Hello friends, welcome to Rough Life.
We had a huge load on today's transport with 55 total animals, almost half of that being
kittens.
It was a very long, very hot transport day today, so I'm going to try to make this episode
short and sweet.
Karate Kid was supposed to be on the last transport, but she had some bloody stool actually
deering last transport, so we took her out of her crate and we went ahead and left her
at the shelter because we were concerned that she might have parvo.
It ended up just being a really bad case of worms, and she is so excited to be busting
out of the shelter today.
I love you.
Beth Cooper was an owner-surrender at the animal shelter here in Alabama.
She is supposedly a sheep-adoodle, but she looks a lot like a goldadoodle to me, but
the owners say she is a purebred sheep-adoodle.
Mia, the 16-month-old Bernice Mountain dog, was an owner-surrender from one of my friends
from high school.
She is unfortunately a Bernice and Bernie-doodle breeder, but Mia was being beat up by the
other dogs and she hated that Mia had to be kept separate, so she felt like surrendering
her to our rescue would be what was best for Mia.
You've got mail.
We think is the litter mate to Knee Deep from last transport.
They were found in the exact same spot just a few days apart.
The wrong missy is the mama to the eye litter from the hurricane transport way back on August
3rd.
When you missed their story, pregnant missy was put on Facebook by the owner's neighbor
after he told her he would kill all the puppies when she had them, like he did with her first
litter.
My foster took missy in and she would have come up with her puppies last month, but she
ended up taking in two more abandoned newborn puppies just a few days after weaning her
original litter.
She's been staying with me since weaning them and she is the best dog.
She is seriously, seriously one of the best behaved dogs I have ever seen.
She was a breeze to have here.
Barb and Bubby had their own segment after the last episode on September 9th, so go
listen to that for the full, full story.
But I'll sum it up by saying Barb had emergency C-section and Bubby was born eight days early.
We had many long and scary nights, but he is now just two days shy of nine weeks old,
and he is so happy, so healthy, and so, so loved.
But I am so, so glad that he left my house today.
The old litter of two were found in someone's yard.
They backed up to the woods so the puppies would run and hide anytime they tried to catch
them.
Over a few weeks, the homeowners were finally able to gain their trust and we ended up sending
them to one of our fosters for a few weeks just to make sure they were good and friendly.
The old litter of two were owners' surrenders after a small pregnant dog was dropped off
at someone's house.
They kept one of the puppies and did a DNA test on it and paid for the mom to be spayed
themselves.
So, that's super awesome.
The old litter of two were posted by someone on Facebook when they were found at a storage
facility in a nearby town.
They looked pitiful and had absolutely ginormous, wormy bellies.
There were several random people who said that they would go and get them, but a foster
for one of our rescue partners ran up there to get them before they fell into the wrong
hands.
The f-litter of four have a somewhat weird story.
Someone made a post on Facebook that three puppies had been dropped off at their house,
and they were literally right in the middle of moving to another city so there was absolutely
nowhere that they could keep them.
One of our rescue partners drove out there to get them, and as she was driving up just
a few yards away, she spotted a fourth puppy.
She thought that maybe he was from the same litter, so she picked it up.
We're honestly really not sure.
They may not really be all related, but they've been fostered together ever since.
The G-litter of three were seen running in the middle of a back road and a family luckily
stopped to get them.
They took them to the vet and paid for all their vet care themselves and have kept them
until this transport.
The R-litter of two were found abandoned on a trail here in Alabama and picked up by animal
control.
They actually had a litter mate that was with them, but she unfortunately died just a few
days after getting to the shelter, and no one was ever able to figure out why.
The other two have been relatively healthy the entire time.
The D-litter of four were strays picked up by the shelter here in Alabama.
They were supposed to go last transport, but broke with parvo the day before transport.
There were also originally five, but one of them died from parvo just a few days after
breaking with it.
Thankfully, the other four are doing fantastic.
The S-litter of seven belonged to a mom that lives just down the road from the doghouse,
and she is one of the saddest stories we have.
We have tried for YEARS to trap this dog to spay her, and she outsmarts us every single
time.
Not only have we tried, but two other rescues have pulled her puppies in the past and were
never able to catch her either.
They eventually gave up until the owners that they couldn't help anymore or take any future
puppies.
We have tried, I'm not even kidding with you, everything known to man.
Everything except a dart gun and a neck gun, and only because we don't have those.
But y'all know me, and you know Jessica, and you know that we are good at catching dogs.
So this is killing us.
We cannot believe that we can't catch this one.
I know for sure that this is the fifth litter that we've taken from her.
The other two rescues took one litter each, and then she had one litter that all died
several years ago.
So this is at least her eighth litter, and it is so devastating.
She's very well taken care of.
She lives in a field behind an elderly woman's home.
She has a very nice warm doghouse for the winter, and she feeds her probably better
than most of us eat.
But it's just terrible that her little body is having to go through this all the time,
and that she's always adding to the overpopulation crisis down here.
She put a pin in trying to catch her while she was so pregnant, and then while she was
still nursing these puppies, because we didn't want to spook her and then have her feel like
she wasn't safe to come back and take care of them.
But the game is on now that these puppies are gone, and we are more determined than ever
to catch her.
Oh, and while her puppies were in our foster care this week, one of them had to be rushed
to the vet for a kidney stone.
That was a first for us.
That was also extremely expensive for us as well.
If you are fostering one of these puppies, and it has orange fingernail polish on its
toenails, congratulations!
You are the foster of a very expensive puppy right now.
And now for all the cats.
The A-letter of two are the remaining two kittens from the A-letter of three last transport.
We held these two back because they were fairly puny and they had some watery eyes, so we
just wanted to be on the safe side.
The H-letter of two were found abandoned at someone's shed at about four weeks old.
The finder never found a mama cat.
They have been with one of our rescue partners ever since, and she taught them how to eat
and drink on their own, and it has taken such great care of them.
The U-letter of two have never even been outside.
That might be a first for us.
They were from a hoarding case that our rescue partners are slowly trying to get control
over.
They have been spaying and neutering so many cats over there for the owner.
Thankfully, these were the last remaining kittens over there.
The E-letter of four were last minute add-ons.
They were found as newborns when their mom abandoned them, and they have been being
bottle fed by our foster for the last six weeks.
Juno was a stray brought into the animal shelter.
The W-letter of two were dumped on the side of a busy highway.
There's a little pull-off where people stop and carpool for work, and the shelter manager
stopped by on our way home from work one day and picked up the orange kitten.
And then the next morning on her way to work, she saw the tabby kitten sitting there all
alone.
So we're fairly certain that they're litter mates.
The P-letter mama and kittens were found under a shed at an apartment complex and picked
up by animal control.
The C-letter of four were under an abandoned house that was about to get torn down.
They almost got ran over with a lawn mower and were brought to the shelter as strays.
And with that, that is all 55 stories from this week's Transport.
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and your kind words about this podcast.
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It's a rough life, but someone's got to do it.