Welcome to ruff Life. We have a lot of new fosters
this week from several different transports,
so I want to take a few minutes just to explain
how the themes in the letters for the litters
work, and since I'm taking a lot of time to do
that, I will save my personal drama for the next
transport so that we don't end up with an hour
-long episode, but I will say really quick. Mary
Sue's party last weekend was so much fun. It
was her first birthday. Everyone loved the bunnies
that I brought. It was some bunny is one, so
we had to have some lop -eared bunnies there
to snuggle with. And then we took her to build
a bear for her $1 bear, but don't feel too bad
for build a bear because Grandma was there with
us and she spent like $60 on a build a bear bunny
For Mary Sue and all the clothes and everything
for Easter. So they definitely got their money's
worth from us Okay, if you are a first -time
listener Each transport has an overall theme
and then each animal from that transport has
a name that correlates with that theme. We do
this so that we can keep track of who is related
to whom and who has been exposed to whose germs.
That way, if someone is sick, we can say everyone
with a name that starts with X needs to come
in for treatment because we know that they're
already sick, but anyone from the Y transport
was exposed to it and they need to be watched
closely. So for this podcast, I do not say all
the names in every single litter, partly because
that would take forever, partly because there's
a lot of names I can't pronounce. but I will
say their name if they're a single. So if you
have one or two puppies out of a whole litter,
I will only say their litter letter name. For
example, the bee litter will be the story for
all of the animals whose name starts with the
letter B, but Kona Coffee will get her name said
because she has no litter with her. Okay, with
that said, if you are fostering a mama or a puppy
from the baby books themed transport from february
23rd none of your stories will be listed here
they are all on the baby books episode it should
be three down from this one you are so welcome
to stay here and listen to this week's stories
but you will not hear your foster story on it
but we would still love to have you anyways if
you are fostering mario themed cats and kittens
I do not have the kittens names, but the adults
are, I think, Bowser and Peach. Those are not
from me. They were just from someone local in
Virginia. I do not have their story. Mr. Jack,
you are fostering a young love who was brought
up on the January 31st cutesy name transport.
But since I have been chatting with you all week,
I will not make you go look up her episode. I'll
just tell you really quick. Young Love and her
sister Yearning, who has already been adopted,
were found by our foster's friend's teenage daughter.
She was driving home one night. She saw them
coming out of the woods, heading towards a busy
road super late at night. So she stopped, brought
them home with her. Her mother was furious. She
was not happy at all. But when our foster told
her that she just needed to keep them for two
weeks before we would send them on transport,
she felt much better. This was also the transport
that had that super terrible wreck just 20 minutes
from the wolf trap headquarters with all of our
animals on the van. So young love has lived through
a lot in her short little life. For everyone
else, Mr. Jack and his dog Ranger met Young Love
at the adoption event at the beginning of March.
Unfortunately, they got there just as the event
was ending and they didn't have time to adopt
her that day, but they all three met and they
really hit it off. So when we made a post about
the adoption event two weeks later, Mr. Jack
messaged us to see if Young Love would be there
again. And my robots answered him. Y 'all remember
what a time I am having with these sweet little
baby bots So they wrote him back and they basically
said no young love won't be there, which she
wasn't that's true But then they were like, um,
but just come on out and adopt somebody else
instead So I saw the message later that night
and wrote him back pretty much Begging him to
submit a meet -and -greet for love because she's
an almost six month old black lab mix that no
one has been paying any attention to and I knew
she was just gonna sit in our foster care for
months and months so we talked for a few days
and At some point, these dang robots send him
a foster application to fill out instead of an
adoption application. So poor Mr. Jack fills
out a bespoke foster application and pays the
$25 fee. and then waits for us to send his supposed
meet and greet request to the current fosters,
but Jenny couldn't find any adoption application
anywhere in the system for him and I'm playing
middleman trying to figure out where and when
he submitted it and that's when we finally realized
it was a foster application all along. At this
point we had been talking to him on and off for
like a week. it was mainly me, but my bots would
chime in intermittently with off -the -wall crazy
replies that had nothing to do with anything
we were talking about. I don't know if Mr. Jack
ever figured out that they were robots replying
to him sometimes, or if he thinks I just would
randomly lose my mind, like forget what we were
talking about. And while Mr. Jack... He's a very
lovely man and super funny to talk to getting
him to fill out and submit forms was like pulling
teeth Understandably so though. I know our applications
are Thorough but when he found out he was gonna
have to fill out yet another like 20 page form
He said he needed a few days and I said no way
Jose because I was this close to getting young
love adopted and I was not going to mess this
up for her just because it was going to be another
form. He also pointed out that he had technically
submitted everything that needed to be submitted
to be a foster and paid the fee in order to pick
his specific foster. So after some negotiating
with the team, I was able to convince everyone
to repo love from her sweet foster who has been
so wonderful during all of this and give her
to Mr. Jack for a foster to adopt foster period.
