April 4, 2025 • 27 mins
Aired March 30, 2025: Lisa Foxx interviews Kevin McManus about their 27th Annual Wiggle Waggle Walk & Run fundraiser and about asking listeners to help foster animals in their care, from families displaced by the recent fires. Pasadenahumane.org for more.
As you may have heard, Pasadena Humane took in hundreds of displaced animals for emergency boarding and rescued many others suffering from burn injuries and smoke inhalation following the onset of the Eaton Fire. They are now fortunate to witness joyful reunions of families with their pets every day, but the road to recovery for our community is still long. 27th Annual Wiggle Waggle Walk & Run 5K, on Sunday, April 6, 2025. This year’s event will be especially meaningful as we come together to honor our community’s resilience and strength. To see adoptable pets, volunteer, donate or do the walk, click HERE: https://pasadenahumane.org/
As you may have heard, Pasadena Humane took in hundreds of displaced animals for emergency boarding and rescued many others suffering from burn injuries and smoke inhalation following the onset of the Eaton Fire. They are now fortunate to witness joyful reunions of families with their pets every day, but the road to recovery for our community is still long. 27th Annual Wiggle Waggle Walk & Run 5K, on Sunday, April 6, 2025. This year’s event will be especially meaningful as we come together to honor our community’s resilience and strength. To see adoptable pets, volunteer, donate or do the walk, click HERE: https://pasadenahumane.org/
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, Lisa Fox here, this is our iHeart the
iHeart so Cal's show. It's our show that puts a
spotlight on churnable organizations, nonprofits and people giving back. And
boy do we love animal people on this show and
just in general in life. And I'm so happy to
have one that Kevin McManus from me passing in a
humane Hi.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Kevin Jayley, so thanks so much for having me on,
of course.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
And you know a lot of people have heard in
the news and on social media that your organization has
been so wonderfully over the top helpful for so many
people who lost their homes and they eat and fire,
who need help temporarily caring for their pets. So we're
going to dive into that. But first the happy news.
You're your biggest fund raiser of the year, your twenty
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seventh annual Wiggle Waggle Walk and Run at the Rose
Bowl April six. Wow, twenty seven years. That's been going on.
How long have you been with them?
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Oh wow? In two different skints, I've been here nearly
for well, yeah, nearly fifteen years now. All right, yeah,
so it's obviously very rewarding.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Well, and doesn't start because you're an animal guy at home,
right and animal lover at home, Like it starts with that,
but now you get to do it as your job
and your full time job.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Yeah, definitely. I mean I've always had an affinity for animals.
I grew up with a dog and just that was,
you know, one of the best parts of my childhood.
And you know, always like loved seeing wild you know, animals,
wild and domestic, and so thankfully it led me to
a career where I can help animals on a daily basis.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
And I know for you guys, you guys, you know
you do. You know, you help with dogs and cats,
you help foster and help animals get adopted in all that,
but also other animals too. I saw on their critters
you said, like we help dogs and cats and critters
and more talk about the critters and more part sure.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Well, I mean, you know, I think a lot of
people when they think of pets, they think, you know,
cats and dogs, which of course are you know, number
one in two as far as popularity. But you know,
we've had, we had so many other what we call critters.
A thing that's not a dogger cat that also can
be a good companion animal like you know, hamsters, guinea pigs,
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like what we call pocket pets, birds, some reptiles, rabbits
we also yeah, rabbits of course, Yeah, great pets. And
we at the shelter also do a lot of wildlife rehabilitation.
So that's kind of a cool aspect of our job
and how we help animals in our community.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Oh, tell us more about that. What does that mean?
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Oh, well, we have we're one of only two shelters
in southern California that is licensed to rehabilitate wildlife. And
so what that means is any you know, like abandoned
or orphaned or injured animal that can be safely brought
into us. We're able to you know, triage and do
a lot of care for the animals here on site,
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and we work with a lot of other small rehabilitation
centers to take care of a lot of the animals
that come in.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
So like deer, deer, hawks.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Yeah, hawks, we've get quite a bit a lot of birds.
We can you know, if it's something that is savable,
we would work with a rehabilitator to work with a
you know, larger animal like that. But you know a
lot of you know, baby squirrels, possums, skunks occasionally, and
a lot a lot of birds. Who have so many
species of birds here in southern California, but.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
People bring them in like an injured bird. They're just like, oh,
I just found this bird down in my yard, and
who do I call? And they can call pass it
in a humane to get help.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
That's right. We have a hotline and so it's actually
like a text line, so people can like literally take
a picture of an animal and you know a lot
of times people who love animals, you know, see an
animal that you think might be in distress, and your
first instinct is what can I do? Sometimes that instinct is,
you know, right on, and you should intervene. But a
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lot of times, especially this time of year, we're going
to kind of give you instruction on how to safely
leave the animal alone and see if mom comes back first.
You know, a lot of birds are you know, just
starting to fly right now. So we get a lot
of calls about what we think, you know, what people,
good hearted people think might be you know, an injured
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or abandoned bird, But it turns out it's just learning
how to fly, and mom is going to scoop down
and swoop it up as long as the bird is
left alone. So it's a lot of management and it's
a lot of our you know, we thankfully have a
really great team of wildlife experts really who can guide
people through that. And the easiest way to do that
is our text line because.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Oh wait, yeah, give it out right now, Kevin. That
is we all need to put this number in our phone.
