Speaker 1: It's Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: Mar Good Evening. My name is Morgan White Junior. You
Speaker 2: hear me on Saturdays here on BZ from nine to midnight,
Speaker 2: but periodically management says, Morgan, Dan's not gonna be in.
Speaker 2: Can you do that shift? And almost every single time
Speaker 2: I say, sure, yes I can, and I try to
Speaker 2: plan what I call a nightside like show. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: go backwards from ten to midnight. I have a gentleman's
Speaker 2: friend of mine who's gonna be on. He has a
Speaker 2: connection with Eon Productions Everything or nothing EO N. They
Speaker 2: are the people to keep putting out James Bond movies.
Speaker 2: And between ten and midnight, I want you, the night
Speaker 2: side audience, to call in and recommend somebody who should
Speaker 2: be could be the next James Bond. If you have
Speaker 2: an opinion about that, and I hope you do, you'll
Speaker 2: share it between ten and midnight with my guest Steven J.
Speaker 2: Rubin and I. I have a name. I'm not gonna
Speaker 2: say it because I don't want my opinion to sway
Speaker 2: your opinion. That aside, the hour before nine to ten o'clock,
Speaker 2: I've got a young woman, her name Trelaine Clark, and
Speaker 2: she's gonna be talking about a couple of conferences coming up,
Speaker 2: which if you have kids you might show interest in.
Speaker 2: One's gonna be in Washington, DC. One's gonna be in
Speaker 2: Ghana over in Africa. And we'll talk about that when
Speaker 2: she comes on. But right now, maybe you heard a
Speaker 2: story I heard right here on BZY News a week ago.
Speaker 2: People walking and jogging around Chestnut Hill Reservoir over by
Speaker 2: BC have had problems with bats, bats swooping in on them.
Speaker 2: And you know bats can, I say, can carry rabies.
Speaker 2: And my first guest is a woman who has an
Speaker 2: organization called Hair of the Dog and hair it's spelled
Speaker 2: jr e. Hair of the Dog Incorporated. And they deal
Speaker 2: with all sorts of wildlife and they focus down in
Speaker 2: the Pembroke area, which incorporates Cape Card Southeast mass and
Speaker 2: they do the best they can to eliminate or at
Speaker 2: least try to combat rabies among wildlife. Her name is
Speaker 2: Marielle McCann Randolphe Mariel. Welcome to Night's Side.
Speaker 3: Thank you so much for having me. How are you
Speaker 3: all right and how are you not too bad?
Speaker 2: I'm going to ask you a question and understand where
Speaker 2: I'm going with this. Do you remember the Beverly Hillbillies, Yes,
Speaker 2: I do, Marielle, trust me, trust me. You remember the
Speaker 2: character of Ellie May. Yes, she Well, she had a way.
Speaker 2: I mean they lived quote unquote in the hills, and
Speaker 2: she had a way with forest creatures. All of them
Speaker 2: would gather around her and show love and respect for her.
Speaker 2: And when I think of you, I think of you
Speaker 2: in that way. No, you're not only made clamping, I
Speaker 2: know that, but you're out there doing the best you
Speaker 2: can with the animals, with rabbits and raccoons and skunks
Speaker 2: and other animals which can I say again, can carry rabies,
Speaker 2: and you're doing the best. You're doing the best you
Speaker 2: can to combat that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, our specialty here at Hair of the Dog is raccoons,
Speaker 3: So certainly we come across our fair share of rabbit
Speaker 3: animals and then and fears of rabies and some ignorances
Speaker 3: as well.
Speaker 2: Tell my audience what is raybies? Specifically, we hear the
Speaker 2: word used, but a lot of people don't know what
Speaker 2: it is. Tell the audience, so, it.
Speaker 3: Is a very serious virus that affects the brain and
Speaker 3: spinal cord of mammals, and it almost always causes death,
Speaker 3: so you know it's it's nearly one hundred percent fat all.
Speaker 3: It's something that's generally transmitted by the bites of animals
Speaker 3: because it's carried in the saliva. And I do want
Speaker 3: to say that less than half of one percent of
Speaker 3: bats have rabies, so they are on the top of
Speaker 3: the list, but that does not mean that all bats
Speaker 3: have rabies. So just as an aside.
