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Dog Mom's Reunite: Bark A Spark of Hope · Inside The Moms Club

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  Speaker 1: Welcome, moms. Welcome to Inside the Mom's Club. I'm your
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  Speaker 1: host Monica Samuels, and I'm here with my lovely co host,
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  Speaker 1: Julie Orchid.
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  Speaker 2: Hi Julie.
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  Speaker 1: While it's been a while, it's we've been on a
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  Speaker 1: little hiatus here as we travel around, especially Julie. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: really been traveling. It's hard to keep up with you.
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  Speaker 2: But the summer has been a hot one.
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  Speaker 1: It has been. We have been super busy. But we're
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  Speaker 1: glad to be back, and in fact, we are in
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  Speaker 1: a new studio. It's so this is yeah pretty, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: this is.
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  Speaker 2: My favorite color. There is not feeling it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel so relaxed here. It's really it's really
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  Speaker 1: super well. The thing that you pointed out to me
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  Speaker 1: as we were in the new studio is that they
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  Speaker 1: would see our feet, so you ran across the street
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  Speaker 1: this but oh well but yeah, but today, because of
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  Speaker 1: the show we're doing, I am wearing my animal my
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  Speaker 1: dog rescue shoes.
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  Speaker 2: I hope we get a shot of that because those
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  Speaker 2: are the cutest are darn there? Did you buy me
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  Speaker 2: a parent?
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  Speaker 1: I can? They're from Sketchers, and Bob is called Bobs.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. They donate money for.
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  Speaker 2: They're absolutely adorable. So now I'm a big fan.
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  Speaker 1: I love them.
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  Speaker 3: I mean I have a doggy raincoat, so I think
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  Speaker 3: I kind of need the tennis shoes.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. They also make them for cat lovers, which I'm a.
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  Speaker 2: Dog lover all right. Do they have any ferrot.
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  Speaker 1: No, but if they come up with a ferret shoe,
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  Speaker 1: I'll definitely get you one because I know you loved
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  Speaker 1: Smoky Stinker.
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  Speaker 3: Smoky Stinky Smokey has its own you know story. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: that's another for the point being is that we are
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  Speaker 3: obsessed with the animals are and.
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  Speaker 1: We're very obsessed with animals, and I've even become more
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  Speaker 1: obsessed this summer.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't get to see you, but you have all
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  Speaker 2: of a sudden.
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  Speaker 3: Like not all of a sudden, but every day and
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  Speaker 3: a few hours at a time, I've seen you scrolling
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  Speaker 3: and wanting to save animals.
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  Speaker 2: And how many would you have if you could?
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  Speaker 1: I have a passion for that. Oh I don't even
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  Speaker 1: know how many. But right now I'm kind of I've
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  Speaker 1: got three. I have two dogs, but my son has
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  Speaker 1: a rescue dog, Max. Yes, Max, And so that's really
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  Speaker 1: where I got interested in rescue animals initially, So.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Max, adult your heart.
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  Speaker 1: Max stole a lot of things from me in a way.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah Max, Max, I'm loutting it mildly.
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  Speaker 1: I love Max, but you know, Max has been a
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  Speaker 1: challenge at times, but it's worth it. But it's not
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  Speaker 1: his fault because think about it, he was rescued by
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  Speaker 1: four frat boys Operation Kindness in Carrollton, Texas let four
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  Speaker 1: frat brothers adopt a puppy.
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  Speaker 2: Basically, I mean, I think it's actually kind of a
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  Speaker 2: good thing.
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  Speaker 1: Well, what an SMU kid. So she they pretty much
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  Speaker 1: knew that this dog.
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  Speaker 2: Was going to live a lot, he was going to
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  Speaker 2: live really well.
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  Speaker 1: And so Max has that was a life that Max
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  Speaker 1: started was in a that environment.
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  Speaker 2: So so he's social.
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  Speaker 1: He's social. So this last weekend, we were having a
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  Speaker 1: big party at our house. I wasn't my son was
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  Speaker 1: in the backyard by the pool. There were the girls
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  Speaker 1: and guys and all that going on, and Max was
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  Speaker 1: dying to get outside. And he's a Chase Grant dog. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, so I let him out and he just
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  Speaker 1: mingled and he was having living his life. That's that's
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  Speaker 1: where he's most comfortable. Yes, but that isn't always the
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  Speaker 1: best situation.
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  Speaker 3: I would agree, because we have a problem in the
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  Speaker 3: United States that I am really, really, really glad that
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  Speaker 3: we're bringing to light today because you know, I'm glad
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  Speaker 3: that they adopted the dog. But again, the situation might
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  Speaker 3: not be ideal for you know.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's why I wanted to do that. I specifically
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  Speaker 1: wanted to do this show because I I wanted to help,
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  Speaker 1: but I thought, how do I help? Right, Like, I
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  Speaker 1: don't really know how to help? And well, part of
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  Speaker 1: the reason I want to help. We have a Zoomer
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  Speaker 1: mom today who will be joining us later who inspired
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  Speaker 1: this in large part because I just kind of got
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  Speaker 1: obsessed with helping those dogs in Clayton County, Georgia, even
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  Speaker 1: though I live in Austin, Texas. It's okay, and I
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  Speaker 1: think this is super important. And when I was trying
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  Speaker 1: to decide, well, who do I ask, who do I
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  Speaker 1: talk to? How do I get involved? I immediately thought
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  Speaker 1: of remember our our sponsor, Farmhouse Fresh And when we
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  Speaker 1: went there, a skincare company based in McKinney, Texas. They
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  Speaker 1: have animal rescue is a big part of their what
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  Speaker 1: they do. They have a farm where they rescue that's
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  Speaker 1: an animal sanctuary and rescue a place we went to it.
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  Speaker 1: It was we were.
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  Speaker 3: To get to go sure it and it was really
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  Speaker 3: a cool experience.
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  Speaker 1: It was inspiring and I loved it. And we then
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  Speaker 1: you know, as you as you do, as you do
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  Speaker 1: these things. I started following ye one of the co founders,
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  Speaker 1: on social media, and I saw her as she was
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  Speaker 1: rescuing a dog named Todd, and it was I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it just warmed my heart. So I thought, I know
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  Speaker 1: who to ask, yes, And today she's been so kind
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  Speaker 1: as to be our guest. And what I learned is
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  Speaker 1: at farm House Fresh in twenty seventeen, during Hurricane Harvey,
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  Speaker 1: they got together and funded a large scale dog rescue
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  Speaker 1: transport and our guest today, who has been for over
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  Speaker 1: fifteen plus years a dog rescue volunteer and a foster parent,
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  Speaker 1: decided to start an organization five oh one c three
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  Speaker 1: called Archangel Animal Network, which is a nonprofit and it's
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  Speaker 1: dedicated to the rescue and transport of shelter dogs and
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  Speaker 1: since twenty nineteen they have rescued, transport and to rescue
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  Speaker 1: over five thousand dogs Texas dogs. She is, well, she'll
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  Speaker 1: tell us all about it.
