Regina Swarn Audio Series Presents

PART 1 LIVE ON LOCATION INTERVIEW JERRI CLAY HAYS 🐈 Rescue Chronicles

• Regina Swarn • Season 7 • Episode 45

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The journey of saving nearly 12,000 cats doesn't happen without extraordinary passion and dedication. Meet Jerri Clay Hays, the driving force behind Rescue Cats Incorporated, who transforms the lives of abandoned felines and the humans lucky enough to adopt them.

Why do adult cats often get overlooked in shelters? Jerry makes a compelling case for choosing older cats: they're calmer, have established personalities, cause less destruction, and desperately deserve second chances. She shares the heartbreaking reality that most end up homeless through no fault of their own—often victims of their owners' financial hardships or housing changes.

Jerri's wealth of practical knowledge transforms how you'll understand your feline companion. Discover why cats dash away from litter boxes (a wild survival instinct), why they sometimes bite during affectionate moments (excitement overload), and the surprising reason your cat needs a wider water bowl (whisker sensitivity). Her insights on proper hydration might save your cat's life, as kidney disease becomes increasingly common among domestic cats.

The "3-3-3 rule" emerges as a game-changing approach to introducing new cats to your home: three days to explore their immediate space, three weeks to adjust to household rhythms, and three months to truly settle in. This patient approach creates harmonious multi-pet households and prevents unnecessary stress.

Behind the success stories lurk challenging realities like hoarding cases—Jerry recounts rescuing nearly 100 cats from deplorable conditions, highlighting why spay/neuter campaigns matter so deeply. With female cats able to reproduce as young as five months old and only a 62-day gestation period, unaltered pets can quickly create overwhelming situations.

Looking to make a difference? Visit rescuecats.org to explore adoption opportunities or donate directly to their life-saving work, where 100% of contributions fund animal care rather than administrative costs. Mention this podcast when adopting an adult cat and receive $20 off your adoption fee!

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Speaker 1:

Hello, I'm Regina Swarn. Welcome back to another episode of Regina Swarn Audio Series Presents Today. As promised, I have the amazing Jerry Clay Hayes with me from Rescue Cats Incorporated, located in Fayetteville, georgia. Now we have quite a lot to talk about today, but before I go into my little interview with Terry, I'd like to give you just a place that you can contact me. You can contact me at swornregina at gmailcom, and I want you guys to know that my podcast is a live podcast's, not one of those podcasts where you gotta be perfect, you're not sitting behind a booth or anything. I love it to be real and raw. That's the way I like my podcast, guys. So, anyways, back to what I'm talking about. I'm getting carried away, but I'm so looking forward to, uh, interviewing miss jerry clay hayes.

Speaker 1:

This is a woman I. I met her back in 2008. I'll never forget it. I worked at the school and they gave all of us well, not all of us, but they gave me this pet smart um gift card. One of the parents and it, and it was for quite a bit and I, when I came to Petsmart, I started looking around at cats and I adopted my first cat from Jerry. So, and that's been back in 2008. That's a long time ago, oh my God. But I am here with that great lady that you've heard me speak about for the last few weeks, for the last few months, and we're going to cover quite a few things here today. Hi, jerry, how are you today?

Speaker 2:

Hello, I am doing wonderful. Thank you so much for asking. Real excited to be with you guys today.

Speaker 1:

Wonderful. Thank you so much for asking. Real excited to be with you guys today. Wonderful. So we got quite a few things to cover with Jerry. Jerry is a I call her a professional Anybody that rescue cats, animals of any sort. You got to have a passion to do that.

Speaker 2:

Wouldn't you say that, sherry? Absolutely, you have to have a passion for animals and the understanding, patience to work with the humans and being able to work individually. Each and every cat and kitten is different, so we do a wonderful job of taking in our kitties that are orphans and unwanted and then getting them ready for adoption.

Speaker 1:

Wow, and Jerry, you've been doing this for a while. I think in my trailer you were saying that you were doing this for like like since 2000.

Speaker 2:

Absolutely. I started in 2000, and I adopted my first little kitten from Rescue Cats and got started with bottle feeding a group of kittens that came in that were orphaned. They were only about six days old and I think the mother had gotten killed in the road and I took those bottle fed babies and raised them. So I think that's what got me hooked is working with Rescue Cats Incorporated. They're an awesome group out of Fayetteville, georgia. We are a small adoption agency 501c3 agency, non-profit and we try so hard to make sure every single animal gets all the care, the love and finding appropriate homes for each and every one. I think up to date we've adopted out almost 12 000 cats. Oh my god since 2000.

