January 15, 2024 • 30 mins
Carolina Cares host Tyler Ryan speaks with members of the Kershaw County Humae Society about the state of affairs not only for the overpopulation problem in the county, but in the larger picture.
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right. Well, you know,guys, there's there's something special about
having a pet in your life.You know you can. They can have
an absolute, profound impact on nearlyevery aspect of our lives and our families.
They're referred to as fur babies orfurry family members because that's what they
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become. There are kids, youever noticed, no matter what kind of
day you've had, what kind ofdisagreement you're in the middle of with your
boss, your friend, your spouse, you walk up to the door and
you open it and all you feelis pure love, absolute admiration. Pets
don't have agendas, they don't havemotivations. Well, maybe treat motivation,
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but they don't have motivations for thelowest part. And of course the best
thing is they don't judge. It'sjust not in them. Did you know
that sixty six percent of US,or over eighty nine million homes here in
the US have some sort of pet. Yeah, that could be a doggy,
a kitty, a parakeet, offish, I don't know whatever.
Not to mention there's a reason forthat, right, But not to mention
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just the enjoyment of having a pet, but the health benefits. There are
studies show that owning a pet canmake you more happy in general, just
overall and happy. There's evidence thatsays having a fur baby can decrease blood
pressure, cholesterol levels, helps withloneliness, depression, and of course we
all know the benefit of service dogsfor people who are living with PTSD or
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even other disabilities, deaf and blind, even folks with other afflictions. Animals
can make an absolute impact on ourlives. Now, if you're ready to,
I guess the question is, areyou ready to expand your family by
four? Pause yet? Good?I think you need to because I also
want to share a couple of othernumbers this morning with you, not ones
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that I want to share, butI think the one's important for you to
think about. Across the country,according to the aa PCA, six point
three million animals are surrendered to sheltersevery year. I'll save you the math.
That's about seventeen hundred and two hundredseventeen thousand, two hundred and sixty
a day. But the real issueis in upwards of one million perfectly good
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animals, doggies, kiddies. They'rehealthy, they're loving, they're happy,
they're just looking for their parson.Those dogs are euthanized for no other reason
but overpopulation. Now, of course, the numbers in South Carolina are much
less, and that's thanks to thepercentages anyway. That's thanks to a lot
of no killed initiatives and programs aroundthe state and beyond. So those numbers
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are going down. But there's stilla whole lot of work to do,
and a lot of work by us. Remember the words of Bob Barker at
the end of every price is right, what do you say, don't forget
to spray, to spay and newto your pets. Think about this,
The number of unwanted cats that justone pair of cats can create can be
in the thousands, just one pairof unfixed thousands. Now, getting back
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to my little pet speech, Bythe way, there are adoption centers across
this great state, all with amazinganimals that are happy and healthy, just
hoping you may choose them. Butremember that selection doesn't go without work either.
As you consider a potential new pet, you need to research the type
of dog or cat the best fitsyour lifestyle, or heck, make sure
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your lifestyle will fit a dog ora cat. How about it that way?
Or you have the room perhaps,but when you make that decision,
and it may be like lightning withone dog, or it may be a
process. Either way, it's acommitment. 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 tocontinue that conversation from the Kershaw County Humane
Society, Debbie Houlton and Clarissa Glow, good morning ladies, goody oh right,
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you practice that it sounds like mygolly, I love it. What
is it? Obviously? You knowif you work and you volunteer for any
pet adoption center of the Humane Societyin Kershaw is no different. What is
it in your estimation about animals adog or a cat that is just just
makes life better? Well for mepersonally, I would have to say that
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the innocence, Yes, they don'twant much other than compassion and love and
a little bit of care. Justthe purity of them, I guess right.
I like that where they're pure becausethey, like I said, they
don't have an agenda. I don'teven understand. My understanding is animals don't
even feel emotions like anger. Ifthey lash out, it's because they're scared
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or they're protecting, but they're notangry. No, that's that's true.
I think we could learn a lotfrom them in that department. If you
want me to be honest, Ialways always do, DeBie. What do
you think, Yeah, I meanthey are the only ones that give you
unconditional love, and when you're sad, they always seem to be there to
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comfort you no matter what. Andcoming home and having them there just happy
to see you just makes your day, especially if you've had a rough day.
For us, we're lucky because whenwe come to work, we get
it all day long, and wego home and we get it all night
long, so we get it twentyfour to seven, which is actually nice.
Right. Wow. You know we'vebeen having pets thousands and thousands of
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years. You know. First obviouslyanimals were just that, they were tools,
and they slowly became, you know, part of the family, and
that truly for so many people thatthat's exactly what it is. I've heard
and maybe you both know. Idon't know. I read somewhere. You
ever notice like if you go towork and come home, your dog is
like the happiest dog on the planetto see you, But he's exactly the
same if you go out to themailbox and come back, it's no different.
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Yep, I read, I readsomewhere. It's that they don't have
a sense of time. So fora dog specifically, you know, he
doesn't know if it's been two minutesfor a walk to the mailboxer, six
hours or eight hour it works,so he's like, hey man, oh
yeah, well you're here. What'sup. Let's go what you do and
come on. That's true. No, they don't really have a concept of
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time like we do. They thriveon routine, right, So that's why
they kind of know when you're goingto be feeding them if you do it
at a regular time. They knowwhen they're going to be going for a
walk. And they're also smart.They watch your habits and you're certain moves,
so they know if you're putting yourshoes on, you're going somewhere,
sure, so that something exciting isgoing to be happening, or you're going
to be coming back soon. Sothat's exciting. Yeah, I know,
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I know that Nixon. If Iif I leave his leash out and I
go to put it away, ifhe sees me grab it from my pool
table to put it in the closet, if he put my hands on it,
Oh, he's right by the door. He's like, all right,
man, let's go saddle up.Come on, come on, come on,
you know, go on for awalk. When they do. When
when you're thinking about a pet,what are what are some considerations that a
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family, whether it's a single guylike me or maybe a family, what
are some considerations and maybe some mistakesyou see other people make, but what
are some considerations that you want toyou need to you need to think about
when you're deciding a if you needa pet in your house, because not
every lifestyle fits a dog or cat. But what are some things you want
to think about in picking that perfectfamily member. Well, the most important
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thing is it's a common mistake.We've all probably done it for our life.
