1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:16,240 Hello friends, welcome to Rough Life. What a transport day it was. We did yet another 2 00:00:16,240 --> 00:00:21,760 two-band transport. You know those are my favorite, but they are a lot of work and it 3 00:00:21,760 --> 00:00:29,560 was so hot and so humid today. We had 60 critters on board this week, 11 of them being adult 4 00:00:29,560 --> 00:00:36,520 dogs, which makes my heart so happy. We also had a ton of different letters of chihuahuas for some 5 00:00:36,520 --> 00:00:45,640 reason and just as a fun fact, I dated a guy who had a chihuahua and he pronounced it chihuahua. 6 00:00:47,240 --> 00:00:56,200 And ever since then, I cannot write or say the word chihuahua without saying chihuahua in my head 7 00:00:56,200 --> 00:01:02,520 and it makes me laugh every single time. I literally cannot even spell the word chihuahua 8 00:01:03,400 --> 00:01:13,400 when I'm typing it out without saying chihuahua to myself. Anyways, we have a lot more important 9 00:01:13,400 --> 00:01:21,400 stories than that one, so let's get into it. Today's theme was Olympic athletes. This was 10 00:01:21,400 --> 00:01:29,640 suggested to me for last week's theme and I thought that was dumb. So I went with fonts as a theme 11 00:01:29,640 --> 00:01:35,640 because that's not dumb, but I thought it was dumb because we've done an Olympic theme before. So I 12 00:01:35,640 --> 00:01:43,080 was like, we've done it, but that was very naive of me and I'm very aware of that now. I had no idea 13 00:01:43,080 --> 00:01:49,880 how invested we would all be with the Olympics. I was just a dumb 24-year-old little girl who 14 00:01:49,880 --> 00:01:55,800 lived alone and spent her evenings rescuing animals and not watching TV when we had the 15 00:01:55,800 --> 00:02:03,800 last Olympics. So I had no idea how fun it was to watch it and cheer everyone on. I am so proud 16 00:02:03,800 --> 00:02:13,240 to now say I am a full-blown Team USA member and even when I have no idea what sport they are playing, 17 00:02:13,240 --> 00:02:18,680 I am screaming and hollering in my living room cheering them all on. I am fully invested. 18 00:02:18,680 --> 00:02:26,360 Even more so now that I've named 60 animals after the athletes, Daniel Breslin, the human, 19 00:02:26,360 --> 00:02:31,720 will forever hold a special place in my heart after how hard I worked to get Daniel Breslin, 20 00:02:31,720 --> 00:02:37,480 the puppy, a foster for this transport. And I'm super sad that we didn't get to use Leah Krauss 21 00:02:37,480 --> 00:02:42,600 because all of my singles were males and it wouldn't have worked. So now I really want Leah 22 00:02:42,600 --> 00:02:46,920 Krauss the human to win everything for the rest of her life because I'm so sad for her that we 23 00:02:46,920 --> 00:02:55,320 didn't get to use her name for a puppy. Okay, on to the stories. Emily Fox, who was named Daisy May 24 00:02:55,320 --> 00:03:02,040 down here, wandered up as a stray. There's a family here who I literally love more than anything. The 25 00:03:02,040 --> 00:03:07,160 husband was the preacher at my wedding, the wife is one of my good friends, I taught their children 26 00:03:07,160 --> 00:03:14,760 in Sunday school. They are just good eggs. Well, Daisy May wandered up to the husband's parents 27 00:03:14,760 --> 00:03:21,320 home. And they contacted me right away to help. I was telling everyone know that week because we 28 00:03:21,320 --> 00:03:28,200 were just swamped. So no matter what you had, no, I cannot help you. No, like contact me next week. 29 00:03:28,200 --> 00:03:35,960 I cannot do anything for you this week. But when I saw his sweet mama's name pop up on my phone, 30 00:03:35,960 --> 00:03:42,200 I knew whatever it was she had, I was gonna end up taking. Luckily, she did agree to keep her 31 00:03:42,200 --> 00:03:47,240 until transport day, which I didn't even mean to happen. I plan to take her today and send her to 32 00:03:47,240 --> 00:03:53,480 a foster here locally. But I woke up at seven o'clock this morning to a message from Jacqueline 33 00:03:53,480 --> 00:03:58,440 saying she could go today and I immediately texted the family to see if there was even any way that 34 00:03:58,440 --> 00:04:04,280 they could bring her in time for transport. Daisy May acted super scared and shy at transport. And 35 00:04:04,280 --> 00:04:09,160 I could tell it was breaking their heart. They kept saying she's never acted like this in the whole 36 00:04:09,160 --> 00:04:16,600 month that they had her. But it was also her first, we think, ever car ride and transport days are 37 00:04:16,600 --> 00:04:22,200 just so hectic. So I'm really hoping she settles in quickly in Virginia because she came from one of 38 00:04:22,200 --> 00:04:31,800 my favorite families. So she's automatically one of my favorite dogs. Listen, we knew. We knew 39 00:04:31,800 --> 00:04:36,040 when this was going to be human names that I was going to have to say that I was going to butcher 40 00:04:36,040 --> 00:04:42,440 90% of them. So I'm just going to apologize now. Someone even told me how to pronounce this name 41 00:04:42,440 --> 00:04:49,560 and I can't find where she commented on the post. So we're just going to have to use our phonics 42 00:04:49,560 --> 00:05:01,000 skills and try our best. Ilana Mayer. Maybe our rescue partner hopes husband works with the owner. 