WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.399 --> 00:00:03.120 It's Maria's MutS and Stuff. 2 00:00:03.600 --> 00:00:06.519 What a great idea on iHeartRadio. 3 00:00:10.240 --> 00:00:14.199 Welcome to Maria's Mutts and Stuff. And with me is 4 00:00:14.439 --> 00:00:20.120 Heather Johnson and she has beach Dog Rescue but it's 5 00:00:20.160 --> 00:00:20.960 in Mexico. 6 00:00:21.760 --> 00:00:25.039 Very cool. So Heather, Hi, it's nice to officially meet you. 7 00:00:26.160 --> 00:00:28.760 Hi. You too, Thanks for having me. I'm so excited. 8 00:00:29.399 --> 00:00:32.280 Oh me too. Okay, So let's talk about this. 9 00:00:32.359 --> 00:00:35.799 So you originally are from New Jersey and then you 10 00:00:35.920 --> 00:00:39.719 moved to Mexico twenty sixteen, is that correct? 11 00:00:40.520 --> 00:00:43.439 We did. We were on vy like I don't know, 12 00:00:43.439 --> 00:00:45.039 one hundred years ago in Cancun. 13 00:00:45.200 --> 00:00:45.520 Uh huh. 14 00:00:45.520 --> 00:00:47.840 I thought like, we live in Mexico one day, that'd 15 00:00:47.920 --> 00:00:52.399 be so cool, and so we started planning and now 16 00:00:52.439 --> 00:00:53.240 we are here. 17 00:00:53.479 --> 00:00:54.240 Wow. Okay. 18 00:00:54.320 --> 00:00:57.799 So when you first got to Mexico, as this is 19 00:00:57.840 --> 00:01:01.039 going to be our residence, did you have the plan 20 00:01:01.159 --> 00:01:04.879 of doing a rescue or that just came about from 21 00:01:04.920 --> 00:01:05.480 living there? 22 00:01:06.879 --> 00:01:09.280 It just happened. When I was in New Jersey, I 23 00:01:09.319 --> 00:01:11.280 was volunteering with the rescue in New York City, so 24 00:01:11.359 --> 00:01:14.959 I had some rescue experience and always been in my 25 00:01:15.000 --> 00:01:17.640 heart and I have loved them. And when we got 26 00:01:17.680 --> 00:01:20.280 to Mexico. On one of our trips to visit the 27 00:01:20.319 --> 00:01:23.239 house that we were building on this remote stretch of beach, 28 00:01:24.760 --> 00:01:27.439 I saw this dog. His name was Pinto. Like the 29 00:01:27.439 --> 00:01:30.239 whole rescue was kind of for him, and he was 30 00:01:30.319 --> 00:01:34.239 just skin and bones, and I guess he was attracted 31 00:01:34.280 --> 00:01:36.480 like the people that were building the house, they were 32 00:01:36.519 --> 00:01:38.840 camping there, so I guess he was attracted to the 33 00:01:38.879 --> 00:01:43.079 small the food cooking on like the campfire, and he 34 00:01:43.159 --> 00:01:45.480 just started hanging around. And you know, the first time 35 00:01:45.519 --> 00:01:48.079 I saw him, like, I died. He was so skinny 36 00:01:48.079 --> 00:01:53.120 and I'd never seen a dog before, so it just 37 00:01:53.239 --> 00:01:56.280 happened like I took him to the vet. He ended 38 00:01:56.359 --> 00:02:01.159 up dying, because yeah, I know, But anyway, that just 39 00:02:01.239 --> 00:02:01.879 kind of like. 40 00:02:02.040 --> 00:02:06.200 So, yeah, he inspired you, that started it. Yeah yeah, 41 00:02:06.280 --> 00:02:09.879 and you tried, so I mean, unfortunately he died, but 42 00:02:10.039 --> 00:02:13.800 I'm sure he lived a little bit longer because of 43 00:02:13.840 --> 00:02:16.800 you finding him and trying to help him. So just 44 00:02:16.919 --> 00:02:17.879 you know remember that. 45 00:02:19.319 --> 00:02:21.240 Yeah, I know there's a lot of those along the way, 46 00:02:21.280 --> 00:02:24.800 but yeah, sure, it's just like for him. So every 47 00:02:24.879 --> 00:02:26.719 day I'm kind of like thinking of that little dog, 48 00:02:26.800 --> 00:02:29.319 And it was just so interesting because like it struck 49 00:02:29.360 --> 00:02:30.759 me he was nobody's dog. 50 00:02:31.080 --> 00:02:31.280 Huh. 51 00:02:31.759 --> 00:02:34.159 You didn't have anyone. He was just like this little 52 00:02:34.280 --> 00:02:35.759 lost soul, right. 