WEBVTT 00:00:10.850 --> 00:00:15.529 Welcome to Rough Life. It has been such a crazy 00:00:15.529 --> 00:00:18.050 week down here. First of all, I'm like barely 00:00:18.050 --> 00:00:22.269 alive. That's a little overdramatic, but really 00:00:22.269 --> 00:00:28.190 I am struggling. Justin and I are hosting a huge 00:00:28.190 --> 00:00:30.949 4th of July party. Jessica, if you're listening 00:00:30.949 --> 00:00:33.810 to this, this is your invitation to come, but 00:00:33.810 --> 00:00:35.909 it's gonna be a lot of people you don't know 00:00:35.909 --> 00:00:40.609 and a lot of food that you can't eat. So, no 00:00:40.609 --> 00:00:43.380 hard feelings if you don't wanna come, but. Anyways, 00:00:43.460 --> 00:00:45.740 we're getting our new house ready for this big 00:00:45.740 --> 00:00:49.399 party and I have been pressure washing absolutely 00:00:49.399 --> 00:00:53.659 everything if my Pressure washer hose will reach 00:00:53.659 --> 00:00:55.539 it. It's getting pressure wash. I don't care 00:00:55.539 --> 00:00:58.780 if it's not supposed to be I'm doing it. I have 00:00:58.780 --> 00:01:02.140 been Truly obsessed with pressure washing we 00:01:02.140 --> 00:01:05.659 tallied it all up yesterday. I have spent over 00:01:05.659 --> 00:01:08.319 12 hours pressure washing throughout the last 00:01:08.319 --> 00:01:12.530 few days And because of that, I now have carbon 00:01:12.530 --> 00:01:16.750 monoxide poisoning. Obviously not like full blown 00:01:16.750 --> 00:01:19.430 poisoning because I'm not dead. But apparently 00:01:19.430 --> 00:01:22.769 being that close to like gas powered machines 00:01:22.769 --> 00:01:25.250 and breathing it in for so long is not good for 00:01:25.250 --> 00:01:28.709 you. I first started complaining about a headache, 00:01:28.750 --> 00:01:31.590 which I don't ever have headaches. I have had 00:01:31.590 --> 00:01:34.569 maybe three headaches my whole life. So that 00:01:34.569 --> 00:01:37.590 in and of itself was really weird. But then I 00:01:37.590 --> 00:01:42.390 got extremely nauseous and now I am just so crazy 00:01:42.390 --> 00:01:45.510 dizzy, like I have to move in slow motion or 00:01:45.510 --> 00:01:49.349 I might just topple right over. Justin said he 00:01:49.349 --> 00:01:52.430 is taking my pressure washer privileges away 00:01:52.430 --> 00:01:56.430 and I have to spread mulch this weekend now instead. 00:01:56.700 --> 00:02:00.500 So that is a super bummer for me. He also doesn't 00:02:00.500 --> 00:02:04.099 want me to drive Mary Sue, our baby, to transport 00:02:04.099 --> 00:02:07.340 today. So is he volunteering to drive me and 00:02:07.340 --> 00:02:10.860 the baby? No. He's just going to keep her at 00:02:10.860 --> 00:02:16.360 home instead and just wish me good luck. This 00:02:16.360 --> 00:02:20.319 week was also Melissa's first transport as foster 00:02:20.319 --> 00:02:23.340 coordinator, so it has been very nice for me 00:02:23.340 --> 00:02:26.069 not having to do all the foster and transport 00:02:26.069 --> 00:02:30.250 coordinating, but we had over 40 people signed 00:02:30.250 --> 00:02:32.009 up to foster puppies at the beginning of the 00:02:32.009 --> 00:02:37.610 week and more than 30 of them canceled or ghosted. 00:02:37.830 --> 00:02:40.550 So because of that we ended up having to cut 00:02:40.550 --> 00:02:43.050 a litter of puppies and their mom as well as 00:02:43.050 --> 00:02:46.550 multiple kittens. So this was always supposed 00:02:46.550 --> 00:02:49.590 to be a kitten heavy transport and less puppies 00:02:49.590 --> 00:02:53.009 than usual, but I don't know that we've ever 00:02:53.009 --> 00:02:55.610 done a transport with this few puppies on it. 00:02:55.949 --> 00:03:00.169 So we only have 16 puppies and 42 kittens on 00:03:00.169 --> 00:03:03.650 the van today. The goal was more like 20 to 25 00:03:03.650 --> 00:03:06.889 puppies and 50 kittens, so we got close at least. 