Project V.E.T.S. - Meghan Curtis & Marcy Thrash

In this episode of All My Children Wear Fur Coats, we had the pleasure of speaking with Megan Curtis, Executive Director of Project V.E.T.S, and Marcy Thrash, Program Director.

Project V.E.T.S is a nonprofit organization based in Boulder, Colorado that serves animals locally, nationally, and around the world. They collect veterinary equipment, technology, and supplies and distribute them to underserved animal welfare nonprofits.

Listen in to learn more!

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We also provide pet trustee services.

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Today, we are delighted to welcome to

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the show our guest, Megan Curtis.

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She's the executive director of Project V.E.T.S.

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And Marcy Thrash, who is the

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program's director of Project V.E.T.S..

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Welcome to the show, ladies.

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Thank you so much.

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It's so good to have you here.

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Well, and I want to tell our listeners a little

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bit about each of you, so I'll start with Megan.

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Megan comes to Project V.E.T.S. with a lifelong

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passion for wildlife conservation and animal welfare.

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Prior to joining Project V.E.T.S., Megan worked with

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the Capuchin Province of Mid-America as the

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director of foundation development and special events.

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She also worked for many years in

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the banking and telecommunications industries, focusing on

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project management, contract management, and sales operations.

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Meghan volunteered with Greenwood Wildlife Rehabilitation Center

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for ten years and served on their

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board of directors and fundraising committees for

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a number of years.

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Megan has enjoyed trips to Central

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America and Africa, participate in wildlife

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research and conservation projects.

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She lives in Arvada, Colorado, with her

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husband, three children, and their dog, Charlie.

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And then Marcy works as Project V.E.T.S.'s program director.

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She manages all of the inventory that comes

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in and goes out of the warehouse and

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communicates with all of their partner organizations, oversees

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their warehouse staff and volunteers, and helps with

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a wide range of other jobs.

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When she is not at Project V.E.T.S., Marcy owns and

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operates a therapeutic pet massage practice and works part-time

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for a small animal practice in Nywat, Colorado.

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She lives in Longmont, Colorado, with her

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husband, two children, and there are three

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dogs, Hazel, Gus, and Bruce. Welcome. Hi.

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Thank you for having us.

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All right, so so much going on at Project Vets.

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Why don't you start one of you and

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tell me, and we'll start with you, Megan.

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What is Project V.E.T.S. mission and history?

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So, Project V.E.T.S. is a nonprofit based

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out of Boulder, Colorado, but we serve

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animals locally, nationally, and around the world.

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And what we do is we

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collect veterinary equipment, technology, and supplies.

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That's where the vets vets comes

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in, and we distribute these items.

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All of them are donated to us.

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We distribute these items to

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underserved animal welfare nonprofits.

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Each one of our groups goes through an approval process,

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and then we bring them on board into our program,

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get a needs list from them, and then through the

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donated items that we receive, we put together.

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Or Marcy and our other staff put together almost customized

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care packages to send out to each of those groups.

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That sounds like a big logistics issue. Marcy.

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I mean, it is, but we're still growing.

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We are not at the point where we have

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so many groups that it's too hard to control.

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getting we might have to eventually get a little

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bit more streamlined, but right now it works.

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That's great.

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How would you describe a day in your

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life, Marcy so, everything we have here at

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the warehouse I'm at the warehouse now.

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You can kind of see all of our

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stuff in the background is donated by veterinary

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hospitals, human hospitals, individual donors, strategic partners.

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And we have such a wide variety of items.

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Anything you could possibly use at a regular

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veterinary clinic, we have here at the warehouse.

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That is, from small things like needles and syringes

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all the way to large pieces of equipment such

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as anesthesia machines, patient monitors, things of that nature.

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We also have pet supplies here, so your

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basic leashes, collars, toys, things like that.

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We have general medical supplies that you

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would see even at a human clinic.

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So gauze, Qtips, things like that.

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We have bandaging supplies, IV supplies,

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including ivy, catheters extension sets, IV

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sets, and surgical supplies.

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So your masks, surgical gowns, instruments.

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And then, yeah, like I said, those larger pieces

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of equipment, they're all here at the warehouse.

