From Dorm Rooms to Rescue Rooms: Forgotten Felines Rescue of Louisiana

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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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Welcome back to the show, everybody.

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Today we are diving into the heart

of animal advocacy here in Louisiana.

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We've all seen them, the shadows

moving through our neighborhoods,

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the forgotten faces of our community.

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But today's guest didn't

look the other way.

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She decided to build a lifeline.

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I am joined by Hannah Louviere,

the force behind Forgotten

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Felines rescue . of Louisiana.

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Thank you for being here today, Hannah.

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Hannah: Yeah, my pleasure.

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Dixie: I wanna hear all about

forgotten felines rescue of Louisiana.

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What is your mission and

how did you get started?

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Hannah: So our main mission is to

pretty much take in cats that have.

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Just no chance.

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Same thing with dogs too, but

obviously our main focus is on cats.

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We started off as a TNR

program as college students.

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It was my sophomore year of college.

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And we.

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Actually had a feral cat colony on

campus and one of the cats actively gave

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birth in front of us on a sidewalk while

we were walking in between classes.

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And we started off as

a group of strangers.

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We all just came together

in an alleyway and sat there

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and watched this cat do this.

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And from there, the very next

day we formed an organization

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on campus that helped TNR Cats.

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Obviously we would rehome kittens that

we trapped and we would socialize them.

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And from there we formed into forgotten

Felines Rescue about two years later.

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And so our, like I said, our main

goal was to start off with TNR

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Cats, cats that people overlooked.

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Your feral cats, your street cats.

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And we started taking them

in and realizing that it was

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pretty easy to socialize.

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Our young guys.

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, And if they weren't socialable,

we could always release them.

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We did every medical care that you

could think of for them and release

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them back into a colony that was

monitored and fed and sheltered.

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Dixie: Did you go to college

expecting for it to turn into this

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were you an animal lover before this?

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Hannah: I absolutely was.

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At the time I was

pre-vet, so loved animals.

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I was a biology student, and it was a

group of bio students who did all of this.

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Did I think that it would.

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Changed my life 10 years later.

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Absolutely not.

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I did not think that it

would've engrossed me so much.

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I knew that my goal was to

always help animals in some form.

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I do remember one of my questions for

one of our pre-professional groups

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was like, what kind of deems you as

successful in your job or in life?

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And one of my statements was to be

able to help any animal that I see.

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And, 10 years later here I am and I am

reached out with all kinds of cases.

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Our main focus as of right

now is our shelter cases.

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So we do have a lot of shelter people

who reach out to us about medical cases

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that basically exceeds their medical

knowledge and or their financial

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possibilities for these animals.

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And for me, because at this point , I'm

a surgical technician for, a vet and

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at multiple animal hospitals right now.

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And so I have the means and I have the

knowledge and I have the people around

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to help take on these special cases.

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So we do get a lot of.

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Cats who need amputations, cats who

have weird skin issues eye problems.

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Ch right now has pretty

much taken us over.

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A lot of people have been reaching out

to us about taking in our little ch guys.

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And and so that's pretty much where

we've landed and where we are now.

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Dixie: Yeah, I definitely would like

to talk more about that, but I would

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also like to backtrack a little bit

to your beginnings of getting started.

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Because I'm in a different generation

from you and so I'm older than you are.

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And of course, like we are seeing

now, , my generation is almost

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considered the younger generation

in rescue because there's very few

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people that are your age in rescue.

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And it seems to be like a big problem

right now because all these other rescues

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that are established, they don't know what

they're gonna do because they're having a

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difficult time recruiting younger people.

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So since you started at such a

young age, I would like to get

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like more insight to that too.

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Like when you first got started doing

the TNR and y'all saw these stray cats on

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campus, was this something that you were

already aware of, that this was a problem?

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Did you already know about TNR or

did you like look for a mentor?

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Hannah: I had absolutely no

idea this that was a problem.

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I didn't even hear of TNR when we formed.

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I had no idea what that term even meant.

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And the fun fact, I had

little cat knowledge on top

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of that when I first started.

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We formed the rescue

when I was 19 years old.

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I was very young and had no

idea what I was doing, if we're

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gonna be so completely honest.

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But yeah, I had absolutely no idea.

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So when I found out that basically

feral cats and colony cats were a

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thing, it just hit me and I was like,

oh, I'm gonna do research on that.

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And I started researching it

and then I learned about TNR.

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And then Angela with Purrs of

Hope, actually is the one that

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taught us everything that we know.

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She really took us under our wing,

and was like, this is what you do.

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This is how you set a trap.

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This is where you take them.

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This is what they need in

the care, blah, blah, blah.

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And we went with it and ran with it.

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Once again at this point I

was a teenager and had just

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little, very little knowledge.

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It was very interesting to me.

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So I guess more from like my

scientific background of like

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where I was headed in school I saw

it as a science thing to look at.

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So at the end of the day, they were

just animals and how we could fix them.

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And so I guess that gained more of

my interest from that aspect of what

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difference could we actually make?

