All right, good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome,
welcome, welcome. Here is a time now for our community connection. Right
here on K one, the one that you trust. We have tiny Peach.
He's in here from the Washington County SPCA. And how are you doing
on this kind of a warm little day today. I'm doing really well,
holding up despite the heat. How the animals are doing, Um, they're
they're hot as well. We have over two hundred and sixty four right now
in our care that we're responsible for, and so we're doing our best to
keep them all cool, changing out their water and making sure they're as cool
as computers temperatures. Now, we're looking for some homes for a lot of
these pets that you have your sheltering right now, and you're getting a little
bit of help, which is great. Tell us about that. Yeah,
So on July six, next week, we start Empty the Shelters. So
Empty the Shelters is a sponsored event from the Bissel Pet Foundation and so they
help give money to us so that we could reduce the adoption fees and not
lose so much of our cost on that. So we will have a fun
event for the whole month. So it's July sixth through the thirty first,
and our most expensive adoption will only be thirty dollars. And so you have
a wheel that you could spend, so you could get a free adoption or
a ten dollars adoption, but you'll spend the wheel, but the most you'll
pay is thirty dollars for an adoption, which is a great deal. All
of our pets come vaccinated with their current vaccines. We test the dogs for
heartworms and we tested the cats for five and FeLV They all get spayed and
neutered, and they all get a microchip so when you get them, they
have the works done to them. So it's it's a really great deal and
they're all ready to go home. Well, this is great. This is
great. So if you've been kind of on the fence whether or not you
should get a pat, this lot to drive that that that decision just a
little bit. When you could take the pet home for just thirty dollars,
that is amazing. Yeah, it's a really great deal. We've really experienced
an increase in intakes post pandemic, and so it's just like it's the worst
it's been probably and about five years. Oh my, yes, so during
COVID, a lot of people didn't have access to low cost span neuter clinics,
so to speak. A lot of the vets we're only doing emergency care
during that time, so a lot of we've noticed a lot of increase in
puppies and kittens this year because of the animals not being fixed. So if
you're not aware of, Bartlesville does have a city ordinance, so your pet
does have to be fixed, spare, neutered, and you also should have
a city license. It could be in the form of a tag from the
City of Bartlesville, or it could be in the form of a microchip that's
registered with us and you can get that at the shelter. Well, this
is amazing. Where are you located so folks can kind of get that little
GPS thing going. Yeah, so we are located on Highway one twenty three
between Bartlesville and Dewey. Yes, the bridge actually had a huge effect on
people coming out to see us. I've been then. Yeah, so we
are so glad that it's open. Please take that route and come see us.
The animals really need homes. We have been full for the better part
of a year. A lot of times in the winter, we get a
little lull where it starts to taper off and we have less animals in our
care, which is great for us. We can do some deep cleaning and
get some housekeeping done during that time. And it just really hasn't happened for
us, especially on the dogs. In the past, we've been able to
transport dogs to other states with stricter Spain neuter laws and that had lower populations
of dogs, like big cities like Chicago, Denver, and unfortunately, nationwide,
all shelters are seeing that they're full. So these other shelters that were
able to take from us in the past are full as well and cannot make
them so we are not able to keep moving the animals out. Two years
ago, our average length to stay for a dog would have been twenty five
days, and now it's over ninety. Oh so yeah, so the animals
are not only coming in, but they're staying longer. So the longer we
keep them, the more expensive their care is because we do give them flee
and check preventative and heartwarm preventative every month, so it's pretty costly and there's
just no space. Oh my goodness sakes, well, this has got to
come in handy. It's called empty the shelter, and it's a July sixth
to the thirty first, So basically, I mean, yeah, the month
of July after the holiday, you get a day to kind of do day
or two to kind of get ready and then go out there and grab your
pat Yes, and I'm glad you brought up the holiday because the fourth of
July is when most shelters see their largest intake because dogs and cats are usually
scared of the fireworks and the noise. You're run away, Yes, they
do. So we encourage people to make sure one that your pet has a
collar with an ID tag. It's a microchip. Your microchip is up to
date. If you have adopted an animal from the spc A in the past,
you could call the shelter will update your phone number in our system if
for some reason, your animal comes in. And what's really great, here's
our animal control officers have microchip scanners and their vehicles so they don't try to
bring animals to the shelter. They know that we're full. So if your
dogs microchip, they do their best to get your pet home to you,
right right, yeah, but I mean you know, please please please you
know, it is hot to keep your animals inside during this holiday weekend,
So even if they don't normally run off, they might be tempted during the
fireworks if they get scared. So, yeah, they do, they might.
I had a little fella. He's a sense passed way, but a
little Max. He was a half Chihuahua half black lab. Mama was tired
after she delivered to the boys. I bet yeah. Anyway, Max bark
back at the at the fireworks, like you just knocked that off. He
was a little defiant guy. But most dogs aren't that way. They don't
know what's going on. I don't think Max did either. He just didn't
like it. But instead of you know, doing something like that, they
just get frightened out of their wits. They just do. Cats do the
same thing. I mean they're looking for shelter. Yeah, they just run
and hide. There are many tools that you can use. Call your bets
office and maybe get some um, you know, medicine, or you could
get a thunder jacket. That's what I was thinking of. I was racing
in my mind the thunder jackets. Thundershirts. Do those really work? Really?
