September 8, 2023 • 30 mins
Tyler Ryan spoke with members of the Kershaw County Humane Society about the organization, the pet over population problem, adopting, and choosing the right furry family member.
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Well. You know, guys,there's there's something special about having a
pet in your life. You knowyou can. They can have an absolute,
profound impact on nearly every aspect ofour our lives and our families.
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They're referred to as fur babies orfurry family members because that's what they become.
There are kids, you ever noticed, no matter what kind of day
you've had some kind of disagreement you'rein the middle of with your boss,
your friend, your spouse, youwalk up to the door and you open
it and all you feel feel ispure love, absolute admiration. Pets don't
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have agendas, they don't have motivations. Well, maybe treat motivation, but
but they don't have motivations for themost part. And of course the best
thing is they don't judge. It'sit's just not in them. Did you
know the sixty sixty six percent ofUS, or over eighty nine million homes
here in the US have some sortof pet. You know. That could
be a doggy, a kiddy,a parakeet, of fish, I don't
know whatever. Not to mention there'sa reason for that, right, But
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not to mention just the enjoyment ofhaving a pet, but the health benefits.
There are studies show that owning apet can make you more happy in
general, just overall and happy.There's evidence that says having a fur baby
can decrease blood pressure, cholesterol levels, helps with loneliness, depression, and
of course we all know the benefitof service dogs for people who are living
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with PTSD or even other disabilities,deaf and blind, even folks with other
afflictions. Animals can make an absoluteimpact on our lives. Now, if
you're ready to, I guess thequestion is are you ready to expand your
family by four paws yet? Good? I think you need to because I
also want to share a couple ofother numbers this morning with you, not
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ones that I want to share,but I think the one's important for you
to think about. Across the country, according to the ACA, six point
three million animals are surrendered to sheltersevery year. I'll save you the math.
It's about seventeen hundred, two hundred, seventeen thousand, two hundred and
sixty a day. But the realissue is and upwards of one million perfectly
good animals, doggies, kiddies.They're healthy, they're loving, they're happy,
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they're just looking for their parson.Those dogs are euthanized for no other
reason but overpopulation. Now, ofcourse, the numbers in South Carolina are
much less, and that's thanks tothe percentages anyway, that's thanks to a
lot of no kill initiatives and programsaround the state and beyond. So those
numbers are going down, But there'sstill a whole lot of work to do,
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and a lot of work by us. Remember the words of Bob Barker
at the end of every price isright, what do you say, don't
forget to spray, to spay andnew to your pets. Think about this.
The number of unwanted cats that justone pair of cats can create can
be in the thousands. Just onepair of unfixed as thousands. Now,
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getting back to my little pet speech, By the way, there are adoption
centers across this great state, allwith amazing animals that are happy and healthy,
just hoping you may choose them.But remember that selection doesn't go without
work either. As you consider apotential new pet, you need to research
the type of dog or cat thebest fits your lifestyle or heck, make
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sure your lifestyle will fit a dogor a cat. How about it that
way? Or you have the roomperhaps, but when you make that decision,
and it may be like lightning withone dog or maybe a process.
Either way, it's a commitment.It's a worthwhile one, but it's a
commitment just the same. Well,I guess you figured out we're talking about
pets today. And to continue thatconversation from the Kershaw County Humane Society,
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Debbie Holton and Clarissa Glow, goodmorning ladies. Yan all right, you
practice that it sounds like, mygolly, it was prepared. I love
it. What is it? Obviously, you know if you work and you
volunteer for any pet adoption center,the Humane Society and Kershaw is no different.
What is it in your estimation aboutanimals, a dog or a cat
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that is just it just makes lifebetter. Well for me personally, I
would have to say that the innocenceis They don't want much other than compassion
and love and a little bit ofcare. Just the purity of them.
I guess right. I like thatwhere they're pure because they Yeah, like
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I said, they don't have anagenda. I don't even understand. My
understanding is animals don't even feel emotionslike anger. If they lash out,
it's because they're scared or they're protecting, but they're not angry. No,
that's that's that's true. I thinkwe could learn a lot from them in
that department. If you want meto be on you, I always always
do, Debbie. What do youthink, Yeah, I mean they are
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the only ones that give you unconditionallove, and when you're sad, they
always seem to be there to comfortyou no matter what. And coming home
and having them there just happy tosee you just makes your day, especially
if you've had a rough day.For us, we're lucky because when we
come to work, we get itall day long, and we go home
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and we get it all night long, so we get it twenty four seven,
which is actually nice. Right.Wow. You know we've been having
pets thousands and thousands of years.You know. First, obviously animals were
just that they were tools, andthey slowly became you know, part of
the family. And that truly forso many people that that's exactly what it
is. I've heard and maybe youboth know. I don't know. I
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read somewhere. You ever noticed likeif you go to work and come home,
your dog is like the happiest dogon the planet to see you,
But he's exactly the same if yougo out to the mailbox and come back,
it's no different. Yep, Iread somewhere. I read somewhere.
It's that they don't have a senseof time. So for a dog specifically,
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you know, he doesn't know ifit's been two minutes for a walk
to the mailbox or six hours oreight hour it works, so he's like,
hey, man, oh yeah,you're here. What's up? Let's
go what'd you do and come out? Yeah, that's true. No,
they don't really have a concept oftime like we do. They thrive on
routine, right, So that's whythey kind of know when you're going to
be feeding them if you do itat a regular time. They know when
they're going to be going for awalk. And they're also smart. They
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watch your habits and you're certain movesso they know if you're putting your shoes
on, your going somewhere, sure, so that something exciting is going to
be happening, or you're going tobe coming back soon. So that's exciting.
Yeah, I know, I knowthat Nixon. If I if I
leave his leash out and I goto put it away, if he sees
me grab it from my pool tableto put it in the closet, if
I put my hands on it,Oh, he's right by the door.
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He's like, all right, man, let's go saddle up. Come on,
come on, come on, youknow, going for a walk.
