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Hello friends, welcome to Rough Life. I'm finally back, and I owe all of you October

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15th fosters and adopters a huge apology. In case you missed it, I am currently 17

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weeks pregnant and struggling to find the will to live. I have thrown up more in

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these 17 weeks than my entire life combined and multiplied by 500. Okay,

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maybe not that much, but it has been brutal. It has been so brutal. I think my

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family has enjoyed it though because one of my biggest triggers of making me

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hurl was talking. So if you noticed an increased amount of clicks coming from

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my mouse in the last few episodes, that's because I would have to pause every

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couple minutes, gag a few times, gather myself, and continue. That combined with

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the fact that we moved my husband's office and thus the computer I used to

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record this podcast to our laundry room to make room for a nursery, which proved

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to be far more difficult than just moving a computer to a new room. The

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entire computer was out of commission for several days. One of those days of

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course was transport day. That and by the time the dang thing was working again, I

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was busy throwing my class's high school reunion, which is never fun, doing our

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gender reveal, celebrating Halloween, going to multiple doctor's appointments, and

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just a whole lot of trying to survive. But regardless, I am back. I am not puking

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as much, and I'm sorry that you've had to wait this long to find out where your

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babies came from. So let's get into it. The theme was hot dogs. So what better pup

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to start off with than weenie stand. She was picked up by Animal Control in

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Mississippi. They took her to the shelter and Jessica went and got her right

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away. The joke was on Jessica though because she was covered in ringworm when

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Jessica got her. She had to stay in isolation for three weeks getting bi

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weekly ringworm treatment, and she ended up getting to come out of quarantine the

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night before transport, so she barely made it. Applegate Farms was picked up on

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the side of the road by one of the workers at the shelter here in Alabama.

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She was with another dog who got adopted a few weeks later. Applegate was a mess.

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She was covered in mange, almost completely bald, and she had a terrible

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cherry eye. They believe she was used by a breeder to sell cocker spaniels, and I

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know Dr. Burton thinks she's ancient, but I in my elementary education degree

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think she's only about two to three years old. So we'll see in about 10 to 15 years

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who was right. Slaw Dog was also from the shelter here in Alabama. She was

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actually surrendered by someone who bought her from someone on Facebook who

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told them she was a purebred cane corso. If you have never seen what a cane

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corso looks like, please take a minute and google it and then google black lab

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mix puppy. And that is exactly what Slaw Dog looked like. So when everyone in this

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girl's life told her, uh yeah you just got scammed. She surrendered the dog to

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the shelter instead of keeping her. Oscar Meyer was also from the Alabama

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shelter. He was picked up as a stray and he also had a cherry eye that had to be

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corrected. Unfortunately that is all I know about him, but everyone at the

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shelter loved him. The M litter of three and the B litter of four are both from

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the oodles of doodles bunch. Honestly, if you haven't heard any of the oodles of

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doodles stories by now, I can't help you. It's it's gone on for too long. But for

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those of you who know the groups of dogs that I'm talking about, the M litter of

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three is litter mates to Todd and Tooty from August 2nd and they are Sadie, now

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Mrs. Retrievers, last litter of puppies ever. We got that sucker spayed. She is

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never gonna pop out another puppy. I actually don't know who the mama of the

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B litter is though, but these seven puppies were held back from the October

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5th transport because the day after we picked them up from the breeder, they

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broke with Parvo. Parvo has an incubation period of three to seven days, so they

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had to be exposed while they were at the breeder's home. I was so shocked that

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they broke with Parvo. We have pulled so many animals from him and while they are

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definitely not in great condition physically, they have never been sick

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before. I told him immediately and I am really helping. He heats my warning and

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I told him you know any future puppies are gonna be exposed to Parvo. They are

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gonna die without treatment, so fingers crossed this bunch was the last group of

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puppies he ever has. The C litter of seven were owner surrenders. The owner

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reached out to us and told us that she heard from a friend that we took her

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puppies and we spayed her mama dog for free. It was almost like a drug deal or

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or something sketchy like hey I heard y'all the ones that been spaying dogs for

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free if we surrender the litter. How do I get some of that? But we are always happy

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to help owners that are willing to give up the entire litter and never make their

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mama dogs go through that again. The F litter of four, well I guess this is the

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good part about doing this podcast so long after transport is that I know what

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happens at intake. So the F litter of four is from the Alabama shelter and

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they had been there since early September. They were actually supposed to go on

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October 5th but we didn't have any fosters for them so they were held back.

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I picked them up the day of transport and they were just as happy and healthy as

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could be. Actually two of them even pooped in my car which did not go over

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real well with my nausea but it was like totally normal healthy poops. So we

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loaded them up on transport and when I woke up the next morning I had a text

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from the team saying they were parvo positive. If you didn't know every single

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puppy that goes on transport is tested for parvo at intake no matter what. We

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do that for a number of reasons but most importantly for situations just like

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this. The puppy that tested positive may not have even been tested for several

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days after his arrival if his fosters didn't notice anything wrong with him.

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Because we treated him immediately his chances of surviving it were

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exponentially higher and because that puppy was positive all of his litter

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mates started treatment immediately as well. Two of them never even ended up

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breaking with parvo because we started the treatment so early. Unfortunately

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parvo is very contagious and several other puppies on the band with them also

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ended up breaking with parvo in the days to come but because we were already

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aware that there was a very good possibility that this would happen all

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of the fosters were given a heads up and told to stay extra vigilant and I am

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very happy and very proud and impressed with the team up there to say that all

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of the puppies have officially survived parvo and are alive and happy and

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healthy. The P litter of eight were owner surrenders. The owners don't have a lot

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of money or resources but they are constantly taking care of dogs that

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are dumped at their house. They loved the mama of these puppies and they were

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very happy to keep her and they were even happier that we spayed her for them

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for free so they don't have to deal with another litter in six months. This home

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is actually the same home that the C litter of puppies came from on the July

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19th pasta transport. The puppies aren't related to each other well I don't know I

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guess they could be I guess they could be distantly related but they were both

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just from pregnant dogs that were dumped at the same house and taken care of by

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the same family. And actually there is a litter that's supposed to be on

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transport tomorrow from the very same house. This mama of tomorrow's litter is

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the last unspayed female that they have until the next one shows up. There were

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no kittens that week but don't worry we will be making up for that this weekend

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with 12 kittens on board hopefully. Stay tuned tomorrow to find out if

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all 12 really get to go or if I go rogue and pull 15 extra kittens and if

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Jacqueline kills me if I do. I have missed y'all truly and I am so glad to be back.

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It's a rough life especially in these last few weeks but someone's got to do it.