1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:11,520 Hello friends, welcome to Ruff Life. 2 00:00:11,520 --> 00:00:18,880 I am still super sorry that last week's mini transport episode was so long, so I'm gonna 3 00:00:18,880 --> 00:00:23,740 get right into it this week so it isn't as insanely long. 4 00:00:23,740 --> 00:00:29,600 The theme is hockey and that is because this group of animals will be used for our annual 5 00:00:29,600 --> 00:00:32,680 caps calendar that we do with the hockey team. 6 00:00:32,680 --> 00:00:38,520 It is a super big deal and we are super honored that we get to be a part of it every year. 7 00:00:38,520 --> 00:00:43,520 They are amazing supporters of ours and we are just so thankful for them. 8 00:00:43,520 --> 00:00:51,240 That being said, I am extra thankful for them because we weren't even supposed to have this 9 00:00:51,240 --> 00:00:52,240 transport. 10 00:00:52,240 --> 00:00:56,840 It only got added because they needed animals for the photo shoot. 11 00:00:56,840 --> 00:01:03,840 So I got to do one of my very favorite things in the whole entire world and that is go puppy 12 00:01:03,840 --> 00:01:05,760 shopping! 13 00:01:05,760 --> 00:01:10,600 All of my other litters were too little for this transport and are scheduled for later 14 00:01:10,600 --> 00:01:15,760 ones or they're getting bumped up from a later transport and getting to go earlier and go 15 00:01:15,760 --> 00:01:17,260 on this one. 16 00:01:17,260 --> 00:01:22,640 But I still had several empty spots that I needed to fill and they told me to find the 17 00:01:22,640 --> 00:01:27,720 cutest puppies that I could so I sent out an APB to all of my rescue partners to find 18 00:01:27,720 --> 00:01:31,240 me the cutest of the cutest for this van. 19 00:01:31,240 --> 00:01:36,040 I love that we're typically very organized and we have a waiting list of who is lined 20 00:01:36,040 --> 00:01:40,920 up to go on the next transports and when people contact us it's nice to be able to say we're 21 00:01:40,920 --> 00:01:44,800 full right now but we can take them in three weeks or whatever. 22 00:01:44,800 --> 00:01:50,200 But this was so fun last week being like oh you have cute puppies you need help with? 23 00:01:50,200 --> 00:01:51,200 Oh okay. 24 00:01:51,200 --> 00:01:57,640 How about I take them for you next week when everyone around us is either full on a super 25 00:01:57,640 --> 00:02:01,460 long waiting list or just completely closed down right now. 26 00:02:01,460 --> 00:02:07,680 So this was just a nice little change of pace for us after a very long and exhausting puppy 27 00:02:07,680 --> 00:02:09,800 season. 28 00:02:09,800 --> 00:02:12,080 Anyways on to the stories. 29 00:02:12,080 --> 00:02:16,920 Alexander Ovachekin, first of all God bless Jenny. 30 00:02:16,920 --> 00:02:22,040 She's the one who did the names for this transport because I know hockey and puck, those are 31 00:02:22,040 --> 00:02:25,760 like the only hockey names that I know. 32 00:02:25,760 --> 00:02:30,280 Thank you Jenny for giving this puppy a name that I can pronounce because we all know she 33 00:02:30,280 --> 00:02:35,240 could have given me a name I 100% would have butchered. 34 00:02:35,240 --> 00:02:42,280 Alexander or Road Runner as he is fondly known down here was hit by a car a few weeks ago. 35 00:02:42,280 --> 00:02:48,320 He is only eight weeks old so he was just barely six weeks old when it happened. 36 00:02:48,320 --> 00:02:53,280 Someone saw him get hit on her way to work and she stopped and picked him up on the middle 37 00:02:53,280 --> 00:02:54,700 of the road. 38 00:02:54,700 --> 00:02:59,440 She posted him on Facebook that she was on her way to work, she had no money for vet 39 00:02:59,440 --> 00:03:04,800 bills but that she would drop him off at a vet's office if someone, anyone would help 40 00:03:04,800 --> 00:03:06,680 cover the bill. 41 00:03:06,680 --> 00:03:13,160 Now if you know me or you've listened to my introductory episodes, you know that 7am 42 00:03:13,160 --> 00:03:15,720 is the butt crack of dawn for me. 43 00:03:15,720 --> 00:03:20,960 Right now it is 430 in the morning, the day of transport. 44 00:03:20,960 --> 00:03:25,840 I will go all night, I am not a morning person. 45 00:03:25,840 --> 00:03:30,120 And unfortunately motherhood has not made that any different as my baby loves to sleep 46 00:03:30,120 --> 00:03:32,440 in until noon every day. 47 00:03:32,440 --> 00:03:38,880 However, I just happened to be awake about six minutes after she posted this bloody puppy 48 00:03:38,880 --> 00:03:40,920 picture on Facebook. 49 00:03:40,920 --> 00:03:47,240 So I texted our rescue partner Hope and I sent her the screenshot since it was posted 50 00:03:47,240 --> 00:03:49,600 in the group that she manages. 