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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Pet Life Radio.

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Speaker 2: Let's talk pets.

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Speaker 3: It's all behaved with Arden More, this show that teaches

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you how to have harmony in the household with your pets.

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Join Ardna. She travels coast to coast to help millions

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better understand why cats and dogs do what they do.

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Get that latest scoop on famous spaces, they're perfectly pampered pets,

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and who's walking goo and rent in Tinseltown. From famous

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pet experts and best selling authors to television and movie stars.

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You'll get the latest buzz from Wagging Tongues and Tails Garner,

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great pet tips and have a dog on fir flying

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fun Time. So get ready for the paws and applause

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as we unleaseh your oh behave hosts America's pet edutainer

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Arden Moore.

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Speaker 1: Hey, pet pals, Welcome to the old Behave show on

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Pet Life Radio. I'm your host, Arden Moore. Now we

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all dream, and some of us dream really big. And

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then there is our special guest who has found a

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way to turn those dreams into life saving realities for

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more than one million dogs, cats, and other animals in need.

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She's been on my radar to be a guest on

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our show and guess what it's now happening. So please

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welcome one of the top pet champions in America. She's

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the founder of the Bissle Pet Foundation. You know who

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I'm talking about. Please give pause and applause to the remarkable,

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the resilient Kathy Dissle. Welcome, Welcome, Kathy.

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Speaker 4: Thank you so much. What a nice introduction. I mean,

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you're almost making me cry.

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Speaker 1: You want to know, Kathy, don't you? Kathy? Oh my gosh.

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Speaker 4: You know, it's been a dream and you just fall

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into things and they keep going and you see need

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and you just make change. And I can't even believe

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that we've hit the million pet markets.

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Speaker 1: Just amazing and pet pals. We're going to dive into

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more of all the great things that Kathy and her

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team do for the Bissle Pet Foundation. After we take

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this quick break, you know, the drill, Sit, stay, We'll

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be right.

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Speaker 3: Back time for a walk on the red car. But

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of course all behave. We'll be backing up lash right

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after these messages.

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Speaker 2: You know the expression cats have nine lives, Well, what

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if you can give them one more? The Give Them

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the newter cat. Give them ten dot org. That's give

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them ten dot org.

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Speaker 5: Let's talk pets on Petlife Radio dot com. All behaviors

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back with more tail wagging ways to achieve harmony of

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the household.

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Speaker 3: With your pets. Now back to your fetching host, America's

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pet ed You, Jayner Ardenmore.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the old Behave show on Pet Life Radio.

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I'm your host Ardenmore. I am delighted to have on

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our show a pet hero of mine. She is Kathy Thistle. Yeah, vacuums, vacuum, vacuum, yep,

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that name claim. So she's sweeping up goodness to help

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pets in need. And Kathy, I know there's a lot

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of different areas, So before we dive into all that,

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we need to go back to Detroit when you were

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growing up and there's a young Kathy there growing up

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with a bunch of critters, and what was it. Did

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you know back then? You wanted to have some involvement

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in the world of animals or what were you doing

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as a young Kathy. I came from a large family.

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There's and then lots of relatives, and of course, when

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you have a problem your parents yell at you or something,

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you want to take your nearest pet and cry in

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a shoulder because that's the only thing that's going to

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listen to you. When you're the fourth child in a family,

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you get mixed in and no one's paying attention. But

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when you have pets, and that's what people need to understand,

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is that pets are just amazing. You can talk to

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Speaker 4: They're going to listen to you. So I grew up

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loving pets and always wanted to be a veterinarian.

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Speaker 1: Was my hope.

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Speaker 4: That it did not happen, but I went to school.

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I worked for a vat He was large and small animal,

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and my heart was always there. I ended up going

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to New York City and I worked in New York

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in fashion, but always loved pets, and you know, came

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back and it was.

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Speaker 1: Like full circle back to Michigan.