Speaker 2: Numbers, those numbers are scary when you go out for
Speaker 2: a walk. We're hitting thirty eight states with our signal
Speaker 2: right now. It's not just the greater Boston area, So
Speaker 2: there are people, I'm sure in rural parts of states.
Speaker 2: I know we've got New York. I know, oh, we've
Speaker 2: got Wisconsin. I know we've got Minnesota, and I could
Speaker 2: name so many more states from which we busy get
Speaker 2: our phone calls. What can people do because no matter
Speaker 2: where you live, it's conceivable texts are ticks are in
Speaker 2: any wooded area where you live. What I know, tuck
Speaker 2: your pant leg into your socks. But other than that,
Speaker 2: what else can people do to kept back on potentially
Speaker 2: being bitten by a tick?
Speaker 3: Well, for tics, ticks don't carry raby, so thankfully we're not.
Speaker 3: We don't necessarily worry as much about that, but we can.
Speaker 3: You know what you're doing for ticks specifically, that's something
Speaker 3: you know, protecting your pets and making sure that your
Speaker 3: you know, yard is cleared up of debris and things
Speaker 3: like that. I kind of can see both sides of it.
Speaker 3: I want happy, healthy eCos system of different types of bugs.
Speaker 3: So I personally wouldn't go and try to eradicate every
Speaker 3: tick that I had, but I do a good check afterwards.
Speaker 3: I make sure that I protect my pets with any preventatives,
Speaker 3: which is the same thing with rabies. I'm going to go.
Speaker 3: I'm going to make sure all my pets are rabies
Speaker 3: vaccinated and keep up to date with that. I personally
Speaker 3: have a Raby's vaccination for myself because I'm at higher
Speaker 3: risk because I do have a lot of around and
Speaker 3: you're out there as well.
Speaker 2: Tell you what, let me take a break when we
Speaker 2: come back. You touched upon our house, pets, our puppies
Speaker 2: and kiddies. Let's talk about trying to make sure they
Speaker 2: are safe. And anyone who wants to call in six one, seven, two, five,
Speaker 2: fourteen thirty or eight eight, eight, nine, two nine, ten
Speaker 2: thirty time and temperature here on night Side eight sixteen
Speaker 2: seventy four degrees.
Speaker 1: Night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: Welcome back to Dan Ray's night Side. Dan is off tonight.
Speaker 2: He will be back on Monday. I verified that with Rob,
Speaker 2: who is here tonight where he usually is on the
Speaker 2: master control board. If you want to call in, Rob
Speaker 2: will answer your call and put you in queue as
Speaker 2: it were, and then you'll get to speak with me
Speaker 2: and my guest Mariel six one, seven, two, five, four
Speaker 2: ten thirty or eight eight, eight, nine to nine ten thirty.
Speaker 2: Let's talk about how to make sure our dogs and
Speaker 2: cats don't catch rabi's from either maybe a skirmish with
Speaker 2: a raccoon or running into the deep bush and finding
Speaker 2: out there are ticks in there. So Mariol tell my
Speaker 2: audience how to watch out for the kiddies and doggies.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so i'd make sure that your pets in Massachusetts.
Speaker 3: I know that your multi state, but in Massachusetts it's
Speaker 3: the law to get your dogs and cats up to
Speaker 3: date on their rabies vaccines and we very rarely ever
Speaker 3: see any bad reactions to those. The risk of getting
Speaker 3: rabies is much worse in once your you know your
Speaker 3: pets fully vaccinated and you have them outside and you
Speaker 3: guys are out playing, keeping them on leash is huge
Speaker 3: because an animal will not you know, a healthy raccoon's
Speaker 3: not going to come anywhere near your dog or cat
Speaker 3: unless they're in their area. So keeping them away from
Speaker 3: places where raccoons would be. Keeping your trashes nice and
Speaker 3: covered and secured. Making sure that you're not feeding the
Speaker 3: wild lice is a big one too, because you're inviting
Speaker 3: it into your yard. And but that raby vaccine, you know,
Speaker 3: rabies is one hundred percent preventable, and vaccinating pet is
Speaker 3: the way.
