1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:19,520 Hello friends, welcome to Rough Life. Friends, it is a rough life indeed this week. Between 2 00:00:19,520 --> 00:00:27,920 the massive meltdown, which you'll hear about shortly, my stage 4 cancer-ridden mother getting 3 00:00:27,920 --> 00:00:34,400 COVID, Mary Sue getting her six month shots, Jessica's only child having a rehearsal dinner 4 00:00:34,400 --> 00:00:42,000 the night before transport, and then the daggum wedding an hour after transport, I am beat. 5 00:00:43,520 --> 00:00:48,160 I am actually recording this after transport today because I just could not get my life 6 00:00:48,160 --> 00:00:54,000 together beforehand. Jessica even texted me a few minutes ago and said, are you going to blame me 7 00:00:54,000 --> 00:01:01,920 for the reason this is getting posted so late? Yes. Yes, I am, Jessica. Let's get to the stories, 8 00:01:01,920 --> 00:01:09,680 though. This week's theme was number one Halloween costumes each year, so your fosters should have 9 00:01:09,680 --> 00:01:19,520 a name and a year. For example, Mickey Mouse 1953 means Mickey Mouse was the most popular costume 10 00:01:19,520 --> 00:01:26,400 in 1953. This is the first time that we're ever doing names and numbers, so I just don't want to 11 00:01:26,400 --> 00:01:32,480 lose anybody here. Also, I think there is some confusion for our first time fosters too, so I 12 00:01:32,480 --> 00:01:39,920 just want to remind everyone, I only say the names of the single animals. If your foster is part of 13 00:01:39,920 --> 00:01:45,200 a litter, I am not going to say all the names in that litter, mostly because I probably cannot 14 00:01:45,200 --> 00:01:52,480 pronounce them correctly. I will only say the first letter of their name and how many were in that 15 00:01:52,480 --> 00:02:00,320 litter, so Mickey Mouse 1953 will just be called the M litter of five in this podcast. You'll figure 16 00:02:00,320 --> 00:02:09,680 it out. I believe in you all. Okay, so Rosemary Woodhouse 1968 has quite the story. She was part 17 00:02:09,680 --> 00:02:16,000 of a big promo the shelter was doing last year where adoption fees were waived or super cheap or 18 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:21,200 something, and everyone was encouraged to get all the dogs homes for the holidays. Even the fire 19 00:02:21,200 --> 00:02:27,040 department was in on it, and they adopted Rosemary to be their station dog. Everyone was like, oh, 20 00:02:27,040 --> 00:02:33,840 that's so sweet. If the fire department can do it, we should all do it. That's amazing. No, no, 21 00:02:33,840 --> 00:02:39,840 it wasn't. They did not take care of the dog at all. They accidentally locked her in a closet at the 22 00:02:39,840 --> 00:02:46,480 station for three days without realizing it. They never kept her confined except for those three 23 00:02:46,480 --> 00:02:52,240 days when she was in the closet. So she just ran around downtown. The other businesses had to take 24 00:02:52,240 --> 00:02:58,560 care of her and eventually she ended up moving into one of our HVAC stores downtown. They took 25 00:02:58,560 --> 00:03:03,200 care of her and when they realized that she was pregnant, they called us to take her because they 26 00:03:03,200 --> 00:03:08,560 knew this was not the life that her puppies needed to have and no one around there was going to take 27 00:03:08,560 --> 00:03:16,560 the time to find them homes. Jersey Shore 2010 was found wandering around downtown and had to be 28 00:03:16,560 --> 00:03:22,400 taken to the shelter by animal control. They called us on the way to the shelter and we went and got 29 00:03:22,400 --> 00:03:30,400 her later that day because she is so cute. ET 1982 was found sitting in the middle of a back road. 30 00:03:30,400 --> 00:03:35,200 Someone stopped and picked him up. They weren't able to keep him and they knew he needed medical 31 00:03:35,200 --> 00:03:42,400 attention so they called their friend. Who is our bottle feeder foster? The eye litter of two. 32 00:03:43,440 --> 00:03:49,520 So you know we have group names for all of our animals down here. Their group name is the Christmas 33 00:03:49,520 --> 00:03:55,520 Miracles. They were posted on Facebook. They had been dropped at an older couple's home and they 34 00:03:55,520 --> 00:04:00,880 were asking for someone to come and get them because their senior dashhound was not one bit 35 00:04:00,880 --> 00:04:06,240 happy about having two puppies up in his business and they were also getting under their feet of 36 00:04:06,240 --> 00:04:11,440 the homeowners and they were scared that they would fall and hurt them or hurt themselves. 