Speaker 1: It's Maria's MutS and Stuff.
Speaker 2: What a great idea on iHeartRadio.
Speaker 1: Welcome to Maria's Mutts and Stuff. And with me is
Speaker 1: Heather Johnson and she has beach Dog Rescue but it's
Speaker 1: in Mexico.
Speaker 3: Very cool. So Heather, Hi, it's nice to officially meet you.
Speaker 2: Hi. You too, Thanks for having me. I'm so excited.
Speaker 3: Oh me too. Okay, So let's talk about this.
Speaker 1: So you originally are from New Jersey and then you
Speaker 1: moved to Mexico twenty sixteen, is that correct?
Speaker 2: We did. We were on vy like I don't know,
Speaker 2: one hundred years ago in Cancun.
Speaker 3: Uh huh.
Speaker 2: I thought like, we live in Mexico one day, that'd
Speaker 2: be so cool, and so we started planning and now
Speaker 2: we are here.
Speaker 3: Wow. Okay.
Speaker 1: So when you first got to Mexico, as this is
Speaker 1: going to be our residence, did you have the plan
Speaker 1: of doing a rescue or that just came about from
Speaker 1: living there?
Speaker 2: It just happened. When I was in New Jersey, I
Speaker 2: was volunteering with the rescue in New York City, so
Speaker 2: I had some rescue experience and always been in my
Speaker 2: heart and I have loved them. And when we got
Speaker 2: to Mexico. On one of our trips to visit the
Speaker 2: house that we were building on this remote stretch of beach,
Speaker 2: I saw this dog. His name was Pinto. Like the
Speaker 2: whole rescue was kind of for him, and he was
Speaker 2: just skin and bones, and I guess he was attracted
Speaker 2: like the people that were building the house, they were
Speaker 2: camping there, so I guess he was attracted to the
Speaker 2: small the food cooking on like the campfire, and he
Speaker 2: just started hanging around. And you know, the first time
Speaker 2: I saw him, like, I died. He was so skinny
Speaker 2: and I'd never seen a dog before, so it just
Speaker 2: happened like I took him to the vet. He ended
Speaker 2: up dying, because yeah, I know, But anyway, that just
Speaker 2: kind of like.
Speaker 1: So, yeah, he inspired you, that started it. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: and you tried, so I mean, unfortunately he died, but
Speaker 1: I'm sure he lived a little bit longer because of
Speaker 1: you finding him and trying to help him. So just
Speaker 1: you know remember that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know there's a lot of those along the way,
Speaker 2: but yeah, sure, it's just like for him. So every
Speaker 2: day I'm kind of like thinking of that little dog,
Speaker 2: And it was just so interesting because like it struck
Speaker 2: me he was nobody's dog.
Speaker 3: Huh.
Speaker 2: You didn't have anyone. He was just like this little
Speaker 2: lost soul, right.
Speaker 3: That was powerful, of course, of course.
Speaker 1: So now okay, so once that got started, so how
Speaker 1: I'm sure it was much more difficult to start a
Speaker 1: rescue because it was a different country, right, other than
Speaker 1: being used to living in the States.
Speaker 3: So walk us through it, like, how did you start?
Speaker 3: Like what did you do?
Speaker 1: Because to me, just the thought of it is like
Speaker 1: like overwhelming.
Speaker 3: But where do you start?
Speaker 2: We just started just bringing dogs into our house. We
Speaker 2: lived on this little like remote area of beach. It
Speaker 2: was just kind of us and like a lot of
Speaker 2: fishermen and you know, there were just a lot of
Speaker 2: dogs on the beach. So we just started bringing them
Speaker 2: into our house. Like we weren't set up as a few,
Speaker 2: We didn't have any infrastructure, like you know, we had
Speaker 2: dogs in quarantine, like in our bathroom and on our
Speaker 2: like balcony upstairs.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: It was like every time I left the house, there'd
Speaker 2: be like this skinny starting dog. So I just kept
Speaker 2: kind of you know, piling them. And it's much easier
Speaker 2: to bring the dogs in than it is to get
Speaker 2: them out. So my next plan was like, Okay, we
Speaker 2: need to get these dogs adopted. So that was you know,
Speaker 2: over time, it has just grown and figured stuff out
Speaker 2: along the way.