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Things are sent to us through the mail, or we

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pick them up or dropped off here at our warehouse.

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And like Megan said, we then go through our

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animal welfare partner organizations have their wish list, or

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they can just email me directly if there's something

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specific they need, and then I put together these

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packages for them and send them in the mail.

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So that's kind of what it looks like here.

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But we reuse everything down to the boxes for shipping.

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We really try not to purchase anything if we

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know that we can get it used somewhere else,

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and that includes, like, bubble wrap and everything.

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We reach out to people in our community before we ever

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go and purchase anything, which I think pretty much the only

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thing we actually buy is tape to ship our boxes.

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Otherwise, everything is reused.

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Well, I think that is a great addition to your

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mission, certainly not to have to purchase a lot of

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stuff and be able to recycle, reuse, and upcycle things.

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We've always said outwardly we appear to

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be an animal welfare nonprofit, but we're

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really very much equally animal welfare and

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environmental stewardship and sustainability.

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They're equally important to everybody involved

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with project sets and really try

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really hard to stick with that.

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If we receive items that our partners can't use for some

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reason, we will try to find another home for it.

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I've taken lap sponges and different things to my

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kids, art class, school, and different things like that.

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Just trying to keep all this

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product out of the landfill.

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That's a great addition to your mission.

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So tell us, Megan, how do you identify your

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animal welfare partners or how they find you.

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Actually, so the majority, I think there's only

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been one partner in our history that we

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approached about becoming part of the program.

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And so currently we have over 110 partners in 41 countries,

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and each of those groups kind of came to us.

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Some of those groups have been

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with us since the beginning.

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In 2009, a veterinarian named candy brad started Project V.E.T.S.

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and she started with six nonprofits and a

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number of them are still with us, but most

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of them that have come on through the years,

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they will either find out about us just through

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a google search on the internet, they will.

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Word of mouth.

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Actually, it's interesting.

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In the different areas of the world,

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we might not have a partner.

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And then suddenly we'll get three or four we

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had one group, I guess, about four years ago,

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from Mozambique applied and we went through the process.

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And then suddenly we had four different

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organizations from Mozambique join the program.

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Because people in the animal welfare community talk.

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that and you can receive all of these supplies and

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products for free, it's kind of a win-win.

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So usually the partners will reach out to us via

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email or on Facebook, and we do have some criteria.

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Before a group is reviewed and approved, they have to

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have a veterinarian on staff as a long-term volunteer.

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Pardon me.

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And they also need to be either a

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501C3 nonprofit, or an NGO.

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Okay, well, they notice on your website at 

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PROJECTVETS.ORG that you actually have a world map that

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actually locates all of these partner organizations.

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Yes, we had we've done that for years, but

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we had this amazing volunteer this year who did

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it in a much more interactive way, so it's

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pretty neat to check out, but each group applies,

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and then we go through a review process.

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And as I said, we have about 110 partners right now,

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but we have 30 nonprofits on the waitlist at this point.

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It's exciting. Yeah.

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So there is a waitlist, so you

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can't just call up and get stuff.

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You have to go through the process, and you

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have to go on the waitlist and get approved.

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Yes, and there are a number of reasons for that.

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We're a small but mighty nonprofit.

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We have limited staff, and so we need to be

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sure that Marcy and Maya are able to support these

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organizations in the way that we would like.

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Our commitment to each approved partner is that we will

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spend three to four shipments per group per year.

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And as natural disasters are becoming more frequent

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for those groups, we're kind of increasing that.

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But we have to be sure that we

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can support the partners that we have.

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Really, we'd rather go deep than wide.

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So we want to be sure we can support them

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as best we can before we add new partners.

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So, because you have these worldwide

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partners, what types of animals are

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treated by these partner organizations?

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Well, we pretty much treat every type of animal.

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Our groups are companion animals, so dogs

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and cats and small animals like rabbits

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and hamsters and things of that nature.

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We also help out with wildlife so that's either

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wildlife living in sanctuary or at a rehab facility

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that will eventually be released back into the wild.

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And we also help working animals, so

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donkeys, yaks, cattle, and groups like that.

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We are not opposed to expanding to, say,

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an Equine group or an aquatic group.

