1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:12,880 Hello friends, welcome to Rough Life. 2 00:00:12,880 --> 00:00:20,040 We had a huge load on today's transport with 55 total animals, almost half of that being 3 00:00:20,040 --> 00:00:21,600 kittens. 4 00:00:21,600 --> 00:00:26,960 It was a very long, very hot transport day today, so I'm going to try to make this episode 5 00:00:26,960 --> 00:00:29,360 short and sweet. 6 00:00:29,360 --> 00:00:34,760 Karate Kid was supposed to be on the last transport, but she had some bloody stool actually 7 00:00:34,760 --> 00:00:39,440 deering last transport, so we took her out of her crate and we went ahead and left her 8 00:00:39,440 --> 00:00:43,520 at the shelter because we were concerned that she might have parvo. 9 00:00:43,520 --> 00:00:49,280 It ended up just being a really bad case of worms, and she is so excited to be busting 10 00:00:49,280 --> 00:00:51,840 out of the shelter today. 11 00:00:51,840 --> 00:00:52,840 I love you. 12 00:00:52,840 --> 00:00:57,120 Beth Cooper was an owner-surrender at the animal shelter here in Alabama. 13 00:00:57,120 --> 00:01:04,800 She is supposedly a sheep-adoodle, but she looks a lot like a goldadoodle to me, but 14 00:01:04,800 --> 00:01:10,240 the owners say she is a purebred sheep-adoodle. 15 00:01:10,240 --> 00:01:16,640 Mia, the 16-month-old Bernice Mountain dog, was an owner-surrender from one of my friends 16 00:01:16,640 --> 00:01:18,240 from high school. 17 00:01:18,240 --> 00:01:25,000 She is unfortunately a Bernice and Bernie-doodle breeder, but Mia was being beat up by the 18 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:29,440 other dogs and she hated that Mia had to be kept separate, so she felt like surrendering 19 00:01:29,440 --> 00:01:33,360 her to our rescue would be what was best for Mia. 20 00:01:33,360 --> 00:01:34,360 You've got mail. 21 00:01:34,360 --> 00:01:39,280 We think is the litter mate to Knee Deep from last transport. 22 00:01:39,280 --> 00:01:43,040 They were found in the exact same spot just a few days apart. 23 00:01:43,040 --> 00:01:49,400 The wrong missy is the mama to the eye litter from the hurricane transport way back on August 24 00:01:49,400 --> 00:01:50,400 3rd. 25 00:01:50,400 --> 00:01:55,840 When you missed their story, pregnant missy was put on Facebook by the owner's neighbor 26 00:01:55,840 --> 00:02:01,280 after he told her he would kill all the puppies when she had them, like he did with her first 27 00:02:01,280 --> 00:02:02,280 litter. 28 00:02:02,280 --> 00:02:07,480 My foster took missy in and she would have come up with her puppies last month, but she 29 00:02:07,480 --> 00:02:12,200 ended up taking in two more abandoned newborn puppies just a few days after weaning her 30 00:02:12,200 --> 00:02:13,700 original litter. 31 00:02:13,700 --> 00:02:18,460 She's been staying with me since weaning them and she is the best dog. 32 00:02:18,460 --> 00:02:24,280 She is seriously, seriously one of the best behaved dogs I have ever seen. 33 00:02:24,280 --> 00:02:27,640 She was a breeze to have here. 34 00:02:27,640 --> 00:02:32,920 Barb and Bubby had their own segment after the last episode on September 9th, so go 35 00:02:32,920 --> 00:02:37,040 listen to that for the full, full story. 36 00:02:37,040 --> 00:02:44,760 But I'll sum it up by saying Barb had emergency C-section and Bubby was born eight days early. 37 00:02:44,760 --> 00:02:51,280 We had many long and scary nights, but he is now just two days shy of nine weeks old, 38 00:02:51,280 --> 00:02:57,000 and he is so happy, so healthy, and so, so loved. 39 00:02:57,000 --> 00:03:03,840 But I am so, so glad that he left my house today. 40 00:03:03,840 --> 00:03:06,880 The old litter of two were found in someone's yard. 41 00:03:06,880 --> 00:03:10,760 They backed up to the woods so the puppies would run and hide anytime they tried to catch 42 00:03:10,760 --> 00:03:12,160 them. 43 00:03:12,160 --> 00:03:16,640 Over a few weeks, the homeowners were finally able to gain their trust and we ended up sending 44 00:03:16,640 --> 00:03:21,520 them to one of our fosters for a few weeks just to make sure they were good and friendly. 45 00:03:21,520 --> 00:03:25,680 The old litter of two were owners' surrenders after a small pregnant dog was dropped off 46 00:03:25,680 --> 00:03:27,640 at someone's house. 47 00:03:27,640 --> 00:03:32,120 They kept one of the puppies and did a DNA test on it and paid for the mom to be spayed 48 00:03:32,120 --> 00:03:33,120 themselves. 49 00:03:33,120 --> 00:03:35,240 So, that's super awesome. 