1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:10,400 Hello friends, welcome to Ruff Life. 2 00:00:10,400 --> 00:00:13,320 Feels like I just talked to y'all. 3 00:00:13,320 --> 00:00:17,080 It's been a long time since we had back-to-back transports. 4 00:00:17,080 --> 00:00:21,200 We really had to hustle to find enough fosters for these guys this week. 5 00:00:21,200 --> 00:00:28,280 But thanks to all of you wonderful people, everyone on our list this week, plus a few 6 00:00:28,280 --> 00:00:33,600 I snuck on the list a couple times in the middle of the night when no one was looking. 7 00:00:33,600 --> 00:00:35,600 All got fosters. 8 00:00:35,600 --> 00:00:41,680 The theme this week is cutesy names for no reason other than it just happens to be close 9 00:00:41,680 --> 00:00:47,200 to Valentine's Day and I remembered that one of our long-time fosters, Claire, sent 10 00:00:47,200 --> 00:00:50,880 me this theme idea with a bunch of these names already listed. 11 00:00:50,880 --> 00:00:55,560 So it took minimal effort from me. 12 00:00:55,560 --> 00:00:57,560 Let's get into it. 13 00:00:57,560 --> 00:01:00,840 Xanadu, okay, and listen. 14 00:01:00,840 --> 00:01:10,760 I had 24 different letters that I needed to have names for on this load and if you're 15 00:01:10,760 --> 00:01:14,680 smart you know there's only 26 letters in the alphabet. 16 00:01:14,680 --> 00:01:18,560 So pickings were slim guys. 17 00:01:18,560 --> 00:01:23,560 So Xanadu, whose real name is Scout and I would highly suggest using that instead of 18 00:01:23,560 --> 00:01:24,940 Xanadu. 19 00:01:24,940 --> 00:01:26,780 He is an owner surrender. 20 00:01:26,780 --> 00:01:31,560 It's hard to believe that anyone would surrender a purebred already neutered two-year-old golden 21 00:01:31,560 --> 00:01:35,440 retriever who seems to be the most perfect dog ever. 22 00:01:35,440 --> 00:01:41,760 But the owners had a massive change in lifestyle which despite how nosy I am I still haven't 23 00:01:41,760 --> 00:01:43,480 figured out what that means. 24 00:01:43,480 --> 00:01:47,520 However, he wasn't getting the attention that they knew he needed and they were forced 25 00:01:47,520 --> 00:01:50,320 to keep him in a crate 14 hours a day. 26 00:01:50,320 --> 00:01:53,400 So they just felt so bad about it and they knew they wanted him to have a family that 27 00:01:53,400 --> 00:01:55,480 could spend more time with him. 28 00:01:55,480 --> 00:01:59,800 He has been fostered down here by someone who has two other golden retrievers that are 29 00:01:59,800 --> 00:02:04,480 his therapy dogs and you literally can't tell the three of them apart in the pictures. 30 00:02:04,480 --> 00:02:09,760 He fits right in with them and they have had the best time fostering him. 31 00:02:09,760 --> 00:02:14,760 Trixie was posted on Facebook when she was found on the side of the road skinny soaking 32 00:02:14,760 --> 00:02:19,440 wet, almost completely frozen and mangy. 33 00:02:19,440 --> 00:02:23,040 And if you know anything at all about me it's that there's nothing I love more than 34 00:02:23,040 --> 00:02:25,760 beagles and mangy dogs. 35 00:02:25,760 --> 00:02:29,720 And when you combine the two I lose all self control. 36 00:02:29,720 --> 00:02:34,240 I had been tagged in the post a few times because again everyone who knows me knows 37 00:02:34,240 --> 00:02:37,600 they are my weakness but I didn't have a foster. 38 00:02:37,600 --> 00:02:44,400 And as much as I am an animal rescuer to my core I just cannot convince Justin to let 39 00:02:44,400 --> 00:02:50,480 me bring home a contagious dog with our nine month old baby. 40 00:02:50,480 --> 00:02:55,440 So I commented on the post to all the people that had tagged me and I said whoever agrees 41 00:02:55,440 --> 00:02:59,360 to foster this dog for me, because it one time passed to pull whatever they want and 42 00:02:59,360 --> 00:03:00,880 I'll send it on transport. 43 00:03:00,880 --> 00:03:02,480 I kid you not. 44 00:03:02,480 --> 00:03:06,960 It was not a full minute later before Hope texted me and said one of her fosters was 45 00:03:06,960 --> 00:03:10,400 asking if she could get in on the deal too. 46 00:03:10,400 --> 00:03:15,160 She said she would pay for the beagle to be boarded at Dr. Jamie's Who We Love if I would 47 00:03:15,160 --> 00:03:20,320 take one of her three one year old dogs that another rescue had stuck her with and ghosted 48 00:03:20,320 --> 00:03:21,320 her on. 49 00:03:21,320 --> 00:03:25,200 Of course I said yes and she went and got this sweet baby that night. 