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Hello friends, welcome to Rough Life. I don't know if you're going to be able to hear the

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dogs barking in the background, but just in case you can, I want you to know that they

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are my neighbor's dogs. My dogs are being good little babies and they are asleep on

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the couch right now. Anyways, I have got quite an episode for you today. So many of

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these stories are so wild. I wanted to make sure you got the full story with all the details.

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So I think this is going to be a longer episode. But before we start, several of these animals

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were pulled right before, during, or right after the storm that we had a few weeks ago.

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And just so I don't have to say it for every story and drive you crazy, I want to make

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sure you know how truly terrible the storm was down here. Our weather went from 60 degrees

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to like low 20s overnight. We had a ton of rain that froze. And then we got eight inches

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of snow piled on top of it. Like we don't ever get eight inches of snow. A few days

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into the week, everything started to thaw, but then it froze again that night, turning

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our nice cushy snow into just solid ice. We had multiple days where the temperature did

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not get above two degrees. And we were stuck in our homes for over a week. People died

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in their homes because they froze to death. So the animals that we're about to talk about

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that were outside during this should have absolutely died. Okay, let's jump into the

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stories. It figures that I would make that whole speech about the snowstorm and my first

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few stories are not even about the snowstorm. But anyways, Hans was found as a stray here

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in Alabama and I am so excited that we were finally cleared to pull from the Alabama shelter

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again. We have missed our friends so much. Hans was picked up by someone in the community

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who saw him being attacked by another dog. They took him to the shelter and the shelter

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posted him on their Facebook page and waited several weeks for an owner to come forward,

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but no one ever did. Gail was found in a neighborhood in a nearby town. The finders

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stopped to ask around to see if she belonged to anyone. The neighbor said she had actually

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been roaming their neighborhood for a few weeks and no one had claimed her. The lady

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that lived at the house agreed to foster her and work with her on learning trust because

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she was a little skittish. Pabby was found on a back road in another county. Someone

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posted him on Facebook looking for owners and no one claimed him, so they reached out

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to our rescue partners to take him. Jarvo? Do we think it's Jarvo? Maybe it's Harvo?

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I'm not sure. The J single puppy. Someone found this tiny puppy all alone on a county

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road. They looked around for other siblings, but they didn't see any. So the finder posted

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him on Facebook as free to a good home. Y'all, why do I do this to myself? I could have named

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these animals anything in the world, but instead I named them things I have no idea

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how to say. I even googled how to pronounce this and like the internet was divided. So

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we're just gonna say Vooley? Or just call her like Vooley Julie or I don't know. Go

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with that. She was posted on Facebook by her family as free to a good home. The husband

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had just passed away recently, so the mom had to go back to work and the puppy was created

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all day long and she was used to having the full run of the house previously. So the lady

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said she and her kids sat down and they made the tough decision to just go ahead and let

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her go to a family that could spend more time with her. They had actually found her in a

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ditch when she was a small puppy, so she might not actually be a labradoodle and so I tell

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you guys all the time we have like group names that we call them down here before they actually

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get their names and she was posted on the Facebook post saying that she was a labradoodle.

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So we've been calling her a labradoodle since we got her. Oaken wandered up as a stray to

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an elderly man's house. He was posted on Facebook and no one came forward. The man is actually

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good friends with my parents and he knows I do rescue work so he asked if I would take

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him. This was actually over Christmas when we were closed for several weeks. I told him

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I could take him in January but he would have to keep him until then and truth be told I

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actually forgot about the dog for a while. But when my parents reminded me about him

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we actually had a foster leaving the jail the next day so I told him I could take him

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the following day. That ended up being the very last day of January so by the skin of

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my teeth I kept my word to this man. They have loved having him at the jail and the

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old man loved having him at his house but he had two other dogs and it was just too

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much to take care of but he is definitely a very sweet, very laid back boy. Worth melting

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for otherwise known as Chloe down here is our very first ever liver shunt dog. Usually

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any time I ask Dr. Burton if I can pull a liver shunt dog she tells me absolutely not

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like no questions no we're just not and in her defense they're usually super sick and

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super symptomatic. But when she heard Chloe's story she knew we had to help. Our bottle

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feeder foster that I talk about on here so much was asked by another rescuer to take

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Chloe when Chloe was eight weeks old. Yes eight weeks old this dog that is about a year

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old that I'm sending to you today we've had her since she was eight weeks old. Our foster

