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Hello friends, welcome to Ruff Life.

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I feel like every episode I start off with like, oof, what a week.

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But this was actually a really good week.

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It took us until the very last minute to find enough fosters, but everyone is getting to

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go plus two add-ons.

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And things just really seem to be working out this week.

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It is technically the night before transport though, so I am really hoping I didn't just

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jinx it all by saying that and transport is going to be a disaster, but I'll keep you

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posted.

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I did not do the names this week, so you cannot come for me if you don't like your fosters

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name.

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This was all Jenny and Jacqueline, and I'm about 99% sure that they just made up some

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of these names and an attempt to embarrass myself by pronouncing them, but jokes on them.

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I will only be saying the first name for these animals, not these insane last names that

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I have no idea how to pronounce.

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The theme is Moss Universe, I guess that's an author.

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Apparently, Wolf Trap North has enough time to read up there, which must be nice, while

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we're down here covered up in puppies.

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Okay, let's jump into the stories.

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Wingspan has been in foster care since he was about six weeks old.

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Maybe a week or two older than that, I'm not totally sure.

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He was part of a litter of six.

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Another rescuer asked one of their fosters if they would foster this litter of six.

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They agreed.

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A few weeks later, the rescuer came and they got the three females from the litter and they

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sent them to a northern rescue.

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And that was that.

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Never came back for the three males, never said another word about them again.

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The foster got them all of their vaccines, their monthly prevention, neutered them with

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her own money, and has been trying to find other rescues to take them.

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Unfortunately, by the time she realized she even needed to be looking for other rescues

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and that the girl had just dumped them on her, they were already six months old, which

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is considered adults in the rescue world and everybody knows it is significantly harder

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to get adult dogs into rescue.

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So she has had them since February 2024.

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Now, why are we taking one?

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Well, last November, maybe October, I don't totally remember.

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Someone found the cutest mangy beagle, so can wet walking down the road.

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They posted it on Facebook looking for a rescue.

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I had absolutely nowhere to put her, no open fosters, no way to bring this contagious dog

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home with my eight month old baby.

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But people kept tagging me in it because anyone who knows me knows that I love beagles and

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I love mange dogs.

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A mangy beagle is my kryptonite.

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Well I made the comment on the post saying any of my people who were all the ones tagging

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me, any of my people that found someone to foster this dog until it could go to Wolf

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So you find a foster for the beagle and I'll send whatever half dead, heartworm positive,

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vicious, two legged, no eyeballs, dog aggressive, chihuahua.

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I was gonna say pit bull but honestly a chihuahua is way scarier than a pit bull.

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So immediately after commenting that I deeply regretted it because there was no telling

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what in the world I was gonna end up having to take.

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Lucky for me, wingspan's foster instantly texted one of our rescue partners and asked

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her to ask me if I would take this super sweet heartworm negative already neutered a dog

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friendly cat friendly kid friendly all around perfect dog for her.

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If she fostered the beagle for me, it was a no brainer total win win for me.

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So I agreed and that night my main g beagle who went on to be Trixie on the January 31st

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cutesy name transport, she was safe and sound, warm and dry, being treated for mange and

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so happy.

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Then I found out there were two more brothers of this dog that I was agreeing to take.

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Now not once has this foster even hinted around asking me to take the other two and take all

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three of them.

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She knew from the start that the deal was for one dog and one dog only.

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But how can I hear a story like this?

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Know that this foster has put so much of her own time and money into these dogs and not

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help her.

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So wingspan is the only one going today because we don't want to overwhelm and overcrowd the

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wolf trap system with three huge adult dogs.

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But the foster is bringing all three of them to transport and I'm going to send the two

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brothers into our foster care down here until there's room up north for them.

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She has certainly paid her dues and saved the life of our sweet baby Trixie who by the

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way went on to be a foster fail almost immediately.

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So we are very happy to be helping her.

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Queen of Shadows is our current best girl.

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We call her Maddie down here.

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I posted her story on the Fosters page but here's a quick recap.

