August 21, 2023 • 29 mins
“Animal Whisperer” and popular WHP-Producer, Art Selby; "Media Darling", Nancy Ryan and Zella Anderson, Head of the Central PA Animal Alliance share all the details about the largest festival for dogs and their humans on the east coast. It’s the 18th annual WoofStock event on Sunday, September 17, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. along beautiful Riverfront Park, Harrisburg.
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Hi, I'm Sylvia Moss and thisis Insight, a presentation of iHeartMedia or
we really do care about our localcommunities and all our listeners who live here.
In fact, no matter what wetalk about in this programme each week,
my focus has always been to informyou about all the remarkable organizations that
we have here in Central Pennsylvania andalso encourage you to support them. And
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as always, you have never leftme down. This week, we're going
to talk about those who give theirabsolute all. They make us the center
of their universe, and without adoubt, they make us a constant focus
of their love and their trust.One more thing they have pause. The
dogs that we love so much andare considered members of our families are the
lucky ones. However, according tothe ASPCAA, each year, approximately nine
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hundred and twenty thousand shelter animals areeuthanized. That's three hundred and ninety thousand
dogs and five hundred and thirty thousandcats are put to sleep. Because of
my guests today, this is notgoing to happen here in Central PA because
the goal of the Central Pennsylvania AnimalAlliance is to save the law the lives
of dogs and cats in Central PAthrough spain, neutering, rescuing, fostering,
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adoptions, training, public outro reach, and education. And that happens
all the time. It's an everydaything. One of their major events over
the last eighteen years has been thisdistinction of being known as the largest festival
for dogs and their humans on theEast Coast. The largest festival for dogs
and their humans on the East Coast. It's called Wolfstock and it's right around
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the corner on Sunday, September seventeenth, from eleven to five, and it
covers most of the river from Parkand Harrisburg. Well, well, I
tell you who's here with us?Are some of your favorites to give you
all the details. They are themastermind of Wolfstock and the head of the
Central Pennsylvania Animal Lyon Zella Anderson.This lady took over radio, now she's
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taken over TeV, everybody's media darling. Nancy Ryan and known by many as
the local animal whisper because of allthey he and his wife Becky do for
animals in Central Pennsylvania, taking careof lost and abused animals. And they're
actually on their farm in Halifax.Your favorite in mind Whip producer Art Selby.
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Guys, this has gotten so big, so big, and I don't
know. I mean, this isan opportunity. I know, Zelle you
have sponsors, but anybody affiliated withanimals in any way, if you don't
jump on this opportunity for an organizationthat is the largest one on the East
Coast, this event, you needyour head examined. Let me tell you,
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well, seriously makes sense, Itmakes sense absolutely. I want to
start with Selim because this started asone of your girlfriends started with an idea
that she wanted to get all therescues in the area together and create some
sort of event. But unfortunately shepassed away, and the good person that
you are, you are an attorney, left that world and took this over.
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And it's because of you and peoplelike Nance and Art and your volunteers
that Wolf stopped is the largest eventlike this on the East Coast. Tell
us what happened? Why? Whydid you? I'm kind You're a lawyer.
I know I think I needed tohave my heading damage actually do that
later. I continued to practice lawuntil two thousand and eleven. So I
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founded CPAA in two thousand and three. So I was crazy enough to continue
to be a litigation attorney after foundingCPAA. But then in two thousand and
ten, two thousand and eleven,I decided that I wanted to devote my
time to CPA full time. AndI had practiced for twenty five years and
that was actually enough. So sowell, let's compare it. Now.
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You were an attorney, and thishas got to be to take something that
wasn't really known in the area yearsago and to bloat up this big.
I know it's a it's something youdo because of love for your friends and
love for these animals. But doyou find this more rewarding of being an
interney? Definitely? I have tosay that I don't think I could do
this without the skills I learned inlaw school. It's been Yeah, it's
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been really benefit to me just thinkingthings out, being able to speak publicly,
having those courtroom skills is essential reallyfor doing what I do. So
I'm glad that I have the legalbackground, but I'm also happy to leave
it behind to pursue my passion.Let me ask you this. You've got
several big programs, but I wantto talk about first the one that wolf
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Stock is the beneficiary of the Sexand the City program with that about Actually
we just continued de Sex in theCity back in two thousand eighteen. At
the time we founded it, whichwas like in two thousand and five,
I believe there were no options forpeople in the area to pursue low cost
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spain needer for their animals, whichhas contributed to the pet overpopulation problem because
nobody could afford to have their petsfixed. So we started d Sex in
the City as a way for peopleto get their pets fixed for free or
very low costs. We ended uppurchasing two surgical that we could take into
communities and do trap need a returnfor cats, and then we offered free
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or low cost spaing need for dogsin the Harrisburg area. After doing that
for I guess about thirteen years,it became prohibitively expensive for us to run
it. It costs about ten thousanddollars a month and it was very difficult
to fundraise. Fundraising just became moreand more difficult as it continues to be.
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And in addition to that, alot of other options for people opened
up, like the Nobody's Cats Foundation, Pause has a low cost sping Etter
program. The Harrisburg Mean Society openedtheir low cost clinic, so we felt
that there were other options for peoplethat were available, so we decided to
focus just on the rescuing and ourHounds of Prison education program at the Camp
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Help Prison. That's the one Iwanted to talk about. Where did that
concept come from? Actually one ofour volunteers, Kelly McGinley, that was
her brainshaw. She was a volunteerwith CPA from the very beginning. She
came to me with the idea tostart a prison training program for rescue dogs
and asked if she started it,if CPA would fund it, and I
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said, yeah, that's kind ofa no brainer. So Kelly started it,
ran with it, got everything startedat the camp Hill State Prison,
and she stayed on as director ofthe program until two thousand and thirteen when
she retired. Tell us how itworks, Well, it's pretty simple.
We take dogs from high kill shelters, usually the Philadelphia Shelter. We also
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take dogs from other rescues that mayneed some training. We also take some
owner surrenders or dogs that we findhis strays, and we pair them up
with carefully selected inmates at the campHill State Prison. The inmates are screened
very very carefully in order to participatein the program. There are eight handlers
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who take the dogs. The dogsgo into the live with the inmates.