37 00:04:12,560 --> 00:04:17,840 Transport was already full and we were sure on fosters but when I was asked by one of our 38 00:04:17,840 --> 00:04:22,000 rescue partners hope if I thought a Christmas miracle would happen and they would get to go, 39 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:27,920 so I told her I would try. Well Christmas came early and Jacqueline said they could go because 40 00:04:27,920 --> 00:04:33,200 they were so cute she knew she would have no problem finding fosters for them. So Merry Christmas 41 00:04:33,200 --> 00:04:38,000 everyone. Hope caused them the Christmas miracles because she didn't think there would be any way 42 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:44,880 they would get to go this last minute. The tea litter of two were found by the same person who 43 00:04:44,880 --> 00:04:53,200 found Roadrunner, otherwise known as Alexander Ovechkin from the September 27th Hockey Transport 44 00:04:53,200 --> 00:05:01,440 and if you noticed I have learned how to properly pronounce Alexander Ovechkin's name. Thank you very 45 00:05:01,440 --> 00:05:08,000 much. I heard the hockey team got a great kick out of hearing me ever so proudly butcher his name 46 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:13,200 on that episode. I don't even remember what I said it was like Ovechkin or something like that. 47 00:05:13,200 --> 00:05:19,680 I don't even know Ovechkin who knows. Anyways she says it's a curse that she finds all these 48 00:05:19,680 --> 00:05:24,480 throwaway animals everywhere she goes but she's another one of those people that just cannot 49 00:05:24,480 --> 00:05:29,600 stand the thought of leaving them there to fend for themselves so when she sent us a pitiful 50 00:05:29,600 --> 00:05:35,200 picture of them in the floorboard of her car we had to help her. They were found on the side of the 51 00:05:35,200 --> 00:05:39,760 road at the edge of the woods and she was just going to drive around with them in her car until 52 00:05:39,760 --> 00:05:45,360 she found a rescue that would take them so she was so happy that once again Wolfdraps swooped 53 00:05:45,360 --> 00:05:59,280 in to save the day. The G litter of two. They are our Mastiff Mama and Daddy. I really wasn't 54 00:05:59,280 --> 00:06:06,720 going to tell this story. I even said on the post on the fosters page that this could be an episode 55 00:06:06,720 --> 00:06:15,280 of Law and Order SBU so if you are listening to this with little ears around you may want to fast 56 00:06:15,280 --> 00:06:22,000 forward a minute or two. I'm going to be very vague and let you use your context clues so there 57 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:27,440 shouldn't be a need for a trigger warning for anything but if you are concerned go ahead and 58 00:06:27,440 --> 00:06:33,520 fast forward a bit not knowing this will not affect hearing the rest of their story. So 59 00:06:33,520 --> 00:06:39,440 their owner is a friend of mine from when I used to teach elementary school. She's older probably 60 00:06:39,440 --> 00:06:45,920 mid to late 60s married to her high school sweetheart. I have loved her for years and years. 61 00:06:46,560 --> 00:06:52,960 Their three granddaughters live with them. They are fairly old now the granddaughters like early 62 00:06:52,960 --> 00:07:02,400 20s late teens and then the youngest one just turned 17. Well the grandfather got caught doing 63 00:07:02,400 --> 00:07:09,040 things to the youngest granddaughter that a grandfather should never do and when the grandmother 64 00:07:09,040 --> 00:07:16,000 found out she turned the tapes over to the feds and they came and got him right away. 65 00:07:16,720 --> 00:07:22,640 A few days later he got out on bail which why? Why was that ever allowed? Please explain to me. 66 00:07:23,520 --> 00:07:31,920 But anyways he got out and he burnt their home to the ground. Allegedly for educational purposes 67 00:07:31,920 --> 00:07:38,800 only although allegedly he had been threatening to do it if they turned him in and I guess he was 68 00:07:38,800 --> 00:07:46,560 true to his word either that or that is one heck of a coincidence. Okay skippers you can come back 69 00:07:46,560 --> 00:07:52,640 now so since the owner's home was burnt to the ground and she lost everything she and the granddaughters 70 00:07:52,640 --> 00:07:58,240 had to move in with her son which is also their father but I digress and since they had to move 71 00:07:58,240 --> 00:08:02,240 in with him they didn't have a place to keep their dogs. They have one dog that they keep inside 72 00:08:02,240 --> 00:08:07,440 and she is keeping it but they needed to re-home these two mastiffs one because they were having 73 00:08:07,440 --> 00:08:14,640 to stay outside and he didn't have a fence to yard but two the mom was super pregnant. Now if you 74 00:08:14,640 --> 00:08:18,960 read my post on the foster's page you can skip the rest of the story I am just going to sum up the 75 00:08:18,960 --> 00:08:27,360 rest of it. We had just secured a perfect foster for the pregnant mastiff when Jessica sent me 76 00:08:27,360 --> 00:08:36,480 a picture of a newborn mastiff puppy on her lap and my heart sunk. Apparently the model was giving 77 00:08:36,480 --> 00:08:43,920 birth but was terrified of her puppies and would literally just pop them out break the sack open 78 00:08:43,920 --> 00:08:50,320 at least which was nice and then walk away. So after searching the whole acre backyard and the 79 00:08:50,320 --> 00:08:55,920 garage for any more puppies Jessica tried for quite a few hours to get her to lay in the 80 00:08:55,920 --> 00:09:01,120 welping pool with her puppies but she was not having anything to do with them. Jessica had to 81 00:09:01,120 --> 00:09:07,120 leave so my mom came over and first she stopped to listen to what the neighbors were fighting about 82 00:09:08,560 --> 00:09:13,840 but as she was listening she heard a puppy screaming so she scoured the yard until she 83 00:09:13,840 --> 00:09:20,000 finally found it in the back corner of the yard under the fence stuck under the fence. 84 00:09:20,640 --> 00:09:24,640 So long story short we tried for hours to get the mama to take the puppies in 85 00:09:24,640 --> 00:09:29,040 but then we talked to the owner and she told us that the mom has had multiple litters over the 86 00:09:29,040 --> 00:09:35,840 years and they have never gotten a puppy out of her ever and she's never had any milk so we checked 87 00:09:35,840 --> 00:09:42,480 and no she did not have any milk. Now I am not convinced that if the puppies didn't latch and 88 00:09:42,480 --> 00:09:48,720 start nursing she wouldn't get milk but she had no milk and she had no interest in getting milk. 89 00:09:48,720 --> 00:09:56,320 She spent most of the afternoon in the corner of the laundry room shaking like a leaf as far away 90 00:09:56,320 --> 00:10:02,560 from her puppies as possible so at that point I decided we just needed to cut our losses before 91 00:10:02,560 --> 00:10:07,600 there were any losses and get these babies to our bottle feeder foster before they froze to death 92 00:10:07,600 --> 00:10:14,000 or starve to death or anything and I am very happy to say that it has been three days and all seven 93 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:20,720 puppies are happy and healthy and eating like little pigs. Thank you so so so so much to everyone 94 00:10:20,720 --> 00:10:26,800 who sent us formula and puppy food for them. It is going to be very costly raising seven purebred 95 00:10:26,800 --> 00:10:35,760 mastiff newborns. That's Ollie he's in here with me and he's mad because I didn't let him come to 96 00:10:35,760 --> 00:10:41,920 transport today because I had to go to the wedding after so he's in here pouting and sighing and he 97 00:10:41,920 --> 00:10:50,240 won't go in any other room because he just wants to be dramatic. Anyways very thankful for the formula 98 00:10:50,240 --> 00:10:56,320 but mama has done great since we got rid of her seven burdens. I really debated sending her on 99 00:10:56,320 --> 00:11:02,000 transport this soon but I just did not like the idea of her being so alone at the doghouse when she 100 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:07,440 