50 00:03:25,200 --> 00:03:28,640 She left her at the vet for a few days so that they could do some medicated bath and 51 00:03:28,640 --> 00:03:33,120 get her fixed up and about a week later she brought her home and has been fostering her 52 00:03:33,120 --> 00:03:34,880 since. 53 00:03:34,880 --> 00:03:41,720 So stay tuned to see pics of the three that I am now stuck with tagging. 54 00:03:41,720 --> 00:03:43,800 But I still think it was a fair trade. 55 00:03:43,800 --> 00:03:47,320 I think it was a good deal. 56 00:03:47,320 --> 00:03:50,960 Valentine is from the same home as the pee litter of six that I'll tell you about in 57 00:03:50,960 --> 00:03:52,480 a few minutes. 58 00:03:52,480 --> 00:03:53,800 Kinda. 59 00:03:53,800 --> 00:03:58,120 When our rescue partners went there to vaccinate the pee litter they saw Valentine running in 60 00:03:58,120 --> 00:04:00,240 the road a couple houses down. 61 00:04:00,240 --> 00:04:03,840 They asked the owner who it was and she said that someone had dropped him off a few days 62 00:04:03,840 --> 00:04:07,960 ago and that all of the neighbors just kinda kept shooing him away. 63 00:04:07,960 --> 00:04:12,800 So she took him home with her and asked if we would take him too. 64 00:04:12,800 --> 00:04:16,960 Night and shining armor was posted on Facebook when he showed up at someone's house. 65 00:04:16,960 --> 00:04:20,640 They took him to the vet to be checked for a microchip and posted him on Facebook looking 66 00:04:20,640 --> 00:04:22,080 for the owners. 67 00:04:22,080 --> 00:04:27,160 No one came forward for over two weeks so we offered to take him. 68 00:04:27,160 --> 00:04:31,200 Romeo and Juliet are not litter mates but they have been fostered together and they 69 00:04:31,200 --> 00:04:34,240 are the very best of friends. 70 00:04:34,240 --> 00:04:37,960 Like they love each other so much I would even say would be worth getting them together 71 00:04:37,960 --> 00:04:39,720 in the future for play dates. 72 00:04:39,720 --> 00:04:42,080 They are so sweet together. 73 00:04:42,080 --> 00:04:43,080 Romeo was a stray. 74 00:04:43,080 --> 00:04:48,960 There is a girl that I am friends with who does purges on Facebook for people like you 75 00:04:48,960 --> 00:04:53,320 bring her all your unwanted clothes and she sells them on her Facebook page and gives 76 00:04:53,320 --> 00:04:55,440 you money and you pay her a fee. 77 00:04:55,440 --> 00:04:57,400 Anyway, it's a big business. 78 00:04:57,400 --> 00:05:01,120 She's got people coming and going from her house 24 seven picking up and dropping things 79 00:05:01,120 --> 00:05:02,480 off. 80 00:05:02,480 --> 00:05:07,360 Romeo wandered up and was taking the bags of clothes off her porch so she posted him 81 00:05:07,360 --> 00:05:09,600 on Facebook to see if anyone was missing him. 82 00:05:09,600 --> 00:05:11,240 They weren't of course. 83 00:05:11,240 --> 00:05:15,520 But she said he had to go as soon as possible because he was sleeping in her outdoor cat 84 00:05:15,520 --> 00:05:18,920 spot on the porch and messing with the bags. 85 00:05:18,920 --> 00:05:24,160 By the time we went and got him, which literally was like two days, they had scared him so 86 00:05:24,160 --> 00:05:29,280 badly for getting the bags that he wouldn't even go near the porch anymore. 87 00:05:29,280 --> 00:05:34,640 So if he has some kind of like PTSD when you come home with grocery bags, it's probably 88 00:05:34,640 --> 00:05:35,640 from this. 89 00:05:35,640 --> 00:05:40,880 Anyway, we mainly got him because I knew she was keeping him outside and we were getting 90 00:05:40,880 --> 00:05:42,920 insanely cold weather. 91 00:05:42,920 --> 00:05:44,920 So we took him to the doghouse. 92 00:05:44,920 --> 00:05:47,200 Juliet was also a stray. 93 00:05:47,200 --> 00:05:53,040 She wandered up to my mom's neighbor's house and coincidentally, my mom was still fostering 94 00:05:53,040 --> 00:05:58,280 the afflator of two from the hot tea transport who looked just like Juliet. 