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  Speaker 2: She I want to hear the details.
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  Speaker 1: The vice president of sales and the co founder of
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  Speaker 1: Farmhouse Fresh. Please welcome our friend deal Yah Cleansing. Welcome
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  Speaker 1: to the West Club. I do thank you. It's so
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  Speaker 1: good to see you. Well, thank you so much.
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  Speaker 4: I'm thrilled to be here with you all today.
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  Speaker 1: I am thrilled. Thank you so much. I know, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, I just like, who can Because here's why
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  Speaker 1: I think this is important show. And I want everybody
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  Speaker 1: that's listening listen to the end because you're gonna get
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  Speaker 1: so much information. You're gonna learn a lot, and hopefully
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna save some some shelter animals. And yes, that's
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  Speaker 1: so important because when I started getting more involved in this,
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  Speaker 1: was like what do I do? And then you when
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  Speaker 1: you get when you start, you get stopped a lot.
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  Speaker 1: And the reason you get stopped a lot is because
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  Speaker 1: people will tell you, oh, that organization they just take money,
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  Speaker 1: they're stealing from you. They're you know, that's a fraud,
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  Speaker 1: that's a You're like, well.
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  Speaker 2: Where do I like, where do you even begin? What's valid?
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  Speaker 2: What's not valid?
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  Speaker 1: So I knew that you were involved in this because,
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  Speaker 1: like I said, I watched you I watched you love
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  Speaker 1: Todd in a way that mean so much to me,
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  Speaker 1: and I know Todd is still part of your family,
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  Speaker 1: and so I thought that was so tremendous, and I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: I know who to ask about this, and so I
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  Speaker 1: immediately went and asked Julia, like, what can we do
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  Speaker 1: to help? And so my husband and I decided to
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  Speaker 1: help your archangel Animal Network. And we're so thrilled that
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  Speaker 1: we were able to do that. But one thing we
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  Speaker 1: wanted to make sure that we did is we were
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  Speaker 1: giving to an organization that was truly going to make
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  Speaker 1: a difference and help rescue these dogs. And you also
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  Speaker 1: connected me with a woman in Fort Worth at the
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  Speaker 1: Animal Control in Fort Worth, and she shared with me
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  Speaker 1: how poorly dogs in Texas. I guess there's one point
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  Speaker 1: five million dogs and cats euthanized in America every year.
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  Speaker 2: That is unbelievable. I really did not know the number.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and sad Le Texas leads the way so exactly.
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  Speaker 1: Tell us, So how did you get involved in this?
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  Speaker 1: Where did it start for you? Because I know where
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  Speaker 1: it started for me, but you care a.
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  Speaker 4: Story well, much like you and Monica. I just have
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  Speaker 4: to say kudos to you for being curious and wanting
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  Speaker 4: to know more, because I think so often, you know,
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  Speaker 4: we see sad things where we hear sad stories and
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  Speaker 4: we're just like, oh, that's so sad. Somebody needs to
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  Speaker 4: do something. But I'm someone, you're someone, we're all someone,
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  Speaker 4: and we can all do something, you know, and we
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  Speaker 4: may not know what that is. But to your credit,
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  Speaker 4: you know, you reached out to me and said, hey,
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  Speaker 4: I'm seeing all these posts of you know, puppies that
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  Speaker 4: are in danger and are going to be euthanized, and
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  Speaker 4: how do I make you know, how do I make
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  Speaker 4: a difference? And that's really how I started to many
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  Speaker 4: many years ago. It was literally just stay gosh, I
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  Speaker 4: know I love dogs and I want to help them.
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  Speaker 4: Let me just kind of start by fostering a dog
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  Speaker 4: and all volunteer and really just learning along the way.
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  Speaker 5: And I think sometimes just as humans, as busy moms,
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  Speaker 5: sometimes we don't just even take that initial step to
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  Speaker 5: be curious because we're like, oh, it's too.
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  Speaker 4: Much, don't I can't handle one more thing. I don't
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  Speaker 4: want to do anything else. But we can all do something.
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  Speaker 4: And to your you've told a little bit about how
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  Speaker 4: I got involved in rescue transports specifically was it was
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  Speaker 4: through Farmhouse Fresh, as you eloquently introduced. We knew after
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  Speaker 4: Hurricane Harvey there were shelters that were just packed full
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  Speaker 4: and the shelters needed to be evacuated to make room
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  Speaker 4: for the other dogs that were flowing in and cats
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  Speaker 4: and all sorts of things. And we didn't know what
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  Speaker 4: we were doing. But I had sort of been involved
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  Speaker 4: in rescue transport volunteering for other organizations before, and said,
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  Speaker 4: you know what, why don't we coordinate something. We know
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  Speaker 4: some rescue groups in Minnesota. If we can find a
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  Speaker 4: place to send the animals, let's figure this out. Well,
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  Speaker 4: long story short, it was complete chaos and it was just,
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  Speaker 4: I mean, like a lot of things that we do,
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  Speaker 4: you know, I was like, never again, We're never doing
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  Speaker 4: this again, right right. However, however, we saw these animals,
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  Speaker 4: and these were the animals who had already been in
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  Speaker 4: the shelter and they were in pretty rough shape.
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  Speaker 6: But we saw them when they landed in a different spot,
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  Speaker 6: a spot that was willing to take them. They got
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  Speaker 6: adopted so quickly and they lived beautiful, live like animals
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  Speaker 6: that were you know, sort of throwaways in certain areas
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  Speaker 6: of the country were welcomed by other areas, you know,
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  Speaker 6: that had had the capacity to take this. So you
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  Speaker 6: bring up some beautiful, beautiful happy endings.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so you bring up a good point. I read
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  Speaker 3: that these northern states. Why is that such a hot
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  Speaker 3: spot for all these animals.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just curious.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, obviously we're not doing a great job in Texas.
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  Speaker 1: Why are texts and so unkind?
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  Speaker 2: What's our problem?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, I think in the shelters are those people question.
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  Speaker 4: You know, Texas and many of the like Southern states,
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  Speaker 4: they don't have a lot of strict spain neuter laws.
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  Speaker 4: States that are have warmer climates, animals are often allowed
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  Speaker 4: to roam and if they're not Spain neuter, they're going
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  Speaker 4: to reproduce. There are a lot of Southern states and
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  Speaker 4: some states don't have laws surrounding animal cruelty and breeding
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  Speaker 4: and poppy mills. So there are just too many animals
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  Speaker 4: in many states. Texas ranks number one in the amount
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  Speaker 4: of animals that are euthanized. California is up there, and
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  Speaker 4: then it kind of goes down from that some of
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  Speaker 4: the other Southern states. So by sending animals to places
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  Speaker 4: that don't have that level of overpopulation, they can get
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  Speaker 4: adopted more quickly and you know, whereas they might not
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  Speaker 4: have a chance in some areas. And Monica, that's what
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  Speaker 4: you know, we're we're gonna partner on with your you
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  Speaker 4: know donation and is to sponsor some of those those
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  Speaker 4: transport And that's what Archangel Animal Network has done, is
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  Speaker 4: to say, if we can just you know, get the
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  Speaker 4: animals from a place where there are too many to
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  Speaker 4: a place where they have a chance, it can really
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  Speaker 4: really make an impactful, impactful difference.