Speaker 2: To do that, all right in the area where hair
Speaker 2: the dog does the best they can to offset rabies
Speaker 2: and animals that have contracted rabies would be in the
Speaker 2: Cape Cord Southeast Massachusetts area. And tell me about the
Speaker 2: rabies task forces that you have.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so we were invited by the Cape cod and
Speaker 3: Southeast mass Raby's task Force to help them spread rabies
Speaker 3: vaccines into the environment. And these are vaccines that are
Speaker 3: oral baits that are scented, They stink, they zink like fish,
Speaker 3: and that will attract raccoons to it. So when they
Speaker 3: bite it, they get that oral vaccine. We were really
Speaker 3: crowd to help them with that this year because they
Speaker 3: had to spread quite a bit to keep mainly Cape cod.
Speaker 3: They're doing a wonderful job keeping rabies off of Cape
Speaker 3: God did a lot of biologists and scientists working on
Speaker 3: tracking rabies and raccoons and and really do an exemplary job.
Speaker 3: So I had a day off, so we volunteered. My
Speaker 3: father and I volunteered and spread those rabies vaccines around.
Speaker 2: All right, and you're talking, we were talking about your pets. No,
Speaker 2: there are people. I don't know why, because my cat
Speaker 2: has never seen the light of day outside of his
Speaker 2: pet carrier. But there are people who let their cats
Speaker 2: go outside come back into the pet door, and that's
Speaker 2: where a kitty could get in trouble. Dogs, I guess,
Speaker 2: are different. If they do have access to outdoors. Dogs
Speaker 2: can Dogs can put up a brave front. Their growl
Speaker 2: is enough to make raccoons at least back down. But
Speaker 2: a kitty, no matter how brave they might take a stand,
Speaker 2: a raccoon's not going to pay any attention to that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but they're not going to A healthy raccoon isn't
Speaker 3: really gonna be too interested in a cat either. I
Speaker 3: you know I'm with you. I keep the cats indoors
Speaker 3: all the time for their safety. And you know, I'm
Speaker 3: a wildlife rehabber first, so I certainly see lots of
Speaker 3: trouble when cats are out there with my native population
Speaker 3: of wildlike. So it's important to me for my cats
Speaker 3: and the wildlife to keep them indoors. But I know
Speaker 3: this is a very contentious topic, so I understand you.
Speaker 3: As long as people are educated and make their own choices,
Speaker 3: we're okay with that. Another thing that we do to
Speaker 3: keep your pets safe is all of the raccoons that
Speaker 3: come through our wildlife rehiblic rehab will will be fully
Speaker 3: vaccinated before release, right, and so they won't be able
Speaker 3: to contract it and spread it to other raccoons once
Speaker 3: they're back to their natural habits.
Speaker 2: Now, I used to live in Boston. I used to
Speaker 2: live in bright Nolston on Strathmore Road, and I know
Speaker 2: Strathmore runs all the way through bright Nolston into Brookline,
Speaker 2: but I lived at the end close to the the
Speaker 2: body of water outside of BC chest Up Hill Reservoir.
Speaker 2: And why are bats flying around around that area?
Speaker 3: Good food I guess, okay, are there going to be
Speaker 3: around They're going to be around water areas because there's
Speaker 3: going to be better like good bug populations there. There's
Speaker 3: buildings and I don't want to say cliffs or anything,
Speaker 3: but big rocks, things things like that, places where they
Speaker 3: can have some habitat and some natural areas. But they
Speaker 3: bats will find any way into chimneys and brickwork and
Speaker 3: things like that. If you think that you have bats
Speaker 3: in your house right now, now is the time to
Speaker 3: get them out. Because if there's a colony in your house,
Speaker 3: then you have May to get them out or August
Speaker 3: through October. And the reason for that is babies. The
Speaker 3: baby bats are on their way.
Speaker 2: So okay, now I again, I lived in that area
Speaker 2: for years. I own two German shepherds, and every now
Speaker 2: and then I take them through the teeny i'm gonna say,
Speaker 2: small wooded area you walk through to get to the water.
Speaker 2: And I never saw a bat. I saw every other
Speaker 2: type of wildlife. I saw skunks, I saw raccoons. I
Speaker 2: even saw an apossum on a couple of occasions. And
Speaker 2: why is it that so close to the city there's
Speaker 2: such a wild animal incursion into the environments of Boston.
