Speaker 1: It's Night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: And we're playing this for a reason. All of our
Speaker 2: scheduled guests, our ladies. We were going to lead off
Speaker 2: with Cheryl Findaka from Call for Action on Channel four,
Speaker 2: but for whatever reason, we are unable to get her
Speaker 2: on the line. So I moved my nine o'clock to
Speaker 2: eight o'clock, and if we do get Cheryl, will put
Speaker 2: her on at nine o'clock. But you have seen these
Speaker 2: commercials on TV with Eric McCormick and Oh what's the
Speaker 2: name from the Sopranos Edie Falco talking about abused animals,
Speaker 2: and I've got on the line someone who has done
Speaker 2: something about it. She has a sanctuary for dogs. She's
Speaker 2: out in the Great State of Minnesota. I say the
Speaker 2: Great State of Minnesota because that's where Nancy is from,
Speaker 2: and she's about to tell us about her organization. Even
Speaker 2: though she's in Minnesota. You you hear Massachusetts or any
Speaker 2: one of the thirty eight states that we hit with
Speaker 2: our signal can get one of her abused K nine friends.
Speaker 2: Cindy Bruce, Welcome to Night's Side.
Speaker 3: Hello Morgan, how are you.
Speaker 2: I'm doing very very well. Tell me about your organization.
Speaker 3: My main organization that I foster for is PNC Midwest Rescue.
Speaker 3: They do mostly Pekinese and Japanese chins. We have gotten
Speaker 3: dogs from puppy mills, we've gotten dogs from owner surrenders,
Speaker 3: all sorts of them. The thing with Pekines is they're
Speaker 3: very cute. They're just teeny tiny when they're little, but
Speaker 3: they are born with an attitude. They like to growl
Speaker 3: and they like to bite, and people think it's really
Speaker 3: cute when you know, they're like two pounded dogs out
Speaker 3: of the sea. Yes, yes, it can, okayes definitely, but
Speaker 3: most people think it's just really cute when this little
Speaker 3: fluffball that fits in their hand is growling at them
Speaker 3: and snapping at them, and you know, then it turns
Speaker 3: into a fifteen pound dog that is still growling and
Speaker 3: snapping at them. So the in fact, the very first
Speaker 3: foster dog that we had, that was the case. He
Speaker 3: was a cute little fluffball who growled and bitted his
Speaker 3: owner and thought he was the boss, and they just
Speaker 3: couldn't handle him anymore after he got to be a
Speaker 3: fifteen pound dog. Okay, so he came to us. He
Speaker 3: came to us with food aggression, and he just thought
Speaker 3: he was the boss and intelligent.
Speaker 2: Back up one second. What is food aggression?
Speaker 3: If you usually it starts out with other dogs or
Speaker 3: other animals. They guard their food dish. If you come
Speaker 3: near their food dish, they growl, they snap at you.
Speaker 3: They do the same thing with owners sometimes. But all
Speaker 3: of all of these things can be they can be fixed.
Speaker 3: You know, There's there's very few issues with the dogs
Speaker 3: that we've had that have come in that could not
Speaker 3: be fixed.
Speaker 2: So I'm going to tell I'm gonna this story. This
Speaker 2: story happened when I owned two German shepherds back in
Speaker 2: the eighties, got them as puppies. I trained them, and
Speaker 2: shepherds have a series of training methods different than most
Speaker 2: other dogs, so I followed the rules from a book
Speaker 2: and a videotape. They were very well trained. There were
Speaker 2: sister and brother from the same litter my feet. I
Speaker 2: would feed them in two different bowls, her bowl and
Speaker 2: his bowl. She would woof down all of her food
Speaker 2: then eat almost to the measurement half of his food.
Speaker 2: And I tried moving the dishes, I tried putting them
Speaker 2: in different rooms. I tried everything, and finally I decided,
Speaker 2: let me put all the food in one bowl. She
Speaker 2: would eat half, he wouldn't go near it. She would
Speaker 2: eat half walk away, and then he would eat the remainder.
Speaker 2: Is that common for dogs?
Speaker 1: Not?
Speaker 3: The dogs are on my house, not a lot of them.