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  Speaker 1: So how to just educate basic education here?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Hell do these shelters? So a dog and people often think, oh,
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  Speaker 1: I see online, Oh there's been a lost dog. I
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  Speaker 1: found a lost dog. Oh, take it over to the
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  Speaker 1: shelter and they'll find its own the owner will connect
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  Speaker 1: with it. But on the other side of it, when
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  Speaker 1: I've started getting involved in this, I've seen this dog
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  Speaker 1: arrived in the shelter two weeks ago and it's now
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  Speaker 1: on the it's the euthanized list, you know, So how
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  Speaker 1: do they decide how much? How did this decisions? I mean,
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  Speaker 1: if it was a vicious, you know, serial killer dog,
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  Speaker 1: then I don't have a sure, I get it, but
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  Speaker 1: if it's a sweet, loving dog might have been someone's pet,
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  Speaker 1: then that's terrible. So how how did they generally do this?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, no, that's a great question. So you know, lost
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  Speaker 4: animals should go to, or be at least the very
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  Speaker 4: least reported to, you know, the the animal shelter in
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  Speaker 4: the area, so if there is a chance that you know,
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  Speaker 4: there's somebody looking for them, they can be reunited. What
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  Speaker 4: happens is lost animals will go to an animal shelter
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  Speaker 4: and they will typically have a stray hold where they
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  Speaker 4: can't be you know, adopted out or euthanized. And typically
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  Speaker 4: it's only a couple of days that you have a
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  Speaker 4: chance to reunite with your dog. A lot of times
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  Speaker 4: that doesn't happen and the dog was dumped or it
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  Speaker 4: was stray, And so what animals shelters do is they
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  Speaker 4: will evaluate the animals and then they'll say, okay, does
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  Speaker 4: this seem like a you know, adoptable, healthy animal. Okay,
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  Speaker 4: well then it should be available to you know, be
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  Speaker 4: adopted to the public. But there are just so many
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  Speaker 4: animals that even great ones get lost in the shuffle.
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  Speaker 4: So in an ideal world, of course, we want, you know,
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  Speaker 4: animals to be reunited with their owners, but that only happens,
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  Speaker 4: you know, a portion of the time, and a lot
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  Speaker 4: of them are truly animals who are in need and
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  Speaker 4: need a second chance. So I think the thing is
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  Speaker 4: shelters now. Most of them are very savvy in that
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  Speaker 4: they can say, Okay, this dog is not an adoption candidate,
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  Speaker 4: or it's not a candidate to be you know, rescued
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  Speaker 4: and sent on a transport. You know, it might be aggressive,
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  Speaker 4: or it might be too sick. But that that's a
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  Speaker 4: very small minority. Most of the time, it's just animals
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  Speaker 4: who you know, have somebody doesn't want them, or somebody
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  Speaker 4: gets them and you know, can't take care of them.
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  Speaker 4: What happened a lot during COVID is a lot of
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  Speaker 4: people adopted pets, and there was a surge of adoption,
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  Speaker 4: and then people went back to work. Yeah what am
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  Speaker 4: I going to do? Oh, I can't afford to take
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  Speaker 4: my dog the doggy day care. And then the dumping
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  Speaker 4: started and yeah, you know, just everything got saturated.
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  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, that's that's what I saw, like on a
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  Speaker 1: lot of these shelters. You look at the ages of
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  Speaker 1: these dogs lately, they're in there. They're about four to
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  Speaker 1: five years old, a lot of exactly that. So it's
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  Speaker 1: perfect with the COVID.
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  Speaker 2: Puppy that you got.
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  Speaker 3: So Dylia, do you And this is kind of a
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  Speaker 3: question that I'm wondering about, Like, you know, you say,
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  Speaker 3: can you foster?
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  Speaker 2: Can you do this?
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  Speaker 3: Like I do laundry occasionally at Austin Pets Alive, which
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  Speaker 3: is you know, according to what I'm seeing the laundry,
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  Speaker 3: you do laundry. Yeah, they need Oh it's a massive project.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean the kind of dog. I thought maybe
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  Speaker 1: it was their sweater.
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  Speaker 3: Now it's not a you know, dog clothing, Monica, it's
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  Speaker 3: a you know what I mean, the blankets, the towels,
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  Speaker 3: like everything it takes to run, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 3: Because I'm afraid that if I go and pet a dog,
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  Speaker 3: we know that I'm either going home with it or
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to be fostering. And this may be a
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  Speaker 3: silly question, but a reprieve for a dog to be fostered.
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  Speaker 3: What is it like like you can no longer. You
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  Speaker 3: can do it for a certain amount of time and
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  Speaker 3: then you have to send it back. You know what
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  Speaker 3: I'm saying, Like, is that helpful to the animal. You
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  Speaker 3: know what I'm saying, like, there's many ways to help,
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  Speaker 3: but you know, it seems like a silly question.
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  Speaker 1: What are some of the different volunteer What are the
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  Speaker 1: volunteer opportunities? If you go to a shelter, wonder what
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  Speaker 1: are they going to be asking you to do.
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  Speaker 4: It's a great question because there are so many and
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  Speaker 4: it's and I think a lot of times people don't
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  Speaker 4: do it or go and investigate because they're like, I
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  Speaker 4: can't adopt another dog, I can't fall in love. But
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  Speaker 4: you know what, even why I think that we have
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  Speaker 4: such a pet overpopulation problem is because people truly don't
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  Speaker 4: understand like that there are great, great animals in the
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  Speaker 4: shelter and you can go. You could even just be
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  Speaker 4: a volunteer. One of the most useful things is if
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  Speaker 4: you can get over that. Oh if I you know,
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  Speaker 4: if I go, I'm just gonna want to take them
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  Speaker 4: all home, go and say, you know what, I'm going
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  Speaker 4: to go walk dogs for the day. I'm going to
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: take my teenage daughter or son who loves animals too.
• 17:34
  Speaker 4: We're going to walk dogs. And just the quality of
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: life that that is giving that animal helps them to
• 17:41
  Speaker 4: become more adoptable. And furthermore, you take a picture of
• 17:45
  Speaker 4: the dog that you take out to walk, you post
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: it on social media, you describe it, and then all
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: of a sudden that becomes an animal that you know,
• 17:52
  Speaker 4: people can say, oh, well that's not so sad and
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: pathetic behind bars, Okay, look how happy it is. So
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: anything to like get the animals out and get them
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: some exercise.
