1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:13,120 Hello friends, welcome to Rough Life. 2 00:00:13,120 --> 00:00:18,240 We've got quite a lot of stories today for the 46 animals that are on the van, so let's 3 00:00:18,240 --> 00:00:20,120 just jump right in. 4 00:00:20,120 --> 00:00:23,240 If I sound like I have a cold, I do not. 5 00:00:23,240 --> 00:00:27,480 It is pregnancy congestion that never ever goes away. 6 00:00:27,480 --> 00:00:31,600 Okay, so today's theme is flowers. 7 00:00:31,600 --> 00:00:37,120 Now if you're in the fosters group, you probably saw where it was suggested that I do weather 8 00:00:37,120 --> 00:00:43,560 for today's theme and I was all set to do that so Stormy could keep her name. 9 00:00:43,560 --> 00:00:46,920 But those names were so depressing, I could not do it. 10 00:00:46,920 --> 00:00:51,560 I just could not downpour and thunderstorm and hail damage. 11 00:00:51,560 --> 00:00:52,560 No. 12 00:00:52,560 --> 00:00:59,240 I did flowers so that Rosie and Stormy could both keep their names. 13 00:00:59,240 --> 00:01:01,480 Holly Cock was found as a stray. 14 00:01:01,480 --> 00:01:06,080 She wandered up to a house and the homeowners asked all of their neighbors if anyone recognized 15 00:01:06,080 --> 00:01:07,080 her. 16 00:01:07,080 --> 00:01:10,560 When no one came forward, they reached out to one of our rescue partners to see if we 17 00:01:10,560 --> 00:01:12,240 could take her. 18 00:01:12,240 --> 00:01:18,760 Ilex, whose name down here is Rolo and I'm told he actually knows his name, is from our 19 00:01:18,760 --> 00:01:20,480 Alabama shelter friends. 20 00:01:20,480 --> 00:01:26,240 This was actually the shelter manager's personal foster and she almost didn't give him to me. 21 00:01:26,240 --> 00:01:31,600 And technically, I'm doing this podcast in the morning and I'm about to leave to go get 22 00:01:31,600 --> 00:01:36,480 the puppies so it's very possible that she does not give me the puppy. 23 00:01:36,480 --> 00:01:38,480 We'll find out. 24 00:01:38,480 --> 00:01:43,280 He was found under someone's house when he was about six to seven weeks old. 25 00:01:43,280 --> 00:01:47,480 They brought him to the shelter and she took him straight home and she has fostered him 26 00:01:47,480 --> 00:01:49,840 ever since. 27 00:01:49,840 --> 00:01:56,280 But Storm, or Stormy, is one of my favorite stories that we've had in a while. 28 00:01:56,280 --> 00:02:00,480 If you're a long time listener, you'll remember that back in October we were all set to pull 29 00:02:00,480 --> 00:02:05,440 Stormy and her nursing puppies at the time from the shelter. 30 00:02:05,440 --> 00:02:09,240 But there was another mom and puppies at the shelter that needed to be sent on transport 31 00:02:09,240 --> 00:02:10,880 more urgently. 32 00:02:10,880 --> 00:02:14,480 So at the last minute, we swapped them out. 33 00:02:14,480 --> 00:02:20,040 I vividly remember walking past Stormy's kennel with an arm full of puppies from another 34 00:02:20,040 --> 00:02:23,600 mama and telling her, I promise I will come back for you. 35 00:02:23,600 --> 00:02:26,800 You will be on the next transport out of here. 36 00:02:26,800 --> 00:02:32,080 I was absolutely gutted two days later when we found out that they had a distemper outbreak 37 00:02:32,080 --> 00:02:36,160 at the shelter and we couldn't pull anything from them. 38 00:02:36,160 --> 00:02:41,360 Fast forward four months later, we were finally slowly starting to pull animals from them 39 00:02:41,360 --> 00:02:45,240 again and I saw on their Facebook page a picture of a dog. 40 00:02:45,240 --> 00:02:51,080 Obviously, it was Stormy, but I couldn't remember how I knew this dog or why I was so happy 41 00:02:51,080 --> 00:02:56,440 to see her face, but I was just flooded with emotions reading her post. 42 00:02:56,440 --> 00:03:01,160 They said she was dumped as a stray dog way out in the county when she was pregnant in 43 00:03:01,160 --> 00:03:02,840 July. 44 00:03:02,840 --> 00:03:08,680 Another rescue came by in November and pulled all of her puppies and left her behind. 