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Hello friends, welcome to Rough Life.

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It's another transport day and I am super excited because I'm actually recording this

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podcast before transport.

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If you listened to last week's episode, you'll remember that it was like 2am after transport

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when I was recording that one, so I'm trying to avoid that this week.

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I am hoping everyone shows up who's supposed to show up, and that no one shows up who's

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not supposed to show up.

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And what I mean by that really is that I don't get stuckered into taking any extras when

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I go to the shelter in a few minutes.

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But let's get started.

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Hey Steven and his littermates were posted on Facebook as free to a good home when one

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of our rescue partners reached out to her and offered to take them all and spay the

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mama dog for free.

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The owner told her that she just couldn't get rid of them all at once because it was

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too emotional for her.

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A month later, she reached back out to our partner with two puppies left, but gave one

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away before the foster could get there to pick them up.

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So hey Steven is an only child now.

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Getaway car was pulled from our Alabama shelter.

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She was brought in as a stray.

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Nice to meet you was pulled from our Alabama shelter as well by accident.

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And see this is exactly what I mean when I said I hope no one shows up.

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That's not supposed to show up.

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I stopped by last week just to drop off vaccines.

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I was not picking up anyone.

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I didn't even need to go into the building.

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I was just walking into the office.

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I didn't even bring my phone in.

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I was absolutely not staying or walking through.

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But then the manager asked me if I wanted to see the puppies that were pulling in a few

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weeks, not any of these.

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And stupid me said, well, sure.

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I took a whole dang tour of the facility and halfway through she goes, Oh, remind me to

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show you the newest baby.

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We just got her in this morning.

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The owner dropped her off and said she couldn't handle her because she cries too cuss word

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much.

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And for some reason, that story made me go, huh, okay, I'll take her with no fosters

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lined up for her and no idea when she'll go on transport and nowhere to put her at my

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house.

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But she was so pitiful.

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She was in a crate in one of their closets because they were just absolutely beyond capacity.

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So I took her with me to Mississippi and she cried the entire way there.

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I'll be honest, I thought about dumping her at some of the shelters along the way, but

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nevertheless, we found a foster for her down here and we ended up having room for her to

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go on transport this week.

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So it wasn't a bad pull after all.

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You belong with me was also pulled from our Alabama shelter.

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He was brought in as a stray.

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It's me.

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Hi.

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Otherwise known as my poppy girl.

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This baby will forever and always hold such a special place in mind in Justin's hearts.

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She is the closest we have ever come to foster failing and we are so sad to give her up.

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But ultimately, there's just nothing wrong with her to justify keeping her.

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She is totally adaptable and she would fit in in any home.

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Justin did tell her this morning though that if she isn't happy in her new home, just

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bite the family and Dr. Burton will send her straight back to us.

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I don't recommend that advice, but he's not wrong.

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She was dumped in my vets driveway a few months ago and I brought her home with me where we

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just fell in love with her.

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And listen, there is nothing wrong with foster failing, but I am like our hospice foster.

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I'm our adult dog foster.

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If I have all the puppies that I've loved stay with me forever, there would be no room

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for the hospice dogs and the feral dogs and the ones that no one else is going to take.

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So I just, I can't justify keeping her and obviously I'm still having a hard time with

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it.

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But it's fine.

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She's going to have a great life in Virginia.

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We know that.

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1989 was seen being thrown out of a car by one of our, wait, no way.

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That sounds like one of our fosters threw her out of the car.

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That's not what I meant.

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One of our fosters saw 1989 being thrown out of a car while they were looking at a vacant

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house.

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They ran up to her, grabbed her and took her straight home and she was covered in road

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rash.

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Her rings was picked up as a stray by animal control in Mississippi.

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The A litter of two are part of the washer machine home for their full story.

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Make sure you listen to the S litter of eights story from the June 2nd transport episode,

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but to sum up an older man has way too many animals and way too many washer machines in

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his yard.

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I wish I could say this is the last you'll be hearing about this house, but their mama

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is still here with us.

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I'm hoping she'll be ready for transport by next week, but if not, she's definitely

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coming in August.

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She just needs a little bit more time to work on her leash training and get some confidence

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being in a home.

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She had never been outside of her kennel until we pulled her last week.

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The R litter of two were owner surrenders.

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They took their mama dog to be spayed and then found out she was already pregnant.

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So they just let her have the puppies and they have another appointment scheduled already

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to have her spayed for real this time.

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The L litter of two were found wandering around an elderly man's home with their mama.

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The owners were contacted, but they wouldn't come and get them.

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So animal control came and got them when they contacted the owner to tell them that they

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were all at the shelter.

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He came and got the mama, but left the puppies there.

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One of our rescue partners, fosterers went there to get them so that they wouldn't be

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scared at the shelter all by themselves.

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The C litter of four were born at the shelter here in Alabama.

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Their mama was a stray brought in when she was pregnant.

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They were sent to a foster after they were born and the foster fell in love with the

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mama dog and she adopted her.

