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Hello friends, welcome to Roughly.

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Today is supposed to be a mini-transport.

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That means about 25 to 30 animals on it.

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Well, I don't know what happened, and I sure ain't about to question it, but we're supposed

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to have 55 animals on board today.

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I don't know why, but I am super pumped about it.

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Also, two heartworm positive dogs, which is a super bummer for Dr. Burton, but really,

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really great for those dogs.

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It is currently 2.30 in the morning, the morning of transport, so I am telling you all of the

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stories of who I hope is going to be on the van in 12 hours.

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The theme is Olympic sports, and you're probably thinking, why?

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The Olympics are over.

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And had I listened to all of you who suggested to do an Olympic theme for the July 20th transport

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when they were just starting, instead of the random fonts theme that I did instead, then

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we could have done sports for the last transport while the Olympics were still going, and everything

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would have made sense.

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But alas, I was too young and naive and didn't know how much I would enjoy the Olympics.

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So after the Olympic transport left last week, I got so excited and I put all the names for

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the sports theme in, and by the time I realized that transport would be leaving after the

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Olympics were over, I couldn't come up with anything better.

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So we're still going to roll with the Olympics.

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Can you tell I had coffee earlier?

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I am wide awake.

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So let's get into the stories.

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Medley, also known as Mandy with the broken mandible, also known as Big Mama, also known

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as Jawbreaker, but no one would actually let me name her that.

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So that's just what I called her.

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She is our very pregnant bloodhound.

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She and her eight month old puppy from her last litter wandered up to someone's home

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over a month ago and never left.

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The girl is super young.

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She just graduated high school actually, and she was begging for help.

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The rescuer that I actually pulled Flava Flav and Felicity from, from last transport, my

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two super bald, mangy dogs, she sent me a text about Big Mama and her puppy.

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The picture she sent was not very flattering and she said it looked like there was something

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wrong with her mouth.

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I actually sent it to Dr. Burton hoping she would be like, yes, go get that baby.

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How terrible.

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But she was not.

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She was actually not on board at all.

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Her concern was we literally had no idea what was wrong with her jaw.

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In the picture, it looks like her bottom jaw is just hanging there.

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In reality, I think she was just yawning or panting.

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Anyways, I finally convinced Dr. Burton to just let me go ahead and send her to the vet

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for an exam.

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If it's not that bad, then we got a lot of good information on the dog and she won't

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have to spend as much time on her exam at intake.

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If it's really bad, well, we got the girl information that she needs to help get her

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into another rescue who maybe is in the same boat as us thinking I don't want to commit

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until I know what's going on with it.

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The sneaky part of that plan, though, is I know Dr. Burton is a sucker like me and as

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soon as we get the littlest bit involved with a dog, we're pulling it.

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No question.

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So I talked to the girl and I told her, like, look, I'm not saying I'm taking the dogs,

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but I will pay for an exam if you'll take her to my vet and worst case, you'll have

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more information than you do now.

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She was thrilled.

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My vets took a look and said her jaw had definitely been broken, but it looked like

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an old injury and it looked like it had healed fairly correctly.

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They think she was probably hit by a car.

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I can't remember if her back teeth touch or her front teeth touch, but one set touches

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and the other doesn't, which is good enough for her to eat and drink comfortably and they

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don't think she will have any problems delivering her puppies because if you didn't know, momma

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dogs have to bite open the sack of each puppy and then chew the umbilical cord off to clamp

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it shut.

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If it's not done correctly and quickly, the puppies will either suffocate in the sack

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or they will bleed to death from their umbilical stomp.

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So that was my main concern going into this.

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If her jaw was hanging open like it was in the picture, there's no way she could deliver

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puppies on her own and that would mean we were going to have to pay for an emergency

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C-section fee on top of a spa fee, on top of a heartworm treatment fee because she's

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positive and on top of whatever jaw surgery she was going to need.

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But we actually got really lucky.

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She is heartworm positive and she will need to be spayed, but the jaw is as good as it's

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going to get basically.

