00:18:07,174 --> 00:18:09,718
This'll show you
what you're up against.
322
00:18:09,843 --> 00:18:12,846
She never went in the plant.
She never left this office.
323
00:18:12,972 --> 00:18:16,725
You don't see anything from this plant.
Yeah, these trucks come in...
324
00:18:16,850 --> 00:18:18,852
but you don't see
too much, right?
325
00:18:18,978 --> 00:18:22,106
And she didn't see anything.
But she left.
326
00:18:22,231 --> 00:18:26,110
She quit working here
because it bothered her mind.
327
00:18:26,277 --> 00:18:29,029
The mere fact of what we did
bothered her mind.
328
00:18:29,154 --> 00:18:31,740
And she never saw a damn thing
or smelled anything.
329
00:18:31,865 --> 00:18:34,285
This is one thing...
330
00:18:34,410 --> 00:18:36,620
that really bothered me a lot...
331
00:18:36,745 --> 00:18:39,331
that really got into my heart...
332
00:18:39,456 --> 00:18:43,168
was knowing not only
that animals are being treated...
333
00:18:43,294 --> 00:18:46,880
in such a violent way
after death...
334
00:18:47,006 --> 00:18:49,633
in this rendering company...
335
00:18:49,758 --> 00:18:52,803
by being tore apart,
and every scrap of their body...
336
00:18:52,970 --> 00:18:55,306
being used
in one way or another...
337
00:18:55,472 --> 00:18:58,309
but the smell and stuff
was so terrific.
338
00:18:58,475 --> 00:19:02,980
We'd even sit down
in the evening time to our meal...
339
00:19:03,105 --> 00:19:06,066
and the only thing
that hit your nostrils...
340
00:19:06,191 --> 00:19:09,403
wasn't that good piece of meat
you were about to eat...
341
00:19:10,612 --> 00:19:13,866
or the vegetable...
342
00:19:13,991 --> 00:19:16,577
or the nice dessert
that's put on your table...
343
00:19:16,702 --> 00:19:19,330
but you first had to grab...
344
00:19:19,455 --> 00:19:23,667
the wine glass off the table
and take a whiff of that to get the smell...
345
00:19:23,792 --> 00:19:27,212
of the rendering company
out of your nostrils before you could eat.
346
00:19:27,338 --> 00:19:29,423
You know John Ascuaga's Nugget
up there?
347
00:19:29,548 --> 00:19:31,675
They lost one
of those elephants one time.
348
00:19:31,800 --> 00:19:34,678
Jeez, they didn't know
what the hell to do with it.
349
00:19:34,803 --> 00:19:37,514
We got it, and somebody
made the statement...
350
00:19:37,681 --> 00:19:39,683
"Hey, that thing went
to the rendering company."
351
00:19:39,808 --> 00:19:41,810
We had so many phone calls...
352
00:19:41,935 --> 00:19:44,521
and we actually had to deny
we had that animal.
353
00:19:44,688 --> 00:19:47,941
We told 'em we took it
to a pet cemetery and buried it.
354
00:19:48,067 --> 00:19:50,194
Because people
just didn't want to get --
355
00:19:50,361 --> 00:19:52,696
People got chilled up.
"What happened to that animal?
356
00:19:52,863 --> 00:19:55,074
What happened to that elephant?
Where's the elephant?"
357
00:19:55,199 --> 00:19:58,702
Every once in a while,
they'll lose a giraffe at the zoo...
358
00:19:58,827 --> 00:20:01,789
or they'll lose Big Bertha,
or they'll lose...
359
00:20:01,914 --> 00:20:04,583
Joe Bear
or whatever his name is...
360
00:20:04,708 --> 00:20:07,544
and people say,
"Hey, what's going on here?
361
00:20:07,711 --> 00:20:12,174
We'd better bury this
and get a plot and everything," see?
362
00:20:12,299 --> 00:20:14,718
So we got a standing deal
with the zoo.
363
00:20:14,843 --> 00:20:17,554
They don't tell 'em
where the animal went.
364
00:20:17,679 --> 00:20:20,182
'Cause they don't want to be
in the burying business.
365
00:20:20,307 --> 00:20:22,309
When I came here...
366
00:20:22,434 --> 00:20:24,603
and seen this ugly crisis...
367
00:20:24,728 --> 00:20:28,440
these gas chambers
that they got built down here...
368
00:20:28,565 --> 00:20:31,652
and these pets half dead
going into the dump grounds...
369
00:20:31,777 --> 00:20:34,279
and the bulldozer
going over the top of 'em...
370
00:20:34,405 --> 00:20:37,324
and leaving 'em half alive
in the garbage dumps...
371
00:20:37,449 --> 00:20:41,245
brought me back to that, and I thought,
"Boy, we're going to beat this."
372
00:20:41,412 --> 00:20:43,997
And this is the part
of the inspiration...
373
00:20:44,123 --> 00:20:46,500
of getting our little pets...
374
00:20:46,625 --> 00:20:50,504
out of these places
and into a cemetery...
375
00:20:50,629 --> 00:20:52,714
something that...
376
00:20:52,840 --> 00:20:55,342
we can be proud of,
of saying...
377
00:20:55,467 --> 00:20:58,929
"My little pet
has did his chore here...
378
00:20:59,054 --> 00:21:02,015
that God has sent him to us
to do a chore:
379
00:21:02,141 --> 00:21:04,768
love and be loved
and serve his master."
380
00:21:04,935 --> 00:21:07,271
And boy, these little pets
have did that.
381
00:21:07,438 --> 00:21:11,817
And not let 'em go
into the basis of the living hell.
382
00:21:11,942 --> 00:21:14,778
Like I said before,
"Death is for the living...
383
00:21:14,945 --> 00:21:16,947
and not for the dead."
384
00:21:17,072 --> 00:21:19,867
♪♪ [ Vocalizing ]
385
00:21:19,992 --> 00:21:21,660
Sing. Sing, Babe.
386
00:21:21,785 --> 00:21:24,246
- ♪♪ [ Vocalizing Continues ]
- [ Whimpering ]
387
00:21:24,371 --> 00:21:26,457
Come on. Uh-huh.
Come on.
388
00:21:26,582 --> 00:21:28,459
- "I want my mama."
- [ Howling ]
389
00:21:28,584 --> 00:21:32,004
Oh, so sleepy.
♪♪ [ Vocalizing ]
390
00:21:32,129 --> 00:21:34,965
[ High-pitched Whining ]
391
00:21:35,090 --> 00:21:37,301
"I want my mom."
392
00:21:37,426 --> 00:21:39,595
"I want my mom."
Come on.
393
00:21:39,720 --> 00:21:42,973
"I want my mom."
"I want my mama."
394
00:21:43,098 --> 00:21:44,975
Come on.
"I want my mama."
395
00:21:45,142 --> 00:21:47,811
- [ Whining ]
- Attaboy.
396
00:21:47,978 --> 00:21:50,647
"I want my mama."
397
00:21:50,814 --> 00:21:53,317
"I want my mama."
398
00:21:53,484 --> 00:21:55,819
Are you sleepy?
We'll sing loud.
399
00:21:55,944 --> 00:21:58,447
- ♪♪ [ Vocalizing ]
- [ Whining ]
400
00:22:03,160 --> 00:22:06,455
How can I say
how you miss them...
401
00:22:06,580 --> 00:22:09,500
and how you wake at night...
402
00:22:09,625 --> 00:22:11,585
and feel around for her...
403
00:22:11,710 --> 00:22:14,755
hoping she's all right,
and then she's not even there.
404
00:22:14,880 --> 00:22:17,883
It's, uh --
It's-It's heartbreaking.
405
00:22:18,008 --> 00:22:20,469
And then you remember
that she is gone...
406
00:22:20,594 --> 00:22:23,764
but you get to thinking
where she is...
407
00:22:23,889 --> 00:22:26,892
and you know where she is,
and you're happy where she is...
408
00:22:27,017 --> 00:22:29,686
and the next day
you go out and take flowers...
409
00:22:29,811 --> 00:22:32,272
and maybe meditate
a little bit and think of...
410
00:22:32,397 --> 00:22:34,733
how often, maybe,
you cried into her fur.
411
00:22:34,858 --> 00:22:38,862
People like people
because they like one another.
412
00:22:39,029 --> 00:22:41,698
And people don't trust
one another thoroughly...
413
00:22:41,865 --> 00:22:45,369
like an animal
and a human being.
414
00:22:45,536 --> 00:22:48,956
I can know you very well...
415
00:22:49,081 --> 00:22:53,252
but when I turn my back,
I don't know you. Not truly.
416
00:22:53,377 --> 00:22:55,254
But my little dog --
417
00:22:55,379 --> 00:22:59,341
I can turn my back on my little dog,
and I know he's back there.
418
00:22:59,466 --> 00:23:02,553
He's my little friend.
He's not gonna jump on me...
419
00:23:02,719 --> 00:23:04,846
or bite me or anything like that.
420
00:23:04,972 --> 00:23:07,683
But human beings
cannot be this way.
421
00:23:07,808 --> 00:23:11,186
We didn't get an agreement --
which is our fault --
422
00:23:11,311 --> 00:23:13,021
in writing.
423
00:23:13,146 --> 00:23:16,733
And it just kept getting involved
and more involved and...
424
00:23:18,735 --> 00:23:22,739
since there was no final agreement,
why, then we started...
425
00:23:24,783 --> 00:23:28,370
to differ on ideas
and get in a few arguments.
426
00:23:28,495 --> 00:23:32,583
A pet cemetery business
is not a fast-buck scheme.
427
00:23:32,749 --> 00:23:34,793
It's not a suede-shoe game.
428
00:23:34,918 --> 00:23:39,756
It's a good, solid
business enterprise.
429
00:23:39,881 --> 00:23:43,260
And in order
to have this concept...
430
00:23:43,385 --> 00:23:46,930
it has to be in your heart,
not in your billfold.
431
00:23:47,097 --> 00:23:51,602
And these are the type of people
I wanted in business with me...
432
00:23:51,727 --> 00:23:54,563
in the pet cemetery concept.
433
00:23:55,731 --> 00:23:58,442
The reason, unfortunately...
434
00:23:58,567 --> 00:24:02,112
that we didn't continue on
with the entire development...
435
00:24:02,237 --> 00:24:04,781
of the pet cemetery was...
436
00:24:04,906 --> 00:24:09,578
we couldn't actually
work it out with our investors...
437
00:24:09,703 --> 00:24:13,790
that we could project exactly
what the income would be for it...
438
00:24:13,957 --> 00:24:16,960
because we had no way
of projecting the amount of people...
439
00:24:17,127 --> 00:24:19,880
that would want to put their pets
into a cemetery...
440
00:24:20,005 --> 00:24:23,342
even though we felt
that there was a great need for it.
441
00:24:23,467 --> 00:24:26,803
So after several weeks
and several months, we, uh --
442
00:24:26,928 --> 00:24:29,723
we decided that, uh...
443
00:24:29,848 --> 00:24:33,310
it would be better to turn it back
to the original owners...
444
00:24:33,435 --> 00:24:35,979
which was Mr. Dunton
and his family.
445
00:24:36,104 --> 00:24:38,649
I was told that the Duntons...
446
00:24:38,815 --> 00:24:42,944
were trying to get themselves involved
in some sort of gold venture...
447
00:24:43,070 --> 00:24:46,823
or exporting of dead animals...
448
00:24:46,948 --> 00:24:50,535
from the United States to Mexico
for some university in Mexico...
449
00:24:50,661 --> 00:24:54,539
to do some exploration type
of work on the animals.
450
00:24:55,999 --> 00:24:59,836
Mr. Robert Dunton had convinced
Mrs. Ken Dunton...
451
00:24:59,961 --> 00:25:02,673
to have her child born in Mexico...
452
00:25:02,798 --> 00:25:06,385
so he would be a Mexican citizen,
and under those pretenses...
453
00:25:06,510 --> 00:25:10,931
he could have a business
in Mexico and control it.
454
00:25:11,056 --> 00:25:13,850
Mr. Dunton came back into town...
455
00:25:14,017 --> 00:25:17,729
and then he decided
at that time that...
456
00:25:17,854 --> 00:25:20,065
"Well, maybe
this is just a great thing."
