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Welcome to Animal Posse, the podcast dedicated to the
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people and rescues making a
difference in the lives of animals.
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Today's guest is Lisa Krohn, the
VP of New Orleans Bulldog Rescue.
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Thank you so much for joining me today
I am excited to hear You're very welcome
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to hear about all the work you do.
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, I understand you work with a
New Orleans Bulldog rescue.
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You foster kittens and you do TNR,
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Lisa: A little bit of everything.
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Dixie: Yeah.
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It's a big difference too, going
from bulldog to kittens to TNR.
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It's a lot.
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Lisa: Yeah, it's a very
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wide range of knowledge, to be honest.
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Dixie: So to start, what first drew
you into the world of animal rescue?
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Lisa: So it would be 2006.
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I had moved into this house about two
years before that and I was feeding
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some outside cats and I had one of my
outside cats come to breakfast with her
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leg dangling and three kittens in tow.
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Once I fixed her leg, the
neighbor decided to adopt her.
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And then my mom's wallpaper
lady, Yogi Johnson did rescue.
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So she helped me find the three kittens
homes and that was the end of it.
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I started fostering for Yogi's
Group PET adoption services.
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And I was with them for close to 10 years.
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And then I moved on to
Bulldog Rescue on just a whim.
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Just they were on Facebook asking
for anyone that would like to
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foster a dog on the euthanasia list.
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And I jumped on this little, I don't
know, it was marked like a Catahoula,
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but it ended up being like a little.
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She like a sheep dog of some sort.
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So I fostered Delilah who I
think recently just passed away.
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She actually ended up in New York
City with her mom and I met Michael
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that way at Arc Animal Hospital,
literally vetting the dog that I had
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just pulled off the euthanasia list.
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And then I just slowly started
fostering dogs for him.
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First two dogs I fostered
weren't even Bulldogs.
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One was Delilah and one
was a little MinPin mix.
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'Cause at the time I owned a
min pin and I was partial to
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the little black and tan dogs.
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And and then right before Mardi
Gras pulled this bulldog and I named
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him Chunk and he was a rock star.
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Like I'd only had him
for less than a week.
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And we took him out to
the Mardi Gras parade.
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I.
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In the city for Barcus and he walked
with us and had a great life as well.
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One of our friends adopted him and
we got to see him all the time.
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He'd come to our events once a month
and you could see chunk running through
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the crowd trying to hunt me down to look
for me because he could, hear my voice.
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He knew I was there.
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So I started my adventures with
animals . I own cats and I own dogs.
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Being in the animal world for, or
animal advocacy world for 19 years,
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all of my friends are animal people.
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So I'm like, oh, I had one of my outside
cats unexpectedly pass away, and I
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just happened to be having dinner with
Rachel Goyette who runs Jefferson, SPCA,
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and I was like, I need some kittens.
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She's I have some for you.
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And the next day they were having
their crawfish boil at Jefferson Feed.
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So I went and had crawfish
with everyone at Jefferson Feed
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and came home with kittens.
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Pretty much how, every year I
foster a set or two of kittens.
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I think it's great for my big cats
to have little cats in the house.
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I have a new adult cat this year,
Simon, and he is great with the babies.
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He's licking them and cleaning them
and also having to be reminded that
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your, he's 14 pounds and they are 1.5
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pounds.
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But besides that, it's
just day in, day out.
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Caring for the animals that are here.
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I've got some long-term fosters.
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Bulldog rescue took a year off
from pulling dogs, unfortunately,
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because our vet bills were just.
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Out of control.
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Bulldogs are not cheap dogs to own
and they are not cheap dogs to pull
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from the shelter and get healthy.
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It takes a lot of money.
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And our adoption fees, obviously they
are not your normal $150-250 adoption
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fees, but it still doesn't cover the
thousands of dollars that we spend
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on dogs just to get them healthy.
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So that's where we are.
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I got my first dog this week , I hadn't
pulled a dog in almost 11 months.
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I.
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But we took a nice chunk off of our vet
bill, but I got a little Frenchy this
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week from one of the shelters in St.
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Bernard or the St.
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Bernard Animal shelter, I should say.
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Poor little guy was hit and
pinned underneath a car and had
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a broken pelvis and he's pretty
much almost recuperated from that
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and has a meet and greet tomorrow.
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Get him in and get him out.
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So really quick.
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Usually when we have cute little
adoptable, perfectly healthy dogs, there's
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really nothing wrong with him other than
he's just recovering from a broken pelvis.
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But one of our alumni, put the bug
out there that they were looking
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for another small dog, 'cause one
of theirs just recently passed away.
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So We're gonna meet tomorrow.
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Hopefully, fingers
crossed he'll find a home.
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Yeah.
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Mainly we've been concentrating on some
of these dogs that have just been sitting
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in rescue the most, like non adoptable
or not running off the shelves kind of
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adoptions, I had a dog named Petey and
I got him from the Baton Rouge Animal
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Shelter, and he was eight weeks old Petey.
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Just found a home.
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He's been with me almost five years.
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Oh,
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wow.
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Now he lives
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on Long Island.
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He has two sisters that have severe
mobility issues with spina bifida
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and two brothers who are pretty
mobile, but also has spina bifida
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and he has spina bifida as well.
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Fully mobile and, limps a little bit.
