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Katie spoke with Lisa from PAWS Darwin about how to care for pets over Christmas · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: Joining me live on the line from paus Darwin. Lisa Hanson.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning to you, Lisa.
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  Speaker 2: Morning Katie, thanks for having as always.
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  Speaker 1: Good to have you on the show. And Lisa, we
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  Speaker 1: know that you know, as we get closer to Christmas,
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  Speaker 1: it's certainly an interesting time for pause and unfortunately, I
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  Speaker 1: would imagine sometimes the time where you do see more
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  Speaker 1: animals bought in.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, it's actually it's quite interesting. Sometimes people think that
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  Speaker 2: we're just sort of board their dogs or cats or
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  Speaker 2: something and just say, oh, I'm bringing it into boarding today, Like, well,
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  Speaker 2: we don't do boarding, so that's not going to work. Lisa,
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  Speaker 2: How are those be an interesting year? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: How are those numbers going at the moment? Do you
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  Speaker 1: have a lot of animals in there? At this point?
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  Speaker 2: We have five left that needs flustering for the Christmas break.
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  Speaker 2: We have three cats and two dogs. One of them
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  Speaker 2: is Cheaper the greyhound who saved our other little puppies
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  Speaker 2: live this week and are we really keen to hopefully
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  Speaker 2: get them out into foster over the over the Christmas period.
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  Speaker 1: You better tell us about Cooper, the the super dog.
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  Speaker 2: What happened so one of their little dog was really sick?
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  Speaker 2: Just aptly named Jingle. Little Gingle was very very ill.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know all the details of the story because
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  Speaker 2: it happened over the weekend and needed a blood transmision,
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  Speaker 2: and I don't know whether you know that greyhound's most
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  Speaker 2: greyhounds the universal Dannis, and so keeper gave up his
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  Speaker 2: blood for her and she recovered.
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  Speaker 1: So the road recovery wonderful. Cooper sounds like a wonderful,
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  Speaker 1: wonderful dog. And Cooper's currently looking for a foster home.
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  Speaker 2: He is, he is, He does have a little bit
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  Speaker 2: of skin isshues, so he just does need someone who
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  Speaker 2: can help him to look after that. But I other
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  Speaker 2: than that, he you know, he's an X racing greyhound
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  Speaker 2: and just need somewhere to just learn how to be
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  Speaker 2: a dog and hopefully to help him find it happy
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  Speaker 2: forever home.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I hope, So I hope that you know that
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  Speaker 1: somebody is able to, you know, to to do that, Lisa.
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  Speaker 1: Over the Christmas period, we do see as well that
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people sort of think, oh, maybe it's
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  Speaker 1: a good idea to give an animal as a Christmas present.
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  Speaker 1: You know, what's your advice to people ahead of Christmas
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  Speaker 1: if they are thinking about giving someone an animal.
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  Speaker 2: One to make sure that the recipient actually wants one
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  Speaker 2: is a is a good start.
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  Speaker 1: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: Two is that you know, if you're buying a puppy
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  Speaker 2: or something, make sure that they've vaccinated, make sure that
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  Speaker 2: they've had their health checks and things not. It's not
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  Speaker 2: just somebody that you've answered that ad in a newspaper,
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  Speaker 2: not that you can really do that nowadays, but or
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  Speaker 2: you've seen someone giving away puppies on Facebook or something.
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  Speaker 2: Make sure that you actually, you know, you know that
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  Speaker 2: the animal is healthy and that's been quarantined, because you know,
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  Speaker 2: PAVO on Christmas Day is the thing that happens often
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  Speaker 2: and you know, we don't we don't want to see
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  Speaker 2: that happen. Make sure that they come with some sort
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  Speaker 2: of a health fight through one of the shelters if
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  Speaker 2: you puppy, find them through the shelters you know, or
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  Speaker 2: through you know they're just the breeders who do all
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  Speaker 2: the right things. Don't just kick one up off the
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  Speaker 2: streets for Christmas. It's just scary when you think about
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  Speaker 2: you because not only ruins your Christmas, that means that
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  Speaker 2: you can't have another puppy in there ever, in that
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  Speaker 2: place you know. The other thing too, is that that
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  Speaker 2: remember that you know, especially little puppies and little kittens
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  Speaker 2: over Christmas, you know, they need everything's really busy. You
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  Speaker 2: can easily tread on. You can easily forget that they
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  Speaker 2: don't know where the food bowl is yet or the
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  Speaker 2: water bowl is yet. I know that kind of thing.
