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Welcome to Animal Posse, the podcast dedicated to the
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people and rescues making a
difference in the lives of animals.
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today I am visiting with Dr.
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Mark, animal advocate,
and published author.
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I am actually out at Mark's
Animal Rescue, and you could just
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hear the dog in the background.
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How you doing today, mark?
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Mark: I'm doing fine.
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He's a little rescue.
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I got about a year ago, somebody
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didn't want him.
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So anyway, I he's been part of
my family for about a year now.
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Dixie: You were episode one and you are
of course a rescuer, a published author,
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an advocate, and a former deputy sheriff.
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So, for all of our new listeners, let's
just share your journey a little bit
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about how you got into animal advocacy.
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Mark: As a young child, I always
loved animals, always had animals
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from the age of six years old
and I kinda grew up with animals.
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I guess where I really became a
strong advocate was during my time,
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my early years, I was in my twenties,
just made 21, went to work for the
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east Baton Rouge Sheriff's Office.
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During my tenure there as a sheriff deputy
we went to during that period of time, and
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I'm sure it still happens now, but I've
been outta that business for a long time.
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But there were a lot of family fights.
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We would go there and try to
resolve family fights or take
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care of whatever was going on.
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But one thing I did notice as an animal
person, that even the people that
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I rode with, 'cause I was a junior.
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Man in the car.
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That means I had really no say so.
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The senior man really had
the say so in the car.
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But one of the things I noticed
was every time that we would get
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involved in a family issue and
somebody went to jail, the bottom
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line is what happens to the animal?
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'cause most people did have animals,
whether they got treated good or not.
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But the point is that when we
left there, there was no one
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to take care of the animal.
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Nobody cared.
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So way back in 19 69, 70, 71 animals.
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Even back then, people just did not care.
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And I had this soft spot for
animals and always have, and
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it's been part of who I am.
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And I was always amazed
to see how people just.
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Does not look at animals
as a living being.
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They look at them.
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I can't even describe it,
but it doesn't matter.
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They're just an animal.
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We've all heard that term.
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They're just animals.
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They're not just animals.
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They're sent with beings.
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They, they do express that any anybody's
been around an animal, they express fear.
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One of the biggest things they,
they're great at loving people.
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They're very devoted.
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They present all of those things that I
wish we as a human being would possess.
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But unfortunately I'm don't find that in
in a lot of , my interaction with people.
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We've gotten so coldhearted that
things have changed, especially as
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today, I'm 79 years old, soon be 80.
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I've seen such a change in people
over the many years that, I've grown
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up and been a part of this world.
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But anyway the animals did not get
treated well back then, and it's not
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much different in all these years.
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Animals are still considered property,
and I don't know if people know that
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or how many people know that, but
animals are considered property.
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They're not part of your family.
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They're just an animal.
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They are property.
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And when, anytime you have any legal
issues you're going through a divorce or
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you're going through whatever you're going
through, animals are still considered
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property and nothing more than that.
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But when you consider animal property and
not as a sentient being, then it's very
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difficult to, just be around those type
of people because I don't share a lot
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of the things that I think people just
about animals that they just don't care.
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They're just there.
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Anyway and the other thing that
I've seen as a deputy, and that's
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unfortunate 'cause I've got a lot of.
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Not so good stories as a deputy with
animals is that I've seen many animals
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that are forgotten in backyards.
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They're locked up in houses after
evictions, they're left on parish roads.
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Now to this day, I live in a rural parish.
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I live in Mount Herman,
Louisiana, Washington Parish.
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I've been here oh six, almost seven years.
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In that amount of time, I have saved
over 2000 plus animals on the parish
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roads here in Washington Parish.
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But anyway, I got carried
away with that, that answer.
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But anyway, that was one of the
reasons that inspired me between
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being a rescuer of 10 years, a deputy
sheriff I became a strong animal
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advocate, and that is my passion.
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So that's probably the, one of the
biggest reasons is because I've seen
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so much neglect and just outright abuse
by people that I had to do something.
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So anyway, that's, this is what I
do every day, seven days a week,
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I work as an animal advocate.
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Dixie: How many books have you
written about animal advocacy?
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Mark: 21 books.
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Dixie: Today, one of the books that I
wanted to specifically discuss is one of
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your newer ones called Soul of the Silent.
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Now I really like the title of that
too, because you touched on this a
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little bit about how people treat
animals and people almost treat
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animals as if they do not have souls.
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Mark: That's right.
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Dixie: And of course I do
not believe that at all.
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Animals definitely have souls.
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You can look in their eyes and you
can tell, you can see a lot about
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'em just by looking in their eyes.
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So I wanted to talk about Soul of
the Silent today and let me know what
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inspired you to write Soul of the Silent.
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Mark: When I say how we treat animals,
it really reflects who we are.
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I mean our actions toward.
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The most vulnerable.
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Those who have no voice there's
no defense, no standing.
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In society, it reveals the
true state of our own hearts.
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If we respond with compassion, it shows
that kindness and empathy guide us.
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But if we can ignore suffering in
an animal, it says something about
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the limits of our own humanity.
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And it's unfortunate and it really is
unfortunate because being in the rescue
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business for 10 years, working as a
sheriff deputy for seven years and and
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just being around people and talking
to people and even those with animals
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today who have animals it doesn't
mean that they come from a good home.
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That animal is staying in a good home.
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Because many people have this idea that.
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If animals, oh, they have a home.
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What kind of home is that?
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What kind of home are
they being raised into?
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Because how many times have I seen and
gone out to a home that the dog is chained
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up in the backyard a lot of times don't
even have shelter, no food, no water.