Twenty four seven and myself, alongwith another volunteer and our professional trainer go
into the prison every Friday and wework alongside the inmates and the dogs to
basically make sure the training is goingas expected. If the inmates have any
questions, we go over that.It's it's just an amazing, amazing program,
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not only what it does for thedogs who wouldn't have ordinarily had a
chance to find a home, butalso for the inmates. These all different
types of dogs, different because Ican't seem like Tom Russell's going to be
a part of this thing. Ican't see Coke and Cola, those tiny
little dogs. Yes, we havesmall dogs. You can joke with the
inmates that if they don't behave we'regoing to give them a Chihuahua because they
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But we had like we had aminiature poodle going a few years ago and
he was paired up with one ofthe largest inmates. How did it work
out? It worked out great?These dogs. How are the dogs that
are selected how really different than allthe other dogs they're in riscues. How
do you decide to pick them?Well, we dogs that wouldn't normally have
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a chance, like a dog thatwould be slated to be killed at a
shelter, a dog that's been sittingwith another rescue for months and months without
any interest, a dog that comesin as a stray or an owner surrender
and we don't have any place toput it. You know, the prison
is a great option. So theycome from all over just basically our training
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will evaluate them to make sure thatthey would be a good fit for the
prison environment because it is noisy there. It's different than being in a home.
But most of the dogs do incrediblywell, and you know, they
get training like they would nowhere else. The inmates have all the time in
the world to devote to these dogs. How would the inmates chosen? The
inmates go through a very rigorous process. We actually have an opening in the
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program because one of our long timehandlers is getting paroled next month, so
we are so thrilled for him.I'm just so proud of him. And
you know what I love just talkingto Zella over the years about this program
is that when you have a purpose, When you have a purpose, which
that's what you're doing for the inmates, and you're giving them somebody that they're
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going to be able to turn aroundin these animals, and they're going to
see that they can be loved.You know, sometimes people feel hopeless when
theyve ended up in that situation forwhatever reason. And I just love I
mean, I know you stay incontact with a lot of them, Zella,
and it's just it's really enlightening whenwhen you hear these stories, well
you know what it's, I mean, animals. The next person that says
to me, it's just a dog, I'm gonna nail them because they have
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no Do you remember that movie calledBobby about that dog? It was I
forget what it was. I thinkit was somebody from Scotland it was.
They made a movie into it.Oh greyfied Bobby. Yes, and when
the when the man died the dogwrap. Don't tell me the dogs don't
feelings, their souls or any thinkexactly. But look with these animals,
not only with the inmates, theway that they work with kids with autism,
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they work with veterans who have posttraumatic express disorder. They're in nursing
homes. I mean, come on, this is and what you're doing is
remarkable. How many people have goneor how many dogs? What do I
say dogs or inmates have gone throughthis program over the years. Inmates I
would say probably about twenty five dogwise probably three fifty to four hundred.
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Wow. Wow that's and then whathappens to the dogs? Do they get
adopted right from the program? Andthen once one gets adopted, we have
a space for another one to comein, so we were able to help
another one. Do you have themavailable right now? I mean, will
they be there at will stop?To say? There will be. There
will be some of the Hope dogsthere, and we will also have some
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of the former inmate handlers there totalk to people, and they'll be volunteering
at the Hope Booth. I'd loveto talk to them and hear what they
say goes on and how it's changed. That's a great idea. I think
it's a microphone. They are soamazing. I just I'm so proud of
them. Wow. Where did theycome from? The people that train them?
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They train the animals and the inmatesto train the animals. Oh,
it's just our trainer Lindsay Cranford isone of our volunteers and she is our
Hope trainer exclusively and she's also ourHope Program director, So she makes the
decisions about what dogs to bring intothe program. She evaluates all of them
to make sure that they would bea good fit for the program, and
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then she is in the prison everyFriday with us to train and then she
is the trainer once the dogs getadopted. All dogs adopted from Hope come
with free lifetime training support with Lindsay, so if there's such a if there's
any issue, you know, Lindsaygoes to the home directly and CPAA covers
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the cost of that. This iswhat I talk about people about, you
know, we can we looked atthese corporations for different things. Get away
from him. Everything starts. It'slike elections. Elections are one on a
local level. It's what people likeNancy Legart like what you guys are all
doing because you give it, becauseyou can give a dang dang. I
was thinking of another word, butyeah, but that's what it's all about.
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And I've said this so many timesover the years that I think we
need to start when children a littlein school, to see what volunteering,
even if the whole family comes involunteers, see what it does for these
kids. It's like it's like somebodyturned the light on because they feel good
about themselves. There's so much itcomes out, and who would turn away
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from a dog's I mean, comeon, let's talk about wolf stock has
to start. Go ahead, okay, yeah, okay, let's talk about
the things that you had other yearsto start, and you're gonna do it
again this year. The most popularthings. First of all again, it
happens Sunday, September seventeenth, RiverfrontPark, eleven am to five pm.
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If anybody out there would like tovolunteer, we will be there setting up
at six am. I'm glad,oh, because I remember last year you
said about how a lot of thestuff after cleanup, it's still in your
garage. Is it still in yourgarage? Some of it? Yes,
I'm embarrassed to say that that storage. But if anybody who would like to
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come out early and help us setup, we do offer breakfast and coffee,
so hopefully that will entice some peopleback. This year is the very
popular low cost vaccine and microchipping cliniceverybody likes that we offer rabies distemper bred
to tell of vaccines for ten dollarseach, microchipping for twenty five dollars and
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that includes the registration. So that'sa tremendous team that is that really is
okay? Cool? We switch.I'm like buying the bit to talk about
this because I think it's so funnance the costume count. Yes, you're
gonna be there with Tom Russell.Uh, absolutely, and you know I'm
not bringing Murphy. I'm not bringingMurphy. We might Murphy's again a little
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old man syndrome and he and youknow it's a little bit harder for him
to walk around, right, Well, Brad'll be there. We always drag
right, that's because he likes Artand Zella and he likes to visit with
them and arts the MC again,right, which is great because then Art
gets to be a part of everything. And the pet costume contest is always
so much fun just seeing people eitherdressing up their animals and being like their
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animals or you know, just doingsome crazy like tattooing on you know,
fun like spray paint. I thinkthe one that that always cracked me up
and I loved it so much wasit was the dog. It wasn't a
fluffy dog, and it was likea skeleton, you know, don on
and it was just amazing. Andyou know, I mean you can get
a store bought costume and have funwith it. It just doesn't matter because
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the humans are the ones that reallyhave fun and the animals tolerate us.
