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So, that's... Jill, yesterday you had a interesting day with some goats. Do you want to tell us what the goats are running in the highways?

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Yeah, so we got a call from an OPP officer. And so we received a call because they said we were referred from the city.

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This would be a lot of contacts in the animal world. So, you know, whether it be wild animals, whether it be, you know, farm animals or domestic vehicles, we get calls for everything.(...) And so, you know, we said there was three kind of skits. She gets nobody to hear them, and he was worried that we could hit them high level. So, I thought great goats. I said we do a little bit of everything, but we're not doing goats. I don't want people to go with goats. But, so we call people. Because we have people that we know who don't go with goats. So, I actually called Northern Legacy because they have horses, and, you know, and they have regular property and stuff. So, I thought, I need a call for two-note break. Northern Legacy said, "Can you help us out?" So, we got a call for goats. I said, "You're stuck, and you don't have space there to hold them." I said, "I'll give you one of my outdoor pens until we find the owners." So, but we immediately posted on social media because we have 36, 37,000 people on our page. So, usually when we post, we can usually quickly find owners or somebody who knows about the situation.(...) And so, I posted, and then some of our people moved those posts over to, like, the mark-tay sites and the mark stakes. It was just east of Coniston, which we crossed the mark stakes.(...)

so, you know, we get a lot of calls, actually. Like, we'll get, we get goats, pigs.(...) We get doggies and horses. Go,(...) I mean, because we usually know somebody in that area. So, we just contact people. Usually, like, Turtle Pond Wildlife, especially this time of year, we're seeing the bears, right? You see a lot of bears, you see me, two pogs. Turtle Pond Wildlife takes care of a lot. They have a license in our area.

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I certainly don't think they're, I wish they could be double the size they are. I think they wish that, too. This year, they're already full with the raccoons. So, we've had calls on raccoons, and we've had to find people who could nurse those raccoons, and we usually link them in with a rescue somewhere in Ontario. So, like, a mother raccoon that's just not around anymore? Well, what happened, we had calls a couple weeks ago,(...) and somebody killed the mom. Okay. You know, people realize that, I guess she was, you know, problematic in their, in their, in the attic, and they killed the mom, and just days later find that she has puppies. We've all sort of got puppies, uh, uh, big. Kids? Yeah, big kids. Um, big kids. Uh, little kids. No, no, it's not. Those are big kids. Little raccoons. Yes, little baby raccoons. Anyways, so, um, I think that was my knowledge about, uh, wildlife names. Um, anyways, so we, yeah, we just refer everybody to the people that we deal with on a regular basis, because we get a lot of calls. So, we have a lot of contacts. Yes, and with our posting, um, we also use Aspen Valley. We, a couple times, have taken animals down there. Um, we actually ended up with a, uh,(...) uh, uh, big coyote. And it was a bizarre story, because we knew there was something strange about it. We had, uh, a gentleman, I guess, who was gulpied, who was out there, and said, somebody dropped a puppy, a bird. This one across dropped a puppy. Oh. I'm thinking, well, that's a pretty strange call. Okay. So, it's probably more to it than there was. I guess that bird, large bird, had found,(...) um, an ant, right, um, a dead end, and, uh, plucked a baby, and was trying to fly away with it. It dropped, and we were all forced. Oh, boy. So,(...) we ended up with it, and when we looked at it, I'm like, yeah, that's not a puppy. And so, we actually called the, they asked modeling, and the scope is, and said, you know, here's the situation. And they said, now, the eyes closed, we opened, and we said, no, there's still clothes. He said, put it in a dark room, and get back down here so that the, and so, and then, like I said, they had one from somewhere else come in, so we, they actually ended up with pairs, and I had one from down there.

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Okay. So, it's nice, you know, we have a lot of help. The scope is, does a lot of wildlife. Turtle pond, and they're so busy, because they get calls from all over the north, and, uh, there's a lot of people that transport for them as well. So, this time of year, bears are big, raccoons are big. Don't do anything to a raccoon, mom. They don't even re, um, like remove them, um, some people, like, well, pick it up, trap it, and take it somewhere else. First of all, they don't do well in new environments, so they don't actually do well. They, they can die once you've moved them. But what happens is, you have to make sure they're not, they're not famous right now. And, um, turtle pond is apparently full. Um, Aspen Valley, I've had a couple of them report down there, and they've driven them. So, where's turtle pond located? They're in Val Caron. Okay.