95 00:05:58,280 --> 00:06:01,640 So my mom's neighbor calls and says, Hey, I think one of your puppies got out and it's 96 00:06:01,640 --> 00:06:04,320 in the woods behind my house and it's all bloody. 97 00:06:04,320 --> 00:06:07,520 We never figured out what happened to her, but she was cut up. 98 00:06:07,520 --> 00:06:11,440 So my mom goes running out to check, but both of her puppies are with her. 99 00:06:11,440 --> 00:06:15,600 So the neighbor ended up keeping Juliet for five days in her garage while it was so cold 100 00:06:15,600 --> 00:06:18,520 just so that she wouldn't freeze to death. 101 00:06:18,520 --> 00:06:22,640 And when the train sport that got canceled, finally was able to go, my mom brought Romeo 102 00:06:22,640 --> 00:06:27,240 home so that we could put a nursing mama dog in her newborn puppies at the doghouse and 103 00:06:27,240 --> 00:06:30,600 then brought Juliet over so that they wouldn't be lonely. 104 00:06:30,600 --> 00:06:33,160 And man, have they had a ball together. 105 00:06:33,160 --> 00:06:36,040 They are two peas and a pod. 106 00:06:36,040 --> 00:06:37,040 My mom loves them both. 107 00:06:37,040 --> 00:06:43,000 They're both great dogs, but she said Romeo is one of the best dogs she has ever fostered. 108 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:45,420 He's going to be a really, really great dog for somebody. 109 00:06:45,420 --> 00:06:48,280 We all love him. 110 00:06:48,280 --> 00:06:53,000 The Y letter of two are from a friend of our fosters. 111 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:57,400 She called her and said that her teenage daughter was coming home late one night after hanging 112 00:06:57,400 --> 00:07:01,920 out with her friends and saw these two puppies wandering out of the woods and heading towards 113 00:07:01,920 --> 00:07:03,480 a busy road. 114 00:07:03,480 --> 00:07:08,880 So she brought them home and her mom, the friend of our foster was not happy at all 115 00:07:08,880 --> 00:07:11,280 when her daughter showed up with these two puppies. 116 00:07:11,280 --> 00:07:15,080 But when our foster explained like how it works and told her we would take them in a 117 00:07:15,080 --> 00:07:18,560 couple weeks and she only had to hang on to them just for these few weeks, we'd give her 118 00:07:18,560 --> 00:07:20,120 everything she needs. 119 00:07:20,120 --> 00:07:22,880 She felt a lot better. 120 00:07:22,880 --> 00:07:26,920 The Q letter of two were found on the side of the road in the middle of nowhere by a 121 00:07:26,920 --> 00:07:29,960 lady that works at an elementary school. 122 00:07:29,960 --> 00:07:33,520 She passed them on her way to work and kept driving, but she just couldn't stand the thought 123 00:07:33,520 --> 00:07:37,640 of driving home that afternoon and seeing them run over on the side of the road. 124 00:07:37,640 --> 00:07:42,760 So she turned around, picked them up and brought them to school with her. 125 00:07:42,760 --> 00:07:46,640 She called one of her friends who fosters for us and asked her to come pick up the puppies 126 00:07:46,640 --> 00:07:51,640 from the school and she fostered them until we could get them on transport. 127 00:07:51,640 --> 00:07:56,560 The C letter of two were found on a gravel road between two pastures. 128 00:07:56,560 --> 00:08:01,720 The woman that found them and who owns the pastures is actually the owner of the momma 129 00:08:01,720 --> 00:08:07,160 dog from the last transport that took in the two orphan G letter puppies. 130 00:08:07,160 --> 00:08:10,840 When she heard what wonderful homes all of our animals get, she asked if we could take 131 00:08:10,840 --> 00:08:13,680 these two for her too. 132 00:08:13,680 --> 00:08:18,040 The M letter of two were originally a letter of four. 133 00:08:18,040 --> 00:08:22,680 Someone had an old man come up to them at church and ask if she could help with a letter 134 00:08:22,680 --> 00:08:23,840 of puppies. 135 00:08:23,840 --> 00:08:26,540 So she asked us if we could take them. 136 00:08:26,540 --> 00:08:31,000 He ended up giving one away before we could get out there and the other one just ran off 137 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:33,080 and never came back. 138 00:08:33,080 --> 00:08:35,880 But he was very thankful that we could take these two. 139 00:08:35,880 --> 00:08:42,120 One of them also has the intropion which is basically when your eyelashes grow into your 140 00:08:42,120 --> 00:08:48,120 eyeball and it feels like literally your eyelashes are scratching your eye 24 seven. 