So you tell me, why don'tyou like it? A? Uh,
what are those hippies hands? Orit was oh yeah, one year a
group a family had several dogs andthey constructed like a v W bus like
the Scooby doomobile, all like decoratedand flowers and tie guye and stuff,
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and then like put the animals init. I don't even know how they
did it. They were incredibly creative. It was the keytest thing. Yeah,
so that's always fun. And thenthere are prizes and well how do
you decide who went? Does acrowd decide? Do you have to say
what do you think of this?Wo? Be much? Yeah? And
then you know we'll also a lotof times it's it's it just is obvious,
you know. And then and thenthe hard part is picking you know,
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the top three. But we havesecret judges in the back because Tom
and I do not want to beresponsible, so we do have we do
have the judges and you know,just to keep it because I want everybody
to win and that's not possible.That's where you got Murphy, didn't you
at this? Yeah, it wasn'tat this event particularly, but yeah,
he was in I always I alwayscalled Duffy's Bed and Biscuit Camp correction because
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newbe Murphy needed that that he gotan Ivy League education being with Patrick Duffy
or Patrick duff at Duffy's. Buthe'd been there for quite a while and
Zella was having a promotion down inCarlisle at Classic Dry Cleaners, and I
went and met him and I waslike, I just found the picture of
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the other day of you know,like that first kiss, and he had
me from that and oh my gosh, and my husband, we weren't looking
for another dog. We had justlost, you know, one of our
pups, and and he just pickedus. Yeah, and he's like,
no, it does. And soreally Murphy's about sixty pounds, but he's
like he thinks he's a Austin Terrier, but he has a tail about a
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foot long that can knock things over, including a little kid, you know.
But he's just the sweetest dog ever, and you just know, yeah,
I mean he likes cucumbers and sweetpeppers and he probably has a lot
of gas too, now no,not thankfully, not too much. But
I'll just just very quickly when youknow, because he's getting older so he
doesn't hear like he did. Hesleeps a lot heavier. But I can
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call his name and he's doing whateverhe wants to do, and he doesn't
come. But as soon as Ihave the bamboo cutting board and I lay
it quietly on the counter and Iopen up the drawer that has a sweet
peppers and cucumbers in it, he'sup and he's right underneath me, and
Hannessy and Brad are like Murphy moveand I said, no, Murphy can
see rules. He rules the kitchenright. So but you know there it
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takes the right person for every dog. And what I really love is,
you know we didn't just scoop himup. That's not the that's not the
way it works. You have tomake sure still it's a good fit,
just because you know it's that initialoh this is our dog. Now you
have to make sure that it's okay. And that's one thing that I appreciate
about Zella and the Central Pennsylvania AnimalAlliance is they want to make sure it's
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a good fit. They came visitedthe house, you know. I mean,
it's just not throwing a dog inyour car and heading out. They
want it to be successful, andit has been very successful. I didn't
know you did that. I thinkthis went my gosh, yes, wow,
wow, King, Hey King,Arthur, Arthur. Yes, if
anybody, I mean everybody all overCentral Pennsylvania knows about art living in Halifax
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and he and Becky, who arehow incredible you guys are the animals that
you're taken and rescue and I meantalk about pick somebody who's perfect for this
art sis? He is? Howmany? How many animals do you have
right now? It's somewhere in likethe thirty five range if I count,
you know the cats we have andI'm one. I didn't have brothers and
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sisters growing up. I had animals. I don't have kids. I have
animals, So animals are our kids. So you know, Becky and I
we try and take care of usas many animals as we can. We
currently have six barn cats outside thispast winter, I trapped them, took
them down to an organization and hadhim fixed, had shots and everything.
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And then one of the stories Iwanted to talk about this is this talks
about what Becky will do. She'seven gone further than I have. Some
animals. Becky was out getting themail out of the mailbox one day and
she heard this little yeah yeah,and here was this little black kitten across
the street and it easily could havegotten hit. You know, we assumed
somebody dropped it off because it wasfriendly, it wasn't skittish or anything.
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So the cat came up to Becky. Immediately she noticed one of the eyes
was literally bursting out of the socketand the other eye was sunk back in.
So I called the vet. Wegot it a vet appointment the next
morning, and it basically said,you know, it's two eyes are probably
done, the ones going to needoperated on. It had vice, it
had ringworm, it had an internalparasite. We've had it on meds.
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It had surgery a couple of weeksago to have the one eyeball removed.
And the little cat, you know, it's learning to live with no sight.
It's becoming really friendly. We stilldon't have it up in the house.
We have it in the basement becausewe have other cats in the house
and worry about the ways want tomake sure that's all done. But I
mean those are the type of things, you know that my wife would do.
I mean, we have another catin a how somebody knocked on the
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door like a week before Christmas andsaid, we think this cat is pregnant.
Will you guys take it in?And it didn't turn out to be
pregnant, but it's now a catin our house. We have a lot
of stories like that, you know, where people will say, hey,
well you guys take this, andyou know, we do what we can.
We had a goat that someone justkind of found roaming around they are
at Halifax. We took that in. So we try and do a lot
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of that. We love animals,obviously, and Zella heard me on a
talk radio show that was on fiveeighty many afternoons and that's kind of how
we became friends. And she askedme to mcy this. So I love
donating my tom to help out animals. I mean, these these are dogs
or cats or whatever that need tofind a home and you know, and
that's what wolf Stock's all about,and such a great thing. I go
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to a lot of fairs. Imean you'll pay ten bucks before you even
get into the fair and mission isfree for Yeah. You go down there.
You have a beautiful scene on theside of the river. I mean,
so you have the river, youhave city alland out there to look
at it. It's a beautiful placeto be. We want to eat,
eat, you want music, youwant to take your best friend, your
dog for a walk. You haveall these places and it just goes on
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forever. I mean it's it seemslike it's a mile at least. Yeah,
right, and everything is there andthere's so many things. So you
hear wolf Stock, so immediately youthink dogs. And with the theme wolf
Stock, you think there must besome music there, and there is.
So I've been set up at UnclePlaza the last few years and Donna Jean
Foster has been there and she's incredible, What a nice kind lady, donates
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her time just we'll sit there andjust play songs, you know, throughout
the afternoon. She's relocated this year'sI believe she's down at the entrance to
wolf Stock this year, right andthere's a new band named Fears, who
are apparently animal lovers. They're mainlywomen out I believe, out of the
York or Lancaster area. So they'regoing to be with me this year on
Uncle Plaza. So I'm excited tohear them play. But there's just so
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many things that go on down there. Pet blessings, you want to take
your dog down there. They havea micro chipping clinic and a low cost
vaccine clinic down there. Of coursewe mentioned I wanted to talk also about
that pet costume contest. It takesplace at three o'clock at Uncle Plaza.
