WEBVTT 00:00:11.850 --> 00:00:15.509 Welcome to rough life For those of you keeping 00:00:15.509 --> 00:00:19.550 track with the never -ending foster coordinator 00:00:19.550 --> 00:00:27.109 saga I'm back No, I haven't run Melissa off just 00:00:27.109 --> 00:00:30.870 yet. She is currently on a month -long vacation. 00:00:30.870 --> 00:00:34.170 It's technically two vacations. She's going to 00:00:34.170 --> 00:00:38.509 Alaska and then Belgium So we hate her. No, I'm 00:00:38.509 --> 00:00:41.840 kidding. We're just very jealous But she only 00:00:41.840 --> 00:00:46.320 has like a two day break between the two vacations. 00:00:46.439 --> 00:00:49.119 So I'm just going to be filling in for her for 00:00:49.119 --> 00:00:54.000 these next four weeks. I gotta say, I very much 00:00:54.000 --> 00:00:57.340 enjoyed my quote unquote break these last few 00:00:57.340 --> 00:01:00.460 weeks, but it has been so fun getting to be the 00:01:00.460 --> 00:01:02.619 foster coordinator again and talk to all the 00:01:02.619 --> 00:01:06.439 fosters. Those of you who are first time fosters, 00:01:06.859 --> 00:01:09.500 Melissa is who you spoke to that helped get you 00:01:09.500 --> 00:01:12.750 confirmed for this weekend's transport. But I 00:01:12.750 --> 00:01:15.489 will be who is checking in on you during your 00:01:15.489 --> 00:01:17.670 foster period and helping you along the way. 00:01:17.989 --> 00:01:21.250 I'm Katie Keaton. I'm actually the transport 00:01:21.250 --> 00:01:23.689 coordinator that sends the animals from here 00:01:23.689 --> 00:01:27.709 in Mississippi on transport to Virginia. But 00:01:27.709 --> 00:01:31.670 I am filling in for Melissa. So if you get a 00:01:31.670 --> 00:01:34.709 text from a random area code asking you about 00:01:34.709 --> 00:01:39.959 worms and poops, it's just me. Don't worry. Let's 00:01:39.959 --> 00:01:43.000 get into these stories though. The theme is heavy 00:01:43.000 --> 00:01:47.019 metal since Ozzy Osbourne just passed away. I 00:01:47.019 --> 00:01:50.219 always try to do a theme that's got something 00:01:50.219 --> 00:01:52.980 to do with something happening in the world currently, 00:01:53.120 --> 00:01:56.000 just for my own sake so I can kind of keep track 00:01:56.000 --> 00:01:58.519 of when a transport was. Obviously that doesn't 00:01:58.519 --> 00:02:02.299 always work out, but this one was a toss -up 00:02:02.299 --> 00:02:04.439 between heavy metal and wrestling, but I did 00:02:04.439 --> 00:02:07.930 a poll on our Foster's Facebook page and this 00:02:07.930 --> 00:02:11.270 theme won. By the way, if you haven't joined 00:02:11.270 --> 00:02:14.650 our foster Facebook page yet, make sure you do 00:02:14.650 --> 00:02:19.050 that. I tell stories and post when we need help 00:02:19.050 --> 00:02:23.849 and just genuinely annoy everyone in there. So 00:02:23.849 --> 00:02:29.469 make sure you join. No more tears and kingdoms 00:02:29.469 --> 00:02:32.449 of the night are from our Alabama shelter friends 00:02:32.449 --> 00:02:36.379 and you know what that means. no real information 00:02:36.379 --> 00:02:39.620 on their backgrounds. They did tell me that No 00:02:39.620 --> 00:02:42.400 More Tears was found one morning in someone's 00:02:42.400 --> 00:02:44.919 empty in the ground swimming pool so they called 00:02:44.919 --> 00:02:48.159 animal control to come get him and Kingdoms of 00:02:48.159 --> 00:02:50.419 the Night was dumped in the shelter parking lot 00:02:50.419 --> 00:02:53.000 overnight one night just absolutely skin and 00:02:53.000 --> 00:02:57.719 bones. Lemmy wandered up to someone's house way 00:02:57.719 --> 00:02:59.719 out in the county where they have no neighbors 00:02:59.719 --> 00:03:02.099 anywhere nearby so they knew she was a stray. 00:03:03.840 --> 00:03:08.500 Iron Maiden is from our town's lawyer and a very, 00:03:08.500 --> 00:03:11.500 very wealthy family. They have neighbors with 00:03:11.500 --> 00:03:15.219 aggressive, mangy dogs that they just let roam 00:03:15.219 --> 00:03:16.639 around because they're out in the county and 00:03:16.639 --> 00:03:19.199 we have no leash laws. And the dogs come over 00:03:19.199 --> 00:03:21.520 to this family's house all the time. They... 00:03:21.520 --> 00:03:25.340 They literally have one of the biggest most beautiful 00:03:25.340 --> 00:03:28.740 homes in our whole town and this like gorgeous 00:03:28.740 --> 00:03:31.080 yard with this beautiful pond and a fountain 00:03:31.080 --> 00:03:35.219 in it and they can't have anything nice outside 00:03:35.219 --> 00:03:37.300 because these neighbors dogs will just come over 00:03:37.300 --> 00:03:41.120 and destroy it. So when they heard whining outside 00:03:41.120 --> 00:03:43.240 the house one day, they just assumed it was one 00:03:43.240 --> 00:03:45.460 of these dogs, but they eventually went out there 00:03:45.460 --> 00:03:47.680 and they found this teeny tiny little pitiful 00:03:47.680 --> 00:03:50.060 puppy. They were so terrified