141 00:08:48,120 --> 00:08:49,120 It's miserable. 142 00:08:49,120 --> 00:08:55,240 It causes eye infections, watery eyes, super, super painful, all kinds of things. 143 00:08:55,240 --> 00:09:00,880 The man obviously had no idea and had no plans of having surgery done, but Dr. Burton will 144 00:09:00,880 --> 00:09:05,960 do the surgery to fix the eye issue so that the lashes grow the right way and he won't 145 00:09:05,960 --> 00:09:08,920 be miserable for the rest of his life. 146 00:09:08,920 --> 00:09:12,040 The P letter of six was originally a letter of seven. 147 00:09:12,040 --> 00:09:16,520 The seventh puppy was run over by the owners in their driveway just two days ago. 148 00:09:16,520 --> 00:09:18,360 That makes me so sad. 149 00:09:18,360 --> 00:09:22,320 They are owner surrenders and they are very happy to be getting their momma dogs paid 150 00:09:22,320 --> 00:09:23,320 for free. 151 00:09:23,320 --> 00:09:31,640 She looks like a 100% healer, a red healer so these puppies might be 50% healer. 152 00:09:31,640 --> 00:09:34,560 The S letter of five were found on the side of the road. 153 00:09:34,560 --> 00:09:39,760 One of my rescue partners has me in a group chat with like 11 other northern rescues she 154 00:09:39,760 --> 00:09:41,000 works with. 155 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:45,720 I haven't muted because it's honestly like 500 texts a week of everyone asking everyone 156 00:09:45,720 --> 00:09:48,120 to help with a billion animals. 157 00:09:48,120 --> 00:09:51,920 I just happened to see a text come through about these a few weeks ago and I thought 158 00:09:51,920 --> 00:09:56,680 oh those are cute but another rescue is totally going to nab them up. 159 00:09:56,680 --> 00:10:01,200 Then three days later I got another text saying the lady still has these and I'm getting really 160 00:10:01,200 --> 00:10:06,840 nervous she's going to start giving them away to people on Facebook which shocked me because 161 00:10:06,840 --> 00:10:08,200 again have you seen them? 162 00:10:08,200 --> 00:10:10,240 They are so cute. 163 00:10:10,240 --> 00:10:14,800 So I wrote back and I said well I can take them January 31st unless you find someone that 164 00:10:14,800 --> 00:10:16,400 can take them sooner. 165 00:10:16,400 --> 00:10:23,440 And like an idiot I said I also have a transport leaving on January 18th and I will probably 166 00:10:23,440 --> 00:10:28,640 have a foster open up then which at the time was just a few days away but of course that 167 00:10:28,640 --> 00:10:33,080 was the infamous transport that got cancelled. 168 00:10:33,080 --> 00:10:37,440 So I had a text the lady the day that I was supposed to pick these up and tell her that 169 00:10:37,440 --> 00:10:42,880 our transport had been cancelled so that foster didn't end up opening up and I wasn't going 170 00:10:42,880 --> 00:10:47,120 to be able to take them and she was going to have to keep them for another week. 171 00:10:47,120 --> 00:10:51,760 Keep in mind these are not her puppies okay she just found them in the middle of the road 172 00:10:51,760 --> 00:10:59,400 and brought them home so they wouldn't get run over but she was not happy with me. 173 00:10:59,400 --> 00:11:04,440 She said I cannot keep these puppies in my kitchen another week don't you have anybody 174 00:11:04,440 --> 00:11:06,040 that can take them? 175 00:11:06,040 --> 00:11:13,400 I was like miss ma'am I have 53 animals that were supposed to leave today that I am now 176 00:11:13,400 --> 00:11:20,160 scrambling to find places for on top of 25 plus animals that were supposed to be going 177 00:11:20,160 --> 00:11:23,080 in these foster homes that now don't have anywhere to go. 178 00:11:23,080 --> 00:11:27,720 I was like I'll bring you any supplies you need to make things easier to keep them but 179 00:11:27,720 --> 00:11:31,240 I am not taking them until next Friday. 