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Hello friends! Welcome to Rough Life!

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Oh my goodness! Transport left seven hours ago and I feel like I am just now getting

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to sit down and catch my breath. They actually already met halfway, swapped

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fans, and are headed back before I had even gotten home tonight and gotten

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everybody unloaded. What a day! I am currently recording this with all of my

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dogs and cats in one room because everybody wants to be in here with me.

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So if you hear any noise in the background, that's what it is. I'm going to jump

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right into our stories because that's a lot. First up, I'm going to do all the

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ones that have stories on other episodes that you can go listen to. So Mad Eye,

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Moody's three siblings went on the June 2nd transport. They are the end litter of

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three. Long story short, they were found on the side of the road and Moody had to

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hang back because she ended up having her eyeball removed. Dumbledore's three

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litter mates are from the D litter of three. They went on the June 7th

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transport. He hung back because we had some ringworm suspicions, but that's all

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cleared up now. The B litter of two are part of the B litter of eight from the

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June 7th transport. These two were hiding under the trailer when the foster

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came to pick them up and the owner didn't even know that there were 10 total.

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She called us a few days after transport left to tell us there were two more. The

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F litter of two labradoodles are part of the F litter of two labradoodles from the

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June 7th transport, who are all from the same breeder as the P litter of two and

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the O litter of six labradoodles from June 2nd. I think these two doodles on

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this transport are the very last of all of the doodles from this breeder. All of

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their breeding mamas have been spayed, so hopefully this is the last we hear of

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them. The L litter of two are part of the L litter of three that came June 7th.

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These are my precious, precious babies. I worked so hard to get healthy again.

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There were so many nights I thought for sure they would be dead when I went to

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see them the next morning, but they are fighters for sure and they are doing

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fantastic. The S litter of five are from the same house as the S litter of eight

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from the June 2nd transport. These are our washing machine litters. There is

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still a mama and two puppies left at the washing machine house that we're

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hoping to send on the next transport. The owner wouldn't surrender the mama of

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these five puppies to us and she is living in a super tiny rabbit hutch.

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Unfortunately, that is not illegal, but we did ask Animal Control to go there and

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give him a warning for how many animals he has on his property and the city

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limits. And when the ACO got there, this mama dog had no food or water, so he did

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get two citations for that. We are hoping and praying he will decide to

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surrender her when we go and get the next litter. Okay, now for the fresh

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stories. Victor Crum is a 10-week-old cattle dog with maybe some blue tick in

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him. He was brought in as a stray to the animal shelter here in Alabama. They

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said they had like 50 people come in and try to adopt him, but they held him for

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me because they knew I would love him and I do. He is adorable. Igor is a 10-week-old

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lab mix. I'm not even gonna try to say that last name. He was found as a stray

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and someone contacted me on Facebook asking if I could take him. She kept him

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until transport and he actually wasn't even supposed to go today, but he's so

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stingy and cute that we ended up getting a foster for him super easily.

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Creature is a nine-month-old standard poodle. His real name is Sonny, but I

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thought Creature was fitting for him too. He is about as wild and crazy as

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doofus was. He was surrendered to us because someone left the cage door on the

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bunny cage open and the bunny got out and Sonny killed it. It was the owner's

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three-year-old daughter's bunny, so the owner posted him as free to a good home

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on Facebook, but luckily decided to surrender him to us instead. I watched

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him playing with my L litter puppies that I had and I fully believe he was

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just trying to play with that bunny and just play too rough and killed it. He is

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sweet as can be, but he is wide open and he goes a hundred miles an hour at all

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times. Order of the Phoenix is an eight-week-old German Shepherd mix puppy.

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She was being given away for free in the Walmart parking lot. Quidditch is an

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eight-week-old lab mix. She was brought into a shelter a few towns over. One of

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the fosters there grabbed her up before she was crammed into one of their tiny

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cages and she fostered her until transport for us. Umbridge is a three-month-old

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Husky mix. She was posted on Facebook and when one of our rescue partners went to

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pick her up the owner told her that her husband was very sick with cancer and

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only given a few weeks to live. They didn't feel like they were going to be

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giving this puppy the time and attention she needed because they were

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so focused on his diagnosis and prioritizing spending time with their

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loved ones. She was left in a cage most of the day and they hated that she

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wasn't given the life that they wanted for her. I gotta say nine out of ten times

