WEBVTT 00:00:10.779 --> 00:00:14.779 Welcome to ruff Life. We have a lot of new fosters 00:00:14.779 --> 00:00:18.239 this week from several different transports, 00:00:18.339 --> 00:00:20.699 so I want to take a few minutes just to explain 00:00:20.699 --> 00:00:23.780 how the themes in the letters for the litters 00:00:23.780 --> 00:00:26.679 work, and since I'm taking a lot of time to do 00:00:26.679 --> 00:00:30.839 that, I will save my personal drama for the next 00:00:30.839 --> 00:00:33.299 transport so that we don't end up with an hour 00:00:33.299 --> 00:00:37.210 -long episode, but I will say really quick. Mary 00:00:37.210 --> 00:00:39.710 Sue's party last weekend was so much fun. It 00:00:39.710 --> 00:00:42.369 was her first birthday. Everyone loved the bunnies 00:00:42.369 --> 00:00:45.369 that I brought. It was some bunny is one, so 00:00:45.369 --> 00:00:47.950 we had to have some lop -eared bunnies there 00:00:47.950 --> 00:00:50.780 to snuggle with. And then we took her to build 00:00:50.780 --> 00:00:54.119 a bear for her $1 bear, but don't feel too bad 00:00:54.119 --> 00:00:56.759 for build a bear because Grandma was there with 00:00:56.759 --> 00:01:01.200 us and she spent like $60 on a build a bear bunny 00:01:01.200 --> 00:01:04.280 For Mary Sue and all the clothes and everything 00:01:04.280 --> 00:01:07.040 for Easter. So they definitely got their money's 00:01:07.040 --> 00:01:11.840 worth from us Okay, if you are a first -time 00:01:11.840 --> 00:01:16.040 listener Each transport has an overall theme 00:01:16.040 --> 00:01:19.060 and then each animal from that transport has 00:01:19.060 --> 00:01:22.519 a name that correlates with that theme. We do 00:01:22.519 --> 00:01:24.920 this so that we can keep track of who is related 00:01:24.920 --> 00:01:27.519 to whom and who has been exposed to whose germs. 00:01:28.650 --> 00:01:32.469 That way, if someone is sick, we can say everyone 00:01:32.469 --> 00:01:36.390 with a name that starts with X needs to come 00:01:36.390 --> 00:01:38.069 in for treatment because we know that they're 00:01:38.069 --> 00:01:41.590 already sick, but anyone from the Y transport 00:01:41.590 --> 00:01:44.329 was exposed to it and they need to be watched 00:01:44.329 --> 00:01:49.189 closely. So for this podcast, I do not say all 00:01:49.189 --> 00:01:52.430 the names in every single litter, partly because 00:01:52.430 --> 00:01:54.129 that would take forever, partly because there's 00:01:54.129 --> 00:01:58.219 a lot of names I can't pronounce. but I will 00:01:58.219 --> 00:02:02.099 say their name if they're a single. So if you 00:02:02.099 --> 00:02:04.819 have one or two puppies out of a whole litter, 00:02:05.180 --> 00:02:10.159 I will only say their litter letter name. For 00:02:10.159 --> 00:02:14.240 example, the bee litter will be the story for 00:02:14.240 --> 00:02:17.000 all of the animals whose name starts with the 00:02:17.000 --> 00:02:20.719 letter B, but Kona Coffee will get her name said 00:02:20.719 --> 00:02:24.939 because she has no litter with her. Okay, with 00:02:24.939 --> 00:02:28.009 that said, if you are fostering a mama or a puppy 00:02:28.009 --> 00:02:31.090 from the baby books themed transport from february 00:02:31.090 --> 00:02:34.129 23rd none of your stories will be listed here 00:02:34.129 --> 00:02:37.389 they are all on the baby books episode it should 00:02:37.389 --> 00:02:40.909 be three down from this one you are so welcome 00:02:40.909 --> 00:02:43.189 to stay here and listen to this week's stories 00:02:43.189 --> 00:02:46.210 but you will not hear your foster story on it 00:02:46.210 --> 00:02:49.550 but we would still love to have you anyways if 00:02:49.550 --> 00:02:52.870 you are fostering mario themed cats and kittens 00:02:53.560 --> 00:02:55.919 I do not have the kittens names, but the adults 00:02:55.919 --> 00:02:59.319 are, I think, Bowser and Peach. Those are not 00:02:59.319 --> 00:03:01.659 from me. They were just from someone local in 00:03:01.659 --> 00:03:05.699 Virginia. I do not have their story. Mr. Jack, 00:03:06.419 --> 00:03:08.979 you are fostering a young love who was brought 00:03:08.979 --> 00:03:12.099 up on the January 31st cutesy name transport. 00:03:12.719 --> 00:03:14.860 But since I have been chatting with you all week, 00:03:14.900 --> 00:03:16.919 I will not make you go look up her episode. I'll 00:03:16.919 --> 00:03:20.000 just tell you really quick. Young Love and her 00:03:20.000 --> 00:03:22.020 sister Yearning, who has already been adopted, 00:03:22.539 --> 00:03:26.379 were found by our foster's friend's teenage daughter. 