45 00:03:08,680 --> 00:03:13,440 Now pause, hear me when I say this. 46 00:03:13,440 --> 00:03:17,700 Sometimes you have to leave moms behind and that's okay. 47 00:03:17,700 --> 00:03:21,480 We cannot and we will not save them all. 48 00:03:21,480 --> 00:03:25,800 That is something I have come to terms with as sucky as it is. 49 00:03:25,800 --> 00:03:30,760 Sometimes moms are feral or they're dog aggressive or they're kid aggressive or they're not safe 50 00:03:30,760 --> 00:03:35,840 to be in homes with people's families and family dogs or the owners just won't surrender 51 00:03:35,840 --> 00:03:38,360 them. 52 00:03:38,360 --> 00:03:43,400 Whatever the case, there are instances where the best thing you can do is take the puppies 53 00:03:43,400 --> 00:03:45,600 and spay the mom. 54 00:03:45,600 --> 00:03:48,400 But this was not one of those cases. 55 00:03:48,400 --> 00:03:50,040 Period. 56 00:03:50,040 --> 00:03:51,800 Stormy is the best girl. 57 00:03:51,800 --> 00:03:54,360 She is sweet as pie with everyone. 58 00:03:54,360 --> 00:03:58,800 This girl would be fantastic in any home with any family. 59 00:03:58,800 --> 00:04:02,640 There was zero reason for her to be left behind by this rescue. 60 00:04:02,640 --> 00:04:04,760 Okay, so back to the story. 61 00:04:04,760 --> 00:04:09,360 I see her post, I still don't know why I feel so much love towards this dog, but I text 62 00:04:09,360 --> 00:04:11,320 the shelter manager to ask about her. 63 00:04:11,320 --> 00:04:16,080 She couldn't totally remember if I knew this dog or not and in her defense she's been 64 00:04:16,080 --> 00:04:20,400 dealing with a distemper crisis for months so her brain is all over the place. 65 00:04:20,400 --> 00:04:23,920 But she gives me a timeline of when I would have seen this dog. 66 00:04:23,920 --> 00:04:27,640 So I scroll back in my pictures and videos and there she is. 67 00:04:27,640 --> 00:04:34,040 The sweetest mama with the sweetest little babies and suddenly I remembered everything. 68 00:04:34,040 --> 00:04:38,280 Getting a foster lined up for her, posting her on the foster's page, having to bump 69 00:04:38,280 --> 00:04:41,520 her thinking it would just be a few more days till she left. 70 00:04:41,520 --> 00:04:44,200 My promise to her, everything. 71 00:04:44,200 --> 00:04:47,160 I went and got her the next day. 72 00:04:47,160 --> 00:04:48,960 And she has been fabulous. 73 00:04:48,960 --> 00:04:50,600 Seriously, she is so fun. 74 00:04:50,600 --> 00:04:52,080 She's so sweet. 75 00:04:52,080 --> 00:04:53,360 She's so well behaved. 76 00:04:53,360 --> 00:04:54,480 We just love her. 77 00:04:54,480 --> 00:04:59,320 I am so sad for her that she was left behind by the Southern Rescue. 78 00:04:59,320 --> 00:05:02,760 I wish they would have taken her so she could have spent Thanksgiving and Christmas with 79 00:05:02,760 --> 00:05:06,200 a real family in a real home instead of in the shelter. 80 00:05:06,200 --> 00:05:10,520 But I am so glad that I got my girl in the end. 81 00:05:10,520 --> 00:05:16,760 John Quill is an owner surrender or owner dumped kind of. 82 00:05:16,760 --> 00:05:21,680 He was dumped at the Alabama shelter overnight one night and of course wandered around all 83 00:05:21,680 --> 00:05:25,280 night trying to figure out where he was and where his family went. 84 00:05:25,280 --> 00:05:29,160 He eventually wandered down the train tracks to the next town over. 85 00:05:29,160 --> 00:05:32,960 That sounds really far and dramatic, but it's not. 86 00:05:32,960 --> 00:05:35,880 The shelter is right on the edge of town, so it wasn't far. 87 00:05:35,880 --> 00:05:40,160 A family saw him and they scooped him up and brought him back to the shelter. 88 00:05:40,160 --> 00:05:44,920 Somehow and I'm not totally sure how I think they got the license plate number off the 89 00:05:44,920 --> 00:05:47,200 car in the security footage. 