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Hello friends, welcome to Ruff Life.

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This episode is actually going to be a little different than usual.

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More than half of the animals on the van tonight came from the shelter here in Alabama, and

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because of that I don't really know much about their backgrounds.

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So the first half of this episode I will tell you what backstories I do know, and then the

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second half I will tell you the story time I have been meaning to tell you for two weeks

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now.

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Our theme this week is Jimmy Buffett's songs, so let's go.

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Margaritaville was brought in as a stray to the Alabama shelter.

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It's five o'clock somewhere, came into the shelter as a stray, but he had two collars

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on and they posted to him on Facebook looking for his owners, and no one ever came forward

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for him.

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No room for doubt was supposed to be the brother to New England Hurricane from the

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August 30th transport, however I'm saying absolutely no way.

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They may have been seen roaming together at some point, but I'm telling y'all there

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is no relation between them whatsoever.

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Step Around the Sun was found as a stray in a neighboring town by one of our rescue partner's

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friends.

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They held on to him for us until transport.

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Knee Deep was found as a stray in Boomville and brought to the kill shelter.

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We were going to send him to a foster down here today, but we are much happier to be

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sending him on the van.

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Where's the party was found at our local college in town.

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People had just started back a few days prior and several students had seen this puppy walking

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around and hiding wherever he could, so they called animal control and animal control asked

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us to go get him.

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Jimmy Buffett, also known as Farrell Darrell, he is my baby.

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He was found at an elementary school back in July.

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Jessica and I have been working with him to get him to be more friendly, and he has made

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tremendous progress.

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He still has a long way to go, but he is doing so so so so good, and I'm so proud of him

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and so excited he got to go.

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The H-letter of two were actually pulled by one of my fosters down here.

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She was fostering them for another shelter several hours away.

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After a few weeks, she realized they really didn't have any plans to come and get these

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puppies and send them on any transport, so she asked them if she could ask me to take

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them.

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The O-letter of two are actually one of my favorite stories.

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You all know I really stand behind my philosophy of don't burn the bridge.

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These owners suck.

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We all know that.

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But when you burn the bridge, the only ones that suffer the consequences are the future

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puppies.

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Case in point, this family.

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We have taken at least four litters from this momma dog, and every single time we beg them

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to surrender the mom, we give them a spay voucher, we try to make this momma dog's life

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better, but they never do anything.

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And then finally, they called us last week and they asked us if we would take the two

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surviving puppies from her latest litter and her.

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It has been a long time coming, but we finally got that baby girl.

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Now she's not on transport today.

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She is still working on passing her dog-friendly, kid-friendly, just friendly in general tests,

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but she has done fantastic so far and I have no doubt that she'll be on transport very

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soon.

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But at the very, very least, she's with us, she is fed, she is loved, and she will never

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have another litter again.

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And that, my friends, is why we don't burn the bridge.

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The L-Litter of Two were found as strays.

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We are told that they're supposed to be full-blooded German shepherds.

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I don't know how we know that, but I don't doubt it.

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They really do look like they are.

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The P-Litter of Three were found roaming with their momma dog.

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She ended up getting hit by a car and then the puppies were brought into the shelter.

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The S-Litter of Three were dumped at the shelter.

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The F-Litter of Four were born under an abandoned house when the owner dumped the pregnant mom.

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Their mom is still at the shelter.

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It literally kills me to leave her there, but she has not passed her dog-friendly, kid-friendly,

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or just friendly in general tests yet.

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We are not giving up on her though, the shelter is going to continue to work with her, and

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once she's just friendly enough to come to my house, I will run up there and grab her

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up and bring her home with me.

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At the very least though, she will be spayed and she is safe.

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The D-Litter of Eight were owner surrenders to the shelter.

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The owner came last week asking to surrender his puppies and get help spaying his mom.

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The shelter called me to see if we could take them anytime soon, if we couldn't, they weren't

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going to be able to take them for him.

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They were both so happy when I told them we could get them on transport this week and

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give him a voucher to get his mom spayed.

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Bucktooth and Skinny was found as a pregnant stray.

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The Finder took her to a shelter in another town because she thought that they would take

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her.

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They told her that they had changed their minds though and they would not be taking her after

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all.

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So the Finder took her back home and she had puppies in her backyard.

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When it got so hot, she ended up bringing the whole family inside.

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We went and got them last week and while they really did take very good care of them all,

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we were shocked at how skinny the mom was.

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Those puppies truly took everything she had.

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She was a walking skeleton.

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We sent her to a separate foster home than her puppies and she has gained so much weight

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in just one week.

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As for the cats, the A litter of three are actually a litter of five but two of them

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were just too puny to go on transport today.

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They were born to a feral mama cat who ended up not feeding them.

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She was trapped and her kittens were taken to our bottle feeder.

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The mama cat still took care of her kittens though.

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She just wasn't feeding them.

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And then when they were finally six weeks old and weaned, we took the mama to be spayed

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and she's going to spend the rest of her days as a barn cat down at our barn.

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The C litter mama and her kittens were brought into the Alabama shelter as strays.

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And while I was at the shelter, loading everyone up, we ended up doing transport at the shelter

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this week just because there were so many of them it made more sense.

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While I was at the shelter, I was told I could pull two more kittens to send on transport.

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So what did I do?

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I FaceTimed Dr. Burton and I asked her if she wanted to pick the two kittens.

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She was so confused why I was asking her that and why I didn't want to just go in there

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and grab two myself.

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But I told her I always get to pull more when she's on FaceTime with me.

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So I walk into the cat room and immediately Dr. Burton told me to pull the G litter of

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two kittens.

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Like I hadn't even got the door closed behind me.

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They were so cute sitting in a giant metal crate all alone.

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I was scanning over showing her all the other kittens and I stopped to show her a pregnant

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cat.

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We talked for a while about whether it was friendly or not and such and then I looked

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down and the E litter of two kittens were all but killing themselves to try and squeeze

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through the metal bars to get to me.

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They had their little arms out just like trying to grab me.

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Dr. Burton told me I better not leave them behind.

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I snatched them up.

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I had the hardest time putting them in their crates because they were so snugly and so

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sweet.

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Y'all know I am not a kitten person but these two, ugh, they stole my heart and that is

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why I FaceTime Dr. Burton because they would not have gotten to go if I only got to pick

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two kittens.

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Okay, that is all for the background stories and if you are new to fostering with Wolf

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Trap and this is your first time listening to this podcast, I usually know way more about

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these animals and their lives before they get to us.

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This is a very unique load this week though with 31 of our animals being from a shelter.

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But I digress.

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Anyways, let me tell you about Bubby and Barb.

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We got a message on Facebook about a pregnant beagle but when the finder sent us the pictures,

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the beagle did not look pregnant and she looked about 100 years old.

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We told her we were totally full but that if she would take her to the vet we would

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pay for an ultrasound and that we would take her if she was pregnant but if she wasn't she

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would just have to hang on to her for a few more weeks until we got some of our adults

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moved out and we had a foster home open up.

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Finder waited several days and then Monday morning told us that she thought the mom was

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in distress.

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She was bleeding out of her hoo-ha and she was just straining constantly.

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We told her run her up to the vet right now and then the vet called us a few minutes later

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and asked if it was okay to rush her back to an emergency C-section.

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Of course we okayed it and we told her go ahead and spay her while she sedated and in

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surgery anyways.

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Then Jessica and I started making plans for where this mom and her newborn puppies would

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go and we found a foster.

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We were just waiting to hear back when we could pick them up and take them to their

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new foster and then.

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Vet called us a few hours later and said there were only two puppies born.

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They were extremely premature.

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He didn't even know how early they were but they had no hair whatsoever.

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One was likely going to die within the next few hours and one would probably die in the

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next few days.

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Oh and the mom had no milk and couldn't feed them.

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So this totally threw a wrench in our plans.

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We obviously could not put this on a foster.

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It's not fair to be like here's two super needy puppies that will probably die but

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try your hardest not to let that happen.

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Okay?

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Bye!

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Like we can't do that to them.

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They would never foster for us again actually.

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So I took them because after all I do get paid to be heartbroken.

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So Jessica raced to the vet to pick them up before they closed and then Justin, my husband,

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actually had to go to Jess's and get them because for the first time ever in my life

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I went somewhere with friends and I didn't drive my own car.

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I was stranded at the Barbie movie and I had no way to go get them.

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Luckily it was Justin's sister and sister-in-law that I was with and he wanted me to spend

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time with them more than he didn't want to go get these babies.

