1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:13,280 Hello friends, welcome to Ruff Life. 2 00:00:13,280 --> 00:00:17,520 I actually got a lot of good feedback about last week's episode and that everyone really 3 00:00:17,520 --> 00:00:22,920 liked hearing the drama going on down here with the Alabama Shelter and our mayor. 4 00:00:22,920 --> 00:00:25,760 So I just wanted to give a little follow up on that. 5 00:00:25,760 --> 00:00:29,240 I did not go to the protest. 6 00:00:29,240 --> 00:00:33,640 I know a lot of you were concerned that I may have been arrested when you saw my post 7 00:00:33,640 --> 00:00:40,200 on the Fosters Facebook page asking for a lawyer, but I was not arrested. 8 00:00:40,200 --> 00:00:44,760 I was just needing help sending a cease and desist to someone. 9 00:00:44,760 --> 00:00:50,120 I didn't go to the protest A because I forgot about it, but B because they had originally 10 00:00:50,120 --> 00:00:56,560 said that it was going to be a peaceful and silent protest and shocker to no one I cannot 11 00:00:56,560 --> 00:00:57,560 be silent. 12 00:00:57,560 --> 00:01:02,760 But it turned out it was actually a city council meeting and everyone was given the 13 00:01:02,760 --> 00:01:05,840 opportunity to speak at the podium for five minutes. 14 00:01:05,840 --> 00:01:08,360 And are you kidding me? 15 00:01:08,360 --> 00:01:09,520 That's like my dream. 16 00:01:09,520 --> 00:01:11,360 I would have crushed it. 17 00:01:11,360 --> 00:01:15,200 Give me a mic and a captive audience and I would be in my glory. 18 00:01:15,200 --> 00:01:18,360 I am so disappointed that I didn't go. 19 00:01:18,360 --> 00:01:21,320 It got so heated though and so intense. 20 00:01:21,320 --> 00:01:24,360 I watched the live feed of everything going down. 21 00:01:24,360 --> 00:01:28,440 The mayor was there, his wife was there, all the volunteers for the shelter and animal 22 00:01:28,440 --> 00:01:34,640 rescuers from even other towns came just to tell the mayor how ridiculous this is. 23 00:01:34,640 --> 00:01:39,920 So if you didn't listen to last week's episode or if you just forgot, the mayor said that 24 00:01:39,920 --> 00:01:44,520 he would not be allowing the shelter to transport animals to rescues anymore. 25 00:01:44,520 --> 00:01:47,240 They couldn't work with rescues at all. 26 00:01:47,240 --> 00:01:50,160 And thus animals were going to have to be euthanized. 27 00:01:50,160 --> 00:01:57,440 So of course he immediately started back peddling this week and was like, well, I never said 28 00:01:57,440 --> 00:02:00,800 that the animals were going to be euthanized. 29 00:02:00,800 --> 00:02:06,720 But like if you take away transport rescues, there's no other option because there's so 30 00:02:06,720 --> 00:02:08,960 few local adoptions. 31 00:02:08,960 --> 00:02:12,800 So people were just eating him alive at this city hall meeting. 32 00:02:12,800 --> 00:02:17,800 I mean, one guy even got up there and was like, I don't know you and I'm glad I don't 33 00:02:17,800 --> 00:02:21,560 know you, you're a terrible person. 34 00:02:21,560 --> 00:02:26,360 I think I'm actually gonna like take some screen recordings of the meeting because it 35 00:02:26,360 --> 00:02:29,160 was like a two and a half hour long thing. 36 00:02:29,160 --> 00:02:33,440 I think I'm gonna record some of it and maybe post it on the Rough Life Instagram page or 37 00:02:33,440 --> 00:02:39,680 something because some of the things these people said were unhinged and I loved it. 38 00:02:39,680 --> 00:02:41,240 And I know y'all will too. 39 00:02:41,240 --> 00:02:46,280 It was like 1am, my entire house was asleep and I am like under the blankets watching 40 00:02:46,280 --> 00:02:50,400 this in bed having to cover my mouth and be like, yeah, I'll get him. 41 00:02:50,400 --> 00:02:54,280 Oh, and then the mayor's wife got up there and almost got thrown out because she was 42 00:02:54,280 --> 00:02:59,280 so hateful to the people in the audience that were speaking out against her husband. 43 00:02:59,280 --> 00:03:01,960 Anyways, we do have a resolution. 44 00:03:01,960 --> 00:03:03,720 Something good has come from this. 45 00:03:03,720 --> 00:03:08,800 I don't know why he never said this from the get go because I do want 100% understand 46 00:03:08,800 --> 00:03:13,440 his point, but he never he never said this until literally yesterday. 47 00:03:13,440 --> 00:03:19,120 He said for the first time, the reason that they weren't able to use the two transport 48 00:03:19,120 --> 00:03:24,640 vans that were donated to the city shelter for transporting animals was because they 49 00:03:24,640 --> 00:03:30,080 were being driven by people who were not city workers and it was a liability 100%. 50 00:03:30,080 --> 00:03:32,200 So he was saying no more transports. 51 00:03:32,200 --> 00:03:36,320 You can't use the vans anymore and everyone was like, well, what do you want us to do 52 00:03:36,320 --> 00:03:37,320 with them? 53 00:03:37,320 --> 00:03:41,440 Like if we can't drive the van to take the animals to the vet or take the animals, you 54 00:03:41,440 --> 00:03:45,640 know, out of state to meet the rescue, what are the vans for? 55 00:03:45,640 --> 00:03:48,960 So then he was saying that people just needed to do it in their personal vehicles. 56 00:03:48,960 --> 00:03:54,340 Well, you can only fit so many animals in your Ford Focus and nobody wants to take a 57 00:03:54,340 --> 00:03:59,120 gushing blood hit by a car dying dog to the vet and their brand new Tesla. 58 00:03:59,120 --> 00:04:02,560 I'm not that anyone who even volunteers at the shelter would drive a Tesla. 59 00:04:02,560 --> 00:04:04,960 I don't even think anybody in our town drives a Tesla. 60 00:04:04,960 --> 00:04:08,280 That's just the only fancy car I could think of on the spot. 61 00:04:08,280 --> 00:04:14,480 Anyways, he ended up saying that the city would so generously donate one of the vehicles 62 00:04:14,480 --> 00:04:17,080 to a nonprofit that works with the shelter. 63 00:04:17,080 --> 00:04:23,280 So it's like a friends of the shelter nonprofit, not the actual animal shelter so that people 64 00:04:23,280 --> 00:04:26,720 can drive it and use it for whatever they needed to, but it's not a liability for the 65 00:04:26,720 --> 00:04:30,000 city, which again, I 100% agree with. 66 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:35,120 Like if this is a city owned vehicle, you cannot just be letting some Joe Schmo drive 67 00:04:35,120 --> 00:04:36,360 it to Wisconsin and back. 68 00:04:36,360 --> 00:04:40,280 That's 100% a liability and he's right, but he never said that. 69 00:04:40,280 --> 00:04:43,840 And if that was the case from the get go, which I don't think it was, I think he just 70 00:04:43,840 --> 00:04:48,360 pulled this out of his butt last minute because he was like, Hey, they might listen to this. 71 00:04:48,360 --> 00:04:53,000 Why wasn't he like, listen, we just need to pause transports for the next few days until 72 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:55,100 we figure out a workaround. 