457
00:25:20,190 --> 00:25:22,526
I can't speak
for this man's mind...
458
00:25:22,651 --> 00:25:26,446
but the only thing I thought at the time
was the way they decided...
459
00:25:26,571 --> 00:25:28,490
I should open one gravesite...
460
00:25:28,615 --> 00:25:32,202
and put several pets
in the one grave and then close it.
461
00:25:32,369 --> 00:25:35,831
To me,
that only spelled one thing:
462
00:25:35,956 --> 00:25:38,875
"Let's get all the bucks
we can out of this."
463
00:25:47,175 --> 00:25:49,219
Mac called me and says...
464
00:25:49,386 --> 00:25:51,596
"We can't come
to a final agreement...
465
00:25:51,722 --> 00:25:53,974
and I got put out today."
466
00:25:54,099 --> 00:25:57,769
He says,
"The attorney's advice would be...
467
00:25:57,894 --> 00:26:01,106
to get all those pets over
on the legal side...
468
00:26:01,231 --> 00:26:03,233
and vamoose."
469
00:26:03,400 --> 00:26:05,402
So that's what we did.
470
00:26:39,186 --> 00:26:42,689
Mrs. Billingsley
came out to the cemetery...
471
00:26:42,814 --> 00:26:46,777
and said that they had moved
the stone on her animal.
472
00:26:46,943 --> 00:26:51,031
I said, "How are they gonna get
the animal out of the grave --
473
00:26:51,156 --> 00:26:53,950
the casket out --
if they don't move the stone?"
474
00:26:54,075 --> 00:26:56,578
And she said
she didn't want her animal moved.
475
00:26:56,703 --> 00:26:59,706
She said, "You talk as though
I didn't care about my animals...
476
00:26:59,831 --> 00:27:01,416
like you did about yours."
477
00:27:01,541 --> 00:27:03,794
I says, "That's the way
it appears to me."
478
00:27:29,861 --> 00:27:32,155
I asked her
if she had signed a release...
479
00:27:32,280 --> 00:27:35,033
and she said
she had signed a release.
480
00:27:35,158 --> 00:27:37,994
Then she said she hadn't,
so I don't know.
481
00:27:38,161 --> 00:27:39,996
I can't swear to that.
482
00:27:40,121 --> 00:27:43,124
But I made up my mind
I wasn't gonna fool with her.
483
00:27:43,250 --> 00:27:47,587
She went down and talked
to Mr. Robert Dunton...
484
00:27:47,712 --> 00:27:50,674
and then I sat in the car
waiting for his son.
485
00:27:50,841 --> 00:27:53,844
I was supposed to sign
the release to let my dog go.
486
00:27:54,010 --> 00:27:57,055
Then I saw both of them
look in my direction...
487
00:27:57,180 --> 00:28:00,058
and start laughing,
like it was just a big joke.
488
00:28:00,183 --> 00:28:01,977
She isn't gonna
cause me any trouble...
489
00:28:02,102 --> 00:28:04,354
'cause I ain't gonna pay
any attention to her.
490
00:28:04,521 --> 00:28:07,816
She just wanted to be noticed.
She just wanted to be Miss Big.
491
00:28:07,941 --> 00:28:11,152
Here we've got all these other
poor people that really needed help...
492
00:28:11,278 --> 00:28:13,655
and she was just trying
to be Miss Big...
493
00:28:13,780 --> 00:28:17,033
and she didn't pay half as much
as the rest of us did.
494
00:28:28,837 --> 00:28:32,173
I don't know whether she really
liked her animals or loved 'em...
495
00:28:32,299 --> 00:28:35,051
or whether she was
just trying to show off...
496
00:28:35,218 --> 00:28:37,220
and make a big impression.
497
00:28:37,345 --> 00:28:40,390
This was my idea,
because anybody that would come...
498
00:28:40,557 --> 00:28:44,394
whizzing up in a Cadillac
with all of her furs on to a cemetery --
499
00:28:44,561 --> 00:28:47,898
and you know when they're digging
animals, it's gonna be an odor there --
500
00:28:48,023 --> 00:28:49,900
didn't have much upstairs.
501
00:28:50,025 --> 00:28:53,028
'Cause I'll tell you,
that was not the place to wear fur.
502
00:28:53,153 --> 00:28:55,989
I think that
something should be done...
503
00:28:56,114 --> 00:28:58,950
so that it shall
never happen again.
504
00:28:59,075 --> 00:29:03,580
I think it was a horrible thing for us
in this generation to have it happen.
505
00:29:03,747 --> 00:29:06,291
And in a state like California...
506
00:29:06,416 --> 00:29:09,377
to have something like that,
I think it's inhumane.
507
00:29:20,680 --> 00:29:23,099
I think Mac really wanted
a pet cemetery...
508
00:29:23,224 --> 00:29:26,436
and I think he had probably
a great love for animals.
509
00:29:26,603 --> 00:29:28,438
But unfortunately,
it's not that easy.
510
00:29:28,605 --> 00:29:32,317
You just can't go out and start
something like that, and build a chapel...
511
00:29:33,318 --> 00:29:36,112
and pay
$50,000 an acre for land...
512
00:29:36,279 --> 00:29:38,949
and pay taxes...
513
00:29:39,115 --> 00:29:42,035
and interest on the balance...
514
00:29:42,160 --> 00:29:44,621
for 25 cents.
515
00:29:44,788 --> 00:29:46,998
Impossible.
516
00:29:47,123 --> 00:29:49,292
And the Duntons
were not interested...
517
00:29:49,459 --> 00:29:51,670
in that beautiful Garden of Eden...
518
00:29:51,795 --> 00:29:54,089
that Mac had in his mind.
519
00:29:54,214 --> 00:29:56,758
'Cause I really think
he had it in his mind.
520
00:29:56,883 --> 00:29:59,094
So as a total...
521
00:29:59,219 --> 00:30:02,639
before it finally wound up
and went to the final lawsuit...
522
00:30:02,806 --> 00:30:05,809
why, I myself lost
around $30,000...
523
00:30:05,934 --> 00:30:09,479
and I'm not sure
how much Joe has lost, but...
524
00:30:10,939 --> 00:30:13,108
it's in that neighborhood.
525
00:30:16,695 --> 00:30:18,989
I suppose after you lose
this kind of money...
526
00:30:19,155 --> 00:30:22,325
you just keep working at it
until you're a success at something.
527
00:30:22,492 --> 00:30:24,327
I don't know.
528
00:30:25,954 --> 00:30:27,664
So --
529
00:30:30,125 --> 00:30:32,627
The only thing I'm guilty of...
530
00:30:32,752 --> 00:30:34,754
is compassion.
531
00:30:34,879 --> 00:30:36,798
And that's all.
532
00:30:36,923 --> 00:30:39,092
If you want to put...
533
00:30:39,217 --> 00:30:43,179
to what I was charged with...
534
00:30:44,180 --> 00:30:46,266
in the courts...
535
00:30:46,391 --> 00:30:50,145
the only thing they can
charge me with is compassion...
536
00:30:50,270 --> 00:30:53,273
because I put my heart...
537
00:30:53,398 --> 00:30:56,526
over the dollar sign.
538
00:30:56,693 --> 00:30:59,487
It wasn't the dollar I was after.
539
00:30:59,612 --> 00:31:01,740
It was to take care
of my customers...
540
00:31:01,865 --> 00:31:03,825
and my dedication...
541
00:31:03,950 --> 00:31:06,161
to what I believed in.
542
00:31:06,286 --> 00:31:10,331
Then, because of the way
I proved my point...
543
00:31:10,457 --> 00:31:13,793
by using my heart...
544
00:31:15,545 --> 00:31:19,174
into fulfilling my obligation...
545
00:31:19,299 --> 00:31:21,301
then I was condemned.
546
00:31:22,635 --> 00:31:26,056
Then they write letters...
547
00:31:26,181 --> 00:31:29,893
tell everybody
I am no longer part of it...
548
00:31:31,227 --> 00:31:33,563
which broke me...
549
00:31:35,065 --> 00:31:37,901
not only financially...
550
00:31:38,026 --> 00:31:40,779
a burden upon myself
and everyone else --
551
00:31:41,821 --> 00:31:45,450
I was not only broke...
552
00:31:45,575 --> 00:31:48,703
but brokenhearted.
553
00:31:57,462 --> 00:31:59,464
[ Woman]
I'm raised on a farm.
554
00:31:59,589 --> 00:32:01,257
[ Chuckling]
555
00:32:01,382 --> 00:32:03,343
We had chickens
and pigs and cows...
556
00:32:03,468 --> 00:32:05,470
and sheep and everything.
557
00:32:05,595 --> 00:32:08,681
But down here, I've been lost.
558
00:32:08,807 --> 00:32:12,060
Now they've taken 'em all away
from here up to the --
559
00:32:12,185 --> 00:32:16,106
What is the name of that place
up above here a little ways?
560
00:32:16,231 --> 00:32:18,191
That town?
561
00:32:18,316 --> 00:32:20,568
Commences with "B."
562
00:32:20,693 --> 00:32:23,613
Blue Hill --
It's Blue Hill Cemetery...
563
00:32:23,738 --> 00:32:25,865
I think the name of it is.
564
00:32:29,285 --> 00:32:33,373
Not too far. I guess about
maybe 20 miles from here.
565
00:32:33,498 --> 00:32:35,708
Little town there. Little place.
566
00:32:35,834 --> 00:32:38,753
You know where it's at,
that place.
567
00:32:38,878 --> 00:32:42,924
But I was really surprised
when I...
568
00:32:43,049 --> 00:32:46,177
heard they were getting rid
of the cemetery over here.
569
00:32:46,302 --> 00:32:48,930
Gonna put in buildings
or something over there.
570
00:32:50,932 --> 00:32:55,311
Ah, well. I know people have been
very good to me, you know, 'round --
571
00:32:56,396 --> 00:33:00,150
Well, they seen my condition.
I guess they felt sorry for me.
572
00:33:00,316 --> 00:33:04,696
But it's real, my condition is.
It's not put on, that's for sure.
573
00:33:04,821 --> 00:33:07,991
Boy, if I could only walk.
If I could only get out...
574
00:33:08,116 --> 00:33:10,535
drive my car.
575
00:33:10,660 --> 00:33:14,122
I'd get another car. Yeah.
576
00:33:14,247 --> 00:33:17,083
And my son,
if he'd had only better to me.
577
00:33:17,208 --> 00:33:21,171
After I bought him that car --
He's got a nice car.
578
00:33:21,337 --> 00:33:23,715
I bought it myself
just a short time ago.
579
00:33:25,049 --> 00:33:26,676
I don't know.
580
00:33:26,801 --> 00:33:30,471
These kids. Sometimes
the more you do for 'em --
581
00:33:30,597 --> 00:33:34,392
He's my grandson,
but I raised him from two years old.
582
00:33:34,517 --> 00:33:37,228
And my husband
always told me, he says...
583
00:33:37,353 --> 00:33:40,481
"Mama, someday
you're gonna be sorry."
584
00:33:40,607 --> 00:33:43,943
- [ Tires Screech]
- That was a car, huh?
585
00:33:44,068 --> 00:33:46,196
Was that that? Oh, boy.
586
00:33:46,362 --> 00:33:48,364
He says,
"Someday you're gonna be sorry."
587
00:33:48,531 --> 00:33:51,659
- [ Car Horn Honks ]
- You see how it happens, things?
588
00:33:53,536 --> 00:33:56,414
I don't see him very often.
589
00:33:56,539 --> 00:33:58,750
And he just got that car.
590
00:34:00,335 --> 00:34:03,546
I didn't pay for all of it.
I gave him $400.
591
00:34:03,671 --> 00:34:06,007
Pretty good.
His boss knows it.
592
00:34:06,132 --> 00:34:09,302
Well, he's not working
for that outfit now. He's changed.
593
00:34:09,427 --> 00:34:12,263
He's gone back on his old job...
594
00:34:12,388 --> 00:34:14,682
hauling sand.
595
00:34:14,807 --> 00:34:18,519
No, not hauling sand. He's working
in the office. That's right.
596
00:34:18,645 --> 00:34:20,980
He took over the office job.
