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Speaker 1: From Mediators World News headquarters in Bozeman, Montana. This is

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Speaker 1: Cal's weekend review, presented by Steel Steel products are available

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Speaker 1: only at authorized dealers. For more, go to Steel Dealers

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Speaker 1: dot com. Now here's your host, Ryan cal Callahan. It's

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Speaker 1: to day that ends in y, which means why not

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Speaker 1: share a cat story. I hear about cat people doing

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Speaker 1: crazy cat things all the time. Thanks to listener Justin

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Speaker 1: Leavittsau for bringing this one to my attention. Both the

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Speaker 1: Humane Society and the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty

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Speaker 1: to Animals have programs for what they call working cats,

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Speaker 1: which is not what happens when a young cat from

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Speaker 1: a small town in the Midwest takes off to pursue

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Speaker 1: their big Hollywood dream, which never materializes. Used to be

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Speaker 1: in silent pictures, used to be big, I am big.

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Speaker 1: It's the pictures that got small. Working cats, according to

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Speaker 1: the SPCA of Texas, have quote chosen not to be pets.

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Speaker 1: These are unsocialized feral cats that aren't able to be

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Speaker 1: adopted and live inside a house, so the working Cat

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Speaker 1: program sends them to businesses and farms to supposedly become

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Speaker 1: professional rodent killers. This does work to a degree. The

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Speaker 1: only issue is you can't control what cats kill. It's

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Speaker 1: like hiring a painter to do the house, but he

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Speaker 1: paints over the windows and the bushes too. Anyone who's

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Speaker 1: owned an outdoor cat knows that cats bring home all

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Speaker 1: kinds of critters. A two thousand twelve study that strapped

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Speaker 1: cameras to cats found that about thirty percent of cats

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Speaker 1: are successful hunters, and these kill about two animals per week.

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Speaker 1: Of those animals are birds. The camera to cats also

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Speaker 1: killed lizards, voles, chipmunks, frogs, squirrels, and small snakes. Working

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Speaker 1: won't be reproducing, but while they are alive, they'll be

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Speaker 1: killing a lot more than just mice and rats. Something

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Speaker 1: to keep in mind if you have a mouse problem

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Speaker 1: and are thinking about getting cat to fix it. This week,

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Speaker 1: we've got boat burials Massachusetts and the crime Desk. But

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Speaker 1: first I'm gonna tell you about my week. In My

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Speaker 1: week as well as this podcast is brought to you

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Speaker 1: by Steel Power Equipment. As you know, I am in

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Speaker 1: New Mexico right now talking with ELK. Not actually able

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Speaker 1: to give you the up to date rundown of my

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Speaker 1: actual week, So instead I want to drop a couple

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Speaker 1: of upcoming things in the conservation world in your lap

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Speaker 1: right now. First, let's talk Turkey. National Wild Turkey Federations

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Speaker 1: Big Sky Forestry initiative, co developed by the National Wild

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Speaker 1: Turkey Federation and the USDA Forest Service will help bring

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Speaker 1: partners and funding together to reduce the threat of catastrophic wildfire,

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Speaker 1: enhance wildlife habitat, secure clean water, maintain access in recreational opportunities,

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Speaker 1: and prepare communities on the wild land to interface for wildfire.

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Speaker 1: Here's the gist. We used to fight fire with fire,

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Speaker 1: and we have not for a long time. We have

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Speaker 1: love what n WTF, in conjunction with US Forest Service

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Speaker 1: is doing here to push for healthier habitat. If you

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Speaker 1: were looking for ways to get involved to help with

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Speaker 1: your time, your talent, or your treasure, contact Jason tar

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Speaker 1: n ET. Next up, all you Texicans, pay special attention

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Speaker 1: as we are talking about the cut off that special

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Speaker 1: is co signed by Texas Rivers Protection Association and North

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Speaker 1: Texas mud Boat Association. If you also feel like your

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Speaker 1: then right in to Governor Abbott, Texas Parks and Wildlife,

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Speaker 1: your county commissioners, and check out the Texas back Country,

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Speaker 1: Hunters and Anglers channels for a lot more information. Moving

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Speaker 1: As of this recording, the suspect is still at large.

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Speaker 1: If you have any information on this case, email Montana

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Speaker 1: archers who are unrelated to the case. Broadside through the

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Speaker 1: that didn't stop a thirty three year old man in

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Speaker 1: Alaska from using one to harvest a sub legal bull moose.

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Speaker 1: Earlier this year, Alaska Wildlife troopers received a crime Stoppers

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Speaker 1: Moving north to the border to Canada, someone kept the

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Speaker 1: Moatsu Chroma was sentence to sixty three months in a

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Speaker 1: netted over four million. The story has received a huge

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Speaker 1: these poachers. It is unlawful in New Mexico to hunt elk, deer, pronghorn,

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Speaker 1: be suspended for five years. As with most big poaching

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Speaker 1: Game Thief in your state. In Florida, Governor Rhnda Santis

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Speaker 1: more than ninety percent of which is in the Florida

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Speaker 1: Wildlife Corridor. This newly designated corridor spans seventeen point seven

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Speaker 1: crucial habitat for Florida's diverse flora and fauna. Of the

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Speaker 1: for further conservation. Governor de Santis and his administration just

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