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So, um, you know, Gloria and her team run an amazing rescue of their wildlife. Um, they shoot part of the wildlife, the part that closed down, which was Dr. E. P.'s group. And so, they, um, yeah, they spread shot. He's now retired, but, uh, yeah, so they, we, we have a lot of, we have a lot, we get a lot of calls. Birds, you know, sea males injured, um, they take them all to, to mature upon wildlife. So, yeah. But we've done the odd pay, like, we'll do the odd pay, you know, like, say, we'll temporarily hold with, with what I'd take the boats for a few hours, then, you know, we should, you know, we don't want to see them suffer, right? We have a facility, and we have fence denarias, so we can safely secure them. But, uh, northern legacy stepped up, they were able to put a trailer up there to look at them. And, um, yeah, so it all turned out well for the goats, and... When you do end up getting a pig, do you get your post?

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So, we've talked about our piggy stories. Yeah. And, piggy's are, um, uh... Noisy? Yes. If you were to catch a pig, we had pigs, we could drop the pigs out. Okay. And we've spayed neuter them. Um, there's no any kind of vets in town that actually do that surgery for those, those particular animals. Um, and, uh, it's just, yes, when you leave on the skin problem, and we had to take to our vet, and, um, we can't leave the earplugs, it was kind of like a, I was like, what am I going to leave the earplugs for? And she told me to come at the end of her day, so when everybody was gone, so I thought, you know, it was kind of peculiar. Anyways, turns out they squeal so loud, I thought they were going to break the windows. So, they're, uh, yeah, they're squealers. And we didn't even actually reach out to do a skin strip, and we didn't touch the pig yet. We just put them on the table and touched it. Just held it, and they realized it was being confined, and so they're very interesting little characters. So, yes. Summer's here. Mm-hmm. What do, uh, what do you, I don't know, just have to be mindful of when it comes to their dogs being outside, cats not so much, but, uh, what about the dogs? Basic summer care. Yep. And you know what, as our seasons change, we went from freezing cold, where you have to keep them in, so they frostbite, um, you know, to, to now be checking the temperature of the pavement. People realize, they would just take our dogs for walks. They're like, "Well, let's go for a walk. Well, we'll go early morning or early evening," which is always ideal in the heat. Yeah. The heat of the heat midday. Um,(...) what we don't think about is the pavement. So, always help people take your shoe off and put your, through the pavement. Yeah, that's right. And it's, well, if it's too hot for you, it's probably quite warm in your pet. It's not as bad because they do have a thick pad on the pot. But, on these burning days, we have 25 to 30 degree temperatures. Walk your dog in the gravel part off the pavement. It's not as hot. So, just little hints of the ideal burning pads of your, of your dogs, and having them, don't tie them out in, in spaces that have like cement or some even hot decks. Some of the decks, I know mine is a truck stick, and, and it's so hot. I can't stand on it. So, don't, people think, "Well, I just left them out on the deck." Grass is best. Prefer a binder or a tree. If you're going to leave your dog out, make sure he has shade. Lots of water. You know, when you see dogs panting, panting, well, that's their way of sweating, right? Dogs don't sweat.(...) Um, so they pant, pant to release that. But, uh, we have to make sure lots of water, like dogs, drink two, three, four times the amount of water in a summertime. So, if they drink like one bowl of water, you might want to consider like, water or a few hours, especially in the heat, maybe outside. Yeah, I noticed, I noticed my dog dish is dry a lot more. Yeah. Over the last little while now, especially. That's right. And there are a lot of people taking to

don't come in the lake, cool their body temp down. Yeah. Our air conditioning went yesterday at our building. And so I actually took the hose out and sprayed the dogs. And we just, they're nice and cool.

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I sprayed all the cement, all of the rocks in there, the pea gravels in there, running pens. We had them out in the grass pens, of course, which is awesome. And we put out a little kiddie pools. Kiddie pools are great for your dog. Yeah, did they go in it? Oh yeah, I had a big noofy there. I'm like, I'm a 40 pound, I'm diving right in. He was attacking the water as I was trying to get it out of the sprayer.

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So yeah, just keep your dogs wet. Keep them, if you have a pool, if you don't, just take even a bucket of water.

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You know, and just kind of keep them cool and damp and we have them out during the day in the heat. Not all dogs like to be sprayed with water. No, and you shouldn't actually spray them. I just have some dogs that love to, you know. They love the water coming out of it. Oh my God, we were shooting the water and they were just, you know, biting at the water hose. But you're right, like some dogs don't like it. It can be scary. So just even just a light bowl of cool water, not cold. You don't want to be shocking the temperature of a dog.