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Speaker 4: I came back to Michigan, yep, and I worked for

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a newspaper and then I just, you know, still love

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the pet things. Katrina hit and I started taking pictures

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of the animals, and my heart went right back to

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all the animals that I was seeing, and you know,

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things just happened for a reason. So it was a

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full circle of hoping to be in this place and

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actually doing more than I ever thought I could, even

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Speaker 1: You did a touchstone Katrina where people realize and rescue

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groups people aren't leaving their homes without their pets, right, No, no,

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they were not.

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Speaker 4: And that was a very interesting time and a very

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sad time for people who wanted to take their pets

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but weren't allowed to take them. Yeah, and so we

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in Michigan ended up getting a lot of pets from

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Katrina because people flooded down into Louisiana and just wanted

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to help, but took pets away, which is something we

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definitely don't do well. I mean, these people lost their

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pets because so many things came in and just pulled

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and so you know what the right thing is is

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you pull from the shelter so that those animals don't

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get ethanized to make room for the pets being found

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on the streets, but people's hearts, they want to help,

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and it's really not right. So a lot of things

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were learned with Katrina and hopefully are better now.

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Speaker 1: People are more aware of what needs to happen and

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the protocols you need to go through. So I was

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trying to do some stats and looking into your background

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because again, like you, I worked at a newspaper, so

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I wanted to do my homework. Twenty eleven, that is

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when right Bissel Pet Foundation was created and tell us

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how a company that makes vacuums and carpet sweepers since

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eighteen ninety six is now saying, hey, did I do

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that right? Hey, I think we need to do something

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for pets. So can you kind of give us that backstory?

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Speaker 4: So I'd never been to a shelter ever in my life.

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Speaker 1: Wow, And I.

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Speaker 4: Went to take pictures of the dogs that came in

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from Katrina. I was petrified of pit bulls. Can you imagine? Okay, Oh,

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then I'm meeting all these sweet pit bulls that were

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the shelter and I'm like, they're so sweet, and they

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were mothers you could see, but their babies.

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and they're so sweet. They get such a bad rap.

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that one organization. But as we started to make more

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money in West Michigan, we have a few shelters, and

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so I started giving it away. But then we kept

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doing these events and making more money, and I thought,

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you know, this really isn't fair. There's so much to

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need out there. So I started a foundation to properly

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give the money away so it could be followed up

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and make sure it was being used properly as well.

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that was key. You do need a little business in there, right,

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Speaker 4: You have to know what you're doing, and it's it

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was a learning curve and then it just you just

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keep doing and you go with what your heart says.

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me what to do, and you should do it this

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way and you should.

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Speaker 1: That way, and I thought, you know, what I'm going with.

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Speaker 4: My heart is doing what I need to do to

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save animals, what I think is the right thing. And

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I think we've done it well. I've got a phenomenal

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team in place, and everybody.

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Speaker 1: Works hard to do it right. For the animals.

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Speaker 4: It's all about the animals. We don't use any of

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the money that comes in. This will pays for everything

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for us, which is amazing. So every penny that comes

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in go goes to the animals.

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Speaker 1: And this is a big thing that we have to

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hit pause with your pause on this one because what

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you raise one hundred percent, tell me true, goes to

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shelters and pets and need.

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Speaker 4: One hundred percent. And this will our company pays for

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everything else. We hardly pay for any marketing. We have

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a little bit of it. But whenever somebody says, can

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you fund an event, we can't really do that because

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we don't do that. We fund the animals and we

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support the shelters.

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Speaker 1: I like that. I like that. In fact, I wear

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many collars in the pet world, Kathy, and one of

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them is that I am the editor of the National

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Association of Professional Pet Sitters quarterly digital magazine. Boy, that's

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a mouthful, but this is an all volunteer group of

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professional pet sitters all over the country and they have

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picked the Bisso Pet Foundation as their national charity, and

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they also after each conference every year they also pick

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a local charity in that area and the money goes

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to you, your group and to the local group. But

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what do you think about a bunch of pet sitters

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that say we dig Bissile Pet Foundation?