Speaker 2:

Yes, they uh opened 1999, and I started with them in 2000. So that's a lot of cats. Now we've also adopted a few dogs as well along the way.

Speaker 1:

I didn't know that.

Speaker 2:

We sure did we sure have. We've rescued some that were in horrible conditions and did all the medical for them and adopted. So we've had a few dogs and I think we've been adopted a few turtles and guinea pigs oh my goodness, any snakes.

Speaker 1:

Yes, a little bit of everything. Oh, wow, you see, that's one of the things I was going to ask Jerry, but she actually covered on it. She's got to have a passion to do what she's doing.

Speaker 2:

Absolutely, you have to have that passion. Just like in teaching or any other career, you have to have that passion and, just like in teaching or any other career, you have to have a passion for what you do. You have to love what you do. And with rescue there's no pay. There there's no salary. So with that, you know there's the. The paycheck is actually seeing the cat get a wonderful home and then talking to pet parents 15 years later and they come back and want to adopt another cat. That's when you know you have done your job and you've touched the lives of some of those people as well as giving the kittens and cats a wonderful home.

Speaker 1:

Right Now, my life. I'm going to tell you right now I had Spike, moni Panther, janine Braxton. I mean I've gotten all my cats from Rescue Cats, from Jerry, and I'm telling you I love these cats. They're in good, good condition. You can tell that comes from love and I'm so thankful for people like Jerry and Rescue Cats, you know, because you know it's gotta happen. You gotta have a passion to do that and I'm just thankful to God for that. You know, oh my god, I'm so thankful because I wouldn't even know my, my cats right now. I wouldn't, braxton, oh my god, I wouldn't even know.

Speaker 2:

Braxton. They are awesome cats, all of those, and I remember each and every one and I think that's one thing that we offer. I don't know all other groups do, but we do a lot of follow-up and we make sure that the kitties are doing well, the pet parents are happy with their new adoption and we offer good customer service. It's not like that we're here today, gone tomorrow and you can't get in touch with us If there's a problem, question or concern. We are always able to get back in touch and see if we can help you with any problem or situation that you might have, or just given information you know so that you'll better understand the personality of your cat or kitten that you've adopted like my cat on midnight.

Speaker 1:

He wasn't adopted from here but I was able to call on Jerry's service and she would give me such great information about, you know, to help me with Midnight when he got sick and all of my other cats. You know, she was just very, very great hands-on, you know. So I'm just thankful. I think this is a great organization and we want to cover one or two things that we wanted to talk about. Jerry, about the adult cats, like the older cats. A lot of times people come in and they're like the little cute kitty cats. They're so cute and they want to adopt the little babies. But can we talk a little bit about why it's so important to adopt the older cats?

Speaker 2:

absolutely that that is a great topic because it is so easy for those little, cute, fuzzy babies to be visual and to get home quickly. But many people forget about the adult cats that we have and the senior cats, and they deserve a loving, wonderful home as well. And we'd like to touch on a few aspects of what are the positives to adopting adult cat, and probably starting off with with. We have a lot of families that come in with children and that is the the first thing. We try to make sure there is a good match between the cat and the family and with children you might want to consider adult cat be. It is always a good choice because you know little kittens, they're going to run and play and claw and they're almost like one of my co-workers had mentioned they're in their terrible twos Wow.

Speaker 2:

So the adults for the families that have small children look at adopting an adult, opposed to a tiny kitten, right? And the second reason adults are more mellow. Kittens are spunky and running and just in that crazy mode, as some people say, and the older adults, the seniors, definitely take a look at those, and because they're mellowed out, their personality is already set and a lot of times it's what you see is what you get. It's that cat's personality is in and you already know they like to curl up and sleep, they like to sit in your lap, they are the greeter when you come in from work. Yes, and those little tiny kittens that you adopt will grow up to be the adults, so they will not stay kittens their whole entire life. Of course, they continue to grow and then you see most of the kittens after about 12 to 14 months the growing spurt has stopped and they are considered then adults. Unless you have a mancoon and which the textbook says mancoons continue to grow up to four years old wow, that's.