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And if you wanna quote unquote call

it a science experiment our first

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true colony that we were able to.

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Pretty much contain

was the cats on campus.

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And so that was our main focus.

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And so once we saw.

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It kind of dwindling down.

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So the amount of cats having

kittens the amount of cats basically

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showing up, injured, hurt all of

that started dwindling down within

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a year of us just trapping, spay,

neutering, and taking in kittens.

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And so we saw the difference and so we're

like, oh, we can do this in other places.

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And more people reached out to us we would

see a cat and we would go to these random

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areas and we would just start trapping

neutering and repeating the same process

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and seeing a difference there as well.

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And so once again, being so young,

it was easy in the sense of we

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just had to worry about school.

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So we didn't really we all had jobs at

the time, but it really was something

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that could put all of our focus in on.

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We've also tried to recruit people and try

to get people more closer to like our age.

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I feel like now now that all of us are

30 in the group that we have reached

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more people to assist us and to spread

that knowledge of TNR and taken in

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cats and not to look over anything

and to basically be able to rescue.

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Of course once again, I am under the full

agreement that there are fewer and fewer

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people going into rescue at our ages.

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Most of the people that we obviously

work around and, have partnership

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with are a lot older than us still.

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And so you know, it, there is like

that generational break, but we all

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work together and they've taught us

so much and so I get to see what.

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Other rescues have done who have been

in it in year for, decades and take that

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knowledge and put it under our rescue.

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And we have a lot of partnerships.

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One of our good partners is with St.

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Mary's.

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Area.

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So the parish and the Aviary

project she is the closest one to

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our age that we've actually had who

started up her own rescue as well.

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And she does everything.

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A lot of her focus is basically like

getting animals that are in need

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and she transports them to other

rescues as being her main resource.

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So we actually have a direct

pipeline for a lot of neglect

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cases, hoarding cases animals.

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With severe medical conditions that are

outside the the prospects of other places

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that would be willing to take them in.

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And so she reaches out to us and she

knows that I'm a sucker and I'll never

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say no, especially to a medical case.

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Even when we have no room, no space, we

have, little limited amount of funds.

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If it's an animal in need, like

she knows that I'll take it.

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And so we've worked together

and so far she's pretty much

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the only other person that.

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Together we have formed our own separate

rescues and have watched them grow.

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And one of the things that I never

thought being 19-year-old, me starting

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this up and doing this in between

classes and meeting with people

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and trapping cats and running cats.

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To the vet before class and stuff was that

we would ever own like an actual facility

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or a building because I never thought

that we would get as big or that any

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of us would still be in, in the rescue.

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'cause it was started

off as a school project.

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And here we are in 2026 and we just

basically bought her own building.

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And so we were working on having an actual

facility instead of being foster based

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right now, which once again, and never in

my brain when I first started this rescue,

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that I think that's where we would end up.

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Dixie: Congratulations on that.

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That's quite an accomplishment.

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Thank So is it all

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Hannah: Thank you.

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It's

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Dixie: still all the same people that

are in the rescue as everybody who

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was originally there still involved.

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Hannah: Unfortunately no.

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So when we first formed it was four

core members and two have obviously,

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we were so young when we were in

college already, so they all had future

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prospects and what they were going into.

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So two of the members have

stopped and or, doing their own

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thing and doing their own future.

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And then there is still the two core

members, which is me and Kaitlyn who.

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Has pretty much.

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Downsized on what she's done in the

rescue, but she's always there, she's

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always a part of the rescue with

decision making and stuff like that.

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So the newest member of the group

would be Alyssa, who I've pretty much

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suckered into being part of the rescue.

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She can't say no, and . She started

off as just a little foster and

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now she is also one of she's not a

founding member, but she has become

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an actual core member of our rescue.

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So it really is just the three of us

still running this me of course taking

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in the most and dealing with the most.

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Helping with like outreach

in communities right now.

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And it's a lot, but we all have

each other at the end of the day,

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whenever it comes down to, I'm

too stressed, can you do this?

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And they're like, absolutely.

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And they're, on it.

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So yeah, , I miss what we were

when we were in college, but

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I like where we are right now.

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Dixie: Tell me a little bit

about the building that you have.

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So are your hopes is to go fully

like foster free with this building?

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Hannah: Yeah, actually I'm sure you

know how it is in animal rescue.

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Finding fosters is not always an option.

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Some people like to foster for a week or a

weekend, and we have animals in our rescue

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that are here for months, especially

our medical cases where they have to be.

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They have to have surgery,

they have to heal and recover.

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And that takes a long time.

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And what we have found to be the

easiest thing was that one of we

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have actually managed to be working

out of a single building right

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now that it's not ours at all.

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But we were kind enough by a couple

of people to donate the space to us.

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And so it is just.

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Fully under my care with animals.

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And so it has become very overwhelming.

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And of course the more social media,

interests that we get, the more

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people that wanna reach out and

help, we aren't able to actually

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allow them to help just because of

the circumstances of where we are.