I mean, when you're they do. When when you're thinking about a pet,
are what are some considerations that afamily, whether it's a single guy
like me or maybe a family,what are some considerations and maybe some mistakes
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you see other people, meg,But what are some considerations that you want
to you need, you need tothink about when you're deciding a if you
need a pet in your house,because not every lifestyle fits a dog or
a cat. But what are somethings you want to think about in picking
that perfect family member. Well,the most important thing is it's a common
mistake. We've all probably done itfor our life is. We want the
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interactions to be immedia. We wantthem to be the dog that we want
them to be immediately. So slowintroductions are one of the biggest things that
are overlooked, I believe, especiallyif they have other pets in the home.
They expect that the dog should geton instantly, they should be playing
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instantly, right, But they forgetthat the environment is a big it's a
big factor and how a dog's goingto act, and especially if it's been
in confinement and an environment that doesn'treally get to have its natural behaviors in
as much. So one of thebiggest thing is just a slow productions.
And then the feeding process, asgreat as it is, we all want
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to eat together as a family,but we have to remember that they are
animals. So separation of feeding isone of the bigger aspects that we push
before we do adoptions because it's acommon mistake of they assume that they will
eat together and they don't always dothat. Obviously, living in a shelter
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environment, their food, their feedingtime is their enrichment. So when they
go into a home, they getover excited and they don't understand that it's
going to be more regular and morefrequent, and they don't have to necessarily
fight up for that meal in whattheir mentality is when they're in a shelter
environment. So definitely, slow introductionsin the feeding process is one of the
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issues that we face. You guyshad mentioned briefly. But the importance of
routine as well is having you know, how important is that that you know
you have a routine. You getup every day at the same time.
I get it at two o'clock inthe dark morning, and Nixon hates it.
My dog hates it. But it'sa routine nonetheless. But that's kind
of important for a dog and notso much a cat probably, but especially
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a dog, right, Yeah,but especially that's like you mentioned before,
they don't really have a concept oftime. So that's how they how they
know what is going to be comingin, how they know that they're going
to get what they need they go. They thrive on a routine. They
don't sit wondering obviously, because theydon't know what's happening in the way that
we do. So it helps themthrive, It helps them build a bond
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review and it helps them trust you, and it helps them know that they're
going to get what they need.It makes a lot of sense. Speaking
this morning with Clarissa Glow and DebbieHolton from the Kershaw County Humane Society here
on on Carolina Cares. What aboutresearch as to your lifestyle? You know,
some dogs just aren't designed to bein a small apartment. Some dogs,
you know, have a lot moreenergy than others. What kind of
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considerations is that, you know,maybe you specifically, you know, I
think of like the elderly. Theydon't need to be tugging around a two
hundred foot two hundred pounds, uh, you know, big great dane.
You know. Yeah, that's oneof the questions that we always ask when
people come in. Are you lookingfor an older dog that's like a couch
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potato? Are are you looking fora young, energetic dog? Or do
you want a puppy? Do youwant like a one or two year old?
Right? You know, what isyour lifestyle that's in this something to
consider? I I actually whenever Iget dogs, and I've had three rescues
now, uh for for me isa dog that's a couple of years old
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because I don't I just don't havetime for a puppy to house break,
to do all the get my shoeschewed. I just don't ain't nobody good
time for that. So I like, I like it, you know,
getting a young or an adult dogbecause they've got a little bit of maturity
in them and they gent for meagain for my lifestyle that I'm I'm gone
a lot. So Nixon is chillingand he's he's great. He's he's a
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he's a Husky shepherd mix and althoughhe loves people, he's just fine snoozing
all day long. So he's alittle older if he can do that.
Yeah, So that's that's the perfectexample. You're the breed. That's one
of the many things that people forgetwhen also picking a dog. They go
on age, they go on howit looks, they go on what they
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believe they want, but they don'taffecting that the breed. Obviously, all
dogs are not the same, right, and we have a lot of mixed
breeds now, so it's a bitharder to domine what trade they're following.
But a breed, it's a bigfactor of it. Obviously, if you
have a balldog that doesn't really domuch, can only walk five miles down
the road before he can't do anymore, for a week compared to Illy that
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could do twenty miles and have noissues. So you definitely have to affect
him what your time frame would befor exercising and enrichment ideas, obviously,
because you don't want a destructive dog. A tired dog is a good dog.
It's yeah, that's that's how itis. There. They thrive on
stimulation. They five ones, gettinga different sense from different environments. So
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it doesn't have to necessarily be thatyou have to take them on long hikes
and you have to do all that, but just to walk around the neighborhood
is a great enrichment that they getand they need. It's just it's just
basically on what you can give themand what the dog needs itself. Right,
So so it is it is asimportant to think about your lifestyle versus
the dog's lifestyle as well. Somake sure you've got to be a good
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fit for each other. Oh definitely. So when I when I got Bailey,
and she she's now gone, butI had her guy, she was
sixteen by the time when when whenthe day came, but it was funny,
she was about a year old.I was. I got her when
I lived in Charleston and up inGoose Creek, and I had and I
did. I did everything right.I did some research. You know.
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I was like, I think Iknow what kind of dog I want.
You know, I looked at Ilooked at little Jack Russells. I'm like,
dad, and that's not me.You know. I kind of had
an idea. So I went tothe I went to the shelter there in
Goose Creek, and I got her. You know, I looked around and
looked at Bailey, and I tookher out. They you know, of
course you want to You want tomeet and interview the dog, and the
dog has to interview you. SoI, you know, we took her
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out, played with her. Iwas like, yeah, I really like
this dog. But I was Iwas like hesitant to pull the trigger,
you know, like it's a bigcommitment. This is a big thing.
I had never owned like a dogball myself before, and so I was
like, h So, I said, can you can you can? I
think about it for a day andthe fellow was like, yeah, no,
if you don't want the dog today, we can't hold it for you.
And I went, huh. SoI'm standing there and this little kid
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came over and he started looking atat what became Bailey. Her name was
Twinkles at the I don't know,God, we're gonna talk about how you
you you shelter's name dogs. Bythe way, it's terrible, Twinkles.
I was awful, awful. Butanyway, this kid goes I think I
like that one. Mommy, Iwouldn't. Nope, you can't have that
one kid, That one's mine.Box it up. But I did.
