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Hello everyone, welcome to Diddy's Korean Culture Podcast where we talk about various Korean cultures in Korean
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Did you all have a good week?
Today we will talk in Korean for an hour
Let's start the 1-hour Korean podcast
Last podcast, the theme song of the last 1-hour podcast
was 'animation', right?
There are more people who like animation like me than I thought
There were more of my subscribers
So I was very happy
It felt like I met a friend
So I thought about what topic I should cover this time
so that many people would enjoy listening to it
But the last time I talked about animation
for an hour, it was the first time
How did I do that? Still, I was able to talk for an hour until the end.
When I wondered what the reason was,
I talked about what I liked.
It seemed like we talked for an hour.
So this time, let's focus on what I like
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That's how I started thinking. So
I thought about what I like next to animation.
But no matter how much I try, Even when I think about it,
cats are the only ones that come to mind
So today, let's talk about the animal I really like,
cats
Those of you who are watching the video right now...
You will see it, but if you look behind me, there is a
cat
This cat is my cat, called 'Handsome', that I have had for a long time
since I was a student.
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But since I live at my parents' house now,
I also came to my parents' house today to film with Mi-nam
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As Mi-nam is taking a nap right now,
we are lucky enough to be filming together
I wonder how many takes we took to film with Mi-nam...
After I finish this podcast,
I will show you the last Bloopers as well.
So, a story about the cat I like so much
and the handsome guy in our house! I'll give it a try
What do you think?
The most famous pets are cats and dogs.
Do you sell cats? Are you a puppy pie?
Worldwide, aren't there probably a lot more people raising dogs?
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That's what I think.
I think there are probably more people raising dogs in Korea.
So, are you a cat person? Do you like dogs? I'm curious
I was actually a huge dog fan
Should I say dog fan... When it comes to pets, I only knew
dogs
Before I got Handsome
almost... I know what kind of animal it is and
what it looks like, but I didn't know much about it,
so I've only seen it in person a few times
But now that I started raising cats,
I'm a total cat fan. It's a case that has changed
So today I happened to raise a cat
I tried to prepare about the charms of cats
First of all, I used to be a dog person
but the reason I brought a cat
Let's talk about the process of meeting the handsome guy in my house
First, shall we?
First of all, we have to go a little further back in time.
I have loved animals since I was very young.
I loved animals so much, and among them,
dogs are the best with people, so
I also really wanted to raise a dog.
So, when I was young, I loved animals so much that my dream was to become a veterinarian,
and a doctor who takes care of animals.
So, I was the kind of kid who always asked my parents to let me raise a puppy
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So, as a birthday present, I always said, "I will listen really well...
I will study hard, so please let me raise a puppy...
I will take care of everything!!"
I asked for this, but
in the end, I couldn't raise a puppy.
You can't just bring a puppy in like a doll from the supermarket
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It's life, and you need to take good care of it
It's a pet that needs to be treated like a real family
Because it's a pet,
my parents said, 'You're not ready for that yet.'
'You've got a life to live. They said, 'I'm not ready for that kind of responsibility.'
They said no.
So... Nevertheless,
I told my parents that I wanted to keep raising animals, so
I've raised other animals, not dogs, a few times.
Birds, goldfish, etc.
And I also had experiences like that, like taking care of my dad's company dog for about a week
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But I took responsibility for those experiences well.
I didn't complete it
I didn't succeed in the challenge
First of all, in the case of birds
I wanted to communicate with animals
Communicating doesn't involve conversation
Still, it's like exchanging telepathy...
You talk with your eyes, you talk with your facial expressions, etc.
Dogs can't talk, but still
"Do you want to eat now? “Are you hungry?”
When you ask something like this
“I’m hungry!!”
I wanted to do something like that, but
the bird just chirped,
something like this... Even if I tried to get close to it, it ran away.
I couldn't connect with it, so
I also have a failed memory of losing interest rather quickly.
You really shouldn't do that. You shouldn't bring an animal.
In the end, I lost interest. I lost
and my parents took care of me until the end,
but I also had that experience of failure.
And when I took care of a puppy for a while,
my whole family felt that 'dogs are really hard to raise'
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My brother and I were students at the time.
And since my mom and dad were both working,
we had to be away from home for a long time.
But when the dog is away from home for a long time,
it gets really hard. It's hard for the dog, too.