90 00:05:47,200 --> 00:05:50,920 But somehow the shelter found out that the owners had been trying to send him to another 91 00:05:50,920 --> 00:05:56,040 rescue, but the rescue was taking too long to get him and they were having to jump through 92 00:05:56,040 --> 00:06:01,160 too many hoops like getting him neutered, which is just ridiculous. 93 00:06:01,160 --> 00:06:04,320 Who would think to ask you to neuter your own dog? 94 00:06:04,320 --> 00:06:11,120 So they just got tired of it and they dumped him in the middle of the night one night instead. 95 00:06:11,120 --> 00:06:13,320 Wildflower was found in a culvert. 96 00:06:13,320 --> 00:06:17,800 The animal control officer messaged one of our rescue partners and told her the puppy 97 00:06:17,800 --> 00:06:21,200 was small enough to fit in the palm of her hand. 98 00:06:21,200 --> 00:06:25,440 He knew bringing it to the shelter was more or less a death sentence, so we agreed to 99 00:06:25,440 --> 00:06:30,400 take him and she agreed to foster him for the last few weeks. 100 00:06:30,400 --> 00:06:33,760 Lantana was found wandering alone in the woods. 101 00:06:33,760 --> 00:06:37,960 There were no houses around, so it was obvious that she was dumped out there. 102 00:06:37,960 --> 00:06:41,640 The girl who found her tried to bring her home, but her husband said the dog couldn't 103 00:06:41,640 --> 00:06:43,080 come in the house. 104 00:06:43,080 --> 00:06:47,040 So when one of our rescue partners fosters heard the story, she ran out there and got 105 00:06:47,040 --> 00:06:49,240 her. 106 00:06:49,240 --> 00:06:52,320 Moonflower was found in a culvert during a storm. 107 00:06:52,320 --> 00:06:56,920 The finder fostered her until transport and was so impressed with our system and how easy 108 00:06:56,920 --> 00:07:02,040 this has been that she's actually willing to foster for us in the future again. 109 00:07:02,040 --> 00:07:06,320 Orchid was originally given away on Facebook to a free home. 110 00:07:06,320 --> 00:07:09,440 Someone took her thinking it would be a good companion for him while he was going through 111 00:07:09,440 --> 00:07:13,840 a divorce, but quickly realized that puppies are a lot of work. 112 00:07:13,840 --> 00:07:17,440 He reached out to one of our rescue partners a few weeks later and asked if we would take 113 00:07:17,440 --> 00:07:19,240 her. 114 00:07:19,240 --> 00:07:24,920 Blocks were not even going to pretend that I said that name correctly. 115 00:07:24,920 --> 00:07:26,480 He was found as a stray. 116 00:07:26,480 --> 00:07:30,320 He was seen wandering around for a few days when someone finally picked him up and posted 117 00:07:30,320 --> 00:07:31,880 him on Facebook. 118 00:07:31,880 --> 00:07:35,920 We actually agreed to pull him thinking he was just a teeny tiny puppy, but when he 119 00:07:35,920 --> 00:07:41,000 got to the foster home, we realized he's actually a grown man. 120 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:45,080 He was posted all over Facebook and we held him for several weeks expecting an owner to 121 00:07:45,080 --> 00:07:49,080 come forward, but no one ever did. 122 00:07:49,080 --> 00:07:53,080 The E letter of two were found the day before the ice storm hit. 123 00:07:53,080 --> 00:07:57,200 The ice storm had been predicted for well over a week, so someone dumped these sweet 124 00:07:57,200 --> 00:08:02,120 boys knowing that in less than 24 hours, they would likely freeze to death. 125 00:08:02,120 --> 00:08:06,520 They were actually dumped on a busy road and someone saw them on her way to work and when 126 00:08:06,520 --> 00:08:12,040 they were still there on her way home from work, she stopped to get them. 127 00:08:12,040 --> 00:08:17,560 The G mama, who is going down as another one of my all time favorites, and her five G 128 00:08:17,560 --> 00:08:20,720 pups are also from the Alabama shelter. 