DGS 269: Learning Resilience From Rescue Dogs as a Property Management Entrepreneur
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Man can learn valuable lessons from man’s best friend…
In this episode, property management growth experts Jason and Sarah Hull talk about their passion project of fostering dogs and how business owners can learn about resilience from these adorable rescue pups.
You’ll Learn
[02:56 ] The story of Chance the dog
[11:09 ] What does this have to do with running a business?
[18:39 ] Jason and Sarah’s foster dogs
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“You will look back on this as being such an easy thing for you to deal with in the present moment.”
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“You're going to make mistakes, but that's the price of tuition in business.”
“We're all doing the best we can with our current limited capacity and knowledge that we possessed in that moment.”
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[00:00:00 ] Sarah: If this dog can go through everything that he went through and still push through, whatever is happening in your business, whatever is happening in your life, whatever is happening in your marriage, in your friendships, in your relationships, you can push through it.
[00:00:14 ] Jason: Yeah, just tell yourself you're not yet at Maynard level.
[00:00:17 ] Welcome DoorGrow property managers to the DoorGrow show. If you are a property management entrepreneur that wants to add doors, make a difference, increase revenue, help others, impact lives, and you are interested in growing in business and life, and you're open to doing things a bit differently then you are a DoorGrow property manager.
[00:00:35 ] DoorGrow property managers love the opportunities, daily variety, unique challenges, and freedom that property management brings. Many in real estate think you're crazy for doing it. You think they're crazy for not because you realize that property management is the ultimate high trust gateway to real estate deals, relationships, and residual income. At DoorGrow, we are on a mission to transform property management business owners and their businesses. We want to transform the industry, eliminate the BS, build awareness, change perception, expand the market, and help the best property management entrepreneurs win we're your hosts, property management growth experts, Jason and Sarah Hull, founder,
[00:01:16 ] cOO of DoorGrow.
[00:01:18 ] And now let's get into the show. All right So we were thinking what we should talk about today and one of Sarah's strong passions Is dogs. I think Sarah likes dogs more than people. Is that fair?
[00:01:34 ] Sarah: That's accurate.
[00:01:35 ] Jason: Okay, she's an intj. Any of you that are familiar with myers briggs intjs typically like animals more than people. I don't know why, and I like dogs too, so not a fan of cats I'm allergic to them and I think they're smelly.
[00:01:51 ] Sorry, all you cat lovers out there, but I'm more of a dog person. You can see in the background here is. Hey buddy, who's smelling around. This is a dog that we're fostering right now. And the working title for this dog is Hans. That's they give them names, but this is a dog we're fostering and it's such a sweet dog.
[00:02:13 ] And so I wanted, this is a passion of Sarah's. We've been fostering some dogs and we've had, had some difficult times fostering dogs and we've had some good times, you know, let's, should we talk about our first foster?
[00:02:27 ] Sarah: Yeah. Yeah. If that didn't turn us off to fostering...
[00:02:31 ] it was like worst case scenario, I would say.
[00:02:35 ] Jason: So Sarah's dog, one of our dogs, he's a large dog and he's a Pitbull. American.
[00:02:44 ] Sarah: He's an American Pitbull. American Pitbull.
[00:02:45 ] Jason: Terrier. 100%. We got him DNA tested, purebred. And then we have another little mutt that we can talk about that we got.
[00:02:53 ] Sarah: That we adopted. Well, that one was after the whole Chance thing.
[00:02:56 ] Jason: Yeah, totally. So we decided to, like foster, we brought a dog in and this dog's name was Chance and he was a pit bull. We thought maybe they'd get along but we didn't know Chance's background. We didn't know Chance's history. The previous people made it sound like he was a good dog sort of, but they really, I think we're kind of keeping secrets from us and gave us a bunch of rules.
[00:03:21 ] Like, be careful with other dogs and like separate for a while and we did everything
[00:03:25 ] Sarah: that's always the rule.
[00:03:26 ] Jason: Sure.
[00:03:26 ] Sarah: Careful with other dogs be separate for a while. Slow introductions. Never feed together. That's yeah, those are always the rules. You say that as if that was like a red flag.
[00:03:35 ] That was not a red flag.
[00:03:36 ] Jason: Okay.
[00:03:37 ] Sarah: They tell you that with every dog.
[00:03:38 ] Jason: They had to have known that this dog had some violent tendencies or some history. So long story short, this dog bit Sarah. They gaslit us and blamed, it bit her arm. And they were like, "oh, well, there was food involved" or something like this.
[00:03:53 ] We're like, okay, maybe it was us. We'll be more careful. So we still kept the dog. And we had the dog for like a month.
[00:04:00 ] Sarah: We struggled with that too. Because we really, we, right then and there, we thought, okay. I think we're done. I think he's got to go back. Someone else can foster him.
[00:04:08 ] Yeah. And they kind of talked us into it. Like, "oh, well, can you just hang on to him until I find another place for him to go? Because like, nobody can take him right now."
[00:04:18 ] Jason: I don't think there's any safe place for them to go. So later. At this point later, it had been a month, we had integrated the dogs, they were hanging out, they're on the couch together, like it didn't seem to be a problem.
[00:04:31 ] It was kind of, but I think really was like a working truce or something. I think this dog had a history of maybe being involved in dog fights, something like this would be my guess. Because some dogs will usually get together. And they'll do a little bit of have a little tiff, but they're not trying to kill each other, right?
[00:04:48 ] They'll, like, bite, they'll do something, they'll give a warning, and they'll be done with it. So, I had come home from a walk, Parker came up to me, I played with him a little bit, he did a little playful sort of growl with a toy or whatever, the other dog gets off the couch. This dog had no expression. He's just headed towards Parker.
[00:05:07 ] Parker saw him and it was like, it was on and saw him coming towards me. And they just locked up and they got into this horrible dog fight. Like, and we have a long entryway into our home, like a big hallway, like entryway that runs kind of all the way to the back of the house almost.
[00:05:26 ] Right. And this was. in our family room towards the back of the house and the fight continued all the way to the front door. Like it was just, it was a disaster. This dog Chance and Parker were fighting and we were trying to break it up. Sarah was on with Parker trying to pull him and I was trying to get Chance off and Sarah, you were freaking out if you don't mind me saying.
[00:05:51 ]
[00:05:51 ] Sarah: I mean, yeah. Like, rightfully so.
[00:05:54 ] Jason: Yeah. She's freaking out. And so it, yeah it was interesting. So there's blood everywhere. Blood flying all over the place, dogs are locked up and fighting, biting at each other and so then I, yeah. You know, if I had my gun or knife on me, dog probably would be dead.
[00:06:09 ] I couldn't figure out what else to do. And we weren't going to let him kill our dog. And he was much stronger than Parker. So, we didn't want Parker to die. Right. So, but what I did in that moment is I was like, I had done a little bit of jujitsu training in the past. So I was like, Oh, I'm going to choke him out.
[00:06:26 ] I was trying to, I first tried to lift the legs up. Cause that's what people say. I didn't, that wasn't really a great idea because I lift his back legs up and to try and pull him off. And he just turned and latched onto my leg. He turned really quickly, latched onto my leg, bit my leg through my pants. I have permanent bite mark on my right leg and had latched on my leg.
[00:06:49 ] through my pants and was biting me. Then Parker was coming at him. So he turned back to Parker. And then I use that moment when he came at my leg towards me to get my arm underneath his neck and then to choke him out, just like in martial arts. So I did a blood choke and I figured he's probably got veins going through his neck to his brain, just
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