WEBVTT - Mojo Apologizes 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:00.360 That was. 0:00:01.960 --> 0:00:05.440 Nice, Steely Heap, All right, we have in studio with 0:00:05.519 --> 0:00:09.640 us this morning some people that I need to talk 0:00:09.680 --> 0:00:13.000 to one on one because it was not none of 0:00:13.039 --> 0:00:15.640 you guys, it was me. Last week on the show, 0:00:15.880 --> 0:00:17.720 we were in the midst of a conversation and I 0:00:17.760 --> 0:00:21.400 said something that I thought was being funny and it 0:00:21.520 --> 0:00:25.279 wasn't funny. After hearing it back probably about five or 0:00:25.280 --> 0:00:30.440 six times, I started realizing more and more that, Okay, 0:00:30.480 --> 0:00:33.040 this probably is not a good thing to say. And 0:00:33.080 --> 0:00:37.319 then after getting a chance to talk to Carrie and 0:00:37.360 --> 0:00:40.319 your sister what's your sister name again, Kelly, or make 0:00:40.320 --> 0:00:41.040 sure you talk right. 0:00:40.920 --> 0:00:41.279 Into the mike. 0:00:41.320 --> 0:00:42.680 You're gonna have to get right into about that. 0:00:42.960 --> 0:00:43.680 Carry and Kelly. 0:00:43.920 --> 0:00:45.960 Last night we had a conversation for I don't know, 0:00:46.360 --> 0:00:49.560 maybe thirty minutes or something like that. I learned more 0:00:49.600 --> 0:00:52.559 and right now I'm going to use this opportunity to 0:00:53.200 --> 0:00:57.040 apologize to you, Carrie, who was the person who made 0:00:57.080 --> 0:01:01.760 the post that went viral and then ended up I 0:01:01.760 --> 0:01:02.960 got to tell you there's a lot of people that 0:01:03.000 --> 0:01:05.000 support you, guys, because they were all over a lot 0:01:05.000 --> 0:01:10.000 of our posts and then got me to realize that 0:01:10.120 --> 0:01:14.120 I need to make an apology, and I want you 0:01:14.160 --> 0:01:18.200 to know first off, that it was an uneducated comment 0:01:18.240 --> 0:01:21.600 that was made, and I want you to know that 0:01:22.440 --> 0:01:24.720 it was not a red statement. When I put that 0:01:24.800 --> 0:01:26.800 up there. That was from my heart sitting on my 0:01:26.840 --> 0:01:29.680 couch in my living room, and that is from somebody 0:01:29.760 --> 0:01:33.039 who truly does never want to go out and do 0:01:33.080 --> 0:01:36.959 anything to hurt any human or any animal. So I 0:01:36.959 --> 0:01:39.640 would love for you to educate me, but also use 0:01:39.680 --> 0:01:43.479 this opportunity to educate others that may not know what 0:01:43.520 --> 0:01:46.280 you guys do at bark Nation, but you can follow 0:01:46.360 --> 0:01:52.640 bark Nation. Barnation is a local organization, right. You're in 0:01:52.640 --> 0:01:57.480 the area here in Michigan, and you guys are helping 0:01:57.560 --> 0:02:03.560 out dogs that are put through horrible situations of dog fighting. 0:02:03.680 --> 0:02:05.200 So I am sorry. 0:02:05.560 --> 0:02:08.200 Yeah, thank you so much, Mojo. We really appreciate that. 0:02:08.480 --> 0:02:11.440 Of course, hearing that on air was extremely jarring to 0:02:11.560 --> 0:02:13.280 us day in and day out. 0:02:13.639 --> 0:02:15.280 That is what our mission is. 0:02:15.440 --> 0:02:20.160 Our mission is to help end dog fighting and animal cruelty, 0:02:20.600 --> 0:02:25.000 not only here in Detroit but beyond right, So we 0:02:25.120 --> 0:02:25.800 are the. 0:02:25.639 --> 0:02:32.519 Only nonprofit organization that solely works with dog. 0:02:32.320 --> 0:02:35.200 Fighting and cruelty survivors. So this is our passion this 0:02:35.280 --> 0:02:39.000 is our love. So to hear you say that was, 0:02:39.360 --> 0:02:42.520 you know, it did take us back a bit