is so freshly postpartum. She just needs a family that's gonna love on her and help her through this 101 00:11:07,440 --> 00:11:13,280 confusing time. The daddy is just a big old dodo. He's just happy to be here. He is so fun and he is 102 00:11:13,280 --> 00:11:22,880 such a goof. However their story leads me to the W litter of two. After working with the mastiff mama 103 00:11:22,880 --> 00:11:28,480 and hunting and gathering all of her puppies my mama had to run down the road to get her hair done 104 00:11:28,480 --> 00:11:34,880 because priorities. On the way there she was crossing a bridge when she saw two teeny tiny 105 00:11:34,880 --> 00:11:40,160 puppies sitting on the very edge of it so she stopped grabbed them looked around for any others 106 00:11:40,160 --> 00:11:46,240 checked under the bridge and the water for any others but she didn't see any. The H litter of two 107 00:11:46,240 --> 00:11:51,440 our owner surrendered from Facebook. They messaged us and said they just showed up at their house 108 00:11:51,440 --> 00:11:55,920 and they could not take care of them. No other shelter or rescue had room for them but we told 109 00:11:55,920 --> 00:12:01,760 them that if they would hang on to them until transport we would take them. The A litter of three 110 00:12:01,760 --> 00:12:06,720 might actually just be a litter of two in a single but they were found in the same spot just stay 111 00:12:06,720 --> 00:12:12,720 apart and they've been raised together for the last two weeks so they're family. The two black 112 00:12:12,720 --> 00:12:18,160 ones were found at our bottle feeder foster's friend's house. The next day they found the 113 00:12:18,160 --> 00:12:24,240 shepherd looking one. One of the black one's tails looks like it may have been broken but we think 114 00:12:24,240 --> 00:12:32,080 it's just an old injury. The P litter of three are from a Mennonite family. They contacted one of my 115 00:12:32,080 --> 00:12:37,600 fosters and said they had heard she could help find homes for puppies. She explained how rescue 116 00:12:37,600 --> 00:12:44,160 works and they agreed to keep the remaining four puppies until transport. Then when the foster 117 00:12:44,160 --> 00:12:50,880 went over there to get updated pictures they had given one away but at least they have already spayed 118 00:12:50,880 --> 00:12:59,040 the mama and neutered the daddy dog so there won't be any more Mennonite puppies to give away 119 00:12:59,040 --> 00:13:04,880 at least from them. This is also the first time we've ever had Mennonites which is very exciting 120 00:13:04,880 --> 00:13:12,480 to me. We have a super large Amish community by my house here in Alabama and I am fascinated by them. 121 00:13:12,480 --> 00:13:17,200 So if you're listening to this and you're on well you're probably not Amish anymore if you're 122 00:13:17,200 --> 00:13:24,480 listening to this but if you were Amish or Mennonite I would love to talk to you sometime and if Amish 123 00:13:24,480 --> 00:13:30,160 and Mennonites are not a similar thing like they are in my head I still think they're both really 124 00:13:30,160 --> 00:13:36,560 interesting so I would love to talk to you. The C litter of seven were owner surrenders. The owner 125 00:13:37,120 --> 00:13:42,800 contacted another rescue friend who lived nearby to ask her if she could help. The northern rescue 126 00:13:42,800 --> 00:13:49,360 that she works with is moving puppies out very very slowly so she asked if we could help. 127 00:13:50,080 --> 00:13:55,120 She went by, took pictures, gave them dewormer, flea took meds and everything and before she 128 00:13:55,120 --> 00:14:00,960 could go back the next week to bring them to her house one had already gotten run over. So thankfully 129 00:14:00,960 --> 00:14:05,920 she has kept them safe at her house for the past few weeks. The owner is very grateful that Wolf 130 00:14:05,920 --> 00:14:11,760 Drab is able to help and especially thankful that the mama dog will be spayed for free by our wonderful 131 00:14:11,760 --> 00:14:21,120 Dr. Jamie. The B litter of seven were pulled by one of our rescue partners daughters. She saw a 132 00:14:21,120 --> 00:14:25,840 post on Facebook that they had been dumped at a boat ramp and couldn't stand the thought of those 133 00:14:25,840 --> 00:14:31,600 poor