WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.360 --> 00:00:13.839 It's Night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ, Boston's news radio. 2 00:00:10.839 --> 00:00:15.359 And we're playing this for a reason. All of our 3 00:00:15.519 --> 00:00:22.359 scheduled guests, our ladies. We were going to lead off 4 00:00:22.359 --> 00:00:26.359 with Cheryl Findaka from Call for Action on Channel four, 5 00:00:27.280 --> 00:00:30.320 but for whatever reason, we are unable to get her 6 00:00:30.519 --> 00:00:33.359 on the line. So I moved my nine o'clock to 7 00:00:33.399 --> 00:00:36.399 eight o'clock, and if we do get Cheryl, will put 8 00:00:36.439 --> 00:00:41.719 her on at nine o'clock. But you have seen these 9 00:00:41.719 --> 00:00:48.439 commercials on TV with Eric McCormick and Oh what's the 10 00:00:48.560 --> 00:00:55.640 name from the Sopranos Edie Falco talking about abused animals, 11 00:00:57.000 --> 00:00:59.759 and I've got on the line someone who has done 12 00:01:00.159 --> 00:01:04.400 something about it. She has a sanctuary for dogs. She's 13 00:01:04.439 --> 00:01:07.599 out in the Great State of Minnesota. I say the 14 00:01:07.599 --> 00:01:10.920 Great State of Minnesota because that's where Nancy is from, 15 00:01:11.359 --> 00:01:16.879 and she's about to tell us about her organization. Even 16 00:01:16.920 --> 00:01:22.920 though she's in Minnesota. You you hear Massachusetts or any 17 00:01:22.959 --> 00:01:25.040 one of the thirty eight states that we hit with 18 00:01:25.120 --> 00:01:31.079 our signal can get one of her abused K nine friends. 19 00:01:31.439 --> 00:01:35.000 Cindy Bruce, Welcome to Night's Side. 20 00:01:35.280 --> 00:01:36.519 Hello Morgan, how are you. 21 00:01:37.280 --> 00:01:40.560 I'm doing very very well. Tell me about your organization. 22 00:01:42.959 --> 00:01:48.200 My main organization that I foster for is PNC Midwest Rescue. 23 00:01:49.000 --> 00:01:56.000 They do mostly Pekinese and Japanese chins. We have gotten 24 00:01:56.040 --> 00:02:00.079 dogs from puppy mills, we've gotten dogs from owner surrenders, 25 00:02:01.799 --> 00:02:05.519 all sorts of them. The thing with Pekines is they're 26 00:02:05.640 --> 00:02:09.319 very cute. They're just teeny tiny when they're little, but 27 00:02:09.439 --> 00:02:12.599 they are born with an attitude. They like to growl 28 00:02:12.639 --> 00:02:15.919 and they like to bite, and people think it's really 29 00:02:16.000 --> 00:02:21.319 cute when you know, they're like two pounded dogs out 30 00:02:21.360 --> 00:02:26.520 of the sea. Yes, yes, it can, okayes definitely, but 31 00:02:26.599 --> 00:02:29.000 most people think it's just really cute when this little 32 00:02:29.000 --> 00:02:32.080 fluffball that fits in their hand is growling at them 33 00:02:32.120 --> 00:02:34.479 and snapping at them, and you know, then it turns 34 00:02:34.520 --> 00:02:37.560 into a fifteen pound dog that is still growling and 35 00:02:37.639 --> 00:02:43.159 snapping at them. So the in fact, the very first 36 00:02:43.639 --> 00:02:46.759 foster dog that we had, that was the case. He 37 00:02:46.960 --> 00:02:49.919 was a cute little fluffball who growled and bitted his 38 00:02:50.000 --> 00:02:52.840 owner and thought he was the boss, and they just 39 00:02:52.960 --> 00:02:55.560 couldn't handle him anymore after he got to be a 40 00:02:55.599 --> 00:02:59.039 fifteen pound dog. Okay, so he came to us. He 41 00:02:59.080 --> 00:03:03.800 came to us with food aggression, and he just thought 42 00:03:03.919 --> 00:03:08.000 he was the boss and intelligent. 43 00:03:09.120 --> 00:03:12.719 Back up one second. What is food aggression? 44 00:03:14.759 --> 00:03:20.080 If you usually it starts out with other dogs or 45 00:03:20.240 --> 00:03:23.719 other animals. They guard their food dish. If you come 46 00:03:23.759 --> 00:03:26.000 near their food dish, they growl, they snap at you. 47 00:03:28.039 --> 00:03:32.159 They do the same thing with owners sometimes. But all 48 00:03:32.199 --> 00:03:35.479 of all of these things can be they can be fixed. 