Speaker 1:

You know. I was thinking something about, um, I was thinking about one of my cats. I keep talking about Midnight, but he lived to be like 17, 18. And I was like sometimes he looked like he was going blind, I don't know. But I guess I want to ask the question Can they get stuff like dementia and things like?

Speaker 2:

that Absolutely. We've seen that and there's a lot of research out there. As kitties get older they start slowing down. Their reaction time's a little slower. They want to sleep more. A typical cat sleeps about 18 hours a day anyway. But we find that sometimes they'll stare into the corner of the wall, they will not respond when you call them, and you know their brain function does slow down. So you see that in blindness and some other things, just like in humans. You know that their body is, you know, slowly shutting down a little bit. A lot of times we're seeing more and more kidney functions that are failing in kidney disease in cats than we have ever before. So yes, they certainly can get some of those diseases that you see in humans as we age. Right, that is true.

Speaker 1:

You said something about the kidney disease that really got my attention, because is it a certain type of food that's better for them, that would give them a life expectancy?

Speaker 2:

longer life.

Speaker 2:

That's the big question of looking at food and I think even in human food this is my personal opinion it's the preservatives that I think that we are really struggling with now. A lot of people have gone to where they actually cook their own food, make their own food, the kibble, you know the way that it's cooked. A lot of the vitamins and minerals are not in that anymore. So we suggest for people to give canned food, the wet food as well as the dry food, and we do have some of the people that have adopted from us cook their own food where they have, you know, cooked chicken and fresh vegetables. They actually can eat you know some vegetables. So definitely I would do some research into that if you're interested in looking at, uh, the the foods and preservatives.

Speaker 2:

Something that's most important that's really come about is the water intake for cats. That people will put out just a little tiny bowl If their whiskers touch each side of that bowl. That's a very it's a sensory and you do not want the whiskers to touch, so you want a big bowl. A lot of people are going to the new water fountains and they've got some out that are really, really good. The new one that I looked at not too long ago was made stainless steel and that does not harbor you know all of the bacteria.

Speaker 2:

And cats do love fresh running water. A lot of people will report hey, my cat's over at the sink all the time, or the bathtub drinking water, or they go in the shower after I take a shower. What's going on? They like that fresh, running, cool water. So if the bowl sits out for days and days, even though water's in the bowl, if it gets dust and hair and things like that, cats do not want to drink it. So the lower that water intake, then the kidneys have to work so much harder. So I tell people, especially the summertime, put out two bowls of water and make sure it's fresh, wash their bowl every single day to have fresh cool water. And check into those water fountains, especially the stainless steel one. To me that's just my personal opinion it's better than the plastic ones. But you have to also wash it, clean that filter, and I think the cats really enjoy having that cool running water, uh, opposed to the water sitting there for days and days. They don't want to drink it.

Speaker 1:

So right, fresh water you just caught my attention when you said about the whisker yes, oh my.

Speaker 2:

God, that is their little sensories. So I had an adopter, a funny story that after he adopted he called me a couple days later and he's asking about grooming the cat. So we talked about it. He said now how often do I trim the whiskers? And I said absolutely not. That is that there are little receptors and that tells them how far away things are. And uh, just so much.

Speaker 2:

Um, the sensory is in those whiskers and it's it is not wanting to touch the sides of the bowl. So that's why it's always good to get a bigger, bigger bowl, bigger water bowl. Yes, like you go to the dog section, I'm getting a big bowl and it's better again having either stainless steel, a plastic not a um like a pyrex bowl, or glass. Okay, close to the plastic. Plastic still harbors that bacteria and you want the cleanest environment for your kitty. That's what causes that little chin acne underneath their chin. It's like little bitty food particles and dirt and whatever and you see that that looks uh grimy and you can clean that with you know soap and water, but make sure you rinse it very clear. Some people can use like a cotton ball and peroxide, but a lot of times that comes from that bacteria from the plastic. So um, going with your glass stainless steel is much better for your, for your either pet, whether it's dog, cat, whatever, so it's better for them.

Speaker 1:

So, leaving here today I'm getting I'm gonna get the biggest bowl I can find, because I, you know I'm learning so much here. Jerry, you're taking me to school today. I'm serious, I didn't know that about the whisker, I didn't know that about the big bowl and I gotta get practice. Well, the other cats they got a big bowl, bigger bowl. But Braxton need a big bowl. He got the little bitty like the plate here and then he got his food right here. But, oh my God, today I got to do that.