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The B litter of six great Pyrenees are actually purebred great Pyrenees.

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An older man has two great Pyrenees and didn't mean for them to breed, but that's exactly

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what happens when you don't spay and neuter your pets.

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This story is actually a hot topic in the rescue world.

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So these six puppies were about six weeks old when we were asked to take them.

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We said yes and we gave him two voucher cards to get the mom and dad spayed and neutered.

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He told us he didn't want the cards because he wasn't going to have them fixed.

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Now some rescuers have a rule where if you don't spay your mom or surrender your mom,

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they won't take your puppies.

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And I like that rule in theory, but these were six week old purebred great Pyrenees

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puppies.

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Even if they weren't purebred, they were so cute.

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He could have put a sign in his yard and said free puppies and they would have all been

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picked up by random people that afternoon.

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And he would still be left with two unaltered adults who would keep breeding.

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So my philosophy is don't burn the bridge.

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We left the voucher cards in case he changed its mind and he told us when the next litter

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comes along he was going to sell them.

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Why he didn't sell these?

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I don't know.

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But I'm hoping that once he sees pictures of these babies living their best life, he

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will either listen to us and get the parents fixed or at the very least give us the next

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litter instead of offering them to whoever will pay.

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The S litter of nine, I think they might be awesome mixes, they have become one of my

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absolute favorite stories we have ever had.

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I have told everyone this story and I could not wait to tell you guys.

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One of my rescue friends, friends works at a liquor store.

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Couple weeks ago, some man came in and was just doom and gloom and moping around the

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store.

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I don't know if she asked him what was wrong or if he just volunteered it.

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But he told her, yeah, I just dumped 11 puppies in the woods down the road and I'm feeling

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really bad about it.

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So I'm just going to drink until I feel better.

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And this girl tore him up.

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She called him every name in the book, everything, everything but a child of God.

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And he was like, man, I'm just trying to check out.

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And she refused to sell him anything.

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She kicked him out of the store and she said, I'm not selling you anything.

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An hour later, he showed up with all 11 puppies, five weeks old and absolutely as cute as

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can be.

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She did end up giving two away to her brother before she gave them to us, but we are in

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contact with him and he knows if he wants to give them away, we will absolutely take

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them.

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But I love that story.

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I love that she wouldn't sell him anything.

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And then he's like, all right, well, I'll go back and get them all for you.

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Here you go.

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James Dean Daydream is an absolute daydream.

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He is my favorite cat ever.

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He was picked up by Animal Control here in Alabama when his owners left him in a hotel

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room.

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I loved him from the first time I saw him, but he was adopted out before I could get

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him on transport.

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I was so sad.

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I literally, I literally said to the manager, I hope he's awful for them and they bring

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him back.

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And they did.

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They said he wasn't friendly, which I absolutely cannot believe because when I brought him

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home, all he did was snuggle with me and follow my every step.

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I love him so much.

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I'm so glad we got to pull him.

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Olivia Benson Swift was pulled from the shelter here in Alabama last week when I temporarily

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lost my mind and left the shelter with 15 cats for no reason.

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She was so tiny.

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She was probably only about four weeks old at the time.

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So we sent her to a foster down here just until she could get a little bit bigger and

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stronger.

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Karma is a cat is our sweet one-eyed kitten baby.

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I don't know what happened to his eye originally.

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I imagine it's some sort of trauma, but we were contacted about him when he wandered into

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someone's carport with his eye literally hanging out of his head.

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Obviously we raced him to the vet and he had the eye removed like within the hour.

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The E litter of two kittens were owner surrenders.

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The F litter of three kittens are actually from the same house as the A litter of five

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and the C litter of three kittens from the June 28th transport episode.

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They have just been overrun with stray cats and we're doing some trap neuter release work

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for them.

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The M litter of three were found in someone's yard when they were very young.

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They weren't even eating on their own at the time.

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One of our fosters picked them up and got them healthy again, which was no small feat.

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They were definitely on dust or when she got them.

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The W litter of five were given to one of our fosters when the momma cat disappeared

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and the kittens were only about three weeks old at the time.

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The T litter of eight kittens are actually not all litter mates, but they have been fostered

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together for about half their lives.

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So we're just calling them family at this point.

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One of the girls was found in a tree.

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The finder thought it was a baby raccoon until they climbed up there and got her down.

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She was about three weeks old at the time.

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Two of the kittens were found the same night about half a mile away from each other by two

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different neighbors.

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They looked identical and they were the same age, so they're likely actually related and

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were dumped by their owner.

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One of the males was rescued from being eaten by a pit bull and four of them were owner

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surrenders.

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Well, I am back from transport now.

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Everything went as smooth as it could, I think.

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We sent, oh I don't even know, let me see, we sent 58 animals today.

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Whoa, that's crazy.

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I didn't even know that.

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And 26 of them were cats.

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Awesome.

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Okay.

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Well, good job team.

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Everything went well.

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I did not come home with anything extra.

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And we will see you guys again next week for our next transport.

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It's a rough life, but someone's got to do it.