Hello friends, welcome to Rough Life. Friends, it is a rough life indeed this week. Between
the massive meltdown, which you'll hear about shortly, my stage 4 cancer-ridden mother getting
COVID, Mary Sue getting her six month shots, Jessica's only child having a rehearsal dinner
the night before transport, and then the daggum wedding an hour after transport, I am beat.
I am actually recording this after transport today because I just could not get my life
together beforehand. Jessica even texted me a few minutes ago and said, are you going to blame me
for the reason this is getting posted so late? Yes. Yes, I am, Jessica. Let's get to the stories,
though. This week's theme was number one Halloween costumes each year, so your fosters should have
a name and a year. For example, Mickey Mouse 1953 means Mickey Mouse was the most popular costume
in 1953. This is the first time that we're ever doing names and numbers, so I just don't want to
lose anybody here. Also, I think there is some confusion for our first time fosters too, so I
just want to remind everyone, I only say the names of the single animals. If your foster is part of
a litter, I am not going to say all the names in that litter, mostly because I probably cannot
pronounce them correctly. I will only say the first letter of their name and how many were in that
litter, so Mickey Mouse 1953 will just be called the M litter of five in this podcast. You'll figure
it out. I believe in you all. Okay, so Rosemary Woodhouse 1968 has quite the story. She was part
of a big promo the shelter was doing last year where adoption fees were waived or super cheap or
something, and everyone was encouraged to get all the dogs homes for the holidays. Even the fire
department was in on it, and they adopted Rosemary to be their station dog. Everyone was like, oh,
that's so sweet. If the fire department can do it, we should all do it. That's amazing. No, no,
it wasn't. They did not take care of the dog at all. They accidentally locked her in a closet at the
station for three days without realizing it. They never kept her confined except for those three
days when she was in the closet. So she just ran around downtown. The other businesses had to take
care of her and eventually she ended up moving into one of our HVAC stores downtown. They took
care of her and when they realized that she was pregnant, they called us to take her because they
knew this was not the life that her puppies needed to have and no one around there was going to take
the time to find them homes. Jersey Shore 2010 was found wandering around downtown and had to be
taken to the shelter by animal control. They called us on the way to the shelter and we went and got
her later that day because she is so cute. ET 1982 was found sitting in the middle of a back road.
Someone stopped and picked him up. They weren't able to keep him and they knew he needed medical
attention so they called their friend. Who is our bottle feeder foster? The eye litter of two.
So you know we have group names for all of our animals down here. Their group name is the Christmas
Miracles. They were posted on Facebook. They had been dropped at an older couple's home and they
were asking for someone to come and get them because their senior dashhound was not one bit
happy about having two puppies up in his business and they were also getting under their feet of
the homeowners and they were scared that they would fall and hurt them or hurt themselves.
Transport was already full and we were sure on fosters but when I was asked by one of our
rescue partners hope if I thought a Christmas miracle would happen and they would get to go,
so I told her I would try. Well Christmas came early and Jacqueline said they could go because
they were so cute she knew she would have no problem finding fosters for them. So Merry Christmas
everyone. Hope caused them the Christmas miracles because she didn't think there would be any way
they would get to go this last minute. The tea litter of two were found by the same person who
found Roadrunner, otherwise known as Alexander Ovechkin from the September 27th Hockey Transport
and if you noticed I have learned how to properly pronounce Alexander Ovechkin's name. Thank you very
much. I heard the hockey team got a great kick out of hearing me ever so proudly butcher his name
on that episode. I don't even remember what I said it was like Ovechkin or something like that.
I don't even know Ovechkin who knows. Anyways she says it's a curse that she finds all these
throwaway animals everywhere she goes but she's another one of those people that just cannot
stand the thought of leaving them there to fend for themselves so when she sent us a pitiful
picture of them in the floorboard of her car we had to help her. They were found on the side of the
road at the edge of the woods and she was just going to drive around with them in her car until
she found a rescue that would take them so she was so happy that once again Wolfdraps swooped
in to save the day. The G litter of two. They are our Mastiff Mama and Daddy. I really wasn't
going to tell this story. I even said on the post on the fosters page that this could be an episode
of Law and Order SBU so if you are listening to this with little ears around you may want to fast
forward a minute or two. I'm going to be very vague and let you use your context clues so there
shouldn't be a need for a trigger warning for anything but if you are concerned go ahead and
fast forward a bit not knowing this will not affect hearing the rest of their story. So
their owner is a friend of mine from when I used to teach elementary school. She's older probably
mid to late 60s married to her high school sweetheart. I have loved her for years and years.
