Oh Behave!

Scooter the Neutered Cat

Scooter the Neutered Cat™ took Greater Cincinnati and the nation by storm in 2013 with an edgy, irreverent and hilarious campaign that encouraged spay/neuter and feline education with the goal of creating a more cat-caring community. Nearly nine years later, Scooter the Neutered Cat’s™ initiatives have been an unequivocal success. The shelter live-release rate (percentage of cats that enter shelters and are released/adopted) was merely 37% for cats in Cincinnati when Scooter™ debuted. Today, that rate is more than 95%.

These tremendous results are thanks to several factors, people and organizations, including the leadership of Deborah Cribbs, a director of the Joanie Bernard Foundation and founder and leader of the Give Them Ten™ Movement — the parent organizations of Scooter the Neutered Cat™. Today, Cribbs considers herself “Scooter’s™ mother” and has committed herself to improving the (nine) lives of cats.

 

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Announcer: So get ready for the pause and applause as we unleash your Oh Behave host, America's pet edutainer, Arden Moore.

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Arden Moore: Welcome to the Oh Behave show on Pet Life Radio.

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Arden Moore: I'm your host, Arden Moore.

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Arden Moore: You know, forget that saying, cats have nine lives.

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Arden Moore: You know, our special guest today, she is heading a movement that gives cats an extra life, a full life through spay and neuter.

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Arden Moore: At this time, please welcome to our show the founder of a phenomenal nonprofit group.

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Arden Moore: I love the name, Give Them Ten.

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Arden Moore: She is Deborah Cribbs.

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Arden Moore: Welcome to our show, Deborah.

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Deborah Cribbs: Well, thank you very much.

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Deborah Cribbs: I'm so happy to be here today.

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Arden Moore: Well, me, wow!

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Arden Moore: I mean, seriously, your organization is definitely pioneering a better world for cats.

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Arden Moore: And hey, you guys, we're gonna find out just how after we take this break.

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Arden Moore: So you all know the drill.

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Arden Moore: Sid, her, we'll be right back.

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Announcer: Time for a walk on the red carpet, of course.

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Announcer: Oh Behave will be back in a flash, right after these messages.

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Arden Moore: Paws up, Pet Pals.

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Arden Moore: Arden Moore here, your host of the Oh Behave Show.

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Arden Moore: Me-

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Arden Moore: Wow.

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Arden Moore: Did you know there's up to 100 million free roaming cats in the United States?

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Arden Moore: And without spay or neuter, that number is only gonna keep growing.

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Arden Moore: Not only does spay neuter humanely reduce the community cat population, it keeps cats healthy.

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Arden Moore: Scooter, the Neuter Cat, is on a mission to give cats an extra life by making it hip to be snipped.

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Arden Moore: Hey, check them out.

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Arden Moore: Go to givethemten.org.

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Arden Moore: That's givethemten.org and help us make this a better world for cats.

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Mandy Moore: Hi, this is Mandy Moore.

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Mandy Moore: You're listening to Oh Behave on Pet Life Radio with your host, Arden Moore, who's now family.

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Mandy Moore: We figured that out.

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Announcer: We're back from the lot.

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Announcer: Just checked the paper and we had a record showing at the box, the letter box that is.

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Announcer: Now back to OVHave.

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Announcer: Here's Arden.

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Arden Moore: Welcome back to the OVHave Show on Pet Life Radio.

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Arden Moore: I'm your host, Arden Moore.

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Arden Moore: Since 2013, this group, I love the name, Give Them Ten, have done wonders for cats by keeping the population control, having them spayed and neutered.

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Arden Moore: Deborah Cribbs is the founder of Give Them Ten, but she can't do this alone.

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Arden Moore: Can you share this sidekick you have and who he is?

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Deborah Cribbs: Absolutely.

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Deborah Cribbs: Well, I did need help.

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Arden Moore: We all need help.

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Deborah Cribbs: We all need help.

