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Speaker 1: Let's say good morning now to the director of pr

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Speaker 1: and Marketing for Pasadena Humane. It's Kevin McManus. Good morning, Kevin,

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Speaker 1: Good morning, Amy.

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Speaker 2: How are you.

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Speaker 1: I'm great? So, Kevin, you want a pet, you don't

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Speaker 1: want to deal with potty training, the chewed up shoes

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Speaker 1: and puppies tearing everything up. Thank goodness. It's National Senior

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Speaker 1: Pet Adoption Month.

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Speaker 2: That's right. Yeah, some of my favorite pets are well

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Speaker 2: the seniors for sure.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So tell us about what Pasadena Humane is doing

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Speaker 1: for the Pet Adoption Month.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, in honor of the month, we're waving adoption

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Speaker 2: fees for any animal over five years old, so that's dogs, cats,

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Speaker 2: and I was just looking on our website. We even

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Speaker 2: have a turtle this morning who's ten, so he would

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Speaker 2: be no charge adoption in this month.

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Speaker 1: How long do turtles live?

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Speaker 2: They can learn quite a long time. He's probably only

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Speaker 2: hit in midlife right now.

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Speaker 1: Okay, and at a very slow pace, at a very

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Speaker 1: slow pace. Okay, So tell us in what kind of

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Speaker 1: dog do you have available? And maybe ones that are

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Speaker 1: especially good for potential adoptions because they're no longer puppies.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, we have you know, a pretty wide

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Speaker 2: variety right now, we have a fifteen year old beagle

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Speaker 2: who's breaking my heart, and you know, mostly bigger dogs,

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Speaker 2: but of course we have cats as well, So yeah,

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Speaker 2: a good just you know, a good variety, okay.

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Speaker 1: And I'm thinking of because after being to Pasadena Humane

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Speaker 1: so many times, which I love going seeing all the

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Speaker 1: pups and cats, like I've seen, like there are huskies,

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Speaker 1: and when huskies are puppies, they tend to be a

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Speaker 1: little out of control, so you have to have a

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Speaker 1: lot of patience in time with them. And so if

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Speaker 1: you get an adult dog, maybe some of some of

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Speaker 1: that puppies been worked out of them.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, and you know, not to say that they wouldn't

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Speaker 2: still be energetic, but they are. Yeah, that that crazy

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Speaker 2: stage is as well past them. And I think you know,

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Speaker 2: a lot of a lot of animals, a lot of

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Speaker 2: dogs in particular, end up in shelters because of behavior issues.

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Speaker 2: You're not going to have a behavior issue with a

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Speaker 2: twelve year old dog. They just want to like hang

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Speaker 2: out next to you on the couch and go for

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Speaker 2: a couple of walks a day and just chill. So

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Speaker 2: great companionship without all of the hard the hard work.

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Speaker 1: Okay, And when when you adopt through pasading and Humane,

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Speaker 1: they they're pretty much primed and ready for adoption. What

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Speaker 1: do you do before they head.

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Speaker 2: Out the door? Yeah, any kind of medical that is required,

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Speaker 2: So you know, if they're not neutered for whatever reason,

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Speaker 2: then we're taking care of that. We're making sure they're

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Speaker 2: up to date on vaccines, and generally with our senior pets,

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Speaker 2: we're doing you know, like at least an initial blood panel.

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Speaker 2: Just make sure that you know, we know as much

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Speaker 2: about the pet as we can before rehoming.

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Speaker 1: Okay, And I was just thinking you mentioned like the

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Speaker 1: older beagle, and I would think one of the drawbacks

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Speaker 1: drawbacks is that you don't get as long with the animals.

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Speaker 1: So what's your argument for adopting an older animal?

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Speaker 2: You know, I don't know them. Yeah, that's that's absolutely true.

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Speaker 2: But you know, I think, you know, the stars for

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Speaker 2: every day I have with all of the pets that

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Speaker 2: I've had in my life, and you know, if it's

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Speaker 2: you know, a week that I have with them or

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Speaker 2: you know, years, it's all blessing. And you know, it

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Speaker 2: doesn't take much to make a really old dog or

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Speaker 2: a really old cat really really happy and so you're

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Speaker 2: giving them quite a gift by by adopting them and

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Speaker 2: making them part of your home for however long they

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Speaker 2: have left.

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Speaker 1: Well, I will tell you that I now have a

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Speaker 1: second cat named Shelby. I got my first cat, Alex,

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Speaker 1: from Pasadena Human and then we added Shelby to the family,

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Speaker 1: and she was eleven when I got her, and she

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Speaker 1: is just an absolute joy. I love love having her.

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Speaker 1: And I think about it too because I'm like, oh,

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Speaker 1: I might not have her for you know, eighteen or

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Speaker 1: nineteen years, but I get her for four or five years,

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Speaker 1: or six or seven years, or who knows how long

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Speaker 1: I get her. But she's just a joy. So if

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Speaker 1: you're thinking about adopting exactly, maybe go the adult route

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Speaker 1: and you can get it in Pasadena Humans waving all

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Speaker 1: the fees and that's all month long.

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Speaker 2: That's correct? Yeah, all right?

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Speaker 1: And where do we go and find get some pictures

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Speaker 1: of pets or where do we go visit?

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Speaker 2: Well, if you go to Pasadena Humane dot org, you

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Speaker 2: can click on adopt pets and you can even filter

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Speaker 2: by looking just at our senior population right now.

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Speaker 1: Okay, And also can you just go buy the humans

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Speaker 1: or do you need definitely.

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Speaker 2: Nope. We're open daily from nine thirty to five thirty,

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Speaker 2: and we've now kind of gone completely back to our

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Speaker 2: old days where people can come in and walk through

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Speaker 2: at any time and just kind of visit, which is

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Speaker 2: a great way to connect with a pet that you

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Speaker 2: want to adopt.

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Speaker 1: Yes, prepaired to fall in love, okay, pr and Communications

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Speaker 1: director Kevin McManus with Pasadena Humane adopt a five year

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Speaker 1: old or older dog, cat, or even a turtle, and

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Speaker 1: they're going to pick up all the fees and make

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Speaker 1: sure that you have a new forever friend. Thanks so much, Kevin,

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much. Annye all right, I always just

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Speaker 1: think that's it's such a great thing. And like I said,

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Speaker 1: Shelby is I think she's thirteen now and she's just

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Speaker 1: a little love of my life every single day.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, older cat. Oh, I did it with cats and

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Speaker 2: they were just great. Yep.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely