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Hello friends! Welcome to Rough Life! Another transport in the books today and it was quite a doozy.

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I was about 30 minutes away from the doghouse where we do our transports when I got an emergency

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notice on my phone and in my car saying that there was a tornado right by where I was and

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that I needed to get out of my car and into substantial shelter. Well, I didn't pay too

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much mind to it but as I was driving along I started noticing everyone that lived in trailer homes

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leaving their homes and walking to their neighbors that had sturdier homes to take cover.

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But as I always say, come heller high water transport must go on and a tornado is certainly

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nothing to delay transport over. So I kept driving. I will say though when I was driving down the road

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at two o'clock in the afternoon and it was so dark outside that my automatic brights came on

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I was a little on edge but lucky for me I had my mom and grandma watching the weather to let me know

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if it was headed straight towards me or if I was going in the opposite direction and thankfully I

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was about two miles ahead of it and it was going the other way. But back to transport. Once I finally

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got there and we got going things actually went really well and we hardly even got rained on so

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that was great. It was another small load today which always makes loading up easier on these near

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100 degree days but we were very sad about the puppies that didn't get to go today.

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Today's theme is snakes and if you're wondering how I found so many snake names to do an entire

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transport that's because there's over 3,000 different species of snakes in the world.

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That's insane and if this theme gives you the heebie-jeebies consider moving to Ireland or New

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Zealand because I learned that there are no snakes there at all. That's crazy but do not move to

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Mississippi because I'm pretty sure about 2,999 species of snake live here. But if you're wondering

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why on earth I picked snakes as my theme keep listening. So King Cobra was found dumped at

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the sod farms in the town where my mom lives. Her neighbor was out there and saw him and he

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ran to her as fast as he could. She brought him home and asked my mom if we could take him of course.

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He was so skinny so we know he was out on his own for quite a while. Jolene now Diamond Python

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is a Dalmatian German short hair pointer mix. She was an owner-surrender but was originally found

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just walking in the road all by herself. The owners never found her real owners so they just

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kept her. They ended up posting her on Facebook as free to a good home because she kills their

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chickens. The rescue we got all the GSPs from earlier this year contacted us because she knows

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my love for bird dogs and of course I could not say no to Jolene. Scarlet and Sunbeam are

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labradoodles that were picked up as strays by Animal Control here in Alabama. Their adoption fee is

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$25 at this shelter and they are not spayed prior to being adopted so I knew it was only a matter

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of time before someone nabbed them up and started a backyard puppy mill with them. I'm so glad that

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the shelter knew that too and they actually agreed to hold them for us until we got a foster lined up.

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The P litter of eight are actually why this transport is named after snakes.

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They were found on the side of the road here in Alabama and the man brought them to the shelter.

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They told him that you know technically these were considered an owner's surrender now and

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they're closed for owner's surrenders because they just don't have room to take them.

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But they went ahead and sent me pictures and asked me if I wanted them. I told them absolutely but

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it would be the beginning of August before we could take them. So they told the finder that

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they couldn't take them until the end of July when they knew a kennel would be open after some others

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had left on transport. The guy agreed and then actually when it was time to bring them in he

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told the shelter they were okay there and he would just keep them until transport. Well a few days

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later he showed up at the shelter in a panic bright and early with all the puppies. He said he

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went out to feed them that morning or it might have been the night before and he saw a cotton

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mouth snake laying right next to them and it looked like it was sizing them up like it was about to

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eat them. He said he grabbed them up as fast as he could because he just knew they were about to get

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bit. He told the shelter that he would never forgive himself if something happened to one of them while

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they were in his care when they could have been at the shelter instead. The R litter of eight

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Boston Terrier pit mixes were pulled from a shelter in Tennessee. Another northern rescue that one of

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our local rescue partners works with posted them on Facebook asking if anyone could take them because

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they have no fosters available in their state and they're having to close intakes and stop

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transports. So we were very happy to be able to help them. The F litter of nine were actually pulled

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by another northern rescue but one of the puppies was attacked and needed to go to the vet and while

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they didn't flat out say this I'm assuming they didn't want to pay for the medical bills so they

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backed out and told the owner that they couldn't take them even though they were supposed to leave

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later that week. The owner was so thankful that Wolftrap agreed to take them that she ended up

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just taking the puppy to the vet and paying the vet bill herself. They came from a borderline

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hoarding home. The owner has literally every kind of animal you can imagine. Tons of dogs, cats,

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rabbits, chickens, everything. These puppies were eaten up with worms and fleas but the owner

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surrendered all nine and is glad to be getting the mama spade. As for the cats, Eyelash Viper

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was chased up under a car by a dog in Jessica's cousin's yard. The L litter of two were found

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as strays with their mom several weeks ago by a cat rescuer. Their mama actually took in another

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litter of three that she's still nursing right now and then she and her new kittens will be joining

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Wolftrap too. The G litter of two were found outside a barber shop in a nearby town. They

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don't have animal control or a shelter in that town but they called one of our fosters and they

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asked us if we would take them if they agreed to foster them for us. They ended up only having to

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hang on to them for a few days until we were able to get them on transport. The rest of the kittens

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were pulled from the shelter here in Alabama and I got to do one of my favorite things ever,

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shelter shop. If you haven't listened to the other episodes, that's when I show up at the

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shelter and I walk through and pick who I'm leaving with that day. I'm like a kid in a candy shop.

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So today I left the shelter with 11 kittens but I only sent 10 of them. One of them was fairly

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sick so I took her from the shelter and Jessica is going to give her some TLC. Anaconda was brought

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in with two litter mates who got adopted a few weeks ago. He's been by himself ever since and he

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was out in the cages by the dog runs but he was so terrified out there that they actually brought

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him into their quarantine room because it's much quieter. Viper and water snake were both owner

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surrenders from different people but they had room in their cat room when the people brought them in

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so they were able to take them. The M kittens were actually surrendered by their owner literally as I

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was pulling into the shelter parking lot. They said they agreed to take them because they knew I

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would leave with them a few minutes later and I did. The B litter of two were dumped at someone's

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house and animal control was sent to pick them up. The C litter of three were actually born under a

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shed at the shelter. A few months ago someone was trying to surrender a feral cat to the shelter

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and when they came out to see how feral it was it got loose and they haven't been able to catch it.

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Then when the kittens were only about three weeks old the mom has just stopped coming around

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so they brought them into bottle feed them so that the snakes wouldn't eat them.

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Well that is all the stories for today. Make sure you hit the subscribe button so you get

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notified for next week's episode. We do not have a transport next week but I'm gonna do another

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story time since y'all loved Dufus's story time so much last month. This will be another doozy.

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It's a rough life but someone's gotta do it.