1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:17,480 Hello friends, welcome to ruff life. Well, if you are not following the ruff life podcast 2 00:00:17,480 --> 00:00:23,880 on Instagram, you need to. I'm trying really hard to be more active on there and I put 3 00:00:23,880 --> 00:00:29,600 a poll up tonight asking if y'all just want the bare bones on the episode tonight and 4 00:00:29,600 --> 00:00:35,080 just tell you the background stories and that's it. Or if you want all the tea and I tell 5 00:00:35,080 --> 00:00:41,720 you everything that's going on lately, it was unanimously give me all the tea with 48 6 00:00:41,720 --> 00:00:45,920 votes in three hours. Although one of those was me trying to test it out to see if it 7 00:00:45,920 --> 00:00:53,760 even worked. So for the other 47 of you buckle up. If you are not following us and you would 8 00:00:53,760 --> 00:00:59,440 have voted just stick to the background stories, feel free to fast forward about five minutes 9 00:00:59,440 --> 00:01:06,080 and maybe 10 minutes. Y'all know I'm a talker. Okay, I won't spend too much time talking 10 00:01:06,080 --> 00:01:10,360 about this because I know the majority of you know what happened. But just for the people 11 00:01:10,360 --> 00:01:17,960 who are listeners from other states and don't foster with us. Unfortunately, our animals 12 00:01:17,960 --> 00:01:23,480 on the last transport were in a horrible, horrible car wreck. The van was about 20 minutes 13 00:01:23,480 --> 00:01:28,160 from the Wolf Trap Hospital. I'm still not totally sure what happened, but I do know 14 00:01:28,160 --> 00:01:34,720 that the other vehicle involved was a tow truck. So it was pretty gnarly. Most of our 15 00:01:34,720 --> 00:01:40,800 crates were damaged or destroyed. Several animals were thrown out of their cages and 16 00:01:40,800 --> 00:01:47,800 loose inside the van and devastatingly five of our cats escaped when they ripped the driver's 17 00:01:47,800 --> 00:01:53,160 side door off and they haven't been able to be caught yet. When I tell y'all that this 18 00:01:53,160 --> 00:02:02,280 is my worst nightmare, I mean, it is actually my number one full blown worst nightmare ever. 19 00:02:02,280 --> 00:02:08,520 I woke up at 530 my time to a couple texts from Jacqueline just very briefly mentioning 20 00:02:08,520 --> 00:02:12,840 what was going on and that there had been a wreck. I barely had my eyes open when I 21 00:02:12,840 --> 00:02:18,720 read. So there's been an accident, missing lots of cats and one puppy so far and I was 22 00:02:18,720 --> 00:02:25,280 instantly wide awake after that. I had had like four hours of sleep wide awake. I called 23 00:02:25,280 --> 00:02:31,840 Jacqueline. She explained what was going on. Dr Burton was on her way to the hospital. 24 00:02:31,840 --> 00:02:37,280 So she ended up being one of the first ones on the scene. Jesse was at the hospital. So 25 00:02:37,280 --> 00:02:42,680 he jumped in the other transport van and flew over there just to start throwing animals 26 00:02:42,680 --> 00:02:47,480 from the wreckage onto the empty van. The lanes on the highway were closed down to try 27 00:02:47,480 --> 00:02:52,480 and catch all the animals. Our driver was rushed to the emergency room, but thankfully 28 00:02:52,480 --> 00:02:58,120 miraculously only had a broken nose. I don't know anything about the other driver or his 29 00:02:58,120 --> 00:03:03,560 vehicle, but he's apparently fine and didn't have to go to the hospital. Everyone ended 30 00:03:03,560 --> 00:03:09,400 up being accounted for except the five missing cats. So we had all that going on two weeks 31 00:03:09,400 --> 00:03:19,680 ago. Then the next week, so this week, I found out that the mayor where I live here in Alabama 32 00:03:19,680 --> 00:03:28,160 told our city and county shelter that they were no longer allowed to work with rescues. 33 00:03:28,160 --> 00:03:34,960 No animals could leave on transport to rescues and all animals had to be adopted locally 34 00:03:34,960 --> 00:03:40,960 were euthanized. Period. So when the shelter director took a couple puppies that were scheduled 35 00:03:40,960 --> 00:03:47,400 to go to rescue that day or possibly the next day and sent them as planned, he put her on 36 00:03:47,400 --> 00:03:55,560 administrative leave and threatened to fire her. And that is when we all lost our ever-loving 37 00:03:55,560 --> 00:04:01,840 minds. I think he really truly thought that a couple people at the shelter would be really 38 00:04:01,840 --> 00:04:06,720 mad about this, but that would be the end of it would all blow over. But people from 39 00:04:06,720 --> 00:04:13,680 all over, especially in our very own town were livid, threatening to literally burn 40 00:04:13,680 --> 00:04:20,800 the town down over this. And I was one of them. I was ready to set stuff on fire before 41 00:04:20,800 --> 00:04:27,080 I even knew the director was in the process of being fired. And I do understand his reasoning. 