Speaker 3: But so now is is it still in your house?
Speaker 2: We actually moved from the beach because time I think
Speaker 2: we had like thirty dogs in our living room.
Speaker 1: Oh goodness, yeah, it's not funny, but it is funny.
Speaker 2: Oh it's terrible and funny. So yes, there was this
Speaker 2: dog that we had and she came in and she
Speaker 2: was really pregnant, and she started like breathing really hard.
Speaker 2: I was like, what's wrong with this dog? Like, I
Speaker 2: don't know. So then she started having her puppies. I
Speaker 2: didn't know anything about like puppies, so she would have them.
Speaker 2: She's like sitting on my lap, like having puppies. She
Speaker 2: would only sit on my lap. And the first puppy
Speaker 2: that came out, I guess you're supposed to like chew
Speaker 2: the cord and do all these you know, mom dog things.
Speaker 2: She has no idea. So she's like turboing around the
Speaker 2: living room and this puppy is like piling behind her.
Speaker 2: My husband's like dying because there's like blood everywhere.
Speaker 1: Of course, it looks like a murder scene. But it's
Speaker 1: a dog having puppies, right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but she like runs upstairs. I'm looking for like
Speaker 2: dental floss and scissors to fix this situation.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, Oh my god.
Speaker 1: I give you so much credit because it's probably like
Speaker 1: it was a huge learning experience too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I had no idea what I was doing. I
Speaker 2: just thought I was going to, you know, bring a
Speaker 2: few dogs at the beach, and I was saving the
Speaker 2: whole world, right. Well, a couple of years ago we
Speaker 2: left the beach to buy a farm in Yucatan State
Speaker 2: that we have like a proper we have an actual
Speaker 2: sanctuary set up outside of our house with you know
Speaker 2: this great like dog park area so it's more structured
Speaker 2: so we don't have to have thirty dogs in our
Speaker 2: living room. There's only like dogs living in here.
Speaker 3: Now I'm sorry, I'm sorry, you cut out. There are
Speaker 3: only how many? How many are in your living room?
Speaker 2: There's only twenty one? Now?
Speaker 1: Oh okay, all right, this is still look good. It's
Speaker 1: still an amazing number, like pretty large, but okay, all right,
Speaker 1: others are gonna say they're only two because then you
Speaker 1: cut out and I was like, oh what twenty one Okay,
Speaker 1: there's only.
Speaker 2: Twenty, not like a whole bunch more outside, but yeah.
Speaker 1: Right, right, right, okay, And I assume beside you and
Speaker 1: your husband, because it sounds like it's a lot of work,
Speaker 1: you have volunteers, local volunteers helping you out.
Speaker 2: We actually don't because we live super far society.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 2: So we're off the grid. We're in like a three
Speaker 2: hundred and fifty year old excacienda and it's just literally
Speaker 2: in the middle of nowhere, which is by design. We
Speaker 2: had neighbors, they would murder.
Speaker 3: Us, right because of the barking and everything else. I
Speaker 3: get it. No, I get I get it.
Speaker 1: And not everybody loves animals unfortunately, right, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: I get that.
Speaker 1: So wow, wow, like this is it's not I shouldn't
Speaker 1: say it's not completely different, but it's very different.
Speaker 3: I can't imagine how the two of you do all this,
Speaker 3: that's all. That's a lot to do.
Speaker 2: It's a lot to do. We have a farm manager.
Speaker 2: Her name is Carla. She lives on the property in
Speaker 2: a little studio apartment. So she helps with the dogs
Speaker 2: and the sheep, and we had some rescue pigs and
Speaker 2: we had a really mean rooster. We just got him
Speaker 2: adopted though Coolio street. Hell, it was like terrible?
Speaker 3: Why was okay?
Speaker 1: I know I don't know a lot about roosters, but
Speaker 1: why what made him mean?