that the other 00:03:50.060 --> 00:03:52.460 dogs were going to hurt it or at the very least 00:03:52.460 --> 00:03:54.539 infected with mange. So they called us to come 00:03:54.539 --> 00:03:58.479 get it right away. OK, listen, I did this to 00:03:58.479 --> 00:04:01.039 myself, I'm fully aware, but there are a lot 00:04:01.039 --> 00:04:04.979 of these names that I have no idea how to say. 00:04:05.460 --> 00:04:09.259 So we're just going to try our best. Queen of 00:04:09.259 --> 00:04:12.199 the reach, right? I don't even know we're just 00:04:12.199 --> 00:04:15.560 gonna call her Queen She belongs to a lady that 00:04:15.560 --> 00:04:17.560 wasn't able to give her the time that she needs 00:04:17.560 --> 00:04:21.100 It's a doodle with high energy and she was shocked 00:04:21.100 --> 00:04:24.420 to figure that out But luckily for y 'all I'm 00:04:24.420 --> 00:04:27.100 recording this after transport so I can tell 00:04:27.100 --> 00:04:30.540 you what happened at transport Usually I record 00:04:30.540 --> 00:04:32.920 my podcast before I even leave to go to transport 00:04:33.609 --> 00:04:35.910 So we messaged this lady, I'm not even kidding 00:04:35.910 --> 00:04:38.649 you, three separate times today to make sure 00:04:38.649 --> 00:04:40.889 that she was coming and she knew what time to 00:04:40.889 --> 00:04:43.230 be there and like she had the address, she had 00:04:43.230 --> 00:04:46.949 directions. This is not like an old lady, she's 00:04:46.949 --> 00:04:50.069 young, she's got an iPhone, she can find it. 00:04:50.189 --> 00:04:52.709 She said she was taking the dog to be groomed 00:04:52.709 --> 00:04:55.370 this morning because she was very super matted 00:04:55.370 --> 00:04:57.069 and she didn't want us to have to deal with that. 00:04:57.389 --> 00:05:00.509 So she texts us about 30 minutes before she's 00:05:00.509 --> 00:05:03.069 supposed to be there at transport and it's a 00:05:03.069 --> 00:05:05.589 picture of the dog in her car after it's been 00:05:05.589 --> 00:05:07.949 groomed and she's like I'm setting off with her 00:05:07.949 --> 00:05:09.649 leash and her collar and her rabies tag and we're 00:05:09.649 --> 00:05:14.079 like super awesome. An hour and a half later, 00:05:14.379 --> 00:05:17.399 we're done loading up. Like the transport's over 00:05:17.399 --> 00:05:21.079 and she's still not there. So we text her and 00:05:21.079 --> 00:05:25.019 we're like, are you super lost? Like what's going 00:05:25.019 --> 00:05:30.560 on? And she goes, oh my gosh, I overslept. It's 00:05:30.560 --> 00:05:32.000 three o 'clock in the afternoon. What do you 00:05:32.000 --> 00:05:33.680 mean you overslept? We just talked to you. You 00:05:33.680 --> 00:05:35.819 were in the car with the dog. She's like, oh 00:05:35.819 --> 00:05:40.750 my gosh, I'll be there in 25 minutes. Okay, it 00:05:40.750 --> 00:05:43.670 was gonna be so long that I told my driver just 00:05:43.670 --> 00:05:45.610 go ahead and go and she's just gonna have to 00:05:45.610 --> 00:05:47.509 meet you on the road somewhere because we can't 00:05:47.509 --> 00:05:50.790 just let all these other animals sit in this 00:05:50.790 --> 00:05:55.470 super hot van while we wait on her. Okay, here's 00:05:55.470 --> 00:05:58.110 another one, Tarja. We're not even gonna attempt 00:05:58.110 --> 00:06:00.350 the last name, but I'm pretty sure the first 00:06:00.350 --> 00:06:03.829 name is Tarja. She wandered up to a business 00:06:03.829 --> 00:06:07.110 in town. The guy that took her in has been so 00:06:07.110 --> 00:06:10.149 worried about her and called multiple times asking 00:06:10.149 --> 00:06:12.910 where she's going and being sure that we're a 00:06:12.910 --> 00:06:14.889 legitimate rescue and making sure that she's 00:06:14.889 --> 00:06:19.069 gonna get a good home. Youth gone wild and his 00:06:19.069 --> 00:06:22.269 sibling wandered up to a lady's house. She called 00:06:22.269 --> 00:06:24.350 us but we weren't able to take them right away 00:06:24.350 --> 00:06:27.129 and they wandered off and then they showed back 00:06:27.129 --> 00:06:29.889 up at another lady's house a few days later. 00:06:30.269 --> 00:06:32.730 The next day, one of the puppies got ran over 00:06:32.730 --> 00:06:36.389 by the mailman. So devastating. A few days later, 00:06:36.569 --> 00:06:41.209 we had an opening for a foster and it was at 00:06:41.209 --> 00:06:44.850 our jail that we're partnered with. And let me 00:06:44.850 --> 00:06:47.069 just tell you, it is such a good thing that Jessica 00:06:47.069 --> 00:06:49.170 was in charge of coordinating getting this puppy 00:06:49.170 --> 00:06:52.649 to the jail because I would have absolutely taken 00:06:52.649 --> 00:06:55.790 him home and foster failed with him. He is... 00:06:55.740 --> 00:06:57.920 quite possibly the most precious thing in the 00:06:57.920 --> 00:07:01.120 whole entire world. But so for new listeners' 00:07:01.379 --> 00:07:03.279 sakes, you may be confused why I said the jail. 00:07:03.759 --> 00:07:07.220 We have a program with our local jail where they 00:07:07.220 --> 00:07:09.180 let the inmates that have been there for a long 00:07:09.180 --> 00:07:12.139 time and are behaving really well foster a dog 00:07:12.139 --> 00:07:14.860 for us. They love it. They love it. We love it. 00:07:14.899 --> 00:07:17.779 But it's like seeing little kids on Christmas 00:07:17.779 --> 00:07:19.819 morning every time we drop a puppy off there. 