129 00:08:20,720 --> 00:08:26,520 Gardenia was seized from a cruelty case last year after an ugly court battle. 130 00:08:26,520 --> 00:08:31,320 The shelter won custody of her and her puppies from the litter at that time. 131 00:08:31,320 --> 00:08:37,440 They were all put up for adoption and she was adopted out to a home with her last puppy. 132 00:08:37,440 --> 00:08:41,520 Now something that you need to know about our sweet precious friends at the Alabama 133 00:08:41,520 --> 00:08:47,360 shelter is that they do not spay a neuter before their animals are adopted out. 134 00:08:47,360 --> 00:08:50,560 And their adoption fee is only $25. 135 00:08:50,560 --> 00:08:56,640 This is a very poor, very rural shelter and that's why it's so important to me to help 136 00:08:56,640 --> 00:09:01,240 them out so much and move as many animals out of there as we can. 137 00:09:01,240 --> 00:09:07,000 So Gardenia was adopted out and then in November, they got a call about a dog that was left 138 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:09,400 behind after the owners moved off. 139 00:09:09,400 --> 00:09:13,240 They said the dog had been fending for herself for several weeks and it was clear that no 140 00:09:13,240 --> 00:09:15,320 one was coming back for her. 141 00:09:15,320 --> 00:09:19,360 When the shelter got out there, they were shocked to see that it was Gardenia and she 142 00:09:19,360 --> 00:09:21,080 was pregnant again. 143 00:09:21,080 --> 00:09:24,640 They took her back to the shelter and she ended up giving birth several weeks later. 144 00:09:24,640 --> 00:09:31,680 I picked her up the same day that I picked Stormy up and I'll be honest, I was really 145 00:09:31,680 --> 00:09:34,760 just excited to be busting Stormy out of the shelter. 146 00:09:34,760 --> 00:09:39,280 I had never met or seen Gardenia before so I didn't have that emotional connection to 147 00:09:39,280 --> 00:09:41,660 her like I did Stormy. 148 00:09:41,660 --> 00:09:46,600 We drove them 90 minutes to the dog house in Mississippi and by the end of the drive, 149 00:09:46,600 --> 00:09:49,200 Gardenia and I were thick as thieves. 150 00:09:49,200 --> 00:09:51,960 She absolutely stole my heart. 151 00:09:51,960 --> 00:09:56,200 She rode the entire way with her head on my shoulders. 152 00:09:56,200 --> 00:10:02,080 Every so often I would hear her tail randomly thumping in the back seat like it would just 153 00:10:02,080 --> 00:10:06,120 hit her all of a sudden that she was out of the shelter and she was safe and she was so 154 00:10:06,120 --> 00:10:07,640 happy. 155 00:10:07,640 --> 00:10:13,000 She's another one that's going to be a fantastic dog solely because she knows how bad her life 156 00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:18,240 could have been and has been and how great it is now and you can just tell she is so 157 00:10:18,240 --> 00:10:20,360 thankful. 158 00:10:20,360 --> 00:10:28,520 The sea litter of seven are from the same home as the tea litter from the March 1st, 159 00:10:28,520 --> 00:10:30,560 2022 Ozark transport. 160 00:10:30,560 --> 00:10:34,800 The sea litter from the July 19th, 2023 pasta transport. 161 00:10:34,800 --> 00:10:41,720 The pee litter from the October 15th, 2023 hot dog transport and the D litter from the 162 00:10:41,720 --> 00:10:46,680 November 11th, 2023 drinks transport. 163 00:10:46,680 --> 00:10:51,320 Now you're probably screaming, Katie, why aren't you spaying that mama dog? 164 00:10:51,320 --> 00:10:57,480 Well I am all of them and they're an altered male that I thought was one impregnating all 165 00:10:57,480 --> 00:10:59,240 of the females. 166 00:10:59,240 --> 00:11:03,840 The homeowners get dogs jumped on them all the time and they want to keep the mamas. 