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Hello friends, welcome to Rough Life.

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Shoo!

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I really hit the nail on the head when I named this podcast Rough Life.

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It is currently 1am, technically the day after transport, but I haven't gone to bed yet so

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I'm still calling it the same day.

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I actually had to take a second before I started this podcast and take a really big yawn before

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I could start.

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I would love to be getting into bed right now, but Jacqueline, our foster coordinator

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who I'm sure you all know, told me that she likes to listen to the transport episode on

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her way to intake every transport.

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So in honor of Jacqueline, I'm recording this tonight instead of in the morning, but I want

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everyone to quiz her in the morning to see if she really listens or if she was just kidding.

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Anyways, transport was an absolute train wreck today.

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So many last minute add-ons, which we're always thankful for, but oh my goodness it always

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makes things so much more chaotic.

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And then we had a litter that got cut because they showed up and they were too sick to go.

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So much going on this week.

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But we've got 31 pups and 6 kittens on this transport with some crazy stories, so let's

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get into it.

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New England Hurricane was found as a stray in a neighboring town.

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We actually found out at transport today that they think they found his brother too just

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a few days ago, so he's going to be coming on the next transport.

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Katrina was found at the end of Jessica's driveway earlier this month.

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Jessica was leaving for a weekend vacation and texted me and my mom to tell us that there

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was a puppy in her driveway.

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My mom went out there and was able to catch her.

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When Jessica got home, several days later, there was another puppy that we believe is

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this one's brother at the end of her driveway.

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Jessica went in her house to get a leash, and when she came back out, it was gone.

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No one has seen it since.

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And no one claimed this puppy either, and it was just hanging out at the bottom of Jessica's

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driveway.

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Jessica has a very long driveway, so we think it was probably dumped there and was just

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hanging around waiting for its family to come back.

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We're still hoping the brother will show up soon too.

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Rita was found in the woods last month, but because she had ringworm on her, she had to

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stay at Jessica's in her quarantine room until she got over it.

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When we got her last month, she had a super bad laceration on her neck where it looked

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like she had been tied up on a chain that was way too tight for her little neck.

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Harvey was picked up by animal control when he was seen hiding at an abandoned house in

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town.

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No one ever came forward for him, so we nabbed him up out of that shelter.

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The bee litter of two were found wandering on a road by a sheriff's officer.

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His aunt is actually one of my rescue friends.

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She runs a rescue in a neighboring town, and we have worked together for years.

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Unfortunately, because of lack of northern fosters and adopters, her rescue has gone

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bankrupt and she just closed the doors a few weeks ago.

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When her nephew asked her if she would take the puppies, she told him no.

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Thankfully, he found a friend who would foster them for us until we were able to get them

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on transport today.

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The S litter of four were owner surrenders by someone who wanted us to take the puppies

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so she could have the momma dogs paid for free because she couldn't afford to do it.

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When our rescue partners went by to vaccinate and deworm the puppies, they were shocked

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at how disgusting the home and yard were.

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The puppies were absolutely crawling with fleas.

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They planned to just vaccinate and leave, but they ended up taking the puppies with

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them because it was so awful.

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And to make this story even worse, these four puppies were supposed to go on the last transport,

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but we didn't get enough fosters so they were held back.

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In the three weeks since then, one puppy broke its leg and another puppy was attacked and

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had to go to the vet for stitches.

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We are so lucky all four of these puppies survived this three week layover, I guess,

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until today's transport.

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The A litter of eight were a last minute add-on when a litter of four showed up too sick to

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go.

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We sent them back and they'll be going to the vet tomorrow.

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Luckily, we were able to swap them out with another litter.

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Don't you love transport math?

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Just a litter of four and add a litter of eight.

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Their mama wandered up to someone's house a few months ago.

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They already had two dogs and they tried to just shoo her off, but she was so sweet and

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so friendly that they all fell in love with her.

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They took her to the vet to be spayed and they found out she was already pregnant, so they

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just took her back home.

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She started venturing over to the neighbor's house to visit and the neighbors thought she

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was a stray dog, so they took her off and they dumped her several miles away.

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The family that was taking care of her, I'll call them her owners even though they technically

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didn't really want her, but they were devastated.

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They posted flyers all over looking for her and a few days later, they got a call that

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someone had found her.

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She had been staying in a cow pasture and was covered in manure.

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They took her home, cleaned her up, and a few days later, she had her puppies.

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They are so thankful we took all the puppies and that will make sure that they get great

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homes, but they are even more thankful to get a spay voucher to get her spayed for real

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this time.

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The eye litter of eight puppies were actually supposed to go with their mom on the August

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9th snakes transport, but we didn't get enough fosterage for them to go, so we held them

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back.

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It actually ended up working out though because their mom took in two newborn puppies that

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were found tied up in a plastic bag last week.

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I'll tell you more about those when they come up in a few weeks, but this mama was posted

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on Facebook by a neighbor of the owner.

