they're not just her dogs they're our companions our babies our family since
we left our jobs in our structure house deciding to take this new nomadic
lifestyle we knew that being comfortable with their dogs was going to be so much
harder but they've always been a priority for us so we've managed to get
around with them not only have they gotten used to traveling but also to
changing environments and houses constantly at the end of the day they're
animals and they adopt so much faster than us the past couple of months their
new challenge has been adapting to the boat life and although Echo los her vision
one month before moving to the boat that has not been an obstacle for her at all
what is up guys welcome to another video here on living Hakuna and we have Alejo
here I'll be back there and go here I'm Andrea and today we're going to share
with you guys everything that it's like for us to live on board with our dogs
and for them to be live over dogs on a cell phone basically we're going to tell
you all about their routine how it is for them just a regular day and what it
is for us to live with a blind dog all that good stuff so let's get started
I'm Andrea that's Alejo and those are our bears Ozzy
and Echo we left the corporate world in Miami to become digital nomads and chase
the wind kiteboarding join us as we sail and adventure in our dream home
so the first thing and the most asked question is where do they go to the
bathroom where we take the dogs two to three times a day like to the beach or
like for walks so I can't go to a bathroom and get some exercise our life
mostly we're always in front of land it's not like we're always in the middle
of the ocean right so we always have a place to take them to walk we always
have a place for them to go to land but when we don't and when we're sailing
when we're on the boat they have their bathrooms yeah this is where the guys
pee where they poop where they do they bit their business while we're sailing
basically this is not this is a bit of a different artificial grass because as
you can see it's knitted so if you put it up towards like the Sun you can see
that it has holes and the Sun can actually go through so when they pee
when they urinate it actually drains and goes down to the rubber thing and the
reason why we put this black rubber is because we had the artificial grass just
on top so the artificial grass that we had we didn't have it on top of any
rubber and it was actually staining the fiberglass we were seeing yellow stain
so that's why we decided to get this rubber and then on top of that we made a
hole there in the corner where there every so often whenever you just start
smelling or something we just drop a bucket of water of salt water whatever
it is and then it starts draining it goes straight through this corner and
goes through out the holes around the boat so it is so much better it doesn't
stay in the boat easy to clean and they have their own
little perfect space to do their business so every time we go passages or
say they say we put that life jackets on and mainly on echo because since she's
blind just in case if she falls out of the boat
she doesn't know where to swim to so that way she doesn't drown or hurt and
this is how they load their super sturdy they are very comfortable for them we
got them in like a bright color just in case they fall so if we get our dog
overboard so we got a bright color they have like reflective stitching or
reflective tape just in case we also have this fridge this cooler that we put
here as a door so they can get out of this so it's perfect
also a lot of you guys are telling us that our dogs are too hairy and they're
gonna suffer with the heat and they might get like a heatstroke or something
not or not I mean we used to live here in Florida before we moved on to the
boat so there used to a heart to the AC we
put AC on the boat just for the dogs our life pretty much every bulbs around this
dogs I mean we it's not easy it is actually really hard to you know take
them everywhere to have them on the boat to go when it's cold when it's rainy
every time regardless of you know the weather conditions or whatever we were
doing or whatever we have planned for the day our dogs are a priority so we
always see if it's raining would still walk them out we still take them to land
you know if it's really cold whatever it is we'll still do it for
them shaking it's really cold and I couldn't record it but it was so choppy
that like the waves were splashing on us so for those of you anybody that says
big dogs living in a boat whatever let's say all the things we do for them
just that they can go and stand don't land I do and then smell and do their
thing one of the struggles that we have with the dogs on the boat is how hairy
there are they are because they're extremely hairy every single night that
we wake up there's hair and fur all over the place everywhere it's crazy it
doesn't stop cause he's always shedding all year around echo shats like every
six months whatever I see shifts throughout the whole year echo shats it
in that once every two times a year so it gets really hairy inside will show
you which packing cleaners we have look look hair everywhere
so my favorite one of all my favorite vacuum cleaner is the iRobot Roomba
whatever you call it the Roomba so it's this one and it's really awesome because
we just press play here it doesn't fall down the stairs it knows exactly where
the stairs are it just cleans takes care of all the hair every time we take them
to the beach their their paws get all the sand in between them takes care of
the sand takes care of the hair takes care of every single bad situation then
we have our hand vacuum cleaners well you got this once we got them for free
we can never have enough vacuum cleaners and then we have another one of this
one's a Chinese version of the iRobot one which we also got for free and we
just rather keep it just because we never know if this one's already told I
got this one when we had purchased when we first purchased the house which was
like 3-4 years ago so if this one dies I die so that's why we got that other one
in case you know this one dies or not
honestly speaking the dogs they have gotten really well adjusted to the boat
life they I mean the first time Ecco obviously being blind the second day
that we were on board she fell through the sugar scoop she just felt gave that
