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Hello friends! Welcome to Rough Life. Can you believe it's already the last transport

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of 2024? This year seems so short and yet so insanely long and grueling. I'm still deciding

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if I'm going to do an end of the year wrap up episode, so I don't want to go into too

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much detail, but I'll just do a quick summary. Y'all know I'm a numbers girl, so let me hit

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you with some stats. In 2024, we had 22 total transports. We transported a total of 1,066

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animals. We averaged 49 animals on each transport. We had 715 puppies, 65 adult dogs, 258 kittens,

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and 33 adult cats. Compared to 2023, when we had 25 total transports, we transported 1,232

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total animals, still averaging 49 animals per transport. We had 828 puppies, 92 adult dogs,

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276 kittens, and 40 cats. Now, I want to be disappointed about only moving 1,066 animals

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this year, but really? We did 3 less transports and we were only short 166 animals compared

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to last year. We definitely did not move as many adult dogs as we usually do. We're usually

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somewhere between 90 and 100, but we had several. I mean, just off the top of my head, I can

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think of four. Several super medically expensive adult dogs this year that we usually don't

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have to deal with. And we also spayed a lot more this year that stayed with the owners

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than we usually do. And considering we took all of March, almost all of June, almost

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all of October, and all of December off, and we still fit in 25 transports, it's really

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not too shabby. And when you take into consideration what all we've had going on down here outside

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of our rescue world, it's really a miracle that we did any transports whatsoever. First

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of all, I was pregnant for four of those months with a high risk miserable pregnancy. My mother

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was diagnosed with stage four cancer, started chemo, stopped chemo because it was physically

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killing her liver was sent to the hospital for possible acute liver failure. That was

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this very week that was like four days ago, actually, and yet has gone on no less than

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103 vacations this year, although three of those were to MD Anderson for tests and treatments,

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but I'm still counting it because she got a break. And then my stepdad, her husband,

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was also diagnosed with stage four cancer and also needed to go to MD Anderson to start

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treatment. Jessica's only child got married, which you would think it sounds like a good

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thing, but it was actually very time consuming for her, which is never a good thing for me

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and the rescue world. She was also diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis. And I don't totally

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understand why, but she has given up all sugar and processed food and basically anything

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that makes life worth living. So she's a real joy to be around lately. And I had a full

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blown baby to add into all the chaos around us. And on the Virginia side, Dr. Burton got

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divorced, went on sabbatical to Africa, came home, went to Ireland to see Taylor Swift,

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made a quick stop in London just to look around, made a ton of trips to different states to

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visit all her friends and bought a new house. Honestly, if this would have been a normal

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year, I think we could have hit 3000 animals. Nevertheless, 1066 is not too bad. And those

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are some very, very deserving 1066 animals. Oh, I forgot this stat. We did euthanize one.

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So that is 1066 transported 1065 adopted out or will be adopted out when their time comes.

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Our sweet Yorkie news feed from the May 31 social media transport had to be euthanized.

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I don't 100% exactly remember it's 3am. So I can't call Dr. Burton chicken firm, but it

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was either liver failure or renal failure. She was super, super sick and she was very

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old. Dr. Burton tried some medicine to alleviate like the pain and the side effects of whatever

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organ failure she was in. But you could just tell she was really suffering. So Dr. Burton

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put her down instead of making her enter a long and painful death. But let's get into

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this transports background stories. The theme is wicked. And do you ever have like a song

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or something that immediately takes you back to a time and place? That is the entire the

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entire wicked soundtrack for me. When that first note and no one mourns the wicked hits,

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I am instantly taken back to early 2018. Late night, living alone with anywhere between

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two and 20 random foster dogs, cleaning my house and singing at the top of my lungs.

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If you are listening to this and you adopted a dog from us in 2018 or 2019, play the wicked

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soundtrack and see if they react. There is a very good possibility that they were my

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foster and if they were, they listened to these songs with me every night that they

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were with me. So anyways, this is a very nostalgic theme for me. I saw it live in Memphis with

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my mom and then I saw it twice in Nashville. I would love to take Justin to see it but

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we can't afford it now so he's just gonna have to deal with the movie remake. And I

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know these last few themes have been very niche so I'll try to do more broad themes

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next year so everyone can enjoy them. I'm Not That Girl is an owner surrender. She was

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given to the owners by one of their friends when she was just a couple months old. They

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are moving and they couldn't take her with them so they emailed us for help. Nessa Rose

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and the G-liter of three are from the same house. They are not littermates and to our

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knowledge they are not related at all. I guess they could technically be like distant cousins

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or something but regardless not related but the same lady surrendered them to us. The

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owner asked us to take them a few days before the November 1st transport but that transport

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was full so we said we would get them on this one. But the night before the November 1st

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transport the owners sister called us and said the puppies were being attacked. I'm

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not sure by what. Honestly it might have been the other adult dogs that lived there and

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that one had been killed. So Jessica drove by there on her way to work that day and she

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saw one of the puppies dead in the driveway. So we knew after transport that day we needed

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to get them into a foster home as soon as possible. Jessica went and got the G-liter

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of three the next morning. Their littermate was the one that was dead in the driveway.

