1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:13,480 Hello friends, welcome to Rough Life. 2 00:00:13,480 --> 00:00:19,480 I am coming to you the morning of transport, well about two hours before transport because 3 00:00:19,480 --> 00:00:25,160 up until like 30 hours ago transport was on the verge of being cancelled because we didn't 4 00:00:25,160 --> 00:00:26,960 have enough fosters. 5 00:00:26,960 --> 00:00:34,320 I almost had a meltdown but then reminded myself how wonderful you Virginians are. 6 00:00:34,320 --> 00:00:40,880 I was hoping to get about 10 more fosters in order to do a mini transport of 25 animals. 7 00:00:40,880 --> 00:00:44,240 Instead we have 46 animals on board today. 8 00:00:44,240 --> 00:00:47,280 Y'all almost doubled what I was hoping for. 9 00:00:47,280 --> 00:00:54,640 Actually, you did double it but I woke up this morning to three cats backing out and 10 00:00:54,640 --> 00:01:00,280 then I realized I never took a sixth puppy off of the litter of five that's coming that 11 00:01:00,280 --> 00:01:01,540 had passed away. 12 00:01:01,540 --> 00:01:05,040 So we were all set to send 50 until this morning. 13 00:01:05,040 --> 00:01:11,600 Anyways, I need to leave soon to go to transport so I have to get this done quickly. 14 00:01:11,600 --> 00:01:18,360 Today's theme is Las Vegas hotels for no reason other than one of our fosters went there recently 15 00:01:18,360 --> 00:01:22,600 and compiled a list of all of the hotels for me. 16 00:01:22,600 --> 00:01:25,920 Shout out to Claire for thinking of us even when she's on vacation. 17 00:01:25,920 --> 00:01:32,120 It was like 9 o'clock last night and I realized I had no theme or even a thought of a theme 18 00:01:32,120 --> 00:01:40,520 so she single-handedly named every animal on the van for me and saved me so much time. 19 00:01:40,520 --> 00:01:45,920 Bellagio was found sitting in the middle of a two-lane road. 20 00:01:45,920 --> 00:01:50,720 She was covered in fleas and supermal nourished basically on the verge of death. 21 00:01:50,720 --> 00:01:56,240 She was so pitiful that it took almost a full day to realize she was completely blind and 22 00:01:56,240 --> 00:01:57,760 deaf. 23 00:01:57,760 --> 00:02:05,280 She is probably an Aussie mix so murl colored breeds are at a very high risk of being born 24 00:02:05,280 --> 00:02:08,080 blind, deaf or both. 25 00:02:08,080 --> 00:02:13,360 When you breed two murl coated dogs together you run the risk of some of the puppies being 26 00:02:13,360 --> 00:02:18,640 what's called a double murl or a bunch of science behind it that I do not understand 27 00:02:18,640 --> 00:02:24,760 but basically double murls are like 75% more likely to be blind deaf or both. 28 00:02:24,760 --> 00:02:29,960 If you're an actual licensed breeder you know this and you go to great lengths to make sure 29 00:02:29,960 --> 00:02:31,800 it doesn't happen. 30 00:02:31,800 --> 00:02:37,840 If you're a backyard breeder you see two murl dogs and you see dollar signs and you assume 31 00:02:37,840 --> 00:02:41,600 two murls will make lots of murls for you to sell. 32 00:02:41,600 --> 00:02:48,520 Also for like the first week that we had her any time I typed out blind and deaf my phone 33 00:02:48,520 --> 00:02:54,480 auto corrected it to blonde and dead which was also fairly accurate for her at the time 34 00:02:54,480 --> 00:02:58,920 because she was white and half dead. 35 00:02:58,920 --> 00:03:02,880 Wink is Medley's older pup from her last litter. 36 00:03:02,880 --> 00:03:06,920 Remember Medley was our pregnant bloodhound that had a broken jaw. 37 00:03:06,920 --> 00:03:12,400 We sent her on our transport last month and she gave birth just a few days ago. 38 00:03:12,400 --> 00:03:14,840 She had 12 puppies. 39 00:03:14,840 --> 00:03:19,760 A couple of them were stillborn, a couple of them were very malnourished and died just 40 00:03:19,760 --> 00:03:22,120 within a few hours. 