43 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:06,040 And after he heard how wonderful Wolf Trap is, he knew that's where he wanted their doodle to go. 44 00:05:06,040 --> 00:05:13,080 They got her when their youngest child was a baby. Why? And since then they've had another baby and 45 00:05:13,080 --> 00:05:18,280 it's the typical we don't have time for her anymore excuse. They've loved her and they've kept her 46 00:05:18,280 --> 00:05:23,160 up to date on all her vaccinations and heartworm prevention and even got her spayed. So at least 47 00:05:23,160 --> 00:05:28,200 they were really responsible dog owners. And they are truly thankful that she is going to go to a 48 00:05:28,200 --> 00:05:34,440 home where they're going to have more time to devote to her than they did. Daniel Breslin, 49 00:05:34,440 --> 00:05:42,440 my favorite, almost got cut from Team USA, the dog, not the human. I don't know why this adorable 50 00:05:42,440 --> 00:05:49,800 baby could not find a foster, but in the literal final hour he got several offers. He showed up to 51 00:05:49,800 --> 00:05:56,440 an elderly lady's house a couple of days before she passed away. Crazy. When the daughter arrived 52 00:05:56,440 --> 00:06:00,920 from out of state to start cleaning out the house she found him. She ended up taking him to a couple 53 00:06:00,920 --> 00:06:07,080 next door and asked them for help and they reached out to us to take him. They actually fostered him 54 00:06:07,080 --> 00:06:11,800 for us until transport and we are really hoping that they will continue fostering for us in the 55 00:06:11,800 --> 00:06:18,280 future. Noah Lyles was found on the side of the road with no houses around but since he looked 56 00:06:18,280 --> 00:06:23,240 relatively healthy he was posted on Facebook looking for the owner. No one claimed him for 57 00:06:23,240 --> 00:06:28,200 several weeks so we know he had to just be another drop off. The sweet lady that found him 58 00:06:28,200 --> 00:06:34,920 offered to foster him until transport day for us. Quincy Wilson was found as a stray in the middle 59 00:06:34,920 --> 00:06:44,200 of a gravel road, almost dead, literally. He was covered in fleas and being eaten alive by ants. 60 00:06:45,160 --> 00:06:51,080 Ants. The finders rushed him to the vet and got him loaded up on lots of medicine and high calorie 61 00:06:51,080 --> 00:07:00,680 food and he is doing so much better. Thomas Haleman. Haleman was an owner surrender. One of the 62 00:07:00,680 --> 00:07:05,880 owner's friends reached out to us saying their friend had a 12 week old golden doodle and they 63 00:07:05,880 --> 00:07:10,920 didn't want him anymore and they were about to take him to the pound. She knew the pound was full 64 00:07:10,920 --> 00:07:14,760 and she was worried that they would just dump him somewhere so she asked if she agreed to keep 65 00:07:14,760 --> 00:07:19,800 him until transport would we go ahead and make sure he got on and would get a good home which we 66 00:07:19,800 --> 00:07:26,680 were more than happy to do. I will never own a doodle but oh my goodness are they cute puppies. 67 00:07:26,680 --> 00:07:29,800 I just wanted to love all over that squishy boy at transport. 68 00:07:32,600 --> 00:07:41,880 Victor Montavolo. I have so much appreciation for the announcers now. Now that I'm having to say 69 00:07:41,880 --> 00:07:47,640 all these things and I literally went through and picked the least complicated names to have to say. 70 00:07:47,640 --> 00:07:56,280 Victor. We got a call from someone who had been made aware of a homeless man who was dragging 71 00:07:56,280 --> 00:08:02,200 this teeny tiny puppy all over town and tying him up outside in this heat and leaving him for 72 00:08:02,200 --> 00:08:11,000 hours and sometimes whole days at a time. So some underground networking happened and the puppy 73 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:15,480 disappeared in the middle of the night when he was tied up all alone at a gas station and the 74 00:08:15,480 --> 00:08:21,880 gas station owners were asking animal control to come pick it up. His paw pads were burned and 75 00:08:21,880 --> 00:08:27,080 bleeding from the hot pavement that he was standing on all the time and he was eaten alive with fleas 76 00:08:27,080 --> 00:08:33,960 and intestinal parasites. He slept for two days straight once he was settled in and safe indoors 77 00:08:33,960 --> 00:08:39,800 and in the air conditioning in a foster home and I know this might be a controversial story. 