Trading My Rescue Dog to The Mutt Nut (Transfer of the Season)

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For those of you that don't know, I actually adopted a dog maybe 2 years ago. I'm going to give you a quick snapshot of Lenny's life up until the point that I adopted him. He's a bull breed cross Malinois and spent 3 and a half years in rescue, meaning he was 3 and a half years cooped up inside a kennel God bless him. And so unfortunately, we had a phone call from the rescue saying, you know, his time was almost up at the rescue. Won't go into too much detail about that. And if we had anywhere we could potentially take him. So we actually worked with Lenny for a couple of weeks whilst he was at the rescue on some behavioral issues, specifically dog reactivity, to try and make him essentially more rehommable, right? So we spent a couple of weeks with him, we got to know him. He's absolutely great dog. One of the best temperaments you'll ever have. He's just a phenomenal learner. He's got a great attitude. He's very affectionate and just like what anyone could possibly ever wish for in a dog. We did some training with him and again, fast forward maybe a year down the line, it was unfortunately coming up to the end of the road for him since there's only very limited, uh, rescue space. And so I put my hand up to, to take him, to foster him for a little while. What was originally intentionally to be, uh, a couple of weeks ended up being nearly a year, and he just become my dog essentially. Then one day a friend of mine calls me and he said he's looking for a dog. He's looking for a rescue dog. He's looking for a dog he can potentially do sport with. And if you know me, you'll know that like taking one of my dogs off me, you basically have to put a bullet between my eyes to try and take one of my dogs off me. However, it so happened that this particular friend, dare I say it, would be one of the best people I probably know. And you might know him. If you're in the dog training stratosphere or the dog training multiverse, as the muttner, e.g., the world's most physically capable dog trainer, e.g., the world's most handsome dog trainer. I'm thinking, I'm talking this guy, this guy, if you found him in bed with the missus, you, you tuck him in, right? He runs ultra marathons like they're fucking strolls to the shop. You know, I can't really commend this guy much more than that. And so, and so You know, we've got this, like, one of the best dogs I've ever met alongside one of the best blokes I've ever met. One's desperately looking for an owner and one's desperately looking for a dog. And so I thought it'd be incredibly selfish if I didn't take this opportunity to marry up this partnership. And what's then transcended is essentially one of the most beautiful stories you'll ever bear witness to, even if, like, you're a mad Disney fan, right? This is just like a match made in heaven. So Um, yeah, we've brought the mutt nut in today. I'm gonna, uh, get to see Lenny. So we train here, well, once a week or so. We do some PSA. Simon's gonna do— EG, the mutt nut— he's gonna do some obedience with the dog. And I get to see Lenny. I get to catch up with him. And, uh, yeah, we're gonna talk a little bit to Simon about how life with, with Lenny has looked. Simon does have another dog called Olive, but he was kind of starting to lose dog trainer cred, you know, not having like a real dog. No disrespect to Olive, by the way. She's a, she's a princess, as we all know. But at the same time, there comes a time and a place where you need a dog with a little bit more firepower, you know what I mean? You don't see F1 drivers, uh, driving around the racetrack in, uh, Peugeot 306s. So again, all due respect to Olive, but anyway, we're here now. We're gonna have a little quick chat with Simon. You might know him from podcasts and other various YouTube videos. So yeah, we're gonna get Lenny out, do some obedience. We're gonna get Stark out. Stark's gonna do some obedience and maybe a little bit of bite work. We're gonna get Lenny out, do a little bit of bite work. But yeah, we're We're going to speak to Simon. We're going to bring him into the shot. Wearing an incredibly tight t-shirt today. If he could get them sprayed on, he would do. And yeah, how's it going, Lenny, mate?

This is weird, but yeah, like we don't see each other and speak to each other every day.

Like we don't text every day. Yeah, we do text every day, to be fair.

Yeah, Lenny's a good boy.

Do you look into the camera while you're talking?

I don't know, there's a couple there, isn't there? Which one? No, not that one. That one. Oh, sorry. Yeah, Lenny's a good boy, mate. Love him to pieces. Mainly a good boy. He's meant, obviously I knew he was meant, but obviously not really been in a house for that level of time was obviously gonna be a bit of a tornado, which he was. Literally the first night I took him home, he smashed the mirror. Smashed the £250 mirror. 2 o'clock in the morning.

