Name: Bill Burr | Bill Remembers His Dog, Cleo
Uploaded: 2021-10-25T11:00:13.000Z
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Bill Burr | Bill Remembers His Dog, Cleo' from Bill Burr Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-10-25. Transcript available.

sort of a melancholy day for me everybody man um i got i got some sad news
people follow me
on instagram know the great cleo renee diego burr uh uh passed away this week
my beloved pitbull
um oh cleo i always got it it's always good for my soul to yell i used to
always yell that
and i'd hear her come run something like a clydesdale coming to the door
she was just the best but um i'm not as sad as i thought i was going to be
because uh you know when
i had to i'll give you the don't have the backstory basically the dog was born
in 2008 it was abandoned
it was found by the la river shivering and all of that this nice woman found
her brought her to work
my wife agreed to air quote foster her and they know what that means you're
gonna fall in love with her
which is what we did and you know the dog was very complex had a lot of issues
loved us was an absolute
teddy bear i could do whatever i wanted to it but anybody else other than like
four or five people
came through the door and she was just super aggressive and then it got to the
point where
she was trying to bite people and um ended up finding this trainer uh lynn boykey
who had a
business out here called zen for canines and uh he helped us begin to rehabilitate
her but we were
never able to quite get her there and she was a very very difficult case and uh
so then you know uh
she stayed with us and all of that right through me getting married and all of
that and i used to
take her on hikes every single day and she was just the best we absolutely
loved her but you know
we definitely had to put her in a different room when company came over and um
but whatever she was uh
you know she was like a comedian you know completely up but had a great heart
so i'm trying to keep this light um so when 2016 came around and my wife was
pregnant with our
wonderful daughter we both knew in the back of our heads like we just can't
risk
how is she going to behave with the new person when it's a baby so uh we held
on as long as we could
my wife gave birth in january and in december i november into november i looked
there and i was like
you know we're gonna have to give her to somebody else and she just said i know
so we looked at all these places there was like you know shelters i'm like i'm
not putting in a
shelter no one's gonna take a 10 year old pitbull at that point nine year old
pitbull with behavioral
issues she'll get put down i don't want to do that then they had a no kill
shelter and it was like i
don't she hates being by herself i'm not doing that so we worked something out
with lynn
that he would he would take her but i would still pay to board her and all of
that for the rest of
her life so that's essentially what happened she was still my dog but he had
her and once a month or
so uh he'd bring her over where we were at and i'd still take her for a walk
and all that and so i
still got to see her and everything and then eventually lynn who's now based in
arizona they
went out to arizona but he would still come back for business out here and i
still got to see her like
once every six weeks so but he would always send me videos and because she was
now with a master
lynn boyke who's absolutely incredible l-i-n-n i think it's b-o-y-k-e you
should look this guy up if
you have any issues with your dog this guy is incredible and um he i remember
the first time we
dropped her off the dog was trying to kill him and i handed the leash to him
and i did it in the wrong
way and he's wearing these baggy pants and the dog bit down on his pants and we
were standing there
trying to help he's going get out of here get out of here just leave leave
leave leave i'm like really
he goes get out of here so we got in the car and we left and because he
understood with dogs that like
once he the dog was protecting us and then once we left the dog's like all
right now what the am i doing
it's kind of stopped so we have many of those stories but anyway um you know
lynn would try to teach
us as much as he could but at the end of the day we weren't him and we didn't
have his skill set
um so anyway um um he would come back from arizona and i remember you know i
always had guilt because
i always thought well what if she actually got along with our daughter because
you know i cried like a
baby when i had to give her away and um i remember so i brought her over you
know i had her on the leash
and i made sure you know there was no way she was going to get away or anything
like that obviously
i had her on the leash and had her collar you know leash in one hand in the
collar right so i let her
fixate that my baby was up on the bed where she used to sleep and she looked
over and her ears went
up and rather than kind of like you know nudging her head in a different
direction so i let her fixate
and she looked at my daughter and she went and growled and i was like all right
and nia was in the
bathroom she goes did she just growl our baby and i go yeah and she goes all
right i never felt bad
about it again but when she was out in arizona um she lived with other dogs and
became friends
with another dog which was just unheard of and they would be like lynn would
send me pictures where she
would be spooning with another dog i was so happy most of the videos he sent
was her in the backyard
like scratching her back like you know rolling in the grass it was funny she
kind of went out to arizona
for her golden years like a like a retired uh conservative and she lived out
there and i still
got to see her like every six weeks and i always whenever she was in town he
would leave her at the
vet and i would drive down and i'd take her for a walk every single day and i
would always sit with her
and i pet her and i talked to her and everything and um i'm so thankful that
there was a guy like lynn
in our lives that was able to uh really make she was a miracle man that the dog
with that
that breed with those kinds of issues lived a whole life 13 years so it was a
success story and i
remember when i took her on that i told her when she was a year older like i'm
not gonna let anything
happen to you buddy so i feel like i kept my promise and um yeah so that's it
the only thing
that sucks about a dog is that someday they're gonna die right um somebody sent
me a quote or something
like that um so there you go there's that there is that so rest in peace oh cleo
i still do that i still every once in a while i'll do that if i drive by some
of the old places where
i live with her it always makes me feel good to yell her name out the window
i used to when i would pull in with me and they had our first apartment and she'd
have the windows
open we didn't have any ac but we get a nice breeze a little bit so it wasn't
too bad actually
it was pretty bad in july and august i'm not gonna lie to you but she'd have
the windows open with the
screen and as i would pull in i had the prius back then so it was quiet and i
could pull in and
i would just yell out oh and i'd hear like a dog collar move and another move
like we had a little
garage in the back i have video of it on one of my computers i gotta find the
thing one of my
computers it's like as thick as a laptop i would have her sit all the way at
the top of the stairs
and uh i'd walk down we lived up on the second floor and it was like you know
the crisscross
stairs going down the back all the way up the driveway and i'd open up the
hatchback
and i go oh what do i do i think i would so i just go like that and then she
would just come
bounding down the stairs sounded like she was falling you know dogs aren't as
graceful as cats
and then she'd come tearing around the corner i loved watching her run was like
a thoroughbred all
those muscles and her just galloping and she would leap i swear to god like
eight feet from the back of
the car i can't believe the prius took it and would just like land and stop on
a dime spin around sit
on her butt and be wagging her tail you know panting and all that i go all
right buddy let's go and i
take it it was awesome and it was something funny too about riding around with
a blue nose pitbull in
a prius it's like what is going on in that car a lot of messages so um yeah
rest in peace buddy
there'll be never be another one like you you were a crazy dog and i i i loved
her loved her to death so
Rest in peace.