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You're listening to Starlight Pet Talk, a podcast for pet parents who want the best pet care advice from cat experts, dog trainers, veterinarians and other top pet professionals who will help you live your very best life with your pets.
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We also share inspiring rescue and adoption stories from people who've taken their love of pets to the next level by getting involved in animal welfare.
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My name is Amy Castro and I'm the founder and president of Starlight Outreach and Rescue and a columnist for PetAge Magazine.
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I've rescued thousands of animals and helped people just like you find the right pet for their family.
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My mission is to help pet parents learn all the ways that they can care for, live with and even have fun with their pets so they can live their very best lives and their pets can too.
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Welcome to our Starlight Pet Talk live episode.
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We have no idea what we're doing, in case you didn't already notice that and I hope my podcast coach is watching so he can see me make a fool out of myself and second guess his career choices Nope, just kidding Anyway.
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So yeah, we've got a lot in store for you this evening.
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From meowing Did you hear that We've got kittens that we're going to bring out for you to see.
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We're going to talk about your favorite episodes from this past season our very first inaugural season and we're going to get that going here in just a couple more seconds.
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So, like I said, we're going to give people time to get on because I don't want anybody to miss the highlights of our 2023 inaugural season.
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So well, like I said, we'll just kind of slowly ease into things.
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So I'm Amy Castro.
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You all probably hear my voice every single week If you listen to the podcast every single week, which I hope that you do.
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And this person over here is my friend Bev.
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She actually was on the very, very first official episode of the Starlight Pet Talk podcast and has been on.
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How many episodes have you been on since then?
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At least two, at least two.
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At least two other episodes along the way.
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So I rely on her to share her pet expertise and to keep me in line.
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And she also always finds the errors that I do in the podcast, like, why did I listen to a podcast and it was supposed to be about apples, but then it was about mushrooms?
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Okay, that happened.
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So she does find.
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She does help me find my errors.
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So what we're going to be doing this evening we actually have a plan, unlike most of the time.
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I have notes.
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I did my homework.
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I have notes, I have claims, she has notes and did some homework.
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So we are going to obviously talk about your top favorite episodes.
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Bev and I are going to share some of our favorite episodes and they may overlap with yours or they may not.
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We may overlap with each other or we may not along the way, and we'll talk about why we like those episodes and I'm hoping also to guide you if you didn't listen to all of the episodes throughout the season to maybe guide you to some episodes that I think are pretty impactful, maybe life changing, depending upon where you are in your journey with your pets.
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So we will go over that.
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We're also going to get into talking about our second season, which will kick off in January.
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I haven't announced a date yet, but you will.
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If you keep an eye on our website and on our Facebook page, you will definitely hear about that, and Twitter and Instagram and wherever else you find us along the way.
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Before we get into revealing any exciting things about the podcast producer Kelsey, can you show us the source of that noise in the background there, because I seem to hear some little visitors.
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Oh my goodness, yes, give me that one.
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I like that.
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So we have some little kittens here, and so for those of you who would know us well and have been following us since the very beginning, you will know.
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Okay, all right, don't take over my show.
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She does let me talk sometimes, yeah, so yeah, so these kittens are from Starlight Outreach and Rescue.
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They are available for adoption along the way and realize that we are actually recording here directly from an animal rescuer.
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I love you.
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Okay, all right, and there hasn't been no alcohol this evening.
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We're waiting until this thing is over before we get all involved in that.
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These little guys are from Starlight Outreach and Rescue.
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The whole reason the podcast exists is as an extension of our mission at Star Light Outreach and Rescue to educate people on pets.
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And I will say and I think you've said the same thing along the way we have educated ourselves.
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I mean, I have made complete changes in my pets' diets, in some of the things that I've done with the foster animals, based on based on what we've learned on the podcast.
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We wanted to extend our reach when it comes to education, and so the podcast was a way to do that.