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Deborah Cribbs: In about 2013, my team and I had the wonderful, wonderful benefit of having a pot full of money entrusted to us.

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Arden Moore: That's a pretty good situation.

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Arden Moore: Yeah.

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Deborah Cribbs: It was.

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Deborah Cribbs: It was.

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Deborah Cribbs: For the sole purpose of taking care of cats in the Cincinnati area.

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Deborah Cribbs: We started looking around trying to understand, well, what's the problem?

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Deborah Cribbs: What's the problem with cats in the Cincinnati area?

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Deborah Cribbs: Well, the problem was there were too many cats being killed and sheltered.

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Deborah Cribbs: So we're business people during the day.

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Arden Moore: And tell us what your day job is.

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Deborah Cribbs: We're bankers.

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Deborah Cribbs: I'm a banker.

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Deborah Cribbs: I manage money for super rich people and that's how I was invested with this money, this pot of money, the private foundation.

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Deborah Cribbs: So we started looking at it like, this is a problem, we're bankers.

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Deborah Cribbs: So what's the problem?

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Deborah Cribbs: Cats are being killed in shelters, why?

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Deborah Cribbs: Well, there are too many of them and there aren't enough people to adopt them.

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Deborah Cribbs: Why?

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Deborah Cribbs: Well, it's a complicated question and there's a complicated answer.

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Deborah Cribbs: But as a smart business, mostly women, of course that we are, we looked at it, my team is almost 100% women.

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Deborah Cribbs: We looked at it and realized that, well, it's math problem.

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Deborah Cribbs: Too many cats in the shelter, not enough people adopting.

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Deborah Cribbs: It looked to us like the, wait for the pun, low hanging fruit was fey neuter.

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Deborah Cribbs: I can make tons of puns.

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Arden Moore: Oh, you're in my wheelhouse, girl.

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Deborah Cribbs: Fey neuter is my thing.

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Deborah Cribbs: So we decided, all right, if we're gonna solve the problem and not just keep putting band-aids on the problem, which appeared to us to be what people have been doing since about the 60s when the shelter system kind of got going in the United States, instead of just putting band-aids on it and wait for it chasing our tails, we decided to try to really solve the problem.

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Arden Moore: I like that.

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Deborah Cribbs: Queen in the Cincinnati area, let's see if we can solve the problem.

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Deborah Cribbs: And we had a lot of money to do it.

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Deborah Cribbs: So we decided half of the money goes on the ground in the shelter system.

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Deborah Cribbs: Let's put a lot of money into fey neuter, but how do you get people to do it?

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Deborah Cribbs: Let's talk to the public.

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Deborah Cribbs: Who's gonna talk to the public?

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Deborah Cribbs: That a neutered cat.

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Deborah Cribbs: Hipsicles, no testicles.

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Arden Moore: Wait a minute, we gotta say that again.

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Arden Moore: So your cat Scooter, say that again, cause that's a really cool line.

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Deborah Cribbs: Hipspectacles, no testicles.

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Arden Moore: You got your cat to wear shades, sunglasses.

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Deborah Cribbs: He does, he does.

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Deborah Cribbs: And I know your audience is like, what?

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Deborah Cribbs: Well, you can absolutely go to town looking at all of our work.

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Deborah Cribbs: We have a YouTube channel, you can follow us on Insta, Give Them Ten, look us up.

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Deborah Cribbs: We've got a very robust advertising campaign and it's really fun.

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Arden Moore: Well, I wanna ask you a little bit about the man, not the myth, the man, Scooter.

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Arden Moore: He is an orange tabby?

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Deborah Cribbs: Yes, he is.

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Deborah Cribbs: He is an orange striped tabby and he is a cat doctor.

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Arden Moore: How did you get together?

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Deborah Cribbs: Well, he's a doctor, he's a professional.

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Deborah Cribbs: He starred in some of our early work and that early work was filmed, oh gosh, circa, gosh, that was probably 2014, 2015 when we started and he's famous.

