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Speaker 1: All right, it is as we've been saying, take your

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Speaker 1: dog to work day and from the rspcaa Louise Road, Wa,

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Speaker 1: Executive manager of Media and Marketing and PRS joining us.

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Speaker 2: Holy, how are you? Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Really, Well, we've bought a dog to you, just brought in.

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Speaker 3: So this is Tipsy. She's a Wode Tipsy.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, she's so cute. A one and a half year

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Speaker 2: old Fox Terrier cross.

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Speaker 3: Tipsy was found locked in a car on a thirty

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Speaker 3: three degree day in December. So we have prosecuted her owner,

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Speaker 3: who's been fined and banned from owning animals for a couple.

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Speaker 2: Of years life unfortunately a couple of years.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and so she's now available for adoption. And as

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Speaker 3: you can see, she just loves people. She's super friendly,

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Speaker 3: she's a small dog, just gorgeous, and she's going to

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Speaker 3: be a part of our big adoption drive that we're

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Speaker 2: All right, So tell us about that, talk about the

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Speaker 2: winter adoption drive.

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Speaker 3: Well, you maybe wondering why as I'm in my pajamas

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Speaker 3: and my ug boots in your studio this morning. We're

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Speaker 3: having a Winter Wonderland adoption drive. We're calling it Kennel

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Speaker 3: to couch. We want all of our animals to find

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Speaker 3: a nice, warm couch this weekend. We're teaming up with

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Speaker 3: cat Haven and also Safe Okay, yeah, so three rescues

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Speaker 3: all together. There's going to be a coffee van face painting.

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Speaker 3: All of our stuff will be in jarm He's a

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Speaker 3: big winter wonderland at RSPCA in Malaga from nine o'clock

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Speaker 3: on both Saturday and Sunday.

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Speaker 4: Beautiful. I though you've just been lazy, to be honest,

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Speaker 4: I was very envious Cash.

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Speaker 1: What kind of numbers are we dealing with at the

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Speaker 1: moment that need need forever homes.

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Speaker 3: So we have three hundred animals in here at the moment. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: we are absolutely choco block. There is just literally not

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Speaker 3: a spare kennel. So that's why we're having this drive.

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Speaker 3: We have about ninety animals up for adoption from those

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Speaker 3: three hundred currently in care and also, as I said,

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Speaker 3: the animals from SO and Cat Haven as well, So

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Speaker 3: hundreds of animals available this weekend if people would love

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Speaker 4: The times that the take to for these dogs and

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Speaker 4: and then people with the you know, trying to find

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Speaker 4: And that's that's been quite sad, hasn't the last couple

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Speaker 2: It really has.

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Speaker 3: And it's taking us longer and longer to find homes,

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Speaker 3: you know, and especially for some of our more unusual

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Speaker 3: finding can be with us for one hundred days, one

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Speaker 3: hundred and fifty days, and it's just so heartbreaking when

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Speaker 3: all they want is a loving family and a nice,

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Speaker 1: You know, what I don't quite understand is we seem

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Speaker 1: are still homeless? Where is it for? What's going on?

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Speaker 1: Do people not get their dogs sterilized? Do people not?

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Speaker 1: Why are there so many dogs without home? Do you

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, because you're thinking, well if you know so, yeah,

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Speaker 3: and you're right. Ownership in Australia is at record numbers. Absolutely,

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Speaker 3: And also, I think the surge in popularity of certain

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Speaker 3: are probably two of the issues that we're facing here.

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Speaker 3: But cats in particular, sterilize your cats and please keep

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Speaker 4: Yeah, speaking of being simple, do people think that adopting

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I know exactly what you're saying. Some people think, oh,

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Speaker 3: Whereas if you're rescuing a dog, that dog has been

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Speaker 3: you're actually getting a much more knowledgeable deal when you're

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I also, for some reason, I have it in

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Speaker 1: my head that you're they're going to be mostly pitbulls

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Speaker 1: on Staffy's And I'm wrong there too, aren't.

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Speaker 3: I Well, Staffie crosses is very very very much our

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Speaker 3: most dominant breeds, so you're not You're not wrong in that,

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Speaker 3: But I mean that is just such a myriad of dogs,

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Speaker 3: But yeah, we get all sorts. I mean, you know,

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Speaker 3: look at beautiful Tipsy we've got in here. Now, she's

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Speaker 3: a very small fox terrier.

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Speaker 2: Cross sleepy, she's exhausted.

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Speaker 3: We had little we had a little Pomeranian come in

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Speaker 3: all the rescues you know around town. As I said,

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Speaker 3: if you just keep looking, you will find your best friend.

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Speaker 2: All right, Well, it is take your dog to work day.

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Speaker 1: We're at the district instructions not to tell my dogs

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Speaker 2: We're not really in the right setting.

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Speaker 1: I'm not, you know, I'm in here in the studio

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Speaker 1: tell her that other dogs are going to work today.

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Speaker 1: But what if you if your workplace does you know,

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Speaker 3: So many studies have been done about the way that

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Speaker 3: dogs just lower stress. You know, they producing doorphins when

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Speaker 3: you pat them. And also it helps bring team members together.

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Speaker 3: I mean, look at everyone at ninety six FM that

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Speaker 3: it's a little bit different, gives people, you know, something

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Speaker 3: it can be an absolutely amazing day.

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Speaker 4: And you must get some beautiful stories, you know, when

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Speaker 4: the dogs actually find a new home and your family,

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Speaker 4: it must be like the scenes at the airport and

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Speaker 4: I love actually you know that kind of vibe.

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Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, so many tears. You know.

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Speaker 3: We've had dogs that have been in our care for

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Speaker 3: over a year and finding their right home and the

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Speaker 3: stuff full former guard of honor and have tears streaming

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Speaker 3: down their face as the new owners walk them out.

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Speaker 2: It's just it is divine.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we become friends, we stay in touch, the owners

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Speaker 3: send us photos and it's beautiful.

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Speaker 1: You have got a bit of sweet weekend ahead of you, Yes,

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Speaker 1: this weekend, haven't you, because it is the winter adoption drive?

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Speaker 1: So where how what should people do if they're thinking,

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Speaker 1: you know what this is for me and the time

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Speaker 1: is now?

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Speaker 3: Okay, Drastically reduced adoption prices, so just seventy nine dollars

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Speaker 3: for dogs, twenty nine dollars for cats, smaller pets like

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Speaker 3: guinea pigs and rabbits. Adoption for absolutely zero dollars. You

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Speaker 3: can find us at one Owait Malaga Drive in Malaga

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Speaker 3: from nine toll four both Saturday and Sunday. A Winter Wonderland,

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Speaker 3: face painting, coffee vans, the whole works. Come on down,

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Speaker 3: find your friend awesome lwise, thank you, thank youe yeah.

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Speaker 4: Thank you very much and leave the jermmies on all day.

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Speaker 2: And legas I leaves dying.

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