Speaker 2:

The water is, you know, of course, we're looking at 98 degrees coming up and 100 degrees. Having that fresh, cool water is just so important, right as humans as well, to make sure your water intake is more and and well for the cats can they get too much water?

Speaker 1:

is it a safe thing?

Speaker 2:

you know, cats are sometimes smarter than we are. They will usually just intake as much as they know they need, so mother nature takes care of that. So, um, they drink, and and they're. They're like munchers, you know. They take a few bites and go sleep and play and come back and eat a little more If you're where you have free feeding, so maybe we could talk about feeding. That would be a whole other podcast.

Speaker 1:

Oh yeah, we got several parts, guys. We're just doing part one today, right?

Speaker 2:

guys, we, we just doing part one today, right? Um, something that it came up about the adults. Uh, looking at adults versus the kittens of it's a better choice. They do not chew as much as the kittens. You know, kittens are cutting that teeth, they're cutting their new adult teeth. So the chewing um, just like, just like dogs as well, they're cutting the teeth and they like pliable things as in your arm or leg or whatever. So offer them plenty of chew toys. So your adults, they've already cut their new adult teeth, so they're not chewing as much. So that's another plus for adults.

Speaker 2:

And another thing that the adults, they can be left alone. You know, when you're at school, when you're at work or you have, you know all you're running around, the adult cats are just fine. They'll sit in the windowsill or, you know, look out the window in the birds and whatever, sleep on the bed while you're gone. So they can be left alone, especially for the working pet parent If you're, you know, go to school part-time. Now we have a lot of our parents that work two jobs, right, so the adult cat is perfectly fine. They require less attention and demands, opposed to your little kittens. So something that also came up is that we see more adults ending up in shelters and animal control.

Speaker 2:

Yes, and when you adopt an adult you have given them a second chance Right and they're in shelters really no cause of their own. Normally we're seeing it's a financial situation with the pet parent where they are struggling financially and can't afford the cat, or they move to a cheaper apartment or house or complex where they don't allow any pets whatsoever and they have to give up their animals. So it's it's not the cat's fault. It's so sad it is. It is sad that we see and the shelters are filled with so many adults. Now the kittens usually get moved quicker because you know people go after the want that little fuzzy kitten. But to think about pulling the adults, then you have saved another one and then there's more room, you know, for intake with another one coming in Can that cause depression with the cat if they're just sitting there.

Speaker 2:

Absolutely. We have taken in some that will just sit there, not move for days and days, not eat, not drink, not go into the litter pan, and we feel that that is a form of depression, if you can think about. They were in a wonderful house environment, they were running around, they had plenty of space, love, water, food, everything they needed, and then all of a sudden they're put into okay, like a solitary confinement situation Kind of like prison, I guess, exactly, oh God.

Speaker 2:

Exactly, and they miss their family Right. They don't know why they're here and they're scared to eat. They're scared to go to the bathroom, thinking that's the most vulnerable time with a cat to be attacked is when they are actually going to the bathroom.

Speaker 1:

Right, oh is it.

Speaker 2:

Oh, my goodness absolutely out in, out in the wild, um, that is, they know if they go to the bathroom they need to go and get, because that is when they're most easily to be attacked by, you know, their prey animals.

Speaker 1:

So I'm telling you, I'm learning so much today. Oh God Right, I didn't know that.

Speaker 2:

So a lot of times, you know kitties will jump in that litter pan and take off running. You know, oh, they didn't cover up. Well, they are trying to get away from possibly danger. And that's one reason why, sherry, I didn't know that.

Speaker 1:

Well, there you go. I'm learning about the whiskers they got to get out of the litter pan or hurry up, I didn't know that. Coming back to when they're teasing, I'm thinking about Panther Now. He's a little bit older cat, maybe about four years old he's.

Speaker 2:

I think maybe their love bites he be biting me sometimes, yes, and they don't realize how much they are actually. Teeth are sinking into something and they still think they have this innate ability to think I still got to go kill some prey out there and they, you know, will bite down on things a little harder, and it could be your arm or leg or whatever. Try to switch that over to. Now they're making more rubber-type plastic chew toys. That would be great for the kitties, as they, you know, are teething, and then some of the older ones that just like to bite.