00:03:26.800 --> 00:03:28.620 She was driving home one night. She saw them 00:03:28.620 --> 00:03:30.500 coming out of the woods, heading towards a busy 00:03:30.500 --> 00:03:33.819 road super late at night. So she stopped, brought 00:03:33.819 --> 00:03:36.620 them home with her. Her mother was furious. She 00:03:36.620 --> 00:03:39.900 was not happy at all. But when our foster told 00:03:39.900 --> 00:03:41.680 her that she just needed to keep them for two 00:03:41.680 --> 00:03:43.699 weeks before we would send them on transport, 00:03:44.180 --> 00:03:47.400 she felt much better. This was also the transport 00:03:47.400 --> 00:03:50.620 that had that super terrible wreck just 20 minutes 00:03:50.620 --> 00:03:53.439 from the wolf trap headquarters with all of our 00:03:53.439 --> 00:03:57.379 animals on the van. So young love has lived through 00:03:57.379 --> 00:04:00.879 a lot in her short little life. For everyone 00:04:00.879 --> 00:04:05.379 else, Mr. Jack and his dog Ranger met Young Love 00:04:05.379 --> 00:04:07.620 at the adoption event at the beginning of March. 00:04:08.219 --> 00:04:10.340 Unfortunately, they got there just as the event 00:04:10.340 --> 00:04:12.280 was ending and they didn't have time to adopt 00:04:12.280 --> 00:04:14.860 her that day, but they all three met and they 00:04:14.860 --> 00:04:18.879 really hit it off. So when we made a post about 00:04:18.879 --> 00:04:21.759 the adoption event two weeks later, Mr. Jack 00:04:21.759 --> 00:04:24.220 messaged us to see if Young Love would be there 00:04:24.220 --> 00:04:29.430 again. And my robots answered him. Y 'all remember 00:04:29.430 --> 00:04:31.629 what a time I am having with these sweet little 00:04:31.629 --> 00:04:35.110 baby bots So they wrote him back and they basically 00:04:35.110 --> 00:04:37.470 said no young love won't be there, which she 00:04:37.470 --> 00:04:40.009 wasn't that's true But then they were like, um, 00:04:40.050 --> 00:04:41.850 but just come on out and adopt somebody else 00:04:41.850 --> 00:04:46.240 instead So I saw the message later that night 00:04:46.240 --> 00:04:49.079 and wrote him back pretty much Begging him to 00:04:49.079 --> 00:04:51.899 submit a meet -and -greet for love because she's 00:04:51.899 --> 00:04:55.220 an almost six month old black lab mix that no 00:04:55.220 --> 00:04:57.560 one has been paying any attention to and I knew 00:04:57.560 --> 00:04:59.639 she was just gonna sit in our foster care for 00:04:59.639 --> 00:05:02.379 months and months so we talked for a few days 00:05:02.379 --> 00:05:06.959 and At some point, these dang robots send him 00:05:06.959 --> 00:05:09.720 a foster application to fill out instead of an 00:05:09.720 --> 00:05:13.139 adoption application. So poor Mr. Jack fills 00:05:13.139 --> 00:05:16.360 out a bespoke foster application and pays the 00:05:16.360 --> 00:05:21.259 $25 fee. and then waits for us to send his supposed 00:05:21.259 --> 00:05:23.319 meet and greet request to the current fosters, 00:05:23.439 --> 00:05:26.879 but Jenny couldn't find any adoption application 00:05:26.879 --> 00:05:29.319 anywhere in the system for him and I'm playing 00:05:29.319 --> 00:05:31.839 middleman trying to figure out where and when 00:05:31.839 --> 00:05:34.420 he submitted it and that's when we finally realized 00:05:34.420 --> 00:05:37.199 it was a foster application all along. At this 00:05:37.199 --> 00:05:39.079 point we had been talking to him on and off for 00:05:39.079 --> 00:05:43.029 like a week. it was mainly me, but my bots would 00:05:43.029 --> 00:05:45.889 chime in intermittently with off -the -wall crazy 00:05:45.889 --> 00:05:47.629 replies that had nothing to do with anything 00:05:47.629 --> 00:05:49.750 we were talking about. I don't know if Mr. Jack 00:05:49.750 --> 00:05:53.550 ever figured out that they were robots replying 00:05:53.550 --> 00:05:55.949 to him sometimes, or if he thinks I just would 00:05:55.949 --> 00:05:58.910 randomly lose my mind, like forget what we were 00:05:58.910 --> 00:06:03.720 talking about. And while Mr. Jack... He's a very 00:06:03.720 --> 00:06:06.899 lovely man and super funny to talk to getting 00:06:06.899 --> 00:06:09.439 him to fill out and submit forms was like pulling 00:06:09.439 --> 00:06:13.220 teeth Understandably so though. I know our applications 00:06:13.220 --> 00:06:18.040 are Thorough but when he found out he was gonna 00:06:18.040 --> 00:06:21.920 have to fill out yet another like 20 page form 00:06:21.920 --> 00:06:25.680 He said he needed a few days and I said no way 00:06:25.680 --> 00:06:30.449 Jose because I was this close to getting young 00:06:30.449 --> 00:06:32.589 love adopted and I was not going to mess this 00:06:32.589 --> 00:06:35.170 up for her just because it was going to be another 00:06:35.170 --> 00:06:38.569 form. He also pointed out that he had technically 00:06:38.569 --> 00:06:40.490 submitted everything that needed to be submitted 00:06:40.490 --> 00:06:43.149 to be a foster and paid the fee in order to pick 00:06:43.149 --> 00:06:46.800 his specific foster. So after some negotiating 00:06:46.800 --> 00:06:49.600 with the team, I was able to convince everyone 00:06:49.600 --> 00:06:55.019 to repo love from her sweet foster who has been 00:06:55.019 --> 00:06:57.819 so wonderful during all of this and give her 00:06:57.819 --> 00:07:01.720 to Mr. Jack for a foster to adopt foster period. 