Speaker 2: Was he just like, no, no, I think roosters are
Speaker 2: just mean.
Speaker 3: Oh wait, you cut out again. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: He just wanted to do it all the time, he said,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry murder. Oh I see like other smaller fowls
Speaker 1: or something, or.
Speaker 3: He just he was just mean me people everyone, Oh
Speaker 3: my goodness.
Speaker 1: Okay, but he but he got adopted. So obviously somebody
Speaker 1: is a fan of mean.
Speaker 3: Roosters, so that's good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, So how do you get the word out
Speaker 1: to people? Like do people who are and I and
Speaker 1: I'm trying to kind of picture it, like people are
Speaker 1: aware who are neighbors, but if you have neighbors who
Speaker 1: are far away that they're aware of the sanctuary and
Speaker 1: so they if they are thinking of adopting an animal,
Speaker 1: Like how okay, So you said you had pigs and
Speaker 1: cheap and you have dogs.
Speaker 3: Do you have like is that it? Do you have more?
Speaker 2: I mean that's a lot, but we have some cats too,
Speaker 2: but mostly the rescue, mostly the dogs.
Speaker 3: Mostly we.
Speaker 2: Have rescue partners in New York and like Toronto, a
Speaker 2: lot of my adoptions, most of my adoptions are international.
Speaker 2: It's just easier that way when we can with local homes.
Speaker 2: But it's a bit tricky finding homes here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I get it.
Speaker 2: The people that really love the animals, they already have
Speaker 2: a ton so.
Speaker 3: Right right, right, right right, And I guess.
Speaker 1: So you, I guess go through your area where you are,
Speaker 1: and you find strays and take them in.
Speaker 3: Is that how that works too?
Speaker 2: They're just kind of everywhere. I mean, we have a
Speaker 2: limited number of so I try to keep it to
Speaker 2: the animals that are like really at risk. A lot
Speaker 2: of times it's just so different here, Like a lot
Speaker 2: of times a dog will get hit by a car
Speaker 2: or like we have a dog now, who is someone
Speaker 2: cut his paw off with a machete And there's no
Speaker 2: there's no govern meant to call it. In the US,
Speaker 2: you know it happen if you see a job somewhere,
Speaker 2: so we get it hit, you know, you call, someone
Speaker 2: comes and it's done. Their Bonabu, SPCA or the Humane
Speaker 2: Society or rescue is coming, right, But here, like the police,
Speaker 2: it's not their job, right, There's no there's no government,
Speaker 2: so it's just very different. So sometimes we don't show
Speaker 2: up so many of these things. You know, there was
Speaker 2: a situation we just had where a dog was hit
Speaker 2: by a car and she was on the side of
Speaker 2: the road for three days, oh my god, before we
Speaker 2: could get to her. So it's just like such a
Speaker 2: different world here.
Speaker 3: I'm sure it sounds like it. I mean, we're kind
Speaker 3: of spoiled right now.
Speaker 1: We are anyway, We're pretty spoiled in the States with
Speaker 1: how things are with you know, animal rights and who
Speaker 1: to call and who to get help from.
Speaker 3: Which yeah, yeah, it's different, yeah.
Speaker 2: Right, I mean, I know you guys struggle the same way, right.
Speaker 1: But it's but I mean, but you know, from living here,
Speaker 1: it's just different. You're right, Like if if you found
Speaker 1: a dog with its paul, you know, Michelle Off, not
Speaker 1: only would you know, it would be on every single
Speaker 1: local news because it would be it's such an outrageous thing.
Speaker 2: Right, and someone's going to probably go to jail over.
Speaker 3: It and get fine.
Speaker 2: But here, yeah, here, it's not. I mean, it's terrible,
Speaker 2: and you know, local people get really mad. But the
Speaker 2: government is not looking into this. You know, they're not
Speaker 2: putting police resources on this right, just the thing that happened,
Speaker 2: and it's up to like individual rescuers like me to
Speaker 2: fix it right right?
Speaker 3: And are there other rescuers like you like around that you.