50 00:03:35,240 --> 00:03:40,800 The old litter of two were posted by someone on Facebook when they were found at a storage 51 00:03:40,800 --> 00:03:43,040 facility in a nearby town. 52 00:03:43,040 --> 00:03:47,720 They looked pitiful and had absolutely ginormous, wormy bellies. 53 00:03:47,720 --> 00:03:51,080 There were several random people who said that they would go and get them, but a foster 54 00:03:51,080 --> 00:03:55,200 for one of our rescue partners ran up there to get them before they fell into the wrong 55 00:03:55,200 --> 00:03:56,960 hands. 56 00:03:56,960 --> 00:04:02,440 The f-litter of four have a somewhat weird story. 57 00:04:02,440 --> 00:04:08,520 Someone made a post on Facebook that three puppies had been dropped off at their house, 58 00:04:08,520 --> 00:04:12,600 and they were literally right in the middle of moving to another city so there was absolutely 59 00:04:12,600 --> 00:04:14,740 nowhere that they could keep them. 60 00:04:14,740 --> 00:04:18,600 One of our rescue partners drove out there to get them, and as she was driving up just 61 00:04:18,600 --> 00:04:22,880 a few yards away, she spotted a fourth puppy. 62 00:04:22,880 --> 00:04:26,000 She thought that maybe he was from the same litter, so she picked it up. 63 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:28,240 We're honestly really not sure. 64 00:04:28,240 --> 00:04:33,360 They may not really be all related, but they've been fostered together ever since. 65 00:04:33,360 --> 00:04:38,280 The G-litter of three were seen running in the middle of a back road and a family luckily 66 00:04:38,280 --> 00:04:39,840 stopped to get them. 67 00:04:39,840 --> 00:04:43,680 They took them to the vet and paid for all their vet care themselves and have kept them 68 00:04:43,680 --> 00:04:46,000 until this transport. 69 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:50,440 The R-litter of two were found abandoned on a trail here in Alabama and picked up by animal 70 00:04:50,440 --> 00:04:51,440 control. 71 00:04:51,440 --> 00:04:55,560 They actually had a litter mate that was with them, but she unfortunately died just a few 72 00:04:55,560 --> 00:05:00,000 days after getting to the shelter, and no one was ever able to figure out why. 73 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:04,120 The other two have been relatively healthy the entire time. 74 00:05:04,120 --> 00:05:08,880 The D-litter of four were strays picked up by the shelter here in Alabama. 75 00:05:08,880 --> 00:05:13,960 They were supposed to go last transport, but broke with parvo the day before transport. 76 00:05:13,960 --> 00:05:18,600 There were also originally five, but one of them died from parvo just a few days after 77 00:05:18,600 --> 00:05:19,800 breaking with it. 78 00:05:19,800 --> 00:05:23,760 Thankfully, the other four are doing fantastic. 79 00:05:23,760 --> 00:05:29,440 The S-litter of seven belonged to a mom that lives just down the road from the doghouse, 80 00:05:29,440 --> 00:05:32,580 and she is one of the saddest stories we have. 81 00:05:32,580 --> 00:05:40,080 We have tried for YEARS to trap this dog to spay her, and she outsmarts us every single 82 00:05:40,080 --> 00:05:41,080 time. 83 00:05:41,080 --> 00:05:45,720 Not only have we tried, but two other rescues have pulled her puppies in the past and were 84 00:05:45,720 --> 00:05:48,120 never able to catch her either. 85 00:05:48,120 --> 00:05:51,920 They eventually gave up until the owners that they couldn't help anymore or take any future 86 00:05:51,920 --> 00:05:53,440 puppies. 87 00:05:53,440 --> 00:05:58,320 We have tried, I'm not even kidding with you, everything known to man. 88 00:05:58,320 --> 00:06:03,640 Everything except a dart gun and a neck gun, and only because we don't have those. 89 00:06:03,640 --> 00:06:10,400 But y'all know me, and you know Jessica, and you know that we are good at catching dogs. 90 00:06:10,400 --> 00:06:12,220 So this is killing us. 91 00:06:12,220 --> 00:06:14,840 We cannot believe that we can't catch this one. 92 00:06:14,840 --> 00:06:20,080 I know for sure that this is the fifth litter that we've taken from her. 93 00:06:20,080 --> 00:06:25,480 The other two rescues took one litter each, and then she had one litter that all died 94 00:06:25,480 --> 00:06:26,960 several years ago. 95 00:06:26,960 --> 00:06:31,920 So this is at least her eighth litter, and it is so devastating. 