Is we want the interactions to bea media we want them to be
the dog that we want them tobe immediately, So slow introductions are one
of the biggest things that are overlooked, I believe, especially if they have
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other pets in the home. Theyexpect that the dog should get on instantly,
they should be playing instantly, butthey forget that the environment is a
a big it's a big factor inhow a dog's going to act, and
especially if it's been in confinement andan environment that doesn't really get to have
its natural behaviors in as much.So one of the biggest thing there is
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just a slow and productions. Andthen the feeding process. As great as
it is, we all want toeat together as a family, but we
have to remember that they are animals. So separation of feeding is one of
the bigger aspects that we push beforewe do adoptions. Smart it's a common
mistake of they assume that they willeat together and they don't always do that.
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Obviously, living in a shelter environment, their feeding time is their enrichment,
so when they go into a home, they get over excited and they
don't understand that it's going to bemore regular and more frequent and they don't
have to necessarily fight for that mealin what their mentality is when they're in
a shelter environment. So definitely,slow introductions in the feeding process is one
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of the biggest issues that we face. You guys had mentioned briefly. But
the importance of routine as well ishaving you know, how important is that
that you know you have a routine. You get up every day at the
same time. I get up attwo o'clock in the darned morning, and
Nixon hates it. My dog hatesit, But it's a routine nonetheless.
But that's kind of important for adog and not so much a cat probably,
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but especially a dog, right,Yeah, Well, especially like you
mentioned before, they don't really havea concept of time. So that's how
they how they know what is goingto be coming and 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 they don't know what's happening in
the way that we do. Soit helps them thrive, It helps them
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build a bond view, and ithelps them trust you, and it helps
them know that they're going to getwhat they need. It makes a lot
of sense speaking this Morning with ClarissaGlow and Debbie Hulton from the Kershaw County
Humane Society here on Carolina Cares.What about research as to your lifestyle?
You know, some dogs just aren'tdesigned to be in a small apartment.
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Some dogs, you know, havea lot more energy than others. What
kind of considerations is that, youknow, maybe you specifically, you know,
I think of like the elderly.They don't need to be tugging around
a too hundred foot two hundred pounds, 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 or are you looking for ayoung, energetic dog? Are do you
want a puppy? Do you wantlike a one or two year old?
You know, what is your lifestyle? That's and that's something to consider.
I actually, whenever I get dogs, and I've had three rescues now for
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for me is a dog that's acouple of years old, because I don't
I just don't have time for apuppy to house break, to do all
the get my shoes chewed. Ijust don't. I ain't nobody got time
for that. So I like,I like, you know, getting a
young or an adult dog because they'vegot a little bit of maturity in them,
and they for me again for mylifestyle, and I'm I'm gone a
lot. So Nixon is chilling andhe's he's great, he's he's a he's
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a Husky Shepherd mix and although heloves people, he's just fine snoozing all
day long. So he's a littleolder so he can do that. Yeah,
So that's the perfect example. Yeah, the breed. That's one of
the many things that people forget whenalso picking a dog. They go on
age, they go on how itlooks, they go on what they believe
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they want, but they don't factorin 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 trait they're following.
But a breed's a big fact erit. Obviously, if you have a
bull dog that doesn't really do much, can only walk five miles down the
road before he can't do anymore fora week, compared to aby that could
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do twenty miles and have no issues. So you definitely have to fax him
what your time frame would be forexercising and enrichment ideas, obviously, because
you don't want a destructive dog.A tired dog is a good dog.
It's weird, Yeah, that's howit is. They thrive on stimulation,
they thrive on getting different scents fromdifferent environments. So it doesn't have to
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necessarily be that you have to takethem on long hikes and you have to
do all that, but just towalk around the neighborhood is a great enrichment
that they get and they need.It's just it's just basically on what you
can give them and what the dogneeds itself. Right, So so it
is it is as important to thinkabout your lifestyle versus the dog's lifestyle as
well. So make sure you've gotto be a good fit for each other.
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Oh definitely. So when I whenI got Bailey, and she she's
now gone, but I had her, guy, she was sixteen by the
time when when when the day came, But it was funny, she was
about a year old. I was. I got her when I lived in
Charleston and up in Goose Creek,and I and I did, I did
everything right. I did some research. You know, I was like,
I think I know what kind ofdog I want. You know, I
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looked at I looked at little JackRussell's mcnad. No, that's not me,
you know, and I kind ofhad an idea. So I went
to the I went to the shelterthere and in Goose Creek, and I
got her. You know, Ilooked around and looked at Bailey, and
I took her out. They youknow, of course you want to You
want to meet and interview the dog, and the dog has to interview you.
So I, you know, wetook her out, played with her.
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I was like, yeah, Ireally like this dog. But I
was I was like hesitant to pullthe trigger, you know, like it's
a big commitment. This is abig thing. I'd never owned like a
dog by myself before, and soI was like, hmm, So I
said, can you can you can? I think about it for a day
and the fellow was like, yeah, no, if you don't want the
dog today, we can't hold itfor you. And I went, huh.
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So I'm standing there and this littlekid came over and he started looking
at at what became Bailey. Hername was Twinkles. At the time.
I don't know. Gosh, we'regoing to talk about how you you you
shelters named dogs by the way,it's terrible, twinkles awful, awful.
But anyway, this kid goes Ithink I like that one. Mommy,
I would nope, you can't havethat one kid, That one's mine.
Box it up. But I did. So, Yeah, that kid made
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my decision for me. I waslike, no way it had Heck,
this is my dog. And sheturned out to be And she was a
she was a Lab pit mix andshe turned out to be the best dog
in the entire planet. Like Isaid, I had her for sixteen years.
