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Top Dogs: Heoric Dogs Get Theri Day
Aired August 21, 2003 - 15:55 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
MILES O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR: All right. Time is short, but thou shalt not diss the top dog.
KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: Crazy Joe is his name, and he's far from crazy. As a matter of fact, he's the top dog, a very high honor.
O'BRIEN: Humane Society has given him this award among heroic dogs.
We're joined by Crazy Joe himself. He's in the center of the screen, OK? Screen left is Stephanie Shain with the Humane Society, and screen right is Crazy Joe's spokesperson, Cindy Grub.
Congratulations, Cindy. How does it feel getting this tremendous top honor, and how is Crazy Joe doing about it? Is he having a great time?
CINDY GRUB, CRAZY JOE'S HANDLER: Oh, he's having a great time with it. It was really an honor just to be nominated, because he was the only dog selected out of the 1,200 dogs Bureau of Customs and Border Protection.
O'BRIEN: Wow.
GRUB: Winning is great.
PHILLIPS: Cindy, I want to know how he got the name Crazy Joe.
GRUB: Well, the kennel -- the animal shelter where he came from in Augusta, Georgia, already had named him Joe. And when the instructor went in to procure him, he was so crazy for this rollup towel, which is their reward, that they wanted to give him a unique name, because he was such a unique dog, that so they named him Crazy Joe.
O'BRIEN: He looks perfectly sane to me.
All right. Stephanie, tell me just a word about the whole competition. Have you been impressed with the talent out there?
STEPHANIE SHAIN, HUMANE SOCIETY: Oh, it's been wonderful. You know, Pedigree food for dogs and Wal-Mart developed the program to honor dogs like Joe who perform amazing acts of service to people all across the world. PHILLIPS: You talk about amazing acts. I see here that this yellow lab has retrieved more than $10 million worth of illegal drugs? That's amazing.
SHAIN: It is. And incredible. Because, you know, he -- we like to highlight the fact that Joe came from an animal shelter. So he's a great example of the really wonderful, wonderful friends and buddies you can get at animal shelters.
O'BRIEN: And this whole idea of honoring dogs is a nice idea because dogs really, if you think about it -- they don't ask for much except a little scratch like Crazy Joe is getting right now. But they really perform wonderful things for us, don't they?
SHAIN: They do. And you know, people all across the world were involved in this. And people across the United States logged on to pedigree.com and voted. And voted Joe as the dog that they wanted to see, you know, get this honor. There were over 15, 000 service dogs in the United States. So he's really representing a lot of wonderful animals.
O'BRIEN: All right. And what's Crazy Joe's favorite treat there, Cindy?
GRUB: Oh, it's got to be that rolled up towel. He looks for that every day.
O'BRIEN: A rolled up towel.
PHILLIPS: What's his top drug? That's what I want to know.
GRUB: His biggest seizure was 60,000 pounds of cocaine in a suitcase, but his latest was 12-and-a-half pounds of heroin.
(CROSSTALK)
PHILLIPS: Bad boy, bad boy, bad boy, what you gonna do?
O'BRIEN Congratulations, everybody. Cindy and Stephanie and, of course, Crazy Joe. Give him a Scooby Snack or something for us.
GRUB: Thank you so much for having us.
PHILLIPS: Thank you so much.
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Aired August 21, 2003 - 15:55 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
MILES O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR: All right. Time is short, but thou shalt not diss the top dog.
KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: Crazy Joe is his name, and he's far from crazy. As a matter of fact, he's the top dog, a very high honor.
O'BRIEN: Humane Society has given him this award among heroic dogs.
We're joined by Crazy Joe himself. He's in the center of the screen, OK? Screen left is Stephanie Shain with the Humane Society, and screen right is Crazy Joe's spokesperson, Cindy Grub.
Congratulations, Cindy. How does it feel getting this tremendous top honor, and how is Crazy Joe doing about it? Is he having a great time?
CINDY GRUB, CRAZY JOE'S HANDLER: Oh, he's having a great time with it. It was really an honor just to be nominated, because he was the only dog selected out of the 1,200 dogs Bureau of Customs and Border Protection.
O'BRIEN: Wow.
GRUB: Winning is great.
PHILLIPS: Cindy, I want to know how he got the name Crazy Joe.
GRUB: Well, the kennel -- the animal shelter where he came from in Augusta, Georgia, already had named him Joe. And when the instructor went in to procure him, he was so crazy for this rollup towel, which is their reward, that they wanted to give him a unique name, because he was such a unique dog, that so they named him Crazy Joe.
O'BRIEN: He looks perfectly sane to me.
All right. Stephanie, tell me just a word about the whole competition. Have you been impressed with the talent out there?
STEPHANIE SHAIN, HUMANE SOCIETY: Oh, it's been wonderful. You know, Pedigree food for dogs and Wal-Mart developed the program to honor dogs like Joe who perform amazing acts of service to people all across the world. PHILLIPS: You talk about amazing acts. I see here that this yellow lab has retrieved more than $10 million worth of illegal drugs? That's amazing.
SHAIN: It is. And incredible. Because, you know, he -- we like to highlight the fact that Joe came from an animal shelter. So he's a great example of the really wonderful, wonderful friends and buddies you can get at animal shelters.
O'BRIEN: And this whole idea of honoring dogs is a nice idea because dogs really, if you think about it -- they don't ask for much except a little scratch like Crazy Joe is getting right now. But they really perform wonderful things for us, don't they?
SHAIN: They do. And you know, people all across the world were involved in this. And people across the United States logged on to pedigree.com and voted. And voted Joe as the dog that they wanted to see, you know, get this honor. There were over 15, 000 service dogs in the United States. So he's really representing a lot of wonderful animals.
O'BRIEN: All right. And what's Crazy Joe's favorite treat there, Cindy?
GRUB: Oh, it's got to be that rolled up towel. He looks for that every day.
O'BRIEN: A rolled up towel.
PHILLIPS: What's his top drug? That's what I want to know.
GRUB: His biggest seizure was 60,000 pounds of cocaine in a suitcase, but his latest was 12-and-a-half pounds of heroin.
(CROSSTALK)
PHILLIPS: Bad boy, bad boy, bad boy, what you gonna do?
O'BRIEN Congratulations, everybody. Cindy and Stephanie and, of course, Crazy Joe. Give him a Scooby Snack or something for us.
GRUB: Thank you so much for having us.
PHILLIPS: Thank you so much.
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