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Speaker 4: You know what, I love it. I honestly it makes

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me feel so good. It makes me realize we're doing

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all the right things. First of all, what an honor.

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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh.

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Speaker 4: And please tell everyone thank you for choosing us. We

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do the best we can. We really work hard for

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the animals everything. You know, as I tell people, it's

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a twenty four to seven job. It isn't just nine

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to five. My husband says to me sometimes, can you

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just turn it off for little bit? It's like you

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cannot turn this off. I mean, how do you say

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no to saving a life? It can be you know,

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one hundred lives at one.

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Speaker 1: Time, it can be one life.

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Speaker 4: You just don't stop and say I'm not going to

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Speaker 1: So wow, that is so special. Things well, what they did,

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and I'm just the lowly editor, but what the NAPS

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group does is when members are up to become members

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or renew. Right there, they can have a choice to

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check and make a donation to the BISSO Pet Foundation.

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easy to just donate. There's no hit this code and

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do this. It's right there, right there for you. That

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Speaker 4: Thank you.

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Speaker 1: That is really sweet. I love it.

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Speaker 4: That'll save more lives, I mean that money will go directly.

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Speaker 1: And pet sitters are on the front lines too, right, Oh, definitely, definitely,

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So I'm interested. Before we get into your current four

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legged bunch, tell me a little bit about this black

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lab you met years ago named Bear. Oh.

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Speaker 4: So, I was doing one of my events and you know,

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I had never adopted a pet before. I had started

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my events to raise funds for the Katrina Dogs and

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the shelters. I had not started my foundation yet. And

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this dog appeared at one of my events and I

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had two black labs, and dogs sat next to my

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black labs and nobody made even a they didn't even

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look at each other. I was like, wow, he was regal, gorgeous,

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beautiful lad So were i too, And I was like,

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where did this dog come from? My vet said, well,

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she worked at the Humane Society. She said this dog

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was just, you know, given up, and I said, you've

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got to be kidding. This dog is gorgeous. I mean

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this is a real beautiful lab, like perfect. And she said, yeah,

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he was just given up. They got a puppy and

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they didn't want him anymore. And I was like, oh,

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he's got to come home with me. And my husband

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was going away on a trip and he said, you

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may not take that dog home.

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Speaker 3: Do not.

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Speaker 4: And I'm like, you know, I'm not going to listen

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to you, you know, to do what I need to do.

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husband called said you didn't take the dog home, right,

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on my lap. So the rest was history. My husband

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turned fifty on Monday. He came home from his trip.

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I had a picture of our three dogs together in

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a frame that I had taken and I said, happy birthday.

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dog changed my mindset because I had never did a pout. Right,

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you don't know if you've never adopted, and so it

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Speaker 1: Wow, Thank you. Thank you for sharing that. Yeah it

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is you know, and your other two labs were probably happy,

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and now they got a terrific trio they had at

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the time to goof around together.

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Speaker 4: Right, they all got along like they had grown up together.

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Speaker 1: I want to see how fast you can quickly say

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the name of your current pets. You're on the clock.

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Speaker 4: Go okay, Tasmo, Ranger, Hank, Winnie and Zoe and you

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all half problems. They're not all black labs anymore?

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Speaker 4: My symbol is black labs. I have a big, huge

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hound dog. I have a very tiny little beagle that

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when I got her, she had no hair and she

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was dying of heartworm and everything else.

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Speaker 1: I didn't know what she was. I have a dog.

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Speaker 4: With prototheka, a very rare, rare disease that does that.

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algae water. Very dangerous. My dog is the longest living

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dog because I spent a lot of money to help

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the Michigan State do research, and she is living. She

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but she is loving life.

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Speaker 1: Which one this is Zoe? And what kind of dog

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is Zoe.

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Speaker 4: She's a shepherd type dog. They this is kind of

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more typical in this style dog, but protoeka is a

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bad disease. I have Hank, who was a dog out

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of Tennessee. I was sending a whole group of hound dogs.

