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-Could we maybe examine
her in the stroller?

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Does that work?

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-For people experiencing
homelessness, pets are family.

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Find out how a free veterinarian
program keeps both ends

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of the leash healthy.

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-There's been a lot of people
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butterfly for a very long time.

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-On the brink of extinction,
the Island Marble butterfly

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is making a comeback.

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Discover how human hands
are helping this rare

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species take flight again.

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-All three species are critically
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the next step is extinction.

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-Save the rainforests.

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Save the orangutans.

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See how the Woodland Park
Zoo is helping to protect

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wildlife in the wild.

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These stories and more are
coming up next on CityStream.

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Hello and welcome to CityStream.

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I'm Nicole Sanchez.

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We're bringing you the
show this week from

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the Woodland Park Zoo.

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The zoo sits on what was once
a giant estate owned by Guy

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C. Phinney near the southwest
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After his death in 1893, the
city of Seattle bought the

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property and brought in
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John Olmsted to turn it
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Olmsted imagined a big park
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animals. Before long the
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elk, camels, monkeys,
elephants and bears.

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But you know life
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of those early animals.

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Most lived out their days
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Over time the zoo
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spaces that felt more like
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Visitors could finally
see them in settings that

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looked and felt natural.

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Today the Woodland Park Zoo
is celebrated worldwide

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for its realistic lush
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including its brand-new
forest trailhead exhibit

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and its popular
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We'll take you through
those a little later and

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show you what the zoo is
doing to protect animals and

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their habitats
outside its own walls.

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On the streets of our city,
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stronger than circumstance.

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The homeless relying
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and their pets
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For many, this is the only
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The One Health Clinic
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by treating both of them
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providing human and
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The clinic is a
unique partnership

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between the University
of Washington

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and Washington
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And as I've learned, the
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and changing lives.

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- I was in a really dark time.

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I was in a point where I didn't
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- It's okay, honey.

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- Justin Raven can
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in his life now, thanks
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Rumi his cat and Lucy his dog.

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- I, in a way, I feel like
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I feel like they did.

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They pulled me back
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and I'm thankful
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-Justin is bringing
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at the One Health Clinic at New
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in Seattle's Belltown
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Horizons partners with
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the UW-WSU One Health
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animal services.

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They say sometimes the
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with the pet first
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with the human patient.

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- Most people come because
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and then human healthcare is
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- You're here for your animal,
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to the nurse
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you just have to do
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"Don't need anything
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"I'm just here for my animal."

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and say that they don't
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actually access care.

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of the people who
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- We're able to take care
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So we're not just treating
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but we're also helping to
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that they created.

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- New Horizons is one
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that is pet friendly.

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It's not always easy, but
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worth it to better serve people
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separate from their pets.

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- What that does is that creates
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for that person being
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- This bond that individuals
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with their animals, it really
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-Even when I was showing them
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of times and the worst
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stuck by my side.

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from committing suicide.

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what would happen to
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their animal is the most
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-Unlike a lot of other
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care is fully integrated,
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place at the same time with a
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doctor and a veterinarian.

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-So instead of fill out this
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screening, the question is,
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support your mental health?

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Like, how does your
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what could you be doing
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how can we improve
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for both you and your
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-I feel like I have seen
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affect the health of a family,
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kinds of challenges that
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can be experiencing
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if we want them both to be
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-The One Health Clinic
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and is a unique partnership
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of Washington's
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Research and Washington
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College of
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They also have a partnership
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providing both human and pet
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is a supported housing
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And they also offer a
free online toolkit that

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more than 300 people
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-In that toolkit we try and
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way through from the beginning
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clinic all the way through the
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to run the clinic on that day.

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I wouldn't change it for

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anything in the world.

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-For people like Justin, taking
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him to take the necessary
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Now he has a place to
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shelter's Street Bean cafe.

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Justin says the care offered
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has meant the world to him.

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-Because they honor the
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their pets, which can be
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They're family.

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That is my whole world.