00:03:07.389 --> 00:03:10.789 And we have transport in literally one week, 00:03:10.849 --> 00:03:13.090 so the ones that got caught they won't have to 00:03:13.090 --> 00:03:16.479 wait long to get to Virginia. Let's jump into 00:03:16.479 --> 00:03:19.439 the stories, though. The theme is Hamilton, one, 00:03:19.439 --> 00:03:21.819 because it's the 10 -year anniversary of Hamilton, 00:03:22.259 --> 00:03:24.560 two, because it's 4th of July and who doesn't 00:03:24.560 --> 00:03:26.319 think about Hamilton around the 4th of July, 00:03:26.319 --> 00:03:29.979 and three, because Jessica and I are utterly 00:03:29.979 --> 00:03:33.219 obsessed with Hamilton and we could not believe 00:03:33.219 --> 00:03:36.099 that we've never done this theme before. Things 00:03:36.099 --> 00:03:39.520 you find in Lowe's, done. Way to cook potatoes, 00:03:40.080 --> 00:03:42.900 did it. How do you say dog in other language? 00:03:43.139 --> 00:03:49.460 Did it years ago. types of cheeses twice. But 00:03:49.460 --> 00:03:53.180 our favorite play of all time and a massive massive 00:03:53.180 --> 00:03:57.780 national hit didn't even cross our minds. So 00:03:57.780 --> 00:04:01.240 yes, I have been listening to the album on repeat 00:04:01.240 --> 00:04:04.800 for the last 14 days and rewatched it on Disney 00:04:04.800 --> 00:04:07.360 Plus twice while working on these names. And 00:04:07.360 --> 00:04:10.479 I somehow got on like Hamilton TikTok, which 00:04:10.479 --> 00:04:12.699 I apparently have never been on that side before. 00:04:13.060 --> 00:04:16.860 So my feed is constantly just telling me like 00:04:16.860 --> 00:04:20.860 all the like inside facts, you know, like things 00:04:20.860 --> 00:04:23.519 that you don't just pick up on while watching 00:04:23.519 --> 00:04:27.569 it, you know, like like So -and -so stops rapping 00:04:27.569 --> 00:04:30.730 because she's about to die or something. So like, 00:04:30.970 --> 00:04:33.149 I don't know. It's just it's so interesting all 00:04:33.149 --> 00:04:35.970 the facts and all the things that go into it. 00:04:36.290 --> 00:04:39.230 So if you haven't seen it, if you haven't listened 00:04:39.230 --> 00:04:41.149 to the album, if you haven't watched the movie, 00:04:41.370 --> 00:04:43.889 if you haven't gone and seen the play, do yourself 00:04:43.889 --> 00:04:46.649 a favor and start listening to the album at least 00:04:46.649 --> 00:04:50.310 because it is truly incredible. And I'm obsessed 00:04:50.310 --> 00:04:55.740 with these names. So cabinet battle. Uh, he has 00:04:55.740 --> 00:04:57.920 a crazy story. I'm sure most of you have had 00:04:57.920 --> 00:05:00.060 the pleasure of meeting Ariel. If you haven't 00:05:00.060 --> 00:05:03.699 yet, you will soon. She is one of the main puppy 00:05:03.699 --> 00:05:06.860 therapy helpers and intake workers for Wolf Trap. 00:05:07.279 --> 00:05:10.339 Well, fun fact, she's actually from Mississippi 00:05:10.339 --> 00:05:13.019 too. She's from several hours away from me and 00:05:13.019 --> 00:05:16.180 where I pull animals from, but we're both in 00:05:16.180 --> 00:05:18.660 the same Facebook group that gives dogs away 00:05:18.660 --> 00:05:21.300 for free just throughout the state of Mississippi. 