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00:00:00during a certain period of time, what you
00:00:03mentioned is that we do not have a drought
00:00:06warning system at the state level, it should
00:00:10be established, just as we have a warning
00:00:12system for dangerous weather - dangerous
00:00:16weather disasters related to the meteo alarm in
00:00:20the DHMZ meteo alarm we do not have data on
00:00:23drought, meaning that
00:00:27one is missing, we are missing one step with...
00:00:31to combine all information, you have organizations that
00:00:35deal with water problems, these are Croatian Waters,
00:00:38you have the Hydrometeorological Institute which also has a hydrological
00:00:42sector that measures water and temperature, water and
00:00:45water quantity, groundwater needs to be measured, the quantity
00:00:49and level of groundwater, meaning these are information
00:00:52that need to be unified in one place and monitored and warnings
00:00:56issued for the entire country, because we have to do... the same
00:01:00way, we need to start acting in such a way
00:01:03that we prevent drought, we can prevent it by
00:01:06starting to collect water, so
00:01:10this autumn, from autumn we start
00:01:13collecting water in accumulation lakes, as a reserve,
00:01:17as a reserve for what awaits us
00:01:19next summer, because next summer will not be colder than
00:01:23this one, that's for sure, because this summer, according to all our
00:01:27meteorological forecasts, is perhaps... one of
00:01:30the coldest summers until the end of this
00:01:33century, what does that mean, what does
00:01:36that mean, well let's say that the next one will be warmer, each
00:01:40next one, each next one will be even warmer, that's
00:01:43unfortunately the forecast is like that, and what does
00:01:46that mean for each of us, for life, for industry, for
00:01:50agriculture, for my, your life outside,
00:01:54animals, plants, that means
00:01:57that, hmm, it's hard, it's hard to say. To
00:02:00find a clear answer to everything, the first
00:02:03answer is that we are
00:02:06adaptable creatures, mhm, we will adapt
00:02:10in any way, humanity will adapt,
00:02:13however agriculture and plants
00:02:16adapt much more slowly to changes in
00:02:20weather, that's for example one, one, one of
00:02:23the things we need to understand, which is that we already need
00:02:27blame it all, I don't know, on watering holes for wild animals to...
00:02:30water, because if we don't do that, a part of
00:02:33our wild animals in our
00:02:36forests will simply die of
00:02:38thirst,
00:02:41no, no, no, it looks, it looks horrible, but, but, but
00:02:44look, the next one,
00:02:47the first major penetration of precipitation we will have
00:02:50be subsidized in any in 10 to 15 days, but until those
00:02:5410 to 15 days we need to survive
00:02:57with puddles that evaporate every moment.
00:03:02well, rivers have dried up, not puddles, right? so we need, we need to think
00:03:06that way. The second thing is, the drying of
00:03:09the roots of trees has begun,
00:03:12mhm, meaning trees no
00:03:15longer have enough groundwater which
00:03:18they draw with their root system, there is
00:03:22drying of trees, with the drying
00:03:25of trees the danger of
00:03:28fires becomes greater and greater.
00:03:30Our fire danger index was high
00:03:34two months ago on the Adriatic, now it's
00:03:38high throughout Croatia, which
00:03:41means that some foolishly
00:03:44fired signal flare at a wedding in Slavonia
00:03:48can cause the same fire that we recently had on
00:03:51Korčula,
00:03:53and then where is the preparation and
00:03:57extinguishing of that fire much harder than... "in Dalmatia, Canadairs
00:04:01have no place to draw water, meaning the period for
00:04:05filling and emptying the
00:04:08aircraft itself is much longer, so extensive
00:04:11preparations will be needed. Furthermore, in normal
00:04:14normal life we all increasingly use air conditioners,
00:04:18yes, you can, you can make air conditioning, but that air conditioning expels heat outwards,
00:04:22we with air conditioning are actually raising the temperature
00:04:25of cities, a bunch of air conditioning
00:04:29units that release heat outwards,
00:04:32in rooms we keep the temperature at about
00:04:3623, 24 degrees, outside we have raised
00:04:40the temperature from that air conditioning unit by 5 to
00:04:436°, no, so that we ourselves, we ourselves
00:04:47are doing ourselves harm
00:04:49in a way, that problem that is related to
00:04:53drought, is related to the problem of glaciers,
00:04:56we, we had glaciers in the Balkans.