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-The One Health Clinic recently
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with King County Public Health
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Homeless Street Medicine Team.

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They're bringing services
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across the region.

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Those services will
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And if you want to do a drop-in
visit, just go to their website.

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It's OneHealthClinic.org, where
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times for the next
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Coming up, it's a real-life
example of the butterfly effect,

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how saving one small butterfly
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-Welcome back to CityStream
from the Woodland Park

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Zoo's wonderful world
of flying flowers,

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otherwise known as
the butterfly garden.

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You know, butterflies do
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brighten the space around us.

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They act as powerful
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us a clear read on the
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One butterfly, the
Island Marble, was once

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thought to be extinct.

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Now, a dedicated team here
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to help bring them back.

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But as producers Annabel
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us, the Island Marble's
journey is far from over.

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-It's always been such an
amazing story of resiliency

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of this little butterfly.

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It had been missing
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And it was found and it was
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not where they were expecting,
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looking on a host plant,
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having an animal that
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to be able to still be here
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were expecting to see it
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bugs as much as I do.

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It's a very special
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Welcome to the lab.

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This project's really
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because we're doing
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We got one that just
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Instead of bringing the animals
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Two to three keepers that
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that are taking care of the
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Pretty sure it's ready to
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And using their skill
set in a way that they

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have this skill set from
raising other butterflies.

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This is a female Island Marble butterfly.

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We can tell because her wings,
and they're yellow on the

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inside, on the lower wings.

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This is the pupal case.

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Decently sized butterfly emerged
from this tiny little pupa.

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There's a certain amount of
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the landscape, and that
those eggs are brought into

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the lab to hatch.

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Eventually they emerge
out of their chrysalis,

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out of their pupa, and we put
them out onto the landscape.

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I'm going to take a
look at the wind speed,

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and yeah, everything's
looking pretty good.

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It's basically what we
call head starting.

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Come on!

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It's giving these animals
a chance to survive

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in a location with our help,
with lack of predators, with,

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you know, free from diseases,

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and so taking care of
them as best as we can

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to ensure their survival.

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Okay, yeah, this isn't
a bad spot at all.

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Oftentimes, why
butterflies are in trouble

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is for a handful of reasons,
from everything from climate

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change to pesticide use
and then just basically

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loss of habitat.

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It's pretty windy, girl.

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How you feeling?

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And so for this
particular butterfly,

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It likes prairie grasslands,
coastal grasslands

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that have some type of
mustard plant in them

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for them to lay their eggs
on, to have the larvae eat,

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and then eventually crawl off
of to pupate for the winter.

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Okay, you're happy there.

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Our hopes for her are
that she finds a mate.

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We released several males
here a few days ago,

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lay some eggs, and we restart,
we get a new generation.

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- This particular
butterfly is found

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on a very small
section of the island,

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and it has limited
habitat options.

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It's also a very
small population.

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So the idea is to
augment the population,

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to grow the population,
so that it naturally

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starts to expand out.

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And so in order to do
that, we have to make sure

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that the places where it's
going to expand out to

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are ready for that, which
means having the host plant

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that it needs, which are
various types of mustard.

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It is kind of that
classic story of build it

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and they will come.

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-Okay, so there's one on this
little mustard right here.

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You can see the little
egg right there.

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We've had Island Marble
come to this patch.

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This is outside
of American Camp.

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They've come to this patch
now for five years in a row.

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And just last Friday, I found
over 50 eggs in this patch.

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That's what all this
flagging is that you see.

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I'm out here and I'm
actually tracking the

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development of each of those
individual eggs to see

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what the survivability
of the caterpillars are.

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There's a community
effort to have more plots

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of land converted to
have more host plants

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so that it's ready for when
this butterfly grows beyond

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the capacity and has the
choice to go somewhere else.

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There's been a lot of people
that have been involved in

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this butterfly for a very long
time, including Amy Lambert at

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the University of Washington.

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Amy was able to do her PhD
work on this butterfly.