Did you tell Brooke?

Yeah, I did take the hit on that. I said it was me.

Took the blame, yeah, nice.

Anyway, so yeah, no, he's a nightmare. He couldn't settle, like he was just a fucking dick in the house, if I'm honest with you.

He was fine at mine.

Pissing and shitting everywhere.

Was he? Was he?

Like, you didn't fucking know?

Has he stopped doing that now? Because I didn't tell you that he did. No, yeah, no, I thought—

Yeah, no, he stopped doing that now. All right. But no, ultimately it was a lot of management. He was in the house, yeah, tethering, e-collar, and just— it was a lot of work for 5 weeks. Obviously Olive to contend with as well.

But yeah, how did Brooklyn initially—

cried a lot.

Cried a lot?

Yeah.

So big.

Yeah, just being—

he's boisterous, isn't he? He's a bull in a china shop inside.

100%, mate. He was on the kitchen counter on one day.

Does enjoy counter surfing. Yeah, yeah, is prone to counter surfing a bit.

So no, it was a lot, but I expected it. I knew what it was going to be. Lots of pissing and shitting in the house, lots of barking in the crate initially.

Was there?

Yeah, a little bit going out and leaving him and stuff.

But yeah, I probably didn't leave him all that much to be fair, because the dogs just go everywhere, right?

He's literally the perfect dog. I literally love him to bits. Oh, you love that dog so much.

You actually don't meet many dogs to his level of, like, I don't know, patience and temperament.

And he's just the fucking best, but also like so pushy in the right moments as well. Do you know what I mean? Like, he's just fucking— you can— you just want that level of pushiness, particularly obviously doing this. So like, yeah, he's literally— he's a top-tier dog, 100%. He's not going to be the biggest and the scariest, like, in the sport world, but he'll definitely do a bit, 100%. And I've had so much good feedback from other people as well about his sports capability. But for me, like, Just that and being a good boy and being nice to his mum and other people. Everyone who comes in, he's so fucking patient with dogs as well. He got chinned again and he's just like, very tolerant. Oh no, today he actually got smashed up this morning. Well, tried to smash him up this morning, so with a client.

So he bounces back. It doesn't really faze him, does it? No, it's actually crazy. 3 and a half years in kennels and his level of fortitude that he has and bounce-back ability and resilience when shit goes wrong.

He's just The best dog, honest to God. Very lucky, very, very lucky.

And so to give people a little bit of context, again, it's a dog that is 3 and a half years in kennels, not had any training, definitely not had any formal sports training. It's a feat alone to get on the PSA field, I think. And I think if we get him onto the PSA field, considering that 3 and a half years he had no training, you know, I've trained Stark for PSA specifically since 7 weeks old. Um, I think it would be no mean feat.

So I guess it's something to work towards, and we'll just see where we go.

We'll say a lot about the caliber of dog he is and the level of patience you have as a, as a handler, trainer, dad, caregiver, guardian, and all of the above, right?

Yeah, yeah.

Get on with him, like his training and stuff. Yeah.

Oh, non-existent. But don't listen to a fucking word she says.

Nothing.

No, no, just listen to his dad.

He just blows.

But she does love him. She fucking loves him.

Yeah, I was unsure whether they were gonna get— I knew you were gonna love him. I knew you were gonna love him. I was like, I didn't want to be too pushy on you. I didn't like really push him onto you, but I knew you and him were gonna just get on like a fucking house on fire like you have done.

No, Brooke was— there's lots of tears and why have you brought him home and he's too big and he's this and my life's changed forever. And I was just like, fucking hell. I was like, you do know I'm a dog trainer, yeah? Fucking knob. Anyway, no, she loves him. She fucking loves him.

Oh, that's nice.

So yeah, he's now an upstairs dog, so he can come and chill on the bed at night. He don't sleep with us, not a fucking cat in hell's chance. But yeah, you can come and have a cuddle before bed.

Does Olive sleep with you?

No, she sleeps in the room. She sleeps in her bed.

Do you think Lenny will ever graduate to a bed in the room? Maybe, maybe.