00:05:00there were glaciers, we had a glacier on Triglav,
00:05:04it's gone, we had a glacier on Durmitor, it's gone,
00:05:07it melted, you have
00:05:10glacial pits on Veleb'. in which
00:05:13the ice is reduced only to
00:05:15traces,
00:05:18in the Alps the glaciers have receded,
00:05:22but that's not, not, not the point that these glaciers have receded now,
00:05:26but the point is that these glaciers supply water to rivers
00:05:29and
00:05:32now if it rains in
00:05:34Schwarzwald, the level and water level of the Danube
00:05:37will improve or rise only in about 10
00:05:41days, but that's if... it really rains with large amounts
00:05:44of precipitation, we currently have a drought where
00:05:48precipitation is at zero in
00:05:51Slavonia for the last month, now so that the
00:05:54viewers don't say that we
00:05:57here, since we are certainly calling the shots, literally
00:06:01and figuratively,
00:06:03uh, but let's not end on such a
00:06:07terrifying note, is there any optimism
00:06:10in what is... here and in everything that is coming
00:06:14as you said, yes there is optimism and
00:06:17optimism boils down to the fact that we have to adapt and
00:06:21adapt as soon as possible and adapt as well
00:06:24as possible, we have to start saving water, that's one
00:06:28of the measures we have to take, we have to start, we won't
00:06:31talk about CO2 and CO2 emissions into the atmosphere, because
00:06:35no matter how much we save here, on other sides, on a wartime, on some battlefield
00:06:39they emit twice as much CO2 into the atmosphere.
00:06:43um, we must be careful with fires, because fires
00:06:45tremendously uh contribute to the increase
00:06:48of CO2 and particles in the atmosphere
00:06:51and what is even more important with
00:06:55that, after a large fire, that
00:06:58burned area remains black, remains dark,
00:07:02which leads to even greater heating of that surface
00:07:04and then when the rain comes on it, then the rain just
00:07:08washes away the top layer, but it washes away the top layer of soil.
00:07:12Not just the ash that remained, but also the soil, so in fact
00:07:16we are turning forest areas into
00:07:20karst into barren land, that is, that is
00:07:23one problem, but uh I think
00:07:26that we will have pressure
00:07:30and uh from countries that are located
00:07:33that were located in the Sahel, meaning in the
00:07:37region uh of desert
00:07:39climate, that people will simply start moving from these
00:07:43areas towards the north, so we also have
00:07:46migration, general migration of population on Earth, not
00:07:50only, not only with us, because
00:07:53now you already have migration that is happening, summer migration, this
00:07:56tourist migration, which no longer goes towards the Adriatic, but goes towards
00:07:59the Baltic, because the Baltic has become warm like the Adriatic 10
00:08:03years ago, nothing, I will then call you from
00:08:07time to time to alert people in a
00:08:10rational way to prepare. mm for all
00:08:13that is coming, thank you very much for explaining
00:08:17some things to us and making them clearer, because all
00:08:21of it, all of it seems so
00:08:23incomprehensible to us sometimes, thank you Mr. Lipovčak for this
00:08:27guest appearance, thank you.
00:08:45And now we will zoom in
00:08:47and include Luka Oman from the Friends of
00:08:51Animals association. Mr. Oman is in Rijeka, we will wish
00:08:54him good day and welcome to our program.
00:08:58Thank you very much, warm greetings to everyone. So, to start, perhaps
00:09:01let's begin uh with
00:09:05what you said about the Zagreb Zoo,
00:09:09where a lioness died.
00:09:12A young lion killed her, you experienced that
00:09:16as uh the collapse of
00:09:20the system and you are actually asking the city of Zagreb to
00:09:23stop financing the captivity
00:09:27of animals?
