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Hello friends, welcome to Rough Life.

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This was our second to last transport of the year and it did not disappoint.

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65 total animals were on board today.

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Four adult dogs, 34 puppies, 5 adult cats, and 22 kittens.

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We love those numbers.

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Because half of the animals today are coming from the shelter here in Alabama, this is

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going to be a pretty short episode since they really don't have any stories.

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Today's theme is toys.

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It started off being the top 90s toys, but with 65 animals I needed more letters than

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I had.

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So I went to the top toys from the 80s and the 90s and I was still short.

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So then I had to use some from the 2000s and then we added a kitten this morning and I

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needed a Q name and like there are no toys from the 80s, 90s or 2000s that are the top

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toys that start with a Q. So I literally just had to pick something random.

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So we can no longer say that they are the top toys, we're just going with toys.

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Up first we have Hit Clips.

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She was pulled from the shelter.

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She was brought in with her brother as a stray, but unfortunately her brother was adopted

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just a few days ago.

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Koosh Ball is a tiny little puppy at barely 4 pounds.

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She was found in a chicken coop scared to death of all those chickens.

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She was posted on Facebook and neighbors were asked, but no owner was ever found.

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One of our rescue partners, Foster's, took her in until transport.

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iPod Shuffle was absolutely trembling at transport today.

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She broke everyone's hearts.

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She was dumped at a doggy daycare place in a nearby town.

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They posted on Facebook trying to find her family, but nobody claimed her.

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And then one of our rescue partners agreed to take her and find a foster for her.

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Her foster's down here loved her so much they held her like a baby and rocked her to sleep

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at night.

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Jack in the Box wandered into someone's yard.

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He kept trying to play with, but was seriously hurting, their chickens, so they asked us

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to come get him.

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Operation wandered into someone's yard as a stray.

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They noticed she was covered in mange and had lots of hair missing.

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They contacted someone they know who fosters puppies a lot, and she contacted us to see

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if we would take her if she agreed to foster her for us.

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After a few rounds of NexCards, she's looking and feeling so much better.

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Skip, now known as Zippy, is one of our all time favorite fosters and one of our longest

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fosters.

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He was pulled from the shelter here in Alabama actually on Dr. Burton's birthday back in

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June.

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So all of the workers at the shelter have their dog, their favorite that they just hope

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and pray gets to go to rescue soon so they can see them living a better life outside

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of those kennels.

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And every time I'd go to the shelter, one of the workers would just beg me, please take

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my dog Skip, please take Skip with you.

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Don't you know anyone that would take Skip?

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He is the best dog.

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We just have to get him out of here.

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Well finally, we had a foster to adopt line up for him.

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And I was so excited to bust him out of the shelter.

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As we were walking out, the worker who loved him so much was just boo hoo and saying her

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goodbyes to him.

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And then she goes, yeah, you can't even tell he has a broken leg.

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I'm like, um, what?

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So obviously, I'm not going to turn around and be like, oh, he has a broken leg.

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I'm not taking him put him back in his kennel.

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So I take him and we stop at my vet before dropping him off at doggy daycare to be sure

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that she knew what she was talking about.

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And sure enough, just about everything that could be broken on one of his back legs was

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he was hit by a car and shot.

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We thought he was going to have to go to the veterinary college for a $7,000 surgery.

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But just for the heck of it, we decided to let my vets do their surgery on him instead.

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If it worked, great.

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If not, we take him to the vet school after that and they would do the surgery.

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So happy birthday, Dr. Burton.

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I spent $2,000.

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His surgery ended up going fantastically.

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Everyone was just amazed by his progress.

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But he was going to go to a foster to adopt.

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And when they found out that he was going to have to have leg surgery for a broken leg,

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they backed out.

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So he went to a foster down here for eight weeks for rehab and recovery.

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And then we sent him over to the jail, the real jail Justin, not a mean nickname for

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the animal shelter.

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And that's when one of my all time favorite stories ever happens.

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Skip was there for about six weeks and all of the inmates just loved him and Skip loved

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them.

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He loved being part of a pack.

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He loved having a family that was with him 24 seven.

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He was so happy.

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Skip would have done anything for those boys.

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And he started noticing that these boys would get really anxious and upset anytime the guards

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would come in for a shakedown.

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And Skip didn't like it when his boys were upset.

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So Skip protected their house like a good boy.

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And he stopped letting the guards come in.

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Of course, the inmates went crazy over him doing this.

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They were cheering him on, telling him he was such a good boy.

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They thought it was hilarious.

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The guards not so much.

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So the guards call us a few days later and they tell us the inmates taught Skip a new

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trick and we need to come get him.

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And what a sad day that was when we had to go get him.

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Skip would not even walk to the car with Jessica.

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One of the inmates had to walk him because he just absolutely refused to leave.

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The inmates were so sad to see him go.

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But luckily, Skip had a great time at his next foster, Doggie Daycare, and he stayed

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there for the next seven weeks before coming home with me.

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He made friends with all the dogs at Doggie Daycare and all of the workers just adored

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him.

