WEBVTT 00:00:08.199 --> 00:00:13.080 So friends, welcome to Rough Life. If you have 00:00:13.080 --> 00:00:16.199 been keeping up with the foster coordinator saga, 00:00:16.879 --> 00:00:20.940 I am so excited to say that this is my last transport 00:00:20.940 --> 00:00:24.539 as foster coordinator. Melissa officially came 00:00:24.539 --> 00:00:27.280 on board full time with us yesterday and she 00:00:27.280 --> 00:00:29.800 will start doing the coordinating on Monday. 00:00:30.539 --> 00:00:33.159 Have no fear though, I will not be going far. 00:00:33.240 --> 00:00:37.259 I am still and always have been the foster coordinator 00:00:37.259 --> 00:00:39.939 who sends you all of these precious pets, but 00:00:39.939 --> 00:00:44.640 I will also switch back to my robot handler role 00:00:44.640 --> 00:00:47.259 and add in a little social media manager just 00:00:47.259 --> 00:00:52.100 for fun. I actually had to have a come to Jesus 00:00:52.100 --> 00:00:55.039 with the robot company this week. If you didn't 00:00:55.039 --> 00:00:59.280 know, we implemented a new AI software literally 00:00:59.280 --> 00:01:02.759 just days before our old foster coordinator went 00:01:02.759 --> 00:01:05.900 MIA and I had to jump in and take over her role. 00:01:06.420 --> 00:01:09.840 So we dove head first into this robot program 00:01:09.840 --> 00:01:14.640 and then I was like, okay, bye. And the robots 00:01:14.640 --> 00:01:18.519 have just run amok. Last transport after I called 00:01:18.519 --> 00:01:21.799 and confirmed all 50 fosters and got them all 00:01:21.799 --> 00:01:25.129 scheduled. the robots reached out to more than 00:01:25.129 --> 00:01:28.950 half of them and canceled their appointment the 00:01:28.950 --> 00:01:30.870 day before they were supposed to pick them up. 00:01:31.329 --> 00:01:33.849 Then this week, a foster who was scheduled to 00:01:33.849 --> 00:01:36.650 pick up on the 15th tomorrow, like everyone else, 00:01:37.150 --> 00:01:40.769 got a message from a rogue bot telling her that 00:01:40.769 --> 00:01:43.670 her spot was canceled for the 15th and instead 00:01:43.670 --> 00:01:46.409 she needed to go to the Wolf Trap Hospital that 00:01:46.409 --> 00:01:49.290 day to pick up a puppy. It was the middle of 00:01:49.290 --> 00:01:52.120 the week. we had no puppy at the hospital for 00:01:52.120 --> 00:01:55.879 her. So she rearranged her entire work day, drove 00:01:55.879 --> 00:01:58.260 all the way to the hospital to get this puppy. 00:01:58.340 --> 00:02:01.439 And then we were like, we have no idea what you're 00:02:01.439 --> 00:02:04.280 talking about. We don't have a puppy here for 00:02:04.280 --> 00:02:06.799 you. I don't know what happened. This is a total 00:02:06.799 --> 00:02:10.659 mix up. She was literally, truly the kindest, 00:02:10.819 --> 00:02:13.400 calmest person ever in the entire world. She 00:02:13.400 --> 00:02:18.860 handled that so well. But I... I lost my ever 00:02:18.860 --> 00:02:22.400 loving mind on that company. So they were like, 00:02:22.479 --> 00:02:25.080 okay, we're scheduling a Zoom meeting with you 00:02:25.080 --> 00:02:27.219 and Dr. Burton the next day so they could apologize. 00:02:28.300 --> 00:02:31.020 But. Right when the meeting got started, I was 00:02:31.020 --> 00:02:34.400 even more mad because the tech guy on the Zoom 00:02:34.400 --> 00:02:37.340 call kept saying things like, I think your customers 00:02:37.340 --> 00:02:40.960 are just misreading or misunderstanding the robots 00:02:40.960 --> 00:02:44.300 messages to them. The robot is not canceling 00:02:44.300 --> 00:02:46.460 their appointments. They're just not reading 00:02:46.460 --> 00:02:49.680 it thoroughly, which if it was one or two people, 00:02:49.680 --> 00:02:52.060 I would absolutely be like, yeah, this is totally 00:02:52.060 --> 00:02:53.740 just human error. They didn't pay attention. 00:02:54.139 --> 00:02:56.780 But when it's more than 25 people and they're 00:02:56.780 --> 00:02:59.900 all getting the same message, It's your robots, 00:03:00.120 --> 00:03:03.259 my guy. I could not believe he was trying to 00:03:03.259 --> 00:03:06.960 blame my fosters. One person even texted me and 00:03:06.960 --> 00:03:09.620 showed me a screenshot. He was like, hi, your 00:03:09.620 --> 00:03:12.580 robot just messaged me and said my appointment 00:03:12.580 --> 00:03:16.360 time has been changed to 1 .45 in the morning. 00:03:16.840 --> 00:03:18.580 I'm just checking to make sure you don't really 00:03:18.580 --> 00:03:20.379 want me to come to the hospital at 1 .45 in the 00:03:20.379 --> 00:03:23.250 morning. I'm like, no, please. Please don't go 00:03:23.250 --> 00:03:25.770 anywhere at 1 .45 in the morning. So I'm telling 00:03:25.770 --> 00:03:27.629 the tech guy all of this and he's like, that's 00:03:27.629 --> 00:03:30.530 impossible. This has never happened before. Send 00:03:30.530 --> 00:03:33.729 me the screenshots people are sending you. So 00:03:33.729 --> 00:03:36.289 I sent him to him and he immediately changed 00:03:36.289 --> 00:03:38.490 his tune. It was like, OK, we are bumping this 00:03:38.490 --> 00:03:40.830 to the top of our priority list. This is ridiculous. 00:03:40.830 --> 00:03:42.810 I cannot believe this is happening to you guys. 00:03:43.050 --> 00:03:45.030 We're going to get to the bottom of this today. 00:03:46.050 --> 00:03:49.409 So all of that being said, I turned the box off 00:03:49.409 --> 00:03:53.280 this week. I could not handle the stress of having 00:03:53.280 --> 00:03:56.580 to go behind them and reread all the conversations 00:03:56.580 --> 00:03:58.280 they were having to make sure everything was 00:03:58.280 --> 00:04:01.520 happening like it was supposed to. But I am still 00:04:01.520 --> 00:04:03.000 really excited for them. I think they're going 00:04:03.000 --> 00:04:06.500 to be a fantastic tool for us once I have more 00:04:06.500 --> 00:04:09.979 time to really jump back in and give it my total 00:04:09.979 --> 00:04:13.319 focus. So all that being said, if you talk to 00:04:13.319 --> 00:04:16.399 Alex from Wolf Trap this week or last week, he 00:04:16.399 --> 00:04:19.420 was a robot and his life mission was to stress 00:04:19.420 --> 00:04:23.060 me out. So I am so sorry for anything he might 00:04:23.060 --> 00:04:28.420 have said to you. Okay, on to the stories. I'm 00:04:28.420 --> 00:04:31.060 trying to leave the foster coordinator role better 00:04:31.060 --> 00:04:35.310 than I found it. When it got dumped on me, we 00:04:35.310 --> 00:04:37.970 had like 50 puppies leaving on transport the 00:04:37.970 --> 00:04:40.149 next day that didn't have fosters that I had 00:04:40.149 --> 00:04:43.610 to find fosters for. And like 20 animals that 00:04:43.610 --> 00:04:46.850 were already in Virginia and needing reassignments 00:04:46.850 --> 00:04:50.170 in the next 24 hours. I'm pretty sure I lost 00:04:50.170 --> 00:04:53.790 like five years of my life that weekend. I literally 00:04:53.790 --> 00:04:56.730 have PTSD from that weekend. So I'm trying really 00:04:56.730 --> 00:05:00.470 hard not to do that to Melissa. So everyone who 00:05:00.470 --> 00:05:03.189 needed a reassignment during the week next week, 00:05:03.350 --> 00:05:06.110 like Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, I had them come 00:05:06.110 --> 00:05:09.410 to intake tomorrow and I'm going to reassign 00:05:09.410 --> 00:05:11.750 them Sunday morning instead. So that'll give 00:05:11.750 --> 00:05:14.069 Melissa a whole week just to focus on getting 00:05:14.069 --> 00:05:16.230 backup fosters for the animals in the adoption 00:05:16.230 --> 00:05:20.540 event on next Saturday. Because of that, a lot 00:05:20.540 --> 00:05:23.500 of you may be going home with a reassignment 00:05:23.500 --> 00:05:26.740 instead of a brand new foster. So I'll just run 00:05:26.740 --> 00:05:28.759 through them really quick so that you know which 00:05:28.759 --> 00:05:31.480 episode to go to, to hear their story, because 00:05:31.480 --> 00:05:34.439 I know some of these names are wild and you have 00:05:34.439 --> 00:05:38.579 no idea what the theme could possibly be. So 00:05:38.579 --> 00:05:42.879 Danny, Dawn, Tanner Smith, Spectrum, and Shelly 00:05:42.879 --> 00:05:47.240 are all from the Love on the Spectrum April 19th 00:05:47.240 --> 00:05:51.550 transport episode. Pump Boy and Pizza Planet 00:05:51.550 --> 00:05:55.970 are from the Toy Story Transport on May 31st. 00:05:56.189 --> 00:05:59.949 Adrienne was on the Formula One May 17th Transport. 