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And if they do have water, it's
dirty and it may, and who knows
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when the last time they ate.
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It's just so unbelievable to me.
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People can truly ignore
what God has gave us.
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God said, and I don't quote the
Bible, but I do have some idea of
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the things because I do refer to
the Bible a lot in terms of animals,
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but you know what God made was good.
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It was in Genesis, God
made everything good.
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He made animals, but , people
don't look at animals as something
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that, that we should respect.
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We have any kind of love for, it's
like there it goes, back to the saying,
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it's just an animal, it's property.
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And what really and truly concerns me,
and I know I get off on tangents about
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this, but one of the things that I
find is that my three core things that
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I do as an animal advocate, and I'll
get off on that, is that number one
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is I'm always going after government.
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Local government.
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I'm going after law enforcement,
I'm going after churches, and
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let's take government first.
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Local government, for the most part
not all of them, but for the ones
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that I've seen in my opinion, is that
there's a lot of parishes, particularly
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in south I don't wanna say South
Louisiana, but that's not what I mean.
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South United States, in the
southern part of the United States.
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It's a lot different how animals get
treated than the animals get treated
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up in the northern part of the country.
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And I'm not north south, I'm not
getting into that, but it's just
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what I've seen as a military person.
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I've stationed all over the world,
but in the north I find that animals
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got a little bit better treatment.
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They had, the laws were more enforced.
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And that doesn't refer to every state, but
a lot of the states that I happen to be
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stationed, that I saw some good things.
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I come south and just for example,
in the deep South where I live at, an
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animal for the most part is a yard dog.
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They're just yard dogs.
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Or it could be a cat or anything.
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They're just thrown out into the yard.
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There's no care, there's no vet care,
there's no interacting with the animal.
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They're just there.
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And that, I find that just
so difficult to believe.
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And what happens is our own local
government, and I don't mean where
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I live at or anything like that,
this could refer to many parishes or
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counties who suffer the same thing.
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They don't have animal ordinances,.
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They're just no animal ordinances.
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And if they do have animal ordinances, you
get into this with the law enforcement.
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And as a law enforcement officer,
I can tell you firsthand that
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it has not changed very much.
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It's not that they can't do
it, it's that animals are not a
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priority , for law enforcement,
it's just not because they are.
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And the first things I hear about
is we don't have the resources.
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We don't have the manpower.
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Those are the things I hear
all the time, and I'll get off
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on this tangent a little bit.
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As far as law enforcement is concerned
and being a former deputy sheriff,
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there are ways and there are people who
are willing to volunteer to do things.
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We have a lot of throughout the
country we have a lot of reserve
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deputies that work, a lot of reserve
officers that want to do the job.
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They don't get paid.
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They're volunteers.
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They're volunteer reserve
officers in the law enforcement.
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You can take a volunteer deputy reserve
deputy and put him into a program that
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gives him some training in animal abuse.
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You can take an administrative
deputy where people say what
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is an administrative deputy's?
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The deputy who.
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Is not a trained officer.
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In other words, they don't go to the
law enforcement training academy.
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They can be hired as a deputy
and they call 'em admin deputies.
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They have no rights of arrest, but
they do represent the sheriff's office.
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They can, if the sheriff allows.
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They can write tickets, they can write
citations for people who don't do
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what's right when it comes to animals.
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So if you take, say three, three to five
admin deputies, train them properly, and
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animal care and animal abuse, they can
do a great job for a parish or a county.
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They can do a really good job.
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And the thing about it is,
what does it cost the sheriff?
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Actually it cost the sheriff a
lot of times, and I'm thinking in
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this, in the, in this parish and
other parishes that these people
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can get, they give 'em insurance.
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It's a like a $10,000 life insurance for
them, but they don't pay 'em anything.
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My suggestion is you divide one vehicle.
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If you say you don't have a
lot of resources, one vehicle.
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You always have one person
on duty for if someone has an
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animal issue, they can call.
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If you have like one person's representing
your animal services well that one
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person's not gonna be around all the time.
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And so you call and say our animal
services to person is not available.
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I've got this dog out here that's
been thrown out in the roadway.
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And you mean you've
got nobody to come out?
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The answer is no.
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For the most part, they do not.
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And that's unfortunate.
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And it happens all throughout the country.
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It's just not locally, say where I live,
but it happens all throughout the country.
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But it's an easy fix.
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It's just not a priority for
most leaders in law enforcement.
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And I don't know if it ever will be.
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And that's an unfortunate thing.
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That's my thing with law enforcement.
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They could do a much better job at no
cost to them, very little cost to them
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and really and truly help animals.
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My third point is churches.
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I have a real thing about churches
and people have gotten really upset
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with me because I don't attend church.
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Like I used to.
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I was a big church goer.
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I grew up in the church.
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Grew up in the Baptist religion and
in even way back then, I never ever
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heard any preacher that I can remember,
ever say a prayer for one animal.
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Not the blessing, not anything.
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Pray for animals, do.
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That has not changed in all the
years that I have gone to church.
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And believe me I've attended many
different types of churches all over the
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country, and I have yet to hear a pastor
get up in front of his congregation
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and say, let's pray for the animals.
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I've never heard it to this day, and
that bothers me a whole lot because
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even our pastors that who represent.
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I'm trying to think of
what I wanna say here.
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Anyway, they're the leaders in
our religious society, supposedly.
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We look up to them.
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for different things.
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They're not there.
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They're just not there.
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They don't say anything.
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My, my suggestion is, 'cause
I wrote another book, but
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I won't get into that book.
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But anyway, my suggestion to churches is
that you go to church you sit in a pew.
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You give an offering, you
sing a few songs, listen to
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the preacher, you go home.