Last year, there was this onedog and the lady told me, I
think she's spent like four hours.The dog was purple and pink, and
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I took a picture of it.I've never seen a dog look this way
before, and you just never know, you know what what costume these dogs
are gonna show up. And youhave Nancy and Tom down there. Tom
always brings the weather we needs down, so they're always down there. You
can come down. I was holdingthe weather we needs last year. But
I mean, if if you're lookingfor something to do, I mean it's
it's in the fall. I meanit's September seventeenth. So if you're looking
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something for something to do on aSunday afternoon, it's beautiful setting there next
to the river. I mean,you can come down and get food,
drinks. There's all sorts of vendors. I don't know how many vendors you
have down there's oh, but Imean it just goes on forever. I
mean, if you want to getsomething for your dog or your cat,
Oh, it's Christmas. It's likethe Christmas Show for Yeah, like you
said, I mean, if you'rea if you love animals and pets,
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sponsor that I mean it's okay,now, is it. It's not too
late to become a sponsor. It'snot. It's not too late. That's
wonderful. I think. To tellme some of the new stuff going on
guys this year that you have lastyear. Well, one of the things
I'm super excited about is South MountainEntertainment is bringing their photo booth, and
oh wow, Yvonne and Rick areso much fun and so nice to begin
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with, but their photo booth isawesome. So attendees will be able to
have their pictures taken with their pets. It will have like a Wolfstock logo
on it to memorialize it. Sothat is going to be so much fun.
I'm really excited to have them.Also, Alpine Kennels out of Hummelstown
is going to be there and they'regoing to be offering dog nail trims for
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a jua, so that that ishuge. Yeah. And also this year,
I just learned cheers to you whohave They have been there for several
years now. They provide wine andwine slushies to the tendees at Wolfstock and
then they donate part of their proceedsto see PAA. But I just found
out that Trogs is donating eight casesof their craft beer teachers you. So
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yeah, so that's going to befeatured. So we're super excited about that.
Gene Manaia, who does awesome petportraits, is going to be there
doing face painting for us, andshe will also be doing the pet portraits
as well. She's extremely talented andas Art already mentioned, Fierce is going
to be performing this year. We'rereally excited to have them. They're a
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group of animal levers, They're verytalented and they have a large following also
of animal levers. So we're excitedto have them there this year. What
are your responsibilities because you can bringyour dog. Of course you're going to
bring your dog, but what areas a pet owner? What are your
responsibilities down there? Well, wedo not want any dogs on retractable leashes
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because that is very dangerous, notonly for your dog and you, but
others. You just can't maintain controlof your dog properly, So no retractable
leashes. We ask that dogs notbe dog aggressive because or actually people aggressive
for that matter, because the eventis very well attended. We usually have
about ten thousand people. They areeach person with one dog at least,
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so your dog needs to be ableto interact or be be okay being around
other dogs and crowds of people.Well, it's it's no fun when if
your dog acts up, you knowwhat I mean. Yeah, it's much
better. And I've seen that before. It's just and sometimes you don't even
know and it's like it's just likewith children. Yeah exactly, yeah,
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getting in the car. Yes,what about water? You guys provide water?
We do. We have water stationsall throughout Riverfront Park and we have
volunteers that will be filling those waterbowls throughout the day and they're they're stationed
all throughout riverfront, so that's notgoing to be a problems. We have
bags that pole can use at.They can pick them up at any of
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the CPAA boosts and probably any ofthe rescue boosts will have them as well.
We do encourage people to bring theirown poop bags, however you are.
I mean, if you're gonna gofor a walk, you'd have a
poop bag anyway, right, Imean, I never leave the house.
Is this rain or shine? Itis rain or shine? Last year I
think was the very first year wehad horrible weather. So we're we're praying
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for good weather this year. Well, you know, we we get we
have that in with Tom Russell.Hello, but you know what, we
still all showed up last year.Yeah, you know, I think I
just had a rain jacket on exactly, exactly, just fine. And what
about the the dog Lore Of courseI was watching that. I didn't know
what it was, but I watcheda complication on TV. It is so
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much fun. Chris Darhouer and hiscrew from Awfully sh Dog Training runs the
lower course and Chris is just awesomeat it. Basically, the dogs it's
a fenced in and closed area sothe dogs can't get away, but they
chase allure, which looks like kindof a badminten birdie, and they chase
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it around. It goes at topspeed and the dogs will chase it around.
And I think Chris allows ten minutesfor each dog. It's five dollars
a run, so it's it's notI thought it was maybe like he brought
the dogs and it was a demonstration, so it's actually, Oh no,
you can pay five dollars to haveyour dog run the course and it's real.
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It's really hilarious to watch. Firstof all, Chris is just so
good on the course, but thedogs are hilarious, and some of them
won't run, you know, andtheir owners will be out in the course
going come, run, run,and the dog just stands there. It
doesn't know what to do. Soit's hilarious from so many standpoints. Oh,
there's so much for the whole family. I just love this. We're
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run out a time and I hatethis. I wanted to ask you,
do you really realize, Zella,what you have done in a short period
of time. Do you realize whatthe impact you've had in so many ways.
I honestly don't think about it.It's really now, it's incredible.
Now one more time. When isit? Where is it? Sunday,
September seventeen, eleven to five RiverfrontPark, harrispurg And it's free. It's
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free. Admission is free. It'srain or shine. If you want more
information about the Hope Dogs program,where can you find that? Our website
is Central Pa Animal Alliance dot organd there's a Hope Dog tab at the
top of the homepage so you canaccess information about our Hope program. There.
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There's also a whoofstock tab, soif you want to know who's coming,
if you want to register as avendor or sponsor, go there.
We have the whole schedule of eventsalso listed on the website. Who's coming
Nancy Rock Yes, And that's areason enough to show up. God,
and just remember if you want tohave your business out in front of ten
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thousand people who when they see yourname as a sponsor, they're gonna want
to they also, that's right,it's brand and it can't get ahold of
one of these guys. You canalways contact me at any of the Guyheart
stations. Here's my Sylvia Moss anda us at iHeartMedia dot com please contact
this from me. You're gonna havea ball again, Zella. Thank you
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for all the wonderful things you keepon doing. It's it's just amazing on
blown way and you two guys,oh, let's say I love you.
We're just we're just chasing around andher well. Thanks for the opportunities.
Anytime, anytime again. Wolfstock Sunday, September seventeen, eleven to five,
river Front Park, Harrisburg. Itis free and you help the sponsor the
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Hope Program for Dogs and also atfor the Central Pennsylvania Animal Alliance. And
also don't forget to catch Insight whenit airs anytime on any of our stations
or on your favorite podcast s appI'm Sylvia Moss. This has been insight.
