September 15, 2025 • 50 mins
In this heartwarming episode of Inside the Moms Club, we sit down with Delia McLinden--Vice President of Farmhouse Fresh and founder of Archangel Animal Network--to talk about her passion for dog rescue and the life-changing impact of giving animals a second chance. Delia shares stories from the rescue world, the challenges and triumphs of saving vulnerable dogs, and how her work is transforming lives one pup at a time. Whether you're an animal lover, a rescue advocate, or just in need of a dose of hope, this conversation will leave you inspired.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Welcome, moms. Welcome to Inside the Mom's Club. I'm your
host Monica Samuels, and I'm here with my lovely co host,
Julie Orchid.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Hi Julie.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
While it's been a while, it's we've been on a
little hiatus here as we travel around, especially Julie. Yeah,
really been traveling. It's hard to keep up with you.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
But the summer has been a hot one.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
It has been. We have been super busy. But we're
glad to be back, and in fact, we are in
a new studio. It's so this is yeah pretty, I mean,
this is.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
My favorite color. There is not feeling it.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Yeah, I feel so relaxed here. It's really it's really
super well. The thing that you pointed out to me
as we were in the new studio is that they
would see our feet, so you ran across the street
this but oh well but yeah, but today, because of
the show we're doing, I am wearing my animal my
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dog rescue shoes.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
I hope we get a shot of that because those
are the cutest are darn there? Did you buy me
a parent?
Speaker 1 (01:09):
I can? They're from Sketchers, and Bob is called Bobs.
I don't know. They donate money for.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
They're absolutely adorable. So now I'm a big fan.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
I love them.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
I mean I have a doggy raincoat, so I think
I kind of need the tennis shoes.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Yeah. They also make them for cat lovers, which I'm a.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Dog lover all right. Do they have any ferrot.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
No, but if they come up with a ferret shoe,
I'll definitely get you one because I know you loved
Smoky Stinker.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Smoky Stinky Smokey has its own you know story. Yeah,
that's another for the point being is that we are
obsessed with the animals are and.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
We're very obsessed with animals, and I've even become more
obsessed this summer.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
I didn't get to see you, but you have all
of a sudden.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Like not all of a sudden, but every day and
a few hours at a time, I've seen you scrolling
and wanting to save animals.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
And how many would you have if you could?
Speaker 1 (02:07):
I have a passion for that. Oh I don't even
know how many. But right now I'm kind of I've
got three. I have two dogs, but my son has
a rescue dog, Max. Yes, Max, And so that's really
where I got interested in rescue animals initially, So.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Yeah, Max, adult your heart.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Max stole a lot of things from me in a way.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Yeah Max, Max, I'm loutting it mildly.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
I love Max, but you know, Max has been a
challenge at times, but it's worth it. But it's not
his fault because think about it, he was rescued by
four frat boys Operation Kindness in Carrollton, Texas let four
frat brothers adopt a puppy.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Basically, I mean, I think it's actually kind of a
good thing.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Well, what an SMU kid. So she they pretty much
knew that this dog.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Was going to live a lot, he was going to
live really well.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
And so Max has that was a life that Max
started was in a that environment.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
So so he's social.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
He's social. So this last weekend, we were having a
big party at our house. I wasn't my son was
in the backyard by the pool. There were the girls
and guys and all that going on, and Max was
dying to get outside. And he's a Chase Grant dog. Yeah,
I mean, so I let him out and he just
mingled and he was having living his life. That's that's
where he's most comfortable. Yes, but that isn't always the
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best situation.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
I would agree, because we have a problem in the
United States that I am really, really, really glad that
we're bringing to light today because you know, I'm glad
that they adopted the dog. But again, the situation might
not be ideal for you know.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Well, that's why I wanted to do that. I specifically
wanted to do this show because I I wanted to help,
but I thought, how do I help? Right, Like, I
don't really know how to help? And well, part of
the reason I want to help. We have a Zoomer
mom today who will be joining us later who inspired
this in large part because I just kind of got
obsessed with helping those dogs in Clayton County, Georgia, even
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though I live in Austin, Texas. It's okay, and I
think this is super important. And when I was trying
to decide, well, who do I ask, who do I
talk to? How do I get involved? I immediately thought
of remember our our sponsor, Farmhouse Fresh And when we
went there, a skincare company based in McKinney, Texas. They
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have animal rescue is a big part of their what
they do. They have a farm where they rescue that's
an animal sanctuary and rescue a place we went to it.
It was we were.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
To get to go sure it and it was really
a cool experience.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
It was inspiring and I loved it. And we then
you know, as you as you do, as you do
these things. I started following ye one of the co founders,
on social media, and I saw her as she was
rescuing a dog named Todd, and it was I mean,
it just warmed my heart. So I thought, I know
who to ask, yes, And today she's been so kind
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as to be our guest. And what I learned is
at farm House Fresh in twenty seventeen, during Hurricane Harvey,
they got together and funded a large scale dog rescue
transport and our guest today, who has been for over
fifteen plus years a dog rescue volunteer and a foster parent,
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decided to start an organization five oh one c three
called Archangel Animal Network, which is a nonprofit and it's
dedicated to the rescue and transport of shelter dogs and
since twenty nineteen they have rescued, transport and to rescue
over five thousand dogs Texas dogs. She is, well, she'll
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tell us all about it.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
She I want to hear the details.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
The vice president of sales and the co founder of
Farmhouse Fresh. Please welcome our friend deal Yah Cleansing. Welcome
to the West Club. I do thank you. It's so
good to see you. Well, thank you so much.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
I'm thrilled to be here with you all today.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
I am thrilled. Thank you so much. I know, and
you know, I just like, who can Because here's why
I think this is important show. And I want everybody
that's listening listen to the end because you're gonna get
so much information. You're gonna learn a lot, and hopefully
you're gonna save some some shelter animals. And yes, that's
so important because when I started getting more involved in this,
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was like what do I do? And then you when
you get when you start, you get stopped a lot.
And the reason you get stopped a lot is because
people will tell you, oh, that organization they just take money,
they're stealing from you. They're you know, that's a fraud,
that's a You're like, well.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Where do I like, where do you even begin? What's valid?
What's not valid?
Speaker 1 (07:02):
So I knew that you were involved in this because,
like I said, I watched you I watched you love
Todd in a way that mean so much to me,
and I know Todd is still part of your family,
and so I thought that was so tremendous, and I'm like,
I know who to ask about this, and so I
immediately went and asked Julia, like, what can we do
to help? And so my husband and I decided to
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help your archangel Animal Network. And we're so thrilled that
we were able to do that. But one thing we
wanted to make sure that we did is we were
giving to an organization that was truly going to make
a difference and help rescue these dogs. And you also
connected me with a woman in Fort Worth at the
Animal Control in Fort Worth, and she shared with me
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how poorly dogs in Texas. I guess there's one point
five million dogs and cats euthanized in America every year.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
That is unbelievable. I really did not know the number.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Yeah, and sad Le Texas leads the way so exactly.
Tell us, So how did you get involved in this?
Where did it start for you? Because I know where
it started for me, but you care a.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
Story well, much like you and Monica. I just have
to say kudos to you for being curious and wanting
to know more, because I think so often, you know,
we see sad things where we hear sad stories and
we're just like, oh, that's so sad. Somebody needs to
(08:32):
do something. But I'm someone, you're someone, we're all someone,
and we can all do something, you know, and we
may not know what that is. But to your credit,
you know, you reached out to me and said, hey,
I'm seeing all these posts of you know, puppies that
are in danger and are going to be euthanized, and
(08:53):
how do I make you know, how do I make
a difference? And that's really how I started to many
many years ago. It was literally just stay gosh, I
know I love dogs and I want to help them.
Let me just kind of start by fostering a dog
and all volunteer and really just learning along the way.
Speaker 5 (09:15):
And I think sometimes just as humans, as busy moms,
sometimes we don't just even take that initial step to
be curious because we're like, oh, it's too.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
Much, don't I can't handle one more thing. I don't
want to do anything else. But we can all do something.
And to your you've told a little bit about how
I got involved in rescue transports specifically was it was
through Farmhouse Fresh, as you eloquently introduced. We knew after
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Hurricane Harvey there were shelters that were just packed full
and the shelters needed to be evacuated to make room
for the other dogs that were flowing in and cats
and all sorts of things. And we didn't know what
we were doing. But I had sort of been involved
in rescue transport volunteering for other organizations before, and said,
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you know what, why don't we coordinate something. We know
some rescue groups in Minnesota. If we can find a
place to send the animals, let's figure this out. Well,
long story short, it was complete chaos and it was just,
I mean, like a lot of things that we do,
you know, I was like, never again, We're never doing
this again, right right. However, however, we saw these animals,
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and these were the animals who had already been in
the shelter and they were in pretty rough shape.
Speaker 6 (10:40):
But we saw them when they landed in a different spot,
a spot that was willing to take them. They got
adopted so quickly and they lived beautiful, live like animals
that were you know, sort of throwaways in certain areas
of the country were welcomed by other areas, you know,
that had had the capacity to take this. So you
bring up some beautiful, beautiful happy endings.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
Yeah, so you bring up a good point. I read
that these northern states. Why is that such a hot
spot for all these animals.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
I'm just curious.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
I mean, obviously we're not doing a great job in Texas.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Why are texts and so unkind?
Speaker 2 (11:18):
What's our problem?
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Yes, I think in the shelters are those people question.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
You know, Texas and many of the like Southern states,
they don't have a lot of strict spain neuter laws.
States that are have warmer climates, animals are often allowed
to roam and if they're not Spain neuter, they're going
to reproduce. There are a lot of Southern states and
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some states don't have laws surrounding animal cruelty and breeding
and poppy mills. So there are just too many animals
in many states. Texas ranks number one in the amount
of animals that are euthanized. California is up there, and
then it kind of goes down from that some of
the other Southern states. So by sending animals to places
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that don't have that level of overpopulation, they can get
adopted more quickly and you know, whereas they might not
have a chance in some areas. And Monica, that's what
you know, we're we're gonna partner on with your you
know donation and is to sponsor some of those those
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transport And that's what Archangel Animal Network has done, is
to say, if we can just you know, get the
animals from a place where there are too many to
a place where they have a chance, it can really
really make an impactful, impactful difference.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
So how to just educate basic education here?