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But you know what, everything is
inside those four walls of that church.
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But as soon as you walk outta
those four walls, what do you see?
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I'll tell you what abused animals.
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Animals thrown away, right?
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Could be right outside the church door.
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And what does people do?
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Walk on by Not my problem.
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It's not my problem.
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You know what?
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And that really bothers me, that
you can go to church and maybe call
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yourself a Christian, but yet you do
nothing outside of those four walls.
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My suggestion was that people
take at least one Sunday,
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let's say every six weeks.
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Become a part of the community that,
when I say that is take two miles,
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it's just two miles around your church.
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And you find out, and I don't mean
just animals, people too, you find
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out do those people around your
church have do they need anything?
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Are they have, do they have any issues
that we as a church can help them with?
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Take one Sunday instead of inside the four
walls, you go out outside the four walls
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and you help people in your community.
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You wouldn't believe what a difference
it would make in a community if people
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would just do that, but they don't.
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It's like a ritual.
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You go to church every Sunday, you
go inside the four walls, you do
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your cultural thing, and then you
leave and nothing else happens.
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And I've gone to churches with meeting
people who, and I've seen firsthand
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how people just ignore animals.
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It doesn't matter.
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And people too.
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My thing, of course, my passion is
animals and I get on these long rants.
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But anyway, go ahead Dixie.
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You want to ask me something?
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I'm sorry..
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I'll, I just talk forever sometimes
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Dixie: That's quite all right.
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I did wanna touch on that too,
what you said about churches.
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'cause actually there's some situations
that I have recently seen on social media.
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Mark: Okay.
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Dixie: And one was, there was this
cat that showed up at this church
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and the priest just wants it gone.
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And the priest isn't willing to work with
a trapper to have a trapper come just.
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Humanely remove the cat, or
better yet just TNR, the trap
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neuter and release the cat.
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Instead, the priest is actually
threatening to take it upon
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himself to trap the cat and just
go dump the cat somewhere else.
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Mark: I can give you a lot
of stories exactly like that.
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Just within the six years I've been here,
I've had three rescue incidents here
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that, persons from the church, they were
called saying, we got animals over here.
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Somebody needs to come get 'em.
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We don't want 'em here.
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One of 'em was a preacher.
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We don't want that animal here.
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I don't even know what to say
or how to answer that here.
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You are a leader of your church.
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You know a man of God.
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Animals are mentioned in the Bible
from Genesis to Revelations all
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throughout the Bible, God basically
says throughout the Bible that he
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gave us animals that whatever his
creatures he gave us are good.
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Everything he gave us was good.
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He gave it to us for a reason.
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But we as humanity, we abuse that.
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We absolutely abuse it.
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And for me, and I don't have
a good answer for you, Dixie.
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I don't understand that mindset that
religious leaders, particularly religious
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leaders you, go in church every Sunday
and give you a verse after verse and tell
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you all about this verse and the love of
God and the love of this, and the love of,
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but yet you never hear it about animals.
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Dixie: It's true.
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It's funny because I have some family
that is highly religious go to church
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every Sunday, and they had some cats
show up by them and one of 'em was
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actually threatening harm to, and it's
like, I just don't understand that I
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have respect for all creatures Now.
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I don't consider myself religious.
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I'm spiritual, but not religious.
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I don't really follow an organized
religion, but at the same time, I
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could never do that to an animal,
instead of finding somebody to help.
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And there are plenty of people
who are willing to help animals.
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What role does your faith
play in your advocacy?
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Mark: I'm like you, I'm the same thing.
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I am not a religious person.
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I really stop going in inside churches
'cause the churches need to change
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the way they are today because I think
religion today has become a ritual
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and that's pretty much what it is.
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My faith is more spiritual and I
wish I knew the psychology of man,
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and how sometimes we think, but
I don't, and I say that because
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I grew up with a giving heart.
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I grew up with compassion.
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It's not something I had to learn.
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I never had to learn compassion.
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I just did not, and I don't even
know if it's a learned thing or not.
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Mine just comes with me.
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I was like that as a child.
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I've been like that as a young
adult and as an older male.
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Now, I have never changed.
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I look at things and I just, it melts
my heart if I see something that just.
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Particularly animals.
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They're so innocent.
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But yet people just don't care.
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So I gotta wonder, what makes
them, how are they different?
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Why are they different than me?
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Don't they see the same thing I see?
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Don't they see that animal as suffering?
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Do, they just don't care?
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What kind of heart, what kind
of soul do they actually have?
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And the good thing is that.
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At least I do know people
that feel the same way I do.
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I've talked to 'em, I've been around them.
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We share the same compassion, the
same love for animals and, but there's
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many more that do not even ask you.
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Again, I hate to use that term
again, but it's just an animal.
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People don't get it.
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I just don't think they get it.
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It's not just an animal.
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It's God's creation.
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We're all God's creations.
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That's why I say I'm not religious,
but I'm extremely spiritual.
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Dixie: I see what you're
talking about too.
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It's a lack of compassion.
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And also I find it even with a lot
of people who want a pet when I have
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animals that are up for adoption, I
am very picky with who they go to.
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And the reason that I am is because I'm
gonna put all of my time and love and
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effort and dedication into those animals.
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To make sure that they're
well taken care of.
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And I don't wanna turn around
and adopt 'em to somebody
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who isn't gonna do the same.
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I don't wanna adopt them to
somebody who just wants a pet.
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I wanted to adopt them to somebody
who wants a family member.
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Mark: I totally agree.
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Let me ask you a question.
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'cause we talking about compassion because
can you remember a time that you weren't.
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Like you are today to say,
did you come up like, I did?