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Now, as much as I love the thought of Skip standing up to the guards, I will say the

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first thing I noticed about Skip when I brought him home last week was he smiles when he's

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happy and it curls up the front of his lip.

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So it looks like he's growling, but really he's just smiling and he's happy to see you.

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So, I'm wondering now if that's what he was doing to the guards and the guards were just

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assuming that he was growling and they didn't get close enough to realize that he was just

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excited.

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Either way, Skip is just about the perfect dog.

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We loved him so much my husband begged to keep him.

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He was such a good foster while he was here.

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We will miss him, but we can't wait to see the perfect forever home that he gets after

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156 days in our foster care plus 6 months at the shelter at least.

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This boy deserves a real home.

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The C litter of two are our Dobie girls.

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We got them just 3 days after Skip, so the three of them have been with us for a long

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time.

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And in all honesty, I probably could have gotten these girls on transport sooner if

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I had prioritized them.

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But they were the best dogs and so easy to take care of at the dog house that it was

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more important to us to get out of these wild maniacs that were in our foster homes instead.

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I'm sure by now you all know their story, but, and this may come as a big surprise to

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all of us, but there are people that listen to my podcast that don't even live in Virginia

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and have nothing to do with Wolf Trap.

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They just happened upon my podcast and like the stories for some crazy reason.

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So for their sakes, I'll do a quick summary.

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Their owners passed away last Christmas and the owners children left them at a vacant

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house living outside until June when they asked us to take them.

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Again, they are such good girls and they were literally no trouble at all.

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So they ended up getting put on the back burner for far too long.

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We are all so happy for them to finally be in real homes with real families this holiday

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season.

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It has been a very lonely year for them.

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The T litter of three is from a pregnant mama who was dumped as a stray.

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She wandered up into someone's yard who took her in and let her have her puppies there.

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The lady just fell in love with the mama and actually has already gotten her spayed.

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The S litter of nine were posted for free on Facebook.

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One of our fosters contacted us and told us it was his daughter's boyfriend's dog that

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had the puppies and asked if we would take them and spay the mom for them.

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We of course said yes, but when Jessica reached out to the girl, she told Jess she had already

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promised to give a few of them away.

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Jessica asked me if she should quote, try to fight the girl to get the whole litter

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or since the girl didn't know she was going to surrender them to a rescue when she was

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giving them away, should we just let it go?

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I said, heck no.

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You know, she's giving the cutest ones away.

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Fight her or I will.

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Just then the girl wrote her back and said, or do I need to surrender all nine in order

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to get the mama spayed?

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I can just tell these people it was a misunderstanding.

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Jessica was very glad that she gave her an out and she told her yes, we need all nine

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please.

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The E litter of two were pulled from the shelter here in Alabama.

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Apparently the shelter found a foster for them as soon as they came in, so they never

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even stayed at the shelter.

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The A litter of two were pulled from the shelter here in Alabama.

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The shelter is so overcrowded right now that they didn't even have an open kennel for these

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guys.

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So they were stacked in a wire crate on top of the R litter of three.

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So every time the litter below them got excited, it sent them bouncing all over.

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The R litter of three were pulled from the shelter here in Alabama.

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They were also in an overflow wire crate underneath the litter of A. Now, if you're looking at

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all three of these R pups, you're probably thinking one of these things doesn't belong

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here.

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And you're right.

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Only two of them are litter mates.

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But they were picked up ashtrays and brought in with an older puppy that was running around

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with them.

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And because the shelter is just so overrun, they had them all kenneled together.

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The M litter of four were pulled from the shelter here in Alabama.

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They were found as strays.

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Polly Pocket and her six P pups were pulled from the shelter here in Alabama.

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They were brought in by animal control as strays.

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When I was walking through the shelter after last week's transport, this litter broke my

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heart.

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It was just mass chaos all around them, all the dogs barking.

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And they were just curled up on their mama or on a little cot in the back corner looking

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up at me.

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The mama wasn't barking or jumping like crazy like all the other dogs.

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They were just sad.

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They were just so sad.

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I am so glad we got to bust them out of there.

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And I am so glad that that mama isn't stuck in a kennel with her babies anymore.

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That is all for the pups.

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Now on to the kittens.

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View Master is the mama of the V kittens from last week.

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Remember when her owners were dropping off the kittens and learned about what their lives

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were going to be like in Virginia, the man got all choked up and asked if we could take

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the mama too.

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Turns out he actually bottle fed her as a kitten.

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So she has been very loved her whole life.

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Quack and flap was our last minute add on this morning.

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One of our rescue partners, Foster's, was asked to take this kitten by one of her friends.

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When she got there this morning to get it, she was telling her what a wonderful life

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all of our animals have and the owner told her, well, I actually have two more from the

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same litter that I was going to keep, but it sounds like they'd be happier up there.

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Now let's see if she really does end up surrendering them and if I can come up with two more Q names

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for next transport.

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The D mama and her kitten were from the same foster as above.

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This mama was given to her when she was pregnant and she had two kittens.

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Unfortunately, the other kitten got stuck under some of the bedding and suffocated at

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just a few hours old.

