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Angela rafuse is the founder of my grandfather's cat and joins us with more. Angela. Good morning. >> Good morning. Thank you for having me. Yeah >> No problem. And you brought a special guest with you, I did, this is beau. >> He is our one of our former adoptables. >> Wow. Good morning. Beau, how are you? >> He says he's very good. >> Okay, nice. So we were just talking before we came up on tv here. I think I have reached out to you, like, may 20th of 2021, because this was such an interesting, you know, story, you know, congratulations on three years. Do you ever think that three years later you'd be still going strong with this? >> Well, thank you, but absolutely not, I never thought this would be as big as it is. I never thought we'd be able to help so many people that we've helped. But these are the best problems to have is that we are doing so well and helping so many people and expanding beyond my wildest dreams. Right? >> And this is right across canada, and we're showing some of the original videos, like just for people who are just kind of new to your story, how did this all start for you? >> So I adopted my grandfather's cat when he passed away. Her name was mackenzie and she was the sweetest grumpiest girl. I adopted her because there was no one else able to take her. The options were either I take her or we put her in a shelter. And as an older cat, it was just not the best option. And I started sharing her story on tiktok. Oh, that's cute. I started sharing her story on tiktok, and so many people commented that they had to put their grandparents cats in shelters because there was no service to arrange homes for them or no one to take them. And then I realized there was a need . So I created my grandfather's cat. >> Wow. >> And now you. You actually had to quit your day job to kind of keep this project going, right? >> I did. Now I get to live my dream every day. Like, what a what a better life, right? >> Exactly. >> And you're up to how many adoptions now in the last three years? >> Almost 200. Oh my gosh. >> Unbelievable. So just quickly, if people want to find out more about how they can adopt or where do they go to find out more information on that. >> Yeah. >> So you can just go to my grandfather's cats and we have all the information if you need to use our rehoming service or you'd like to view our adoptables or support our work. >> Okay. So let's get on to the real reason why you're here. That's the t up. This event you got happening at garrison. >> Yeah. >> Next saturday. Tell me about this one. >> So we received a really generous donation from mars canada of a lot of pet food. And we have expanded our work to provide food for seniors across the country. And there's so many people that beyond seniors that are struggling to afford to feed their pets, especially in the hrm. So what we decided is we are just going to give away the truck full of pet food to anyone in need. So on saturday, june first, from 10 A.M. to noon, anybody can come out to celebrate our three year anniversary and receive free cat or dog food. >> Come on. Yeah. So when I first read the press release, I

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