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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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Hi everybody.
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This is Dixie with Unwanted Feline
organization, your host of Animal posse.
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Joining me today is Stephanie Smith.
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Stephanie is an animal lover, animal
advocate, and an independent rescuer.
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Hey, Stephanie
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Stephanie: hey.
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Dixie: Welcome to the show.
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I know the other day we spoke briefly on
the phone and you were talking about all
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these stories and rescues that you've
been involved in, and you talked about
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how you had a very successful social
media page that was getting a lot of
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information out there that got shut down.
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So I definitely wanna
talk about all of that.
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But before we get into that, can you
tell us a little bit about yourself?
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How is it that you.
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Became an independent rescuer,
an or an animal advocate.
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Stephanie: Let's see, back in 2022 I had a
friend call me, asked me if I could go and
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check this crate on the side of the road.
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Went and checked it.
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It was not a good thing
called animal control.
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They come out.
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It took a while to unscrew
the container the dog was in.
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It was in a container that you normally
take your dogs to the vet in or cats.
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The puppy, it was probably a six
month old puppy, probably younger.
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It was deceased.
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I'm not gonna go into details what was
going on with it because it was not good.
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And then I realized there was a problem.
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So I've always rescued
animals and took care of 'em.
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But that day I really got
involved with contacting.
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The mayor, Commonwealth attorney,
the Sheriff's Department trying
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to figure out what we could do
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and the problem that people
don't see is there's not enough
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manpower in these positions.
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And there's not enough people
like me , what I'm seeing is
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people get on the computer and
we call 'em keyboard warriors.
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If those keyboard warriors would actually
get up from behind that computer and
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start attending these city council
meetings the county meetings, , because
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there is two different entities
people need to understand there.
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, It is a true meaning when it
says it takes a village because
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it really does one person.
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Can make a little change, but it's
gonna take more than just one to get
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laws changed to help these animals.
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So let's fast forward a little bit.
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I had this page, it was going great.
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Had 14,000 followers.
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We were getting things done.
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We were getting animals rescued
from bad situations meeting a lot of
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other rescues from different states.
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I was on the phone.
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It's just me.
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I keep saying.
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We, but it was me.
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I made phone calls.
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I talked to sheriff's
departments in different towns.
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People would send me
photos, videos of an animal.
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I stayed in close contact with
different sheriff's departments
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'cause I couldn't actually get
in my car and drive 500 miles.
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But what information was coming into
me, I was translating back to them.
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I got a lot of animals
rescued just by doing that.
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Staying in contact with judges,
sheriffs, and you've got to be kind.
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You've gotta be kind.
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You can't go in there like
a bull in a China shop.
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You know these people.
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They work hard and there's not a lot
of them and I really feel bad for 'em.
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'Cause they do try and they get the blunt,
, people think they don't do anything.
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They really do try.
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They just don't have the manpower.
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Dixie: Let me interrupt
you for just one second.
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Stephanie: Sure.
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Dixie: What is the area that you are in?
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What state are you in?
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Stephanie: I'm in Kentucky, but I was
mainly gonna focus on Kentucky on my page.
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But I had so many people reaching
out from other states needing help.
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It's just not Kentucky,
it's just not Illinois.
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It's the whole United States
that's having problems.
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Dixie: So you were basically
sitting in front of your
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computer on your page, helping.
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Hundreds and hundreds of miles
away just by making phone calls
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and doing all those things.
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Yes.
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Wow.
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That's wonderful.
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Yes.
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Stephanie: I was not
being a keyboard warrior.
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There's a difference here.
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Dixie: Absolutely.
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Stephanie: When I say keyboard
warrior, I'm talking about someone
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that goes you need to go do something.
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Why don't somebody go help
that person or help that animal
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that is a keyboard warrior.
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I was seeing there was a problem and
I was taking those extra steps in,
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making phone calls collecting videos
from people that send it to me.
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Pictures, addresses people's names,
and I was getting it out there.
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To the correct people, like the police
department or the judges or who it may be.
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And I'm gonna tell you, I met a
lot on the phone, didn't meet 'em
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in person, and I'm over the phone.
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I met a lot of very kindhearted
sheriffs, judges, lawyers.
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They care.
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They care, but they can only go so far.
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And then it takes the citizens to jump in.
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It really takes a village.
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It takes all of us.
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Dixie: When you say that you need
the citizens to jump in, explain
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why you need that to happen.