I did explain that he will still have to eventually
fill out the dreaded adoption application in
order to make things official, but this would
at least buy him some more time. Oh, and I reviewed
his foster application when we finally found
it. And one of the questions on it is like, who
lives with you and how old are they? And he answered,
my wife. But we don't ask her that question.
And I cackled. So funny to me that he won't put
his wife's age. But I am so happy for mr. Jack
and ranger and I am so so so happy for young
love because She is about to hit the jackpot
and she doesn't even know it's coming Okay, I
Think that is all my housekeeping notes. Let's
get into today's transport stories The theme
is coffee because I recently started drinking
coffee Actually, I recently started drinking
any caffeine whatsoever and it has changed my
life and honestly changed Wolf Trap's life too.
I think I drive everyone even crazier than before.
Sometimes I'll just like rapid fire a million
questions and ideas to Dr. Burton and she'll
just reply with, how much coffee did you drink
today? But really the real reason that this theme
is coffee because our lovely volunteer and fosterer
and adopter Claire Altman sent me a list with
pretty much everything I needed on it minus a
few local coffee shop names that I wanted to
add and That made my life so much easier than
having to come up with all the names myself So
thank you Claire and thank you so much to everyone
who suggested themes and and helped come up with
the local coffee shop names, too I wrote all
the theme suggestions that you guys had. I know
we were super excited to do a Gilmore Girls transport,
but that has to be saved for a special transport
with like special animals on it because those
are such great names. I cannot just waste those
names. And I think New Girls was suggested too.
I added that to the short list because that's
a great idea. I really want to do Righteous Gemstones.
anyone else watch that show? They're airing their
series finale right now, so I feel like it's
a great time to do Righteous Gemstones, but I
am so afraid that y 'all are gonna judge me for
loving that show so much because it is so unbelievably
terrible. Like, I do not recommend it. No one
should go watch it. It is possibly the funniest
show ever made, but it is so bad and we are all
going to hell for watching it. Okay, on to the
stories. Nitro Brew was posted on Facebook by
our favorite Dr. Jamie. For you new listeners,
Dr. Jamie is Dr. Burton's former student turned
best friend that is a veterinarian in a nearby
town down here. One of her clients found a puppy
at Lake Itawamba. at a job site. It was very
emaciated and they were afraid that if they took
it home it would get parvo because they just
recently had some parvo puppies at their house.
So they took it to Dr. Jamie and she agreed to
keep him at her clinic until we could get him
on transport this weekend. Kona coffee was from
the local kill shelter. The police were checking
out a pickup truck that had been left on the
side of the road and this puppy was in the bed
of it. So they took her to the shelter and then
we got her from there. Zeke's coffee. Oh my gosh,
I love this dog so much. Zeke is from Jessica's
sister Holly's coworker who was 100 weeks pregnant
and actually just had the baby just a few days
ago. um she passed this guy sitting at the intersection
two days in a row and finally on the third day
she stopped even though she had just been put
on bed rest and was on her way home and he jumped
right into her car um her mom ended up taking
him and he's been hanging out at her mom's house
with all her dogs and they love him so much iced
coffee jessica said her story isn't very exciting
she was found as a stray the family finds a lot
of dogs out there But then she said but if you
need to add more to the story you can tell them
about the time that this foster Adopted her foster
now y 'all know I do not stray from my mission
My mission is to get every animal I can out of
the south and into a great home up north Period
like cry your tears. I do not care. We are sending
that dog up north Well, this lady fostered a
dog for us for a few weeks. This was years ago.
