to rough life. Well, I survived my fourth of
July party yesterday. It actually ended up being
really nice and I got all of my power washing
done in time and I'm feeling a lot better now.
We've actually had a really weird week in the
rescue world. I don't know what's going on, but
none of our rescue partners had any puppies.
It is smack dab in the middle of puppy season
down here, so we should have been overrun. But
besides the mom and puppies that got cut from
the last transport, that's all that Jessica had.
So I reached out to our Alabama shelter friends
and I asked if I could have 30 puppies and she
said... I don't even have one. So she called
one of her other rescue friends. She runs another
shelter in the other town. She said she didn't
have any either. I called our Corinth people
and they had one litter, but it was already committed
to another rescue. And so I reached out to all
of our other rescue partners. None of them had
any. I was like, have we done it? Have we solved
the overpopulation crisis? What is going on?
So I got to partner with a brand new shelter
for the first time. They just opened a few months
ago. They were so excited for us to pull some
of their animals from them. And of course, exactly
as predicted, as soon as I got my post up on
Sunday with all of the available puppies needing
fosters that we had committed to, every single
one of our regular rescue partners called me
saying they were drowning in puppies and needed
me to take some. Just out of nowhere overnight,
everyone got puppies. So annoying, but that's
always how it goes. I Know that we have a lot
of new fosters this round and since we are working
with a new rescue that named their puppies on
their pictures I just want to take a second to
kind of go over how this podcast works Some of
the puppies were posted with their shelter names
That is not the current name of the puppy or
kitten that you are fostering all of the animals
that we that we send they have southern names
like we call them something down here. but then
they get a new wolf trap name when they get entered
into our system. Shelters will name them by the
litter, but we name ours by the transport. So
each transport has an overall theme. The theme
of this week's transport is Mamma Mia. So every
animal on this transport van has a name that
corresponds with Mamma Mia. but every litter
starts with a different letter so the dog who
was known down here as firework is now mama mia
all of her puppies now start with the letter
m but for the sake of time i'm not going to name
each individual animal So for Mama Mia and her
four M puppies, I will just say the M litter
because they all have the same story. The only
time I will say the individual name as if they're
a single animal with no litter mates. So Bill
Anderson was found alone. There's not going to
be any other B names on the van besides him.
So I will say Bill Anderson instead of the B
litter. All that to say. If you think you're
fostering someone from the Fabric Litter or the
Grammy Awards winners, you're not. They now have
wolf trap names and that's what we'll go by from
here on out. We name them like this for cross
-contamination reasons. This way we can say like,
oh no, Dancing Queen is sick. Okay, everybody
from the Mamma Mia transport needs to be notified
to keep a close eye on their foster. But everyone
that starts with the letter D, needs to come
in and start treatment right away this way like
the mama mia people know they need to be on a
high alert but the hamilton people from last
week y 'all are fine y 'all don't need to worry
about anything okay let's get to the stories
i did not do the names this week i actually don't
even know who did them but they must secretly
hate me or something because all of these crazy
single names I'm about to butcher when I try
to say them. I've never even seen Mamma Mia,
but I did listen to the soundtrack on my way
to transport today, so we're just gonna sound
them out and try our best and we listen and we
don't judge. Okay, Koloakari, Koloakari. He wandered
up to a home last weekend while they were outside
doing yard work. The lady thought that her son
had dropped something in the yard and when she
went over to check it out, whatever it was started
moving and scared her so bad, but he ran straight
to her and that's when she realized it was a
puppy. He was so dehydrated she wasn't even sure
if he would make it. Voulez -vous? Voulez -vous
was found in a field completely eaten up with
fleas, but after a cap star and a very long bath
he was clean as a whistle and ready to go. Bill
Anderson. I can say that one. That's why I chose,
that's why I chose Bill Anderson as my example
because it's the only one that I know how to
say. Bill Anderson was a frisky little black
pup brought into the shelter after being found
wandering in the streets He was covered in mud
up to his ears But he has been the life of the
shelter office and loves to play and rescue wrestle
with all the other pups This one this one has
been I think I have a stomach ulcer Chiquita
Chiquita Chiquita Tita Chiquita Tita the sea
puppy sea puppy who was known as maggie down
here she was dumped on the front lawn of a local
police officer's home and was brought into the
shelter she's quiet and a little shy but she
loves to play she's been very good around smaller
puppies and she's so knowledgeable about their
size her size versus their size she plays really
gently with them and then she rough houses with
the bigger ones she's a very smart girl she absolutely
stole my heart at transport today, and it took
all I had not to bring her home with me. Honestly,
if we had another transport next week instead
of three weeks away, I would have definitely
brought her home for some puppy snuggles. The
T letter of three were found in the median of
the four lane highway. Someone stopped and picked
them up and took them to our rescue partner,
Tasha. Mama Mia and her 4M pups were owner surrenders.