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Hell do these shelters? So a dog and people often think, oh,
I see online, Oh there's been a lost dog. I
found a lost dog. Oh, take it over to the
shelter and they'll find its own the owner will connect
with it. But on the other side of it, when
I've started getting involved in this, I've seen this dog
arrived in the shelter two weeks ago and it's now
on the it's the euthanized list, you know, So how
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do they decide how much? How did this decisions? I mean,
if it was a vicious, you know, serial killer dog,
then I don't have a sure, I get it, but
if it's a sweet, loving dog might have been someone's pet,
then that's terrible. So how how did they generally do this?
Speaker 4 (13:30):
Yeah, no, that's a great question. So you know, lost
animals should go to, or be at least the very
least reported to, you know, the the animal shelter in
the area, so if there is a chance that you know,
there's somebody looking for them, they can be reunited. What
happens is lost animals will go to an animal shelter
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and they will typically have a stray hold where they
can't be you know, adopted out or euthanized. And typically
it's only a couple of days that you have a
chance to reunite with your dog. A lot of times
that doesn't happen and the dog was dumped or it
was stray, And so what animals shelters do is they
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will evaluate the animals and then they'll say, okay, does
this seem like a you know, adoptable, healthy animal. Okay,
well then it should be available to you know, be
adopted to the public. But there are just so many
animals that even great ones get lost in the shuffle.
So in an ideal world, of course, we want, you know,
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animals to be reunited with their owners, but that only happens,
you know, a portion of the time, and a lot
of them are truly animals who are in need and
need a second chance. So I think the thing is
shelters now. Most of them are very savvy in that
they can say, Okay, this dog is not an adoption candidate,
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or it's not a candidate to be you know, rescued
and sent on a transport. You know, it might be aggressive,
or it might be too sick. But that that's a
very small minority. Most of the time, it's just animals
who you know, have somebody doesn't want them, or somebody
gets them and you know, can't take care of them.
What happened a lot during COVID is a lot of
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people adopted pets, and there was a surge of adoption,
and then people went back to work. Yeah what am
I going to do? Oh, I can't afford to take
my dog the doggy day care. And then the dumping
started and yeah, you know, just everything got saturated.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Well, yeah, that's that's what I saw, like on a
lot of these shelters. You look at the ages of
these dogs lately, they're in there. They're about four to
five years old, a lot of exactly that. So it's
perfect with the COVID.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Puppy that you got.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
So Dylia, do you And this is kind of a
question that I'm wondering about, Like, you know, you say,
can you foster?
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Can you do this?
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Like I do laundry occasionally at Austin Pets Alive, which
is you know, according to what I'm seeing the laundry,
you do laundry. Yeah, they need Oh it's a massive project.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Yeah, I mean the kind of dog. I thought maybe
it was their sweater.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Now it's not a you know, dog clothing, Monica, it's
a you know what I mean, the blankets, the towels,
like everything it takes to run, you know what I mean.
Because I'm afraid that if I go and pet a dog,
we know that I'm either going home with it or
I'm going to be fostering. And this may be a
silly question, but a reprieve for a dog to be fostered.
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What is it like like you can no longer. You
can do it for a certain amount of time and
then you have to send it back. You know what
I'm saying, Like, is that helpful to the animal. You
know what I'm saying, like, there's many ways to help,
but you know, it seems like a silly question.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
What are some of the different volunteer What are the
volunteer opportunities? If you go to a shelter, wonder what
are they going to be asking you to do.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
It's a great question because there are so many and
it's and I think a lot of times people don't
do it or go and investigate because they're like, I
can't adopt another dog, I can't fall in love. But
you know what, even why I think that we have
such a pet overpopulation problem is because people truly don't
understand like that there are great, great animals in the
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shelter and you can go. You could even just be
a volunteer. One of the most useful things is if
you can get over that. Oh if I you know,
if I go, I'm just gonna want to take them
all home, go and say, you know what, I'm going
to go walk dogs for the day. I'm going to
take my teenage daughter or son who loves animals too.
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We're going to walk dogs. And just the quality of
life that that is giving that animal helps them to
become more adoptable. And furthermore, you take a picture of
the dog that you take out to walk, you post
it on social media, you describe it, and then all
of a sudden that becomes an animal that you know,
people can say, oh, well that's not so sad and
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pathetic behind bars, Okay, look how happy it is. So
anything to like get the animals out and get them
some exercise.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
That's an amazing point to make it adoption blanket, what's
happier providing some love. But we do have these cute
little vests in Austin when you walk around the lake
and it says I'm for.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Adoption and I'm adoptable.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
And you know, and you're walking in and people are like,
oh so yeah, so thanks for explaining that. As you know,
Texas had a really really rough summer and we had
the Curville floods and it's very sad situation.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
What went on with all the animals. Do you think
that most have been reunited or.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
Well, it's really hard in a place like Texas that
is already you know, overpopulated. Hopefully a lot of them
were you know, reunited. Yes, a lot of times, you know,
when you have a devastating tragedy like that that does
get a lot of press. It's can be a good thing. Sure,
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then groups come in and they want to help, and
so they may have taken some of the animals out
of the shelter to free up some room to the
animals could get reunited. So sometimes it's a good thing.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
Okay, So yes, I agree the publicity probably helped on that.
So for sure, you know what I mean, having some
screen time for people to be able to see that.
I mean, I actually envision you and I getting like
a little doggy van and now we're going to be
delivering animals all the way up where Dylia's living now,
and yeah, dropping them road trip, road trip.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
You're used to driving, You drive your dogs all over
the place. I do used to that.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
I do.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Actually, you took my dog to drop my daughter off
at college this weekend and she's like, are you gonna
help me move in?
Speaker 1 (19:45):
I was busy.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
She was a celebrity, and I know that people were
petting her and it was really helpful to the people.
So dog love is no joke. It's the real thing. Yes, Yeah,
almost broadery today.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Well I wish you had I had, I would have
loved to see Scout here today. So some of the
some of them, so there's different. There's some judgment from
some people, like the breeders, you know, the people that
go to buy a dog. I've heard some people who
are very like I, if you bought your dog, then
I hate you or whatever. Yeah, which then means they
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would hate Julie because she has two sheep a doodle.
I have three labradoodles, so I get it. Yeah, no,
I had three ones passed away. Yes, but yes, but
I there's a lot of that. And I did visit
with a trainer the other day, Max's trainer who he
frequently goes to see, and I asked him her. I said,
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what do you think of labradoodles? And she said I
hate them? Oh, And I'm like, why do you hate them?
And she said, welloman tell you the truth. Labradoodles when
they were multi gen Australian Labradoodle, the original whatever, she said,
they were great dogs. But now you've got all these
people that are calling themselves breeders, and they are not
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breeding great dogs like healthy or there's issues with them.
And now there's way too many of them. And now
you've got every kind of doodle combination, except I haven't
seen a pit bull doodle. Have you seen one of those?
Which I think the pit bulls they actually need the.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Pr There is one out there, for sure.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
But what how do you feel about that? The element
of the breeders that are you know, that kind of thing.
And then there's the puppy mills that have always been
like the fact.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
Yeah, gosh, it's such a it's such a tough subject because,
like anything, if it were done in moderation, it wouldn't
be a problem. But to your point, you know a
lot of greedy people saw, oh, I can make some
big money by you know, putting these two This is
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the hot you know, hot new breed of these type
of things, and I can put these together and I
can think of it, they're hypoallergenic, and I can sell
them for this much. Well, it's just gotten you know,
out of control. And so it's you know, kind of
the people who kind of take things to the extreme.
And what ends up happening is some of those really
bad breeders, you know, they get tired, they're like, oh,
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I'm not selling these dogs as quickly as I thought,
and then they dump them in shelters, and we're now
seeing lots of doodles in shelters now and in rescues,
So it's sort of to the point where and I
think people don't know this, and I think, and I
was many, many, many years ago, my first dog as
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an adult was an English bulldog from a breeder because
I thought, I want this type of dog that looks
like this, that acts like this. And when you don't
really know any better, and you don't know that that
is a that is available in a rescue or can
be found in this shelter, it just maybe takes a
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little bit more looking. But when you start to learn more,
and I think just where we are now, I think
as people are becoming more educated and the fact that
you have doodles, you know it is what it is.
You can your next one, you can adopt it, you
can spread awareness, you can you know you can. Like
I'm saying, okay, yes, I did buy a dog from
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a breeder, and if I had known now what I
know now, then you know I wouldn't do it.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
I just exactly feel the same way Julie and.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
I were talking about talking about that.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
I never thought about that as far as it was
sort of an experience that a lot of people were having, like, Oh,
I go to the breeder, I get to pick the dog,
I get to watch the they send me puppy videos.
I mean, it's almost this whole thing that they create
as you're going through the process.
Speaker 4 (23:49):
Well, I would love you.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
So the other thing I see a lot in these
when I'm looking at these various shelters and available dogs,
lots of pit bulls, and I know you have them.
Speaker 4 (23:57):
Can you give your very best.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Advertisement for why a pig bull is a great pez?
Speaker 4 (24:04):
They were goodly lovers at heart.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
They've gotten very bad. Pr' listen to my favorite topic.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
Thank you for asking. Many many years ago, I actually
used to work for a no kill organization called Pets
Are Worth Saving, Chicago's largest no kill organization. They're a
very big deal. But when I worked for them many
years ago, we were not allowed to rescue pit bulls
because they were considered bad and liability and aggressive and
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those aren't family dogs. And you know, nobody wants, you know,
we don't want to take that on. And that was many,
many many years ago. And then I had some personal experience.
I found one. I found one tied to a dumpster
and I brought it home. My son was three years old,
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and my husband was like, what are you doing? Like
that dog's gonna like our throats out in the night,
like no, And I was like, it's just a dog.
Get past the like, this is the sweetest dog. And
so I really just started to look past the facade,
and then I started to meet some others. And the
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reason that there are so many is that they get
in the hands of a lot of people who breed
them and want to make money and think like, oh,
I can sell them for this and this and this,
and I just because I've fostered and volunteered with every
type of dog out there, from shitsu's to poodles, mastiffs
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to shepherds to everything in between. And I have just
met some of the most wonderful piples and I just
love them. Have I met some that aren't suitable for adoption? Absolutely, yes, absolutely,
and that's where it's important. But there are also shepherds
and you know this just chihuahuas that wouldn't be good with.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
Them ahahah bt my son on the face as a baby.
