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Hello friends, welcome to Rough Life.

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Today's theme is social media.

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Honestly, I don't know why.

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I did watch the 7M dancing for the devil documentary last night.

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10 out of 10 highly recommend for anyone that loves cults and conspiracies.

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But anyways, they were using a lot of these words and I was getting pretty desperate for

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a theme.

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So, voila!

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So hashtag was in the car with his owner several towns over.

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The lady was pulled over by police.

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She had the puppy in the car and some drugs.

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So, she was arrested and taken to jail and the animal control officer was called to

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come get the puppy.

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He held the puppy for 5 days.

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That's the legal stray hold down here.

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But the owner never came after him, so he was placed with a foster after a few days.

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News feed, the Yorkie, is from a nearby town.

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The police chief called us and said someone had found this Yorkie in town and brought

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it to him and his wife to try to find the owner because there is no city pound there.

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They took him to get scanned for a microchip and they held on to him for 2 weeks looking

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for an owner but had no luck so they needed a rescue to take him.

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Algorithm, the shitsue, belonged to a single guy who took a new job where he will be doing

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a good bit of traveling so he wanted him to go to a home where he would have a family

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with him all the time.

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Platforms, the tripod, was hit by a car back in April.

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He was left to bleed out and die on the side of the road.

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Then drove by and saw him and posted on Facebook asking for help.

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By the time we saw the post over $400 had been raised on Facebook by random people from all

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over trying to help the finder afford to be able to get him to the vet to save his life.

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We offered to pay the rest and get him in at our vet down here to be looked at.

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His front leg was shattered and beyond saving so we had to have it amputated.

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He has been with our foster ever since and has done amazing.

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He has adapted to having three legs perfectly and he is just so happy to be alive.

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X, which is anyone else super annoyed that they renamed Twitter X.

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It will always be Twitter to me.

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I think it's so dumb that everyone has to now say X, formerly Twitter.

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So annoying.

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X, the labradoodle, was brought to our vet's office to be euthanized but the owner agreed

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to let the vets re-home him instead and they actually paid for him to be boarded there

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until we could get a foster for him.

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I don't know why they were going to euthanize him.

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I assume it's because he's a doodle and doodles are awful until they're wonderful.

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And anyone with a three year or older doodle knows exactly what I mean.

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They are awful until they are the best dogs.

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But that actually reminds me of the story going around on Facebook right now.

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I'm sure you've seen it.

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If you haven't, there's a woman who surrendered her dog to be euthanized and later, I don't

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know, a few months or a year later, saw it up for adoption on the Shelter's Facebook

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page and couldn't believe that the dog was still alive.

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Now I don't know all the facts or the details.

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I just read one article really quickly the day that the story came out.

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But I do know that the shelter is getting a lot of hate.

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Maybe it's justified in this situation.

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I don't know.

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But I do just want to share the shelter rescue aspect of it from what I understand.

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She adopted this dog from the shelter.

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The dog was sick.

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She took it to the vet.

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It was going to be an insane amount of money to fix whatever it was.

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So the vet said, if you don't want to do that, if you can't afford it, you should just euthanize

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this dog because this dog is very sick or in pain or whatever.

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I don't know why she didn't have the vet euthanize the dog there.

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But for whatever reason, she took it to the shelter to have it euthanized.

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They asked her if it was okay for them to take it to their vet.

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See if their vet agreed with the insanely expensive treatment or if he had another idea.

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And then they would adopt the dog out.

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She agreed, signed the papers, and left.

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The vet thought it was something else, treated it way cheaper, and now the dog's fine.

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But now the former owner is mad that her dog is available for adoption and they want to

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let her adopt the dog back.

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And I get it.

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I'm sure she really truly loved this dog.

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But almost every rescuer shelter in the world has a privacy policy where if you surrender

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an animal to them, you lose the right to get updates on it.

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For so many reasons, but primarily so you don't decide you want it back and attack the new

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owners to get it.

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So that's why this woman was then kept in the loop.

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And most of the time, once you surrender a dog, you're placed on a do not adopt list.

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Most of the time.

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Not all the time.

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So it's likely she's on a do not adopt list for every animal at that shelter, not just

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the specific dog.

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But above all, if they just let her adopt this dog back, everyone everywhere with a dog needing

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medical attention would do this.

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Why pay $5,000 at the vet?

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When you can surrender your dog, they'll pay for whatever it needs.

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And you can adopt the dog back for $50 or even $500.

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Rescues would be bankrupt in a week.

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Now whether or not she should be allowed to reimburse the rescue for all of the money and

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all of the time that they spent on this dog and allowed to adopt him back.

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I don't know.

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Obviously that's a case by case basis.

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In my opinion, if she only took him to one vet before taking him to the shelter to be

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euthanized, she should not get the dog back.

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And I don't know if she did that or not.

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Maybe she went to 20 vets.

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But if she really did just go to one vet, find out it was going to be super expensive

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and not take the time or the energy to get a second opinion.

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Even just those free Facebook veterinary pages, she shouldn't get the dog back.

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But anyways, that's my hot take for the day that no one asked for.

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But I keep seeing the shelter getting so much hate for this.

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And I don't think it's as cut and dry as people think it is.

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So I just wanted to give the shelter side of it.

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Anyways, back to your regularly scheduled podcast.

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Meme came into the kill shelter in town as a stray.