She was an amazing little I hadher fifteen and she was about a
year so she lived to be aboutsixteen. But yeah, so sometimes sometimes
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it was like that instant. Butyou certainly want to interview a dog,
right you do? Yeah, youdefinitely do. Most shelters and humane societies,
they will all of them offer alack of foster program where you can
try it out, where you cantake the dog home for a week or
two and see if it's a rightfit for you and your family, then
you can make the commitment or ifit's not, the dog for you,
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you can try again, or youcan see if you just wanted to do
a cat instead, because sometimes peopledo that a lot. They think they
want a dog and then they're like, oh, maybe not, we need
something with a bit more independence,So then they go back and they'll get
a cat. So it's just makingsure that you're making the decision at the
right time for you and to thedog, because obviously it's the aim of
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the games. They're like commitment.You get them and you keep them till
they last break. Yeah, Andsomebody once said, that's one of the
truest, greatest tragedies of the world, is that we live longer than our
dogs and cats, And that trulyis. You do that, truly is.
It's sad. But you can alsoput a spin on it and that
we do that so we have theopportunity to love another one. Yeah.
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Well, I like that too.Give more of them the family life,
that's right. I like that too. Speaking with Clarissa Glow and Debbie hill
Hulton from the Kershawk County Humane Societyhere on Carolina Cares this morning. So,
you guys, obviously a humane societyand and there's several humane societies here
in the state of South Carolina.You're not all the same. Some have
different names, so there's different typesof shelters and things like that. But
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I suspect you all have kind ofthe same problem face some of the same
challenges. What are those challenges thatyou that you guys face in krush Our
County specifically, but you know thatyou think might be the same whether you're
in Charleston or the brand Strand orwherever. The biggest issue that I can
tell you that we're facing statewide,as probably world as nationwide right now is
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overpopulation and overcrowding. Most of theshelters and the humane societies they're holding double
the capacity that they were originally madeto, same as rescues, the rescue
organizations that actually help the shelters,and the humane societies and the communities they're
also for. It seems that wecan't save them quick enough as people are
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breeding them. Well, that goesback to that premise, the importance of
actually spaying and neutering your pets ifyou get now now generally, and again
I can't speak fundamentally for everyone.I thank you guys, but the ones
that I deal with generally, whenwhen I adopt from Kersha County or wherever
they're going to come, spade andneuters, So it's not something I have
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to worry about as a dog owner. No, that's that's absolutely direct.
There might be one or two thatare lower funded and don't have access to
that, but they would usually giveyou an affet appointment that they work with,
so you could take the dogs straightthere. But most humane societies,
especially as our animals are all vetted, they're up to date on all vaccines,
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rabies, and they're stayed and neotedand that's included all in the adoption
fee. Well's let's talk about youguys. We've been talking about dogs and
all kinds of great information this morning, but let's talk specifically about about Kershaw
County Human Society. Give me,give me your profile, what the process
is, what kind of dogs,and how you operate? Okay, Well,
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we serve the community obviously, that'sour main priority of Kershaw County,
and we also work alongside Code Enforcement, which is animal control. Our intake
process is still open, which manyplaces are not. That's where we can
take in owner surrenders or strains thatare found in the county or neglected and
abused dogs that people may find orcoding enforcement may bring in. We also
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help and wipe a variety of rescues. They find our dogs homes if we
aren't, just due to our overpopulationcrisis. So they will actually take the
dog from the shelter, they willplace it in a foster home, and
then they will find it at homejust so then we can threw up a
kennel and take in another dog.We also do events and adoption events that
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we're pushing that we seem to theyseem to help when people actually get to
meet the dog outside of the shelterenvironment, because they are it's completely different.
And many people don't realize that.They believe what they see in the
shelter is what they're going to get, and that's not always the case.
Right, Well, yeah, becauseyou think about that a dog who maybe
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was surrendered or whatever, he's ina new environment. He's got five hundred
of the dogs yacking and bargain andall that, he's got cats rolling around.
So yeah, I mean, becausethey do act different in their environments.
Again, they're not ever going tojudge. The rules are the same,
but animals, whether the cats ordogs are maybe not goldfish, but
a cat a dog anyway, Isuspect they're going to act differently based on
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their environment and they're on comfort level. They do. Most of the staff
here we can look in a kennelwithout meeting that initially having the dog out,
but first, especially if it's anew intake, and most of us
can tell you that if it wasan owner surrender before anything else, because
they seem to act a certain waybecause they've come from comfort to now a
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shelter environment that's to complete opposite towhat they used to do. So they
tend to be the ones that don'thandle it the best. They need a
little bit more TLC when they arrive, right compared to what astray would be.
Ast obviously has a lot less beforethey come here. So when they
come here, they're more grateful andthey's they're less stressed in the kennel environment
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because obviously they feel a lot safewhat they did before. Sure that they're
the street wise ones, you mightsay, yeah, yeah, those guys,
Yeah this is not too bad,we can do this. What are
what are some of the reasons besidesthe strays that people just find, you
know, the ones that run awaylost Unfortunately, we have. We know
there's people that just leave them onthe side of the road, But what
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are some of the reasons why peopleare surrendering dogs saying, you know what,
this dog is not for me.I don't want to let them out
in the wild, but this dogis not for me. What are some
of the reasons why you're seeing itwas? Did the did the COVID thing?
Did that impact you guys at all? I believe personally it did.
I've worked in rescue for a fewyears now. Before COVID, it was
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it was going steadily. There wasa lot more adoptions, there was a
lot more rescues. COVID went reallyreally well for the shelter system at the
time. As COVID was being right, because most of the animals are actually
adopted, many of the shelters gotemptied. It was It was very,
very, very good at that time. But then obviously people started returning to
normality, shall we say, andthey was going back to work and commitments
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and people's jobs were changing. Theshelters start to fill up again, and
then obviously you have to factor inthe inflation of prices for absolutely everything.