42 00:04:27,080 --> 00:04:36,000 I get it. He said that a quote unquote disgruntled volunteer came to him very upset that she couldn't 43 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:41,240 adopt a super cute puppy from a litter of 10 because that whole litter was going to a 44 00:04:41,240 --> 00:04:45,800 rescue. And that isn't fair. I get that I really do. If you want to adopt a puppy from 45 00:04:45,800 --> 00:04:54,280 your shelter, it's really frustrating that you're not allowed to. But you also don't 46 00:04:54,280 --> 00:05:01,280 understand the way that it all works. And you probably don't understand that animals 47 00:05:01,280 --> 00:05:08,440 down here are not treated well. What you think is treated well is horribly shocking to people 48 00:05:08,440 --> 00:05:15,200 up north. So it absolutely looks like shelters are just out to make local people mad and 49 00:05:15,200 --> 00:05:21,480 send every cute and tiny puppy up north. But what people don't realize is, yeah, shelters 50 00:05:21,480 --> 00:05:27,840 could definitely adopt out the adorable fluffy, murl puppy. But the other nine in that litter 51 00:05:27,840 --> 00:05:33,760 that are solid black and already look like their pit mixes will either grow up in the 52 00:05:33,760 --> 00:05:40,080 shelter taking up valuable space for years that other animals could use, or they'll 53 00:05:40,080 --> 00:05:44,560 be euthanized before they even lose their baby teeth. You can adopt out a puppy to someone 54 00:05:44,560 --> 00:05:50,520 down here who will absolutely love and adore it until it's a rowdy six month old dog that's 55 00:05:50,520 --> 00:05:54,160 jumping all over them and chewing up the remote. And then they're just going to tie it to a 56 00:05:54,160 --> 00:05:57,960 tree in their front yard and wait for it to get pregnant so they can take one of its puppies 57 00:05:57,960 --> 00:06:04,440 inside until it's huge and wild to and tie it up right next to his mama. People don't 58 00:06:04,440 --> 00:06:09,200 understand that the northern rescue isn't just going to take the cute mural. They're 59 00:06:09,200 --> 00:06:17,160 going to take all the black pit litter mates and the heartworm positive mama and the mange 60 00:06:17,160 --> 00:06:22,120 puppy that was just brought in that's contagious and the dog with the broken leg because of 61 00:06:22,120 --> 00:06:27,880 a run over in the parking lot like you can't expect a northern rescue to take for lack 62 00:06:27,880 --> 00:06:34,760 of a better word your junk but adopt out the cutest ones locally for $25 and you're not 63 00:06:34,760 --> 00:06:39,200 even going to spay a neuter. You're not going to have any northern rescues to work with 64 00:06:39,200 --> 00:06:45,040 anymore if that's what you do. Anyways, that disgruntled volunteer failed to mention that 65 00:06:45,040 --> 00:06:50,440 she's been fostering a dog for this shelter for over a year now and refuses to adopt it 66 00:06:50,440 --> 00:06:55,480 because she can't afford the medication it needs to be on daily. But she also won't bring 67 00:06:55,480 --> 00:06:59,880 it back to the shelter for them to adopt to someone else or send to a rescue and like 68 00:06:59,880 --> 00:07:04,560 that's fine I get that. A dog that has to be on medication daily would be hard to adopt 69 00:07:04,560 --> 00:07:09,520 out and hard to get into a rescue and I know for a fact that this shelter would rather pay 70 00:07:09,520 --> 00:07:14,280 for its meds and her keep it because they know it's safe and happy and being taken 71 00:07:14,280 --> 00:07:18,720 care of with her but don't bite the hand that feeds you like they're paying for your 72 00:07:18,720 --> 00:07:23,160 dog's medication and you're going to go behind their back because they won't let you adopt 73 00:07:23,160 --> 00:07:28,440 a puppy from them that's already committed to a northern rescue that's ridiculous. 