And she just boohooed dropping it off. And I
was like, too bad. No, actually, I don't think
she even asked to keep it. I think she knew it
was already committed to wolf trapping. It was
too bad. But literally, the day after we sent
it on transport, she called us and she was like,
that was the biggest mistake of my life. How
can I get her back? We were like, well. It's
pretty much too late on our end. But we were
like, you know, you could fill out a meet and
greet request and submit an adoption application
just like everybody else and see if you get chosen.
And she sure did. They did a virtual meet and
greet. And the current fosters that had the dog
really liked the former fosters. And they picked
them to be her forever home. So the family drove
all the way up to Virginia the day before adoption
day. adopted her back and then drove right back
home. And she is very spoiled down here. She
lives in the house. She accompanies the husband
on lot of his like cross -country big rig trips
and she loves it and as a crazy as that is and
as rare as that is we Actually have someone else
doing that same exact thing on this next adoption
day So if you are at pet smart at the next adoption
day and you hear someone with a southern draw
Make sure you say hi Make wolf trap look good.
Tell them, you know We're super excited that
they're adopting their dog back. The W litter
of two were found roaming at the city park. They
were actually picked up by the same girl that
picked up and took Dove from the last transport,
the bird transport. She's another repeat finder.
It's like the equivalent of a repeat offender,
but in the rescue world. That's Jessica's line,
not mine. The L litter of two were found at the
intersection of a fairly busy county road. They
were sitting there with a bowl of food. The S
litter of three are from our bottle feeder foster.
A lady that they know had a mama dog that had
puppies and she rehomed four of them. These three
were losing a lot of weight and seemed sickly
and she couldn't figure out why so she reached
out to our foster and our foster agreed to take
them and then asked us if we would take them
when they were better. The R litter of four are
from someone who had a mama dog dumped on her
when she was pregnant. when the dog was pregnant
not the person not the human um she lives a couple
counties away and she reached out to literally
every rescue she could think of one rescue did
pay to have the mama dog spayed so that she would
keep the mama dog and then another kept telling
her that she would take all the puppies but then
was never able to everybody else just flat out
told her sorry we're full actually i'm pretty
sure we told her that too but then i did tell
her that Would go ahead and post all of their
pictures and if they got fosters they could go
but if they didn't get anybody signed up for
them like sorry and of course like I posted their
pictures and I posted like those gorgeous Great
Pyrenees puppies do and these These were like
the first ones that got fostered. So I was like,
well good, we can take them. She did give a few
of them away. I think they were originally a
litter of nine. She had multiple people wanting
to take these others, these four, but she said
she knew that they would not be good homes and
they would not get spayed and she just did not
want that for them. So she only gave them to
really good homes. We'll see. The F litter of
seven were pulled by one of our fosters her boss
called her one day while he was out hunting on
some very remote family land and He had just
wandered upon seven super tiny puppies He said
whoever dumped them out there had no intention
of anybody ever finding them because it is so
remote Jessica said but I doubt they're tiny
anymore because they've been waiting a couple
transports for a spot now and Natalie grows them
big and she does she feeds them really good but
that's okay we love it the sea litter of eight
are owner surrenders they are from the same home
as ironically the sea mama and her sea pups from
the march 20th 2021st irish cities transport
i don't i didn't even know that before i named
these the sealer that was just total coincidence
This owner is someone that I used to teach with.