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She said this was her second pregnancy and the owner killed all of the puppies in the

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first litter because he didn't want to deal with finding them homes.

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He told the owner he didn't care what she did with the dog, but if she gave birth there,

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he would kill all those puppies too.

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She ended up actually being pulled by another rescue.

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I had thought about pulling her, but we were already so overfull I didn't want to overwhelm

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us even more and overcommit, but then one of my fosters down here agreed to foster her

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for this other rescue.

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So I reached out to the other rescuer because she is a good friend of mine, and she was

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like, um, no, I actually have no northern rescue lined up to take them, and I have no

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idea what I'm going to do with them.

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So she was so relieved when I told her I would just take them all.

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The momadog's name is originally Missy, but I'm not sure if she even knew that was her

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name.

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She gave birth the same day she got to my foster's house, so it was literally in the nick of time.

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She's been a really good mom, but she's definitely over it now that they have teeth.

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I think she's thinking, where's that man that comes and gets all these sharp toothed

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puppies away from me?

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She is much happier with these two itty bitty newborn puppies.

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Lossy and her five puppies are from the shelter here in Alabama.

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She was picked up as a stray actually several months ago.

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They had no idea she was pregnant, and she might have even gotten pregnant at the shelter.

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But they came in one morning and they were shocked to see she had had puppies overnight.

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She has been the best little mama and she was so sweet with the shelter workers when

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they would pick up her puppies when they were newborns.

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She would super gently put her mouth on the puppies to try and take them back like, I

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don't mean to be rude, but did you wash your hands?

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Like, these are my newborn babies.

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Please don't get them sick.

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Like those buttons that people put on their baby's stroller nowadays about like not touching

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or kissing their babies.

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And I was getting her out at transport at the dog house so that I could walk her and

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let her go to the bathroom.

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She was up on a top crate and we were both kind of looking at each other like, how am

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I going to get her down from here?

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And she looked at me and I held my arms up and she jumped into my arms like, like we

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both just like telepathically knew that that's what she needed to do.

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I love her.

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She was one of my favorites on this load.

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The L mama and her five puppies are from the same shelter here in Alabama.

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The mama is actually the mama of the L puppies from the June 7th Ted Lasso transport and

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the June 28th Harry Potter transport.

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Remember those were those five puppies that were so horribly sick with Giardio when I

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went to the shelter just to drop off vaccines.

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I couldn't leave them there and I ended up taking six of them home with me.

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One died like as soon as I got home.

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And that's when I found out there were actually originally nine in this litter and four had

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died total.

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Three of the ones that I had were so insanely sick that I ended up taking them to the vet

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for a distipper test and thankfully it was negative.

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I don't know how they ended up at the shelter or why their mom wasn't brought in then, but

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animal control actually went and picked her up just a few weeks ago with her newborn puppies.

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They were two days old when she was brought in.

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I don't know if he took her because of her living conditions or if the shelter workers

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just knew how much I loved her first litter and how badly I wanted to get their mama out

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of there too that they just went and got her.

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Either way, I'm so thankful they got her and that we were able to get her and her babies

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out here before they got super sick too and that she is never going to have to have another

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litter again.

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Oh my goodness.

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I cannot believe she had two in one summer.

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As for the cats, Charlie was pulled from the Alabama shelter when I went their last

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transport.

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He was all alone in a crate in the isolation room because he was so sick.

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I brought him home and Jessica has been nursing him back to health.

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Mitch was found in a parking lot of an apartment complex by someone we've taken animals for

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before.

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He told us that the grandmother was run over by a car and killed a few days later, but

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I'm not sure how he would even know who the grandmother was of this kitten and he's actually

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told us that story before about another kitten, so I'm not totally sure that that's a true

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story.

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The D litter of two kittens were found as strays when they were just barely weaned from

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their mama.

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Someone found them and took them home to find new homes for them.

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They lived in the back room of their house the entire summer though because she couldn't

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find anyone to take them.

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The G litter of two kittens were found abandoned when they still had their eyes closed.

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The mama of the L kittens from the snake transport on August 9th actually took these

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kittens in and nursed them.

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She was supposed to come on transport today too, but the lady who found them all has just

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fallen in love with the mama, so we will spay her and she'll just stay with her.

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Okay, that's a wrap.

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That's everybody's stories.

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I'm pretty sure this is only like 10 minutes later for you guys, but this is actually like

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an hour later for me because of how many times I get tongue tied and I have to stop and

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like giggle and then cut it out and then redo it.

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So I am very sleepy now.

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I'm so thankful that you all listen and I'm so thankful that you guys like to hear about

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the stories and where my sweet babies all come from because they have, oh my goodness,

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they have the craziest lives before they even get to you guys and start their new lives.

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But that's all for tonight and I promise there is an episode coming next week that you guys

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are gonna love.

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It's a good story time and I will get my life together and I will do it.

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I promise.

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