like, oh, man, 0:02:42.880 --> 0:02:46.320 like we need to step up our education game and 0:02:46.840 --> 0:02:50.520 really show people, Yes, this is a thing, this is real, 0:02:50.600 --> 0:02:55.840 this is prevalent out there. But also on the flip side, 0:02:55.880 --> 0:02:59.280 seeing how quickly you responded to that in such a 0:02:59.320 --> 0:03:00.799 mature manner was. 0:03:00.760 --> 0:03:02.280 Really exciting for us as well. 0:03:02.320 --> 0:03:05.720 And it gave us the opportunity to come together and 0:03:05.720 --> 0:03:08.880 to have that talk and to say, hey, let's let's 0:03:08.880 --> 0:03:11.960 come on here, let's have a conversation that is positive, 0:03:12.120 --> 0:03:15.919 and let's let's have an educational moment here, and let's 0:03:15.919 --> 0:03:16.600 talk about it. 0:03:16.800 --> 0:03:17.799 Let's talk about what we do. 0:03:17.960 --> 0:03:20.799 I have to tell you that I did not know. 0:03:21.080 --> 0:03:23.600 And I told you this last night with your sister 0:03:24.040 --> 0:03:25.799 and your sister can we say what your sister does 0:03:25.880 --> 0:03:31.040 or Noah, she's in law enforcement? Right, So she's in 0:03:31.080 --> 0:03:34.040 law enforcement, and we were I had a friend who's 0:03:34.040 --> 0:03:37.400 in law enforcement also that told me. He's like, yeah, 0:03:37.520 --> 0:03:41.040 you know, we do investigations and bust you know rings 0:03:41.080 --> 0:03:44.600 of dog fighting that take place in the Detroit area. 0:03:45.000 --> 0:03:47.400 And he said, and I guarantee there's more outside of 0:03:47.440 --> 0:03:50.440 Detroit and Toledo and Grand Rapids, And I said, I 0:03:50.480 --> 0:03:53.160 did not know that. I mean, I honestly thought from 0:03:53.320 --> 0:03:55.720 years back, I thought, after the whole Michael Vick situation, 0:03:56.040 --> 0:04:00.120 I thought dog fighting was was that stopped everything? I 0:04:00.160 --> 0:04:03.920 did not realize the worst thing about not thinking that 0:04:04.000 --> 0:04:06.600 dog fighting is around is now it's probably even crueler 0:04:06.640 --> 0:04:09.480 than what it was back when people were more open 0:04:09.520 --> 0:04:12.680 about going to dog fighting or doing dog fighting. So 0:04:12.880 --> 0:04:15.000 can you explain, first off, who's the dog. 0:04:14.840 --> 0:04:15.280 That's with us? 0:04:15.680 --> 0:04:17.720 Yeah, let's introduce the people. 0:04:17.440 --> 0:04:19.240 Who introduce introduce your team. 0:04:19.320 --> 0:04:20.359 So, yeah, So I'm Carrie. 0:04:20.400 --> 0:04:22.400 I'm one of our co founders, and I'm our current 0:04:22.800 --> 0:04:24.200 our current board president. 0:04:25.160 --> 0:04:25.800 I'm Jenna. 0:04:26.000 --> 0:04:30.640 I'm our shelter manager. So I work alongside Marissa with placements, 0:04:30.640 --> 0:04:33.720 with caring for the animals and kind of running kind 0:04:33.760 --> 0:04:34.680 of our facilities. 0:04:35.200 --> 0:04:38.240 And you are Marissa. I am Marissa Marissa. 0:04:38.200 --> 0:04:39.279 And this is apple Jack. 0:04:40.760 --> 0:04:44.680 Jack he knows we're talking about and. 0:04:46.760 --> 0:04:51.880 Had him in Laxidude. 0:04:52.360 --> 0:04:55.320 Tell me tell me about apple Jack and tell me 0:04:55.400 --> 0:04:57.320 about how you guys found that's. 0:04:57.160 --> 0:04:57.760 A great name. 0:04:58.400 --> 0:05:01.719 So with apple Jack, he's at actually from a different 0:05:01.760 --> 0:05:04.760 part of Michigan. We were called by a law enforcement 0:05:04.800 --> 0:05:08.520 team who was at a property. It was an unexpected 0:05:08.600 --> 0:05:14.120 Sometimes we have their investigations. We work with different organizations 0:05:14.120 --> 0:05:17.919 that are that are putting together these search warrants. This 0:05:18.120 --> 0:05:21.920 was an unexpected situation for this team and they call 0:05:22.040 --> 0:05:25.799 us and said, hey, we've got the situation. We believe 0:05:25.880 --> 0:05:28.040 that it is dog fighting as well as what they 0:05:28.040 --> 0:05:31.120 were there for. We went to the property. It very 0:05:31.200 --> 0:05:33.640 much was and we met apple Jack and several of 0:05:33.680 --> 0:05:34.520 his other friends. 