00:07:19.839 --> 00:07:24.329 They are so happy. Hart and his brother were 00:07:24.329 --> 00:07:27.329 dumped in a neighborhood where our vets, vet 00:07:27.329 --> 00:07:31.569 tech lives. So this is not our vet Dr. Burton. 00:07:32.009 --> 00:07:35.269 This is our Mississippi veterinarian. Coincidentally 00:07:35.269 --> 00:07:38.449 though, she is one of Dr. Burton's students from 00:07:38.449 --> 00:07:41.129 when Dr. Burton was teaching at Mississippi State 00:07:41.129 --> 00:07:44.610 Vet School. So this is one of Dr. Burton's Students 00:07:44.610 --> 00:07:47.829 turned lifelong best friend who helps us with 00:07:47.829 --> 00:07:49.689 low -cost surgeries and then in return we help 00:07:49.689 --> 00:07:51.670 her with puppies that get dumped on her This 00:07:51.670 --> 00:07:54.790 is her vet tech. So she tried to catch them for 00:07:54.790 --> 00:07:57.750 about two weeks and she was finally able to grab 00:07:57.750 --> 00:08:00.230 this one She said as soon as she got him he just 00:08:00.230 --> 00:08:02.470 melted and has been so sweet and so friendly 00:08:02.470 --> 00:08:06.029 ever since but She's still trying to catch the 00:08:06.029 --> 00:08:08.670 brother or or the sister. We're assuming it's 00:08:08.670 --> 00:08:14.449 a boy The D litter of two were dumped in a box 00:08:14.449 --> 00:08:18.269 on the side of a county road. I actually have 00:08:18.269 --> 00:08:21.290 a picture of them with the box, so remind me 00:08:21.290 --> 00:08:23.490 to post it on the Foster's page if I haven't 00:08:23.490 --> 00:08:26.889 yet. It is really pitiful, but it's super cute. 00:08:28.430 --> 00:08:30.750 The E litter of four were found on the side of 00:08:30.750 --> 00:08:33.289 the road and brought home by someone. She posted 00:08:33.289 --> 00:08:36.789 them on Facebook and every rescue was completely 00:08:36.789 --> 00:08:39.559 slammed. she was able to hang on to them for 00:08:39.559 --> 00:08:41.419 a few days until we had an opening and could 00:08:41.419 --> 00:08:45.279 take them. For my OGs, you know that we have 00:08:45.279 --> 00:08:47.740 litter names that we use down here so that we 00:08:47.740 --> 00:08:50.899 can keep track of who we're talking about, like 00:08:50.899 --> 00:08:53.519 Jessica and I, before they get their actual wolf 00:08:53.519 --> 00:08:57.360 trap names. Well, this litter's litter name was 00:08:57.360 --> 00:09:02.059 the no toes litter because one of the puppies 00:09:02.059 --> 00:09:05.240 doesn't have any toes on one of his front paws. 00:09:06.500 --> 00:09:09.539 The M litter of seven was found in a field when 00:09:09.539 --> 00:09:13.539 we were having a ton of rain literally like like 00:09:13.539 --> 00:09:17.559 a flood They were pulled by another rescuer who 00:09:17.559 --> 00:09:19.679 posted them on Facebook saying hey like I took 00:09:19.679 --> 00:09:21.799 these puppies in but I cannot keep them because 00:09:21.799 --> 00:09:24.919 I'm totally out of room and I Actually had no 00:09:24.919 --> 00:09:26.580 intent. I'm gonna be totally honest. I had no 00:09:26.580 --> 00:09:30.950 intention of pulling these puppies because we 00:09:30.950 --> 00:09:34.549 have no room either but one of my fosters commented 00:09:34.549 --> 00:09:36.870 on there and was like I'll take them and I was 00:09:36.870 --> 00:09:39.250 like crap I'm gonna end up with them but they 00:09:39.250 --> 00:09:42.429 are super sweet so I'm not too mad about it. 00:09:43.309 --> 00:09:47.850 The O letter of five is called the junker town 00:09:47.850 --> 00:09:52.250 letter like junk. or town litter down here that's 00:09:52.250 --> 00:09:54.850 their litter name because it was actually supposed 00:09:54.850 --> 00:09:57.889 to be jumper town litter because that's the town 00:09:57.889 --> 00:09:59.830 that they were pulled from the jumper town area 00:09:59.830 --> 00:10:02.350 um but when Jessica and I were trying to figure 00:10:02.350 --> 00:10:04.210 out what litter name we were going to call them 00:10:04.210 --> 00:10:05.750 she was like I don't know let's just call them 00:10:05.750 --> 00:10:09.429 the junker town litter but it was a typo and 00:10:09.429 --> 00:10:13.700 I was like honestly that's more fitting than 00:10:13.700 --> 00:10:15.620 what it's supposed to be, so we just rolled with 00:10:15.620 --> 00:10:19.600 it. There's a super junkie house that has multiple 00:10:19.600 --> 00:10:22.159 adult dogs that apparently just stay pregnant 00:10:22.159 --> 00:10:25.019 year round. I'm telling