41 00:03:22,120 --> 00:03:29,000 And then she bit the heads off of a few of them. 42 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:31,680 There's some science behind that too believe it or not. 43 00:03:31,680 --> 00:03:35,560 Something about having too many puppies and knowing she's not able to take care of them 44 00:03:35,560 --> 00:03:36,560 all. 45 00:03:36,560 --> 00:03:41,000 Whether it be because she's too malnourished herself and she knows that or because food 46 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:46,120 has been so scarce for her for so long she doesn't realize she'll have as much food as 47 00:03:46,120 --> 00:03:47,760 she wants for the rest of her life now. 48 00:03:47,760 --> 00:03:48,760 I don't know. 49 00:03:48,760 --> 00:03:53,000 I think there's also a level of postpartum depression or anxiety in dogs that we don't 50 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:55,480 fully understand yet. 51 00:03:55,480 --> 00:03:57,320 But she's doing great. 52 00:03:57,320 --> 00:04:03,320 Besides those murderous tendencies the foster is giving her supervised visitation to make 53 00:04:03,320 --> 00:04:08,800 sure the surviving three make it and I don't know too much about Link other than he was 54 00:04:08,800 --> 00:04:12,000 a major mama's boy. 55 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:15,840 The family whose house he wandered up to said he's been looking for the mama ever since 56 00:04:15,840 --> 00:04:21,920 she left so I hope they'll get a little family reunion soon but maybe wait until she's done 57 00:04:21,920 --> 00:04:25,760 with this murder spree she's on. 58 00:04:25,760 --> 00:04:28,480 The family just adores Link. 59 00:04:28,480 --> 00:04:33,360 He is great with their dogs and their two cats and they have really young nephews that 60 00:04:33,360 --> 00:04:37,440 come over all the time and he's fantastic with them too. 61 00:04:37,440 --> 00:04:41,360 The R litter of two were strays that wandered up to a house a few weeks ago. 62 00:04:41,360 --> 00:04:45,200 They took them in like they have all the other strays that have been dropped off on their 63 00:04:45,200 --> 00:04:49,520 road but they quickly realized they were young enough and cute enough that someone would 64 00:04:49,520 --> 00:04:52,640 take them and give them a better home. 65 00:04:52,640 --> 00:04:57,040 The C litter of five was actually a litter of eight before we got involved. 66 00:04:57,040 --> 00:05:01,880 Two had been run over before we were even asked to take them and then we agreed to take 67 00:05:01,880 --> 00:05:06,360 the six so Jessica went to get pictures of them and she went back two days later to vaccinate 68 00:05:06,360 --> 00:05:10,960 them and leave them some food and that's when she found the sixth puppy the little runt 69 00:05:10,960 --> 00:05:16,080 dead likely from malnutrition because they were so skinny and they were eaten up with 70 00:05:16,080 --> 00:05:17,200 parasites. 71 00:05:17,200 --> 00:05:22,960 The owner told Jessica that the mama has a litter at least once or twice a year and 72 00:05:22,960 --> 00:05:26,200 they usually just give away whatever puppies don't get run over. 73 00:05:26,200 --> 00:05:30,120 They live right on the highway so lots of the puppies get run over. 74 00:05:30,120 --> 00:05:34,080 We gave her a spay voucher and we are going to stay on top of her about getting it done 75 00:05:34,080 --> 00:05:39,160 because this mama has clearly done her part to populate the south. 76 00:05:39,160 --> 00:05:44,560 The H litter of six are owner surrenders from Jessica's son's fiance's parents dog and 77 00:05:44,560 --> 00:05:48,680 I am so thankful that that is the last time I'm going to have to say that. 78 00:05:48,680 --> 00:05:52,800 This is what Jessica said when I asked for their background story. 