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00:00 a little bit more like go with the flow.
00:01 And I am, but I'm also like, I was like,
00:05 oh, I do have a lot of thoughts and feelings about that.
00:09 I didn't know I would.
00:10 (gentle music)
00:13 Ooh, that's a good question.
00:18 I mean, the thing I'm excited for is to marry Steven.
00:22 I love him so much.
00:23 He's the best, of course.
00:25 Honestly, there's like small things that have been stressful
00:29 like the tiny things where you're like,
00:30 I didn't know that you could make,
00:32 there's just so many decisions, you know,
00:33 you're like, oh, I didn't know I could even decide on that.
00:36 But overall, it's just,
00:38 it's been a really positive experience.
00:39 I think, you know, it's like you're planning the,
00:42 one of the most supposed to be like
00:44 the most loving party of your life.
00:46 Like, it's just kind of the perspective
00:48 that you have to have about it.
00:49 Even when it gets stressful, you're like,
00:50 how stressful could it be that it would take me out
00:52 of understanding like what a moment this is?
00:54 Like, it's so special.
00:55 So the minor stresses have been like,
00:59 they'll get, you know, everything will work out.
01:01 Like everything's,
01:02 and everything's gonna be perfect the way it is.
01:05 Like, so I'm very, very excited.
01:08 The one thing is I did not know that I was very opinionated.
01:12 I thought I was gonna be more like,
01:13 oh, whatever, like this or that sounds good.
01:15 But I do have a lot of opinions.
01:17 So that was something I learned about myself.
01:19 (gentle music)
01:23 - Yeah, I mean, I feel very lucky that Hills Pet
01:26 wanted me to be doing this campaign with them
01:29 for Clear the Shelters Day.
01:30 I have two rescue pups of my own
01:33 and they have just enriched my life so much.
01:37 I can't imagine life without them.
01:39 And it just felt, I mean,
01:40 I just recently adopted my dog, Fable.
01:43 And she's just like, everything's new to her.
01:46 She's getting used to the world.
01:48 And it's so rewarding to see the change in her personality
01:51 as she becomes more confident and comfortable.
01:53 And so just like working with shelter animals
01:56 has always been something that meant so much to me.
01:58 That's how I actually came across Fable.
01:59 I was volunteering at a shelter
02:01 and then I saw my baby there.
02:04 So having this campaign,
02:07 have being part of this campaign this year
02:09 and being able to come and help
02:10 and take photos of the dogs to help get them adopted
02:13 is so special because I don't know
02:15 if a lot of people know this,
02:16 but like 95% of adopters say that like a photo of the dog
02:19 is so important to the adoption process.
02:21 People wanna see their personalities,
02:23 but a lot of these shelters don't have all the resources
02:26 to have these photographs taken.
02:28 So people can volunteer.
02:30 I mean, there's so many ways to help.
02:32 You don't just have to open your home to adoption
02:34 if you're not ready yet.
02:35 I mean, if you are, amazing.
02:36 But there's just so many ways to get involved
02:39 and help with the overcrowding in shelters
02:41 and help relieve the stress off of the staff
02:46 and volunteers of these shelters
02:47 that are experiencing capacity issues.
02:49 (upbeat music)
02:53 I have never not had a dog.
02:58 I have like always, always had a dog
03:00 and I absolutely love, love cats too.
03:02 I'm just very allergic, so I don't have any.
03:04 But like, I just, I've always been such an animal lover.
03:09 I can't imagine my life without animals in it.
03:12 Like it's just, and I'm so lucky.
03:15 My fiance is just as much an animal lover as I am.
03:17 So when we adopted Fable,
03:20 I was, he was, it was immediately he was on board.
03:22 He didn't even see her.
03:23 He didn't see what she looked like.
03:24 I was like, I found this dog.
03:26 He was like, great, get her.
03:27 I was like, okay.
03:28 - All family dogs.
03:29 - Dogs are, so Fable is the newest member of our family,
03:32 but our other dog, Jesse, was originally my fiance's dog.
03:36 And then of course he's our dog now.
03:38 But yeah, he's such a dog lover.
03:40 And you know, Jesse and Fable both have their,
03:43 both have their quirks and their funny little things
03:45 and they both have anxiety,
03:46 but they both are so special
03:48 and like the sweetest things ever.
03:50 So I met Fable and it was just like,
03:59 I mean, her story is really, really, really sad.
04:02 I mean, her and her siblings were found in the woods
04:04 and then they were taken into the shelter
04:06 and they were all put in the same pen together.
04:09 And Fable was the runt of the litter
04:10 and her siblings tried to, you know, kill her.
04:14 They wanted her gone.
04:15 They wanted her out 'cause she was the runt.
04:17 And it got really bad.
04:19 She almost died and it was really, really bad.
04:22 So she was terrified of dogs.
04:24 When I met her, she was just like so sweet
04:28 and just wanted to like hug,
04:30 but was also so afraid and had like the saddest eyes.
04:33 And you know, it was something that like,
04:37 a lot of people look for,
04:38 that's why photos are so important.
04:40 They want a dog that's smiling.
04:41 They want a dog that's happy.
04:42 A lot of people, when they are considering adopting,
04:44 they look for the dog that seems like
04:47 it's gonna be like the happiest dog.
04:49 And I completely understand that.
04:51 But because I know that,
04:53 I was drawn to her because she was just
04:56 kind of the opposite of that.
04:57 I knew that her likelihood of getting adopted
04:59 was pretty low and she's also a bigger dog
05:02 and that's also kind of hurts her chances
05:04 of getting adopted as well.
05:05 And so going into, I mean, I wasn't necessarily looking,
05:08 but I wasn't not looking.
05:10 And so I knew that if I was gonna go home with a dog,
05:13 I wanted it to be a big dog.
05:14 And she just, you know, she had this look in her eyes
05:18 and I was like, you are coming home with me
05:19 and we're gonna build you a good life.
05:22 (laughs)
05:24 (gentle music)
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