73 00:04:55,100 --> 00:04:59,320 Even though I knew this was going on for the last 15 years and didn't have a problem with 74 00:04:59,320 --> 00:05:00,320 it. 75 00:05:00,320 --> 00:05:02,520 Oh, and the director got fired over it. 76 00:05:02,520 --> 00:05:07,160 He ended up giving her a job back and everything was fine, but still like that's really uncalled 77 00:05:07,160 --> 00:05:11,760 for to fire someone for doing their job or doing what they think is their job and something 78 00:05:11,760 --> 00:05:16,720 that they've been doing for 15 years and no one's bad an eye over it. 79 00:05:16,720 --> 00:05:20,440 I think he just took the side of the disgruntled volunteer and was like, Yeah, we'll shut it 80 00:05:20,440 --> 00:05:21,440 down. 81 00:05:21,440 --> 00:05:25,320 And then when he realized how much backlash he got from this and how he was absolutely 82 00:05:25,320 --> 00:05:30,800 not going to be reelected next term over this, he really started back peddling and 83 00:05:30,800 --> 00:05:34,320 tried to say face and was like, Whoa, whoa, whoa. 84 00:05:34,320 --> 00:05:36,280 It was just a liability. 85 00:05:36,280 --> 00:05:39,840 I love the animals, but the damage is done. 86 00:05:39,840 --> 00:05:41,240 I hope the damage is done. 87 00:05:41,240 --> 00:05:46,760 Anyways, we need a new mayor after this because this was disappointing to say the least, but 88 00:05:46,760 --> 00:05:48,160 the shelters back up and running. 89 00:05:48,160 --> 00:05:49,960 The director was reinstated. 90 00:05:49,960 --> 00:05:55,600 The mayor and his wife showed their true colors and I did not get arrested. 91 00:05:55,600 --> 00:05:58,440 And I found out what a bunch of fosters for Wolf Trap do for a living. 92 00:05:58,440 --> 00:06:02,600 So I will definitely be keeping that in my bag pocket next time. 93 00:06:02,600 --> 00:06:08,680 I'm needing a therapist or a police officer or a dog trainer or a landscaper or baker 94 00:06:08,680 --> 00:06:09,680 speech pathologist. 95 00:06:09,680 --> 00:06:13,960 I mean, we had dozens of other jobs that was a very interesting to hear what you guys 96 00:06:13,960 --> 00:06:15,640 do. 97 00:06:15,640 --> 00:06:19,080 But onto today's transport. 98 00:06:19,080 --> 00:06:21,720 It's been a long time since we had a Sunday transport. 99 00:06:21,720 --> 00:06:29,960 I think I think the only one we've ever done was Easter 2022, the cookie theme transport. 100 00:06:29,960 --> 00:06:35,560 This was a really good excuse though for us to get up at the absolute butt crack of dawn 101 00:06:35,560 --> 00:06:40,440 today and go to my hometown church to surprise my mom and my grandmother. 102 00:06:40,440 --> 00:06:45,760 I haven't been to my hometown congregation since Justin and I got married mainly because 103 00:06:45,760 --> 00:06:49,960 they changed worship time to 930 in the morning. 104 00:06:49,960 --> 00:06:52,720 I think Jesus would have had something to say about that. 105 00:06:52,720 --> 00:06:57,400 But also because it's a 90 minute drive and I really love our home congregation here in 106 00:06:57,400 --> 00:06:58,400 Alabama. 107 00:06:58,400 --> 00:07:03,440 But anyways, no one at our church has gotten to meet Mary Sue yet and I love any excuse 108 00:07:03,440 --> 00:07:06,600 to buy me and Mary Sue new matching dresses. 109 00:07:06,600 --> 00:07:11,880 So we got up at like 615 this morning to make it happen. 110 00:07:11,880 --> 00:07:17,160 And that's like real life morning time for morning people. 111 00:07:17,160 --> 00:07:20,920 It's basically middle of the night for me because I stay up late and I sleep late every 112 00:07:20,920 --> 00:07:21,920 day. 113 00:07:21,920 --> 00:07:26,880 It was I was actually up until 2 30 last night just trying to get everything ready today. 114 00:07:26,880 --> 00:07:32,400 So we were struggle busing it today. 115 00:07:32,400 --> 00:07:35,400 This transport might be one of my favorite ones we've ever done though. 116 00:07:35,400 --> 00:07:37,840 The theme is children's books. 117 00:07:37,840 --> 00:07:44,640 We've done children's books characters before but we've never done just children's books. 118 00:07:44,640 --> 00:07:50,080 Not that I don't love all the dogs on all the transports but I always feel a closer 119 00:07:50,080 --> 00:07:55,480 bond with the adults than like the litter of 11 random puppies that I don't know anything 120 00:07:55,480 --> 00:07:56,480 about. 121 00:07:56,480 --> 00:07:59,720 So I love the fact that this was mostly adults. 122 00:07:59,720 --> 00:08:03,560 This transport started off just being one nursing mom and dog and three pregnant dogs 123 00:08:03,560 --> 00:08:12,840 but because of our insanely amazing fosters and Jacqueline going on a yes spree and all 124 00:08:12,840 --> 00:08:18,560 three pregnant dogs giving birth and ended up being four nursing moms, one mom with a 125 00:08:18,560 --> 00:08:24,520 litter of older puppies, two single adult dogs and four cats. 126 00:08:24,520 --> 00:08:25,520 Love it. 127 00:08:25,520 --> 00:08:28,000 I loved this transport. 128 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:32,080 Let's get into their story so because it's a lot. 129 00:08:32,080 --> 00:08:38,480 Charlie and the chocolate factory was added as a surprise for the first time ever not 130 00:08:38,480 --> 00:08:42,360 a surprise to the Virginia team on the receiving end. 131 00:08:42,360 --> 00:08:48,320 We've had many of those but as a surprise to the Wolf Drap South team on the sending 132 00:08:48,320 --> 00:08:49,640 end. 133 00:08:49,640 --> 00:08:51,960 This is my stepbrother's dog. 134 00:08:51,960 --> 00:08:56,200 He had absolutely no business getting a puppy when he had just filled a house and has three 135 00:08:56,200 --> 00:09:02,440 small children but as the dummy he is he got a puppy and he regretted it since day one. 136 00:09:02,440 --> 00:09:08,040 Charlie has run away from home causing a massive search through their neighborhood, pulled 137 00:09:08,040 --> 00:09:12,480 up the freshly laid sod he had just put down, tore the gutters off the house, knocked the 138 00:09:12,480 --> 00:09:15,720 kids off their bikes while they were playing, bit a hole in the basketball they used for 139 00:09:15,720 --> 00:09:16,720 practice. 140 00:09:16,720 --> 00:09:17,720 You name it. 141 00:09:17,720 --> 00:09:18,720 He's done it. 142 00:09:18,720 --> 00:09:19,720 He's had no training. 143 00:09:19,720 --> 00:09:25,200 He had never been in a house but they have at the very least kept him up to date on his 144 00:09:25,200 --> 00:09:29,320 vaccines which they only knew to do because my mother talks about all the sick puppies 145 00:09:29,320 --> 00:09:31,120 we get all the time. 146 00:09:31,120 --> 00:09:35,840 Anyways my mother has loved this dog from the day they brought it home. 147 00:09:35,840 --> 00:09:41,040 She brings him treats, toys, beds, brings it to her house when it's below freezing and 148 00:09:41,040 --> 00:09:43,400 bites him over to play when the kids come. 149 00:09:43,400 --> 00:09:49,560 She has tried so so hard to teach this dog how to be a good and normal and lovable dog 150 00:09:49,560 --> 00:09:51,440 because she knew. 151 00:09:51,440 --> 00:09:52,640 From day one she knew. 152 00:09:52,640 --> 00:09:59,640 It may be weeks, it may be months, it may be years but they will ask us to take him and 153 00:09:59,640 --> 00:10:04,280 send him to Wolf Drap and when they do he needs to be an adoptable dog. 154 00:10:04,280 --> 00:10:05,800 It's sure enough. 