we've had a lot of adoptions so they are our numbers are a little bit lower than usual so it's a nice break yeah i'm sure it's a good thing ok so we will get right into it with our st dog here this is jersey she's four years old and she looks like i'm guessing yes jersey's a four year old rottweiler she was surrendered by her family they had a new baby and she's ninety pounds so a little bit of a bull in a china shop they were just a little bit worried about her knocking the baby around as the baby started to get more mobile ok so they brought her in to us but she's a wonderful girl we definitely think she could go home to a family with older like teenagers are definitely not a dog that can live with cats are small and i'm ok will too intense with this and probably best as an only pet she's been pretty dog selective while she's been here pretty picky about which dog she would like to spend time with so we don't think that show want to live with another dog but a family with rottweiler a big dog experience would be ideal ok great what kind of exercise does she need she's a big girl and she act she is really active she loves her walks she loves her playtime in our yard and she loves to play we definitely loves to play like fetch and tug she can be a little possessive around her toys sometimes so that's something that an experienced owner will need to work on with her should definitely trade for treats she loves but she's a she's a fun gal she's housebroken and she's very cancer before she has yes what's her story so she came in to us because she was not feeling well and she we found out very soon that she had bladder stones so she had to have surgery to have those stones removed and we soon also found out that she is v positive so f a v cats can live long healthy lives but they definitely need to be kept indoors so they you know they don't end up in fights with other cats the only real way for it to spread to other cats is for have really deep bite wounds or if they're mating in so she spades you have to worry about her knowing with anyone and she's pretty friendly with other cats so you don't have to worry about that either she could certainly live with other cats kids would be great she's very sweet  she did come in with another cat so it's a little wiggly she did come in with another cat precious who was her kitten who was eleven years old and she just got adopted so i'm pretty small we see this here waiting for her family to come alone because of stones she will need to be on a special diet ok but other than that she's just a sweetie pie he actually if i seems affectionate she is trying to get away which will let you hold her and pet her and get close to her we're trying to trying to get her to play a little bit earlier does she play or she kind of just more like oh yeah she's twelve playful and likes to just snuggle up she's not a big sit on her lap cat doesn't like to sit next to you ok and she is so affectionate shall run against your legs and snuggle ri right so she pretty much the only concern is just you need to be on a special diet long as she is on that special diet should you shouldn't really have to worry too much about the bladder so you really want to continue to monitor it monitor it with your veterinarian we do recommend having a veterinary reference to adopt her so that we can make sure she's going to get the care she needs she want to stay on top of it but as it should stay in good shape as long as she's being fed that special diet great anything else we should offer are really sweet you know she's just a total love bug and we can't wait for her to find you next up we have got a world guy named jordan yes and you said he's eight years old he is what we know about jordan is that kind of a sad story he is that mixed breed we're not exactly sure what he is some people dog so they brought him in to us we think we're pretty lucky that they did because we found out soon after that he got here that he has heart disease in their grade four heart murmur so he is definitely going to need a family with a good relationship with their veterinarian  simple medications daily will be good for him but he's going to need follow up to make sure that nothing more severe comes of the heart disease and what are some things that an owner would need to look out for with heart disease are there any warning signs of something does go wrong you want to watch for lots of heavy breathing panting are on their tongue can sometimes turn blue if they're having these sort of issue and just kind of monitoring their eating and you know other bodily movements things like that  just to make sure that they're comfortable the veterinarian can give you full rundown on you know exactly what things to watch for you know depending on you know his different blood tests and things like that to come back throughout the years but it's something that you are figuring out how to keep under control and you know very manageable with the medication you know he's not going to be a marathon runner with you or anything but you know simple walks around the block will be fine for him he loves to use is knows he's a little snow st he does love his outdoor time so we don't want to limit that but it'll just be monitoring not you know making sure not to own great news that you said he lived with kids before he was with kids before and he could do well with the older kids he's a little bit nervous with people when he st meets them so older kids that can kind of pay attention to the back off if he's getting nervous or her facts and he also does well with other animals away so he could go out to a host of other dogs or cats ok great surrendered because their prior family just had way too many pets in the house they had to downsize a little bit so they came to us we have a really sweet friendly social durables i've never met a pair so friendly that they just walk up to you to say hello when you  go up to their cage they totally love to visit with people and play their very very smart you can teach them to run through me as a play all sorts of obstacle games there are some great videos online that you can see about learning how to teach your how to do all sorts of stuff these guys will live five years they're two years old now ok so there's still some good years left in them and they're very bonded so we're looking for a home for them together because they absolutely love each other well they seem really cool i've