I thought about this a lot, but like, he's still a knob sometimes, so it's still a bit of a knob. Yeah, but I want that in him. Plus also the element of the crate, like, I'd never get rid of it. Purely on the basis that I think the element of boredom as well sometimes is so fucking powerful to use in terms of this kind of stuff. Like, today he's had a quiet day, so he can come out and be super expressive, hopefully. But he's a good boy. He was actually on the fucking couch as well the other day.

Was he?

Yeah.

The white one?

Yeah.

Do you have a blankie down?

Yeah. All right. He didn't sit on that.

All right. You want to tell people at home how good he is at finding footballs?

The fucking best. The best. Like, I've never seen anything like it in my life.

He found about 8 footballs in my garden, bro.

Honestly, it's mad. And whenever we find— I stop putting on Signal and Stories now because I'm just like, it's just not even— it's just boring now at this point. If you don't find one, it's just weird. But genuinely, this week he's found 2 already. Wednesday. It's mad. He's crazy, bro. Because he's a good boy, I can offer him that level of liberty where I don't even— I'm not— I'm doing my client and he's over there. I know he's going to make nice decisions because he's a good boy. And then he'll just fucking turn up and like you'll just feel him in the back of your legs and just football. There's a football, pop one.

Yeah, he's on a bench with him yet.

On a bench? Yeah, likes a bench.

He does like a bench, loves a bench. What else does he like?

Loves a squirrel. Fucking hell, does he?

Who's cracking that?

Loves the squirrel. Been punished around deer and sheep, but squirrel's a fair game. Yeah, loves a squirrel, loves a football more than anything, worryingly. Mate, he's the best boy. He's fucking mint. Absolutely love it. It worries me how much I love that dog.

Yeah, it's crazy, isn't it? He's actually such a likable dog. We were speaking the other day, you just cannot be fucking mad at him for longer than like 2 seconds. He does fuck around a lot.

The other day he literally was in the garden, my mum had arrived, come down, sorted him out, came back in, mum, grandma was upstairs, and then he heard her, so he fucking legged it upstairs. Covered in shit, then went the next set of stairs, bedroom, on the bed, running around. Like Brooke was zooming.

Buzzing.

Yeah, I was fucking fuming, but again, for like half a second, and then I was pissing myself.

Yeah, it's funny.

Poppy ping.

Poppy pinging up here, and we'll show the people.

I was making, going through a series of making toasties at the minute. I don't know why.

Just on a toasty phase?

Yeah.

Add that with a Ninja Creami, mate. I made fucking 2 pints of ice cream. Every day for a week and then threw up and then never needed them again. Never touched the machine again. Yeah, nice.

I was literally like, bread station was here coming into the toaster. Yeah, went from here and he fucking nicked it out my hand. Amazing. Bollocked him, obviously fucked him off around like the breakfast island, out the way, and then carried on, turned around, and then there's this little fucking head, as you can see on the thing, poking around. What can you do with that? How can you be mad?

I would have given him a toasty there and then. So yeah, we're on our weekly Wednesday sport obedience PSA session. We have a bit of a play around with the dogs. We typically start with a little bit of obedience, then we're going to do a bit of bite work. Just to caveat this, at home this is just an outlet for these dogs. We're going to work with two dogs that aren't very defensive in any way, shape, or form, and so, uh, the— there is a safety net somewhat behaviorally that these dogs are unlikely to become unleashed animals that are going to tip into defensive drive and be a liability to everyday people. So that's just a caveat that, like I've said across this channel before, you want to approach such activities with caution depending on temperament of dog and caliber of trainer. Not to gatekeep or anything like that, I just like to think to a degree we know what we're talking about. Um, so yeah, we're going to get the dogs out, give them a little bit of a spin. Don't know what Simon wants to work on with Lenny. I know what I want to work on with Stark. And yeah, we'll just show a little bit of a good time with the dogs and yeah, we'll see how we get on. Nice to see you've copied my hair as well.

Fuck off. No, yours is a mullet, mine's not a mullet.

No, it kind of is.

I was going to say if you wanted 2D, I'd put Kerry in a suit.

Yeah, go on. Watch out, mate, he's just free-balling.

Who are you fucking looking at? Yeah, you. Doing obedience, bro.

Hey, hey! Okay, okay.

Oh, hey!

Oh, Stucky!

Hey, hey, hey!

Out, out!

Stop! Hey, hey, hey, hey!