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-It is a resilient butterfly,
but it is still persisting

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in incredibly low
numbers for a butterfly.

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I'm hopeful that that will
change, but it is still

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an endangered animal.

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-The Woodland Park Zoo has
an incredible experience

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and expertise in captive
rearing of butterflies.

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And the population picked up
because of the captive rearing,

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and it's been steady, I would
say, generally since then.

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And there she goes.

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-We're working with U.S.

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Fish and Wildlife,
Washington Department

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of Fish and Wildlife,
National Park Service.

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There's the monitoring
that Washington Department

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of Fish and Wildlife is
doing in conjunction

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with National Park Service.

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So there's just,
there's a lot of people

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bringing their own
unique talent to this.

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It's gonna be super
helpful to help support

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and save this butterfly
in the long run.

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It's there, it has a
part of the ecosystem

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and it's our job to make
sure that that ecosystem

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stays as dynamic as it
can to support that life.

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And someday it'll be fine and it

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won't need our help because
it'll be happy and thriving

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on its own.

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Yeah you're a
good-looking butterfly.

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Go find a female.

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Amazing butterfly in a beautiful

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place with a community of
people that care deeply

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for it and we feel so
lucky to be a part of that

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community and to be able
to help this butterfly.

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♪♪ 

355
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-There are many things we
can do to help protect

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these fragile creatures
including creating your

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own backyard
pollinating habitat.

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To download your own
pollinator toolkit or

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to find out more about the
zoo's butterfly garden

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just go to the Woodland
Park Zoo's website.

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It's zoo.org/butterflygarden.

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How the zoo's efforts to
protect rainforest land

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in Southeast Asia are
helping these gentle giants

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in a big way.

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We'll explain when we come back.

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♪♪

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♪♪

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♪♪

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We've made our way to
the orangutan exhibit

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here at the zoo, and
it's easy to see why

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guests love stopping by.

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There are four orangutans,
each with their own

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unique personalities.

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All are so much fun to watch.

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And while visitors get to
hang out with them here,

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the zoo is teaming up
with conservationists

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to help orangutans in the wild.

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As producer Chris
Barnes shows us,

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protecting and restoring
their habitats today

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plays a big part in
ensuring their future.

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♪ ♪

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-Here at Woodland Park Zoo,
we have four orangutans.

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We have Heran, Bela,
who are both hybrids,

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which means they're a
combination of Sumatran

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and Bornean orangutans.

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And then we have Godek and
Batu, who are purebred

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Sumatran orangutans.

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So they're super intelligent,
sentient beings.

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We put various things out to
have them mimic behaviors

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they might do in the wild,
foraging, fishing for things.

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♪ ♪

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There's three species
of orangutans.

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All three species are
critically endangered,

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which means the next
step is extinction.

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The main reason orangutans
are facing extinction

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is due to palm oil plantations.

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So it's critical that we
really highlight this species

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and try and save
them in the wild.

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- Woodland Park Zoo has
a very long history

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of conservation with
orangutans, dating back to the

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'90s when we trained
Indonesian veterinarians

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who helped rehabilitate
orphan young orangutans

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so that they could be
rehabilitated and released back

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to the wild in Indonesia.

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Today we continue our
partnership with several

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different organizations in
Borneo and we're focusing

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more outside of the
protected areas helping

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communities establish community
forests, working with

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private landowners to regrow
forests so that there can

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be connectivity between
protected areas and

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orangutans and other wildlife
can safely move between them.

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♪♪

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-Life here at the zoo, I think
they have a great life.

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We have a beautiful
open air exhibit.

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It's very green year round
living here in Seattle.

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So we're lucky a lot of zoos
across the United States

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have more of a seasonality
to the whole year.

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Because of this even season,
they get to be outside almost

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365 days a year, which is great.

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00:19:42,281 --> 00:19:44,917
Well, I think we see ourselves
in them, and really we see

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ourselves in any great ape
when they look into their

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eyes and they realize how
intelligent they are,

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what a sentient being they are.