180 00:11:31,240 --> 00:11:38,360 And several I mean several hours later she wrote me back and said I will need a crate 181 00:11:38,360 --> 00:11:42,480 and a taller playpen thank you. 182 00:11:42,480 --> 00:11:46,880 When we went by to drop off the supplies and vaccinate them they were outside on her front 183 00:11:46,880 --> 00:11:55,160 porch in a teeny tiny wire crate with a heat lamp directly on a potty pad. 184 00:11:55,160 --> 00:11:59,200 She keeps them outside when she's down at home but luckily it ended up being so cold 185 00:11:59,200 --> 00:12:02,240 that week that she was home almost all the time. 186 00:12:02,240 --> 00:12:08,560 So somehow they all survived no one got frostbite nothing caught on fire and then my mom ended 187 00:12:08,560 --> 00:12:14,480 up taking them from her after hers left on the last transport. 188 00:12:14,480 --> 00:12:17,480 The D letter of 4 are odor surrenders. 189 00:12:17,480 --> 00:12:25,120 Do any of my OGs remember our campaign from a few years ago called Homer for the holidays? 190 00:12:25,120 --> 00:12:29,800 We had been asked to take some dogs for a man who was being sent to prison actually he 191 00:12:29,800 --> 00:12:35,480 was already in prison and his two dogs were left alone at his house and he asked us through 192 00:12:35,480 --> 00:12:38,360 his family if we could go and get them. 193 00:12:38,360 --> 00:12:43,180 One of them was completely feral bit me and everything I couldn't believe it. 194 00:12:43,180 --> 00:12:47,440 We fostered him for a while and then a family member of his took him back until the guy 195 00:12:47,440 --> 00:12:53,200 got out of prison and there was another dog there a black lad mix who was so precious 196 00:12:53,200 --> 00:12:57,960 he ended up going to another rescue that they the family had found and we just like helped 197 00:12:57,960 --> 00:13:02,280 coordinate things and held on to him until that rescue could get him. 198 00:13:02,280 --> 00:13:06,360 But while we were there the neighbors were helping us because A they heard me scream 199 00:13:06,360 --> 00:13:12,160 when I got bit but they also wanted to know why people were at this supposed to be vacant 200 00:13:12,160 --> 00:13:13,160 house. 201 00:13:13,160 --> 00:13:17,880 Anyway while all this is going on we're like crouching down crawling around trying to sneak 202 00:13:17,880 --> 00:13:21,680 up on this feral dog and catch him without him seeing us. 203 00:13:21,680 --> 00:13:26,640 There's another dog a third dog literally trying to make out with us climbing in our 204 00:13:26,640 --> 00:13:32,360 laps kissing us all over eating our bait that we're like using to try and get this feral 205 00:13:32,360 --> 00:13:33,760 dog. 206 00:13:33,760 --> 00:13:37,400 So after we caught these two dogs that we were there for we're about to get in the car 207 00:13:37,400 --> 00:13:41,760 and leave when the neighbors said something I don't even remember what it was but whatever 208 00:13:41,760 --> 00:13:48,320 they said made us realize this third dog was just a stray dog that the guy who is now in 209 00:13:48,320 --> 00:13:54,320 prison had been feeding for months and now not only were we taking his two friends away 210 00:13:54,320 --> 00:14:00,120 but no one was going to be coming by anymore to feed them or him. 211 00:14:00,120 --> 00:14:04,040 So Jessica and I we didn't even have room for the two that we were there for but we 212 00:14:04,040 --> 00:14:09,360 looked at each other and we said at the same time load them up and I brought him home with 213 00:14:09,360 --> 00:14:10,360 me too. 214 00:14:10,360 --> 00:14:15,600 So we had one more transport before Christmas that year and Dr. Burton told me that if I 215 00:14:15,600 --> 00:14:20,760 could find a foster that would take him I could send him up that next week on transport. 216 00:14:20,760 --> 00:14:27,320 So we started the Homer for the holidays hashtag and we got him a foster who helped him find 217 00:14:27,320 --> 00:14:29,880 the literal most perfect home. 218 00:14:29,880 --> 00:14:34,480 It's one of my favorite stories to this day but that doesn't really have anything to do 219 00:14:34,480 --> 00:14:35,960 with these four puppies. 220 00:14:35,960 --> 00:14:39,680 I was mainly just reminiscing. 