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Okay, Dan, let me get
this straight. We sent our information via

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the our Best Home for Me app. You reviewed it here and now we're

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pre qualified officially. Wow. That's
helpful, very helpful. Home loans made

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easy. Our Vest Bank ready to
help. Good morning, good morning,

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good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome. It's time now for our

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community connection right here on K one, the one you trust, and we

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are going to have a cuttly fun
good time because we're going to be talking

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about pets and we have from the
Washington County SPCA. We have Tanya Pete.

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How are you doing, miss Dana. Good morning and I'm great,

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Thanks for having me. It's always
great to have you in here because we

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start talking about our fur buddies.
Yes, and we've got a couple of

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big things coming up, don't we
we do. First, I want to

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mention our pet coo Love Stories.
We have a chance to win a grant

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from Petco. So anyone that's adopted
an animal, we encourage you to go

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online to our website. There's a
link and on our Facebook page to click

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on pet Co Love Stories and all
you have to do is write how your

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adopted pet changed your life and have
made a difference for you and submit a

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picture and it can help Washington County
SPCA win a grant. So that's October

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thirty first you have to submit by
So I kind of wanted to put that

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in there to help us out.
You know. That's a great way to

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say thank you in so many different
levels and so many different ways, isn't

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it. Yeah. I mean people
will adopt their pets and they mean so

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much. They've become part of the
family, They help with their mental health,

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and so it really they really can
make a huge difference in someone's life,

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just as much as humans make a
difference in theirs. Wow, that

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that is truly something else. So
let's make that count, folks. So

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if you got a sweet pet,
and you oh you do. Everybody does.

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If you got a pet, it's
right down little Pet Love Story and

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we can get that link at your
website or your l WCSPCA dot org.

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There is a link on there to
click on over to pet COO's Love Stories.

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It's their nonprofit foundation, and you
can just submit it there is very

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simple and easy. Well, super, we've got a thing called the Bingo

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Bash coming up. Now right there, you've got one hundred thousand people say

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been go where? So this this
is our fourth year that we're having the

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Washington County SPCA Bengo Bash. We're
going to be at the Bartlesville Community Center

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on November third. The doors are
going to open at five o'clock five point

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thirty. We're going to start the
mini Bingo and then the regular Bengo starts

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at seven. It's fifteen dollars a
person. All the money raised will go

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to the shelter Animals. You can
purchase tickets at the door, but or

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you can purchase them in advance from
our again from our website at WCSPCA dot

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org, and there's also more information
on our Facebook page in the events link

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as well. You know, this
is great because a lot of folks have

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fun just getting together and play bingo. Sometimes you win, sometimes you'll win

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by just running into your friends.
But it's always a win win situation because

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it is going to help out the
USPCA Washington County. It's going to be

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great time. We have a yes
and we have a lot of great prizes

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donated from local shops all around town. And so some of them are gift

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cards, some of them are items
from their store. So We're really excited

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about that. And we thank the
all the local small businesses that help donate

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the prizes for our Bingo Bash because
it makes a huge difference. It makes

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that beingal possible. Well, that
is great. Now, we also have

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a Veterans Day coming up here pretty
soon. We're going to do something for

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the veterans, aren't we. Yeah, this is our first year we're going

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to try this. So if you
have a classic car or any kind of

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car that you take to car shows, we're having what we call Pause for

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Patriots. Pause for Patriots, Remember
that, folks. Yes, and it

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is going to be over at the
Atwoods parking Lot on November eleventh. We'll

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be there from nine to four and
we will work around the parade schedule.

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So if someone wants to be in
a Veterans Day parade, then bring the

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car on over for a good time. We would really appreciate that. And

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then all veterans will receive free pet
adoption, so we will have adoptable animals

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at the car show. So come
look at some cars and go home with

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the pets. Wait a second,
free veteran pet adoptions. That is correct.

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Do is be someone who's served and
you can go home with a dog

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or a cat or something. Yes, we probably won't have cats at the

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event, but if you want a
cat, you can go to the shelter.

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We'll make that happen as well.
Well you know how that is.

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Dogs like to get out, cats
and not so much. Yeah, free,

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they get loose there. You got
to keep an eye on them there.

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But this is really kind of cool. So all you have to do

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at yourly qualification be a bet.
Yeah, I mean that's all you have

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to do. I mean it could
be actively serving or you know, retired

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military, but all you have to
do is have your military ID and you

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will receive a free pet adoption.
And so it's really great. I mean,

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come on out. And for the
participants in the car show, I

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mean this is a fundraiser, so
we are having named your price registration fee,

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so if you want to bring your
car to the show, you can

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give to your heart's content. So
how nice that that's really great. You

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know some people might give twenty and
some people might give more, So come

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on down and bring your car and
support the animals. So basically we're honoring

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the veterans while helping the animals.
Oh thoughtful. At all ends. Tony'll

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tell you what you and your team, you guys got it going on there.

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We have a lot going on.
We're really, really really busy.

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In fact, we have I mean, I know this is a lot,

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but we do have what we call
the first annual Jingle Palls Market over at

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Washington Park Mall, and so we
are looking for vendors that would like to

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set up for this market. So
if you have a small business, crafts

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or anything that you typically sell at
a market, we will be at Washington

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Park Mall on December ninth. And
thank you to Washington Park Mall. They're

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letting us use that space at no
charge, so we really want to give

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a shout out to them for that, and we'll be there from nine to

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six. We'll have a Santa there
taking pet pictures, so if you can

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bring your dog down there and get
your picture made with Santa, and we

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will have some trucks and more adoptable
animals. So it's supposed to be like

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a fun, great day for everyone. But right now we're looking for those

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vendors. All right, that sounds
great. We're gonna take a quick break

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and we're going to go into more
about what the Washington County SBCA does and

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how they're funded, and just to
how it can work well for our community

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altogether, how we work hand in
hand with each other. We'll be back

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right after these words from Martold Moore. A Nie Camp funeral home fleetly transferable

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

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especially true without any penalty at all. For instance, if you decide you're

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going to retire and move to another
state, and you find a funeral home

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

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that you have at funeral home A
and transfer to the funeral home band.

