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Tennessee One - Text

Recorded 3.15.01 by Patricia Childs; edited 3.17.01 by Paul Meier. Running time 00:04:35

TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH

I have uh, uh, a little miniature dachshund named Precious Honey Pumpkin and when I have to go to the hospital, Pumpkin is completely housebroken and does not know to go to paper.  She has to go outside . . . and . . . she doesn’t know everybody, so usually it’s my mother or Kenny my son or myself that let’s her out, and uh—my next door neighbor came over one morning to let her out and Pumpkin was really protecting this house.  She—she—she growled and, uh, she—she would not go—get out of the chair.  And she wasn’t gonna move, she was taking care of this house s-but she tends to have a bladder problem.  And I had to take her to the vet and she had to, to—uh, do a test to make sure that she had a bladder problem and, um, we had to get medication.

UNSCRIPTED SPEECH TRANSCRIBED BY ELSA RICHARDSON 7 APRIL, 2008, UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF PROFESSOR SANDRA LINDBERG

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