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Helping Pets Means Helping People Too with Save An Angel
Episode 37 • 10th October 2025 • Animal Posse • Unwanted Feline Organization
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Dixie:

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 speaking with Kristie

and Jeremy from Sav-an-Angel

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before we get started, if I could get

each of you to introduce yourselves and

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tell me what you do for Sav-an-Angel.

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Kristie, I'll let you go first.

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Hello, I'm Kristie Sullens.

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I am the co-founder of

Sav-an-Angel, and for.

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10 years or so or more.

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I did Sav-an-Angel full time and then

when I had my second child and moved

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from New Orleans Sav-an-Angel, merged

with another organization that was

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run by Jeremy Parks, who was also our

very first volunteer at Sav-an-Angel

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when he was 12 or 13, I think.

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13, 13.

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13 years old.

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Yeah.

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And then he went off to college

and did everything and then he came

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back and now he is our director.

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We merged our organizations and then

he took over as director and he's

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been in that position ever since.

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Go ahead Jeremy.

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Yeah, absolutely.

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So my name is Jeremy Parks and

Kristie said, I'm the executive

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Director of Sav-an-Angel.

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We're a 5 0 1 C3 organization based out

of Bastrop, Texas now, and I've been

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with the organization since I was 13,

about 15 years ago, and I transitioned

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into a staff member on the leadership

team in:

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into the executive director role in 2019.

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That's pretty cool.

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And I love to hear that you started

when you were that young because I'm

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noticing that a new trend is that it's

very difficult to get young people

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involved with animal rescue now.

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It is.

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Absolutely.

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I know Sav-an-Angel has an

interesting origin story, so can you

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share that origin story, Kristie?

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Yes.

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So when Angel was five years old, we

found a lump in her abdomen when we

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were just petting her belly and we

noticed that she was acting funny.

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And so we took her to the doctor

and the doctor told us that she

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had lymphoma, and that when dogs

have lymphoma, that they can't.

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Cure them.

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They can only treat the symptoms that they

can't give them chemotherapy like a human

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because they take an oath to do no harm.

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And that the only options we had

were chemotherapy and radiation.

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And then, my husband was

Johnny, , the co-founder said

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we can cure humans of lymphoma.

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Why can't we cure dogs?

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And our vet . Dr.

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Garra went down the rabbit hole and

she ended up finding a vet in North

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Carolina, but they were doing bone

marrow transplants with machines that

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had been donated by the Mayo Clinic.

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And then we found out that a hundred

percent of transplants performed on

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humans were tested on dogs first.

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And so we were like, okay,

how much does it cost?

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We said it's $16,000.

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And back then that was.

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It's like just an unreal

amount of money for us.

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'cause we didn't have any money really.

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We were very young and so we

went out, we set out to raise the

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money, and along the way we met all

kinds of people in the community.

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And then we started to see the need

and we were just so grateful that

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everyone was helping us to save Angel

and we just wanted to give back.

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And then that kind of led into

rescue and everything else.

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But ultimately angel was, I

believe maybe like the 23rd dog

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to get a bone marrow transplant at

North Carolina State University.

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And she was cured of her lymphoma

and she lived to be very old lady.

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She was about 13 when she passed away.

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Old lady warm in her bed.

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Now Sav-an-Angels living on through

Jeremy and hopefully will live on past us.

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And that was ultimately the goal was

that I would just continue to serve the

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community that had given back to us.

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What is the group, Jeremy, that you

have, that you merged with sav-an-Angel.

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Yeah, so I co-founded Bastrop Animal

Rescue, which was a foster based animal

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rescue organization here in Texas.

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And the stars aligned at the

right time for both Kristie and I.

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And everything just fell into

place for us to really be able

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to consolidate the resources for

both entities to create and even.

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More impactful and powerful entity.

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And by consolidating all of that under

Sav-an-Angel and that the victory

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of Sav-an-Angel really sparked the

movement that introduced all of us to

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the wider animal welfare community.

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And that kind of became the foundation

of Sav-an-Angel and who we are.

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In our early years, we

operated as a rescue.

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We pulled animals from shelters,

we placed them into foster homes.

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Rehabilitated them medically

if they needed that.

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And we found them loving forever homes.

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But no matter how many lives we saved,

the kennels just filled up again at

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the local shelter the very next day.

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And so we realized that while rescue

was essential, it was still reactive.

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And to create real lasting

change, we had to shift upstream

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and address the root causes.