221 00:14:39,680 --> 00:14:45,560 The owner is now out of prison and he's back at the house with his feral dog who by the 222 00:14:45,560 --> 00:14:49,600 way ended up not being so feral and he fell in love with me and we were besties by the 223 00:14:49,600 --> 00:14:50,600 time he left. 224 00:14:50,600 --> 00:14:55,680 Anyways, the black lab that went to another rescue had apparently knocked up a neighbor's 225 00:14:55,680 --> 00:14:57,720 dog before he left. 226 00:14:57,720 --> 00:15:00,040 Just one last hurrah. 227 00:15:00,040 --> 00:15:05,840 So the mom of these four puppies is a puppy from that one night stand. 228 00:15:05,840 --> 00:15:11,080 I don't know how he ended up with the daughter of his dog that we sent to a rescue or if 229 00:15:11,080 --> 00:15:15,680 the neighbors were just happy to get rid of her by the time he got out of prison but he 230 00:15:15,680 --> 00:15:19,480 is very happy that we're taking these four puppies for him and that we'll be getting 231 00:15:19,480 --> 00:15:22,080 his mama spade for him as well. 232 00:15:22,080 --> 00:15:26,800 The house looked like it needed to be demolished several years ago when we were there. 233 00:15:26,800 --> 00:15:32,200 I don't even want to imagine what it looks like now but he does take really really great 234 00:15:32,200 --> 00:15:38,720 care of all of his dogs so these four have been very loved their whole lives. 235 00:15:38,720 --> 00:15:45,280 The H litter of six are actually a litter of 14 and actually why I'm not speaking to 236 00:15:45,280 --> 00:15:46,280 Jessica. 237 00:15:46,280 --> 00:15:50,000 No, not really but I am really sad about it. 238 00:15:50,000 --> 00:15:54,400 They were brought into the shelter one morning all 14 of them after they were found in a 239 00:15:54,400 --> 00:15:56,320 culvert in someone's yard. 240 00:15:56,320 --> 00:15:57,320 It was below freezing. 241 00:15:57,320 --> 00:16:03,760 It had been raining so they were literally shaking to death and honestly hours away from 242 00:16:03,760 --> 00:16:05,680 freezing to death. 243 00:16:05,680 --> 00:16:09,200 The people who brought them in said there was no way that they belonged to anybody on 244 00:16:09,200 --> 00:16:14,080 their road because they know all of the neighbors and none of them had puppies let alone 14 245 00:16:14,080 --> 00:16:17,480 let alone 14 that went missing in the middle of the night. 246 00:16:17,480 --> 00:16:20,480 So they were certain that someone had dumped them there the night before. 247 00:16:20,480 --> 00:16:26,120 Oh and did I mention this was the day before we ended up canceling transport because weather 248 00:16:26,120 --> 00:16:31,680 was so terrible so not only did we have one million animals already that we were scrambling 249 00:16:31,680 --> 00:16:38,080 to find a place for we now had 14 soaking wet barely five week old puppies at a kill shelter 250 00:16:38,080 --> 00:16:41,680 with no heat that were certain to freeze to death. 251 00:16:41,680 --> 00:16:47,080 So another rescue was offering to take some of them but couldn't take all 14 and as mad 252 00:16:47,080 --> 00:16:55,000 as it makes me we really physically mentally emotionally spiritually could not take all 253 00:16:55,000 --> 00:16:57,280 14 right then either. 254 00:16:57,280 --> 00:17:02,560 So the other rescue took eight we took the other six and we got them set up in a play 255 00:17:02,560 --> 00:17:08,640 pen at the dog house with three other litters an adult dog and a cat that had a crash there 256 00:17:08,640 --> 00:17:12,400 until transport finally left the next week. 257 00:17:12,400 --> 00:17:17,400 Have I mentioned lately how much use we get out of the dog house. 258 00:17:17,400 --> 00:17:24,360 Okay now for the cats firecracker is from our transport driver. 259 00:17:24,360 --> 00:17:29,920 She is like royalty to us we would do literally anything to keep her happy and keep her driving 260 00:17:29,920 --> 00:17:31,240 for us. 261 00:17:31,240 --> 00:17:35,320 So when she said her niece found this kitten this past summer and was having to keep it 262 00:17:35,320 --> 00:17:40,720 in a kennel in her house because her dogs were not fans of the cat and she wanted to 263 00:17:40,720 --> 00:17:45,520 know if she could get her on the van so she could have a better life. 264 00:17:45,520 --> 00:17:49,840 Nibbles showed up in someone's carport a few weeks ago none of the neighbors had ever 265 00:17:49,840 --> 00:17:55,200 seen him so they figured he was either dumped there or a lot of times in colder weather 266 00:17:55,200 --> 00:18:00,600 like this kittens crawl up into cars and then just fall out of the bottom when the people 267 00:18:00,600 --> 00:18:02,160 start driving. 