Hello friends, welcome to Rough Life. I've got a special guest in the studio with me
today and by special guest I mean my very sleepy and very fussy newborn baby and by
studio I mean our laundry room that my husband had to move his computer into so that we could
turn his office into a nursery. So if you hear any strange background noises it is either my baby
trying to poop or our washing machine but let's get into today's episode before we hit the witching
hour. I am actually recording this the night before transport so you know the drill by now
nothing is confirmed some of these might not get to go some might be added we will give you the
final deets in the fosters page after the van rolls out. The theme is the Kentucky Derby and if you
didn't know Dr Burton was actually at the Kentucky Derby or whatever Kentucky Derby Festival that
they had last weekend because she was sponsored by Mars the dog food company to go. They're also
sending her to the UK for badminton and in case you're an uncultured person like me and thought
that she was being sponsored by Mars to go to England to play badminton or even worse sent
there just to watch a badminton competition it's actually the UK's version of the Kentucky Derby
apparently. I tell you I learn so much during the names for these themes I learn way more than I
ever learned in college. Anyways Jockey was found on the side of the road when he was about four
weeks old. Jessica's cousin actually picked him up and was going to foster him until transport but
then they started wanting to keep him so Jessica moved him to the jail to be fostered by the inmates
for the rest of the time until transport. Y'all know you got to be a top-notch dog owner for us
to be willing to let you keep a puppy ain't no favors just because you're family. Preakness
Steaks which apparently is also another horse race is actually from another rescue that we haven't
partnered with very much but they reached out and they said that their northern partner is slowing
down tremendously it wouldn't be able to take this puppy so they weren't going to be able to
commit to helping him if Wolf Trap didn't agree to take him so when we agreed to help they put us
in touch with the finder who was fostering him for them. When we asked them for his background
story they said we aren't sure where he came from just tell them that when I went outside he came
around from behind the dog pen in my yard he was soaking wet from all the rain we had had
and I knew he had to be a drop-off because we live in an area that gets drop-offs all the time
and from that day I started fostering him and asking rescues all over for help. He is so loving
and loves to give hugs, lay in your lap and gets along great with our blind dog and our cat.
He adjusts to things so easily he deserves so much better than he was given. Woodford Reserve was
found abandoned at a church. Someone contacted someone our rescue partner works with and they
contacted our rescue partner to see if Wolf Trap would take the puppy if they agreed to find a
foster until transport. She ended up having to foster him herself because she couldn't find a
foster and he's been the best little puppy ever she said. She said it seems like he can tell that
he's been rescued and he is so grateful. Northern Dancer is a stray I'll have to see if the rescue
bringing him has any more information on him though. The M letter of two are owner surrenders. The mom
is a full-blooded lab and the dad is supposedly a full-blooded Australian shepherd. The owners are
excited to get both of them fixed for free. The K letter of two oh my goodness how stink and cute
are they. They were dumped out in a pasture on back roads in a super rural part here in Alabama.
The shelter took them in and immediately sent us pictures to see if we were interested.
Of course we were. They held them for three weeks until we could get them on transport.
The C mama and her six puppies. I'm going to tell you Jessica's version of the story and then I'm
going to tell you what actually happened. According to Jessica a guy at the water department called
us when he found a tiny puppy on the side of the road. He brought it back to work and an office
worker there suckered a family into fostering it for her. Then they found the mom and five more puppies.
What actually happened was the guy asked us if we could take the puppy. Jessica asked me. I said no.
No way absolutely not. I had just gotten home from my second hospital stay with a newborn premature
baby. My mom was in her first round of her bone infusion therapy and was super super sick and
Jessica was having to wear gloves on her hand anytime she moved them because she had such
terrible eczema on them and they were causing her so much pain. So I told her no we have nowhere to
put it and now is not a good time for us to commit to any more animals. So she committed to the puppy
anyways. And then she had to text me back the next day and tell me not only was I going to have to
take the puppy that I told her I did not want to take but now it's coming with five other litter
mates and a mama. But oh well they are stinking cute and I'm so glad that we were able to save them
especially without any of us having to take on any more fosters. I don't actually know how we
found the rest of the litter and the mom. I think that they were found in the same location that
next day when the same worker drove by. But Jessica will find out and she will let us all know on the
fosters page. The d litter of five and the b litter of eight were both being bottle fed by our
bottle feeder foster. That's hard to say. The litter of five was originally a litter of eight as well.
