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I can only take so much of that the singing dogs with jingle bells at WR Jan radio I'm
Don Rose at at 707 speaking about dogs Angela speed is here and Angela speed is from the
Wisconsin Humane Society she's the vice president of communications marketing and
Angela thanks for getting up this morning although if you have dogs you're probably
up by now right.
My dogs and cats have me up at about 530 so yes that is very true.
Somebody wants to say to me we get to sleep late this morning I said you know just
good to holly my dog doesn't know what's a holiday he wants to go out of the certain
time every morning and you know it's funny with the animals you can tell when they're
looking at you and they want to go out my dog used to stare at me and I used to wake
up because I could I could feel him looking at me on my side of the bed he later started
scratching on the mattress everyone that he go out but I could stand looking at me and
you can't ignore that you can't ignore that look because there's a penalty for ignoring
it and it's not pretty somebody what said the guy had what are you going to say.
That is the truth our dog has a bark there's a very specific bark that we know get him
outside they're great communicators aren't they yeah and here's the other one somebody
said you should make an alarm clock for dog owners and it's a son of a dog puking that
will get you up faster than anything on the planet that dog that sound and for people
that have animals they know what that sound is and they get up immediately because you
don't want to take that first step out of bed in the morning do you there was contra
domain society this is and I mentioned this in the first hour so this is very close to
me I give to and I'm not exaggerating 14 animal charities every quarter of this in the
year and I keep adding to it because I feel so terrible I give everything from chimp haven
which is a habit out the care of chimpanzees to farm animal sanctuaries farm animals that
were abused and now live on a sanctuary for the rest of their lives I gave one to the
elephants who were abused and now they're in sanctuaries and of course the the pet
ones hope safe house here and was seen the Wisconsin remains society and I give to all
of them and I just I can't turn them down what I do is I check on charity navigator to
save for legit and once I find out that they get on the list and I put a $5 bill every
quarter and everybody's envelope and I mail it out I also do a two disabled veterans charities
well and boys town those are my charities I choose but I there's constant main societies
on my list every quarter to give money because somebody's got to do this stuff and if you guys
aren't helping animals then who's going to help them exactly and there's so many great
animal charities doing work in Wisconsin and we are honored to be among one of those groups
for you it they can't speak for themselves and so they need people to help them out you
know from that from the elephants to the dogs as you said so we're very grateful for that
support yeah and you know dogs have problems some people and I don't know what dog I'm going
to do this just throw the animal out of the house and you're out of here I don't know how
they could do it I but why had one animal that got away once from me he was going to the
house and I took the collar off as we open the front door and he saw a stranger in there
and he backed up my porch and ran into a busy street thank God there was no cars around
and I'm screaming get back it come in come in finally and I try here's pizza here's pizza
here's chicken I don't have anything but you try you'll try anything and I said get in the
car we're going for a ride and he ran up to my car that was that's the only dog that
ever got away with got a well I take it back I loved him around here one of our palms got
a palm reading got out of the house and decided that every day we just let him get out about
4 a.m. and he showed up at the door this one day decided to run so my daughter and I
are underwear chased him down the block and we got it because it was at 9.4 o'clock
in the morning is he gets away I'm never going to find her so anyway but let's talk
about the Wisconsin Humane Society and the good you were doing what your programs are
give us a rundown because you're not just an animal shelter we know it's like dogs
up in a cage what give us give us the rundown sure well here's the basics so the Wisconsin
Humane Society celebrated it's 144th anniversary this month actually we've been saving the lives
of the animals for more than you know more than a hundred years and we are an independent
nonprofit organization we have grown a lot in the past few years and we now operate animal
shelters in Kenosha Racine Milwaukee, Soxville, Green Bay and or county as well as a
Bay Newter clinic that's open to the public in West Dallas and so we serve about 40,000
animals and their families every single year and this is all because of the community and
the community's support we don't get general government funding we're not part of a national
umbrella group so we depend on the community for all of our services which range of course