Go on in there! Go on, fucking do it! Go on!

What about if I run away?

Hey!

Oh, you come in now, Kerry!

Good boy!

Suits you, that.

Don't look big or anything. All right, Stack, don't bite this new one, yeah, because she's not strapped up. Do not bite, yeah.

You know what we haven't done in a while is taken some good old-fashioned food and done a food refusal.

Go on, bite her there. Go on, get her.

Just help yourself.

For me? Yeah.

No, he really wants to fuck up Kerry.

That's insane, bruv. Try a bit of this, mate. See you here, Stacky. Come on, straight in there. Hey. Go on, what about you take all of it?

Go on.

So one of the exercises is what we call a food refusal, where the bad guy, he's coming to offer my dog some food and he's supposed to refuse it because it might have poison in, you know. Down. And then a couple of other things we might do is a couple of position changes. Papa.

Good.

Down. Mike. Papa.

Good.

Put your food in there. Have you thrown it? Transport. Stay still. You're fine.

Transport.

He's just transporting.

Transport.

Stay still. Stay still.

Start walking around now. Not too quick though.

Not too slow though. Fucking hell.

Yeah, don't look him in the eye, whatever you do. And again. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Perfect, perfect, perfect. Really exaggerated left-hand turns for me.

Like proper bang into him.

Yeah, yeah, that's it.

There you go.

Papa. Now run away from him real fast. Real fast. Go on, run.

You want to be fucking dog trained or what?

I'll call him back if he chases.

He's got an e-collar on.

Oh God. Down. How badly should we scare her? Mike, down. Papa. Behind guard.

That's enough to do it.

Yeah, stack up. Good boy. Nice.

All right, now just take the jacket off. No, I'm joking.

Hey, down!

Hey, guard!

Some fucking brakes if you want one.

Down, Papa! Down, guard! Run sport! Oh boy, Papa! Down, Papa! Stacchio.

Alfa.

Guard down. Good boy.

Out. Out. Boy.

Alpha. Papa. Look. Guard. Down. Good. Papa.

Good.

Down. Mike. Mike. Mike. Good. Good. Behind guard.

Good.

Echo. Echo. Echo.

Echo, echo.

Guard.

Attack.

Guard. Down.

Good boy. Ah, good boy.

Down to me, mate.

All right, sound.

Hey, hey, hey.

Good boy. We're doing that, bro. Hey, hey, hey! Oh, he's a good boy. Hey, oh, you looking at, bro? You fucking looking at? Cheeky Malinois, hey? Got to listen to your mum, bro.

Hey, oh boy, the lumberjack, the chavy lumberjack slash high roxer. Running hat, Sons of Anarchy guy. Yeah, someone said he looked like the guy from Sons of Anarchy and he was like, oh, I've never seen it.

But Charlie Hunnam?

Yeah, but he, when he grew his hair out or first started, he was, he literally said to me, I'm going for the Sons of Anarchy vibe, and then pretended he didn't even know who he was.

I know who he is, I said it out my mouth.

Screenshot it, get out of here.

He's opened up. Fair enough. I might have an ice cream.

Do you have an ice cream?

Oh, mate. Good night, Colin. Everyone for an ice cream? Meet at the ice cream freezer.

I might go for a Fab.

What do you want? What do you got? Watermelon, Fab, Twister, Magnum, mint. Magnum. A mint Magnum, yeah?

Mint, this has got nuts or something. Ready?

Yeah. Oh, fuck!

That was actually pretty good. What are you saying, Webb?

What you having?

A feast.

What the fuck's that? Chocolate, you arse.

Yeah.

Is it?

Yeah.

That's a whole lot.

What do you mean? I would lie.

I feel like you would just lie and it's fucking cheese and onion or something. Happy? All right, fair enough.

It doesn't have chocolate all the way through though.

That's all right. I thought I could chock ice in a big pie.

How you getting on with that, mate?

I got most of it. Thank you.

It's not an OG Feast. Oh, that's great. That was great. That non-Feast Feast was very good. I can have ice cream and strawberry.

We do like this, don't we? I do prefer chocolate, but—

Lenny?

I'm just your brothers and sisters.

Lenny!

Lenny! With me. Let's have a big reunion moment. Lenny, Lenny, there you are.

