1
00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:03,800
Speaker 1: We are obviously edging closer and closer to Christmas, and

2
00:00:03,840 --> 00:00:06,600
Speaker 1: we know at this time of the year some people

3
00:00:06,640 --> 00:00:09,039
Speaker 1: sort of start to think to themselves or should they

4
00:00:09,039 --> 00:00:11,800
Speaker 1: maybe adopt a pet or or get an animal for

5
00:00:11,880 --> 00:00:13,280
Speaker 1: loved ones for Christmas.

6
00:00:13,280 --> 00:00:14,880
Speaker 2: It's not always the best.

7
00:00:14,680 --> 00:00:17,479
Speaker 1: Idea, and I think we've all got to sort of

8
00:00:17,480 --> 00:00:20,759
Speaker 1: remind ourselves that you've got to think very carefully before

9
00:00:20,800 --> 00:00:23,439
Speaker 1: you get yourself a pet. Now joining us on the

10
00:00:23,520 --> 00:00:27,160
Speaker 1: line is the wonderful Lisa from Pause Darwin.

11
00:00:27,240 --> 00:00:28,760
Speaker 2: Good morning to you, Lisa.

12
00:00:29,800 --> 00:00:31,320
Speaker 3: Morning Katie. How are you this morning?

13
00:00:31,520 --> 00:00:33,159
Speaker 2: Really well, Lisa.

14
00:00:33,200 --> 00:00:35,280
Speaker 1: I know this time of the year it can be

15
00:00:35,360 --> 00:00:38,960
Speaker 1: a really difficult one for you guys out at Pau's

16
00:00:39,120 --> 00:00:39,920
Speaker 1: animal shelter.

17
00:00:41,159 --> 00:00:43,400
Speaker 2: How many animals have you got out there at the moment?

18
00:00:44,680 --> 00:00:48,880
Speaker 3: Too many? At the moment? Too many? There's quite a few,

19
00:00:50,080 --> 00:00:53,400
Speaker 3: probably about twenty odd animals in the shelter at the moment.

20
00:00:53,960 --> 00:00:56,600
Speaker 2: Dogs or cats or a mix of both.

21
00:00:57,200 --> 00:01:02,880
Speaker 3: Mix mix of both. Out the baby kittens, there's probably thirty.

22
00:01:02,960 --> 00:01:07,080
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, so's there's a lot of there's a lot

23
00:01:07,080 --> 00:01:12,440
Speaker 3: of animals needing faster over Christmas. Yeah, it's got space

24
00:01:12,520 --> 00:01:18,400
Speaker 3: for them. Yeah, dogs, mostly big dogs of course, yeah, well.

25
00:01:18,240 --> 00:01:21,399
Speaker 1: Puppy unlessa you guys are always you know, you're always

26
00:01:21,440 --> 00:01:23,800
Speaker 1: looking for people to foster those pets and help out.

27
00:01:23,840 --> 00:01:26,280
Speaker 1: And also I'm fine forever homes, aren't you.

28
00:01:27,280 --> 00:01:31,400
Speaker 3: We are, Yes, we definitely are wanting to find forever homes.

29
00:01:31,440 --> 00:01:35,000
Speaker 3: And it would be very tempting to press the whole

30
00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:40,560
Speaker 3: adopt not shop, you know, for you Christmas, but really

31
00:01:40,640 --> 00:01:43,240
Speaker 3: we're just looking for foster carers so that people can

32
00:01:45,160 --> 00:01:47,160
Speaker 3: you know, make a wife decision about what they want

33
00:01:47,200 --> 00:01:49,520
Speaker 3: for Christmas yet wise.

34
00:01:50,080 --> 00:01:53,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's always the really important thing, isn't it.

35
00:01:53,240 --> 00:01:56,480
Speaker 1: You know, come Christmas time, sometimes people think to themselves, oh,

36
00:01:56,520 --> 00:01:58,400
Speaker 1: I might go and buy a dog or a cat

37
00:01:59,400 --> 00:02:02,520
Speaker 1: for a but we've got to make sure we're thinking

38
00:02:02,560 --> 00:02:03,760
Speaker 1: these things through.