So I'm I'm not like the biggest fan, but you know,
they're not all bad. The other thing that I learned
in as I've been going through all this is in
terms of rehoming your pet, which there's a lot of
judgment about that I see, and I kind of feel
it myself in a lot of ways. But I understand
that the cost of veterinary care these days, and people
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their own illnesses they have, you know, family situations, it's unfortunate.
But I have read a lot about being very careful
in rehoming your pet if you absolutely have to, because
there's unscrupulous people who then take them and use them
as bait dogs and things. Horrible thing. So how do
you know if you're going to rehome your dog, what's
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the best way to do that?
Speaker 4 (26:48):
Yeah, so the best way to do it.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
Is called delia.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
But you know, actually guysing in a in an area
where you feel, you know, like a neighborhood, a neighborhood site,
or you know you don't want to like rehome a
dog and you know, be putting it on you know,
things that you remember Craigslist, like you have no idea
who's who's on there, and but I think you know,
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asking questions, doing a home visit, you know, things things
like that to be honest, it's hard these days to
rehome a dog because there are so many out there
that need homes. And you know, of course everyone should try.
If you really can't keep an animal, you should try.
But I would say definitely network through through your own network,
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through friends and family and.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
Versus like trying to make it personal.
Speaker 7 (27:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
Yeah, Well this is so informative, Delia. And we have
a group of moms whoations for you, and they are
our zoomer moms. So well, come ZUMONGI, welcome to the
Mom's Club, my ladies. Well, I mentioned in the opening
that I was partly inspired to do all of this
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by a zoomer mom who is here with us today,
and I told her I saw her posts onlines where
I got involved and they were so moving. I told her,
if for some strange reason, I'm ever on death row,
I want her to write my appeal because it's so emotional,
like it'll be like, you know, this adorable dog is
(28:35):
just a few months old and he has three hours
to live. You know, he'll help me and then you
gotta help me. So she's and she's done a great job.
And it's Veronica from Georgia. Veronica Welcome to the Mom's
Club everyone.
Speaker 8 (28:50):
I'm so excited to be here. As she said, I'm Veronica.
I'm from Atlanta, which is Clayton County. I don't actually
live there, but I have two adult sons, Jeremy and Austin,
and my full time job has become Clayton over.
Speaker 9 (29:06):
Time, full time, no sleep, whatever it is to see
that these dogs get seen. It's been I also work
for some rescues, like legitimately work unpaid just so that
they'll pull Clayton dogs.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
And new to rescue too.
Speaker 4 (29:25):
So I've become obsessed with the inside the Mom's Club
once I found out.
Speaker 8 (29:30):
Well, thank you have all of the educational input with
the giggles in between have been so refreshing.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Well you loved it. We all need to laugh. That's
our motto here.
Speaker 10 (29:39):
Yes, I would say, as someone knew a year.
Speaker 4 (29:45):
And my sister has I.
Speaker 10 (29:46):
Pulled her in and she's quit twice. Mindset that you
would recommend for someone that's in transport or rescue that
they need to keep to keep going because.
Speaker 4 (30:02):
Sometimes it's hard.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
That's a good question, long time, so I would love
to know.
Speaker 4 (30:06):
Yes, Oh my gosh, that is such a great question. Well,
First of all, kudos for you to you for jumping
in getting involved and getting others involved. That is awesome.
And yes, I have been involved for a very long
time and have gone through lots of different stages sadness, outrage, anger, frustration, despondents.
(30:31):
There have been times where I had to step back
a little bit, you know, for my own mental health,
but not give up. That's the thing. I think. It's
so just like with anything with any cause, it is
so important to realize, Okay, we're not going to change,
you know, you and I and all the passionate volunteers,
we're not going to change this overnight or even in
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our lifetime. But if we can make a difference, and
if we can focus on some of those happy ending
stories that otherwise would not have happened, that is what
keeps you going. And you're probably like me in that,
you know. I I think at one of my low
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points in rescue, I became very obsessed with like the numbers,
you know, like, well, if we can't get them all out,
then what is it all worth? And what is it?
You know, this is just so sad and if we
can't affect everything, and you just can't go.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
There or you don't make yourself crazy.
Speaker 4 (31:32):
And there are going to be some Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
That's a really good point.
Speaker 4 (31:36):
And I've had some, you know, really sad so you
know dogs that I really wanted to make it out
onto a transport and they didn't. They got euthanized. And
I think you just yeah, like anything, focusing on you know, okay,
step by step. It was a happy ending for that
that story.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
I think if you can help one dog.
Speaker 4 (31:58):
Yeah, and telling those happy.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
Yes, and you get to tell the success story. I
mean I felt this way when I was on mission
trips as a nurse. When you go and you have
thousands of people that you're trying to help, you can't
look out and focus on those thousands of people. You
have to look what's in front of you and what
you're saving. And I think that goes for the dogs
as well.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
Well. And I just even last week I had a
happy story because there was a dog at Clayton County,
Oscar labordoodle.
Speaker 6 (32:27):
Hey.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
The picture was so bad, the hair like his hair.
They let the hair grow like his hair everywhere. And
I told Veronica, I said, like, how much money do
I need to send you? Because no one should die,
because I had a bad hair day, so he got
a great haircut and he got rescued. And that just
throws me. I will always think of that every time
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I'm feeling a little bit down on Saturday.
Speaker 10 (32:51):
Shockingly, he was only nine months old.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
We had no idea, he had no idea. Wo Ica,
what's this website that you you?
Speaker 6 (33:01):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (33:02):
Yeah, Ronica, real quick? Where can they find in Clayton County?
People that want to help Instagram? Go to Instagram, love
to have any followers?
Speaker 8 (33:10):
It's Clayton County Animal Control volunteers.
Speaker 4 (33:13):
Okay, okay control not a chef and that's three and
they have such a low budget.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
That sounds okay. Go in there and help Clayton County. Erica,
welcome to the Mom's Club. Tell us a little bit
about yourself, where you're from, and do you have a
question for Delia.
Speaker 4 (33:29):
Yes, Hi, I'm Erica. It's a pleasure to be here.
Speaker 11 (33:32):
I live up in the Poconos in Pennsylvania, a mom
of one. I have an eight year old daughter and
a husband and a daughter who are very much wanting
a dog. So this is so inspiring on so many levels.
Speaker 4 (33:44):
And you really, you really persuaded me. I am work.
Speaker 11 (33:48):
I'm the director of communications for Woodlock Resort, were a
three property resort in the Pocono is a spa, golf course.
Speaker 4 (33:56):
And family resort.
Speaker 11 (33:58):
And so yes, I become you know, a different part
of the country than everybody else.
Speaker 4 (34:03):
So but a pleasure to be here.
Speaker 11 (34:04):
And it's been wonderful listening Delia and really inspiring. Again,
like I think, I have, you know, dreams of my
own of starting, you know, a nonprofit, and I love
what you said about just sort of taking that first step.
You don't have to do everything at once, but you
need to, you know, make moves to do something. And
I am a huge animal lover. So again, pleasure to
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be here. My question for you, i'd be curious as
to how many employees you currently have with your nonprofit
and also, you know, sort of I know this is
always a weird question, but let's say in the next
three to five years, how would you like to grow
and sort of what are your goals because I mean
(34:48):
it sounds like you're doing amazing things already in sort.
Speaker 4 (34:52):
Of the short time that you've had the organization. Yes,
a great question, and this is so funny here it's
a small world, so I know, Woodlock very well, because
my real full time paying job is Farmhouse Fresh Skincare,
which is how I originally got to know these ladies.
(35:14):
And we've worked with Woodlock in the past. So so yes,
I'm sorry I failed convention. Yes, log of Woodlock the spot.
Speaker 11 (35:21):
Yeah, it's such a funny small world and you have
amazing products.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
Yes, yes, true, yeah.
Speaker 7 (35:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (35:29):
To answer you, I love that you have, you know,
bigger aspirations to do something and maybe do something in
the nonprofit world. I will say when I started Archangel
Animal Network, and I just well, I'll give you a
little background, but I still work full time for Farmhouse Fresh,
so I do Archangel Animal Network on the side and
(35:52):
in my spare time. But honestly, I just thought, you
know what, I am going to start this and I
can make it whatever I want to be. You know,
if it needs to stay very small scale, it can.
But I can know that I have a five oh
one C three status and I can you know, try
to get donations for transports that way that's gonna help.
(36:16):
So right now, I just do this on my own.
I don't have any full time and employees, but I
have a board of directors. Yeah, and I just work
very closely with with shelter partners and when yeah, and
when we when I work with them to coordinate the transport,
they have volunteers. So they have volunteers and the goal
(36:41):
is someday to have some property where you know, dogs
can be housed who are waiting for transport or sanctuary.
That I feel like is my next step as a
you know, as a nonprofit. But that's a pretty big step.
And you know, I would say to anyone, it doesn't
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have to be a huge endeavor. You can just you
can just start. I knew that I wanted to start
with just some volunteers, and I've last year I moved
from Texas to Idaho, so I don't have the volunteers
here that I used to. But you would be amazed
at how many people want to volunteer. So I would say,
(37:23):
if you are looking to start something or at some point,
do not hire people as employees right away. People want
to volunteer. And if you task them with you know,
jobs that they can have ownership, people love that. But
you know, they feel very vested in Oh, I'm in
charge of social media, I'm in charge of the website,
(37:44):
or I'm in charge of T shirts. So sorry, I
kind of went off on a tap.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
And I looked at each other, right, I mean, and Erica,
let's get together and let's start that non often because
I think that, but I like to think big. So
let's let's have the big piece of property. And I
recently saw some property. It's in Pennsylvania actually, where they
have little tiny houses for the shelter pets. Can you
imagine we could we could have a property. They could
also have a spa. Let's make let's put it all together.
(38:14):
Let's you can always look for that, you know what
what where ultimate goal is. And actually Woodlock, I can't wait.
Speaker 3 (38:21):
To go, I know, I mean, I mean, I love
I love that, I love how farmhouse fresh, and would
like together.
Speaker 1 (38:27):
Like this is a great show. This is a this
is an important show.
Speaker 11 (38:30):
And please yeah, we're right now, you know, sort of
tying up the summer.
Speaker 4 (38:36):
It's very busy right now, and it's always this time
of year is so beautiful.
Speaker 11 (38:42):
YEA sad to see summer end, but fall is incredible
as well.
Speaker 4 (38:47):
So anytime that invites out.
Speaker 1 (38:48):
There, well I accept you will see me there for sure. Suzanne.