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The F litter of three were found in the garbage at a local groomers.

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She believes it was the neighbor's cat's kittens and she confronted him and told him she would

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have been more than happy to just take the kittens if he asked and she would even pay

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to spay the mama cat so he doesn't have to do this anymore.

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And the man told her he doesn't believe in spaying animals and he just takes the kittens

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off every time.

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Betty's spaghetti and the B litter kittens were owner surrenders to one of our vet partners.

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Betty came up to an elderly woman's house when she was pregnant so she took her in and

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let her have her kittens.

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But when the kittens got older they started tripping her so the lady asked the vets to

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take them and find good homes.

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The L litter of four are from an older man in a nearby town.

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He contacted one of our rescue partners and asked if she could come get the kittens that

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were trapped under his shed.

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The mama was feral and had abandoned them so a foster went out there and crawled under

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his house to get them and she has fostered them for the past month.

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Silaphone was pulled from our shelter here in Alabama and her story broke my heart.

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She was all set to go on transport with her absolutely adorable kitten but the day before

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transport they walked in and they found the kitten dead in the cage with her.

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Because so many of our fosters only want kittens or mamas with kittens we didn't have a foster

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to take her and she was at risk of losing her spot on transport which just seemed so

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unfair to me that your only kitten dies and because of that you don't get a freedom ride.

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Thankfully Wolf Trap has the most amazing people fostering for us and when I made the

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post telling her story we had several people offer to take her just so she wouldn't have

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to stay at the shelter all alone.

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Yu-Gi-Oh is from our Alabama shelter.

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He was supposed to come up with his mama but she was adopted a few days ago.

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Groovy Girl and her three kittens were brought in as strays by animal control to the Alabama

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shelter.

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Her kittens have been dying to get out of that kennel and they climbed to the bars all

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day long.

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They had to be bored out of their minds.

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The N litter of two were originally a litter of three but one got adopted from the Alabama

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shelter right before transport.

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The W litter of three is from the Alabama shelter.

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They were a little spicy when they came in.

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One of the workers held one up saying, oh my goodness you're just so cute and it bit

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her lip.

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But they're a lot better now and her lip has healed.

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They've been working with the kittens so they should be a lot sweeter.

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Well that is everyone that is on the van this week but that is not everyone that was saved

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this transport.

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Because so many were leaving from the shelter today and because it's right on the way to

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where we meet in Knoxville it just made more sense to load up at the shelter this week

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instead of my house in Mississippi.

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Usually I pick up one or two dogs or cats in my car on my way to transport and then

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we load them up at the dog house.

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But that actually adds an extra three hours to those animals trips.

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So I was going to have to load up 30 plus animals by myself at the shelter in the van

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because there's no way they would fit in my car.

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Drive them 90 minutes to the dog house, load everyone else up and then they were going

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to have to drive 90 minutes right past the shelter again and on to Virginia.

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Thankfully my Mississippi team was more than willing to come to Alabama to save these guys

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three hours of driving.

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Anyways after the van left I did my usual walkthrough at the shelter crying about everyone

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that was still there and the workers were busy moving dogs out of the overflow kennels

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into some of the empty kennels that they had now that we've moved so many out for them.

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And in one of the overflow kennels was the sweetest dog laying there with her big old

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pregnant belly just wagging her tail at me so gently.

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Now I don't know if it's all my pregnant hormones sinking with her pregnant hormones or the

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loud and scariness of the shelter but I literally almost started bawling right there in the

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shelter.

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Unfortunately because I drove the van, the van that was now on its way to Knoxville,

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to the shelter I was riding back with someone else and we didn't have room for her.

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But I told the shelter workers when I come back for the van tomorrow morning before church

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somebody better be there to meet me and give me this girl.

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Our dog house is empty and my foster skip left too so we are busting this girl out of

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the shelter tomorrow so she doesn't have to worry about giving birth in that teeny tiny

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cold crate.

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Oh and this is my last story.

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Since transports are on Saturdays now my husband Justin comes and helps sometimes and since

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this was just down the road from our house this week he came with.

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While we were standing in the parking lot unloading everything and waiting for everyone

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to get there he goes, yeah I've never even been in a shelter before.

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Well we fixed that right then.

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We walked through row after row and when we came out I said, what'd you think?

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And he said, that is so awful.

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It's so awful.

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All of them are just so sad.

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I don't know how you do that every week.

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Everyone is so pitiful in there.

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I'm like, yep I know and that's why that pregnant dog is coming home with us tomorrow.

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Well I told y'all this would be a shorter episode but I guess y'all could see how long

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this episode was before you even clicked on it and knew that I was lying.

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I thought it would be quick but I didn't realize how many stories I had to tell you.

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We have one more transport this year and I'm really hoping for another 65 on it.

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I don't know if that's possible but I'm gonna try really really hard.

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So make sure you sign up to foster and if you already have a foster, sign some friends

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up to foster, sign your coworkers up to foster, find some random strangers on the street and

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sign them up to foster.

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It's a rough life but someone's gotta do it.