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Oct 2023
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LEARN ENGLISH AT AN ANIMAL SHELTER 🐶 🐱

BRENT
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In today's English lesson, you are going to learn how to talk about animals in English. 🔥 Sign up for LingQ: https://www.lingq.com/americanenglishguy/

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🟨 To become a member and get special videos, join the Discord server, and special member chats, click this link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCakDTg9dhhAsr3WmHyJDa-g/join Specifically, pets. Because today, we are at an animal shelter, and we are going to talk to some people who work here. In the United States, we are lucky enough to have something called animal shelters. If an animal doesn't have a home, they can come here to this shelter, and hopefully, they will get adopted. If they get adopted, that means some people see the animal here and want to take them back to their house. Kate? Not bad, how are you? Good. Is it Katie? I'm sorry? Are you Katie? No. No. Sorry. The shelter is closed, but I can grab somebody for you. I'm supposed to be meeting Katie. So where should we go first, you think? Because you're the expert here, Katie. You know what I didn't even do? What? I didn't even introduce you to everybody. So, this is Katie. She obviously works at the shelter, but I think you have like an official title. I have an official title. I'm the executive director here. That sounds really important. Some days, I don't know that it's important, but it is definitely busy. Okay, well thank you for taking your time here. Yeah, sure thing. Where would you like to show us first? Let's take a walk down to the dogs. Okay, the dogs. So our shelter, we do dogs, cats, and small animals. So, birds, rabbits, guinea pigs, hamsters, mice, rats. Like the small furry animals. And we also will take birds. So, you know, cockatiels, parakeets, the smaller birds. Animals that we do not take are reptiles and amphibians. There are local groups around here that do. We don't because they need such specialized care. You know, the heat lamps and the food that they require, we just can't keep that and maintain an animal the way they need to be. So we let those very skilled rescues take care of those animals. There are some people, oh, I can cut this, but are you a reptile person? Do you like snakes? I'm fine with snakes. They don't bother me. I wouldn't have them. I wouldn't want to have to feed them live. You know, there are some considerations around that. But luckily, some people just love them, right? And they take care of them. Some people love them. Some people are terrified of them. You know, it really ranges. So dogs, we typically have about 600 to 700 dogs that come through our facility every year. Between 600 and 700 is a typical year. This year, we've got above average numbers already. And we have a lot of folks, unfortunately, dealing with housing challenges, the economy, not being able to get veterinary care or afford veterinary care. And they're calling us, making the difficult decision to bring in an animal. We try to help them if we can to keep the pet in the home. But there's an awful lot that are coming into us these days. I also have a question about the pit bulls. When I was younger, I was delivering papers and I was chased by two pit bulls. And my sister was too. She's really afraid of dogs. I don't mind them, but how about this?

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