Even when I go to school, all I can think about is the dog.
What should I do about the dog? Are you eating well?
The owner is anxious about leaving the dog behind,
It's so hard to wait for the dog,
It's important to spend too much time and attention with it,
When I took care of it for a while, I realized
So from then on, I said less often to my parents,
'I want a dog'
But I still want to raise it, because the puppy is so cute
I want to raise an animal. Because my heart is the same
it always seems like a pet shop,
it seems like a puppy shop, and when I pass by, I look at it for tens of minutes
'It's so cute...'
'I wish I could raise one someday...'
I had these thoughts
Then one day, my mother suddenly said to me
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"But dogs are hard to raise,
but if it's a cat, Wouldn’t it be worth raising it?”
“Wouldn’t you be able to raise one too?”
You're talking so suddenly
So, right at that moment, I
"Huh? What do you mean? Cat?"
“Why the cat?” When I asked this,
my mother's close friend brought a cat this time
and
you don't have to spend as much time as a dog than you think,
and there are a lot of things to take care of,
but it's still not that hard.
I heard somewhere that
so I really want to raise an animal like this,
and I always say, 'If I had an animal, I would study hard...'
I also hear lies like this. I see
my parents asked me once, “How about the cat?”
“Is the cat interested?” You asked this out of the blue
So I did!
"I love cats! Shall we get to know them now?
Can I bring them?" After doing this,
I started looking for cats from then on.
Of course, I also liked cats, but back then,
were cats that popular in Korea?
It wasn't a pet that many people kept
It wasn't a pet
So, I only had about two friends who had cats at school
Among my friends,
so I just asked them,
What are the characteristics of cats,
and things like that need to be taken care of
Well, when going to the hospital, you need to pay attention to things like that
I started studying on my own
From then on, I started to prepare thoroughly and properly
I asked my friends and I'm also on Naver cafe
There's a famous cafe there
I joined the cat cafe there
and just looked up information
Where to get it from a cat that's good for the cat and things like that
There's something like that, if you bring it from a pet shop
Every pet shop. It may be different,
but there are also pet shops that don't take care of it well.
There's information like 'home sales are good'
So, I saw a post from a home, and
I made an appointment to bring a cat from that home, just a house where people live,
where people live.
I contacted them like this,
so on the day of the appointment, my dad, mom, brother, and I
I make time on the weekend and drive there
I'm going to pick up the cat
But it's a long way
I drove for about an hour and a half
So now I'm going to the meeting place
A woman brought out a really small cat like this
She's a handsome guy now, and she brought her in
I was so amazed when I first got that cat
I was so amazed by such a small life
It was my first time touching a cat
The sound of a small cat like this crying
Cats usually cry like "Meow~" It cries like this
At that time, Handsome, who was a kitten, almost cried like a chick
🐥 Meow, meow
I can't imitate it, but it's so amazing
It's so amazing and so cute.
I remember making a promise in my heart like, 'I'll really make you happy'
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So, I don't know why at the time,
I really wanted to raise a white cat
I wanted to raise a white cat with such fur and fur
and the eyes were blue
It was my dream cat... It was my ideal cat,
so I brought that kind of cat
Oh, I didn't introduce my cat.
My cat is a Turkish Angora.
It's a Turkish cat.
Its fur is white and its eyes are so blue.
It's a very handsome cat.
As you can tell from the name, it's a handsome cat
So now I've come up with a name
I'd like to tell you about that story
I brought the cat and it's so pretty
But you have to give it a name
So, I'm giving my pet a name for the first time
Oh, you keep calling it 'pet'
It used to be called 'pet', but it's been that way for a few years
I changed the call to 'pet'
What is it about 'pet' that I own it?
It has the meaning of having
And 'companion' means living together, so
I decided to call animals companions as they are beings that live together, but
I keep getting used to them and calling them pets
A companion pet, because it is the first pet I have ever had affection for.
I was thinking a lot about the name,
and there were three candidates.
So, the first one. The candidate was...
'Jjinbang' Do you know steamed buns?
It's a winter snack. Why did you call it steamed bread?
There's such a superstition in Korea
There's a superstition that says you should name an animal after something edible, so it lives longer
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So, then, it's white.
Should we name it something edible?
But... nothing in particular came to mind
Rice paste?
Just thinking about white foods
Steamed buns? Aren’t steamed buns cute?