00:05:21.970 --> 00:05:24.810 So she actually saw this puppy being given away 00:05:24.810 --> 00:05:27.089 and sent me a screenshot asking me to pull him 00:05:27.089 --> 00:05:32.430 because, and I quote, it's so fluffy. Well, the 00:05:32.430 --> 00:05:34.810 post had been deleted, but I messaged the girl 00:05:34.810 --> 00:05:36.889 who posted it and I asked her if she still needed 00:05:36.889 --> 00:05:39.569 help rehoming him. She said that she was giving 00:05:39.569 --> 00:05:41.529 him to a friend of hers and I told her just, 00:05:41.529 --> 00:05:43.029 you know, reach out if things don't work out 00:05:43.029 --> 00:05:46.470 with a friend. So the day before transport yesterday. 00:05:46.759 --> 00:05:49.379 She messages me and she says the friend is giving 00:05:49.379 --> 00:05:51.600 him back to her because he's chasing her chickens 00:05:51.600 --> 00:05:55.139 and she's hoping I'll still take him. So I asked 00:05:55.139 --> 00:05:58.399 her for the background story and she said he's 00:05:58.399 --> 00:06:01.759 from a breeder in another town and she got him 00:06:01.759 --> 00:06:04.000 from a friend of hers who was friends with the 00:06:04.000 --> 00:06:06.639 breeder and then gave him to the other friend 00:06:06.639 --> 00:06:09.040 who then gave him back and then she finally gave 00:06:09.040 --> 00:06:13.339 him to me. To say this little guy has been bounced 00:06:13.339 --> 00:06:18.300 around in his short life is definitely an understatement. 00:06:18.899 --> 00:06:21.600 Dear Theodosia came from a family that had taken 00:06:21.600 --> 00:06:24.720 her in as a puppy. She belonged to their neighbor 00:06:24.720 --> 00:06:27.600 and he kept her tied up in the backyard and would 00:06:27.600 --> 00:06:30.379 stay gone for days at a time without giving her 00:06:30.379 --> 00:06:34.339 food and water. So the the owner finally the 00:06:34.339 --> 00:06:37.319 neighbor finally convinced the owner that the 00:06:37.319 --> 00:06:40.339 dog was sick and she offered to pay him $40 and 00:06:40.339 --> 00:06:42.420 he finally let her have the puppy turned out 00:06:42.420 --> 00:06:45.839 she was right she had parvo so the lady took 00:06:45.839 --> 00:06:47.920 her to the vet paid to have her treated this 00:06:47.920 --> 00:06:50.459 was last august and the vet said she was about 00:06:50.459 --> 00:06:53.949 five months old in august of last year They have 00:06:53.949 --> 00:06:56.689 taken excellent care of her but they have two 00:06:56.689 --> 00:06:59.110 other dogs and one of them was never really crazy 00:06:59.110 --> 00:07:01.750 about the new addition to the family so they 00:07:01.750 --> 00:07:04.050 asked us if we would take her. She spent the 00:07:04.050 --> 00:07:06.269 last week at doggie daycare down here and they 00:07:06.269 --> 00:07:10.829 said she is absolutely awesome. Philip Hamilton 00:07:10.829 --> 00:07:13.209 was found alone on a back road in the middle 00:07:13.209 --> 00:07:16.410 of the night by an off -duty animal control officer. 00:07:17.969 --> 00:07:20.829 John Adams as an owner surrender if you happen 00:07:20.829 --> 00:07:23.449 to have listened to the formula one episode there 00:07:23.449 --> 00:07:26.550 were two J puppies on that transport This is 00:07:26.550 --> 00:07:28.870 their litter mate. Don't go listen to it. I'll 00:07:28.870 --> 00:07:32.910 just tell you what I said So for you newbies, 00:07:32.930 --> 00:07:35.089 I used to be an elementary school teacher many 00:07:35.089 --> 00:07:38.720 moons ago when So Dr. Burton then offered to 00:07:38.720 --> 00:07:41.199 match my teaching salary and I quit and I came 00:07:41.199 --> 00:07:43.660 on full -time with Wolf Trap. But I still get 00:07:43.660 --> 00:07:46.660 contacted fairly often by former coworkers and 00:07:46.660 --> 00:07:49.000 students' families to take animals for them. 00:07:50.350 --> 00:07:54.009 The original two J puppies were part of a litter 00:07:54.009 --> 00:07:56.470 of six that belonged to one of my former students. 