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I think there was some issues with
one of his hips, like the way that
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it was shaped, but besides that, his
main issue is that he leaked urine and
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feces and it was unpredictable, which
makes for a mess that's not a normal.
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Dog, and a lot of people look at that
and oh, I don't wanna deal with diapers.
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'cause it's like having a baby
and he also can't diaper 24 7.
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'cause then you've run the
risk of getting infections.
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So it it like tore me up to drop him
off on transport, but it was like, oh
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my gosh, I've had Petey for five years.
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This is amazing.
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He's getting a great home.
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I wanna live on Long Island.
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Dixie: Yeah.
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That's a wonderful story.
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Now, you said that you couldn't keep him
in diapers all the time, and I understand
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that, but what would you do would you
keep him like crated to keep things clean?
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Or how did you combat that situation?
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Lisa: He was either diapered in the
house for short periods of time.
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And then he was crated and in his
crate there was multiple pee pads.
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'cause he likes to nest.
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So he just, crumple 'em
all up and sleep on them.
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And I'll put pee pads underneath
his crate and we would just clean
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up and he messes that he left.
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If I was in the yard with him, I
would run with him and get him to run
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the business out more or less Uhhuh.
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But besides that it was just
cleanup, loose in the house
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means he had to wear a diaper.
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You leave the house, you
have to wear a diaper.
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So lots of bathing, lots of cleaning,
lots of mopping and pee pads.
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So he spent time in the yard, in
the kennel or in the house Diapered.
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That's pretty much, how he lives.
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Dixie: Yeah, I've seen some
cats have that before too.
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It's actually seems like it's a pretty
common issue where they'll leak the
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urine or possibly leak the poop.
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Lisa: Yeah, it is, and it seems
to be a common issue in Bulldogs.
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Unfortunately, they have some major
health issues, but yeah, that's
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actually how Petey found his home.
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Someone reshared his information
to a specific spina bifida Facebook
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group, and they reached out to us
because we don't normally do adoptions
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outside of a two hour radius of New
Orleans because we're all volunteers.
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So I can't say, oh yeah, I'll
adopt a dog to you in Nashville.
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But I do home checks
and like to deliver my.
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my pets personally.
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I have one, one day off a week, so
that means I would spend six hours
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driving to Memphis or Nashville,
drop off the dog and come home.
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That's, it's just not feasible.
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So we always stick with a, like a two
hour radius and you have to come to
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any event, you've, gotta do a home
checks, vet checks, all the basic,
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stuff that most rescue groups do.
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We do cover our heartworm treatment.
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A lot of our dogs sometimes
have eye issues and skin issues.
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So some of those things, if they're
in treatment when they get adopted,
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we do continue like a recheck and,
try to find our dogs' homes once.
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So doing the vet checks is extremely
important to call and make sure that
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the current dogs are on prevention.
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That is a major.
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Major, red flag if you have animals, you
don't have them at heartworm prevention.
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And then everyone has to be
fixed in the home as well.
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We do not adopt dogs to homes
that have unfixed animals.
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Even if there's no intent in
breeding in our animal is fixed.
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It just changes the dynamic in the
household to have an unfixed animal.
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And we just don't do it.
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It's just not something we do.
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We always advocate for spay
and neuter across the board.
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Like we've had one incident in the dog
had, like a cardiologist report stating
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that he couldn't be sedated, and that was
the only time that we've let a dog go to
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a home that had another unfixed animal.
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Dixie: Yeah I can agree with that too.
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I'm the same way with that.
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I think they all need to be
spayed and neutered just to be
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responsible for the pet ownership,
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Lisa: yeah, it's better for them health
wise and better for, the giant hole
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that we're all, digging ourselves
out of with all the unwanted animals
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that we already currently have.
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It's just the only way we're gonna
fix that is to educate people and
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to spay and neuter your animals,
even if there's no intent on having
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a litter is just responsible.
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I still run across people that are like,
oh, your dogs aren't gonna have babies.
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And I'm like, absolutely not.
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Have you been to the
animal shelter lately?
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Have you walked around
at the animal shelter?
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I just can't wrap my mind around some
of the things that people still think
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when it comes to animals and the way
they perceive the animal shelter.
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It's just nonsense to me,
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I've also been around for a while.
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It's not like I'm just learning
about these things, I've
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been doing rescue since 06.
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That's almost 20 years.
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That's almost half my life.
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Uhhuh.
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That's a long time.
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I don't know how else to live my life.
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So I I have a dog room and I have
kittens running around in the bathroom
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currently getting, some playtime.
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'Cause I have one of my dogs
loose, so we're slowly doing
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kitten doggy introductions.
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Dixie: Yeah.
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And it's good that you have the dogs
to introduce the kittens to, because
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there are a lot of people that they
do wanna adopt kittens and they
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wanna ask, are they dog friendly?
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Now, for somebody like
me, I don't have any dogs.
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I always have to say, I don't know.
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Lisa: When they're kitten, it takes a
bit of time to get 'em used to dogs.
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But having dogs in the house definitely is
a plus when you're adopting out kittens.
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Dixie: Yes, definitely.
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I agree.
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Definitely agree.
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Now, how does the Bulldog rescue
handle when people don't have a vet?
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So you can't call a vet for a veterinary
reference if it's like a new owner,
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Lisa: usually the process would
be that they have to establish
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with a vet and then send a like
wellness check visit receipt to us.
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It's in our contracts that within
14 days, any animal, whether you
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have a vet or not, needs to see.