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There was another puppy from a second litter that was much older than the G-liter of three.

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Jessica tried to catch it but it was too quick and it ran off. It was dead a few days later

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when she went back to try again. There were obviously multiple adult dogs in the yard

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and the owner would feed them by throwing handfuls of food on the ground which of course

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made the dogs immediately start attacking each other to get to the food. Nessa Rose

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was the last surviving puppy of a third litter. All of the other littermates died before the

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owner even contacted us and she kept Nessa Rose in the house with her. She said she changed

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her mind that first day and didn't want to surrender her to Jess when she was there and

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since she wasn't doing anything illegal we couldn't force her to surrender the dog.

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So Jess just left with the G-liter of three. She went back and forth with Jess through

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tax for like the next five days. She would tell her okay come get it and then when Jess

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would be on her way she would change her mind or wait until Jess got there and then she'd

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be like no I want to keep it or tell her she's never ever going to surrender it and then

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have her sister call and say okay she's ready to give it up. The owner was very unstable.

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Like very unstable. She admitted multiple times across multiple days that she could not care

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for the puppy or take care of it in any way. Finally after going there literally half a

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dozen times and bringing food for the adult dogs each time two weeks later she agreed

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to let Jessica have Nessa Rose. Jessica had the owner's sister meet her there who is also

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unstable but seems very stable compared to the owner. The sister went in the house to

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get the puppy and the owner was very loudly and dramatically sobbing. Then she came to

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the door with the sister and she gave the puppy to Jessica, signed the surrender form,

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and things seemed fine. But as Jess was walking to her car the owner became unhinged. She

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started screaming at the top of her lungs and cussing at Jess telling her she had her dog

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now leave her alone for good. For the next week straight the owner harassed Jessica through

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calls and texts. One minute she would thank her for all of her help the next she'd be

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begging for all of the dogs back and then it would end with her flipping out on Jessica

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telling her she never even asked for her help when she doesn't know why we came and stole

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all of her animals from her. Now Jessica is far far more patient and kind of a person

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than I am so she spent several days calmly talking to the owner explaining everything

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we do for these animals and what wonderful lives they're going to have and how she understands

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how hard this decision was but she's proud of her for doing what was best for the animals.

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Then after a few days she took my advice and she basically told her she could pry these

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animals out of her hold dead hands and she blocked her. Now there are still several

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adults there. Jessica did take the mama of Nessa Rose on one of her failed trips there

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to get Nessa Rose. We don't know who the mom of the G letter of three are and I don't know

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for sure that Nessa Rose's mom will even make her way to Virginia. We are still testing

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her out to make sure she's a well rounded adoptable dog but the other adults I honestly

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don't even know what we're going to do about them yet. First of all I don't even know that

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she'll let us do anything. We're still in contact with the sister and even if they would

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let us help it would have to be a like TNR trap new to return thing because they're basically

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all feral and untouchable which you know I don't usually shy away from. I love the

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the feral ones they're usually my favorite but with how violent these got when they were

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fighting over the food and I know like that's not fair they're starving but it was aggressive

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I don't know that I would ever trust them to be around other people's pets and children

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so I don't think that I would ever pull them myself. It may be a situation where we network

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out to other groups and see if anyone else can help if like we more or less just fund

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it I don't know. We did give them lots and lots of food though for the time being and

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again we are still in touch with the sister and she knows we want to do something at least

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and if this mama ends up not being adoptable she'll go to our foster barn and live out

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her life but so far she's doing really great. I was skeptical but she has proved me wrong

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every test. The E-letter of two are our Mastiff Pups from early October. I shared their parents

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story the mom and the dad on the October 12th Halloween costumes episode so listen to that

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one if you're up for some Law and Order SVU type stories. It's a doozy. It's a doozy of

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a story. Anyways I honestly don't even remember how many puppies were born originally I think

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it was like seven or eight. We're down to two. I lost count of how many of that visits

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we made. They were on so many different medications no one could figure out why they were all

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dying and if you remember the owner said she had never gotten a puppy from this mama ever

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because they all always died. We still don't really know why they died but when Dr. Burton

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spayed the mom a few weeks ago she said it was one of the most infected uteruses. She's

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ever seen in her whole career. Now my elementary education degree is telling me that that had

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something to do with it like they've been infected in utero or something. I don't know.

