- Today we're giving 100 snow cones to homeless dogs.
It's the hottest day so I think it's perfect
to give these dogs a refreshing, cool treat.
(upbeat music)
- [Rebecca] Yeah, a snow cone, yes please Sophie!
- Mm!
- I mean how can you deny Millie a snow cone?
(upbeat music)
- Cheryl right here is making the shave ice.
Now in Hawaii we call it shave ice.
I know I'm saying snow cone because some people
may not know what shave ice is.
Tell me exactly, what is the difference
between shave ice and snow cones?
- So snow cones, the ice is crunched up, it's all crunchy.
When you shave the ice it comes out of this big block
and it's shaved real fine on a blade.
- If you've ever been to Hawaii and you had shaved ice
you know the difference.
It tastes so delicious, and especially on a hot day.
Now it's raining today but it's actually really hot,
like it's a humid day, it's hot, you're on an island
in Maui in the summertime so it makes it hot.
Now for the ingredients, you don't want to give dogs
snow cones because it's got a lot of sugar
and a lot of syrup in there.
The good news is, I'm a pet chef
and so I made up a special concoction.
So this one right here, I juiced up some blueberries,
watermelon, beets and pears and dogs love it.
So that's our red and this orange one right here
has carrots and sweet potatoes
and I even put a little cinnamon in there
just to really bring out that smell.
So now all we have to do is find out if the dogs love it.
Okay, Millie would like to put in her order.
Millie, what would you like?
Just tell me and I'll pass the order on.
Anything Millie touches, we'll buy for her.
Oh, you want the whole shaved ice truck?
All right.
Millie would like 100 snow cones please.
(people cheering and laughing)
(cheerful music)
Good girl, good girl.
Okay, today I have two very special friends joining me
because they love helping rescue dogs.
My friend Rebecca Zamolo, (Rebecca cheers)
And Matt Slays (Matt cheers)
Are here helping out.
So now you know what we're doing, you know who's doing it,
but why are we doing this?
Well, two reasons.
First, I've been traveling to shelters giving homeless dogs
some fun foods to bring joy to the shelter
and everybody who works there.
And hopefully get people to start
thinking about adopting first.
And let me tell you, we've been having fun
and these videos have been going viral.
I mean, millions of you have joined me on this journey.
We went out and gave 100 Puppuccinos to homeless dogs,
100 ice cream cones, 100 dog birthday cakes,
and now today we're at the Maui Humane Society
for a very specific reason.
You see, they've recently been through really hard times.
A massive wildfire ripped through Maui, it tore down
everything in it's path, giving people and animals
little time to react, but you know what, the team at
the Maui Humane Society jumped in to action
to do whatever it takes to help these animals.
The fire wasn't going to spare them
and they were running out of time.
But then, the brave men and women
of the Maui Fire Department stepped in.
They stood their ground at all costs to save the animals
and the people of the Maui Humane Society.
You know, I'm from Hawaii so they fact that this humane
society was saved from the fires means the world to me.
So I've got to point something out, you see this right here?
All of that is burned.
That's all ash right there.
The fires came right up to this line
and that's the humane society right there.
The firefighters stood right here and did whatever it took
to save the humane society.
Even Oprah came out, she opened up her place
so they could evacuate.
They good news is all the animals were evacuated
and they were safe.
Okay so, I'm going to try this, I'm no expert.
We're going to give it a whirl here.
- Take this one.
- Oh I see, you're putting the holes in it
so the juice goes down.
Okay, any secret to this?
- Hold the cup.
- All right.
- And you're going to want to tip it
so it doesn't spill down the cup.
- Like that?
Wow, what do you think, would you hire me?
- Uh, maybe not quite yet. (laughter)
- All right, I need a little more work, right?
It's a lot harder than it looks, guys.
I mean there's an art to this for sure.
I think we do a red side and an orange side.
I mean that looks pretty good.
That looks pretty good.
(calm music)
Mm!
That tastes really, really good.
Oh, that's so much better, look at that!