Speaker 3: They wolf down their food and then they try to
Speaker 3: join in on the other ones. But I think with
Speaker 3: German shepherds that's a big thing, especially if you have
Speaker 3: a brother and a sister. I think that's a pretty
Speaker 3: common thing. So, yeah, we feed. We have I currently
Speaker 3: have five dogs at my house and we feed them
Speaker 3: all in the same room, out of their own dishes. Okay,
Speaker 3: so we just make sure. We just make sure that
Speaker 3: they don't go from dish to dish.
Speaker 2: And let me ask a question. I know you will
Speaker 2: ship dogs once you've proven this is a worthy home,
Speaker 2: you will ship dogs anywhere in America. How do you
Speaker 2: work that? How do we okay? Go ahead?
Speaker 3: Usually we have one of the Usually we have one
Speaker 3: of the volunteers from the group fly with the dog.
Speaker 3: The people who adopt the dog have to pay the
Speaker 3: ticket to get the dog there. They have to pay
Speaker 3: the expense to get the dog there. But we try
Speaker 3: not to put we keep them in the cabin with
Speaker 3: us because Pekinese, especially the Pekinese and Japanese chins, they're
Speaker 3: small enough dogs. We're uh, flying them in the cargo
Speaker 3: area is not healthy for them. Okay, consider to have
Speaker 3: them in the cabin with you. And if we don't fly.
Speaker 3: We have done relays where we have volunteers. It starts
Speaker 3: in Autana and then we just do different legs of
Speaker 3: the trip in order to get it to the to
Speaker 3: the new owner. I've made trips from Autana to South Dakota, Missouri,
Speaker 3: places like that.
Speaker 2: All right, well, you know again we hit thirty eight
Speaker 2: states with our sign. Though, how could somebody here in
Speaker 2: Massachusetts or in New York or Wisconsin and check out
Speaker 2: the dogs? Is there a website that they can see
Speaker 2: one of these dogs and fall in love with it?
Speaker 3: Yes, there is. There are tons of very worthy rescues
Speaker 3: all over the country. So I would recommend checking a local,
Speaker 3: either a shelter or a rescue group because there are
Speaker 3: tons of dogs also in kill shelters and non kill
Speaker 3: shelters that are looking for homes. It's amazing how many dogs.
Speaker 3: You know, people breed them and it's not just puppy mills.
Speaker 3: It's people backyard breeders breeding them because they think, you know,
Speaker 3: female dogs should have at least one litter of puppies.
Speaker 3: And you know, people get these dogs and usually over
Speaker 3: half of the litter ends up in a shelter or
Speaker 3: abandoned out in the country. If they're a big dog
Speaker 3: German shepherds, that's a big thing. You take them out
Speaker 3: to a farmer and you dump them off and they
Speaker 3: drive away. But there's like you said, all you all
Speaker 3: you need to do is go out onto the internet
Speaker 3: and search dog rescues and they're listed all over the country.
Speaker 3: Pekan chin is PNC Midwest Rescue dot com for other
Speaker 3: people in Minnesota, there's that organization. There's also MARS Midwest
Speaker 3: Animal Rescue Services. They do a very good job. I've
Speaker 3: fostered for them before. But yeah, okay. Big thing is adopt, adopt,
Speaker 3: don't shop and pet shops. Pet shops they don't directly
Speaker 3: buy from the puppy mills, but they buy from the
Speaker 3: brokers that buy from the puppy mills. So there's not
Speaker 3: a there's not a pet shop anywhere that doesn't get
Speaker 3: their dogs from a puppy mill.
Speaker 2: Let me take my break. When we come back, we'll
Speaker 2: get more information and I hope I'll throw out the
Speaker 2: phone number that we get some calls that are informative
Speaker 2: and within this subject matter about Now it's not cats,
Speaker 2: it's just dogs.
Speaker 3: Correct, I I just foster dogs, all right. Mars does
Speaker 3: have does have cats that they foster. They have people
Speaker 3: that foster cats for them. Most there's rescue groups for
Speaker 3: cats everywhere too.
Speaker 2: So yeah, okay, phone number six one, seven, two, five, four,
Speaker 2: ten thirty or eight eight, eight, nine, two, nine ten thirty.
Speaker 2: Denray is off. He's off until Wednesday, the first of
Speaker 2: the year. I am here. My name is Morgan White, Junior.
