November 27, 2024 • 15 mins
Cincinnati Animal Care takes in cats, dogs and other furry and sometimes scaly creatures. And like nearly all shelters in the USA, they have more than they can handle. Abby Moore with CAC is here to share the 99cent event on Black Friday, how they determine which animals are safe to be adopted, and provides important information about low-cost options.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Back to iHeart Cincy, a Tri state public affairs program.
I'm Sandy Collins, back for another week. Glad you're here today.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
I'm speaking with Abby Moore, community engagement.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Coordinator for Cincinnati Animal Care in Northside, and since it's
National Adoption Month, I am procuring this month to also
now appeal to our fur babies. She's here to talk
about the current state of pet adoption in the Tri State,
especially for thinking about giving a pet for the holidays.
There's a huge discount coming up this week, ninety nine
(00:33):
cents for adoptions on Black Friday. Abby Moore, thank you
for your time today on iHeart Cincy. So, Cincinnati Animal
Care has been in the news a lot because of
like the total overpopulation of pets, you know, post pandemic.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
What's the status today of.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
The shelter and how many pets you have and kind
of what's happening.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Yeah, so just for right now, currently we have five
hundred and ten dogs total and one hundred and twenty
three cats total, so it just a little over six.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
Hundred in all.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
For the animals that we currently have in our care,
about half of those are on site actually on our
physical locations, and then the other are in our foster homes.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
And how far over capacity is that for you?
Speaker 3 (01:23):
So technically our main shelter location on our coal Raine
Avenue address, we have about one hundred kennels that would
be deemed usable by shelter standards, but at any given
time we have typically around one hundred and fifty hundred
eighty dogs there.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Wow, so a lot.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
And are you attributing this overpopulation due to the to
the pandemic and everybody getting animals to keep them company
and then not being able to take care of them afterwards,
or is there something else happening.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
It's kind of hard to tell. A lot of it
is just just overbreeding.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
People get animals, or people are breeding animals and then
people realize that they aren't able to care for the animal.
A lot of it is people falling on hard times
and we find animals who they quite literally just are
not able to care for. So we take being a
resource center just as seriously as we take being a shelter.
So we actually have a pet food pantry that is
(02:21):
open every single day of the week where people, if
they're in between jobs are experiencing housing instability, they can
come and get food from us. Or any supplies they
may need. We try to do vaccine clinics pretty often,
so people can get their animals vaccinated here too, So
that way we can keep people in pets together so
they don't ever have to even enter our shelter.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Somebody wants to take advantage of either one of those services,
how can they be informed or where can they find
that information regularly?
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Yeah, so you can either go on our website or
shoot us an email at Resource dot Desk at Sinseycare
dot org. Or you are able to stop actually buy
our community support desk. They're at the back entrance of
our Coal Raine Avenue location and they're able to have
a conversation to see how we can best serve you,
(03:11):
and that way we can just work together to see
what kind of plan we can put into place.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
What's that email address again, Resource.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Resource dot Desk at Sincycare dot org.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Sinceicare dot org.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
I am writing that down as we speak, as many
others are as well. I'm just curious you may or
may not have this information when people come into adopt.
Are there more people that are getting just their first
pet or a new pet and they don't have any
others or is it like animal lovers coming in more
often to add to their menagerie.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
It's really a mix. We don't really see one more
than the other. We do get a lot of people
around here that may be coming in for their first
pet ever, and so we try to counsel them and
try to find the one that fits their lifestyle the best.
So anyone that adopts from us will talk to our
adoption and we find out a little bit more about
your house. So if you have kids, if you have
other pets, if you have parties a lot, if you're
(04:07):
more of a homebody, if you're looking for an animal
who you can take on hikes, or an animal that
you just want to sleep on your couch all day.
We try to match make you as best as we
can so that way we know we're sending the right pet.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
Home with you.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
That's tremendous.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
That's something that I think most people wouldn't expect that
kind of service. So Cincinnati Animal Care is on top
of it. So what's the process these days to adopt?
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Yeah, so we have two different options actually, So something
that a lot of people take advantage of with us
is our foster to adopt program. So any of our
adult dogs, and we deem anything over six months an
adult dog is eligible for foster to adopt, So essentially,
you come in and you're acting as the foster parent
for a week, just almost like a trial run to
(04:52):
see if that animal suits your lifestyle, and then you
can get back to us if you want to finalize
the adoption and you say yes, this is the one
for me, I want to adopt, and then we do
that process.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
Or you can even just continue as a traditional foster.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Maybe you're not ready to commit to that animal right now,
but you do love them and you want to help
them find their home, but you're just a stepping stone,
so you can become a traditional foster with us then
as well, or if it's not the right fit, you
can schedule a return to the shelter and we can
try to match Mickey with one who may be better.