167 00:11:03,840 --> 00:11:07,640 They just don't want to keep them and keep having babies all the time. 168 00:11:07,640 --> 00:11:13,160 So after the November 11th transport all of their dogs were spayed and neutered and we 169 00:11:13,160 --> 00:11:18,920 thought that was the last that we had heard from them but as it turns out long before 170 00:11:18,920 --> 00:11:24,600 they had ever contacted us the first time their mama dog, the mama of the November 171 00:11:24,600 --> 00:11:30,360 11th litter had her first litter of puppies and they gave them all away just to random 172 00:11:30,360 --> 00:11:31,960 people. 173 00:11:31,960 --> 00:11:36,080 One of those puppies ended up getting pregnant, how shocking. 174 00:11:36,080 --> 00:11:39,960 And the owners didn't want to deal with finding homes for them so they asked these people 175 00:11:39,960 --> 00:11:41,880 if they would take her back. 176 00:11:41,880 --> 00:11:46,880 They loved this dog so much when it was a puppy so they were very excited to take her 177 00:11:46,880 --> 00:11:50,760 and they were happy that they knew we would take all these puppies and have her spayed 178 00:11:50,760 --> 00:11:53,680 so she would never have to go through this again. 179 00:11:53,680 --> 00:12:01,880 So the puppies on today's transport are the nieces and nephews of the puppies from the 180 00:12:01,880 --> 00:12:04,360 November 11th transport. 181 00:12:04,360 --> 00:12:09,520 I think honestly it's making my brain hurt to try to figure this one out. 182 00:12:09,520 --> 00:12:16,040 I don't totally know if that's right but the mom of today's litter is the older puppy 183 00:12:16,040 --> 00:12:19,960 from the mom of the November 11th litter. 184 00:12:19,960 --> 00:12:22,480 Everyone has spayed the end. 185 00:12:22,480 --> 00:12:27,040 Y'all better buckle up for this one. 186 00:12:27,040 --> 00:12:35,040 The B litter of 9 are actually at least a litter of 2, possibly even a litter of 3. 187 00:12:35,040 --> 00:12:38,360 But when you hear everything that they've been through together you'll understand why 188 00:12:38,360 --> 00:12:41,000 I've just kept them as one litter. 189 00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:47,800 We got a call from the pound in the next town over and I used the term pound very lightly. 190 00:12:47,800 --> 00:12:53,160 It is literally just two kennels outside of a building, that's all. 191 00:12:53,160 --> 00:12:58,560 They said they had 6 puppies dumped in a metal garbage can outside of the building overnight. 192 00:12:58,560 --> 00:13:02,040 We told them sorry we don't have any room right then. 193 00:13:02,040 --> 00:13:06,680 But our transport was leaving I think the next day or the day after so we told them 194 00:13:06,680 --> 00:13:10,400 someone somewhere will have room for them then. 195 00:13:10,400 --> 00:13:13,420 Well somehow it turned into 7 puppies. 196 00:13:13,420 --> 00:13:18,360 So when our rescue partner got out there to vaccinate them she was surprised when puppy 197 00:13:18,360 --> 00:13:23,100 8, 9, and 10 were pulled out to be vaccinated as well. 198 00:13:23,100 --> 00:13:28,520 The city worker told her 6 puppies were found in the barrel but then we saw 3 puppies running 199 00:13:28,520 --> 00:13:33,320 around 2 days later and we assumed they were from the same litter so we just tossed them 200 00:13:33,320 --> 00:13:34,800 in. 201 00:13:34,800 --> 00:13:40,120 Now in his defense they do look just like them and they were found in the same tiny area 202 00:13:40,120 --> 00:13:43,800 so it's very likely that they are from the same litter. 203 00:13:43,800 --> 00:13:49,440 But that was only 9 puppies so when she asked about the 10th puppy he told her well she 204 00:13:49,440 --> 00:13:53,120 had already been here for a while and they just hated to use a whole kennel just for 205 00:13:53,120 --> 00:13:57,040 her plus they thought she would have more fun if she was in the kennel with other puppies 206 00:13:57,040 --> 00:13:59,440 so they threw her in. 207 00:13:59,440 --> 00:14:06,000 If you know absolutely anything at all about cross contamination I know your head is spinning 208 00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:07,880 like ours was. 209 00:14:07,880 --> 00:14:14,000 Anyways the damage was done by then and any germs anybody had were now everyone's germs. 