39
00:02:05,160 --> 00:02:09,280
Speaker 3: Absolutely. I mean there's you know, the amount of stories

40
00:02:09,560 --> 00:02:11,600
Speaker 3: over the years that I've heard about, you know, somebody

41
00:02:11,600 --> 00:02:14,600
Speaker 3: getting a brand new puppy for Christmas and then getting

42
00:02:14,680 --> 00:02:19,920
Speaker 3: carbo and you know, meaning emergency after our you know,

43
00:02:20,120 --> 00:02:23,240
Speaker 3: vet work for Christmas Day and you can imagine how

44
00:02:23,320 --> 00:02:26,679
Speaker 3: much that costs, and you know, just different different things

45
00:02:26,760 --> 00:02:29,960
Speaker 3: like that that can happen with pets over Christmas. It's

46
00:02:30,040 --> 00:02:34,080
Speaker 3: not a good idea to just go and buy a

47
00:02:34,200 --> 00:02:38,040
Speaker 3: puppy or a dog for Christmas, because you just don't

48
00:02:38,040 --> 00:02:41,200
Speaker 3: know whether it's going to fit, whether it's going to

49
00:02:41,200 --> 00:02:43,400
Speaker 3: be right, and you don't want to spend your whole

50
00:02:43,480 --> 00:02:47,600
Speaker 3: Christmas day in a that clinic or worse over a

51
00:02:47,639 --> 00:02:51,880
Speaker 3: dog that's just eating the daughter's rabbit or something else.

52
00:02:51,960 --> 00:02:53,200
Speaker 3: So don't rush into it.

53
00:02:53,480 --> 00:02:57,320
Speaker 1: No and such sound advice. I mean, we've got to

54
00:02:57,320 --> 00:02:59,600
Speaker 1: make sure that we think these things through. You've got

55
00:02:59,639 --> 00:03:02,320
Speaker 1: to be pair that, you know, especially if you get

56
00:03:02,320 --> 00:03:05,800
Speaker 1: a puppy, be ready for that puppy to be, you know,

57
00:03:06,280 --> 00:03:08,839
Speaker 1: doing its business in all sorts of places where they're

58
00:03:08,840 --> 00:03:11,680
Speaker 1: not supposed to when they're not easy.

59
00:03:11,880 --> 00:03:14,560
Speaker 3: Absolutely, and not only that. I mean a change of

60
00:03:14,639 --> 00:03:16,920
Speaker 3: home for a puppy is going to give it stress.

61
00:03:17,040 --> 00:03:20,080
Speaker 3: Stress is probably going to give it diarrhea. You know,

62
00:03:20,200 --> 00:03:22,960
Speaker 3: it's not even going to be an easy you know

63
00:03:23,120 --> 00:03:26,600
Speaker 3: clean up. But on the other side of it, I

64
00:03:26,639 --> 00:03:29,919
Speaker 3: get that people you know, maybe feel yet landing over Christmas,

65
00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:32,240
Speaker 3: may be feeling a little bit isolated and feeling like

66
00:03:32,760 --> 00:03:37,160
Speaker 3: you know, there's you know, they just need somebody in

67
00:03:37,160 --> 00:03:41,480
Speaker 3: their life over Christmas. Our suggestion is come and offer

68
00:03:41,840 --> 00:03:44,040
Speaker 3: a dog that might be feeling exactly the same way,

69
00:03:44,120 --> 00:03:45,880
Speaker 3: or a cat that might be feeling that's the same

70
00:03:45,880 --> 00:03:48,400
Speaker 3: way over Christmas and you get to know it. And

71
00:03:48,440 --> 00:03:53,000
Speaker 3: if after Christmas has passed and you, you know, are

72
00:03:53,080 --> 00:03:56,240
Speaker 3: really committed to that pet, then you know you can adopt.

73
00:03:56,320 --> 00:04:00,960
Speaker 3: But yeah, Christmas, if you need a pair, come and foster.

74
00:04:01,280 --> 00:04:04,080
Speaker 1: I reckon that is the best thing to do, Lisa,

75
00:04:04,200 --> 00:04:06,640
Speaker 1: And I was going to say, I reckon, you know,

76
00:04:06,720 --> 00:04:08,720
Speaker 1: if you are feeling that way and you're sort of

77
00:04:08,720 --> 00:04:11,760
Speaker 1: wondering whether you should, you know, whether you should get

78
00:04:11,800 --> 00:04:15,680
Speaker 1: a pet, getting a rescue a rescue animal is a

79
00:04:15,720 --> 00:04:16,920
Speaker 1: wonderful thing to do.

80
00:04:17,320 --> 00:04:19,239
Speaker 2: I've said it before on this show.

81
00:04:19,520 --> 00:04:23,240
Speaker 1: We rescued our blue heeler Maggie, who spends her time

82
00:04:23,279 --> 00:04:27,560
Speaker 1: between mine and Grandma's house, living the dream from you guys.

83
00:04:28,120 --> 00:04:31,359
Speaker 2: And she's a beautiful dog, a wonderful dog.

