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Hello friends, welcome to Rough Life. No baby today, so hopefully this episode will be a lot quieter.

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I hope you all had a great 4th of July. It is actually one of my favorite holidays because

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it means we are finally to the halfway point in puppy season. It definitely will get a lot worse

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before it gets better, but at least it's the halfway mark and it's halfway over. Speaking of

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4th of July, that is, if you hear any booming in the background, that is my neighbor shooting off

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illegal fireworks. Because why would they not at 10 o'clock at night? Anyways, let's get into today's

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story. The theme is things you can find inside of Lowe's. Yes, like the home improvement store.

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I'll tell you why I chose this theme later. First up are our singles. Doorknob is my favorite on

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this load. This is one of the few puppies this year that I actually tracked down and made sure we got.

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I'll admit I've been a little busy this year with the whole birthing a baby and mom having stage 4

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cancer thing, but when we got the call about this puppy the first time I immediately fell in love

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with her. She had wandered up to someone's house and they couldn't even get her to move. They thought

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she was dead and they thought she was super old also. So they messaged us late at night and when

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we replied the next morning saying we could take it, you know, like what's your address, we'll come get it,

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they said it disappeared in the middle of the night. I was sure it had either gone eaten or it

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wandered off to die, but then a few days later we got a message from someone else. The dog had wandered

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into her yard. Again, we said first thing in the morning we'd be out there and we'd come get it

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and again she was gone before the people read our message. Finally two whole weeks later, no more

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sightings of this dog. Someone messaged us about her and they said she had been at their house for

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five days and the first few days they couldn't even get near her because she was so terrified.

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Finally she let them get close enough so that they could give her some flea and tick medicine

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and give her some dewarmer. Once again it was about 11 p.m. when we got the message and I

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begged, begged, begged that sweet woman to confine her until we could come and get her in the morning.

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I told her I had been waiting and wanting her for over two weeks. The lady also works at one of my

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favorite restaurants in town so she knows me. So she brought her in her house that night to make

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sure that she would be there for us the next day. She was so pitiful even after being well taken care

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of for five days. She had a rain rot on her legs, she was eaten up with parasites and she was so

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afraid of people. But two weeks with Mama Becky and she is doing so much better. I am just so,

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so happy that we got her and I'm so happy that she's gonna have the best life in Virginia.

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Insulation was dumped at Jessica's sister's house. It is technically the city limits but the

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shelter actually refused to pick it up. They said they would have to euthanize a dog if they brought

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another one in. So we got it set up with a foster because Jessica's sister is a loser and she doesn't

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foster for us because she works full-time as a nurse practitioner and she has two kids and a dog

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and a husband and a life and apparently you can't foster when you have all those things.

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Paint was found on the side of the road in a nearby town before the last transport but the

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finder agreed to foster her until this transport. The L letter of three were owner surrenders.

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Someone pulled the mama and these three babies out from under an abandoned trailer when the puppies

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were just a few days old. The mama was injured and after a vet visit was determined that she had

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been shot but the finder had just fallen in love with the mama and so she spent thousands of dollars

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with an orthopedic vet to fix her leg. When the puppies were just beginning to open their eyes

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she realized that something was definitely wrong with one of the puppies eyes and after he had

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another vet visit it was determined that it was blind in one eye. Dr. Burton is pretty sure she's

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going to have to have it removed and they will probably do that during space surgery. The finder

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is an elderly lady who asked us to promise her if something happens to her we will take the

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mama dog and make sure she goes to the best home. The C letter of four actually became a

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letter of four with their mama. See it's actually a good thing that I waited solely to do the episode

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today or y'all would have missed this whole story. Somehow and I don't even know how all of this got

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so confused and so lost. I don't even know. Somehow this mama was never mentioned to us until this

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afternoon like literally two hours before the van left. They were from a severe hoarding and

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neglect case. The owner died and just left all of these animals behind. The only reason people

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even found out about them is a few weeks ago actually back in May it was quite a while ago.

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One of the puppies more than likely from the splitter was found dead on the side of the highway

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right by this house. So a rescuer in another town stopped and moved it over to the grass so you

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know if owners were looking for it they would see it and they could bury it if they wanted to

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to. You know so cars weren't just running over it left and right. The rescuer posted it on

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Facebook that they had found this puppy dead in case anyone was looking for it and the neighbors

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of this puppy's former owner commented and explained that it was from an abandoned house

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with a bunch of puppies and dogs and no one was living there anymore to take care of them.

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The rescuer went over there to bring food and dewormer and take pictures to get things moving.

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At the time there were nine total puppies. I don't know if that's counting the original

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dead puppy or not but by the time they got to me there were only four live puppies removed from

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that home. For whatever reason the rescuer that was taking this on just had the mama of these

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puppies spayed. She was staying with a foster for four days to recover and get her stood

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for four more days. She had been there for a while she's staying there for more days

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and then she's getting her stitches out and then the plan was just send her back to the abandoned

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home where there is no one there to take care of her or feed her. Please hear me when I say this.

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Sometimes that is the only viable option for these mamas. Sometimes they are so feral that

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that is the only thing that they want and they would never even be happy in a home. But this mama

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is so sweet and so gentle. She absolutely will love being an inside dog and a part of the family.

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There was no reason she should have been sent back there to fend for herself especially when

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they worked so hard to find a rescue to take on the puppies and especially because she has a bb

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lodged in her mouth from being shot in the face. That is absolutely not somewhere she should go

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back. She's also heartworm and a leaky positive so if she didn't die from being hit by a car

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or being shot again she would have a very slow and very agonizing death without being treated for

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both of those. I am just so glad that we found out about her when we did. I made an emergency post

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on our fosters page and so many people volunteered to take her even if it was just for a day or two.