Speaker 1:

They're like love bites when I come in from work'll. He'll jump on my arm, he'll grab my arm and he'll just hold on to it.

Speaker 2:

He bites so hard, yeah and and they get a little confused sometimes with affection and aggression. So it's like I love you, I love you, I get so excited. And then all of a sudden you you know you got a scratch mark and you're bleeding. But I don't think they intentionally mean to hurt you because they love you, they just get so excited. It's like when they get those back feet going and start kicking and scratching. They do not mean to attack, but some kitties do get wound up and will do that. Yeah, but that's you know. You have to give them their space, and especially like if they're going to the bathroom or you give them some treats, when they're eating, sleeping or just playing with a little toy by themselves. Just give them their space.

Speaker 1:

Listen carefully everyone.

Speaker 2:

So have plenty of toys. They've got to have some interaction going, especially when you're, you know, gone from the house. A lot of people are putting up cameras now and watching you know the kitties and what they do when they're gone, so that's a great idea to see. Normally they sleep Right, so they definitely sleep a lot Wow.

Speaker 1:

So you know, we've covered a lot today, you know, and this is only part one, because we're going to do a part two and if we need a part three, jerry, we're going to do a part three, absolutely.

Speaker 2:

I'm glad to share knowledge. Now, of course, I'm not a licensed veterinarian. I do work with a veterinarian and, as a lot of us do, as hands-on vet techs I guess you would call us, but I do not have the formal training or degree. It's just all by experience and working rights, right along with several vets that are so patient with teaching us how to better work with all of our animals. So I like to always tell people that Jerry got a passion y'all.

Speaker 1:

I'm telling you, this lady has a passion like no one, because she has a passion you are so awesome.

Speaker 2:

She has a passion. It makes our job easier when we have great pet parents like Miss Regina that you know have opened up their home to adults and taken their time to allow the adults to adjust with each other. And I looked at a couple of things the other day and there is something called the 3-3-3 rule. Oh yeah, we can talk about that. I saw that and this really hits home when you are introducing a new cat into your home where you already have animals. Now it could be a dog or I.

Speaker 2:

We adopted several cats last week and both of those parents had bunnies and actually cats get along very well with with rabbits, so that is now their new best friend. I didn't know that either. So the two bunny people out there. But the three, three, three rule it says when you bring a new kitty home and there's a lot, a lot of information on the websites three days to get to know their environment and we always start with start with one room of the house just put them in a safe room, let them get used to everything.

Speaker 2:

Then three weeks is going to be your adjustment period. Give them that time to adjust, learning the new, new, new rules of the home, learning the people, learning you, learning all the aspects of the new house or apartment, whatever. And then three. The last one is three months, give or take, to be totally adjusted. And someone's always going to say, well, mine took six months.

Speaker 2:

Well, mine only took two days, and this is just a generality with the 3-3-3 rule, but it seems to have worked for many people, remembering three days to know their environment, three weeks for adjustment and then three months, more or less, to totally get adjusted. Yeah, and you don't want to introduce them to all the animals the first day, you sure don't.

Speaker 1:

You don't.

Speaker 2:

Especially if it's a puppy. You know, puppies are just all all over the place and they might not be ready for that excitement for the new puppy, but, um, it will adjust and and they will hopefully be their best friend. You see that on tiktok and instagram all the time of how the animals interact and and become, you know, best buddies.

Speaker 1:

They sleep in the same bed and whatever yeah, that is so true, because when I brought braxton to the house he stayed in the room, but he really just stayed on the bed. He didn't want to do nothing. And then when I went to work I noticed he had got down, got him something to eat, probably, went to the bathroom and then it took a few days before he even wanted to come out and the other cats were like hissing and they were mean, and now they want to be around him. He really he just wanted to be around him for a little while and then come back to his business.

Speaker 2:

He really, he just want to be around them for a little while and then come back to his business and they like to have their time. You know their space and we have to respect that as well. Oh my God, a lot of you know. Cats are nocturnal, so they're up during the night, and something that I joke with some of our workers with rescue cats it seems like cat people are nocturnal themselves. Right, we do not sleep well, we're up during the night. It's like my gosh, we're just like one of the cats.

Speaker 1:

Wow.

Speaker 2:

Being nocturnal.

Speaker 1:

Well, jerry, this is kind of personal, but can I ask you what has been your most difficult thing that you've had to challenge and the most challenging thing that you've gone through since being a rescuer?