On top of that, everyone isstruggling to afford to support their animals and
care for their animals right now speaking. Oh go ahead, sorry about that.
Sorry, that's yeah. So that'sone of the biggest issues, is
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just being able to afford their animalsright now or have the time for them.
And that's probably not unique to kershOur County, right That's that's a
more's everywhere. It's a big issueeverywhere. The owner surrenders right now is
one of the biggest intakes that humanesocieties and shelters are taken. How how
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are so your kersh Our County Youknow, we've like I said, there's
a lot of humane societies. Someare public, some are some are not
county, some are just other ones. So like in the case of Kershaw
County, how are you guys funded? Where do you find the funding you
know, to to support these animalsin this program. Well, we're a
nonprofit organization, so we're a fiveO one C three and we do fundraisers.
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We rely a lot on donations.We try to do fun things with
the community to only like you know, to support the local businesses that we
that come and help has that volunteer. We try and support local, but
we also try and branch out.We rely on a lot of events,
a lot of the staff going outbeing seen. Yeah, we rely a
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lot on donations. If you wantme to be honest, Sometimes it shouldn't
be all, but we manage.We do really well. We have a
great support system and a great communitybehind us, so we do good.
And how many you may have saidhow many? How many animals do you
have? Like now? And oryou know what's your your average capacity,
your average population? Well, ouraverage most times, our dogs are usually
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over the one hundred and fifty marks. Sometimes we can get up to one
ninety. Wow, it just depends, It just depends on the week.
And then are cats. Right nowthey're averaging around one hundred and twenty cats,
and especially because it's kitten season,so that doesn't really help with those
numbers. Sure, but right now, yeah, we're well over two hundred
animals fifty And I know we've beentalking a lot about dogs. That's because
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of a dog guy don't really havemuch use for cats. But I will
tell you this, and I've saidit on the record before and I'll do
it again. I will take adog or a cat over most human beings
because are just better. Pure.I am okay, saying that animals are
better than people most of the time. Speaking with closer grow Cleversa Glow and
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Debbie Hilton from the Kershaw County HumaneSociety. So you know, we talked
earlier. I mentioned earlier in themonologue about the no kill movements and things
like that, where there's this activemovement to try to cut down on euthanasia,
because that's got to be heartbreaking,you know. I mean, you've
got a perfect good dog and youknow you just I could, I wouldn't
be able to make that call.I wouldn't be able to do that part.
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But tell me a little bit aboutwith that movement is on a bigger
scale, about what you're doing withother agencies to try to cut down on
those number of animals that are euthanized. Well, this is what I can
speak for ourselves more personally on thematter, because every shell was different,
they all have different guidelines. Butas personally, what we're trying to do
is we try and manage our intakeand we try and go out in the
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community to help before they have tosurrender their animals. So recently we've been
going out, we've been assisting withlike housing, with food, with shelter,
with basic medical care that we couldhelp with, free prevention and things
like that. The gods on istruth. The way that to do it
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is we need more spay and nutrient. It needs to be enforced. Until
that happens, we're not going tobe able to push for a no kill
movement nationwide because there's just room thereis there's more animals than there space,
and it's just that simple. Well, there's just yeah, there's thousands,
thousands of them. What was thenumber of six point three This is according
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to the ESPCA, six point threemillion animals are surrendered every year. Yep.
I mean that that number is staggering, you know, and then you
got to rehome them. I mean, golly yeah, we just every day
we intake You can imagine we haveno empty kennels right now, but for
I can tell you today that we'regoing to intake more. So then we
have to move some around. Thisconstant rotation. So and then there's constant
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adding of kennels if we can.There's we just keep adding more and more
and more that we can do androtation charts and dog care groups, so
you know, we'll create a playgroup. So five of them can play together,
just so we can create more space, so we don't have to we
don't have to make decisions based onjust having those spaces because we're a no
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kill shelter, so we don't euphanizethe space. It's just the behavior and
severe medical. But there's other shellis across the whole country that have to
euthanize for space. They have nochoice. Sure, and it is a
perfectly healthy dog with no behavioral problems. I didn't even think about the fact
the science that you it must beto rotate all those dogs and know that
that little Timmy, little Timmy cantalk to Fido, but not not Scout
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because he doesn't get along with It'dbeen handling like a bunch of teenage girls.
I mean all they like, hey, hey girls, wait a minute
now, most of these boys,boy dog, I love it. I
love it. What is your onlycouple minutes left? What is your favorite
thing about doing what you do?Seeing the gratitude and the animal's eyes exactly
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they it's it's I have a sayinghere. I probably annoy everyone with it,
but I I tell all the staffhere that they do actually speak.
You just know, you just haveto know how to listen. And it's
just the satisfaction of knowing that youwhen you save one, you don't realize
that it's it's a reaction effect andyou actually save many more just by saving
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that one. So it's just knowingthat every day we can go home and
know that we've just we tried ourbest and we saved them our life.
Hell, what about you, devYeah, I mean we're we're their voice.
I mean we speak for them.That's why we work as hard as
we do. That's why we doevents, that's why we do everything to
bring the public in to find theirperfect pet, to give them a home.
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Because coming here every day and seeingthe same animals you know, and
you get attached to them, andwhen they leave, we cry, but
it's happy tears, and it's justan enjoyable job. It's emotionally and physically
very straining on us, but it'sworth it in the end. When we
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see a dog leaving with their family, I love it. I love it
all right. Clarisa Glow, DebbieHill Halton. I'm going to put links
on the socials for the for theKershawk County Humane Society. Of course,
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you want to volunteer support the missionladies. Thank you so much for your
commitment to these four legged family members. Thank you, Tyler for doing this
for us. We appreciate it,especially for the babies. Yep, thank
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right. Well, you know,guys, there's there's something special about
having a pet in your life.You know you can. They can have
an absolute, profound impact on nearlyevery aspect of our lives and our families.