00:09:30Exactly, in the media it is said that the lioness was killed
00:09:33by a lion, but let's be realistic, the lioness was killed by the system of zoos,
00:09:37namely, the lioness did not come
00:09:41to Zagreb because she was saved. She doesn't
00:09:44need help, certainly not in that way, so she came
00:09:48purely out of commercial
00:09:50needs, meaning to breed and create new
00:09:54attractions, new individuals who will be imprisoned for life,
00:09:57so this has nothing to do with animal protection, nothing
00:10:01to do with species preservation, because it's logical that
00:10:04a lioness will not help preserve uh
00:10:07endangered species in their environment, so it's about
00:10:11preserving... one collection
00:10:14of zoos among themselves, that's why they trade and exchange,
00:10:17breed, then we realized that actually
00:10:21this case also showed
00:10:25how much animals in zoos truly
00:10:28suffer, not only from captivity itself, but precisely
00:10:31from this system of exchange, breeding and
00:10:35actually creating these lifelong
00:10:37prisoners, uh, the money that is spent on all of this
00:10:41comes from all citizens, even those who would never enter a zoo precisely
00:10:45for ethical reasons, precisely because they know that in
00:10:47the 21st century it is completely inappropriate to
00:10:50deliberately deprive an animal of its
00:10:54freedom. To breed a wild animal in captivity
00:10:57to be a slave, to be an exhibit, whatever,
00:11:01so, the money of all citizens goes to
00:11:04this kind of game, to this cruel
00:11:07game, actually the arrival of new
00:11:10individuals, we believe that the city of Zagreb should
00:11:13now make a concrete move, which is
00:11:16definitely stopping the breeding and bringing
00:11:20of new wild animals into the zoo, so
00:11:24simply that's what can be done immediately, over
00:11:27time it should be transformed into a modern
00:11:30educational institution, where actually
00:11:34animals are truly not tortured, not abused by captivity, but
00:11:36uh in an interesting way
00:11:40available today, animals can be seen in their natural
00:11:44environment, whether it's through 3D animations,
00:11:47high-resolution screens and so on, meaning an
00:11:50attraction can be created, so that animals are truly
00:11:54experienced as they are, and a wild animal can
00:11:57separate it from what
00:12:01makes it a wild animal, which is its natural
00:12:04environment, we need to ask ourselves what a
00:12:08lion is doing in the city of Zagreb, well that's not just
00:12:11far from its climate, it's not even on its continent,
00:12:15so let's just be realistic and say
00:12:18let's leave animals alone, let's leave
00:12:21them in the wild, let's not exploit them for our
00:12:25entertainment, because there's nothing else here but exactly one
00:12:28neglect, abuse of animals for entertainment, in
00:12:31a very perfidious, systematic way,
00:12:35where it's not immediately apparent that it's
00:12:39about that, the lioness comes to Zagreb, it's always presented as
00:12:42good news, now we see what is hidden behind that, a violent
00:12:46breeding and all with the aim of creating offspring who will
00:12:50be lifelong behind bars, imagine if
00:12:53you deliberately make someone... to be born a slave and die a
00:12:57slave, to suffer in captivity for life, a wild
00:13:00animal cannot get used to captivity and it suffers
00:13:04as soon as it is born in captivity, we know that, experts know
00:13:08it and we still do it, that has to stop, we also
00:13:11think that the zoo should not
00:13:15way by the city of Zagreb because it is the common
00:13:19money of citizens which can go to culture, art, for
00:13:22genuine animal protection, but not for... human attraction and
00:13:26entertainment, what about those who will say that it is actually a way
00:13:29of preserving
00:13:30species,
00:13:33how can a lion who will suffer here in
00:13:37captivity in the city of Zagreb help a lion who
00:13:40is fighting for survival in its environment, I mean, people are not
00:13:44that stupid anymore to believe such things,
00:13:48so what I'm talking about some uh preservation
00:13:51of the genetic code also makes no sense. Zoos
00:13:55really don't need to uh be
00:13:58some uh how can I say preservation
00:14:02of the genetic code, there are programs that deal with that, which have nothing
00:14:05to do with zoos, so uh zoos
00:14:09breed animals, not to protect
00:14:13animals in nature, nor is that possible, but precisely for their
00:14:16own benefit, to simply maintain their collection
00:14:20to constantly have new offspring who are, of course, the main
00:14:24attraction. Exactly that, in the media it can be said, "Look, a
00:14:28baby lion was born, everyone come to the zoo to see it," meaning,
00:14:31let's not delude ourselves with some kind of education,
00:14:35because we can only educate children in zoos to
00:14:39show them that it's okay to imprison animals for our
00:14:42entertainment, then we wonder when they want to have
00:14:46an exotic animal at home, I mean, there's no difference, an animal
00:14:50suffers in captivity, wild, exotic, and just as individuals shouldn't
00:14:53have them, neither should cities, and I repeat, with common money
00:14:57financing all of it, so
00:15:01there's no education here, except bad education, there's no
00:15:03preservation of animal species, but precisely this
00:15:07deception, I repeat, people are no longer uh so
00:15:11foolish, if I may put it that way, to think that
00:15:14a lion who will spend its entire life
00:15:17in captivity behind bars in the city of Zagreb
00:15:20uh will do anything for the well-being
00:15:24of lions. somewhere on another continent where they are endangered,
00:15:27I mean, that's the reality, Mr.
