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Hey guys, we are here at the L A zoo and
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we're so excited to finally check out the P oas that they
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have here. I've been seeing them all over social media and
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I'm so stoked to finally see them in person and just talk
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to the people that were behind them.
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So we're here at the L A zoo with the zoo community
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programs manager, Coral and tell us about the pet arias
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that you guys have here at the zoo.
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We have a very beautiful display back here of the beloved
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I believe one of the largest ones right now and it existed
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and I'm very proud of it.
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And how like, how many years have you guys done it
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Like how many years we started in the fall of
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And what inspired you guys?
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I know. Did you have the idea to do this or
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or how did it come about in 2020 19?
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I lose my Yorkie of 13 years in Vegas.
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And I had been putting up a Fernando in my house
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since 2002 when my mother passed away.
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well, you know what,
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I'm gonna put one up in the office.
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I wanna honor my dog.
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I do my family one at home and I'll do one here
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at, at the office slowly but surely everybody in my department
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wanted to participate. Yeah.
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So we kept on adding it was very well received.
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So then when zoo Admin wanted to do one for
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the public and they asked,
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you know, is this appropriate?
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it's very appropriate. It has had good support from my colleagues
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But we're gonna get the professionals to come and help
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us. And that's when I called Plaza La Raza,
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Maria, Jim Torres Plaza,
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La Raza. Can you show us around like the Ada
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and kind of explain to us,
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you know what like the little arches and everything,
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the animals, if you can see they're going,
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they're going, you know,
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right to left, left to right.
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because they come back to us and then they leave again.
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I wanted to make sure that that was clear and I like
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how you added like little fire hydrants and treats all the food
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needs to be because we're outside.
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So everything has to be in jars because squirrels will take us
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out. There's so many squirrels who made this all of a
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sudden, I said we need paper mache.
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We need handmade stuff.
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Who do we got in the department that can help us.
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We're learning an engagement.
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So we tend to do a lot of handcrafts and we tend
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to have a lot of artists in the department.
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This was made by Laura Bernard Frost and this is Cletus.
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This is Cletus. That's her daughter in honor of Cletus.
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Yes. Beautiful. I think I saw like a fish over
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there's other lizards, rat,
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lizards. We've seen bugs.
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There's been bugs on here.
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There used to be a cockroach and it's also very cathartic for
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we have tissue just in case because it like that.
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I don't want, I think some people are very,
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they're overwhelmed by this space.
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They can't believe that there's others that feel like them just like
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I did and to see all this love and dedication,
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it's just really beautiful and,
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you know, surprising.
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They say that the short life spans of dogs have to do
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with the fact that they love so hard,
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really, that they love so hard.
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And that's why they do one of those things.
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That's why we only get a,
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what if we're lucky?
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is this gonna be like,
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so what time is this gonna be?
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This is this is going to end or wrap up for this
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season on Sunday, November 3rd at five o'clock when we close
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our doors, but we'll be open up until five and we'll
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try to print out as many pictures as we can up until
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that time and then will this be returning next year and then
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you will see us next year?
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Wow, that's amazing.
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We appreciate what you guys are doing.
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Thank you. It's very special.
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Thank you. Thank you.
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