78 00:08:39,800 --> 00:08:46,840 I understand. I fully support homeless people keeping animals with them. I think it is almost 79 00:08:46,840 --> 00:08:52,920 always a win-win for the homeless animal and the person to have a companion. There is even a 80 00:08:52,920 --> 00:08:59,480 homeless man in a nearby town who has a dog and he takes fantastic care of it. The shelter provides 81 00:08:59,480 --> 00:09:06,440 him food for the dog. Another rescue provides like flea and tick care for the dog and we spayed her 82 00:09:06,440 --> 00:09:11,320 and boarded her for him during the terrible ice storm that we had earlier this year because the 83 00:09:11,320 --> 00:09:18,040 human shelter wouldn't let him bring his dog there. I am not out to take away people's dogs, 84 00:09:18,040 --> 00:09:25,080 period. But if you leave your bleeding puppy unattended without shelter for full days at a 85 00:09:25,080 --> 00:09:35,640 time and over 100 degree heat, maybe you don't need a puppy. Alisha Stansel and Flava Flav who is not 86 00:09:35,640 --> 00:09:44,520 an athlete but I got so many requests to include Flava Flav as a name on here. They are otherwise 87 00:09:44,520 --> 00:09:51,400 known as the naked male and the semi-naked female down here to us. They were posted on Facebook by 88 00:09:51,400 --> 00:09:56,760 one of our rescue partners back in June. The owners moved off and left three dogs in their 89 00:09:56,760 --> 00:10:02,040 trailer park backyard. The neighbors were calling and complaining and one of the neighbors decided 90 00:10:02,040 --> 00:10:08,440 if they weren't gone in four days he was going to haul them off. I'm not sure what that means. 91 00:10:09,400 --> 00:10:13,880 So my friend was posting their story and the pictures of them at two in the morning 92 00:10:13,880 --> 00:10:20,760 and I just happened to be awake with this dumb baby when I saw her post. This was also that same 93 00:10:20,760 --> 00:10:27,400 week that I was saying no to everyone and everything but in a moment of sleep deprivation 94 00:10:27,400 --> 00:10:33,080 weakness I texted her and said I would take all three the next day. So she went out there around 95 00:10:33,080 --> 00:10:39,400 lunchtime to get them and the neighbors said that the third dog had disappeared several days ago and 96 00:10:39,400 --> 00:10:45,400 it still hasn't been seen to this day. So she loaded up the male and the female. The male was 97 00:10:45,400 --> 00:10:52,680 absolutely bald and sunburned from having minimal shade and was super skinny. The female was in a 98 00:10:52,680 --> 00:10:58,520 little bit better shape. Her mange wasn't too severe but the chain around her neck was so loose. 99 00:10:58,520 --> 00:11:04,360 She literally could have just walked away but she stayed there all those weeks waiting for her 100 00:11:04,360 --> 00:11:09,160 owners to come back and get her. I didn't get to spend too much time with these two because the 101 00:11:09,160 --> 00:11:14,040 type of mange that they had was contagious to humans in the beginning. It is not now so if you 102 00:11:14,040 --> 00:11:19,480 are fostering them do not freak out. They have not been contagious for over three weeks. You're in 103 00:11:19,480 --> 00:11:26,600 the clear but I did not want to take the chance of getting it and passing it to Mary Sue but we've 104 00:11:26,600 --> 00:11:32,680 had them over for over a month now and they have been the perfect dogs. They are so sweet to each 105 00:11:32,680 --> 00:11:38,200 other. They haven't gotten in any trouble whatsoever and once they figured out the doggy door at the 106 00:11:38,200 --> 00:11:42,920 doghouse and they realized that they could go inside to air conditioning and dog beds they 107 00:11:42,920 --> 00:11:50,440 didn't leave the house for hours. It was so sweet. I really love them. Hadley. Hadley I'm not even 108 00:11:50,440 --> 00:11:58,680 going to try to say your last name. Hadley and Hampton Morris are the parents of the tea litter 109 00:11:58,680 --> 00:12:05,880 of 10 Chihuahua German shepherd mixes from the things you'll find in Lowe's transport. I talked 110 00:12:05,880 --> 00:12:10,120 a little bit about the parents in that episode but I'll do a recap for anyone that missed it. 111 00:12:10,120 --> 00:12:15,000 That was the litter we're calling the Ewoks because that's exactly what they look like 112 00:12:16,120 --> 00:12:23,960 especially their daddy Hampton and fun fact for you OGs if you remember our transport coordinator 113 00:12:23,960 --> 00:12:30,520 Sarah Barker Hampton is her nephew and he is playing in the Olympics. That is super cool. 114 00:12:31,560 --> 00:12:38,840 Okay but for the dog Hampton they are owner-surrenders the mama the daddy 115 00:12:38,840 --> 00:12:43,560 and the second mama were all strays that wandered up to someone's house during that 116 00:12:43,560 --> 00:12:48,520 ice storm. Remember the terrible horrible no good very bad snow and ice storm that we had earlier 117 00:12:48,520 --> 00:12:55,480 this year. They wandered up during that the Ewok daddy got both mamas pregnant. One of the mamas 118 00:12:55,480 --> 00:13:01,480 looked just like the daddy so those puppies were purebred Ewoks. That mama died though. 