one extra step and she just went down to the water and and I mean at first it's a
little scary for eyes and for her because she's just swimming and she
doesn't know where she's swimming to so she just swims goes far away but I mean
once she fell that one time she learned and she doesn't give that one extra step
unless we tell her to when she's going on the dinghy so she knows when we tell
her and we make that sound she knows she gives that extra step to own the dinghy
and when we make the sound again to get on the boat she knows that she she can
actually step on the boat but aside from that honestly I could does every single
thing that Ozzy does in fact she was much better than Ozzy sometimes because
Ozzy like when she steps from the dinghy onto the boat she she's very cautious
and she like steps on it perfectly Ozzy just gets really nervous really
scared and jumps and sometimes hurts his leg or his
something so those are the things that she does really good at where as he
doesn't and then echo goes and goes on our bed where Ozzie doesn't go on our
bed because he thinks it's too tall so he gets scared when he's going back down
she doesn't get scared she goes up and down without a problem she knows where
the stairs where the steps are and she does it really like it's really good we
have their bowls and their food under there both their footballs and their
water bowls right here so they are in the salon and then we have this really
cool water bowl that it doesn't spill and it's awesome for passages for you
know any night passages or anything like that so you can actually I feel like
it's gonna spill but it doesn't speak so you can move it as much as you want to
anything like that the water never spills so it's really
cool odd the won't sleep you won't sleep on the floor unless he has a bed so he
has his little bit echo doesn't like sleeping in a bed I'll bring it up so we
actually have Auggie's bed in one of the rooms and every single night we just put
it here and the guy sleeps here Echo's sleeps in the floor in our room
we don't put his bed here he will go on the cushions on the sofa because he's
just like that he thinks he's the king of the house
it's all white super fluffy super soft just like a teddy bear
alright so Ozzy's an American Akita he's six years old we've had Ozzy since he
was a puppy I got him before we even got married I had Ozzy already and Ozzy is
so spoiled he was my baby I had been wanting a dog for so many years that I
spoiled the crap out of him in bad words story you tell him to do something if he
doesn't feel like doing it he just won't do it because he doesn't feel like it he
loves me I'm his favorite human Yeah right
nice he doesn't care about me I can tell him like Ozzy calm and he leaves I tell
him sit and he stands up yeah he's mommy's boy so he's a true rebel yes
well now we're going to go with echo which is the white and brown she's also
an American Akita she's five years old and yeah she's the softest time ever
ever know when I had all Z I realized that you know I started volunteering at
the Broward County Shelter and I realized that there were so many dogs in
the shelter so many animals out there and I kind of changed my mindset a lot
and I decided that I never wanted to bite another puppy especially not from a
backyard breeder so that's what I decided that I would adopt any other dog
that I have in the future I would adopt them so I was he was funny I was working
at the time you know in Orlando and we found a family that had her and she was
you could see her ribs you can see her you can see her all her bones pretty
much she was super skinny very underweight she was dehydrated so she
wasn't in the best conditions um but we took her in and it has been this
incredible journey with the echo echo has taught us so much she's so loving
she's sweet she's super caring her favorite human in the world is Alejo she
lost her vision she's completely blind now and that happened five months ago
about a year ago Eko we gave her we gave both of them an anti
flea when we were in Colombia and after the next day she woke up and she was
fully like she wasn't fully blind but she was her eyes were red swollen and
she was blind so he struggled for five months or so just taking her to every
single bed but five months ago exactly one month before purchasing the sailboat
we are Deven told us that she had developed glaucoma she was never going
to gain her vision back and we had to do the a nucleation that's when we they
take out their eyeball their eyes and just close their
are you eyelids there they closed their iPads we were super worried extremely
worried we thought that echo is going to change that you were they're going to be
her happy self anymore and that she was you know the life was going to change
her pretty good because you know she gets anymore but she has proved so wrong
she is the most amazing girl she's a warrior she does exactly everything that
Adi does there's not one difference nothing that she that she seems to
struggle that he isn't you know that he has a struggle with no they're exactly
the same he'll do everything together yeah they
do everything together I mean if we had to choose to have dogs
or not
but I would have small 100 dogs with no hair not not right here but like that
one because the dogs I mean don't get me wrong
we love them with all our hearts but they're super hard and they're not easy
because of their size because of everything about them it's just hard to
have them on a boat so but we chose this lifestyle with when we already had them
so we had to just figure out 30 types them adjust her lifestyle or just
everything to make it work to make it work so that we could still be able to
do everything that we wanted to do but with them if you guys have any questions
if you guys have any comments please feel free to comment below we want to
hear your opinions are you traveling with your dog tell us about it are you
living with you guys have any tips for us yeah there's something that we can
learn from you guys that have dogs
Oh one extra tip if you guys can't get your
dog to pee in the artificial yeah we found a way but they had to see us
beyond it right they had to see us beyond it here it go and once we peed on
it one of us has to be on it then they go ahead and be on it
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