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We spent a lot of time at the rescue doing one-on-one conversations with people over the phone or back and forth on email and trying to help them with problems that they have with their pets, because the number one reason that people gave up their pets at least in our experience over the last 15 years of being involved in fostering and rescue, is a huge percentage of it is definitely a lack of education or just not knowing how to handle certain problems and situations that show up.
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So we kind of figured hey, we can have these one-off, one-on-one conversations or we can create a podcast that will allow us to address all of the issues that people have, because the odds are that if one person has them, there's probably 100 people that have them, and we've managed to build this podcast.
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I think the first episode we had like 40 people listen to it, so we're hoping that this has been helpful to you in helping you learn and grow as a pet parent or a pet owner, however you refer to yourself and the goal obviously for all of us is to help our pets live their very best lives and to not make ourselves crazy in the process, because that's the other thing that has a tendency to happen along the way.
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So let's go ahead and talk a little bit about favorite episodes.
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So what we asked people to do basically was to either vote on our survey for all of the episodes that we had throughout the season we put up a survey, so we got a lot of votes on that and then we also went back and we took a look at download numbers to kind of see what were the episodes that people listen to most.
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And I have to say, before I actually get into revealing the results.
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I have to say thank you to everybody who has listened to this podcast along the way, because I will speak for my just my own personal experience.
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If we didn't have good success in the beginning, I wouldn't still be doing this podcast.
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I went to chickened out a long time ago and said this isn't going to work, people aren't going to like it.
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But you were there for us, you were encouraging, you gave us great feedback, you downloaded and you listened.
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You helped us when we made mistakes to fix things.
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So I really appreciate every single person out there that is listening to this, whether you're listening to it live or whether you listen to it later on when we upload the recording, which we will do so nobody gets to miss out on our bloopers this evening along the way.
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Also very much want to share a thank you with and I did this on Facebook the other day and tagged a lot of you in it but the people who are guests on the show.
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Throughout this first season, I did not really well.
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I didn't realize that it can be a real challenge to get guests to come on a podcast and that you really have to do a lot of planning ahead along the way and you know I was number one grateful to friends and people who have adopted from Starlight Outreach and Rescue, but also my professional speaker friends, that those folks really helped me get off to a great start because not only do I have a lot of professional speaker friends who are animal lovers and are involved in animals in various different ways, but also they're really eloquent and so they don't do things like drop their papers and let their phones chime.
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They make you look good because they speak well and they know what they're talking about and they're organized.
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So you know, shout outs to Sandy Weaver.
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Sandy saved me on a last minute episode where I had somebody bail on me.
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At the last minute I called her up and I was like, hey, I don't even think I called her, I think I Facebook Messenger and said, hey, can you come and do an episode on something with me?
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And she's like, okay, what do you want to do?
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And boom, she was there.
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But Sandy, alisa Hayes, donna Mack, nora Burns, your name's going to come up, so your ears will be burning this evening along the way.
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But thank you all for being there for me and for helping to make me look good and the show look good and to share some great information about our animal friends.
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So let's go ahead and get into some of these episodes.
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And it was.
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You know, it was very interesting to me the difference between and I don't know if you were surprised about this as well, beth, but the difference between the download numbers and some of the responses.
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There was a couple of things in there that were like radically different.
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So, in addition, you know, we originally said we're going to take the top three favorite episodes and talk about those, but we're going to take actually the top four because there was that disparity between downloads versus what people voted for and we wanted to make sure everybody was represented.
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So the number one most listened to episode of the Starlight Pet Talk podcast for our first season actually aired on April 11th, so that wasn't too far into the season, and my guest for that episode was Dr Jeff Grognet from Canada and he's a holistic veterinarian and the title of the or the yeah, the title of the episode was are you feeding your pet the right food?
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So that has been, to date, still the most downloaded episode of the podcast.
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I attribute part of that to the fact that Dr Jeff has a pretty tremendous following.
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I hope that guests and I'm sure most podcasts host hope that the people that come on their show will help spread the word about the episode that they're in.