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Did you come up with love and compassion
and it was just part of who you are?
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Dixie: Yes.
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Yes.
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I've always been that way around animals
from the, youngest I can remember, I
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have always been involved with animals.
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And I've grown up with the importance
of spay and neuter, which is weird
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too, because I have heard other
people, other lists, other guests.
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Who are from the North say that
there is a huge culture shock in the
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South when they come to the South and
they experience animal rescue here.
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And it's weird 'cause
this is what I'm used to.
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This is what I've grown up with
'cause I've always been in the south.
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But again, I've always been
a spay neuter advocate from
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the time that I can remember.
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Growing up in the eighties, if I had
a pet, they were spayed or neutered.
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So I always bring that up, what
do you think the difference is?
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'cause they say that in the north people
just treat the animals totally different.
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They treat 'em more as
like a family member.
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And here we just don't do that.
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A lot of people, like you
said, they just don't care.
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Mark: I don't know if
it's the mentality or not.
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I actually was born in
Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
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For the most part, I left Louisiana
when I was about 25 years old, 26 years
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old, and I never came back south again.
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I've been back now about six years, and
so a better part of my life I've spent in
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the military traveling and when I was in
the north their local government there.
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, They had ordinances and people were
required to have their animals license.
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They were required to have spay
and neuter, and you actually
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had to address those issues.
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Coming south here and being a rescue
here in south Louisiana it's atrocious
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what I've seen here in how people
treat animals and the reality is
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that, a lot of people just don't care.
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And this a Louisiana's, I'm not a
hunter, so I'm not saying anything about
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hunters or what have you, but it's a
different world than what I'm used to.
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And it has taken me a while and I still
have not gotten used to how people
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can just go out and kill animals.
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They think nothing about it.
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Abuse animals here, throw
animals on the roadside.
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I just rescued three
puppies not too long ago.
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We have a busy highway here called
LA 38 in Mount Herman, Louisiana.
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I was just coming home doing, just on my
way home from the store, there's three
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little puppies on the side of the road.
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I almost ran over.
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One of them stopped.
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I'm one of those persons
who are not going to leave
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an animal and particularly
puppies on the side of a road.
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I'm gonna tell you their life
there is going is gonna be death
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and they're gonna get run over.
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And the other thing is, and people
say somebody ask me, say, why are you
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always seeing puppies on the road?
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Let me tell you the biggest
reason why people don't know this.
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You know why you find dogs and
stuff on the side of the road?
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You see 'em a lot.
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I'll tell you why.
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Because when the owner dropped them
off, those dogs, those same dogs,
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think that owner's coming back.
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So they stay there.
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They will stay there weeks at a time
unless something happens to 'em.
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And that's why you find many dogs
out on the roadway because if they're
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dropped, discarded, dumped, whatever
words you want to use, that's where
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they stay because they, in their
mind that person who dropped them
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off is coming back to get them.
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If dogs don't go straying
off in the way back up in the
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woods, they're on the roadway.
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And when you see all these animals
that have been killed and people
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call road kill, it's a horrible
term as far as I'm concerned.
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But animals killed on the
road, particularly lot of dogs.
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And he cats as well.
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You just can't get away from it, is
that the fact is they don't leave
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the roadway and they stay there.
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And that's why they wind up
being killed on the highway.
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Dixie: Yeah, it's a sad situation.
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We just got a kitten that was
actually dumped in a swamp, and you
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could tell when we got the kitten
home that the kitten had been eaten
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mud, swamp mud, trying to survive.
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Very emaciated thin.
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So we got the kitten in, got 'em
dewormed, got rid of the fleas on 'em.
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It's finally starting to gain some weight.
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Very sweet kitten.
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So this was not a feral kitten
that grew up in the swamp.
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Somebody had to go dump the kitten there.
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Mark: Yeah, they went and dumped
469
00:27:06,592 --> 00:27:06,712
them.
470
00:27:06,812 --> 00:27:07,532
Oh, absolutely.
471
00:27:07,892 --> 00:27:13,172
They dump, like I said it may even be
more, but since I started counting the
472
00:27:13,172 --> 00:27:16,522
animals I rescued it's been 2000 plus.
473
00:27:17,387 --> 00:27:20,632
I just dumped on the side of
the road about three months
474
00:27:20,632 --> 00:27:23,722
ago, maybe four months ago.
475
00:27:24,322 --> 00:27:25,792
And I've said this story many times.
476
00:27:25,792 --> 00:27:27,742
I do a lot of YouTube stuff.
477
00:27:27,742 --> 00:27:32,332
I have two YouTube channels and one of
'em is called Heart to Heart with Dr.
478
00:27:32,332 --> 00:27:32,632
Mark.
479
00:27:33,352 --> 00:27:38,902
But on that YouTube channel I'm always
curious, I'm very curious person in terms
480
00:27:38,902 --> 00:27:44,752
of when I was coming home there were many
buzzards flying and it looked like from
481
00:27:44,752 --> 00:27:46,732
where I was, it was flying over my house.
482
00:27:46,732 --> 00:27:50,302
I always worried 'cause I got a big
animal rescue here and something happened.
483
00:27:50,692 --> 00:27:54,982
It wasn't my house, so I followed
where those buzzards were.
484
00:27:55,432 --> 00:27:59,782
Make a long story short is those
buzzards were hanging right over
485
00:27:59,872 --> 00:28:01,552
and they were already on the ground.
486
00:28:01,942 --> 00:28:08,002
There were six puppies, about six
to eight weeks old that somebody had
487
00:28:08,002 --> 00:28:09,982
discarded on one of the country roads.