49 00:03:36.479 --> 00:03:38.879 You know, There's there's very few issues with the dogs 50 00:03:38.879 --> 00:03:41.240 that we've had that have come in that could not 51 00:03:41.360 --> 00:03:41.919 be fixed. 52 00:03:42.960 --> 00:03:46.240 So I'm going to tell I'm gonna this story. This 53 00:03:46.319 --> 00:03:51.000 story happened when I owned two German shepherds back in 54 00:03:51.080 --> 00:03:56.240 the eighties, got them as puppies. I trained them, and 55 00:03:56.599 --> 00:04:01.280 shepherds have a series of training methods different than most 56 00:04:01.319 --> 00:04:04.000 other dogs, so I followed the rules from a book 57 00:04:04.120 --> 00:04:11.560 and a videotape. They were very well trained. There were 58 00:04:11.680 --> 00:04:17.040 sister and brother from the same litter my feet. I 59 00:04:17.079 --> 00:04:21.560 would feed them in two different bowls, her bowl and 60 00:04:21.639 --> 00:04:25.720 his bowl. She would woof down all of her food 61 00:04:26.560 --> 00:04:32.240 then eat almost to the measurement half of his food. 62 00:04:33.319 --> 00:04:36.040 And I tried moving the dishes, I tried putting them 63 00:04:36.040 --> 00:04:39.879 in different rooms. I tried everything, and finally I decided, 64 00:04:40.839 --> 00:04:43.959 let me put all the food in one bowl. She 65 00:04:44.000 --> 00:04:47.199 would eat half, he wouldn't go near it. She would 66 00:04:47.240 --> 00:04:52.319 eat half walk away, and then he would eat the remainder. 67 00:04:53.240 --> 00:04:56.319 Is that common for dogs? 68 00:04:57.800 --> 00:04:57.839 Not? 69 00:04:58.000 --> 00:05:02.480 The dogs are on my house, not a lot of them. 70 00:05:02.680 --> 00:05:06.279 They wolf down their food and then they try to 71 00:05:06.360 --> 00:05:09.639 join in on the other ones. But I think with 72 00:05:09.720 --> 00:05:12.519 German shepherds that's a big thing, especially if you have 73 00:05:12.639 --> 00:05:16.519 a brother and a sister. I think that's a pretty 74 00:05:16.519 --> 00:05:20.519 common thing. So, yeah, we feed. We have I currently 75 00:05:20.560 --> 00:05:25.240 have five dogs at my house and we feed them 76 00:05:25.279 --> 00:05:28.920 all in the same room, out of their own dishes. Okay, 77 00:05:29.079 --> 00:05:30.920 so we just make sure. We just make sure that 78 00:05:30.959 --> 00:05:34.879 they don't go from dish to dish. 79 00:05:34.920 --> 00:05:38.839 And let me ask a question. I know you will 80 00:05:38.879 --> 00:05:43.519 ship dogs once you've proven this is a worthy home, 81 00:05:44.360 --> 00:05:48.720 you will ship dogs anywhere in America. How do you 82 00:05:48.759 --> 00:05:51.560 work that? How do we okay? Go ahead? 83 00:05:51.680 --> 00:05:53.639 Usually we have one of the Usually we have one 84 00:05:53.680 --> 00:05:57.199 of the volunteers from the group fly with the dog. 85 00:05:58.000 --> 00:06:01.920 The people who adopt the dog have to pay the 86 00:06:02.560 --> 00:06:04.600 ticket to get the dog there. They have to pay 87 00:06:04.639 --> 00:06:08.399 the expense to get the dog there. But we try 88 00:06:08.600 --> 00:06:12.079 not to put we keep them in the cabin with 89 00:06:12.199 --> 00:06:16.720 us because Pekinese, especially the Pekinese and Japanese chins, they're 90 00:06:16.800 --> 00:06:20.800 small enough dogs. We're uh, flying them in the cargo 91 00:06:20.879 --> 00:06:25.319 area is not healthy for them. Okay, consider to have 92 00:06:25.439 --> 00:06:29.000 them in the cabin with you. And if we don't fly. 93 00:06:30.040 --> 00:06:34.240 We have done relays where we have volunteers. It starts 94 00:06:34.279 --> 00:06:37.600 in Autana and then we just do different legs of 95 00:06:37.639 --> 00:06:40.560 the trip in order to get it to the to 96 00:06:40.639 --> 00:06:47.199 the new owner. I've made trips from Autana to South Dakota, Missouri, 97 00:06:48.279 --> 00:06:49.160 places like that. 98 00:06:49.720 --> 00:06:52.120 All right, well, you know again we hit thirty eight 99 00:06:52.279 --> 00:06:57.040 states with our sign. Though, how could somebody here in 100 00:06:57.079 --> 00:07:02.600 Massachusetts or in New York or Wisconsin and check out 101 