Speaker 3: Well, they're running out of natural places to be, and
Speaker 3: they're like humans. A lot of them are wonderful at
Speaker 3: adapting to whatever areas are around. And a lot of
Speaker 3: the animals that you mentioned are ones that will use
Speaker 3: humans in a way of we leave a lot of
Speaker 3: trash around, we leave food out, there's extra stuff. So
Speaker 3: it certainly is we will keep them well fed and
Speaker 3: then they'll go into their small spots of nature when
Speaker 3: when the people are around. So but I, you know,
Speaker 3: I think of it as a great sign when we
Speaker 3: see some you know, raccoons running through the city, and
Speaker 3: especially a couple of possums. They're up there on my
Speaker 3: list two of favorites. I always say they're you know,
Speaker 3: that's my favorite, but I say that about every animal,
Speaker 3: but possums and raccoons really really my favorites. O, my guest,
Speaker 3: if you've just turned on the radio, Mario mccairn, lean Delphi,
Speaker 3: did I pronounce that properly? Yep?
Speaker 2: Good? And she's he from the organization The Hair of
Speaker 2: the Dog Incorporated. And they're out there doing their best
Speaker 2: to try to keep the scales from being tipped way
Speaker 2: over in favor of animals that may carry rabies. So
Speaker 2: if you are of a mind, lift the phone. Here
Speaker 2: are your phone numbers six one, seven two, five, four
Speaker 2: ten thirty, eight eight eight nine to nineteen thirty. I'm
Speaker 2: Morganwhite Junior, filling in for Dan Ray. He's off tonight.
Speaker 2: He will be back on Monday. I boy scout on
Speaker 2: a promise you, but from now to midnight, I've got
Speaker 2: the helm. So if you'd like to call in, I've
Speaker 2: got several guests still to go the direction I'm taking
Speaker 2: it right now, I'm leaving with this subject. Next subject
Speaker 2: that will be education. And the last two hours were
Speaker 2: going to talk about W seven Bond, James Bond, and
Speaker 2: now I'm gonna take a break. Phone numbers real quick
Speaker 2: six on seven, two, five, fourteen thirty or eight eight,
Speaker 2: eight nine two nineteen thirty. This is nightside time in
Speaker 2: temperature eight thirty seventy four degrees.
Speaker 1: If you're on nightside with Dan Ray on w b Z,
Speaker 1: Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: Dan is off tonight. He will be back on Monday.
Speaker 2: I have verified that with Rob Brooks, who is here.
Speaker 2: I'm Morgan White Junior, normally heard on Saturdays from nine
Speaker 2: pm to midnight. I host the Morgan Show. I'll tell
Speaker 2: you more about that when I'm doing tomorrow a little
Speaker 2: bit later on into this show, Nightside, my guest she
Speaker 2: is here, Marie L m A, r I E. L McCann,
Speaker 2: LANDOLPHI L A and D L FI. She is from
Speaker 2: the Hair of the Dog Incorporated. They're doing the best
Speaker 2: they can to try and keep rabies in wild animals
Speaker 2: at a minimum, if such a thing is possible. And
Speaker 2: are you are you ready to take a phone call Mariel, Sure,
Speaker 2: let's go to West Bridgewater and speak to Corinn Krin.
Speaker 2: Good evening, welcome to Night's Side.
Speaker 4: Well, thank you very much. It's nice to be talking
Speaker 4: to Logan and Mariel, and I really am. You're on
Speaker 4: a great subject for me right now. I really appreciate
Speaker 4: this really well little background. Back in February, I took
Speaker 4: in a stray dog and I immediately went to the vet,
Speaker 4: and of course they wanted to load me up at shots.
Speaker 4: They you know, it's definitely in puppy mode. But they
Speaker 4: assured me they had my pup had one year teeth,
Speaker 4: so we were assuming. I assumed nothing, and they said,
Speaker 4: well we're going to give the shots just as it
Speaker 4: was a puppy, and when it came rabies, I kind
Speaker 4: of questioned it, and I thought, well, it's a little
Speaker 4: puppy's mostly going to be inside with me and on
Speaker 4: a leaf, and I do live in a wooded area,
Speaker 4: And I thought, what happens if he's already had his
Speaker 4: shots and he does it again. And they assured me
Speaker 4: that that wouldn't be a problem where they do it
Speaker 4: yearly anyways. And I was just wondering, what if I
Speaker 4: had a concern with something like that or better on
Speaker 4: the air, on the side of safety.