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We got a message on Facebook a few weeks ago from someone who saw this before and after

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post that we did on the B2Cast page for newbies and first time listeners.

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B2Cast is the boom full second chance animal sanctuary.

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It's the local rescue that I'm on the board of that pulls and fosters animals down here

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before they go to Virginia.

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So this guy saw our post we did of the 2024 animals and all the horrible before pictures

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and then the amazing after pictures and the wonderful stories and he said seeing that

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post made him realize how much better off the stray dog in his yard would be with us

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and like how good her life could be.

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So he sends us a message saying there's a dog that lives in the drain pipe in his front

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yard.

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It's like the dead of winter 10 degrees and lower we're getting massive amounts of snow

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for our area.

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So we asked him to send us a picture and he sent us the most pitiful naked mangy girl

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ever.

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We had not one corner of a closet that we could stick her in at the time but we rushed

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out there with next guard which if you didn't know is the only thing that you need to treat

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or prevent mange and a ton of food and then we promised to come back as soon as the next

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transport left.

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Well transport leaves a few days later and Jessica literally sprints out there to get

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her and she's nowhere to be found.

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The man hadn't seen her since the day before he had no idea where she was and it wasn't

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until like four or five more days that she just showed back up and luckily he held on

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to her that time and Jessica raced out there to get her.

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She took her home she got her all set up in her dog pen outside with this super cozy blanket

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and this real big nice dog house and Maddie was in heaven for two days.

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It lasted two whole days and then she realized when Jess leaves every time she goes into

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a nice big house with other dogs and cats and Maddie was not about to be left out.

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So she dug and clawed her way out of that kennel completely bloodying her fragile little

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face and ran out to Jessica's front door like okay let me in too.

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But Jess has a Chihuahua from hell who who who may or may not be the reason I say Chihuahuas

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are scarier than pipples.

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Sorry sugar.

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She usually keeps all of her fosters outside so that sugar doesn't eat them but Maddie

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was just too sweet and too pitiful to put back outside so she brought her in and Maddie

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instantly became a couch potato full on lap dog assumes anytime you sit or lie down that

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you're inviting her to come cuddle with you and I know you're thinking like what you couldn't

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take the mange beagle because she was contagious and you were worried about your baby but Jess

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is cuddling this mange dog on her couch.

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Well that's because there's actually two types of mange.

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The first type of mange is of the devil it is horribly itchy insanely contagious and

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caused by tiny mites that burrow into your skin and crawl around.

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It's also called scabies like for people it is horrible and Demodex mange is itchy but

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not nearly as bad not at all contagious between other dogs or animals or people and it only

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affects dogs with poor immune systems so a mite that lives in the hair follicles of

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dogs will overpopulate and the dogs immune system isn't able to get it under control.

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So they're treated and prevented with the same thing a single neck scarred pill so it usually

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doesn't matter which one it is we don't bother taking them to the vet for a skin scrape to

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tell us which one because we just give them a neck scar regardless.

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But because Maddie was so desperate to get inside Jessica's body she went ahead and just

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took her to the vet to find out if she was contagious or not so they scrape off the skin

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and the hair follicles in a few spots and look at it under a microscope to see which

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might it is and lucky for Jessica it was Demodex.

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We really had no problem fostering Maddie longer until she grew back more hair and would

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be more adaptable but sugar might have killed her in her sleep if she stayed until the next

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transport so for her safety it was best that she left plus we knew she would be so much

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happier in Virginia anyways.