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Stephanie: Okay.
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Let me give an example.
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I'll just give you an example that
something that happened to me if I was
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someone that did not get involved I seen
someone physically beating their dog.
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This really happened beating
their dog, kicking it, punching
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it really abusing this dog.
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Now, see, if I didn't get involved,
I could just shut my door and the
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problem would never get solved.
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The animal would continue to be
abused, but the person I am and
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the community and the citizens
getting involved, I stepped out.
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And said, you don't need
to hit that dog no more.
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And I was filming.
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People need to understand they
need, and I'm talking, they
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judges, lawyers, sheriffs.
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They need that proof,
that video, that photo.
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They need that proof.
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To be able to prove that
this is what's happening.
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So I took the initiative to get involved,
take the video, take the pictures.
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I called 9 1 1 and said,
Hey, send somebody out here.
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And that's what I mean
by getting involved.
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I didn't shut my door and.
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Just let it continue to
happen every single day.
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I got involved, I got it
stopped, and I had to stay on it.
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It's not something that resolved
that very day because it takes time.
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People think I did report it.
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Okay, just because you reported it.
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It takes time.
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They've got to build up the evidence and
get their, because when you go in front
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of a judge, you've gotta have proof.
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If somebody come up to you and said, Hey
John down here,, that's just an example.
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He's down here punching his dog well.
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You don't know if you can believe
it or not, but if they've got video
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evidence that's really happening,
that's what it's gonna take to get
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done.
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The citizens need to get involved.
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That's why it was called Citizens
Against Animal Abuse and Neglect,
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because it takes the citizens
getting involved, not just one.
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Not just one citizen.
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It takes the citizens,
everybody getting involved.
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I would go to meetings
down at the courthouse.
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They're gonna listen to 50
people instead of just one.
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And when you're the
only one standing there.
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It makes it look like you're the
chopper, because it's okay, wait,
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why is there just one of 'em?
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She's not, really pleading her case here.
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But if you've got 50 people behind you or
30 people saying the same thing, believing
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in the same thing, you're gonna get
more of a response, something happening.
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You've got to stick together.
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It does take people getting involved.
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Dixie: I'm glad you said something
too about the videoing because this is
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something that I see a lot of, especially
with people who trap and dump cats.
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You constantly see people saying,
oh, somebody trapped and dumped my
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cat, and they'll go on social media.
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They will complain and complain about it.
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And I'm like, today there is no reason
for you not to have video with the
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cell phones that we have available.
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Correct.
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It's easy to get video
and then not only that.
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If you are suspecting that somebody
is trapping and dumping, which is
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illegal, by the way, if you are
suspecting that somebody is doing that,
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you can even go get a game Camera.
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Game cameras are inexpensive,
so you can hide it somewhere
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where you can get that video.
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But a lot of people wanna invest
all that time complaining.
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Like you said, they don't go out and
physically do anything, and people
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will even tell 'em, you have to
go out, you have to get the video.
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You can't just say, so and so
is trapping and dumping cats.
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You need to get some kind of video proof
of it, and with, yes, with everything
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available, there really is no reason that
you can't get something like that done.
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It's easy, and if you can't afford.
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A game camera to set up, ask somebody else
because they might have one to lend you.
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Stephanie: They may even
have cameras on their house.
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I have even went to the extent of
people saying this is happening,
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and if it is in my area, if it's
not, I go on Google and look around.
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People may have cameras on their house.
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There's too many cameras.
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Too readily available nowadays.
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There's no excuse not to have cameras.
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And I'm glad that you said the trapping
and what you're saying, they're the cats.
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They don't want 'em in
their neighborhoods.
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And is that what you're getting at is
people's trapping 'em and relocating 'em?
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Dixie: So like in our area, okay.
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Yes.
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We have the TNR cats are considered Yes.
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Community cats.
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So yes, in my area they
are allowed to be there.
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A leash law does not
apply to a community cat.
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So if they're ear tipped and they're
around in an area and they're in
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A colony where they're well cared
for, they're allowed to be there.
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And you'll have people
that are just cat haters.
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Or animal haters.
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, They don't want to even see 'em.
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The cats don't even need
to go on their property.
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They don't wanna see 'em there, though.
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That's the problem.
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I understand situations where
they could actually be a nuisance
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and people, might not even be
feeding them in the correct place.
