WEBVTT 00:00:11.030 --> 00:00:16.250 Hello, friends. Welcome to Rough Life. What a 00:00:16.250 --> 00:00:18.789 weekend. Okay, before we really get started, 00:00:19.670 --> 00:00:22.710 I've got my alarm set to go off in just a little 00:00:22.710 --> 00:00:25.550 bit so that I'm not late to transport. So if 00:00:25.550 --> 00:00:28.989 you hear an alarm going off soon and I keep talking, 00:00:30.339 --> 00:00:34.030 transport's probably gonna be late. I never thought 00:00:34.030 --> 00:00:36.710 I would say this, but I actually miss the old 00:00:36.710 --> 00:00:39.570 house and how our office was in the garage because 00:00:39.570 --> 00:00:43.590 it was so quiet. With that being said, at the 00:00:43.590 --> 00:00:46.750 new house where we're in now, our office is right 00:00:46.750 --> 00:00:50.969 off of the great room, the living room. If you 00:00:50.969 --> 00:00:54.590 hear any squealing or talking, Mary Sue is in 00:00:54.590 --> 00:00:57.590 that room with Justin and Justin's parents while 00:00:57.590 --> 00:00:59.890 they try to help him fix a few things in there. 00:01:01.039 --> 00:01:05.480 But so this weekend we needed roughly 80 fosters, 00:01:05.640 --> 00:01:08.579 and I am not exaggerating. I know I'm known to 00:01:08.579 --> 00:01:11.239 exaggerate, but we needed about 80 fosters this 00:01:11.239 --> 00:01:14.340 weekend. We had some animals that needed fosters 00:01:14.340 --> 00:01:16.500 that weren't able to attend the adoption event. 00:01:16.879 --> 00:01:20.000 We had 15 puppies attending the adoption event 00:01:20.000 --> 00:01:22.819 today that we needed backup fosters for in case 00:01:22.819 --> 00:01:25.359 they weren't adopted, which eight of them were 00:01:25.359 --> 00:01:30.400 adopted, hooray. then we have 35 puppies coming 00:01:30.400 --> 00:01:33.379 up on transport leaving today arriving tomorrow 00:01:33.379 --> 00:01:37.060 so we needed 35 fosters for that and 24 kitten 00:01:37.060 --> 00:01:40.959 fosters. I'm pretty sure in my email I say 20 00:01:40.959 --> 00:01:44.680 kittens but we were able to save 24 kittens thanks 00:01:44.680 --> 00:01:49.400 to so many people signing up. I'm also super 00:01:49.400 --> 00:01:52.140 super excited to share if you have been following 00:01:52.140 --> 00:01:54.620 along with the never -ending foster coordinating 00:01:54.620 --> 00:01:59.290 story it is finally coming to a very happy end. 00:01:59.890 --> 00:02:02.769 Melissa is coming on full time with us. She's 00:02:02.769 --> 00:02:04.950 been part time this last month, but she's coming 00:02:04.950 --> 00:02:08.969 on full time to be our foster coordinator. I 00:02:08.969 --> 00:02:12.650 literally cannot wait. If you're new here, our 00:02:12.650 --> 00:02:17.919 last foster coordinator just stopped. just stopped 00:02:17.919 --> 00:02:21.960 one day. It was the day of transport in the beginning 00:02:21.960 --> 00:02:25.439 of April and she just stopped talking to Dr. 00:02:25.639 --> 00:02:27.500 Burton, stopped talking to me, didn't answer 00:02:27.500 --> 00:02:30.960 any fosters, just left. We didn't even have enough 00:02:30.960 --> 00:02:33.539 fosters for transport and she didn't tell us. 00:02:33.900 --> 00:02:36.580 It was the absolute weirdest thing that I have 00:02:36.580 --> 00:02:40.180 ever seen because I really liked her before that. 00:02:40.180 --> 00:02:43.860 I thought she was great. So We were so confused 00:02:43.860 --> 00:02:46.740 and we were so worried about her that Dr. Burton 00:02:46.740 --> 00:02:49.800 literally found the girl's