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And so today we operate as a

proactive, community centered

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nonprofit, really focused on prevention

and affordable access to care.

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Programs that we build hand in

hand with the people we serve.

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Our mission has evolved a lot over

the years and, we went from saving one

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dog angel to building a sustainable

solution that really keeps pets

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healthy and families together and

makes our entire community stronger.

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I would like to hear more about the

proactive measures that you're taking

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because I'm noticing the same thing.

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It just seems that people.

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Who don't necessarily need what we

would consider rescue, try to always

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get rescues to take their animals.

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And it always seems to

overload the system.

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Because people don't wanna say no.

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So what are some of these measures that

you are doing to combat that problem?

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Yeah, absolutely.

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Really for us it's helping

pets, means helping people too.

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That's really at the core of our mission.

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And when we talk about solving animal

welfare at its root, we have to

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start with access to care and cost.

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And that's really the number one

issues that we see that families face.

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And the market sector of the veterinary

world is able to service, greater than

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about 50, maybe 60% of the community.

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But that other 40, maybe 50% of

people truly with the economy, the

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way that it is creates a struggle.

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And a lot of folks have to

choose between, providing food

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on the table for their children.

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Or getting access to care and

veterinary care for their pet.

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And for us, we really wanted to bridge

that gap and access to not just spay and

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neuter, which reduces pet overpopulation

and ends that cycle of breeding.

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But just the most basic of

vaccinations and dewormer.

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Heartworm testing and preventative

care and things like that.

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And what we see a lot of is very

basic health issues that could be

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addressed early on, like an ear

infection or a skin condition.

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They're left untreated and it becomes

a chronic, painful, expensive case

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that turns into an emergency sometimes.

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And at that point it becomes a life

or death decision for the pet parent

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because they don't have the means to.

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Treat the issue the chronic

condition that's developed.

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And so for us, we want to be a part

of that pet's life, its entire life.

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We want to be available as a resource for

its annual visits, it's vaccinations, it's

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dewormer, it's prevention every month.

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And we're able to help

families along the way.

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Currently we don't offer emergency care.

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But it is something that we're able

to connect with folks on a case by

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case basis and really give them the

resources that we might not necessarily

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have available but connecting them with

another entity or an organization that

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has those resources available to prevent

them from having to either euthanize the

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pet or surrender it to a local shelter.

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And what qualifications do you have

for people to use your program?

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So we actually, we don't qualify anyone

ultimately if a pet parent feels that

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they need that resource we're available

to anyone and everyone who might need us.

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And so we currently do about 4,000

spay neuter surgeries a year.

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And we do about 9,000 wellness

appointments a year out of our clinic.

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We have one clinic location here in

Bastrop, Texas, and then we run a mobile

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program which brings access to care and

free vaccines and veterinary care out

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into the communities who need it most.

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And so we really do try to target the

communities that we know whether it's

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the highest intake stray numbers through

data from the local animal shelter.

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Or it's just case by case that we just

are aware of situations in the community

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that might need us more than others.

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We try to target those individuals

and those communities the most

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to really empower them with the

tools and resources that they need.

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But at the end of the day if you

have a pet and you need, access

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to care, we're here for you.

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Can you walk us through how you

actually got this clinic up and running?

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Yeah, absolutely.

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It was a monumental effort.

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And it was a very much a situation where

we had a partnership with the local

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animal shelter and they had a situation

where they had a building that was

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destroyed and a storm, and they were

able to leverage the insurance money

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that they received from that building to

create and build a brand new building.

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Part of that building was a medical

suite and they knew that they were only

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gonna be able to utilize that suite

one or two days a week for shelter

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animals, which left the building

unoccupied five other days of the week.

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And so we, with the shelter director

at the time who was very passionate

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about, really being progressive and

proactive in outreach asked us if we

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would be interested in partnering with

her to really create that solution.

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We had identified it but we

struggled to really implement.

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And so with those two forces

combined, we were able to just

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get this clinic off the ground.

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We piloted it in December of

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a month, and then in May of 2020.

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We open the clinic full time and

so today, we now offer operate four

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or five days every single week.

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That's quite an accomplishment.

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How did you go about finding veterinarians

who would work with you with this?

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So we started with volunteer veterinarians

just veterinarians that we had

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connected with in the local community.

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And they volunteered.

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Some of them we paid to come in

on like a contract or relief basis

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just to get the clinic started.

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And then by, once we had piloted

the program, we knew that it worked.

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We knew that it was gonna be successful.