0:05:35.240 --> 0:05:36.760 That's what I was going to ask it to Normally, 0:05:37.080 --> 0:05:39.159 so when you go into a situation like this, like 0:05:39.200 --> 0:05:41.840 you see multiple dogs in a home that are and 0:05:41.880 --> 0:05:43.080 this and that's the purpose. 0:05:43.240 --> 0:05:47.520 So most of these dogs are going to be they're outside. 0:05:47.600 --> 0:05:50.599 We know that all weather, all seasons, all okay. So 0:05:50.640 --> 0:05:51.240 that's a big clue. 0:05:51.320 --> 0:05:56.200 Living on chains, they're in the dirt. They're not living 0:05:56.240 --> 0:05:59.240 the greatest lives. And so that was apple Jack. He 0:05:59.360 --> 0:06:01.640 was on a chain. He was jumping at the end 0:06:01.640 --> 0:06:04.000 of it, very excited to see us. Something a lot 0:06:04.040 --> 0:06:06.719 of people don't know about dog fighting survivors is they 0:06:06.760 --> 0:06:12.000 are their wonderful most ninety nine percent of the time human. 0:06:11.880 --> 0:06:13.400 Social, wonderful dogs. 0:06:13.880 --> 0:06:15.960 And so apple Jack and his friends came back to 0:06:16.000 --> 0:06:18.760 our shelter where we held on to them as evidence 0:06:18.839 --> 0:06:19.760 during their court case. 0:06:20.000 --> 0:06:20.320 Wow. 0:06:20.400 --> 0:06:22.839 And then once we were once the court case was over, 0:06:23.200 --> 0:06:25.880 apple Jack and his friends, we got to figure out 0:06:25.960 --> 0:06:29.159 placement wise, figure out adoption, if they were going to 0:06:29.200 --> 0:06:32.599 a transfer partner to find homes or if we do. 0:06:32.760 --> 0:06:34.960 Sometimes if the world's a little bit too big for 0:06:35.040 --> 0:06:38.039 some of them, we will celebrate them and have a 0:06:38.080 --> 0:06:39.279 sendoff together as a team. 0:06:39.760 --> 0:06:42.560 I'm i carry to be honest, I'm shocked that the 0:06:42.640 --> 0:06:44.880 dogs are so friendly with you, because you would think 0:06:44.920 --> 0:06:47.919 what they're put through would be traumatizing to them to 0:06:47.960 --> 0:06:51.159 they wouldn't trust, you know, people that are around them. 0:06:51.360 --> 0:06:55.320 So when you take in a dog and you are 0:06:55.440 --> 0:06:58.719 keeping that dog safe, how soon can a dog be 0:06:58.800 --> 0:07:02.000 adopted off to a good home that's going to take 0:07:02.000 --> 0:07:02.520 care of them. 0:07:03.040 --> 0:07:06.720 Okay, So it depends on the case. Sometimes there are 0:07:06.760 --> 0:07:10.000 owners who surrender them right away and say, you know, 0:07:11.080 --> 0:07:14.119 it's we want to surrender. We're going to let you guys, 0:07:14.120 --> 0:07:16.480 you know, take ownership of the dogs, take care of them, 0:07:16.600 --> 0:07:19.280 and then find placement. There are some there to tie 0:07:19.320 --> 0:07:21.200 up in the court system for years. 0:07:20.920 --> 0:07:23.600 And they're fighting to get their dogs back, yes, yes, 0:07:24.280 --> 0:07:25.200 wait years. 