I don't want to brag up top, but you're like,
John, I was on A Spirited Airlines flight.
And there was like a medical emergency.
You know what they come on there?
Like, is there a doctor on board?
And everybody was panicking, and I was just like,
Puh-puh-puh-puh-puh.
Puh-puh-puh-puh.
Puh-puh-puh-puh-puh-puh.
I know there's no doctor on A Spirited Airlines flight.
I know where the doctors are on Delta, okay?
It was an emergency.
People were panicking.
They kept lowering the standards.
Like, is there a nurse on board?
I go, there's no medical professional on this flight.
This ticket costs $40.
We're all unemployed, okay?
They just came back on a second later.
Has anyone dropped out of nursing school?
Has anyone seen Grey's Anatomy like this?
This girl was like, I was a nurse for Halloween.
We're like, we'll get in here and help us out.
Puh-puh-puh-puh-puh-puh-puh.
Trees swaying in the summer breeze.
Showing off an civil lease.
As we walked by soft, kisses on a summer's day.
Laughing all our cares away.
Just you and I.
Sweet.
See if you won't love summer nights.
Gazing at the distant lights.
In the starry sky.
They say that all the things must end.
Someday, autumn leaves must fall.
But don't you know that it hurts me so?
To say goodbye to you.
We shouldn't have to go.
No, no, no, no.
And when the rain.
Be to catch my windowpane.
I'll think of summer days again.
And dream of you.
They say that all the things must end.
Someday, autumn leaves must fall.
But don't you know that it hurts me so?
To say goodbye to you.
We shouldn't have to go.
No, no, no, no.
And when the rain.
Be to catch my windowpane.
Chad and Jeremy.
They were once on the Dick Van Dyke show.
I always get them confused with Peter and Gordon.
But they played on an episode of the Dick Van Dyke show
during the big British invasion.
709 WRJ and coming up in just a few minutes.
We'll talk to Angela Speed around 715-ish.
She's the executive director of the Wisconsin Humane Society.
And they're going to talk about their recent dog
that somebody dropped off.
I had five legs on it.
Yeah, I'm going to talk about a whole bunch of programs
they have there going on now at the Wisconsin Humane Society.
I always make sure I give them my contribution list every two months,
every three months, I do a complete list and make contributions to
a dozen or two charities.
Yeah.
Just, you know, people who organizations, mostly animal,
but I give two different organizations for disabled vets.
And also for boys town in Nebraska.
They do good work over there as well.
So we take care of everybody.
So Angela is going to be in.
I like the women I have on this week.
Angela Speed and Kelly Cruz.
What great names, huh?
This should be in radio with those names.
Yeah.
All right.
For today, showers with a high-deer 70 party.
Clotty lows around 46 tonight tomorrow, sunny with a high-deer 67 right now.
It's still 56 degrees.
And it's raining at 710 at WRJ and radio.
I'm Don Rosen.
And according to an online dating study,
here are the five phrases women are most attracted to and profiles.
Boy, I'm in trouble physically fit.
It's ambitious, perceptive, passionate and optimistic.
Here are the words that attract the most guys.
Sweet, ambitious, thoughtful, spontaneous and physically fit.
But I word physically fits got to be in there.
Forget it.
So glad I'm not on the dating scene.
One of the top three things you wish other drivers would stop doing immediately.
Here they are.
The most people say 59% of people said cutting people off.
Forgetting to turn off their high beams when they're in oncoming traffic and tailgating.
Sometimes you think the high beams are on a car coming at you, but they're not.
It's just that, you know, if it's a truck or SUV,
the lights are a little taller.
So they go right in your eyes.
Tailgating would be number one with me.
Pretty close to number one of the list here.
56%.
I got tailgating this morning too on the way in.
Just people in the rush didn't plan out their mornings properly.
And I'm going to, I'm going to be the victim.
A new study found out why men don't like to ask directions because when they ask for help,
people judge them and think they're less competent.
That's a matter for a woman because still subconsciously we're sexist.
It's okay for women to show weakness.
I get news for you.
I ask for directions all the time.
I don't care what they say.
If I'm lost, I'll ask.
My wife generally, she's a great navigator.
So she doesn't need to ask.
She figures it out.
And I give up, but she, you know, she's a good navigator.
Millions of people will be on the road this Memorial Day weekend and it's the most dangerous
time of the year to drive.
