1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:12,560 Hello friends, welcome to Rough Life. 2 00:00:12,560 --> 00:00:17,400 We love a transport day and this week we had a special guest. 3 00:00:17,400 --> 00:00:22,620 A vet student at Mississippi State University Vet School reached out to B2CAS a few weeks 4 00:00:22,620 --> 00:00:27,920 ago and told us she needed to complete 10 community service hours for one of her summer 5 00:00:27,920 --> 00:00:29,480 classes. 6 00:00:29,480 --> 00:00:32,120 And we were so excited to hear that. 7 00:00:32,120 --> 00:00:34,160 We put her right to work. 8 00:00:34,160 --> 00:00:39,260 Actually the very next day she met Jessica at the dog house and picked up some dog food 9 00:00:39,260 --> 00:00:45,000 that had been donated to us by Walmart that I was passing on to one of our owners surrendering 10 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:49,920 puppies that you will actually hear about later in today's episode. 11 00:00:49,920 --> 00:00:54,040 She brought the food all the way to me in Florence and then while I was unloading all 12 00:00:54,040 --> 00:00:59,200 of it she took peanut for a walk and then took the washer machine mom and dog for a walk 13 00:00:59,200 --> 00:01:00,200 too. 14 00:01:00,200 --> 00:01:04,080 This was great practice for the dogs because even though they're fantastic walkers with 15 00:01:04,080 --> 00:01:08,880 me sometimes dogs aren't always the best walkers when they get to Virginia and are with new 16 00:01:08,880 --> 00:01:10,920 people in a new environment. 17 00:01:10,920 --> 00:01:15,600 So this was really nice that they got to practice with a stranger but still be in a place where 18 00:01:15,600 --> 00:01:17,080 they felt safe. 19 00:01:17,080 --> 00:01:18,240 They both did great. 20 00:01:18,240 --> 00:01:20,520 I was so proud of them. 21 00:01:20,520 --> 00:01:24,520 On her way back to Mississippi she stopped and picked up newspaper to open for us that 22 00:01:24,520 --> 00:01:29,760 we'll use for transports and then she came to volunteer at transport today. 23 00:01:29,760 --> 00:01:33,600 She goes back to college in a few days and we are so bummed we won't have her around 24 00:01:33,600 --> 00:01:35,360 to run our errands. 25 00:01:35,360 --> 00:01:37,560 She was a major help. 26 00:01:37,560 --> 00:01:41,080 But anyways let's get into today's stories. 27 00:01:41,080 --> 00:01:43,560 Today's theme is the Barbie movie. 28 00:01:43,560 --> 00:01:50,320 Oh and if you hear any snoring in the background that is my Beagle Mama who is passed out right 29 00:01:50,320 --> 00:01:51,480 behind me. 30 00:01:51,480 --> 00:01:55,720 I will share her crazy story in a future episode. 31 00:01:55,720 --> 00:02:01,440 Ordinary Barbie is a flat coat mix from the shelter here in Alabama. 32 00:02:01,440 --> 00:02:03,640 She was brought in as a stray. 33 00:02:03,640 --> 00:02:09,040 Fun fact actually the last few months the shelter has been closed to intakes but they 34 00:02:09,040 --> 00:02:12,280 cannot turn down strays that are brought in. 35 00:02:12,280 --> 00:02:19,040 So almost everyone lightly has been a quote unquote stray because even if they were owner 36 00:02:19,040 --> 00:02:23,840 surrenders when the owners get turned away they just send somebody else back in and say 37 00:02:23,840 --> 00:02:25,720 it was a stray. 38 00:02:25,720 --> 00:02:28,960 Potty pup is a schnauzer mix. 39 00:02:28,960 --> 00:02:33,880 He was posted on Facebook with his litter mates as free to a good home but the owner 40 00:02:33,880 --> 00:02:39,640 refused to surrender them to a rescue because she absolutely didn't want them to go to a 41 00:02:39,640 --> 00:02:41,440 kill shelter. 