from animal adoption but to Bay Newter services a pet food bank tons of youth programs
community outreach programs we even have a wildlife center at our Milwaukee campus tons
of dog training classes pretty much anything pat related you can find on our website well
tell you what I went to when one of my dogs died I think it was a parmarinean she had cancer
and I tried to do the I brought it to a place in Milwaukee I think it was there was a oncologist
for animals and they said 5% will not tolerate the the needle or whatever the medication we're
going to give them and of course my dog couldn't tolerate it in that night she passed away but she
passed away in an oxygen tank as she couldn't breathe at least she wasn't you know suffering at the
time but I felt so bad and I was so knocked out over this my wife got me into classes at your
Milwaukee office for people who lose pets I mean it's like yeah it's like it's like a class for
you know if you lose a you know a relative or loved one well animals are the same to me that was
if that was a family member for 13 years of my life she slept actually slept on the board I was
single slept on the bed next to me on the pillow she used to jump on the bed during the night
and start stretching out and kind of push and so she was a family member and we went to classes
and it was with other people that also lost animals that just couldn't handle it but it is so
hard and pet lovers understand it so we do offer pet loss seminars to help people through that
grieving process losing that family member it's at least a hole in your heart for sure
and yeah I'm sorry you went through that and but you know we're here from for people who are
getting their first puppy all the way through those end of life services for the whole lifetime
of your path I just I still look at the videos I have of my beagle that we just had to put the
sleep a year ago and I sit there looking these videos over over and over and over again I didn't
have videos of some of my other dogs because we didn't have the cell phone stuff back then
but just looking at it just I can't believe it that it's been a year and people you know
grieve over animals isn't they do human beings I know it's tough but they do it's one of
and it's one of the number one reasons why we see people coming through our doors to adopt is
because they've recently lost an animal and that human animal bond is so strong and whether
they just want to come in and foster an animal short term or they're looking to add a new family
member something like 60 percent of the people adopting have recently lost an animal and that's
such a testament to that to that bond people have with animals you know and I watch these videos
on Facebook that people post and one of them is they go into a shelter and they show I'm going
to adopt the dog today and they go right to the dog and they say you have a forever home and the
dog says wagonous tail at it like it it understands a forever home and they they take the dog and the
dog is just so happy to have a a forever home and they think and I know it's like as I've adopted
several dogs and one the only one was we brought her in brought him in and the first thing
it was jump on a chair and claim it as his even though another dog already had that in their
family claim it as his there was no wagon it was this is my chair I'm claiming it now and stay
away I'm the new guy and I'm claiming this chair and you have that chair but that was the first
thing no hello just jump on the chair and it's and this is mine from now on that was the only dog
that didn't show any gratitude getting adopted and you also do fostering animals as well you
don't have to adopt an animal but foster them and what's that program about yes so many of the
animals we see coming into the shelter need to they're oftentimes just too young to be spayed
or neutered so they're under eight weeks old kittens and puppies and no matter how nice their
shelters are a home is always a better environment and so we try to get those kiddos out to foster
and then of course any animals who have special behavior or medical needs recovering from an illness
or an injury we send them out to foster homes and sometimes we just need foster homes for
space like when we're really full of animals especially during the summer season we have over
thousand foster homes but we can always use more we had over five thousand animals go out to foster
families and so this is literally just for a day or two and other times it can be for several weeks
depending on their condition but if you're interested in fostering you do get first dibs on
that animal you fall in love but it's like having another shelter and it is such life-saving work
it keeps a kennel open for the next animal in need and we set up our foster parents with everything
we need from medications and food, doctor's advice, an awesome team of really experienced foster
parents to guide you if you're new to the program dogs, cats, rabbits, seven-season birds so there's
all types of animals who need foster pretty much year-round and we this warm weather we are continuing
to see a lot of kittens flood through the doors so if you're if you're not sure if you're ready to
