Okay, Dan, let me get this straight. We sent our information via the our Best Home for Me app. You reviewed it here and now we're pre qualified officially. Wow. That's helpful, very helpful. Home loans made easy. Our Vest Bank ready to help. Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome. It's time now for our community connection right here on K one, the one you trust, and we are going to have a cuttly fun good time because we're going to be talking
about pets and we have from the Washington County SPCA. We have Tanya Pete. How are you doing, miss Dana. Good morning and I'm great, Thanks for having me. It's always great to have you in here because we start talking about our fur buddies. Yes, and we've got a couple of big things coming up, don't we we do. First, I want to mention our pet coo Love Stories. We have a chance to win a grant from Petco. So anyone that's adopted an animal, we encourage you to go
online to our website. There's a link and on our Facebook page to click on pet Co Love Stories and all you have to do is write how your adopted pet changed your life and have made a difference for you and submit a picture and it can help Washington County SPCA win a grant. So that's October thirty first you have to submit by So I kind of wanted to put that in there to help us out. You know. That's a great way to say thank you in so many different levels and so many different ways, isn't
it. Yeah. I mean people will adopt their pets and they mean so much. They've become part of the family, They help with their mental health, and so it really they really can make a huge difference in someone's life, just as much as humans make a difference in theirs. Wow, that that is truly something else. So let's make that count, folks. So if you got a sweet pet, and you oh you do. Everybody does.
If you got a pet, it's right down little Pet Love Story and we can get that link at your website or your l WCSPCA dot org. There is a link on there to click on over to pet COO's Love Stories. It's their nonprofit foundation, and you can just submit it there is very simple and easy. Well, super, we've got a thing called the Bingo Bash coming up. Now right there, you've got one hundred thousand people say been go where? So this this is our fourth year that we're having the
Washington County SPCA Bengo Bash. We're going to be at the Bartlesville Community Center on November third. The doors are going to open at five o'clock five point thirty. We're going to start the mini Bingo and then the regular Bengo starts at seven. It's fifteen dollars a person. All the money raised will go
to the shelter Animals. You can purchase tickets at the door, but or you can purchase them in advance from our again from our website at WCSPCA dot org, and there's also more information on our Facebook page in the events link as well. You know, this is great because a lot of folks have fun just getting together and play bingo. Sometimes you win, sometimes you'll win by just running into your friends. But it's always a win win situation because
it is going to help out the USPCA Washington County. It's going to be great time. We have a yes and we have a lot of great prizes donated from local shops all around town. And so some of them are gift cards, some of them are items from their store. So We're really excited about that. And we thank the all the local small businesses that help donate the prizes for our Bingo Bash because it makes a huge difference. It makes that beingal possible. Well, that is great. Now, we also have
a Veterans Day coming up here pretty soon. We're going to do something for the veterans, aren't we. Yeah, this is our first year we're going to try this. So if you have a classic car or any kind of car that you take to car shows, we're having what we call Pause for Patriots. Pause for Patriots, Remember that, folks. Yes, and it is going to be over at the Atwoods parking Lot on November eleventh. We'll be there from nine to four and we will work around the parade schedule.
So if someone wants to be in a Veterans Day parade, then bring the car on over for a good time. We would really appreciate that. And then all veterans will receive free pet adoption, so we will have adoptable animals at the car show. So come look at some cars and go home with the pets. Wait a second, free veteran pet adoptions. That is correct. Do is be someone who's served and you can go home with a dog
or a cat or something. Yes, we probably won't have cats at the event, but if you want a cat, you can go to the shelter. We'll make that happen as well. Well you know how that is. Dogs like to get out, cats and not so much. Yeah, free, they get loose there. You got to keep an eye on them there. But this is really kind of cool. So all you have to do at yourly qualification be a bet. Yeah, I mean that's all you have
to do. I mean it could be actively serving or you know, retired military, but all you have to do is have your military ID and you will receive a free pet adoption. And so it's really great. I mean, come on out. And for the participants in the car show, I mean this is a fundraiser, so we are having named your price registration fee, so if you want to bring your car to the show, you can
give to your heart's content. So how nice that that's really great. You know some people might give twenty and some people might give more, So come on down and bring your car and support the animals. So basically we're honoring the veterans while helping the animals. Oh thoughtful. At all ends. Tony'll tell you what you and your team, you guys got it going on there. We have a lot going on. We're really, really really busy.