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There's no problem doing that. Ten
how long Arnold Moore and Nie Camp Funeral

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Home. Sixty seventy years ago,
Bob Farmer died. Joe business owner noon

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Joe business owner hung a sign that
said close for the funeral of Bob Farmer

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back at three pm. Hung it
on his door, closed door. No

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one would steal that sign. He
would go to the funeral, as would

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many of Bob's friends. Now,
if you are a grandson, you have

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to have proof that Grandpa died so
you can get paid for that day of

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leave. I've said it one hundred
times. Death is an inconvenience to twenty

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first century America. But it's not
at Arnold Moore and Mee Camp funeral.

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It'll be all right. We'll walk
through this together. Arnold Moore and kne

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Camp punerialal seven to ten Dewey martyls
of their life. We will walk through

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this together and welcome back to our
community connection. We are speaking with Tany

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at Peach. He's the CEO of
Washington County SPCA and Busy, Busy,

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Busy. We've talked about the pause
for Patriots, also the bingo bash of

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what's going on out there at Washington
mall right around the Christmas time. But

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you know, for folks who say
that, oh yeah, they're the folks

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that take in animals, well there's
a little bit more to it than that.

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Kind of explain how your process works. So, Washington County SPCA is

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an open access shelter, so we
take in all straight animals, regardless of

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their health, the condition they're in, their age, what breed of dog

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they are. We have city contracts
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Ocean Leda, so their straight animals
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We have two animal control officers that
work for the Bartlesville Police Department that patrol

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the streets of Bartlesville and look for
stray animals, and so we are essentially

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a holding. So we have a
pound that holds animals for four days,

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so if you have a stray,
you have a chance to come in and

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try to find them. So this
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after that, if they are not
reclaimed, then we test them and move

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them over for our adoption. And
we really really, really really need the

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communities help to get some animals adopted. This has probably been our heaviest intake

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year and where we have sat full
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seven years. COVID has really hit
animal shelters and animal love for organizations really

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hard. During that time, everyone
was home and they were fostering and they

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were adopting more because they were home. But when everyone started going back to

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work and the economy started changing,
we started seeing more and more intakes.

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But also what was happening is during
that time, a lot of vets offices

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were only doing emergency services and there
wasn't any low income assistance available for span

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neuter clinics. They just weren't happening
during COVID. So we are seeing a

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large increase in puppies and kittens,
specifically puppies this year. Generally speaking,

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in the fall, our numbers typically
start scaling down and the we're not as

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full and the breeding season kind of
stops. But we haven't really had a

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break in over a year. We
have been at capacity since last year,

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especially in our dog kennels. That's
typical for our cats, it's always been

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that way, but for our dogs
it's been really hard. We have more

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animals than we have kennels, so
we have dogs that are outside and you

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know, if they come in litters, we'll have them all grouped together.

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And so we really if you're looking
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the time to come in and adopt. You've getting cold out there. It

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is getting cold out there, and
we are running out of space. Well

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we don't have any space. I
mean, it's less already. So just

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this year alone, we've already taken
in fifteen hundred animals and ninety five percent

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of those are all from Bartlesville,
and that doesn't count one hundred and seventy

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two animals we had in the shelter
in January first, so if you count

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that, we we've had over seventeen
hundred animals, you know, so far

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this year, our employees are working
hard. They're just overwhelmed with the amount

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of animals coming in. So far, we've only adopted nine hundred and ten

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animals, which sounds like a lot, but when we've taken in over fifteen

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hundred, it's really hard. As
of today, I checked this morning,

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we had three hundred and ten animals
at the shelter. It's a lot.

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And so I mean we have all
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are awfully have. There's no more
room at the end, so to speak.

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So if you're wanting to foster as
well, we have litters of puppies

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and kittens that could use a space
to go until they're ready to be adopted.

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Uh, and just call the shelter
at nine one eight, three three

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six one five seven seven. If
you're interested in volunteering, fostering, or

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helping out, the shelter will get
you hooked up. Alrighty, once again,

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let's say go ahead with the Bingo
bash here because that's coming up very

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very soon. Let's remind everyone when
and where it is. Yes, the

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Bingo Bash is going to be at
the Bartlesville Community Center on November three.

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The doors open at five o'clock.
You can purchase your tickets out the door

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or in advance, which is what
I recommend on our website at WCSPCA dot

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org. And for all the other
events coming up and other special things where

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folks can help out the Washington County
SPCA, just go to your Facebook page

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and your website. You've got plenty
of information there on different ways people can

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help and also be a part of
some pretty different promotions that are coming up.

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They're going to be quite special too, that is correct. Is they

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want to volunteer for these events,
that could be one way to help out

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monetarily donating. Also during this time
of year, since summers typically are heavy,

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we drain our pantry of all of
our supplies. So we typically in

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November December us for canned foods for
the pets. And so if you would

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like to do a food drive,
like maybe your small organization or group or

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your work group, we are in
November we take in canned foods for all

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of the pets and paper towels and
don dish. So those are the three

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items we go through the most.
Well, Tanya, thank you for coming

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in, and let's get that pantry
restocked. Let's find these animals from homes.

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What do you say? I would
love some helps, please help us.

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Thank you for being in. We're
going to send some pokes your way.

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Okay, all right, thank you
guys. Alrighty, you've been listening

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to our community connection on K one