November 4, 2025 • 43 mins
In this week's episode, I chat with Lynn Ford, who takes her love of animals pretty seriously, rescuing stray and neglected dogs from the Dominican, getting them set up with food, meds and shelter, and even bringing some home with her! How does she do it, why does she do it? Take a look inside her giving heart, this is Lynn's story
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Nobodies are somebodies.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Hey as Chad Advice here on the Nobody's or Somebody's podcast,
just like to let you know that some things work
out great and sometimes things don't work out, but that's okay.
It's part of life. It's part of the wonderful features
of life that we sometimes take for granted. The lessons
we learn, the things we find out, the emotions we
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go through, the ups and downs, the highs and lows,
the feelings, the intensities of them, both when they're high
and definitely when they're low. Some things just don't work out.
I'm so happy for this podcast working out. It's been
working out since twenty seventeen. I've not been working out
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They're all part of the history of Nobody's There Somebody's podcast,
which makes me feel very blessed and feel very confident
in what I can see ahead for myself, where I
can see ahead for the world, what I can see
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ahead for things I want to achieve, things I want
to learn, from That's something else too. Most people want
to get things well, everybody wants to get things positive.
Everybody wants the best, and you know we all deserve
the best. But what are we looking forward to about
the lessons we're going to learn. We know we're going
to learn lessons, or we hope we are, because when
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things don't turn out right, what we should be doing
is learning a lesson. What we should be doing is
taking advantage of the opportunity of a lesson being learned
at that moment that we're finding something out, we're seeing
something that doesn't work, we're getting to the truth, and
we're realizing that we can change it because now we
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know better. Now we have a direction, Now we have
a course to switch or not going down the same road.
I've gone down many same roads in the past, just
trying to make it work in a different way, different people,
different scenarios, same same outcome. And maybe now I'm finding
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out that it doesn't work. Maybe now I'm finding out
that it's just not going to work unless I make
a change, unless I learn from something. All this to
say that I'm learning that I got to take better
control of these microphones. Here on the podcast, because I
don't know what happened, But towards the end of this interview,
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something got messed up, something got left. I don't know, man,
we were recording a good show, am I listened back
to the forty five minute mark. Something happens the mic
kind of drops out in I don't know how to
describe it. It just I can. I'll play a little
bit at the end. You'll hear how the mic just
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kind of like, I don't know, I don't have the
words sport. That's a mistake. Since when can't chadvise talk?
Since when can't chat? Since when can't chadvise talk? The
microphone just kind of stopped recording properly, had this jarred
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up garbled up sound as it was recording. I don't
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certainly no noise like that happening in the studio in
the open area where I was. So yeah, I'm missing
a great part of Len's conversation. But there's some great
stuff to be heard and listen to here. I didn't
want to totally throw away this episode because it's got
some great content, and Len's a great guest, and we
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had some good conversations. So I'm going to bring it
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hear how the war world. Whatever happened to the sound
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high or something happened, But we didn't adjust the microphones.
We just kept talking, talking, and all of a sudden
that just up recording properly. Maybe there was a connection problem,
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and my guest Lynn Ford, about her dog rescue and
so much more. This is Lynn's story.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
All right.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
I'm being joined here by Lynn Ford from the Ford Dealership.
I'm just kidding, hid dynasty you do. Oh, welcome to
the podcast. Thanks for being here.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
Well, thank you for inviting me. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
I appreciate the invite from my unpaid promoter, Marie, who
I guess found you in a local park. I mean
she finds all our guests and parks. Stay out of
the park.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
When is a dog park, dog park?
Speaker 2 (05:10):
You never know we're going to find guests, right, It's
pretty cool. Yeah, thanks for being here. I can't wait
to hear your story. So talk to me. We'll get started.
Tell me a little bit about you, who you are
and what's so interesting about you?
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Gee, I don't know this. Yeah, here's my life in
front of when she it's so funny. I always say
I've been in different things and the you know, the
breaking break, the ice or whatever, and I always say that, Well,
I was born at home, so I always say that
I'm homemade.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
I love that. Actually, never heard that.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Yeah, and it's because my mother had lost a baby,
so I would I was she lost too? Actually, so
it was my sister and another one that passed away
at four months, my brother another loss, and then me.
So then she says, well, I'm not went to the
hospital anymore. So she had me at home and she
had me. The nurse came and I was like, it
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was you on April eighth, and she had me on
April third because she was washing all her walls and
getting ready and everything, and my aunt said, oh, you
shouldn't do that. So anyway, so she found the nurse.
The nurse was there when I was born, but not
the doctor. But by the time he came, he said, oh,
it looks good. But anyways, my mother says, well, she's
turning blue. And so they opened the oven door and
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they turned it on and they put me in the blanket.
They put me right on the on the oven door.
And that's why I say I'm homemaid. And I always
had olive skin.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Oh my god. Wow.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
In school they'd say come on, then get up here
when we're talking about you know, skin and stuff. And
that's because one side is French she had. I've got
Italian background too, But anyways, yeah, so I always say, well,
I'm homemade.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
And that's an amazing story. I've never had a guest
come on the show and say they're homemade before. This
podcast is homemade, but so were you.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
There you go. I was meant to be.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Here, to be here. I love it. I love it. Well,
like I said before you we or Marie's met you
in a dog park. You were there with your dogs.
She's got a new dog. Shout out to Kevin. So
you love dogs a lot. And you guys got to
talking a little bit and you talked about your dog
rescue that you do. So you want to start with that.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Sure, sure, well I can start that. I started a
long time ago thanks to my mother about helping people.
My mother like, yeah, where we lived, there was different.
There was embassy people in an apartment building. There was
people on the other side of the use, other side
of the track or whatever, like there.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Was wrong side of the trucks.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Yeah, there was a lot of different and she would help,
you know, she would make she would knit, she would
do things. People that came from Africa to be in
the country for six months or but if they came
in the wintertime, well they were like no clothes. So
she would knit hats and you know, scarves and everything.
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And we had a family that would come over and
she'd give hot chocolate and toasts before going to school
and stuff like that, and I would babysit them when
they had events, and yeah, so it was always seeing
my mother helping and the people, like our friends, they
always wanted to come to our house because my mother
would make French fries in the corn paper and drinks
and lemonade. And she was a servant.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
She'd spoil everybody.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Yeah, she was a servant. So I saw that all
my life and I just she was like my hero.
I just loved it. And through the years, like I mean,
I did a lot of mission work and a lot
of humanitarian work, and the latest one in Dominican, we
had the opportunity it opened up. I mean, we're there
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for people. But then a couple of years ago it
opened up that the dogs. We were kind of I
got one dog to help and then you know, God
was just opening up the areas and said, somebody, we
can't help all the dogs. No, just the one. God
tells me, okay, this one, this one, because it's that's
the way it is with me, Like I have a
great conversation with God all the time. He's my he's
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my uh my boss kind of thing. And yeah, it
was it was just beautiful to see that we could
help a little bit every day, you know. So I
started feeding one and then it was two, and then
other ones were so full of ticks and everything. So
we bought medication for them, and one was almost dying
and we got them back to life. And so, yeah,
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it's like over there the attitude here. You don't see
that many dogs running around, Like I mean, you have
a dog, You're not gonna let that out in the
morning and then bring it back at night.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
I mean there are, yeah, but it's not.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Yeah, it's not. It's not an ever day occur. It's
like maybe one or two and here, like you on
Facebook groups, you'll go, you know, I see that, anybody know,
anybody know this dog? I picked up this cat whatever,
you know, like people help each other. There is like
it's just like wild dogs and they're not healthy looking.
They're like they're starving, you know.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
So let me back up a little bit. So why
you mentioned the Dominican Republic. Why there? Why did you
rescue dogs there? What made you go there? Did you
travel there once and saw the dogs that would need
that needed help or what kind of a dru No.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Well, we started going to a Dominican in two thousand
and five, just as holidays and stuff. And then we
met this young man at one of the hotels and
he was selling jewelry. And I get to when I
talk to people, they they seem to open up and
tell me their life story, right.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Just like you're doing here to me right now.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Yeah, but usually usually I'm on the other side kind
of thing. But anyways, so my husband goes, you know,
like you're gonna do that again.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
They just talks and talks and talks.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Anyway, So he's selling jewelry, and here's my head. I
get this this premonition to go and get the jewelry
that I had bought and give him a heart. So
I said, I'll be back, and then I go. He said, well,
he's selling jewelrys. I'm told to go get a heart.
So I gave it to him and we started a conversation,
you know, and uh, he was trying to get his
wife back and blah blah blah. And anyways, over the
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years they did get back together and two different things.
But every time I saw them, I would pray for them.
They'd ask me to pray, and then they got something.