00:07:02.639 --> 00:07:05.959 the dogs? Is there a website that they can see 102 00:07:06.839 --> 00:07:09.439 one of these dogs and fall in love with it? 103 00:07:10.920 --> 00:07:16.560 Yes, there is. There are tons of very worthy rescues 104 00:07:16.800 --> 00:07:21.399 all over the country. So I would recommend checking a local, 105 00:07:22.199 --> 00:07:26.040 either a shelter or a rescue group because there are 106 00:07:26.120 --> 00:07:29.680 tons of dogs also in kill shelters and non kill 107 00:07:29.720 --> 00:07:36.600 shelters that are looking for homes. It's amazing how many dogs. 108 00:07:37.240 --> 00:07:39.879 You know, people breed them and it's not just puppy mills. 109 00:07:39.879 --> 00:07:43.399 It's people backyard breeders breeding them because they think, you know, 110 00:07:43.519 --> 00:07:46.160 female dogs should have at least one litter of puppies. 111 00:07:47.360 --> 00:07:51.519 And you know, people get these dogs and usually over 112 00:07:51.560 --> 00:07:54.680 half of the litter ends up in a shelter or 113 00:07:54.839 --> 00:07:57.199 abandoned out in the country. If they're a big dog 114 00:07:57.240 --> 00:07:59.720 German shepherds, that's a big thing. You take them out 115 00:07:59.720 --> 00:08:01.879 to a farmer and you dump them off and they 116 00:08:02.040 --> 00:08:06.199 drive away. But there's like you said, all you all 117 00:08:06.240 --> 00:08:09.000 you need to do is go out onto the internet 118 00:08:09.160 --> 00:08:13.680 and search dog rescues and they're listed all over the country. 119 00:08:14.680 --> 00:08:22.279 Pekan chin is PNC Midwest Rescue dot com for other 120 00:08:22.360 --> 00:08:28.720 people in Minnesota, there's that organization. There's also MARS Midwest 121 00:08:28.759 --> 00:08:32.440 Animal Rescue Services. They do a very good job. I've 122 00:08:32.480 --> 00:08:39.679 fostered for them before. But yeah, okay. Big thing is adopt, adopt, 123 00:08:39.799 --> 00:08:46.840 don't shop and pet shops. Pet shops they don't directly 124 00:08:46.919 --> 00:08:49.360 buy from the puppy mills, but they buy from the 125 00:08:49.399 --> 00:08:53.120 brokers that buy from the puppy mills. So there's not 126 00:08:53.200 --> 00:08:56.039 a there's not a pet shop anywhere that doesn't get 127 00:08:56.039 --> 00:08:57.320 their dogs from a puppy mill. 128 00:08:58.320 --> 00:09:00.679 Let me take my break. When we come back, we'll 129 00:09:00.679 --> 00:09:04.679 get more information and I hope I'll throw out the 130 00:09:04.679 --> 00:09:08.039 phone number that we get some calls that are informative 131 00:09:08.080 --> 00:09:12.000 and within this subject matter about Now it's not cats, 132 00:09:12.039 --> 00:09:13.720 it's just dogs. 133 00:09:13.399 --> 00:09:19.000 Correct, I I just foster dogs, all right. Mars does 134 00:09:19.120 --> 00:09:22.519 have does have cats that they foster. They have people 135 00:09:22.519 --> 00:09:26.480 that foster cats for them. Most there's rescue groups for 136 00:09:26.600 --> 00:09:27.759 cats everywhere too. 137 00:09:27.960 --> 00:09:33.200 So yeah, okay, phone number six one, seven, two, five, four, 138 00:09:33.240 --> 00:09:36.919 ten thirty or eight eight, eight, nine, two, nine ten thirty. 139 00:09:36.960 --> 00:09:40.799 Denray is off. He's off until Wednesday, the first of 140 00:09:40.840 --> 00:09:43.759 the year. I am here. My name is Morgan White, Junior. 141 00:09:44.279 --> 00:09:48.919 Time and temperature eight sixteen thirty three degrees. 142 00:09:50.080 --> 00:09:53.279 Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World 143 00:09:53.360 --> 00:09:56.519 night Side Studios on WBZ News Radio. 144 00:09:57.000 --> 00:10:00.559 I'm speaking with Cindy Bruce. She's saying minutes so of 145 00:10:00.600 --> 00:10:04.480 all places, and she runs a dog sanctuary and Sidney. 146 00:10:04.559 --> 00:10:05.919 What's the official name. 147 00:10:07.679 --> 00:10:10.240 PNC Midwest Rescue. 148 00:10:10.480 --> 00:10:16.360 Okay, I have not a suspicion, but I know a 149 00:10:16.360 --> 00:10:22.879 lot of people give their children pets during the holiday season, 150 00:10:23.759 --> 00:10:29.879 especially little small Pekinese and other fur ball type of doggies. 