In the XCTU software console for Xbees, the recieved bytes exceed the transmitted bytes. How do I fix this?

On the transmitting xbee I send
dog
On the receiving one I get
_ d oa gb

Why is this occurring?
Thanks
I saw something possibly related to this about HEX and ASCII but I am unsure of how to fix this.

I don’t think that is a hex ascii thing but more of a sending the data as One packet to the radio to begin with.

That is instead of sending them as individual packets or bytes, assemble the data in a packet and then send it.