Something would happen and they got a piece of land
and then they were able to build and you know.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Started playing for them because you prayed for them.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
Yeah yeah, he said, And he said every time you pray, yeah,
yeah yeah, and still do now today. So it's like
now they have four kids. She had two kids previously,
and then they have they got two more, and but
then it's just the idea of yeah. So I was there.
We saw the need for for people. We saw the
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need for for teenage moms and stuff. So I taught
like he was going to a church and he was,
you know, going to talk about Jesus to people and
stuff like that. And I started saying, well, why don't
we because I did that with all my other mission trips.
Food is always good to bring because you give them something.
Yeah yeah, and and then you talk, you know. So
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I so we did food baskets and stuff food bags
and then we'd go in different places. And I remember
talking to this grandmother and she says, can you pray
for me? I said, of course, I'm here for that,
and she says, pray that I'm good that I can
take care of my two little grandkids, which we're small,
because she said, my son just got killed by a machete,
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a guy with a machete yesterday and I went, oh,
my goodness, you know, and I prayed and everything, but yeah,
it's very you know, people see the resort, but the real.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
Life sometimes yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
And then because the island is two two countries, Haitians
and Dominicans, and and there's not I'm not saying anything
against the Haitians, but the culture is different as well,
and because their country is really being bombarded with the
government and stuff like that. So yeah, it's it's just
a cultural thing. And uh so we were helping. We
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were going there to help for teenage moms and stuff like,
we want to do an outreach. But the more I
went and I couldn't go while COVID, so things change
as well. But I realized that like people over there
are telling me, no, well you can help the girls,
but you shouldn't keep them with the kids, because they'll
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just leave you the kids and walk away because that's
what they do. And I went, oh, okay, so.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
With their kids, and then they'll just leave the kids
with you.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
I wanted to do a daycare and help them.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
They won't come back to get the kids.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Well yeah, yeah a lot of times. No, well, we're
almost ready to open so no, so I yeah, so
we're just doing the people, like I mean, helping the people.
Yeah yeah. But then through that while we're waiting to
get it off finalized and everything, that's when the dog's
you know, the neighbor's dog, like he's not feeding him
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and he's barking all the time and he's running after
the people. But he's a good dog like you know,
but he's not well treated. So we would give him
my food like I buy meat and meat with bones
and and then and then the ones on the street,
well coho like, yeah, he's from a car lot and
he's only got three legs, he's tripod and yeah, so
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I every day he's got a big bowl of food,
like I mean, because he only gets they only get
beans and rice or you know, that's all they feed them.
Which that's why they're not healthy, because they don't have
the meat, they don't have anything. So I yeah, so
my co hoo was yes, I love them all. Yeah.
Well yeah, so.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
You're not there now obviously no Canada.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Yeah we're going back next to Yeah, well I see
some some nobody some What I've found is a couple
of dogs that we kind of saved because they were
really dying. I found out that they do have a
house they can go.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
To, Okay, like a shelter.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Yeah, well it's just a dare. Because this guy was
saying one day, he said, that's my dog. I said, oh,
really prove it, I know, but I said, he says, yeah, yeah.
I said, well that's good. So does he have a
place to stay or is he stay and get you know,
outside all the time. Well, yeah, he's outside all the time.
I said, Okay, I said, well do you see how
his fur is so much nicer? And because he had
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mangia and we had to get medication put stuff every day,
he was really like he was on the streets just
like nothing. And now when they see me coming, there's
more dogs coming. It's like I'm the dog lady. But anyways,
it's so but yeah, and some of them it takes
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like the ones I brought back to cat to hear,
it took about two and a half weeks for her to,
you know, to come to me, like even if I
had the food scout and all of a sudden one
day I'm walking on the street and I'm kind of
looking for her, and she just jumps on me and
she's all happy, nice, she's accepted me. So it's such
a good feeling. Like the love that they have for
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you and the love that you give them is like wow.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Unconditional, unconditional.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
It's like it's just like I'm just full. My heart
it's so full. And when that happens.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Yeah, So let me ask you the deep questions and
how what goes into starting this mission? Like how did
you start this over there? How was that funded? How
did you make that happen? Like from the ground up,
you just you went over there as a vacation as tourists, Yeah,
and you saw a need for help. But then what
was the next step that took you from vacationing tourists
to helping these people and then eventually the dogs.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
Yeah, well we did fundraisers, not that much. It's really
mostly my I never wonderful. My husband's going to hear.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
All this, I hope, So I want I want everybody
to listen. I hope that's going out for the world.
I'm going to do this, but we can make sure
we can block him.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
No, it's just that I took a lot of like
when I left the government back then, the like twenty
ninety ninety ninety what now twenty Yeah, when did I
leave the government. When I retire the government? Like time
is so, yeah, well I'm retired from the government.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
But but this is full time. What you're doing now,
this mission is human dogs.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Like whatever, like whatever. Yeah, so this is all.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Pre COVID then, right obviously, Yeah, okay.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
Yeah, yeah yeah. I started doing mission work in two
thousand and one, two thousand and two thousand.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Here in Canada, no over there.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
Over there there, well anywhere. Like the first trip was
in Mexico, okay, and then I did many many years
in Mexico. We built a church in Mexico. I'm time. Yeah,
well that it's like I did do some fundraising, but
if I had people to come with me and build,
like I mean, it.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Was a thing.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Well there were actually there was ten people from ten
different churches. I liked, like it was it was cool
that they weren't all the same and they were yeah,
and they were just like one never had her she
lost her suitcases. She never got her suitcases. And we
had brought everybody brought boxes and boxes of clothes. And
I used to tell people, make sure you give clean clothes.
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I mean, those people are going to be poor. Doesn't
mean you give your rags, right, you know, and if
there's buttons missing, put some on, or don't give it
to me if it's dirty. Anyway, So she got it
an awakening because we brought out the clothes. She didn't
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have her suitcases. Well, let's open the boxes before we
give them away and find your clothes for twelve days.
And we're looking, we're looking, and she goes, oh, like
we had to throw a good box full of the
stuff because it was dirty and it was torn and
it was and she was crying, and she says, we
were going to give that to the people, you know,
And I said, yeah, well I wouldn't. I would have
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looked through it. But yeah, but if you're on top
of the mountain, that you don't have but no, So
like she was like, each one had a story because
they realized that, you know, we have it so good,
and then they don't, you know, And so yeah, so
that that was a very good And then the thing
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is what's so beautiful is that another pastor went by
that knew this this uh, this community, and he ended
up seeing the church that we built and had to
roof the walls and everything, but it didn't it had
a dirt floor. Still, we didn't have money for that.
So he he organized and he had the wall built. Yeah,
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poor eat and everything.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
So I had like volunteer construction people people.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
Yeah. Well this pastor was yeah, and he said to me, yeah,
he said, oh, this this woman with these people they
came and and so he did that. And then the
next year we were invited to go back for their
first year anniversary the service. And that was another I mean,
that would be another whole story because when we left
that night, it was raining and you're going down the
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you know, you couldn't see nothing, you know. And it's
funny because God said to me, don't put your seat
belt on. I know we're going sideways, it's not dogs,
but don't put your seat belt on. I said, okay,
because you know Canada, we always put the seat belt on.
And I'm in the back of the the van, and
there's another seat in the back with the pastor's wife
and the grandkids. And I have my my friend Luis
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that I've known since two thousand. I brought him to
Canada a couple of times to speak. But I told him,
I said, don't put your seat belt on. He said no,
I said, no, don't put your seat belt on. I said, okay,
So we can't see nothing. And in the so we
stopped at this little side store or something and he
bought some paper yellow you yellow foil so that he
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could see better. But it didn't work. And then the
two pastors are talking and all of a sudden, I
hear one of the pastors going, oh Jesus, you know,
and I went, I shut my eyes and I well
before that, I felt something, and I said, Louis, start praying.
Let's start praying. And so we were praying, and he says,
oh Jesus, and we went off the We went off
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the road, down the down the mountain. Still here's today.
But the only reason the reason is because we hit
a tree. God, it doesn't seem like we went We
rolled three times. We rolled three times, and I felt
like I was in the bubble because I like, I
closed my eyes and I we were just rolling.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
But you weren't wearing a seatbelt though, so wouldn't that be.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
No, that was better because I don't know that the vehicle. No,
the woman in the back, she came out of the
window in the back and she had her I don't know,
but she was We couldn't find her. She was underneath
one of the tires. She was pinned underneath one of
the tires.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Do you know what happened? Like what caused the accident?
Speaker 3 (22:09):
He couldn't see. We shouldn't have been driving. I told Luisa, said,
why don't we just stay on the side of the
rover for a little bit, you know, but you know,
he just wanted to get back. This was in Mexico, right, yeah, Okay,
So anyway, so that was great. That was something really experience.
It was an experience because we had to bring I
remember one of the little I had to push the girl.