you all of this because 00:10:25.019 --> 00:10:27.840 you're going to hear me referring to the Junkertown 00:10:27.840 --> 00:10:30.559 house a lot in the next few episodes as we attempt 00:10:30.559 --> 00:10:33.159 to clear this house out of all the animals that 00:10:33.159 --> 00:10:36.519 they have. So the mama of this litter that we 00:10:36.519 --> 00:10:38.799 took on transport this weekend is supposedly 00:10:38.799 --> 00:10:41.299 only 10 months old herself and left over from 00:10:41.299 --> 00:10:43.580 a previous litter that she couldn't get rid of. 00:10:44.139 --> 00:10:46.840 We are taking her. She is precious. I love her. 00:10:46.879 --> 00:10:49.080 You're all going to love her. And I would have 00:10:49.080 --> 00:10:51.240 preferred to send her with her puppies this weekend. 00:10:51.480 --> 00:10:54.440 But these puppies were a last minute add on, 00:10:54.620 --> 00:10:57.799 like literally last minute, like yesterday, because 00:10:57.799 --> 00:11:00.100 one of the puppies in this litter has such a 00:11:00.100 --> 00:11:03.320 humongous hernia that needs immediate attention. 00:11:03.899 --> 00:11:05.919 we needed to just go ahead and send the puppies 00:11:05.919 --> 00:11:08.860 as soon as possible and get the mama on the next 00:11:08.860 --> 00:11:12.840 transport because we do need to do um i hate 00:11:12.840 --> 00:11:15.779 calling it testing but we do test adult dogs 00:11:15.779 --> 00:11:17.600 more before we send them just to make sure they're 00:11:17.600 --> 00:11:20.720 good dogs and you know kid tested dog tested 00:11:20.720 --> 00:11:22.860 you know not going to send a dog to you that's 00:11:22.860 --> 00:11:26.070 going to like i don't know kill your Pomeranian 00:11:26.070 --> 00:11:29.690 or something. So we just like to have adult dogs 00:11:29.690 --> 00:11:31.769 longer than we do puppies just to make sure they're 00:11:31.769 --> 00:11:35.490 good dogs before we send them. Anyways, there's 00:11:35.490 --> 00:11:38.309 a lady who lives across the street from where 00:11:38.309 --> 00:11:42.350 all of these dogs live. She is actually the junker 00:11:42.350 --> 00:11:44.210 house, if you will. They're both junker houses, 00:11:44.250 --> 00:11:47.789 but the video that you probably saw on the fosters 00:11:47.789 --> 00:11:51.330 page That's her house, the junker house. She 00:11:51.330 --> 00:11:54.529 feeds all of them. And then these five she kept 00:11:54.529 --> 00:11:57.610 in her house just to keep them safe. Her house 00:11:57.610 --> 00:12:01.129 has no air conditioning, none, like not even 00:12:01.129 --> 00:12:05.149 a window unit during our triple degree heat index. 00:12:05.210 --> 00:12:10.750 Like it's it's unreal. There are a total of three 00:12:10.750 --> 00:12:13.210 litters, we think. We don't actually know for 00:12:13.210 --> 00:12:17.190 sure, but I kind of doubt that these five are 00:12:17.190 --> 00:12:19.289 from the same litter. It doesn't really matter 00:12:19.289 --> 00:12:21.509 because I'm certain that they're all related 00:12:21.509 --> 00:12:25.250 somehow. neither of these ladies have much money 00:12:25.250 --> 00:12:27.750 or resources to be taking care of all these dogs. 00:12:28.169 --> 00:12:30.009 The lady across the street that's been doing 00:12:30.009 --> 00:12:33.129 the most caregiving said that she actually had 00:12:33.129 --> 00:12:35.269 to go without cigarettes the last couple of days 00:12:35.269 --> 00:12:37.929 just so she could buy dog food which like I know 00:12:37.929 --> 00:12:40.190 is funny but like think about that like that 00:12:40.190 --> 00:12:42.730 is that is really sweet of her to be like I care 00:12:42.730 --> 00:12:46.590 more about these animals having enough food than 00:12:46.590 --> 00:12:49.759 I do about you know. Making sure I'm not stressed 00:12:49.759 --> 00:12:51.539 out because I don't have cigarettes obviously 00:12:51.539 --> 00:12:53.799 we left them a ton of we gave them so much food 00:12:53.799 --> 00:12:55.220 So they don't have to worry about buying dog 00:12:55.220 --> 00:12:58.879 food anymore, but another funny note In this 00:12:58.879 --> 00:13:01.899 story is that I asked the first lady who actually 00:13:01.899 --> 00:13:06.159 owns the dogs if she knew how old they were and 00:13:06.159 --> 00:13:09.700 She said they're 80 days old because they were 00:13:09.700 --> 00:13:15.259 born right before I went to jail So there are 00:13:15.259 --> 00:13:17.480 about like seven or eight more puppies still 00:13:17.480 --> 00:13:19.620 at the first lady's house that are gonna have 00:13:19.620 --> 00:13:23.399 to be caught this next week And then the mom 00:13:23.399 --> 00:13:26.139 from this litter I think we I think we know the 00:13:26.139 --> 00:13:28.879 mom of this next litter that's coming and then 00:13:28.879 --> 00:13:32.399 I think there's a German Shepherd Somewhere in 00:13:32.399 --> 00:13:35.240 the mix that we're gonna try to get to so maybe 00:13:35.240 --> 00:13:38.759 eight more puppies and three adult dogs maybe 00:13:40.430 --> 00:13:43.610 The bee litter of four are also from our Alabama 00:13:43.610 --> 00:13:46.210 shelter friends who we love dearly but never 00:13:46.210 --> 00:13:49.669 have detailed stories. These were picked up as 00:13:49.669 --> 00:13:53.720 strays. That's all I was told. And then there's 00:13:53.720 --> 00:13:57.419 a lot of cats on this transport. We've got victim 00:13:57.419 --> 00:14:01.159 of fate who was found in a Baptist church drain. 