mother's phone number 00:02:49.800 --> 00:02:52.139 and was going to call her to make sure that the 00:02:52.139 --> 00:02:55.379 girl hadn't like died because we couldn't believe 00:02:55.379 --> 00:02:59.180 that an actual full grown adult would just ghost 00:02:59.180 --> 00:03:01.860 on a job that they had been doing for over a 00:03:01.860 --> 00:03:04.860 month. But no, that's that's exactly what she 00:03:04.860 --> 00:03:08.319 did. So that left us without a foster coordinator, 00:03:08.639 --> 00:03:11.599 a ton of puppies needing to go on transport and 00:03:11.659 --> 00:03:15.639 no one to coordinate anything. So like the next 00:03:15.639 --> 00:03:17.500 day, Dr. Burton was leaving to get on an airplane 00:03:17.500 --> 00:03:20.740 and literally just gave me all the login information 00:03:20.740 --> 00:03:24.680 and passwords and said, good luck, make transport 00:03:24.680 --> 00:03:27.159 happen because we can't afford to close down 00:03:27.159 --> 00:03:29.259 until we get another foster coordinator in here. 00:03:30.159 --> 00:03:34.219 And while I admit it has not been pretty at sometimes. 00:03:34.919 --> 00:03:38.060 We got her done. We have gotten a foster for 00:03:38.060 --> 00:03:40.039 every single animal that has needed to have a 00:03:40.039 --> 00:03:43.659 foster since beginning of April. It has been 00:03:43.659 --> 00:03:47.099 chaotic and crazy, but it has been so fun getting 00:03:47.099 --> 00:03:49.300 to know all of you and send you these sweet, 00:03:49.379 --> 00:03:54.560 sweet babies. But I am really happy to be passing 00:03:54.560 --> 00:03:57.780 the torch to Melissa, whose life I have already 00:03:57.780 --> 00:04:01.080 threatened if she ghosts us too. No, I think 00:04:01.080 --> 00:04:02.939 she's gonna be great, and I think she's really 00:04:02.939 --> 00:04:06.740 excited about this too, so I'm super happy. As 00:04:06.740 --> 00:04:10.039 for me, I am just the transport coordinator, 00:04:10.180 --> 00:04:13.139 but I will finally have time to go back to fighting 00:04:13.139 --> 00:04:17.319 with my robots. If you are fostering this round, 00:04:17.500 --> 00:04:19.420 you already know, but for those of you who are 00:04:19.420 --> 00:04:21.680 just tuning in for the stories, which by the 00:04:21.680 --> 00:04:23.480 way, I don't know if I've ever even said this, 00:04:23.680 --> 00:04:28.100 we get about on average 300 listens every episode 00:04:28.100 --> 00:04:32.339 and typically only have about 40 individual fostering 00:04:32.339 --> 00:04:34.920 people. So thank you so much to those of you 00:04:34.920 --> 00:04:39.279 who listen just to listen. Anyways, things have 00:04:39.279 --> 00:04:41.959 been going really well with the robots -ish. 00:04:42.439 --> 00:04:44.639 The company has been helping me tweak them here 00:04:44.639 --> 00:04:46.500 and there whenever I have time to think about 00:04:46.500 --> 00:04:49.040 them and jot something down to them. But today, 00:04:49.480 --> 00:04:53.199 out of the clear blue, the robot texted, I think, 00:04:53.480 --> 00:04:55.699 every single person that signed up to foster 00:04:55.699 --> 00:05:01.569 tomorrow and canceled them. cancelled all of 00:05:01.569 --> 00:05:04.029 my fosters, all of the fosters that I have spent 00:05:04.029 --> 00:05:08.269 the last literally two weeks confirming, cancelled 00:05:08.269 --> 00:05:10.829 them. I have absolutely no idea what happened, 00:05:10.970 --> 00:05:14.870 why it happened, what is happening. So I frantically 00:05:14.870 --> 00:05:16.970 texted every single person that was signed up 00:05:16.970 --> 00:05:19.610 and told them not to listen to anything any robots 00:05:19.610 --> 00:05:24.430 say ever. And to please come to intake in the 00:05:24.430 --> 00:05:28.350 morning because we do need them. So insane. I 00:05:28.350 --> 00:05:30.290 clearly have a lot of work to do because it's 00:05:30.290 --> 00:05:34.629 not fun potato breed puppy mistakes anymore. 