The Josh Innes Show - Ross Got Another One

Episode Date: July 3, 2025

As we are now just 5 days from our move, Ross seems to be on a mission to kill every critter in the yard. Well, Jilly is the one who witnessed this..so I'm not sure it happened . I was asked a very good question about Ross's previous kill... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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from No Frills with PC Express. Shop online and get $15 in PC optimum points on your first five orders. Shop now at nofrills.ca. What's going on everybody? It is Thursday. It is the day before Independence Day which makes it July 3rd and I am driving Ross over to the park right now. I'm in the car so I figured we'd chat. Like so this morning Ross had another incident and by an incident. I mean according to Jilly I didn't see it, but according to Jilly this savage killed another critter in the yard

The reason why I don't know is because when I went out there to check things out well actually let me first off Let me play a couple commercials. Let me get the commercials out of the way here I think you guys like it when I get them out of the way early and just go but let me get these commercials out of the way and We will talk about this I Cannot wait to get out of this house Because and our landlord is very nice guy talked with him yesterday to kind of get everything kind of set up for us moving.

And but the part of the problem is our lawn has just gotten out of control with like shrubbery and bushes and random, you know, plants growing out of the ground because the landlord hasn't really done anything about it lately. And maybe it's just because we've been month to month. I don't know, but it's a mess. And we got this little tiny nasty little pond out there that serves no purpose except Ross may fall in it, which by the way he did. The first night that we got him it was in December of last year and he's out in the backyard and just falls into this tiny,

it's a small pond, it's called a water, as he's called it, a water feature. It is gross and nasty and I had to unplug it because it was winter and it was pointless. And now it sits out there and just attracts bugs and there's a bunch of shit around it. So, but that's also where these bunnies are kind of hiding. These bunnies and all this other shit. Squirrels, little woodchucks and shit, I guess. Or chipmunks, maybe not woodchucks. I don't think we have woodchucks in the back. But we have, like, chipmunks in the back. But anyway, let me play a couple commercials, we'll get into it. I want to tell you about Wagovi. Wagovi? Yeah. Wagovi. What about it?

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because I know how it's gonna end. He's just gonna jump in all of these bushes, all this shrubbery, and he's not gonna come in until he catches something. As you know, if you listen to the podcast at all, he caught a bunny and it was a horrible situation. At least the garbage came yesterday so that bunny is gone. It was brought to my attention, I think I brought this up, but it was brought to my attention by one of the people who listens to the show that I message with all the time. It's like,

why did you throw that dead bunny away? Why didn't you just like bring him out to a wooded area and, I don't know, let him become part of the earth? And I'm like, you know you throw that dead bunny away? Why didn't you just like bring him out to a wooded area? And I don't know, let him become part of the earth. And I'm like, you know what? That's actually a really good idea, but I didn't. And the garbage can still smells awful. It smells like dead bunny carcass. That's where we are right now with that, but at least the garbage came.

I also have an issue with our garbage because no matter what happens, no matter what's in the garbage can, no matter how many times the garbage comes, there is a foil top from a Chipotle burrito bowl that will not leave the garbage can. For whatever reason, it is permanently stuck in the garbage can and I'm not going to reach my hand in there and scoop it out. It's disgusting in there and scoop it out. It's disgusting in there. So I have one lid, one Chipotle foil lid

that is just permanently stuck to the bottom of the garbage can. But anyway, so you know that Ross caught a bunny, eventually let the bunny go. The bunny was not dead. I picked up the bunny, moved him to a different spot where he would go on to cross the rainbow bridge. I don't know what bunnies do. I don't know if different animals also cross a rainbow bridge or if it's just dogs that cross a rainbow bridge. But this bunny eventually died and then I eventually picked him up in a grocery bag

and threw him in the garbage can and that's where he spent about a week decaying and rotting and smelling vile which was a dumb move on my part which I am now aware of and I feel stupid but anyhoo so this morning Ross is asking to go out and this really hasn't been an issue before Ross would go in kind of mess around he's always kind of chase things around and dug around for things, but he's never caught things or come close to catching things. There's never really a time where there's, you know, tons of little critters in the yard. But now it's gotten to that point and I hate to take him out because I know he's gonna do something wild, weird, and wacky and maybe come up with a critter. So, Jilly takes him out. Like, I can just sit there and ignore him.