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So. Yeah, that kid mademy decision for me. I was like,
no way in heck, this ismy dog. And she turned out
to be And she was a shewas a Lab pit mix, and she
turned out to be the best dogin the entire planet. Like I said,
I had her for sixteen years.She was an amazing little I had
her fifteen and she was about ayear or so. She lived to be
about sixteen. But yeah, sosometimes sometimes it was like that instant.
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But you certainly want to interview adog, right you do? Yeah,
you definitely do. Most most sheltersand humane societies they will all of them
offer it. Lack a foster programwhere you can try it out, where
you can take the dog home fora week or two and see if it's
a right fit for you and yourfamily, then you can make the commitment,
or if it's not the dog foryou, you can try again,
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or you can see if you justwanted to do a cat instead, because
sometimes people do that a lot,and I think they want a dog and
then they're like, oh, maybenot, we need something with a bit
more independence. So then they getback and they'll get a cat. So
it's just making sure that you're makingthe decision at the right time for you
and to the dog, because obviouslyit's the aim of the games. They're
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like commitment, you should get themand you keep them till their last breath.
Yeah, and somebody somebody once said, that's one of the truest,
greatest tragedies of the world is thatwe live longer than our dogs and cats.
And that truly is, that trulyis. It's sad, but you
can also put a spin on itand that we do that so we have
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the opportunity to love another one.Yeah. Yeah, I like that too.
Yeah, give more of them thefamily life, that's right. I
like that too. Speaking with withClarissa Glow and Debbie hill Holton from the
Kershaw County Humane Society here on CarolinaCares this morning. So you guys obviously
a humane society, and and there'sseveral humane societies here in the state of
South Carolina. You're not all thesame. Some have different names, so
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there's different types of shelters and thingslike that. But I suspect you all
have kind of the same problems facesome of the same challenges. What what
are those challenges that you that youguys face in Crushaw County specifically, but
you know that you think might bethe same whether you're in in Charleston or
ranched Rand or wherever. The biggestissue that I can tell you that we're
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facing statewide as probably well as nationwideright now is overpopulation and overcrowding. Most
of the shelters and the humane societiesthey're holding double the capacity that they were
originally made to, same as rescues, the rescue organizations that actually help the
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shelters and the humane societies and thecommunities, they're also full. It seems
that we can't save them quick enoughas people are reading them. Well,
then that goes back to that premisethe importance of actually spaying and neutering your
pets if you get now and nowgenerally, and again I can't speak fundamentally
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for everyone, I think you guys, but the ones that I deal with
generally when I when I adopt fromKershaw County or wherever, they're going to
come speed and neuters. So it'snot something I have to worry about as
a dog owner. No, that'sthat's absolutely correct. There might be one
or two that are lower funded anddon't have access to that, but they
would usually give you an affair appointmentthat they work with so you could take
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the dogs straight there. But mosthumane societies, especially as our animals are
all vetted, they're up to dateon all vaccines, rabies, and they're
stayed and neutered and that's included inall in the adoption fee. Well,
it's some let's talk about you guys. We've been talking about dogs in all
kinds of great information this morning,but let's talk specifically about about Krushaw County
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Humane Society. Give me, giveme a profile, what the process is,
what kind of what kind of dogs, and how you operate. Okay,
Well, we serve the community obviously, that's our main priority of Kershaw
County and we also work alongside codeenforcement, which is animal control. Our
intake process is still open, whichmany places are not. That's where we
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can take in owner surrenders or straysthat are found in the county, or
neglected and abused dogs that people mayfind or code enforcement may bring in.
We also help and white people avariety of rescues. They find our dogs
homes if we can't, just dueto our overpopulation crisis. So they will
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actually take the dog from the shelter, they will place it in a foster
home, and then they will findit at home, just so then we
can threw up a pennel and takinganother dog. We also do events and
adoption events that we're pushing. Thepolice seem to they seem to help when
people actually get to meet the dogoutside of the shelter environment, because they
it's completely different. And many peopledon't realize that they've believe what they see
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in the shelter is what they're goingto get, and that's not always the
case. Right. Well, yeah, because you think about that a dog
who maybe was surrendered or whatever,he's in a new environment. He's got
five hundred of the dogs, Yakinand Barkin and all that, he's got
cats, rolling around. So yeah, I mean because they do act different
in their environments. Again, they'renot ever going to judge. The rules
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are the same. But but animals, whether the cats or dogs are maybe
not goldfish, but I can't adog anyway, I suspect they're going to
act differently based on their environment,in their own comfort level. They do.
Most of the staff here we canwe can look in a kennel without
meeting like initially having the dog outat first, especially if it's a new
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intake, and most of us cantell you that if it was an owner
surrender before anything else. Because theyseem to act a certain way because they've
come from comfort to now a shelterenvironment that's to complete opposite to what they
used to do. So they tendto be the ones that don't handle it
the best. They need a littlebit more TLC when they arrive, right
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compared to what a stray would be. A stray obviously has a lot less
before they come here. So whenthey come here, they're more grateful and
they're less they're less stressed in thekennel environment because obviously they feel a lot
safe what they did before. Surethat they are the street wise ones you
might say, yeah, yeah,those guys yep, they're like, oh,
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this is not too bad, wecan do this. What are what
are some of the reasons besides thestrays that people just find, you know,
the ones that run away lost unfortunatelywe have. We know there's people
that just leave them on the sideof the road. But what are some
of the reasons why people are surrenderingdogs saying, you know what, this
dog is not for me. Idon't want to let them out in the
wild, but this dog is notfor me. What are some of the
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reasons why you're seeing it was?Did the did the COVID thing that impact
you guys at all? I believepersonally it did. I've worked in rescue
for a few years now. BeforeCOVID, it was it was going steadily.
There was a lot more adoptions,there was a lot more rescues.
COVID went really really well for theshelter system at the time. As COVID
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was being right because most of theanimals are actually adopted, many of the
shelters got emptied. It was itwas very, very very good at that
time. But then obviously people startedreturning to normality, shall we say,
and they was going back to workand commitments and people's jobs were changing,
the shelters start to fill up again, and then obviously you have to factory
in the inflation of prices for absolutelyeverything. On top of that, everyone
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is strugglings were folded to support theiranimals and care for their animals right now
speaking, Oh go ahead, sorryabout that. Sorry, that's yeah.