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They might not be feeding them enough.
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They might be.
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Feeding 'em to where they're leaving
food all around and then it does
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create a little bit of a nuisance.
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But to the ones that do it the correct
way, you'll just have these people that
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almost try to lure them into their yard
just so they could trap 'em and dump
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them, even if they're not bothering them.
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It's just like the sight
of them bothers them.
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They don't want them to be there, period.
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So they'll admit to neighbors that,
oh yeah, I trapped and dumped that
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one 'cause I didn't want it here.
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And it's like people will come out and
they'll be like, yeah, so and so that,
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lives next door to me trapped my cat.
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You don't have proof of it.
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They can tell you, there you
go, all they want that they
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trapped and dumped your cat.
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And you don't have any
proof of that though.
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So you need to have proof.
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You have to record it.
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, Exactly.
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And if you love animals, then you will
take that extra step to protect them.
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Stephanie: People need to realize
that animals don't have voices, so
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you have to be that voice for them.
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They've gotta remember.
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It's all hearsay unless there's proof.
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Video proof.
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Photo proof.
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I love video though.
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Let me tell you I started TNR
down at a place that I go to.
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I realized there was a big, major problem.
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So when I went to leave, I
immediately got on the phone.
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And this is what I'm trying
to get people to understand.
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It takes.
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You one person to get the ball rolling.
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I seen there was a problem, so
I financially could not do it.
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'cause there's 60 cats there and I
picked up the phone and made phone
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calls to people, I was like, Hey,
do you know somebody that can help
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me financially get these cats fixed?
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What do I need to do?
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Who do I need to call?
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And it ended up I did find
somebody that had a grant and
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was like, let's get 'em fixed.
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So let me tell you when I go and feed
'em, 'cause I feed 'em once a day.
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I do have an Amazon wishlist because I
can't financially feed all these cats.
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And plus I got cats of my own.
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I have a page, it's
called pet Blessing Box.
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It's got a blue box.
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And I'll talk about that in a
minute, but I do film when I go.
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First off, I did not start this just
by, Hey, I'm gonna start doing it.
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No, I found out who the
manager was of this park and.
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I asked them, it's a trailer park.
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I said, is it okay that I do this?
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This is what I'm gonna do.
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I'm gonna bring these cats back.
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They're gonna be fixed.
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They're going to have their
rabies shots and they'll have
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an ear tip when they come back.
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And if I'm lucky, can get 'em a home.
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Absolutely thrilled to
death that I was doing this.
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I have talked to, not all, but.
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90% of the residents in that
area, I'm very kind to 'em.
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I'm not rude.
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Some of them come out and said,
please don't fix these cats.
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I don't know who your
cat is out of 60 cats.
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I do film.
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I film when I feed.
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I don't film the people.
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I don't have the camera
filming everybody's.
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I'm very respectful.
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I film the cats when I feed 'em.
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I do take pictures of
the cats and I post it.
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That's one thing people need to
do to show what you're doing.
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If you're doing TNR, 'cause there's
somebody else in our area that does
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it too and does the same thing.
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It's to show the community
what you're doing for one,
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and also to protect yourself.
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And there's just a lot of
reasons that you need to do it.
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But if people are trapping these
cats and taking 'em and dumping 'em,
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people need to get that on recording
or maybe, go up to push record on
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your phone and go up and talk to 'em
and say, Hey, are you doing this?
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And if so, why?
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How can we fix this?
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Because I had a neighbor in
my neighborhood doing the
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same thing, trapping the cats
that I was getting fixed.
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He said, I didn't like the
cats coming in my yard.
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And I said there is
deterrence that you can buy.
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There's stuff that you can put around in
your yard and I do tell 'em the benefits.
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Cats keep mice and snakes and
things that you don't want coming
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in your home or around your home.
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They keep 'em down.
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So maybe talk to 'em about that
as well, if that's what they're
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doing, but definitely get that.
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Proof that they're doing it.
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Dixie: Yeah.
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See, I had a situation
a couple of months ago.
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We have a feral and he
had passed away suddenly.
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Stephanie: Oh no.
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Dixie: I went back on my cameras and
I looked, from . The time that we fed
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him the day before to the time that
we found him, we looked at all angles.
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Just 'cause I wanted to make
sure that nobody did come,
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intentionally put some food out.
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Or something to harm him.
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In this case, no.