155 00:10:05,800 --> 00:10:09,320 Right before the last cold spell hit they told my mom they wanted to get rid of Charlie 156 00:10:09,320 --> 00:10:11,000 because they just didn't have time for him. 157 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:14,880 The kids don't like him because he jumps on them and it was just getting too cold too 158 00:10:14,880 --> 00:10:15,880 often. 159 00:10:15,880 --> 00:10:20,920 So my mom went that night, picked him up and brought him home before they could change 160 00:10:20,920 --> 00:10:21,920 their minds. 161 00:10:21,920 --> 00:10:25,520 She took him to the vet the next morning to be neutered and then paid to board him there 162 00:10:25,520 --> 00:10:29,640 when it was so insanely cold so that he could recover. 163 00:10:29,640 --> 00:10:33,960 She was going to keep fostering him but we actually needed her to take a different litter 164 00:10:33,960 --> 00:10:35,920 so we sent him to one of our other foster's. 165 00:10:35,920 --> 00:10:41,240 He's done fabulous there but he had to be created a lot which he did not love because 166 00:10:41,240 --> 00:10:45,400 he's used to having like the entire outdoors to roam whenever he wanted but he's been 167 00:10:45,400 --> 00:10:50,520 really good, really sweet with them, not destructive, not knocking the children down and he seems 168 00:10:50,520 --> 00:10:51,520 potty trained. 169 00:10:51,520 --> 00:10:55,520 They could only keep him for a week though so then we sent him to Doggy Daycare and 170 00:10:55,520 --> 00:10:59,240 my poor mother has asked every single day. 171 00:10:59,240 --> 00:11:00,520 Sometimes multiple times a day. 172 00:11:00,520 --> 00:11:01,520 How is Charlie doing? 173 00:11:01,520 --> 00:11:02,520 Is Charlie being good? 174 00:11:02,520 --> 00:11:03,520 Do people like him? 175 00:11:03,520 --> 00:11:04,520 Are dogs being sweet? 176 00:11:04,520 --> 00:11:05,520 Is he happy? 177 00:11:05,520 --> 00:11:06,520 Is he going to Virginia? 178 00:11:06,520 --> 00:11:07,520 When can he go to Virginia? 179 00:11:07,520 --> 00:11:08,520 Who will take him in Virginia? 180 00:11:08,520 --> 00:11:09,520 Non-stop! 181 00:11:09,520 --> 00:11:14,280 I told her there was absolutely no way he would go on this transport because there were just 182 00:11:14,280 --> 00:11:18,960 too many adults in the system already plus it's a mom and me transport and he ain't a 183 00:11:18,960 --> 00:11:26,800 mama but then on a whim I pitched it to Jacqueline and I played the stage four terminal cancer 184 00:11:26,800 --> 00:11:32,040 card because it is unfair that my mom has so many other things to be stressing out about 185 00:11:32,040 --> 00:11:36,480 but instead she's constantly worrying about someone else's dog and how she can make his 186 00:11:36,480 --> 00:11:37,480 life better. 187 00:11:37,480 --> 00:11:43,640 Oh and her husband, my stepbrother's father also has stage four cancer so they just, they're 188 00:11:43,640 --> 00:11:46,720 a mess right now and they don't need this on their plates too. 189 00:11:46,720 --> 00:11:52,480 So I pitched him to Jacqueline and in a moment of weakness she says fine but only if you 190 00:11:52,480 --> 00:11:57,480 can find a foster for him maybe Catherine McClure will take him. 191 00:11:57,480 --> 00:12:00,400 I was on that like white on rice. 192 00:12:00,400 --> 00:12:06,720 Now I'm not going to say that the McClure's are my favorite fosters because I might need 193 00:12:06,720 --> 00:12:11,160 to use that line to get someone else to foster for me down the road and I cannot have proof 194 00:12:11,160 --> 00:12:14,320 out there that I've said it about someone else before. 195 00:12:14,320 --> 00:12:20,920 But let me just tell you, the McClure family are the only people from Virginia that have 196 00:12:20,920 --> 00:12:25,960 been to my house down here to visit me and I do love them dearly. 197 00:12:25,960 --> 00:12:30,560 I love them enough that I'm not scared to cold text them out of nowhere and play the stage 198 00:12:30,560 --> 00:12:35,800 four terminal cancer card despite Catherine also being a breast cancer survivor herself 199 00:12:35,800 --> 00:12:38,680 and also not needing more stress in her life. 200 00:12:38,680 --> 00:12:42,360 But like always they came through for me. 201 00:12:42,360 --> 00:12:46,200 Now are they going to pick him up tomorrow morning and return him tomorrow evening because 202 00:12:46,200 --> 00:12:47,480 he's so awful? 203 00:12:47,480 --> 00:12:52,200 That I don't know but I do know that'll be Jacqueline's problem not mine. 204 00:12:52,200 --> 00:12:57,880 Oh, but so back to my mother, she had no idea that he was leaving today. 205 00:12:57,880 --> 00:13:01,400 She thought we were making her pick him up from doggy daycare this morning because they 206 00:13:01,400 --> 00:13:04,200 wouldn't be able to keep him any longer because he was terrible. 207 00:13:04,200 --> 00:13:05,200 Really he was fantastic. 208 00:13:05,200 --> 00:13:09,320 They had no problem keeping him and that we were struggling to find another foster friend. 209 00:13:09,320 --> 00:13:11,000 We didn't know what we were going to do. 210 00:13:11,000 --> 00:13:17,840 I was so excited to bring him out during transport and surprise her and tell her it's actually 211 00:13:17,840 --> 00:13:19,160 getting his freedom ride. 212 00:13:19,160 --> 00:13:21,160 You don't have to worry about him anymore. 213 00:13:21,160 --> 00:13:26,040 I even recorded it because I thought this would be some big like what? 214 00:13:26,040 --> 00:13:30,120 No, this is the best news I've ever heard video. 215 00:13:30,120 --> 00:13:32,720 No, that's not at all how it happened. 216 00:13:32,720 --> 00:13:39,280 In true Becky Nelms fashion she was more upset with me and Jessica for lying to her for the 217 00:13:39,280 --> 00:13:43,240 last 24 hours than she was happy that he was going. 218 00:13:43,240 --> 00:13:46,680 And then she called me a jerk for trying to trick her. 219 00:13:46,680 --> 00:13:52,360 I will definitely be posting it so you can see all the abuse I endure down here. 220 00:13:52,360 --> 00:13:58,800 Oh, but my stepbrother has promised to never get another dog again. 221 00:13:58,800 --> 00:14:04,240 I've loved you since forever was found as a stray on my road but far enough down that 222 00:14:04,240 --> 00:14:07,720 I don't know if she was meant for me or our veterinarian. 223 00:14:07,720 --> 00:14:12,400 Did I tell you that the town's veterinarian lives on the same road as the doghouse? 224 00:14:12,400 --> 00:14:14,760 We are drop off central. 225 00:14:14,760 --> 00:14:15,760 Okay. 226 00:14:15,760 --> 00:14:20,120 Anyways, she was dumped but someone else noticed her wandering around for a few days. 227 00:14:20,120 --> 00:14:26,040 Actually coincidentally, the girl who found him, her dad used to be my transport driver. 