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We just haven't had any of those groups apply yet.

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But we're happy to have them.

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We would love that.

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Well, and I may help get the word out.

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I know lots of Equine groups that need help.

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Yeah, it's kind of awesome.

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We kind of marvel because there's so many Equine groups out

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there and none have ever even reached out to us.

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So it's really interesting that that hasn't happened.

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We do have a couple of farm groups, farm animal

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sanctuaries on the wait list right now, so that's fun.

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That's good to know, too, because there's

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so much you need out there.

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And I think what you're doing is just absolutely

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amazing because it's, I think, as unique as it

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comes in terms of where you're not providing the

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care directly, but you're making it possible for all

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of these other organizations to provide care.

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And along those lines, I think one of the

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major ways that we're making a difference in these

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groups is that they can provide them safer care.

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They are spending their money and their funds providing

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these animals that are undergoing procedures with pain control

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and safe anesthetic drugs that are expensive because they

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did not have to spend those dollars on these

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smaller things like bandaging material and surgical instruments, which

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can be very pricey.

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Absolutely.

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So tell us some stories or examples about

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some unique animals that you're aware of that

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have been helped trying to think.

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I don't know about particular animals, but we definitely

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have some unique stories about how we have helped

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different groups all over the world that are helping

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different animals of all different kinds.

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One story that comes to mind is this was very

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recently, we had an animal hospital in New York City.

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They're closing their doors.

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They had some of these really very large, heavy

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awkwardly shaped, wall-mounted surgical lamps that they said,

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if you don't come and get these, we're going

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to throw them in the trash.

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And I was like, no, don't do that.

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Reached out to one of our wildlife rehabilitation

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groups that are located in upstate New York,

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the Charles and Gordon Wildlife Rehab Center.

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They're outside of Ithaca, New York.

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And they had just opened their very first clinic.

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They really didn't have anything.

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I think they were working out of

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somebody's home before their clinic opened.

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So they had made the trek down to

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New York City to collect the lamps.

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And in addition to the lamps, they were able

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to take home an EKG machine, a blood pressure

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machine, several patient monitors, surgical instruments, all of these

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things that the clinic really thought were worthless and

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they were just going to get rid of.

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The rehab center was able to shelve themselves.

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And it's just a cool story, I thought, to keep

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all of that stuff out of the landfill and into

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the hands of a group that really, really needed it.

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We just had a little event with the

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Nebraska Wildlife Rehab Center, who is doing a

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lot of work with the big brown bats.

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And when you think about a bat who injured

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itself, this bat in particular had broke its wing

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and needed something to repair the wing.

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And we were able to provide them with spinal needles.

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And I know that sounds not an orthopedic

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instrument, but really it needed a very, very

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thin, specific-length needle to repair these fragile,

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tiny bones on the BAT's wings.

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So anytime we get these very long, slim

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spinal needles and we send them to our

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smaller rehab centers that are dealing with bats

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and really little small animals like that.

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So that was a cool story.

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Here in Colorado just recently, we had a clinic shut

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down abruptly, and they didn't know what to do.

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Called me up.

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I just went and filled up my

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car over and over and over again.

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Got all of their equipment, all of their supplies.

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They had to get rid of everything really quickly.

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And we had an anesthesia machine, which is actually on

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its way out to the Belize Wildlife and Rehab Center.

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And this is a machine that they

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would never have been able to afford.

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I mean, they couldn't do it.

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So they're actually able to now open their

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mobile clinic with this machine and drive around

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and help with wildlife calls on the road.

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So all very cool stories.

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Yeah, those are awesome success stories.

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And I'm just trying to imagine all of the

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ways that it might be possible to identify clinics

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or hospitals or other organizations that are either shutting

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down, going out of business, remodeling, and being able

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to capture all of those materials that they may

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think, as you said, belong in the trash, but

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really, they could have a use and a home. Exactly.

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I'm aware, even in my own little world,

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of a veterinary clinic who's doing some remodeling.

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And they were going to basically

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trash some stainless steel dog kennels.

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And we became aware of it.

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And I'm like, no, don't throw those away. We?

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Yes.

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A lot of what we do too

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is clinics reaching out, have something large.