Thank you so much for listening.To see you next week.
Hi, I'm Sylvia Moss and thisis Insight, a presentation of iHeartMedia or
we really do care about our localcommunities and all our listeners who live here.
In fact, no matter what wetalk about in this programme each week,
my focus has always been to informyou about all the remarkable organizations that
we have here in Central Pennsylvania andalso encourage you to support them. And
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as always, you have never leftme down. This week, we're going
to talk about those who give theirabsolute all. They make us the center
of their universe, and without adoubt, they make us a constant focus
of their love and their trust.One more thing they have pause. The
dogs that we love so much andare considered members of our families are the
lucky ones. However, according tothe ASPCAA, each year, approximately nine
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hundred and twenty thousand shelter animals areeuthanized. That's three hundred and ninety thousand
dogs and five hundred and thirty thousandcats are put to sleep. Because of
my guests today, this is notgoing to happen here in Central PA because
the goal of the Central Pennsylvania AnimalAlliance is to save the law the lives
of dogs and cats in Central PAthrough spain, neutering, rescuing, fostering,
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adoptions, training, public outro reach, and education. And that happens
all the time. It's an everydaything. One of their major events over
the last eighteen years has been thisdistinction of being known as the largest festival
for dogs and their humans on theEast Coast. The largest festival for dogs
and their humans on the East Coast. It's called Wolfstock and it's right around
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the corner on Sunday, September seventeenth, from eleven to five, and it
covers most of the river from Parkand Harrisburg. Well, well, I
tell you who's here with us?Are some of your favorites to give you
all the details. They are themastermind of Wolfstock and the head of the
Central Pennsylvania Animal Lyon Zella Anderson.This lady took over radio, now she's
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taken over TeV, everybody's media darling. Nancy Ryan and known by many as
the local animal whisper because of allthey he and his wife Becky do for
animals in Central Pennsylvania, taking careof lost and abused animals. And they're
actually on their farm in Halifax.Your favorite in mind Whip producer Art Selby.
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Guys, this has gotten so big, so big, and I don't
know. I mean, this isan opportunity. I know, Zelle you
have sponsors, but anybody affiliated withanimals in any way, if you don't
jump on this opportunity for an organizationthat is the largest one on the East
Coast, this event, you needyour head examined. Let me tell you,
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well, seriously makes sense, Itmakes sense absolutely. I want to
start with Selim because this started asone of your girlfriends started with an idea
that she wanted to get all therescues in the area together and create some
sort of event. But unfortunately shepassed away, and the good person that
you are, you are an attorney, left that world and took this over.
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And it's because of you and peoplelike Nance and Art and your volunteers
that Wolf stopped is the largest eventlike this on the East Coast. Tell
us what happened? Why? Whydid you? I'm kind You're a lawyer.
I know I think I needed tohave my heading damage actually do that
later. I continued to practice lawuntil two thousand and eleven. So I
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founded CPAA in two thousand and three. So I was crazy enough to continue
to be a litigation attorney after foundingCPAA. But then in two thousand and
ten, two thousand and eleven,I decided that I wanted to devote my
time to CPA full time. AndI had practiced for twenty five years and
that was actually enough. So sowell, let's compare it. Now.
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You were an attorney, and thishas got to be to take something that
wasn't really known in the area yearsago and to bloat up this big.
I know it's a it's something youdo because of love for your friends and
love for these animals. But doyou find this more rewarding of being an
interney? Definitely? I have tosay that I don't think I could do
this without the skills I learned inlaw school. It's been Yeah, it's
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been really benefit to me just thinkingthings out, being able to speak publicly,
having those courtroom skills is essential reallyfor doing what I do. So
I'm glad that I have the legalbackground, but I'm also happy to leave
it behind to pursue my passion.Let me ask you this. You've got
several big programs, but I wantto talk about first the one that wolf
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Stock is the beneficiary of the Sexand the City program with that about Actually
we just continued de Sex in theCity back in two thousand eighteen. At
the time we founded it, whichwas like in two thousand and five,
I believe there were no options forpeople in the area to pursue low cost
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spain needer for their animals, whichhas contributed to the pet overpopulation problem because
nobody could afford to have their petsfixed. So we started d Sex in
the City as a way for peopleto get their pets fixed for free or
very low costs. We ended uppurchasing two surgical that we could take into
communities and do trap need a returnfor cats, and then we offered free
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or low cost spaing need for dogsin the Harrisburg area. After doing that
for I guess about thirteen years,it became prohibitively expensive for us to run
it. It costs about ten thousanddollars a month and it was very difficult
to fundraise. Fundraising just became moreand more difficult as it continues to be.
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And in addition to that, alot of other options for people opened
up, like the Nobody's Cats Foundation, Pause has a low cost sping Etter
program. The Harrisburg Mean Society openedtheir low cost clinic, so we felt
that there were other options for peoplethat were available, so we decided to
focus just on the rescuing and ourHounds of Prison education program at the Camp
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Help Prison. That's the one Iwanted to talk about. Where did that
concept come from? Actually one ofour volunteers, Kelly McGinley, that was
her brainshaw. She was a volunteerwith CPA from the very beginning. She
came to me with the idea tostart a prison training program for rescue dogs
and asked if she started it,if CPA would fund it, and I
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said, yeah, that's kind ofa no brainer. So Kelly started it,
ran with it, got everything startedat the camp Hill State Prison,
and she stayed on as director ofthe program until two thousand and thirteen when
she retired. Tell us how itworks, Well, it's pretty simple.
We take dogs from high kill shelters, usually the Philadelphia Shelter. We also
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take dogs from other rescues that mayneed some training. We also take some
owner surrenders or dogs that we findhis strays, and we pair them up
with carefully selected inmates at the campHill State Prison. The inmates are screened
very very carefully in order to participatein the program. There are eight handlers
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who take the dogs. The dogsgo into the live with the inmates.