00:14:01.700 --> 00:14:03.860 A friend of my mom's called her and asked if 00:14:03.860 --> 00:14:05.740 we could help. My mom was like, yeah, but you 00:14:05.740 --> 00:14:07.320 know, like we're tied up here. We can't go get 00:14:07.320 --> 00:14:10.240 it. So she managed to pull it out of the drain 00:14:10.240 --> 00:14:13.879 and then kept it in an igloo cooler until my 00:14:13.879 --> 00:14:17.429 mom could go over there and get it. Under a glass 00:14:17.429 --> 00:14:21.509 moon is an owner surrender, kind of. A lady with 00:14:21.509 --> 00:14:24.289 way too many cats messaged us to see if we could 00:14:24.289 --> 00:14:26.690 help her. She had taken it in as a baby when 00:14:26.690 --> 00:14:30.370 its mama died and she bottle fed it. She is very 00:14:30.370 --> 00:14:33.830 appreciative and she has way more cats than she's 00:14:33.830 --> 00:14:36.629 supposed to and she's super terrifying that her 00:14:36.629 --> 00:14:40.529 landlord is gonna make her get rid of them. Ghost 00:14:40.529 --> 00:14:43.789 Love Score was found as a baby with no mama and 00:14:43.789 --> 00:14:46.070 one of our fosters took it in and bottle fed 00:14:46.070 --> 00:14:50.649 it. James Hetfield is an owner surrender. The 00:14:50.649 --> 00:14:54.330 mama is an orange tabby. So the lady just assumed 00:14:54.330 --> 00:14:56.809 that it was male and it didn't need to be spayed 00:14:56.809 --> 00:15:02.259 or neutered. And then he had kittens. Three of 00:15:02.259 --> 00:15:04.399 them actually disappeared and were killed. This 00:15:04.399 --> 00:15:07.100 is the only one that survived and we did go ahead 00:15:07.100 --> 00:15:10.919 and spay her mom for her last week. Prince of 00:15:10.919 --> 00:15:15.139 Darkness is Jessica's literal pride and joy. 00:15:16.779 --> 00:15:19.080 So a lady found him when he was about three weeks 00:15:19.080 --> 00:15:22.100 old. He was super tiny. And she called Jessica 00:15:22.100 --> 00:15:24.419 on Facebook Messenger, but she was in the middle 00:15:24.419 --> 00:15:27.279 of some work and she couldn't answer. So the 00:15:27.279 --> 00:15:29.379 lady went to Jessica's parents house. That's 00:15:29.379 --> 00:15:31.059 how you know you live in a small town when people 00:15:31.059 --> 00:15:33.320 are like, oh, I can't reach you a full grown 00:15:33.320 --> 00:15:36.759 adult. I'll go to your parents house. So they 00:15:36.759 --> 00:15:38.940 went to Jessica's parents house to try to get 00:15:38.940 --> 00:15:41.309 Jessica's. phone number because they called her 00:15:41.309 --> 00:15:43.509 on Facebook. So they wanted her actual phone 00:15:43.509 --> 00:15:45.929 number. Jessica's mom told her that she would 00:15:45.929 --> 00:15:48.090 text her, but she needed to just go ahead and 00:15:48.090 --> 00:15:49.629 take the kitten to the shelter because Jessica 00:15:49.629 --> 00:15:52.870 was at work. See, if that was my mom, my mom 00:15:52.870 --> 00:15:55.330 would be like, oh, well, first of all, I don't 00:15:55.330 --> 00:15:56.870 answer my phone anyways, but my mom would be 00:15:56.870 --> 00:15:59.389 like, oh, here's her phone number. Here's her 00:15:59.389 --> 00:16:02.710 address. Here's the login to her security cameras 00:16:02.710 --> 00:16:05.690 if you want to see if she's home. Jessica's mom 00:16:05.690 --> 00:16:07.889 is like, here's the boundary. My mom's like, 00:16:07.909 --> 00:16:12.080 we have none. But so the lady took the kitten 00:16:12.080 --> 00:16:14.940 to the shelter and the shelter wouldn't take 00:16:14.940 --> 00:16:18.440 it Because even though she found the kitten in 00:16:18.440 --> 00:16:20.700 the city limits Which they are required to take 00:16:20.700 --> 00:16:23.659 if it's in the city limits this lady herself 00:16:23.659 --> 00:16:26.480 lives in the county So we're like, yeah you picked 00:16:26.480 --> 00:16:28.279 up this kitten in the city limits But you should 00:16:28.279 --> 00:16:29.919 have just left it there and you should have called 00:16:29.919 --> 00:16:31.740 us instead because we would have had to take 00:16:31.740 --> 00:16:35.230 it then So she sent Jessica a picture of it on 00:16:35.230 --> 00:16:37.809 Facebook and it is just this teeny tiny little 00:16:37.809 --> 00:16:40.669 kitten with its eyes matted shut. Jessica said 00:16:40.669 --> 00:16:42.970 she just sighed and rolled her eyes because she 00:16:42.970 --> 00:16:46.049 has very little willpower over a pitiful kitten. 