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I thought they were hound, half golden and halfhound. But

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he's a huge hound. He had a big, huge hernia

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Michigan State. I said, I'll just take care of him,

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take him to a shelter in Michigan. Michigan State removed

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the hernia, checked the fluid and it was a childhood cancer,

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never seen in the dog.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, so it's.

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Is he going to get the cancer back? And they said,

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we really don't know because we've never ever documented no

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one has a dog with his cancer. So I said,

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I have to keep him, of course, because no one

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would follow that track like I would. So he's with us,

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and he's healthy and good. They got all the margins

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and he seems to be. He's just a he's a

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little meani. He's a big meani, I should say. And

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then I have Taz, who's a pardhound part lab, great dog,

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big personality. When I got him, he was five months old,

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really big personality, wild, So I named him Taz, after

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a Tasmanian devil.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I was thinking that, for sure, you are the devil dog.

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a calm personality. His personality is a little bit more wild.

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got to look at you know, these personalities, and he

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calmed down and he's like a perfect dog.

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Speaker 1: So I want to make sure. So we got Tabs

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the hound lab. We got Hank, the hound with the

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former Herniam cancer. We have Zoe, the shepherd mix that

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had that algae issue. The beagle is who Whinnie, Winnie Whinnie.

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Speaker 4: She was very very high heartworm when I got her.

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She had just had puppies, although she was like nine

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years old. She had She was coughing a lot, and

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I had a They said she's only going to live

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about three months because the heartworm load was so good.

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removed the worms from her heart and sent me pictures.

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worms out.

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Speaker 1: And guess what. She's been with me for a year.

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Speaker 4: And my husband always says to me, so, how's the

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dying beagle doing?

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Speaker 1: Now? She is great? She is the law. What does

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dog I have?

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Speaker 4: And she weighs like fifteen pounds. She is wow, very

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cute and happy as a clam. I mean, she's so cute.

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shot in the leg, had a broken femur bullet found

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in the other leg. He was caught in a claw

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trap and he has a broken neck and I think

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somebody must have hit him pretty hard over the head

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because he always cowers. But he's been with us for

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two years.

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Speaker 1: His leg.

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Speaker 4: He runs faster than any dog I've ever had. He's

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happy as could be. And when because he's still feral

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pretty much when new people come to the home, he's petrified,

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but ignore him. He will lick the back of your

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knee and then he will.

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Speaker 1: I do that when I meet my guests when they

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come to my house, Yeah, yes, right.

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Speaker 4: You have to make sure they're going to be okay,

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and then he'll approach slowly, so it's really fun. Did

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I forget anyone?

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Speaker 1: I want to make sure we got mo No, mo

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And Moe is a brindl pitbull. He's beautiful.

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was found with his brother, who also spends a lot

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of time with me because he is adopted by somebody

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in Michigan. They were both pretty much dying. When asked

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by the woman, last time you fed them, she said,

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I think I threw him a chicken bom a week ago.

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Speaker 1: Really, yeah, that's sain I'm sorry.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: So anyway, he lives with us. He's the sweetest pit

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bull in the world. I mean, anyway, people come over

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and they say I'm afraid of pit bulls and then

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he licks them to death, and you know it's like,

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that's a pit bull.

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Speaker 1: Are you afraid of that dog? So, you know, dogs

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are individual. People need to understand that they definitely are. Hey,

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I appreciate that rundown because I really want people to

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know who you are with the pets and who you

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are with helping other pets. We're going to take a

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quick break, and when we come back everyone, we're going

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to speak with Kathy about a couple of programs. I

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want her to talk fix the future and empty the shelters.

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So everybody sit, stay, we'll be right.

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Speaker 3: Back time for a walk on the red carpet. Of course,

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all behave. We'll be backing up flash right after these messages.

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Speaker 5: Radio, Petline, Petlife Radio dot com.

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Speaker 4: Hi does this, Mandy Bourne.