42 00:02:41,440 --> 00:02:47,440 Despite being explained everything about how rescues in general let alone wolf trap operates 43 00:02:47,440 --> 00:02:52,000 she still thought that they would all be sent to a shelter to die and she didn't want to 44 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:56,720 spay voucher to get her mama fixed because they breed her and just accidentally let her 45 00:02:56,720 --> 00:02:59,200 get pregnant by a stray this one time. 46 00:02:59,200 --> 00:03:02,880 Can you hear my eyes rolling right now? 47 00:03:02,880 --> 00:03:06,320 Lawyer Barbie is a shepherd husky mix. 48 00:03:06,320 --> 00:03:10,680 She was a stray that wandered up to one of our rescue partners homes. 49 00:03:10,680 --> 00:03:14,440 Yasmin is a husky great Pyrenees mix. 50 00:03:14,440 --> 00:03:17,880 Yasmin found her as a stray when she was a puppy and took her home. 51 00:03:17,880 --> 00:03:26,160 They never found her owners so they went ahead and got her spayed and up to date on vaccines. 52 00:03:26,160 --> 00:03:29,760 They're moving soon and they can't take her with them so they're surrendering her to 53 00:03:29,760 --> 00:03:33,720 wolf trap because they know what a good life she'll have with us and that makes me so proud 54 00:03:33,720 --> 00:03:36,000 that we have that reputation. 55 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:38,400 I'm just Ken is a lab mix. 56 00:03:38,400 --> 00:03:42,520 He and a brother wandered up to someone's house and the homeowner took them to the vet 57 00:03:42,520 --> 00:03:46,600 to be vaccinated and then got in touch with one of our rescue partners. 58 00:03:46,600 --> 00:03:51,560 The next week the brother got super sick but tested negative for all the things at the 59 00:03:51,560 --> 00:03:52,560 vet. 60 00:03:52,560 --> 00:03:55,520 Unfortunately, it died the next day though. 61 00:03:55,520 --> 00:04:00,440 The foster just assumed it must have eaten something in their yard but over the weekend 62 00:04:00,440 --> 00:04:03,040 I'm just Ken got sick too. 63 00:04:03,040 --> 00:04:06,840 They took him to the vet Monday morning and he tested positive for parvo. 64 00:04:06,840 --> 00:04:10,960 The fosters took him back home and treated him around the clock and we are so glad that 65 00:04:10,960 --> 00:04:12,200 he survived. 66 00:04:12,200 --> 00:04:15,320 He is definitely one tough pup. 67 00:04:15,320 --> 00:04:22,480 The Barbie doll, otherwise known as TBD, otherwise known as the black dog, otherwise known as 68 00:04:22,480 --> 00:04:27,680 the washer machine mama, she might win the award for the most names that we've ever had 69 00:04:27,680 --> 00:04:29,200 for one dog. 70 00:04:29,200 --> 00:04:34,440 She is the one who we held back two weeks ago because she had never been out of her 71 00:04:34,440 --> 00:04:39,400 kennel her entire life and just needed some time to learn how to be a dog. 72 00:04:39,400 --> 00:04:45,520 She has done fantastic in my home and it has been so fun watching her come out of her show. 73 00:04:45,520 --> 00:04:50,840 She went from literally shaking in the corner of the room to jumping on top of me to curl 74 00:04:50,840 --> 00:04:53,560 up and take a nap with me on the couch. 75 00:04:53,560 --> 00:04:58,840 She has been one of the easiest fosters I've ever had and we actually forgot she was even 76 00:04:58,840 --> 00:05:02,400 there pretty often just because of how good she is. 77 00:05:02,400 --> 00:05:07,360 We will definitely miss her but I am so excited for her to finally have the life she deserves 78 00:05:07,360 --> 00:05:12,240 and I can't wait for her to have a family reunion with her A litter pups from the Taylor Swift 79 00:05:12,240 --> 00:05:13,720 Transport. 80 00:05:13,720 --> 00:05:19,040 Weird Barbie, hands down is my favorite name on this transport. 81 00:05:19,040 --> 00:05:21,080 She is a German Shepherd. 82 00:05:21,080 --> 00:05:26,200 I actually think she might be purebred and I actually think she is from the same breeder 83 00:05:26,200 --> 00:05:28,040 as Peter Pecker. 84 00:05:28,040 --> 00:05:33,920 I know all my OGs remember the truly traumatic story of Peter Pecker. 