Hello friends, welcome to Rough Life. I'm going to make this one as quick as I can since
I'm on a little bit of a time crunch. Naptime is almost over and I don't think you will
want my co-host to be back on the mic with me when she just wakes up from her nap and
is hungry. I tried to come up with a Mother's Day theme for the transport today since it
is Mother's Day weekend, but I really could not think of anything at all. So we are calling
this the Sit Down Restaurant Chain Transport since you'll probably end up taking your
mother out to eat at one of these this weekend. Actually, as I'm recording this, transport
is going on right now, right this minute. We have so many kittens leaving from the shelter
here in Alabama that I could not fit them all in my car, so we were going to have to
bring the van here to load them up, but it didn't make sense to have all of our Mississippi
rescue friends drive all the way out here just to drop off their animals. So Jessica is loading
up the Mississippi animals right now. In a few minutes, my mom is going to drive the
van to the shelter here where I'll meet her and I'll load up the rest of the animals,
and then our driver is coming to get the van from the shelter and head to Knoxville to
meet the Virginia driver. So much to coordinate every week. There is only one litter of puppies
on the transport this week considering this is a kitten transport. They are the litter
of seven C pups. They are the other half of the M litter of seven from the April 13th
Mystic transport. They were actually supposed to be a litter of 15 from two different litters
living at the same home. They are neighbors to our vet and that's how the owner got in
contact with us. They were all living under a rundown pickup truck. The owner said there
was 15 Jessica only counted 12 but could only catch seven originally, which actually ended
up working out okay because we really didn't have a spot for the others to go on transport
that week. So just went back the next week caught the other seven. No one knows what
happened to the 15th if there even really was a 15th or if the owner just miscounted.
The seven were supposed to go last week, but we didn't have fosters or room on the van
for them since they are so big. So we were very happy to keep them an extra week in order
to get them all spread out on the van today. Okay, everyone else's kittens now. Yard house
is from the tea litter of three from last week's Kentucky Derby transport. This little
guy was still too sick to go on transport with his litter mates. So we held him back
so he could finish up his meds and bulk up a little bit. I hop in the tea litter of three
are from our veterinarian friend in Fulton. Fun fact, this veterinarian is actually Dr.
Burton's former student turned best friend. I hop was found in the middle of the road
and brought to her clinic. And then she had an older woman come in wanting to re home
the tea litter of three kittens. So Dr. Jamie just held on to them for the week to make
sure that we got them. The S litter of three are yet another litter from the new fee home.
They might or might not be litter mates. Two momma escaped birth one day after the other
and one momma developed mastitis and it ruptured. So we got her to the vet for surgery and emergency
spay. In the meantime, the other momma took over nursing her babies. They were all orange.
So there was no telling them apart. Unfortunately, two kittens ended up passing away from an
upper respiratory infection. But we got the other three kittens and got them started on
meds and they are doing great. And the second momma will be spayed in a few weeks. The m
litter of four were posted on Facebook as free to a good home after their mom wandered
up to a business and gave birth. The kittens were wandering all around their parking lot
by then and someone actually just took one of them home. The poster agreed to hold on
to them until one of our fosters could get there to pick up the remaining four and the
business owner kept the mom and is excited to have her spayed for free. The oh litter
of four, a rescue friend saw one of her friends post them on Facebook trying to give them
away and she quickly contacted her and told her don't give any away. She could get them
into a wonderful rescue that would also spay to have her mom will also pay to have her
momma cat spayed. The owner was more than happy to accept that deal. Okay, everyone else on
the van is from our Alabama shelter friends. The director actually just texted me about
an hour ago to see what time I was coming to get everyone because they have more kittens
needing to come in right now and they do not have a single place to put them like even
just to hold them for a few hours until we go and get these kittens out. That's how overrun
they are right now. Unfortunately, like most letters from the shelter, none of these really
have background stories, but I will tell you what I do know. The a letter of two are not
litter mates. The orange ones mom was hit by a car and the kittens were all brought to
the shelter of the litter mates died and she was the only kitten left. So they put her
in with the gray kittens so that the gray kitten and the orange kitten would not be
alone. The gray kitten was found by herself in a hollowed out tree. The L letter of two
were brought in as strays. The D letter of two were born in foster care. The foster had
them for several months and then brought them to the shelter in hopes of getting them adopted.
The F letter of three were brought in as strays. The P letter of three were owner surrenders.
They were owner surrenders because the owners claimed they did not have time to litter box
train them. The R letter of four are not all litter mates either. The black kitten was found
inside an RV engine and brought to the shelter and animal control picked up the other three
as strays. They were all housed together. Okay the B mama and her three kittens were brought
in claiming that they were feral. They are absolutely anything but feral. But funny story.
I said there are pictures to Jacqueline to see if we could get them on transport this week. I
said it's four kittens, a single and a letter of three. Jacqueline asked me how old the single was
and in my head I'm thinking Jacqueline just look at the picture. She is clearly somewhere around
10 weeks old. So I wrote back probably 10 weeks maybe 12 actually could be eight. I have no idea
and no truer words were ever spoken. I had no idea how old this cat was. When I told the shelter
what all we were taking the shelter wrote back and said so the mom and three kittens. I said the
mom. I didn't know they had a mom. She said yeah that other cat is the mom. I told her I had her
down as a 10 week old kitten not a mama. She said yeah I don't think she'll pass for that.
But that is all the stories for today. We had 58 animals last week, 43 animals today and another
transport next week. So make sure you sign up to foster. It is a rough life but someone's got to do
it and someone has got to go feed this baby. Bye friends!