151 00:10:30.960 --> 00:10:33.559 They give it to little Bobby, Little Susie, and for 152 00:10:33.600 --> 00:10:39.200 whatever reason it doesn't work out. Tell me about the 153 00:10:39.279 --> 00:10:43.759 people that try to give the dogs back for whatever reason. 154 00:10:46.720 --> 00:10:51.919 If you adopt it through a rescue group, you sign 155 00:10:53.600 --> 00:10:57.000 excuse me, you sign a contract saying that if you 156 00:10:57.159 --> 00:11:00.200 ever do not want this dog anymore, that you will 157 00:11:00.279 --> 00:11:02.600 contact us and you will give us the dog back. 158 00:11:02.679 --> 00:11:07.519 We take the dog at any time for whatever reason. 159 00:11:07.559 --> 00:11:09.600 If you adopt it from us, we'll take it back. 160 00:11:11.159 --> 00:11:16.200 And norm now for our dogs, when our dogs are adopted, 161 00:11:16.960 --> 00:11:20.399 the adopters get our phone number and they can call 162 00:11:20.480 --> 00:11:22.639 us with any questions and will help them with any 163 00:11:22.720 --> 00:11:26.480 behavioral things that come up or anything like that, because 164 00:11:26.759 --> 00:11:29.279 the dog is moving to a new home obviously, and 165 00:11:30.120 --> 00:11:31.960 you know there's going to be issues that come up 166 00:11:32.039 --> 00:11:35.039 because you know, it's stressful for anybody to go to 167 00:11:35.159 --> 00:11:38.120 somewhere where they don't know anybody in that so we 168 00:11:38.200 --> 00:11:41.200 are we are always available to answer any questions that 169 00:11:41.240 --> 00:11:42.879 they have them to help them through any of the 170 00:11:42.919 --> 00:11:48.879 issues that they have. But yeah, we you can if 171 00:11:48.919 --> 00:11:50.759 you go out on the website and you find a 172 00:11:50.759 --> 00:11:57.039 dog that you like. All of the adopt all of 173 00:11:57.080 --> 00:11:59.720 the dog rescues that I've worked with. They have an 174 00:11:59.759 --> 00:12:03.679 app VACATIONI that you fill out and they call you 175 00:12:03.759 --> 00:12:08.559 and they talk to you and we request references so 176 00:12:08.600 --> 00:12:11.559 we can call people and make sure and we try 177 00:12:11.559 --> 00:12:15.279 to make sure that the whole family is involved in 178 00:12:15.320 --> 00:12:18.559 this because we don't want the wife buying a dog 179 00:12:18.679 --> 00:12:22.399 and you know, the husband isn't you know, doesn't want it, 180 00:12:22.600 --> 00:12:24.759 because nine times out of ten then it ends up 181 00:12:24.759 --> 00:12:29.360 coming back and then we have we send somebody to 182 00:12:29.399 --> 00:12:33.320 do a home visit to make sure that it's a 183 00:12:33.320 --> 00:12:36.440 good home for the dog. And then usually the foster 184 00:12:36.639 --> 00:12:41.399 talks to the potential adapter because we've been living with 185 00:12:41.480 --> 00:12:45.960 the dog for however long and so yeah, so then 186 00:12:46.159 --> 00:12:49.919 we go through that and it kind of makes me 187 00:12:49.960 --> 00:12:53.960 cry when people get their kids pets for Christmas presents, 188 00:12:54.320 --> 00:12:56.879 because pets are a big I mean, it's a big 189 00:12:56.919 --> 00:12:59.000 step and then they take a lot of time and 190 00:12:59.039 --> 00:13:00.360 a lot of yeah, a lot of time, time, a 191 00:13:00.360 --> 00:13:03.519 lot of money. 192 00:13:02.200 --> 00:13:02.399 You know. 193 00:13:03.120 --> 00:13:08.519 So but yeah, but we are and a lot of 194 00:13:08.559 --> 00:13:11.360 times if you go on to if you find it, 195 00:13:11.480 --> 00:13:15.240 if you're having problems with your dogs, you can or 196 00:13:15.320 --> 00:13:18.039 any of your pets. You can usually go online and 197 00:13:18.080 --> 00:13:21.399 if you search up rescue groups. They are usually even 198 00:13:21.399 --> 00:13:23.279 if you didn't get the dog from them, they are 199 00:13:23.360 --> 00:13:26.000 more than willing to help you out with suggestions and 200 00:13:26.759 --> 00:13:28.840 you know, try to help you so you can keep 201 00:13:28.840 --> 00:13:30.919 your pet soul. 202 00:13:32.279 --> 00:13:37.840 How do you in Minnesota? You say you do a 203 00:13:37.879 --> 00:13:42.279 home visit? How do you manage that? You Let's say 204 00:13:42.519 --> 00:13:46.039 I got a dog, I live in Illinois and you're 205 00:13:46.080 --> 00:13:50.720 in Minnesota. How do you manage coming there from? Is 206 00:13:50.720 --> 00:13:55.519 it directly from your organization or a sister organization that 207 00:13:55.679 --> 00:13:59.120 works with you that's in Illinois. 