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Elaine was a stray she wandered up to someone's house several weeks ago they are from up north

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so they immediately assumed that she was someone's pet and she was just lost so they took her

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in they fed her they kept her safe while they looked for this distraught and loving owner

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of course there was no one looking for her so they had her for several weeks and then

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they told someone that they were going to take her to the shelter in their town so that they

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could find her a home and the people said they're not going to find her a home they're

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going to euthanize her in a matter of days so the owners were horrified I I actually don't

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know that they ever even did anything to find a rescue to take her they never posted her

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on Facebook but someone else in a different town with a different dog who they do not

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know in any way shape or form posted about a dog they were looking to find a rescue for

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and when we commented on that post offering to take that dog that was a doodle by by the

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way this lady pounced on us begging that we take this puppy for her to which we didn't

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really want I mean she's cute she's fine I'm happy to take her but she was an hour away

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from us and we didn't have a foster for her but like how bad how bad would that have made

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us look if we were like yes we will take this doodle that everybody and their mothers would

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also take but this cute little lap puppy that's 60 miles from here no thank you so of course

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we agreed to take her and we went out and vaccinated her a few days later and again

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the lady was like are you sure she's not just going to get euthanized but we told her all

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about wolf trap and she felt so much better and she agreed to keep her for us until transport

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so she's supposed to bring her tomorrow and I'm kind of wondering if she's even going

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to show up tomorrow or if she's just going to say she loves her too much and she has

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to keep her we shall see nesta okay okay so you know how I tell you all the time how we

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have group names or like wolf trap south names for animals so that we down here know and

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remember who we're talking about so like Kirk mama came from dr. Kirk's office and the

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washer machine litter came from the house with 100 washer machines in their front yard

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feral carol was the puppy that was feral that we got from carol okay you get it well poor

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little nesta she might have the worst name ever we call her butt dog but but yes anytime

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we are talking about her down here we lovingly refer to her as butt dog and that is because

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we got a call about her several weeks ago and they said that something might be wrong

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with her rear area and then they sent us a picture of her and she had a full on prolapsed

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rectum hanging out of her it was gnarly like hanging out a good inch and a half so we told

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her take the puppy to the vet when they open first thing the next morning and we'll pay

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for everything and then we'll just pick her up from there when it's all done so the vet

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got her all put together and stitched back up and we were a little worried because we

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had a prolapsed rectum dog a few years ago who we were all just madly in love with but

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every time they would take her stitch out her rectum would just immediately fall right

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back out so after months of trying and trying so many different things we had to put her

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to sleep and it gutted us so we were all holding our breasts when butt dog got her stitch out

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of course she would not have gotten the name butt dog if she wouldn't have made a 100%

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recovery and been totally fine we would have named her like beautiful baby butt dog or

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something if she had to be euthanized it would have been a lot sweeter but she's been with

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us for over a month just to be sure it wasn't going to fall out again she is doing so great

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the vet said that she had an extremely heavy worm load which caused her to have massive

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diarrhea and that's what caused the prolapse rectum that's what causes most prolapse rectums

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to the intense diarrhea she spent the majority of her time in Jessica's foster shed but last

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week she was finally healthy enough and vaccinated enough to go to doggy daycare and she has

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had a ball playing with everybody I bet she is going to sleep the entire first half of

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the foster period when she gets up there Bryce or Millie as her owners called her she is

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an owner surrender they adored her but unfortunately when their landlord found out that they had

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her he told them that he was raising their rent $100 a month if they didn't get rid

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of her and the owners are very young and definitely couldn't afford that especially after just

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buying a silver lab puppy so they asked their best friend who is one of our new rescue partners

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if she would take her and find a rescue she posted her on Facebook and we nabbed her up

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okay the d letter of two if you are looking at the two of them right now I know you think

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that I have lost my mind calling them a litter of two they are in no way related but they

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are from the same home with the same story so it is just easier for everyone if they

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have the same name that starts with the same letter one is a Yorkie one is the Boston Terrier

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oh and they are from the same rescue partner as Bryce but not from the same house at all

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okay I'll be honest I don't even totally understand the story I'm about to tell you but I'm going

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to start at the beginning and tell you what I know and how it all played out so this is

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a new rescue and they posted some pictures of dogs in terrible living conditions one

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of the dogs at the home was dead in the photo it was dead it had clearly been dead for quite

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some time it got shared all over Facebook people were all up in arms about finding out who

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did this and demanding justice and who was going to help these babies and and then the

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posts were all deleted and it was like it was just all done I was very busy that day

