friend Wendy Welch. Wendy, Wendy, good morning. How are you?

Hello, Sam and Ira. I'm great. How about you? How are you doing?

Outstanding. Always better when you join us, of course, and you start off by telling us, Wendy,

is this a love train week? Oh, it is not. This is a bye week for us, but next week the love train

will be back, of course, delivering puppies. And hopefully we will have lots of adopters next week, the Love Train will be back, of course, delivering puppies.

And hopefully we will have lots of adopters next week as well.

We had a fantastic love train this last week with lots of puppies who've been adopted.

And so anyone who's interested in adopting a rescue puppy, go to hshv.org slash love train.

And you can check out all the process and get on

our list to see the cute pictures of puppies first and foremost.

Outstanding. All right. Well, with that, Wendy, let's pivot and go over to the top dog of the week.

So tell us about this week's top dog.

Oh, Sam, it's Asta. Aststa is a two-year-old dog.

About 45, 46 pounds.

Black and white and adorable was surrendered because of, sadly, discrimination by a landlord.

Yeah, so landlords, sadly, are not up to date on the most recent kind of research when it comes to dogs and breeds and unfortunately kind of discriminate on the basis of looks.

Folks, just remember, all dogs are individuals.

Hopefully we can talk to some landlords, but all dogs are individuals, and just like people,

individuals, and there's no gene for aggressiveness or for biting or for anything like

that.

So sadly, it was discriminated against that, and so this person had to surrender Asta, and so we've had her for a like that. So, um, so sadly was discriminated against that. And so this person had to, uh, surrender Asta. And so we've had her for a little while here. We call her a baby girl. Um, she is fantastic on a leash. Uh, she is a wonderful little walker. She's good in the car. Um, and, uh, yeah, I hope someone's going to give her a chance. She's showing some stress in our

shelter. So cross my finger, she gets adopted soon because the longer animals are in our

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