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Hello friends! Welcome to Rough Life! What a day it was today. It never fails when we

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take a long break like this. The first transport back feels like the very first transport we've

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ever done in our lives. No one knows where the gloves are. We can't remember where the crates go.

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Where do we keep the kitty litter? How do we bungee cord these every transport? It's literally

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like we haven't been doing this for the last eight years. But anyway, this week's transport theme is

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drinks and I did that so that two of our pups could keep their original names. Whole milk was

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pulled from our shelter here in Alabama. He was seen being thrown out of a car on the side of the

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road. The people who saw him grabbed him up and brought him to the shelter. He was supposed to go

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on transport in October but we didn't have a foster for him so we're very thankful that our

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friends at the shelter held on to him for so long for us. Body armor is a doodle mix. I have him down

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as a labradoodle but he is so huge. I almost wonder if he's like Irish wolf hound and poodle

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or something. I would love to see a DNA test done on him. He was found a few months ago tied to a

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tree in a nearby town. Animal control picked him up and looked for an owner but when no owner ever

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came forward one of our rescue partners fosters took him home from the shelter and fostered him

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until he could go on transport today. They also had him neutered while they were fostering him

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because he would not stop being on everything in their house. Eliza now known as orange juice is the

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mama of the oh puppies from September 9th. She is the mama of four other litters that we've sent

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over the years plus two other litters that two other rescues have taken. I talked about her story

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in the episode when her puppies left. I thought the owners refused to surrender her all these years

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but it turns out she was actually feral. They had never even been able to touch her. The other two

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rescues tried to catch her and they couldn't but we finally gave the owners a trap and one day she

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wandered inside and we got her. Our whole plan was just to spay her and send her back to the

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owner's house where she could live as a feral dog but she was almost the polar opposite of a feral dog.

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She stayed at Jessica's the night before she went to be spayed and she was a little skittish for sure

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but she was loving all of the attention and the petting Jessica's family was giving her.

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Jessica texted me the next morning and said good news and bad news. Good news is Eliza's doing great

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and she's really friendly. Bad news is Eliza's doing great and she's really friendly and there's

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no way I can take her back to where she's been living. Her owners who weren't even really her

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owners she was just a stray that had moved on to their property years ago were more than happy to

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let us keep her. Jessica had her for about eight weeks and she was afraid that they were getting

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way too attached to each other and that it would be too hard for her to give her up so she came

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to stay with me for about 10 days and I have to say Jessica was right. There's no way this dog would

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be happy as an outside dog anymore. She has discovered the indoor dog life and there's just no going

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back for her. It has been a long long time coming but we are so thankful that she is finally getting

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her happy ending. Monster is one of the pups who is the reason for this theme. His owners named him

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Monster and it is honestly the least fitting name possible for him and because it makes me laugh

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every time I think about this six pound dog being named Monster I had to let him keep it.

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Monster was brought to the vet a few months ago by his owner when the owner realized Monster

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had gotten into something the owner was cooking that he shouldn't have been cooking

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because this is a family friendly podcast. I won't tell you what he was cooking. I'll just say

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it rhymes with Bristol Beth. Anyway we are very thankful that he cared enough about Monster to

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get him to the vet to save his life. However I'm not sure if he was afraid that the vets would turn

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him in or if he knew he just didn't have enough money to pay the bill or what but the owner never

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came back for him. We've had this happen several times and the vets have some certain protocol

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they have to follow where they have to contact the owner so many different ways for so many different

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days or something like that before the dog is legally theirs but whatever it is they did it

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and the vets surrendered Monster to us. Now it is no secret that I am not a big fan of Chihuahua's

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but I have to say Monster is anything but a monster and I was so happy to get to bust him

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out of his solitary confinement in that metal crate in the back of the vet and take him on his

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freedom ride. Drabacana was found as a stray last month right before our weather went crazy and we

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had several below freezing nights. The people couldn't keep her. I think they were actually going out

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of town the next day if I remember correctly but the picture they sent of her snuggled up and their

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outside cat's cat bed was so cute I had to pull her. We were technically closed because we had so

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many we were holding on to over the five week break but I could not say no to that face.

