Hello friends! Welcome to Rough Life!
Oh my goodness! Transport left seven hours ago and I feel like I am just now getting
to sit down and catch my breath. They actually already met halfway, swapped
fans, and are headed back before I had even gotten home tonight and gotten
everybody unloaded. What a day! I am currently recording this with all of my
dogs and cats in one room because everybody wants to be in here with me.
So if you hear any noise in the background, that's what it is. I'm going to jump
right into our stories because that's a lot. First up, I'm going to do all the
ones that have stories on other episodes that you can go listen to. So Mad Eye,
Moody's three siblings went on the June 2nd transport. They are the end litter of
three. Long story short, they were found on the side of the road and Moody had to
hang back because she ended up having her eyeball removed. Dumbledore's three
litter mates are from the D litter of three. They went on the June 7th
transport. He hung back because we had some ringworm suspicions, but that's all
cleared up now. The B litter of two are part of the B litter of eight from the
June 7th transport. These two were hiding under the trailer when the foster
came to pick them up and the owner didn't even know that there were 10 total.
She called us a few days after transport left to tell us there were two more. The
F litter of two labradoodles are part of the F litter of two labradoodles from the
June 7th transport, who are all from the same breeder as the P litter of two and
the O litter of six labradoodles from June 2nd. I think these two doodles on
this transport are the very last of all of the doodles from this breeder. All of
their breeding mamas have been spayed, so hopefully this is the last we hear of
them. The L litter of two are part of the L litter of three that came June 7th.
These are my precious, precious babies. I worked so hard to get healthy again.
There were so many nights I thought for sure they would be dead when I went to
see them the next morning, but they are fighters for sure and they are doing
fantastic. The S litter of five are from the same house as the S litter of eight
from the June 2nd transport. These are our washing machine litters. There is
still a mama and two puppies left at the washing machine house that we're
hoping to send on the next transport. The owner wouldn't surrender the mama of
these five puppies to us and she is living in a super tiny rabbit hutch.
Unfortunately, that is not illegal, but we did ask Animal Control to go there and
give him a warning for how many animals he has on his property and the city
limits. And when the ACO got there, this mama dog had no food or water, so he did
get two citations for that. We are hoping and praying he will decide to
surrender her when we go and get the next litter. Okay, now for the fresh
stories. Victor Crum is a 10-week-old cattle dog with maybe some blue tick in
him. He was brought in as a stray to the animal shelter here in Alabama. They
said they had like 50 people come in and try to adopt him, but they held him for
me because they knew I would love him and I do. He is adorable. Igor is a 10-week-old
lab mix. I'm not even gonna try to say that last name. He was found as a stray
and someone contacted me on Facebook asking if I could take him. She kept him
until transport and he actually wasn't even supposed to go today, but he's so
stingy and cute that we ended up getting a foster for him super easily.
Creature is a nine-month-old standard poodle. His real name is Sonny, but I
thought Creature was fitting for him too. He is about as wild and crazy as
doofus was. He was surrendered to us because someone left the cage door on the
bunny cage open and the bunny got out and Sonny killed it. It was the owner's
three-year-old daughter's bunny, so the owner posted him as free to a good home
on Facebook, but luckily decided to surrender him to us instead. I watched
him playing with my L litter puppies that I had and I fully believe he was
just trying to play with that bunny and just play too rough and killed it. He is
sweet as can be, but he is wide open and he goes a hundred miles an hour at all
times. Order of the Phoenix is an eight-week-old German Shepherd mix puppy.