00:07:02.360 --> 00:07:06.459 I did explain that he will still have to eventually 00:07:06.459 --> 00:07:10.720 fill out the dreaded adoption application in 00:07:10.720 --> 00:07:12.699 order to make things official, but this would 00:07:12.699 --> 00:07:16.420 at least buy him some more time. Oh, and I reviewed 00:07:16.420 --> 00:07:18.899 his foster application when we finally found 00:07:18.899 --> 00:07:22.100 it. And one of the questions on it is like, who 00:07:22.100 --> 00:07:26.180 lives with you and how old are they? And he answered, 00:07:26.600 --> 00:07:29.259 my wife. But we don't ask her that question. 00:07:29.459 --> 00:07:34.639 And I cackled. So funny to me that he won't put 00:07:34.639 --> 00:07:39.209 his wife's age. But I am so happy for mr. Jack 00:07:39.209 --> 00:07:43.490 and ranger and I am so so so happy for young 00:07:43.490 --> 00:07:46.250 love because She is about to hit the jackpot 00:07:46.250 --> 00:07:51.009 and she doesn't even know it's coming Okay, I 00:07:51.009 --> 00:07:53.790 Think that is all my housekeeping notes. Let's 00:07:53.790 --> 00:07:57.189 get into today's transport stories The theme 00:07:57.189 --> 00:08:00.170 is coffee because I recently started drinking 00:08:00.170 --> 00:08:02.360 coffee Actually, I recently started drinking 00:08:02.360 --> 00:08:05.920 any caffeine whatsoever and it has changed my 00:08:05.920 --> 00:08:08.220 life and honestly changed Wolf Trap's life too. 00:08:09.000 --> 00:08:12.680 I think I drive everyone even crazier than before. 00:08:13.139 --> 00:08:16.040 Sometimes I'll just like rapid fire a million 00:08:16.040 --> 00:08:18.439 questions and ideas to Dr. Burton and she'll 00:08:18.439 --> 00:08:21.000 just reply with, how much coffee did you drink 00:08:21.000 --> 00:08:25.269 today? But really the real reason that this theme 00:08:25.269 --> 00:08:30.029 is coffee because our lovely volunteer and fosterer 00:08:30.029 --> 00:08:33.049 and adopter Claire Altman sent me a list with 00:08:33.049 --> 00:08:36.090 pretty much everything I needed on it minus a 00:08:36.090 --> 00:08:38.629 few local coffee shop names that I wanted to 00:08:38.629 --> 00:08:41.769 add and That made my life so much easier than 00:08:41.769 --> 00:08:43.990 having to come up with all the names myself So 00:08:43.990 --> 00:08:46.769 thank you Claire and thank you so much to everyone 00:08:46.769 --> 00:08:50.129 who suggested themes and and helped come up with 00:08:50.129 --> 00:08:52.659 the local coffee shop names, too I wrote all 00:08:52.659 --> 00:08:55.580 the theme suggestions that you guys had. I know 00:08:55.580 --> 00:08:58.539 we were super excited to do a Gilmore Girls transport, 00:08:58.720 --> 00:09:03.279 but that has to be saved for a special transport 00:09:03.279 --> 00:09:05.960 with like special animals on it because those 00:09:05.960 --> 00:09:08.360 are such great names. I cannot just waste those 00:09:08.360 --> 00:09:11.919 names. And I think New Girls was suggested too. 00:09:11.940 --> 00:09:14.019 I added that to the short list because that's 00:09:14.019 --> 00:09:18.259 a great idea. I really want to do Righteous Gemstones. 00:09:18.649 --> 00:09:22.450 anyone else watch that show? They're airing their 00:09:22.450 --> 00:09:24.250 series finale right now, so I feel like it's 00:09:24.250 --> 00:09:27.490 a great time to do Righteous Gemstones, but I 00:09:27.490 --> 00:09:29.789 am so afraid that y 'all are gonna judge me for 00:09:29.789 --> 00:09:33.990 loving that show so much because it is so unbelievably 00:09:33.990 --> 00:09:36.769 terrible. Like, I do not recommend it. No one 00:09:36.769 --> 00:09:40.370 should go watch it. It is possibly the funniest 00:09:40.370 --> 00:09:44.350 show ever made, but it is so bad and we are all 00:09:44.350 --> 00:09:49.590 going to hell for watching it. Okay, on to the 00:09:49.590 --> 00:09:54.330 stories. Nitro Brew was posted on Facebook by 00:09:54.330 --> 00:09:57.210 our favorite Dr. Jamie. For you new listeners, 00:09:57.809 --> 00:10:02.070 Dr. Jamie is Dr. Burton's former student turned 00:10:02.070 --> 00:10:05.590 best friend that is a veterinarian in a nearby 00:10:05.590 --> 00:10:09.769 town down here. One of her clients found a puppy 00:10:09.769 --> 00:10:14.070 at Lake Itawamba. at a job site. It was very 00:10:14.070 --> 00:10:16.450 emaciated and they were afraid that if they took 00:10:16.450 --> 00:10:18.450 it home it would get parvo because they just 00:10:18.450 --> 00:10:21.129 recently had some parvo puppies at their house. 