00:06:00.629 --> 00:06:04.310 And P is for Pterodactyl, which can I just say 00:06:04.310 --> 00:06:09.529 I'm very proud of that name. She was on the February 00:06:09.529 --> 00:06:12.730 23rd Baby Books Transport. So head over to those 00:06:12.730 --> 00:06:14.889 episodes if you're fostering one of those puppies 00:06:14.889 --> 00:06:18.120 and their full story will be on there. The theme 00:06:18.120 --> 00:06:21.939 for this week's transport is dad hobbies since 00:06:21.939 --> 00:06:24.959 pick up is on father's day. Once again, I think 00:06:24.959 --> 00:06:26.860 this is like the third or fourth transport in 00:06:26.860 --> 00:06:28.899 a row where I didn't have to do any of the names 00:06:28.899 --> 00:06:33.100 and it has been glorious. Now that I'm not still 00:06:33.100 --> 00:06:35.500 super busy, but having that taken off my plate 00:06:35.500 --> 00:06:38.060 has been such a huge help. So thank you, Melissa. 00:06:38.879 --> 00:06:41.519 So if you are fostering an animal with a hobby 00:06:41.519 --> 00:06:44.660 or an activity name, Your animal came up on the 00:06:44.660 --> 00:06:47.740 van this weekend. They are brand new to our system. 00:06:48.160 --> 00:06:50.920 And this episode will cover all of their stories. 00:06:51.300 --> 00:06:54.540 So let's get into it. Traveling was being given 00:06:54.540 --> 00:06:57.300 away for free on Facebook. One of our rescue 00:06:57.300 --> 00:06:59.600 partners saw and went to get her by the time 00:06:59.600 --> 00:07:01.800 she got there. Traveling, who they have been 00:07:01.800 --> 00:07:04.439 calling Paisley down here, was the only puppy 00:07:04.439 --> 00:07:06.339 left. They had given the whole rest of the litter 00:07:06.339 --> 00:07:10.399 away. We're told that the parents are Yorkie 00:07:10.399 --> 00:07:12.339 and miniature Schnauzer. I don't believe that 00:07:12.339 --> 00:07:14.860 for a minute though, so I would love to see a 00:07:14.860 --> 00:07:20.040 DNA test done on her. Origami was an owner surrender. 00:07:20.680 --> 00:07:23.660 A lady saw this litter of puppies, it was four 00:07:23.660 --> 00:07:26.680 puppies, and the mom get dumped out of the vehicle. 00:07:26.939 --> 00:07:29.540 in front of them, they loaded them up, posted 00:07:29.540 --> 00:07:31.819 them on Facebook, but by the time we had any 00:07:31.819 --> 00:07:33.899 space available, they had given away the mom 00:07:33.899 --> 00:07:37.079 and three of the puppies. So we ended up sending 00:07:37.079 --> 00:07:40.779 this puppy to our jail fosters. We haven't sent 00:07:40.779 --> 00:07:42.759 them a foster in a while because they've been 00:07:42.759 --> 00:07:44.800 having some issues for a little bit. So I'll 00:07:44.800 --> 00:07:46.779 just give you a quick reminder of who they are. 00:07:47.319 --> 00:07:50.259 We partnered with our local jail to send some 00:07:50.259 --> 00:07:53.540 of the inmates foster dogs for us. It's a program 00:07:53.540 --> 00:07:55.660 that like they have to work up to. You have to 00:07:55.660 --> 00:07:57.620 be there for so long and do so well and pass 00:07:57.620 --> 00:08:00.800 so many tests before you're given this privilege 00:08:00.800 --> 00:08:03.860 of fostering. They haven't had any inmates able 00:08:03.860 --> 00:08:06.019 to do it for like the last six months or so, 00:08:06.019 --> 00:08:07.639 but they finally have a couple of really good 00:08:07.639 --> 00:08:10.100 guys in there and they're qualified. They were 00:08:10.100 --> 00:08:12.519 like little boys on Christmas morning when they 00:08:12.519 --> 00:08:16.189 got origami last week. This also made me think 00:08:16.189 --> 00:08:18.790 of something hilarious that my husband said to 00:08:18.790 --> 00:08:22.230 me a few years ago. We started this program probably, 00:08:22.290 --> 00:08:24.410 I don't know, two or three years ago. It was 00:08:24.410 --> 00:08:27.490 right when I started the podcast. So I talked 00:08:27.490 --> 00:08:30.649 about it a ton on those episodes. And one night 00:08:30.649 --> 00:08:32.769 I was talking to Justin and I asked him if he 00:08:32.769 --> 00:08:35.950 wanted me to bring a specific dog home or if 00:08:35.950 --> 00:08:39.429 I should send it to the jail. And he was like, 00:08:39.429 --> 00:08:43.029 I wish you wouldn't call it that. That's so confusing. 