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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Down down back on the Robin the show at Ben
dar Now. We are joined now in studio by the
one and only Katherine Schubert. She is the manager for
marketing and communications, along with Pappas, an Akita puppy that's
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four months old, and we will be doing our Puppy
Pick them on February sixth. I have a ton of
dogs that are trying to find forever homes and Katherine
Schubert joins us now and Catherine, you were talking to
me off the air and you said that, uh, Pappas
and two other puppies are pure bread akitash. You have
a lot of purebread dogs, which I was under the
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impression you did, and I thought a lot of them
were mixed uh dogs and dogs like that that that
you know, couldn't had trouble finding forever home. So I
guess you were saying the purebread dogs go the quickest.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Yeah. So certainly we have a wide variety of dogs, cats,
any sort of pet at any time, there's a really
wide mixture which surprises people. So we have a little
Akida here today. He's four months old, and we also
have two other Akidas in the shelter. But we have
a lot of dogs that are just all shapes and sizes,
all different coats, you know, all different sizes, like I said,
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but really whatever you want, we've got those dogs. It's
good to come to the shelter and check, you know,
before you start looking for breeds from other locations, because
the shelter pets need homes and they are really lovely
and loving pets too, So.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
This is kind of a blessing and a curse situation.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
Puppy pick on February sixth Thursday before the Big Game.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
We do this every year.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
By the way, the ct who made Society pups a
little bit different than every other animal on the planet.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
They pick winners eight and oh on the career of
these pups.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
But you told us there is going to be a
huge roster of pups for all the teams this year.
How many pups are we going to be dealing with
this year? Or I guess that number could be increasing
and decreasing.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Yes, so we have a bad to eight older puppies,
nine younger puppies and then two other akidas like the
one that's with me today, So very large roster and
they are all ready and I know they are going
to again pick a winner.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Awesome.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
So these tell us a little bit backstory just on
these because they come from all over the country. All
over well, i'd like to I wouldn't like to say
the globe, but your guys' network spans almost everywhere. So
just on these particular pups in these stories, where are
they coming from?
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Absolutely, these guys actually local pups, So they came from
people in the community right here. Papaus he came to
us because he was given away to somebody who just
didn't have the means to hold on to him and
keep him. So he came to us to find a
brand new home. And he is going to do so
great in whatever home he ends up in. He's four
months old right now, and like the other two Akidas
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that we've got to, they are just such a wonderful
age to bring home and to integrate into your family.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
We were talking to Katherine Schubert, she's the head of
marketing and communications at the Connecticut Humane Society. There's three
places that you can go, Waterford, Westport, and Newington. We
always go to Newington and describe that because obviously I
know a lot about dogs Akidas. That's a great protective dog.
With that dog needs a lot of a lot of work,
a lot of attention. Then you have other dogs, you know,
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I've had massives. They sleep twenty three hours a day.
Do you like vet people and try to match them
with the pet that they're going to keep.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Absolutely. So the process is really simple and really straightforward.
Whenever you're interested in adopting a pet, you come right
to any of our shelters and you speak with an
adoption counselor who's going to work with you on what
your specific situation is, what your home is like, what
your family is like, and make sure that we match
you with a pet that you're interested in and that
is also going to get along well with whatever's going
on at your home. So it's a really informative process
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and it really we have people there to guide you
through the whole thing and to prep you so that
you get off to the right foot with your pet too.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
And the reason I say it's somewhat of a blessing
and a curse to have such a big rosters like,
we want pupps for the puppy, pick them, but we
want them in forever home. I immediately after they're done
picking the big game winner. But you guys are always
sure too that not only on the people's side that
they're matching for this dog, but on the doggie side
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that these people are going to be great parents to
this dog and they are going to be a forever home.
And it's a bigger tests than people think when they're
just thinking about getting a dog for the first time.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
It sure is a commitment. Yeah, it's a big commitment
that we want to make sure people are thinking through
all the way and not just an impulse that puppy
is really cute, let me bring them home. It's a
big lifetime commitment. It can be up to ten years.