If a situation ever arises and we want to help
a wild animal per se, we can start with you
with a picture and a text to help us guide
us through the situation.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
All right, So the text line the Wildlife Helpline the number,
and again text is the easiest. It's six two six
three four four one one two.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Nine six two six three four four one one one
one one two nine. Okay, So this is what a
great number to know that you guys offer this pass
it in a humane again, any question about an injured
animal or just something that you found or you saw
or you look look like you said big heart of
people want to help animals and if we don't know
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who to turn to, now we do so we could
put the number in our phones. We have this, so
please if you're listening, put this number in your phone
six two, six, three, four four eleven twenty nine. That's
pass It in a Humane. If I have any question
in your whole life this year, next year, something happened,
you see something about with an animal, you don't know
who to go to. They can text you and do
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all the calls go to you, Kevin, or like a team, right,
a team of people.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
That's right, Yeah, yeah, yeah. We have a lot of
very talented and very knowledgeable wildlife experts here who, yeah,
like can answer literally any question you have about native
wildlife and help you figure out solutions.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
And of course, like you said, so so very busy
with just our old fashioned regular doggies and kitty cats.
Just so many wonderful pictures and stories on your website.
You know, I feel like Passing in a Humane really
has been on the forefront of the news because of
the fires. Y'all really stepped up your game and helped
people who lost everything in the fires, especially to eat
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and fire talk about the fires. And I'm gonna try
to get through this part and not cry because you know,
we were affected.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Of course, yeah, so many people were, and it's so difficult.
We were like, we're right here in Pasadena, and so
at one point, like the Eating Fire was you know,
probably only about three or four miles from our shelter.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Oh so you guys were like, wait, we've got all
these animals here, are we going to have to evacuate
all these animals? We see smoke, we see fire. Oh
my gosh, oh gosh.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Yeah, thankfully, I mean obviously, like once the fire got
a little bit more under control, we could you know,
literally breathe a little bit easier. But yeah, like folks
who were evacuated from the Eating Fire and had no
place to take their animals, those animals came to us.
You know, that's something that we provide as a service
at the community at any time, and especially like this
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these worst of times. So we over the course of
the you know, the week that the couple weeks at
the fire was really going, we took in nearly fifteen
hundred animals for you know, you know, it could have
been just like people who had to evacuate for a
day or two. But the reality is we a lot
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of our neighbors, like our community, have lost their homes
and so we're actually still caring for about one hundred
and fifty animals for people who just can't find pet
friendly housing right now.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
There's still hotel hopping, or there's still like yeah, figuring
out where they're CouchSurfing, hotel hopping with the situation. But
knowing that their animals are being cared for in these
temporary foster situations, Just what a nice gift you can
give giving people peace of mind. And I'm sure the
people who are fostering these animals are doing you know,
(08:03):
telephone updates and pictures like saying, hey, Moppy's Mappy. Look
at Mappy's as high you.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Know, right, you know, we're very lucky. Yeah, we put
out a call for more foster homes because we just
knew obviously right from the start that it was going
to be a super impactful event for our community. And
so we had people like signing up to foster like
the day or two after the fire started.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Oh nice.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
So they've been just like so amazing and helpful for us,
and that need obviously still continues because you know, actually
as we talk today, we still have i think almost
ninety dogs and you know a total of one hundred
and fifty animals, but ninety dogs who are either here
at the shelter and getting cared for by our staff
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and our volunteers, or they're in those you know, temporary
disaster relief foster homes, and so yeah, there's you know,
obviously with the you know, the rebuild that has to
take place, take a while, a lot of those animals
for a long time. Exactly.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
So Kevin, when we donate to pass it in a
Humane dot org, when we make a donation where I mean,
obviously I'm assuming our dollars go towards right food care.
Where where do our dollars go when we donate.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Yeah, exactly. I mean, you know, care for the animals
is first and foremost, and so that helps support all
of our programs, including our wildlife program that we just
talked about, but also the domestic pets that we have
here on site. You know, we have really good partnerships
with you know, like a pet food company and you
know other places that we get resources at a you know,
at a discount, but you know, we still have to
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pay for a lot of food and you know that
care is very expensive, and like it really just helps
us to do all of you do what you do,
we do for animals, and you know, also our other
programs that people you know, are helping animals in the
community that you know, people might not necessarily see or
even find out about on our website, Like, we have
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a program called Helping Pause and that is specifically designed
to give either pet food or help with vegetary care, vaccines,
spain and utering to folks who can't afford it, who
still love their pets, who still want to provide for
their pets, but just lack the resources to do it,
And so we have this program set up so we
can help them help their pets. So a lot of
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the inkind donations that we get in, that's where those
go to help people who really need it with the
animals that are really in need right now.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Yeah, I know, I see. You know, we'll see a
posts on the next door app occasionally and people will post,
you know, I mean, gosh, these surgeries, if you know,
somebody happens to your dog or a cat, these surgeries
can be so expensive and people are like, well, how
do I not save my best friend from miss cancerous
tumor you know, so these surgeries can be very pricey
and so all of that. Obviously, like you said, you
(10:52):
have a fund that can help people or people tie
your organization, the money could go to help in those
types of situations.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Yeah, to some extent, you know, unfortunately for that particular
program or residency requirement. So you know, we provide that
service to members and are what we call our service area,
which is a lot of the cities in the San
Gabriel Valley. But we also on our website if people
are hearing this and not in that area, we still
can get direct people to other resources. Okay, and there's
(11:24):
a lot out there. But you're also very very right,
like that care is very expensive right now, as is everything,
but it can be a real real problem for people
who have to like, you know, scraping by and then
their dog needs an expensive surgery. You know, it doesn't
mean they don't love their dog, but you know, a
lot lots of situations yeah, costly.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
We I know, we're going to talk about the wiggle waggle,
walk and run. But what what can we help with
most What what do you need from us help wise
there to pass it in a humane What can we
do for you guys, Like what can we do a
cyber monetary? I mean, you probably always need volunteers, right
to help volunteers launch donation.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Things that we like. We always need financial donations to
help our programs. We always need volunteers to help us
care for the animals and do all of the other
tasks that our amazing core volunteers do. We need people
to you know, foster pets for us. We're right on
the verge of kitten season and that is just unfortunately
a time in Southern California where kittens come into ours
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and other shelters by in droves. Yeah, but we also
because of you know, we're still caring for so many
pets here at the shelter that have been affected by
the fire. We really need people to adopt. You know,
we have like our regular operations are now at this point,
we were back to quote unquote normal, but we're operating
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with such a smaller capacity for kennel space that we
really need people to you know, not wait for you know,
a week or two or whatever to adopt. Like, if
you're ready to adopt, come adopt right away, because the
animals here need it. The animals all over Southern California
need to be adopted from shelters, honestly, But we're just
at a point where, you know, the kunnel space that
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we have has been. You know, it's a fact what
we're used to write.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Sure, sure, well, Kevin, I will say so, Eric and
I have a rescue kitty that showed up in our
backyards astray. So we have a Georgia kitty. And then
now Georgie kitty is going to be three years old
this year, so we are going to be ready. And
we know I work a lot with a kitt and rescue,
you know, kitt and rescue. So we're hoping to get
a baby sister for Georgie because he deserves even more
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love and companionship. So like kitten rescue, and like so
many animal organizations, especially yours, Pasadena Humane dot org, Pasadena
Humane dot org. You go to your website to see
animals that are available, and you see their picture, you
read their story. Then hopefully that's going to suck people
in to come by and visit and bond in person.