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Like you said, the stainless steel dog kennels

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are those huge wall-mounted surgical lights that

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are really impossible to send in the mail

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without spending thousands and thousands of dollars.

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But since we have groups basically all over the

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United States, some of which are willing to travel,

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I'm like trying to think of an instance where

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we haven't been able to place a large piece

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of equipment, and we usually are able to place

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it somewhere with one of our partner organizations.

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And if we don't have a partner

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organization in the area, usually we can

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facilitate finding in a home somewhere else.

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That's Excellent.

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You want to add anything to that? Megan?

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Any stories that come to your mind?

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I guess I would say everything

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that Marcy said is 100% true.

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But one of my most favorite stories and pictures is we

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have a partnership with Kong, and they donate some of their

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seconds, the product that is not able to be sold.

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And we get that product and we send

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them out to many of our groups, including,

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of course, our companion animal groups, but we

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provide them also to our wildlife groups.

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And it's wolves and anteaters.

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Those wildlife rehab center in Guatemala sent

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us a picture of an anteater.

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They had Kongs kind of zip tied to a tree

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limb and teaching this anteater how to forage for food

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by the hole in the bottom of the Kong.

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Just some really marcy and Maya are both great at

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knowing how an animal of any kind can use an

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item, and so it's just really out of the box

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thinking sometimes, which is really kind of neat to see

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when it kind of comes into practice.

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Yeah, that's another great use.

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So it sounds like you accept

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all kinds of different donations.

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I'm sure you would also be willing to

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accept cash if somebody wanted to do that.

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Yes, that is a true statement.

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As I said, we're small but mighty.

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We definitely accept.

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We have a whole list of in-kind products that we take.

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But cash is also we can't have one without the other.

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We can't do anything with In-kind donations if we don't

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have the funding to send them all over the world.

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And likewise, if we have the

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funding, but not in-kind donations.

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That's not supporting our mission.

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So, yes, donations of cash or

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financial donations are definitely appreciated.

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And what about people that want to volunteer?

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How can they get involved?

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I'll let Marcy talk about the warehouse volunteering.

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But on the more kind of board and fundraising side,

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since we serve organizations around the world, we do try

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to have people from all over get involved.

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So we do have some fundraising campaigns throughout

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the year if anyone's interested in fundraising.

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And you don't necessarily have to

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be in the Colorado area.

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We just added our first out of

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state board member, which is really exciting.

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And then, Marcy, do you want

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to talk about the warehouse volunteering? Yeah.

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So you do have to be in the Colorado

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area to volunteer at our warehouse, but our warehouse

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is located in Boulder, Colorado, so if anybody listening

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is in the area and interested in volunteering, we

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do always need people here at the warehouse.

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It's not very glamorous work, but it's kind of fun.

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You can bring your dog if you wish or

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I guess any other pet, and we just need

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a lot of counting, a lot of sorting, reorganizing.

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Human medicine is funny.

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They always have these, like, ginormous surgical packs where they

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put every item you could ever think of in a

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large pack and then use maybe two things.

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So we get a lot of those here

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at the warehouse, which we then disassemble into

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the various little parts and take individually.

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So we always need things like that done

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and yeah, just basic warehouse-type work.

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I think we've had some volunteers who say they

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kind of prefer to come to Project V.E.T.S. to

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count and sort, because when you go to a

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shelter, you fall in love with every animal, every

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animal there, and you want to take them home.

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And at Project V.E.T.S., you can really make a

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huge difference for animals without adopting ten more cats.

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Yeah, I have a hard enough

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time just going on Facebook, right? Yeah.

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Too many cute faces looking for homes out there.

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So tell us a funny story about one of

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the most unique in-kind donations that you've ever

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received and then what you did with that.

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How about a funny story?

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I don't know, Megan.

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It doesn't have to be funny. Haha.

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I think one story that sticks out

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to me, I am not clinically trained.

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I do not have a vet tech or veterinary background in Marcy

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and Maya do, and so I rely on them a lot.

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And so I was at an orthopedic hospital practice that

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was closing a lot of its locations, and they were

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being very generous and basically said, come, go through the

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whole building and take what you want.

