Cattitude - Episode 288 Heroes in the Hardest Hours: Rancher Navy & Wings of Rescue Step Up

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<v Speaker 2>Welcome back everyone. I'd like to welcome any Easton of
<v Speaker 2>Rancher Navy and Rick Browdy of Wings of Rescue. So
<v Speaker 2>you were both recipients of the twenty twenty five NAVC
<v Speaker 2>gibs which recognizes your efforts. So you each received ten
<v Speaker 2>thousand dollars and recognized your efforts during the floods in
<v Speaker 2>Central Texas this summer, and that was when the Guadalupe
<v Speaker 2>River rose. It varies a little twenty six to twenty
<v Speaker 2>nine feet depending on where I research, but it rose
<v Speaker 2>within forty five minutes. A lot of people probably remember
<v Speaker 2>that it was near campsite unfortunately by young children, and
<v Speaker 2>it was just horrific to watch. But why I want
<v Speaker 2>to have this show today and I want to have
<v Speaker 2>it on Catitude. And you know, even though it's based
<v Speaker 2>in Texas, it's just one example of the amazing dedication
<v Speaker 2>and commitment of nonprofits that support animal rescue during times
<v Speaker 2>of devastation. I live in South Florida, Hurricaneville. I've witnessed devastation.
<v Speaker 2>So thank you for what you do. Your organizations are incredible.
<v Speaker 2>So Amy you are with the Rancher Navy. What does
<v Speaker 2>Rancher Navy do well.
<v Speaker 5>We are an organization here in Texas and we offer
<v Speaker 5>aid to those in the agricultural community during natural disasters.
<v Speaker 5>We've worked Heleen, we did work some of the floods
<v Speaker 5>that were in West Virginia. We've done the wildfires that
<v Speaker 5>have been in Texas as well as the floods. And
<v Speaker 5>we are here to assist those in our agricultural community,
<v Speaker 5>including those who have pets, to get them to aid
<v Speaker 5>that they need during these natural disasters.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, thank you, And you know what, in a lot
<v Speaker 2>of my research and videos, one of the things that
<v Speaker 2>stood with me was a gentleman that it was horrific
<v Speaker 2>of the devastation that he witnessed, but he escaped with
<v Speaker 2>him and his cat, a tuxedo cat. That was it. Rick.
<v Speaker 2>Welcome you are with Wings of Rescue. Can you tell
<v Speaker 2>us what Wings of Rescue does well.
<v Speaker 6>Wings of Rescues mission is to fly at risk pets
<v Speaker 6>from disaster areas and overcrowded shelters to shelters where there's
<v Speaker 6>empty kennel space and waiting adopters, and at the same
<v Speaker 6>time not displacing local shelter pets. And then we also
<v Speaker 6>provide free span uters to low income families pets. So
<v Speaker 6>since our insection in twenty twelve, we've flun eighty two thousand,
<v Speaker 6>three hundred and thirty seven pets to safety. We've delivered
<v Speaker 6>nine hundred and six thousand pounds of humanitarian and veterinary
<v Speaker 6>aid to disaster victims, and we've responded to every natural
<v Speaker 6>disaster in North America. We've let it in all fifty states,
<v Speaker 6>eight provinces in Canada, and about sixteen Caribbean nations.
<v Speaker 2>Thank you for all you do. What is the largest
<v Speaker 2>pet you've ever transported for animals?
<v Speaker 6>Animal is probably a pot belly pig. The weigh four
<v Speaker 6>hundred and fifty.
<v Speaker 2>Pounds a pot belly pig.
<v Speaker 6>Yeah, we've flown miniature horses, cockatoos, foxes, skunks, hedgehogs, cats, dogs,
<v Speaker 6>pretty much any small animal.
<v Speaker 2>Oh small, four five hundred pounds, okay if that fits small.
<v Speaker 2>But it's amazing what you do. Let's talk about the
<v Speaker 2>Central Texas flood that happened so quickly. Let's start with you, Amy.
<v Speaker 2>What was your reaction and how were you able to
<v Speaker 2>mobilize and get this in gear just like this little snapshot.