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: That's an amazing point to make it adoption blanket, what's
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: happier providing some love. But we do have these cute
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: little vests in Austin when you walk around the lake
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: and it says I'm for.
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: Adoption and I'm adoptable.
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: And you know, and you're walking in and people are like,
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: oh so yeah, so thanks for explaining that. As you know,
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: Texas had a really really rough summer and we had
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: the Curville floods and it's very sad situation.
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: What went on with all the animals. Do you think
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: that most have been reunited or.
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: Well, it's really hard in a place like Texas that
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: is already you know, overpopulated. Hopefully a lot of them
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: were you know, reunited. Yes, a lot of times, you know,
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: when you have a devastating tragedy like that that does
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: get a lot of press. It's can be a good thing. Sure,
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: then groups come in and they want to help, and
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: so they may have taken some of the animals out
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: of the shelter to free up some room to the
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: animals could get reunited. So sometimes it's a good thing.
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: Okay, So yes, I agree the publicity probably helped on that.
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: So for sure, you know what I mean, having some
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: screen time for people to be able to see that.
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: I mean, I actually envision you and I getting like
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: a little doggy van and now we're going to be
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: delivering animals all the way up where Dylia's living now,
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: and yeah, dropping them road trip, road trip.
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: You're used to driving, You drive your dogs all over
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: the place. I do used to that.
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: I do.
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: Actually, you took my dog to drop my daughter off
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: at college this weekend and she's like, are you gonna
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: help me move in?
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: I was busy.
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: She was a celebrity, and I know that people were
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: petting her and it was really helpful to the people.
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: So dog love is no joke. It's the real thing. Yes, Yeah,
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: almost broadery today.
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: Well I wish you had I had, I would have
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: loved to see Scout here today. So some of the
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: some of them, so there's different. There's some judgment from
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: some people, like the breeders, you know, the people that
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: go to buy a dog. I've heard some people who
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: are very like I, if you bought your dog, then
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: I hate you or whatever. Yeah, which then means they
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: would hate Julie because she has two sheep a doodle.
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: I have three labradoodles, so I get it. Yeah, no,
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: I had three ones passed away. Yes, but yes, but
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: I there's a lot of that. And I did visit
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: with a trainer the other day, Max's trainer who he
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: frequently goes to see, and I asked him her. I said,
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: what do you think of labradoodles? And she said I
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: hate them? Oh, And I'm like, why do you hate them?
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: And she said, welloman tell you the truth. Labradoodles when
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: they were multi gen Australian Labradoodle, the original whatever, she said,
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: they were great dogs. But now you've got all these
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: people that are calling themselves breeders, and they are not
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: breeding great dogs like healthy or there's issues with them.
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: And now there's way too many of them. And now
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: you've got every kind of doodle combination, except I haven't
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: seen a pit bull doodle. Have you seen one of those?
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: Which I think the pit bulls they actually need the.
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: Pr There is one out there, for sure.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: But what how do you feel about that? The element
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: of the breeders that are you know, that kind of thing.
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: And then there's the puppy mills that have always been
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: like the fact.
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: Yeah, gosh, it's such a it's such a tough subject because,
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: like anything, if it were done in moderation, it wouldn't
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: be a problem. But to your point, you know a
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: lot of greedy people saw, oh, I can make some
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: big money by you know, putting these two This is
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: the hot you know, hot new breed of these type
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: of things, and I can put these together and I
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: can think of it, they're hypoallergenic, and I can sell
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: them for this much. Well, it's just gotten you know,
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: out of control. And so it's you know, kind of
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: the people who kind of take things to the extreme.
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: And what ends up happening is some of those really
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: bad breeders, you know, they get tired, they're like, oh,
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: I'm not selling these dogs as quickly as I thought,
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: and then they dump them in shelters, and we're now
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: seeing lots of doodles in shelters now and in rescues,
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: So it's sort of to the point where and I
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: think people don't know this, and I think, and I
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: was many, many, many years ago, my first dog as
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: an adult was an English bulldog from a breeder because
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: I thought, I want this type of dog that looks
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: like this, that acts like this. And when you don't
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: really know any better, and you don't know that that
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: is a that is available in a rescue or can
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: be found in this shelter, it just maybe takes a
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: little bit more looking. But when you start to learn more,
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: and I think just where we are now, I think
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: as people are becoming more educated and the fact that
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: you have doodles, you know it is what it is.
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: You can your next one, you can adopt it, you
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: can spread awareness, you can you know you can. Like
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: I'm saying, okay, yes, I did buy a dog from
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: a breeder, and if I had known now what I
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: know now, then you know I wouldn't do it.
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: I just exactly feel the same way Julie and.
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: I were talking about talking about that.
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: I never thought about that as far as it was
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: sort of an experience that a lot of people were having, like, Oh,
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: I go to the breeder, I get to pick the dog,
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: I get to watch the they send me puppy videos.
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's almost this whole thing that they create
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: as you're going through the process.
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: Well, I would love you.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: So the other thing I see a lot in these
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: when I'm looking at these various shelters and available dogs,
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: lots of pit bulls, and I know you have them.
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: Can you give your very best.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: Advertisement for why a pig bull is a great pez?
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: They were goodly lovers at heart.
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: They've gotten very bad. Pr' listen to my favorite topic.
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: Thank you for asking. Many many years ago, I actually
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: used to work for a no kill organization called Pets
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: Are Worth Saving, Chicago's largest no kill organization. They're a
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: very big deal. But when I worked for them many
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: years ago, we were not allowed to rescue pit bulls
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: because they were considered bad and liability and aggressive and
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: those aren't family dogs. And you know, nobody wants, you know,
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: we don't want to take that on. And that was many,
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: many many years ago. And then I had some personal experience.
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: I found one. I found one tied to a dumpster
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: and I brought it home. My son was three years old,
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: and my husband was like, what are you doing? Like
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: that dog's gonna like our throats out in the night,
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: like no, And I was like, it's just a dog.
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: Get past the like, this is the sweetest dog. And
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: so I really just started to look past the facade,
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: and then I started to meet some others. And the
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: reason that there are so many is that they get
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: in the hands of a lot of people who breed
• 25:21
  Speaker 4: them and want to make money and think like, oh,
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: I can sell them for this and this and this,
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: and I just because I've fostered and volunteered with every
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: type of dog out there, from shitsu's to poodles, mastiffs
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: to shepherds to everything in between. And I have just
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: met some of the most wonderful piples and I just
• 25:45
  Speaker 4: love them. Have I met some that aren't suitable for adoption? Absolutely, yes, absolutely,
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: and that's where it's important. But there are also shepherds
• 25:55
  Speaker 4: and you know this just chihuahuas that wouldn't be good with.
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: Them ahahah bt my son on the face as a baby.