00:10:21.629 --> 00:10:24.110 So they took it to Dr. Jamie and she agreed to 00:10:24.110 --> 00:10:26.070 keep him at her clinic until we could get him 00:10:26.070 --> 00:10:30.549 on transport this weekend. Kona coffee was from 00:10:30.549 --> 00:10:33.789 the local kill shelter. The police were checking 00:10:33.789 --> 00:10:36.029 out a pickup truck that had been left on the 00:10:36.029 --> 00:10:38.090 side of the road and this puppy was in the bed 00:10:38.090 --> 00:10:40.450 of it. So they took her to the shelter and then 00:10:40.450 --> 00:10:43.750 we got her from there. Zeke's coffee. Oh my gosh, 00:10:43.750 --> 00:10:47.730 I love this dog so much. Zeke is from Jessica's 00:10:47.730 --> 00:10:52.870 sister Holly's coworker who was 100 weeks pregnant 00:10:52.870 --> 00:10:55.330 and actually just had the baby just a few days 00:10:55.330 --> 00:10:59.029 ago. um she passed this guy sitting at the intersection 00:10:59.029 --> 00:11:02.070 two days in a row and finally on the third day 00:11:02.070 --> 00:11:04.789 she stopped even though she had just been put 00:11:04.789 --> 00:11:07.789 on bed rest and was on her way home and he jumped 00:11:07.789 --> 00:11:11.309 right into her car um her mom ended up taking 00:11:11.309 --> 00:11:13.370 him and he's been hanging out at her mom's house 00:11:13.370 --> 00:11:17.470 with all her dogs and they love him so much iced 00:11:17.470 --> 00:11:21.750 coffee jessica said her story isn't very exciting 00:11:21.750 --> 00:11:24.570 she was found as a stray the family finds a lot 00:11:24.570 --> 00:11:28.190 of dogs out there But then she said but if you 00:11:28.190 --> 00:11:30.110 need to add more to the story you can tell them 00:11:30.110 --> 00:11:34.769 about the time that this foster Adopted her foster 00:11:34.769 --> 00:11:39.129 now y 'all know I do not stray from my mission 00:11:39.129 --> 00:11:42.909 My mission is to get every animal I can out of 00:11:42.909 --> 00:11:45.570 the south and into a great home up north Period 00:11:45.570 --> 00:11:48.470 like cry your tears. I do not care. We are sending 00:11:48.470 --> 00:11:52.139 that dog up north Well, this lady fostered a 00:11:52.139 --> 00:11:54.559 dog for us for a few weeks. This was years ago. 00:11:54.960 --> 00:11:58.480 And she just boohooed dropping it off. And I 00:11:58.480 --> 00:12:01.440 was like, too bad. No, actually, I don't think 00:12:01.440 --> 00:12:03.580 she even asked to keep it. I think she knew it 00:12:03.580 --> 00:12:05.960 was already committed to wolf trapping. It was 00:12:05.960 --> 00:12:09.840 too bad. But literally, the day after we sent 00:12:09.840 --> 00:12:12.360 it on transport, she called us and she was like, 00:12:12.879 --> 00:12:14.799 that was the biggest mistake of my life. How 00:12:14.799 --> 00:12:17.970 can I get her back? We were like, well. It's 00:12:17.970 --> 00:12:21.149 pretty much too late on our end. But we were 00:12:21.149 --> 00:12:22.669 like, you know, you could fill out a meet and 00:12:22.669 --> 00:12:24.950 greet request and submit an adoption application 00:12:24.950 --> 00:12:28.330 just like everybody else and see if you get chosen. 00:12:28.769 --> 00:12:33.169 And she sure did. They did a virtual meet and 00:12:33.169 --> 00:12:35.370 greet. And the current fosters that had the dog 00:12:35.370 --> 00:12:39.450 really liked the former fosters. And they picked 00:12:39.450 --> 00:12:42.769 them to be her forever home. So the family drove 00:12:42.769 --> 00:12:45.389 all the way up to Virginia the day before adoption 00:12:45.389 --> 00:12:48.490 day. adopted her back and then drove right back 00:12:48.490 --> 00:12:52.450 home. And she is very spoiled down here. She 00:12:52.450 --> 00:12:55.210 lives in the house. She accompanies the husband 00:12:55.210 --> 00:12:58.950 on lot of his like cross -country big rig trips 00:12:58.950 --> 00:13:03.370 and she loves it and as a crazy as that is and 00:13:03.370 --> 00:13:07.149 as rare as that is we Actually have someone else 00:13:07.149 --> 00:13:10.789 doing that same exact thing on this next adoption 00:13:10.789 --> 00:13:14.690 day So if you are at pet smart at the next adoption 00:13:14.690 --> 00:13:17.610 day and you hear someone with a southern draw 00:13:17.610 --> 00:13:21.470 Make sure you say hi Make wolf trap look good. 00:13:21.470 --> 00:13:24.279 Tell them, you know We're super excited that 00:13:24.279 --> 00:13:29.179 they're adopting their dog back. The W litter 00:13:29.179 --> 00:13:32.779 of two were found roaming at the city park. They 00:13:32.779 --> 00:13:35.360 were actually picked up by the same girl that 00:13:35.360 --> 00:13:39.240 picked up and took Dove from the last transport, 00:13:39.320 --> 00:13:43.139 the bird transport. She's another repeat finder. 00:13:43.200 --> 00:13:46.500 It's like the equivalent of a repeat offender, 00:13:46.539 --> 00:13:49.500 but in the rescue world. That's Jessica's line, 00:13:49.600 --> 00:13:54.240 not mine. The L litter of two were found at the 00:13:54.240 --> 00:13:57.279 intersection of a fairly busy county road. They 00:13:57.279 --> 00:14:01.320 were sitting there with a bowl of food. The S 00:14:01.320 --> 00:14:03.960 litter of three are from our bottle feeder foster. 