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Kool-Aid is another one that I pulled in a moment of weakness. I actually pulled him even before our

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five week break started knowing that there was zero chance he would get to go on the last transport

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before the break started but he was absolutely skin and bones covered in mange and so unbelievably

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pitiful. He was found on my road so I feel like someone dumped him hoping he would make his way to

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my house somehow and I felt like it was my fault that the neighbors ended up with him and taking

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care of him so I had to pull him. He was so goofy and so funny to have with us. Unfortunately though

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he was not potty trained while he was at my house and all of the new foods that he was eating tore

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his stomach up so he was having explosive diarrhea and I was spending literally my entire days in

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the bathroom throwing up which meant it fell on poor Justin to clean it up and that just wasn't

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fair to him especially since it's literally my job so Buddy as we called him got shipped off to

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jail for a few weeks before transport. Vanta was picked up as a stray in Mississippi by animal control

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and because Jessica just can't learn her lesson she went and got him only to realize he was covered

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in ringworm too. She had just sent her last ringworm puppy away the day before and was so excited

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for a break when she went and pulled another one in even worse condition. He stayed with her in

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her isolation room since October. Besides his skin being in rough shape he was so skinny and so

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malnourished we really weren't even sure if he was gonna live those first few days but he's doing

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fantastic now. Hawaiian Punch and her sister who is not on this transport and I'll tell you why in a

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few minutes were dumped on a road in a nearby town and wandered up to someone's house. They have

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eight dogs already and really weren't crazy about the idea of taking in two more but someone they know

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knows me and they had them send me pictures of the puppies. My mom just happened to be coming

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home from vacation the next day and she was able to pick them up and foster them over the break.

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I cannot even count how many times she texted me or called me and said I just love these puppies.

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These are two of the best puppies I have ever had. They are so smart. I love them so much.

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Now why is Hawaiian Punch on transport all alone? Well her sister broke her leg two days ago and had

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a hangback until it's just a little bit more healed. I will tell you that absolutely insane story

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when she gets to come up. The G Liter of 4 were owner surrenders to the shelter here in Alabama.

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They surrendered the mom too but she was actually adopted out right away. They were another group

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that was supposed to go on transport last month but they didn't get to go and actually one of them

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got adopted over the five week break and I was devastated but thankfully the adopters realized

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that they could not handle a puppy and they returned it back to the shelter so we could get them.

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The S Liter of 6 were owner surrenders. The owner was another one who contacted us when she heard

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we had taken her friend's letters and spayed their moms. Her friend was actually the owners of the

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washer machine puppies from way back when I think that was sometime this summer. These puppies have

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a really sad story too. They were actually a litter of 10. Two died just from who even knows what

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probably just their living conditions and then two froze to death when the weather dropped down solo

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so fast a few weeks ago. As soon as the owner told us that we knew we couldn't wait until transport

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to get them and we had to go get them that day. Thankfully we were able to find three fosters

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to split them all up so that nothing else would happen to them. The A Liter of 5 was actually a

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litter of 6 before one was run over and killed. They were owner surrenders from the same home that

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the B Liter of 8 Great Danes came from on the October 5th Bluey Transport. We actually think

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that these two litters might have the same dad so adopters I would love a DNA test done on both

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letters. The D Liter of 5 is the litter I was telling you about in my last episode. They are from

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the same house as the P Liter of 8 on the October 15th Hot Dog Transport and the C Liter of 10 from

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the July 19th Pasta Transport but I told y'all wrong. I said they're not related and they're just

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from three momma dogs that got dropped off. Well that's not true. Turns out they have a stud

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living with them who was impregnating all the girls when they were dumped. So the C Liter

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from the Pasta Transport, the P Liter of Hot Dogs and this Liter of 5 from today

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most likely all have the same daddy. This momma from today is scheduled to be spayed this week