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I asked B and she said could be. So I'm taking that as your 100% correct and I can't believe

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you've cracked this mystery you're basically a veterinarian. This whole litter had been

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with our bottle feeder fosters since the day they were born. The first one didn't die until

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it was like four days old but then it was literally like one a day for five days that

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was dying. It was so awful but our fosters and our veterinarians did everything they

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could and tried everything they could think of so it really is a miracle that we ended

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up with two of these still alive. The pee litter of two have been fostered with the

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E litter mastiffs at our bottle feeder fosters home for the last four weeks. Their mom was

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killed when they were about three weeks old. Another rescue was pulling them and they did

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something that I never ever do. They split the litter up and sent them in pairs to multiple

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different fosters and or rescues. Our foster volunteered to take these two and then she

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said she was just going to beg me to take them but um have you seen them? She obviously

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didn't have to beg me long to take them. The old litter of three are strays. If you saw

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the video of the two puppies playing with the underwear in the middle of the road and

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one puppy crawling out of a drain pipe that was posted to our facebook and our instagram

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page this is that litter. We were told two stories for this litter so I'm just going

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to tell you both and you can decide which one is true. Story number one goes that this

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is a stray mama who wandered up to a house pregnant. She gave birth. The homeowner gave

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some of them away but the remaining three just lived in the culvert. Story number two

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and this is what I think is actually the case because well I'll tell you what. Three the

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three puppies were dumped on a dead end street and they just started taking shelter in the

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culvert. We never saw the mom ever and the people who called us didn't know which home

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the mom lived in ever. So we were legally allowed to take these puppies because the culvert

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was in the caller's yard and they were the ones that had been feeding them for several

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days. Also never found out whose underwear that was either so this was quite the mystery.

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The Y litter of three are owner surrenders. The owner is a preacher at my stepdad's church.

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The mom wandered up in their yard and they think they think I don't think so but they

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think the neighbor's lab or doodle is the dad of the puppies. He is black and the mom

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is a silver looking lab so I don't know where these chocolate ones came from. I would love

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love a DNA test on these guys. You know I usually only give a spay voucher if you surrender

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the whole litter to me. Well these were actually a litter of six and they wanted them to go

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on the November 1st transport but again it was full at the time and at the time so was

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this one the November 23rd transport so I couldn't help them. But then I had some cancellations

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and they gave three away in the meantime so I definitely had room for them then. So since

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they really did mean for me to take all six and they only gave some away because they

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thought I wasn't going to be able to help them they're still getting a spay voucher

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for the mama plus like I said it's my stepdad's preacher and he has stage 4 cancer so we're

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really not in a position to upset the church. We need all the prayers we can get right now.

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The d litter of four was actually a litter of five. They are owner surrenders. The owner

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posted on a rescue Facebook page when they were just a few days old saying they needed

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homes for the pups in a couple weeks. When our rescue partner Hope saw the post and saw

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how many people were commenting saying they wanted a free puppy right now she quickly

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deleted all those comments and told the owners that not only could she ensure all the puppies

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would be fully vetted and be adopted to the very best homes but that I would also be able

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to have the mama spayed so they quickly took her up on the offer. She told them that the

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puppies needed to stay with the mama until they were at least six weeks old and they

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agreed to quote keep them safe. Their idea of safe and ours are quite different little

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did we know that they were just letting them roam around their property and then they accidentally

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backed over one in their driveway in their defense they did take it straight to the vet

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but the vet did advise them to euthanize it because it was too badly injured. So after

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that Hope said she needed to move them to a foster who would ensure they were actually

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going to be kept safe but yes they did get a spay voucher even though they accidentally

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killed one of their puppies and I didn't get the whole letter. The M letter of six are

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owner surrenders now they are from the same home as but they are probably not related

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to but they are from the same home as the March 1st 2022 Ozark tea litter the July 19th 2023

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pasta sea litter there was a ton in that one there was like 10 or 11 in that one the October 15th 2023

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hot dogs B litter the November 11th 2023 drinks D litter and the February 22nd 2024 flowers sea

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litter the family contacted our rescue partner the day that this mama had puppies to ask us to

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put them down on the transport list they were just dumbfounded as to how she got pregnant because

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she quote never likes any male dogs so after explaining how that had absolutely nothing

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to do with how puppies are conceived they realize they probably should have gotten our spade long

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ago this family is very very sweet though with huge hearts and they take in every animal that is

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dropped off anywhere near them in their neighborhood they received a spay voucher for this mama and

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all of their other dogs are already spayed or neutered by us so hopefully it's a few more months

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before they go and find another pregnant stray to bring home the W litter of eight were strays

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someone posted on facebook that they had seen a mama dog dead on the side of the road with five

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five four week old puppies near her after seeing that no one had stopped to get them for two days

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they decided to help when they got out to get them the puppies ran into the nearby woods

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they thought there were only five but they ended up finding eight huddled together in a patch of

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kudzu brush and garbage and this is the end of that story this is just a side note that has