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It was straight up the vehicle, the car, I mean
the mountain we had to come. We had to come
back up, but straight up, like I said, well, bring
the kids up on the road. Where's the road it's
up there.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
So I had to push the children and they were
scared and they were crying, and we were yelling for
the grandmother. And then we find that they finally found
her and they had to move the car. And she
was diabetic, so she went into a shock once we
brought her up, and so we took all our clothes
off and put it on her. And then and then
the cops came and they wanted to leave, They wanted
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us to I said, I'm not leaving until we go
back down there, and I mean, my glasses never broke.
Louis his shoes were off, and I said, we can't
leave until I get my purse and my passport, because
then I'll be stuck, like anybody can take it in Mexico,
your passport. And so they had the guys had to
go back down and look for it in the in
the car, and I waited. And while I was waiting
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and the cops struck pickup truck, the windshield was all
little beads of water and all of a sudden, and
I mean, I'm telling I'm telling you because it's true.
It was like a cross line. The bead went down
and it made a cross. It was as if we
well I knew, I knew it was only by God's
grace that we were able to be saved.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
And you felt that before the same presence that made you.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
Because I think the way we were, you know, like
and you don't know the car either, Like some seat
belts are really tight. I've seen people die because they
had their seat belt on because.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Around your neck. Yeah yeah, yeah, so or compress on
YouTube exactly.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
So this way, this way, I think it saved us
in this case.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Where do you think your relationship, your a close relationship
with God comes from? Like where did that start with
you when you were a child? Did your parents bring
that to you? Where'd you find the inspiration?
Speaker 3 (24:24):
Yeah? When I was a child, I could I could
sense it. I could feel it. Like I said that
teacher that I had in school that she was a missionary,
and you know, but yeah, it was. But it's funny
because when I was thirteen, I kind of walked away
from well, I'm I allowed to say that.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
I walked away.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
I walked away from somewhere, no nod go.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
I walked away from the Catholic church thirteen. Yeah, because
I said, did.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
You grow up in a religious home like Catholic home
or before?
Speaker 4 (25:01):
Well?
Speaker 3 (25:01):
My mother Yeah, Well my mother is like I said,
she was such a good person, Like I mean, you know, yeah,
we did the Rosary, we did you know, all that stuff.
But the point is is, because I would go to
school and every week we had to go see the
priests and tell them what we did wrong the week before,
and yeah, and I said, we were kids, and we
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were going, what did you tell them last week? So
we'd switch our sins making stuff? Okay you said that, Okay,
I said that, So let's switch their sins and that's
what we'd do. And then he'd say, okay, do this,
and then and then yeah, and then and then you'd
see them at Christmas. Anyways, there was a lot of
stuff that I could see. I think I've always had
(25:44):
this visual like I've you know, without knowing what it was.
Now I can say it's the Holy Spirit, but back
then I wouldn't have known. I just felt there was
something teaching me inside of me kind of thing.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
But you turned your back. You didn't feel at that time.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
You thought it was just well, no, I I I would,
I would receive it, but I didn't know what it was,
you know. And that's when I told my mother, I said,
I don't want to go to that church anymore. I
don't feel comfortable. It was because there's a lot of
stuff happening in our community. And I've heard some of
from other people that the yeah, that's things have been
happening in their life. But I said to her I said,
(26:20):
I talked to God all the time. Why should I
tell the priests what I need to say? Yeah, I'll
go straight to him, you know. And she says, you know,
she never my mother was so wise and so good.
She never said anything. She never said she try to
change my mind. Nothing. Throughout my life. I might have
(26:40):
made some you know, choices, and she was just you know, sure,
I'm sure she prayed constantly for me. But it's like
she yeah, she was so wise, you know, Like she
would say things, we'd go to this place on Prescott
Street or whatever, fishing on the side of the of
her an Autowa River. And when we got there with
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our picnic and our rods to fish and everything, she
made us clean first the side of the.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Water, clean the area. Yeah, before you.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
Before me. Yeah, she'd say, no, you got to clean
because other people would just leave all the junk there.
So she said, she said, we got to do that
because in twenty twenty five years, she said, the rivers
are going to be polluted, are they not? Really? It's like,
so she was so ahead, and she was always saying
whatever they're trying to say or do things. She says,
(27:32):
if you see it in the cart comic book or
if you see it in the story or in the TV,
it's because it's already happening. And I say, I look
at her and say, boy, she's you know she was right.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
Well, you look at the Simpsons and they predicted president.
Speaker 5 (27:46):
I never fought. I never followed Simpsons. But like my
daughter said, there's a bunch of stuff that they drink in. Yeah, thousands,
I've come true now yeah, like Donald Trump.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Yeah, but that could be. That could be also from
the other side though they're the wrong side of where
come from. Yeah, yeah, but anyways, so but yeah, so
these things happened, and uh yeah, it's uh, that's yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Everybody in your life on board with your faith and
with the way you talk to God, your relationships. I thought, like,
you're married, you have children. Are they all on board?
But with your beliefs as well too?
Speaker 3 (28:22):
No, they're not at the no, no, no. I mean
we pray for them like I pray for them, and
I speak about it, and I mean they were when
they like when in particular, he was when they were younger,
and I think when they grew and they were exposed
to other stuff. It's not as important right now. But
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my prayer is that they will come back really closer
because because the time is near, I mean. And it's
funny because and I use I used the dogs to
talk to people about my fate because it goes hand
in hand really because if you I always say to them, well,
God created dogs. God created the animals, and it's in
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the Bible that to say that we're supposed to take
care of them. So you are, you know, take care
of them? You say it's your dog. Feed them and
I would give them I'm switching, but I would give
them just example, I would give them them what do
you call it, every month for their medication, yeah and stuff.
I don't do it to my dogs because I think
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it's not good, but them they need it over there.
They like, we go feed these two dogs that lives
in front of a house. He's always full of ticks.
We have to take them out of his eyes. Like
that's how bad. So I would give them the pill
and the ones the pill, and I told them I
gave them the box, and I said, Okay, this is
for next month, but until I come back, can you
please at least buy this and give it to them
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or else they'll get all full of texts, and.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
Do they have access to medications like that over in
the Medican Republic? Do they have the same level of
medicines that we would have for dogs over here? Oh yeah,
they have the exact.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
Sen right because I have two vests I deal with
and they have access to it. Basically, yeah, they have.
They have medication and stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
Was it more expensive? Like how do you get that
taken care of? Like how do you get that secured
for your dogs that you're rescuing because.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
It's been it's been just it would be cheap there outrage.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
Like you don't have health care for them? Right? So
I mean.
Speaker 3 (30:18):
You well, it's just how do you know? I wasn't thinking,
let's put it that way. I used all my money
and my line of credit.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
Okay, I wasn't.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
I just did it because I just felt propelled to
do it.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
Was that an ongoing thing or is it just something
you did and that's done?
Speaker 3 (30:33):
Like you well, I've done it all year, like since
when we were there. It was yeah, okay, yeah, yeah,
because and last year and now I'm at the point
that I can't do it anymore. So I really need to.
I really need people to you know that love dogs
and that believe in what we're doing to to come
in and just come in and just yeah, just to
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love offering or anything, you know.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
Just so how are you doing that? How are you
getting more people to kind of I guess come on
board with your mission?
Speaker 3 (31:02):
Yeah, I'm just talking. Yeah, I'm thinking of ideas before
we leave about what to do. And I have this girl,
but she got busy, so she was supposed to do
these these little blankets, would pause on it. So she's
got one done. But I thought I had talked to
her two months ago that you know, if I could
sell those just like, okay, if you give us a
(31:24):
love offering of I don't know what you can have
this blanket, you know. So anyway, so I'm supposed to
see her this week or next week and maybe if
people want to take orders, like they say, oh I'd
like one to this color.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
And all the funds go to work.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
Yeah, I'll buy, I'll buy the will like and she'll
make them. And then does she have.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
An online business or somewhere that people can support, Like,
if people heard this podcast, can they go and support that?
Cause somehow somewhere is there something online.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
That the girl if she's doing blankets.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
You mean, yeah, can someone support to your cause? Oh,
a fundraiser? Do you have a go on media something
out there that I.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
Don't have go fundmeate, no or something like that, but
I can that you're selling stuff for yeah, you know
what I mean, like raising funds fundraiser?
Speaker 2 (32:09):
Are you doing that?
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Well?
Speaker 3 (32:10):
If if you can't.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
Bankroll it, now, do you have other ways to kind
of get the funds going?
Speaker 3 (32:16):
I know? Yeah, Well what I would do is I
told people, you know, if you want to do if
you want to send me a nee transfer, you can
donate to donate, to donate, and you can you.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
On your you have a Facebook page which people.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
Can like yeah, yeah, lean forward.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
So yeah, we'll we'll put that up obviously, I'll tag
you so people can hear this and donate if they
wish to.
Speaker 3 (32:40):
Hopefully, because I really would like to continue. And actually
I have one that that he brought the price down.