85 00:05:33,920 --> 00:05:39,240 He was a six week old puppy I got a call about one night several years ago. 86 00:05:39,240 --> 00:05:44,600 He was found just a block away from my house in a field and the finders told me that they 87 00:05:44,600 --> 00:05:47,560 thought his pecker had been cut off. 88 00:05:47,560 --> 00:05:54,000 So I raced over there to get him and I called my vet at 10pm to meet me at the clinic to 89 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:59,040 fix this broken pecker. 90 00:05:59,040 --> 00:06:05,240 Under alert it was not cut off and it wasn't even really an emergency but since he was 91 00:06:05,240 --> 00:06:09,360 already there the vet just went ahead and fixed it for us. 92 00:06:09,360 --> 00:06:14,960 It was actually just some congenital birth defect and the pecker literally just needed 93 00:06:14,960 --> 00:06:19,280 to be popped back into the skin with a stitch to hold it in place. 94 00:06:19,280 --> 00:06:24,000 Anyways he ended up being a purebred German Shepherd that I am pretty sure was dumped 95 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:27,400 by the breeder when they saw what his pecker looked like and realized they couldn't sell 96 00:06:27,400 --> 00:06:28,960 him like that. 97 00:06:28,960 --> 00:06:31,460 Which brings me back to weird Barbie. 98 00:06:31,460 --> 00:06:36,200 She was found on my road which intersects the road that Peter Pecker was found on and 99 00:06:36,200 --> 00:06:38,080 she looks just like him. 100 00:06:38,080 --> 00:06:42,440 I would love to see a DNA test done on her just to find out if she is purebred and if 101 00:06:42,440 --> 00:06:44,480 she is related to Peter at all. 102 00:06:44,480 --> 00:06:48,840 She is precious though regardless and whoever adopts her is absolutely going to fall in 103 00:06:48,840 --> 00:06:49,840 love with her. 104 00:06:49,840 --> 00:06:51,600 She is an awesome puppy. 105 00:06:51,600 --> 00:06:58,200 Earring Magic Ken is a feist mix that was found as a stray by one of my fosters. 106 00:06:58,200 --> 00:07:03,480 They're actually the same fosters that found 1989 from the Taylor Swift transport on July 107 00:07:03,480 --> 00:07:09,320 12th and they actually found Earring Magic Ken the day after the last transport. 108 00:07:09,320 --> 00:07:12,880 It was a completely different area so I'm not saying they're related or anything. 109 00:07:12,880 --> 00:07:15,440 It's just crazy how fast we find them. 110 00:07:15,440 --> 00:07:17,440 Dropped off one and then found one the next day. 111 00:07:17,440 --> 00:07:18,440 I don't know. 112 00:07:18,440 --> 00:07:22,160 That's a pointless story. 113 00:07:22,160 --> 00:07:24,280 Okay on to the letters. 114 00:07:24,280 --> 00:07:30,200 The R litter of two lab mixes were found by my husband's aunt here in Florence. 115 00:07:30,200 --> 00:07:34,240 She called me and said they were in the corner of her yard curled up together and none of 116 00:07:34,240 --> 00:07:38,560 the surrounding shelters would take them because they were full just and stopped by to get 117 00:07:38,560 --> 00:07:41,120 them on his way home from work that day. 118 00:07:41,120 --> 00:07:45,800 The T litter of two labradoodles are from the oodles of doodles that we pulled back in 119 00:07:45,800 --> 00:07:47,520 2022. 120 00:07:47,520 --> 00:07:53,200 This is the same house that Dolly came from and y'all I'm about to be super transparent 121 00:07:53,200 --> 00:07:54,720 with you. 122 00:07:54,720 --> 00:08:00,720 I don't know what the right thing to do in this situation is and I don't even know if 123 00:08:00,720 --> 00:08:02,880 there is a right answer. 124 00:08:02,880 --> 00:08:07,160 If you don't remember the oodles of doodle story here's a quick recap. 