I have an ability to ignore him and not let him out and know that, hey, I'm going to get up in a second, I'll put your harness on, we'll go for a walk, whatever. I don't want to deal with you and these bunnies. Jilly has a harder time doing that. She can't really ignore him. I'm very good at ignoring him. Not that I don't like him, not that he's not wonderful. I can just ignore him a lot better than she can. So, she gets up to let him out and everything's fine. I'm laying in bed. It's about 650 in the morning I'm just kind of laying there and half asleep, you know, Julie's having to get up earlier this week She's got to do a lot of shit. She's on in a billion cities this weekend

If you if you're in a city, you might hear Julie this weekend like I think she's doing shit from everywhere from Detroit to like Charlotte to Raleigh Sacramento I mean she's everywhere like Jilly is everywhere at this point, so there's a very good chance Harrisburg, I mean you'll hear Jilly somewhere But anyhoo so she's having to get up early and do all the shit, and we're still packing and we're still trying to move So she's having to get up early and do all this shit and we're still packing and we're still trying to move There's just a pain in the ass, but I'm laying there and I hear oh my god, Luther or no. Oh my god Ross Oh my god, Ross and then she goes no don't go in the house No, don't go in the house and she hurries up and slams the door in his face

And she runs into the bedroom and she's like he got something again I don't know what it was, but it was in his face and she runs into the bedroom and she's like, he got something again. I don't know what it was but it was in his mouth and oh my god and he's gonna bring it in the house and he's gonna go get it. What if he dies? What if he gets sick? What if it's a rabies? So I get up and I'm like, shit. So I get up and walk outside. I'm in my underwear. I get up, walk outside. I have no clue where this alleged dead critter is. Like I'm looking around for it, I can't find him, the dog doesn't have him in his mouth.

So I have no clue what this is. And then Ross just runs back in the house without the critter. I don't know if he hid the critter, which is possible. This dog, like, Luther wasn't a dog that would hide shit That wasn't really his thing Luther was kind of like an anti dog Where is as Ross is just like every fucking like he's every dog Stereotype like if we give him like a toothbrush right like a dog toothbrush This dog will go and hide it

somewhere and then forget where he hid it or just forget to go get it and somewhere and then forget where he hid it or just forget to go get it and then the toothbrush ends up sitting like buried in the couch for weeks and then he'll randomly find it and then eat it but it's like he's bless his heart he's so stupid that he hides things to make sure we don't find them and then he can't find them so like one time he took a bone outside and buried it somewhere and we still have not found this bone. That is not something that Luther would have ever done. Luther would have sat there and focused on that bone and consumed that bone, but not this guy. That's not what Ross does. Ross is a maniac and Ross just does dog stuff.

Again, when we go back to what his adoption stuff said, when we saw him on the PepFinder website, they're like, well, he's kind of low energy and he just wants to cuddle up with you. And I'm like, okay, cool. I was not told that this dog was going to be on the prowl looking to kill shit all the time. So I have not confirmed with my own eyes that this dog killed another critter. I don't know that. I'm not positive on that. Jilly says it. She said she saw something in his mouth. She didn't know what it was.

She didn't know if it was a squirrel or a bunny or what. I think, like, I think you'd be able to tell if it was a squirrel or a bunny. There's a distinct difference between a squirrel and a bunny. I seriously doubt it was a squirrel. You know, I was thinking about this yesterday. Ross has been on a warpath looking for bunnies in the neighborhood, so when we go for a walk, it is a miserable experience because all he wants to do, and by the way, this neighborhood is nothing but bunny rabbits. They're everywhere. So like, he'll stop and force me to go chase these bunny rabbits with him, but I'm thinking about this as he's chasing these critters. Like there's a part of me that actually kind of admires his desire to

catch one of these things. And like I admire it because the odds of him actually catching these things are very slim. First of all, he's on a leash. So there's no way he's going to catch anything on a walk, but he's stupid and doesn't realize that. But like, because, he's on a leash. So there's no way he's gonna catch anything on a walk But he's stupid and doesn't realize that but like Like because like he'll see a squirrel at the base of a tree and then he'll drag me Quickly over to the tree and by the time he gets there the tree and the squirrel is now up the tree How is the squirrel up the tree? I don't know Ross because a fucking squirrel can basically fly and you can't like he'll chase birds