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And once again, we have a handful of

fosters, but they can't always foster.

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Always taken.

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We had reached out to a few people

and we have very kind, generous

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people who have said, whatever

you need, we'll help you with.

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And the new building that we have,

it is actually two separate buildings

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right now that we are going to be

combining with . One single door.

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But we will have a medical side, so

that will be our side for all of our

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new intakes who are under quarantine.

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We do a two week quarantine on

everybody who comes through to

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limit any outbreaks or risk of

anything going under, outta control.

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And, any medical cases that

we have will be on that side.

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And of course in rescue, the main

things that we see are ringworm, URI.

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Things like that.

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So they'll all have their own

separate, rooms that they'll be

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in, and so they can be there.

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And then our quarantine space will be in

a different area, in the same building.

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And then for all of our healthy cats who

have not, been diagnosed with anything or.

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I have just pretty much recovered fully

from whatever they had previously.

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We'll go on the adoption side and

so we will have the adoption side

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for baby kittens and basically

juveniles and adults and they can

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just free roam and, be happy and not

left in cages or anything like that.

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And of course if fosters come up,

then yeah, absolutely, we would

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welcome fosters and to help out

and take home a kitty for a while.

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But yeah, our goal is to not no longer

be foster based, but to have a physical

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facility where these animals can room

free and have as much freedom as they can

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without any timeframe, without any time

limits of us having to be like, okay,

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they have to be out by this time because.

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This foster can no longer foster them.

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So it's reduces the stress on us as

well as for them, because they don't

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have to get moved around back and forth.

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And which does unfortunately happen a lot

when your foster base is, when one foster

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is out, another foster might step in and

then they go to a different house and

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they have to re acclimate all over again.

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And us being, a cat rescue, we all

know how stressful that can be on cats.

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Some cats are.

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Perfect, and they don't

care about anything.

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And then there are other cats where

it's the most jarring, life altering

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thing that they've ever experienced

with going into a new environment.

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In an effort to reduce their stress

is give them one space they can be in

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and, have all of the amenities that

they could have , for a cat that they

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could enjoy and have people come by.

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Play with them and see them anytime

they want it and, hopefully get adopted.

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Fingers crossed.

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But yeah, I'm very excited for this new

space that we're getting not only for

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obviously for our sake, but definitely

for the cats because they do deserve to be

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in that type of setting instead of being

tossed from foster home to foster home.

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And I know that's a bad word to use,

but tossed, but you understand what

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I mean by just going in between homes

until they go into their permanent home.

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Dixie: Yeah, absolutely.

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How many animals are you gonna be

able to house in your facility?

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Hannah: Actually, it's a very

large facility now with it

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being a two, combined buildings.

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So we don't really have a limit as long as

we have space or if somebody reaches out

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to us, we'll always make space for them.

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So it's not saying that we're open

intake, but we will always make

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space for any animals in need.

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So there is truly like no limit.

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So I do think that based on what

we are now, which is limited, that.

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We could expand a lot more with

what we intake and how we intake

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them and everything like that.

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So that's also really exciting.

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'cause once again, our main focus is St.

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Mary's Parish right now,

because I, we live in St.

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Tammany and there's rescues and, there's

people on every corner that help animals.

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And not to say St.

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Tammany does not have any issues

with strays or animals in need, but.

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St.

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Mary's Parish has been one that we've

been working with for almost five years

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now, and almost every single animal

that's in our care comes directly from

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there because they just have, they have

no resources at all, and they don't have.

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They have very little veterinarian

help where they help out rescues.

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They don't offer discounts a whole lot.

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And it was one of the discussions that

I had with one of my members and I was

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like, what if we just focus on them and

stop taking, from our community, which

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doesn't necessarily make a hit because

there are so many rescues in our area.

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And really focus on animals that like

truly need it, animals with a deadline.

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Animals that if they do

not receive help, will die.

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And and of course like once we started

doing it, we were like, wow, this is

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great because it actually feels like

we're helping it doesn't always feel

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that way in rescue, which once again, I'm

sure you understand, but doing the St.

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Mary, I call the St.

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Mary Parish pipeline has

really made a difference on

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what I feel like we have done.

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And like I said, for about

five years now, we have intake.

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We have taken in probably over a

thousand, cats and dogs from them that

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were either on the euthanasia list or

for space or they had they needed surgery

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and they couldn't afford it, so they

were automatically gonna be euthanized.

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And so we've made a major difference

and the lives of those animals for sure.

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And so that's been very

rewarding in that aspect.

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Yeah, it's all the

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Dixie: rural parishes do need a lot

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Hannah: of

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Dixie: help.

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Yes.

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Hannah: How is it

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Dixie: that you came to

get connected with St.

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Mary Parish?

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Hannah: That's so funny because

I actually don't quite remember.

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I really feel like Carla Kutone,

who basically was working at the

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shelter at the time, had just

sent us a message about a cat.

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Like it was like.

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A cat and some kittens who all had such

severe upper respiratory infections

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that at some point they were gonna need.