0:07:25.080 --> 0:07:28.960 Yeah, still in our shelter because they're court day. 0:07:29.480 --> 0:07:32.640 So really, so these people in these people do they 0:07:32.680 --> 0:07:35.640 know that they like they must know when their police 0:07:35.760 --> 0:07:39.080 or you know, whoever goes in there and does their 0:07:39.720 --> 0:07:42.680 arresting or search warrants and all that stuff, they must 0:07:43.480 --> 0:07:44.720 try to deny. 0:07:44.480 --> 0:07:47.240 That they're they're doing dog fighting or what do they do? 0:07:47.600 --> 0:07:51.280 Well, typically dog fighting is never stand alone, so there's 0:07:51.320 --> 0:07:55.400 always other things going on. There are guns, there's drugs, 0:07:55.480 --> 0:08:03.239 there's the Constitution, there's there's so typically it's a whole 0:08:03.320 --> 0:08:07.360 bigger picture than just what it might look like going 0:08:07.360 --> 0:08:10.240 in for dog fighting. So there's typically a whole slew 0:08:10.280 --> 0:08:11.000 of things going on. 0:08:11.160 --> 0:08:14.120 And I ask you, guys, and I know that we 0:08:14.480 --> 0:08:19.560 go from West Michigan all the way to Toledo. Are 0:08:19.560 --> 0:08:23.640 we talking like this is a city thing that's going 0:08:23.640 --> 0:08:26.560 on or is this happened in the suburbs and country everywhere? 0:08:27.240 --> 0:08:29.640 Well, Joy happens everywhere. And I'll tell you because I 0:08:29.680 --> 0:08:33.720 know that you broadcast specifically in Detroit, Grand Rapids, Toledo. 0:08:34.320 --> 0:08:36.680 Out of two out of those three listening areas we 0:08:36.720 --> 0:08:39.960 have assisted in search Warrens and Wow and and the 0:08:40.000 --> 0:08:41.599 third one damn. 0:08:41.360 --> 0:08:42.360 Near close to it. 0:08:42.360 --> 0:08:46.760 It literally happens everywhere, and it's every demographic of person, 0:08:47.040 --> 0:08:50.199 you know, male, female, anybody kidding? 0:08:50.360 --> 0:08:53.520 Women, A dogfighter, yes, oh my god. 0:08:53.960 --> 0:08:56.920 And I think that that's something that is so overlooked. 0:08:56.920 --> 0:08:58.080 People don't understand that. 0:08:58.400 --> 0:09:00.520 It was interesting when I saw your poet and I 0:09:00.640 --> 0:09:03.120 read your post and everything, all the statistics that you 0:09:03.160 --> 0:09:06.439 put up there, and you had the gentleman holding the 0:09:06.480 --> 0:09:08.520 two dogs. I thought instantly it was a guy that 0:09:09.080 --> 0:09:10.720 was the listener that was upset with us. I didn't 0:09:10.760 --> 0:09:13.720 know it was you, and so I just thought that 0:09:13.800 --> 0:09:16.840 it was and I actually was kind of happy to 0:09:16.920 --> 0:09:18.920 know that there was a man that is willing to 0:09:18.960 --> 0:09:21.520 fight against this. It's wonderful to see all these women 0:09:21.679 --> 0:09:24.400 that are like yourselves. How did you guys become passionate 0:09:24.440 --> 0:09:24.960 in doing this? 0:09:25.280 --> 0:09:26.400 Well, let me tell you this. 0:09:27.120 --> 0:09:31.720 As soon as that statement was made, because we do 0:09:31.800 --> 0:09:34.000 have a number of men who are on our team 0:09:34.120 --> 0:09:36.120 and they said, we want to be a part of this, 0:09:36.679 --> 0:09:39.280 and we set up so many photo shoots. We had 0:09:39.320 --> 0:09:42.480 about twelve photo shoots within those two days of the 0:09:42.559 --> 0:09:45.320 men on our team with our dog fighting survivors, so 0:09:45.360 --> 0:09:49.680 that we could show you physical examples of them rescuing 0:09:49.720 --> 0:09:51.280 the dogs and that sort of thing. The picture that 0:09:51.320 --> 0:09:55.160 you saw was a real life picture on scene of 0:09:55.200 --> 0:09:57.199 someone rescuing those puppies. 