53 00:02:36.719 --> 00:02:39.479 That was powerful, of course, of course. 54 00:02:39.800 --> 00:02:43.680 So now okay, so once that got started, so how 55 00:02:43.840 --> 00:02:46.520 I'm sure it was much more difficult to start a 56 00:02:46.599 --> 00:02:49.759 rescue because it was a different country, right, other than 57 00:02:50.479 --> 00:02:52.039 being used to living in the States. 58 00:02:52.639 --> 00:02:55.360 So walk us through it, like, how did you start? 59 00:02:55.479 --> 00:02:56.159 Like what did you do? 60 00:02:56.240 --> 00:02:58.560 Because to me, just the thought of it is like 61 00:02:58.560 --> 00:02:59.639 like overwhelming. 62 00:02:59.719 --> 00:03:01.439 But where do you start? 63 00:03:01.960 --> 00:03:05.599 We just started just bringing dogs into our house. We 64 00:03:05.680 --> 00:03:09.280 lived on this little like remote area of beach. It 65 00:03:09.360 --> 00:03:11.560 was just kind of us and like a lot of 66 00:03:11.599 --> 00:03:13.800 fishermen and you know, there were just a lot of 67 00:03:13.800 --> 00:03:15.560 dogs on the beach. So we just started bringing them 68 00:03:15.599 --> 00:03:18.080 into our house. Like we weren't set up as a few, 69 00:03:18.319 --> 00:03:21.639 We didn't have any infrastructure, like you know, we had 70 00:03:21.719 --> 00:03:24.400 dogs in quarantine, like in our bathroom and on our 71 00:03:24.439 --> 00:03:26.159 like balcony upstairs. 72 00:03:26.400 --> 00:03:26.560 You know. 73 00:03:26.639 --> 00:03:28.520 It was like every time I left the house, there'd 74 00:03:28.520 --> 00:03:31.360 be like this skinny starting dog. So I just kept 75 00:03:31.400 --> 00:03:33.879 kind of you know, piling them. And it's much easier 76 00:03:33.919 --> 00:03:35.599 to bring the dogs in than it is to get 77 00:03:35.599 --> 00:03:37.759 them out. So my next plan was like, Okay, we 78 00:03:37.800 --> 00:03:41.000 need to get these dogs adopted. So that was you know, 79 00:03:41.199 --> 00:03:44.159 over time, it has just grown and figured stuff out 80 00:03:44.159 --> 00:03:44.759 along the way. 81 00:03:44.960 --> 00:03:48.199 But so now is is it still in your house? 82 00:03:50.080 --> 00:03:53.000 We actually moved from the beach because time I think 83 00:03:53.039 --> 00:03:54.800 we had like thirty dogs in our living room. 84 00:03:55.800 --> 00:04:03.159 Oh goodness, yeah, it's not funny, but it is funny. 85 00:04:02.159 --> 00:04:07.639 Oh it's terrible and funny. So yes, there was this 86 00:04:07.759 --> 00:04:09.360 dog that we had and she came in and she 87 00:04:09.439 --> 00:04:13.479 was really pregnant, and she started like breathing really hard. 88 00:04:13.639 --> 00:04:15.280 I was like, what's wrong with this dog? Like, I 89 00:04:15.280 --> 00:04:18.199 don't know. So then she started having her puppies. I 90 00:04:18.240 --> 00:04:21.839 didn't know anything about like puppies, so she would have them. 91 00:04:21.839 --> 00:04:24.199 She's like sitting on my lap, like having puppies. She 92 00:04:24.199 --> 00:04:27.360 would only sit on my lap. And the first puppy 93 00:04:27.399 --> 00:04:29.639 that came out, I guess you're supposed to like chew 94 00:04:29.680 --> 00:04:31.959 the cord and do all these you know, mom dog things. 95 00:04:32.519 --> 00:04:35.399 She has no idea. So she's like turboing around the 96 00:04:35.439 --> 00:04:37.560 living room and this puppy is like piling behind her. 97 00:04:39.879 --> 00:04:42.879 My husband's like dying because there's like blood everywhere. 98 00:04:42.879 --> 00:04:45.240 Of course, it looks like a murder scene. But it's 99 00:04:45.240 --> 00:04:46.639 a dog having puppies, right. 100 00:04:47.160 --> 00:04:49.360 Yeah, but she like runs upstairs. I'm looking for like 101 00:04:49.480 --> 00:04:51.800 dental floss and scissors to fix this situation. 