00:05:35.009 --> 00:05:37.110 It's your appointment has been canceled. We no 00:05:37.110 --> 00:05:39.850 longer need you. Mistakes now. Like this, this 00:05:39.850 --> 00:05:44.209 is serious. Okay. I am running out of time. I 00:05:44.209 --> 00:05:46.870 have literally, I told Justin, I was like, I've 00:05:46.870 --> 00:05:49.230 got 15 minutes to record a 20 minute podcast. 00:05:49.449 --> 00:05:54.860 Let's go. So let's get to the stories. The theme 00:05:54.860 --> 00:05:57.920 is Toy Story and shout out to Melissa for doing 00:05:57.920 --> 00:06:00.660 the names for me this week. I am loving getting 00:06:00.660 --> 00:06:05.500 a break from naming everybody. Although I did 00:06:05.500 --> 00:06:10.139 do the eye litter names, so you're welcome. Eye 00:06:10.139 --> 00:06:14.560 litter fosters. One of them is named I'm Trash 00:06:14.560 --> 00:06:18.899 and I cackle every time I think about it. If 00:06:18.899 --> 00:06:21.509 you haven't seen Toy Story, he's like... a fork. 00:06:21.529 --> 00:06:24.149 His name's Forky. He's a fork that is literally 00:06:24.149 --> 00:06:26.769 made out of garbage and like his only line in 00:06:26.769 --> 00:06:30.529 the whole show is, I'm trash. But it's a beautiful 00:06:30.529 --> 00:06:32.529 kitten that I gave that name, so she'll be fine. 00:06:33.870 --> 00:06:37.170 Okay, Jessie was found in the middle of a lane 00:06:37.170 --> 00:06:40.189 on a four lane highway by one of our rescue partners. 00:06:40.550 --> 00:06:42.769 She almost didn't even stop because she thought 00:06:42.769 --> 00:06:45.329 it was way too small to even be an animal, but 00:06:45.329 --> 00:06:47.589 luckily when she drove past it, she saw it was 00:06:47.589 --> 00:06:50.329 a puppy and she stopped immediately to get her. 00:06:50.620 --> 00:06:52.860 She actually wasn't scheduled to be on transport, 00:06:52.899 --> 00:06:54.939 but we had enough fosters that we were able to 00:06:54.939 --> 00:06:58.560 pull her early So shout out to all of you guys 00:06:58.560 --> 00:07:01.980 Mrs. Potato Head and her brother were seen being 00:07:01.980 --> 00:07:04.040 thrown out of a car while they drove down the 00:07:04.040 --> 00:07:07.639 road It was actually my mom's friend who saw 00:07:07.639 --> 00:07:09.660 that and we've pulled animals from her before 00:07:09.660 --> 00:07:12.439 so she stopped grabbed them up and called my 00:07:12.439 --> 00:07:15.360 mom to see if we could help but before my mom 00:07:15.360 --> 00:07:17.379 could even answer her, she wrote back and said 00:07:17.379 --> 00:07:20.459 that her mom had fallen in love with the male 00:07:20.459 --> 00:07:22.980 puppy, the brother, and wanted to keep it, but 00:07:22.980 --> 00:07:24.800 she still needed us to take the little girl, 00:07:24.860 --> 00:07:29.300 which we happily did. Gabby Gabby was posted 00:07:29.300 --> 00:07:31.839 by one of my friends as free to a good home on 00:07:31.839 --> 00:07:35.800 Facebook, so you know I snatched her up. All 00:07:35.800 --> 00:07:39.910 she told me was she found her She was found on 00:07:39.910 --> 00:07:41.970 the side of the road near her brother's