The first Monday after day like savings time is second followed by Black Friday.
And any day there's an NFL game on.
So this coming Memorial Day, it's only a month away.
They found the things we'd rather give up than Internet access here.
The top five alcohol, junk food, exercise.
I'll give that up any day, dessert and going out at least family didn't make the top five.
But I'm sure it's up there somewhere.
We give up access to family rather than give up Internet access.
You might have this one.
I probably shouldn't do during breakfast time, but I'm going to do it anyway.
You might have tons of microscopic bugs called I mites crawling around in your eye right
now.
Millions of people have them.
You get them from your pet show by rubbing your eyes with dirty hands.
I think we all rubberize with dirty hands, don't we?
I mites.
Ugh.
This is the thought of it.
Well, I've been doing this every weekend for years.
Now they have a name for it.
These to call it being lazy.
Now the name for it is bed rotting.
It's where you stay in bed all day and relax.
That's much more, much more to it than that.
There aren't many other rules either.
You can sleep, eat, watch TV or just stare at the ceiling.
The only rule is you're not allowed to feel guilty about it.
Bed rotting.
Yeah, we used to call it being lazy.
According to new research, the average single person needs just 19 minutes to know if they
want a second date with you at the top two things people are looking for.
Personality.
That doesn't necessarily mean that physical appearance, it's less important.
Thanks to dating apps, most people already have a good idea of what they're in for before
their lay eyes on the person on their first date.
You can, you know, what you do if people look for you on Facebook, they could see your
posts and see what kind of person you are.
This falls under never get up on your dreams.
A guy in Maryland used to be a garbage man, just graduated from Harvard Law School.
He was at the news in 2020 after a video of him reacting to his acceptance speech when
viral.
Now he graduated from Harvard University, isn't that great, huh?
Just Angela.
Yes.
Good morning.
Hi, Angela speed.
I used to, you said 715.
You were early at 714 and 45 seconds.
Wow.
Okay.
You know, I run that into a lot of guests, including people like the mayor and so forth,
got to drop my kids off.
And I can't, but I can't believe that takes precedent over being on a radio show.
I'd leave the kids at home.
It's a, you got a, you got a, you got a day off today, kids.
Yeah.
She was, she would be into that.
Really?
There's some kids just love going to school.
I was not one of them.
Well, I got to tell you, Angela, the executive director of the Wisconsin, your main society,
and how many office branch offices are there around the state?
So first, I'm the vice president of communications, our CEO is Allison, who's fantastic.
And she runs the tight ship.
We've got six campuses, Kenosha, Racine, Milwaukee, Stockfeld, Door County, and Green Bay,
and then a stay-nooter clinic in West Dallas, so we have grown.
I got news for you.
I just gave you a promotion right here on the air, we wanted to surprise you.
Vice president charge of communication.
Okay.
Sure, I give money every month or so to the Wisconsin, the main society, I pop some,
I use cash because I don't want to wait, you know, I give to like 12, 15 different charities
every two months, and I don't want to wait for the checks to clear, pop the cash in there
and hope for the best.
And I know it gets to where it's going, because people are good at those jobs, and I check
out each place I give money to.
And the Wisconsin, the main society, when it comes to like charity navigator always comes
that on top, the money goes where it's supposed to be going to, to the animals.
And so I get your, I get credit chronicles in the mail, and I didn't realize you guys
deal with rabbits and everything, you just don't deal with dogs and cats, huh?
Sometimes even chickens.
We see, just about every species, I think we've got a gecko available for adoption right
now at the Racine campus, so I've heard maybe you already went home.
A gecko?
Yeah.
Dogs and rabbits that we have kitty pigs, Tinchilla's, domestic rats, they've got all sorts
of species looking for new homes every year, it's quite amazing, even the occasional gold
fish.
Do you, really?
Do you actually get people coming and say, listen, I've been on the hunt for, I'm looking
for a good friendly rat for my kid.
People come and do it.
Rats are surprisingly, they're super smart, clean, trainable animals, they respond to
their names.
A lot, there's a lot of rat lovers out there, they can be really sweet creatures, and if
you live in an apartment where you can't have cats or dogs, you can have small animals,
rats can be really great for some people, yep?