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agreed to foster her thinking it would be a few weeks to a month or so before she went

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to that rescuers rescue. The rescuer told her that Chloe was a purebred lab. I don't

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think she is. That was dumped at a shelter because she wasn't gaining weight and she

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was having seizures. They suspected it was a liver shunt and they intended to have her

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tested and have surgery done to correct it. Apparently when the rescuer or maybe the rescue

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that she was sending the dog to realized how much both of those things were going to cost

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on top of the special liver shunt food that they were having to buy for her every few

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weeks that was well over a hundred dollars a bag they backed out and by backed out I

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mean they cut all contact completely never said another word about the dog ignored any

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message our foster sent them and just ghosted. It cost our foster so much money just to buy

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the dog food that she ended up looking up how to make homemade liver shunt friendly

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foods for the dog so that the dog didn't die and she didn't lose her home from bankruptcy.

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Our foster asked us if we could take her and that was about five months into fostering

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so Chloe was about seven months old at the time. I told me the story and because we never

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even really had an actual diagnosis and Chloe was doing great at the time we went ahead

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and had her taken to the vet for a liver shunt test. Apparently she failed the first test

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but our vet couldn't believe it because he didn't think there was any way she could really

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have a liver shunt because she was just so healthy so he asked if he could keep her overnight

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and do a more specialized test on her the next day. Something about a bile test? I don't

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know. He called us with the results the next day and he said it was the absolute worst

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numbers he had ever seen in his entire career. He could not believe that the dog was as normal

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and healthy as she was based on her numbers. He advised us to just take her back home slowly

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transition her from the homemade meals to a low protein regular dog food diet so not

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the liver shunt diet food that was a hundred dollars a bag but not just full blown you know

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old red dog food from Walmart so she is on Rachel Ray's something or other. She did fantastic

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with the transition. She hasn't had any seizures since she was just a few weeks old. She spent

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a couple months at doggie daycare and she was perfect the whole time there as well. I just

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cannot believe that a rescue or rescuer would turn their back on a dog that they committed

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to like this but I sure am glad that Chloe ended up being a wolf trap dog after all because

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she has stolen all of our hearts. Elsa is the final litter mate of the tea litter of

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four puppies from the January 27th Alabama Transport. If you remember in that episode

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I told you that these are the grand pups of Eliza orange juice from the November 11th

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Thanksgiving Transport. We were able to trap and catch the first four puppies but Elsa

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was too stubborn. A day or two after we got the four puppies was when the terrible ice

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storm hit. See here we go, the ice storm. Elsa was living in a dilapidated home with no real

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structure at all and hardly any shelter from the snow and the wind. All of the windows

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were broken. There was hardly any walls. It was pitiful. We pretty much knew she was

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dead. There was no way she couldn't be dead. The day that the ice melted, Jessica drove

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out there just to see and sure enough she heard the sweetest meanest little bark coming

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from inside the house. It took quite a few more days but finally the owners called us

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that she was in the trap and Jessica raced out there to get her. She was pretty ticked

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off the first few days of her captivity but Elsa eventually realized it's not so bad being

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an inside dog with cozy beds, squeaky toys, endless food, and real shelter from the elements.

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We love, love, love this girl and we are so happy she survived and we cannot wait to see

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the videos of her reunion with her litter mates. Oh and Elsa is the reason that this

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week's theme is frozen. Jessica named her Elsa because the cold never bothered her

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anyway and I thought it was just too perfect to change it to anything else. And frozen

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was the perfect theme for. Frozen and her two siblings were found ashtrays during the

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terrible ice storm that we had. The finders were four wheeling in the snow and they saw

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them sitting in a ditch. The girl couldn't carry them on her four wheeler so she went

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back to the house and told her husband and her husband was like there's absolutely no

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way that we can leave them out there. They're going to freeze to death. So they went back

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out there and they were in the exact same spot and in the exact same position as when

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she first saw them. When they got up closer to them they realized that they were literally,

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physically frozen to the ground. One of them was on a garbage bag so we think that they

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were thrown out in that and just crawled out of it. It took them a long time to get

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them loose from the ice where they could carry them home. They had frostbite on the

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bottoms of their feet and their tails. When the roads were drivable again they took them

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to their vet to make sure there wasn't anything that they were supposed to be doing for the

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frostbite that they weren't. They had two friends that they gave the two other puppies

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to and they posted frozen on Facebook as free to a good home. No one was interested so she

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ended up contacting us directly to take her and y'all. I do not mean this ugly at all.