house 00:07:41.970 --> 00:07:44.769 her brother saw her took her home and then realized 00:07:44.769 --> 00:07:48.230 he was not equipped to take care of a puppy and 00:07:48.230 --> 00:07:51.850 Brought her to my friend's house and left her 00:07:51.850 --> 00:07:55.730 Forky was found on a back road alone in the pouring 00:07:55.730 --> 00:07:58.790 rain He had super bad mange when we when we first 00:07:58.790 --> 00:08:00.790 got him and he was almost bald, but he's looking 00:08:00.790 --> 00:08:05.180 a lot better now The D litter of three are from 00:08:05.180 --> 00:08:08.120 Jessica's cousin. He called her after the last 00:08:08.120 --> 00:08:09.839 transport about a couple of dogs in the woods 00:08:09.839 --> 00:08:12.540 behind his apartment and one of them was constantly 00:08:12.540 --> 00:08:15.639 crying. So I had Jessica type up what she wanted 00:08:15.639 --> 00:08:18.600 me to say and this is what she said. She said, 00:08:19.100 --> 00:08:22.459 I had just finally sat down and was about as 00:08:22.459 --> 00:08:26.439 tired as I've ever been in my life. You can leave 00:08:26.439 --> 00:08:28.560 that part out but it might be needed for the 00:08:28.560 --> 00:08:31.019 people who are gonna wonder why I left a dog 00:08:31.019 --> 00:08:33.960 crying in the woods. So I told him I couldn't 00:08:33.960 --> 00:08:36.519 do anything immediately and I got there a couple 00:08:36.519 --> 00:08:39.379 days later after he brought the supposed injured 00:08:39.379 --> 00:08:42.720 dog inside. Turns out there was actually three 00:08:42.720 --> 00:08:45.600 dogs and all of them were puppies and all of 00:08:45.600 --> 00:08:48.059 them just whine and bark a lot. Although we did 00:08:48.059 --> 00:08:50.620 take one of them, the quote unquote injured one, 00:08:50.639 --> 00:08:52.860 to the vet and he basically just said growing 00:08:52.860 --> 00:08:56.759 pains because it's such a big puppy. They are 00:08:56.759 --> 00:08:59.320 big and boisterous and really looking forward 00:08:59.320 --> 00:09:02.179 to life outside Jessica's kennel. And she said 00:09:02.179 --> 00:09:04.460 they do stop barking and whining when they get 00:09:04.460 --> 00:09:06.120 a little bit of attention. So hopefully they 00:09:06.120 --> 00:09:09.799 will be great with you guys. The P letter of 00:09:09.799 --> 00:09:12.740 five are from one of our fosters. She has a neighbor 00:09:12.740 --> 00:09:15.039 that does not take care of his animals at all. 00:09:15.080 --> 00:09:17.679 And when she asked him if she could try to get 00:09:17.679 --> 00:09:20.320 these puppies into the rescue, he said, no, he's 00:09:20.320 --> 00:09:22.299 just going to give them all away. Well, then 00:09:22.299 --> 00:09:24.139 he couldn't give them all away. He was only able 00:09:24.139 --> 00:09:26.639 to give two away. And she finally talked him 00:09:26.639 --> 00:09:29.799 into just letting us have them. She thinks that 00:09:29.799 --> 00:09:32.120 she's also convinced him to let us spay the mama 00:09:32.120 --> 00:09:36.759 dog, which I don't you guys know. I don't usually 00:09:36.759 --> 00:09:39.720 agree to spay your mama dog if you give away 00:09:39.720 --> 00:09:41.639 some of the puppies because a that defeats the 00:09:41.639 --> 00:09:44.059 purpose and b I need to threaten you a little 00:09:44.059 --> 00:09:46.019 bit to give me all of the puppies but he had 00:09:46.019 --> 00:09:48.600 already given them away and this guy does not 00:09:48.600 --> 00:09:50.919 take care of his dog and he's been super against 00:09:50.919 --> 00:09:53.759 getting her spayed so if he will agree to it 00:09:53.759 --> 00:09:55.759 I told her I'm more than happy to get her spayed. 