<v Speaker 2>What was it like for your organization to know When
<v Speaker 2>did you realize, oh my gosh, this is horrific and
<v Speaker 2>we have to get rolling. So we're able to do
<v Speaker 2>what we do well.
<v Speaker 5>I will start with saying that my daughter was a
<v Speaker 5>camper at Camp Mystic, which was the girls camp that
<v Speaker 5>was affected by this flood. So she had been there
<v Speaker 5>over twelve years, and so I had a lot of
<v Speaker 5>ties to the camp and had been notified in the
<v Speaker 5>middle of the night that there was a situation down there.
<v Speaker 5>As a matter of fact, I got my phone call
<v Speaker 5>at five am, and the minute I got the phone call,
<v Speaker 5>I got out to our executive team, who put the
<v Speaker 5>call out to our volunteers that we needed to be
<v Speaker 5>on standby. One of the things that our organization has
<v Speaker 5>is a mounted search and rescue team. Knowing the terrain
<v Speaker 5>down there, I knew that they would be needed. They
<v Speaker 5>would be able to get into places that people on
<v Speaker 5>foot would not be able to access.
<v Speaker 2>Mounted, meaning on horses.
<v Speaker 5>Mounted. Being on horses and having worked in east the
<v Speaker 5>eastern part of the US and during Helene, we also
<v Speaker 5>had pies to some canine teams that we knew we
<v Speaker 5>would be able to access to help us as well.
<v Speaker 5>So half of our team deployed got ready to deploy
<v Speaker 5>to go down to southern Texas to help with those efforts,
<v Speaker 5>while the rest of our team started getting our lists
<v Speaker 5>together of potential items that we would need to be
<v Speaker 5>able to help the farmers, ranchers, and pet owners, whether
<v Speaker 5>that be fencing equipment or fencing supplies, water supplies because
<v Speaker 5>we knew that that was going to be critical in
<v Speaker 5>a time like this, as well as feed feed for
<v Speaker 5>all animals, whether it be a dog or a cat,
<v Speaker 5>or a horse or a cow. Chickens. We had lots
<v Speaker 5>of need for chicken feed as a matter of fact,
<v Speaker 5>that was kind of unusual this particular disaster. So we
<v Speaker 5>divided and conquered and started reaching out to our extensive
<v Speaker 5>database of volunteers to get everybody on standby.
<v Speaker 6>Wow.
<v Speaker 2>I am incredibly amazed you were so able to just
<v Speaker 2>function and get everything done, especially with your personal ties
<v Speaker 2>to the camp.
<v Speaker 5>I think a little background on me the way I
<v Speaker 5>got involved in Ranch or Navy is I was a
<v Speaker 5>recipient of their help when my ranch in Texas burned,
<v Speaker 5>ten thousand acres burned, including my home.
<v Speaker 2>Oh wow.
<v Speaker 5>So it seemed to be very calm in a crisis,
<v Speaker 5>the animals and the people first, before you know, whatever
<v Speaker 5>personal ties I have. And it was interesting. I received
<v Speaker 5>a phone call from my daughter and the first thing
<v Speaker 5>she said to me she wasn't there, she had been
<v Speaker 5>a camper, but she called me and immediately she said
<v Speaker 5>to me, Mom, all of these camps have horse programs,
<v Speaker 5>and I'm worried about the horses. Can you and your
<v Speaker 5>group help them?
<v Speaker 2>Somebody has to speak for them. They don't speak, They can't,
<v Speaker 2>you know, pick up the phone. So okay, Well that
<v Speaker 2>must have been definitely challenging.
<v Speaker 6>Rick.
<v Speaker 2>What was it like for you when you first heard
<v Speaker 2>about this design?