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And so I had Marcy.

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I was texting her pictures of everything because

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I didn't know necessarily what it was or

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what it could be used for.

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They had cabinets and cabinets full of the finger

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splints that go over the top of your finger.

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And I said, these are obviously a little different.

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Can we use them?

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And Marcy just, without even missing a beat, says, oh,

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yeah, we can cut them in half, and they can

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use them for bird legs to stabilize a bird leg.

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Yeah, it's pretty funny.

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And another funny, I just remember

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we got this huge donation.

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I mean, it was hundreds and hundreds, maybe

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thousands of boxes of gloves, like exam gloves.

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And Megan's like that's too much.

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I don't know if we can accept it.

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I'm like, no, we must take it.

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I mean, you have to use exam gloves for

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every aspect of veterinary medicine and human medicine.

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And pretty much our warehouse is like, all of

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the furniture is made of boxes of exam gloves.

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Now they're just everywhere.

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And it's pretty funny to come in

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here because there's just exam gloves everywhere,

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but we will use every last one.

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And I would never say no to any exam gloves, ever.

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Well, they probably never expire either, right?

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I mean, there's a date on

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everything, and we do have groups.

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It's one of the questions we ask

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every year, can you accept expired supplies?

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And most of them say that they can, but

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there are several who can't and totally understandable.

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Yeah, that makes sense.

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But for those that can, what a blessing. Yeah. Right?

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And there are certain items that we don't

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send out if they're expired or recently expired

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within at least a couple of months.

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Two of those items being suture material.

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And surgical gloves, just because it's so important

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if you're suturing together inside of an abdomen

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and you don't want that to break, you

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want that to stay together.

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And the sterility is really important to us, too.

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So surgical gloves, we try to make sure they're in date

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or at least within a couple of months of expiry.

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Excellent.

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So tell us what your goals for 2023 are.

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Megan so, 2023 we have just for the

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past few years and continuing to next year,

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our goal is to expand our program.

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That sounds very cliche, but for us,

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we are not really interested in adding

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a whole bunch of different programs.

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We want to stay focused on what we're

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doing and do it well and provide a

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quality service to all of our partners.

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And so we would like to provide more

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of our distributions to our existing partners.

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So rather than three to four per year, maybe that

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jumps to five to six for our existing partners.

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Add new partners, of course, just to kind

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of keep putting this product out there.

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There's so much waste here and there's so much need.

511
00:26:54,424 --> 00:26:56,808
It's just really important to kind of

512
00:26:56,808 --> 00:26:58,740
marry the two and bring them together.

513
00:27:01,910 --> 00:27:06,466
Of course, to support that growth is a fundraising

514
00:27:06,466 --> 00:27:10,018
again on both sides, financial and in-kind donations.

515
00:27:10,018 --> 00:27:13,772
So we're staying pretty focused on what we do and just

516
00:27:13,772 --> 00:27:18,120
trying to make it more impactful we did this year.

517
00:27:20,010 --> 00:27:22,978
If you think about COVID the beginning

518
00:27:22,978 --> 00:27:25,260
of COVID nobody knew what was happening.

519
00:27:25,260 --> 00:27:28,176
And so a lot of businesses really over ordered product.

520
00:27:28,176 --> 00:27:30,484
And so now, two years later, when things are kind

521
00:27:30,484 --> 00:27:35,028
of opening back up and things aren't as unknown, a

522
00:27:35,028 --> 00:27:40,148
lot of those businesses have decided to not have this

523
00:27:40,148 --> 00:27:42,388
inventory sitting in their warehouses paying for it.

524
00:27:42,388 --> 00:27:44,552
And so we've had 2022.

525
00:27:44,552 --> 00:27:49,928
We have had more donations than ever by

526
00:27:49,928 --> 00:27:52,824
a huge degree, and we've had over probably

527
00:27:52,824 --> 00:27:56,412
50 to 60 pallets of product delivered just

528
00:27:56,412 --> 00:28:00,828
in the last twelve months, which is big.

529
00:28:00,828 --> 00:28:04,418
So we were able to create some programs

530
00:28:04,418 --> 00:28:07,532
to help more animal welfare nonprofits locally with

531
00:28:07,532 --> 00:28:10,412
some of the nonclinical gloves and things like

532
00:28:10,412 --> 00:28:13,152
not gloves, I'm sorry, gowns, things like that.