102 00:04:52.000 --> 00:04:54.800 Oh my god, Oh my god. 103 00:04:54.879 --> 00:04:56.959 I give you so much credit because it's probably like 104 00:04:57.199 --> 00:04:59.199 it was a huge learning experience too. 105 00:04:59.600 --> 00:05:01.360 Yeah, I had no idea what I was doing. I 106 00:05:01.360 --> 00:05:02.680 just thought I was going to, you know, bring a 107 00:05:02.680 --> 00:05:04.480 few dogs at the beach, and I was saving the 108 00:05:04.519 --> 00:05:07.639 whole world, right. Well, a couple of years ago we 109 00:05:07.759 --> 00:05:11.240 left the beach to buy a farm in Yucatan State 110 00:05:11.639 --> 00:05:13.879 that we have like a proper we have an actual 111 00:05:13.920 --> 00:05:17.680 sanctuary set up outside of our house with you know 112 00:05:17.759 --> 00:05:21.720 this great like dog park area so it's more structured 113 00:05:21.800 --> 00:05:23.360 so we don't have to have thirty dogs in our 114 00:05:23.360 --> 00:05:26.120 living room. There's only like dogs living in here. 115 00:05:26.160 --> 00:05:28.199 Now I'm sorry, I'm sorry, you cut out. There are 116 00:05:28.240 --> 00:05:30.000 only how many? How many are in your living room? 117 00:05:30.360 --> 00:05:31.839 There's only twenty one? Now? 118 00:05:31.879 --> 00:05:33.600 Oh okay, all right, this is still look good. It's 119 00:05:33.639 --> 00:05:36.360 still an amazing number, like pretty large, but okay, all right, 120 00:05:36.360 --> 00:05:38.279 others are gonna say they're only two because then you 121 00:05:38.319 --> 00:05:40.720 cut out and I was like, oh what twenty one Okay, 122 00:05:41.279 --> 00:05:41.800 there's only. 123 00:05:41.680 --> 00:05:44.879 Twenty, not like a whole bunch more outside, but yeah. 124 00:05:44.759 --> 00:05:48.639 Right, right, right, okay, And I assume beside you and 125 00:05:48.680 --> 00:05:51.680 your husband, because it sounds like it's a lot of work, 126 00:05:51.720 --> 00:05:54.759 you have volunteers, local volunteers helping you out. 127 00:05:55.800 --> 00:06:00.839 We actually don't because we live super far society. 128 00:06:01.040 --> 00:06:01.319 Wow. 129 00:06:01.360 --> 00:06:03.600 So we're off the grid. We're in like a three 130 00:06:03.680 --> 00:06:07.560 hundred and fifty year old excacienda and it's just literally 131 00:06:07.600 --> 00:06:10.600 in the middle of nowhere, which is by design. We 132 00:06:10.680 --> 00:06:12.839 had neighbors, they would murder. 133 00:06:12.639 --> 00:06:14.879 Us, right because of the barking and everything else. I 134 00:06:14.920 --> 00:06:16.360 get it. No, I get I get it. 135 00:06:16.399 --> 00:06:20.879 And not everybody loves animals unfortunately, right, yeah, yeah. 136 00:06:20.639 --> 00:06:21.120 I get that. 137 00:06:21.959 --> 00:06:25.639 So wow, wow, like this is it's not I shouldn't 138 00:06:25.639 --> 00:06:27.399 say it's not completely different, but it's very different. 139 00:06:27.839 --> 00:06:30.120 I can't imagine how the two of you do all this, 140 00:06:30.319 --> 00:06:31.519 that's all. That's a lot to do. 141 00:06:32.680 --> 00:06:35.399 It's a lot to do. We have a farm manager. 142 00:06:35.800 --> 00:06:38.040 Her name is Carla. She lives on the property in 143 00:06:38.079 --> 00:06:40.759 a little studio apartment. So she helps with the dogs 144 00:06:41.000 --> 00:06:45.600 and the sheep, and we had some rescue pigs and 145 00:06:46.040 --> 00:06:48.319 we had a really mean rooster. We just got him 146 00:06:48.319 --> 00:06:53.759 adopted though Coolio street. Hell, it was like terrible? 147 00:06:53.920 --> 00:06:54.680 Why was okay? 148 00:06:54.759 --> 00:06:57.879 I know I don't know a lot about roosters, but 149 00:06:58.079 --> 00:06:59.360 why what made him mean? 150 00:06:59.800 --> 00:07:02.399 Was he just like, no, no, I think roosters are 151 00:07:02.439 --> 00:07:03.199 just mean. 152 00:07:03.439 --> 00:07:05.879 Oh wait, you cut out again. I'm sorry. 