51 00:03:49,600 --> 00:03:53,320 I think I asked her if she knew anything about it or something like that and she said no, 52 00:03:53,320 --> 00:03:54,320 do you want him? 53 00:03:54,320 --> 00:03:57,040 And I was like, yeah, I'll take him. 54 00:03:57,040 --> 00:04:00,880 And I promise you it was not 30 seconds later. 55 00:04:00,880 --> 00:04:06,040 Really not even enough time for my message to be delivered to her phone, her read it 56 00:04:06,040 --> 00:04:09,320 and have enough time to reply when she was like, okay, he's here, I just talked to the 57 00:04:09,320 --> 00:04:10,720 girl. 58 00:04:10,720 --> 00:04:12,320 Amazing. 59 00:04:12,320 --> 00:04:16,960 So the girl dropped him off at one of our vet partners, updated the Facebook post saying 60 00:04:16,960 --> 00:04:22,360 like what vet he was at and that people could call in donations there and the vets got to 61 00:04:22,360 --> 00:04:23,760 work assessing him. 62 00:04:23,760 --> 00:04:26,360 Meanwhile, I go back to bed. 63 00:04:26,360 --> 00:04:32,220 By the time I woke up, Roadrunner was stable on heavy duty painkillers fluids, had had 64 00:04:32,220 --> 00:04:39,420 an x-ray done to determine that he had a broken jaw and he had gotten over $700 in donations 65 00:04:39,420 --> 00:04:41,080 called in for him. 66 00:04:41,080 --> 00:04:44,680 All while I slept a few more hours. 67 00:04:44,680 --> 00:04:48,220 He ended up staying the rest of the time at the vet clinic until transport because the 68 00:04:48,220 --> 00:04:53,340 vet techs just loved him and they would take him home at night and take care of him. 69 00:04:53,340 --> 00:04:59,040 He would be staying there even longer but luckily our own vet tech slash adoption coordinator 70 00:04:59,040 --> 00:05:03,400 Jenny also fell in love with him and asked if he could be brought up early so that she 71 00:05:03,400 --> 00:05:05,320 could take over his care. 72 00:05:05,320 --> 00:05:11,260 It's always so wild to me how these terrible horrible things happen to these animals. 73 00:05:11,260 --> 00:05:14,540 And because of that they get the best life ever in Virginia. 74 00:05:14,540 --> 00:05:19,320 Like I'm sure if they could think like this, they'd be thinking like getting hit by that 75 00:05:19,320 --> 00:05:23,120 car was the best thing that ever happened to me because I ended up at Jenny's house 76 00:05:23,120 --> 00:05:28,020 who's gonna make sure I only go to the best of the best adopters. 77 00:05:28,020 --> 00:05:30,820 That's so crazy. 78 00:05:30,820 --> 00:05:36,000 The S litter of two are from our newer shelter partners. 79 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:42,820 Well actually if you listened to the Sadie story episode, this is the same shelter that 80 00:05:42,820 --> 00:05:46,240 I was banned from ever stepping foot in again. 81 00:05:46,240 --> 00:05:51,320 But spoiler alert if you haven't listened to that episode yet, that director got fired 82 00:05:51,320 --> 00:05:56,400 and replaced and the new director quickly worked to rebuild their relationship with 83 00:05:56,400 --> 00:05:57,400 us. 84 00:05:57,400 --> 00:06:01,840 However, they then had a distemper outbreak and then a parvo outbreak. 85 00:06:01,840 --> 00:06:06,920 So we've been a little scared of them ever since. 86 00:06:06,920 --> 00:06:12,000 But it's been about two years since the distemper and almost a year since the parvo incidents. 87 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:18,040 So we are crossing our fingers and starting off slow. 88 00:06:18,040 --> 00:06:22,200 This is also one of the main shelters that Dr. Burton would do rotations at, she would 89 00:06:22,200 --> 00:06:28,000 have to go in and just mass euthanize hundreds of puppies every week. 90 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:32,440 And then she started the spay and neuter mobile at the vet school here and she would come 91 00:06:32,440 --> 00:06:37,700 through and fix a bunch of them with the students and then go back a few weeks later and euthanize 92 00:06:37,700 --> 00:06:40,100 them until she started wolf trap. 93 00:06:40,100 --> 00:06:43,180 So they have known us and loved us for years. 94 00:06:43,180 --> 00:06:47,440 And that's why the whole Sadie situation was just so crazy to me. 95 00:06:47,440 --> 00:06:52,960 Anyways, none of that has anything to do with the tea litter of two. 96 00:06:52,960 --> 00:07:00,680 But the shelter is trying so hard to clear out some room to make space for the hundreds 97 00:07:00,680 --> 00:07:03,400 that are still on their intake waitlist. 98 00:07:03,400 --> 00:07:07,160 So they were very thankful that we were able to take these two and get them out of the 99 00:07:07,160 --> 00:07:08,340 shelter. 