Twenty four seven and myself, alongwith another volunteer and our professional trainer go
into the prison every Friday and wework alongside the inmates and the dogs to
basically make sure the training is goingas expected. If the inmates have any
questions, we go over that.It's it's just an amazing, amazing program,
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not only what it does for thedogs who wouldn't have ordinarily had a
chance to find a home, butalso for the inmates. These all different
types of dogs, different because Ican't seem like Tom Russell's going to be
a part of this thing. Ican't see Coke and Cola, those tiny
little dogs. Yes, we havesmall dogs. You can joke with the
inmates that if they don't behave we'regoing to give them a Chihuahua because they
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But we had like we had aminiature poodle going a few years ago and
he was paired up with one ofthe largest inmates. How did it work
out? It worked out great?These dogs. How are the dogs that
are selected how really different than allthe other dogs they're in riscues. How
do you decide to pick them?Well, we dogs that wouldn't normally have
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a chance, like a dog thatwould be slated to be killed at a
shelter, a dog that's been sittingwith another rescue for months and months without
any interest, a dog that comesin as a stray or an owner surrender
and we don't have any place toput it. You know, the prison
is a great option. So theycome from all over just basically our training
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will evaluate them to make sure thatthey would be a good fit for the
prison environment because it is noisy there. It's different than being in a home.
But most of the dogs do incrediblywell, and you know, they
get training like they would nowhere else. The inmates have all the time in
the world to devote to these dogs. How would the inmates chosen? The
inmates go through a very rigorous process. We actually have an opening in the
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program because one of our long timehandlers is getting paroled next month, so
we are so thrilled for him.I'm just so proud of him. And
you know what I love just talkingto Zella over the years about this program
is that when you have a purpose, When you have a purpose, which
that's what you're doing for the inmates, and you're giving them somebody that they're
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going to be able to turn aroundin these animals, and they're going to
see that they can be loved.You know, sometimes people feel hopeless when
theyve ended up in that situation forwhatever reason. And I just love I
mean, I know you stay incontact with a lot of them, Zella,
and it's just it's really enlightening whenwhen you hear these stories, well
you know what it's, I mean, animals. The next person that says
to me, it's just a dog, I'm gonna nail them because they have
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no Do you remember that movie calledBobby about that dog? It was I
forget what it was. I thinkit was somebody from Scotland it was.
They made a movie into it.Oh greyfied Bobby. Yes, and when
the when the man died the dogwrap. Don't tell me the dogs don't
feelings, their souls or any thinkexactly. But look with these animals,
not only with the inmates, theway that they work with kids with autism,
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they work with veterans who have posttraumatic express disorder. They're in nursing
homes. I mean, come on, this is and what you're doing is
remarkable. How many people have goneor how many dogs? What do I
say dogs or inmates have gone throughthis program over the years. Inmates I
would say probably about twenty five dogwise probably three fifty to four hundred.
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Wow. Wow that's and then whathappens to the dogs? Do they get
adopted right from the program? Andthen once one gets adopted, we have
a space for another one to comein, so we were able to help
another one. Do you have themavailable right now? I mean, will
they be there at will stop?To say? There will be. There
will be some of the Hope dogsthere, and we will also have some
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of the former inmate handlers there totalk to people, and they'll be volunteering
at the Hope Booth. I'd loveto talk to them and hear what they
say goes on and how it's changed. That's a great idea. I think
it's a microphone. They are soamazing. I just I'm so proud of
them. Wow. Where did theycome from? The people that train them?
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They train the animals and the inmatesto train the animals. Oh,
it's just our trainer Lindsay Cranford isone of our volunteers and she is our
Hope trainer exclusively and she's also ourHope Program director, So she makes the
decisions about what dogs to bring intothe program. She evaluates all of them
to make sure that they would bea good fit for the program, and
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then she is in the prison everyFriday with us to train and then she
is the trainer once the dogs getadopted. All dogs adopted from Hope come
with free lifetime training support with Lindsay, so if there's such a if there's
any issue, you know, Lindsaygoes to the home directly and CPAA covers
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the cost of that. This iswhat I talk about people about, you
know, we can we looked atthese corporations for different things. Get away
from him. Everything starts. It'slike elections. Elections are one on a
local level. It's what people likeNancy Legart like what you guys are all
doing because you give it, becauseyou can give a dang dang. I
was thinking of another word, butyeah, but that's what it's all about.
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And I've said this so many timesover the years that I think we
need to start when children a littlein school, to see what volunteering,
even if the whole family comes involunteers, see what it does for these
kids. It's like it's like somebodyturned the light on because they feel good
about themselves. There's so much itcomes out, and who would turn away
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from a dog's I mean, comeon, let's talk about wolf stock has
to start. Go ahead, okay, yeah, okay, let's talk about
the things that you had other yearsto start, and you're gonna do it
again this year. The most popularthings. First of all again, it
happens Sunday, September seventeenth, RiverfrontPark, eleven am to five pm.
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If anybody out there would like tovolunteer, we will be there setting up
at six am. I'm glad,oh, because I remember last year you
said about how a lot of thestuff after cleanup, it's still in your
garage. Is it still in yourgarage? Some of it? Yes,
I'm embarrassed to say that that storage. But if anybody who would like to
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come out early and help us setup, we do offer breakfast and coffee,
so hopefully that will entice some peopleback. This year is the very
popular low cost vaccine and microchipping cliniceverybody likes that we offer rabies distemper bred
to tell of vaccines for ten dollarseach, microchipping for twenty five dollars and
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that includes the registration. So that'sa tremendous team that is that really is
okay? Cool? We switch.I'm like buying the bit to talk about
this because I think it's so funnance the costume count. Yes, you're
gonna be there with Tom Russell.Uh, absolutely, and you know I'm
not bringing Murphy. I'm not bringingMurphy. We might Murphy's again a little
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old man syndrome and he and youknow it's a little bit harder for him
to walk around, right, Well, Brad'll be there. We always drag
right, that's because he likes Artand Zella and he likes to visit with
them and arts the MC again,right, which is great because then Art
gets to be a part of everything. And the pet costume contest is always
so much fun just seeing people eitherdressing up their animals and being like their
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animals or you know, just doingsome crazy like tattooing on you know,
fun like spray paint. I thinkthe one that that always cracked me up
and I loved it so much wasit was the dog. It wasn't a
fluffy dog, and it was likea skeleton, you know, don on
and it was just amazing. Andyou know, I mean you can get
a store bought costume and have funwith it. It just doesn't matter because
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the humans are the ones that reallyhave fun and the animals tolerate us.