Speaker 2:

There's several challenges I can think of, but probably the hardest and the worst gosh. I'm already thinking of three of right now. One was a good thing, but it was tough as we were going through it. We took in I'd have to get the number, but I know it was like 40 cats from Katrina.

Speaker 1:

Wow, when we had the hurricane back.

Speaker 2:

If people remember that we were one of the rescues involved in taking so many katrina cats, that was a tough rescue but to find and re rehome those cats were awesome. So that was a real difficult, probably a hard one of a very difficult situation was when there was a hoarding case and I know you hear that on tv, I've heard of that where, um, you know, people find out or they report someone that is hoarding animals whether it's cats or dogs or both, in their home, duplex, trailer, whatever, and it's in deplorable conditions where the person, the owner, maybe started out with two or three cats and did not get them spayed or neutered.

Speaker 2:

And cats will interbreed. That's another podcast, right there and it started exploding and they felt sorry for the babies. And they felt sorry for the babies. They didn't want to find homes for them because mentally they thought they were a better fit, a better home than anyone else could ever give them. So then it started multiplying and that's how, all of a sudden, it was 100 cats in this man's home. 100? 100.

Speaker 2:

Lord, it might have been over and we had about five different groups that went in and actually tried to save as many as we could and the conditions of this home. Wow, you know you've probably seen the hoarding show Right, and you've maybe seen some of the. You know Channel 5, Channel 11, whatever news people picked up on hoarding cases and there's a couple going on right now we won't disclose Wow.

Speaker 2:

But, that was probably one of the hardest things that we did to go in and to see the conditions and the animals that had already expired in the home. The poor animals were just starving to death and still, you know the owner was thinking he was trying to save everyone. The the owner was thinking he was trying to save everyone. He was mentally challenged and you know he, I think, is now that case got resolved and he is in a mental hospital. But there were a lot of other issues behind that. So I think that was probably the hardest thing I had to do to see that right and to try to work with that and save as many cats and dogs that we possibly could in conjunction with animal control, several different units and other rescues.

Speaker 2:

So, that was definitely a hard thing to see 100 cats in one house yes, at least 100. Oh God, I can't even imagine, yeah, and it's more cases out there than even the news picks up on. That the rescues try to work with and people hear about it and they want to adopt those cats because it pulls on the heartstrings. We definitely encourage, but of we do all the medical making sure you know there's no diseases and they're medically fit to you know.

Speaker 1:

That's what I was going to say Jerry, they do a lot of stuff. You know when they're adopting the cat out. You can tell them what all you do.

Speaker 2:

You know when they're adopted Actually the medical is most important for every cat. By law we have to have that cat spayed and neutered before it's adopted. Um, and the whole thrust, I think, of all the rescue agencies is to have a altered cat, have them fixed. No babies, no multiplying, no multiplying out there because we have just saturated the communities with unwanted animals because so many people cannot afford spay and neuter their animals or they don't know to do that, and that is so important. Anyone out there, there's a lot of low-cost spay and neuter companies that will help you. There's financial people that can help with the spay and neuter, but definitely get your pet fixed.

Speaker 2:

A lot of the vets say before six months old they really need to be altered. Spay is for female and neuter is for male. A lot of times we just say the word fixed. But that way you won't have the multiplying, because that's another podcast. We've got so many. We've got a lot to talk about. Because, unfortunately, you know you let your little kitty out, you know to go to the bathroom and next thing you let your little kitty out to go to the bathroom and next thing you come back and see that her belly is a little big. Gestation is only 62 days, 63 days.

Speaker 2:

Really yes, oh my God, yes that means she's coming up bringing you a surprise. Oh man, and those babies, there's numbers. Surprise, and in those babies there's numbers you can look at it and look it up on google of how many thousands of babies they can have and multiply just within a few generations. We have seen five month olds being pregnant and and I think the most that we've ever seen a mother have was nine babies. So you can imagine in five months, if those are not fixed, how many numbers are going to go exponentially and they can go and get babies, oh yes, oh my God, that's terrible.

Speaker 2:

The numbers are just overwhelming. We see it increase every year instead of decrease. But that's, you know, getting the word out to everyone to spay and neuter your pets, and that goes for dogs too, you know. A lot of people think, oh, I don't want to breed this dog, there's so many unwanted puppies out there. Same thing.