0:09:58.600 --> 0:10:00.000 But yes, we do have. 0:10:00.280 --> 0:10:03.800 Amazing women on our team as well who are going 0:10:04.040 --> 0:10:08.640 on that scene cutting their chains, making sure that those 0:10:08.640 --> 0:10:11.960 dogs are getting to safety and taking them back to 0:10:12.200 --> 0:10:15.320 our shelter, which is an undisclosed location because if you 0:10:15.320 --> 0:10:18.480 think about it, we are holding live evidence. So just 0:10:18.520 --> 0:10:21.320 like how we need to protect evidence for any sort 0:10:21.360 --> 0:10:25.120 of case, we need to protect dogs like Applejack. So 0:10:25.160 --> 0:10:27.880 we love to call it pitness protection. Oh when they're 0:10:28.040 --> 0:10:32.120 coming into pitness protection and we're protecting them, but we're 0:10:32.160 --> 0:10:36.600 getting them healthy, We're opening up their world at their pace. 0:10:37.080 --> 0:10:40.360 We're teaching them that humans are awesome. We are teaching 0:10:40.440 --> 0:10:42.400 them how to be dogs. Some of them have never 0:10:42.440 --> 0:10:45.000 had a toy before. Some of them, you know, are 0:10:45.080 --> 0:10:49.120 just learning how to just be dogs. So that's really 0:10:49.120 --> 0:10:52.080 what our team is doing is kind of standing in 0:10:52.080 --> 0:10:55.679 that gap for them while they're awaiting those court dates, and. 0:10:55.640 --> 0:10:57.040 Then the dogs can be adopted. 0:10:57.200 --> 0:10:58.040 Yes, yes they can. 0:10:58.240 --> 0:10:59.440 Yes, yeah. 0:10:59.640 --> 0:11:04.760 So what many might not even think about is you 0:11:04.800 --> 0:11:07.520 think we've got these big scary dogs who hate other 0:11:07.600 --> 0:11:10.120 dogs and want to a lot of the dogs that 0:11:10.160 --> 0:11:13.920 come in actually really enjoy other dogs. We do have 0:11:13.960 --> 0:11:17.240 some who have been through a lot of trauma. Maybe 0:11:17.280 --> 0:11:19.840 they decide they don't want to uh to be with 0:11:19.920 --> 0:11:20.480 other dogs. 0:11:21.000 --> 0:11:21.880 We will work with. 0:11:21.840 --> 0:11:26.560 Our placement our transfer partners, different shelters throughout Michigan, throughout Ohio, 0:11:26.679 --> 0:11:29.840 Pennsylvania to place some of them so that they have 0:11:29.920 --> 0:11:33.560 more more networking and more adoptions, since we aren't a 0:11:33.600 --> 0:11:36.400 forward facing shelter, but we do adopt out many of 0:11:36.440 --> 0:11:40.160 them ourselves. And then there are some who if we 0:11:40.200 --> 0:11:42.480 think like like we said, there are some who the 0:11:42.559 --> 0:11:46.679 trauma does does trump a little bit, and we want 0:11:46.720 --> 0:11:48.880 to always make sure they're re placing safe dogs. So 0:11:49.160 --> 0:11:51.959 if we do find a dog that we feel would 0:11:51.960 --> 0:11:54.240 not be successful, the worst thing we could do is 0:11:54.280 --> 0:11:56.800 set it up to fail in society and set a 0:11:56.840 --> 0:12:00.280 family up to fail, because that would just be ten 0:12:00.280 --> 0:12:03.280 steps backwards for us. But we do get a lot 0:12:03.320 --> 0:12:06.800 of these dogs love other dogs, They play with other dogs, 0:12:06.800 --> 0:12:09.960 they live with other dogs, and when they get out 0:12:09.960 --> 0:12:12.640 of the situation, they're dogs. 0:12:13.320 --> 0:12:15.439 Let me let me say two things real quick, and 0:12:15.520 --> 0:12:17.680 y'all can cook. First, I'm gonna say something to you, Mojoe, 0:12:17.679 --> 0:12:21.320 then I'm gonna say something to y'all. I think it's 0:12:21.360 --> 0:12:25.240 incredible that you have this platform, Mojo, and you have 0:12:25.320 --> 0:12:29.040 this show, And it could have been easy as hell 0:12:29.160 --> 0:12:32.839 for you to ignore whatever communication came out and let 0:12:32.840 --> 0:12:35.640 it blow over, let it die over, and maybe it 0:12:35.640 --> 0:12:37.600 would have been going a week from now. But the 0:12:37.640 --> 0:12:39.560 fact that you allowed them to come in here and 0:12:39.600 --> 0:12:42.200 you sitting in their face and having a conversation, I 0:12:42.240 --> 0:12:43.920 do want to commend you and applaud you for that. 0:12:45.080 --> 0:12:49.760 For you all, though, I think it is incredible the 0:12:49.800 --> 0:12:51.040 work it is that you're doing. 