adapt something's foster they're really great try out and it helps every you know every animal that
goes out to foster prefers a home environment over a kennel at the shelter. I told you if I
fostered an animal I'd never give it back. We welcome foster failures that's like
Is that what you call them foster failures? I would be I would be your worst student that'd be the
failure. I couldn't I couldn't get me I couldn't get the animal back I fall in love with them
even when you know we have a neighbor lives in the blocking back of us he just got a new dog
and it's kind of a pit bull mix but he jumps on me and he's just licking me and I I feel like saying
can I have this dog? This little dog's name is Juniper and she is so loving and she just
just jumps on me and wants to I feel like they really want this to I'll take her you know and
that's that's a shame because I want everybody else's dogs hold on Angela's speed is with
they can take a quick break Angela's from the Wisconsin Humane Society they need your help
you're around I'm going to tell you a quick story from the 1970s coming up at a moment I've
Don Rose had it 718 at WRJ and hometown radio refreshed we're civic media stay right where you are
it's the most wonderful time of the year with the kids to handle the speed from the Wisconsin Humane
Society is with me Angela I got to tell you a quick story when I worked for a station on Long Island
WGBB it was my first station I worked at as a teenager and eventually you know as someone
of an adult we every year we did a broadcast from the local Humane Society the local animal shelter
there try to get there not to get so much adopted but that people think about adopting your dog
just come in here and give it some thoughts talk with the counselors here and they'll tell you if
you can adopt I've got a photograph on my cell phone of that day when I was broadcasting from
the animal shelter at about 100 pounds lighter and I think it was like 19 or 20 years old at the time
just back in the 70s and we did this every year and we had a U.S. Senator at the time
Al Demato was our senator and he lived in the area and he came by and we did a stunt
we locked ourselves into cages where the dogs were and until we were looking for donations and
until we hit that monetary amount we were not going to leave the cages and they said you know
what if we're here for like a whole day I got stuff to do we hit the amount within an hour
and that was nice and we they unlocked the cage and let us out but the U.S. Senator actually got
locked in the cage. I am writing that down that is a fantastic idea. By the way I don't do that
anymore. I'm six with three I didn't fit well in the cage either but we were both crouched
down on the cage I had the microphone with me and I said come on I got to get out of here
and we got we got the money within an hour or so a couple of hours okay we talked about foster
parents and you also need supplies at the Humane Society money donations and supplies tell
us talk about that. Yes so first of all we have a wish list posted on our website and there are
certain items that we are in super high need of right now and the two things that are probably
highest on that list are dog treats especially pepperoni or canine carry out those treats that are
soft and highly motivating for dogs and also soft dog toys especially like the plush
squeaky ones right now we have hundreds and hundreds of dogs in the shelter system and in order to
keep them entertained and you know active during the day we go through so many dog toys and they
love to you know destroy them and they have fun with them so dog treats and dog toys are at the
top of our wish list this holiday season for in shelter animals and then of course we have
a pet food bank too that is open to the community and that runs entirely on donation so if you're
somebody who is struggling financially and you need to pick up a bag of dog food cat food cat litter
we have a quite a big pet food bank at a Milwaukee campus and we also keep food on the shelves
that are received and canoesia campuses but we're running really lean right now on cat food dog food
and cat litter so if you are in a position to make a donation those are some great options you
can also order those online on our Amazon wish list and have them sent directly to the shelter
and that goes a long way to support the animals the need and then of course monetary donations
oh my goodness so medical expenses are going up every year just just like for the community it's
also going up for especially our veterinary department we are treating about 60% of the animals
who come into our shelter for some sort of medical issue beyond spay neuter surgery and so medical
and daily animal care expenses are our absolute highest expense you know whether you can make a
$5 donation a $20 donation it goes a long way to help animals in need and you also have an online
store if people want to make purchases right yeah we've got a really awesome retail store on the shop
site at wihumane.org whether you're shopping for the holidays for your friends and family
but you can also order things right on our website that go right back to the to the shelter animals
and that's a really efficient way to donate to so you can check that out as well.