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Speaker 6: You're listening to Old Behave on pet Like Radio with

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your hosts Arden Moore, who's now family.

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Speaker 1: We figured that out.

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Speaker 3: We're back from the lot. Just check the paper. And

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we had our record showing at the box, the letterbox

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that is now back to Oh behave, here's hard Welcome

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back to the.

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Speaker 1: Old Behave show on Pet Life Radio. I'm your host,

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Arden Moore. Yep, she's here. Kathybissel. Kathybissel of the Bissle

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Pet Foundation is in the house. And I used to

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be a sports writer. I actually covered a Super Bowl

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and all this, So I'm gonna throw some stats at everybody.

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Oh my gosh, you guys gotta go to the uh

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Bisslepet Foundation dot org site to check the numbers because

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they're gonna keep going up. But I think you all

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have helped over six thousand shelters and all fifty states

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and helped about a million plus pets. Am I good

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to go so far on the stats, Kathy, Yes, you are.

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It's amazing.

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Speaker 4: We may not make contact with every single shelter, but

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we are there. If they have a disaster or a

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crisis and they're a partner, we can respond to them

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because we've already checked them out. We know they're legit,

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we know that they need help. And then We also

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send all of our partners all sorts of information on

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all sorts of things that we learn. We have blogs,

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we have information that we share, We have toolkits, so

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everybody has access to all of the things they may

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need to be successful.

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Speaker 1: The other thing I think you should be doggon proud

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about is you're empty. The shelter program, I believe, started

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almost ten years ago, twenty sixteen, and it has been

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deemed the largest funded adoption event, and you've found homes

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for almost three hundred and twenty five thousand pets. Am

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I doing the numbers right again? Yes? Yes, although we

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support the shelters. Okay, so how does the ones that

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find them? They do the adoption.

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Speaker 4: But because of our marketing, which is all social and

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getting a word out and making phone calls, were able

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to help this program be successful and help these shelters

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that are in the program. We asked them to do

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things together, We asked them to communicate, We talked to them,

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We tweaked this program constantly. We always have a before

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meeting and after meeting so we can find out what

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was successful what wasn't. We used to see, for example,

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in the early days, dogs dogs, dogs, dogs, adoptions. Cats

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weren't as successful as COVID hit. Everything kind of evened

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out to be cats and dogs, and cats went higher

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after COVID because small animals and cats were the ones

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being adopted. People couldn't take big dogs into their homes anymore.

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Hence why so many people were taking dogs to the shelter.

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It was a problem with insurance and cost of vet care.

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we're seeing dogs and cats equal again. Interesting, interesting, Thank goodness.

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Speaker 1: And the other one that segues right into it your

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program that this Wile Pet Foundation is very well known

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for started a couple of years ago. I guess to

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fix the future SPAE neoter initiative. Tell us about that.

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That seems like that's a big deal. It's a huge deal.

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Speaker 4: So first of all, we were challenged by somebody to

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go to Puerto Rico to help the SATO project with

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a spaitar. I was like, we can't do that, we

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don't do that, we don't have doctors. But she said

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you can do it, you can do it, and she

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had been with the Humane Society US, so it was

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her program. So I said all right, and we did it.

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We got twenty five vets or whatever was fifteen vets

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and lots of texts, and we got them all to

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Puerto Rico and it was a success, and we thought,

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you know what, we know these vets, now let's try

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and put them in places where we can start this

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spe hooter program. So we started it in November twenty

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twenty three and they date to date one hundred and

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ninety five thousand span nooters under our belt. Yeah, not

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a lot of nip and snippin', it's a lot, and

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it's a lot of incredibly talented veterinarians who know and

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understand that they need to help make this difference. So

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it's our program, it's how we do it. It's our

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kind of the way we do it, but it's the

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talent that has come along with us to make it happen.

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It's really pretty phenomenal. We think this year alone we'll

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end up doing two hundred and ten thousand spaan hooters

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and so it'll be just over three hundred thousand in

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under two years. We're pretty excited about it. But we

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needed to happen everywhere.