Speaker 3: Mario, No, definitely the side of safety. Yeah, we often,
Speaker 3: like even up to date animals, if they are exposed
Speaker 3: to any wildlife that we don't know if the wildlife
Speaker 3: is positive for rabies or not, we go ahead and
Speaker 3: give another rabies vaccine. The rabies vaccine is probably the
Speaker 3: least common one to get negative reactions to. Some of
Speaker 3: the other ones we see a little bit more sensitivity too,
Speaker 3: but that rabies, we very rarely see a negative reaction.
Speaker 3: So you know, I would be happy to revaccinate my
Speaker 3: pets at any time.
Speaker 4: Oh, that's great, Okay, correct, that's great. I really appreciate that.
Speaker 4: Thank you again.
Speaker 3: I appreciate the backup you for making the call.
Speaker 4: Okay, thanks good night, And Maria.
Speaker 2: Marine just said A Corinne just said something, what is
Speaker 2: your background? How did you get into this very very
Speaker 2: difficult business.
Speaker 3: So I started in human medicine and then switched over
Speaker 3: to veterinary medicine and became a vettech. And I really,
Speaker 3: you know, I can't as you as you've already mentioned,
Speaker 3: I can't stay away from the animals. You know, as
Speaker 3: a child, I have cousins who made fun of me
Speaker 3: for talking to the chipmunks and things like that. So
Speaker 3: it's definitely you know, you find your calling.
Speaker 2: So I.
Speaker 3: I really love veterinary medicine. Right now, I am a
Speaker 3: hospital manager at a local veterinary clinic, Parkway Vet Hospital,
Speaker 3: which is wonderful with wonderful veterinarians. And then alongside run
Speaker 3: Hair of the Dog Wildlife Rehab. So even in my
Speaker 3: off time, and then when I have a day off
Speaker 3: of both of those, then I help that Cape cod
Speaker 3: and Self East math Braby task Force.
Speaker 2: How long did it take you in study to become
Speaker 2: a veterinarian?
Speaker 3: So as for veterinary technicians is more like a nurse
Speaker 3: than it is the doctor. So I've worked under doctors
Speaker 3: for many years. I've been working in veterinary medicine for
Speaker 3: fifteen years now, working from assistant to then technician then
Speaker 3: you know, lead surgical tax and now management as well.
Speaker 3: And I absolutely love it when one of the technicians
Speaker 3: of the doctors needs help holding you know, an aggressive
Speaker 3: care at or you know, anytime I can get my
Speaker 3: hands in there in any surgeries or anything like that,
Speaker 3: I hop on it.
Speaker 2: And I mean, you have seen some animals cat and
Speaker 2: or a dog and other animals who want nothing to
Speaker 2: do with receiving care from event They claw, write and
Speaker 2: nip and do everything possible. And tell me about one
Speaker 2: of those experiences how you've had to use extra energy
Speaker 2: to keep Fido in place.
Speaker 3: Well, the majority of that sort of skill that I
Speaker 3: have learned now I use that mostly with like an
Speaker 3: injured raccoon, because with our pets, we have medications that
Speaker 3: we can give to make a fear free visit. And
Speaker 3: I always say, if you could go to the doctor
Speaker 3: without being worried at all, why wouldn't you, So we
Speaker 3: can offer that to animals. So at the beginning of
Speaker 3: my veterinary career, we did a lot of that, and
Speaker 3: I got a lot of experience, you know, holding down
Speaker 3: knotty cats or stressed out animals. But as we've learned more,
Speaker 3: we you know, do better. And so there's there's medications
Speaker 3: and there's treatment plans that can help make your pets
Speaker 3: much more comfortable during a visit, because if you know,
Speaker 3: if we just do it the hard way, it gets
Speaker 3: harder every time they have to go.