So that's one of the biggest issuesis just being able to afford their animals
right now or have the time forthem. And that's probably not unique to
Kershaw County, right That's that's more, it's it's everywhere. It's a big
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issue everywhere. The owner surrenders rightnow is one of the biggest intakes that
humane societies and shelters are taken.How how are so your Kershaw County You
know, we've got, like Isaid, there's a lot of humane society.
Some are public, some are someare not county, some are just
other ones. So like in thecase of Kershaw County, how are you
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guys funded? Where do you findthe funding you know, to support these
animals in this program? But we'rein nonprofit organizations, so we're a five
zero one C three and we dofundraisers. We rely a lot on donations.
We try to do fun things withthe community to only like you know,
to support the local businesses that wethat come and help has that volunteered.
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We try and support local, butwe also try and branch out.
We rely on a lot of events, a lot of the staff going out
being seen. Yeah, we relya lot on donations, if you want
me to be honest, sometimes itcan be, but we manage. We
do really well. We have agreat support system and a great community behind
us, so we do good.And how many you may have said how
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many how many animals do you have? Like now? And or you know,
what's your your average capacity, youraverage population? Well, our average
most times our dogs are usually overthe one hundred and fifty marks. Sometimes
we can get up to one ninety. It just depends, it just depends
on the week. And then ourcats right now they're averaging around one hundred
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and twenty cats, and especially becauseit's kit in season, so that doesn't
really help with those numbers. Sure, but right now, yeah, we're
well over two hundred animals two fiftyAnd I know we've been talking a lot
about dogs. That's because a dogguy don't really have much use for cats.
But but I will tell you this, and I've said it on the
record before and I'll do it again. I will take a dog or a
cat over most human beings because they'rejust better. Pure I am okay saying
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that I animals are better than peoplemost of the time. Speaking with closer
grow cleveriss A Glow and Debbie Hiltonfrom the Kershaw County Humane Society. So
you know, we talked earlier.I mentioned earlier in the monologue about the
no kill movements and things like that, where there's this active movement to try
to cut down on on euthan asia. Because that's got to be heartbreaking,
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you know. I mean, You'vegot a perfect good dog, and you
know you just I could, Iwouldn't be able to make that that call.
I wouldn't be able to do thatapart. But talk me a little
bit about what that movement is ona bigger scale, about what you're doing
with other agencies to try to cutdown on those number of animals that are
euthanized. Well, this is whatI can speak for ourselves more personally on
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the matter. Because every shell wasdifferent, they all have different bidelines.
But us personally, what we're tryingto do is we try and manage our
intake and we try and go outin the community to help before they have
to surrender their animals. So recentlywe've been going out, we've been assisting
like housing, with food, withshelter, with basic medical care that we
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could help with, like flee preventionand things like that. The gods honest
truth, the way to do itis we need more spain, new room.
It needs to be enforced. Untilthat happens, we're not going to
be able to push for a nokill movement nationwide because there's just a room
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there is. There's more animals thanthe space and it's just that simple.
Well, there's just yeah, there'sthousands, thousands of them. What was
the number of six point three thisaccording to the ASPCA, six point three
million animals are surrendered every year.Yeah, I mean that that number is
staggering, you know, and thenyou got to rehome them. I mean,
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yeah, we just every day weintake You can imagine we have no
empty kennels right now, but forI can tell you today that we're going
to intake more. So then wehave to move some around this constant rotation,
so and then there's constant adding ofkennels if we can, there's we
just keep adding more and more andmore that we can do, and rotation
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charts and dog care groups that youknow, we'll create a play group so
five of them can play together,just so we can create more space,
so we don't have to we don'thave to make decisions based on just having
those space because we're no kill shelters, so we don't euphanize for space.
It's just the behavior and severe medical. But there's other show is across the
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whole country that has to euthanize forspace. They have no choice, and
it is perfectly healthy dog with nobehavioral problems. I didn't even think about
the fact the science that you itmust be to rotate all those dogs and
know that that little Timmy, littleTimmy can talk to Fido, but not
not Scout because he doesn't get alongwith It'd been handling like a bunch of
teenage girls. I mean all daylong. Hey, hey you girls,
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wait a minute now, most ofthese are boys. Boy dog I love
it. I love it. Whatis your we only couple of minutes left.
What is your favorite thing about doingwhat you do, seeing the gratitude
and the animal's eyes exactly they it'sI have a say in here. I
probably annoy everyone with it, butI tell I tell all the staff here
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that they do actually speak. Youjust know. You just have to know
how to listen. And it's justthe satisfaction of knowing that you when you
save one, you don't realize thatit's it's a tame of reaction effects and
actually saved many more just by savingthat one. So it's just knowing that
every day we can go home andknow that we've just we tried our bests
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and we saved them other life.Hello, what about you dead? Yeah,
I mean we're their voice. Imean we speak for them. That's
why we work as hard as wedo. That's why we do events,
that's why we do everything to bringthe public in to find their perfect pet,
to give them a home. Becausecoming here every day and seeing the
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same animals you know, and youget attached to them, and when they
leave, we cry, but it'shappy tears, and it's just an enjoyable
job. It's emotionally and physically verystraining on us, but it's worth it
in the end. When we seea dog leaving with their family. I
love it. I love it allright, Clarissa Glow, Debbie Halton.
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I'm gonna put links on the socialsfor the Kershaw County Humane Society. Of
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there as well. If you're interestedin Kershaw County looking for that forever Doug,
maybe you want to volunteer support themission ladies. Thank you so much
for your commitment to these four leggedfamily members. Thank you, Tyler for
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doing this for us. We appreciateit, specially for the babies. Yeah,
thank you for having us. Ilove it anytime. Guys. So,
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Well. You know, guys,there's there's something special about having a
pet in your life. You knowyou can. They can have an absolute,
profound impact on nearly every aspect ofour our lives and our families.
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They're referred to as fur babies orfurry family members because that's what they become.