It used to be eight thousand paesels for a male
and he's letting me. I hope he still does it.
He for four thousand paesels.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
What's the equivalent in American four thousand.
Speaker 3 (32:59):
Would one hundred and something one hundred.
Speaker 4 (33:03):
And then it's pretty reasonable and then I have to
pay I don't know. Yeah, Canada, maybe it's more four hundred.
Oh is that for neuter of dogs?
Speaker 2 (33:13):
Here?
Speaker 3 (33:14):
Mails are cheaper.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
She paid for one recently. My own paid promoter would
know she paid for one recently. But I don't know
the price.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
But well you it was, Yeah, yours is mail, Kevin?
How much was that in Ontario?
Speaker 2 (33:25):
Wich is coming on Mike.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
Into fifteen hundred the estimation. But I went in Quebec,
so I paid four fifty.
Speaker 3 (33:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
A lot of people say it's not going to go through,
it's not enough to Yeah.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
That's but I've heard I've heard that.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
Yeah, I've heard that.
Speaker 3 (33:48):
Yeah, if you go to Quebec or whatever, if you
have time, it's a different country. So but but in Canada,
I remember from my Chihuahua that I say, from Dominican.
We brought her back to Canada and she's so far.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
So talk to me about that. That's a very interesting
part of your story. So how do you bring a
dog back who's it's they're not born and ray they're
not that's not the right term, you know what I mean,
bring back a citizen. They're not a citizen, but it
brings property, so she the whole thing. I have questions.
Speaker 3 (34:18):
Yeah, we we can, we can't bring them. Well now
it's harder. But the fact that, like we brought her
back when she'll be six. Yeah, so she was eating
rocks on the street and everything. People were throwing rocks
at her and yeah, and I told her, so, I
have dogs at home, I can't fall in love with you.
(34:39):
And a half weeks later she.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
Want it.
Speaker 3 (34:45):
So it's amazing. Yeah, it's like, but so we had
she had to get all her needles and and everything,
and I didn't get her spade or anything. Then, but
I chat all our needles and then you have to
get yeah, the vet and we'll check that everything. And
then there's then it's more expensive than you have to
(35:06):
pay another, Like it's almost two hundred dollars for the
government paperwork.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
To transfer the dog to Canada, to let the dog
come to Canada and to allow access.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
And then yeah, these papers have to be shown at
the in Montreal Highland of Montreal and Immigration. They have
to see it all and make sure that everything's in order.
And then when we bring her back, like we're going
to the vet this week for the two dogs for
their shots and everything, and then we have to go
back ten days before they leave again to go and
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we have to go the whole thing. They have to
fill in the papers so that.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
The dog comes back and forth with you from here
now back to Dominican. They'll come back with you because
you're the dog owner. You own the dog. So this
may be a dumb question, but are they considered property?
Like you're purchasing property over there and bringing back because
you own the dog. It's not a person, you know,
what's it's your person like you have a person come
over on a work visa or a person. No, it's
(36:02):
not that pact. It's a property, I guess. But is
that what it's considered, Like, how do you classify.
Speaker 3 (36:08):
It's just considered a pet. You're traveling with a pet, okay,
yeah yeah, but so.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
But that you brought from over there, like let's say.
Speaker 3 (36:14):
Yeah they didn't yeah you kind of you kind of
say not too much.
Speaker 2 (36:19):
Well, you did it all legally, but it's all legally
the legal.
Speaker 3 (36:24):
My papers it says I'm the owner of this dog
and everything, but purchase.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
But then yeah, well you paid for you purchased, you
made a purchase obviously because you own the dog and
you there's papers. That's the thing is.
Speaker 3 (36:37):
Yeah, they like, they go, well is she Canadian?
Speaker 2 (36:39):
Well that's my question is now she's she's a Dominican
born dog. I don't think of it that way because
we're talking about people. We're talking about dogs. There They're like, yeah, means,
but they're not people for her.
Speaker 3 (36:54):
For her, it wasn't as bad it's lately the last
six dogs that I brought back.
Speaker 2 (36:59):
That was brought out six dogs, that's a lot and
all the same paperwork and all the same funds.
Speaker 3 (37:05):
Well, no, it was even more expensive to the mother
and daughter. Yeah, that's why I don't have any more money.
Speaker 2 (37:13):
Well that your funding the mission and everything too, right,
you give a lot of your money for the medication
to buy and security dogs that you see.
Speaker 3 (37:20):
Yeah, my hope is to My hope is to like
I was talking to the vet. I was talking to Samuel,
and I said, well, I said, which one I knew?
But I'd like to I'd like a vet to tell
me so I can tell people this is why. So
I said, well, which one do you think I should
do first? Like the operations should be the male or
the female, but it should be the male. But anyway,
(37:41):
so he said, well, the female, she'll be out of
service for while she's pregnant, like the six weeks, nine
weeks whatever, and then the three four months that she's
feeding the baby and everything, and then so you know,
but he says, a dog can go one night and
pregnate twenty dogs. Yeah, twenty females. So he said better
if the mail was fixed. And it's er I mean
(38:07):
by saying, yeah, that's that's that's basically what the Dominicans do.
Speaker 2 (38:16):
Make a lot of babies here first, that's what they do, says,
they make a lot of babies. So let me ask
you this. You don't have to answer just but I
want to ask anyway, all told, how much do you
think you spent total wise on your rescue missions to
the dogs, between the care, between bringing them home.
Speaker 3 (38:34):
The food, food, food, because we saved a mother with
the babies. I was I was afraid of adding everything
up because I know it's too much. Does your husband
know everything? You'll know even like I mean, I was
talking to somebody the other day and I forgot he
(38:56):
was there, and I said the amount, and I went,
oh boy, he's a little deaf probably didn't hear me.
Speaker 2 (39:02):
Your husband.
Speaker 3 (39:03):
That's good because because just for example, the two of them,
Scout and her daughter, I wasn't planning on bringing them
to Canada. I was trying to look because I did
find a house for two dogs over there, but a
house that had a yard, not that they're left, you know.
Speaker 2 (39:18):
Like fostering the dogs to other people, other families.
Speaker 3 (39:21):
Yeah, right, yeah, So Fernando, like he's with a I
think he's the guy's an evangelist or something. He's got
a little boy and he's got a yard. And so
that was good for Fernando. And oh I love them
all and I missed them all, like through all my babies.
Speaker 2 (39:37):
Is it easy to put dogs up for adoption there
for people for homes to come and get the dogs.
And people want dogs.
Speaker 3 (39:43):
Like Leal, they give them. See what happens. That's why
I didn't want to get them fixed, is because like
I have this pitbull that I just before I left,
she had babies and he had told me, I said,
don't let her have babies. She's only not even a
year old. And I've never been I've never experienced a
pit bull because they always say they're the worst.
Speaker 2 (40:03):
It's not dangerous, depends, but.
Speaker 3 (40:08):
She wasn't with him at all. I would go every
day and she was only in in the car, report thing,
and I put my hand and throw the ball. I'd
bring her ball. I got bones, and she was She
loved me so much. I called He called her, and
I went, why would I? Why would he? Why do
you call her? Which is a rat? Because of the color? Gee,
you can think of something else. So I call her
(40:29):
Rosie and he said, I was just talking to him
the other day and yeah, she wasn't supposed to get pregnant.
I said, get her operated, you know, at least one,
because they give they want baby. They want dogs to
have babies, and they give them as gift instead of
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who says they want that exactly? You know. That's what
happened to me. Like Scout and her daughter Melina. Uh,
we saved and we saved them because her little girl
got hit by a car a month before. I was
only feeding. I guess she couldn't walk for a while,
(41:12):
this little girl. And so I never saw her daughter,
but I saw a Scout and then one day she
was there. But so I took her and put her
in a Poppy and we went to the vet and
we had a cast put on the front leg, but
not in the back because it was too far gone.
But she runs like a little deer, you know, It's
amazing and so eventually, so before we left, we were
(41:35):
trying to make arrangements for them, and the vet's, oh,
I have this woman. She's going to take Melina, And
I said, okay, but I wanted her to be operated
before so she doesn't have any babies. Plus, with her
legs like that, I couldn't see her being pregnant and
trying to take care like I mean, she's invalid, she's
but she's sparky and everything. So she changed her mind.
(41:58):
A week and a half before we left. She said
the woman she was going to gift her too didn't
want it. So I still see that. She didn't even ask.
Speaker 2 (42:06):
She just they just were going to give the dog
as a gift.
Speaker 3 (42:09):
Too strong mentality, you know, it's a.
Speaker 2 (42:12):
Big that's a big gift. I mean, that's the whole.
It's not giving a baby. Basically, you have to take
care of a life.
Speaker 3 (42:18):
So anyway, so we had somebody took care while in
the place while we were gone. But then it wasn't working.