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A veterinarian just to make, do a wellness
visit, just to make sure that everything
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that we're giving you medically is
correct and that your vet can look at
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that information and do a wellness visit
before you have an issue or an emergency.
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Your vet doesn't wanna see
your dog when it's, on its way
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out or needing serious care.
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They want to visit with your
new pet when it's happy,
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healthy and, having a good day.
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We always require a vet visit, but
for people that do not have a vet,
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they have to send receipts to us.
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And most of the time that just basically
proves that they're buying heartworm
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prevention and that they're being
responsible, because that's one of
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the main things that we require is,
you've gotta be responsible, gotta have
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heartworm prevention, and to prove that
to us, I just need a simple receipt.
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Dixie: How long has the New
Orleans Bulldog Rescue been around?
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Lisa: So Michael Schachtman
. Started the group after Sula a
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pit bull rescue disbanded, and
I believe that was close to.
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2010 Uhhuh.
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So I think we've been
around for 14 or 15 years.
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'cause Michael had been doing this for
about a year and a half before, but he
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was with SULA before that, so he was
pulling pit bulls which we still love.
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We are All Breed we really
don't just stick to bulldogs.
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My forever foster, who's 14 years
old, is laying on the floor and she
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has a little blue nose pit bull.
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And I've got a personal dog that's
a pit and then an English bulldog.
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If it's on that breed
restriction list, I'll take it.
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Thank you very much.
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Dixie: It's good to know
that the New Orleans Bulldog
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rescue is not breed specific.
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Lisa: No, we are not.
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Dixie: Yeah, I know a lot of times
when people put that, people are
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like, oh no, it's strictly a breed
specific thing and I don't think
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a lot of people understand that.
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Rescues are very flexible when
it comes to rescuing animals.
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Lisa: Absolutely.
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I feel like the breed specific
dogs, the Frenchies and the English,
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they do bring out the crowds.
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But then once you're out there,
you might fall in love with this
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little bulldog mix or another pit
bull or any other dog that we have
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available for adoption at the time.
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So it's definitely a big draw
to have English bulldogs and
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English, available for adoption.
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But I find that people come out and
they meet these dogs and they're
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not like the dog that they, is
a good match for their family.
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And then we have this other
dog that's perfect for them.
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And just with a little bit of time
of with them spending, with the
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dog and, us encouraging it, we
usually can make a great match.
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And that's the main reason why we require
people to come to adoption events.
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Come out, meet all the dogs.
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You're looking at a dog, you're
just looking at its picture.
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You might have, or you might not
have even read the description about
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the dog, but the look of the dog
is what people fall in love with.
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When you actually get there, you'd be
surprised what you're actually drawn to.
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What is the best match for your family.
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And we always tell people it's
not first come, first serve.
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I remember we had an incident at one
of our very first Christmas events.
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It was like our first big
event that I participated in.
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And it was a man and he was insistent
that he was the first one at the
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event and he was adopting that dog.
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And I'm like, I'm sorry sir.
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That's not how it works.
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And he was furious, absolutely furious.
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Michael had to step in.
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And I don't even remember, what
deescalated the situation, but I know
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that he was just insistent that he
was their first and the dog was his.
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I'm like, that's just not
how it works, unfortunately.
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Dixie: Yeah, I see.
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I run into that on social media if I'm
trying to help people with kittens and
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one thing that I absolutely cannot stand
to is when like a rescue offers to help.
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And they're like, oh, I'll think about it.
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It's if a rescue is offering
help, let 'em take the kittens.
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But what they'll do instead is
they'll be like, oh, I already
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promised one or two to the person
who said that they wanted them first.
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And it's really?
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Lisa: I'm just shaking and I'm,
literally just shaking my head.
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Dixie: I know.
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' Lisa: cause I just don't understand,
if a rescue is offering to help,
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that is like a guarantee that they're
gonna back the animals that you
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found until they find a forever home.
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Whether it's financially or whether it's
just at, doing the social media work
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and advertising the animal on Petfinder.
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It's just, I don't know.
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Back in the day that's how I
started with Bulldog Rescue.
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I.
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Follow through.
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That's all I did.
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I committed to an animal and this
rescue that I'd never even met,
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stepped up financially, and I've
been with them, for the last, I think
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I, 12 years, 10 years, a long time.
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I should have looked at
those dates beforehand.
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It's been a
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while.
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I can't even remember.
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So technically I'm the vice president.
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I handle intakes, so if you send in a
surrender request I will look at it.
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If we've got a foster
home that's a good match.
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If know, I try to set up the intakes,
mostly try to pull our dogs from shelters.
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Most people just text me, from the
animal shelters and ask for help.
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I know most of the people that work
at the local shelters and, like
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as far as like Baton Rouge down
in Chalmette, things like that.
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Most of the time they just have my phone
number and I work closely with them.
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I just get the details.
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I, get some pictures.
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I run it by Michael and let him know
what we're looking at commitment wise.
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Usually it's medical stuff that Michael's
worried about, but now I have a specific.
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Criteria for animals that I can pull and
help so that I don't dig ourselves into
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a huge financial hole and halt things.
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But rescue's always that way.
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It's always gonna be how much time
do I have to go out and advocate
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for the animals and raise money?
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We do an online auction.
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Now we're doing it twice a year
where we basically just auction
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off items that have been donated.
