- Do you wanna hold my cockroach friend?
I'm gonna say that her body language
is suggesting this is not her pet.
(ominous music)
- [Interviewer] Who are you?
- My name's Sherry, I'm a veterinarian.
And I've been a veterinarian for about 22 years.
- [Interviewer] What are you doing here today?
- I am here to match up people to their pets.
- [Interviewer] What makes you qualified
to match people to their pets?
- Not a lot, 'cause I don't have pets,
I'm not a pet person.
I'm allergic to most pets.
- I like love animals unless it's like spiders.
I just swear to God if there's a spider today,
I'm crying.
- You know, a lot of times it all sort of makes sense.
Birds of a feather, you know
super active person, super active dog.
Introvert, maybe has a cat.
Bunnies have a very typical
like 40, 50 something single woman.
- [Interviewer] Let's bring the line out.
- Pet people, hello.
- I'm excited to meet you guys' pets, yay!
- [Interviewer] Open your eyes.
(man shouts)
- I'm scared, I'm scared.
- [Interviewer] Okay. - Oh my God.
- [Interviewer] No problem.
Let's go ahead and open your eyes.
- Oh wait, I'm not scared.
Oh, my God.
Oh, it's a bunny.
Oh, I'm not scared.
- Oh, okay, wait, this is cute.
- Not trembling, doesn't seem scared.
Doesn't really seem to be eyeing
any individual person that I can tell.
Okay, I feel like you could be a bunny person.
- What makes you say that?
- Because you're cute and this bunny's cute.
You strike me as somebody who would maybe put it
in a stroller and go like walking along.
- I feel like based on the way everyone's dressed
like definitely someone that's like softer vibes,
you know like kind of like cottage core kind of vibes.
So I think that could be you.
- Do you cuddle with your pet?
- Yes, yes.
- Does your pet enjoy that?
- I'd like to think-
- As far as you can tell.
- Yeah.
- Can I see you hold it, honey?
- Yeah, of course.
- Oh, okay.
I'm putting this is the bunny girl.
- [Interviewer] Why?
- Look, look at that nestling.
- Yeah, that feels natural.
That feels natural.
- I'm going with my gut.
I'm gonna stay with this one.
- [Interviewer] Okay, okay.
Bunny owner, there it is.
- Oh my, okay.
Wow, is this wet or bejeweled?
I can't tell.
- Oh, hi buddy.
Oh, I knew there was gonna be a lizard, hi.
This gecko is cute.
And doesn't seem too freaked out that I'm holding it.
Seems like it's handled quite a bit.
- If your pet was a high school stereotype,
what would it be?
- The shy, awkward one.
I don't know.
- I feel good.
- What do you geckos eat?
- They can eat doobie roaches,
crickets, mealworms, superworms.
- Okay, you're the gecko person for sure.
- I think they match as far as owner and pet.
Slightly alternative, a little outside the box.
Not looking or acting like everyone else on the street.
- [Interviewer] You can open your eyes.
- Oh, dove?
Hi, I'm not gonna bother your eggs, I promise.
- Is this like one of those little hens that you eat?
What are those called?
- [Interviewer] This is a pet episode.
- I'm Sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
- Let's talk.
- Okay.
- What made you get your current pet?
- I've always loved the type of animal that they are
and wanted to have something like this
even though it wasn't super in reach before
when I lived with my family.
- Do you wanna hold my dove friend here?
- Yeah, of course.
- Oh, she does like you.
I'm going with it.
- Jesus, oh, my God.
Okay, there's a cage.
Okay, that's good.
Oh, my Jesus.
Oh my what, the what?
I'm sorry, what, what?
I didn't know cockroaches were pets.
- [Interviewer] So I will tell you
that the owner of this pet do hold them.
- Okay, okay.
- [Interviewer] Would you like to take one out?
- No.
- You know what?
I have these in my room all the time
whenever I'm traveling.
So these are just like the homies.
- Wow, fascinating.
You know, my general impression of cockroaches
is not great.
It's improving.
I mean, this is a nice little insect.
You wanna hold my cockroach friend?
I'm gonna say that her body language is suggesting.
this is not her pet.
I gotcha, I gotcha.
- [Interviewer] Good job.
- Okay, you can go back.
- I feel like you definitely have like a quirky
like unique, different animal.
This is definitely unique.
- Why do you think I have cockroaches?
- I'm kind of going with the outside the box.
Maybe a little shock value.
Do you wanna hold this cockroach?
- Cockroach.
- Didn't even flinch.
That's a cockroach pet owner.
So I'm going with that.
- [Interviewer] Open your eyes.
- Oh, my God.
Oh my God.
Okay, I'm going to break out in hives.
- This cat is cute.
This is either a Persian or a Himalayan.
- What kind of things do you and your pet
do on the weekend?
- I'm a homebody.
So me and my pet be chilling at home.
- Okay.
- My pet has their own bedroom.
Chill in his bedroom.
- Their own bedroom?
- Yeah.
- [Interviewer] I heard that this pet does a trick.
- Okay, can you show me that trick?
- Possibly.
All right, we're gonna try to get him to sit.
Hey, can you sit?
(many people gasp)
- I've never seen a cat do that before.
So this is definitely your cat.
- How'd you feel the first time you met your pet?
- Very happy, love at first sight.
Sometimes you just kind of know.
- I'm gonna go with this match.
There seems to be a connection.
- Wait, you know what I forgot to tell you
is that ducks are actually my favorite.
If somebody has a duck, I'll be in love.
- [Interviewer] Tell me more.