I had to go down for a problem and I
brought them back, but it was in June July and
it was too hot, so usually we travel with her Canada.
And then I didn't know because it cost me for
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the four of them. When I brought them back, I
had to pay all the paperwork, so and and everything,
and then I had to pay I had to buy
the carry on carrier because they were going under the
belly and the cargo, and I had to train them
with that because I didn't want them to die, and
the fear and stuff. But then that's why I would
(42:58):
take two at a time, because I wasn't I could
take two underneath and uh, it was five hundred and
ninety nine each.
Speaker 2 (43:10):
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Everybody wants the best, and you know we all deserve
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things don't turn out right, what we should be doing
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I've gone down many same roads in the past, just
trying to make it work in a different way, different people,
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out that it doesn't work. Maybe now I'm finding out
that it's just not going to work unless I make
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say that I'm learning that I got to take better
control of these microphones. Here on the podcast, because I
don't know what happened, But towards the end of this interview,
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something got messed up, something got left. I don't know, man,
we were recording a good show, am I listened back
to the forty five minute mark. Something happens the mic
kind of drops out in I don't know how to
describe it. It just I can. I'll play a little
bit at the end. You'll hear how the mic just
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kind of like, I don't know, I don't have the
words sport. That's a mistake. Since when can't chadvise talk?
Since when can't chat? Since when can't chadvise talk? The
microphone just kind of stopped recording properly, had this jarred
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up garbled up sound as it was recording. I don't
know what happened, how that came to be. There was
certainly no noise like that happening in the studio in
the open area where I was. So yeah, I'm missing
a great part of Len's conversation. But there's some great
stuff to be heard and listen to here. I didn't
want to totally throw away this episode because it's got
some great content, and Len's a great guest, and we
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had some good conversations. So I'm going to bring it
to you as is, as was, and I'll leave a
little piece at the end of this show. You can
hear how the war world. Whatever happened to the sound
the I don't know. It's like the trouble was too
high or something happened, But we didn't adjust the microphones.
We just kept talking, talking, and all of a sudden
that just up recording properly. Maybe there was a connection problem,
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and my guest Lynn Ford, about her dog rescue and
so much more. This is Lynn's story.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
All right.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
I'm being joined here by Lynn Ford from the Ford Dealership.
I'm just kidding, hid dynasty you do. Oh, welcome to
the podcast. Thanks for being here.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
Well, thank you for inviting me. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
I appreciate the invite from my unpaid promoter, Marie, who
I guess found you in a local park. I mean
she finds all our guests and parks. Stay out of
the park.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
When is a dog park, dog park?
Speaker 2 (05:10):
You never know we're going to find guests, right, It's
pretty cool. Yeah, thanks for being here. I can't wait
to hear your story. So talk to me. We'll get started.
Tell me a little bit about you, who you are
and what's so interesting about you?
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Gee, I don't know this. Yeah, here's my life in
front of when she it's so funny. I always say
I've been in different things and the you know, the
breaking break, the ice or whatever, and I always say that, Well,
I was born at home, so I always say that
I'm homemade.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
I love that. Actually, never heard that.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Yeah, and it's because my mother had lost a baby,
so I would I was she lost too? Actually, so
it was my sister and another one that passed away
at four months, my brother another loss, and then me.
So then she says, well, I'm not went to the
hospital anymore. So she had me at home and she
had me. The nurse came and I was like, it
(06:07):
was you on April eighth, and she had me on
April third because she was washing all her walls and
getting ready and everything, and my aunt said, oh, you
shouldn't do that. So anyway, so she found the nurse.
The nurse was there when I was born, but not
the doctor. But by the time he came, he said, oh,
it looks good. But anyways, my mother says, well, she's
turning blue. And so they opened the oven door and
(06:30):
they turned it on and they put me in the blanket.
They put me right on the on the oven door.
And that's why I say I'm homemaid. And I always
had olive skin.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Oh my god. Wow.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
In school they'd say come on, then get up here
when we're talking about you know, skin and stuff. And
that's because one side is French she had. I've got
Italian background too, But anyways, yeah, so I always say, well,
I'm homemade.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
And that's an amazing story. I've never had a guest
come on the show and say they're homemade before. This
podcast is homemade, but so were you.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
There you go. I was meant to be.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Here, to be here. I love it. I love it. Well,
like I said before you we or Marie's met you
in a dog park. You were there with your dogs.
She's got a new dog. Shout out to Kevin. So
you love dogs a lot. And you guys got to
talking a little bit and you talked about your dog
rescue that you do. So you want to start with that.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Sure, sure, well I can start that. I started a
long time ago thanks to my mother about helping people.
My mother like, yeah, where we lived, there was different.
There was embassy people in an apartment building. There was
people on the other side of the use, other side
of the track or whatever, like there.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Was wrong side of the trucks.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Yeah, there was a lot of different and she would help,
you know, she would make she would knit, she would
do things. People that came from Africa to be in
the country for six months or but if they came
in the wintertime, well they were like no clothes. So
she would knit hats and you know, scarves and everything.
(08:03):
And we had a family that would come over and
she'd give hot chocolate and toasts before going to school
and stuff like that, and I would babysit them when
they had events, and yeah, so it was always seeing
my mother helping and the people, like our friends, they
always wanted to come to our house because my mother
would make French fries in the corn paper and drinks
and lemonade. And she was a servant.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
She'd spoil everybody.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Yeah, she was a servant. So I saw that all
my life and I just she was like my hero.
I just loved it. And through the years, like I mean,
I did a lot of mission work and a lot
of humanitarian work, and the latest one in Dominican, we
had the opportunity it opened up. I mean, we're there
(08:48):
for people. But then a couple of years ago it
opened up that the dogs. We were kind of I
got one dog to help and then you know, God
was just opening up the areas and said, somebody, we
can't help all the dogs. No, just the one. God
tells me, okay, this one, this one, because it's that's
the way it is with me, Like I have a
great conversation with God all the time. He's my he's
(09:09):
my uh my boss kind of thing. And yeah, it
was it was just beautiful to see that we could
help a little bit every day, you know. So I
started feeding one and then it was two, and then
other ones were so full of ticks and everything. So
we bought medication for them, and one was almost dying
and we got them back to life. And so, yeah,
(09:33):
it's like over there the attitude here. You don't see
that many dogs running around, Like I mean, you have
a dog, You're not gonna let that out in the
morning and then bring it back at night.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
I mean there are, yeah, but it's not.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Yeah, it's not. It's not an ever day occur. It's
like maybe one or two and here, like you on
Facebook groups, you'll go, you know, I see that, anybody know,
anybody know this dog? I picked up this cat whatever,
you know, like people help each other. There is like
it's just like wild dogs and they're not healthy looking.
They're like they're starving, you know.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
So let me back up a little bit. So why
you mentioned the Dominican Republic. Why there? Why did you
rescue dogs there? What made you go there? Did you
travel there once and saw the dogs that would need
that needed help or what kind of a dru No.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Well, we started going to a Dominican in two thousand
and five, just as holidays and stuff. And then we
met this young man at one of the hotels and
he was selling jewelry. And I get to when I
talk to people, they they seem to open up and
tell me their life story, right.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Just like you're doing here to me right now.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Yeah, but usually usually I'm on the other side kind
of thing. But anyways, so my husband goes, you know,
like you're gonna do that again.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
They just talks and talks and talks.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Anyway, So he's selling jewelry, and here's my head. I
get this this premonition to go and get the jewelry
that I had bought and give him a heart. So
I said, I'll be back, and then I go. He said, well,
he's selling jewelrys. I'm told to go get a heart.
So I gave it to him and we started a conversation,
you know, and uh, he was trying to get his
wife back and blah blah blah. And anyways, over the
(11:17):
years they did get back together and two different things.
But every time I saw them, I would pray for them.
They'd ask me to pray, and then they got something.
Something would happen and they got a piece of land
and then they were able to build and you know.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Started playing for them because you prayed for them.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
Yeah yeah, he said, And he said every time you pray, yeah,
yeah yeah, and still do now today. So it's like
now they have four kids. She had two kids previously,
and then they have they got two more, and but
then it's just the idea of yeah. So I was there.
We saw the need for for people. We saw the
(11:55):
need for for teenage moms and stuff. So I taught
like he was going to a church and he was,
you know, going to talk about Jesus to people and
stuff like that. And I started saying, well, why don't
we because I did that with all my other mission trips.
Food is always good to bring because you give them something.