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: So I'm I'm not like the biggest fan, but you know,
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: they're not all bad. The other thing that I learned
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: in as I've been going through all this is in
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: terms of rehoming your pet, which there's a lot of
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: judgment about that I see, and I kind of feel
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: it myself in a lot of ways. But I understand
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: that the cost of veterinary care these days, and people
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: their own illnesses they have, you know, family situations, it's unfortunate.
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: But I have read a lot about being very careful
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: in rehoming your pet if you absolutely have to, because
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: there's unscrupulous people who then take them and use them
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: as bait dogs and things. Horrible thing. So how do
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: you know if you're going to rehome your dog, what's
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: the best way to do that?
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: Yeah, so the best way to do it.
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: Is called delia.
• 26:56
  Speaker 4: But you know, actually guysing in a in an area
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: where you feel, you know, like a neighborhood, a neighborhood site,
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: or you know you don't want to like rehome a
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: dog and you know, be putting it on you know,
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: things that you remember Craigslist, like you have no idea
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: who's who's on there, and but I think you know,
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: asking questions, doing a home visit, you know, things things
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: like that to be honest, it's hard these days to
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: rehome a dog because there are so many out there
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: that need homes. And you know, of course everyone should try.
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: If you really can't keep an animal, you should try.
• 27:39
  Speaker 4: But I would say definitely network through through your own network,
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: through friends and family and.
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: Versus like trying to make it personal.
• 27:49
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Well this is so informative, Delia. And we have
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: a group of moms whoations for you, and they are
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: our zoomer moms. So well, come ZUMONGI, welcome to the
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: Mom's Club, my ladies. Well, I mentioned in the opening
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: that I was partly inspired to do all of this
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: by a zoomer mom who is here with us today,
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: and I told her I saw her posts onlines where
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: I got involved and they were so moving. I told her,
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: if for some strange reason, I'm ever on death row,
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: I want her to write my appeal because it's so emotional,
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: like it'll be like, you know, this adorable dog is
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: just a few months old and he has three hours
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: to live. You know, he'll help me and then you
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: gotta help me. So she's and she's done a great job.
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: And it's Veronica from Georgia. Veronica Welcome to the Mom's
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: Club everyone.
• 28:50
  Speaker 8: I'm so excited to be here. As she said, I'm Veronica.
• 28:54
  Speaker 8: I'm from Atlanta, which is Clayton County. I don't actually
• 28:57
  Speaker 8: live there, but I have two adult sons, Jeremy and Austin,
• 29:02
  Speaker 8: and my full time job has become Clayton over.
• 29:06
  Speaker 9: Time, full time, no sleep, whatever it is to see
• 29:11
  Speaker 9: that these dogs get seen. It's been I also work
• 29:15
  Speaker 9: for some rescues, like legitimately work unpaid just so that
• 29:19
  Speaker 9: they'll pull Clayton dogs.
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: And new to rescue too.
• 29:25
  Speaker 4: So I've become obsessed with the inside the Mom's Club
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: once I found out.
• 29:30
  Speaker 8: Well, thank you have all of the educational input with
• 29:33
  Speaker 8: the giggles in between have been so refreshing.
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: Well you loved it. We all need to laugh. That's
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: our motto here.
• 29:39
  Speaker 10: Yes, I would say, as someone knew a year.
• 29:45
  Speaker 4: And my sister has I.
• 29:46
  Speaker 10: Pulled her in and she's quit twice. Mindset that you
• 29:52
  Speaker 10: would recommend for someone that's in transport or rescue that
• 29:58
  Speaker 10: they need to keep to keep going because.
• 30:02
  Speaker 4: Sometimes it's hard.
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: That's a good question, long time, so I would love
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: to know.
• 30:06
  Speaker 4: Yes, Oh my gosh, that is such a great question. Well,
• 30:10
  Speaker 4: First of all, kudos for you to you for jumping
• 30:14
  Speaker 4: in getting involved and getting others involved. That is awesome.
• 30:19
  Speaker 4: And yes, I have been involved for a very long
• 30:21
  Speaker 4: time and have gone through lots of different stages sadness, outrage, anger, frustration, despondents.
• 30:31
  Speaker 4: There have been times where I had to step back
• 30:33
  Speaker 4: a little bit, you know, for my own mental health,
• 30:36
  Speaker 4: but not give up. That's the thing. I think. It's
• 30:40
  Speaker 4: so just like with anything with any cause, it is
• 30:43
  Speaker 4: so important to realize, Okay, we're not going to change,
• 30:48
  Speaker 4: you know, you and I and all the passionate volunteers,
• 30:50
  Speaker 4: we're not going to change this overnight or even in
• 30:54
  Speaker 4: our lifetime. But if we can make a difference, and
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: if we can focus on some of those happy ending
• 31:01
  Speaker 4: stories that otherwise would not have happened, that is what
• 31:06
  Speaker 4: keeps you going. And you're probably like me in that,
• 31:12
  Speaker 4: you know. I I think at one of my low
• 31:15
  Speaker 4: points in rescue, I became very obsessed with like the numbers,
• 31:19
  Speaker 4: you know, like, well, if we can't get them all out,
• 31:22
  Speaker 4: then what is it all worth? And what is it?
• 31:25
  Speaker 4: You know, this is just so sad and if we
• 31:27
  Speaker 4: can't affect everything, and you just can't go.
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: There or you don't make yourself crazy.
• 31:32
  Speaker 4: And there are going to be some Yeah.
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: That's a really good point.
• 31:36
  Speaker 4: And I've had some, you know, really sad so you
• 31:39
  Speaker 4: know dogs that I really wanted to make it out
• 31:41
  Speaker 4: onto a transport and they didn't. They got euthanized. And
• 31:46
  Speaker 4: I think you just yeah, like anything, focusing on you know, okay,
• 31:51
  Speaker 4: step by step. It was a happy ending for that
• 31:54
  Speaker 4: that story.
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: I think if you can help one dog.
• 31:58
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and telling those happy.
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: Yes, and you get to tell the success story. I
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: mean I felt this way when I was on mission
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: trips as a nurse. When you go and you have
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: thousands of people that you're trying to help, you can't
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: look out and focus on those thousands of people. You
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: have to look what's in front of you and what
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: you're saving. And I think that goes for the dogs
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: as well.
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: Well. And I just even last week I had a
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: happy story because there was a dog at Clayton County,
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: Oscar labordoodle.
• 32:27
  Speaker 6: Hey.
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: The picture was so bad, the hair like his hair.
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: They let the hair grow like his hair everywhere. And
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: I told Veronica, I said, like, how much money do
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: I need to send you? Because no one should die,
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: because I had a bad hair day, so he got
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: a great haircut and he got rescued. And that just
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: throws me. I will always think of that every time
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: I'm feeling a little bit down on Saturday.
• 32:51
  Speaker 10: Shockingly, he was only nine months old.
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: We had no idea, he had no idea. Wo Ica,
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: what's this website that you you?
• 33:01
  Speaker 6: Yeah?