In fact, we have I mean, I know this is a lot, but we do have what we call the first annual Jingle Palls Market over at Washington Park Mall, and so we are looking for vendors that would like to set up for this market. So if you have a small business, crafts or anything that you typically sell at a market, we will be at Washington
Park Mall on December ninth. And thank you to Washington Park Mall. They're letting us use that space at no charge, so we really want to give a shout out to them for that, and we'll be there from nine to six. We'll have a Santa there taking pet pictures, so if you can bring your dog down there and get your picture made with Santa, and we will have some trucks and more adoptable animals. So it's supposed to be like a fun, great day for everyone. But right now we're looking for those
vendors. All right, that sounds great. We're gonna take a quick break and we're going to go into more about what the Washington County SBCA does and how they're funded, and just to how it can work well for our community altogether, how we work hand in hand with each other. We'll be back right after these words from Martold Moore. A Nie Camp funeral home fleetly transferable in the United States from funeral home to funeral home, and in Oklahoma that's
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what's going on out there at Washington mall right around the Christmas time. But you know, for folks who say that, oh yeah, they're the folks that take in animals, well there's a little bit more to it than that. Kind of explain how your process works. So, Washington County SPCA is an open access shelter, so we take in all straight animals, regardless of their health, the condition they're in, their age, what breed of dog they are. We have city contracts with Bartlesville, Copan, Ramona, and
Ocean Leda, so their straight animals will come to us. We mostly have We have two animal control officers that work for the Bartlesville Police Department that patrol the streets of Bartlesville and look for stray animals, and so we are essentially a holding. So we have a pound that holds animals for four days, so if you have a stray, you have a chance to come in and try to find them. So this is the place to go. And then after that, if they are not reclaimed, then we test them and move
them over for our adoption. And we really really, really really need the communities help to get some animals adopted. This has probably been our heaviest intake year and where we have sat full for the longest amount of time in over seven years. COVID has really hit animal shelters and animal love for organizations really hard. During that time, everyone was home and they were fostering and they
were adopting more because they were home. But when everyone started going back to work and the economy started changing, we started seeing more and more intakes. But also what was happening is during that time, a lot of vets offices were only doing emergency services and there wasn't any low income assistance available for span neuter clinics. They just weren't happening during COVID. So we are seeing a
large increase in puppies and kittens, specifically puppies this year. Generally speaking, in the fall, our numbers typically start scaling down and the we're not as full and the breeding season kind of stops. But we haven't really had a break in over a year. We have been at capacity since last year, especially in our dog kennels. That's typical for our cats, it's always been
that way, but for our dogs it's been really hard. We have more animals than we have kennels, so we have dogs that are outside and you know, if they come in litters, we'll have them all grouped together. And so we really if you're looking for a dog or cat, now is the time to come in and adopt. You've getting cold out there. It is getting cold out there, and we are running out of space. Well
we don't have any space. I mean, it's less already. So just this year alone, we've already taken in fifteen hundred animals and ninety five percent of those are all from Bartlesville, and that doesn't count one hundred and seventy two animals we had in the shelter in January first, so if you count that, we we've had over seventeen hundred animals, you know, so far this year, our employees are working hard. They're just overwhelmed with the amount
of animals coming in. So far, we've only adopted nine hundred and ten animals, which sounds like a lot, but when we've taken in over fifteen hundred, it's really hard. As of today, I checked this morning, we had three hundred and ten animals at the shelter. It's a lot. And so I mean we have all of our fosters that typically foster for us are awfully have. There's no more room at the end, so to speak.
So if you're wanting to foster as well, we have litters of puppies and kittens that could use a space to go until they're ready to be adopted. Uh, and just call the shelter at nine one eight, three three six one five seven seven. If you're interested in volunteering, fostering, or helping out, the shelter will get you hooked up. Alrighty, once again, let's say go ahead with the Bingo bash here because that's coming up very
very soon. Let's remind everyone when and where it is. Yes, the Bingo Bash is going to be at the Bartlesville Community Center on November three. The doors open at five o'clock. You can purchase your tickets out the door or in advance, which is what I recommend on our website at WCSPCA dot org. And for all the other events coming up and other special things where folks can help out the Washington County SPCA, just go to your Facebook page
and your website. You've got plenty of information there on different ways people can help and also be a part of some pretty different promotions that are coming up. They're going to be quite special too, that is correct. Is they want to volunteer for these events, that could be one way to help out monetarily donating. Also during this time of year, since summers typically are heavy, we drain our pantry of all of our supplies. So we typically in
November December us for canned foods for the pets. And so if you would like to do a food drive, like maybe your small organization or group or your work group, we are in November we take in canned foods for all of the pets and paper towels and don dish. So those are the three items we go through the most. Well, Tanya, thank you for coming in, and let's get that pantry restocked. Let's find these animals from homes. What do you say? I would love some helps, please help us.
Thank you for being in. We're going to send some pokes your way. Okay, all right, thank you guys. Alrighty, you've been listening to our community connection on K one