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I think people's excuses are bogus for getting rid of their dogs but this is

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one of the few times I 100% understand it and I 100% think they did the absolute

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best by this puppy. The wife was devastated to give her up but they are

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so thankful that she's going to Wolf Drap where they know she's gonna get a

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good home. Expelliarmus is an eight-week-old golden mix. She was found in

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the middle of the road by an elderly man. They were feeding her 2% milk and

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adult dog food. One of our rescue partners pulled her that very night

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because she knew how bad cow's milk is for dogs. She was super dehydrated and

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only about five weeks old at the time. The end litter of two healer mixes were

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dumped at an elderly couple's home a few times away. Actually one was dumped at

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their house and one was dumped at their neighbor's house but they ended up taking

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both of them in and fostering them until transport. The J letter of two pity

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mixes were found on the side of the road with their third sibling but

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unfortunately it had been run over and killed. They had dug out a little area

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in the dirt and had been hunkering down in there for no telling how long. The

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only thing they were living on was weeds and grass and we know this because

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that's all they pooped out for days after getting into foster care. The R

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litter of four three-month-olds were surrendered after their pregnant mama

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wandered up to someone's house and gave birth. The homeowner who is pregnant

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herself fell in love with the mama and wanted to keep her but obviously couldn't

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handle four puppies and an upcoming newborn baby herself. So she is very

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thankful that Wolf Trap took the puppies and spayed the mom for her. As for the

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kittens, holy moly. We sent 20 kittens on this transport but we actually pulled a

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total of 31. 11 stayed back here and they went into our foster care. The C

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litter of three and the A litter of five are from the same home here in town.

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They have been overrun with stray cats and we are doing some T and R work for

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them. So it is currently 1.30 in the morning and I'm recording this and

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Justin's computer just completely shut down. I have no idea what happened. So I

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had to go get him out of bed and I'm like it's the breaker. It's the breaker. I

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flipped a breaker. Go out in the garage and check the breakers. He goes out

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there, come figure it out, comes back in, turns the computer on and the stupid

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thing comes back on. So I woke him up for nothing. Okay, I don't even remember where

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I was. Hang on. Okay. The W litter of five were kittens of a stray cat that

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wandered up to someone's yard. The elderly man likes having the mama cat

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around to keep mice away but he did not like having the kittens. When we went

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there to pick them up he told us yeah it's a good thing y'all came today. I was

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gonna put them out in the woods tonight for the coyotes to eat and he was

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totally serious. He said there used to be like 20 something cats and kittens

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around his house and the coyotes ate every single one of them. This mama cat

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was the first cat to come around in a long time. The H litter of four, Professor

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McGonagall and... why do I do this? I was gonna edit that out. I don't even know what

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that was. The cats and dogs are just running amok. I was gonna edit it out

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but I feel like it's important for you guys to see what I deal with. Okay, the

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Z kitten. I don't know why I named it something. I have no idea how to pronounce.

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They're all from our shelter friends here in Alabama. They were all just

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brought in as strays. Year with the Yeti was brought in as a stray but the

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finder believes it fell out of someone's car. I don't know if he saw that happen

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or if that's just his guess. But we also pulled a mama, beautiful long hair, with

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three long hair kittens, a teeny tiny three week old kitten, two single kittens

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and a gorgeous Maine Coon mix, who is actually the one terrorizing my dogs

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right now, from the shelter as well. A, because I'm a sucker and I have no

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self-control, but B, because they are so overrun with kittens that they're having

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to turn some away and the ones that they can't turn away are having to stay in

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cages next to the dogs and the dog runs. So it is so loud and so stressful for

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the kittens. They currently have a pregnant cat who's in the same cage as

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its sister because they just don't have enough room to separate them and on top

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of everything else their air conditioning went out. So it's hotter in the

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building than it is outside and it's almost July in Alabama. Like it is hot.

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So by pulling these 15 kittens for them we freed up seven cages for them to just

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spread everybody out, get those kittens in the dog room, back into the kitten room

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and everyone can just get their own space until the next wave of kitten comes in,

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which could be tomorrow. It is now almost 2 a.m. and I'm running on four hours of

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sleep and a whole bunch of caffeine. So I'm going to take my allergy medicine,

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tuck these critters in and get some sleep. It's a rough life and a rough

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podcast, but someone's got to do it.