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And the money comes straight to
us and we just ship the items
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out to people all across the
country to whoever, buys the item.
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They just bid on 'em online.
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And then we usually have merchandise,
which we have just reordered some
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t-shirts and, we always have our
donation button on Facebook and,
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you can donate through Venmo.
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We have all the things.
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It just gets away from you when you're
helping dogs and you're not looking
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at what's in the bank account and
what the vet, has on their tally.
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So yeah it can easily get outta control.
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But it's, we've been around a long time.
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We just took a little break, but we're
not down and out, I still have dogs here.
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Un unfortunately, I had two
dogs come back in November.
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Their dad that's had some medical issues.
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So I've got, two dogs here that were
in a home for almost five years that
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are now looking for homes again.
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Either together or separately.
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But that's just, in the last
year we've been pushing some
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of our long-term fosters.
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We got Petey adopted into a great home,
and then cobalt and Susie came back.
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And then, like I said, I just this week
went down and pulled a new Frenchie.
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So poor guy doesn't even
have a name at this point.
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. Just the one they gave him at the
shelter and he doesn't know it
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and I don't particularly like it,
so we're just going with here.
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Your dog.
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You're a good boy right
now, so come on, dog.
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That's what I tell him.
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Come on, dog.
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And he's smart.
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He got the routine literally in a day and
he knows how to open the crate that he
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is in, so he has to be, locked in there.
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Dixie: Nice.
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Lisa: Very smart.
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He was, he watched me close the crate
one time and then was scratching
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out the door like two minutes later.
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I'm like, oh, he figured out that
he could just push the crate up.
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It's just a crate that drops down and
it's supposed to lock in place, but
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it didn't stay in place apparently.
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Uhhuh.
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Yeah,
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so that happened.
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Unfortunately, I've got, a couple
dogs with storm fearers currently
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and I just put extra clips and extra
zip ties, got cameras in that room
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and just monitor when I'm not here
and make sure everybody's okay.
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Especially 'cause it's summer showers.
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Dixie: Yeah.
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Lisa: It's constantly
having a thunderstorm around
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Dixie: yeah.
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It's amazing how smart they are too.
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'cause they will figure it out fast.
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Lisa: Yes, Uhhuh.
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I've got a couple they can
open kennels, including the
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one that's laying on the floor.
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She's in a very thick, like
almost steel bared kennel.
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And her lock drops down and slides
back and she can undo both of them.
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Dixie: Wow.
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Lisa: In
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record time.
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Yeah, it's pretty amazing to be
honest, because this is her store
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kennel, the same exact kennel.
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This is the third one.
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Just because she's got storm fears
and when she's younger she just
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destroyed the crates trying to get out.
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When she gets out, she
doesn't do any damage.
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It's just that when I leave the house,
everybody needs to be kenneled 'cause
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everyone doesn't always get along.
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And I bring new dogs in from the shelter.
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I have no idea, if another
dog is gonna break out.
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And then I've got two loose
dogs in one room and not home.
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When I've done rescue for a long time,
I've got all the bases covered to make
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sure that I keep everyone safe including
myself, but mainly the animals, like
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when I'm not here and I can't supervise,
everyone's kenneled in their own separate
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kennels and I just make sure everybody's
calm before I walk out that front door.
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I don't leave the house when
the dogs are going berserk.
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I've got a nice routine where
everybody's in their kennels, at
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least 10, 15 minutes before in case
anybody's got separation anxiety.
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When they hear me hit the button
on the door, usually it's, if they
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know that this is the routine,
they know I'm about to leave.
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Everybody seems to be
good with that routine.
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I just keep it the same way with my
kittens even I, they go in and out
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of a large dog kennel that's in the
bathroom, that's like their nighttime.
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I co I cover 'em at night.
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I'm trying to teach 'em nighttime and
sleepy time, so they're not at their
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new homes running crazy at night.
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They're already used to the fact that
they have to be sleeping at nighttime and
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they're up and playing during the day.
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And when I go to work, they go
back into, their dog kennel when I
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come home, they come out and they
eat, and we do it all over again.
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The dogs go out, the kittens get out.
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It's just a constant revolving who's
in the house and who's in the yard.
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Dixie: What do you do if you
have to evacuate for a hurricane?
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Lisa: That hasn't happened yet.
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I've only had smaller
hurricanes to deal with.
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I've got a very large generator in the
backyard and three air conditioning units
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and , for Ida, I stayed I had way too many
animals at that point in life to evacuate.
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I've got less animals now, but with
the equipment that I have now, I can
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stay here, run the refrigerator, run
everything that I need to just as long
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as I can get gas for the generator and
that hasn't seemed to be a problem.
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My family also stays, so I've got my
brother and my parents seven minutes from
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me, and everybody is on the same page.
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Everybody checks in.
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Then my brother will come over and help me
get the generator and the AC unit's going.
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Usually I stay.
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The last big storm that I left
for was Katrina, and at that
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time I did take my animals with
me, my two dogs and my two cats.
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And then I haven't evacuated
for a storm since then.
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Dixie: Yeah.
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To be honest, same with me.
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I stayed for Ida as well.
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We had the generator.
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Makes sense.
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Lisa: Yeah, I technically have two
generators, but one of them will run
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the, my house and the neighbor's house.
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It's massive.
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It tells me what percentage I use.
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I've never used more than 20%
of the battery at one time.