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that it happened so like I didn't read the comments or find out like what was going on

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it also I didn't pay much attention to why it was deleted about a week later this rescue

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posted the Yorkie on Facebook looking for a rescue I told her we'd be happy to take

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her and then she asked me if we take the Boston to again it's like so many baits and switches

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in the rescue world but like we're not cherry pickers so we're gonna take the Yorkie and

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you know take the Boston to we're not just gonna leave one so I said we'll take them

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both we're not gonna leave anybody behind and when I asked what their story was and

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where they were from she said they had an elderly owner who passed away and left all

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their dogs behind and then I started thinking so I said are they from the same home as the

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dead dog that you posted about she said yes but like that was she just said yes like she

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was like yes let me tell you the story so when my mom met her mom because that's what

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we do in the rescue world we make our mothers do all of our running around my mom met her

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mom to pick up the dogs and take them into our foster care so she found out more of the

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stories so come to find out the owner had multiple dogs outside and I think four dogs

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inside total I don't know I'll come back to that put a pin in that so she died her son

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lives in California and he didn't want to deal with rehoming all the dogs so he rented

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out the mom's house to somebody and told them part of their rent was taking care of all

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of these dogs I have a lot of thoughts about that but I'll keep it to myself I don't know

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how long the tenant lived there I don't know if the son slash landlord knew that he left

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or if he just stopped paying rent and walked out I don't know but somehow the dog in the

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kennel went without food and water for so long that it passed away the dogs in the yard were

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able to forge for food and water and survive but they were super skinny and very malnourished

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and the dogs in the house were able to survive I guess on just whatever food was left behind

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for them or just people food apparently the tenant is in jail right now currently maybe

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for this animal cruelty charge I don't know or maybe he went to jail and that's why the

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dog died I don't know I don't know a lot of this but when the post went around people

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looked up who owned the home and started blasting the homeowner the landlord in the comments

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calling him this animal killer and this terrible person and I guess when they found out it wasn't

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technically his fault they just deleted the post according to the rescue the outside dogs

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are feral I don't know if that's like legit feral and they just need to be trapped new

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to released or if they're just scared until you catch them and then they're the sweetest

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dogs you've ever met but regardless I told her since we were taking the two super cute

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super adoptable small dogs that we would pay to have two of the outside dogs spayed or

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neutered when they're caught and if they're not feral well of course take them to and

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I didn't understand if she meant there were two more little dogs inside or if there were

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two little dogs inside and they're the two that we took I'm pretty sure that they were

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the only two inside they're the only two in the pictures that were posted but I told her

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after everything is all said done and everybody's caught send me a headcount let me know who's

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vicious and who's friendly and we'll see what else we can help with but in the meantime

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we also gave her a ton of supplies that meds and we committed to seven animals total in

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her in her rescue so she is very grateful for us right now they're still trying to catch

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the outside dogs I guess the owner is kind of being a jerk now which is why I'm not so

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like oh I understand why you're renting out your mother's home and asking the tenants to

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take care of the dogs I think I think he's kind of a jerk he told them that all of the

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dogs had to be gone by end of the day today Friday but one he's in California what is

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he gonna do about how how are you enforcing this they have to be gone or what you're gonna

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fly out here no you're not and two if these actual legit rescuers who know how to trap

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dogs can't trap or catch them how is this a random guy from California gonna just stroll

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up catch them and haul them off somewhere what you're not even like where are you gonna

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take them I don't know I don't know a lot of things about these two and their story

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but at least we've got them now and they're safe and I'll keep everyone posted on the

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other dogs I am I am certain that we will end up taking more from this situation the

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S litter of two are our last minute add-ons Jacqueline didn't think that we were gonna

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have enough fosters for everyone on my list this week but we did by the skin of our teeth

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and so to celebrate I asked her if I could add two more these two were picked up by animal

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control earlier this week a guy called the animal control officer on Friday asking him

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to come get them and animal control tried to put it off because that's just what he

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does but then the man called back on Monday and said that the puppies were pooping in