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Arden Moore: He is, I mean, how old is he now?

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Arden Moore: Is he 11?

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Deborah Cribbs: Oh gosh, he would have to be, yeah, yeah.

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Deborah Cribbs: He would have to be.

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Arden Moore: And off camera, what is Scooter's personality like?

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Deborah Cribbs: He's a nice boy and he has a whole other name.

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Deborah Cribbs: I mean, he literally is a cat actor and he's literally a professional.

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Arden Moore: Are you gonna share his home name?

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Deborah Cribbs: But his full name is Roscoe.

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Arden Moore: Oh, that's cool.

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Deborah Cribbs: Yeah, yeah, I mean, he really is a cat actor and he does really good work, but he was our very first Scooter and he starred in our first set of ads and it was a lot of fun.

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Deborah Cribbs: And we talked to the public to try to convince them that spay neuter is the right thing to do.

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Arden Moore: Well, there's even a song.

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Arden Moore: I think it's, he's Scooter, he's neutered.

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Arden Moore: I'm doing a bad job of this, but don't worry.

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Arden Moore: I'm gonna quit my day job as a singer.

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Arden Moore: But I think you need a little levity, a little fun, right?

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Arden Moore: To get a good important message across.

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Arden Moore: And it sounds like that's what you do.

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Deborah Cribbs: Yeah, we decided that there were so many ads out there that were tearjerkers.

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Deborah Cribbs: And I mean, yeah, that's a way to capture attention, right?

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Arden Moore: Yes.

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Deborah Cribbs: We decided to be funny and edgy and irreverent and just this side of raunchy almost.

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Deborah Cribbs: We were trying to push the limit of, actually we were beat.

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Deborah Cribbs: Indianapolis didn't like our ads, as I recall.

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Arden Moore: You know, Indiana No Place has no sense of humor.

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Arden Moore: I'm from Indiana, so I can say that, okay.

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Deborah Cribbs: I recall one of our early ads, there was a beat.

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Deborah Cribbs: So we've gotten a little bit better at language since then.

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Arden Moore: Well, and I wanna make sure people understand this.

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Arden Moore: It is called Give Them Ten, T-E-N dot org.

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Arden Moore: And there is an important foundation.

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Arden Moore: You wanna do a shout out because they're the ones financially helping this mission.

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Arden Moore: So who the heck is Joni Bernard, the foundation?

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Deborah Cribbs: Well, that's my team and I work under the name of the foundation, the Joni Bernard Foundation.

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Deborah Cribbs: We run that foundation and our ad campaign and Scooter works for the ad campaign.

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Arden Moore: Of course he does.

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Deborah Cribbs: Right, right.

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Deborah Cribbs: Scooter is our cat mascot, if you will, and our partner.

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Deborah Cribbs: But Give Them Ten, we think explains what we're trying to do.

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Arden Moore: And talk about it, because the play on words, cats have nine lives, but what made you pick the name Give Them Ten?

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Deborah Cribbs: We just thought it was clever.

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Deborah Cribbs: We're trying to capture attention so that people will listen to us say, there are cats dying in shelters down the street from you, what can you do about it?

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Deborah Cribbs: Well, if you're feeding an outside cat, get them fixed.

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Arden Moore: There you go.

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Arden Moore: There's some amazing statistics out there.

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Arden Moore: Cats are not shy, wah wah wah wah, when it comes to mating and dating, can you share some startling stats about if you don't nip them, snip them, you could really have a lot of cats.

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Deborah Cribbs: Oh, it's hundreds.

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Deborah Cribbs: One female cat, I mean, within five or six years, there can be hundreds of kittens born.

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Deborah Cribbs: If she has five kittens, then those kittens have five kittens each.

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Deborah Cribbs: Within a few years, you're talking about hundreds of cats coming from that one.

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Deborah Cribbs: And honestly, Arden, the point that I think might even be more important, and this might be a little bit counterintuitive to people, if you are that nice person in the neighborhood who likes cats and starts feeding the outside cat, I love that.