153 00:07:06.040 --> 00:07:07.839 He just wanted to do it all the time, he said, 154 00:07:07.879 --> 00:07:12.920 I'm sorry murder. Oh I see like other smaller fowls 155 00:07:13.000 --> 00:07:13.800 or something, or. 156 00:07:13.800 --> 00:07:17.920 He just he was just mean me people everyone, Oh 157 00:07:18.040 --> 00:07:18.519 my goodness. 158 00:07:18.839 --> 00:07:21.600 Okay, but he but he got adopted. So obviously somebody 159 00:07:21.920 --> 00:07:22.959 is a fan of mean. 160 00:07:22.920 --> 00:07:23.959 Roosters, so that's good. 161 00:07:24.240 --> 00:07:28.879 Yeah, yeah, So how do you get the word out 162 00:07:28.920 --> 00:07:32.160 to people? Like do people who are and I and 163 00:07:32.279 --> 00:07:36.120 I'm trying to kind of picture it, like people are 164 00:07:36.199 --> 00:07:39.199 aware who are neighbors, but if you have neighbors who 165 00:07:39.240 --> 00:07:42.319 are far away that they're aware of the sanctuary and 166 00:07:42.600 --> 00:07:45.319 so they if they are thinking of adopting an animal, 167 00:07:45.399 --> 00:07:49.160 Like how okay, So you said you had pigs and 168 00:07:49.399 --> 00:07:50.959 cheap and you have dogs. 169 00:07:51.720 --> 00:07:53.759 Do you have like is that it? Do you have more? 170 00:07:53.839 --> 00:07:57.040 I mean that's a lot, but we have some cats too, 171 00:07:57.160 --> 00:07:59.279 but mostly the rescue, mostly the dogs. 172 00:07:59.319 --> 00:08:00.240 Mostly we. 173 00:08:02.199 --> 00:08:07.560 Have rescue partners in New York and like Toronto, a 174 00:08:07.600 --> 00:08:10.839 lot of my adoptions, most of my adoptions are international. 175 00:08:12.240 --> 00:08:15.639 It's just easier that way when we can with local homes. 176 00:08:15.639 --> 00:08:18.560 But it's a bit tricky finding homes here. 177 00:08:18.720 --> 00:08:19.680 Yeah, no, I get it. 178 00:08:19.680 --> 00:08:22.279 The people that really love the animals, they already have 179 00:08:22.319 --> 00:08:23.040 a ton so. 180 00:08:23.240 --> 00:08:27.040 Right right, right, right right, And I guess. 181 00:08:28.399 --> 00:08:31.920 So you, I guess go through your area where you are, 182 00:08:32.039 --> 00:08:34.159 and you find strays and take them in. 183 00:08:34.240 --> 00:08:35.320 Is that how that works too? 184 00:08:36.840 --> 00:08:39.000 They're just kind of everywhere. I mean, we have a 185 00:08:39.039 --> 00:08:41.279 limited number of so I try to keep it to 186 00:08:41.480 --> 00:08:44.799 the animals that are like really at risk. A lot 187 00:08:44.879 --> 00:08:47.120 of times it's just so different here, Like a lot 188 00:08:47.120 --> 00:08:50.080 of times a dog will get hit by a car 189 00:08:50.320 --> 00:08:53.679 or like we have a dog now, who is someone 190 00:08:54.240 --> 00:08:59.279 cut his paw off with a machete And there's no 191 00:08:59.399 --> 00:09:01.240 there's no govern meant to call it. In the US, 192 00:09:01.320 --> 00:09:03.320 you know it happen if you see a job somewhere, 193 00:09:03.360 --> 00:09:05.399 so we get it hit, you know, you call, someone 194 00:09:05.480 --> 00:09:08.720 comes and it's done. Their Bonabu, SPCA or the Humane 195 00:09:08.799 --> 00:09:13.440 Society or rescue is coming, right, But here, like the police, 196 00:09:14.440 --> 00:09:17.919 it's not their job, right, There's no there's no government, 197 00:09:18.039 --> 00:09:21.639 so it's just very different. So sometimes we don't show 198 00:09:21.759 --> 00:09:23.639 up so many of these things. You know, there was 199 00:09:23.679 --> 00:09:26.279 a situation we just had where a dog was hit 200 00:09:26.320 --> 00:09:27.879 by a car and she was on the side of 201 00:09:27.919 --> 00:09:30.519 the road for three days, oh my god, before we 202 00:09:30.559 --> 00:09:32.759 could get to her. So it's just like such a 203 00:09:32.759 --> 00:09:33.759 different world here. 204 00:09:33.919 --> 00:09:36.320 I'm sure it sounds like it. I mean, we're kind 205 00:09:36.320 --> 00:09:37.559 of spoiled right now. 206 00:09:37.600 --> 00:09:40.080 We are anyway, We're pretty spoiled in the States with 207 00:09:40.960 --> 00:09:43.919 how things are with you know, animal rights and who 208 00:09:43.960 --> 00:09:45.720 to call and who to get help from. 209 00:09:46.320 --> 00:09:49.600 Which yeah, yeah, it's different, yeah. 210 00:09:50.200 --> 00:09:53.440 Right, I mean, I know you guys struggle the same way, right. 