0:12:51.240 --> 0:12:51.720 Thanks. 0:12:52.320 --> 0:12:53.920 You are a voice for the voiceless. 0:12:54.040 --> 0:12:55.720 There are some people that are like, man, we just 0:12:55.760 --> 0:12:59.199 got down watching MMA fighting on Friday, or whatever the 0:12:59.200 --> 0:13:01.199 case may be. A lot of those people have made 0:13:01.200 --> 0:13:03.400 the decision to step into that ring. These dogs don't 0:13:03.400 --> 0:13:06.000 have that decision. I think it's incredible what you all 0:13:06.040 --> 0:13:09.280 are doing. And also for the people out there when 0:13:09.320 --> 0:13:12.520 there's an injustice that you that you experience, speak up, 0:13:12.840 --> 0:13:15.360 because had you not spoken up and kept speaking of 0:13:15.559 --> 0:13:17.880 we wouldn't be here talking about the situation. And the 0:13:17.920 --> 0:13:20.040 fact that Mojo has this here shows is where his 0:13:20.160 --> 0:13:22.960 heart truly lies, and he just, you know, says something. 0:13:23.040 --> 0:13:25.640 Whatever the case may be, we know where your heart is. 0:13:25.960 --> 0:13:27.840 That's why they're here. I appreciate it. 0:13:27.880 --> 0:13:30.320 I want to ask you guys, though, and this is 0:13:30.400 --> 0:13:34.120 something that's to me really important from this. There are 0:13:34.120 --> 0:13:35.760 going to be people that forever are going to hate 0:13:35.760 --> 0:13:37.600 me for that conversation that we had on the. 0:13:37.520 --> 0:13:40.280 Air, and that makes me sad. 0:13:42.520 --> 0:13:46.800 I hope that the majority of those who are truly 0:13:46.880 --> 0:13:50.000 upset by this, I hope they either give up of 0:13:50.080 --> 0:13:53.240 their time or they give up of their money or 0:13:53.240 --> 0:13:56.920 whatever it might be to help out your organization, because 0:13:56.960 --> 0:13:59.120 I don't want this to just become a situation where 0:13:59.160 --> 0:14:01.920 you guys become known as oh, there's this is the 0:14:02.160 --> 0:14:06.240 organization that you know called out Mojo. I want you 0:14:06.280 --> 0:14:08.439 guys now to be known as Okay, I did not 0:14:08.679 --> 0:14:12.120 know that there was a shelter for these abused animals, 0:14:12.480 --> 0:14:14.839 because there's a lot of shelters that are out there 0:14:14.840 --> 0:14:17.040 that get a lot more talk than you guys do. 0:14:17.400 --> 0:14:20.840 I did not know anything about you guys, So I 0:14:20.880 --> 0:14:23.920 really want to know from your perspective, Carrie, what do 0:14:23.960 --> 0:14:27.040 you want to come out of this whole Last you 0:14:27.080 --> 0:14:28.520 know half week that we've had. 0:14:28.480 --> 0:14:33.000 Well echoing off with what keV said there, like I agree, 0:14:33.040 --> 0:14:35.640 Like I thought that that was top notch that you 0:14:35.680 --> 0:14:38.040 decided we're going to go ahead and address this head 0:14:38.080 --> 0:14:39.000 on with us, Like. 0:14:39.120 --> 0:14:41.040 I told you, I would have done it earlier, but 0:14:41.120 --> 0:14:41.880 I Heeard Radio. 0:14:42.280 --> 0:14:44.920 You know you've got to go through the tape right, 0:14:45.720 --> 0:14:47.200 totally understand that they're so. 0:14:47.280 --> 0:14:50.920 Yes, I totally I echo your sentiments there. 