00:07:56.870 --> 00:07:59.089 They were supposed to give me three puppies but 00:07:59.089 --> 00:08:01.529 decided at the very last minute while we were 00:08:01.529 --> 00:08:05.310 there to keep the other one in addition to the 00:08:05.310 --> 00:08:08.350 other one they were already keeping. So they 00:08:08.350 --> 00:08:11.810 at the time had those two puppies, the mom who 00:08:11.810 --> 00:08:16.389 is a miniature Australian shepherd slash Pomeranian 00:08:16.389 --> 00:08:21.990 mix and the dad that's a purebred. Great Pyrenees 00:08:21.990 --> 00:08:24.970 and then a random stray that just looks like 00:08:24.970 --> 00:08:27.490 a rotting mix So we were really hoping that they 00:08:27.490 --> 00:08:29.750 would come to their senses and surrender at least 00:08:29.750 --> 00:08:32.509 one of the other puppies to me They gave the 00:08:32.509 --> 00:08:34.870 other two puppies away to their friends But I 00:08:34.870 --> 00:08:36.809 told her that if she surrendered at least one 00:08:36.809 --> 00:08:38.470 more puppy to me that I would give her a spay 00:08:38.470 --> 00:08:41.230 voucher for the mom So she ended up taking me 00:08:41.230 --> 00:08:45.120 up on that She finally gave me the third puppy. 00:08:45.539 --> 00:08:47.259 She still has the one that they were planning 00:08:47.259 --> 00:08:49.720 to keep all along, so I don't have high hopes 00:08:49.720 --> 00:08:52.539 that she'll give me that one, but we'll see. 00:08:54.080 --> 00:08:56.460 One last time was dropped off on a back road. 00:08:56.919 --> 00:08:59.440 She wandered into the yard of a kind woman who 00:08:59.440 --> 00:09:01.440 scooped her up and put her in a small fenced 00:09:01.440 --> 00:09:04.500 -in area and kept her safe until transport. The 00:09:04.500 --> 00:09:06.559 finders two kids have been playing with her daily, 00:09:06.580 --> 00:09:10.909 so she is very well socialized. The bee litter 00:09:10.909 --> 00:09:13.750 of two were spotted while someone was out riding 00:09:13.750 --> 00:09:16.870 four -wheelers in a creek with her kids. No one 00:09:16.870 --> 00:09:19.129 knows how they got to that spot because the creek 00:09:19.129 --> 00:09:22.549 is not accessible by car, so whoever dumped them 00:09:22.549 --> 00:09:24.590 knew that these puppies were likely to die because 00:09:24.590 --> 00:09:28.110 there was no one nearby, and it was by complete 00:09:28.110 --> 00:09:32.220 accident that they were found. The age litter 00:09:32.220 --> 00:09:35.000 of four we got a text a couple weeks ago about 00:09:35.000 --> 00:09:37.259 four puppies that had been dumped at someone's 00:09:37.259 --> 00:09:39.700 house She was gonna put them in her kennel and 00:09:39.700 --> 00:09:41.899 keep them until transport She sent us pictures 00:09:41.899 --> 00:09:44.360 and then like we just kind of forgot about them 00:09:44.360 --> 00:09:46.779 Well then a week later We got a call one night 00:09:46.779 --> 00:09:49.639 about four puppies that were dumped at an old 00:09:49.639 --> 00:09:51.399 lady's house and the puppies were just bouncing 00:09:51.399 --> 00:09:53.980 all over the place The lady couldn't even walk 00:09:53.980 --> 00:09:55.940 outside to take her dog out to go to the bathroom 00:09:55.940 --> 00:09:58.679 because the puppies were just everywhere So they 00:09:58.679 --> 00:10:00.740 found someone to foster the puppies and when 00:10:00.740 --> 00:10:03.019 they sent us the pictures we realized those were 00:10:03.019 --> 00:10:05.879 the same exact puppies from just a few days earlier. 00:10:07.399 --> 00:10:10.299 The T litter of five are owner surrenders. The 00:10:10.299 --> 00:10:14.299 owners have six dogs total. The father was a 00:10:14.299 --> 00:10:16.960 German shepherd. He got two of the females pregnant. 