Speaker 2: Time and temperature eight sixteen thirty three degrees.
Speaker 1: Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Speaker 1: night Side Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2: I'm speaking with Cindy Bruce. She's saying minutes so of
Speaker 2: all places, and she runs a dog sanctuary and Sidney.
Speaker 2: What's the official name.
Speaker 3: PNC Midwest Rescue.
Speaker 2: Okay, I have not a suspicion, but I know a
Speaker 2: lot of people give their children pets during the holiday season,
Speaker 2: especially little small Pekinese and other fur ball type of doggies.
Speaker 2: They give it to little Bobby, Little Susie, and for
Speaker 2: whatever reason it doesn't work out. Tell me about the
Speaker 2: people that try to give the dogs back for whatever reason.
Speaker 3: If you adopt it through a rescue group, you sign
Speaker 3: excuse me, you sign a contract saying that if you
Speaker 3: ever do not want this dog anymore, that you will
Speaker 3: contact us and you will give us the dog back.
Speaker 3: We take the dog at any time for whatever reason.
Speaker 3: If you adopt it from us, we'll take it back.
Speaker 3: And norm now for our dogs, when our dogs are adopted,
Speaker 3: the adopters get our phone number and they can call
Speaker 3: us with any questions and will help them with any
Speaker 3: behavioral things that come up or anything like that, because
Speaker 3: the dog is moving to a new home obviously, and
Speaker 3: you know there's going to be issues that come up
Speaker 3: because you know, it's stressful for anybody to go to
Speaker 3: somewhere where they don't know anybody in that so we
Speaker 3: are we are always available to answer any questions that
Speaker 3: they have them to help them through any of the
Speaker 3: issues that they have. But yeah, we you can if
Speaker 3: you go out on the website and you find a
Speaker 3: dog that you like. All of the adopt all of
Speaker 3: the dog rescues that I've worked with. They have an
Speaker 3: app VACATIONI that you fill out and they call you
Speaker 3: and they talk to you and we request references so
Speaker 3: we can call people and make sure and we try
Speaker 3: to make sure that the whole family is involved in
Speaker 3: this because we don't want the wife buying a dog
Speaker 3: and you know, the husband isn't you know, doesn't want it,
Speaker 3: because nine times out of ten then it ends up
Speaker 3: coming back and then we have we send somebody to
Speaker 3: do a home visit to make sure that it's a
Speaker 3: good home for the dog. And then usually the foster
Speaker 3: talks to the potential adapter because we've been living with
Speaker 3: the dog for however long and so yeah, so then
Speaker 3: we go through that and it kind of makes me
Speaker 3: cry when people get their kids pets for Christmas presents,
Speaker 3: because pets are a big I mean, it's a big
Speaker 3: step and then they take a lot of time and
Speaker 3: a lot of yeah, a lot of time, time, a
Speaker 3: lot of money.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: So but yeah, but we are and a lot of
Speaker 3: times if you go on to if you find it,
Speaker 3: if you're having problems with your dogs, you can or
Speaker 3: any of your pets. You can usually go online and
Speaker 3: if you search up rescue groups. They are usually even
Speaker 3: if you didn't get the dog from them, they are
Speaker 3: more than willing to help you out with suggestions and
Speaker 3: you know, try to help you so you can keep
Speaker 3: your pet soul.
Speaker 2: How do you in Minnesota? You say you do a
Speaker 2: home visit? How do you manage that? You Let's say
Speaker 2: I got a dog, I live in Illinois and you're
Speaker 2: in Minnesota. How do you manage coming there from? Is
Speaker 2: it directly from your organization or a sister organization that
Speaker 2: works with you that's in Illinois.
Speaker 3: We will try to use a sister organization. If we can't,
Speaker 3: we have done video tours of the home with the owners.
Speaker 3: If there isn't an organization that we can get a
Speaker 3: hold of that would be willing to do the home
Speaker 3: visit for us. But yeah, otherwise we do it a
Speaker 3: video call.
Speaker 2: Okay, I was just curious how that works.
Speaker 3: And what we have. We have volunteers all over. The
Speaker 3: lady who who actually does run the rescue group, she
Speaker 3: lives in Iowa. I'm in you know, Minnesota. We have
Speaker 3: volunteers that lives in I can't remember if it's New
Speaker 3: Jersey or New York out there. So we have them
Speaker 3: all over the place.