They're referred to as fur babies orfurry family members because that's what they
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become. There are kids, youever noticed, no matter what kind of
day you've had, what kind ofdisagreement you're in the middle of with your
boss, your friend, your spouse, you walk up to the door and
you open it and all you feelis pure love, absolute admiration. Pets
don't have agendas, they don't havemotivations. Well, maybe treat motivation,
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but they don't have motivations for thelowest part. And of course the best
thing is they don't judge. It'sjust not in them. Did you know
that sixty six percent of US,or over eighty nine million homes here in
the US have some sort of pet. Yeah, that could be a doggy,
a kitty, a parakeet, offish, I don't know whatever.
Not to mention there's a reason forthat, right, But not to mention
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just the enjoyment of having a pet, but the health benefits. There are
studies show that owning a pet canmake you more happy in general, just
overall and happy. There's evidence thatsays having a fur baby can decrease blood
pressure, cholesterol levels, helps withloneliness, depression, and of course we
all know the benefit of service dogsfor people who are living with PTSD or
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even other disabilities, deaf and blind, even folks with other afflictions. Animals
can make an absolute impact on ourlives. Now, if you're ready to,
I guess the question is, areyou ready to expand your family by
four? Pause yet? Good?I think you need to because I also
want to share a couple of othernumbers this morning with you, not ones
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that I want to share, butI think the one's important for you to
think about. Across the country,according to the aa PCA, six point
three million animals are surrendered to sheltersevery year. I'll save you the math.
That's about seventeen hundred and two hundredseventeen thousand, two hundred and sixty
a day. But the real issueis in upwards of one million perfectly good
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animals, doggies, kiddies. They'rehealthy, they're loving, they're happy,
they're just looking for their parson.Those dogs are euthanized for no other reason
but overpopulation. Now, of course, the numbers in South Carolina are much
less, and that's thanks to thepercentages anyway. That's thanks to a lot
of no killed initiatives and programs aroundthe state and beyond. So those numbers
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are going down. But there's stilla whole lot of work to do,
and a lot of work by us. Remember the words of Bob Barker at
the end of every price is right, what do you say, don't forget
to spray, to spay and newto your pets. Think about this,
The number of unwanted cats that justone pair of cats can create can be
in the thousands, just one pairof unfixed thousands. Now, getting back
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to my little pet speech, Bythe way, there are adoption centers across
this great state, all with amazinganimals that are happy and healthy, just
hoping you may choose them. Butremember that selection doesn't go without work either.
As you consider a potential new pet, you need to research the type
of dog or cat the best fitsyour lifestyle, or heck, make sure
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your lifestyle will fit a dog ora cat. How about it that way?
Or you have the room perhaps,but when you make that decision,
and it may be like lightning withone dog, or it may be a
process. Either way, it's acommitment. 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 tocontinue that conversation from the Kershaw County Humane
Society, Debbie Houlton and Clarissa Glow, good morning ladies, goody oh right,
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you practice that it sounds like mygolly, I love it. What
is it? Obviously? You knowif you work and you volunteer for any
pet adoption center of the Humane Societyin Kershaw is no different. What is
it in your estimation about animals adog or a cat that is just just
makes life better? Well for mepersonally, I would have to say that
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the innocence, Yes, they don'twant much other than compassion and love and
a little bit of care. Justthe purity of them, I guess right.
I like that where they're pure becausethey, like I said, they
don't have an agenda. I don'teven understand. My understanding is animals don't
even feel emotions like anger. Ifthey lash out, it's because they're scared
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or they're protecting, but they're notangry. No, that's that's true.
I think we could learn a lotfrom them in that department. If you
want me to be honest, Ialways always do, DeBie. What do
you think, Yeah, I meanthey are the only ones that give you
unconditional love, and when you're sad, they always seem to be there to
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comfort you no matter what. Andcoming home and having them there just happy
to see you just makes your day, especially if you've had a rough day.
For us, we're lucky because whenwe come to work, we get
it all day long, and wego home and we get it all night
long, so we get it twentyfour to seven, which is actually nice.
Right. Wow. You know we'vebeen having pets thousands and thousands of
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years. You know. First obviouslyanimals were just that, they were tools,
and they slowly became, you know, part of the family, and
that truly for so many people thatthat's exactly what it is. I've heard
and maybe you both know. Idon't know. I read somewhere. You
ever notice like if you go towork and come home, your dog is
like the happiest dog on the planetto see you, But he's exactly the
same if you go out to themailbox and come back, it's no different.
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Yep, I read, I readsomewhere. It's that they don't have
a sense of time. So fora dog specifically, you know, he
doesn't know if it's been two minutesfor a walk to the mailboxer, six
hours or eight hour it works,so he's like, hey man, oh
yeah, well you're here. What'sup. Let's go what you do and
come on. That's true. No, they don't really have a concept of
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time like we do. They thriveon routine, right, So that's why
they kind of know when you're goingto be feeding them if you do it
at a regular time. They knowwhen they're going to be going for a
walk. And they're also smart.They watch your habits and you're certain moves,
so they know if you're putting yourshoes on, you're going somewhere,
sure, so that something exciting isgoing to be happening, or you're going
to be coming back soon. Sothat's exciting. Yeah, I know,
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I know that Nixon. If Iif I leave his leash out and I
go to put it away, ifhe sees me grab it from my pool
table to put it in the closet, if he put my hands on it,
Oh, he's right by the door. He's like, all right,
man, let's go saddle up.Come on, come on, come on,
you know, go on for awalk. When they do. When
when you're thinking about a pet,what are what are some considerations that a
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family, whether it's a single guylike me or maybe a family, what
are some considerations and maybe some mistakesyou see other people make, but what
are some considerations that you want toyou need to you need to think about
when you're deciding a if you needa pet in your house, because not
every lifestyle fits a dog or cat. But what are some things you want
to think about in picking that perfectfamily member. Well, the most important
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thing is it's a common mistake.We've all probably done it for our life.