533
00:28:13,152 --> 00:28:15,104
So we'll hopefully be able to continue

534
00:28:15,104 --> 00:28:17,232
some of those things next year.

535
00:28:17,232 --> 00:28:21,056
But we really want to stay pretty focused on what we're doing

536
00:28:21,056 --> 00:28:24,538
and not we don't want to add a lot of programs.

537
00:28:24,538 --> 00:28:26,980
We just want to be really good at what we do.

538
00:28:26,980 --> 00:28:27,844
Absolutely.

539
00:28:27,844 --> 00:28:29,812
Well, and I see that you have an

540
00:28:29,812 --> 00:28:33,210
annual fundraising event called Tails for Tails.

541
00:28:33,210 --> 00:28:35,670
Tell us a little bit about that.

542
00:28:35,670 --> 00:28:39,128
Yes, Tails for Tails is held next year.

543
00:28:39,128 --> 00:28:40,408
It will be April 30, which

544
00:28:40,408 --> 00:28:43,726
is a Saturday in Boulder, Colorado.

545
00:28:43,726 --> 00:28:46,088
Sorry, it's the 29th, not the 30th.

546
00:28:46,088 --> 00:28:48,268
Oh, jeez, thank you. April 29.

547
00:28:48,268 --> 00:28:52,412
I'm sorry, that would be a bad thing.

548
00:28:52,412 --> 00:28:56,812
But it's April 29, Saturday in Boulder and we

549
00:28:56,812 --> 00:28:58,972
have local I mean, really, it's just a group

550
00:28:58,972 --> 00:29:01,600
of animal and pet lovers coming together.

551
00:29:01,600 --> 00:29:02,736
It's very low-key.

552
00:29:02,736 --> 00:29:04,166
It's not a gala.

553
00:29:04,166 --> 00:29:06,528
It's more just people coming together to have

554
00:29:06,528 --> 00:29:09,168
some fun and really support animals in need.

555
00:29:09,168 --> 00:29:14,500
So we are moving to a bigger facility this year,

556
00:29:14,500 --> 00:29:18,292
so we're hoping to have more attendance and a lot

557
00:29:18,292 --> 00:29:21,802
more people there, just kind of having a great afternoon

558
00:29:21,802 --> 00:29:24,938
and coming together to support Project V.E.T.S..

559
00:29:24,938 --> 00:29:27,742
So April is a great time to visit Boulder, Colorado.

560
00:29:27,742 --> 00:29:30,472
So if people are leaving and they want to take

561
00:29:30,472 --> 00:29:33,400
a spring vacation, that would be the place to go.

562
00:29:33,400 --> 00:29:37,630
Yes, it is gorgeous in Colorado in April.

563
00:29:37,630 --> 00:29:40,428
It would definitely be a good place to come.

564
00:29:40,428 --> 00:29:43,756
Well, I can't thank you enough for taking

565
00:29:43,756 --> 00:29:45,618
the time out of your busy schedules.

566
00:29:45,618 --> 00:29:48,128
I know you've got a lot of events coming up

567
00:29:48,128 --> 00:29:54,070
this week with your Colorado Giving Tuesday coming up tomorrow.

568
00:29:54,070 --> 00:29:54,780
Right.

569
00:29:55,470 --> 00:29:58,208
So we hope that that's very successful for you

570
00:29:58,208 --> 00:30:00,852
and thank you for all you do, not just

571
00:30:00,852 --> 00:30:04,170
locally, but for animals on a worldwide basis.

572
00:30:04,170 --> 00:30:08,548
And I'm sure that anytime there is a

573
00:30:08,548 --> 00:30:11,748
natural disaster that you're probably called upon to

574
00:30:11,748 --> 00:30:14,004
help in those instances as well.

575
00:30:14,004 --> 00:30:15,364
Yes, absolutely.