125 00:08:07,160 --> 00:08:11,280 Someone posted a picture of a doodle in pretty rough shape on Facebook and they said they 126 00:08:11,280 --> 00:08:15,320 had just bought her from a breeder and they were shocked at the conditions that the dogs 127 00:08:15,320 --> 00:08:19,840 were living in and that the man was desperate for some help. 128 00:08:19,840 --> 00:08:24,580 Fast forward a week no one had offered any help so I stepped in. 129 00:08:24,580 --> 00:08:29,640 We took eight dogs from him the next day and then the dog that was posted that started 130 00:08:29,640 --> 00:08:34,760 the whole thing was Dolly who we ended up taking a few months later from the buyer and 131 00:08:34,760 --> 00:08:38,240 she stayed with me until she delivered her puppies and they were all old enough to go 132 00:08:38,240 --> 00:08:39,840 on transport together. 133 00:08:39,840 --> 00:08:43,760 Okay, so my dilemma. 134 00:08:43,760 --> 00:08:47,040 I feel really sorry for this guy. 135 00:08:47,040 --> 00:08:49,120 He's an old old man. 136 00:08:49,120 --> 00:08:50,200 He lives alone. 137 00:08:50,200 --> 00:08:52,600 He doesn't really have any family or friends. 138 00:08:52,600 --> 00:08:53,680 He has MS. 139 00:08:53,680 --> 00:08:54,680 He's going blind. 140 00:08:54,680 --> 00:08:56,240 He can't drive. 141 00:08:56,240 --> 00:09:05,000 He's just really pitiful and I think he was once a very successful doodle breeder unfortunately 142 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:10,680 but now he's not able to keep up with their grooming and just basic necessities. 143 00:09:10,680 --> 00:09:14,160 We stepped in to take all those doodles last year because he explained to me that he was 144 00:09:14,160 --> 00:09:18,480 in the hospital for three months that summer and he wasn't even there when one of the litters 145 00:09:18,480 --> 00:09:23,600 was born so they didn't get any human interaction and he couldn't sell them so it was just the 146 00:09:23,600 --> 00:09:26,280 perfect storm. 147 00:09:26,280 --> 00:09:30,740 But he realized that he was in way over his head now and he wanted to get out of the 148 00:09:30,740 --> 00:09:33,920 breeding business so I was more than happy to help him. 149 00:09:33,920 --> 00:09:38,280 I told him we would take anything he wanted us to take and we would spay a neuter whichever 150 00:09:38,280 --> 00:09:43,040 ones he wanted to keep because I am not in the business of ripping someone's personal 151 00:09:43,040 --> 00:09:46,680 pets away from them if they truly love and take care of them. 152 00:09:46,680 --> 00:09:50,560 I just want to help him get out of this never ending cycle. 153 00:09:50,560 --> 00:09:54,680 Well he told me that a couple of them were pregnant at the time and once they were sold 154 00:09:54,680 --> 00:10:00,240 he was just going to let me spay a whole bunch of them and let us have the rest of them. 155 00:10:00,240 --> 00:10:03,480 And here we are eight months later. 156 00:10:03,480 --> 00:10:08,960 He reached out to me a few weeks ago and he said he had fallen on even more hard times 157 00:10:08,960 --> 00:10:12,680 and he could no longer even buy dog food for the dogs. 158 00:10:12,680 --> 00:10:16,480 He said if I would bring him a few bags of dog food he would give me two three month 159 00:10:16,480 --> 00:10:19,240 old puppies that hadn't sold. 160 00:10:19,240 --> 00:10:21,640 So here were my options. 161 00:10:21,640 --> 00:10:27,800 Tell him no because he's obviously still breeding these dogs and just let him let them 162 00:10:27,800 --> 00:10:34,160 starve or give him some food and take whatever he'll let me have. 163 00:10:34,160 --> 00:10:36,440 Obviously I chose the latter. 164 00:10:36,440 --> 00:10:41,640 I brought him a trunk full of dog food that was donated from Walmart and he showed me 165 00:10:41,640 --> 00:10:46,440 a litter of 10 puppies that were about 10 weeks old and he told me if they didn't sell 166 00:10:46,440 --> 00:10:49,240 by next week he would give them to me too. 167 00:10:49,240 --> 00:10:54,000 He told me he had to get on food stamps and other government help because he just has 168 00:10:54,000 --> 00:10:59,800 so many medical bills and he has no way to get money or work because he's so sick. 169 00:10:59,800 --> 00:11:02,040 He doesn't even have air conditioning in his home. 170 00:11:02,040 --> 