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Hello friends! Welcome to Rough Life! Super sorry this is getting to you so late. I was

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actually at the beach for this transport. Transport was originally supposed to be on

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Saturday so we were going to cut our vacation short one day and just come home early so

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I could be at transport. But then it got moved to Friday and well I was not about to leave

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the beach two days early. I tried real hard, real real hard to get my life together and

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do the podcast before we left on Monday. But life is hard when you have a newborn and you

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don't get 12 hours of sleep a night like you've grown accustomed to. So I did the best I could.

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Anyways, I'm back and I am as put together as I can be so let's get into it. The theme was

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hairstyles. I don't know why. I am running out of themes and this was the best I could do. This

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is actually going to be a pretty short episode because there's only four letters and you already

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know one of the stories and my child is awake. She is supposed to be napping but apparently

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we can only do contact naps so that's great. So if I sound like I'm out of breath that's because

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I am bouncing up and down trying to keep her asleep. Okay the M letter of three is the other

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half of the F letter of three from the May 31st social media transport. If you missed that episode

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I go into more details on their story so go check it out. But the gist is a US congressman's

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daughter found all six of the puppies and asked us to take them. Okay we're back. The B letter of

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eight. Someone please do a DNA test on these puppies so I can know what they really are. I just

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have never mind we're not back. Okay third time's the charm. The B letter of eight. I need a DNA

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test. I just have them down as terrier mixes but there's no telling what all they're actually

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mixed with. They are owner surrenders. The owner's dog escaped from their fence before they could

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get her spayed. I highly doubt they were even really going to get her spayed though. They asked

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multiple other rescues in the area for help and no one would take any of the puppies. Then the

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owner's sister-in-law told her to reach out to us for help because we had taken puppies for her

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before so they were so relieved when we told them that we would take all of them and they were even

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more excited when they learned we would pay to spay their mom for them too. The F letter of nine

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are from another rescue in a nearby town. I've worked with them a few times but it's been a while

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since they've asked me to help them. Their northern rescue that they're partnered with is closing

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in pigs for the next few weeks or maybe even months because they are so inundated with animals

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right now. This letter was found in a different nearby town that doesn't have any animal shelter

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or rescues. They have a flea market in their town called First Monday once a month. I need to just

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do a whole deep dive episode on that one day because it is truly horrific but to give you a

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quick highlight reel of it it is an outdoor flea market where anyone can bring anything and sell

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it. So you have every backyard breeder puppy mill animal abuser set up there with whole

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litters of puppies crammed into one crate out in the dead heat no shade no food no water for a

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whole weekend. People have tried to shut it down for years literal years and nothing has improved at

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all. Anyways it is a very well-known fact that the days leading up to First Monday dogs go missing

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and they end up at the flea market being sold so if you're missing your dog you don't go to

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the local animal shelter you go to First Monday to see if someone's selling it and the animals that

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aren't sold are almost always just left at the fairgrounds where the when the flea market is over

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seriously. Now like the the purebred little frufru puppies they usually go back with the breeders

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but any mamas or mutts or things like that they just get left behind and it's not just dogs there's

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cats chickens bunnies goats literally anything can be sold there but back to the slitter people saw

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them for sale at First Monday last month and then when the sale was over they were left behind. The

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town used to have an animal control officer but because people just leave dozens of animals behind

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every month when the sale is over it just became too much so the city shut down the shelter and

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animal control however the former animal control officer still picks up animals on his own whenever

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he can and he just keeps them at his house or he tries to give them away or find rescues for them

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he's pretty old that sounds mean but he's a pretty old man so he is by no means running his own

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shelter or rescue he just helps a handful of animals a year as he can out of the goodness of his

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heart he picked up these puppies and contacted the other rescue who put him in touch with us

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so I don't know where these puppies originally came from or how they ended up at First Monday but

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I'm so thankful no one bought them and they got abandoned there because they are gonna have a better

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life than they could have ever imagined because of it. The P litter of eight are owner surrenders we

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have pulled several puppies from a girl who is just constantly finding straight animals so when her

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brother had a pregnant dog wander up in his yard she reached out to us immediately she said her

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brother had already fallen in love with the mama dog but was stressed out about having to re-home

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puppies we told her if he could keep them until they were weaned we'd get them on transport no

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problem and spay the mom for him everything was going great we gave them plenty of food dewormer

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and other supplies but on the puppy's six-week birthday the mom was hit by a car and killed in

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front of their house the owner was devastated and honestly I was really worried that he was gonna

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want to keep one of the puppies because of it he just kept the mama outside so it was by no means

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a great home but she was at least cared for but luckily he still let us take all eight of the

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puppies. Speaking of getting run over we were actually supposed to have another dog on this

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transport and owner surrender from one of my old teacher co-workers she had a five-year-old mini

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bernie doodle she was needing to surrender because she was getting married and her husband wouldn't

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let her keep the dog inside I am sure you can guess how I feel about that anyway she was having

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to keep the dog outside already even though they weren't getting married until next month. Jacqueline

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found the perfect foster for this dog who was already planning to foster fail and keep her

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literally it sounded like the most perfect home for this dog I told the owner she was so relieved

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everything was great and then the next morning the day before transport she texted me that the

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dog chased her car down the road when she was on her way to work and she didn't realize it

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she had wandered onto the highway and was hit by a car someone saw picked her up rushed her to the

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vet the vet posted it on facebook looking for the owner and my friend saw it and raced to the vet

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the vet said there was nothing they could do and the dog was gonna die so

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they decided to just end her suffering and put her to sleep I'm not gonna lie I thought she was

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making the story up because she changed her mind and just didn't want to tell me but sure enough I

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looked at all the vet pages in her town and finally found it she really did die and I was

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so devastated the owner is just heartbroken and just sick over this and the foster who was so excited

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is crushed so this is just reason 72 million why I try to get every animal out of the south as

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quickly as I can as for the cats jacklyn only let me send one apparently y'all aren't as kitten

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crazy as you were a few weeks ago the Rachel wandered up as a stray in someone's yard who posted

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it on facebook Jessica jumped at the chance to get it one because she's adorable the kitten not

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Jessica but two because I haven't let Jessica pull any kittens in a long time and she was dying to

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foster some the only reason we got to send this one was because someone came to the last adoption

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event to adopt the sigmes kitten that was available that weekend and they were two minutes too late

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and they didn't get the kitten but jacklyn got their contact info and told them they could sign up

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to foster to adopt if we got another sigmes kitten in and it was the next day that we pulled this

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kitten totally unaware that that had happened the day before when I told jacklyn she immediately

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called the guy and told him we had a kitten coming for him next week and he has already filled out

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the adoption paperwork well that is it for today's episode I think this is like a 10 minute long

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episode and it has taken me over an hour to record it so I promise I will be much more punctual

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next transport and there will be far less baby sounds next transport it is the next transport

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is the day after 4th of july also known as july 5th so if you'll be around make sure you sign

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up to foster there's already some super cuties that are on the list and there may even be some

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pomeranian mixes if you're lucky jessica has also texted me no less than eight times while I've

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been recording this asking me if she can pull 15 puppies so please sign up to foster it's a rough

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life but someone's got to do it

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