You know what I saw, and this was almost hard to believe, ABC World News ran a clip from
a Nat Geo, and that's one of the geographic special on octopuses, and by the way I found
that, it's not octopi, it's octopuses, and this person would go down every day for a
month to the bottom of the floor of the ocean there where the octopuses hung out, and she
became friends with one, and this octopus used to run up to her, the same one, and you
see video footage of it, to put his tentacle right on their hands, she kind of shake hands
with her.
And this morning, every day, they went right up to her and put out the tentacle, and she
would hold the tentacle, and the octopus would just stay right by her side, and when she
left, the octopus would use some kind of shell or something on the bottom of the uncover
yourself up or whatever, and then when she came down the next day, came running out to
greeter, isn't that even an octopus, it's amazing, you know, we don't think of them,
we think only humans are smart, I got news for you, we're probably low on the brain
changing, I got hold on Angela, Angela Speed is here, the Vice President of Communications
for the Wisconsin Humane Society, got a lot to talk about, stay right where you are,
719 WRJN hometown radio, we're pressed, a civic media station, and if you have a question
for Angela, you can text me, 262-300-7445, that's 262-300-7445.
It's 721 at WRJN radio, Angela Speed is here, Vice President of the Communications
for the Wisconsin Humane Society, and the other day I was watching Channel 12 news at six
o'clock, and there's a story, there's Angela where they dog on there that somebody brought
into the Wisconsin Humane Society, I think it was in Kenosha, and the dog has five legs,
which is, you know, wild to think about, but the dog couldn't be happier, you know,
running around, jumping around, letting people, you know, whatever, dog didn't care, but
had five legs, the back, the back two were fused together, right?
That case just absolutely blew us all away, right away our staff noticed that her paw
was abnormally large and had several toes, and so our vets are like, let's do X-rays,
it turns out her hind leg has basically a mirror image of every bone, so she's got two
femurs, two tidios, two fibulas, and then instead of four or five toes, she's got nine,
and it's called the millia, and it's almost unheard of in canines, so that's, we'll learn
about it in school, mostly in cattle, but we could only find like one or two other truly
documented cases. She's like a totally unicorn dog, but Bella doesn't care, like she likes
to go for walks, and she loves chicken, and she's, she's just, she was such a happy, happy
dog, I get to spend a lot of time with her, but because of that condition, we did seek
out advice from a specialist to see if surgery was recommended, because she did have, you
know, some, some ability issues, but she's totally weight-bearing and not in any pain,
but they said, just leave it, leave it as is, she's happy, she's running around, we don't
know what it'll look like in a few years, is she's still growing, she's only six months
old, but she was just a fantastic dog, and she's actually still available for adoption,
she's available at our Kanisha campus, and if you're interested, we're open today,
this afternoon in Kanisha, so we're hoping she goes home soon, is the lovey-dovey beautiful
brindle coat, but just an extraordinary case, it's made national, and even international
news. You know, and it made international news, huh?
Yeah, yeah, first place that picked it up was Italy. Really?
Mm-hmm, bravissimo. So, so yeah, so Bella's a unicorn of a dog at the Wisconsin Humane
Society, and we're just hoping she goes home.
You know, I can just picture the people. I hope the story makes it to France, because
I can picture in a succulent blue, I have a succulent blue, and I have a succulent
blue, and I have a succulent blue, and I have a succulent blue, and I have a succulent
blue, and I have a succulent blue.
And is she at the Kanisha campus, or is she in Milwaukee?
She is at the Kanisha campus, and we are open today, at least one or 130 today at Kanisha,
and we're really hoping she sheds a spotlight on all of the dogs available, because we have
absolutely experienced dramatic increases in intake the last few months, especially
stray and surrendered dogs. And any given day right now, we can have 80 to 100 dogs available
across the organization, which is, which I can't remember for, I've been at the Kanisha
Society for 17 years, and it's been at least a decade since we've seen as many local
dogs coming through the doors, but what we're finding is it's a national trend, and it's
mostly related to economics, but the cost of affording a dog, the lack of affordable
housing that takes, especially larger dogs, access to that care, pet food, and we work
hard to try to like bridge those gaps. We have a pet food pantry at all of our locations,
for example, in low cost vaccine clinics, but we are seeing dogs sitting longer on the
adoption floor too. Of course, every dog has as long as it takes to find a new home
once they're in our adoption program, but it's taken longer than at least pre-COVID,
if not 10 years. So, if you've been on the fence without adapting, now is a great time.