never had a durable or anything like that before i you said that it's good to put like a wheel in there with them or something to keep them give them something to do really are very active and you want to keep them busy so they don't get bored so you can give them a wheel that they can run on you can also treats for them in their bedding and give them toys where they have to forage to get their treats oh ok these guys do love treats they really love cheese sticks that they can keep gnawing on  good pets for kids how much work are they and responsibility and you know they're definitely a good starter pet you want to you know pick the right durable social durables like this would be great for kids some troubles are a little bit more standoffish so you want to you know be cautious and meet the the take them home but more handling always increases the socialization but they're you know you clean out there once or twice a week so there are you know pretty decent early starter pet if you're new to having  pets do you find kids are generally pretty good with being gentle with them they are smaller animals you can't really handle long or anything but you know these things they're pretty durable so you know really little kids toddlers are probably not the best match but you know young several times so we had to move them over the glass tank so you want to make sure that your cage that you have is secure whatever enclosure you set up for these little guys because like i said if they're very smart and they're they look for something to do they will figure out how to escape came to the shelter here as a stray actually i'm sorry no he was not a stray he was surrendered to the shelter because his owner was having some medical issues and could no longer care for him so he was brought in here for us to take care of pretty soon after we did find out that he crawled into urine or a tract infection so he does need to be on a special diet to control that he will probably do best in a household that it's only because it's playful as he is he can be a it's over you know over the allison worked up when he's playing he can never sometimes so you want to be cautious and probably a person who has really good knowledge of cappy havior and body language and as long as you're aware of his they had to be surrendered for it was the sort of quiet home house it was in we don't know if he lived with other pets i don't believe he lived with other pets he has been pretty good here so is what you can do to prevent your pet from getting lost at home and then what we can do if the pet is lost so st can you give us maybe some tips to prevent that from happening absolutely the best case scenario  you definitely want to check your yard on a regular basis to make sure that there aren't any ways that they can get out through your fence whether they're digging holes so they can get out and under or if they're learning how to scale the fence sometimes dogs will figure that out over time and they'll find a spot where they can scale right up and over ok you also want to be careful if you ever have people over visiting for holiday friends coming over or deliveries or if you have work being done in your house because the people working on the house don't always remember to shut the gate behind them or miseries don't remember to shut the gate behind them and you might have people over and then you know fido out in the yard and off they go right from they are you want to make sure your pets always wearing a collar with tags on your tags you have the pets name and your contact information on it we definitely recommend putting your cell phone number on it there are no address with your cell phone number on the tag you can be out searching for your pet and be contacted if you're out of the house looking for them but there's not going to help if your home phone number is on there and you're outside you also don't want to put your address on there because if you're someone the ferias gets your pat they know where you live and that you're probably out looking for your dog and not at home obviously do you recommend not having your address listed there ok in addition to that we recommend everyone microchip their p cat or dog it's just the best way to get your pet back home callers in hives are great but they can fall off and they can break in a lot of people whose dogs are out on a walk and they pulled her run after a rabbit or squirrel and the collar snaps right off and then the dog has no identification ok so a microchip is a permanent identification any veterinarian the animal control officer animal shelter can scan for that microchip and get in touch with the owner ok great so those are some great things to for i mean to prevent them from being lost forever which is a good thing what about things like that can scare them as i know th of july is usually a really big time that pets go missing because of fireworks and things like that you have a role does that play absolutely you want to be careful and know your pet it's really best on the your yard but it's also really important think about things like hollow even because you're opening and closing the door over al gore and white and the costumes can really freak dogs out if they have never seen anything like that before and then holidays when people are coming and going from your home are really important times and maybe just put your pet in a different room with a nice chew toy and let them relax with some music on instead of dealing with the hustle bustle busy of people coming and going do you have any tips for getting your pet in and out of the car i don't know how often it is that pets will get out when they're you know between opening the door and getting the leash on the pet yeah definitely there are a lot of really cool things that you can get now that clip right to the collar and plug right into the seat belts also it can to your pet secure in the seat  and also keep them from jumping out if you have groceries or other things for grab out of there are awesome it also really prevents them from going missing if you get into a car accident part of a group called missing dogs massachusetts and it's an all volunteer group that families who lost their pet trying to track them down and one of the biggest things we see is people in your car accident and the dog makes it but it takes off because it's terrifying really this horrible crash just happened and you're hurt and