I thought about it, but when I looked at his face,
he didn't look too much like a steamed bun.
Steamed buns are round and plump like this.
It feels like that, but it doesn't feel like that.
So I was eliminated as a steamed bun.
Second, I liked a singer named Roy Kim at the time.
So, should we name him Roy or Louis? I thought
But the name suits it really well
Because it's such a white cat with blue eyes
It's such a luxurious name, Roy,
I think a name like Louis suits it well
But I feel like something isn't right? Do you know?
It doesn't feel cute. Like this
Hmm... Things like 'Chocoya' are cute.
Things like 'Doldol' and 'Smarty' are cute.
Things like 'Louis' and 'Roy' are said to not be cute.
I was eliminated again
And now the last one is 'Minam,' and Minam is actually
My friend has the cat I was talking about earlier.
That was the name of a friend's cat
The friend had two cats, and their names were Handsome and Beautiful
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They were brothers, no, brother and sister
'Handsome' means a handsome man
'Beauty' means a pretty woman
So I raised Handsome and Beautiful
These cats went to heaven
The cat I have now is called Miso.
I was raising a cat like this with Mija Dolorim.
The cat I brought in is also a male cat.
So can I use the name Mi-nam?
Can I take it? When I asked my friend,
my friend said he really liked it and said, "I'll call you Handsome."
'Handsome' has a certain kind of affection to it.
It's cute and a bit old-fashioned
And it's not a name that doesn't suit you.
He really has a really handsome face... Handsome?
Is it okay to look good to animals?
They said he looked pretty, so they decided to name him Minam.
So, from then on, his name has been 'Minam'.
In Korea, if there is a final consonant at the bottom of the name,
Minam+ is called like this.
Just like Sumin calls it like this
That's how I became Minam. This is Minam.
That's how I met Minam.
Well, of course, after raising a cat
I learned so much about the charms of cats that I became a complete cat fan
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So from now on...
I have cat hair in my mouth right now
Let me talk about something realistic
People who want to raise a cat
People who want to live with a cat at least once
I think some of you are listening to this
The pros and cons of cats in my opinion
The pros and cons of living with a cat
From now on, let's talk about
Shall we talk about the pros first, or the pros?
What are the advantages of cats?
First of all, the biggest advantage is that
you don't have to spend a lot of personal time
This may be misunderstood.
It's not that they don't spend time at all, but
when I look at people who raise dogs, I can see a lot of things their families do that center around their dogs.
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For example, if you have to go on a trip,
you must always take the dog with you. So,
looking for accommodations where the dog can stay,
planning a travel itinerary focusing on the dog,
moving and managing time,
I've seen a lot of things like this
And the dog needs to be walked in the daily schedule, too.
So this is the time in the daily schedule to walk the dog,
and I always make time like this
It's good to spend a lot of time together.
Cats, um... rather than making time for themselves,
they just feel like roommates living in the same space
Even though cats want to spend time with each other,
they just run away because they don't like cats
Like that, you don't have to spend a lot of personal time
The fact that they are animals that don't need people that much
I think that might be a good thing for some people
I have to commute from home to work.
Of course, cats feel lonely
So if they are away for too long,
you will have to come up with another way,
But they don't need to spend this much time
than with dogs.
Even when you go on a trip,
you can ask an acquaintance who can provide you with food and such for
a few days or 3 days,
and the dog
To be honest, cats don't care too much about the owner or
just a person or the guy next to them,
as long as they just feed them and
the person who gives them snacks.
Cat by cat, but
because they are animals with such habits and natural personalities,
that is also an advantage. Definitely
And it doesn't smell?
This is also an advantage
Dogs have a unique doggy smell
Some people may like it
I think some may find it a bit difficult
But cats are scent-free
They don't have any scent, so they don't smell
And when you dispose of things like the toilet
You always have to change the litter pad for dogs
The feces and urine stay there, right?
The dog's poop and urine stay there
and there's a smell that comes from there
If you just put a sand bucket in the cat,
you don't need any training
It just goes about its business like this
and covers the sand on its own
So it doesn't smell
It's also an advantage that the house doesn't smell like that at all.
Hmm... I guess that's about it
So, should we say that these advantages are other side effects? Pros and cons?
