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Hello friends, welcome to Rough Life. I've got a special guest in the studio with me

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today and by special guest I mean my very sleepy and very fussy newborn baby and by

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studio I mean our laundry room that my husband had to move his computer into so that we could

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turn his office into a nursery. So if you hear any strange background noises it is either my baby

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trying to poop or our washing machine but let's get into today's episode before we hit the witching

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hour. I am actually recording this the night before transport so you know the drill by now

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nothing is confirmed some of these might not get to go some might be added we will give you the

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final deets in the fosters page after the van rolls out. The theme is the Kentucky Derby and if you

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didn't know Dr Burton was actually at the Kentucky Derby or whatever Kentucky Derby Festival that

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they had last weekend because she was sponsored by Mars the dog food company to go. They're also

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sending her to the UK for badminton and in case you're an uncultured person like me and thought

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that she was being sponsored by Mars to go to England to play badminton or even worse sent

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there just to watch a badminton competition it's actually the UK's version of the Kentucky Derby

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apparently. I tell you I learn so much during the names for these themes I learn way more than I

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ever learned in college. Anyways Jockey was found on the side of the road when he was about four

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weeks old. Jessica's cousin actually picked him up and was going to foster him until transport but

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then they started wanting to keep him so Jessica moved him to the jail to be fostered by the inmates

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for the rest of the time until transport. Y'all know you got to be a top-notch dog owner for us

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to be willing to let you keep a puppy ain't no favors just because you're family. Preakness

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Steaks which apparently is also another horse race is actually from another rescue that we haven't

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partnered with very much but they reached out and they said that their northern partner is slowing

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down tremendously it wouldn't be able to take this puppy so they weren't going to be able to

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commit to helping him if Wolf Trap didn't agree to take him so when we agreed to help they put us

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in touch with the finder who was fostering him for them. When we asked them for his background

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story they said we aren't sure where he came from just tell them that when I went outside he came

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around from behind the dog pen in my yard he was soaking wet from all the rain we had had

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and I knew he had to be a drop-off because we live in an area that gets drop-offs all the time

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and from that day I started fostering him and asking rescues all over for help. He is so loving

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and loves to give hugs, lay in your lap and gets along great with our blind dog and our cat.

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He adjusts to things so easily he deserves so much better than he was given. Woodford Reserve was

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found abandoned at a church. Someone contacted someone our rescue partner works with and they

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contacted our rescue partner to see if Wolf Trap would take the puppy if they agreed to find a

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foster until transport. She ended up having to foster him herself because she couldn't find a

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foster and he's been the best little puppy ever she said. She said it seems like he can tell that

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he's been rescued and he is so grateful. Northern Dancer is a stray I'll have to see if the rescue

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bringing him has any more information on him though. The M letter of two are owner surrenders. The mom

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is a full-blooded lab and the dad is supposedly a full-blooded Australian shepherd. The owners are

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excited to get both of them fixed for free. The K letter of two oh my goodness how stink and cute

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are they. They were dumped out in a pasture on back roads in a super rural part here in Alabama.

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The shelter took them in and immediately sent us pictures to see if we were interested.

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Of course we were. They held them for three weeks until we could get them on transport.

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The C mama and her six puppies. I'm going to tell you Jessica's version of the story and then I'm

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going to tell you what actually happened. According to Jessica a guy at the water department called

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us when he found a tiny puppy on the side of the road. He brought it back to work and an office

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worker there suckered a family into fostering it for her. Then they found the mom and five more puppies.

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What actually happened was the guy asked us if we could take the puppy. Jessica asked me. I said no.

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No way absolutely not. I had just gotten home from my second hospital stay with a newborn premature

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baby. My mom was in her first round of her bone infusion therapy and was super super sick and

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Jessica was having to wear gloves on her hand anytime she moved them because she had such

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terrible eczema on them and they were causing her so much pain. So I told her no we have nowhere to

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put it and now is not a good time for us to commit to any more animals. So she committed to the puppy

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anyways. And then she had to text me back the next day and tell me not only was I going to have to

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take the puppy that I told her I did not want to take but now it's coming with five other litter

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mates and a mama. But oh well they are stinking cute and I'm so glad that we were able to save them

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especially without any of us having to take on any more fosters. I don't actually know how we

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found the rest of the litter and the mom. I think that they were found in the same location that

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next day when the same worker drove by. But Jessica will find out and she will let us all know on the

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fosters page. The d litter of five and the b litter of eight were both being bottle fed by our

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bottle feeder foster. That's hard to say. The litter of five was originally a litter of eight as well.