the dog runs away and so now you're recovering in dealing with the car accident in the missing so having that seat belt to keep them secure in place will prevent them from bouncing around in the car if you do get into a crash and also will keep them secure so they don't run away so what about cats to cats frequently go missing is that something that happens with you and keep them inside we definitely have a cage for indoor cats but there are a lot of people who have indoor outdoor cats as well and some good tips to make sure that your cat i mean you can't really control what they're doing when they're out there and wandering you know exploring  t keeping a collar with a tag on that says i'm an outdoor cat is really helpful because the way pets most often go missing is from good samaritans thinking the pets been abandoned and taking them into their house or bringing them to a shelter that could be miles and miles away and you may not think of the shelter that they brought them to so having a collar that in a tag that specifically says i'm an outdoor cat with your phone number on it is a great way to prevent your cat from being accidentally saved right and taken away ok that's one of the reasons when people find a cat we recommend the color method the paper color method where you put am i your cat and your phone number on the cat on a paper collar would you think that right out of notebook paper and then let the cat back out to do its thing coming back that about a week later and it still has that color intact you haven't had a call then you can bring them into an animal shelter to be scanned for a microchip and you can be a little bit more sure that you're not stealing someone's head again oh that's a really great suggestion ok so moving on to they're going to go or if you find a pet those should be if you're found in addition to that you want to get flyers up in the neighborhood as quickly as possible flyers at every major intersection and as many telephone poles as you can and it should be a fire that is fairly big about has mostly a picture of your pet and just the word lost and your phone number don't have to go into great detail on that flyer you just want something people can see as they're driving by ok a lot of the animals that were able to reunite with families are based on those sightings that people see the flyer and think oh i saw that this morning and now i'm seeing this dog crossing the street in front of me and they can go back and call that flyer or they could take a quick picture of it to remember once the flyers are up you're going to start getting phone calls and you want to keep track of all of those sightings and you want to ask a few key questions what time the pet was seen what direction they were headed ok and the closest intersection and it's important to find out what direction the path was heading because if sometimes  long time they'll create a pattern and if we can track that pattern we can help you figure out where to set a trap to get your dog back when i go back ok i've also heard you can put out like a bed or something that in the would be able to smell that within a does a microchip being once you if you found a lost animal and you bring it into the microchip is that process and media are they able to mediately scan the pet and then when for instance when someone brings a pet here in the st thing we do is scan for microchip if they are checked it pops up with a unique id number that is just specific to that pet we call the microchip company there are hundreds of microchip companies but the scanner will tell you what company that ship is registered with and then you can call the come and get the owners and you know the key to microchips is making sure you register them because when you get your pet microchip depending on where it's done it's not registered right at that moment when you come through all humane society we do that for you immediately because we know how important it is but if you get it at a vets office or some other places you do have to follow up and register on your own ok so if it's registered we can usually get them back to their families within thirty minutes it's really fast we know we get their information right away  if they're not registered then we turn into nancy drew a little bit more detective work we are sometimes able to really to locate the family but it's much easier if the information is just there and if you move or change your phone number e mail address you can always update that microchip information as well and it should do that if you move to keep that as up to date as possible at least the phone number so we can get ahold of you ok great and that's something that you can do here most shelters can do it and update the microchip just scan for would say the st six months because they're going to use your household they're learning what they can and can't do and that's often that st few months is when they get loose and get missing go missing rather so you really want to pay attention to that make sure that dogs are leashed when you're walking them make sure they have a secure caller on our secure harness that they can't slip out of even the friendliest dog could get spooked by something in back right out of their color if it's not fitted properly and if you're worried about that you're always welcome to stop by our staff to help put those properly for pet goes missing in this area there is a crew of us who volunteer and someone will media make a call to the owner as soon as we're notified and talk to them about the steps that they should take and kind of guide them on how you know how to find their path we provide resources  explaining the flyer will design a flyer for them and e mail it to them if they need to that's just not a skill everyone were happy to do that we also have a very active facebook page so we post every missing dog there is missing dogs massachusetts and people can post sightings you know message us with sightings that will pass along to the owners as well so it's been a very instrumental in getting a lot of dogs that's a really good resource or really good for people to help out ok well thank you so much for talking to us about that and it's really important and good for people to know what they can do if that other does happen all right well thank you that's going to conclude this episode of adopt else you can watch past and future episodes of our show at belmont media dot org