There are some disappointing things hidden behind it
For example, because I don't need people too much
Sometimes I feel a bit sad
I want to hang out like this, but
If I get close, he runs away and I get a little hurt when he does that
Well, there are times when I feel reassured when I go on a trip or something like that
And you said that we are like individuals and roommates when it comes to time, etc.
I just do my job and he just does it. What he wants to do
A cat does what it wants to do
Sometimes it comes to ask to play with it Sometimes
It comes to ask to play with it
Sometimes it doesn't know how to play with it
How does a cat spend its time happily?
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Cats are difficult
Even if you play with them 10 times more than a real cat
They just stay still
I wonder if they are happy or not
I still don't know their true feelings
Although they are difficult, they have their advantages
And now personally
The reason why I personally like cats,
The attractive point of cats Let's talk about what they think
The first thing is that cats are very good at pushing and pulling
Pushing and pulling is about pushing and pulling
Pushing and pulling are commonly talked about as dating techniques
When you're dating, you just pull too hard
Too much "I like you! I love you!
Spend time only with me! Stay with me all the time!"
If you keep pulling like this,
the other person might get tired of that behavior.
"I don't want to! I want to be away from you! I need some alone time!"
Like this, you can actually become distant
And push away too much
"I don't think we're in this kind of relationship yet...
We're still...
I don't think we're meant to be together this far."
If you keep pushing away like this,
"If you're going to be like this, why are you meeting me?
If you don't like me, I'll just date someone else!" In a flash
it could go away again
So you have to know how to push and pull appropriately
so that you can continue to be attracted and maintain a long-term relationship
That's the name of that skill, pushing and pushing
But this cat is a master at pushing and pushing
He's so good at pushing and pulling
I always say, "The cat is so cute!!! Handsome boy, let's play together!!!" And if you get close to
, it doesn't even wait for a second and
just runs away. "Go away!!"
But when I'm busy editing the video
At that time, he sneakily comes next to me like this
and sends me a signal asking me to play
Then what should I do? I have to play with him again. I was so happy at that moment
Did handsome boy finally come to me...?🥹✨
"No need to edit! Just like handsome boy." Let’s play!!!”
I spend my time like this
I'm so good at that kind of push and pull
And do you know what's really cute?
He clearly doesn't like people very much.
When I get close to him like this, he acts like this, telling me not to come this close
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So, you don't like people.
While you're thinking about this,
you're gathered in the living room with your family,
watching TV or something.
Then, it's hidden in your field of vision like this.
The angle of your eyes is up to a certain degree.
I'm not sure if you can see it, though.
What is 160 degrees? Let's say you can see this much
Then at the end,
there's something white like this on the barely visible side
That's why he looks handsome
That's why he quietly comes next to you and stays with you
But he doesn't like it when you get too close
He has a reasonable distance like that
And he's good at pushing and pushing
I think that's his charm that I can't escape
That's why I learn a lot from cats
I want to be like a cat like that
It's so, so attractive
That charm is the biggest
And the reason I like cats is
They're so small and precious
I like them because they're small and precious
There are much smaller animals out there
How small are hamsters
I've never raised animals like that, so I'm not sure
Cats are compared to people It's such a small animal
So my fist, my fist
Mukjippa! This fist is used when playing rock-paper-scissors
The fist is not that big
It's not big, but the face is really the size of my fist
The eyes are so (big) on such a small face
The nose and mouth are so cute
And among the parts of a cat's body
, my favorite part that a cat has
is the nose and mouth
This place is so cute
It has really small nostrils on its nose
It breathes
There are nostrils that breathe like this
These nostrils are really small, but the wind comes out from there
It's a living creature
"You're a living creature and you breathe like this too"
Every time I see something like that, my heart breaks and it's so lovely.
And has anyone seen the cat’s front teeth?
Cat's front teeth
Usually, when drawing a cat, you draw fangs like this.
Like a vampire, you draw fangs like this.
There are front teeth. A cat
has about six teeth in the top and bottom front.
But those front teeth are really small
Really!!
A quarter of rice?
I have really small front teeth, about the size of
"Why are you there?
What are you doing?"
It's so cute
How can a creature like this exist?
It is a creature from nature.
It has blue eyes and a pink nose.
The fur is white and it is so amazing.
Just looking at it is amazing and makes me happy.
It has these advantages
This is what I think are the advantages and things I like about cats.
Now I would like to talk about the disadvantages.
I am speaking from my own opinion.
