Hello friends, welcome to Rough Life.
Lord have mercy, let me just tell you all what has been going on since we last talked.
So last week, kitten transport leaves, everything's going great, and about an hour away from
the meat time, my driver calls me crying.
Something flew off of a semi in front of her and smashed into our windshield, cracking
it all the way across.
We talked for a while, and once she got her bearings again, she decided she was okay
to drive the last hour to meet the Virginia drivers.
For whatever reason, the Virginia drivers didn't feel comfortable driving the van back
to Virginia.
So instead of swapping vans, like we usually do, they unloaded everything in their van,
which was a bunch of crates and a ton of supplies for me.
They loaded all of the animals in their crates onto their van, and then reloaded all the
empty crates and supplies into the broken windshield van, all at like midnight.
Luckily, we were able to get it fixed this week, so transport wouldn't be affected, but
man, back to back to back transports, broken van, newborn baby, and it's only Thursday.
I'm not usually one that likes an off, quote unquote, off week, but I am very excited for
this one week break before the last transport of the month.
Anyway, onto this week's story, the theme is beach vacation because we just planned
a beach vacation for later this summer with Mama Becky, and I am so looking forward to
it.
Okay, so Palm Tree wandered up into someone's yard.
They held onto her until transport.
Marina wandered up into someone's yard.
When Jess went to vaccinate her, all she saw was a tiny brown blob bouncing in the tall
grass, and she fell in love with her right then.
The finders were going to keep her until transport, but Jess loved her too much.
She didn't want to risk something happening to her, so she sent her to one of our fosters.
Ocean was dumped in a really nice neighborhood.
She's adorable and super sweet, so they knew she belonged to somebody, but after posting
her on Facebook and asking all the local vets, no owner came forward.
They were so thankful when Wolf Trap agreed to take her and find her the perfect home
where she will never have to worry about being dumped ever again.
Jellyfish was abandoned in a trailer when the owner moved away.
My foster heard about it and went immediately to get him.
He was locked up in a crate with no food and water.
He is super sweet and super thankful that we saved him.
He is great with cats and dogs.
The W litter of two were dumped in a box overnight outside of an emergency room.
Two nurses took turns fostering them and the whole emergency room is so grateful to Wolf
Trap for taking their puppies and making sure they go to wonderful homes.
The V litter of two?
Okay, so a board member at a nearby shelter found these two sweet puppies that had been
dumped near her house.
She has eight dogs and her husband told her in no uncertain terms that she was absolutely
not to bring them home to keep her from literally just giving them to some random person with
ill intentions.
Our rescue partner found a foster for them and she's super relieved that Wolf Trap will
be able to take them to ensure they get good homes.
The C litter of six?
Okay, so our rescue partner was contacted by a friend who lives near a family that has
a ton of dogs.
Thankfully, most of them are fixed, but this one mama is pretty feral and they've never
been able to catch her to get her spayed.
The owner said she's had at least a hundred puppies over the years since she's been there.
Our rescue partner told them that it's going to be her mission that this is the last litter
she ever has.
So we're going to work with her to catch her and get her to the vet to get spayed in the
next few weeks.
It was originally a litter of seven, but before we got there to vaccinate them, another neighbor
came by and picked one up.
The ass litter of eight?
A couple arrived at their farm one day and they discovered that someone had dropped six
puppies off.
The wife immediately loaded them up and took them to the vet, but before she could get
back home, her husband found two more puppies.
So she made arrangements for a neighbor to foster them and take the remaining two to
the vet.
About a week later, she drove out to check on the puppies and discovered that the foster
had left all eight of them crammed into a teeny tiny 36 inch crate and they were not
home.
So she promptly loaded them in her car while sobbing the entire time and took them home
to foster them herself.
These are the sweetest, most laid back puppies.
The bee litter of eight?
There is a beautiful, super feral momma dog that lives on some property behind the sonic
and dollar general in a nearby town.
She gets fed daily by all the nice people at both businesses.
Our rescue partner has a foster in the area and she noticed that she was filling out and
knew that puppies were coming soon.
So she kept a watch on her and made sure that she had fresh water and really good quality
dog food every day.
After the puppies were born, she checked on them every day and when they were about six
weeks old, she was able to grab six of them.
It took another few weeks before she was able to catch the last two.
As soon as they were reunited with their siblings, they realized there was nothing to be afraid
of and they are the sweetest babies.
A plan is in place to catch the feral momma and get her spayed and the man that owns the
land where she's been living said she is welcome to stay there as long as she wants to and
he will make sure she has fresh food and water daily.
The tea litter of six are from our Alabama shelter friends.
The momma who we think is a purebred chihuahua was chained up outside by her original owner.
I know you think Alabama is all warm and sunny all the time but we actually get really,
really cold winters down here.
Way too cold for any dog, let alone a chihuahua to be kept outside.
So when the owner was tired of getting fined for having his dog tied up outside, he finally
agreed to surrender her to the shelter.
She was also big pregnant then too so I'm sure that had nothing to do with it.
She had her puppies three days after she got there and the owner told the shelter that
she was a super mean and very aggressive dog that didn't like people.
But she has absolutely loved and snuggled with every single worker there, all of their
children who also come to the shelter with them, and me when I was there last week.
One of the animal control officers is actually adopting the mom.
As for the cats, Lifeguard was brought into our vet partners clinic and the F litter of
four were being given away in a Walmart parking lot when our bottle feeder foster saw them.
They were old enough that they didn't need to be bottle fed but she couldn't let them
just give them away to anybody.
Well, that is all the stories for today.
I actually started this podcast last night but we were short so many fosters I wasn't
sure if even half of my animals were going to get to go.
But so many fosters have volunteered to help.
I think right now it's only the B litter and a few of the singles that might have to be
held back.
Hopefully not though, hopefully everybody gets to go.
But speaking of go, I am running late to my own transport now so I've got to go.
It's a rough life but someone's got to do it.