Speaker 2: Okay, and you mentioned that the give me the exact
Speaker 2: breed of the Pekinese, the breed, the breed, because I'm
Speaker 2: curious to do most you go first, you go first.
Speaker 3: Yep, we do. We do mostly Pekinese. They're they're short
Speaker 3: dogs with long hair, or we do Japanese chins and
Speaker 3: they're and they're both flat faced dogs. Japanese chins we're
Speaker 3: originally bread to fit in the sleeve of the emperors
Speaker 3: and that. So they're just they're little dogs. They are.
Speaker 3: I tell people, Japanese chins are the most catlike dog
Speaker 3: you will ever own. They just want to hang out
Speaker 3: and be by their owners, and you know they don't.
Speaker 3: They're just very they're usually very laid back. Pekinese, on
Speaker 3: the other hand, are born with an attitude and it
Speaker 3: just kind of never goes away. So you have to
Speaker 3: establish the fact that you're the boss. But yeah, I've
Speaker 3: had We've had Pekinese, Japanese Chins, we had a couple
Speaker 3: of was here, We've had I'm pretty sure there's been
Speaker 3: at least four or five hundred dogs that have went
Speaker 3: through my house since two thousand and seven.
Speaker 2: Wow, and other breeds. Because the three breeds you mentioned
Speaker 2: all are basically teeny weeny dogs. What about the bigger dogs,
Speaker 2: the labs, the German shepherds, the Great Danes. How often
Speaker 2: are they abandoned and abused?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 3: Just about as just about as often as Pekinese are.
Speaker 3: There are organizations that that's all they do, is they
Speaker 3: work with German shepherds because they are German shepherds are
Speaker 3: very breed specific. You know, people get them thinking they're
Speaker 3: going to be wonderful guard dogs and all that, and
Speaker 3: you know, they don't understand that you need to. It's
Speaker 3: a little different when you have a German shepherd than
Speaker 3: if you have a small dog. You know, you have
Speaker 3: to give them something to do and keep them from
Speaker 3: being bored and all that stuff. But there are breeds
Speaker 3: for labs, there's breeds for German shepherds. There, I know
Speaker 3: there's uh and I'm pretty sure it's in Minnesota up
Speaker 3: by the Cities. It's a they have a pit bull
Speaker 3: rescue group just for pit bulls. Yeah, so yeah, because
Speaker 3: you know, most people are kind of leery about adopting
Speaker 3: pitbulls because it's a bad press they've gotten. But no,
Speaker 3: there's there's all sorts of different kinds and if we
Speaker 3: get we try to do just the little dogs. But
Speaker 3: if we get a call from somebody, we've We've had
Speaker 3: an English bulldog at my house a couple of them.
Speaker 3: We've had a German shepherd who came with nine puppies.
Speaker 3: She was at my house for a while.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let me tell people, get paper and pencil when
Speaker 2: we come back from the news, because I'm about to
Speaker 2: take a news hit when we come back from the news.
Speaker 2: I'm going to have Cindy give her phone number and
Speaker 2: also the website, the computer, email, and that way you
Speaker 2: have a number of different options to get in touch. Now,
Speaker 2: you said P and.
Speaker 3: C yep, PNC Midwest Rescue, all.
Speaker 2: Right, because around here we have a P and C
Speaker 2: organization that uses bicycles for fundraising. So I don't want
Speaker 2: to make that mistake, and I want you to give
Speaker 2: your phone number and your email address when we come
Speaker 2: back from news. I'm about to take my news hit. Now,
Speaker 2: if you want to call in and speak with Cindy,
Speaker 2: Cindy Bruce, that's who you're hearing here on Nightside. Her
Speaker 2: phone number six one, seven, two, five, four ten thirty
Speaker 2: or eight eight eight nine two nine ten thirty. So
Speaker 2: let me sow to Rob. Rob's back tonight where he
Speaker 2: needs to be in the production booth. Here on Nightside
Speaker 2: time and temperature eight twenty nine thirty three degrees.
Speaker 1: You're on night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ, Boston's
Speaker 1: news radio.
Speaker 2: Dan is off obviously for the rest of this week.