Call? I mean, it really depends on the animal. But yeah,
it can be really calming to some of the animals. Good, It
just depends on the animals. Oh yeah, I guess. So now you're
gonna be not only having the empty the Shelter event the month of July,
for the most of the month of July, I should say, but you're
gonna be taking this show on the road. Yes, we have several adoption
of it's planned coming up. We will be at the Washington County Free Fair
in September where all we are so look for us out there. We'll have
some adoptable animals and a booth set up so we always have information with this
on our low cost Spain Edder vouchers, So if you are needing assistance getting
your pet fixed but can't really afford the normal visit, we do offer that
voucher for income qualified individuals height And you're going to be at the hundred Mile
Garage sale too. Yes, well, I mean, if you don't know,
we do have property south of town, the ten acres on like right
past Tractor Supply going towards Tulsa, So we're there on Washington Boulevard, and
that is where our plans for the new shelter will be so we are renting
out booth space. So if you're looking for a booth space and the donation
for the booth space goes towards the animals, you could put it out at
the clinic building and that's three four two three South Washington Boulevard. Just call
the shelter. We'll set that up with you. But we will also have
adoptable dogs there. So we're hoping that people will stop during their route for
the hundred Mile gar Sale because we're in a really good location there you are,
and then if you don't want to stop it, you want to set
up a booth, we'll help you out with that too. We're gonna take
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K one News timing is now eight forty five. We're talking with Tanya pee
Cheese with the Washington County SPCA. We've talked about the Empty of the Shelters
event that's coming up on July sixth through the thirty first, also one hundred
mile garage sale, and also being out there watching County Freefair. Boy.
You need a vacation, don't you. Well, I'll tell you what though.
We've got a couple of really neat fundraisers coming up. Tell us about
this pancake breakfast. So the Elks Elks Lodge is very generous. They are
to throw a pancake breakfast. So we are having a pancake breakfast on October
fourteenth at the Elks Lodge, and so it's from eight thirty to eleven,
I believe, and we will have adoptable animals there. Everywhere we go,
we're trying to have the adoptable animals. You know, come for breakfast.
It's a win win. It's all you can eat breakfast. It's ten dollars,
So please come out and support that. Huh, that is great.
Of course that's out there by Walmart right, Yes, that is correct.
Beautiful building you have out there too, and you have a Bingo Evan coming
up. Yeah. So this is our annual Bingo Bash. This will be
our third year having this, so at the Community Center on November third.
It's a Friday night, so you know, come out and see us place
in Bingo. We have some cash prizes and it'll be a fun event.
It's always a good time. Man. This is great. So for the
folks you heard it say the empty the shelters a bit, I know they
just might have caught that if they just got the car and or got near
the radio. Let's kind of back that up a little bit here. It
starts on July six, goes through the thirty first and tell us the big
deal on this. We want to empty the shelter first of all, we
do, I mean to have some space and the kennels, but um,
a lot of our dogs aren't you know, doubled up in space. Uh
and the kennels because we're just so out of room. But yes, we
are always looking for fosters and volunteers to help us. But the main thing
we need to do is find these animals home. So the most you will
pay for an adoption during the month of July is thirty and it could be
less. You know, we have a we have a spinning wheel, so
you'll come out spind the wheel. We also have a kissing booth they we're
gonna have set up during that month, so you know, you could kiss
a dog and leave a donation. And our kissing booth it's a fun place
to take pictures with the animals. So I mean, just come out if
you're not sure. You know, we also have cats available for adoption at
Petco here in town. The Petco is our great partner and they always honor
our empty the shelter prices for those events. Nice, yes, so good
to have friends, don you yes, So if you can't make it to
the shelter, you know, at least go look at our cats at Petco
here in town, all right, and how can we find you on the
worldwide webs So our website is WCSPCA dot org. So and we also have
a Facebook, Instagram and TikTok accounts, so you please follow us on our
social media. You might get to see some really cute animals we have basically
right now, if you say a breed age size, we probably have an
advent before right now, you might want to change that to adorable dot com.
I don't know, father adorable, Yes, yes, and you can
see all of our adoptable animals on the website. Now. If you do
happen to lose your animal during the fourth of July on the same website on
our lost and Found page, you're the animals do show up on the lost
and Found page in our system. We also encourage people to check the Bartlesville
Lost and Found Pets page post animals there, and then you could also register
your pet. It's free from the pet Co Love Foundation. They have pet
Co Love Lost and you take a picture and it's GPS recognized just like a
human and you register your pet and if one comes in and we log it
in our system and take a picture and it matches. They also call tact
the owner and it's one hundred percent free. So there's just so many resources
to get your animal back home. You just have to utilize them, all
right. Hey, Tony, thank for being with us. Yeah, thanks
for having anything I missed if there is, please stop me now. Well,
well, our annual campaign is in August, so you know that it
is a hard time for people with back to school, but it is our
time of year where we have the most amount of intakes in the summer and
we have the least amount of donations. People are busy, so that is
when we're really hurting right now, you know. Are the cost of our
medicines, vaccines and Spain neuter expensive has gone through the roof since COVID so
and so we could always use help with that. So if you want to
do a supply drive paper towels, we need those. So oh yes,
indeed, hey, thank you very much. What's the phone number once again,
folks you don't like the computer, It's nine eight three five seven seven.
All right, thank you, Tony, appreciate it. Thank you.
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