So you tell me, why don'tyou like it? A? Uh,
what are those hippies hands? Orit was oh yeah, one year a
group a family had several dogs andthey constructed like a v W bus like
the Scooby doomobile, all like decoratedand flowers and tie guye and stuff,
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and then like put the animals init. I don't even know how they
did it. They were incredibly creative. It was the keytest thing. Yeah,
so that's always fun. And thenthere are prizes and well how do
you decide who went? Does acrowd decide? Do you have to say
what do you think of this?Wo? Be much? Yeah? And
then you know we'll also a lotof times it's it's it just is obvious,
you know. And then and thenthe hard part is picking you know,
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the top three. But we havesecret judges in the back because Tom
and I do not want to beresponsible, so we do have we do
have the judges and you know,just to keep it because I want everybody
to win and that's not possible.That's where you got Murphy, didn't you
at this? Yeah, it wasn'tat this event particularly, but yeah,
he was in I always I alwayscalled Duffy's Bed and Biscuit Camp correction because
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newbe Murphy needed that that he gotan Ivy League education being with Patrick Duffy
or Patrick duff at Duffy's. Buthe'd been there for quite a while and
Zella was having a promotion down inCarlisle at Classic Dry Cleaners, and I
went and met him and I waslike, I just found the picture of
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the other day of you know,like that first kiss, and he had
me from that and oh my gosh, and my husband, we weren't looking
for another dog. We had justlost, you know, one of our
pups, and and he just pickedus. Yeah, and he's like,
no, it does. And soreally Murphy's about sixty pounds, but he's
like he thinks he's a Austin Terrier, but he has a tail about a
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foot long that can knock things over, including a little kid, you know.
But he's just the sweetest dog ever, and you just know, yeah,
I mean he likes cucumbers and sweetpeppers and he probably has a lot
of gas too, now no,not thankfully, not too much. But
I'll just just very quickly when youknow, because he's getting older so he
doesn't hear like he did. Hesleeps a lot heavier. But I can
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call his name and he's doing whateverhe wants to do, and he doesn't
come. But as soon as Ihave the bamboo cutting board and I lay
it quietly on the counter and Iopen up the drawer that has a sweet
peppers and cucumbers in it, he'sup and he's right underneath me, and
Hannessy and Brad are like Murphy moveand I said, no, Murphy can
see rules. He rules the kitchenright. So but you know there it
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takes the right person for every dog. And what I really love is,
you know we didn't just scoop himup. That's not the that's not the
way it works. You have tomake sure still it's a good fit,
just because you know it's that initialoh this is our dog. Now you
have to make sure that it's okay. And that's one thing that I appreciate
about Zella and the Central Pennsylvania AnimalAlliance is they want to make sure it's
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a good fit. They came visitedthe house, you know. I mean,
it's just not throwing a dog inyour car and heading out. They
want it to be successful, andit has been very successful. I didn't
know you did that. I thinkthis went my gosh, yes, wow,
wow, King, Hey King,Arthur, Arthur. Yes, if
anybody, I mean everybody all overCentral Pennsylvania knows about art living in Halifax
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and he and Becky, who arehow incredible you guys are the animals that
you're taken and rescue and I meantalk about pick somebody who's perfect for this
art sis? He is? Howmany? How many animals do you have
right now? It's somewhere in likethe thirty five range if I count,
you know the cats we have andI'm one. I didn't have brothers and
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sisters growing up. I had animals. I don't have kids. I have
animals, So animals are our kids. So you know, Becky and I
we try and take care of usas many animals as we can. We
currently have six barn cats outside thispast winter, I trapped them, took
them down to an organization and hadhim fixed, had shots and everything.
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And then one of the stories Iwanted to talk about this is this talks
about what Becky will do. She'seven gone further than I have. Some
animals. Becky was out getting themail out of the mailbox one day and
she heard this little yeah yeah,and here was this little black kitten across
the street and it easily could havegotten hit. You know, we assumed
somebody dropped it off because it wasfriendly, it wasn't skittish or anything.
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So the cat came up to Becky. Immediately she noticed one of the eyes
was literally bursting out of the socketand the other eye was sunk back in.
So I called the vet. Wegot it a vet appointment the next
morning, and it basically said,you know, it's two eyes are probably
done, the ones going to needoperated on. It had vice, it
had ringworm, it had an internalparasite. We've had it on meds.
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It had surgery a couple of weeksago to have the one eyeball removed.
And the little cat, you know, it's learning to live with no sight.
It's becoming really friendly. We stilldon't have it up in the house.
We have it in the basement becausewe have other cats in the house
and worry about the ways want tomake sure that's all done. But I
mean those are the type of things, you know that my wife would do.
I mean, we have another catin a how somebody knocked on the
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door like a week before Christmas andsaid, we think this cat is pregnant.
Will you guys take it in?And it didn't turn out to be
pregnant, but it's now a catin our house. We have a lot
of stories like that, you know, where people will say, hey,
well you guys take this, andyou know, we do what we can.
We had a goat that someone justkind of found roaming around they are
at Halifax. We took that in. So we try and do a lot
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of that. We love animals,obviously, and Zella heard me on a
talk radio show that was on fiveeighty many afternoons and that's kind of how
we became friends. And she askedme to mcy this. So I love
donating my tom to help out animals. I mean, these these are dogs
or cats or whatever that need tofind a home and you know, and
that's what wolf Stock's all about,and such a great thing. I go
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to a lot of fairs. Imean you'll pay ten bucks before you even
get into the fair and mission isfree for Yeah. You go down there.
You have a beautiful scene on theside of the river. I mean,
so you have the river, youhave city alland out there to look
at it. It's a beautiful placeto be. We want to eat,
eat, you want music, youwant to take your best friend, your
dog for a walk. You haveall these places and it just goes on
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forever. I mean it's it seemslike it's a mile at least. Yeah,
right, and everything is there andthere's so many things. So you
hear wolf Stock, so immediately youthink dogs. And with the theme wolf
Stock, you think there must besome music there, and there is.
So I've been set up at UnclePlaza the last few years and Donna Jean
Foster has been there and she's incredible, What a nice kind lady, donates
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her time just we'll sit there andjust play songs, you know, throughout
the afternoon. She's relocated this year'sI believe she's down at the entrance to
wolf Stock this year, right andthere's a new band named Fears, who
are apparently animal lovers. They're mainlywomen out I believe, out of the
York or Lancaster area. So they'regoing to be with me this year on
Uncle Plaza. So I'm excited tohear them play. But there's just so
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many things that go on down there. Pet blessings, you want to take
your dog down there. They havea micro chipping clinic and a low cost
vaccine clinic down there. Of coursewe mentioned I wanted to talk also about
that pet costume contest. It takesplace at three o'clock at Uncle Plaza.