There are so many wonderful dogs. There is the cutest group of puppies right now in
Racine, and we also, through the month of April, are discounting dog and puppy adoption
fees by 50%. And we've got a day left of April, two days left, so check them out.
You know, I don't know how you do it, because if I worked at Humane Society or any animal
shelter, I couldn't let the dogs go. You get so, you look in their eyes, you see them,
either some of them just, they're giving up on life because they were mistreated, now
they're there, and they need a home to bring them out again. And I've seen a lot of these
videos on YouTube, actually, I look at them on Facebook, but the video section where people
go into a shelter and they take this dog that's cowering in the corner, won't look at them.
It looks down, it looks at the wall. And by the end of the video, in a few weeks, that dog
is running around in the yard, playing with other dogs, jumping all around, jumping into
bed with the owner. But the dog looks like it gave up on life. Just doesn't want to deal
with life anymore. I'll just sit in the corner with my eyes facing down and just hopefully
someday, I'll just won't be here anymore. And I cry. I, I, you can see my wife comes,
I'm crying in the room watching these videos. But I know when they put them up, there's
going to have a happy ending because they, they show the happy ending and they wouldn't
put it up there. If it didn't, I don't know how you, people who work in a shelter can
let a dog leave. I know you, I know they're going to a good home, but I couldn't do it.
I've had dogs my entire life. The most I've had was four at one time, which I would never
do in a million years again. It was like chaos in the house. Everybody wanted to go out
at different times. Then when you put the food out, even though they had the food at
different corners of that, they were fights over the food. And then when you have to get
them all on the car together, which we had a station wagon. So we put them all on the
bag. They'll be looking, I have pictures of them all looking out the window at the same
time and going to dog parks, keeping track of them. But I just couldn't let them go. I
don't know how you do it. I have to at home. And occasionally, I'll want a puppy fix. And
so, but one of the beautiful things is you can foster your dogs too and, and take them
literally for just even like a field trip on a Monday. We do field trip programs where
they where you get to take the dog out of the shelter and take them around town, take
them to the beach. And then bring them back to the shelter or like a weekend, like a sleepover
trip. We're always looking for new foster parents. Of course, some dogs need foster longer.
Not just our shelter break, but for a medical illness or behavior observation. But I highly
recommend doing the foster program. It's easy to get signed up. If you've got kids or
other animals, totally fine. We can work with you. There's a foster animal for everyone.
And it can be a really short term commitment. I always wanted to know what it was like to
have three dogs. And I realized I can have a third dog for a weekend, but not too long
term. They won't fit in my car. But if you're looking to foster, we need foster parents
so badly, this time of year, we're starting to see a lot of kittens too earlier this year.
I think it was in the warmer weather. Just on Friday, I could hear down the halls, somebody
saying, that is tend to text alert to the foster parents. We have neonates. And neonates
are baby kittens without moms. We need to be bottle set every two to three hours. And
we don't have 24 hour staffing. So we depend on the foster parents to come pick them up.
Hold on one second. Be their mom. Hold it until they're weaned.
Hold on one second, Angel. Hold on. We've got a lot to talk about with Angela Speed
from the Wisconsin Humane Society. Got a whole bunch of programs. I'm getting teary eyed
just listening to you. I really am. It's 729 WRJN Radio.
I eat all the food I buy. Every grocery I buy goes to me. It goes bad. That's power,
DC. If I clog the toilet at home, I don't have to deal with it right away. I was so afraid
of being single all throughout my 20s. I was terrified of being single. I used to just jump
from relationship to relationship to relationship because I was so scared that I was going to die
alone. And now that I'm older, I'm like, I'm not going to die alone. I don't go hiking
by myself. All right. Someone will be there when I die. A doctor, a murderer, someone
will bear witness.
Well, that's not working out. Let's go right to Angela Speed and Angela is here from the
Wisconsin Humane Society. And I got the critical credit chronicles with me. It's their publication,
the spring 20, 2024 publication. I'm just looking at it while I'm talking here.
We want to talk about the summer camps for animal-loving kids. Kids love animal. They
love dogs. They love cats. They love hamsters. They love snakes. They love rats. They love
mice. They love gerbals. You name it. They love it. So let's talk about the summer camp.
Yeah. So we have fantastic summer camps going on for kids entering first through ninth grade
all summer long at the resting campus. And there are just a few spots left in each camp.