Welcome to the Mom's Club. Where are you from tell
Us Yourself question, Suzanne Britton.
Speaker 7 (39:00):
Well, let's see, I'm originally from upstate New York, so
I totally understand where you're coming from.
Speaker 1 (39:05):
Ladies.
Speaker 7 (39:07):
I went to Ithaca College, I'm sure, yeah, is gorgeous.
And I came out here like a long time ago, California,
Los Angeles.
Speaker 4 (39:18):
And I'm a hypnotherapist.
Speaker 7 (39:20):
I'm a certified clinical hypnotherapist, So I work a lot
with anxiety. I work with people and people who are,
you know, in all sorts of situations with trauma or
divorce or you know, whatever is causing you stress. So
that's what I do. And I have a son and
he's twenty eight. He just turned twenty eight, which is
(39:42):
weird because I'm only thirty exactly.
Speaker 5 (39:44):
I.
Speaker 1 (39:47):
Trust me.
Speaker 3 (39:47):
I know that.
Speaker 1 (39:48):
Well yeah, right, that happens a lot.
Speaker 7 (39:51):
And you know, I just I love this community.
Speaker 4 (39:54):
You guys are amazing.
Speaker 7 (39:56):
And I'm surrounded by a rescue out here, like all
of my friends are in rescue.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
Oh yeah, you do ESPEC.
Speaker 7 (40:02):
Right after that big COVID boom, right, everybody had to
have the puppy and then they gave the puppies back.
Speaker 4 (40:08):
But you know, I have good friends are and rescue.
Speaker 7 (40:10):
But I have a question, which is first of all
something technical, what's the best pet insurance? Because I'm my
friends are always looking for great pet insurance.
Speaker 4 (40:22):
And if you can't answer that question, that's.
Speaker 1 (40:24):
A good question because you know what, that's why a
lot of people will give their puppets or dog back.
Speaker 4 (40:29):
Yes, I wish I knew the answer to that. I don't,
but what I do know is that it is key
to get pet insurance like in the beginning, like as
soon as you adopt or when they're young, and yeah, yeah,
because they will have our pre existing so that's exactly.
And also, what is your connection in Los Angeles?
Speaker 1 (40:51):
Do you have people up?
Speaker 7 (40:52):
Okay, so do you fly like if I have, like
you know, I work with a shelter out here and
I fostered and I love dogs, I love animals.
Speaker 1 (41:01):
What is your connection here?
Speaker 7 (41:02):
Do you fly animals from out here to separate places
too or is it just a locally that you.
Speaker 1 (41:08):
Fly from to other places?
Speaker 2 (41:11):
Good question.
Speaker 4 (41:12):
Yeah, that's a really good question. And I know, you know,
probably anyone who's watching or listening probably has the same thing.
They're thinking about their own community. So I primarily focus
on Texas dogs because I know I have relationships with
the sending shelters there, and we've formed relationships with the
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receiving rescues. However, I have a lot of different connections
because I've worked with different transporters who come, you know,
to the Los Angeles area. Have you heard of dog
is my co pilot? Does that name sound familiar?
Speaker 1 (41:49):
Oh it doesn't.
Speaker 4 (41:50):
Okay, I've worked with them in the past day actually
fly dogs from different areas. So my for my organs,
there are lots of organizations that are sort of similar
to me. It really is all about finding those partners,
you know, the the sending shelters and then like the
(42:10):
rescues that will receive the dogs, and then kind of
connecting the dots either way, like okay, well is there
a transport that goes this way? Okay, it could bring
dogs from you know, California to upstate New York. So
sort of just a I mean really a lot of
networking and I'd be happy to kind of look at
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some other you know, look at some transporters that I've
worked with before to see, you know, who who is
taking dogs where if that's what you're asked to do.
Speaker 1 (42:40):
Yeah, and do you work with specifics.
Speaker 7 (42:43):
I know there are actual companies that obviously you're talking
about that that transport animals, but what about like actual
transportation of animals, Like if I have an animal, I'm
taking somewhere as Delta one of the best airlines to
do that, do we.
Speaker 4 (43:00):
Yeah, great, great question. It is a complicated So there
are there are ground transports and then there are you know,
flight transports, and it really depends on the type of dog,
the distance. I have heard. Flight transports are a little
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bit can be a little bit scary if the dog
goes into into cargo.
Speaker 7 (43:26):
The vaccine too, they have to have doctor's records and
all that stuff.
Speaker 4 (43:29):
Do you guys have to do that too? Do you
have to have records for the dogs? Yeah? Yes, yes,
they have to have any animal who is transported from
over state lines, they have to have a health certificate
prior to transport to make sure there's no contagious diseases.
So what what my group does primarily is just work
to do kind of group transports, like take from a shelter. Okay,
(43:53):
these you know these dogs we have you know this,
we have this group up in let's say Oregon, and
you know Montana who they said they can't accept some
dogs and then they'll select from from the list of
available dogs from my partner shelters. I know that's a
little bit confusing.
Speaker 7 (44:12):
But okay, I have actually a lot more clear so
I understand what you do, like specifically now when I
was reading up and what you do is amazing. Everybody
who's in any kind of animal protection.
Speaker 4 (44:24):
Has my vote.
Speaker 2 (44:26):
So thank you so much, solutely doing.
Speaker 4 (44:28):
Everybody what you do.
Speaker 7 (44:29):
And this is such a beautiful community. And you know,
I was watching all the old Sex and the City reruns.
I just love that community of women.
Speaker 1 (44:36):
You know, we just well, that's that's what we're about.
That's that's what the Mom's Club is about for sure. Well,
thank you and thank you Zoomer Moms for all the
great questions for so Delia. As always, we have to
put a big plug in. We all look glowing here
today because we're all using far mouths fresh so we're
wonderful old plug for that. Well, tell us where our
audience can help volunteer or donate to our Change Animal
(45:00):
Network exactly.
Speaker 4 (45:02):
So yeah, so I'll give you a couple different things
and ways that you can help. I would say if
anyone is listening and they want to help locally, you know,
contact your local shelter or rescue and see about volunteering.
See how you can go in and help spread the
word if you want to. If you want to donate
to an organization like our animal arch Angel Animal Network,
(45:26):
you can know that you are directly helping an animal
be saved from the euthanagelist and it's going to you know,
go to a happy home and you don't have to
do any of the work of taking finding the home
and fostering it. You just get to know that your
donation and I mainly do it's all. It's all on Facebook.
(45:46):
My website is actually down at the moment. It's under construction,
so everything is on Facebook. It's Archangel Animal Network and
it has links to paypack all donations. It has a
donation button.
Speaker 2 (46:01):
Great.
Speaker 4 (46:01):
You have some big transports coming up in September and
every single month, so I'll be sharing some pictures there
of some of the dogs that any sort of donation
will help to sponsor and will help to you know,
help them get a new life.
Speaker 3 (46:14):
So just well, I think that's super because people can't
foster all the time. They can't necessarily have extra time
depending on what's going on there. So like she said,
you know you're saving an animal by donating exactly.
Speaker 1 (46:28):
Yeah, I think that's great. Well, help the archangel Animal
Network and also don't forget the dogs in Clayton County
but check out that site. Although be sure and have
your your credit card and your Kleenex handy, because he's
really good, like I said, those videos, so you'll you'll
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be inspired to when you can help them. Well, thank
you so much, ladies, And I want to make a
special mention of our good friend Beth Biggler, who has
written on her animals which she helps people as are
going through pet bereavement and like preparing for that time. Sadly,
my dog Cookie has liver cancer. Yes, and it's sorry
(47:12):
so great right now, but you know what I mean,
I'm glad there's people like Beth who are helping people
like me get through that time. So check out her book.
She's doing fantastic. And we'd also like to think our
sponsors New Calm, which we love Newclm because New Calm
keeps us rest and we get along together because yeah,
(47:33):
once we could dump the Seinfeld episodes we used to
sleep to Seinfeld every night because that was you. I'm
sorry used to keep you awake. We have to share
a room when we're here in LA, but we now
use new calm to stay good friends. I also want
to thank our sponsor, Doggy Express, which is a women
own dog treat bakery and powtry venue for you and
(47:56):
your dog. They offer gourmet dog treats, cakes, upcakes, jerky,
and ice cream. I'm just getting hungry even thinking about it.
All treats are made and decorated in house and small
batches without preservatives, and you can order them from the
doggie express dot com so you'll absolutely love it. My
dogs love them for sure. Well, thank you this. I
can't believe the time is gone. But I feel like
(48:17):
we've accomplished something. I hope we have.
Speaker 2 (48:20):
I hope that if we've still a lot more educated.
Speaker 1 (48:23):
That's what the point. That's what I mean said. I
wanted to educate people because when I got into this,
I'm like, Okay, well how can I really help because
I want to help, but I don't know what to do.
So we want to just keep it going. Let's came
in helping. You know, if you want to start donat
or Erica, you and I are going to start something.
I mean, let's let's do our part for sure. Okay, well,
(48:47):
then the time has passed way too fast, can you
believe it. It's happy to do the studio setting here,
but we will be back, ladies moms out there next
time with celebrities and extraordinary moms just like you. We
know your metime's pressures and valuable. Thank you for spending
it with us. So, Delia, how can we find you
on social media?
Speaker 4 (49:07):
Yes? So the best way to find arch Angel Animal
Network is so on Facebook it's Archangel Animal Network or
Instagram arch Angel Animal Network seventy five and you'll see
some of the happy ending stories, some of the transports
(49:28):
that we've sponsored, and just gives a little bit more
detail of how it all works. Mainly everything is on Facebook.
That's sort of the hub.
Speaker 1 (49:37):
Okay, great, thank you, we'll check it out. Thank you
Zooer moms for joining us today. Those were great questions.
They were amazing, as we say here on the Mom's
Club and also everybody out there in the country, look
for your newest favorite club, which we're going to have.
We will call them Mom's clubs. We call them the
mom Turage. So go find your mom Turage in your city,
(49:59):
new dear you, we're planning events pretty soon in Nashville, Dallas, Atlanta.
We're gonna be all over the country pretty soon, and
you'll have a new group of friends in your friends. Yeah,
because we believe that's the whole. That's the whole. Yeah.
We believe in women's friendships and connections. And bring your
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friends and then meet new friends all over the country.
We have a motto here on the Mom's Club, which
is amazing. If you don't laugh sometimes, ladies.