210 00:14:14,000 --> 00:14:18,560 The kennel that they were in was absolutely the most disgusting environment that they 211 00:14:18,560 --> 00:14:20,320 could have been kept in. 212 00:14:20,320 --> 00:14:25,280 There was zero drainage system so every day they would come by in the evening and they 213 00:14:25,280 --> 00:14:29,520 would pressure wash all of the poop and pee to the back of the kennel. 214 00:14:29,520 --> 00:14:33,200 Day after day litter after litter that's all they ever did. 215 00:14:33,200 --> 00:14:37,760 They'd come by one time in the morning to throw food out for everyone and then one time 216 00:14:37,760 --> 00:14:41,400 in the evening to hose everything to the back of the kennel. 217 00:14:41,400 --> 00:14:43,040 That's all. 218 00:14:43,040 --> 00:14:47,840 Of course after everyone found out about this we could not let them stay like that so our 219 00:14:47,840 --> 00:14:52,880 rescue partner moved some fosters around and she and another one of her fosters went out 220 00:14:52,880 --> 00:14:57,320 there the next day to get all nine puppies and help move the kennels to a different area 221 00:14:57,320 --> 00:15:01,760 on the property where they could be hosed out easier. 222 00:15:01,760 --> 00:15:10,320 Inside this teeny tiny kennel was just mounds of soaking wet poop, a palette, a wooden palette, 223 00:15:10,320 --> 00:15:13,880 and an igloo doghouse stacked on top of it. 224 00:15:13,880 --> 00:15:18,280 As they were pulling everything out to hose off and move it to the new spot they lifted 225 00:15:18,280 --> 00:15:23,320 up the palette and in between the wood was a dead puppy. 226 00:15:23,320 --> 00:15:29,040 It was still fairly intact so we're pretty sure it was part of this group and that this 227 00:15:29,040 --> 00:15:33,920 should have been eleven puppies total instead. 228 00:15:33,920 --> 00:15:38,040 Without a doubt though that puppy crawled under that palette and was drowned when they 229 00:15:38,040 --> 00:15:41,880 came by that night to power wash the kennel floor. 230 00:15:41,880 --> 00:15:45,640 The city worker, the foster, and our rescue partner were all crying. 231 00:15:45,640 --> 00:15:47,880 It was horrible. 232 00:15:47,880 --> 00:15:52,120 The foster took her puppies home and had to give them all three baths each just to get 233 00:15:52,120 --> 00:15:55,440 the urine stains and smell off of them. 234 00:15:55,440 --> 00:16:00,060 All of the pads on the bottom of their feet were burnt from urine scalding and standing 235 00:16:00,060 --> 00:16:03,840 in sewage all day long. 236 00:16:03,840 --> 00:16:08,560 That should be the end of the story where I tell you they all lived happily ever after 237 00:16:08,560 --> 00:16:12,320 but unfortunately for these puppies that was not the case. 238 00:16:12,320 --> 00:16:17,520 The day after they got to their foster home she noticed a few of them were very sick. 239 00:16:17,520 --> 00:16:21,160 She ran them up to her vet and they confirmed it was parvo. 240 00:16:21,160 --> 00:16:25,600 She started round the clock care for them but sadly one of them died that night in her 241 00:16:25,600 --> 00:16:26,600 arms. 242 00:16:26,600 --> 00:16:31,400 Thankfully the other nine made a full recovery and they are doing great. 243 00:16:31,400 --> 00:16:36,880 It was weird though because the little white puppy that was already at the pound to begin 244 00:16:36,880 --> 00:16:40,480 with never broke with parvo. 245 00:16:40,480 --> 00:16:44,600 When the city worker was told this he was like, oh that makes a lot of sense. 246 00:16:44,600 --> 00:16:45,600 Like what? 247 00:16:45,600 --> 00:16:53,120 He's like, yeah she came in with a whole litter and they all died one by one every day. 248 00:16:53,120 --> 00:16:57,160 We didn't know what was going on but she was the only one left from her litter and that's 249 00:16:57,160 --> 00:17:02,080 why we threw her in with this litter so she wouldn't be so lonely. 