I have one personal opinion. Let me tell you
Cats have no flaws
Cats have no flaws
But I'd like to say that, but
There are difficulties. The difficulties
And I love cats so much, and
honestly, they find everything cute no matter what I do.
Although they say they have no flaws,
There are flaws in cats that my family thinks
My family can't help but
Because they are raising cats because of me.
There are some inconveniences and difficulties while living together
It's important to be aware of these things as well
When you first get a cat, if you only look at the good points
you want to raise it all, but you must also be aware of the difficult points
so you can take responsibility until the end
So, let's talk about the difficult things that are good to know in advance
The first one is the fur
I just mentioned earlier While talking
There are times when my face feels itchy and I feel something
So when you live with a cat, there's always fur on the body
Well, it's not just one or two strands
It's just all over the body
Of course it's also on the face
Even when I eat...
Now I'm used to it, so I just eat with or without fur
Even when I eat, no matter how cleanly I cook
There's always one or two strands of fur
Those of you who are somewhat clean, or those who care about cleanliness and hygiene
This is something you should think about.
Of course, you can't wear black clothes or something like that.
You always have to clean it with a roll of tape like this when you go out.
But it's a little annoying for me, so there are times when I don't take care of it properly.
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Then, for those of you who meet with me now,
Maybe you have an appointment?
You always have to pay attention in those times,
Sometimes it's difficult to take care of clothes, and
As for how much hair really falls out,
Hmm... That cowboy movie?
Do you know anything? Western movie?
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Have you ever seen a scene in a movie where
a straw is rolling around like this?
Is it some sort of straw? I don't know what it is, but
Have you ever seen that scene where something like a leaf rolls around like this?
That's how much hair is always rolling around
Even if you clean it once every two days
Even if you do it once a day
Even if it hasn't been 10 minutes since you finished cleaning
the hair is just rolling around
This is what my family has the most trouble with and
it's also something that surprises my relatives and
friends who visit my house
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I often hear people say things like this
It's a bit difficult for those who are allergic to fur,
I think it's also very difficult
My brother is allergic to cats
But it was a case that he overcame with love
Of course, it's going to be difficult for those with allergies
I haven't done an allergy test,
But I still play with cats for too long
And I put cats too close to my face
When I do this, my face gets itchy and red
There are times when something like this comes up
So, you should know that things like that can happen
Before you bring a cat, I wonder if I can play well with the cat
If I can handle this fur, I think it would be a good idea to go to the cat owner's house and spend time with the cat for a day
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My cat is a medium-length cat.
It's not a cat with completely long hair or long hair.
It's medium-long hair
It's not completely short, not long, but a little long.
It might look like it has more hair because it's that kind of cat.
I heard that short-haired cats also lose a lot of hair.
This can be a bit difficult.
And secondly, it can have problems like scratches.
Cats can have hair like that. They have claws
They say they relieve stress by tearing things with their claws
They say this is the kind of animal that relieves stress
So of course, nowhere in my house is in good condition
The bed, blanket, curtains, chairs, and wallpaper are all torn up
No matter how many scratchers I buy, they keep scratching
They go in somewhere and scratch
New... furniture arrived? Scratching
Because that's a cat's unavoidable instinct
'I can't forgive scratching the furniture'
People who do that shouldn't be cats again
Well, our house is already finished.
He's already changed the chair to the point where it's almost like a toothpick
He's changed it like this
But, well... I can overcome it all with love
Because the happiness I receive is greater
I say it doesn't matter, but
my family has been very considerate. Because of me,
I have such a scratch problem
And sometimes cats scratch people like this
The claws are very sharp
Dogs don't scratch or anything
I know there are dogs that bite like this sometimes, but they don't scratch
Cats sometimes scratch
And they didn't try to scratch
Because the claws are so sharp
I was sleeping like this one time
Sometimes he gets excited and runs around. The cat sometimes
In Korea, it's called 'Udada', and one time I ran over and scratched my face
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At that time, my face got hurt this big
Of course, it's good to know that there is a risk
And the third difficult thing is
The third may be just my cat's problem
My cat... bites
My cat bites
That's why when I first brought it
it was so hard to get used to it
How can you bite me so sincerely when I feed you and play with you like this and love you so much
?
It was really hard at first
But now I'm getting the hang of it
'Ah, when he makes this look, he's about to bite'
I've learned things like that
And since the handsome guy is a bit bigger
he bites less
While I'm filming this podcast,
the camera battery is low
I'll just charge this for a moment.