00:14:04.620 --> 00:14:06.720 A lady that they know had a mama dog that had 00:14:06.720 --> 00:14:10.059 puppies and she rehomed four of them. These three 00:14:10.059 --> 00:14:12.259 were losing a lot of weight and seemed sickly 00:14:12.259 --> 00:14:14.799 and she couldn't figure out why so she reached 00:14:14.799 --> 00:14:17.379 out to our foster and our foster agreed to take 00:14:17.379 --> 00:14:20.080 them and then asked us if we would take them 00:14:20.080 --> 00:14:23.919 when they were better. The R litter of four are 00:14:23.919 --> 00:14:26.779 from someone who had a mama dog dumped on her 00:14:26.779 --> 00:14:29.039 when she was pregnant. when the dog was pregnant 00:14:29.039 --> 00:14:32.320 not the person not the human um she lives a couple 00:14:32.320 --> 00:14:35.340 counties away and she reached out to literally 00:14:35.340 --> 00:14:38.919 every rescue she could think of one rescue did 00:14:38.919 --> 00:14:41.500 pay to have the mama dog spayed so that she would 00:14:41.500 --> 00:14:44.080 keep the mama dog and then another kept telling 00:14:44.080 --> 00:14:46.179 her that she would take all the puppies but then 00:14:46.179 --> 00:14:49.740 was never able to everybody else just flat out 00:14:49.740 --> 00:14:52.379 told her sorry we're full actually i'm pretty 00:14:52.379 --> 00:14:55.460 sure we told her that too but then i did tell 00:14:55.460 --> 00:14:58.429 her that Would go ahead and post all of their 00:14:58.429 --> 00:15:00.789 pictures and if they got fosters they could go 00:15:00.789 --> 00:15:02.730 but if they didn't get anybody signed up for 00:15:02.730 --> 00:15:06.889 them like sorry and of course like I posted their 00:15:06.889 --> 00:15:09.669 pictures and I posted like those gorgeous Great 00:15:09.669 --> 00:15:13.210 Pyrenees puppies do and these These were like 00:15:13.210 --> 00:15:15.610 the first ones that got fostered. So I was like, 00:15:15.730 --> 00:15:18.490 well good, we can take them. She did give a few 00:15:18.490 --> 00:15:20.549 of them away. I think they were originally a 00:15:20.549 --> 00:15:24.210 litter of nine. She had multiple people wanting 00:15:24.210 --> 00:15:27.409 to take these others, these four, but she said 00:15:27.409 --> 00:15:29.070 she knew that they would not be good homes and 00:15:29.070 --> 00:15:31.409 they would not get spayed and she just did not 00:15:31.409 --> 00:15:33.370 want that for them. So she only gave them to 00:15:33.370 --> 00:15:38.129 really good homes. We'll see. The F litter of 00:15:38.129 --> 00:15:42.190 seven were pulled by one of our fosters her boss 00:15:42.190 --> 00:15:44.850 called her one day while he was out hunting on 00:15:44.850 --> 00:15:48.690 some very remote family land and He had just 00:15:48.690 --> 00:15:53.009 wandered upon seven super tiny puppies He said 00:15:53.009 --> 00:15:55.450 whoever dumped them out there had no intention 00:15:55.450 --> 00:15:57.850 of anybody ever finding them because it is so 00:15:57.850 --> 00:16:00.970 remote Jessica said but I doubt they're tiny 00:16:00.970 --> 00:16:03.149 anymore because they've been waiting a couple 00:16:03.149 --> 00:16:06.450 transports for a spot now and Natalie grows them 00:16:06.409 --> 00:16:10.009 big and she does she feeds them really good but 00:16:10.009 --> 00:16:13.830 that's okay we love it the sea litter of eight 00:16:13.830 --> 00:16:16.769 are owner surrenders they are from the same home 00:16:16.769 --> 00:16:21.269 as ironically the sea mama and her sea pups from 00:16:21.269 --> 00:16:25.889 the march 20th 2021st irish cities transport 00:16:25.889 --> 00:16:28.909 i don't i didn't even know that before i named 00:16:28.909 --> 00:16:31.529 these the sealer that was just total coincidence 00:16:32.240 --> 00:16:35.019 This owner is someone that I used to teach with. 00:16:35.519 --> 00:16:38.460 I don't think that this litter is related in 00:16:38.460 --> 00:16:42.100 any way to the 2021 litter. That mama in 2021 00:16:42.100 --> 00:16:44.139 was found on the side of the road as a puppy 00:16:44.139 --> 00:16:46.299 and they brought her home. She eventually got 00:16:46.299 --> 00:16:48.840 knocked up and they believe that the dad was 00:16:48.840 --> 00:16:53.500 their German shepherd. This mama is a purebred 00:16:53.500 --> 00:16:56.679 Great Pyrenees and they believe the dad of these 00:16:56.679 --> 00:17:00.919 is their purebred Australian shepherd. they live 00:17:00.919 --> 00:17:04.759 on a huge huge farm like crops fields everything 00:17:04.759 --> 00:17:07.240 so and they have like a ton of cattle and stuff 00:17:07.240 --> 00:17:10.359 so I guess they have to have purebred, great 00:17:10.359 --> 00:17:13.099 pyrenees, and Australian shepherds um she did 00:17:13.099 --> 00:17:15.319 give away one of them before I got them but I 00:17:15.319 --> 00:17:17.920 went ahead and still gave her a spay voucher 00:17:17.920 --> 00:17:21.740 for new listeners I give out spay vouchers for 00:17:21.740 --> 00:17:24.460 a free spay if you surrender your whole litter 00:17:24.460 --> 00:17:27.579 to me but want to keep like the mom and or the 00:17:27.579 --> 00:17:32.700 dad but I usually say that if you give any of 00:17:32.700 --> 00:17:35.119 them away or if you keep any of them, I won't 00:17:35.119 --> 00:17:39.279 give you the free spay. Usually no one calls 00:17:39.279 --> 00:17:41.359 my bluff