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Just so that she could make the trip today with her puppies. She has no idea how good their lives

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are about to get and I still don't know what happened to the other adult dogs. I know there

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was another one that looked like this mama. It might have been her sister or brother um

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and she or he ended up being run over and killed but I think there were still at least two or three

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more. I don't know. I'm still trying to track them down. The R litter of eight were posted on Facebook

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and one of our rescue partners that we work with all the time, Hope, just could not help herself.

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She jumped at the chance to pull them. The owner told her that two were already spoken for but she

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could have the rest but of course she worked her magic and she explained what wonderful homes these

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animals were going to get and the owner decided to just give them all to us and get her mama spayed

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instead. The T litter of nine that we're calling Ewoks because that is exactly what they and

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especially their daddy look like. They are owner surrenders. The mama, the daddy and the second

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mama, just wait I'll explain, were all strays that wandered up to someone's home during the ice storm.

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Remember the terrible horrible no good very bad snow and ice storm we had earlier this year that I

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told you all about. Okay they wandered up during that. The Ewok daddy got both the mama's pregnant.

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One of the mamas actually looks just like the daddy so we're calling those puppies purebred

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Ewoks but um that mama died though very sad. The man said something got her when the puppies were

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almost three weeks old thus the second mama when she saw that the real mama was gone and that her

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puppies were just so pitiful looking around for her and wanting to snuggle with somebody.

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She stepped up and she took them into. Both litters were born just two days apart so they're

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just the same age. When Jess went and got them all though because the man was keeping them all in

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his laundry room the mama kept going in the laundry room and would just lay there and cry and cry

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because she missed them so bad. That is so sad. The man is hoping to surrender the mama and the dad

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at some point whenever we have room in a foster to take them but for now he is very happy to have

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them spayed and neutered for free. At last the S litter of nine are the reason for the theme of

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the transport. My mom was shopping inside of Lowe's the other day and turned down an aisle where she

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shot she shot. I'm not even gonna cut that out I'm too tired. Where she saw a shopping cart full of

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puppies that is hard to say you should try to say that. It was too hot to have them out in the parking

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lot to give them away for free like everyone does so the owners were actually strolling them around

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in the store in a cart with a sign that said free puppies. She told the owners that she could not

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take them that day because we did not have any of our available fosters anywhere here or up there

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with you guys and that it would probably be close to if not already August by the time we got to them

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but she took them food and dewormer and potty pads the next day just to help them get by

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and then five days later we had them on the van headed to Virginia because we ended up getting so

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many fosters that signed up to help so they were very happy to get a spay voucher and get their

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mama's spay for free and very very happy to get them all out of their house. As for the cats

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Zip tie was found in an elderly man's yard after a horrible flash flood storm. She was about two

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weeks old and needed to be bottle fed. She was passed around to a couple homes before she finally

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ended up with one of our fosters. Wood was a last minute add-on. Someone was going to get a drink

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out of a vending machine at a local motel and heard a teeny tiny meow. She was finally able to

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reach the kitten from the back of the vending machine and he was super dirty but he washed up

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nicely and is now ready for his forever family. If we would have added him sooner and not so last

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minute this transport would have been things you find in a vending machine instead of things you find

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inside of blows. Flooring was also a last minute add-on when I got word that only two

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of the H litter of threes were going to show up. Spoiler alert that's our next story. Flooring was

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caught on camera being thrown out of a golf cart into one of our fosters driveway this morning.

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This morning like this morning they then almost ran the kitten over leaving after dumping the

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kitten. So she has had quite a day from being thrown out of a golf cart and now on the van

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headed to Virginia. The H litter of three now two was ironically named this before I even knew

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this part of the story. The owner of the H litter of three from the Kentucky Derby transport May

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3rd told her cousin how amazing Wolf Trap was and what great homes all the kittens got. So the

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owner of the three asked us if if we could take them and we said yes oh and they also have a mom

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and we said yes unfortunately we have absolutely zero adult fosters right now so we told her the

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mom would have to hang back until next transport but then we could take her and then when she came

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to drop off the kittens she said she could only find two so the mom and the third kitten will be

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coming up together soon. The B litter of five were also supposed to come up with their mom.

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Actually they were supposed to come up in their mom when she was pregnant but she gave birth the

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day of transport so they held her back. The mom had wandered up to someone's business when she was

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pregnant and the owner took her home and kept her until the kittens were weaned and ready to go.

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Their mom will be on transport very soon. Oh the finders also named her Katie and they didn't know

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me so like it wasn't because of me and I was still very pregnant and very miserable at the time when

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she was originally supposed to go so I just love her that much more because we suffered from the

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same condition and I really felt for her. The G litter of three were owner surrenders a pregnant

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stray wandered up and the homeowners took her in. They love her and they are happy to be getting

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her spayed and even happier that they don't have to deal with finding homes for or keeping three kittens.

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That is all for this week's episode. That was a doozy and a tongue twister there. I'm very sorry

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about that but that is 50 total animals on board today when I originally thought that we were going

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to have to cancel transport all together because we only had 14 fosters. As always y'all are so

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incredible and I thank God for you in my prayers. Every single night you are the only reason that we

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are able to save so so many lives every transport but we do have another transport in two weeks that

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we're still needing fosters for so make sure you sign up for that one if you're available.

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