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and I believe their daddy is already neutered if not then he already has an appointment to be neutered

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and the other two mamas are already spayed. So no more babies for them. Kola is the second dog

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who gets to keep her name because of this theme, belonged to the neighbors of one of our rescue

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partners. They found her a year ago and brought her home despite the fact that they were totally

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incapable of taking care of her. She was skin and bones and they rarely ever fed her so she

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snuck away to our rescue partner's house every chance she got just for food and love. After a

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whole year of begging them to surrender her or at the very least letting us spay her they finally

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agreed to surrender her after they realized she was pregnant. Thankfully they surrendered her in

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time that she was able to have all 10 of her puppies in the comfort of a foster home. We think

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the father of the puppies is their other dog. He is a Chesapeake Bay Retriever mix. Unfortunately he

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won't be coming up on transport with this happy family because after they received a noise complaint

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for him barking the owners quote took him off and I don't think any of us want to know what that means.

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Okay and on to the cats. I told you yesterday that I was hoping to send 12 today and Jacqueline

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will be happy to know 12 is all I really sent. I went to the shelter but I did not leave with 15

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extra kittens. So Ice T was found in the middle of the road by an elderly man. She was teeny tiny

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and super pitiful. He asked one of our rescue partners for help and she got the kitten placed

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in a foster home where she could recover and fatten up. Pepsi was part of a litter of four.

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One died and the owner gave two away before surrendering the last one to us. Yoohoo was

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actually pulled out of a drain pipe at my church. Someone heard her meowing for help and called the

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shelter who did nothing but then they called our local cat guru who went out there and crawled

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in the pipe to get her. That sounds a lot easier than it really was and actually involved like

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getting the police to come out there and everything but they got her. Lemonade was a stray with a

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terrible upper respiratory infection. She was surrendered to one of our vet partners in the

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nearby town where they took care of her and even spayed her when she was healthy. The R litter of

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three are from the same vet. A man who fed their feral mama started working with these kittens when

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they were just newborns so that they wouldn't end up feral too. When they were weaned he trapped the

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mom to have her spayed and the vets took the kittens for him to find homes for them. The mom

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was released but she will not be having any more kittens. The Yoo litter of two. Listen y'all no

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I really like when when we have letters that are split across two transports that they both

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start with the same letter. Okay wow I didn't think about that when I named the first half

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of the Yoo litter of two kittens something that starts with you. Like what was I thinking? So

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we have unsweet tea and uncaffeinated. Now is uncaffeinated a word? I don't think so actually.

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I can't find it in any dictionary that I look up online but I didn't know what else to do

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so we're going with uncaffeinated and I'm very sorry. So so their other litter mates are the

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Yoo litter of two that was from the October 5th blue e-transport. These two were held back because

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one of them was just so teeny tiny and scrawny. We were worried if she would even be able to

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handle the transport and the other one had an insane ulcer on her eye in her eye. I don't know

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I don't know how that works. Dr. Burton wanted her to stay with the vet down here who's fostering her

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and monitor the eye just to make sure it didn't need to be removed. Thankfully it looks like

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she's going to be able to keep it. This whole litter was dumped at the vets not the vet I've

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been talking about. This is a different one and they fostered them for us. The v litter of three

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were owner surrenders. The owner planned to just take a spay voucher and get the mama cat fixed

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but when he heard what great lives that these kittens were going to have he asked if we would

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take the mama two. Unfortunately he asked us that when he was dropping the kittens off.

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Unfortunately we had no room and it was too short notice to add an adult kitten on

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but we hope to send her next week if we find a foster for her. Well that is all the stories for

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all 51 critters on the van tonight. I have only gagged a few times but I think I cut my mic off

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in time that you guys won't hear any of that. Don't forget we only have two more transports left this

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year so if you're needing a puppy fix before the holiday festivities start make sure you sign up.

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We have lots of babies down here that would love to get out of the south and into real homes before

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the end of the year. It's a rough life but someone's got to do it.