My daughter's dog has a complete wardrobe we the only thing we got for our dogs winter coats
actually doggy winter coats because when they went outside we it's a velcro thing you just
put it on their back and they after a while they the first time it's like tough to get it on
because they want to care it off but after a while they realize that it's it's warmer with that
than not without you know so when they went outside we just it goes around their back inside
a velcroed around their neck and they're and they're stomach and they go outside and it's a lot warmer
it was like a fleece type jacket you get for your dog so you can get all that kind of stuff especially
if you have a small dog that's short-haired I don't know if they all I know is my dogs love
borrowing in the snow they always loved running in the snow they never complained it was too cold
my pomeranian used to disappear in the snow and then the head would pop up out of the snow and
go back down again it was like a golfer she'd look up get some air and go back down again and she
loved the snow she used to run into it and jump into it and she was so small she would disappear
into the snow you wouldn't see her go ahead yeah that's absolutely adorable and I keep waiting for
to know I my dog loves no two and typically the time of year we're we're suggesting some winter
because of the cold and wanting to avoid frostbite that it just hasn't been that cold yet but
you know every pet is different and it is something that we see every year frostbite and pause
the ears and the tail so once it gets cold if it ever gets really cold you want to keep an eye out
for the at but yeah there's a lot of snow loving dogs out there for sure and what's the kids program
you have kids programs I didn't know that yeah we actually see almost 7,000 children every single year
in our kids programs we offer everything from birthday parties and scout nights to summer camps
and actually camp year round and if you have an animal loving kid we actually have bots available
at a received campus in bow wow blizzard camp and that's the week of like Christmas break it's
on a Wednesday all day camp and they do so many fun activities and of course they get to meet
animals we've got programs for kids of all ages so if you've gotten the animal loving kid at home
you want to check out the kids page of our website you know this is so great I love talking to you
I love everything about animal shelters animal societies that help animals and I told you I give
to chimp haven these these people just help chimpanzees I don't know where they are but I checked
them out and they're legit organization and the money goes where it's supposed to go if you
want to give to the Wisconsin you main society and give us the website are what says w i humane
dot org w i humane dot org and did it the address if they want to give to directly drive over to the
were seen campus um yes i almost gave the old chicory road that we moved and remember the
chicory road at the new camp that's the mountain pleasant um we did a capital campaign but
that's three years ago and right when covid started in march of 2020 we quickly moved into the new
shelter building in mountain pleasant and it's at eight nine hundred sixteen street mountain
pleasant and it's gorgeous if you haven't seen it but you're at the old chicory road building it's
a million times different we my wife and I made a donation at the old one I remember and we brought
some of our dogs stuff over there that was new and we never used and we just left there is a donation
and they appreciate that if maybe you don't have a dog anymore and you have some really good stuff
that's not torn to shreds I know it's stuff with animals not to be torn to shreds but if you have it
it's it's greatly appreciated and I know they'll you know the animals will love it I know that
they love everything yeah absolutely um yeah and if that old chicory road building was actually
built as a potato barn decades ago and it was converted into an animal shelter if people ever
visited there was one huge room with dogs in it and they were always barking and it was just
deafening and um the new shelter is so much quieter cleaner the HVAC system is awesome staff
love it the volunteers love it and of course the animals are in much much better place now
if you haven't seen the shelter you just got by some time it's it's beautiful
Angela you have an open invitation you're in need time you want to come back okay
yeah thank you open invitation you just say don't I want to come back I'm throwing
everyone outside of the studio Angela wish those dogs and Merry Christmas for me okay
and cats and and angels and turtles and everything bye bye bye Angela
why not I just said sandwiches you can't say sandwiches it's things out of beach
well I eat sandwiches when I go to the beach it doesn't matter it ain't a beach thing so I'm not
gonna allow it who's allowing you to be the guy who's allowing thanks that's be a common sense
beach thing you moron something that's already at the beach when you get there something like an
umbrella and umbrellas are at the beach when you get there families destroyed