96 00:06:31,920 --> 00:06:33,420 She's very well taken care of. 97 00:06:33,420 --> 00:06:36,120 She lives in a field behind an elderly woman's home. 98 00:06:36,120 --> 00:06:41,160 She has a very nice warm doghouse for the winter, and she feeds her probably better 99 00:06:41,160 --> 00:06:43,160 than most of us eat. 100 00:06:43,160 --> 00:06:48,280 But it's just terrible that her little body is having to go through this all the time, 101 00:06:48,280 --> 00:06:52,440 and that she's always adding to the overpopulation crisis down here. 102 00:06:52,440 --> 00:06:56,960 She put a pin in trying to catch her while she was so pregnant, and then while she was 103 00:06:56,960 --> 00:07:01,400 still nursing these puppies, because we didn't want to spook her and then have her feel like 104 00:07:01,400 --> 00:07:04,560 she wasn't safe to come back and take care of them. 105 00:07:04,560 --> 00:07:08,880 But the game is on now that these puppies are gone, and we are more determined than ever 106 00:07:08,880 --> 00:07:10,280 to catch her. 107 00:07:10,280 --> 00:07:16,240 Oh, and while her puppies were in our foster care this week, one of them had to be rushed 108 00:07:16,240 --> 00:07:19,080 to the vet for a kidney stone. 109 00:07:19,080 --> 00:07:21,600 That was a first for us. 110 00:07:21,600 --> 00:07:25,760 That was also extremely expensive for us as well. 111 00:07:25,760 --> 00:07:30,400 If you are fostering one of these puppies, and it has orange fingernail polish on its 112 00:07:30,400 --> 00:07:33,360 toenails, congratulations! 113 00:07:33,360 --> 00:07:39,760 You are the foster of a very expensive puppy right now. 114 00:07:39,760 --> 00:07:42,640 And now for all the cats. 115 00:07:42,640 --> 00:07:48,160 The A-letter of two are the remaining two kittens from the A-letter of three last transport. 116 00:07:48,160 --> 00:07:52,440 We held these two back because they were fairly puny and they had some watery eyes, so we 117 00:07:52,440 --> 00:07:54,640 just wanted to be on the safe side. 118 00:07:54,640 --> 00:07:59,840 The H-letter of two were found abandoned at someone's shed at about four weeks old. 119 00:07:59,840 --> 00:08:02,200 The finder never found a mama cat. 120 00:08:02,200 --> 00:08:05,960 They have been with one of our rescue partners ever since, and she taught them how to eat 121 00:08:05,960 --> 00:08:10,080 and drink on their own, and it has taken such great care of them. 122 00:08:10,080 --> 00:08:13,560 The U-letter of two have never even been outside. 123 00:08:13,560 --> 00:08:15,560 That might be a first for us. 124 00:08:15,560 --> 00:08:19,640 They were from a hoarding case that our rescue partners are slowly trying to get control 125 00:08:19,640 --> 00:08:20,640 over. 126 00:08:20,640 --> 00:08:24,080 They have been spaying and neutering so many cats over there for the owner. 127 00:08:24,080 --> 00:08:28,360 Thankfully, these were the last remaining kittens over there. 128 00:08:28,360 --> 00:08:31,800 The E-letter of four were last minute add-ons. 129 00:08:31,800 --> 00:08:35,520 They were found as newborns when their mom abandoned them, and they have been being 130 00:08:35,520 --> 00:08:39,600 bottle fed by our foster for the last six weeks. 131 00:08:39,600 --> 00:08:43,400 Juno was a stray brought into the animal shelter. 132 00:08:43,400 --> 00:08:47,720 The W-letter of two were dumped on the side of a busy highway. 133 00:08:47,720 --> 00:08:52,680 There's a little pull-off where people stop and carpool for work, and the shelter manager 134 00:08:52,680 --> 00:08:57,840 stopped by on our way home from work one day and picked up the orange kitten. 135 00:08:57,840 --> 00:09:03,040 And then the next morning on her way to work, she saw the tabby kitten sitting there all 136 00:09:03,040 --> 00:09:04,040 alone. 137 00:09:04,040 --> 00:09:07,040 So we're fairly certain that they're litter mates. 138 00:09:07,040 --> 00:09:12,340 The P-letter mama and kittens were found under a shed at an apartment complex and picked 139 00:09:12,340 --> 00:09:14,400 up by animal control. 140 00:09:14,400 --> 00:09:19,520 The C-letter of four were under an abandoned house that was about to get torn down. 141 00:09:19,520 --> 00:09:25,520 They almost got ran over with a lawn mower and were brought to the shelter as strays. 142 00:09:25,520 --> 00:09:30,160 And with that, that is all 55 stories from this week's Transport. 143 00:09:30,160 --> 00:09:33,800 Thank you so much for listening, and thank you so much for all your positive feedback 144 00:09:33,800 --> 00:09:36,360 and your kind words about this podcast. 145 00:09:36,360 --> 00:09:40,480 I'm so thankful so many of you listened to each episode, and even more thankful that 146 00:09:40,480 --> 00:09:43,960 so many of you are fostering these babies for us. 147 00:09:43,960 --> 00:09:47,480 Make sure you hit the subscribe button so you'll be notified when next transport is 148 00:09:47,480 --> 00:09:49,480 heading your way. 149 00:09:49,480 --> 00:10:11,000 It's a rough life, but someone's got to do it.