You all right, mate?

Come on, bro. Strawberry and cream Haagen-Dazs, bruv.

Isn't it?

Genuine? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Schnagen-Dazs.

Brilliant.

You know what, fuck the dog training, come to the YCA, get a nice lolly.

Len, go on, mate.

Len.

Someone filmed it.

Yeah.

Oh boy, oh boy.

Hey, oh yeah, okay, ready? You're not going to fucking give a fuck about them now, mate.

Ready? Switch, switch.

Good boy. Yes, switch.

Yes. Oh, oh, switch. No. Yes, yes, good boy. Good, good.

Switch.

Yes, switch. Good, good, good, good. Yes, switch. Oh boy, oh boy, oh good boy. Switch. Good, good, good, good boy. Yes, good, good, good, good boy, good boy. Yes, fucking knackered. Good boy, good, good, good. Yes, good boy. What time are you getting off?

I'm in no rush, mate.

You not got rugby? Yeah, what time's that?

6:45.

All right, 6 now. All right, all done, bro, all done.

There she is. She's cute, that dog. That's very, very, very, very cute little dog. Come here. You're just gonna stand normally, put your arms out a little bit like a chicken. No, no, no, no, no, no. I'm only gonna send him from like here. He's just gonna go there. So you just want to stand literally like that and he'll take care of the rest of it. Yeah. All right, sound. Heel, Papa.

Ready? Watch him.

Out. Watch him. He's all right, he's only got jacket there. You're good, good boy. Out. Guard. You good?

Yeah.

Heel, Papa. Give him a bit of rub. Go on, ready for a redirect? Yeah, start here, watch him. Hey, hey, no, he smoked his mic.

Start alpha.

Yeah, yeah. It's all good, Papa. Jump. Guard.

Get out of there.

Stack up. Jump. Nice. Down. Jump. Watch him. Hey, nice, mate.

Oh boy. No. Hey! Oh, good boy! Stark, heel!

Good boy!

Alpha! Stark, alpha! Clever!

Papa, come here.

You're just going to stand here, all right?

Yep.

Heel, Papa. Jump guard.

Get your nose out of that top. Nice, huh?

Stucky, jump. Oh, papa. Nice. Would you two swap positions? You speak to him.

Say, Stucky, don't bite her, bite me. I'll be tight. You listening?

Jump guard.

Look, you know he wants to fuck you up.

Can you take 3 steps that way, Sai?

Hey, hey! Oh boy! No, no!

Oh yeah, nice. Do you get your arm out? Oh, nice. Down. Uh, I'm gonna put you about here, Sai. I'm gonna send him to a passive bite.

Okay, on me.

Yeah, yeah, like, I'm— and I'm gonna put the jump there just to try and slow him down.

Okay.

And he's gonna bite 3 seconds, and then you're gonna— then you're gonna drive. All right, happy? Nice.

Watching.

Hey, hey, no! Good boy! Out!

Down! Papa! Guard!

Oh, good boy!

Stuck you down! Guard!

Oh!

No, guard.

Like obstruction?

Guard. No, guard. Guard. Stuck here. Papa. Guard. Good boy, good boy, good boy, good boy, good boy, good boy. Clever.

After the bag for that.

Huh?

He'll have to bite for that.

Yeah, yeah, go on then, go like this. Watch him. Watch her.

Out!

Good boy. Guard. Nice. Put your arm out again. Come on, head out there. Head out there. Right, and then in a second you're going to do this and you're going to go like a noise.

Okay, he's coming for you.

Yeah, yeah, he's going to come up to you. Ready?

I go, come on, you're not going to say anything yet, or what?

No, no, you're just going to literally go— you're going to give him the bite like this.

You're going to go— no, no, stand up, stand— yeah, no, not—

just like that, but do the noise as well.

But stand a bit higher. Yeah, say the noise, say the noise.

There you go, there you go.

Just like a toy marker. Yeah, yeah. Just not as painful.

It's all right.

Out.

Good boy. Guard.

Boy, nice.

Yep, down.

Good.

Behind. Guard.

Good boy.

Yep, down. Guard. Here, guard. Good. Here, down, behind. Nope, nope, guard. Good, good. Here, down, down, behind, guard. Do it, do what you just did again, Kerry. Yeah, nice, nice. That's it, well done.