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They require a lot of respect.

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I think it really moves people.

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♪♪

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-Our animals here at Woodland
Park Zoo are ambassadors

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for their wild cousins
living in the wild.

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And so we like to use our
orangutans here to help spread

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the message of conservation
and how incredibly

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cool these animals are
and how worthy they

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are for protection.

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♪♪ 

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-It's that time of year
again as Seattle City Hall

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turns into Kitty Hall for
the Seattle Animal Shelter's

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annual adoption event.

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♪♪

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[cat meows]

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♪♪

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00:20:45,143 --> 00:20:46,878
[cat purring]

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-It is kitty hall.

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It is in session.

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It's in full swing.

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00:20:49,815 --> 00:20:50,649
[kitten meows]

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We have 39 kittens and
two adult cats ready

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00:20:54,152 --> 00:20:55,887
for their forever homes.

447
00:20:59,157 --> 00:21:02,961
-Yeah, I'm really looking forward
to seeing all the kitties and

448
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cats that are up for adoption.

449
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-They're kittens.

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They're a little rambunctious.

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They're super playful.

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They're, you know, they're here
to, you know, give a little

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bit of happiness to
everybody's day.

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00:21:12,838 --> 00:21:14,740
-There's only so many kittens.

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00:21:14,740 --> 00:21:16,942
-Oh, no, no, you better stay in!

456
00:21:16,942 --> 00:21:18,644
-And there's probably
only so many boxes.

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Probably more boxes
than kittens.

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00:21:21,313 --> 00:21:23,749
-Onwards! I'm very
surprised at the

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number of people in line.

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00:21:24,916 --> 00:21:27,853
I'd say there's, I don't
know, at least 100, 150.

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00:21:27,853 --> 00:21:32,357
- I think adoption
and rescuing is,

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oh, it's so important.

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00:21:35,761 --> 00:21:38,597
- Hopefully all the
kitties that come in today

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leave with a good home.

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- Part of what the Seattle
Animal Shelter is here for

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is our adoption program.

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We have some really talented
staff that are able to

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make sure a pet is the
right fit for the family

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that they'd be paired with.

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- New cat lady, future
crazy cat lady.

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- I actually have already
texted my husband

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to ask if I can
bring Walnut home.

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00:22:00,018 --> 00:22:02,754
I don't think he's replied
yet, but I am today.

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-We're a tuxedo cat family,
so that would be amazing.

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- Yay!

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00:22:06,958 --> 00:22:08,160
- Okay, okay.

477
00:22:08,160 --> 00:22:10,329
- Definitely came
in with the hopes

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of finding the right kitties.

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00:22:12,731 --> 00:22:16,234
- I think it's lovely.

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The line is long, everyone's
talking to each other,

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everyone's cheering for the
kittens as they come out.

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It's great.

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If you're not able to get
down to Kitty Hall today,

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you can come visit us at the
shelter and chat with our team

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and they'll match you
with the perfect pet.

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♪♪

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[cheering and applause]

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00:22:37,055 --> 00:22:40,292
♪♪

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00:22:42,394 --> 00:22:45,764
-I'm happy to report that
every cat got adopted.

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And the Kitty Hall Council
President this year, Tygo, this

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adorable 10-year-old senior cat.

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If you weren't able to make
it to this event, you can

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always go to the Seattle
Animal Shelter's webpage.

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It's seattle.gov/animal-shelter.

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They update their page quite
frequently, so keep checking

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00:23:04,216 --> 00:23:06,818
to see if there's a cat or
dog that's right for you.

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00:23:06,818 --> 00:23:08,120
We'll be right back.

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00:23:08,854 --> 00:23:11,757
♪♪

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00:23:14,226 --> 00:23:16,061
Well, that's it for this
episode of CityStream.

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There is so much to see
and do here at the zoo.

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00:23:19,798 --> 00:23:23,001
If you'd like to see what's
going on, what's coming up,

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