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Nucleation, whether it be

bilateral or unilateral, their

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eyes were gonna have to come out.

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And that is something that

it was completely out of.

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Their financial, what they could

pay for these shelter animals

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that may or may not get adopted.

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And so of course they would move

on to something else that is more

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adoptable and something they could

help with less amount of funds.

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And so she had reached out.

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And one thing about me is the highness.

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sucker for an eyeball.

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Cat eyeball.

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Cats are my absolute favorite

things on the face of this planet.

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And it just took one email and then

we met once and then once again,

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it was like campus realizing, about

TNR and all of that stuff all over

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again, where I was like, oh, y'all

actually have no help these animals,

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if somebody doesn't say that,

they'll help them, they just die.

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And she's yeah, pretty much.

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And I was like, oh, I'll always help you.

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No, no matter what, even if I can't,

like I will help you in some way.

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And and like it's been a very.

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Very rewarding partnership with them.

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And they've always been so kind and they

honestly watching them do the hard work

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of rescuing these animals and some of

the conditions that they send pictures in

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and, I'm like, I'm just happy I can help.

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I'm happy that I can

remove them from that.

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And y'all have put in the, basically all

of the work of rearranging with, police

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officers because they do a lot of they do

handle a lot of stuff with the court and

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police handlings and all of that stuff.

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And some animals are basically evidence

at some point, so they do have to go

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into an evidence hold with their shelter

and then they can be released to us.

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And but yeah it took one email

and it has pretty much trickled

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into what we are now and.

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They have done so much work and I'm always

happy to take in anything that they do.

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And a lot of the,

they've gone independent.

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They did leave the shelter.

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They do have a good communication,

obviously with the shelter, but now

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their main goal is to reduce animals

actually going into the shelter.

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And so they, with their network, they

have managed to deviate animals from

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even entering the shelter to begin

with and getting them straight to us

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through, a lot of work on their part.

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So yeah.

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Dixie: Yeah.

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And that's where the Aviary

Creature Rescue is too, right?

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In St.

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Mary?

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Hannah: Yes.

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Dixie: Yeah.

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Yes, I did speak with Alyssa about

that, and just some of the things that

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go on in that area, it is atrocious.

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Yes.

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And then it truly

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Hannah: is,

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Dixie: they have these weird laws too

that they're trying to come up with where

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you can't feed cats or can't feed strays.

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And it just, it's backwards to me.

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Hannah: I could not agree more.

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And those weird laws is actually

what led to us having to form

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forgotten Felines Rescue.

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When we were on campus, , like I

said, it was like a school project.

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And so we were Campus Cat

Coalition for a while and.

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The president of the campus

basically accused us of putting

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cats on campus and we're like no.

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We are putting the cats back, but they are

fixed and they are healthy, and so they

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can stay on this campus and if we remove

them, you'll create a funnel effect.

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And we had to, go into all of that.

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And he basically, we think he'd

been it nice, he did threaten our

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academic careers at the time, and

so we of course were scared little

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college students who were like, if he

ruins us, like what's gonna happen?

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And one of the loopholes that

we found was that he can't

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touch a 5 0 1 C through rescue.

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If a 5 0 1 C3 is on a public campus,

he cannot do anything about it.

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And so that's what led

to us actually forming.

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Forgotten feelings rescued from there.

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And they still have a lot of laws

that we have had to like loop around.

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But one of the main ones, and I will never

understand it, is not feeding colony cats.

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I don't understand how that can ever

be illegal to feed a street animal

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or any animal in need in general.

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If you feed them, they

don't become a nuisance.

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If you starve them, they

will become a nuisance.

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And then that is how sick

animals spread disease.

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If they're not taken care of, if they're

not sheltered, if they're not cared for

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in any capacity, that is more detrimental

to the environment and the community.

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Not everyone sees it that way.

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Dixie: Yeah.

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That's the same thing that I said

when Alyssa told me that, I was

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like, they're creating a nuisance.

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Like they're trying to say yes.

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Oh we're gonna get rid of the nuisance.

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We're not gonna feed them.

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And it's no, you're creating the

nuisance by not feeding them.

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It makes no sense.

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Hannah: It truly makes zero sense

because if you keep an animal fed.

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Yes, they will quote unquote,

be more familiar with people.

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And I guess they'll be more likely

to come in people's public spaces.

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But the animals are already there.

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We didn't put the animals there.

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At the end of the day, the animals are

already there because of an ongoing

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system that is all over the world of not

spaying and neutering your pets, of just

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abandoning your pets outside because

they just think that they're animals.

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And I don't think that people understand

that our pets have been domesticated to.

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Pets not to be wild animals.

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And so they cannot take

care of themselves.

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Feral cats are a completely different

aspect of that because cats are

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incredible in the aspect of how they

can navigate within, on their own.

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But but yeah, just if you leave

them alone, then , you create

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an entire different problem of

animals that are desperate and

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desperate animals are never good.

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And you, like I said, you just, you

make animals sick by doing that.