79 00:05:52,800 --> 00:05:56,840 The mom wandered up to their house as a stray they took her in they meant to have her spayed 80 00:05:56,840 --> 00:05:59,360 blah blah blah. 81 00:05:59,360 --> 00:06:00,880 So there you go. 82 00:06:00,880 --> 00:06:06,840 I wonder if the spay voucher can count as my wedding gift or if I can convince Jessica 83 00:06:06,840 --> 00:06:13,040 to withhold her son from marrying their daughter until they get the mom spayed. 84 00:06:13,040 --> 00:06:16,360 The P litter of eight are owner surrenders. 85 00:06:16,360 --> 00:06:18,800 This one actually makes me really mad. 86 00:06:18,800 --> 00:06:23,880 But you know I try really hard not to burn the bridges and this is exactly why. 87 00:06:23,880 --> 00:06:29,920 Last year someone was on the way to transport with the puppy they had found a few days ago. 88 00:06:29,920 --> 00:06:34,040 Probably like an hour away from leaving on its freedom ride. 89 00:06:34,040 --> 00:06:36,840 And the lady told me she just couldn't do it she loved the dog too much and she had 90 00:06:36,840 --> 00:06:41,160 to keep it she swore up and down that she would give this puppy the best life ever 91 00:06:41,160 --> 00:06:44,640 and get it spayed and it would live happily ever after. 92 00:06:44,640 --> 00:06:46,840 Well surprise surprise none of that is true. 93 00:06:46,840 --> 00:06:52,440 The dog lives outside and gave birth to nine puppies over two months ago. 94 00:06:52,440 --> 00:06:57,760 They ran over one of the puppies in their driveway and luckily I didn't tell her how 95 00:06:57,760 --> 00:07:02,520 I really felt about her keeping the dog last year because she reached out to me to take 96 00:07:02,520 --> 00:07:06,440 the surviving eight puppies instead of just giving them away. 97 00:07:06,440 --> 00:07:09,600 Unfortunately though she waited until they were already eight weeks old to even tell 98 00:07:09,600 --> 00:07:14,640 me about them so I'm sending them way bigger than I would have liked to but at least they're 99 00:07:14,640 --> 00:07:18,960 getting to go and she's getting a spay voucher for the mama. 100 00:07:18,960 --> 00:07:23,160 The G litter of four were supposed to be on the van last week they were even on the episode 101 00:07:23,160 --> 00:07:25,640 that I uploaded about that transport. 102 00:07:25,640 --> 00:07:28,880 They were picked up by animal control and brought to the pound. 103 00:07:28,880 --> 00:07:33,280 The officer says there was a mama and two other puppies that he was unable to catch 104 00:07:33,280 --> 00:07:36,640 and no one has seen them since. 105 00:07:36,640 --> 00:07:40,540 Then the morning of transport one of the puppies tested positive for parvo and we held the 106 00:07:40,540 --> 00:07:42,280 entire litter back. 107 00:07:42,280 --> 00:07:48,880 After spending a week at the vet recovering from parvo and coxidia and hookworms he has 108 00:07:48,880 --> 00:07:53,560 bounced back and fully recovered and thankfully none of the other three siblings broke with 109 00:07:53,560 --> 00:07:58,240 it because we started them on preventative care immediately. 110 00:07:58,240 --> 00:08:03,760 The T litter of four are I guess technically an owner surrender although I don't think 111 00:08:03,760 --> 00:08:07,280 the owner meant to surrender them. 112 00:08:07,280 --> 00:08:14,680 Lady came into Dr. Jamie's clinic who we love so so much with these four tiny puppies and 113 00:08:14,680 --> 00:08:17,400 she said she wanted them euthanized. 114 00:08:17,400 --> 00:08:24,760 They were four weeks old and she said she couldn't take care of them anymore so the 115 00:08:24,760 --> 00:08:29,000 receptionist told her just leave them and they would take care of it. 116 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:32,840 After the lady left they took care of it by reaching out to our rescue. 