488
00:28:10,887 --> 00:28:11,872
And it was sickening.
489
00:28:12,022 --> 00:28:13,312
It was absolutely sickening.
490
00:28:13,792 --> 00:28:17,362
I could not let that go,
and I'm glad to this day.
491
00:28:18,142 --> 00:28:20,152
Fortunately for me, they all got homes.
492
00:28:20,152 --> 00:28:20,932
I got 'em homes.
493
00:28:21,112 --> 00:28:26,362
But to this day, how does somebody
go out and dump six little puppies?
494
00:28:27,112 --> 00:28:30,562
On the side of a country road,
there's no houses, there's no nothing.
495
00:28:31,342 --> 00:28:35,362
And those buzzards were about 10
feet away waiting for 'em to die.
496
00:28:36,172 --> 00:28:42,257
So fortunately I followed my instincts
and went and I picked up all six puppies.
497
00:28:42,257 --> 00:28:44,432
But the point is i'll never know.
498
00:28:44,432 --> 00:28:47,492
I hear this question asked all
the time, how can people do this?
499
00:28:48,062 --> 00:28:49,482
How can they I don't know how.
500
00:28:49,482 --> 00:28:50,502
I don't have the answer.
501
00:28:51,072 --> 00:28:51,702
I just don't.
502
00:28:53,002 --> 00:28:58,042
, Dixie: Another trend too that I tend
to see is a lot of people who may see a
503
00:28:58,042 --> 00:29:03,857
situation where an animal does need help,
but rather than step up and help or do
504
00:29:03,857 --> 00:29:09,132
something to actually physically help,
they'll just go post it on social media.
505
00:29:09,132 --> 00:29:11,532
Like, oh, hey, this animal
needs help over there.
506
00:29:12,297 --> 00:29:15,897
And so it's like, how do you
even get people like that
507
00:29:15,897 --> 00:29:17,967
even more involved to help?
508
00:29:17,997 --> 00:29:19,947
'cause they're in the
situation where they can help,
509
00:29:19,947 --> 00:29:21,747
Mark: that's another whole issue with me.
510
00:29:21,747 --> 00:29:25,097
I've done so many books and sometimes
I go into one book and another.
511
00:29:25,097 --> 00:29:28,397
But one of the books I wrote
too was Silent Stewards.
512
00:29:28,627 --> 00:29:29,492
There's the other one.
513
00:29:29,492 --> 00:29:30,902
Let me turn around here for a minute.
514
00:29:30,902 --> 00:29:34,512
'cause I got so many the other
one's called Bystander Nation.
515
00:29:35,432 --> 00:29:40,502
If your audience ever gets an
opportunity, just go to Amazon, Dr.
516
00:29:40,502 --> 00:29:41,972
Mark Mc Morris, Jr.
517
00:29:42,392 --> 00:29:46,282
No, I'm not here to sell my books, but if
you're interested in getting 'em, because
518
00:29:46,282 --> 00:29:50,502
if you are interested in being an animal
advocate and really want to learn about.
519
00:29:51,282 --> 00:29:53,622
You know what it's like
to be an animal advocate.
520
00:29:54,082 --> 00:29:59,472
I have several great books that you can
get that will give you that information.
521
00:29:59,472 --> 00:30:00,612
All of that information.
522
00:30:00,662 --> 00:30:04,712
It truly will educate you if you're
interested in helping animals.
523
00:30:05,192 --> 00:30:08,162
But the question and I
got off on a tangent.
524
00:30:08,552 --> 00:30:09,892
Refresh my memory here
525
00:30:09,942 --> 00:30:13,492
Dixie: so was talking about the
people who, will go post looking for
526
00:30:13,492 --> 00:30:15,232
help, but without actually helping.
527
00:30:15,382 --> 00:30:15,532
Yes.
528
00:30:15,562 --> 00:30:19,942
Now, the only positive thing that
I can say about that is there are a
529
00:30:19,942 --> 00:30:22,492
lot of individuals who will go help.
530
00:30:22,492 --> 00:30:26,272
It's frustrating sometimes that they're
in that situation where the animal needs
531
00:30:26,272 --> 00:30:31,192
the help immediately, and they would
just rather post it than just help.
532
00:30:32,197 --> 00:30:36,407
Fortunately, sometimes it does get
the animals the help that they need.
533
00:30:36,717 --> 00:30:37,677
Mark: Let me address that though.
534
00:30:37,677 --> 00:30:38,067
Sure.
535
00:30:38,167 --> 00:30:42,517
Let me tell you how people can
help, and they really should start
536
00:30:42,517 --> 00:30:47,097
doing this because I'm on a case
right now that I'm working that.
537
00:30:47,217 --> 00:30:50,517
And it had to do with these puppies
that were abandoned on this highway.
538
00:30:51,117 --> 00:30:52,707
Let me tell you what you can do.
539
00:30:52,957 --> 00:30:57,467
If anybody's listening you, let's
say maybe I can't, keep the dog
540
00:30:57,522 --> 00:30:59,082
or the cat or what have you.
541
00:30:59,592 --> 00:31:06,072
But here's what you can do and you should
do is call your local law enforcement.
542
00:31:06,672 --> 00:31:12,842
By law is, particularly in Louisiana
and many states, at least 30 states.
543
00:31:13,652 --> 00:31:17,102
There are dumping animals is a felony.
544
00:31:17,432 --> 00:31:18,422
It's a crime.
545
00:31:18,902 --> 00:31:22,262
So what you can do is you stay there.
546
00:31:22,652 --> 00:31:27,272
Make sure that animal that's been
dumped, that you stay there and make
547
00:31:27,272 --> 00:31:31,022
sure you can see what you can do
to help protect or what have you.