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And the sicker the animal, the weaker

immune system, the more likely for

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disease and viruses to spread among

other animals within the community.

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And once again, people that have higher

status don't really see it in that way,

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which is very frustrating at times.

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You

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Dixie: did say that you are

a surgical vet technician.

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Hannah: Yes, ma'am.

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Okay.

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I've been doing it since 2015,

so a little over 10 years now.

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So tell me

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Dixie: about some of the special

medical cases that you take care of.

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Hannah: Yeah, absolutely.

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The current ones that we have it always

comes in waves, which we all find funny.

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Like it's not funny, but it is funny.

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But , we'll be contacted about a cat

that needs nucleation or a cat with a,

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eyelight, a genesis where they don't

have an eyelid and which would obviously

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have to be led to an enucleation.

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And most of our cases are eyes.

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So we get a lot of cases where just if

you don't treat a cat's eye infection,

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, their body will take care of it in

the sense of it will cut off any.

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Healthy tissue it can, or blood supply

to that eye and make it unusable and it

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can cause a problem later on to them.

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And so it always comes in waves

where we'll get one cat with an eye

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infection that needs an nucleation,

and then we ended up with, 10 cats

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that are getting eye nucleation.

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This current go that we have right

now was like leg amputations.

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And so we were contacted by Carla who

works with Alyssa and, and she was

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like, we have this one little mama

cat that she got pulled underneath the

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fence by a dog and her leg is broken

and it was such a severe break and

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this cat was left alone on this porch

with her baby kittens that she was

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trying so hard to take care of with a.

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Basically a compound

fracture in her upper femur.

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Something that is very difficult to heal.

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And because she was left alone

with it for about a week and a half

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surgically repairing, it becomes

less and less likely to sustain.

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In the long run.

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And so obviously when you get a case

like that, then a leg amputation occurs.

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So we had her come in as just a

leg amputation and we actually

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still have her in the rescue.

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Her name is IHOP and she's amazing.

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And then the second cat that

we were contacted was actually

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a cat that they've been trying

to trap for about eight months.

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She had been roaming around a neighborhood

with a embedded collar that was around

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her neck and through her arm went over

it, so it was also underneath her.

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Armpit.

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And it caused such severe tissue damage

underneath her armpit area that we tried.

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It was about three months of us

trying to get her arm to heal, but.

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Just because of the position of, her

movements constant, everyday walking

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and where it was purely positional, we

ended up having to amputate her leg as

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well just because it was not healing

the way that we had wanted to heal.

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It just could not fully heal in itself.

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And so a lot of leg amputations, a lot

of eye nucleation, a lot of ch cases

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with cats, with cerebellar hyperplasia.

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We do get those a lot because I think

once people understand what they're

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dealing with when it comes down

to CH Cat, then they can then it's

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oh yeah, we can take care of them.

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But with you having these overrun

rural shelters who just cannot put

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all of their effort into a single

animal they become a case where

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that's not worth their time right now.

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And so they end up in our care as well.

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Especially when they have a lot

more case like, severities than

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some other cases that you'll

see with ch And we'll get those.

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So we currently have two CH

cats in their rescue as well.

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We just had a ch puppy, which I

have never seen in my entire life.

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And she did get adopted

and she was really fun.

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'cause I've never seen a dog

with a neurological problem.

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Some of the more.

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Weirder cases that we've had that

once again, that most people would

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: 00:27:24

just, wouldn't even think , oh,

that's a thing that can happen.

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Are liver shunts.

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: 00:27:29

We've had a lot of cases where we've

received cats with liver shunts

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because they couldn't understand

what was wrong with this animal.

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: 00:27:36

It just was off.

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They had seizures and they

couldn't really pinpoint it.

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With them.

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Once again, having limited funds

is just we can't afford these

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diagnostics and so we get them in

our care and we've had a lot of cases

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of liver shun and with that we have

a a soft tissue surgeon over in St.

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Tammany.

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And she's repaired all of them,

which has been incredible 'cause

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it is a very invasive procedure.

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And she's saved every single one of them.

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We've had, cases where it gets

a little bit more obscure.

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So we had a case with a kitten,

with with an intestinal stricture.

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And the stricture basically was

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her body creating a foreign

body and within herself.

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And we actually had to

dilate her colon every week.

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: 00:28:21

We had to bring her in for her colon

to be dilated to the same soft tissue

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surgeon that did the liver shunts.

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And and once again, that cat was fine.

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We get a lot.

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It's very weird cases sometimes.

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And so we had one that actually came

straight from Alyssa and this one was.

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This one's not a success story, but it

is one of the cases that I've never seen.

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I've read about it and I've

never seen one in real life.

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: 00:28:45

And that is one where she had actually

had a puppy come into her care

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and she messaged me freaking out.

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Of course, because.

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What do you do?

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But this puppy was actually born without

an anus, which sounds really weird.

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: 00:28:58

But there was no way for an

output of stool to come out.

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: 00:29:03

And so it was basically using the puppies

like vulva in order to push that out.