The actual adoption process is pretty simple. You just have
(05:26):
to be eighteen years old and give us your valid
ID and then have that conversation with our adoption counselor
to make sure you're making the right choice for you.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
From there.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Cats and dogs pricing is a little bit different, but
all of our adult dogs are seventy five dollars. All
of our puppies are two hundred, and then all of
our adult cats are forty and kittens are sixty. And
if you get one, you can get the second one
for free because kins do better in pairs.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
So that's a lot of information. Let let's break it
down a little bit.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Yeah, and the thing that really struck me from what
you first said was that you can take an animal
home for a week and try it out with no
you know, side eye when you bring it back or
there's no there's no problem. Nobody's going to judge you
if you take this animal back and say, look, this
just isn't going to work. That's a really important part
(06:14):
because when you adopt, you're adopting for the life of
this pet, hopefully, and you know these animals love us
and you know we love them.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
And you know it's a big commitment.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
So it's great to hear that you're able to go
in and find the dog that you think you want
and take it back after a week if it doesn't
work out.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
That is wonderful, Abby.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Yeah, yeah, because a lot of times, I mean, we
know so much about the dog based on what we
see here in the shelter or in maybe a previous foster.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
Home that they've been in.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
But obviously we don't know everything about that dog, and
sometimes we don't know some things that you will find
out in your home.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
So we match make the best that we can. But
sometimes it's.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Just not the right fit, and we understand that, so
we try to make it as easy as to find
the right fit for you. So that's why Foster to
Adopt again, that's just for our adult dogs. That's why
it's a really popular program here with us.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
If you just tuned in, I'm speaking with Abby Moore.
She's a community engagement coordinator for Cincinnati Animal Care in Northside.
Let me ask you about your big special Black Friday event.
The price is unheard of. What kind of specials have
you got going on for Black Friday?
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Yeah, So any of our adult pets, so cats and
dogs over six months old, are only going to be
ninety nine cents for their adoption fee. We're trying to
clear out one hundred animals is our goal to get adopted,
and we have more than enough to meet that goal.
We have about five hundred total that are adoptable right now.
So our goal is to find the right fit for
them and to get your new best friend into your home.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Can you see many of these online and do you
have to come in person to also see the rest
of them or how's that working?
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Yeah, So all of our adoptable animals are on our website,
so you can kind of take a preview and see
if anyone catches your eye off the bat to adopt.
We do require that you come in and meet the
animal just so you can see in person if it's
the right fit for you. So you would come in
on Black Friday. You would be able to talk to
our adoption counselors just like you would any other day,
and they'll give you typically a list of three dogs
(08:20):
to meet that'll we think best suit your home, and
you can meet all three of those and then decide
who's the best fit for you.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Okay, I want to talk about the People Magazine twenty
twenty four World's Cutest Dog winner from Cincinnati. Yes, Margo,
and if you missed that story, you can google it.
Margo is a gray and white pit bull, an American
bull mixed dog that was adopted a couple of years ago.
(08:45):
Entered into this People Magazine contest In one Julia Zapan
I think her name is pronounced is the mom and
Margo the rescue has a TikTok and an Instagram account
which is just adorable.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
She's just so sweet.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
She's got two different color eyes and the sweetest personality.