Yeah yeah, and and then you talk, you know. So
(12:18):
I so we did food baskets and stuff food bags
and then we'd go in different places. And I remember
talking to this grandmother and she says, can you pray
for me? I said, of course, I'm here for that,
and she says, pray that I'm good that I can
take care of my two little grandkids, which we're small,
because she said, my son just got killed by a machete,
(12:39):
a guy with a machete yesterday and I went, oh,
my goodness, you know, and I prayed and everything, but yeah,
it's very you know, people see the resort, but the real.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
Life sometimes yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
And then because the island is two two countries, Haitians
and Dominicans, and and there's not I'm not saying anything
against the Haitians, but the culture is different as well,
and because their country is really being bombarded with the
government and stuff like that. So yeah, it's it's just
a cultural thing. And uh so we were helping. We
(13:14):
were going there to help for teenage moms and stuff like,
we want to do an outreach. But the more I
went and I couldn't go while COVID, so things change
as well. But I realized that like people over there
are telling me, no, well you can help the girls,
but you shouldn't keep them with the kids, because they'll
(13:35):
just leave you the kids and walk away because that's
what they do. And I went, oh, okay, so.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
With their kids, and then they'll just leave the kids
with you.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
I wanted to do a daycare and help them.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
They won't come back to get the kids.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Well yeah, yeah a lot of times. No, well, we're
almost ready to open so no, so I yeah, so
we're just doing the people, like I mean, helping the people.
Yeah yeah. But then through that while we're waiting to
get it off finalized and everything, that's when the dog's
you know, the neighbor's dog, like he's not feeding him
(14:10):
and he's barking all the time and he's running after
the people. But he's a good dog like you know,
but he's not well treated. So we would give him
my food like I buy meat and meat with bones
and and then and then the ones on the street,
well coho like, yeah, he's from a car lot and
he's only got three legs, he's tripod and yeah, so
(14:32):
I every day he's got a big bowl of food,
like I mean, because he only gets they only get
beans and rice or you know, that's all they feed them.
Which that's why they're not healthy, because they don't have
the meat, they don't have anything. So I yeah, so
my co hoo was yes, I love them all. Yeah.
Well yeah, so.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
You're not there now obviously no Canada.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Yeah we're going back next to Yeah, well I see
some some nobody some What I've found is a couple
of dogs that we kind of saved because they were
really dying. I found out that they do have a
house they can go.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
To, Okay, like a shelter.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Yeah, well it's just a dare. Because this guy was
saying one day, he said, that's my dog. I said, oh,
really prove it, I know, but I said, he says, yeah, yeah.
I said, well that's good. So does he have a
place to stay or is he stay and get you know,
outside all the time. Well, yeah, he's outside all the time.
I said, Okay, I said, well do you see how
his fur is so much nicer? And because he had
(15:37):
mangia and we had to get medication put stuff every day,
he was really like he was on the streets just
like nothing. And now when they see me coming, there's
more dogs coming. It's like I'm the dog lady. But anyways,
it's so but yeah, and some of them it takes
(15:58):
like the ones I brought back to cat to hear,
it took about two and a half weeks for her to,
you know, to come to me, like even if I
had the food scout and all of a sudden one
day I'm walking on the street and I'm kind of
looking for her, and she just jumps on me and
she's all happy, nice, she's accepted me. So it's such
a good feeling. Like the love that they have for
(16:20):
you and the love that you give them is like wow.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Unconditional, unconditional.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
It's like it's just like I'm just full. My heart
it's so full. And when that happens.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Yeah, So let me ask you the deep questions and
how what goes into starting this mission? Like how did
you start this over there? How was that funded? How
did you make that happen? Like from the ground up,
you just you went over there as a vacation as tourists, Yeah,
and you saw a need for help. But then what
was the next step that took you from vacationing tourists
to helping these people and then eventually the dogs.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
Yeah, well we did fundraisers, not that much. It's really
mostly my I never wonderful. My husband's going to hear.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
All this, I hope, So I want I want everybody
to listen. I hope that's going out for the world.
I'm going to do this, but we can make sure
we can block him.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
No, it's just that I took a lot of like
when I left the government back then, the like twenty
ninety ninety ninety what now twenty Yeah, when did I
leave the government. When I retire the government? Like time
is so, yeah, well I'm retired from the government.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
But but this is full time. What you're doing now,
this mission is human dogs.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Like whatever, like whatever. Yeah, so this is all.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Pre COVID then, right obviously, Yeah, okay.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
Yeah, yeah yeah. I started doing mission work in two
thousand and one, two thousand and two thousand.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Here in Canada, no over there.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
Over there there, well anywhere. Like the first trip was
in Mexico, okay, and then I did many many years
in Mexico. We built a church in Mexico. I'm time. Yeah,
well that it's like I did do some fundraising, but
if I had people to come with me and build,
like I mean, it.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Was a thing.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Well there were actually there was ten people from ten
different churches. I liked, like it was it was cool
that they weren't all the same and they were yeah,
and they were just like one never had her she
lost her suitcases. She never got her suitcases. And we
had brought everybody brought boxes and boxes of clothes. And
I used to tell people, make sure you give clean clothes.
(18:33):
I mean, those people are going to be poor. Doesn't
mean you give your rags, right, you know, and if
there's buttons missing, put some on, or don't give it
to me if it's dirty. Anyway, So she got it
an awakening because we brought out the clothes. She didn't
(18:54):
have her suitcases. Well, let's open the boxes before we
give them away and find your clothes for twelve days.
And we're looking, we're looking, and she goes, oh, like
we had to throw a good box full of the
stuff because it was dirty and it was torn and
it was and she was crying, and she says, we
were going to give that to the people, you know,
And I said, yeah, well I wouldn't. I would have
(19:15):
looked through it. But yeah, but if you're on top
of the mountain, that you don't have but no, So
like she was like, each one had a story because
they realized that, you know, we have it so good,
and then they don't, you know, And so yeah, so
that that was a very good And then the thing
(19:35):
is what's so beautiful is that another pastor went by
that knew this this uh, this community, and he ended
up seeing the church that we built and had to
roof the walls and everything, but it didn't it had
a dirt floor. Still, we didn't have money for that.
So he he organized and he had the wall built. Yeah,
(19:59):
poor eat and everything.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
So I had like volunteer construction people people.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
Yeah. Well this pastor was yeah, and he said to me, yeah,
he said, oh, this this woman with these people they
came and and so he did that. And then the
next year we were invited to go back for their
first year anniversary the service. And that was another I mean,
that would be another whole story because when we left
that night, it was raining and you're going down the
(20:24):
you know, you couldn't see nothing, you know. And it's
funny because God said to me, don't put your seat
belt on. I know we're going sideways, it's not dogs,
but don't put your seat belt on. I said, okay,
because you know Canada, we always put the seat belt on.
And I'm in the back of the the van, and
there's another seat in the back with the pastor's wife
and the grandkids. And I have my my friend Luis
(20:48):
that I've known since two thousand. I brought him to
Canada a couple of times to speak. But I told him,
I said, don't put your seat belt on. He said no,
I said, no, don't put your seat belt on. I said, okay,
So we can't see nothing. And in the so we
stopped at this little side store or something and he
bought some paper yellow you yellow foil so that he
(21:08):
could see better. But it didn't work. And then the
two pastors are talking and all of a sudden, I
hear one of the pastors going, oh Jesus, you know,
and I went, I shut my eyes and I well
before that, I felt something, and I said, Louis, start praying.
Let's start praying. And so we were praying, and he says,
oh Jesus, and we went off the We went off
(21:29):
the road, down the down the mountain. Still here's today.
But the only reason the reason is because we hit
a tree. God, it doesn't seem like we went We
rolled three times. We rolled three times, and I felt
like I was in the bubble because I like, I
closed my eyes and I we were just rolling.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
But you weren't wearing a seatbelt though, so wouldn't that be.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
No, that was better because I don't know that the vehicle. No,
the woman in the back, she came out of the
window in the back and she had her I don't know,
but she was We couldn't find her. She was underneath
one of the tires. She was pinned underneath one of
the tires.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Do you know what happened? Like what caused the accident?
Speaker 3 (22:09):
He couldn't see. We shouldn't have been driving. I told Luisa, said,
why don't we just stay on the side of the
rover for a little bit, you know, but you know,
he just wanted to get back. This was in Mexico, right, yeah, Okay,
So anyway, so that was great. That was something really experience.
It was an experience because we had to bring I
remember one of the little I had to push the girl.
(22:31):
It was straight up the vehicle, the car, I mean
the mountain we had to come. We had to come
back up, but straight up, like I said, well, bring
the kids up on the road. Where's the road it's
up there.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
So I had to push the children and they were
scared and they were crying, and we were yelling for
the grandmother. And then we find that they finally found
her and they had to move the car. And she
was diabetic, so she went into a shock once we
brought her up, and so we took all our clothes
off and put it on her. And then and then
the cops came and they wanted to leave, They wanted
(23:07):
us to I said, I'm not leaving until we go
back down there, and I mean, my glasses never broke.
Louis his shoes were off, and I said, we can't
leave until I get my purse and my passport, because
then I'll be stuck, like anybody can take it in Mexico,
your passport. And so they had the guys had to
go back down and look for it in the in
the car, and I waited. And while I was waiting
(23:30):
and the cops struck pickup truck, the windshield was all
little beads of water and all of a sudden, and
I mean, I'm telling I'm telling you because it's true.