But there's camp critter for the little ones. Camp unleash for like your middle schoolers.
And then junior veterinary camp for the older kids. And of course, every camp involves
animal interaction. So there are a ton of fun. My daughter is actually going for her second
year. And you get to meet other animal lovers. They make cool crafts. They learn about animal
behavior and training. They do mock, they neuter surgeries and junior vet camps, which
is super cool. But those run throughout the summer. And there's their scholarship programs,
you know, but the resting campus camps are super cool. They're in our inner new building
in mountain pleasant. And so if you've got an animal-loving kid, definitely check those
camps out. And they start in June and run through August.
You know, I just, I love being around animals. My neighbor behind us has a dog. He adopted
from a shelter. And we said, you know, when he comes over, I said, well, let the dog run
around our yard. We have a fence in yard. He does not have a fence in yards. We have
to walk the dog. And we live near the lakefronts. I always walk in dogs up and down the lakefront
for years. And I said, just bring her over. Juniper is her name. And I said, just bring
her Juniper over. She can run through the backyard while you're here. I don't care.
You know, nothing she could do. Just kind of let me know. So when I walk back later,
take out the garbage. I don't step in anything. But he said to us, anytime you two want,
just come over and play with Juniper. We'll, we'll, we'll come outside and play with
you. It's such a, it's one of those, you know, big, it's like a pit bull mix. You,
you walk up the tail is wagging to the hundred miles an hour. And I did, I can't get enough
of these dogs. They, they gravitate to me. I don't know why it's just love animals.
And, you know, we have, I think, seven urns sitting in our living room on a shelf with
animals over the years. Yeah. And, you know, they don't have a long shelf life animals.
They just don't for some redogs have like 13 years, probably around there, 13, 14, maybe.
And so even my mother's, well, my mother passed away. I took the urn from her dog, which
bit me once and put it on the shelf. Every time I look at that, you bit me. She was laying
on the bed with my father when I was at the visit them. And I went to go pick her up to
take her out. Yeah. I said, from now on, you're not going out anymore. You could sit
here and rot. No, she was just protecting my father. She didn't want me near him. But
anyway, I go to an animal shelter, pick out an animal and give that animal a home. They
all want it forever. I love that term forever home. But it makes me cry when I think about
it. And I see these memes on Facebook when people are crying over their animals that
are passed away. And the animals, like in a ghost state above it, you know, I'm going
to cry thinking about it. And he says, I'm so sorry. And the animal says, you set me
free because we have, yeah, we have to let them go. And I had to let my animals go. And
every one of them, nobody died naturally. I had to put them to sleep because they were
in pain or they weren't happy. But that's all that's years, years, years, years down the
line. My daughter's got a dog. Charlie, I'm sick of hearing about him every day. Charlie
does something that's amazing that should be brought out on television to show. Charlie
is an amazing dog. Charlie knows how to do this. Charlie, you know what? Every dog's amazing.
She calls me, you won't believe what Charlie did today. It's like her child. Your grand
dog.
Charlie poops and picks it up after himself and puts it in the garbage. Then call me.
I'm a child. So we got the summer camp and a quick review here. The summer camp we
contact you now for that. You can register online at wihumain.org. There's a whole
kid's page and it has everything from Thursday parties this Friday night, set the Humane Society
to our awesome summer camp. Now, you know, when I speak to Beth Hydorn at the zoo,
you can't believe how expensive it is to feed those exotic animals. And we're talking
about you can't get giraffe chow at the local pet store that don't sell direct and sell
lion chow. I mean, so it's very expensive. It's just as expensive for you guys because
you have animals. They have to eat. They've, you know, they need, they need things. They
need medical care. They need veterinary care. They need all this stuff. So you guys are
constantly in need of support.
And yeah, thank you for reminding everybody. We are a local nonprofit and we totally depend
on the generosity of the community. And about right now, about 70% of the animals who
come to our north, the doors need some sort of specialized medical retreatment beyond
routine care. Beyond spay neuter vaccines, microchips, they need treatment for respiratory
infections or bone fractures or skin issues. And so our expenses are going up to. And
every dollar truly makes a huge difference. And right now, donations are being matched
through April 30th. And so if you donate $10, that becomes 20 bucks. So that support from
the community helps us really touch the lives of more than 40,000 animals and their families
every year.