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his yard and he wanted them gone by the end of the day how dare these puppies poop in

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his yard so animal control had to go get them and then Jessica went and got them the next

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day because we don't like to leave puppies at the shelter one because it is a kill shelter

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but two they are at risk of getting or spreading parvo so we like to get them out as soon as

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possible every time the M litter of two are from one of our longtime fosters she got a

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text from one of the assisted living homes where she works saying that there were three

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puppies huddled against the side of the building on one of those like mornings when it was

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in the teens outside so she went to get them and she could only find two no one ever saw

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the third one again so I don't know if they miscounted originally or if one of those old

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ladies there has a puppy that she snuck in her room our foster has had them for several

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weeks now she had them during the week that we had sub zero when chills and of course

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they were inside with her but her chihuahua who is not a demon chihuahua is actually a

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sweet chihuahua her chihuahua was super old and was dying so she rotated that whole week

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sleeping on the couch with the puppies and then back in bed with the dying chihuahua

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to try and keep everybody happy and quiet and calm during the night sadly her chihuahua

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did end up passing away but it was like literally like 20 years old it was insanely old um it

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passed away a few days later but the puppies really helped take her mind off of everything

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and she was really glad to have them during that time the tea litter of three are owner

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surrenders a man was giving them away in the walmart parking lot and a lady just took them

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all so that they wouldn't fall into the wrong hands and then she went inside and chewed

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out the manager for allowing this in the parking lot because it is technically illegal if you

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see someone trying to sell or give away animals in the walmart parking lot it's illegal I

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don't think they do that I don't think anybody listening lives in a place where they do that

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but it is illegal just FYI she moved down here from up north so again is horrified by

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the southerners treatment of animals she has a really bad back and she walks with a brace

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but she still kept these puppies inside in a room away from all of her other animals

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and she has taken fantastic care of them she is very thankful that we are taking them and

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we are very thankful that she saved their lives the r litter of three are from our bottle

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feeder foster their mom was hit by a car and killed and the owner posted them on facebook

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needing someone to take the newborn babies there were eight when our foster went and

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got them but by the time that they were able to get them the lady had been at work the

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five of the puppies had gone so long without milk that they ended up passing away within

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the next few hours these three have done great though the a litter of eight are also from

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our bottle feeder foster but they did not bottle feed these actually they still have

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the mama of this litter and we're hoping to center in the next few transports our foster

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unfortunately fosters for other rescues as well which we hate for a lot of reasons but

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the least selfish one is because we can't keep good track of like what diseases or viruses

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or sicknesses the other fosters have that they may spread to ours or vice versa thankfully

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she mainly does newborn babies who don't have anything to spread so we've been really lucky

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so far anyways another rescue posted this mama who was just absolutely skin and bones

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and nine super skinny and pitiful puppies our foster of course opened her home immediately

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to them one of the puppies was doing so bad that they thought it was dead when they got it so they

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brought it inside bottle feeding it worked on it day and night trying to get it back to health it

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ended up somewhat recovering but it still seemed pretty off and they actually have a really good

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friend who specializes in special needs dogs and so she adopted that one so there were eight puppies

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left the rescue that they were fostering for was hoping to send all of these puppies and the mom

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to a northern rescue in the beginning of january when they were all still nursing but it's been

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almost three months now and the rescue cannot find anyone to take them all of their northern

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partners are shut down right now they they actually told my foster that they would pay to have them

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all spayed and neutered if the foster would just keep them all keep eight puppies and a mom like

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keep them forever that is so mind-blowing to me that anyone would ever suggest that to anyone there

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there is no one that needs eight puppies from one litter and a mom forever so

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when our foster dropped off the pee litter mama and her puppies last transport that they were

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fostering for us she mentioned how amazed she was by how many moms and puppies that we were able

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to send on transport that day because she saw the other mom was loaded on the van already

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that's when she said she's been fostering a mom and puppies for another rescue for 10 weeks

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and she might just have to keep them forever so when i told her to ask the rescue if she would