And the big deal is that you know she's a
pit bull mix. People are nervous about pit bulls and
that seems to be the vast majority of the animals
that you have. So what kind of advice do you
have for people about.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Considering a pit bull or a pit bull mix or what.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Kind of reassurances do you have about these animals, because honestly,
people are a little nervous if they're not familiar with them,
and we want to get over that and get more
of these mixes into loving homes.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
Yeah. Absolutely, Yeah. Margo is definitely a super exciting for us.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
She's actually the first pit bull to ever win the contest,
so big win for us and a big win for her.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
Breed as a whole.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
She's a wonderful dog, and Julia actually is one of
our biggest advocates. She's a pretty regular volunteer and foster
with us, so she uses Margo and her platform to
really amplify how great pipules can be. We kind of
call them America's mutt these days, because pretty much any
mixed breed you see is probably going to have pit
in there somewhere, even once here that surprise us. Sometimes
(10:00):
when animals get adopted, we have an alumni group on
Facebook that they can join and they'll share their DNA results,
and some that we think would not have any pipple
in them our majority piple. So it's really hard to
judge based off of their appearance. One of my coworkers actually,
you would have told me that it was like almost
ninety percent German Shepherd for dogs she adopted from us,
and he's like sixty percent piple and he looks like
(10:22):
a smaller German shepherd. So it's really hard to tell
just based off of their appearance. But appearance aside, they
can be really really fantastic dogs. I think a lot
of people have a stereotype about them based off of
new stories from the eighties and nineties and different media
things that we see of them. And then obviously we
had a ban in this area for a long time,
which didn't help the stereotype that they were quote unquote
(10:46):
dangerous dogs. But it's hard to judge just based off
of the breed. There's been a lot of studies that
indicate that certain personality traits are common in breeds across
the board.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
Like any breed.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
You know.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
We say German shepherds love smell. That's why they're such
good police dogs and bomb sniffing dogs. But it's hard
to judge just based off of the breed. There's been
a lot of studies that indicate that certain personality traits
are common in breeds across the board, like any breed.
You know. We say German shepherds love smells, that's why
they're such good police dogs and bomb sniffing dogs.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
But it's hard to guarantee those behavior.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Traits and any animal sure, and our experience, the majority
of the mixed breeds commonly pretty pretty heavy on the
pit mixes.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
We typically see them as excellent, excellent dogs.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
I mean, they're well known here to be couch potatoes,
They're super snuggly. A lot of them are our volunteer
and staff favorite, so we like to try to push
past that stereotype and show people that they're they're fantastic
companion animals.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
And what about any animal that comes through your doors
that you find to be violent, that is not adoptable.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
What do you do with those dogs?
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Any animal, any dog that comes through our doors is
assessed by our Behave team and they're assigned to different
things in terms of what volunteers are allowed to handle them,
even if it's just you know, they may pull really
hard on walks, so we want to make sure that
we have a volunteer that can handle that, even if
there's nothing else wrong with their behaviors. So we have
a color assignment for each of these dogs as well
(12:17):
as we put them in playgroup with other dogs so
we can see what their dog sociability levels are, so
we can see are they more kind of a coexistor
that they just kind of vibe in the yard with
the dogs, Would they do well in a home with
the dog, and if so, what personalities should we try
to match them with. We do sometimes see dogs that
come through who we deem as not safe to enter
into our community. At that point, they are humanly euthanized
(12:40):
with us. We are no kill shelter, but no kill
does not mean no euthanasia, and that's something that we
try to be really transparent about. So we do not
euthanize based off of our space restrictions and based off
of what breed of the animal it is. It all
has to do with how social they are and if
they're safe to enter into the community. The only time
an animal is usanized here is that they are deemed
(13:01):
not safe to put into the community, or if there's
an extreme medical need that we can't treat.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
So if they want to be a part of Black
Friday or for ninety nine cents, you can get the
adult animals there through the cats and the dogs, and
you also have other little pets that you can see
on their website. Otherwise, if you want to go get
you know, kind of a head start and look at
these animals.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
You guys are open every day.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Yeah, We're open every single day at both of our location,
so the one both are in north Side. One is
at thirty nine to forty nine Cole Rain Avenue and
the other is at forty two ten Dane Avenue. Again
both at Northside. They're only like a three minute apart,
so pretty easy to bought from one to the other.
All of our dogs are at our Coal Rain location,
or I should say half of our dogs or in
our coal rain location and then at our day and
(13:45):
location is where we house the other half of our
dogs and all of our cats are at the day location.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
We're open from one to six.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
And that Black Friday event is November twenty ninth, so
it is coming up next Friday.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
If you want a ninety nine cents.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
I'm sure they would appreciate any donation above that to
help them offset their cast. Cincinnatianimalcare dot org is the
site and.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
It's Abby More. Thank you so much for what you're
doing for the pets.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
We know that you've been inundated there at Cincinnati Animal
Care and we appreciate you doing what you do, and
we appreciate everybody that comes and takes their fur babies home.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
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Speaker 2 (14:48):
Thanks for listening this week.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Hope you have a great holiday season coming up in
the next month and a half.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
It's time to take a big, deep breath and let's
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Speaker 3 (15:00):
iHeart Censi is a production of iHeartMedia, Cincinnati,
Back to iHeart Cincy, a Tri state public affairs program.