576
00:30:15,364 --> 00:30:21,508
And it's interesting because five years ago when a

577
00:30:21,508 --> 00:30:23,908
natural disaster happened, we may or may not have

578
00:30:23,908 --> 00:30:26,876
a partner in the area, but now they're happening

579
00:30:26,876 --> 00:30:30,956
so frequently and pretty much with everyone that happens.

580
00:30:30,956 --> 00:30:34,040
We have one or multiple partners in the area.

581
00:30:35,290 --> 00:30:37,724
We had four groups in Romania to

582
00:30:37,724 --> 00:30:40,086
help to assist with Ukraine efforts.

583
00:30:40,086 --> 00:30:42,752
We've had partners in pretty much

584
00:30:42,752 --> 00:30:44,486
all of the flood areas recently.

585
00:30:44,486 --> 00:30:48,902
So it's a testament to us having more groups

586
00:30:48,902 --> 00:30:53,386
in more locations, but it's also a greater frequency

587
00:30:53,386 --> 00:30:56,530
of natural disasters in all different places.

588
00:30:56,530 --> 00:30:59,268
Yes, and living in the hurricane capital of

589
00:30:59,268 --> 00:31:02,724
the world, central Florida, we've had two already

590
00:31:02,724 --> 00:31:04,480
in the last couple of months.

591
00:31:06,310 --> 00:31:09,656
We have a few partners in somebody named Marcy three,

592
00:31:09,656 --> 00:31:13,528
I think in Florida two or three Florida two that

593
00:31:13,528 --> 00:31:14,792
I can think of off the top of my head.

594
00:31:14,792 --> 00:31:16,728
I'd have to well, I'll do my best to get

595
00:31:16,728 --> 00:31:21,290
you a few more of those, if I for sure. Great.

596
00:31:21,290 --> 00:31:23,948
So if people want more information, they can

597
00:31:23,948 --> 00:31:28,390
visit your website at PROJECTVETS.ORG and you're also on Facebook

598
00:31:28,390 --> 00:31:31,648
and Instagram and LinkedIn and Twitter, all of

599
00:31:31,648 --> 00:31:34,838
the normal social media outlets.

600
00:31:34,838 --> 00:31:37,232
And we hope that anyone who's listening, who

601
00:31:37,232 --> 00:31:39,968
has a heart for animals, will do their

602
00:31:39,968 --> 00:31:41,786
part to help out your mission.

603
00:31:41,786 --> 00:31:43,684
And I thank you very much.

604
00:31:43,684 --> 00:31:46,660
I always have to remind our listeners that

605
00:31:46,660 --> 00:31:50,084
until there are none, please adopt one.

606
00:31:50,084 --> 00:31:52,210
So adopt, don't shop.

607
00:31:52,210 --> 00:31:55,880
And if you have pets that you love, be sure

608
00:31:55,880 --> 00:31:59,992
and create a Lifetime Pet Trust for their love.

609
00:31:59,992 --> 00:32:03,896
And care to make sure that if something happens to you

610
00:32:03,896 --> 00:32:06,878
as their pet parent, you either become disabled or die.

611
00:32:06,878 --> 00:32:10,524
That you die, that your pets have a forever home.

612
00:32:10,524 --> 00:32:11,906
And that's my mission.

613
00:32:11,906 --> 00:32:14,716
So thanks for joining us, and we'll look forward to talking

614
00:32:14,716 --> 00:32:17,682
to you again on All My Children Wear Fur Coats.

615
00:32:17,682 --> 00:32:20,430
And until then, happy tales.

616
00:32:20,430 --> 00:32:22,144
Hi, thank you so much.

617
00:32:22,144 --> 00:32:23,470
Take care.

618
00:32:23,470 --> 00:32:25,936
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00:32:25,936 --> 00:32:28,870
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00:32:28,870 --> 00:32:30,806
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00:32:30,806 --> 00:32:32,698
for the benefit of your pet.

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00:32:32,698 --> 00:32:34,922
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623
00:32:34,922 --> 00:32:38,170
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624
00:32:38,170 --> 00:32:41,044
of ensuring every pet has a forever home.

625
00:32:41,044 --> 00:32:44,068
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00:32:44,068 --> 00:32:50,660
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627
00:32:50,660 --> 00:32:53,610
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00:32:53,610 --> 00:32:56,834
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