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Tom: Hey this is Tom and Tim from Thursday.
Tim: and we are here in Cedar Grove shooting a PSA for PETA with our adopted dogs.
Interviewer: She going to hold your hand down with her paw.
Crew Member 1: Aww [Laughter]
Tom: She does that all the time.
Were sitting watching TV she’ll come up on the coach and look at you and grab your
arm so we’ll pet her.
Crew Member 2: Dexter Tim: telling his companion to stop
Crew Member 1: but this is my bad side.
(Speaking on the dogs behalf) Crew Member 2: I got a big nose.
(Speaking on the dogs behalf) Crew Member 3: you got it, dump it.
Parish I’m powered up over here?
Crew Member 2: Yeah.
Crew Member 3: Dexter Crew Member 1: Hey Dexter, you want this,
you guys want this?
Tim: I’m like...
[Laughter] Tom: Adopting dogs and adopting pets in general
has become a pretty big issue.
Breeding practices and you think about designer animals and the whole market of selling animals
is kind of a weird thing and it seems like a pretty shitty practice.
You think of stores at mall where they have policies where if they don’t... if dogs
aren’t... pets aren’t bought after a certain time then they euthanize them.
You can find a loving animal...
at a shelter just as well as paying lots of money for some animal that might be suffering
because of legal breeding practices or puppy mill situations.
Tim: Here’s puppy farmers where they just have like tons and tons of puppies running
around and it a... creates a lot of health problems for the dogs too.
So then they go to pet stores and no one will buy them cause they’re sick and they just
get put down anyway, so it’s really...
I don’t know... it seems terrible to let that happen.
When a... we got our dog umm... it was a... at the North Shore Animal League in Long Island
and they have... every year they have a puppy adopt-o-thon.
Our dog is from Tennessee originally and they just like brought’em up to try and get...
you know find homes for all these dogs.
Over the weekend they found homes for like 250 or 300 dogs and it’s just... you know
actually right around this time every year and it just seems like the right thing to
do... you know if you want a dog.
Tom: Yeah we a...
It was funny, we weren’t quite sure how to go about finding a pet so we of course
found ourselves looking in all these weird place and there were actually a store that
we went to and there were cute animals, really, really friendly animals but the room was really
gross and dirty and they weren’t being...
some of them looked like they were sick and it just seemed like a... not a... it seemed
pretty shady so we decided to start looking at a... like adoption centers we went to a...
three or four different ones around New Jersey and a... actually ended up in Newark and a...
we had seen probably three or four dogs all of which were being adopted, as we were falling
in love with them they were being adopted, which is good because they all found homes
but a... we were putting ourselves through the ringer falling in love with these animals
and a... the last day that we looked, we weren’t even going to go back out and we decided to
go to the shelter in Newark and a... we went in there, there were a couple of animals and
Keico was staring through her cage and a... yeah it was easy we went in they did a background
check and asked us a bunch of information and we had to wait another day but we came
back before the doors opened to make sure no one grabbed her and she’s amazing she
was just a stray from the streets of Newark and a... she’s great.
Tim: When you go to a lot of shelters and a... a lot of the dogs there are you actually
see are pit bull mixes and stuff like that, that are probably originally breed for fighting
or there’s fighting dogs that have puppies and they just bring’em there.
The shelter that I went to they... they called like two references to find out and they did
a background check and everything like that and umm... you know just to make sure we could
take care of the dog stuff.
Tom: They even go so far as to call, if you’re renting an apartment, they call your landlord
and they say, you know is this... a... are you okay with having animals in your leased
property or whatever and a... yeah it’s really thorough and they... you know we we’re
standing there waiting...
I think there’s a fee I forget exactly what it was but umm... it’s a minor fee and we’re
standing there waiting, waiting to pay it and a... the guy who was, who was in charge
of the paperwork, was a calling up his boss or something and he was okaying something
with his boss and he’s like, oh yeah don’t worry they look like good people, so everyone
kind of seems very concerned with these animals going to a good place because you know they
see hundreds of them coming in every month and and a...
I think that if they didn’t do that the dogs would just end up in another shelter,
it’s just like this weird cycle.
People think they can... they have a sense of responsibility and they don’t realize
like what a... what a responsibility of having a pet is and they... they undertake it and
realize they can’t deal and then the animals end up suffering so it’s good to have people
doing their jobs right, being thorough and making sure these animals are going to the
right place, to healthy homes.
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