Hello friends, welcome to Rough Life. I'm finally back, and I owe all of you October
15th fosters and adopters a huge apology. In case you missed it, I am currently 17
weeks pregnant and struggling to find the will to live. I have thrown up more in
these 17 weeks than my entire life combined and multiplied by 500. Okay,
maybe not that much, but it has been brutal. It has been so brutal. I think my
family has enjoyed it though because one of my biggest triggers of making me
hurl was talking. So if you noticed an increased amount of clicks coming from
my mouse in the last few episodes, that's because I would have to pause every
couple minutes, gag a few times, gather myself, and continue. That combined with
the fact that we moved my husband's office and thus the computer I used to
record this podcast to our laundry room to make room for a nursery, which proved
to be far more difficult than just moving a computer to a new room. The
entire computer was out of commission for several days. One of those days of
course was transport day. That and by the time the dang thing was working again, I
was busy throwing my class's high school reunion, which is never fun, doing our
gender reveal, celebrating Halloween, going to multiple doctor's appointments, and
just a whole lot of trying to survive. But regardless, I am back. I am not puking
as much, and I'm sorry that you've had to wait this long to find out where your
babies came from. So let's get into it. The theme was hot dogs. So what better pup
to start off with than weenie stand. She was picked up by Animal Control in
Mississippi. They took her to the shelter and Jessica went and got her right
away. The joke was on Jessica though because she was covered in ringworm when
Jessica got her. She had to stay in isolation for three weeks getting bi
weekly ringworm treatment, and she ended up getting to come out of quarantine the
night before transport, so she barely made it. Applegate Farms was picked up on
the side of the road by one of the workers at the shelter here in Alabama.
She was with another dog who got adopted a few weeks later. Applegate was a mess.
She was covered in mange, almost completely bald, and she had a terrible
cherry eye. They believe she was used by a breeder to sell cocker spaniels, and I
know Dr. Burton thinks she's ancient, but I in my elementary education degree
think she's only about two to three years old. So we'll see in about 10 to 15 years
who was right. Slaw Dog was also from the shelter here in Alabama. She was
actually surrendered by someone who bought her from someone on Facebook who
told them she was a purebred cane corso. If you have never seen what a cane
corso looks like, please take a minute and google it and then google black lab
mix puppy. And that is exactly what Slaw Dog looked like. So when everyone in this
girl's life told her, uh yeah you just got scammed. She surrendered the dog to
the shelter instead of keeping her. Oscar Meyer was also from the Alabama
shelter. He was picked up as a stray and he also had a cherry eye that had to be
corrected. Unfortunately that is all I know about him, but everyone at the
shelter loved him. The M litter of three and the B litter of four are both from
the oodles of doodles bunch. Honestly, if you haven't heard any of the oodles of
doodles stories by now, I can't help you. It's it's gone on for too long. But for
those of you who know the groups of dogs that I'm talking about, the M litter of
three is litter mates to Todd and Tooty from August 2nd and they are Sadie, now
Mrs. Retrievers, last litter of puppies ever. We got that sucker spayed. She is
never gonna pop out another puppy. I actually don't know who the mama of the
B litter is though, but these seven puppies were held back from the October
5th transport because the day after we picked them up from the breeder, they
broke with Parvo. Parvo has an incubation period of three to seven days, so they
had to be exposed while they were at the breeder's home. I was so shocked that
they broke with Parvo. We have pulled so many animals from him and while they are
definitely not in great condition physically, they have never been sick
before. I told him immediately and I am really helping. He heats my warning and
I told him you know any future puppies are gonna be exposed to Parvo. They are
gonna die without treatment, so fingers crossed this bunch was the last group of
puppies he ever has. The C litter of seven were owner surrenders. The owner
reached out to us and told us that she heard from a friend that we took her
puppies and we spayed her mama dog for free. It was almost like a drug deal or
or something sketchy like hey I heard y'all the ones that been spaying dogs for
free if we surrender the litter. How do I get some of that? But we are always happy
to help owners that are willing to give up the entire litter and never make their
mama dogs go through that again. The F litter of four, well I guess this is the
good part about doing this podcast so long after transport is that I know what
happens at intake. So the F litter of four is from the Alabama shelter and
they had been there since early September. They were actually supposed to go on
October 5th but we didn't have any fosters for them so they were held back.
I picked them up the day of transport and they were just as happy and healthy as
could be. Actually two of them even pooped in my car which did not go over
real well with my nausea but it was like totally normal healthy poops. So we
loaded them up on transport and when I woke up the next morning I had a text
from the team saying they were parvo positive. If you didn't know every single
puppy that goes on transport is tested for parvo at intake no matter what. We
do that for a number of reasons but most importantly for situations just like
this. The puppy that tested positive may not have even been tested for several
days after his arrival if his fosters didn't notice anything wrong with him.
Because we treated him immediately his chances of surviving it were
exponentially higher and because that puppy was positive all of his litter
mates started treatment immediately as well. Two of them never even ended up
breaking with parvo because we started the treatment so early. Unfortunately
parvo is very contagious and several other puppies on the band with them also
ended up breaking with parvo in the days to come but because we were already
aware that there was a very good possibility that this would happen all
of the fosters were given a heads up and told to stay extra vigilant and I am
very happy and very proud and impressed with the team up there to say that all
of the puppies have officially survived parvo and are alive and happy and
healthy. The P litter of eight were owner surrenders. The owners don't have a lot
of money or resources but they are constantly taking care of dogs that
are dumped at their house. They loved the mama of these puppies and they were
very happy to keep her and they were even happier that we spayed her for them
for free so they don't have to deal with another litter in six months. This home
is actually the same home that the C litter of puppies came from on the July
19th pasta transport. The puppies aren't related to each other well I don't know I
guess they could be I guess they could be distantly related but they were both
just from pregnant dogs that were dumped at the same house and taken care of by
the same family. And actually there is a litter that's supposed to be on
transport tomorrow from the very same house. This mama of tomorrow's litter is
the last unspayed female that they have until the next one shows up. There were
no kittens that week but don't worry we will be making up for that this weekend
with 12 kittens on board hopefully. Stay tuned tomorrow to find out if
all 12 really get to go or if I go rogue and pull 15 extra kittens and if
Jacqueline kills me if I do. I have missed y'all truly and I am so glad to be back.
It's a rough life especially in these last few weeks but someone's got to do it.