She was being given away for free in the Walmart parking lot. Quidditch is an
eight-week-old lab mix. She was brought into a shelter a few towns over. One of
the fosters there grabbed her up before she was crammed into one of their tiny
cages and she fostered her until transport for us. Umbridge is a three-month-old
Husky mix. She was posted on Facebook and when one of our rescue partners went to
pick her up the owner told her that her husband was very sick with cancer and
only given a few weeks to live. They didn't feel like they were going to be
giving this puppy the time and attention she needed because they were
so focused on his diagnosis and prioritizing spending time with their
loved ones. She was left in a cage most of the day and they hated that she
wasn't given the life that they wanted for her. I gotta say nine out of ten times
I think people's excuses are bogus for getting rid of their dogs but this is
one of the few times I 100% understand it and I 100% think they did the absolute
best by this puppy. The wife was devastated to give her up but they are
so thankful that she's going to Wolf Drap where they know she's gonna get a
good home. Expelliarmus is an eight-week-old golden mix. She was found in
the middle of the road by an elderly man. They were feeding her 2% milk and
adult dog food. One of our rescue partners pulled her that very night
because she knew how bad cow's milk is for dogs. She was super dehydrated and
only about five weeks old at the time. The end litter of two healer mixes were
dumped at an elderly couple's home a few times away. Actually one was dumped at
their house and one was dumped at their neighbor's house but they ended up taking
both of them in and fostering them until transport. The J letter of two pity
mixes were found on the side of the road with their third sibling but
unfortunately it had been run over and killed. They had dug out a little area
in the dirt and had been hunkering down in there for no telling how long. The
only thing they were living on was weeds and grass and we know this because
that's all they pooped out for days after getting into foster care. The R
litter of four three-month-olds were surrendered after their pregnant mama
wandered up to someone's house and gave birth. The homeowner who is pregnant
herself fell in love with the mama and wanted to keep her but obviously couldn't
handle four puppies and an upcoming newborn baby herself. So she is very
thankful that Wolf Trap took the puppies and spayed the mom for her. As for the
kittens, holy moly. We sent 20 kittens on this transport but we actually pulled a
total of 31. 11 stayed back here and they went into our foster care. The C
litter of three and the A litter of five are from the same home here in town.
They have been overrun with stray cats and we are doing some T and R work for
them. So it is currently 1.30 in the morning and I'm recording this and
Justin's computer just completely shut down. I have no idea what happened. So I
had to go get him out of bed and I'm like it's the breaker. It's the breaker. I
flipped a breaker. Go out in the garage and check the breakers. He goes out
there, come figure it out, comes back in, turns the computer on and the stupid
thing comes back on. So I woke him up for nothing. Okay, I don't even remember where
I was. Hang on. Okay. The W litter of five were kittens of a stray cat that
wandered up to someone's yard. The elderly man likes having the mama cat
around to keep mice away but he did not like having the kittens. When we went
there to pick them up he told us yeah it's a good thing y'all came today. I was
gonna put them out in the woods tonight for the coyotes to eat and he was
totally serious. He said there used to be like 20 something cats and kittens
around his house and the coyotes ate every single one of them. This mama cat
was the first cat to come around in a long time. The H litter of four, Professor
McGonagall and... why do I do this? I was gonna edit that out. I don't even know what
that was. The cats and dogs are just running amok. I was gonna edit it out
but I feel like it's important for you guys to see what I deal with. Okay, the
Z kitten. I don't know why I named it something. I have no idea how to pronounce.
They're all from our shelter friends here in Alabama. They were all just
brought in as strays. Year with the Yeti was brought in as a stray but the
finder believes it fell out of someone's car. I don't know if he saw that happen
or if that's just his guess. But we also pulled a mama, beautiful long hair, with
three long hair kittens, a teeny tiny three week old kitten, two single kittens
and a gorgeous Maine Coon mix, who is actually the one terrorizing my dogs
right now, from the shelter as well. A, because I'm a sucker and I have no
self-control, but B, because they are so overrun with kittens that they're having
to turn some away and the ones that they can't turn away are having to stay in
cages next to the dogs and the dog runs. So it is so loud and so stressful for
the kittens. They currently have a pregnant cat who's in the same cage as
its sister because they just don't have enough room to separate them and on top
of everything else their air conditioning went out. So it's hotter in the
building than it is outside and it's almost July in Alabama. Like it is hot.
So by pulling these 15 kittens for them we freed up seven cages for them to just
spread everybody out, get those kittens in the dog room, back into the kitten room
and everyone can just get their own space until the next wave of kitten comes in,
which could be tomorrow. It is now almost 2 a.m. and I'm running on four hours of
sleep and a whole bunch of caffeine. So I'm going to take my allergy medicine,
tuck these critters in and get some sleep. It's a rough life and a rough
podcast, but someone's got to do it.