Hello friends! Welcome to Rough Life! Super sorry this is getting to you so late. I was
actually at the beach for this transport. Transport was originally supposed to be on
Saturday so we were going to cut our vacation short one day and just come home early so
I could be at transport. But then it got moved to Friday and well I was not about to leave
the beach two days early. I tried real hard, real real hard to get my life together and
do the podcast before we left on Monday. But life is hard when you have a newborn and you
don't get 12 hours of sleep a night like you've grown accustomed to. So I did the best I could.
Anyways, I'm back and I am as put together as I can be so let's get into it. The theme was
hairstyles. I don't know why. I am running out of themes and this was the best I could do. This
is actually going to be a pretty short episode because there's only four letters and you already
know one of the stories and my child is awake. She is supposed to be napping but apparently
we can only do contact naps so that's great. So if I sound like I'm out of breath that's because
I am bouncing up and down trying to keep her asleep. Okay the M letter of three is the other
half of the F letter of three from the May 31st social media transport. If you missed that episode
I go into more details on their story so go check it out. But the gist is a US congressman's
daughter found all six of the puppies and asked us to take them. Okay we're back. The B letter of
eight. Someone please do a DNA test on these puppies so I can know what they really are. I just
have never mind we're not back. Okay third time's the charm. The B letter of eight. I need a DNA
test. I just have them down as terrier mixes but there's no telling what all they're actually
mixed with. They are owner surrenders. The owner's dog escaped from their fence before they could
get her spayed. I highly doubt they were even really going to get her spayed though. They asked
multiple other rescues in the area for help and no one would take any of the puppies. Then the
owner's sister-in-law told her to reach out to us for help because we had taken puppies for her
before so they were so relieved when we told them that we would take all of them and they were even
more excited when they learned we would pay to spay their mom for them too. The F letter of nine
are from another rescue in a nearby town. I've worked with them a few times but it's been a while
since they've asked me to help them. Their northern rescue that they're partnered with is closing
in pigs for the next few weeks or maybe even months because they are so inundated with animals
right now. This letter was found in a different nearby town that doesn't have any animal shelter
or rescues. They have a flea market in their town called First Monday once a month. I need to just
do a whole deep dive episode on that one day because it is truly horrific but to give you a
quick highlight reel of it it is an outdoor flea market where anyone can bring anything and sell
it. So you have every backyard breeder puppy mill animal abuser set up there with whole
litters of puppies crammed into one crate out in the dead heat no shade no food no water for a
whole weekend. People have tried to shut it down for years literal years and nothing has improved at
all. Anyways it is a very well-known fact that the days leading up to First Monday dogs go missing
and they end up at the flea market being sold so if you're missing your dog you don't go to
the local animal shelter you go to First Monday to see if someone's selling it and the animals that
aren't sold are almost always just left at the fairgrounds where the when the flea market is over
seriously. Now like the the purebred little frufru puppies they usually go back with the breeders
but any mamas or mutts or things like that they just get left behind and it's not just dogs there's
cats chickens bunnies goats literally anything can be sold there but back to the slitter people saw
them for sale at First Monday last month and then when the sale was over they were left behind. The
town used to have an animal control officer but because people just leave dozens of animals behind
every month when the sale is over it just became too much so the city shut down the shelter and
animal control however the former animal control officer still picks up animals on his own whenever
he can and he just keeps them at his house or he tries to give them away or find rescues for them
he's pretty old that sounds mean but he's a pretty old man so he is by no means running his own
shelter or rescue he just helps a handful of animals a year as he can out of the goodness of his
heart he picked up these puppies and contacted the other rescue who put him in touch with us
so I don't know where these puppies originally came from or how they ended up at First Monday but
I'm so thankful no one bought them and they got abandoned there because they are gonna have a better
life than they could have ever imagined because of it. The P litter of eight are owner surrenders we
have pulled several puppies from a girl who is just constantly finding straight animals so when her
brother had a pregnant dog wander up in his yard she reached out to us immediately she said her
brother had already fallen in love with the mama dog but was stressed out about having to re-home
puppies we told her if he could keep them until they were weaned we'd get them on transport no
problem and spay the mom for him everything was going great we gave them plenty of food dewormer
and other supplies but on the puppy's six-week birthday the mom was hit by a car and killed in
front of their house the owner was devastated and honestly I was really worried that he was gonna
want to keep one of the puppies because of it he just kept the mama outside so it was by no means
a great home but she was at least cared for but luckily he still let us take all eight of the
puppies. Speaking of getting run over we were actually supposed to have another dog on this
transport and owner surrender from one of my old teacher co-workers she had a five-year-old mini
bernie doodle she was needing to surrender because she was getting married and her husband wouldn't
let her keep the dog inside I am sure you can guess how I feel about that anyway she was having
to keep the dog outside already even though they weren't getting married until next month. Jacqueline
found the perfect foster for this dog who was already planning to foster fail and keep her
literally it sounded like the most perfect home for this dog I told the owner she was so relieved
everything was great and then the next morning the day before transport she texted me that the
dog chased her car down the road when she was on her way to work and she didn't realize it
she had wandered onto the highway and was hit by a car someone saw picked her up rushed her to the
vet the vet posted it on facebook looking for the owner and my friend saw it and raced to the vet
the vet said there was nothing they could do and the dog was gonna die so
they decided to just end her suffering and put her to sleep I'm not gonna lie I thought she was
making the story up because she changed her mind and just didn't want to tell me but sure enough I
looked at all the vet pages in her town and finally found it she really did die and I was
so devastated the owner is just heartbroken and just sick over this and the foster who was so excited
is crushed so this is just reason 72 million why I try to get every animal out of the south as
quickly as I can as for the cats jacklyn only let me send one apparently y'all aren't as kitten
crazy as you were a few weeks ago the Rachel wandered up as a stray in someone's yard who posted
it on facebook Jessica jumped at the chance to get it one because she's adorable the kitten not
Jessica but two because I haven't let Jessica pull any kittens in a long time and she was dying to
foster some the only reason we got to send this one was because someone came to the last adoption
event to adopt the sigmes kitten that was available that weekend and they were two minutes too late
and they didn't get the kitten but jacklyn got their contact info and told them they could sign up
to foster to adopt if we got another sigmes kitten in and it was the next day that we pulled this
kitten totally unaware that that had happened the day before when I told jacklyn she immediately
called the guy and told him we had a kitten coming for him next week and he has already filled out
the adoption paperwork well that is it for today's episode I think this is like a 10 minute long
episode and it has taken me over an hour to record it so I promise I will be much more punctual
next transport and there will be far less baby sounds next transport it is the next transport
is the day after 4th of july also known as july 5th so if you'll be around make sure you sign
up to foster there's already some super cuties that are on the list and there may even be some
pomeranian mixes if you're lucky jessica has also texted me no less than eight times while I've
been recording this asking me if she can pull 15 puppies so please sign up to foster it's a rough
life but someone's got to do it
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