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All right, good morning, good
morning, good morning, and welcome,

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welcome, welcome. Here is a
time now for our community connection. Right

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here on K one, the one
that you trust. We have tiny Peach.

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He's in here from the Washington County
SPCA. And how are you doing

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on this kind of a warm little
day today. I'm doing really well,

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holding up despite the heat. How
the animals are doing, Um, they're

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they're hot as well. We have
over two hundred and sixty four right now

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in our care that we're responsible for, and so we're doing our best to

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keep them all cool, changing out
their water and making sure they're as cool

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as computers temperatures. Now, we're
looking for some homes for a lot of

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these pets that you have your sheltering
right now, and you're getting a little

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bit of help, which is great. Tell us about that. Yeah,

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So on July six, next week, we start Empty the Shelters. So

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Empty the Shelters is a sponsored event
from the Bissel Pet Foundation and so they

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help give money to us so that
we could reduce the adoption fees and not

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lose so much of our cost on
that. So we will have a fun

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event for the whole month. So
it's July sixth through the thirty first,

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and our most expensive adoption will only
be thirty dollars. And so you have

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a wheel that you could spend,
so you could get a free adoption or

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a ten dollars adoption, but you'll
spend the wheel, but the most you'll

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pay is thirty dollars for an adoption, which is a great deal. All

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of our pets come vaccinated with their
current vaccines. We test the dogs for

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heartworms and we tested the cats for
five and FeLV They all get spayed and

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neutered, and they all get a
microchip so when you get them, they

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have the works done to them.
So it's it's a really great deal and

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they're all ready to go home.
Well, this is great. This is

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great. So if you've been kind
of on the fence whether or not you

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should get a pat, this lot
to drive that that that decision just a

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little bit. When you could take
the pet home for just thirty dollars,

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that is amazing. Yeah, it's
a really great deal. We've really experienced

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an increase in intakes post pandemic,
and so it's just like it's the worst

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it's been probably and about five years. Oh my, yes, so during

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COVID, a lot of people didn't
have access to low cost span neuter clinics,

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so to speak. A lot of
the vets we're only doing emergency care

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during that time, so a lot
of we've noticed a lot of increase in

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puppies and kittens this year because of
the animals not being fixed. So if

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you're not aware of, Bartlesville does
have a city ordinance, so your pet

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does have to be fixed, spare, neutered, and you also should have

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a city license. It could be
in the form of a tag from the

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City of Bartlesville, or it could
be in the form of a microchip that's

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registered with us and you can get
that at the shelter. Well, this

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is amazing. Where are you located
so folks can kind of get that little

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GPS thing going. Yeah, so
we are located on Highway one twenty three

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between Bartlesville and Dewey. Yes,
the bridge actually had a huge effect on

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people coming out to see us.
I've been then. Yeah, so we

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are so glad that it's open.
Please take that route and come see us.

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The animals really need homes. We
have been full for the better part

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of a year. A lot of
times in the winter, we get a

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little lull where it starts to taper
off and we have less animals in our

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care, which is great for us. We can do some deep cleaning and

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get some housekeeping done during that time. And it just really hasn't happened for

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us, especially on the dogs.
In the past, we've been able to

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transport dogs to other states with stricter
Spain neuter laws and that had lower populations

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of dogs, like big cities like
Chicago, Denver, and unfortunately, nationwide,

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all shelters are seeing that they're full. So these other shelters that were

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able to take from us in the
past are full as well and cannot make

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them so we are not able to
keep moving the animals out. Two years

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ago, our average length to stay
for a dog would have been twenty five

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days, and now it's over ninety. Oh so yeah, so the animals

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are not only coming in, but
they're staying longer. So the longer we

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keep them, the more expensive their
care is because we do give them flee

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and check preventative and heartwarm preventative every
month, so it's pretty costly and there's

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just no space. Oh my goodness
sakes, well, this has got to

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come in handy. It's called empty
the shelter, and it's a July sixth

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to the thirty first, So basically, I mean, yeah, the month

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of July after the holiday, you
get a day to kind of do day

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or two to kind of get ready
and then go out there and grab your

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pat Yes, and I'm glad you
brought up the holiday because the fourth of

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July is when most shelters see their
largest intake because dogs and cats are usually

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scared of the fireworks and the noise. You're run away, Yes, they

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do. So we encourage people to
make sure one that your pet has a

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collar with an ID tag. It's
a microchip. Your microchip is up to

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date. If you have adopted an
animal from the spc A in the past,

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you could call the shelter will update
your phone number in our system if

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for some reason, your animal comes
in. And what's really great, here's

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our animal control officers have microchip scanners
and their vehicles so they don't try to

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bring animals to the shelter. They
know that we're full. So if your

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dogs microchip, they do their best
to get your pet home to you,

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right right, yeah, but I
mean you know, please please please you

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know, it is hot to keep
your animals inside during this holiday weekend,

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So even if they don't normally run
off, they might be tempted during the

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fireworks if they get scared. So, yeah, they do, they might.