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And then so many animals waiting for their for we're home.
If you have room in your heart and your house,
your apartment, uh to invite more love, boy, these animals
are ready and waiting.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Yeah. Yeah, and thankfully you know, for a long time
after COVID, we kind of you know, we had an
appointment system for adoptions and you know was fine, but
like you really we want people to come to come.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Yeah, like seeing and interacting with the animal, like in person.
That's really where and you're going to see if that
connection is made. So we do encourage people any day
from ten to five come down, you meet with one
of our adoption team and fall in love with your
next best friend. For sure.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
It's the in person experience to also just kind of
do a little bit of a meet and rate, you know,
and see if this is if you're a vibe it
on each other, so you have all that happening, you're
open ten to five. Is that seven days a week,
six days.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
A week, seven days a week a week week?
Speaker 1 (14:51):
All right? And I saw also on your website something
about putting a cat to work. I didn't get a
chance to click on it and see what say put
my cat to work? What did that mean? What's that program?
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Well, we you know, there are some cats in our
community who just don't want to be pets. They're probably
born outside you know, what we used to call feral,
but now we realize, you know, they play a crucial
role in our community, helping control roadent populations. And so
we have a lot of cats who come into the
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shelter who aren't super social. They're not you know, I
want to be a lap cat that I want to
be cuddly. But they still want to work, they still
want to hunt, they still want to be around people.
What not necessarily be.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
The way that we say yes, yes, right.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
So we have a program called Employee a Cat where
if you have like a barn or a garage or
you know, somewhere where a cat can be safe from
the obvious predators in our area and safe from cars.
But they just want to kind of be cats. You know,
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you can adopt a cat to quote unquote work for
you and help you if you have a rodent issue.
They can help eradicate that.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
You know, I'm getting mafia vibes right now, but I'm
okay with it. Well, look, you're gonna take care of them.
You're going to feed them, they're gonna have a place,
and they can you know, be taken care of as
well in exchange for their services.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
So at least I had two cats who would have
been called quote unquote Farah who lived with me for
ten years and brought me lots of little gifts they
you know, actually, honestly both turned out to be very
friendly and you know, adorable, not quite cuddly, but we're
definitely great cats and great companions. But they wouldn't have
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thrived in like a traditional like home like maybe you know,
they didn't want to be around kids, they didn't want
to be picked up, they didn't want to you know,
necessarily like other than on their own terms, which is
a very cat thing anyway. Sure, but these guys were great,
great hunters.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Yes, yeah, say when when Kevin says the cats bring
you gifts? Yeah, we had a neighbor, a neighborhood stray
that we all loved and bush she would leave them.
I don't need to see that mouse at the at
my door. Nope, But what do I do with that that?
You are glad you took care of business, But I
don't need to see that mouse at my back door.
But like you said, it's a service. So you have
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just really just ways programs that kind of make it
all work to take care of cats, help cats, certain
cats be who they are, but to still feed them,
care for them in a way that works for them.
And then of course all the domesticated kind of ways
to take care of animals. And then I'll give you
a little love for this as well. You know again
since the fires, Paris Hilton, big animal lover. What a
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sweetheart that Please share this story because you know I've
only met her through mutual friends briefly, but what a
wonderful thing she did, kind of temporarily fostering that sweet
doggie from me eating fire. Talk about that, I mean,
because you know, look, celebrities helping charities, it's us. It's
just really great awareness to show more people. They share
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on their social media, more people see, more people can donate,
more people show love to the animals. So as a
woman for everybody. But talk about what Paris did.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Oh well, she came and visited us and spent a
whole day like doing the different little volunteer projects. And
while she was here, a dog came in who was
being turned in by their owner who they were affected
by the fire, and Paris just kind of offered to
like take the dog home and foster her. You know,
I think at the time we were thinking, great, you know,
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like this is a dog that you know, we have
the shelter has you know, we're now the owner, we
don't have our adoption program open at the moment because
you know, we're full on dealing with the fire and
all of the ramifications of that. And then so she
took the dog home.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
It was like, was it like a winner like a
winner dog or what kind of talk?
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Yeah, yeah, so it's a sweet dog. Shortly thereafter, the
family kind of got you know, their ducks lined up
and they came back and they're like, look, we know we.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Want our dog back. Lady, hey, we would.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Love our dog back. Yeah, And Paris was just so
nice and generous and invited them over to her home.
I saw the dog back. Yeah, eave the young boy
a bunch of gifts, which was just like super amazing
and I just could not have asked for like a
nicer person, you know, in that situation. You know, she
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had already of course fallen in love because you know,
who doesn't bringing a dog into their home for a
couple of days. But just the you know, generosity that situation.
But you know, then a couple of weeks later, she
you know, it was her birthday and she had a
huge fundraiser for us, like a matching gift challenge for us.