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Someone messaged us that they had found them on the side of the road in a box and they were

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newborn newborn babies. They were itty bitty. The finder brought them home and his pregnant girlfriend

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had been bottle feeding them but she knew she couldn't handle doing it much longer. So they asked us

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to take them. We put them in touch with our bottle feeder and they met each other to exchange the

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puppies directly. But the finder only gave them okay the finder kept two so they gave them six.

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That's hard math for me right now. I still have pregnancy brain. They wanted to keep the other two

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but our foster didn't know that he was supposed to put up a fight to get the other two so he just

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let them leave. So super bummed about that. Then they ended up getting parvo when our

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our very well-meaning and very precious foster tried to help another rescue out by letting

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another older litter spend the night in their outside kennel for one night and then drove them

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to meet their northern foster that was taking them. They later found out a few days after that

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that that litter broke with parvo and the next day this litter started to show symptoms and one

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of them ended up passing away about four days in. The b litter of eight all got parvo as well

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but they all recovered. They were also found on the side of the road when they were little but

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they already had their eyes open so they were quite a bit older than the d litter.

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And our foster is now on parvo hold indefinitely and we are super upset. As for the cats the

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age litter of three are owner surrenders. They're from the same home as the t litter of five from

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the september eighth twenty twenty one big brother transport and the p litter of six on the november

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thirtieth twenty twenty one christmas words transport transport. That's a major throwback.

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The owner knew what wonderful lives all of her puppies got through wolf trap so when this mama

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cat wandered up and had her kittens she knew she wanted wolf trap to take the kittens to.

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She was super thrilled when she found out that we would take all the kittens and

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pay the mom for her for free because they had gotten attached to the mama. The f litter of four

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were actually supposed to be on the last transport but when they got picked up from the owners house

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they were so sick they couldn't even open their eyes so our rescue partner sent them home with

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her foster got them started on meds that same day and they have made a full recovery. Their original

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story is on last week's episode they are from the new fee house. The e litter of three are actually

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a single and a litter of two but they've all been bottle fed by our bottle feeder foster.

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They're bottle fed together so we're just keeping them as a family just because they've all been

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together. The white one was found in a walmart buggy when her eyes were still closed and the other

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two were found under a house except not the usual way we find them under a house. The people were

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remodeling their home and when they ripped up the kitchen floor they found the kittens but the mom

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never came back. The t litter of three are actually a litter of five or were a litter of five.

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They were so sick when we first got them one of them died a few hours after Jessica got home with

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it. The fourth one is the runt and it's still pretty sickly so we're going to hold it back just

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to be on the safe side that it doesn't get any sicker on the on the drive to Virginia. The other

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three are doing great. Jessica was at a house for a sewage complaint. I don't know if I've ever told

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you all what Jessica's actual paying job is. She's kind of like Chandler from friends in our group

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where no one really knows what her actual job is but she goes to people's houses and she works for

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the government maybe or maybe it's just the city. I don't know. She's a transponder.

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Anyways back to the sad story I was telling you. She went to their house for a sewage complaint

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and she saw all these crates stacked up with kittens and cats in them and they were covered with

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fleas and had their eyes matted shut. They had a mom with them but the owner insisted on keeping her.

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The our mama and her four kittens well it might not be a mama. We're still TBD on her. We can't

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figure out if she's feral and will kill you in your sleep or if she's just a little timid and

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Jessica's just a big sissy about it but at any rate they are from the same home as the t litter of

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three except instead of being in a crate. They were in kind of a cat tower with a garbage bag over

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it. It was supposed to be a mom and two kittens but there was a cubby with two other kittens in it

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and the owner said hmm I guess there were more kittens than I thought. I've never seen those two

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before. The g mama and her four kittens and the s mama and her five kittens are from our Alabama

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shelter friends. The g mama was dumped on someone's porch when she was pregnant. She gave birth to

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their kittens at their front door and they gathered them up about a week later and brought them to

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the shelter. The s mama was brought in as a pregnant stray and had her kittens at the shelter.

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She actually only had four kittens but a single kitten was brought in later that needed to be

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bottle fed so they put her with this momma to see if she would let it nurse instead and she took that

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baby right in. That is all the stories for this week. We actually decided just yesterday to add

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a last minute kitten transport for next week because we have so many adorable kittens right now

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and all of y'all are just kitten crazy up there for some reason. So if you missed out on fostering

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any of these make sure you sign up for next week's kitten transport or the following week we have our

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regularly scheduled normal transport. But thank you for listening. I hope you enjoyed this special

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episode with my guest star Mary Sue. I'm just glad she slept through the whole thing and wasn't screaming.

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It's a rough life but someone's got to do it.