I'm Sandy Collins, back for another week. Glad you're here today.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
I'm speaking with Abby Moore, community engagement.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Coordinator for Cincinnati Animal Care in Northside, and since it's
National Adoption Month, I am procuring this month to also
now appeal to our fur babies. She's here to talk
about the current state of pet adoption in the Tri State,
especially for thinking about giving a pet for the holidays.
There's a huge discount coming up this week, ninety nine
(00:33):
cents for adoptions on Black Friday. Abby Moore, thank you
for your time today on iHeart Cincy. So, Cincinnati Animal
Care has been in the news a lot because of
like the total overpopulation of pets, you know, post pandemic.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
What's the status today of.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
The shelter and how many pets you have and kind
of what's happening.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Yeah, so just for right now, currently we have five
hundred and ten dogs total and one hundred and twenty
three cats total, so it just a little over six.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
Hundred in all.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
For the animals that we currently have in our care,
about half of those are on site actually on our
physical locations, and then the other are in our foster homes.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
And how far over capacity is that for you?
Speaker 3 (01:23):
So technically our main shelter location on our coal Raine
Avenue address, we have about one hundred kennels that would
be deemed usable by shelter standards, but at any given
time we have typically around one hundred and fifty hundred
eighty dogs there.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Wow, so a lot.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
And are you attributing this overpopulation due to the to
the pandemic and everybody getting animals to keep them company
and then not being able to take care of them afterwards,
or is there something else happening.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
It's kind of hard to tell. A lot of it
is just just overbreeding.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
People get animals, or people are breeding animals and then
people realize that they aren't able to care for the animal.
A lot of it is people falling on hard times
and we find animals who they quite literally just are
not able to care for. So we take being a
resource center just as seriously as we take being a shelter.
So we actually have a pet food pantry that is
(02:21):
open every single day of the week where people, if
they're in between jobs are experiencing housing instability, they can
come and get food from us. Or any supplies they
may need. We try to do vaccine clinics pretty often,
so people can get their animals vaccinated here too, So
that way we can keep people in pets together so
they don't ever have to even enter our shelter.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Somebody wants to take advantage of either one of those services,
how can they be informed or where can they find
that information regularly?
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Yeah, so you can either go on our website or
shoot us an email at Resource dot Desk at Sinseycare
dot org. Or you are able to stop actually buy
our community support desk. They're at the back entrance of
our Coal Raine Avenue location and they're able to have
a conversation to see how we can best serve you,
(03:11):
and that way we can just work together to see
what kind of plan we can put into place.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
What's that email address again, Resource.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Resource dot Desk at Sincycare dot org.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Sinceicare dot org.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
I am writing that down as we speak, as many
others are as well. I'm just curious you may or
may not have this information when people come into adopt.
Are there more people that are getting just their first
pet or a new pet and they don't have any
others or is it like animal lovers coming in more
often to add to their menagerie.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
It's really a mix. We don't really see one more
than the other. We do get a lot of people
around here that may be coming in for their first
pet ever, and so we try to counsel them and
try to find the one that fits their lifestyle the best.
So anyone that adopts from us will talk to our
adoption and we find out a little bit more about
your house. So if you have kids, if you have
other pets, if you have parties a lot, if you're
(04:07):
more of a homebody, if you're looking for an animal
who you can take on hikes, or an animal that
you just want to sleep on your couch all day.
We try to match make you as best as we
can so that way we know we're sending the right pet.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
Home with you.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
That's tremendous.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
That's something that I think most people wouldn't expect that
kind of service. So Cincinnati Animal Care is on top
of it. So what's the process these days to adopt?
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Yeah, so we have two different options actually, So something
that a lot of people take advantage of with us
is our foster to adopt program. So any of our
adult dogs, and we deem anything over six months an
adult dog is eligible for foster to adopt, So essentially,
you come in and you're acting as the foster parent
for a week, just almost like a trial run to
(04:52):
see if that animal suits your lifestyle, and then you
can get back to us if you want to finalize
the adoption and you say yes, this is the one
for me, I want to adopt, and then we do
that process.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
Or you can even just continue as a traditional foster.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Maybe you're not ready to commit to that animal right now,
but you do love them and you want to help
them find their home, but you're just a stepping stone,
so you can become a traditional foster with us then
as well, or if it's not the right fit, you
can schedule a return to the shelter and we can
try to match Mickey with one who may be better.
