Speaker 1: Let's say good morning now to the director of pr
Speaker 1: and Communications for Pasadena Humane, our friend Kevin McManus. Good morning, Kevin,
Speaker 1: Good morning Amy.
Speaker 2: How are you.
Speaker 1: I'm good. So we're getting ready to wiggle and waggle.
Speaker 1: So give us a little info on the Wiggle Waggle
Speaker 1: Walk and Run for Pasadena Humane.
Speaker 2: Well, it's our biggest fundraiser of the year and it's
Speaker 2: coming up April sixth at the Rose Bowl at Brookside Park.
Speaker 2: And it's just that wise, you know, it's just a
Speaker 2: really fun fun day to come out with your dog
Speaker 2: and support Pasadena Humane and have a great walk around
Speaker 2: the Rose Bowl and do all trends of other fun things.
Speaker 1: Okay, And so we know that we do this walk
Speaker 1: every year, and like you said, it's a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: There's food vendors and people you know, show off their pups,
Speaker 1: and there's costume contests and all that stuff. But behind that,
Speaker 1: we're raising money.
Speaker 2: And that's right.
Speaker 1: People are being bombarded for donations, you know, from kind
Speaker 1: of every angle. So let's talk about Pasadena Humane and
Speaker 1: what you do and why people should consider donating some
Speaker 1: of their hard earned money to pacading A Humane.
Speaker 2: Well, I think even eating fire certainly kind of shed
Speaker 2: a light to like probably a wider audience of the
Speaker 2: work that we do on a daily basis for the
Speaker 2: animals in our community, and you know that includes, you know,
Speaker 2: having a state of the art I see you for
Speaker 2: animals who came in during the fire, who were burnt,
Speaker 2: who we were able to provide them with care we're
Speaker 2: still reeling from, you know, the kind of the aftermath
Speaker 2: and still caring for a lot of pets that people
Speaker 2: who don't have homes to go back to. You know,
Speaker 2: we're basically kind of dog sitting for in a definite
Speaker 2: amount of period for some of these folks and other
Speaker 2: you know, just amazing things that we do on a
Speaker 2: daily basis, like our Spain Mouter clinics and our amazing
Speaker 2: foster program that's now being pushed to its limits as well.
Speaker 2: And we're on the verge of kitten seasons. So yeah,
Speaker 2: even though and certainly we've been among them asking for
Speaker 2: donations most recently, but this is our chance to kind
Speaker 2: of fund the programs that we do every day for
Speaker 2: the rest of the year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, in Pasadena, I think you're right that, like we've
Speaker 1: known about because we work with you, so we know
Speaker 1: about the great work that you guys do to take
Speaker 1: in animals, make sure they're healthy, check them out, and
Speaker 1: get them ready to get into their new homes. But
Speaker 1: then being inundated with you. It was more than a
Speaker 1: thousand animals that came in after the fires.
Speaker 2: Right right, Yeah, it was well twelve hundred through the shelter,
Speaker 2: but that it was really just a fraction of the
Speaker 2: ones we are caring for because of all the other
Speaker 2: work that we did out in the field in the
Speaker 2: burn area.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and we got to go. We came to visit
Speaker 1: and took some video and in fact it's on my
Speaker 1: Instagram at Amy K.
Speaker 2: King.
Speaker 1: You can see we go in and you're treating some
Speaker 1: of the animals and you can see there, you know,
Speaker 1: where they're burned and singed, and you guys are patiently
Speaker 1: like nursing them to help and making sure that they're
Speaker 1: you know, that they're ready for their owners when they
Speaker 1: come to get them or if they if they can't
Speaker 1: find the owners, that they're ready to find.
Speaker 2: A new home. That's right. Yeah, I mean we still
Speaker 2: have a couple of the burn victims who are still
Speaker 2: receiving care and hopefully Yeah, I mean I was talking
Speaker 2: to our chief veterinarian yesterday and she's saying, one of
Speaker 2: these poor cats who came in very early on in
Speaker 2: the fire like still needs a couple more surgeries before
Speaker 2: and thankfully we know who her her family is. But yeah,
Speaker 2: she's had a real, real long road, but hopefully soon
Speaker 2: it will be you know, back with her her loving family.
Speaker 1: And that's why Pacadata Humane is there. That's just one
Speaker 1: of the many things you do. Hey, if you don't
Speaker 1: have if a dog, can you still come walk?
Speaker 2: Oh of course please. And well if you're in the
Speaker 2: market for a dog, we're going to have some adoptable
Speaker 2: animals that are Wiggle Waggle Wagon which will be there.
Speaker 2: But you know, it's definitely if you like dogs, If
Speaker 2: you love dogs, it's a really fun day to come out,
Speaker 2: and we really want to, you know, even if you
Speaker 2: don't like come out and you know, hang out with us,
Speaker 2: come celebrate you know, our our shelter and all the
Speaker 2: hard work that we do. I'm in have a good
Speaker 2: day at the Rose Bowl.
Speaker 1: Absolutely again, it's April sixth, the Wiggle Waggle Walk. We
Speaker 1: have a team that you wake up call Wigglers. I'd
Speaker 1: love for you to join us and come walk with us,
Speaker 1: and you can do that. Sign up to either walk
Speaker 1: with us or to donate kf I am six forty
Speaker 1: dot com slash Wiggle and before I let you go,
Speaker 1: you have a I got an alert capacity in humane
Speaker 1: to find your four legged clover. You're doing.
Speaker 2: It's great adoption. That's one of my favorite times of
Speaker 2: the year, being you know, of Irish descent. So yeah,
Speaker 2: we're kind of well for big dogs and this is
Speaker 2: always a problem for us, but we see it even now.
Speaker 2: You know, we had such great luck with adoptions the
Speaker 2: first couple of weeks after we kind of restarted that,
Speaker 2: but we still have a lot of big dogs are
Speaker 2: looking for homes. And so if you're in market for
Speaker 2: a big dog this weekend, well from now until Tuesday,
Speaker 2: you can find your four legged clover and adoption fees
Speaker 2: are waived for any dog over forty pounds.
Speaker 1: I love it. Kevin McManus with Pasadena Human can't wait
Speaker 1: to see you at the Wiggle Waggle Walk on April six.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Thank you so much, Amy talking.
Speaker 1: We'll talk to you soon.