News and Music Discovery
Play Live Radio
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
0:00 0:00
Available On Air Stations

Puppies Sound Good: Meet Sadie!

This month, we meet Sadie, a black and tan hound mix, roughly 10 or 11 weeks old. When this outgoing puppy came arrived, her tail never stopped wagging and she sniffed everything. She's a curious and happy puppy that loved getting treats and cuddles from the station crew. Kathy Hodge, Executive Director of the Humane Society of Calloway County, says she's in a foster home with a large and small dog and some cats and predicts she'll be 50 pounds when fully grown. She speaks with Todd Hatton about Sadie and also the Easter Bone Hunt event coming up and how to prepare your pets for emergency weather. 

Now in its fifth year, the Easter Bone Hunt on March 28 is a fun chance to get your dog out in the sunshine at the park. Two large areas of the City Park are roped off, one for large dogs and another for small dogs. Dogs can be walked out on leashes and, as Kathy Hodge puts it, it looks like toddlers in an Easter egg hunt. If a dog touches its nose on a plastic egg, they get the treat inside of it. there are also prizes for humans, too. Microchipping will be available, door prizes, refreshments, an Easter bonnet parade and Easter bunny photos.

With severe weather season coming, it's an important time to consider preparing for your family. Preparing for your pet in severe weather emergencies is very similar, says Hodge. No matter how hard you want to hang on to something important to you, it's not always going to be in your control. She emphasizes microchipping - a collar can come off, but a microchip wont. She advises having a photo of your pet and sending it to someone else in case your phone or photos get lost or broken. Get a tub and fill it with things that you might need for your pet if you need to pick up and run: flea, tick and heartworm medication, food, water, bowls. For a checklist, email humanesociety@murray-ky.net.

Sadie's Petfinder Page

Adoption Information

Matt Markgraf joined the WKMS team as a student in January 2007. He's served in a variety of roles over the years: as News Director March 2016-September 2019 and previously as the New Media & Promotions Coordinator beginning in 2011. Prior to that, he was a graduate and undergraduate assistant. He is currently the host of the international music show Imported on Sunday nights at 10 p.m.
Todd Hatton hails from Paducah, Kentucky, where he got into radio under the auspices of the late, great John Stewart of WKYX while a student at Paducah Community College. He also worked at WKMS in the reel-to-reel tape days of the early 1990s before running off first to San Francisco, then Orlando in search of something to do when he grew up. He received his MFA in Creative Writing at Murray State University. He vigorously resists adulthood and watches his wife, Angela Hatton, save the world one plastic bottle at a time.
Related Content