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Pawfee Podcats

Gremi (Grace Clinton & Emi Griess)

Two employees at Helping Hands Humane Society give you an inside look into working at a non-profit animal welfare organization, specifically a large open admission shelter taking in over 6,000 animals a year (while enjoying coffee AKA compassion juice).

kids & family pets & animals

All Episodes

00:30:53

Rachel Coover HHHS Medical Center Coordinator

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2021/02/18

If you're interested in the medical side of animal welfare and shelter life, then you'll be excited about this episode! Your hosts Gremi (Grace and Emi) interview their coworker Rachel all about her job working in the HHHS Medical Center. From surgery prep to advice on how to work efficiently (spoiler alert: you NEED more pockets!), Rachel reveals it all! We are amazed she had time to do an interview with us after she led us through a day in her life at our humane society. Big props to Rachel and

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00:44:27

Our Foster Care and Transfer to Rescue Programs with...

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2021/02/11

In this episode, your hosts Gremi (Grace and Emi) interview coworker Jenna Petesch who is the Foster & Rescue Coordinator at HHHS (plus many other hats, like all of our employees, including helping in behavior and intake). We talk all things foster care and transfer to rescue. These are wonderful lifesaving programs that activate a village of supporters in helping homeless animals. We don't have an official office cat update in this episode, although we do give a little update on Papaw Geppetto

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00:30:56

Shelter Showdown, Puppy Tips, and Return to Home

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2021/02/04

In this episode, Gremi talks about HHHS's Shelter Showdown with Melissa and Doug of WIBW, updates on Amos the puppy and some tips about raising puppies (a hard but important job!), plus of course office cat updates, a myth-bust, plus a little preview of a topic we'll be talking a lot more about in the next couple of months!

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00:31:57

We're Building a Low-Cost Spay Neuter Clinic!

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2021/01/28

In this episode of Helping Hands Humane Society's podcast, Grace and Emi (Gremi - your hosts) interview Kathy Maxwell, Executive Director of HHHS. They discuss project donations for the low-cost spay neuter clinic that will be building right inside the shelter! Kathy touches on why the donors support the project and why it's important to us and our community. If you're interested in donating to help us buy equipment once the clinic is built, please email Kathy at kathym@hhhstopeka.org. Also, HUGE

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00:37:16

Pawfect Purrfection and Pet-Inspired House Updates...

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2021/01/21

This week we (Gremi, Grace and Emi, your podcats hosts) interview Manager of Customer Care and Adoptions, Michelle McCart. This is her second time on the show, and we discuss a variety of fun topics including changes we've made to our homes just for pets, wacky experiences working at the shelter, double adoptions (sending two animals home together), foster set ups for foster homes and foster offices, etc. We hope you enjoy these insights into the life of an animal welfare worker. Please feel free to

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00:36:43

Wisdom from Pam: Feel the Feelings and Remember...

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2021/01/14

In this episode of the Helping Hands Humane Society podcast, your hosts Grace and Emi (AKA Gremi) are honored and excited to interview their coworker, Pam. Pam is the lead Animal Care Tech at HHHS and has gained a lot of experience in her two years here. She views all of the dogs under her care as her babies, and she has some very insightful wisdom to share about how to work with them and, when necessary, let them go. Pam is our go-to when we're struggling with some emotional turmoil or simple life

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00:42:59

Australian Shepherd to Wheaten Terrier, Deciduous...

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2021/01/07

"Yes," Dr. Grace assures us, "old lady or old man cat fur is definitely a *thing*." In episode 22 of Helping Hands Humane Society's podcast, your hosts Gremi (Grace and Emi) answer a listener question about how we age the stray animals who come up for adoption. We go to two of our in-house experts for answers - Margaret Price, Manager of Admissions (also animal behavior guru, knower of all things pocket pets, and employee of HHHS for 20 years), and Dr. Jami Grace, Veterinarian (tolerator of our

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00:23:34

New Year's Goals for HHHS and Our Pets

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2020/12/31

Here comes 2021! Gremi discusses some goals for the new year, both for our pets at home and for the shelter. We are oh-so-tentatively stepping into this new year as we would toward a shy and scared dog or cat...not making eye contact, body turned non-threateningly to the side, soft voices, treats in hand, hoping to coax it into being our friend! 2020 has taught us many lessons. It held many challenges and revealed some great rewards as we survived through it. Please let us know what you'd like to

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00:25:54

Christmas for the Animals

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2020/12/24

Special Christmas Eve Day episode! We tell you all about Christmas for the Animals that we held at our shelter and bust some myths surrounding pets as Christmas presents. We also tell you about Grace's super cool next door dog neighbor who has a very serious job and is about to get titanium teeth! As always, we give an office kitten update and serenade you with a pet-related parody. Merry Sniffmas, everyone! Thanks for listening, and please feel free to reach out by emailing us at

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00:26:45

A Question for Animal Shelter Workers: How Do You Do It?

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2020/12/17

In this episode Gremi explores their personal "how"s when it comes to working at a humane society. We also tell you about Gunner our latest behavior project dog and give an office feline update!