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And big momma is not going to have to deliver her puppies in a field in the 100 degree heat.

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As for her older puppy, we did not physically pull him yet.

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We did commit to him and I told the girl we would take him in a few weeks, but we only

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had the dog house open as a foster home and I didn't know if big momma was going to give

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birth any minute literally.

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And sometimes when they have puppies, they get really protective over them just instinctually,

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which could mean she would potentially attack her older puppy.

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Plus the girl was keeping the older puppy in the house.

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Never big momma though, so he was comfortable and safe.

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So we'll get him up there in a few weeks.

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Oh, also, medley, if you didn't know, is a type of swimming style in the Olympics.

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Volleyball is a Jessica pole, so you know it's a lame story.

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I asked her for the background story and she said quote, don't be mad, but all I remember

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was she was picked up as a stray by animal control and he texted me to come get her.

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That's all.

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Nordic combined was found running in the middle of a highway with his sibling.

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A lady stopped and got them out of the road.

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She took them home and posted them on Facebook trying to find the owner with no luck.

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She and her husband decided to keep one of the siblings, but they could not keep both

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of them, so she asked one of our fosters if she could help find a rescue for him.

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Diving was found by a young couple on the side of the road in the county.

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They took her to the pound where animal control said he would not take her.

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So the couple took her back where they found her and left her on the side of the road again.

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Luckily, one of our fosters had animal control go get her and bring her to her.

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She was very dehydrated and pitiful and probably very confused, but she has made a full recovery

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and she is such a sweet girl.

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Water Polo, our other heartworm positive dog, and her three W pups were found on the side

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of the road and the finder contacted us to see if we could help find the humps for all

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of them.

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It took us quite a while to get around to them because we are so slammed with dogs

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right now.

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So she went ahead and got them spayed and no, no, she did not.

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She went ahead and got the mama spayed with her own money and then vaccinated the puppies.

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She also told us that she is so thankful Wolf Trap is finally able to take them and she's

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so excited for their future.

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The F litter of four were picked up by animal control and brought to the pound.

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The officer said there was a mama dog and two other puppies, but he wasn't able to catch

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them and no one has seen them since.

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The A litter of four was originally a litter of five, but by the time the foster home opened

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up for them down here, they were a litter of four.

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The runt had died.

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That's the only explanation I got, but after seeing what the surviving puppies looked like,

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I'm going to say it starved to death.

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We had been in contact with the owner asking for over a week to come and vaccinate and

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dewarm the puppies and offered to bring food with when we came before the owner finally

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gave the address.

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They were all created together and one small crate for their entire lives until they went

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into our foster home a few weeks ago.

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Insane.

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The T litter of five.

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So an older lady contacted one of our rescue partners hope on Facebook and said that someone

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told her that we could help find homes for her puppies.

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This is what hope said about them.

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I told her Wolf Trap would take them and would give her a spay voucher for her mom a dog.

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She said, what's that?

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I said, it's a card you turn in once you take your dog to be spayed and the rescue will

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pay for it.

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Her mouth fell open and she started crying right there.

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She said, you have no idea how much this means to me.

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She said, I'm a sitter.

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I sit with an invalid lady.

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Then she said, actually, that's how I found out about you guys.

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The lady's grandson told me that you have helped out many times with many puppies.

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She didn't even have to say his name.

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I knew it was the sweet little couple that take in all the strays that get dropped off

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at their house.

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I bet at least six to seven litters have gone to Wolf Trap.

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Anyways, she was in the process of moving into another house and had been keeping the

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puppies at the new house.

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She only went by twice a day to feed them so they didn't get much human attention.

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They were very shy at first, but it didn't take them much time at all to come out of

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their shell.

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They were such funny, goofy puppies that loved to play and they eat a lot.

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The B litter of seven were owner's renders from the same home as the M litter of seven

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from the Mystics transport on April 13th and the C litter of seven from the Sitdown Restaurants

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transport on May 10th.