Their three granddaughters live with them. They are fairly old now the granddaughters like early
20s late teens and then the youngest one just turned 17. Well the grandfather got caught doing
things to the youngest granddaughter that a grandfather should never do and when the grandmother
found out she turned the tapes over to the feds and they came and got him right away.
A few days later he got out on bail which why? Why was that ever allowed? Please explain to me.
But anyways he got out and he burnt their home to the ground. Allegedly for educational purposes
only although allegedly he had been threatening to do it if they turned him in and I guess he was
true to his word either that or that is one heck of a coincidence. Okay skippers you can come back
now so since the owner's home was burnt to the ground and she lost everything she and the granddaughters
had to move in with her son which is also their father but I digress and since they had to move
in with him they didn't have a place to keep their dogs. They have one dog that they keep inside
and she is keeping it but they needed to re-home these two mastiffs one because they were having
to stay outside and he didn't have a fence to yard but two the mom was super pregnant. Now if you
read my post on the foster's page you can skip the rest of the story I am just going to sum up the
rest of it. We had just secured a perfect foster for the pregnant mastiff when Jessica sent me
a picture of a newborn mastiff puppy on her lap and my heart sunk. Apparently the model was giving
birth but was terrified of her puppies and would literally just pop them out break the sack open
at least which was nice and then walk away. So after searching the whole acre backyard and the
garage for any more puppies Jessica tried for quite a few hours to get her to lay in the
welping pool with her puppies but she was not having anything to do with them. Jessica had to
leave so my mom came over and first she stopped to listen to what the neighbors were fighting about
but as she was listening she heard a puppy screaming so she scoured the yard until she
finally found it in the back corner of the yard under the fence stuck under the fence.
So long story short we tried for hours to get the mama to take the puppies in
but then we talked to the owner and she told us that the mom has had multiple litters over the
years and they have never gotten a puppy out of her ever and she's never had any milk so we checked
and no she did not have any milk. Now I am not convinced that if the puppies didn't latch and
start nursing she wouldn't get milk but she had no milk and she had no interest in getting milk.
She spent most of the afternoon in the corner of the laundry room shaking like a leaf as far away
from her puppies as possible so at that point I decided we just needed to cut our losses before
there were any losses and get these babies to our bottle feeder foster before they froze to death
or starve to death or anything and I am very happy to say that it has been three days and all seven
puppies are happy and healthy and eating like little pigs. Thank you so so so so much to everyone
who sent us formula and puppy food for them. It is going to be very costly raising seven purebred
mastiff newborns. That's Ollie he's in here with me and he's mad because I didn't let him come to
transport today because I had to go to the wedding after so he's in here pouting and sighing and he
won't go in any other room because he just wants to be dramatic. Anyways very thankful for the formula
but mama has done great since we got rid of her seven burdens. I really debated sending her on
transport this soon but I just did not like the idea of her being so alone at the doghouse when she
is so freshly postpartum. She just needs a family that's gonna love on her and help her through this
confusing time. The daddy is just a big old dodo. He's just happy to be here. He is so fun and he is
such a goof. However their story leads me to the W litter of two. After working with the mastiff mama
and hunting and gathering all of her puppies my mama had to run down the road to get her hair done
because priorities. On the way there she was crossing a bridge when she saw two teeny tiny
puppies sitting on the very edge of it so she stopped grabbed them looked around for any others
checked under the bridge and the water for any others but she didn't see any. The H litter of two
our owner surrendered from Facebook. They messaged us and said they just showed up at their house
and they could not take care of them. No other shelter or rescue had room for them but we told
them that if they would hang on to them until transport we would take them. The A litter of three
might actually just be a litter of two in a single but they were found in the same spot just stay
apart and they've been raised together for the last two weeks so they're family. The two black
ones were found at our bottle feeder foster's friend's house. The next day they found the
shepherd looking one. One of the black one's tails looks like it may have been broken but we think
it's just an old injury. The P litter of three are from a Mennonite family. They contacted one of my
fosters and said they had heard she could help find homes for puppies. She explained how rescue
works and they agreed to keep the remaining four puppies until transport. Then when the foster
went over there to get updated pictures they had given one away but at least they have already spayed
the mama and neutered the daddy dog so there won't be any more Mennonite puppies to give away
at least from them. This is also the first time we've ever had Mennonites which is very exciting
to me. We have a super large Amish community by my house here in Alabama and I am fascinated by them.