548
00:31:31,442 --> 00:31:37,622
Call your local law enforcement and
tell them where you are, who you are.
549
00:31:37,977 --> 00:31:39,507
And get all that information.
550
00:31:39,777 --> 00:31:46,407
Take pictures, take videos, document
everything that you see and please,
551
00:31:46,467 --> 00:31:50,397
I hope if those who are listening to
this, please do this because this is a
552
00:31:50,397 --> 00:31:55,967
big thing that I'm working on right now
with my videos is document everything.
553
00:31:56,267 --> 00:31:57,797
Stop document.
554
00:31:57,977 --> 00:32:02,507
Try to help as best you
can, call law enforcement.
555
00:32:03,647 --> 00:32:06,767
Get a case number when
you call the dispatch.
556
00:32:06,947 --> 00:32:10,617
Wherever law enforcement at, wherever
you live at, you'll get dispatch.
557
00:32:11,277 --> 00:32:13,737
You ask dispatch for a case number.
558
00:32:14,187 --> 00:32:20,757
That is extremely important
because that case number actually
559
00:32:21,237 --> 00:32:25,962
presents that these law enforcement
officers have to make a report.
560
00:32:27,477 --> 00:32:33,687
That's the way you follow up on whether
or not that law enforcement agency, what
561
00:32:33,687 --> 00:32:40,077
they did, if they did anything, if they
didn't do anything, you got a case number.
562
00:32:40,537 --> 00:32:45,677
And you can with that case number,
follow up with that complaint.
563
00:32:46,127 --> 00:32:51,077
Now, I know this takes a lot of work,
but truly this is important because
564
00:32:51,077 --> 00:32:55,097
this will begin to start changing
how law enforcement starts to act.
565
00:32:56,117 --> 00:32:58,037
But we have to do something first.
566
00:32:58,337 --> 00:33:01,187
So you run across an abandoned animal.
567
00:33:01,637 --> 00:33:07,457
You get video, you get pictures, you
call law enforcement, you have 'em come
568
00:33:07,457 --> 00:33:13,187
out, you get a case number from dispatch
again, I repeat, that's important.
569
00:33:13,967 --> 00:33:16,127
Now, law enforcement might not show up.
570
00:33:16,127 --> 00:33:21,142
They say we don't have anybody to come
or what have you know what you pull that
571
00:33:21,142 --> 00:33:23,272
case number, find out what happened.
572
00:33:23,857 --> 00:33:24,727
Nothing happened.
573
00:33:24,727 --> 00:33:27,217
Then you go to the chief
law enforcement officer.
574
00:33:27,277 --> 00:33:30,457
That may be the sheriff,
that may be his chief deputy.
575
00:33:30,847 --> 00:33:34,147
But you go and make the complaint
and you do it in writing.
576
00:33:34,987 --> 00:33:40,627
You do it in writing because I
will tell you just to talk or
577
00:33:40,627 --> 00:33:42,397
communicate without writing.
578
00:33:42,777 --> 00:33:46,077
Things just go by the
wayside when it's in writing.
579
00:33:46,077 --> 00:33:50,037
You have a paper trail start
a paper trail if you really,
580
00:33:50,037 --> 00:33:51,252
truly want to help that animal.
581
00:33:52,227 --> 00:33:55,017
You start a paper trail and
that's the first thing you do.
582
00:33:55,497 --> 00:33:58,167
Like I've sent out a couple
of certified letters.
583
00:33:58,167 --> 00:34:00,627
Now I've got certified
letters out about things.
584
00:34:01,177 --> 00:34:03,787
Let's say the chief law enforcement
doesn't do anything about it.
585
00:34:03,907 --> 00:34:07,447
Your second step is the
district attorney's office.
586
00:34:07,627 --> 00:34:10,417
That is your second step
that you write a letter.
587
00:34:10,536 --> 00:34:11,917
Again, paper trail.
588
00:34:11,917 --> 00:34:12,667
Paper trail.
589
00:34:13,387 --> 00:34:13,777
Alright.
590
00:34:13,777 --> 00:34:14,706
The district attorney.
591
00:34:14,737 --> 00:34:15,907
And then they may do something.
592
00:34:15,907 --> 00:34:16,956
You may have an action.
593
00:34:17,226 --> 00:34:18,217
At least do something.
594
00:34:19,806 --> 00:34:21,337
Let's say they just ignore you.
595
00:34:21,607 --> 00:34:22,657
Nobody does anything.
596
00:34:23,167 --> 00:34:28,567
Your next step is your state police,
your crime department, you call them.
597
00:34:28,567 --> 00:34:29,677
There's always some way.
598
00:34:29,677 --> 00:34:34,087
The point is, there's always someone
that you can go above to get something
599
00:34:34,087 --> 00:34:36,717
done about animals that are being dumped.
600
00:34:37,077 --> 00:34:42,087
Again, I repeat that is a crime and
law enforcement should investigate it.
601
00:34:43,786 --> 00:34:44,627
I get carried away.
602
00:34:44,627 --> 00:34:45,226
You notice that?
603
00:34:45,467 --> 00:34:46,456
Dixie: That's quite all right.
604
00:34:46,507 --> 00:34:48,547
It's good to be passionate about animals.
605
00:34:49,786 --> 00:34:55,277
Do you have that in Soul of the Silent
for listeners who care, but feel
606
00:34:55,277 --> 00:34:57,137
powerless what they can actually do?
607
00:34:57,137 --> 00:34:58,757
Does the book go over that as well?
608
00:34:58,757 --> 00:35:00,317
Mark: Yes, I do.