Last year, there was this onedog and the lady told me, I
think she's spent like four hours.The dog was purple and pink, and
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I took a picture of it.I've never seen a dog look this way
before, and you just never know, you know what what costume these dogs
are gonna show up. And youhave Nancy and Tom down there. Tom
always brings the weather we needs down, so they're always down there. You
can come down. I was holdingthe weather we needs last year. But
I mean, if if you're lookingfor something to do, I mean it's
it's in the fall. I meanit's September seventeenth. So if you're looking
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something for something to do on aSunday afternoon, it's beautiful setting there next
to the river. I mean,you can come down and get food,
drinks. There's all sorts of vendors. I don't know how many vendors you
have down there's oh, but Imean it just goes on forever. I
mean, if you want to getsomething for your dog or your cat,
Oh, it's Christmas. It's likethe Christmas Show for Yeah, like you
said, I mean, if you'rea if you love animals and pets,
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sponsor that I mean it's okay,now, is it. It's not too
late to become a sponsor. It'snot. It's not too late. That's
wonderful. I think. To tellme some of the new stuff going on
guys this year that you have lastyear. Well, one of the things
I'm super excited about is South MountainEntertainment is bringing their photo booth, and
oh wow, Yvonne and Rick areso much fun and so nice to begin
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with, but their photo booth isawesome. So attendees will be able to
have their pictures taken with their pets. It will have like a Wolfstock logo
on it to memorialize it. Sothat is going to be so much fun.
I'm really excited to have them.Also, Alpine Kennels out of Hummelstown
is going to be there and they'regoing to be offering dog nail trims for
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a jua, so that that ishuge. Yeah. And also this year,
I just learned cheers to you whohave They have been there for several
years now. They provide wine andwine slushies to the tendees at Wolfstock and
then they donate part of their proceedsto see PAA. But I just found
out that Trogs is donating eight casesof their craft beer teachers you. So
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yeah, so that's going to befeatured. So we're super excited about that.
Gene Manaia, who does awesome petportraits, is going to be there
doing face painting for us, andshe will also be doing the pet portraits
as well. She's extremely talented andas Art already mentioned, Fierce is going
to be performing this year. We'rereally excited to have them. They're a
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group of animal levers, They're verytalented and they have a large following also
of animal levers. So we're excitedto have them there this year. What
are your responsibilities because you can bringyour dog. Of course you're going to
bring your dog, but what areas a pet owner? What are your
responsibilities down there? Well, wedo not want any dogs on retractable leashes
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because that is very dangerous, notonly for your dog and you, but
others. You just can't maintain controlof your dog properly, So no retractable
leashes. We ask that dogs notbe dog aggressive because or actually people aggressive
for that matter, because the eventis very well attended. We usually have
about ten thousand people. They areeach person with one dog at least,
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so your dog needs to be ableto interact or be be okay being around
other dogs and crowds of people.Well, it's it's no fun when if
your dog acts up, you knowwhat I mean. Yeah, it's much
better. And I've seen that before. It's just and sometimes you don't even
know and it's like it's just likewith children. Yeah exactly, yeah,
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getting in the car. Yes,what about water? You guys provide water?
We do. We have water stationsall throughout Riverfront Park and we have
volunteers that will be filling those waterbowls throughout the day and they're they're stationed
all throughout riverfront, so that's notgoing to be a problems. We have
bags that pole can use at.They can pick them up at any of
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the CPAA boosts and probably any ofthe rescue boosts will have them as well.
We do encourage people to bring theirown poop bags, however you are.
I mean, if you're gonna gofor a walk, you'd have a
poop bag anyway, right, Imean, I never leave the house.
Is this rain or shine? Itis rain or shine? Last year I
think was the very first year wehad horrible weather. So we're we're praying
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for good weather this year. Well, you know, we we get we
have that in with Tom Russell.Hello, but you know what, we
still all showed up last year.Yeah, you know, I think I
just had a rain jacket on exactly, exactly, just fine. And what
about the the dog Lore Of courseI was watching that. I didn't know
what it was, but I watcheda complication on TV. It is so
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much fun. Chris Darhouer and hiscrew from Awfully sh Dog Training runs the
lower course and Chris is just awesomeat it. Basically, the dogs it's
a fenced in and closed area sothe dogs can't get away, but they
chase allure, which looks like kindof a badminten birdie, and they chase
(27:04):
it around. It goes at topspeed and the dogs will chase it around.
And I think Chris allows ten minutesfor each dog. It's five dollars
a run, so it's it's notI thought it was maybe like he brought
the dogs and it was a demonstration, so it's actually, Oh no,
you can pay five dollars to haveyour dog run the course and it's real.
(27:25):
It's really hilarious to watch. Firstof all, Chris is just so
good on the course, but thedogs are hilarious, and some of them
won't run, you know, andtheir owners will be out in the course
going come, run, run,and the dog just stands there. It
doesn't know what to do. Soit's hilarious from so many standpoints. Oh,
there's so much for the whole family. I just love this. We're
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run out a time and I hatethis. I wanted to ask you,
do you really realize, Zella,what you have done in a short period
of time. Do you realize whatthe impact you've had in so many ways.
I honestly don't think about it.It's really now, it's incredible.
Now one more time. When isit? Where is it? Sunday,
September seventeen, eleven to five RiverfrontPark, harrispurg And it's free. It's
(28:12):
free. Admission is free. It'srain or shine. If you want more
information about the Hope Dogs program,where can you find that? Our website
is Central Pa Animal Alliance dot organd there's a Hope Dog tab at the
top of the homepage so you canaccess information about our Hope program. There.
(28:34):
There's also a whoofstock tab, soif you want to know who's coming,
if you want to register as avendor or sponsor, go there.
We have the whole schedule of eventsalso listed on the website. Who's coming
Nancy Rock Yes, And that's areason enough to show up. God,
and just remember if you want tohave your business out in front of ten
(28:56):
thousand people who when they see yourname as a sponsor, they're gonna want
to they also, that's right,it's brand and it can't get ahold of
one of these guys. You canalways contact me at any of the Guyheart
stations. Here's my Sylvia Moss anda us at iHeartMedia dot com please contact
this from me. You're gonna havea ball again, Zella. Thank you
(29:17):
for all the wonderful things you keepon doing. It's it's just amazing on
blown way and you two guys,oh, let's say I love you.
We're just we're just chasing around andher well. Thanks for the opportunities.
Anytime, anytime again. Wolfstock Sunday, September seventeen, eleven to five,
river Front Park, Harrisburg. Itis free and you help the sponsor the
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Hope Program for Dogs and also atfor the Central Pennsylvania Animal Alliance. And
also don't forget to catch Insight whenit airs anytime on any of our stations
or on your favorite podcast s appI'm Sylvia Moss. This has been insight.
Thank you so much for listening.To see you next week.
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