211 00:09:53.279 --> 00:09:55.080 But it's but I mean, but you know, from living here, 212 00:09:55.120 --> 00:09:57.840 it's just different. You're right, Like if if you found 213 00:09:57.840 --> 00:10:01.240 a dog with its paul, you know, Michelle Off, not 214 00:10:01.360 --> 00:10:05.120 only would you know, it would be on every single 215 00:10:05.200 --> 00:10:08.080 local news because it would be it's such an outrageous thing. 216 00:10:08.960 --> 00:10:11.559 Right, and someone's going to probably go to jail over. 217 00:10:11.399 --> 00:10:12.840 It and get fine. 218 00:10:12.960 --> 00:10:17.279 But here, yeah, here, it's not. I mean, it's terrible, 219 00:10:17.399 --> 00:10:20.519 and you know, local people get really mad. But the 220 00:10:20.559 --> 00:10:22.960 government is not looking into this. You know, they're not 221 00:10:23.080 --> 00:10:27.279 putting police resources on this right, just the thing that happened, 222 00:10:27.519 --> 00:10:30.600 and it's up to like individual rescuers like me to 223 00:10:30.639 --> 00:10:31.879 fix it right right? 224 00:10:32.240 --> 00:10:36.320 And are there other rescuers like you like around that you. 225 00:10:37.919 --> 00:10:42.440 Are? M yeah, you know the Yucatan Peninsula, it's a 226 00:10:42.559 --> 00:10:47.200 huge area, you know, Mereda, Cancun, Piazzo, Carmen Halloom, all 227 00:10:47.240 --> 00:10:50.320 these places. You know, there's probably a rescue or two 228 00:10:50.399 --> 00:10:53.000 or three in each place. But the amount of animal, 229 00:10:53.200 --> 00:10:55.279 you know, it's more than we can ever possibly keep 230 00:10:55.360 --> 00:10:55.559 up with. 231 00:10:55.840 --> 00:10:58.200 Sure, No, of course, I'm sure because it's not like 232 00:10:58.759 --> 00:11:00.879 the dogs and the cats are being spade and neutered 233 00:11:01.159 --> 00:11:05.120 so right right, which brings me to you however, exactly 234 00:11:05.279 --> 00:11:06.600 that's something that you guys do. 235 00:11:06.679 --> 00:11:09.200 And I just what was the number? I just saw? 236 00:11:09.240 --> 00:11:12.120 It was like over is it eight thousand so far? 237 00:11:12.159 --> 00:11:15.399 Eight thousand and forty as of right now? Over eight thousand. 238 00:11:15.080 --> 00:11:18.360 Correct, eight fifty one fifty one. 239 00:11:18.480 --> 00:11:21.080 Wow, that that actually went up in like a few 240 00:11:21.320 --> 00:11:24.639 like a day, which is amazing. So eight thousand fifty 241 00:11:24.679 --> 00:11:29.720 one spay and neuters. Congratulations, that's pretty spectacular. 242 00:11:30.759 --> 00:11:33.559 I remember when we did our first campaign, we did 243 00:11:33.559 --> 00:11:36.559 eleven in our in our dining room, dining room table, 244 00:11:36.879 --> 00:11:39.399 and I thought, like we just solved the world problem 245 00:11:39.639 --> 00:11:41.120 of homeless tests. 246 00:11:40.759 --> 00:11:44.120 But well, yeah, but you know, and I always know 247 00:11:44.240 --> 00:11:47.639 that there's because over the years, and we've all seen 248 00:11:47.679 --> 00:11:50.200 it over the years, it's like if you don't you know, 249 00:11:51.120 --> 00:11:54.000 if you don't spay one female, that female can have 250 00:11:54.039 --> 00:11:56.240 and there's always these like crazy numbers, and I never 251 00:11:56.399 --> 00:11:58.159 you know, and then you forget about it. But I 252 00:11:58.200 --> 00:12:02.279 know on the press release I have on you on 253 00:12:02.320 --> 00:12:06.120 your organization, the Humane Society estimates that one unspayed female 254 00:12:06.120 --> 00:12:08.279 dog in her offspring can produce. 