- I have this dream of having like little chicks
and then raising them like that movie.
"Fly Away Home."
- [Interviewer] Open your eyes.
- Oh, my God!
- What the F.
- Who do I have left?
You.
- You kind of actually have like a country vibe.
- What about me gives you country vibes?
- The Birks, the paisley.
- Okay.
- Just like the natural hair.
- [Interviewer] Randy's gonna come in
and give you mealworms for the duck.
- Oh, I love it.
- Oh, that was with authority.
I just watched her put meal worms in her hand.
Sticking with it.
- Is that yummy?
- [Interviewer] Try and feed him some of the-
- Oh no, I'm not.
Oh my, ahhh.
- [Interviewer] Maybe the owner
could help you figure that out.
(duck quacks)
- Just because of how easy it was
for you to feed this duck, I think it's your pet.
- [Interviewer] Okay.
(ominous drum roll music)
How do you think you did?
- I'm gonna say I got four outta six.
- [Interviewer] Raise your hand
if this veterinarian guessed your animal, right?
- Geez.
(all laughing)
- Okay, not one, well.
- Only one person?
Are you kidding me?
I need to see a switcheroo.
Like I need to see who has what pet.
- These were hard.
Oh, yours is the duck.
(all laughing)
- I almost, okay.
Well, you know, I really fucked this up.
- This is Mr. Brown Sugar Boba.
- Of course it is.
- Almost two years old.
- This makes sense now.
I knew you had something cuddly.
Like all of her just like cute
cuddliness with the cute cuddliness.
And you're kind of cute and cuddly.
- Ooh.
- Yeah, like even that.
Thanks for letting me play with Boba.
- [Interviewer] Are you gonna go buy a bunny after this?
- Probably not.
- I was like, where'd he go?
- He's my bolo tie right now.
This is Gooby,
- Gooby.
- I've had him for almost two years.
- And he seems quite content.
- [Interviewer] Oh yeah, they're homies.
- It is like once, you know,
I thought the pets looked happy
with the people I put them with,
but now I see them with their real people
and they look extra.
- I think this also kinda makes sense.
Like I knew you wouldn't have like a typical pet.
- Why do you say that?
- Just like your aesthetic.
Like you don't look basic at all.
You know what I mean?
- Oh thanks, I guess.
(both laughting)
- Tell me about this.
Where did you get the duck?
How long have you had the duck?
- So Nightshade,
I got with her sister, Belladonna.
- Where do you live?
And do you have a yard, do you have a pond?
- Yeah, two big parts of a pond
and then we connect them with a little river
that goes through our path
with a little bridge that we made.
- You sound like ideal duck owners.
- You're giving me a totally different look
than the down home vibe.
I imagined been a duck person wearing like a denim
and like having like a Carhartt in their pants.
Maybe that's 'cause that's my fantasy.
Like overalls, no bra,
but also a hammer in my side, walking with my duck.
- Right, so you got me right?
- The only one I got right!
- So this is Clifford.
He's two years old.
I've had for a year now.
And I actually got him on Craigslist.
Picked him up at a gas station.
- Yeah.
- Very humble beginnings.
His original owner was allergic to him.
So I got the pleasure.
- Get up here.
- Hi.
- Thank you for being my one correct.
This is a cockroach owner.
What made you get a cockroach colony?
- I went to the reptile convention
to go get a millipede.
I saw them and I was like, you know what?
I wanted cockroaches.
I'm gonna get cockroaches for $15.
- You got all of them at once?
- Oh no, I got five
and they all just started reproducing.
And then now I have like 300.
- Do you like have names for each cockroach?
Can you like distinguish them?
- No, I have too many.
So I can't really do that.
Do you wanna hold him?
- No.
- Okay.
- I like really hate to tell you this
but I have killed so many cockroaches in my day.
It's like really bad.
- These guys are docile.
They're not invasive.
They can't fly.
- You seem really well-versed
and I'm really happy for you.
- Thank you.
- I am glad that you're finding joy.
- Thank you.
- Who is this and where did you get her?
- This is Queenie.
Queenie is a gray ring neck dove.
Dove's mate for life.
And if they don't have another dove to mate with
they'll mate with a person.
So she chose me.
- So this is your mate?
- Basically.
- Well, I love that, for both of you.
- You were totally right about wanting to like
take her in a stroller to the park.
- See, I am a good reader.
- Totally.
- Just not at assigning animals correctly.
- If she would let me put a hardness on her
that would totally happen.
- And the eggs are real?
- The eggs are real.
Yeah, so it's to like a menstrual cycle
where she'll lay two eggs a month.
- Oh, but they're not gonna hatch.
- No.
- How do you normally hold her?
- I hold her like this
sometimes I'll let her perch on me.
I think she's getting kind of fussy
and she might fly.
- [Interviewer] If you wanna try it on your head
and let me know if it's going well or not.
- Oh!
- [Interviewer] Okay, what do we do?
(all laughing)
- [Interviewer] Perfect.
Don't move.
- Continue Q&A.
- I don't remember where we were.
Oh, my God.
- [Interviewer] How was that?
- I was surprisingly bad at that.
- Well, I feel a little bit like a failure,
but I'm gonna get over it quick.
'Cause these were some pretty unusual pets.
- [Interviewer] Post mortem on your duck fantasy?
- I still am into the duck fantasy.
This one's seeming a little uneasy, so I'm like nervous
but I feel like the duck fantasy lives on
and is strengthened.
- Well, now when I look at them all with their pets
it all seems to make sense.
And yeah, I mean you kind of never know,
I guess, who you're gonna fall in love with.