Speaker 2: I've been here since Monday. I will be here tomorrow,
Speaker 2: Monday and Tuesday, and my own show on Saturday, The
Speaker 2: Morgan Show. This is Cindy Bruce and she makes sure
Speaker 2: dogs have a safe place to be. She has a
Speaker 2: dog sanctuary in Minnesota. PNC is its name, and Cindy,
Speaker 2: give whatever numbers you need to give that people can
Speaker 2: get in touch with you and check out your website
Speaker 2: see what pooches are available.
Speaker 3: Okay, The website is Pncmidwest dot org. My phone number
Speaker 3: is five oh seven two one three four five eight one,
Speaker 3: and my email address is cool Grandma of six. That's
Speaker 3: the number six at gmail dot com. And I can
Speaker 3: forward it on to the people who need to get it.
Speaker 3: And we are always always always looking for people to
Speaker 3: foster dogs also to take them into their home and
Speaker 3: get them socialized. And quite a few of them come
Speaker 3: in there, not potty trained, house train them, get them social,
Speaker 3: get to know the dogs, help help them get to
Speaker 3: the right home. We're always looking for volunteers.
Speaker 2: Is it conceivable dog a will watch dog b uh
Speaker 2: do the right things when it comes to being party trained,
Speaker 2: request to go outside or maybe you have a doggy
Speaker 2: door and your your kitchen door wherever, and the dog
Speaker 2: that doesn't know about being party trained learns from observing
Speaker 2: the other dogs. Can that happen?
Speaker 3: Yes, definitely, yep. They learn good and bad habits from
Speaker 3: the other dogs. They usually pick up on the bad
Speaker 3: habits faster. I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 2: Yeah, right now, give me two bad habits.
Speaker 3: For male dogs. They like to mark their territory.
Speaker 2: Okay, what we do.
Speaker 3: What we do for that is we put a belly
Speaker 3: band on them. It's just a keith of material and
Speaker 3: you can put a sanitary pad in there and you
Speaker 3: wrap it around so that when they pee it goes
Speaker 3: on the sanitary pad instead of on your house. And
Speaker 3: another one is chewing on things.
Speaker 2: Oh yes, y I'm looking at the box right now.
Speaker 2: It's just a box with generic stuff in it. And
Speaker 2: my cat, for whatever reason, started the claw at the
Speaker 2: corners of the box like he picked that area specifically,
Speaker 2: the left corner and the right corner that box right there,
Speaker 2: and that's the way that he is marking his territory
Speaker 2: his area. Are there other ways that they mark their
Speaker 2: area beside your nation and scratching?
Speaker 3: Usually for dogs, it's just like you said, the male dogs,
Speaker 3: they lift their leg and they pee on things. That's
Speaker 3: pretty much the way they do it. So female dogs
Speaker 3: not so much. They don't mark so much. They get
Speaker 3: to be territorial and then they get to be very
Speaker 3: protective of their people on that. So you just got
Speaker 3: to kind of keep an eye out for that. But
Speaker 3: and I haven't. I grew up with big dogs. They
Speaker 3: don't know how I ended up with a bunch of
Speaker 3: little dogs at my house. But I grew up with
Speaker 3: German shepherds and stuff like that. But yeah, but the
Speaker 3: only thing we've really fostered is, you know, the littler dogs.
Speaker 3: But yep, and cats. If if your cat is doing
Speaker 3: anything other than scratching, if they're going to the bathroom
Speaker 3: outside the litter box, that's definitely of that visit because
Speaker 3: cats don't normally do that unless there's something medical going on.
Speaker 2: He he knows. We have two litter boxes and they'll
Speaker 2: use one more than the other, but no examples of
Speaker 2: not using the litter box. Yeah, very intelligent when it
Speaker 2: comes to that, yes, yep. Oh.
Speaker 3: And when when you do adopt a dog from us,
Speaker 3: there is an adoption fee. What pekan Chin does when
Speaker 3: we have dogs come in, they get a vet visit,
Speaker 3: they get all they get check ups done, They're checked
Speaker 3: for all sorts of diseases and things. If they're not
Speaker 3: spade or neutered, we spay and neuter them. So there's
Speaker 3: some some of our dogs. The adoption fee absolutely does
Speaker 3: not cover what we've sunk into the dogs with the
Speaker 3: set visit. So yeah, so this is.