00:11:06,680 I told him again how terrible this is for the dogs and that this is not what is best 171 00:11:06,680 --> 00:11:12,080 for any of them and he agreed and he said he was really ready to be done now. 172 00:11:12,080 --> 00:11:14,400 So I don't know. 173 00:11:14,400 --> 00:11:19,680 I am really upset about this whole predicament because I feel like it was a lose lose either 174 00:11:19,680 --> 00:11:20,680 way. 175 00:11:20,680 --> 00:11:26,240 I know people are going to be mad that I helped him again and honestly I'm mad too and people 176 00:11:26,240 --> 00:11:29,800 would have been mad if I didn't help him feed his dogs. 177 00:11:29,800 --> 00:11:35,280 But again like I said in last week's episode I'm just trying not to burn the bridges because 178 00:11:35,280 --> 00:11:40,760 these two puppies would have absolutely stayed there at his house and started breeding themselves 179 00:11:40,760 --> 00:11:43,280 and another three months if he didn't sell them. 180 00:11:43,280 --> 00:11:49,280 And I know he really does want to do the right things by these dogs and his heart but it's 181 00:11:49,280 --> 00:11:52,160 literally the only way he knows how to make money. 182 00:11:52,160 --> 00:11:55,560 So I can understand that that's a scary thing to give up. 183 00:11:55,560 --> 00:11:57,560 I don't know. 184 00:11:57,560 --> 00:11:59,440 This is turned into a whole venting segment. 185 00:11:59,440 --> 00:12:01,520 I'm really sorry about that. 186 00:12:01,520 --> 00:12:06,800 It's just been weighing on me because I feel so awful for him and his living conditions 187 00:12:06,800 --> 00:12:10,600 and those poor dogs and their awful living conditions. 188 00:12:10,600 --> 00:12:14,400 I'm just praying he will eventually give them all to us. 189 00:12:14,400 --> 00:12:15,400 Shoo! 190 00:12:15,400 --> 00:12:16,400 Okay. 191 00:12:16,400 --> 00:12:19,400 Nice. 192 00:12:19,400 --> 00:12:24,840 The K litter of three and the D litter of three are all three month old lab mixes. 193 00:12:24,840 --> 00:12:32,400 The mamas of the puppies are not related in any way but I think the litter might have 194 00:12:32,400 --> 00:12:35,080 the same dads. 195 00:12:35,080 --> 00:12:41,200 The owners of both mama dogs are human mother and daughters that live just a few houses 196 00:12:41,200 --> 00:12:42,960 apart from each other. 197 00:12:42,960 --> 00:12:47,200 Both dogs got pregnant at the same time and delivered puppies just three days apart. 198 00:12:47,200 --> 00:12:52,720 So they're not related the puppies but they've basically grown up together and they've been 199 00:12:52,720 --> 00:12:56,080 fostered together at the dog house for the last two weeks. 200 00:12:56,080 --> 00:13:01,240 And it's super convenient actually that the mother's litter is three boys and the daughter's 201 00:13:01,240 --> 00:13:06,080 litter is three girls so we could always tell who was part of which litter. 202 00:13:06,080 --> 00:13:07,840 Oh, oh wait. 203 00:13:07,840 --> 00:13:13,720 And this is the litter, well, litters that were actually ten puppies last transport but 204 00:13:13,720 --> 00:13:18,600 four were run over and killed or disappeared because we couldn't get them into a foster 205 00:13:18,600 --> 00:13:20,220 home fast enough. 206 00:13:20,220 --> 00:13:24,540 We actually thought it was down to five puppies last transport and she originally only brought 207 00:13:24,540 --> 00:13:30,280 us five puppies but then my favorite one, the black and tan one with the pointy ears, 208 00:13:30,280 --> 00:13:34,200 actually wandered back home a few days later and she brought him straight to us that same 209 00:13:34,200 --> 00:13:38,200 day to be reunited with his brothers. 210 00:13:38,200 --> 00:13:42,280 Midge and her six puppies make up the M litter of seven. 211 00:13:42,280 --> 00:13:47,120 Fun fact, if you didn't know, Midge is Barbie's pregnant friend that got discontinued. 