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We opened a full-time veterinarian

position and we were able to

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hire a veterinarian that has

about 30 years of experience.

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And so she's done high volumes spay

and neuter for the last 10 years

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and we were able to get her on board

and she's now our full-time medical

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director and does the vast majority

of the surgeries that we offer.

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Can you walk us through all the

programs that you have today?

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Sure.

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Absolutely.

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So we are, the core of what we offer

is low cost and free veterinary care.

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Addition to that is our

mobile outreach team.

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So we go out into the community, we

provide pet parents with anything

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that they might need, whether that's

education, that's tools, that's resource.

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We have a pet food pantry

callers, leashes ID tags.

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Anything that on a case by case basis,

that one individual family may need to

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be able to better care for their pet.

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We're there and we're available as a

resource to, to get them what they need.

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And outreach and education

are really one of the.

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The core pillars of how we operate.

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For us early on doing rescue we found

ourselves telling people like, oh, you

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need to get your pet spayed and neutered.

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You need to get your

pets spayed a neutered.

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But then we realized that there was no

resource available to connect them with,

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to get their pet spayed and neutered.

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And so that's what really motivated

us to create our own model and our

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own clinic to be able to say, Hey.

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You need to get your pet spayed

and neutered and we can do it

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for you and we can help you.

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And costs should never be a factor.

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And so we operate with a low cost model.

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But really it, it is a

pay what you can model.

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And so we have a base rate of

what we charge in an ideal world

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to be able to sustain the clinic.

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But we know that a lot of pet parents

don't necessarily have the means

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to even afford the low cost fees.

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So we are able to work with them

on that individual basis and

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say, Hey, what can you afford?

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And if that's 30 bucks, we'll

work with them, we'll get them

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subsidized to a voucher program.

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And then we get their pet spayed anyway

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so if they feel that they couldn't afford

anything, then you would just go ahead and

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offer them the free care at that point.

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Yep, absolutely.

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So about 65 to 70% of

our costs to operate.

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Our clinic is covered by the

fees that we are able to collect.

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The other 30 to 35% is what we

subsidize through fundraising

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and donations and grants.

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And so we're very active in going

out and not just outreach to

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the community who needs us, but

reaching out to the community to.

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Garner larger amounts of support

to be able to never say no.

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That's always our goal is we don't

ever want to turn a pet parent

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away because we don't have the

means or the resources to do it.

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We'll go above and beyond every

single time to try and really

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gather the resources that we need

to be able to always say yes.

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That's amazing.

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With your spay and neuter clinic

why was that a crucial addition

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to the central Texas area?

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Spay and neuter.

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At the end of the day, we believe is

the solution to pet overpopulation.

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And so it really comes back to that

kind of preaching of we really and

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truly believe that is one of the most

powerful ways to end pet over population.

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And encouraging and.

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Really advocating for pet

parents to get their pets fixed.

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We needed to be able to connect

them with that resource to know that

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they were getting their pets fixed.

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And the only way that we found to be

able to do that in our community, we're

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about 45 miles east of Austin, Texas.

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They have a large, not on nonprofit

there that provides access in

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three low cost spay and neuter.

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And it's an amazing

organization in Austin.

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But what we found is there wasn't

enough resources available for the rural

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communities on the outskirts of town.

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And for us, it, it was just the need

and identifying the problem, creating

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the solution and we had a clinic.

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Do you also do the cats

with the TNR program?

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We do, we partner with a local

organization called Bastrop Cats.

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And we do several hundred surgeries

for them throughout the year.

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They work with a network of several

clinics and we're one of those clinics

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that provides them at a subsidized rate

to get pets to get cats community and

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free roaming cats to come in and get

them fixed in ear tip to vaccinated and

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return back to their trapped location.

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And has that had any kind of effect on

the pet overpopulation in that area?

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It has the organization that

we work with is Bastrop Cats.

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They've been around for many years now.

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And we were actually just looking

at some of that data the other day

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and we're able to see a noticeable

difference in stray animal intake

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from the areas that they have really

worked hard in t and r and every cat.

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Possibly trap and we're able to

see the first few years it was hard

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to see in kind of a tangible set

of data whether or not there was

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gonna be a significant difference.

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But now, five, six, seven years later,

we're really able to start to see those

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lines drop on the chart knowing that

what we're doing is making a difference.

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And it's reducing intakes

at the local shelter.

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Even though the community

that we are in is.

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Is rapidly growing.