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I'm thankful for that thing is a Mac
daddy, but it is heavy to Manhandle
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and to move around and it can't
sit out there If it's not running
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well, it might be able to now.
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But Petey used to eat the wires.
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I had to repair both of the generators
because once you turn them off,
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Petey is like, oh, that thing was,
that giant thing was making noise.
456
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And he would chew on
the wires and the hoses.
457
00:22:55,668 --> 00:22:56,838
He liked to eat the hoses.
458
00:22:57,763 --> 00:22:58,333
Don't know why.
459
00:23:00,223 --> 00:23:01,423
Random dog things.
460
00:23:02,083 --> 00:23:02,113
Dixie: Uhhuh.
461
00:23:02,353 --> 00:23:02,743
Yeah.
462
00:23:03,053 --> 00:23:04,313
They eat anything.
463
00:23:04,343 --> 00:23:05,513
Some of 'em anyway.
464
00:23:06,443 --> 00:23:06,653
Lisa: Yeah.
465
00:23:06,703 --> 00:23:07,363
Definitely.
466
00:23:08,143 --> 00:23:11,263
Dixie: That's what I like seeing to
keep those posts where they show the
467
00:23:11,263 --> 00:23:14,803
vets on what they pull out of the dog's
stomachs and sometimes it's just amazing.
468
00:23:15,873 --> 00:23:18,693
Lisa: Yeah, that is absolutely
interesting to watch.
469
00:23:19,113 --> 00:23:22,943
'cause I've had a dog that came
to me from Baton Rouge and what
470
00:23:22,943 --> 00:23:26,963
was in his stomach was not parts
of things that were at my house.
471
00:23:26,963 --> 00:23:30,233
So wherever he came from, before
he was at the Baton Rouge shelter
472
00:23:30,233 --> 00:23:33,273
or at the Baton Rouge shelter was
what was in his stomach poor guy.
473
00:23:34,343 --> 00:23:35,873
And he did have to have it extracted.
474
00:23:36,278 --> 00:23:38,738
Piece of like plastic
black mat or something.
475
00:23:38,738 --> 00:23:39,458
I don't even know.
476
00:23:39,728 --> 00:23:40,898
I don't have a mat like that.
477
00:23:40,898 --> 00:23:42,248
So it definitely didn't
come from my house.
478
00:23:43,178 --> 00:23:45,308
Dixie: So how is your
setup for your kittens?
479
00:23:46,898 --> 00:23:51,878
Lisa: So currently my kittens have
a large dog kennel that sits up
480
00:23:51,878 --> 00:23:54,698
on top of my bathroom cabinet.
481
00:23:54,698 --> 00:23:55,268
So it makes my.
482
00:23:56,048 --> 00:23:57,848
Bathroom, basically just kitten land.
483
00:23:57,848 --> 00:24:01,448
The sink is inaccessible at this
point and they've got a litter box
484
00:24:01,448 --> 00:24:04,698
in there and they've got a stuffed
the animal and their food and water.
485
00:24:04,698 --> 00:24:07,128
And then , their wet food and
water and their dry food go in
486
00:24:07,128 --> 00:24:09,828
and out of the kennel with them.
487
00:24:10,128 --> 00:24:14,088
And I feed like mom and baby cat
and frisky's kittens mixed together
488
00:24:14,388 --> 00:24:16,008
as per what Rachel sent home.
489
00:24:16,218 --> 00:24:18,888
And we do a little bit
of forti flora in there.
490
00:24:18,938 --> 00:24:22,368
And sometimes I put some thrive on
top, a little baby kitten thrive.
491
00:24:22,668 --> 00:24:26,788
And then when I have the dogs loose in
the house, everyone except for Rhonda,
492
00:24:26,788 --> 00:24:33,028
usually they are locked into the bathroom
and there's like a larger litter box
493
00:24:33,028 --> 00:24:36,868
for the adult cats in there and toys
and then their food and water are down.
494
00:24:37,198 --> 00:24:40,768
And then whenever I finish rotating
the dogs as, as long as I'm
495
00:24:40,768 --> 00:24:42,118
gonna have some peace and quiet.
496
00:24:42,563 --> 00:24:44,993
In the house, dogwise, I'll
let the kittens come out.
497
00:24:45,413 --> 00:24:49,733
And they storm the door like it's,
Armageddon is running out like maniacs.
498
00:24:49,953 --> 00:24:51,093
They're right at eight weeks old.
499
00:24:51,093 --> 00:24:51,903
They know their names.
500
00:24:51,903 --> 00:24:53,766
It's Cheeto, Dorito and Frito.
501
00:24:54,133 --> 00:24:55,813
Two little redheads and a little buff guy.
502
00:24:56,283 --> 00:25:01,683
They're all boys and that's, basically
my process with them is let them have
503
00:25:01,683 --> 00:25:04,443
as much out time from their dog crate.
504
00:25:04,833 --> 00:25:07,703
The minute that I'm up in the
morning, they hear me in the bathroom.
505
00:25:07,703 --> 00:25:08,963
'cause that's one of
the first things I do.
506
00:25:08,963 --> 00:25:12,563
Let the dogs out and then I go to the
bathroom and that's when they come out
507
00:25:12,563 --> 00:25:15,803
and I mix their food and the minute that
their food is mixed, they're storming
508
00:25:15,803 --> 00:25:17,633
back into the bathroom when I call them.