that's a good holiday game break that out during the holidays and rip your family to shreds
I think monopoly probably tears a family to shreds too when you play it over the holidays
is any board game right
if you ask about a hundred people they'll say that the word christmas is in that song somewhere
and it's not there's no holiday mentioned in that song slay right there's a lot of songs they jingle
bells don't mention a holiday or anything and a lot of people swear they do Angela's speed I
can't believe I say goodbye to you I've got a written in front of me till eight o'clock and just
had a force to have it I said goodbye at seven thirty I know it's going on with me I think I'm
getting too old for this thank you Angela for holding in there from the Wisconsin you made
society and I had a note here to go through all my animal stories with you I don't know I was
thinking here's some of the animals I've had in my entire life done I've had turtles now they
don't sell them anywhere these to sell those little baby turtle in a little tiny turtles remember
those yes I do you still have a little plastic thing with a little bit of water had a little island
in there with a like a plastic palm tree I had turtles for years I've had them
so they grow big no they were little tiny turtles they stayed the same size they never
grew big you went to a store and they cost like 69 cents a pet store and they used to put them
in a box you bought this little plastic thing had some water in it and you put food in there
the problem is I don't think kids like me who had it they care of them I did because I had animals
in my house my dad got he started raising pigeons in his rooftop what do they call those
coops in Brooklyn New York when he was a kid about 12 years old he started collecting pigeons he got
rid of them when he was about 80 years old or 79 years old and he retired and he went down the
Florida he had this pigeon coop in his backyard he was fit for humans it was a large coop with
baseboard heating and a cooling system for the summer not air conditioner but a cooling system
he came up with the blow fresh air and cool air through the coop and out the side but the
baseboard heating was amazing so the birds wouldn't freeze in the winter time he had this also
and he had about a hundred to two hundred pigeons in there that's incredible I've never heard
anything quite like that and they were homing pigeons he would let them fly and he came up for work
he would let them fly over the neighbor the neighbors who complained the pigeons were pooping
on their property and one day one of my neighbors said that the birds pooped in his pool and the
guys name was Julie Bright and he used to talk like this a naughty yeah pigeons are and he used to
use the rockatory word for what they were doing pooping in my pool and so my father said which one
didn't look which one I'll punish him which will pick out that bird that did it and I will punish him
and when they would fly my father every Sunday would scrape the thing clean spray this
infected powder in there and this was a huge building this infected powder and when I guess
when the mother and the babies had a problem he'd bring the babies in our basement and put them
by the oil burner which was warm and I had to go feed them before school started and the way you
did it was you put oatmeal in your mouth and the pigeons had big long beaks even the babies and
you put the babies beaking your mouth and he used to eat the oatmeal out of your mouth just like
you know a mother would feed him and I had to do that for years on some of these pigeons that were
neglected so I'd get up before I went to school take a spoonful of oatmeal put it on my mouth
and feed the birds and I had to do it when I got home what a memory that's a that's crazy
well you don't forget that you don't forget pigeons eating out of your mouth it's just one of those
no but we had to it's amazing what people do for their animals one more our cat story I was highly
allergic to cats and it's just something I was and it just couldn't do anything about it at the time
but my brother and I were mowing the lawns on this estate this is back in the early 70s
and the owner let this dog chase a cat up the tree say go get him and the little kitten ran up the
tree he was a kitten I wouldn't get down so I had to climb the tree I think now I was I an idiot
I climbed the tree and I brought the kitten down and we brought it home we bought it a fish burger
at Burger King which was brand new at the time there was like the only Burger King around
brought him a fish burger plain one fed the cat brought him home and we kept the cat for 14 years
we weren't gonna get rid we weren't gonna keep the cat but 14 years later we couldn't get it
and I just sneezed every day it's all I did I just sneezed and I lived with it until I went
to an allergist and he said what are you crazy and we got help and now I'm not allergic to cats anymore
one more animal story when I was a 13 of 14 I think it's 14 years old I was just going to the radio
and the local station was giving away a prize and the name of the song I had to identify was by the