208 00:13:59.440 --> 00:14:03.159 We will try to use a sister organization. If we can't, 209 00:14:03.240 --> 00:14:08.279 we have done video tours of the home with the owners. 210 00:14:09.080 --> 00:14:11.679 If there isn't an organization that we can get a 211 00:14:11.679 --> 00:14:13.279 hold of that would be willing to do the home 212 00:14:13.360 --> 00:14:15.720 visit for us. But yeah, otherwise we do it a 213 00:14:15.799 --> 00:14:16.440 video call. 214 00:14:18.039 --> 00:14:21.120 Okay, I was just curious how that works. 215 00:14:21.080 --> 00:14:26.200 And what we have. We have volunteers all over. The 216 00:14:26.320 --> 00:14:30.600 lady who who actually does run the rescue group, she 217 00:14:30.720 --> 00:14:36.320 lives in Iowa. I'm in you know, Minnesota. We have 218 00:14:36.960 --> 00:14:41.200 volunteers that lives in I can't remember if it's New 219 00:14:41.279 --> 00:14:44.480 Jersey or New York out there. So we have them 220 00:14:44.679 --> 00:14:45.559 all over the place. 221 00:14:46.519 --> 00:14:50.159 Okay, and you mentioned that the give me the exact 222 00:14:50.200 --> 00:14:58.600 breed of the Pekinese, the breed, the breed, because I'm 223 00:14:58.639 --> 00:15:02.840 curious to do most you go first, you go first. 224 00:15:04.000 --> 00:15:09.279 Yep, we do. We do mostly Pekinese. They're they're short 225 00:15:09.320 --> 00:15:15.320 dogs with long hair, or we do Japanese chins and 226 00:15:15.440 --> 00:15:21.240 they're and they're both flat faced dogs. Japanese chins we're 227 00:15:21.279 --> 00:15:25.440 originally bread to fit in the sleeve of the emperors 228 00:15:26.000 --> 00:15:29.480 and that. So they're just they're little dogs. They are. 229 00:15:29.559 --> 00:15:32.639 I tell people, Japanese chins are the most catlike dog 230 00:15:32.720 --> 00:15:35.279 you will ever own. They just want to hang out 231 00:15:35.399 --> 00:15:38.360 and be by their owners, and you know they don't. 232 00:15:39.320 --> 00:15:44.679 They're just very they're usually very laid back. Pekinese, on 233 00:15:44.759 --> 00:15:47.720 the other hand, are born with an attitude and it 234 00:15:47.879 --> 00:15:49.679 just kind of never goes away. So you have to 235 00:15:49.799 --> 00:15:54.399 establish the fact that you're the boss. But yeah, I've 236 00:15:54.399 --> 00:15:59.559 had We've had Pekinese, Japanese Chins, we had a couple 237 00:15:59.600 --> 00:16:03.519 of was here, We've had I'm pretty sure there's been 238 00:16:03.559 --> 00:16:05.320 at least four or five hundred dogs that have went 239 00:16:05.360 --> 00:16:07.440 through my house since two thousand and seven. 240 00:16:08.080 --> 00:16:14.399 Wow, and other breeds. Because the three breeds you mentioned 241 00:16:15.440 --> 00:16:21.559 all are basically teeny weeny dogs. What about the bigger dogs, 242 00:16:21.639 --> 00:16:28.519 the labs, the German shepherds, the Great Danes. How often 243 00:16:28.600 --> 00:16:31.639 are they abandoned and abused? 