84
00:04:31,600 --> 00:04:33,560
Speaker 1: And I just think it's such a great thing to

85
00:04:33,720 --> 00:04:38,640
Speaker 1: either foster a pet or if you're looking for you

86
00:04:38,960 --> 00:04:42,559
Speaker 1: forever a forever pet, go out and see you guys

87
00:04:42,560 --> 00:04:46,200
Speaker 1: at pause and actually see what animals are available out

88
00:04:46,200 --> 00:04:46,960
Speaker 1: there for adoption.

89
00:04:48,240 --> 00:04:51,279
Speaker 3: Absolutely, and you know, I just remember that, you know,

90
00:04:51,400 --> 00:04:54,080
Speaker 3: bringing it home the day before Christmas if you don't

91
00:04:54,120 --> 00:04:57,719
Speaker 3: know the animal and you've got big things planned, it's

92
00:04:57,839 --> 00:05:02,800
Speaker 3: probably not the best, you know scenario because most of

93
00:05:02,880 --> 00:05:05,560
Speaker 3: the animals that you're going to get through through rescue

94
00:05:05,600 --> 00:05:08,120
Speaker 3: are going to need some adjustment time, They're going to

95
00:05:08,160 --> 00:05:11,000
Speaker 3: need some training, they're going to need, you know, just

96
00:05:11,080 --> 00:05:13,560
Speaker 3: to learn what the basic boundaries and alls are, and

97
00:05:13,600 --> 00:05:15,320
Speaker 3: it's very hard to teach that when you've got a

98
00:05:15,320 --> 00:05:16,159
Speaker 3: house full of people.

99
00:05:16,320 --> 00:05:16,840
Speaker 2: That's right.

100
00:05:17,480 --> 00:05:20,520
Speaker 3: So you know, if you're if you've got a quiet

101
00:05:20,600 --> 00:05:23,440
Speaker 3: Christmas plan, then you know, that's one thing. But if

102
00:05:23,440 --> 00:05:27,120
Speaker 3: you've got you know, a multi family Christmas land and

103
00:05:27,240 --> 00:05:31,240
Speaker 3: kids running everywhere and Christmas trees and package dealings of stuff,

104
00:05:31,720 --> 00:05:34,040
Speaker 3: you know, that's going to be a lot of stress

105
00:05:34,080 --> 00:05:38,320
Speaker 3: for animals come into your home. So oh exactly that

106
00:05:38,360 --> 00:05:40,360
Speaker 3: you remember that any animal that your dog's going to

107
00:05:40,440 --> 00:05:44,000
Speaker 3: need more than love. And we all think that they're

108
00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:46,040
Speaker 3: going to respond to love, and they certainly do, but

109
00:05:46,120 --> 00:05:48,400
Speaker 3: they also need all the other things.

110
00:05:48,240 --> 00:05:49,360
Speaker 2: That go along. That's right.

111
00:05:49,800 --> 00:05:53,080
Speaker 1: So Lisa, if anybody is listening right now and thinking,

112
00:05:53,120 --> 00:05:55,200
Speaker 1: do you know what I'd actually really like to help

113
00:05:55,240 --> 00:05:58,800
Speaker 1: out by fostering an animal, whether it's before Christmas or

114
00:05:58,880 --> 00:05:59,799
Speaker 1: after Christmas.

115
00:06:00,120 --> 00:06:01,680
Speaker 2: What's the best way that they can do that.

116
00:06:02,800 --> 00:06:06,840
Speaker 3: Well, they can jump onto our website www dot or

117
00:06:06,960 --> 00:06:09,960
Speaker 3: go and god or got au. There is a cross

118
00:06:09,960 --> 00:06:13,360
Speaker 3: the sign up there. Also all of our animals are

119
00:06:13,360 --> 00:06:16,000
Speaker 3: listed up there. And then if you have a look

120
00:06:16,040 --> 00:06:20,400
Speaker 3: on our Facebook page, we've got a folder that says

121
00:06:20,440 --> 00:06:23,320
Speaker 3: all the animals that need frosting at the moment. There's

122
00:06:23,880 --> 00:06:27,080
Speaker 3: there's definitely a few nice ones there at the moment.

123
00:06:27,160 --> 00:06:31,360
Speaker 3: Who could do with somebody over the next couple of weeks.

124
00:06:31,560 --> 00:06:35,200
Speaker 1: Are you guys on Legends you do such a wonderful

125
00:06:35,279 --> 00:06:35,880
Speaker 1: job out there.

126
00:06:35,920 --> 00:06:36,960
Speaker 2: I know it's not easy.

127
00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:39,400
Speaker 1: Now, are you after sort of donations of dog food

128
00:06:39,480 --> 00:06:40,320
Speaker 1: or anything like that?

129
00:06:40,520 --> 00:06:42,119
Speaker 2: In the lead up to Christmas? As well?