228 00:14:26,040 --> 00:14:30,680 So we've got the Wolf Trap headquarters, the vet and the transport driver all on the same 229 00:14:30,680 --> 00:14:33,440 road. 230 00:14:33,440 --> 00:14:37,960 His adult daughter found her and posted on Facebook looking for an owner, took her to 231 00:14:37,960 --> 00:14:42,080 the vet, didn't have a chip, asked around for several weeks if anyone recognized her. 232 00:14:42,080 --> 00:14:47,800 And then finally asked me and Jessica if we would take her, which ironically was the same 233 00:14:47,800 --> 00:14:53,600 day we sent Scout, the male golden retriever on transport. 234 00:14:53,600 --> 00:14:57,960 So we had about like 50 million people and their mothers all asking if they could adopt 235 00:14:57,960 --> 00:15:02,080 him and I knew that this one wouldn't be a problem to find a home for either. 236 00:15:02,080 --> 00:15:11,920 So Scout went to one of my OOG fosters like I'm talking way back in the heyday of Wolf 237 00:15:11,920 --> 00:15:17,640 Trap, a one from actual day one, Kelly Epps. 238 00:15:17,640 --> 00:15:23,360 I don't know if she knows this, but what made her stick out to me and my mom down here the 239 00:15:23,360 --> 00:15:27,800 most so you know, we don't actually like know you guys, we just know you on Facebook and 240 00:15:27,800 --> 00:15:30,660 your Facebook profile pictures and things like that. 241 00:15:30,660 --> 00:15:36,000 How we remember Kelly though is because a picture was posted during intake one day when 242 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:39,520 intakes were done outside of PetSmart in the parking lot. 243 00:15:39,520 --> 00:15:45,760 When Kelly was wearing the same kind of shorts my mom wears, which no offense Kelly, but 244 00:15:45,760 --> 00:15:49,280 are not like the hip and popular trendy shorts. 245 00:15:49,280 --> 00:15:56,340 So this was like very much like, hey, my mom has those shorts, and she had on the same 246 00:15:56,340 --> 00:15:58,200 shoes as my mom. 247 00:15:58,200 --> 00:16:02,320 So all you could see in this picture was her waist down and I sent it to my mom and I was 248 00:16:02,320 --> 00:16:04,960 like, is this you? 249 00:16:04,960 --> 00:16:07,560 Did you go to Virginia this morning? 250 00:16:07,560 --> 00:16:11,720 Like we could not believe how identical their legs looked. 251 00:16:11,720 --> 00:16:17,240 So now anytime we're talking about her, we say, Kelly, you know, with your legs, you 252 00:16:17,240 --> 00:16:20,680 remember the girl who has your legs, Kelly. 253 00:16:20,680 --> 00:16:25,320 Anyways, we've always loved and remembered Kelly for this. 254 00:16:25,320 --> 00:16:33,600 But also, if you're an OOG too, you may remember my viral, we're dying post from early 2019. 255 00:16:33,600 --> 00:16:35,480 It was puppy season. 256 00:16:35,480 --> 00:16:36,480 We were slammed. 257 00:16:36,480 --> 00:16:39,440 I was crying every day. 258 00:16:39,440 --> 00:16:47,320 And I posted about it and Wolf Shrap literally flocked to my aid, covered me in encouragement, 259 00:16:47,320 --> 00:16:53,600 buried me alive in dog food and other supplies, shut down the town's post office for an entire 260 00:16:53,600 --> 00:16:58,800 day because we had so many packages they couldn't get through mine to get to other people. 261 00:16:58,800 --> 00:17:05,480 It was truly one of the most incredible experiences of my life and I will never forget it as long 262 00:17:05,480 --> 00:17:07,560 as I live. 263 00:17:07,560 --> 00:17:12,240 One of the dogs pictured in that viral post was our girl Bonnie. 264 00:17:12,240 --> 00:17:14,800 Truly, the sweetest soul. 265 00:17:14,800 --> 00:17:16,840 This was not her first life. 266 00:17:16,840 --> 00:17:20,000 She just knew how to act in any situation. 267 00:17:20,000 --> 00:17:24,120 She was the goodest good girl. 268 00:17:24,120 --> 00:17:29,800 One of my rescue besties, Kelly, who tragically passed away in a car wreck not long after 269 00:17:29,800 --> 00:17:34,800 this, spent five hours under an abandoned house trying to convince Bonnie and her only 270 00:17:34,800 --> 00:17:36,600 surviving puppy to come out. 271 00:17:36,600 --> 00:17:44,280 Kelly had no life, 1000 bug bites of all different kinds covering her whole body from this adventure 272 00:17:44,280 --> 00:17:45,800 she had been on. 273 00:17:45,800 --> 00:17:47,280 But she got her. 274 00:17:47,280 --> 00:17:51,680 Kelly saw my post with Bonnie's picture and the first thing she said was, I want her. 275 00:17:51,680 --> 00:17:56,840 To my knowledge, which could be completely wrong, but as best I can remember, Kelly wasn't 276 00:17:56,840 --> 00:17:59,840 really our go to dog foster. 277 00:17:59,840 --> 00:18:05,620 She may have my mom's legs, but she did not have my mom's heart for fostering dogs. 278 00:18:05,620 --> 00:18:08,160 She fostered some puppies, but she mainly stuck with cats. 279 00:18:08,160 --> 00:18:10,160 She was our cat foster. 280 00:18:10,160 --> 00:18:14,200 So no one really thought anything would come of her fostering Bonnie. 281 00:18:14,200 --> 00:18:15,200 She's not going to foster fail. 282 00:18:15,200 --> 00:18:19,640 I even told her she couldn't foster fail because she didn't let dogs on the furniture. 283 00:18:19,640 --> 00:18:23,040 And I had promised Bonnie that she could live in a house where she would sleep on the couch 284 00:18:23,040 --> 00:18:25,040 whenever she wanted. 285 00:18:25,040 --> 00:18:28,080 Long story short, she foster failed. 286 00:18:28,080 --> 00:18:32,400 They were the absolute most perfect family for her. 287 00:18:32,400 --> 00:18:37,600 She broke their one rule about being allowed on the furniture and she got to live out my 288 00:18:37,600 --> 00:18:38,720 promise to her. 289 00:18:38,720 --> 00:18:45,080 So when Kelly commented on scouts post the other day saying she would foster him, I told 290 00:18:45,080 --> 00:18:50,560 Jacqueline we had to let Kelly have him because she hasn't fostered her dogs since she adopted 291 00:18:50,560 --> 00:18:51,560 Bonnie. 292 00:18:51,560 --> 00:18:54,640 And maybe she's looking for a friend for Bonnie after all these years. 293 00:18:54,640 --> 00:18:59,240 She had fostered in years, but she was still sending us donations literally every single 294 00:18:59,240 --> 00:19:01,800 time I make a post asking for help. 295 00:19:01,800 --> 00:19:03,440 She reads all of my stories. 296 00:19:03,440 --> 00:19:08,360 She almost always comments the most uplifting and encouraging things. 297 00:19:08,360 --> 00:19:12,760 So she was by no means in the shadows, but she hadn't fostered in a while. 298 00:19:12,760 --> 00:19:19,040 So literally as the van carrying Scout was on its way to Kelly, I learned about this 299 00:19:19,040 --> 00:19:20,040 dog. 300 00:19:20,040 --> 00:19:22,040 I've loved you since forever. 301 00:19:22,040 --> 00:19:27,360 The more I was hearing about her, the more I was like, no, no, no Kelly cannot foster 302 00:19:27,360 --> 00:19:28,800 fail with Scout. 303 00:19:28,800 --> 00:19:31,120 This is Bonnie's soul sister. 304 00:19:31,120 --> 00:19:33,720 They would be so perfect together. 305 00:19:33,720 --> 00:19:36,160 And then the van crashed and everything was in a tailspin. 306 00:19:36,160 --> 00:19:42,520 And we were up to our necks and puppies down here and I forgot to tell Kelly. 