(Cheryl chuckles)
Obviously I've got some more practice.
(laughs)
Yeah, look mom there's my disaster!
They're making me return my shave ice
because it's not good enough.
That's fair, okay.
Comment down below, which one do you think is better?
(laughs)
I think I know the answer.
- This one!
- Okay, I think it's best if I step away
and let the experts make the snow cones
and I want to tell you about a very special dog
that I met that just really touched my heart, named Sophie.
- Sophie was brought in to us as an emergency,
she was hit by a car.
She had a real severe femoral fracture
and she was also very depressed, very lethargic
for about five days, she wouldn't eat, she wouldn't move,
so we kept her on continuous IVs with what we call
continuous radon fusion, painkillers,
and she finally turned around, started to eat for us.
Then we did blood work on her and it showed that
she had almost no platelets--
- [Rocky] Okay. - Which is important
for the blood clotting mechanism, commonly caused by
an infection called ehrlichiosis, common in Hawaii,
caused by ticks, or transmitted by ticks.
So we had to treat her for that before we could
even consider surgery because we didn't want to do
an amputation when she didn't have the ability
to clot her blood.
She got better, her blood work looked good
and so we proceeded with her amputation just the other day.
- [Rocky] Is it doctors orders
that she gets some shaved ice?
- Absolutely.
(laughter)
- [Rocky] Snow cone for Sophie, here we go.
Okay, here in a minute we're going to get
a special snow cone for Sophie and see if it encourages her
to walk, but first I want to kick this off
by rounding up the team, getting as many dogs as we can
in the play yard, and start serving some snow cones.
- [All] Three, two, one, we love saving lives!
- All right, let's go do it.
(cheering)
Shave ice time.
(upbeat music)
- They look so good!
(upbeat music)
- Go!
(upbeat music)
- [Rocky] What is that?
(upbeat music)
(cooing)
(upbeat music)
- Good girl, you love it!
(upbeat music)
- So here's what we're trying to do with Sophie.
The vet cleared her so that she can walk,
she can start getting around and healing.
I thought if we could get a snow cone
and encourage Sophie to check out that snow cone
it'll lift her spirits and it'll get her walking
and healing faster.
So here's what I want everyone to do.
I'm going to go grab that snow cone, oh thank you,
aw she's so sweet.
And I want everyone to leave a comment down below
of words of encouragement for Sophie
so that she can get better.
Okay, let's get a snow cone Sophie.
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Oh, it smells good doesn't it?
Oh, that is so good and I made it!
All right, now the best part of all,
I get to go share this with my wife.
Dinner's ready!
All right, so here's how we're going to do it.
I'm right here with Sophie, Matt and Rebecca
are right over there with the shave ice.
(whooping)
And we're going to try and get Sophie
to go to the shave ice.
Let's let her smell it first.
Okay, what's that?
- Sophie.
- Oh, okay.
I think it's going to be good, let's give it a try.
We just want a few small steps, you ready?
(calm music)
Okay, go get it Sophie, go get it!
Look at her go!
- [Rebecca] Look, what's that?
Yep, a snow cone just for you Sophie!
(inspirational music)
- [Rocky] For me, this moment is inspirational
because Sophie is a perfect example
of what we have to learn from dogs.
They live in the moment, they live in the now.
She's not worried about what happened to her
or what people will think of her.
She's just enjoying the love that we're showing her
by bringing her a snow cone.
She's getting around so good, I got to say, the vet
and the staff and all the volunteers
at the Maui Humane Society, they deserve so much respect
and so much credit for helping this girl.
(inspirational music)
Just so you know, this is Sophie's first time
out of her cone, right? - Yes.
- She got a little time out of her cone,
so the cone's going back on right now while she heals
but I think she's, hopefully today brought her
a little extra happiness.
Oh man, today's the perfect day for snow cones.
It's raining, it's hot, I can't tell if I'm wet
or I'm sweating, I mean, right?
- I don't know.
- No, it's just hot!