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Apparently, I don't know if I forgot this or if I never knew this.

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I don't think I ever knew this.

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But apparently there was supposed to be a third litter that the owner was hoping we would

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take and they all got eaten by coyotes.

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I had no idea.

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I don't think.

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We found out when we went to pick up this B litter of seven that there was a third litter

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that we never got.

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These are all from different stray moms that are not related.

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And the two moms of the two litters that we already sent are already spayed and we left

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a spade voucher for this B mama.

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This man lives way out in the sticks and is actually neighbors with our veterinarian,

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which is how he got in contact with us in the first place.

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He gets drop offs all the time.

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Probably people hoping the vet will take them, but instead they end up at this man's house.

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The S litter of 12 were owner's surrenders.

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The owner contacted us the day after the puppies were born and asked us to reserve a spot for

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them on transport when they were old enough to go.

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And I thought, wow, this is such a responsible proactive owner.

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I'm amazed.

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Most of the time people are like, I have a litter of six, four month old puppies.

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I've had them their whole lives.

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They have to be gone tomorrow or I'm dumping them all at the pound.

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Like why did you not tell us three months ago?

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This is ridiculous.

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Anyway, I was very wrong about this lady.

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About four weeks after that message, she messaged us again and told us she was going to keep

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two or three of the puppies.

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I told her whatever, but you're not getting a spay voucher for your mom unless I get all

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12 puppies.

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She agreed, she would give me all 12 and then the next day she told me to come get them

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as soon as possible because she couldn't deal with them anymore.

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In her defense, they were all in her living room and 12 puppies is a lot.

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She was originally going to keep them until their transport date, so I told her I don't

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have any available fosters, but when my transport that week left, I would circle back with her

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and we'd get them into a foster home in a few days.

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So several days later, we made a plan to get the puppies and Mama Becky headed to go get

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them.

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The first red flag was when I asked the lady for her address.

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She gave me one, which I passed on to Mama Becky to go get the puppies.

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Only as she's pulling into the driveway, the owner messages back and goes, but that's

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not where the puppies are.

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We are making a plan for us to come and get your puppies.

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Why would you give me an address to where they are not?

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And if they are your puppies, why don't they live with you?

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It just so happened that the owner was at the address that she gave me with no puppies

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when my mom pulled up.

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So the owner explained that this is her house where she keeps her three dogs, horse and some

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cats, but she lives with her boyfriend down the road and just stops once a day to leave

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food for the animals.

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And the puppies are their dog's puppies at her boyfriend's house.

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So she tells my mom to just follow her to the boyfriend's house and they start heading

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that way.

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About five minutes later, the lady pulls over on the side of the road, walks over to my

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mom's car and says she talked to her boyfriend and they've decided they're going to keep all

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12 puppies.

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Are you kidding me?

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They don't want to send them somewhere where we're just going to euthanize them all.

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And then she leaves.

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Here's my, here's my issue with this logic.

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Never mind the fact that you called me to reserve a spot for them and then you called

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me to come get them earlier than planned because you couldn't handle them anymore.

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Let's take all of that out of the equation and just think about why on earth would I

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pay $150 to $200 depending on how much your mom and dog ends up weighing to spay your

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dog for you if I'm going to pay to euthanize all of your puppies.

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And you contacted me.

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It's not even like I hunted her down and I was trying to steal them.

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Ugh, oh my goodness, I was so hot.

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I still am hot.

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Poor Justin had to listen to me pacing back and forth in the living room hollering.

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It doesn't even make sense for a good hour.

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So I am rapid fire texting Jessica going off about this and I'm like, listen, I think

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I'm going to message her and I'm going to snap on her and she's like, do it, go off.

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And I'm like, oh, I am.

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And she's like, do it, lose it on her.

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And I'm like, oh, I'm gonna.

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And then I did not.

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Only, only because I knew those poor puppies were going to be the losers in this, not her,

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not me.

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Only those puppies who would suffer because of whatever the humans decided in the end.

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But I did message her though.