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Deborah Cribbs: That cat is healthy, happy, probably eating a buffet along the neighborhood, right?

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Arden Moore: Oh yeah.

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Deborah Cribbs: But not fixed, if you don't fix that cat and she's healthy, what you actually have done is help her in her work.

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Arden Moore: Yeah, I understand cats can have like, a female can have three litters a year, holy kitten.

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Deborah Cribbs: And more holy kittens, a healthy cat can have, depending on the climate, more kittens and more offsets.

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Deborah Cribbs: So by feeding the cat, yes, you're nice.

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Deborah Cribbs: And yes, it's nice, I want to highlight that.

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Deborah Cribbs: But by making her healthier and stronger, you're actually participating and making the problem worse because she's having more kittens.

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Arden Moore: Well, talk about a little bit about trapped neuter release because in our neighborhood, we live in Dallas and we have a bunch of cats and we do our best to get them trapped, neutered and returned because we don't want a zillion cats in our neighborhood.

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Arden Moore: So what's the importance of that?

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Arden Moore: I mean, I can see the person wanting to feed the cat and give them water certainly, but you're saying, hey guys, let's take it a step further, right?

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Deborah Cribbs: Absolutely, absolutely.

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Deborah Cribbs: The language that we like to use now is that these are community cats.

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Deborah Cribbs: They live in your community.

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Deborah Cribbs: They're happy, they're healthy, they're thriving.

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Deborah Cribbs: You look at a cat, the cat has weight, the cat is either friendly or not friendly, but if the cat is outside and thriving, what I would ask people to do is find a way to trap the cat and your local shelter, our website gives you tips on how to do that.

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Deborah Cribbs: And it's kind of fun.

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Arden Moore: And that's important, yeah, yeah.

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Deborah Cribbs: It becomes a community project.

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Deborah Cribbs: So trap the cats one or two at a time, take them to your local high volume, like in Dallas and Cincinnati, we've got a couple, high volume spay neuter center, get the cats fixed, release them right back where you found them, exactly where you found them.

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Deborah Cribbs: So they go back and they don't continue to multiply.

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Deborah Cribbs: That's key.

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Deborah Cribbs: They're fine where they are.

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Deborah Cribbs: If you need to educate the neighborhood, hey, the cat's fixed.

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Deborah Cribbs: The cat's not gonna do any more harm.

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Arden Moore: And they got the left ear tipped.

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Deborah Cribbs: Yes, exactly, exactly.

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Arden Moore: Well, I wanna tell you, Deborah, we're talking with Deborah Cribbs from Give Them Ten.

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Arden Moore: In my home, I got married, so we have a furry Brady bunch and we have two dogs and four cats.

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Arden Moore: And one of our cats is a former community cat named Mikey, and he just celebrated his 20th birthday.

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Deborah Cribbs: Well.

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Arden Moore: And my vet, I embarrassed her, Dr.

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Arden Moore: Deborah Charles, by having on my TikTok and Facebook, have her sing Happy Birthday to Mikey during his annual exam.

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Arden Moore: And probably you say it because he was a very sweet boy and we brought him in and he really says, I'm an indoor cat now, thank you.

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Deborah Cribbs: I have with me Grigio, who was in my colony with an eartup and he used to live outside and now he is on floor right now.

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Deborah Cribbs: But with an eartup, yes.

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Arden Moore: Yeah, you know, sometimes they're abandoned, you know, people move and whatever.

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Arden Moore: I don't wanna get into that, that just irks me.

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Arden Moore: But the point is, I think a cat makes you a better human.

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Arden Moore: A dog can make you a better human.

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Arden Moore: But as you know, with cats, I've learned that with a lot of, I've worked with a lot of leading veterinarians and behaviorists, with cats, you never force, you always negotiate.

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Arden Moore: So with the traps and all that, you're saying, hey, everybody, get with your local people.