It was like a cross line. The bead went down
and it made a cross. It was as if we
well I knew, I knew it was only by God's
grace that we were able to be saved.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
And you felt that before the same presence that made you.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
Because I think the way we were, you know, like
and you don't know the car either, Like some seat
belts are really tight. I've seen people die because they
had their seat belt on because.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Around your neck. Yeah yeah, yeah, so or compress on
YouTube exactly.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
So this way, this way, I think it saved us
in this case.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Where do you think your relationship, your a close relationship
with God comes from? Like where did that start with
you when you were a child? Did your parents bring
that to you? Where'd you find the inspiration?
Speaker 3 (24:24):
Yeah? When I was a child, I could I could
sense it. I could feel it. Like I said that
teacher that I had in school that she was a missionary,
and you know, but yeah, it was. But it's funny
because when I was thirteen, I kind of walked away
from well, I'm I allowed to say that.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
I walked away.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
I walked away from somewhere, no nod go.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
I walked away from the Catholic church thirteen. Yeah, because
I said, did.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
You grow up in a religious home like Catholic home
or before?
Speaker 4 (25:01):
Well?
Speaker 3 (25:01):
My mother Yeah, Well my mother is like I said,
she was such a good person, Like I mean, you know, yeah,
we did the Rosary, we did you know, all that stuff.
But the point is is, because I would go to
school and every week we had to go see the
priests and tell them what we did wrong the week before,
and yeah, and I said, we were kids, and we
(25:24):
were going, what did you tell them last week? So
we'd switch our sins making stuff? Okay you said that, Okay,
I said that, So let's switch their sins and that's
what we'd do. And then he'd say, okay, do this,
and then and then yeah, and then and then you'd
see them at Christmas. Anyways, there was a lot of
stuff that I could see. I think I've always had
(25:44):
this visual like I've you know, without knowing what it was.
Now I can say it's the Holy Spirit, but back
then I wouldn't have known. I just felt there was
something teaching me inside of me kind of thing.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
But you turned your back. You didn't feel at that time.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
You thought it was just well, no, I I I would,
I would receive it, but I didn't know what it was,
you know. And that's when I told my mother, I said,
I don't want to go to that church anymore. I
don't feel comfortable. It was because there's a lot of
stuff happening in our community. And I've heard some of
from other people that the yeah, that's things have been
happening in their life. But I said to her I said,
(26:20):
I talked to God all the time. Why should I
tell the priests what I need to say? Yeah, I'll
go straight to him, you know. And she says, you know,
she never my mother was so wise and so good.
She never said anything. She never said she try to
change my mind. Nothing. Throughout my life. I might have
(26:40):
made some you know, choices, and she was just you know, sure,
I'm sure she prayed constantly for me. But it's like
she yeah, she was so wise, you know, Like she
would say things, we'd go to this place on Prescott
Street or whatever, fishing on the side of the of
her an Autowa River. And when we got there with
(27:02):
our picnic and our rods to fish and everything, she
made us clean first the side of the.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Water, clean the area. Yeah, before you.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
Before me. Yeah, she'd say, no, you got to clean
because other people would just leave all the junk there.
So she said, she said, we got to do that
because in twenty twenty five years, she said, the rivers
are going to be polluted, are they not? Really? It's like,
so she was so ahead, and she was always saying
whatever they're trying to say or do things. She says,
(27:32):
if you see it in the cart comic book or
if you see it in the story or in the TV,
it's because it's already happening. And I say, I look
at her and say, boy, she's you know she was right.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
Well, you look at the Simpsons and they predicted president.
Speaker 5 (27:46):
I never fought. I never followed Simpsons. But like my
daughter said, there's a bunch of stuff that they drink in. Yeah, thousands,
I've come true now yeah, like Donald Trump.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Yeah, but that could be. That could be also from
the other side though they're the wrong side of where
come from. Yeah, yeah, but anyways, so but yeah, so
these things happened, and uh yeah, it's uh, that's yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Everybody in your life on board with your faith and
with the way you talk to God, your relationships. I thought, like,
you're married, you have children. Are they all on board?
But with your beliefs as well too?
Speaker 3 (28:22):
No, they're not at the no, no, no. I mean
we pray for them like I pray for them, and
I speak about it, and I mean they were when
they like when in particular, he was when they were younger,
and I think when they grew and they were exposed
to other stuff. It's not as important right now. But
(28:42):
my prayer is that they will come back really closer
because because the time is near, I mean. And it's
funny because and I use I used the dogs to
talk to people about my fate because it goes hand
in hand really because if you I always say to them, well,
God created dogs. God created the animals, and it's in
(29:04):
the Bible that to say that we're supposed to take
care of them. So you are, you know, take care
of them? You say it's your dog. Feed them and
I would give them I'm switching, but I would give
them just example, I would give them them what do
you call it, every month for their medication, yeah and stuff.
I don't do it to my dogs because I think
(29:24):
it's not good, but them they need it over there.
They like, we go feed these two dogs that lives
in front of a house. He's always full of ticks.
We have to take them out of his eyes. Like
that's how bad. So I would give them the pill
and the ones the pill, and I told them I
gave them the box, and I said, Okay, this is
for next month, but until I come back, can you
please at least buy this and give it to them
(29:45):
or else they'll get all full of texts, and.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
Do they have access to medications like that over in
the Medican Republic? Do they have the same level of
medicines that we would have for dogs over here? Oh yeah,
they have the exact.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
Sen right because I have two vests I deal with
and they have access to it. Basically, yeah, they have.
They have medication and stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
Was it more expensive? Like how do you get that
taken care of? Like how do you get that secured
for your dogs that you're rescuing because.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
It's been it's been just it would be cheap there outrage.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
Like you don't have health care for them? Right? So
I mean.
Speaker 3 (30:18):
You well, it's just how do you know? I wasn't thinking,
let's put it that way. I used all my money
and my line of credit.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
Okay, I wasn't.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
I just did it because I just felt propelled to
do it.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
Was that an ongoing thing or is it just something
you did and that's done?
Speaker 3 (30:33):
Like you well, I've done it all year, like since
when we were there. It was yeah, okay, yeah, yeah,
because and last year and now I'm at the point
that I can't do it anymore. So I really need to.
I really need people to you know that love dogs
and that believe in what we're doing to to come
in and just come in and just yeah, just to
(30:55):
love offering or anything, you know.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
Just so how are you doing that? How are you
getting more people to kind of I guess come on
board with your mission?
Speaker 3 (31:02):
Yeah, I'm just talking. Yeah, I'm thinking of ideas before
we leave about what to do. And I have this girl,
but she got busy, so she was supposed to do
these these little blankets, would pause on it. So she's
got one done. But I thought I had talked to
her two months ago that you know, if I could
sell those just like, okay, if you give us a
(31:24):
love offering of I don't know what you can have
this blanket, you know. So anyway, so I'm supposed to
see her this week or next week and maybe if
people want to take orders, like they say, oh I'd
like one to this color.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
And all the funds go to work.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
Yeah, I'll buy, I'll buy the will like and she'll
make them. And then does she have.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
An online business or somewhere that people can support, Like,
if people heard this podcast, can they go and support that?
Cause somehow somewhere is there something online.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
That the girl if she's doing blankets.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
You mean, yeah, can someone support to your cause? Oh,
a fundraiser? Do you have a go on media something
out there that I.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
Don't have go fundmeate, no or something like that, but
I can that you're selling stuff for yeah, you know
what I mean, like raising funds fundraiser?
Speaker 2 (32:09):
Are you doing that?
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Well?
Speaker 3 (32:10):
If if you can't.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
Bankroll it, now, do you have other ways to kind
of get the funds going?
Speaker 3 (32:16):
I know? Yeah, Well what I would do is I
told people, you know, if you want to do if
you want to send me a nee transfer, you can
donate to donate, to donate, and you can you.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
On your you have a Facebook page which people.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
Can like yeah, yeah, lean forward.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
So yeah, we'll we'll put that up obviously, I'll tag
you so people can hear this and donate if they
wish to.
Speaker 3 (32:40):
Hopefully, because I really would like to continue. And actually
I have one that that he brought the price down.
It used to be eight thousand paesels for a male
and he's letting me. I hope he still does it.
He for four thousand paesels.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
What's the equivalent in American four thousand.
Speaker 3 (32:59):
Would one hundred and something one hundred.
Speaker 4 (33:03):
And then it's pretty reasonable and then I have to
pay I don't know. Yeah, Canada, maybe it's more four hundred.
Oh is that for neuter of dogs?
Speaker 2 (33:13):
Here?
Speaker 3 (33:14):
Mails are cheaper.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
She paid for one recently. My own paid promoter would
know she paid for one recently. But I don't know
the price.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
But well you it was, Yeah, yours is mail, Kevin?