00:10:17.120 --> 00:10:19.679 All of the puppies from the other litter died 00:10:19.679 --> 00:10:23.399 and then the German shepherd just wandered off, 00:10:23.419 --> 00:10:25.120 disappeared. We don't know what happened to him. 00:10:25.450 --> 00:10:28.230 They still have two six -month -old puppies from 00:10:28.230 --> 00:10:31.730 a previous litter, from this mom's litter. They 00:10:31.730 --> 00:10:33.549 would like us to take one of them, so we're gonna 00:10:33.549 --> 00:10:36.450 try to get her on transport in a few weeks. Everyone 00:10:36.450 --> 00:10:38.809 in that family is a dog lover, but things are 00:10:38.809 --> 00:10:43.809 just getting out of control over there. So that's 00:10:43.809 --> 00:10:47.149 all of the dogs on this transport. All the rest 00:10:47.149 --> 00:10:51.299 of these will be our cats and kittens. loyal 00:10:51.299 --> 00:10:54.159 royal subject is our pregnant mama. She was left 00:10:54.159 --> 00:10:56.200 behind after the family's house burnt to the 00:10:56.200 --> 00:10:59.080 ground and they had to move into a rental. There's 00:10:59.080 --> 00:11:01.179 also a litter of kittens at that house from another 00:11:01.179 --> 00:11:03.259 cat that were supposed to go on transport today 00:11:03.259 --> 00:11:06.519 too, but they can't catch them because they keep 00:11:06.519 --> 00:11:09.220 running under all the rubble and hiding. So hopefully 00:11:09.220 --> 00:11:13.129 they'll catch them in a few days. Non -stop wandered 00:11:13.129 --> 00:11:15.490 up to someone's house when he was only like three 00:11:15.490 --> 00:11:18.090 or four weeks old like could barely even walk 00:11:18.090 --> 00:11:20.230 They tried to take him in but they realized he 00:11:20.230 --> 00:11:22.350 wasn't even old enough to eat on his own yet 00:11:22.350 --> 00:11:25.169 So they reached out to one of our fosters who 00:11:25.169 --> 00:11:26.990 they knew would bottle feed him and find him 00:11:26.990 --> 00:11:31.330 a good home King George the third is an owner 00:11:31.330 --> 00:11:34.070 surrender There's actually two more kittens in 00:11:34.070 --> 00:11:36.129 this litter, but the family couldn't catch them 00:11:36.129 --> 00:11:38.809 So I'm doubtful that they will even bring them 00:11:38.809 --> 00:11:41.519 to transport today Hopefully they'll catch them 00:11:41.519 --> 00:11:44.039 soon and we can get them and send them next week. 00:11:44.399 --> 00:11:46.139 The family's actually really good friends of 00:11:46.139 --> 00:11:50.139 ours and they have three adult cats and they 00:11:50.139 --> 00:11:52.919 told us this is literally what they told us. 00:11:53.200 --> 00:11:55.500 Two of them are spayed and I have no idea how 00:11:55.500 --> 00:11:59.200 the third one got pregnant. Okay well if you 00:11:59.200 --> 00:12:01.299 don't spay it, it's gonna get pregnant. These 00:12:01.299 --> 00:12:04.879 are actually really intelligent people. The mom 00:12:04.879 --> 00:12:08.019 was my high school teacher so... I'm not sure 00:12:08.019 --> 00:12:11.700 how they don't understand how this works. The 00:12:11.700 --> 00:12:16.679 M litter too are not litter mates, but I had 00:12:16.679 --> 00:12:19.700 too many litters and I didn't have enough letters 00:12:19.700 --> 00:12:24.379 for all of these animals, so these two singles 00:12:24.379 --> 00:12:26.940 turned into one litter since they were both being 00:12:26.940 --> 00:12:28.759 fostered at Jessica's house and they've been 00:12:28.759 --> 00:12:31.820 with each other for weeks anyways. The brown 00:12:31.820 --> 00:12:34.600 tabby was found bloody and sitting in the middle 00:12:34.600 --> 00:12:38.139 of the road. The guy who found him called Jessica 00:12:38.139 --> 00:12:39.860 and said he would take it to the vet and pay 00:12:39.860 --> 