0:14:51.960 --> 0:14:56.760 And all we wanted to do with that post was educate. 0:14:57.000 --> 0:14:59.880 It wasn't to slander in any way, shape or form. 0:15:00.040 --> 0:15:03.840 It was to educate and speak be their voices. 0:15:04.480 --> 0:15:08.080 Because when we heard back in twenty nineteen, so we 0:15:08.280 --> 0:15:12.040 have been an organization for fourteen years now, but back 0:15:12.040 --> 0:15:15.400 in twenty nineteen, we heard a staggering statistic that they 0:15:15.400 --> 0:15:18.800 could do a dog fighting raid every single day. 0:15:19.120 --> 0:15:20.160 They don't have. 0:15:20.040 --> 0:15:24.840 The resources in places to put the animals. And we thought, well, 0:15:24.880 --> 0:15:29.240 we could do this much. We could have one large 0:15:29.280 --> 0:15:32.160 scale shelter and we could take as many as we 0:15:32.200 --> 0:15:35.440 can within the means that we have, right, and that's 0:15:35.480 --> 0:15:37.960 what we do. We work within the means that we have, 0:15:38.640 --> 0:15:44.600 so of course, any additional support, whether it be volunteering 0:15:44.960 --> 0:15:47.840 whether it be financial. 0:15:47.320 --> 0:15:53.280 Support, fighting a home, fosters. 0:15:53.160 --> 0:15:58.320 Finding homes, even like purchasing things off of our Amazon 0:15:58.360 --> 0:16:03.280 wish list to help move forward. We hold live evidence 0:16:03.400 --> 0:16:06.440 for government agencies, but we do not receive a single 0:16:06.600 --> 0:16:11.320 penny from the government to scold their live evidence. This 0:16:11.480 --> 0:16:14.640 is a passion of ours that we keep moving forward 0:16:15.040 --> 0:16:19.000 due to the generosity of our supporters. So we throw 0:16:19.040 --> 0:16:21.680 events we you know, we have monthly. We have a 0:16:21.680 --> 0:16:24.920 monthly donor program so that we can sustain keeping the 0:16:25.000 --> 0:16:27.120 lights on in the building and the food and the 0:16:27.240 --> 0:16:30.560 vet bills. I can probably ask you guys to go 0:16:30.680 --> 0:16:33.080 more into what the vet bills look like. For every 0:16:33.120 --> 0:16:38.320 single intake of a dog, it requires a veterinary you know, exam, 0:16:38.440 --> 0:16:43.120 it requires lab work, all of these things. So we 0:16:43.200 --> 0:16:47.200 can only rescue as much as what we have, you know, 0:16:47.440 --> 0:16:50.280 we can only go as far as what we within 0:16:50.280 --> 0:16:50.720 our means. 0:16:50.760 --> 0:16:52.880 And if you guys talk about the you know, talk 0:16:52.920 --> 0:16:55.680 about the money, the money that it costs. 0:16:56.200 --> 0:16:59.760 I want people to know Bark Nation, Instagram, Facebook, you 0:16:59.800 --> 0:17:00.400 see them. 0:17:01.120 --> 0:17:03.360 You can just go to our social media and you'll 0:17:03.360 --> 0:17:03.680 see it. 0:17:03.960 --> 0:17:07.160 But I will tell you I think it's important that 0:17:07.920 --> 0:17:10.679 we all, you know, learn from this. I also I 0:17:10.680 --> 0:17:13.679 have no control over a lot of the people that 0:17:13.720 --> 0:17:16.760 are making comments. I think I do have a little 0:17:16.760 --> 0:17:20.760 bit of influence on those that are our listeners that 0:17:20.800 --> 0:17:23.560 were defending me for this, and I don't want you 0:17:23.600 --> 0:17:25.960 to defend me. I want you to also be part 0:17:25.960 --> 0:17:28.600 of this too. Don't say it was just a joke 0:17:29.240 --> 0:17:32.280 and and leave it at that. I want you to say, 0:17:32.320 --> 0:17:35.359 you know what, let's not make this become something that 0:17:35.400 --> 0:17:36.200 you can joke about. 0:17:36.240 --> 0:17:37.560 I want everybody to become aware. 