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Arden Moore: They'll give you tips on how to use these traps that you can borrow and do it in a way that then the cats can be part of the community and not be populating.

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Deborah Cribbs: Well, right, I feel like as humans, we cause this problem.

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Arden Moore: Yeah.

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Deborah Cribbs: We cause this problem.

00:14:06.460 --> 00:14:11.420
Deborah Cribbs: There are dog problems we caused as well, but I'm here speaking for cats now.

00:14:12.020 --> 00:14:13.220
Deborah Cribbs: We cause the problem.

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Deborah Cribbs: I feel like you said it perfectly, Arden.

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Deborah Cribbs: Let's take another step.

00:14:17.240 --> 00:14:21.960
Deborah Cribbs: Yes, we keep the outside cats, but in a way we're making it worse when we do that.

00:14:21.980 --> 00:14:24.360
Deborah Cribbs: So let's take the next step, fix them.

00:14:24.540 --> 00:14:25.740
Deborah Cribbs: That's it, just fix them.

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Arden Moore: So you started in Cincinnati, go Reds.

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Deborah Cribbs: Thank you.

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Arden Moore: You are broadening.

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Arden Moore: So tell us what's happening with Give Them Ten.

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Arden Moore: You're based in Cincinnati, but your work is beyond.

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Deborah Cribbs: It is.

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Deborah Cribbs: You know, we realized that, I mean, we've succeeded by any measure here in Cincinnati.

00:14:43.020 --> 00:14:45.460
Deborah Cribbs: It's not perfect, but things have gone really well.

00:14:45.480 --> 00:14:50.540
Deborah Cribbs: We've got really great people working locally and our live release rate has remained very stable for a while now.

00:14:50.720 --> 00:14:59.280
Deborah Cribbs: And we've realized that we've had the great fortune of putting all of this money into these great advertising campaigns starring Scooter the Neutered Cat.

00:14:59.460 --> 00:15:04.820
Deborah Cribbs: What we've started to do in the last year is take our show on the road and around the country.

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Deborah Cribbs: We are offering our ad campaign for almost nothing to any shelter system that qualifies.

00:15:12.440 --> 00:15:19.400
Deborah Cribbs: We'll let people use our campaign in their area, again, for almost nothing.

00:15:19.420 --> 00:15:24.200
Deborah Cribbs: They can have Scooter live with them in Dallas.

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Deborah Cribbs: Right now we're in Iowa, we're in Georgia, we're in Hawaii.

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Deborah Cribbs: Scooter can live in your community.

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Arden Moore: And you have a big Scooter mascot.

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Deborah Cribbs: We do.

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Arden Moore: I don't know if that individual wearing the costume has been neutered or not, but he is there, or she.

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Deborah Cribbs: Yeah, many, many, many people have donned that costume.

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Deborah Cribbs: It's super hot, untold, I've never had the good pleasure of wearing it.

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Deborah Cribbs: But yeah, we're offering it to shelter systems around the country.

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Deborah Cribbs: We've put so much money into it.

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Deborah Cribbs: Yeah, we've been so fortunate to be able to, we wanna share it and we want Scooter to live in other cities.

00:16:00.360 --> 00:16:03.900
Deborah Cribbs: And as fiduciaries for this money, we wanna leverage it.

00:16:04.000 --> 00:16:06.760
Deborah Cribbs: We want Scooter's voice to be heard far and wide.

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Deborah Cribbs: That's Bayneuter is the way to go.

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Arden Moore: Let's give some examples.

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Arden Moore: My in-laws live in Bettendorf and Muscatine, Iowa.

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Arden Moore: And Muscatine, Iowa is on the Mississippi River, everybody.

00:16:19.140 --> 00:16:24.980
Arden Moore: And it was known for the Pearls or something, there was shells, but your team, give them 10.

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Arden Moore: What did you do in Muscatine, Iowa?

00:16:28.620 --> 00:16:29.740
Arden Moore: It's right on the line.