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They kept him up front in a cage in the lobby so that he wouldn't be exposed to parvo in

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the back so that we would agree to take him.

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The R litter of two.

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Okay, I don't know if this litter is actually going to be on transport.

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As of right now, Jacqueline is telling me no and that she doesn't have enough fosters.

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But in my mind, you only need one person to agree to take the pair.

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And that doesn't seem that hard for me to find.

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So I'm putting them in here and I'm really counting on Jacqueline coming through for

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me.

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The R litter of two were dumped at a guy's house in Boomville.

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I think it was actually in the city limits and the shelter should have had to take them.

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But the guy had a family emergency that day and took them to his friend's house in a town

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about an hour away so that they would be taken care of.

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I don't know if this guy was initially planning to keep them or if he was just going to foster

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them.

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But regardless, they asked the shelter to take the puppies a few days later when the original

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guy came back and the shelter said they couldn't because they weren't in the city limits anymore.

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But regardless, they gave them our contact info and we told the friend if he would continue

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to hang on to them until transport, they could go.

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The V litter of three were dumped in Jessica's sister's neighborhood.

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I can't help but wonder if they knew Jessica's sister lived there and that they would eventually

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make their way to us, which is exactly what happened.

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Her friend's sister found them, brought them into their garage and called Jessica's sister

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to ask her to ask Jessica to ask me if we could take them.

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The C family is actually, supposedly, a daddy and four puppies.

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I really have my suspicions about one of the puppies.

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I'm sure you can figure out which one I think does not belong in the litter.

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But regardless, they were all found on the side of a gravel road way out in the boondocks.

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One of our new fosters saw them and picked them up.

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That's the problem, quote unquote, problem with fosters down here.

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You can't call them and say, hey, we have a litter that we need you to foster.

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Instead, they call us.

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They say, we have a litter we need you to take, which I get.

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I mean, how do you see them on the side of the road?

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Know what kind of lives that they'll have if you keep driving and know what kind of

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lives they'll have if you pick them up and you foster them for a few weeks.

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But there's no way you can decide to just leave them anyways.

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You just, you can't.

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Guys, this guy is used to finding dogs homes and keeping them until he re-homes them himself.

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So he buys all their food and everything.

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Now that he's fostering for us, we're obviously supplying him with food.

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But when Jessica went by to vaccinate them, she noticed how little he was feeding them

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and he said he couldn't afford to buy another bag.

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So she left him with another huge bag of food and told him, we literally have more dog food

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than we know what to do with because we have so many incredible fosters in Virginia that

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support us and just feed those babies as much as they want because we will keep an endless

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supply coming for him and them.

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Okay, the R litter of five.

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So a doodle breeder let their female golden doodle out to potty and the sneaky neighborhood

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dog had a quick date with her.

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These people are one of the highest regarded doodle breeders in the state.

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Whatever that means.

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Like Mississippi is so highly regarded.

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He said they breed for quality over quantity.

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Obviously.

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Anyways, they were giving away the rest of the litter on Facebook and we offered to take

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them and spay the mama.

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He said he actually would like to spay their other mama dog that they used to breed, but

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not the mom of this litter.

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Obviously, that's not ideal, but we told him we didn't care as long as someone no longer

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reproduces the f letter of six.

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But there might just be three depending on how many fosters we get for this transport.

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Anyways, there'll be six total.

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I don't know if they're going to be spread across two transports.

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A US congressman, Trent Kelly, his wife called us to ask if we could please help their daughter.

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She was driving down a back road and saw these truly pitiful pity puppies who had obviously

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been mistreated when she tried to get them in her car.

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Some ran right to her and a few others were pretty terrified.

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When she saw them, she knew she could not leave them behind.

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They had asked a few other rescues, but no one would even consider them because one,

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they were pit mixes, two, they were older puppies and three, they were all scarred up and pitiful.

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Obviously, they are not my best bull either.

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But after everyone else turned them down, there's just no way we could do.

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So they're happy to know that they'll be getting their freedom ride out of Mississippi where

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pity puppies don't usually survive.

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This is for the cats, what's on your mind is from our bottle feeder foster.

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The mama cat dried up and wasn't able to feed the kittens anymore.

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But by the time the owner realized that that's what was happening, this kitten was the only

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one still alive in the litter.

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So she took it to our bottle feeder.

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The eye litter of four is from our foster who was actually fostering the German short

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hair puppies from this transport.

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She heard kittens under her house and she sent her husband under there to get them.

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They think that the puppies might have chased them under there, but they're really not sure

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where they came from to begin with.

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So they were likely just dumped there.

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The S litter of five are owner surrenders.

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They had a pregnant cat show up to their house last year.

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They found homes for all of the kittens, but they never got the mom's aid.

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So when she got pregnant again this year, they knew they did not want to deal with finding

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homes for all of the kittens again.

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So they asked us to take them and they are very excited to get the mama spade for free

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now.

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Well, that is all of the stories for this week.

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I am officially running late to transport yet again.

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Luckily, they cannot leave without me.

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So thank you for listening.

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Sorry about the rant at the beginning.

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I'll see you in two weeks for the next transport.

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

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Oh wait.

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Okay.

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Jacqueline just texted me and said she is only down one foster now so that the R litter

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of two can come.

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Yay.

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We knew Jacqueline would come through for us.

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Okay.

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Gotta go.

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Bye.

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