Speaker 1:

Right, same thing. And, like I tell you guys, you hear noise in the background. I'm hoping you can hear some kitties, I'm hoping we can hear the kitties say me, or in the background. My podcast is all about being real and the noise in the background, the kids, the whatever. That's all a part of the podcast.

Speaker 2:

Absolutely, and that's when I told Ms Regina that we're just real people. We're here to hopefully give information, share information and always do your research. You know, we have Google at our fingertips. You have the Internet at your fingertips to look up information. You're not sure, ask, because there's no stupid question when it comes to not knowing about an animal or what you think you might need to do, ask someone. We always entertain any questions. On Saturday, we're here.

Speaker 1:

That's what I was going to say about Saturday.

Speaker 2:

Saturday coming up, we have a big adoption fair at the Mount Zion PetSmart in Morrow, Georgia. That's also South Lake PetSmart and we have a lot of adoption, adoptable kitties.

Speaker 2:

We call that as a generic term Cats and kittens that are ready to go. You can check our website at rescuecatsorg, look at the meet the kitties out there and give us a call. All of the numbers, website information is there and email addresses as well, and we definitely would love to have you come out and visit and talk with us. If there's questions, feel free to give us a call at rescuecatsorg and my number's on the website as well right, and you can also feel free to donate.

Speaker 1:

Donate to this cause because it's very needed, and so yeah, jerry, I think it's a good thing.

Speaker 2:

Absolutely. We are being an independent agency. We are not subsidized by the state, so everything that comes in is from the people, donations, Any donation, whether it's a dollar or $100. We would love to have a corporate donation and that would go directly 100% to the cats the care, the medical and their food litter. All of that goes 100% to the cats. Where there's some other agencies that do not, they go straight to administration and their CEO of their company. It does not work that way with rescue cats. We are only operating on those donations and certainly that we have paypal and all other zelle forms of payment.

Speaker 1:

You know, if you want to give any donation tax deductible, you hear that y'all all right there's some money out there, right, feel free to donate, because this cause is so needed and like, as I said, what jerry is doing with rescue cats in her organization, I am just so thankful to god that you know that they exist. That they exist, jerry, we're gonna do a part two. Okay, we're gonna do a part two. We covered a whole lot today. I learned a whole lot today, and so we're gonna do a part two. This is just part one. It might be part two and three, but I'm telling I had a great time today. Thank you so much, sherry.

Speaker 2:

Thank you, oh, I enjoyed it and thank you so much for our audience, our listeners out there, and we thank Ms Regina for all that she has done and her knowledge to be able to put a podcast together, and thank you for welcoming me in Of course You're so welcome.

Speaker 1:

And again, you just heard, uh, miss jerry hayes, with rescue cats incorporated in fayetteville, georgia, and I'm gonna have everything in the links so you'll be able to, you know, write to them, go visit them, check the website out. Please donate, it's very, very important. You just heard what she said about the donations y'all, so you can give as little as a dollar if you want to give a thousand, that would be great, I mean, but just feel free to donate and to give to this great cause, because there's so many cute little kitties out there that doesn't have homes and I just really think that's really great what you're doing, terri, and if you happen to hear this podcast and you're ready to adopt and mention to us that you heard this podcast, we will give you $20 off that adoption on an adult cat, since that was our podcast theme today.

Speaker 2:

Any adult cat that would be considered over that year, year and a half old, we would give $20 discounts. If you mention Regina Sworn and her podcast. Well, you heard it y'all, you heard it.

Speaker 1:

My voice is trying to get out on me. You heard it y'all, you heard it. I wasn't trying to get out on me, but I'm going to keep going, but you heard it right here. So we're going to do a part two with Miss Cherry Hayes and Rescue Cats. Again, I'm going to have everything in the links, the phone number, everything, so you can be able to donate, call, write, but don't call personally. You know no personal business, but go by the website, you'll see, you'll see. And again, you just heard me Our Regina Sworn Audio Series presents. Thanks again for joining me today. We're going to be doing a part two with Jerry in the following weeks. But, jerry, you got anything else you want to say before I close out?

Speaker 2:

that is all, just spay and neuter your pets and remember that humans live longer if they have a cat amen he's taught me so much today.

Speaker 1:

All right, y'all have a great day, and God bless you bye Cherry, bye bye.

Speaker 2:

Thank you.