The actual adoption process is pretty simple. You just have
(05:26):
to be eighteen years old and give us your valid
ID and then have that conversation with our adoption counselor
to make sure you're making the right choice for you.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
From there.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Cats and dogs pricing is a little bit different, but
all of our adult dogs are seventy five dollars. All
of our puppies are two hundred, and then all of
our adult cats are forty and kittens are sixty. And
if you get one, you can get the second one
for free because kins do better in pairs.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
So that's a lot of information. Let let's break it
down a little bit.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Yeah, and the thing that really struck me from what
you first said was that you can take an animal
home for a week and try it out with no
you know, side eye when you bring it back or
there's no there's no problem. Nobody's going to judge you
if you take this animal back and say, look, this
just isn't going to work. That's a really important part
(06:14):
because when you adopt, you're adopting for the life of
this pet, hopefully, and you know these animals love us
and you know we love them.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
And you know it's a big commitment.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
So it's great to hear that you're able to go
in and find the dog that you think you want
and take it back after a week if it doesn't
work out.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
That is wonderful, Abby.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Yeah, yeah, because a lot of times, I mean, we
know so much about the dog based on what we
see here in the shelter or in maybe a previous foster.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
Home that they've been in.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
But obviously we don't know everything about that dog, and
sometimes we don't know some things that you will find
out in your home.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
So we match make the best that we can. But
sometimes it's.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Just not the right fit, and we understand that, so
we try to make it as easy as to find
the right fit for you. So that's why Foster to
Adopt again, that's just for our adult dogs. That's why
it's a really popular program here with us.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
If you just tuned in, I'm speaking with Abby Moore.
She's a community engagement coordinator for Cincinnati Animal Care in Northside.
Let me ask you about your big special Black Friday event.
The price is unheard of. What kind of specials have
you got going on for Black Friday?
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Yeah, So any of our adult pets, so cats and
dogs over six months old, are only going to be
ninety nine cents for their adoption fee. We're trying to
clear out one hundred animals is our goal to get adopted,
and we have more than enough to meet that goal.
We have about five hundred total that are adoptable right now.
So our goal is to find the right fit for
them and to get your new best friend into your home.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Can you see many of these online and do you
have to come in person to also see the rest
of them or how's that working?
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Yeah, So all of our adoptable animals are on our website,
so you can kind of take a preview and see
if anyone catches your eye off the bat to adopt.
We do require that you come in and meet the
animal just so you can see in person if it's
the right fit for you. So you would come in
on Black Friday. You would be able to talk to
our adoption counselors just like you would any other day,
and they'll give you typically a list of three dogs
(08:20):
to meet that'll we think best suit your home, and
you can meet all three of those and then decide
who's the best fit for you.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Okay, I want to talk about the People Magazine twenty
twenty four World's Cutest Dog winner from Cincinnati. Yes, Margo,
and if you missed that story, you can google it.
Margo is a gray and white pit bull, an American
bull mixed dog that was adopted a couple of years ago.
(08:45):
Entered into this People Magazine contest In one Julia Zapan
I think her name is pronounced is the mom and
Margo the rescue has a TikTok and an Instagram account
which is just adorable.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
She's just so sweet.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
She's got two different color eyes and the sweetest personality.
And the big deal is that you know she's a
pit bull mix. People are nervous about pit bulls and
that seems to be the vast majority of the animals
that you have. So what kind of advice do you
have for people about.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Considering a pit bull or a pit bull mix or what.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Kind of reassurances do you have about these animals, because honestly,
people are a little nervous if they're not familiar with them,
and we want to get over that and get more
of these mixes into loving homes.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
Yeah. Absolutely, Yeah. Margo is definitely a super exciting for us.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
She's actually the first pit bull to ever win the contest,
so big win for us and a big win for her.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
Breed as a whole.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
She's a wonderful dog, and Julia actually is one of
our biggest advocates. She's a pretty regular volunteer and foster
with us, so she uses Margo and her platform to
really amplify how great pipules can be. We kind of
call them America's mutt these days, because pretty much any
mixed breed you see is probably going to have pit
in there somewhere, even once here that surprise us. Sometimes
(10:00):
when animals get adopted, we have an alumni group on
Facebook that they can join and they'll share their DNA results,
and some that we think would not have any pipple
in them our majority piple. So it's really hard to
judge based off of their appearance. One of my coworkers actually,
you would have told me that it was like almost
ninety percent German Shepherd for dogs she adopted from us,
and he's like sixty percent piple and he looks like
(10:22):
a smaller German shepherd. So it's really hard to tell
just based off of their appearance. But appearance aside, they
can be really really fantastic dogs. I think a lot
of people have a stereotype about them based off of
new stories from the eighties and nineties and different media
things that we see of them. And then obviously we
had a ban in this area for a long time,
which didn't help the stereotype that they were quote unquote
(10:46):
dangerous dogs. But it's hard to judge just based off
of the breed. There's been a lot of studies that
indicate that certain personality traits are common in breeds across
the board.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
Like any breed.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
You know.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
We say German shepherds love smell. That's why they're such
good police dogs and bomb sniffing dogs. But it's hard
to judge just based off of the breed. There's been
a lot of studies that indicate that certain personality traits
are common in breeds across the board, like any breed.