74 00:07:28,440 --> 00:07:32,400 People also don't understand how important it is for shelters to keep their northern 75 00:07:32,400 --> 00:07:38,160 partners happy and I know as a northern rescue that makes me sound really entitled but if 76 00:07:38,160 --> 00:07:44,400 you're consistently telling me that you have 10 puppies and I post those 10 puppies and 77 00:07:44,400 --> 00:07:49,360 I find fosters for those 10 puppies and I can pick them up and you tell me oh we gave 78 00:07:49,360 --> 00:07:55,160 away the three cute ones or even if you just gave three of them away I don't even care 79 00:07:55,160 --> 00:08:02,000 which ones you just wasted so much of my time and if that happens over and over and over 80 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:07,800 I could throw a rock in any direction and find another shelter that is begging for a 81 00:08:07,800 --> 00:08:12,520 northern rescue's help one that will make sure if they tell me these 10 puppies are 82 00:08:12,520 --> 00:08:18,560 going I am picking up those 10 puppies so it's not just we're not bending the rules 83 00:08:18,560 --> 00:08:23,320 for you even though you're our friend and our volunteer it's we can't piss off the northern 84 00:08:23,320 --> 00:08:28,000 rescue because they might not work with us anymore and then hundreds and hundreds if 85 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:32,960 not thousands of dogs after this won't be saved because we don't have a rescue pulling 86 00:08:32,960 --> 00:08:42,760 from us anymore I have been so irritated about this all week I even commented on a huge post 87 00:08:42,760 --> 00:08:47,760 about this and I told everyone who was wanting or needing to surrender a dog or have a stray 88 00:08:47,760 --> 00:08:53,560 picked up to take it straight to the mayor's house here's his address dump them there since 89 00:08:53,560 --> 00:08:59,000 he apparently knows of so many people just dying to adopt a full grown heartworm positive 90 00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:05,120 dogs and of course he did this big press conference twisting his words around saying I never once 91 00:09:05,120 --> 00:09:11,000 said that I wanted any dog anywhere to be euthanized of course you didn't no one would 92 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:17,320 ever say that we would crucify you no one's gonna say that but if you take away transports 93 00:09:17,320 --> 00:09:25,480 and local adoptions are almost non-existent the only other choice is mass euthanasia anyways 94 00:09:25,480 --> 00:09:34,160 they want me to go to a protest on Monday night and it's supposed to be a quote unquote 95 00:09:34,160 --> 00:09:42,320 peaceful and silent protest but y'all I do not have the self control in me to be peaceful 96 00:09:42,320 --> 00:09:50,520 or quiet and I do not have the fear of getting arrested in me either so I know I will go there 97 00:09:50,520 --> 00:09:56,840 and I will cause a scene so I don't know if I'm gonna go because I don't know if Justin 98 00:09:56,840 --> 00:10:03,760 will let me go because he does have the fear of me getting arrested in him I just cannot 99 00:10:03,760 --> 00:10:10,440 believe that in this day and age in my very own town transports are being banned and people 100 00:10:10,440 --> 00:10:18,680 are losing their jobs over it that is unbelievable and the day of our lord 2025 we're shutting 101 00:10:18,680 --> 00:10:26,880 down transports are you kidding me anyway between the stress of the missing cats the 102 00:10:26,880 --> 00:10:32,880 stress of our idiot mayor and then my 10 month old baby refusing to sleep at night lately 103 00:10:32,880 --> 00:10:38,840 I have been running on literal fumes I didn't get to do the podcast last night like I usually 104 00:10:38,840 --> 00:10:45,360 do because my slaves I mean volunteers they didn't get the background stories to me until 105 00:10:45,360 --> 00:10:51,520 this morning but because of that I'm able to tell y'all what happened at today's transport 106 00:10:51,520 --> 00:11:00,120 and it was such a wild day okay skippers you can come back now look at that 10 minutes 107 00:11:00,120 --> 00:11:08,960 like I said today's theme is Saturday Night Live skits because it is their 50th anniversary 108 00:11:08,960 --> 00:11:15,000 and because our foster favorite Claire sent me the majority of these names and also told 109 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:23,720 me it was the 50th anniversary thank you Claire for once again doing my job for me grouch is 110 00:11:23,720 --> 00:11:29,440 the long lost brother to the g litter pups from the January 4th potato transport this 111 00:11:29,440 --> 00:11:34,960 year if you remember that episode the g mama and her two puppies were sent on transport 112 00:11:34,960 --> 00:11:40,640 but two of the puppies had disappeared when they were five weeks old well one mystery 113 00:11:40,640 --> 00:11:46,400 is solved the neighbor contacted the owner a few weeks after transport left to tell her 114 00:11:46,400 --> 00:11:51,000 that one of her puppies had wandered down the hill to their house and she needed to 115 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:57,280 come get it so they had had this puppy for a month or more and then just all of a sudden 116 00:11:57,280 --> 00:12:01,920 didn't want him anymore but no mention of the second puppy that disappeared either which 117 00:12:01,920 --> 00:12:07,480 is a bummer but we are very