307 00:19:42,520 --> 00:19:48,240 I eventually got on Messenger one random day a few weeks ago because I never check my Facebook 308 00:19:48,240 --> 00:19:49,240 Messenger. 309 00:19:49,240 --> 00:19:54,760 It's a very scary, anxiety inducing place that I do not like to go to. 310 00:19:54,760 --> 00:20:00,200 But I randomly clicked on to message Kelly and tell her to forget she ever even met Scout 311 00:20:00,200 --> 00:20:03,120 and I had a new best friend for Bonnie coming. 312 00:20:03,120 --> 00:20:10,120 When I clicked her name, I had an unread message from her from several weeks prior and devastatingly 313 00:20:10,120 --> 00:20:16,320 they found out just before Thanksgiving that Bonnie was in end stage liver cancer and she 314 00:20:16,320 --> 00:20:20,120 was gone just a few days before Christmas. 315 00:20:20,120 --> 00:20:24,240 Kelly had given Bonnie a life Bonnie could have never even dreamt of. 316 00:20:24,240 --> 00:20:29,560 Taking her to work with her, getting her certified as a therapy dog, going on long hikes, spending 317 00:20:29,560 --> 00:20:34,720 her days being loved and adored by all who met her, especially her neighborhood children. 318 00:20:34,720 --> 00:20:36,560 They went everywhere together. 319 00:20:36,560 --> 00:20:42,080 And now I have no doubt that Bonnie waits patiently at the Rainbow Bridge to be reunited 320 00:20:42,080 --> 00:20:45,800 with Kelly again so she can introduce her to Kelly. 321 00:20:45,800 --> 00:20:51,160 The two people who loved her the most in this world and the two people who saved her. 322 00:20:51,160 --> 00:20:54,920 I don't know if Kelly even plans to keep this new dog. 323 00:20:54,920 --> 00:20:57,320 I don't know if she's even thinking about foster failing. 324 00:20:57,320 --> 00:21:03,200 I know it's really soon after Bonnie's passing, but I hope she sees the same similarities 325 00:21:03,200 --> 00:21:08,960 that I saw between them and I hope at least for the next few weeks she helps fill the 326 00:21:08,960 --> 00:21:11,040 Bonnie shape hole in their hearts. 327 00:21:11,040 --> 00:21:18,960 Plus, I'm just so glad to have the girl with my mom's legs fostering with us again. 328 00:21:18,960 --> 00:21:23,520 Wyn Dixie and her four W puppies are from the Crazy Lady. 329 00:21:23,520 --> 00:21:25,400 Now I know what you're thinking, what? 330 00:21:25,400 --> 00:21:31,000 You have so many Crazy Ladies, but this might be the craziest lady that we've ever had. 331 00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:37,640 This is the same home as Nessa Rose and the G Litter of Three from the November 23rd, 332 00:21:37,640 --> 00:21:40,240 2024 Wicked Transport. 333 00:21:40,240 --> 00:21:44,000 If you missed that story, trust me, you need to go back and listen to it. 334 00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:49,800 This home is at the top of the worst animal situations we've ever seen. 335 00:21:49,800 --> 00:21:55,480 When Jessica went there back in November, there were dead puppies walking skeletons 336 00:21:55,480 --> 00:22:01,400 of dogs, dogs fighting literally to the death over scraps of food they would find. 337 00:22:01,400 --> 00:22:02,400 It was awful. 338 00:22:02,400 --> 00:22:06,840 We took what we could from there, which at the time was a mom, a litter of puppies, 339 00:22:06,840 --> 00:22:08,920 and then a single puppy. 340 00:22:08,920 --> 00:22:11,200 The mom we took ended up having to be euthanized. 341 00:22:11,200 --> 00:22:15,480 Unfortunately, after working with her for almost two months, she was just too aggressive 342 00:22:15,480 --> 00:22:19,320 with other animals for us to keep or send to another rescue. 343 00:22:19,320 --> 00:22:22,320 And this wasn't like, oh, she'll snap and growl at another dog. 344 00:22:22,320 --> 00:22:27,720 This was like, she will fight to the death because that's all she's ever known. 345 00:22:27,720 --> 00:22:33,600 If she sees another dog, she will do everything she can to kill it. 346 00:22:33,600 --> 00:22:38,240 So it was heartbreaking, but Jessica gave her the best weeks of her life and we loved 347 00:22:38,240 --> 00:22:41,720 on her so, so much while we had her. 348 00:22:41,720 --> 00:22:45,320 When Dixie is her puppy from an older litter. 349 00:22:45,320 --> 00:22:48,120 Back in November, the owner wouldn't surrender any of the other dogs to us. 350 00:22:48,120 --> 00:22:52,240 We barely even got away with taking the ones that we did, but we continued to bring them 351 00:22:52,240 --> 00:22:55,760 food over the winter and we knew eventually someone would get pregnant and she would call 352 00:22:55,760 --> 00:22:56,880 us again. 353 00:22:56,880 --> 00:23:01,240 And sure enough, three months later, that's exactly what happened. 354 00:23:01,240 --> 00:23:05,440 She promised to be nice this time and not cuss and threaten to kill Jessica if we would 355 00:23:05,440 --> 00:23:07,000 still help her. 356 00:23:07,000 --> 00:23:10,800 So Jessica went by the next day just to assess the situation, see how many puppies there 357 00:23:10,800 --> 00:23:15,680 were, see how old, if the lady was really going to be nice or not, things like that. 358 00:23:15,680 --> 00:23:21,640 Soon as she pulls out in the driveway, when Dixie runs to Jessica, like they were long 359 00:23:21,640 --> 00:23:23,160 lost best friends. 360 00:23:23,160 --> 00:23:28,720 If you've seen pictures of her, you know, she was literally just skin and bones. 361 00:23:28,720 --> 00:23:34,000 She didn't have much nutrition to start with and these puppies have sucked the life out 362 00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:35,000 of her. 363 00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:40,560 She's done so well taking care of them though her four puppies are the roundest, fattest 364 00:23:40,560 --> 00:23:42,440 little things you've ever seen. 365 00:23:42,440 --> 00:23:46,600 So when the owner came out of the house, she went up to Jessica and threw her arms around 366 00:23:46,600 --> 00:23:51,640 her neck and Jessica didn't know if the lady was going to hug her or strangle her, but 367 00:23:51,640 --> 00:23:55,240 it was just a hug this time. 368 00:23:55,240 --> 00:23:58,800 We were about to get another round of snow last week, like where do we live? 369 00:23:58,800 --> 00:24:00,880 I thought it never snows down here. 370 00:24:00,880 --> 00:24:06,600 Because snow and freezing temps were coming, so Mama Becky sent Charlie to another foster 371 00:24:06,600 --> 00:24:10,600 and then she and Jessica went to round up this family so we would know that they were 372 00:24:10,600 --> 00:24:14,240 fursher, safe, and warm and fed. 373 00:24:14,240 --> 00:24:20,880 Little Red Hen and her six L puppy story was shared on the fosters page, so if you read 374 00:24:20,880 --> 00:24:24,520 that you can fast forward a couple minutes, I'm just going to be saying the same exact 375 00:24:24,520 --> 00:24:26,360 thing that I posted there. 376 00:24:26,360 --> 00:24:30,400 I have been sitting on pins and needles waiting to share the story with you. 377 00:24:30,400 --> 00:24:32,440 It is quite a shocking story. 