212 00:13:47,120 --> 00:13:50,640 I actually had her and I loved her. 213 00:13:50,640 --> 00:13:53,320 So I thought that was the perfect name for this mama dog. 214 00:13:53,320 --> 00:13:55,120 They were owner surrenders. 215 00:13:55,120 --> 00:13:59,800 The owner had a stroke and was sent to a nursing home so her family took turns just feeding 216 00:13:59,800 --> 00:14:01,880 and watering the mama and puppies. 217 00:14:01,880 --> 00:14:05,000 They lived outside underneath a rundown car. 218 00:14:05,000 --> 00:14:08,600 They were originally just surrendering the puppies but when our rescue partner got there 219 00:14:08,600 --> 00:14:13,000 to pick them up and realized that meant she would be leaving Midge all alone at this house 220 00:14:13,000 --> 00:14:18,200 where people just come by every couple days and throw food out, she begged them to let 221 00:14:18,200 --> 00:14:23,240 her have her too and we are so glad that they ended up surrendering the whole family. 222 00:14:23,240 --> 00:14:27,840 The B litter of seven were brought in as strays to the Alabama shelter. 223 00:14:27,840 --> 00:14:32,080 They were dumped on the side of the road and some kids actually brought them in but as 224 00:14:32,080 --> 00:14:37,480 soon as the director sent me pictures of them and I saw them, I told her they are covered 225 00:14:37,480 --> 00:14:39,000 in ringworm. 226 00:14:39,000 --> 00:14:44,360 So they've actually been held back the last four weeks getting treated and this makes 227 00:14:44,360 --> 00:14:47,200 me sick to my stomach to think about. 228 00:14:47,200 --> 00:14:53,560 They were actually originally a litter of eight but we had horrible storms come through 229 00:14:53,560 --> 00:14:58,200 about two weeks ago with awful thunder and lightning. 230 00:14:58,200 --> 00:15:04,040 Apparently their kennel flooded during the storm and the puppies got so scared I guess 231 00:15:04,040 --> 00:15:11,400 from the thunder that they somehow trampled one or it got stuck somewhere and it drowned 232 00:15:11,400 --> 00:15:14,960 in the kennel in the shelter. 233 00:15:14,960 --> 00:15:20,640 And this is a really nice really clean well taken care of shelter so just imagine the 234 00:15:20,640 --> 00:15:25,320 horrors that go on at the way sketchier shelters down here. 235 00:15:25,320 --> 00:15:32,200 As for the cats, fashion was found as a stray by one of our fosters, actually the same foster 236 00:15:32,200 --> 00:15:35,320 who found Earring Magic Ken. 237 00:15:35,320 --> 00:15:40,480 Gloria was actually a litter of five that were born in someone's garage. 238 00:15:40,480 --> 00:15:45,600 She has dogs in her house so she couldn't bring them inside and one by one all the kittens 239 00:15:45,600 --> 00:15:48,920 disappeared except for this baby. 240 00:15:48,920 --> 00:15:54,000 The C litter of two were owner surrenders from a mama cat who was actually supposed to go 241 00:15:54,000 --> 00:15:59,480 to Wolf Drap when she was still pregnant but she ended up giving birth the morning of transport 242 00:15:59,480 --> 00:16:01,760 so we obviously didn't send her. 243 00:16:01,760 --> 00:16:06,800 The owners decided to keep her in the meantime and they let us spay her but they did surrender 244 00:16:06,800 --> 00:16:08,920 all the kittens to us. 245 00:16:08,920 --> 00:16:14,880 The V litter of two are actually probably not related but one of them was found by one 246 00:16:14,880 --> 00:16:19,320 of our rescue partners fosters, he was lying in the middle of the road and she actually 247 00:16:19,320 --> 00:16:23,880 thought he was dead so she got out of her car to move him to the side of the road and 248 00:16:23,880 --> 00:16:28,560 that's when she realized he was still alive but barely. 249 00:16:28,560 --> 00:16:32,280 As she was getting back in the car though she saw the other one come walking out of 250 00:16:32,280 --> 00:16:33,280 the grass. 