We have ten fifteen years for a puppy, it can
be up to twenty years or a cat. So we
want to make sure that that pet is going to
integrate into your lifestyle, that you are well aware of
what those responsibilities are. And when it comes to other
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pets too, we have more than just puppies all the time.
If we have older dogs that maybe have a medical
condition that you're going to need to treat when they
go home with you, we have our medical staff walk
you through what that looks like. If they have some behavior,
you know, quirks that we want to work through and
make sure that you are aware of before you bring
this pet home. We talk you through that as well. Well.
That can look like anything from with puppies. You know,
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if they're really chewing on the leash, like Popus is
maybe doing that a little bit right now, they're doing great,
doing great. If they're doing a little bit of that.
We want to make sure that you have the tools
in place to you know, do what you got to
do to train that pet to make sure that they're
going to continue to be a successful placement in your home.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
And let's talk about that.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
You get different dogs that are from what zero to
six months? You've got some from from six months to
a year, then you go from like one year to
five years.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
How often do you get the like over a year dog?
Speaker 1 (05:34):
I mean, is there a percentage of more puppies or
you know, because somebody just had a litter. Yes, so
I'm going to keep the adult dog, but I can't
keep these ten puppies, and I don't need to sell them.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Yeah, from what I have seen, it's a very well
balanced mixed. We even have dogs that are seniors. We
have pets who are ten years old who need a home,
who need a retirement home. It's a really nice balance
and really, at any given point we have the right
pet for you. So if you're looking for a puppy
to grow old with and know learn to love as
they're growing up too, we have that. And the older
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pets always need that loving home too. The puppies are adorable,
but so are those older pets who are maybe already trained,
who are house trained, housebroken, know how to walk in
a leash really nicely. Those make really wonderful pets too,
and want to make sure that they get homes just
as much as as the puppies do.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
We love the CT Humane Society and like Dip say,
we are the one in Newington. We are always blown
away how clean it is. We say it's the best
smelling animal shelter in the United States. You guys do
so much there the Fox Clinic. And for those who
aren't aware, it's not for foxes, for fox I always
drive by things, man.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
They're really saving a lot of foxes over there, a
lot of fox. The people's name was Fox.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
They donated the most money or is for whatever they
started the clinic, and that is free right, Like how
does the Fox Clinic work again?
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Right? So, our Fox Monreal Clinic is actually a low
cost veterinary clinic that's open to the public. We do, however,
provide community wellness to all areas of Connecticut that are
free clinics for people. So if you are having trouble
accessing veterinary care, if you do not have up to
date vaccines, or you need baby shots, or you need
even just like a flea caller for your pet, we
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have clinics that go throughout the state so that people
can access vetinary care, get their pet scene by a veterinarian,
and that's all done for free. The Fox Memorial Clinic
is it operates like a regular veterinary clinic, but it's
about twenty to thirty percent lower costs than what other
veterinary clinics are around the area.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Talking to marketing and communications manager Catherine Schubert from the
Kanucki Humane Society, one of the reasons I love you guys,
you take pets from other states. You just had a
hurricane down North Carolina down that way, you get the
fires out in California, a lot of displaced animals and
stuff like that. You know how often when you're like
out of animals. Do you try to help these other
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you know, shelters around the country.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Yeah, Whenever we have the resources to help. In cases
like that, we work with our partner, Bissel Pet Foundation,
who says, hey, we have this partner shelter who needs
help with all these pets, can you guys help we
When we have the resources, we take them in so
that can look like exactly what you said, the hurricane
in North Carolina and we took a bunch of dogs
in that needed to clear up shelter space for pets
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who were being displaced by those storms. So that makes
sure that they have the resources down there for anybody
who's looking for a dog maybe that they lost during
the storm or cat they lost during the storm, and
then we can find those pets who are already up
for adoption homes up here in Connecticut where it's usually
a little bit easier for us to find them homes.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
Anyways, cthumane dot org is the website you need to know.
Will be pounding this in your head for days to come,
before the puppy pick them and even during the puppy
pick them again. We're going to be live from Newington,
the CT Humane Society for the puppy pick them, picking
the winner of the big game. Huge facility, beautiful facility.
You guys do so much, like we've already been talking about.
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I got some stats from the donor list that five
thousand pets adopted, reunited with loving families, four hundred plus
pets recover from extra behavioral support, which is.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Awesome that you guys do that too.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
But the one thing that jumps out is two hundred
and twenty five thousand meals provided to hungry pets. Like
the money that's involved, the time that's involved, the volunteer
people that are involved. This is a huge operation and
we encourage everybody to help and give, and there's so
many different ways you can do that. I just found
out you could donate your stock to start a stock
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for them. But talk about all those different ways that
you can help out the ct Humane Society.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Most definitely we are we are a private organization, so
we are one hundred percent donor base, So all of
those things are made possible by our generous donors who
give to the Connecticut Humane Society. And like you said,
there are so many ways to give. You can make
a gift online at our website cthumane dot org, or
you can mail a check to any of our locations
and you can donate with stocks, funder, crypto too, any
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of the options that speak to you. You can get
in contact with our development department and they are more
than happy to help you figure out what the best
way to give is.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
And you can do monthly like increments of twenty five
dollars fifty. It's not like you know, stuff that may
break somebody. It's something you can do monthly.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Every little bit is so amazing accounts and goes so
far to saving these pets. So yes, monthly giving is
an amazing way to give back. It's just like a
regular you know, sign up for a subscription to save
a pet's life. That goes so far.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
And I know some people, probably because we do the
food stuff too for the food share, might not think, well,
I don't know where my money's going.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
But you can donate food.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
You can go you know, pet supplies and stuff like that,
what toys, beds, everything pretty much.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Yeah, dogs need everything.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Yes, they have a wish list on our website ct
humane dot org slash wish lists, so from there you
can figure out all the pet food needs. Those go
really far for helping with our pet food pantry which
helps to keep pets and homes, and any any donations
of treats or toys things like that, the shelter pets
will love it. And just the joy that they get
from having that time with and you know, Enrichmond and
things like that really is amazing to see.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
Just watching Sam and Poppis right now, how can you
say no to that? Cute little Pops has got those
zikidi ears. They haven't even grown in yet. They're face
all right, the real situation. Let's get serious here. I
know this, you know, saving animals is all great and all,
but who's gonna win the big game? Have they been training?
Have you been getting their crates in front of film?
Speaker 2 (11:11):
They know what to do and so that does not
require any training on our part.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
So the beefs take on the beagles. I love how
your staff gets all involved with this. We will have
the dome once again. But any predictions, Catherine, any any
pups leaning beagles or beefs right now at the moment,
a couple of days in.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
It's hard to say.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Right now. They are very particular about treats, So wherever
the good treats are that's where they're gonna go interesting.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
The groundscrew is amazing. I mean the cleanup crew to
call the ground screw from now on. Are the ground
screw is always ready ready for quick cleanups to keep
everything fair and square.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
I love that, Yes, fair and square.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
And I will be wearing the referees jersey making sure
there's no.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Getting out dirty in there with the pope. I have to.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
I have because we have a lot of cheaters out there,
especially when the Patriots were in the Super Bowl at time.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Now we got a bunch of swifty fans.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
We got to watch out for trying to course the
dogs one way or another.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Deb I know, I knows human you said these treats.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
Are we keeping the same treats we're using in training
that we're using for the big game.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
They have the special ones for the big games, so yeah,
bring out the big love it.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
They've never smelled these kind of treats before. Very fun.
It's just perfect puppy. Pick them.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
They're eight and no February sixth. I can't wait again.
Ct Humane dot Org is a place to go for everything.
I mean, you can even find dogs there, right, you
got everybody the dogs and the cats on the list
for people to pick out.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
That's right, dogs, cats, rabbits, guinea pigs, hamsters, birds.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
The whole ja bang. We got a lot of pets.
God bless you cats or everybody over there.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Thank you, thank you, thank you,