509
00:25:17,983 --> 00:25:21,133
And then that's pretty much how their day
starts and we just do it all day long.
510
00:25:21,133 --> 00:25:25,673
They come in and out of the bathroom when
the dogs are going in and out and, when
511
00:25:25,673 --> 00:25:28,613
I leave they're in their dog kennel and
when I sleep, they're in their dog kennel.
512
00:25:28,913 --> 00:25:31,073
They're just so little at this point.
513
00:25:31,073 --> 00:25:35,483
I can't misplace them in the house
because I've got to move the dogs around.
514
00:25:35,483 --> 00:25:40,063
So it's all very controlled by me just
to make sure that everyone is safe and
515
00:25:40,063 --> 00:25:41,933
that the kittens, are gaining weight.
516
00:25:42,453 --> 00:25:44,313
We're going in for our kitten shots.
517
00:25:44,433 --> 00:25:48,243
Dorito wasn't feeling well last
time, so he did not get his
518
00:25:48,243 --> 00:25:49,533
second round of injections.
519
00:25:49,863 --> 00:25:51,603
We just finished with our antibiotics.
520
00:25:51,603 --> 00:25:54,183
So I'm hoping this week to get Dorito in.
521
00:25:55,513 --> 00:25:58,153
Excuse me, and have his
second set of kitten vaccines.
522
00:25:58,483 --> 00:26:02,563
Once they get two pounds, they'll
get neutered and move hopefully
523
00:26:02,593 --> 00:26:04,933
to Jefferson feed for adoption.
524
00:26:05,153 --> 00:26:08,303
If not, I will just hold onto
them , as long as need be.
525
00:26:08,303 --> 00:26:11,543
That's what you do when
you volunteer to foster.
526
00:26:11,973 --> 00:26:14,613
At least that's what I do when
I volunteer to foster it, is
527
00:26:14,613 --> 00:26:15,843
all the way through the end.
528
00:26:15,843 --> 00:26:18,873
Even if I've got that dog for
five years or these kittens for
529
00:26:18,873 --> 00:26:20,723
five years at my house it's just,
530
00:26:20,803 --> 00:26:25,293
i'm committed and that's the most
important thing is that, I signed up to
531
00:26:25,293 --> 00:26:30,183
make sure that these guys got adopted
and that's how it's gonna be, whether
532
00:26:30,183 --> 00:26:33,063
it takes a couple weeks or five years.
533
00:26:33,483 --> 00:26:35,073
That's just how I am.
534
00:26:35,083 --> 00:26:36,493
I guess it's a good quality to have.
535
00:26:36,493 --> 00:26:39,523
I'm definitely committed to my
animals every, and I've got,
536
00:26:39,673 --> 00:26:40,963
this one takes heart meds.
537
00:26:40,993 --> 00:26:42,613
That one, gets bronchitis.
538
00:26:42,853 --> 00:26:45,423
The bulldog's got, a micro orbital eye.
539
00:26:45,693 --> 00:26:47,253
I've got a cat with no eyelids.
540
00:26:47,253 --> 00:26:48,623
He also has stomatitis.
541
00:26:48,933 --> 00:26:51,653
Simon got his entropion fixed this year.
542
00:26:51,923 --> 00:26:56,983
I adopted a cat from Trad Dat Cat, and I
was told that he had herpes in his eye.
543
00:26:57,413 --> 00:26:59,693
And I was like, okay, like
it's not a big, huge deal.
544
00:26:59,693 --> 00:27:03,083
Like we'll just continue to treat
it well, didn't get any better.
545
00:27:03,383 --> 00:27:07,703
And we went to the eye specialist
after we'd seen my vet twice and
546
00:27:07,703 --> 00:27:12,953
done some expensive meds as per
what Rachel was telling me, they had
547
00:27:12,953 --> 00:27:17,243
used similar with a similar, issue
with the cat with herpes in the eye.
548
00:27:17,633 --> 00:27:18,473
And that didn't work.
549
00:27:18,743 --> 00:27:20,763
So the eye specialist
is no, he has entropion.
550
00:27:20,783 --> 00:27:22,433
So then we got that fixed.
551
00:27:23,543 --> 00:27:25,463
That's just what you do
when you have an animal.
552
00:27:25,463 --> 00:27:27,143
You have an issue, you fix it.
553
00:27:27,763 --> 00:27:28,043
Absolutely.
554
00:27:28,048 --> 00:27:31,318
Or you do your best to maintain
it or treat it or whatever.
555
00:27:31,588 --> 00:27:37,918
Rhonda's heart meds are $130 a month and
I go and pick them up every single month.
556
00:27:37,948 --> 00:27:40,108
That's just because she needs them.
557
00:27:40,108 --> 00:27:41,573
She's got a left ventricle issue.
558
00:27:41,573 --> 00:27:42,803
She's 14 years old.
559
00:27:43,163 --> 00:27:49,553
Whoever had her tied to a tree on a two
inch, or not two inch, I think it was two
560
00:27:49,553 --> 00:27:55,253
feet, maybe it wasn't very large rope in
the backyard for two years of her life,
561
00:27:55,593 --> 00:27:57,093
didn't give her heartworm prevention.
562
00:27:57,333 --> 00:28:01,083
So by the time we got her and
saved her, she had enough damage
563
00:28:01,083 --> 00:28:04,143
onto her heart that she's got an
issue with her left ventricle.