00:09:57.439 --> 00:10:00.059 The bee family, oh my goodness, they are so sweet. 00:10:00.440 --> 00:10:02.799 So we took a litter of puppies from this lady 00:10:02.799 --> 00:10:05.919 about six months ago. It's the house that we 00:10:05.919 --> 00:10:08.080 refer to as the tetanus house because you'll 00:10:08.080 --> 00:10:10.080 feel like you need to get a tetanus shot by the 00:10:10.080 --> 00:10:13.740 time you leave there. It is so rundown and junky. 00:10:14.059 --> 00:10:15.879 Literally, Jessica didn't even think she was 00:10:15.879 --> 00:10:18.299 at the right place because there was no way anybody 00:10:18.299 --> 00:10:20.980 could live here. Anyways, we took the puppies 00:10:20.980 --> 00:10:24.360 and we got the mom scheduled for an appointment 00:10:24.360 --> 00:10:29.000 to get spayed. three different times. The first 00:10:29.000 --> 00:10:30.919 time the owner overslept and then apologized 00:10:30.919 --> 00:10:32.379 and was like, I'm so sorry, can we get another 00:10:32.379 --> 00:10:34.639 appointment? The second time she just went AWOL 00:10:34.639 --> 00:10:36.419 and we didn't hear from her for a whole week. 00:10:36.500 --> 00:10:38.899 Turned out she was in jail. I don't remember 00:10:38.899 --> 00:10:41.700 what happened. And then the third time she just 00:10:41.700 --> 00:10:43.980 stopped communicating with us and we had to pay 00:10:43.980 --> 00:10:47.279 a $50 fee because our vet was sick of us calling 00:10:47.279 --> 00:10:49.039 every morning of her appointment and saying, 00:10:49.139 --> 00:10:51.659 uh, they're not coming. which we don't blame 00:10:51.659 --> 00:10:53.639 the vet at all for that. We absolutely should 00:10:53.639 --> 00:10:56.600 have been charged a $50 holding fee, but we're 00:10:56.600 --> 00:10:57.980 still annoyed with the girl that we had to pay 00:10:57.980 --> 00:11:00.759 that because of her. So then a couple of weeks 00:11:00.759 --> 00:11:03.220 ago, she messaged us saying that she was getting 00:11:03.220 --> 00:11:06.360 kicked out of her house and she needed us to 00:11:06.360 --> 00:11:09.399 take the mom and her newest litter of puppies. 00:11:09.940 --> 00:11:12.679 But she was only going to give us six out of 00:11:12.679 --> 00:11:14.879 the eight because she was going to keep two of 00:11:14.879 --> 00:11:18.000 them, which you can imagine how well that went 00:11:18.000 --> 00:11:22.169 over with me. And now we have all eight puppies 00:11:22.169 --> 00:11:25.509 and the mom, because that's insane. That's literally 00:11:25.509 --> 00:11:30.620 insane. The T letter of 6 are from our wonderful 00:11:30.620 --> 00:11:34.379 Dr. Jamie. She was Dr. Burton's student when 00:11:34.379 --> 00:11:36.600 she taught at Mississippi State who turned out 00:11:36.600 --> 00:11:39.820 to be her lifelong best friend. Now we help Dr. 00:11:39.919 --> 00:11:41.860 Jamie out whenever she gets animals and she helps 00:11:41.860 --> 00:11:45.039 us with low -cost surgeries. She said one of 00:11:45.039 --> 00:11:46.500 her clients brought these puppies in a couple 00:11:46.500 --> 00:11:49.539 weeks ago and said that their neighbor stole 00:11:49.539 --> 00:11:52.200 the mama dog and she knows this because they're 00:11:52.200 --> 00:11:55.879 on drugs super bad. and are always trying to 00:11:55.879 --> 00:11:59.159 steal things to sell for drug money. So they 00:11:59.159 --> 00:12:01.480 