117 00:08:32,840 --> 00:08:37,240 We don't really know anything about them other than the owner said that the mama is a min 118 00:08:37,240 --> 00:08:41,440 pin mix and the dad is a squirrel dog mix. 119 00:08:41,440 --> 00:08:45,600 One of them did have a broken tail I would imagine that they stepped on it but I don't 120 00:08:45,600 --> 00:08:49,560 know that for sure and Dr. Jamie amputated it. 121 00:08:49,560 --> 00:08:53,320 As for the cats, Win was supposed to be a litter of two. 122 00:08:53,320 --> 00:08:58,400 She and her sister were found in the road and the couple that took them home kept them 123 00:08:58,400 --> 00:09:04,520 until we had a spot on transport but then they told me yesterday that the sister was 124 00:09:04,520 --> 00:09:07,920 killed by a dog yesterday. 125 00:09:07,920 --> 00:09:10,200 Literally the day before it was going to get to go. 126 00:09:10,200 --> 00:09:12,840 Killed by a dog. 127 00:09:12,840 --> 00:09:15,520 Little palace is from Dr. Jamie too. 128 00:09:15,520 --> 00:09:21,280 He was thrown out of a car onto hot pavement and was covered in wounds, blisters, scabs, 129 00:09:21,280 --> 00:09:25,440 everything on his feet and on his nose all over. 130 00:09:25,440 --> 00:09:27,880 Someone found him and rushed him to Dr. Jamie. 131 00:09:27,880 --> 00:09:32,520 He needed to be bottle fed because he was so young so we sent him to our bottle feeder 132 00:09:32,520 --> 00:09:38,160 foster for the last few weeks and then he went to Jessica after that. 133 00:09:38,160 --> 00:09:45,240 Her sevens and her two S kittens have been in the works for a long time. 134 00:09:45,240 --> 00:09:51,160 Back on the April 13th mystic transport there was supposed to be a pregnant cat but during 135 00:09:51,160 --> 00:09:55,880 the unloading from one crate to another at one of our rescue partners homes the pregnant 136 00:09:55,880 --> 00:09:59,120 mama shot out of the crate and ran into the woods. 137 00:09:59,120 --> 00:10:05,120 They looked for her and they left food out for her for months but no sight of her until 138 00:10:05,120 --> 00:10:06,200 a few weeks ago. 139 00:10:06,200 --> 00:10:12,680 The next door neighbor asked if we could help and she said she had found a mama cat in kittens 140 00:10:12,680 --> 00:10:16,520 under a bush in their fenced in backyard. 141 00:10:16,520 --> 00:10:22,440 She found them because her 100 pound yellow lab was too scared to go outside to go potty 142 00:10:22,440 --> 00:10:26,160 now because the mama had hissed at him. 143 00:10:26,160 --> 00:10:30,880 So our rescue partner went over with food to assess the situation and compared the picture 144 00:10:30,880 --> 00:10:35,840 that she had of the runaway cat to this mama cat and they were identical. 145 00:10:35,840 --> 00:10:40,520 What are the chances by her second trip over there the mama was letting her pet her and 146 00:10:40,520 --> 00:10:46,080 pick her up and so she loaded her in a crate and she grabbed her two spicy kittens with 147 00:10:46,080 --> 00:10:50,800 her garden gloves and she sent them to a foster who has worked with them for about a month 148 00:10:50,800 --> 00:10:52,960 to get them sweet and friendly. 149 00:10:52,960 --> 00:10:59,800 And just to put this into perspective for you April 13th my baby was 10 days old. 150 00:10:59,800 --> 00:11:04,720 My baby is now 157 days old. 151 00:11:04,720 --> 00:11:09,440 Notice how long we've known about this mama and have been actively trying to save this 152 00:11:09,440 --> 00:11:10,640 mama. 153 00:11:10,640 --> 00:11:12,720 That's insane. 154 00:11:12,720 --> 00:11:17,720 The M letter of five were posted on Facebook by a lady that was moving and needed someone 155 00:11:17,720 --> 00:11:24,280 to come pick them up because she couldn't take them with her literally that day. 156 00:11:24,280 --> 00:11:30,040 She was literally moving out that day the day she posted it and she just planned to leave 157 00:11:30,040 --> 00:11:34,880 them behind when they were only six weeks old if she didn't find anyone to come get them. 158 00:11:34,880 --> 00:11:38,360 So we had a foster that went out and picked them up and she has fostered them until they 159 00:11:38,360 --> 00:11:41,040 were able to get on transport. 