When I first brought it to you, it bit me so hard. I didn't have any tricks,
and I had no idea how to avoid it.
I didn't even know when it would bite me.
I was just sleeping like this and then it bit me.
But when it bit me,
it just said cutely, "Ang! Play with me!" They don't bite
but they really rush at you and bite you to the point where you're like, 'I need to rip your arm off'
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So I had scars all over my arm like this.
My arm was so scarred that when other people saw it from the outside,
my arm was worried.
Even these days, I get bitten sometimes, so I still have scars on my arms,
and I have scars on my legs and other places.
I get bitten less now.
My family gets bitten seriously once in a while
When that happens, I really don't care
"You have to dodge the cat before it bites you!"
Well... "When it behaves like this, it bites, so you have to run away."
But there's nothing you can do.
It's just... cats can't be trained.
No matter how disobedient a dog is,
there's a dog trainer.
The dog trainer gives it treats like this.
You can change it a little by training like this, but
cats can be trained. It's not an animal.
Sometimes, when I go and look at YouTube or something like that,
hands! Turn around! Lie down! I've seen a cat do something like this
That's an alien
That... Mutation, a miracle that happened even though it was originally impossible
I think it's a miracle
Cats can't be trained
I've tried many times over the past 12 years, but it doesn't work
That's why each cat can have a different personality
Like crying or running around all night
Or it could be something like a scratch or something like that.
It's quite difficult to fix something like that.
Now I have to learn some tricks to deal with it.
I think that could be a bit difficult as well
And now the last difficult thing is when I'm sick
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It's a bit difficult when I'm sick or when I go to the hospital
It's my first time raising an animal and it's my first time raising a creature like this
My mentality is bad. There come moments when you have to be strong
For example, giving medicine to a cat
Do you know how to give it?
There are times when cats need to eat something like a pill.
Dogs eat it well if you hide it well in a treat.
My cat doesn't eat it well no matter how much I mix it in the treat
So I have to put it in a pill and feed it...
After opening the mouth like this, there is a syringe. It's my first time working.
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So, at first, I was so scared
How can I do this? ㅜㅜ'
So there was a time when my mentality was shaken a lot.
I'm still shaken. In fact, I'm not good at giving pills
There are times when I need things like that.
Later, when Mi-nam gets sicker
I might have to give him an injection of IV fluid or something.
Like that. Things nurses do
There may come a time when you have to do something like that
It's hard to take her to the hospital
Maybe it's just my cat
My cat had a hospital trauma once
It was a really good cat at that hospital
They say it's a gentle cat, and it's a good person
It's just like a chill guy, sitting like this no matter what it does or doesn't do
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I was doing a blood test once,
and the nurse was wondering if the animal wasn't bleeding well.
Even though I stuck the needle three times, it failed.
At that time, the switch suddenly flicked on and
I once turned into another animal.
It was originally a cat. It was a cat, but suddenly
it turned into a wild tiger.
Have you guys seen Zootopia?
Zootopia is a story about a world where animals live
It's a world where animals lose all their wildness and nature and live on two feet like humans
They walk around on two feet like humans
At some point, something like a blueberry gun is developed
But when you get hit by that gun, your wildness suddenly awakens
It's an animation where you turn into a wild animal
Just like you got hit by that blueberry gun
He suddenly turned into a wild tiger
So he was scratching everyone...
He was running away and making strange noises
So at that time, I was so shocked and he was also so surprised
From then on, every time I went to the hospital, he turned into a wild tiger like that
Every time I took him to the hospital, I kept taking care of this little wild tiger
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I had to calm him down and soothe him from start to finish
The whole process is a bit laborious
It's an exhausting process
So you have to do those things
When you raise animals, living creatures, or any life,
there is a beginning and an end, and there are times when it hurts in between, so
there are definitely things like that
I wanted to tell you that you also need that determination
Well, I've talked about the advantages and difficulties, but
I like cats. I've been raising him for about 12 years.
Handsome is about 12 years old now.
I haven't regretted it for a single day in 12 years.
Maybe I don't know yet, but
Maybe I will continue to raise cats
I think so
There are some things I learned after meeting Handsome
While raising a cat for 12 years
There are things I felt and learned
There are about three things
The first is responsibility, taking responsibility
I learned responsibility
The second is understanding, what it is like to be an animal
How can I understand cats?