There are kids, you ever noticed, no matter what kind of day
you've had some kind of disagreement you'rein the middle of with your boss,
your friend, your spouse, youwalk up to the door and you open
it and all you feel feel ispure love, absolute admiration. Pets don't
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have agendas, they don't have motivations. Well, maybe treat motivation, but
but they don't have motivations for themost part. And of course the best
thing is they don't judge. It'sit's just not in them. Did you
know the sixty sixty six percent ofUS, or over eighty nine million homes
here in the US have some sortof pet. You know. That could
be a doggy, a kiddy,a parakeet, of fish, I don't
know whatever. Not to mention there'sa reason for that, right, But
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not to mention just the enjoyment ofhaving a pet, but the health benefits.
There are studies show that owning apet can make you more happy in
general, just overall and happy.There's evidence that says having a fur baby
can decrease blood pressure, cholesterol levels, helps with loneliness, depression, and
of course we all know the benefitof service dogs for people who are living
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with PTSD or even other disabilities,deaf and blind, even folks with other
afflictions. Animals can make an absoluteimpact on our lives. Now, if
you're ready to, I guess thequestion is are you ready to expand your
family by four paws yet? Good? I think you need to because I
also want to share a couple ofother numbers this morning with you, not
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ones that I want to share,but I think the one's important for you
to think about. Across the country, according to the ACA, six point
three million animals are surrendered to sheltersevery year. I'll save you the math.
It's about seventeen hundred, two hundred, seventeen thousand, two hundred and
sixty a day. But the realissue is and upwards of one million perfectly
good animals, doggies, kiddies.They're healthy, they're loving, they're happy,
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they're just looking for their parson.Those dogs are euthanized for no other
reason but overpopulation. Now, ofcourse, the numbers in South Carolina are
much less, and that's thanks tothe percentages anyway, that's thanks to a
lot of no kill initiatives and programsaround the state and beyond. So those
numbers are going down, But there'sstill a whole lot of work to do,
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and a lot of work by us. Remember the words of Bob Barker
at the end of every price isright, what do you say, don't
forget to spray, to spay andnew to your pets. Think about this.
The number of unwanted cats that justone pair of cats can create can
be in the thousands. Just onepair of unfixed as thousands. Now,
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getting back to my little pet speech, By the way, there are adoption
centers across this great state, allwith amazing animals that are happy and healthy,
just hoping you may choose them.But remember that selection doesn't go without
work either. As you consider apotential new pet, you need to research
the type of dog or cat thebest fits your lifestyle or heck, make
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sure your lifestyle will fit a dogor a cat. How about it that
way? Or you have the roomperhaps, but when you make that decision,
and it may be like lightning withone dog or maybe a process.
Either way, it's a commitment.It's a worthwhile one, but it's a
commitment just the same. Well,I guess you figured out we're talking about
pets today. And to continue thatconversation from the Kershaw County Humane Society,
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Debbie Holton and Clarissa Glow, goodmorning ladies. Yan all right, you
practice that it sounds like, mygolly, it was prepared. I love
it. What is it? Obviously, you know if you work and you
volunteer for any pet adoption center,the Humane Society and Kershaw is no different.
What is it in your estimation aboutanimals, a dog or a cat
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that is just it just makes lifebetter. Well for me personally, I
would have to say that the innocenceis They don't want much other than compassion
and love and a little bit ofcare. Just the purity of them.
I guess right. I like thatwhere they're pure because they Yeah, like
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I said, they don't have anagenda. I don't even understand. My
understanding is animals don't even feel emotionslike anger. If they lash out,
it's because they're scared or they're protecting, but they're not angry. No,
that's that's that's true. I thinkwe could learn a lot from them in
that department. If you want meto be on you, I always always
do, Debbie. What do youthink, Yeah, I mean they are
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the only ones that give you unconditionallove, and when you're sad, they
always seem to be there to comfortyou no matter what. And coming home
and having them there just happy tosee you just makes your day, especially
if you've had a rough day.For us, we're lucky because when we
come to work, we get itall day long, and we go home
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and we get it all night long, so we get it twenty four seven,
which is actually nice. Right.Wow. You know we've been having
pets thousands and thousands of years.You know. First, obviously animals were
just that they were tools, andthey slowly became you know, part of
the family. And that truly forso many people that that's exactly what it
is. I've heard and maybe youboth know. I don't know. I
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read somewhere. You ever noticed likeif you go to work and come home,
your dog is like the happiest dogon the planet to see you,
But he's exactly the same if yougo out to the mailbox and come back,
it's no different. Yep, Iread somewhere. I read somewhere.
It's that they don't have a senseof time. So for a dog specifically,
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you know, he doesn't know ifit's been two minutes for a walk
to the mailbox or six hours oreight hour it works, so he's like,
hey, man, oh yeah,you're here. What's up? Let's
go what'd you do and come out? Yeah, that's true. No,
they don't really have a concept oftime like we do. They thrive on
routine, right, So that's whythey kind of know when you're going to
be feeding them if you do itat a regular time. They know when
they're going to be going for awalk. And they're also smart. They
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watch your habits and you're certain movesso they know if you're putting your shoes
on, your going somewhere, sure, so that something exciting is going to
be happening, or you're going tobe coming back soon. So that's exciting.
Yeah, I know, I knowthat Nixon. If I if I
leave his leash out and I goto put it away, if he sees
me grab it from my pool tableto put it in the closet, if
I put my hands on it,Oh, he's right by the door.
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He's like, all right, man, let's go saddle up. Come on,
come on, come on, youknow, going for a walk.
I mean, when you're they do. When when you're thinking about a pet,
are what are some considerations that afamily, whether it's a single guy
like me or maybe a family,what are some considerations and maybe some mistakes
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you see other people, meg,But what are some considerations that you want
to you need, you need tothink about when you're deciding a if you
need a pet in your house,because not every lifestyle fits a dog or
a cat. But what are somethings you want to think about in picking
that perfect family member. Well,the most important thing is it's a common
mistake. We've all probably done itfor our life is. We want the
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interactions to be immedia. We wantthem to be the dog that we want
them to be immediately. So slowintroductions are one of the biggest things that
are overlooked, I believe, especiallyif they have other pets in the home.