fifth dimension I forget the name of the song now I'll think of it in a minute and he said name it
you win it that's all I heard name it and win it and so I named it I called up the radio station
and he said you want a cockroach spaniel why I thought I won and we already had a dog at the time we
had a cat at the time too but the other dog was very old and we knew she wasn't long for this world
but we took the dog it wasn't the cockroach spaniel by the way it was a mixed breed dog that never
even saw a cockroach spaniel in its life and we took it my mother said we have to give it away
so we called a neighbor who's had relatives looking for a dog they came over and said
we'll take it and my mother took it in her arms she was about to hand it over and said we
changed our mind get the dog at it we change our mind we're keeping them and we kept that dog
for about 13 years peanuts and it was about to hand it over and we're all looking what do you mean
all of us it said I can't hand her I can't hand it over I can't hand her over can't do it won't
so we kept that dog anyway I'm sure you have tons of animal stories if any good ones that by the way
I also had hamsters I had hamsters parakeets cockatiels you name it we had it except snakes we never
had snakes oh I we had a couple years ago we had 180 animals come to us from a single house
and 52 of them were snakes and it was and I had never handled a snake before and I went through
snake handling training because ball pythons are known as like the puppy dogs of this snake world
and they're actually quite affectionate and sweet if you can get over the scaly and when they
climb up your sleeves they can make fantastic pets for somebody especially if you live in an
apartment and you can't have dogs or cats we do these snakes quite regularly at the shelter
and we do have a turtle for adoption right now like a box turtle you want another turtle as an
adult we've we've got one for you like like a box turtle in one of those yeah like those yeah our
counselors would be able to tell you better it was the species but he's a bigger turtle and
turtles do live a really long time 20 30 years or even longer but you've got to have a great
setup for them but we have animals come in of all kinds and roosters and chickens and chinchillas
and you name it we see them but right now I should say right now what we're seeing is just a ton
of dogs so this year has been really unusual between inflation and housing instability the
rising cost of that care we have had so many dogs at our shelters right now and it's taking I've
been with the humans society for 17 years and this past year it's like we've done a 180 dogs
are staying with us for so much longer than they used to and of course that at WHF animals
in our adoption program have as long as it takes to find a new home but right now for dogs it's
taking longer than ever and so if you are somebody who's in a position to adapt we typically have
anywhere from 80 to 100 dogs available every single day right now it's been it's been the tough
year quite honestly we've had so many people making that really difficult decision to surrender
their pets and it's almost always financial they can't afford medical care there's a lack of
affordable housing especially that takes dogs especially if they're bigger dogs and there's a
national veterinary shortage right now too we are our friends at another shelter in another state
has eight open veterinary positions we are very fortunate and that we have ten full-time vets
across our shelters but we know people are struggling to afford basic veterinary care so if you're
looking for an animal I highly encourage you to check out your local shelters or the Wisconsin
Humane Society and if you're looking with us you can see all of the available animals at
wihumane.org our website is updated in real time you fill out an adapter profile which is not
like an approved or rejected application it's just a profile so we can collect basic information
about you and then when you step in you meet with an adoption counselor and they walk through
the process with you you know what kind of animal are you looking for what's your lifestyle like
what are each animal's medical behavior and placement needs so that we can make successful matches
but it's important to know too there are no time limits all animals in adoption have as long
as it takes to find a new loving home but it's been an interesting year it's been a tough year
with dog population in particular and then if people aren't aware too we acquired safe harbor
Humane Society this year in Kenosha so we've taken on you know 30 to 40 of their awesome staff
members and brought them up to speed on some of our processes we've learned so much from
the Kenosha community and we're really excited to be operating in Kenosha now too and really help
keep that shelter doors open to animals in need. You know I get teary-eyed when you're talking about
this only because I've spent my entire life with animals of all kinds but there was his
shelter in Keno and Caledonia and I think you remember the one I'm talking about right?