250 00:17:02,080 --> 00:17:06,440 So clearly this puppy's litter mates all had parvo. 251 00:17:06,440 --> 00:17:12,760 Her immune system was miraculously able to fight it off and she survived it but it's 252 00:17:12,760 --> 00:17:17,520 likely she was still shedding the virus and passed it on to her new litter mates when 253 00:17:17,520 --> 00:17:19,400 they came in. 254 00:17:19,400 --> 00:17:25,760 So this is an absolutely horrible story with absolutely terrible outcomes for some of them 255 00:17:25,760 --> 00:17:32,760 but truly truly the happiest ending for nine of them at least. 256 00:17:32,760 --> 00:17:35,760 Mama Rosie and her 10R pups. 257 00:17:35,760 --> 00:17:40,400 Okay, if you're on the Fosters page you might be thinking 10 pups? 258 00:17:40,400 --> 00:17:41,400 Huh? 259 00:17:41,400 --> 00:17:42,400 I thought it was 11. 260 00:17:42,400 --> 00:17:45,200 Well you're right and you're wrong. 261 00:17:45,200 --> 00:17:50,560 It's actually 12 but let me tell you Rosie's story first. 262 00:17:50,560 --> 00:17:55,720 Rosie pulled a very pregnant Rosie back during this horrible ice storm. 263 00:17:55,720 --> 00:18:01,120 She was actually just a few houses down from my mom's house so as soon as the roads were 264 00:18:01,120 --> 00:18:05,240 the tiniest bit safe to drive on my mom went and got her. 265 00:18:05,240 --> 00:18:12,080 From what I understand Rosie was dumped or somehow wandered up to a store sort of like 266 00:18:12,080 --> 00:18:17,080 a Lowe's or a Home Depot where they have like an outdoor section and the employees there 267 00:18:17,080 --> 00:18:21,400 just kind of let her stay and they fed her their lunches and scraps. 268 00:18:21,400 --> 00:18:25,640 But when the freezing weather was coming they knew she needed to go somewhere safe so one 269 00:18:25,640 --> 00:18:29,840 of the employees took her and dropped her off at his girlfriend's house. 270 00:18:29,840 --> 00:18:33,920 She's the one who posted her on Facebook looking for a rescue. 271 00:18:33,920 --> 00:18:39,120 Another rescue saw it and knew I had just taken the Trin Walker Mama from Lash Transport 272 00:18:39,120 --> 00:18:43,720 for this rescue and asked me if I would also take this mama. 273 00:18:43,720 --> 00:18:47,680 And y'all know I cannot say no to hound dog ears. 274 00:18:47,680 --> 00:18:51,840 This girlfriend had her for about 10 days and she could not stop bragging about what 275 00:18:51,840 --> 00:18:53,680 a good dog she is. 276 00:18:53,680 --> 00:18:58,520 The girlfriend actually only has one leg so anytime she had to take Rosie outside on 277 00:18:58,520 --> 00:19:03,720 a leash to go potty she had to stop and put her prosthetic leg on and she said Rosie was 278 00:19:03,720 --> 00:19:09,280 always so gentle and so slow to make sure she didn't pull her down in the snow or trip 279 00:19:09,280 --> 00:19:10,840 her on the ice. 280 00:19:10,840 --> 00:19:13,880 She would wait so patiently for her to put her leash on her. 281 00:19:13,880 --> 00:19:15,720 She was a really good dog. 282 00:19:15,720 --> 00:19:21,460 Anyway we got her to our bottle feeder foster and about a week or so later she gave birth. 283 00:19:21,460 --> 00:19:25,640 We thought we were going to have to take her in for an emergency c-section because she 284 00:19:25,640 --> 00:19:31,560 had one puppy and then she didn't have another puppy for quite a long time. 285 00:19:31,560 --> 00:19:36,440 But of course right as we were about to load her up all the rest of her puppies shot out 286 00:19:36,440 --> 00:19:37,600 of her. 287 00:19:37,600 --> 00:19:44,800 The reason that we are only sending 10 of the 11 kind of 12 puppies is because the runt 288 00:19:44,800 --> 00:19:48,520 is so unbelievably tiny still. 