They expect that the dog should geton instantly, they should be playing
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instantly, right, But they forgetthat the environment is a big it's a
big factor and how a dog's goingto act, and especially if it's been
in confinement and an environment that doesn'treally get to have its natural behaviors in
as much. So one of thebiggest thing is just a slow productions.
And then the feeding process, asgreat as it is, we all want
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to eat together as a family,but we have to remember that they are
animals. So separation of feeding isone of the bigger aspects that we push
before we do adoptions because it's acommon mistake of they assume that they will
eat together and they don't always dothat. Obviously, living in a shelter
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environment, their food, their feedingtime is their enrichment. So when they
go into a home, they getover excited and they don't understand that it's
going to be more regular and morefrequent, and they don't have to necessarily
fight up for that meal in whattheir mentality is when they're in a shelter
environment. So definitely, slow introductionsin the feeding process is one of the
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issues that we face. You guyshad mentioned briefly. But the importance of
routine as well is having you know, how important is that that you know
you have a routine. You getup every day at the same time.
I get it at two o'clock inthe dark morning, and Nixon hates it.
My dog hates it. But it'sa routine nonetheless. But that's kind
of important for a dog and notso much a cat probably, but especially
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a dog, right, Yeah,but especially that's like you mentioned before,
they don't really have a concept oftime. So that's how they how they
know what is going to be comingin, how they know that they're going
to get what they need they go. They thrive on a routine. They
don't sit wondering obviously, because theydon't know what's happening in the way that
we do. So it helps themthrive, It helps them build a bond
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review and it helps them trust you, and it helps them know that they're
going to get what they need.It makes a lot of sense. Speaking
this morning with Clarissa Glow and DebbieHolton from the Kershaw County Humane Society here
on on Carolina Cares. What aboutresearch as to your lifestyle? You know,
some dogs just aren't designed to bein a small apartment. Some dogs,
you know, have a lot moreenergy than others. What kind of
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considerations is that, you know,maybe you specifically, you know, I
think of like the elderly. Theydon't need to be tugging around a two
hundred foot two hundred pounds, uh, you know, big great dane.
You know. Yeah, that's oneof the questions that we always ask when
people come in. Are you lookingfor an older dog that's like a couch
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potato? Are are you looking fora young, energetic dog? Or do
you want a puppy? Do youwant like a one or two year old?
Right? You know, what isyour lifestyle that's in this something to
consider? I I actually whenever Iget dogs, and I've had three rescues
now, uh for for me isa dog that's a couple of years old
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because I don't I just don't havetime for a puppy to house break,
to do all the get my shoeschewed. I just don't ain't nobody good
time for that. So I like, I like it, you know,
getting a young or an adult dogbecause they've got a little bit of maturity
in them and they gent for meagain for my lifestyle that I'm I'm gone
a lot. So Nixon is chillingand he's he's great. He's he's a
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he's a Husky shepherd mix and althoughhe loves people, he's just fine snoozing
all day long. So he's alittle older if he can do that.
Yeah, So that's that's the perfectexample. You're the breed. That's one
of the many things that people forgetwhen also picking a dog. They go
on age, they go on howit looks, they go on what they
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believe they want, but they don'taffecting that the breed. Obviously, all
dogs are not the same, right, and we have a lot of mixed
breeds now, so it's a bitharder to domine what trade they're following.
But a breed, it's a bigfactor of it. Obviously, if you
have a balldog that doesn't really domuch, can only walk five miles down
the road before he can't do anymore, for a week compared to Illy that
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could do twenty miles and have noissues. So you definitely have to affect
him what your time frame would befor exercising and enrichment ideas, obviously,
because you don't want a destructive dog. A tired dog is a good dog.
It's yeah, that's that's how itis. There. They thrive on
stimulation. They five ones, gettinga different sense from different environments. So
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it doesn't have to necessarily be thatyou have to take them on long hikes
and you have to do all that, but just to walk around the neighborhood
is a great enrichment that they getand they need. It's just it's just
basically on what you can give themand what the dog needs itself. Right,
So so it is it is asimportant to think about your lifestyle versus
the dog's lifestyle as well. Somake sure you've got to be a good
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fit for each other. Oh definitely. So when I when I got Bailey,
and she she's now gone, butI had her guy, she was
sixteen by the time when when whenthe day came, but it was funny,
she was about a year old.I was. I got her when
I lived in Charleston and up inGoose Creek, and I had and I
did. I did everything right.I did some research. You know.
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I was like, I think Iknow what kind of dog I want.
You know, I looked at Ilooked at little Jack Russells. I'm like,
dad, and that's not me.You know. I kind of had
an idea. So I went tothe I went to the shelter there in
Goose Creek, and I got her. You know, I looked around and
looked at Bailey, and I tookher out. They you know, of
course you want to You want tomeet and interview the dog, and the
dog has to interview you. SoI, you know, we took her
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out, played with her. Iwas like, yeah, I really like
this dog. But I was Iwas like hesitant to pull the trigger,
you know, like it's a bigcommitment. This is a big thing.
I had never owned like a dogball myself before, and so I was
like, h So, I said, can you can you can? I
think about it for a day andthe fellow was like, yeah, no,
if you don't want the dog today, we can't hold it for you.
And I went, huh. SoI'm standing there and this little kid
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came over and he started looking atat what became Bailey. Her name was
Twinkles at the I don't know,God, we're gonna talk about how you
you you shelter's name dogs. Bythe way, it's terrible, Twinkles.
I was awful, awful. Butanyway, this kid goes I think I
like that one. Mommy, Iwouldn't. Nope, you can't have that
one kid, That one's mine.Box it up. But I did.
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So. Yeah, that kid mademy decision for me. I was like,
no way in heck, this ismy dog. And she turned out
to be And she was a shewas a Lab pit mix, and she
turned out to be the best dogin the entire planet. Like I said,
I had her for sixteen years.She was an amazing little I had
her fifteen and she was about ayear or so. She lived to be
about sixteen. But yeah, sosometimes sometimes it was like that instant.