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I love all puppies. I think all puppies are deserving of the best home ever. You know

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it's usually the ugly pitiful ones that I love the most but so often we see people give

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away the cutest ones first and then they ask us to just take whatever is left. But the

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two puppies that she gave away were just plain Jane puppies and the one she gave us is gorgeous.

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It is so fluffy and it is so cute. I could not believe that that was the one that she

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got quote unquote stuck with. Regardless I am very thankful that they saved all of these

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puppies. They would have absolutely died a terrible and horrible death if it weren't

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for them. Marshmallow is another crazy story. We got a call from Animal Control a few months

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ago who said he was called about three dogs stuck in a crate outside at an abandoned house.

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They seem to have been in there for quite a while. Someone said a week. I don't think

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it was a week but it was definitely more than a few days judging by the amount of poop that

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was in the crate with them. It was out in the county so there was nothing that Animal

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Control could do. We were working on a plan to get them when apparently the owners came

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and got them. We forgot all about them until a couple weeks later when Animal Control got

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a call about them again. This time they were in a crate inside a home abandoned. Luckily

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it was in the city limits so the Animal Control officer could help. He seized them all and

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he took the puppy to the vet because of how sick it was. One of our fosters knows the

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owner and the owner was super worried about charges being filed and she told our foster

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that they were planning to go back and feed them when they could but they don't even have

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a vehicle and they have no way to go back and forth to feed them or even just let them

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out of the crate that they were stuck in. Anyways, the puppy was super sick as you can

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imagine after being left in a crate for days to a week at a time with no food or water

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and shoved in there with two larger dogs. He was very malnourished but he did make a

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quick recovery after spending several days at the vet. We actually don't totally know

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what's happened or is happening with this case. To our knowledge, the owner surrendered

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the puppy and that's why we were able to send it on transport already. Either that

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or she tried to claim that it was a stray and it wasn't even her puppy. We're not sure.

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The two adult dogs though are definitely her dogs and I guess she didn't want to surrender

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them or it didn't matter if she surrendered them or not because of the impending trial.

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Because the puppy lived, she can't be charged with a felony but she is still going to have

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to serve some jail time. The two adult dogs are still at the shelter and in the custody

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of the shelter so I don't know if she gets them back when her sentence is up or if the

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shelter can turn them over to a rescue once the trial is concluded. I don't know. This

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is the first time that we're taking dogs from a legal battle without being the ones pressing

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the charges and being at the court hearings so I'll let y'all know when I know. Yelena

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or something that looks like it would be pronounced similar to Yelena was found as a stray by

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someone who knew someone who knew we take homeless animals so she reached out to us on their

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behalf. She was just found as a stray. The Duke of Wesselton and the Sea Litter of Two

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were found together here in Alabama. My sister-in-law actually called me on the way home from the

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last transport and said her co-worker found three little puppies in the county and needed

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someone to take them. If you're fostering any of these three, you know there are many

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things that you could use to describe these dogs but little puppies is not something

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I would use to describe them. The girl who found them said she just saw them on a back

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road and when she got out of her car they came running to her as fast as they could.

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She kept them overnight for me because I was dead tired when I got home from transport

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and then she even drove them to Mississippi to give them to the foster for me. The R

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Litter of Two are owner-surrenders and listen, I broke one of my own rules but I don't even

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care this time. These are half Rottweiler and half Labradoodle puppies. The owner was

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selling them on Facebook which if you don't know is against Facebook rules. So I kept

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reporting her posts and I kept getting removed because she's actually a friend of mine. She

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reached out to me a few weeks later when two of the puppies didn't sell and she asked me

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if I could take them and the mom, the Rottweiler. Now I love a roddy. I think they are great

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dogs. I would definitely own a Rottweiler one day but they are definitely the kind of dogs

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that you need to ask a few questions about before you just blindly pull them. And the

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answer she was giving me were kind of red flag answers. She would say things like, well

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she's great with us. We've never had a problem with her. Things like that. So I did something

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I rarely ever do and I told her we would spay her mom for free even though she did not surrender

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the whole litter and she actually sold the majority of the litter. But they said if she

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wasn't reproducing all the time they wouldn't have a problem keeping her. And I felt like

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that was the better and safer option for the mama than for us to pull her and her potentially

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be aggressive in a new setting and have to be put down. Regardless, if nothing else,

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I bought us a little more time and if they decide they can no longer keep her and they

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surrender her down the road, at least she's already been spayed for us. Anyway, back to

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the puppies. My mom got there to pick up the two boys and they told her, oh we just sold

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one. So it's actually only one puppy that you're getting. Which is ridiculous. But there

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was nothing that we could do about it. Coincidentally, someone who bought one of the girl puppies

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the day before sent me a text the next day asking if I would be willing to take her puppy.