00:16:46.610 --> 00:16:49.009 So we got the eyes cleaned out, we started meds 00:16:49.009 --> 00:16:50.870 and then by the end of the weekend she said she 00:16:50.870 --> 00:16:55.450 realized it hadn't pooped in three days. He was 00:16:55.450 --> 00:16:57.789 in and out of the vet for like a week getting... 00:16:58.370 --> 00:17:01.610 cleaned out, if you will, but he still wasn't 00:17:01.610 --> 00:17:04.349 like pooping on his own. So she brought him home 00:17:04.349 --> 00:17:08.329 on a Thursday and the vet told us that we needed 00:17:08.329 --> 00:17:10.410 to prepare, that this is probably just something 00:17:10.410 --> 00:17:12.569 neurological and it's not gonna get better and 00:17:12.569 --> 00:17:16.289 we will have to euthanize. So we were not ready 00:17:16.289 --> 00:17:18.430 to give up Jessica especially was not ready to 00:17:18.430 --> 00:17:21.109 give up So he and Jessica spent the next several 00:17:21.109 --> 00:17:25.190 days doing laxatives and enemas and then booty 00:17:25.190 --> 00:17:29.210 baths because it was very messy and Then one 00:17:29.210 --> 00:17:32.849 morning she saw a glorious little turd in his 00:17:32.849 --> 00:17:35.829 crate The next week was still a little messy 00:17:36.250 --> 00:17:39.650 and luckily I got a front row seat to all of 00:17:39.650 --> 00:17:42.230 his poops because she sent me pictures of every 00:17:42.230 --> 00:17:44.329 single one in our group message with my mom. 00:17:45.630 --> 00:17:49.190 He is a great little pooper now and super friendly 00:17:49.190 --> 00:17:52.690 and cuddly. Jessica says he is pretty much perfect. 00:17:53.950 --> 00:17:56.789 Crazy Train and her two kittens are owner surrenders. 00:17:57.049 --> 00:17:59.789 We took kittens from this lady last year and 00:17:59.789 --> 00:18:03.619 she refused to give us one of them. I am pretty 00:18:03.619 --> 00:18:07.180 sure this is that kitten and now her kittens. 00:18:07.920 --> 00:18:11.160 Her main cat doesn't like this mama cat. There 00:18:11.160 --> 00:18:13.680 is actually one more kitten that they said they 00:18:13.680 --> 00:18:15.759 couldn't catch but she's gonna work really hard 00:18:15.759 --> 00:18:18.259 to try and trap it and then we'll go get it and 00:18:18.259 --> 00:18:22.299 we'll tame it and send it on transport. The Eflora 00:18:22.299 --> 00:18:24.839 4 came from a lady with a bunch of cats that 00:18:24.839 --> 00:18:27.539 she's trying to get under control. This mama 00:18:27.539 --> 00:18:30.700 is super feral and she can't catch her. One of 00:18:30.700 --> 00:18:33.519 the siblings went on the June 14th transport 00:18:33.519 --> 00:18:36.619 that was riding. She couldn't catch any of these 00:18:36.619 --> 00:18:39.119 though, they were so feral. A friend helped her 00:18:39.119 --> 00:18:41.220 get them and then she took them home to foster 00:18:41.220 --> 00:18:44.440 and a couple of them had patchy skin so they 00:18:44.440 --> 00:18:46.799 went through the whole ringworm treatment for 00:18:46.799 --> 00:18:49.279 like the last four weeks just to be sure that 00:18:49.680 --> 00:18:52.519 They're totally clear. Oh, and then they were 00:18:52.519 --> 00:18:54.859 also treated for an upper respiratory infection 00:18:54.859 --> 00:18:56.940 So luckily because they had to go through all 00:18:56.940 --> 00:18:59.299 of that. They have been very well socialized 00:18:59.299 --> 00:19:03.410 and they're very sweet now The S letter of five, 00:19:03.690 --> 00:19:06.150 two of them were found at our city park one night 00:19:06.150 --> 00:19:09.390 when it was just super, super hot. And then the 00:19:09.390 --> 00:19:11.930 other three were found the next day in the same 00:19:11.930 --> 00:19:14.170 spot. A lady took them home. She kept them in 00:19:14.170 --> 00:19:16.970 her half bath because she and her son are super 00:19:16.970 --> 00:19:19.029 allergic to them. She kept them for a couple 00:19:19.029 --> 00:19:21.549 of weeks until we had an opening to take them. 00:19:22.329 --> 00:19:25.369 This is what Jessica says. The orange one is 00:19:25.369 --> 00:19:28.869 annoyingly friendly. But the others are still 00:19:28.869 --> 00:19:30.750 fairly skittish, but they have come out of their 00:19:30.750 --> 00:19:32.470 shell a lot since they've been with Jessica. 00:19:32.970 --> 00:19:35.630 We started them out at the doghouse and she's 00:19:35.630 --> 00:19:37.710 been slowly bringing them over to her house so 00:19:37.710 --> 00:19:40.250 she could work with them. They love to run and 00:19:40.250 --> 00:19:44.670 play. And fun fact, they can turn on the bathroom 00:19:44.670 --> 00:19:47.950 faucet, which Jessica discovered a couple of 00:19:47.950 --> 00:19:52.849 nights ago at bedtime because they flooded her 00:19:52.849 --> 00:19:55.690 master bathroom and then they got demoted back 00:19:55.690 --> 00:19:58.720 to the doghouse. But they they turned the water 00:19:58.720 --> 00:20:00.740 on and I guess the stopper was in. I really don't 00:20:00.740 --> 00:20:02.420 know how this happened. Just so you can explain 00:20:02.420 --> 00:20:06.519 it better to you. But it filled up her her bathtub 00:20:06.519 --> 00:20:11.299 or her sink and literally completely flooded 00:20:11.299 --> 00:20:16.440 her bathroom. And then there's 10 cats that all 00:20:16.440 --> 00:20:20.019 start with the letter A. None of them are related. 