255 00:12:08.080 --> 00:12:13.519 Eleven and sixty seven puppies per year. Like that's insanity, 256 00:12:14.519 --> 00:12:18.559 it's mind boggling, it is. It has to change. Yeah, no, 257 00:12:18.600 --> 00:12:19.759 you're absolutely right. People. 258 00:12:20.120 --> 00:12:22.039 I mean, I know people who don't neuter their dog 259 00:12:22.080 --> 00:12:24.279 because they think and it's usually a guy. Oh, I 260 00:12:24.279 --> 00:12:26.200 can't newt my dog because I wouldn't want to be neutered. 261 00:12:26.240 --> 00:12:28.159 We're not talking about you, we're talking about your dog. 262 00:12:29.039 --> 00:12:30.039 Yes, always the guy. 263 00:12:30.440 --> 00:12:30.600 I know. 264 00:12:30.679 --> 00:12:32.799 I started doing this. I was like driving up and 265 00:12:32.799 --> 00:12:35.000 down the beach, like begging fishermen to let me like 266 00:12:35.159 --> 00:12:39.159 neuter their dogs. And maybe it was my ad Spanish 267 00:12:39.159 --> 00:12:41.080 at the time, but they were just like, oh my. 268 00:12:41.039 --> 00:12:43.639 God, yeah, like horrified that you yeah exist. 269 00:12:44.720 --> 00:12:48.000 I'm not trying to neuter you exactly, maybe we can, 270 00:12:48.159 --> 00:12:52.440 but right right, but little like people are really starting 271 00:12:52.480 --> 00:12:54.320 to wrap their brains around this. And when we do 272 00:12:54.440 --> 00:12:58.600 like campaigns, you know, they're selling up, like the registration 273 00:12:59.600 --> 00:13:02.360 there's waiting list, and it's like it's so cool to 274 00:13:02.360 --> 00:13:05.679 see that people are starting to understand how good this is. 275 00:13:05.919 --> 00:13:09.120 Yeah, no, for sure, like it's catching on. So do 276 00:13:09.200 --> 00:13:11.360 you have local vets who come and help you with that? 277 00:13:12.840 --> 00:13:15.240 We do. We have a couple of different bets. We 278 00:13:15.279 --> 00:13:18.360 do big campaigns. There's a group from Mexico City that 279 00:13:18.519 --> 00:13:21.159 flies in and we work with them and they come in. 280 00:13:21.879 --> 00:13:26.200 We're actually doing a campaign next month with the goal 281 00:13:26.279 --> 00:13:31.519 is eight hundred sterilizations. These big campaigns and what we 282 00:13:31.559 --> 00:13:34.679 do is we fund you know, fifty or seventy five 283 00:13:34.720 --> 00:13:36.759 percent of it so that we can keep the cost 284 00:13:37.000 --> 00:13:39.679 really low but still let people contribute so you know, 285 00:13:39.679 --> 00:13:41.840 they can take some press in their pets things like that. 286 00:13:43.120 --> 00:13:47.440 And we also do really tiny campaigns you know in 287 00:13:47.480 --> 00:13:51.720 small villages and sometimes we just you know, find animals 288 00:13:51.720 --> 00:13:54.039 on the street and do a spay neoter and give 289 00:13:54.080 --> 00:13:56.120 them a temporary home and you know, try to put 290 00:13:56.120 --> 00:13:59.039 them back on the street with supervision. Right, we kind 291 00:13:59.039 --> 00:14:01.159 of trying to hit it from like different angles. 292 00:14:01.320 --> 00:14:05.200 Sure, I feel like that we need to see like 293 00:14:05.240 --> 00:14:07.080 a dog, Like we need to have a TV show 294 00:14:07.559 --> 00:14:11.519 follow you around, Gil, right that your husband, Heather and Gill. 295 00:14:11.919 --> 00:14:14.039 We need like a TV show to come down and 296 00:14:14.159 --> 00:14:15.799 because you know, like animal Blandet, this would be like 297 00:14:15.840 --> 00:14:18.639 a perfect thing, you know, Beach Dog Rescue with Heather 298 00:14:18.720 --> 00:14:20.960 and Gill and follow you around and people could see like, 299 00:14:21.000 --> 00:14:23.440 oh my goodness, it's so different down here, but wow, 300 00:14:23.639 --> 00:14:25.720 it's Yeah, like. 301 00:14:25.960 --> 00:14:27.519 The last time we were in this village doing this 302 00:14:27.519 --> 00:14:31.320 little campaign, there was this female dog and she was 303 00:14:31.360 --> 00:14:34.840 in heat and there was like two male dogs chasing 304 00:14:34.879 --> 00:14:36.679 her and she was kind of running away, and then 305 00:14:36.679 --> 00:14:39.080 another dog in and you know, she was kind of 306 00:14:39.159 --> 00:14:41.279 running around the block with a small village and like 307 00:14:41.360 --> 00:14:43.840 by the you know, ten minutes later, there was like 308 00:14:43.919 --> 00:14:47.159 nine dogs chasing her. And now I'm chasing her because 309 00:14:47.159 --> 00:14:48.720 I'm trying to get her away from this and now 310 00:14:48.720 --> 00:14:50.759 she's running for me and she's running from these dogs. 311 00:14:50.840 --> 00:14:53.720 And we just need to stay in uter all of 312 00:14:53.759 --> 00:14:54.480 these animal. 313 00:14:54.559 --> 00:14:57.679 Yeah, what I mean, do what wound up happening with that? 314 00:14:57.759 --> 00:15:00.120 Did you finally get her? Did she get away? 315 00:15:00.799 --> 00:15:01.440 He got away? 316 00:15:01.480 --> 00:15:04.120 Oh? Good, okay, poor girl, Oh my goodness. 317 00:15:04.360 --> 00:15:07.519 I know, I know. It's just like I've seen things 318 00:15:07.559 --> 00:15:10.320 here that are just my bottling. 319 00:15:10.840 --> 00:15:13.559 Yeah, you can, Unsea, I'm sure. I'm sure. 320 00:15:13.960 --> 00:15:16.320 Do you and Gil ever sleep? Because it sounds like 321 00:15:16.559 --> 00:15:18.559 I don't know how you can or do you? I mean, 322 00:15:18.600 --> 00:15:19.799 do you ever get some sleep? 323 00:15:20.519 --> 00:15:20.720 Yeah? 324 00:15:23.039 --> 00:15:25.360 So when I built this, when we moved in here, 325 00:15:25.440 --> 00:15:27.960 I built, you know, the sanctuary, like fifty feet from 326 00:15:27.960 --> 00:15:32.000 our bedroom. With hindsight, it should have been a little further, okay. 327 00:15:31.679 --> 00:15:32.360 Because you hear it. 328 00:15:32.440 --> 00:15:35.320 Yeah, okay, all right, it kind of could be like, yeah, 329 00:15:35.360 --> 00:15:40.360 like a lullaby maybe, but yeah, okay, so we tried 330 00:15:40.360 --> 00:15:40.720 to sleep. 331 00:15:41.080 --> 00:15:42.919 Doesn't always happen right right right now. 332 00:15:42.960 --> 00:15:44.919 But I just feel like you're probably you probably by 333 00:15:44.919 --> 00:15:47.039 the time you like feed all of them and then 334 00:15:47.480 --> 00:15:50.279 you get them ready for bed and then you know 335 00:15:50.360 --> 00:15:53.279 it's morning. I just feel like it's probably like a 336 00:15:53.399 --> 00:15:55.799 day in your life is probably NonStop. 337 00:15:56.559 --> 00:15:57.720 It sounds like it's amazing. 338 00:15:58.559 --> 00:16:00.639 Me cleaning up poop and cursing. 339 00:16:00.840 --> 00:16:02.840 I feel it poop and cursing. 340 00:16:02.879 --> 00:16:04.759 That could be the name of the television show I 341 00:16:04.840 --> 00:16:07.039 love it, Poop and Cursing with Heather. 342 00:16:08.080 --> 00:16:10.639 Well, okay, it looks cute like I'm hosting cute videos 343 00:16:10.679 --> 00:16:13.399 and dogs, but it's mostly just me freaking out, like 344 00:16:13.440 --> 00:16:17.679 what's going on here and right? But it's a lot 345 00:16:17.720 --> 00:16:20.799 of it's a lot of cleaning and cooking and seating 346 00:16:20.960 --> 00:16:24.799 and medicating. Right now, we have this little pit bull 347 00:16:24.879 --> 00:16:29.840 named Annie. She was I founder in a little village 348 00:16:30.159 --> 00:16:34.840 and she was paralyzed like her two. We aren't working, 349 00:16:35.600 --> 00:16:37.200 so we're doing therapy and I bring her in the 350 00:16:37.200 --> 00:16:39.960 pool every day and we swim and she's you know, 351 00:16:40.039 --> 00:16:41.039 she's starting to move again. 