I learned the kind of understanding that allows me to understand one's life.
The third thing is infinite, unconditional love.
I also learned something like that.
Let's talk about them one by one.
The first thing is responsibility
When I think of Mi-nam, another keyword that comes to mind
is responsibility.
Although my Mi-nam is currently living at his parents' house,
I do my best. I have rarely seen Mi-nam for more than a week
The longest time I have been away from Mi-nam for 12 years
was two months.
During those two months, I had to go to the US for some
school activity,
and I was away from home for two months.
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I am currently being taken care of by my family,
but I still feel a sense of responsibility to continue to care for Mi-nam, pay attention to him,
check his condition, and do this
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Because I think Mi-nam is my cat
Not my family's cat
Because he is my cat
As I live, I have to go far away,
or I have to leave the house for a long time due to work.
So, there may come a situation where you have to ask someone else to do it
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And having someone to ask for
is also something I am very grateful and good
I am also very grateful to my parents, but
but still, I still want to see Mi-nam every week
No matter how far away I am,
just to see Mi-nam every week
I am coming to my parents' house like this
There are a lot of things to do when I come here
I have to check if there are any other problems inside my ears
If I have any pain
Is my toenails too long
Do I need to trim them? I have to check everything
I have to check their condition all the time
I have to check if the rice has run out
Since I have to take care of everything like that
I have to take full responsibility until the handsome man dies
I think so.
But rather than doing this for Mi-nam,
it's actually for me.
It's a cat I brought in because I wanted to bring it in.
It's an animal that could have lived a happier life somewhere else
if not for me.
I'm bringing it in and raising it out of my own greed.
When I think about the things I couldn't do for Mi-nam when he died,
the things we couldn't spend time with.
I feel like it's going to be really hard
That's why I feel regret and sorry
Because I want to feel less of these things
I think I have a feeling that I have to take full responsibility for Mi-nam
So, while raising Mi-nam,
I learned the weight of taking a life and raising him,
and how many things I have to take responsibility for
That's why
So. I wanted to go on a working holiday or study abroad
at least once,
and my parents would probably say that if I wanted to go for something like that,
'Well then, go ahead
and we'll take care of Handsome.'
Still, I want to spend as much time as possible with Mi-Nam until the end, even if only until he dies
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I learned that kind of feeling and sense of responsibility
And the second thing was understanding
A heart that understands that they are animals
I learned a heart that understands other living things
That's why I said that Mi-Nam has no flaws
That's why I said that cats have no flaws
Animals are just that. It's this kind of life
It's not just a person, or a person, but if there's something they can see
If they want to pluck and play, they express their feelings by biting
There was that too, one of the difficult things they couldn't talk about
is that cats are nocturnal
So they cry a lot at 5 or 6 o'clock at night and wake people up
That's also something that families have a hard time with
Cats are such animals
But
You may feel distressed like, 'Why does the cat do that?' It's hard
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but if I understand that other people are just that kind of people
and that I can't tell them to do this or that just because they do certain things,
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to the point where I think there's nothing to hate in the world,
after meeting a cat, I started to understand that cats are such animals and
things like that,
without being hateful or difficult
just Love, only love is left
So, like this, I was able to understand other animals or other beings
as they are
I was able to learn things like that
Now, you said that the last thing is infinite love
And unconditional love
That's the story that continues
I felt that I was falling in love with the cat unconditionally
The cat doesn't do anything for me If you look at it calmly,
the cat is just It just lives the life of a cat.
Just like I do for my cat,
it feeds me, plays with me, spends time with me,
comforts me when I'm having a hard time,
gives me advice or talks to me,
doesn't do any of that.
It just stays alive, breathing and healthy.
I'm so grateful and so loving in itself, isn't it?
Should I say that I found out about that?
I saw somewhere that there are many people who feel this kind of love
for dogs and cats.
Unconditional, unconditional love
But the reason it is difficult to do with other humans,
people is because
they speak. They can hurt people
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and cause a lot of different emotions,
cats and dogs can't do that,
so they can just like them unconditionally
I'm interpreting it however I want
So I've heard that that's the case
Um... okay, I can't say anything
There are some inconveniences, but maybe that's why
I've come to understand this kind of relationship. I don't know if it's true, but
'Ah, it's really possible to love someone so unconditionally.'