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And I said, look, you reserved your spot on this transport six weeks ago.

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I have 50 other puppies I could send in their spot in an instant.

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So if you want to keep them or send them to another rescue, that's fine.

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But I'm telling you right now, I've been holding 12 spots for you for six weeks.

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And if you tell me right now, you don't want to send them, I'm cutting them from my list.

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I'm moving on to someone else and you will not get another spot.

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So she writes back and she's like, well, okay, if that's what you decide, that's fine, I'll

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keep them all.

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But in the meantime, she was actually messaging one of our mutual friends who happens to be

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a rescuer that I work with in the town where the owner lives.

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So technically these puppies should have been her problem.

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But apparently when the owner told the rescuer that her dog was pregnant several months ago,

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she flat out told her I can't take them.

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And she told her how full rescues are right now.

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And she was like, you need to get on a waiting list ASAP if you want them to go up north.

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And then she recommended me to the owner.

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So when the owner messaged her and told her that I had held 12 spots for her for six weeks,

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but she didn't want to send them to me and she wanted the friend to take them instead.

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The friend was like, no, what have you done?

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See if they'll still take them, do whatever you have to do.

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They're a wonderful rescue.

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And I only know on this because she, the owner told my mom when they were surrendering the

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puppies a few days later, she thought my mom was just a foster for us.

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She didn't know she was my mom and was absolutely going to tell me everything that she had just

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said.

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But so I don't know if the owner like looked us up and finally realized that, you know,

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we were legitimate or if her friend really made her realize like, listen, I am not going

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to help you out.

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You're really going to be stuck with 12 puppies if you don't let them take them.

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But after about 30 minutes, she writes me back and she goes, I'm sorry we got off on

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the wrong foot with each other.

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Please let me know if Becky still wants to meet to get my puppies.

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Thank you for your time.

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So my mom went back out to get them two days later and the owner was in a much better mood

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that time.

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But like, why would I pay to spay your dog for you so that you'll give me her puppies

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just for me to kill them?

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I will never understand.

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I will never understand.

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Okay.

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Onto the carrots.

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La Crosse wandered up to someone's house a month ago with honestly truly what looked

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like her eyeball hanging out of her head.

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Really, that's what it looked like.

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I got the pictures and was asked if I would pay for it to go to the vet and I was like,

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yes, absolutely needs to go to the vet ASAP go.

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And then I realized, I have no idea how much this is going to cost.

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I don't even know what's wrong with the cat.

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And I had not even mentioned it to be or asked if it was okay that I pull this cat.

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So then I had to act like I had not just pulled this cat and that I was just asking for permission

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to pull the cat, even though the cat was already on the way to the vet with my name on it.

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Luckily, Dr. Burton said yes, so it was all okay.

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But okay, listen to me right now.

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I'm going to post the video on the foster's page of what was actually wrong with the cat's

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eye, but I'm going to post it in the comments under her transport picture when I do the

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transport post.

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So as to make sure no one could just accidentally happen upon this video when they're scrolling

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on the page, this needs to be a video that you are actively searching to find not just

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happen upon this video stunned even Dr. Burton.

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It is not for the faint of heart.

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You know, you know.

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I love to share the gnarly stuff with y'all, but even I hesitated at first about whether

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or not to share this video.

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If you're not a part of the WTAR fosters page, but you're a little weirdo like me and now

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you're dying to see the video to request to join and mention that you're coming from the

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rough life podcast just to see the cat video or message me on Facebook and I'll send it

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to you.

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But anyways, the cat is fine now.

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She's super sweet.

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Everyone loves her.

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It's just a wild story.

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Oh, and just just as a little fun fact for you, I like to name animals something so that

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I can remember them or their story.

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Anytime I'm able to it doesn't always work out.

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But it's always something stupid that most people wouldn't even catch on to.

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Like doorknob from the Lowe's transport who had literally gone door to door waiting for

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someone to help her.

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Random things like that.

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Okay, well, I named this cat LaCrosse so that in my head I could always call her LaCrosse

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side.