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And as the community grows, the needs

grows and so we have to grow with it.

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How does the mobile clinic work?

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So we have a mobile veterinary trailer,

and we set it up in communities that

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we identify who need the most the

greatest need, the most assistance.

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And we set the trailer up.

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It's essentially a veterinary

exam room on wheels.

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It's climate control that has computers

and everything that we would need to

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be able to provide service and care.

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And we work with a veterinarian,

whether it's one of our staff

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veterinarians or a contract veterinarian.

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And we set up in a

parking lot and we just.

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Do a drive-through model.

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And our most recent clinic that we did

about a hundred free rabies vaccines

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in about three and a half hours.

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Oh, that's awesome.

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So your pet resource center focuses

on keeping pets with their families.

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What essential resources or

services does the center provide

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to prevent owner surrenders?

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Yeah.

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Food's the number one we probably

give out about two to three pallets of

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dog and cat food every single month.

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In addition to that, sometimes it's

for pets that live primarily outdoors.

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It's dog houses, it's

harnesses, it's dog sweaters.

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It's anything that a pet parent might

need that is preventing them from

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providing their pet with the level of

care that they think that they need.

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We're really there to try and help them

and connect them with those resources.

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The, for example, the other day a pet

parent came in and they thought that their

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pet was really struggling with the heat

outside, but their landlord did not allow

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them to bring the pet inside the home.

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And so she was looking to see if we

had a little baby pool or a puppy pool.

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And we had a little plastic pool

available and we just got a picture back

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today of the dog playing in the pool.

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And just little things like that

to where if a pet parent feels

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like there's something that

they're missing that could really.

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Provide that pet with the next level

of care to make them comfortable and

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happy and prevent them from the owner

having a concern that they might not

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be able to properly care for the pet.

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We're there're

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yeah, I love hearing little

stories like that too.

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Just that something like that can

make such a difference to an animal.

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Absolutely.

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Do you do any kind of adoptions as well?

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We do, we still operate a rescue program.

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We've significantly downsized that

program to be able to focus on

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outreach and education and really what

we've defined as being the solution

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towards what we're working towards.

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But inevitably along the way, pets

still cross our paths that need our

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assistance and so we will take them in.

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We have a small network of foster

homes and we're able to get those

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pets vetted through our own clinic

internally get them rehabilitated

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and then placed up for adoption.

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So we have a couple of dogs and a cat

or two in foster care right now that

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are looking for their forever homes.

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When you're doing your adoptions, do

you do that like mainly word of mouth

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or online, or do you actually have a

facility that you would take them to?

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So we're all foster based

for our rescue program.

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And so all of our marketing

usually takes place online.

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We utilize the standard pet finder

and adopt a pet and things like that.

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And that's where a lot of

our applicants come from.

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But we also do events locally.

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We'll set up at local

coffee shops or breweries.

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And we've met several of our

recent adoption pet parents through

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those types of events as well.

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Has the mission changed since

you've merged the Bastrop

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animal Rescue with Sav-an-Angel?

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Or is the overall mission the same?

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I think the core of always wanting to

be there , to support pets and really be

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just a resource for animals and empowering

pet parents has always been there.

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I think the shift in what we used

to do was majority was rescue and.

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Of the outreach and the

education and I think we've just

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completely flipped that script.

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And I would say 75 to 80% of what

we do now is really honing in

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on access to care and education

and outreach and less rescue.

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'cause at the end of the day, rescuing

one animal changes the life for

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that animal, which is incredible.

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And we love being a part of those stories.

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It's not going to solve the

bigger problem that we face.

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And so for us as an organization,

it was really sitting down and

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identifying what are the barriers?

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Why are pets ending up in the shelter?

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What causes the spike in intake?

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And once we identified those, then

it came to creating the solutions.

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And that's how we've

gotten where we are today.

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Just on that same note.

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Our mission will continue to evolve,

and so as we, work with pet parents and

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manage cases on a case by case basis

on an individual family or household

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level every single day, our staff and

our team is what can we do better?

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What can we do to address.

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A trending issue that we keep seeing.

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And so I think who we are

as an organization is always

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going to be centered on pets.

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I think more recently, we, over the

last four or five years have really

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honed in on the people aspect too.

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And like I said in the beginning,

helping pets means helping people too.

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Yeah.

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So is your motto pets,

people, and purpose?

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Yes, it's, so that was something

that we adopted at the very beginning

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of kind of the consolidating of the

resources with the two entities.