ended up just keeping the mama despite never 00:12:01.480 --> 00:12:04.179 taking care of her and the neighbor is constantly 00:12:04.179 --> 00:12:06.080 just putting food and water out for the mom. 00:12:07.159 --> 00:12:10.500 The mom actually came up to her house, the neighbor's 00:12:10.500 --> 00:12:13.200 house, to give birth to the puppies because there 00:12:13.200 --> 00:12:15.559 was literally no place for her to do it at her 00:12:15.559 --> 00:12:18.299 actual home. And then she just never went back 00:12:18.299 --> 00:12:21.929 home. The neighbors haven't called to ask about 00:12:21.929 --> 00:12:24.769 her or the puppies once and she loves her so 00:12:24.769 --> 00:12:27.610 much so she is so happy to get to keep her but 00:12:27.610 --> 00:12:30.490 obviously couldn't keep the six puppies. So she's 00:12:30.490 --> 00:12:32.289 very happy that Wolfdrap will take the puppies 00:12:32.289 --> 00:12:34.669 and get them the best homes and that we will 00:12:34.669 --> 00:12:38.970 spay the mom for her. The S litter of eight were 00:12:38.970 --> 00:12:41.470 found living in a washed out hole. If you haven't 00:12:41.470 --> 00:12:43.450 seen the pictures of where they were found make 00:12:43.450 --> 00:12:45.289 sure you reach out to me so that I can make sure 00:12:45.289 --> 00:12:49.370 that you see them. It is so pitiful. Our rescue 00:12:49.370 --> 00:12:51.669 partner Tasha got the call from someone riding 00:12:51.669 --> 00:12:54.789 a four -wheeler on a gravel road that saw them 00:12:54.789 --> 00:12:57.269 at the bottom of the ditch. The nearest house 00:12:57.269 --> 00:13:00.830 was over five miles away. They dropped a pin 00:13:00.830 --> 00:13:04.649 to the location and then rode away and just left 00:13:04.649 --> 00:13:08.590 them there. Tasha actually got lost for about 00:13:08.590 --> 00:13:10.649 half an hour trying to find them before she saw 00:13:10.649 --> 00:13:14.289 their little heads peeking up. Okay, that is 00:13:14.289 --> 00:13:18.759 all the puppies onto the kittens. Andy Davis 00:13:18.759 --> 00:13:22.580 was found in someone's yard in town. They are 00:13:22.580 --> 00:13:26.419 quote -unquote not animal people, so they put 00:13:26.419 --> 00:13:29.399 it in a crate under a tree and had a friend post 00:13:29.399 --> 00:13:31.759 it on Facebook for them. Unfortunately these 00:13:31.759 --> 00:13:33.639 are actually really good friends of mine, all 00:13:33.639 --> 00:13:38.200 of these people, so that's a bummer for me that 00:13:38.200 --> 00:13:42.200 I don't have many animal people friends. The 00:13:42.200 --> 00:13:45.179 E letter of three are owner surrenders from Jessica's 00:13:45.179 --> 00:13:48.240 daughter -in -law's brother. She was visiting 00:13:48.240 --> 00:13:50.779 with her son and her daughter -in -law at their 00:13:50.779 --> 00:13:53.379 house yesterday, the day before transport, and 00:13:53.379 --> 00:13:55.580 the brother was hanging out there too. And he 00:13:55.580 --> 00:13:58.000 said he's got to go because he's got to get up 00:13:58.000 --> 00:13:59.720 early in the morning because he had to take his 00:13:59.720 --> 00:14:02.440 kittens to first Monday to try to give them away. 00:14:02.940 --> 00:14:05.620 First Monday, if you didn't know, is an outdoor 00:14:05.620 --> 00:14:07.840 flea market that happens once a month down here 00:14:07.840 --> 00:14:11.039 that we are, not just we, Literally, the state 00:14:11.039 --> 00:14:13.480 of Mississippi and all animal rights activists 00:14:13.480 --> 00:14:17.679 are actively trying to shut down because it is 00:14:17.679 --> 00:14:21.980 99 % stolen animals and puppy mill puppies. Literally, 00:14:22.340 --> 00:14:25.919 animals will die in their crates at this event 00:14:25.919 --> 00:14:30.899 because of how malnourished and not taken care 00:14:30.899 --> 00:14:34.740 of they are. Like they are on death's door. So 00:14:34.740 --> 00:14:36.519 this is where he was going to take his cats to 00:14:36.519 --> 00:14:38.960 give them a life. And Jessica said, am I invisible? 