609
00:35:00,687 --> 00:35:01,707
I have a lot of books.
610
00:35:01,707 --> 00:35:07,727
Soul of the Silence kind of is
about who we are as a person.
611
00:35:08,452 --> 00:35:14,172
You read this book and it's gonna
tell you really seriously about how
612
00:35:14,322 --> 00:35:19,662
you are, your feelings and other
people's feelings and what you look
613
00:35:19,662 --> 00:35:21,552
for and what you look for in yourself.
614
00:35:21,552 --> 00:35:22,932
It's like looking into a mirror.
615
00:35:23,172 --> 00:35:26,202
If you would read this book, it's
like looking in a mirror at yourself.
616
00:35:26,652 --> 00:35:30,372
That's exactly what it's like it's
going to tell you exactly what kind
617
00:35:30,372 --> 00:35:32,312
of person that you may or may not be.
618
00:35:33,062 --> 00:35:35,852
It's a kind of a deep
insight about who you are
619
00:35:37,202 --> 00:35:42,092
Dixie: and what do you hope people will
take away after reading Soul as a silent,
620
00:35:46,462 --> 00:35:51,532
Mark: One thing that I hope they take away
from it is that they develop, and I don't
621
00:35:51,532 --> 00:35:56,812
know if that's a good word or not, but
they look at animals in a different light.
622
00:35:57,607 --> 00:36:02,867
Instead of looking at them as property
or looking at them as a non sentient
623
00:36:02,887 --> 00:36:08,527
being, they're gonna see animals
that are in a different perspective.
624
00:36:08,527 --> 00:36:12,097
That's what I was hoping to get out
of this book, is that when people read
625
00:36:12,097 --> 00:36:18,067
it, they'll actually see what animals
and truly how animals feel and how
626
00:36:18,067 --> 00:36:23,077
you feel as a person and what may be
things that you can do to change the
627
00:36:23,077 --> 00:36:25,237
way your compassion and your heart is.
628
00:36:26,242 --> 00:36:27,902
So I love that book.
629
00:36:27,902 --> 00:36:31,562
It's one of my better books because
it's a book that was taken from
630
00:36:32,102 --> 00:36:37,352
a lot of years on this earth and
dealing with people and animals.
631
00:36:37,772 --> 00:36:41,702
So it's a heart wrenching
book that I had put together.
632
00:36:42,002 --> 00:36:46,182
Unlike my other books, some of the
other books are factual in nature.
633
00:36:46,182 --> 00:36:48,532
This is a heartfelt looking.
634
00:36:49,027 --> 00:36:50,857
Yourself and animals.
635
00:36:51,997 --> 00:36:56,527
Dixie: And then I think one thing too
about the book is even if you are a
636
00:36:56,527 --> 00:37:01,537
compassionate person, and even if you
are an animal lover like us and don't
637
00:37:01,537 --> 00:37:07,117
look at animals as property I refer to
the animals in my house almost as people.
638
00:37:07,692 --> 00:37:10,322
Mark: I got one on my lap, I
should have called him Velcro.
639
00:37:11,532 --> 00:37:15,192
Dixie: But one thing that I would like
to say is whether or not you are already
640
00:37:15,192 --> 00:37:19,392
an animal lover, compassionate like
us, this is still a really good read.
641
00:37:19,392 --> 00:37:25,032
It's a good reference for you to use
to tell other people that, maybe will
642
00:37:25,032 --> 00:37:27,972
help change people's perspectives
on how they look at animals.
643
00:37:29,382 --> 00:37:33,332
Mark: I hope I, I really do because
if they'll take the book seriously,
644
00:37:33,332 --> 00:37:36,862
if they'll buy the book and take it
seriously and really read through it,
645
00:37:37,462 --> 00:37:42,512
then I'm hoping that something will
cause a change in you because we need
646
00:37:42,512 --> 00:37:44,492
so many more people to help animals.
647
00:37:44,522 --> 00:37:50,012
'cause right now, from the early
years of my life till now, animals
648
00:37:50,062 --> 00:37:51,622
have come up on the shortt stick.
649
00:37:51,682 --> 00:37:52,972
Short end of everything.
650
00:37:53,467 --> 00:37:56,767
They're still abused very
badly, particularly now.
651
00:37:57,257 --> 00:37:58,667
I think you brought this point up.
652
00:37:58,907 --> 00:38:00,137
This is a really bad time.
653
00:38:00,137 --> 00:38:04,037
People are trying to rehome
animals or try to adopt animals.
654
00:38:05,037 --> 00:38:09,387
Our local government, and I go back to
my number one issue, our local government
655
00:38:09,777 --> 00:38:14,367
should have laws that tell, you know what,
when you get an animal, that animal should
656
00:38:14,367 --> 00:38:18,747
be licensed, it should be health checked,
and it should be spay or neutered.
657
00:38:19,392 --> 00:38:21,552
Unless you have a particular license.
658
00:38:21,552 --> 00:38:26,582
If you are a breeder, , and you have a
bonafide breeding farm, that's different.
659
00:38:27,242 --> 00:38:30,422
But if you are a person who is
looking for a pet, or you know
660
00:38:30,422 --> 00:38:34,862
what spay neuter should be done,
licensing of an animal should be done.
661
00:38:35,522 --> 00:38:38,732
Health certificate should
be done to let you know.
662
00:38:38,852 --> 00:38:42,477
And not only does that protect you and
your family, but it protects others.
663
00:38:42,577 --> 00:38:42,827
It protects the animals.
664
00:38:44,417 --> 00:38:48,407
And then we wouldn't have the
problem of euthanasia because that's
665
00:38:48,407 --> 00:38:51,557
another big issue that I'm writing
about right now is euthanasia.