251 00:16:33,280 --> 00:16:37,360 He's a lot bigger than the one that was in the road so they might not be actual brothers 252 00:16:37,360 --> 00:16:42,360 but they've been in foster care together for over a month now. 253 00:16:42,360 --> 00:16:46,440 The S litter of three were born to a mama cat that was found pregnant and wandering 254 00:16:46,440 --> 00:16:50,280 the streets after a tornado tore through a nearby town. 255 00:16:50,280 --> 00:16:56,280 This is actually the same tornado in the same town that the T and P litter of puppies were 256 00:16:56,280 --> 00:16:58,280 from last transport. 257 00:16:58,280 --> 00:17:03,560 That was a truly awful tornado that literally leveled the entire town. 258 00:17:03,560 --> 00:17:05,680 So many animals were displaced after that. 259 00:17:05,680 --> 00:17:11,240 Oh and it destroyed their actual animal shelter so several animals were killed and then a 260 00:17:11,240 --> 00:17:16,000 bunch that were there were loose and homeless again. 261 00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:21,200 The age litter of four were born to a feral cat in a nearby town called Tupelo. 262 00:17:21,200 --> 00:17:22,480 You may have heard of it. 263 00:17:22,480 --> 00:17:27,660 They have an awful feral cat problem there and a group from Oxford, Mississippi has been 264 00:17:27,660 --> 00:17:30,500 helping them T and R several cats. 265 00:17:30,500 --> 00:17:33,500 This mama however managed to get past them. 266 00:17:33,500 --> 00:17:39,640 She had her kittens inside a closet at a probation office and that's been her home ever since. 267 00:17:39,640 --> 00:17:43,560 She and her kittens have had the run of the office and the employees are all so sad that 268 00:17:43,560 --> 00:17:46,120 they're leaving today. 269 00:17:46,120 --> 00:17:49,000 And drum roll please. 270 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:55,920 The A litter of three officially makes this the last of the 15 kittens I pulled over 271 00:17:55,920 --> 00:17:58,840 a month ago back on June 28th. 272 00:17:58,840 --> 00:18:04,400 The transport when I lost my mind and blacked out in the shelter and drove home with 15 273 00:18:04,400 --> 00:18:08,160 kittens that I had zero fosters for. 274 00:18:08,160 --> 00:18:11,280 These three kittens are actually not even a litter. 275 00:18:11,280 --> 00:18:16,160 I don't know if any of them are related to each other and we keep calling them the Mama 276 00:18:16,160 --> 00:18:17,560 Cat's kittens. 277 00:18:17,560 --> 00:18:20,840 Remember we sent her last week because she was separated from these kittens anyways 278 00:18:20,840 --> 00:18:22,520 and she was lonely. 279 00:18:22,520 --> 00:18:26,240 We actually sent her biological kittens back in April. 280 00:18:26,240 --> 00:18:31,640 I believe they were the eye kittens from April 26th but she took in several kittens that 281 00:18:31,640 --> 00:18:36,520 were not her own that were brought in and needed to be bottle fed at the shelter which 282 00:18:36,520 --> 00:18:38,480 were these three kittens. 283 00:18:38,480 --> 00:18:43,360 So she certainly earned her freedom ride last week and I know she is so glad to be getting 284 00:18:43,360 --> 00:18:51,520 some real human interaction nowadays and I am so glad that all 15 of these cats and kittens 285 00:18:51,520 --> 00:18:59,360 are officially gone and Jessica and my mom will stop bringing it up all the time now. 286 00:18:59,360 --> 00:19:06,240 But anyway it was a smaller load than usual this week with only about 31 pups. 287 00:19:06,240 --> 00:19:12,720 But this episode is actually a lot longer than most of my other transport episodes do 288 00:19:12,720 --> 00:19:16,600 in part to my little venting session. 289 00:19:16,600 --> 00:19:18,520 Sorry about that again. 290 00:19:18,520 --> 00:19:24,080 But thanks for listening and make sure you subscribe so that you will be notified when 291 00:19:24,080 --> 00:19:28,920 next week's episode drops because we have another transport next week that I am super 292 00:19:28,920 --> 00:19:30,640 excited about. 293 00:19:30,640 --> 00:19:46,760 It's a rough life but someone's got to do it.