100 00:07:08,340 --> 00:07:12,420 They were actually a litter of three, there was another one in the litter, but just this 101 00:07:12,420 --> 00:07:16,460 week like three days ago, someone asked if they could adopt it. 102 00:07:16,460 --> 00:07:19,120 So thankfully she is out of the shelter too. 103 00:07:19,120 --> 00:07:24,200 But unfortunately, she is more than likely an outside dog who will end up being surrendered 104 00:07:24,200 --> 00:07:26,680 back to the shelter by the time she's a year old. 105 00:07:26,680 --> 00:07:30,840 But yeah, go listen to the Sadie story episode if you haven't yet. 106 00:07:30,840 --> 00:07:33,780 It is a good one. 107 00:07:33,780 --> 00:07:38,660 The age litter of two are from another one of our good old days rescue partners. 108 00:07:38,660 --> 00:07:41,280 We haven't worked with them in several years. 109 00:07:41,280 --> 00:07:42,620 There's no tea or anything. 110 00:07:42,620 --> 00:07:46,800 They just mainly worked with another northern rescue in another state. 111 00:07:46,800 --> 00:07:50,080 And they pull from an area that I don't really cover. 112 00:07:50,080 --> 00:07:54,920 But there was no falling out or anything juicy, you know, I would tell you. 113 00:07:54,920 --> 00:08:01,520 Anyways, um, she has two puppies that totally fit the bill when Jenny and Jacqueline said 114 00:08:01,520 --> 00:08:04,800 that they need super adorable fluffy puppies. 115 00:08:04,800 --> 00:08:09,480 So when we saw them posted needing needing a northern rescue, we jumped on it. 116 00:08:09,480 --> 00:08:13,080 The rescue that they typically work with wasn't going to be able to take them for several 117 00:08:13,080 --> 00:08:15,880 weeks and they didn't have a foster to keep them that long. 118 00:08:15,880 --> 00:08:20,360 So they were very happy when I told them that transport was leaving the next week. 119 00:08:20,360 --> 00:08:26,160 They were originally being given away on Facebook by the owners when this local rescue grabbed 120 00:08:26,160 --> 00:08:27,400 them. 121 00:08:27,400 --> 00:08:35,100 Oh, and the owners live right next to one of our vet partners. 122 00:08:35,100 --> 00:08:40,400 So they're literally just going to walk down the road to get their dog spayed for free. 123 00:08:40,400 --> 00:08:43,240 So that's awesome. 124 00:08:43,240 --> 00:08:49,640 The G letter of two are a last minute add on Jacqueline is not working during this transport 125 00:08:49,640 --> 00:08:55,100 because it's her birthday and she feels like she's entitled to use her vacation days or 126 00:08:55,100 --> 00:08:57,360 something ridiculous. 127 00:08:57,360 --> 00:09:03,120 So she is letting and I use the term lately because Jacqueline is having a hard time turning 128 00:09:03,120 --> 00:09:05,080 loose control. 129 00:09:05,080 --> 00:09:10,160 She is letting our new friend Margie help with foster coordinating. 130 00:09:10,160 --> 00:09:16,860 So Jacqueline was introducing us, which more or less is warning Margie about me and threatening 131 00:09:16,860 --> 00:09:22,940 me to behave around Margie because I may or may not be known for stressing out the employees 132 00:09:22,940 --> 00:09:27,640 and making them overexert themselves by taking too many animals to the point that they have 133 00:09:27,640 --> 00:09:32,480 to go on a vacation halfway across the country to decompress for their birthdays. 134 00:09:32,480 --> 00:09:37,360 But I digress Margie was saying that she is ready to hit the ground running to get all 135 00:09:37,360 --> 00:09:38,700 these fosters confirmed. 136 00:09:38,700 --> 00:09:42,320 So we would know if everyone on my list was going to get to go or if I was going to have 137 00:09:42,320 --> 00:09:44,460 to cut anybody. 138 00:09:44,460 --> 00:09:50,320 So I half joked really, really I meant it as a joke to Margie that she didn't need to 139 00:09:50,320 --> 00:09:54,520 stress about finding fosters for everyone on my list right away because as soon as they 140 00:09:54,520 --> 00:09:58,820 all had fosters, I would just start asking about adding more. 141 00:09:58,820 --> 00:10:00,520 So she should just take her time. 142 00:10:00,520 --> 00:10:04,720 Well, I really didn't have anything to add to the list at the time. 143 00:10:04,720 --> 00:10:09,520 But then an hour after I said that, Jessica sent me a picture of these two puppies. 144 00:10:09,520 --> 00:10:12,120 Like, how could I not? 145 00:10:12,120 --> 00:10:15,360 And we had almost enough fosters for my original list. 146 00:10:15,360 --> 00:10:20,240 So I hit up Margie to see if I could add these and I think she was going to say no, she was 147 00:10:20,240 --> 00:10:21,720 a little hesitant. 148 00:10:21,720 --> 00:10:26,120 I think I would eventually want her over but I think she was going to say no. 149 00:10:26,120 --> 00:10:30,260 But Jacqueline who was in the group message but wasn't supposed to be reading or replying 150 00:10:30,260 --> 00:10:31,740 to any of our texts. 151 00:10:31,740 --> 00:10:35,440 She said that she would foster them when she got back if they didn't end up finding fosters 152 00:10:35,440 --> 00:10:38,820 because they were just too cute to leave behind. 