00:12:42.559 to have it treated if we would take it. The vet 00:12:42.559 --> 00:12:44.539 thinks it probably just had fallen out of the 00:12:44.539 --> 00:12:47.340 car when this guy found it. It was very hissy 00:12:47.340 --> 00:12:50.279 and feral at first, but it only took him a day 00:12:50.279 --> 00:12:52.460 or two to start feeling better and enjoy being 00:12:52.460 --> 00:12:55.860 loved on. The brown and white tabby was found 00:12:55.860 --> 00:12:57.879 at someone's house. Jessica was just planning 00:12:57.879 --> 00:13:00.179 to stop by and see him and take a picture and 00:13:00.179 --> 00:13:03.179 then try to find a foster for him. But when she 00:13:03.179 --> 00:13:05.419 walked around to the carport and called him, 00:13:05.500 --> 00:13:07.700 he came running out from under the lawnmower 00:13:07.700 --> 00:13:10.740 and jumped in her lap and started purring. So 00:13:10.740 --> 00:13:14.259 he left with Jessica that day. He ended up having 00:13:14.259 --> 00:13:17.179 a nasty bacterial infection in his belly and 00:13:17.179 --> 00:13:19.299 he was pretty pitiful for the first few days. 00:13:19.840 --> 00:13:21.840 He's all better now though and he is running 00:13:21.840 --> 00:13:24.779 wild through the house with his new brother. 00:13:26.679 --> 00:13:29.620 The eye litter of two are owner surrenders from 00:13:29.620 --> 00:13:32.919 friends of ours Supposedly these are the only 00:13:32.919 --> 00:13:36.200 two that survived But I also think I remember 00:13:36.200 --> 00:13:38.460 seeing her post something on Facebook about giving 00:13:38.460 --> 00:13:41.460 some away So I don't even know I meant to investigate 00:13:41.460 --> 00:13:43.159 that a little bit more But I just don't have 00:13:43.159 --> 00:13:45.820 the brain cells to do it now She does at least 00:13:45.820 --> 00:13:47.899 have the sense to know that she needs to get 00:13:47.899 --> 00:13:51.289 her mom a cat spayed and I think her two little 00:13:51.289 --> 00:13:53.809 girls have probably terrorized these kittens, 00:13:54.309 --> 00:13:59.610 so they may have a little PTSD. The Y litter 00:13:59.610 --> 00:14:02.509 of four were strays. A mama and her kittens wandered 00:14:02.509 --> 00:14:04.690 up to a factory in town and one of the security 00:14:04.690 --> 00:14:07.409 guards took them home. He reached out to a family 00:14:07.409 --> 00:14:10.429 that fosters for us and he has been worried to 00:14:10.429 --> 00:14:12.389 death about finding good homes for these kittens, 00:14:12.490 --> 00:14:15.470 so he is very glad that we'll take them and that 00:14:15.470 --> 00:14:18.070 we will spay the mama who he loves and wants 00:14:18.070 --> 00:14:22.950 to keep. The S litter of four are not actual 00:14:22.950 --> 00:14:25.789 litter mates either, but they have all been bottle 00:14:25.789 --> 00:14:28.129 fed together since before their eyes were open 00:14:28.129 --> 00:14:30.909 So I don't know if they even know they're not 00:14:30.909 --> 00:14:34.009 litter mates. The two white ones were found in 00:14:34.009 --> 00:14:36.549 someone's barn They had been without a mama for 00:14:36.549 --> 00:14:39.350 two days before they found our bottle feeder 00:14:39.350 --> 00:14:43.759 foster that took them in The tortie was tossed 00:14:43.759 --> 00:14:46.700 out from a truck. A FedEx driver saw it, saw 00:14:46.700 --> 00:14:49.179 it happen and picked her up and took her to our 00:14:49.179 --> 00:14:52.580 bottle feeder foster. They are our bottle feeder 00:14:52.580 --> 00:14:55.320 fosters FedEx delivery driver too and they just 00:14:55.320 --> 00:14:57.600 knew that she bottle fed animals and was like 00:14:57.600 --> 00:14:58.899 I'll just take it to her she'll know what to 00:14:58.899 --> 