I'm like Ross, unless that bird has been electrocuted or unless that bird has somehow had its wings clipped, you will not catch that bird Ross because that bird can fucking fly. The squirrel can basically fly. You cannot. You can jump pretty high. You can jump shockingly high. For a dog that they told me was low energy and all this, you can jump very high actually for a dog like that. That's why I feared that one day if you see the right thing, like this this could be the dog where if there's somehow a deer in your backyard, he'll see the deer, chase it, and like be able to leap a four and a half foot tall fence

to get over the fence to keep chasing the deer. Like one time on this very busy road that I'm on right now actually in St. Louis, it's called Manchester Road. It's a four-lane road and I'm driving by one day and there's a school on my right and there's a big patch of grass because it's the front of the school and I look over and I see a dog Just sprinting at full speed Almost like like side by side with the cars on the road He's I mean he's far enough away where he's not gonna get hit unless he takes a turn and goes into the road But he's running in front of the school and I'm like where the fuck is that a dog where the fuck is this dog going and then I look ahead of the dog a little bit and out about you know I don't know 20 30 feet ahead of the dog this is a deer and this dog is

just chasing this deer down this busy road it was this really bizarre thing and I can see a scenario where one day that is Ross. Like one day Ross somehow just leaps a fence because he sees a deer. Because oh, by the way, when we walk anywhere where you can see a deer, this son of a bitch ain't moving because he wants to fuck with the deer too.

Like this guy has no fear as it relates to these animals. Like it is wild. So I have no idea what animal he killed. I'm like, Jilly, like when I get because I got Ross in the car, I'm like, listen, we're gonna go to the park. I'm gonna take him to the dog bar slash park this morning to go run around. He's got a couple of dates left there. You know, we're moving in five days. So we'll take him. And I said, just go outside and at least snoop around to see what you can

find and see what it was. I'll pick it up if you can tell me what it is. But just tell me what it is, but just go find what it is and make sure he killed something. She goes, do you think he ate it? And I'm like, unless he's a fucking python, I don't think he consumed a critter whole. It's got a skull. It's got bones.

I don't think he just hoovered this fucking critter. So no, I don't think he ate it He said there's something out there Just go look and see if you can find it and back to our discussion about the differences in men and women and how everybody's Equal until it comes to doing dirty shit and having to pick up dead animals. It's oh, no, I don't want to do that I don't want to do that. So there's probably a dead critter out in the yard somewhere I would ask Ross to lead me to it, but he'll just pick it up and then run away from me So that's probably a dead critter out in the yard somewhere. I would ask Ross to lead me to it, but he'll just pick it up and then run away from me, so that's probably not going to happen.

So for the second time in a little, about a week, I guess, for the second time in a little over a week, second time in eight days, and Jilly's all mad because she believes this is happening more now because the landlord hasn't been taking care of the yard work, which he's supposed to. He's a very nice guy. I talked with him yesterday. The other part

that sucks about that is I'm going to have to clean. I understand like like you clean the house a little bit when you move out but he's like so you know just try to give the house a good cleaning you know because we don't want to you know because basically he don't want to pay someone to do it. But if I'm being completely honest and I didn't tell him this, but when we moved in the house was so dirty that we had to hire someone to come clean it. Like it was gross. There were like ant traps in the windows that were filled with ants and like shit was sticky and dirty and grimy. So whoever had the house before us also was a shitty tenant because

they owed a ton of money on the like the electric bills and shit. So like they were morons and this woman who lived there continues to still get shit sent to the house like cosmetic shit. So there'll be like boxes that we just don't do anything with because, because you know, that's not our shit. But like boxes and boxes of shit will arrive at the house. And we started opening some of them because they've been there for two years. We're just gonna throw them away. And it's all like makeup and lipstick.

And one of the packages they had delivered had like tens of like the three flavors of popcorn, like holiday popcorn shit. But so now I gotta clean the house a little bit. Not that it was super dirty or anything, but I have to clean it. One thing I've learned, speaking of Ross, so Ross sheds.

Luther did not, but Ross does. So what you realize is all the weird places hair has built up. Like you don't see all the hair that builds up like in the Corners behind a table or an end table and you don't see all the hair that builds up under the couch unless you're sweeping it Every day which real talk I don't I Start sweeping shit up They took one of our couches like the Salvation Army or something came and got one of our couches like there was another dog

Under that couch when I swept it all up. I'm talking mountains It looked like like a fro of just black fucking dog hair. So Anyway, we're five days away from getting the hell out of dodge I think right if you count today because we're leaving tuesday, so I'm trying to get a bunch of shit done Uh, anywho more to come