153 00:10:38,820 --> 00:10:43,880 They were originally a litter of four, maybe even more than four, but that's all that were 154 00:10:43,880 --> 00:10:45,420 found. 155 00:10:45,420 --> 00:10:47,480 Someone's dog in the city limits. 156 00:10:47,480 --> 00:10:50,240 Oh, did you guys hear that? 157 00:10:50,240 --> 00:10:51,600 I don't know if you could hear that. 158 00:10:51,600 --> 00:10:53,600 It was super loud thunder. 159 00:10:53,600 --> 00:10:56,640 We're like in the middle of a hurricane or something. 160 00:10:56,640 --> 00:10:59,920 It's super loud thunder scared me to death. 161 00:10:59,920 --> 00:11:05,500 Anyways, someone's dog in the city limits had puppies. 162 00:11:05,500 --> 00:11:09,280 The owners never did anything with them so they were just wandering in and out of the 163 00:11:09,280 --> 00:11:13,680 street until someone else eventually called animal control about them. 164 00:11:13,680 --> 00:11:18,320 By the time that animal control got out there, two of them had been hit by a car and were 165 00:11:18,320 --> 00:11:20,000 killed. 166 00:11:20,000 --> 00:11:23,460 So these two were all that were left and still alive. 167 00:11:23,460 --> 00:11:28,760 I believe that animal control told the owners that they could have the puppies back, but 168 00:11:28,760 --> 00:11:33,240 that they'd be getting fined or they could surrender them and not be charged. 169 00:11:33,240 --> 00:11:35,600 So that's how we got them so quickly. 170 00:11:35,600 --> 00:11:37,760 Usually there would be a five day hold. 171 00:11:37,760 --> 00:11:39,960 Oh, and Margie did great. 172 00:11:39,960 --> 00:11:42,200 I didn't even have to bully her. 173 00:11:42,200 --> 00:11:45,200 And Jacqueline eventually stopped checking her phone. 174 00:11:45,200 --> 00:11:49,700 And I think she's enjoying her vacation. 175 00:11:49,700 --> 00:11:52,880 The K letter of two were found on the side of the road. 176 00:11:52,880 --> 00:11:56,200 Someone sent us a picture of them and asked if we could take them. 177 00:11:56,200 --> 00:12:00,680 When we told her yes, she went back to get them and they were gone. 178 00:12:00,680 --> 00:12:06,520 Then the next day we got a message on the B2Cast page that a different person had found 179 00:12:06,520 --> 00:12:09,980 them and picked them up and needed us to take them. 180 00:12:09,980 --> 00:12:14,240 She was going to keep them for a few days for us because our September 6 transport was 181 00:12:14,240 --> 00:12:17,780 about to leave and we didn't have any open fosters then. 182 00:12:17,780 --> 00:12:23,700 So Jess texted her a few days later right before the other hurricane, not this hurricane, 183 00:12:23,700 --> 00:12:28,420 the other hurricane hit and she said she was ready to take them but the lady said that 184 00:12:28,420 --> 00:12:31,080 she would bring them to her the next day. 185 00:12:31,080 --> 00:12:35,140 So Jess texted her that next day to get them and she said she had actually taken them to 186 00:12:35,140 --> 00:12:39,920 a friend's house because she had a better setup for them. 187 00:12:39,920 --> 00:12:46,400 When Jessica got there to pick them up, the better setup was a wire pen with a huge hole 188 00:12:46,400 --> 00:12:49,320 in it so they were just wandering around the property. 189 00:12:49,320 --> 00:12:55,800 They had cuddled up together underneath an old bookshelf on a teeny tiny porch in the 190 00:12:55,800 --> 00:12:57,640 pouring rain. 191 00:12:57,640 --> 00:13:00,920 I don't even think this should count as a porch. 192 00:13:00,920 --> 00:13:03,980 There was almost zero roof on it. 193 00:13:03,980 --> 00:13:08,800 So they were soaking wet because it had been raining nonstop for over 12 hours. 194 00:13:08,800 --> 00:13:11,440 They were so happy when they got to Jess's. 195 00:13:11,440 --> 00:13:15,520 She has a video, I'll try to remember to post it. 196 00:13:15,520 --> 00:13:20,440 Most of them eating food for the first time and their little tails were wagging so fast. 197 00:13:20,440 --> 00:13:26,080 They were so relieved to be fed and dry. 198 00:13:26,080 --> 00:13:32,660 The R litter of two are owner surrenders and honestly I really debated telling this part 199 00:13:32,660 --> 00:13:41,120 of their story but you know this podcast is all about honesty and transparency. 200 00:13:41,120 --> 00:13:50,480 The mama of these puppies is a purebred blue healer and the dad is purebred hanging tree 201 00:13:50,480 --> 00:13:51,580 dog. 202 00:13:51,580 --> 00:13:57,440 Now I'm about 99% sure that absolutely none of you have ever heard of this breed before. 203 00:13:57,440 --> 00:14:00,440 If you have, I would love to know. 204 00:14:00,440 --> 00:14:04,720 Put it in the comments or something if you have heard of this before because I had never 205 00:14:04,720 --> 00:14:05,720 heard of this. 206 00:14:05,720 --> 00:14:10,080 I thought it was a typo until he said it in a second text and then I was like that's an 207 00:14:10,080 --> 00:14:12,840 oddly specific typo to have twice. 