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Speaker 1: Let's say good morning now too. Helen Sanders Cat pause

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Speaker 1: in Southern California. Board Member Deborah Barnes, Good morning, Deborah.

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Speaker 2: Hi, I it's Deborah feeling Lookaldi. Hi. Good morning.

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Speaker 1: Oh hi, Deborah feeling Wigaldy. Sorry we are given the

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Speaker 1: wrong name, Deborah. Saturday is National Pet Day, and of

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Speaker 1: course we love our fur babies, but not all cats

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Speaker 1: and dogs find those forever homes. And the statistics are

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Speaker 1: pretty devastating. So let's start with the bad news and

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Speaker 1: then go to the good news. How many cats were

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Speaker 1: euthanized in shelters in southern California last year.

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Speaker 2: Wow, you know, I don't actually know off the top

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Speaker 2: of my head about cats exactly. I know that I

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Speaker 2: that there was a statistics that approximately half a million

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Speaker 2: dogs and cats don't make it out the front door.

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Speaker 2: All right, Yeah, it's it's Graham. That's staggering as heartbreaking

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Speaker 2: and the.

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Speaker 1: Problem, the problem doesn't seem to be getting better. But

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Speaker 1: you guys are what are you guys doing to try

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Speaker 1: to make it better?

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Speaker 2: Well, it is getting it is getting better. And foundationally

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Speaker 2: what what weekly? We're just a small volunteer run, you know,

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Speaker 2: rescue here in the Beach Long Beach, SA area. We

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Speaker 2: take in cats at risk and cats and given the

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Speaker 2: risk of being euthanized in shelters, and we've also expanded

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Speaker 2: into what I believe is a foundational component of the problem,

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Speaker 2: which is Spain neuter just simply too many unwanted litters

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Speaker 2: being born. So that that is I think we're we're

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Speaker 2: you know, the addressing it at the beginning of the problem.

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Speaker 2: And we you know, fostering, adopting, transferring, you know, all

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Speaker 2: that is is great, all it is is huge. And

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Speaker 2: but if we keep just you know, pumping out more,

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Speaker 2: you know, to be you know, crass, more quantity than

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Speaker 2: the market can absorb, then we're not going to get

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Speaker 2: ahead of it ever. Well, but it is improving, and

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Speaker 2: it improves with education.

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Speaker 1: Well that's what I was going to ask you about,

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Speaker 1: because I mean, I've heard the spey and neuter message

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Speaker 1: my whole life, and every time when I get an animal,

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Speaker 1: the first thing we do is is do that to

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Speaker 1: control the population. And especially with cats, you know, when

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Speaker 1: you've got them running around, they go outside and if

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Speaker 1: they're not fixed, you know, then yeah, a short time later,

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Speaker 1: you got a whole litter of kiddies and and what

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Speaker 1: is I mean, is there any way to further that

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Speaker 1: message beyond I mean Bob Barker used to say it

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Speaker 1: all the time on the Prices, right, I.

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Speaker 2: Remember it from but I mean he was so ahead

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Speaker 2: of his time. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: So, but it just seems like a lot of people

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Speaker 1: just don't get the message.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's getting out there more and more. We you know,

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Speaker 2: social media is huge. I think people are are hearing it.

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Speaker 2: And also there's a you know, a financial packer if

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Speaker 2: if spain neoter is if surgery it is surgery after all.

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Speaker 2: If surgery is going to cost you know, two, three,

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Speaker 2: four or five hundred dollars, Uh, it's for a lot

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Speaker 2: of people that's just not going to happen. You know,

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Speaker 2: they're making it. They have to make choices. But with

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Speaker 2: low cost and with some of the organizations helping us

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Speaker 2: and and you know, subsidies and and the donations, we

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Speaker 2: get to try and drive down and subsidize our costs

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Speaker 2: as low as possible. We even have some partnerships with

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Speaker 2: organizations and between between all the various sources of subsidies,

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Speaker 2: some of sometimes it's no cost to the to the client.

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Speaker 2: And then a lot of the issue is not just

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Speaker 2: the owned cats you know, like yours, and thank you

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Speaker 2: for that for being responsible well with your cats. But

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Speaker 2: sometimes there's free Roman cats that really don't belong to

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Speaker 2: anybody there. You know. We used to call them feral

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Speaker 2: or stray or whatever. We like to call them community

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Speaker 2: cats now because people do care about them. They're you know,

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Speaker 2: they're there. It's like, oh, yeah, the cat that lives

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Speaker 2: down the street, you know, he kind of hangs out,

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Speaker 2: you know, under the house. I know those around cats. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: people know these cats and they care for them, and

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Speaker 2: those are the ones that we are working with. These

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Speaker 2: dedicated just people doing your main trapping, bringing them in

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Speaker 2: and getting them fixed.

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Speaker 1: Okay, and then devor does your does cat paws have

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Speaker 1: adoptable cats too? Or are you a shelter and fostering only?

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Speaker 2: Oh no, we definitely have cats for adoption. We take

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Speaker 2: them into our into our own foster, you know, our

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Speaker 2: own homes foster, and then get them adopted. We've got

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Speaker 2: a couple does them for adoption now, we're coming up soon.

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Speaker 2: It's what they call kitten season, which is sounds sounds

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Speaker 2: a lot cuter than it is. It's when all these

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Speaker 2: these unwanted litters come flooding into shelters and rescues, and

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Speaker 2: you know, we try to get the ones we can

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Speaker 2: and then get them healthy and adoptable. And yeah, no,

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Speaker 2: we we have an adoption Our adoption uh is listed

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Speaker 2: online at helensanderscatpaws dot com. Just click on adopt and

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Speaker 2: we also have adoption center at the Pet Smart in

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Speaker 2: Seal Beach, California.

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Speaker 1: Oh okay, so good, so pet pet Smart and Seal

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Speaker 1: Beach and then Helen Sanders catpaus dot com right.

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Speaker 2: Uh huh okay, that's the website and.

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Speaker 1: That's where you can get more information and maybe get

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Speaker 1: a little kitty for yourself. Helen Debrah, thank you so

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Speaker 1: much for your time. Appreciate it. Sorry forgetting your name wrong.

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Speaker 1: Have a great day.

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Speaker 2: No riding us on all right now.

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Speaker 1: Somebody gave me bad information. Uh oh oh, it's okay.

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Speaker 1: It happens. We appreciate it. Appreciate her coming out