Speaker 2 (50:31):
You were going to gonna cry.
Speaker 1 (50:33):
So keep laughing, keep your chin up, and we'll see
you next time. Inside the mom
Welcome, moms. Welcome to Inside the Mom's Club. I'm your
host Monica Samuels, and I'm here with my lovely co host,
Julie Orchid.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Hi Julie.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
While it's been a while, it's we've been on a
little hiatus here as we travel around, especially Julie. Yeah,
really been traveling. It's hard to keep up with you.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
But the summer has been a hot one.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
It has been. We have been super busy. But we're
glad to be back, and in fact, we are in
a new studio. It's so this is yeah pretty, I mean,
this is.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
My favorite color. There is not feeling it.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Yeah, I feel so relaxed here. It's really it's really
super well. The thing that you pointed out to me
as we were in the new studio is that they
would see our feet, so you ran across the street
this but oh well but yeah, but today, because of
the show we're doing, I am wearing my animal my
(01:00):
dog rescue shoes.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
I hope we get a shot of that because those
are the cutest are darn there? Did you buy me
a parent?
Speaker 1 (01:09):
I can? They're from Sketchers, and Bob is called Bobs.
I don't know. They donate money for.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
They're absolutely adorable. So now I'm a big fan.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
I love them.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
I mean I have a doggy raincoat, so I think
I kind of need the tennis shoes.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Yeah. They also make them for cat lovers, which I'm a.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Dog lover all right. Do they have any ferrot.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
No, but if they come up with a ferret shoe,
I'll definitely get you one because I know you loved
Smoky Stinker.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Smoky Stinky Smokey has its own you know story. Yeah,
that's another for the point being is that we are
obsessed with the animals are and.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
We're very obsessed with animals, and I've even become more
obsessed this summer.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
I didn't get to see you, but you have all
of a sudden.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Like not all of a sudden, but every day and
a few hours at a time, I've seen you scrolling
and wanting to save animals.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
And how many would you have if you could?
Speaker 1 (02:07):
I have a passion for that. Oh I don't even
know how many. But right now I'm kind of I've
got three. I have two dogs, but my son has
a rescue dog, Max. Yes, Max, And so that's really
where I got interested in rescue animals initially, So.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Yeah, Max, adult your heart.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Max stole a lot of things from me in a way.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Yeah Max, Max, I'm loutting it mildly.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
I love Max, but you know, Max has been a
challenge at times, but it's worth it. But it's not
his fault because think about it, he was rescued by
four frat boys Operation Kindness in Carrollton, Texas let four
frat brothers adopt a puppy.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Basically, I mean, I think it's actually kind of a
good thing.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Well, what an SMU kid. So she they pretty much
knew that this dog.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Was going to live a lot, he was going to
live really well.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
And so Max has that was a life that Max
started was in a that environment.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
So so he's social.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
He's social. So this last weekend, we were having a
big party at our house. I wasn't my son was
in the backyard by the pool. There were the girls
and guys and all that going on, and Max was
dying to get outside. And he's a Chase Grant dog. Yeah,
I mean, so I let him out and he just
mingled and he was having living his life. That's that's
where he's most comfortable. Yes, but that isn't always the
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best situation.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
I would agree, because we have a problem in the
United States that I am really, really, really glad that
we're bringing to light today because you know, I'm glad
that they adopted the dog. But again, the situation might
not be ideal for you know.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Well, that's why I wanted to do that. I specifically
wanted to do this show because I I wanted to help,
but I thought, how do I help? Right, Like, I
don't really know how to help? And well, part of
the reason I want to help. We have a Zoomer
mom today who will be joining us later who inspired
this in large part because I just kind of got
obsessed with helping those dogs in Clayton County, Georgia, even
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though I live in Austin, Texas. It's okay, and I
think this is super important. And when I was trying
to decide, well, who do I ask, who do I
talk to? How do I get involved? I immediately thought
of remember our our sponsor, Farmhouse Fresh And when we
went there, a skincare company based in McKinney, Texas. They
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have animal rescue is a big part of their what
they do. They have a farm where they rescue that's
an animal sanctuary and rescue a place we went to it.
It was we were.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
To get to go sure it and it was really
a cool experience.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
It was inspiring and I loved it. And we then
you know, as you as you do, as you do
these things. I started following ye one of the co founders,
on social media, and I saw her as she was
rescuing a dog named Todd, and it was I mean,
it just warmed my heart. So I thought, I know
who to ask, yes, And today she's been so kind
(05:13):
as to be our guest. And what I learned is
at farm House Fresh in twenty seventeen, during Hurricane Harvey,
they got together and funded a large scale dog rescue
transport and our guest today, who has been for over
fifteen plus years a dog rescue volunteer and a foster parent,
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decided to start an organization five oh one c three
called Archangel Animal Network, which is a nonprofit and it's
dedicated to the rescue and transport of shelter dogs and
since twenty nineteen they have rescued, transport and to rescue
over five thousand dogs Texas dogs. She is, well, she'll
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tell us all about it.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
She I want to hear the details.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
The vice president of sales and the co founder of
Farmhouse Fresh. Please welcome our friend deal Yah Cleansing. Welcome
to the West Club. I do thank you. It's so
good to see you. Well, thank you so much.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
I'm thrilled to be here with you all today.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
I am thrilled. Thank you so much. I know, and
you know, I just like, who can Because here's why
I think this is important show. And I want everybody
that's listening listen to the end because you're gonna get
so much information. You're gonna learn a lot, and hopefully
you're gonna save some some shelter animals. And yes, that's
so important because when I started getting more involved in this,
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was like what do I do? And then you when
you get when you start, you get stopped a lot.
And the reason you get stopped a lot is because
people will tell you, oh, that organization they just take money,
they're stealing from you. They're you know, that's a fraud,
that's a You're like, well.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Where do I like, where do you even begin? What's valid?
What's not valid?
Speaker 1 (07:02):
So I knew that you were involved in this because,
like I said, I watched you I watched you love
Todd in a way that mean so much to me,
and I know Todd is still part of your family,
and so I thought that was so tremendous, and I'm like,
I know who to ask about this, and so I
immediately went and asked Julia, like, what can we do
to help? And so my husband and I decided to
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help your archangel Animal Network. And we're so thrilled that
we were able to do that. But one thing we
wanted to make sure that we did is we were
giving to an organization that was truly going to make
a difference and help rescue these dogs. And you also
connected me with a woman in Fort Worth at the
Animal Control in Fort Worth, and she shared with me
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how poorly dogs in Texas. I guess there's one point
five million dogs and cats euthanized in America every year.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
That is unbelievable. I really did not know the number.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Yeah, and sad Le Texas leads the way so exactly.
Tell us, So how did you get involved in this?
Where did it start for you? Because I know where
it started for me, but you care a.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
Story well, much like you and Monica. I just have
to say kudos to you for being curious and wanting
to know more, because I think so often, you know,
we see sad things where we hear sad stories and
we're just like, oh, that's so sad. Somebody needs to
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do something. But I'm someone, you're someone, we're all someone,
and we can all do something, you know, and we
may not know what that is. But to your credit,
you know, you reached out to me and said, hey,
I'm seeing all these posts of you know, puppies that
are in danger and are going to be euthanized, and
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how do I make you know, how do I make
a difference? And that's really how I started to many
many years ago. It was literally just stay gosh, I
know I love dogs and I want to help them.
Let me just kind of start by fostering a dog
and all volunteer and really just learning along the way.
Speaker 5 (09:15):
And I think sometimes just as humans, as busy moms,
sometimes we don't just even take that initial step to
be curious because we're like, oh, it's too.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
Much, don't I can't handle one more thing. I don't
want to do anything else. But we can all do something.
And to your you've told a little bit about how
I got involved in rescue transports specifically was it was
through Farmhouse Fresh, as you eloquently introduced. We knew after
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Hurricane Harvey there were shelters that were just packed full
and the shelters needed to be evacuated to make room
for the other dogs that were flowing in and cats
and all sorts of things. And we didn't know what
we were doing. But I had sort of been involved
in rescue transport volunteering for other organizations before, and said,
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you know what, why don't we coordinate something. We know
some rescue groups in Minnesota. If we can find a
place to send the animals, let's figure this out. Well,
long story short, it was complete chaos and it was just,
I mean, like a lot of things that we do,
you know, I was like, never again, We're never doing
this again, right right. However, however, we saw these animals,
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and these were the animals who had already been in
the shelter and they were in pretty rough shape.
Speaker 6 (10:40):
But we saw them when they landed in a different spot,
a spot that was willing to take them. They got
adopted so quickly and they lived beautiful, live like animals
that were you know, sort of throwaways in certain areas
of the country were welcomed by other areas, you know,
that had had the capacity to take this. So you
bring up some beautiful, beautiful happy endings.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
Yeah, so you bring up a good point. I read
that these northern states. Why is that such a hot
spot for all these animals.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
I'm just curious.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
I mean, obviously we're not doing a great job in Texas.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Why are texts and so unkind?
Speaker 2 (11:18):
What's our problem?
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Yes, I think in the shelters are those people question.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
You know, Texas and many of the like Southern states,
they don't have a lot of strict spain neuter laws.
States that are have warmer climates, animals are often allowed
to roam and if they're not Spain neuter, they're going
to reproduce. There are a lot of Southern states and
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some states don't have laws surrounding animal cruelty and breeding
and poppy mills. So there are just too many animals
in many states. Texas ranks number one in the amount
of animals that are euthanized. California is up there, and
then it kind of goes down from that some of
the other Southern states. So by sending animals to places
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that don't have that level of overpopulation, they can get
adopted more quickly and you know, whereas they might not
have a chance in some areas. And Monica, that's what
you know, we're we're gonna partner on with your you
know donation and is to sponsor some of those those
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transport And that's what Archangel Animal Network has done, is
to say, if we can just you know, get the
animals from a place where there are too many to
a place where they have a chance, it can really
really make an impactful, impactful difference.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
So how to just educate basic education here?
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Hell do these shelters? So a dog and people often think, oh,
I see online, Oh there's been a lost dog. I
found a lost dog. Oh, take it over to the
shelter and they'll find its own the owner will connect
with it. But on the other side of it, when
I've started getting involved in this, I've seen this dog
arrived in the shelter two weeks ago and it's now
on the it's the euthanized list, you know, So how
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do they decide how much? How did this decisions? I mean,
if it was a vicious, you know, serial killer dog,
then I don't have a sure, I get it, but
if it's a sweet, loving dog might have been someone's pet,
then that's terrible. So how how did they generally do this?