Speaker 2: Are? M yeah, you know the Yucatan Peninsula, it's a
Speaker 2: huge area, you know, Mereda, Cancun, Piazzo, Carmen Halloom, all
Speaker 2: these places. You know, there's probably a rescue or two
Speaker 2: or three in each place. But the amount of animal,
Speaker 2: you know, it's more than we can ever possibly keep
Speaker 2: up with.
Speaker 1: Sure, No, of course, I'm sure because it's not like
Speaker 1: the dogs and the cats are being spade and neutered
Speaker 1: so right right, which brings me to you however, exactly
Speaker 1: that's something that you guys do.
Speaker 3: And I just what was the number? I just saw?
Speaker 1: It was like over is it eight thousand so far?
Speaker 1: Eight thousand and forty as of right now? Over eight thousand.
Speaker 2: Correct, eight fifty one fifty one.
Speaker 1: Wow, that that actually went up in like a few
Speaker 1: like a day, which is amazing. So eight thousand fifty
Speaker 1: one spay and neuters. Congratulations, that's pretty spectacular.
Speaker 2: I remember when we did our first campaign, we did
Speaker 2: eleven in our in our dining room, dining room table,
Speaker 2: and I thought, like we just solved the world problem
Speaker 2: of homeless tests.
Speaker 1: But well, yeah, but you know, and I always know
Speaker 1: that there's because over the years, and we've all seen
Speaker 1: it over the years, it's like if you don't you know,
Speaker 1: if you don't spay one female, that female can have
Speaker 1: and there's always these like crazy numbers, and I never
Speaker 1: you know, and then you forget about it. But I
Speaker 1: know on the press release I have on you on
Speaker 1: your organization, the Humane Society estimates that one unspayed female
Speaker 1: dog in her offspring can produce.
Speaker 3: Eleven and sixty seven puppies per year. Like that's insanity,
Speaker 3: it's mind boggling, it is. It has to change. Yeah, no,
Speaker 3: you're absolutely right. People.
Speaker 1: I mean, I know people who don't neuter their dog
Speaker 1: because they think and it's usually a guy. Oh, I
Speaker 1: can't newt my dog because I wouldn't want to be neutered.
Speaker 1: We're not talking about you, we're talking about your dog.
Speaker 2: Yes, always the guy.
Speaker 3: I know.
Speaker 2: I started doing this. I was like driving up and
Speaker 2: down the beach, like begging fishermen to let me like
Speaker 2: neuter their dogs. And maybe it was my ad Spanish
Speaker 2: at the time, but they were just like, oh my.
Speaker 3: God, yeah, like horrified that you yeah exist.
Speaker 2: I'm not trying to neuter you exactly, maybe we can,
Speaker 2: but right right, but little like people are really starting
Speaker 2: to wrap their brains around this. And when we do
Speaker 2: like campaigns, you know, they're selling up, like the registration
Speaker 2: there's waiting list, and it's like it's so cool to
Speaker 2: see that people are starting to understand how good this is.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, for sure, like it's catching on. So do
Speaker 1: you have local vets who come and help you with that?
Speaker 2: We do. We have a couple of different bets. We
Speaker 2: do big campaigns. There's a group from Mexico City that
Speaker 2: flies in and we work with them and they come in.
Speaker 2: We're actually doing a campaign next month with the goal
Speaker 2: is eight hundred sterilizations. These big campaigns and what we
Speaker 2: do is we fund you know, fifty or seventy five
Speaker 2: percent of it so that we can keep the cost
Speaker 2: really low but still let people contribute so you know,
Speaker 2: they can take some press in their pets things like that.
Speaker 2: And we also do really tiny campaigns you know in
Speaker 2: small villages and sometimes we just you know, find animals
Speaker 2: on the street and do a spay neoter and give
Speaker 2: them a temporary home and you know, try to put
Speaker 2: them back on the street with supervision. Right, we kind
Speaker 2: of trying to hit it from like different angles.
Speaker 1: Sure, I feel like that we need to see like
Speaker 1: a dog, Like we need to have a TV show
Speaker 1: follow you around, Gil, right that your husband, Heather and Gill.