You can touch him, he's sound. Yeah, yeah, that's it.

Out.

Good boy.

Here, Papa. Good boy, Papa. Good boy. Guard. Good boy. Almost. Guard. Soon as he finds it, so I give him one.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, man.

Guard, guard. Guard. Nope. Guard. Guard. Guard. Guard. No. Guard. Guard.

This wallamar broken.

Yeah. Guard. No. No. No. Guard. Good boy.

Yeah.

Holy fuck. Good boy.

Broken wallamar.

You can just chill now. Oh, fuck.

Growling.

You fucker!

Good, good.

Watch him.

Good boy, good boy, good boy.

Oh my God.

No, yeah, he's good.

That's a good thing because that means I'm not as scared as I thought.

Yeah, good. Yeah, yeah, yeah, good. Survived. Start here. Good boy, good boy.

Fair play, bro. Cool, isn't it?

Is that a good one out of 10?

Maybe like a 6. It's nice. Um, what do I have first? Oh, that feast. That was like a 7.5. The strawberry one was an 8.5. Interestingly, I actually prefer this green bit here. It's a different flavour to the pink bit, but there's a lot less of it, which I feel like is a bit of a shame. Or maybe— see you later, mate. There's a dog craning their head in there. In that. Scarcity has a direct correlation with value.

There you have it.

Don't bite Uncle Jacob, yeah?

Hey, watch that!

Hey, hey! Oh boy, oh boy, stop him, stop him, stop him.

Go boy, don't chomp his tit. Oh boy, tell me when.

Oh boy, sorry brother, I'm wrapping up.

Oh boy, Len, to be fair Fuck, you said he could bite fucking hard.

It fucking does bite hard.

Hey, hey, hey! Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy!

Oh, go tight as fuck! Oh boy, Len, yeah! Oh boy, stop it!

Good lad!

Oh boy!

Stop him. See if you get a really big push. Let him— if it's not good, just stay there. Stop him. Oh boy, a bit there. Stop him. Good lad.

There you go, boy.

One more.

Oh boy, oh boy. Oh boy, oh boy, watch him, watch him. Oh boy, no, stop him. Put him there again, see if he pushes. Wait, wait, wait, stop him. No. Yeah, good boy, good boy, good boy. Stop him. Yes. Oh boy.

Oh, good boy. Ah, good lad. One more.

Give us a good one, Len. Stop him. Go. Honestly, like, he's really like— oh my God, it's Jacob, I think. Oh boy, oh boy, watch him, Len. Yeah, oh boy, watch him. There we go, booked him off the Stop him. That was fucking miles better. That defensive picture fucked him up. Oh, fucking stop him.

Good boy, stop him.

Yeah, good boy, lad. One more and I'll let you off. Come in, let her go. Stop him. Good lad, very good boy. Yeah. Okay, mate, we're all done.

Was that good?

Should have let him win it, really, but that's fine. All done.

Good boy, Len. That fucking hurt. Good boy, good boy.

Come on, good lad.

Nice one, bro. All good.

Good boy, Len.

Come on then, kid.

Good boy.

So there you go, folks. I said I'd never give up on the dog. But I think you can all agree with me, that's pretty much a match made in heaven, right? And also a little bit of an insight of what we do on a weekly basis here at Wednesday Night Dog Training Obedience/PSA Extravaganza Club. So had a little bit of an insight in terms of the work we do with our own dogs behind the scenes a little bit, which you have had before, what life with the Mutt Nut and Leli looks like at the moment, and hopefully just some cool bits of obedience and protection that you may not have seen before. I just want to again caveat this video that we're doing our due diligence in making sure we are putting forward best practices to ensure these dogs aren't liabilities or to jeopardize their pet life, making sure they're safe and so on and so forth. So that's in regards to temperament, the type of training we're doing, the level of control we have over the dogs as well. So again, don't like watch a video like this and think you're going to take your Malinois, your Shepherd, or even your sausage dog to just fucking do some bite work. 'Cause chances are you're just going to create a fucking mini grenade that you're walking around with in your pocket. So just, yeah, please be careful. Anyway, if you want to trust YouTube's incredibly sophisticated algorithm, you want to click this video right here. Otherwise, click the link in the description and you can join our free cult. We'll see you in there.