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It turned out when we told my vet , her
best guess would be like, he threw like
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a blood clot or something like that,
and that just caused him to pass away.
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But it was beneficial to have those
cameras to know that we knew that
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nobody came and gave him something
that he wasn't supposed to get.
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Nobody came and harmed him.
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And at least that gave us some bit of
closure on that, because it's upsetting
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when they're fine one day and they're
like that the next and you just
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don't know what could have happened.
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You don't want somebody coming up and
kicking him or hitting him or leaving out
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something that he should not be eating.
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And at least with those cameras,
it did give us that peace of mind.
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'cause and it took us a long
time, but we went back and we
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watched every single angle.
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To track him to see where he was.
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And he never left the property.
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He stayed within the property,
so nobody did harm him.
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So it was just, like I said,
peace of mind knowing that
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Stephanie: Oh absolutely.
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Yeah.
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You've got to have that
proof most definitely.
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Dixie: Tell us a little bit
about the pet Blessing box.
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Stephanie: I noticed that there was on
the pages that I follow, people would
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be on there asking for cat food or
dog food, that they couldn't make it.
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Maybe a couple of days until
their next payday or whatever.
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So at my church, we have a
blessing box for the people and
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I thought this is something that
nobody has around here for pets.
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So I talked to my church
and they were great with it.
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They said That would be awesome.
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I gave my husband a plan
on how I wanted it built.
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So he built it and we installed it.
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Because I didn't have my
Citizens page anymore which
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I have been trying to appeal.
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Since May of what?
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Of 2025?
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I'm still trying to get it back.
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It's just sitting there.
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I went ahead and made the
pet blessing box page.
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People send me food to feed the
cats in the colony down here.
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And they also send me food or.
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People can stop and put food in the box.
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The box has helped a lot of people.
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I've had people contact me and say,
Hey, just for a couple of days,
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a lot of times I'll take it to
'em, 'cause some people don't have
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cars, so I'll take the food to 'em.
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Sometimes they'll meet me over there.
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To make sure that they actually get the
food, 'cause I don't wanna put it in the
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box and somebody else come and take it
when this person's in need right now.
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So the box is there basically . A person
can put food and they'll have like pet
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clothes and collars and that's just fine.
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Anything for a pet people put in it.
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And I've known it's helped a lot of
people and I'm really thrilled because
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it was something I was hoping that would.
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Be like a virus and spread, people
would start picking it up and
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doing it, other places would do it.
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So now out by the mall area, they
have a pet blessing box out there now.
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It's taken time, but it's happening
and I'm glad that it's happening.
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Because . We don't need just one.
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We need more than just one
box because it's just not in
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this area that needs help.
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It's all over.
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I do ask people, I put a sign in
there because, and I know this is
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going off topic, but I did reach out
to people and talk to 'em in other
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states that had pet blessing boxes.
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When people put things in boxes,
this is even in the people box,
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they need to cut that barcode off.
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'cause I didn't know people actually
take the items and try to return 'em.
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I learn something every day.
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A lot of times I write donated on the food
because people will take it and resell it.
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Even if the barcode's gone
they try to resell it.
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It's just part of it.
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Dixie: Wow.
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Stephanie: But that was off topic, so
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Dixie: It's good information
to know because I will tell
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you I feel inspired now.
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I am already thinking about going
to approach a few churches in
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my area with a pet blessing box.
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'cause that is a phenomenal idea.
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Stephanie: I'm gonna tell you something.
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It says a lot about a church when.
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They love animals.
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To me that means a lot.
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And I've had people reach out from
Wisconsin California, different
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areas and ask where the church is.
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I'm like it's in Kentucky, and they
said if it was here we would go because
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with a church caring about animals also.
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That means a lot.
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And another thing that I'm gonna talk to
my pastor about is having pet blessings.
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Set aside a day aside for our pastor
to bless an bless animals, for people
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to come up and bring their animals
to be blessed because to me, animals.
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Have souls and they're gonna go
where we're going and they're
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gonna wait up in heaven for us.
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I just, I feel that way.
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I feel that they've been put here
to comfort us, to show us what
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true love is, and they should be
treated kindly and they, they need
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blessings too, just like we do.
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So that's something I've been
meaning to talk to my pastor about
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is ha setting a day up for that.
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Absolutely.
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And encourage people to to donate.
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And also the news station
around here did a story on it.