597
00:34:21,105 --> 00:34:23,316
His boss told me that
on the phone.
598
00:34:23,441 --> 00:34:26,236
But you know,
he should help me more.
599
00:34:26,361 --> 00:34:30,240
He's all I got. He's the one
that brought me up here...
600
00:34:30,365 --> 00:34:33,952
and then put me here
by myself among strangers.
601
00:34:34,077 --> 00:34:36,913
It's terrible,
if you stop and think of it.
602
00:34:37,038 --> 00:34:40,750
I've been without so much
when I first came up here.
603
00:34:44,587 --> 00:34:47,924
It's just -- You know, it's --
604
00:34:48,091 --> 00:34:50,426
It's what half my trouble is --
605
00:34:50,551 --> 00:34:53,388
from him
not being home with me.
606
00:34:53,513 --> 00:34:57,267
Didn't cost him nothing
to stay here.
607
00:34:57,433 --> 00:34:59,936
Every time he needed money,
he'd always come...
608
00:35:00,061 --> 00:35:03,398
"Mom, can I have this?
Can I have that?"
609
00:35:03,523 --> 00:35:06,025
But he never pays back.
610
00:35:06,150 --> 00:35:09,279
I'm too good, too easy.
That's what everybody tells me.
611
00:35:09,445 --> 00:35:12,573
I quit now. I quit.
612
00:35:13,574 --> 00:35:17,287
Now he's got the office job,
I'm going after him.
613
00:35:17,412 --> 00:35:19,831
I'm going after him good too.
614
00:35:19,956 --> 00:35:21,874
If I have to...
615
00:35:23,126 --> 00:35:27,088
go in a different way,
he's gonna pay that money.
616
00:35:27,213 --> 00:35:31,551
He's got the office job now,
and he makes good money anyway.
617
00:35:32,760 --> 00:35:36,639
And he has no kids. He is not married.
"Never get married," he says.
618
00:35:36,806 --> 00:35:39,642
He was married once.
They're divorced.
619
00:35:39,767 --> 00:35:41,728
And, uh --
620
00:35:41,853 --> 00:35:45,189
Well, she tried to take him
for the kid, but she didn't.
621
00:35:45,315 --> 00:35:47,984
They went to court.
It was somebody else's kid.
622
00:35:49,485 --> 00:35:51,988
She's nothing but a tramp.
I told him that.
623
00:35:52,113 --> 00:35:54,032
He wouldn't listen to me.
624
00:35:54,157 --> 00:35:58,161
I says, "I know what she is.
Richard, please, listen to me."
625
00:35:58,286 --> 00:36:01,664
No, he wouldn't listen.
He knew all. He knew everything.
626
00:36:01,789 --> 00:36:03,333
Big shot.
627
00:36:03,499 --> 00:36:05,835
But he soon found out.
628
00:36:06,002 --> 00:36:08,629
Now that's all over with.
629
00:36:08,755 --> 00:36:12,175
I've been through so much,
I don't know how I'm staying alive.
630
00:36:12,342 --> 00:36:14,302
Really, for my age --
631
00:36:15,762 --> 00:36:19,015
If you're young, it's different,
but I've always said...
632
00:36:19,140 --> 00:36:21,142
"I'm never gonna grow old."
633
00:36:21,267 --> 00:36:23,144
I've always had that.
634
00:36:23,269 --> 00:36:27,398
And people that I tell how old I am,
they don't believe me.
635
00:36:27,523 --> 00:36:31,069
Because people my age, as a rule,
don't get around like I do.
636
00:36:39,202 --> 00:36:43,206
Skippy had been dead quite a while,
two or three years.
637
00:36:43,331 --> 00:36:45,208
You know.
638
00:36:45,333 --> 00:36:48,294
Yeah.
I don't want to think about it.
639
00:36:49,545 --> 00:36:52,465
Everybody liked that dog
around here.
640
00:36:55,093 --> 00:36:59,514
You know, you miss your pets
just like you do any of the family.
641
00:37:01,391 --> 00:37:05,103
I don't know what happened
to this last little kitty who was here.
642
00:37:05,228 --> 00:37:07,397
All the cats have gone.
643
00:37:07,563 --> 00:37:11,567
There's no cats around.
There are no animals, no nothing.
644
00:37:11,692 --> 00:37:15,321
I miss that little black kitten
so much.
645
00:37:15,446 --> 00:37:17,990
It was wonderful.
646
00:37:18,116 --> 00:37:22,495
And all of a sudden, boom.
No animals around.
647
00:37:22,620 --> 00:37:25,373
Somebody in the neighborhood
or something...
648
00:37:25,498 --> 00:37:28,000
is doing away with them.
649
00:37:36,884 --> 00:37:39,804
[ Man ] The thought
of trying to bury 400 pets...
650
00:37:39,929 --> 00:37:42,932
was pretty hard
to accept at the outset.
651
00:37:43,057 --> 00:37:46,894
However, we felt we had
an obligation to pet owners...
652
00:37:47,019 --> 00:37:49,939
because if we were not
to take on this endeavor...
653
00:37:50,064 --> 00:37:52,900
it would leave many pet owners
with a sour taste...
654
00:37:53,025 --> 00:37:57,071
and could set our industry back
for a long time.
655
00:37:57,196 --> 00:38:00,116
We are often asked,
"Why is your business...
656
00:38:00,283 --> 00:38:03,202
apparently successful
where others have failed?"
657
00:38:03,327 --> 00:38:05,788
And the only answer
that I can give...
658
00:38:05,955 --> 00:38:08,791
is a very obvious one,
and that is that...
659
00:38:08,916 --> 00:38:12,795
we have tried to follow
sound business practices...
660
00:38:12,962 --> 00:38:16,215
where it's quite obvious
that other pet cemeteries...
661
00:38:16,340 --> 00:38:19,010
that have now failed did not.
662
00:38:19,135 --> 00:38:22,472
This cemetery will be in business...
663
00:38:22,597 --> 00:38:25,641
50, 60, 70,
or a hundred years from now.
664
00:38:25,808 --> 00:38:29,145
Surely beyond the lifetime
of anybody...
665
00:38:29,270 --> 00:38:31,647
who ever buried a pet here.
666
00:38:31,772 --> 00:38:34,650
And I think this is all
that concerns the people...
667
00:38:34,817 --> 00:38:36,944
that have buried their pets here.
668
00:38:37,069 --> 00:38:40,114
When we decided to...
669
00:38:40,239 --> 00:38:42,992
turn the property
into a pet cemetery...
670
00:38:43,159 --> 00:38:45,661
and we discussed a name...
671
00:38:45,828 --> 00:38:50,041
and we just all agreed that we couldn't
come up with a better one...
672
00:38:50,166 --> 00:38:52,752
than Bubbling Well
Pet Memorial Park...
673
00:38:52,877 --> 00:38:55,171
which has a lovely sound.
674
00:38:55,296 --> 00:38:59,217
The connotation
is something living, bubbling...
675
00:38:59,342 --> 00:39:01,052
a well...
676
00:39:01,177 --> 00:39:03,971
with lovely, refreshing springwater.
677
00:39:04,096 --> 00:39:07,517
And it has a meaning of life...
678
00:39:07,683 --> 00:39:10,311
and, um...
679
00:39:10,436 --> 00:39:12,897
purity and all
of the good things...
680
00:39:13,022 --> 00:39:16,025
that we all like to think about.
681
00:39:16,150 --> 00:39:20,154
Most people don't know it, but we're
in the middle of a pet explosion...
682
00:39:21,364 --> 00:39:24,242
throughout not only the United States
but throughout the world.
683
00:39:24,367 --> 00:39:26,369
And this is brought about...
684
00:39:26,536 --> 00:39:30,790
from the new pattern that has
emerged in the last 10, 15 years...
685
00:39:30,915 --> 00:39:33,459
in the family life.
686
00:39:33,584 --> 00:39:35,795
I would say that the Pill...
687
00:39:35,920 --> 00:39:38,381
is probably largely
more responsible...
688
00:39:38,548 --> 00:39:42,260
for the pet explosion
than any other single factor.
689
00:39:42,385 --> 00:39:45,012
This is quite a surprise...
690
00:39:45,137 --> 00:39:47,848
to a lot of people
that don't understand the business...
691
00:39:47,974 --> 00:39:51,227
and haven't done
any background work...
692
00:39:51,394 --> 00:39:53,896
but it's very simple.
693
00:39:54,063 --> 00:39:56,399
The old style was for the husband...
694
00:39:56,524 --> 00:39:59,777
to earn the living,
and the mother stayed at home.
695
00:39:59,902 --> 00:40:02,697
Today we have
a different pattern.
696
00:40:02,822 --> 00:40:05,074
Today the husband and wife
both work...
697
00:40:05,241 --> 00:40:07,535
and they want to prepare
themselves with a home...
698
00:40:07,660 --> 00:40:12,039
and some of the things they'd like
to have before they start a family.
699
00:40:13,165 --> 00:40:16,335
Well, this is just fine
from a planning standpoint...
700
00:40:16,460 --> 00:40:19,630
but nature can't be put aside.
701
00:40:19,755 --> 00:40:22,550
So when the young mother
comes home...
702
00:40:22,675 --> 00:40:24,760
she has to have
something to fondle...
703
00:40:24,927 --> 00:40:27,054
something to mother,
something to love.
704
00:40:27,179 --> 00:40:29,849
She'll have a pet.
705
00:40:29,974 --> 00:40:32,727
The rest of it,
in the normal pattern...
706
00:40:32,852 --> 00:40:35,813
would be that
the grandparents...
707
00:40:37,815 --> 00:40:39,609
would have children --
708
00:40:39,775 --> 00:40:41,527
grandchildren --
709
00:40:41,652 --> 00:40:45,323
to take care of and to fondle
and to help to rear...
710
00:40:45,448 --> 00:40:48,034
and this would satisfy
their need for love...
711
00:40:48,159 --> 00:40:50,202
and giving of love
and receiving.
712
00:40:50,328 --> 00:40:53,831
But when this has been set aside
for five, six, seven, or eight years...
713
00:40:53,956 --> 00:40:55,458
what do they do?
714
00:40:55,583 --> 00:40:59,128
They get a pet. Now we're talking
about both sides of the family.
715
00:40:59,295 --> 00:41:01,255
We're not talking about just one.
716
00:41:01,380 --> 00:41:03,466
Now we have
a three-way explosion.
717
00:41:03,591 --> 00:41:06,552
Well, we're here to...
718
00:41:06,677 --> 00:41:08,971
put Caesar in the ground today...
719
00:41:09,138 --> 00:41:11,390
and I know that you've --
720
00:41:11,515 --> 00:41:14,185
This is something
that you've not looked forward to...
721
00:41:14,310 --> 00:41:16,479
but I would just be
interested to know...
722
00:41:16,604 --> 00:41:18,856
how you picked Bubbling Well...
723
00:41:18,981 --> 00:41:21,859
and just tell us
a little about Caesar...
724
00:41:21,984 --> 00:41:24,862
so that we can, uh...
725
00:41:24,987 --> 00:41:28,282
have as much personal feeling
about this as you do...
726
00:41:28,407 --> 00:41:31,535
because we're going to be
Caesar's caretakers...
727
00:41:31,661 --> 00:41:33,996
and take care of his plot
from now on.
728
00:41:34,163 --> 00:41:37,041
- [ Man ] Mm-hmm.
- And although we can't know...
729
00:41:37,166 --> 00:41:39,669
personal details about all the pets...
730
00:41:39,794 --> 00:41:42,463
of all the people
that come to Bubbling Well...
731
00:41:42,588 --> 00:41:45,549
we have a great feeling for pets...
732
00:41:45,675 --> 00:41:49,804
and we surely want to include
Caesar in our pet family.
733
00:41:49,929 --> 00:41:52,139
Cal, here's...
734
00:41:52,264 --> 00:41:54,684
a little picture of Caesar here,
and I think...
735
00:41:54,809 --> 00:41:57,186
- Oh, yes.
- If you see that, you can understand...
736
00:41:57,353 --> 00:42:00,481
why we wanted him buried
in a good place like Bubbling Wells.
737
00:42:00,606 --> 00:42:03,693
- You know, I feel like I know him.