Speaker 1: We need like a TV show to come down and
Speaker 1: because you know, like animal Blandet, this would be like
Speaker 1: a perfect thing, you know, Beach Dog Rescue with Heather
Speaker 1: and Gill and follow you around and people could see like,
Speaker 1: oh my goodness, it's so different down here, but wow,
Speaker 1: it's Yeah, like.
Speaker 2: The last time we were in this village doing this
Speaker 2: little campaign, there was this female dog and she was
Speaker 2: in heat and there was like two male dogs chasing
Speaker 2: her and she was kind of running away, and then
Speaker 2: another dog in and you know, she was kind of
Speaker 2: running around the block with a small village and like
Speaker 2: by the you know, ten minutes later, there was like
Speaker 2: nine dogs chasing her. And now I'm chasing her because
Speaker 2: I'm trying to get her away from this and now
Speaker 2: she's running for me and she's running from these dogs.
Speaker 2: And we just need to stay in uter all of
Speaker 2: these animal.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what I mean, do what wound up happening with that?
Speaker 1: Did you finally get her? Did she get away?
Speaker 2: He got away?
Speaker 3: Oh? Good, okay, poor girl, Oh my goodness.
Speaker 2: I know, I know. It's just like I've seen things
Speaker 2: here that are just my bottling.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you can, Unsea, I'm sure. I'm sure.
Speaker 1: Do you and Gil ever sleep? Because it sounds like
Speaker 1: I don't know how you can or do you? I mean,
Speaker 1: do you ever get some sleep?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: So when I built this, when we moved in here,
Speaker 2: I built, you know, the sanctuary, like fifty feet from
Speaker 2: our bedroom. With hindsight, it should have been a little further, okay.
Speaker 3: Because you hear it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, all right, it kind of could be like, yeah,
Speaker 1: like a lullaby maybe, but yeah, okay, so we tried
Speaker 1: to sleep.
Speaker 2: Doesn't always happen right right right now.
Speaker 1: But I just feel like you're probably you probably by
Speaker 1: the time you like feed all of them and then
Speaker 1: you get them ready for bed and then you know
Speaker 1: it's morning. I just feel like it's probably like a
Speaker 1: day in your life is probably NonStop.
Speaker 3: It sounds like it's amazing.
Speaker 2: Me cleaning up poop and cursing.
Speaker 3: I feel it poop and cursing.
Speaker 1: That could be the name of the television show I
Speaker 1: love it, Poop and Cursing with Heather.
Speaker 2: Well, okay, it looks cute like I'm hosting cute videos
Speaker 2: and dogs, but it's mostly just me freaking out, like
Speaker 2: what's going on here and right? But it's a lot
Speaker 2: of it's a lot of cleaning and cooking and seating
Speaker 2: and medicating. Right now, we have this little pit bull
Speaker 2: named Annie. She was I founder in a little village
Speaker 2: and she was paralyzed like her two. We aren't working,
Speaker 2: so we're doing therapy and I bring her in the
Speaker 2: pool every day and we swim and she's you know,
Speaker 2: she's starting to move again.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, that's amazing. That's so cool. I mean
Speaker 3: that makes me so.
Speaker 1: I think when you do sleep, you sleep well at night,
Speaker 1: because that has to make you feel really good.
Speaker 2: It does. Yeah, I love it I'm doing. I hate
Speaker 2: that I have to do it, but I'm glad that
Speaker 2: I get to be her doing this.
Speaker 1: Right. Well, did you ever think now you moved twenty sixteen,
Speaker 1: so that's nine nine years ago, did you ever think
Speaker 1: this is what you would be doing nine years from
Speaker 1: when you decided let's just go down to Mexico permanently.
Speaker 3: Did you think this is what you would be doing?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: I thought I was going to read books and sit
Speaker 2: a hammock and do like lacking right, right, But this.