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And especially when you get a guest that has a much bigger following than what you have, it's like you hope that he can kind of ride that, ride that train and gain more followers.
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So Dr Jeff said he would share the information about the podcast and I'm not going to quote it exactly, but it was.
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It was an email that came out and his emails are pretty straightforward and pretty simple and it basically was some somewhere along the lines of I was on a podcast talking about nutrition and feeding your pets.
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Here's a link and I thought, man, could you, could you like hype it up a little bit more, like give a little more excitement along the way.
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And I kid you not, I got that email.
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I went back out to Buzzsprout, which is where I host the podcast, and I could click and refresh the page and it'd be like 10 more downloads, 15 more downloads.
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It was like so obviously he doesn't have to make it fancy, just like he doesn't think your food has to be fancy for your pets.
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So it was.
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It was really great to see that people were listening to that episodes and that episode and I know for me personally.
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Almost immediately after that I completely changed all my all my pets food.
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I just want to say I hit home too, because it not only did I learn a lot from that episode, but it's nice also that he backed up what I had learned anyway, Like he was backing up things that I was doing right, but I also learned a lot from that too and forced me to continue doing the right thing, like the water.
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Water and the food is the first thing that comes to mind.
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The moisture content is key and that really stuck with me quite a bit and continued on doing that, yeah.
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I know that's definitely.
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I mean, I basically moved all of my cats for sure off of dry food because they've been eating dry food.
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Right, it's the easy thing and you know just the discussion that we had in that episode and several people had commented about you know, I literally changed my pet foods because of this.
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I didn't realize cats constantly were dehydrated and neither did I.
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I mean, they've got massive amounts of water.
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Why aren't they drinking it?
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But they apparently they just don't drink enough.
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So, moving to the canned food, adding water to the canned food, I think it has really really helped my, help, my personal pets, and it seemed to be reflected by the, by the folks that downloaded it, because a lot of people listen to that particular episode.
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That was a good one.
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Yeah that was a good one, all right.
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So the number two episode I hesitated to do this one, but I went ahead and did it anyway, because I always feel like having a guest adds a little extra expertise or a little balance to have a conversation, versus me just running my mouth, which I have no problem doing, versus me just running my mouth for an entire episode.
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But the number two favorite favorite episode was it aired on Halloween and the episode was top favorite pet products Every pet parent must have and we've gotten a really great response from that.
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I'm glad about that one because I truly I mean we truly started looking around the rescue ranch and looking at you know what is that favorite bowl that I have, or what are the toys that last the longest, or whatever it might be, and it really gave me a chance to help share that information with other people, because I see people making mistakes.
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So products that were included in that particular episode were things like obviously Kong Kong's a really good friend of ours.
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They've donated lots of toys and things like that to the rescue.
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And then also pet mate is another one that's a personal favorite of mine.
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I remember I actually did.
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I was standing in the kitchen one day and was I don't know what I was doing.
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I was shooting a video, I think, about feeding kittens and I said something about oh, this is like my favorite bowl to use for these kittens and I thought, well, let me see what kind it is.
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And sure enough, it was pet mate and you know, if you want to see that episode, it kind of outlines all of the other products.
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But the comments that we received on that particular episode were things like you know, these are legit products.
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Like you know, it's not just not just talking about things and then they're really garbage when you get them.
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Somebody said life saving.
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I don't remember.
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They didn't say specifically what product it was.
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It was probably it had to have been either the Forda Flora, the Purina Forda Flora, because that has been a lifesaver for us, or, if it was a rescue person, maybe it was the Snuggle, safe, pet warmer bed thing, because that one is.
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I mean, you got to keep those baby kittens warm.
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And then I had another comment that where somebody said you know, thanks for sharing this.
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People, you know, people need to know what works.
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So that was our number two episode.
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What did you?
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think about that one the same thing Also, that I trust what you are going to purchase.
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So when you say XYZ is good, I'm like I'm going to let her do all the.