- Is that right?
738
00:42:03,818 --> 00:42:07,363
- That face and that smile.
- He was quite some dog.
739
00:42:07,488 --> 00:42:10,116
What was his pedigree again?
740
00:42:10,241 --> 00:42:13,661
He was a mixture
of Australian sheep and terrier.
741
00:42:13,786 --> 00:42:15,538
- And terrier?
- Yeah.
742
00:42:15,663 --> 00:42:18,541
- Australian sheep.
- As you can see with all that hair.
743
00:42:18,708 --> 00:42:22,128
- Did he have a coat! Look at that face.
- Isn't he beautiful?
744
00:42:22,253 --> 00:42:24,964
I've never seen that kind of a mix.
745
00:42:25,089 --> 00:42:28,300
And we get many, many
different combinations.
746
00:42:28,426 --> 00:42:31,053
One thing that we get
and we see...
747
00:42:31,220 --> 00:42:33,472
is it's the combinations --
748
00:42:33,597 --> 00:42:37,393
It's the crossbreeding
that produces seemingly the best pet.
749
00:42:37,518 --> 00:42:40,396
- Right.
- The purebreds are fine...
750
00:42:40,563 --> 00:42:44,567
and a lot of people
enjoy their relationship...
751
00:42:44,692 --> 00:42:46,986
as much as others,
but it seems that...
752
00:42:47,111 --> 00:42:49,113
when we get a mix...
753
00:42:50,448 --> 00:42:54,326
somehow it seems to bring out
the best in all the breeds...
754
00:42:54,452 --> 00:42:56,579
- and they make a better pet.
- Right.
755
00:42:56,704 --> 00:42:59,665
I don't know.
This is most unusual.
756
00:42:59,790 --> 00:43:01,542
Most unusual.
757
00:43:01,667 --> 00:43:04,670
I just can say
I've never seen anything like that.
758
00:43:04,795 --> 00:43:07,339
[ Woman ]
He always had hair down over his eyes.
759
00:43:07,465 --> 00:43:11,343
- [ Cal ] That's from the sheep?
- [ Man ] From the sheep in him.
760
00:43:11,469 --> 00:43:15,264
- He never had trouble looking out?
- No, he found his way around good.
761
00:43:15,389 --> 00:43:17,933
He got around.
I'm glad you showed that to me.
762
00:43:18,058 --> 00:43:20,936
- He always got around me pretty nice.
- I'll bet he did.
763
00:43:21,103 --> 00:43:23,063
I'll bet he did.
764
00:43:24,148 --> 00:43:27,067
[ Woman ] Our oldest son,
who was in the insurance business...
765
00:43:27,193 --> 00:43:29,153
back in Salt Lake City...
766
00:43:29,278 --> 00:43:32,406
decided that the pressures
in the insurance business...
767
00:43:32,531 --> 00:43:34,408
were getting to him...
768
00:43:34,533 --> 00:43:36,619
and he made a trip back home...
769
00:43:36,744 --> 00:43:39,330
to just sort of look around
the Bay Area...
770
00:43:39,455 --> 00:43:41,999
to see what might be available.
771
00:43:42,124 --> 00:43:45,252
And his mother...
772
00:43:45,377 --> 00:43:48,756
as devious as she is,
sort of got him on the hill...
773
00:43:48,881 --> 00:43:51,634
and really sold him
a bill of goods.
774
00:43:51,759 --> 00:43:53,636
And the next thing we knew...
775
00:43:53,761 --> 00:43:56,931
he had decided to bring
his little family back to Napa.
776
00:44:07,274 --> 00:44:10,069
[Man ] Every young guy
has an aspiration...
777
00:44:10,194 --> 00:44:14,657
to pursue
a very aggressive sales field.
778
00:44:14,824 --> 00:44:18,828
So about the only thing
I could think about was insurance.
779
00:44:18,953 --> 00:44:21,330
So I started off as a salesman...
780
00:44:21,455 --> 00:44:24,500
and worked my way up
to a sales manager.
781
00:44:24,667 --> 00:44:27,711
But all throughout that whole thing,
I wasn't cognizant of it...
782
00:44:27,837 --> 00:44:31,173
but I was actually using my strength
and my youth to the height.
783
00:44:31,340 --> 00:44:32,967
I was burning out.
784
00:44:33,092 --> 00:44:36,011
I could not exceed 150 pounds...
785
00:44:36,178 --> 00:44:38,722
no matter how much I ate.
786
00:44:38,848 --> 00:44:41,600
There was so much...
787
00:44:41,725 --> 00:44:43,519
mental work there, you know?
788
00:44:43,644 --> 00:44:46,313
And I had, ultimately,
no free time.
789
00:44:46,438 --> 00:44:48,899
So I resigned my position...
790
00:44:49,024 --> 00:44:52,403
and of course gave them
plenty of warning and stuff...
791
00:44:52,528 --> 00:44:54,822
and decided
to come back to California.
792
00:44:57,992 --> 00:45:01,453
I have to say to myself,
"What does it mean to me?
793
00:45:01,579 --> 00:45:03,998
What does this mean to me?
794
00:45:04,123 --> 00:45:06,625
And what is it going
to mean to me?"
795
00:45:06,750 --> 00:45:10,129
So I recognize this, and, uh --
796
00:45:11,505 --> 00:45:15,593
A couple of things
when I was instructing in motivation...
797
00:45:15,718 --> 00:45:18,095
back in Salt Lake City...
798
00:45:18,220 --> 00:45:21,807
is that, you know,
if we don't stop...
799
00:45:21,932 --> 00:45:25,644
and ask ourselves
a question once in a while...
800
00:45:25,769 --> 00:45:29,398
to probe our subconscious
or to probe our conscious --
801
00:45:29,523 --> 00:45:32,735
I used to teach it.
It's a plain, simple formula.
802
00:45:32,902 --> 00:45:35,195
We reduced everything
to a formula, memorized it...
803
00:45:35,321 --> 00:45:37,698
and therefore we were able
to repeat it constantly.
804
00:45:37,823 --> 00:45:39,867
I used to call it
the R2/A2 formula --
805
00:45:39,992 --> 00:45:43,579
recognize, relate, assimilate,
and put into action.
806
00:45:43,704 --> 00:45:46,165
Like, I could be driving
down the freeway...
807
00:45:46,290 --> 00:45:48,626
and see a 450SL,
and I could say...
808
00:45:48,751 --> 00:45:51,462
"Hey, I like that.
What does that mean to me?
809
00:45:51,587 --> 00:45:55,132
What will I have to do to get it?
How can I do it?"
810
00:45:55,257 --> 00:45:58,802
Then work for it and strive for it.
It kind of makes life easy.
811
00:45:58,928 --> 00:46:01,430
I think that's why
a lot of people don't --
812
00:46:01,597 --> 00:46:04,266
they get frustrated,
they have emotional problems...
813
00:46:04,391 --> 00:46:07,686
is that they don't know
how to cope with their mind.
814
00:46:10,439 --> 00:46:13,150
There are three things
that I've got to do...
815
00:46:13,275 --> 00:46:16,570
and that if anybody wants to do
to be successful is...
816
00:46:16,695 --> 00:46:20,157
to have the desire,
the "want-to," you know?
817
00:46:20,282 --> 00:46:22,743
Why do you go to work
in the morning?
818
00:46:22,868 --> 00:46:24,912
"Gee, why am I here?"
819
00:46:25,037 --> 00:46:28,457
Because you want to.
You know?
820
00:46:28,582 --> 00:46:30,793
But that's obvious.
821
00:46:30,960 --> 00:46:33,587
And then the next
very important ingredient...
822
00:46:33,712 --> 00:46:35,965
is something that a lot of people...
823
00:46:36,090 --> 00:46:38,342
and a lot of businesses
fail to delve into --
824
00:46:38,467 --> 00:46:40,594
it's the activity-knowledge.
825
00:46:40,719 --> 00:46:43,347
It would be the equation...
826
00:46:43,472 --> 00:46:45,474
to a mathematical problem.
827
00:46:45,641 --> 00:46:47,977
It would be equal to...
828
00:46:48,143 --> 00:46:51,063
the chemist's ability to...
829
00:46:51,188 --> 00:46:53,941
emulsify chemicals properly.
830
00:46:54,066 --> 00:46:56,485
The valences.
831
00:46:56,652 --> 00:47:00,322
But the knowledge of it,
the whole scope, everything in detail.
832
00:47:00,489 --> 00:47:04,368
And then the third element would be
the know-how or the experience.
833
00:47:04,493 --> 00:47:06,537
I have the inspiration to action.
834
00:47:06,662 --> 00:47:08,789
I don't have
the activity-knowledge...
835
00:47:08,914 --> 00:47:11,458
but I'm getting the know-how
before the activity-knowledge.
836
00:47:11,583 --> 00:47:15,170
As a matter of fact, I'm getting more
know-how than activity-knowledge.
837
00:47:15,337 --> 00:47:17,381
But they can be
correlated together.
838
00:47:17,506 --> 00:47:19,591
They can be overlapped.
839
00:47:19,717 --> 00:47:23,971
Dan, our youngest son,
graduated from Chico...
840
00:47:24,096 --> 00:47:27,808
with a degree
in business administration...
841
00:47:27,933 --> 00:47:29,977
and he thought this entitled him...
842
00:47:30,102 --> 00:47:33,355
to an executive position
out in the world somewhere.
843
00:47:33,480 --> 00:47:37,526
After many interviews,
he found that it wasn't that easy.
844
00:47:37,693 --> 00:47:43,032
So he agreed to come home and,
with a lot of reluctance, to try this out...
845
00:47:43,157 --> 00:47:46,869
to see how he and his lovely father
would get along.
846
00:47:46,994 --> 00:47:49,580
[Man]
College is an interesting experience...
847
00:47:49,705 --> 00:47:52,833
and I was kind of taken with it
my first few years.
848
00:47:52,958 --> 00:47:55,794
I would study
eight, nine hours a night...
849
00:47:55,919 --> 00:47:59,548
and really caught up in the idea
of doing all this studying.
850
00:47:59,715 --> 00:48:02,217
But towards the end
of my college days...
851
00:48:02,384 --> 00:48:06,013
I ended up partying
more than I did actually studying.
852
00:48:06,138 --> 00:48:07,890
But, uh --
853
00:48:08,015 --> 00:48:11,518
You know, I learned a lot.
Not that I -- I learned --
854
00:48:11,643 --> 00:48:14,605
I took many classes, say,
in mathematics...
855
00:48:14,730 --> 00:48:18,567
business administration,
marketing, and things like that.
856
00:48:18,692 --> 00:48:21,987
And it's not like you --
You're given things to learn.
857
00:48:22,112 --> 00:48:25,115
However, you don't retain
the knowledge that you learn.
858
00:48:25,240 --> 00:48:28,911
It's the idea that you're applying
your brain. You're exercising it.
859
00:48:29,036 --> 00:48:31,872
That's the part where
the education comes in, I think.
860
00:48:54,019 --> 00:48:56,855
Something also that happened --
it happens to everybody, I suppose --
861
00:48:56,980 --> 00:48:59,108
I fell in love up in Chico...
862
00:48:59,233 --> 00:49:01,193
and, uh...
863
00:49:01,318 --> 00:49:04,279
I think an important thing
in falling in love..
864
00:49:04,446 --> 00:49:06,824
Before you fall in love,
you should have --
865
00:49:06,949 --> 00:49:11,161
True love, I think, is experiencing
many different types of loves...
866
00:49:11,286 --> 00:49:15,582
and learning exactly what you want
out of a relationship.
867
00:49:17,042 --> 00:49:20,254
I spent about 21 /2 years
with a woman...
868
00:49:20,379 --> 00:49:22,256
and, uh...
869
00:49:22,381 --> 00:49:26,135
I fell in and out of love
and learned a lot of things.
870
00:49:26,260 --> 00:49:28,345
"Nothing lasts forever"...
871
00:49:28,470 --> 00:49:30,806
was something that hit home.
872
00:49:34,393 --> 00:49:37,229
I think a broken heart...
873
00:49:37,354 --> 00:49:39,439
is something that everybody
should experience...
874
00:49:39,565 --> 00:49:41,567
because it makes you appreciate...