Speaker 4 (13:30):
Yeah, no, that's a great question. So you know, lost
animals should go to, or be at least the very
least reported to, you know, the the animal shelter in
the area, so if there is a chance that you know,
there's somebody looking for them, they can be reunited. What
happens is lost animals will go to an animal shelter
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and they will typically have a stray hold where they
can't be you know, adopted out or euthanized. And typically
it's only a couple of days that you have a
chance to reunite with your dog. A lot of times
that doesn't happen and the dog was dumped or it
was stray, And so what animals shelters do is they
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will evaluate the animals and then they'll say, okay, does
this seem like a you know, adoptable, healthy animal. Okay,
well then it should be available to you know, be
adopted to the public. But there are just so many
animals that even great ones get lost in the shuffle.
So in an ideal world, of course, we want, you know,
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animals to be reunited with their owners, but that only happens,
you know, a portion of the time, and a lot
of them are truly animals who are in need and
need a second chance. So I think the thing is
shelters now. Most of them are very savvy in that
they can say, Okay, this dog is not an adoption candidate,
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or it's not a candidate to be you know, rescued
and sent on a transport. You know, it might be aggressive,
or it might be too sick. But that that's a
very small minority. Most of the time, it's just animals
who you know, have somebody doesn't want them, or somebody
gets them and you know, can't take care of them.
What happened a lot during COVID is a lot of
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people adopted pets, and there was a surge of adoption,
and then people went back to work. Yeah what am
I going to do? Oh, I can't afford to take
my dog the doggy day care. And then the dumping
started and yeah, you know, just everything got saturated.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Well, yeah, that's that's what I saw, like on a
lot of these shelters. You look at the ages of
these dogs lately, they're in there. They're about four to
five years old, a lot of exactly that. So it's
perfect with the COVID.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Puppy that you got.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
So Dylia, do you And this is kind of a
question that I'm wondering about, Like, you know, you say,
can you foster?
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Can you do this?
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Like I do laundry occasionally at Austin Pets Alive, which
is you know, according to what I'm seeing the laundry,
you do laundry. Yeah, they need Oh it's a massive project.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Yeah, I mean the kind of dog. I thought maybe
it was their sweater.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Now it's not a you know, dog clothing, Monica, it's
a you know what I mean, the blankets, the towels,
like everything it takes to run, you know what I mean.
Because I'm afraid that if I go and pet a dog,
we know that I'm either going home with it or
I'm going to be fostering. And this may be a
silly question, but a reprieve for a dog to be fostered.
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What is it like like you can no longer. You
can do it for a certain amount of time and
then you have to send it back. You know what
I'm saying, Like, is that helpful to the animal. You
know what I'm saying, like, there's many ways to help,
but you know, it seems like a silly question.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
What are some of the different volunteer What are the
volunteer opportunities? If you go to a shelter, wonder what
are they going to be asking you to do.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
It's a great question because there are so many and
it's and I think a lot of times people don't
do it or go and investigate because they're like, I
can't adopt another dog, I can't fall in love. But
you know what, even why I think that we have
such a pet overpopulation problem is because people truly don't
understand like that there are great, great animals in the
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shelter and you can go. You could even just be
a volunteer. One of the most useful things is if
you can get over that. Oh if I you know,
if I go, I'm just gonna want to take them
all home, go and say, you know what, I'm going
to go walk dogs for the day. I'm going to
take my teenage daughter or son who loves animals too.
(17:34):
We're going to walk dogs. And just the quality of
life that that is giving that animal helps them to
become more adoptable. And furthermore, you take a picture of
the dog that you take out to walk, you post
it on social media, you describe it, and then all
of a sudden that becomes an animal that you know,
people can say, oh, well that's not so sad and
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pathetic behind bars, Okay, look how happy it is. So
anything to like get the animals out and get them
some exercise.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
That's an amazing point to make it adoption blanket, what's
happier providing some love. But we do have these cute
little vests in Austin when you walk around the lake
and it says I'm for.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Adoption and I'm adoptable.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
And you know, and you're walking in and people are like,
oh so yeah, so thanks for explaining that. As you know,
Texas had a really really rough summer and we had
the Curville floods and it's very sad situation.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
What went on with all the animals. Do you think
that most have been reunited or.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
Well, it's really hard in a place like Texas that
is already you know, overpopulated. Hopefully a lot of them
were you know, reunited. Yes, a lot of times, you know,
when you have a devastating tragedy like that that does
get a lot of press. It's can be a good thing. Sure,
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then groups come in and they want to help, and
so they may have taken some of the animals out
of the shelter to free up some room to the
animals could get reunited. So sometimes it's a good thing.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
Okay, So yes, I agree the publicity probably helped on that.
So for sure, you know what I mean, having some
screen time for people to be able to see that.
I mean, I actually envision you and I getting like
a little doggy van and now we're going to be
delivering animals all the way up where Dylia's living now,
and yeah, dropping them road trip, road trip.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
You're used to driving, You drive your dogs all over
the place. I do used to that.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
I do.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Actually, you took my dog to drop my daughter off
at college this weekend and she's like, are you gonna
help me move in?
Speaker 1 (19:45):
I was busy.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
She was a celebrity, and I know that people were
petting her and it was really helpful to the people.
So dog love is no joke. It's the real thing. Yes, Yeah,
almost broadery today.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Well I wish you had I had, I would have
loved to see Scout here today. So some of the
some of them, so there's different. There's some judgment from
some people, like the breeders, you know, the people that
go to buy a dog. I've heard some people who
are very like I, if you bought your dog, then
I hate you or whatever. Yeah, which then means they
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would hate Julie because she has two sheep a doodle.
I have three labradoodles, so I get it. Yeah, no,
I had three ones passed away. Yes, but yes, but
I there's a lot of that. And I did visit
with a trainer the other day, Max's trainer who he
frequently goes to see, and I asked him her. I said,
(20:39):
what do you think of labradoodles? And she said I
hate them? Oh, And I'm like, why do you hate them?
And she said, welloman tell you the truth. Labradoodles when
they were multi gen Australian Labradoodle, the original whatever, she said,
they were great dogs. But now you've got all these
people that are calling themselves breeders, and they are not
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breeding great dogs like healthy or there's issues with them.
And now there's way too many of them. And now
you've got every kind of doodle combination, except I haven't
seen a pit bull doodle. Have you seen one of those?
Which I think the pit bulls they actually need the.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Pr There is one out there, for sure.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
But what how do you feel about that? The element
of the breeders that are you know, that kind of thing.
And then there's the puppy mills that have always been
like the fact.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
Yeah, gosh, it's such a it's such a tough subject because,
like anything, if it were done in moderation, it wouldn't
be a problem. But to your point, you know a
lot of greedy people saw, oh, I can make some
big money by you know, putting these two This is
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the hot you know, hot new breed of these type
of things, and I can put these together and I
can think of it, they're hypoallergenic, and I can sell
them for this much. Well, it's just gotten you know,
out of control. And so it's you know, kind of
the people who kind of take things to the extreme.
And what ends up happening is some of those really
bad breeders, you know, they get tired, they're like, oh,
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I'm not selling these dogs as quickly as I thought,
and then they dump them in shelters, and we're now
seeing lots of doodles in shelters now and in rescues,
So it's sort of to the point where and I
think people don't know this, and I think, and I
was many, many, many years ago, my first dog as
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an adult was an English bulldog from a breeder because
I thought, I want this type of dog that looks
like this, that acts like this. And when you don't
really know any better, and you don't know that that
is a that is available in a rescue or can
be found in this shelter, it just maybe takes a
(23:02):
little bit more looking. But when you start to learn more,
and I think just where we are now, I think
as people are becoming more educated and the fact that
you have doodles, you know it is what it is.
You can your next one, you can adopt it, you
can spread awareness, you can you know you can. Like
I'm saying, okay, yes, I did buy a dog from
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a breeder, and if I had known now what I
know now, then you know I wouldn't do it.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
I just exactly feel the same way Julie and.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
I were talking about talking about that.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
I never thought about that as far as it was
sort of an experience that a lot of people were having, like, Oh,
I go to the breeder, I get to pick the dog,
I get to watch the they send me puppy videos.
I mean, it's almost this whole thing that they create
as you're going through the process.
Speaker 4 (23:49):
Well, I would love you.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
So the other thing I see a lot in these
when I'm looking at these various shelters and available dogs,
lots of pit bulls, and I know you have them.
Speaker 4 (23:57):
Can you give your very best.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Advertisement for why a pig bull is a great pez?
Speaker 4 (24:04):
They were goodly lovers at heart.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
They've gotten very bad. Pr' listen to my favorite topic.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
Thank you for asking. Many many years ago, I actually
used to work for a no kill organization called Pets
Are Worth Saving, Chicago's largest no kill organization. They're a
very big deal. But when I worked for them many
years ago, we were not allowed to rescue pit bulls
because they were considered bad and liability and aggressive and
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those aren't family dogs. And you know, nobody wants, you know,
we don't want to take that on. And that was many,
many many years ago. And then I had some personal experience.
I found one. I found one tied to a dumpster
and I brought it home. My son was three years old,
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and my husband was like, what are you doing? Like
that dog's gonna like our throats out in the night,
like no, And I was like, it's just a dog.
Get past the like, this is the sweetest dog. And
so I really just started to look past the facade,
and then I started to meet some others. And the
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reason that there are so many is that they get
in the hands of a lot of people who breed
them and want to make money and think like, oh,
I can sell them for this and this and this,
and I just because I've fostered and volunteered with every
type of dog out there, from shitsu's to poodles, mastiffs
(25:37):
to shepherds to everything in between. And I have just
met some of the most wonderful piples and I just
love them. Have I met some that aren't suitable for adoption? Absolutely, yes, absolutely,
and that's where it's important. But there are also shepherds
and you know this just chihuahuas that wouldn't be good with.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
Them ahahah bt my son on the face as a baby.
So I'm I'm not like the biggest fan, but you know,
they're not all bad. The other thing that I learned
in as I've been going through all this is in
terms of rehoming your pet, which there's a lot of
judgment about that I see, and I kind of feel
it myself in a lot of ways. But I understand
that the cost of veterinary care these days, and people
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their own illnesses they have, you know, family situations, it's unfortunate.