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So we ended up getting back to our house at the same time.

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One of the puppies ended up dying just a few minutes later but the other puppy seemed alert

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and hungry.

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Remember all puppies are born totally blind and deaf but these puppies were so young they

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didn't even have hair and as I would soon discover they weren't even old enough to have

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their swallow reflexes yet.

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So I kept the puppy warm and tried to feed him every hour with a syringe but I didn't

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realize the first night that he physically was not able to swallow anything.

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Luckily I was also doing sub-q fluids on him every few hours as well and I fully believe

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that's the only reason he survived.

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It was brutal.

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It was like as soon as I would get done trying to feed him, stimulate him, give him fluids,

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put him back to bed and clean everything up, my alarm was going off to do it again.

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Then in the midst of all of this I started smelling the worst smell.

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I couldn't figure out where it was coming from and at first I thought maybe it was the

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mom-a-dog and she had rolled in something but it wasn't her.

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So I start walking around our house sniffing.

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I opened up our back door and boom it hit me.

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So I start calling all the dogs in.

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One by one they all come in smelling totally fine and then my precious baby, my Olly Dolly

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came in with his eyes bloodshot and squinting and I knew he was sprayed in the face by a

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skunk.

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So between alarms going off every hour I had to research how to deskunk my dog and bathe

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him.

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Fun fact, tomato juice is a myth.

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You really need to use hydrogen peroxide, baking soda, and Dawn dish soap but don't

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even bother because it's going to take weeks for the smell to go away regardless so there's

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really no point in doing anything.

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It's terrible.

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Okay, back to the story, every hour trying to feed him.

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It was brutal.

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I would wake up when my alarm would go off in the middle of the night and I would think

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to myself please be alive, please be alive, please be alive.

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And I'd reach into his box.

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I was sleeping on the couch so that I didn't wake Justin up every hour.

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I would reach into his box on our coffee table and I would feel him move and I would think

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ugh he is alive.

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It was such a bitter sweet feeling because I knew that meant I had to get up and feed

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him but I was happy that he was still alive.

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So we made it through night one and he was doing fairly good all things considered.

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I really felt like we had finally gotten the groove of things and I stopped trying to feed

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him by mouth once I had done some research that night and we were just reaching the 24

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hour mark and I was feeling as confident as I had since I had gotten him.

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So I set my phone up to record me feeding him because he was just starting to attempt

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to swallow.

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When all of a sudden he went completely limp.

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I felt him for a heartbeat and there was nothing.

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And then the absolute worst tail tail sign of them all he started agnobreathing.

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Like that's what you do when you are on death's door.

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You are taking your, it's literally your dying breath.

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I was devastated.

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Actually, honestly, I think I was more mad than I was devastated because I had poured

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my heart and soul into this puppy and for him to just keel over like that, ugh it made

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me so mad.

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There is nothing you can do when animals go agnol, at least when you are not in a vet

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hospital there is nothing you can do.

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So I just held him and I pouted.

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I told my mom and Jessica and Dr. Burton that he had died and they all tried to make me

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feel better but I just held him.

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I held him and I took a nap and when I woke up he was alive.

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Like alive alive.

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Nothing normally and mad that I hadn't fed him yet.

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Literally he was in the best condition I had ever seen him in.

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I thought I was dreaming, seriously.

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I ran into the kitchen, I warmed up a syringe and he ate it.

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Like he swallowed his formula and he drank almost an entire cc of formula.

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I was in shock.

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I called everyone back and I told them he was still alive and then I sent a video to

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approve it because I knew they would think I was crazy.

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I was so happy.

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And then again, in the midst of everything our air conditioner broke.

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It was over 107 degrees outside that day and suddenly I stopped worrying about whether

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this puppy would get too cold in my house and I started worrying how I was going to

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keep him from overheating.

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Luckily, our HVAC men were there a few hours later to save the day literally right before

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big boy had heat stroke.

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I swear he was not going to make it a few more minutes, but everything was fine.

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So I decided that afternoon after he had died and come back to life that he deserved a name

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and he deserved for his story to be told.

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Up until then I hadn't posted it on our foster page yet because I didn't want everyone to

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get attached to him like I was and be devastated when he died.

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But he needed prayers more than we needed to protect people's feelings.

