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We live in a small apartment complex and there’s
7, 8 of us on the team here, so when we came

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back in July, we had a lot of time and it
was just you come here, you play hockey and

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you go back to your apartment and we have
nothing else to do, so we decided it was a

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perfect time to start fostering animals.

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[LAUGHING]

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We had a kitten named Parker, but we renamed
him Parkour because of the way that he would

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jump off of everything.

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And then three kittens: Queso, Quesadilla
and Taco.

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And then Oscar, who was 5 years old and he
was a boxer-pit mix.

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I actually still have one.

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This is the last one that’s not adopted
yet.

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We made an Instagram account for them.

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We’ve been posting all of the kittens and
now people are coming to us from different

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parts of Charlottesville with their foster
animals to post them to get them adopted,

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so we’ve actually done really well on it!

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I think Amber is going to be so sad when the
last one gets adopted so, I definitely think

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we will be having more kittens in this apartment.

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Our team, we’re friends on and off the field
all the time. That’s how it’s always been.

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That’s just the culture of our team.

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So I think COVID has really impacted us in
that sense of trying to still stay a team

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and stay together all the time.

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Having the animals here is, like, one of those
ways that we have found a bit of normalcy

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in everything, so I think they’ve been absolutely
so much fun and have given us another reason

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to get together and still follow these protocols
and follow all these rules that we have, but

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still have a sense of normalcy with it all.

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