So great, she's really been there for us and you know,
just the nicest lady.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
That yeah, using you know, look, the girl's got I'm
sure millions of followers, and just that exposure. It's really
all shared on Paris Hilton's Instagram. That's where I saw it,
and just the just her sharing the she fostered that
little doggie and then reunited with the family, and you
could tell she was kind of like, I really hate
to give your dog back, but okay, I understand because
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she's a big dog lover, and so just the reunion
and the people who are so grateful, and the.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Dog was so happy, tail wagging, and she was obviously,
like you know, in love with everybody there. It was
very sweet.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
It was just very generous. But just an example of
when you show love to an animal and help people
out in that same respect. I mean, it's just it's
really when you ask people to reach in their heart
and they're you know, if you're able to get monetarily wonderful.
But she was able to give her time, her home,
and if you're able to do that via adoption, via fostering,
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it's all open and available because obviously, like you said,
you have I mean how many animals available there, Kevin,
how many you said available for adoption or fostering.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Oh, I mean right now, we have probably about seventy
dogs who are available for adoption, which is you know
normally I mean in the summer, like generally in the summer,
if we have one hundred dogs, that's a lot, but
that's very manageable, and that's you know, yeah, we're we're
stretched a little thinly, but now caring for like I said,
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ninety dogs that are not going anywhere for the foreseeable
future until their families can find housing. And then you
add another seventy on top of that, like are you
know all told and computing. Yeah, it's just a lot
for us to manage. And you know, we want to
be fair to people. We don't want to pressure people
who to find housing, like we know it's impossible, but
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we do want to pressure people to adopt because like,
even though the fire has been out for weeks now,
like the ramifications and the impact will be with us
in southern California for for years, years, and so this
is one of the ways that people can still help
by you know, adopting a dog. I can't undersettle how
great it would be for us to get a bunch
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of dogs adopted.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
And your big fundards are kind up on Sunday, April
six at the Rose Bowl, the twenty seventh annual Pass
It In a Humane Wiggle Waggle Walk and Run. Tell
us how this works and how I mean and will
all the dogs be there? Can we like see them
out there?
Speaker 2 (22:17):
We will have some available dogs at the events. But yeah,
the Wiggle Waggle Walk and Run, it's Sunday, April sixth
at Brookside Park, which is a park just south of
the Rose Bowl. There's a five k or a one
mile walk around Rose Bowl at the Rose bol area.
And then yeah, we really like invite everybody to come out.
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If you have a dog or not, please come if
you yeah, if you don't have a dog. There will
be some of our adoptable dogs on site and like
lots of other you know, fun things like a vendor
expo or food trucks. We have a what we call
these sit, stay and play training park, you know, and
that's for people to do like little kind of like
agility game with the really yeah, a lot of stuff
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for people to do, and it is normally what we
would consider or what we would ask for is like,
this is our huge fundraiser, so come out donate. But
really we want people to just come and you know,
like start thinking about how we're recovering from this fire
and come have a day out with your dog and
you know, hang out with with us and like minded
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dog folks and have a good day.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
But can we bring Georgia kitty and a kitty cat backpack?
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Because we do Unfortunately.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
What are you saying? No cats?
Speaker 2 (23:38):
This is we said I dog only to have a
cat walk, but with we don't know how other dogs. Sure,
I so to keep everybody safe, I would love to
bring my own cats, like, but you know, I think
they have a great time, but the dogs might to.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
We're just doing dogs only for this one. Then maybe
down the road if you want to do a cat
walk on the cat walk, we will happily bring a
Georgia kitty in is a kitty cat backpack. And then yeah,
look it's just whatever. This can be about the dogs,
but it's about getting people out outside. Let's use some walking,
Let's show some love for the animals and then also
show some support. I mean, y'all have gone above and beyond,
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especially since the fires but just like regularly what you
do throughout the year, you know, and then on top
of that, with the fires, helping so many people get
through the worst time, but helping them know that their
animals are in good care. But to foster these dogs,
to help people so much who are going through such
a tough time would be wonderful. And so many sweet
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dogs with great personalities and their pictures and stories at
your on your website, right, they're all there, that's right.
And then yeah, and then so Monterey Donations always need
to volunteers. How does the volunteer need? Look these days?
How many hours you need me for their opacity? How
many hours a week?
Speaker 2 (24:58):
The great thing is, you know, we we we during
the fire just got a ton of volunteer applications and
so now we're slowly onboarding all of those folks who
are still you know, energized and still excited but new volunteer.
You know, our volunteer application portal is going to reopen
really soon. There's tons of things that we rely on
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our volunteers for, everything from helping you know, with the
hands on with the animals, like taking dogs out for
potty breaks, help cleaning and socializing with cats, taking care
of our critters, but also just like kind of mundane
things like helping us with you know, paperwork and just
helping direct people. If we've been to our campus, it's
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it's massive, and we have volunteers who like literally just
guide people to where they need to go. But all
of it it's such I mean, and so many of
us who work here started out years ago as volunteers
some years ago, and we you know just kind of
like love the vibe here and love helping animals and
the you know, the way we can. And so it's
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a great way to spend a little bit of time
and really have an impact on the animals in our care.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
And animals that are all about, like like Kevin said,
animals that need to be adopted, animals that need to
be fostered, especially for families displaced by the eating fire,
Foster foster, foster help in any way that you can
monetarily volunteering showing lot of these animals and sign up
at Pasadena Humane dot org for the twenty seventh annual
Wiggle Waggle Walk and run on April sixth at the
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Rose Bowl.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
Yeah, well, ideally ideally register ahead of time if you
want to just show up, that's fine, But to register,
it's a fifty dollars registration and you get your T shirt,
your metal, a bandana for your dog. It is a
five k fun run if you want to run, if
you want to walk, great, and then you know afterwards
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there's a doggy costume contests that sit stay great, very hard.