thankful that this sweet boy is headed to Virginia where he's 118 00:12:07,480 --> 00:12:16,280 meant to be and I would love a family reunion with his litter mates it's Saturday night one 119 00:12:16,280 --> 00:12:25,760 of our fosters messaged us and said how hard would it be for a 12 pound little doodle terrier 120 00:12:25,760 --> 00:12:31,680 mix to get a spot on transport very friendly four years old the lady that owned her couldn't 121 00:12:31,680 --> 00:12:36,160 keep her for some reason so I've had her I had a home for her but I don't think that 122 00:12:36,160 --> 00:12:40,280 they were gonna get her fix so she's been with me for a couple months now I know she 123 00:12:40,280 --> 00:12:45,280 wouldn't be hard to find a home for but one that would fix her is another thing and then 124 00:12:45,280 --> 00:12:53,560 she sent us the picture of her and we said um yes she is so tiny so adorable and our 125 00:12:53,560 --> 00:12:58,040 foster is so thankful that we're taking her because she can rest assured that she will 126 00:12:58,040 --> 00:13:07,080 be spayed fully vetted and live happily ever after as a member of some very lucky family 127 00:13:07,080 --> 00:13:13,120 unfrozen caveman lawyer was found wandering in the streets of a nearby town and was posted 128 00:13:13,120 --> 00:13:17,800 on Facebook trying to find the owner of course every person who saw him was saying well if 129 00:13:17,800 --> 00:13:22,000 you don't find the owner I'll take him which means they like the thought of a cute fluffy 130 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:27,640 puppy but once he got too big they would put him outside and tie him to a tree so hope 131 00:13:27,640 --> 00:13:31,920 jumped in and messaged the finder and thankfully he took her up on her offer to send him with 132 00:13:31,920 --> 00:13:38,640 us because this sweet boy deserves the best life king tutt was also from Facebook the 133 00:13:38,640 --> 00:13:44,160 girl posting him said her grandfather has cancer her mother has dementia so they do not need 134 00:13:44,160 --> 00:13:50,600 another living thing to try to take care of he was also very very scared at transport 135 00:13:50,600 --> 00:13:55,880 today he tried to bite me when I was attempting to pull him out of his crate but after sitting 136 00:13:55,880 --> 00:14:01,160 next to him for a minute he eventually came cowering out crawled into my lap and was just 137 00:14:01,160 --> 00:14:06,760 shaking like a leaf so he's done fantastic down here with his fosters so I know he'll 138 00:14:06,760 --> 00:14:11,000 do great up there once he settles in but it was so sad for me to have to take him from 139 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:15,320 one crate and put him into another one when I knew he just wanted me to hold him and love 140 00:14:15,320 --> 00:14:20,520 on him forever so if you are fostering him please be patient with him he's gonna be a 141 00:14:20,520 --> 00:14:26,480 fantastic dog I'm just a little scared and I need all the pictures of him so that I know 142 00:14:26,480 --> 00:14:34,240 he's okay French chef was dumped at a nearby park by the time she was found she was nearly 143 00:14:34,240 --> 00:14:38,920 frozen to death the person who found her took her to her work and was more warming her up 144 00:14:38,920 --> 00:14:43,240 in her office she posted on Facebook that she found her and would be willing to foster 145 00:14:43,240 --> 00:14:49,560 her until she went to a rescue and if you didn't know that is the sweetest words ever said 146 00:14:49,560 --> 00:14:56,560 to us down here we will pull just about anything if it comes with a all foster until transport 147 00:14:56,560 --> 00:15:04,440 promise evil boss was dumped with some other puppies on a back road in another county the 148 00:15:04,440 --> 00:15:08,280 finders gave away all the other puppies but no one wanted this one so they posted him 149 00:15:08,280 --> 00:15:15,880 on Facebook on a rescue page and foster agreed to keep him safe until transport ain't that 150 00:15:15,880 --> 00:15:22,120 special okay I've never seen this get so I don't know if it's like ain't that special 151 00:15:22,120 --> 00:15:27,200 or like ain't that special I'm hoping it's the latter because this is a really sweet 152 00:15:27,200 --> 00:15:34,480 dog she was being given away because the parents of a two-year-old daughter thought that the 153 00:15:34,480 --> 00:15:39,760 two-year-old daughter needed a puppy they soon realized that was a terrible idea and 154 00:15:39,760 --> 00:15:45,040 she was allergic to the puppy and so they posted her on Facebook as free to a good home 155 00:15:45,040 --> 00:15:51,480 the puppy not the daughter live from New York was found on the side of the road an older 156 00:15:51,480 --> 