244 00:16:33.320 --> 00:16:33.639 Oh? 245 00:16:33.879 --> 00:16:37.960 Just about as just about as often as Pekinese are. 246 00:16:38.039 --> 00:16:41.440 There are organizations that that's all they do, is they 247 00:16:41.480 --> 00:16:46.240 work with German shepherds because they are German shepherds are 248 00:16:47.000 --> 00:16:50.919 very breed specific. You know, people get them thinking they're 249 00:16:51.000 --> 00:16:53.240 going to be wonderful guard dogs and all that, and 250 00:16:53.879 --> 00:16:56.480 you know, they don't understand that you need to. It's 251 00:16:56.519 --> 00:16:58.799 a little different when you have a German shepherd than 252 00:16:58.840 --> 00:17:01.679 if you have a small dog. You know, you have 253 00:17:01.759 --> 00:17:03.559 to give them something to do and keep them from 254 00:17:03.600 --> 00:17:07.880 being bored and all that stuff. But there are breeds 255 00:17:07.920 --> 00:17:12.920 for labs, there's breeds for German shepherds. There, I know 256 00:17:13.000 --> 00:17:17.559 there's uh and I'm pretty sure it's in Minnesota up 257 00:17:17.559 --> 00:17:20.559 by the Cities. It's a they have a pit bull 258 00:17:21.119 --> 00:17:26.319 rescue group just for pit bulls. Yeah, so yeah, because 259 00:17:26.359 --> 00:17:28.759 you know, most people are kind of leery about adopting 260 00:17:28.799 --> 00:17:33.640 pitbulls because it's a bad press they've gotten. But no, 261 00:17:33.839 --> 00:17:36.759 there's there's all sorts of different kinds and if we 262 00:17:36.880 --> 00:17:40.200 get we try to do just the little dogs. But 263 00:17:40.240 --> 00:17:44.799 if we get a call from somebody, we've We've had 264 00:17:45.240 --> 00:17:50.319 an English bulldog at my house a couple of them. 265 00:17:50.440 --> 00:17:55.839 We've had a German shepherd who came with nine puppies. 266 00:17:57.240 --> 00:17:58.799 She was at my house for a while. 267 00:18:00.680 --> 00:18:06.720 Yeah, let me tell people, get paper and pencil when 268 00:18:06.720 --> 00:18:09.920 we come back from the news, because I'm about to 269 00:18:09.960 --> 00:18:13.480 take a news hit when we come back from the news. 270 00:18:13.519 --> 00:18:16.960 I'm going to have Cindy give her phone number and 271 00:18:17.240 --> 00:18:24.519 also the website, the computer, email, and that way you 272 00:18:24.640 --> 00:18:30.000 have a number of different options to get in touch. Now, 273 00:18:30.000 --> 00:18:30.759 you said P and. 274 00:18:30.759 --> 00:18:35.559 C yep, PNC Midwest Rescue, all. 275 00:18:35.559 --> 00:18:38.559 Right, because around here we have a P and C 276 00:18:39.000 --> 00:18:44.240 organization that uses bicycles for fundraising. So I don't want 277 00:18:44.240 --> 00:18:50.279 to make that mistake, and I want you to give 278 00:18:50.319 --> 00:18:53.599 your phone number and your email address when we come 279 00:18:53.640 --> 00:18:56.519 back from news. I'm about to take my news hit. Now, 280 00:18:57.359 --> 00:18:59.640 if you want to call in and speak with Cindy, 281 00:18:59.680 --> 00:19:02.960 Cindy Bruce, that's who you're hearing here on Nightside. Her 282 00:19:03.000 --> 00:19:06.960 phone number six one, seven, two, five, four ten thirty 283 00:19:07.880 --> 00:19:11.559 or eight eight eight nine two nine ten thirty. So 284 00:19:11.680 --> 00:19:15.400 let me sow to Rob. Rob's back tonight where he 285 00:19:15.519 --> 00:19:19.759 needs to be in the production booth. Here on Nightside 286 00:19:20.319 --> 00:19:26.799 time and temperature eight twenty nine thirty three degrees. 287 00:19:29.359 --> 00:19:33.640 You're on night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ, Boston's 288 00:19:33.680 --> 00:19:34.319 news radio. 289 00:19:35.200 --> 00:19:38.640 Dan is off obviously for the rest of this week. 290 00:19:38.680 --> 00:19:41.880 I've been here since Monday. I will be here tomorrow, 291 00:19:42.440 --> 00:19:46.359 Monday and Tuesday, and my own show on Saturday, The 292 00:19:46.400 --> 00:19:52.599 Morgan Show. This is Cindy Bruce and she makes sure 293 00:19:52.799 --> 00:19:56.480 dogs have a safe place to be. She has a 294 00:19:56.519 --> 00:20:03.480 dog sanctuary in Minnesota. PNC is its name, and Cindy, 295 00:20:03.880 --> 00:20:07.559 give whatever numbers you need to give that people can 296 00:20:07.559 --> 00:20:10.440 get in touch with you and check out your website 297 00:20:10.559 --> 00:20:13.240 see what pooches are available. 