Speaker 1: Is probably relaxing in its way, because it's that old
Speaker 1: Dewey you love and love what you do, and obviously
Speaker 1: you love this and you're doing and you're doing a
Speaker 1: lot of good deeds in the world, you know, a
Speaker 1: lot of good karmam coming out.
Speaker 3: Oh God, yes, absolutely.
Speaker 2: This morning. I got a picture this morning. One of
Speaker 2: the dogs I just sent to Canada a couple of
Speaker 2: weeks ago, was a foster fail. And I got a
Speaker 2: picture of the dog and the couch and a note
Speaker 2: saying like, we can't possibly live our lives without this dog.
Speaker 2: It's the best thing that ever happened to us. And
Speaker 2: you know, I found the dog chained up to a
Speaker 2: cinder block, you know, as a puppy like in bones,
Speaker 2: and it's you know, a lot goes on between, like
Speaker 2: the rescue and the adoption, but people, it's just so beautiful.
Speaker 3: It is beautiful, but people are just awful, like who
Speaker 3: would do that?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 1: I I that's I always have a problem wrapping my
Speaker 1: head around who would leave? You know, Like I remember
Speaker 1: when the hurricanes down south and somebody left, and I
Speaker 1: mean it went viral.
Speaker 3: Somebody left a dog tied to the to a fence.
Speaker 1: Like, oh, yeah, because he'll be able to survive, Like
Speaker 1: why would you do that?
Speaker 3: Like what is wrong with people?
Speaker 1: I just and I'm sure you see it ten times
Speaker 1: what I'm seeing or think, and I just don't get it.
Speaker 2: I know some people, like I used to get mad
Speaker 2: because I'm from New Jersey, so my like my go
Speaker 2: to emotion is yeah.
Speaker 1: Get angry. Yeah of course, yeah exactly, New Jersey, New
Speaker 1: York is all the same. Yeah, I get it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, uh huh huh. But now like I understand more.
Speaker 2: It's it's a different culture, it's generations, it's education. It's
Speaker 2: a lot of poverty here. Like I feel like some
Speaker 2: people don't know. Some people are terrible, and you know,
Speaker 2: there's monsters everywhere.
Speaker 3: Right, but mostly it's ignorance probably.
Speaker 2: I think it is like I know when we do
Speaker 2: like community outreach and we go into a town and
Speaker 2: you know, start working with them and they and you know,
Speaker 2: I go into these little towns and I hand out
Speaker 2: tea wormer and frontline, Like, people bring their dogs to
Speaker 2: me they want help. Sure, they just didn't you know.
Speaker 2: Sometimes they don't know what's available, they don't know how
Speaker 2: to you know, when they pour mange on their dogs,
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, when they pour oil on their dogs to
Speaker 2: try to treat mange they think they're having but they
Speaker 2: don't know.
Speaker 3: Right of course. No, you're right.
Speaker 1: It's ignorance and you know, and not their fault. They
Speaker 1: just don't know any better.
Speaker 2: But some people are terrible, yes, right, there is.
Speaker 1: There is definitely a portion of the popularity, and those
Speaker 1: people are just terrible. Yes, And all the terrible things
Speaker 1: that they do to animals need to happen back on them,
Speaker 1: just because karma has to come around at some point
Speaker 1: or another, I think.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So okay, So, if someone who's listening right now is
Speaker 1: really interested because this is very interesting and they want
Speaker 1: to adopt a pet from you, is it best to
Speaker 1: go to your Facebook page Instagram? Like, what's the best
Speaker 1: way for them?
Speaker 2: They can go to my website okay dot org okay,
Speaker 2: or they can email me. It's Beach Drug Rescue dot org.
Speaker 2: There's a contact button. Most of my adoptions are through
Speaker 2: other rescues. Just logistically, it's hard to adopt directly. Sure,
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm totally open to it, but the person
Speaker 2: would have to fly here, and that's kind of a
Speaker 2: lot for some people.
Speaker 3: Of course, No, that makes sense.
Speaker 1: So probably more important, uh than adopting one of your animals.
Speaker 1: The most important thing, and it's what you survive on,
Speaker 1: is donations, correct.
Speaker 2: Right, Financial support is huge, huge, right.