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On the box to try to get the
word out so people know that
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the box is there to donate.
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Let's help each other.
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'cause we do come up on hard
times, especially nowadays,
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and there's a lot of elderly
people that has called and
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said, I don't know what to do.
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Do I feed myself?
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Do I buy my medicine?
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Or do I get my pets some food?
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If you can offer just a little
bag of food that takes a lot of
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pressure off of somebody, and
plus you're feeding that animal.
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Dixie: Yeah, it does.
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And it keeps them in a home because I
don't think a lot of people realize how
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difficult it is to rehome an adult animal,
and not just because of the scarcity of
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homes for them, but it's also so stressful
for the animal that a lot of times
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, especially like an older cat will grieve
themselves to death because they're used
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to being with one person their whole life.
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If you're on hard times, it's a
lot easier for you to ask for help
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and ask for food and ask for litter
than it is to rehome that animal.
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Stephanie: Yes ma'am.
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And I've got an example, matter
of fact, he's listed on my page
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on the Pet Blessing Box page.
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I need to film him.
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Prime example, this very elderly
orange cat shows up at my house
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not a couple of weeks ago.
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It is very heartbreaking.
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It hurts my soul to no
end because this cat.
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Walks around crying, crying, walk, comes
in the house, goes room to room, crying.
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I know he's looking for somebody.
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So he come in one day and he had a
little blood on his lip, so I took
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him to vet and yes, this cat is
elderly and she did agree with me.
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Someone dumped him.
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I think maybe an elderly person passed
away or maybe got put in a nursing
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home and the family didn't want it.
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So they thought, oh, let's drop
it at Stephanie's house 'cause
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she's got all these other cats,
and boop, they dropped it.
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What people don't understand.
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Animals imprint on us, and they
can Google it, they can read it.
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They are just like people.
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They imprint on us.
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They love us.
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We are their family.
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We are their mom, we're their dad.
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We are their human.
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And that's what's important to them.
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And this poor cat is walking around
looking for its person and can't find it.
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He cannot find his person and he cries
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and he's grieving.
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The first couple of days he didn't eat
and because I took the time with him
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and I held him and just showed him some
compassion, he's starting to eat now,
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but he's still looking for his person.
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Because I'm not his person.
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And people don't realize what
they do to these animals.
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Dixie: Lately in my area, we've been
having a lot of people trying to
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rehome senior cats and Yeah, currently
they're in a home and they'll have
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these random reasons why they cannot
keep their 10, 11-year-old cat.
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But I'm gonna say in the last week it was
about eight cats that I saw that people
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were trying to re, that is so broken.
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And I know I've spoken to two different
people and I'm very frank with them
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because as a rescuer, I feel it's my
responsibility to, to educate them.
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And I will tell them that, look.
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, I understand you might have something
going on in your life, I understand
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that, but I also want you to understand
that rehoming, these elderly cats,
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'cause I mean they are seniors at
this time and I'm like, yeah, they've
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been with one person their whole
life and I'm like, rehoming them.
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They are likely going to
grieve themselves to death.
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And it happens all the time.
473
00:29:22,097 --> 00:29:26,207
And I've had two people cry this
week because I've told them that.
474
00:29:27,902 --> 00:29:32,902
But at the same time, it's also something
that needs to be said because a lot of
475
00:29:32,902 --> 00:29:37,342
the times I think they just think they'll
just go into a new home and they're fine.
476
00:29:37,392 --> 00:29:38,597
And it does, they'll never be fine.
477
00:29:38,772 --> 00:29:39,042
Yeah.
478
00:29:39,042 --> 00:29:42,932
It doesn't work that way, and a
younger one you might have a better
479
00:29:42,932 --> 00:29:45,812
chance at, but even the younger ones
grieve, they get really pissed off.
480
00:29:46,232 --> 00:29:51,457
Stephanie: I read because I wanted to
find out when they imprint on a person.
481
00:29:51,967 --> 00:29:57,187
I'm thinking it takes now,
don't quote me on this.
482
00:29:57,187 --> 00:30:04,417
I think they could get up to six months
old or six weeks old and imprint on you.
483
00:30:05,207 --> 00:30:06,767
They imprint fast.
484
00:30:07,607 --> 00:30:14,187
People need to take that in consideration,
they need to sit and think that's
485
00:30:14,187 --> 00:30:16,017
like getting rid of their child?