I'm in so many other like a great vendors be there.
I heard just found out that that Subaru is sponsoring
any adoptions that happened at at the event that day.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Great.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Yeah, so if you don't have a dog, you want
to come out and fall in love and take your
new dog for a walk, It's probably going to be
on Subru's dime, which is nice. I love that. Yeah,
just so many great, great things to do, and you know,
the park is such a beautiful part of Pasadena and
again around the iconic Rose Bowl. Just a great place
to hang out.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
Wonderful. Kevin McManus with Passing in a Humane all the
info at pass It in a Humane dot org and
Kevin will see you on April six at the Rose Bowl.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
Thanks Lisa, Let's see you soon.
All right, Lisa Fox here, this is our iHeart the
iHeart so Cal's show. It's our show that puts a
spotlight on churnable organizations, nonprofits and people giving back. And
boy do we love animal people on this show and
just in general in life. And I'm so happy to
have one that Kevin McManus from me passing in a
humane Hi.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Kevin Jayley, so thanks so much for having me on,
of course.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
And you know a lot of people have heard in
the news and on social media that your organization has
been so wonderfully over the top helpful for so many
people who lost their homes and they eat and fire,
who need help temporarily caring for their pets. So we're
going to dive into that. But first the happy news.
You're your biggest fund raiser of the year, your twenty
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seventh annual Wiggle Waggle Walk and Run at the Rose
Bowl April six. Wow, twenty seven years. That's been going on.
How long have you been with them?
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Oh wow? In two different skints, I've been here nearly
for well, yeah, nearly fifteen years now. All right, yeah,
so it's obviously very rewarding.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Well, and doesn't start because you're an animal guy at home,
right and animal lover at home, Like it starts with that,
but now you get to do it as your job
and your full time job.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Yeah, definitely. I mean I've always had an affinity for animals.
I grew up with a dog and just that was,
you know, one of the best parts of my childhood.
And you know, always like loved seeing wild you know, animals,
wild and domestic, and so thankfully it led me to
a career where I can help animals on a daily basis.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
And I know for you guys, you guys, you know
you do. You know, you help with dogs and cats,
you help foster and help animals get adopted in all that,
but also other animals too. I saw on their critters
you said, like we help dogs and cats and critters
and more talk about the critters and more part sure.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Well, I mean, you know, I think a lot of
people when they think of pets, they think, you know,
cats and dogs, which of course are you know, number
one in two as far as popularity. But you know,
we've had, we had so many other what we call critters.
A thing that's not a dogger cat that also can
be a good companion animal like you know, hamsters, guinea pigs,
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like what we call pocket pets, birds, some reptiles, rabbits
we also yeah, rabbits of course, Yeah, great pets. And
we at the shelter also do a lot of wildlife rehabilitation.
So that's kind of a cool aspect of our job
and how we help animals in our community.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Oh, tell us more about that. What does that mean?
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Oh, well, we have we're one of only two shelters
in southern California that is licensed to rehabilitate wildlife. And
so what that means is any you know, like abandoned
or orphaned or injured animal that can be safely brought
into us. We're able to you know, triage and do
a lot of care for the animals here on site,
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and we work with a lot of other small rehabilitation
centers to take care of a lot of the animals
that come in.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
So like deer, deer, hawks.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Yeah, hawks, we've get quite a bit a lot of birds.
We can you know, if it's something that is savable,
we would work with a rehabilitator to work with a
you know, larger animal like that. But you know a
lot of you know, baby squirrels, possums, skunks occasionally, and
a lot a lot of birds. Who have so many
species of birds here in southern California, but.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
People bring them in like an injured bird. They're just like, oh,
I just found this bird down in my yard, and
who do I call? And they can call pass it
in a humane to get help.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
That's right. We have a hotline and so it's actually
like a text line, so people can like literally take
a picture of an animal and you know a lot
of times people who love animals, you know, see an
animal that you think might be in distress, and your
first instinct is what can I do? Sometimes that instinct is,
you know, right on, and you should intervene. But a
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lot of times, especially this time of year, we're going
to kind of give you instruction on how to safely
leave the animal alone and see if mom comes back first.
You know, a lot of birds are you know, just
starting to fly right now. So we get a lot
of calls about what we think, you know, what people,
good hearted people think might be you know, an injured
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or abandoned bird, But it turns out it's just learning
how to fly, and mom is going to scoop down
and swoop it up as long as the bird is
left alone. So it's a lot of management and it's
a lot of our you know, we thankfully have a
really great team of wildlife experts really who can guide
people through that. And the easiest way to do that
is our text line because.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Oh wait, yeah, give it out right now, Kevin. That
is we all need to put this number in our phone.
If a situation ever arises and we want to help
a wild animal per se, we can start with you
with a picture and a text to help us guide
us through the situation.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
All right, So the text line the Wildlife Helpline the number,
and again text is the easiest. It's six two six
three four four one one two.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Nine six two six three four four one one one
one one two nine. Okay, So this is what a
great number to know that you guys offer this pass
it in a humane again, any question about an injured
animal or just something that you found or you saw
or you look look like you said big heart of
people want to help animals and if we don't know
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who to turn to, now we do so we could
put the number in our phones. We have this, so
please if you're listening, put this number in your phone
six two, six, three, four four eleven twenty nine. That's
pass It in a Humane. If I have any question
in your whole life this year, next year, something happened,
you see something about with an animal, you don't know
who to go to. They can text you and do
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all the calls go to you, Kevin, or like a team, right,
a team of people.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
That's right, Yeah, yeah, yeah. We have a lot of
very talented and very knowledgeable wildlife experts here who, yeah,
like can answer literally any question you have about native
wildlife and help you figure out solutions.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
And of course, like you said, so so very busy
with just our old fashioned regular doggies and kitty cats.
Just so many wonderful pictures and stories on your website.