208 00:14:12,840 --> 00:14:15,580 So then I looked it up. 209 00:14:15,580 --> 00:14:24,760 The hanging tree cowdog is a breed created by Gary Erickson and his son Chok and it was 210 00:14:24,760 --> 00:14:31,120 named after his ranch, the hanging tree ranch in Idaho in 1980. 211 00:14:31,120 --> 00:14:38,600 Now I think I read literally every single Google article about this ranch and this breed 212 00:14:38,600 --> 00:14:43,720 and I cannot find anywhere that it says where this ranch got its name or what it's named 213 00:14:43,720 --> 00:14:52,200 after but let's be honest there is a very good probability that it has racist ties so 214 00:14:52,200 --> 00:14:56,300 I don't think that that's something that they would just proudly share on their websites 215 00:14:56,300 --> 00:14:58,560 in this day and age. 216 00:14:58,560 --> 00:15:03,260 So I was on the fence about sharing this because that could definitely be triggering to hear 217 00:15:03,260 --> 00:15:12,480 for a lot of people but since they were in Idaho and not Alabama I'm going to hope that 218 00:15:12,480 --> 00:15:19,760 the hanging trees were for the bandits out west that the farmers caught stealing cattle 219 00:15:19,760 --> 00:15:21,760 or something. 220 00:15:21,760 --> 00:15:26,200 Anyways let me tell you about this breed because it is pretty interesting. 221 00:15:26,200 --> 00:15:30,900 They were designed to be the best ranch dogs in the world. 222 00:15:30,900 --> 00:15:38,640 They are 3 eighths border collie for their herding instinct and intelligence, 1 eighth 223 00:15:38,640 --> 00:15:46,680 catahoula for their toughness and slick coat, 1 fourth kelpie for their endurance, herding 224 00:15:46,680 --> 00:15:52,160 instinct and short hair, and 1 fourth Australian shepherd. 225 00:15:52,160 --> 00:15:58,420 Actually the Australian shepherd was named hanging tree black bear and he was just a 226 00:15:58,420 --> 00:16:05,200 super dog with they said courage and ability to handle any kind of cattle so they wanted 227 00:16:05,200 --> 00:16:09,320 the puppies to have his genes too because he was just a great dog. 228 00:16:09,320 --> 00:16:14,240 So it sounds like these are going to be great city dogs. 229 00:16:14,240 --> 00:16:21,560 Anyways because these puppies are not 100% hanging tree dogs just their father was quote 230 00:16:21,560 --> 00:16:27,600 unquote purebred hanging tree dog, these dogs are not technically considered hanging tree 231 00:16:27,600 --> 00:16:28,680 dogs. 232 00:16:28,680 --> 00:16:34,160 They specifically state that not every dog that is a mix of these breeds is a hanging 233 00:16:34,160 --> 00:16:36,720 tree dog. 234 00:16:36,720 --> 00:16:40,440 I'm so sick of saying hanging tree dogs. 235 00:16:40,440 --> 00:16:47,160 All hanging tree dogs trace back to Gary's original dogs and if a dog isn't a full descendant 236 00:16:47,160 --> 00:16:51,760 of Gary's dogs it's not considered a hanging tree cow dog. 237 00:16:51,760 --> 00:16:56,560 You have to do a DNA test before they will agree to register your dog as a hanging tree 238 00:16:56,560 --> 00:16:59,520 cow dog officially. 239 00:16:59,520 --> 00:17:03,200 But from everything that I've read, which I mean it's not like they're going to publish 240 00:17:03,200 --> 00:17:09,740 bad things about them, but it seems like the creator Gary and his son Chalk were really 241 00:17:09,740 --> 00:17:11,720 good guys. 242 00:17:11,720 --> 00:17:17,080 They ended up leaving Idaho and moving to Oklahoma in 1994. 243 00:17:17,080 --> 00:17:21,220 They settled on an 800 acre farm. 244 00:17:21,220 --> 00:17:22,720 That's wild. 245 00:17:22,720 --> 00:17:31,320 Chalk, Erickson the son, he was a senior agent with the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and 246 00:17:31,320 --> 00:17:34,800 he was killed in the line of duty in 2005. 247 00:17:34,800 --> 00:17:36,800 That's terrible. 248 00:17:36,800 --> 00:17:42,200 Gary passed away in 2022 at the age of 82. 249 00:17:42,200 --> 00:17:46,680 And then it says the hanging tree cow dogs they created however will continue to carry 250 00:17:46,680 --> 00:17:50,880 on their legacies, which I hope are good legacies. 