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if the rescue would be okay if wolf trap took them she said she wants me to keep them forever

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she asked me so if i'm the owner now i'm saying i'm sending them to you so we're still tbd on the mom

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i hope that we'll get to send her in the next few weeks but they are going to decide if they do want

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to keep her forever or not and if the rescue is okay with us taking her i think they paid to have

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her spayed already so they might just want her because they invested money in her i'm not sure

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we're hoping to get her though um but that's two fosters now that are going to be so insanely happy

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tomorrow because we are taking their long term fosters that they were potentially going to

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be stuck with forever but because of wolf trap not only are the dogs going to be happy and find

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forever homes but these people are going to be so so happy and they're going to have room to

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foster even more now and that is just reason number 59 million why wolf trap fosters and

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adopters are the best ever the c letter of eight are owner surrenders a family moved and left behind

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their pregnant dog after the puppies were born the mom and the puppies made their way over to a

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neighbor's house she reached out to us saying she didn't have enough money to care for nine puppies

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now that they were eating dog food and she needed us to take the puppies she asked us if we would

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take the mom too and said that it just broke her heart to get rid of her but she can't afford to

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spay her and she can't afford to take care of the puppies that she will keep having so when we told

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her that we would pay to spay the mom for her since she was surrendering the whole litter she

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almost cried unfortunately the afternoon that we went to get them the owner sent us a text saying

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that one of the puppies had been attacked by something a few days prior and when she took

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it to the vet that morning the vet had to euthanize it because it was so sick and so infected and

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suffering so badly that he didn't think there was any chance of it surviving he said he didn't know

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what attacked it he didn't think that it was a litter mate because it was a lot of damage

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and he didn't think that it was the mom because the other puppies would have had some sort of

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damage too probably so we're wondering if it was like a coyote i don't know maybe it was a raccoon

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i don't know something big got a hold of it though there are no kittens this week because there are

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no kittens anywhere in the south right now i i object with all of our partners no one has

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kittens i'm not even kidding we have one mama with newborn kittens at the alabama shelter but

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they all are super sick with an upper respiratory infection and i was afraid that transport would

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just be too much stress on them and would make them sicker and then everyone else is an adult and

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nobody this round wanted to foster any adult cats but hang tight my kitten cravers we will be

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slammed with kittens in about three weeks and i will be begging every one of you to foster one

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or ten so so please please don't leave us i will have as many kittens as you want in a few weeks

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that is all the stories for this week but i did want to do a little update on a previous story

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i know you guys love when i tell you super sad stories going on down here that have nothing to

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do with wolf trap when i was telling you the d letter of four story on the cutesy name transport

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so that was like dear darling doll face dream maybe it was dream i don't know um they were on the

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january 31st transport i mentioned that we had helped this owner previously and i fostered his

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dog for him while he was in prison this is also the home where Homer for the holidays came from

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well Jessica went to pick up the d letter mama and take her to her spay appointment

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and the owner told her that that little dog that i fostered for him was murdered

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literally murdered in cold blood oh my gosh he said he had a squabble

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he said he had a squabble with his neighbors a few weeks ago and he beat one of them up

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and they retaliated by killing his dog they stabbed the dog to death i am so horrified and

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i am so sad like he was feral and he bit me and i was not i was not at all happy about keeping him

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but we ended up being best friends by the time he left and i loved him and the owner who is very

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clearly a very hot mess he did take such good care of his dogs especially that little guy and i know

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how much he loved that dog he was like a little corgi mix i am so upset just gonna tell me about

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it earlier today and i've not stopped thinking about it since i'm sad for the owner i'm devastated

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for the dog i'm horrified that there's people like this in our sweet little town this whole thing is

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so awful so on that note thanks for listening sorry we're ending it on such a bummer um we do

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have another transport coming just seven days from now it is next saturday so let me know if you

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need help signing up for that because we have got some insanely cute puppies coming on that transport

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and you are not going to want to miss out on them it's a Ruff life but someone's got to do it