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absolutely nothing to do with anything i'm sure a lot of you don't know what kudzu is so i'm going

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to tell you so you can have an irrational fear over it like i do the like name it's literally known

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as the vine that ate the south it is a super invasive species of plants that was brought over

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from japan in the late 1800s as just like a cute indoor plant but then it was used to help prevent

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soil erosion in the 1950s and it has completely taken over the south since then you know how like

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most people when they're driving and they pass a pasture with cows they announced cows to everyone

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in the car with them do you all even have cows up there well i don't do that i announce kudzu

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every time we pass it with a literal tremble in my voice i am so freaked out by it it grows

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one foot per day and it can weigh up to 100 pounds it's this like thick vine that grows on top of

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everything and then it kills everything underneath it so when you're driving by and you see kudzu

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you know that everything underneath it is dead and that is so freaky to me like you just have

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to drive around the south sometime and see how it has overtaken everything down here it is so scary

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like i am so scared of it if i were the one that was trying to catch these puppies and i saw them

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run into a kudzu forest i don't know that i would have been brave enough to go in after them like

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i want to be joking about that but i am so serious look it up it looks beautiful until you realize

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it's murdered everything under it i gotta stop talking about it i'm getting super worked up

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i'm so freaked out by kudzu okay the you litter of four are owner surrenders the owner took their

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dog to the vet to be spayed and the vet called them back to let them know she's pregnant so

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they were going to find homes for the puppies when they got older and they were weaned but the mom was

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hit and killed when they were four weeks old they gave them to our rescue partner debbie and she

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transitioned them to food and was fostering them until one of the pups unusually and exceedingly

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peculiar that's its name it got sick and if you know the song that that's from you know how hard

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it was for me to say that name and not sing it but in all seriousness we weren't sure if uep was

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going to pull through he was having seizures we could not figure out why so we took the whole

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litter and we sent him to the vet to stay for several days we really still don't know what

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was causing them but he's fine now everything came back negative we think it was because they had

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such a huge huge worm load that that could have had something to do with it but we're really not sure

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the s litter of seven um so someone who works at a vet clinic that our rescue partners are

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partnered with was headed home after work one day and saw a cooler sitting on the side of the road

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that wasn't there when she passed on her way to work so she stopped to check it out and seven little

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faces popped out as for the kittens look to the western sky is from a feral mama that belongs to

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one of our fosters they think there might be three other kittens but they're all living in a hole in

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the woods behind their house and she hasn't been able to catch any of the others we have loaned

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her our live trap to try and trap the mom and she has a spay voucher to get her fixed as long as your

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mine was a litter of four whose mom was killed when they were just a week old they had some sort of

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like upper respiratory infection or pneumonia and three of them died before they were even three weeks

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old quaxwood trees was actually a litter of three that were dumped out of vet's office when they

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were only like hours old i mean like maybe a day but seriously they were they were fresh newborns two

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of them died almost instantly which is common with super newborn kittens like that unfortunately but

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this one survived the f litter of two are owner surrenders someone asked our bottle feeder foster

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to take them but since they were not needing a bottle feeder she asked if we had another foster

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that would take them the owner said that she had had a litter of kittens before these two that were

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quote ripped to shreds by something one night so she was terrified that that would happen in these

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two we took them and we gave her a spay voucher for the mama so she doesn't have to go through this again

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the t litter of six are known as the kfc kittens down here the mom is a stray cat that lives in

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a feral cat colony behind the kfc in town one of our partners has been working to t and r all the

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kittens and the adults they trapped the mom and they thought she was just thick from all the fried

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chicken that the workers feed them but then she popped out some kittens so she stayed with her

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until the kittens were weaned and she has been spayed in the last day or two but she's gonna stay

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at her house a little while longer just to fully recover and then she'll be taken back to kfc to

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binge eat some chicken again i bet she is so sick of this dry kibble the b litter of three are from

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a rescue we pull from occasionally someone left the kittens at their office but they don't do kittens

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so they reached out to us to see if we would take them there were four originally but the rent died

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a day or two after they got them and that is a wrap on all of the 2024 stories what an insane

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year it has been i feel so bad saying it was a terrible year because i had a baby this year like

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she's the best she's the best baby we love her so much but honestly that is part of the reason

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it has been so terrible of a year i'm half joking she really has brought us so much joy so so much

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much needed joy but but man tough year like i said i'm still debating doing an end of the

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year wrap up episode like i did last year where we go over all of our favorite polls and the best

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stories of the year so let me know if the comments if you were hoping for one otherwise i will see

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y'all january 4th for our first transport of 2025 happy thanksgiving, merry christmas, happy new year

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and happy all the holidays i am so so unbelievably thankful for you for this community and for all

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of the support you give me none of us could do any of this without you thank you thank you from the

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bottom of my heart for loving my baby so much truly go ahead and subscribe and leave me a five star

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