564
00:28:04,443 --> 00:28:08,433
Over the years that unfor it, it
fortunately has not changed, but she's
565
00:28:08,433 --> 00:28:13,543
still on an expensive heart med twice
a day for years now, and she'll be
566
00:28:13,543 --> 00:28:15,253
on those meds until she passes away.
567
00:28:15,583 --> 00:28:17,413
And hopefully that's no time soon.
568
00:28:17,893 --> 00:28:18,823
Oh my old girl.
569
00:28:19,753 --> 00:28:20,593
Dixie: And how old is she
570
00:28:20,693 --> 00:28:21,383
Lisa: 14.
571
00:28:21,443 --> 00:28:21,893
Dixie: Wow.
572
00:28:21,983 --> 00:28:22,343
Yeah.
573
00:28:22,398 --> 00:28:23,358
Lisa: She's still spry.
574
00:28:23,358 --> 00:28:27,228
She'll still jump all over my dad
when my dad comes to cut the grass.
575
00:28:27,588 --> 00:28:29,473
And she still sounds ferocious.
576
00:28:29,863 --> 00:28:32,083
If she's loosened, she,
you knock on the door.
577
00:28:32,083 --> 00:28:34,153
And that's, that's the main
thing I need you to know.
578
00:28:34,153 --> 00:28:36,193
We got dogs here when
you knock on my door.
579
00:28:37,093 --> 00:28:37,543
Dixie: Wow.
580
00:28:37,543 --> 00:28:38,233
14.
581
00:28:38,233 --> 00:28:39,643
And she's got heart problems.
582
00:28:39,643 --> 00:28:40,483
That's amazing.
583
00:28:41,443 --> 00:28:43,183
Lisa: Yeah, she's been
around for a long time.
584
00:28:43,613 --> 00:28:48,543
She's been relatively healthy Besides
her heart issue she's had a hematoma in
585
00:28:48,543 --> 00:28:50,908
her life and the latest thing was a UTI.
586
00:28:50,928 --> 00:28:52,873
And she's been extremely healthy.
587
00:28:53,203 --> 00:28:55,933
But obviously, we try
take care of our animals.
588
00:28:55,933 --> 00:28:57,953
We feed quality food, everybody.
589
00:28:58,643 --> 00:29:01,953
Sees the vet when they need to gets
their heartworm prevention on time.
590
00:29:02,263 --> 00:29:06,613
We, I just do what a responsible pet
owner should do for their animals.
591
00:29:06,943 --> 00:29:11,093
I just, happen to own more cats than
I do dogs, but I run a dog rescue,
592
00:29:11,203 --> 00:29:12,523
I tell people that and they laugh.
593
00:29:13,003 --> 00:29:17,603
I'm like, I didn't even have a bulldog
in my home as my personal pet for five
594
00:29:17,603 --> 00:29:19,853
years when I was doing bulldog rescue.
595
00:29:19,853 --> 00:29:23,153
So my first bulldog I adopted
after I'd already been with
596
00:29:23,153 --> 00:29:24,473
this rescue for five years.
597
00:29:24,623 --> 00:29:24,773
Dixie: Huh.
598
00:29:24,833 --> 00:29:24,953
Lisa: And
599
00:29:24,953 --> 00:29:25,823
that was Monty.
600
00:29:26,163 --> 00:29:27,243
I'm on my third now.
601
00:29:27,243 --> 00:29:31,743
So I had Monty and Lucy who both
had serious behavior issues.
602
00:29:32,013 --> 00:29:36,183
Monty much less than Lucy, Lucy
couldn't even hardly leave the house.
603
00:29:36,573 --> 00:29:37,923
It was very.
604
00:29:38,493 --> 00:29:40,383
Very one-sided relationship.
605
00:29:40,383 --> 00:29:41,803
But I was her mama.
606
00:29:42,033 --> 00:29:45,603
I nursed her back to health and hand
fed her When she got pneumonia, she was
607
00:29:45,603 --> 00:29:51,603
down to 34 pounds and spent a couple
weeks in ICU over at Metairie Small.
608
00:29:51,933 --> 00:29:55,033
And yeah, I was pretty much
the only one that could handle
609
00:29:55,033 --> 00:29:56,353
her and that was fine by me.
610
00:29:56,683 --> 00:29:58,873
Unfortunately, she didn't live very long.
611
00:29:59,083 --> 00:30:02,623
It was only 18 months from the
damage that was done to her heart.
612
00:30:02,933 --> 00:30:07,073
She had, serious heart problems.
613
00:30:07,373 --> 00:30:10,403
When it was time I took her in and
stayed with her and it was time.
614
00:30:10,793 --> 00:30:12,443
So I only had her for 18 months.
615
00:30:12,773 --> 00:30:13,393
But the.
616
00:30:14,398 --> 00:30:17,158
Trail on social media and Craigslist.
617
00:30:17,548 --> 00:30:21,058
I think she had at least four owners
and was heartworm positive for at
618
00:30:21,058 --> 00:30:22,678
least five years before I got her.
619
00:30:22,943 --> 00:30:23,283
Dixie: Oh, wow.
620
00:30:23,283 --> 00:30:23,284
Lisa: 'cause
621
00:30:23,428 --> 00:30:26,248
after we posted about her, people
came out of the woodwork going,
622
00:30:26,638 --> 00:30:28,108
I saw this dog on Craigslist.
623
00:30:28,348 --> 00:30:30,208
I saw her on Facebook two years ago.
624
00:30:30,418 --> 00:30:31,588
She was heartworm positive.
625
00:30:31,588 --> 00:30:33,568
Then someone gave her away on Craigslist.
626
00:30:33,648 --> 00:30:39,688
At that point I knew that she had some
serious issues along her life, uhhuh
627
00:30:39,878 --> 00:30:42,128
with humans treating her horribly.
628
00:30:42,128 --> 00:30:44,658
You could tell, you couldn't
touch the broom in the house.
629
00:30:44,868 --> 00:30:48,558
If you grabbed the paper towels,
it was on like Donkey Kong.
630
00:30:48,918 --> 00:30:51,538
She would come after you sometimes
coming out of the bathroom.
631
00:30:51,538 --> 00:30:54,508
If you were holding something in
your hands, anything didn't matter
632
00:30:54,508 --> 00:30:57,538
what color, just holding something
in your hands, your dirty clothes.
633
00:30:57,748 --> 00:31:01,498
She'd get up and go out of her way
to charge you just because she could.
634
00:31:02,098 --> 00:31:03,028
No other reason.
635
00:31:03,028 --> 00:31:06,118
I couldn't figure out a rhyme
or a reason to what set her off.
636
00:31:06,418 --> 00:31:08,758
Just knew that I couldn't carry
things around in the house much
637
00:31:08,758 --> 00:31:12,268
and she was loose, or I run
the risk of her charging me.
638
00:31:12,268 --> 00:31:12,488
So
639
00:31:12,763 --> 00:31:13,543
she never hurt me, but
640
00:31:13,543 --> 00:31:17,113
she definitely showed me that I
was not in charge of this house.
641
00:31:17,383 --> 00:31:17,683
Dixie: Yeah.
642
00:31:17,683 --> 00:31:17,685
That's sad.
643
00:31:17,690 --> 00:31:18,368
Even sad though.
644
00:31:18,423 --> 00:31:18,723
Lisa: Yeah.
645
00:31:19,143 --> 00:31:20,343
And it wasn't her fault.
646
00:31:20,358 --> 00:31:20,648
Yeah.
647
00:31:20,653 --> 00:31:20,793
Yeah.
648
00:31:20,848 --> 00:31:21,588
It really wasn't.
649
00:31:21,588 --> 00:31:23,478
And she let me do all the things to her.
650
00:31:23,478 --> 00:31:28,448
Like I could clean her wrinkles in even
the most girly spots and she would let me
651
00:31:28,988 --> 00:31:30,212
Dixie: so how many pets do you have.
652
00:31:30,283 --> 00:31:32,803
Lisa: So I own two dogs and four cats.
653
00:31:32,863 --> 00:31:38,923
Three are strictly inside and one
is still from my shelter TNR days.
654
00:31:38,953 --> 00:31:40,453
I had to relocate her here.
655
00:31:40,723 --> 00:31:43,513
Thankfully I relocated her here 'cause
she ended up with a diaphragmatic
656
00:31:43,543 --> 00:31:45,863
hernia repair that needed to be done.
657
00:31:46,253 --> 00:31:50,543
But she's my last outside cat and
that, that's it, four cats, two dogs.
658
00:31:50,813 --> 00:31:54,733
But I'm just one person that's more
than enough for just me to handle.
659
00:31:54,953 --> 00:31:57,583
And then I've got the
three dogs here in rescue.
660
00:31:57,583 --> 00:32:01,123
Technically four 'cause of Rhonda,
but she's my forever foster.
661
00:32:02,083 --> 00:32:04,843
Unfortunately, she's, she doesn't
really go to events and she needs
662
00:32:04,843 --> 00:32:09,493
a very specific home and with heart
issues at the age of 14, I don't
663
00:32:09,493 --> 00:32:11,143
think that she's gonna go anywhere.
664
00:32:11,383 --> 00:32:12,433
She's technically my dog.
665
00:32:12,433 --> 00:32:13,573
She sleeps in bed with me.
666
00:32:14,184 --> 00:32:18,384
Dixie: Thank you, Lisa, for joining
me today to talk about your role
667
00:32:18,384 --> 00:32:23,304
with New Orleans Bulldog Rescue and
everything that you do in animal rescue.
668
00:32:23,744 --> 00:32:28,634
We will be back next week with Lisa to
finish up our conversation about some of
669
00:32:28,634 --> 00:32:34,724
the things that she has experienced in
animal rescue, and we'll also discuss TNR.
670
00:32:34,724 --> 00:32:36,644
So we hope to see you next week.
671
00:32:37,754 --> 00:32:41,474
If you are enjoying our show, please
consider leaving us a donation.
672
00:32:41,804 --> 00:32:44,684
A hundred percent goes to our animals..
673
00:32:45,854 --> 00:32:46,964
Thanks for listening.
674
00:32:49,121 --> 00:32:52,001
And that's all the time we
have for today's episode.
675
00:32:52,108 --> 00:32:56,118
If you are in animal rescue, or if
you know someone that has a story that
676
00:32:56,118 --> 00:32:58,298
should be told, please contact us.
677
00:32:58,368 --> 00:33:01,188
We would love to have
you or them on the show
678
00:33:01,418 --> 00:33:04,988
. Thanks for listening, and please
join us next week as we continue to
679
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