00:15:55,640 lady brought her home and kept her on a tie out on her porch for a few weeks until she 157 00:15:55,640 --> 00:16:01,920 contacted us to take her okay I would love to know can you guys tell the difference between 158 00:16:01,920 --> 00:16:08,120 background stories that were written by Jessica with B2Cast or background stories written 159 00:16:08,120 --> 00:16:17,160 by Hope our other rescue partner okay I'll give you an example this one's Jessica's 160 00:16:17,160 --> 00:16:24,320 age litter of two were found on the side of the road in the rain that's that's it that's 161 00:16:24,320 --> 00:16:32,280 all she gives me are you kidding me they are litter of two are from another rescue partner 162 00:16:32,280 --> 00:16:35,720 they reached out to us and asked if we could help with a litter of two puppies that had 163 00:16:35,720 --> 00:16:41,520 been found she recently had parvo at her house and she couldn't keep them there so she found 164 00:16:41,520 --> 00:16:46,560 a foster took them to the vet and we were very glad to help out a fellow rescue down 165 00:16:46,560 --> 00:16:54,200 here who is in the trenches with us the M litter of eight are from our Alabama shelter friends 166 00:16:54,200 --> 00:16:57,880 they got a call about a pack of wild dogs out in the county that were causing trouble 167 00:16:57,880 --> 00:17:04,360 and by trouble they meant tearing up garbage the owner was a man who had a few dogs and 168 00:17:04,360 --> 00:17:09,160 was in an accident that left him paralyzed his elderly mother was left to take care of 169 00:17:09,160 --> 00:17:16,240 him and of course his animals which quickly multiplied all the dogs are feral and cannot 170 00:17:16,240 --> 00:17:21,080 be touched they had a trap all eight of these puppies because they were so wild they said 171 00:17:21,080 --> 00:17:25,600 there's still at least 10 other feral dogs left at this house that are just roaming 172 00:17:25,600 --> 00:17:31,440 loose the shelter does have a TNR program so the plan right now is they're working to 173 00:17:31,440 --> 00:17:39,640 catch and spay a neuter all of them and just return them because they're so feral the T 174 00:17:39,640 --> 00:17:44,360 litter of three are from one of our rescue partners Tasha Tasha and I have worked together 175 00:17:44,360 --> 00:17:49,160 for years but we mainly always communicated through hope because it was just easier and 176 00:17:49,160 --> 00:17:53,760 we never directly communicated with each other but she is quickly becoming one of my favorite 177 00:17:53,760 --> 00:18:00,640 people so a couple of years ago we were literally almost done loading up the transport van when 178 00:18:00,640 --> 00:18:07,280 Ollie my dog chased a mouse underneath the van either Ollie bit the wire or the mouse 179 00:18:07,280 --> 00:18:14,600 did but somehow the gas line was punctured and gas was spewing out everywhere there was 180 00:18:14,600 --> 00:18:18,800 zero chance we could drive the van even a few feet away from where it was parked next to 181 00:18:18,800 --> 00:18:23,640 my bedroom window let alone all the way to Knoxville we didn't know what we were going 182 00:18:23,640 --> 00:18:31,640 to do but we called Tasha and she runs a funeral home a couple towns owner over and they have 183 00:18:31,640 --> 00:18:38,200 a cargo van just like ours that they used to haul flowers around in it wasn't 30 minutes 184 00:18:38,200 --> 00:18:45,840 later despite her living 45 minutes away before she came flying over my hill pulling into 185 00:18:45,840 --> 00:18:51,440 my driveway on two wheels we had already gotten everyone off of the about to explode any minute 186 00:18:51,440 --> 00:18:57,800 van and quickly threw them all into Tasha's van my driver sped the whole way to Knoxville 187 00:18:57,800 --> 00:19:05,800 and we didn't even end up being late at the transfer oh and so she runs the funeral home 188 00:19:05,800 --> 00:19:13,640 this is what made me really like her one time we were loading a ridiculously heavy dog together 189 00:19:13,640 --> 00:19:21,000 into a crate and I'm huffing and puffing and I said whoa he is really heavy and Tasha 190 00:19:21,000 --> 00:19:26,880 looked at me straight in the eyes completely serious and said ain't heavier than a dead 191 00:19:26,880 --> 00:19:41,080 body who says that but I mean like she has to move dead bodies around all the time but 192 00:19:41,080 --> 00:19:49,480 it just made me cackle she was so serious she's so funny anyways that's Tasha I figured 193 00:19:49,480 --> 00:19:55,960 I should introduce you guys to Tasha after all these episodes but these are her babies 194 00:19:55,960 --> 00:20:01,840 so she said four puppies that were two weeks old were found dumped behind a local restaurant 195 00:20:01,840 --> 00:20:06,800 in 20 