00:15:31Oman, not so long ago a case of severe
00:15:33neglect of animals shocked
00:15:37Croatia, a case in which all
00:15:40institutions actually knew, although they claimed that they didn't
00:15:44really know that it was difficult to uh
00:15:47trace the perpetrators, shortly after
00:15:50that, a horrific case was recorded
00:15:54in Dvor, dozens of dogs, some
00:15:57alive and some dead, and other animals were found, you are demanding
00:16:01sanctions for veterinary inspectors who were
00:16:05actually involved in that case and... "whose jurisdiction
00:16:08it actually was uh to take care
00:16:11of it,
00:16:13that's right and with full justification, namely, this case was known
00:16:17for years earlier, not only
00:16:20did citizens report
00:16:22shocking footage was released in the media, uh, but
00:16:26it was clear that the inspection uh in some
00:16:29way legalized it, meaning it ordered, I don't know, vaccination,
00:16:32microchipping, then it allowed it to develop further without any
00:16:36control, of course..." The result that happened is unfortunately not
00:16:40the only case that showed that our system for controlling the
00:16:43animal protection law is completely non-
00:16:47functional, citizens who report it really
00:16:50know that, it's constantly a blame game
00:16:54and constant justification from the veterinary inspection that they now have
00:16:58a problem with, I don't know, swine flu or something, they can't
00:17:01deal with animal protection similarly and we truly saw that it's...
00:17:05a systemic problem where the animal protection
00:17:07law, when it came into force,
00:17:11simply needed, needed an institution to enforce it, but
00:17:15that unfortunately did not happen, instead of creating
00:17:18an animal protection inspection, so
00:17:21uh that these would be inspectors who exclusively
00:17:25deal with the animal protection law, it was transferred to the veterinary inspection.
00:17:29The veterinary inspection primarily acts according to the veterinary law,
00:17:33the health law and other laws that are related
00:17:36to... to health - then
00:17:39animal welfare simply did not have a place
00:17:42and still doesn't today, and that's why we believe that a
00:17:46serious reform of the system is needed so that such
00:17:49cases simply do not happen again, all of this could have
00:17:52been prevented, everyone knew about it, institutions knew
00:17:56about it, but unfortunately everything that could have been done
00:18:00was simply not done, mm, we can now
00:18:05the dead man mm who... is the owner of
00:18:08those dogs, but let's be realistic, the competent institutions
00:18:12should take responsibility, so, as much as that
00:18:15man is to blame, certainly those who were
00:18:19supposed to control all of it are to blame, they knew about
00:18:22that case, unfortunately they did not do their job properly,
00:18:25I repeat, throughout Croatia the situation
00:18:29simply does not work, it's really
00:18:31alarming, that's why we held this protest with a clear
00:18:34demand that we want reform of the veterinary inspection,
00:18:38we want simply a system that will not play games with citizens, but that
00:18:42will act according to the animal protection law and punish all
00:18:45those who do not adhere to the basic rules of the animal protection law,
00:18:49regardless of whether they are citizens, whether they are
00:18:52associations, whether they are veterinarians, whether they are mayors
00:18:56or heads of municipalities, the law applies equally to everyone and where we have
00:19:00order, there everything simply works, so we
00:19:03don't have problems with the animals themselves but with the people
00:19:07who keep them outside the law, keep
00:19:10them improperly, keep them inhumanely and of course then create
00:19:14problems for animals, as well as for other people and
00:19:18the entire community, so we need law
00:19:21enforcement very simply, the statistic I read somewhere is
00:19:25startling, it says that approximately
00:19:2810,000 animals mm
00:19:32are abandoned during the summer months, so
00:19:36your campaign, family to the sea, dog to
00:19:39the street, which is always active during these summer
00:19:42months, in order to actually raise awareness among all those who
00:19:46have decided to take on the responsibility for a living being to
00:19:49stick to it until the end, a dog is not something that lasts six months
00:19:53as long as you like.