289 00:19:48,520 --> 00:19:52,920 The foster will hold Rosie down once or twice a day to make sure that the runt is nursing 290 00:19:52,920 --> 00:19:56,480 a little bit but the rest of her feedings are done by bottle. 291 00:19:56,480 --> 00:20:01,200 I'm actually truly shocked that this puppy is still alive and it is a testament to how 292 00:20:01,200 --> 00:20:04,400 much time and attention our foster has given it. 293 00:20:04,400 --> 00:20:09,800 She's three weeks old today and in a perfect world she would still be with her mom to nurse 294 00:20:09,800 --> 00:20:13,160 on even if it was just once or twice a day. 295 00:20:13,160 --> 00:20:18,680 But there's no way she would survive the stress of transport let alone us find a foster up 296 00:20:18,680 --> 00:20:24,960 there that would take 10 puppies and the mom and bottle feed her the rest of her feedings. 297 00:20:24,960 --> 00:20:32,040 So she's just going to hang back with puppy number 12 who we refer to down here as the 298 00:20:32,040 --> 00:20:33,960 Walmart puppy. 299 00:20:33,960 --> 00:20:38,400 And y'all will just have to wait until the next episode to hear that insane story but 300 00:20:38,400 --> 00:20:45,360 I promise you are going to love these two puppies, their stories, and their shocking 301 00:20:45,360 --> 00:20:47,840 photos. 302 00:20:47,840 --> 00:20:54,400 As for the cats, there are only two on this transport but that's because fingers crossed 303 00:20:54,400 --> 00:21:00,200 we are actually hoping to sneak in one more cat transport before we totally close down 304 00:21:00,200 --> 00:21:02,120 until April. 305 00:21:02,120 --> 00:21:09,000 The plan as of right now pending everything is actually to send puppy 11 and puppy 12 306 00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:12,000 on that cat transport too. 307 00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:18,000 Sweet Pea would have been on that cat transport but he is so lonely and so pitiful at the dog 308 00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:22,560 house that we just couldn't bear to leave him there another day. 309 00:21:22,560 --> 00:21:27,520 He is an owner surrender because the owners other cats were being mean to him so she made 310 00:21:27,520 --> 00:21:31,680 him stay outside but he always tried to get back in the house to be with her and she knew 311 00:21:31,680 --> 00:21:34,240 that that just wasn't a good life for him. 312 00:21:34,240 --> 00:21:39,840 He is so gorgeous and so sweet he is going to be the best cat for somebody and I hope 313 00:21:39,840 --> 00:21:45,320 they give him all the love and attention he's been starved for his whole life. 314 00:21:45,320 --> 00:21:50,160 Kay for Lily was actually supposed to be on the Alabama football transport from January 315 00:21:50,160 --> 00:21:51,680 27th. 316 00:21:51,680 --> 00:21:57,280 She showed up with her litter mates, the Kay litter but her eyes were so gunky and she 317 00:21:57,280 --> 00:22:02,220 was so snotty we knew she needed to be held back and given some heavy duty medicine. 318 00:22:02,220 --> 00:22:07,360 She was actually supposed to go again on the February 7th transport but she was still too 319 00:22:07,360 --> 00:22:13,960 sick so we held her back one more time and finally she was cleared to go on today's transport. 320 00:22:13,960 --> 00:22:19,960 One of her eyes still looks pretty bad but we're told that's like scarring kind of from 321 00:22:19,960 --> 00:22:22,960 how sick she's been. 322 00:22:22,960 --> 00:22:29,400 And that is all of the stories for today, hopefully, hopefully you will be hearing from 323 00:22:29,400 --> 00:22:33,160 me in the next couple weeks when we do a cat transport. 324 00:22:33,160 --> 00:22:37,760 Otherwise, the next time we do a transport and you hear from me it will be April and 325 00:22:37,760 --> 00:22:43,680 I should hopefully be dragging a newborn baby out there with me. 326 00:22:43,680 --> 00:22:45,800 Fingers crossed anyways. 327 00:22:45,800 --> 00:23:04,200 It's a rough life but someone's got to do it.