00:15:02.720 do. The tabby was just found somewhere as a teeny 00:15:02.720 --> 00:15:06.700 tiny baby with his eyes not even open yet. The 00:15:06.700 --> 00:15:09.940 our litter of four our owner surrenders The mama 00:15:09.940 --> 00:15:11.940 cat got bit by a snake when the kittens were 00:15:11.940 --> 00:15:14.379 three weeks old and she had to be euthanized 00:15:14.379 --> 00:15:17.159 They immediately started asking us to take them 00:15:17.159 --> 00:15:19.899 but we had no space for them. So they bottle 00:15:19.899 --> 00:15:23.139 -fed them and have Tried to take really good 00:15:23.139 --> 00:15:25.379 care of them. They have been living outside these 00:15:25.379 --> 00:15:28.100 last few weeks though. So they have had a solid 00:15:28.100 --> 00:15:32.460 week of literal flooding, like build an ark, 00:15:32.480 --> 00:15:36.259 we've had so much rain, and then a week of triple 00:15:36.259 --> 00:15:39.240 degree heat index. So they are going to be very 00:15:39.240 --> 00:15:43.019 glad to be indoors again. The eight litter of 00:15:43.019 --> 00:15:45.620 six are from one of our fosters. A friend of 00:15:45.620 --> 00:15:47.559 hers got word about some kittens that had been 00:15:47.559 --> 00:15:49.179 hanging around somebody's house and they were 00:15:49.179 --> 00:15:51.940 going to shoot them. So the friend went and got 00:15:51.940 --> 00:15:53.919 them at 11 o 'clock that night because she couldn't 00:15:53.919 --> 00:15:56.559 stop thinking about them. They had really nasty 00:15:56.559 --> 00:15:59.059 eyes and one of them had an infected looking 00:15:59.059 --> 00:16:02.419 tail. The lady's daughter is in vet school and 00:16:02.419 --> 00:16:04.720 works at a veterinary clinic so they have been 00:16:04.720 --> 00:16:06.940 treating them. They've all been on antibiotics 00:16:06.940 --> 00:16:09.840 and then the one had to have the tail amputated 00:16:09.840 --> 00:16:11.620 because the vet didn't think that it could be 00:16:11.620 --> 00:16:17.110 saved. The W family of eight, so this is two 00:16:17.110 --> 00:16:20.669 moms and six kittens. They are owner surrenders 00:16:20.669 --> 00:16:22.950 from one of my friends that works at our vet. 00:16:23.490 --> 00:16:25.529 He posted the kittens on Facebook looking for 00:16:25.529 --> 00:16:27.450 homes because he was leaving in a few days to 00:16:27.450 --> 00:16:30.830 go to veterinary school himself and his dad wouldn't 00:16:30.830 --> 00:16:33.350 take care of them. I just happened to be at the 00:16:33.350 --> 00:16:35.629 vet the next morning and saw him and told him 00:16:35.629 --> 00:16:37.409 that I would take them if he still had them. 00:16:37.960 --> 00:16:40.159 He was thrilled and he messaged me that night 00:16:40.159 --> 00:16:42.220 asking if I take the two moms too because he 00:16:42.220 --> 00:16:44.620 knew his dad just was gonna make them barn cats 00:16:44.620 --> 00:16:47.259 and wouldn't take good care of them. He is such 00:16:47.259 --> 00:16:50.899 a sweet, sweet kid who I have loved for years 00:16:50.899 --> 00:16:54.580 because his equally sweet mom was one of my coworkers 00:16:54.580 --> 00:16:58.500 when I was teaching and she passed away super 00:16:58.500 --> 00:17:01.320 suddenly and super tragically just a couple years 00:17:01.320 --> 00:17:04.079 ago. He said he was really relieved that we were 00:17:04.079 --> 00:17:06.259 taking all these kitties for him because he is 00:17:06.259 --> 00:17:08.779 super stressed out about what would happen to 00:17:08.779 --> 00:17:10.339 them when he had to leave for vet school that 00:17:10.339 --> 00:17:13.299 weekend. Honestly, he could have asked me to 00:17:13.299 --> 00:17:17.519 take like a wild stallion or like a super venomous 00:17:17.519 --> 00:17:20.420 snake and I would have agreed just to help him 00:17:20.420 --> 00:17:23.900 out a little bit because I've been so, so sad 00:17:23.900 --> 00:17:28.960 for him since his mom died. Quiet Uptown actually 00:17:28.960 --> 00:17:31.900 has a brother that will be on transport later. 