378 00:24:32,440 --> 00:24:36,360 One, because it's from Jessica and y'all know she never has a good background story for 379 00:24:36,360 --> 00:24:44,080 any of her polls, but two, it's because we were actually told to euthanize this mama 380 00:24:44,080 --> 00:24:48,000 dog when her puppies were just days old. 381 00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:51,320 Let me start at the beginning. 382 00:24:51,320 --> 00:24:56,120 We got a call about a possibly pregnant dog right before the winter storm that canceled 383 00:24:56,120 --> 00:24:59,680 my January 18th transport hit. 384 00:24:59,680 --> 00:25:04,280 Many of the pictures of this dog gave me PTSD flashbacks to my Jane girl. 385 00:25:04,280 --> 00:25:10,240 I know you OGs remember, but for you newbies, she was a dog I pulled thinking she was insanely 386 00:25:10,240 --> 00:25:15,720 pregnant and going to give birth any day, only to discover literally immediately that 387 00:25:15,720 --> 00:25:23,280 her belly was so bloated, not from puppies, but from fluid backing up from being in congestive 388 00:25:23,280 --> 00:25:25,520 heart failure caused by heartworms. 389 00:25:25,520 --> 00:25:33,400 She lost 27 pounds, I think it was like in 36 hours, just from peeing it all out. 390 00:25:33,400 --> 00:25:39,440 She had 27 pounds of fluid on her. 391 00:25:39,440 --> 00:25:40,440 It was so devastating. 392 00:25:40,440 --> 00:25:45,600 It was so so devastating watching her fight so hard to live only to have her life cut 393 00:25:45,600 --> 00:25:48,120 short just a few weeks later. 394 00:25:48,120 --> 00:25:52,120 Single-handedly my most heartbreaking pull to date. 395 00:25:52,120 --> 00:25:57,760 So when I saw the pictures of little red, I told Jessica there is no way she's pregnant, 396 00:25:57,760 --> 00:26:02,160 it had to be heartworms and we would not put her through the agonizing treatment like we 397 00:26:02,160 --> 00:26:03,640 did Jane. 398 00:26:03,640 --> 00:26:08,040 The shelter ended up picking her up that afternoon and we scheduled to take her to the vet the 399 00:26:08,040 --> 00:26:09,720 next morning. 400 00:26:09,720 --> 00:26:15,840 Well joke was on us because we got a call first thing that morning saying she was actively 401 00:26:15,840 --> 00:26:20,680 birthing puppies on the cold cement floor of the shelter. 402 00:26:20,680 --> 00:26:24,800 Now remember we are in fight or flight mode down here. 403 00:26:24,800 --> 00:26:26,840 Transport has just been cancelled a few days earlier. 404 00:26:26,840 --> 00:26:30,560 50 plus puppies that were supposed to leave didn't. 405 00:26:30,560 --> 00:26:36,840 So 50 plus puppies that we were counting on going into those foster homes couldn't. 406 00:26:36,840 --> 00:26:41,440 Everything was on fire, temps were well below freezing and we were in crisis mode. 407 00:26:41,440 --> 00:26:45,960 The best we could do for little red at that moment was get a kiddie pool, blankets, and 408 00:26:45,960 --> 00:26:49,160 a heat lamp set up for her at the shelter. 409 00:26:49,160 --> 00:26:54,360 So finally transport leaves, we get everyone resituated, the doghouse freed up so we could 410 00:26:54,360 --> 00:26:56,520 take her and get her set up there. 411 00:26:56,520 --> 00:27:01,680 Unfortunately in the two days that it took us to get a foster spot open for her, four 412 00:27:01,680 --> 00:27:05,200 of her puppies froze to death at the shelter. 413 00:27:05,200 --> 00:27:11,200 Jessica went to get her just before transport left on the 25th and we were stunned at how 414 00:27:11,200 --> 00:27:12,760 sickly she was. 415 00:27:12,760 --> 00:27:17,880 She couldn't walk, she could barely stand, she wasn't eating, she had to be carried around. 416 00:27:17,880 --> 00:27:22,680 It took all of her strength just for her to lift her head up. 417 00:27:22,680 --> 00:27:26,400 We started on some meds right away and then we took her to the vet as soon as the doors 418 00:27:26,400 --> 00:27:32,800 open Monday morning and that's when things went from bad to worse. 419 00:27:32,800 --> 00:27:38,520 The vet who saw her explained to us that she was septic, heartworm positive, suffering 420 00:27:38,520 --> 00:27:44,440 from severe endometriitis and had a retained placenta. 421 00:27:44,440 --> 00:27:49,600 She was eaten up with internal parasites and had horrible blood work. 422 00:27:49,600 --> 00:27:57,280 His recommendation was an immediate full body blood transfusion, emergency hysterectomy, 423 00:27:57,280 --> 00:28:01,160 and remove her puppies from her care permanently. 424 00:28:01,160 --> 00:28:07,680 Not only were we talking about thousands and thousands of dollars, but severe emotional 425 00:28:07,680 --> 00:28:15,320 distress both mentally and physically for her and us honestly. 426 00:28:15,320 --> 00:28:21,840 He said even if we followed his advice to the letter, she had maybe a 25% chance of 427 00:28:21,840 --> 00:28:22,840 surviving. 428 00:28:22,840 --> 00:28:27,840 He really thought it was more humane just to euthanize her, but if we wanted a last 429 00:28:27,840 --> 00:28:31,520 ditch attempt to save her, this might work. 430 00:28:31,520 --> 00:28:36,720 So I called Dr. Burton half to ask her if I could spend thousands on a dog. 431 00:28:36,720 --> 00:28:39,200 I hadn't even told her that I had pulled yet. 432 00:28:39,200 --> 00:28:42,960 But also to see if she thought this would be cruel to put her through all of this too 433 00:28:42,960 --> 00:28:45,760 and if we should just euthanize her. 434 00:28:45,760 --> 00:28:48,760 Her response, like always, was hilarious. 435 00:28:48,760 --> 00:28:49,760 What? 436 00:28:49,760 --> 00:28:51,680 No, we're not doing any of that. 437 00:28:51,680 --> 00:28:53,040 What is this vet talking about? 438 00:28:53,040 --> 00:28:55,840 Send me all the lab work. 439 00:28:55,840 --> 00:28:59,840 I sent her the results of all the tests, the lab work, the ultrasound, everything. 440 00:28:59,840 --> 00:29:01,280 She goes, absolutely not. 441 00:29:01,280 --> 00:29:04,280 Take her home, deworm her, put her on fluids, and let her be with her babies. 442 00:29:04,280 --> 00:29:05,680 She'll be fine in a few days. 443 00:29:05,680 --> 00:29:08,560 I'm like, what? 444 00:29:08,560 --> 00:29:11,360 No emergency surgery, no abandoning her puppies. 445 00:29:11,360 --> 00:29:17,040 I was skeptical to say the least, but she has never steered us wrong before. 446 00:29:17,040 --> 00:29:18,200 So we went with it. 447 00:29:18,200 --> 00:29:24,040 Shout out to Jessica for taking on the role of tactfully telling the other vet that we 448 00:29:24,040 --> 00:29:27,280 respectfully agree to disagree. 449 00:29:27,280 --> 00:29:32,600 And we're going to go with the advice of a vet who has never seen this dog before. 450 00:29:32,600 --> 00:29:38,360 We did agree to compromise and let them prescribe some really heavy-duty antibiotics for her, 451 00:29:38,360 --> 00:29:41,560 despite Dr. Burton thinking that they were pointless. 452 00:29:41,560 --> 00:29:43,920 You just can't keep everyone happy. 453 00:29:43,920 --> 00:29:47,000 So Jessica took her back to the doghouse to doctor her up. 454 00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:52,560 She started on fluids, gave her all her meds, and cooked her up some boiled chicken that 455 00:29:52,560 --> 00:29:57,720 combined with the hamburgers that Mama Becky would come by and hand-feed her every day, 456 00:29:57,720 --> 00:30:01,600 she was finally starting to eat something at least. 