875
00:49:43,694 --> 00:49:46,238
any future experiences
that you have.
876
00:49:46,363 --> 00:49:48,824
You've felt the hurt...
877
00:49:48,991 --> 00:49:52,744
so you can enjoy
the positive aspects of love.
878
00:49:52,870 --> 00:49:56,165
So I finished
all those experiences...
879
00:49:56,331 --> 00:49:59,251
and I came back here
to the park...
880
00:49:59,376 --> 00:50:03,505
and my father offered
to take me on...
881
00:50:03,630 --> 00:50:06,425
and teach me the business.
882
00:50:06,550 --> 00:50:08,635
I knew we had
many houses up here...
883
00:50:08,760 --> 00:50:11,513
and I would have no problem
having a place to live.
884
00:50:11,680 --> 00:50:14,933
I lived in the chicken coop
in the little house for a while.
885
00:50:15,058 --> 00:50:16,643
Then I got this place...
886
00:50:16,768 --> 00:50:19,855
which is a pretty nice place
for just one person.
887
00:50:21,899 --> 00:50:24,693
"The house on the hill"
is what we call it.
888
00:50:24,860 --> 00:50:28,405
And so I moved up here.
I still haven't completely moved up here.
889
00:50:28,530 --> 00:50:32,367
I still have a lot of my stuff.
down in the chicken coop.
890
00:50:44,254 --> 00:50:48,008
[ Older Son ]
My dad initiated this whole program...
891
00:50:48,133 --> 00:50:50,928
I would say
approximately six years ago.
892
00:50:51,053 --> 00:50:54,848
So therefore, he has
the greater amount of knowledge.
893
00:50:54,973 --> 00:50:57,100
He has the public relations...
894
00:50:57,226 --> 00:50:59,436
with the veterinary doctors.
895
00:50:59,561 --> 00:51:01,730
He knows them not only by name...
896
00:51:01,855 --> 00:51:03,899
but also by their secretaries'...
897
00:51:04,024 --> 00:51:06,026
and also their wives' names.
898
00:51:06,151 --> 00:51:08,195
He has a vast amount of knowledge.
899
00:51:08,320 --> 00:51:12,282
My brother Danny has been working
in the park for about, oh, three years.
900
00:51:12,407 --> 00:51:15,244
Therefore, he has
quite a bit of knowledge...
901
00:51:15,369 --> 00:51:18,163
of procedures and public relations.
902
00:51:19,248 --> 00:51:21,708
So therefore, my father is --
903
00:51:21,833 --> 00:51:24,544
he's the focal point.
904
00:51:24,670 --> 00:51:27,547
He trained my brother.
He gave him the knowledge.
905
00:51:28,590 --> 00:51:31,718
He taught him this route
that I'm responsible for now.
906
00:51:33,971 --> 00:51:37,015
I find it quite hard right now to --
907
00:51:37,140 --> 00:51:40,769
you know, to go out on my daily task
here at the park...
908
00:51:40,894 --> 00:51:43,105
without consulting my brother...
909
00:51:43,230 --> 00:51:45,274
or consulting my father.
910
00:51:45,399 --> 00:51:48,610
One of the things in the insurance
business that I always did...
911
00:51:48,735 --> 00:51:52,572
that got me ahead, I suppose,
is I was able to memorize quite well...
912
00:51:52,698 --> 00:51:54,908
with hardly any effort.
913
00:51:55,033 --> 00:51:58,537
And I have to literally
memorize the streets...
914
00:51:58,662 --> 00:52:01,081
and the localities
of these veterinary clinics.
915
00:52:01,206 --> 00:52:03,458
These clinics are literally speckled...
916
00:52:03,583 --> 00:52:05,669
all over that
southern peninsula area...
917
00:52:05,794 --> 00:52:09,089
and I have to get on the freeway
and go to this one...
918
00:52:09,214 --> 00:52:12,759
and come back on to this one
and pick up from where I left.
919
00:52:12,884 --> 00:52:15,470
I have to memorize routes,
know exactly where they are...
920
00:52:15,637 --> 00:52:20,225
what road to take to get to it,
to get back, to get to the next one.
921
00:52:20,350 --> 00:52:23,562
Naturally, there's an element
of fear that I have.
922
00:52:28,400 --> 00:52:30,736
[ Dan ]
With our permalloy markers...
923
00:52:30,861 --> 00:52:33,989
we have several different formats
that the people can choose from...
924
00:52:34,114 --> 00:52:37,326
and you can see some
of the different formats right here.
925
00:52:37,492 --> 00:52:39,828
Now, in some situations...
926
00:52:39,953 --> 00:52:42,539
when the people don't have
actual photographs...
927
00:52:42,664 --> 00:52:45,542
they can sketch a picture...
928
00:52:45,667 --> 00:52:48,003
right on to the alloy steel.
929
00:52:48,170 --> 00:52:51,506
Now, probably
the most popular type...
930
00:52:51,673 --> 00:52:54,676
of marker that we have
in a permalloy...
931
00:52:54,801 --> 00:52:58,055
is what we call
a vertical-type picture --
932
00:52:58,180 --> 00:53:01,099
the reason being,
a vertical-type picture...
933
00:53:01,224 --> 00:53:04,519
they can place
the photograph in a position...
934
00:53:04,644 --> 00:53:08,231
where you're getting maximum
amount of surface coverage...
935
00:53:08,357 --> 00:53:10,942
with maximum amount
of wordage usage.
936
00:53:11,068 --> 00:53:14,488
I have to keep telling myself,
"Jeez...
937
00:53:14,613 --> 00:53:17,824
there's gonna be
more parts to this thing.
938
00:53:19,076 --> 00:53:23,330
There's going to have to be
an advance selling program."
939
00:53:23,455 --> 00:53:25,749
I'd like to be selling
in Los Angeles...
940
00:53:25,874 --> 00:53:27,959
and getting
the cemeteries there...
941
00:53:28,085 --> 00:53:30,545
and starting another one
in Los Angeles.
942
00:53:30,712 --> 00:53:32,923
Maybe Seattle. A larger city...
943
00:53:33,048 --> 00:53:35,384
where there are a lot
of concentration of animals.
944
00:53:35,509 --> 00:53:39,513
With our private burials,
we have two systems of marking...
945
00:53:39,638 --> 00:53:42,391
and the first is
what we call a grid system.
946
00:53:42,516 --> 00:53:45,727
And the way it works is,
we have a rectangle...
947
00:53:45,894 --> 00:53:48,105
with letters and then numbers.
948
00:53:48,230 --> 00:53:52,067
In a vertical position,
we put numbers...
949
00:53:52,192 --> 00:53:56,238
and the numbers go from 1 to 17,
and then we have the alphabet.
950
00:53:56,405 --> 00:53:59,324
It's a cross situation,
where an animal --
951
00:53:59,449 --> 00:54:01,827
say, Bonnie --
952
00:54:01,952 --> 00:54:05,080
would be 9-W.
953
00:54:05,247 --> 00:54:09,084
What that would mean is that
the people would go to Row 9...
954
00:54:09,251 --> 00:54:11,837
then they'd go to "W."
955
00:54:11,962 --> 00:54:13,880
And where those two points crossed...
956
00:54:14,005 --> 00:54:16,633
you would have the location.
957
00:54:16,758 --> 00:54:19,302
This opportunity doesn't mean
a damn thing to you...
958
00:54:19,428 --> 00:54:21,555
unless you're willing...
959
00:54:21,680 --> 00:54:23,974
to work hard...
960
00:54:24,099 --> 00:54:26,643
to study, to be a student...
961
00:54:26,768 --> 00:54:28,812
and to apply your experience...
962
00:54:28,937 --> 00:54:31,565
and to do better constantly.
963
00:54:31,690 --> 00:54:34,901
So I think that's what
my father's done for many years.
964
00:54:35,026 --> 00:54:37,070
And I know
I've seen his successes.
965
00:54:37,195 --> 00:54:39,614
He's read
the same textbooks I have.
966
00:54:39,781 --> 00:54:42,576
Danny is basically doing
the same thing.
967
00:54:45,954 --> 00:54:48,290
And this is what I have to do.
968
00:54:48,415 --> 00:54:51,710
I have to learn to put
this knowledge into reality.
969
00:55:04,556 --> 00:55:06,516
The basic tenet of our church...
970
00:55:06,641 --> 00:55:08,977
the Bubbling Well Church
of Universal Love...
971
00:55:09,102 --> 00:55:12,439
incorporated
in January of 1977, is...
972
00:55:12,564 --> 00:55:14,983
"The Church has as its tenets...
973
00:55:15,150 --> 00:55:17,611
a belief in a supreme being...
974
00:55:17,736 --> 00:55:20,113
who does not differentiate...
975
00:55:20,238 --> 00:55:24,201
in bestowing his benevolence
on all species of life...
976
00:55:24,326 --> 00:55:26,495
whether of this earth...
977
00:55:26,661 --> 00:55:29,206
or any form of life hereafter."
978
00:55:30,790 --> 00:55:32,792
The thought occurred to me...
979
00:55:32,918 --> 00:55:36,838
that any god,
any supreme being...
980
00:55:36,963 --> 00:55:41,176
that was indeed compassionate
and concerned about people...
981
00:55:41,301 --> 00:55:45,472
would surely be concerned
about any living creature.
982
00:55:45,597 --> 00:55:49,601
God is supposed to know
when the sparrow falls...
983
00:55:49,726 --> 00:55:51,811
when the lilies of the field bloom.
984
00:55:51,937 --> 00:55:55,148
So surely
at the gates of heaven...
985
00:55:55,273 --> 00:55:58,026
an all-compassionate god...
986
00:55:58,151 --> 00:56:01,863
or an all-compassionate supreme being
is surely not going to say...
987
00:56:02,030 --> 00:56:05,617
"Well, you're walking in on two legs.
You can go in.
988
00:56:05,742 --> 00:56:08,537
You're walking in on four legs.
989
00:56:08,703 --> 00:56:10,580
We can't take you."
990
00:56:10,705 --> 00:56:12,707
I don't believe this will happen.
991
00:56:14,918 --> 00:56:18,129
Now, people come up,
and there is a common bond.
992
00:56:18,255 --> 00:56:21,716
At the church,
we don't have formal services.
993
00:56:21,841 --> 00:56:24,177
We're not trying
to save any souls...
994
00:56:24,302 --> 00:56:27,013
or collect money
or anything like that.
995
00:56:27,138 --> 00:56:31,351
It's just a --
It's sort of a church of love.
996
00:56:31,476 --> 00:56:35,772
We do not have to go too far afield
to make this conversion...
997
00:56:35,897 --> 00:56:38,400
because, uh...
998
00:56:38,567 --> 00:56:40,860
we have our own chapel.
999
00:56:40,986 --> 00:56:44,072
We have stained-glass windows.
We even have a bell.
1000
00:56:45,574 --> 00:56:48,451
And we're usually talking
in terms of death...
1001
00:56:48,577 --> 00:56:51,162
and talking in terms of hereafter.
1002
00:56:51,288 --> 00:56:55,166
Well, this is the very essence
of any other religion.
1003
00:56:55,292 --> 00:56:59,588
So if in the hereafter
there are no pets...
1004
00:56:59,754 --> 00:57:02,924
I don't think any of us
that love our pets...
1005
00:57:03,091 --> 00:57:06,303
would really feel, maybe --
1006
00:57:06,428 --> 00:57:08,805
I can't say
we wouldn't want to go...
1007
00:57:08,930 --> 00:57:11,933
but I really believe
they'll all be there...
1008
00:57:12,100 --> 00:57:14,394
in the spirit with all of us.
1009
00:57:14,519 --> 00:57:17,439
The pet owners
that we have talked to...
1010
00:57:18,857 --> 00:57:20,984
have embraced the idea...
1011
00:57:21,109 --> 00:57:24,988
and it has had
a very dramatic effect on a lot of them.
1012
00:57:25,113 --> 00:57:28,575
It's brought them assurance,
it makes sense...
1013
00:57:28,700 --> 00:57:31,286
and it's not --
1014
00:57:31,411 --> 00:57:34,789
It's very hard to refute it,
as a matter of fact...
