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My garbage person of the week is
sometimes I need a photo to
the sort of encapsulate the person.
So I've gotten this picture of
Cruella De Ville.
But what you need to understand is
that it's not actually Cruella de
Ville who's going in the trash.
There's a good chance it might be
you.
What do I mean about that?
Well, I've been keeping a watch on
dogs over the past few years.
I always do, and
during the pandemic dogs were very
much in the news initially.
I'm going to walk you through a few
months of headlines.
There were concerns over dogfishing
and abandoned pets.
Dogfishing is where lots of people
want dogs.
The concern is when there's a lot
of demand, they might be given
dogs that they may not like,
which makes me mad because every
dog deserves a home.
And also pets being abandoned
because there was this economic
catastrophe maybe people get rid of
their dogs.
But the thing was it actually
turned out that lots of people were
alone and wanted dogs.
And so there was this puppy boom.
And so there were concerns about
smuggling and price-gouging and
dognapping and even hit Lady Gaga
of people stealing these dogs.
And then we start to get further
into the pandemic.
And after the puppy boom,
you have the puppy bust where lots
of people realize that they either
can't take or don't want the best
creature ever on our planet.
And so hundreds of lockdown puppies
began to be resold or abandoned.
This latest edition was brought to
my attention in this video by
the BBC, let's watch a little bit.
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>> Come here.
>> At the beginning of
the pandemic, we absolutely saw
a spike in people ready to adopt.
They were off work or working from
home or had lower schedules and so
they said okay, this is the time
to bring in a dog but, we,
in the past couple of months have
definitely seen some more returns.
Sometimes people also just don't
really think through or
understand how serious that
commitment is taking care of a life
of a dog or a cat.
And that stress is a little
too much for them and so
they also returned for that reason.
>> And it's a big thing, there's
reports of drastic increases in
animals being abandoned in states
like Alabama, Ohio and Nevada.
In the UK, hundreds of puppies that
were purchased during the lockdown
are now being disowned and sold.
I love that when they're disowning
them, like you're not my dog.
That seems weird.
And look, a lot of teams,
we have the Houston SBCA talking
about the issues with abandonment.
So look, if you have lost your job,
if you've lost your resources.
If you lost your home, and
you can't take care of an animal,
I understand that.
And I understand that some people
are abandoning them because
they can't give them the shelters
because the shelters are already
maxed out from lack of resources.
But that is still a living animal,
who should not be abandoned on
the street where it might be died
or it might be killed or abused,
might starve to death.
And the idea that some people
are just sort of like moving on,
they've gotten bored of it,
their other pandemic hobbies,
they're not interested in
their sourdough starter.
I don't use the typewriter I bought
that much.
The idea that you would treat a dog
that, Yasmin, that just kills me,
and that's why you're in
the garbage, not you individually.
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some of you in Houston and
around the country and
around the world- No.
>> You're a part of this puppy
bust.
>> That's so sad.
I didn't know about that,
that's really horrible.
I almost got a puppy
during the pandemic because now
is the time to do it.
If you're going to have a puppy you
can train it because you're
home all the time.
But I mean, that didn't happen,
it's coming though,
I feel like it's coming.
>> Really? But [CROSSTALK] got one,
you're going to keep it, right?
>> Yeah, how, I can't even imagine
giving it back.
>> Yeah. >> No, no, I would never
>> Yeah, especially because there's
no animal that's more there for
you when you need it most.
The idea that we would abandon them
when we don't need them anymore,
it just, God.
>> It's heartbreaking.
>> It's heart breaking,
its selfish and so many things,
it's mean.
>> Exactly, okay now, those are our
garbage people of the week but
what about your garbage people of
the week?
As always, we polled our audience
and 28,000 of you voted in the poll
this week and here is our top 5.
Coming at number 5 with 10% of
the vote Rhonda Santas for
only allowing folks and friends to
cover bill signing and possibly
violating the First Amendment.
Coming in number 2 with 13%
of the vote Caitlyn Jenner for
comments on trans athletes.
I would also throw in a comment
about personal plane hangars and
the homeless,
there's just a lot of bad
stuff coming out of that candidate.
But anyway, coming in at number 3
with 20% of the vote, Ted Cruz for
cozying up to the man who
repeatedly insulted his fam, hey,
it's an overlap with you yes and
that's always good.
>> Yeah.
>> Coming in number 2 with 24% of
the vote very close votes here, the
Arizona GOP for wasting taxpayers
money to find bamboo votes.
I only sort of know that reference,
I know it's a part of their audit,
they've lost their minds.
But number 1 this
week garbage person of the week for
the community with 32% of the vote
Joe Manchin for
continuing to champion non existent
bipartisanship.
Joe Manchin, always a contender for
the title and
much deserved this week thanks to
his interview with Chris Cuomo.
So, thank you to all of you,
the 20,000 of you who voted really
do appreciate that.
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