You know. We say German shepherds love smells, that's why
they're such good police dogs and bomb sniffing dogs.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
But it's hard to guarantee those behavior.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Traits and any animal sure, and our experience, the majority
of the mixed breeds commonly pretty pretty heavy on the
pit mixes.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
We typically see them as excellent, excellent dogs.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
I mean, they're well known here to be couch potatoes,
They're super snuggly. A lot of them are our volunteer
and staff favorite, so we like to try to push
past that stereotype and show people that they're they're fantastic
companion animals.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
And what about any animal that comes through your doors
that you find to be violent, that is not adoptable.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
What do you do with those dogs?
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Any animal, any dog that comes through our doors is
assessed by our Behave team and they're assigned to different
things in terms of what volunteers are allowed to handle them,
even if it's just you know, they may pull really
hard on walks, so we want to make sure that
we have a volunteer that can handle that, even if
there's nothing else wrong with their behaviors. So we have
a color assignment for each of these dogs as well
(12:17):
as we put them in playgroup with other dogs so
we can see what their dog sociability levels are, so
we can see are they more kind of a coexistor
that they just kind of vibe in the yard with
the dogs, Would they do well in a home with
the dog, and if so, what personalities should we try
to match them with. We do sometimes see dogs that
come through who we deem as not safe to enter
into our community. At that point, they are humanly euthanized
(12:40):
with us. We are no kill shelter, but no kill
does not mean no euthanasia, and that's something that we
try to be really transparent about. So we do not
euthanize based off of our space restrictions and based off
of what breed of the animal it is. It all
has to do with how social they are and if
they're safe to enter into the community. The only time
an animal is usanized here is that they are deemed
(13:01):
not safe to put into the community, or if there's
an extreme medical need that we can't treat.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
So if they want to be a part of Black
Friday or for ninety nine cents, you can get the
adult animals there through the cats and the dogs, and
you also have other little pets that you can see
on their website. Otherwise, if you want to go get
you know, kind of a head start and look at
these animals.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
You guys are open every day.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Yeah, We're open every single day at both of our location,
so the one both are in north Side. One is
at thirty nine to forty nine Cole Rain Avenue and
the other is at forty two ten Dane Avenue. Again
both at Northside. They're only like a three minute apart,
so pretty easy to bought from one to the other.
All of our dogs are at our Coal Rain location,
or I should say half of our dogs or in
our coal rain location and then at our day and
(13:45):
location is where we house the other half of our
dogs and all of our cats are at the day location.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
We're open from one to six.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
And that Black Friday event is November twenty ninth, so
it is coming up next Friday.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
If you want a ninety nine cents.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
I'm sure they would appreciate any donation above that to
help them offset their cast. Cincinnatianimalcare dot org is the
site and.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
It's Abby More. Thank you so much for what you're
doing for the pets.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
We know that you've been inundated there at Cincinnati Animal
Care and we appreciate you doing what you do, and
we appreciate everybody that comes and takes their fur babies home.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
We're coming up on the end of this week's show.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Let me know your thoughts anytime, their comments, suggestions, questions.
Just send me an email to Iheartsincy with an I
at iHeartMedia dot com.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
You can check this show out on.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
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my name, Sandy Collins. That's the fastest way to get there.
Since there's so many iHeart things on the iHeart app
so search for Sandy Collins.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Thanks for listening this week.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Hope you have a great holiday season coming up in
the next month and a half.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
It's time to take a big, deep breath and let's
just settle in. I'm Sandy Collins, thanks for listening.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
iHeart Censi is a production of iHeartMedia, Cincinnati,
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