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Speaker 3: I like that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I live in Texas and when this show was

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O Behave show. Everybody knows what happened with the Guadalupe

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River in central Texas, and I understand that you're they're

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doing your part to help too, your team.

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Speaker 4: So how could anybody even think right after?

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Speaker 1: What that is?

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Speaker 4: Like the saddest thing ever. I could cry thinking about it.

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But our team went in to animals from three locations

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in Texas that were near Kerrville get them out of

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the shelters so when they found animals they could have

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the space. Of course, things aren't as good, they're not

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finding the animals. But what I do say the great

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thing for these animals that went out and we took

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a lot of big dogs, a lot of eighty pounders.

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Speaker 1: Big Texas has big dogs. You do ever doing big

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in Texas?

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Speaker 3: You do?

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Speaker 4: And they were beautiful. I have to say, oh my gosh,

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those dogs now have a chance. They may not have

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had a chance being there during this time, so it's

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wonderful that they've all gotten out.

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Speaker 1: Where did you take them too, Cathy, Welcome.

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Speaker 4: To Massachusetts, Delaware, New Jersey.

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Speaker 1: And Connecticut.

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Speaker 4: And actually on one of the posts we made, there's

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a woman holding this big dog in her arms. It's

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the start of my blog. And a woman from Texas

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wrote me and said that was my family's foster dog.

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I think they were hoping to go back and get it,

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but now it's gone. But we're so happy to see

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you know that it's gone off and that it's going

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to be successful and have a good life. So it's

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amazing the people that reach out. I try to always

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connect when I can. Of course, I get so many

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people contacting me. We need to clone you, Kathy, we do.

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I have some good clones underneath me. Okay, that's a

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good end. Well, this kind of segues nicely into this part,

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which is the importance of because disasters are hitting everyone

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everywhere of the microchip, the ID tell us a little

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bit about some tips for people. I got three dogs

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and two cats here in Dallas. They're all microchip, they

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all got IDs. They are my family, and I would

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love to have your thoughts on how we can improve

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the chances of pets being reunited when a natural disaster hits.

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I mean, in all honesty, every single pet that we touch,

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we make sure that pet has a microchip. So any

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organization that's going to do anything even with the span Nooter.

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They're going to get vaccinated and they're going to get

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a microchip, because microchips really are important. People don't really

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understand what a microchip is. I think that's part of

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the problem. They think it's something that people can follow

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what they're doing.

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Speaker 1: They can't. It's not one of those Apple ID luggage

526
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tags exactly.

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Speaker 4: But people don't understand that this ker chip is so

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important because people can scan it and your pet can

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find its way home. And pets from California to Michigan

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have found their way back because they've had a microchip.

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It might not be today or tomorrow, it might be

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in a couple of weeks. But honestly, people need to

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microchip their pets. It's the only way they're going to

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get them back. And always having ID collars with something

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on them. I like the callers that have the names

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embroidered on them.

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Speaker 1: That's what ours are. Yeah, I'm in the pet safety field.

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You're going to go up to a strange dog, look

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at their tag and be faced to nose with a dog. Yep.

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You're not going to have a nose yep.

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Speaker 4: So it's important, right, But yeah, some ID you know,

542
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my little mo little pitbull Mo who knew he wanted

543
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to chase dear. He took off and was gone for

544
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three and a half hours, and some boys were four

545
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wheeling and they found him on a track, curled up

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because it was getting cold, and he had his name

547
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on his collar and they called me and he was

548
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miles away and just your time. People don't realize how

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fat they go and cats wander. Just safety for your animals.

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We're responsible for them, so we're their parents. We need

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to take care of them.

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Speaker 1: So in addition to the microchipping, what are some things

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that pet parents can also do to avoid? How do

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you get prepared? I mean people need to realize Mother

555
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Nature's not a nice lady anymore.