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Yeah, let me make the mistakes, the trial and error and like that's good, and all my friends back home on Cape Cod will are probably sick of seeing pictures of my cat in the furry bed.
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I think we've all seen it.
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It's like a gray kind of really.
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I call it a donut bed.
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It's like a donut thing and that was Midwest Homes and my cat.
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He loves it.
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There's a heating pad under it too, so that helps, but he just absolutely loves it and he's never loved something that much Like he just curls up into a tight little donut, does not want to get out, and that I wouldn't have bought it.
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I totally never.
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I'm like it's a gimmick, I'm going to spend the money and he's never going to like it.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, it's nice to have somebody test that stuff out for you, because some of the Especially when you're getting into quality products they're not cheap and you don't want to spend money and then have something not work.
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So yeah, let somebody.
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It's kind of like restaurants.
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I don't like to go to a restaurant randomly.
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I like to know that a bunch of other people have gone and that's good before we tested out.
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So that was the number two most downloaded episode.
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So I appreciate that Hopefully you all have purchased some of those products and seen how well they work for you as well.
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And then the number three episodes.
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So the number three episode was kind of funny because I thought that episode was going to explode from the get go and maybe I just I'm biased on some of these topics because I think the subject matter is so incredibly important.
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But it was a slow burner.
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I mean it kind of started off slow because I'm a psycho about numbers and I don't know if all podcasters do this, but if that podcast is going to air at 5 am, I'm going to be like at 5.15.
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I'm looking at my phone.
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What are the downloads?
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It's like people aren't even up yet.
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But I don't care and it just lagged for a little while but then all of a sudden it took off.
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I'm not really sure why, but it was with Dr Matt Getz and he is with Merck Animal Health and the episode was called the Life-Saving Importance of Microchipping your Pets.
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And we just did that one in November, november 28th.
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We kind of did that.
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I wanted to kind of end the year on a holiday series, because holidays are challenging, right.
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I mean it's stressful, there's so much going on and there's things that can go on with our pets or special challenges that we have with our pets.
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So kind of came up with this idea of doing a month-long series in November of holiday-related episodes and that was the one that was kind of the wrap-up about getting your pet home again if they were to get lost.
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So not only was Dr Matt obviously very professional and works for the company, so he knows about product and the product is.
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There are a lot of microchip companies out there.
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One that we use here at Starlight Outreach and Rescue is Home Again, which is made by Merck.
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He was not only knowledgeable about that but had sheltering experience and knows from personal experience the life-saving impact of having your pets microchip.
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So really really appreciate him and the company coordinating and making sure that episode happened, because sometimes, especially when you're just a baby podcaster even though I'm old, you're a baby podcaster you feel like I can't call this giant company and ask you want to come on my podcast from my guest room at the Rescue Ranch.
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Now, this is a real studio, this is not a guest room, I promise you.
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But then they do.
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They're like, hey, they want people microchip in their pets too, so that they can get their pets home.
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He's excited about it too.
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Yeah, he was really excited.
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I like the fact that he was very down to earth and no question was too simple.
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It's like the GPS part of it.
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I didn't know people even question if there was GPS in it, like, oh yeah, that's a great question.
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He was very good about it and he had a lot of suggestions about why it's important to do microchipping.
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Oh, I never thought of that.
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That's why I should have microchipped.
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You're giving your dog a bath and he runs away.
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I'm a good owner.
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I always keep my collar on my pet, but if you give him a bath and he slips out, there you go.
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There's your instance where you need the microchip.
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It was good.
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It was good.
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I liked listening to him.
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He was very good yeah.
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Did you have any particular?
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I was thinking about the, the pet products ones.
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I didn't.
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I've been dominating the conversation other than the.
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Donut.
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Sorry, I'm a professional talker.
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I got my glasses on my grandma in my real-time job, beyond doing this podcast, I think everyone should listen to.
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It was February 14th on navigating pet loss with Nancy Gordon.