Speaker 2: I would think a full adult raccoon, it's going to
Speaker 2: be a bit stronger than your year old house cat
Speaker 2: or your year old beagle. Heck yeah, thank you for
Speaker 2: recognizing that. I was right about that. So what do
Speaker 2: you do in that situation? Do you have to take
Speaker 2: precautions before they even get on the table, put them
Speaker 2: in some sort of restraint or what?
Speaker 3: Absolutely? Absolutely So generally, when I have to deal with
Speaker 3: something like that, it's when I have to get like
Speaker 3: I can think of a story that I had to
Speaker 3: get one out of a dumpster that was injured, so
Speaker 3: I had to go in it couldn't use our typical method.
Speaker 3: If you have a dumpster and you have a raccoon
Speaker 3: caught in there, then just putting a two by four
Speaker 3: in the dumpster and then they'll climb out themselves. But
Speaker 3: if they're injured and that's not working, then I head
Speaker 3: on into that dumpster and I'll do that with work gloves,
Speaker 3: a big towel and a crate. And I wouldn't recommend
Speaker 3: anybody ever try that, calling your animal control for advice
Speaker 3: and you know it is definitely the way to go.
Speaker 3: But I can do anything with a towel, a nice, big,
Speaker 3: thick towel. That's how I do the majority of my restraint.
Speaker 2: Have you been in that situation where there are more
Speaker 2: than one raccoons in a dumpster so you were outnumbered?
Speaker 3: No, but I bet you if there was more than one,
Speaker 3: then two by four situation would work.
Speaker 2: That's so they walk out on the two by four,
Speaker 2: not wapping them with the two by.
Speaker 3: Four exactly exactly.
Speaker 2: Oh my goodness. I'm gonna give the phone numbers again
Speaker 2: because I only have mariel up until the top of
Speaker 2: the hour. So if you call in as Corinne called earlier,
Speaker 2: six one, seven, two, five, four ten thirty or eight eight, eight, nine,
Speaker 2: two nine ten thirty, she is here and we'll be
Speaker 2: here till nine o'clock. And if you want to call
Speaker 2: seeing that it's seventeen minutes before nine. Your time is
Speaker 2: a dwindling and there are people out there listening right now.
Speaker 2: You own a dog, you own a cat, and they
Speaker 2: may have been an issue that has not yet been
Speaker 2: brought up, and you want to bring up that issue.
Speaker 2: Here is a professional. She is here, and she is
Speaker 2: here to help you. And I mean specifically you sitting there.
Speaker 2: You own a cat, you own a dog, You let
Speaker 2: them out into your back yard, you walk them with
Speaker 2: a leash, you whatever with them. Here's your chance get
Speaker 2: that question responded to by Mariel from Hair of the Dog.
Speaker 2: And on that note, I'm going to take my last
Speaker 2: break of this hour, and before I give time and temperature,
Speaker 2: I'm going to give the phone numbers again. Six one, seven, two, five, four,
Speaker 2: ten thirty eight eight eight, nine to nine, ten thirty.
Speaker 2: This is Night's side. Dan is off tonight. I'm one
Speaker 2: of his colleagues here at w b Z Radio on
Speaker 2: Morganwoite Junior. You've heard me filly in for them many
Speaker 2: many a time. So now that you've got all that information,
Speaker 2: I'll give you the time and temperature eight forty four
Speaker 2: seventy four degrees.
Speaker 1: It's nice eye with Dan Ray on w Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 2: Eight seven this Friday evening, roughly eight minutes of show
Speaker 2: to go for the first hour, and Mario, I've been
Speaker 2: told to tell you that Gray, what's you.
Speaker 3: I get to see him in person soon, right, Yes,
Speaker 3: yes you do.
Speaker 2: And all right, since I've brought this up, tell everybody
Speaker 2: about your relationship with my cat Gray.
Speaker 3: Well, he's a doll. He's an absolute doll. Really, My
Speaker 3: relationship started.
Speaker 2: With Joseph, Yes, our previous cat.
Speaker 3: Yes, So this is his, his predecessor, and I've only
Speaker 3: met him a couple of times, and I'm looking forward
Speaker 3: to seeing him again at work soon so he can
Speaker 3: get his rabies updated.