00:20:20.200 --> 00:20:22.640 None of them are litter mates. I don't even think 00:20:22.640 --> 00:20:26.579 they're actually the same ages. But they're all 00:20:26.579 --> 00:20:29.460 from our Alabama shelter friends because they 00:20:29.460 --> 00:20:32.299 are so overcrowded right now They're closed for 00:20:32.299 --> 00:20:35.200 intakes so you cannot bring in an owner surrender 00:20:35.200 --> 00:20:37.720 The only way that they will take in an animal 00:20:37.720 --> 00:20:39.740 is if they're called by animal control to pick 00:20:39.740 --> 00:20:43.119 it up as a stray Because legally they have to 00:20:43.569 --> 00:20:46.329 So that's what everyone does. If you decide you 00:20:46.329 --> 00:20:47.970 don't want your cat that you've had since it 00:20:47.970 --> 00:20:49.690 was a kitten and you live in the city limits, 00:20:49.769 --> 00:20:51.990 you call the shelter and you say, uh, there's 00:20:51.990 --> 00:20:54.130 a stray here in my yard and they have to come 00:20:54.130 --> 00:20:57.390 and get it. So all of these have that same story. 00:20:57.630 --> 00:21:01.569 They were just all strays. And since they were 00:21:01.569 --> 00:21:05.069 all kept in the same crate, which I don't know 00:21:05.069 --> 00:21:06.809 how to explain this to people if you haven't 00:21:06.809 --> 00:21:09.750 been to a shelter, but like they have these big 00:21:09.750 --> 00:21:13.349 metal crates and And so when you're cleaning 00:21:13.349 --> 00:21:16.890 out one crate, you shouldn't do this. This is 00:21:16.890 --> 00:21:18.589 not recommended, but this is what shelters do, 00:21:18.630 --> 00:21:21.190 which is why shelters are just a breeding ground 00:21:21.190 --> 00:21:23.369 for diseases. They will take the kittens out 00:21:23.369 --> 00:21:26.029 of one crate, put them into the other crate with 00:21:26.029 --> 00:21:29.210 the other kittens, clean that crate, and then 00:21:29.210 --> 00:21:31.950 just grab all the kittens, put them back in the 00:21:31.950 --> 00:21:33.990 clean one, clean out the dirty one, and then 00:21:33.990 --> 00:21:36.009 just split them in half. So all of these kittens 00:21:36.009 --> 00:21:39.369 have been together. but not all in the same crate 00:21:39.369 --> 00:21:41.849 at the same time. There's no overcrowding. They're 00:21:41.849 --> 00:21:46.289 very well taken care of. But for the sake of 00:21:46.289 --> 00:21:48.130 names, we just went ahead, and since they all 00:21:48.130 --> 00:21:50.869 have the same story too, we just went ahead and 00:21:50.869 --> 00:21:54.109 kept them all as one group. Plus, I had already 00:21:54.109 --> 00:21:58.769 used 23 other letters and I literally could not 00:21:58.769 --> 00:22:00.869 name them separately even if I wanted to. So 00:22:00.869 --> 00:22:04.150 it was either name them all one letter or cut 00:22:04.150 --> 00:22:08.039 them from transport. So that's all the stories 00:22:08.039 --> 00:22:09.880 this week. And because I thought this was going 00:22:09.880 --> 00:22:12.460 to be a shorter episode, which I am just now 00:22:12.460 --> 00:22:16.539 realizing it's not at 22 minutes in, but I've 00:22:16.539 --> 00:22:19.019 already decided that I want to talk about this 00:22:19.019 --> 00:22:21.640 because I've been talking about it with pretty 00:22:21.640 --> 00:22:23.599 much everyone down here that will listen to me. 00:22:24.299 --> 00:22:26.079 So I want to tell you something that happened 00:22:26.079 --> 00:22:29.380 at a local shelter here a few days ago. This 00:22:29.380 --> 00:22:31.940 is a shelter that we've worked with before, but 00:22:31.940 --> 00:22:36.319 not regularly, just every now and then. volunteer 00:22:36.319 --> 00:22:42.000 at the shelter was mauled to death by two dogs 00:22:42.000 --> 00:22:45.539 at their shelter. It was reported that these 00:22:45.539 --> 00:22:48.240 dogs had previously attacked four other times. 00:22:48.359 --> 00:22:50.920 I don't know if that's four different people 00:22:50.920 --> 00:22:54.579 or like four different instances or this same 00:22:54.579 --> 00:22:57.700 guy four times. I don't know. But they also said 00:22:57.700 --> 00:23:02.039 that they had taken these dogs in in January. 00:23:02.599 --> 00:23:04.740 and they have never even been able to give them 00:23:04.740 --> 00:23:07.440 their rabies vaccines because they're so aggressive. 