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Arden Moore: We did.

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Deborah Cribbs: We went into Muscatine.

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Deborah Cribbs: We went into a very good shelter system there called It Takes the Village.

00:16:36.940 --> 00:16:39.720
Deborah Cribbs: And we're working with that shelter.

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Deborah Cribbs: And we've done all kinds of advertising along with them.

00:16:44.720 --> 00:16:47.900
Deborah Cribbs: I mean, it's the shelter that's doing the advertising.

00:16:47.920 --> 00:16:52.360
Deborah Cribbs: We're helping them and we're giving them our materials essentially.

00:16:52.480 --> 00:16:54.080
Deborah Cribbs: But they were kind of our first.

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Arden Moore: Yeah, what'd you think of that area?

00:16:56.240 --> 00:16:57.560
Arden Moore: That's pretty nice, isn't it?

00:16:57.680 --> 00:16:58.320
Arden Moore: It's beautiful there.

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Deborah Cribbs: My team loves it.

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Deborah Cribbs: Yeah, my team loves it.

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Deborah Cribbs: And they say that they're just super good people and all they wanna do is help cats.

00:17:05.040 --> 00:17:06.280
Deborah Cribbs: So we're thrilled with that.

00:17:06.620 --> 00:17:09.160
Arden Moore: Now you went to Georgia to do a luau?

00:17:11.020 --> 00:17:11.980
Arden Moore: Did I miss that?

00:17:12.320 --> 00:17:16.000
Deborah Cribbs: We just brought on a shelter system in Georgia.

00:17:17.060 --> 00:17:21.320
Deborah Cribbs: And we have also been working with a shelter system in Kauai.

00:17:21.440 --> 00:17:24.480
Deborah Cribbs: Now, none of my team has gone to Kauai.

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Arden Moore: I had a timeshare there back when it was really dumb to have a timeshare.

00:17:28.440 --> 00:17:30.260
Arden Moore: Yeah, I had a timeshare in Kauai.

00:17:30.280 --> 00:17:31.960
Arden Moore: That's a great island, yeah.

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Deborah Cribbs: There are some moves to jump through.

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Deborah Cribbs: We do want people to qualify.

00:17:36.100 --> 00:17:44.780
Deborah Cribbs: They have to be a certain kind of system, big enough to be able to use our materials properly, but we're really happy to share what we've done.

00:17:45.120 --> 00:17:46.660
Arden Moore: So you had a meow luau.

00:17:47.920 --> 00:17:49.280
Arden Moore: That's clever, that's clever.

00:17:49.300 --> 00:17:49.920
Arden Moore: That is good.

00:17:50.460 --> 00:17:53.480
Arden Moore: So your background, you're in the banking industry.

00:17:53.980 --> 00:17:55.860
Arden Moore: You like money, you know how to handle money.

00:17:55.880 --> 00:18:01.860
Arden Moore: How did the Deborah Cribbs go from a banker to cat advocate extraordinaire?

00:18:02.100 --> 00:18:03.100
Arden Moore: What did it for you?

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Deborah Cribbs: I'm still a banker, that's still my day job.

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Deborah Cribbs: Like I said, I manage money for rich people, frankly.

00:18:10.820 --> 00:18:13.520
Arden Moore: Well, everybody needs help, whether you're rich or poor.

00:18:13.540 --> 00:18:14.860
Arden Moore: I mean, seriously, you know.

00:18:15.040 --> 00:18:16.180
Deborah Cribbs: Everybody needs help.

00:18:16.200 --> 00:18:17.480
Deborah Cribbs: I mean, that's what I do.

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Deborah Cribbs: And one of my clients who loved cats left all of her money to a private foundation.

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Deborah Cribbs: And the private foundation was only for the benefit of Pat.

00:18:28.520 --> 00:18:29.980
Arden Moore: And that's rare.