How much was that in Ontario?
Speaker 2 (33:25):
Wich is coming on Mike.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
Into fifteen hundred the estimation. But I went in Quebec,
so I paid four fifty.
Speaker 3 (33:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
A lot of people say it's not going to go through,
it's not enough to Yeah.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
That's but I've heard I've heard that.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
Yeah, I've heard that.
Speaker 3 (33:48):
Yeah, if you go to Quebec or whatever, if you
have time, it's a different country. So but but in Canada,
I remember from my Chihuahua that I say, from Dominican.
We brought her back to Canada and she's so far.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
So talk to me about that. That's a very interesting
part of your story. So how do you bring a
dog back who's it's they're not born and ray they're
not that's not the right term, you know what I mean,
bring back a citizen. They're not a citizen, but it
brings property, so she the whole thing. I have questions.
Speaker 3 (34:18):
Yeah, we we can, we can't bring them. Well now
it's harder. But the fact that, like we brought her
back when she'll be six. Yeah, so she was eating
rocks on the street and everything. People were throwing rocks
at her and yeah, and I told her, so, I
have dogs at home, I can't fall in love with you.
(34:39):
And a half weeks later she.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
Want it.
Speaker 3 (34:45):
So it's amazing. Yeah, it's like, but so we had
she had to get all her needles and and everything,
and I didn't get her spade or anything. Then, but
I chat all our needles and then you have to
get yeah, the vet and we'll check that everything. And
then there's then it's more expensive than you have to
(35:06):
pay another, Like it's almost two hundred dollars for the
government paperwork.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
To transfer the dog to Canada, to let the dog
come to Canada and to allow access.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
And then yeah, these papers have to be shown at
the in Montreal Highland of Montreal and Immigration. They have
to see it all and make sure that everything's in order.
And then when we bring her back, like we're going
to the vet this week for the two dogs for
their shots and everything, and then we have to go
back ten days before they leave again to go and
(35:38):
we have to go the whole thing. They have to
fill in the papers so that.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
The dog comes back and forth with you from here
now back to Dominican. They'll come back with you because
you're the dog owner. You own the dog. So this
may be a dumb question, but are they considered property?
Like you're purchasing property over there and bringing back because
you own the dog. It's not a person, you know,
what's it's your person like you have a person come
over on a work visa or a person. No, it's
(36:02):
not that pact. It's a property, I guess. But is
that what it's considered, Like, how do you classify.
Speaker 3 (36:08):
It's just considered a pet. You're traveling with a pet, okay,
yeah yeah, but so.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
But that you brought from over there, like let's say.
Speaker 3 (36:14):
Yeah they didn't yeah you kind of you kind of
say not too much.
Speaker 2 (36:19):
Well, you did it all legally, but it's all legally
the legal.
Speaker 3 (36:24):
My papers it says I'm the owner of this dog
and everything, but purchase.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
But then yeah, well you paid for you purchased, you
made a purchase obviously because you own the dog and
you there's papers. That's the thing is.
Speaker 3 (36:37):
Yeah, they like, they go, well is she Canadian?
Speaker 2 (36:39):
Well that's my question is now she's she's a Dominican
born dog. I don't think of it that way because
we're talking about people. We're talking about dogs. There They're like, yeah, means,
but they're not people for her.
Speaker 3 (36:54):
For her, it wasn't as bad it's lately the last
six dogs that I brought back.
Speaker 2 (36:59):
That was brought out six dogs, that's a lot and
all the same paperwork and all the same funds.
Speaker 3 (37:05):
Well, no, it was even more expensive to the mother
and daughter. Yeah, that's why I don't have any more money.
Speaker 2 (37:13):
Well that your funding the mission and everything too, right,
you give a lot of your money for the medication
to buy and security dogs that you see.
Speaker 3 (37:20):
Yeah, my hope is to My hope is to like
I was talking to the vet. I was talking to Samuel,
and I said, well, I said, which one I knew?
But I'd like to I'd like a vet to tell
me so I can tell people this is why. So
I said, well, which one do you think I should
do first? Like the operations should be the male or
the female, but it should be the male. But anyway,
(37:41):
so he said, well, the female, she'll be out of
service for while she's pregnant, like the six weeks, nine
weeks whatever, and then the three four months that she's
feeding the baby and everything, and then so you know,
but he says, a dog can go one night and
pregnate twenty dogs. Yeah, twenty females. So he said better
if the mail was fixed. And it's er I mean
(38:07):
by saying, yeah, that's that's that's basically what the Dominicans do.
Speaker 2 (38:16):
Make a lot of babies here first, that's what they do, says,
they make a lot of babies. So let me ask
you this. You don't have to answer just but I
want to ask anyway, all told, how much do you
think you spent total wise on your rescue missions to
the dogs, between the care, between bringing them home.
Speaker 3 (38:34):
The food, food, food, because we saved a mother with
the babies. I was I was afraid of adding everything
up because I know it's too much. Does your husband
know everything? You'll know even like I mean, I was
talking to somebody the other day and I forgot he
(38:56):
was there, and I said the amount, and I went,
oh boy, he's a little deaf probably didn't hear me.
Speaker 2 (39:02):
Your husband.
Speaker 3 (39:03):
That's good because because just for example, the two of them,
Scout and her daughter, I wasn't planning on bringing them
to Canada. I was trying to look because I did
find a house for two dogs over there, but a
house that had a yard, not that they're left, you know.
Speaker 2 (39:18):
Like fostering the dogs to other people, other families.
Speaker 3 (39:21):
Yeah, right, yeah, So Fernando, like he's with a I
think he's the guy's an evangelist or something. He's got
a little boy and he's got a yard. And so
that was good for Fernando. And oh I love them
all and I missed them all, like through all my babies.
Speaker 2 (39:37):
Is it easy to put dogs up for adoption there
for people for homes to come and get the dogs.
And people want dogs.
Speaker 3 (39:43):
Like Leal, they give them. See what happens. That's why
I didn't want to get them fixed, is because like
I have this pitbull that I just before I left,
she had babies and he had told me, I said,
don't let her have babies. She's only not even a
year old. And I've never been I've never experienced a
pit bull because they always say they're the worst.
Speaker 2 (40:03):
It's not dangerous, depends, but.
Speaker 3 (40:08):
She wasn't with him at all. I would go every
day and she was only in in the car, report thing,
and I put my hand and throw the ball. I'd
bring her ball. I got bones, and she was She
loved me so much. I called He called her, and
I went, why would I? Why would he? Why do
you call her? Which is a rat? Because of the color? Gee,
you can think of something else. So I call her
(40:29):
Rosie and he said, I was just talking to him
the other day and yeah, she wasn't supposed to get pregnant.
I said, get her operated, you know, at least one,
because they give they want baby. They want dogs to
have babies, and they give them as gift instead of
(40:51):
who says they want that exactly? You know. That's what
happened to me. Like Scout and her daughter Melina. Uh,
we saved and we saved them because her little girl
got hit by a car a month before. I was
only feeding. I guess she couldn't walk for a while,
(41:12):
this little girl. And so I never saw her daughter,
but I saw a Scout and then one day she
was there. But so I took her and put her
in a Poppy and we went to the vet and
we had a cast put on the front leg, but
not in the back because it was too far gone.
But she runs like a little deer, you know, It's
amazing and so eventually, so before we left, we were
(41:35):
trying to make arrangements for them, and the vet's, oh,
I have this woman. She's going to take Melina, And
I said, okay, but I wanted her to be operated
before so she doesn't have any babies. Plus, with her
legs like that, I couldn't see her being pregnant and
trying to take care like I mean, she's invalid, she's
but she's sparky and everything. So she changed her mind.
(41:58):
A week and a half before we left. She said
the woman she was going to gift her too didn't
want it. So I still see that. She didn't even ask.
Speaker 2 (42:06):
She just they just were going to give the dog
as a gift.
Speaker 3 (42:09):
Too strong mentality, you know, it's a.
Speaker 2 (42:12):
Big that's a big gift. I mean, that's the whole.
It's not giving a baby. Basically, you have to take
care of a life.
Speaker 3 (42:18):
So anyway, so we had somebody took care while in
the place while we were gone. But then it wasn't working.
I had to go down for a problem and I
brought them back, but it was in June July and
it was too hot, so usually we travel with her Canada.
And then I didn't know because it cost me for
(42:38):
the four of them. When I brought them back, I
had to pay all the paperwork, so and and everything,
and then I had to pay I had to buy
the carry on carrier because they were going under the
belly and the cargo, and I had to train them
with that because I didn't want them to die, and
the fear and stuff. But then that's why I would
(42:58):
take two at a time, because I wasn't I could
take two underneath and uh, it was five hundred and
ninety nine each.
Speaker 2 (43:10):
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