I don't think that this litter is related in
any way to the 2021 litter. That mama in 2021
was found on the side of the road as a puppy
and they brought her home. She eventually got
knocked up and they believe that the dad was
their German shepherd. This mama is a purebred
Great Pyrenees and they believe the dad of these
is their purebred Australian shepherd. they live
on a huge huge farm like crops fields everything
so and they have like a ton of cattle and stuff
so I guess they have to have purebred, great
pyrenees, and Australian shepherds um she did
give away one of them before I got them but I
went ahead and still gave her a spay voucher
for new listeners I give out spay vouchers for
a free spay if you surrender your whole litter
to me but want to keep like the mom and or the
dad but I usually say that if you give any of
them away or if you keep any of them, I won't
give you the free spay. Usually no one calls
my bluff on it and they'll just like go ahead
and let me have the whole litter then so that
I get to save everybody but a few times I do
have my bluff called and I have to decide if
I'm really gonna stick to my guns or just go
ahead and spay the mom anyways. So I did go ahead
and spay this mom anyways because she was also
planning to keep one of the puppies for herself
so it was gonna be two puppies that we weren't
gonna get. But she decided at the last minute
to give it to us when I pointed out to her that
all of the puppies were covered in ringworm.
The one she was wanting to keep literally only
had half of a tail because the other half was
completely covered in ringworm. She had no idea.
And when I told her, she said, um, you can come
right on back and get this one. I want no part
of that. So I went ahead and gave her the spay
voucher then for the cats Java Junction. Okay.
So do you guys remember from the saturday night
live february 14th transport there was a mom
and i think a litter of three they were the bee
kittens so this guy brought her and her three
kittens crammed into this little like fabric
Carrier it was not like a travel crate or anything
and he's like, oh, they're super friendly and
he just opens it up he unsips it and The mama
cat all the kittens just go everywhere like literally
like a can of worms They just explode and then
he looks up at us and he goes Well, thanks ladies
and he waved and left literally Literally me,
my mom and Jessica are running all three in different
directions chasing cats and kittens and he's
like, bye guys and gets in his car and left.
Unbelievable. So we caught all of the kittens
that day, but the mom was gone. She high tailed
it. The owners still have never once asked about
them or if we caught the mom or anything. It
got super cold right after that and we would
see her hiding under the van, the transport van,
or in the bushes. Actually, fun fact, she broke
she broke something on our black like just local
transport van. It was a van that was donated
to us actually by someone in Virginia. It's the
van that we use if we have a double transport
but it's not our usual transport van. crawled
up under it and broke something so mama becky
had to go get it fixed and pay a bunch of money
for it. um but mama becky made an insulated house
for her on the porch and we would see her coming
in and out of that on my camera and we kept food
out for her every day and then we didn't see
her for quite a while and the weather turned
from cold to like constant tornadoes still no
sign of her and then about a week and a half
ago mama becky drove up and she was just sitting
on the front porch on my chair like Like this
is totally normal. I'm here all the time. She
ran off when mom and Becky pulled in. But so
then I was like hysterical over this cat and
I'm like, please, like I'm an hour and a half
away by the time I get there, she's going to
be gone. Like somebody please go back and get
this cat. So Jessica, who lives like. 30 seconds
from the doghouse. She went back over there that
afternoon and the cat ran off again when she
got out. But she was standing in the backyard
looking at Jessica meowing. So Jessica went around
and went in the backyard and she was gone. But
there was a hole under the house where she thinks
she probably was. So she knelt down real close
and called her and she. poked her little head
out and walked right out came right over Jessica
rubbed on her legs like Like she was the friendliest
cat hasn't been feral That's like six weeks super
friendly. So she brought her inside They've been
best friends ever since my mom came over best
friends with my mom. She's so sweet She's always
under the couch though when they get there But
as soon as they sit down and call her she comes
out and crawls all over them in person for a
long time actually Another funny story about
this cat is last transport so the bird transport
when Those kittens were sick and we held them
back. Actually, they're the next story that I'm
gonna talk about When we held those kittens back
we put them on the porch so that like we wouldn't
accidentally love their crate or anything And
when we finished we were all sitting on the porch
And I was very frazzled last transport. I was
very overwhelmed. It was a very hectic transport.
Everyone was bigger than they were supposed to
be. Nobody fit where I thought they were going
to. So I was, my nerves were shot. It just goes.