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And we sat down and identified the

barriers and what were the most

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common things that we kept seeing.

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And at the end of the day, it was a

pet parents were the ones struggling,

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and pet parents were the ones that

needed the resources, but they did

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not have them available to them.

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And for us it was really sitting down and

listening to them and gathering feedback.

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And actually, we've adopted what

we call a feedback to action loop.

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And so every day we work with our

clients and in the rooms, the exam

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rooms, we hear stories and we see things.

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And as we mentally take note of what

we're seeing or what we're hearing.

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We actually gather that data.

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We notate what client it was

that told us that feedback or

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what resource they might need.

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And then once we've strategized and we've

implemented a solution to what that common

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item is, we then reach back out to them.

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To give them the feedback

that says, Hey, thank you.

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This is the action that we're taking

and . If you still need that assistance,

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we wanna provide you with that assistance

first to pilot that program to see,

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what we can do to make it better.

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That's great.

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That's wonderful that you listen

to your clients so you know exactly

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what they need because there's so

many things that can go on that you

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don't know what their situation is.

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And when you find that out and if you find

a solution, then it's helping everybody.

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Now, I know a lot of rescues

right now are struggling because

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we are going through what they're

calling an animal welfare crisis.

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And then on top of that, we have this,

financial crisis going on as well.

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So is any of that affecting you?

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It certainly is.

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We've definitely seen on the fundraising

side of things, we donors that

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historically have given us, a larger

portion of money this year, they're not

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able to necessarily allocate that amount

of funds to us to be able to donate.

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And they still wanna support us.

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They still believe in what we do, but.

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And financially, they just don't

necessarily have the means to

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make the commitment that they

have made in previous years.

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And so we've had to really get creative

and go back to more of the grassroots

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style fundraising where, we're doing

planning yard sales and bake sales

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and fundraisers and things that we

had grown out of for a little while.

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But we're right back to it and kind.

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Feet on the ground, boots on the

ground, trying to identify ways

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that we can fill that gap and

continue to be able to say yes.

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And that really what motivates our staff

and our volunteers every single day is,

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what do we have to do to be able to say

yes and continue to help every single

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pet parent that walks through our door.

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So it's definitely been a struggle

financially just to be able to

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sustain, operations and continue

to empower every pet parent.

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And not to mention, rising

cost of everything as well.

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Through our clinic we are seeing that

a lot of the cost of medical supplies

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and even the cost of insurance and just

overall operating expenses and overhead

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it is climbing significantly this year.

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Now it seems too for that

very reason, a lot of people

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aren't able to keep their pets.

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So they are trying to

surrender their pets.

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So are you seeing an uptick in the

services too that you're offering

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. We have seen an influx in the

demand for our the programming

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and the resources that we offer.

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And for us, , we are in a community that

Bastrop County is immediately adjacent

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to Travis County, which is Austin.

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And we have Elon Musk here who has Quar.

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Twitter and which is now known as X

and the Boring Company and starlink.

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And so we've also seen a tremendous amount

of just growth overall for our community.

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And so for us it's hard to really

evaluate whether or not it's just

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the population growth and, or is

it, the, economic uncertainty.

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But there's definitely been a significant

increase in the need for pet food and

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access to care and, bridging, whatever gap

may come up along the way for pet parents.

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And more recently we've been seeing

a lot of folks reaching out asking

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about assistance for like pet deposits.

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And they're moving and they're trying

to find somewhere cheaper to live.

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But in the course of moving and the

cost of moving, they don't have the four

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or $500 to put down as a pet deposit.

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And historically, that's not

something that we have ever done.

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But it is something that has

recently been a trending need

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that we are, we're looking into.

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I was just gonna ask you that.

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So do you have more people coming up

looking for the medical care or more

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people looking actually for the food?

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That's actually a very

interesting question.

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There's kind of two sides to that

where they either come to us looking

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for food and they're not necessarily

aware that we offer medical care,

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and so we're able to connect.

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Them through that entire route

of programming that we offer.

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Or they're coming to us for medical care

and in the course of conversation in the

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exam room, we find out that they might

be struggling or they're unable to afford

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groceries for themselves this month.

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So then we loop them into the fact

that we do offer pet food assistance.

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Many of our clients are mutual

clients of both programs.

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Looking ahead, what is the next major

goal or initiative for Sav-an-Angel?

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And are there any new programs

or services in the works?

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Right now we're really just, honing in

on perfecting the model that we have

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created here in, in Bastrop County and

in the community that we're serving.