Someone messaged us that they had found them on the side of the road in a box and they were
newborn newborn babies. They were itty bitty. The finder brought them home and his pregnant girlfriend
had been bottle feeding them but she knew she couldn't handle doing it much longer. So they asked us
to take them. We put them in touch with our bottle feeder and they met each other to exchange the
puppies directly. But the finder only gave them okay the finder kept two so they gave them six.
That's hard math for me right now. I still have pregnancy brain. They wanted to keep the other two
but our foster didn't know that he was supposed to put up a fight to get the other two so he just
let them leave. So super bummed about that. Then they ended up getting parvo when our
our very well-meaning and very precious foster tried to help another rescue out by letting
another older litter spend the night in their outside kennel for one night and then drove them
to meet their northern foster that was taking them. They later found out a few days after that
that that litter broke with parvo and the next day this litter started to show symptoms and one
of them ended up passing away about four days in. The b litter of eight all got parvo as well
but they all recovered. They were also found on the side of the road when they were little but
they already had their eyes open so they were quite a bit older than the d litter.
And our foster is now on parvo hold indefinitely and we are super upset. As for the cats the
age litter of three are owner surrenders. They're from the same home as the t litter of five from
the september eighth twenty twenty one big brother transport and the p litter of six on the november
thirtieth twenty twenty one christmas words transport transport. That's a major throwback.
The owner knew what wonderful lives all of her puppies got through wolf trap so when this mama
cat wandered up and had her kittens she knew she wanted wolf trap to take the kittens to.
She was super thrilled when she found out that we would take all the kittens and
pay the mom for her for free because they had gotten attached to the mama. The f litter of four
were actually supposed to be on the last transport but when they got picked up from the owners house
they were so sick they couldn't even open their eyes so our rescue partner sent them home with
her foster got them started on meds that same day and they have made a full recovery. Their original
story is on last week's episode they are from the new fee house. The e litter of three are actually
a single and a litter of two but they've all been bottle fed by our bottle feeder foster.
They're bottle fed together so we're just keeping them as a family just because they've all been
together. The white one was found in a walmart buggy when her eyes were still closed and the other
two were found under a house except not the usual way we find them under a house. The people were
remodeling their home and when they ripped up the kitchen floor they found the kittens but the mom
never came back. The t litter of three are actually a litter of five or were a litter of five.
They were so sick when we first got them one of them died a few hours after Jessica got home with
it. The fourth one is the runt and it's still pretty sickly so we're going to hold it back just
to be on the safe side that it doesn't get any sicker on the on the drive to Virginia. The other
three are doing great. Jessica was at a house for a sewage complaint. I don't know if I've ever told
you all what Jessica's actual paying job is. She's kind of like Chandler from friends in our group
where no one really knows what her actual job is but she goes to people's houses and she works for
the government maybe or maybe it's just the city. I don't know. She's a transponder.
Anyways back to the sad story I was telling you. She went to their house for a sewage complaint
and she saw all these crates stacked up with kittens and cats in them and they were covered with
fleas and had their eyes matted shut. They had a mom with them but the owner insisted on keeping her.
The our mama and her four kittens well it might not be a mama. We're still TBD on her. We can't
figure out if she's feral and will kill you in your sleep or if she's just a little timid and
Jessica's just a big sissy about it but at any rate they are from the same home as the t litter of
three except instead of being in a crate. They were in kind of a cat tower with a garbage bag over
it. It was supposed to be a mom and two kittens but there was a cubby with two other kittens in it
and the owner said hmm I guess there were more kittens than I thought. I've never seen those two
before. The g mama and her four kittens and the s mama and her five kittens are from our Alabama
shelter friends. The g mama was dumped on someone's porch when she was pregnant. She gave birth to
their kittens at their front door and they gathered them up about a week later and brought them to
the shelter. The s mama was brought in as a pregnant stray and had her kittens at the shelter.
She actually only had four kittens but a single kitten was brought in later that needed to be
bottle fed so they put her with this momma to see if she would let it nurse instead and she took that
baby right in. That is all the stories for this week. We actually decided just yesterday to add
a last minute kitten transport for next week because we have so many adorable kittens right now
and all of y'all are just kitten crazy up there for some reason. So if you missed out on fostering
any of these make sure you sign up for next week's kitten transport or the following week we have our
regularly scheduled normal transport. But thank you for listening. I hope you enjoyed this special
episode with my guest star Mary Sue. I'm just glad she slept through the whole thing and wasn't screaming.
It's a rough life but someone's got to do it.