Speaker 1: I mean you're you're five oh one c three So
Speaker 1: you're a nonprofit are Yeah? So you survive by I
Speaker 1: don't know, by donations from people, correct.
Speaker 2: One hundred percent. It's just so different here, Like I
Speaker 2: can't have an Amazon wish list because we live, you know,
Speaker 2: in the middle of the woods, and we have no
Speaker 2: mailing address.
Speaker 3: Oh boy, that's so that's so, that's so wrong.
Speaker 1: I'm Amazon, of all people should be able to figure
Speaker 1: that out.
Speaker 2: I know. There's no sign we have like this unnamed
Speaker 2: road we're on solar in the middle of the jungle. Yes,
Speaker 2: it's kind of cool except for the scorpions and spiders,
Speaker 2: but other than that, Okay, I love.
Speaker 1: It all right, excuse me, Okay, the scorpions and the spiders. Okay,
Speaker 1: we're going to add that to that script. But Okay,
Speaker 1: that's not the main part, and not are there many
Speaker 1: scorpions are just.
Speaker 2: Once in a while it happens more than it should. Okay,
Speaker 2: I try to understand that I'm on it's their terms.
Speaker 2: I'm in the jungle. But right, no, of course, So yeah,
Speaker 2: financial support is what we desperately need to keep running
Speaker 2: the outreach and the Spain Uter campaigns. And a couple
Speaker 2: of years ago, like I I was driving and I
Speaker 2: saw these kids throwing rocks at this jog and of
Speaker 2: course I stop. You know, I'm trying to negotiate the
Speaker 2: release of this dog. It's like a hostage situation, and
Speaker 2: right the owners are like, yeah, you can take it,
Speaker 2: and you know, this little eight year old is like, no,
Speaker 2: it's my dog, and you know, he's like he's being
Speaker 2: horrible to this animal, and he's covered in me so
Speaker 2: down negotiating with his eight year old. So I ended up,
Speaker 2: you know, having to bribe the kid. I need this dog.
Speaker 2: I have a lot of money for this job, so
Speaker 2: sometimes donations go for stuff like that.
Speaker 1: Sure, yeah, negotiating with an eight year old who's being
Speaker 1: a jerk, but okay, it makes sense.
Speaker 3: No, but at least at least you got your way
Speaker 3: and you got the dog rescued.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and now she lives in Canada and she's so happy.
Speaker 3: Ah, that's wonderful.
Speaker 1: And you made that happen. So that's really cool. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's really cool, so I guess. And the best I
Speaker 1: also would be through your website to make a donation
Speaker 1: Beach Dog Rescue dot org.
Speaker 3: Is that correct?
Speaker 1: Ye? Yes, all right, well this I'm fascinated by your story.
Speaker 1: I'm fascinated by you. I really think we need cameras
Speaker 1: to make a TV show. You never know, right, somebody
Speaker 1: could be listening and say, well that this would.
Speaker 3: Be really cool. But you know that would be funny.
Speaker 3: I would love that. That would be really cool. You
Speaker 3: never know. You just never know who's listening. I know,
Speaker 3: be great.
Speaker 1: But Heather Johnson and Gil Johnson and Beach Dog Rescue
Speaker 1: in Mexico keep doing what you do because I know
Speaker 1: Will Mexico needs you.
Speaker 3: We need you.
Speaker 1: People who love animals need you to keep doing this.
Speaker 1: And for those who have some money they'd like to
Speaker 1: make a donation. It's a five oh one C three
Speaker 1: And as you could hear, you know what Heather's been
Speaker 1: talking about. It's going to go to help the animals
Speaker 1: on the sanctuary. It's going to help them feed the animals,
Speaker 1: clean up the animals, get more animals, and ultimately hopefully
Speaker 1: get animals adopted as well as neutered and spade two
Speaker 1: so Beachdog Rescue dot org. Well, Heather, thank you, thanks
Speaker 1: for your time and for doing what you do.
Speaker 2: Thanks Marie, I appreciate it.
Speaker 3: Segator