degree weather one had already frozen to death by the time we got the call she got 196 00:20:06,800 --> 00:20:11,160 called to try to find help and she could hear them screaming in the background on the phone 197 00:20:11,160 --> 00:20:15,960 they were starving they were cold so she went running around to get supplies to bottle feed 198 00:20:15,960 --> 00:20:20,840 them and get their temperature up and she is so thankful that these three survivors pulled 199 00:20:20,840 --> 00:20:30,040 through me too Tasha the d letter of six were posted on Facebook they had just been born 200 00:20:30,040 --> 00:20:33,680 in a responsible neighbor was trying to find a rescue to commit to the puppies when they 201 00:20:33,680 --> 00:20:37,760 were old enough to leave the mama when she found out that not only would we take all 202 00:20:37,760 --> 00:20:42,160 of the puppies but we would give her a spay voucher for the neighbors mama dog she said 203 00:20:42,160 --> 00:20:46,160 she would personally make sure these puppies were taken care of until transport and make 204 00:20:46,160 --> 00:20:55,160 sure that the mama got spayed the P letter of five are from hopes mom a few weeks ago 205 00:20:55,160 --> 00:20:59,840 hopes stepdad called her in a panic early one morning as he was leaving for work he 206 00:20:59,840 --> 00:21:04,640 and hopes mom have a very long driveway up to their house and someone had dropped this 207 00:21:04,640 --> 00:21:09,240 litter of five scruffy puppies off he's a lawyer and he was on his way to court and 208 00:21:09,240 --> 00:21:14,200 hope was on her way to an early morning doctor appointment so she called her mom and begged 209 00:21:14,200 --> 00:21:17,920 her to just please go to the end of the her driveway and get them before they all got 210 00:21:17,920 --> 00:21:23,600 run over hope promised her that she would find a foster but she knew when she got them 211 00:21:23,600 --> 00:21:27,520 back to the house she would let them stay and of course she was happy to take care of 212 00:21:27,520 --> 00:21:36,080 them until transport the S letter of six were posted on Facebook and everybody and their 213 00:21:36,080 --> 00:21:44,240 mama was tagged multiple times to get these puppies there were two fluffy puppies posted 214 00:21:44,240 --> 00:21:50,080 before any of us could respond 100 other people were begging for them including several other 215 00:21:50,080 --> 00:21:56,840 rescues so we all just figured we were too late to get them they had been brought into 216 00:21:56,840 --> 00:22:03,600 one of the local groomers who's also a breeder and the lady was asking her to help her find 217 00:22:03,600 --> 00:22:09,520 homes for them but as soon as hope messaged her she responded and told her that the two 218 00:22:09,520 --> 00:22:14,960 that were posted were going to a wonderful home that she knew and they would absolutely 219 00:22:14,960 --> 00:22:22,360 be spayed and neutered but then she said there's six more of them that you can have hope said 220 00:22:22,360 --> 00:22:28,880 we'll take them sight unseen next thing I know she sent me a picture of a tub full of 221 00:22:28,880 --> 00:22:35,160 fluffer balls and she was already on her way to go pick them up the mom is a registered 222 00:22:35,160 --> 00:22:40,480 golden retriever and the dad is the neighbor's great Pyrenees and they told us that he's 223 00:22:40,480 --> 00:22:47,480 an Eskimo spits but when we asked for a picture they sent us a picture of a purebred huge 224 00:22:47,480 --> 00:22:56,280 great Pyrenees the sea litter of 11 are owner surrenders she has like 40 dogs because she's 225 00:22:56,280 --> 00:23:03,240 quote unquote in rescue no she's not and was shocked when one of them got pregnant that's 226 00:23:03,240 --> 00:23:08,800 another one of Jessica's stories but this lady also has another pregnant mom and we 227 00:23:08,800 --> 00:23:13,400 are crossing our fingers that we can get her sent on transport soon before she has puppies 228 00:23:13,400 --> 00:23:25,080 down here on to the cats and oh boy what a catastrophe that was the bee family was supposed 229 00:23:25,080 --> 00:23:32,280 to be a mama cat and three eight week old kittens a stray cat had kittens in someone's 230 00:23:32,280 --> 00:23:37,520 boat shed and they messaged us this week to take them Jessica actually texted me last 231 00:23:37,520 --> 00:23:42,520 night and said I'm curious to see what kind of people these are when they show up tomorrow 232 00:23:42,520 --> 00:23:50,520 will we look at them and think you have a boat shed well we absolutely did the husband 233 00:23:50,520 --> 00:23:58,880 showed up with one of these like soft mesh cat carriers with all four cats inside cats 234 00:23:58,880 --> 00:24:04,440 these kittens these eight week old kittens are