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So that that's how I can remember that she's the cat from this video.

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That probably means I'm a little neuro spicy, but that's just how I remember the majority

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of my animals.

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Karate is the mama of the B litter of five kittens from the Lowe's transport July 5th.

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Remember she was supposed to come up on the April transport when she was still pregnant,

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but she gave birth the day of transport and then the family didn't want to send her until

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the kittens were weaned.

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And then we sent so many kittens that WolfDrab wouldn't let us send any more kittens for

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like a whole month.

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And then when we could finally send kittens, they weren't able to take any adults because

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they didn't have any cat fosters.

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Well, now the whole family will be in Virginia together.

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Karate, who the family actually named Katie when she wandered up to their business when

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she was super pregnant, WITHOUT knowing that they were asking me, Katie, to take her when

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I was also super pregnant.

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She will always hold a special place in my heart because we were suffering from the same

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affliction at the same time.

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And then we ended up giving birth just a few days apart.

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So I love her.

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The age litter of three were found by one of our fosters nephews while he was riding

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his ATV on a country road.

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It started to rain and as he was heading home, he saw 16 tiny soaking wet kittens by the

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road.

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He loaded them up and he took them to his aunt.

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Within a week, three of them had died.

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So she took the remaining three kittens and took them to our favorite veterinarian, Dr.

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Jamie.

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They've been being treated down here for like two months now and they're finally healthy

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enough to go.

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The sea litter of six were owner surrenders.

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The family had an indoor cat that gave birth and then it began to stress them out that

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they had newborn kittens living inside.

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So they threw their indoor cat and her few day old kittens outside in the 110 degree

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heat.

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A cat lady in our town who is exactly what you just pictured when I said cat lady.

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She took them a few days later and has been fostering them, but she really loves the mama

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cat.

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She actually took her to get spayed last week.

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We have a standing appointment with a local vet to have a cat spader neutered there every

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week and this cat lady usually has TNRs, trap neuter releases that she takes to the appointments

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and we pay for it through a grant that we receive.

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Anyways, she didn't have any last week so she took this mama instead and because it

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was so recent and it's not really recommended for her to go on a transport this soon after

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surgery, the plan right now is for her to hang back until next transport.

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I am betting that this lady is going to ask to keep her because she loves her.

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Okay, rhythmic gymnastics and her two R kittens may or may not be on the van.

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As of right now, 3 o'clock in the morning, the morning of transport, they do not have

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fosters but that just means that I still have 11 hours to sucker somebody into it.

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Finally, I tell you that when I record these episodes early like this, if I tell you a

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story about a litter that doesn't make it on the van, you'll just hear the same story

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on the next episode because they'll go on the next transport.

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Well, that is probably not the case for these guys so I'm really really hoping that they

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get to go.

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The mama wandered up to someone's carport and had kittens a few weeks ago and the family

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is going out of town literally two days after transport for a very long vacation and if

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these guys aren't gone by then they're going to give them away even though they're only

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four weeks old and still need to be with their mama or take them to a local kill shelter.

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Unfortunately, we do not have any open foster homes right now even with all of our other

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kittens leaving today so this is really their only hope to get to Virginia.

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Okay, that is all the stories for today and my caffeine is officially wearing off.

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I'm sure you're wondering like why I've been doing so many of these episodes in the absolute

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middle of the night while my sweet wonderful little baby angel sleeps 12 hours a night

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which is amazing.

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Unfortunately, it is always midnight to noon always and my mornings are so chaotic and

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then transport is chaotic and then I get home and I am literally a walking zombie maybe

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because I stay up until 3am the night before.

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I don't know though.

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Anyways, it's just easier to have it all done and ready to post as soon as the van leaves

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instead of having to drive 90 minutes home and then sit down and record it all.

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I am really glad that she's such a great sleeper by which we could get it to like 10 to 10

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instead of 12 to 12 because it's kind of rough.

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Anyways, it's a rough life but someone's gotta do it.