486
00:30:16,067 --> 00:30:19,977
I know people get mad at me when I
it's different than a human child.
487
00:30:21,357 --> 00:30:23,187
I get that, but.
488
00:30:23,742 --> 00:30:25,242
They love us.
489
00:30:25,242 --> 00:30:26,952
These animals love us.
490
00:30:27,522 --> 00:30:30,462
And when you take an animal,
you take that animal for life.
491
00:30:31,842 --> 00:30:36,612
Don't take that animal just 'cause
it's cute, and it's gonna get older and
492
00:30:36,612 --> 00:30:38,862
you're gonna get older and life changes.
493
00:30:38,862 --> 00:30:43,422
And you just need to know
that when life changes, that
494
00:30:43,422 --> 00:30:45,192
animal's gonna stay with you.
495
00:30:46,482 --> 00:30:50,022
I don't think I've ever
re-homed an animal, not mine.
496
00:30:51,042 --> 00:30:53,332
All the cats that I
have been dumped on me.
497
00:30:54,052 --> 00:30:56,752
When the pandemic hit, I never had cats.
498
00:30:56,752 --> 00:30:59,992
Not that I hated 'em, I
just had dogs and chickens.
499
00:31:00,352 --> 00:31:07,792
But when the pandemic hits, someone
dumped 22 cats on me and I thought,
500
00:31:07,792 --> 00:31:09,082
oh my gosh, what am I gonna do?
501
00:31:10,552 --> 00:31:17,032
What I did, I reached out, I
got 'em fixed, and there you go.
502
00:31:18,932 --> 00:31:20,482
And I feed 'em every day.
503
00:31:20,482 --> 00:31:22,522
And they love me and I love them.
504
00:31:25,162 --> 00:31:26,152
I didn't ask for 'em.
505
00:31:26,152 --> 00:31:27,262
They just were dumped on me.
506
00:31:28,248 --> 00:31:29,833
But I'm not gonna be mean to 'em.
507
00:31:30,688 --> 00:31:33,103
Dixie: Let me ask you
before we end the call.
508
00:31:34,018 --> 00:31:39,568
You had this very successful
social media page, you said it
509
00:31:39,568 --> 00:31:44,068
was citizens against Animal Abuse
and Neglect, so it got shut down.
510
00:31:44,068 --> 00:31:44,158
Yes.
511
00:31:44,308 --> 00:31:46,378
What led to it Getting shut down
512
00:31:47,338 --> 00:31:52,363
Stephanie: and I had no idea why
Facebook did not send me an email.
513
00:31:53,813 --> 00:31:57,703
All my admins were took
off and . I've sent appeal.
514
00:31:58,243 --> 00:32:01,153
I've all but begged.
515
00:32:01,303 --> 00:32:07,133
Please somebody call me, email me, let
me know why my page was, the page is
516
00:32:07,133 --> 00:32:09,413
sitting there, it's just sitting idle.
517
00:32:10,848 --> 00:32:18,113
And I knew something was up because a day
or two I wouldn't be able to get on it.
518
00:32:19,043 --> 00:32:23,993
And then I'd be able to get on it and
then I wouldn't be able to get on it.
519
00:32:24,413 --> 00:32:28,643
And then I had to go through the back
door through Instagram to get on it.
520
00:32:29,603 --> 00:32:35,843
And so I put on there, to follow my
Instagram account because I was trying
521
00:32:35,843 --> 00:32:44,063
to keep my page going and they shut
my Instagram down and my Facebook.
522
00:32:45,183 --> 00:32:46,058
They didn't shut it down.
523
00:32:46,163 --> 00:32:47,783
It's still floating out there.
524
00:32:48,453 --> 00:32:49,293
I can't get on it.
525
00:32:50,703 --> 00:32:53,343
It's, I don't know what happened.
526
00:32:54,373 --> 00:32:58,483
Like I said, I never got
any kind of notification of
527
00:32:58,483 --> 00:33:02,353
why no explanation, nothing.
528
00:33:04,138 --> 00:33:06,853
And so I have wrote.
529
00:33:07,918 --> 00:33:10,198
Facebook since May.
530
00:33:11,278 --> 00:33:14,038
Please, what do I need to
do to get my page back?
531
00:33:14,038 --> 00:33:20,248
This page made a lot of differences
in animals' lives and what do I need?
532
00:33:20,248 --> 00:33:23,188
And never have I heard
anything back from anybody.