You know, I feel like Passing in a Humane really
has been on the forefront of the news because of
the fires. Y'all really stepped up your game and helped
people who lost everything in the fires, especially to eat
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and fire talk about the fires. And I'm gonna try
to get through this part and not cry because you know,
we were affected.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Of course, yeah, so many people were, and it's so difficult.
We were like, we're right here in Pasadena, and so
at one point, like the Eating Fire was you know,
probably only about three or four miles from our shelter.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Oh so you guys were like, wait, we've got all
these animals here, are we going to have to evacuate
all these animals? We see smoke, we see fire. Oh
my gosh, oh gosh.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Yeah, thankfully, I mean obviously, like once the fire got
a little bit more under control, we could you know,
literally breathe a little bit easier. But yeah, like folks
who were evacuated from the Eating Fire and had no
place to take their animals, those animals came to us.
You know, that's something that we provide as a service
at the community at any time, and especially like this
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these worst of times. So we over the course of
the you know, the week that the couple weeks at
the fire was really going, we took in nearly fifteen
hundred animals for you know, you know, it could have
been just like people who had to evacuate for a
day or two. But the reality is we a lot
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of our neighbors, like our community, have lost their homes
and so we're actually still caring for about one hundred
and fifty animals for people who just can't find pet
friendly housing right now.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
There's still hotel hopping, or there's still like yeah, figuring
out where they're CouchSurfing, hotel hopping with the situation. But
knowing that their animals are being cared for in these
temporary foster situations, Just what a nice gift you can
give giving people peace of mind. And I'm sure the
people who are fostering these animals are doing you know,
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telephone updates and pictures like saying, hey, Moppy's Mappy. Look
at Mappy's as high you.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Know, right, you know, we're very lucky. Yeah, we put
out a call for more foster homes because we just
knew obviously right from the start that it was going
to be a super impactful event for our community. And
so we had people like signing up to foster like
the day or two after the fire started.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Oh nice.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
So they've been just like so amazing and helpful for us,
and that need obviously still continues because you know, actually
as we talk today, we still have i think almost
ninety dogs and you know a total of one hundred
and fifty animals, but ninety dogs who are either here
at the shelter and getting cared for by our staff
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and our volunteers, or they're in those you know, temporary
disaster relief foster homes, and so yeah, there's you know,
obviously with the you know, the rebuild that has to
take place, take a while, a lot of those animals
for a long time. Exactly.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
So Kevin, when we donate to pass it in a
Humane dot org, when we make a donation where I mean,
obviously I'm assuming our dollars go towards right food care.
Where where do our dollars go when we donate.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Yeah, exactly. I mean, you know, care for the animals
is first and foremost, and so that helps support all
of our programs, including our wildlife program that we just
talked about, but also the domestic pets that we have
here on site. You know, we have really good partnerships
with you know, like a pet food company and you
know other places that we get resources at a you know,
at a discount, but you know, we still have to
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pay for a lot of food and you know that
care is very expensive, and like it really just helps
us to do all of you do what you do,
we do for animals, and you know, also our other
programs that people you know, are helping animals in the
community that you know, people might not necessarily see or
even find out about on our website, Like, we have
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a program called Helping Pause and that is specifically designed
to give either pet food or help with vegetary care, vaccines,
spain and utering to folks who can't afford it, who
still love their pets, who still want to provide for
their pets, but just lack the resources to do it,
And so we have this program set up so we
can help them help their pets. So a lot of
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the inkind donations that we get in, that's where those
go to help people who really need it with the
animals that are really in need right now.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Yeah, I know, I see. You know, we'll see a
posts on the next door app occasionally and people will post,
you know, I mean, gosh, these surgeries, if you know,
somebody happens to your dog or a cat, these surgeries
can be so expensive and people are like, well, how
do I not save my best friend from miss cancerous
tumor you know, so these surgeries can be very pricey
and so all of that. Obviously, like you said, you
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have a fund that can help people or people tie
your organization, the money could go to help in those
types of situations.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Yeah, to some extent, you know, unfortunately for that particular
program or residency requirement. So you know, we provide that
service to members and are what we call our service area,
which is a lot of the cities in the San
Gabriel Valley. But we also on our website if people
are hearing this and not in that area, we still
can get direct people to other resources. Okay, and there's
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a lot out there. But you're also very very right,
like that care is very expensive right now, as is everything,
but it can be a real real problem for people
who have to like, you know, scraping by and then
their dog needs an expensive surgery. You know, it doesn't
mean they don't love their dog, but you know, a
lot lots of situations yeah, costly.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
We I know, we're going to talk about the wiggle waggle,
walk and run. But what what can we help with
most What what do you need from us help wise
there to pass it in a humane What can we
do for you guys, Like what can we do a
cyber monetary? I mean, you probably always need volunteers, right
to help volunteers launch donation.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Things that we like. We always need financial donations to
help our programs. We always need volunteers to help us
care for the animals and do all of the other
tasks that our amazing core volunteers do. We need people
to you know, foster pets for us. We're right on
the verge of kitten season and that is just unfortunately
a time in Southern California where kittens come into ours
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and other shelters by in droves. Yeah, but we also
because of you know, we're still caring for so many
pets here at the shelter that have been affected by
the fire. We really need people to adopt. You know,
we have like our regular operations are now at this point,
we were back to quote unquote normal, but we're operating
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with such a smaller capacity for kennel space that we
really need people to you know, not wait for you know,
a week or two or whatever to adopt. Like, if
you're ready to adopt, come adopt right away, because the
animals here need it. The animals all over Southern California
need to be adopted from shelters, honestly, But we're just
at a point where, you know, the kunnel space that
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we have has been. You know, it's a fact what
we're used to write.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Sure, sure, well, Kevin, I will say so, Eric and
I have a rescue kitty that showed up in our
backyards astray. So we have a Georgia kitty. And then
now Georgie kitty is going to be three years old
this year, so we are going to be ready. And
we know I work a lot with a kitt and rescue,
you know, kitt and rescue. So we're hoping to get
a baby sister for Georgie because he deserves even more
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love and companionship. So like kitten rescue, and like so
many animal organizations, especially yours, Pasadena Humane dot org, Pasadena
Humane dot org. You go to your website to see
animals that are available, and you see their picture, you
read their story. Then hopefully that's going to suck people
in to come by and visit and bond in person.