251 00:17:50,880 --> 00:17:59,480 I hope this is not some racist ranch that we are just still breeding their dogs for 252 00:17:59,480 --> 00:18:00,480 them. 253 00:18:00,480 --> 00:18:05,880 Anyways, more specifically for this litter, the owner had them bred because he owns a 254 00:18:05,880 --> 00:18:11,320 large farm, not 800 acres though, and he wanted a working dog. 255 00:18:11,320 --> 00:18:18,160 He doesn't own the dad, the purebred hanging tree cow dog, but the mom was his dog and 256 00:18:18,160 --> 00:18:19,160 she died. 257 00:18:19,160 --> 00:18:24,920 He didn't tell me how or when, but he had three puppies from the litter and he told 258 00:18:24,920 --> 00:18:28,460 me I could have two of the three because he needed one for his farm. 259 00:18:28,460 --> 00:18:36,380 So you know, it physically kills me to leave a litter mate behind, but these are actually 260 00:18:36,380 --> 00:18:41,420 one of the few litters that I think might be happy being working dogs instead of laid 261 00:18:41,420 --> 00:18:45,000 up on y'all's fancy couches in your fancy homes. 262 00:18:45,000 --> 00:18:49,560 But they are very smart dogs, so they should be very easy to train. 263 00:18:49,560 --> 00:18:53,640 Okay, the W litter of three. 264 00:18:53,640 --> 00:18:54,640 Oh man. 265 00:18:54,640 --> 00:19:00,840 Okay, the W litter is actually a litter of two and a family friend. 266 00:19:00,840 --> 00:19:05,940 The litter of two was actually a litter of nine. 267 00:19:05,940 --> 00:19:10,880 This litter was supposed to go last week on the September 20th candy transport, but they 268 00:19:10,880 --> 00:19:14,080 broke with parvo earlier this month. 269 00:19:14,080 --> 00:19:19,800 Unfortunately, and I think the owners meant well, but this is just why we absolutely cannot 270 00:19:19,800 --> 00:19:22,440 take a risk mixing letters. 271 00:19:22,440 --> 00:19:27,160 Their mama dog had the nine puppies and when they were about six weeks old, the owners 272 00:19:27,160 --> 00:19:30,800 found another stray puppy several weeks older than theirs. 273 00:19:30,800 --> 00:19:33,520 It was just wandering in their carport. 274 00:19:33,520 --> 00:19:38,400 So they didn't think twice bringing it in and throwing it in with their litter of nine. 275 00:19:38,400 --> 00:19:44,440 They had no way of knowing that it must have just gotten over parvo because it was still 276 00:19:44,440 --> 00:19:48,040 shedding the virus so it was still contagious. 277 00:19:48,040 --> 00:19:55,040 And it ended up giving it to their litter of nine and one by one, seven of the nine 278 00:19:55,040 --> 00:19:57,000 puppies died. 279 00:19:57,000 --> 00:19:59,920 When we got them, there were only four still alive. 280 00:19:59,920 --> 00:20:05,200 Two died shortly after we got them despite throwing the daggum book at them. 281 00:20:05,200 --> 00:20:09,720 We gave them everything we had to treat parvo. 282 00:20:09,720 --> 00:20:16,760 The surviving two and the friend are doing very well now and the mama and daddy dog never 283 00:20:16,760 --> 00:20:18,460 broke with it. 284 00:20:18,460 --> 00:20:25,080 So they will be getting spayed and neutered, but they still have seven other dogs besides 285 00:20:25,080 --> 00:20:28,400 these two adults in their home. 286 00:20:28,400 --> 00:20:32,640 So I'm sure they're going to be calling us again. 287 00:20:32,640 --> 00:20:37,200 The T letter of five are from Jessica so you know this is going to be a lame story. 288 00:20:37,200 --> 00:20:40,960 I'm sorry to whoever is fostering them. 289 00:20:40,960 --> 00:20:46,520 She said quote, the puppies are just owner surrenders from a lady whose dog had puppies. 290 00:20:46,520 --> 00:20:51,060 Nothing exciting that I can even slightly come up with except maybe that they were right 291 00:20:51,060 --> 00:20:55,700 down the road from another litter that we lost half of before we were able to get them. 292 00:20:55,700 --> 00:21:01,160 So I did try to get my hands on them and into a foster home as fast as possible so that 293 00:21:01,160 --> 00:21:04,580 nothing got these. 294 00:21:04,580 --> 00:21:09,440 The M letter of five were strays that wandered into someone's carport while she was at work 295 00:21:09,440 --> 00:21:10,440 one day. 296 00:21:10,440 --> 00:21:11,440 Imagine that. 297 00:21:11,440 --> 00:21:20,720 Imagine coming home from work and there are five puppies living in your carport. 298 00:21:20,720 --> 00:21:27,080 She is 66 years old so she immediately messaged us for help and her husband just passed away. 299 00:21:27,080 --> 00:21:31,100 So she said even though she would love to keep them all she has no way of taking care 300 00:21:31,100 --> 00:21:32,280 of them. 301 00:21:32,280 --> 00:21:36,920 She was very happy to keep them for us until transport though and she has taken amazing 302 00:21:36,920 --> 00:21:38,560 care of them. 303 00:21:38,560 --> 00:21:45,200 But she has a very old dog and I believe he is very ready for these puppies to go. 304 00:21:45,200 --> 00:21:50,400 I don't know if these puppies were dumped or if they belong to someone somewhere down 305 00:21:50,400 --> 00:21:54,400 the road and they just wandered until she eventually took them in. 306 00:21:54,400 --> 00:21:57,600 But they're definitely not all litter mates. 