457 00:30:01,600 --> 00:30:07,800 About 36 hours later, she started standing up and getting out of the kiddie pool to potty. 458 00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:12,240 And two days later, she met Jessica in the garage when she came by to check on her. 459 00:30:12,240 --> 00:30:15,600 She was very surprised to see that. 460 00:30:15,600 --> 00:30:18,760 Day three, she started wagging her tail. 461 00:30:18,760 --> 00:30:22,800 And day four, she no longer needed fluids because she was eating and drinking enough 462 00:30:22,800 --> 00:30:24,440 on her own. 463 00:30:24,440 --> 00:30:28,880 And by day five, she happily went in and out of the doggy door to potty anytime she needed 464 00:30:28,880 --> 00:30:33,040 to tail wagging as she romped around the yard. 465 00:30:33,040 --> 00:30:40,280 She's been with us just shy of one month, and we have watched an absolute miracle unfold 466 00:30:40,280 --> 00:30:42,020 before our very eyes. 467 00:30:42,020 --> 00:30:46,400 This dog had three feet in the grave when we got her. 468 00:30:46,400 --> 00:30:50,200 There is absolutely no way she would have survived if we didn't get her out of the shelter 469 00:30:50,200 --> 00:30:51,920 when we did. 470 00:30:51,920 --> 00:30:56,840 Would she have survived the blood transfusion in the emergency spay that the vet recommended? 471 00:30:56,840 --> 00:30:57,840 Probably. 472 00:30:57,840 --> 00:31:04,200 I don't think he was necessarily wrong in his advice, but it is absolutely 100% safer 473 00:31:04,200 --> 00:31:08,720 for her to have a scheduled routine spay now that she's completely healthy and feeling 474 00:31:08,720 --> 00:31:11,120 great again and has gained so much weight. 475 00:31:11,120 --> 00:31:16,000 Plus, just the psychological toll it would have taken on her to have her puppies ripped 476 00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:17,000 away. 477 00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:21,160 She is one of the few mamas we've had that genuinely loves being a mama and is happy 478 00:31:21,160 --> 00:31:26,040 to spend all day with her babies even now that she's feeling better. 479 00:31:26,040 --> 00:31:31,800 The four of us, me, Jessica, my mom, and Dr. Burton have saved a lot of dogs in all our 480 00:31:31,800 --> 00:31:36,600 years of rescue, but I can say without a doubt that Little Red Story will be one that we 481 00:31:36,600 --> 00:31:40,400 all will remember forever. 482 00:31:40,400 --> 00:31:46,480 And if you're ever wondering if Dr. Burton is a good veterinarian, I can tell you dozens 483 00:31:46,480 --> 00:31:51,880 of other stories just like this one where she's saved an animal's life over the phone 484 00:31:51,880 --> 00:31:54,320 without ever even seeing them. 485 00:31:54,320 --> 00:32:00,120 And if that doesn't tell you how experienced she is, I don't know what will. 486 00:32:00,120 --> 00:32:05,640 P is for pterodactyl, which if you haven't read that book, it's hysterical and you absolutely 487 00:32:05,640 --> 00:32:07,320 need to go buy it. 488 00:32:07,320 --> 00:32:10,440 P is for pterodactyl was found as a stray. 489 00:32:10,440 --> 00:32:14,360 Jessica's neighbor called us a few weeks ago about a dog that had shown up at the county 490 00:32:14,360 --> 00:32:16,320 school where she works. 491 00:32:16,320 --> 00:32:19,800 She said she was very pregnant and about to give birth any day. 492 00:32:19,800 --> 00:32:24,760 We had a transport leave in the next day and a foster opening, so the neighbor loaded her 493 00:32:24,760 --> 00:32:30,040 up after school and brought her to transport for our bottle feeder foster to take. 494 00:32:30,040 --> 00:32:33,120 Two weeks later, she had six puppies. 495 00:32:33,120 --> 00:32:36,240 One was stillborn, but the other five were very healthy. 496 00:32:36,240 --> 00:32:41,000 Now, if you're fostering this family, you may be doing a headcount and thinking my 497 00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:43,840 math is wrong. 498 00:32:43,840 --> 00:32:46,560 Pterodactyl had five healthy puppies. 499 00:32:46,560 --> 00:32:52,320 But just before the mama gave birth, our bottle feeder foster got a call from the shelter 500 00:32:52,320 --> 00:32:57,720 in a neighboring town that they had six newborn puppies whose mama had been run over and 501 00:32:57,720 --> 00:32:58,720 killed. 502 00:32:58,720 --> 00:33:02,240 The shelter was going to euthanize the puppies at the end of the day if they didn't find 503 00:33:02,240 --> 00:33:03,800 someone who would take them. 504 00:33:03,800 --> 00:33:08,320 Obviously, our foster ran over there to get them and she and her family immediately got 505 00:33:08,320 --> 00:33:10,120 to work bottle feeding them. 506 00:33:10,120 --> 00:33:13,000 These are experts at bottle feeding. 507 00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:19,720 I can't even tell you how many hundreds they have bottle fed for us, but despite doing 508 00:33:19,720 --> 00:33:23,160 everything they could for them, none of them took to the bottle. 509 00:33:23,160 --> 00:33:26,800 One by one, they all died, except for this one. 510 00:33:26,800 --> 00:33:32,320 The day after the last one died, the mama gave birth and they decided just to see if 511 00:33:32,320 --> 00:33:34,880 she would take the remaining puppy in. 512 00:33:34,880 --> 00:33:39,520 That puppy latched on like it had been waiting for a mama this whole time and was so happy 513 00:33:39,520 --> 00:33:44,600 to finally have one again and mama has her six puppy once again. 514 00:33:44,600 --> 00:33:49,120 I usually keep everyone under the same letter in situations like this because obviously 515 00:33:49,120 --> 00:33:55,440 they're all one litter now, but how could I let the opportunity to name this little 516 00:33:55,440 --> 00:33:59,080 orphan puppy, are you my mother? 517 00:33:59,080 --> 00:34:01,440 I could not let that pass me up. 518 00:34:01,440 --> 00:34:08,920 Maybe we'll just like put a silent P at the front like pterodactyl. 519 00:34:08,920 --> 00:34:15,440 Mother Goose and her eight M puppies are from the same home as the C litter of 11 from the 520 00:34:15,440 --> 00:34:19,320 last transport that SNL skits to our knowledge. 521 00:34:19,320 --> 00:34:24,640 The mamas are not related, but the owner thinks that the puppies all have the same daddy. 522 00:34:24,640 --> 00:34:29,920 When Jessica was picking up the 11 puppies last week, mother Goose came waddling out 523 00:34:29,920 --> 00:34:32,840 with her belly almost dragging the ground. 524 00:34:32,840 --> 00:34:36,280 Jessica asked the lady if we could have her to and she said go for it. 525 00:34:36,280 --> 00:34:42,840 She had taken her in as a stray several months ago and just never got her fixed. 526 00:34:42,840 --> 00:34:47,800 We were hoping that she would wait and give birth in Virginia, but she came up just short. 