Speaker 2: I have such a love of dogies, even though I
Speaker 2: own a cat. Now I have found that I still
Speaker 2: have a love and I missed my shepherds. I had
Speaker 2: them till they both were about eight or nine years old.
Speaker 2: I had to put each of them down about six
Speaker 2: weeks in between. One my female got leukemia and we
Speaker 2: paid the money to have her operated on to remove it,
Speaker 2: and they thought they got it all, but within two
Speaker 2: weeks it all came back and even worse. And then
Speaker 2: my male had hip displasure, which is common in German shepherds,
Speaker 2: and I had to put them down basically within four
Speaker 2: or five weeks of each other. And they were my children.
Speaker 2: It just tore me, tore me up. Yep. And I
Speaker 2: want anybody out there that gets a dog, whether it's
Speaker 2: from PNC or the pet sharp at the mall, train it.
Speaker 2: And it takes time, it takes love. Don't beat it.
Speaker 2: I never ever beat my dogs ever, words of encouragement
Speaker 2: and the scruff of the year behind the air. I
Speaker 2: did all the things the book and the tape told
Speaker 2: me to do. I lived in the city of Boston.
Speaker 2: I lived in the Austin Brighton area. I could walk
Speaker 2: them without a leash. More often than not. I walked
Speaker 2: them with a leash, but I could walk them without
Speaker 2: a leash. My male stayed on my right side, my
Speaker 2: female stayed on my left side. And it was the
Speaker 2: three of us and we were eight unit. And I
Speaker 2: missed them to this day. It's been over thirty years
Speaker 2: since I've had Hack and Honey, and what are you
Speaker 2: going to do? Time March is on. But I wanted
Speaker 2: to make sure they were well trained. Living in the city, definitely.
Speaker 3: And the thing is even with you know, like German
Speaker 3: shepherds or pit bulls or Rottweiler's. My brother has from
Speaker 3: the time he was an adult on his own, he said,
Speaker 3: Rottweiler's and pit bulls, and they have been just the
Speaker 3: sweetest dogs ever. And if you're looking for a dog
Speaker 3: to help protect your family, you don't have to put
Speaker 3: them through the training for being a guard dog or anything.
Speaker 3: If you love them and take care of them, they're
Speaker 3: going to help protect your family. You know, you don't
Speaker 3: need to put them through the you know, the police
Speaker 3: dog training or anything like that. As long as you
Speaker 3: you know, you make sure that they know you're the
Speaker 3: boss and you treat them right, they will protect your
Speaker 3: family no matter what.
Speaker 2: And I saw evidence of that. They knew how to
Speaker 2: protect and more importantly, when to protect. Definitely, I don't
Speaker 2: know what my cat would do so somebody broke into
Speaker 2: the house. I would hope he would be in protect mode,
Speaker 2: but you never know.
Speaker 3: Yep, yeah, my cat would run away and hide. He
Speaker 3: doesn't like people that he doesn't know.
Speaker 2: Okay, And how do how do your dogs, because I
Speaker 2: think you said you have as many as a dozen
Speaker 2: at a time, how do they get along? Obviously you've
Speaker 2: got different breeds different sizes. Do they play nice with
Speaker 2: each other?
Speaker 3: Usually I do. Sometimes we run into my personal dog
Speaker 3: that was the oldest dog in the house. I'd have
Speaker 3: him put down last summer, but he once in a while,
Speaker 3: when another male dog would come in the house, he
Speaker 3: would definitely have to let him know that this was
Speaker 3: his house. And that's that's one of the things that's
Speaker 3: nice about having organizations that foster the dogs and homes
Speaker 3: because you can help them get used to other animals.
Speaker 3: And there have been some dogs where we've had to say,
Speaker 3: you know, they got used to being in a house
Speaker 3: with other dogs, but they're really not comfortable with it,
Speaker 3: you know, because there are some dogs who are not
Speaker 3: comfortable with you know, multiple animals in the house. But
Speaker 3: like I said, that's what works really nice with the
Speaker 3: foster groups is they come into the house, you get
Speaker 3: to know the dog. You can say, okay, probably not
Speaker 3: a good fit with cats. We've had a couple of
Speaker 3: dogs come in that just they were not kid dogs.