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Speaker 4: No, no, Mother Nature's not. I mean I think for

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all of us, you know, we have to have a

558
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plan like we do with our children in case something

559
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happens to us. Right to have a plan. Where are

560
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your pets going to go? And really, I mean I

561
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even know people who die who love their pets. If

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there's not a plan, those pets end up shelters and

563
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that's tough. So have a plan for your pet. They

564
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are your family. Treat them as family, you know, have

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something in writing, but also always have food, blankets in

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your car, extra water, a bowl, a leash. If it's cold,

567
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you want to have coats.

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Speaker 6: You know.

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Speaker 4: Treat them like they're your family, because they are, and

570
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they count on us. They depend on us. They can't talk,

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but they look to us for all the help.

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Speaker 1: Here in Texas, we've had the sirens go and we

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have a walk in closet off our primary bathroom and

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we actually do fun drills with our three dogs and

575
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two cats to see how quick we can get into

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the walk in closet. And there they have their treats.

577
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The cats are on the carriers, the dogs are on

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harnesses and leashes, and there's a bottle of wine in there. Hmmm,

579
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with a battery operated radio, all the things you need, right, yeah,

580
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Oh that's so great. But it is you're prepared. They're

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your family. I mean, that's what we have to do.

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What are some already messages you want people to know?

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I mean, I think it's kind of cool that a

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vacuum company is really sweeping up good things all over

585
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the country. I'm sure you get bad jokes about vacuums, right,

586
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do you have a favorite one like it? They suck

587
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or whatever you suck or I'm sorry. I hope that's

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okay to say. And your it's called oh behave, You're okay,

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Oh behave Okay.

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Speaker 4: So yeah, you know, it's really wonderful because I'm a

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product tester. Your name is on a product, I mean

592
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it's important, right, I'm doing a lot of those, but

593
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my name is on those products. I want those products

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to work, and I'm testing them with all sorts of

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different animals, so I want people to know that really,

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these products are made for pets. We made a conscious

597
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decision to get behind pets and get behind shelter pets

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as well, and I love that. And it was all organic.

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It was nothing that was like a plan to be

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you know anything. It was just happened. And that's what

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I love. And I feel like.

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Speaker 1: I'm living my dream. You are cooking people, help people

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with their pets and with cleaning up, and you don't suck. Kathy,

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Thank you, thank you. Hey tell us again how people

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can find out more? Where do they go? Thank you?

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Speaker 4: If they go to Bisselepotfoundation dot org, they can see

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all of our great work. You can sign up to

608
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get our emails. We have blogs, We have emails going

609
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out something called the Dish, and we talk about a

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lot of shelters and great things that are going on.

611
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We like to spotlight our good shelters. I mean, there

612
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are a lot of good people out there making a

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difference for pets, and we like to put them in focus.

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So please, if you're looking for a pet, choose adoption first,

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because right now the shelters are full and people need

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to think about their choices. I don't know, some people

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say I couldn't find a pet at the shelter that

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I wanted. It's like, you've got to be kidding every time.

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I know, I want to take home every single pat.

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I mean their faces, their eyes, the cats reach through

621
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the kettles, they all want to touch you. I mean, yeah,

622
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put your paws up right and make a difference.

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Speaker 1: Well, we like that.

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Speaker 6: We like that.

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Speaker 1: Hey, everybody. I have been honored to have on our show.

626
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Kathy Bissel. She is a doer, she's a caregiver. She

627
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is there for us pets, for the pets, the shelters

628
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and beyond. And please go to the Abysslepet Foundation dot org.

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You're gonna find out more stuff. I also want to

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give a salute to my producer, Mark Winter. He is

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the executive producer of Pet Life Radio. We are the

632
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largest pet radio network on the planet. We haven't got

633
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to the moon yet, but hey, you can dream and humbly,

634
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you are listening to the longest running pet podcast on

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the planet, on the air since two thousand and six,

636
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and it's an honor for me to host. I thank

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you all for tuning in. I do want to ask

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