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Hello friends, welcome to Rough Life. I'm going to make this one as quick as I can since

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I'm on a little bit of a time crunch. Naptime is almost over and I don't think you will

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want my co-host to be back on the mic with me when she just wakes up from her nap and

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is hungry. I tried to come up with a Mother's Day theme for the transport today since it

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is Mother's Day weekend, but I really could not think of anything at all. So we are calling

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this the Sit Down Restaurant Chain Transport since you'll probably end up taking your

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mother out to eat at one of these this weekend. Actually, as I'm recording this, transport

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is going on right now, right this minute. We have so many kittens leaving from the shelter

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here in Alabama that I could not fit them all in my car, so we were going to have to

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bring the van here to load them up, but it didn't make sense to have all of our Mississippi

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rescue friends drive all the way out here just to drop off their animals. So Jessica is loading

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up the Mississippi animals right now. In a few minutes, my mom is going to drive the

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van to the shelter here where I'll meet her and I'll load up the rest of the animals,

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and then our driver is coming to get the van from the shelter and head to Knoxville to

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meet the Virginia driver. So much to coordinate every week. There is only one litter of puppies

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on the transport this week considering this is a kitten transport. They are the litter

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of seven C pups. They are the other half of the M litter of seven from the April 13th

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Mystic transport. They were actually supposed to be a litter of 15 from two different litters

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living at the same home. They are neighbors to our vet and that's how the owner got in

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contact with us. They were all living under a rundown pickup truck. The owner said there

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was 15 Jessica only counted 12 but could only catch seven originally, which actually ended

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up working out okay because we really didn't have a spot for the others to go on transport

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that week. So just went back the next week caught the other seven. No one knows what

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happened to the 15th if there even really was a 15th or if the owner just miscounted.

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The seven were supposed to go last week, but we didn't have fosters or room on the van

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for them since they are so big. So we were very happy to keep them an extra week in order

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to get them all spread out on the van today. Okay, everyone else's kittens now. Yard house

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is from the tea litter of three from last week's Kentucky Derby transport. This little

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guy was still too sick to go on transport with his litter mates. So we held him back

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so he could finish up his meds and bulk up a little bit. I hop in the tea litter of three

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are from our veterinarian friend in Fulton. Fun fact, this veterinarian is actually Dr.

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Burton's former student turned best friend. I hop was found in the middle of the road

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and brought to her clinic. And then she had an older woman come in wanting to re home

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the tea litter of three kittens. So Dr. Jamie just held on to them for the week to make

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sure that we got them. The S litter of three are yet another litter from the new fee home.

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They might or might not be litter mates. Two momma escaped birth one day after the other

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and one momma developed mastitis and it ruptured. So we got her to the vet for surgery and emergency

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spay. In the meantime, the other momma took over nursing her babies. They were all orange.

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So there was no telling them apart. Unfortunately, two kittens ended up passing away from an

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upper respiratory infection. But we got the other three kittens and got them started on

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meds and they are doing great. And the second momma will be spayed in a few weeks. The m

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litter of four were posted on Facebook as free to a good home after their mom wandered

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up to a business and gave birth. The kittens were wandering all around their parking lot

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by then and someone actually just took one of them home. The poster agreed to hold on

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to them until one of our fosters could get there to pick up the remaining four and the

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business owner kept the mom and is excited to have her spayed for free. The oh litter

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of four, a rescue friend saw one of her friends post them on Facebook trying to give them

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away and she quickly contacted her and told her don't give any away. She could get them

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into a wonderful rescue that would also spay to have her mom will also pay to have her

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momma cat spayed. The owner was more than happy to accept that deal. Okay, everyone else on

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the van is from our Alabama shelter friends. The director actually just texted me about

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an hour ago to see what time I was coming to get everyone because they have more kittens

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needing to come in right now and they do not have a single place to put them like even

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just to hold them for a few hours until we go and get these kittens out. That's how overrun

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they are right now. Unfortunately, like most letters from the shelter, none of these really

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have background stories, but I will tell you what I do know. The a letter of two are not

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litter mates. The orange ones mom was hit by a car and the kittens were all brought to

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the shelter of the litter mates died and she was the only kitten left. So they put her

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in with the gray kittens so that the gray kitten and the orange kitten would not be

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alone. The gray kitten was found by herself in a hollowed out tree. The L letter of two

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were brought in as strays. The D letter of two were born in foster care. The foster had

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them for several months and then brought them to the shelter in hopes of getting them adopted.

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The F letter of three were brought in as strays. The P letter of three were owner surrenders.

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They were owner surrenders because the owners claimed they did not have time to litter box

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train them. The R letter of four are not all litter mates either. The black kitten was found

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inside an RV engine and brought to the shelter and animal control picked up the other three

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as strays. They were all housed together. Okay the B mama and her three kittens were brought

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in claiming that they were feral. They are absolutely anything but feral. But funny story.

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I said there are pictures to Jacqueline to see if we could get them on transport this week. I

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said it's four kittens, a single and a letter of three. Jacqueline asked me how old the single was

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and in my head I'm thinking Jacqueline just look at the picture. She is clearly somewhere around

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10 weeks old. So I wrote back probably 10 weeks maybe 12 actually could be eight. I have no idea

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and no truer words were ever spoken. I had no idea how old this cat was. When I told the shelter

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what all we were taking the shelter wrote back and said so the mom and three kittens. I said the

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mom. I didn't know they had a mom. She said yeah that other cat is the mom. I told her I had her

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down as a 10 week old kitten not a mama. She said yeah I don't think she'll pass for that.

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But that is all the stories for today. We had 58 animals last week, 43 animals today and another

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transport next week. So make sure you sign up to foster. It is a rough life but someone's got to do

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it and someone has got to go feed this baby. Bye friends!