307 00:21:57,600 --> 00:22:05,400 One of them looks like he might be from an older litter and maybe a half sibling or he 308 00:22:05,400 --> 00:22:09,280 could be from a different litter altogether and just happen to see some friends walking 309 00:22:09,280 --> 00:22:11,560 down the road and joined them. 310 00:22:11,560 --> 00:22:16,400 But they have been together since we found out about them so we're keeping them as one 311 00:22:16,400 --> 00:22:17,640 litter. 312 00:22:17,640 --> 00:22:21,680 The C letter of six are owner surrenders. 313 00:22:21,680 --> 00:22:28,600 The owner is the ex husband of one of our rescue partners co workers. 314 00:22:28,600 --> 00:22:31,680 He lives in an old rundown trailer. 315 00:22:31,680 --> 00:22:37,080 There are several strays in the area and one of the mama dogs decided to move in and live 316 00:22:37,080 --> 00:22:38,740 under his trailer. 317 00:22:38,740 --> 00:22:42,640 She had a litter last spring and the local shelter was able to adopt all the puppies 318 00:22:42,640 --> 00:22:49,840 out but the ex husband never got the mama dog spayed so surprise surprise not at all. 319 00:22:49,840 --> 00:22:54,080 She ended up getting pregnant again so he called his ex wife because she's the one who 320 00:22:54,080 --> 00:22:58,240 helped him get in with the shelter last time but since they have such an insanely long 321 00:22:58,240 --> 00:23:03,140 wait list they're not even taking any more to be added to the list right now. 322 00:23:03,140 --> 00:23:09,320 So she asked our rescue partner for help and she was so relieved when she realized not 323 00:23:09,320 --> 00:23:16,660 only do we not have a waiting list months out that it's literally going to be two weeks 324 00:23:16,660 --> 00:23:17,720 and that's all. 325 00:23:17,720 --> 00:23:22,520 So she went and got them that day and kept them at her house for like the last 10 or 326 00:23:22,520 --> 00:23:25,760 14 days to make sure that they were all healthy and taken care of. 327 00:23:25,760 --> 00:23:30,180 She even took the mama and will be getting her spayed with one of our spay vouchers 328 00:23:30,180 --> 00:23:33,400 before taking her back to the ex husband. 329 00:23:33,400 --> 00:23:38,000 And I'm I'm happy that we could help and that this all worked out but this is always so 330 00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:45,160 annoying to me that people like this ex wife are so stressed out and worried about these 331 00:23:45,160 --> 00:23:49,440 puppies and going and getting them and fostering them just to make sure they're okay and that 332 00:23:49,440 --> 00:23:51,760 they actually make it on transport. 333 00:23:51,760 --> 00:23:57,160 Meanwhile the owner and I know he's not technically the owner since the dog just wandered up but 334 00:23:57,160 --> 00:23:58,760 he's the one taking care of them. 335 00:23:58,760 --> 00:24:04,360 He hasn't lost a second of sleep worrying about any of this just dumps it on his ex 336 00:24:04,360 --> 00:24:10,280 wife to handle doesn't make a single call to any shelters any rescues didn't post them 337 00:24:10,280 --> 00:24:12,400 on Facebook nothing. 338 00:24:12,400 --> 00:24:15,840 I'm sure if she would have said no I'm not helping you he would have just left all the 339 00:24:15,840 --> 00:24:21,760 puppies in his yard to grow up or get run over eaten but the ex wife is working her 340 00:24:21,760 --> 00:24:26,120 butt off to make sure they're safe and they're not even her responsibility. 341 00:24:26,120 --> 00:24:28,720 So frustrating. 342 00:24:28,720 --> 00:24:31,480 The B-ler of six are owner surrenders. 343 00:24:31,480 --> 00:24:36,360 They were posted on Facebook as free to a good home so we snatched them up before they 344 00:24:36,360 --> 00:24:38,120 fell into the wrong hands. 345 00:24:38,120 --> 00:24:42,560 The owners were very excited when we told them not only would we take all of their puppies 346 00:24:42,560 --> 00:24:47,400 and give them the best homes but their mama dog and daddy dog would be spayed and neutered 347 00:24:47,400 --> 00:24:51,760 for free so that they never have to go through this again. 348 00:24:51,760 --> 00:24:57,120 As for the cats Zamboni was found outside an elementary school. 349 00:24:57,120 --> 00:25:03,040 I am betting either he was inside someone's engine and jumped out when they were in the 350 00:25:03,040 --> 00:25:09,480 school drop off line or some little kid brought their kitten to school and just let it go 351 00:25:09,480 --> 00:25:12,160 before walking into the building. 