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And then so many animals waiting for their for we're home.
If you have room in your heart and your house,
your apartment, uh to invite more love, boy, these animals
are ready and waiting.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Yeah. Yeah, and thankfully you know, for a long time
after COVID, we kind of you know, we had an
appointment system for adoptions and you know was fine, but
like you really we want people to come to come.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Yeah, like seeing and interacting with the animal, like in person.
That's really where and you're going to see if that
connection is made. So we do encourage people any day
from ten to five come down, you meet with one
of our adoption team and fall in love with your
next best friend. For sure.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
It's the in person experience to also just kind of
do a little bit of a meet and rate, you know,
and see if this is if you're a vibe it
on each other, so you have all that happening, you're
open ten to five. Is that seven days a week,
six days.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
A week, seven days a week a week week?
Speaker 1 (14:51):
All right? And I saw also on your website something
about putting a cat to work. I didn't get a
chance to click on it and see what say put
my cat to work? What did that mean? What's that program?
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Well, we you know, there are some cats in our
community who just don't want to be pets. They're probably
born outside you know, what we used to call feral,
but now we realize, you know, they play a crucial
role in our community, helping control roadent populations. And so
we have a lot of cats who come into the
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shelter who aren't super social. They're not you know, I
want to be a lap cat that I want to
be cuddly. But they still want to work, they still
want to hunt, they still want to be around people.
What not necessarily be.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
The way that we say yes, yes, right.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
So we have a program called Employee a Cat where
if you have like a barn or a garage or
you know, somewhere where a cat can be safe from
the obvious predators in our area and safe from cars.
But they just want to kind of be cats. You know,
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you can adopt a cat to quote unquote work for
you and help you if you have a rodent issue.
They can help eradicate that.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
You know, I'm getting mafia vibes right now, but I'm
okay with it. Well, look, you're gonna take care of them.
You're going to feed them, they're gonna have a place,
and they can you know, be taken care of as
well in exchange for their services.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
So at least I had two cats who would have
been called quote unquote Farah who lived with me for
ten years and brought me lots of little gifts they
you know, actually, honestly both turned out to be very
friendly and you know, adorable, not quite cuddly, but we're
definitely great cats and great companions. But they wouldn't have
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thrived in like a traditional like home like maybe you know,
they didn't want to be around kids, they didn't want
to be picked up, they didn't want to you know,
necessarily like other than on their own terms, which is
a very cat thing anyway. Sure, but these guys were great,
great hunters.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Yes, yeah, say when when Kevin says the cats bring
you gifts? Yeah, we had a neighbor, a neighborhood stray
that we all loved and bush she would leave them.
I don't need to see that mouse at the at
my door. Nope, But what do I do with that that?
You are glad you took care of business, But I
don't need to see that mouse at my back door.
But like you said, it's a service. So you have
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just really just ways programs that kind of make it
all work to take care of cats, help cats, certain
cats be who they are, but to still feed them,
care for them in a way that works for them.
And then of course all the domesticated kind of ways
to take care of animals. And then I'll give you
a little love for this as well. You know again
since the fires, Paris Hilton, big animal lover. What a
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sweetheart that Please share this story because you know I've
only met her through mutual friends briefly, but what a
wonderful thing she did, kind of temporarily fostering that sweet
doggie from me eating fire. Talk about that, I mean,
because you know, look, celebrities helping charities, it's us. It's
just really great awareness to show more people. They share
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on their social media, more people see, more people can donate,
more people show love to the animals. So as a
woman for everybody. But talk about what Paris did.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Oh well, she came and visited us and spent a
whole day like doing the different little volunteer projects. And
while she was here, a dog came in who was
being turned in by their owner who they were affected
by the fire, and Paris just kind of offered to
like take the dog home and foster her. You know,
I think at the time we were thinking, great, you know,
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like this is a dog that you know, we have
the shelter has you know, we're now the owner, we
don't have our adoption program open at the moment because
you know, we're full on dealing with the fire and
all of the ramifications of that. And then so she
took the dog home.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
It was like, was it like a winner like a
winner dog or what kind of talk?
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Yeah, yeah, so it's a sweet dog. Shortly thereafter, the
family kind of got you know, their ducks lined up
and they came back and they're like, look, we know we.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Want our dog back. Lady, hey, we would.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Love our dog back. Yeah, And Paris was just so
nice and generous and invited them over to her home.
I saw the dog back. Yeah, eave the young boy
a bunch of gifts, which was just like super amazing
and I just could not have asked for like a
nicer person, you know, in that situation. You know, she
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had already of course fallen in love because you know,
who doesn't bringing a dog into their home for a
couple of days. But just the you know, generosity that situation.
But you know, then a couple of weeks later, she
you know, it was her birthday and she had a
huge fundraiser for us, like a matching gift challenge for us.
So great, she's really been there for us and you know,
just the nicest lady.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
That yeah, using you know, look, the girl's got I'm
sure millions of followers, and just that exposure. It's really
all shared on Paris Hilton's Instagram. That's where I saw it,
and just the just her sharing the she fostered that
little doggie and then reunited with the family, and you
could tell she was kind of like, I really hate
to give your dog back, but okay, I understand because
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she's a big dog lover, and so just the reunion
and the people who are so grateful, and the.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Dog was so happy, tail wagging, and she was obviously,
like you know, in love with everybody there. It was
very sweet.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
It was just very generous. But just an example of
when you show love to an animal and help people
out in that same respect. I mean, it's just it's
really when you ask people to reach in their heart
and they're you know, if you're able to get monetarily wonderful.