527 00:34:47,800 --> 00:34:53,120 We also found out that the mama of the C litter of 11 is being given away for free now. 528 00:34:53,120 --> 00:34:56,400 The owner told us that she was an animal rescue, which she's not. 529 00:34:56,400 --> 00:34:59,720 They're just what people down here say when they pick up stray dogs and keep them at their 530 00:34:59,720 --> 00:35:00,880 house. 531 00:35:00,880 --> 00:35:04,200 But she told us she wanted to keep the mom, so we gave her a spay voucher. 532 00:35:04,200 --> 00:35:07,120 But now that she's trying to give her away on Facebook, we're going to see if she'll 533 00:35:07,120 --> 00:35:09,080 just let us have her too. 534 00:35:09,080 --> 00:35:13,200 Or if that's even the same dog and not just a third mama that we don't know about yet. 535 00:35:13,200 --> 00:35:15,120 This lady has so many dogs. 536 00:35:15,120 --> 00:35:18,280 It's insane. 537 00:35:18,280 --> 00:35:21,920 Guess how much I love you and her 12 G puppies. 538 00:35:21,920 --> 00:35:26,760 Okay, if you're the foster, don't freak out and start counting your puppies. 539 00:35:26,760 --> 00:35:28,600 It may not actually be 12. 540 00:35:28,600 --> 00:35:33,680 The shelter workers told us 12, but when Jessica went to get the genders, she only sent me 541 00:35:33,680 --> 00:35:35,480 11 genders. 542 00:35:35,480 --> 00:35:39,840 And I feel like I can safely trust the information of a person I have never met in my life over 543 00:35:39,840 --> 00:35:43,080 the information from Jessica, who I work with every single day. 544 00:35:43,080 --> 00:35:45,400 So we're going with 12. 545 00:35:45,400 --> 00:35:50,320 But if you're looking at them right now and you're only counting 11, even a broken clock 546 00:35:50,320 --> 00:35:52,080 is right twice a day. 547 00:35:52,080 --> 00:35:56,520 So Jessica may have just gotten lucky this time and gave me the correct information after 548 00:35:56,520 --> 00:35:57,520 all. 549 00:35:57,520 --> 00:36:01,160 Anyways, this mama is from the local kill shelter. 550 00:36:01,160 --> 00:36:07,040 She and her almost full grown daughter named baby girl were left at a rental house tied 551 00:36:07,040 --> 00:36:08,840 to the front porch. 552 00:36:08,840 --> 00:36:13,080 Animal control picked them up and another rescue who works very closely with the shelter 553 00:36:13,080 --> 00:36:16,640 found a northern rescue to take the puppy in New Hampshire. 554 00:36:16,640 --> 00:36:19,880 She actually left the day before our transport. 555 00:36:19,880 --> 00:36:23,960 But when they were doing the work up on the shelter mama, they realized she was definitely 556 00:36:23,960 --> 00:36:26,880 pregnant and they took her to the vet to confirm. 557 00:36:26,880 --> 00:36:30,960 We were hoping that we could get her to Virginia before she gave birth, but she did not quite 558 00:36:30,960 --> 00:36:31,960 make it. 559 00:36:31,960 --> 00:36:37,160 The workers came into the shelter one morning and found a kiddie pool full of 12 or maybe 560 00:36:37,160 --> 00:36:40,840 11 puppies and one very proud mama. 561 00:36:40,840 --> 00:36:45,320 I told Jessica to ask the shelter volunteer to get a pitiful picture of the mama to help 562 00:36:45,320 --> 00:36:50,640 find her a foster because no one wants to foster a cute happy smiley dog. 563 00:36:50,640 --> 00:36:55,440 But everyone will jump up to save the pitiful lonely sad dog in the kill shelter. 564 00:36:55,440 --> 00:37:00,000 So the girl said she did everything she could to get a sad picture of this dog, but she 565 00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:02,120 is the happiest dog in the world. 566 00:37:02,120 --> 00:37:08,600 No matter what, she's always smiling, tail wagging in all of her pictures. 567 00:37:08,600 --> 00:37:12,520 As for the cats, they are all from our Alabama shelter friends. 568 00:37:12,520 --> 00:37:19,160 Jacqueline told me that I could send two neutered males who would go to the cat condo. 569 00:37:19,160 --> 00:37:22,880 And then I sent her a picture of the super cute Siamese mix and told her that we needed 570 00:37:22,880 --> 00:37:26,960 to take it this weekend because it would definitely be adopted before the next transport. 571 00:37:26,960 --> 00:37:28,720 So she was like, oh yeah, that's a good point. 572 00:37:28,720 --> 00:37:30,720 Okay, yeah, we'll take it too. 573 00:37:30,720 --> 00:37:36,280 And then I told her that the shelter worker loves the black and white kitten and she's 574 00:37:36,280 --> 00:37:41,840 so desperate for love that she cries all day in the cage until someone comes to pet her. 575 00:37:41,840 --> 00:37:43,800 And we really need to take her to... 576 00:37:43,800 --> 00:37:45,800 And Jacqueline said, obviously. 577 00:37:45,800 --> 00:37:52,400 But then I asked her to take a puppy with a prolapsed rectum this weekend and she said, 578 00:37:52,400 --> 00:37:53,400 hard no. 579 00:37:53,400 --> 00:37:58,200 So I guess good mood Jacqueline was over it by that point. 580 00:37:58,200 --> 00:38:02,400 Velveteen rabbit, that's the black and white kitten that is just so pitiful and the great 581 00:38:02,400 --> 00:38:04,800 begging for someone to come pet it. 582 00:38:04,800 --> 00:38:07,600 She came in as a very sick kitten a few months ago. 583 00:38:07,600 --> 00:38:12,560 The shelter manager worked night and day to get her well and refused to let her be adopted 584 00:38:12,560 --> 00:38:16,240 out many times because she wanted her to go to Wolf Trap. 585 00:38:16,240 --> 00:38:18,840 Fancy Nancy, the Siamese mix. 586 00:38:18,840 --> 00:38:22,240 She has been a stray roaming the town for over a year. 587 00:38:22,240 --> 00:38:26,080 Someone finally brought her in when it was getting cold out. 588 00:38:26,080 --> 00:38:30,520 One and only Ivan and Never Touch a Grumpy Bunny. 589 00:38:30,520 --> 00:38:32,680 That's actually one of Mary Sue's favorite books. 590 00:38:32,680 --> 00:38:36,520 If you have a little baby in your life, you have to buy these. 591 00:38:36,520 --> 00:38:37,880 Never Touch a... 592 00:38:37,880 --> 00:38:40,320 Whatever animals, they're the best. 593 00:38:40,320 --> 00:38:43,000 Never Touch a Grumpy Bunny are from the same home. 594 00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:44,960 But they don't think that they're related. 595 00:38:44,960 --> 00:38:47,200 They came in together after their owner died. 596 00:38:47,200 --> 00:38:51,400 The family loaded them up in the crate the same day the man died and handed them crate 597 00:38:51,400 --> 00:38:56,560 and all to animal control because they wanted nothing to do with them. 598 00:38:56,560 --> 00:38:58,160 That is all for this transport. 599 00:38:58,160 --> 00:39:01,960 I hope y'all believe me when I tell you how much you mean to me. 600 00:39:01,960 --> 00:39:06,760 Last week was a hard, sad week for me. 601 00:39:06,760 --> 00:39:12,560 But starting this week off saving 47 lives, emptying all of our foster homes down here, 602 00:39:12,560 --> 00:39:17,840 and getting new matching dresses with my baby sure turned things around for me. 603 00:39:17,840 --> 00:39:20,440 And it's all because of you guys stepping up to foster. 604 00:39:20,440 --> 00:39:22,280 You guys are the best. 605 00:39:22,280 --> 00:39:24,640 I love y'all forever. 606 00:39:24,640 --> 00:39:50,640 It's a Ruff life, but someone's got to do it.