Hello friends, welcome to Rough Life. Every transport day, I swear that I'm going to record
this podcast in the morning before transport, and then every transport night I end up dragging
myself off the couch to come record this because I didn't get it done like I said I would.
Maybe I'll save that for my New Year's resolution since we only have four more transports left this year.
This was quite a full load today with seven adult dogs, 30 puppies, one mama cat, and 16 kittens on board.
We love those numbers. So let's jump in. Jack Russell was found when one of our rescue partners
was driving down the road and saw this scrawny little puppy on the side of the road. They pulled
over and immediately a highway patrolman pulled up behind them because he saw this pitiful puppy too.
He offered to help grab her and said had he not just come on shift he would have taken her home
himself because she was so pitiful. She was skin and bones and had sores on her ears from who even
knows what. The friend took her home and fostered her for two months until she was finally healthy
enough to go on transport. And yes her name is Jack Russell and she is a girl but this is a bluey theme
so there's no way that we could have a Jack Russell on board and not name it Jack Russell. So I had to.
Grandpa Bob was dumped in the neighborhood back in August. The finder looked for the owner for weeks
and weeks with no luck. She went ahead and got him neutered and up to date on all his vaccines to
help his chances of getting into a rescue which we actually didn't know that he was neutered when
we agreed to take him but I will say had we have known that we would have jumped on him even faster.
Rusty the dashhound wandered up to someone's yard and she held on to him for a few days until we
were able to find a foster home for him. He was kept in a crate with her the whole time and oh my
goodness was he thrilled to finally have a whole house to run around in when we got him to the
foster home. He went wild. Honey is a Weimariner that is an owner surrender from the same family as
Mia from the last transport. Honey is from Mia's owner's parents. They surrendered her because
their other dogs would bully Honey while they were away at work and they just felt so guilty about it.
Indy is a Chihuahua that was picked up as a stray and taken to the shop in a nearby town. It is the
building that they use for the street department and they have a few kennels set up and they also
kind of use it as their city pound. Their kennels were awful so Indy had to live in a live trap on
the floor until a crate opened up for her. K9 News wandered up in someone's yard and they asked us
to take her. They needed us to take her immediately so we sent her to one of our foster homes where
she has been for the last two weeks. Sadie now Mrs. Retriever and Leah now Lucky Leah are from
the Oodles of Doodles group that we pulled back in 2022. This is the same home that Dolly,
Tooty, and Todd all came from this year. For a more in-depth version of their story make sure you
listen to the podcast episode from August 2nd of this year but to sum up we are trying to help a
pitiful backyard breeder shut down his puppy mill. In the August episode I was super transparent with
y'all and I straight up told you I don't know if I'm even making the right decision by helping him
out but I am very happy to report back and say I feel much better about what we're doing now.
We went last week and he gave us nine more animals, seven puppies, and two of his best breeding
female dogs. One of which Leah is pregnant. He's also letting us spay four of his other adults that
he wants to keep and he has two more that he would like to give us once we get all of these moved
out and have more room. That's still gonna leave him with quite a few dogs but it's going to be
about 25 to 30 less breeding animals that he's going to have now just because he gave us so many
and he's letting us fix the others. So I do feel like we're finally taking major steps in the right
direction and he is really telling the truth when he says he's ready to be done with all of this.
The B litter of eight are owner surrenders from the same home as the S litter from the hurricane
transport. The owner already made an appointment to get the mama spayed. She is on disability so
she is very thankful that Wolf Trap will be spaying this dog for her. The S litter of six are
from a stray dog that had taken up residence at the people's home and they just didn't have a chance
to get her spayed before she ended up being pregnant. They are very happy to have spayed
voucher and not have to pay for it themselves. The C litter of healers are owner surrenders from
the family's personal dog. The mama is just a bigger version of the only black puppy and the
daddy is a blue healer. They were given a spay voucher and promised to get their mama spayed.
The D litter of eight puppies were born to a feral mama that showed up and had puppies under an
old truck in the woods by the finder's home. At about four weeks she showed signs of wanting to
wean the puppies so the finders started hand feeding the puppies to try to build some trust with
them. They started handling them as soon as they started toddling out from under the truck. Luckily
the mom never objected to the family playing with the puppies probably because she was just
glad they were giving attention to the puppies and not her. They are currently trying to trap the
mama dogs so that wolf trap can get her spayed for them. Onto the kittens now. The mama cat and her
F litter of five kittens. The mama wandered up to the house of this precious little old church lady.
She had just had her own personal cat killed by the neighbor's dogs that just run loose so she
took in this mama to let her have her kittens in the safety of her home. She thought about keeping
the mama but she just could not stand the thought of the neighbor's dog having a chance to kill her
too. She kept the mama and all the kittens in her home since before they were even born and she
has taken such good care of them. The U litter of two kittens were dropped off by some heartless
person at a vet in a nearby town. It was actually two litters and these two are from the older
litter that have been fostered by the vet tech. They had a raging upper respiratory infection and
had to be put on heavy duty medicine for 10 days before they were healthy enough to come on transport.
There's also a younger litter that is currently being bottle fed and is really hoping to come up
on a future transport. The E litter of two kittens were given to us by one of our fosters. She
took in the two kittens with their mama from somebody when they were found as strays. We
spayed the mama for her and she is staying at the fosters barn because she is still very feral.
The T litter of three kittens belonged to a lady's cat. She asked us about taking her last
litter of kittens but then ended up giving them all away. She has finally agreed to get her mama
spayed after these kittens and we are very thankful. The A litter of four kittens were found in a box
dumped outside the shelter. They had to be bottle fed by some of our fosters for the last few weeks
before they were finally big enough to eat on their own. And with that, that is all 54 stories
for this week. We have one more transport in a few days before we will close for several weeks
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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