00:23:07.980 --> 00:23:11.720 Now, I am the absolute first one to tell you 00:23:11.720 --> 00:23:14.380 that euthanizing a dog is not the worst thing 00:23:14.380 --> 00:23:16.960 you can do to it. There are some dogs that you 00:23:16.960 --> 00:23:20.359 just absolutely cannot handle. Anyone, anyone 00:23:20.359 --> 00:23:24.480 can handle or train or quote unquote fix and 00:23:24.480 --> 00:23:29.559 leaving them to rot away in a kennel 24 -7, 365 00:23:29.559 --> 00:23:34.170 days a year. for their entire life is no life. 00:23:34.670 --> 00:23:37.450 So when this story first broke, I was like, this 00:23:37.450 --> 00:23:40.569 is insane. Why would they have done this to these 00:23:40.569 --> 00:23:43.970 dogs? They should have euthanized them months 00:23:43.970 --> 00:23:48.750 ago. I was so mad until I heard the whole story. 00:23:48.990 --> 00:23:53.690 And luckily, luckily I have learned and I didn't 00:23:53.690 --> 00:23:56.420 run my mouth. saying all of that about how they 00:23:56.420 --> 00:23:58.259 should have euthanized them until I did all my 00:23:58.259 --> 00:24:03.099 research because as it turns out... These two 00:24:03.099 --> 00:24:06.579 dogs and actually a few others were seized from 00:24:06.579 --> 00:24:10.539 a dog fighting ring in January. The owner is 00:24:10.539 --> 00:24:13.099 currently in jail and they are prosecuting him. 00:24:13.259 --> 00:24:15.859 But because everyone is innocent until proven 00:24:15.859 --> 00:24:19.279 guilty, the shelter cannot legally do anything 00:24:19.279 --> 00:24:22.319 with these dogs, whether that's adopt them out, 00:24:22.359 --> 00:24:24.440 you know, if they were friendly or euthanize 00:24:24.440 --> 00:24:27.289 them or send them on transport or anything. until 00:24:27.289 --> 00:24:29.990 the court ruling, because especially with the 00:24:29.990 --> 00:24:32.730 way Mississippi animal laws are, this guy could 00:24:32.730 --> 00:24:36.170 very easily walk free and get all of his dogs 00:24:36.170 --> 00:24:38.829 back. So, you know, you can't adopt out somebody's 00:24:38.829 --> 00:24:41.670 dog and then be like, oh, we were wrong. We don't 00:24:41.670 --> 00:24:44.349 have your dog anymore, though. So the shelter 00:24:44.349 --> 00:24:46.869 was forced to hold on to them this whole time 00:24:46.869 --> 00:24:48.809 while jumping through all the legal hoops and 00:24:48.809 --> 00:24:51.609 going to all the hearings and all of that. Obviously, 00:24:51.769 --> 00:24:54.980 now those two dogs have been euthanized and I'm 00:24:54.980 --> 00:24:57.819 not sure about the other ones. I also don't know 00:24:57.819 --> 00:25:00.880 if they'll be able to up this guy's charges to 00:25:00.880 --> 00:25:04.359 murder because it's, it's absolutely his fault 00:25:04.359 --> 00:25:07.359 that this man is dead. But I haven't heard, I 00:25:07.359 --> 00:25:09.400 haven't heard anything about that yet. It was 00:25:09.400 --> 00:25:12.720 reported that the shelter volunteer was either 00:25:12.720 --> 00:25:16.079 putting a bowl of food in the in the kennel or 00:25:16.079 --> 00:25:18.660 a bowl of water and when he cracked the door 00:25:18.660 --> 00:25:22.420 open, one of them started to run out so he put 00:25:22.420 --> 00:25:26.430 his leg up like blocking the opening, and when 00:25:26.430 --> 00:25:29.910 he did that the dog bit down on his leg, jerked 00:25:29.910 --> 00:25:32.210 him to the ground, and pulled him inside the 00:25:32.210 --> 00:25:35.349 kennel where it and the other dog in the kennel 00:25:35.349 --> 00:25:41.170 mauled him to death. Like what a absolute horror 00:25:41.170 --> 00:25:45.470 story for this poor precious man, for his family, 00:25:45.609 --> 00:25:47.890 for those sweet shelter workers who had to witness 00:25:47.890 --> 00:25:52.920 this. Oh my gosh. It's also being reported that 00:25:52.920 --> 00:25:56.720 this man was pretty severely special needs and 00:25:56.720 --> 00:25:59.259 that he really just liked being with animals 00:25:59.259 --> 00:26:03.039 more than he did people. Same. So volunteering 00:26:03.039 --> 00:26:05.819 at the shelter was one of his favorite things 00:26:05.819 --> 00:26:09.319 to do and he had been there for years. I am, 00:26:09.319 --> 00:26:12.259 I'm literally sick over it. I cannot believe 00:26:12.259 --> 00:26:18.440 that this happened. So I hate to end on that 00:26:18.440 --> 00:26:21.630 note. but I hated it even more to start on that 00:26:21.630 --> 00:26:23.950 note, so I figured I should put it at the end. 00:26:24.869 --> 00:26:26.890 But thank you so much for listening. Thank you 00:26:26.890 --> 00:26:29.349 even more for fostering. Thank you for helping 00:26:29.349 --> 00:26:31.470 us get these dogs out of here as fast as we can, 00:26:31.490 --> 00:26:34.490 because obviously Mississippi is not a good state 00:26:34.490 --> 00:26:37.809 for animals. Thank you for loving and supporting 00:26:37.809 --> 00:26:40.910 Wolf Trap. Truly, you will never know how much 00:26:40.910 --> 00:26:43.450 all of you mean to me. I'm just so grateful for 00:26:43.450 --> 00:26:46.210 you guys and how awesome you are to Wolf Trap. 00:26:47.099 --> 00:26:49.900 It's a rough life, but someone's gotta do it.