1015
00:57:34,914 --> 00:57:36,958
because it makes sense.
1016
00:57:37,083 --> 00:57:39,461
You don't have to depend
on a lot of...
1017
00:57:39,586 --> 00:57:42,672
mystical type of thinking.
1018
00:57:42,797 --> 00:57:44,633
It just makes sense.
1019
00:57:44,799 --> 00:57:47,135
And people at this time
are looking for assurance.
1020
00:57:47,260 --> 00:57:50,472
They don't want pie in the sky.
They don't want fairy tales.
1021
00:57:50,639 --> 00:57:52,474
They want assurance.
1022
00:58:03,068 --> 00:58:05,320
Trooper was the type of dog...
1023
00:58:05,487 --> 00:58:07,781
that didn't have
other dogs to relate to.
1024
00:58:07,906 --> 00:58:09,783
He lived
with adult human beings.
1025
00:58:09,908 --> 00:58:13,161
And having the inability
to communicate...
1026
00:58:13,328 --> 00:58:15,497
like human beings do
through conversation...
1027
00:58:15,622 --> 00:58:18,166
he did it with his mannerisms...
1028
00:58:18,291 --> 00:58:20,210
and his eyes and reception.
1029
00:58:20,335 --> 00:58:23,129
One of the things
that you noticed with him...
1030
00:58:23,254 --> 00:58:26,424
is when we were sitting in a room,
he would position himself...
1031
00:58:26,549 --> 00:58:29,969
and as each one of us spoke,
the tone of their voices...
1032
00:58:30,095 --> 00:58:32,389
would direct his attention
to that person.
1033
00:58:32,514 --> 00:58:34,599
And during the course
of the conversation...
1034
00:58:34,724 --> 00:58:37,435
if the conversation was pleasant,
he would react to that...
1035
00:58:37,560 --> 00:58:40,105
or if it was sharp,
he'd react to that.
1036
00:58:40,230 --> 00:58:43,525
He also had a sense as to
the subject of the conversation.
1037
00:58:43,650 --> 00:58:46,569
In particular, on Christmastime...
1038
00:58:46,695 --> 00:58:50,532
the discussion about gifts
to various members of the family...
1039
00:58:50,699 --> 00:58:54,452
and there were certain things
that we knew he would like...
1040
00:58:54,577 --> 00:58:57,580
as to doggy bones
and little chewy things that he had.
1041
00:58:57,706 --> 00:59:01,543
Of course, we didn't conceive that
he would be aware of our conversation...
1042
00:59:01,710 --> 00:59:04,379
yet we were relating to him,
because as I say...
1043
00:59:04,504 --> 00:59:08,258
there was no one else he could talk
and relate to except ourselves.
1044
00:59:08,383 --> 00:59:11,845
Christmas morning --
this was just before his death --
1045
00:59:11,970 --> 00:59:15,849
we all came down
to open our presents.
1046
00:59:15,974 --> 00:59:19,227
They were all laid out in various sections
around the Christmas tree...
1047
00:59:19,352 --> 00:59:22,063
and we would hand
each one of us a gift --
1048
00:59:22,188 --> 00:59:25,066
particularly with my mother-in-law,
her being the elder of the family...
1049
00:59:25,191 --> 00:59:27,110
we'd bring her presents.
1050
00:59:27,235 --> 00:59:30,947
He lined himself up and couldn't wait
and went right to the direction...
1051
00:59:31,072 --> 00:59:33,783
of where his packages were
and started unwrapping them...
1052
00:59:33,908 --> 00:59:36,870
right there, and they were not
laid out in the open.
1053
00:59:36,995 --> 00:59:39,998
He unwrapped his presents,
just like sharing with all of us.
1054
00:59:40,123 --> 00:59:42,542
It's amazing that there are...
1055
00:59:42,667 --> 00:59:45,003
so many different aspects of this.
1056
00:59:45,128 --> 00:59:46,963
It's not just...
[ Chuckles ]
1057
00:59:47,088 --> 00:59:49,174
You know,
an opening in the ground...
1058
00:59:49,299 --> 00:59:51,593
somebody prefers a casket or not...
1059
00:59:51,718 --> 00:59:54,888
and the ground is put back
into the opening -- no.
1060
00:59:55,013 --> 00:59:57,599
Sometimes the people
like to come up...
1061
00:59:57,724 --> 01:00:00,185
and witness the actual burial
of the animal.
1062
01:00:00,310 --> 01:00:03,563
Sometimes they don't.
And we pick out a date...
1063
01:00:03,688 --> 01:00:05,940
that's convenient for them,
and they come up.
1064
01:00:06,107 --> 01:00:08,109
And as far as preparation...
1065
01:00:08,234 --> 01:00:12,238
a hole has to be dug, prepared.
1066
01:00:12,363 --> 01:00:15,784
We have to make sure
the hole is gonna fit the casket.
1067
01:00:15,909 --> 01:00:18,953
You don't want to make it too large.
You're gonna waste space.
1068
01:00:19,120 --> 01:00:22,373
You don't want it too small
because you can't get the thing in.
1069
01:00:22,499 --> 01:00:26,419
Mentally-wise, I don't worry about
putting an animal down into an opening...
1070
01:00:26,544 --> 01:00:30,298
because if I don't do it,
somebody else is gonna have to.
1071
01:00:30,423 --> 01:00:34,177
It's just mind over matter.
You have to prepare yourself for it.
1072
01:00:36,179 --> 01:00:39,891
We pick up animals
that are 150 pounds -- greyhounds --
1073
01:00:40,016 --> 01:00:42,685
and they're very heavy.
1074
01:00:42,811 --> 01:00:45,772
We have to bring them in
to our bodies...
1075
01:00:45,897 --> 01:00:48,149
to hoist them into the truck.
1076
01:00:48,274 --> 01:00:51,402
So it's mind over matter
once again.
1077
01:00:51,528 --> 01:00:53,655
[Dan]
Sometimes they come in --
1078
01:00:53,780 --> 01:00:56,991
When we get them,
their hair is matted...
1079
01:00:57,116 --> 01:01:00,620
and they're very moist from being
in a freezer where they're kept.
1080
01:01:00,745 --> 01:01:04,415
So they have to be combed
and dried out a bit...
1081
01:01:04,541 --> 01:01:07,001
which isn't the most
pleasant thing in the world...
1082
01:01:07,168 --> 01:01:09,087
but it's not that bad, really.
1083
01:01:09,212 --> 01:01:11,798
After a while it becomes
something you don't really --
1084
01:01:11,923 --> 01:01:13,925
doesn't really bother you at all.
1085
01:01:16,469 --> 01:01:19,848
[ Older Son ] But I don't know
what happens down there. I really don't.
1086
01:01:19,973 --> 01:01:22,392
The moisture, the contraction...
1087
01:01:22,517 --> 01:01:24,394
the expansion of the ground...
1088
01:01:24,519 --> 01:01:27,146
of course, the insects,
and so on and so forth.
1089
01:01:27,272 --> 01:01:29,607
There's another world
down there, you know.
1090
01:01:43,371 --> 01:01:47,166
He'd go down on his front knees,
and I knew something drastic --
1091
01:01:47,292 --> 01:01:49,544
He was just blacking out.
He'd just black out.
1092
01:01:49,711 --> 01:01:52,255
Fall over and black out,
just for a few seconds.
1093
01:01:52,380 --> 01:01:54,966
- Then he'd get back up again.
- Ready to go strong.
1094
01:01:55,091 --> 01:01:56,968
We took him down to the vet's...
1095
01:01:57,093 --> 01:01:59,387
- and we had --
- Tests.
1096
01:01:59,554 --> 01:02:02,307
Test after test.
They couldn't find nothing.
1097
01:02:02,432 --> 01:02:05,059
- One day we took him to --
- Back again to the --
1098
01:02:05,226 --> 01:02:08,271
back to the same vet,
because this vet, he's darn good.
1099
01:02:08,396 --> 01:02:10,273
We like him a lot.
1100
01:02:10,398 --> 01:02:14,444
And he called us and said,
"I found out what's wrong with York."
1101
01:02:14,569 --> 01:02:17,405
He says, uh, the --
1102
01:02:17,530 --> 01:02:19,490
- "He has heartworms."
- Heartworms.
1103
01:02:19,616 --> 01:02:22,911
I'm telling you, if I never tell anybody
anything else again...
1104
01:02:23,077 --> 01:02:25,538
please watch your dogs
for heartworm.
1105
01:02:25,663 --> 01:02:27,832
It's carried by mosquitoes...
1106
01:02:27,957 --> 01:02:30,543
just like your malaria,
and you don't know --
1107
01:02:30,668 --> 01:02:34,088
We used to think we were free
from it here, but we're not.
1108
01:02:34,255 --> 01:02:38,092
It was a Southern disease. But here
in California, why, it's very prevalent.
1109
01:02:38,217 --> 01:02:40,511
I ask myself,
"What does this mean to me?
1110
01:02:40,637 --> 01:02:44,265
What does this park mean to me?
What does this opportunity mean to me?"
1111
01:02:44,390 --> 01:02:46,184
Well, it means a lot.
1112
01:02:46,309 --> 01:02:48,937
It means
I'll be able to have something...
1113
01:02:49,103 --> 01:02:51,689
to work for
for many years to come.
1114
01:02:51,814 --> 01:02:54,943
It will provide
the things that I will need...
1115
01:02:55,109 --> 01:02:57,487
and you know...
1116
01:02:57,612 --> 01:03:00,823
the long line
of the other things, events.
1117
01:03:06,287 --> 01:03:09,082
[ Dan ] Phil has moved into the business.
He's slowly learning it.
1118
01:03:09,207 --> 01:03:13,461
He's learning the route right now,
and he'll be taking that over...
1119
01:03:13,628 --> 01:03:15,630
but at the same time,
he's learning...
1120
01:03:15,797 --> 01:03:18,341
about the private burials,
about handling the people...
1121
01:03:18,466 --> 01:03:21,636
because there's definitely things
you have to know...
1122
01:03:21,761 --> 01:03:24,764
to be able to talk to the people here
about their pets.
1123
01:03:24,889 --> 01:03:28,559
You have to see by example.
You have to learn by example.
1124
01:03:28,685 --> 01:03:31,104
We're working together.
We have our ups and downs.
1125
01:03:31,229 --> 01:03:34,816
He's a bit older than I am,
so it provides some hardships...
1126
01:03:34,941 --> 01:03:38,861
because I'm telling him what to do,
and he doesn't always like that.
1127
01:03:38,987 --> 01:03:41,114
He resents it at times.
1128
01:03:44,409 --> 01:03:46,995
So my father
is in charge of the park.
1129
01:03:47,120 --> 01:03:49,247
He's "el presidento."
1130
01:03:49,372 --> 01:03:51,332
He's number one.
1131
01:03:51,457 --> 01:03:54,168
Danny, by virtue
of seniority and knowledge...
1132
01:03:54,293 --> 01:03:56,254
is number two...
1133
01:03:56,379 --> 01:03:59,048
and I guess
I would be the third person.
1134
01:03:59,173 --> 01:04:01,217
My father now...
1135
01:04:01,342 --> 01:04:03,803
is trying to work
out of the business...
1136
01:04:03,928 --> 01:04:05,972
because he's getting on in years...
1137
01:04:06,097 --> 01:04:10,059
and he wants to do a little traveling
before he passes on.
1138
01:04:10,184 --> 01:04:12,186
So he's letting up...
1139
01:04:12,353 --> 01:04:15,273
and he's letting me take over
handling the people...
1140
01:04:15,398 --> 01:04:17,400
and he's staying
pretty much in the background...
1141
01:04:17,525 --> 01:04:20,611
although I don't think he'll ever stay
completely in the background...
1142
01:04:20,737 --> 01:04:23,197
because
he's a fairly dominant person.
1143
01:04:26,075 --> 01:04:29,662
Then he came out of it,
and he was perfectly normal...
1144
01:04:29,787 --> 01:04:32,457
and racing through Golden Gate Park
along the ocean beach.
1145
01:04:32,582 --> 01:04:34,709
And then just as suddenly...
1146
01:04:34,834 --> 01:04:37,170
we took him over for a checkup...