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She is a senior in high school and she bought a puppy thinking it would help her be less

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stressed. Let's all let out a collective awe for this sweet little dumb high schooler

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who had no idea how hard puppies are to take care of. She was supposed to drop it off at

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my mom's house the next morning but then she didn't because her boyfriend that she lives

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with promised to start helping her more with the puppy. We all know how that goes. But

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then she called me two days later and basically said, take this puppy now. She really did

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try to be a great dog mama and she even kept the dog in the house the whole time. So she

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is by far the worst dog owner we've had on this podcast. We are very thankful that instead

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of just giving it away to anybody that she knew, she found a rescue that would take it

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and give it a good home. The end letter of three have a weird story. One of our fosters

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was waiting at her son's house for the cable guy to show up when he showed up they started

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talking and he told her that he had taken three puppies from his neighbor because the

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neighbor told him he was going to shoot them. But he really didn't know what to do with

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three puppies and she asked if we had any room to take them. We told her we didn't write

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them but in a few days we probably would. So she had him send her pictures in the meantime

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and two days later we got a call from the shelter in town that three puppies had been

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dumped in their play yard overnight. When they sent us pictures of them they were identical

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to the cable guys puppies. We pulled them a few days later. The K letter of three are

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owner surrenders. The woman who surrendered the M letter of six from the January 27th

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Bama Transport called our rescue partners a few days before transport left and asked

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her if she would take three puppies from her stepdaughter's dog as well. She had lost

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her home a few weeks before and moved in with the stepmom. She moved into a new house just

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before the ice storm hit but she left the puppies with the stepmom so they wouldn't

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be out in the cold but apparently she never came back for them. Now I have absolutely

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no reason to think this other than one picture that I saw but I am wondering if the daughter's

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dog and the mama of the M pups are related because they look similar. I would love a

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DNA test done on both these litters. Oh and the rescuer said that these puppies were the

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best puppies she has ever fostered and they already know how to go potty on the potty

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pads in the house. Yay. The L letter of three were found with several litter mates on a

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back road. The finder gave a few of them away and then she posted on Facebook that she was

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willing to foster if her rescue could take the last three so we were very happy to help

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out. The B letter of three were pulled the day before the ice storm hit. A foster for

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a rescue partner of ours was driving around giving away straw to anyone who needed it

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for their dog houses. She drove by a house out in the county and she saw a dog house

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and just decided to stop and ask them if they needed some straw. When she stopped three

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little black and white puppies came running out the owners were very thankful for the

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straw for their dog and when the foster asked them what they were planning to do with the

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puppies they said they really didn't know. So she loaded them up and she took them home

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with her. The A letter of four are owner surrenders. The owners took the mama to have her spayed

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and quickly realized she was already pregnant. So they brought her back home and they let

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her have her puppies. They are so thankful that Wolf Drap will be paying to have her

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finally spayed so she will not be having any more puppies. The S mama and her 10 puppies

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were found on a county road during the terrible ice storm. There is no way that they would

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have survived the night before so they were definitely dumped out there after the storm

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hit and it was so insanely cold. Someone who lives on that road saw them and took them

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home. She started asking around for someone to take them but then we all got snowed in

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for over a week and no one was going anywhere. Thankfully she still kept them safe and warm

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until things thought out. We got them set up at the dog house as soon as the roads were

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passable again and she has been the very best little mama. You can tell she is just so

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relieved to be indoors and warm with real food. The I letter of kittens were posted

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on Facebook as free to a good home. The owner agreed to hang on to them for us until transport

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and is very happy to have his mama cat spayed. And that's all the stories for this week.

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We have one more transport coming up February 22nd before we take several weeks off so make

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sure you sign up to foster so you don't miss out on any puppy snowballs. Plus with us taking

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such a long break you know I'm going to need to send as many animals as possible on that

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transport. Okay I'm off to transport now to see how many of these animals really show

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up and actually get to leave today. It's a rough life but someone's got to do it.