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I had a little fella. He's
a sense passed way, but a

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little Max. He was a half
Chihuahua half black lab. Mama was tired

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after she delivered to the boys.
I bet yeah. Anyway, Max bark

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back at the at the fireworks,
like you just knocked that off. He

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was a little defiant guy. But
most dogs aren't that way. They don't

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know what's going on. I don't
think Max did either. He just didn't

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like it. But instead of you
know, doing something like that, they

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just get frightened out of their wits. They just do. Cats do the

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same thing. I mean they're looking
for shelter. Yeah, they just run

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and hide. There are many tools
that you can use. Call your bets

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office and maybe get some um,
you know, medicine, or you could

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get a thunder jacket. That's what
I was thinking of. I was racing

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in my mind the thunder jackets.
Thundershirts. Do those really work? Really?

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Call? I mean, it really
depends on the animal. But yeah,

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it can be really calming to some
of the animals. Good, It

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just depends on the animals. Oh
yeah, I guess. So now you're

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gonna be not only having the empty
the Shelter event the month of July,

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for the most of the month of
July, I should say, but you're

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gonna be taking this show on the
road. Yes, we have several adoption

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of it's planned coming up. We
will be at the Washington County Free Fair

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in September where all we are so
look for us out there. We'll have

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some adoptable animals and a booth set
up so we always have information with this

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on our low cost Spain Edder vouchers, So if you are needing assistance getting

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your pet fixed but can't really afford
the normal visit, we do offer that

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voucher for income qualified individuals height And
you're going to be at the hundred Mile

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Garage sale too. Yes, well, I mean, if you don't know,

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we do have property south of town, the ten acres on like right

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past Tractor Supply going towards Tulsa,
So we're there on Washington Boulevard, and

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that is where our plans for the
new shelter will be so we are renting

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out booth space. So if you're
looking for a booth space and the donation

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for the booth space goes towards the
animals, you could put it out at

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the clinic building and that's three four
two three South Washington Boulevard. Just call

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the shelter. We'll set that up
with you. But we will also have

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adoptable dogs there. So we're hoping
that people will stop during their route for

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the hundred Mile gar Sale because we're
in a really good location there you are,

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and then if you don't want to
stop it, you want to set

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up a booth, we'll help you
out with that too. We're gonna take

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a quick break and we'll come back. We're gonna talk about some cool little

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fundraisers you've got coming up too.
We are talking with Tiny Pete and she's

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with Washington County SPCA. We'll have
Born after these words from our sponsors,

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Born DeCamp Funeral Home and hog Grassboaters. Free needs are completely transferable in the

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United States from funeral home to funeral
home, and in Oklahoma that's especially true

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without any penalty at all. For
instance, if you decide you're going to

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retire and move to another state,
and you find a funeral home that you're

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comfortable with elsewhere, you can take
that already set up free need that you

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have at funeral home A and transfer
it to funeral home being there's no problem

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doing that. Tim Howell Arnold Moore
and DeCamp Funeral Home. Sixty seventy years

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ago, Bob Farmer died. Joe
business owner now Joe Biness owner, hung

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a sign that said close for the
funeral of Bob Farmer back at three pm.

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Hung it on his door, closed
his door. No one would steal

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that sign. He would go to
the funeral, as with many of Bob's

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friends. Now, if you're a
grandson, you have to have proof that

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grandpa died so you can get paid
for that day of leave. I've said

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it a hundred times. Death is
an inconvenience to twenty first century America.

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But it's not at Arnold Moore and
knee Camp Funeral Hall. It'll be all

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right. We'll walk through this together. Arnold Moore and knee Camp Funeral Home.