on it and they'll just like go ahead 00:17:41.359 --> 00:17:43.480 and let me have the whole litter then so that 00:17:43.480 --> 00:17:46.819 I get to save everybody but a few times I do 00:17:46.819 --> 00:17:48.980 have my bluff called and I have to decide if 00:17:48.980 --> 00:17:50.960 I'm really gonna stick to my guns or just go 00:17:50.960 --> 00:17:53.980 ahead and spay the mom anyways. So I did go ahead 00:17:53.980 --> 00:17:58.460 and spay this mom anyways because she was also 00:17:58.460 --> 00:18:00.619 planning to keep one of the puppies for herself 00:18:00.619 --> 00:18:02.819 so it was gonna be two puppies that we weren't 00:18:02.819 --> 00:18:05.759 gonna get. But she decided at the last minute 00:18:05.759 --> 00:18:08.380 to give it to us when I pointed out to her that 00:18:08.380 --> 00:18:10.599 all of the puppies were covered in ringworm. 00:18:11.779 --> 00:18:14.539 The one she was wanting to keep literally only 00:18:14.539 --> 00:18:16.779 had half of a tail because the other half was 00:18:16.779 --> 00:18:19.559 completely covered in ringworm. She had no idea. 00:18:20.279 --> 00:18:22.819 And when I told her, she said, um, you can come 00:18:22.819 --> 00:18:25.140 right on back and get this one. I want no part 00:18:25.140 --> 00:18:28.160 of that. So I went ahead and gave her the spay 00:18:28.160 --> 00:18:32.900 voucher then for the cats Java Junction. Okay. 00:18:32.980 --> 00:18:36.690 So do you guys remember from the saturday night 00:18:36.690 --> 00:18:41.369 live february 14th transport there was a mom 00:18:41.369 --> 00:18:43.589 and i think a litter of three they were the bee 00:18:43.589 --> 00:18:47.049 kittens so this guy brought her and her three 00:18:47.049 --> 00:18:50.829 kittens crammed into this little like fabric 00:18:51.109 --> 00:18:54.410 Carrier it was not like a travel crate or anything 00:18:54.410 --> 00:18:56.910 and he's like, oh, they're super friendly and 00:18:56.910 --> 00:19:00.769 he just opens it up he unsips it and The mama 00:19:00.769 --> 00:19:03.829 cat all the kittens just go everywhere like literally 00:19:03.829 --> 00:19:06.730 like a can of worms They just explode and then 00:19:06.730 --> 00:19:10.549 he looks up at us and he goes Well, thanks ladies 00:19:10.549 --> 00:19:15.009 and he waved and left literally Literally me, 00:19:15.069 --> 00:19:17.869 my mom and Jessica are running all three in different 00:19:17.869 --> 00:19:20.670 directions chasing cats and kittens and he's 00:19:20.670 --> 00:19:24.029 like, bye guys and gets in his car and left. 00:19:24.670 --> 00:19:27.109 Unbelievable. So we caught all of the kittens 00:19:27.109 --> 00:19:30.430 that day, but the mom was gone. She high tailed 00:19:30.430 --> 00:19:33.910 it. The owners still have never once asked about 00:19:33.910 --> 00:19:37.809 them or if we caught the mom or anything. It 00:19:37.809 --> 00:19:40.410 got super cold right after that and we would 00:19:40.410 --> 00:19:42.769 see her hiding under the van, the transport van, 00:19:42.930 --> 00:19:45.730 or in the bushes. Actually, fun fact, she broke 00:19:45.730 --> 00:19:51.130 she broke something on our black like just local 00:19:51.130 --> 00:19:53.109 transport van. It was a van that was donated 00:19:53.109 --> 00:19:56.509 to us actually by someone in Virginia. It's the 00:19:56.509 --> 00:19:58.170 van that we use if we have a double transport 00:19:58.170 --> 00:20:02.099 but it's not our usual transport van. crawled 00:20:02.099 --> 00:20:05.640 up under it and broke something so mama becky 00:20:05.640 --> 00:20:07.680 had to go get it fixed and pay a bunch of money 00:20:07.680 --> 00:20:12.390 for it. um but mama becky made an insulated house 00:20:12.390 --> 00:20:15.170 for her on the porch and we would see her coming 00:20:15.170 --> 00:20:17.910 in and out of that on my camera and we kept food 00:20:17.910 --> 00:20:20.289 out for her every day and then we didn't see 00:20:20.289 --> 00:20:22.210 her for quite a while and the weather turned 00:20:22.210 --> 00:20:26.750 from cold to like constant tornadoes still no 00:20:26.750 --> 00:20:28.829 sign of her and then about a week and a half 00:20:28.829 --> 00:20:32.769 ago mama becky drove up and she was just sitting 00:20:32.769 --> 00:20:36.359 on the front porch on my chair like Like this 00:20:36.359 --> 00:20:38.720 is totally normal. I'm here all the time. She 00:20:38.720 --> 00:20:42.079 ran off when mom and Becky pulled in. But so 00:20:42.079 --> 00:20:44.440 then I was like hysterical over this cat and 00:20:44.440 --> 00:20:46.640 I'm like, please, like I'm an hour and a half 00:20:46.640 --> 00:20:47.859 away by the time I get there, she's going to 00:20:47.859 --> 00:20:50.039 be gone. Like somebody please go back and get 00:20:50.039 --> 00:20:54.319 this cat. So Jessica, who lives like. 30 seconds 00:20:54.319 --> 00:20:56.700 from the doghouse. She went back over there that 00:20:56.700 --> 00:20:59.380 afternoon and the cat ran off again when she 00:20:59.380 --> 00:21:01.960 got