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I think it's something, whether you're a pet owner or not, that everyone can relate to about losing your pet.
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And then also I thought of this as we're listening to Yamer on.
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I really wasn't done yet.
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I was going to ask you about your other favorite product but, that's okay.
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Y'all gonna have to wait.
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No, that's okay, you go ahead.
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You need to listen to that podcast with Nancy Gordon, because everybody who has a pet goes through this BS of having to lose an older pet.
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This is what they do to us.
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They kill us.
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It kind of gave you.
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That's all I was gonna say.
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It gives you permission to not feel bad about your pet being a family member.
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You know, you can hear the eyes rolling already Like, oh, it's just a cat, oh it's just a guinea pig or whatever.
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But she gives you permission to have that pet be a family member, and it was.
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It's.
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Oh, it's got goosebumps.
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You need to.
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You need to listen to it.
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It's good.
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Well, and that's actually you know, since we're not going to talk about our favorite episodes that was mine too.
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I had that on my list, you know it's funny because that was the first Nancy Gordon, who's a licensed clinical social worker, and I know she's got another another like a life coach, certified life coach.
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She was my first real guest that I got lined up to be on the show and I didn't know her, she didn't know me, but she was willing to willing to come on the show and I remember recording that episode and you talking about getting goosebumps, like thinking, oh my gosh, like it's really happening this show is not only is it's really happening, but this show is going to be so good.
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And then I remember being and I had never did tell Nancy this because you don't want to tell somebody oh, yours is the lowest listen to show and it's not, it's not anymore.
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But I, you know, I thought people would be just clamoring to listen to that, to just get some perspective on it, and it was so.
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I mean, it was in like the two digits for a long time and it just kind of lingered forever.
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And then I think it kind of dawned on me that people don't want to talk to Kelsey about it too, people don't want to think about it, yeah, but you know, if you did not listen to that episode, I highly, highly recommend that you go back and listen to it, because even as somebody who has not only had to and she doesn't use the word put to sleep or euthanize or whatever the phrase that she used was lift her pets up instead of putting them down, lifting them up we're all going to be in that position to have to do it.
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You know, it might be a spontaneous thing, that happens quickly, or you might have time to plan, but she will change your entire, absolutely viewpoint on that whole process and how you could you know, if you do have time or even if it's just a short 24 hour period, how you can change that experience for you and for your pet.
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That was to me like that was a life changing life changing episode for people if they listen to it, and I highly encourage you, you know, listen to it now, when your pets are young and healthy and you're not thinking about it, because you'll be harmed for that information when the time comes.
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So, yeah, it's funny that you picked that one too, because I like that one as well.
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All right, so what was your other?
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Oh, are you done with your?
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Well, no, I'll let you you, since you started.
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I'll let you do your top three.
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We happen to have the same one on that one.
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Well, miss Nora Burns we mentioned you earlier, nora Burns.
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Nora Burns, april 4th she did a podcast about fostering and how it saves lives.
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Very interesting, very digestible.
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If you're thinking about doing it, it's not so overwhelming, and it she talks every talks about everything from soup to nuts about fostering, but the one key thing that she had said during that episode was having a heartbeat in the house.
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That's a great phrase.
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Yeah, it just and that was back in April I heard.
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I still think about that when she said it like really resonates Every, every heartbeat is important yeah.
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Well and I think there was so much tied into that, into that concept, on that episode is every heartbeat is important, having some other being in your home if you're lonely or if you know, even if you're, if you're a stay at home person or you work from home and you're, you've got a family, but they're all at work all day.
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Just having somebody else around can really have a really good effect and you're doing that, or the heartbeat a good deed, because you're going to make that animal adoptable.
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Yeah, you know you're going to have to say goodbye, but look at the good that you've done.
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Give me another one, I'll make this one good and like flip, it's like flipping houses.
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It's exactly like flipping houses.
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Yeah, you probably don't follow one of those houses.
