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Katie Woolf spoke with Lisa from Paws Darwin · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: Three sixty with Katie Wolf. Join the conversation with Katie Wolf.
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  Speaker 2: You are our eyes and ears in the.
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  Speaker 1: Territory Mix one oh four point nine. Well, there's always
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  Speaker 1: plenty of things happening around the territory, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: I love it when animals coming into the studio, and
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  Speaker 1: this morning, I've got two beautiful dogs in here, Bee
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  Speaker 1: and Piper, but they're also joined by the wonderful crew
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  Speaker 1: from Pause.
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  Speaker 2: How are you, Lisa, I'm good, Thank you, Katie hearing
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  Speaker 2: I'm even better now that you brought puppies in as well.
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  Speaker 1: That's good.
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  Speaker 2: That's good because that's what bees in training to do,
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  Speaker 2: make people feel better.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, so tell me a bit about Bee.
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  Speaker 2: So she's a cocker spaniel. Hopefully she's not going to
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  Speaker 2: disgrace me over there now. She's so her job is
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  Speaker 2: as a she's in training to be a therapy dog.
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  Speaker 2: So she goes out and be's nice to people. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's going to play with her and new puddle her.
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  Speaker 1: And is that what a therapy dog sort of does.
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  Speaker 1: They try not calm people down as well.
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  Speaker 2: Well, there's there's a couple of Obviously with our Heart
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  Speaker 2: Dog program, we're doing service dogs and essays at the moment.
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  Speaker 2: And but the therapy dog mixes with lots of people,
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  Speaker 2: whereas a service dog will be focused on their kindler
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  Speaker 2: for whatever Harala might have. So, yeah, so she's going
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  Speaker 2: on her first school visit tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: That's fantastic and the kids just.
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  Speaker 2: Love that they do.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, now what about Piper.
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  Speaker 2: So Piper is a service dog, so she works with
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  Speaker 2: her handler who has some anxiety issues and that kind
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  Speaker 2: of thing. So so really what she does is that
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  Speaker 2: she gives her handler an opportunity to focus on something
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  Speaker 2: that's less stressful.
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  Speaker 1: It's so wonderful. Like I just think animals are so
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  Speaker 1: wonderful for so many reasons. But then when you sort
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  Speaker 1: of look at those different ways that you know that
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  Speaker 1: they can assist people in, you know, in so many ways,
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  Speaker 1: it's pretty phenomenal, really.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, And the assistance dogs do even more than that,
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  Speaker 2: you know. I mean, we know about the guide dogs
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  Speaker 2: and stuff, but you know, there's a lot more emotional
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  Speaker 2: support animals out there now, and they can do things
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  Speaker 2: like behavior interruption and stop the behavior from escalating. And
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  Speaker 2: I was told a story recently of a guy who
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  Speaker 2: adopted this great, big, ugly dog that was huge but
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  Speaker 2: when he wasn't coping very well, he get really vague,
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  Speaker 2: and then he'd run. So he learned to then go
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  Speaker 2: and sit down against a wall and the dog would
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  Speaker 2: sit on him. And he couldn't actually get the dog
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  Speaker 2: to move while he was in a vague state, So
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  Speaker 2: therefore he didn't get run and hurt himself or get
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  Speaker 2: tripped over or god get lost. So yeah, and then
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  Speaker 2: so then he had to be composed to get the
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  Speaker 2: dog to remove himself.
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  Speaker 1: Phenomenal, really, you know. I mean I think that all
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  Speaker 1: are so smart, but dogs are just exceptional.
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  Speaker 2: They are. And I mean what home would be home
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  Speaker 2: without a dog? I everybody can.
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  Speaker 1: Have as Yeah, yeah, that's right. Oh. I just love
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  Speaker 1: animals and I love it when they come into the studio.
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  Speaker 1: Now you are actually here because this weekend is the
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  Speaker 1: big birthday bash for Pause. How long have you been opened?
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  Speaker 2: Well that Pause, Darwin Mark too? Yeah, nine years? Oh wow,
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  Speaker 2: so it's our ninth it's our ninth birthday, so it's
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  Speaker 2: not worst celebrating it really is. It's been a big journey.
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  Speaker 1: It has been a big journey for Pause, and I
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  Speaker 1: know that it's probably not always been easy along the way,
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  Speaker 1: but you guys do so much to help the Northern
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  Speaker 1: Territories animals and to save them in many cases.
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  Speaker 2: We we do. We we're a good organization and we're
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  Speaker 2: just only a little local organization. Everything that we get
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  Speaker 2: and do is in our community. Now with the vet Clinic,
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  Speaker 2: we're able to do even more with the So part
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  Speaker 2: of our birthday bash on Saturday is free dentals for
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  Speaker 2: your cats and dogs. Can bring them down. Just make
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  Speaker 2: sure your cats in a you know, crate or something
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  Speaker 2: if you're bringing it, you know, but these are We
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  Speaker 2: do low income services for people with pets all the time,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and try to keep them in their homes.
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  Speaker 2: And even though you know we look people look on
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  Speaker 2: us as an animal care thing, we're actually about the
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  Speaker 2: people too. So we do try to educate and we
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  Speaker 2: do try to support and facilitate people being able to
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  Speaker 2: be you know, manage their pets and pets and not
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  Speaker 2: have to give them up if they're in emergency situations.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely no, Lisa, where can people? Where is the event
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  Speaker 1: happening on the weekend.
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  Speaker 2: So it's on Saturday. It's at the shelter, which is
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  Speaker 2: seventy seven when Alley Road Winelli. We have a mini marker.
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  Speaker 2: There's lots of dog products their stalls that have you know,
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  Speaker 2: from everything from dog cheaps to bandannas to whatever. There's
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  Speaker 2: a bit of kids entertainment. The therapy dogs will be
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  Speaker 2: there for cuddles as well and information and the free
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  Speaker 2: vetch X and you can find out more on our
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  Speaker 2: Facebook page or you can go to our website www
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  Speaker 2: dot paus Darwin dot org.
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  Speaker 1: Good on you, well, it's wonderful to see you as
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  Speaker 1: always and that is happening this weekend ten until one
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  Speaker 1: on Saturday. Good on you, Lisa, nine.
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  Speaker 2: Years, nine years. It's been a tough nine years, but you.
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  Speaker 1: Do wonderful work out there. You know, you do wonderful
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  Speaker 1: work and I know that that a lot of the time.
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  Speaker 1: It's not with a huge amount of funding, all resourcing
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  Speaker 1: and what you do is fantastic.
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  Speaker 2: We spend our money wisely. Yeah, well we'll try to anyway.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely well, lovely to talk to you this morning, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to take a short break so I can
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  Speaker 1: go and cuddle the dogs. You are listening to Mix
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