533
00:33:23,878 --> 00:33:29,148
So I know a lot of people didn't like
me and and everybody knows in rescue.
534
00:33:30,123 --> 00:33:31,473
I don't understand it.
535
00:33:31,623 --> 00:33:37,233
I may never understand why one
rescuer may not like the other one.
536
00:33:38,043 --> 00:33:39,783
That makes no sense to me.
537
00:33:39,933 --> 00:33:44,163
If we could all work together,
what a difference we could make.
538
00:33:45,243 --> 00:33:48,518
If it was reported, I
would know who did it.
539
00:33:49,528 --> 00:33:53,948
I can't prove, so it's just
my mind thinking, who did it?
540
00:33:53,948 --> 00:34:04,518
Because there is people that felt
offended because, and rescue, if
541
00:34:04,518 --> 00:34:08,328
you do one step ahead of anybody
else, they're gonna get angry.
542
00:34:09,588 --> 00:34:14,598
And what better way to lash
out than to keep reporting and
543
00:34:14,628 --> 00:34:15,947
try to get your page shut down?
544
00:34:15,947 --> 00:34:17,088
And they succeeded.
545
00:34:17,943 --> 00:34:23,943
Whatever, whoever did it,
whatever, they succeeded because
546
00:34:23,943 --> 00:34:26,223
now I can't access the page.
547
00:34:26,943 --> 00:34:33,273
So if anybody knows of anything, anybody
I can reach out to, they'd be great.
548
00:34:34,862 --> 00:34:37,503
I've tried to figure out
how to get back on it.
549
00:34:37,503 --> 00:34:40,503
I've reached out to people
and they're like me.
550
00:34:40,503 --> 00:34:41,103
They don't.
551
00:34:42,197 --> 00:34:44,148
Really know how Facebook works.
552
00:34:46,578 --> 00:34:46,848
Dixie: Yeah.
553
00:34:46,848 --> 00:34:52,277
It's a shame when you're out there trying
to do so much good and then something like
554
00:34:52,277 --> 00:34:58,628
that happens and then, the ego with some
people that are in rescue is a lot too.
555
00:34:58,628 --> 00:35:00,578
'cause you do have these
people that are selfless.
556
00:35:00,578 --> 00:35:04,268
They will help anybody, they'll
help any rescue, they don't care.
557
00:35:04,628 --> 00:35:06,698
They just wanna get animals to safety.
558
00:35:06,698 --> 00:35:09,458
And then you have these other
people, they just want the glory.
559
00:35:10,678 --> 00:35:11,518
Stephanie: Yes.
560
00:35:11,818 --> 00:35:12,508
Yes.
561
00:35:12,778 --> 00:35:20,068
And I will say another thing that I've
seen that questions that makes me question
562
00:35:20,118 --> 00:35:26,178
, if you're gonna start a Facebook
group that is a lost in found group.
563
00:35:27,553 --> 00:35:29,233
Don't block people.
564
00:35:29,683 --> 00:35:33,073
Those kind of groups do
not need to block people.
565
00:35:33,343 --> 00:35:40,813
Whe whether you don't like people or
not, because that is strictly for helping
566
00:35:40,813 --> 00:35:44,023
the animals, and it shouldn't be about.
567
00:35:45,158 --> 00:35:46,658
Getting you the glory.
568
00:35:47,328 --> 00:35:55,998
Because we do have several groups in our
area that are lost and found and they
569
00:35:55,998 --> 00:36:00,168
block all the rescue groups in this area.
570
00:36:00,558 --> 00:36:05,403
So how is that group even helping animals?
571
00:36:06,688 --> 00:36:07,533
They're really not.
572
00:36:09,078 --> 00:36:10,668
That's another big thing.
573
00:36:11,898 --> 00:36:15,558
You need to put your feelings
aside when it comes to this.
574
00:36:18,078 --> 00:36:18,888
Does that make sense?
575
00:36:19,278 --> 00:36:19,968
Dixie: Definitely.
576
00:36:19,968 --> 00:36:24,598
I actually run a few lost and found pet
groups , I'm not the only admin, there
577
00:36:24,598 --> 00:36:26,398
are several admins on these groups.
578
00:36:26,848 --> 00:36:27,268
Yes.
579
00:36:27,268 --> 00:36:31,378
And what we do is a lot of the
times we pre-approve the rescues.