352 00:16:41.200 --> 00:16:44.279 Oh my god, that's amazing. That's so cool. I mean 353 00:16:44.279 --> 00:16:45.519 that makes me so. 354 00:16:45.600 --> 00:16:47.399 I think when you do sleep, you sleep well at night, 355 00:16:47.399 --> 00:16:49.000 because that has to make you feel really good. 356 00:16:50.039 --> 00:16:52.840 It does. Yeah, I love it I'm doing. I hate 357 00:16:52.840 --> 00:16:54.320 that I have to do it, but I'm glad that 358 00:16:54.360 --> 00:16:55.360 I get to be her doing this. 359 00:16:55.639 --> 00:16:58.720 Right. Well, did you ever think now you moved twenty sixteen, 360 00:16:58.799 --> 00:17:01.399 so that's nine nine years ago, did you ever think 361 00:17:01.480 --> 00:17:03.279 this is what you would be doing nine years from 362 00:17:03.320 --> 00:17:07.400 when you decided let's just go down to Mexico permanently. 363 00:17:07.839 --> 00:17:09.440 Did you think this is what you would be doing? 364 00:17:10.559 --> 00:17:10.680 No? 365 00:17:10.920 --> 00:17:12.519 I thought I was going to read books and sit 366 00:17:12.559 --> 00:17:17.839 a hammock and do like lacking right, right, But this. 367 00:17:17.920 --> 00:17:20.279 Is probably relaxing in its way, because it's that old 368 00:17:20.400 --> 00:17:22.359 Dewey you love and love what you do, and obviously 369 00:17:22.440 --> 00:17:24.680 you love this and you're doing and you're doing a 370 00:17:24.720 --> 00:17:27.079 lot of good deeds in the world, you know, a 371 00:17:27.079 --> 00:17:28.640 lot of good karmam coming out. 372 00:17:30.400 --> 00:17:32.240 Oh God, yes, absolutely. 373 00:17:33.680 --> 00:17:36.559 This morning. I got a picture this morning. One of 374 00:17:36.599 --> 00:17:38.240 the dogs I just sent to Canada a couple of 375 00:17:38.279 --> 00:17:42.039 weeks ago, was a foster fail. And I got a 376 00:17:42.079 --> 00:17:44.440 picture of the dog and the couch and a note 377 00:17:44.519 --> 00:17:48.200 saying like, we can't possibly live our lives without this dog. 378 00:17:48.319 --> 00:17:50.359 It's the best thing that ever happened to us. And 379 00:17:51.119 --> 00:17:53.480 you know, I found the dog chained up to a 380 00:17:53.519 --> 00:17:56.720 cinder block, you know, as a puppy like in bones, 381 00:17:57.039 --> 00:18:00.559 and it's you know, a lot goes on between, like 382 00:18:00.640 --> 00:18:04.759 the rescue and the adoption, but people, it's just so beautiful. 383 00:18:04.880 --> 00:18:07.640 It is beautiful, but people are just awful, like who 384 00:18:07.720 --> 00:18:08.400 would do that? 385 00:18:09.200 --> 00:18:09.400 You know? 386 00:18:09.480 --> 00:18:12.240 I I that's I always have a problem wrapping my 387 00:18:12.400 --> 00:18:16.000 head around who would leave? You know, Like I remember 388 00:18:16.240 --> 00:18:19.240 when the hurricanes down south and somebody left, and I 389 00:18:19.240 --> 00:18:19.920 mean it went viral. 390 00:18:20.000 --> 00:18:23.119 Somebody left a dog tied to the to a fence. 391 00:18:22.880 --> 00:18:25.279 Like, oh, yeah, because he'll be able to survive, Like 392 00:18:25.319 --> 00:18:26.200 why would you do that? 393 00:18:26.720 --> 00:18:28.440 Like what is wrong with people? 394 00:18:28.480 --> 00:18:30.799 I just and I'm sure you see it ten times 395 00:18:30.839 --> 00:18:33.920 what I'm seeing or think, and I just don't get it. 396 00:18:35.359 --> 00:18:38.279 I know some people, like I used to get mad 397 00:18:38.359 --> 00:18:40.880 because I'm from New Jersey, so my like my go 398 00:18:40.960 --> 00:18:42.319 to emotion is yeah. 399 00:18:42.200 --> 00:18:44.960 Get angry. Yeah of course, yeah exactly, New Jersey, New 400 00:18:45.039 --> 00:18:46.599 York is all the same. Yeah, I get it. 401 00:18:46.680 --> 00:18:51.319