But I have read a lot about being very careful
in rehoming your pet if you absolutely have to, because
there's unscrupulous people who then take them and use them
as bait dogs and things. Horrible thing. So how do
you know if you're going to rehome your dog, what's
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the best way to do that?
Speaker 4 (26:48):
Yeah, so the best way to do it.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
Is called delia.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
But you know, actually guysing in a in an area
where you feel, you know, like a neighborhood, a neighborhood site,
or you know you don't want to like rehome a
dog and you know, be putting it on you know,
things that you remember Craigslist, like you have no idea
who's who's on there, and but I think you know,
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asking questions, doing a home visit, you know, things things
like that to be honest, it's hard these days to
rehome a dog because there are so many out there
that need homes. And you know, of course everyone should try.
If you really can't keep an animal, you should try.
But I would say definitely network through through your own network,
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through friends and family and.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
Versus like trying to make it personal.
Speaker 7 (27:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
Yeah, Well this is so informative, Delia. And we have
a group of moms whoations for you, and they are
our zoomer moms. So well, come ZUMONGI, welcome to the
Mom's Club, my ladies. Well, I mentioned in the opening
that I was partly inspired to do all of this
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by a zoomer mom who is here with us today,
and I told her I saw her posts onlines where
I got involved and they were so moving. I told her,
if for some strange reason, I'm ever on death row,
I want her to write my appeal because it's so emotional,
like it'll be like, you know, this adorable dog is
(28:35):
just a few months old and he has three hours
to live. You know, he'll help me and then you
gotta help me. So she's and she's done a great job.
And it's Veronica from Georgia. Veronica Welcome to the Mom's
Club everyone.
Speaker 8 (28:50):
I'm so excited to be here. As she said, I'm Veronica.
I'm from Atlanta, which is Clayton County. I don't actually
live there, but I have two adult sons, Jeremy and Austin,
and my full time job has become Clayton over.
Speaker 9 (29:06):
Time, full time, no sleep, whatever it is to see
that these dogs get seen. It's been I also work
for some rescues, like legitimately work unpaid just so that
they'll pull Clayton dogs.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
And new to rescue too.
Speaker 4 (29:25):
So I've become obsessed with the inside the Mom's Club
once I found out.
Speaker 8 (29:30):
Well, thank you have all of the educational input with
the giggles in between have been so refreshing.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Well you loved it. We all need to laugh. That's
our motto here.
Speaker 10 (29:39):
Yes, I would say, as someone knew a year.
Speaker 4 (29:45):
And my sister has I.
Speaker 10 (29:46):
Pulled her in and she's quit twice. Mindset that you
would recommend for someone that's in transport or rescue that
they need to keep to keep going because.
Speaker 4 (30:02):
Sometimes it's hard.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
That's a good question, long time, so I would love
to know.
Speaker 4 (30:06):
Yes, Oh my gosh, that is such a great question. Well,
First of all, kudos for you to you for jumping
in getting involved and getting others involved. That is awesome.
And yes, I have been involved for a very long
time and have gone through lots of different stages sadness, outrage, anger, frustration, despondents.
(30:31):
There have been times where I had to step back
a little bit, you know, for my own mental health,
but not give up. That's the thing. I think. It's
so just like with anything with any cause, it is
so important to realize, Okay, we're not going to change,
you know, you and I and all the passionate volunteers,
we're not going to change this overnight or even in
(30:54):
our lifetime. But if we can make a difference, and
if we can focus on some of those happy ending
stories that otherwise would not have happened, that is what
keeps you going. And you're probably like me in that,
you know. I I think at one of my low
(31:15):
points in rescue, I became very obsessed with like the numbers,
you know, like, well, if we can't get them all out,
then what is it all worth? And what is it?
You know, this is just so sad and if we
can't affect everything, and you just can't go.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
There or you don't make yourself crazy.
Speaker 4 (31:32):
And there are going to be some Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
That's a really good point.
Speaker 4 (31:36):
And I've had some, you know, really sad so you
know dogs that I really wanted to make it out
onto a transport and they didn't. They got euthanized. And
I think you just yeah, like anything, focusing on you know, okay,
step by step. It was a happy ending for that
that story.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
I think if you can help one dog.
Speaker 4 (31:58):
Yeah, and telling those happy.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
Yes, and you get to tell the success story. I
mean I felt this way when I was on mission
trips as a nurse. When you go and you have
thousands of people that you're trying to help, you can't
look out and focus on those thousands of people. You
have to look what's in front of you and what
you're saving. And I think that goes for the dogs
as well.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
Well. And I just even last week I had a
happy story because there was a dog at Clayton County,
Oscar labordoodle.
Speaker 6 (32:27):
Hey.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
The picture was so bad, the hair like his hair.
They let the hair grow like his hair everywhere. And
I told Veronica, I said, like, how much money do
I need to send you? Because no one should die,
because I had a bad hair day, so he got
a great haircut and he got rescued. And that just
throws me. I will always think of that every time
(32:49):
I'm feeling a little bit down on Saturday.
Speaker 10 (32:51):
Shockingly, he was only nine months old.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
We had no idea, he had no idea. Wo Ica,
what's this website that you you?
Speaker 6 (33:01):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (33:02):
Yeah, Ronica, real quick? Where can they find in Clayton County?
People that want to help Instagram? Go to Instagram, love
to have any followers?
Speaker 8 (33:10):
It's Clayton County Animal Control volunteers.
Speaker 4 (33:13):
Okay, okay control not a chef and that's three and
they have such a low budget.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
That sounds okay. Go in there and help Clayton County. Erica,
welcome to the Mom's Club. Tell us a little bit
about yourself, where you're from, and do you have a
question for Delia.
Speaker 4 (33:29):
Yes, Hi, I'm Erica. It's a pleasure to be here.
Speaker 11 (33:32):
I live up in the Poconos in Pennsylvania, a mom
of one. I have an eight year old daughter and
a husband and a daughter who are very much wanting
a dog. So this is so inspiring on so many levels.
Speaker 4 (33:44):
And you really, you really persuaded me. I am work.
Speaker 11 (33:48):
I'm the director of communications for Woodlock Resort, were a
three property resort in the Pocono is a spa, golf course.
Speaker 4 (33:56):
And family resort.
Speaker 11 (33:58):
And so yes, I become you know, a different part
of the country than everybody else.
Speaker 4 (34:03):
So but a pleasure to be here.
Speaker 11 (34:04):
And it's been wonderful listening Delia and really inspiring. Again,
like I think, I have, you know, dreams of my
own of starting, you know, a nonprofit, and I love
what you said about just sort of taking that first step.
You don't have to do everything at once, but you
need to, you know, make moves to do something. And
I am a huge animal lover. So again, pleasure to
(34:27):
be here. My question for you, i'd be curious as
to how many employees you currently have with your nonprofit
and also, you know, sort of I know this is
always a weird question, but let's say in the next
three to five years, how would you like to grow
and sort of what are your goals because I mean
(34:48):
it sounds like you're doing amazing things already in sort.
Speaker 4 (34:52):
Of the short time that you've had the organization. Yes,
a great question, and this is so funny here it's
a small world, so I know, Woodlock very well, because
my real full time paying job is Farmhouse Fresh Skincare,
which is how I originally got to know these ladies.
(35:14):
And we've worked with Woodlock in the past. So so yes,
I'm sorry I failed convention. Yes, log of Woodlock the spot.
Speaker 11 (35:21):
Yeah, it's such a funny small world and you have
amazing products.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
Yes, yes, true, yeah.
Speaker 7 (35:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (35:29):
To answer you, I love that you have, you know,
bigger aspirations to do something and maybe do something in
the nonprofit world. I will say when I started Archangel
Animal Network, and I just well, I'll give you a
little background, but I still work full time for Farmhouse Fresh,
so I do Archangel Animal Network on the side and
(35:52):
in my spare time. But honestly, I just thought, you
know what, I am going to start this and I
can make it whatever I want to be. You know,
if it needs to stay very small scale, it can.
But I can know that I have a five oh
one C three status and I can you know, try
to get donations for transports that way that's gonna help.
(36:16):
So right now, I just do this on my own.
I don't have any full time and employees, but I
have a board of directors. Yeah, and I just work
very closely with with shelter partners and when yeah, and
when we when I work with them to coordinate the transport,
they have volunteers. So they have volunteers and the goal
(36:41):
is someday to have some property where you know, dogs
can be housed who are waiting for transport or sanctuary.
That I feel like is my next step as a
you know, as a nonprofit. But that's a pretty big step.
And you know, I would say to anyone, it doesn't
(37:02):
have to be a huge endeavor. You can just you
can just start. I knew that I wanted to start
with just some volunteers, and I've last year I moved
from Texas to Idaho, so I don't have the volunteers
here that I used to. But you would be amazed
at how many people want to volunteer. So I would say,
(37:23):
if you are looking to start something or at some point,
do not hire people as employees right away. People want
to volunteer. And if you task them with you know,
jobs that they can have ownership, people love that. But
you know, they feel very vested in Oh, I'm in
charge of social media, I'm in charge of the website,
(37:44):
or I'm in charge of T shirts. So sorry, I
kind of went off on a tap.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
And I looked at each other, right, I mean, and Erica,
let's get together and let's start that non often because
I think that, but I like to think big. So
let's let's have the big piece of property. And I
recently saw some property. It's in Pennsylvania actually, where they
have little tiny houses for the shelter pets. Can you
imagine we could we could have a property. They could
also have a spa. Let's make let's put it all together.
(38:14):
Let's you can always look for that, you know what
what where ultimate goal is. And actually Woodlock, I can't wait.
Speaker 3 (38:21):
To go, I know, I mean, I mean, I love
I love that, I love how farmhouse fresh, and would
like together.
Speaker 1 (38:27):
Like this is a great show. This is a this
is an important show.
Speaker 11 (38:30):
And please yeah, we're right now, you know, sort of
tying up the summer.
Speaker 4 (38:36):
It's very busy right now, and it's always this time
of year is so beautiful.
Speaker 11 (38:42):
YEA sad to see summer end, but fall is incredible
as well.
Speaker 4 (38:47):
So anytime that invites out.
Speaker 1 (38:48):
There, well I accept you will see me there for sure. Suzanne.
Welcome to the Mom's Club. Where are you from tell
Us Yourself question, Suzanne Britton.
Speaker 7 (39:00):
Well, let's see, I'm originally from upstate New York, so
I totally understand where you're coming from.