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: 00:29:07

And so that was a really.

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Really weird case that we went

with the soft tissue surgeon and

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she went under a couple surgeries.

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: 00:29:17

Unfortunately for her, none of them

were successful and we did end up

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having to humanely euthanize this puppy.

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: 00:29:24

But yeah, those are a lot

of the cases that we see.

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We either see something that's super

common, like high nucleation and leg

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amputations, or it's so obscure that

you're like, this doesn't actually happen.

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: 00:29:33

And then you get a case and

you're like, oh, it does happen.

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And we also find cases of obviously

with our dogs and you're pulling them

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from rural areas is embedded collars.

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: 00:29:43

We've had three cases just last year of

dogs with little dogs or puppies with 12

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pound chains wrapped around their neck.

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: 00:29:52

Dixie: Wow.

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: 00:29:52

Hannah: And of course with it weighing

them down and them being so weak

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'cause they're little it just starts.

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Just precedent and precedent and their

body trying to recover the damage.

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: 00:30:02

And it obviously ends up

growing over the chain.

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And so we've had a lot of cases

where we've had to remove chains.

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One of the most, I say

aggressive, one that we've seen

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was a little dog named Destiny.

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She went through the absolute

ringer through everything.

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And incredible dog, the

sweetest little baby.

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But her chain was so embedded into

her neck that she actually had

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to have basically a tracheotomy.

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'cause it was.

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Into her trachea at that point.

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And so she had to undergo a lot

of surgeries and within her neck

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: 00:30:35

and her throat it caused some

cervical damage to her neck as well.

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And that's very limited on what

we can do even with our surgeons

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that we, that have graciously

helped us throughout all of this.

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And yeah, we, we will.

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There's a lot of the cases that I've

seen within their, within our rescue over

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the last, I would say like year or so.

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Dixie: The cases that you're mentioning,

they are truly animals in need.

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Definitely.

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There's been a New trend with

people just like all of a sudden,

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: 00:31:07

oh, okay, I gotta get rid of my

10-year-old cat, my 11-year-old cat.

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: 00:31:10

And I know like sometimes there's

situations that do come up, if somebody's

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: 00:31:13

going as hospice or something like that.

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: 00:31:15

And I'm not talking about those

cases, but I'm just talking about

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Like I'm moving tomorrow.

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: 00:31:19

I need to get rid of my 10-year-old cat.

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: 00:31:21

So do you ever see any kind of those, or

do people contact you about those as well?

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Hannah: Every single day.

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Every single day someone

contacts us about an animal that.

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: 00:31:34

We don't want this animal anymore.

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: 00:31:35

We've had them for 12 years and now we

can't provide them a nice, rest of their

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: 00:31:40

life with our, with us in our home.

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: 00:31:42

We have to completely uproot

them and change their whole life.

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: 00:31:45

Which is, those are the most frustrating.

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: 00:31:47

They actually make me so incredibly

angry because I can't imagine, and

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: 00:31:51

of course when it comes down to

certain circumstances of, this person

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: 00:31:56

has a medical ailment, they can no

longer physically care for this pet.

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: 00:31:59

We were always open to them.

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: 00:32:01

When it comes down to people who quite

literally have done nothing for this

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: 00:32:04

animal and have not gone the bounds

to find an actual home, that instead

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: 00:32:10

of just going straight to a shelter or

straight to a rescue those are the ones

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: 00:32:14

that we put them on more of a wait list.

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: 00:32:16

We ask them to foster, we ask

them to send us pictures we'll up.

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: 00:32:20

We are more than happy to update

their medical care at the time.

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: 00:32:23

But physically intaking them is

never truly an option just because

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: 00:32:27

you don't want your pet anymore.

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: 00:32:28

And so it hurts us knowing that we have

to allot our time space to, animals.

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: 00:32:34

, I'm not gonna say more in need

because there's no other animals

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that are gonna be like, oh, this

animal's worth more than that animal.

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: 00:32:40

But animals that like truly need us

in this moment, in this timeframe,

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: 00:32:43

and we need to have space for them.

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: 00:32:45

But that's why.

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Always give them resources.

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: 00:32:48

One of the things that we always

allot within our finances within

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: 00:32:53

our budgeting is community care.

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: 00:32:56

People that are willing to

accept what we give them.

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: 00:33:00

So if somebody has, an 8-year-old dog

that they can no longer take care.

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: 00:33:04

We can't always take in dogs.

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: 00:33:06

But the dog has never seen a vet,

has never been spayed, has never

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: 00:33:09

been vaccinated, all this stuff.

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: 00:33:11

And they're gonna try to find

this animal home independently.

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: 00:33:15

We always tell them, bring them to us.

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: 00:33:16

We'll fully vet them and we'll post

them on our adoption sites where

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: 00:33:20

we cannot physically intake them.

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So that's usually what we do with.

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Those type of public cases

where if they're able to at

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least find a home for them.

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I've had some cases where they're

like, we have a home for this, pet.

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But we can't afford to spay them.

615

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Great.