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But you certainly want to interview adog, right you do? Yeah,
you definitely do. Most most sheltersand humane societies they will all of them
offer it. Lack a foster programwhere you can try it out, where
you can take the dog home fora week or two and see if it's
a right fit for you and yourfamily, then you can make the commitment,
or if it's not the dog foryou, you can try again,
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or you can see if you justwanted to do a cat instead, because
sometimes people do that a lot,and I think they want a dog and
then they're like, oh, maybenot, we need something with a bit
more independence. So then they getback and they'll get a cat. So
it's just making sure that you're makingthe decision at the right time for you
and to the dog, because obviouslyit's the aim of the games. They're
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like commitment, you should get themand you keep them till their last breath.
Yeah, and somebody somebody once said, that's one of the truest,
greatest tragedies of the world is thatwe live longer than our dogs and cats.
And that truly is, that trulyis. It's sad, but you
can also put a spin on itand that we do that so we have
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the opportunity to love another one.Yeah. Yeah, I like that too.
Yeah, give more of them thefamily life, that's right. I
like that too. Speaking with withClarissa Glow and Debbie hill Holton from the
Kershaw County Humane Society here on CarolinaCares this morning. So you guys obviously
a humane society, and and there'sseveral humane societies here in the state of
South Carolina. You're not all thesame. Some have different names, so
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there's different types of shelters and thingslike that. But I suspect you all
have kind of the same problems facesome of the same challenges. What what
are those challenges that you that youguys face in Crushaw County specifically, but
you know that you think might bethe same whether you're in in Charleston or
ranched Rand or wherever. The biggestissue that I can tell you that we're
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facing statewide as probably well as nationwideright now is overpopulation and overcrowding. Most
of the shelters and the humane societiesthey're holding double the capacity that they were
originally made to, same as rescues, the rescue organizations that actually help the
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shelters and the humane societies and thecommunities, they're also full. It seems
that we can't save them quick enoughas people are reading them. Well,
then that goes back to that premisethe importance of actually spaying and neutering your
pets if you get now and nowgenerally, and again I can't speak fundamentally
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for everyone, I think you guys, but the ones that I deal with
generally when I when I adopt fromKershaw County or wherever, they're going to
come speed and neuters. So it'snot something I have to worry about as
a dog owner. No, that'sthat's absolutely correct. There might be one
or two that are lower funded anddon't have access to that, but they
would usually give you an affair appointmentthat they work with so you could take
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the dogs straight there. But mosthumane societies, especially as our animals are
all vetted, they're up to dateon all vaccines, rabies, and they're
stayed and neutered and that's included inall in the adoption fee. Well,
it's some let's talk about you guys. We've been talking about dogs in all
kinds of great information this morning,but let's talk specifically about about Krushaw County
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Humane Society. Give me, giveme a profile, what the process is,
what kind of what kind of dogs, and how you operate. Okay,
Well, we serve the community obviously, that's our main priority of Kershaw
County and we also work alongside codeenforcement, which is animal control. Our
intake process is still open, whichmany places are not. That's where we
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can take in owner surrenders or straysthat are found in the county, or
neglected and abused dogs that people mayfind or code enforcement may bring in.
We also help and white people avariety of rescues. They find our dogs
homes if we can't, just dueto our overpopulation crisis. So they will
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actually take the dog from the shelter, they will place it in a foster
home, and then they will findit at home, just so then we
can threw up a pennel and takinganother dog. We also do events and
adoption events that we're pushing. Thepolice seem to they seem to help when
people actually get to meet the dogoutside of the shelter environment, because they
it's completely different. And many peopledon't realize that they've believe what they see
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in the shelter is what they're goingto get, and that's not always the
case. Right. Well, yeah, because you think about that a dog
who maybe was surrendered or whatever,he's in a new environment. He's got
five hundred of the dogs, Yakinand Barkin and all that, he's got
cats, rolling around. So yeah, I mean because they do act different
in their environments. Again, they'renot ever going to judge. The rules
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are the same. But but animals, whether the cats or dogs are maybe
not goldfish, but I can't adog anyway, I suspect they're going to
act differently based on their environment,in their own comfort level. They do.
Most of the staff here we canwe can look in a kennel without
meeting like initially having the dog outat first, especially if it's a new
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intake, and most of us cantell you that if it was an owner
surrender before anything else. Because theyseem to act a certain way because they've
come from comfort to now a shelterenvironment that's to complete opposite to what they
used to do. So they tendto be the ones that don't handle it
the best. They need a littlebit more TLC when they arrive, right
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compared to what a stray would be. A stray obviously has a lot less
before they come here. So whenthey come here, they're more grateful and
they're less they're less stressed in thekennel environment because obviously they feel a lot
safe what they did before. Surethat they are the street wise ones you
might say, yeah, yeah,those guys yep, they're like, oh,
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this is not too bad, wecan do this. What are what
are some of the reasons besides thestrays that people just find, you know,
the ones that run away lost unfortunatelywe have. We know there's people
that just leave them on the sideof the road. But what are some
of the reasons why people are surrenderingdogs saying, you know what, this
dog is not for me. Idon't want to let them out in the
wild, but this dog is notfor me. What are some of the
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reasons why you're seeing it was?Did the did the COVID thing that impact
you guys at all? I believepersonally it did. I've worked in rescue
for a few years now. BeforeCOVID, it was it was going steadily.
There was a lot more adoptions,there was a lot more rescues.
COVID went really really well for theshelter system at the time. As COVID
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was being right because most of theanimals are actually adopted, many of the
shelters got emptied. It was itwas very, very very good at that
time. But then obviously people startedreturning to normality, shall we say,
and they was going back to workand commitments and people's jobs were changing,
the shelters start to fill up again, and then obviously you have to factory
in the inflation of prices for absolutelyeverything. On top of that, everyone
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is strugglings were folded to support theiranimals and care for their animals right now
speaking, Oh go ahead, sorryabout that. Sorry, that's yeah.
So that's one of the biggest issuesis just being able to afford their animals
right now or have the time forthem. And that's probably not unique to
Kershaw County, right That's that's more, it's it's everywhere. It's a big
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issue everywhere. The owner surrenders rightnow is one of the biggest intakes that
humane societies and shelters are taken.How how are so your Kershaw County You
know, we've got, like Isaid, there's a lot of humane society.