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And then vision down the road would

be ultimately to really be able

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to replicate this programming in

another community, another rural

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community that needs our assistance.

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Right now it's, economic

uncertainty and fundraising.

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We're really just focused on

sustainability for our current

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programmings and meeting the needs

of the community that we're in.

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But here within the next few years

it's on our map of things to look

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at is expanding and sharing the

knowledge and the resources that we've

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gathered throughout the course of

what we've done as an organization.

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And moving and introducing ourselves

into the next community that needs us.

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So I do have another question to ask you,

Jeremy, since you were so young when you

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started volunteering, what do you think

can be done to encourage more new, younger

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people to start volunteering as well?

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Yeah I get this question a lot for me,

it was definitely something that I've

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always been driven to, to solve problems.

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And I was passionate about animals.

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I've loved animals my entire life,

and just realizing the sheer need of

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help that was needed within the animal

welfare community is what motivated

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me along the way to just continue to

take on more and to do more and to

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step up and to take a bigger role.

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And , we've started doing some

programming here locally just to get

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feedback from the younger generations

to see what is it that would motivate

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them to really step up and into a role.

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And , a lot of the feedback

that we get is they're unable

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to identify what help is needed.

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They know that.

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Animals are suffering.

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They know that animals need help.

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They know that, there's an issue.

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They struggle to identify where

they fit into that puzzle.

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And so a lot of our messaging

for volunteering here locally,

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especially trying to target some

of the younger generation has

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been very specific marketing to,

we need you to help with this.

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This is what you can do.

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And just recently, we had in the

last week we've had 11 volunteer

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applications come in all of which

are within that younger generation.

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Helping them identify where they

fit into that puzzle seems to be

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very successful for us currently.

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That's interesting.

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I never thought about it like that.

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For our listeners who are inspired

by your work and what you do, what is

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the best way that they can help you?

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Donations.

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We always need support financially

to be able to do what we do.

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And we have a fund called the Spay it

Forward Fund, and that is for folks

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that financially are able to provide

the care that they need for their pets

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without having any form of subsidy.

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They're able to make a donation

that is specifically into a fund

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that our team is able to utilize

on a daily basis at the clinic.

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If a pet parent is unable

to afford a rabies vaccine.

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or they need a heartworm test

for their pet, but they don't

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have the means to do it today.

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Our team with that fund has the

ability to say, Hey, we're gonna

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take care of that for you today.

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And so the spay it Forward

fund for us is truly essential.

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We could not operate without it.

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And the donations that come into that

fund to, to make our work possible.

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And then we always need volunteers.

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And volunteers don't have to be local.

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They can live anywhere

in the United States.

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They can help with social

media and online newsletters.

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There's all sorts of digital

volunteer opportunities that

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we can loop folks into as well.

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That's awesome.

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Before we end the call, do you have

any final message for our listeners?

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Absolutely.

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I think for us it's at the end of the

day, animal welfare is people welfare.

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And when families are

supported, pets are supported.

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When pets are healthy,

families are healthier.

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It's not just about the

animals, it's about compassion.

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Equity community resilience and

the future of animal welfare for

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us is proactive, progressive.

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And I really encourage folks within

the animal welfare community to

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root what they are doing in the

understanding that pets and people

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thrive together and incorporate people

into the programming and what they do.

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Thank you so much for joining me.

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I really appreciated

speaking with you today.

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Yeah, absolutely.

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Thank you for the opportunity.

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We love to talk about pets and people.

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Yep.

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It's the best thing to talk about

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Dixie: That's all the time that

we have for today's episode.

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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.

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We would love to talk to 'em.

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Please consider leaving us a donation.

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A hundred percent goes to our animals.

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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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take flight

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They’re calling in Stories to spin

From the wild to the heart within

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Broken wings and hopeful springs

We’re the voices for these things

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animal posse hear the call.

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We stand together.

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Big and small Rescue tales We’ve

got it all Animal posse Saving

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them

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all

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The vet’s got tips The rescuer’s

grit The foster homes where love

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won’t quit From a pup in the rain to

a bird in pain , Every soul’s worth

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the

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strain

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Animal posse

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Hear the call

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We stand together Big

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and small Rescue tales We’ve got

it all Animal posse Saving them all

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Every caller tells a tale, every

howl a whispered wail, we rise up.

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We never

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fail.

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This

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is

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the

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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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got it all Animal posse Saving them all

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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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