1147
01:04:37,295 --> 01:04:40,423
to recheck the prior prognosis...
1148
01:04:40,548 --> 01:04:44,343
and they said
they thought he was all right.
1149
01:04:44,469 --> 01:04:46,554
He came home
on a Wednesday afternoon...
1150
01:04:46,679 --> 01:04:50,892
and I recall he was so relieved
to get out of that veterinarian office...
1151
01:04:51,059 --> 01:04:53,394
having been in there all day,
he had a habit --
1152
01:04:53,519 --> 01:04:55,855
To me, I always got
a kiss on the knee area...
1153
01:04:55,980 --> 01:04:58,524
and I recall that
as probably the last time...
1154
01:04:58,649 --> 01:05:00,526
I remember him doing that.
1155
01:05:00,651 --> 01:05:02,945
And then just
as suddenly as the kiss...
1156
01:05:03,071 --> 01:05:05,239
he seemed to go right down...
1157
01:05:05,364 --> 01:05:07,658
and we kept phoning the vets...
1158
01:05:07,784 --> 01:05:11,037
and they said not to worry,
that they didn't like to eat...
1159
01:05:11,162 --> 01:05:14,540
on medication of this sort,
but to bring him in on Monday.
1160
01:05:14,665 --> 01:05:16,793
But before that happened,
we ran him...
1161
01:05:16,918 --> 01:05:21,422
to the All Animal Emergency Hospital,
and Dr. Benjamin there.
1162
01:05:21,547 --> 01:05:24,133
It was too late.
He was gone by then.
1163
01:05:24,258 --> 01:05:26,594
He just passed away
on the Sunday after.
1164
01:05:26,719 --> 01:05:29,639
But the main thing is
for people who have dogs...
1165
01:05:29,764 --> 01:05:32,433
and they don't breed them...
1166
01:05:32,600 --> 01:05:35,311
the most intelligent thing
I would recommend would be...
1167
01:05:35,436 --> 01:05:38,689
when the dog is about --
I suppose the same for cats --
1168
01:05:38,815 --> 01:05:41,859
two or three years old,
that is the time...
1169
01:05:41,984 --> 01:05:44,570
- to make a decision to have them --
- Neutered.
1170
01:05:44,695 --> 01:05:47,740
You keep that idea
of building this place up...
1171
01:05:47,865 --> 01:05:50,701
of fixing it up, and eventually
it will be something...
1172
01:05:50,827 --> 01:05:53,287
that nothing
else can compare with.
1173
01:05:53,454 --> 01:05:56,290
That idea keeps
the whole thing together...
1174
01:05:56,457 --> 01:05:59,293
and, uh, that --
1175
01:05:59,460 --> 01:06:01,796
that concept is what...
1176
01:06:01,963 --> 01:06:04,173
keeps us together, I think.
1177
01:06:04,298 --> 01:06:07,468
My dad used to tell me
when I was a young kid --
1178
01:06:07,635 --> 01:06:10,138
I'd look at a job
that had to be done...
1179
01:06:10,263 --> 01:06:13,224
and he'd say to me,
"Nothing's impossible."
1180
01:06:13,349 --> 01:06:16,978
That always stuck in my craw.
I couldn't believe it. "Nothing's impossible."
1181
01:06:17,145 --> 01:06:20,022
I kind of learned, when I got
in the insurance business...
1182
01:06:20,148 --> 01:06:22,108
that everything is possible.
1183
01:06:22,233 --> 01:06:25,528
You have to look at it
with the right frame of mind.
1184
01:06:25,653 --> 01:06:27,446
And that's important:
your mind.
1185
01:06:28,823 --> 01:06:31,868
There's a tendency
to sit on your laurels...
1186
01:06:31,993 --> 01:06:35,163
and be somewhat complacent...
1187
01:06:35,288 --> 01:06:37,999
about small advances...
1188
01:06:38,124 --> 01:06:40,835
and small accomplishments.
1189
01:06:41,002 --> 01:06:43,713
Or even sometimes
large accomplishments...
1190
01:06:43,838 --> 01:06:46,299
have a tendency
to put you at ease.
1191
01:06:46,424 --> 01:06:48,593
However, this is a trap...
1192
01:06:48,718 --> 01:06:52,930
because we are not content...
1193
01:06:53,055 --> 01:06:56,100
with just having an ordinary...
1194
01:06:56,225 --> 01:06:58,936
nice or good pet cemetery.
1195
01:06:59,061 --> 01:07:01,814
Ours is going to be the finest.
1196
01:07:01,939 --> 01:07:04,108
We're not going to stop until ours...
1197
01:07:04,233 --> 01:07:06,527
is the finest in the country.
1198
01:07:06,652 --> 01:07:09,155
There'll be no finer
when we're through.
1199
01:07:09,280 --> 01:07:12,200
When I'd hire a guy...
1200
01:07:12,325 --> 01:07:15,077
I'd bring him into my office...
1201
01:07:15,203 --> 01:07:17,455
and I'd specifically
designed my office...
1202
01:07:17,580 --> 01:07:20,666
so I could display
the maximum trophies...
1203
01:07:20,791 --> 01:07:22,919
on walls and stuff.
1204
01:07:23,044 --> 01:07:26,380
And I'd bring this guy in,
who had probably been making...
1205
01:07:26,505 --> 01:07:28,591
maybe 9,000 a year or less.
1206
01:07:28,716 --> 01:07:31,260
I'd bring him into this office
with nice furniture...
1207
01:07:31,385 --> 01:07:34,805
and he'd see these trophies
and he'd -- "jeez," you know.
1208
01:07:34,931 --> 01:07:37,808
You know,
they were taken away.
1209
01:07:37,934 --> 01:07:40,937
It's kind of like flaunting it, I guess.
1210
01:07:41,062 --> 01:07:44,398
To hire him,
all I did was tell stories...
1211
01:07:44,565 --> 01:07:48,110
about what each trophy meant to me
and what it could mean to him...
1212
01:07:48,236 --> 01:07:51,364
and if he'd like to increase
his income and his future.
1213
01:07:52,281 --> 01:07:55,076
The names of our gardens
were created...
1214
01:07:56,577 --> 01:07:59,205
by words...
1215
01:07:59,330 --> 01:08:02,333
that seemed to depict...
1216
01:08:02,458 --> 01:08:06,796
the qualities of pets,
like our Garden of Companionship.
1217
01:08:06,921 --> 01:08:09,465
A pet is a companion.
1218
01:08:09,590 --> 01:08:11,592
The Garden of Devotion.
1219
01:08:14,011 --> 01:08:16,973
Almost all pets
are devoted to their masters.
1220
01:08:17,974 --> 01:08:21,477
The Garden of the Gentle Giants,
again, is descriptive.
1221
01:08:23,104 --> 01:08:24,981
Kitty Curve.
1222
01:08:25,106 --> 01:08:29,652
The Reserve Garden is set aside
and reserved for smaller pets.
1223
01:08:29,777 --> 01:08:32,280
The Garden of Memory...
1224
01:08:32,446 --> 01:08:35,783
is set aside
because it will bring...
1225
01:08:35,950 --> 01:08:39,161
happy memories
in the future, we hope.
1226
01:08:39,287 --> 01:08:42,123
We had a Valentine's Day party
for all the wives.
1227
01:08:42,290 --> 01:08:46,252
I think there was about six of us.
I told the guys to come over.
1228
01:08:46,377 --> 01:08:48,087
"We're gonna have a cake...
1229
01:08:48,212 --> 01:08:51,382
and we're gonna celebrate
Valentine's Day."
1230
01:08:51,507 --> 01:08:55,136
So we had a big cake,
and all the wives came over...
1231
01:08:55,303 --> 01:08:57,305
and I had this motivational
meeting planned.
1232
01:08:57,471 --> 01:08:59,974
They didn't know
exactly what was going on.
1233
01:09:00,099 --> 01:09:02,601
And I had
all these signs on the wall...
1234
01:09:02,727 --> 01:09:05,771
and I had made up a chart,
a commitment chart.
1235
01:09:05,896 --> 01:09:08,149
Anyway, we had the cake...
1236
01:09:08,274 --> 01:09:11,485
and we had the girls talk,
and we read the material...
1237
01:09:11,610 --> 01:09:14,071
the motivational material
for prizes and trophies...
1238
01:09:14,196 --> 01:09:16,532
to be won
the subsequent week.
1239
01:09:16,657 --> 01:09:18,909
And we got the girls motivated.
1240
01:09:19,035 --> 01:09:22,204
And the girls
got the guys motivated.
1241
01:09:22,330 --> 01:09:25,333
We created the Garden of Honor...
1242
01:09:25,499 --> 01:09:28,377
and in this garden,
we will bury...
1243
01:09:28,502 --> 01:09:31,047
a Seeing Eye dog
or a police dog...
1244
01:09:31,172 --> 01:09:33,799
killed in the line of duty...
1245
01:09:33,924 --> 01:09:36,218
at no cost...
1246
01:09:36,344 --> 01:09:39,305
if it's killed in the line of duty.
1247
01:09:39,430 --> 01:09:41,891
And for anybody else...
1248
01:09:42,016 --> 01:09:44,352
who wants to share this garden...
1249
01:09:44,518 --> 01:09:46,896
then we created a price...
1250
01:09:47,021 --> 01:09:50,483
which amounts to more than
any other garden that we have.
1251
01:09:50,608 --> 01:09:53,402
I kind of think
I'm motivated all the time...
1252
01:09:53,527 --> 01:09:57,948
because I have so many
experiences of motivation...
1253
01:09:58,074 --> 01:10:00,951
and I understand it quite well.
1254
01:10:01,077 --> 01:10:03,037
One thing that...
1255
01:10:03,204 --> 01:10:05,414
this gentleman to my left...
1256
01:10:05,539 --> 01:10:09,585
always said, and it sticks
in my brain all the time, is that...
1257
01:10:09,710 --> 01:10:12,463
"Emotions are not always
subject to reason...
1258
01:10:12,588 --> 01:10:15,007
but they're always
subject to action."
1259
01:10:15,132 --> 01:10:18,010
And we all have
periods of inertia...
1260
01:10:18,135 --> 01:10:21,138
where we don't want
to get up and do things.
1261
01:10:21,263 --> 01:10:23,557
So I have to tell myself
psychologically...
1262
01:10:23,724 --> 01:10:26,977
"It's gonna be a great day.
I'm gonna have a great day today."
1263
01:10:27,103 --> 01:10:30,981
I repeat it over and over and actually
do the thing with that in mind.
1264
01:10:31,107 --> 01:10:34,026
I've been trying
to teach it to my brother.
1265
01:10:34,151 --> 01:10:37,947
As a matter of fact, couple of months ago,
I wrote him a letter.
1266
01:10:38,072 --> 01:10:40,699
I tried to write him
a very motivational letter...
1267
01:10:40,825 --> 01:10:44,328
because at the time,
he was very inspirationally dissatisfied.
1268
01:10:44,453 --> 01:10:46,789
I don't go out very much...
1269
01:10:46,914 --> 01:10:49,583
so what I do to pass the time...
1270
01:10:49,750 --> 01:10:52,002
aside from watching television,
of course, is...
1271
01:10:52,128 --> 01:10:55,881
I would sit down and put
these tracks down on tape...
1272
01:10:56,006 --> 01:10:58,342
and just play guitar.
1273
01:10:58,467 --> 01:11:01,554
It's something that gives me
a lot of personal satisfaction.
1274
01:11:01,679 --> 01:11:04,598
I mean, with any type
of a musical instrument...
1275
01:11:04,765 --> 01:11:06,725
you're never gonna be bored.
1276
01:11:06,851 --> 01:11:08,853
So much of the time,
people say...
1277
01:11:08,978 --> 01:11:11,313
"What am I gonna do?
There's nothing to do."
1278
01:11:11,439 --> 01:11:13,441
They're continually complaining.
1279
01:11:13,566 --> 01:11:16,110
But with a musical instrument,
you can sit down...
1280
01:11:16,277 --> 01:11:18,362
and you can provide
your own entertainment.