00:08:43.720 --> 00:08:48.179 And I was like, call it what? He said, the jail. 00:08:48.759 --> 00:08:50.799 And I was like, what do you want me to call it? 00:08:50.799 --> 00:08:55.879 And he said, um, the animal shelter. I was like, 00:08:56.980 --> 00:08:59.980 you know I am talking about the actual human 00:08:59.980 --> 00:09:04.559 jail, right? With prisoners who foster for me. 00:09:05.809 --> 00:09:08.009 no idea that we had started this program. And 00:09:08.009 --> 00:09:10.450 I was like, tell me you don't listen to my podcast 00:09:10.450 --> 00:09:12.370 without telling me you don't listen to my podcast, 00:09:12.590 --> 00:09:18.730 Justin. Landscaping is from our bottle feeder 00:09:18.730 --> 00:09:22.330 foster. They were contacted by a lady who needed 00:09:22.330 --> 00:09:24.850 them to take a puppy. It was teeny, teeny tiny, 00:09:24.850 --> 00:09:27.990 and it was in an outside kennel with a huge adult 00:09:27.990 --> 00:09:30.309 dog that was beating it up literally all day 00:09:30.309 --> 00:09:35.169 long. DIY project is from the kill shelter. Animal 00:09:35.169 --> 00:09:38.309 control got a call from a landlord saying that 00:09:38.309 --> 00:09:40.210 tenants had moved out and just left the puppy 00:09:40.210 --> 00:09:45.070 in the unit. Ultimate Frisbee was found by our 00:09:45.070 --> 00:09:48.669 bottle feeding slash zero willpower foster family. 00:09:49.720 --> 00:09:52.220 She was sitting in the parking lot in the pouring 00:09:52.220 --> 00:09:55.879 rain one night when the lady was leaving work, 00:09:55.879 --> 00:09:58.259 so she just loaded her up and brought her home. 00:09:58.799 --> 00:10:00.960 She has spent the last week at Doggie Daycare 00:10:00.960 --> 00:10:03.340 though, and she has had the absolute best time. 00:10:04.600 --> 00:10:07.360 Okay, y 'all are really gonna have to focus with 00:10:07.360 --> 00:10:12.480 me on this one. History, knitting, kayaking, 00:10:12.940 --> 00:10:16.000 yard work, and yoga are all from the same home. 00:10:16.200 --> 00:10:18.259 It's a very complicated story, so try to keep 00:10:18.259 --> 00:10:22.009 up. We were asked by our wonderful Dr. Jamie 00:10:22.009 --> 00:10:24.830 if we would help with some puppies. Dr. Jamie, 00:10:24.830 --> 00:10:26.769 if you didn't know, was Dr. Burton's student 00:10:26.769 --> 00:10:28.830 at Mississippi State who then became her lifelong 00:10:28.830 --> 00:10:31.450 best friend. Dr. Jamie has a veterinary clinic 00:10:31.450 --> 00:10:33.789 in a nearby town. She helps us with low cost 00:10:33.789 --> 00:10:36.110 surgeries and we help her when animals get dumped 00:10:36.110 --> 00:10:39.450 on her. She said that one of her clients messaged 00:10:39.450 --> 00:10:41.769 her and asked if she would help her find homes 00:10:41.769 --> 00:10:44.250 for two puppies. It was a male and a female. 00:10:44.429 --> 00:10:47.269 I said, yes. By the time word got back to the 00:10:47.269 --> 00:10:49.730 owner, she had given the male away. So it was 00:10:49.730 --> 00:10:52.929 just one female puppy. I got her number, I started 00:10:52.929 --> 00:10:54.470 coordinating things with her, and that's when 00:10:54.470 --> 00:10:55.929 she told me that the person who was supposed 00:10:55.929 --> 00:10:59.190 to come pick up a second female puppy didn't 00:10:59.190 --> 00:11:01.750 show up and we could have two female puppies 00:11:01.750 --> 00:11:05.470 now. Those are now the Y litter of two. While 00:11:05.470 --> 00:11:07.450 we were talking she told me that they had a mama 00:11:07.450 --> 00:11:10.429 that needed to be rehomed as well We were all 00:11:10.429 --> 00:11:13.389 set to take her and then she told me yeah, she's 00:11:13.389 --> 00:11:16.789 super weird with new people She bit the vet earlier 00:11:16.789 --> 00:11:20.230 this week when we were there She hates being 00:11:20.230 --> 00:11:22.850 in a crate and she does not do well in a car 00:11:22.850 --> 00:11:29.419 at all Well Seeing as she was going to be Loaded 00:11:29.419 --> 00:11:32.559 in a crate to go for a 14 -hour car ride where 00:11:32.559 --> 00:11:35.080 she would arrive at a vet clinic and be given 00:11:35.080 --> 00:11:40.370 to a stranger I Had some concerns That's when 00:11:40.370 --> 00:11:43.269 she told me she also had an older puppy needing 00:11:43.269 --> 00:11:46.730 a home as well. He is now kayaking. She said 00:11:46.730 --> 00:11:48.590 that his mom was dumped at her house and she 00:11:48.590 --> 00:11:50.389 took her in. She ended up being pregnant and 00:11:50.389 --> 00:11:53.090 she had a litter of puppies in October. She kept 00:11:53.090 --> 00:11:54.690 one, she gave the rest away, but she couldn't 00:11:54.690 --> 00:11:57.649 find anyone to take kayaking. I asked if we were 00:11:57.649 --> 00:11:59.669 talking about the same mama dog that bit the 00:11:59.669 --> 00:12:01.909 vet and she was like, no, no, this is another 00:12:01.909 --> 00:12:07.210 mom. Oh, and I need you to take her too. So mama 00:12:07.210 --> 00:12:10.389 knitting got added to the mix. I have told her 00:12:10.389 --> 00:12:11.950 that we would need to hold off on taking the 00:12:11.950 --> 00:12:14.149 biting mom until I could find a foster locally 00:12:14.149 --> 00:12:16.029 down here to take her in and try her out and 00:12:16.029 --> 00:12:18.129 see how she does, see if she is actually feral. 