<v Speaker 6>Well, it was really depressing because I knew people in
<v Speaker 6>Kirk County, and you know, you just worry about their
<v Speaker 6>safety first. But as soon as it happened, I think
<v Speaker 6>it was the night of July fourth that we were
<v Speaker 6>made aware of things going downhill. We just started reaching
<v Speaker 6>out to all the shelters there because we knew that
<v Speaker 6>they were going to be receiving quite a lot of
<v Speaker 6>pets that would be displaced by the disaster. And what
<v Speaker 6>often happens in these situations is they euthanize all the
<v Speaker 6>pets that are in the shelter prior to the disaster
<v Speaker 6>to make room for the ones that are coming in.
<v Speaker 6>We didn't want that one to happen, so we reached
<v Speaker 6>out to all the shelters that we knew of in
<v Speaker 6>that area and were able to arrange flights to safety
<v Speaker 6>for over one thousand pets. Our first flight was on
<v Speaker 6>July eighth, because we had to get heal certificates and
<v Speaker 6>get these pets into San Angelo where we could land
<v Speaker 6>safely and transport the pads out, and so we just
<v Speaker 6>kept coming in bringing in supplies. We brought in I
<v Speaker 6>believe something just under twenty thousand pounds worth of humanitarian
<v Speaker 6>and that Nary aid, so that people would have food
<v Speaker 6>for their pets and other supplies, medicines and whatnot, and
<v Speaker 6>so we were able to just respond very quickly, and
<v Speaker 6>for that next two weeks, we're just flying out pretty
<v Speaker 6>much every other day.
<v Speaker 2>Thank you for sharing how you got involved, because that
<v Speaker 2>was interesting, even though I'm so sorry for your devastation
<v Speaker 2>and your loss. Rick, how did you get involved because
<v Speaker 2>you started Wings of Rescue right.
<v Speaker 6>I did not start Rings of Rescue. Coody else started it.
<v Speaker 6>I came into Wings. It was started in twenty twelve.
<v Speaker 6>I came in in May of twenty fourteen, and I
<v Speaker 6>was running the operations since twenty seventeen. We started out
<v Speaker 6>as just moving basically pats out of California, where I
<v Speaker 6>was living in the time, into the Pacific Northwest, and
<v Speaker 6>then we grew into you know, an international operation. It
<v Speaker 6>started with hurricanes Maria, Harvey, and Urma basically is what
<v Speaker 6>really put us in the disaster business. And I think
<v Speaker 6>we've responded to every hurricane, volcano, earthquake, and the flood
<v Speaker 6>and wildfire since then. The LA wildfires were really big
<v Speaker 6>for us this year. We had to do a lot
<v Speaker 6>of flights out of there. I now live in South
<v Speaker 6>Florida too, like you and it's you know, you're just
<v Speaker 6>sitting there watching the weather all the time, just like
<v Speaker 6>what's going to happen next. And we want to make
<v Speaker 6>sure that with our flights that we move out the
<v Speaker 6>pets that are in disasters prior to the disaster. We
<v Speaker 6>get those out of the shelters, and we don't touch
<v Speaker 6>any of the pets that come in after disaster for
<v Speaker 6>thirty days as you want them to be reunited with
<v Speaker 6>their families. And that's what we're trying to do, is
<v Speaker 6>get that done so that nobody dies to may roup
<v Speaker 6>for the incoming pets and that the pets will be
<v Speaker 6>reunited with the families who hopefully will come and get them.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, wow, that's wonderful. How many pets can fit, so
<v Speaker 2>say if you just have dogs and cats, no, you know,
<v Speaker 2>huge dogs. How many fit on a plane.
<v Speaker 6>Depends what type of flags and views. We did one
<v Speaker 6>flight from Owaii. It had seven hundred pats using a
<v Speaker 6>C one thirty hercules, which you know, was pretty big plane,
<v Speaker 6>one of the biggest ones that's out there. Our normal
<v Speaker 6>planes will hold between you know, we do it on
<v Speaker 6>a point system because there's no one size fits all.
<v Speaker 6>The other day I had and seventy cats on one fly.
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<v Speaker 6>It's kind of funny. They all fall asleep once we
<v Speaker 6>hit ten thousand feet. They're in the same cabin than
<v Speaker 6>we are, but once we hit ten thousand feet they're
<v Speaker 6>all quiet. And then we come down and it's like
<v Speaker 6>having a you know, train, three year olds asking are
<v Speaker 6>we there yet?