119 00:13:01,480 --> 00:13:09,800 The man said something got her when the puppies were almost three weeks old thus the second mama 120 00:13:09,800 --> 00:13:16,280 hadly. When she saw that the real mama was gone and that these puppies were so pitiful looking 121 00:13:16,280 --> 00:13:21,080 all around for her and just wanting somebody to snow go with she stepped up and she took that whole 122 00:13:21,080 --> 00:13:27,080 litter in too. Both litters were born two days apart so they were very close in age after Jess 123 00:13:27,080 --> 00:13:32,200 went and got them all because the man was keeping them all in his laundry room. Hadley kept going 124 00:13:32,200 --> 00:13:37,080 in the laundry room and would just lay in there and cry and cry because she missed her baby so 125 00:13:37,080 --> 00:13:43,320 bad and that is so pitiful to me. The man was hoping to surrender the mama and daddy that day too 126 00:13:43,320 --> 00:13:49,640 but we had no fosters north or south that could take them so we left him spay and neuter cards for 127 00:13:49,640 --> 00:13:55,880 them and we told him that we'd come back for them as soon as we could. Well then everyone went wild 128 00:13:55,880 --> 00:14:00,440 over these puppies in Virginia and they were all showing off Hampton's picture when people would 129 00:14:00,440 --> 00:14:05,880 ask what they were mixed with so we knew eventually that they would get to go to Virginia so we decided 130 00:14:05,880 --> 00:14:12,040 to just go get them before something got them like the first mama and Jess kept them in her backyard 131 00:14:12,040 --> 00:14:18,920 for like a month. It was it was a long time. The man had already used his spay voucher on the mama 132 00:14:18,920 --> 00:14:26,760 but he was so happy when we came back to get them. I am really really hoping that whoever has the tea 133 00:14:26,760 --> 00:14:32,200 puppies gets them together with their mama Hadley so she can see that they all ended up in happy 134 00:14:32,200 --> 00:14:40,600 homes because it makes me so sad thinking about how sad she was. Okay the p-letter of two our owner 135 00:14:40,600 --> 00:14:46,920 surrenders. The owner contacted one of our fosters and said she heard that we help find good homes 136 00:14:46,920 --> 00:14:54,520 for puppies. Her doodle mama had an accidental litter with a great pieronees and she had two 137 00:14:54,520 --> 00:14:59,960 puppies left that she needed to find good homes for. They have kept them in their outdoor pen 138 00:14:59,960 --> 00:15:08,120 where the mama lives 24 seven with minimal shelter but they are very thankful that we got good 139 00:15:08,120 --> 00:15:13,400 homes for the puppies and they are even going to get the mama spade so there are no more accidental 140 00:15:13,400 --> 00:15:25,800 litters and we left them a spay voucher. The R2 were a guilt trip. I actually texted my vet on 141 00:15:25,800 --> 00:15:31,800 a sunday evening asking him a quick question about a dog I was pulling whether it looks like a chemical 142 00:15:31,800 --> 00:15:38,600 burn to him or like a fire burn. We talked for a few minutes and then he said oh by the way I need 143 00:15:38,600 --> 00:15:44,680 to help placing a mama dog in her two puppies. It was originally three puppies but one was run over. 144 00:15:45,480 --> 00:15:52,120 They were abandoned at a house on our road. My vet lives on the same road as the dog house that I 145 00:15:52,120 --> 00:15:58,360 used to live in. The family was renting out the house but the landlord decided to sell the home 146 00:15:58,360 --> 00:16:04,040 so they were evicted. They took a few of their dogs with them but when the new owners moved in 147 00:16:04,040 --> 00:16:09,960 they realized that the mom and the three puppies were still living there. They go to church with the 148 00:16:09,960 --> 00:16:18,520 vet which coincidentally is also on the same road that we all live on and since it was on the same 149 00:16:18,520 --> 00:16:23,800 road as our house is we were all just thrown into the mix. Anyways I told him I wouldn't be in town 150 00:16:23,800 --> 00:16:29,720 for a few days but to just give them Jess's phone number and that she would message them about setting 151 00:16:29,720 --> 00:16:35,880 up you know time to come and get them and get them into a foster home he said I don't like to give 152 00:16:35,880 --> 00:16:42,200 out people's numbers. You never know what wackos might text you on a Sunday night and I told him 153 00:16:42,200 --> 00:16:48,280 well if it makes you feel any better I am thoroughly regretting texting him. He was joking but I was 154 00:16:48,280 --> 00:16:54,120 not. We ended up getting in touch with the new homeowners and Jess went by to just drop off 155 00:16:54,120 --> 00:16:59,400 food and get some pictures so we could be working on a plan. When she got there the homeowners told 156 00:16:59,400 --> 00:17:05,080 her that they had just found the mama dog dead. There was a pool of blood in the driveway and 157 00:17:05,080 --> 00:17:10,280 they followed the blood trail around to the back of the house where they saw her lying. The puppies 158 00:17:10,280 --> 00:17:15,000 were nowhere to be found. A few days later they called us and they said the puppies were back 159 00:17:15,000 --> 00:17:20,600 and Jess went over there and they were so feral she couldn't even get close to them so she went home 160 00:17:20,600 --> 00:17:26,440 empty-handed and we were just about to call the whole thing off when the homeowners called back 161 00:17:26,440 --> 00:17:31,320 and said they caught the two puppies and asked if we would come get them right away so even though 162 00:17:31,320 --> 00:17:39,160 I so badly did not want to agree to pull a mama and three puppies I so badly wish we did not end 163 00:17:39,160 --> 00:17:44,120 up with just two puppies. The third puppy was likely hit by a car and killed but the mama 164 00:17:44,120 --> 00:17:49,080 looked like she had been attacked by something. Maybe she was protecting her puppies maybe they 165 00:17:49,080 --> 00:17:53,000 ran off to hide and that's why no one could find them the first time Jess went out there. 166 00:17:53,000 --> 00:17:59,560 Who knows but these puppies have seen some things and I am so glad that they're gonna have a better 167 00:17:59,560 --> 00:18:05,800 life now than they could have ever imagined. The S letter of four have a terrible story. 168 00:18:06,520 --> 00:18:13,000 Their owner messaged Jessica to see if we would take her seven adult dogs for her. Jessica told 169 00:18:13,000 --> 00:18:20,600 her very kindly no way. This was also said week of saying no to everyone about everything. 170 00:18:20,600 --> 00:18:25,880 She then wrote back and said could you at least take a litter of puppies that one of them had 171 00:18:25,880 --> 00:18:31,000 instead. Jessica told her it would be a few days but you know we would try to figure something out 172 00:18:31,000 --> 00:18:35,800 and then when she was circling back with her later that week she couldn't get the lady to answer 173 00:18:35,800 --> 00:18:40,120 and she was getting super annoyed because like if that lady didn't need us to take them anymore 174 00:18:40,120 --> 00:18:45,640 we had lots of other litters that we needed to help instead. Finally Jessica was getting ready to 175 00:18:45,640 --> 00:18:51,000 just tell her off and move on but she decided to text one of their mutual friends to see if she 176 00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:56,200 knew how to get in touch with the owner another way. Their friend wrote back and said oh you didn't 177 00:18:56,200 --> 00:19:01,160 hear she died earlier this week they found her in her home we don't know what we're gonna do with 178 00:19:01,160 --> 00:19:07,640 all these dogs. So Jessica went over there and we were planning to take the mom the puppies and 179 00:19:07,640 --> 00:19:14,600 maybe another adult or two but when Jessica got there several of the adults were full on attacking 180 00:19:14,600 --> 00:19:19,400 her. There were all teeny tiny small breeds so it's not like her life was in danger like she'd 181 00:19:19,400 --> 00:19:25,080 like for you to think but still way too aggressive for us to pull. Luckily the family member that 182 00:19:25,080 --> 00:19:31,080 was meeting Jessica there said he was wanting to keep four of the adults the literally vicious 183 00:19:31,080 --> 00:19:36,040 mama included in the four so we told him if he would keep the mean adults we would spay and 184 00:19:36,040 --> 00:19:40,920 neuter them for him and then another rescue partner of ours who mainly does tiny breed 185 00:19:40,920 --> 00:19:46,200 adults took the others and got them into her rescue but the house that they were living in 186 00:19:46,200 --> 00:19:52,200 was horrendous. I don't know how long they were there after the owner died and before anyone 187 00:19:52,200 --> 00:19:57,640 came to check on them maybe it wasn't like this before the owner passed away or maybe she was 188 00:19:57,640 --> 00:20:05,080 just too sick to take care of them but the puppies were in a human baby pack in place so like cloth 189 00:20:05,080 --> 00:20:12,120 fabric that was soaking wet with urine and poop they were standing ankle deep in poop and completely 190 00:20:12,120 --> 00:20:21,960 covered in it so awful. Oh but I will end it on a funny note you know we do litter names so we can 191 00:20:21,960 --> 00:20:27,160 keep track of like who we're talking about down here like the Ewok family for example well these 192 00:20:27,160 --> 00:20:36,520 were called the itty bitty weenies. The K litter of six were posted on facebook as free to a good 193 00:20:36,520 --> 00:20:42,680 home I was tagged in it by one of our rescue partners who was out of room herself they lived 194 00:20:42,680 --> 00:20:46,760 just down the road from my mom's house so I knew sooner or later they were going to end up our 195 00:20:46,760 --> 00:20:52,440 problem the owners were super helpful and they agreed to hang on to them until transport for us 196 00:20:52,440 --> 00:21:03,320 and I did something I never ever do I let them keep a puppy. I literally cannot think of another 197 00:21:03,320 --> 00:21:09,640 