00:12:18.769 --> 00:12:21.009 She's like, that's fine. With you taking these 00:12:21.009 --> 00:12:23.110 other four, that just leaves me with one other 00:12:23.110 --> 00:12:26.289 dog to get rid of. I'm like, oh my gosh. OK, 00:12:26.490 --> 00:12:28.850 who the heck are we talking about now? She said 00:12:28.850 --> 00:12:31.009 I have a Boston Terrier that I got from one of 00:12:31.009 --> 00:12:32.769 my friends a few years ago when they couldn't 00:12:32.769 --> 00:12:34.970 take care of her anymore. Can you take her too? 00:12:35.649 --> 00:12:40.889 And that's how we got history. So she brought 00:12:40.889 --> 00:12:45.850 mama knitting and kayaking. Kayaking is the puppy 00:12:45.850 --> 00:12:48.950 of knitting. She brought them to Dr. Jamie's 00:12:48.950 --> 00:12:51.950 last night along with the two Y puppies whose 00:12:51.950 --> 00:12:55.990 mom we are not taking and then the random Boston 00:12:55.990 --> 00:12:58.149 Terrier history. So she brought all of them to 00:12:58.149 --> 00:13:00.009 Dr. Jamie's clinic last night to leave them there 00:13:00.009 --> 00:13:04.379 so we could pick them up. Once she got home, 00:13:04.580 --> 00:13:07.559 she just decided that she loved that little feral 00:13:07.559 --> 00:13:11.360 aggressive Chihuahua mix mama too much to let 00:13:11.360 --> 00:13:13.620 her go. And since she only had one other dog, 00:13:13.759 --> 00:13:16.039 the older puppy of knitting that she isn't giving 00:13:16.039 --> 00:13:18.360 us, she felt like things were much more manageable 00:13:18.360 --> 00:13:20.240 with just the two of them. And she's decided 00:13:20.240 --> 00:13:21.779 she just wants to keep the mom. She doesn't want 00:13:21.779 --> 00:13:24.100 to stress her out and risk her biting anybody. 00:13:25.219 --> 00:13:28.360 Oh, and so this whole thing got started because 00:13:28.360 --> 00:13:30.740 she said she needed to re -home her animals before 00:13:30.740 --> 00:13:33.659 she could have surgery. She told me she's got 00:13:33.659 --> 00:13:36.679 a hernia so big it's about to fall out of her 00:13:36.679 --> 00:13:38.659 and she couldn't have the surgeries while she 00:13:38.659 --> 00:13:41.240 had this many dogs. I didn't ask any questions, 00:13:41.419 --> 00:13:43.259 guys. I was just like, okay, what do you want 00:13:43.259 --> 00:13:48.259 me to take? The M letter of three are from one 00:13:48.259 --> 00:13:50.899 of our rescue partners. Tasha has been trying 00:13:50.899 --> 00:13:53.700 to trap this feral mom for nearly a year now. 00:13:53.919 --> 00:13:58.059 She had babies under an old shed that was just 00:13:58.059 --> 00:14:00.399 falling down all around the babies pieces by 00:14:00.399 --> 00:14:03.379 piece. So they went and got them before that 00:14:03.379 --> 00:14:05.500 the puppies were killed and they were praying 00:14:05.500 --> 00:14:07.559 that the mom would eventually go into the trap 00:14:07.559 --> 00:14:09.779 and they even put the babies in the trap hoping 00:14:09.779 --> 00:14:12.720 to entice her. But she ran off and they didn't 00:14:12.720 --> 00:14:16.019 see her for days. So these were bottle fed babies 00:14:16.019 --> 00:14:18.399 and they are still trying to trap that sweet 00:14:18.399 --> 00:14:22.809 mama. The N letter of four were seen running 00:14:22.809 --> 00:14:25.450 through the woods with a feral mama. Someone 00:14:25.450 --> 00:14:27.070 picked up the puppies and brought them home, 00:14:27.129 --> 00:14:30.450 but they did not take the mom. So when our rescue 00:14:30.450 --> 00:14:32.889 partners were contacted about these puppies and 00:14:32.889 --> 00:14:34.809 they agreed to take them, they went looking for 00:14:34.809 --> 00:14:37.990 the mom, but they never found her. C, letter 00:14:37.990 --> 00:14:41.889 of 11, our owner surrenders. A lady messaged 00:14:41.889 --> 00:14:44.509 us about a week after her dog had given birth. 