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<v Speaker 2>Welcome back everyone. We're talking to the NABC GIBS recipients,
<v Speaker 2>Wings of Rescue and ranch or Navy. They were both
<v Speaker 2>recipients of the award from an ABC for their work
<v Speaker 2>with the floods in Central Texas. Okay, so I'd like
<v Speaker 2>to ask both of you, were there any moments during
<v Speaker 2>the flooding, that's during this disaster that really surprised you.
<v Speaker 2>That's a very hard question, just whatever you think of
<v Speaker 2>top of your head.
<v Speaker 5>I think the thing that did surprise me about this
<v Speaker 5>particular disaster was how quickly the water rose, and it
<v Speaker 5>was how quickly the water rose and it We have
<v Speaker 5>seen floods, and I've seen hurricanes, but because of the
<v Speaker 5>terrain in which this river lies, the amount of devastation
<v Speaker 5>and how quickly there was so much devastation, I was
<v Speaker 5>rather surprised. We had mostly worked with wildfires. We had
<v Speaker 5>worked a couple of hurricanes, but very few floods. So
<v Speaker 5>that's probably what surprised me the most.
<v Speaker 2>Wow, what surprised you the most?
<v Speaker 6>Well, it was kind of interesting to me and surprise
<v Speaker 6>in a very pleasant way. Was we would land and
<v Speaker 6>we were landing in San Angelo, and there were people
<v Speaker 6>that had lost their houses, lost every possession, and they
<v Speaker 6>were there to help move the paths out of the
<v Speaker 6>shelters with no regard to their own situations. And not
<v Speaker 6>only were they there, but they were cheerful and there
<v Speaker 6>was nobody talking about politics or anything like that. They
<v Speaker 6>were just talking about we want to save these pets.
<v Speaker 6>And it was kind of the triumph of the human
<v Speaker 6>spirit that I thought you don't normally see in this
<v Speaker 6>you know, fractious days where people were getting together from
<v Speaker 6>you know, all nationalities, because there were Hispanic people there
<v Speaker 6>as well. Everybody was getting along and everybody was there
<v Speaker 6>for the pets, and it was just a lot of
<v Speaker 6>selfless effort and that really surprised me because I've seen
<v Speaker 6>a lot of that dissipate in America over the last year.
<v Speaker 2>That is good to hear. As you were talking about this,
<v Speaker 2>I could feel just the emotions of what you're describing
<v Speaker 2>and trying to actually be there, and the selflessness of
<v Speaker 2>these people was incredible. We need more of that. So, Rick,
<v Speaker 2>how do you stay calm during moments of crisis? I
<v Speaker 2>mean naturally calm?
<v Speaker 6>Yeah, I think it's a natural thing. You know, I've
<v Speaker 6>survived in airplane crash once. I guess I figured once
<v Speaker 6>I did that, I could do anything, you know, and
<v Speaker 6>remain calm, because there's use and tannic. Quite frankly, it
<v Speaker 6>doesn't achieve anything. So, you know, if you try and
<v Speaker 6>detach yourself a certain way and not allowing yourself to
<v Speaker 6>be caught in the emotion of a situation, because you know,
<v Speaker 6>you're there to do a job and to do a
<v Speaker 6>job quickly and efficiently, and you want to also be
<v Speaker 6>able to do it with compassion for the people that
<v Speaker 6>are affected, and you know, so you just have to
<v Speaker 6>stay within yourself.
<v Speaker 2>Well, thank you, Amy, how do you say come during
<v Speaker 2>you know, times of crisis. This is you know, your home,
<v Speaker 2>your area, how do you do it?