probably like four months old so he gets 235 00:24:04,440 --> 00:24:12,400 out of his super loud super huge truck and goes oh no these are super chill cats unzips 236 00:24:12,400 --> 00:24:20,560 it just the tiniest bit and like a can of worms they all four come jumping out he managed 237 00:24:20,560 --> 00:24:25,040 to close one of the kittens back up in the mesh bag Jessica caught one of the kittens 238 00:24:25,040 --> 00:24:31,720 and threw it into our crate but the mom and the third kitten took off so I was following 239 00:24:31,720 --> 00:24:36,480 the kitten but it ran underneath my shed and it went so far back that I couldn't reach 240 00:24:36,480 --> 00:24:43,320 it so I laid there in the mud begging it just just to come a little bit closer and I could 241 00:24:43,320 --> 00:24:48,320 hear the man all the way down the driveway handing the remaining kitten to Jessica and 242 00:24:48,320 --> 00:24:56,480 saying alright thanks ladies bye just just left but before he closed his truck door he 243 00:24:56,480 --> 00:25:02,080 said if y'all shake a bag of food they'll probably come back well I lay there a little 244 00:25:02,080 --> 00:25:08,800 longer offering to sell my soul if it would just come out because I could not deal with 245 00:25:08,800 --> 00:25:13,400 yet another missing cat Jessica ran to get a bag of cat food and brought it over to me 246 00:25:13,400 --> 00:25:16,920 when I sprinkled just a little bit on the ground under the shed right where I could 247 00:25:16,920 --> 00:25:23,640 reach it came running to me I grabbed it up headed straight for the garage because I knew 248 00:25:23,640 --> 00:25:29,560 we just we needed a minute just to snuggle and love on each other before I tossed it 249 00:25:29,560 --> 00:25:35,720 into the crate with its siblings and I was also so hoping that the mom had run into the 250 00:25:35,720 --> 00:25:41,640 garage and the chaos just to hide and that she would come out if she saw the baby but 251 00:25:41,640 --> 00:25:47,560 no luck we did tell all of our neighbors and it's a very cat friendly neighborhood the 252 00:25:47,560 --> 00:25:53,560 barn across the street from the doghouse has 40 cats at last count probably more than that 253 00:25:53,560 --> 00:25:58,240 and the lady takes fantastic care of them so we're confident that she's going to turn 254 00:25:58,240 --> 00:26:03,200 up when things settle down tonight she's a very friendly cat so I really think we'll 255 00:26:03,200 --> 00:26:10,400 get her back in the next few days zingers three kittens from another litter were posted 256 00:26:10,400 --> 00:26:15,240 on Facebook Hope commented and the next thing we knew the person was messaging us saying 257 00:26:15,240 --> 00:26:20,400 that the adorable kittens that we were offering to take were basically feral but that they 258 00:26:20,400 --> 00:26:26,560 were working on catching them oh but by the way their mama who is not pictured is very 259 00:26:26,560 --> 00:26:31,520 very pregnant so we sent her to a foster down here just to keep her until we could get around 260 00:26:31,520 --> 00:26:36,840 transport for a few days so that we knew these kids wouldn't end up feral and in the meantime 261 00:26:36,840 --> 00:26:41,280 the homeowners are trying to trap the three babies so that they can come up on a future 262 00:26:41,280 --> 00:26:48,280 transport opera man showed up at an apartment in town and hung out for a few weeks before 263 00:26:48,280 --> 00:26:53,200 someone eventually took him in and asked us to help he was at the doghouse for a month 264 00:26:53,200 --> 00:26:56,800 and he's been the sweetest cat we're really sad that he's leaving because we all do like 265 00:26:56,800 --> 00:27:04,760 him but he loves attention so we're really excited that he's gonna have a family the 266 00:27:04,760 --> 00:27:09,520 J litter of two kittens came from a young kid in Oxford that was giving them away on 267 00:27:09,520 --> 00:27:19,000 Facebook and that is all the stories for the animals that are on the van this week but I 268 00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:24,400 do want to tell you one more story about a dog who's not on the van and I did debate 269 00:27:24,400 --> 00:27:33,120 telling it because I do need to include a trigger warning for self harm so this is all the stories 270 00:27:33,120 --> 00:27:39,240 for this episode you can just end this now if you do not want to hear the next story 271 00:27:39,240 --> 00:27:46,400 this animal is not on the van and is not coming up so it's not a pertinent story but it is 272 00:27:46,400 --> 00:27:51,680 such a sad and sweet and crazy story and I can't stop thinking about it and I just want 273 00:27:51,680 --> 00:27:59,040 y'all to know it too so on the last transport we had the D litter for that