00:14:44.909 --> 00:14:48.909 It is a sweet and pretty poor family that has 00:14:48.909 --> 00:14:51.049 been trying to get the mama spayed for over a 00:14:51.049 --> 00:14:54.070 year but never had the funds and or a vehicle 00:14:54.070 --> 00:14:57.350 to get it done. So when Jessica went to see the 00:14:57.350 --> 00:14:59.110 puppies the first time, the lady was telling 00:14:59.110 --> 00:15:02.789 her that she just finished chemo for cancer and 00:15:02.789 --> 00:15:08.250 she also has an aggressive brain tumor. My mom 00:15:08.250 --> 00:15:11.070 who has stage four breast cancer Ended up being 00:15:11.070 --> 00:15:12.950 the one who went back to get these puppies and 00:15:12.950 --> 00:15:15.450 she was talking to her as well about you know 00:15:15.450 --> 00:15:18.149 Just their cancer treatments and stuff and the 00:15:18.149 --> 00:15:24.509 lady told her her brain is slipping out of her 00:15:24.509 --> 00:15:28.889 of her skull and is like falling down her spine 00:15:28.889 --> 00:15:33.629 basically is what's happening, which is the absolutes. 00:15:34.070 --> 00:15:36.730 Like, can you even imagine anything worse than 00:15:36.730 --> 00:15:40.889 that? That is that is so scary. Anyways, she 00:15:40.889 --> 00:15:42.850 teared up when she was talking to Jessica and 00:15:42.850 --> 00:15:45.629 said the idea of having 11 more dogs has been 00:15:45.629 --> 00:15:47.809 very overwhelming and very stressful for her. 00:15:48.509 --> 00:15:50.570 So she was very relieved that we were gonna be 00:15:50.570 --> 00:15:53.629 taking them. Her son is just a little elementary 00:15:53.629 --> 00:15:56.730 school little kid, but he took such good care 00:15:56.730 --> 00:15:58.669 of these puppies and he made sure that they were 00:15:58.669 --> 00:16:01.350 so well socialized so that they would be super 00:16:01.350 --> 00:16:05.549 easy to adopt out. The mom, the owner, is super 00:16:05.549 --> 00:16:07.669 relieved that we're gonna be paying to have her 00:16:07.669 --> 00:16:09.909 mama dog spayed for free now and we are really 00:16:09.909 --> 00:16:11.750 glad that this is something that we could take 00:16:11.750 --> 00:16:14.549 off of her plate with everything else she's having 00:16:14.549 --> 00:16:18.679 to go through. Mama Gardening was a pregnant 00:16:18.679 --> 00:16:22.080 stray we were contacted about by multiple people. 00:16:22.820 --> 00:16:26.379 But we literally had nowhere to put her and so 00:16:26.379 --> 00:16:28.379 we basically just told them she's on our list 00:16:28.379 --> 00:16:31.480 and we'll get to her as soon as we could. Jessica 00:16:31.480 --> 00:16:34.399 had plans made to go pick her up on a Thursday 00:16:34.399 --> 00:16:36.440 after a litter that had been at the doghouse 00:16:36.440 --> 00:16:39.440 went to a new foster. The people who had been 00:16:39.440 --> 00:16:42.120 feeding the mom texted Jessica Wednesday night 00:16:42.120 --> 00:16:45.039 that she had shown up to eat and she wasn't pregnant 00:16:45.039 --> 00:16:48.169 anymore. So Jessica went there on Thursday and 00:16:48.169 --> 00:16:50.350 the guy led her all through the woods to where 00:16:50.350 --> 00:16:52.789 the dog had given birth and they gathered the 00:16:52.789 --> 00:16:55.250 puppies up and Jessica was able to coax her out 00:16:55.250 --> 00:16:57.029 of the woods to where her puppies were to get 00:16:57.029 --> 00:17:02.950 her loaded in her car. Mama Pickleball was dumped 00:17:02.950 --> 00:17:05.650 as a pregnant stray. The homeowners took her 00:17:05.650 --> 00:17:08.250 in and a few days later she had nine puppies. 00:17:08.859 --> 00:17:12.180 We have a little booth at a flea market in town 00:17:12.180 --> 00:17:14.559 where we sell things that get donated to us that 00:17:14.559 --> 00:17:18.880 we can't use. So like mega huge crates that won't 00:17:18.880 --> 00:17:22.460 fit on the van or excess collars and leashes 00:17:22.460 --> 00:17:25.200 that, you know, we don't need or sizes that we 00:17:25.200 --> 00:17:27.599 don't need. And then the money that we get from 00:17:27.599 --> 00:17:30.779 these goes for surgeries and heartworm treatments 00:17:30.779 --> 00:17:33.119 and things like that. Just that bills basically. 