090426 ~ The Weekly Wag! - Wendy Welch

0:00the weekly wag with the Humane Society of Huron Valley as we introduce you to another pet looking for adoption out of our beautiful Humane Society of Huron Valley. Wendy Welch is the director of communications. Who is our pet today, Wendy? Oh, who's he in? It is oats. Oats today is he is a dog. He is about a year and a half old about 66 pounds and he is a cutie pie. He stands maybe like knee high and he is mostly white with some brown on his face. He's got the cute little like brown ears and the brown like half half of his face is brown and the rest of him is white. He looks like he's wearing a mask. I love him. All right, so this is a special animal and you're looking for a special adopter out there. We are. Yes, oats was surrendered by someone who could no longer take care of him and oats was surrendered along with another dog. So potentially oats would be good with another dog, but he is a little particular about which dogs he likes.

1:08And that's not unusual in the dog world usually dogs like to be paired with others that have a similar play style. So he is he's interesting. He's got a lot of energy, but he tends to be a little reserved and a little judgmental, like I said, about other. So yes. But he totally shows a zest for life. He loves treats. You could tell like he's interested in learning. We just need someone who's going to be really patient with him and a home where everyone's old or where everyone's over the age of 12 because of his his judgmental nature. And if the if the person has another dog, how do we get the two together to see if they're compatible then such a great question. Yes, at the human side, if you're on Valley, we can help do those dog to dog interactions. And so what we recommend is that people come in first, you know, with their family determined if it's going to be a good match, if they, you know, get along like that.

2:09And and then come back with their dog and we will do a supervised dog to dog interaction and see if they have a similar play style. And it's usually pretty obvious pretty quickly if it's a yay or nay. When you're talking about a similar play style, can you give us kind of an idea what oats likes to do is oats, ram, bunches. You said that he has a lot of energy. Exactly. Exactly. Yes. Yes. He is he's more right. He's an active player. So he will do a lot of running around a lot of vocalization. So yes. So he will be a busy boy. Okay. There are some. Yes. Yeah. How do your dogs play? Well, now let's just talk about that. So we have the sedate and the rather he looks at you with the amusement bow sitting there. And then you've got Brixton taking bow by the ear and dragging him around the house.

3:10Oh, I did you know and bow let's him do it. But both definitely because he's older. He's 11 and Brixton is three. So Brixton's still got that puppy in him. And but you know, he he has been a wonderful companion for bow because he keeps bow active. And I think bow would probably sleep all day if I let him. Yes. Yes. Right. Yeah. He got a new dog sometimes when he get two dogs. Yes. That's true. That's true. Yeah. So okay. Well, that's good to know. And if oats doesn't have another dog in the household, that's okay too, then totally. Yes. Yes. He could be his own dog too. Okay. But yes, lots of lots of folks out there. I know already have a dog. So I just want to put that out there. We have lots of animals. You know, this week, we also have the love train coming in too. So if anyone's interested in a puppy, check us out for that. So HSV dot board. Oh, wow. Okay. And can you give everyone an idea, walk them through the adoption process so they have an understanding they might not have ever been to the Humane Society, which by the way, they're located at 3100 Cherry Hill Road in the village of Dicksboro just to the northeast of Ann Arbor. But what is that process again?

4:18Yeah, we try to make it as easy as possible for folks. So we want to make sure to make a good match for people. So when you come in, you'll fill out a little profile that basically gives information about your home and your family, your energy level, what you're interested in. And then we try to make a match from there. You'll want to bring in your ID and and really that's it. Most adoptions take place same day. Like I say, with things like oats, if you have another dog in the family and we want to do a dog to dog interaction that can then spread itself out over a couple days and you can put a hold on the animal. But yeah, we have an in store little store to in case you don't have all the necessities, you can buy them there. And yeah, we make it easy. All right, you sure do you can go to hshv.org, click on adoptions and they're all alphabetized. You're looking for the O's for oats. Oats looks like he has a little terrier in him, does he?

5:20I agree. I don't know. We haven't done a DNA test, but he does look like that. Yeah, he's a little bit there. He's so cute. I love that big pink tongue coming out of his mouth. So endearing. Coming up in October at the beautiful St. John's Resort is the compassionate feast. Twenty first annual year that the Humane Society of Huron Valley has been doing this telephone about this. Yes, this is one of our big fundraisers of the year and it is like you say taking place at St. John's Resort in Plymouth, this beautiful, beautiful place. You used to be a monastery. And we have a multi course meal as suggested by the name compassionate feast. So you can choose from vegetarian or vegan. I'm telling you it is good to we have improved that over the 21 years last year was our best. And I think we're going to top it even this year. And it includes not only that, but also a silent auction open bar and a great entertainment program this year we are starring animal advocate Ryu Ji Shuwa, who is an amazing, amazing speaker.

6:31People really enjoy it year after year. You can get your tickets at hshv.org slash feast. It's happening October 30th. So right before Halloween and it's going to have kind of a spooky theme. And in fact, we have an option this year for people to meet with a pet psychic. So it's going to be a blast. And I just want to give people an idea on the food you mentioned you could either do the vegetarian or the vegan option. So on the vegetarian side an autumn wedge salad, which sounds delicious. It's got toasted pecans and roasted pumpkin and apple and grapes and apple cranberry vinaigrette. Redded eggplant tower looks remarkable. Sun dried tomato chef with cured olives and black pepper asparagus and tomato and our Ibiata sauce fabulous. And then a raspberry elderflower tort for dessert a chiffon cake with elderflower syrup whipped vanilla ganache raspberry mousse and raspberry chocolate dip. Oh my goodness.

7:31And then the vegan tasting and I'm telling you like that we were salivating. Oh my gosh. The vegan option also has the autumn wedge salad, but then it has a caramelized root vegetable tart with a sweet potato puree hard cider for for bitten rice pomegranate, gromolata, and then the black forest tor to chocolate cake with chocolate coconut cream, bordo cherries. Oh, it's just in a ganache chocolate ganache and there looks so delicious. Oh, it's mouth watering is so great. They are amazing. Alright, so how much your tickets this year? Yes, so we have a couple of different levels. The first one is $225 and $125 of that is tax deductible. So that includes dinner drinks and the silent auction. Then we have $350, which includes those things also a professional photo with the event and an event t-shirt. And then either one of those you can add on the spirit hour, which is that pet psychic so you'll be able to meet with animal communicator Julie hurts.

8:31And get some information there on on your pets both living and past. So it should be a really interesting night will also have a roaming magician and some other special things happening. Sounds like a lot of fun. Alright, check out all the ticket information and see those photos of the food you'll be salivating over that online at hshv.org slash feast. And it's coming up on October 30th. It's a great fundraiser on behalf of our Humane Society of Huron Valley. And don't forget to check out under the adoptions. Oats are pet of the week on the weekly way. Wendy, thank you so much. We appreciate you. Take care. Thank you. Wendy Welch, Director of Communications at our Humane Society of Huron Valley on the Lucian Lanshow and Arbor's Talk Station, 1290 WLBY.