Is we want the interactions to bea media we want them to be
the dog that we want them tobe immediately, So slow introductions are one
of the biggest things that are overlooked, I believe, especially if they have
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other pets in the home. Theyexpect that the dog should get on instantly,
they should be playing instantly, butthey forget that the environment is a
a big it's a big factor inhow a dog's going to act, and
especially if it's been in confinement andan environment that doesn't really get to have
its natural behaviors in as much.So one of the biggest thing there is
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just a slow and productions. Andthen the feeding process. As great as
it is, we all want toeat together as a family, but we
have to remember that they are animals. So separation of feeding is one of
the bigger aspects that we push beforewe do adoptions. Smart it's a common
mistake of they assume that they willeat together and they don't always do that.
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Obviously, living in a shelter environment, their feeding time is their enrichment,
so when they go into a home, they get over excited and they
don't understand that it's going to bemore regular and more frequent and they don't
have to necessarily fight for that mealin what their mentality is when they're in
a shelter environment. So definitely,slow introductions in the feeding process is one
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of the biggest issues that we face. You guys had mentioned briefly. But
the importance of routine as well ishaving you know, how important is that
that you know you have a routine. You get up every day at the
same time. I get up attwo o'clock in the darned morning, and
Nixon hates it. My dog hatesit, But it's a routine nonetheless.
But that's kind of important for adog and not so much a cat probably,
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but especially a dog, right,Yeah, Well, especially like you
mentioned before, they don't really havea concept of time. So that's how
they how they know what is goingto be coming and 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 they don't know what's happening in
the way that we do. Soit helps them thrive, It helps them
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build a bond view, and ithelps them trust you, and it helps
them know that they're going to getwhat they need. It makes a lot
of sense speaking this Morning with ClarissaGlow and Debbie Hulton from the Kershaw County
Humane Society here on Carolina Cares.What about research as to your lifestyle?
You know, some dogs just aren'tdesigned to be in a small apartment.
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Some dogs, you know, havea lot more energy than others. What
kind of considerations is that, youknow, maybe you specifically, you know,
I think of like the elderly.They don't need to be tugging around
a too hundred foot two hundred pounds, 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 or are you looking for ayoung, energetic dog? Are do you
want a puppy? Do you wantlike a one or two year old?
You know, what is your lifestyle? That's and that's something to consider.
I actually, whenever I get dogs, and I've had three rescues now for
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for me is a dog that's acouple of years old, because I don't
I just don't have time for apuppy to house break, to do all
the get my shoes chewed. Ijust don't. I ain't nobody got time
for that. So I like,I like, you know, getting a
young or an adult dog because they'vegot a little bit of maturity in them,
and they for me again for mylifestyle, and I'm I'm gone a
lot. So Nixon is chilling andhe's he's great, he's he's a he's
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a Husky Shepherd mix and although heloves people, he's just fine snoozing all
day long. So he's a littleolder so he can do that. Yeah,
So that's the perfect example. Yeah, the breed. That's one of
the many things that people forget whenalso picking a dog. They go on
age, they go on how itlooks, they go on what they believe
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they want, but they don't factorin 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 trait they're following.
But a breed's a big fact erit. Obviously, if you have a
bull dog that doesn't really do much, can only walk five miles down the
road before he can't do anymore fora week, compared to aby that could
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do twenty miles and have no issues. So you definitely have to fax him
what your time frame would be forexercising and enrichment ideas, obviously, because
you don't want a destructive dog.A tired dog is a good dog.
It's weird, Yeah, that's howit is. They thrive on stimulation,
they thrive on getting different scents fromdifferent environments. So it doesn't have to
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necessarily be that you have to takethem on long hikes and you have to
do all that, but just towalk around the neighborhood is a great enrichment
that they get and they need.It's just it's just basically on what you
can give them and what the dogneeds itself. Right, So so it
is it is as important to thinkabout your lifestyle versus the dog's lifestyle as
well. So make sure you've gotto be a good fit for each other.
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Oh definitely. So when I whenI got Bailey, and she she's
now gone, but I had her, guy, she was sixteen by the
time when when when the day came, But it was funny, she was
about a year old. I was. I got her when I lived in
Charleston and up in Goose Creek,and I and I did, I did
everything right. I did some research. You know, I was like,
I think I know what kind ofdog I want. You know, I
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looked at I looked at little JackRussell's mcnad. No, that's not me,
you know, and I kind ofhad an idea. So I went
to the I went to the shelterthere and in Goose Creek, and I
got her. You know, Ilooked around and looked at Bailey, and
I took her out. They youknow, of course you want to You
want to meet and interview the dog, and the dog has to interview you.
So I, you know, wetook her out, played with her.
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I was like, yeah, Ireally like this dog. But I
was I was like hesitant to pullthe trigger, you know, like it's
a big commitment. This is abig thing. I'd never owned like a
dog by myself before, and soI was like, hmm, So I
said, can you can you can? I think about it for a day
and the fellow was like, yeah, no, if you don't want the
dog today, we can't hold itfor you. And I went, huh.
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So I'm standing there and this littlekid came over and he started looking
at at what became Bailey. Hername was Twinkles. At the time.
I don't know. Gosh, we'regoing to talk about how you you you
shelters named dogs by the way,it's terrible, twinkles awful, awful.
But anyway, this kid goes Ithink I like that one. Mommy,
I would nope, you can't havethat one kid, That one's mine.
Box it up. But I did. So, Yeah, that kid made
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my decision for me. I waslike, no way it had Heck,
this is my dog. And sheturned out to be And she was a
she was a Lab pit mix andshe turned out to be the best dog
in the entire planet. Like Isaid, I had her for sixteen years.