580
00:36:32,948 --> 00:36:37,538
Because we want them on our pages
looking to make sure that either they
581
00:36:37,538 --> 00:36:43,558
don't see that animal or, and we've
had many successful reunions because
582
00:36:43,558 --> 00:36:45,628
we have so many rescuers on there.
583
00:36:45,818 --> 00:36:49,778
They can spot a difference between
a cat and another cat or a dog and
584
00:36:49,778 --> 00:36:51,758
another dog like you wouldn't believe.
585
00:36:51,758 --> 00:36:56,798
And so there's so many pages that when
they're on there and they see matches.
586
00:36:57,738 --> 00:37:00,498
We get 'em reunited all
the time because of that.
587
00:37:00,498 --> 00:37:02,478
Because we have all
these rescuers on there.
588
00:37:02,718 --> 00:37:03,678
And the shelters too.
589
00:37:03,678 --> 00:37:03,738
Yeah.
590
00:37:03,788 --> 00:37:07,458
Stephanie: You need all hands on
deck, and the more the merrier.
591
00:37:08,368 --> 00:37:12,178
I know these groups around here,
they even have animal control.
592
00:37:12,848 --> 00:37:14,583
The shelter, they have 'em all blocked.
593
00:37:16,238 --> 00:37:24,488
And that's, I know that's off topic, but I
could go on for hours about things that I
594
00:37:24,488 --> 00:37:28,658
wish people would see what they're doing.
595
00:37:29,018 --> 00:37:33,068
A lot of people, I feel like they
get into it for the wrong reason.
596
00:37:33,728 --> 00:37:40,158
I think they get into it for the glory,
the shine, the get their name out there.
597
00:37:40,738 --> 00:37:42,298
That's not what it's about.
598
00:37:42,733 --> 00:37:46,723
It's about saving animals and
making life for animals better.
599
00:37:47,563 --> 00:37:48,403
Dixie: Absolutely.
600
00:37:49,433 --> 00:37:52,523
Thank you so much for coming
on to speak with me today.
601
00:37:52,523 --> 00:37:55,763
I enjoyed listening to everything
that you do and like I said, I'm
602
00:37:55,763 --> 00:37:59,153
definitely gonna start reaching
out about getting PET Blessing
603
00:37:59,153 --> 00:38:01,378
boxes around, because that is Yes.
604
00:38:02,058 --> 00:38:03,178
Phenomenal idea.
605
00:38:04,113 --> 00:38:04,123
Stephanie: Yes.
606
00:38:05,208 --> 00:38:10,978
If anybody knows anything I need to do
to get that page back, citizens Against
607
00:38:10,978 --> 00:38:18,088
Animal Abuse and Neglect have them contact
me because I've really tried hard to
608
00:38:18,088 --> 00:38:21,658
get it back and I've been unsuccessful.
609
00:38:21,658 --> 00:38:25,528
And check out my page Pet Blessing Box.
610
00:38:25,948 --> 00:38:30,113
'cause I do post about a lot
of animals and what I do.
611
00:38:31,018 --> 00:38:37,548
Because I dibble into a lot of things, not
just TNR and, anything to do with animals.
612
00:38:37,548 --> 00:38:40,308
I'm gonna try my best to help 'em out.
613
00:38:41,748 --> 00:38:42,648
Dixie: Yeah, definitely.
614
00:38:42,648 --> 00:38:45,858
I'll get that page from you and
I'll include that in the show notes,
615
00:38:45,858 --> 00:38:48,858
so anybody that wants to check
it out can go take a look at it.
616
00:38:49,908 --> 00:38:50,388
Stephanie: Okay.
617
00:38:50,538 --> 00:38:52,008
Thank you so much.
618
00:38:52,378 --> 00:38:53,848
. Dixie: That's it for today's episode.
619
00:38:53,848 --> 00:38:57,748
I wanna thank everybody for
listening and supporting us.
620
00:38:57,838 --> 00:39:01,948
If you wanna take that an extra
step, consider becoming a member.
621
00:39:02,188 --> 00:39:06,388
We just added this to our
website, animalposse.com,
622
00:39:06,628 --> 00:39:08,698
scroll down, look for the support tab.
623
00:39:08,748 --> 00:39:15,078
Our membership program is going to
help us directly support animals
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00:39:15,108 --> 00:39:22,308
in need, whether that be through
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