00:14:40.339 --> 00:14:43.080 So she asked if he would give them to her instead 00:14:43.080 --> 00:14:45.740 and he said, yeah, I guess they'd be better off 00:14:45.740 --> 00:14:50.720 with you. The sea litter of three are from a 00:14:50.720 --> 00:14:53.519 friend of Jessica's that ends up with cats at 00:14:53.519 --> 00:14:55.320 her house all the time. We have taken some kittens 00:14:55.320 --> 00:14:57.860 from her before and we're really trying to help 00:14:57.860 --> 00:14:59.820 her get everybody spayed there so she doesn't 00:14:59.820 --> 00:15:03.059 have so many kittens. When this mama showed up, 00:15:03.059 --> 00:15:05.120 she thought she was too old to have kittens. 00:15:05.679 --> 00:15:08.360 and so she didn't bother getting her spayed and 00:15:08.360 --> 00:15:12.000 jokes on her because she had three kittens and 00:15:12.000 --> 00:15:14.500 we already have the mom scheduled for a spay. 00:15:15.899 --> 00:15:21.100 The W litter of three are from Jessica's daughter 00:15:21.100 --> 00:15:24.500 -in -law, kind of. She works at a coffee shop. 00:15:24.649 --> 00:15:27.809 in a nearby town and when she first started there 00:15:27.809 --> 00:15:29.769 she said there was a mama cat and a litter of 00:15:29.769 --> 00:15:31.809 kittens. People would go through the drive -through 00:15:31.809 --> 00:15:33.990 and just pick up a kitten and take it home along 00:15:33.990 --> 00:15:38.159 with their cappuccino. It was in another county 00:15:38.159 --> 00:15:40.580 and we were swamped so it just kind of fell through 00:15:40.580 --> 00:15:42.659 the cracks and we were hoping that the animal 00:15:42.659 --> 00:15:45.000 control in that town would deal with it. Well 00:15:45.000 --> 00:15:46.879 then a couple months ago she said that the mom 00:15:46.879 --> 00:15:49.799 was pregnant again and she still had two teenage 00:15:49.799 --> 00:15:52.019 kittens from her last litter that no one had 00:15:52.019 --> 00:15:54.940 picked up. So we trapped the two teenagers and 00:15:54.940 --> 00:15:56.840 had them spayed and neutered and sent back because 00:15:56.840 --> 00:16:01.960 they were very unhappy as indoor cats. I mean 00:16:01.960 --> 00:16:05.549 like you had to like... look over your shoulder 00:16:05.549 --> 00:16:07.230 and make sure they weren't about to kill you 00:16:07.230 --> 00:16:09.590 if you walked into the room that they were in. 00:16:10.049 --> 00:16:13.950 So they are... back as feral cats at this coffee 00:16:13.950 --> 00:16:17.049 shop. The mama ended up taking her babies under 00:16:17.049 --> 00:16:19.049 an apartment building next door and we couldn't 00:16:19.049 --> 00:16:21.009 get them until she started bringing them back 00:16:21.009 --> 00:16:23.850 out about a week ago. There were four kittens 00:16:23.850 --> 00:16:27.169 but we only have three. Mama was just taken in 00:16:27.169 --> 00:16:30.269 yesterday actually to get spayed and she will 00:16:30.269 --> 00:16:33.490 go back to being a coffee house cat with her 00:16:33.490 --> 00:16:37.809 teenage kiddos in a few days. The L letter of 00:16:37.809 --> 00:16:40.029 four were found in somebody's yard out in the 00:16:40.029 --> 00:16:43.149 county. They had a stray dog that had shown up 00:16:43.149 --> 00:16:46.049 a day or two before and killed one of the kittens. 