666
00:38:51,917 --> 00:38:57,347
Millions of animals are being euthanized
healthy animals, because our local
667
00:38:57,347 --> 00:39:01,757
government, for the most part, and I don't
mean where I live at, just in general,
668
00:39:02,117 --> 00:39:05,177
local government will not do their job.
669
00:39:05,627 --> 00:39:08,077
Law enforcement will not do their job.
670
00:39:08,077 --> 00:39:10,117
And that again, I referenced that with.
671
00:39:10,522 --> 00:39:14,482
There are good law enforcement agencies,
there are good local governments
672
00:39:14,482 --> 00:39:16,562
that take animal life serious.
673
00:39:16,562 --> 00:39:20,162
But again, I have to look at the
generalization of what I see.
674
00:39:20,642 --> 00:39:23,702
And in my opinion, there are
many people that needs to change.
675
00:39:24,642 --> 00:39:28,122
Dixie: Thank you for sitting down
with me today to talk about your book.
676
00:39:28,452 --> 00:39:29,232
Mark: I was happy to do it.
677
00:39:29,652 --> 00:39:32,772
Dixie: And before we end this
episode, is there anything else
678
00:39:32,772 --> 00:39:33,307
that you would like to add?
679
00:39:34,492 --> 00:39:37,322
Mark: I would appreciate if
you're a person that is looking
680
00:39:37,322 --> 00:39:41,332
to help animals and truly help
animals I got some great books.
681
00:39:41,462 --> 00:39:46,142
I put a lot of in into those books,
and one of 'em is animal advocacy,
682
00:39:46,142 --> 00:39:47,582
how to be an animal advocate.
683
00:39:47,972 --> 00:39:50,342
I've got how to investigate animal abuse.
684
00:39:50,922 --> 00:39:52,932
There's a number of
books that you can get.
685
00:39:53,307 --> 00:39:56,927
That I put my heart and soul into these
books, and I think you'll find that.
686
00:39:57,347 --> 00:40:00,967
And so if you're interested in working
with animals, then I suggest that
687
00:40:00,967 --> 00:40:03,607
you would go to Amazon under Dr.
688
00:40:03,607 --> 00:40:04,807
Mark mc Morris, Jr.
689
00:40:04,907 --> 00:40:07,337
Not that I'm plugging my book, but I am.
690
00:40:08,690 --> 00:40:11,470
And so anyway, that's the
only thing I had to say.
691
00:40:12,055 --> 00:40:12,445
Dixie: All right.
692
00:40:12,445 --> 00:40:16,315
Thank you for letting me come out
and tour Mark's Animal Rescue.
693
00:40:16,315 --> 00:40:18,415
I had a really good time
speaking with you today.
694
00:40:18,805 --> 00:40:19,085
Mark: Thank you.
695
00:40:19,185 --> 00:40:19,965
I'm glad y'all came
696
00:40:19,965 --> 00:40:20,565
appreciate it.
697
00:40:20,565 --> 00:40:21,885
Dixie: Alright, thanks.
698
00:40:23,442 --> 00:40:26,362
That's all the time that we
have for today's episode.
699
00:40:26,422 --> 00:40:29,152
Thank you for listening and
we hope you join us next week.
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If you know somebody that loves animals
as much as I do, please send 'em our way.
701
00:40:33,172 --> 00:40:34,372
We would love to talk to 'em.
702
00:40:34,801 --> 00:40:38,521
If you are enjoying our show, please
consider leaving us a donation.
703
00:40:38,851 --> 00:40:41,681
A hundred percent goes to our animals.
704
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Paws in
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the night Claws in the
fight Whiskers twitch and
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tails
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00:41:03,371 --> 00:41:04,041
take flight
708
00:41:04,096 --> 00:41:10,446
They’re calling in Stories to spin
From the wild to the heart within
709
00:41:11,466 --> 00:41:17,016
Broken wings and hopeful springs
We’re the voices for these things
710
00:41:17,481 --> 00:41:21,121
animal posse hear the call.
711
00:41:22,781 --> 00:41:24,161
We stand together.
712
00:41:25,381 --> 00:41:37,241
Big and small Rescue tales We’ve
got it all Animal posse Saving
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00:41:39,321 --> 00:41:39,741
them
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00:41:45,611 --> 00:41:45,731
all
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00:41:46,021 --> 00:41:52,681
The vet’s got tips The rescuer’s
grit The foster homes where love
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00:41:52,681 --> 00:42:04,791
won’t quit From a pup in the rain to
a bird in pain , Every soul’s worth
717
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the
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00:42:09,626 --> 00:42:11,446
strain
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00:42:11,711 --> 00:42:14,621
Animal posse
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Hear the call
721
00:42:26,661 --> 00:42:30,551
We stand together Big
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00:42:32,591 --> 00:42:40,971
and small Rescue tales We’ve got
it all Animal posse Saving them all
723
00:42:41,281 --> 00:42:47,391
Every caller tells a tale, every
howl a whispered wail, we rise up.
724
00:42:47,851 --> 00:42:48,511
We never
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fail.
726
00:42:55,881 --> 00:42:55,971
This
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00:42:58,031 --> 00:42:58,091
is
728
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the
729
00:43:06,891 --> 00:43:09,031
bond
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The holy grail
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Animal posse Hear the call We stand
together Big and small Rescue tales We’ve
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00:43:28,917 --> 00:43:37,686
got it all Animal posse Saving them all
733
00:43:37,736 --> 00:43:45,001
Every caller tells a tale Every howl
a whispered wail We rise up We never
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fail This is the bond The holy grail.
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Song by Suno.ai