00:17:33.799 --> 00:17:36.039 Anyways, we've gotten quite a following from 00:17:36.039 --> 00:17:39.710 this little booth. Like we were at one flea market 00:17:39.710 --> 00:17:42.569 and we ended up leaving there and going to another 00:17:42.569 --> 00:17:46.609 one and the the one that we joined was like oh 00:17:46.609 --> 00:17:48.990 my gosh we've had such an influx of customers 00:17:48.990 --> 00:17:53.170 and they're like where's the dog booth they have 00:17:53.170 --> 00:17:55.730 to tell me where our booth is because there's 00:17:55.730 --> 00:17:58.789 so everyone comes to our booth anyways one of 00:17:58.789 --> 00:18:01.210 the customers actually asked the store owner 00:18:01.210 --> 00:18:03.589 to put her in touch with my mom who is the one 00:18:03.589 --> 00:18:06.130 who runs the booth so that she could ask her 00:18:06.130 --> 00:18:08.589 if we would take this mama and her puppies. And 00:18:08.589 --> 00:18:13.210 I love that. Oh, and so the Virginia foster who 00:18:13.210 --> 00:18:16.789 is taking this mom is Zoe Foose. I think we all 00:18:16.789 --> 00:18:23.509 know Zoe and her dad, David. Anyways, Zoe, Zoe 00:18:23.509 --> 00:18:26.970 cracked me up this weekend. She sent me a picture 00:18:26.970 --> 00:18:30.980 of the whelping box that the mom and this and 00:18:30.980 --> 00:18:32.859 her puppies are going to be in when they get 00:18:32.859 --> 00:18:36.420 to her house. Inside the whelping box is this 00:18:36.420 --> 00:18:45.039 beautiful, huge, super nice area rug. I said, 00:18:45.119 --> 00:18:47.819 Zoe, why does your whelping box have a nicer 00:18:47.819 --> 00:18:52.900 rug than my living room? That is ridiculous. 00:18:53.779 --> 00:18:56.380 But I'm so excited for this mom that she's going 00:18:56.380 --> 00:19:03.509 to have such a nice rug. As for the cats, Stoxx 00:19:03.509 --> 00:19:06.170 is from our wonderful Dr. Jamie. She said that 00:19:06.170 --> 00:19:09.069 one of her clients found him in the road right 00:19:09.069 --> 00:19:11.369 in front of her house. By the scrapes on his 00:19:11.369 --> 00:19:13.990 face, Dr. Jamie thinks he was probably in someone's 00:19:13.990 --> 00:19:16.890 motor of their car. When the client brought him 00:19:16.890 --> 00:19:20.450 to the clinic, he was covered in something oily 00:19:20.450 --> 00:19:24.430 and he smelled super weird. So she asked him 00:19:24.430 --> 00:19:27.049 what she put on him and she said she lathered 00:19:27.049 --> 00:19:29.549 him in coconut oil because that's all she had. 00:19:30.829 --> 00:19:35.970 Why? What would possess you to do that? Robotics 00:19:35.970 --> 00:19:39.190 is also from Dr. Jamie and he might be one of 00:19:39.190 --> 00:19:42.369 my favorite stories ever. I love this story. 00:19:43.650 --> 00:19:47.190 Dr. Jamie's clinic has a very big heavy front 00:19:47.190 --> 00:19:51.309 door and then a little small flimsy screen door 00:19:51.309 --> 00:19:54.930 on the other side. in the mornings they open 00:19:54.930 --> 00:19:57.410 the big door and they just leave that open all 00:19:57.410 --> 00:19:59.650 day and they have the screen door that's closed 00:19:59.650 --> 00:20:02.210 in front of it. It doesn't close all the way 00:20:02.210 --> 00:20:05.089 though, it just kind of like pulls to and it's 00:20:05.089 --> 00:20:12.170 a push open, not a pull open. Wow. The other 00:20:12.170 --> 00:20:14.269 day the receptionist was sitting at the front 00:20:14.269 --> 00:20:17.509 desk and she heard the screen door open and close. 00:20:18.059 --> 00:20:20.279 But when she looked up, there wasn't anybody 00:20:20.279 --> 00:20:22.200 in the lobby. And so she was kind of freaked 00:20:22.200 --> 00:20:25.019 out about it. So she stood up from her desk and 00:20:25.019 --> 00:20:29.740 up jumped this sweet kitty. He had let himself 00:20:29.740 --> 00:20:32.279 into the clinic, walked right in and came to 00:20:32.279 --> 00:20:34.279 the front desk like, Hi, you need to make an 00:20:34.279 --> 00:20:38.910 appointment, please? He had a collar on so they 00:20:38.910 --> 00:20:40.910 posted him on their website to see if they could 00:20:40.910 --> 00:20:43.269 find his owner But nobody ever came forward for 00:20:43.269 --> 00:20:46.630 him, but I just get so tickled every time I think 00:20:46.630 --> 00:20:49.630 about that He literally took himself to the vet. 00:20:50.910 --> 00:20:56.250 I love him Video games was supposedly seen being 00:20:56.250 --> 00:20:59.029 thrown out of a moving truck by the finder. She 00:20:59.029 --> 00:21:02.690 picked him up and kept him in her lunchbox until 00:21:02.690 --> 00:21:04.829 she got a hold of our bottle feeder foster and 00:21:04.829 --> 00:21:06.910 convinced them to come pick her up from her at 00:21:06.910 --> 00:21:11.789 work. Writing is from a lady with a feral cat 00:21:11.789 --> 00:21:14.329 that she's been trying to catch for years. There 00:21:14.329 --> 00:21:17.269 are several siblings that she's trying to catch 00:21:17.269 --> 00:21:19.730 and tame as well and we will either send them 00:21:19.730 --> 00:21:21.849 later if they're sweet and they end up being 00:21:21.849 --> 00:21:24.720 sweet. Or we will just spay and neuter them for 00:21:24.720 --> 00:21:29.380 her and she'll just re -release them. Breweries? 