<v Speaker 5>I have to agree with rig. You do compartmentalize everything
<v Speaker 5>when you get there. You you have a job to do,
<v Speaker 5>and the people that we are working with it's it's
<v Speaker 5>quite possibly the worst day of their life. And I
<v Speaker 5>agree with him. We're there to do a job. We
<v Speaker 5>have tasks to do, and you know, we have to
<v Speaker 5>do it with compassion. Everybody that is there that is
<v Speaker 5>being affected, they are truly in crisis and they need
<v Speaker 5>a calming, soothing voice, and so we try to we
<v Speaker 5>try to be those people as well. That's kind of
<v Speaker 5>what we have learned. You know, we a lot of
<v Speaker 5>times when we come to a crisis like this. You
<v Speaker 5>know a lot of us have been there, We've done
<v Speaker 5>this before, and so we try to be the calming voice,
<v Speaker 5>the one who is forward thinking because they can't think
<v Speaker 5>at that moment in time about what are the next steps?
<v Speaker 2>Okay, thank you Amy. What would you say is the
<v Speaker 2>number one thing for our listening audience? So we have
<v Speaker 2>most of our listeners are in the US, cat levers,
<v Speaker 2>they might have dogs. Also, what would you say is
<v Speaker 2>the most important thing that they need to be aware of,
<v Speaker 2>just in case there's a natural disaster, because with global
<v Speaker 2>warming and all that kind of stuff, there's strange things
<v Speaker 2>happening everywhere. I'm waiting for a blizzard in South Florida,
<v Speaker 2>tell you the truth, because I mean floods in the
<v Speaker 2>mountains and there's all kinds of crazy. So what would
<v Speaker 2>you tell people, which you know, like I said, mostly
<v Speaker 2>cat lovers, that they should This is what you should
<v Speaker 2>do just in case anything happens.
<v Speaker 5>My best advice for those of you who have pets
<v Speaker 5>at home is to make sure that your animals are chipped,
<v Speaker 5>were well identified. When they do get separated from their humans,
<v Speaker 5>people like Rick and myself are trying to reunite them,
<v Speaker 5>and with cats and dogs it's very easy. You can
<v Speaker 5>chip them. With larger animals, whether it be a hot
<v Speaker 5>belly pig or a horse, if a disaster is impending,
<v Speaker 5>you know, if you do not have a way to
<v Speaker 5>brand your horse or tattoo your horse, make sure that
<v Speaker 5>they have a neck band on or a halter on,
<v Speaker 5>or some kind of something on them that identifies them
<v Speaker 5>so that we can try to reunite them or at
<v Speaker 5>least house them. Until we can find them proper home.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, thank you, Rick. What would you tell our listening audience?
<v Speaker 6>Well, I think and you spot on what you said
<v Speaker 6>about microchips, there's so important. Another thing that you have
<v Speaker 6>to remember is if you move, you change your telephone number,
<v Speaker 6>you have to update that on your microchip registration because
<v Speaker 6>they won't find you otherwise. And the other thing is
<v Speaker 6>in natural disasters. The one thing I've learned is, especially
<v Speaker 6>if you've got cats, you need to have crates ready.
<v Speaker 6>Everybody should have a crate so that you could put
<v Speaker 6>your cat in a crate, because it's really hard to
<v Speaker 6>wrangle a cat in a hurricane or in a flood,
<v Speaker 6>and you want to be able to transport them quickly
<v Speaker 6>out of if you have to evacuate, So having supplies,
<v Speaker 6>having some food around, but making sure that you have
<v Speaker 6>a plan and a fact of where you're going to go,
<v Speaker 6>how you're going to get your pet to where you're
<v Speaker 6>going to go, and knowing what's within your region. You know,
<v Speaker 6>is there a church that's a central place that you
<v Speaker 6>and your family can meet up with your pets. If
<v Speaker 6>let's say your wife or your husband is somewhere else,
<v Speaker 6>Is there a place that you can meet. In the
<v Speaker 6>LA wildfires, we found that so many people just couldn't
<v Speaker 6>find each other because a lot of the cell phone
<v Speaker 6>towers were out. So you just have to be prepared,
<v Speaker 6>and especially for cat owners, that's the hardest thing to
<v Speaker 6>just plan for. It is you just have to have
<v Speaker 6>a microchip, neck band, would a caller would be great,
<v Speaker 6>but also keep your registration up to date, and please
<v Speaker 6>have a crate buy then you can transport your cat
<v Speaker 6>in because don't think you can carry your cat throughout
<v Speaker 6>a disaster.