298 00:20:14.839 --> 00:20:24.279 Okay, The website is Pncmidwest dot org. My phone number 299 00:20:24.480 --> 00:20:30.359 is five oh seven two one three four five eight one, 300 00:20:30.720 --> 00:20:36.839 and my email address is cool Grandma of six. That's 301 00:20:36.880 --> 00:20:40.680 the number six at gmail dot com. And I can 302 00:20:40.720 --> 00:20:42.720 forward it on to the people who need to get it. 303 00:20:42.759 --> 00:20:47.359 And we are always always always looking for people to 304 00:20:48.880 --> 00:20:52.599 foster dogs also to take them into their home and 305 00:20:52.720 --> 00:20:56.319 get them socialized. And quite a few of them come 306 00:20:56.359 --> 00:20:59.960 in there, not potty trained, house train them, get them social, 307 00:21:01.240 --> 00:21:03.599 get to know the dogs, help help them get to 308 00:21:03.640 --> 00:21:09.559 the right home. We're always looking for volunteers. 309 00:21:08.319 --> 00:21:16.440 Is it conceivable dog a will watch dog b uh 310 00:21:17.400 --> 00:21:20.200 do the right things when it comes to being party trained, 311 00:21:21.200 --> 00:21:24.440 request to go outside or maybe you have a doggy 312 00:21:24.480 --> 00:21:30.359 door and your your kitchen door wherever, and the dog 313 00:21:30.400 --> 00:21:34.920 that doesn't know about being party trained learns from observing 314 00:21:34.920 --> 00:21:37.160 the other dogs. Can that happen? 315 00:21:38.559 --> 00:21:42.440 Yes, definitely, yep. They learn good and bad habits from 316 00:21:42.440 --> 00:21:45.880 the other dogs. They usually pick up on the bad 317 00:21:45.960 --> 00:21:49.640 habits faster. I'm not gonna lie. 318 00:21:49.519 --> 00:21:57.680 Yeah, right now, give me two bad habits. 319 00:21:55.240 --> 00:21:58.480 For male dogs. They like to mark their territory. 320 00:21:59.359 --> 00:22:00.519 Okay, what we do. 321 00:22:00.920 --> 00:22:04.000 What we do for that is we put a belly 322 00:22:04.039 --> 00:22:09.039 band on them. It's just a keith of material and 323 00:22:09.240 --> 00:22:13.119 you can put a sanitary pad in there and you 324 00:22:13.160 --> 00:22:15.240 wrap it around so that when they pee it goes 325 00:22:15.279 --> 00:22:19.200 on the sanitary pad instead of on your house. And 326 00:22:20.759 --> 00:22:23.039 another one is chewing on things. 327 00:22:23.640 --> 00:22:29.200 Oh yes, y I'm looking at the box right now. 328 00:22:30.039 --> 00:22:33.880 It's just a box with generic stuff in it. And 329 00:22:34.000 --> 00:22:39.039 my cat, for whatever reason, started the claw at the 330 00:22:39.160 --> 00:22:43.839 corners of the box like he picked that area specifically, 331 00:22:44.599 --> 00:22:47.559 the left corner and the right corner that box right there, 332 00:22:48.559 --> 00:22:55.279 and that's the way that he is marking his territory 333 00:22:55.319 --> 00:22:59.079 his area. Are there other ways that they mark their 334 00:22:59.160 --> 00:23:02.319 area beside your nation and scratching? 335 00:23:04.599 --> 00:23:08.079 Usually for dogs, it's just like you said, the male dogs, 336 00:23:08.119 --> 00:23:10.519 they lift their leg and they pee on things. That's 337 00:23:10.559 --> 00:23:14.799 pretty much the way they do it. So female dogs 338 00:23:14.880 --> 00:23:17.839 not so much. They don't mark so much. They get 339 00:23:17.880 --> 00:23:20.599 to be territorial and then they get to be very 340 00:23:20.599 --> 00:23:22.960 protective of their people on that. So you just got 341 00:23:23.000 --> 00:23:24.680 to kind of keep an eye out for that. But 342 00:23:27.200 --> 00:23:29.720 and I haven't. I grew up with big dogs. They 343 00:23:29.759 --> 00:23:31.559 don't know how I ended up with a bunch of 344 00:23:31.640 --> 00:23:34.000 little dogs at my house. But I grew up with 345 00:23:34.039 --> 00:23:37.279 German shepherds and stuff like that. But yeah, but the 346 00:23:37.319 --> 00:23:42.039 only thing we've really fostered is, you know, the littler dogs. 347 00:23:42.519 --> 00:23:47.480 But yep, and cats. If if your cat is doing 348 00:23:47.519 --> 00:23:52.519 anything other than scratching, if they're going to the bathroom 349 00:23:52.559 --> 00:23:55.680 outside the litter box, that's definitely of that visit because 350 00:23:55.759 --> 00:23:58.960 cats don't normally do that unless there's something medical going on. 351 00:24:00.119 --> 