00:18:30.000 --> 00:18:35.060
Deborah Cribbs: The honor of managing it on her behalf and on behalf of the bank I work for.

00:18:35.080 --> 00:18:38.440
Arden Moore: So did you grow up with cats and dogs or critters?

00:18:38.460 --> 00:18:39.680
Arden Moore: Are you from Ohio?

00:18:39.800 --> 00:18:41.800
Deborah Cribbs: Well, Texas and Ohio both.

00:18:41.820 --> 00:18:42.200
Arden Moore: Oh, really?

00:18:42.240 --> 00:18:43.240
Arden Moore: What part of Texas?

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Deborah Cribbs: I was born in Houston, but I was raised in the Cincinnati area.

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Deborah Cribbs: And yeah, we had that, let's see, butterfly and sunflower where our kitty cats growing up and then Ivan Doxen.

00:18:55.660 --> 00:18:59.860
Arden Moore: Now, this is silly because we're talking spay and neuter, nip and snip.

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Arden Moore: I jokingly say if you lift up a kitty's tail, you can tell from the back end, they're all from the state of Ohio.

00:19:05.640 --> 00:19:06.600
Deborah Cribbs: Okay, that's funny.

00:19:07.200 --> 00:19:08.980
Arden Moore: You can use that in your stuff, okay?

00:19:09.000 --> 00:19:09.580
Deborah Cribbs: That's funny.

00:19:10.600 --> 00:19:11.800
Deborah Cribbs: That's only nonsense.

00:19:11.820 --> 00:19:12.500
Deborah Cribbs: That's cute.

00:19:13.060 --> 00:19:14.160
Deborah Cribbs: That's really cute.

00:19:14.440 --> 00:19:15.900
Arden Moore: What do cats do for you?

00:19:15.900 --> 00:19:25.260
Arden Moore: How do cats like Scooter, AKA really Roscoe and others, how do they make you, Deborah Cribbs, a better human?

00:19:25.620 --> 00:19:37.780
Deborah Cribbs: I think that for me personally, I think that caring for any sentient being that needs me makes me a better person.

00:19:38.000 --> 00:19:41.400
Deborah Cribbs: Like Grigio here in the room with me, he needs me.

00:19:41.580 --> 00:19:43.580
Deborah Cribbs: My husband and I live in a condo now.

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Deborah Cribbs: Grigio is no longer outside.

00:19:45.740 --> 00:19:46.480
Deborah Cribbs: He needs me.

00:19:46.860 --> 00:19:51.080
Deborah Cribbs: I am a better human being because I care for him.

00:19:51.380 --> 00:19:53.980
Deborah Cribbs: And then Yasmina who's behind the baby gate.

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Deborah Cribbs: This is the life that we live in a condo now.

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Arden Moore: What's some fun you like to do with Grigio or what's a bonding moment that you're like, ah?

00:20:01.620 --> 00:20:03.280
Deborah Cribbs: He likes our big TV.

00:20:03.300 --> 00:20:06.340
Deborah Cribbs: Grigio the outside cat has discovered television.

00:20:06.540 --> 00:20:07.340
Arden Moore: Oh, really?

00:20:07.360 --> 00:20:10.100
Deborah Cribbs: I watch like cop shows.

00:20:10.340 --> 00:20:15.760
Deborah Cribbs: He doesn't really like the, you know, the big noises, but he does like when the cars move around.

00:20:15.780 --> 00:20:16.880
Arden Moore: Oh, that's hilarious.

00:20:17.080 --> 00:20:19.120
Deborah Cribbs: Yeah, yeah, he likes the movement.

00:20:19.400 --> 00:20:26.460
Deborah Cribbs: I would say, I'm wondering if you agree with this, I will judge people based on their feelings toward animals.

00:20:26.680 --> 00:20:27.540
Arden Moore: Yeah, well.

00:20:27.780 --> 00:20:32.240
Deborah Cribbs: If you're an animal person, I immediately think better of you as a human.