time I've done this I'm sure I have probably but I I literally cannot think of any other time 198 00:21:10,760 --> 00:21:17,480 but they are good owners they keep them in the house and it was a special story. They had a dog 199 00:21:17,480 --> 00:21:24,680 for 15 years that they loved so much and he passed away just from old age right after he passed away 200 00:21:24,680 --> 00:21:29,800 this mom dog showed up at their house and refused to leave. They were about to take her to be spayed 201 00:21:29,800 --> 00:21:35,480 when they realized she was pregnant she ended up giving birth on what would have been their dog's 202 00:21:35,480 --> 00:21:42,440 16th birthday so I gave them a spay voucher for the mom and they're gonna have the puppy neutered 203 00:21:42,440 --> 00:21:49,160 themselves since they were going to pay to spay the mom originally. I don't like it but I think it 204 00:21:49,160 --> 00:21:56,040 is really sweet that their puppy is going to have the same birthday as their first dog so I'll allow 205 00:21:56,040 --> 00:22:05,640 it. Okay if you are fostering any of the sea litter chihuahuas I am calling them the Chihuahua 206 00:22:05,640 --> 00:22:16,440 chaos crew. It is five adults and seven puppies and we're about 99% sure the mama is the only mama 207 00:22:16,440 --> 00:22:21,720 of these seven puppies even though there is another female who very clearly has had puppies 208 00:22:21,720 --> 00:22:28,840 recently. We think one of the black and white males is the daddy we have no idea which one 209 00:22:28,840 --> 00:22:37,640 the white male could also be one of the daddies we have no idea and we're pretty sure that they 210 00:22:37,640 --> 00:22:44,440 were all dumped from a breeder because they were all found together. I would love it so so much if 211 00:22:44,440 --> 00:22:52,120 everyone that has one of these chihuahuas got an embark DNA test done on them so we could see how 212 00:22:52,120 --> 00:22:59,080 they're all related. It's possible that one of these females is the mom of everybody. It's also 213 00:22:59,080 --> 00:23:06,600 possible that none of them are related at all except the puppies. We have no idea. They have such a 214 00:23:06,600 --> 00:23:12,440 crazy story. I was not part of it at all. I was just cheering along the sidelines and by cheering I 215 00:23:12,440 --> 00:23:19,000 mean I kept saying stop finding more every time they said that they trapped another adult. Anyways 216 00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:25,560 I asked the rescuer who found them to write up their story so this is what she said. After the 217 00:23:25,560 --> 00:23:32,200 July 20th transport Saturday afternoon I started getting messages and tags about 13 chihuahuas 218 00:23:32,200 --> 00:23:37,880 dumped four miles from my house. Lots of people were commenting and wanting to help so I let it 219 00:23:37,880 --> 00:23:43,240 play out that night thinking someone would step up. Side note we always think someone will step up. 220 00:23:43,240 --> 00:23:49,640 No one ever steps up. I don't know why we think that. She said she kept waking up thinking about 221 00:23:49,640 --> 00:23:54,760 them and Sunday morning at nine o'clock she just couldn't stand it anymore. She looked at her husband 222 00:23:54,760 --> 00:24:00,200 and she said I've got to go. I've got to get them and he said I'm with you boo let's go. So they missed 223 00:24:00,200 --> 00:24:06,040 church because they were out catching the mama all seven babies and then the other female and then 224 00:24:06,040 --> 00:24:10,840 the male but there were still two left. They couldn't catch them because they were super fast little 225 00:24:10,840 --> 00:24:17,800 runners. Someone had even driven by before she got there and taken one of the puppies and left 226 00:24:17,800 --> 00:24:23,720 all the rest of them. She begged her to surrender the puppy to her after finding out who she was 227 00:24:23,720 --> 00:24:30,040 but she was just adamant that she wanted to keep him. The finder did actually take the puppy to the 228 00:24:30,040 --> 00:24:36,040 vet Dr. Jamie who is Dr. Burton's best friend and she promised that she would do right by the puppy. 229 00:24:36,040 --> 00:24:42,120 So back to the last two that she couldn't catch. She borrowed a trap from the city pound and after 230 00:24:42,120 --> 00:24:47,880 three days she figured out that they were just too tiny to trip off the lever in the trap. So she 231 00:24:47,880 --> 00:24:52,760 went to the store and she bought a smaller one. She went to set it and within three hours she had 232 00:24:52,760 --> 00:24:59,400 one of them trapped sitting in the trap in the pouring rain. Keep in mind it rained every day 233 00:24:59,400 --> 00:25:05,080 this whole week that she was trying to catch them. So the last and final male she hadn't seen for 234 00:25:05,080 --> 00:25:10,760 three days and she was thinking the worst. Then she got a message from someone on Facebook that 235 00:25:10,760 --> 00:25:18,360 they had him on their back porch another four miles away