352 00:25:12,160 --> 00:25:17,120 Either way one of the teachers saw it and called the shelter in town so that they would 353 00:25:17,120 --> 00:25:23,120 take it before it got ran over during pickup hours and the shelter in that town that is 354 00:25:23,120 --> 00:25:31,480 legally required to take animals in that town said we can't make it just call B2Cast and 355 00:25:31,480 --> 00:25:38,000 we are several towns away but whatever it's so cute we were happy to take it. 356 00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:43,080 The D litter of two are hopefully a litter of two by the time you're hearing this. 357 00:25:43,080 --> 00:25:47,640 Dr. Burton is still on the fence about letting one of them go because he's just finishing 358 00:25:47,640 --> 00:25:54,120 up antibiotics but the other one is going for sure he's wild and doing great. 359 00:25:54,120 --> 00:25:59,560 One of our fosters called us and said her teenage daughter was just bawling and squalling 360 00:25:59,560 --> 00:26:06,480 on the phone with her about two tiny kittens quote tiny kittens on the side of the road 361 00:26:06,480 --> 00:26:08,120 and she just couldn't leave them. 362 00:26:08,120 --> 00:26:14,480 We told her we would absolutely take them and assumed based on the tiny part that they 363 00:26:14,480 --> 00:26:17,360 needed to go to our bottle feeder foster. 364 00:26:17,360 --> 00:26:21,840 So we got them hooked up with each other and later that day our bottle feeder foster called 365 00:26:21,840 --> 00:26:26,960 us and asked why we had her taking eight week old kittens that absolutely did not need a 366 00:26:26,960 --> 00:26:28,960 bottle. 367 00:26:28,960 --> 00:26:32,800 She was happy to take care of them though for a couple weeks because they were super 368 00:26:32,800 --> 00:26:35,640 sick with upper respiratory infections. 369 00:26:35,640 --> 00:26:39,920 We actually weren't sure if the one who may or may not be staying back would even pull 370 00:26:39,920 --> 00:26:45,760 through and live but he is doing a million times better now. 371 00:26:45,760 --> 00:26:51,880 The J litter of two are also from the shelter that I was recently unbanned from. 372 00:26:51,880 --> 00:26:55,680 They have kittens coming out their ears right now and they have a super long waiting list 373 00:26:55,680 --> 00:27:00,440 of kittens to even get into the shelter so they are very thankful that we are taking 374 00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:05,360 this litter so that a kennel will open up and they'll be able to take another larger 375 00:27:05,360 --> 00:27:06,480 litter. 376 00:27:06,480 --> 00:27:12,560 This shelter is also a kill shelter but they try very very very hard to foster adopt out 377 00:27:12,560 --> 00:27:18,200 or send animals to rescues before resorting to euthanasia so we are happy to be able to 378 00:27:18,200 --> 00:27:22,640 help them keep animals moving in and out. 379 00:27:22,640 --> 00:27:25,400 And with that that's all the stories. 380 00:27:25,400 --> 00:27:28,440 I think this episode is even longer than last week's. 381 00:27:28,440 --> 00:27:30,760 I don't know what my problem is lately. 382 00:27:30,760 --> 00:27:37,600 I tried to get y'all in and out in 10 minutes but clearly I have the gift of gab. 383 00:27:37,600 --> 00:27:41,320 Anyways I can't remember what exactly it was that I'm supposed to start telling you guys 384 00:27:41,320 --> 00:27:46,720 to do so if you remember what it is go ahead and do it but I did realize for the first 385 00:27:46,720 --> 00:27:52,400 time ever that some of you have been leaving me reviews on apple podcast. 386 00:27:52,400 --> 00:27:56,880 I had no idea that that was a thing until last week because I'm on Spotify I don't get 387 00:27:56,880 --> 00:27:57,880 on apple podcast. 388 00:27:57,880 --> 00:28:03,240 I can't even tell you guys how happy that made me reading your reviews. 389 00:28:03,240 --> 00:28:09,760 It means so much to me that not only do you listen to me complain every episode and laugh 390 00:28:09,760 --> 00:28:15,360 at my own jokes but you take the time out of your day to say nice things about it. 391 00:28:15,360 --> 00:28:20,120 You people are just so wonderful and I'm so thankful for everything that you do for me 392 00:28:20,120 --> 00:28:21,360 and my critters. 393 00:28:21,360 --> 00:28:23,520 You guys are the best. 394 00:28:23,520 --> 00:28:27,440 So keep saying nice things about me. 395 00:28:27,440 --> 00:28:34,640 Also after this transport we only have three more transports in 2024. 396 00:28:34,640 --> 00:28:37,760 Three that's not even a handful. 397 00:28:37,760 --> 00:28:42,920 We need to make sure they are all packed to the brim to save as many lives as possible 398 00:28:42,920 --> 00:28:48,140 so make sure you sign up to foster and you can get your puppy fix in too before we end 399 00:28:48,140 --> 00:28:50,160 up closing for the year. 400 00:28:50,160 --> 00:28:55,160 The next one is October 13th and then we have won the beginning of November and won the 401 00:28:55,160 --> 00:28:59,280 end of November and that's it baby. 402 00:28:59,280 --> 00:29:03,320 Let me know if you need help signing up and we will make it happen. 403 00:29:03,320 --> 00:29:20,160 It's a ruff life but someone's gotta do it.