Speaker 1 (39:05):
Ladies.
Speaker 7 (39:07):
I went to Ithaca College, I'm sure, yeah, is gorgeous.
And I came out here like a long time ago, California,
Los Angeles.
Speaker 4 (39:18):
And I'm a hypnotherapist.
Speaker 7 (39:20):
I'm a certified clinical hypnotherapist, So I work a lot
with anxiety. I work with people and people who are,
you know, in all sorts of situations with trauma or
divorce or you know, whatever is causing you stress. So
that's what I do. And I have a son and
he's twenty eight. He just turned twenty eight, which is
(39:42):
weird because I'm only thirty exactly.
Speaker 5 (39:44):
I.
Speaker 1 (39:47):
Trust me.
Speaker 3 (39:47):
I know that.
Speaker 1 (39:48):
Well yeah, right, that happens a lot.
Speaker 7 (39:51):
And you know, I just I love this community.
Speaker 4 (39:54):
You guys are amazing.
Speaker 7 (39:56):
And I'm surrounded by a rescue out here, like all
of my friends are in rescue.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
Oh yeah, you do ESPEC.
Speaker 7 (40:02):
Right after that big COVID boom, right, everybody had to
have the puppy and then they gave the puppies back.
Speaker 4 (40:08):
But you know, I have good friends are and rescue.
Speaker 7 (40:10):
But I have a question, which is first of all
something technical, what's the best pet insurance? Because I'm my
friends are always looking for great pet insurance.
Speaker 4 (40:22):
And if you can't answer that question, that's.
Speaker 1 (40:24):
A good question because you know what, that's why a
lot of people will give their puppets or dog back.
Speaker 4 (40:29):
Yes, I wish I knew the answer to that. I don't,
but what I do know is that it is key
to get pet insurance like in the beginning, like as
soon as you adopt or when they're young, and yeah, yeah,
because they will have our pre existing so that's exactly.
And also, what is your connection in Los Angeles?
Speaker 1 (40:51):
Do you have people up?
Speaker 7 (40:52):
Okay, so do you fly like if I have, like
you know, I work with a shelter out here and
I fostered and I love dogs, I love animals.
Speaker 1 (41:01):
What is your connection here?
Speaker 7 (41:02):
Do you fly animals from out here to separate places
too or is it just a locally that you.
Speaker 1 (41:08):
Fly from to other places?
Speaker 2 (41:11):
Good question.
Speaker 4 (41:12):
Yeah, that's a really good question. And I know, you know,
probably anyone who's watching or listening probably has the same thing.
They're thinking about their own community. So I primarily focus
on Texas dogs because I know I have relationships with
the sending shelters there, and we've formed relationships with the
(41:33):
receiving rescues. However, I have a lot of different connections
because I've worked with different transporters who come, you know,
to the Los Angeles area. Have you heard of dog
is my co pilot? Does that name sound familiar?
Speaker 1 (41:49):
Oh it doesn't.
Speaker 4 (41:50):
Okay, I've worked with them in the past day actually
fly dogs from different areas. So my for my organs,
there are lots of organizations that are sort of similar
to me. It really is all about finding those partners,
you know, the the sending shelters and then like the
(42:10):
rescues that will receive the dogs, and then kind of
connecting the dots either way, like okay, well is there
a transport that goes this way? Okay, it could bring
dogs from you know, California to upstate New York. So
sort of just a I mean really a lot of
networking and I'd be happy to kind of look at
(42:31):
some other you know, look at some transporters that I've
worked with before to see, you know, who who is
taking dogs where if that's what you're asked to do.
Speaker 1 (42:40):
Yeah, and do you work with specifics.
Speaker 7 (42:43):
I know there are actual companies that obviously you're talking
about that that transport animals, but what about like actual
transportation of animals, Like if I have an animal, I'm
taking somewhere as Delta one of the best airlines to
do that, do we.
Speaker 4 (43:00):
Yeah, great, great question. It is a complicated So there
are there are ground transports and then there are you know,
flight transports, and it really depends on the type of dog,
the distance. I have heard. Flight transports are a little
(43:21):
bit can be a little bit scary if the dog
goes into into cargo.
Speaker 7 (43:26):
The vaccine too, they have to have doctor's records and
all that stuff.
Speaker 4 (43:29):
Do you guys have to do that too? Do you
have to have records for the dogs? Yeah? Yes, yes,
they have to have any animal who is transported from
over state lines, they have to have a health certificate
prior to transport to make sure there's no contagious diseases.
So what what my group does primarily is just work
to do kind of group transports, like take from a shelter. Okay,
(43:53):
these you know these dogs we have you know this,
we have this group up in let's say Oregon, and
you know Montana who they said they can't accept some
dogs and then they'll select from from the list of
available dogs from my partner shelters. I know that's a
little bit confusing.
Speaker 7 (44:12):
But okay, I have actually a lot more clear so
I understand what you do, like specifically now when I
was reading up and what you do is amazing. Everybody
who's in any kind of animal protection.
Speaker 4 (44:24):
Has my vote.
Speaker 2 (44:26):
So thank you so much, solutely doing.
Speaker 4 (44:28):
Everybody what you do.
Speaker 7 (44:29):
And this is such a beautiful community. And you know,
I was watching all the old Sex and the City reruns.
I just love that community of women.
Speaker 1 (44:36):
You know, we just well, that's that's what we're about.
That's that's what the Mom's Club is about for sure. Well,
thank you and thank you Zoomer Moms for all the
great questions for so Delia. As always, we have to
put a big plug in. We all look glowing here
today because we're all using far mouths fresh so we're
wonderful old plug for that. Well, tell us where our
audience can help volunteer or donate to our Change Animal
(45:00):
Network exactly.
Speaker 4 (45:02):
So yeah, so I'll give you a couple different things
and ways that you can help. I would say if
anyone is listening and they want to help locally, you know,
contact your local shelter or rescue and see about volunteering.
See how you can go in and help spread the
word if you want to. If you want to donate
to an organization like our animal arch Angel Animal Network,
(45:26):
you can know that you are directly helping an animal
be saved from the euthanagelist and it's going to you know,
go to a happy home and you don't have to
do any of the work of taking finding the home
and fostering it. You just get to know that your
donation and I mainly do it's all. It's all on Facebook.
(45:46):
My website is actually down at the moment. It's under construction,
so everything is on Facebook. It's Archangel Animal Network and
it has links to paypack all donations. It has a
donation button.
Speaker 2 (46:01):
Great.
Speaker 4 (46:01):
You have some big transports coming up in September and
every single month, so I'll be sharing some pictures there
of some of the dogs that any sort of donation
will help to sponsor and will help to you know,
help them get a new life.
Speaker 3 (46:14):
So just well, I think that's super because people can't
foster all the time. They can't necessarily have extra time
depending on what's going on there. So like she said,
you know you're saving an animal by donating exactly.
Speaker 1 (46:28):
Yeah, I think that's great. Well, help the archangel Animal
Network and also don't forget the dogs in Clayton County
but check out that site. Although be sure and have
your your credit card and your Kleenex handy, because he's
really good, like I said, those videos, so you'll you'll
(46:49):
be inspired to when you can help them. Well, thank
you so much, ladies, And I want to make a
special mention of our good friend Beth Biggler, who has
written on her animals which she helps people as are
going through pet bereavement and like preparing for that time. Sadly,
my dog Cookie has liver cancer. Yes, and it's sorry
(47:12):
so great right now, but you know what I mean,
I'm glad there's people like Beth who are helping people
like me get through that time. So check out her book.
She's doing fantastic. And we'd also like to think our
sponsors New Calm, which we love Newclm because New Calm
keeps us rest and we get along together because yeah,
(47:33):
once we could dump the Seinfeld episodes we used to
sleep to Seinfeld every night because that was you. I'm
sorry used to keep you awake. We have to share
a room when we're here in LA, but we now
use new calm to stay good friends. I also want
to thank our sponsor, Doggy Express, which is a women
own dog treat bakery and powtry venue for you and
(47:56):
your dog. They offer gourmet dog treats, cakes, upcakes, jerky,
and ice cream. I'm just getting hungry even thinking about it.
All treats are made and decorated in house and small
batches without preservatives, and you can order them from the
doggie express dot com so you'll absolutely love it. My
dogs love them for sure. Well, thank you this. I
can't believe the time is gone. But I feel like
(48:17):
we've accomplished something. I hope we have.
Speaker 2 (48:20):
I hope that if we've still a lot more educated.
Speaker 1 (48:23):
That's what the point. That's what I mean said. I
wanted to educate people because when I got into this,
I'm like, Okay, well how can I really help because
I want to help, but I don't know what to do.
So we want to just keep it going. Let's came
in helping. You know, if you want to start donat
or Erica, you and I are going to start something.
I mean, let's let's do our part for sure. Okay, well,
(48:47):
then the time has passed way too fast, can you
believe it. It's happy to do the studio setting here,
but we will be back, ladies moms out there next
time with celebrities and extraordinary moms just like you. We
know your metime's pressures and valuable. Thank you for spending
it with us. So, Delia, how can we find you
on social media?
Speaker 4 (49:07):
Yes? So the best way to find arch Angel Animal
Network is so on Facebook it's Archangel Animal Network or
Instagram arch Angel Animal Network seventy five and you'll see
some of the happy ending stories, some of the transports
(49:28):
that we've sponsored, and just gives a little bit more
detail of how it all works. Mainly everything is on Facebook.
That's sort of the hub.
Speaker 1 (49:37):
Okay, great, thank you, we'll check it out. Thank you
Zooer moms for joining us today. Those were great questions.
They were amazing, as we say here on the Mom's
Club and also everybody out there in the country, look
for your newest favorite club, which we're going to have.
We will call them Mom's clubs. We call them the
mom Turage. So go find your mom Turage in your city,
(49:59):
new dear you, we're planning events pretty soon in Nashville, Dallas, Atlanta.
We're gonna be all over the country pretty soon, and
you'll have a new group of friends in your friends. Yeah,
because we believe that's the whole. That's the whole. Yeah.
We believe in women's friendships and connections. And bring your
(50:20):
friends and then meet new friends all over the country.
We have a motto here on the Mom's Club, which
is amazing. If you don't laugh sometimes, ladies.
Speaker 2 (50:31):
You were going to gonna cry.
Speaker 1 (50:33):
So keep laughing, keep your chin up, and we'll see
you next time. Inside the mom
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