soaking wet covered in fleas and begging 236 00:25:18,360 --> 00:25:24,200 for help at their back door. So she sent a friend to get him on her lunch break and after a long 237 00:25:24,200 --> 00:25:30,600 week of running he was reunited with the whole family and no one got left behind. We figured it 238 00:25:30,600 --> 00:25:35,000 was likely a breeder that just got overwhelmed and dumped them all but they will never have to worry 239 00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:42,680 about being dumped ever again. The B litter of five were owner surrenders. They were posted on 240 00:25:42,680 --> 00:25:47,960 Facebook and in a breath of fresh air the owner specified that she only wanted them to go to a 241 00:25:47,960 --> 00:25:53,880 rescue not random individuals and that she had already made appointments to get the parents fixed. 242 00:25:53,880 --> 00:26:00,040 So we were more than happy to help her. At first we were told there were only four but then after 243 00:26:00,040 --> 00:26:07,000 the owner realized how amazing Wolf Trap is a fifth puppy magically appeared. I don't know if 244 00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:12,200 someone backed out or if they plan to keep him themselves. All that matters is they are all 245 00:26:12,200 --> 00:26:18,520 getting out of Mississippi. The G litter of four were owner surrenders. One of our fosters was 246 00:26:18,520 --> 00:26:24,040 contacted by a pitiful man who could barely take care of himself but he had a mama dog who had 247 00:26:24,040 --> 00:26:28,600 four puppies and he wanted to make sure that they went to good homes. The foster went over there and 248 00:26:28,600 --> 00:26:32,920 took him lots of food for the mama dog and for the puppies and she knew she couldn't leave those 249 00:26:32,920 --> 00:26:38,280 puppies there much longer because they were in such a horrible conditions. So as soon as her 250 00:26:38,280 --> 00:26:43,240 fosters left on the last transport she drove straight over there and picked them up. The owner 251 00:26:43,240 --> 00:26:49,080 is so grateful that his mama who he adores and really does take decent care of will be spayed 252 00:26:49,080 --> 00:26:55,320 and won't have to go through this anymore. The A litter of eight were dumped on the side of the 253 00:26:55,320 --> 00:27:03,400 road in a storage bin in the pouring rain. They were in the city limits and so many people called 254 00:27:03,400 --> 00:27:09,480 and reported it but it was a Friday night and the shelters closed over the weekend? Of course. 255 00:27:10,200 --> 00:27:14,680 So animal control refused to go and get them because animals don't need to be rescued on the 256 00:27:14,680 --> 00:27:20,200 weekend. Instead he called Jessica and told Jessica to go get them and she told him we 257 00:27:20,200 --> 00:27:25,160 don't have anywhere to put them and that it would be a day or two before we could even take them 258 00:27:25,160 --> 00:27:29,400 and he said just go get them whenever you have room. Just leave them on the side of the road for 259 00:27:29,400 --> 00:27:34,520 the weekend it's fine. While we were discussing it trying to figure out what we could do if there 260 00:27:34,520 --> 00:27:40,920 was even anything we could do if we even should do anything or make animal control do something we 261 00:27:40,920 --> 00:27:46,840 were weighing all of our options we got another call that a police officer picked them up still 262 00:27:46,840 --> 00:27:53,880 in the storage bin and dropped them off at the shelter and left them. That sounds like the police 263 00:27:53,880 --> 00:28:00,440 officer did a really good thing but the problem with that is where they were was a very busy area 264 00:28:00,440 --> 00:28:05,080 where they were more likely to get help from people passing by and seeing them. Not that we 265 00:28:05,080 --> 00:28:08,920 wanted people to pick them up but still better than being on the side of the road in the pouring 266 00:28:08,920 --> 00:28:15,560 rain and the animal shelter is on a dead end gravel road that no one ever goes down and there's no 267 00:28:15,560 --> 00:28:21,320 shelter at the shelter like no roof covering or trees that they could have been left under. 268 00:28:21,320 --> 00:28:28,360 So they were just sitting in a gravel parking lot in the middle of a thunderstorm in the pouring rain 269 00:28:29,320 --> 00:28:36,120 in a bin. So Jessica raced over to the shelter to get them we still didn't have a plan at this 270 00:28:36,120 --> 00:28:40,520 point because we had nowhere to put them but when she got there the lady that's over the 271 00:28:40,520 --> 00:28:45,480 kitten cottage at the shelter had just gotten there too to take care of the kittens and she 272 00:28:45,480 --> 00:28:50,040 was getting them set up inside the office of the shelter so Jessica helped her get them out of the 273 00:28:50,040 --> 00:28:54,600 rain and fed and watered and she told them that she would get all of her animals moved around 274 00:28:54,600 --> 00:29:00,760 in the morning and come back and get these