came from the 274 00:27:59,040 --> 00:28:04,480 same home we pulled Homer from a few years ago if you missed that story you can go back 275 00:28:04,480 --> 00:28:10,560 and listen to it it's on the cutesy name episode but it's really not important to the story 276 00:28:10,560 --> 00:28:15,760 while Jessica was picking those four puppies up though there was a house either next door 277 00:28:15,760 --> 00:28:22,600 or across the street that had burnt to the ground the night before we found out that 278 00:28:22,600 --> 00:28:27,520 it was an elderly man who lived there alone with one dog who he loved more than anything 279 00:28:27,520 --> 00:28:31,400 he took this dog everywhere he went and he would just leave her in his truck if she 280 00:28:31,400 --> 00:28:38,160 wasn't allowed to go in with him they were never apart well the old man had stage four 281 00:28:38,160 --> 00:28:43,400 terminal cancer and was in a lot of pain I don't know if he was doing treatments or 282 00:28:43,400 --> 00:28:49,440 if he was just sent home on pain management but it became too much for him and the other 283 00:28:49,440 --> 00:28:55,400 night he took his dog outside he poured a full 50 pound bag of food on the ground for 284 00:28:55,400 --> 00:29:04,000 her went back inside and set his house on fire he unfortunately or fortunately if you 285 00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:10,560 want to look at it that way passed away in the fire the dog of course was terrified just 286 00:29:10,560 --> 00:29:16,200 from being outside and away from the owner plus the fire trucks and all the commotion 287 00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:22,240 she was just running from everyone like crazy and then just ran off and hit we were asked 288 00:29:22,240 --> 00:29:29,280 to take her and are you kidding me I would have taken a man eating lion with a story 289 00:29:29,280 --> 00:29:37,120 like this it completely broke me so Jessica went by to pick her up the next day and couldn't 290 00:29:37,120 --> 00:29:41,120 even get close to her the other neighbors who were the ones who had asked us to take 291 00:29:41,120 --> 00:29:45,760 her were out there trying to help catch her to apparently they were good friends with 292 00:29:45,760 --> 00:29:50,000 the owner and thus thought they were good friends with this dog but they weren't able 293 00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:57,040 to catch her with all the chaos either so they said she wasn't eating she hardly ever 294 00:29:57,040 --> 00:30:02,280 laid down and rested she was always just running and pacing and you could just tell that her 295 00:30:02,280 --> 00:30:07,880 world was shattered and she had no idea what to do anymore Jessica tried for a little bit 296 00:30:07,880 --> 00:30:11,240 and then eventually just left because she could tell she was just stressing her out 297 00:30:11,240 --> 00:30:17,640 even more everybody else left or just went inside their house to accept the man from 298 00:30:17,640 --> 00:30:24,120 next door he sat out there with her for hours just waiting silently for her to come up to 299 00:30:24,120 --> 00:30:29,000 him and when she did he put her leash on her and he brought her into his house with his 300 00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:35,400 wife the dog walked in immediately started eating the food that they had put out for her 301 00:30:35,400 --> 00:30:44,440 and then curled up in a ball and fell asleep for hours for hours and hours she slept so 302 00:30:44,440 --> 00:30:50,040 the wife called to tell us that they had caught her but then said yeah there's no way we can 303 00:30:50,040 --> 00:30:54,920 give her to you now though she's staying with us for good we are going to make sure she goes 304 00:30:54,920 --> 00:31:01,160 everywhere she can with us for the rest of her life and you'll know I hate local adoptions 305 00:31:01,160 --> 00:31:08,600 I want to get every dog out of here as fast as possible but this one I'll allow this one 306 00:31:08,600 --> 00:31:16,280 that is the sweetest and most terrible thing I've heard in a long time and I hope so so badly 307 00:31:16,280 --> 00:31:22,680 that wherever this owner is he's whole again and pain-free and can see that his neighbors 308 00:31:22,680 --> 00:31:28,760 cared about him so much that they're gonna make sure his dog has the best life until she comes 309 00:31:28,760 --> 00:31:39,240 home to him again so now that we're all crying I'm gonna sign off on here I love y'all so much 310 00:31:39,960 --> 00:31:45,880 thank you for the ratings for the reviews for the subscriptions for caring enough to even listen to 311 00:31:45,880 --> 00:32:01,800 this and wanting to know what's going on down here it's a ruff life but someone's gotta do it