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  Speaker 2: So if you're buying a baby animal, make sure that
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  Speaker 2: you've got somewhere safe for them to be set up
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  Speaker 2: so that they don't get chipped over or they you know,
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  Speaker 2: if you're having a few drinks, they don't get to
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  Speaker 2: knock over a beer bottle and drink the beer or
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  Speaker 2: get into food or stuff that they shouldn't get into. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: there's a lot of Christmas food that can be quite
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  Speaker 2: dangerous for dogs of any type in any age.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, it's and you know, it seems like real
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  Speaker 1: common sense stuff, but it's very good advice, particularly for
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  Speaker 1: people who've maybe never had a puppy or a kitten before.
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  Speaker 1: So it is very good advice. Lisa, are you expecting
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  Speaker 1: or over the Christmas period? Not just for pause, but
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  Speaker 1: do you do you see sort of early in the
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  Speaker 1: New year as well, after Christmas, the number of animals
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  Speaker 1: going into shelters increase.
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  Speaker 2: It's probably more than three months mark afterwards, we think,
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  Speaker 2: because you you've still got them in that cute puppy
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  Speaker 2: stage mostly except for you know, or keeping stage. And
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  Speaker 2: it's when they're just a little bit older and they
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  Speaker 2: haven't been to public classes and they haven't had any training.
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  Speaker 2: You know, they haven't had any you know boundaries. Everybody's
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  Speaker 2: going back to work that get busier, so you know,
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  Speaker 2: they're just that little bit older. They're not quite as
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  Speaker 2: cute as they used to be. Kids are back at school.
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  Speaker 2: You know, that's kind of when you're going to see
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  Speaker 2: see those animals come back. I haven't been popularly soult
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  Speaker 2: of them and gone through all the processes and things properly.
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  Speaker 2: I know that people often say that, you know, you've
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  Speaker 2: got to jump through hoops to adopt an animal from
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  Speaker 2: the shelter or something, but you know, part of that
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  Speaker 2: process is making you think about all the things that
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  Speaker 2: you need to do, and it stops impulse buying. And
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  Speaker 2: that's that's our big message for Christmas. It's really easy
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  Speaker 2: to buy something on in public because the time always
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  Speaker 2: want to make everybody else happy to you, but you know,
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  Speaker 2: you don't go by.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, think about the long term, you know, think about
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  Speaker 1: how long you're going to have that responsibility for.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, ten to fifteen, twenty years. We know cats can
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  Speaker 2: live for twenty years. We know that, you know, some
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  Speaker 2: dogs can live for ten to fifteen years. The bigger
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  Speaker 2: dogs that we see a lot of up here, you know,
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  Speaker 2: usually about ten to twelve years. So there's a big commitment.
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  Speaker 2: It's not just stuff, and you do need taking the
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  Speaker 2: training and to do stuff with them that images their
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  Speaker 2: lives and makes them a good, happy, safe bet.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely well, Lisa, we appreciate your time this morning, and
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  Speaker 1: I hope that you have a lovely Christmas. I really
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  Speaker 1: hope that you are able to find foster homes for
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  Speaker 1: those five remaining animals at Pause, and particularly the greyhound.
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  Speaker 1: What was his name again, Cooper Cooper, He sounds like Jim.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we'd really love to see him get some somewhere
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  Speaker 2: for Christmas. It would be really nice to have him
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  Speaker 2: out in you know, learning to be living in a
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  Speaker 2: home be a fantastic thing for him.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, Lisa, thank you so much for having a chat
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  Speaker 1: with us, and and no doubt we'll talk to you
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  Speaker 1: again in the new year. Have a lovely Christmas and.
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  Speaker 2: You too, Katie, and thank you. You know, we really
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  Speaker 2: really really want to say Mere Christmas. So all of
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  Speaker 2: those people are and who support us so much through
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  Speaker 2: the year. Without you, you know, we wouldn't have father
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  Speaker 2: animals in the shelter. We'd have so many more. And
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  Speaker 2: you've helped all of us to fill the Christmas spirit
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  Speaker 2: this year, and so thank you and thank you for
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  Speaker 2: your support as well, Katie.
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  Speaker 1: Anytime I think you guys do a wonderful job. Lisa,
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  Speaker 1: thank you so much. We'll talk to you again in.
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  Speaker 2: The new year, no worry. Thanks Katie.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks