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Welcome back everybody.
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Today I'm excited to welcome Jami,
a dedicated animal advocate who's
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passionate about spaying and neutering
and making a real difference for
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animals in our community Hi, Jami.
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Thanks so much for coming on the show.
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Jami: No problem.
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Dixie: It sounds like you do a
lot in the animal rescue world.
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You've done a lot of volunteer work
with you said several organizations,
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and you're an animal advocate.-
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Jami: Yes
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… Dixie: to get started I'd like
to hear about your background.
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What do you do when you're not
rescuing or helping animals, and how
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did you get started in animal rescue?
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Jami: I'm an RN by trade, and
I haven't worked since COVID.
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I got COVID.
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So other than that drama, as far
as animals go I worked for a vet
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from age 16 until I went to medical
assistant school and went on and on.
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Anyway, I've had horses, dogs,
cats that I've done rescue.
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They're always the needy cases.
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And the three that I
have now one I found…
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Actually, I rescued two.
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My friend has another one.
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They were in a garage here in Florida
with no food and no water in a cage.
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And so now he's eight, and he
is adorable and spoiled rotten.
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And then I ran into this wonderful lady,
Dixie, and I've adopted dogs from her.
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And I have a German Shepherd
Great Pyrenees mix, and a German
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Shepherd Malinois mix from her.
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And the German Shepherd Malinois mix
was found on the streets and then
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taken to the shelter and adopted,
and then supposedly bit a child.
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And in my opinion, it was the family
that weren't paying attention.
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You don't have a puppy
around children unattended.
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And so she wanted the dog to be put
to sleep, took it to another shelter.
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And so Dixie came in and rescued
her and called me and said,
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"You don't have any children."
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Will you take this dog?
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So of course I did.
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So those are my three.
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And then I had a Presa Canario
that I adopted from Georgia
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that was in a dog fighting ring.
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His ears were chopped off at home, and
he was severely abused, and he lived with
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me for 14 years until he passed away.
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So dogs are just my passion, and I'm a
huge advocate of adopt, do not breed, do
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not buy from breeders, and definitely spay
and neuter and microchip your animals.
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Dixie: Of course, I would
like to talk more about that.
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But- … before we get started on that
you had mentioned that you are dealing
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with Dixie, which is not me, by the way.
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Jami: And she does not do rescue anymore.
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She's retired.
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Dixie: That's what I was gonna
ask, what rescue was she with,
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and if she was still doing that.
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Jami: She's not.
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Dixie: You also said that you had the, dog
that you got that was living in the cage
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in the garage with no food and no water.
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Jami: Yes.
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Dixie: How did that
one come on your radar?
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Jami: Okay.
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I actually went to buy one of
those exercise machines, the vib-
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I call it a vibration station.
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It's one of those things you stand
on and vibrate, and when I walked
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into the garage to look at it, I
saw these two little bitty puppies,
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and they had no food, no water.
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And one was the runt, who I wound
up with, and my friend wound up
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with the other one, and now my
runt is bigger than the other one.
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But I said to him, I'm like, do you
wanna find a home for the dogs?"
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And he's like, "I don't know.
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Let me think on it."
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And a day went by, and so I pestered him.
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And I'm like…
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He's like, "Okay, will you take the runt?"
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And I said, "Absolutely."
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So when I got there, he said,
"Will you take them both?"
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And I said, "Absolutely."
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So that's how I wound
up in that situation.
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It was by him- happenstance.
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And he looks like a Great Dane
lab mix, but he is a pit bull
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German Shepherd mix, and that's what
they told me he was, and I had his
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DNA done, and that is what he is.
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But he's just … I call him Panda
Bear, and he's just the sweetest
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dog, and he's had to have a couple
surgeries, and he's been my very
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expensive dog, but he's worth it.
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So they always have a
story, but they're worth it.
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Dixie: Yeah, definitely.
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That's very interesting too that you just
happened to be there, and as luck would
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have it, that you were able to help them.
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Do you know what the story is
on why they were in the cage?
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Was it an intentional breeding, or was
it just a situation- … where they
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didn't spay or neuter, the parents?
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Jami: The neighbors hadn't spayed or
neutered, and so this guy, I think
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he was trying to do a good thing, but
he had three or four kids himself,
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and took these two dogs on, and then
didn't give them the proper care.
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Hell is paved with good intentions, we all
think we're doing a good thing, but if you
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can't follow through with it, then don't
even start the first step, in my opinion.
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Dixie: Yeah.
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No, I can agree with that, 'cause,
I see that every day with the people
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that'll pick up strays, and- Yes
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they'll pick 'em up with a good intention.
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They want to help, but they're not
prepared to be the one to help.
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Yeah.
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And so then they get stuck if they
can't find a foster or if they can't
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find a rescue, which is very difficult
because, it's hard enough for rescues
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to find fosters, and then let alone
dependent on the time of the year that
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you're in, most of the time they're full.
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Jami: Oh, absolutely.
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And that's … I am sorry
I put it back on breeders.
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And then now, if you look at Facebook,
there's all these, especially in Florida,
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Doberman Pinscher, Great Dane rescues,
and I'm probably pronouncing it wrong,
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I don't know if it's Cane Corso or Cane
Corsos, but the Italian Mastiffs, rescues.
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But they're breeders, and people
don't realize that they're breeders.
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And then, they want 3 or
$6,000 for these dogs.
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They're breeders.
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And then you can go to any shelter, and
you can get any breed of dog that you
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would like and rescue one that's been
spayed, and neutered, and microchipped.
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So that is a huge pet peeve of mine, is
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And then, okay, my other pet peeve
is people aren't educated on the
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breeds that they choose to adopt.
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So a Doberman is not for everyone.
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A Mastiff is not for everyone.
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A pit bull is not for
everyone, and I love pit bulls.
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They're probably my favorite breed.
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A German Shepherd is not for everybody.
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A Chihuahua is not for everybody.
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So you really need to research the breed
and research their background and see
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if it fits your lifestyle for the long
term, because it makes me extremely
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angry to read about all these dogs that
people are trying to rehome because
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it no longer fits their environment
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Dixie: I would like to go touch on
what you just said, too, about the
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breeders that are pretending to be
rescues that are selling the animals.
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Yes, ma'am.
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I, ended up getting this rehoming
group that was on Facebook.
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It was just pure luck that I ended up
becoming the administrator of this group.
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It was this horrible group, and
it was a rehoming adoption group.,
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And there were some legitimate
people that were actually looking
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to rehome their pets, but there
were a ton of breeders on the group.
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And-
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Jami: Yes, ma'am
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… Dixie: the prior admin
had no problem with this.
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I have a really big problem with this.
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So one day in this group, she
posts a thing, and she's like, "Oh,
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hey I'm gonna give up this group.
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If anybody is interested in taking
over this group, put down your name
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in the comments, and I'm gonna have
a raffle to give the group away."
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So right away- Oh my gosh.
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Yes.
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Oh my gosh is right.
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And this group was so- Red flag.
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Yeah.
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Red flag.
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It was so bad so I see this right away,
so I jump in and I'm like, "Hey, I
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have a couple other groups that I run.
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I'm big in the rescue community.
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I would love to take over your group."
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And I even private messaged her,
but I put this in the comment.
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When I put it in the comment, I had a
couple of other people who recognized
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my name popping up, and they're
like, " please give it to her."
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And I had so many people commenting,
to give it to me and their other rescue
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people, so I'm telling them, "Please
put your name down so one of us can
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win the raffle to get this group."
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She was gonna pick one
administrator and two moderators.
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As- Mm-hmm … … luck would have
it, I actually won . . she added me
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as the admin and added two moderators
'cause they won the raffle, too.
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And then she removed
herself from the group.
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Of course, first thing I go in and do
is I go look at the moderators that were
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selected.
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If they were okay- … I'm okay with it.
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But I go look.
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What are they?
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They're breeders I'm like, "Oh no."
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Yep.
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"Oh no."
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Moderators were both gone.
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I cleaned up that group.
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I'm still cleaning up the
group because that group had
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close to 10,000 people in it.
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And- Oh
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Jami: my
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Dixie: gosh.
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Yes, and it was horrible.
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And some of the members were
breeders, but some of them were
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just breeders that would be able to
post because it was a public group.
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I went in, I asked for a whole bunch
of friends that I knew in rescue,
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and I'm like, "Look," I said, "if
anybody wants to help me," I'm like,
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"breeders are not welcome here."
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I'm like, "We're gonna go in, we're
gonna clean the group, we're gonna
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check it out and make sure we don't
get any breeders going through."
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One thing that I noticed that they
started doing was they started putting
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posts on there that they're rehoming.
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And you could tell by the
photos most of the time.
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Jami: Exactly.
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Dixie: 'Cause they're
very professional photos,
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Jami: yeah, the Dobermans have
their ears already wrapped and, from
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getting cropped and it's like no.
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Dixie: These
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Jami: aren't rehoming a rescue.
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Dixie: Yeah, and it's not somebody who
adopted, that may have adopted the wrong
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type of dog that is looking to rehome
either, because you could tell it didn't
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look like a family photo of a dog.
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So sure enough- … if you would go
click on their name, you could see 'em.
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And they would try everything, and they
still try, and every once in a while we
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might have one or two slip through, but
we try to get 'em as soon as they do.
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And what we do is we go in, if they post
and we see 'em, we ban 'em immediately.
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And even I'll go through and look
at the comments, 'cause you'll
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see some of them even commenting
on people looking for dogs.
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We go through that way and we'll ban 'em.
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But they just started getting really
slick with the, "Oh we're rehoming.
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We're gonna have a rehoming
fee associated with it."
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I do my research on 'em.
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I'll go look at their pages and
of course most of the time you'll
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see multiple dogs, so you know
right away that they're a breeder.
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And multiple dogs- Oh,
definitely … seem breed a dog.
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So I'll go remove 'em
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But we really cleaned up
the group, like a lot.
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I don't even know how
many people we banned
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Jami: No, that's fabulous.
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Another thing that I ran
across, and I'm not a private
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investigator by any means, but I…
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And maybe you and I can team up, and
I can help you, and you can help me.
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But I reached out to people that
said that they were re-homing, and
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then, they'll send you a message back
of, "Oh, yeah, and we want, $800."
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So I would just test them and say, "I
can't afford $800," "i'm unemployed.
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I'm this, I'm that."
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So of course, then they don't care
that you can't afford for the dog.
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Now, that's not my case, you just pose.
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And then they'll say, "Okay $200 and
we'll bring it to you from Georgia.
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You just need to pay a fee."
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Those are all little things, and
people are just scamming people.
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Dixie: Yes, absolutely.
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Jami: When there are legitimate rescues
out there that are trying to just re-home
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dogs that need homes, then you have all
these backyard breeders that are doing
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these devious things, and they're preying
on people because they don't know that
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they can get a purebred, whatever they
want from a shelter and save a life.
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And then, you pay this fee.
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Do you really think that
they're gonna deliver a dog from
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Georgia to Florida for $200?
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No.
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You've given them money
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that's the other thing that
I've been looking into and
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I would like to try to help.
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You can't save the world, but, if
we can at least save the animals,
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because I would never rehome one
of my animal- one of my dogs.
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They're on their routine, daily.
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But if I came across a dog that
needed a home, I would wanna
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know, do they have a fence?
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How tall is the fence?
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Do they have padlocks on the fence?
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Those are questions that any
reputable person would ask before
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they adopt out a dog or, God
forbid, sell a dog In my opinion
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Dixie: Yeah, and like another
thing that I noticed on the site
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that I had, 'cause I'm members of
a whole bunch of other groups too.
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I have the one site that I'm
the administrator for that is
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the rehoming and adoption site.
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And I've got to the point too, when
people are even rehoming a pet I don't
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care if you don't like it, you need to
tell us why you're rehoming that pet.
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That's a requirement that I make.
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I need to know everything.
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I won't approve a post if you're
not telling me why you're rehoming
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it, the age of it, if it's spayed
or neutered, if it's vaccinated.
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'Cause people who are looking
to adopt a pet, they need to
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know all that information.
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Why are you getting rid of the pet?
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Oh, absolutely.
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Is it a behavioral thing?
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Because I've seen people where they'll
put in the comments and they're like,
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"Oh the dog's aggressive to my children."
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And it's but you're rehoming it to
go to a home with other children?
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'Cause most of the time they
don't care, you know, as long as
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it's not their problem anymore.
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And- Exactly … then another thing
that I saw on these rehoming sites, and
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the other groups that I'm a member of,
is I have come across a pet flipper.
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And this one's really good ' this guy
and his friend, and then they created a
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third profile to pretend to be a rescue.
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And what they're going and doing
is basically they're looking,
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oh, we're looking for kittens.
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Oh, we're looking for puppies.
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And that first off was a red
flag to me, because it's like-
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Of course … you're looking for
kittens, you're looking for puppies.
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Okay, why are you looking for kittens?
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Are you gonna be a dog fighter?
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And then puppies.
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That was a first red flag.
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Then they start trying to rehome them.
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So it's like, okay maybe
they got in over their head.
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They ended up getting their puppies or
their kittens or whatever, and so now
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they're looking to find homes for 'em.
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So I seen one of 'em, and I
actually had room at my rescue.
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And so I'm like look, you're
in the same city I'm in.
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I can help you.
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I can take them."
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I end up getting blocked right away.
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Jami: Yep.
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Dixie: Then they start in all of these
other groups 'cause they ended up
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getting banned out of mine Because I
noticed that's what they were doing.
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They were basically taking them
and they were selling them.
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They would get kittens,
"Oh, we got this kitten.
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It's ready for adoption."
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Okay, what has this
kitten had done for it?
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"Oh they're not spayed or neutered yet.
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We didn't get to do anything,
but they're three months old.
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They're ready to go to our home, and
it's gonna be a $40 adoption fee."
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If they kept doing that and they were
spaying and neutering them, I really
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could care less, as long as they're
making sure- … they're going to a decent
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home and they're spayed or neutered.
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Okay?
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I wouldn't care.
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But I care when you're taking
cats and kittens and puppies from
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people that are giving them away
all over social media, and you're
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evidently turning them for a profit.
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Jami: Absolutely.
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Dixie: And so they all ended up
getting blocked out of my groups.
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I still see them.
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Some of their profiles will pop up
in the other groups, and then it's
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I don't know if they think that you
don't see this going on, like you
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can put two and two together that
it's the same person, but whatever.
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Jami: Oh, yeah.
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And I've gotten where I delved
in some of these we're looking to
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rehome," blah, blah, blah, blah.
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And it's like, "Okay, can you
give me more information?"
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And they skirt around, i'm
like is it spayed or neutered?"
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Temperament.
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They don't give you anything.
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They just want money.
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Yep.
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Yes.
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So to people who are listening,
if they want money, and they
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don't care about where the dog's
going, that is a huge red flag
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Same thing with kittens.
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There are, in
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my community we've got
Snippet and the feral cats.
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Most people are pretty good,
and then we've got like food and
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water 'cause I live in Florida.
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It's hot, and we try in
our community to take care.
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You can't take care of everybody,
and you can't get everybody spayed
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and neutered if you can't catch them
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And I wish every cat got a home.
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I don't have any cats.
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I like cats, I'm just not…
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I'm more of a dog person.
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And my dogs are all spayed and
neutered, microchipped, and
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they get their Simparica Trio.
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And I will go without food and
anything else for myself so
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that they get the best of care.
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And that's how you have to be, in my
opinion, if you're going to have a pet.
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It's your family, and you
have a responsibility to
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put their needs above yours.
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Dixie: Yeah, absolutely.
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Absolutely.
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I can totally agree with that, too.
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If it came down to me not being
able to afford food for myself
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or food for my animals, I am
gonna think about my animals.
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Jami: Of course
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Dixie: With some of these groups a
lot of people, they just don't care.
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When you tell 'em to get references, it's
like they just wanna give it to the first
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person who says, "Oh, I'll take 'em."
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And I've even had it where I'm
a rescue and I would make the
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offer, "Okay, look, I've got room.
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I can take 'em all," and I'll get
the responses to come back, "Oh
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you weren't first to comment."
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. You can only- Yeah … try
to help so much sometimes.
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Jami: You can, and, our local shelter
I think does a pretty good job, but
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I think they need to do a better job
of educating on breeds and fitting
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them properly with the families.
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But they're so overwhelmed that
they just need to get the dogs out.
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And that's, that's all across the
United States, and I hate to see
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shelters put animals to sleep.
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And I came from Illinois is
where I was born, and I had
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a house I miss on five acres.
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Now I live in a neighborhood in Florida.
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But I do have a six-foot privacy
fence, and they have a nice yard.
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But at any rate, I went into
the county shelter and I said,
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"Who really needs a home?"
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They're like they all do."
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And I said, "No, and
they're like, "Blockhead."
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I renamed him Bear, of course.
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He was a Lab Newfoundland,
huge and a big black dog.
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He'd been there forever, and he
drug my ass down the driveway to
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try to get him in the car 'cause
he'd been in the cage for so long.
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But, when I said that, I knew, I wanted…
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Who are they gonna euthanize first?
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And he was a wonderful dog, and I
think he made it 15 years, which is
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pretty good for a Newfoundland mix
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But it's just, you need to…
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I appreciate our volunteers, but I believe
that you need to educate people on breeds.
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And if you don't know your
breed personalities and what
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requirements are, 'cause, just
not anybody can own a pit bull.
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Pit bulls are the
sweetest, wonderful dogs.
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But you have to know that
they're gonna be a lap dog.
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A Great Dane is gonna be a lap dog
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A German Shepherd needs brushing.
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All of those things.
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A Doberman, certain breeds need jobs
and they need something to do or they
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will cause destruction in your home
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And I think that dogs wouldn't need to be
rehomed if people were educated better.
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But that's just, again, I could go
forever on how to try to save the world,
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and it may or may not do any good.
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Dixie: Yeah.
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I agree with that too, 'cause,
I'll see that even with cats, and,
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we do get, purebred cats a lot.
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Like one of my jokes is, when people
are always looking for a Maine
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Coon, I'm like, "Go to the shelter."
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And a Persian and a Siamese- Yeah
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go to the shelter.
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Yeah … but that's another
one of those things.
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One of the, easiest things for me to
adopt is a fluffy long-haired kitten.
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A lot of the times people wanna go
strictly on their looks, and they
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miss out on some really great animals
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Jami: that's unfortunate, but I do
agree with you that is what people do.
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They're uneducated, and they go in for
that flair of that, "Oh, this one's really
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pretty," instead of, "Oh, okay, and on
just a side note, my mom has never been a
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cat person, but she is such a cat person.
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And so she has Junior, who was a feral
cat, and she used to go out with snow
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gloves on, and she tamed him and got
him spayed, or I'm sorry, got him
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neutered and all of his shots and
everything, and he is her lap cat now.
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Now, this other cat came along, and it
was in the middle of winter in Illinois,
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and they had a really bad winter.
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And her name is now Riley.
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She's a calico.
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And Mom worked with her and worked
with her and worked with her and
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got her spayed and brought her in
'cause she would've frozen to death.
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So now my mom has two cats,
and I kinda make fun of her
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because they rule her world.
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But it's all good.
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My mom's a miracle.
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That's a whole 'nother thing.
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She got a kidney transplant in
her 70s, and she's walks 3.5
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miles on the treadmill every
day, and her day pretty much
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revolves around those cats.
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And unfortunately, we can't
find homes like that for all
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the cats and all the dogs.
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And, one blessing from COVID is I've been
home with my dogs pretty much 24/7, and
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they're emotional support dogs, so if
I have to go somewhere, they go with…
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two of them go with me.
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One at a time, of course.
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And like I said, they get their minties
and their dental things in the morning and
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their pills, and we've just got a routine.
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And I wish everybody could
treat their pets like that
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And they wake me up at the same time.
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They don't care if it's
Saturday or if it's Monday.
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So I wish that for all of the dogs in
the world and all the cats in the world.
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But I appreciate what you're doing very
much, and it sounds like you're doing a
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lot of wonderful screening and getting
rid of some of these obtrusive people
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on these sites, and that's phenomenal.
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That takes a lot of work.
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Dixie: Yep, and we're still
working on it because they still
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keep trying to slip through.
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Jami: You let me know if I can help.
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Dixie: Thank you.
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I appreciate that.
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I might take you up on that if you
like doing the work online, 'cause
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That's one of the beautiful things
about social media- is whether you
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want to try to be a voice for animals,
either through these groups and look
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out for red flags, like what you're
doing, or even on these lost pet sites,
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just trying to help pets get home.
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That's something that you can
do- … in your living room,
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so anybody could do that.
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Jami: Oh, exactly.
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Most definitely.
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I wish ma- more people would.
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Dixie: Before we end the call,
do you have any final message?
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Jami: I really appreciate meeting
you through through the phone.
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And I guess my message is please, to
anyone who's listening, be cautious
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of who you get an animal from.
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Local shelters are wonderful or
reputable rehoming sites are wonderful.
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Rehoming through rescues are wonderful,
and you can always try to interact with
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other people that have rescued from them
and make sure that they're reputable.
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Don't buy from a breeder and make
sure however you acquire a pet,
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make sure you spay and neuter.
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Do not breed.
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Do not buy.
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Make sure that you microchip and please,
during thunderstorms and 4th of July
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and New Year's Eve, keep your dogs in.
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And if you have a fenced-in yard, please
put a padlock on it so that somebody
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can't open it and get your dogs out.
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And if you live in a hot climate like I
do in Florida, don't leave your dogs out.
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I have a dog door where my dogs can
come in and out whenever they want.
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They have food and water all over.
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And just remember that the temperature
of the floor is hotter than the
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rest of the temperature, and your
dog's temperature is about 101.
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So don't let them get overheated.
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Never leave your dog in a car.
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And I've probably overstayed
Dixie all my stuff.
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I could go on forever.
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But just everybody please
be a responsible owner.
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Thank you so much for your time, Dixie.