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Bring them to me.

617

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I'll have them spayed for you and

they'll be microchipped and vaccinated.

618

: 00:33:41

And if you wanna a heartworm test,

if you want a combo test, we can

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do all of that for you before

they go into their new home.

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But.

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We try to reward the people who do

take the extra steps to find a safe

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place for their pet without it having

to go to a shelter or a rescue.

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And not everyone can do

that within their means.

624

: 00:33:59

And another thing that we do is that

we'll provide food if they need the food.

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: 00:34:03

If it comes down to I can no longer afford

my pet, I'll help you afford your pet.

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: 00:34:07

If that means it keeps them

out of a shelter or, it

627

: 00:34:10

keeps them out of the system.

628

: 00:34:11

And so we do have a few people that will

message us every month, and it's the same

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group of people and we will have food sent

to them, or we will tell them, oh, food

630

: 00:34:19

just came in, or food was just donated.

631

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You can come pick it up.

632

: 00:34:22

And we do that a lot as well.

633

: 00:34:24

And once again, if you show the effort

that you are trying everything in your.

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: 00:34:28

Possibly within your parameter of what you

can do, we will help you no matter what.

635

: 00:34:33

And that is one of the ways that

has come to limited our burnout

636

: 00:34:38

when it comes down to owner

surrenders, is finding those people.

637

: 00:34:41

'cause if you're not willing to

take up somebody who's offering

638

: 00:34:43

you medical care and food, then you

actually don't care about the pet.

639

: 00:34:46

It was never about.

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: 00:34:48

Oh, I just can't take

care of them anymore.

641

: 00:34:49

It was never about that.

642

: 00:34:51

And that's one of the things that,

like I said, we do see those every day.

643

: 00:34:54

We do get a lot of cases,

and I'm a, once again, I'm a

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: 00:34:57

sucker for a little old animal.

645

: 00:34:58

And when people reach out to us and

like my mom, I'm a grandmother is going

646

: 00:35:03

into a nursing home and they can't keep

their pet and no one in the family can

647

: 00:35:07

take in this pet, that's when I'm like,

I'll go ahead and I'll take that because

648

: 00:35:11

those aren't circumstances that

you endure every single day.

649

: 00:35:13

That's not something that somebody

can be necessarily prepared for.

650

: 00:35:16

Like obviously we all know

it's coming to some extent, but

651

: 00:35:19

sometimes when somebody ends up in

the hospital it's pretty drastic.

652

: 00:35:23

It's like right then and there.

653

: 00:35:24

And so we will always

take in those pets that.

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That their owners physically can

no longer take care of them, but

655

: 00:35:30

they love them, to the very end.

656

: 00:35:31

We had one this past, like probably

about three months ago, and it

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: 00:35:36

absolutely was one of the funniest

stories that we've ever received.

658

: 00:35:40

But, an older woman as sweet as can

be when she got put in her nursing

659

: 00:35:45

home, snuck her little puppy in.

660

: 00:35:47

She snuck in a 2-year-old little

Yorkie dog and it was not a facility

661

: 00:35:51

where you could hold animals.

662

: 00:35:53

And so she snuck her in and, one of the

workers ended up conducting us within a

663

: 00:35:58

month of her entering into their care,

and they were helping hide the puppy.

664

: 00:36:03

They were calling her

contraband for a little bit.

665

: 00:36:05

But of course, once one of the

directors found out, they were like.

666

: 00:36:08

Either the woman who lives

here and we take care of has

667

: 00:36:11

to go, or the puppy has to go.

668

: 00:36:13

And so of course they didn't wanna

reach out to their shelter because it

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: 00:36:16

would've been like a whole case and

they wanted to keep it under wraps.

670

: 00:36:19

And I was like, that's fine.

671

: 00:36:21

They sent me one email and I was like,

that's the funniest thing ever heard.

672

: 00:36:24

Please bring it to me right now.

673

: 00:36:25

And and they did.

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: 00:36:26

And she was the sweetest little puppy.

675

: 00:36:28

And we always joke that she was,

contraband for just a little old lady who

676

: 00:36:32

was just trying to find, like some solace

in knowing that she had her pet with her.

677

: 00:36:37

She does stay in contact with us,

which I find to be the cutest thing.

678

: 00:36:40

And she's in direct contact with

the people who adopted that dog.

679

: 00:36:43

That was one of my

favorite cases last year.

680

: 00:36:46

And like they, we all have a little group

chat and we get to update each other

681

: 00:36:50

with everything and it's quite adorable.

682

: 00:36:53

And from what I understand, the

new adopters for that puppy.

683

: 00:36:58

Are able to actually visit with the dog

'cause they do live in the same area.

684

: 00:37:02

And so the the little old

lady has actually seen her

685

: 00:37:04

dog since it's been adopted.

686

: 00:37:06

So sometimes you find like really amazing

adopters who will, love a story, love

687

: 00:37:11

anything like that, and will do anything

to help keep that connection with an owner

688

: 00:37:15

who also love their animal at the time.