The fact that someone can be so pretty and lovely is something I don't think I would have known if I hadn't raised a cat
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So, I said that my cat is now 12 years old.
So now the cat is as old as my grandfather in human years
I don't know exactly how old he is
Do you know how many years the average lifespan of a cat is?
They say cats live on average for 13 years
But my cat is currently 12 years old
He only has one year left. If you think of it as an average lifespan,
so we don't have much time left to spend together
Because I know that there isn't much left
I try to make him cute and give him more delicious food every day
Even if I'm a little busy, when he comes to play
I try to spend time with him.
Actually, that's what my parents were most worried about from the time I first brought the cat
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'You love this cat so much and raise it so well,
what will you do if it dies?
It will be so hard when you die
It's hard to see that because you're going to have such a hard time
It's so hard for us, it's so hard for us too, so it'll be a bit difficult to bring you back'
You were so against it
But I said "No!!!"
Because the goal was to bring him in first.
“No, I will raise him well until the end!!” So I brought him here
So, to wrap things up with my thoughts these days
First of all, this is a bit similar to my understanding of animals earlier.
Cats are animals that only live for 13 years.
So, what would be sad?
If Mi-Nam, who was always behind me like this, disappears
If he goes to heaven, it will of course be sad and difficult.
Still, for too 13 years,
I received There are so many things
Handsome didn't do anything for me
The comforts I received, the happiness, joy, fun, and the things I laughed at
Because there are so many of these things
I don't want to regret it or think
I shouldn't have brought it in or I shouldn't have raised it
I don't want to, I don't want to
Just be honest, an animal that lives for 13 years
has lived for 13 years. Isn't that something I'm so grateful for?
I'm trying to think that way
I'm already preparing my mind to do that
That's what I'm thinking about
It may be sad, but it's an animal that lives for 13 years,
This is the lifespan of this animal, and if I brought in an animal like this,
the only thing I can do is to do my best to spend the time that this animal has with
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That's what I'm thinking.
So, they say the average lifespan is 13 years.
What was really funny was that
there are cats that were listed in the Guinness Book of World Records.
There are cats that lived so long that they were listed in the Guinness Book of World Records.
If you look at the ages of those cats,
they're like 40 years old, but they're 35... That's why
the difference is so big
13 years old 40 years old? The difference is so big.
What, then how long can you live? I thought,
My cat is still very healthy
It's very healthy and plays well
So, I don't have any major worries so far
It's the same for people and cats
Well, when you get older, you suddenly get sick
So, yes... I'm at the stage of mentally preparing for that
That's why I want to raise a cat again next time
I'll keep raising it. I said I wanted to,
but actually, I don't think I can raise him alone
I'm really alone and I still have family members who help me,
but I feel like I'm raising this child alone
What am I going to do with this child after he dies?
And when he gets sick, I need to prepare for something like that.
You have thoughts like that, right?
I'm handling all of those plans and things on my own.
Even when Mi-Nam is sick, we have conversations like this...
There's someone with whom I can resolve things like, 'What should I do?' I'm thinking about it
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Taking care of the cat's beginnings and endings alone
It was a very happy path, but there were some difficult experiences
I've thought about how I wish someone would be with me a few times
So what's my goal now
My house isn't that far from my parents' house right now
I wanted to go back and forth often
I looked for a house nearby, but
Unfortunately, that house doesn't allow the cat to be raised. It's an impossible house
So my next goal is
to move to a house where I can raise a cat, and
so that I can spend the last days of Mi-nam's life well together.
My current goal is
We talked for an hour about Mi-nam,
and cats. How was it?
Did this hour pass by in an instant?
Did it go by in an instant?
If you also have a pet,
and any experiences you have had or things you have learned so far
I would appreciate it if you could share them in the comments
If there is a topic you would like to listen to on the podcast next time
I would appreciate it if you left a comment again
To film a podcast with this handsome guy today,
I filmed a lot of takes
So after this podcast, I will tell you all
I'll show you the NG parts and finish.
So, thank you for your hard work today for listening to the end.
Those who listened to the end
left a comment at the end with a heart of real praise for themselves.
I listened to the end. No, let's choose another password.
What should we do? What should I do?
'Meow, meow cat.' Let's use this as the password.
'Meow, meow cat.' Have a good day and good night. Bye!
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