Now, this is, I don't know if people still do it, but around Easter time, people used to
give rabbits to their kids. And then when Easter was over, they didn't want the rabbits
anymore.
Do you get an influx of rabbits around Easter time?
You know, we don't. I don't know if that used to happen or if it's just not happening
anymore, but we don't see that an influx of rabbits or black cats after Halloween. We
don't see those sorts of trends. We do see intake go up towards the end of the month
when evictions are happening. That is something that we do see. But, but rabbits not so much.
Yeah.
So I was when I, 1968, I'm listening to this radio show and they're giving away the song.
That's what I thought they said. What they actually said was you'll win a dog. If you
guessed the name of the song, well, I guess that I can't remember. It was paper cup by
the fifth dimension. And I said, I won the record. And you said, no, you want to conquer
Spaniel. I mean, we already had a dog. And I said, conquer Spaniel. So the next day,
my mother and I went to the general manager's house. It was his dog. It is dog head puppies.
And my mother said, this is not a conquer Spaniel. This dog never saw a conquer Spaniel. This
dog never heard the word. And it was it. It was just a mixed breed dog. And so we bring
it home. And my mother says, well, we can't keep it. We already have a dog. And so we
were looking for somebody to adopt it. And the guy across the street from us, the Colonel
Gavin, he was a Colonel in the military. We always called him Colonel. I mean, in fact,
I think his name was John, but we didn't refer to him as it was Colonel. He had some
railtips coming in. And they want to do adopt a dog. So we brought them over to take
a look. And they said, oh, this is just what we're looking for. This cute puppy. And my
mother said, but we changed our mind. We're keeping him. Just like that. I mean, my father
said, what do you mean? I decided we're not going to give the dog away. We're keeping
the dog. My mother fell in love with it. And she couldn't give it away. And we had that
dog for 14 years. Dog was peanuts. And it was a great. It was a wonderful dog. And the
other dog was getting old. And so my mother said, we need the replacement, which is horrible
to say it like that. But yeah, I mean, that's how it happened for us. And we kept peanuts.
And then the other dogs one after another came rolling into our lives. And we just never
can give them up. And I know some people have to give up dogs are right there. I mean,
if you get old and you're confirmed and you have to go to a nursing home, it's really
tough. I just couldn't do it. I just couldn't bring myself to do it. I would never give
up a dog. You know, even though we're going to say, it is one of the saddest things when
people do have to surrender their pets. And normally we're just like a lafters or
it. And we deal with a lot of tears at that at that counter. But you know, people who
are moving or literally just cannot afford to keep to keep their animals. And by bringing
them to us though, they're giving them a second chance. So there's there's that there's
that that glimmer of hope in doing the best that they can for their animal. But for people
who are in those positions too, I hope that the community knows that we do offer free
pet food to help bridge those financial gaps low cost vaccine clinics. We've got one
coming up May 23rd and we can get core vaccines for only $16 for your dogs and cats. So
if you're struggling, you know, definitely reach out and we can see how we can bridge
some of those gaps and resources.
Now beside monetary donations, do you guys like to get bot bags of food, blankets and
things like that for the collars, leashes? Is that something you guys like to get?
Yes, please. I would say the number one item on our list at all times is soft dog treats
things like pepperoni or canine carry out. We go through, oh my goodness, just the countless
amounts of those in training dogs, keeping dog happy, dog toys like squeaky toys or
plush toys, canned cat food and cat litter too. Go a long way to help. We have a wish list
on our website of all the items that are we're highest in need of, but those are always
topping the list.
When I, I told you the bagel, we actually, the puppy that we got, we brought the dog
in for training and we will go through training with a dog and the person training said, your
dog is a hunting dog. I know I can rent that dog out to hunters on the weekend. So I'm
not renting my dog out. If I want to, I can't stand with me. I'm not going to, but she
said, hunters will pay a lot to get a good hunt and your dog's got it. She said, I can
spot it and that dog is a hunter. I said, well, nothing is going to hunt for is a place
to poop in the backyard because he's not going to get it.
What kind of dog was he?
He was a beagle. But she said, I recognize that in him. And you know, she's a trainer.