<v Speaker 1>You can't.
<v Speaker 2>And for everyone listening I've learned from other shows, worst
<v Speaker 2>case if you have that cat that you just cannot
<v Speaker 2>get hold of pillowcases, help put them in the pillowcase,
<v Speaker 2>then get them loose in the crate. But it helps
<v Speaker 2>you know because during the time of natural disaster, if
<v Speaker 2>you have to leave, you want to get your cat.
<v Speaker 2>And it doesn't matter if you scare your cat a little.
<v Speaker 2>Your cat's already probably freaked, but you want to get
<v Speaker 2>your cat in the crate. Any with Ranch or Navy,
<v Speaker 2>do you have any numbers on how many supplies were
<v Speaker 2>delivered to those in need?
<v Speaker 5>We do, Actually we did deliver eight thousand pounds of
<v Speaker 5>animal feed to local small animal shelters. They're in the
<v Speaker 5>Central Texas area. We did sixty five pallets of livestock feed,
<v Speaker 5>five hundred square veils of hay, one hundred round veils
<v Speaker 5>of hay, and we did thirty tons of essential supplies,
<v Speaker 5>whether that would be water, buckets, fencing supplies, electrolytes for
<v Speaker 5>the animals. And we were very very lucky that our
<v Speaker 5>National Guard helped us transport a lot of these these
<v Speaker 5>items across Central Texas for US.
<v Speaker 2>Oh, yes, that's wonderful. Wick. How many pets were displaced
<v Speaker 2>and that you helped reunite with their families through Wings
<v Speaker 2>of rescue.
<v Speaker 6>That was done by the ones that stayed in the area.
<v Speaker 6>We took the pets that were in the shelters prior
<v Speaker 6>to the disaster. Those are the ones we flew out
<v Speaker 6>so that these pets that were coming in had a
<v Speaker 6>safe place to go to without anybody dying to make
<v Speaker 6>room for them. So we took about one thousand and
<v Speaker 6>sixty seven of pets out.
<v Speaker 2>I understand what you do, but if you hadn't removed
<v Speaker 2>the pets from the shelters, the ones that were there
<v Speaker 2>that went to the shelters wouldn't have a place to go.
<v Speaker 1>It would have been killed.
<v Speaker 2>My bad, I should have word the question better. But
<v Speaker 2>one thousand and sixty seven, in much respect, would you
<v Speaker 2>have done anything differently with Wancho Navy? Is there anything
<v Speaker 2>looking behindsight and saying I wish we would have done this?
<v Speaker 5>Not in this particular situation. The thing that I don't
<v Speaker 5>think we were quite prepared for being an agricultural organization.
<v Speaker 5>The agricultural need wasn't as large as the need for pets,
<v Speaker 5>so we normally would bring in large animal supplies, hey, livestock, feed,
<v Speaker 5>fencing supplies, items like that. There the need, and this
<v Speaker 5>particular situation was more for household pets. That we were
<v Speaker 5>very very fortunate that we have a very large reach
<v Speaker 5>and we were able to get from a lot of
<v Speaker 5>those supplies donated and transported to help those people out,
<v Speaker 5>as well a number of animal rescues as well as
<v Speaker 5>the Humane Society who did take in a lot of
<v Speaker 5>large animals as well.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, thank you, Rick. Is there anything with Wings of
<v Speaker 2>Rescue that you would have done differently?
<v Speaker 6>Not really, because we have already laid in a supply,
<v Speaker 6>you know, an emergency supply, so we had crates ready,
<v Speaker 6>We had our friends at Kudley were you know, very
<v Speaker 6>generous with donations of dog foods. We had medicine. The
<v Speaker 6>Humane Society in North Texas is an amazing organization and
<v Speaker 6>they brought so much stuff, you know, made medications available
<v Speaker 6>and so much other stuff that we were able to
<v Speaker 6>just going in right away. So it was almost as
<v Speaker 6>if we had planned the whole thing out. We were ready.