689

: 00:37:18

And so that's been really incredible.

690

: 00:37:20

Yeah, so we do see a lot of those owners

surrender cases and whenever we can't help

691

: 00:37:26

physically intake, we will always help in

some other type of way, whether it just be

692

: 00:37:30

resources of, food or just medical care.

693

: 00:37:34

Dixie: Yeah, that's an amazing story.

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: 00:37:36

And I can't believe they were able

to hide that puppy for a month

695

: 00:37:40

Hannah: Yes.

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: 00:37:41

It's the funniest thing ever.

697

: 00:37:42

And I was like, and she was little.

698

: 00:37:44

She was like.

699

: 00:37:45

Five pounds.

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: 00:37:46

And I was like, I guess I

can see it, and she's quiet.

701

: 00:37:49

The dog was very quiet and I was

like, I think this dog knew that

702

: 00:37:52

she was not supposed to be there.

703

: 00:37:54

Yeah that one, like the moment I

heard it on the phone, I was like,

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: 00:37:58

yeah, I will help out with that.

705

: 00:37:59

That is the funniest

thing I've ever heard of.

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: 00:38:01

Mine's higher life, please bring to me.

707

: 00:38:04

And that was great case.

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: 00:38:06

And it was right before Thanksgiving.

709

: 00:38:07

It was a very fun little

thing to navigate around.

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: 00:38:10

Yeah.

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: 00:38:11

Dixie: Did she get adopted right away too?

712

: 00:38:14

Hannah: She did.

713

: 00:38:15

Being a little toy breed obviously

is a little bit more ideal, if you

714

: 00:38:19

will, quote unquote when it comes

down to like people wanting an animal.

715

: 00:38:23

But people also really love the story.

716

: 00:38:26

'Cause of course we.

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: 00:38:28

Her little contraband story and her

bio, and we had a lot of people reach

718

: 00:38:31

out and was like, I would love nothing

more to have a puppy that was smuggled.

719

: 00:38:35

And I was like, absolutely.

720

: 00:38:36

Here you go.

721

: 00:38:37

Yeah, she got adopted pretty quickly

and the home that she went into, like I

722

: 00:38:40

said, amazing, the fact that they stay

in communications with her previous

723

: 00:38:43

owner who tried so hard to, keep her

basically without having to give her up

724

: 00:38:48

is one of my, is also just like icing on

the cake of what we've managed to help.

725

: 00:38:53

Both her and the course the animal.

726

: 00:38:55

Dixie: Yeah.

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: 00:38:56

That is a wonderful story.

728

: 00:38:57

That's really good.

729

: 00:38:58

I was gonna say that you put that in

the adoption bio and that kind of almost

730

: 00:39:02

had to seal the deal because it's a

great story Oh to go along with that.

731

: 00:39:06

So when is your new

facility gonna open up?

732

: 00:39:10

Hannah: We're hoping that the

adoption side our grand scheme of

733

: 00:39:15

things is that by March 1st we'll

actually be open to the public.

734

: 00:39:19

It will still be

appointment only, of course.

735

: 00:39:22

But with everything going under

the works now with our contractors

736

: 00:39:26

everything looks like it's gonna

be ready in the next couple weeks.

737

: 00:39:30

Dixie: That's great.

738

: 00:39:31

It was great speaking with you and

learning all about what you did.

739

: 00:39:34

The story of how you got

started was really interesting.

740

: 00:39:38

It's really amazing.

741

: 00:39:39

Yes.

742

: 00:39:39

And it's truly an inspiration.

743

: 00:39:41

So I do hope it inspires other

young people to get started

744

: 00:39:46

with doing this as well.

745

: 00:39:48

Hannah: I hope so too.

746

: 00:39:49

And once again, for any young people

who are interested in something like

747

: 00:39:53

that, but don't think that they have the

means, just know that I did not at all.

748

: 00:39:58

I was still a broke college student

who had no idea what she was doing.

749

: 00:40:02

And now here we are.

750

: 00:40:04

Actually having, a 5 0 1 C3 that

I'm in charge of and being quote

751

: 00:40:09

unquote an adult with running it

and taking care of so many animals.

752

: 00:40:13

Once again, I never thought that this is

where we would be the 10 years that I've

753

: 00:40:17

been doing this, which is crazy to say

that I've been doing this for 10 years.

754

: 00:40:20

Dixie: Thank you for coming on the show.

755

: 00:40:21

I appreciate it.

756

: 00:40:23

Hannah: Absolutely.

757

: 00:40:24

Thank you so much for having me,

and thank you so much for wanting

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: 00:40:27

talk about forgotten felines rescue.

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: 00:40:29

Dixie: That's it for today's episode.

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: 00:40:31

I wanna thank everybody for

listening and supporting us.

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: 00:40:35

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step, consider becoming a member.

762

: 00:40:39

We just added this to our

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763

: 00:40:44

scroll down, look for the support tab.

764

: 00:40:46

Our membership program is going to

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765

: 00:40:52

in need, whether that be through

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