Speaker 2: And obviously, just by this conversation over the past forty
Speaker 2: five forty eight minutes or so, we know how important
Speaker 2: that is. So for anyone out there listening, and I
Speaker 2: sound like a broken record, you own a cat, you
Speaker 2: own a dog, you own a rabbit, whatever pit you
Speaker 2: may have that has fur, you need to get a
Speaker 2: rabie shot.
Speaker 3: And well, rabies vaccines are for a dogs, cats, ferrets,
Speaker 3: belly pigs, there's quite a few of them. But talk
Speaker 3: to your vet about your specific exotic right and if
Speaker 3: you have a house rabbit. Don't let it outside, not
Speaker 3: without direct supervision.
Speaker 2: You'll never see it again. When you do, there'll be
Speaker 2: more than one rabbit, many many more than one rabbit
Speaker 2: if you do see it again. And how can people
Speaker 2: get in touch with you?
Speaker 3: So the easiest way is my website is Hairfthdog dot
Speaker 3: org and that's h a r E.
Speaker 4: Hair of the Dog.
Speaker 3: But we're on Facebook and Instagram as well, and that's
Speaker 3: same thing at Hair of the Dog, Inc. And generally
Speaker 3: that's the easiest way.
Speaker 2: Give me a good feeling story involving Hair of the Dog.
Speaker 2: It's personnel, something where there was a calamity. You guys
Speaker 2: stepped in and you kind of resolved the calamity.
Speaker 3: Well, we have a few. There's always a few that
Speaker 3: come to mind. I had an adult female possum that
Speaker 3: was hit by a car and she had eleven babies
Speaker 3: on her and so every one of those babies we
Speaker 3: raised until release. Mama didn't make it to release, but
Speaker 3: she made it enough to help raise those babies out
Speaker 3: of their critical times where it's difficult to be able
Speaker 3: to rehab both babies. So that was wonderful. Our most
Speaker 3: recent one was another possum story. Where we got a
Speaker 3: possum that was hanging out in someone's yard all day
Speaker 3: doing nothing. They had thought it had passed at one point,
Speaker 3: and then sat move brought it to me. We did
Speaker 3: an exam at work and then one of the wonderful vets.
Speaker 3: After exam we noticed had broken tooth and so she
Speaker 3: was able to remove that tooth. I just released that
Speaker 3: powsome last weekend, so was in our care for a
Speaker 3: few weeks getting back to good weight. And so that
Speaker 3: release was special this year.
Speaker 2: And what's the website against the Hair of the Dog.
Speaker 3: It's hair offthdog dot org and hair is spelled like
Speaker 3: a rabbit h a r e yes h a r
Speaker 3: e enow.
Speaker 2: We did touch upon this. The Cape Cod Well sam
Speaker 2: Southeastern mass area is your area from which you operate.
Speaker 2: Any details we need to know about that area and Raby's.
Speaker 3: Now we so we we can take animals. We'll accept
Speaker 3: animals in from all of Massachusetts. The vaccine help that
Speaker 3: we helped with last week, that is by the Cape
Speaker 3: Cod and Southeast mass Raby's task Force, and they have
Speaker 3: a Facebook is at Cape Cod Raby's task Force and
Speaker 3: they have tons of information and all that scientific data
Speaker 3: all the inZone what they're doing to combat rabies with
Speaker 3: us DA as well. When we have an animal in
Speaker 3: care at hair of the Dog that passes if we
Speaker 3: suspect at all, or if it's a rabies vector meaning
Speaker 3: it can pass rabies from one animal to another, then
Speaker 3: if it passes away in our care, then that facility
Speaker 3: will help pick up and test and if they test,
Speaker 3: then then they know where to send those rabies vaccines
Speaker 3: when they have a positive case. So that's why we
Speaker 3: fully support them. We love helping them and they're really
Speaker 3: a great resource.
Speaker 2: And once then I know if you are going to
Speaker 2: be going out into a wooded area, high grass, I'm
Speaker 2: pointing specific ticks, tuck your pant leg into your socks,
Speaker 2: cut down on as much exposed skin as possible. I
Speaker 2: remember that from being back in the Boy Scouts when
Speaker 2: we went out into the woods and did those things.
Speaker 2: What else, what else should people know just not to
Speaker 2: be a target of bats?
Speaker 3: So for bats generally, like you generally aren't going to
Speaker 3: be as exposed to a bat unless there's one if
Speaker 3: it comes into your home and is stuck in your house.