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Ronica, real quick? Where can they find in Clayton County?
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: People that want to help Instagram? Go to Instagram, love
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: to have any followers?
• 33:10
  Speaker 8: It's Clayton County Animal Control volunteers.
• 33:13
  Speaker 4: Okay, okay control not a chef and that's three and
• 33:18
  Speaker 4: they have such a low budget.
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: That sounds okay. Go in there and help Clayton County. Erica,
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: welcome to the Mom's Club. Tell us a little bit
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: about yourself, where you're from, and do you have a
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: question for Delia.
• 33:29
  Speaker 4: Yes, Hi, I'm Erica. It's a pleasure to be here.
• 33:32
  Speaker 11: I live up in the Poconos in Pennsylvania, a mom
• 33:36
  Speaker 11: of one. I have an eight year old daughter and
• 33:39
  Speaker 11: a husband and a daughter who are very much wanting
• 33:41
  Speaker 11: a dog. So this is so inspiring on so many levels.
• 33:44
  Speaker 4: And you really, you really persuaded me. I am work.
• 33:48
  Speaker 11: I'm the director of communications for Woodlock Resort, were a
• 33:52
  Speaker 11: three property resort in the Pocono is a spa, golf course.
• 33:56
  Speaker 4: And family resort.
• 33:58
  Speaker 11: And so yes, I become you know, a different part
• 34:01
  Speaker 11: of the country than everybody else.
• 34:03
  Speaker 4: So but a pleasure to be here.
• 34:04
  Speaker 11: And it's been wonderful listening Delia and really inspiring. Again,
• 34:09
  Speaker 11: like I think, I have, you know, dreams of my
• 34:11
  Speaker 11: own of starting, you know, a nonprofit, and I love
• 34:15
  Speaker 11: what you said about just sort of taking that first step.
• 34:18
  Speaker 11: You don't have to do everything at once, but you
• 34:20
  Speaker 11: need to, you know, make moves to do something. And
• 34:24
  Speaker 11: I am a huge animal lover. So again, pleasure to
• 34:27
  Speaker 11: be here. My question for you, i'd be curious as
• 34:31
  Speaker 11: to how many employees you currently have with your nonprofit
• 34:35
  Speaker 11: and also, you know, sort of I know this is
• 34:39
  Speaker 11: always a weird question, but let's say in the next
• 34:42
  Speaker 11: three to five years, how would you like to grow
• 34:45
  Speaker 11: and sort of what are your goals because I mean
• 34:48
  Speaker 11: it sounds like you're doing amazing things already in sort.
• 34:52
  Speaker 4: Of the short time that you've had the organization. Yes,
• 34:56
  Speaker 4: a great question, and this is so funny here it's
• 35:00
  Speaker 4: a small world, so I know, Woodlock very well, because
• 35:04
  Speaker 4: my real full time paying job is Farmhouse Fresh Skincare,
• 35:09
  Speaker 4: which is how I originally got to know these ladies.
• 35:14
  Speaker 4: And we've worked with Woodlock in the past. So so yes,
• 35:17
  Speaker 4: I'm sorry I failed convention. Yes, log of Woodlock the spot.
• 35:21
  Speaker 11: Yeah, it's such a funny small world and you have
• 35:24
  Speaker 11: amazing products.
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: Yes, yes, true, yeah.
• 35:29
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 35:29
  Speaker 4: To answer you, I love that you have, you know,
• 35:33
  Speaker 4: bigger aspirations to do something and maybe do something in
• 35:37
  Speaker 4: the nonprofit world. I will say when I started Archangel
• 35:41
  Speaker 4: Animal Network, and I just well, I'll give you a
• 35:44
  Speaker 4: little background, but I still work full time for Farmhouse Fresh,
• 35:48
  Speaker 4: so I do Archangel Animal Network on the side and
• 35:52
  Speaker 4: in my spare time. But honestly, I just thought, you
• 35:57
  Speaker 4: know what, I am going to start this and I
• 36:01
  Speaker 4: can make it whatever I want to be. You know,
• 36:05
  Speaker 4: if it needs to stay very small scale, it can.
• 36:08
  Speaker 4: But I can know that I have a five oh
• 36:09
  Speaker 4: one C three status and I can you know, try
• 36:12
  Speaker 4: to get donations for transports that way that's gonna help.
• 36:16
  Speaker 4: So right now, I just do this on my own.
• 36:19
  Speaker 4: I don't have any full time and employees, but I
• 36:22
  Speaker 4: have a board of directors. Yeah, and I just work
• 36:26
  Speaker 4: very closely with with shelter partners and when yeah, and
• 36:32
  Speaker 4: when we when I work with them to coordinate the transport,
• 36:36
  Speaker 4: they have volunteers. So they have volunteers and the goal
• 36:41
  Speaker 4: is someday to have some property where you know, dogs
• 36:47
  Speaker 4: can be housed who are waiting for transport or sanctuary.
• 36:50
  Speaker 4: That I feel like is my next step as a
• 36:55
  Speaker 4: you know, as a nonprofit. But that's a pretty big step.
• 36:58
  Speaker 4: And you know, I would say to anyone, it doesn't
• 37:02
  Speaker 4: have to be a huge endeavor. You can just you
• 37:05
  Speaker 4: can just start. I knew that I wanted to start
• 37:08
  Speaker 4: with just some volunteers, and I've last year I moved
• 37:11
  Speaker 4: from Texas to Idaho, so I don't have the volunteers
• 37:15
  Speaker 4: here that I used to. But you would be amazed
• 37:18
  Speaker 4: at how many people want to volunteer. So I would say,
• 37:23
  Speaker 4: if you are looking to start something or at some point,
• 37:26
  Speaker 4: do not hire people as employees right away. People want
• 37:31
  Speaker 4: to volunteer. And if you task them with you know,
• 37:35
  Speaker 4: jobs that they can have ownership, people love that. But
• 37:38
  Speaker 4: you know, they feel very vested in Oh, I'm in
• 37:42
  Speaker 4: charge of social media, I'm in charge of the website,
• 37:44
  Speaker 4: or I'm in charge of T shirts. So sorry, I
• 37:47
  Speaker 4: kind of went off on a tap.
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: And I looked at each other, right, I mean, and Erica,
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: let's get together and let's start that non often because
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: I think that, but I like to think big. So
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: let's let's have the big piece of property. And I
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: recently saw some property. It's in Pennsylvania actually, where they
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: have little tiny houses for the shelter pets. Can you
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: imagine we could we could have a property. They could
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: also have a spa. Let's make let's put it all together.
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: Let's you can always look for that, you know what
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: what where ultimate goal is. And actually Woodlock, I can't wait.
• 38:21
  Speaker 3: To go, I know, I mean, I mean, I love
• 38:23
  Speaker 3: I love that, I love how farmhouse fresh, and would
• 38:26
  Speaker 3: like together.
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: Like this is a great show. This is a this
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: is an important show.