This is the fourth mama and or litter of puppies
that we have taken from this lady this year.
She is a ton of strays dumped on her but as soon
as you feed a stray animal in this town it's
considered your animal and animal control won't
take it from you without making you pay like
the owner surrender fee. So this lady just ends
up with a ton of dogs. This dog followed her
son home when she was just a puppy last 4th of
July, so they named her Firework. A little over
a month ago when I was trying to wrap up some
of our other puppies that we were taking from
her, she told me that she thought this dog might
be pregnant and then a week later the mom gave
birth. She has spent the last week with one of
our fosters and they said she is the best dog
and she is so well behaved. She does great with
everybody, all of the people, all of the animals
except possibly the guinea pig and the cockatoos.
She's a little too interested in them. The S
letter of five were born at the shelter in the
office. These guys have been very well taken
care of. Their mother was found on a country
road, very much looking for a safe space in the
bushes to have her puppies. She was a good mom
at first, but decided a little early that she
didn't want to be a mom anymore, so the shelter
staff had to hand feed the babies from bottles
to mush, and now the sound of puppy chow bags
sends them into hysterics. one of the shelter
workers actually adopted the mom. She thinks
she's purebred St. Bernard, but she looks like
a mix to me. The aged litter of six were dumped
outside the police department one day. They were
immediately brought into the shelter. They were
really healthy and clean, so they were once cared
for very well. you know, you could tell that
they're really friendly. They're super chaotic
when it's playtime though and they love to have
fun. The D mama was brought in with her seven
pups and one other stray all from the same address
as owner surrenders. She had been a great mom
and she takes such good care of those puppies.
They have each gained their own little personalities
as they've grown. Some of them want to be the
boss and they'll start their own wrestling matches,
but some of them just want to follow the mom
around like little ducks and never leave her
side. Okay, on to the cat. I do I do I do She
was taken to the vet at about four weeks old
when someone found her in their yard The vet
called Jessica and Jessica brought her home and
a few days later She noticed a tiny bald spot
on her ear So she took her back to the vet the
next day and he said it was most likely ringworm
and to start the usual treatment I mean we've
been doing this for 10 years now. We know the
drill Typically you just do the meds and isolate
for three weeks, but Two weeks later it looked
so so much worse So she went back to the vet
and he added oral medication and started the
three -week Isolation period all over again,
so Jessica was devastated, but she cannot afford
to get ringworm all over her house, so she kept
doing the isolation procedure for three more
weeks. So this girl has been in a big multi -level
crate in the back of Jessica's den for the past
five weeks just watching the world pass her by.
It has definitely taken a toll on her and Jessica.
So she finished her meds on Wednesday and Thursday
she got a good scrubbing and finally got her
freedom. It was several hours later before Jessica
was finally able to get a non -blurry picture
of her because she loves to run and play now
that she has her freedom, but she also loves
to cuddle and purr too. Young Donna was found
as a stray running through someone's yard. She
was actually in the yard with Eliza from Last
Transport, but they are not litter mates. Gimme
Gimme Gimme is the litter mate to Quiet Uptown
from last week's transport. They were found wandering
alone with no mom or other kittens. The O litter
of two were left in a box at a country store
when they were three weeks old. The store owner
called our rescue partner Debbie to come get
them. And the W litter of two are litter mates
to 1776 from last week's transport. They were
born on rural property. Once they were old enough
to walk around they caught the attention of the
resident dogs. The dogs actually killed one of
the kittens before Debbie grabbed the remaining
three. And with that we are done with all the
stories for this week. That is actually pretty
much all the stories for the rest of the month.
We have another transport on the 27th. and that's
it. And that one already has some really cute
critters lined up for it, so even if you're fostering
this week, you'll be done in time to foster on
the next transport, so go sign up for that one
too. Thank you for listening, thank you for fostering,
and thank you for taking such good care of all
of my animals. If you have a second, please rate,
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It's a rough life, but... Someone's gotta do
it.