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Seven ten Dewey Bartle's event. We'll
walk through this together. Is it

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time to start thinking about a new
car? But the thought of dealing with

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the large dealerships is just too intimidating, too confusing. There is an easier

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way, tall Grass Motors. Tall
Grass Motors doesn't play all the confusing games

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a large dealerships play. Tall Grass
Motors has continually been voted Bartlesville's best used

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car dealer year after year. Good
Bye tall Grass Motors today and joy looking

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at over sixty used cars, trucks
and SUVs, all prized to save you

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money. Tall Grass Motors Highway seventy
five North in Bartlesville. All right,

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K one News timing is now eight
forty five. We're talking with Tanya pee

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Cheese with the Washington County SPCA.
We've talked about the Empty of the Shelters

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event that's coming up on July sixth
through the thirty first, also one hundred

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mile garage sale, and also being
out there watching County Freefair. Boy.

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You need a vacation, don't you. Well, I'll tell you what though.

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We've got a couple of really neat
fundraisers coming up. Tell us about

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this pancake breakfast. So the Elks
Elks Lodge is very generous. They are

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to throw a pancake breakfast. So
we are having a pancake breakfast on October

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fourteenth at the Elks Lodge, and
so it's from eight thirty to eleven,

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I believe, and we will have
adoptable animals there. Everywhere we go,

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we're trying to have the adoptable animals. You know, come for breakfast.

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It's a win win. It's all
you can eat breakfast. It's ten dollars,

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So please come out and support that. Huh, that is great.

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Of course that's out there by Walmart
right, Yes, that is correct.

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Beautiful building you have out there too, and you have a Bingo Evan coming

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up. Yeah. So this is
our annual Bingo Bash. This will be

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our third year having this, so
at the Community Center on November third.

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It's a Friday night, so you
know, come out and see us place

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in Bingo. We have some cash
prizes and it'll be a fun event.

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It's always a good time. Man. This is great. So for the

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folks you heard it say the empty
the shelters a bit, I know they

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just might have caught that if they
just got the car and or got near

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the radio. Let's kind of back
that up a little bit here. It

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starts on July six, goes through
the thirty first and tell us the big

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deal on this. We want to
empty the shelter first of all, we

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do, I mean to have some
space and the kennels, but um,

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a lot of our dogs aren't you
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and the kennels because we're just so
out of room. But yes, we

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are always looking for fosters and volunteers
to help us. But the main thing

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we need to do is find these
animals home. So the most you will

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pay for an adoption during the month
of July is thirty and it could be

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less. You know, we have
a we have a spinning wheel, so

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you'll come out spind the wheel.
We also have a kissing booth they we're

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gonna have set up during that month, so you know, you could kiss

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a dog and leave a donation.
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to take pictures with the animals.
So I mean, just come out if

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you're not sure. You know,
we also have cats available for adoption at

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Petco here in town. The Petco
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our empty the shelter prices for those
events. Nice, yes, so good

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to have friends, don you yes, So if you can't make it to

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the shelter, you know, at
least go look at our cats at Petco

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here in town, all right,
and how can we find you on the

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worldwide webs So our website is WCSPCA
dot org. So and we also have

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a Facebook, Instagram and TikTok accounts, so you please follow us on our

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social media. You might get to
see some really cute animals we have basically

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right now, if you say a
breed age size, we probably have an

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advent before right now, you might
want to change that to adorable dot com.

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I don't know, father adorable,
Yes, yes, and you can

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see all of our adoptable animals on
the website. Now. If you do

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happen to lose your animal during the
fourth of July on the same website on

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our lost and Found page, you're
the animals do show up on the lost

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and Found page in our system.
We also encourage people to check the Bartlesville

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Lost and Found Pets page post animals
there, and then you could also register

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your pet. It's free from the
pet Co Love Foundation. They have pet

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Co Love Lost and you take a
picture and it's GPS recognized just like a

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human and you register your pet and
if one comes in and we log it

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in our system and take a picture
and it matches. They also call tact

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the owner and it's one hundred percent
free. So there's just so many resources

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to get your animal back home.
You just have to utilize them, all

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right. Hey, Tony, thank
for being with us. Yeah, thanks

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for having anything I missed if there
is, please stop me now. Well,

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well, our annual campaign is in
August, so you know that it

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is a hard time for people with
back to school, but it is our

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time of year where we have the
most amount of intakes in the summer and

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we have the least amount of donations. People are busy, so that is

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when we're really hurting right now,
you know. Are the cost of our

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medicines, vaccines and Spain neuter expensive
has gone through the roof since COVID so

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and so we could always use help
with that. So if you want to

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do a supply drive paper towels,
we need those. So oh yes,

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indeed, hey, thank you very
much. What's the phone number once again,

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folks you don't like the computer,
It's nine eight three five seven seven.

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All right, thank you, Tony, appreciate it. Thank you.

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