She was an amazing little I hadher fifteen and she was about a
year so she lived to be aboutsixteen. But yeah, so sometimes sometimes
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it was like that instant. Butyou certainly want to interview a dog,
right you do? Yeah, youdefinitely do. Most shelters and humane societies,
they will all of them offer alack of foster program where you can
try it out, where you cantake the dog home for a week or
two and see if it's a rightfit for you and your family, then
you can make the commitment or ifit's not, the dog for you,
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you can try again, or youcan see if you just wanted to do
a cat instead, because sometimes peopledo that a lot. They think they
want a dog and then they're like, oh, maybe not, we need
something with a bit more independence,So then they go back and they'll get
a cat. So it's just makingsure that you're making the decision at the
right time for you and to thedog, because obviously it's the aim of
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the games. They're like commitment.You get them and you keep them till
they last break. Yeah, Andsomebody once said, that's one of the
truest, greatest tragedies of the world, is that we live longer than our
dogs and cats, And that trulyis. You do that, truly is.
It's sad. But you can alsoput a spin on it and that
we do that so we have theopportunity to love another one. Yeah.
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Well, I like that too.Give more of them the family life,
that's right. I like that too. Speaking with Clarissa Glow and Debbie hill
Hulton from the Kershawk County Humane Societyhere on Carolina Cares this morning. So,
you guys, obviously a humane societyand and there's several humane societies here
in the state of South Carolina.You're not all the same. Some have
different names, so there's different typesof shelters and things like that. But
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I suspect you all have kind ofthe same problem face some of the same
challenges. What are those challenges thatyou that you guys face in krush Our
County specifically, but you know thatyou think might be the same whether you're
in Charleston or the brand Strand orwherever. The biggest issue that I can
tell you that we're facing statewide,as probably world as nationwide right now is
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overpopulation and overcrowding. Most of theshelters and the humane societies they're holding double
the capacity that they were originally madeto, same as rescues, the rescue
organizations that actually help the shelters,and the humane societies and the communities they're
also for. It seems that wecan't save them quick enough as people are
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breeding them. Well, that goesback to that premise, the importance of
actually spaying and neutering your pets ifyou get now now generally, and again
I can't speak fundamentally for everyone.I thank you guys, but the ones
that I deal with generally, whenwhen I adopt from Kersha County or wherever
they're going to come, spade andneuters, So it's not something I have
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to worry about as a dog owner. No, that's that's absolutely direct.
There might be one or two thatare lower funded and don't have access to
that, but they would usually giveyou an affet appointment that they work with,
so you could take the dogs straightthere. But most humane societies,
especially as our animals are all vetted, they're up to date on all vaccines,
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rabies, and they're stayed and neotedand that's included all in the adoption
fee. Well's let's talk about youguys. We've been talking about dogs and
all kinds of great information this morning, but let's talk specifically about about Kershaw
County Human Society. Give me,give me your profile, what the process
is, what kind of dogs,and how you operate? Okay, Well,
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we serve the community obviously, that'sour main priority of Kershaw County,
and we also work alongside Code Enforcement, which is animal control. Our intake
process is still open, which manyplaces are not. That's where we can
take in owner surrenders or strains thatare found in the county or neglected and
abused dogs that people may find orcoding enforcement may bring in. We also
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help and wipe a variety of rescues. They find our dogs homes if we
aren't, just due to our overpopulationcrisis. So they will actually take the
dog from the shelter, they willplace it in a foster home, and
then they will find it at homejust so then we can threw up a
kennel and take in another dog.We also do events and adoption events that
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we're pushing that we seem to theyseem to help when people actually get to
meet the dog outside of the shelterenvironment, because they are it's completely different.
And many people don't realize that.They believe what they see in the
shelter is what they're going to get, and that's not always the case.
Right, Well, yeah, becauseyou think about that a dog who maybe
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was surrendered or whatever, he's ina new environment. He's got five hundred
of the dogs yacking and bargain andall that, he's got cats rolling around.
So yeah, I mean, becausethey do act different in their environments.
Again, they're not ever going tojudge. The rules are the same,
but animals, whether the cats ordogs are maybe not goldfish, but
a cat a dog anyway, Isuspect they're going to act differently based on
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their environment and they're on comfort level. They do. Most of the staff
here we can look in a kennelwithout meeting that initially having the dog out,
but first, especially if it's anew intake, and most of us
can tell you that if it wasan owner surrender before anything else, because
they seem to act a certain waybecause they've come from comfort to now a
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shelter environment that's to complete opposite towhat they used to do. So they
tend to be the ones that don'thandle it the best. They need a
little bit more TLC when they arrive, right compared to what astray would be.
Ast obviously has a lot less beforethey come here. So when they
come here, they're more grateful andthey's they're less stressed in the kennel environment
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because obviously they feel a lot safewhat they did before. Sure that they're
the street wise ones, you mightsay, yeah, yeah, those guys,
Yeah this is not too bad,we can do this. What are
what are some of the reasons besidesthe strays that people just find, you
know, the ones that run awaylost Unfortunately, we have. We know
there's people that just leave them onthe side of the road, But what
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are some of the reasons why peopleare surrendering dogs saying, you know what,
this dog is not for me.I don't want to let them out
in the wild, but this dogis not for me. What are some
of the reasons why you're seeing itwas? Did the did the COVID thing?
Did that impact you guys at all? I believe personally it did.
I've worked in rescue for a fewyears now. Before COVID, it was
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it was going steadily. There wasa lot more adoptions, there was a
lot more rescues. COVID went reallyreally well for the shelter system at the
time. As COVID was being right, because most of the animals are actually
adopted, many of the shelters gotemptied. It was It was very,
very, very good at that time. But then obviously people started returning to
normality, shall we say, andthey was going back to work and commitments
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and people's jobs were changing. Theshelters start to fill up again, and
then obviously you have to factor inthe inflation of prices for absolutely everything.
On top of that, everyone isstruggling to afford to support their animals and
care for their animals right now speaking. Oh go ahead, sorry about that.
Sorry, that's yeah. So that'sone of the biggest issues, is
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just being able to afford their animalsright now or have the time for them.