160 00:11:41,040 --> 00:11:44,160 The F letter of four were owner surrenders. 161 00:11:44,160 --> 00:11:48,680 Someone's nine year old cat had kittens because they accidentally let her outside. 162 00:11:48,680 --> 00:11:52,640 They asked us to take them when they were like five weeks old but we were so over full 163 00:11:52,640 --> 00:11:55,800 with kittens at the time that we couldn't take them. 164 00:11:55,800 --> 00:11:59,400 Luckily they have held on to them for us and they have taken such great care of them until 165 00:11:59,400 --> 00:12:02,040 we finally got a spot open for them. 166 00:12:02,040 --> 00:12:07,120 We told them we would take them in July and then we told them, oh sorry it's actually 167 00:12:07,120 --> 00:12:13,440 going to be mid August and then we were like, oh wait I mean late August and now it's September 168 00:12:13,440 --> 00:12:16,520 and we're just now getting to them. 169 00:12:16,520 --> 00:12:21,720 And as I've been recording this literally in the last five minutes we've decided that 170 00:12:21,720 --> 00:12:26,840 we may or may not be adding a letter of four puppies or possibly just two of the four. 171 00:12:26,840 --> 00:12:28,400 Who knows? 172 00:12:28,400 --> 00:12:30,280 So they don't even have names yet. 173 00:12:30,280 --> 00:12:33,800 I don't even know if they're actually going or not but just so that I don't have to hop 174 00:12:33,800 --> 00:12:38,440 back on here tonight with another update to the episode I'm going to tell you their story 175 00:12:38,440 --> 00:12:43,560 now and we'll just see what ends up happening. 176 00:12:43,560 --> 00:12:48,320 They were actually a letter of six that was found at the front door of a dollar general 177 00:12:48,320 --> 00:12:54,880 crammed inside a hardtop crate with a note, a handwritten note on top that said, free 178 00:12:54,880 --> 00:12:57,960 puppies so sorry could not keep. 179 00:12:57,960 --> 00:13:01,800 They were posted on Facebook by one of the dollar general employees and one of our rescue 180 00:13:01,800 --> 00:13:05,040 partners ran over there to get them before they were given away. 181 00:13:05,040 --> 00:13:10,280 She found a foster about a week and about a week later one of the puppies ended up breaking 182 00:13:10,280 --> 00:13:15,320 with Parvo so after rushing him to the vet just a few hours after noticing his symptoms 183 00:13:15,320 --> 00:13:17,800 he died at the vet the next day. 184 00:13:17,800 --> 00:13:23,920 Thankfully, the other five all survived however whoever was fostering them decided she was 185 00:13:23,920 --> 00:13:26,360 going to keep one of them this morning. 186 00:13:26,360 --> 00:13:31,320 It's not my foster and it's not my decision or you already know I would have shut that 187 00:13:31,320 --> 00:13:39,280 down but I'm sure we will get her in a few months when she's pregnant and wild and misbehaving. 188 00:13:39,280 --> 00:13:45,560 If these puppies do end up going they will more than likely be the end litter. 189 00:13:45,560 --> 00:13:51,600 While that is all for this week I'm officially running late now I have no idea now how many 190 00:13:51,600 --> 00:13:56,240 animals will be on the van or even which animals will be on the van. 191 00:13:56,240 --> 00:14:01,880 I was way more organized and prepared at the start of this episode than I am now but by 192 00:14:01,880 --> 00:14:07,040 the time you're listening to this I will be much calmer, much happier and quite a few 193 00:14:07,040 --> 00:14:10,000 animals less than I am right now. 194 00:14:10,000 --> 00:14:23,520 It's a rough life but someone's got to do it.