00:16:46.889 --> 00:16:48.789 I don't know where they came from originally 00:16:48.789 --> 00:16:50.690 or what they've been through, but they are some 00:16:50.690 --> 00:16:54.590 of the sweetest, most cuddly kittens ever. The 00:16:54.590 --> 00:16:58.070 H litter of four are owner surrenders. Not much 00:16:58.070 --> 00:17:00.450 exciting to their story, but I know that the 00:17:00.450 --> 00:17:02.710 lady has horrible allergies and she can handle 00:17:02.710 --> 00:17:05.390 one or two cats in the house, but these four 00:17:05.390 --> 00:17:07.970 kittens have been giving her fits and she is 00:17:07.970 --> 00:17:10.250 very thankful that we're going to find them good 00:17:10.250 --> 00:17:14.990 homes for her. The R litter of five are from 00:17:14.990 --> 00:17:18.250 a house that someone who helps us with our cat 00:17:18.250 --> 00:17:22.089 programs is doing a TNR at. Well, I say she helps 00:17:22.089 --> 00:17:25.289 us, but really we pay. for her to buy. Oh no! 00:17:25.910 --> 00:17:28.109 Okay, well I'm so close to being done. I'm just 00:17:28.109 --> 00:17:30.289 gonna, I'm just gonna go for it and I'll just 00:17:30.289 --> 00:17:35.250 drive real fast. Um, we pay for the spays and 00:17:35.250 --> 00:17:37.730 the neuters of the TNR cats that she does, but 00:17:37.730 --> 00:17:40.029 she will go and actually trap them and take them 00:17:40.029 --> 00:17:41.930 to their appointments, so we help each other. 00:17:42.509 --> 00:17:46.009 Um, she is doing a TNR at this house. TNR is 00:17:46.009 --> 00:17:48.529 trap neuter release for anyone who didn't know 00:17:48.529 --> 00:17:53.099 that. Neither she nor the owners knew that there 00:17:53.099 --> 00:17:55.299 were even kittens there until she was setting 00:17:55.299 --> 00:17:58.380 up a trap for who ended up being the mama of 00:17:58.380 --> 00:18:01.119 these kittens. So we're very excited to get these 00:18:01.119 --> 00:18:05.039 sweet kitties. The I letter of four, I'm very 00:18:05.039 --> 00:18:08.559 proud of these names. They are actually from 00:18:08.559 --> 00:18:11.299 another rescue up there in Virginia. They emailed 00:18:11.299 --> 00:18:13.940 us to see if we could take them and we actually 00:18:13.940 --> 00:18:15.740 had so many kitten fosters right now that we 00:18:15.740 --> 00:18:18.299 were like, yeah, go for it. So if you are picking 00:18:18.299 --> 00:18:22.180 up a kitten on Monday, these are your kitties. 00:18:22.440 --> 00:18:25.799 They were born to a feral mama and they're gonna 00:18:25.799 --> 00:18:31.480 TNR the mom. Okay. I did it. That is all the 00:18:31.480 --> 00:18:33.380 stories for this week. Thank you so much for 00:18:33.380 --> 00:18:35.819 listening. Thank you for fostering. Thank you 00:18:35.819 --> 00:18:38.859 for all of your support. We couldn't do any of 00:18:38.859 --> 00:18:43.180 this without y 'all. Please like, follow, subscribe, 00:18:43.319 --> 00:18:46.539 rate, whatever, whatever the things are that 00:18:46.539 --> 00:18:49.220 you're supposed to do to help this podcast grow 00:18:49.220 --> 00:18:52.519 so that I can one day make enough money from 00:18:52.519 --> 00:18:55.720 it that I can quit my job and do it for free. 00:18:57.160 --> 00:18:59.740 It's a rough life, but someone's gotta do it.