1281
01:11:18,487 --> 01:11:20,614
♪♪[Rock]
1282
01:11:33,794 --> 01:11:36,255
♪♪[Man Singing, Indistinct]
1283
01:12:12,791 --> 01:12:15,920
♪ What you are
is what you want to be ♪
1284
01:12:16,045 --> 01:12:19,089
♪ It's up to you, my friend
You hold the key ♪♪
1285
01:12:19,215 --> 01:12:22,843
Even my kids --
You know, I try to abstain...
1286
01:12:22,968 --> 01:12:25,596
from the word "not"
and "can't" and "no"...
1287
01:12:25,721 --> 01:12:28,766
and stuff like that,
which are very negative words...
1288
01:12:28,891 --> 01:12:30,768
and try to instill...
1289
01:12:30,893 --> 01:12:33,521
rather than physical punishment...
1290
01:12:33,687 --> 01:12:35,689
but just saying --
1291
01:12:35,814 --> 01:12:38,692
My youngest girl is
21 /2 years old...
1292
01:12:38,817 --> 01:12:41,445
and it's very hard
for her to understand...
1293
01:12:41,570 --> 01:12:43,822
the language, rationalize it.
1294
01:12:43,948 --> 01:12:47,535
So I sit her down when she's done
something wrong and tell her...
1295
01:12:47,660 --> 01:12:49,703
"Good girls don't do this.
1296
01:12:49,870 --> 01:12:52,873
Good girls do things
that make us happy."
1297
01:12:52,998 --> 01:12:55,834
We created our little lakes...
1298
01:12:55,960 --> 01:13:00,214
because we feel that this gives
an atmosphere of tranquility...
1299
01:13:00,339 --> 01:13:02,716
and helps to break up...
1300
01:13:02,883 --> 01:13:05,094
the rows of little headstones...
1301
01:13:05,219 --> 01:13:07,596
which could be very monotonous...
1302
01:13:07,721 --> 01:13:09,723
and not too appealing.
1303
01:14:32,806 --> 01:14:37,061
In former years, I would write
three and four songs a week...
1304
01:14:37,186 --> 01:14:39,438
and I've got a little notebook...
1305
01:14:39,563 --> 01:14:42,316
where I've got
about probably 50 songs.
1306
01:14:42,441 --> 01:14:45,152
You know,
you always have the dream...
1307
01:14:45,319 --> 01:14:47,488
in the back of your mind
that someday...
1308
01:14:47,655 --> 01:14:50,240
these songs will be published,
and you'll be famous.
1309
01:14:50,366 --> 01:14:53,243
But as you get older,
you start realizing that maybe...
1310
01:14:53,369 --> 01:14:57,164
those are just what they were --
dreams, nothing more.
1311
01:14:57,331 --> 01:15:00,417
But dreams are nice to have.
1312
01:15:00,542 --> 01:15:03,337
Something to look forward to,
you know.
1313
01:15:03,462 --> 01:15:07,716
It gives you more satisfaction,
something you can think about.
1314
01:15:07,841 --> 01:15:11,679
Our mind is like a computer.
If our mind read...
1315
01:15:11,804 --> 01:15:14,682
or extracted a data line from it...
1316
01:15:14,848 --> 01:15:17,643
if you put in positive,
you would get out positive.
1317
01:15:17,768 --> 01:15:20,145
If you put in negative,
you get out negative.
1318
01:15:20,270 --> 01:15:22,690
So you have to understand that.
Our mind is --
1319
01:15:22,815 --> 01:15:26,694
We can go into a negative part
and into a positive part...
1320
01:15:26,819 --> 01:15:29,863
and if you really want to get more involved,
there's an in-between...
1321
01:15:30,030 --> 01:15:33,534
that people never get really negative,
and people never really get positive.
1322
01:15:33,701 --> 01:15:35,786
They call it "the gray area."
1323
01:15:35,911 --> 01:15:38,247
But the mind reacts to suggestion.
1324
01:15:38,372 --> 01:15:41,041
And suggestion is merely...
1325
01:15:41,208 --> 01:15:44,336
an external force
or an external thing...
1326
01:15:44,461 --> 01:15:47,715
that you perceive
through your senses --
1327
01:15:47,840 --> 01:15:50,926
like your smell,
your sight, your feeling.
1328
01:15:51,051 --> 01:15:54,513
You could even be
smelling a big vat of spaghetti...
1329
01:15:54,638 --> 01:15:57,641
and it suggests to you
that you're hungry.
1330
01:15:57,766 --> 01:16:00,978
So therefore,
our strongest power...
1331
01:16:01,103 --> 01:16:04,523
that we have is in suggestion
and the power of prayer.
1332
01:16:04,648 --> 01:16:06,984
That's the strongest power
that we have.
1333
01:16:09,570 --> 01:16:13,490
Success is like a journey...
1334
01:16:13,615 --> 01:16:16,869
and when you finally
achieve success in your given field...
1335
01:16:16,994 --> 01:16:19,079
the journey's over.
1336
01:16:19,246 --> 01:16:22,583
You have to look for another --
something else to motivate you.
1337
01:16:22,708 --> 01:16:25,794
There was a famous doctor
who was one of the first people...
1338
01:16:25,919 --> 01:16:27,963
to climb Mount Everest,
and at the end...
1339
01:16:28,088 --> 01:16:31,592
he looked up at the mountain --
The first time he tried, he failed.
1340
01:16:31,759 --> 01:16:35,179
And as he was coming down
from the mountain, he looked at it...
1341
01:16:35,304 --> 01:16:37,264
and he said,
"I'll climb Mount Everest."
1342
01:16:37,431 --> 01:16:40,392
He says, "Mountains don't grow,
but men always will."
1343
01:16:44,188 --> 01:16:47,649
There's a principle of law that
with every benefit, there's a burden...
1344
01:16:47,775 --> 01:16:50,652
and the responsibility
that you have with a dog --
1345
01:16:50,778 --> 01:16:53,739
It's not just an inanimate object.
1346
01:16:53,864 --> 01:16:56,116
In our life today, we do focus...
1347
01:16:56,241 --> 01:16:58,452
a lot of our attention
on material things...
1348
01:16:58,619 --> 01:17:00,704
such as automobiles, clothes...
1349
01:17:00,829 --> 01:17:02,581
trips, and things of that sort...
1350
01:17:02,706 --> 01:17:05,125
and even objects --
paintings and...
1351
01:17:05,250 --> 01:17:08,337
other kinds of things
at home that you cherish.
1352
01:17:08,462 --> 01:17:11,048
Well, an animal, I think,
much more so you cherish...
1353
01:17:11,173 --> 01:17:12,883
because he does respond to you.
1354
01:17:13,008 --> 01:17:16,303
He doesn't talk like a human being,
but he is much more so...
1355
01:17:16,428 --> 01:17:18,680
than just an inanimate object,
and I think therefore...
1356
01:17:18,806 --> 01:17:21,099
a responsibility
that a person has with an animal...
1357
01:17:21,225 --> 01:17:23,143
you'll sense that
when you have them...
1358
01:17:23,310 --> 01:17:25,479
'cause their love and affection
comes to you.
1359
01:17:25,604 --> 01:17:28,482
And that love and affection,
over a period of years...
1360
01:17:28,607 --> 01:17:32,569
becomes a part of your life,
and you just can't discard them...
1361
01:17:32,694 --> 01:17:34,988
to such a degree like you can...
1362
01:17:35,113 --> 01:17:37,407
a wrapper
around some food and say...
1363
01:17:37,533 --> 01:17:39,576
"Well, it's finished
and disappeared."
1364
01:17:39,701 --> 01:17:41,870
Of course, it is a very --
1365
01:17:41,995 --> 01:17:44,289
When a dog dies suddenly,
like Trooper died...
1366
01:17:44,414 --> 01:17:47,501
the moment of decision came:
"What do we do with him?"
1367
01:17:47,626 --> 01:17:49,628
I could often think
of Trooper's face...
1368
01:17:49,753 --> 01:17:51,922
and I say,
"Where are you gonna put me?"
1369
01:17:52,047 --> 01:17:54,758
There's something to life that,
even when you discard something...
1370
01:17:54,883 --> 01:17:56,927
of an inanimate nature,
you dispose of it...
1371
01:17:57,052 --> 01:17:59,054
with some kind of a reverence.
1372
01:18:01,682 --> 01:18:06,019
I got a stereo system
aside from a recording system.
1373
01:18:06,186 --> 01:18:09,565
It's a Pioneer SX-1010...
1374
01:18:09,690 --> 01:18:12,818
and it's a hundred watts per channel,
which is very powerful.
1375
01:18:12,943 --> 01:18:14,987
And on some occasions...
1376
01:18:15,112 --> 01:18:18,240
say, late afternoon, when there's
nobody up here at the park...
1377
01:18:18,365 --> 01:18:20,534
I'll take my speakers,
and put 'em outside...
1378
01:18:20,701 --> 01:18:22,703
and turn it up.
1379
01:18:22,870 --> 01:18:25,706
You can hear it.
It goes through the whole valley...
1380
01:18:25,831 --> 01:18:27,833
and you can hear it...
1381
01:18:27,958 --> 01:18:30,335
from miles away.
1382
01:18:32,212 --> 01:18:34,548
♪♪ [ Electric Guitar Rock: Blaring ]
1383
01:19:47,371 --> 01:19:49,456
I think we'll all be
together again.
1384
01:19:49,581 --> 01:19:52,292
I think we're gonna live
pretty much like we do here.
1385
01:19:52,417 --> 01:19:54,628
I want to be able
to find my pets.
1386
01:19:54,795 --> 01:19:57,464
I don't want 'em dug up
and scattered all over creation.
1387
01:19:57,631 --> 01:20:00,092
I want 'em right where
I know where they are...
1388
01:20:00,217 --> 01:20:03,637
where it's like in the hunting fields
like they've had in this life.
1389
01:20:03,804 --> 01:20:05,681
I believe we'll all be reunited.
1390
01:20:05,806 --> 01:20:08,809
I really do. I believe that
from the bottom of my heart.
1391
01:20:08,976 --> 01:20:12,020
She's got me believing that now.
I never believed in it, but --
1392
01:20:12,145 --> 01:20:14,356
Before, but I still do.
1393
01:20:14,481 --> 01:20:18,860
'Cause after all, there's your dog,
your dog's dead.
1394
01:20:18,986 --> 01:20:21,488
But where's the thing
that made it move?
1395
01:20:21,613 --> 01:20:23,573
It had to be something,
didn't it?
1396
01:20:23,699 --> 01:20:25,826
There's your spirit.
There it is.
1397
01:20:25,993 --> 01:20:28,078
I might be dead,
but I'm not moving.
1398
01:20:28,203 --> 01:20:30,330
And you can't put that
back in 'em.
1399
01:20:30,497 --> 01:20:33,625
But I can take the body
where it'll be with it...
1400
01:20:33,750 --> 01:20:37,170
and lay it to rest
for a beautiful thing...
1401
01:20:37,295 --> 01:20:40,215
and it can rest there
or be right around there.
1402
01:20:40,340 --> 01:20:44,761
It'll stay close. It'll stay where he is,
and I'll find it again.
1403
01:20:44,886 --> 01:20:46,972
I really will.
[ Chuckles ]
1404
01:20:47,097 --> 01:20:49,558
They'll be with us.
1405
01:20:49,683 --> 01:20:52,185
- I hope she's right.
- I think I'm right.
1406
01:20:52,310 --> 01:20:54,396
In fact,
I almost know I'm right.
1407
01:20:54,521 --> 01:20:58,025
- You'd bet on it, huh?
- Yeah, I'd bet a lot on it.
1408
01:21:01,069 --> 01:21:03,822
My assurance to the pet owner...
1409
01:21:03,947 --> 01:21:08,035
that they will be reunited
with their pet...
1410
01:21:08,160 --> 01:21:10,495
at some time in the future...
1411
01:21:10,620 --> 01:21:12,956
maybe under
different circumstances...
1412
01:21:13,081 --> 01:21:15,709
and in a different form.
1413
01:21:15,834 --> 01:21:17,878
As remote as this might be...
1414
01:21:18,045 --> 01:21:20,756
and as hard for them
to visualize...
1415
01:21:20,881 --> 01:21:24,342
it still gives them
a degree of hope.
1416
01:21:24,468 --> 01:21:26,511
[Insects Buzzing]