So if you're listening to this and you're on well you're probably not Amish anymore if you're
listening to this but if you were Amish or Mennonite I would love to talk to you sometime and if Amish
and Mennonites are not a similar thing like they are in my head I still think they're both really
interesting so I would love to talk to you. The C litter of seven were owner surrenders. The owner
contacted another rescue friend who lived nearby to ask her if she could help. The northern rescue
that she works with is moving puppies out very very slowly so she asked if we could help.
She went by, took pictures, gave them dewormer, flea took meds and everything and before she
could go back the next week to bring them to her house one had already gotten run over. So thankfully
she has kept them safe at her house for the past few weeks. The owner is very grateful that Wolf
Drab is able to help and especially thankful that the mama dog will be spayed for free by our wonderful
Dr. Jamie. The B litter of seven were pulled by one of our rescue partners daughters. She saw a
post on Facebook that they had been dumped at a boat ramp and couldn't stand the thought of those
poor puppies being out there all alone all night so she drove out there found them and agreed to
foster them until transport. There's no telling how long that they were out there on their own
because for the first 24 hours their poop was just gravel just gravel rocks. As for the kittens,
the S litter of five are owner surrenders. A mama cat wandered up to someone's house last year and
had kittens. All of the kittens were eaten by something when they were just a week old or so.
This time when the old man that lives there heard the mama fighting with something in the middle
of the night he went out there as backup and he ran off whatever it was. Then he started sleeping in
his living room every night so he could run out there and help her fight off whatever it was she
needed help with. All of the kittens from this litter survived. They started to get under his
tires though and he was really worried that he would accidentally run one over so he asked us
to take them and he was even happier when he found out that we would spay his mom for free
and he could go back to sleeping in his bedroom. We also weren't sure if these kittens were going
to get to go on this week's transport or not and when we found out we called him but he was
already on his way out of town for a vacation but he turned around went home gathered them all up
and brought them to us because he wanted to make sure they didn't miss their chance out of freedom
ride. That is so sweet. The M litter of five were owner surrenders. A couple who has two cats
contacted us because surprise the mama got pregnant but thankfully they have since gotten
both of the parents fixed. They have become so attached to the kittens that they would only
surrender them to a rescue to ensure that they would only go to the very best homes. They have
kept them inside the entire time and just spoiled them rotten. They're pretty sad to see them go
but they said that they are beyond thankful to WolfDrap for taking them. That is all
43 stories. We actually left quite a bit early today so that I would have extra time to get
ready for this wedding but there is so much traffic for some reason right now on our route.
I think it has something to do with Hurricane Haleen and either the damage done
or all the added traffic from people that have had to take shelter there
but my poor driver was in stands still bumper to bumper traffic for over an hour and we are not
used to that at all. We are used to country roads where you don't see another car for miles.
All that to say. If WolfDrap is late giving you your foster tomorrow it's because we had a major
traffic delay and I'm super sorry. There are only two transports left this year one at the
beginning of November and one at the end so if you have been wanting to foster please make sure
you sign up. We have got to fill every last spot on those vans when there are so few transports left.
If you can't foster please take a second to rate, review, and subscribe to this podcast.
I don't know why but you're just supposed to say that so please do that. That would be so
wonderful. Thank you so much for fostering and thank you for listening. It's a rough life but
someone's got to do it.