I sure do the woman who ran it she was over her head with this kind of stuff she didn't do
anything malicious but it was it was closed down eventually but I went there to see if there's
any dog I can adopt and I walked in in this beagle with a big black thing on his face it was like
that was his coloring he just had a complete black fur thing on his face that was just the way
looked so pathetic looking he was living under the desk and I walked in and he sat down on my foot
the thing was herbie he sat he sat down on my foot it wouldn't get off and he was looking up at me
and I said to my wife there it is that's the sign so we took herbie home and herbie had some
medical problems and we took care of those and he lived with us for about a year and a half almost
two years and it was his time he was an older dog but I didn't want him dying there I wanted him
in our big backyard and he's gonna die if he dies he's gonna die in a home you know with a big yard
and other dogs and the other dogs show him the ropes real quickly when you when you bring him in
and I just I wouldn't trade herbie for anything in the world but he sat on my foot and I said that's
a sign and he wouldn't get off that was it was orphan canines if that's the same place we're talking
about I think that was 94 animals and I will never forget I was I was there too that day actually
when the 94 animals were taken out of that facility and it was it's one of the worst it was
just a horrible situation that those animals were we're living in and I remember putting on a
hazmat outfit and respirators and going into that facility but at the same time it was so
remarkable because those livens were transformed at that moment all of those animals were getting
the support that they needed and the community and received absolutely rally behind us and we
I remember holding a special adoption event and just dozens and dozens of animals let home
but it's a good reminder too that when you are considering adoption you want to make sure that
the place is reputable that you eat that they are inspected by the department of agriculture
and consumer protection that the animals are well taken care of because there's a lot of
different groups out there and they don't all operate the same yeah and you know I'll tell you
another story we got another dog in a moment here and there's so many different stories and how
you get dogs I mean everybody's got their own stories but I'll show you just a moment yeah
Angela Speed from the Wisconsin Humane Society with us this morning it's 649 at WRJN
home town radio refreshed
all the weather outside is frightful but the fire is so delightful and since we've no
place to go let it snow let it snow let it snow man it doesn't show signs are stopping and I've
brought me some call for father the lights are turned away down low let it snow let it snow
when we finally kiss good night
how I'll keep going out and the speed by the way what a great name
Angela speed I love that name it's something you should be a NASCAR driver
it's gotten me out of a few seating tickets I should polish it with that but it has
oh really look at you using your name to do us get out of speeding tickets that's great
first right yeah another woman on the air from the the downtown nursing corporation Kelly Cruz
I said that's our great name Kelly Cruz and we had somebody else I can't remember the name now
another great name I mean it sounds fake speed and cruise but they're actually real names of
real people the Wisconsin Humane Society need your help year round but at the holidays people
get a little more sentimental and I I want one more dog story to tell you one of our dogs
Darwin we got he was another beagle these all happen to be beagles we got and Darwin lived in
connocia but the woman who owned him you know adopted him passed away and the husband wanted to
move didn't have time for a dog and so we found out about him my wife found out I know she did
so we went there to meet him and Darwin was barking at us you know like under the table and I
said well we'll take we can fix this dog this dog's not going to bark at me anymore so anyway we
we got Darwin Darwin at one time was the channel seven dog of the week in Chicago at WL STV that's
how she got him he was a dog of the week and Darwin lived with us for a couple of years he began
he was an older dog but he was the dog that took that chair and said I'm not moving
okay man but we love Darwin he was a great member of family we had a couple of other beagles at
the time and what's really good is those dogs will show him the ropes they'll tell him how to
have things work in the house and that's what happens we had Darwin herby we had Chester we had
Bailey we had Charlie we had my mother's dog is Daisy which is on my on my shelf
and we've had no missing one oh I can't please don't let me forget any dogs we had peanuts we had
Lucy we had I know I'm missing one on there I just I can't think right now but I I'm never I'll
never forget any of them they're all great animals and there will be part of my life and every time
I see a doggy story on on online I just feel terrible about some of these animals that are
you know frightened and left alone but by the end of the story like on the dodo they're they're
always now they're happy dogs once again they're running around the backyard and they found a
forever home and a lot of times people foster the dogs and then and the one I just saw last night
she said we fostered the dog and we were going to get him a home and then we realized he is home
this is his home yeah and it happens a lot so do you have any animal stories want to share?