• 38:30
  Speaker 11: And please yeah, we're right now, you know, sort of
• 38:34
  Speaker 11: tying up the summer.
• 38:36
  Speaker 4: It's very busy right now, and it's always this time
• 38:39
  Speaker 4: of year is so beautiful.
• 38:42
  Speaker 11: YEA sad to see summer end, but fall is incredible
• 38:46
  Speaker 11: as well.
• 38:47
  Speaker 4: So anytime that invites out.
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: There, well I accept you will see me there for sure. Suzanne.
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Mom's Club. Where are you from tell
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: Us Yourself question, Suzanne Britton.
• 39:00
  Speaker 7: Well, let's see, I'm originally from upstate New York, so
• 39:03
  Speaker 7: I totally understand where you're coming from.
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: Ladies.
• 39:07
  Speaker 7: I went to Ithaca College, I'm sure, yeah, is gorgeous.
• 39:13
  Speaker 7: And I came out here like a long time ago, California,
• 39:16
  Speaker 7: Los Angeles.
• 39:18
  Speaker 4: And I'm a hypnotherapist.
• 39:20
  Speaker 7: I'm a certified clinical hypnotherapist, So I work a lot
• 39:25
  Speaker 7: with anxiety. I work with people and people who are,
• 39:30
  Speaker 7: you know, in all sorts of situations with trauma or
• 39:33
  Speaker 7: divorce or you know, whatever is causing you stress. So
• 39:38
  Speaker 7: that's what I do. And I have a son and
• 39:39
  Speaker 7: he's twenty eight. He just turned twenty eight, which is
• 39:42
  Speaker 7: weird because I'm only thirty exactly.
• 39:44
  Speaker 5: I.
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: Trust me.
• 39:47
  Speaker 3: I know that.
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: Well yeah, right, that happens a lot.
• 39:51
  Speaker 7: And you know, I just I love this community.
• 39:54
  Speaker 4: You guys are amazing.
• 39:56
  Speaker 7: And I'm surrounded by a rescue out here, like all
• 39:58
  Speaker 7: of my friends are in rescue.
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you do ESPEC.
• 40:02
  Speaker 7: Right after that big COVID boom, right, everybody had to
• 40:05
  Speaker 7: have the puppy and then they gave the puppies back.
• 40:08
  Speaker 4: But you know, I have good friends are and rescue.
• 40:10
  Speaker 7: But I have a question, which is first of all
• 40:13
  Speaker 7: something technical, what's the best pet insurance? Because I'm my
• 40:18
  Speaker 7: friends are always looking for great pet insurance.
• 40:22
  Speaker 4: And if you can't answer that question, that's.
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: A good question because you know what, that's why a
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: lot of people will give their puppets or dog back.
• 40:29
  Speaker 4: Yes, I wish I knew the answer to that. I don't,
• 40:34
  Speaker 4: but what I do know is that it is key
• 40:38
  Speaker 4: to get pet insurance like in the beginning, like as
• 40:41
  Speaker 4: soon as you adopt or when they're young, and yeah, yeah,
• 40:44
  Speaker 4: because they will have our pre existing so that's exactly.
• 40:48
  Speaker 4: And also, what is your connection in Los Angeles?
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: Do you have people up?
• 40:52
  Speaker 7: Okay, so do you fly like if I have, like
• 40:55
  Speaker 7: you know, I work with a shelter out here and
• 40:57
  Speaker 7: I fostered and I love dogs, I love animals.
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: What is your connection here?
• 41:02
  Speaker 7: Do you fly animals from out here to separate places
• 41:06
  Speaker 7: too or is it just a locally that you.
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: Fly from to other places?
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: Good question.
• 41:12
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a really good question. And I know, you know,
• 41:14
  Speaker 4: probably anyone who's watching or listening probably has the same thing.
• 41:17
  Speaker 4: They're thinking about their own community. So I primarily focus
• 41:23
  Speaker 4: on Texas dogs because I know I have relationships with
• 41:28
  Speaker 4: the sending shelters there, and we've formed relationships with the
• 41:33
  Speaker 4: receiving rescues. However, I have a lot of different connections
• 41:38
  Speaker 4: because I've worked with different transporters who come, you know,
• 41:42
  Speaker 4: to the Los Angeles area. Have you heard of dog
• 41:46
  Speaker 4: is my co pilot? Does that name sound familiar?
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: Oh it doesn't.
• 41:50
  Speaker 4: Okay, I've worked with them in the past day actually
• 41:53
  Speaker 4: fly dogs from different areas. So my for my organs,
• 42:00
  Speaker 4: there are lots of organizations that are sort of similar
• 42:02
  Speaker 4: to me. It really is all about finding those partners,
• 42:06
  Speaker 4: you know, the the sending shelters and then like the
• 42:10
  Speaker 4: rescues that will receive the dogs, and then kind of
• 42:14
  Speaker 4: connecting the dots either way, like okay, well is there
• 42:17
  Speaker 4: a transport that goes this way? Okay, it could bring
• 42:20
  Speaker 4: dogs from you know, California to upstate New York. So
• 42:25
  Speaker 4: sort of just a I mean really a lot of
• 42:28
  Speaker 4: networking and I'd be happy to kind of look at
• 42:31
  Speaker 4: some other you know, look at some transporters that I've
• 42:34
  Speaker 4: worked with before to see, you know, who who is
• 42:37
  Speaker 4: taking dogs where if that's what you're asked to do.
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and do you work with specifics.
• 42:43
  Speaker 7: I know there are actual companies that obviously you're talking
• 42:46
  Speaker 7: about that that transport animals, but what about like actual
• 42:52
  Speaker 7: transportation of animals, Like if I have an animal, I'm
• 42:55
  Speaker 7: taking somewhere as Delta one of the best airlines to
• 42:58
  Speaker 7: do that, do we.
• 43:00
  Speaker 4: Yeah, great, great question. It is a complicated So there
• 43:06
  Speaker 4: are there are ground transports and then there are you know,
• 43:10
  Speaker 4: flight transports, and it really depends on the type of dog,
• 43:14
  Speaker 4: the distance. I have heard. Flight transports are a little
• 43:21
  Speaker 4: bit can be a little bit scary if the dog
• 43:23
  Speaker 4: goes into into cargo.
• 43:26
  Speaker 7: The vaccine too, they have to have doctor's records and
• 43:28
  Speaker 7: all that stuff.
• 43:29
  Speaker 4: Do you guys have to do that too? Do you
• 43:30
  Speaker 4: have to have records for the dogs? Yeah? Yes, yes,
• 43:33
  Speaker 4: they have to have any animal who is transported from
• 43:37
  Speaker 4: over state lines, they have to have a health certificate
• 43:40
  Speaker 4: prior to transport to make sure there's no contagious diseases.