It's just hot, you guys. - [Rocky] Why are you
perfectly dry, cool, calm and collected?
- I'm not, I'm sweaty.
- The way God made me.
(laughter)
- If you had to order one thing off here, what would it be?
Okay, she said a cheeseburger.
(laughter)
All right, so there are a few pups inside
that we didn't get to give snow cones to
so we're going to go run those in right now.
Awesome, all right, let's do it, come on!
- Just in case they're nervous for shaved ice
just because it's kind of new, we're throwing in
a few little dog treats, you know.
- It's a good idea, it's like shaved ice to the next level.
- It's like sprinkles on your sundae, you know.
(Rocky laughs)
- Just meaty treats.
- They just smell a little different, it's fine.
(Rocky laughs)
(upbeat music)
This one is for Frankie.
Hi, do you want a snow cone?
You're so good!
- Alice is such an awesome volunteer,
everyone give a thumbs up for Alice.
- Yeah.
- How many thumbs up do we need?
- 50,000.
- 50,000 thumbs up for Alice, all right.
Okay, we're going to go in and give Duke the puppy
his very own snow cone.
Like little earrings ears!
(upbeat music)
Good boy!
(upbeat music)
So you might have noticed that my friend Rebecca Zamolo
and Matt Slays are here helping out.
We saw Millie and how excited she was about these snow cones
and yeah, she's a bigger girl,
she can handle another snow cone and it's healthy,
it's got carrots and beet.
We're making another one for her, very special one.
We even set up a pool for her
because we hear she loves water.
So today is all about cooling her down, keeping her cool,
that body temperature, and really highlighting her--
- Oh, there she goes!
(laughter)
- [Woman] Just a drive through.
- [Rocky] Like running through the sprinkler
when you're a kid.
- Devours it, okay.
- [All] Millie!
- Oh Millie!
Wow! - [Matt] She's not shy at all!
- That ASMR though.
(eating noises)
What?
You're so cute.
I mean how can you deny Millie a snow cone?
(water splashing)
- On her, oh no! (laughter)
- Now you're really good at dog baths.
All right, I mean you see how sweet Millie is
and the thing is, Millie's actually the longest resident
here at Maui Humane, so if you live in Maui please stop by
and consider having her be a part of your family.
All of the volunteers and the workers and the staff
that are here, they are just as important as all the dogs,
the lives that are saved and they're the reason
that all of these dogs are getting
to go into loving, forever families.
So can we go ahead and give shave ice
to all of the staff members here
and volunteers? - Yeah.
- Awesome, all right, let's do it, come on!
Okay, we're going to do shave ice, you guys want some?
Humans, come on, come out and get some.
Get out there, they're right in the employee staff area.
- [Woman] To put the dogs in it.
- Okay, who's on that walkie-talkie?
- The girl, um...
- All staff, this is Rocky Kanaka
and I can't thank you enough for all the work
you do day in and day out so staff, volunteers,
everyone head out to the employee parking lot
and we have shaved ice for you, human shaved ice,
we already gave the dogs shaved ice so human shaved ice,
meet me out there now!
What I should have said there is hey staff, Rebecca Zamolo
wants to take all of the dogs home
so load them up in her car.
- Yes!
This is all for me!
My two bedroom in Los Angeles.
(laughter)
- How is it, is it good?
- So good.
- Thank you for all the work you do.
- New favorite.
- You are heroes, you are my favorite.
So, what flavor did you get?
- I got coffee.
- Oh that's good, that'll keep you awake that way.
- Yeah.
- Which one did you get?
- I got the strawberry and coconut.
- Right, I think that sounds like a good one.
- It tastes like strawberry ice cream.
- Oh good, thanks so much!
- Thank you so much!
Bye! - Bye!
Yes, what can we get for you?
- I would like the, oh geez.
How about the strawberry and coconut cream, please?
- Yeah, one strawberry and coconut cream, please.
Now, would you like me to make it or the expert to make it?
- Oh...
- They were bad, no.
(laughter)
- You can't tell them!