And I guess she could, but I just couldn't do it. And you know, these working dogs, I see
on these police shows on TV who find the person hiding in the woods. Oh, I don't know how
they, and they love doing it. They say, let me add them. And they know they hunt. They
find the, the person hiding the bad person. Then they bite them and hold them until the
police come. I don't, I don't, amazing. Even the dogs in the wars where they, they look
for, you know, dead bodies in doing collapses or they look for dynamite explosives. These
are amazing animals. And they love doing it. It's not like we're, oh, I've got to work
today. Oh, no, I thought it was my day off. They love doing it. Oh, I hear, I hear
somebody.
Oh, I, my dog is alerting me that Amazon is here. Oh, instead of a doorbell, you have
the dog. That's good. Well, they're all sort of working dogs in their own way, aren't
they?
Yeah. My dog at Beagle, I talked about barked once in 14 years. And it was a friend
of mine who came in the house. That's why I never knew what the dog sounded like because
I never heard that bark before. I'll tell you, I'm not a tough guy. I'm, I'm the, I'm
the guy who's, you know, if you're looking for a tough guy in a bar fight, I'm not that
person. So I'm out one day in front of my house. And there were these hillbillies lived across
the street from us. And he kicked the dog down the stairs in front of the, on the porch.
He gave it a kick in the dog. We're all down. And again, I'm not a tough guy, but I went
over there. I said, you do it again. And I call the police on you. And I'll make sure
they put you in jail for animal abuse. Don't ever do that again in my presence or anybody's
presence. And as far as I know, we never did it again. Now, this guy obviously was half
my age. You're going to take him in a second, but I wouldn't tolerate that kicking that
dog down the steps. What are you talking about? I mean, just, yeah. And you see the dog
rolled down and shook himself off and got back up. How dare you have a dog? If you, if
that's the way you're going to treat it, Angela, stay in there. We've got happier things
to talk about to come up with some more things in the Chronicles magazine coming up in
just a moment. And by the way, if somebody wants to adopt Bella, how can they do that?
Bella with the five legs. So Bella is available for adoption at our
Knochen campus. And you can add over there this afternoon and fill up an adapter profile,
which is just the collect basic information. And then you work one-on-one with an adoption
counselor to learn more about her needs, what you're looking for. And if it's a match,
then you go home with Bella. Hold on a second. Hold on. And then I saw Bella. Bella couldn't
be a happier puppy running around and dancing around with five legs. Angela Speed is here
for the Wisconsin University of Manchester City. Hold on.
So make the best of this task known as why. It's not a question but a lesson learning time.
It's something unpredictable and in the end is right. I hope you had the time of your life.
So take the photographs and still friends in your mind, hanging on a shelf in good health
and good time. Dad's is a memories and dad's getting on trial for what it's worth.
It was worth all the while. It's something unpredictable and in the end is right.
I hope you had the time of your life.
Two women guests I have on this week have the greatest names for radio. One is Kelly Cruz
who's coming on later this week from the downtown nursing corporation, and Angela Speed
from the Wisconsin Humane Society.
Kelly Cruz, Angela Speed. Those names were made for radio. I don't know what what great names.
Even you as a stock driver would have been great. Angela Speed.
We'll get you a stop.
It's gotten me out of it. It has gotten me out of a speeding ticket in the past.
They must have met really. See the name Rosen doesn't get me out of anything.
People say Rosen. We're charging you twice as much.
Okay. So Angela Speed is here from the Wisconsin Humane Society.
And we're talking about all the ways you can help. We have a pet walk coming up.
And I've heard of those. Those are fun. Once you talk about them.
It's a blast. So this year pet walk is Saturday, August 3rd at Petrifying Springs Park in Kenosha.
Oh, I got there all the time. Yeah. I always go there. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. We haven't been there before for pet walks. We're super excited.
It sounds like a fabulous park. And it's a totally family-friendly event and walk to support animals in need.
And it features a stroll through the park, of course.
And then there's music, local vendors. There's a doggy costume contest.
All sorts of activities and games for our dogs that are in attendance.
Any sort of leash and well-behaved pets are totally welcome to attend.
These sometimes get cats and strollers and mini horses. You never know what to expect.
But all the proceeds benefit the animals and programs that the Wisconsin Humane Society.
And you can register for that event on our website.
And it's just so much fun. If you're an animal lover, it's so great to see all the dogs and people.
And knowing that you're supporting a great cause.
You go down there on the weekend at Petrifying Springs on a nice day.
Dogs everywhere. People are walking their dogs at Petrifying Springs.