268 00:18:02,160 --> 00:18:06,920 It's actually really common down here on super cold mornings to hear your neighbors like 269 00:18:06,920 --> 00:18:12,880 bang on their hoods and honk their horns to scare any cats out of them so we could 270 00:18:12,880 --> 00:18:15,840 have just fallen out of a car. 271 00:18:15,840 --> 00:18:21,640 The A-letter of forest from another rescue they primarily do cats and they asked us if 272 00:18:21,640 --> 00:18:23,960 we could take some older kittens for them. 273 00:18:23,960 --> 00:18:29,280 They were from an owner who surrendered them when she was being sent to rehab and coincidentally 274 00:18:29,280 --> 00:18:35,840 the home that they were all in burnt to the ground completely less than a week after the 275 00:18:35,840 --> 00:18:38,680 owner and all the animals had left. 276 00:18:38,680 --> 00:18:42,560 So I don't know what the owner is going to do when she gets out of rehab but the other 277 00:18:42,560 --> 00:18:49,200 rescue is holding several of her cats and her dog for her in foster care until she gets 278 00:18:49,200 --> 00:18:51,240 out and gets on her feet. 279 00:18:51,240 --> 00:18:56,240 These were just kittens that one of her cats had had and she didn't want them back. 280 00:18:56,240 --> 00:18:59,840 All of the other cats today are from Alabama. 281 00:18:59,840 --> 00:19:05,200 I am so excited to say we are pulling from our Alabama shelter friends again. 282 00:19:05,200 --> 00:19:10,880 There's really no T on why we haven't been there's no distemper crisis or anything other 283 00:19:10,880 --> 00:19:16,800 than the fact that transports have been full to the brim with our other rescue partners 284 00:19:16,800 --> 00:19:17,800 animals. 285 00:19:17,800 --> 00:19:21,720 The shelter didn't have a way to bring them to transport which meant I had to go pick 286 00:19:21,720 --> 00:19:28,200 them up and again I'm going to blame my baby here but it's really hard to have a brand 287 00:19:28,200 --> 00:19:36,120 new baby crammed in your car with dozens of crates of barging meowing puking pooping animals. 288 00:19:36,120 --> 00:19:41,200 So unfortunately we just kind of fizzled out for a few months after Mary Sue was born but 289 00:19:41,200 --> 00:19:42,200 we are back. 290 00:19:42,200 --> 00:19:46,520 They've got a new van and they're able to move animals around now and I have missed 291 00:19:46,520 --> 00:19:48,520 them so much. 292 00:19:48,520 --> 00:19:52,960 As much as we love them it is a bummer though that we know so little about the animals we 293 00:19:52,960 --> 00:19:56,440 pull from them but here we go. 294 00:19:56,440 --> 00:19:59,560 Old man which is a terrible name because he's not old. 295 00:19:59,560 --> 00:20:02,920 I don't think I don't know Dr. Burton could tell me tomorrow he's 20 years old I have 296 00:20:02,920 --> 00:20:04,960 him down as like a year. 297 00:20:04,960 --> 00:20:07,560 So we'll find out. 298 00:20:07,560 --> 00:20:12,960 Old man was left by his owners at a rental house and the landlord brought him in. 299 00:20:12,960 --> 00:20:15,160 I candy has been at the shelter for months. 300 00:20:15,160 --> 00:20:20,120 I actually think I remember him from the last transport we did with them back in April when 301 00:20:20,120 --> 00:20:25,040 I was still pregnant but then again all that cats look the same to me so I might be mistaking 302 00:20:25,040 --> 00:20:30,480 him for another little kitten that was there but I told the shelter manager that I for 303 00:20:30,480 --> 00:20:35,320 sure needed the W letter of two that I'm about to tell you about strictly for naming 304 00:20:35,320 --> 00:20:40,560 sake because I needed a pair so that I wouldn't have to use another letter but I told her 305 00:20:40,560 --> 00:20:45,000 that she could pick whichever two of their other adult cats to give me whatever two she 306 00:20:45,000 --> 00:20:46,640 likes the most. 307 00:20:46,640 --> 00:20:52,920 She is so so so happy to be getting eye candy out of their cat cafe where they keep the 308 00:20:52,920 --> 00:20:54,400 cats now. 309 00:20:54,400 --> 00:20:59,160 She said people come in