• 43:45
  Speaker 4: So what what my group does primarily is just work
• 43:49
  Speaker 4: to do kind of group transports, like take from a shelter. Okay,
• 43:53
  Speaker 4: these you know these dogs we have you know this,
• 43:57
  Speaker 4: we have this group up in let's say Oregon, and
• 44:01
  Speaker 4: you know Montana who they said they can't accept some
• 44:04
  Speaker 4: dogs and then they'll select from from the list of
• 44:08
  Speaker 4: available dogs from my partner shelters. I know that's a
• 44:11
  Speaker 4: little bit confusing.
• 44:12
  Speaker 7: But okay, I have actually a lot more clear so
• 44:16
  Speaker 7: I understand what you do, like specifically now when I
• 44:18
  Speaker 7: was reading up and what you do is amazing. Everybody
• 44:20
  Speaker 7: who's in any kind of animal protection.
• 44:24
  Speaker 4: Has my vote.
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: So thank you so much, solutely doing.
• 44:28
  Speaker 4: Everybody what you do.
• 44:29
  Speaker 7: And this is such a beautiful community. And you know,
• 44:31
  Speaker 7: I was watching all the old Sex and the City reruns.
• 44:34
  Speaker 7: I just love that community of women.
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: You know, we just well, that's that's what we're about.
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: That's that's what the Mom's Club is about for sure. Well,
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: thank you and thank you Zoomer Moms for all the
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: great questions for so Delia. As always, we have to
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: put a big plug in. We all look glowing here
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: today because we're all using far mouths fresh so we're
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: wonderful old plug for that. Well, tell us where our
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: audience can help volunteer or donate to our Change Animal
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: Network exactly.
• 45:02
  Speaker 4: So yeah, so I'll give you a couple different things
• 45:06
  Speaker 4: and ways that you can help. I would say if
• 45:08
  Speaker 4: anyone is listening and they want to help locally, you know,
• 45:11
  Speaker 4: contact your local shelter or rescue and see about volunteering.
• 45:16
  Speaker 4: See how you can go in and help spread the
• 45:18
  Speaker 4: word if you want to. If you want to donate
• 45:21
  Speaker 4: to an organization like our animal arch Angel Animal Network,
• 45:26
  Speaker 4: you can know that you are directly helping an animal
• 45:29
  Speaker 4: be saved from the euthanagelist and it's going to you know,
• 45:34
  Speaker 4: go to a happy home and you don't have to
• 45:35
  Speaker 4: do any of the work of taking finding the home
• 45:38
  Speaker 4: and fostering it. You just get to know that your
• 45:40
  Speaker 4: donation and I mainly do it's all. It's all on Facebook.
• 45:46
  Speaker 4: My website is actually down at the moment. It's under construction,
• 45:50
  Speaker 4: so everything is on Facebook. It's Archangel Animal Network and
• 45:55
  Speaker 4: it has links to paypack all donations. It has a
• 45:59
  Speaker 4: donation button.
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: Great.
• 46:01
  Speaker 4: You have some big transports coming up in September and
• 46:05
  Speaker 4: every single month, so I'll be sharing some pictures there
• 46:08
  Speaker 4: of some of the dogs that any sort of donation
• 46:10
  Speaker 4: will help to sponsor and will help to you know,
• 46:13
  Speaker 4: help them get a new life.
• 46:14
  Speaker 3: So just well, I think that's super because people can't
• 46:19
  Speaker 3: foster all the time. They can't necessarily have extra time
• 46:22
  Speaker 3: depending on what's going on there. So like she said,
• 46:24
  Speaker 3: you know you're saving an animal by donating exactly.
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's great. Well, help the archangel Animal
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: Network and also don't forget the dogs in Clayton County
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: but check out that site. Although be sure and have
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: your your credit card and your Kleenex handy, because he's
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: really good, like I said, those videos, so you'll you'll
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: be inspired to when you can help them. Well, thank
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: you so much, ladies, And I want to make a
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: special mention of our good friend Beth Biggler, who has
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: written on her animals which she helps people as are
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: going through pet bereavement and like preparing for that time. Sadly,
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: my dog Cookie has liver cancer. Yes, and it's sorry
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: so great right now, but you know what I mean,
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: I'm glad there's people like Beth who are helping people
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: like me get through that time. So check out her book.
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: She's doing fantastic. And we'd also like to think our
• 47:25
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• 47:29
  Speaker 1: keeps us rest and we get along together because yeah,
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: once we could dump the Seinfeld episodes we used to
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: sleep to Seinfeld every night because that was you. I'm
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: sorry used to keep you awake. We have to share
• 47:41
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• 47:44
  Speaker 1: use new calm to stay good friends. I also want
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  Speaker 1: dogs love them for sure. Well, thank you this. I
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: can't believe the time is gone. But I feel like
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: we've accomplished something. I hope we have.
• 48:20
  Speaker 2: I hope that if we've still a lot more educated.
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: That's what the point. That's what I mean said. I
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: wanted to educate people because when I got into this,
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: I'm like, Okay, well how can I really help because
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: I want to help, but I don't know what to do.
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: So we want to just keep it going. Let's came
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: in helping. You know, if you want to start donat
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: or Erica, you and I are going to start something.
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: I mean, let's let's do our part for sure. Okay, well,
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: then the time has passed way too fast, can you
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: believe it. It's happy to do the studio setting here,
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: but we will be back, ladies moms out there next
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: time with celebrities and extraordinary moms just like you. We
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: know your metime's pressures and valuable. Thank you for spending
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: it with us. So, Delia, how can we find you
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: on social media?
• 49:07
  Speaker 4: Yes? So the best way to find arch Angel Animal
• 49:11
  Speaker 4: Network is so on Facebook it's Archangel Animal Network or
• 49:19
  Speaker 4: Instagram arch Angel Animal Network seventy five and you'll see
• 49:24
  Speaker 4: some of the happy ending stories, some of the transports
• 49:28
  Speaker 4: that we've sponsored, and just gives a little bit more
• 49:31
  Speaker 4: detail of how it all works. Mainly everything is on Facebook.
• 49:36
  Speaker 4: That's sort of the hub.
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: Okay, great, thank you, we'll check it out. Thank you
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: Zooer moms for joining us today. Those were great questions.
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: They were amazing, as we say here on the Mom's
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: Club and also everybody out there in the country, look
• 49:49
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• 49:54
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• 49:56
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• 49:59
  Speaker 1: new dear you, we're planning events pretty soon in Nashville, Dallas, Atlanta.
• 50:06
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• 50:08
  Speaker 1: you'll have a new group of friends in your friends. Yeah,
• 50:12
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• 50:16
  Speaker 1: We believe in women's friendships and connections. And bring your
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: friends and then meet new friends all over the country.
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: We have a motto here on the Mom's Club, which
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: is amazing. If you don't laugh sometimes, ladies.
• 50:31
  Speaker 2: You were going to gonna cry.
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: So keep laughing, keep your chin up, and we'll see
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: you next time. Inside the mom