We go there to get water out of their aquifer. They have a natural aquifer come up there.
So we fill up water from there. My wife says it's good water. I don't drink it. She does.
But she's pretty healthy. So it must work.
Okay. So Petrifying Springs and what date is that again?
It is Saturday, August 3rd.
Oh, we're going to get your back on there.
It's the way it's the way that registrations open.
And if you register before May 31st, you stay 50% off at registration fee.
We have all these pictures when we used to be in the 4th of July, the same Patrick State parade here.
We used to my wife and I were in the station van, the WRJ and van.
And we used to go, we bring our dog or beagle with us.
And we used to dress them up with the leprechaun hat and all that kind of stuff.
I don't know if he liked it or not, but he went with it.
And he used to stick his head out the window with the green hat on the top hat.
And we have a Shamrock thing on him.
We did the same thing with the 4th of July.
We used to put him with the fireworks, a little beret on his head.
I don't know if dogs like that, but he went with it.
He didn't have a problem with it.
He would look out the window with this hat on his green hat and the Shamrock hanging around him.
But some dogs will let you do that.
Some dogs don't like it, but yeah, some do.
Anyway, that's exciting.
That's in August.
All right.
I'm very happy about that.
Let's recap here in case people tune in.
They tune in and out throughout the morning.
And we're going to talk about the summer camp for animal lovers again.
Give us the dates and a little synopsis there.
Yes.
So we've got camps for kids going into grades one through ninth grade.
Everything from camp critters to junior veterinary camp.
And there are still a few spots open.
Those are all week long camps.
So it's Monday through Friday, nine to three with aftercare available to.
They're an absolute blast.
My daughter herself is going for her second year.
And they start late June and run through August.
So if you've got an animal loving kid at home, definitely check them out.
You know, and donations.
Cash donations always welcome food.
I mean, these animals have to eat.
If you've got a hundred dogs and cats and all, they have to eat.
They can't say, well, we don't have enough food for you this week.
So anyway, so donations of food, bagged food, blankets.
Anything to do with toys treats.
You said treats, too, right?
Oh, we go through mountains of Paparoni, especially the dogs love it.
It's great for training and for dog walkers who are volunteering to walk dogs around.
So we can we're always in high need of soft dog treats and then dog toys to keep them entertained and busy
while they're waiting for their new homes.
And a couple other ways to donate to that not everybody thinks of.
But you can donate your old cell phone.
Everybody's got one of those drawers at home with cell phones.
We can recycle those for monetary donations.
And also we have a really popular vehicle program.
You can donate everything from your broken down motorcycle.
Are these cars, of course, but we work with a vendor and that vehicle program generates a lot of funds for the animals.
So those are kind of two unique ways that people may not think of.
I saw this meme on Facebook and it showed the older dog talking to the younger dog and the owner was calling them.
And the older dogs said, don't go in until they offer you a treat to come in.
And you know what?
You used to call the dog is say, come on in now.
Come on, you want to treat.
And if they don't come in, you want to treat.
So the dog was right. Wait till they offer you that treat.
Then go in the house.
You know, I'll tell you something I cannot imagine growing up in my life, even as an adult up until last year without without an animal.
And I've had them all my mother when we got a hamster ones.
She said that my grandmother screamed.
She got rats.
It's a hamster.
So we had the hamster for three years.
By the end of that, my mother was taking care of holding up the hamster, petting it, feeding it along with me when I was at school.
Sometimes cleaning the cage and my mother couldn't stand it.
By the end of the time she fell in love with the hamster.
And when the hamster passed away one day, she was crying.
Tell you, the animals could do that to people.
They changed it.
And so Angela, I want you to come back every time you need something, you come back to this radio station.
Every time you need, you have an event coming up like the summer camp or even when we get closer to the pet walk, you come to this radio station.
It's always open for animals.
Anything, Azuzer, we even have the guy from Jay Christie from Safari Lake Geneva coming in this week.
Oh, cool.
I mean, anything to do.
You guys call us first.
We'll make sure we get the word out.
Okay.
Well, thank you so much.
I appreciate that.
The time so much.
And don't forget, this will be podcast, wherever you get your podcasts later on today about 10 o'clock this morning.
Thank you, Angela.
Hold on one.
Don't go anywhere.
I'll catch you tomorrow morning 6 a.m.
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