Speaker 3: They you know, they didn't want anything to do with kids.
Speaker 3: They didn't like it when my grandkids came over. So
Speaker 3: it was you know, this dog needs to go to
Speaker 3: a home that doesn't have kids.
Speaker 2: Okay, so yeah, let me tell you my last break
Speaker 2: of this hour, and for people who tuned in to
Speaker 2: hear Sheriffian Daka, she will be joining us at nine o'clock.
Speaker 2: Cindy was kind enough to come in an hour early,
Speaker 2: so again, let me say thank you for you doing
Speaker 2: that and let me take my break. Give the phone
Speaker 2: numbers six one, seven, two, five, four, ten thirty or
Speaker 2: eight eight, eight, nine, two, nine, ten thirty if you
Speaker 2: want to call in and talk about adopting a dog
Speaker 2: or your history dealing with how you brought a dog
Speaker 2: into your home and the details of that adoption, we
Speaker 2: want to hear about it. This is Nightside. Dan Ray
Speaker 2: is off. My name is Morgan Here. I am time
Speaker 2: and temperature eight forty five thirty three degrees.
Speaker 1: Now back to Dan Ray live from the window World
Speaker 1: Life Sights to you on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2: My name Morgan White Junior. I am filling in for
Speaker 2: Dan Ray here on Nightside. Night Side happens, and when
Speaker 2: Dan takes a vacation, night Side still happens. And if
Speaker 2: you want to call in to speak to my guest,
Speaker 2: Cindy Bruce six one seven, two, five, four ten thirty
Speaker 2: eight eight eight, nine, two, nine, ten thirty. And where
Speaker 2: do you see your business, your company growing from here?
Speaker 3: Well, I don't think it's going to go away because
Speaker 3: people get animals without doing research and then they don't
Speaker 3: know what to do with them once they've got them.
Speaker 3: Right now, we're we're still trying, like I said, we're
Speaker 3: trying to find new foster homes, uh and we're trying
Speaker 3: to find volunteers that'll help us out with things like that.
Speaker 3: At and even if you don't foster for P and C,
Speaker 3: there's organizations all up and down the East Coast, all
Speaker 3: over the United States that are just crying for people
Speaker 3: to help them. The shelters, both the kill shelters and
Speaker 3: the non kill shelters and the rescue groups are just
Speaker 3: hecked to the ceilings with animals and critters and everything.
Speaker 3: So what are.
Speaker 2: The parameters at a kill shelter and a non kill shelter?
Speaker 3: So we know the difference a kill shelter, Well, there's
Speaker 3: a deadline for the amount of time the dogs can
Speaker 3: be there. The city organizations that have animal control officers,
Speaker 3: they have dog they don't call them dog palms anymore,
Speaker 3: but they come in and these animals have a very
Speaker 3: limited amount of time to either find the owner or
Speaker 3: to be adopted, and then they are put down. They're
Speaker 3: euthanized if they don't get adopted.
Speaker 4: So.
Speaker 3: They that's that's the kill shelter usually and normally it's
Speaker 3: like two weeks to a month. Usually not a month,
Speaker 3: but usually it's it's as little as two weeks to
Speaker 3: either find the owner or adopt the dog or cat
Speaker 3: or whatever animal it is out and then because they
Speaker 3: don't they don't have the resources to keep the animals
Speaker 3: longer than that. So yeah, and then the no kill
Speaker 3: shelters are usually they they will keep them forever if
Speaker 3: they have to.
Speaker 2: You've got a lot of.
Speaker 3: Times, I know.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, you've got a phone call.
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, all right.
Speaker 2: Let's go to Chelsetort and speak to Chris. Chris, thank
Speaker 2: you for calling Nightside. Hope you've had a happy holiday
Speaker 2: week and happy New Year to you.
Speaker 4: Every New Year to you, you guess and the provided Nightside.
Speaker 4: I had a good Christmas here at the group home
Speaker 4: in Jumford. When I used to live in Dorica, we
Speaker 4: did have a dog and it was a very nice
Speaker 4: they named its Sport. But for some reason he would
Speaker 4: he when when he was over one was around today,
Speaker 4: he did two of some things. And I'm wondering, how
Speaker 4: could dogs get out of that habit of doing that? Well,
Speaker 4: I forget when the dog died, but I didn't want
Speaker 4: to was over three years of age, all.