But she was able to give her time, her home,
and if you're able to do that via adoption, via fostering,
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it's all open and available because obviously, like you said,
you have I mean how many animals available there, Kevin,
how many you said available for adoption or fostering.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Oh, I mean right now, we have probably about seventy
dogs who are available for adoption, which is you know
normally I mean in the summer, like generally in the summer,
if we have one hundred dogs, that's a lot, but
that's very manageable, and that's you know, yeah, we're we're
stretched a little thinly, but now caring for like I said,
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ninety dogs that are not going anywhere for the foreseeable
future until their families can find housing. And then you
add another seventy on top of that, like are you
know all told and computing. Yeah, it's just a lot
for us to manage. And you know, we want to
be fair to people. We don't want to pressure people
who to find housing, like we know it's impossible, but
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we do want to pressure people to adopt because like,
even though the fire has been out for weeks now,
like the ramifications and the impact will be with us
in southern California for for years, years, and so this
is one of the ways that people can still help
by you know, adopting a dog. I can't undersettle how
great it would be for us to get a bunch
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of dogs adopted.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
And your big fundards are kind up on Sunday, April
six at the Rose Bowl, the twenty seventh annual Pass
It In a Humane Wiggle Waggle Walk and Run. Tell
us how this works and how I mean and will
all the dogs be there? Can we like see them
out there?
Speaker 2 (22:17):
We will have some available dogs at the events. But yeah,
the Wiggle Waggle Walk and Run, it's Sunday, April sixth
at Brookside Park, which is a park just south of
the Rose Bowl. There's a five k or a one
mile walk around Rose Bowl at the Rose bol area.
And then yeah, we really like invite everybody to come out.
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If you have a dog or not, please come if
you yeah, if you don't have a dog. There will
be some of our adoptable dogs on site and like
lots of other you know, fun things like a vendor
expo or food trucks. We have a what we call
these sit, stay and play training park, you know, and
that's for people to do like little kind of like
agility game with the really yeah, a lot of stuff
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for people to do, and it is normally what we
would consider or what we would ask for is like,
this is our huge fundraiser, so come out donate. But
really we want people to just come and you know,
like start thinking about how we're recovering from this fire
and come have a day out with your dog and
you know, hang out with with us and like minded
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dog folks and have a good day.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
But can we bring Georgia kitty and a kitty cat backpack?
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Because we do Unfortunately.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
What are you saying? No cats?
Speaker 2 (23:38):
This is we said I dog only to have a
cat walk, but with we don't know how other dogs. Sure,
I so to keep everybody safe, I would love to
bring my own cats, like, but you know, I think
they have a great time, but the dogs might to.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
We're just doing dogs only for this one. Then maybe
down the road if you want to do a cat
walk on the cat walk, we will happily bring a
Georgia kitty in is a kitty cat backpack. And then yeah,
look it's just whatever. This can be about the dogs,
but it's about getting people out outside. Let's use some walking,
Let's show some love for the animals and then also
show some support. I mean, y'all have gone above and beyond,
(24:18):
especially since the fires but just like regularly what you
do throughout the year, you know, and then on top
of that, with the fires, helping so many people get
through the worst time, but helping them know that their
animals are in good care. But to foster these dogs,
to help people so much who are going through such
a tough time would be wonderful. And so many sweet
(24:40):
dogs with great personalities and their pictures and stories at
your on your website, right, they're all there, that's right.
And then yeah, and then so Monterey Donations always need
to volunteers. How does the volunteer need? Look these days?
How many hours you need me for their opacity? How
many hours a week?
Speaker 2 (24:58):
The great thing is, you know, we we we during
the fire just got a ton of volunteer applications and
so now we're slowly onboarding all of those folks who
are still you know, energized and still excited but new volunteer.
You know, our volunteer application portal is going to reopen
really soon. There's tons of things that we rely on
(25:20):
our volunteers for, everything from helping you know, with the
hands on with the animals, like taking dogs out for
potty breaks, help cleaning and socializing with cats, taking care
of our critters, but also just like kind of mundane
things like helping us with you know, paperwork and just
helping direct people. If we've been to our campus, it's
(25:41):
it's massive, and we have volunteers who like literally just
guide people to where they need to go. But all
of it it's such I mean, and so many of
us who work here started out years ago as volunteers
some years ago, and we you know just kind of
like love the vibe here and love helping animals and
the you know, the way we can. And so it's
(26:02):
a great way to spend a little bit of time
and really have an impact on the animals in our care.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
And animals that are all about, like like Kevin said,
animals that need to be adopted, animals that need to
be fostered, especially for families displaced by the eating fire,
Foster foster, foster help in any way that you can
monetarily volunteering showing lot of these animals and sign up
at Pasadena Humane dot org for the twenty seventh annual
Wiggle Waggle Walk and run on April sixth at the
(26:30):
Rose Bowl.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
Yeah, well, ideally ideally register ahead of time if you
want to just show up, that's fine, But to register,
it's a fifty dollars registration and you get your T shirt,
your metal, a bandana for your dog. It is a
five k fun run if you want to run, if
you want to walk, great, and then you know afterwards
(26:52):
there's a doggy costume contests that sit stay great, very hard.
I'm in so many other like a great vendors be there.
I heard just found out that that Subaru is sponsoring
any adoptions that happened at at the event that day.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Great.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Yeah, so if you don't have a dog, you want
to come out and fall in love and take your
new dog for a walk, It's probably going to be
on Subru's dime, which is nice. I love that. Yeah,
just so many great, great things to do, and you know,
the park is such a beautiful part of Pasadena and
again around the iconic Rose Bowl. Just a great place
to hang out.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
Wonderful. Kevin McManus with Passing in a Humane all the
info at pass It in a Humane dot org and
Kevin will see you on April six at the Rose Bowl.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
Thanks Lisa, Let's see you soon.
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