00:21:29.680 --> 00:21:31.700 Okay, so someone saw it sitting in the parking 00:21:31.700 --> 00:21:34.140 lot on their way to work one morning. They picked 00:21:34.140 --> 00:21:36.160 it up. They posted on Facebook. Multiple people 00:21:36.160 --> 00:21:38.220 commented that they had seen it there for the 00:21:38.220 --> 00:21:41.460 past couple days and you know, no one owned it. 00:21:42.000 --> 00:21:43.819 So Jessica said she'd pick it up the next morning. 00:21:43.960 --> 00:21:46.559 She had the cat for several days when she noticed 00:21:46.559 --> 00:21:48.660 something was off with its tail. So we took it 00:21:48.660 --> 00:21:51.200 to the vet and we found out the tip of its tail 00:21:51.200 --> 00:21:55.420 was dead. Our vet thinks that it was like shut 00:21:55.420 --> 00:21:58.640 or closed in something and it broke the tip of 00:21:58.640 --> 00:22:01.799 it off and then it just died. So we had to have 00:22:01.799 --> 00:22:04.259 the end of it snipped off. So it's got a little, 00:22:04.259 --> 00:22:08.509 little wonky tail. The A letter of four, our 00:22:08.509 --> 00:22:11.150 owner surrenders from a lady. She has apparently 00:22:11.150 --> 00:22:13.529 had a lot of trouble getting rid of fleas in 00:22:13.529 --> 00:22:15.769 her house, and her husband was threatening to 00:22:15.769 --> 00:22:19.009 take the kittens and dump them somewhere. We 00:22:19.009 --> 00:22:22.049 gave her flea medicine, but I don't know. Anyways, 00:22:22.130 --> 00:22:25.250 we ended up taking the kittens for her. J letter 00:22:25.250 --> 00:22:27.589 of four, our owner surrenders. The lady posted 00:22:27.589 --> 00:22:29.970 them on Facebook that she wanted them gone that 00:22:29.970 --> 00:22:32.109 day, but she had taken really good care of them. 00:22:32.109 --> 00:22:34.450 She got them vaccinated and dewormed, so I'm 00:22:34.450 --> 00:22:37.230 not sure what the rush was. Our fosters ended 00:22:37.230 --> 00:22:38.930 up getting in touch with her and they went and 00:22:38.930 --> 00:22:42.670 got them that day. Okay, that is everybody that 00:22:42.670 --> 00:22:47.630 is on my van. Coming up from a local Virginia 00:22:47.630 --> 00:22:51.430 rescue is the D litter of three and the P litter 00:22:51.430 --> 00:22:55.190 of five. These guys all have dad nicknames, not 00:22:55.190 --> 00:22:59.309 hobbies. They are from a rescue in Prince George 00:22:59.309 --> 00:23:02.410 County that does TNR, that's trap neuter release. 00:23:02.809 --> 00:23:07.609 So I imagine that they trapped the feral moms, 00:23:08.009 --> 00:23:10.690 it's two moms, but the kittens must have been 00:23:10.690 --> 00:23:12.430 sweet enough that they could go to homes and 00:23:12.430 --> 00:23:14.329 they didn't just want to turn them loose. I don't 00:23:14.329 --> 00:23:17.650 know that though, I'm just using my context clues. 00:23:19.509 --> 00:23:22.559 But that is - all the stories for this week. 00:23:22.700 --> 00:23:24.500 Thank you so much for listening. Thank you for 00:23:24.500 --> 00:23:27.440 fostering. Thank you for helping me battle through 00:23:27.440 --> 00:23:32.619 my algorithm fight on Facebook. I am so proud 00:23:32.619 --> 00:23:35.559 to say that despite Facebook's never -ending 00:23:35.559 --> 00:23:38.759 attempts to shadow ban me, I have still managed 00:23:38.759 --> 00:23:41.059 to find fosters for every single animal that 00:23:41.059 --> 00:23:44.140 needed to go on transport and all the animals 00:23:44.140 --> 00:23:46.180 already in the system up there that have needed 00:23:46.180 --> 00:23:49.490 reassignments since the end of March, beginning 00:23:49.490 --> 00:23:52.509 of April. So I am super pumped about that. Can 00:23:52.509 --> 00:23:54.410 you even imagine though how much more I could 00:23:54.410 --> 00:23:57.349 have gotten done if Facebook actually showed 00:23:57.349 --> 00:24:00.789 my posts to people like it's supposed to? So 00:24:00.789 --> 00:24:04.369 frustrating. It's a rough life, but someone's 00:24:04.369 --> 00:24:04.970 got to do it.