oh I they're so many but it's hard to it's hard to remember them all but I was just thinking
about all the medical interventions we've had to do and there was a dog who came into the scene last
year that was having severe like GI issues and we did x-rays and there was a foreign body
and it turned out to be a six foot extension cord
like the dog's intestines and our our vets are incredible and they did emergency surgery
removed that electrical cord and managed to save the dog who went on to be adopted with a lot
of disclaimers about he can get into a lot of stuff team away some of the christmas lights don't
over near the lights like how could you imagine a six foot cord being swallowed and the things we
have taken out of dogs bodies would have found you from confers a lot of course lots of dog toys
squeakers really intricate rocks rocks so our vet team is amazing and they can they can do
incredible things and then there was a cat last year that was just pet or a remarkable story
somebody brought in a stray cat to a received campus that they had found at a rest stop
on their way home from Denver Colorado and it was good intentions it would have been better
had they brought it to a local shelter in Colorado but they brought the cat all the way back to
the Wisconsin Humane Society it turned out the cat was microchipped and the cat was microchipped
to a family in Colorado of course and we just so happened to find one of our volunteers we
have like two thousand amazing volunteers who was flying out to Colorado that's why the cat
home and the in the mom and this little girl met them at the airport and there was just like
tears and joy that's great that cat is reunited in Colorado with his family yeah the only medical
problems who really it's very serious with our dogs of her me who I tell we got from that place in
Caledonia eventually his stomach fell through its lining I don't know how that happened but
we brought him in for surgery and they got it fixed and and he was fine after that but you know
his days were kind of numbered at that point but he lived I think another year after that
and one of our dogs Darwin had seizures grand mall seizures which are horrifying if you see them
even in the human being they're horrible and he would lay on the floor and he would just scream
because he was having a seizure and we got medication for him and he was fine but then after one
of the medication didn't work we burned a vet and while he's on the table he had a seizure and the
vet said you can't we make you can't let him live like this so we had to make the decision right then
and there you know it happens when you have animals because you know I saw a meme once online and it
said they are only part of your life but you are all of their lives and that's true because they
animals don't live that long that's your dogs 13 maybe 14 years your strange stories about animals
living 20 dogs but they they normally don't and you know that's just the way it is for the
animals so and that that's so true they are all of you are all of their lives but they're only a
short part of your life and you know I see people online right about their animals all the time and
I if you if you never had an animal before and you want to really have someone part of your life
go visit the Humane Society and they'll match you up with the right animal for you because
you know animals need people people need animals I wouldn't get a chimp from chimp haven but
I would get it I wouldn't get an elephant from the elephant preserve but I would do that I want
to thank you again I'm so sorry I said goodbye it's everything I got eight o'clock written on my
list and I don't know why I just I wasn't thinking you are welcome back as I said anytime you have
a special promotion you want to you want to get the word out I'm the first phone number you're
going to call okay all right thank you so much for having me this morning and hold on a lot I
got something to tell you hold on don't move anywhere it's 758 I'm Don Rose and I want to thank
for joining us here today at Civic Media's WRJN we're 1400 AM 99.9 FM and we see 98.98.1 FM in
Kenosha I'm Don Rose and I'll catch you tomorrow morning 6 a.m. right and early right here don't move