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hello friends welcome to Rough Life. It has been quite a rough few days but we

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are finally home from the hospital and we are doing so much better. We had our

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sweet little baby last Tuesday. We came home Friday and we got sent back to the

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hospital on Monday. So we are very thankful to finally be home and settling

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in with our baby and our puppies who by the way are handling this transition so

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much better than I thought they would. But anyways, on to the transport stories.

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Again, I am recording this in advance. It is actually 1 a.m. the morning of

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transport. So there may be a few stories on here of animals who end up getting

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cut if we don't find fosters for them in literally the next few hours. But I'll

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go ahead and include their stories just in case. I also didn't do the names for

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the transport. I actually don't even know who did do them. I'm very glad they did

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do them for me though. But when I'm butchering the pronunciation of them

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and you're wondering why I would have picked these names for singles when I

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knew I would have to say them out loud, don't blame me. First up is Queen Eggbo.

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I don't think it's Eggbo. She and her sister had been hanging around a

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church parking lot for several days. People were posting them on Facebook and

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asking for help, but we didn't have any open fosters at the time. The sister was

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hit by a car a day or two later and Queenie wouldn't leave the dead body.

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One of our fosters who said they weren't able to help couldn't take it any

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longer and they just went and picked her up themselves and they agreed to foster

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her until transport. Richards is the runt from Roses R litter of pups back on

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February 2nd flower transport. We held her back because she was just so

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insanely puny and our foster was having to bottle feed her. I'm going to try my

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hardest to remember to post her before picture on the fosters page because it

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is shocking. It is a shocking picture to see, but if I forget, somebody remind me

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because you guys have to see this picture. Van Lu is an owner surrender. They

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love him and have worked hard on training him to be a great dog. They just

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don't have enough time to devote to him and they feel like he isn't getting

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enough attention, so they're surrendering him to our rescue.

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Adkins was found in the median in the middle of a four-lane highway lying

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next to his dead mother who had been hit by a car. One of our rescue partners

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fosters drove by and saw him sitting there and turned around to get him.

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Holds Claw is a four-month-old AKC registered standard poodle. He is an

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owner surrender. The owner got him from a backyard breeder who kept him in a tiny

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cage all by himself. She took him home and he did great, but her older dog just

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would not accept him. He would constantly bully him, so she wanted him to go to a

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new home where he would be loved. The K litter of two were picked up by animal

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control and taken to a kill shelter. When no owner came forward for them, the

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shelter called one of our rescue partners to see if she would come get them.

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The E litter of four were found barely alive. They were covered in fleas and

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full of worms. After a dawn bath, lots of dewormer and some canned puppy food, they

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made a speedy recovery, but they were very pitiful those first few days. The S

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litter of eight were brought into a vet's office. The owner asked if she could

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surrender them there and they told her if she could keep them a little bit

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longer that they knew a wonderful rescue that could take the puppies and would

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spay her mama dog. She was glad to keep them safe until then and is so thankful

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to have her mama spayed for free. The M litter of seven, but actually maybe 15,

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but maybe just 12, are two litters living at the same home. There are actually

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neighbors to our veterinarian. That's how the owner got in contact with us. They

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are all living under a rundown pickup truck. The owner says there's 15, but

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Jessica only counted 12, but could only catch seven, which actually ended up

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working out okay because we really didn't have a spot for the other eight to go

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this week until transport. So we're gonna get the remaining however many next

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week and work with them until the May transport. The J litter of four, our owner

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surrenders. The owner was desperate for a rescue to take them to be sure that they

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got a good home. When she finally found a northern rescue to help her, they told

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her that they were only gonna take the brown one and they didn't want the three

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black ones. She told them no way. She would rather just keep them all herself

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if she had to. So she is very thankful that Wolf Drampt stepped up to take all

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four of them. As for the cats, Natasha Cloud was supposed to be on the last

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transport, but didn't get a foster. I did share her story last week, but as a

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reminder, she was an owner surrender. We tried to get last year when she was just

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a kitten. The owner decided not to surrender her and was just gonna have

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her declawed instead. Despite us trying to talk her out of it and explaining how

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cruel and humane it is, she was still just gonna go forward with it until she

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realized how much money it was gonna cost her. And then she decided to surrender

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her for real toes and all. The D litter of two were supposed to be on the last

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transport, but the foster wasn't able to bring them. I shared their story last

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week, but as a reminder, they were being given away on Facebook and one of our

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rescue partners fosters, messaged them, and told them that they would foster them

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until our rescue could get them on transport. The L litter of three were

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supposed to be on the last transport, but the foster that wasn't able to bring

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the D litter of two was supposed to pick up these and bring them to, but

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obviously did not. I shared their story last week as well, but to remind you,

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they were owner surrenders. The owner reached out to our rescue partners cat

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foster the day before the last transport and asked if she would foster them

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until a rescue took them. The owners are so thankful that the kittens are going to

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a rescue where they will find great homes and that their mama cat will be

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spayed for free. The B litter of three were actually a litter of four. One of

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our rescue partners fosters co-workers was trying to give away the kittens one

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day at work, so she talked them into letting WolfDrab have them and they were

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especially thankful to have their mama cats spayed for free. They were supposed

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to leave on last week's transport too, but had an upper respiratory infection

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and had to be put on some medications. Then the day before transport, a dog that

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the foster was keeping somehow was able to push open a back door into their

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home and not only killed two of their own personal cats, but also killed one of

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the kittens from this litter. Thankfully the fosters husband came home in time to

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stop the massacre before it was even worse, but unfortunately they did

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euthanize the dog. And there are a few others that at the time of this recording

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are not confirmed to be coming, but I'm gonna tell you their story anyways and

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hopes that we get fosters for them and they make it on the ban. There is a

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litter of three with no names yet. They are owner surrenders from the new fie

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lady. I honestly I don't even remember how many

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litters we have taken from this lady. You'll have to go back and listen to the last

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transport podcast when I listed them all out, but she loves this mama cat and

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she wants to keep her so she is very thankful that Wolftrap is spaying her

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and taking the kittens for her. That same lady also found the single kitten in

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the middle of the road tonight. I'm pretty sure the single kitten is gonna go.

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She looked around for a mama or siblings but never found any. And that same lady is

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also the one that is giving us the pregnant cat who may or may not be on

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transport. Her ex-mother-in-law asked if she'd take her because she didn't want

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to have to deal with the kittens. She said she was only taking her because she

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knew we would take them all in the end and find them wonderful homes. And then

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there is another no-name litter of... I actually don't even know how many kittens

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but they're all gray little bitty kittens and they were being given away on

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Facebook tonight. We did reach out to the poster but I'm not sure if we've heard

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back from them yet and I don't even know if we have fosters for them. So we shall

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see. And that is all for now. I'm not even sure how many more will get cut or added

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but I'll add any missing stories to the fosters page. I am actually fingers

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crossed hoping to be at transport tomorrow. I am still not cleared to drive.

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I'm only about a week and a half postpartum from a c-section so I will

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not be much help at all. But I can at least stand there with a cute baby and

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take some pictures of some cute animals. So here's hoping our May transports

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will be back to quote-unquote normal whatever a normal transport is for us.

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