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hello friends welcome to Rough Life. It has been quite a rough few days but we
are finally home from the hospital and we are doing so much better. We had our
sweet little baby last Tuesday. We came home Friday and we got sent back to the
hospital on Monday. So we are very thankful to finally be home and settling
in with our baby and our puppies who by the way are handling this transition so
much better than I thought they would. But anyways, on to the transport stories.
Again, I am recording this in advance. It is actually 1 a.m. the morning of
transport. So there may be a few stories on here of animals who end up getting
cut if we don't find fosters for them in literally the next few hours. But I'll
go ahead and include their stories just in case. I also didn't do the names for
the transport. I actually don't even know who did do them. I'm very glad they did
do them for me though. But when I'm butchering the pronunciation of them
and you're wondering why I would have picked these names for singles when I
knew I would have to say them out loud, don't blame me. First up is Queen Eggbo.
I don't think it's Eggbo. She and her sister had been hanging around a
church parking lot for several days. People were posting them on Facebook and
asking for help, but we didn't have any open fosters at the time. The sister was
hit by a car a day or two later and Queenie wouldn't leave the dead body.
One of our fosters who said they weren't able to help couldn't take it any
longer and they just went and picked her up themselves and they agreed to foster
her until transport. Richards is the runt from Roses R litter of pups back on
February 2nd flower transport. We held her back because she was just so
insanely puny and our foster was having to bottle feed her. I'm going to try my
hardest to remember to post her before picture on the fosters page because it
is shocking. It is a shocking picture to see, but if I forget, somebody remind me
because you guys have to see this picture. Van Lu is an owner surrender. They
love him and have worked hard on training him to be a great dog. They just
don't have enough time to devote to him and they feel like he isn't getting
enough attention, so they're surrendering him to our rescue.
Adkins was found in the median in the middle of a four-lane highway lying
next to his dead mother who had been hit by a car. One of our rescue partners
fosters drove by and saw him sitting there and turned around to get him.
Holds Claw is a four-month-old AKC registered standard poodle. He is an
owner surrender. The owner got him from a backyard breeder who kept him in a tiny
cage all by himself. She took him home and he did great, but her older dog just
would not accept him. He would constantly bully him, so she wanted him to go to a
new home where he would be loved. The K litter of two were picked up by animal
control and taken to a kill shelter. When no owner came forward for them, the
shelter called one of our rescue partners to see if she would come get them.
The E litter of four were found barely alive. They were covered in fleas and
full of worms. After a dawn bath, lots of dewormer and some canned puppy food, they
made a speedy recovery, but they were very pitiful those first few days. The S
litter of eight were brought into a vet's office. The owner asked if she could
surrender them there and they told her if she could keep them a little bit
longer that they knew a wonderful rescue that could take the puppies and would
spay her mama dog. She was glad to keep them safe until then and is so thankful
to have her mama spayed for free. The M litter of seven, but actually maybe 15,
but maybe just 12, are two litters living at the same home. There are actually
neighbors to our veterinarian. That's how the owner got in contact with us. They
are all living under a rundown pickup truck. The owner says there's 15, but
Jessica only counted 12, but could only catch seven, which actually ended up
working out okay because we really didn't have a spot for the other eight to go
this week until transport. So we're gonna get the remaining however many next
week and work with them until the May transport. The J litter of four, our owner
surrenders. The owner was desperate for a rescue to take them to be sure that they
got a good home. When she finally found a northern rescue to help her, they told
her that they were only gonna take the brown one and they didn't want the three
black ones. She told them no way. She would rather just keep them all herself
if she had to. So she is very thankful that Wolf Drampt stepped up to take all
four of them. As for the cats, Natasha Cloud was supposed to be on the last
transport, but didn't get a foster. I did share her story last week, but as a
reminder, she was an owner surrender. We tried to get last year when she was just
a kitten. The owner decided not to surrender her and was just gonna have
her declawed instead. Despite us trying to talk her out of it and explaining how
cruel and humane it is, she was still just gonna go forward with it until she
realized how much money it was gonna cost her. And then she decided to surrender
her for real toes and all. The D litter of two were supposed to be on the last
transport, but the foster wasn't able to bring them. I shared their story last
week, but as a reminder, they were being given away on Facebook and one of our
rescue partners fosters, messaged them, and told them that they would foster them
until our rescue could get them on transport. The L litter of three were
supposed to be on the last transport, but the foster that wasn't able to bring
the D litter of two was supposed to pick up these and bring them to, but
obviously did not. I shared their story last week as well, but to remind you,
they were owner surrenders. The owner reached out to our rescue partners cat
foster the day before the last transport and asked if she would foster them
until a rescue took them. The owners are so thankful that the kittens are going to
a rescue where they will find great homes and that their mama cat will be
spayed for free. The B litter of three were actually a litter of four. One of
our rescue partners fosters co-workers was trying to give away the kittens one
day at work, so she talked them into letting WolfDrab have them and they were
especially thankful to have their mama cats spayed for free. They were supposed
to leave on last week's transport too, but had an upper respiratory infection
and had to be put on some medications. Then the day before transport, a dog that
the foster was keeping somehow was able to push open a back door into their
home and not only killed two of their own personal cats, but also killed one of
the kittens from this litter. Thankfully the fosters husband came home in time to
stop the massacre before it was even worse, but unfortunately they did
euthanize the dog. And there are a few others that at the time of this recording
are not confirmed to be coming, but I'm gonna tell you their story anyways and
hopes that we get fosters for them and they make it on the ban. There is a
litter of three with no names yet. They are owner surrenders from the new fie
lady. I honestly I don't even remember how many
litters we have taken from this lady. You'll have to go back and listen to the last
transport podcast when I listed them all out, but she loves this mama cat and
she wants to keep her so she is very thankful that Wolftrap is spaying her
and taking the kittens for her. That same lady also found the single kitten in
the middle of the road tonight. I'm pretty sure the single kitten is gonna go.
She looked around for a mama or siblings but never found any. And that same lady is
also the one that is giving us the pregnant cat who may or may not be on
transport. Her ex-mother-in-law asked if she'd take her because she didn't want
to have to deal with the kittens. She said she was only taking her because she
knew we would take them all in the end and find them wonderful homes. And then
there is another no-name litter of... I actually don't even know how many kittens
but they're all gray little bitty kittens and they were being given away on
Facebook tonight. We did reach out to the poster but I'm not sure if we've heard
back from them yet and I don't even know if we have fosters for them. So we shall
see. And that is all for now. I'm not even sure how many more will get cut or added
but I'll add any missing stories to the fosters page. I am actually fingers
crossed hoping to be at transport tomorrow. I am still not cleared to drive.
I'm only about a week and a half postpartum from a c-section so I will
not be much help at all. But I can at least stand there with a cute baby and
take some pictures of some cute animals. So here's hoping our May transports
will be back to quote-unquote normal whatever a normal transport is for us.
It's a rough life but someone's gotta do it.