Speaker 3: We've seen that. That probably is what started my love
Speaker 3: of these rabies vector animals. As a child, I would
Speaker 3: leave the doors open pretty routinely by accident because I
Speaker 3: didn't have a great attention span, and we would get
Speaker 3: bats in the house, and so they would fly around
Speaker 3: the living room, and you know, you to hear mom screaming,
Speaker 3: and so we may not have done the right thing men,
Speaker 3: but now we know. All you have to do is
Speaker 3: open up some windows, remove the screen, shut the door,
Speaker 3: and the bat will use their echo location and find
Speaker 3: their way out. For when you're outside and there's bats
Speaker 3: flying around, they generally will fly up high enough that
Speaker 3: there'll be above you. But every once in a while
Speaker 3: if they're on the ground. If you see one on
Speaker 3: the ground, they cannot take off from the floor. They
Speaker 3: have to take off from a tree or ledge or something.
Speaker 2: Why can they not take off if they are on
Speaker 2: the ground.
Speaker 3: It's the way that their biology is. Physically, they just can't.
Speaker 3: So generally what you would do is you could, you know,
Speaker 3: throw on some gloves. I almost treat it like a
Speaker 3: like a giant spider. You can put a you know,
Speaker 3: a thing like a box over it and then something
Speaker 3: under it and then just put it up somewhere high
Speaker 3: and then they're able to take off and flight again,
Speaker 3: or get them to the nearest tree. They'll climb that
Speaker 3: tree and then take off.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm a novice when it comes to bats. Obviously
Speaker 2: you have you have experience. And your mom was not
Speaker 2: happy about you leaving doors so they could come in.
Speaker 3: No, no, not particularly.
Speaker 2: And I hope you didn't take offense to me using
Speaker 2: Ellie May as a reference to you. But she had
Speaker 2: she had that kindness gene that attracted, well, the way
Speaker 2: they wrote it, that attracted all the woodland creatures to her.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I like, I like some woodland creatures. I agree,
Speaker 3: all right, well, and there you go.
Speaker 2: And she had animals that normally don't get along. I
Speaker 2: remember one scene a dog was dog paddling in what
Speaker 2: they called the Semen pond, a swimming pool, and a
Speaker 2: cat was on its back. Dogs and cats normally don't
Speaker 2: play nice to each other. They will if they're raised together.
Speaker 2: But I remember that one scene as clear as day.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, and they wouldn't go in the pool either.
Speaker 2: No, Well, there you go.
Speaker 3: Sement or Otherwise's pond. Yeah, I remember that all right.
Speaker 2: Now, for all the people who know you and are listening,
Speaker 2: do you want to send a greeting off to them
Speaker 2: through WBC's airwaves.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's there are so many people that
Speaker 3: help support us. At Hair of the Dog. We had
Speaker 3: go fund me for a bunky house, which is wildlike
Speaker 3: nursery that were making in the amount of volunteer years
Speaker 3: that I have. Of course, my father, who will do
Speaker 3: any crazy wildlife thing that I request of him. My husband, John,
Speaker 3: who is the only forced volunteer that I have, whether
Speaker 3: he wants to.
Speaker 4: Be or not.
Speaker 2: You know, everyone, how long have you and John been married?
Speaker 3: I was really hoping that wasn't going to be the
Speaker 3: question you were asking.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I think my anniversary is soon and it's been over
Speaker 3: ten years. I don't know how many years it's been
Speaker 3: for maybe fifteen marriage. Yeah, oh yeah, absolutely, as long.
Speaker 2: As you know each other's birthdays, it's all that married.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, yes, I do.
Speaker 2: Now I'm going to have you on again when I
Speaker 2: don't know, probably in the fall, so be prepared for
Speaker 2: the phone to ring. And I want to thank you
Speaker 2: for what you've done tonight. You've educated a lot of people,
Speaker 2: So thank.
Speaker 3: You, Thank you very much, you too.
Speaker 2: Thank you, bye bye, and next hour we're going to
Speaker 2: talk about education. We're going to talk about some education
Speaker 2: conferences that are upcoming on offspring and summer calendar. On
Speaker 2: that note, time and temperature eight fifty eight seventy four
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