00:24:05.319 He he knows. We have two litter boxes and they'll 352 00:24:05.440 --> 00:24:08.960 use one more than the other, but no examples of 353 00:24:09.240 --> 00:24:13.799 not using the litter box. Yeah, very intelligent when it 354 00:24:13.839 --> 00:24:18.000 comes to that, yes, yep. Oh. 355 00:24:18.359 --> 00:24:22.440 And when when you do adopt a dog from us, 356 00:24:22.480 --> 00:24:26.880 there is an adoption fee. What pekan Chin does when 357 00:24:27.160 --> 00:24:30.400 we have dogs come in, they get a vet visit, 358 00:24:30.440 --> 00:24:34.359 they get all they get check ups done, They're checked 359 00:24:34.359 --> 00:24:38.559 for all sorts of diseases and things. If they're not 360 00:24:39.279 --> 00:24:44.160 spade or neutered, we spay and neuter them. So there's 361 00:24:44.720 --> 00:24:48.240 some some of our dogs. The adoption fee absolutely does 362 00:24:48.279 --> 00:24:51.279 not cover what we've sunk into the dogs with the 363 00:24:51.400 --> 00:24:58.519 set visit. So yeah, so this is. 364 00:25:00.359 --> 00:25:06.039 I have such a love of dogies, even though I 365 00:25:06.079 --> 00:25:09.640 own a cat. Now I have found that I still 366 00:25:09.759 --> 00:25:14.519 have a love and I missed my shepherds. I had 367 00:25:14.559 --> 00:25:17.319 them till they both were about eight or nine years old. 368 00:25:17.960 --> 00:25:21.279 I had to put each of them down about six 369 00:25:21.359 --> 00:25:28.720 weeks in between. One my female got leukemia and we 370 00:25:29.079 --> 00:25:32.839 paid the money to have her operated on to remove it, 371 00:25:33.640 --> 00:25:36.359 and they thought they got it all, but within two 372 00:25:36.440 --> 00:25:40.400 weeks it all came back and even worse. And then 373 00:25:40.440 --> 00:25:46.279 my male had hip displasure, which is common in German shepherds, 374 00:25:46.279 --> 00:25:50.200 and I had to put them down basically within four 375 00:25:50.279 --> 00:25:53.359 or five weeks of each other. And they were my children. 376 00:25:53.440 --> 00:25:57.319 It just tore me, tore me up. Yep. And I 377 00:25:57.400 --> 00:26:00.359 want anybody out there that gets a dog, whether it's 378 00:26:00.359 --> 00:26:07.000 from PNC or the pet sharp at the mall, train it. 379 00:26:07.319 --> 00:26:11.480 And it takes time, it takes love. Don't beat it. 380 00:26:11.599 --> 00:26:19.079 I never ever beat my dogs ever, words of encouragement 381 00:26:19.200 --> 00:26:24.240 and the scruff of the year behind the air. I 382 00:26:24.319 --> 00:26:27.759 did all the things the book and the tape told 383 00:26:27.799 --> 00:26:30.880 me to do. I lived in the city of Boston. 384 00:26:30.960 --> 00:26:34.960 I lived in the Austin Brighton area. I could walk 385 00:26:35.000 --> 00:26:38.240 them without a leash. More often than not. I walked 386 00:26:38.279 --> 00:26:40.440 them with a leash, but I could walk them without 387 00:26:40.440 --> 00:26:44.039 a leash. My male stayed on my right side, my 388 00:26:44.160 --> 00:26:47.680 female stayed on my left side. And it was the 389 00:26:47.720 --> 00:26:54.440 three of us and we were eight unit. And I 390 00:26:54.480 --> 00:26:57.039 missed them to this day. It's been over thirty years 391 00:26:57.039 --> 00:27:00.200 since I've had Hack and Honey, and what are you 392 00:27:00.240 --> 00:27:04.559 going to do? Time March is on. But I wanted 393 00:27:04.559 --> 00:27:10.480 to make sure they were well trained. Living in the city, definitely. 394 00:27:11.240 --> 00:27:13.799 And the thing is even with you know, like German 395 00:27:13.839 --> 00:27:19.920 shepherds or pit bulls or Rottweiler's. My brother has from 396 00:27:19.960 --> 00:27:22.039 the time he was an adult on his own, he said, 397 00:27:22.119 --> 00:27:24.960 Rottweiler's and pit bulls, and they have been just the 398 00:27:24.960 --> 00:27:28.759 sweetest dogs ever. And if you're looking for a dog 399 00:27:28.920 --> 00:27:32.319 to help protect your family, you don't have to put 400 00:27:32.359 --> 00:27:36.319 them through the training for being a guard dog or anything. 401 00:27:36.359 --> 00:27:38.759