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Hello friends, welcome to Rough Life. Every transport day, I swear that I'm going to record

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this podcast in the morning before transport, and then every transport night I end up dragging

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myself off the couch to come record this because I didn't get it done like I said I would.

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Maybe I'll save that for my New Year's resolution since we only have four more transports left this year.

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This was quite a full load today with seven adult dogs, 30 puppies, one mama cat, and 16 kittens on board.

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We love those numbers. So let's jump in. Jack Russell was found when one of our rescue partners

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was driving down the road and saw this scrawny little puppy on the side of the road. They pulled

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over and immediately a highway patrolman pulled up behind them because he saw this pitiful puppy too.

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He offered to help grab her and said had he not just come on shift he would have taken her home

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himself because she was so pitiful. She was skin and bones and had sores on her ears from who even

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knows what. The friend took her home and fostered her for two months until she was finally healthy

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enough to go on transport. And yes her name is Jack Russell and she is a girl but this is a bluey theme

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so there's no way that we could have a Jack Russell on board and not name it Jack Russell. So I had to.

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Grandpa Bob was dumped in the neighborhood back in August. The finder looked for the owner for weeks

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and weeks with no luck. She went ahead and got him neutered and up to date on all his vaccines to

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help his chances of getting into a rescue which we actually didn't know that he was neutered when

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we agreed to take him but I will say had we have known that we would have jumped on him even faster.

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Rusty the dashhound wandered up to someone's yard and she held on to him for a few days until we

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were able to find a foster home for him. He was kept in a crate with her the whole time and oh my

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goodness was he thrilled to finally have a whole house to run around in when we got him to the

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foster home. He went wild. Honey is a Weimariner that is an owner surrender from the same family as

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Mia from the last transport. Honey is from Mia's owner's parents. They surrendered her because

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their other dogs would bully Honey while they were away at work and they just felt so guilty about it.

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Indy is a Chihuahua that was picked up as a stray and taken to the shop in a nearby town. It is the

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building that they use for the street department and they have a few kennels set up and they also

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kind of use it as their city pound. Their kennels were awful so Indy had to live in a live trap on

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the floor until a crate opened up for her. K9 News wandered up in someone's yard and they asked us

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to take her. They needed us to take her immediately so we sent her to one of our foster homes where

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she has been for the last two weeks. Sadie now Mrs. Retriever and Leah now Lucky Leah are from

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the Oodles of Doodles group that we pulled back in 2022. This is the same home that Dolly,

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Tooty, and Todd all came from this year. For a more in-depth version of their story make sure you

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listen to the podcast episode from August 2nd of this year but to sum up we are trying to help a

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pitiful backyard breeder shut down his puppy mill. In the August episode I was super transparent with

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y'all and I straight up told you I don't know if I'm even making the right decision by helping him

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out but I am very happy to report back and say I feel much better about what we're doing now.

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We went last week and he gave us nine more animals, seven puppies, and two of his best breeding

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female dogs. One of which Leah is pregnant. He's also letting us spay four of his other adults that

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he wants to keep and he has two more that he would like to give us once we get all of these moved

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out and have more room. That's still gonna leave him with quite a few dogs but it's going to be

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about 25 to 30 less breeding animals that he's going to have now just because he gave us so many

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and he's letting us fix the others. So I do feel like we're finally taking major steps in the right

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direction and he is really telling the truth when he says he's ready to be done with all of this.

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The B litter of eight are owner surrenders from the same home as the S litter from the hurricane

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transport. The owner already made an appointment to get the mama spayed. She is on disability so

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she is very thankful that Wolf Trap will be spaying this dog for her. The S litter of six are

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from a stray dog that had taken up residence at the people's home and they just didn't have a chance

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to get her spayed before she ended up being pregnant. They are very happy to have spayed

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voucher and not have to pay for it themselves. The C litter of healers are owner surrenders from

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the family's personal dog. The mama is just a bigger version of the only black puppy and the

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daddy is a blue healer. They were given a spay voucher and promised to get their mama spayed.

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The D litter of eight puppies were born to a feral mama that showed up and had puppies under an

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old truck in the woods by the finder's home. At about four weeks she showed signs of wanting to

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wean the puppies so the finders started hand feeding the puppies to try to build some trust with

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them. They started handling them as soon as they started toddling out from under the truck. Luckily

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the mom never objected to the family playing with the puppies probably because she was just

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glad they were giving attention to the puppies and not her. They are currently trying to trap the

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mama dogs so that wolf trap can get her spayed for them. Onto the kittens now. The mama cat and her

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F litter of five kittens. The mama wandered up to the house of this precious little old church lady.

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She had just had her own personal cat killed by the neighbor's dogs that just run loose so she

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took in this mama to let her have her kittens in the safety of her home. She thought about keeping

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the mama but she just could not stand the thought of the neighbor's dog having a chance to kill her

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too. She kept the mama and all the kittens in her home since before they were even born and she

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has taken such good care of them. The U litter of two kittens were dropped off by some heartless

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person at a vet in a nearby town. It was actually two litters and these two are from the older

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litter that have been fostered by the vet tech. They had a raging upper respiratory infection and

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had to be put on heavy duty medicine for 10 days before they were healthy enough to come on transport.

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There's also a younger litter that is currently being bottle fed and is really hoping to come up

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on a future transport. The E litter of two kittens were given to us by one of our fosters. She

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took in the two kittens with their mama from somebody when they were found as strays. We

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spayed the mama for her and she is staying at the fosters barn because she is still very feral.

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The T litter of three kittens belonged to a lady's cat. She asked us about taking her last

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litter of kittens but then ended up giving them all away. She has finally agreed to get her mama

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spayed after these kittens and we are very thankful. The A litter of four kittens were found in a box

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dumped outside the shelter. They had to be bottle fed by some of our fosters for the last few weeks

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before they were finally big enough to eat on their own. And with that, that is all 54 stories

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for this week. We have one more transport in a few days before we will close for several weeks

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while Dr. Burton goes on a once in a lifetime trip to Africa and I am not bitter or jealous at all.

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But anyways, make sure you hit that subscribe button so you'll be notified when the next episode

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