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Deborah Cribbs: People who care for animals probably get my vote as human beings.

00:20:37.280 --> 00:20:47.640
Arden Moore: Well, I agree, I've always had dogs and cats and don't ever make me choose which one because they both have traits that make me, hopefully, a better human.

00:20:48.100 --> 00:21:11.020
Arden Moore: I was an investigative newspaper reporter for 20 years and now I'm in the pet industry and my give back is, I'm so blessed that my dog Kona, a terrier mix, and my orange tabby Casey are both therapy pets and they get to do visits, but I also team up with them to teach veterinary approved pet first aid all over the world on Zoom and in person.

00:21:11.700 --> 00:21:15.200
Arden Moore: And I just, I can't believe I get to do this for a living.

00:21:15.640 --> 00:21:28.900
Arden Moore: And it sounds like for you, you love your banking industry, that is your wheelhouse, but you got blessed to be able to have this avocation that's really an advocating, you're advocating, you know?

00:21:29.220 --> 00:21:30.240
Arden Moore: Oh, did I do that right?

00:21:30.260 --> 00:21:31.120
Arden Moore: I hope so, okay.

00:21:31.260 --> 00:21:31.900
Deborah Cribbs: How do we rock?

00:21:31.960 --> 00:21:33.280
Deborah Cribbs: This is my life's work.

00:21:33.300 --> 00:21:39.620
Deborah Cribbs: Sure, and in my day job, I actually get to help people educate their children and retire well.

00:21:39.800 --> 00:21:49.240
Deborah Cribbs: There's nothing wrong with that and I'm proud of the work that I do, but I encourage this rich woman to make a private foundation and she died young.

00:21:49.620 --> 00:21:59.840
Deborah Cribbs: And now my team and I get to do this work that actually has made a huge difference in our little part of the world for these sentient beings, these cats.

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Deborah Cribbs: Boy, are they lucky they're in Cincinnati.

00:22:02.320 --> 00:22:03.260
Arden Moore: I love Cincinnati.

00:22:03.600 --> 00:22:07.580
Arden Moore: Hey, I really want people to know we're speaking with Deborah Cribbs.

00:22:07.920 --> 00:22:10.060
Arden Moore: She is the founder of Give Them Ten.

00:22:10.080 --> 00:22:10.960
Arden Moore: It's T-E-N.

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Arden Moore: Can you tell people the best way to find out more because they want to participate?

00:22:15.640 --> 00:22:16.580
Deborah Cribbs: Absolutely.

00:22:16.600 --> 00:22:20.920
Deborah Cribbs: Check out our website, givethemten.org and our YouTube channel.

00:22:20.920 --> 00:22:24.040
Deborah Cribbs: Just Google Scooter the Neutered Cat.

00:22:24.280 --> 00:22:25.960
Arden Moore: As it is hip to be snipped.

00:22:26.420 --> 00:22:29.380
Arden Moore: Well, Deborah, I have so enjoyed having you on the show.

00:22:29.460 --> 00:22:32.320
Arden Moore: You survived an episode of The Old Behave Show.

00:22:32.340 --> 00:22:33.780
Arden Moore: You okay about that?

00:22:33.860 --> 00:22:34.380
Arden Moore: You're good?

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Deborah Cribbs: Thank you.

00:22:35.940 --> 00:22:41.880
Arden Moore: And also at this time, I want to give a pause up to my producer, Mark Winter.

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Arden Moore: He is the executive producer of Pet Life Radio.

00:22:45.100 --> 00:22:48.380
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00:22:48.480 --> 00:22:50.880
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00:22:51.300 --> 00:22:51.960
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00:22:52.280 --> 00:22:54.160
Arden Moore: It's being worked, just teasing.

00:22:54.420 --> 00:22:55.880
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00:22:56.280 --> 00:22:59.960
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00:22:59.960 --> 00:23:02.300
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00:23:02.580 --> 00:23:05.440
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00:23:12.320 --> 00:23:15.860
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