00:19:56Exactly, that's the main message, people often
00:19:59carelessly acquire pets, in this case
00:20:03a dog, which often turns out to be, I don't know, a present for an argument, which
00:20:07we... always say no, a big no,
00:20:10in any case, we believe that animals should not be gifts at all, they should not
00:20:14be objects of purchase,
00:20:17trade, but people should, if they already have the conditions,
00:20:21first, the whole family should consider whether for the next
00:20:2415 years they will have enough money,
00:20:28time, desire, will for that, the whole family, then they go to
00:20:31a shelter for a dog, it's really tragic that in Croatia
00:20:35we have such a large number of abandoned animals, that, that is,
00:20:39that's actually our shame, it shows how we
00:20:42treat animals, of course, it's a
00:20:45minority, a large minority of people, but look how much trouble can
00:20:49a minority create, so it's really about
00:20:5210,000 abandoned
00:20:55animals, or rather dogs, where are the cats and other
00:20:59animals that are abandoned, so in just
00:21:02one year, shelters are full and now imagine in that situation someone
00:21:06is looking through classifieds and looking at how many hundreds
00:21:10or thousands of euros they will pay for a dog, in that way
00:21:14they leave an animal in the shelter, not just that
00:21:17animal, but they also leave
00:21:20an empty space for an animal when it can finally come to its place, so when
00:21:24we adopt an animal, we directly save the animal we
00:21:27adopt, but we also free up space in the shelter for
00:21:31those who still, well, don't even have the opportunity to be advertised
00:21:34for adoption, and the third thing, we do not participate in that
00:21:38cruel pet industry, so
00:21:41simply because we did not give money to that
00:21:44cruel business, it simply does not, at least
00:21:47not with the help of our own... money, there
00:21:51is great suffering on all sides and we can stop it
00:21:54by thinking about the fact that an animal
00:21:58needs castration, we often forget that, unfortunately
00:22:01in Europe we are lagging behind in the number of dog
00:22:05and cat castrations, uh,
00:22:08we simply realize that it is the main legal obligation, it
00:22:12is prescribed, so the control of pet breeding
00:22:15is clearly prescribed by law as
00:22:18an obligation, precisely castration is where... we can help
00:22:21dogs and cats more so that they have an easier coexistence with us and, most importantly,
00:22:25that they do not breed uncontrollably mm
00:22:28then where is microchipping treatment food
00:22:31and what is also important, spending time with the
00:22:34animal itself, so dogs and cats are social beings and
00:22:38need our presence, we cannot use them in a way that, well, now they are
00:22:42interesting because, well, the children are small children, the puppies are small, now they
00:22:45are playing, then when we get bored of them, we will put them away like objects and
00:22:50behind the house on a chain to die, for example, now in this
00:22:53heat, can we imagine that suffering which is physical, but also
00:22:57psychological for a dog that cannot understand why it is
00:23:00now put on a chain, why its pack, its
00:23:04family abandoned it and so on, those are sad moments,
00:23:08those are, those are simply scenes that tourists should not
00:23:11see in our country,
00:23:15we certainly believe that abandoning animals is fully justified
00:23:19to be punished with imprisonment for up to two
00:23:22years, but we believe that the implementation of these measures
00:23:26of castration, microchipping needs to be much more strictly controlled,
00:23:30because the goal is to actually prevent rather than
00:23:33treat human irresponsibility, of course
00:23:37we can help a lot by not buying animals, but by
00:23:41adopting them, by volunteering in shelters, by simply promoting
00:23:44adoption as a noble act, which it truly
00:23:48is. Which countries, in your opinion, have well resolved
00:23:51the issue of animal welfare, we touched upon
00:23:55Croatian shortcomings or deficiencies in Croatian
00:23:58law, which countries do you think are leaders in
00:24:01some way in that area?
00:24:04Well, look, there are many European countries that have simply
00:24:08solved the problem, they solved the problem of course with strict laws,
00:24:12education that was systematic, meaning that it was not
00:24:16solved by associations, but precisely by local,
00:24:18regional at the national level, and their
00:24:22shelters are simply half-empty, their shelters serve precisely
00:24:26for when an animal is in distress, not
00:24:29like with us when shelters are actually services for citizens' irresponsibility
00:24:33and that everyone thinks that when they no longer like
00:24:36how an animal behaves, that they can simply throw it on the street, someone
00:24:40will pick it up and put it in a shelter, it cannot function like that and
00:24:44it is sad that we have managed to solve the problem with cars, that we
00:24:48cannot park it anywhere, we know...