<v Speaker 6>We were ready within twenty four hours.
<v Speaker 2>Incredible. I want to thank you both so much for
<v Speaker 2>coming on Catitude. Where can our listeners find out more
<v Speaker 2>about your organizations? You're both nonprofit and I would like
<v Speaker 2>our listeners to know more about you and if they
<v Speaker 2>want to donate possibly volunteer, Amy, can you go first?
<v Speaker 5>And yes, the Rancher Navy does have a website, It's
<v Speaker 5>Ranchernavy dot org, as well as we are on all
<v Speaker 5>of the social media platforms. Again, we are a five
<v Speaker 5>oh one C three. We mostly do emergency response in
<v Speaker 5>the state of Texas. However, we have recently in the
<v Speaker 5>last two years, responded to disasters in other parts of
<v Speaker 5>the US.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, thank you and Rick. Where can people find out
<v Speaker 2>more about Wings of Rescue?
<v Speaker 6>When you can get it Wings Rescue dot org or
<v Speaker 6>you can do it our Facebook page which has about
<v Speaker 6>a half million five and we have Instagram and threads
<v Speaker 6>and I think we might have a TikTok then going
<v Speaker 6>as well. Just you'll learn about it. There are lots
<v Speaker 6>of videos on YouTube and you can see what we
<v Speaker 6>do in real time.
<v Speaker 2>I want to thank you both so much for what
<v Speaker 2>you do, thanks to your organizations. We appreciate it so much.
<v Speaker 2>So thank you, and congrats on your NAVC Gives award.
<v Speaker 6>Thank you, thank you very much.
<v Speaker 2>What an incredible show, I mean truly amazing to find
<v Speaker 2>out what these organizations do for those of you listening.
<v Speaker 2>This occurred July fourth to seventh and twenty twenty five
<v Speaker 2>in Central Texas. It was the Guadalupe River. You can
<v Speaker 2>view it, you know, the devastation of course on YouTube
<v Speaker 2>or something to see the just the devastation that was done.
<v Speaker 2>Thank you, WANs Or Navy and Wings of Rescue. I
<v Speaker 2>also want to just put out a little this climber
<v Speaker 2>if you will. I know we're a cat touted and
<v Speaker 2>we're about cats, but many of us have ties to
<v Speaker 2>other animals in our lives. You know, we might have horses,
<v Speaker 2>as well or dogs. But it's important to be aware
<v Speaker 2>of organizations that would do what they do during natural disasters. Aaron,
<v Speaker 2>we have some great tips as well as micro chipping
<v Speaker 2>and having a crate available for your cat. You would
<v Speaker 2>not believe how many people I've run into that have
<v Speaker 2>like six cats two crates. How do you do that?
<v Speaker 2>Three cats and a crate?
<v Speaker 6>That's not going to happen.
<v Speaker 2>So great advice even you know though it was not
<v Speaker 2>specifically cat based, So I hope you have enjoyed the show.
<v Speaker 2>I want to find my cats, Dennis, Charlotte and Mollie.
<v Speaker 2>Dennis walks into his crate. Mollie would be a challenge,
<v Speaker 2>and Charlotte I would have to run all over the
<v Speaker 2>place to try to get her in a crate. But
<v Speaker 2>I would do it if it was ever a disaster.
<v Speaker 2>And yes, I do have enough praise for all of them.
<v Speaker 2>Actually I have an extrap for so thank you, and
<v Speaker 2>thanks to my guests and me from wind Maybe and
<v Speaker 2>Rick from wins A Rescue for coming on Catitude. Thanks
<v Speaker 2>to my listening audience. I know we aren't just focused
<v Speaker 2>on cats, but I appreciate you listening to this episode.
<v Speaker 2>It's important to be aware of these organizations that help
<v Speaker 2>us out during devastation, please be sure to visit their website.
<v Speaker 2>You can learn a lot of great information and of
<v Speaker 2>course thank you to my producer Mark Winter for all
<v Speaker 2>the magic keyworks to make every episode sound amazing. And remember,
<v Speaker 2>lose that attitude, have catitude.
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