130
00:06:43,320 --> 00:06:46,640
Speaker 3: I have to say that Christmas is a very very

131
00:06:46,720 --> 00:06:51,039
Speaker 3: expensive time of year for somewhere like us. There's so

132
00:06:51,160 --> 00:06:55,080
Speaker 3: many public holidays and days we can't really be open

133
00:06:55,160 --> 00:07:00,800
Speaker 3: to the public and you should have to page start,

134
00:07:00,960 --> 00:07:05,440
Speaker 3: you know. Not that I'm not complaining about paying anybody. Yeah, yeah,

135
00:07:05,560 --> 00:07:08,440
Speaker 3: don't get me wrong, but you know it's expensive to

136
00:07:08,640 --> 00:07:11,720
Speaker 3: cover your staff to have to go to have to

137
00:07:11,920 --> 00:07:15,040
Speaker 3: you know, they want to go, but go and you know,

138
00:07:15,160 --> 00:07:16,720
Speaker 3: do all the work that they need to do on

139
00:07:16,880 --> 00:07:20,440
Speaker 3: Christmas Day and Boxing Day and so yeah, so any

140
00:07:20,480 --> 00:07:23,720
Speaker 3: donations of the help that we can get, you know,

141
00:07:23,960 --> 00:07:27,640
Speaker 3: any volunteers who may go and help, you know, look

142
00:07:27,640 --> 00:07:30,560
Speaker 3: after the animals during during your public holidays and things

143
00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:33,840
Speaker 3: our most welcome. Would love to hear from you.

144
00:07:34,520 --> 00:07:37,080
Speaker 1: Well, Lisa, always good to talk to you all the

145
00:07:37,120 --> 00:07:40,120
Speaker 1: best over Christmas and through the New year period. I

146
00:07:40,160 --> 00:07:42,600
Speaker 1: hope that that you're able to get some of those

147
00:07:42,840 --> 00:07:46,920
Speaker 1: gorgeous animals fostered out and also forever homes.

148
00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:49,640
Speaker 2: Merry Christmas, Thanks so much for your time today.

149
00:07:50,280 --> 00:07:52,720
Speaker 3: Thank you Katie. Christmas to you guys all.

150
00:07:52,560 --> 00:07:54,920
Speaker 2: Too, you too. We'll talk to you again soon.

151
00:07:55,440 --> 00:07:59,239
Speaker 1: And yeah, like Lisa said, you know, it is something

152
00:07:59,240 --> 00:08:01,280
Speaker 1: that you've got to take really seriously. I know that

153
00:08:01,360 --> 00:08:03,920
Speaker 1: sometimes over the Christmas break, people get a bit excited

154
00:08:03,920 --> 00:08:05,840
Speaker 1: and think, oh, I'm going to go and I'm going

155
00:08:05,880 --> 00:08:08,760
Speaker 1: to go and buy a dog or you know, or

156
00:08:08,800 --> 00:08:12,480
Speaker 1: buy a cat, and they don't always you don't, you know,

157
00:08:12,560 --> 00:08:15,240
Speaker 1: some of us don't always think it through as well

158
00:08:15,280 --> 00:08:18,360
Speaker 1: as we could. But certainly, you know, make sure you

159
00:08:18,400 --> 00:08:19,960
Speaker 1: have a really good think about it before you go

160
00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:22,600
Speaker 1: and get an animal, because it is something that lasts

161
00:08:22,640 --> 00:08:24,760
Speaker 1: for a very long time, and you're looking after him

162
00:08:24,760 --> 00:08:26,720
Speaker 1: for a very long time. Now. I am just on

163
00:08:26,760 --> 00:08:29,200
Speaker 1: the Pause Darwin website and they have got quite a

164
00:08:29,200 --> 00:08:32,720
Speaker 1: few animals up for adoption as well. But as Lisa said,

165
00:08:32,760 --> 00:08:34,839
Speaker 1: they do the fostering too, So if you may be

166
00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:40,040
Speaker 1: thinking about fostering an animal, well now's a great time

167
00:08:40,080 --> 00:08:42,439
Speaker 1: to do it, or even over the New Year's break

168
00:08:42,520 --> 00:08:44,640
Speaker 1: and you can head on to Pause Darwin and have

169
00:08:44,679 --> 00:08:46,480
Speaker 1: a look at their website and see all of those

170
00:08:46,960 --> 00:08:51,160
Speaker 1: those wonderful animals that are needing both temporary and also

171
00:08:51,559 --> 00:08:55,319
Speaker 1: full time homes. If you're really serious and you've thought

172
00:08:55,320 --> 00:08:57,319
Speaker 1: it through about getting an animal,