00:24:50we will get a fine, we will not even complain because we have no reason to,
00:24:53we will pay that fine, then for example, that's how we treat
00:24:57living beings for whom we are not obliged to care, so
00:25:01everyone decides, it's their choice whether they will care for
00:25:05a dog or a cat and certainly if they don't have
00:25:07the conditions then it's better not to care for them,
00:25:11not to keep them, they are a greater friend of animals, than if they
00:25:15he actually takes it and then neglects it, keeps
00:25:18everything on a chain, lets them roam around
00:25:22not caring if they will be hit by a car or similar. So
00:25:25such things are terrible and actually speak about us
00:25:29humans. Animals are exclusively victims, and
00:25:32we have good examples abroad where we can
00:25:36simply see how we can apply this
00:25:39here, although I must say that
00:25:43unlike abroad, we must have much stricter laws
00:25:46and of course the prescription of penalties. For example, I will tell you...
00:25:50microchipping, which when it came out abroad was the same as when it came to us,
00:25:54people accepted it themselves without any laws, and some
00:25:57countries have an incredibly higher percentage of total
00:26:01microchipped dogs. Than us where it is mandatory and where
00:26:05penalties are prescribed. So we simply have a different
00:26:08mentality and here people enforce the law not when
00:26:12it is prescribed, but when they see if it will really be enforced, if
00:26:15it will really be punished. So let's punish, I think that is
00:26:19the best form of education. I think that if microchipping, for example,
00:26:23has been mandatory since 2004 for
00:26:26puppies, and then 2006 for everyone, I think in today's time
00:26:29to be, how shall I say, warning someone? Instead of
00:26:32punishing, I don't think it makes sense, especially since microchipping
00:26:36is the smallest item that will need to be done
00:26:40for their dog. So if they are not able to stand behind
00:26:43that responsibility with their full name, I really
00:26:46see no other way but to strictly punish, and
00:26:50local communities have a duty to control. So every city and municipality
00:26:54should visit every household
00:26:57to verify if all dogs are microchipped.
00:27:00Now, we come to the point that cities and municipalities are extremely important in
00:27:04this regard. If they all did it equally, we again have good
00:27:08examples that they have, of course the problem would be solved, because all dogs
00:27:12would be marked to the person who is then responsible for
00:27:15their care. There are no unmarked dogs. In addition,
00:27:18of course, if they implement uh programs
00:27:21for financing the castration of owned dogs and cats,
00:27:25so that they simply think that it is cheaper to
00:27:28pay, even for some irresponsible person, for
00:27:31castration. Their dogs and cats, that it is still cheaper than taking care
00:27:35of, for example, a female dog with six puppies or
00:27:38a cat with seven kittens. So simply castration is
00:27:42definitely a humane means,
00:27:45effective, which helps both animals and
00:27:48people who have applied it in many countries to get rid
00:27:52of these unwanted offspring,
00:27:55meaning to get rid of human
00:27:57irresponsibility. I mean, we know the tools, I think we know what needs
00:28:00to be done, it just... it needs to be dealt with equally
00:28:04across the entire area. Currently, we have a situation where, for example, in one
00:28:07county we always have good examples, two or three
00:28:11municipalities or cities truly do everything according to the law, including education, castration,
00:28:14microchipping. But unfortunately, 10 or more local
00:28:18communities haven't even done the basic things according to the Animal Protection Act,
00:28:22what will happen, of course, the enforcement of the law
00:28:25falls, and the burden goes precisely to these good examples, because
00:28:29of course, not everyone knows about borders and a stray dog will simply arrive
00:28:33in a municipality where it will be cared for. That is not fair
00:28:36and it is clear that this needs to
00:28:38be fixed.
00:28:40Mr. Oman, thank you very much for your time and for being a guest on N1
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00:28:46Thank you, and take care of yourselves and the animals in this
00:28:50great heat, truly
00:28:52sometimes even a drop of water can save
00:28:55an animal's life. Best
00:28:57regards.
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