after she cleaned out the kennel. We really weren't expecting 275 00:29:00,760 --> 00:29:07,880 to even get these to go this weekend but you dad gum wonderful people stepped up so now Jess is going 276 00:29:07,880 --> 00:29:14,600 to get another litter of eight that's now a litter of seven before they become even less. 277 00:29:14,600 --> 00:29:25,000 We have been having a lot of trouble you would say with the city here and this was just one more straw 278 00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:30,840 on the camel's back. We're supposed to get some answers at the next city council meeting. I'm 279 00:29:30,840 --> 00:29:36,680 going to bite my tongue until then and be a good girl but if we don't get some answers to some very 280 00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:43,160 serious questions y'all are going to get an episode with a whole bunch of tea on some shady quote 281 00:29:43,160 --> 00:29:51,480 unquote official business that's been going on around here so sit tight for that. Okay as for 282 00:29:51,480 --> 00:29:59,800 the kittens West Kitts I mean is that not the most perfect name for a kitten? West Kitts was the 283 00:29:59,800 --> 00:30:05,240 only kitten that was supposed to get to go. I had to beg and plead for Jacqueline to take her because 284 00:30:05,240 --> 00:30:09,720 Wolfdrape has taken so many kittens in the last few weeks they're just out of kitten fosters. 285 00:30:09,720 --> 00:30:15,560 This kitten was found dumped at another town's pound. This is actually the same pound where 286 00:30:15,560 --> 00:30:20,200 that puppy drowned in the kennel when they were hosing all the poop and pee out of the kennel. 287 00:30:20,840 --> 00:30:26,680 This kitten was laying on the cement behind the building when she was just barely two weeks old. 288 00:30:26,680 --> 00:30:32,040 Our bottle feeder kept her until she was eating on her own and then Jess took her and another bottle 289 00:30:32,040 --> 00:30:39,240 baby from that foster times new Roman from the font transport. He was just a little bit bigger 290 00:30:39,240 --> 00:30:43,640 than her and he was playing too rough with her so we sent him last week and held her back just to 291 00:30:43,640 --> 00:30:49,640 get her a little bit bigger before sending her. And I guess things were just going too smoothly 292 00:30:49,640 --> 00:30:54,280 for me on this double van transport day and Jacqueline wanted to throw me for a loop. 293 00:30:55,640 --> 00:31:01,800 Halfway through transport after telling me no kittens for weeks on end Jacqueline called me 294 00:31:01,800 --> 00:31:07,080 and told me she needed a litter of kittens on this transport. We have plenty of kittens in our 295 00:31:07,080 --> 00:31:12,920 foster care down here. That's not the problem. The problem was getting them to transport in time 296 00:31:12,920 --> 00:31:17,560 so that we weren't late meeting the Virginia drivers. We ended up finding someone that was 297 00:31:17,560 --> 00:31:22,520 able to go to another fosters house while she was at work and pick up her kittens and bring them 298 00:31:22,520 --> 00:31:30,680 in time. These kittens which I have not even named yet so if you have three kittens this is your 299 00:31:30,680 --> 00:31:40,280 litter. These kittens are from the new fie home yet another litter. The mom who she also wants to 300 00:31:40,280 --> 00:31:45,640 send but she'll just have to hang back until we get an adult foster for her. She wandered up as a 301 00:31:45,640 --> 00:31:50,920 stray and had kittens at her house. We've got the mama safe in a foster home down here until we can 302 00:31:50,920 --> 00:31:57,320 get a foster in Virginia for her and currently every animal at the new fie house is spayed and 303 00:31:57,320 --> 00:32:02,920 neutered so I guess we're just waiting for the next pregnant one to get dumped at her house. 304 00:32:04,920 --> 00:32:11,160 Well that is all the stories for this week's crew. This is a very long episode. I'm very sorry about 305 00:32:11,160 --> 00:32:19,560 that. I love a two-band transport. They are so much work and so many moving pieces to organize 306 00:32:19,560 --> 00:32:24,280 but I really wish we could do them every week. Not even because we get to send more animals 307 00:32:24,280 --> 00:32:29,560 which is great but just the flexibility of being able to move animals to a bigger crate so they 308 00:32:29,560 --> 00:32:34,840 have lots more room. There's just no stress about whether or not everyone's gonna fit because we 309 00:32:34,840 --> 00:32:40,760 got two minutes to fill. The next transport won't be quite as exciting and the episode surely won't 310 00:32:40,760 --> 00:32:47,000 be quite as long because it's only supposed to be a mini but you know I will do my best to get 311 00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:52,920 that as full as possible so make sure you sign up. There's only a handful of transports left this 312 00:32:52,920 --> 00:33:00,280 year which is a very terrifying thought for me. It's a rough life but someone's got to do it.