AND THE HOST OF THE 2030 GAMES WILL BE NAMED LATER THIS YEAR. A SACRAMENTO DOG IS IN THE NATIONAL SPOTLIGHT. YEAH. CHIHUAHUA MIX BARK PURDY, NAMED FOR BROCK PURDY, IS COMPETING IN THIS YEAR’S PUPPY BOWL AND HAS MADE THE FINALS TO BE CROWNED MOST POPULAR. BARK PURDY REPRESENTS A SACRAMENTO SPCA, AND JOINING US RIGHT NOW IS THE SPCA CEO. KEN ISLETON. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR JOINING US. HOW EXCITING TO HAVE ONE OF OUR OWN IN THE PUPPY BOWL. HOW EXCITED IS THE SPCA TO BE REPRESENTED? WELL, WE ARE HUGELY EXCITED. UM, ALTHOUGH A LITTLE CONCERNED BECAUSE A DOG NAMED FRED IS TRYING TO BEAT US OUT FOR THE FOR THE TITLE. SO, UM, WE’VE HAD, UM, BARK HAS BEEN CHARGING HE BEAT A THREE LEGGED DOG. HE A CUTE AUSSIE WHO WAS DEAF. WE THOUGHT HE WAS. HE WAS THE COMEBACK KING. AND NOW THERE’S A LITTLE FLUFF BALL FROM, UH, SAN DIEGO WHO THINKS HE CAN TAKE HIM ON. BUT I KNOW 40 NINER FANS AND I KNOW DOG FANS HERE IN SACRAMENTO CAN HELP US WIN THIS. FRED’S GOT NOTHING ON BARK PURDY. SO WHAT DO THEY HAVE? HE DOESN’T. WHAT DO THEY HAVE TO DO TO HELP YOU WIN THIS? WHAT EXACTLY DO THEY HAVE TO DO? WELL, THEY HAVE TO DO THAT OLD TRADITION OF VOTE EARLY AND VOTE OFTEN. WHEN YOU GO TO PUPPY BOWL.COM, YOU CAN VOTE EVERY DAY. UM, YOU CAN VOTE FOR MULTIPLE DEVICES. I VOTE, I VOTE ON MY PHONE, ON MY TABLET, MY DESKTOP, AT WORK, ON MY PARTNER’S PHONE. IF I CAN GET HIS PASSWORD FROM HIS COMPUTER, I VOTE 4 OR 5 TIMES A DAY. UH, WE NEED PEOPLE TO VOTE. WE NEED TO WIN EVERY DAY BECAUSE IT’S NOW THROUGH THE EIGHTH. AND THAT THAT LITTLE GUY FRED HAS BEEN BEATING US SO FAR. SO WE NEED TO WIN TODAY, TOMORROW, AND. AND WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY. OKAY. WE NEED TO STEP UP OUR VOTING. OKAY, KEN, THIS IS OBVIOUSLY GREAT MARKETING FOR THE FOR THE ORGANIZATION THAT YOU REPRESENT. WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR PET ADOPTION FOR THIS ORGANIZATION? WELL I THINK IT SHOWS THE TYPES OF ANIMALS THAT YOU CAN FIND IN SHELTERS. YOU CAN FIND MARK PURDY WHO IS JUST THE CUTEST, HAPPIEST LITTLE CHIHUAHUA YOU CAN FIND. FLUFFY DOGS LIKE FRED, ALL OF THE DOGS IN, IN IN THE PUPPY BOWL COME FROM SHELTERS AND YOU’LL SEE SHARPAY’S AND GREAT DANES AND THIS, THIS WHOLE RANGE OF ANIMALS. AND I THINK IT IT HELPS OVERCOME THE PERCEPTION THAT THERE’S SOMETHING WRONG WITH THE ANIMALS THAT ARE IN A SHELTER, OR THAT FOR SOMETHING THAT THEY DID, THEY ENDED UP HERE. AND THAT’S JUST NOT THE CASE. I KNOW A LOT OF PEOPLE WANT TO ADOPT BARK PURDY DOES HE ALREADY HAVE A NEW FOREVER HOME? HE DOES. HE DOES DO FOREVER HOME. UM, WHICH IS A GOOD THING BECAUSE IT WOULD BE TENS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE LINED UP TO TO LOOK AT HIM. BUT, YOU KNOW, WE WERE JUST VACCINATING ANOTHER ROUND OF PUPPIES. WE HAD MORE THAN 520 PUPPIES COME THROUGH OUR SHELTER LAST YEAR. WE’VE ALREADY WE’RE PUSHING 100 ALREADY THIS YEAR. AND IT’S JUST FEBRUARY. UM, SO I THINK PEOPLE JUST NEED TO UNDERSTAND. THEY NEED TO PAY ATTENTION TO TO OUR WEBSITE. TO LOOK AT ALL THE SHELTERS IN THE REGION AND UNDERSTAND. AND YOU CAN GET A LOT OF DIFFERENT ANIMALS AT SHELTER, PUPPIES, OLDER DOGS, ALL KINDS OF BREEDS, CATS, KITTENS, YOU NAME IT. AND YOU CAN ALSO NAME THEM BARK PURDY. THAT HELPS. NO ONE WILL CARE. THAT HELPS. YOU CAN NAME YOUR OWN AND TAKE HOME YOUR OWN BARK. PURDY. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. KEN, ONE ONE LAST TIME. HOW DO WE. HOW DO PEOPLE VOTE? WHAT’S THE