out. But she was standing in the backyard 00:21:01.960 --> 00:21:05.660 looking at Jessica meowing. So Jessica went around 00:21:05.660 --> 00:21:08.119 and went in the backyard and she was gone. But 00:21:08.119 --> 00:21:11.019 there was a hole under the house where she thinks 00:21:11.019 --> 00:21:13.700 she probably was. So she knelt down real close 00:21:13.700 --> 00:21:16.789 and called her and she. poked her little head 00:21:16.789 --> 00:21:19.690 out and walked right out came right over Jessica 00:21:19.690 --> 00:21:22.970 rubbed on her legs like Like she was the friendliest 00:21:22.970 --> 00:21:27.930 cat hasn't been feral That's like six weeks super 00:21:27.930 --> 00:21:30.130 friendly. So she brought her inside They've been 00:21:30.130 --> 00:21:32.589 best friends ever since my mom came over best 00:21:32.589 --> 00:21:35.630 friends with my mom. She's so sweet She's always 00:21:35.630 --> 00:21:37.569 under the couch though when they get there But 00:21:37.569 --> 00:21:39.309 as soon as they sit down and call her she comes 00:21:39.309 --> 00:21:41.410 out and crawls all over them in person for a 00:21:41.410 --> 00:21:44.549 long time actually Another funny story about 00:21:44.549 --> 00:21:48.490 this cat is last transport so the bird transport 00:21:48.490 --> 00:21:51.589 when Those kittens were sick and we held them 00:21:51.589 --> 00:21:53.269 back. Actually, they're the next story that I'm 00:21:53.269 --> 00:21:56.430 gonna talk about When we held those kittens back 00:21:56.430 --> 00:21:59.529 we put them on the porch so that like we wouldn't 00:21:59.529 --> 00:22:02.529 accidentally love their crate or anything And 00:22:02.529 --> 00:22:04.869 when we finished we were all sitting on the porch 00:22:06.680 --> 00:22:10.579 And I was very frazzled last transport. I was 00:22:10.579 --> 00:22:12.880 very overwhelmed. It was a very hectic transport. 00:22:13.319 --> 00:22:15.299 Everyone was bigger than they were supposed to 00:22:15.299 --> 00:22:18.059 be. Nobody fit where I thought they were going 00:22:18.059 --> 00:22:23.140 to. So I was, my nerves were shot. It just goes. 00:22:25.259 --> 00:22:28.619 It just goes, I keep hearing a cat. And I'm like, 00:22:28.740 --> 00:22:32.880 Justin, create a kittens right here. You don't 00:22:32.880 --> 00:22:36.900 think those are the cats you're hearing? Come 00:22:36.900 --> 00:22:40.039 to find out it was actually the mom that he was 00:22:40.039 --> 00:22:43.200 hearing This was like a full week before we ended 00:22:43.200 --> 00:22:45.740 up catching this cat He was hearing the cat the 00:22:45.740 --> 00:22:48.180 whole time literally right under his seat, and 00:22:48.180 --> 00:22:51.980 we didn't know it He was like I knew it wasn't 00:22:51.980 --> 00:22:55.319 those kittens because I heard the cat meowing 00:22:55.319 --> 00:22:57.599 before the kitten crate was even on the porch 00:22:57.599 --> 00:23:00.619 He's like, but you were so crabby. I was afraid 00:23:00.619 --> 00:23:03.700 to be like Actually, I don't think it's those 00:23:03.700 --> 00:23:06.369 kids It's like so I was just like I'm not gonna 00:23:06.369 --> 00:23:08.190 say another word because I do not want you to 00:23:08.190 --> 00:23:12.869 bite my head off So lesson learned just be nice 00:23:12.869 --> 00:23:18.309 to your husband because he's he's scared Okay, 00:23:18.609 --> 00:23:22.049 so that litter of three they are now the H litter 00:23:22.049 --> 00:23:24.150 of three they were supposed to be on the last 00:23:24.150 --> 00:23:27.450 transport They were gonna be the G litter birds 00:23:28.500 --> 00:23:31.720 But when they showed up to transport, they were 00:23:31.720 --> 00:23:34.279 closed up in a cardboard box. Unbelievable. We 00:23:34.279 --> 00:23:36.460 sent them home with a crate because we were like, 00:23:36.680 --> 00:23:39.180 you've got to stop showing up like this. But 00:23:39.180 --> 00:23:41.819 they were way, way too sick to go. Their eyes 00:23:41.819 --> 00:23:43.819 were all gunked up. They could hardly even open 00:23:43.819 --> 00:23:46.900 them. So Jess took them home with her because 00:23:46.900 --> 00:23:49.799 there are a few things in this world that Jessica 00:23:49.799 --> 00:23:53.480 loves more than a pitiful kitten. And they are 00:23:53.480 --> 00:23:56.119 super wild now and happy to be able to see well 00:23:56.119 --> 00:23:58.799 enough so that they can brace themselves for 00:23:58.799 --> 00:24:01.220 her foster puppy. Although they can definitely 00:24:01.220 --> 00:24:04.680 hold their own with that foster puppy. The D 00:24:04.680 --> 00:24:06.900 litter of eight are also from our bottle feeder 00:24:06.900 --> 00:24:10.099 foster. They came from their barn cat that got 00:24:10.099 --> 00:24:13.119 knocked up. They now understand the importance 00:24:13.119 --> 00:24:16.259 of spaying their cat immediately, which Wolf 00:24:16.259 --> 00:24:20.660 Trap is now going to pay for. The rest of our 00:24:20.660 --> 00:24:24.539 cats are from our Alabama shelter friends. I 