CLOSE UP Video Interviews

THE SIGN SAYS, “KILLING DEER DOESN’T WORK.” I THOUGHT KILLING DEER GIVES THE VEGETATION THEY BROWSE ON A CHANCE TO REGENERATE. “Normally, when you kill deer they rebound. It’s their nature to have more young deer, sometimes two deer at once…We have to think as a culture beyond violent solutions and there are actually much more natural ideas that we favor such as allowing the bio-cummunity to balance itself. In Pennsylvania there are bobcats and coyotes. They’re harmless to people yet all year round there are hunting and trapping seasons against them. Why is that?” Lee Hall of Devon, Legal Vice President of Friends of Animals,left, with Mary Ann Baron, cofounder of Philadelphia Advocates for the Deer. Video interview here.

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JM: The reason we’re doing this is for our sister-in-law who had breast cancer diagnosed three (?) years ago. LS: Three years ago. She had a double mastectomy at 40. JM: She’s a survivor and we’re doing this in her honor. WHERE ARE YOU STARTING OUT FROM? LS: We started out from Willow Grove Park Mall and we’re from New Jersey. WHERE ARE YOU HEADED? LS: Now we’re headed to lunch. JM: We got forty more miles to go. Sixty miles total. We’re going to end up at the naval shipyard. Jim Myers and Linda Schwartz, participants in Susan G Komen 3-Day for the Cure, Germantown Avenue. Watch video here

I SPOTTED YOU AS A WEAVER WAY SHOPPER BECAUSE YOU HAVE YOUR SHOPPING CART AND BAGS ALREADY PREPARED.

“That’s right.”

IS THIS NEW FOR YOU? WERE YOU A CARUSO’S SHOPPER BEFORE? “Occasionally a Caruso’s shopper but now a regular Weavers Way shopper. I was a regular shopper at the farmers’ market but now I’m a member at Weavers Way. I like the organic foods they have there so that’s one reason I switched for most of my foods to Weavers Way."

AND HOW FAR DO YOU WALK WITH YOUR SHOPPING CART?
“About two and a half blocks”.

AND YOU’RE DECKED OUT WITH YOUR RAINGEAR TODAY. YOU’RE A TROOPER. “I look wonderful, don’t I?”

Mary Lau, on Germantown Avenue. Watch video interview here.

WHAT’S NEW? “Well, we have kidney transplants. We have a cat that we had a kidney transplant done. So they take a kidney from a donor, put it in your cat and then you have to adopt that cat. That’s been going on a few years. It’s a nice thing we can do today. DO YOU DO IT HERE? No we send it to Penn. It’s working very well. HOW DOES A CAT BECOME A DONOR CAT? That’s a cat that’s usually from a shelter and the kidney’s taken out or they may have them at Penn, donors ready to go. And then you adopt that cat too. So you have two cats now, instead of one. You have two healthy kidneys in the house one in each cat… and this is Darla, she’s being fostered. She’s a rescue from down south, a real sweetie, so if anyone wants to adopt Darla, she’s here in our hospital. She comes with Julie our technician.” Sheldon Gerstenfeld, VMD, Chestnut Hill Veterinary Clinic, Erdenheim, with Darla and Julie Raymond. Watch video interview here.