It just goes, I keep hearing a cat. And I'm like,
Justin, create a kittens right here. You don't
think those are the cats you're hearing? Come
to find out it was actually the mom that he was
hearing This was like a full week before we ended
up catching this cat He was hearing the cat the
whole time literally right under his seat, and
we didn't know it He was like I knew it wasn't
those kittens because I heard the cat meowing
before the kitten crate was even on the porch
He's like, but you were so crabby. I was afraid
to be like Actually, I don't think it's those
kids It's like so I was just like I'm not gonna
say another word because I do not want you to
bite my head off So lesson learned just be nice
to your husband because he's he's scared Okay,
so that litter of three they are now the H litter
of three they were supposed to be on the last
transport They were gonna be the G litter birds
But when they showed up to transport, they were
closed up in a cardboard box. Unbelievable. We
sent them home with a crate because we were like,
you've got to stop showing up like this. But
they were way, way too sick to go. Their eyes
were all gunked up. They could hardly even open
them. So Jess took them home with her because
there are a few things in this world that Jessica
loves more than a pitiful kitten. And they are
super wild now and happy to be able to see well
enough so that they can brace themselves for
her foster puppy. Although they can definitely
hold their own with that foster puppy. The D
litter of eight are also from our bottle feeder
foster. They came from their barn cat that got
knocked up. They now understand the importance
of spaying their cat immediately, which Wolf
Trap is now going to pay for. The rest of our
cats are from our Alabama shelter friends. I
know, I know that y 'all are all dying for some
six week and older kittens right now, but we
are too fresh into kitten season to have many
that old. Everything is still newborn and with
a mama. So please give me like... Three more
weeks and I promise you I will have a kitten
explosion and be begging everyone everywhere
to take a kitten for me Just give me a few more
weeks Gathering grounds. I'm actually not sure
if she's gonna be on the van as of right now.
She does not have a foster but I am holding out
hope that we get one by tomorrow and she will
get to go So i'm going to tell her story just
in case she is supposedly pregnant, but we don't
know for sure i'm doubtful Um, the shelter said
she was brought in at the end of January by an
old lady who thought she was pregnant and didn't
want her to have kittens at her house Pete's
coffee. Um, he's the unaltered male He was a
stray that someone trapped and he was supposed
to be feral They brought him in and said I have
a feral cat, but there's absolutely nothing feral
about him Espresso is the neutered male. He had
an owner who passed away They got him and his
brother when they were nine months old and they
both got adopted but he was returned recently
because the owner's cat from out of state ended
up being brought back to her and that cat doesn't
like him. So they surrendered this one back.
Black coffee and her three be kittens She was
a stray someone was going to keep but then she
had babies and they no longer wanted her The
shelter said she is very sweet and she's a super
great mom mom and pop and her 7m kittens actually
only four of them are hers she came into the
shelter pregnant and Oh, wait, actually, I am
rereading her text now. Actually, only three
of the kittens are hers. She adopted four of
the babies and took them in. She is a super great
mom and they love her so much. Americano and
her five a kittens just came in they literally
just came in like a couple hours ago They don't
even have the genders for the kittens yet because
they didn't even have time to do intake on her
before they closed She was a stray that someone
found and they didn't want to keep her That is
all the stories for this week this transport
was actually originally supposed to be a micro
mini transport. B told me that she only wanted
10 puppies and 20 or so kittens because we have
so many mamas and puppies needing new fosters
from that baby mama transport and I said respectfully
veto. No, I didn't even say respectfully. I just
slid out and said, Veto, we will not be doing
10 puppies on this transport. There is no way.
So I'm super thankful to say that we ended up
getting fosters for everybody on my list plus
two add -ons and everybody on Tatiana's reassignment
list. That is 99 animals total. If everybody
gets to go, that's supposed to go tomorrow. That
is all because of you amazing people, we love
you so very much, and possibly the best news
of all, all of your foster periods will end before
my next transport arrives on the 20th, so you
can all sign up to foster again! Hooray! It is
a ruff life, but someone's gotta do it.