00:24:24.539 --> 00:24:28.660 know, I know that y 'all are all dying for some 00:24:28.660 --> 00:24:31.779 six week and older kittens right now, but we 00:24:31.779 --> 00:24:34.579 are too fresh into kitten season to have many 00:24:34.579 --> 00:24:37.720 that old. Everything is still newborn and with 00:24:37.720 --> 00:24:41.250 a mama. So please give me like... Three more 00:24:41.250 --> 00:24:43.630 weeks and I promise you I will have a kitten 00:24:43.630 --> 00:24:46.230 explosion and be begging everyone everywhere 00:24:46.230 --> 00:24:49.970 to take a kitten for me Just give me a few more 00:24:49.970 --> 00:24:54.690 weeks Gathering grounds. I'm actually not sure 00:24:54.690 --> 00:24:56.750 if she's gonna be on the van as of right now. 00:24:56.750 --> 00:24:59.990 She does not have a foster but I am holding out 00:24:59.990 --> 00:25:02.390 hope that we get one by tomorrow and she will 00:25:02.390 --> 00:25:03.890 get to go So i'm going to tell her story just 00:25:03.890 --> 00:25:07.109 in case she is supposedly pregnant, but we don't 00:25:07.109 --> 00:25:10.299 know for sure i'm doubtful Um, the shelter said 00:25:10.299 --> 00:25:12.500 she was brought in at the end of January by an 00:25:12.500 --> 00:25:14.519 old lady who thought she was pregnant and didn't 00:25:14.519 --> 00:25:17.980 want her to have kittens at her house Pete's 00:25:17.980 --> 00:25:22.579 coffee. Um, he's the unaltered male He was a 00:25:22.579 --> 00:25:24.680 stray that someone trapped and he was supposed 00:25:24.680 --> 00:25:26.660 to be feral They brought him in and said I have 00:25:26.660 --> 00:25:29.660 a feral cat, but there's absolutely nothing feral 00:25:29.660 --> 00:25:33.880 about him Espresso is the neutered male. He had 00:25:33.880 --> 00:25:38.039 an owner who passed away They got him and his 00:25:38.039 --> 00:25:41.359 brother when they were nine months old and they 00:25:41.359 --> 00:25:44.220 both got adopted but he was returned recently 00:25:44.220 --> 00:25:47.700 because the owner's cat from out of state ended 00:25:47.700 --> 00:25:50.980 up being brought back to her and that cat doesn't 00:25:50.980 --> 00:25:53.779 like him. So they surrendered this one back. 00:25:54.820 --> 00:25:59.420 Black coffee and her three be kittens She was 00:25:59.420 --> 00:26:01.619 a stray someone was going to keep but then she 00:26:01.619 --> 00:26:04.019 had babies and they no longer wanted her The 00:26:04.019 --> 00:26:06.480 shelter said she is very sweet and she's a super 00:26:06.480 --> 00:26:11.920 great mom mom and pop and her 7m kittens actually 00:26:11.920 --> 00:26:15.220 only four of them are hers she came into the 00:26:15.220 --> 00:26:19.609 shelter pregnant and Oh, wait, actually, I am 00:26:19.609 --> 00:26:22.430 rereading her text now. Actually, only three 00:26:22.430 --> 00:26:26.170 of the kittens are hers. She adopted four of 00:26:26.170 --> 00:26:31.390 the babies and took them in. She is a super great 00:26:31.390 --> 00:26:34.940 mom and they love her so much. Americano and 00:26:34.940 --> 00:26:38.640 her five a kittens just came in they literally 00:26:38.640 --> 00:26:40.240 just came in like a couple hours ago They don't 00:26:40.240 --> 00:26:42.539 even have the genders for the kittens yet because 00:26:42.539 --> 00:26:44.460 they didn't even have time to do intake on her 00:26:44.460 --> 00:26:47.579 before they closed She was a stray that someone 00:26:47.579 --> 00:26:51.680 found and they didn't want to keep her That is 00:26:51.680 --> 00:26:53.900 all the stories for this week this transport 00:26:53.900 --> 00:26:56.869 was actually originally supposed to be a micro 00:26:56.869 --> 00:27:00.509 mini transport. B told me that she only wanted 00:27:00.509 --> 00:27:04.269 10 puppies and 20 or so kittens because we have 00:27:04.269 --> 00:27:07.049 so many mamas and puppies needing new fosters 00:27:07.049 --> 00:27:12.089 from that baby mama transport and I said respectfully 00:27:12.089 --> 00:27:15.990 veto. No, I didn't even say respectfully. I just 00:27:15.990 --> 00:27:19.490 slid out and said, Veto, we will not be doing 00:27:19.490 --> 00:27:22.410 10 puppies on this transport. There is no way. 00:27:22.869 --> 00:27:26.210 So I'm super thankful to say that we ended up 00:27:26.210 --> 00:27:29.809 getting fosters for everybody on my list plus 00:27:29.809 --> 00:27:34.089 two add -ons and everybody on Tatiana's reassignment 00:27:34.089 --> 00:27:38.930 list. That is 99 animals total. If everybody 00:27:38.930 --> 00:27:41.759 gets to go, that's supposed to go tomorrow. That 00:27:41.759 --> 00:27:45.759 is all because of you amazing people, we love 00:27:45.759 --> 00:27:50.180 you so very much, and possibly the best news 00:27:50.180 --> 00:27:54.960 of all, all of your foster periods will end before 00:27:54.960 --> 00:27:59.240 my next transport arrives on the 20th, so you 00:27:59.240 --> 00:28:05.140 can all sign up to foster again! Hooray! It is 00:28:05.140 --> 00:28:07.619 a ruff life, but someone's gotta do it.