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00:27:54

Heartworms, Behavior Dogs, and Ki(tty)Ki(tty) Do You...

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2020/12/10

In this episode we discuss heartworm treatment and give a huge THANK YOU to PEDIGREE Foundation for awarding us a grant that will help treat heartworm positive dogs at our shelter in 2021! We also give an office feline update and talk about what our staff is doing to work with dogs who need a little extra attention and interaction--whether they are shy, under-socialized, and shutdown or have over-the-top energy and unwanted behaviors. Spoiler alert...the dog we discuss in this episode has now passed

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00:36:51

Cats & Caffeine - Our Ideal Bottle Feeding Kitten...

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2020/12/03

Welcome back to Pawfee Podcats! In this episode your hosts Gremi explore the ideal traits of neonatal kitten fosters - those who help bottle feed orphaned baby kittens without moms every 2-3 hours. It's a tough job, but somebody's gotta do it! Could that somebody be you? Listen to this episode to find out if it's a fit for your lifestyle. If not, there is probably another type of pet you could foster or maybe volunteering at the shelter is your calling. There is *always* a way to help homeless pets

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00:31:45

RING - Ringworm Infestation Normalizing Group

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2020/11/26

We *keep* on talking about ringworm in this episode because it's at the forefront of our lives in the administrative offices and at home! We want you to know that if you have ringworm or have had ringworm...this is a safe space and you are not alone. We bust myths about ringworm and any skinny animals you may see up for adoption at our shelter. We talk about Giving Tuesday, which is coming up December 1st, and give an update on our office cats (no office kittens currently). Please reach out to us if

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00:46:57

Compassion Fatigue vs Burnout and Self-Care

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2020/11/19

As we near the end of the year and Helping Hands Humane Society's whirlwind event season comes to a close, Gremi reflects on the stressful struggles of 2020 through the lenses of compassion fatigue and burnout. We define these terms and relate them to our experiences in animal welfare. We dip a toe into the sea of the topic of self-care, but there's so much more to the story. Every person in our shelter, our community, our nation, and the world is going through their own particular struggle in 2020

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01:06:27

Training Trivia with Travis: Don't Be Embarrassed &...

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2020/11/12

On this episode, Gremi interviews Travis Sieve, one of the trainers at Helping Hands Humane Society.Travis teaches dog obedience classes along with speciality classes like tricks for fun. He has 15+ years of experience and is also a biologist by profession, so he's got many interesting insights and stories to share regarding cat and dog biology and behavior! We discuss many common issues including cats pottying outside the litter box, dogs who make a fool of themselves in public, house training

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00:41:08

A Night King Cat and a Dog with a Great Dogness to It

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2020/11/05

In this episode Gremi interviews Adoption Counselor Cam all about facilitating falling in love (with cupid's sparrow) and other experiences as an employee at Helping Hands Humane Society (ringworm, sanctuary cats who resemble Game of Thrones characters, being brave around giant dogs, fighting negative pibble stereotypes, and more). Yes, we still managed to get animal parodies into this episode.* As always, fun facts (like Cam's family gives their pets To Kill a Mockingbird names!), myth busts

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00:37:59

Oh My Dog, Gremi's Back Again!

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2020/10/29

Hi listeners! Our audience has been growing, and Grace and Emi have a couple of very exciting announcements for our shelter in this episode. We talk about pet overpopulation, bust a spay/neuter myth, reflect on some funny stories, and reveal Grace's Halloween costume through an (of course) animal welfare related parody! We also give an office feline update as some special needs kitties graduate from our special care and find furever. Please let us know why you listen, what you like about our

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00:34:39

Head Cat Honcho (AKA Executive Director) Kathy Maxwell

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2020/10/22

This week Gremi had the extreeeme honor of interviewing Helping Hands Humane Society Executive Director, Kathy Maxwell. As you'll learn in this episode, Kathy has held at least 8 positions at HHHS and has been working here for 18 years! She shares some fun memories and insights with us this episode (like which color of cat is the most chill!). Also, in the spirit of spooOoOOooky Halloween season, Kathy tells us about the ghost, Georgia, who used to haunt (or just hang out?) at our old shelter. We

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00:25:44

Feral Cat Queen Carrigan

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2020/10/15

We're back AGAIN with more extra material from our interview with Carrigan, the Cat Care Coordinator here at Helping Hands Humane Society. In this episode she gives some tips for safely securing stray cats who need help, shares her own techniques for wrangling feral cats who manage to get out of their kennels at HHHS, and we talk about *when* to bring kittens to your local shelter (pro tip: sometimes it is much better for them to just leave them where they are!). Gremi (Grace and Emi) give you a

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00:20:21

Ferals vs. Friendlies - Further Feline Findings with...

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2020/10/08

First off, APOLOGIES for the distortion at the beginning and end of this episode. We are still audio/podcast newbies and figuring it all out. Luckily, the large middle chunk of this episode is pulled from a previous conversation with our resident cat expert, Carrigan, and the audio is very pleasing to the ears. The main discussion is an expansion on the conversation about feral/community cats versus stray/owned cats who have found themselves lost in the big, wide world. Carrigan also advocates for

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