0:17:37.600 --> 0:17:40.840 So I want to tell you, tell those listeners, I 0:17:40.920 --> 0:17:43.480 want you to do this for us as a show. 0:17:43.480 --> 0:17:45.119 If you care about the show, I want you to 0:17:45.119 --> 0:17:46.520 take care of bark Nations. 0:17:46.600 --> 0:17:49.359 Yeah, we'll never belittle this as a joke because, like 0:17:49.440 --> 0:17:50.479 to us, it's not funny. 0:17:50.560 --> 0:17:53.000 And every single time. 0:17:54.640 --> 0:17:57.359 That was pretty damn funny karma. 0:18:01.960 --> 0:18:03.320 The fact that you all saw it was. 0:18:03.520 --> 0:18:06.560 We had we had a dog in here from uh 0:18:07.160 --> 0:18:12.159 your society, I think it was everwhere and get a 0:18:12.160 --> 0:18:18.920 full office of people rolling around in its poop. All right, thank. 0:18:18.760 --> 0:18:19.440 You for coming in. 0:18:20.160 --> 0:18:22.240 I also want to say, as far as obviously we 0:18:22.240 --> 0:18:24.439 we saw comments from your listeners, we saw comments from 0:18:24.440 --> 0:18:27.520 the animal welfare world. We want to shout out to 0:18:27.520 --> 0:18:30.879 our our animal welfare world. We have a million people 0:18:31.040 --> 0:18:34.080 in the city. In other states, there are people fighting 0:18:34.119 --> 0:18:37.639 for these animals every day in and out. I do 0:18:37.720 --> 0:18:40.280 want to encourage our animal welfare world continue. 0:18:40.359 --> 0:18:42.760 While yes, we get. 0:18:42.160 --> 0:18:44.840 You know, things get emotional, things get these are animals. 0:18:45.960 --> 0:18:48.320 It's easy to jump at someone, It's easy to say 0:18:49.200 --> 0:18:51.840 you're the worst, this was awful, this is you know, 0:18:52.040 --> 0:18:54.760 and and bash other people. You know, our emotions can 0:18:54.800 --> 0:18:57.400 get the best of us. But I want to encourage 0:18:57.480 --> 0:19:02.280 our animal welfare people in Detroit, in Toledo, in Grand Rapids, 0:19:02.680 --> 0:19:05.560 when something like this happens, take that time and use 0:19:05.600 --> 0:19:08.600 it as a learning Let's not just try to bash everybody. 0:19:08.760 --> 0:19:10.600 Let's try to get more people on our team. 0:19:10.880 --> 0:19:12.040 We work with with. 0:19:12.040 --> 0:19:14.359 Groups outside the state, We work with groups down south. 0:19:15.080 --> 0:19:18.359 Our goal is to have animal welfare groups doing this 0:19:18.520 --> 0:19:22.720 in every state across the nation. And yeah, and this 0:19:22.840 --> 0:19:26.879 is how we do it is we gather, we gather people, 0:19:26.920 --> 0:19:29.639 we gather forces, and we hold each other up and 0:19:29.680 --> 0:19:33.040 we educate. MRSA, do you want to give maybe a 0:19:33.040 --> 0:19:35.439 minute or two about what happens in our fitness protection program? 0:19:35.440 --> 0:19:38.200 If we have I only have a couple more minutes, 0:19:38.240 --> 0:19:40.160 but I but go ahead and please. 0:19:40.320 --> 0:19:43.280 So really, Jena touchbase on our shelter, which is our 0:19:43.320 --> 0:19:46.719 fitness protection shelter, and we have dogs just like Applejack 0:19:46.760 --> 0:19:49.800 who come in and are there during their court cases. 0:19:50.119 --> 0:19:53.000 We have no clue how long, but really we're there 0:19:53.040 --> 0:19:55.840 to show them how much we love them and help 0:19:55.880 --> 0:19:58.639 them be dogs. So really that's what it's about, and 0:19:58.680 --> 0:20:01.160 it's daily care. It's showing up every single day for them, 0:20:01.240 --> 0:20:03.640 making sure they have food and water that they didn't 0:20:03.680 --> 0:20:05.040 know if they were going to have that back in 0:20:05.080 --> 0:20:05.800 their previous life. 0:20:05.840 --> 0:20:07.680