Speaker 2: Right, Cindy. How do you break a dog from chewing things?
Speaker 3: There are some dog breeds that chew their whole life.
Speaker 3: At the times, dogs just chew when they're teething, but
Speaker 3: some dogs chew their whole lives. My house is filled
Speaker 3: with dog toys. There are things for them to chew
Speaker 3: on all the time, so they don't chew on my
Speaker 3: things anymore. And that's that's usually the best way to
Speaker 3: go about it is buy them things that they're allowed
Speaker 3: to chew on. How do they.
Speaker 2: Know the difference? I'm sorry, how do they know the
Speaker 2: difference from your house shoe to that rubber bone?
Speaker 4: Exactly?
Speaker 3: Usually I keep my shoes away from my dogs. I
Speaker 3: keep them in closets and things like that. A lot
Speaker 3: of times, I think your pets will train you much
Speaker 3: better than you will ever train them. You learn you
Speaker 3: know what things not to.
Speaker 4: And for women's dogs and men's men's dogs, like men
Speaker 4: and juice for example.
Speaker 2: Well as as Cindy just said, you're hoping that the
Speaker 2: dog will know his chewable toys, his toys, her toys.
Speaker 2: You're hoping that the dog will know that that reddish
Speaker 2: bone looking thing over there is for him, that thing
Speaker 2: with the fur on it, and the place for a
Speaker 2: foot is mommy's. You can't chew mommy's shoe, good, yeah, and.
Speaker 3: We usually we usually try to when we buy them
Speaker 3: a new chew toy. We had a black lab, who
Speaker 3: you know, black labs chew on things their whole lives,
Speaker 3: and we bought we use pot bottles, empty pot bottles,
Speaker 3: and that way it made noise. He thought he was
Speaker 3: chewing on something he wasn't supposed to do and that
Speaker 3: that worked fine for us. Or when we get them
Speaker 3: a new toy, we play with the toy and we
Speaker 3: make sure that they know this is for them to
Speaker 3: chew on and play with. So that's so far, that's
Speaker 3: worked really well for us.
Speaker 2: All right, Chris, anything else.
Speaker 4: And I know that's aboute it And you have a
Speaker 4: good weekend, Wigan, and you guess.
Speaker 2: Same to you, Chris, thank you for the call, Bye bye,
Speaker 2: all right, and before I run out of time. I've
Speaker 2: got maybe two or three more minutes left with you. Cindy,
Speaker 2: could you give your phone numbers or email website what
Speaker 2: have you?
Speaker 3: Once again please Yep, It's Pncmidwest dot org. And my
Speaker 3: number is five oh seven two one three four five
Speaker 3: eight one and I can definitely if they call me,
Speaker 3: and then my email address is cool GRAMDMA of six
Speaker 3: the number six at gmail dot com. And I can
Speaker 3: definitely get them to the people that they need to
Speaker 3: talk to about fostering or adopting or any of that stuff.
Speaker 2: And let me state the obvious, Like I told you,
Speaker 2: we hit thirty eight states, and I'm sure you and
Speaker 2: your P and C company outreach to all thirty eight
Speaker 2: states through sister organizations and what have you.
Speaker 3: True, Yes, true, And we have also one of the
Speaker 3: dogs that I've had at my house was adopted to
Speaker 3: a couple in Canada. And we have also adopted out
Speaker 3: one of our dogs to a couple in Alaska, so
Speaker 3: we can get them. And a couple of the head
Speaker 3: of our organization has taken a couple of dogs that
Speaker 3: were adopted to Italy. Wow, so they go everywhere.
Speaker 2: We hit Canada with that signal. So Canada is no issue,
Speaker 2: and I'm sure they need dog help up there as
Speaker 2: well as the rest of the United States.
Speaker 3: Oh definitely, yea.
Speaker 2: Thank you for green to come on. I know you reach.
Speaker 2: Thank you for having and we will do this again
Speaker 2: maybe in.
Speaker 3: The spring, definitely.
Speaker 2: Okay, Cindy Bruce, you take care. Bye bye bye bye bye.
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