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So just something just to keep them wet. Just pouring the water on them? Yeah, we went down the back of the dogs and it just kind of wet them all. They were outside in the afternoon sun. So it just kind of helps keep the body temp down.(...) And you know, let's say we had to take precautions because our air conditioning went and compo came out first thing this morning. God bless them. So we should have, we're hoping to have our AC working by tomorrow. But the other two levels of our building have AC. And they're all separate units. So it was kind of good because it's kept it remarkably cool in these hot days. It's actually kept it cooler than we would have thought. So we're very lucky and we're just crossing our fingers. We get the unit up and going quickly. So the animals are happy. Yeah, so, you know, they were laying on the cool tile they have to lay on in their kennels. So they just weren't laying on their blankets, of

and stuff. Yeah, no, it's pretty hot out there. So, you know, leave your dog home and you're going to go shopping these days. You know, and then you can't make your signal. I like to put it out on your right and that's pretty good. The air conditioning is perfect. I mean, all I can do is the air conditioning inside the car is cool in the subside. But don't, thinking you can crack a window because the temperature shoots up so quickly inside of a car, even with those few inches. People go, why leave our craft open? No, we're past those temperatures. When you pass like in 15, 18 degrees. It's too hot. It's too hot. Just leave your animal home. Remember he has a fur coat and he really doesn't need to be out in the center of the heat. He doesn't need to be shopping, you know, three o'clock in the afternoon when it's 30 degrees unless you have the air conditioning on. Yeah. Run your car. Just run your car and park it on. Right? Do you think we'll just show up? I'm just a couple minutes inside the store. Well, they should put a temperature in there. If you put a temperature and it sticks inside your car, watch how quickly you find minutes. So we'll think you run in the store, go through cash register and come back out a lot longer than five minutes and the temperature soars very quickly. Yeah, way too hot for them now because they do have a fur coat. That's right. And they say they're panting. We've had dogs that we get calls say, what do I do?

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If you call provincial animal welfare, get the plate because yes, you should file a complaint. Number two, though, that's too slow. You want to call the police. If you've got a dog inside the car in distress, you call the police. Don't break the window. Well, you know what? I've heard some people do. Some people have. And you know what? I don't blame them because if it was

not smart enough to realize that you can't leave animals in key cars,(...) you know what? Maybe. I don't control doing it like that. Don't get me on that page. But yeah, you know, if you see an emergency, you do what you've got to do. It's just like wear a jacket on a hot day. You'll see how warm it is because if you look at the dog or the cat, it's... You seem to throw a sweater on a day like today. It's a fur coat. That's right.(...) Yeah. And especially with some of the double-coated breeds, they, you know, you have to be just very careful. So it would be fun to sense. But people just need to close just a couple of minutes. Ooh, check that car first. Just do an experiment at home. It takes two minutes to literally put the temperature stick inside your car and then see how quickly it rises up when you close the windows and the doors are safe. You and yourself, obviously, if you did sit for five minutes both of the air conditioning on, you know, when your car up there with the windows up in a 30-degree gate. Oh, okay then. Try that out. Do it with a jacket. Yeah, exactly. So, yeah, just remember lots of water. They drink tons of water. If you're going to tell them, "I'll make sure they're under a deck or under a tree," keep them off hot decks. People don't realize how hot their decks are,(...) especially with you having the sun gleaming down. So just be careful. Be mindful of summer conditions for dogs. They can get heat stroke very easy. And heat stroke can kill your fat within hours.(...) And you can... Vomiting lethargic. Well, vomiting lethargic while you're not ready. Get them in. So lethargic is feeling lazy?(...) Yeah. When you notice they're like laying down, not getting back up. You know, they're... Or they're disoriented. They're kind of falling over. They look a little dizzy. Get them into a bat right away. Because dogs can die of heat stroke. Even... I've seen it happen on days where it was only 25 degrees. And people walk their dog out in the sun, which is 25 degrees. So every dog is different. The size of dog, you know, some of the bigger breeds, they have a hard time in this heat. Well, if your dog is lethargic like that, can you just take a wet towel and... So never duck your dog. If it's really hot and you think it's having some health issues because of the heat, you never duck them in cold water. They shock their system. Yeah. You actually... Exactly. Cool towel or cool bath, but not... You don't use cold water. People think, "Well, I just need to cool them down quick." No. When you shock the system, it's not good. Okay. They need to come down slowly. So actually, yeah, they don't recommend you do any type of cold water dunging. Okay. Not like we would. Not like...

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No, no, no. And you know what? Take your dog to the beach. You know why? Take them to a lake somewhere. They love it. It's great exercise in the summer. And it gives them cools. So if you're wondering, you know, it's too hot in your house, maybe you don't have air finishing at home, and you want to take your dog, take them down the lake, both of you go in the lake, right? There's lots of beaches around town. Take them for a swim.(...) Just remember, increase your water. Watch your pavement.

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The pavement is really hot in the summer and it can burn their paws.