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So I named him Bubby and I told our group of over 2,500 people and hour by hour, day

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by day, my Bubby baby got stronger and stronger.

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Our feedings went from every hour to every two hours, every four hours.

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Then we were going eight to nine stretches overnight.

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After just last week, I washed and put away his baby bottles for the last time.

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Bubby now eats dry dog food, he runs, and he plays with his foster friends and he snuggles

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so hard with his mama.

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He is like a real puppy now, it's amazing.

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But our story is not over yet, oh no, that is just Bub's side.

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Let me start back in the beginning now and tell you about his mama, Barb.

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I was originally going to name her Barb because of the whole Barbie movie thing, but let me

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just tell you, she is no Barbie girl, she is Barb all day long.

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She was loving life, not a care in the world, sprawling out on these doggy beds on her back

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with her legs spread open, sleeping through the night while I'm taking care of her screaming

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puppy.

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Occasionally, she would come in and stimulate him to go to the bathroom for me, but you

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could tell she was annoyed with me when I would bring him down to her level to do that.

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Like, ugh, what a bother.

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She was ridiculous.

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But then, when Barb was three weeks post-op, I woke up in a rush to get things done on

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time that day, and when I walked past our couch in our living room, I stopped dead in

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my tracks.

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Our entire tan couch was a deep, deep red color, so I turned on the light and I was shocked

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to see literally every inch of the couch soaked in blood.

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Barb was bleeding out and I had no idea why.

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This should come as a surprise to no one, but our garage door had broken that morning

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when Justin left for work, so we had called for a maintenance man to come and fix it.

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So I called Justin then to tell him about the couch and ask him if he could have his

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dad come sit at the house and wait for the man while I raced Barb back to the vet.

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He told me his dad was already at our house and he was in the garage talking to the man.

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Well, I'm inside trying to hold pressure on Barb's hoo-ha while getting dressed and talking

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on the phone trying to get this all figured out.

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So we hang up, he calls his dad, asks his dad to move his truck so I could load Barb

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up and leave, and these were the days when I was feeding Bobby every two hours so I had

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to load him up and all of his stuff with me as well.

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By the time we got to the vet, Barb was done bleeding.

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They ran some tests and did some scans, but everything was fine.

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We put her on a new antibiotic and we came back home and she was totally normal.

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The next week, after a long and crazy day, it was right at midnight on Friday night and

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I was so excited because it was going to be the second night that I got six hours of sleep

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in a row.

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Now that Bob was getting older, I couldn't wait to go to bed.

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I gave him his last feeding and I turned around to go to bed when all of a sudden blood just

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started gushing out of Barb again.

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I had Justin hold her still while I FaceTime Dr. Burton to figure out what the heck was

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going on.

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She told me I needed to go ahead and call our vet that had been seeing her and just let

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him know it was happening again.

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So I left a message on their emergency answering services and he called me back a few minutes

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later and I could tell I woke him out of a dead sleep.

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He was like, yeah, tell me, you know what's going on?

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I was like, I'm so sorry to wake you up like this.

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I showed him the literal pools of blood that were coming out of her and he was like, honestly,

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I don't think she'll even make it all the way back to Mississippi.

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And since there's an emergency vet that's barely more than a block away from my house

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in Alabama, he told me to just take her there.

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So I raced her up to the vet and when they saw the blood rushing out of her when I was

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holding her in the lobby in my arms, they came running out and they grabbed her out

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of my arms and they raced off into the back and two and a half hours later after they

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had repeated all the same tests and scans we had just had done the week before and we

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actually got even better results than we had gotten the week before.

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They told me I could just go home but Barb had stopped bleeding it so they were going

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to keep her there overnight for observation and I could pick her up the next day.

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So more than $2,000 later we have no answers.

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We have no idea what happened or why.

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We have so many questions but we have no more issues anymore.

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No more bleeding.

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She's totally fine.

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Bubbie will be officially six weeks old in two days alive for seven weeks.

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He is happy, healthy, hairy and totally normal.

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Barb is a 10 year old, heartworm positive, already spayed, beagle mama who wants nothing

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more in life than to sit in your lap and stare into your eyes.

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And Wolftrap bought me an upholstery shampooer and I was able to salvage our couch shockingly.

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Oh and my air conditioner and garage door work now and Ollie only smells like a skunk if

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you get super super close to him.

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