- I would like you to make it!
- Yeah, you don't want me to make it.
- We're not hiring him today.
(laughter)
- Yeah, where do you fill out
the applications for employment?
- They are here, fresh out.
(machine noises)
- [Rocky] Is this your first time
feeding snow cones to doggos?
- Yeah, I think it's the first time
for anybody to do that.
- Yeah, definitely the first time but they loved it!
- [Rocky] What do you think?
Is this something you'll do on a regular basis?
- I think Blackjack, our dog will probably come out
and crush it with Millie, he would eat
about probably four snow cones if he could.
- Just so y'all know, Blackjack's
about the size of that snowcone.
- Yeah, he is.
- Yeah, he is but he loves food but this was honestly
so cool, it was so cool to see the dogs
and get them cooled off.
It doesn't look hot but it's so muggy here
and this is actually not even as bad, it can get even hotter
so it's just cool they got a day to cool off here.
- [Rocky] Well I thank you guys for coming out.
- Yeah, thanks for having us!
We loved it! - Absolutely!
- It's really great that my friends came out to help
and that they love dogs just as much
so I'm going to put all their info down below,
go follow Rebecca Zamolo and Matt Slays
and check out their awesome YouTube channels.
- Yeah!
- Are we getting snow cones right now?
- Oh, sorry, for the dogs and the volunteers.
- Oh, so the 100 didn't include us.
- Sorry, that would be 102 and that's just not how it works,
we have to keep to the rules, sorry.
- Okay, uh...
- [Rocky] But you know what, safe travels
back to the mainland. - We came here with you Rocky.
- [Rocky] So I just, I got to go, bye!
(laughter)
Oh wait, that's the dog one!
(laughter)
- [Woman] Still a success.
- It's so good!
(clapping)
(woman grunts)
I love it.
- This is Nancy and Nancy's been so fantastic
in helping set all of this up.
Nancy, what do you do here?
- I am the director of development and communications.
- Well you and the team do such awesome work.
- Thank you.
- Can I get you a human shave ice?
- I would love a shave ice.
- Okay, for humans?
- Yes, for humans please.
- Okay, right this way.
- That is incredible.
- [Rocky] So good!
- That's so amazing.
- [Rocky] Well deserved.
- That's so good.
- [Rocky] This is so much fun for the staff and,
wait a minute, for the staff and volunteers.
(record scratching) And the dogs.
What are you guys? - What?
- [Rocky] It's for the staff and the volunteers
and the dogs! - I mean, what?
I, uh, someone gave this to us.
- [Rocky] All right, you know what, you guys are worth it,
you can have one too, you worked really hard today
filming those dogs.
- Okay fine.
(laughter)
- Man, it is raining but we are having fun
and if you remember in the last video, 100 Puppuccinos
for homeless dogs, I asked you to help me name Mama,
and overwhelmingly everybody was like:
"We like the name Mama!"
I got a lot of good name suggestions so thank you,
but a couple of people right now
that I am including on the screen,
thank you for your suggestions, you said her name
should stay Mama, and it kind of grew on me too,
I mean Mama is a good name for a mama
with a bunch of puppies, so thank you
for your recommendations everyone that I put right here.
Make sure you leave comments down below,
I read and respond to as many of those as I can.
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sometimes when dogs get adopted and it really helps
support me to continue to do what I'm doing.
Sophie is going to be available for adoption.
I want everyone to follow her progress
and I think it would be a lot of fun
to just blow up Maui Humane Society's Instagram page
so I want everyone to go follow them,
I'll put the link down below,
I'm going to put the Instagram right here on the screen.
Go follow them for Millie's progress
and that way you'll be the first to know
when she's available for adoption.
Big thanks to Gus the Bus, they came out here
and it's not the first time they've come out here.
When the fires hit in Maui they came out
to give free snow cones to all of the staff and volunteers
here, so I'll put their Instagram below
so you can come check them out.
And if you like this video, click this playlist right here
for more videos where I go round
giving fun foods to homeless dogs!