And that's probably not unique to kershOur County, right That's that's a
more's everywhere. It's a big issueeverywhere. The owner surrenders right now is
one of the biggest intakes that humanesocieties and shelters are taken. How how
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are so your kersh Our County Youknow, we've like I said, there's
a lot of humane societies. Someare public, some are some are not
county, some are just other ones. So like in the case of Kershaw
County, how are you guys funded? Where do you find the funding you
know, to to support these animalsin this program. Well, we're a
nonprofit organization, so we're a fiveO one C three and we do fundraisers.
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We rely a lot on donations.We try to do fun things with
the community to only like you know, to support the local businesses that we
that come and help has that volunteer. We try and support local, but
we also try and branch out.We rely on a lot of events,
a lot of the staff going outbeing seen. Yeah, we rely a
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lot on donations. If you wantme to be honest, Sometimes it shouldn't
be all, but we manage.We do really well. We have a
great support system and a great communitybehind us, so we do good.
And how many you may have saidhow many? How many animals do you
have? Like now? And oryou know what's your your average capacity,
your average population? Well, ouraverage most times, our dogs are usually
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over the one hundred and fifty marks. Sometimes we can get up to one
ninety. Wow, it just depends, It just depends on the week.
And then are cats. Right nowthey're averaging around one hundred and twenty cats,
and especially because it's kitten season,so that doesn't really help with those
numbers. Sure, but right now, yeah, we're well over two hundred
animals fifty And I know we've beentalking a lot about dogs. That's because
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of a dog guy don't really havemuch use for cats. But I will
tell you this, and I've saidit on the record before and I'll do
it again. I will take adog or a cat over most human beings
because are just better. Pure.I am okay, saying that animals are
better than people most of the time. Speaking with closer grow Cleversa Glow and
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Debbie Hilton from the Kershaw County HumaneSociety. So you know, we talked
earlier. I mentioned earlier in themonologue about the no kill movements and things
like that, where there's this activemovement to try to cut down on euthanasia,
because that's got to be heartbreaking,you know. I mean, you've
got a perfect good dog and youknow you just I could, I wouldn't
be able to make that call.I wouldn't be able to do that part.
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But tell me a little bit aboutwith that movement is on a bigger
scale, about what you're doing withother agencies to try to cut down on
those number of animals that are euthanized. Well, this is what I can
speak for ourselves more personally on thematter, because every shell was different,
they all have different guidelines. Butas personally, what we're trying to do
is we try and manage our intakeand we try and go out in the
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community to help before they have tosurrender their animals. So recently we've been
going out, we've been assisting withlike housing, with food, with shelter,
with basic medical care that we couldhelp with, free prevention and things
like that. The gods on istruth. The way that to do it
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is we need more spay and nutrient. It needs to be enforced. Until
that happens, we're not going tobe able to push for a no kill
movement nationwide because there's just room thereis there's more animals than there space,
and it's just that simple. Well, there's just yeah, there's thousands,
thousands of them. What was thenumber of six point three This is according
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to the ESPCA, six point threemillion animals are surrendered every year. Yep.
I mean that that number is staggering, you know, and then you
got to rehome them. I mean, golly yeah, we just every day
we intake You can imagine we haveno empty kennels right now, but for
I can tell you today that we'regoing to intake more. So then we
have to move some around. Thisconstant rotation. So and then there's constant
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adding of kennels if we can.There's we just keep adding more and more
and more that we can do androtation charts and dog care groups, so
you know, we'll create a playgroup. So five of them can play together,
just so we can create more space, so we don't have to we
don't have to make decisions based onjust having those spaces because we're a no
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kill shelter, so we don't euphanizethe space. It's just the behavior and
severe medical. But there's other shellis across the whole country that have to
euthanize for space. They have nochoice. Sure, and it is a
perfectly healthy dog with no behavioral problems. I didn't even think about the fact
the science that you it must beto rotate all those dogs and know that
that little Timmy, little Timmy cantalk to Fido, but not not Scout
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because he doesn't get along with It'dbeen handling like a bunch of teenage girls.
I mean all they like, hey, hey girls, wait a minute
now, most of these boys,boy dog, I love it. I
love it. What is your onlycouple minutes left? What is your favorite
thing about doing what you do?Seeing the gratitude and the animal's eyes exactly
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they it's it's I have a sayinghere. I probably annoy everyone with it,
but I I tell all the staffhere that they do actually speak.
You just know, you just haveto know how to listen. And it's
just the satisfaction of knowing that youwhen you save one, you don't realize
that it's it's a reaction effect andyou actually save many more just by saving
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that one. So it's just knowingthat every day we can go home and
know that we've just we tried ourbest and we saved them our life.
Hell, what about you, devYeah, I mean we're we're their voice.
I mean we speak for them.That's why we work as hard as
we do. That's why we doevents, that's why we do everything to
bring the public in to find theirperfect pet, to give them a home.
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Because coming here every day and seeingthe same animals you know, and
you get attached to them, andwhen they leave, we cry, but
it's happy tears, and it's justan enjoyable job. It's emotionally and physically
very straining on us, but it'sworth it in the end. When we
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see a dog leaving with their family, I love it. I love it
all right. Clarisa Glow, DebbieHill Halton. I'm going to put links
on the socials for the for theKershawk County Humane Society. Of course,
you can follow us on Facebook andAfter this thing airs, it goes up
onto our podcast like everything else does, and I'll put links up there as
well. If you're interested in KershawCounty looking for that Forever Doug, maybe
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you want to volunteer support the missionladies. Thank you so much for your
commitment to these four legged family members. Thank you, Tyler for doing this
for us. We appreciate it,especially for the babies. Yep, thank
you for having us then, Ilove it anytime. Guys. So this
has been Carolina Cares. It's aniHeartRadio production here on the South Carolina Radio
Network. Once again, we'll putlinks up for you. You can also
find it at Carolina caresradio dot com. My name is Tyler Ryan. Thank
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you so much for joining us weekafter week as you always do. It
means a lot that you join inand become part of this awesome community we
call Carolina Cares. And as happensevery week, thirty minutes flies by.
So it's time for me to sayI'll speak with you in seven days.
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