00:17:32.599 --> 00:17:35.500 These guys were found wandering alone. The mom 00:17:35.500 --> 00:17:37.740 was never found and no other kittens were found 00:17:37.740 --> 00:17:42.500 with them. Eliza Schuyler is an owner -surrender. 00:17:43.180 --> 00:17:45.980 Her mama was just another stray that had kittens 00:17:45.980 --> 00:17:48.940 at a house where nobody cared. The siblings were 00:17:48.940 --> 00:17:52.640 all killed one by one by a dog, a car, anything. 00:17:53.309 --> 00:17:56.529 This little girl is very friendly and very talkative 00:17:56.529 --> 00:18:01.210 though. 1776. This kitten has two siblings that 00:18:01.210 --> 00:18:03.349 are too little to make it on this transport too, 00:18:03.690 --> 00:18:07.210 so they'll both be coming soon. The three kittens 00:18:07.210 --> 00:18:10.329 were born on rural property. Once they were old 00:18:10.329 --> 00:18:12.089 enough to start wandering around, they caught 00:18:12.089 --> 00:18:14.970 the attention of the resident dogs. The dogs 00:18:14.970 --> 00:18:17.450 killed one of the kittens before we swooped in 00:18:17.450 --> 00:18:21.150 and grabbed the remaining three. The F litter 00:18:21.150 --> 00:18:24.589 of three are just a classical oops litter. The 00:18:24.589 --> 00:18:26.589 couple knew that there was a cat on their property 00:18:26.589 --> 00:18:29.049 but never bothered with spaying it. The kittens 00:18:29.049 --> 00:18:31.829 were left outside with the mom to fend for themselves 00:18:31.829 --> 00:18:34.049 and now they'll finally get the attention that 00:18:34.049 --> 00:18:38.750 they need. The G litter of three, a gentleman 00:18:38.750 --> 00:18:41.849 found kittens living inside the wall of his trailer. 00:18:42.140 --> 00:18:44.920 It was an older trailer and the mom was a neighborhood 00:18:44.920 --> 00:18:47.119 cat who entered the space through the bottom 00:18:47.119 --> 00:18:49.460 of the trailer. He pulled them out and put them 00:18:49.460 --> 00:18:52.339 in a box but could not coax the mom inside. The 00:18:52.339 --> 00:18:54.380 kittens were about four weeks old at the time. 00:18:54.660 --> 00:18:57.079 We were never able to catch the mom and that 00:18:57.079 --> 00:19:01.720 really worries me. That is all for this week. 00:19:02.079 --> 00:19:05.059 I'm actually done with this several hours earlier 00:19:05.059 --> 00:19:08.329 than I usually am. I'm usually like five minutes 00:19:08.329 --> 00:19:10.150 late from the time I'm supposed to be leaving 00:19:10.150 --> 00:19:13.390 for transport when I'm just finishing this. So 00:19:13.390 --> 00:19:16.450 I'm going to go take a quick nap and hope that 00:19:16.450 --> 00:19:19.069 this dizziness goes away before I head over to 00:19:19.069 --> 00:19:22.150 the doghouse for transport. Thank you for listening. 00:19:22.369 --> 00:19:25.329 Thank you for fostering. We are already super 00:19:25.329 --> 00:19:27.549 short on fosters for next week because of the 00:19:27.549 --> 00:19:30.410 holiday. So if you have any friends or family 00:19:30.410 --> 00:19:32.670 or strangers that you see on your way to the 00:19:32.670 --> 00:19:36.119 grocery store, please. Please, please, please 00:19:36.119 --> 00:19:38.380 ask them if they're interested in fostering. 00:19:38.619 --> 00:19:41.119 We cannot save these animals without help of 00:19:41.119 --> 00:19:45.460 our fosters. It is a rough life, but someone's 00:19:45.460 --> 00:19:46.019 gotta do it.