puppies being out there all alone all night so she drove out there found them and agreed to 134 00:14:31,600 --> 00:14:36,240 foster them until transport. There's no telling how long that they were out there on their own 135 00:14:36,240 --> 00:14:47,280 because for the first 24 hours their poop was just gravel just gravel rocks. As for the kittens, 136 00:14:47,280 --> 00:14:52,480 the S litter of five are owner surrenders. A mama cat wandered up to someone's house last year and 137 00:14:52,480 --> 00:14:57,920 had kittens. All of the kittens were eaten by something when they were just a week old or so. 138 00:14:58,720 --> 00:15:03,280 This time when the old man that lives there heard the mama fighting with something in the middle 139 00:15:03,280 --> 00:15:09,920 of the night he went out there as backup and he ran off whatever it was. Then he started sleeping in 140 00:15:09,920 --> 00:15:14,720 his living room every night so he could run out there and help her fight off whatever it was she 141 00:15:14,720 --> 00:15:20,880 needed help with. All of the kittens from this litter survived. They started to get under his 142 00:15:20,880 --> 00:15:25,360 tires though and he was really worried that he would accidentally run one over so he asked us 143 00:15:25,360 --> 00:15:30,240 to take them and he was even happier when he found out that we would spay his mom for free 144 00:15:30,240 --> 00:15:35,280 and he could go back to sleeping in his bedroom. We also weren't sure if these kittens were going 145 00:15:35,280 --> 00:15:39,680 to get to go on this week's transport or not and when we found out we called him but he was 146 00:15:39,680 --> 00:15:46,240 already on his way out of town for a vacation but he turned around went home gathered them all up 147 00:15:46,240 --> 00:15:50,240 and brought them to us because he wanted to make sure they didn't miss their chance out of freedom 148 00:15:50,240 --> 00:15:58,720 ride. That is so sweet. The M litter of five were owner surrenders. A couple who has two cats 149 00:15:58,720 --> 00:16:04,800 contacted us because surprise the mama got pregnant but thankfully they have since gotten 150 00:16:04,800 --> 00:16:09,680 both of the parents fixed. They have become so attached to the kittens that they would only 151 00:16:09,680 --> 00:16:14,960 surrender them to a rescue to ensure that they would only go to the very best homes. They have 152 00:16:14,960 --> 00:16:20,240 kept them inside the entire time and just spoiled them rotten. They're pretty sad to see them go 153 00:16:20,240 --> 00:16:28,320 but they said that they are beyond thankful to WolfDrap for taking them. That is all 154 00:16:28,320 --> 00:16:34,560 43 stories. We actually left quite a bit early today so that I would have extra time to get 155 00:16:34,560 --> 00:16:40,160 ready for this wedding but there is so much traffic for some reason right now on our route. 156 00:16:41,360 --> 00:16:46,080 I think it has something to do with Hurricane Haleen and either the damage done 157 00:16:47,040 --> 00:16:51,440 or all the added traffic from people that have had to take shelter there 158 00:16:51,440 --> 00:16:57,520 but my poor driver was in stands still bumper to bumper traffic for over an hour and we are not 159 00:16:57,520 --> 00:17:03,120 used to that at all. We are used to country roads where you don't see another car for miles. 160 00:17:04,160 --> 00:17:09,520 All that to say. If WolfDrap is late giving you your foster tomorrow it's because we had a major 161 00:17:09,520 --> 00:17:15,840 traffic delay and I'm super sorry. There are only two transports left this year one at the 162 00:17:15,840 --> 00:17:20,800 beginning of November and one at the end so if you have been wanting to foster please make sure 163 00:17:20,800 --> 00:17:26,800 you sign up. We have got to fill every last spot on those vans when there are so few transports left. 164 00:17:26,800 --> 00:17:32,640 If you can't foster please take a second to rate, review, and subscribe to this podcast. 165 00:17:32,640 --> 00:17:37,920 I don't know why but you're just supposed to say that so please do that. That would be so 166 00:17:37,920 --> 00:17:44,080 wonderful. Thank you so much for fostering and thank you for listening. It's a rough life but 167 00:17:44,080 --> 00:18:00,000 someone's got to do it.