Some are public, some are someare not county, some are just
other ones. So like in thecase of Kershaw County, how are you
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guys funded? Where do you findthe funding you know, to support these
animals in this program? But we'rein nonprofit organizations, so we're a five
zero one C three and we dofundraisers. We rely a lot on donations.
We try to do fun things withthe community to only like you know,
to support the local businesses that wethat come and help has that volunteered.
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We try and support local, butwe also try and branch out.
We rely on a lot of events, a lot of the staff going out
being seen. Yeah, we relya lot on donations, if you want
me to be honest, sometimes itcan be, but we manage. We
do really well. We have agreat support system and a great community behind
us, so we do good.And how many you may have said how
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many how many animals do you have? Like now? And or you know,
what's your your average capacity, youraverage population? Well, our average
most times our dogs are usually overthe one hundred and fifty marks. Sometimes
we can get up to one ninety. It just depends, it just depends
on the week. And then ourcats right now they're averaging around one hundred
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and twenty cats, and especially becauseit's kit in season, so that doesn't
really help with those numbers. Sure, but right now, yeah, we're
well over two hundred animals two fiftyAnd I know we've been talking a lot
about dogs. That's because a dogguy don't really have much use for cats.
But but I will tell you this, and I've said it on the
record before and I'll do it again. I will take a dog or a
cat over most human beings because they'rejust better. Pure I am okay saying
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that I animals are better than peoplemost of the time. Speaking with closer
grow cleveriss A Glow and Debbie Hiltonfrom the Kershaw County Humane Society. So
you know, we talked earlier.I mentioned earlier in the monologue about the
no kill movements and things like that, where there's this active movement to try
to cut down on on euthan asia. Because that's got to be heartbreaking,
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you know. I mean, You'vegot a perfect good dog, and you
know you just I could, Iwouldn't be able to make that that call.
I wouldn't be able to do thatapart. But talk me a little
bit about what that movement is ona bigger scale, about what you're doing
with other agencies to try to cutdown on those number of animals that are
euthanized. Well, this is whatI can speak for ourselves more personally on
(25:14):
the matter. Because every shell wasdifferent, they all have different bidelines.
But us personally, what we're tryingto do is we try and manage our
intake and we try and go outin the community to help before they have
to surrender their animals. So recentlywe've been going out, we've been assisting
like housing, with food, withshelter, with basic medical care that we
(25:36):
could help with, like flee preventionand things like that. The gods honest
truth, the way to do itis we need more spain, new room.
It needs to be enforced. Untilthat happens, we're not going to
be able to push for a nokill movement nationwide because there's just a room
(25:56):
there is. There's more animals thanthe space and it's just that simple.
Well, there's just yeah, there'sthousands, thousands of them. What was
the number of six point three thisaccording to the ASPCA, six point three
million animals are surrendered every year.Yeah, I mean that that number is
staggering, you know, and thenyou got to rehome them. I mean,
(26:18):
yeah, we just every day weintake You can imagine we have no
empty kennels right now, but forI can tell you today that we're going
to intake more. So then wehave to move some around this constant rotation,
so and then there's constant adding ofkennels if we can, there's we
just keep adding more and more andmore that we can do, and rotation
(26:40):
charts and dog care groups that youknow, we'll create a play group so
five of them can play together,just so we can create more space,
so we don't have to we don'thave to make decisions based on just having
those space because we're no kill shelters, so we don't euphanize for space.
It's just the behavior and severe medical. But there's other show is across the
(27:00):
whole country that has to euthanize forspace. They have no choice, and
it is perfectly healthy dog with nobehavioral problems. I didn't even think about
the fact the science that you itmust be to rotate all those dogs and
know that that little Timmy, littleTimmy can talk to Fido, but not
not Scout because he doesn't get alongwith It'd been handling like a bunch of
teenage girls. I mean all daylong. Hey, hey you girls,
(27:22):
wait a minute now, most ofthese are boys. Boy dog I love
it. I love it. Whatis your we only couple of minutes left.
What is your favorite thing about doingwhat you do, seeing the gratitude
and the animal's eyes exactly they it'sI have a say in here. I
probably annoy everyone with it, butI tell I tell all the staff here
(27:47):
that they do actually speak. Youjust know. You just have to know
how to listen. And it's justthe satisfaction of knowing that you when you
save one, you don't realize thatit's it's a tame of reaction effects and
actually saved many more just by savingthat one. So it's just knowing that
every day we can go home andknow that we've just we tried our bests
(28:08):
and we saved them other life.Hello, what about you dead? Yeah,
I mean we're their voice. Imean we speak for them. That's
why we work as hard as wedo. That's why we do events,
that's why we do everything to bringthe public in to find their perfect pet,
to give them a home. Becausecoming here every day and seeing the
(28:30):
same animals you know, and youget attached to them, and when they
leave, we cry, but it'shappy tears, and it's just an enjoyable
job. It's emotionally and physically verystraining on us, but it's worth it
in the end. When we seea dog leaving with their family. I
love it. I love it allright, Clarissa Glow, Debbie Halton.
(28:53):
I'm gonna put links on the socialsfor the Kershaw County Humane Society. Of
course, you can follow us onFacebook and after this thing airs, it
goes up onto our podcast like everythingelse does, and I'll put links up
there as well. If you're interestedin Kershaw County looking for that forever Doug,
maybe you want to volunteer support themission ladies. Thank you so much
for your commitment to these four leggedfamily members. Thank you, Tyler for
(29:18):
doing this for us. We appreciateit, specially for the babies. Yeah,
thank you for having us. Ilove it anytime. Guys. So,
this has been Carolina Cares. It'san iHeartRadio production here on the South
Carolina Radio Network. Once again,we'll put links up for you. You
can also find it at Carolina Caresradio dot com. My name is Tyler
Ryan. Thank you so much forjoining us week after week as you always
do. It means a lot thatyou join in and become part of this
(29:40):
awesome community we call Carolina Cares.And as happens every week, thirty minutes
flies by. So it's time forme to say I'll speak with you in
seven days.
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