and they sit down and no one ever looks at him. 310 00:20:59,160 --> 00:21:01,600 No one pets him when he comes up to them. 311 00:21:01,600 --> 00:21:03,080 No one even looks at him. 312 00:21:03,080 --> 00:21:07,480 He is ignored by everyone and she said it broke her heart every day watching people 313 00:21:07,480 --> 00:21:09,640 just look past him. 314 00:21:09,640 --> 00:21:13,520 She said he is the sweetest cat and it made her sick thinking that he would live his 315 00:21:13,520 --> 00:21:20,760 whole life at the shelter so I'm so glad we're getting him out for him and for her. 316 00:21:20,760 --> 00:21:27,840 The W letter of two honest honest to goodness only got to go because I needed a pair because 317 00:21:27,840 --> 00:21:34,920 I didn't have a 25th letter to use for names so that is the only reason I picked these 318 00:21:34,920 --> 00:21:35,920 two. 319 00:21:35,920 --> 00:21:41,400 The W letter of two wandered up to someone's house who brought them in and their names aren't 320 00:21:41,400 --> 00:21:42,400 even good. 321 00:21:42,400 --> 00:21:48,120 The W names are not even good names but I was like I honestly do not have a 25th letter 322 00:21:48,120 --> 00:21:50,800 that I can use. 323 00:21:50,800 --> 00:21:56,440 The I letter of two were found at tractor supply by someone and they brought them in but the 324 00:21:56,440 --> 00:21:59,160 shelter manager thinks that this is a lie. 325 00:21:59,160 --> 00:22:02,080 She thinks it was the owners that brought them in and just lied so that they would have 326 00:22:02,080 --> 00:22:04,240 to take them. 327 00:22:04,240 --> 00:22:06,600 The G mama came in pregnant. 328 00:22:06,600 --> 00:22:08,200 She had wandered up to someone's house. 329 00:22:08,200 --> 00:22:09,600 They brought her in. 330 00:22:09,600 --> 00:22:11,160 One of the kittens though is not hers. 331 00:22:11,160 --> 00:22:14,800 I don't know which one I'm going to try to find out tomorrow when they drop them off 332 00:22:14,800 --> 00:22:21,800 at transport and I will update it on the fosters page but she is from another mama who gave 333 00:22:21,800 --> 00:22:25,920 birth at the shelter during the night one night and when the workers got there the next 334 00:22:25,920 --> 00:22:31,800 morning they saw that she had buried her kittens alive in her litter box. 335 00:22:31,800 --> 00:22:37,880 This kitten was the only one that was still alive so she lost custody of it and they gave 336 00:22:37,880 --> 00:22:43,220 it to this mama who took her right in with her other two kittens. 337 00:22:43,220 --> 00:22:48,380 The L letter of four were brought in with their mom who is very feral. 338 00:22:48,380 --> 00:22:51,200 She will be spayed by the shelter and turned loose somewhere. 339 00:22:51,200 --> 00:22:57,520 I'm not sure what program they use but they were all found in someone's barn and they 340 00:22:57,520 --> 00:23:00,920 were able to trap them and bring them in. 341 00:23:00,920 --> 00:23:03,920 The B letter of five grew up at the shelter. 342 00:23:03,920 --> 00:23:08,300 They have been there basically their whole lives and they are craving attention so we're 343 00:23:08,300 --> 00:23:11,400 super happy to be getting them out. 344 00:23:11,400 --> 00:23:13,240 And that is all for this week. 345 00:23:13,240 --> 00:23:21,680 Jacqueline told me it was going to be a mini she said 20 to 25 max and I said bet Jacqueline 346 00:23:21,680 --> 00:23:25,960 looks like I won because we had 60 animals on board this week. 347 00:23:25,960 --> 00:23:34,040 That is so so awesome but if you are not fostering this round stop what you are doing and go 348 00:23:34,040 --> 00:23:40,000 sign up for the February 15th transport as our next transport and when I tell you that 349 00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:49,120 the puppies on that load are to die for I mean they are to die for. 350 00:23:49,120 --> 00:23:54,560 We are talking golden retriever mixed puppies, Pyrenees puppies, doodle mixes. 351 00:23:54,560 --> 00:24:02,040 Listen you will thank me later just go sign up and don't forget to rate, review and subscribe 352 00:24:02,040 --> 00:24:07,440 so I can get another sponsor because that was really fun for me. 353 00:24:07,440 --> 00:24:14,440 It's a ruff life but someone has got to do it.